- C. A. LIBBY, editor and proprietor of the Enterprise
and the Tribune, at Evansville, Rock
- county, is a native of New Hampshire, born at Great Falls
Nov. 6, 1846. He lived in his native State until he was nine
years of age, and came West with his parents to Evansville, Wis.,
in 1855. His primary education, received in the common schools,
was supplemented by a course in Evansville Seminary. When the
Civil war broke out it stirred the patriotic feeling slumbering
in his breast, and being then too young to enlist he waited until
1864, when he became a member of Company D., 40th Wis. V. I.
He remained in the service until honorably discharged by reason
of the expiration of his term of enlistment. During that time
he had a sunstroke, and contracted a chronic disease which has
permanently affected his health.
- On Nov. 6, 1869, Mr. LIBBY was united in marriage with Miss
Lucila CRANDALL, who was
- born July 13, 1850. During the spring following their marriage
the young couple moved to Kansas, where they lived for three
years. At the expiration of that time Mr. LIBBY came back to
Evansville, bringing his family with him, and here he has since
continued to reside, with the exception of one year - 1895-96
- spent in Chicago, in the grocery and meat business. Since 1881
he has been editor and manager of the local papers, the Enterprise
and the Tribune, and has achieved a success in that line
of work. Socially he is a charter member of the T. L. STEPHEN
Post, No. 41, G.A.R., of Evansville, and he is a respected and
worthy citizen. Five children have come to Mr. and Mrs. LIBBY,
four sons and one daughter, as follows: Fred Nelson was born
Dec. 30, 1871, in Lacygne, Kans.; Mary Alice and Almond Melvin
(twins) were born Jan. 19, 1874; Bur Ansel was born Aug. 18,
1881. The youngest child, Roy, who was born Oct. 3, 1884, died
Aug. 3, 1886. Almond Melvin, who is engaged with Montgomery,
Ward & Co., Chicago, married Miss Henrietta L. HERBSTER,
of that city, and they have two daughters, Irene Caroline Alice,
born Sept. 16, 1898; and Hazel Grace Eveline, born July 16, 1900.
Fred N. entered the United States Pension Office at Washington,
D.C., in 1893, and has since been employed there; on Jan. 1,
1901, he was married to Miss Helen E. SMITH, of that city.
- Mrs. LIBBY is a daughter of Daniel CRANDALL, a pioneer settler
of Rock county, who came
- to the State in 1844, migrating from Chenango county, N.Y.,
and settling in the town of Union, where his death occurred Aug.
31, 1862, when he was aged forty-five. His widow is now living
in Montana, with her sons.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, p. 38.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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