Dane County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1906 (part 24 of 29)

E. J. B. Schubring, junior member of the firm of Jones & Schubring, attornneys, was born in Sauk county. Wis., November 17, 1878. His parents are Herman and Maria ( Krueger) Schubring, natives of Germany. The father is a retired farmer and merchant who now makes Madison his home. He came to this country in i860. Of the thirteen children in the family ten are still living. They are Louisa ; Herman, a foreman of the Milwaukee Bridge & Iron Company; Mary, Mrs. J. N. Chase, Rice Lake, Wis.; Christian P., a grocer of Madison; Matilda, Mrs. J. P. Brcitenbach of Madison; Josephine M., Mrs. Franklin Dengel, of Madison; Edward J. B., the subject of this sketch ; August O., a clerk ; Rosetta, at home ; and Arthur O. employed by the Northern Electrical Company. Two children, twins, died in infancy. Charles G. entered the regular army m the spring of 1898 for service in the Spanish- American War. His regiment was detailed to duty in the Philippines. After the expiration of his term of enlistment he traveled extensively throughout the East, for three years. On his return to Manilla the outbreaks of the Moros again called him into the service of his country; he remained in the army until his death on May 20, 1905. E. J. B. Schubring received his education in the Sauk- city high school. In the spring of [895 he represented his school in an oratorical contest for the Sauk county high schools, at Baraboo, and captured first place and incidentally a gold medal. In tbe fall of 1897 he entered the University of Wisconsin, and in 1901 received the degree of B. L. from that institution. Two years later he was graduated from the college of law of the same institution. Mr. Schubr'ng received numerous honors in an oratorical way while in the university, He was closer for his side in the "Freshman Blowout" debate of his literary society, was closer on the "Semipublic" debate in the spring of 1899 and was the "Junior Ex" orator in the spring of 1900. He was one of the speakers at the commencement in 1901, and while in the law school was chosen a member of Wisconsin's team in the Wisconsin-Georgetown law schools debate. Wisconsin won by the unanimous decision of the judges, of whom Senator Daniels was one. and the Washington Post and Milwaukee Sentinel gave a large share of the credit for the victory to Mr. Schubring". Immediately after graduating he entered the law offices of Hon. Burr W. Jones of Madison, and on July 1, 1904, was made a partner in the firm. On June 16, 1904. he married Sclma, daughter of August and Ida (Schkgelmilch) Langenhan. of Ableman, Wis. Mrs. Schubring is a member of the class of 1907 in the University of Wisconsin and in her junior year was elected a member of the honorary fraternity of the Phi Beta Kappa. Both Mjr. Schubring and his wife are members of the First Congregational church of Madison. Mr. Schubring is president of the Christian Endeavor union of Madison, and was general chairman of the committee on arrangements for the state Christian Endeavor convention held in Madison; June 30 to July 5, 1906.

Herman C. Schulenburg, one of the leading young business men of Middleton, is a dealer in agricultural implements and also- has a large general store. He was born at Middleton, in March, 1872, of German parents. William Schulenburg, his father, was a sheepherder in Germany, but becoming convinced that opportunities were more numerous in America, emigrated in 1865. Upon his arrival at Middleton soon after, he went to work on a farm, afterward rented one for two years, and by industry and frugality was able to save up $500 with which he began to farm for himself. At this time he married Sophia Prehn, also a native of Germany, and they lived for two years in Middleton. Their next home was the old Lampman farm at Cross Plains, which they purchased, cleared and improved in every way, adding fine new buildings. Mr. Schulenberg had his share of viscissitudes that belong to pioneer life, including bad luck in stock raising and much sickness in the family, but he overcame all difficulties and is now the prosperous owner of a fine farm of three hundred and forty acres. Eigiit children were born to Air. and Airs. Schulenburg, of whom Herman C. is the oldest. He is engaged in the mercantile business; the second son, Louis, of Middleton, is a contracting mason; John, the third son, is married and also lives in Middleton, and is a farmer by vocation; Lena, the second daughter, is married to Fred Tacham, a farmer, and representative of one of the pioneer families of Middleton; the rest of the children, Minnie, the oldest daughter, and the three youngest children, Henry, Rudolph and Annie, remain at home. They were educated in the Dane county schools. Herman C, left home at the age of twenty-one, and, like his father, sought his fortune farther west. In Day county, S. D., he worked out for a time, farming and in a store, but concluded to> open a store in his native town, which he and his wife, nee Anna Schultz, have since made their home. Mrs. Schulenburg, who is the daughter of John and Eliza Schulz of Hanover, Germany, is, like her husband, a member of the German Lutheran church. They have one son, Harold, born April 12, 1903. Mr. Schulenburg is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a Democrat in politics and interested in all which concerns his native village, although he has never endeavored to obtain political preferment.

Bernard A. Schultz is the owner of a farm in the town of Windsor, which is his present home. His parents, Lewis William and Caroline (Schower) Schultz, were born, educated, and married in Stettin, Germany, and came to Wisconsin when their son Bernard was a baby. From 1863 to 1879 they lived in Columbus, Wis., after which they purchased a farm in Windsor where they lived ten years. In 1887 their present farm of two hundred and sixty acres in the township of Leeds, Columbia county, was purchased and has since been their home. Their son, Bernard A., was born October 21. 1861, was educated in Columbus. Wis., and was employed for a short time in a bakery. He learned the carpenter's trade and worked out upon farms in the neighborhood until 1887, when he went to Minnesota and worked on a wheat ranch for several months. In Lac-qui-parle county, Minn., he obtained a claim of one hundred and sixty acres but returned to Dane county in the autumn of 1882 and worked at his trade. In 1885 he purchased the farm which is his present residence and upon which he has made many improvements and built new and modern buildings. Mr. Schultz also owns a property of one hundred and sixty acres in extent in Mower county. Minn. He is a Republican and has held the office of constable. For seven vears he has been a director in the Bristol Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company. October 30, 1884, he married Miss Augusta Paulman, who was born in Germany in October. 1862, daughter of William and Henrietta (Hage) Paulman, who came from Germany in 1867 and lived In the town of Windsor. Mrs. Schultz's grandfather was a soldier in the army under Xapoleon the First in the war with Russia. Of six brothers who went to Russia with the Emperor he was the only one to return. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz have been blessed with four children: Albert B., Alvina A., Edwin G.. and Louisa L.

Henry Schuster, deceased, of Middleton, was a retired farmer, of German stock. In 1848 he came to America with his parents, John and Maria (Hertwig) Schuster, from Bavaria, Palatine. Germany. John Schuster was a shoe-maker and worked at his trade in Rochester, X. Y.. before he came to Middleton.. At Middleton he purchased a farm which he worked as well as continuing to ply his trade. Mr. and Mrs. Schuster were affiliated with the German Lutheran church. Their family comprised three children, of whom one, Peter, is living, at Middleton. Henry Schuster was born in Bavaria, December 1, 1 83 1. His educational opportunities were few and he has made up for that lack by home study as far as possible. At the age of seventeen he left home and, having learned the shos-maker's trade, worked at it in Milwaukee for seven years. Returning to Middleton he again became a farmer, which was his occupation for twenty-five vears. In politics he was an Independent. He was town treasurer for two years and clerk of the high school board for twelve years, also secretary of the Middleton Fire and Lightning Insurance Company. July 4, 1864, he married Miss Ida Roehl, daughter of John and Mary Roehl of Pudlitz, Prussia, early settlers of Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Schuster have six children : Augusta, the oldest, is the wife of Charles Xiebuhr of Madison; Arthur lives at Grand Island, Xeb., where he carries on a general merchandise business; Laura married Charles Millbrook of Madison, who is employed by the C, M. & St. P. R. R.; Walter was a shoe-maker and died in 1896. E. E. Schuster is a dentist, practicing his profession in Milwaukee. His wife was. before her marriage. Miss Emma Schneider. Dr. Schuster is a member of the I. O. O. F. Henry Schuster, Jr., has been in the U. S. postal service since December, 1904. and was previously engaged in the dairy business at Middleton.

Peter Schuster, a well-known farmer of Middleton. came to Dane county with his parents in 1855. John B. Schuster, his father, was born in Morbach. Germanv, and was a shoemaker by trade. He served six years in the German army as private in an infantry regiment. In June, 1826, he married Alary Ann Hertwig, who was born in Prussia in 1799. They brought their family to America in 1848, taking passage in a sailing vessel, the American Eagle. The voyage was very rough and the boat was forty-two days en route, landing at Xew York July 9. The family comprised four children, all of whom came west with their parents after seven years spent in Xew York state, where the older ones helped the father with his trade. John was the oldest, Peter, the second, then Henry and Karoline. May 19, 1855, was the date of their arrival in Middleton and at that time Peter was obliged to give up shoemaking on account of his health. Therefore a farm of eighty acres was purchased upon which Peter Schuster went to work and his parents lived with him during the remaining years of their lives. Peter Schuster was born at Morbach, Kaiserslautern. Germany, March 11, 1829. In July, 1851. he married Miss Barbara Hallauer. daughter of Nicholas Hallauer, a native of Switzerland. They have had eleven children. The eldest. Herman H., is a farmer of Dane county. Caroline is the wife of Henry Garth and resides in Madison. AYis. Mary M. remains at home and keeps house for her father. Amelia marired Thomas McConnell and has lived in Phoenix. Ariz., and Madison, AYis. Bertha is the wife of Senator Beach of Whitewater. Otto J. is a teacher, now located at Platteville. He holds a position in the normal school at Platteville and is a popular lecturer. R. Eugenia is the widow of H. J. Taylor, who died in New Zealand in 1902. Mrs. Taylor resides in Sioux City, Iowa. Louis J. is a merchant of Fort Worth, Tex. Ida E. married Dr. Ed. Austin and lives at Elkhorn, Wis. Elvin E. died in infancy. Clara was graduated from the University of Wisconsin with the class of 1889 and teaches in the German department of the Platteville normal school. Flora A., born in 1871, lived but one year. Mr. Schuster is a firm believer in higher education and has always endeavored to inculcate in his family a desire for college or university training and to gratify that desire so far as possible. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Always interested in public affairs and a supporter of the Republican party, he has never been an office-seeker,- though made a member of the board of supervisors for three vears.

