Dane County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1906 (part 15 of 29)

Cleveland, and later in Lima. Indiana, where quite a number of the Fox family had1 settled. In 1842 she became the bride of George Keenan, and the following- year the young couple came to Wisconsin with the rest, of the Foxes, locating in a fertile valley extending from the town of Fitchburg into Oregon. For seven years George Keenan and his wife lived in Fitchburg, and then moved to the great farm in the town of Dunn, six miles away, where Mr. Keenan passed away July 10, 1891. Late the same year Mrs. Keenan moved to Madison, where she made her home until her death, which occurred October 13, 1905. While paying for his first clam George Keenan worked at his trade of shoemaker in Madison, walking twelve miles night and morning between his home and his place of business. George Keenan was the father of e;ght children, - Catherine became the wife of Elijah Tussler and died in 1894 ; Anthony died in 1876 at the age of twentynine ; Charlotte is the wife of Forrest H. Colladay of Madison ; William is on the old homestead in the town of Dunn ; Caroline is the widow of the late Paul Tannert and resides in Madison ; George is a practicing physician of Madison; Frances is the wife of A. B. Winegar of Madison ; and Adelaide makes her home in Madison. William Keenan received his education in the schools of Dunn township and had the benefit of three years study in the University of Wisconsin. On November 30. 1876^ he married Alice Ann, daughter of William McLain and Mary Ann (Kirk) Colladay, of the town of Dunn. (See sketch of Charles M. Colladay.) Mrs. Keenan was born February 21, 1852 and received her education in the schools of the town of Dunn and the Albion Academy. By her marriage to Mr. Keenan she is the mother of four children, - Harry Anthony, born August 20, 1877, married Pearl Netherwood of Oregon village, and is now a practicing physician in Edgerton, Wis.; Mabel Claire, born July 21, 1879, lives at home; William MeLain, born December 5, 1881, lives at home; and Paul Oscar, born October 10, 1884, now attending dental college at Chicago. Mr. Keenan is a member of Oregon Camp, No. 1372, Modern Woodmen of America, and is the present Chief Forester of that camp. The large farm of two hundred forty acres which Mr. Keenan manages is one of the finest in the county.

Charles Kehoe, member of the Economical Rug company at 128 State street, was born in Massachusetts, August 11, 1871. He is a son of Edward and Mary (Thompson) Kehoe, now residents of Everett, Mich., where for forty years the father conducted a first-class hostelry. He is now retired. Edward Kehoe enlisted in the Union army during the Civil War, but hostilities had ceased before the regiment to which he belonged was called into service. Both Mr. and Mrs.

Kehoe are natives of Birmingham, England, and members of the Episcopal church. The father is seventy-nine years of age and the mother some eleven years younger. Charles Kehoe is the only child. His education was received chiefly at home, an eye atfrliction rendering him incapable of attending school. While sitting on his father's doorstep when still very young he was struck in the. eye by a stone thrown by boys playing in the street, resulting in total blindness in the optic. His first labor was for his father in the hotel business at Fairbault, Minn. He remained with him until he was twenty-nine years of age and then came to Madison to work for Mr. George Dow. In 1899 he established the rug business which has been highly successful. On January 26, 1884, he was united in marriage to Miss Anna Kindoll, a native of Sweden. Her parents are both dead. They have no children.

Lorin F. Kelley, of Marshall, is assistant cashier of the bank of Marshall, which position he has held ever since the organization of the institution, in which he had a promnent part. Of New England descent, Mr. Kelley's father, William Perm Kelley, was born in Rhode Island and his maternal great-grandfather shared in the exciting incidents of the "Boston tea party." William P. was born in Rhode Island at Blackstone, November 30, 1828, attended school in New York and became a farmer. He married Miss Jane E. Warner, a native of Lima, N. Y., and after their marriage in 1848, they came to Wisconsin and located in Columbia county. From there they moved to Dane county in 1850 and purchased a farm. Mr. Kelley died in 1893 and Mrs. Kelley lives in Montana. Nine children were born to them, of whom eight are living. Lorin F. was born in Medina, Dane county, Wis., April 16, 1861, attended the Marshall grade schools and the Marshall Academy, and entered a dry goods store as clerk. Some years later he opened a drug store in Marshall, which he has managed successfully for twenty-three years. To this has been added a well stocked jewelry department. Mr. Kelley is also a stockholder in the bank of Marshall. Hee is a member of the Prohibition party, having formerly been a Democrat, and was village treasurer for 1905. For seven years he held the office of town clerk. July IS, 1892, Mr. Kelley was married to Miss Emilie C. Kaiser, who is a native of Germany and the daughter of Carl Win. Kaiser and Henrietta (Gray) Kaiser, who came to Wisconsin in 1858. Mr. Kaiser was a veteran of the Civil War and died in 1868 from the result of wounds received in the war. Mrs. Kaiser died in 1903. Of their ten children, nine are living. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley have two children ; Ruth E., born in

August, 1893. and Esther A., born in 1896. Beth attend school in Marshall. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Kelley is clerk of the Modern Woodmen and secretary of the E. F. U.

Michael Kelley, of Dane, is of Irish ancestry, although born in Walworth county of this state. October 24, 1863. His mother, Margaret (Coin) Kelley. came to this country first, locating in Wheeling. Va. She was at that time about sixteen years of age, having been born in 1823. His father, Michael Kelley, born 1820, came to Pennsylvania in 1843; their occurred in 1845 and they came to Walworth county in 1850. The forty acres of land purchased in Walworth was their home for eighteen years, when they came to Dane, settling first in Roxbury and afterward in Dane township, where they owned one hundred and 'sixty acres of land, and there Mr. Kelley died in 1883. His widow, now living, is aged eighty-three years; they had ten children, of whom eight are living. The subject of this sketch received his educationi from the common schools of Dane township ; he follows the occupation of a farmer, and owns one hundred and fifty-two acres of land in the corporation of Dane. He raises about forty acres of tobacco, and from twentytwo to thirty acres of sugar beets, being the largest producer of the latter in the county. He has been an extensive stock-dealer for fourteen years, handling, in 1905, about four hundred and sixty head of horses. He has served as the assessor of Dane township for three and as chairman of the village board for four years. Both he and his father were Democrats and Catholics. He married, November 4, 1890, Mrs. Frances (Wohlfahrt) Christmann, who was born in Germany, February 11, 1863, daughter of Joseph and Johanna (Illing) Wohlfahrt. natives of Germany, where Mrs. Wohlfahrt died in 1891, and where her husband still lives at the age of eighty-one years. Mrs. Kelley had, by her first husband, John Christmann, one child, Mamie. To Mr. and Mrs. Kelley have been born five children, Michael, died July 24, 1905, aged thirteen years; Hannah, Hazel. Helen, Russell.

William T. Kelley, who is recognized as one of the progressive young farmers of the town of Oregon, where he was born and has claimed a residence during the greater part of his life, is the eldest of a family of four children born to Warren S. and Jane E. (Griffith) Kelly, former residents of Dane county The father was a native of the state of New York and the mother was born in Dane county. Wis. The children of these parents, aside from him who has been mentioned as the subject of this review, are: Philip, who served three years in the regular army, stationed in the west and but recently mustered out, is a resident of Roekford, 111. ; Frank and his father reside at Lone Rock, in Richland county, Wis. ; and Joseph makes his home with William T., whose name introduces this memoir. The father was one of the early settlers in Wisconsin. and with his parents first settled in the town of Verona. He remained at home until he was about twenty-one years old, then began his independent career as a farm hand. William T. Kelly became dependent upon his own resources at an early age, and when twelve years old began work as a farm hand. Later he was employed by D. Kingsley, and also Hess & Schmitz, of Madison, with whom he remained until 1893, when he married, and the following year he purchased ninety-nine acres of land in the town of Oregon. He resided on this farm about six years, and then sold it and bought eighty acres, upon which he now resides. He is a man of much determination and natural ability, qualities which have stood him well in hand, as is evidenced by the prosperous conditions with which he is surrounded, and which are the results of his individual efforts. The date of his marriage was in December, 1893, and the lady of his choice was Mrs. Kathrine (Elliott) Clark, born in Pennsylvania, May 1, 1857, the daughter of William and Martha (Fincher) Elliott. She is the eldest of three children, born to the above named parents, the others being Anna, who is the wife of B. G. Kline, and Thomas, both of whom reside in the village of Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly have no children. In politics the subject of this sketch is strictly independent, and in his social relations he is one of the leading members of the lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America, in the village of Oregon.

Clarence Kellogg, clerk of the state supreme court, was born in Mad' son. May 25, 1844. His parents were La Fayette and Rosy O (Catlin) Kellogg, the former a native of New York and the latter of Vermont. Mr. Kellogg was one of the early settlers of Wisconsin, coming here the year after the establishment of the territory. In 1840 he was made clerk of the territorial supreme court and continued to hold that position until the organization of the state in 1848. He was clerk of the first and the second constitutional conventions and clerk of the assembly. LTpon the organization of a separate supreme court in 1853 he was made its clerk and continued to hold that position until his death in 1878. He was a Mason and a well-known man. La Fayette Kellogg was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of Horatio' and Arvilla (Farr) Catlin. She was the mother of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eldest; the others were

Edward C, deceased; Charles L., a resident of Montana; Carrie R.r now Mrs. Brig-ham Bliss of St. Paul. By his second marriage to* Miss Helen R. Adams, he had one child, Helen J., who is now living with her mother in Madison. Clarence Kellogg received his education in the schools of Madison and was for a time an attendant of the University oif Wisconsin. Upon the completion of his studies he entered the service of the state as deputy clerk of the supreme court, serving under his father. This was in i860. In 1867 he resigned but five years later resumed his place as deputy, serving as such until the death of his father in 1878, when he was appointed clerk and has since held that position. On October 28, 1868, he married MLs Julia A., daughter of Harry and Julia A. Adams, natives of Vermont and now both deceased. To this marriage has been born one son, Harry L., an attorney of Milwaukee. Harry L. Kellogg married Miss Grace Hopkins, by whom he has three children, - Cornelia H., Julie, and Grace. The subject of this sketch is not a member of any secret society and takes little interest in politics.

John Kennedy, of West Port, is one of the many instances which the history of this country affords, of boys who, with no other assistance than that afforded by their own industry, prudence and energy has risen from poverty to comparative affluence, given to their families the benefit of a good education and fitted them for places of usefulness and emolument. Mr. Kennedy's father died in Ireland in 1842, when he was a mere child, and he came with his mother to America in 1847, being then only seven years of age. After remaining for about two years in the vicinity of Cincinnati, the family came to Milwaukee, and in 1853 to Westport, where the mother made her home until her death, March 10. 1885. John Kennedy began his education in Ireland and continued it during his residence in Ohio, and in the schools of Westport township. He began to work early, turning his attention to whatever opportunity offered, on the railroad, the steamboat or in the quarry. He also worked by the month for ten years on a farm. In 1865 he bought eighty acres of land, adding at different times sixty, twenty and eighty acres, until he is now the owner of two hundred and forty acres, upon which he has made all the improvements. He is a general farmer and stock raiser, and takes pride in keeping good stock of all kinds. Mr. Kennedy has for years been a member of the school board. He is a Democrat and a member of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic church. He is the only survivor of a family of four children. His brother Richard died in Westport, and a sister, Catherine, in Ireland. The paternal home was in Kilkenny and his parents' names John and Julia (Whalen) Kennedy. In 1870 he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Powers, a native of Massachusetts, and the daughter of Thomas and Helen (Lynch) Powers, natives of Ireland who settled first in Massachusetts and finally came to Westport where both died. Mrs. Kennedy died, December 12, 1888, aged thirty-eight years, and Mr. Kennedy married his second wife, in 1889, Man Carhorm Coughlin, who was born in Ireland, and who died January 1, 1906. Mr. Kennedy has nine children, all born to his first wife, of whom Julia, the second child, and Josie the seventh, are dead ; the others are Rev. Richard V. Kennedy, pastor of the Catholic church at Rush City, Minn., and one of Archbishop Ireland's priests ; Thomas, a dentist of Janesville ; Ellen, who lives at home ; Mary, a graduate of Platteville normal school and a teacher at that place ; John, a farmer at home ; Grover, a student at Miss Richmond's private school, at Madison; Lilly, a graduate of Middleton high school.

Michael Henry Kennedy, of Waunakee, a prosperous young farmer, was born in Westport, November 3, 1873. His father, Martin Kennedy, was born in Ireland, in 1840, and his mother, Ellen (Hogan) Kennedy, in 1845. Martin Kennedy was reared and educated in Ireland coming to Dane when a young man with his mother and two brothers, Richard and John. He was a farmer by occupation, Democrat in politics and with all members of his family belongs to the St. Mary of the Lake Catholic church. He died May 22, 1889. To himself and wife were born nine children, John died aged twenty-three years; Michael H., the subject of this sketch; Richard; Theresa; Martin; Anastatia; James; Columbus; Mary. The paternal grandfather of M. H. Kennedy was John Kennedy, who was born and died in Ireland; his wife, Julia (Whalen) Kennedy was born in Ireland, came to Cincinnati and settled near the city where she remained for two years and then spent one year in Milwaukee, and came to Westport in 1853. She died March 10, 1885. The maternal grandfather was Michael Hogan, mentioned in this work. The common schools of Westport township furnished the opportunity for an education to Mr. Kennedy, and he chose farming as his vocation. He owns two hundred and thirty-three acres of land, which is run as a general farm, giving special attention to stock raising and the cultivation of tobacco. On his farm which he bought in 1904, he has built a large tobacco shed. He is actively interested in the welfare of the communitv, having served on the school board for nine years, and is now serving his fifth year as chairman of the board of the town of Westport, his constituency being Democratic. He married, September 23, 1903, Miss Rebecca Jones, born in Westport, October 7, 1880, and they have one child, Cyrilla Muriel, born January 9, 1905. Mrs. Kennedy's father, John Jones, is a native of Canada and came to Westport with his parents, William and Margaret (Thompson) Jones, in an early day; they live in Duluth, Minn. Helen4 ( Hughes ) Jones, wife of John Jones, came to Dane county with her parents, Eugene and Julia Hughes, about 1854.

John T. Kenney was born on a farm in Jefferson township, Adams county, Ind., December 21. 1864. He is a son of Michael D. and Bridget Kenney both of whom were born near Castlebar. County Mayo, Ireland. They were married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1851, and a few years later became pioneer residents of the farm in Indiana where they lived continuously thereafter until the time of their death in 1901. The subject of this sketch began teaching in the winter of 1880 and continued in this work for nine successive years ; the last two as superintendent of the schools of Mercer. Mercer county. Ohio. Incidentally, by attending school in the summer, he was graduated, in the scientific course, from the Ohio normal university at Ada, Ohio, with the class of 1886. He supplemented his work as teacher thereafter with the study of law, and in the fall of 1889 entered the senior class of the Cincinnati law school. He was graduated with his class and was admitted to the Ohio bar the following year. In October, of the same year he entered into partnership with W. E. Touvelle for the practice of his profession at Celina, Mercer county, Ohio. This partnership continued for twelve years. The firm gave its attention during this time mainly to the trial of contested will cases, and suits for personal injuries, chiefly against railroad corporations. For three years he was a member of the board of teachers' examiners of Mercer county, Ohio. For two years he represented that county in the Ohio legislature. In that body he vigorously opposed the election of M .A. Hanna to the United States senate, and very actively assisted in forming the coalition of Democrats and anti- Hanna Republicans by means of which Mr. Hanna came within one vote of defeat. May 15. 1900, he was united in marriage to Miss Sadie E. Connor, daughter of Michael C. and Catherine (Kelley) Connor of Token Creek, Dane county, Wis. To this union three children have been born. These are Mary, born April 26, 1901, at Celina, Ohio; Catherine, born July 31. 1903, at Madison. Wis., and John Martin born January 13. 1904, at Madison, Wis. Mrs. Kenney was graduated from the Madison high school with the class of 188!» and completed the junior year in the University of Wisconsin, with the class of 1896. In January. 1902, the family located in Madison, Wis. In April of the same year Mr. Kenney assisted in organizing" the Wannakee state bank of which he is a director. In August following, he with others, organized and incorporated the Dane Abstract of Title Company of which he is president and counsel. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Kentzler Brothers is the name of one of the leading livery firms in the city of Madison, and the members of the partnership are Andrew R. and Milo M. Kentzler, sons of Andrew Kentzler, an early resident of the city, and who for years successfully conducted the business to which his sons have since succeeded. Andrew Kentzler, the father, was born at Berne, Switzerland, on May 2, 1832, came to the United States at the age of seventeen and settled in Fort Akinsou, Wis., where he worked several years for Milo Jones, proprietor of the Green Mountain House, receiving for his first year's labor three dollars per month, for the second nine dollars. He then worked at Whitewater one year for twelve dollars per month, after which he came to Madison and for five years was employed at the United States hotel at a salary of sixteen dollars per month; but being attentive and faithful to his duties the appreciate patrons often contributed to him more than his wages amounted to. In 1858 he purchased a horse and buggy and started a "one-horse livery," which was the nucleus for what afterward became the largest livery establishment in the city of Madison, containing a large number of fine horses and a full assortment of vehicles. He continued in the management of the business until July 1, 1903, since which time his sons, who are the immediate subects of this review, have successfully conducted the same. Mr. Kentzler was married, December 25, 1858, to Miss Johanna Reinhardt, a native of Stuttgart, Germany, who came to America as a young girl and at the time of her marriage was a resident of the city of Madison. Of this union six children were born, of whom only three are, now l'ving, the two sons named above, and a daughter, Anna, who is now the wife of John Grinde, of Madison. Andrew R. Kentzler, the elder son, was born in Madison, Wis., January 1, 1863, and the younger, Milo M. Kentzler was born in the same city November 8, 1864. They received their education in the. common schools of the city of their birth, and in 1882 Andrew R. became an assistant of Ins father in the livery business, followed two years later by the younger brother, Milo M. Thus were they permitted to learn every detail of the business and the success that has attended their efforts is due in large measure to the habits of industry and intelligent management 32 - iii inculcated in them by their father. Andrew R. Kentzler was married on May 18, 1893, to Miss Emma Purdy, of Madison, daughter of Samuel J. and Sarah (Tyler) Purdy, both of whom were natives of Binghampton, N. Y. To Andrew R. Kentzler and wife have been born two children, Ruth P. and Paul R. Milo M. Kentzler was married October 8, 1891, to Miss Kittie Haak, daughter of John Haak, an old resident of Madison. The Kentzler brothers are independent in their political views, and they support men and measures that meet their conscientious approval, regardless of any meaningless party shibboleth. Milo M. is a member of the Knights of Pythias order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Modern Woodmen. He has also been one of the volunteer firemen of the city of Madison for more than twenty years.

Otto Kerl, Sr., is one of the prominent farmers and extensive landholders of Berry township, is an ex-member of the state legislature and is a citizen who has ever commanded the highest measure of popular confidence and regard, as evidenced in the various positions of public trust to which he has been called. Mr. Kerl was born in the city. of Langensalbya, Prussia, February 12, 1822. and is a son of Frederick and Marie (Hesse) Kerl. The father was a brewer by vocation and he was an active participant in the Franco-Prussian war, while he was a member of the army in the city of Berlin for some time prior to this. He lived to a patriarchal age, his death having occurred in 1892, and his wife passed to the life eternal in 1856. Frederick Kerl was a man of influence in his community, having been president of the city council for some time and having stood for the most sterling attributes of character. He was the owner of a good farm, of seventy acres, and he passed his entire life in the fatherland. His religions faith was that of the Evangelical church. He was three times married, the maiden name of his second wife having been Agnes Kunbye and that of his third wife Fanny Schlick. All died in Prussia. Of the two children of the first marriage the subject of this sketch is the elder ; three children were born of the second union and five by the third. Otto is the first member of the immediate family who came to America, but in 1890 the fourth son of the third wife, an artist by profession, came to this country, and settled in Milwaukee. Otto Kerl was afforded the advantages of the excellent schools of his native land, where he also learned both the brewer's and cooper's trades. He remained resident of Prussia until 1847, when, at the age of twenty-five years, he severed the home ties and set forth to seek his fortunes in America. He came at once to Dane county, Wisconsin, settling on his present fine homesetead in June of that year and thus becoming one of the pioneers of this beautiful section of the Badger state. He first secured two hundred acres, and he is now the owner of a fine demesne of three hundred and sixty acres. When he located here the land was covered with heavy timber and no improvements of more than nomenal order had been made, so that he grappled with the forest and has reclaimed his farm by means of indefatigable energy, and while developing one of the best places in the county, practically the entire tract being now available for cultivation, while the permanent improvements are of the best types, the buildings being commodious, well arranged and substantial. The greater portion of the land lies in section 27, forty acres being in section 28. In 1854 Mr. Kerl erected and equipped a small brewery on his farm, continuing to operate the same until 1861, since which time he has given his undivided attention to farming and stock-growing. He is a man oi strong mentality and positive character, and has long been influential in local affairs, being one of the best known citizens in the western part of the county and having a circle of friends that is circumscribed only by that of his acquaintances. He has much practical knowledge in regard to therapeutics and materia medica, and for many years he has utilized this knowledge in relieving the physical afflictions of the many who have appealed to him for such ministration, having effected many remarkable cures and being commonly known as Dr. Kerl. In politics Mr. Kerl has ever been a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the Democracy, and he has been a prominent factor in its local councils. He has served fifty-six years as justice of the peace, was several years a member of the town board, was four years incumbent of the office of county commissioner, was township clerk thirty-five years, and in 1873-4 was representative of his county in the assembly of the state legislature. For many years he was a director of the Berry and Roxbury Fire Insurance Company. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church. In August 1849, Mr. Kerl was united in marriage to Miss Augusta Walther, who was born in Germany and who died in the year after her marriage. Her only child, Augusta, died at the age of eleven years. For his second wife Mr. Kerl married Amelia Peppelbaum, likewise a native of Germany, and she was survived by one son, Fritz, who died at the age of twenty-four years. After the death of his second wife Mr. Kerl married Johanna Festge and they have seven children namely: Anna, Herman, Otto, Jr., Fannie. Edward, Robert and Ida.

Charles Kerr, farmer and stock raiser, living about a mile west of the village of Mazomanie, was born in the borough of Whitehaven, county of Cumberland, England, November 12, 1828, and is a son of John and Martha (Rutledge) Kerr, both natives of that county. The father was a flax dresser and also traveled through the flax growing districts of England and Ireland, buying the fiber for his employers. After a time in this work he engaged in business for himself as a manufacturer of linen thread. He was a member of the British Temperance Emigration Society and in 1844 came to America on the sailing vessel Cairo, of Boston. After a tempestuous voyage of five weeks the family landed in Boston and shortly afterward came on west, locating in the town of Mazomanie, where the subject of this sketch now lives. Here the mother died in 1857 and the father in 1865. He was a Republican in his political views and both parents were members of the Congregational church. Their children were Alexander, Francis, Eleanor, Charles, Mary, John, Daisy, and Sarah Jane. Of these all are dead except the subject of this sketch. Charles Kerr had no opportunity to attend school in his boyhood and what education he has he has acquired by self-study and by association with educated people. In this way he has managed to acccmulate a. fund of information that places him on an equality with the average citizen of his neighborhood. He was associated with his father in making thread before coming to> this country. For ten seasons he was employed in getting out logs along the rivers of Wisconsin, and in 1859 went with eight others to Pike's Peak in quest of gold. Then for a time he was in southern Kansas, but in i860 returned to Mazomanie, where he has been engaged in farming and stock raising ever since. He owns one hundred and sixty acres of the old homestead and is considered one of the representative farmers of the neighborhood in which he lives. He is a Republican and has held the office of supervisor, as well as some other minor offices. In church matters he is a Congregationalist. On April 5, 1863, he was united in marriage to Miss Clara Greening, (See sketch of her father, James H. Geening) and to this union have been born the following children. Frank, a farmer on the old place ; William Alfred, a commission merchant at Aberdeen, S. D. ; and Nellie, who died at the age of twenty-four years. Frank has been twice married : first to Birdie Rienow and after her death to Nellie Koch. To this second marriage have been born two children, Clara and Stella. William A. married Nettie Baldwin.

Lawrence L. Ketchum, chief engineer of the Wisconsin state -capitol, was born in La Grange county, Indiana. His parents were Stephen and Asenath (Whitney) Ketchum, both born in New

York state. They came to Indiana in 1835 when that country was still new. They were married August 1, 1839. In 1855 tneY im^' grated to Iroquis county, Illinios. The next year Stephen Ketchum went north in search of a new home and purchased a farm in Dane county in the town of Primrose. On his return trip he went to Indiana to' settle his business affairs before moving to his new home in Wisconsin. -While there he was kicked by a horse and died within twenty minutes after the accident. The widow and her eight children went to the farm in Primrose that fall. The trip was made in a covered wagon, drawn by oxen which did goofl service on the farm for several, years. When the Civil War broke out the oldest, Edwin, enlisted in Company K. Thirty-third Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers and served until the close of the war. Another brother, George, who enlisted in Company E. Forty-seventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, on January 24, 1865, died at Camp Randall, February 22. 1865. In 1868 Lawrence was engaged to take the mail route from Madison to Bern postofnce in Green county, via Verona, Mt. Vernon and Primrose. Before commencing this undertaking he was required to take the usual oath to' support the constitution of the United States. The oath was administered by the Madison postmaster, E. W. Keyes. He continued in this work until 1870 when he decided to take Horace Greeley's advice and go west. In company with Wm. T. La Follette, - a brother of Wisconsin's junior senator, Hon. Robert M'. LaFollette, - he went to Clay county. Neb., where Mr. La Follette homesteaded a quarter section of land. In the fall and winter of 1870- 1 he hunted and trapped, killing many buffalo and wolves. Before reaching Denver he came in touch with a parry of friendly Sioux Indians with whom was living a young man who has since become famous the world over, - Wm. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill). When ' Denver was reached not a single rail of the D. & R. G. R. R. had yet been laid and many men were carrying on business in log cabins. Mr. Ketchum's older brother, Hubert, who had preceeded him to Nebraska, was a member of the party which went across the plains to Denver. While in Denver ex-Governor Hunt engaged him to work in a logging and lumber camp thirty miles south of Denver, where he assisted the engineer and fireman in their work. He had always had a liking for mechanical work and under the influence of these men the latent talent came to the surface and Mr. Ketchum's life-work was determined. From Denver he drifted down through Kansas and at Abilene saw the noted Wm. Hecox (Wild Bill) who was city marshall at that time and doing business with a double barreled shot gfiin instead of the little club of to-clav. From here he went to Muskogee, Indian Territory, and worked as fireman on the construction train of the M. K. & T. R. Ry. until Denison, Tex., was reached. He then worked on the Houston and Great Northern R. Ry. until a junction was made with the Texas Pacific R. Ry. at Mineola, and then on the Texas Pacific R. Ry. west through Dallas to Ft. Worth. Here he joined a man who had 22,000 head of cattle to drive north to Nebraska City. Shortly after this General Custer discovered gold in the Black Hills, and the business men of Kearney, Neb, engaged Mr. Ketchum to locate a route from that city to Custer City, Dakota, in order that Kearney might be a great outfitting point for parties en route to the "new diggings." This trip was made in the winter. Indians and deep snow retarded his progress. Upon his return to Kearney, Mr. Ketchum found a party of sixty men with seventeen wagons waiting for him to guide them to- the new gold fields. On this trip he was accompanied by his younger brother, Ami Whitney Ketchum. Later Mr. Ketchum was employed in the quartermaster department of the army and saw service with General Merritt, General Mackenzie, General Crook and Colonel Henry which actually engaged in subduing the Sioux Indians. He was present at the capture of Chief Dull Knife and his band of Cheyennes in 1878 after they broke away from their reservation in Indian Territory and left, a bloody trail through Kansas and Nebraska. They were captured near where Chadron, Neb. is now situated. In 1879 the Ute Indians under Chief Captain Jack massacred the agent Meeker at White River agency together with all the white men they could find and carried off into captivity all the women, - Mrs. Meeker and daughter, Josie, being among them. In the spring of 1880 General Mackenzie was sent into their country and Mr. Ketchum went on this expidition. On this trip he was associated with Chris. Gilson, one of the best government scouts who ever followed a trail. Later at White River, he was in close touch with Luther S. Kelly, another scout known as "Yellowstone Kelly." It was Kelly who was with General Terry when General Custer was sent on his last trip against the Indians. When no word was received from Custer for two or three days Kelly was sent out to find him and was the first white man on the Custer battlefield. In 1881 Mr. Ketchum returned to Kearney, Neb., and became engaged in the machine shop and foundry business. During his residence in Kearney he served as chief of police under Mayors H. J. Mack, C. B. Finch and N. A. Baker. In 1900 he returned to Wisconsin to accept a position as chief engineer at the Racine Wagon and carriage works. In 1903 he was appointed chief engineer of the Wisconsin state capitol and has since that time faithfully and effi- ciently filled the position. In 1882 he married Miss Lucy L. Powell, daughter of Adam and Rachael Powell, of Kenesaw, Neb. To Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum have been born eight children, of whom five are living. Edith, in the letters and science course and Merritt, in the electrical engineering course of the class of 1907, University of Wisconsin; Maud in the high school; and Leslie W. and Dean in the ward schools of Madison. Ruth died at the age of six years, Mabel at five months and Robert M. at thirteen months. The family are members and regular attendants of the Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum are members of the orders of the Eastern Star. Mr. Ketchum is a Knight Templer Mason, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and an active member of the National Association of Stationary Engineers. His educational advantages were limited to the common schools and his own personal energies. He took advantage of night schools wherever it was convenient and also took a course in the "International Correspondence School." All his study and thought have been on mechanical, steam, electrical, hydraulic engineering and he was the first engineer to take advantage of correspondence study course in engineering as taught by the University of Wisconsin. These studies have brought him into close touch with manufacturers and has always secured for him employment in the best and largest power-plants in communities where he resided. Following is the maternal ancestry of Mr. Ketchum as recorded in the "Whitney Genealogy" and the "Ancestry of John Whitney:" Turstin, "the Fleming." a follower of William the Conqueror, is recorded in the Doomsday book, 1086. Authentic record begins in 1242, with Sir Robert de Whitney, from whom the direct line is. Sir Eustace (aTjout 1820); Sir Eustace, knighted by Edward I in 1306; Sir Robert, M. P.., 1377-80: Sir Robert, knighted by Richard II, killed in battle of Pilleth, 1402; Sir Robert, M. P.. 1416-22. d. March 12, 1441 ; Sir Eustace, m. Jenett. dau. Sir John Ludlow, d. 1470; Robert, m. Constance, dau. Jas. Touchett; James, m. Blanche, dau. Senior Melbourne; Robert, m. Margaret, dau. Robert Wye; Sir Robert, knighted by Queen Mary, m. Sybil, d. 1567; Robert, m. Elizabeth; Thomas, m. Mary, dau. of John Bray of Westminster, d. i63i;-John (the first Whitney in America"), m. Elinor, d. June 1. 1673 ; Dea. Joshua, b. 1635. m. Abigail Tarball : Col. David, (1682-1769) m. Elizabeth Warren; Solomon. (i733-'i772) m. Sarah: Tarball, (1 763-1 850") m. Mrs. Lois (Lawrence) Hopkins: Solomon, (1790-1843) m. Sarah A. Haskins; Aseneth Whitney, m. Stephen Ketchum (1813-1856) - children - Edwin, b. 1840; Albert, (1842-46): George, (1844-65); Ann Eliza, b. 1846; Hubert, b.

1848; Loren, b. 1851 ; Lawrence 1). 1851; Ami Whitney, (1854-78). Of Mr. Ketehum's paternal ancestry the following brief entry is made: Robert Ketchum, born 1737, died 1810. He married Miss Pierce and served in the Revolution under Washington. His son, George P., was born in 1777 and died 1866, and his son Stephen, born 181 3, and died 1856, was the father of L. L. Ketchum of this sketch.

Michael Killerlain is one of the highly respected citizens of the town of Dunn and he has followed that honorable vocation in Dane county during all of his mature life. He is a native of the Green Mountain state, and was born in the county of Rutland. Vermont. on December 10, 1857, his parents being John and Nora (Kivlin) Killerlain, both of whom were born in Ireland. To the union of these parents there were born eight children : Timothy, the eldest son, and Mary, the eldest daughter, are deceased ; John is deceased and his widow resides in Davenport, Iowa ; Patrick is deceased ; Bridget married William Trainor and resides in the city of Madison ; Katie married Dominic Conlin and resides in Madison ; Mamie married Thomas Brennan and resides in Two Harbor. Minn. ; and Michael is the subject of this review. The family came directly to Wisconsin from Vermont, in 1857, and the father purchased forty acres of land and began general farming in the town of Fitchburg, Dane county. He remained on this farm three years, and then sold it and worked farms on shares in the same township for nine years, until his death. Some time after the demise of the father, the mother married Thomas Carey, of Fitchburg, and about three years after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carey removed to Madison, where they now live in retirement. Michael Killerlain, who is the immediate subject of this review, received a limited education in the district schools and remained at the parental home until he had reached the age of twenty-one years, assuming charge of affairs and supporting the family until the time of his mother's second marriage. He then moved to the town of Dunn, where he worked a farm on shares for five years, after which he moved to another farm in the same town and remained there the same length of time. He then resided in the city of Madi son two years, working one year in the capitol under Governor Peck's administration. Returning to the town of Fitchburg he then farmed for his father-in-law, five years, then rented a iarm near Syene. upon which he resided three years, and then for another year conducted a farm in Fitchburg, after which he purchased the place where he now resides. He later added forty acres to his landed possessions, and now has a well-improved farm, the result of his own efforts and those of his faithful helpmate. Mr. Killerlain was married on November 24, 1880, to Miss Ellen Glennon, who was born in the town of Blooming- Grove, October it, ^859, daughter of Edward and Ellen (Madden) Glennon, old residents of Dane county. Mr. and Mrs. Killerlain are the parents of eight children ; the two eldest Mamie and Jennie, are twins, the former being the wife of T. M. Cusic, of the town of Dunn, and the latter is Mrs. William Lawler, of the same township ; Nellie is deceased ; and the others - John, Edward, Henry, Frank and Mary, reside at home. Mr. Killerlain maintains an independent attitude in his political views, and his worth as a citizen has been recognized by election to the position of road supervisor, a position he now holds. He and his wife are members of the Catholic church.

John F. King, of Waunakee, born in Westport, Dane county, December 2, 1872, is of Irish ancestry on both sides of the family, both his paternal grandparents, John and Margaret (Shachency) King and his maternal, Michael and Margaret (Durkin) Kennedy having lived and died in Ireland. His father was also born and educated in Ireland; he came to New York, 1859, anCl ver.v soon came on to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked on the Cincinnati & Marietta R'y. He came to Dane county the same year and worked on the state hosp.tal for two years ; then in company with his brother Barney he bought one hundred and forty acres of land and upon this homestead, John F., the only son of John. and Catherine (Kennedy) King, was bom, and there the father lives at the present time. Mrs. King was born in County Mayo, Ireland, December 8, 1845, anCl cueci in l872- He was born in the same place in 1826. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common school and in Miss Richmond's private school in Madison ; he is a farmer and has charge of the homestead ; he is also a breeder of short-horn cattle and Poland China hogs. He belongs to the Republican party and has been treasurer of the township and cierk of the school board for three years. He and his family are members of the Catholic church. On November 13, 1895 he was married to Miss Susan M. Fish, born in Dane, June 16, 1877 and they have had four children, Alice K. ; Ruth: Roy G. ; and Gladys, who died aged four months. Mrs. King's paternal ancestry is as follows: t. Ashel and Mary (Lane) Fish. 2. Ashel Fish, born 1816, married in Pennsylvania, 1840, to Miss Susan Salisbury. He was a minister of the Christian church and came to Columbia county in 1853: he settled at Dekorah. and later came to Springfield (1859), and then to

Waunakee valley, where he preached for some years without salary; his whole term of service as pastor covered twelve years, and he was invariably found in his pulpit. Mrs. King's maternal grandparents were Lathrop and Emily (Allen) Stewart. Mr. Stewart was an early settler of Dane ; he moved to North Dakota where he died in 1900; his wife died at Wahpeton, N. D. in 1881. Mrs. King's parents are Geo. C. Fish, born in Pennsylvania, August, 1842, and Sophia (Stewart) Fish, born also in Pennsylvania in 184$. Mr. Fi<di came west with his parents in 1853. He settled on a farm of two hundred and twenty acres, in Westport in 1866, where the village of Waunakee now stands ; and in company with Mr. Lewis Baker platted it in 1871. He sold his farm to T. P. O'Malley and moved to Iowa where he now resides. While a resident of Dane he served as supervisor in Westport and on the village board of Waunakee.

John T. King, president of the King & Walker Manufacturing Company, whose foundry and machine shops are at 613 to 617 East Main street, was born in Cape Vincent, Jefferson county, N. Y., December 14, 1850. He is a son of Lorenzo D. and Julia Ann (Schryver) King, the former a native of Vermont, the latter of Pennsylvania. The father came to Wisconsin in 1851 and located on a farm near Fox Lake in Dodge county. He followed the vocation of farmer after coming to Wisconsin, although he had originally been a carpenter and stair builder. Practically all his life in Wisconsin he was clerk of the town in which he resided. His religious affiliations were with the Methodist Episcopal church, and he frequently was an occupant of the pulpits of that society. He held most pronounced views on the matter of temperance, being exceeding well read on this topic as well as on all others. His death occurred in 1864 at the age of forty-seven. His widow died some four years later. She was a most devout believer in the Seventh-day Adventist faith and was a deq)ly pious and saintly woman. Of the nine children in the family six are still living. One daughter, Mary E., now the wife of Asahe! Halstead, shipping clerk for King & Walker, makes Madison her home. John T. King received his preparatory education in the "little red school" of national fame, attending school in the winter and working on his father's farm in summer. When he was seventeen years of age he went west to a brother, Gilbert L., at Pine Bluff, a station of the Union Pacific railroad in Wyoming. The railroad shops offered him employment until he obtained a position as engineer on the Union Pacific in 1870. Tnls last position he held for two years and then returned to Fox Lake, where he opened a machine shop and did all kinds of odd ma-

-chinery jobs until 1878. In the latter year he, was appointed assistant engineer in the state capitol at Madison, and remained about a year and a half. The following year and a half he was chief engineer at the Park Hotel and then he went to work for W. G. Walker & Company as superintendent of construction of what was then known as the Prouty printing press. He remained with the firm in the capacity of superintendent until 1889, when the firm of King & Walker was organized and Mr. King was made president. Since that time he has served as president and has patented machinery devices which have helped revolutionize the technical world. So far as is known the first exhaust steam heating apparatus ever patented was his; as was a rotary starching machine for laundries. Altogether he has taken out nine patents, the last on a printing press in December, 1905, and has never sold any of them. The chief output of the firm is printing presses. On August 17, 1872, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Craig, daughter of Samuel and Eliza Craig, and of Scotch-Irish extraction. The parents have been dead many years. Mr. and Mrs. KHng have had but one child, Gilbert William, who was born June 10, 1874, and died November 21, 1890. He was a pupil in the high school at the time of his demise and was a youth of exceptional promise. Mrs. King is a communicant of the First Congregational church. Her husband is a Royal Arch Mason, and for four years was master of Hiram Lodge, Xo. 50. He was historian of the lodge at its fiftieth anniversary celebration and is past grand junior warden of the grand lodge of the state of Wisconsin. He is also a -member of Robt. McCoy commandery, Knights Templar and of Hope Lodge, No. 17, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a charter member of the Knights of Pythias organization in Madison. Politically his affiliations are with the Republican party. In 1894 he was made secretary of the Republican county central committee and held the position eight consecutive years. He took no side in the recent split in the party, but labored earnestly for the good of all concerned. He has himself never aspired to office, although he has often been urged to become a candidate. He is a director of the northwestern building and loan association, and is now serving his third year as president of the Dane county agricultural society.

Thor T. Kingland lives on the farm in the town of Christiania which was the first home owned by his father, Thor Kingland, when lie came to Wisconsin. Father and son were natives of Telemarken, Norway and the boy Thor came with his parents to the west when he was three years old. The long slow voyage on a sailing craft was made in the summer of 1847 and the country where the farm of eighty acres was purchased was wild and inhabited by Indians. With the indomitable spirit of the pioneer, Mr. Kingland built a cabin from the trees on his own farm and set bravely to work to clear and improve the property. After some years he bought another farm of two hundred and forty acres at Albion, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Eleven cihldren were born to them ; Talbin, Alf, Ole, Julia, Andrew, Thar, Ingebright, Alice, Axel and two who died in infancy. Thor was born in Norway July 14, 1844. He found little time or opportunity to go to school in the new home and worked hard with his father on the farm. In October, 1861, he enlisted at Madison, Wis., as a private in Company H, of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and saw much hard service. His regiment was active at Island No. 10 and Union City, marched through Tennessee and Kentucky and engaged at Perry sville, Murfreesboro and Stone River during Mr. Kingland' s term of service. Mr. Kingland was three times wounded, once in the left leg, once in the ne'el and finally near the hip joint. The last wound was the most serious as the bullet passed lengthwise through the leg and imbedded itself. Mr. Kingland's comrades thought him dead and he lay for two days and two nights upon the battle field. Not until eight days after the battle did the wound received surgical attention and six months of severe illness followed and many more of weakness and pain. For a long time Mr. Kingland was obliged to use crutches and he has never since been strong enough for a very active life. June 28, 1865. he was married to Miss Susan Sylfertdotter of Yoss, Norway. After her death he married Miss Gucnel Fernersdotter, also of Norwegian birth. To the first marriage were born four children; Susan (deceased); Thomas: Christian; Andrew and Annie (deceased). Of the six children of the second marriage but four are living; Matilda, Andrew, Tena and Annie, The family is identified with the Lutheran church of Pleasant Springs. Mr. Kingland is a member of the G. A. R. Post of Stoughton and a staunch Republican. He is an able farmer in spite of the fact that he has been incapacitated for hard work by his wounds.

John B. Kiser, together with his brother. Geo. W., is one of the most extensive farmers and stock-breeders of Dane county ; and the sons are but sustaining the reputation in that line of their honored father. The parents of our subject were Joseph C. and Elizabeth (' Ransack) Kiser, both of whom were natives of the state of Virginia, the father being born at Mt. Crawford, Rockingham county, July 26, 1818, and the mother in Roanoke county of the same state. J. C. Kiser removed with his parents to Ohio, when he was but four- teen years old, and for eight years the family had its residence near the city of Dayton, the farm on which the family lived being the same tin which is now located the Soldiers' Home. This farm was bought for twenty dollars an acre, and sold for fifty dollars an acre, in 1839. His father having died, Joseph C. Kiser, who was the eldest of seven children, became the virtual head of the household, and after the sale of the farm mentioned the family removed to .West Liberty, Logan county, Ohio. In 1841 Joseph C. married Katharine Seele, of West Liberty, and the following year started for Peru, Ind., with his young wife, in company with other movers, his equipment consisting of two horses and a cow and $7.50 in money, five dollars of the latter being secured from the sale of fifty bushels of oats at ten cents a bushel. Thus equipped he made the trip overland to Peru, Ind., a distance ot one ' undred and sixty miles, and after making that place his home for three years he returned to Ohio, and in company with his mother and brother was for five years in the mercantile 'business at Millerstown, that state. His wife having died at about this time and the California gold fever being at its height, in 1850 Mr. Kiser started for the Golden state. He went to St. Joseph, Mo. and there, on May 9, he paid Rome, Hannah & Smith $200 to take him to San Francisco, arriving at the latter place on September 8. He conducted a hotel on the road from Stockton to Sonora, known as the "Twenty-six Mile house," for fifteen months. Fortune favored him and he was able to accumulate about $5,000 in the business ; then, in 1852.be returned to his old home in Ohio, married the mother of the subject of this sketch, and again engaged in the mercantile business in West Liberty. He was thus engaged until 1854, when he came to Wisconsin and purchased a farm of three hundred acres in the town of Oregon, Dane county, on which the family still resides. He bought this land of Dr. W. H. Fox, and at that time only eighty acres of it was under cultivation, but Mr. Kiser made his entire share of improvements, building a large and tasteful farm house in 1869, and a forty by sixty basement stockbarn a few years later. He also put up other needed buildings and soon had a well-fenced farm, upon which he resided until his death, November 19, 1895. In 1870 he began the breeding of registered short-horned cattle, usually keeping from twenty-five to forty head in his herd, and he was awarded a number of first prizes at the Wisconsin and Minnesota state fairs, and also many at the Dane, Rock, and Green county fairs in his home state. He also bred Poland-China hogs. He was a Democrat in his political affiliations, and was also a member of the Masonic order. To his first marriage one child was born - Mary, who is now the wife oi W. F. Bartholomew, of Brook- lyn, N. Y. - and to the second union there were born seven, as follows : Susan Virginia, John B., Kittie, Addie, Carrie, George W. and Daniel Elliott. The last married Miss Addie Fox, of Oregon,, and resides at Durand, Wis., and Kittie K. married Joe O. Fox, Jr. and is now deceased. John B. Kiser, whose name introduces this memoir, received his education in the high school of the village of Oregon, and his brothers and sisters also received their schooling in Dane county. In 1890 John B. and his brother were taken in as partners by their father in the extensive business of farming and fancy stock breeding, and this partnership between the brothers still continues under the firm name of Kiser Bros. Their herd now numbers one hundred head. In the disastrous cyclone that visited that porton of the county, in 1878, the farm was almost completely devastated, but, nothing daunted, the father and his sons overcame the dreadful effects and launched out more extensively than ever. In 1870, when the father started in the business of stock-breeding, he purchased a cow, calf, and a three-year-old heifer, for which he paid $1,400, and a short time later he bought four head of cattle in Ohio,, for which be paid $4,000. One of these was descended from a $35,000 dam and a $12,000 sire. John B. and his brother have done all the fitting of their stock for the exhibitions in which they have been contestants, and they had stock in in all the large stock shows for fourteen years. In 1883 they carried the grand sweep-stakes over alt other competitors at the state fair, as is shown by the records. Shorthorns cattle from this herd have gone to more agricultural collegefarms than from any other herd of short-horns in the United States. They have sold stock that has gone to the Washington agricultural college, to New Mexico, Idaho, Dakota, Wisconsin, the Mormon church at Salt Lake city, Virginia, and Canada, have sold thirteen head to Prof. John A. Craig, of Iowa agricultural college and have also sold extensively to breeders on the Missouri river, having shipped twentvfour head in one lot, to breeders in South Dakota, and a car-load to- Lee & Prentice, Vermillion S. D. John B. Kiser gives an unswerving allegiance to the principles of the Democratic party, but has never allowed the desire for office to draw his attention away from the business in which he has achieved such signal success.

Levi Kittilsen, a prominent retired farmer and tobacco dealer residing in the city of Stoughton, is the owner of one of the fine farms of Christiana township. He is one of the many sturdy citizens of Scandinavian birth who have assisted materially in the development of the agricultural industry of Dane county and his course has been such as to retain to him the unequivocal esteem of his fellow men. Mr. Kittilsen was born in Norway, July 21, 1845, and is a son of Kittil and Anna (Lee) Kittilsen, who immigrated to America in 1853, arriving in Wisconsin on August 20. of that year. In 1854 they located in York township, Green county, where the father died the same year, during the epidemic of cholera, to whch he succumbed. His widow and the subject of this sketch, who was but eight years of age at the time of the immigration to the United States, continued to reside in Green county until 1862, when they removed to Christiana township, Dane county, where they purchased one hundred and forty acres of land, the greater portion being prairie land. On this homestead the devoted mother passed the remainder of her life. The property is still owned by Mr. Kittilsen, who has added to the original tract until he now has a fine landed estate of two hundred and four acres, under excellent cultivation and improved with good buildings and other accessories. He received his rudimentary education in his native land and supplemented this by attending the schools of Dane and Iowa counties, Wisconsin. He gave his earnest and undivided attention to the improvement and cultivation of his farm until 1890, having made a specialty of raising tobacco, and in the year mentioned he located in Stoughton, where he engaged in the purchasing and sale of tobacco of native growth, continuing actively in this line of enterprise until 1904, since which time he has lived essentially retired from business, having an attractive home in Stoughton and enjoying the rewards of former years of endeavor and application. He is a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and is at the present time representing Stoughton on the county board of supervisors, having previously been supervisor of Christiana township for many years. He is a man of marked business acumen and has proven a valuable official of township, city and county in the capacity noted. He and his family are zealous members of the Norwegian Lutheran church. July 3, 1865, Mr. Kittilsen was united in marriage to Miss Anna Olson Holtori, daughter of Ole (Galbrandson) Holton and Ambjor (Kampestad) Holton. Mrs. Kittelson was born in Christiana township, Dane county, Wisconsin, August 1. 1845, and is said to have been the first white female child born in that township, where her parents located in 1843, having immigrated hither from Norway. Her father died in 1851, of cholera, his wife surviving him by a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Kittilsen have reared to maturity their family of eight children, namely: Carl O., Andrea. Albert X.. Bernhardt G., Kristian O.. Sophia L., Alma M. and Klara B. An- drea is now the wife of Rev. A. E. Lien a clergyman of the Lutheran church ; Albert N. is a successful physician and surgeon ; and Bernhardt G., is deceased.

John Kivlin, a well-known and successful farmer of the town of Rutland, is a native of County SligO', Ireland. His father, Michael Kivlin, was a farmer and fisherman in Ireland and married there Mi.^s Ann Kellerlain, bringing his young family with him to America in 1854. They made the voyage in a sailing craft and were more than six weeks en route. The first few years were spent in Vermont where Mr. Kivlin worked in the slate and marble quarries near Hydeville and Rutland and in 1861, he moved west to Dane county, Wis. and obtained an eighty acre farm in F.tchburg township, which was his home the remainder of his life. The family numbered five children; John, the oldest; Bridget, the widow of Matt Smith of Madison, Wis.; Michael, who makes his home in Fitchburg, Mary Ann the wife of Martin Price of York, Neb. and Catharine, who is Mrs. McDermott of Madison. John was born in County Sligo, March 25, 1847, went to school when possible in Vermont and Wisconsin, but was early obliged to earn his own way. He commenced by working out on 'farms near home, at one time on the farm of Dr. W. Fox at Fitchburg. After about ten years of saving and industry, he succeeded in saving enough money to buy the farm of one hundred and eighty acres in section 25, town of Rutland, which is now his home. To this he added from time to time Until 'i fine farm of four hundred and sixty acres is his present property. Mr. Kivlin carries on a general farming business but is particularly interested in his fine registered Shropshire sheep, with which he had been very successful. In 1890 he bought his first imported sheep from A F. Fox. He then imported two car-loads from Canada, and in 1905 he imported eight Shropshires from England. In the summer of 1906 he imported fifteen Shropshires, nine Dorsets and nine Cheviots directly from England. He took the second premium on a Shropshire ram. at the St. Louis Exposit'on, and has the finest flock of sheep in America. Shorthorn cattle, Poland China and Chester White hogs and Belgian horses are also bred on his farm. Mr. Kivlin is a Republican nominally but not a strong party man. He believes in securing the best possible administration of local affairs, by whichever party it is offered. Mr?. Kivlin's parents were also' residents of Fitchburg and natives of ireland. She is the daughter of John and Mary McDermott and was married to Mr. Kivlin January 23, 1870. John and Ann (McDermott) Kivlin have nine children. The family have all been educated in the home schools and are devout members of St. Mary's Catholic church of

Oregon. Francis, the oldest son, is a railroad conductor of Lincoln, Neb. ; Bernard is a prosperous farmer of Rutland ; Mary Ann, William, Charles, Sadie, George, Robert, Leo and Grace, are all at home. The four youngest are students in the Brooklyn high school. Mr. Kivlin keeps well posted on everything concerning' up-to-date farming and in 1903 visited the Buffalo Exposition, where he obtained much valuable information.

Michael Kivlin is entitled to recognition as one of the prominent farmers of the town of Fitchburg, where his life since childhood has been spent, and which has been the scene of 'his remarkably successful career. He was born in Rutland, Vermont, on December 8, 1853, and is one of five children born, to Michael and Anna (Killerlain) Kivlin, both of whom were natives of Ireland and are now deceased. The father was a farmer and fisherman in the north of Ireland, and in the early fifties migrated, with his wife and two children, to the shores of America. They made the journey in a sailing craft and were more than six wefeks on the ocean. Upon their arrival in America they located at Rutland, Vermont, where the father worked in the slate and marble quarries near Hyd^ville and Rutland for a few years, and in i860 he came with his family to Wisconsin. Locating in Dane county the father worked as a common laborer for aoout two years and then purchased forty acres of land in the town of Fitchburg, and began general farming. He added to' his farm from, time to> time until it comprised sixty acres at the time of his death, which occurred in 1898, the mother having died in 1897. Of the five children, John is given a more extended mention on another page of this volume; Bridget married Matthew Smith, who is also given particular mention herein; Michael is the subject of this review; Mary Ann is the wife of Martin Priae, of York, Nebraska; and Catherine married John Mc- Dermott, Who is given personal mention on another page. Michael Kivlin attended the common schools in Vermont for a short time and after the removal of the family to Wisconsin added to his scholastic training in the schools at Lake View. He resided at home until he was twenty-five years old, then worked by the month as a farm hand until 1880, when he purchased eighty acres of land in the town of Fitchburg and began his independent career as a general farmer. He has added to this tract from time to< time until he now owns two hundred and twenty acres, upon which he made all necessary improvements. In politics he maintains an independent attitude, voting for the mien and measures that meet -his unbiased approval, and his personal worth has been recognized by election to the responsible posi- 33 - iii tion of town treasurer; and at present he is road commissioner. He and his wife are consistent members O'f the Catholic church. Mr. Kivlin was married in September, 1878, to Miss Kate Glennon, a native of Philadelphia, the date of her birth being January 3, 1856. Her parents are Edward and Ellen (Madden) Glennon, now prominent residents of the town of Fitchburg, and she received her education at Swan Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Kivlin are the parents of ten children: James H., George S., Catherine A., Anna F., Millie I., Mary L., Eddie L., Margaret E., Vincent, and Howard M. James H. married Anna O'Brien and resides in the town of Dunn.

Edward J. Kjolseth is the leading funeral director of the city of St'oughton, where he also conducts a well equipped furniture establishment, in which he has a large and representative trade. He is a native of Norway, where he was born March 6, 1866, being a son of John P. and Karine (Ovren) Kjolseth, who immigrated to America in 1876, making Dane county their objective point and locate ing at Cambridge, in which village they still maintain their home. The father owns five acres of property in the village and eleven in Jeffeerson county, and since coming to America he has given his attention principally to agricultural pursuits. He is a member of the Norwegian Methodist, Episcopal church. Of their children six attained to years of maturity, namely: Bertha (deceased wife of N. M. Sundt), Edward J., Peter, Josephine, Martin and Sarah (wife of Paul Wormlie). Edward J. Kjolseth was ten years ot age at the time of the family removal to the United States, his fundamental education having thus been secured in Norway, and the same having been extended by attendance in the public schools of Dane county, where he was reared to manhood. He remained at the parental home until he had attained the age of twenty-two years, after which he availed himself of whatever order of honorable employment that was presented. In 1895, in company with others, he purchased a threshing machine, and this he operated throughout this section for the ensuing six years. In December, 1901, he removed from Cambridge to Stoughton, where he was employed three months as salesman in a grocery, and in the spring of 1902 he entered the employ of R. B. Page, in the furniture and undertaking business. In 1904 he became associated with M. S. Halverson in purchasing the business from Mr. Page, and this alliance continued until November 14, 1905, when he disposed of his interest in the enterprise to Mr. Halverson and at once started an undertaking and furniture business in an independent way. His establishment is thoroughly modern in its equipment and ac- cessories and he controls an excellent trade. In politics he is a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and fraternaly he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Norwegian Methodist Episcopal church. May 16, 1900, Mr. Kjolseth was united in marriage to Miss Alice Wormlie, daughter of Bernt O. and Tomine (Paulson) Wormlie, and of this union has been born one daughter, Karine. Mr. Kjolseth owns and occupies a handsome residence on Johnson Street, which he purchased April 1, 1906.

Samuel Klauber was a pioneer merchant and capitalist of Madison, Wis., born December 10, 1823, at Muttersdorf, Bohemia, son of Simon and Barbara Klauber. His father was a produce merchant in his native town and trained the son fo>r a business career. On leaving school Samuel was employed in buying goods for his father for a time, but decided to' come to America, landing at New York, October 28, 1847. Like many of his nationality, he gained his first start in business as an itinerant pack-peddler. He located at Lake Mills, Wis., in 1848, where he was associated in the grocery business until 185 1, with a Mr. Brill. He then decided to go to California during the height of the gold-fever, but was dissuaded by Mr. Michelbacher, Who wanted him to take a stock of goods to the thriving young capital of the state, - Madison. This he did, and was ever after a resident there. With a small capital of $300 he embarked in the merchantile business, in a small frame store, sixteen by forty feet, employing two clerks, and sold some $23,000 worth of goods the first year. His business rapidly expanded, and during the seventies demanded two large stores, employing scores of hands and transacting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of sales annually. In 1872 he formed a partnership in Milwaukee under the firm name of Levi, Klauber, Adler & Co., as dealers in dry-goods. He acquired an unquestioning reputation for honesty and fair dealing, and has been uniformly successful in business. In religion he was a Hebrew of the most liberal kind; in politics he was a Whig and afterwards a Republican. He was for a time interested in the Park Hotel of Madison. He traveled much in Europe, was a patriotic, kindly citizen, and a genial gentleman. He married Miss Caroline Springer, September 10, 1854, and the union was blessed with four children. The eldest, Moses, is the business successor of his father, and now the president of the M. S. Klauber Co., merchant tailors, clothiers and men's furnishers. With a sister, Sophie, he still makes his home at the old homestead on West

Adelbert Klecker, who for many# years was a blacksmith in Marshall, is now the owner of a farm of one hundred and twenty-two acres, commonly known as the old Hart home, where lie has lived since 1902. He is of German origin ; his parents, John and Josephine (Worst) Klecker, were born in Hartensdorf, Germany, early in the nineteenth century and came to America in 1853, locating first in Jefferson county, Wis. In 1861, they came to Dane county and obtained a farm in the town of Medina, section 35. Seven children were born to them and are all living. The family are members of the Roman Catholic church. Adelbert Klecker was born in Waterloo, Jefferson county, Wis., Octaber 10, 1859, attended school in Dane county and learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked for eighteen years in Marshall. He then purchased his present home and carries on a general farming business raising considerable stock and also grain, hay, etc. May 17, 1883, he married Miss Anna J. Johnson, daughter of Frank and Theresa Johnson, natives of Germany. Mrs. Klecker was born in Germany, May 15. 1865, and came to America with her parents in 1867, locating at Watertown, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson now reside in River Falls, Wis. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Klecker ; John J. is the eldest son ; Agatha is the wife of Emil Worst of Medina; Ida, Martha, Lewis and Dora are at home. All were educated in the home schools and attend the German Catholic church. Mr. Klecker is a Democrat and has been prominent in school affairs, serving on the school board. He is a member of the E. F. U.

Rev. Ignatius A. Klein, pastor of St. Joseph church of East Bristol, was born in Germany September 1, 1863. His father was Frank KUein who, with his young family came to Dane county, where the father died August 10, 1905. The widow at present resides with her son. Of the large family of children but three survive, these being Rev. B. Klien of Fifield, Wis., Mrs. Hallmair of Butternut, Wis., and Rev. Ignaties A. Klien. The last named is the subject of our sketch. He was educated in Germany, graduating from St. Francis seminary in 1886. His first mission was with the Pine Bluff congregation where he was given the pastorate of St. Mary's church. During his service a stone structure was built, being completed in 1889, largely through his personal efforts. He remained here for eight years and during that time built the church at Mt. Horeb and organized the congregation. In 1895 he was transferred to East Bristol and has since been the pastor of the St. Joseph church of that place. The church has recently erected a fine school building at an expenditure of $15,000. At present there are nearly two hundred families in his flourishing congregation.

Isaac Christopher Knapton, of the town of Medina, is one of the leading citizens of that village and actively interested in all that pertains ito the success and well-being of the community. He is English by birth and the paternal line is as follows: (1.) John Knapton. (2.) William Knapton, born 1768, died January 25, 1845; married Grace Huddlestone, who was born 1876 and died August 29, 1845. (3.) William Knapton, born in Wisco Hill, West Riding, Yorkshire, in 1797, died in Medina township, Dane, in 1858; he married Jane Carnelley, daughter of John and Margaret (Joy) Carnelley, born in England; in 1824 he died and his wife in 1838. Jane (Carnelley) Knapton was born_ in Owlerton, on a farm two miles from Sheffield, in 1801, died in Medina 1884. (4.) Isaac C. Knapton. the subject of this sketch. William Knapton, of the third generation recorded, came to Dane county in 1848, and settled in Medina township, on forty acres in section 7; he also: owned one hundred sixty acres in section 17. He was a Whig in politics and afterward a Republican. He and his wife had twelve children, of whom three died in England and nine came to> the United States; those who died in this country are Mary Ann, July 21, 1901 ; John, February 8, 1903; Sarah, March, 1903. Of the five sons and one sister who remain the subject of this sketch is one. He was born December 26, 1836, near Bramhope, Yorkshire; came to Dane with his parents in June, 1848; he received his first schooling in the village of Otley, England, and later in the common school of Medina township. He shared in the hardships of the pioneer life, and for fourteen years drove a breaking team through the virgin soil of Dane county, and has probably turned over more of the original sod than any other man in the county. March 1, 1858, he married Miss Mary Agnew, born November 1, 1840, in Parish Donaghdee, County Down, Ireland, the daughter of Robert and Ann (Perry) Agnew, who came to the United States in 1853 and the following year settled in Medina township; he died, from the bite of a rattle-snake, in i860; his wife died in 1883. After his marriage Mr. I. C. Knapton rented land, and later purchased. He owns at the present time two- hundred and fifteen acres as the result of his own toil and industry, - one hundred acres in one farm, and the remainder in the other. He is a Republican and has always been actively interested in politics; has been a delegate to many conventions, among them the two first state conventions that nominated R. M. La Follette for governor; he has served as town treasurer, and has been assessor for ten years, and chairman of the board of supervisors from 1894-1896. He was one of the organizers of the Farmer's Mutual Protective Fire Insurance Co., in 1875, and has since that time been the agent for Medina. He belonged to' the Grange for twenty years and also to the Temple of Honor. He is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church. The children born to himself and wife are Ann Priscilla, born December 14, 1858 and died July 19,1861 ; Edward Robert, born April 28, 1861, married Annie Cripps, born in York, February 3, 1871; John, born January 20, 1867, married Annie Orton; Edith Perry, born August 20, 1869, died September 6, 1887, aged eighteen years and seventeen days; she had taught three terms of school; Priscilla Ellen, born January 1, 1874; she taught school for five terms before her marriage to J. A. Wood, April 6, 1895. Of the other two brothers, one, Joshua C, has never married and lives on and owns the old 'homestead. He was born in England, November 7, 1844; he was a private in Company A, Twenty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, enlisting January, 1864, and serving until the close of the war. He is a Democrat, was chairman of the town board for two years and is now assessor. The other brother, William, owns a farm of one hundred and forty acres, but has retired from active work upon it and lives in the village of Marshall. He is a Republican, has been supervisor of Medina and served on the school board; he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. October 16, 1853, he married Anna Fallows, daughter of Thos. and Anne (Ashworth) Fallows, and sister of Bishop Fallows of the Reformed Episcopal church. Tliey have had seven children, William Thomas; Samuel F.; Anna Jane, (deceased); Emma; George H.; Lillie May; Eva Ashworth. Mrs. Knapton was born in Manchester, England, in 1827 and died January 12, 1902.

Eugene O. Kney, cashier of the state bank of Madison, whose beautiful home is at 128 East Johnson street, was born in the old province of Palatinate, Germany, December 13, 1851. Paternally he is of French descent, his father, J. P. Kney, having been born in Nancy, France. His mother, nee Elizabeth Kuntz, was a native of the old Palatinate province, and of the best German stock. J. P. Kney immigrated to Germany with his parents when but six years of age and grew to maturity and old age in that country, where he pursued the vocation of teacher. He was a graduate from the college of Ka:serlautern, Germany. Both parents spent all their lives in Germany. Eugene O. Kney was an attendant of the col- lege at Landau, Germany, and after his arrival in Madison he was graduated from a commercial course at the business college. In 1866 he came to the United States, locating in Sauk City, Wis., where for four years he did clerical work in a store. On May 15, 1870, he arrived in Madison to accept a position as bookkeeper in the state bank. He was retained in the came capacity until 1895, and since that year has been the cashier of the bank. Politically Mr. Kney is exceedingly independent, exercising his right of franchise as his conscience and good judgment dictate. Aside from becoming a member of the library board, of which office he is now the incumbent, he has never allowed his name to be even mentioned in connection with a position of public trust. On June 20, 1873, Mr. K'ney was united in marriage to Miss Clara Hinrichs, born in Madison of German parentage, and a daughter of Christian and Frederica (Miller) Hinrichs. To this union have been born four children, Bertha, the wife of Herman J. Minch of Madison ; Paul, teller in the state bank ; Ena, at home ; and Otto, the advertising manager for the Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company. All the children were born in Madison and received their education in the same city, all being graduates of the high school. Mr. Kney is intensely interested in music and all that pertains to the musical development of the community. For the past twentyfive years he has been president of the Madison Mennerchor, a society composed of German citizens of the community interested in music, and is now serving his thirteenth year as president oi the Choral Union. Ever since his residence in Madison he has been identified with the Turnverein, and at present is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. When Mr. Kney first located in Madison it was a city of some 11,000 population and he has been one of the most influential of its citizens in helping to bring it among the foremost of municipalities of the Badger commonwealth. Modest and retiring, but efficient and thorough in all that he does, he is the type of citizen who adds materially to the refinement and culture of his home connmunity.

Henry Knudson of the town of Perry is the owner of a valuable and well-equipped farm -of two hundred twenty-five acres. With his father, Knudt Enderson, and mother. Marit (Helgerson) Enderson, he came to the United States when he was a boy of nine years. Knudt and his wife were natives of Norway and came to Wisconsin with their family in 1867. At first Mr. Enderson worked out as a farmhand but soon bought eighty acres in Perry township which he set to work to clear and improve. Here he lived for several years but in the meantime his son Henry had purchased a tract of land which also had to be cleared and cultivated and as it was the more promising farm of the two, Mr. Enderson sold his property and made his home with his son. Together they improved the property and here Mr. Enderson died in 1899 and his wife in 1891. Five children were born to them; Henry; Inger, who is Mrs. Hagan of St. Croix count}-; Eric, who lives in Minnesota ; Anton who lives in the town of Perry ; John, who lives in Minnesota. Henry was born in Valders, Norway, May 12, 1858, attended school for a few years after the family came to Perry but began to earn his own living when he was fourteen years of age. In 1883 he bought one hundred sixty acres adjoining his present home and has added more and more until he now has a fine large farm. He was married Oct. 20, 1888, to Miss Bertha Syverud, who was born in Norway in March, 1863, daughter of Ole Syverud. Four children were born to the marriage ; Rose Mabel and Ida Amelia reside with their parents; Albert and an infant child are deceased. Mrs. Knudscn has three younger sisters and a brother. Anna is Mrs. Torger Dakken of Perry ; Nels resides in Mount Horeb ; Mary married Hans Biornstad of Perry ; Tonita is also married and lives in Norway. The family is identified with the Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Knudson is a Republican in his political sympathies.

Anton Knudtson is a well known and prosperous farmer of the town of Perry, son of Knudt and Mary Anderson, natives of Norway, who came to the United States in 1866. Their first home was in Blue Mounds and Mr. Anderson worked as a farm-hand for a short time. As soon as he was able Mr. Anderson purchased a farm of eighty acres in the town of Perry and lived there ten years, finally selling it to hys oldest son Henry. Mr. A'nderson died in 1892. Anton was born in Blue Mounds February 21, 1870, attended the district school in Perry and after his father's death lived with his brother Henry until 1897. For some years he was employed as a farm hand and then bought one hundred and sixty acres of farm land in the town of Perry, where he lived but two years. This property he sold and for nine years rented another farm. In the autumn of 1905 Mr. Knudtson bought his present homestead, a farm of one hundred and thirty-four acres, and there carries on a successful farming business. Mr. Knudtson's oldest brother Henry lives on the old homestead; Eric resides in Minne- sota ; Ona married Mr. Hagan ; John also lives in Minnesota. December 4, 1894, Mr. Knudtson married Miss Alena Desrud, born in Blue Mounds, January 12, 1875, daughter of Ole N. and Andrea Desrud. There were eight children in the Desrud family. Mrs.

Desrud died in 1901 and the family live in Rice Lake, Wis. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Knudtson ; Minnie Alberta, Julia Elinore, Olin Clifford, Edwin Norman, James Alford and Agnes Americe. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Knudtson is allied with the Republican party in his political sympathies.

Ole Knudtson of the town of Perry has been a farmer ever since he was a boy. He was born in Telemarken, Norway, April 23, 1852, son of Knudt and Margit Olson. Knudt Olson died when his son Ole was but a little lad and Ole began to help his mother when he was eight years old. He had no opportunity to attend school and was employed first as a shepherd boy and later at general farm work. In 1862, Mrs. Olson brought her young family to the United States and located on a farm in the town of Pleasant Springs which was their home until 1882 when they came to Perry, where Mrs. Olson now lives with her son Ole. During the first years of his life in America Ole worked out for the farmers of his neighborhood and after a long period of hard work, most of it in the interests of his mother and sisters and brothers, he was able to purchase a farm of two hundred acres, which lies in the town of Perry. Ole is the only survivor of the family of four children. May 8, 1875, he married Miss Helena Knudtson; who was born in the town of Pleasant Springs, March 4, 1850, daughter of Knudt Knudtson and Rachel (Brount) Knudtson, who were both born in Norway. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Knudtson : Carrie Maria, widow of Victor Jensen ; Richard ; Clara Matilda ; Carl ; and James Alfred. Mr. Knudtson sold one hundred acres of his farm and retains the remaining one hundred acres for his homestead. He has been successful in his business and has made his way in spite of early hardships and poverty, by means of his own determination and pluck. He is associated with the Republican party and attends the Norwegian Lutheran church.

Theodore Koch is one of the prosperous farmers and dairymen of Cross Plains township, and his success is the more gratifying to record from the fact that he is a native son of Dane county, where he has been identified with agricultural pursuits from his boyhood to the present. He was born in Berry township, this county, August 18, i860, and is a son of Matthew and Mary Ann (Schmoll) Koch, both native of Germany, where the}' were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized, the father having learned the trade of wagonmiaking when a young man. They came to America in 1849, forthwith making their way to Dane county, Wisconsin.

Matthew Koch secured two hundred acres of wild land, in Berry township, a small clearing having been made and a rude log house erected. He reclaimed the place into one of the valuable farms of the county and was one of the reliable and substantial citizens of the township, continuing to reside on his homestead until his death, January 6, 1898, his devoted wife having been called to the life eternal on March 20, 1880. Both were communicants of the St. Francis Catholic church. In politics he was a Democrat. They became the parents of nine children, eight of whom are living, namely: William, John and Henry (twins), Frederick, Kate, Theodore, Frank and Joseph. Theodore Koch attended the district schools in a somewhat irregular way during his boyhood and youth and early began to' aid in the work of the home farm, with whose improvement and management he was identified until he was about thirty years of age, having continued to reside on the home farm about nine years after he had married. He then purchased his present farm of one hundred and eighty acres, in section 7, Cross Plains township, buying the property of Joachim Schultz. Here 'he has a well improved and well kept farmstead, and his attention is given to diversified agriculture, to the dairy business and to such raising of various kinds of livestock as is consistent with other departments of the farm enterprise. He is a Democrat in politics but has never sought or held office and both he and his wife are communicants of the St. Francis Catholic church, holding membership in the parish at Cross Plains village. Mr. Koch has been industrious and progressive and has met with well merited success, while he has never failed to gain the respect of those with whom he has had dealings. October 14, 1880, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Michaels, daughter of John and Gertrude (Smith) Michaels, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in the state of New York, while they now reside in the village of Pine Bluff, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Koch have five children: Gertrude M., Anna M., Margaret M., Henritte M. and Frederick T.

Joseph H. Koltes, a prominent lumber dealer and the vice-president' of the Waunakee state bank, at Waunakee, is one of the stanch German citizens of Westport township. He was born in Springfield township, Dane county, November 26, 1862. and is the son of Michael and Helen (Fischer) Koltes both of whom were born (:n Germany, the former on April 2, 1828, and the latter in May, 1827. The parental grandfather was Ptter Koltes and the maternal ancester of the same degree was William Fischer, both of whom spent their lives in the Fatherland, the latter dying in