Dane County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1906 (part 9 of 29)

William P. Fisher, of Middleton, is a native of Ireland, but coming to America with his parents at the age of five years, he has practically known no other than the home of his adoption. He was born August 4, 1844. His parents, John and Margaret (Mc Laughlin) Fisher, were both born in Ireland, the former in 1792 and the latter in 1798. They came to New Jersey in 1849 and the following year to Racine, which was their home for s:x years. In 1856 they removed to Dane, living in the town of Berry for thirteen years, when the last change of home was made to Springfield, where Mr. Fisher died in 1890, at the extreme old age of ninetyeight years. Although his wife was six years his junior and passed away some years earlier yet even then she passed, by over half a decade, the allotted "four score." They had two children, William P., the subject of this sketch, and Bernard P.; a resident of the town of Fitchburg. Mr. Fisher received his early education in the common school, and supplemented that by academic studies in Prof. George's seminary. Madison. He reached his majority the closing year of the Civil War but the previous year had enlisted as a private in Company G, of the Forty-ninth Regiment. He was mustered out at Madison in November, 1865. At the close of the war he entered upon his active life as a farmer and has continued in that occupation to the present time. His home farm in Spring- field consists of one hundred and sixty acres, and he also owns a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Dane. In politics he is independent, and he and his family are members of the Catholic church. January 15, 1872, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane Glennan, in Fitchburg township, Dane county, by whom he had ten children ; Mary Ann, of Evansville ; John Edward, Margaret, Jane, Kate. William, Rose, Francis, Daniel and Ellen, all living. Mrs. Jane (Glennan) Fisher was the daughter of Edward and Ellen (Madden) Glennan. both natives of Ireland, his birth-year being 1821 and hers 1812. They came to Philadelphia in 1847, and lived there ten years. During the subsequent years they made their home successively in Madison (1858), Blooming Grove (1864), Springfield (1870), and lastly in Fitchburg, their present home. They had six children. Mr Glennan is politically affiliated with the Democratic party, and he and his family belong to the Catholic church.

John P. Fladtland of Christiania township is a well-known farmer of that community, where he has lived for many years. He has a fine farm with modern buildings which he has erected and carries on a general farming and stock-raising business. In 1897 the new dwelling was built at a cost of $3,500 and a large new barn and tobacco shed complete the group of new buildings. Born in Sogan, Norway, June 19, 1853, Mr. Fladtland came to Wisconsin with his parents, Peter Stdge and Anna (Olson) Stdge in 1856. Peter was a gardener in Stdge, Norway, and there worked for sixteen years in one place. He determined, however, to attempt to better his fortunes in the west and accordingly took passage with his wife and six children in a sailing vessel. They landed in Quebec after eight or ten weeks and then continued their journey to Stoughton. Wis., finally obtaining a farm in the town of Dunkirk, Dane county. Seven years were spent in this locality and then Mr. Stdge purchased a farm in section 23. town of Christiania. This farm consisted of eighty acres of wild prairie land, which Mr. Stdge improved, adding buildings as needed. Mrs. Stdge died in 1892 and after her death her husband went to Douglas, county, Minn, where he died in 1896. Six children were born to them; Betsey, the eldest daughter, is Mrs. Nels Hanson of Dodge county, Minn. ; John P. is the oldest son ; Sina married Herman Shelkiope of Stoughton ; Ole resides in Mannon. Ward county. N. D. ; Hattie is Mrs. Arnt Hendrickson of Minneapolis ; Peter died aged eleven years. John P. attended the Rockdale schools and assisted his father with the work on the farm. He learned the carpenter's 19 - iii trade and was also for a short time engaged in threshing but most of his life has been spent in farming. In October, 1880, he married Miss Mary Johnson, a native of Norway, daughter of John and Betsey (Larson) Johnson, who were farmers in Norway and came to the United States in 1871. They resided in Edgerton and afterward in Christiania and now live in Baker county, Minn. Of their seven children, all but the oldest daughter, Julia, are living. Mrs. Fladtland is the oldest living daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Fladtland have five children ; Alfred, a prosperous farmer of Ward county, N. Dak. ; Nordel, Henry, Florence and Letta, who reside with their parents. All have attended the Rockdale schools and are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Fladtland is a Democrat but has never taken an active part in political matters.

Joseph E. Flanagan, an intelligent, energetic and exceedingly popular young farmer of the town of Oregon, is the son of worthy Irish immigrants, who was born in the city of Stoughon, Dane county, on January 17, 1871. His parents were Martin F. and Sarah (Cunningham) Flanagan, both of whom were natives of the Emerald Isle, the father being born at Galway, November 9, 1823, and the mother at Sligo, June 24, 1832. Tradition has it that the founder of the Flanagan family in Ireland was a Spanish officer who was taken prisoner at the time of the victory of the English over the Spanish "forces in the latter part of the sixteenth century. This officer is believed to have drifted to Galway, Ireland, where he took the name of Flanagan, married and became the head of the Irish family of that name. Martin Flanagan migrated to the United States from Canada in 1863, and coming to Wisconsin first located at Stoughton, Dane county, where he worked during the harvest time of that year for Luke Stoughton, the founder of the city that bears his name. Mr. Flanagan was then employed by the Chi. & N. W. Railroad Company on construction work, while that road was being completed into Madison, and he remained in the employ of that railroad company three years. He then took up his residence in Stoughton and was employed there as a construction foreman for twenty years, after which he sold his home there and purchased the farm in the town of Oregon, where his son, the subject of this review now resides. When Mr. Flanagan first came to Stoughton, the site where the city now stands had only a mere cluster of small "shacks," rude dwellings of the hardy pioneers of that locality. Oxen hitched to home-made wagons - predecessors of the twentieth century automobile - were the means of conveyance and transportation in that day, and the farmers cut their grain with the cradle and threshed it with the flail. While a small boy in his native land, Mr. Flanagan took the temperance pledge from the Father Matthew .and during his life was consistently opposed to the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Though never a radical political Prohibitionist, he always thought it best to leave liquor alone, as he frequently saw the effects of its baneful influence. Although the parents of his wife resided at Dunham Flats, Canada, Mr. Flanagan and his wife were married at White Hall, N. Y., in February, 1855, and for forty-five years they traveled the path of life together, the wife dying on December 24, 1900, and the husband on September 27, 1903. Five children were born to them, the names of and other facts concerning whom are given as follows: Mary A. is deceased; Simon married Miss Kittie Fitzgibbons, of Monroe, Wis., and now resides in Kansas City, Mo. ; John M. married Miss Alice Lawler and resides in the town of Dunn, Dane county; Joseph E. is the subject of this review, and Katie resides with the latter on the old homestead. Joseph E. Flanagan was educated in the high school of the city of Stoughton, and remained at home during the most of the time until the death of his parents, and during the winters of 1891-2-3 he taught in the district schools. He and his sister, Katie, recently purchased the interest of the other heirs in the old homstead and live thereon. Mr. Flanagan is a Democrat in his political belief and is a member of the Catholic church in the village of Oregon.

O. F. Flint is one of the highly respected citizens of the village of Oregon, where he has resided since 1904. but his residence in Dane county dates back to the days of his boyhood. He was born in the state of Maine, his parents "being James M. and Sarah (Gore) Flint, both of whom were also natives of the Pine Tree state, the respective families of each being long resident there. Farlin Flint, the father of James M., was one of the earliest settlers of what is now the town of Rutland, Dane county, where he took up two hundred acres of government land and upon the same lived until he was eighty years of age and then went to New Hampshire where he died, aged eighty-four years. James M. Flint also migrated from his Eastern home, and coming to Dane county in 1858, settled in Rutland and pursued the life of a farmer until his death, himself and wife having both passed away several years ago. After reaching manhood in Maine, and until his removal to Wiscconsin, he conducted a saw and shingle mill in his native state. O. F. Flint, whose name introduces this memoir, was born, April 7, 1848, and hence was but ten years old when his parents came to what was then "the far west." He received his education in the Flint school in the town of Rutland, and assisted his father on the home farm until he had reached the age of twenty-seven years. He then purchased a farm for himself and followed agricultural pursuits incessantly and with good success until 1904, when he sold his farm and moved to the village of Oregon, where a fine home and six acres of land affords him the respite he desires and a reasonable amount of activity in gardening. Mr. Flint is a pronounced Prohibitionist in his political views, and while living in the town of Rutland served as a school official for a number of years. He was married on February 19, 1879, to Miss Sarah J. Carrison, a native of England, who came to the United States with her parents when but eight years old. She is a member of the Free Baptist church in the town of Rutland. Mr. and Mrs. Flint have no children. Mrs. Flint's parents, George Carrison and wife, are honored citizens of the village of Oregon, having been residents of Dane county since 1867, and her paternal grandfather had lived here for more than fifty years prior to his death.