Robert C. Schwaner, a general farmer and dairyman of Roxbury township, is one of the native sons of Dane county who reflects credit upon It's birthplace and is highly esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances. He was born in Roxbury township, upon the farm where he now resides, April 30, 1856, and the blood of a purely German ancestry courses through his veins. He is the son of Carl and Armena (Earka) Schwaner, both natives of Germany, where the former was born, November 12, 1825, and the latter on February 21, 1826. They were married in the Fatherland and migrated to America in 1852, locating during the same year at Watertown, in Jefferson county, Wisconsin. They remained at that place but one year, however, and then, in 1853, came to Dane county and settled on the farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Roxbury township, which has been their home during all the intervening years, and where the aged father still resides with his son, the mother having passed away February 2T,, 1896. Carl Schwaner and wife were the parents of six children, four of whom are still living. Air. Schwaner is a Republican in politics, and together with his wife a member of the Lutheran church, showing his interest in religious affairs by giving the ground on which stands the Lutheran church building, about one mile from his farm. During his active life, in addition to' general farming, he made a specialty of raising horses, but that he did not neglect the ordinary duties of the agriculturist is evidenced by the many fine improvements upon his farm, all the product of his own toil and good management. Robert C. Schwaner was educated in the comimon schools of Roxbury township, and remained upon the old homestead as the assistant of his father until he reached the age of twenty-three years. Then he spent one year in the state of Illinois, after which he followed the advice of Horace Greeley and went to Dakota. One year was spent by him in that territory, and he then went to Nebraska, where he remained five years and then tried ;his fortune in California for one year. Not finding things exactly to his liking in the Golden state he returned to Nebraska and claimed that state as his plg.ce of residence for nine years more. Farming had "been his general occupation, especially during the five years of his first sojourn in Nebraska, but after his return from California he became a salesman of windmills. In October, 1900, he returned to Dane county, where he purchased the old homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and conducts an up-to-date dairy, besides general farming. In politics he is a Republican, and with his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, their membership being in Nebraska. Mr. Schwaner was married on March 30, 1882. to Miss Henrietta Hannsa. a native of Germany and daughter of Carl Hannsa, who immigrated to America with his family, about 1870, and located in Sauk county. Wis., where he died. Robert C. Schwaner and wife are the parents of two children. George and Francis, the latter of whom is deceased. George, the surviving son, was born in Sauk county. Wis., and now lives in Nebraska, where he fills the responsible position of book-keeper for a large lumber firm. He was educated in the high school at Ord; Neb., and at the Grand Island Business College in the same state. Francis, the other son. was born in 1894, and died in 1897. Mr. and Mrs. Schwancr also have an adopted daughter, Ruth Hardesty Schwaner.

John Schwenkert, a thrifty German farmer of the town of Madison, was born at Bavaria. Germany, May 7, 1827. His father was Joseph Schwenkert. a native of Bavaria. Both of John's parents died when he was three years old, and until he was sixteen he lived with an uncle, a brother of his mother. Then for seven years he "worked out" and in 1850 came to the United States. The passage over took fifty-eight days. For two months after his arrival he worked in Hudson, on the river of that name, and then drifted to Columbia county. X. Y. John's residence there continued for six years, and then with his wife he came to Madison. After a year's hard labor he purchased forty acres of wild land, and started in to make a home for himself. Later he purchased forty acres more in the town of Madison. Mr. Schwenkert's education was very meagre because of his hard struggle for bread. Politically he is a Republican, but has never aspired to office. He is a member of the German Methodist Episcopal church of Madison. On August 28, 1856, he married Hannah, daughter of James and Catherine (Miller) Allen, of Columbia county, X. Y. Mr. Allen died in 1838. Mrs. Allen was twice married, her second husband being Philip Fritz. By her first husband she had two children and seven by her second. Mrs. Fritz died in 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Schwenkert have two children, Ida, the wife of Forrest Hunt, a farmer near Canton, S. D.. and George, now working his father's farm. Mr. Schwenkert is one of the type of citizens who by their thrift and earnestness contribute so much to the prosperity of a community. For several years the subject has been president of the board of trustees of the East Middleton cemetery.

James Harvey Scott, who is now living retired, in the village of Mount Horeb, comes of English stock and his ancestors were numbered among the early Massachusetts colonists. He is the greatgrandson of Lemuel Scott who was born on May 13, 1762, in Massachusetts, but who was compelled to leave that state in 1783 on account of his loyalty to England during the War of the Revolution. He was but twenty-one years old at the time of leaving his native state, and he went direct to Guysboro, in the eastern part of the province of Nova Scotia, and settled at the head of Chedabucto bay,, being- a resident of that province until his death in 1850. He was married on April 10, 1787, to Miss Ruth Godfrey, who was born March 19, 1770, and died in 1851. These parent's reared twelve children, the eldest of whom. Abijah Scott, was born on February 4, 1788, and died in December 1823, in Nova Scotia. A son of Abijah Scott Avas Lemuel Scott, born April 6, 181-4, the father of the subject of this review, and who was also a native of Xova Scotia. There he learned the trade of a shoemaker and followed that occupation during the early years of his life, but after his migration to the United States he followed farming. He came to Wisconsin with his family in the autumn of 1857 and settled in the town of Vermont, in Dane county, where he purchased a farm and lived thereon for nine years. In 1866 he removed to Mazomanie and lived in that village until his death, which occurred on April 22. 1893, at the age of seventy-nine years, his good wife having passed away on April 22, 1877. He was married to Isabella Morrison and they became the parents of four children : Charlotte resides at the old homestead in Mazomanie; James H.. is the subject of this review ; Isabella married George Theobald and died at Zion City ; and Harriet married William Reeves and resides in Mazomanie. James Harvey Scott was born in Guysboro, Nova Scotia, on January 1, 1844, and was not quite fourteen years old when the family removed to Dane county. He remained at home assisting his father on the farm, until December 15, 1861, when he enlisted in Company M, Third Regiment of Wisconsin volunteer cavalry, and he served with that command until February 17, 1865, being mustered out as corporal upon that date, his term of service having expired. He served with his regiment in the Trans-Mississippi department and participated in the engagement at Cabin Creek in the Indian Territory, also in the battle of Honey Springs, and was in almost constant skirmishing. The regiment came frequently in contact with Ouanrell's guerrillas. After being mustered out and later discharged, the latter occurence being on March 9, 1865, Mr. Scott returned to the town of Vermont, engaged in farming with his father and remained there until 1870. He then removed to northwestern Missouri and remained four years in Gentry county, that state, after which he returned to Wisconsin and located at Edgerton in Rock, county, where he remained four years. He then removed to Mazomanie, and after one year in that place returned to the old family homestead in the town of Vermont, and remained thereon until IS!)*), when he took up his residence in Alt. Horeb and erected a commodious house in which he now resides. He was married on December 10, 1865, to Miss Mary McKinney, a native of Philadelphia and daughter of John and Sarah Ann ( Arnold) McKinney. Both of these parents were natives of Ireland, the father being of Scotch descent, and they settled in Milton Junction, Wis., in 1850. The father died in 1895, aged seventy-five years, on a farm in the town of Springdale where he had resided since 1852. He and wife were among the earliest settlers of Springdale, and for a long time after locating in that town their nearest neighbor was two miles away. To Mr. and Mrs. Scott there have been born five children : Sarah Belle married Ira Smith and resides in Duluth. Minn.; John Lemuel resides on the old homestead; Charlotte Annie married Robert Scott and resides in Klevenville. Dane county ; Mary Elizabeth married George Martinson and resides at Black Earth; and James Franklin resides in the city of Madison. The subject of this review is a member of Gen. Dickinson post, G. A. R. and Mrs. Scott is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

