Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin - Biographical sketches, 1880 (part 5 of 17)

COL. E. L. PHILLIPS, retired; was born at Manlius, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Feb. 16, 1800 ; entered Gen. Amos P. Granger's store at Syracuse at the age of 16 ; returned to Manlius, and was three or four years (until 1831) in his brother's store, and then began the mercantile business for himself. In 1837, was elected Sherifl' of Onondaga Co.; and chosen Assemblyman in 1847. After leaving the Sheriff's office, he engaged in jobbing, and then took a contract with his brother and two others to build sixty miles of the Great Western Railway, from Niagara Falls to the head of Lake Ontario ; in 1848, Col. P. was appointed Canal Appraiser, serving two years ; then returned one year to the railroad contract, which he finally sold to his partners, Oswald & Zimmerman, and contracted to build twenty-five miles of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway in Ohio. Col. P. was married at Manlius, N. Y., in 1825, to Harriet, daughter of Judge Tousley, who died six months later ; he was married again, in 1828, to Mrs. Eleanor Jones, grand-daughter of John Plemming, of Maryland ; she died in 1838, leaving one daughter, who died in 1857. Col. P. came to Fond du Lac in August, 1852, locating in Empire on the farm now owned by Mr. Wells ; and his brother, Lyman Phillips, came at the same time ; he engaged in farming about fifteen years. He was elected State Senator in 1860 ; held a Colonel's position in the New York State Militia ; was Provost Marshal of this district in 1863-64, and, in 1869 or 1870, having been interested in a savings bank in Syracuse, he went to Madison and secured a charter for the Fond du Lac Savings Bank, and was for two years its President. Col. Phillips, though past 80 years of age, still looks after his farms, which are tilled by tenants.

COL. COLWERT K. PIER. On the 7th day of June, 1841, nearly thirty-nine years ago, there was a sensation in sparsely inhabited Fond du Lac. On that day, there came to Fond du Laa Co. - then known as Brown Co. - the first white twins born within its borders, a boy and a girl. ' They were gladly welcomed in the family of Edward Pier, the first white man to locate in wh^t is now the- second city of a great State. At that time (1841), there were not to exceed twenty white families in what at present constitutes a county of at least fifty-five thousand inhabitants. These new-comers, these pioneer twins, were named, respectively, Colwert K. and Carrie 8. The baby boy of thirty- eight years ago is the subject of this sketch. He has always made Fond du Lac his home and now lives on the same farm his father commenced in 1836, or forty-four years ago, and the record shows only one transaction in that time, namely, from Edward Pier to Colwert K. Pier. It is perhaps the only piece of property in the entire county whose record is similarly made up.

There are at this time four members of the late Hon. Edward Pier's family, as follows : Mrs. Anna P. Carpenter, wife of J. W. Carpenter, who resides at Pine River, Waushara Co., Wis.; Mrs. Ruth RHarvey, wife of L. J. Harvey, who resides in Poud du Lac, and Mrs. Carrie S. Skinner, wife of H. R. Skinner, also a resident of Fond du Lac. Mrs. Carpenter taught the subject of this sketch his letters. He worked on a farm during the spring, summer and autumn, and attended district school winters, until he arrived at the age of 16 years. An apt scholar in all branches, he, however, excelled in mathematics, composition and elocution. He was generally accorded the leadership by his associates, who usually were his seniors in age. The speaking-schools and debating-clubs were places of great attraction to young Pier, and he seldom attended ons in which he did not paracipate. As a financier, Mr. Pier's first experience dates back to his early boyhood, when, on election day, terms of court, circus occasions, and the Fourth of July, he industriously peddled apples and pop-corn. This branch of trade, during the occasions indicated, he successfully followed from the time he was 12 until he had reached the age of 16 years, at which time he was sent to Lombard University, Gralesburg,' 111. Having a taste for the law, he soon commenced preparations to enter upon that honored profession. He studied first in the office of the late Judge Robert Flint, in this city. It was while in Judge Flint's offica, industriously storing his mind with legal lore, that the nation was startled by the fall of Fort Sumter, and the surrender of Maj. Anderson. The news was made known in Fond du Lac through extras and from the various pulpits. On that memorable Sunday evening, young Pier and Christie Klook, a neighbor's son, spent an hour or more in discussing the all-absorbing topic. At the end of that time, both had come to the conclusion that it was their duty to enlist. Early Monday morning, when young Kiock (since Capt. Klock, and now a successful sheep-raiser in Texas), came along, they went to the office of Col. S. E. Lefferts and signed the muster-roll. Pier's name appearing first, and Klook's second. There is no record to show that he was not the first man in Fond du Lac Co. to enroll his name as a volunteer in the war of the rebellion. Indeed, it may be recorded that this young law-student, not yet 20 years of age, was the first in the county to offer his services. The company was not long in filling up, and was known as Co. I, 1st W. V^ I., three-months men. It became a part of Maj. Gen. Patterson's army, and it was at Falling Waters that young Pier, a private soldier, listened to the songs of bullets and shell. At the end of the term for which the regiment was sworn in, Mr. Pier accompanied a. sick comrade to New York, and very soon afterward entered Albany Law School ; from there he returned to Fond du Lac, and entered the law office of the late James M. Gillet and Judge W. D. Conklin. While he made excellent progress in his studies, he nevertheless gave but lilitile time to them, being full of the war spirit, participating in all of the demonstrations and taking a deep interest in the formation of every new company. While in this office, he organized a military company under the State law ; the company elected him Captain. At that time the political cauldron was boiling boisterously. Violent political opponents of the Captain joined in a written protest to Gov. Harvey, to withhold his commission. The contest became decidedly bitter, but the Governor sent him the commission. Capt. Pier afterward organized nine other companies into a regiment whose commissioned officers elected him Colonel, the Governor losing no time in forwarding him a commission as such. By a vote of the men in this regiment, it was tendered by the Colonel to the General Government, but, supposing the war nearly over and no additional troops would be required. Gen. Frey declined the offer. This was a sad disappointment to the boy-Colonel, for such he was, being only a little past21 years of age, and in his disappointment he was joined by his officers and men, who had become great admirers of their young commander.

When General Grant assumed command of all the armies, Wisconsin was called upon for three new regiments, and Governor Lewis issued an order for the formation of the 36th, 37th and 38th. By this time Col. Pier had pretty much abandoned the idea of re-entering the service. Toward evening, one day, soon after the new regiments were ordered, and while he was busily engaged in his duties, a messenger handed him a telegram from Madison. It read : " Will you accept a commission as Lieutenant Colonel of the 38th Regiment ? Answer immediately." It was a great surprise ; ten minutes later he had found his father and shown him the dispatch. After reading it and reflecting a moment, the veteran ex-Senator said: " You had better hear what mother says about it; if she is willing, I will not object to your

it.'' The pioneer mother was sick in bed ; the son approached her and read the dispatch ; her eyes filled with tears ; with a trembling voice she said : " Do as you think best, my boy ; I will be satisfied with your decision." In less than half an hour from the receipt of the dispatch, these words were sen^to the Governor : " I will accept." This incident was related to the writer by Col. Pier many years ago, and when he reads this sketch he will learn for the first time that it was not forgotten by his friend. In a few days the Lieutenant Colonel was busily engaged in organizing his new command; many of his old regiment rejoined him, and in a remarkably short space of time five full ooinpanies were ready to start for the scene of action, to join the Army of the Potomac, leaving the Colonel, Adjutant and Quartermaster to fill up the other companies and join them later, which they did in the fall. They joined Grant in the memorable Wilderness campaign at White House Landing; there three (consolidared) companies of the gallant Minnesota 1st were joined to his command, making it larger than almost any of the regiments in that array which had been so roughly handled in the bloody contests of that year; he was first engaged at Cold Harbor, where not a few of his men gave up»their lives. From that time until the surrender of Gen. Lee, Col. Pier was a participant in all of Grant's battles. He fought his regiment most gallantly, soon winning a reputation for coolness and undaunted bravery in action. In the never-to-be-forgotten charges and countercharges at Petersburg, on the 18th of June, 1864, Col. Pier was grazed by a bullet on the forehead, was shot in the fleshy portion of the leg, and an ugly fragment of a shell hit him on the instep, the latter giving him much pain, but the three failed to drive him from the field, though the loss of blood greatly weakened him. In the early Petersburg engagements his regiment met with fearful losses. A sharpsliooter made the Colonel his especial target one day, in front of Petersburg, but did him no more harm than to shoot away one of the silver leaves on his coat. During the Weldon Railroad fight, late in August, 1864, his regiment did splendid service^ being at one time nearly surrounded and receiving a most galling fire. It was during this battle that he received a letter from home announcing his mother's death. In ^n engagement on the left of Petersburg, late in September, the regiment was flanked ; it was a part of the force supporting a battery ; the rebels came pouring down upon the infantry at a double-quick. The horses of the battery had fled to the rear with the caissons, leaving the guns at the mercy of the enemy. Seeing the danger. Col. Pier, without orders, commanded a, small part of the 38th to save the guns, which it did by hauling them away by means of the drag-ropes, while the balance of the regiment faced the oncoming rebels and peppered them unmercifully. Beside saving the guns, the 38th captured several of the enemy, so close was the contest. , Lieut. Col. Pier was division ofiioer of the day, and answered the signal the 2yth of January, on that part of the line in front of Petersburg, when Vice President Alexander Stephens and Mr. Campbell, the Confederate Commissioners, made their appearance with a flag of truce, seeking entrance to our lines on the way to meet President Lincoln, Secretary Seward and other members^ of the Cabinet at City Point. Col. BintliiF arrived with the other five companies and assumed command of the regiment ; Lieut. Col. Pier was assigned to the 109th N. Y. V. I., they having lost all field officers. This was a trying position ; there never was the most cordial feeling between Wisconsin and New York troops, at best. The New Yorkers were indignant, and not at all backward in making the fact known. But for the fact that the new commander was soon called upon to>lead his New Yorkers m a fight, where iis coolness and bravery were conspicuous and won lor him the respect and confidence of most of the officers ahd men, it is likely that he would have had serious trouble. As it was, he became very popular with the regiment, and, at the end of the war, the ofiioers and men presented him with a handsome horse and saddle, and their pride in their Wisconsin commander was so great that they insisted on his returning to Elmira with them when mustered out. Col. Pier led this regiment in the charge on Fort Mahone, at Petersburg, April 2, 18G5, and was in command during the active operations of that eventful day.

When not in active campaigns, while the army was in front of Petersburg, Col. Pier was usually on duty at division or corps headquarters, as President of a general court martial. After the regiment moved to Washington, he performed similar duties at Gen. Augur's headquarters up to August, 1865. When Col. James Bintliff was mustered out of service. Pier was commissioned Colonel, but, owing to the lack of a sufficient number of man, and. the fact that the struggle was over, he was not mustered as such. His army record is a proud one; entering the army a private in 1861, he returned to his home with honorable scars, a splendid fighting record, and with a Colonel's commission in his pocket. He and the balance of the regiment were mustered out on the 15th of August, 1865. That same year, he commenced the practice of his profession, the firm being Gillet, Conklin & Pier ; afterward Gillet & Pier ; then Gillet, Pier & Bass, and then alone until 1874, when he entered the Savings Bank; he soon took high rank as a lawyer, being very successful, and winning an enviable reputation. Col. Pier was married to Miss Kate Hamilton, of Pond du Lac, on the 25th of June, 1866 ; they have four children - Kate H., Carrie H., Harriet H. and Mary H. In July, 1873, in consequence of a serious injury to his father, who was President of the Savings

Bank, and the failing health of Hon. B. H. Galloway, the Vice President, Col. Pier entered the bank. The call from his chosen profession to these new duties was sudden, and at a most trying time, for it will be remembered that that was the year in which the distressing .financial panic came ; the panic, and the death of both Mr. Galloway and his father, threw an immense responsibility upon his shoulders ; the handling of a half-million deposits and equal discounts, at such a time, was by- no means a trifling affair; but the Savings Bank went through the great panic without a quiver. The great depression in business wa& particularly severe on Fond du Lac; while many sought to draw their capital out of business channels, then so precarious. Col. Pier, on the contrary, tried to keep the wheels in motion ^nd the laboring people employed, and, through the Business Men's Association, which he was a leader in establishing, to unite and solidify what business was left. The Mihills Manufacturing Company, the Fond du Lao Harrow Company and thfe Fond du Lao Building Association gave employment to over three hundred people. But for his business tact, confid6nce, courage and capital, it is quite safe to say that these several enterprises . would not have been established nor maintained, and most of these people been obliged to seek employment out of the city; he and those who co-operated with him in continuing the business at so much risk, will never receive the meed of praise to which they are justly entitled ; he and uhe^ could have used their capital at much less risk and care, and, doubtless, with more profit. Col. Pier has never been a politician, in the common acceptation of the term, but on several occasions has taken an active part, on the stump and in organizing for victory ; he is an easy, pleasant and forcible speaker. He has never sought office, and it is not likely that he will ; in politics he is a Republican. He has always taken a deep interest in -everything that pertains to the welfare of the men who fought in the late war. He has been a Trustee of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home a longer term than any other one, having been appointed the second year it was founded and held the position ever since ; he has been Secretary for many years, and is now Vice President. He is at present President of the Wisconsin Soldiers'- Re-union Association, and to him, more than to any other man, should be given the credit of bringing about the great Re-union and the interest growing out of the subject. His pen has been tireless the past year in agitating the question that is of so m>ich interest to the old soldiers. His " Soldier Chapters," printed in the Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere, are by far the best that have ever been produced in Wisconsin. In this connection, it ,is proper to state that the Colonel is a good writer, as well as a thorough business man and eloquent speaker.. While in the three-months service, he wrote highly interesting letters to the Saturday Reporter, of Fond du Lac. In 1870, he bought a two-thirds interest in the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, and, for a year or more, frequently contributed to its editorial columns. He retained an interest in the paper, as a matter of accommodation, until 1874. Col. Pier is public spirited, contributes liberally to the poor, and is a warm friend of all benevolent enterprises. " Act right " is his religion, and " Charity " his precept ; the balance he confidently leaves to Him who doeth all things well.

JOiSBr C. PIERROX, proprietor of the Fond du Lac Boiler Works ; is a native of France ; born in 1829 ; came to America in 18'48, and lived at Syracuse, N. Y., till 1851, when he returned to France ; remaining there about six months, he came again to Syracuse, N. Y., where he lived for nearly two years ; in 1854, came to Milwaukee and made that his home till the spring of 1856, when he moved to Fond du Lac and began boiler manufacturing, which he continued till 1858 ; he then returned to Milwaukee and worked in the shops of the Milwaukee & La Crosse Railroad for eight months, when he came again to Fond du Lao and for a short time was employed in the shops of the C. & N.-W. Ry., but was soon transferred to the C. & N.-W. Ry. shops at Chicago, remaining there from 1859 to 1862, when, for the third time, he returned to Fond du Lac and again established the boiler works of which he has since been propiietor. In 1854, he married Miss Adaline Prudhon, of Milwaukee ; they have two children - Florence A. R., and John C. Mr. Pierron has been a member of the City Council from Fifth Ward ; at various times member of the County Board, and was elected City Treasurer in the spring of 1879.

E. R. POWERS, farmer ; is the son of Jonathan and R. Powers, natives of New York. E,. R. was born in Erie Co., N. Y., in 1836, and, at the age of 10 years, came to Fond du' Lac Co., traveling the whole distance, except crossing the Lake, with a team and wagon. His intentio'mvas to settle in Winnebago Co., but after reaching it, and not being pleased with the prospects, they returned to Fond du Lae July 5, 1847, and pre-empted eighty acres of land in Section 17, town of Fond du Lac, to which they afterward added 120 acres. His father dying in 1868, the land has been divided among his heirs, of which E. R. has seventy acres, valued at $75 per acre. In 1862, he married Miss Sarah, daughter of John and Harriet Silver, of Michigan, but a native of Canada ; they have one daughter, Rose. Mrs. Powers is a member of the Baptist Church.

DE WITT CLIIVTON PRIEST, attorney; was born in Brownville, Jefferson Co., N. Y., where he lived until coming to Fond du Lac Dec. 5, 1857; Mr. P. located on the site where his fine house now is, in 1858, and has since resided upon it, engaged continuously in the practice of law. He was married, in New York, to Susan T. Joy, a native of Orleans, Jefferson Co., in that State. They have two children - Charles H. and Edward B.

JAMES K. PlIMPEJLLY, artist ; was born at Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y., April 25, 1834, where he resided Until coming to Fond du Lac, first on a visit in 1857, and then to establish a home in 1859. In 1862, Mr. P. helped raise Co. H, 32d W. V. I., of which he served as First Lieutenant two years and a half, being mustered out in the fall of 1 864. After leaving the army, he engaged in farming five years ; then turned his attention to art, and is now engaged in painting, making portraits in India ink or colored crayon. Mr. P. was married in September, 1862, to Eliza W., daughter of the late Gov. Samuel W. Beall ; she was born at Cooperstown, N. Y., and her mother, the late Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper Beall, was a near relative of James Fenimore Cooper; they have had one child, now deceased.

ALBERT G. PURDY, lumberman ; is a native of Bennington Co., Vt.; born in 1837 ; when 3 years old, with parents, Graham and Hannah Purdy, he removed to Erie Co., Penn., where he spent the balance of his time till 18 years of age. In 1855, he came to Door Co., Wis., spent the summer, and then returned to Vermont. In 1856, he came a second time to Wisconsin, and settled in the city of Fond du Lao, where, for one year, he was engaged in the grocery business. He then began saw-milling and lumbering, which he continued most of the time till 1871. In 1862, he joined the U. S. Navy of ttie Mississippi, under Commodore Porter, and served one year. He returned, then, to Fond du Lac, and resumed his business. In 1871, he formed a copartnership with Edward Squires, and, for the next year, was engaged in the manufacture of car^'iages. He then resumed the lumber trade, and is now operating in Pierce Co., Wis. In 1858, he was married to Miss Euphemia, daughter of George H. and Mary Curtis, nee Thomas, then of Outagamie Co., Wis., but a native of New York ; their children are John R. (now at Oshkosh), Albert H., Ella and Georgia.

HENRY RAHTE, Sr., wholesale liquor dealer; born in the Kingdom of Hanover in December, 1819, where his father owned a large estate ; after attending college at Winsen,be became entry clerk in a wholesale dry-goods house in the city of Hanover, where he remained four years, being afterward a salesman in Brunswick, Breslau and Leipzig ; at the age of 23, he started a woolen and silk factory for ladies' dresses, in the Kingdom of Saxony, in which he was successful, employing as high as 500 men ; when the Revolution of 1847 broke out, he was compelled to abandon his factory, and, in 1849, came to America, intending to engage in farming ; after spending some time In New York and Milwaukee, he purchased the Edward Pier farm, a portion of which is now in the fair grounds south of Fond du Lac, and, after making some improvement?, started a distillery the same year, 1849 ; he made whisky from wheat, which he purchased of the neighboring farmers at from 30 to 40 cents per bushel ; two years later, finding the distillery did not pay, Mr. Rahte abandoned it and bought out Hugo Peters, next to R. A. Baker's bank, and began the wholesale liquor business ; in 1856, he sold out to Bupp & Bro., and went to France and England for the purpose of forming business connections to open a wholesale liquor house in Chicago. The outlook being unsatisfactory on his return, he came to Fond du Lac and began the same business with his brother-in-law, Franz Lauenstein, having a branch house at Oshkosh for one year ; at the end of two years, he sold out to Mr. Lauenstein, and made a trip to Italy and Sicily, after which the two again started a distillery on Ingram's place ; since that time, he has carried on the wholesale liquor business in his own name. He was married in Germany, in 1844, to Maria Lauenstein; they have nine children, of whom the oldest is 33, and the youngest 14 years of age.

HENRY RAHTE, Jr., was bom in Fond du Lac Feb. 15, 1851, which has always been his home. He enlisted in Battery K, 1st Light Artillery, regular army, in which he served from 1867 to 1870 ; in the fall of 1870, he opened a beer hall, which business he has since followed. He was married at Fond du Lac, July 29, 1873, to Henrietta Pulse, born also in this city ; they have two children - Norbert A. and Walter. Mr. Rahte is a member of the Concordia Society, Turner Society and Druids.

DON A. RAYMOND, M. D., son of Ebenezer and Rebecca Raymond ; was bom at Warren, Washington Co., Vt., Sept. 10, 1818 ; educated in his native town at the academy at Montpelier, Vt., and at the Randolph Academy; in 1845, he graduated from the Castleton Medical College ; after two years' practice in his native town, while settling his father's estate, he removed to Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he remained three years, when he was appointed Surgeon of the State Prison in Clinton Co., N. Y., and remained there three and a half years ; in November, 1853, he removed to Wisconsin, and came to Pond du Lac in January, 1854, where he has since remained ; in 1861 , soon after the outbreak of the war, he entered the service of the United States as Surgeon of the 3d W. V. I., acting most of the time as Brigade Surgeon, however ; after one and a half year's service, his health failed, and he was compelled to resign; he returned home, and, after recruiting his health, resumed practice. In his professional capacity he is one of the oldest and best exponents of the science of medicine in this part of the State, and is justly entitled to a prominent place among the best physicians ; he has performed a prodigious amount of professional labor ; his health has been considerably impaired by overwork, and he has heen obliged to decline much business proffered to him. May 15, 1850, he was married to Miss Maria R. Poote, by whom he has two daughters - Ella J. (now Mrs. George Frank, of Madison, Wis.) and Emma (now Mrs. Frank Knapp, of Pond du Lao). His wife was born at Canton, N. Y., in June, 1823, and died Sept< 28, 1874.

W. A. REiADEiR, undertaker; was born at Columbus, Ohio, March 11, 1838, and came with his father, A. W. Reader, to Fond du Lac Sept. 24, 1855. He enlisted May 5, 1861, in Co, E, 6th W. V. I. as Orderly Sergeant, but was promoted to First Lieutenant and transferred to Co. 6 same regiment, soon after ; he was discharged on account of sickness in November, 1862. In January, 1863, he became associated with his father under the firm name of A. W. Reader & Son, continuing with him until June, 1864, since which time he has carried on the business alone. Mr. R. was married at Pond du Lac July 5, 1859, to Catherine R., who was born in Green Bay, Wis., daughter of P. D. McCarty, one of the earliest settlers of Fond du Lac, now a resident of Milwaukee; they have two children - Prank D., born Aug. 13, 1860, and George B., Oct. 20, 1865.

JOHX W. REinVOLiD)^, son of John Reynolds^ a resident of the city, was born at Bowmansville, Erie Co., N. Y., Dec. 14, 1852 ; came with his parents to Fond du Lac when 3 years of age; the family spent one winter in the city and then removed to a farm, spending twelve years in Oakfield, Alto and Byron, returning then to the city. John W. spent most of his time in school until beginning the grocery business, which he followed seven years as a clerk and the last four years as a member of the firms of Reynolds & Lee and Reynolds & Olmsted. Ho was married in Fond du Lao, May 1, 1878, to Emma J., daughter of Jacob Ward, born in this city ; they have one son - Wallace E., born May 3, 1879.

DANIEL G. RICHARDSOIV, farmer ; is a son of Abijah and Elisie C. Richardson, of Pelham, Rockingham Co., N. H. ; born May 18, 1822 ; Daniel spent the first seventeen years of hisMife on his father's farm, where he followed market gardening in the city of Lowell, Mass., which was only four miles distant ; in 1840, he began engineering on the railroad from Lowell to Rouse's Point, which he followed for more than thirteen years ; he also ran the fir-it train over the White Mountains. He is the gentleman who first suggested the idea of putting the bell-cord through the cars instead of having it pass over the top as it formerly did. In February, 1854, he came to Fond du Lac, Wis., and began engineering on the North- Western Railroad, which he continued till 1855, at which time he began farming, and, has since devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits ; he now owns 122'acres, 88 acres of which are in Sec. 7, town of Fond du Lac, the rest being in See. 12 in the town of Lamartine, worth about |70~ per acre. April 24, 1845, he married Miss Mary J., daughter of Moses and Deborah Holt, of Pembroke, N. H. ; they have three children - -Daniel H., of Fond du Lac ; Harriet M., now Mrs. James Curran, of Pond du Lac ; George A., who married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ann Searly, of Pond du Lac, April 25, 1878.

ALiERED ROBBIIVS, of the firm of Bullis & Bobbins, livery-stable proprietors ; was bori in Predonia, N. Y., whence, in 1850, he went to California, remaining there until 1859, when he came to . Fond du Lac ; in 1860, he began to deal in grain, which was continued until 1866, when he entered the livery business with N. L. Bullis, which he has since continued.

CHARLES W. ROBERTSON was born in the town of Edinburg, Saratoga Co., N. Y., May 11, 18-i9 ; resided there until he was 14 years of age, then went with his parents to Canada, where he resided until he came to Sheboygan, Wis., in 1858 ; lived there two years, then moved to Ontonagon, Mich., in the copper mining region, where he was engaged in dealing in groceries, provisions, etc., beside carrying on a butchering business there .eight years ; he then came to Fond du Lac, arriving here in October, 1868 ; for seven years since coming here, he was shipping stock and produce to the mining countl-y in Northern Michigan ; since then he has been pressing hay and shipping it to the same region. Mr. R. was married at Woodstock, Ont., in September, 1854, to Jane Beath, a native of Scotland ; they have three children living - Ella M; 0., Lulu G. and Jennie M.; they lost one son, who died at Ontohagon, aged 20 months.

J. P. RO.BLEE, retired farmer, is a son of Thomas and Laura Roblee, of Washington Co., N. Y., born in December, 1819, his parents being descendants of the early immigrants to that county from Prance; Jay received his early education in the district schools of his native county, after which he attended the academy of North Granville, N. Y.; he followed farming in Washington Co. from the time he quit school until 1842, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm in Milwaukee Co. for about two years, whence, in 1845, he removed to F.md du Lac Co., and entered a farm of 160 acres in the township of Byron ; here, with an ox team, he broke out a small part of this farm at first, and built a board shanty, which served as a home for three years ; in 1848, he sold this farm, and bought anpther in the town of Lamartine, making the latter his home until 1854 ; he traded it for a farm of 435 acres in Sees. 19, 20 and 30 in Fond du Lao Township ; here he continued his agricultural pursuits ^ntil 1874, when he retired from active life and moved to the city of Fond du Lac. He was married, April 11 , 1846, in the town of Lamartine, to Miss Eliza, daughter of Wanton and Fannie Hall, of Hartford, Washington Co., N. Y.; they have had four children - E. Jane (now Mrs. David Downing, of Fond du Lac), Joseph F. (who married Miss Effie Crofoot, daughter of Alva Crofoot), Laura A. (deceased), and Ellen N. Mr. Roblee and family are members of the Methodist Church,

FEIilX RODGE^RS, boot and shoe maker, was born in Ireland June 4, 1824; learned his trade in his native country, »nd came to America in 1850 ; settled at Dover, N. J., where he resided until 1852, when he moved to Fond du Lac; in 1861, he enlisted in Co. C, 17th W. V. I.; was discharged at Corinth, Miss., on account of disability, after which he returned to Fond du Lac, and for two years and six months did nothing, on account of ruined health caused by exposure while in the army. He married Miss Catharine Durkin, of Fond du Lac, Jan. 2, 1855, who died Feb. 27, 1867, leaving two children - Ann and Felix. Nov. 15, 1875, he married Mrs. Jane Galvin, by whom he has one daughter - Mary Ann. Mr. Rodgers is a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, also a member of the Total Abstinence Society connected with his church ; he owns some property, and his wife owned some in the city before their marriage.

WIIililAM. ROIiOFF', proprietor of the Central market; was born in Prussia April 11, 1847 ; came to Mayville, Wis., in 1865 ; removed to Beaver Dam soon after, and came to Fond du Lac in 1869, where he has been engaged in his present business ever since. He was married at Fond du Lao Sept. 4, 1873, to Mary Albrecht, a natiye of Dantzi'o, Germany ; they have one child - Nora. Mr. Roloif is a member of the Sons of Hermann.

FRANK HARVEY ROJVDO, was bom at Rouse's Point, N. Y., April 10, 1844; came from there to Fond du Lac in 1862 ; worked for three years in a saw-mill ; has followed blaoksmithing ever since, and for six years has worked for the La Belle Wagon Works. Mr. Rondo was married at Fond du Lao Dec. 25, 1864, to Mary Louise De Mar, a native of Massachusetts; they have three children - Charles,. William and Josephene. He has been Alderman three years; is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Red Ribbon Club.

ANDREW ROOK, farmer and dairyman, Sec. 24; P. 0. Fond du Lac; is a son of Adam and Catharine Rook, and was born in Messen, Germany, in 1831 ; he was educated according to the school .system of Germany, after which he devoted his time to his father's farming and fruit growing^; in 1847, he with his parents emigrated to America and settled in Oneida Co., N. Y., where they followed market gardening for five years ; thence, in 1868, removed to Fond du Lac, where he followed working farms on shares till 1878, when he purchased the John Sewell farm of 160 acres in Sec. 24 - worth abofit $75 per acre. In 1853, he was married to Miss Rebecca R., daughter of L. P. Maxon, of Madison Co., N. Y.; * they have four children, as follows - Arthur D., Rosetta V., Edgar B. and Friinklin B. Hfe and wife are members of the Congregational Church. Mr. Rook keeps quite an extensive dairy ; has twenty-five cows, and sells about 150 quarts of milk per day.