Arthur O. Fox, of Madison, was born on his father's farm in the town of Fitchburg, Dane county ,Wisconsin, November 2, 1855. He was a son of Dr. William H. Fox, one of the pioneers of the state, a sketch of whose life appears elsewhere in this work. Arthur was educated in the common school of his home district, a private school at Detroit, Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin, spending three years in the last named institution. He began his business career in the accounting department of the Michigan Central Railroad, at Detroit, and while in this position became interested in the live stock traffic between Canada and the United States to such an extent that he determined to become a stock importer and breeder. Accordingly returning to Wisconsin, he bought a tract of land adjoining his father's farm and commenced sheep-breeding and importing. This business proved eminently successful and developed much beyond his expectations so that within twenty years, he had become the largest breeder of pure-bred, pedigreed, mutton sheep in the United States and had accumulated a tract of farming lands, approximating one thousand acres, adjoining and including the old family homestead. In the early nineties, Mr. Fox also became interested in various other real estate operations and as the city of Madison offered special advantages for the pursuit of this business, as well as for the education of his several children, he removed in 1895 to the capital city. Here he soon became identified with some of the leading manufacturing and banking institutions of the city. His recognized business judgment and foresight caused his associates to confer on him positions of trust and responsibility. Among the various enterprises with which he has been identified is the Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company, which was formed at Madison in 1895 for the purpose of manufacturing electrical machinery. He was chosen at the beginning to take the general management of its affairs and under his direction the plant was built and equipped. This company has grown from nothing in 1895 to one of the largest and most prosperous manufacturing institutions in the West, its products going all over the world, and its sales amounting to a million dollars annually. In 1903 the position of president of the company was bestowed upon Mr. Fox in addition to that of general manager, both of which positions he now holds. The growth and prosperity of this institution has been an important factor in the upbuilding of the eastern part of the city of Madison. It is of especial interest to note that Mr. Fox was one of the first to recognize the importance of the introduction of the uses of electricity and electrical machinery on farms. Some of the first electrical equipments installed on farms in the United States were made and installed by the Northern Company in 1898, under his direction, and the success of these has led to the quite general introduction of the use of electricity on farms. Mr. Fox says that within ten years, plows and other farm implements will be very generally propelled by electricity instead of being drawn by horses. Upon the death of his father, Mr. Fox acquired and still owns the old homestead farm which his father bought from the government in 1841 and 1842, to which much has since been added. In 1882. Mr. Fox was married to Miss Anna Williams, daughter of Chauncey L. Williams of Madison. To them were born seven children as follows : Morris F., Cornelia Lillian, Annie Myra, Katherine, Neill W., Lucia and Helen. All except Helen, who died at the age of five years, are now living. The oldest son Morris, is now associated with his father in business. Joseph Grierson Fox, of Oregon, was born in Suntown, Ireland, about fifty miles from Dublin, April 12, 1822. His parents were William and Eleanor (Lynn) Fox, both natives of Ireland. His father was a merchant of Dublin, but after coming to the United States, he took up the occupation of farming, settling in La Grange, Ind.. which remained his home. Joseph Fox was one of a family of ten children, six brothers and four sisters, and was about eleven years of age when he accompanied his parents to this country. In 1844, then a young man of twenty-two, he came to Dane county and took up one hundred and sixty acres of government land in the town of Oregon. To this he added from time to time until he had a fine farm of three hundred and fifty-five acres of improved land which was devoted mostly to the raising of Belgian horses. Mr. Fox affiliated with the Presbyterian church and in politics with the Democratic party ; he served as the register of deeds of Dane county. He was twice married ; his first wife, whom he married June 22, 1845, was Miss Mary Lalor, daughter of Patrick Lalor, of Tenakill, Queens county, Ireland. By her he had four children, George Fox, M. D., of Janesville ; Anna Catherine, (deceased); Eleanor, now Mrs. Wm. Kiser, of Mena, Ark.; Joseph Patrick, (deceased). Mrs. Fox died August, 30, 1850. On May 24, 1855, Mr. Fox married Harriet Lucinda, - daughter of Christian Adamson, Esq., of Ballinlack, Ireland, - who died February 24, 1895. They had one son, J. H. Fox, who was born May 20, 1856, and who married, June 16, 1886, Ida, daughter of John O. Kiser, Esq., of Fitchburg township ; they have one daughter, Carrie Dora, born November 30, 1890. All of the children and the grandchild of Mr. J. G. Fox were born in the town of Oregon. J. H. Fox is a member of the Modern Woodmen of Oregon, and his father was a Mason. The latter died June 17, 1906.

Jacob P. Fox is the owner of a farm in Dane county and is a well-known member of the community. Conrad and Catherine (Smith) Fox, his parents, came from Germany, where Mr. Fox was born in 1813 and his wife in 1818. Their home was in Waterloo township, Jefferson county, where they obtained an eighty acre farm, which has since been the home of the family. Here Mr. Fox died in 1874 and his wife in September, 1902. Or their twelve sons and daughters, but five are living. The family attended the Lutheran church. Jacob P. Fox was born April 1, 1861, at Waterloo, Jefferson county, Wisconsin. He attended the district school but was early obliged to make his own way ; he worked out upon farms in the neighborhood and was employed by Orson Carskaden for seven years. In 1894, he purchased the eighty-acre farm.which is his present residence and which he has improved and equipped in many ways. He raises short-horned cattle and Poland China hogs and also various kinds of farm produce. With no assistance, by his own energy and thrift he has made for himself a prosperous and comfortable home. He is a member of the Republican party but devotes himself to his business rather than to active participation in politics. September 14, 1886, he married Laura L. (Carskaden) Fox, daughter of Orson Carskaden of York and widow of Conrad Fox, brother of Jacob P. Fox. Conrad Fox died in 1881, leaving two children ; George O., who married Miss Odelia Dobbelstein and Charles C. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fox have one son, Earl J., who was born November 3, 1894. The family is identified with the Methodist Episcopal church.

Philip Fox, M. D., of Madison, belongs to a family noted as among the pioneer families of Dane county, and also for the number of its members that have devoted themselves to the medical profession. The family comes from Moat-a-Granough, County Westmeath, Ireland, and the original form of the name is An Sionnach, Fox being the Anglicized form. The history of the family in America already covers four generations, the first being Rev. William Fox. who with his wife, Eleanor (Lynn) Fox and six children came to America in 1834 and made their home, first in Tecumsah, Michigan, and soon after in La Grange county, Indiana. They had been preceded by their second son, William H. Fox, who came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1833, being at that time nineteen years of age. In 1839 he joined his family in La Grange county and soon after began the practice of medicine at Lima, in that county. In the autumn of 1842 the two brothers, Dr. William H. and George, aged respectively twenty-eight and twenty-two years, left La Grange county and drove across the country to Chicago and then continued their journey through the forests and oak openings of southeastern Wisconsin, passing through the frontier villages of Janesville and Delavan and located in the town of Fitchburg, Dane county, both entering land in section 35. George entered one hundred and twenty acres at the land office in Milwaukee, and then returned to Indiana and spent the winter in Michigan City, La Porte county ; but in the following spring in company with his wife and two children returned to make a permanent settlement. He built a log-house, sixteen by thirteen feet, which was the family home for thirteen years and the temporary home of other relatives who soon followed these pioneers. The wife of George Fox, whom he married in Indiana, was Catherine Keenan, a native of King's County, Ireland, who came to the United States in 1838. They had six children, of whom two sons, Philip, of Madison, - the subject of this sketch, - born at Lima, Indiana. March 27, 1840, - and William of Milwaukee, were physicians, and one daughter, Ellen, married a physician, (Dr. Wilson). Their other children were Maria, (Mrs. Capt. Gerraughty) ; Katie, (Mrs. G. Barry) ; and Addie, (Mrs. D. E. Kiser). Upon the farm, reclaimed from the wilderness and afterward increased to three hun- dred and twenty acres, and upon which, in 1856, a substantial stone house was built. Dr. Philip Fox spent his boyhood, and that continued to be his home until 1870. His school life, after passing through the primitive training of the district schools was spent at Sinsinawa Mound, Wisconsin, and his medical training was obtained at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which he was graduated in March, 1863. In December of the same year he entered the army as assistant surgeon of the Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and remained in service until July, 1864, when he was mustered out, and returned to Wisconsin and began his private practice in company with his uncle. Dr William H. Fox of Fitchburg. In 1870, he removed to Janesville. where he remained for six years, and then located in Madison where he has remained until the present time. He was married in Madison, in September, 1866, to Miss Anna Reynolds, by whom he has had four children, Philip R., Anna K., Mary J., and George W. The two sons are also physicians ; Philip R., usually known as "Dr Rodney", was born in Fitchburg township, June 23, 1867. He was educated in the schools of Madison. Prairie du Chien and Watertown, and studied medicine at Rush Medical College, Chicago, and was graduated from that school in 1890. Following graduation he spent a year and a half as interne in the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago, and has since been associated with his father in the practice of medicine in the city of Madison. The younger son, George W., was born in Janesville, January 30, 1875. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin and Rush Medical College, and was graduated from the latter in 1897. He also entered the Presbyterian Hospital as interne and remained there until October, 1899. The following year he located in Milwaukee, where he is practicing at the present time. Beside his private practice he is the attending surgeon and secretary of staff of St. Mary's Hospital, attending surgeon of the Emergency Hospital and surgeon for the Wisconsin Central Railroad. He is a Republican and a member of the Roman Catholic church. He also belongs to the Phi Delta Theta, the Milwaukee Yacht Club, the Milwaukee Medical Society, the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The members of the medical fraternity in the Fox family have held and still hold a high rank as physicians and surgeons, and the older men, especially, have been of great service to the profession as consulting physicians.