John W. Scott, a farmer of Fitchburg, was born in the city of Madison, Wis., November i, 1861. His father, Archibald Scott, was born near Belfast, Ireland, on July 26, 1828. At the age of twenty years he came to America and for some time followed the occupation of gardener in the vicinity of Boston, Mass.. and came to Madison, where he was for some time engaged in business of drayman. He married Esther Welsh, a native of England. He is a member of the Episcopal church and now lives retired in Ireland. He and his wife had seven children. Those now living are John W., the subject of this sketch; William F., a painter at Mount Horeb; and Walter, who lives in Chicago. At the age of eighteen years John W. Scott began learning the trade of shoemaker, but later learned the trade of iron molder and worked at that occupation for five years. On September II, 1888. he married Miss Anna, daughter of Andrew L. and Isabella (Knapp) Mann, the former of whom was a nat've of Xew York. In 1848, Mr. Mann, who was at diat time living in Athens, Mich., came to Madison; he returned to Michigan, but came again to Madison in 1849. and purchased a one-half interest in a livery business. After another brief sojourn in Athens, he, in 1852, located permanently in the capital city and bought out h's brother's interest in the livery business and also bought a home in the city. For a time he was in partnership with Charles Stafford, but in the spring of 1857 he rented his livery stable to Andrew Kentzler and lo- cated on a farm at Fitchburg. He sold the livery business in 1863 and remained on the farm until 1882, when he removed to Madison for the purpose of educating his children. In 1888 he returned to the farm. He died in Madison in July, 1893, aged seventy- four years. His wife died in 1880 at the age of forty-nine. During his life he was an ardent Democrat and held successively the offices of justice of the peace, town treasurer and town clerk. He was a member of the Episcopal church, was for some time the postmaster at Rock Side, and was universally respected. He and his wife had two children. Julius K., who died in 1895, and Anna, now Mrs. Scott. After the death of Mrs. Scott's brother, John W. Scott removed to the old Andrew L. Mann homestead, known as the "Rock Side Farm," near Fitchburg. This farm, which contains two hundred an J thirteen acres, was entered by Mr. Mann, who improved it. and it has always been in the possession of the family. Politicallv Mr. Scott is a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party, and in church matters affiliates with the Episcopal church of Madison. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have the following children; Andrew A., Francis M., Isabella E., Ethel L., Erma J., and Edwin J.

Ole Semonson, one of the leading farmers of the town of Pleasant Springs, was born on June 1, 1838, in the Bergen stift, Norway, both h's parents, Simon and Christina (Anderson) Oleson, being natives of that district. The mother died in 1845 and the father married Betsy Erickson, of Norway, but no children were born to this second marriage. The children of the first wife were: Andrew, who died in Norway ; Mary, wife of Ole Swenson, now living in Polk county, Minn.; Isabelle, who married Ole Barsness and is now deceased; and Ole, the subject of this sketch. In 1867 the family came to America and upon arriving in this country came directly to Stoughton, where the father had friends. He died in 1895. Ole Semonson attended school in Norway, and was confirmed in the Lutheran church, to wh'.ch his parents belonged. When he was old enough to earn money he went to work on a farm in his native land and came to America with his father. After reaching this country he worked on farms, in a pinery, frequently going as far as St. Louis with rafts of logs. He finally got a team and rented some land upon which he began the life of a farmer. Later he bought a farm in the town of Dunn and lived there for fourteen years, when he traded for one hundred acres in Pleasant Springs. He now owns three hundred and eighty acres of fine land, well improved, upon which he carries on a general farming business. He is one of the largest growers of tobacco in his part of the county, and devotes considerable attention to stock raising. In polities Mr. Semen- son is a Republican, but has never been, a candidate for any office. He is a member of the Lutheran church at Stoughton and is active in church work. ( >n January 14, 1872, he was united in marriage to Miss Jsabelle Johnson, daughter of John Quam, a native of Norway, and to this union have been born the following children: Carl, Simon, John, ( )scar, Andrew, David, Joseph, Martin, ( )le, Edward, Dena, Ada. Annie. Christina, and Mary. All are living except Dena.

Dan. A. Sessing is an experienced and successful farmer of the town of York, where he was born April 5, 1851. His parents, Ludwick and Eva ( Miller) Sessing, came from Germany to the United States in 1842 and located in Dane county. Mr. Sessing was born in Germany in December, 1805, and his wife in May, 1809. They were both educated in Germany and in their early married life determined to try their fortune in the west. They obtained one hundred and thirty-two acres of wild land in the town of York, cleared and improved it and made it a substantial and comfortable home. The remainder of their lives was spent 011 this farm and there Mr. Sessing died in 1873 and his- wife in 1894. Their family consisted of four children, of whom all are living. The family belongs to St. Joseph's Catholic church. Dan. A. Sessing, the subject of this sketch, attended school in the town of York and has always resided in the township. He has a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres with man}- modern improvements, which he has owned since 1872. He carries on a general farming business and is also a breeder of Shropshire sheep. He is a member of tthe Democratic party and has served the town as supervisor for five years in succession. February 2^, 1872. he married Miss Margaret Fox of Columbus and ten children blessed their union; Annie. Jacob, Addie, Gertrude, Frank, Menia, William, Henry (deceased), Laura and Lewis. They are members of St. Joseph Catholic church. Mrs. Sessing was bom in Columbus, daughter of Jacob and Magdalina ( Xaiser) Fox, who were born and married in Germany and came to Columbia county in 1842, where they spent the residue of their lives. Mrs. Sessing died September 17, 1905.

Abraham Lincoln Severson of the firm of Oftelie and Severson, prominent real estate dealers of Stoughton, is a native, of the town of I )unkirk, Dane county, son of Sever H. and Gurina (Peterson) Severson. The pioneers of the family in Wisconsin were Helga Sigurdson Severson and Birgih (Oldsdotter) Severson, who came to the United States from Telemarken, Norway, in 1842, and located in Racine county, Wis., where they resided two years. In 1844 they moved to Pleasant Springs and obtained a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of government land, the first land purchased from the government in that township. Sever H. Severson, son of Helga, was born in Telemarken, Norway, November 2, 1840, and came to America with his parents when he was but two years old. He attended the district schools of Pleasant Springs and worked on the farm with his father until he was seventeen years old. when he went to Stoughton and was employed as clerk in a general store. In 1860 he went to Colorado and was engaged in mining in the vicinity of Pike's Peak for six years. Returning to Stoughton in 1866. he engaged in the lumber business in which he remained until 1886. From 1886 to 1890 he was occupied in dealing in leaf tobacco and was then for two years a grocer. From 1892 until his death in August, 1897, he was engaged in the marble business for one vear and the rest of the time in the coal business. To Sever and Gurina Severson were born four children; Hattie B., the wife of John H. Holtan, Henry C, Abraham L. and Theodore B. (deceased). Abraham L. was born July 25, 1874, attended the public schools and the Stoughton Academy and in 1897 entered the coal and wood business, which occupied him until 1901, when he engaged in farming. After two years he became associated with his present partner in the real estate business. August 22, 1900, he was married U> Miss Emma Asbjornson, daughter of Christ and Hilabor (Kahlanid) Asbjornson, pioneers of Dunkirk. Two children have blessed the marriage; Gladys H. and Ingebor. Mr. Severson is associated with the Republican party, served two terms as city clerk of Stoughton and was elected city treasurer in 1906. He is a member of the K. of P. The family are members of the Norwegian Christ Lutheran church.

Henry Severson is one of the representative citizens of the city of Stoughton and is the owner of a fine landed estate in Dunkirk township, being largely interested in the cultivation of tobacco. Mr. Severson has passed his entire life in Dane county and is a representative of one of its worthy pioneer families. He was born in Pleasant Springs township, this county, January 21. 18.">7\ being a son of.Helge and Berget (Olson) Severson Gremrsud who came to America from Tellemarken. Norway, in 1842. They located in Muskego, 'Waukesha county. Wisconsin, where they remained until 1844, when they came to Dane county and located in Pleasant Springs township, where the father secured one hundred and sixty acres of prairie and timbered land. He had the distinction of being the first man to receive from the government a deed to land in that township, where he was one of the earliest settlers. He reclaimed his land from the wilds and developed the same into a valuable and productive farm adding to his possessions until he was the owner of two hundred and eighty-seven acres, at the time of his death. He was born April 10, K0(i, and died in 1S56, at the age of sixty years. Of his seven children four attained to maturity, namely: Sever IT, who is now deceased; Adeline, who is the wife of ( ). EC. Lunde ; Ole. who was a member of the Eighth 'Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War. being killed in an engagement near Memphis, Tenn. ; and Henry, who is the immediate subject of this review. Mrs. Severson later married Ole Anderson and by him became the mother of a son, Andrew, who died at the age of seven. Mrs. Anderson died on November 25. 1887, and Mr. Anderson in June, 1900. When Henry Severson was a child of four years his parents removed to their farm in Dunkirk township, where he was reared under the sturdy discipline of the farm and was afforded the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. He continued to be actively identified with agricultural pursuits until 1904 and he still owns two fine farms, one comprising two hundred and forty acres and the other one hundred and fifteen acres, in Dunkirk township. In 1903 he erected his present fine modern residence in Stoughton, the same being attractively located on East Main street. He still continues to be largely interested in tobacco culture, utilizing a considerable portion of both of his farms for this purpose. He is a loyal and progressive citizen of his native county, is a stanch adherent of the Republican party and both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran church. In 1882 Mr. Severson was united in marriage to- Miss Mary Halverson, daughter of Stener and Dorcas (Evans) Halverson. and they have had eight children, five of whom are living namely: Stephen B., Burns O., Delia M., H. Marcus and Segur H. Those deceased are Henry, Dagne Matilda and Reuben. Mrs. Severson's father was born in Norway. March 22, 1822, being a son of Halvor and Marie (Quale) Jonsaas, the latter being the family name, and the son being given a surname according to the custom of the country, adopting the Christian name of his father. Mr. Halverson came to the United States in 1845, his wife having come the precedingyear and their marriage was solemnized in Dane county. Mr. Halverson purchased forty acres of land in Dunkirk township, two years later removing to a farm of four hundred acres, in Dunn township, where he continued to reside until 1879, when he returned to Dunkirk township, locating on a farm of two hundred acres which he had purchased in 1868. In 1848 he was united in marriage to Miss Dorcas Evans, daughter of Evan and Aslaug (Quale) Evans, who came to Wisconsin in 1844. Mr and Mrs.

