Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin - Biographical sketches, 1880 (part 10 of 17)

JOSEPH KIBfSMAX, farmer. Sec. 4 ; P. 0. Fond du Lac; born in Genesee Co., N. Y., Dec. 23, 1818; his parents, Aaron and Diana (Croft) Kinsman, were formerly residents of Framingham, Mass.; when the subject of this sketch was 15 years of age, they emigrated to Huron Co., Ohio ; settled near Bast NorwaJk, where Joseph remained on the farm with his father about six years ; he then learned, the painter's trade, which be followed six years ; he then kept the hotel known as the Stewart House about three years. Married, Feb. 17, 1843, Julia Ann Beckwith, daughter of Richard and Anna (Champion) Beckwith, she being then 18 years of age; they were married by Elder Phillips, Baptist minister at Bast Norwalk ; the parents of Mrs. Kinsman were from Hartford, Conn.; Mr. K. came to this State in April, 1848 ; was on the road twenty-seven days with a horse team, and settled on Sec. 5 ; removed to present location on Sec. 4, three years later; has 770 acres of land in Sees. 3, 4, 5^ 9 and 21, of which, about 250 are under cultivation, and the balance in pasture and timber ; has four dwellings and eleven barns, with sheds and other buildings to accommodate his stock, which consists in part of 6 horses, 52 head of cattle, 250 sheep, etc., the stock being watered by means of reservoirs, pipes, and a windmill pump ; has also a fine herd of deer in a park of 15 acres ; has a daughter, Antoinette, born Oct. 28, 1846, who married Theodore Herrling [See T. Herrling, Sec. 4], and one son, Fitch R., born June 28, 1849, who is unmarried and works the land with his parents. The subject of this sketch is a Republican in politics, liberal in his religious views a hearty, jovial, well-preserved gentleman, surrounded by all that tends to make life pleasant ; and that he enjoys, to the fullest extent, the respect and esteem of his townsmen, is evident from the fact that, in a town giving one-third Democratic majority, he has been a Supervisor several years, being Chairman of the Town during the war six or eight years, also an Assessor fifteenyears (one year acting in both capacities), and for twenty years a Justice of the Peace.

ROBERT MctJOWAlV, farmer, Sees. 16 and 21 ; P. 0. Fond du Lac ; was born near Calais, Me., Dec. 25, 1823; his parents, John McGowan and Bridget, nee Murray, came to this country fifty-eight years ago from the northern part of Ireland, and settled in New Brunswick, where they both died at the respective ages of 84 and 50 years. He came to this county twenty-nine years ago, and lived in the city of Fond du Lac about eight years, engaged in lumbering, "jobbing " in shingles, etc. About twenty-three years ago, he married Margaret Coughlin, whose parents (Patrick and Mary, nee Connel) were from County Cork, Ireland ; her mother, Mrs. Mary Coughlin, is still living in the city of Fond du Lac, aged 73 years, her father having died in New York shortly after his arrival. His wife is now 43 years of age (June, 1879) : they have ten children living, one having died very young - Mary Ann, born Aug. 30, 1858 ; John, born June 1, 1860 ; Bridget, born March 2, 1862 ; Margaret, born March 29, 1864 y Robert, born April 11, 1866 ; William, born Nov. 29, 1869 ; Edward and Erwin (twins), born Dec. 17, 1872; Ellen, born Nov. 29, 1874, and Catharine, born Feb. 1, 1878. All attend St. Patrick's Church, in this city. He has 85 acres of cultivated land and 5 acres of timber land ; keeps four working horses, twenty head of cattle, ten of sheep, and ten hogs ; makes a specialty of feathers, and has a large number of geese, ducks, turkeys and hens. Mr. MoGowan began life with no capital, and has by honest industry acquired a competency and the reputation of a man whose word is as good as his bond. He stands six feet two inches in his stockings, and weighs 200 pounds.

DAWIEIi 5f. MORCrAX, Postmaster and station agent, Van Dyne; born in the town of Trenton, Oneida Co., N. Y., April 30, 1824. His father, Nathaniel Morgan, and his mother (maiden, name Deming), Lydia, are dead. He was thirteen years a teacher in the public schools of New York, and is now Justice of the Peace. Married Susan M. Greenman, who was born in Brookfield, Madigon -Co., N. Y., May 15, 1880 ; daughter of Samuel Greenman, of Stephentown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y.; -mother's name Abigail Bliss (daughter of Capt. Jeremiah Bliss, of Newport, R. I.); have one son - Herbert Greenman Morgan, born in Russia, Herkimer Co., N. Y., May 7, 1854; married, Nov. 16, 1877, Lucy Colman, of Waukesha, Wis., and is now station agent, express agent, Postmaster and telegraph operator at Pensaukee, Wis. Jeremiah Greenman, Jr., a brother of Mrs. Morgan, left Janesville, Wis., about twenty-six years ago, visited California and Western Territories, then went to Lima, Peru, went into the country with a Mr. Brown, of New York, on a prospecting tour, carrying a considerable sum of money, and has not been heard from since that time.

JACOB THEWAIiT, farmer. Sec. 17; P. 0. Fond du Lac; born Oct. 15, 1819, at Nau- Art (or New Earth), Prussia. Married in 1846 to Catharine Dhilel, at Gen-Ters-Blom ; one son died at 11 months of age in Chicago, twenty-eight or twenty-nine years ago ; soon after his arrival in this country, Tiis wife was drowned in a well, into which she accidentally fell. Lived in Chicago about three years. Mar- .ried to Sophia Steady in December, twenty-six years ago ; had by second wife five children, of whom two died; Sophia, aged 22 Dec. 27, 1879 ; William B., aged 19 April 8, 1880 ; Annie M., aged 12 May 2, 1880, are living with parents. Settled two miles south of the city eight or ten years, then three miles south ; owned a brewery at Mayville, Wis.; rents eighty acres on Sec. 17 at $300 per year, cash in advance, in company with C. W. Finn, of the city of Fond du Lac, he has been engaged in pressing hay, fhreshing and lumbering for several years, and also Assistant Deputy Revenue Collector for this district under W. C. Ogden.

JOHN W. ACKEBH^Di', retired farmer, Waupun ; born in New York State April 22, 1812; son of Jonathan A. Ackerman, who was born and brought up in Saratoga Co., N. Y.; John N. flame to Green Bay, Wis., in 1836, and came to Waupun in 1841 ; entered eighty acres in what is now the city of Waupun ; there were none but Indians here when he came ; he was a carpenter by trade, and put up the first frame building in Fond du Lac ; there were only four families there then, and about the same number in Oshkosh ; Mr. Ackerman is the oldest of the old settlers ia this part of the country, and his stories of ye old times are amusing, and should be preserved. Mr. Ackerman married, October, 1843, Hannah A. Ford, daughter of Chester Ford, one of the earliest and most respected citizens of Wisconsin ; children are George V. (living in Appleton), Marion (married S. J. Sumner, living in Waupun), Chas. H. (living at home), Alice (living in Green Lake Co.), Fred (living at home), Edna (living in Dodge Co.), Frank (living in Dodge Co.). Mr. Ackerman has a fine farA of 170 acres, 130 acres iu the city of Waupun ; he was for twenty years Justice of the Peace, and twice President of the village, and was the first Mayor of the city of Waupun.

M. J. AliTHOlJSE, of Althouse, Wheeler & Co., Waupun ; born in Pennsylvania Aug. 10, 1828 ; was most of his early days in Tompkins Co., N. Y., where he used to work out part of the day, and run a saw-mill all night ; in this way he earned enough money to start for the Great West, and came to Waupun in the fall of 1849 ; had 50 cents in his pocket when he reached here ; he worked at 50 cents per day at any work he could get hold of; took land on shares; sat up nights making baskets, and turned the baskets over for labor on his farm ; the first winter he lived here, he walked miles every morning to chop wood for three shillings a cord ; used to work into the night sometimes, and pile the wood by moonlight ; he was " pegging away " while other men slept. Mr. Althouse owes his success in a large degree to his own hard exertions ; he always was busy, no time was wasted ; in 1852, he went to drilling wells and running thrashing machines, and, in 1855, made his first pump ; went out into the woods and cut his own timber, and worked away and improved it, till now he has the finest wood pump manufactured in the United States ; in 1873, he commenced making windmills; this branch of the business has grown to an enormous extent; these windmills are superior to any manufactured, and are shipped to all parts of the United States, and to foreign countries ; 300 were annually sent to India, and were transported to different places on mules' backs ; they have also made large shipments to New Zealand. As business increased, Mr. Althouse had to look around for suitable men for partners, to assume a share of the cares and responsibilities, and the business is now eminently successfully carried on under the firm name of Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Mr. Althause's success is a brilliant example of the fruits of persistent effort", strict attention to one line of business, and sturdy integrity. There was no loafing in his younger days, and there is nothing in the nature of the gentleman to indicate that he will ever depart from his first and well-fixed principles. Thus true merit gains its own reward.

DANIEL P. BABCOCK (deceased), was born Feb. 1, 1818, in Riga, Monroe Co., N. Y.; liis father died when he was 3 years old, and he was bound out to Elihu Burr, of Castile, in what was then Genesee Co., now Wyoming Co.,N. Y. When 19 years of age, he went to Illinois, and lived three years in De Kalb Co.; then returned to Castile and was married, by Elder Joseph Weeks, April 23, 1843, to Adelia Sturtevant, who was born, Oct. 30, 1822, in Castile, N. Y., daughter of Noah and Cynthia Sturtevant, natives of Vermont, who came to Castile before they were married, and lived there till 1867 ; then went to Livingstone Co., where Mrs. Sturtevent died Aug. 3, 1875, in the 76th year of her age ; Mr. Sturtevant came to Wisconsin in October, 1877, and is now living with bis daughter, Mrs. Babcock, in the 70th year of his age. Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant were among the first settlers of Genesee Co., N. Y., -and'had their share of the privations and Indian scares incident to the early settlement of that county ; Mrs. Babcock well remembers sitting, when a little girl, in the lap of Mary Jemison, the famous " white woman " of Western New York. Mr. Babcock was a miller by trade, but being in poor health when he returned to Castile from Illinois, he went into the boot and shoe business which he followed till October, 1855 ; then came West, and settled in Fond du Lac Co., Wis., living in the town of Alto one and a half years ; then, in Springvale, seven years, and, in March, 1863, bought the farm now occupied by his widow on Sec. 12, in the town of Waupun, where he resided until his death, which occurred Dec. 12, 1877, in the 59th year of his age, having been nearly blind for the last eighteen years of his life. Left two sons - Harlow N., born Oct. 11, 1850 ; married Lydia Fisher, of Waushara Co., Wis., Feb. 22, 1873, and now lives in Stoughton, Dane C, Wis., where he is foreman in a large flouring-mill ; Charles F., born April 29,

1857, in Springvale ; is living with his mother on the hom^tead, which consists of 85 acres of land^ valued at about $40 per acre ; P. 0. Ladoga.

