Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a9.
 
E. N. COLWELL

     was born in Wethersfield, Wyoming county, N. Y., April 11, 1833. His
father, Henry R. Colwell, was born in Trenton, Oneida County, N. Y., in 1788,
and served in the war of 1812. He died in 1846, leaving a widow and four sons.
The mother of these boys was Miss Emeline Wolcott, born in Trenton, N. Y., in
1808. She is now living in California. E. N. Colwell was the eldest of the four
boys. He lived in New York until eleven years of age, when he emigrated to
Wisconsin in the fall of 1844. In 1854 he went to Minnesota where, the same
year, he married Miss Sarah A. Ells.  She was born of English parents, in Oswego
county, N. Y., September 25, 1836. In the fall of 1857 Mr. Colwell removed to
Kansas, and after a year spent in that distracted territory, he moved to Iowa.
There he lived till the spring of 1866, when he crossed the plains with an ox
team and reached Walla Walla in October. He purchased a farm and has since been
one of the successful farmers whose labors have developed this fertile region.
He resides about three miles south of Walla Walla on a beautiful farm which is
shown in one of our illustrations. Mr. and Mrs. Colwell have six children as
follows: John Elmer, born in Filmore, Minn., August 18, 1855; George O., born in
Mower county, Minn., April 16, 1857; Arthur A., born in Mitchell, Iowa, May 2,
1859 ; U. S. Grant, born in Mitchell, Iowa, May 13, 1863 ; Minnie May, born in
Walla Walla, W. T., June 22, 1872; Homer, born in Walla Walla, W. T., October
15, 1879.

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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