Philip R. Fox, M. D., is one of the leading physicians of the city of Madison, and he has attained to this enviable position as a lesnlt of a thorough technical education, close and careful attention to his professional duties, and the further practice of keeping up-to-date in all things pertaining to the science of medicine and surgery. He is another of the Dane county boys who have reflected credit upon her citizenship and institutions, and his successful career is gratifying to a host of warm personal friends. Dr. Fox was born in the town of Fitchburg. Dane county, June 23, 1867, and is one of four children born to Philip and Anna E. (Reynolds) Fox, a more extended mention of whom is given on another page of this volume. Philip R. Fox received his preliminary education in the district schools of his native town and in the Catholic parochial school at Madison, supplementing the knowledge thus gained by a course in the Jesuit college at Prairie du Chien and at Sacred Heart college in Watertown, Wis. Having thus completed his literary education he entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, and was graduated from that institution with the class of 1890.. For the eighteen months following the completion of his professional course- of studies he was an interne in the Presbyterian Hospital at Chicago, and on March 15, 1893, began the regular practice at Madison. He devotes himself to the general practice of medicine and to surgery, and his ability is recognized by employment as the district surgeon for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, to the duties of which he attends in addition to his general practice. Dr. Fox is a Democrat in his political views, but has never allowed a craving for office to interfere with the duties of his chosen profession. His religious faith is expressed by membership in the Catholic church, and his fraternal relations are with the patriotic order known as the Loyal Legion. Dr. Fox was married on October 18, 1902, to Miss Katherine Brigham, a native of Milwaukee, and to this union one child has been born, Anna, born in Madison, January 13, 1904.

William H. Fox, M. deceased, was one of the pioneers of Dane county, and for many years one of its most popular physicians. He was born at Moate-a-Granough in the county of Westmeat, Ireland. September, 1814, his parents being, William and Eleanor (Lynn) Fox. The original family name was O'Catharnaigh. This family originally owned the major part of the county of Westmeath and a part of the barony of Kilcoursey in King's County, Ireland. About 1185 A. D. because of some deed of valor in war by one of the O'Catharnaigh lords he was called "An Sion- nach," (The Fox,) thereafter all of his descendants to the present have borne the name "Fox." Galtrim Castle, now the property of Hubert Fox, Esquire, still stands just outside of Dublin, the last remaining monument of this old family name and estate in Ireland. Upon one of the walls of this old castle still hangs an old oil painting representing Queen Elizabeth in the act of re-granting certain tracts of land to Matthew Fox and his four sons, James, John, Joseph and William, and conferring on the eldest the title of Lord of Kilcoursey. In the painting stands the Queen with parchment in hand, the Earl of Leicester near her and the five Foxes standing in front of them. Copies of this picture were made some twenty years ago by Melville E. Stone of Chicago, (now general manager of the associated press) a relative of the Foxes, then traveling in Europe. Several of these copies are now in the hands of A. O. Fox, Philip Fox and other survivors of the family. Dr. Fox received his early education at the hands of private tutors in his native country and at the age of nineteen years came to America, (1833), locating at Cleveland, Ohio. There he remained for about six years, during which time he acquired a medical education and then, in 1839, removed to Lima, Ind. There he began the practice of his profession and followed it until the fall of 1841, when he made a visit to Wisconsin. Being favorably impressed with the country south of Madison he went to the Milwaukee land office and entered a farm in the township of Fitchburg, one and a half miles north of the village of Oregon. The following spring he brought his family to the farm, which was then on the frontier, and commenced improving it. Several brothers and sisters of the doctor came to Wisconsin about the same time, locating in the vicinity. All were blest with many children and the Fox settlement became famous in pioneer days for the generous hospitality of this large family. From a very early day down to the present time this family has been closely identified with the progress of Dane county. In 1842, Doctor Fox built upon his farm and furnished a log house in which his Wisconsin housekeeping then began. Although this log house consisted of but two rooms, no wayfarer ever knocked at the doctor's door without receiving a generous welcome and being told that there was plenty of room for him to pass the night. The old farm above alluded to has been kept in the family and now belongs to his son, Arthur O. Fox. As a physician. Dr. Fox, bore a high reputation and was widely known and respected. The hardships and exposures of his early pioneer life had developed in him a ruggedness peculiar to the frontier, yet lie possessed a child's gentleness of nature and his heart responded quickly in sympathy to those in distress. He possessed to a great that peculiar imagination common to the Celtic race which enabled him to find beauty and simplicity in the very wildness and ruggedness of things about him and caused him to prefer always the environments of a country farm home to those of city life. As lie gradually accumulated lands they were always well handled so that, added to his reputation as a physician and surgeon, he also was widely known as one of the representative and successful farmers of the state, and his large lawn of great rugged burr oaks became a land mark for miles around and still stands preserved just as he found it in 1841 when he saw it for the first time in possession of wild deer. His wife was Cornelia Raymond Averill of New York state. They were married in December, 1841, and moved to Wisconsin in the spring of the following year. Mrs. Fox was of New England parentage and a direct descendant of Col. Benjamin Simonds a prominent Revolutionary leader of Williamstown, Mass. She died in April, 1864. To. Dr. and Mrs. Fox were born four daughters and a son. The second daughter, Adeline, died unmarried when twenty-one years of age. The others still survive and are as follows, Catherine (Mrs. C. F. Adamson), of Madison; Anna (Mrs. Wm. F. Vilas), of Madison; Lucia (Mrs. John M. Byrne), of Kansas City, and Arthur O. Fox of Madison. Doctor Fox was a member of the convention in 1847 which adopted the constitution of the state of Wisconsin. He was always alert in public affairs and always favored any movement having for its object the advancement of public interests. He died upon his farm near Oregon, Wisconsin, in October, 1883. and his body now lies in the Oregon cemetery overlooking the old farm which he chose in pioneer days, it being his expressed wrish that this should be his last resting place.

Prof. David B. Frankenburger, A. M., LL. B., deceased, for many years at the head of the department of oratory and rhetoric in the University of Wisconsin, was born in Edinburg, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1845, the son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Kale) Frankenburger. The father was a native of Virginia and the mother of Columbiana county, Ohio. Professor Frankenburger's ancestors were landowners of North Germany, and the paternal grandfather came to America in 1760 whi'e ttill a youth, and during the American struggle for independence was a soldier of the Continental army. The original Frankenburger home in the United States was near the boundary line of three states, Virginia, Mary- land and Pennsylvania and the name for many years was a familiar one in the Old Dominion and the Keystone state. Intermarriage with the best of French, Irish and Scotch stock has mingled with the original German blood of the family until kinship with a better part of the world may readily be established. Lewis Frankenburger was a merchant in Pennsylvania until 1855 when he removed to Green county. Wis., to engage in farming. Later he removed to Butler county, la., where he also followed agricultural pursuits. Prof. Frankenburger, the youngest of the four children in the family, was but ten years of age when he came to Wisconsin with his parents. For nine years he helped with the farm work in the summer and in winter attended the district schools. The preparation for a collegiate course was received at Milton academy and at the age of twenty-one years Prof. Frankenburger entered the University of Wisconsin, which institution in 1869 conferred upon him the degree of P>achelor of Philosophy. The following two years were spent in the study of law in the law department of the University, and in 1871. after receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws he entered upon a professional career in Milwaukee. He continued to practice law for some seven years, and was then offered by the regents of the University of Wisconsin the chair of oratory and rhetoric, which he accepted and filled with eminent success until his demise. In 1882 Prof. Frankenburger sought, by a course in Boston, to strengthen his qualifications as a teacher of oratory. Although not an active participant in the political field he was a life-long Republican. In religious matters he associated himself with the Unitarian society of Madison and was an energetic and influential partaker in all its activities. On June 24, 1880, Prof. Frankenburger was united in marriage to Miss Mary Storer. eldest daughter of the late George L. and Mary F. (Johnson) Storer. of Madison. Mrs. Frankenburger was a native of Portland, Me., who came to Wisconsin when seventeen years of age. She attended the Milwaukee College and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. Prof, and Mrs. Frankenburger became the parents of two daughters ; Margaret, twenty years of age, is a student the State University, and Dorothy, fifteen years old, is attending the high school. On February 6, 1906, Prof. Frankenburger succumbed to cerebro-spinal meningitis, leaving to mourn his loss a host of friends among the alumni of his alma mater and the citizens of his home city. The Wisconsin Society of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Madison Literary Club, of which organization he was a charter member, the Humane Society and the Six O'Clock

Club all valued highly his membership and suffered in his death an irreparable loss. Nowhere will he be more missed than in the alumni gatherings of the University of Wisconsin, to which instiution he was what Dr. Holmes was to Harvard - the college poet. In earlier years he was a frequent contributor of verse to educational periodicals and became exceedingly popular with literary connoisseurs for the exquisite culture of his poems.