FRANK li. BACOAT, farmer, Sec. 26; P. 0. Waupun; born Sept. 16, 1841, in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y.; son of Leander and Sarah Ann Bacon, natives of Eastern New York ; he went to Pennsylvania in February, 1863, and lived about two years in Rothsville, Pithole City, Oil City and Titusville, prospecting for oil, and working a part of the time in a refinery. April 4, 1865, he was married in Titusville to- Anna C- Hamlin, who was born July 2, 1844, daughter of Henry C. and Abby Hamlin. Mr. Hamlin was from Augusta, Me., and Mrs. Hamlin from Hingham, Mass. Mr. Bacon came to Wisconsin in January, 1866, and settled in the town of Waupun ; he bought a flouring-mill on Section 26, and ran it five years,, then sold out and engaged in buying and shipping live stock, which business he continued till 1873, when he purchased the farm he now owns, which consists of 160 acres, valued at about $50 per acre. Has been Assessor and Justice of the Peace, and is the present Chairman of the town ; has also taken an active part in the Granger movement, having been Master of the Grange at Waupun, and delegate to the State Grange. Is Republican in politics, and himself and wife both members of the Congregational Church. Has two children - Bertha H., born Oct. 24, 1867, and Henry L., born June 18, 1869.

EDGAR M. BEACH, Waupun ; born Aug. 3, 1839, in Medina Co., Ohio ; parents of the old Puritan stock from New England ; at the age of 5 years, lost his father, who was instantly killed by the fall of a tree; in 1854, came to Wisconsin ;' attended school at Lawrence University at the city of Appleton four years, when, his health almost entirely giving away, he spent several years traveling in most of the Western and some of the Southern States ; in the fall of 1860, cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. The war of the rebellion found him teaching in Missouri in a district composed entirely of slaveholder's ; making his way North, he enlisted in the Federal army, but on account of ill health was rejected ; still desiring to take some part in the national struggle, spent the spring and summer of 1863 at Nashville, Tenn., where he belonged to the Ordnance Department, under Gen. E. D. Townsend of the regular army. On the 10th day of November, 1864, was married to Miss Cecelia E. Tichenor, daughter of Charles 0. Tichenor, Esq., of Appleton. Studied law with Judge N. C. Giffin, of Fond du Lac, at which place he was admitted to the bar in July, 1866 ; came to Waupun in December, 1866, where he has spent an active business life in the practice of his profession, which has been crowned with more than ordinary success ; coming to Waupun without means or friends, he has found many friends and abundant means. His fellow-citizens elected him Justice of the Peace for eight years in succession ; at one time a Postmaster under Abraham Lincoln, " a high private in the Kekoskee war," Village Clerk; Supervisor; in politics a Republican ; an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which he has belonged since 1864 ; many years a Sunday-school Superintendent; thirteen years a Class Leader, Trustee and Steward. Always a liberal contributor to all good objects.

LiEROlT E. BEARDSIiEY, farmer, Sec. 15; P. 0. Waupun; born April 30, 1844, in Chemung Co., N. Y., now Schuyler Co.; came West with his parents in the fall of' 1854, and settled in the town of Waupun. Was married, Jan. 1, 1867, to Wealthy M. Holden, who was born Oct. 31, 1848, in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., daughter of Chauncey and Almina Holden, who came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1 851, and settled in the town of Waupun, on Section 15, where Mrs. Holden died Oct. 27, 1858, and Mr. Holden, July 20, 1877, aged 56. Mr. Beardsley enlisted Aug. 13, 1862, in the 32d W. V. I., Co. A, for three years, and was mustered out of the service at Washington June 12, 1865 ; was in all the battles and skirmishes in which his regiment participated during that time. Mrs. Beardsley has lived on the farm, now occupied by herself and husband, ever since her parents came to Wisconsin - when she was a little over 2 years old ; have one child - Gertrude Welcome May, born Oct. 30, 1878 ; has 120 acres of land, valued at about $50 per acre. Republican.

B. H. BETTIS, farmer, Sec. 3 ; P. 0. Ladoga ; born March 29, 1821, in the town of Westmoreland. Oneida Co., N. Y.; son of IBenjamin and Huldah Bettis. At the a^e of 17, he went to work in a woolen factory in Oswego Co., where his parents had removed when he was 13 years old, and continued at that business nine years. Feb. 25, 1845, he was married to Charity Savage, who was born Jan. 24, 1825, iu the town of Mexico, Oswego Co., N. Y. Mr. Bettis came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1847, and settled in the town of Waupun, Pond du Lac Co., where he has since resided. He held the office of County Supervisor two years ; Chairman of the Town five years ; Town Clerk one year, and member of the Legislature three terms, in 1860, 1861 and 1869 ; was also Deputy Warden of the prison at Waupun, from October, 1871, till April, 1874, during the time that George P. Wheeler was Warden ; also took the census of 1870, in the towns of Alto, Waupun, Springvale, Oakfield, and the North Ward of the villageof Waupun. Has two children living - Adaline (born Aug. 27, 1848, now Mrs. Solon Halsey, «f thetown of Waupun), and Benjamin F. (born Oct. 15, 1851, now living at home). Hattie was born Sept.-

23, 1853, and died April 30, 1868. Has 120 acres of land, valued at about $7,000. In politics is Kepublican, dyed in the wool. Mrs. Bettis is a member of the Congregational Church.

J. H. BRIBTKERHOFF, Postmaster, Waupun ; born in Seneca Co., Ohio, April 14,1835; 1835 ; son of Hezekiah BrinkerhofF, who was a son of Henry Brinkerhoff, of Adams Co., Venn.; the family came to America when Peter Stuyvesant was Governor of New York ; were of that good old Dutch stock that settled along the Hudson and Mohawk; Hezekiah moved from Pennsylvania to> Ohio and settled in Seneca Co., and died in 1846 at the age of 54; John, in 1853, went to work in a printing Qffioe in Milan, Ohio; then went to Watertown, Wis., and afterward to Jefferson and Beaver Dam, and came to Waupun in 1857 and established the Waupun Times; carried that on nine years and was appointed Postmaster in 1861 ; was elected to the Legislature in the fall of 1864 by 700 majority ;. Mr. Brinkerhoff is the present Postmaster and has been since 1861. He married Lucy T. Stoddard, daughter of Thomas Stoddard, who was from Laona, N. Y.; had two children - James Edwin is with Althouse, Wheeler & Co., of Waupun; Van S. is employed in the post office; wife died in the fall of 1863. Married, in 1867, Jennie H. Gillette, daughter of M. S. Gillette, of Fond du Lac ; have two children by second marriage - Mary L. and Lola J.

HENRY D. BOOHER, farmer. Sec. 35 ; P. 0. Waupun ; born Sept. 24, 1824, in Guernsey Co., Ohio ; came to Wisconsin, in 1848 ; lived on Rolling Prairie, Dodge Co. most of the time till 1858 ; then returned to Ohio and stayed till the fall of 1864, when he again came to Wisconsin and lived in Chester, Dodge Co., till January, 1879. His first wife, to whom he was married Sept. 30, 1852, in Waupun, was Mrs. Lydia Brower, whose maiden name was Simpson ; she died May 7, 1856, leaving three sons - Charles, Theodore and George ; , Jan. 14, 1879, was married to Mrs. Lenora C. Clark, who was born April 18, 1838, in Franklin Co., M^ss., daughter of Dexter and Saloma Parter, who came to Wisconsin about 1856 ; she was first married in February, 1862, to L. W. Clark, who was born March 6, 1834, and died Oct. 25, 1876, leaving two children - Carrie Adell and Nellie Jane. Farm consists of seventy acres of land, worth $40 per acre.

SVEIV BROlVSOItr, farmer, Sec. 36 ; P. 0. W'aupun ; was born April 2, 1828, in Norway, where his name was known as Gul Bronson. Was married in April, 1851, to Olena Oleson, who was born March 14, 1830, and died in the town of Waupun Feb. 9, 1857. Mr. Bronson came to America, in the summer of 1854, and settled in the village of Waupun, living there three years ; then removed tO' the farm he now owns ; has 231 acres worth about $40 per acre. Has held the office of Treasurer in the school district, and is now the District Clerk, and also Supervisor of the town of Waupun. Has children living, as follows - Gustavo, Ole, Bennie, Julius, Matilda, Charles and Theodore ; has lost three - Carl! and Emma, and one died in infancy, June 10, 1858. He married for his second wife, Ann Larson, who was born June 25, 1824. Republican in politics, and belongs to the, Lutheran Church. Mr. Bronson is a man of sterling worth, who has amassed a fair fortune by honest industry.

WOL.COTT T. BROOKS, farmer; Sec. 13; P. 0. Waupun; was born at New Haven, Vt., Oct. 6, 1826 ; his father, Daniel Brooks, moved to Middlebury, where the family resided until 1846, when he came to Wisconsin and settled on Sec. 1, in Byron, where he carried oa the business of farming and worked at his trade - that of a carpenter. He married in Byron, May 31, 1853, Miss Gertrude, daughter of Ebenezer Sanderson, one of the earliest settlers of Waukesha Co.; she was born in Delta, Oneida Co., N. Y. Mr. Brooks has been a member of the Legislature, representing the Fifth Assembly District in 1860, and the Second District in 1877 ; he removed to Waupun in 1864, where he has resided on Sec. 13, and has been a member of the County Board and held various local offices. He has two children - Myron N. and Mary. G.

