Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin - Biographical sketches, 1880 (part 6 of 17)

LYMAN P. STOWE, son of Joseph and Priscilla Stowe, very early settlers of Fond du Lac ; was born at Haverhill, Grafton Co., N. H., Sept. 29, 1825 ; at the age of 18 years, after hard work upon the hills of his native State, he came with his parents to Milwaukee ; remained there until 1848, working one and one-half years in a pail factory, manufacturing washtubs on his own account one year, and then engaged in barrel-making ; Mr. S. then lived one year on his farm near Waupun ; worked his father's farm one year; begai? carpenter work in 1851, and in 1861, began building elevators on the different railroads in this State and Michigan, which business he still follows. He was one of the organizers of the volunteer fire department in Fond du Lac, of which he was a member until its disorganization in 1878, and was Treasurer one term of the State Firemen's Benevolent Association. Mr. 8. was married at Milwaukee, in October, 1847, to Martha Lee, born in the town of Shipley, Yorkshire, England ; thev have one child - Ella Josephine.

TIMOTHY F. STRONG. The subject of this sketch is a native of Brownington, Vt. ; was born April 6, 1805, and is the son of Asahel Strong and Susan Follett ; his father, a prominent merchant, although unfortunate, was much respected by all who knew him ; Timothy resided in Bennington, whither his parents removed in 1806, till 12 years old, attending common school, and at that time accepted a clerkship in a general store at Glen Falls, N. Y., and at odd times while there gained a knowledge of the tinner's trade ; at. the expiration of five years, he went to Burlington, Vt., and there spent two years as a journeyman in a tinshop ; he next formed a copartnership with a friend, and going to Keesville, N. Y., established himself in the tin and stove business, and conducted a successful business for nearly two years ; after closing out his interest here, he went to Danville, Vt., and there resumed the same line of business, continuing it during a period of six years ; at the expiration of that time, he associated himself with his brother, William L. Strong, at Burlington, in a general hardware, iron and grocery trade, where he remained till 1 848 ; during the year previous to this, he had contracted with others to build the Burlington & Rutland Railroad, and a portion of the road on to Bellows' Palls ; he was at the same time largely interested in building the railroad from Ogdensburg to Rouse's Point, N. Y. ; in July, 1851, he removed to the West and settled at Fond du Lap, Wis., and at once began building what is now known as the Chicago & North-Western Railway, whose owners form one of the largest railroad corporations in the world. In this enterprise Mr. Strong worked under most adverse circumstances, many of his associates giving up all hope of success; with that determination, however, which has ever characterized him, he held on persistently to the end, and, in once instance, built some miles of the road at his own expense and risk. Previous to his coming West, he had gained the reputation of being a successful railroad man, having carried to a successful completion large railroad enterprises in the East ; and it was largely due to his untiring energy and influence that the Wisconsin division.

being the northern portion of the Northwestern railroads, was constructed. Mr. Strong retired from active business in 1868, and, since that time, except as stated below, has been living in the enjoyment of the rewards of his active life. He was Assistant Superintendent of the North- Wes'tern Rjiilway for several years; in 1870, was elected President and Superintendent of the Pond du Lac & Sheboygan Railroad resigning in 1872. In his political sentiments, he is independent, supporting for office the man whom he considers best fitted for the place, regardless of party prejudices or distinctions; in his religious belief, he ia identified with the Episcopal Church. He was married on the 3d of May, 1827, to Miss Olivia Clark, daughter of Dr. Nathan S. Clark, of Chesterfield, N. Y., and by her has now living one'son and two daughters. He married his present wife, Susanna Jones, on the 27th of March, 1873. Mr. Strong has traveled extensively over the United States and Europe, and is well informed on all questions of the day. Beginning life for himself at the age of 12, with his worldly possessions tied up in a handkerchief, he has risen, step by step, until he has accummulated an ample fortune, and, in all his business career, has never contracted a debt that he did not pay.

JOHJV E. SULiLilVAW, of the firmof John E. Sullivan & Co., merchant tailors; is a native of Ohio, where he was born in 1853 ; came to Meenae, Manitowoc Co., Wis., with parents in 1855, where he lived till 1873, when he went to Brown Co. for the winter; and came to Fond du Lac in the spring of 1874, and attended commercial coUege.for four months, when he graduated; after which, from September, 1874, to November, 1878, be was clerk for J. N. Coleman & Co.; he was in the employ of Butterfield & Bldrise till May, 1878, when he became a partner in the firm of John E. Sullivan & Co.

, GEORGE EATON SUTHERLAND, whose history is now closely allied to that of Fond.du Lac Co., is a native of New York Slate, having first seen light/ in a farmhouse at Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y. His mother thanked God he was a boy, for a boy could better fight the battle of life. George istlie youngest of six children, only three of whom, all' boys, were alive at his birth. On his father's side he is of Scotch descent, his great-grandfather having come to America on account of political persecutions. This ancestor was noted for truthfulness and inteiirity, and these qualities and also certain physical traits have been transmitted. It was the proud boast of the father of the subject of this sketch, that, so far as he knew, there had never been an untruthful or dishonest Sutherland. His mother was a woman wise and good, and his earliest recollections are mainly of her love and guidance. When he was 6 years old, a great cajamity befell him,, in the death of his most excellent mother, and the breakingrup of the home, leaving George a little wandel-er, without a settled home, or home influences. For four years he lived first with one relative, and then with another, some of the time attending district school, but left for the most part to his own devices, t'rom his mother, he inherited energy, steadfairtness of purpose, and a thoughtful habit, and from his father integrity of mind, an honest way of looking at things, and a love of books. He was very fond of oratory, and whi/le a mcrechild would pore for hours over Congressional speeches and pleas in court, seeming to catch the spirit of their eloquence. He also early developed ability in planning, faithfulness in execut-' ing, a spirit of emulation, which prompted him to bo first and best in whatever he undertook, and a persunal magnetism, which made him a leader among the boys. He was not a very playful boy, and especially disliked hunting, fishing, or any sport which inflicted pain. He was, however, fond of wit or humor, a trait which he has not outgrown. In the winter after his tenth birthday, his mind and heart received a profound re.igious impression, through the preaching of the Rev. A. B. Earle, and at the close of a series of meetings held in Burlingtoii, George, with some one hundred others. Was received into the church. While from his natural fondness for reading the boy had acquired a desultory knowledge of many things of which children ordinarily know nothing, he possessed scarcely the rudiments of a systematic education. During these years, George's second brother, Andrew, had married, and become Principal of a school in Norwich-Town, Conn., in which he was ably assisted by his wife, a woman of fine mind and large, warm heart. It was a happy day for George when this worthy couple invited him to make home with them. In June, 1854, having secured company as far as New York City, he started with glowing anticipations for a new home, and an education, which even then was his dearest wish. The journey to New York was brimful of interest, and his friend found -his time fully occupied in answering questions, until he left George on the Norwich boat, upon which he was to complete the journey alone. It was a night trip, and the boy, to whom both steamer and ocean were new, sat long on deck. He watched the men untie from the pier, and 'reel in the heavy rope ; watched the city until only dots of light were visible ; saw the moon rise out of the water, and the long track of light which the boat left behind, until fatigue proved too much even for his wonder, and he went to bed on what seemed to him a funny little pantry .shelf, and slept the sleep of tired childhood. When he awoke, the boat lay quietly at anchor at Norwich ; the passengers had all gone, and so had his brother, who came to meet him. Evidently he had overslept, but do not think he was dismayed. Valise in hand, he steps ashore and inquires the way to Norwich Town. Let us glance at him as he enters upon this new era of life. Ten years old, rather slight, bright brown eyes that look straight at you, ample forehead and a sensitive mouth. The taste of his sister-in-law had dressed him in garments whose cut would better have become his father - black satin vest, long coat, prominent shirt front, standing collar and " dickey." When he had come into Norwich Town, and was close by the town clock, a -wag, thinking to get some sport out of the old-fashioned country boy, stopped him, and asked with mock deference, hat in hand, " Would you kindly tell me the time of day by your watch ? " The unconscious simplicity of the child turned the joke back, when he answered, " I do not know, sir ; can you tell me where Norwich Town is ? " With his brother, discipline began in earnest. He was kept at hard study all day and until nine at night, with scarce an hour allowed for play. His system stood the strain, and his progress in books was quite astonishing, so that from being the poorest scholar, by the end of the year George stood at the head of the school. In 1855, his brother decided to go West, and chose the young but rapidly growing State of Wisconsin, as a future home. The party went by rail to Chicago, by boat to Sheboygan, thence by stage to Fond du Lac, which they reached Saturday night, and put up at a hotel near the landing at " Lower Town." From Fond du Lao, the party went by lake and Fox River to Delhi, in Winnebago Co., and thence to Waukau, where Mr. Sutherland taught for several years, and eventually settled on a farm. George remained with him, working on the farm and attending school until he was nearly 16. These years, though no more than ordinarily eventful, were important as years of growth. In them he attained manhood's size, and for his years, maturity of character.; had escaped vices, and had acquired a very good common-school education. With such preparation," George left his brother in August, 1859, to make his own way in the world. Going once more to Norwich, Conn., he obtained a district school, which he taught acceptably. Spending the summer of 1860 with old Burlington friends, he closed his experience as pedagogue, by teaching a school at that place the following autumn and winter.

