Dr. Stephen Tainter, born October 13, 1760, in Westborough, Massachusetts, first enlisted in December 1776 at age sixteen as a drummer with Captain Kimball's company in Colonel Sparhawk's Massachusetts regiment. During the next three years he enlisted five more times. During the Revolution, he served with several Massachusetts militias stationed at various times in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, and New Jersey. After the war, according to his pension application, he practiced medicine for about thirty years in various places, including Somers, Connecticut; Bradford and New Fane, Vermont; Ludlow and Sheldon, Massachusetts; and Gainesville and Wethersfield, New York. In 1839, he moved west to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Territory, to live with his children, and in 1846 he moved to Utica, Crawford County. Stephen Tainter died there on July 11, 1847, at the age of 86 years, 9 months. Later his grandson, Captain Andrew Tainter, relocated his body to Evergreen Cemetery, Menomonie, where he rests today.