Bio: Munger, Archie W. (1881)

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Surnames: Munger, Lancaster

----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Eau Claire County, Wis.) 1881, page 329

ARCHIE W. MUNGER, Eau Claire, was born in the town of Sharon, Potter Co., Pa., July 11, 1846. He enlisted in Co. B, 184th Pa. V. I., Feb. 29, 1864, and served until Sept. 1, 1864, when he was discharged on account of the loss of his left arm, the result of wounds received at Cold Harbor, Va., June 10, 1864. He came to Wisconsin, locating in West Eau Claire in the Spring of 1870, and engaged in lumbering. In the Fall of 1880, he was elected Sheriff. He was married in Wausau, April 21, 1876, to Tirseah A. Lancaster, who was born in Port Huron, Mich., and is a daughter of Leonard L. and Sarah Lancaster, who came to Wisconsin at an early day.