The very next day after his school closed, he started for West Winfield Academy, to carry out his ,long-cherished purpose of fitting for college. Here he boarded himself and earned his tuition by taking care of the recitati jn-rooms. His life now seemed the realization of the boy's dreams, in the gratification -of his intense desire for knowledge and improvement. The classes were pleasant and the school excellent, under the care of Prof. E. 0. Hovey, an enthusiast in his profession, an earnest Christian and a man of great person'al weight. This was the year of the breaking-out of the civil war. When President Lincoln's first call came for volunteers, George greatly desired to enlist, but his father thought he was neither old nor strong enough for the hardships of camp and field, and so restrained the ardor of the boy. But it happens to many a man that at some time in life a circumstance, seemingly a mere accident, changes the whole of his life. Such accident, or Providence, came to George. One noon, it was Sept. 30, 1862, he went to town for the mail as Usual, and found in the Exeter stage an old friend on his way to Utica to enlist, who urged George to go with him, and quickly gained his consent. There was no time for leave-taking. got into the stage and before night had enlisted in Co. A, 1st N. Y. L. A., known as Bates' Battery. He was immediately sent into Barracks at Albany, where ttie time was spent in drildng and learniug the art of war, against the call to the front. It happened that George had a chance of displaying readiness and tact before reaching \V^ashington. When the battery was ordered to the front, Capt. Bates put George and a comrade in charge of his horses, which were to go in a freight car attached to the train bearing the rest of the battery. As the train was to leave Albany toward morning, the men went into the car at night and went to sleep. Imagine the surprise of George when morning dawned and found him still in Albany and the rest of the battery gone. By what accident their car was left no one could explain, but here the boys were, with the horses, no commander, no rations, no transportation ; what little money they had they spent in vainly telegraphing for orders. With much persuasion the railroad company took them to New York, where a patriotic citizen fed horses and men. The eloquence and resources of the boys were fully taxed before the railroad company agreed to take them to Baltimore without the proper transportation papers, and even then they were assured the horses would be held in Baltimore until the company was satisfied. When they reached Philadelphia the train was laid up for the Sabbath, and here were the boys again without the wherewith to break their fast, but the door of a United States Hospital opened to them, and they were well cared for until Monday afternoon. The train reached Baltimore just before daybreak Tuesday morning. Should they wait here, with risk of starving, until the railroad company should be satis.fied that it had already been paid for taking this car, or should they report to headquarters and leave their Captain to settle the matter? They decided on the latter course, and when there was a good chance they jumped their horses out of the car, mounted them and rode toward Washington. At evening they came upon a Union camp where they were kindly provided for, for one soldier never saw another in need, but his canteen and haversack flew open. Before another night they were reoeivinothe compliments of Capt. Bates for their exploit. It was now February, and very inclement weather! The men had no barracks, and not even a good place to pitch their tents, and George often awoke and found himself lying in a pool of water. The drill and discipline was also long continued and severe. From the defenses of Washington the battery was sent to Philadelphia to quell riotous feeling, and keep order^at the time of drafts, then to Pottsville, Penn., on a similar errand. Capt. Bates, it appears, had one aim in his military history - to keep out of action. So true was this that the boys were wont to call his battery the " Life Insurance Company." George soon tired of this inaction, and determined on a change. He chanced at this time to be detailed as orderly at post headquarters, and soon acquired the respect and good will of Capt. Eamsey, Adjutant General. At George's earnest request, Capt. Ramsey obtained a furlough and permission for him to attend the military school at Philadelphia, where officers for colored troops were then being instructed. Here he labored day and night for three months to acquire a knowledge of the book part of military art, and, it is said, with marked success. Great decision of character, and ready command of himself seem to have characterized him here. On one occasion, when acting as drill-master of the school battalion, he displayed such great readiness and firmness, that Col. Taggart, the Commandant of the school, publicly commended him and said he " he was fit to command any regiment." George, still a boy of 20, appeared before Gen. Casey's Examining Board in Washington, and passed an excellent examination, and all that prevented his recommendation for a field position seems to have been his youth, from Gen. Casey's saying to him, " But you are too young for a field officer, Mr. Sutherland." Afterihis examination he went back to Bates' Battery to wait for his commission, and while with it had one skirmish with the rebels near Chambersburg. George soon received his commission as Captain from President Lincoln, dated July 23, 1864, two months before his 21st birthday, and the boys gave him thesobriquet of "the Young Captain." He was then sent to Kentucky to raise colored troops, and was soon placed in command of the 13th U. S. C. H. A. With his detachment he went to Eddyville, Ky., to take command of that post, and arrived about midnight of October 12. Inquiring of the officer he was to relieve if all was safe for the night, he was told that pickets were out and everything was secure. But he had hardly fallen asleep when he was startled by bullets shot into every window of the court house which was the headquarters. Of course thei;e could be but one result. After a sharp contest the garrison surrendered, but not until Capt. Sutherland was wounded and taken prisoner. Capt. Sutherland was carried to a hotel and so-called surgeons sent to dress his wound. Either from malice or ignorance they put him through several hours of severest torture, cutting and slashing in a terrible way, and boasting, when they thought he was under the influence of chloroform that " there'd be one less Yankee Captain," as no doubt there would have been if they had not been suddenly interrupted.

From a Yankee gunboat, lying down the river; the firing at Eddyville had been heard, and with what speed they could, they came to the rescue; too late to save a surrender, but with force to recapture the town, and it was the shells from this boat that interrupted the surgeons in their bloody and apparently delightful work, and put them to ignominious flight, leaving Capt. Sutherland half dead and wholly unable to help himself; and here he might have died, indeed, but for the friendly offices of an unknown woman. While the shells from the gunboat were pouring into the town, and were even crashing through the hotel, and all were fleeing for safety, this woman risked her life and the displeasure of her friends, who, she said, were Southern sympathizers, to help this unknown Captain to life. She bound up his wound and helped, almost carried, him down-stairs and through the street to the water's edge, and with a wave of her handkerchief, as a flag of truce, to the boat, she left him, with strength only for feebly expressed gratitude, too weak, even, to ask her name. A boat was immediately sent for him, but there was no surgeon on board the gunboat, and three days passed before the bullet was taken from his arm, or his wound properly dressed, and when he reached the hospital at Claiksville, Tenn.,he was delirious and already sufiiering, not only from his wound, but from an attack of typhoid fever, induced by exposure and lack of care. For three months he languished in the hospital, much of the time in extrenie danger, and suffering so greatly that death would have been a welcome relief.

After weary weeks of convalescence, he was again strong enough for active service, and was sent to command the recruiting posts at Caseyville, and afterward at Owensboro, Ky. In going from one placeto the other, he narrowly escaped being shot by a guerrilla band. Afterward, he was sent to Smithland as Commissary of subsistence, which position he filled with care and precision for several months, when he was appointed a member of the military commission and court-martial, which sat at Camp Nelson, and subsequently at Lexington, Ky.. and in this position he remained until honorably discharged in November, 1865. As a member of the court-martial, although by several years the youngest, he won special distinction. The deliberations of this body, before which mililfary and civil offenses were tried, were secret, only their conclusions being made public, but it is said on good authority that more than one poor fellow owes his life to Capt. Sutherland's eloquent appeal for mercy, and an abatement of the strict letter of military law, and once he won when all were at first against him. The name of Capt. Sutherland had already been forwarded for promotion, which, it is said, he merited, and would no doubt have received, but the war ended, and, on Nov. 18, 1865, he was honorably discharged from the United States Service.

With the war, also, ended the splendid opportunities for displaying many noble and brilliant qualities, but it is doubtful if Capt. Sutherland ever did a more heroic thing than he did when leaving his high position as Judge and commander, he entered the preparatory school at Ripon College, and dug out Greek and Latin with the young boys and girls. One of his teachers has said that he displayed much greatness of character by his careful attention to rules which seemed to him trivial, by his modest, respectful attention in class, and his solicitude that the younger members should do well. Mr. Sutherland studied at Ripon until July, 1868, completing the sophomore year in college, and winning a good standing. For two years of the time he superintended the Baptist Sabbath School, and most of the time since he has been in some way engaged in Sabbath-school work.

In September, 1868, he entered Amherst College as a junior, without conditions. There he passed two very pleasant and profitable years, and graduated as " honor man," with an excellent reputation, both as to character and ability. During the summer of 1870, Mr. Sutherland studied law with Judge Willard, of Utica, N. Y., and, in the fall of that year, entered Columbia Law School, in New York City, which was then presided over by Theo. W. Dwight, LL. D. Mr. Sutherland often speaks of the debt which he owes to him and to President Seelye, of Amherst, probably the two men of all in the world whose influence upon him has been most powerful. In New York, Mr. Sutherland worked very hard, taking two years' studies in one, and reciting six hours a day. The year in New York was the fullest and busiest Mr. Sutherland ever passed, and perhaps, on the whole, the most profitable. Shortly after completing his law course, Mr. Sutherland was married to Miss Adela Merrell, of Kirkland, N. Y., and in September of this year (1871), he formed a law partnership with Mr. A. B. Hamilton, of Ripon, Wis., a gentleman of legal knowledge and ability above the average, and with a good practice. Mr. Hamilton was past the prime of life and in poor health, so that, as soon as Mr. Sutherland was able to manage it, the burden of the business fell upon him. This was very fortunate for him, as he was compelled to acquire a knowledge of correctly transacting legal business much sooner than young attorneys ordinarily have opportunity for doing. In his first law-suit, in which he appeared for the defendant, his maiden plea certainly produced effect. He won the ease.

