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Ephraim Severance. In the year 1865 Ephraim Severance, a native of Sanborntown, N. H., but then residing at Bangor, Me., removed to Pierce county and purchased a farm in the town of Trim Belle on what has been known as the Thurston Hill. Here he commenced the arduous task of opening a farm in the dense forest. He had while in Maine engaged in the lumbering business and was accustomed to the hard labor incident to that calling.
In the home which he built there he resided until his death. December 9, 1895, at the ripe age of seventy -one years. An active Republican and deeply interested in the Free Baptist church, of which he was a consistent member and of which he long served as a trustee, he nevertheless never sought the distinction of public office. He married in early life Eliza Merriam, who survived him, dying at her home at the age of about seventy-five years.
Fred A. Severance is a son of Ephraim and Eliza Severance and was born at Bangor, Me., December 23, 1850. When about eighteen years of age he removed to Pennsylvania, where he resided for about two years, and then emigrated to the town of Trim Belle, where he purchased a farm near that of his father. To the first purchase he has added others until now he owns on of the finest farms in the valley, comprising about 320 acres, and where he makes his home. In 1890 he gave up the active work of farming and has since devoted his time largely to mercantile pursuits. He has an excellent store in the same town near the railroad station, where he has a large custom trade. In 1897 he was appointed postmaster of the Beldenville post office, a position which he still holds. He is an active politician and is always in demand at meetings of the Republican voters of his neighborhood. In 1890 he was chosen as one of the presidential electors and in that capacity cast a vote for William McKinley. His townsmen have long recognized his unusual capacity for public business and have made him their choice as chief officer of the town for several terms and have called upon him to hold nearly all of the public offices. As a clerk of the school district he has served for thirty years and has the pleasure of witnessing the development of his district from a small country school to a graded school, which is affording excellent facilities for the youth of the district. He has been selected by the county board to serve in the responsible position of chairman of the poor commissioners and to work of this office he has given an earnest and faithful service. Mr. Severance enjoys companionship and is much sought after by his friends as a boon companion, as is evidenced by the fact that he is an active member of the Masonic Order, of the I. O. O. F., and the Modern Woodmen of America and the U. C. T. In his business enterprises he has reached out to a considerable extent and has an interest in the Bank of Ellsworth and also in the Win City Fuel Company, of Minneapolis. Mr. Severance united in marriage with Etiole Chappel, of Ellsworth, on December 25, 1875. Mrs. Severance was born August 5, 1858, her parents being William H. and Elizabeth (Phillips) Chappel. Her parents were pioneers in the county, coming here as early as 1856 and settling in the Beldenville valley, in the town of Ellsworth, where they remained during the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Chappel died in 1882 and Mr. Chappel in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Severance have had two children--William, who has graduated fro the University of Minnesota, has chosen law as his profession and now resides at St. Louis Park, in Minnesota. He recently married Marie Thompson, of Minneapolis, who was also a graduate of the same univeristy. The second son is Adelbert, not yet married, who is engaged as a salesman for the Fleming Mill Company, of Hastings, and makes his home in that city. He is also a graduate of the University of the State of Minnesota.
(This excerpt is taken from Volume 2 of "History of the St. Croix Valley" published in 1909)
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