SOURCE: History of the upper peninsula of Michigan : containing a full account of its early settlement, its growth, development, and resources, an extended description of its iron and copper mines : also, accurate sketches of its counties, cities, towns, and villages ... biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers.
Collection: Michigan County Histories Pages 504

J. V. NORTHAM was born August 18, 1848, in New York State, in De Kalb, St. Lawrence County; moved to Menasha, Wis., remaining until thirteen years of age, and then to Oshkosh a short time; then to Green Bay, steamboating, about eight years; was then in wholesale business five years; was then in Milwaukee, in the employ of E. H. Smith & Co., one and a half years; was then in Marinette one and a half years, and then to Florence, Wis. He was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Stid, of Green Bay, Wis., November 5, 1874. Mr. N. is now running a hotel in Florence, and is also engaged in the wholesale whisky business in Chicago, Ill.