Mr. Sutherland made his first appearance in the Supreme Court in Mundt vs. The Sheboygan & Fond du Lac R. R. Co., appearing for the plaintiff. Judge L. S. Dixon, then Chief Justice of Wisconsin, in his written and published opinion of the case, pays the young lawyer this high compliment : " In conclusion we may remark that it would be doing injustice to our own feelings not to acknowledge our obligation for the assistance rendered by the very clear and able argument made at the bar by the counsel for the plaintiff." For two years of his residence in Ripon Mr. Sutherland was City Attorney, and was, in 1873, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in his ward, and was in this capacity very faithful to the interests of the county. In May, 1874, he came to Fond du Lac and formed a law partnership with Judge David Taylor, which continued with mutual satisfaction until Judge Taylor was elected to the Supreme Bench, since which time, Mr. Sutherland has conducted the business alone. In November, 1879, he was elected to the State Senate by an unusually large majority, having been nominated for that oflSce, and enthusiastically supported by the very best citizens in the district, an honor of which any man might justly be proud. We have seen Mr. Sutherland deprived of a mother's care, left a homeless wanderer ; receiving his first real discipline ; starting in life for himself with no capital except his own talent and energy ; a diligent student working his way along ; a good soldier and a merciful Judge ; an upright lawyer and an efficient officer, and we believe he will be a wise legislator.

We find him now ranking among the first in his profession in the State, having gained this position by no outside influence, but by honesty, hard work and careful attention to the details of his business. That the community has confidence both in his talent and integrity is shown by the class of cases put into his hands, which are among the most important tried in the county, and the fact that he is successful in a large majority of his cases, shows that he is a skillful manager, and also that he will not accept a case which he believes to be poor, merely for the fees. In working up his cases, Mr. Sutherland is industrious accurate and careful. As a speaker he has good command of language, but is not an " oflF-hand speaker," and he never allows himself to speak on any occasion without preparation. With time to arrange his thought, he is logical and clear, and, when the subject inspires it, rises to eloquence. He is a capital hand to tell a story where it will be effective. By honesty, industry, and faith in God, Mr. Sutherland has reached his present place of honor, trust and influence in the community, and his life well exemplifies what may be wrought by the motto which he chose when a boy :

PAULi SWEIVSOX, machinist and foreman in McDonald's Thrashing-Machine Works ; is a native of Denmark, born in 1849; learned his trade in his native country;' came to America in 1869, and stopped a short time in Detroit ; thence to Chicago for a few days, when he returned to Michigan ; from there he came to Milwaukee, and finally settled at Racine in the same year, where he worked at his trade for four and a half years ; after which he returned to Europe for eight months ; he came again to Raqine for a short time, from there he came to Pond du Lac and began work in McDonald's Thrashing- Machine Works, and, in the spring of 1879, was appointed Superintendent of the works.

. M. W. TALLiM ADGE, son of Henry F. and Maria C. Tallmadge, of New York City, and brother of the well-known broker of that city, Benjamin H. Tallmadge. M. W. was born in the year 1818, and, after receiving his education, was engaged in the wholesale hardware trade in New York City till about 1840; in 1843, he immigrated to Wisconsin, entered a farm in the southern part, of the town of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., and, in August, 1844, was married to Miss Nancy A., daughter of Justin and Thirza Eastman, a native of Oswego County, N. Y., who immigrated with her parents to Kenosha Co., Wis., in 1835, and to Granville, Milwaukee Co., in 1837, where she was married. Soon after their marriage, they removed to the farm in Fond du Lae and made that their home till the spring of 1862 ; disposing of it at that time, he purchased another in the same town, on Sec. - , where he lived till September, 1876, when they removed to the city of Fond du Lac, though still retaining the farm. They have had nine children - Mary E. (the late wife of A. K. Hamilton, of Fond du Lac, deceased), Henry F. (of Fairmount, Neb.), Che.ster L. (deceased),- Benjamin H., William E. (of Sheboygan), Maria C. (now Mrs. Thomas W. Spence, of Pond du Lac), Clarence D. (of Milwau'cee), Edwin T. and Jennie, of Fond du Lac. The family is connected with the Presbyterian Church.

AZISO B. TAYIjOR, a native of Vergennes, Addison Co., Vt.; came with his father, J. M. Taylor, who died in 1865, to Pond du Lao in 1849, and has been engaged ever since in the hardware business, except two years during which he had charge of the water supply on the C. & N.-W. Railway, between Fort Howard and Janesville, putting in all the pumps. Mr. T. has been an Alderman from the First and Third Wards several years, and was at the head of the Fond du Lac Fire Department sixteen years - as long as the volunteer department continued, of which he was one of the originators. He was married at Fond du Lac Aug. 3, 1849, to Angelia Hawes, a native of Shoreham, Vt.; she died Jan. 4, 1854, leaving two children^Lillie and Charley ; the former is now Mrs. L. A. Emerson, and the latter died in April, 1878, aged 26 years. Mr. T. was married a second time to Jane E. Woodruff, a native of New York ; they have eight children - Jared W., William W., Frank C, Jessie, Emma, Carrie, Mary and Janie. Jared W. and William W. are both engaged in the railroad business away from home. Mr. T. is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Chapter at Fond du Lac. Henry C. Taylor, brother to Azro B., enlisted in Co. A, 1st W. V. I., for three months, and at the end of that time re-enlisted in the 21st Regiment. He died in hospital prison at Charleston, where he had lain one year, Oct. 4, 1864.

JA1IE$$ liUTHER THWIlVGr, editor and publisher; was born at Alto, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., July 4, 1847; worked upon a farm until 19 years of age, except when attending the district school ; to complete his education, he entered Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., graduating with honors from the classical course in 1871. While in school Mr. T. took the first prize for excellency in composition. He was editor of the Lawrence Collegian, and contributor to various other publications while in the University, thus developing his natural taste for journalism, a profession he then decided to follow, taking a position upon the Milwaukee Sentinel staff the next day after graduating. In November, 1873, Mr. T. resigned his position on the Sentinel, having contracted to purchase the Fond du Lac Saturday Reporter of John J. Beeson, issuing the first number, under his management, Nov. 22, 1873. Since that time, he has been either wholly or in part, editor, proprietor and publisher of the same paper, which has grown to three times its original size in his hands. He was married at Fond du Lac, Jan. 20, 1874, to Laura B., daughter of Rev. C. D. Pillsbury ; she was a gl'aduate in the same class with Mr. T., receiving the salutatory appointment of the class on graduating day. They have one child - Alfred L., born April 1, 1876,

CYRUS THOMPSOX, retired ; is a native of Hartford, Me., where he was born Dec. 24, 1805, and spent most of his time till 1855; when 18 years of age he began teaching school, and continued till he was 26 ; from 1831 to 1855 he was proprietor of marble works in his native town ; disposing of his marble works, he removed to Dunkirk, N. Y., and purchased a two-thirds interest in a large flouring-mill; in 1864, he traded his interest in the mill for farm in the town of Byron, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., which he cultivated for two years; then disposed of it for $11,000, and moved to the city of Fond du Lac, where he has since led a quiet and retired life. When young he took quite an active part in politics, beiqg a strong supporter of the Whig party. He held the office of Town Clerk in Hartford for ten-successive years, and while at Dunkirk was a member and Secretary of the School Board for a number of years. He married Miss Marinda Pitts, of Livermore Me., May 10, 1831, by whom he has two sons - Hiram P. and J. R.

HIRAM P. THOMPSON, architect ; is a native of Oxford Co., Me., born in 1833, and made that his home till about 1852 ; he learned the carpenter and joiner's trade, and, in 1852, he went to Boston, Mass., where he continued his trade for nearly two years, whence he went to Dunkirk, N. Y.; in 1856, he went to Buffalo, N. Y., and began architectural drawing with Sage, Wilcox & Bush ; in 1857, he immigrated to St. Paul, Minn,, where he remained for more than two years, when he went to St. Louis, Mo., where he, in 1860, enlisted in Co. B, of the 112th N. Y. V. I.; was elected Sergeant; in 1863, he was appointed First Lieutenant of Co. I of the 1st U.S. colored troops, and wassoon promoted to the position of Captain - with which he served till the close of the war ; was mustered out of service at Roanoke Island, October, 1865 ; returned to Fond du Lao, thence to St. Louis, and came back again to Fond du Lac in 1868, where he has since resided. Was employed as architect in the building of the American House, First Street School Building, First National Bank, Burnton's store. May's store, Bartlet's meat-market, et al. April 9, 1867, he married Miss Julia E. Blossom, daughter of Samuel Blos.som, of Buffalo, N. Y., who died Dec. 30, 1867.

CHARLES M. TOMPKINS. The subject of this sketch was born Aug. 1 3, 1822, in the county of Westchester, N, Y.; after pursuing the usual academic course in his native town (Somers), he entered the university in the city of New York in 1840, and graduated in 1844; among his classmates who have since attained distinction, may be mentioned Dr. Howard Crosby and A. Oakey Hall, of New York City ; Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen was at this time Chancellor of the University, and ran for Vice President on the ticket with Henry Clay; educated in the same political faith. Judge Tompkins reverts with pride to the fact that his first vote was cast for " Clay and Frelinghuysen." Having prepared himself for the profession of law, he moved to Wisconsin in the summer of 1847, and settled in Fond du Lac (then a growing village), and formed a partnership with J. M. Gillett, Esq., at that time and always a leading lawyer of the place ; the business of the firm grew with the growth of the country. In 1848, Mr. Tompkins was nominated for the office of District Attorney for the county on the Whig ticket, running much ahead of his ticket ; in 1850, the firm of Gillett & Tompkins was dissolved by the election of Mr. Tompkins as Judge for the counties of Pond du Lac and Calumet, (then attached for judicial purposes), which office he held for the term of four years ; shortly after his election, he was appointed Postmaster of the city, serving nearly the whole of President Fillmore's Administration. In 1849, Judge Tompkins was married to Miss Amelia Davis, of Fond du Lac, oldest daughter of Col. C. Davis, one of the pioneers who, with Major Tallmadge, Col. Conklin and others, had, at an early day, settled in the town of Taycheedah and its vicinity ; three children were the fruits of this union, but none survive ; the loss of wife and children, along with health greatly impaired, induced Judge 'Tompkins to seek a new home in a Southern climate; in 1862, he accepted a position under President Lincoln's (first) Adminiiitration, in one of the departments at Washington (Pension Office), and he has been retained in the same position by successive administrations. Judge Tompkins was fortunate in his ancestral relations, being a lineal descendant of Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York, while his grandfather (Dr. Elias Cornelius), was an eminent surgeon in the Revolutionary army under Gen. Washington, whose friendship and confidence he enjoyed during life. While a resident of Fond du Lac, Judge Tompkins was justly esteemed for his integrity and uprightness ; he was an active, energetic citizen, and largely identified with the grain, lumber and warehouse business. In politice, he was decidedly Whig. His many friends will be glad to know that he is yet living, with health improved, and home made happy by the smiles of a wife and two promising children, more precious to him than all the treasure in the Treasury.

E. C. TOMPKINS, grocer ; was born at Somerstown, Westchester Co., N. Y., March 13, 1821. He lived six years in New York City ; came to Fond du Lac in 1853 ; went to Watertown in 1854 ; to Pike's Peak in 1859, and returned to Fond du Lac in 1862, where, since 1864, he has been engaged in the grocery business. He was married, in New Y'^ork, to Ann Eliza Green, who was born in his native nlflop anri Tina nnft child - Anna. M. Mr. T. is nn OHH Fp.llnw.

CHRISTIAN TOSTESfSOlV, foreman in the woodwork department in McDonald's thrashing-machine works ; was born in Norway in 1828 ; began his apprenticeship as carpenter and joiner in 1844 ; came to New York in 1853, and worked there at his trade for five years ; thence he came to Eacine, Wis. In 1873, he moved to Fond du Lac, and became foreman of the woodwbrk department in thrashing-machine works. In 1853, he married Miss Johanna Utgard, of Norway, who died at Eacine, Wis., in 1871, leaving five children, as follows : Charles, Victoria, Sarah J., Frederick and Martha C. Married Miss Eliza Lawson, of Norway, in 1872 ; they have two children - Eddie C. and Oliver.

BITROIV TOWN", manufacturer; was born at Georgia, Franklin Co., Vt., June 4, 1825 ; came to Wisconsin in 1860, locating at Omro, and engaged in the flouring-mill business for one year. After that, he kept the American House at Eipon five years ; the American House at Pond du Lae four years, and the Patty House in the same place, a little over three years, since which time (1874) he has been counected with the Wheel & Seeder Co.. manufacturers of grain drills and broad-cast seeders, having a very large and constantly increasing business. In Fond du Lao, Mr. T. has been City Treasurer, and a member of the City Council He is now Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager of the Wheel & Seeder works. Mr. Town was married, Jan. 1, 1849, by Eev. Alvah Sabin, to Sarah Fargo, of Georgia, Vt.; they have three children - Carrie A., born Aug. 10, 1853; Edmund Carroll, born Oct. 2, 1855, and Minnie D., born June 13, 1858. The Town family is one of the oldest, in an unbroken line, in England or America, the Town coat-of-arms consisting of "argent, on a chevron, sable, three-cross crosslets, ermine," dating back to 1274 in England. The first ancestor, according to the " New England Historical and Genealogical Eegister," now positively known to belong to the family, was William dela-Towne, of Alyely, a village of Shropshire, near Shrewsbury, England. Thereafter the family contained in England many personages of note and high degree. The name " Edmund," given to Byron Town's second son, has been perpetuaited over two hundred and fifty years in the family.

JOHX B. TRIP-P, carpenter and joiner; is a native of Oneida Co., N. Y., where he was born in 1843 ; came to Wisconsin in 1854, and settled in Walworth Co., where he followed farming for eight years. In 1862, he enlisted in Co. A, of the 32d W. V. I.; was taken sick arid transferred to the invalid corps at St. Louis, Mo., where he served the rest of his term of service, and was mustered out in July, 1865. He then returned to Fond du Lac, and has since followed the carpenter and joiner's trade. In 1878, he, with his partner, Mr. Scales, built the County Insane Asylum. He was married to Miss Mary Cooper, daughter of Charles Cooper, a farmer of Osceola, Fond du Lac Co., in 1867, she being a native of Scotland ; they have three children - Charles H., Florence M. and Maud E. Mr. Tripp and wife are members of the Congregational Church.

JOHSir J. TRIPP, farmer. Sec. 36 ; the son of John and Hannah Tripp, nee Eobins, of Oneida Co., N. Y., born in 1826 ; he being a farmer's son, spent most of his boj'hood at farm work, and attending school during the winter till he acquired a limited common-school education ; in 1847, he immigrated to Wisconsin and settled in Pond du Lac Co., where, for the first three years, he tended what is known as the Milton farm on shares; having no seed wheat of his own at the first seeding time, he would flail out some for those who had preceded him long enough to raise a crop, taking for his labor every seventh bushel of wheat so thrashed till he had earned enough to sow on twenty acres ; at the end of three years, he was able to buy his present farm of 142 acres, which he has since improved, and made a comfortable home for himself and family. He was married to Miss Francis A., daughter of Hiram and Lucinda Edgerton, of Pond du Lac Township, in 1848; they have three children - Emma J., Ch'arles C. and Eva. Politically, Mr. Tripp is a Eepubliean, and has been a member of the Town Board for one year.

C. A. TROWBRIDGrE, watchmaker and jeweler, dealer in silver and plated ware, etc.; born in Ithaca, N. Y.; came to Sheboygan in 1847 ; resided there until he came here in April, 1869. Mr. Trowbridge has been engaged in his present business for the last twenty-four years, and is one of the most reliable dealers in the State.

JOHJV D. TURNER, farmer. Sec. 20 ; P. 0. Fond du Lie ; is the son of John and Judeth Turner, born in Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, Jan. 19, 1820 ; he spent his early life on a farm and in a grist-mill in Lorain Co., Ohio, whither his parents removed when he was about 10 years of age ; his father being proprietor of the mill in Lorain Co., though he had practiced medicine in Cuyahoga Co. for twenty-five years. At the age of 25, John D., the subject of this sketch, returned to his native county, Ohio, and for four years at Eock Eiver Falls was engaged in the manufacture of pearlash ; in May, 1847, he removed to Fond du Lae Co., Wis., and settled on a farm in Sec. 21, then owned by W. B. Eansom; six months later, he removed to Mr. Homiston's farm, in Sec. 30, and, in 1848, bought a farm of twenty acres in Sec. 20, where he now has sixty acres, and has since made his home. Jan. 15, 1841, he married Miss Matilda, daughter of James and Catharine Harpham, of Center Co., Penn.; their children are as follows:

John (deceased), Benona (now of Colorado), Arthur (deceased - killed at Atlanta), Lelia (Mrs. Truman Hawkins, of Winterset, Madison Co., Iowa), Kollin J. (of Fond du Lac), Celia A., Einaldo D. (of Colorado), Catharine M. (deceased), and Eddy, A.

ISAAC UNDERWOOD, carpenter;, was born near Rochester, Monroe Co., N. T.. Dec. 30, 1842 ; son of Joseph Underwood, who was an early settler of Waukesha, Wis., where he still resides. After residing eighteen years in Waukesha, Isaac lived one and a half years at Waterville ; removed then to Lottiira, Dodge Co., where he enlisted in August, 1862, in Co. A, 32d W. V. I.; was in detached service six months with the Pioneer Corps ; was in nearly all the battles engaged in by his regiment : mustered out in June, 1865. He came to Fond du Lac the same year, where he has since resided, except two years spent in Wyoming Territory; Mr. U. began the carpenter's trade in 1865, and has followed it ever since. He was first married at Fond du Lac, Jan. 1, 1867, to Jane Woodward, born in New York State; she died June 4, 1873, leaving one child - -Myrtle Jane, and lost one. He was married a second time, in November, 1878, to Minnie Straw, born in Brooklyn, N. Y.

RICHARD UNDERWOOD was bom at Lundy's Lane, Canada, Feb. 10, 1824; his parents removed to Springfield, Penn., when he was 3 years old ; resided in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Toronto, BulFalo (N. Y.), and removed to Toronto again in 1837, where he remained until coming to Milwaukee Oct. 2, 1846 ; removed to Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., in 1849, and, in June, 1868, to Fond du Lac. Mr. Underwood is a plasterer. He was married at Bufialo, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1846, to Hannah Downing, who died in 1847, leaving one son - Henry, a resident of Fond du Lac. He was married, Feb. 10, 1850, to his present wife, Mary J. Hodgman, born at Mason, N. H., May 21, 1830 ; they have two children living - Frances A., born Jan. 20, 1859, and "Willie E., born Nov. 30, 1873 ; have lost three - ^Francis Edwin, born June 19, 1851, died Sept. 6, 1854; Richard Lester, born Oct. 17, 1853, died Oct. 13, 1857, and J. Elmer, born Nov. 23. 1866, died Nov. 25, 1867.

PETER VANDERVOORT was born at Amsterdam, Montgomery Co., N. Y., May 10, 1796, of Holland-Dutch parents ; came, Nov. 5, 1844, to Milwaukee, and the next year to the town of Eden, settling on Sec. 17 ; he was a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, and held the first services in the house in which he lived ; his house, which was 25x32 feet, was called the " Big Shanty," and in it for several years all elections for that section were held. Mr. V., who went from Amsterdam to Plattsburg, N. Y., when 11 years of age, served all through the war of 1812, in Seth Sherry's company. Col. Miller's regiment. He was married at Plattsburg, Dec. 24, 1829, to Miss Maria Bartlett, who was born at Chazy, Clinton Co., N. Y., Oct. 16, 1808; they have bad seven children - Elizabeth B., born Oct. 1, 1832, died as the wife of C. C. Lewis July 14, 1868 ; Julia Ann, born July 3, 1843, died in 1845 at Milwaukee ; Peter V., Paul, Cornelius, Michael and Ann Maria, now Mrs. William Fisher, of Eau Claire, Wis.

D. R. VAN DUYNE was bom in the township of Pequawnock, Morris Co., N. J., May 1, 1807 ; son of Richard Van Duyne, who was the son of Martin Van Duyne, whose father, James, came from Amsterdam, Holland, with his father and mother, when a boy, and lived with his parents on Long Island, now Brooklyn, N. Y., and afterward settled in New Jersey, and built the house in which Daniel R., Richard, his father, and Martin, his grandfather, were born. The subject of this sketch lived with his father and mother till he was 16 years of age, when he left his father's house and engaged in the trade of edge-tool making, and continued at that some six years ; he then purchased a farm at Vine Brook, in his native township, and became a successful farmer, owning and occupying the farm for twenty years ; having sold out, in September, 1849, he moved to Wisconsin, and purchased a section of land where the station called Van Duyne, on the North-Westem Railway, in the town of Friendship, Fond du Lac Co., is situated, adjoining the line of Winnebago Co.; since then, he rernoved to the city of Fond du Lac, and, at this date, resides on East Division street. Mr. Van Duyne was married to Miss Phebe Crane, of Caldwell, Essex Co., N. J., March 10, 1827 ; to them were born three children - Marcus Eugene, Aug. 1, 1828, died in infancy; Richard Voorhies, born June 17, 1830, died Feb. 23, 1870, and Anna H., born April 7, 1839, now living in Union Township, Union Co., N. J., the wife of Henry J. Woodward; Mr. Van Duyne's wife died May 30, 1866. In August, 1869, he went to San Francisco, Cal.; spent, three years traveling with horse and buggy between Los Angeles, Cal., and the line of British Columbia, near the Frasier River, visiting many of the islands in Puget Sound, opposite Vancouver's Island, using the same horse and buggy the whole time ; in November, 1872, he returned to Fond du Lac, and having purchased a small drove of horses, drove them to New York, single handed, by way of Milwaukee, Chicago, Fort Wayne, Canton (Ohio), Sharon, Franklin, Phillipsburg, Mauch Chunk, Easton (Penn.), Morristown and Elizabeth City, N. J., thence via Newark to New York, sold them and returned to Fond du Lac. On the 6th day of June, 1874, he married Mrs. Jane Hadlock. Mr. Van Duyne built the house in which he now lives ; did all the carpenter work withoiit plan or bill of lumber from carpenter or architect; also all the cellar walls ; also his barn and about forty rods of picket fence ; was about two years in completing it, and now lives retired on the fruits of his labor, at the ripe old age of 73.

DAlVIEIi VARNEY, speculator ; is a native of Addison Co., Me. ; born in January, 1802 ; spent most of his time there on a farm till 1852, when he was called upon to settle up the estate of sl. deceased brother, whose death occurred that year ; in 1853, he came West for his health, and in the following year settled at Fond du Lae, Wis. ; here, for the two years following, he was engaged in buying grain, and, in 1856, he became interested in real-estate speculations, which has been his principal business since that time ; in 1859, he began loaning money on Kansas land, by which some of it fell into hishands, which caused him an annual visit to that State for the next ten years. In 1829, he married Miss Sarah C. Dow, daughter of Winthop and Susan Dow, of Lincoln, Vt. ; they had one child - deceased ; Mrs. Varney died in 1832 ; he was married a second time, in 1836, to Mrs. Kezia Lawrence, widow of John Lawrence, of Monkton, Vt., she having two sons - George and John Lawrence, the latter deceased.

AJVTOX VOGT was born in Switzerland Oct. 26, 1828; came to New York Feb. 11, 1848 ; came soon after to Milwaukee ; went to Oshkosh for seven months, two and one-half years later, and then came to Fond du Lac; be engaged in tailoring until the war, when he enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in Co. E, 26th W. V. I. ; served one and one-half years, participating in the battles of Chanoellorsville and Gettysburg. Keturned to Fond du Lac and worked seven years for Paul Hauser, then began business for himself; Mr. V. is proprietor of a beer hall. He was first married at Fond du Lac, Jan. 6, 1853, to Gertrude Trautvetter, born in Saxony, who died in\October, 1853; he married, May 5, 1856, Mary Glocke, born in Germany ; they have had two children, but none are now living. Mr. V. is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge.

(wElV. LYMAX M. WARD was bom Oct. 15, 1836, in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. ; came to- Fond du Lac in 1850; engaged for some time in the public schools of the city. Enlisted in April, 1861, in the three-months service ; was appointed Orderly Sergeant of Co. I, 1st W. V. I. ; > re-enlisted for three. years at the end of first term, and was commissioned Captain ; was successively promoted to Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of the 14th W. V. I. ; was io command of a brigade two years, receiving the brevet rank of Brigadier General. Gen. Ward is now engaged in fruit-growing at Benton Harbor, Mich. He was a member of the Michigan Legislature for 1879-80.

JAMES FRAlVKIilX WARE, attorney; was born in Litchfield, Me., Feb. 11, 1849; came to Hortonville, Wis., in 1855 ; graduated from Lawrence University in 1871 ; from the Law Department, of Michigan University in 1873, and then came to Fond du Lac and began the practice of law, being a member of the firm of Gilson & Ware. Mr. Ware was the Republican nominee for the Assembly in 1876, and was elected Assemblyman on that ticket in November, 1879. H« is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

JOHK WAIiLiER, mason ; was born in Norfolk County, England, July 18, 1819 ; came to New York City^, where he worked at his trade eight months, in 1848; removed to Milwaukee in 1849, and in January, 1850, came to Fond du Lac. Mr. Waller was married, in England, May 22, 1840, to Sarah Odham, a native of Lincolnshire, England ; she died in Fond du Lac in 1853, leaving two children - John Eobert, born in England, and Mary, born in Wisconsin. Mr. Waller was the builder of some of the best business blocks in Fond du Lac.

HEIVRY WALEICHS, grocer and druggist ; was born in Germany Jan. 10, 1842; lived in New York City one year before coming to Fond du Lac, which he did in 1863, engaging as a filerk ; in 1870, he began business for himself, which he has since continued. He was married, at Fond du Lac, in April, 1873, to Bertha Rueping, who was born at Essen, Germany, Oct. 11, 1851 ; they have two children - Henry and William. Mr. W. is an Odd Fellow.

COL. JEROME A. WATROUS. The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Conklin, Broome Co., N. Y., Sept. 6, 1840, and came with his parents to the Territory of Wisconsin in the fall of 1844, and located at Sheboygan Falls. In the spring of 1849, his parents moved to what is now Hayton, Calumet Co., where they remained until October, 1850, at which time his mother and her six children, in consequence of the death of husband and father, which occurred on the 10th of September of the same year, returned to New York. At the age of 10 years, young Watrous was obliged to earn his own living, which he did by working nine months of the year on a farm, the other three months being spent in district school. This was continued until he arrived at the age of 15 years, when he " worked and earned wages " for two summers, and attended school one winter, and taught school the winter following his 16th birthday in the village of Brookdale, Susquehanna Co., Penn. The following July, with one suit of clothes, $3 in money and a ticket to^Sheboygan, in company with an older brother, he started for his old home in Wisconsin, and the second day after his arrival at Hayton, commenced work on. a farm for $13 a month. For two winters he taught district school in Calumet Co., and, in the spring of 1859, walked to Appleton, carrying his worldly possessions in an oil-cloth, grip-sack, and entered Lawrence University, intending to work his' way through college and adopt the law as his profession. When his fundshad nearly run out, he learned that an apprentice was wanted in the Appleton Crescent printing office. He withdrew from the school, with the consent of Prof R. Z. Mason, who was Acting President, and entered upon the duties of printer's devil. That same year he commenced writing local items for the Orescent, which were each morning submitted to the editor. Judge Samuel Ryan, who at first would cut a foolscap page of carefully prepared manuscript down to six or eight lines, and indorse it, " Young man, you must learn to coijdense, if you expect to be an editor." At the end of six months, Mr. Ryan ceased the cutting-down process. For a couple of months during the winter of 1860, young Watrous was local editor of the Menasha Conservator, a paper founded by ex-Grovernor Harrison Reed, of Florida. He then returned to the Crescent office, and, in February, 1861, became one of the editors and publishers of the paper. In June of the same year, he enlisted as a private in the first company that left Appleton, and became a member of Co. E, 6th W. V. I., and remained a member of that regiment four years, lacking a few days. In March, 1862, he was made Ordnance Sergeant of King's Brigade, which afterward became the Iron Brigade of the West, and, after the battle of Antietam, was promoted to Ordnance Sergeant of the division. Returning to his regiment at his own request, he was at once made Sergeant Major, and very soon after that was commissioned First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 6th. In a few months, he wa^ made Adjutant General of the Iron Brigade, then commanded by Gen. John A. Kellogg. At the battle of Gravelly Run and White Oak Road, his horse was shot, three bullet-holes were made in his clothing, and he was taken prisoner. This occurred on the 31st of March. Reaching Libby Prison, Richmond, on Sunday, the 2d of April, 1865, he was soon gladdened by hearing that all the prisoners wore to be paroled and sent to City Point, then in the Union lines. The prisoners were sent to Annapolis, Md., and the officer.s were granted a thirty-days leave of absence. He was brevetted Captain for " gallant and meritorious conduct in battle," the commission dating from March 31. Under a general order, issued May 15, all paroled prisoners were directed to be mustered out of the service. Adjt. Watrous was reported killed in the battle of March 31, and had the pleasure of reading handsome obituary notices of himself in the State Journal, Appleton Orescent, Green Bay Advocate and several other Wisconsin papers. While in the army, he corresponded for the Appleton Crescent, State Journal, Washington Chronicle, Indianapolis Journal, Chippewa Falls f^ibra, the Montrose (Penn.) Republican and the Binghamton (N. Y.) Democrat. Returning to Wisconsin in June, 1865, after taking four days to visit, he bought a half-interest in the Jackson County Banner, at Black River Falls, and resumed his profession. For a year he edited the paper, did the press work, set type, did job work, canvassed, collected and fought the wolf fronn the door. In 1866, he was made Superintendent of Schools for Jackson Co., and that fall received the Republican nomination for the Assembly from the district coaoposed of Clark and Jackson Cos., and was elected by a large majority, and was the youngestmember of the House, being 26 years of age. He served on two regular committees, and was a member of a special committee of three to investigate the affairs of the Insane Asylum at Madison. It was while a member of the Legislature that he became a temperance man. In 1868, Gov. Pairchild sent Capt. Watrous a commission as Colonel, and a member of his military family. A similar commission was sent him by the same Governor in 1872, and Gov. Smith has twice commissioned him Colonel. In August, 1869, Col. Watrous, in conaipany with Hon. S. S. Fifield, who has since been- Speaker of the Assembly, and a State Senator, and T. B. Reid, Consul to Funchal, bought the Fond du Lac Commonwealth. In 1870, he was the Republican candidate for Congress in his district. He remained one of the editors and proprietors of that paper until March, 1876, when he rented his interest to his partner, H. M. Kutchin, and a year later sold to the same gentleman. In 1873, Col. Watrous joined the Temple of Honor, a temperance and fraternal society. In 1875, he was chosen Grand Worthy Vice Templar, and September of that year he was made Grand Worthy Templar by the resignation of Dr. W. A. Gordon, of Oshkosh. He has been unanimously re-elected, by acclamation, every year since, having held the office nearly five years, during which time the Order has grown from ten Temples to 230. In May, 1876, Col. Watrous, seeing the need of a paper to assist him in introducing the Order, of which he was the head, started the Appeal, a six-column monthly. It was enlarged to seven columns the following year, and set in new type. Daring an experience of three years, the paper cost its proprietor § 1,000 more' than it returned, but is now on a paying basis. In February, 1870, the Appeal was moved to Milwaukee, given a new dress of smaller type, thus enla.rging it to a considerable extent. It is the leading temperance newspaper in the West. In July, 1879, he bought an interest, in the Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, and, in October following, bought another interest, which gave him an undivided half of the paper, his partner being Col. B. A. Calkins. The two Colonels have the reputation of ranking among the best editors in the

State. In 1872, Col. Watrous took an active part in organizing the Northern Wisconsin Press Association, and served two years as its President, being succeeded by A. T. Glaze, of the Kipon Commonwealth. Though engaged in business in Milwaukee, he still resides at Fond du Lac.

JOHN WEBER, merchant tailor; was born in Hessen in 1834 ; learned his trade in his native country, and came to America in 1854 ; remained in New York a short time, then moved to Baltimore, Md., whence, in 1858, he came to Fond du Lac, where he has since followed his trade. In 1860, he married Miss Agnes Carstenes, of Fond du Lae ; she was a native of G-ermany ; they have seven children, as follows - George W. H., Andrew H., Edward (deceased), Lydia T., Fredrick W., John E. (deceased), and Jacob S. Mr. Weber is a member of the Temple of Honor. His family are members of the Methodist Church.

W. F. WEBER, editor, publisher and bookbinder, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, Oct. 3, 1851, where he learned his trade of bookbinder, after attending the public schools the usual period ; he came to Chicago in September, 1871, where he resided three years; located at Marquette, Mich., six months, and came to Fond du Lao in July, 1874, where he has since carried on the business of a bookbinder. In March, 1878, Mr. W^ber became the editor and proprietor of the NordwestUcher Courier, a German newspaper, which he has since published. He was married at Eipon, Wis., May 15, 1877, to Matilda Weber, a native of Theresa, Wis.; they have one child - Amelia, living, and have lost one, Josephine. They are members of the German Catholic Church.

JESSE C. WEDGE, Vice President of the Wheel and Seeder Co.; is a native of Lewis Co., N. Y., horn in 1821 ; lived there on a farm with his father till about 23 years of age; in 1844, he immigrated to Pond du Lac Co., Wis., and settled on a farm in what is now known as Wedge Prairie in Waupun Township, where he spent about twenty years at farming; from there he came to Fond du Lao, and was interested in various enterprises till 1874, when he with others formed the incorporation known as the Wheel and Seeder Co., with which he has since been connected. In 1854, he married Miss Lovina Bent, -daughter of Albert Bent, a farmer of Lewis Co., N. Y. Mr. Wedge has been a Mason since 1859.

THOMAS S. WEEKS, gunsmith, was born near Highland Mills, Orange Co., N. Y., and removed to Goshen, when 16 years of age, where he lived until coming to Fond du Lac in 1849, with Samuel B. Amory. He learned the trade of a gunsmith before coming to Pond du Lao, and has followed it continuously ever since, going into business for himself in June, 1860. Mr. Weeks, who is a bachelor, was a member of the Assembly in 1874, and was elected Alderman of the Second Ward in 1877 for three years, but resigned in 1 879.

W. H. WEIjIjS, banker; was born in Orange Co., N. Y. ; resided at Cold Spring and Newburg ; was connected with the banking business twenty years before coming to Fond du Lac, where he opened a private bank for the transaction of a general banking and exchange business, in May, 1870.

FREDRICK WEYER, dealer in wines and liquors, etc.. No. 17 Division street; was born in the province of Brandenburg, Prussia, March 19, 1835 ; in 1852, he emigrated to- America, and lived at Cambria, N. Y., about seven years, at the end of which time he came to Fond du Lac ; October, 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 2d W. V. C, returned in 1863, and served until the spring of 1866, when he was honorably discharged at Austin, Tex.; he participated in a number of severe engagements, the principal ones being at Helena, Ark., Vicksburg, and a series of battles around that place and Memphis. Mr. Weyer has been married twice, first wife was Annie Kramer, she died March 28, 1870 ; present wife was Eliza Dienger; one child - Freddie ; Mr. W. has been in business in' Fond du Lie since 1867. In polities, he is a Republican.

JACOB WHEEIiER, foreman on third floor in Meyer's sash, door and blind factory, is a native of yermont; born in 1830; learned his trade in his native county, and in 1854, emigrated to Berlin, Wis., where he followed the sash, door and blind manufactory till 1863, whence he went to Eureka, Wis., and continued it for one year ; in October, 1864, came to Fond du Lac, and began work for Mr. Meyer in his factory ; in 1865, he became foreman of sash, door and blind work and has remained in that position since that time. He married Miss Mary Smith, daughter of John F. Smith, boot and shoe manufacturer of Hubbardton, Rutland Co., Vt., April 26, 1851 ; they have had two sons - Frank B., deceased, and Freddie.

REV. E. X. WHEELER, Presiding Elder of the Fond du Lac District; was born at Waukesha, Wis., Feb. 28, 1839 ; came to Fond du Vc in 1845 ; three years kter, his father, Truman Wheeler, was killed while securing timber for the grist-mill frame erected back of the Court House ; his mother died here in 1857. Mr. Wheeler was educated at the Union School in this city; received the degree of A. M. from Lawrence University in 1878 ; learned the printer's trade with Royal Buck ; was foreman of a printing office for some time ; published the Omro Republican one year ; was then licensed to preach in the M. E. Church, and appointed to the Two Rivers Circuit, which included most Manitowoc Co., and a part of Kewaunee, where he remained one year ; at Byron two years ; Empire two years ; Sheboygan nearly a year, and in 1865, was appointed missionary to China ; did there general mission work, and superintended the mission press of Foo-Chow ; for some time, while at Foo-Chow, China, he edited an Anglo- Chinese magazine ; his health failing, he removed to Peking, where, as the first M. E. missionary, he remained for four years ; his health still failing, he returned home via Japan and California, thus completing the circuit of the world ; after his return, Mr. W. was stationed two years at Manitowoc ; two years at Lake Mills, Wis. ; two years at Court Street Church, Janesville ; appointed, in the fall of 1878, Presiding Elder of the Fond du Lao District ; while at Manitowoc, Mr. W. was active durinc; the war in raising recruits, making speeches, and was commissioned by the Governor, Captain of a militia company. He was married at Oshkosh, Nov. 20, 1857, to Mary E. Davis, born at Gouverneur, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1828 ; they have five children - Frances Irene, Carrie Ada, Aggie May, Lucy E. and Laura Maud ; they lost four children in infancy.

HENRY T. WHINFIELD, salesman in Whittelsey's dry-goods store, was born in Wisbech, England in 1839,shortly after which his parents removed toLondon,(henoe to America in 1846, and settled at Taycheedah, Fond du Lac Co., Wis. ; thence to Pond du Lao in 1848, where he lived on a farm for a few years ; in 1853, he entered Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis., where he remained as a student till 1856 ; returning to Fond du Lac, he was clerk in T. B. Mason's tea store for the next three years ; in 1859, he returned to Taycheedah and taught school for two winters ; thence to Fond du Lac again for eight years, being clerk in a dry-goods store for Sewell Bros.; in 1869, by invitation he formed a copartner- .ship with Carswell & Mason, dealers in dry goods, carpets, etc., which lasted one year; after its dissolution he clerked one year for C. J. Pettibone ; then with John Sewell, afterward Carswell & Sewell, till the summer of 1878 ; when the firm was dissolved he became salesman in Whittelsey's dry-goods store. He was married to Miss Jemima Howe, daughter of J. E. Howe, farmer, of Geneva Lake, in 1868. They had two children - Fredrick and an infant, both of whom are deceased ; Mrs. Whinfield died Nov. 21,' 1876.

SAlIUFili WHITMORE, farmer, Sec. 5 ; P. 0. Fond du Lac ; is a son of Thomas and Amy Whitmore, of Leicestershire, England, and was born in 1818. At the age of 13, he was put to work on a farm by his father, who was a carpenter and joiner in that country, but preferred to have his son to be a farmer ; Samuel continued his agricultural vocation in his native country till 1847, when in January he with his wife and child set sail for America, and landed in New Orleans the 15th of March following, reaching Fond du Lac Co. one month later, with only sixpence in his pocket to support his little family ; his resolution, stimulated by the necessities of his loved ones, soon found him something to do ; removing his family to a small shanty on his brother's farm, he worked by the day till he was able- to buy that pioneer necessity - the cow - from which his wife, by churning the milk with a spoon, made and sold one hundred pounds of butter within the year ; by the year 1850 he had saved enough money to pay his brother $200 for 80 acres of land in Sec. 5, town of Fond du Lac, where he has since lived and continued as an honest farmer, who now enjoys the reward of his many years of toil. Oct. 12, 1845, he was married to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of James and Sarah Gamble, of Leicestershire, England, who has shared his toils and pleasures through life thus far ; they had six children - Sarah A. (Mrs. V. Pitcher, of Fond du Lac, deceased), Jay (deceased), Mary (now Mrs. Nelson Vandervoort, of Fond du Lac), George, William and Samuel. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore are members of the Methodist Church.

P. J. WICKERT, proprietor meat market; was born in Prussia Jan. 17, 1843 ; came directly to Fond du Lac in October, 1865, and engaged in C. J. L. Meyer's factory; in the spring of 1879, he began his present business. He was married in Fond du Lac, Feb. 8, 1868, to Margaretta Terners, a native of Prussia; they have one child, Amelia, born Nov. 20, 1879. Mr. and Mrs. W. ai% members of the German Evangelical Church.

W. W. WlliCOX, master mechanic in Mr. C. J. L. Meyer's machine-shop ; is a native of Batavia, Genesee Co., N. Y.; born in 1833 ; he spent his early life, till he reached his 16th year, with his father on the farm ; in 1849, he immigrated to Wisconsin and settled at Neenah ; in 1863, he began steamboating on the Mississippi River, which was continued for four years, during which time he assisted in putting up the machinery on three steamboats for that river; in 1867, he moved to Fond du Lac, and for three years following was employed as machinist in the Union Iron Works, where he superintended the construction of fourteen steam engines, and one for a boat on lake Winnebago ; in 1870, he was employed as engineer in Mr. Meyer's sash, door and blind factory for a short time, when he was assigned foreman of Mr. Meyer's machine-shop ; holding this position till 1873, he was appointed master mechanic and superintendent of all his engines ; he has built nine steam engines for Mr. Meyer, among them one of 200-horse power for the Chicago factory, and one the same size for the Fond du Lac factory. In 1856, he married Miss Ellen S. Mack, daughter of Jonathan T. Mack, a farmer, of the town of Fond dui Lac, but she a native of Connecticut; they have one daughter, Florence, now Mrs. E. C. Baker, of Fond du Lac. Mr. and Mrs. W. are members of the Presbyterian Church.

BENJAIIIN WILiD began the business of baking in Fond du Lac in 1860, which he has continued to the present time ; in 1869, he built and established the large steam bakery on Second street,, in which he employs nineteen men and works up fifteen barrels of flour per day ; he also manufactures confectionery, the entire business amounting to $80,000 per annum ; he employs three traveling salesmen, who sell principally in Michigan and Wisconsin. He has a family of six children: Mr. Wild was born at StaiFordshire, England, in 1828, he was married in that country, in 1848, to Miss Eliza Bonell, and came to America, landing at Milwaukee in 1850.

WALTER WILD, book-keeper; was born at Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 19, 185S(. He has been connected with his father in business since he was 18 years of age, and is now book-keeper for his father's steam bakery, on Second street. Fond du Lac. He was married at Fond du Lac, Oct. 17, 1878, to Miss Aggie I. Jones, who was born in this city. He is a member of the Fond du Lac Lodge, Royal Arcanum.

DR. WILLIAM WILEY, physician and surgeon; was born at Randolph, Orange Co.,. Vt. ; came to Taycheedah in August, 1849, and to Fond du Lac in 1850, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. Dr. Wiley served as a volunteer surgeon in the rebellion ; that is, served without pay..

CHARLES A. WILKE, of the firm of Sittler & Wilke, cigar manufacturers; is a native of Germany, where he was born in 1849 ; June, 1863, he, with parents, came to America, and located at Sheboygan ; went to Michigan in 1870, and followed his trade there for one year, when he returned to Sheboygan Falls for a short time, whence, in 1872, he came to Fond du Lac, and was employed by Bush Bros, till 1874; from 1874 to 1876, by Jos. Wolfe, cigar manufacturer, after which he was in Milwaukee for about eight months ; January, 1878, he returned to Fond du Lao ; worked for Mr. Wilke till October, 1878, when he became a partner. Married Miss Lydia Griifa, of Fond du Lac, in 1874; they have two children - Charlie and Olga.

WASHINtJTOlV WILKE, trustee for Hiner & White; is a native of Ohio, where he was born Dec. 18, 1830 ; at 9 years of age, he came, with , parents, to Michigan, where he lived till 1848, when he came to Mayville, Dodge Co., Wis., and became engaged in a furniture manufactory. In 1862, he disposed of his interest in the furniture business at Mayville, and moved thence to Fond du Lac for three years ; thence to Green Bay in 1865, where he engaged in sawmilling for about four years. In 1869, he returned to Fond du Lac, and became Superintendent of Union Iron Works, in which position he remained till the failure of the firm in February, 1878, when he was elected Trustee by the creditors of the firm. Mr. Wilke has been a member of the I. O. 0. F. fraternity since 1857. In 1850, he married Miss Eliza White, daughter 6f James and Isabella White, of Dodge Co., Wis., she being a native of Scotland; born Feb. 2, 1832 ; they have two children - James A., druggist, and Mattie A. The family are connected with the Congregational Church.

JOHN WILLIAMS was born in Somerton, Somersetshire, England, Jan. 13, 1848 ; came to New York in September, 1 867, whence, after a few weeks, he came to Fond du Lac for eighteen months ;. spent 18 months then at Wayland, Allegan Co., Mich ; returned to Fond du Lac; where he has since resided ; engaged in painting and glazing, which he learned at the age of 15; he is now foreman of C. J. L. Meyer's painting and glazing department. Mr. W. was married at Fond du Lac June 19, 1868, to Elizabeth A. Moore, born in Draycott, Somersetshire, England ; they have three children - John F., Albert George and Lulu Pearl.

O. T. WILLIAMS, attorney, of the firm of Giffin & Williams; was born at Homer, Cortland Co., N. Y., Oct. 19, 1845 ; removed, at 10 years of age, to Whitewater, Wis., where his father died ; resided with Rev. Sheldon, a half-brother ; spent about nine years on a farm in Rock Co., and attended school winters ; afterward spent seven terms in Milton College ; took a classical course in Lawrence University, graduating in 1872 ; was one year Principal of the schools of Ft. Howard, Wis.; graduated in June, 1874, from the Law Department of Madison (Wis.) University, and, in August of that year, began practicing law with Coleman & Spence, Pond du Lac ; in February, 1875, became a member of the present firm. Mr. W. was married at Pewaukee, Wis, June 30, 1876, to Anna E., daughter of Prof Alexander North, of Carroll College; they have two children - Lynn A. and an infant son. Mr. Williams is a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge and Congregational Church.

HENRY J. WOIjF, wagon-maker ; was born in Prussia Sept. 24, 1847 ; came to America with his father, Louis Wolf, in 1848, who located at Marshfield, in this county, and died in Pond du Lac Town April 2, 1870 ; at the age of 17, Henry left the farm and came to Pond du Lac, learned the blacksmith's trade, and has been engaged in business for himself during the past three years. Mr. W. was married in Pond du Lac, Peb. 14, 1870, to Amalia Gentz, a native of Wisconsin ; they have two children living - Theodore, aged 10 years, and Willie, aged 8 ; they have lost three, all dying in infancy.

JOSEPH WOLiFF, cigar-maker; was born in Luxemburg, Germany, March 19, 1831, and came to America, landing at Boston May 2, 1852 ; he worked at Williamsburg, N. T., until the fall of 185:^, when he removed to Chicago, residing there until March, 1854, at which time he came to Pond du Lac; after arriving in Pond du Lac, he worked for Mr. Martin, at cigar-making, until May, 1855, when the firm of Fromm & Wolff was formed; in June, 1865, Mr. Fromm retired from the firm and Mr. Wolff has carried on the business alone ever since. He was married at Fond du Lac, Aug. 6, 1856, to Barbara Hochrein, a native of Bavaria, whose father, John Hochrein, located in Marshfield in 1846; they have had thirteen children, of whom ten are living - Katie, Emma, John P., Ida, Julia, Anna, Sarah, Frank J., Carl Gustav and Josephina Barbara. Mr. Wolff is a member of the Odd Fellows, Concordia and German-English Academy.

JOHN WOODHULL was bom in the town of Madison, Madison Co., N. Y., Dec. 14, 1818, where he was Lieutenant of an Independent Artillery Company, Captain of a Militia Kifle Company ; in farming, distilling and rectifying, and in the forwarding business ; two years before coming to Fond du Lac, which he did in May, 1861, Mr. W. sold out his business in New York; at Pond du Lac, he at first engaged in the settlement of lumber interests, but, in the summer of 1861, went into the post office, in which he has been ever since, most of the time as Deputy Postmaster.

JAMES WRIGHT, farmer. Sec. 25 ; was born in Washington Co., N. Y., in 1819 ; he is the son of a farmer, hence he was brought up at farm work in his native county ; in 1844, he immigrated to Wisconsin, and stopped at Milwaukee for the summer^ and in the fall of 1844 came to Fond du Lac, where he settled on a farm of sixty acres, to which he soon added 140 acres of timber, and has gradually added to it till he now owns 320 acres, and by his own toil and honest industry has earned a comfortable home for himself and family, though when they first came to Pond du Lac there was a time when provisions were so scarce that for a few meals they had nothing to eat but potatoes, as was the case with many of the pioneers. Mr. Wright was married to Miss Martha Edgerton, daughter of Joshua and Lovice Edgerton, of Fair Haven, Vt., in 1842 ; they have four children - -two sons and two daughters - Josephene E. (now Mrs. B. T. Hosttetter, of Cedar Kapids, Iowa), Irving H., James E., of Pond du Lao, Martha L. (now Mrs. S. A. Smith, of Oakfield). Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the only two remaining of the original members of the Congregational Church. Mr. Wright has given many interesting incidents which will be included under the head of pioneer reminiscences.

JAMES WRICirHT, dairyman and farmer, Sec. 13 ; P. 0. Pond du Lac ; was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1818, and is the son of a weaver, Peter Wright and Marietta Smith; when 16 years of age he was apprenticed to the stone-cutter's trade, at which he worked for twenty-six years ; early in the spring of 1842, he set sail for America, landing in New York May 2 following; he came direct to Wisconsin and settled in Kenosha Co., where he followed farm-laboring till by his industry and economy he saved money enough to buy a farm of eighty acres in that county; in 1846, he sold that f^rm and 'bought another of 340 acres in the town of Empire, Pond du Lao Co.; removing thither he made that his home till 1864, when he sold that and bought his present one of 168 acres in Sec. 13, town of Fond du Lac, where he now follows farming in connection with a large dairy business, keeping from thirty to forty cows, from which he furnishes to the citizens of Pond du Lao from 140 to 160 quarts of milk daily. Oct. 1, 1873, he married Mrs. Emma C, widow of Joseph Smithe, daughter of John and Bettie Clapham, of 111., she being a native of Yorkshire, England; she had one son and one daughter at the time ' of her marriage to Mr. Wright - Henry Smith, now of England, and Laura, now of England.

WILiLIAM G. "WRIGHT, general ticket agent for the Pond du Lac, Amboy & Peoria R. R.; is a native of Sullivan, Ashland Co., Ohio, where he was born Nov. 26, 1854 ; when he was about 2 years of age his parents moved to Cedar Co., Iowa, and settled on a farm near Tipton; here William spent most of his time till 17 years old; in 1869, he attended school at Tipton, Iowa, after which, during 1870-71, he was a student in the High School at Clarence, Iowa, after which, in the fall of 1872, he attended a comimercial school at Chicago; returning to Iowa in the spring of 1873, he entered Cornell College, where he continued his studies for nearly two years, when, his eyes failing him, he was compelled to leave off his and receive medical treatment for them ; he was next in the employ of the Des Moines & Port Railway Co. for a little more than a year, when his eyes again failed him and he was forced to quit the road ; in the spring of 1876, he went to Hampton, Iowa, where he remained in the U. S. Express office till 1877, when he was employed by the contractor of the Fond du J,ac, Amboy & Peoria K. K. till Jan. 1, 1878 ; May 1, 1879, he was again employed by the Fond du Lac, Amboy & Peoria K. R. Co., and appointed General Ticket Agent of the road.

. DANIELi BAKER WYATT, physician and surgeon, was born in Johnson, Lamoille Co., Vt., Feb. 21, 1842 ; his parents removed to Fort Covington, Franklin Co., N. Y., when he was a youth; he read medicine there, and, after graduating from the New York Medical University in 1863, he returned to Fort Covington, and was engaged in practice in that place until he came to Fond du Lac in 1868; since coming here, he has given his whole attention to his profession. He was married at Fort Covington, Aug. 31, 1863, to Mary E. Lincoln, daughter of A. M. Lincoln; she was born in the town where they were married ; they have one daughter - Gertrude Stella.

S. I). WYATT, insurance agent, came to Fond du Lac in 1866, from Bangor, Franklin Co., where he was born, and began the insurance business ; he represents several of the leading fire and life insurance companies, and has one of the largest agencies in the State, the entire territory of the county belonging to his agency for most of the companies which he represents ; he has fourteen companies, such as the Home, .^tna and North American, representing the largest capital of any agency in the vicinity.

GEORGrE W. YABiTCY, dealer in musical merchandise, was born at New Cassel, Fond du Lac Co., in February, 1854, where he lived until 1872, after which he taught school in various places;, visited St. Louis and Indiana, and, July 14, 1876, came to Fond du Lac and engaged in his present business ; in April, 1878, Henry E. Parratt was taken as a partner, under the firm name of Yancy & Parratt, who now carry on the business ; they make a specialty of Chickering, Mathushek, Bradbury and Kimball pianos, and of the Western Cottage, Schominger and Kimball organs.

CHARLiES ZICKERICK, florist and market gardener, on Grove avenue, is a native of Berlin, Prussia, born Feb. 24, 1819 ; with his parents, he set sail for America, and landed in New York in June, 1848, whence he came tp Dodge Co., and lived on a farm with his father until 1851, at which time he came to Fond du Lac and began gardening, Which trade he had learned in his native country ; in 1856, he established a greenhouse on Grove street, where he continued until the spring of 1874, when he built a large brick greenhouse, 24x75 feet, in the center of the school section on Grove street ; here he has thirty acres of land, and houses valued at |5,500. In 1849, he married Miss Augusta Deisman, daughter of Christian Deisman, tailor, near Berlin, Prussia. They are members of the Evangelical ., Church. Mr. Z. has been a Mason for a number of years, belonging to the Royal Arch since 1873.

LiOUIS ZINKE, Sr., retired grocer ; was born in Germany in 1817; learned the cooper's trade at the age of 14 ; immigrated to America, in 1848 ; settled in Fond du Lac in 1849, and worked at his trade till 1854, when he began keeping a grocery store; in 1872, he added a flour and feed department ; he turned over the business to his sons not a short time since, and has retired from active business life ; his business house is regarded as one of the oldest in the city. In 1840, he married Miss Fredreka Andrew, of Germany ; they have had five children - Amelia (now Mrs. Kennie), of Fond du Lac, Herman, Charles, Louis J. and Robert. Herman was born in Germany in 1842 ; came to America with his parents in 1848, and worked at the tanner's trade with L. Rueping, from 1859 to 1866, when he became connected with the grocery firm of L. Zinke & Sons, where he has since been in business. He married Miss Emma Schusler, daughter of Joseph Schusler, brewer, of Fond du Lac, in 1870 ; they have three children - Laura, Adala and Richard, Louis J. was born in Fond du Lao in 1851 ; was educated in public schools of this city ; was clerk in dry-goods store for Sharp & Whittelsey from 1865 to 1872, whence to Loughlin & Carey, dry-goods store, from 1872 to 1878, when he became a partner with his brothers in the grocery business. Married Miss Laura Haas, of Pond du Lac, in 1877 ;. they have one child.

CHESTER ADKISTS, farmer, Sec. 17 ; P. 0. Ripon ; was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, Jan. 24, 1822 ; his father died when he was 5 years of age ; at the ago of 20, his stepfather, William, and Elmira Dunham, came to the State of Wisconsin, and settled in Southport (near Kenosha Co.), for four years, and, in 1844, came to this county and settled in Ceresco, being members of the " Wisconsin Phalanx." His stepfather died there in March, 1863 ; his mother is still living with a niece near Eureka, Wis. The subject of this sketch, in 1850, purchased his present farm, upon which he has since resided, of 105 acres. On Dec. 7, 1845, he married Miss Elizabeth Limbert, daughter of George and Margaret Limbert, of Yorkshire, England, who came to the United States in 1840, and settled in what is now Walworth Co., and, in 1844, came to Ceresco, members of " Wisconsin Phalanx," where her mother died in 1864, and her father Dec. 24, 1879. Mrs. Adkins was born in Yorkshire, England, Oct. 6, 1826 ; they had four children, three living - George (who married MissRosannaBowen,of Auroraville, Wis., in April, 1875 ; they have two children - Ernest and an infant, and are living in Dakota Territory ; he is working as a stonemason and farmer) ; Ida A. (now Mrs. George Brine, of Ripon Township, married Nov. 26, 1874 ; they have two children - Ina E. and Daisy N. and Vernon M., living at home, and one deceased) ; Melissa J., who died in 1850.

D. W. AKIST, druggist, was born at Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., Oct. 18, 1820; moved to Niagara with his mother at the age of 15 ; came to Fond du Lac in September, 1848 ; platted the village of Marquette in 1849, where he remained until 1864, engaged in the drug business ; from 1866 to 1872 was engaged in the boot and shoe business ; also engaged in buying wool for twenty years. Mr. Akin has been Assessor and City Treasurer of Ripon, and is a Vestryman in the Episcopal Church. He was married, August, 1848, at Bainbridge, Chenango Co., N. Y., to Mary J. Seeley, a native of that place ; they have two children - Levina H., a graduate of the School of Music in Ripon College, and Henry S., a lawyer in New York City, who graduated from Ripon College in 1873, and afterward from Columbia Law School.