A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Accession/Serial#: WI0270__.416 (More) Names Patenteee: Phoebe E Barnum; Title Transfer; Issue Date: 25 February 1904; Land Office: 14; Cancelled: No; Mineral Reservations: No; Authority: 24 April 1820 Sale-Cash Entries (3 Stat. 566); Survey
State: Wisconsin; Acres: 80.0000; Metes/Boundes: No; Document Nr.: 22764; NESW 3/ 39 N 5 E Fourth Wisconsin
In the 1910 US Census for Minocqua, Oneida, Wisconsin Phoebe (Reynolds) BARNUM and her daughter Elizabeth were enumerated as follows:
Dwelling #133; Family #141
Barnum, Phoebe E.; Head; F; W; 74; Wd; mother of 9 children; 6 living; b. New York; father b. New York; mother b. New York; English Proprietress; Summer Resort; Employee; can read and write; owns farm home with mortgage; Farm Schedule 26
Barnum, Elizabeth R.; Daughter; F; W; 32; S; b. Wisconsin; father b. New York; mother b. New York; English Housekeeper; Summer Resort; Employee; can read and write
Carpenter, James J.; Hired man; M; W; 40; D; b. Pennsylvania; father b. Pennsylvania; mother b. Ireland; English Guide; Hunting & Fishing; Wage worker; employed full year; can read and write
The Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin gives her birthplace as Albany County, New York; the U.S. Census of 1860 also gives New York as her birthplace. Another source has her born in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut.
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