ClilNTOX M. BROOKS, merchant, Waupun; born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., May 1, 1837 ; son of Sheldon Brooks, who was from Highgate, Vt.; his father was Calvin Brooks, who was also a Vermont man; Sheldon Brooks and family moved to New York State, and to Waupun about 1855; he is now living at the age of 75 and is blind ; Mr. Clinton M. Brooks has been many years engaged in manufacturing organs ; he was eleven years in Milwaukee learning and working at this trade and is a thorough and competent workman ; he was with the Marshall Bros. Church Organ Co. many years, and put up some of the finest organs in the Western States ; in 1875, he went into the organ business on his own account, and, in March, 1877, came to Waupun and became associated with Amos Nudd in the furniture and organ business, which they have been carrying on successfully since. Married, Oct. 12, 1863, Imogene Keyes, wha was from New York State and originally from Vermont ; have one child - William E., born Sept 25, 1866. The firm of Brooks & Nudd are justly kaown for the good management of their businpss and fair dealins.

JOHSf BRYCE, hardware merchant, W,aupan; born in Edinburgh, Scotland; son of David Bryce, who died in 1856 at the age of 70; John traveled through different parts of England and was engaged in teaching school at different times ; he was a graduate of Bathgate Academy ; he came to New York City in May, 1849, and came to Waupun in the fall of the same year ; was employed as a clerk by Drummond & Smith for a time; in the fall of 1852, went to Australia and Melbourne; went into the mines for a while and afterward engaged in business there, and made and saved money; in 1858, he returned to Waupun and became interested in the hardware trade and has been thus employed ever since, having, through his honorable dealing and good business talent, built a successful and remunerative traffic. Mr. Bryce has never aspired to office, but has held several important town and city offices ; espoused the just cause of national sovereignty during the war, and gave liberally to its aid and support; a brother, Hugh Bryce. was a soldier in the 100th N. Y. V. I.; was wounded twice, at Cold Harbor and Petersburg, and afterward died from the effeuts of his wounds. Mr. Bryce' and family are respected members of the Congregational Church, and he is Superintendent of the Sabbath school, and one of Waupun's most esteemed citizens.

LUTHER BUTTS, capitalist, Waupun ; born in Delaware Co., N. Y., June 24, 1825 ; son of Jacob S. Butts ; his father was William Butts, who was a native of Connecticqt, and was a soldier in the war of 1812; Mr. Butts' grandfather on his mother's side was Col. William Johnson, of Revolution- ' afy fame ; Jacob died in 1859, at the age of 57. Mr. Luther Butts, in October, 1846, settled on a farm of 200 acres, which was bought at Government price, in Fond du Lac County; he carried on farming successfully twenty-seven years; during this time, he speculated in land, buying and selling farms, and came to Waupun in fall of 1873 ; Mr. Butts is the owner of the opera house, the finest building in the city of Waupun. He married, July 19, 1845, Hannah Mann, daughter of Reuben Mann, a well-to-do farmer in Connecticut; she died Nov. 26, 1876 ; he married his second wife July 19, 1877 ; her maiden name was McDaniel ; they have one boy - Luther J. Butts, born March 26, 1878. In 1878, Mr. Butts built a fine residence in the central part of the city of Waupun, where he now lives, enjoying the solid comforts of life.' In the town of Alto, he was a member of the School Board for many years, and was largely and liberally connected with the interests of that town ;" he has obtained a well-deserved competence through' his shrewd business tact and good management, and is a man of liberal and hospitable spirit.

SAMUEIj CHAM BERLIN, hardware merchant, Waupun; was born in Armsburg, Canada, Sfept. 15, 1820; son of Dr. Olmstead Chamberlin; he was born in Chittenden Co., Vt., near Burlington, in 1787 ; his father was Joshua Chamberlin, and was a native of Massachusetts ; Dr. Chamberlin studied medicine in bis native State, and, in 1820, moved West with his family ; in 1821, he settled in Pontiac, Mich., where he practiced medicine until 1840 : he was one of the earliest settlers in that county ; he had a large and successful practice, and was a much respected and honored citizen. He married Mary Beech, of Massachusetts; the children were Stewart, Mary, Samuel, Sarah Elsie, Charles, Almira and Augustus B. Samuel Chamberlain, in 1840, went to Boston and bought a stock of goods, and started in general merchandise business in Pontiac ; was successfully engaged till 1855, when he was appointed, by President Pierce, first mail-agent on the Detroit & Milwaukee R. R.; he resigned and went into the customhouse at Detroit ; received this appointment from President Buchanan ; held that position till the election of Lincoln; in 1861, he came to Pox Lake, Wis., and engaged in buying wheat and cattle ; in February, 1863, he came to Waupun, where he became interested in the hardware business, and has been successfully engaged in that line ever since. He married Sarah Elliott, daushter of Charles Elliott, who was from Connecticut ; his ancestors were among the oldest and most esteemed settlers in that State ; Charles Elliott, the famous portrait painter, was one of this family. Mr. Chamberlin and wife are members of the Episcopal Church.

A. S. CLARK, merchant, Waupun ; born in Madison Co., N. Y., June 4, 1847; son of Stephen Clark, who was a native of New York State, and a well-to-do farmer; his father was Samuel Clark, and was from good old New England stock ; he lived to be 88 years old ; the family came to Green Lake Co., Wis., in 1854, and engaged in farming. Stephen married a Miss Popple, who was a native of Rhode Island ; there were five children - Mary (married George Thompson, and is now living in Green Lake Co.), Helen (married Henry Smith, and now living in Fond du Lac Co.); Mr. A. S. Clark is the next in order, then George Clark (who is living at home), Wallace (living at home). Mr. A. S .Clark enlisted in February, 1864, in the 1st W. V. C; served his time faithfully till the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged ; he was second , musician in the regimental band at the clqse of the war, when he returned home, and remained till 1867, when he went on the road for a Boston house, selling boots and shoes ; was afterward connected with a Chicago concern in the same business ; in September, 1876, he became associated with Mr. H. H. Hoard under the firm name of Clark & Hoard ; they have been carrying on a very successful business ever since ; they carry a large and well-assorted stock of groceries, boots and shoes and crockery, and, through their good business habits and gentlemanly demeanor, have made a host of friends and built up a large and growing trade. Mr. Clark married, in November, 1872, Lizzie Stanton, daughter of George W. Stanton ; have had two children - Edith, born September 25, 1876 ; George, born July 27, 1878. Mr. Clark held diflFerent offices of trust in the town of Brooklyn, and is a Mason of prominence.

M. K. D AHli, manufacturer of plows and agricultural implements, Waupun ; was born in Norway, Europe, Feb. 3, 1824 ; his father died when he was 7 years old ; he left his home when 8 years old, and served as a shepherd boy on a farm until he was 16 years old ; he then went to the city of Christiana to learn the blacksmith trade, mainly lock-making ; he left his birthplace without a cent and without any more clothing than what he had on his body ; he walked 140 miles, sleeping out of doors until he reached the city, on the 23d of June, 1840, and, after serving as apprentice five years, without any compensation except his board - to earn his clothes, he had to work nights and Sundays - he left the city of Christiana in 1847, and went to Eidfos Iron Works, forty-nine miles from the city ; worked on forcings and finishings for heavy machinery and navy work ; he left the iron works on the 5th of June, 1849, for the city of Drammen, for the purpose of emigrating to America, that being a seaport; he started in a sailing vessel from Drammen on the 9th of June, 1849, and arrived at New York on the 28th of September, being eighty days on his journey from Norway to New York ; during that time, he occupied a good share of it in studying and practicing writing, as he never went to school a day in his life ; being unable to find employment in the city of New York, and, being without money, he lodged with a family which came across in the same vessel, and who was going West to Milwaukee, Wis. The family stayed in New York three days, and then started for Milwaukee, and he, getting help from them, with the promise of paying them with the first money he earned. They arrived at Milwaukee on the 26th of October, being twenty-six days on their journey ; they went from New York to Troy by steamer, then taking canal-boat to BuJBFalo, then by steamers across the lakes to Milwaukee ; when he arrived in that city, he sold his bedclothes for $1 ; he stopped in Milwaukee four days, trying to find work, without succeeding ; he then took a bundle of clothing on his back and walked all the way to Rochester, Racine Co., where he met a Mr. Seymour Johnson, a friend from Norway, and who had been in this country three years, and working there for a Mr. Belden, who carried on a small foundry, wagon-shop and general blacksmithing ; by the assistance of his friend Johnson, he got a chance to work for Belden nine weeks for his board ; then he hired out to Bly & Ely, who were starting a blacksmith-shop in Waupun ; he had not had a chance as yet to earn any money, so he borrowed $2 of his friend Johnson, and started for Waupun, walking eighty miles, arriving in that village on the 1st of December, 1849 ; commenced work for a term of six months at $13 a month ; the first money earned he paid the family that bore his expenses from New York to Milwaukee, and the next went to a friend Johnson ; the leading work here at Bly & Ely's was making plows and fanning-raills, and, after their plow season was over in the spring, they took the blacksmith-shop in which to paint fanning-mills ; he then went to work for S. H. Hill, in the village, at $20 per month, shoeing horses and doing general blacksmith work; at the end of two months, he received a letter from Mr. Jones at Watertown, who carried on a machine-shop, offering $1 per day for turning and fitting out work fur two flouring-mills; he accepted the ofier, and worked for him two months ; he then returned to Waupun ; hired out to Bly & Bly for one year to take charge of their blacksmith-shop at $1 per day ; at the end of that year, he made a bargain with Bly & Ely to do all the iron work to a plow by the piece, and this he continued to do until 1855, having an increase in their work so that he employed five and six hands; in 1854, he also took the job of making all the locks to be used in the Wisconsin State Prison ; the 18th of June, 1856, he bought the shops of Geo. W. Bly, Bly having dissolved partnership with Ely previous to this, taking in I). P. Norton as partner in September, 1856, and continuing the business of making plows and fanningmills until 1864, when the partnership was dissolved, and M. K. Dahl continued the business ; outside of this business, he had a farm, and in which he succeeded in making money on ; also investing in land in Minnesota and Dakota. On Nov. 24, 1854, he was married to Hannah 0. Hansen, of his own nationality, who was born in Norway Oct. 25, 1835 ; the first child was born,- and died in infancy ; the second was born Jan. 30, 1857, it being a girl, Henrietta C. Dahl ; the third, being a boy, Albert M. Dahl, born Jan. 7, 1859 ; the fourth a girl, Emma P. Dahl, born Feb. 14, 1861 ; the fifth a boy, Henry 0. Dahl, born July 27, 1865, and died Sept. 25, 1865. His wife died Aug. 22, 1865. He then married a Miss Hannah Haldorsen Nov. 11, 1866; she was born in Norway Sept. 22, 1829. His oldest danghter, Henrietta, was married to Mr. Oscar N. Olberg, of Taopi, Minn, July 14, 1875. Albert M. Dahl is following his father's trade, and has now one-half interest in the business. Emma P. Dahl, his youngest daughter, was married to C. A. Olberg, of La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 26, 1879. M. K. Dahl is a member of the Lutheran Church. He was honored with being President of the Village Board two years, and being an Alderman four or five years, and Treasurer of School District eleven years, and Clerk of same four years. Mr. Dahl is building one of the finest residences in the county. He deserves especial credit for tlie remarkable manner in which he has worked his way to prosperity and success.

DAXIEIi S. DEAN, farmer, Sec. 27; P. 0. Waupun; born in Warren Co., N. Y.,'Sept. 25, 1821, son of Aaron and Elizabeth Dean, natives of New York State ; his mother died when he was 4^ years of age, and his father when he was 9 ; he then went to live with an uncle of his father, Caleb Dean, in Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y.; at 17 he was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, and worked for three and one-half years to learn the trade ; then carried on the business himself for five years ; he then worked at joiner work about five years, after which he worked at pattern-making about the same length of time in Poultney, Vt., Fort Edward and Troy, N. Y. Sept. 17, 1848, he was married in Fort Edward to Martha Griffin, who died Oct. 22, 1850, at Ballston, Saratoga Co., N. Y., in tlie 21st year of her age, leaving an infant daughter ; he was again married, Nov. 5, 1851, to Adelia M. Goodrich, of Benson, Vt., who was born Aug. 9, 1824. In the summer of 1855, Mr. Dean came to Wisconsin and settled on the farm he now owns ; has eighty acres, which is assessed at $50 per acre; from April 1, 1867, till the fall of 1874, he was engaged in selling mSchinery and collecting for M. J. Althouse, of Waupun; has had two children born in Wisconsin - Carrie M., born Jan. 28, 1860, is now the wife of Beecher H. Amadou, of Mackford Township, Green Lake Co., Wis.; Kate Winnefred was born Sept. 27, 1861, and died Aug. 20, 1874. Mr. Dean is a Kepublican, and himself and wife both members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

JOHN DUER (deceased) was born in Bucks Co., Penn., in May, 1802, son of William and Charlotte Duer; he went to Ohio about 1828 and settled in Miami Co., and married Mary Moore, who was born in 1805, also in Bucks Co., Penn ; he followed farming in Ohio till 1847 ; then came to Wisconsin and settled on See. 23, in the town of Waupun, where he owned 220 acres, which is now worth about $40 per acre; Mrs. Duer died Sept. 16, 1865, and Mr. Duer Jan. 24, 1879, leaving nine children - William and Eliza (living on the homestead), James (living in Trempealeau Co., Wis.), Isaac (on the homestead), Ephraim (on Sec. 24, Waupun), Enoch and Johu L. (in the hardware business in Pawnee Co., Neb.), Mary Jane (who died March 5, 1879), and Sarah Martha (now Mrs. W. P. Day, also living on the homestead). P. 0. Waupun.

THOMAS L.. DUNHAM, farmer. Sec. 10; P. 0. Waupun; born Aug. 27, 1817, in Mansfield, Conn., son pi' Abel and Sarah Dunham; when about 17 years of age he went to learn the carpenter's trade with Freeman Crocker, of Hartford, Conn., remained with him two years ; then worked for Edwin Eatoti, of Windham Co., Conn.,'' two and one-half years, and, after that, as journeyman two or three months, and then commenced business for himself, which he followed about two years in his native State ; he then came to Wisconsin, and lived in Racine Co. two years, and in Walworth Co. two years ; then back to Racine Co. one year; then went to Waukesha Co., where he resided about twenty years ; then to Walworth Co. again, and stayed two years ; in the fall of 1868 he came to Fond du Lac Co., and bought the farm he now owns - took possession in March, 1869 ; has 162i acres, valued at $50 per acre. Sept. 8, 1844, he was married in Burlington, Wis., to Clarissa Atkins, who was born Dec. 26, 1828, in the town of Campton, Canada ; has six children - Sarah M., now Mrs. John Foster, of Chester, Dodge Co,,^ Wis.; Albert C; Mary Enialine, now Mrs. Hiram Beehe, of Dodge Co., Minn.; Lucinda Susan, now Mrs. John Van Ness, living on the homestead ; Arthur Thomas and Edwin Abel, both living at home with their parents.

WILliIAM DURAJVD, farmer. Sec. 34; P. 0. Waupun; born Oct. 31, 1832, in Westfield', Chautauqua Co., N. Y., son of Nehemiah and PhilenaDurand,who removed to Wisconsin about twenty-five, years ago, and settled in the town of Waupun. William came a few months afterward and remained here two years; then returned to New York, and lived in Addison, Steuben Co., about six years, working atcarpenter work ; he then went to East Saginaw, Mich., in 1865, and, July 24, 1866, was married to Jennie L. Wheeler, who was born March 18, 1844, in Jefferson Co., N. Y., iu the town of Lyme ; she was the daughter of Chesleyand Eliza Wheeler, natives of Jefferson Co., who came to East Saginaw in January, 1866.; Mr. Durand remained there till the spring of 1873, and settled on the farm he now owns ; has eighty acres, worth about $4,000. In 1861, he enlisted in the 34th N. Y. V. I., Co. E, for two years, and was mustered in at Albany ; he, remained with his regiment till the expiration of his term of enlistment, most of the time at the front ; he was in the battles of Fair Oaks, Savage Station, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Antietam and several others, and was with MoClellan in his seven days' retreat from in front of Richmond ,

Mr. and Mrs. Durand are members of the Wesleyan Church. Have three children - Hervey M., born April 18, 1868; Lena A., Nov. 3, 1870, and May E., born Nov. 24, 1879. Mr. Durand is a Republican in politics.

(;}EOR<^E' FIELDSTAD, farmer, Sec. 21, in town of Chester, county of Dodge; P. 0 Waupun ; born Oct. 3, 1846, in Norway, near Christiana, the capital ; came to America with his parents in 1854, and settled on the farm he now owns, and which his father, Englebret Fieldstad, owned And occupied till his death, which occurred May 8, 1879, in the 69th year of his age. George was married Jan. 1, 1875, to Jonetta Petterson, who was born Oct. 6, 1846, in Norway, near Thronhjem, daughter of Arntpeter Larson. Has two children - Elida Josephine, born March 4, 1876, and Anna Matilda, born Sept. 15, 1878 ; lost one, Anna Matilda, who was born Aug. 1, 1877, and died when she was one month old. Lutherans and Republican.

W. H. FERRIS, State Prison official, Waupun. Mr. Ferris was brought up in Connecticut till he was 8 years old ; his father, James H. Ferris, was a Connecticut man and was born in 1800, and was a drummer boy in the war of 1812, also enlisted in 131st N. Y. V.; was promoted to Major, and while bravely leading his regiment at the battle of Fredericksburg, was killed ; thus died an old soldier, at the age of 63, in defense of his country ; his father was Capt. John Ferris, who was a Captain in the same war ; he was of English descent, and was a member of the Queen's Guard, in the old country. Mr. W. H. Ferris, when 8 years old, moved to Saratoga Springs, N. Y. ; was there fourteen year.^ ; was in the mercantile business and attended school, and came West, to Fox Lake, in 1857 ; was clerk for H. Germain about a year ; was then with G. W. Leonard and afterward engaged in the business under the firm name of Leonard & Ferris ; sold out and went to work for A. Rich. At the time of the war, enlisted in Co. H, 29lh W. V. I.; served his time faithfully and was honorably discharged in April, 1863. While in Trenton, Mr. Ferris was elected Justice of the Peace ; also served as Constable several times. Mr. Ferris was appointed to fill a position in Waupun Prison in 1876, and has been an officer in that institution ever since. He married, in March, 1858, Caroline E. Hemingway, daughter of Ezra Hemingway, who was a well-to-do farmer in Washington Co., N. Y. ; children are Julia C, born Dec. 12, 1859 ; Cora E., Dec. 21, 1864 ; Will Chester, Dec. 16, 1874. Mr. Ferris' brother, George D. Ferris, was in the 77th N. Y. V. I. ; served five years, and was in thirty-two hard-fought battles ; was in Castle Thunder six months. James K. Ferris was in the 77th N. Y. V. I., and was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness and crippled for life. Walter M. Ferris was in the same regiment, and lost his leg in the battle of the Wilderness. A brother-in-law, Leroy Babcock, was starved to death at Andersonville. An uncle, Capt. Peck, was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg. There are not many families who have such a war record. Mr. W. H. Ferris has a fine little farm in the town of Trenton, and is in comfortable circumstances through bis industry and frugality.

H. W. FROST, counselor at law and City Attorney, Waupun ; born in Windsor ,N. Y., March 27, 1842 ; son of Sheldon Frost, who was from Watertown, Litchfield Co., Conn. ; his father was Solomon Frost, and had a good record as a Revolutionary soldier; Sheldon Frost died in February, 1872, at about the age of 77 ; Hubert's early days were spent on a farm ; in 1867, went into the office of Mr. Barrett, Binghamton, N. Y., a prominent lawyer in that part of the country; in April, 1870, he went to Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y., and studied law with his uncle, Lester Chase, who had practiced law successfiiUy for forty years in that county; came to Waupun, Wis., Oct. 12, 1874, and engaged in law practice with J. W. Seely ; in 1878, they dissolved partnership, and he is doing a good and constantly increasing business. Married, Sept. 22, 1874, Cornelia E. Peck, daughter of Philo Peck, who was a well-to-do farmer in Chenango Co., N. Y. ; have two children - Nellie, born Sept. 19, 1875; Fannie, born May 12, 1877. Mr. Frost is attorney for the city of Waupun ; is a prominent member of the Society of Odd Fellows, and was charter member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen ; he is also a member of the Temple of Honor.

J. S. GEE, monumental works, Waupun ; born in Cortland Co., N. Y., town of Virgil, Jan. 17, 1816 ; son of Samuel Gee, who was a farmer and a carpenter by trade; his father, John Gee, served seven years in the Revolutionary war and in most of the hard-fought battles ; he received from the Government, for his services, 640 acres of land in Cortland Co., N. Y. ; the family are of French descent ; Samuel Gee died in 1875, at the age of 80. John S. Gee shifted for himself after he was 12 years old ; learned the mason and stonecutter's trade in Ithaca, N. Y. ; he started in business in Elmira, N. Y., and, in 1837, went to Frenchtown ; in 1838, moved to Troy, Penn., and in 1840, to Danville, N. Y., in 1841, to Fredonia ; then to Penn Line, Penn.; and, 1846, came to Waupun, Wis.; in 1853, went to California, and went into the mines ; in the fall of 1855, returned to Waupun, and has been here ever since, and is to-day the oldest mason and stonecutter in the State. Mr. Gee married, in 1835, Lucy A. Whiting, daughter of

Caleb Whiting, a Presiding Elder in the Methodist Church, and a man of prominence. Children - Oscar F., enlisted in Co. D, 3d W. V. I.; was in Banks' retreat, and died from exposure; T. W. Gee enlisted in Daniell's Cav. ; was in the West and Southwest ; served his time faithfully four years ; John W. enlisted in the 3d W. V. I., and received his death-wound at battle of Antietam ; was shot through the left arm, thigh and lungs, and died in about six weeks ; James B. enlisted in Co. D, 3d W. V. I., and served his time faithfully till the close of the war ; he is now a physician living at . Brandon ; has an extensive practice ; he married a daughter of Gen. W. H. Taylor ; Vestalina married a Robins, who died ; she is now the wife of P. E. Sykes ; Ella married Rufus H. Oliver. Mr. Gee has held offices of trust many times. Mr. Gee had only $2.50 when he arrived in Waupun, and owes his success to his industry and good management.

ANDREW G-LE]VDEX]VISir«, farmer. Sec. 4; P. 0., Waupun; born July 18, 1815, in Roxburgh Co., Scotland ; came to America in 1845, and settled in Pond du Lac Co., town of Alto ; came to the town of Waupun in 1869. Was married, in 1844, to Ann Davison, who was born in 1806, in Newcastle upon Tyne, in England. Has two children living - Amelia, now Mrs. James Brisbane, of Alto, and Jane, now the wife of James Clark, living on the home.stead, which consists of twenty acres of land with good buildings. Has lost two children - Jane, died in 1850, aged 2 years and 9 months, and William, who died the same year, aged 13 months. Republican.

R. ij. ^jtRAHASI, merchant tailor, Waupun ; born in Liverpool, Eng., Peb. 3, 1829 ; came to New York City in the fall of 1848 ; came over on the vessel Blackbird, Capt. Peabody, commander; went to Milwaukee, and worked for his iDoard, from November till April, 1848 ; May 3, 1848, came to Waupun ; while on the way out West, Mr. Graham tried to enlist in the U. S. Army, but he wouldn't pass ; he wasn't big enough. When he came to Waupun, went to work for Howard & Tanner, tailors ; was with them till 1853, when he engaged in business on his own account, and has been very successful ever since. Mr. Graham and wife returned to England May 3, 1870, on a trip of recreation and pleasure, and returned in August of the same year. Jan. 27, 1853, Mr. Graham married Selina W. Vial, who was born in Somersetshire, England ; the children were Mary Jane, died in infancy ; Amelia, died when 2 years old ; Henrietta, died when 14 months old ; Martha, died in infancy ; Harriet, died in infancy ; Frankie Lee, lived to be 6 months old; Delia M., lived to be 18 months old. Mr. Graham is eminently a self-made man, and is to be commended for his pluck and energy in pushing to the front ; he gives eminent satisfaction in his business, his trade extending throughout the surrounding country. He and his wife attend the Episcopal Church ; Mr. Graham is liberal and public spirited in all charitable objects ; he has been the help and mainstay of his mother in the old country. Mr. Graham has one of the prettiest residences, inside and out. in the city of Waupun.

W. W^ HARRIS, flouring-mill, Waupun ; born in Camden Co., N. Y., April 30, 1843; son of Stephen H. Harris, who was born and brought up in Camden Co. ; he is now an old and respected citizen of Waupun. W. W. Harris learned the miller's trade in Waupun in 1861 ; in 1871, became associated with T. W. Markle ; before this, it was Harris & Son for ten years. Mr. Harris has been in the milling business for many years, and is a master of the profession ; the firm is now doing a large and prosperous business. Mr. Harris married, Nov. 26, 1868, Amorette Newton, daughter of N. J. Newton, a respected citizen, and one of the earliest settlers in this part of the country ; the children by this marriage are Fred L., born Oct. 6, 1869 ; William M., born Oct. 21, 1870 ; Herbert J., Feb. 29, 1872 ; Eda M., July 25, 1874; Clyde, Jan. 1, 1877. Mr. Harris is Director of School District No. 1 ; is Fire Marshal and Alderman of North Ward.

EmiL HAUEISEIV, furniture business, Waupun ; born in Germany April 20, 1836 ; he landed in New York May 10, 1855 ; went to Milwaukee, -and, Aug. 15, 1860, came to Waupun; was a porcelain painter in the old country, and, when he came to this country, engaged in carriage painting ; Jan. 1, 1862, became associated with M. Meyer, in furniture business, and, Dec. 16, 1872, Mr. Haueisen took the entire business, and has been engaged very successfully in the same line ever since ; through his industry and prudence, has accumulated a competency. He married, Dec. 16, 1862, Barbett Korder; children are Emely, born Feb. 18, 1884 ; Nora, Oct. 8, 1866 ; Hattie, Aug. 30, 1869 ; Edwin C, in January, 1871. Mr. Haueisen is Clerk of School District No. 1. He has taken all the degrees in Odd Fellowship ; he is also agent for the Hamburg American Packet Co. Himself and family attend the Episcopal Church. Mr. Haueisen is to be much commended for the way in which he has come to the front ; it was through his own exertions only.

JAMES ML. HAWKINS, farmer. Sec. 1; P. 0. Ladoga; born July 14, 1814, in Grafton Co., N. H., came to Wisconsin in July, 1844, and lived in the town of Burlington, Racine Co., till December, 1845, then came to Fond da Lac Co., and settled on the farm he now occupies in the town of

Waupun, where he has since resided ; he was the first settler in this part of the town, and it took all the lumber and shingles in Fond du Lao at the time (which was only one small load, however) to build his first house. He was married, Jan. 18, 1836, to Lucy Barrett, who was a native of Windsor Co., Vt. , and died April 23, 1850, ia the 40th year of her age, leaving five children - James D., lives in Blue Earth Co., Mian. ; Truman K., in Madison Co., Iowa ; Lucy Y., now the wife of Charles R. Dudley, of the town of Lamartine ; Prances Evaline, now Mrs. Alexander Cook, of Wadena, Wadena Co., Minn., and Emma, now Mrs. Alfred A. Shaw, of the town of Fond du Lac. Was married the second time. May 1, 1852, to Abilene Tourtellotte, who was born July 29, 1831, in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. ; by this wife he has six children - Ida E., now Mrs. Wilber Chase, of Cottonwood Co., Minn. ; Emily C., now Mrs. G-eorge Woods, of the town of Springvale ; Nellie J., now Mrs. Chester Fairbanks, of the town of Waupun ; Myron H., Alma May, and Milan E. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins are both member of the M. E. Church, and he is Republican in politics; was appointed by Gov. Dewey, in 1851, to survey a State road from Oshkosh to Mayville, also to survey and appraise the school lands in Fond du Lac Co. ; has 121 acres of land, valued at $60 per acre.

EJLEAZAR J. HILLI}BERT, farmer. Sec. 16; P. O. Waupun; born Sept. 17, 1807. in Genesee Co., N. Y. ; parents removed to Onondaga Co., when he was a child, and from there to Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. Mr. flillebert was married, Sept. 12, 1831, to Laura Comstock, who was born Aug. 6, 1815, in Canada ; her parents were natives of Washington Co., N. Y., and came from Canada to Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., when she was an infant. In the fall of 1848, he came to Wisconsin, and worked at blacksmithing in the village of Waupun one winter, then bought a farm on Sec. 17, in the town of Waupun ; had 160 acres and lived there till the fall of 1867, then sold out and bought the farm he now owns ; has eighty acres, worth $4,000 ; held the office of Constable in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., five years, Justice of the Peace four years, and Collector two terms. Has five children - Nelson, lives in the town of Empire ; Jane, Mrs. Luther E. Sweet, of Pennsylvania ; Allen L., living in Kansas ; Frances, now Mrs. Emerson Fairbanks, of Fond du Lac, and Frank, living on the homestead, with his parents ; has lost three children - John, went into the army from Jackson Co., Wis. ; served about ftur months, and was shot at the battle of Petersburg ; Harriet J., died in New York, at the age of 4 years and 5 months, and Harriet A., wife of Lewis Johnson, of Jackson Co., Wis., died in July, 1862, leaving three children. Allen L. was in the 32d W. V. I., first in Co. B, as drummer, afterward in Co. C ; was with Sherman in his famous " march to the sea ;" served three years, and was mustered out of service at the close of the war. In politics, Mr. Hillebert votes for the best man, regardless of party. Mr. Hillebert learned the blacksmith's trade of his fither, and worked at it most of the time till he came West.

liUCIElV H. HILLS,' farmer. Sec. 2; P. 0. Ladoga; born Nov. 13, 1818, in Mexico, Oswego Co., N.' Y. ; came to Wisconsin in the summer of 1846, and settled in the town of Clinton, Rock Co., where his first house was built, of one load of lumber, hauled sixty-five miles on a wagon ; was considered quite forehanded by his neighbors, as he had $15 in cash in his pocket when he came into the State ; he remained in Rock Co., till November, 1848, then came to Fond du Lac Co., and settled in the town of Waupun, where he now resides ; has 388 acres of land, worth about $17,000 ; pays a good deal of attention to stock-raising ; has now 550 head of sheep of a choice grade ; has been a member of the County Board several years, and Chairman of the town three years. The first vote he ever cast in the State of Wisconsin was against the first Constitution, and himself and neighbors went to the election with a team of seventeen yoke of oxen. May 1, 1844, was married to Anna A. Savage, of Mexico, Oswego Co., N. Y. ; has four children - M^ry Ida, now Mrs. F. L. Groutermont, of Blue Earth Co., Minn. ; Marcia Adell, now Mrs. Alfred P. Morehouse, living in the town of Waupun; Henry L. and Callie L., both living at home. In politics. Republican.

