Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin, by The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891 page 315.

ERNEST QUACKENBUSH was born in New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, May 29, 1845, and is a son of John and Maria (Elliott) Quackenbush, natives of New York and Vermont respectively. The parents settled in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, at the early day of 1833, and lived there until 1857, when they came to Jackson County, and located in what is now the town of Manchester, where the mother still survives, at the age of seventy-three years the father died in 1882, age seventy-three years. He served in the late war as a private in Company C, Nineteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.

Ernest, the subject of this notice, is one of a family of sixteen children he lived in Waukesha County until he was thirteen years of age, and then came to Jackson County where he has since resided. He has been engaged in the lumber business during the winter season, and in the summer time he has devoted his time to agriculture. He has now retired from an active business life, as his health is somewhat impaired. He owns a farm of eighty-one acres which he keeps in good cultivation.

December 21, 1863, when there was a call for men to come to the front in defense of this beloved Union, Mr. Quackenbush enlisted as a private in Company D, Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He received his final discharge at Madison, Wisconsin, in August, 1865. He participated in engagements in the Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina was with Sherman on his famous march to the sea and through the Georgia campaign, and took part in the grand review at Washington, District of Columbia. While in the service, through exposure he lost his health and now draws a pension from the Government.

Mr. Quackenbush was united in marriage, November 18, 1866, to Miss Sarah Matchett, who was born in Canada, January 20, 1849. Her parents are William and Paulina (Pickard) Matchett, now residents of Jackson County, Wisconsin. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Quackenbush: William, Carrie, Frank, Isabelle, Ernest and Bessie.