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Bio: Durfee, W. R. (1881) ----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Ashland, County, Wis.) 1881, Page 70 W. R. Durfee, lumberman, Ashland, came to the shores of Lake Superior in 1856, and engaged in trading in furs on Vermillion Bay and Rainy Lakes. In the Summer of 1865, when the gold excitement occurred, he was estimating and locating claims on Superior River and near Fond du Lac. In 1872, came to Ashland, and helped to organize the Union Mill Company, of which he is a partner, and in Spring, 1881, was appointed Indian Agent.
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