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==Background==

==Background==

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Twichell was born in Hastings, a city in Dakota and Washington counties in southeastern [[Minnesota]], to Daniel Wilson Twichell and the former Sarah Catharine Coons. After the death of his mother, which occurred when he was four years of age, Willis lived on farms owned by uncles. His father remarried and moved to Madison County in west central [[Ohio]]. Willis attended public schools in Minnesota and then Ohio. In 1883, he graduated from the since defunct National Normal University, a teaching institution in Lebanon in southwestern Ohio. With his civil engineering degree, he established a surveying practice in Springfield in western Ohio.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftw02|title=Twichell, Willis Day|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas''|author=Alice Duggan Gracy|accessdate=October 13, 2019}}</ref>​

Twichell was born in Hastings, a city in Dakota and Washington counties in southeastern [[Minnesota]], to Daniel Wilson Twichell and the former Sarah Catharine Coons. After the death of his mother, which occurred when he was four years of age, Willis lived on farms owned by uncles. His father remarried and moved to Madison County in west central [[Ohio]]. Willis attended public schools in Minnesota and then Ohio.<ref name=handbook/>

 

In 1883, he graduated from the since defunct National Normal University, a teaching institution in Lebanon in southwestern Ohio. With his civil engineering degree, he established a surveying practice in Springfield in western Ohio.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftw02|title=Twichell, Willis Day|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas''|author=Alice Duggan Gracy|accessdate=October 13, 2019}}</ref>​

==Migration to Texas==

==Migration to Texas==