Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin - Biographical sketches, 1880 (part 1 of 17)

Biographical sketches

GI^OBGrE C. AliDRICH, of the firm of Allen & Aldrich, proprietors City Stone Mills ; was born in Chicago Aug. 26, 1853 ; when 3 or 4 years old, his parents removed to Providence, R. I. ; about thirteen years ago, removed to Kenosha Co., Wis., and then to Fond du Lac ; he has been connected with the milling business since 1872. He was married at Fond du Lao, June 15, 1876, to Florence ftordon, born in Lewis Co., N. Y.

JAMES F. ALDRICH was born in Saratoga Co., N. Y., May 24, 1822; was educated, in the common schools and the Academy at Union Village, Washington Co., N. Y. ; in October, 1841, he removed to Jackson, Mich., and, in 1845, with his brother William (now Congressman from the First Illinois District) and George F. Eice, began the mercantile business, which he continued until 1854, sometimes having branch houses in East Jackson, Concord and Battle Creek ; during that year, he and his brother William formed a partnership with B. & J. W. Medbury, of Milwaukee, and H. H. Smith, of Two Rivers, Wis., and ensaged extensively in the manufacture of lumber, furniture, tubs and pails - William attending to the factory at Two Rivers, and J. F. attending to the sales at Chicago, where he then lived; this firm continued in business until 1859, passing safjly through the pinie of 1857. In 1861, William and J. F. Aldrich sold to Mann Bros., of Milwaukee, and, in July, the former removed to Chicago, and the latter to Providence, R. I., where he resided two years, making frequent trips to Ohe West to purchase wool, flour, etc. ; in 1867, Mr. A. came to Fond du Lac, with his family, where he now resides in one of the finest houses in Forest street, and, with his father-in-law. Dr. Capron, of Providence, R. I., invested largely in real estate. Mr. A. has also dealt in wool, woolen goods, and wood, as well as run a woolen mill ; he has three children living - Greorge, one of the proprietors of the Stone Mills ; J. W., a music teacher, and Mattle, attending the Cathedral School.

JDAVID D. ALiEXANWER, carriage manufacturer; is a son of Isaac Alexander, Sr., a shipcarpenter, and Mary Johnson, natives of England, but immigrants to America more than thirty years ago. David was born in Durham, N. J., in 1848 ; at the age of 10, he left his home in New Jersey, and went to Port Byron, N. Y., thence to Medina Co., Ohio, where he attended school most of the time for three years; in 1861, he came to Sheboygan, thenoe to Fond du Lac, Wis., where, in 1862, he began the blacksmith trade, working in a foundry for about nine months, and then went south in the employ of the Government as blacksmith for three months. In 1863, he returned to Fond du Lac, and began the carriage manufacture, which he has since continued on Scott street. He married Miss Augusta Sears, daughter of Roland and Mary Sears, of Fond du Lao, in 1867 ; they have three children, as follows - Cora, George and Ida. Mr. A. is a Seventh-Day Baptist, and a Republican politically.

ISAAC AliEXANDER, proprietor of livery stable; was born in the State of New Jersey in 1840; from there he moved to Ohio in 1859, and followed blacksmithing till 1861, when he enlisted in Co. A, of the 1st Ohio V. I for three months ; at the expiration of his term of service, he re-enlisted in the 8th Ohio; was in the battle of Shenandoah Valley; was wounded in the battle of Harrison's Landing, near Richmond; after his recovery, he came to Fond du Lac in 1863 and' re-enlisted, but was rejected at

Madison on account of his wound; he then returned to Fond du Lac, and became manager of a saw-mill for George Wade for about six years ; in 1874, he began the livery business, which he now follows ; was elected a member of the City Council, from Fifth Ward in the spring of 1879 ; member of I. 0. 0. P. In- 1863, he married Miss Louisa C. Danks, of Fond du Lac, who died ia 1864, leaving one daughter, Lillian. Married Miss Sarah J. Danks, sister of his first wife, Oct. 11, 1866; they, have, three children, as follows ; Louisa C, Walter (deceased) and Walter, Jr.

PETER ALiLAR, Sr. (deceased), was a son of Joseph and Josette AUar, natives of France, but emigrants to Canada East, where Peter was born in 1812 ; four years after, his parents removed to Colchester, Chittenden Co., Yt.; at the age of 14, entered upon an apprenticeship at the miller's trade, in Burlington, Vt., where he continued the trade with one man for forty-two years, during which he made the flour that took the medal at the first fair held at Crystal Palace, N. Y., also that which took the medal at a London fair ; in 1870, he came with his family to Fond du Lac to live with his son Peter, who had come ont in 1868, and bought a farm of 120 acres in Sec. 4, of the town of Fond du Lao ; having spent nearly fifty years of his life at his trade, he now turned his attention to agricultural pursuits for a few years only, when he was called to that bourne whence no traveler returns; he died Nov. 16, 1844, leaving a wife, whom he married in Lower Canada in 1837 - Sophia, daughter of Basil and Margaret Lapierre; they had nine children, as follows : Sophia, Mrs. Thetro, of Fond du Lac; Phelomenie, Peter, Bxhilda, Louisa, Joseph, William, Edmund, Virginia, all of whom are members of St. Louis Catholic Church.

ROIiVIN F. AliliEDf, miller, was born in Brooklyn, Hancock Co., Me., Aug. 14, 1849 ; removed with his parents to Providence, R. I., when 12 years of age ; came to Kenosha, Wis. in 1867, and to Fond du Lac in 1868, where he engaged in handling woolen goods, flour and feed, in company with Charles French, the firm continuing together one year; Mr. A. continued the business another year and then became a member of the firm of Langlois, Allen & Co., which continued until 1874, when the firm of Allen & Aldrich was framed, proprietors of the City Stone Flouring Mills, on Forest street. He was msfrried at Fond du Lac, Oct. 19, 1879, to Miss Ida E. Van Norder. He is an Odd Fellow, and a Mason.

JOHN AMES, farmer, son of Fredrick and Sarah Ames ; born in Milwaukee in 1827 ; hi& parents were emigrants, from England, and on their way to Juneau, Dodge Co., Wis., and had reached Milwaukee, before his birth ; they, however, settled in Walworth Co., where they lived on a farm until 1835; thence they removed to Ripon,. Wis., where they resided till 1839 ; thence to town of Fond du Lac, where he has since made his home, and has followed farming most of his time. Enlisted in Co. A, of the 38th W. V. I., under Col. Pier, with whom he served till he was wounded by the exploding of a shell, in the battle of Petersburg, Penn.; was discharged at Madison, Wis., on account of wound ; returned to Fond du Lac, and, after partially regaining his health, he began farming again. At Ripon, in 1849, Tie married Miss Sarah Colton, of that city ; they have four children - Augustus, Frank, Henry and Jennie. The family are members of the Baptist Church.

RET. WILLiIAlI D. AMES, Pastor of the Cotton St. M. E. Church; was born in Monroe Co., N. Y., Oct. 25, 1832 ; his father, Henry Ames, was the son of Peter Ames, and a lineal descendant of Thomas Ames, who came from ,]Bngland and settled in Dedham, Mass., as early as 1641 ; his grandparents died in Petersham, Mass., leaving a family of eight children, the oldest 20 years, the youngest 20 months, of whom Henry, the father of our present subject was the sixth, and was born Feb. 7, 1807 ; the estate was swallowed up in the administration, and the children left penniless ; seven of them afterward settled in Hillsdale and Lenawee Cos., Mich., and all became well off; his mother, Ann B., daughter of John and Jerusha Wheeler, was born in Litchfield, Conn., and was married to Mr. Ames Oct- 16,1831, in Rochester, N. Y. When William D. was quite young (1834), he removed with his parents to Lenawee Co., Mich., and made that his home till 21 years old ; was educated in the common and high schools of Hudson, Mich:; joined the church in February, 1853 ; was licensed, and began preaching in July following; studied theology at the Garrett Biblical Institute, of Evanston, III., during the years pf 1855 and 1856 ; entered the regular work' of the ministry as a supply at Port Clinton, III, in 1856 ; in September of the same year, he was sent as a supply to the church of Sun Parish, Dane Co., Wis.; here, Aug. 16, 1857, he married Martha J., daughter of Asahel and Mary Bailey, nee Sawyer ; he joined the Wisconsin Annual Conference at Milwaukee in August, 1857, and was appointed to the charge of Hebron, Jefferson Co., Wis.; in May, 1858, he was appointed to Jefferson, Wis.; was ordained at the Sheboygan Falls Conference in the spring of 1859, by Rev. 0. C. Baker, D. D., then Presiding Bishop,, and was returned to Jefferson ; in the fall of 1859, he was assigned to the charge at Hartford, Washington Co.,' Wis.; in 1861, he was sent to Menasha, Wis., and, in 1862, to Vineland, Winnebago Co., Wis., where his wife died June 13, 1863, leaving three children - Henry A. (now deceased), Mary E. (now a student of

Lawrence University) and Robert H. (now deceased). In the spring of 1864, he entered the army as Chaplain of the 41st W. V. I. at Milwaukee ; went immediately to Memphis, Tenn., where they remained on post duty till September following, then returned to Milwaukee and was mustered out ; he then resumed his place in the Conference, and was appointed to the church at Grand Rapids, Wis.; here, in December. 1864, he was married to Miss Abbie, daughter of Joseph and Mary Fellows, a native of DePuyster, St- Lawrence Co., N. Y., and a sister of the Rev. George Fellows, of the Wisconsin Conference, also a descendant of Sir Charles Fellows, of England; in 1865, he was appointed to Stevens Point, Wis., and, in 1867, to Plover, Portage Co., Wis.; in 1869, to Princeton, Green Lake Co.; in 1871, was sent to the charge of Centenary Church, town of Utioa, Winnebago Co., Wis.; in 1873, to Stoijghton, Dane Co., Wis., and in 1876, to Edgerton, Rook Co., Wis.; in 1878, was appointed to Allen's Grove, Walworth Co., Wis., and, in 1879, to Cotton street, Fond du Lac ; their children are Joseph W. F., Edith A., Edward B., Elbert H., Eva V. and Ernest.