REV. DON All D ROSS, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, is a native of Nova Scotia ; born in April, 1833, and is the son of Kenneth and Catharine Ross; he spent the first sixteen years of his life with his parents on a farm in his native place, and there received the earlier part of his educsftion in the common schools; at the age of 16 he began teaching, and devoted his attention to that profession for three successive years; in the fall of 1853, he entered Queens College, at Kingston, Canada, where he completed the collegiate course in 1856; he then entered the Theological Department of that institution, and graduated with his class in 1859 ; he was at once licensed, ordained and settled as Pastor of the church at Vaughn, Ontario, a charge requiring services in the English and Gaelic languages; here he had a successful pastorate for seven years, and was then called to the charge of Dundee, Province of Quebec, where he was even more successful in his labors for ten years; he next had a pre-eminently successful pastorate for three years, at Lancaster, Province of Ontario, ^hen failing health forced him to give up the charge; the General Assembly*then appointed him to Prince Albert, an important missionary station in the Northwest Territory of Canada, requiring teaching, preaching, and the supervision of a large district ; on his way thither, failing health again forced him to turn aside from his purpose, and by the advice of physicians he gave up the appointment, and in the fall of 1879 was called to the charge of the First Presbyterian Church of Fond du Lac. In 1860, he was marriedto Catherine, eldest daughter of James George,

D. D., then Principal of Queens College, but now deceased ; their children are Kenneth J. L., now a promising student at Queens College, Margaret, Elizabeth and James G., who are now at home.

LESTER RO[J]VDS$, was boi-n in Dunham, Canada East, May 1, 1805-, removed when an infant with his parents to Eranklin Co., Vt., where he was educated; came to Southport (now Kenosha), Wis., in August, 1839; removed to Ceresco (now Ripon), in May, 1844, where he was the first school teacher, first Postmaster, and first Chairman of the town, also Secretary of the Wisconsin Phalanx; in 1850, removed to Eureka, Winnebago Co., Wis., where he has held various offices ; was the first Postmaster, and is now in the mercantile business. Mr. R. married in Vermont, Septeijiber 2, 1827, Aurilla Parker, born in that State ; they have three children - Sterling Parker, dealer in printers' supplies, Chicago ; Rhoda !A.nn, now Mrs. A. S. Bolster, Kane Co., Ill, and Horace Baton, of Chicago.

FREDRICK RUEPIIVG, of the firm of William Rueping <&;,Sons, tanners, was born in (iermany, in 1836; he learned the tanner's trade in his native country, and came with his parents to America in 1854, and settled at Pond du Lac ; here he, with his father and brother, established a tannery, of which they have since been proprietors. In 1866, he married Miss Margaret Thuerwaechter, of Fond du Lac ; they have four children, as follows : Fredrick, Ida, Clara and William. Louis Reuping, brother and partner of Fredrick, is also a native of Germany, born in 1839 ; came with his father to America in 1854; learned the tanner's trade with his brother after reaching Fond du Lac, and since 1867, has been a partner with his father and brother in the business. In 1870, he married Miss Ida Haevernick, of Fond du Lac, she being a native of Hamburg, Germany ; they have four children - Emma, Laura, Alwine and Lena.

ArGIJSTUS GRAHAM RUGGIiES, banker ; was born in Orange Co,, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1822. As clerk in the Bank of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., he learned the business of banking, which he has followed successfully during the last quarter of a cen'^ury. July 26, 1846, Mr. R. came to Fond du Lac, making arrangements during the summer to enter into the manufacture of lumber, after which he returned Eiist, stopping on the way at Cleveland and purchasing steam machinery for a saw-mill. He returned to Fund du Lac late in the fall, and early in the spring of 1847, had, in company with one Davis, erected and put into operation the first steam saw-mill built in Northern Wisconsin. After running this mill, which represented the first cash outlay for improvements or manufacturing in Pond du Lao, north of Forest street, for a year or so, Mr. Ruggles abandoned the lumbering business, and began operating in real estate. In 1850, he purchased the patent of the famous Woodworth planer, and erected and set in motion, in connection with a saw-mill, the first planer ever run in Fond du Lac. This enterprise he sold after a/year or so, and, in 1852, went East and became cashier of the Huguenot Bank, in Ulster Co., N. Y. In the spring of 1854, he resigned his position in the bank and returned to Fond du Lac in August of that year, and organized and opened for business, in February, 1855, the old Bank of the Northwest. In this bank Mr. R. remained as cashier until the organization of the First National Bank in December, 1867, of which he has always been manager, and its President since Jan. 1, 1875. In 1862 Mr. Ruggles saw the need of greater facilities and competition in the business of carrying freight by railways from Fond du Lac, and, therefore, became a Director of the then partially completed Sheboygari & Fond du Lac Railway, with the intention of using his efforts to secure' its completion from Glenbeulah, in Sheboygan Co., to Fond du Lac. Finally, in 1865, he began to take a pecuniary interest in the enterprise ; was instrumental in securing the vote of the county in favor of granting $ 1 50,000 aid for the construction of the road, and induced capitalists to aid in its completion to Fond du Lac, which was achieved in January, 1869. From adverse circumstances, the road then lay dormant until 1870, when James F. Joy and friends were induced by Mr. Ruggles to purchase a majority of the stock, and complete the road to Ripon and Princeton, which was done in 1871 and 1872. Thus it was mainly due to Mr. Ruggles' efforts that the road was pushed on to Fond du Lac and finally to the Wolf River. Mr. Ruggles was married at Fond du Lac, in November, 1865, to Julia P., daughter of Gov. Nathaniel P. Tallmadge; they have two children - Gertrude Golden and Augustus Graham Ruggles, Jr., the only survivors of seven children born to them.

HERSIAX RUPP, engineer of the city Fire Engine No. 5 ; was born in Fond du Lac Oct. 1, 1856 ; after leaving school in 1872, he served an apprenticeship at the trade of machinist ; worked for five years at his trade, then for nine months he served as stoker of Engine No. 5, and for the last four years he has been engineer of the same; for two years he was connected with the Volunteer Fire Department, and with the present department since its organization. He is a member of the Fireman's Mutual Aid Society. March, 1879, Mr. Rupp was married at Watertown, Wis., to Miss Sophia Schroeder; she was born at Watertown. Mr. Rupp's mother, Katharine Rupp, died in the fall of 1869 ; his father, Louis Rupp, died in May, 1873.

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PETER RUPP was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 31, 1824; came to Calumet, Fond du Lac Co., in 1842 ; went into the Southern States in 1846, and came to Pond du Lae, where he lias since resided, in 1849 ; he began business for himself by building the " City of Mentz " Hotel, which he managed four years ; then in the grocery business, and for twenty years in the wholesale liquor business. Mr. Rupp was Once a candidate for State Treasurer on the Democratic ticket ; served one term as Sheriff; three years as a member of the City Council, and is now one of the Trustees of th« Northern Hospital for the Insane. He was married at Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 1848, to Kate Laux, who was born at Landau, Bavaria ; they have six children - Eliza, Otto, Amelia, Rosa, Julius and Peter. Mr. Kupp is a member of the I. 0. 0. P., and A., P. & A. M. Lodges.

JAMES RUSSELIj, present publisher of the Fond du Lac Jouvnal, enjoys the distinction of being the editor and proprietor of the oldest newspaper in Wisconsin, Teri'itory or StE^te, with but two exceptions ; the Kenosha Telegraph outranks it a year or two, and the Green Bay Advocate a few weeks ; but the pioneer publishers of the Journal have long since ceased connection with it, and it is now in younger and more progressively vigorous hands. James Kussell is Wisconsin-born ; he is a native of Hartford, Washington Co., and his father was a farmer in that town ; such an education as the village school afforded the subject 6f this sketch, he obtained, until he was 14 years of age ; at that period of his life, his parents removed to the then immature town of Mankato, Minn., and it was there that the boy's journalistic twig was inclined as the tree has become bent; as will be seen, he tried to evade the spell, but unsuccessfully. There was a Democratic paper published in Mankato, called the Record, and it must have been a progressive office, for Russell learned his trade there in leSs than a year ; Mr. J. C. Wise was the editor, and possibly the same had something to do with the influe^nces surrounding the establishment. Mr. Russell, now passing^ from boyhood into manhood, was becoming to be recognized in newspaper circles; he was offered and accepted a position as foreman and local reporter upon the Herald^ published at Garden City, in the same State. Mr. Russell counts several months of not particularly happy experience in that connection ; although his inclinations had all been in that direction, his pecuniary successes had been few, and Mr. Russell made up his mind to become a lawyer ; with that object in view, he returned to his native State, and entered the University of Wisconsin for a course of study in the line of his ambition ; this was" in 1868 ; iri the latter part of the second year of his college studies, his health beeame poor, and he was ordered by medical advice to retire from his class, temporar\ly; he did so, and sought rest at home again. In February, 1870, he was offered a position on the Fond du Lac Journal, a weekly newspaper, then conducted by Messrs. Beeson & Bohan; Mr. Bohan being an uncle of Mr. Russell. From this time on, the gentleman's career is well known in Wisconsin newspaper circles, and the details can be condensed. Connected indirectly with the Journal office at the date last mentioned, was the Star Job Printing Office, one of the largest and most completely equipped steam printing houses in the State ; into this concern Mr. Russell purchased, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Leonard, Bohan & Russell. In September, 1873, he purchased a one-half interest in the Journal from Mr. Bohan, the other half being sold to Mr. T. P. Strang, Jr., and the firm of Strong & Russell became the proprietors of the publication. The job department was at the same time re-organized by transfer, and passed into the property of Leonard, Russell & Strong. In 1874, the stock organization known as the Star Printing Company was chartered, and on the following 1st of January the job and newspaper interests were consolidated, and the Company commenced business with Mr. Russell as a principal stockholder, and in the position of editor. Since then, the management has never passed from his hands, although the corporation has ceased to eiist, and he is now sole editor and proprietor of the Morning Journal (daily), the Pond du Lac Journal (weekly), and proprietor of the Star Steam Book and Job Printing Office. Politically, Mr. Russell has always been a Democrat. In 1875, he accepted the nomination of his party for State Senator, as a leader of a forlorn hope, and polled a vote in excess of his party strength in the district ; in the year following, he was elected Clerk of the Court for the county, after a desperate political fight ; he is now practically out of politics, further than his journalistic duties lead him. Mr. Russell was married, on Christmas Day, 1878, to Miss Katie Riley, a society lady of Fond du Lac. Mr. and Mrs. Russell are already proud in the possession of one boy. It may not be out of place to say that Mr. Russell's rapid rise in journalistic prominence is due, undoubtedly, to his keen perception of human nature, as established in his selection of the men with whom he surrounds himself in the editorial and mechanical departments of his business ; he does not allow anybody about his premises an hour longer than he thinks his presence is worth the territory he occupies.

HENRY H. RUSSEIili was bom at Windsor, Broome Co., N. Y., and came to Fond du Lac in 1857 ; in 1868, he purchased the Jones & Sage hollow-tooth harrow, the first one ever patented, and began its introduction and manufacture ; he was the first to discover its merits and put the harrow, which has seventy-two teeth, upon the market ; he established agencies and factories in nearly every State in the Union, and has transacted an immense amount of business.

MICHAEL RYAIV, farmer. Sees. 35, 15 and 17 ; P. 0.,Pond du Lac ; is a native of County Tipperary, Ireland ; born in 1828, and was the son of a farmer io that county ; immigrated to America in 1849 ; settled in Canada West for one year, thence to the State of New York, where he resided about four years; in 1854, he removed to Fond du Lac Co., Wis., where he has since resided; in 1864, he removed to .his present home, having bought the farm (120 acres') three years previously. At Rochester, N. Y., in 1854, he was married to Miss Ellen McGuiness, daughter of Sylvester McGuioess, of County Meath, Ireland ; they have had eleven children - Edmund, Sylvester, John, Peter (of Kansas), Francis (now pursuing his theological studies for the priesthood, under Archbishop Henni, of Milwaukee), Patrick, Mary A., Ellen and James (deceased), Margaret and George (deceased). The family are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

FREDRICK SANDER, manufacturer of furniture and dealer in cabinet ware ; was bornin Germahy in 1825 ; he came to America in 1853, and located in Boston, remaining two years ; from there he came to Fond du Lac ; he learned his trade in his native country, beginning at the age of 15, and has closely followed it since ; he was in he employ of Mr. John Bishop, a furniture dealer, for the first two years after arriving at Fond du Lie, when, in 1857, he became the partner of A. A. Lange,. where he continued till 1859, when, by mutual consent, the firm was dissolved; Mr. Sander has since continued the business alone, and to-day is one ot the most extensive furniture dealers in the city. In 1853, he married Miss Babelle Felburger, of Boston, she being a native of Germany also ; they have had six children, the first three of whom are deceased ; those living are Emma, Bertha and Fredrick. Mr. Sander was one of the first Trustees of the Lutheran Church, and has always remained a member of that body.

J. R. SAIVFORD, proprietor of Patty House livery stable ; was born in Albion, Kennebeck Co. Me., Dec. 25, 1847, where he resided until he came to Fond du Lac in 1866 ; he was employed in the lumber business until he opened his livery stable, fie was married at Fond du Lac, Nov. 24, 1868, to Jennie Marlow.

PETER T. SANU, retired, was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, Nov. 10,. 1809, and came to this country in 1832 ; he resided in Pennsylvania until May, 1834, when he enlisted in the United States Army in Albany, N. Y.; on the 15th pf August, 1834, he came to Green Bay, and was assigned to Fort Winnebago, where he served eight years, seven years as Orderly Sergeant ; in the month of June, 1840, Mr. Sang received a permanent injury in the line of his duties, for which he now receives a pension of $24 per month. After the expiration of his term of service, he moved to Seven Mile Creek, now Lamartine, in the month of August, 1842, where he owned 120 acres of land ; Mr. Sang resided in Lamartine from August, 1842, until March 26, 1876 ; during which time he held many responsible offices, as follows: Notary since the, fall of 1845 ; Postmaster over»twenty years, from 1845-; Town Clerkj seventeen years ; Chairman of Town Supervisors, three ye9,rs, two years of which service he was Chairman of the County Board; School District Clerk of District No. 1, eleven years; County Tr^surer, three years ; Deputy United States Marshal, three years (under President Pierce's administration); in May, 1854, he was commissioned by the City Council of Fond du Lao as traveling emigrant agent between this city and New York City, and acted as Government Land Agent for emigrants, during which time he paid into the United States Receiver's office over $231,000 ; he is now serving his fourth year as Coroner of this county, and has been one of the election clerks of the First Ward since he moved into the city, which was in 1876 ; Mr. Sang, in 1870, took the census of Lamartine ; he was also Justice of the Peace nine years in the same town. He was married, in June, 184.H, to Mrs. Hooper, who died April 19, 1875, and married, a second time, in 1879, to Mrs. Warren, a daughter of Col. Titus V. Wood worth, of New Hampshire.

MARTIN SASSE, manufacturer of and dealer in boots and shoes; was born in Prussia Nov- 29, 1826, where he resided until coming to Bufialo, N. Y., in January, 1851, where he remained, nine months ; he then resided two years in Washington Co., Wis., aftfer which he came to Fond du Lac, which has since been his place of residence; Mr. S. learned the shoemaker's trade when 14 years of age, and has carried on the business continuously since he came to Fond du Lac. He was married in Prussia, in November, 1850, to Frederika Blumenburg, a native of that country; they have twelve children living, all born in America - Ada, Emma, Amelia, Emil, Matilda, Bertha, Otto, Martin, Robert, Hermann, Frederick and Ella; an infant daughter was lost while on shipboard coming to America. He belongs to the Concordia Society and to the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

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AUGUST F. SCHAAR, merchant tailor; was born in Schoenlanke, Prussia, Feb. 26, 1855;- came to America with his parents in 1868 ; their first location was at Oshkosh in the fall of that year ; Mr. S. has worked at the tailoring business thirteen years ; came to Fond du Lac in the spring of 1871. He was married in this city, Oct. 9, 1878, to Amelia DeSombre, who was born on the Atlantic Ocean whilp her parents were on their way to America; they have an infant daughter, born Nov. 8, 1879. Mr. S. is a member of the German Evangelical Church, also of the Benevol'ent Society and Knights o'f Honor.

HBKRY SCHEREK, of Fond du Lac File Works, is a native of Germany, where he was born in 1836 ; came to America in 1855, and began work at his trade as a journeyman, at Albany, N. Y., in the fall of the same year ; in the spring of 1866 he came to Milwaukee, and was partner of Mr. Victor Buxor for one year in the file works, after which he sold out and came to Fond du Lac and established a small shop, which, in 1870 he enlarged, employed five men, and cut from six to eight dozen per day ; capital stock, $3,000. He married Miss Eliza M. Wills, of Troy, N. Y., in 1860 ; they have eight children, as follows : Nicholas, Mary, now Mrs. Giegengack, of Oakfield Township, Catherine, Henry, Charles, Millie, Lena and Louis. Mr. S. has been a Mason since 1869 ; member of I. 0. 0. F. since 1870. Mr. Scherer has residence in city valued at 81,200.

S. W. SCHERIIIERHORN, carriage painter for Perkins & Clement ; was born in 1854 in" Napanee, Ontario, Canada; he began the painter's trade with Grand Hamilton, of that place, in 1869, and continued there for about three years, whence he went to Dresden, Canada, where he continued his trade for about eighteen months ; he next went to Jackson, Mich., for one year, thence to Grand Rapids, Mich.,, for two years; in 1873 he came to Fond du Lao ; in 1878 he established a shop for himself, but disposed of that in about a year's time and became painter in the carriage-shops for Perkins & Clement. In 1876 he was married to Miss Hattie Kelley, daughter of John Kelley, a farmer* of the Province of Ontario ; they have one child, Zellah. Mr. S. and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

(jr. SCHERZIXGBR, watchmaker and jeweler, was born in Baden, Germany, Oct. 27, 1832, and came to New Orleans in 1851 ; he remained there but a few weeks, going thence for short periods to- Louisville, Cincinnati and New York, whence he came to Fond du Lao in May, 1855, and engaged in his present business, which he has followed ever since. He was married at Fond du Lac, Nov. 18, 1857, to Katie Hess, a native of Prussia, who died Jan. 29, 1872; she was the mother of five children - Louis, Carl, Frances, Katie and Henry. Mr. S. was married a second time, July 17, 1877, to Gertrude Schumer, a native of Prussia, by whom he has had one child, Hermann. Mr. and Mrs. S. are members of the German Catholic Church.

JOHN J. SCHEUBER, M. D., is a native of Underwalden,. Switzerland, where he was born in 1842; received his early education undef the monks of Engleberg, Switzerland, being placed in their care at the age of 9, and remaining there six years, after which he spent two years in the study of natural philosophy and physics, at Feldkiroh, Austria; in 1859, he began his medical studies at Zurich, where he pursued them for one year ; in 1868 he moved to Berne, Switzerland, where he continued his studies for three years, graduating in 1863 ; in 1864, he began the practice of medicine with Dr. Weissen, of Wallis, Switzerland ; he returned to Berne, and was assistant physician in the Walden Insane Asylum for one year, whence in 1866, he came to America and settled at Chicago, 111., where he practiced medicine for about three years ; In 1869 he removed to Joliet, 111., and continued his practice till 1876, whence he moved to Evanston, 111., and thence in 1878, to Fond du Lac ; has been appointed attending physicijin of St. Agnes' Convent, by Father Haas, of the Capuchin Order. In 1871, he married Miss Mary Phylomena Blaitner, daughter of Michael Blatlner, of Joliet, 111.; they have three children - Mary, Joseph and Theresa. They are members of St. Mai7's Catholic Church.

SCHIFF BROTHERS & CO., clothiers. Henry Schiif was bo-rn in Milwaukee Feb. 10, 1857; Arthur Schifi' was born at the same place Sept. 6, 1858; Mrs. Dorris Schiff, their mother, was born in Naumburg, Saxony, Feb. 28, 1838; came to Milwaukee in 1855, and to Fond du Lao in 1859. She was married at Milwaukee May 15, 1856, to Louis Schifi", who came to that place in 1848, and died in Fond du Lac Aug. 20, 1874, The family has been in the clothing business twenty years.

REV. JACOB SCHNEIiliER, Pastor of the Evangelical Association ; is a native of Canton Graubinden, Switzerland, where he was born in 1844 ; he came to America with his parents when quite young; received his early education in the public school at Troy, Wis., after which, in 1864, he entered the Freshman Class of the Northwestern College at PlainSeld, 111., where he pursued both his collegiate and theological studies till 1868 ; when leaving college in 1868, he was licensed to preach and immediately entered the ministry, traveling through Sheboygan Co. as minister for two years, after which he was ordained Deacon of the Evangelical Association at Milwaukee ; he was sent to M^quette Co. for two years.

when, in May, 1874, at Menomonee Falls, Waukesha Co., he was ordaiaed and became Elder in the Association, after which he again returned to Marquette Co. for one year, when he was called to the charge at Morrison, Brown Co., Wis., where he was Pastor for three years ; from there, in May, 1878, he was called to the charge of the Evangelical Association at Fond du Lac, where he has since remained. April 17, 1870, he married Miss Anna C. Haas, of Honey Creek, Sauk Co., Wis., by whom he has four children - Anna L., Lydia M., John B. and Frank J.

JACOB SCHOL/Ii, boot and shoe manufacturer and farmter, Seesi 16, 15 and 17 ; is a native of Prussia, where he was born Aug. 20, 1811 ; he is a son of John and Margaret SchoU, and was soon apprenticed to the shoemaker'.s trade with his father, which he has ever since followed ; when about 22 , years old he went to Belgium, where he followed his trade for four years ; when his mother died he returned to Prussia, and stayed at home till 28 years of age, when he was married to. Miss Gertrude, daughter of Anthon and Mary Handshumaker, June 3, 1839. They, set sail for America early in the spring of 1848, landed at New York April 18, and reached Fond du Lao the 18th of the following nionth, living in Pond du Lac for three years ; he removed to Waupun for two years, thence to Sun Prairie for five years, after which he returned' to Fond du Lac ; bought a farm of thirty-one acres in Sec. 16, valued at about $75 per acre. They have eleven children - Mary (deceased), As;nes (now Mrs. Pucker, of Fond du Lac), Elizabeth (now Mrs'. Simon Ferdnand), Peter, Anton (deceased), Margaret (now Mrs. F. Steady), Jacob, Jr., of Fond du Lac, Isabella "(now Mrs. Toddele, deceased), Mathias,* Simon and Michael. They are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church. '

JOSEPH SCHUSSLER, proprietor of West Hill Brewery; was born in Baden June 24, 1819 ; when 15 years old, he began the cooper's and brewer's trades in his native country, and followed the same there till 1846, when he came to America; he settled first in Milwaukee, Wis., where he worked at the brewer's trade most of the time till 1850 ; he then removgd to Oshkosh, Wis., where he devoted his attention to the cooper's trade till 1861 ; removing thence to Fond du Lac, he was employed in Frey's brewery till 1865, when he began again the cooper business, and continued the same till 1872 ; he then the West Hill Brewery, of which he has since been proprietor. At MilwaukeCj in 1849, he was married to Fannie Newkirch, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt ; their children are Emma (now the wife of Herinan Zinke, and lives in this city), Charles (now married, and lives in this city, also,), Arthur, Mary, Ida, William, Josephine, Albert and Oito.

JOH]V C H. SCHWARTZ, proprietor of meat-market ; was born August 16, 1842, in Germany; is a son of Peter C. Schwartz; stone and brick mason, who came to America in 1849, and settled in Fond du Lac; at 12 years of age, John began clerking in a grocery store for Carpenter & Pfer, continuing there for two years ; thence to the dry-goods store of Carswell & Dee, till 1860 ; thence to Loughlin & dry-goods store for two years ; in 1862, ho became proprietor of a meat-rbarket ; he soon disposed of his market and began traveling for a dry-goods house ; he was next with the dry-goods house of C' JPettibone, where he had charge of the retail silk stock arid the wholesale trade up-stairs for about three years ; he Was traveling agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company for one year ; then, for one year, with Carswell & Mason, dry-goods merchants ; then, for three or four years, was proprietor of a meatmarket again ; sold out that and kept hotel at Horieon for a short time ; then went into the livery business at Fond du Lac ; after spending three years at this, he went into the real-estate business for two and a half years ; in June, 1879, he began keeping a meat-market again. He married Miss Ada Carpenter, daughter of Nunn Carpenter, carpenter and joiner, of Sheboygan, Wis., Dec. 16, 1863 ; they have two sons - Edwin H. an dFrank D. E.

AIVTOIVY SERVATIUS, butcher; was bom in- Prussia Oct. 4, 1838, and came to Michigan in 1840, where he lived until coming to Fond du Lac in the fall of 1849 ; he was engaged as a drygoods clerk from 1855 to 1862, then two years in the boot and shoe business, then two years as a grocer, after which he contracted for laying stone and Nicolson pavement, paving Main street from Division to Fifth, in 1870 ; in 1872, he began the business of butchering and keeping a meat market, which he now follows. ' Mr. S. was married, in Racine, Oct. 29, 1861, to Mary Haas, by whom he has had six children - Celia, Leo, Helen, Johanna, Antoinette and Amelia. He is a member of St. Joseph's Benevolent Society ; has been Alderman, President of the City Council, and Chairman of the Fourth Ward, in which he resides.

CHRISTIAN SERWE, proprietor of the Serwe House ; is a native of Prussia, and was born in 1826 ; emigrated to America and settled at Fond da Lac in 1846, being now one of the oldest German settlers here ; he followed laboring for about four years after his first settlement ; in 1850, he secured a position as clerk in Sewoll Bros.' dry-goods store, where he remained nearly two years, ohanging then to Mr. Laughlin's dry-goods store, with which he was connected till 1861, when he returned to

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Sewell Bros.; in JDecember, 1863, he purchased the Serwe House, and has since been its proprietor. In 1853, he married Miss Mary F. Baurgeois, daughter of John Baurgeois, of Prussia ; they have had eleven ohildren, as follows : Mary (deceased), Mathias, Joseph, Kosa, Elizabeth, Albert, John, Isabella, Frank (deceased), Phillip L. and Julia P. Mr. S. and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Mr. .S. has been, at various times, a member of the City Council ; has also been Assessor and County Purchasing Agent.

- JOSEPH SERWE, salesman in Mr. Whittelsey's dry-goods store ; was born in Prussia in 1832 ; lived there on a farm till 1846, when, with parents, he came to America and settle! in Fond du Lao Co., at Calumet, where he lived about five years; he then returned to Fond du Lao and was employed as clerk by Hall & Hoskins, dry-goods merchants, till 1855, at which time he became a partner of Mr. Hoskins, in the firm of Hoskins & Serwe; in 1860, they took in a brother of Mr, Serwe, and the firm continued as Hoskins, Serwe & Bro. till 1862, at which time he sold out his interest in the dry-goods business and became clerk for Messrs. Carswell & Dee, dry-goods merchants; in 1866, he went into the post office as clerk for Gen. Bragg; he next kept a grocery store on Main street for a short time, but soon sold that and became salesman ibr Messrs. Sharp & Whittelsey, dry-goods merchants. In 1859, he married Miss Crescentia Klotz, daughter of Igatius Klotz, of the town of Eden, Fond du L-ac, Wis; they have eight children - Hannah, Katie, Elizabeth M., Josephine, Francis A., Theresa, I. J. and Rudolph. All the family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

O. F. SEXMITH, of the firm of Sexmith & Sons, proprietors of saw-mill and lumber-yard ; also partner with his brother, L. Sexmith, in a stock farm of 186i acres, three miles southeast of the city, where they make a specialty of raising short-horn cattle and Norman horses. Mr. Sexmith was born in the city of Fond du Lac in 1849 ; received his early education at the public schools of this city ; after which, he graduated at the Commercial College at Milwaukee in 1868 ; became a partner with his father and brother in the saw-mill in August 1879 ; in 1875, he bought a farm of 187 acres in Dodge Co; soon after which, he sold a one-half interest in it to his brother Lamar ; in June, 1878, they traded the farm in Dodge Co. for the one above described ; they are now erecting a large stock barn, 80x56 feet, with an 11-foot basement, affording stable room for 125 head of stock. In 1872, he married Miss Georgia Hunter, daughter of George Hunter, of Fond du Lac; they have one daughter - Hattie C. Mr. Sexmith is a member of the Methodist Church ; his wife is a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. S. has been a member of the Temple of Honor since 1876.

LiAMAR SEXMITH, brother and partner of G. F. Sexmith, whose biography is above ; was born in the city of Fond du Lac ; was educated in the public schools of the city ; became a partner in the saw-mill with his father and brother in August, 1879 ; became a partner in the farm with his brother in 1875, as stated in his brother's biography. Married Miss Eleanor Stowell, of Charles City, Iowa, Oct. 29, 1877 ; they have one daughter - Eleanor Stella. They are members of the Blethodisti Church.

ix. W. SEXMITH, lumberman ; was born in Montgomery Co., N. Y., Aug. 11, 1813, and was married in Delaware Co., of that State, Dec. 31, 1835, to Elizabeth Davis; they have had six children, of whom three, George Frederick, Lamar and Stella Maria (now Jlrs. W. H. Crosby, of Oconto, Wis.), are living. Mr. Sexmith came to Alto, Fond du Lac Co., in 1845, and engaged in farming; in December, 1851, he moved to Fond du Lac and engaged in the lumber business, which he has followed ever since ;' while in Alto, he was elected the first Justice of the Peace, and the first town clerk ; was Justice of the Peace in Fond du Lac in 1852 and 1853, and an Alderman two terms ; in addition to the lumbering business, Mr. Sexmith has been in the grocery trade nearly half the time since coming to Fond du Lac ; he has operated his present mill twenty-five years, giving employment now to fifty men ; he has been one of the Harbor Directors since the existence of that organization. Mr. Sexmith has been connected with the M. E. Church fifty years, and is now a member of the Division Street M. E. Church ; he traveled several years on the circuit as a preacher. The firm name in the lumbering business now is G. W. Sexmith & Son.

liEMUEIi SHANNON, carpenter and joiner ; is a native of Hamilton, Canada, born in 1817 ; learned the cabinet-maker's trade, which he followed there till 1849 ; thence he came to Wisconsin, and settled in Fond du Lac ; here he turned his attention to the carpenter and joiner's trade, which he has since followed. In 1843, he married Miss Euphema Price, daughter of William Price, of Hamilton, Canada ; they have had four children - Mary (now Mrs. M. S. Fay, of St. Paul, Minn , now deceased), Anna (now Mrs. H. J. Thompson, of Greenwood, Wis.), John, of Fond du Lac, and Frankie. The family attend the Congregational Church.

AUtrlJST E. SHAPE, manager of the North- Western Telegraph Office, at Fond du Lac ; was born in Prussia Nov. 5, 1844 ; came to New York City in 1856, where he resided four years; moved to Milwaukee then, which was his home in 1874, when he removed to Fond du Lac; Mr. Shape has followed the telegraph business thirteen years. He was married, in Milwaukee, Dec. 26, 1870, to Elizabeth Spoerl, a native of that city ; they have one child living - Louis A., born Feb. 6, 1873, and have lost two sons in infancy. He enlisted in the fall of 1862,, in Co. B, 26th W. V. I.; served two years and ten months, in all the battles in which his regiment participated.

HENRY SHATTUCK, proprietor of the American House; was born Feb. 9, 1829, at ' Bakersfield, Vt.; his parents, Josiah and Susan Boutell Shattuck, were natives of Townsend, in that StSte ; the former died in 1858, at the age of 78, and the latter in 1877, aged 86; Mr. Shattuck remained at home on the farm until reaching his majority ; went then to Saxton's River, and worked three years in a woolen factory ; then to the Island House at Bellows Falls, for one year ; six months at Massasoit House, Springfield, Mass.; Boston for three and one-half years, in the hotel business, being the proprietor of the Lowell House the last six months ; came to Fond du Lac in May, 1857, and opened the Exchange Hotel, which he ran until Jan. 1, 1861, 'when he rented the old Globe Hotel, changing the name and rebuilding the house, and purchasing the property three years later. [See Hotels, city of Fond du Lac] Mr. Shattuck was married at Boston, May 4, 1857, to Anna^S. Britt, born at Boston June 21, 1835 ; they have five children - William Henry, born March 22, 1858; Ida A., born July 30, 1860; Henrietta, born Feb. 28, 1863; Nellie M., born Sept. 1, 1866, and Jennie L. B., born April 4, 1868. The family are members of the Congregational Church ; Mr. Shattuck is a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor lodges ; was Alderman, Supervisor, and for one term President of the Plank Road Company.

ISAAC S. SHERWOOD was born in the town of Milo, Yates Co., N. Y., Sept. 7, 181.6 educated at Genesee, Wesleyan Seminary, of Lima, N. Y.; removed to Illinois in 1840 ; to Racire, Wis.; in 1842 ; to Jefierson in 1848, and, in 1852, to Fond du Lac, where he resided eighteen years engaged in the hardware and iron trade. In Fond du Lac Mr. S. was Mayor, Alderman, member of the School Board , and of the first fire company ever organized in the city ; he is now a resident of Benton Harbor, Mich., engaged in fruit-raising. He was married at Fond du Lac, June 24, 1861, by Rev. George B. Eastman, to Cecelia Isabella Adamson ; they have five children - Alfred C, born March 30, 1862 ; Lettie Belle,, born Jan. 27, 1864; Mary Louise, born Nov. 15, 1865; Je.-sie, born Nov. 13, 1869, and Grace, born Dec. 11, 1871. Mr. S. first came to Fond du Lac through the " mud-blockade," and his account qf it was highly entertaining. His first move was to buy the lot where Baker's bank stands for $400, selling next day for $600 ; " Soliloquize," he writes, " Eiireka I " His letter to the Western Historical Co. is closed thus eloquently : " Let my residence be in any part of the Uijited States, the Fountain City is my home ;: and when my pilgritaage on earth is done, I hope to rest side by side with those who have gone before, on the beautiful brow of Rienzi."

ALONZO li. SIMMOXS, farmer. Sec. 7 ; P. 0. Fond du Lac ; is a son of Reuben and Louisa Simmons, early pioneers of Fond dn Lac Co.; he was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., Oct. 8, 1819, and early learned the carpenter and joiner's trade with his father. In 1 838, he (with his father) came to Green Bay, Wis., where they continued the trade for about eighteen months; his father then returned to New York for the family, and with them reached Green Bay late in the year 1839 ; in the following year (1840), they came to Fond du Lac Co., where they built the first and second frame dwellings^erected in the county ; they continued the trade a short tipae, and then devoted their time to farming. The subject of our sketch with his brother, Marcellus, soon owned what is now known as the James Wright farm, on the Ledge, southeast, of the city, but soon disposed of it, and bought another in the town of Byron, where they lived for a number of years ; Alonzo then sold his interest in the town of Byron, and purchased a farm of 135 acres in the town of Friendship. In 1865, he disposed of his farm and engaged in the grocery trade in the city of Fond du Lao for a short time ; he then bought a farm of eighty-two acres in Section 7, town of Fond du Lac, where he has since followed farming. May 22, 1854, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Georgeand Mary Swinton, of the town of Byron, she being a native of Scotland ; they have had four children, namely, Marcellus, Minnie (deceased), William (deceased), and George.

AMASA P. SIJOIOXS was bom at Whitestown, Oneida Co., N. Y., Dec. 9, 1826, in which county he resided until July, 1837, when he came to Green Bay, Wis., with his parents, and, in 1838, to Fond du Lao Co., which has since been his home; Mr. S. was engaged in farming exclusively until 25 years of age, when he began traveling for a wholesale crockery house, continuing in that business until 1877, except from 1860 to 1863, when he was in the mercantile business with his brother E. M., and from 1872 to 1875, when he was in the same line with W. W. Clark. He has been Town Assessor two terms, a member of the School Board fourteen years in succession, and, Aug. 16, 1879, began his-

<iuties as Deputy Collector of laternal Revenue; when a youth, Mr. S. went with his father on trips for provisions, and other excursions, and thus learned to speak the Indian language fluently, which was a great help to his father. He was married in the town of Fond du Lao, Oct. 18, 1848, to Elizabeth L. Sanderson, born in Oneida Co., N. Y.; they have had three children^Clara (who died when 9 years old), WiUet James (who died when 5 years of age); their surviving daughter is Madgie May, was born Aug. 14, 1868. Louisa, mother of A. P. Simmons, who will be 85 Oct. 18, 1880, resides at his house, and is in remark- -ably good health. A. P.'s brother, Enos Marcellus, born in Oneida Co., N. Y., resided in Fond du Lac until 1879, when he removed to Marcellon, Columbia Co., Wis ; he has three sons. Alonzo Lee, another brother, born at the same place, resides on Sec. Y, town of Fond du Lac ; he has three sons and has lost three. William Leroy, another brother, died in Fond du Lac about 1850, aged about 24 years. Eliza Ann, now Mrs. James B. Clock, of Mankato, Minn., his only sister, born also in Oneida Co., resided in Fond du Lac Co. until three years ago; she has one son and two daughters, and has lost one daughter.

M. W. SIMMONS, capitalist; was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., Aug. 24, 1825 ; came from there to Fond du Lac Co. in 1846, locating in the town of Springvale, on Sec. 23, where he lived five years ; then to the town of Waupun, where he lived three years; came to Fond du Lao Jan. 1, 1865, where he has since resided; Mr. M. was Clerk of the Circuit Court one term, from January, 1865; County Poor Commissioner from 1869 to 1873 inclusive ; member of the Board of Supervisors ; Treasurer of Springvale ; Clerk of Waupun ; Alderman of Third Ward, and Deputy United States Marshal since 1878. He wSs married at Hillsdale, Mich., to Lucy B. Sizer, a native of Oneida Co., N. Y., Sept. 30, 1851 ; they have four children - Milton T. (cashier of Wells' Bank), Wilton B. (chief clerk at J. C. Whittelsey's), Stella M. and Lucy B. His business is that of capitalist and settling bankrupt estates ; he is a Mason - a member of the lodge at Fond du Lac. His mother-in-law, Lucy B. Sizer, aged 90, resides with Mr. Simmons.

