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Surnames: Cabanis, Whiteside, Goodin, Lauterman
Classification: Biography
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From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 1015 - 1016.
TOWN OF SMELSER
GEORGE E. CABANIS, carpenter and builder, Sec. 10; P. O. Big Patch; owns 55 acres of land,
valued at $40 per acre; born in Green Co., Ky., in 1815; when he was 7 years of age, his
parents removed to Sangamon Co., Ill.; they were among the earliest settlers of that
county. In 1832, he enlisted in the Black Hawk war, under Gen. Whiteside and Capt. Goodin;
two years later, he removed to New Diggings, La Fayette Co., and prospected for lead; in
1845, he located permanently where he now resides. Although not an office-seeker, Mr.
Cabanis has held important offices; in 1872, he was elected to the State Legislature; in
the town has been Town Clerk, Superintendent of Public Schools and Chairman eight or nine
years. He married Mary Ann Lauterman, a native of Illinois; they have one child - James
H., whose biography appears elsewhere; have lost one son - Jasper - who died in 1862.
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