Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Baraboo:

William B. Blachly, born April 10, 1844, at Weathersfield, village of Niles, Trumbull Co., Ohio; moved to Dane Co., Wis., with his parents in 1850. At the age of 20, he enlisted in Co. D, 46th W.V.I. and remained until the close of the war; at the age of 27, he commenced to learn the trade of blacksmith; in 1873 he commenced work for the Chicago & North-Western Railroad Company in the town of Baraboo, where he is at the present time. He was married, in 1872, to Miss A. J. White. In politics, Republican.

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