Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus. Supplement

158 CLAN FERGUSSON
the order, presented by his comrades, was also Commander
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States for Wisconsin, of which organisation he was a charter
member. He was married in Milwaukee, August 14, 1867,
to Marcia Bryant, daughter of Wm. Brown, jr., and Susan
Sweetser Wells.
Their children are :
1. William Edward, born at Milwaukee, May 17, 1868,
and married at Lancaster, Wisconsin, July 25, 1895,
to Mabel Clair, daughter of Wm. Decker. Their
child, Mabel Decker, was born at Madison, Wis-
consin, May 1, 1896.
2. Louise Delafield, born at Milwaukee, April 4, 1870,
and died in infancy.
3. Thomas Wells, born at Milwaukee, May 3, 1875, and
married June 14, 1897, to Maud Lemmon, daughter
of Orlando Hastings Whitney and Mary Charlotte
Lemmon.
III. Charles Henry, fifth son of George Lester Ferguson,
born at Oswego, N.Y., August 13, 1846. He left school at
the age of thirteen to learn the drug business at Auburn,
N.Y., remaining there until he was sixteen. He left Auburn
for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was employed for a short
time in the wholesale crockery house of Blair & Persons,
which he left to enlist in Company A, 39th Regiment Wis-
consin Volunteer Infantry. After the expiration of his
military service, he was employed in the railroad and ex-
press business in Milwaukee for several years. In 1870 he
returned to Auburn, and was solicitor for the Mutual Life
Insurance Co. of New York. He was, for three years, general
agent of the Oswego and Onondago Fire Insurance Co. In
1876 he entered the Chicago agency of the Mutual Life
Insurance Co. as cashier, and was appointed general agent
for the company in 1887, which position he still holds, the
firm's name now being Charles H. Ferguson & Sons. He was
awarded a solid silver bowl for good management and success.
He is a member of the following societies : Free and Accepted
Masons, Knight Templars, Mystic Shrine, Royal Arch Masons,
Thomas Post, No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic, The