Mrs. Phillis Gallagher Frawley, residing at 620 Langdon street, Madison, was born in Rock Island, Ireland. With her parents, Samuel and Sarah (Burchell) Gallagher, she came to Madison in 1857. by way of Quebec and the Great Lakes to Milwaukee, thence by stage to Madison. The father was engaged in the shoe business in Madison for a number of years. His death occurred when he was fifty-six years of age and his widow passed aAvay in her seventy-fourth year. The subject of this .sketch, the youngest of a family of seven children, was an infant when the family arrived in the capital city. When the somber cloud of war appeared on the horizon of national unity Samuel Gallagher offered his services in behalf of the preservation of the Union, but because of ill health was prevented from serving. Mrs. Frawley received her preliminary education in the common and private schools of Madison and then for a time attended the University of Wisconsin ; then for three years she taught school. Her marriage to Henry P. Frawley occurred March 17, 1877. In religious matters Mrs. Frawley is affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal church. For many years she conducted a boarding house at 620 Langdon street, and at different times has had as many as eighty university students under her charge. She has shown a foresight and judgment in the matter of real estate values which have placed her in the foremost rank of capitalists. The new Frawley flats on Mendota court, rcently erected by her, were the first modern flats built in Madison, with steam heat and all modern improvements. Beside these flats Mrs Frawley is the owner of much valuable realty. Of her father's family there are two others beside herself living in Madison, - John Gallagher, a dealer in tents and awnings, and Mrs. E. L. Baker of 424 North Murray street.

Augustus M. Frish, general manager of the Advance Thresher Company, whose Wisconsin headquarters are at 052 Jenifer street, is a native of Monroe county, Wisconsin. He is a son of August and Barbara (Robb) Frish, both natives of Germany. The father was educated in the Fatherland and removed to this country, settling in Dane county, when but twenty years old. Later he went to

Monroe county, where the subject of this sketch was born February 28, 1863, and subsequently to Juneau county, where he died April 9, 1899. His widow is a resident of Tomah, Wis. She has passed the sixty-eighth milestone but is still vigorous. Only the two younger children of the family of four are still living. Barbara, Mrs. Fred Finger, died at the age of thirty-one and Emma passed away while still a child. Joseph, the youngest, is a broker at Tomah. Augustus M. Frish received his education in the district schools and the Tomah high school. Upon the completion of his scholastic labors he went to work in a machine shop and after a few years became a "full-fledged" machinist. He then entered the service of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway in the engine department and at the age of twenty had become a locomotive engineer. In 1891 he gave up railroading to go on the road for the Advance Thresher company and after eight years of service as traveling salesman was promoted to his present position of general manager. His field of operations includes Illinois and Wisconsin, and the Madison office has ten employees under Mr. Frish's direction. On October 1, 1889, Mr. Frish was united in marriage to Mary Liddane, a native of Monroe county,, and a daughter of Patrick and Bridget Liddane, both deceased- This union has been blessed with three children, - Gertrude Genevieve, Ruth and Evaline. The family are communicants of the Catholic church. Mr. Frish is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America and the United Commercial Travelers.

John Froggatt, of Middleton, is one of Dane county's pioneers, whose own unaided efforts have made him a substantial member of the community. His parents, William F. and Anna (Robinson) Froggatt, lived in Derbyshire, England, and out of a family of seven brothers and sisters John was the only one who came to America. John was born in 1823 and spent part of his early years at the home of his grandfather, Robert Froggatt. He started to work on a farm while quite young and worked for two years for five dollars a year. After this he found employment in brickyards. Dissatisfied with his poor surroundings the young man took passage in a sailing vessel, the Mayflower, in March, 1849, with his young wife. The boat was disabled in the Irish Channel in a collision and obliged to return to Liverpool for repairs. After slight delay in same month the persistent youth again set sail and landed in New York in April with but sixty dollars in his pocket. This he used to rent a farm near Buffalo, Erie county, N. Y., which he worked for three years, leaving it to come to Wisconsin. Here his hopes were not disappointed and after renting for a season he was able to buy forty acres of wild land in Springfield township which became his permanent home. The first building on it was a log cabin erected by the hands of the owner but it was soon succeeded by more substantial ones and the farm has been added to and improved until it now includes five hundred and forty acres of fine land. Mr. Froggatt has given considerable attention to the breeding of fine cattle in which he has been successful. He is now retired and built his present home in Middleton in 1904, where two of his children live. Mr. Froggatt was a Republican until 1887, when he allied himself with the temperance cause. He has always been active in church matters, in England, in the Wesleyan church and in America, in the Methodist Episcopal church, where he has been a class leader for fifty years. Mrs. Froggatt was before her marrige Miss Mary Gill, daughter of William and Hannah Archer Gill of Derbyshire. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Froggatt are now living; Walter G., born January 9. 1854, is a farmer of Middleton. He has never married and is a partner of his brother, James Henry; the latter was born October 28, 1855, at Springfield, Dane county, and was educated in the county schools and also at the University in Madison in the winter of 1875-76. He spent the winter of 1877-78 in California, sight-seeing, but returned to the old home and began farming. In 1889 he married Miss Mary Lappley of Dane county, daughter of John and Mary (Smith) Lappley, old settlers, now living in Middleton ; they have three children, Lillian M.. Edward J. and Fannie J. Wesley E., the youngest, was born August 30, 1870, received his professional training at Rush Medical College, and is now practicing his profession of medicine at Cross Plains. The lack of early educational advantages has been so greatly deplored by Mr. Froggatt that he taught himself the rudimentary branches and has made up to his children what he was denied himself and all have good educations.

Richard Douglas Frost, one of the honored pioneers of Blooming Grove township and one who has been prominent in the industrial and civic upbuilding of the community and in the public affairs of the county, claims the old Empire state of the Union as the place of his nativity. He was born in the town of Schaghticoke, Rensselaer county. New York, October 9, 1821. His father, Stephen Frost, was born in Washington county, New York, and was a son of Ezra Frost, who was born in one of the New England states, of Scotch ancestrv, and who removed from Massachusetts to Wash- ington county. New York, settling in the village of Union, where he was engaged in the general merchandise business until the time of his death. Stephen Frost was reared to manhood in Washington county, where he secured good educational advantages. He was employed as a clerk and later as a bookkeeper in the village of Union, whence he removed to the city of Brooklyn, where he was long employed as an expert accountant and where he continued to reside until his death. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Cooper, was born near Fort Edward, Washington county. New York, being a daughter of Richard and Sarah (Osborne) Cooper, who were of English ancestry. Richard Cooper was born in the state of New York, May 12. 1771, and he passed his entire life in the old Empire state, his parents having been natives of England. His wife likewise was born in New York state, April 2, 1783, her father having immigrated from England to America in the colonial days and having continued a resident of New York until his death, at an advanced age. After the death of her first husband Elizabeth (Cooper) Frost became the wife of John Dusenberry,. and they reared two children, - Joseph and Mary, the subject of this sketch having been the only child of the first marriage. His mother continued a resident of Schagticoke until the time of her death. Richard D. Frost was about eleven years of age at the time of his father's death, and he was carefully reared by his devoted mother and his stepfather, securing the best -available educational advantages of the locality and period. After his marriage he removed to Troy, New York, in which city he assisted in establishing a gingham factory, the second of the kind in the United States, and he continued to superintend the operation of this manufactory until 1850, when his health became so impaired that he was compelled to seek less sedentary occupation. In 1848 he had purchased a tract in section 20. Blooming Grove township, Dane county, Wisconsin, and when he sought a change of vocation and climate he decided to locate on his farm in the wilds of the Badger state. He made the trip by railroad to Buffalo, whnce he proceeded by way of steamboat on Lake Erie to Detroit, Michigan. From that city he made his way by the Michigan Central Railroad to New Buffalo, at the foot of Lake Michigan, where he secured lake transportation to Milwaukee, from which point he came by stage to Madison. The pleasant old days of the stage coaching have long passed, save as enjoyed in a superficial style by the votaries of fashion, but at the time when Mr. Frost came to Wisconsin the stage coach was an established and valued institution in covering long distances, as the railways had not yet penetrated so far in the frontier districts. For a number of years past Air. Frost has rented his fine farm, which was reclaimed and improved by him and which comprises a large area of most productive and valued land, and has lived essentially retired, enjoying the rewards of his long years of earnest toil and endeavor. February 4, 18-11, Mr. Frost was united in marriage to Miss Sarah M. Van Anden, who was born in Schaghticoke, New York, being a daughter of Bernard and Clarissa (Robinson) Van Anden, the former of whom was born in beautiful Mohawk valley of New York, of Holland parentage, and he continued resident of New York until his death.. His wife passed the closing years of her life with her daughter, Mrs. Frost, in Dane county, Wisconsin ; her father, Nathaniel Robinson, was a native of New England and was a patriot soldier in the Continental line during the War of the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Frost became the parents of three children, - Lewis, Emma E. and Sarah M., the last named having been born in 1849 and having died in 1865. Emma is the wife of M. E. Flesh and they reside in the city of Chicago. Lewis, the only son, was reared and educated in Dane county, and he was one of the brave soldiers who represented this state as a loyal defender of the Union in the Civil War. He enlisted, in 1862, in Company I, Twenty-third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which he participated in many important engagements, having been once seriously wounded in battle. He was promoted from private to first lieutenant of his company, with which he remained in active service until the close of the war, when he received his honorable discharge. He is now a prominent business man of Winona. Minnesota, He married Miss Julia Karns and they have three children. The subject of this review has been identified with the Republican party from the time of its organization, and he has been a stalwart advocate of its principles and has been an influential factor in its local councils. He has held various offices of trust, having been township assessor and having represented Blooming Grove township on the county board of supervisors for twelve years. In 1887 he was elected a representative of Dane county in the assembly of the state legislature, where he labored to further such legislation as would redound to the benefit of the state. He was for several years a member of the executive committee of the Wisconsin State Grange, and was also a director of the Northwestern Relief Association, and director and treasurer of the Cottage Grove Fire Insurance Company. He has 20 - iii ever stood for all that is best in citizenship and now, venerable in years, he has the unqualified esteem and confidence of the people of the county in which he has made his home for more than half a century, while he is sustained by the loving companionship of his cherished and devoted wife, to whom he was married fully sixty-five years ago.