CHARIiES H. ANDERSON, salesman in Whittelsey's dry-goods store, is a native of Newark, N. J. ; born July 25, 1851, residing there till 1867, when he went to New York City, and there engaged in mercantile pursuits till' May, 1871 ; immigrating to Wisconsin, he began the cheese manufacture in the town of Rosendale, Fond du Lac Co., where he continued business till 1875 ; in spring of 1878, came to Fond du Lac, and has since been in the employ of Mr. Whittelsey.

SQUIRE ARTHUR, farmer, Sec. 31 ; 320 acres ; P. 0. Fond du Lac ; a native of Lewis Co., N. Y. ; born in 1810, spent his early life there on his father's farm, and in 1855, he came to Wisconsin, and settled on his present farm, and has since followed farming and stock-raising.

JOHN AMORY, retired ; son of James and Martha Bur^s Amory ; was born in New York City Oct. 18, 1826, where he resided until coming to Fond du Lac in August, 1850. His father was among the first manufacturers, of whips on New York Island, and one of the first importers of saddlery, whips, whalebone, etc, beginning in 1793, on Pearl street; he retired from business, dying in February, 1836, his wife following him in December, 1853. When Rufus King was United States Minister to England, he often went personally, during Washington's Administration, to look after James Amory's business among the English manufacturers. Before coming to Fond du Lac, John Amory was engaged as a clerk in an exchange broker's office ; in Fond du Lac, he went into the business of making guns with his brother, S. B., which they carried on until selling out to T. S. Weeks in 1860. Mr. A. was absent ten years from Fond du Lac, from 1856 to 1866, living at Middletown, Orange Co., N. Y. ; in company with his brother S. B., he built Amory Hall Block in 1856 ; old Post Office Block in 1866-67, and on his own account, in 1872-73, a block of stores south of Amory Hall Block ; Mr. A. is one of the largest individual tax-payers in Fond du Lac. He was married at Goshen, N. Y., May 28, 1850, to Jane Smith, a native of that place ; they have six children living - Martha Burtus, John James and Jane Remsen AUston, born in Fond du Lac; Anna Dolsen, Mary Frances and Samuel Burtus, born at Middletown, N. Y. ; their first child, a daughter, died at Middletown of scarlet fever, aged 2 years and 3 months.

SAMUEJL BURTUS AMORY, retired ; Was born in New York City in November, 1822, where he learned the trade of a gunmaker ; previous to coming to Fond du Lac, in 1849, which has since been Mr. Amory's home and place of business, he resided five years at Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y.; the trade of gunsmith was learned by Mr. Amory because he thought every man should have a trade or profession, and not for profit ; it was not necessary for him to have either to earn a living, as the Amory family were large owners of Central Park, on Manhattan or New York Island, and are still owners of a portion of it. In Fond du Lac, Mr. Amory has been largely engaged in erecting substantial business blocks and residences, of which Amory Hall Block is the largest, and the largest in the city ; he was President of the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank ; is President of Rienzi Cemetery ; has been Alderman, and is connected with the Gravel Road Company. He was married at Goshen, N. Y., March 16, 1846, to Frances E. Smith, a native of that place; they have had four children - Mrs. Charles H. Benton, born at Goshen, N.. Y.; Mrs. Robert J. Moore, of Lincoln, Neb., born at Goshen ; Mrs. J. A. Merryman, born at Goshed, died June 18, 1879, and a daughter born in Fond du Lac, who lives at home.

CHARLES BAIIiEY was bom at Windsor, Berkshire Co., England, Aug. 11, 1838; son of George Bailey, a native of Old Windsor, England, Parish Teacher and Poor Commissioner, and, fifteen years prior to his death, which occurred March, 1856, was Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths ; George Bailey left seven children - Ann, now Mrs. R. W. Baldmn, of Hotwells, Bristol, England ; William Henry, a resident of London ; Louisa Martha, wife of George de Hochepied Larpent, who died in 1856 ; George, a resident of Croydon, England ; Emily E., now Mrs. Alfred Jenkins, Brighton, England ; Elizabeth (deceased) ; Frederick (deceased), and Charles. Charles Bailey came to Fond du Lac in May, ] 858 ; was employed one year in the C. & N. W. car-shops, and, losing his fingers, was compelled to change his business, and began the manufacture of spruce beer ; he served five years' apprenticeship in London as brass finisher and gas-fitter. He was married, at Old Windsor Church, Berkshire, England, July 17, 1857, to Catherine Beech Audley, born in Staffordshire, England a daughter of Dr. John Beech Audley ; they have one child - George Alfred, born July 17, 1861, and have lost two infants; George Alfred is station agent, telegraph operator and express agent at Elkhart Lake ; Mrs. Bailey's .brothers and sisters are James, William, Ann and Ellen, all deceased ; Catherine, Emma, Hannah, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Thomas and George, now living ; Ellen was the wife of John Long, Eaton, Buckinghamshire, England.

DAVID BA.BCOCK, attorney, was born at Utica, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1835 ; moved to Chicago in June, 1855, and thence to Waupun, Wis., in the fall of the same year ; the next year, 1856, he went to Milwaukee, where he resided until 1858, when he came to Fond du Lac, where he has since resided. He enlisted, at the first call for three-months men, in Co. I, 1st W. V. I. In 1860, Mr. Babcock was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court ; was re-elected, serving until Jan. 1, 1865, after which he began the practice of the law, which he has since followed.

ROBERT A. BAKEiB, banker, came to Fond du Lac in 1844; purchased property here at that time, but did not locate here until the spring of 1851 ; commenced banking in this city in the spring of 1854, and has continued in the same business ever since; he is at the present time President of the Mihills Manufacturing Company.

DR. C. W. BARNES, dentist, was born at Colosse, Oswego Co., N. Y., Oct. 18, 1840 ; wont with his father, Lorenzo D. Baroes, to Green Co., Wis., in 1845, where he remained until 1853, when he moved to Mount Pleasant, working upon a farm ; in August 31, 1861, he enlisted in the 5th W. V. Bat., in which he served three years, participating in all the battles in which his battery was engaged ; he was mustered out as Gun Sergeant Oi;t. 1, 1864 ; after leaving the army he was a pupil in the office of M. B. Johnson, at Janesville, two and a half years, after which he took a complete course in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, from which he graduated March 4, 1869, coming to Fond du Lac in August, 1869. Doctor Barnes was married April 13, 1870, at Fond du Lac, to Mrs. B. L. Davis, a native of New York State; they have one child - Jlary. During 1873 and 1874, he was President of the State Dental Society ; he is a Mason, member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Division Street M. E. Church. He is now a member of the dental firm of Barnes & Sackett.

JAMES A. BARXES, foreman in McDonald & Stewart's sash, door and blind factory; was born in England, in 1849 ; moved to Canada West with his mother in 1852, where he lived till 1865 ; he then moved to Janesville and began his trade with Wm. Hume, then in the manufacture of sash and blinds in that city, remaining with him till 1 868 ; he went to Oshkosh ; where he was foreman in sash, door and blind factory for Gould & Hume, for six years ; in January, 1878, he came to Pond du Lac, where he has since been foreman in factory for McDonald & Stewart. Married Miss Mary A. Sutton, of Oshkosh, in 1873; they have had four children - Arthur J. (deceased), infant (not named, deceased), Edith B. (deceased), Eva M. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church ; Mr. B. is a member of the Temple of Honor, also of the A. 0. U. W. Owns a rfesidence in Oshkosh valued at $2,000.

CHARLES B. BARTLETT, senior partner of the firm of Bartlett & Carstens, proprietors of meat market, was born in Ellicottsville, N. Y., in 1836, whence he came to Fond du Lac, in 1855, and engaged in firming for two years ; disposing of his farm in 1857, he became the partner of Mr. Van Dresor, in the butcher trade, where he continued till 1863, when, by mutual consent, the firm was dissolved. Mr. Bartlett soon began the business again, of which he was sole proprietor till 1869, when a copartnership was formed with Mr. T. J. Wood ; in 1871, Mr. Carstens took the place of Mr. Wood,and the firm has since been known as Bartlett & Carstens. Mr. Bartlett has been variously connected with the city and county oflices, being a member of the City Council from the First Ward in 1874, member of School Board in 1877, and Superintendent of the County Poor in 1878 and 1879.

WILL1A3I B. BEACH, farmer, P. 0. Fond du Lac; is a son of Silas and Olive Beach; born Sept. 11, 1817, in Westford, Chittenden Co., Vt.; he received his early education in the public schools of his native county, after which he attended select school for a short time ; he was principally engaged in farming till his 22d year, when he was employed to drive a peddling wagon for a paper manufacturing companj, continuing this for nearly four years ; he was next a farmer for about the same length of time ; from 1838 to 1840, he was in the employ of Bradley, Page & Co., who were interested in the building of the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, of Yermont ; for the next two years he was in the employ of Bradley & Canfield, on a line of boats from New York City to Lik6 Champlain ; in 1853, he removed to Illinois, where, for two and a half years, he was employed in the construction of the North-Western Railway, from Chicaw to Woodstock, 111.; in 1855, he removed to Fond du Lao; Wis., and began work for Butler & Co., lurriber dealers, with whom he continued till Mr. Mitchell purchased Mr. Butler's interest and took in Mr. K. M. Lewis as partner, with whom Mr. Beach remained for some time ; he was next in the employ of I. K. & W. C. Hamilton, lumber dealers, for two and a half years ; in 1860, he began farming, which he has since followed in this county ; in 1873, he bought his present farm of 30 acres in Sec. 20, town of Fond du Lac. In August, 1857, he married Miss Celinda, daughter of Elijah and Anna Shepard, of Fond du Lac. His wife is a member of the M. B. Church.

