Francis Augustine Deleglise

He came to Wisconsin from Switzerland with his family in 1849, and was later a surveyor and civil engineer. He enlisted from Appleton in Company E, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 28 June 1861. He was promoted Corporal soon after.

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

Wounded again in action at Gettysburg, PA and captured. He mustered out of service on 16 July 1864.

He continued in surveying and in real estate. He's credited with founding the city of Antigo, Langlade County, beginning with drawing up its plats in 1877. He served a term in the State legislature in 1892.

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Further details from a sketch in Beers' Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties ... (1895).

His 1877 home, the first house built in Antigo, still exists. There's a marker honoring him in Antigo, featured by Melinda Roberts in a post on Wisconsin Historical Markers.

02/10/1835; Bagnes, SWITZERLAND

03/25/1894; burial in Queen of Peace Catholic Cemetery, Antigo, WI