Bio: Withee, Niram Haskell
Jr. - Son of Niram H. Withee
Transcriber:
stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Withee, Hemberson
---------Source: Withee Centennial (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 2001
N. Haskell Withee was the son of Niram H. and Louisa Withee, born in La
Crosse, WI March 18, 1868. He called that city his home for the first 35
years of his life. He attended Gale College. He was associated with his
father in the lumber business until his father's death in 1887 and at that
time he and his brothers closed out the family lumber business. He spent a
great deal of time on the west coast buying and selling timber lands. He
then moved to Minneapolis for a short time.
In 1896 he started to improve the North Fork Farm or Popple River Farm
located 1-1/2 miles east of Owen. In 1919 the Clark County Board purchased
650 acres from the N. Haskell Withee farm for $58,000 and 415 acres from the
C.A. Johnson farm next door for the purpose of establishing an asylum in
northern Clark County. Farm implements and equipment were also purchased
from the farm. Residents at the asylum lived in the Withee house through the
first year in 1921 until the main Clark County Health Care Center building
was built. The house was razed in the late 1990s.
He married twice. His first wife's name was Carrie, his second wife was
Regina C. Hemberson, daughter of C.L. and Serina Hemberson.
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