F. H. BECHAUD, brewer; was born in Bavaria Jan. 19, 1848, and came, with his parents, J. B. and Mary Josephina Bechand, to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1852, where they lived for a time until coming to Fond dii Lac; he engaged in farming until starting in the brewing business in 1871, under the firm name of A. G. Bechaud & Bros. He was married, at Fond du Lac, Oct. 1, 1876, to Anna Abel ; they have two children - Cora A., and Laura. Mr. B. is a member of the Sons of Hermann.

JOHN B. BECHAUD, of the firm of A. G. Bechaud & Bros., proprietors of brewery on La Salle street ; was born in Bavaria in 1846, and is the son of John P. and Mary J. Bechaud, with whom he came to America in 1852, and settled in the city of Fond du Lac, Wis., where his father died in September, 1877 ; in 1873, he, with his brothers, established the brewery on La Salle street, of which they have since been proprietors, and now do an extensive business in their line. In 1874, he was married to Miss Mary, daughter of Mathias and Elizabeth Kreamer, of the town of TaycUeedah ;' their children are Josephine, Ida, Walter, Kudolph. They are members of the Catholic Church.

IVIlililAM BEERS, pattern-maker for C. J. L. Meyer; was born in Bristol, England, in 1829, and came with his father, William Beers, to America when 10 years old ; they settled at Syracuse, N. Y., where he afterward learned the carpenter and joiner's trade ; in 1855 he removed to Janesville, Wis., and in 1860 came to the city of Fond du Lac, where he worked in the railroad car-shop for 12 years ; in the spring of 1879 he began in the pattern-room for Mr. Meyer, where he has since been employed. In 1850 he was married to Mary, a daughter of Abram Beers, of N. Y,; their children are Julia, now the wife of A. T. Stewart, and lives in Minnesota ; Ada, now Mrs. William Gove, and lives in Minnesota ; Robert C., who died in March, 1878 ; Ella, unmarried and lives in Minnesota ; Edwin, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Beers are members of the M. E. Church.

EDWARD BEESON, editor and publisher ; the oldest editor in Fond du Lac Co. or the State of Wisconsin ; was born in Columbiana Co., Ohio, in July, 1815, and came to Fond du Lac Co., locating on Sec. 32, town of Fond du Lac, in May, 1842 ; he engaged in farming for over four years, after which, in 1846, he came to Fond du Lac Village and purchased an interest in the Journal, which had just been established by Henning & Hooker, and has continued in the newspaper business, with one or two short intervals ever since - thirty-four years; his last venture was establishing, in 1879, the Wisconsin Farmer, at Fond du Lac, which immediately attained success. Mr. Beeson went to Europe with his wife and daughter, Abbie Beeson Carrington, in August, 1877, returning in August, 1879 ; most of his time abroad was spent in Italy, where he was correspondent for the Chicago Times, and for the papers at Fond du Lac. He has held several offices, being County Treasurer two terms, Alderman several times and a member of the County Board. Mr. Beeson first published a paper called the Democratic Watchman during Andrew Jackson's second Administration, at Beaver, Penn., where he learned his trade in 1832 ; he remained at Beaver until 1835, when he made a journey to Wisconsin, passing over Fond du Lac before there was a person living in it, but returned within a year. Although 65 years of age, Mr. Beeson puts in a full day's work every day in the mechanical and editorial management of his paper, the Farmer.

NEIL C BEIdi, Sheriff of Fond du Lac Co., was born in the town of Brock, Victoria Co., Canada West, March 22, 1838, whence he came, with his father, John Bell, a native of Scotland, to Eldorado, June 1, 1849, where he was engaged in farming until the rebellion. He enlisted in Co. A, 2d W. V. C, Oct. 17, 1861, in which he served three years, re-enlisting in the same company, and serving until the fall of 1865 ; some of the time he Was on detached duty in the Provost Marshal'a office at Vicksburg, and with Capt. Gray, at Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Bell was Under Sheriff during 1878 and 1879 ; Town Treasurer of Eldorado three years in succession ; and elected Sheriff on the Republican ticket by a large majority in November, 1879. He was married, at Eldorado, to Marcia C. Wilbur, a native of Wisconsin ; they have three children - Earl J., Neil J. and Ethel. Mr. Bell's father resides in Marinette, Wis.

CHARL.es H. BENTON, fifth son of Daniel S. Benton, was born at New York Dec. 31, 1840 ; he came with his father to Geneva, Wis., in 1843, where he lived until 14 years of age, going to school most of the time ; in 1854, he came to Fond du Lae, where he lived with an elder brolhor, going to school but spending all his spare time in the office of the Fountain City Herald, learning the printer's trade. At the breaking-out of the rebellion he at once enlisted as a private soldier in Co. K, 1st W. V. I., forthree years ; he was in the battles of Chaplin Hill, Stone River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and tlfe capture of Atlanta ; when mustered out,

Oct. 13, 18^4, Mr. Benton was Brigade Quartermaster; he purchased an interest in the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, and became its local editor, which position he left at the end of six months, to enter into the storage and commission business at Chattanooga, Ga., where he remained three years. He was married to Miss Pranci? E. Amory, of Fond du Lac, and returned to that city in 1869, and soon after entered the hardware business, in which he still continues, as a member of the firm of C. H. Benton & Co., who are among the heaviest hardware dealers in this portion of the State. In all matters of public interest or improvement Mr. Benton always takes a leading and active part. He is a self-made man.

CORWELIUS A. BEVIER is a native of Ulster Co., N. Y.; born in 1820 ; is a son of. Johannisand Elizabeth Bevier ; in 1843 or 1844, he, with two other brothers, removed to Aurora, Kane Co., 111., where he engaged in farming for about two and one-half years, whence, in 1846, he came to Fond du Lac Co., and purchased a farm of 120 acres in the town of Byron, on which he made his home for fifteen years ; in 1861, he sold that farm and bought another, his present one, of forty acres in Sec. 8, town of Fond du Lac; probable value, $100 per acre. He married Miss Laura A., daughter of Willis and Laura Wilder, nee Huston, of Middlebury, Vt., in 1865. They are members of the Presbyterian Church.

ASfDJtEW jr. BIRDSAljIi, farmer ; is the son of Amos Birdsall, a coaster, and Martha Headley, natives of New Jersey ; his father having a vessel burned in the last war with England ; Andrew spent much of his early life with his older brothers, who were coasters from New York City to Carolina; in 1844 he came to Wisconsin and made his home in Milwaukee, where he was dealing in real estate and engaged in sailing from that city to Michigan for about ten years ; in 1845, he walked from Milwaukee to Fond du Lac and bought 160 acres of land - the northwest quarter of Sec. 9, town of Fond du Lac - to which he moved in 1855, built a house and made other improvements ; he has an artesian well which afibrds ten gallons of medical water per minute ; the well is 220 feet deep.

Jj. A. BISHOP, M. D., was born in the town of Eden, Food du Lac Co., Wis., Aug. 24, 1846 ; he attended the district schools until 13 years of age, and then attended the Grammar and High Schools of Fond du Lac ; while attending school he studied medicine with Dr. T. J. Patchen, one of the oldest established physicians of the city ; Feb. 25, 1870, Dr. Bishop graduated with high honors, delivering the valedictory address of his class, at Hahnemann College, Chicago ; about the same time he received a diploma from the Chicago Bye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Bishop returned to Fond du Lac and immediately began the practice of his profession with Dr. Patchen, whose daughter, Cynthia, he married ; Dr. Bishop now has the entire practice of the old firm of Patchen & Bishop, which is large ; in 1879, he erected, on Marr street, the finest physician's oifice in Fond du Lac, equipped for all operations upon the eye and ear as well as for ordinary practice.

EDWARD BISSEIili, attorney at law ; is a native of Litchfield, Conn., where he was born in 1828, and spent most of his early life ; he completed his collegiate course at Yale in 1851, after which he entered the Law Department of the same institution, and graduated in 1853 ; he began the practice of law in his native town with his cousin, who was an established lawyer of that place ; a young man of pride and energy, he was not content to plod slowly along by trying to compete with the old established attorneys of his town, but sought a more lucrative practice and honor at the bar in thfe then Far West ; in 1854, he came to Fond du Lac, opened an office and began the practice of law in the courts of this and adjoining counties; bis merits and judsment of law were appreciated by the citizens of Fond du Lac, and in 1858, they elected him Justice, which office he filled with credit and honor to himself for nine years, when, in 1867, they elected him Police Justice for two years ; still reflecting such credit upon the official positions to which he had been elected, he was again called in 1870 to another and higher position for four years, that of Municipal Judge ; not yet willing to relinquish their claims upon his judgment on points of law at the expiration of his term as Municipal Judge, they again elected him Justice for two years, his last term expiring in the' spring of 1877 ; having thus spent seventeen years of his life in the judicial service of his fellow-citizens, he resumed the practice of law in 1878 ; in 1854, he married Miss- Elizabeth Hazen, of New Haven, Conn. ; they have had two children - Edward H., jeweler at Redwood Falls, and Mary E., deceased. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church.

ALiBEBT C. BliAIUKENBURG, furniture dealer, was born at Fond du Lac, Wis., Dec. 28, 1852, where he has been engaged in the furniture business twelve years, beginning for himself, being successor to his father's large trade, in April, 1878. Mr. Blankenburg was married, Aug. 5, 1875, at Lake Mills, Wis., to Emily Wegeman, who was born at that place. He is a member of the Knights of Honor.

