HOLSTEIN, Silas V.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 163

Silas V. HOLSTEIN, superintendent of Meridean Mill Company's [saw] mills at 
Alma [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 25 December 1839 at Rock Island 
[Rock Island County], Illinois. He has been in the lumber business for the 
past twenty-two years. He located at Alma 16 February 1880. [There were 
also lumber mills near Meridean, Dunn County, Wisconsin, but submitter is 
uncertain if these were operated by the "Meridean Mill Company" mentioned in 
this biography.]

On 13 March 1870, Silas V. HOLSTEIN was united in marriage to Miss Emily C. 
JOHNSON, a native of Ohio. [The 1880 census of Alma, Buffalo County, 
Wisconsin, contains the household of Silas V. HOLSTEIN, age forty, mechanic, 
born in Illinois (about 1840) to parents also born in Illinois; with his wife 
"Emma" age thirty, born in Ohio (about 1850) to parents also born there; 
along with one servant and six unrelated male laborers in their twenties. 
Bracketed material added by submitter (who is not researching these surnames) 
to support and clarify information given in the biography and to raise 
questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly