- L. [Isaac] P. CADMAN was born in Providence, Saratoga Co.,
N.Y., July 1, 1833, and came to
- Wisconsin May 31, 1854, locating eleven miles west of Beloit.
He learned the millwright trade in his native town, and from
there moved to Newark, Rock Co., and on his own account engaged
in house building and farming; he then moved to Beloit, thence
to Freeport, and entered the sash and blind business in connection
with Isaac FORBOSS, under the name of CADMAN & FORBOSS. A
short time after, Mr. FORBOSS died, when Mr. CADMAN ran the business
a short time alone. In 1867, he made a model car for what is
known as the Mendota Street Car Co., which model was accepted,
and letters patent secured for same. He then, for six and a half
years, worked on pattern work, turn-tables and scales for the
Peninsular Division of the Chicago & North-Western Railway,
where for four years and a half, he had entire charge of the
wood work of the company, extending along the entire line of
that division. He then returned to Beloit and worked on pattern
work for PARKER & ALDRICH, and PARKER & STONE, and is
now engaged on pattern work on his own account. Mr. CADMAN is
about engaging in the manufacture of a draft equalizer, to be
applied to machines when drawn by three horses. In 1871 while
engaged with the railroad company, he was elected Village Trustee
of Escanaba. Mr. CADMAN married, on Feb. 15, 1855, Eliza J. MEAD,
of Galway, N.Y. He has four children living, named Frank M.,
George L., L. Georgiana and A. Benjamin.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 737.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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