C. BIiAXKE]|lifBljR<jr, furniture dealer; born near Berlin, Prussia, June 11, 1824; came to America, landing in New York May 6, 1^44, where he remained until December, when he came to Fond

-du Lac; in January, 1859, he began the furniture business, which he has continued ever since, being the oldest dealer in furniture in this city ; he was married at Fond du Lac, Sept. 21, 1851, to Augusta Zickerich, a native of Prussia, who came to Fond du Lao in 1848 ; they have six children - Albert C, Ferdinand, Otbelia, Minnie, Ellen and Charles. Mr. B., who was one of its organizers, and his wife, are members of the German Evangelical Church.

FERDIBTAIVD BLAHITKEWBURG, proprietor of drug and grocery store on "Fourth strefet ; is a son of C. Blankenburg, furniture dealer of Fond du Lac, born in November, 1855 ; was educated in the public schools and business college of this city ; he was engaged in the furniture store with his father from the time he finished school till 1874, when he began the drug business with Mr. J. C. Huber, where he remained as clerk till January, 1879, at which time he began the drug and grocery business for himself. In August, 1879, he married Miss Emma DeHaas, daughter of Carl DeHaas, editor the Northwesflicher Courier.

EpmilVD BLEWETT, County Clerk; was born at Roxbury, Conn., Feb. 25, 1849, and came with his father, Thos. Blewett, to Eldorado in 1855, and engaged in farming, which vocation he followed until elected County Clerk on the Democratic ticket in November, 1876 ; since that time, he has resided in the city of Fond du Lac, being re-elected to the same office in November, 1878. He was married to Margaret, daughter of James Casey, of Fond du Lac, Oct. 12, 1872 ; they have two children - Edmund R., and Robert Lawrence.

HENRIT BLiOEDBli, proprietor of general merchandising store and wagon-shop, on the corner of Military and Hickory streets, also manufacturer of the Diamond Cultivator, which he makes a epecialty , was born in Hesse-Darmstadt in 1832; came to America in 1850, and in 1854 settled in the town of Herman, Sheboygan Co., Wis., where he followed the blacksmith's trade from 1854 to 1859; from 1850 to 1854, he spent in the States of New York and New Jersey ; in 1859, he came to the city of Fond du Lac, where, in 1874, he established his present business on the corner of Military and Hickory streets. In 1856, he was married to Miss l^ena Maurer, a native of Germany, who died in 1865, leaving five children - flichard, William, Lena, Katie and Julius. In 1867, he was married to Mary Bloedel, a native of Germany ; they have two children - Emma and Mary. Their children attend the Congregational Church.

IfAPOIiEOBf BOARD9IA1V, civil engineer; was born on Grand Isle, an island in Lake Champlain, Jan. 31, 1825; moved to Burlington, Vt., in 1836; he began engineering on the Vermont Central Railway in 1844 ; in 1846, he made an exploration of the mineral regions of Lake Superior, camped on the present site of Duluth, then occupied by a solitary Indian wigwam ; he coasted along the south shore to Brule River, then struck through the wilderness to Chippewa Falls, where he secured a bark canoe, with which he descended the Chippewa and Mississippi Rivers to Galena, a distance of about 800 miles ; thence continued the journey in a " prairie schooner " to Chicago ; he crossed Lake Michigan to St. -Joseph, then took the stage to Kalamazoo, from where he rode to Detroit, the headquarters of the American Exploring and Mining Co., on the Michigan Central Railroad, and reported the results of the exploration ; late that fall he returned to Vermont and to Norwich University, in which he finished a collegiate course. Mr. Boardman was engaged in the engineering department of the Rutland & Burlington Railway from 1847 to 1851 ; in 1852, he came to Fond du Lac, and was civil engineer on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, with which he was connected until enlisting as First Lieutenant in the 2d W. V. C. in September, 1861 ; Mr. B. was detailed as Chief of Ordinance on the stafi' of Gen. Brown ; was in the same capacity with Gens. Herron and Totten, and Assistant Chief of Ordinance with Gens. Schofield and Rosecranz ; he was then promoted to Captain of Battery M, 2d Mo. L. A.; after participating in the raid upon Gen. Price, he went to Cape Girardeau, after which he rendezvoused at Pacific Junction and Omaha in June, 1865, preparatory to entering the Indian country, with one of the UnitedStates expeditions for the Powder River country, which he did in 1865 ; his route lay up the Platte and Loup Rivers, across the Sand Hills and Bad Lands through the north end of the Black Hills; an Indian fight was participated in at the mouth of the Powder River, after which the command was ordered to Fort Reno, thence to Laramie, Fort Kearney, Fort Leavenworth, and, finally, to St. Louis, where it was mustered out Dec. 22, 1865 ; after this, he returned to Fond du Lac, where he has since resided, following his profession of civil engineer ; has been chief engineer of Michigan Grand Trunk Railway, Milwaukee & La Crosse ; built part of the Air Line of the Michigan Central Railway ; was five years City Engineer of Fond du Lac, and is now chief engineer of the St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway.

LA FAYETTE BOIVD, Principal of First Street School ; was born in the town of Farmers- -ville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Feb. 5, 1844. Engaged in teaching when 16 years of age, and has been engaged in the same occupation most of the time since except several terms devoted to study at (he Rushford Academy in his native State, having commenced teaching before completing his course at that institution. Came to Fond du Lac in the spring of 1870. In September of the same year, he was appointed Principal of the Ruggles Street School in this city ; after teaching for about three years there, he became Principal of the Cotton Street Grammar School ; continued there until his appointment, in 1879, to his present position. He has served for four years as Alderman of the. Eighth Ward. He was married in the town of Avon, Lake Co., Ill, Dec. 25, 1876, to Sara L. Slusser ; she was born at Hainesville, Lake Co., Ill, Dec. 15, 1848. They have one child - Lyle E., born Oct. 10, 1878. Mr. Bond is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Lodge.

WIIililAlI BOSTD, mason ; was born near Plymouth, County Devon, England, April 13,. 1830 ; came to Fond du Lac from Europe May 9, 1867, where he has since resided. Mr. B. has worked at the brick and stone mason's trade ever since he was 10 years of age, and has erected some of the best business blocks and residences in Fond du Lac, among them the French Church and the Amory's blocks of stores. His first wife, whom he married in England, and her first child, died in that country. He was married a second time, at Fond du Lac, Nov. 11, 1868, to Ann Levy, born in Bohemia.

O. P. BOWEi, real-estate agent; came to Wisconsin in 1855, and located at Plymouth, Sheboygan Co., where he engaged in farming until 1864. On Feb. 18, 1864, he enlisted in Co. E, 36th W. V. I.;, was wounded at the battle of Coal Harbor; was mustered out May 23, 1865, after which he came to Fond du Lac and began dealing in stock, and keeping a market, which was continued only a year, when he began the real-estate business. In 1867, his brother, W. H., became a member of the firm of Bowe Brothers, and has so continued ever since. The firm has been connected with the emigrant and land department of the A., T. & S. Fe Ey., since 1865. He was born at Lyme, N. Y., April 17, 1834, and was married, March 15, 1860, in the town of Forest, this county, to Frances, daughter of George Chase;, she was born in Salem, Kenosha Co., Wis, Sept. 17, 1840; they have three children - Mabel S. (born, Jan. 17, 1864), Willis G. (born June 9, 1866), and Arthur C. (born April 2,-1872).

WILIilAM H. BOWJB, real-estate agent, was born in Jefierson Co., N. Y., July 16, 1843,. a son of Prosper and Lois Batchelder Bowe; came to Plymouth, Sheboygan Co., Wis., in September, 1855. In March, 1864, Mr. Bowe enlisted as a private in Co. E, 36th W. V. I., and served in the Army of the Potomac through the campaign of 1864, participating in the battles of Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom^ Welden Railroad and the movement to Richmond, in Hancock's Corps, and all the battles in which his regiment was afterward engaged, being mustered out in 1865 ; after leaving the army, Mr. Bowe settled at Fond du Lac, and engaged in the stock and market business with his brother, which continued six months ; was in the confectionery business six months ; engaged in the insurance business at Elmira, N. Y., for six months, after which he returned to Fond du Lac and engaged in the real-estate business with his brother, which they now continue. Mr. Bowe was married at Waupun, July 23, 1866, to Angle F., daughter of William and Elizabeth Durand, now of Fond du Lac ; she was born March 7, 1843, in Erie Co., Penn.; they have two children - Guy C, born Sept. 16, 1869, and Addie P., born March 28, 1873.

S. S. BOWEiRS, M. B.; was born at Berlin, Waterloo Co., Canada; came to Fond du Lac^ in May, 1865, where, for two years, ho was Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager of the Lamartine Peat Co.; after that began the practice of his profession, having been a physician in Canada. He received a scientific education at Rockwood Academy, and at Coburg Victoria University ; after which, he pursued the study of medicine in the Toronto School of Medicine, Victoria University, at Toronto, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Kingston, and University Medical College of New York City. He began the practice of his profession in 1856. In 1879, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons conferred upon Dr. B." the degree of Licentiate. The degree of M. D. was conferred by Queen's University, of Kingston. He has been connected with several heavy mining corporations. Is Mayor of Fond du Lac ; has been Chairman of the First Ward ; member of the Board of Education ; Director of the Public Library; is a member of the State Medical Association ; Rock River Medical Association; President of the Fond du Lac Co. Medical Society, and Dictator of Economical Lodge, Knights of Honor.

