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

Baraboo:

C. A. Sumner, was born in Akron, Ohio, then known as Middlebury, March 16, 1831, where he resided until coming to Baraboo in April, 1855; engaged in mercantile business, continued in general trade until 1874. In 1866, he purchased the Warren farm, nursery, etc., and made the improvement in 1867; sold the place to Mr. Warren in 1878; completed his present hotel building, ready for occupancy, in September 1878. From July 1876, to February, 1877, he carried on the crockery business in Chicago, when he removed his stock to Baraboo. Mr. Sumner has been engaged in mercantile business since he was 17 years of age. He was married in Galena, Ill, Oct. 16, 1860, to Millie Van Hyde; she was born in Hadimarsen, Holstein, Nov. 30, 1841, and came to New Jersey in 1848; they have four children living - Carl, born March 21, 1863; Julius I., May 12, 1865; Anna Louise, Nov. 18, 1870, and Nellie Minerva, Jan. 15, 1875.

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