Halverson became the parents of eight children namely : Hyatt and Morris, both now deceased; Martin, a farmer of this county; Mary, wife of the subject of this sketch ; Abner. a resident of Dane county; Matilda, now deceased; Enoch, likewise a resident of Dane county ; and Alfred, deceased. Mrs. Severson's father died in 1906. aged seventy- four and her mother in 1874 at the age of fifty-one.

Sever M. Severson was born in the town of Christiania not far from his present residence, and has always been a farmer of that locality. His father, Mons Severson, was bom in Sogen. Norway, and took passage for the United States in 1855. For the first few years he worked out. but when he was able to save enough money he purchased a tract of wild land containing one hundred and sixty acres to which he added from time to time until he owned in all two hundred and sixty acres in section 13, Christiania. Mons Severson married Miss Lukris Vuefn, who was also a native of Sogen, Norway, and seven children were born to them, of whom Sever is the only survivor. Mr. and Mrs. Severson worked hard to make a home in the new country and were successful in their labors. They attended the Norwegian Lutheran church of Cambridge, of which their son is also a member. Mrs. Severson died in 1895 and her husband in 1897. Their son Sever lived with them at the old home and cared for them during their lives and only recently has leased the old homestead which he still owns and has purchased a farm in section 14, Christiania. Here in 1899 he built a pleasant home and has made many improvements. Sever was born March 30, 1872, received his early education in the home schools and also attended the Red Wing seminary of Red Wing, Minn., for two years. June 7, 1899, Miss Matilda Nordle. the daughter of Christian Xordle, of Christiania, became the wife of Mr. Severson. Both Mr. and Mrs. Severson are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Cambridge. For a few years Mr. Severson engaged in threshing but has almost always been occupied with the duties of the home farm. In 1900, he was so unfortunate as to lose one hand, which was badly mangled by being caught in a corn shredder. Mr. Severson is a member of the Republican party but is not active in politics and has never desired office.

Patrick Sheil is numbered among the progressive farmers and extensive stock raisers of the town of Oregon, and his success has been due entirely to his tireless industry and natural ability, assisted in no small way by the wise counsels of a faithful wife. He- was born in the county of Wicklow, Ireland. March 16, 1857. and is the youngest of four children bom to James and Anna (Higgins) Sheil. both of 51 - iii whom were natives of the Emerald Isle. The children are all living, but the subject of this review is the only one of the family to seek a home in America, the others still residing in their native land. Patrick Sheil received his education in the county of his birth and followed the occupation of a farmer until his migration to America. He sailed from the shores of his native land in 1881 and landed in America on June 25, of that year, the date being just one week in advance of the assassination of President Garfield. He came directly to Chicago and worked in the Union stock yards in that city during the first year, and then came to Wisconsin and worked as a farm hand in Dane county for two years. He then purchased eighty acres of land, the same on which he now resides, and has since been successfully engaged in the business of general farming. Later he added eighty acres more to this farm, then twenty, followed by the purchase of a fortyacre tract, and still later he purchased eighty acres adjoining, so that his total landed possessions amount to three hundred acres of well improved land. He possesses exceptionally shrewd business abilities, and in addition to the routine of general farm work he deals very extensively in stock. His political principles are represented by an unswerving allegiance which he gives to the tenets of the Democrat party, and he and his wife are consistent members of the Catholic church. Mr. Sheil was married, January 27, 1883. the lady of h;s choice being Miss Rosanna Cullen, who was born in the town of Fitchburg on July 1, 1852. Her parents are Daniel and Anna (Carwin) Cullen, and of the five children of these parents all are residents of Dane county. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Sheil - James Robert, Anna Theresa, Daniel Ambrose, and John Patrick. The daughter married Bernard Fisher and resides in the town of Fitchburg, and the sons as yet remain at the old homestead.

Charles Stuart Sheldon, A. M., M. D., one of the leading physicians of Madison, is a native of the manufacturing town of New York Mills, in Oneida county, N. Y., where his father was for a number of years the secretary of the New York Mills Manufacturing Company. His parents, Stephen Smith and Lemira (Harris) Sheldon, were married in Rupert, Bennington county, Vermont, and made their first home in Massachusetts, but afterward moved to New York Mills where Charles S. was born January 14, 1842. When his little son was about three years old, failing health compelled a change of occupation and Mr. Sheldon with his family moved to a farm in the vicinity of Brockport, N. Y. Charles received his early education in the schools of Brockport, and followed the usual custom of the farmer lads of that time, when they became old enough to be of service in the work of the farm, and gave only his winters to study, spending the summer months in the vigorous employ of his physical powers. This custom was, perhaps, the reason why the men of that generation have been able to defy the approaches of age so much more successfully than their sons, less inured to hardship, are able to do. The young man's mental training was not neglected, however, as is shown from the fact that he was graduated from Brockport Collegiate Institute in 1858, when he was sixteen years of age. Following this he was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, of which Dr. Samuel H. Taylor was the head, and then, in the autumn of 1859 entered, as a classical student, Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1863 with the degree of A. B. Among his classmates were a number who attained distinction in their several professions, of whom Hon. William C. Whitney, ex-Secretary of the Navy, and Professor William G. Sumner, of Yale, may be mentioned. Three years later Mr. Sheldon received his degree of A. M. During his university course, his parents had moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and the young student followed them at the conclusion of his studies at Yale, and, wrhile he was finding himself, turned to the usual refuge of the young man during that critical period when the choice of a profession must be determined, and entered the ranks of the teachers for two years, spending the first as principal of the first ward grammar school of Madison, and the second as principal of the state reform school, or as it is now known, the industrial school for boys, at Waukesha. Having by that time decided upon his future work he entered the medical department of the 'Buffalo University, where he completed the course in 1867, receiving the degree of M. D. While a medical student at Buffalo he received the appointment of the position of resident physician in the Buffalo general hospital, a position eagerly sought by medical students and young physicians, as affording an opportunity for observation which might not come to them in many years in a general practice. In 1867-68 he took a post graduate course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Xew York city, receiving his diploma for this work upon its completion. Dr. Sheldon began the practice of his professional life at Winona, Minnesota, where he remained three years when he went to Greenville, Michigan, (January, 1872) and entered into a partnership with Dr. John Avery, a man prominent not only in his profession but in pol'tical and social life. He remained in Greenville thirteen years, building up an extensve practice and entering largely into the social and rel'gious life of the community. In 1885 Dr. Sheldon came to> Madison where he has practiced successfully for over twenty vears, filling, in that time, many official positions in connection with his profession; he has been secretary of the Central Wisconsin .Medical Society since 1885 and of the Wisconsin Medical Society since 1890; he is a member of the council of the American Acadenn of Medicine. He has served as a member of the United States board of examiners for pensions, and is also an occasional contributor to the literature of his profession, and a member of the literary fraternity Alpha Delta Phi. Dr. Sheldon was married at Buffalo, N. Y., October 30, 1868, to Miss Emma L. Hodge, of that city, niece of "William Hodge, a pioneer of western New York. She was graduated from the Buffalo Female Seminary with the class of 1867. She is prominent in the social life of the city and is at the. present time the president of the Woman's Club. Both Dr. Sheldon and his wife are members of the Congregational church and actively interested in its work; the doctor is a deacon of the church, and for fourteen years was superintendent of the Sunday school in connection with his church. Four sons and one daughter were born to- Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon, - William Hodge, born October 8, 1869, died April 22, 1874; Sidney Roby, born April 11, 1873, was graduated form the electrical engineering course of the University of Wisconsin in 1894; Walter Hodge, born December 3, 1874, also a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with the degrees of B. A. and B. S. and later received the degree of M. D. from the Rush Medical College, Chicago, and after serving as interne in St. Luke's hospital, Chicago, and spending a year in study in Vienna. Berlin and London, has entered upon the practice of medicine in company with his father. He was married June 14, L906, to Helen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert D. Waite of Portsmouth, Ohio. Stuart, born August 23, 1876, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1899 with the degree of B. S. ; graduated from the Rush Medical College in 1902, then became interne of the St. Vincent Hospital, Portland, Oregon, and is now in the general practice in that city. Helen Miriam, born December 3, 1884, married Charles Lyman of Arizona, formerly of Madison, te> whom one child has been born.

