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

Baraboo:

Henry F. Willard, farmer, Sec. 13; P.O. Baraboo; born in the town of Chittenango, Madison Co., N.Y. Aug. 15, 1826; son of Rufus and Eliza (Warren) Willard; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1852 and located in the village of Baraboo; located where he now resides, in August, 1867; owns 58 acres of land two miles from the village of Baraboo. He has held the office of District Treasurer for eight years. He was married, Dec. 20, 1848, in Racine Co., Wis., to Abigail, daughter of Joshua and Eliza (Parmerly) Marsh; they have two children - Emma and Ellen; Emma is married to Nathan Sherman, and living at Mt. Tabor, Vernon Co., Wis., and has three children. For eight years, Mr. Willard was engaged in lumbering in Wisconsin; in 1860, he went to Colorado and engaged in gold-mining, returning to Wisconsin in the fall of 1862. Mr. Willard's mother died in 1856, his father died in 1875, aged 75 years.

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