- C. A. LIBBY, editor of both the Enterprise and the
Tribune, of Evansville, Wis., is a native of
- New Hampshire, born in Great Falls on the 6th of November,
1846. Until nine years of age he resided in his native State,
when, in 1855, he came with his parents to Evansville, Rock Co.,
Wis. His primary education, received in the common schools, was
supplemented by a course at the Evansville Seminary. When the
war broke out, it stirred the patriotic feeling slumbering in
his breast, and, though then too young to enlist, he waited until
1864, when he enlisted at Madison as a private in Company D,
40th Wisconsin Infantry. He remained in the service until honorably
discharged by reason of expiration of term of service, and during
that time received a sunstroke and contracted a chronic disease,
which permanently affected his health.
- On the 6th of November, 1869, Mr. LIBBY was united in marriage
with Miss Lucilla
- CRANDALL, who was born July 12, 1850. During the spring after
their marriage he removed with his young wife to Kansas, where
he made his home for three years, and at the expiration of that
time returned to Evansville, where he has since continued to
reside. Since 1881 he has been editor and manager of the Evansville
local papers, the Enterprise and the Tribune, and has made a
success of that line of work. Socially, he is a charter member
of T. L. Sutphen Post, G.A.R., of Evansville, and is a respected
and worthy citizen.
- The children born to Mr. and Mrs. LIBBY are five in number,
four sons and one daughter, as
- follows: Fred N., born Dec. 30, 1871; Mary Alice and Almon
Melvin, twins, Jan. 19, 1874; and Burr Ancel, Aug. 18, 1881.
They lost their youngest child, Roy, who was born Oct. 3, 1884,
and died Aug. 3, 1886.
- Mrs. LIBBY is a daughter of Daniel CRANDALL, one of the pioneer
settlers of Rock County.
- He came to Wisconsin in 1844, emigrating from Chenango County,
N.Y., and settled in the town of Union, where his death occurred
Aug. 31, 1862, at the age of forty-five years. His widow is now
living in Magnolia Township with her brother, Jonathan COOK.
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- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 344-345.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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