Patrick Sherlock, who has recently taken charge of the management of "The Sherlock," one of the leading hostelries in Madison, comes to his new duties well equipped in a business way with those qualities which are likely to insure success. Neither is he a stranger to the people of Madison or to the traveling' public, as the years spent as a resident of Dane 'county makes him acquainted with the one and a more or less of a varied career has brought him in touch with the other. Mr. Sherlock was born in the county of Westmeath, Ireland, in March, 1842, and is a son of William F. and Julia (Mc-

Kiernan) Sherlock, both of who were also natives of the Emerald Isle. The father was a master mechanic in his native country, and after coming to Xew York, in the autumn of 1842, he worked one year in that city as a contractor. A disastrous fire visited the metropolis at that time and in the conflagration Air. Sherlock lost his savings. He then continued his journey westward, and finally reaching the territory of Wisconsin he purchased a homestead in the town of Cottage Grove. Dane county, the place consisting of one hundred and sixty acres. He continued to work at his trade after coming here, and among the contracts which he secured and fulfilled was a job of plastering the pioneer Block in the city of Madison. He also erected the Vilas residence, where A. O. Fox now resides, and many other buildings yet remain as monuments to his handicraft. He paid but little attention to farming during his first year's residence in Wisconsin ; in 1853 he sold his Cottage Grove farm and purchased what is still known as the Sherlock farm, on the south shore of Second lake in the town of Dunn. There he resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits, until about the year 1880, when he removed to Madison and became the owner of what has since been known as the Sherlock Hotel building. He then continued to reside in the capital city until his death. May 31, 1889. His wife, whj had shared with him all the vicissitudes incident to a life in a new country, passed away on December IT, 1880, at the old homstead in the town of Dunn. They were the parents of four children, three of whom were born in Ireland and the other in Cottage Grove. Of these children, Margaret Olwell, the oldest., died in Redlands, Cal. ; Edward is in the life insurance business in Brooklyn, X. Y. ; Patrick E. is the subject of this review, and the youngest is Mrs. Julia Osborn, who is associated with her brother in the ownership of the Sherlock Hotel. Patrick E. Sherlock was about six months old when his parents came to America, and was less then two years of age when the family took up its abode in Dane county, so that our subject can lay just claim to being a life-long resident thereof. And this is literally true, excepting his early childhood and the time during which his business interests have demanded his attention in other places. He received his education in the schools of Madison, and after reaching the years of maturity managed the homestead farm in the town ot Dunn for a time. He then entered the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company and continued so engaged until 1892. after which he spent a number of years in the far west, engaged in the mining industry. He has been a member of the Board of Trade at Chicago for for the past ten years. In 1905 he returned to Madiscn for the pur- pose of making- it his permanent residence, and on July I, 1906, assumed the management of the hotel which bears the family name. Mr. Sherlock adheres to the principles of the Democratic party, but he has always reserved the right of his own judgement in selecting the men best fitted for an official position when their claims are submitted to the electorate for a final decision. In his fraternal relations he affiliates with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his religious faith is expressed by membership in the Catholic church.

Henry Shetter, of the village of McFarland, was born in York, Penn.. May 21, 1833. He was the oldest son of John and Mary (Stewart) Shetter, also of Pennsylvania. The other members of the family are Susan (Mrs. Fred Reed), of McFarland ; Sarah, widow of William Crooks, of McFarland; John W., of Stoughton ; William H., of McFarland. - Henry Shetter received his education in the district schools. In company with his parents he came to Wisconsin in 1845, first settling in the vicinity of Koskonong Lake Six months later found the family located on a claim in the town of Pleasant Springs. Two years later they sold this claim and built a blacksmith shop on the road between Madison and Cambridge, where Henry worked until his enlistment on January 14, 1864, in Company D, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry. He saw7 service in the engagements of the Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania. North Ann River, Petersburg, Ream Station, Yellow House Tavern, Weldon Railroad, and Gravelly Run, being wounded at the latter place. He was offered promotions, but refused to accept them. On November 15, 1865, he received an honorable discharge from the army while a patient in the army hospital at Camp Randall. After the war he drifted to McFarland. where for seven years he was engaged in business. During Governor Ludington's administration he secured a position as night watch in the state capitol at Madison, and served fifteen years, retiring during Gov. Scofield's administration. Since that time McFarland has been his home. He owns fourteen acres in the village and a summer home at Edward's Park. Politically he is a Republican, but has never been elected to any office. He is not a member of any church. In 1855, Mr. Shetter married Ellen Hoffman, daughter of Philip and Matilda (Sunderman) Hoffman of Cottage Grove. Mrs. Shetter was born Ma}- 6. 1832, and was educated in the schools in the vicinity of her home. To this union have been born nine children. - Fifilena Adeline, born May 15, 1856, died December 9, L89] : Barbara Jane, born August 2. 1858; Anna Eliza, born Febru- ary 15, 1860; Emelina, August 5, 1862; Ulysses Grant, July 24, 1864. died January 13, 1901; Aletha May, August 23. 1866; Jennie (Mrs. L. E. Dolan of Cedar Lake. la..) August 23, 1868; Maud Belle. July 31, 1870; and Frederic. August 12. ISM, married Marie Jacobson and lives in Madison. Mrs. Shetter died February 11, 1906. Though crippled for life in the Civil War and unable to do manual labor. Mr. Shetter has accumulated enough of this world's goods to enable him to settle down and spend the rest of his days in comfort.

J. H. Sholts, of Oregon, was born at Sun Prairie, September 15, 1873, of German parentage. Jacob and Christine (Stine.) Sholts They came to the United States in 1859 and settled in Sun Prairie, Dane county, where their children, except the oldest, (Mrs. Custer, of Dunn township) were born and reared and where they remained until their death. The children were all educated in Sun Prairie, and the subject of this sketch started out for himself when he was twenty-one years of age. He has always followed the occupation of farming and has lived in Dane, except two years spent in Dakota. He owns a good farm of one hundred and twenty acres of improved land, which is devoted to stock-raising and general farming. He has lived on the place a year, has built a new house and made other improvements. Mr. Sholts is not a member, but attends and supports the Presbyterian church ; he is a Democrat in politics. Pie married. March 17, 1900, Miss Ethel Devine, daughter of Alonzo Devine, of Oregon township ; Mr. Devine and his wife were among the early settlers of Dane, and have both passed away. Mrs. Sholts was born in Oregon township, as were three children. Gladys, Robbie and Earl.

Herman Showers is a prominent contractor of Stoughton, where many well-known buildings testify to the excellence of his work. He was born in the town of Dunkirk, Dane county, AYis., August 17, 1864. son of Charlie and Elizabeth (Holloway) Showers, the former born in Cayuga county, X. Y., in 1834, and the latter a native of North Carolina. Charlie Showers began to work at the brick and stone mason's trade when he was seventeen years old and followed the same vocation after he came to Dane county in 1857. Herman learned the same trade at his father's side and at the age of fifteen was earning as much as many an older man. In 1882 he engaged in his present business in which from the first he has been successful. He built the Methodist Episcopal church of Stoughton. the Hub building, two stores of brick on Main street owned by James S. Hutson,. did the spire work and plastering on the Baptist church and erected many other edifices. Air. Showers has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Blanche McNeil, daughter of David and Eunice ( Barlow I McNeil of Stoughton, anu two children, Rowena and Ray, were born to this marriage. Mr. Showers then married Miss Mary Tellefson, daughter of Ole Tellefson, a farmer of Dunkirk, and five children were born to them, Walter, Charlie, Grace, Harry and Florence. Mrs. Showers is identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Showers is a member of the Republican party and always interested in local affairs although his business engrosses so much of his time that he has little left to devote to active politics. He is a member of the organization of Beavers.

Anton Shuster is a well-known farmer of the town of Medina, where he owns and operates a farm of one hundred and fifty acres. He was born in Bohemia, Germany, and was brought by his parents, Frank and Antona (Bedner) Shuster. to America, when he was but two years old. Frank Shuster and his wife wrere both natives of Bohemia and crossed the ocean in 1854:, coming directly to Wisconsin. Their first home was in Jefferson county and in 1866 they moved to Dane county, where Mr. Shuster bought a farm in the town of York. This he sold and another farm was purchased and after living in several different homes in Dane county, he finally retired and lives in Sun Prairie. Mrs. Frank Shuster died in 1901 and of their ten children but six are living. The family are devoted members of the Catholic church, whose edifice, in Sun Prairie Antone Shuster wras instrumental in rearing. Antone Shuster was born December 18, 1852, and attended school in both Jefferson and Dane counties but early began to help his father with the duties of the farm which he later made the business of his life. He married, in 1878, Miss Theresa Stangler. also a native of Bohemia and daughter of Frank and Rose Stangler. who came to Wisconsin in 1866 and settled in Sun Prairie. The Shuster family circle comprises eleven sons and daughters ; Edith, the oldest ; and in the order of their ages, Anna, Martha, Rose. Ella, Josephine. Charlie. Mary, George, Maggie and Leneta. All have attended the home schools. Mr. Shuster is a Democrat in his political sympathies but has never taken an active part in politics or aspired for office.

Farrand Kayley Shuttleworth, attorney at law, was born April 17, 186)3, two miles east of Fennimore, in a log cabin, on a farm in Grant county. Wisconsin. Mr. Shuttleworth's father was of Scotch and English parentage and his mother of Greek and Irish. Mr.