WILIilAM BRADLEY BRAND (deceased) ; was born in Hopkinton, R. I., June 2, 1808 ; he was deprived of his father when quite young, but his mother, a woman of rare Christian virtues, was long spared him ; when 11 years of age, he sought a home in Madison Co., N. Y., where, in 1839, he married Miss Julia A. Crumb, daughter of Joseph and Susanah Crumb ; he held the oflSce of Deputy Sherifi' and SheriflF of that county for six years : in 1850, he immigrated to Wisconsin and settled at Fond du Lac, where he was actively engaged in business and regarded as one of the solid business men of the city,, till, attacked with fatal disease, his failing health led him to abandon his active business life, and seek recuperation through rest and travel; he tried the climate of Washington during the winter of 1864-65,

GEN. EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG, M. C, was bom at Unadilk, Otsego Co., N. Y., Feb. 20, 1827 ; his education was finished by a three-years course in Hobart College, of Geneva, N. Y., after which, in 1848, he was admitted to the bar at Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y.; in 1850, (jen. Bragg came to Fond du Lac, where he, since resided and practiced his profession; he has been a member of the City Council ; was elected District Attorney in 1854 ; represented his district in the State Senate in 1868 and 1869, and has been a member of Congress from the Fifth District since March 4, 1877, two terms ; in Congress, he has been a prominent member, making a national' reputation by his position on Southern war claims, by his revision of the rules for determining claims against the Government, and by his arduous labors in all committees of which he has been a member. Gen. Bragg was Postmaster of Fond du Lao in 1867, delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1860 and 1872, and candidate of the Democratic Liberal Reform Caucus for U. S. Senator in 1875. He entered the army in 1862, having recruited a company called " Bragg's Rifles," with which he went out as Captain, serving in that grade and as Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel in the 6th W. V. I.; was commissioned Brigadier General June 10, 1864, upon recommendation of Gen. Hooker, for gallant conduct at the battle of Fitz-Hugh's Crossing. He participated in the following battles in 1862 : Rappahannock Station, Gainesville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg. In 1863, the following: Fitz-Hugh's Crossing (at which he crossed the Rappahannock in open boats, under heavy fire, carrying the enemies' rifle-pits on the opposite bank, for which he was commended in general division orders and recommended, by Maj. Gen. Hooker, commanding the army of the Potomac, for promotion to Brigadier General), Chancellorsville, Mine Run, all the battles of the Wilderness, and, May 6, was detached as Colonel of the 6th W. V. I., and spccisllly assigned to the command of a Pennsylvania brigade, which he commanded in the battles of Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Hanover Crossing, and the battles on the Tolopotomy Creek. At the Chickahominy, in June, 1864, he was specially assigned, though a junior Colonel, to the command of the Iron Brigade, which he commanded at the assault upon Petersburg, the battle of the Weldon Railroad and Hatcher's Run. In 1865, he was placed in command of a Pennsylvania brigade attached to the Iron Brigade, making the command, for the time, thirteen regiments. He participated in the raid from Petersburg south to the North Carolina line, in aid of Gen. Sherman's movements from the snuth, and commanded the rear-guard on the retreat. He commanded the advance line in the battle at Dabney's Mill, in February, 1865. At the battles of Gainesville, Second Bull Bun, South Mountain, Antietam, the Wilderness, Petersburg, Hatcher's Run and Dabney's Mill, he was complimented in the ofii,eial report of his superiors. He was once severely wounded by a musket-ball, and once knocked from his horse by a cannon-ball, sustaining only temporary injuries from concussion. Gen. Bragg was very active, at the beginning of the war, in securing recruits and making ringing war speeches, which aided largely in obtaining for Fond du Lac County the excellent war record of which she is now so proud. He was married at Fond du Lac, January 2, 1855, to Miss Cornelia Colman, sister to Col. Edward Colman, of Fond du Lac. They have had three children, two of them daughters, now living. William Kohl Bragg, their only son, who had received a good military education, and who was the pride of his parents, died in the spring of 1878.

JAMEIS WISEMAN CARNEY was bom near Banbridge, County Down, Ireland, Oct. 24, 1836 ; came to Staten Island, N. Y., in 1848; resided there several years, attending school, studying also at Orange, Mass., and Orange, N. J.; in 1856, came to Fox Lake, Dodge Co., Wis., having, in an early visit to the State with his father, selected that spot ; in his first journey West, he slept with the soldiers and Indians during one week at Fort Winnebago ; at Fox Lake, he was engaged in the grocery business ; came to Fond du Lac in 1864, where he has since resided and carried on business. Mr. Carney was married in St. Louis Church, Fond du Lac, by Rev. J. Perodin, April 27, 1863, to Mary A. Egan, born June 4, 1844, at Boston, Mass.; they have six children - Nellie E., born Sept. 29, 1866; Robert Emmet, Dec. 5, 1868; Susan C, Oct. 26, 1870 ; James E., April 14, 1872 ; John P., Jan. 30, 1874, and Mary Genevieve, March 3, 1 877 ; Nellie E. is a musical prodigy ; she has six years of training in classical music ; began playing in concerts at the age of 9, and is now master of all the most intricate compositions extant.

and with favorable results : in the winter of 1865-66, he visited the Island of Cuba and New Orleans,, staying till convinced that his disease - consumption - was incurable, when he returned home in the latter part of May, 1866, and died on the 11th of August following, in his 59th year. In connection with this biographical sketch, it is well to give the words of Rev. Mr. Hawley, an intimate friend, who in his ftineral discourse says : "I knew him. I knew his many excellencies, knew, too - and he knew - his faults. I knew his trneness, his trueness as a man, trueness as a husband, trueness as a friend, trueness as a patriot. There was nothing false in him ; he was ever what he seemed. Neither was there anything uncharitable in him, rarely did he speak evil of a person, and always chided those who did so in his presence. He was in his domestic relations all that could have been desired. He loved his home, and the objects that were the light of his home. Here his affections had their natural play, and his best qualities their brightest manifestations. A strong and clear mind was his ; his mental processes seemed almost intuitions. He was an accurate reader of man ; he, beyond most I ever met, knew "men. And this, of course, gave rise to distrust, distrust of others, and distrust of himself. His severe analysis of men was applied to himself He was no cynic, he saw the bright side as well as the dark side of human nature. He saw trueness among men, not perfectness, but trueness, and when he saw this, he almost worshiped it. He was a man of great force of character. Few have such energy ; few have such force of will. What he attempted, if within the limits of possibility, he was sure to accomplish. And his decision was equal to his force. When he made up his mind, and his clear and rapid reasoning enabled him to do this readily, he was fixed He had positive convictions, and he was true to them. You always knew where to find him. He had none of that accommodating quality that puts a man on all sides of a question. He was on one side or the other, and on that side firmly and strongly. He was no twaddler, no policy man, i. e., he had principles, and he adhered to them. He was patriotic, he was true to his country, and truest when his country was neediest. He was a friend of men."

CORNElilUS BRANSHA W, proprietor of blacksmith-shop on Division street ; is a. native of Canada, where he was born Feb. 26, 1824; when only 6 months old, he moved with his parents to Vergennes, Vt., where he lived till he was 21 years of age, when he moved to Troy, N. Y., where he followed the blacksmith's trade, having learned it under Mr. E. Seaver, while at Vergennes; in the year 1855, he came from Troy to Fond du Lac, where he has since resided and continued at his trade. Oct. 22, 1844, he married Miss Mary Desotell, at Burlington, Vt., she being a native of Canada also ; they have had four children - Albert (deceased), Albert (the second son being named in honor of hia elder brother, who died when he was only 17 months old, and only a short time before the birth of Albert, Jr.), Mary L. (who, in 1872, became the wife of Mr. N. Branchaud, of Fond du Lac, where she lived till her death, in 1874), and Edwin C. All the family are members of the Catholic Church ; Mr. Branshaw was elected Alderman from the Third Ward, for the year 1869. He has been a resident of Fond du Lac for twenty-three years.

JOH?i^ J. BKAYTOIV, farmer. Sec. 32 ; is a son of a farrOer, Carr Brayton, of Washington Co., N. Y., born in 1823 ; he obtained a limited education in his native county ; in 1846, came to Fond du Lac Co., via Milwaukee, and settled on his present farm, and has since made it his home ; he, like many of the first settlers, experienced disadvantages of the old open-cylinder thrashing machine, and traveling twenty-five or thirty miles to get his wheat ground after separating it from the chaff. In 1850, he was married to Miss Marietta, daughter of William and Lydia Vincent, of Oshkosh ; they had one son - - Carr (deceased), and a daughter, Etna (now Mrs. Emmet Barden,of Le Roy, Wis.); Mrs. Brayton died in 1860; Mr. Brayton married Miss Eunice, daughter of William and Malinda Boyce, of Ogdensburg, N. Y.; they have three children - Charles J., Grant and Nellie. Mr. Brayton has a farm of 240 acres in Sec. 32, and forty acres in Sec. 29, all in Township 15, Range 17 ; probable value, $75 per acre.

KARIi F. Cr. BREBflVER, assistant teacher in Lutheran school ; is a native of Baden, Germany, where he was born in 1845 ; came to America in 1865 ; in 1868, he began his college course in the Lutheran Seminary at Addison, 111., where he graduated in 1870, and began teaching at Hustisford, Dodge Co., Wis., which he continued at that place for eight years, when, on account of his health, he was forced to quit the profession for a while ; after regaining his health, he came to Fond du Lac in 1879, and became assistant teacher in the Lutheran school. He married Miss Barbara Werner, of Franklin, Wis., in 1870 ; they have three children - Karl G. F., Johannes W. 0. and Lydia L. B. M.

HERMAN BROCKER, of the firm of P. Brocker & Sons, grocers on Western Avenue \ was born in Fond du Lac in 1854; was educated in the public schools of this city, and in 1875 he began the grocery business with his father.

CHARIiES BROCRER, of the same firm ; was born at Fond du Lac in 1856 ; received his early education in the public schools of Fond du Lac, after which he attended Commercial College in thiscity, in 1876 became interested in the grocery business with his father and brother.