James Gallagher, an esteemed citizen of Madison, was born at Rock Island, county of Cork. Ireland, May 11, 1833. He is a son of John and Martha (Johnson) Gallagher, both natives of the county of Cork, both of which families went from England into Ireland at an early date. The subject's paternal grandfather was the first Gallagher to come to this country, settling in Rochester, N. Y. John Gallagher followed in 1855, coming directly to Dane county, and started farming near Cottage Grove. John Gallagher and his wife were devout members of the Church of England. Of their twelve children there are only three living, James, the subject of this sketch. Thomas, a farmer in Clark county, Wis., and Frank, a farmer in Deerfield. Thomas and another son, Michael, were members of the Eleventh Wisconsin infantry during the Civil War. James had little opportunity to go to school. He learned the shoemaker's trade in Ireland and worked at it there until 1851, when he determined to seek his fortune in the New World. After a passage of five weeks and three days on a sailing vessel he landed in Quebec, with only two dollars in his pocket. From Quebec he went to Kingston, Ontario, and for three months drove team at $3.50 per month. At Rochester, N. Y. he worked at his trade for a year and then came to Madison where he established a shoe store on Webster street. For twenty years Mr. Gallagher continued in the shoe business and later went into the grocery business. For the past few years he has been dealing in real estate in a small way. Mr. Gallagher is the owner of considerable improved real estate in the city. Together with his son-in-law Jno. W. Salter, he has just completed one of the most modern and up-to-date flat buildings in Madison. This is situated at 12 and 1-4 Webster street and contains six five and six-room flats, all square, finished with hard wood floors, furnished with steam heat, electric lights, etc. Another flat building facing on Hamilton and Webster streets contains six four, five and six-room flats, finished the same as the new flat except as to heating. He also owns a rooming-house at 334 W. Main street ; his home residence at 114 North Hamilton street ; two houses on Baldwin street, 205 ; three full lots ; one house on East Dayton street ; also the California Fruit store, a three story building ; five lots on the bay where the new park is being made ; a lot on Wingra Heights, and twelve acres near the fair grounds. All the Gallaghers have been and are stanch Republicans, and although James Gallagher has never been an aspirant for office, he has always worked hard for the success of his party. He is a member of the Congregational church of Madison. On October 26. 1857 he married Jane, daughter of William H. and Ann (Jackson) Hartley. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley were natives of Yorkshire, England, and came to Westport, this county, in 1850. Although Mr. Hartley had been a brewer and later a sailor in the British navy, he took up farming with great success when he came to this country. Both he and his wife died on their Westport farm. They had three children.Jane,(Mrs. Gallagher). "William H. and Mary, deceased. James and Jane Gallagher have had eight children, only three of whom are now living: William H., living at home and engaged in the real estate business with his father ; Jennie A., the wife of John W. Solter of Unity, Wis. ; and Arthur J., employed in the postoffice at Madison. All of the children were educated in the Madison schools. Mr. Gallagher was a member of the old Fire Company. Xo. 1, of Madison. Both the sons are Elks and Knights of Pythias. Not many years ago it was a common belief that "Jim" Gallagher knew everybody in Dane county. Ira Garfoot has been a resident of Cross Plains township from the time of his birth and is now numbered among the prosperous farmers and popular citizens of this section of the county, being a representative of the third generation of his family in Dane county. He was born on the old homestead farm, March 31, 1867, and is a son of John and Emily (Simpson) Garfoot, both of whom were born in Leicestershire, England, and both of whom came with their respective parents to America. John Garfoot was a son of William and Mary (Busier) Garfoot, and the family settled in Cross Plains township, this county, about 1855. William Garfoot purchased eighty acres of wild land, in section 20, and reclaimed a good farm before his death, both he and his wife passing the closing years of their lives in the village of Black Earth. They became the parents of eight children, of whom four are living. Elizabeth, Sarah and William reside in Black Earth township, and Henry in Mount Horeb, Blue Mounds township. John Garfoot, father of the subject of this sketch remained with his parents until he had reached the >age of seventeen years, when he enlisted in the Thirtieth Wisconsin, Company C. Upon returning he engaged in farming on his own responsibility, becoming one of the progressive farmers and highly esteemed citizens of his county and continuing to reside on his homestead farm, in sections 8 and 9, this township, until his death, which occurred March 31, 1900, his cherished and devoted wife having been summoned into eternal rest April 17, 1885. Their marriage was solemnized in this county and both were communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church ; his political allegience was given to the Republican party and he always took a lively interest in local affairs of a public nature. Concerning the nine children in the family the folowing brief entry is consistently made: Ira, whose name initiates this article, is the eldest; Eva is the wife of William H. Britt, of Mount Horeb, this county ; William is a farmer in Roberts county, So. Dakota ; Alva is engaged in farming in Middleton township ; Ralph follows the same vocation in Iowa county, Wisconsin ; Addie is the wife of William Danz, of Mazomanie township; May E. (Garfoot) Higgins resides in Mazomanie ; Charles and George remain on the old homestead farm. Ira Garfoot was educated in the public schools of his native township and continued to be associated in the work of the home farm until he had attained the age of twenty-live years, when, in 1892, he purchased his present farm, of one hundred and twenty acres, in section 8, Cross Plains township, adjoining the old home place of his honored father. He has made many improvements on the farm and is careful and progressive in his carrying on of all departments of the farm work, so that he has been eminently successful in his operations, having given no little attention to the dairy business in connection with general agricultural work. In politics he is independent of strict partisan lines, but the esteem in which he is held in the community is indicated in the various offices in which he has been called upon to serve. He is one of the supervisors of his township, having been incumbent of this office for the past three years, was clerk of his school district six years, and has held other minor offices. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Modern Woodmen of America, and is distinctively popular in both business and social circles in his home township and county. March 26, 1892, Mr. Garfoot was united in marriage to Miss Anna Belle Howery, who was born and reared in this township, being a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Carden) Howery, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Wisconsin. Mrs. Garfoot died February 5, 1905, and is survived by two children, - Gladys and Earl.

Albert Francis Garvoille, of Belleville, is a native of France, born August 17, 1861. His parents were Xavier and Marie (Carteron) Garvoille, both French. Mr. Garvoillle was brought up on a farm and as a young man served in the French army ; he came to America before the rest of the family and worked in the vicinity of Belleville. He enlisted and took part in the Civil War, serving until its close ; he then returned to Montrose township, and engaged in farming on the place where Joel Ramer now resides, and afterward bought land in section 23. Mrs. Garvoille with the children came to Wisconsin in 1862, when the subject of this sketch was about one year old. In 1874, the family removed to Clay county, Nebraska, where they took up land and engaged again in farming, remaining three years. The total destruction of their crops by the grasshoppers for two successive years caused their removal to Kansas where they remained one year, but finding the climate unhealthful, they returned to their early home in Wisconsin, occupying the farm where the father now resides. Albert F. Garvoille is the second in a family of eight children ; the others are Victor, of Belleville ; Millie, at home; Olampe, of Oregon ; Euphemie, married Alfred Peller, of Sauk; Julia, married Paul Begey, of Muscatine, Iowa; Louis, at home ; Mary, married John King, of Brooklyn. Mr. A. F. Garvoille received his education in the public schools of Nebraska and Kansas. He began life for himself at the age of twenty-one, working by the month ; he worked on the university farm at Madison from 1891 to 1893, under the superintendence of Professor Henry, and after leaving there rented a farm in the town of Montrose for seven years. In 1899 he was the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of the best land in the township, which he runs for general farming, stock raising and dairying. He was married in November, 1892, to Miss Margaret Tierney, of Madison, who was, before her marriage a teacher of Dane county. To this union have been born four children, Leo, the oldest, died in infancy; Eleanor, born January 10, 1896; Albert John, born September 23, 1898, Gordon, born May 5, 1902. Mr. Garvoille has always been a stanch Republican, casting his first vote for James G. Blaine, in 1884; he is at present the Republican chairman of the town of Montrose. He is a member of the Catholic church, of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, and of the M. W. A.

