- J. N. FELTON. The manufacture of cheese and butter has become of late years one of the large business industries of Wisconsin, conditions seeming ideal in this part of the country for this occupation, and one of the manufacturers of these staple products in Black Creek township, Outagamie county, is J. N. Felton, the owner of three-quarters of an acre of land on section 21. Mr. Felton was born April 15, 1879, in Germany, of which country his parents, Peter and Margaret Felton, were also natives. They came to the United States in the fall of 1879 and located in Outagamie county, where Mrs. Felton died in February, 1908, aged seventy years. Peter Felton, who throughout his life has followed farming as an occupation, is still living, and makes his home in Black Creek township.
J. N. Felton, who was the youngest of the seven children of his parents, was nineteen years of age when he commenced teaching school, having been educated in the public schools and the high school, attending the latter for two years. After spending one year as an educator, he secured employment in a butter and cheese factory, in which he worked for two years, and at the end of that time established himself in the same business. Since 1902 his business has grown steadily, the excellence of his product and its cleanliness and reasonable price recommuending it to a large patronage. In May, 1907, Mr. Felton was married to Miss Mary Stingle, who was born April 13, 1883, the youngest of the nine children of Mathew and Mary Stingle, natives of Germany, who came to America shortly after their marriage and settled in Outagamie county. They are now living at Appleton, Wisconsin, the father being seventy-three years old and the mother seventy. Mr. Stingle was a farmer by occupation, but since 1906 has been living a retired life, One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Felton: Oliver, born February 5. 1908. Mr. Felton is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and in politics is a republican, he being the present incumbent of the office of clerk of Black Creek township. With his wife he attends the Roman Catholic Church of Black Creek village.
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1879 - 1945 (66 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.
1880 Census
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Felton, Lila