PHIIililP BROCKER (deceased); was a native of Lippe Detmoldt Holstein ; born Jan. 12, 1816 ; was a brickmaker by trade, which he followed, both in his native country and in the United States. In 1849, emigrated to America and settled at Pond du Lac, Wis., where he followed his trade most of the time till 1875, when he began the grocery business, shortly after which he died, Nov. 21, 1876. He was married to Miss Helen Traeger, daughter of Perdnan Traeger, ropemaker, of Saxon, Germany; they have five children, as follows : Henry, Herman, Charles, Augusta and Minnie.

G. F. BROWJVSOX, retired ; is a native of Eichmond, Chittenden Co., Vt.; was born Aug. 16, 1817, and is the son of Asa and Betsey Brownson, who were also natives of Vermont; when quite young, he with parents removed to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he spent much of his earlier life, and was educated in the common schools and the Potsdam Academy ; he was employed as clerk in mercantile business for eight years in Potsdam, and afterward removed to Parishville, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he continued the business as a member of the firm for nine years ; in 1849 he came to Fond du Lac, formed a copartnership with Mr. Laughlin, under the firm name of Brownson & Laughlin, dry-goods merchants, where he continued the trade till 1861 ; after the dissolution of the firm he continued in the business for two years, and since that time has been dealing in general merchandising stock ; he has been Freight Solicitor for the Sheboygan & Fond du Lac E.. R. for the past ten years ; he was City Clerk for -one term, Superintendent of City Schools for three years, and a member of Common Council for several years. In 1845 he was married to Emily C, daughter of Esther Sheppard, of Home, Oneida Co., N. Y. Their children are Hiram L., now acting Ass't Sup't of the Smoky Hill Div. of the Kansas Pacific R. R.; <jr. F., now an engineer on that road ; William J., a passenger conductor on the K. P. R. R.; Emma C, now Mrs. Strong, and lives at home ; Virginia B., now Mrs. Wm. Beem, and lives in Kansas; Adelia E., now the wife of Charles H. Gardner, a passenger conductor on the Kansas Pacific R. R. Mr. Brownson's family are members of the Episcopal Church.

IlIiLIOT BROWW, M. D., is a native of Whittingham, Windham Co., Vt.; born Aug. 15, 1804 ; he spent his boyhood till 8 years old on a farm, when, on account of physical inability for that kind of life, his father put him to study with the medical profession in view ; he received his earlv education at the academies of New Ipswich, N. H., and Ashfield, Mass., spending one year at each ; in 1826, he graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, completing his collegiate and medical course at the same time ; he at once entered upon the practice of medicine at Whittingham, Vt., which he successfully continued there for eight years ; thence he moved to Shaftsbury, Bennington Co., Vt., and there for another eight years devoted his time to his professional duties ; in 1842, he removed to Fort Ann, Washington Co., N. y., where he continued his profession till 1846 ; having thus devoted twenty years of his life to the practice of medicine, he came to Fond du Lac, then nothing but a very few log houses, a trading-post and a hotel, with the intention of devoting the rest of his life to agricultural pursuits and stock-raising; it was impossible, however, to wholly withdraw from professional duties, as his friends were constantly making on him for his services in their families ; he devoted much of his time to dealing in real estate, and at one time owned 600 acres of land in Fond du Lac and adjoining counties, and has disposed of most ' of it and now lives a quiet life in a commodious home one mile south of the city of Fond du Lac, which, by his own industry, he has prepared for himself and family, and looks back upon a long and well-spent life, with satisfaction of enjoying its fruits in his old days. In 1826, he was married to Miss Mary, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Kingsbury, of Whittingham, Vt ; they have had seven children, as follows: Mary M., now Mrs. Erastus Temple, of Harden Co., Iowa; Sarah S., now Mrs. S. B. Kezerta, of Baraboo, Sauk Co., Wis.; Love L, now Mrs. Rev. Warren Corcoran, of Oshkosh ; Elliot K., of Eldorado, Hardin Co., Iowa; Hannah H., widow of the late Roswell Bacon, who was killed by the last shot fired in the battle of Mobile, Ala.; Harriet H., Henry B., deceased at four weeks old. The Doctor has long been a member of the County Medical Society, of Fond du Lac, was also a member of the County Board for two years. His family are connected with the Congregational Church.

RT. REV. JOHN HENRY HOB ART BROWN, S. T. D., first Bishop of Fond du Lac, was born in the city of New York Dec. 1, 1831 ; was educated at Trinity School ; graduated at the General Theological Seminary, New York June, 1854 ; ordained deacon at Trinity Church, New York, July, 1854; was assistant to the Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D., Rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights ; organized the Church of the Good Angels at Brooklyn Oct. 1, 1854; was ordained priest at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, Dee. 1, 1855, and became Rector of the Church of the Good- Angels in Brooklyn, N. Y.; was Rector of the Church of the Evangelists, Old St. George's Chapel, Beekman street, New York, from June, 1856, to June, 1860 ; accepted rectorship of St. John's Church, Cohoes, Albany Co., N. Y., in January, 1862 ; was Secretary of the Diocese of Albany, member of the Standing Comr mittee, Deputy to the General Convention, and Archdeacon of Albany ; received the degree of Doctor of

Sacred Theology from Racine College in 1873; elected Bishop of the Diocese of Pond du Lac Sept. 15, 1875; was consecrated in St. John's Church, Cohoes, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1875, by the Rt. Rev. H. Potter, D. D., L. L. D. (Oxon.), Bishop of New York, assisted by the Bishops of Vermont, Albany, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey. July 29, 1856, he married Anna Coombs Upjohn, the joungest daughter of Richard Upjohn, Esq., architect, born at Boston, Oct. 1., 1836; have adopted two daughters - Jane Campbell and Clementine Boem.

JOHN BROWN, retired farmer, was born in Hillsboro Co., N. H., April 27, 1801. He married, in Rutland Co., Vt., in 1826, Mercy Mason, a native of that county. In 1831, they removed to Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., where they resided until 1851, in which year they came to Wisconsin and settled on a farm in the town of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac Co., where they lived until 1879, when they removed to the city of Fond du Lac. Mr. Brown is a Republican in politics. He owns a well-improved farm in the town of Fond du Lao, and improved property in the city. Their children are Julia A., wife of Theodore Haighfc, Perrysburg, N. Y.; Cynthia, wife of Martin Bugles, of Pond du Lac ; Jennie, wife of Harvey Durand, also of Pond du Lac, and Mary, wife of William Blaine, of Kansas. Mr. Brown is an enterprising and well-known citizen, and has lived a useful and successful life.

HENRY P. BROWN, retired ; is a native of Cumberland Co., Me.; born in 1830 ; grew up on a farm, and received his preparatory education at North Bridgeton Academy, after which, he entered Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1850, and graduated with the class of 1854 ; whence he went to Cherryfield, Me., as Principal of the Cherryfield Academy for two years. In 1856, he immigrated to Wisconsin, and for sixteen years followed teaching in the cities of Ripon, Waupun and Pond du Lac, in the latter of which he had charge of the public schools. In 1863, he gave up the profession, and, for nine years, dealt quite extensively in 'agricultural and farming implements; disposing of that business in 1872, he has since been interested in various speculations in Fond du Lac Co. ' Mr. Brown was elected a member of the City Council from the Third Ward, in 1870 and 1871 ; was President of the Council in 1871 ; was a member of the County Board during the same time ; was a member of the Board of Education from 1856 to February, 1879. In 1860, he married Miss Maria K. Hall, daughter of Simeon Hall, farmer, of Willoughby, Ohio ; they have three children - Annie R., Lizzie M. and Thomas H. Wife and daughter are members of the Congregational Church.

AliEXANDEB BRUI«»H, Sr., farmer. Sec. 13 ; P. 0. Fond du Lac ; is a son of Alexander Brush and Nancy Griffith ; was born in Delaware Co., N. Y., in 1800 ; came to Wisconsin in 1849; bought a farm of 160 acres in Sec. 13, of Pond du Lac, and twenty acres in the town of Eden. He did not settle on his farm, however, for some time, but devoted his attention to the lumber trade, principally on the Wolf River, built a saw-mill in what is now known as the Indian Agency in 1850, and there f j1- lowed the saw-milling business for about six years ; thence, in 1856, he removed to his farm, and has since made it his home. In 1830, he married Miss Jane, daughter of James and Mary Story, of Delaware Co., N. Y., by whom he had five children, three of whom, with wife, are dead - William (deceased), Priscella (deceased), Alexander, Jr., of Fond du Lac, William, Jr., of Taycheedah, Augusta (deceased). He mar- Tied Miss Jennette, daughter of John and Jennette Murry, of Delaware Co., N. Y., in 1849 ; they have one son - Henry.

AliEXANDER BRUSH, Jr., farmer, on Sec. 27, 15, 17 ; is the son of a farmer, Alexander Brush, Sr., and a native of Delaware Co., N. Y.; born in 1833 ; immigrated to Wisconsin in 1846, and settled in Pond du Lac, where he afterward was engaged in the lumber business for several years, part of the time with his brother, and part of the time with Mr. Merryman & Co. In 1876, he disposed of his interest in the lumber trade, and bought a farm of 110 acres in the section above named, and has since followed farming. In 1874, he was married to Miss Mary B., daughter of R. S. and Ruth E. Cole, of Otsego Co., N. Y.; they have two daughters - Mable and Maud. Mr. and Mrs. Brush are members of the Presbyterian Church.