Shuttleworth married Elizabeth C. Dames, June 9, 1893, and has a son, Farrand Dames, twelve years old. and a daughter, Saadi Sapho, six years old. Mr. Shuttleworth received his education in the common schools of Wisconsin, having been graduated with the class of '92 from the college of law of the University of Wisconsin, and since graduation has been practicing his profession in the city of Madison, Wisconsin. By his own efforts he has worked up a good and substantial clientage and excels as a jury lawyer. Tie has an independent mind, is an original thinker and has considerable attainments as a literary man. Mr. Shuttleworth is public spirited, is a Republican in politics, loves a good story, and is a good conversationalist.

Rev. Bernard Albert Siepker, pastor of St. John's Catholic church at Waunakee, was born at Potosi, Grant county. December 11, 1862. His parents came from Germany to Wisconsin in the pioneer days and spent the remainder of their lives in the home of their adoption. The father, John Siepker. was born in 1817 and the mother, Bridget (Muntergall) Siepker, in 1816. They were married in Potosi, and there Mr. Siepker interested himself in mining, being the owner and operator of a lead mine. After his death in. 1888 his widow came to Waunakee and remained there until the occurence of her own in 1892. They had seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom all the sons and one daughter survived them, but the daughter died May 17, 1905. Mr. Siepker was a stanch Democrat and all the family were members of the Catholic church. Rev. Bernard A. Siepker received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of Harrison. Grant county, and afterward attended the Catholic parochial schools of Potosi, and was graduated from St. Francis seminary in 1888. He served for one year as the assistant pastor at Oshkosh, and in September, 1889, came to Waunakee, where he has since officiated as pastor of the Catholic church. In politics, he belongs to the Democratic party.

George Silverwood, a pioneer farmer of Albion, is a native of Yorkshire, England, where he was born December 25. 1827, son of Thomas and Mary (Hoyle) Silverwood. Of a family of six brothers and sisters George was the only son to come to America. He was brought up as a farmer and lived in England until after he reached the age of twenty-one when he embarked on a sailing vessel for. the United States. He reached Milwaukee without a penny in his pocket and began to work out at once. Continuing his journey to Albion he was there employed by the- settlers in clearing land. etc.. and soon was able to purchase a farm of his own. The farm which he purchased contained one hundred acres, twenty acres of which lay in Jefferson county, and was all wild. The first dwelling on the property was a little log house afterward replaced by a more commodious home. Many other improvements have been made and Mr. Silverwood has always made it his home. 1 [e was first married to Miss Mary Cooper of Derbyshire, who died in 1855. Mr. Silverwood. then married Miss Helen Calder of Waukesha county, daughter of James Calder of Perthshire, Scotland, and Dunbar (Keith) Calder. One daughter was born to the first marriage. Ann (deceased), who married Knute Brusrud and after his death became Mrs. Morris Hain of Rock county, Six children blessed the second marriage ; Thomas, who is an attorney of Green Bay and married Miss Lizzie Will of Waukesha county and has two children. George P. and Ralph J. : Mary Dunbar, who is Mrs. William Slagg of Albion and has two sons, Lowell S. and Stanley W. ; George Henry, a farmer of Albion who married Miss Cora Russell of Lisbon. X. D., and has one daughter. Helen G. ; Emma Elizabeth, who married Jens T. Xaset, March 23, 1903, a carpenter and farmer of Albion, and has one child, Bulah S., born April 9, 1905; Buelah H., died in infancy; Percy W.. an attorney of Valparaiso, Ind. The family have always been active members of the Primitive Methodist church of Albion Prairie. Mrs. Silverwood died in June, 1900. and her husband still lives on the old farm. He is a Republican but has never desired office.

Andrew H. Sime is one of the popular traveling commercial salesmen who maintain their home in Stoughton, and he has followed his present vocation for nearly a score of years. Mr. Sime, like many other representative citizens of Dane county, is a native of Norway, where he was born January 20, 1851, being a son of Halvor W. and Anna Nagel (Orebeck) Sime. Mr. Sime passed the first eighteen years of his life in his native land, where he was accorded good educational advantages. In 1873 he immigrated to America, making Wisconsin his destination. He first located in Stoughton, and for several years thereafter he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits, in the meanwhile showing his ambition and his desire for broader knowledge, by attending the district schools as opportunity presented and also by becoming finally a student in what was then known as the Norwegian Academy, in the city of Madison. In this institution he remained three months, duly profiting by the advantages there offered. After completing" his educational work Mr. Sime identified himself with mercantile pursuits, having been employed several years as clerk in the cloth- ing department of the establishment of Johnson & Melaas, of Stoughton, and, later being made manager of the firm's branch store at Edgerton. This position he retained one year, at the expiration of which, in 1888, he initiated his very successful career "on the road" as a clothing salesman, representing Mayer, Engel & Company, of Chicago, wholesale dealers in children's and boy's clothing. He remained with this concern five years, when the firm retired from business, and be then entered the employ of the extensive and wholesale clothing house of Kuh, Nathan & Fischer Company, with which he since remained, - a period of thirteen years' service. His assigned territory is a desirable and attractive one and he enjoys marked popularity with the trade as well as with the concern which he so efficiently represents. Air. Sime was fnamed in 1891 and for the ensuing four years maintained his home in Chicago. In 1895 he purchased his present attractive home in Stoughton, and in this thriving little city he and his wife are surrounded by a wide circle of loyal friends. He is affiliated with the local lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity, the Eastern Star, and also with the lodge and uniform rank of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, and the Oriental Order of the Palm & Shell. His political support is given to the Republican party, and both he and his wife are members of Christ church, (Norwegian Lutheran). November 19, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sime to Miss Ella M. Olson, daughter of Knut and Christine (Holm) Olson, well known residents of Stoughton, who came to America from Norway. Mr. and Mrs. Sime became the parents of four children, of whom three are living: Eleanor A., Ruth C. and Oliver O. September 1, 1906, Andrew H. Sime, his brother, John O. Sime, and Maurice A. Hemsing opened a new and up-to-date clothing and men's furnishing store in Stoughton, under the name of "Alodel Clothing Company,'' under the management of Mr. Hemsing. Mr. Sime and his brother, however, continue in their positions on the road in th« wholesale clothing business.

Edlen P. Sime, for some years engaged in mercantile pursuits at Madison, is a native of Norway, who served his adopted country well at the time of the Civil War. He was but six years of age when he was brought to- Wisconsin by his parents, Peter Olson and Synera (Ellingspn) Olson of Voss, Norway. The little family made the perilous journey in a sailing vessel which was one month en route. They landed in New York city and immediately continued their journey westward to Wisconsin. In Christiana township, Dane county, Mr. Olson purchased one hundred and sixty acres of wild land, which was unimproved and covered with timber. A log house was built and with infinite energy and patience the pioneers began to make the place habitable. Mrs. ( )lson died in 1850 and her husband married again. Two children were born to the first marriage ; Edlen P. and Breta, who married and live in Madison. The second marriage was also blessed with two children ; Rachel, who lives in Jackson county. Wis., and Lars (deceased). Edlen P. was born in Voss, October 9, 1840, and had but little 'opportunity to attend school in the new home. Schools were few and necessary work at home arduous. At the age of ten years the boy went to' live with Iver Sime and there he remained until the outbreak o<f the war, when he enlisted. September, 1861, in Company H, Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, a Scandinavian regiment, captain, Knute Sime. colonel. Hane Hegg. The regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland and fought at Island Xo. io, Perryville, Stone River, etc. At Stone River, Air. Sime was wounded in the right side and left on the field where he lay unattended for thirtysix hours. He was sent to Nashville and thence to Louisville and spent many months in hospital. At Exchange Barracks he was detailed for light duty but was soon stricken with small pox and again was unfit for service for some weeks. After his discharge, February 13, 1865, he returned to Dane county and located in Madison which has ever since been his home. In 1871, he married Miss J. Larson, of Deerfield, daughter of Holden Larson. Their charming home at 1221 Rutledge St. was built in 1884. Mr. Sime is a member of the Society of Norwegian Pioneers of Dane county and also of the Dane county veterans of the Civil War. His first vote was cast at Louisville for Abraham Lincoln and he has always been a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party.

John N. Sime, one of the thrifty and prosperous Norwegian farmers of the town of Cottage Grove, was born "n that town. July 15, 1856. His parents are Nelse T. and Mary N. Sime. John's educational advantages were very limited, being only what the schools of his native town afforded. Until he was sixteen years of age he remained at home and then started farming the father's place with his brother. After a few years he built the home where he now resides. On November 12. 1890, he married Martha Melhime, daughter of Ole and Breta (Moe) Melhime. Mrs. Sime was born in Grant county, Wisconsin, August 18, 1867, and received her education in the schools of that county. By her marriage to Mr. Sime she is the mother of eight children, seven of whom are still living. Mabel Josephine, born August 27. 1891, died November 29. 1899.

