Orrin T. Maxson
Orrin Teall Maxson (March 17, 1823May 12, 1895) was an American physician, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was an important early settler of Prescott, Wisconsin, and represented northwestern Wisconsin in the Wisconsin State Assembly during the 1853 and 1857 legislative sessions. His name was often abbreviated ; his last name was sometimes spelled Maxon. Early life Orrin T. Maxson was born March 17, 1823, in Centerville, New York, where his father was a pioneer settler. He was raised and educated in Centerville. During these formative years, his father and older brother, Arthur, went to the Wisconsin Territory in 1837 and became some of the first settlers at what is now Darien, Wisconsin. They also established the first sawmill there in 1841. Orrin attended Rush Medical College in Chicago and graduated in the class of 1849. After his time in medical school he went west for a year and helped establish a hospital in Colorado. Prescott settlement and political career After a year in Colorado, Maxson came back to Wisconsin to the site of what is now Prescott, Wisconsin. That site had first been settled by Philander Prescott in 1841, but had languished due to land disputes with the federal government