REV. L. H. BUEHRIG, Pastor of the German Evangelical Freedmen's or Peace Church ; was born at Luttrum, in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, in 1832 ; he received his early education in the schools of Braunschweig, Germany ; after his confirmation, at the age of 1 4, he came, with his parents, to America and located at New Orleans; in 1853, he entered the Missouri Theological Seminary, at Marthasville, where he received his degree in July, 1857 ; in the same month, he was examined for ordination at the yearly conference, at Evansville, Ind., when, upon being ordained, he received a call to the church at Okawville, Washington Co., Ill, where he was installed as Pastor by th« Rev. L. Nollau ; the malaria of that climate proving too much for his constitution, he resigned that charge, after four years' service, for that of St. John's, near Burlington, Iowa, where he remained for three and one-half years, when, for two ye,ars, he became successor to the Rev. R. John, Ph. D., at Central City, III; from 1867 to

1871, he served the church at Hollowayville, ' Bureau Co., 111., when he was called to the United Keformed Lutheran Church at Ft. Madison, Iowa, whence, in 1873, he went to Minneapolis, Minn., where he organized thq church and remained for nearly five years, being then called to the church at Fond du Lac. In 1858, he married Miss 3Iartha Kroehuke, daughter of Kev. D. Kroehuke, of Rock. Run, Stephenson Co., 111., who died in 1863, leaving three children - Lydia, Martha and Mary; in 1864,. he married Miss Caroline Austmann, daughter of Rev. L. Austmann, of Nashrille, 111., by whom he has four children - Annie, Adolph, Henry and Amanda.

5f. Xi. BIJIjIjIS, of the firm of BuUis & Bobbins, livery-stable proprietors'; was born at Rouse's- Point, N. Y., whence he came to Fond du Lac in March, 1855, and engaged ia clerking, which he followed three years ; after that, he was eight years in the grocery business, and has been fourteen years in the livery business with Alfred Robbins. He was married, at Fond du Lac, in 1859, to Adice C, daughter of Stephen Joubert, who came from Troy, where she was born, in 1849 ; they have six children - Xelson L., Jr., Minnie (now Mrs. Theo. D. Trelevere), John Edward, Alfred Stephen, Emma and Pauline. Mr. B. has been Assessor five years, and has held various other city offices.

GUSTAV BURGHARDT; was bom in Saxony May 27, 1836; came to America Aug. 10, 1851, locating in Milwaukee; came to Fond du Lac in 1855. Enlisted, in September, 1861, in the first cavalry company sent from Wisconsin, which was assigned to Gen. Sigel's command ; was with his regiment in all its general engagements, and was mustered out in the summer of 1863 ; returned to Pond du Lao and engaged in the grain business until 1871 ; was Deputy Sherifi" under Peter Rupp ; was afterward Democratic candidate for County Clerk ; was elected County Poor Commissioner in 1875 and served three years in that position; since April 1, 1878, Mr. B. has kept the Pond du Lac House. He was married, first, to Kacherinji PfeiflFer, who died Dec. 22, 1865, leaving one child - Frederick; married a second time, June 29, 1866, to Anna Schoene, born in Saxony ; they have two children - Lena and Emma.

JOHX S. BURROWS, bank ca-ihier; was born in London, England, in March, 1836, whence he came to Atnerica in September, 1857, spending a few weeks in Buffalo, N. Y., before locating at Pond du Lac in November, 1857. Mr. Burrows has been in Baker's bank, of which he is now cashier, since September, 1858; has been City Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer, Alderman, and 'President of the City Council. He was married, at Taycheedah, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Leeman, a resident of Taycheedah ; she was born in Yorkshire, England ; they have three children - Frank E., John W. and Eva T.; they lost three children from scarlet fever, within a few days of each other.

J. W. BY AM, photographer ; born in Guilford, Medina Co., N. Y., Dec. 12, 1840 ; lived there until he was 14 years of age, then came with his parents to Michigan ; they located in the town of Burns, Shiawassee Co., where he remained two years ; he then went to Chicago ; remained there a short time, then came to Madison, Wis., where he learned the business that he is now engaged in ; resided in Madison two years and a half and returned to Michigan and lived two years; then he came to Chicago again and after a residence of a year and ten months there he came to Fond du Lac, in 1865. He was married in Fond du Lac, Dec. 12, 1869, to Emma Lewis; she was born in Le Roy, Dodge Co., Wis. They have one ehild living - Josephine P.; lost one son, Herbert, who died at the age of 10 months.

EiDWIN A. CAREY, dry-soods merchant, of the firm of Laughlin & Carey; W£is born in the State of New York, in the year 1830, where he lived till 1845, when he came to Fond du Lac, which was then a small village, having only four houses ; his father died the first year after their arrival, leaving his mother, an older brother and himself to care for the family ; he spent most of his time, for a number-of years, at work on a small farm, near the city of Fond du Lac, during the summer months, and at clerking in a store during the winter ; in 1854, he started the first omnibus line in the city of Fond du Lac, which he continued for three years; he became a member of the firm of Laughlin & Carey, drygoods merchants, in 1862, where he has since continued business, and is now one of the leading business firms of the city of Pond du Lac. He married Miss Mary Taylor, daughter of ex-Mayor Taylor (deceased). Mr. Carey and wife are prominent members of the Episcopal Church, and he also was, for five years, a Vestryman of that church.

AUGUST li. CARSTENS, junior partner of ' the firm of Bartlett & Carstens, meat market; is a native of Germany, where he was born in 1844 ; he learned his trade, and followed it in his native country till 1865, when he removed to Pond du Lac, and has since continued the butcher trade. In 1870, he married Miss Julia A. Treleven, daughter of D. D. Treleven, of Pond du Lac, by whom he has had two children - Lola G. and Aliaster (deceased).

COIi. GEORGE W. CARTER, Warden of the Wisconsin State Prison ; was born at Wayne, Brie Co., Penn., April 20, 1839 ; came to Metomen, Fond du Lac Co., in 1845, where his father, Jacob Carter, still resides. He lived on the farm until the war of the rebellion, when he enlisted - being; one of the very first to do so - April 19, 1861, serving to the close, and returning home with a crushed thigh ; he was educated at Ripon College and Wisconsin State University, and has practiced law since the war. Col. Carter has been two terms Clerk of the Circuit Court, a member of the Governor's staff ; many years Chairman of the Republican County Committee ; several years a member of the Republican State Central Committee ; Republican candidate for Congress, and, since January, 1880, Warden of the Wisconsin State Prison. He was married July 4, 1861, to Etneline N. Harkness, a native of Tioga Co., Penn. ; they have five children - Albert C, George H., Elmira, Elizabeth and Jay E.

CYRUS CHADBOURWE, photographer ; was born in Harrison, Cumberland Co., Me., and learned the photographer's business in 1864, which he has since followed. He came to Fond du Lac in August, ] 874, where he began business for himself. He makes a specialty of fine photographs, for which he has earned a wide reputation.

THOMAS CHAPEIiAU, residence Fourth street; was born near Montreal, Can., Nov. 1,1843; he learned the carpenter trade in Montreal, and worked at it several years, served in the Canadian militia five years ; came to Wisconsin in 1866, and has lived in the city of Fond du Lac since. The maiden name of Mr. Chapelau's wife was Jennie La Pointe; she was born near Montreal, Can., in 1842 ; they have three children - Virginia M., T.. W. and Amelia. In politics, Mr. Chapelau is a Republican. His father, Peter Chapelau, was a native of Canada, born near Montreal ; he married Miss A. Darwin ; he died in 1849 ; she married again, and resides in Canada; their children now living are Thomas (whose name heads this sketch), Wolford (who lives in Escanaba, Mich.), Ovida (who lives near Montreal, Can.), and Lizzie (wife of Daniel Deshambena, Canada). Mrs. Chapelau's parents, George and Julia La Pointe, were natives of Canada; they moved from there to Waukegan, HI., in or about 1849, thence to Fond du Lac in 1860 ; they now reside in Egg Harbor, Door Co., Wis., and are esteemed people ; their children are Jenny (wife of Thomas Chapelau, the subject of this sketch), Ellen (wife of 0. Anderson, Egg Harbor, Wis.), Stephen and John (who live in New London, Wis.), Addie (wife of Joseph Mocha, of Fond du Lae), Mary (wife of Michael Furnier, of Buffalo, N. Y.), Emma (wife of P. Hennigan, of Fond du Lac), George and Cordelia.

AliMOSTD W. CHAPMAX was bom in the town of Hebron, Washington Co., N. Y., June 15, 183;-{ ; at the age of 21, he moved to Oswego Co., remained there one year, and, in the fall of 1855, came to Fond du Lao, arriving here Nov. 1 6 ; Mr. C. was reared as a farmer, and was an engineer tor stationary and locomotive engines for a time ; in 1858, he established the ice business at Fond du Lao, which he continued nine years ; for several years, he has carried on the manufacture of spruce beer and soda water, and for twenty-seven years furnished music for parties and dances. He wa's married at Fond du Lac, Nov. 16, 1856, to Lucy A., daughter of Jo.seph King, born in the town of Fond du Lac, Feb. 3, 1840 ; they have two children living - Josephine D., born Dec. 20, 1857, and Walter A., July 22, 1861 ; Jamie died in March, 1859, aged 6 months. Mr. C. is a member of the Lodge of A., F. & A. M.

CHARiiES CHURCH, of the firm of Church Bros., house, sign, carriage and ornamental .painters, was born in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., July 23, 1855 ; came with his parents to Fond -da Lac in 1855; he has worked at the painter's trade since his youth, and fur himself (with his brother William) for the last four years. He was married in Fond du Lac, July 25, 1876, to Miss Katie French, a native of Ontario ; they have one child - Susie ; Mr. Church is a meoibcr of the L 0. O. F.

WIIilirAM CHURCH, of the firm of Church Bros., house, sign, carriage and ornamental .painters, was born in Fond du Lac June 16, 1856; commenced work at painter's trade when a boy; engaged in business with his brother for the last four years. He was married in this city, Feb. 20, 1878, to Miss Josie Crawford, who was born at Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wis. Mr. Church is a member of the Fond du Lac Band, having been connected with it since its organization in 1874.

S. B. CliARK, of the firm of Clark & Myers, proprietors of First Street Livery Stable, was born in Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Djc. 24, 1824 ; went to California in 1852, and remained there until 1857 ; in 1858, he returned to Canton, and carried on the milling business there for several years ; in 1868, he went to Montana to recruit his health ; spent two years there, and then came to Ripon, Wis., where he remained until 1872, when he came to Fond du Lac.

