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

Washington:

Edwin Booker, farmer and cheese-manufacturer; P.O. Tuckerville; son of James and Mary (Makeson) Booker; was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, Jan. 1, 1832; came to the United States in 1849; located near East Troy, Walworth Co., Wis., and engaged in farming; in 1854, moved to Milton, Rock Co. Was married there June 12, 1855, to Rebecca F. Bacon, daughter of Freeman and Rebecca (Larkins) Bacon; Mrs. Booker was born in Genessee Co., N.Y.; they have three children – Mary Ann, now Mrs. Robert H. Perry, residing at Otter Creek, Eau Clair, Co.; Alice Isabel, now Mrs. Carlton Page, living at Wilson Creek, Sauk Co., and Rebecca Annie, living at home. In 1859, the family removed to Janesville; after a residence of six years in that city, they moved to Sauk Co. in 1865, and settled in the town of Bear Creek, on Sec. 30; here Mr. B. engaged in farming and the manufacture of cheese; the factory was built in 1877; though small, containing only two rooms 12 x 26, and a curing-room 18 x 26, 6400 pounds of milk were handled daily during the summer of 1878; a new factory was built in the fall of 1878, size 40 x 34 feet, with sixteen-feet posts, called the Bear Valley Cheese Factory; 75,000 pounds of cheese are made annually; the factory has a capacity of 100,000 pounds a year. In the spring of 1880, Mr. Booker leased the factory at Tuckerville, and leaving his farm and the Bear Valley factory in the care of a competent man, he moved to Tuckerville and conducts his factory himself; the capacity of this concern is 400 pounds of cheese daily. Mr. Booker enlisted Jan. 4, 1864, in Co. F, 16th W.V.I., and served till the close of the war; was with Sherman in his march to the sea. The farm of 82 acres and the factory at Bear Creek are still owned and run by Mr. B. Mrs. Bookers parents were pioneers in Wisconsin; they were natives of Massachusetts, but came to Wisconsin in 1846, and settled in Rock Co.

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