Albert W. Gaston, one of the well known farmers and popular citizens of Cottage Grove township, has been a resident of Dane county during the major portion of his life and is a scion of one of its pioneer families. He was born in the village of Saline, Washtenaw county, Michigan, November 11, 1835, this being before that state had been admitted to the Union. He is a son of Albert and Eliza Ann Gaston, the former of whom was born in Massachusetts and the latter in the state of New York, from which latter state they immigrated to Michigan and thence to Wisconsin, having been numbered among the early settlers of Cottage Grove township, Dane county. Here the father took up government land, and the old homestead is the farm upon which the subject of this sketch now resides and which he owns. Albert W. Gaston was nine years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Dane county, and he was reared to the invigorating discipline of the pioneer farm, while he attended the somewhat primitive district schools when opportunity presented. He remained at the parental home until he was about twenty-five years of age, when he purchased a farm in Oregon township, where he remained about eight years, at the expiration or which his father deeded him eighty acres adjoining the old homestead. On this farm he was engaged in agricultural pursuits about twelve years, in the meanwhile making many improvements on the place, and he then sold the property and engaged in the livery business in the city of Madison, his headquarters being what is known as the old Hayden barn, on East Washington avenue. Two years later he disposed of his stock and business and returned to the old homestead farm, where he has ever since resided. Mr. Gaston is one of the stanch adherents of the Republican party in his township, but has never been an aspirant for public office. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. December 14, 1865, he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Ann Smith, who was born January 24, 1845, being a daughter of Matthew and Ann Smith, at that time residents of Oregon township. Mrs. Gaston is deceased, being survived by one son, Albert A., who now resides in Madison.

Peter Gauer, chief engineer of the waterworks pumping station, first saw the light of day in Alsace-Lorraine, France (since 1871 a part of Germany), on April 14, 1855. His parents, Peter and Barbara (Grebille) Gauer. both natives of Lorraine, came to the United States in 1873, settling in Milw.aukee. The father had been a shoemaker in his native land but after his arrival in this country led a retired life. He died in 1874 at the age. of sixty-four. The mother died sixteen years later in her seventy-fourth year. Both parents were members of the Catholic church. Of their eleven children four are still living'. John and J. N. are residents of Milwaukee and Catherine, the widow of William Anyotte, makes her home in the same city. Peter Gauer received his education and learned the machinests' trade in his native country. In 1873 he came to this country with his parents and entered the employ of a furniture firm in Milwaukee as fireman. He remained with this concern some three years, becoming engineer after the first six months' service. He then became foreman of a pipe-laying gang for the Milwaukee steam supply company, a company which supplied steam for heating and power to residences and business houses. The company had thirty-three boilers in operation, each supplying over one hundred horse-power. When the pipe-laying was done he entered the works as foreman of the firemen and six months later was promoted to the position of engineer. The concern became insolvent after a few months and Mr. Gauer for the next thirty months was in the employ of E. P. Allis engine works. In 1883 the Hoffman & Billings company entered into a contract with the city of Madison to fit out the water works. The contract stipulated that the company was to supply an engineer for the first year of operation and Mr. Gauer was selected by the company to fill the position. At the end of a year Mr. Gaiter was offered permanent employment as waterworks engineer by the board of water commissioners, and accepted. That he has filled the position efficiently and well is manifested by his continuous service of some twenty-three years. In April, 1882, he was married to Miss Helen Scheithauer, a native of Milwaukee and a daughter of Jacob and Helen (Biegel) Scheithauer. Jacob Scheithauer died at the age of forty-five in 1873. His widow is still a resident of the Cream City. The marriage of Mr. Gauer has been blessed with five children. Helen Carolina is the wife of Charles L. Van Arsdale of Chicago. Julius Peter is in the employ of the Allis-Chalmers company of Milwaukee and is engineer of a machinery erecting gang. He seems to have inherited much of the skill and ingenuity of his father as he is making a great success of his work. Paul George is a student at the Wisconsin Academy in Madison. The other two children are Ferdinand Joseph, attending the public schools, and Edward August. The family are members of the St. Patrick Catholic church. Mr. Gauer is also a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and of the National Association of Stationary Engineers, of which organization he has served as president for five years.

William M. Gay has resided on his present beautiful farm, in section 4, Blooming Grove township, since 1868, while he has made his home in the county the greater portion of the time since 1856, having been the first of the name in the county, where now are to be found several families bearing the cognomen. Mr. Gay was born in what was then known as Log City, in Knox county, Illinois, August 30, 1838, and is a son of Joseph and Maria (Rhodes) Gay, the former of whom was born in Addison county, Vermont, and the latter in Chittenden county, that state. The respective families were founded in New England in the colonial era of our national history. The parents were numbered among the pioneers of Illinois, where they continued to reside until death, honored by all who knew them. William M. was reared in his native county, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the com mon schools of the locality and period. He early manifested a distinctive proclivity for the work of a salesman, his ability in the line being, perhaps, an inherent endowment, characteristic of so many of those who have emanated from good old New England and have justified the title of Yankee, the most significant of all American pseudonyms of the sort. Suffice it to say that for many years he followed the vocation of a salesman, in various lines, and in this connection he made his first visit to Madison, Wisconsin, July 2, 1856, while thereafter he made frequent sojourns in the capital city, which was then but a small village. In 1868 he purchased his present beautiful farm, of one hundred and sixty acres, and took up his permanent residence in Dane county. He developed and improved the place and continued to give his personal attention to its operation until very recent years. He is now living essentially retired, after long years of indefatigable and successful enterprise as a farmer and stock-grower, and still resides on his farm. He has been a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party from the time of its organization, but has never sought official preferment. His family belong to the Congregational church. September 29, 1875, Mr. Gay was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hiestand, daughter of Jacob R. and Mary A. (Statesman) Hiestand, of Blooming Grove township. Her father is deceased and a memorial tribute to him is entered on another page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Gay became the parents of five children, all of whom are living except the second, Francis Joseph, who was born Janu- ary, 22, 1878, and died in 1885. The names of the living children are here entered, with respective dates of birth : Harry Hiestand, July 17, 1876; Mary E., October 18, 1880; Dellgracia Barbara, December 17, 1884; and Arthur William, November 24, 1886.

Era Hall Gerard is a successful business man and popular citizen of Stoughton, is one of the prominent members of the Masonic fraternity in this part of the state, and is well entitled to recognition in this history. He is engaged in the lumber business in Stoughton, where he also manufactures tobacco boxes. Mr. Gerard was born in the village of Sparta, Elgin county, Ontario, Canada, March 9, 1850, and is a son of Norman and Jane (Brown) Gerard ; the former was born in the state of New York, his ancestors being Friends, and the latter, of Irish descent, in the province of Ontario, Canada. The parents came to Wisconsin as pioneers in 1850, settling in Omro, Winnebago county, where the father was engaged in lumbering for twenty-two years, assisting materially in the developing of the great lumber industry of the state. He then removed to Grand Rapids, this state, where he continued in the same line of enterprise for thirteen years, since which time he has lived retired and made his home with the subject of this sketch, in Stoughton. Era H. Gerard was reared to manhood in Wisconsin and early became familiar with the details of the lumbering business. He was afforded a good common-school education, and he continued to be associated with his father's business until 1879, when he located in Webster City, Iowa, where he established himself in the retail lumber business. In 1880 he removed to Austin, Minnesota, where he was engaged in the same business for the ensuing three years, at the expiration of which he returned to Wisconsin, taking up his residence in Stoughton in May, 1885. Here he has built up a large and prosperous retail lumber trade, having a well-equipped plant. Mr. Gerard is a stanch Republican in his political allegience, and his wife is a member of the First Baptist church of Stoughton. He is affiliated with Kegonsa Lodge, No. 73,' Free and Accepted Masons, and January 3, 1906, he was installed as it's secretary an office to which he has been elected for twenty-one consecutive terms. He is also identified with Madison Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; Robert McCoy Commandery, No. 3, Knights Templar; and has attained to the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, being a member of the Wisconsin Consistory, of Milwaukee, and is also affiliated with the adjunct organizations of the time-honored fraternity. - the Order of the Eastern Star and the An- cient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. April 28, 1872, Mr. Gerard was united in marrage to Miss Harriet Grout, daughter of Ebenezer and Triphona (Stone) Grout, residents of Ontario, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Gerard have three adopted children, Ora B., Milo C. and Marjory. Ora B. is now the wife of William Dearborn.