EDWIIV HILL YER, insurance, Waupun ; born in Portage Co., Ohio; son of Col. David Hillyer, one of the pioneers of that county, and a man of prominence ; he surveyed the counties of Portage and Stark, Ohio; the family came to Ohio from Granby, Mass.; Edwin commenced his business career selling goods in Ohio; in July, 1847, he came to Waupun, Wis., and engaged in business, and, in 1849, went to California ; ran the first express ever run on the Sacramento River ; there was not a frame house .in Sacramento at that time; he finally sold out his steamboat and went into the mines, and dug gold at Syracuse Bar, in which claim he had an interest ; returned to Waupun in 1852, and engaged in business with his brother in a general merchandise store ; sold out his interest and built the railroad from Horicon to Waupun, and was afterward General Agent of the road; then engaged in the insurance business; established the Dodge County Insurance Company; was elected to the Legislature in 1852; wag Chairman of Committee on Privileges of Election, and was also connected with several committees. In 1861, he raised part of a company for the 3d W. V. I., and, the same year, raised a company for the 10th W. V. I., and was appointed Captain ; served his time faithfully, and was honorably discharged on account of sickness, and returned to Waupun and engaged in the insurance business, which he has been very successful in ever since. Mr. Hillyer was Deputy Warden at the Waupun Prison at one time, and it was he that laid out the beautiful grounds in front of that structure; he founded the library of the city of Waupun Eeb. 18, 1858, and has been librarian ever since ; Mr. Hillyer has a fine farm of 1,100 acres in Grundy Co., Iowa, mostly under good cultivation, and he owns one of the finest residences in the city of Waupun. Mr. Hillyer married in 1848 ; the children were Edna C. (married C. H. Ford, General Agent of the North Oerman Insurance Company, and is living in New York City), Martha J., H. L. Palmer Hillyer, Homer W. and Prank ; Martha and Frank are deceased. Mrs. Hillyer is President of the State Temperance Allianccj and a prominent and efficient worker in the good cause.

J. T. HIIiLYCiR, retired farmer, Waupun; born in Portage Co., Ohio, March 19, 1819; son of Daniel Hillyer, who was from Connecticut; he was a prosperous farmer, and also for many years a popular hotel keeper; he was among the first settlers in Portage Co., Ohio, and kept tavern nearly thirty years in that county, and held numerous offices of trust; he died in 1875 at the age of 80. Joseph, at the age of 31, went to Cincinnati and to New Orleans, taught school at different times, also became a skillful trader, and made large sums of money at times ; after something of a roaming life, came to Waupun, Wis., in 1845 ; helped build the first frame house built in East Village; used to work for $10 per month in those days ; his next move was to engage in the mercantile business with his brother, Edward Hillyer, which they carried on successfully about ten years ; he then purchased a farm in Columbia Co., Wis., and engaged in agricultural pursuits; was there nine years, and returned to Waupun and purchased ten acres, and now has one of the finest residences and homes in the city, and has retired from active service. He married Hepsie S. Bly ; she was a sister of George W. Ely; the family was from Huron Co., Ohio; the children by this union were Mary B., born Feb. 18, 1851, and married and living. at Rock Falls, Iowa; one child, died in infancy, Oct. 23, 1857; Josephine, born M.irch 19, 1862, and living at home. Mr. Hillyer was on the Town Board most of the time while in Columbia Co.

li. D. HINKLiEY, of the firm of Althouse, Wheeler & Co., Waupun; born in Rockville, Conn., Nov. 8, 1835 : son of Lucius Hinkley, a woolen manufacturer ; his father was Scottaway Hinkley, and was also a cloth manufacturer ; he made the first blue cloth for the United States Army ; he was a descendant of the Hinkleyswho came from Trenterden Kent, England, in 1635, and settled in the vicinity of Boston, at Cape Cod and Barnstable ; the original purchase was in the possession of the family for 200 years ; one of the family was Thomas Hinkley, Governor of Plymouth Colony, a man of sterling integrity,of the good old Puritan stock of that day ; Lucius Hinkley married Laura Waterman, whose ancestors were among the first settlers in Norwich, Conn.; she was a descendant, on the mother's side, of the celebrated Hyde family, whose descendants now lay claim to many millions of dollars that have been stored away in the Bank of England for years ; Laura Waterman was, frpm her father's side, a descendant of the Breusters, who came over in the Mayflower ; Mr. Hinkley takes a laudable pleasure in tracing back the genealogy of the family, and few can be as successful a.«i he has been, for he follows the line back to Egbert, the earliest Saxon King of England, and has the papers to show for it. Lucius Hinkley and his family came to Waupun, Wis., in the fall of 1848, and followed agricultural pursuits^ Lucius D. Hinkley, at the age of 17, went into a carriage-shop and served an apprenticeship. In the fall of 1861, enlisted in the 10th W. V. I., Co. K ; was Orderly Sergeant; was in all the hard-fought battles that the regiment engaged in; was taken prisoner and sent to Libby Prison, then to Macon and afterward to Charleston, he made his escape and got to within a few miles of the Federal lines, but was recaptured, and, while trying to escape the second time, in the fall of 1864, at Columbia, was shot while near the dead line, and lost his arm; the same year, was exchanged, and came back to Waupun, and shortly after went into the office of Secretary of State at Madison, and afterward engaged in the insurance business in Waupun ; in 1870, went to Chicago, and was with the Republic Insurance Co. of that city; in 1871, accepted the position of Clerk of the State Prison; in 1874, became partner in the large manufacturing concern of Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Mr. Hinkley married, Dec. 28, 1870, Lola T. Gillett, daughter of M. S. Gillett; had one child, which died in infancy ; his wife died Jan. 22, 1878.

HORATIO H. HOARD, merchant, Waupun ; born in Wyoming Co., N. Y., Jan. 26, 1855 ; . sou of Harry Hoard ; he was the son of Henry Hoard ; the family were among the first settlers on the Holland Purchase and were of English descent ; they took up a claim at the foot of Buffalo Hill ; Henry Hoard lived and died on the old homestead ; he delivered a Fourth of July oration when 86 years old ; Mr, Harry Hoard was a Captain in the militia when he was but 18 years old; he was Postmaster sixteen years and Justice of the Peace till the time of his death, which occurred in 1862 ; he was engaged in the mercantile business at Sheldon Center, Wyoming Co., N. Y., which he carried on successfully many years.

Mr. Horatio Hoard gradaateJ at the Oshkosh High School, and came to Waupun in August, 1872 ; was -with John Roberts four years, and in September, 1876, formed a copartnership with A. S. Clark, under the firm name of Clark & Hoard; they have been very successfully engaged ever since; they carry one the best assorted general stocks in this part of the country. Mr. Hoard married, Oct. 9, 1877, Elvie Wilcox, grand-daughter of the itrst settler of Waupun.

NELSOm HOLIiENDYKE, lumber merchant, Waupun ; born in Holland Jan. 16, 1821 ; son of William HoUendyke, who was a farmer in the old country ; he died in 1852, at the age of 72 ; Nelson worked at the carpenter's trade at home three years for his board, and came to New York Aug. 1, 1844 ; went to Westfield, Chautauqua Co., Aug. 12, 1844, and did his first day's work in this country ; in the ;spring of 1845, he went to Milwaukee, and, in the spring of 1846, went to Fond du Lac Co. and settled on 160 acres and engaged in farming; moved, in 1848, to Waupun and worked at his trade; in 1851, went to Portage City, and, in 1862, returned to Fond du Lac Co. and kept a lumber-yard in the town of Brandon ; June 9, 1868, came to Waupun and has been successfully engaged in the lumber business here ever since. Married, April 12, 1845, Eliza B. Loomaus, daughter of John William Loomaus, a well-to-do farmer, who is now living in the town of Alto, at the age of 86. Mr. HoUendyke was a Trustee of the of Waupun in 1869-70, and again in 1876-77. Mr. HoUendyke came to this country a poor boy, and now has a competence through his untiring industry and good management. Himself and family are members of the Dutch Church in the town of Alto.

