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

Reedsburg:

Charles F. Shelden, Assistant Postmaster in Reedsburg; born in Oneida Co., N.Y., Sept. 2, 1842; came to Walworth Co., Wis., with his parents in 1845; his father, Dewitt C. Sheldon, is still living in Reedsburg, Wis.; for eleven years Mr. S.'s parents remained on a farm at Elkhorn Spring, Wis.; went from there to a farm on Narrow Prairie. In January, 1862, Mr. C.F. Sheldon enlisted in Co. A. 19th, W.V.I.; he was in the 19th Army Corps, under Gen. Butler, at the siege of Petersburg and other contests in that vicinity; was mustered out of service in June, 1865. On Dec. 16, 1868, Mr. Sheldon married to Miss Bell Hood, of Racine, Wis.; Mr. Sheldon has two children - Walter D, born Feb. 2, 1870, and Mabel, October 18, 1877. Mr. Sheldon has held the office of Town Clerk. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity.

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