Charles Martin Gest was born in the town of Windsor and for some years was employed as a railroad fireman but in recent years has been occupied with farming in his native township, where he owns a good farm of sixty-four acres. His parents, Charles and Frederika Gest, were natives of Germany and early settlers of Dane county, where they arrived in 1851. They purchased a farm in the township of Windsor and made it their permanent home. Mrs. Gest died in 1872 and her husband in 1901. Their family consisted of six children, of whom all but one are living. After his wife's death Mr . Gest married again, his wife being Mrs. Dora Dorchlag, whose present home is in Madison. The family was identified with the Lutheran church. Charles Martin Gest was born on the farm in Windsor, October 24, 1859, attended school in De Forest and after two years of railroad work purchased a farm and has given special attention to stock-raising. His Norman Percheron horses, short-horned cattle and Shropshire sheep all show the skill with which they are bred and cared for. The fine modern buildings on the premises have been all erected by Mr. Gest since he bought the farm. Mr. Gest is independent in his political beliefs but active in the interests of the community. November 29, 1883, he married Miss Anna Rademacher, who was born in Windsor, April 1, 1863, daughter of Otto and Elizabeth (Thien) Rodemacher, who came from Germany to Dane county in 1851. Mr. Rodemacher died in 1893 and his widow lives in East Bristol, Wis. Three of their five children are living. Mr. and Mrs. Rodemacher were members of the Roman Catholic church, as is also their daughter Anna and her family. Mr. and Mrs. Gest have one daughter, Elizabeth, born June 27, 1899, and two adopted sons, Raymond, and Charlie, aged respectively eleven and nine years. Mr. Gest is a member of the Brotherhood of America.

Robert B. Gibbons, the genial postmaster at Cottage Grove and one of the leading citizens of that community, is a native of Canada, having been born at Marimache, New Brunswick, on November 10, 1845. He is a son of John and Eunice (Sommers') Gibbons. John Gibbons was born in Ireland in 1810, and after his father's death in 1819, came to the province of New Brunswick with his mother, where he continued to reside until 1854. Eunice Sommers was born in Connecticut on November 20, 1813, her ancestry dating far back in Xew England history. Her paternal grandfather was a soldier in the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. The Sommers family removed from Connecticut to New Brunswick early in the century and it was here that the daughter Eunice met and became the wife of John Gibbons. By this union there were seven sons and three daughters born. James, the eldest, enlisted December 1, 1862, in Company H, Third Wisconsin Cavalry as a private and received an honorable discharge when the regiment was mustered out September 8, 1865. His death occurred in 1897. John H. enlisted November 22, 1861, in the Eighth Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, and was mustered out January 17, 1865. He died August 23, 1905. Charles became an immigrant to California in 1859; he died in Butte, Montana, several years later. Phoebe Ann became the mother of Oliver R. Mather. She passed away several years ago. Isabella R.. now Mrs. Malcolm Davidson, resides in Sun Prairie. Henry enlisted August 14, 1862, in Company G, Twenty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry and with his regiment was mustered out June 22, 1865. His death occurred in Minnesota, Edmund A. enlisted at the same time and in the same company as did his brother Henry, and on September 27, 1864, was promoted to be second lieutenant of Company I, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. As such he was mustered out June 26, 1865. His present residence is Mankato, Minn. The eighth member of the family in the order of age was Robert B., the subject of this sketch. Eunice J., the third daughter, is the wife of I. U. Flannagan of Sun Prairie. George A., the youngest, is now in the western states. John Gibbons removed his family from Canada to Dane county in October, 1854, and located in the village of Sun Prairie. There he remained the first winter and then purchased a farm of some two hundred acres in the town of Bristol where he remained until 1864, removing thence to Sun Prairie again. Following the example of his sons, on May 16, 1864, ne enlisted in Company D, of the Fortieth Wisconsin Infantry and was mustered out just four months later. At the time of his enrollment in the Union army he was a clerk in the office of the secretary of state in Madison, and after his discharge from the army he returned to the same work. He was twice elected on the Republican ticket as register of deeds of Dane countv and at the time of his death (June 20, 1875) was in the employ of the government as postmaster at Sun Prairie. His widow survived him until the late nineties. Both parents were life long and ardent members of the Baptist church. Robert B. Gibbons was but nine years old when he came with his parents to Wisconsin. He received a somewhat meager education in the district schools and spent his early life on the farm. In June, 1861, he left his home at Sun Prairie and came to Madison, where he attempted to enlist in the Second Wisconsin Infantry, but his father suspected where he was gone and sent another son to bring him home. With his brother John he went to Knowlton, Marathon county, Wis., and worked in the pineries until November, 1861. Then, although but sixteen years old, he enlisted in the Eighth Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery. The following winter was spent in Camp Utley at Racine and in March, 1862, the battery was taken to St. Louis, where the allotment of horses and cannon was made. After six weeks of drill at Fort Leavenworth the battery went by boat to Columbus, Ky., where it was disembarked and joined an expedition through Kentucky and Tennessee into Mississippi. At Jacinto, Miss., Mr. Gibbons was invalided to the field hospital with typhoid fever, and was subsequently removed to the hospital at Iuka, Miss. Shortly afterward Iuka was threatened by the Confederates and the sick and wounded were removed to Jackson, Tenn. The enemy occupied Iuka the night after the incapacitated troops had been removed. At Jackson Mr. Gibbons was honorably discharged because of physical disability and his father brought him back to Sun Prairie on a cot. After his recovery he attended the seminary of his home town for a few months and on June 26, 1863, he re-enlisted in the Federal service, this time in the Thirteenth Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillary. The place of enrollment was at Whitewater, whence it went into camp at Camp Washburn in Milwaukee. In March. 1864, the battery was sent to Cairo, Ills., and then by boat to New Orleans, only to be ordered to return before disembarking to Baton Rouge. At Camp Williams near Baton Rouge the battery remained until hostilities had ceased, making frequent reconnaissances into the surrounding country. On July 20, 1865, Mr. Gibbons received an honorable discharge in Milwaukee and the following fall and winter he spent in Sun Prairie. In the spring of 1866 he went to Minnesota where he spent the summer as an employe in a brickyard and in the fall made a trip on foot to Knowlton, Wis. This was his home until 1885. During the winter months he worked in the woods and in the summer rafted his lumber down the Wisconsin river to the Mississippi. During the last five years of his residence in Knowlton he was pilot of lumber rafts on the Wisconsin river. It was in 1885 that he came to Cottage Grove to engage in retail lumber business. For seven years that industry furnished him means of livelihood and in 1892 he sold out his interest. From that time he worked at carpentering until his appointment on July 11, 1897. as postmaster at Cottage Grove. He has held that position continuously since, even through the various changes in the congressional representatives from this district. Mr. Gibbons is identified with the Lucius Fairchild Post of Madison, of the Grand Army of the Republic and with the Madison lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. In October, 1871, he was united in marriage to Ida Brown, born and brought up in Cottage Grove, and daughter of Orvin Brown. Roswell Brown, father of Orvin Brown, was one of the famous characters of early days in Wisconsin and his portrait hangs in state historical library in Madison. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons. Ruth became the wife of L. C. Graves, agent of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co. in Cottage Grove. Josie Belle died at the age of twenty-two months. Robert O. is a graduate of the Universty of Wisconsin with the class of 1903 and is now a teacher in Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis. His wife was Agnes Pratt. Bret H., the youngest, died in infancy Dr. George Lewis Gibbs is a prominent practicing physician of Marshall, Wis., and is the descendant of quite a remarkable family. His grandfather. Daniel Gibbs, was a native of England whose wife was Miss Whitehall of German descent. He came to Jefferson county, N. Y., and thence to Dodge county, Wis., in 1852. He there lived to the great age of ninety-nine years and nearly four months. The mother of Daniel Gibbs was one hundred and fourteen years ot age at the time of her death. The son of Daniel Gibbs, John Fletcher Gibbs, was born in Otsego county, N. Y.. in 1820, and was a merchant and fur buyer for the American Fur Co. He married Miss Adelia M. Crossman, who was born in New York in 1838. John F. Gibbs was active in politics in New York, where he was elected sheriff of Jefferson county. In 1852 he came to Dodge county, Wis., and for some time carried on an extensive trade in furs and also obtained about seven hundred acres of land. In 1860, he began to study for the ministry and in 1861 received his license, continuing his work under the local pastor in Dodge county. Ordained a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1868, he was made an elder at Whitewater in 1873 and in 1874 came to Oconomowoc, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a Republican. Since Mr. Gibbs' death in 1902, Mrs. Gibbs has lived in Milwaukee. George Lewis Gibbs was born in Dodge county, Wis. March 28, 1867, the son of Rev. and Mrs. John F. Gibbs. He attended school in Dodge county and the high school at Oconomowoe. In 1890 he was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College and began the practice of his profession in Palmyra, Jeffersoncounty, Wis. In 1895 he located at Marshall where he soon took the front rank in his profession and established a large practice. He is interested in real estate in the western states and owns a delightful home in Marshall. Dr. Gibbs is a Republican in his political affiliations and a member of the village board and actively promotes the interests of the village. June 19, 1891, he married Miss Perle Martin, who was born in Menominee Falls, in 1873, daughter of Nelson D. and Lettie (Mapes) Martin, whose home has been in Milwaukee for a number of years. Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs have two children, Darrell Dean and Verrene Lillian. The family is associated with the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Gibbs is a member of the Waterloo Lodge, No. 63, F. & A. M., a Royal Arch Mason and also, belongs to the M. W. A. and E. F .U. The medical societies with which he is affiliated are the Dane County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Central Wisconsin Medical Association and the State Homeopathic Medical Society.