Neli was born February 21, 1893; Bertha OHne, April 20, 1895; Elmer Oscar. June 6, 1897; Helen Mildred March 25, 1898; John Melvin, May 15, 1900; Arthur Theodore. June 14, 1902; and Thomas William. March 12, 1905. Mrs. Sime was one of eleven children, seven of whom are living. - Eric lives in Grant county; Martha, Mrs. Sime ; Anna is the wife of Andrew Moe, a farmer of Grant county ; Lena is the wife of W. O. Havy of Stoughton; Tillie is the wife of August Zimmerchied of Oshkosh ; Ida makes her home with her parents; and Thomas Martin, who married Breta Hoveland, lives on the old homestead with the parents who have resided there for thirty-fiye years. In religious matters Mr. Sime and his family give zealous allegiance to the Norwegian Lutheran church. In politics the head of the family is a Republican, but while he casts his vote with regularity and labors for the advancement of his party's cause, he has never accepted office. With the stolid persistence so characteristic of his race Mr. Sime has persevered, and has not only succeeded but has prospered.

John O. Sime is one of the popular commercial salesmen making Stoughton a place of residence, and he is traveling salesman for one of the leading wholesale clothing establishments of the city of Chicago. He was born in Norway, August 5. 1869, and is a son of Halvor W. and Anna Xagel (Orebeck) Sime. He secured his fundamental education in Norway, where he remained until he had attained to the age of thirteen years, when he came to the United States, arriving in Stoughton, Wisconsin, April 19, 1882. Here he has since maintained his home. He supplemented his educational work by a course in Albion Academy, this county, where he remained a student four years, being graduated from the business course in 1887. He then learned the trade of machinist, in Madison, and followed the same as a vocation for seven years, at the expiration of which, in 1894, he took a position as traveling salesman, in which line of work he has shice continued most successfully, also finding much satisfaction in the fact that his assigned territory is such that he is able to make Stoughton his home. In politics he is a Republican, fraternally he is identified with the Free and Accepted Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he attends the Norwegian Lutheran church, in whose faith he was reared. March 15-, 1898, Mr. Sime was united in marriage to Miss Ida Peterson, daughter of Peter and Marie Peterson, of Stoughton. and they have three children, - Harry, William and Laura. September 1, 1906, Mr. Sime with his brother. Andrew H. Sime, and Maurice A. Hemsing, embarked in the clothing and men's furnish- ing business with the firm name of "Model Clothing Co.," under the management of Mr. Remsing. Mr. Sime still continuing on the road in the wholesale clothing business.

Thomas N. Sime is one of the able and popular representatives of the agricultural industry in Dane county, being the owner of a finely improved farm of two hundred acres, in section 29, Cottage Grove township. He has passed his entire life in this county and is a scion of one of its honored pioneer families. He was born on the parental homestead, in Cottage Grove township, August 8, 1853, and is a son of Nels T. and Mary N. Sime, both natives of Sogen, Norway. The father was born in 1812, and died January 13, 1878, and the mother, who was born in 1820, died March 1805. Nels T. Sime was a blacksmith by trade and made the first plow ever manufactured in Cottage Grove, while he also owned the first threshing machine ever operated by a resident of Cottage Grove township. He was a man of strong individuality and progressive ideas and was one of the well known and highly respected citizens of the county. Thomas N. Sime was reared on the oM home farm, early beginning to lend his aid in its reclamation and cultivation, while his educational opportunities were those afforded in the district schools. His parents came to America in IS 1 J and made the trip on foot from Milwaukee to Dane county. The father took up government land in Cottage Grove township and the deed, signed by the president of the United States, is in the possession ot the subject of this sketch, whose beautiful landed estate is a part of the property thus secured by his father in the early pioneer days. After their arrival in the township the parents had no domicile, as the new home was in the midst of the forest, and for several weeks they lived under the grateful shadows and protection of four fine trees, which are still standing, being veritable patriarchs and landmarks. These trees constituted the only shelter until the lather could hew logs to erect the log cabin home Milwaukee was at that time the nearest trading point and the hardy pioneer. Nels T. Sime, made the trips to and from on foot, leaving his wife at home with their two small children. The Indians were frequent visitors and wild animals were still in marked evidence; including deer, while other game was to be had in abundance, s<> that the pioneers had no difficulty in supplying their tables with good meat. When Mr. S:me selected his land he could have taken that lying on either side of Williamson street, in the heart of the city of Madison, the Future capital having at that time but one store. Mr. Sime was an auditor on the occasion of the delivering of the first ser- mon by a preacher in his section of the count}*, the se'ttlers having assembled for worship under the trees. - where the village of Mc- Farland now stands. He also hauled the first two logs used in the building of the first church in this vicinity, contributing the same from his own land. Thomas N. Sime, the immediate subject of this sketch, was reared under the influence of the pioneer epoch, and during the entire career, from youth to the present he has been identified with agricultural pursuits, while he has been a witness of the magnificent development of his county and state and has aided in bringing about the material and civic progress which now indicates a great and prosperous commonwealth. He has gained a competency and his beautiful rural home is one which shows on every side the unmistakable evidences of thrift, prosperity and generous comfort. He and his wife hold the unqualified regard of all who know them, and the attractive home is one in which hospitality is ever shown without reservation. Mr. Sime came into possession of his present homestead before the death of his father, having gained success through well directed effort. He is one of the loyal supporters of the cause of the Republican party, and he served for a number of years as a member of the board of township trustees. He and his wife are prominent and zealous members of the Norwegian Lutheran church, and he is a member of the building committee of the new church edifice in McFarland. In 1880, in Pleasant Springs township, Mr. Thomas X. Sime wad united in marriage to Miss Lena Herried, who was born in Sogen, Norway, August 12. 1850, being a daughter of Wilkin and Christina Herried both of whom were born in' Norway. Mr. and Mrs. Sime became the parents of eight children, one of whom died in infancy, unnamed. Concerning the others the following data are given as indicating names and respective dates of birth : Christina Amelia, May 24, 1881 ; Nellie Maria, September 7, 1882. died February 27, 1883; Nellie Maria (2d), November 10, 1883, died May 0, 1885; Thea Soveina, February 12, 1885, died April 1(3, 1886 ; Nellie Maria (3d), February 27, 1887: Ida Soveina, September 13, 1889; and Bertha Caroline. October 15. 1891.

Edward Skelley is now living retired in the city of Madison after years of ceaseless toil and widely varied experiences. He is a son of the Emerald Isle, having been born in the county of Louth, Ireland, and was one of eleven children born to Patrick and Judith (O'Neill) Skelley, life-long residents of Ireland. Our subject was reared to manhood in his native land and received his education in the public schools. In 1847 he migrated to America, and locating in the state ©f New York, remained there five years, his general employment being as a lahorer in a brick yard. After spending some time in the south and other portions of the Union he came to Wisconsin in 1856 and first worked in a brick yard near Madison. But after being thus employed for a short time he became afflicted with sore eyes, and the doctor advised him to change his occupation and also his locality. Thereupon he went to the Kickapoo Valley and conducted a boarding house for wood choppers for about six months, after which he returned to Madison and worked as a railway employee for the ensuing five years. He then removed to the village of McFarland, in Dane county, where he held the position of section foreman on the railroad for several years, after which he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. After renting a farm in the town of Fitchburg for a few years, in 1876 he purchased one hundred and fifty-four acres upon which he resided until 1900, making all the necessary improvements. In the latter year he decided to retire from the strenuous activities of life, and he purchased the home on Main street, in the city of Madison, where he now resides and where he expects to remain until the end of his earthly career. His life has been a successful one, but Mr. Skelley very generously says that a great deal of the credit is due to the economy and encouragement of his faithful wife, who shared with him all the privations incident to a pioneer life. Of the eleven children of the Skelley family nine came to America, but only two of these are living, our subject and his brother Lawrence, who resides with him. Mr. Skelley is a member of that time-honored political organization, the Democratic party, and the religious faith of himself and wife is expressed by membership in the Catholic church. Mr. Skelley was married in September, 1854, to Miss Margaret Tierney, born in Ireland in 1835, daughter of Francis and Mary (Mc- Kenna) Tierney. who were also natives of that country. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Skelley there has been born one son, John, who married Miss Mary Fox and resides in the town of Fitchburg Captain Thomas Clark Slagg is a well known merchant of Cambridge. Wis. He was born in Yorkshire, England, January 1. 1837, and came to the United States with his parents, Joseph and Elizabeth (Clark) Slagg, in 1849. The family embarked on a sailing vessel that consumed seven weeks and two days in making the voyage. The rest of the journey to Milwaukee was made by water, as was customary in that day. and from there teams and wagons carried the party to Albion, where Mr. Slagg opened a general store. the first one in that vicinity. With W. I). Totter Mr. Slagg pur- chased a store in Cambridge four years later and soon became sole -owner. In 1861 the store and stock was destroyed by fire and Mr. Slagg retired to a small farm, where he spent the remainder of his life. Three children were born to Joseph Slagg and his wife ; Margaret is the widow of W. D. Potter and lives in Beloit, Wis., Thomas C. is the subject of this sketch; Mary is the widow of Rev. Peter K. Rye. Mr. Slagg was a Whig and a Republican, held the office of justice of the peace and was a valued and prominent member of the community until his death in 1867. His wife survived him but three years. Thomas C. Slagg was educated in the home schools and the Albion academy and enlisted when he was twenty-four years of age. He entered the service as a private in Company K, Third Regiment of Wisconsin Infantry. April 14, 1861, and remained in the army as a veteran until the end of the war. His regiment was present at the battles of Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Beverly Ford, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Antietam. It was assigned to the Twelfth corps which was later consolidated with the Eleventh to form the Twentieth corps. After the Gettysburg campaign the corps was transferred from the Army of the Potomac to the Army of the Cumberland with which it served until the end of the war through Sherman's campaign of many days' fighting on the way to Atlanta and the march following to the sea. After the war, Mr. Slagg who had earned the rank of captain of Company H of the Third Wisconsin Infantry, returned to mercantile business in Cambridge in partnership with W. D. Potter. He bought Mr. Potter's interest in the drug business after a short time and Ole Bilstad became junior partner and finally sole proprietor of the business. Captain Slagg engaged in the dry goods business in Janesville for two years and then returned to Cambridge where he is at present a merchant. Captain Slagg is an ardent Republican, has been postmaster at Cambridge and chairman of the village board. He is a prominent member of the Frank H. Potter Post No. 222 of the G. A. R. at Cambridge, of which he has been both commander and adjutant. Mrs. Slagg was born in Jamestown, N. Y., daughter of Solomon S. Butler, was married April 31, 1861, and died in 1890. Mr. Butler was a prominent farmer of Cambridge. His oldest son is S. H. Butler, deceased, Abbie S., wife of Albert S. Gray, residing in Laramie City, Wyoming, is the oldest daughter ; Richard, the second son, resides in Laramie, Wyoming, and Mrs. Slagg was the youngest daughter. Harry L. Butler attorney of Madison. Wis., is the son of S. H. 52 - iii