ELI HOOKER, attorney at law, Waupun ; born in Tompkins Co., N. Y., Sept. 17, 1820 ; sop of Hezekiah Hooker. The family were amons the earliest settlers in New England ; Eli's great-grandfather was born in Medbury, Conn., about 1720 ; he married Louisa Roe, who belonged to a numerous New England family. Eli's younger years were largely devoted to educational pursuits ; he attended Ithaca Academy in all about four years, teaching school winters ; he prepared for college at Ithaca, but, having an offer to remove to the West and start a newspaper, went directly to Fond du Lac Co. in September, 1846, and, with J. 0. Henning, started the Journal, which was the first paper, in Fond du Lac Co.; six months later, he sold out and bought a half-interest in the Whigi ; he wrote for that paper until January, 1848, when he removed to Waupun and read law with J. J. Brown ; April 17, 1854, was admitted to the bar of the Circuit Court pf Fond du Lac, and was afterward admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State, and in all the aourts of Wisconsin ; for twenty years or more, he has had a large and remunerative business ; he is a first-class court and jury lawyer, excelling in both departments of the profession, and has all the avidity for study of his younger years. Law, the chosen pursuit of his later years, baa -completely absorbed his time, with the exception of fourteen months, from August, 1866, to October, 1867, when he purchased the Waupun Times, a Republican newspaper, for which he is still acting as corresponding editor, as a means of recreation ; he is a vigorous and strong writer, as well as an able advocate. With the exception of a membership in a local School Board, which he held many years, has kept clear of politics ; he owes his success to having stuck to one thing. Mr. Hooker is a member of the Temple of Honor, a strong advocate of temperance, and has lectured more or less on the subject, being an expert speaker. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for twenty-five years, and Steward and Trustee of the same ; all his influence is on the side of good morals, and a pure type of Christianity ; in early days, was a strong antislavery man, his sympathies always being on the side of the oppressed. All of his wealth is the honest proceeds of his energies and talents well expended. He never advised persons to go to law who had not, in his opinion, a good case, invariably declining to be an advocate of a bad cause ; never made a proposition of law to a jury that he did not believe to be correct. The course which he has followed has given the people the greatest confidence in him, and to it he attributes his success in legal practice and in life. The wife of Mr. Hooker was a Miss Catharine R. Sharp, daughter of Rev. John Sharp, who was for sixty years a Baptist preacher, now living in Waupun at the age of 86. Mrs. Sharp was a descendent of the Townly family, whose property was largely confiscated at the time of the Restoration - when Charles II. came to the throne of England. Mr. and Mrs. Hooker were married Feb. 19, 1851 ; they have had four children, three of whom are living - Viola A. Hooker (the eldest child, was educated at Lawrence University, Appleton), Culver E. Hooker (the only son, graduated at the 3tate University, in June, 1878), and LUlie Kate (the youngest, is being educated at the graded school of Waupun). Mrs. Hooker is one of the leaders in the humane and benevolent enterprises conducted by the women of Waupun, and is President of the Ladies' Temperance League of the place, and Treasurer of the State Alliance.

O. R. HOPKINS, mechanic, Waupun ; was born in the town of Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., March 1, 1818; son of Truman and Laura Hopkins, natives of Vermont; when he was about 16 years of age, his father died, leaving a family of six children, who, with their mother, removed to' Ohio in the faU of 1835, and settled in what was then Williams Co. ; O. K. Hopkins was one of the four men who built the first log house in the town of Farmer, in that county. On the 23d of July, 1840, Mr. Hopkins married Artemissa Sawyer, who was born March 8, 1823, in Kushville, Yates Co., N. Y., daughter of PresoDtt and Zeruia Sawyer. In July, 1845, he came to Wisconsin and settled in Grreen Co., where he remained till the fall of 1847, then to Mnkwonago, Waukesha Co. ; in April, 1851, he went to Madison, Dane Co., Wis., and, in November, 1853, went to Milwaukee and took charge of the woodwork department of the Milwaukee Thrashing Machine Company, where he remained about fourteen years in the same business y in the spring of 1865, he removed to Chicago, 111., and went into the manufacture of zinc washboards, in company with his sons, A. K. and S. R. Hopkins (firm name, 0. R. Hopkins & Sons) ; in the spring of 1866, he bought a farm in the town of Vernon, Waukesha Co., Wis., and followed farming four years, then rented his farm and returned to Chicago, where he again went into manufacturing, and continued in that till the great " Chicago Fire," in Octolaer, 1871, when he lost his house and shop by fire, losing about $8,000 ; after the fire, he rebuilt his shop and continued the same business, with the addition of sash, doors and blinds ; in August, 1872, he went to Rossville, Shawnee Co., Kan., but only remained till fall, when he returned to Chicago and stayed until the next spring, then built a residence in Jefierson, one of the suburbs of Chicago, and occupied it one year, then broke up housekeeping and spent some time in Ohio and Indiana ; in May, 1875, he removed with his family to Denver, Colo., but remained only three months, then returned to Chicago for the third time ; stayed about three months, then went to Ohio, locating in Edgertoii, Williams Co., and engaged in selling agricultural implements, which he followed till May, 1876, then removed to Waupun, Wis., where he still lives ; owns a brick residence on Mill street, north of Main. Mr. Hopkins has lost five boys - Oney R., Ettlebert R., Mason H., Ozro B. and Charles F., and has threeliving - Arba R., Seldon R. and Truman P.

GrEORCrE JESS, banker and capitalist, and Mayor of the city of Waupun ; born Oct. 15, 1819, in Kings Co., Nova Scotia ; son of John L. P. Jess, who was a respected citizen of that county, and lived to be 90 years old; Mr. Jess came to Walworth Co., Wis., in the spring of 1842, and, in 1845, came to Dodge Co. ; he soon purchased a tract of land in Corumbia Co., and, in the fall of 1845, went to Fox Lake, Dodge Co. ; he purchased the American House, which was but partially completed, finished it and kept tavern till the spring of 1846 ; he had been, all this time, improving his property in Columbia Co.; he became engaged in loaning money and trading, and, in 1850, went across the Plains to California and carried on. an extensive drover's business ; handled cattle from Southern California to San Francisco; also shipped from Mexico in large droves ; through his energy, made a success, and returned to Fox' Lake in the fall of 1853, and engaged in loaning money and speculating in land and live stock ; in 1876, went to Waupun and erected one of the finest buildings in the city, and engaged in the banking and exchange business, under the firm name of Geo. Jess & Co. ; the concern is on a sound basis and enjoys a prosperous traffic. Mr. Jess married Maria T. Judd, daughter of Stoddard Judd, who was one of the earliest and most prominent settlers in this part of the State ; he was one of the framers of the State Constitution, and was in the Assembly and Senate at difierent times ; was largely interested in railroads, and was esteemed one of the leading men of those times. Mr. Jess is the father of one child - Stoddard Jess, born Dec. 3, 1856. He married a daughter of B. Cbenoweth, one of the first settlers of Monroe, Wis., who is now a prominent merchant of that place. Stoddard Jess is cashier of the bank of Geo. Jess & Co., and has almost the entire charge of the business. Mr. Geo. Jess has been a member of the County Board and held other minor offices. He is now Mayor of the city of Waupun, and is a prominent Mason.

CHARLES JONES, merchant, Waupun; born on Long Island, N. Y., April 30, 1831 ; son of Gen. David W. Jones, who was a soldier in the war of 1812 ; Mr. Jones, together with his brother, E. W. Jones, under the firm name of C. & E. W. Jones, are extensively engaged in business in Waupun ; they carry the largest stock of dry goods, fancy goods and notions in that part of the country ; also deal largely in groceries, hats and caps, in fact, carry a very full and complete line of all goods that are to be found in a first-class establishment of that kind ; the firm is favorably known for its fair dealing and earnest endeavors to please its customers, and the fact that they have met with such abundant success is strictly owing to their untiring industry, good management and discretion in purchasing such salable goods as always find a ready market and quick sale.

B. F. JOXES, farmer. Sec. 18; P. 0. Waupun; born Jan. 1, 1817, in Berkshire Co., Mass. His father was a farmer and collier; when of age, B. F. worked at farming one year, then peddled dry goods, silverware, jewelry and Yankee notions for a year and a half, doing a wholesale business in farming tools at the same time ; afterward went into coal burning for a while, then went into the iron business, helping to build three furnaces, and having a general superintendence of the mining, furnishing wood, etc., for two of tbem. Came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1850, lived a few months on Wedge's Prairie in the town of Waupun, and Jan. 6, 1851, removed to Sec. 18, where he has since resided. Has followed farming ever since he came to Wisconsin ; was married April 26, 1847, to Elizabeth S. Andrews, who was born Nov. 27, 1831, in Saratoga Co., N. Y., town of Athol ; she was daughter of Geo. Seymour Andrews ; her mother's maiden name was Margaret McEwen ; have six children - Margaret, now Mrs. Robert Bogie, Waupun ; Helen Josephine, now Mrs. David Stoddart, of Alto ; Benj. F., lives in Brandon ; Isodene, Geo. W. and Bertha, still liv'ing with their parents ; has 2C0 acres of land in Pond du Lac Co., worth $40 per acre. In politics, Greeribacker.

W'l'l'IA.M M. JONES, foundryman, Waupun ; born in Cortland, Westchester Co., N. Y., June 12, 1822 ; son of Samuel Jones, who was a brave soldier in the war of 1812 ; his father was Smith Jones a New York State man, and his father was from Wales ; Samuel Jones was a farmer and mechanic ; he died in 1843, at the age of 64 ; AVilliam, when 15 years old, commenced to learn the iron-molder's trade in Peekskill ; worked at that trade three and a half years -,, then went to Lawrenceville, Penn. Married, in 1842, Angelina Herrick, daughter of Job Herrick, who was a native of Vermont; children are Mary E., now Mrs. Walker, early developed a fine voice for music, and isjiow considered one of the fine singers in the country ; she is now in Chicago ; William A., died in 1878 ; Frances, married A. Freeman, and is living in Minnesota ; Emma A., married J. H. Bobbins, and is living in Michigan; William M., died in infancy; Evia D., is living at home ; Edgar H., married Emma Baldwin ; he is a molder by trade ; Delia, living at home ; Jeif, married a Gamble. Mr. William Jones, after marriage, went to Peekskill and to Port Chester, and then to Troy, N. Y., and to Painted Post, where he engaged in the stove and tinware business ; then went to Knoxville, Penn., and to Waukesha, Wis., in 1854, and, in 1856, to Horicon, and, in August, 1873, came to Waupun and has been engaged in ©he foundry business ever since. Mr. Jones was elected Constable when in Knoxville, and, in Horicon, was Supervisor and on the Village Board. Mr. Jones is a Royal Arch Mason ; has been connected with Masonry thirty-five years. Mr. Jones is a man of earnest convictions ; if he believes he is right, he "sticks to it;" he has a competence through his hard work and attention to business.