Peter C. Gilberson, physician and surgeon at Mt. Horeb, was born in Hachland, Norway, August 1, 1864, and came to America with his parents in 1S69. He was the only son of Christian and Gulbjar (Holman) Gilberson, whose farm home in Norway was Amensrude. Both of them were natives of Norway who migrated to America and settled on a farm near Fennimore, Grant county, Wis., where the mother now resides at the age of seventy-six years The father made farming his occupation during all of his life, and died in 1902, at the age of seventy-four years. The subject of this review is one of three children, Anna, his eldest sister, being the wife of Ola T. Oleson, of Fennimore, Grant county, and Gena is married to B. N. Berry and resides on ihe old family homestead. Dr. Gilberson was reared on the parental farm and received his preliminary education in the public schools. Having decided upon the medical profession as his life's vocation he entered the Keokuk Medical College at Keokuk, Iowa, and then completed his medical course at the Milwaukee Medical College, graduating with the class of 1895. He immediately engaged in the practice of his profession in Iowa county, Wis., and remained there until June, 1898, when he removed to Mt. Horeh, where he has since been located, engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery. He was married on November 9, 1887, to Miss Emma Gillies, of Grant county, Wis., daughter of Malcolm Gillies, one of the pioneer settlers in that part of the state and a very prominent citizen. The father and mother were both natives of Pennsylvania. The father died in 1888 and the mother now resides at Bloomington, Wis. Dr. and Mrs. Gilberson are the parents of four children : Mildred Cecil, Ethel Genevieve, Clarence Peter and Margaret Grace. The doctor is a member of the county, state, and American medical societies, and keeps thoroughly up to date in his profession by being a subscriber to and student of the best current literature pertaining to the Esculapian science. His religious faith is expressed by membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, and politically he is a Republican with decidedly independent proclivities..

John Gilbert has but recently taken up his residence in the village of Oregon, and is now living in comparative retirement, after years of arduous and fruitful toil upon the farm, which is located but a few miles from the place of his present abode. He is a son of Schuyler Gilbert, one of the pioneer citizens of Dane county, and it is but proper that in this review more than a passing mention should be given the latter. Schuyler Gilbert was born October 11, 1819, in Tully, Onondaga county, N. Y., and his early life was spent there as a farmer. He came west in 1845, and located in the town of Oregon, Dane county, where he first purchased forty acres of land, to which he soon added forty acres by purchase and forty of government land, and afterward purchased an additional forty-five acres, thus making his farm to consist of one hundred and sixty-five acres of land, which he improved and brought to a high state of cultivation. About the first necessity after locating here in the woods was a place of habitation, and Mr. Gilbert built a log shanty, with puncheon floor, an oak door and a "six-light" window, without glass, the latter being made from the cover of a dry-goods box. The cabin was roofed with shingles sawed out by himself and wife, and this was the family abode during the first summer following the advent of Mr. Gilbert into the wilds of this western country. But in November, 1846, they were able to move into a good log house, the lumber used being sawed from timber "bor- rowed" from speculators' lands in Green county, and this answered the need of a comfortable home until 1869, when Mr. Gilbert erected a good frame house on his farm, in which he and his good wife spent the remainder of their lives. The hard times experienced by the early pioneers and the difficulties with which they had to contend will never be fully appreciated by those of a later generation. Mr. Gilbert converted all of his first crop of wheat into seed for the following year, and then split rails at fifty cents per hundred to obtain money with which to buy wheat at fifty cents per bushel for bread. He was compelled to walk more than two miles each day, to and from his work. The first wheat he marketed was drawn to Milwaukee by oxen, three weeks being consumed in making the round trip. Mr. Gilbert was married, in December, 1844, to Miss Hancy Hills, of Fabius, Onondaga county, N. Y., and together they endured the trials of a pioneer life, not unmixed, however, with happiness. They both lived to enjoy the abundant fruits of their early toil and privations, the wife dying on January 26, 1889, and the father on April 1, 1894. Five children were the result of their union, four of whom survive. Frank is a resident of the state of Kansas ; Mary E., became the wife of John Draher, of the town of Oregon, and is now deceased; John is the immediate subject of this review; and Josephine (now Mrs. Faulkes) and Alice (now Mrs. Marshall) both reside in the village of Oregon. All of these children were born on the old homestead, and all were educated in the district schools. John Gilbert was born on March 31, 1861, and remained with his parents on the old homestead until he had attained to his majority. He then began farming for himself and has successfully followed that honorable calling for nearly twenty-five years, only recently retiring and taking up his residence in the village of Oregon. He owns two hundred and five acres of well-improved land, which stands as a high testimonial to his energy and industrious habits. He was married on December 23, 1888, taking as his partner for life Miss Flora B. Lockwood. daughter of Henry D. and Emma Toles) Lockwood, of Beloit. \Yis., the latter of whom is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are the parents of two promising children, Henry S. and Cora E,, both of whom are now students in the Oregon village schools. In politics Mr. Gilbert gives an unswerving allegiance to the Republican party, although he has never entered the lists as an office seeker, and he holds a membership in the lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America at Oregon.

Leigh B. Gilbert, the efficient mason contractor of Madison, was born in Rockingham county, N. H., November 4. 1860. His parents were W. T. and Sarah H. (Bartlett) Gilbert, one of whom died in 1901. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Auburn, N. H., where they made their home. The father was a shoemaker by vocation. The four children of the family are in the order of their, ages Frank H., Leigh B., Harry S. and Kate A. The eldest makes his home in Auburn, N. H., where he is chief of police. Harry S., is a mason at Rogers Park, a suburb of Chicago, 111. Kate is the wife of Melvin Hall and makes her home in Auburn, N. H. Leigh B. received his education in the Auburn schools. He served his apprenticeship as a mason at Evanston, 111., and worked at it for ten years, entering business for himself in 1891 at Evanston. He remained in the Illinois city until 1900, when he came to Madison to do the mason work on the engineering building of the University of Wisconsin. He also built the Northern Electrical Company's plant, the Carnegie library, the Gisholt foundry and the additions to the main shop, the new street car barns, the Amercan Plow Company's factory, the American Shredder Company's plant, the new Schlitz hotel, the O. D. Brandenburg residence, one of the finest in the city, Mrs. Frawley's and the Gallagher flats, the addition to the hospital for the insane at Mendota, the new Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul depot at West Madison, the Wisconsin building, the Vroman block and the mason work on the A. Cohn tobacco warehouse. These are but a few of the many buildings Mr. Gilbert has had a hand in erecting, and their structural beauty are ample evidence of the skill and ingenuity of the builder. On September 8, 1883, he was united in marriage to Miss Nellie C. Campbell of Evanston. Mr. Gilbert is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the National Union. He is a much respected citizen of the community where he has so recently made his home.

Elling Gilbertsen (Guttormson) is a prominent farmer of the town of Dunkirk and a native of Norway. His parents, Guttormson and Guri Oleson, resided in Buskkerud, Hallingdal. Norway and there their son Elling was born November 21, 1860. He attended the common schools of his native city and remained with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age when he determined to cross the seas and live in the United States. His first home in the west was in Greene county, 111., and here he worked out by the 21 - iii month for the farmers of the neighborhood until 1883. At that time he came to the town of Dunkirk and spent eight years raising tobacco on shares. He succeeded in saving enough money to purchase a farm of ninety acres and upon this he made all the improvements and continued the culture of tobacco, with which he was always very successful, besides other kinds of farm produce. Each year he raised from ten to twelve acres of tobacco. May 5, 1885, he married Miss Mary Peterson of Dunkirk, daughter of Amund and Agnes (Bovre) Peterson, who were natives of Norway and early settlers of Dane county. Six children blessed the marriage ; Ada, Gustave, Emma, Clarence, Morris and Rudolph. Mr. Gilbertsen and his wife are devoted members of Christ Lutheran church of Stoughton. Mr Gilbertsen is a Republican in his political affiliations.

Ed. Gilbertson, a successful farmer, owns one of Rutland's handsomest homes. His parents, Gilbert Wethal and Bertha (Bjorntsen) Wethal were natives of Christiania, Norway, where their early married life was spent. Mr. Wethal was a carpenter in America, where he came in 1879. Ed. Gilbertson has one sister, Annie, the wife of Hans Hansen of Minneapolis, and two brothers, Hans, a carpenter in Minneapolis, Minn., and Anton, a physician of Minneapolis, and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Ed was born in Christiania^ December 10, 1853, attended the common schools in Norway and worked on a farm as a boy. After he came to Stoughton he worked in different, places on farms and purchased his present home in [Rutland in 1892. His farm consists of one hundred and twenty acres in section 15 with many substantial improvements. In 1905 a new and modern house containing ten rooms, was built at a cost of $2,200. Mr. Gilbertson is a Republican and takes an active interest in local politics. For six years he was supervisor and has been school clerk and held other local offices. In April, 1882, he married Miss Thea Johnson, daughter of John and Nicalina Hansen who came to America from Norway, in 1882, to live with Mr. and Mrs. Gilbertson. Eight children have been born to them ; John, Minnie, Nora, Emma, Esther, Bertha, May and Agnes. All have attended the district and Stoughton schools and the family attend the First Lutheran church.