Butler. Captain Slagg married a second time, his wife being Mrs. Olena Krogh, widow of Albert H. Krogh, who was born and brought up in Kroghville, Wis.

William H. Slatter, Jr., a prominent young farmer of the town of Sun Prairie, is a native of Dane county. He carried on until very recently a general farming business on the splendid farm of two hundred and eighty acres which was owned by his father before him. William H. Slatter, Sr.. was born in Oxford, England, February 2, 1823, attended Oxford University and., in 1849, came to the United States and located in Dane county. Wis. He married Miss Isabella Jane Douglas, who was born on the Black river in Jackson county, Wis., in 1842. She was the first white child born in that locality and was the daughter of William Douglas, of Dumfries, Scotland, and Caroline (Walker) Douglas. Of the eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Slatter. three sons and five daughters are now living. Mr. Slatter was prominent in the community and always , active in its interests. He was a Democrat and held many local offices. For many years he was chairman of the town board and was assessor for one term. He aided in the establishment of the Farmers Mutual Protective Fire Insurance Co.. of which he was president until his death. He was a member of the Masonic Order and of the Protestant Episcopal church. William H. Slatter, Jr., was born on the farm purchased by his father in Sun Prairie, February 24, 1873, attended the district school and Waterloo school and always, until his recent sale, lived on the farm. In November,

1900, he married Miss Ada Paskey who was born in Jefferson county, Wis., a daughter of William and Amelia (Blaze) Paskey, who came to Wisconsin from Germany. Richard Douglas, born in

1901, is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Slatter. Like his father, Mr. Slatter is a Democrat in his political affiliations and takes an active interest in politics. He served a term as member of the board of supervisors.

Edward H. Smith, official court reporter for the ninth judicial circuit of the state, is a Wisconsin product. He was born in Milwaukee on July 25. 1875, the son of Charles A. and Mary (Powers) Smith, natives of England and Ireland respectively. His education was received in the public and parochial schools of his native city and upon the completion of his studies he entered the law office of David S. Ordway as office boy and stenographer, holding the posb tion for five years. He was then made reporter for the superior court of Milwaukee county, holding the position until his appointment as private secretary to Justice S. U. Pinney of the state supreme court. Upon the latter's death he occupied the same position under Justice J. E. Dodge, retaining- it until January 1, 1900, when he received the appointment to his present position. Since the creation of the new eighteenth circuit he has been official reporter for it as well. In the legislative session of 1897 he was clerk of the senate judiciary committee. In December of 1898 Mr. Smith took the examination under the state board of law examiners and was admitted to practice in the courts of the state. On June 20, 1900. he was united in marriage to Miss Genevieve Coughlin. a native of Madison, and a daughter of Maurice and Margaret Coughlin. By this union he is the father of three children, - Gordon Pinney, Maurice Ordway and Edward. The family are all members of St. Raphael's Catholic church. Mr. Smith is also a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the college fraternity of Delta Tau Delta. For seventeen years he has been continuously engaged in stenographic work and has become one of the most skilled and efficient shorthand reporters in the state. He is known among his neighbors as a gentleman of courteous demeanor, genial manner and unexcelled ability.

General George B. Smith was born at Parma Corners. Monroe county, Xew York, May 22, 1823, son of Reuben and Betsey (Page) Smith. His father. Judge Smith, was a native of Rhode Island, who early immigrated to western Xew York ; thence to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1825, where he was for two years engaged in the business of pork packing; moved to Medina, Ohio, in 1827, and was there a merchant, and judge of the court of common pleas of Medina county; came to Southport, now Kenosha, Wis., in 1843, and died at Madison. Wis., in 1874, aged eighty years. General Smith was the only child of Judge Smith by his first wife, Betsey, who died when the son was only a few weeks old. He was only four years of age when his father moved to Medina, and the sixteen years of his life spent there gave him his only opportunities for attending school. He read law in various offices and was admitted to the bar at Racine, Wis.,' in July, 1843. August 29. 1814. he married Miss Eugenia Weed of Medina. Ohio, by whom he had five children, only one of whom is now living, Mrs. Robert J. McConnell, of Madison, Wis. A son, James S.. whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, was an accomplished musician of the same city. General Smith began the practice of his profession at Madison in the fall of 1845. and acquired an enviable reputation as one of the ablest lawyers of the northwest. He had an extensive practice in both the state and Federal courts, and was retained in many important cases both civil and criminal, wherein he brought into play his wonderful gifts of oratory. To these were added the attaction of a fine presence, an easy, graceful and dignified bearing, a subtle and logical power of argument, a wealth of illustration, and a wonderful self-reliance. Though often impassioned in his utterances, and speaking with great rapidity and energy, he never lost his perfect poise of manner and splendid self-control. His contemporaries were wont to compare him in this respect to the great Illinoisan, Stephen A. Douglas. His speech was also replete with humor, and his perception of the ludicrous quick and keen, while he had few equals in the power of invective, though using it sparingly. His charm of manner and many social gifts endeared him to a wide circle of friends. He will long be remembered for his qualities as an orator, an advocate, and as a political speaker, wherein he had few equals in the country. He was much in public life ; was for six years, by election and appointment, district attorney of Dane county; a member of the first constitutional convention in 1846, of which body he was the youngest member ; attorney-general of the state, 1854-.5 ; mayor of Madison for three successive terms. 1858-61 ; was three times elected a member of the assembly for his district, and though his party, the Democratic, was in a minority each time, he was by common consent assigned the position of leader on all party questions, and exercised a commanding influence. Some of his elaborate speeches in the legislature commanded high admiration both at home and abroad, in 1861 and again in 1872 he was the Democratic candidate for congress, although defeated, and ran far ahead of his ticket. In 1869 he was the choice of his party as candidate for the United States senate, in opposition to Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter; was presidential elector in 1868. and again in 1872. His last active participation in politics was given in support of Horace Greeley for the presidency. His death took place September 18, 1879.

Harry G. Smith, one of the enterprising young business men of Madison, was born in Hammond. St. Croix county. Wis. His parents are J. B. and Marcia A. (Bradford) Smith, natives of New York state, j. B. Smith is an attorney in Madison and is widely and favorably known in Dane and surrounding; counties. Harry G. Smith is the second of the three boys in the family. Ernest B.. the eldest, graduated From the University of Wisconsin with the degree of B. L. in L897. He is a teacher by profession, his specialty being economics. Tic at present is located at the University of Pennsyl- vania. The third son was Everett J., who died in 1895 at the age of fourteen. Harry G. Smith received his education in the schools of Hudson and Madison, and subsequently (in 1900) graduated at the University of Wisconsin. Two years after graduation were spent in teaching, one at the Bayfield. Wis., high school, and one year as principal of the Belleville. Wis., high school. During this time he was dealing in lands more or less, and he found that his business had grown to such an extent that it demanded his whole time. He is now manager of the State Land & Loan Company, treasurer of the Palmetto Industrial Company, which owns some 8.000 acres of valuable land near Tampa, Fla.. secretary and treasurer of the Adjustable Gate Company, supreme treasurer of the Defenders, an insurance organization, and owns and oversees the management of the Wisconsin stock farm of 4.000 acres in Dane county. In all the business enterprises he has been eminently successful ; not only has he been fortunate in his investments but he has exhibited a "business sense" in all his dealings which has won the confidence of all with whom he has come in contact. Mr. Smith is unmarried. In religious matters he is affiliated with the Congregational church, and takes an active part in its work. Politi cally he is independent; he does not "belong" to any parry, but votes as his judgment dictates.