JOHN^ li. SITTIiER, of the firm of Sittler & Wilke, cigar manufacturers ; was born in New York City- in 1852; moved to Sheboygan Falls with his parents when 4 years old ; clerked in drug store ,from his 13th to 18th year of age, when he began the cigar trade, which he has followed since that time ; in January, 1873, he came to Fond du Lao and began to work for Bush Bros.; from 1874 to 1876, he was at Branden and Waupun; in 1876, returned to Fond du Lac and began the cigar manufacture alone, which he continued till October, 1878, when Mr. Wilke became his partner. Oct. 15, 1878, he married' Miss Emma M. Hoppe, of Fond du Lac ; she is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

CHARLES D. SMITH, attorney; was born in the town of Macomb, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Nov. 16, 1849 ; in 1851, came with his parents to Tuychecdah, and, in 1866, came to Fond du Lac ; Mr. S. was educated in the public schools and at a private school; began studying law in November, 1869, with J. M. Gillet and C. K. Pier; was admitted to the bar Feb. 11, 1876, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession ; Mr. Smith left lumbering and acquired his legal and other knowledge without aid or encouragement, supporting himself as best he could while at his studies.

G^EORGE H. SOUTHARD, painter; was born at CuddebackviUe, Orange Co., N. Y., June 3, 1849 ; came to Wisconsin Jan. 8, 1866 ; learned the painter's trade, which he has since followed'; the same year, and during the past eight years, has been eng;iged with the Wheel and Seeder Co., and McDonald Manufacturing Co. Mr. Southard is a member" of the A., F. & A. M., and L 0. 0. F. lodges.

JOHIV SPENCE, manufacturer; was born at Tyrone, Ireland ; came to Ohio in 1858, where he enlisted May, 1861, in Co. B, 26th Ohio V. I., called " Fullerton Rifles" - the first three-years men ofiered in that State ; he served three years as private, Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Lieutenant and Adjutant, .resigning on account of ill health in April, 1864. He then went to Europe two years to recuperate, returning and locating at Fond du Lac in 1866, where he engaged in the crockery business until 1874 ; after that he engaged in loaning money, but is now Secretary and Treasurer of the McDonald Manufact-" uring Co., builders of the " Pride of the West " thrashers. Mr. Spence has been City Treasurer, Alderman and Supervisor. ^

THOMAS WILSON SPENCE, attorney; was born at Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland, Sept. 2, 1846 ; came to Chillicothe, Ohio, in infancy, and to Fond du Lac in 1865. Mr. S. graduated from the classical course of Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y., in 1870 ; studied law and was soon after a member of 'the law firm of Coleman & Spence, which firm was recently changed to Spence & Hiner; he was a member of the Assembly in 1877 and 1879, and is now Postmaster of Fond du Lac, receiving his appointment in 1879. He was married at Fond du Lac, to Miss Tallmadge ; they have one ohild.

JOSEPH D. W. SPEIVCER, glove manufacturer; was born in Barre, Worcester Co., Mass., Mai-ch 13, 1847, and is the son of John H. and Ellen M. Spencer, nee Whitcomb. His grandfather, John Spencer, was the son, of Simeon Spencer, who was born in Connecticut, but was the eleventh ' family to settle in' Springfield, Vt.; his grandfather was born in 1782 ; was an extensive farmer of Springfield, Vt., for many years ; came to Wisconsin in 1849, -and settled in Eock Go., where he died Feb. 7, 1865. His father, John H., was born at Springfield, Vt., Nov. 12, 1808 ; spent his early life as a farmer in Vermont; removed to Amherst, Mass., and there followed the busiuess of a foundryman and stovemanufacturer for three years ; removed to Barre, Mass., in 1835, and continued the same business fifteen years ; in 1850, he came to Wisconsin, stopped one year in Rock Co.; went thence to Green Bay, and was there interested in the tanning business for a year ; came to Fond du Lac in 1852, where he was one of the inost extensive leather-dealers for many years. He retired from business in 1870. In 1832, he waa married to Sarah,^ daughter of Shubel and Ruth, Whitcomb, of Springfield, Vt., and a descendant of the Whitcomb family who came from Dorchester, England, in 1633 ; she died about two years after marriage. He afterward married her sister, Ellen M.; they had a family of six children - four of whom are living - Sarah M. (died in 1855), Ellen S. (Mrs. Norman Brass, and lives in Spring Valley, Minn.), Joseph D. W. and John 1). W., twins - the latter is dead - Ida M. (now the wife of E. W. Sivyer, and lives in Milwaukee), Waldo H. (now in Buffalo, N. Y.); Joseph D. W. spent most of his time with his father till 1870, when he established the glove manufactory of which he has since been proprietor. He was married to Elizabeth; laughter of Michael and Margaret Roche, now of Dakota, but formerly of the town of Byron, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., where she was born. Mrs. Spencer is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

HENRY J. STEADY, foreman on the second floor in Steenberg's sash, door and blind factory ; was born in Germany in 1843 ; came to America with his parents in 1848, and settled at Buffalo, N. Y., where he resided till 1853, when they moved to Chicagp, 111., whence, in 1856, they came to Fond du Lac ; Henry worked on a farm for his brother from 1856 to 1862, attending school three winters during that time, that being all the schooling he ever had. In 1862, he enlisted in Co. K, of the 1st W. V. I. ; was discharged in 1863, on account of disability for service ; after remaining at home for about si? months and regaining his health, he rp-enlisted October, 1863, in Co. B, 35th W. V. I., with which he served till the close of the war. After being mustered out at Madison, Wis., he retu/ned to Fond du Lac and began work in the door, sash arid blind factory for Q. J. L. Meyer, where he continued till 1873, when he began work for Mr. Steenberg. Oct. 16, 1863, he married Miss Annie Pox, of Fond du Lac; they haVe had four children - Henry B. (deceased), Nettie L., Jessie M. and Millard B.

O. C STEEXBEKCjt, proprietor of sash, door and blind manufactory, is a native of Tompkins Co., N. Y., where he was born in 1836; in 1854, he moved with his parents to Saratoga Co., which he made his home until 1862; he graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., with the class of 1861, after which, in 1862, he came to Fond du Lao as Principal of the High School, serving in that capacity until 1864, when he was elected Superintendent of the city schools in addition to his position as Principal of the High School, where he remained until 1869 ; in 1871, he purchased an interest in the sash, door and blind factory, with Mr. H. H. Lewis; the copartnership existed until 1877, when Mr. Steenberg bought out Mr. Lewis, and became sole proprietor of the establishment. In 1862, he married Miss Harriet Greene, daughter of O. S. Greene, of Salisbury, Conn.; they have had three children - Sarah (deceased), Fredrick and Hubert.

PETER STEEXBERUH, retired farmer, was born in Saratoga Co., N. Y., in 1797 ; at the age of 10, he went to Albany Co., N. Y., and followed farming for some time, whence he went to Washington Co., N. Y., and remained there seven years, after which he, with his brother, purchased a boat, and for two years followed boating on the Albany and Champlain Canal; he next came to Syracuse, thence to -Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he was engaged ia farming most of the time, until his immigration to Wisconsin in 1849 ; his first settlement was on a farm in the town of Byron ; subsequently, he bought a farm of 160 acres in the town of Auburn, Fond du Lac Co., which he disposed of about 1857, and bought another in the town of Byron, on which he made his home until 1871, when he sold that and moved to the city of Pond du Lac. April 15, 1835, he married Miss Cynthia E. Mead, daughter of Elisha Mead, of Onondaga Co., N. Y., who died at Fond du Lac, March 2, 1879, in her 59th year, leaving three children - Caroline A., Harriet A. (now Mrs. Griffin Petton, of Byron), and Alson W., of Fond du Lac. His wife and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he owns a house and four lots in the city.

PETER STEPHANY, foreman in Mihills' Manufacturing Co., is a. native of 6ermany,born in 1847 ; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1850, and settled on a farm near Fond du Lac, where he spent his boyhopd ; at the age of 15, he came to the city of Fond du Lac, and began work for C. J. L.

Meyer, in the blind departmfent of his sash, door and blind factory ; in 1865, he worked for Lewis & Boyd in their manufactory for about five months, af^er which he followed the carpenter and joiner's trade for one year ; then he worked for Falkland in his factory one year ; he next engaged in the furniture business, which he continued for about fourteen months ; in 1876, he began work in Mihills' factory, where he has since remained. He married Miss Amelia Loher, of Calumet, in October, 1873 ; they have two children - Dora and Mary. They are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

AliEXANDER STEWART, of the firm of McDonalld & Stewart, proprietors of a sash, door and blind factory, is a native of Glengarry Co., Canada, where he was born in 1835 ; spent his boyhood at work on a farm with his father, and attending the district school ; when 15 years old, he moved to Montreal, whence, in 1854, he went to Petersboro, Canada, where he engaged in the grocery business until 1866 ; disposing of his interest in the grocery trade at that time, he came to Fond du Lac, and became interested in saw-milling in the firm of Hunter, Stewart & Co. until 1869, when he formed a copartnership with Mr. Alexander McDonald in the sash, door and blind factory, which they established at that time. In 1867, he married Miss Sarah C. Crawford, secdnd daughter of the Rev. Elias Crawford, of Saratoga Springs; they have had two children - Annie (deceased), and Charles C. Mr. S. and family are members of the Presbyterian Church. t

SIIiAS B. STIIiES, druggist, of the firm of Stiles & Givens, was born in Jay, Essex Co., N. Y., Sept. 24, 1828 ; lived seven years in Canada West ; came to Byron, Pond du Lac Co., in July, 1843, and there engaged in farming during six years, after which he went into the Northern pineries, where he worked at lumbering until 1852 ; he then went overland to California, and engaged in mining until 1857, when he returned to Pond du Lac and purchased a farm in Byron in 1858; Mr. S. followed agricultural pursuits until 1871, when he purchased a drug store at Jefferson, Wis., but returned to Pond du Lac in 1873, and opened a drug store opposite the American House. He was married in Byron, Feb. 16, 1859, to Caroline, daughter of George W. Lewis; they have three children - Clara A., Vesta L. and Guy L. |