Bio: Corning, Hamilton (1881)

 
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Surnames: Corning, Arnold, Tibbets

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1207

HAMILTON CORNING, superintendent of booms and river works, at Port Edward mills. Was born in Canada, near Montreal, May 19, 1820. He worked at lumbering in Canada, and after he came here in August, 1851, worked on the river, and at logging for Clinton and others awhile, and afterward built dams, piers and booms in the Wis. River. For many years past he has been superintendent of river works for J. Edwards & Co. He was married, Feb. 4, 1849, to Miss Charlotte Arnold; she died in 1855, leaving four children — Charles J., Margaret A. (now Mrs. Tibbets), William G. and Mary E. (now Mrs. Allds). Feb. 6, 1861, he married Miss Margaret A. Arnold, a sister of his first wife. They have two children, John J. and Hamilton. Charles J. was born Dec. 24, 1854. He has attended the Riverside Institute, at Lyons, Iowa, one year, and two years at the Iowa Agricultural College, also the State Normal School, at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and has taught school several terms.