ELI JOHIVSON (deceased), was born May 5, 1827, in Erie Co., N. Y.; first came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1848 ; bought a farm ; then returned to New York, and was married, April 24, 1850, to Angeline E, Nichols, who was born Aug. 6, 1828, in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y.; daughter of Alanson and Jerusha Nichols, who are still living in Erie Co., N. Y. In the fall of 1850, he again came to Wisconsin, and settled on the farm he already owned in the town of VVaupun, Sec. 17, where he resided at the time of his death, which occurred April 24, 1879 (on his wedding anniversary), of dropsy, after an illness of about six months. His father, Elisha Johnson, is still living in Erie Co., N. Y., aged about 80. His mother's maiden name was Anna Chaffee ; she died in June, 1861 ; his grandfather was a Captain in the war of 1812, and, when a child 2 years old, was carried by his mother, on her back, from Wyoming to Buffalo, through the wilderness, to escape from the Indians at the Wyoming massacre. Mr. Johnson was a thorough-going Republican, from the time the party was organized, and took an active part in raising men and means to carry on the war during the rebellion ; also took a great deal of interest in educational matters. Left a family of six children, three of whom, viz., George, Helen (now Mrs. Le Grand Tillotson) and Horace Greeley, are living in Lake Co., D. T., and Mortimer Bodwell, Fred W. and Jlmery R., living on the homestead with their mother. The estate consists of a 200-acre farm, with good buildings, which, with the stock, is valued at almost $12,000. Both members of the Free- Will Baptist Chureh.

JOHX M. liOOP, farmer. Sec. 4 ; P. 0. Ladoga; born Feb. 25, 1827, in the town of Solon, Cortland Co., N. Y. ; came to Wisconsin in the summer of 1843, and settled in the town of Wheatland, in what was then Racine Co. (now Kenosha Co.) ; engaged in farming there for three years ; then came to Iron Ridge, Dodge Co., and lived there till December, 1865 ; then went to Le Roy, six miles north of Mayville, and in October, 1875, came to the town of Waupun and bought the farm he now owns ; 120 acres in Waupun and 40 acres opposite in Springvale; paid $10,000 for the 160 acres. Was married first, in January 1842, to Catharine Niver, of Iron Ridge, Wis., who died July 21, 1862, leaving three children - Addie, now Mrs. John Hungerford, of LeRoy; Seymour A., and Sarah, now Mrs. Matt Slade, of Metomen, Fond du Lac Co. May 11, 1864, married, for his second wife, Emma Niver (a sister af his first wife), by whom he has six children - Delia, John, Artie, Frank Everett, Allen and Mirta L. Was Assessor of Waupun in 1877.

WILLIS LANGr, farmer. Sec. 19 ; P. 0. Waupun ; born Jan. 30, 1832, in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y.; came to Wisconsin in June, 1848, and worked at blacksmithing in the village of Waupun two years ; then went to Waushara Co., Wis., and followed farming in the town of Leon till September, 1855, and worked at blacksmithing again until June, 1868 ; then bought the farm he now owns in the town of

WaupuD, and has resided there since. Has 240 acres, worth $40 per acre ; in the spring of 1876, he built a cheese factory 24x44, two stories, and has run it four seasons, using the milk of over five hundred cows in the summer of 1878 ; the last summer about two hundred and fifty. Was married Jan. 1,- 1856, to Mary Splain, who died Dec. 13, 1867, aged 33, leaving six children ; Milan died Aug. 1, 1868, aged 18 months, leaving five living at the present time, viz., Henry, Alice, Mary, Maggie and Lottie; was married a second time, June 13, 1868, to Mrs. Mary E. Place, whose maiden name was Hughes ; her first husband, E. F. Place, was a native of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.; enlisted, in February, 1863, in Go. D, 3d W. V. I., and died in Harney Hospital, Madison, Wis., March 4, 1865, leaving four children - Emma (now Mrs. T. B. Dailey, of Great Bend, Kan.), Theresa, Mary and Nellie. Mr. Lang, by his second marriage, has three children - Willis, David and Guy.

- THOMAS Mccarty, farmer. Sec. 2 ; P. 0. Ladoga ; born July 12, 1829, in County Koscommon, Ireland, parish of Crogham ; son of Michael McCarty ; he came to Ajnerica in 1855, and lived in Wayne Co., N. Y., one year ; then came to Wisconsin, and settled in the town of Black Wolf, Winnebago Co.; in 1862, he removed to Oakfield, Fond du Lac Co.; lived there one year, and then went to Lamartine (same county), and resided there until 1878 ; then sold out, and bought seventy acres for $3,150, in the town of Waupun, where he now resides. He .was married, Feb. 4, 1856, to Mrs. Mary Power, whose maiden name was Mary McGraw ; she was born in the County Waterford, parish of Cestran, Ireland, March 17, 1820; they have two children, John and Martin ; Mrs.'McCarty had seven children by her first husband - Richard, Thomas, James, Mary, Neddie, Patrick and Margaret. In politics, Mr. McCarty is a Democrat, and both himself and wife are members of the Catholic Church.

JAMES McEiliBOlT, retired farmer, Waupun; born in County Armagh, North of Ireland, Oct. 17, 1809; son of William McElroy ; his father was John McElroy, and the family originally came from Scotland ; William McElroy and family came to Canada in the fall of 1821, and engaged in farming ; William died Oct. 8, 1871, at the good old age of 93 ; James was brought up to work, and, at an early age, earned his own living ; he used to chop wood, and cleared land for from $2.50 to $6 per acre ; by dint of industry, he accumulated enough of money to buy fifty acres of wild land in Canada, which he cleared and sold ; he then bought 100 acres of Church reserve land, worked that until 1836, when he sold out and went to Michigan to settle on ninety-three acres - paid $10 per acre, and afterward sold for $30 per acre, and came to Wisconsin in 1848 (he had been here in 1845, prospecting), and settled on 160 acres in the towns of Alto, Waupun and Trenton, then added eighty acres more, and afterward forty more ; he now owns one of the finest farms in this part of the country ; in May, 1872, he moved into the city of Waupun ; through his industry and untiring energy, he now has a competence ; Mr. McElroy, in the town of Alto, was Supervisor two years, and County Commissioner two years, and was ten years Chairman of Board of Supervisors ; in 1863, was elected to the Assembly, and served on several committees. Married, Jan. 16, 1834, Harriet E. Taylor, daughter of Capt. John Taylor, who was a soldier in the war of 1812 ; their children are Eliza (married. A. Roney), John W. (is farming in the town of Trenton), R. B. McElroy (is in Milwaukee in the commission business - he married a Miss Burnham), Allen T. (married a Miss Ackerman) ; two children died in infancy ; Mr. McElroy and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Churchi and have been for about forty years ; he has been Class-Leader, Trustee and Steward, most of this time ; he has been President of the Old Settlers' Club ever since its organization, and has been President of the Waupun Mutual Insurance Compapy ever since it started; he has been an Odd Fellow many years, and has taken all the degrees, and attended the Grand Lodge, and Mrs. McElroy is a member of the Rebecca Lodge, and she has held all the offices; Mr. McElroy has also been a Mason many years, and belongs to the Temple of Honor and Good Templars also. He owes his success in life to his urioeasing hard work, indomitable perseverance and untiring industry.

PARLEY MERRIAM, retired farmer, Sec. 33; P. 0. Waupun ; born Feb. 14, 1795, in Oxford, Worcester Co., Mass. He was married, Jan. 14, 1822, to Lucy Brown, who was born Feb. 16, 1795, in the town of Thompson, Windham Co., Conn.; after marriage, he lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut until 1831 ; then removed with his family to Otsego Co., N. Y., and followed farming in the town of Butternuts until 1844, when he came to Wisconsin, and lived two years in the town of Genesee (then Milwaukee Co., now Waukesha) ; in the spring of 1846, he came to Fond du Lac Co., and located on Sec. 33, in the town of Waupun, where he still resides ; he was Supervisor of the town of Waupun several years, and Captain of a militia company in Massachusetts, where he is still known among his old acquaintances as Capt. Merriam ; Mrs. Merriam died in Waupun, Sept. 24, 1878, of old age, being in her 84th year ; there are three children living, as follows : Sarah (now Mrs. D. L. Bancroft, of Waupun), Ira and Nelson, both living in the town of Waupun; Mr. Merriam was among the first settlers of the town of Waupun, and with them stood his share of the hardships and privations incident to settling up a new country. He cast his first vote in a Presidential election for James Monroe, and has never missed an election since, except two Presidential elections when Wisconsin was a Territory ; he was an Old Time Whig, and has voted the Republican ticket ever since the party was organized ; now, at the age of 85, he takes a lively interest in politics, and feels anxious to live long enough to cast one more B.epublican vote for President. Nelson Merriam was born May 4, 1832, in Otsego Co., N. Y., and came West with his parents; was married, Nov. 20, 1872, to Ellen Boardman, who was born April 23, 1849 ; they have two children - Hugh N. and Ray C; he has 240 acres of land, valued at almost $10,000 ; Mrs. Merriam is a member of the M. E. Church ; Mr. Merriam pays a good deal of attention to stock-raising, especially sheep ; he sold over 6,000 pounds of wool in the fall of 1879.

li. W. MILES, farmer, Sec. 10, P. 0. Waupun ; born Feb. 6, 1841, in Coos Co., N. H., came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1864, and was employed at carpenter work in the city of Pond du Lao for about four years. May 6, 1867, he was married to Arabella Kendall; who was born Nov. 26, 1850, in the town of Fond du Lac, two miles south of the city, in what, is known as the " Two Mile House," living two miles south about a year and a half; then at Seven Mile Creek (Lamardne), about four months, when, on Jan. 24, 1870, he removed to the farm he now owns and occupies, where he has followed farming since, except three years that he worked for the railroad company, from Nov. 1, 1872, to Nov. 1, 1875 ; he has an eighty-acre farm, valued at .about $55 per acre ; has five children - Lillie May, born May 1, 1865 ; Clarence A., Aug. 1, 1869 ; Carrie Bell and Charles L. (twins), Sept. 3, 1875, and Greorge Franklin, Jan. 3, -1879. ^