James Henry Cabanis
James Henry Cabanis was born on December 25, 1838, in Springfield, Illinois, to George and Mary Ann Cabanis. His father was a carpenter who owned $1,200 of real estate and $500 of personal property by 1860. The family moved to Grant County, Wisconsin, around 1845, and he grew up and attended school there.
He married Rosemond Clayton on March 27, 1861, but she probably died shortly afterward. He married Adeline Haney on September 26, 1866, and they had at least three children: Mary, born around 1869; Frank, born around 1871; and Harry, born around 1877. He supported the Republican Party, and he was elected town clerk of Smelser, Wisconsin, in 1862. He worked as a farmer in Smelser, and by 1870, he owned $3,500 of real estate.
He served several more terms as town clerk in the 1870s, and he was elected to the state legislature in 1881. The family moved to Platteville, Wisconsin, in the late 1800s, and he was elected mayor in 1900. He moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the early 1900s. His wife died around 1919, and he died of “a stroke of apoplexy” in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on April 22, 1920.
Image: James H. Cabanis (Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin)
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4420) | Cabanis, James Henry | 1838-12-25 | 1920-04-22 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (12235) [writer] ~ Mary A. Cabanis and James H. Cabanis to Abram Lanterman, 9 October 1862
People - Records: 6
Places - Records: 2
Groups - Records: 1
- (3) [politician] ~ Republican Party
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Wisconsin Compiled Marriages for Select Counties, 1835-1900, available from Ancestry.com; Platteville (WI) Witness, 28 April 1920; “James Cabanis,” Wikipedia profile, available from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cabanis