C. Xi. CLBMEWT of the firm of Perkins & Clement, carriage manufacturers; was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 1839 ; at the age of 17 he went to Newark, N. J. with S. B. Sanders; remaining there till 1868, whence he came to Fond du Lao and continued his trade alone till 1874, when Mr. Perkins became a partner in the carriage manufactory.

JOHN E. COATES, engineer of Fire Engine No. 3 ; was born in Gloucestershire, England, Nov. 30, 1847 ; came to America in 1867 ; spent three years in Buena Vista, Portage Co., Wis., came J^henoe to Fond du Lac ; he began the trade of a locomotive machinist at Swindon, England, on the Great

Western Kailway ; has followed engineering eleven years. He was married at Fond du Lac in April, 1872, to Mary Lucas, born in Wisconsin; they have two children - Chas. F., born March, 1874, and Myrtle, born in October, 1878.

A. COFFIIAN, butcher ; was born in Bavaria Oct. 22, 1839, and came with his parents to Marshfield, Wis., in 1850 ; in 1858, he went to Dlinois and enlisted in July, 1861, at Greneva, in the Kane Co., cavalry, serving on detached duty with Gens. Curtis, Halleck, and as Gen. Steele's escort, being mustered out in September, 1864 ; he returned to Bloomingdale, 111., where he lived until December, 1866, when he came to Fond du Lac and engaged in the butchering business, which he has since followed. He was married at Bloomingdale, 111., March 29, 1867, to Hannah E. Trewing, a native of England; they have six children - George W., Ida May, Charles G., Clara P.. Edith E., and William H. Mr. C. is a member of the A. 0. U. W.

DR. J. R. COIili, dentist; was born in Morris, Otsego Co., N. Y., June 30, 1826 ; moved to Illinois in 1845 ; to Mineral Point in 1849; thence to Milwaukee, and to Fond du Lao in 1851, having a capital of 25 cents when he first reached Wisconsin ; began the practice of dentistry thirty-one years ago ;. Dr. C. carried on his farm five years, located in Lamartine, platted Cole's addition to Fond du Lac at the close of the war, and engaged in building and other real-estate operations. He was married, at Fond dii Lac, June 21, 1854, to Emma T., daughter of Jared M. Taylor ; she was born at Vergennes, Vt., Jan. 9, 1836 ; they have seven children - Dudley N., Milton H., John M., Mary A., Alfred D., Burton and George R. ; Emily died at the age of 2 years and 6 months ; Dr. C. has been a member of the Common Council and of the Board of Education.

MIIiTOM' H. COIiE, dentist; was born at Fond du Lac Feb. 7, 1856 ; during five years, he has been engaged in the practice of his profession with his father, the firm name being J. R. Cole & Son ; he was married, at Mitchell, Sheboygan Co., Wis., to Anna L. Reed, Oct. 14, 1877.

HON. JAMES COIiEMABr, attorney,.son of the Rev. Seymour Coleman, of the Troy, (N. Y.) M. E. Conference ; was born in Schoharie Co., N. Y., June 29, 1836 ; he received an academic education ; read law three years in Troy and Albany ; graduated from the Albany Law School in 1856, was admitted to the bar the same year, and in 1857 began practice at Fond du Lac, which has since been his home. Mr. Coleman was elected District Attorney in 1860, and re-elected in 1862 ; served two terms in the Legislature ; was Register in Bankruptcy in 1868, and Postmaster of Fond du Lac from 1869 to 1877. He is now, and has been since 1876, a law partner of United States Senator Matt H. Carpenter, with an office in Washington ; they have a larger practice, with perhaps one exception, in the United. States Su-preme Court, than any other firm. Although spending much of his time in Washington, Mr. C. still maintains a residence at Fond du Lac, where he passes the summers.

COIi. EDWARD COIjMAN; was born at Rochester, N. Y., where he was a resident.^ engineer on the Erie Canal ; he came to Fond du Lac in 1852, and engaged in farming, though he followed his profession of civil engineering more or less, until the fall of 1861, when he enlisted in Co. A, 18th W. V. I., going out as First Lieutenant. He was wounded at Shiloh and Champion Hills, on account of which he was absent a year, from his company. He still carries the bullet in his head. Afterward, he was in the recruiting service acting as Adjutant, and stationed at Madison, Wis. In the Veteran Reserve Corps, he was stationed at St. Louis, but afterward at Washington on the Examining Board. He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 49th W. V. I., and just before being mustered out, in the fall of 1865, was commissioned as Colonel, though the commission failed to reach him before he was mustered out. From 1866, he was Superintendent of public property at Madison one and one-half years ; after which, he engaged nine and one-half years in banking, being the first Treasurer of the Fond du Lac Saving's Bank. Mr. Colman engaged in farming from January, 1877, to January, 1878, when he took the office of Sherifi", to which he was elected on the Republican ticket by a very large majority. After leaving the SheriflF a office in January, 1880, he became cashier of the Mihills Manufacturing Co. While residing in Fond du Lac, he was elected City Treasurer two terms.

ELilHU COIiMAN, attorney ; was born in Oneida, Brown Co., Wis.; came to Fond du Lac in August, 1847. In the fall of 18-61, he enlisted in Co. G, 1st W. V. C; served as Quartermaster's Sergeant, Issuing and Entry Clerk iuvCommissary Department. In January, 1863, he was discharged on account of disability. He is a graduate of Lawrence University, at Appleton^ Wis. Admitted to the bar in May, 1865, and has been engaged in the practice of law ever since. He represented this district in the Wisconsin General Assembly in 1872 ; served as Register in Bankruptcy for this district, from 1868 to 1872.

REV. HENRY R. COLMAN, retired; was bom at Northampton, Montgomery (now Fulton) Co., N. Y., Oct. 9, 1800 ; at 6 years of age, went with his parents to Connecticut; seven years later.

returned to Northampton, where he resided until 31, engaged in farming until joining the Troy (N. Y.) M. E. Conference in 1831. He was on the circuit composed of Warren and Essex Cos. one year; at Luzerne Village fifteen months, in which he had fourteen appointments ; at Bridgeport, Addison Co., Vt., one year ; Ticonderoga, N. Y., two years ; village of Essex, having several appointments, one year ; Middlebury, N. Y., two years; Northampton, N. Y., one year; Green Bay, Wis., where he arrived in September, 1840, five years as missionary to Oneida Indians ; missionary to Stoekbridge Indians, Calumet Co., two years ; then at Fond du L^Cj his present home, two years, after which, on account of ill health, he ha? taken no appointment. Rev. Colman was married at Northampton, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1823, to Livia Spier, born at Lake Pleasant, Hamilton Co., N. Y., April 25, 1802 ; she has been a member of the M. E. Church fifty-eight years, and her husband fifty-seven years ; they have five children - Charles J., a lumberman at La Crosse, Wis.; Julia, residing at Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rev. Henry, preaching at Milwaukee : Joseph Spier, of La Crosse, and Elihu, a lawyer at Fond du Lac.

REV. FATHER JAMES COLTOBT, priest of St. Patrick's Church, follett street^ is a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, where he was born June 24, 1824; he received his preparatory education in his parish at County Tyrone; entered college at Mynouth, Ireland, in 1840, and received his diploma from the same in 1844 ; he came to America in September of the same year, and continued his theological studies in St. Thomas' College at Beardstown, Ky., for three years; in 1847, he was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Henni, of Milwaukee, Wis., immediately following which he entered the ministry at Menomonee, Waukesha Co., Wis., where he remained until 1850, when he moved to Cedarburg, Ozaukee Co., Wis., where he had a charge for three years ; in 1854, he was changed to Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., remaining there for about three years ; he was then changed by the Bishop to Kenosha for a little more than three years, whence he was again changed to ShuUsburg, Wis. ; remaining at ShuUsburg for nearly four years, when he was sent to Fitehburg for a few months only, when he was changed to St. Patrick's, Fond du Lac, in 1862, where he has since remained in charge of a congregation of about two hundred and five families and about fifteen hundred members.

REV. FATHER OI.IVER COMTOIS, priest of St. Louis' French Catholic Church - is a native of Canada ; was born in Montreal May 8, 1842 ; he pursued his preparatory collegiate studies at Theresa College, near Montreal, entering in 1855 and graduating in 1863, after which he pursued his theological studies in the same institution, receiving his degree in 1870 ; for two years after his graduation in 1870, he was Professor of French in the University of the Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass. ; he was ordained to the priesthood at Marquette, Mich., in 1872, after which he held services at several missions in the Diocese of Marquette till June, 1879, when he was transferred by the Bishop to St. Louis' French Church, Fond du Lac, to succeed Father Dale, whose death occurred in March previous.

HOX. WILIilAm D. CONKLIN, attorney; born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1831; came to Fond du Lac Co. in 1841, with his father, Henry Conklin ; he was educated at Madison and Hamilton Colleges ; graduated from the latter institution in 1852 ; degree of A. M. conferred in 1863 ; - commenced the practice of law in Fond du Lac in 1854 ; served one term as County Judge, two terms as Alderman, and six years as Municipal Judge. He took an active part in the organization of the 14th W. V. I during the late rebellion, and was appointed Quartermaster of the regiment, but soon relinquished the position to his brother.

COL. HORACE E. CONXIT, attorney ; was born at Elyria, Ohio, May 20, 1822 ; resided there five years, when his father died and he moved to Medina, N. Y., fqr nine years ; spent two years at Yates Academy ; read law three years at Lockport, N. Y., teaching a portion of the time, after which, Oct. 13, 1847, he came to Horicon, Wis. ; he was admitted to the bar the same fall, and practiced his profession at Horicon until enlisting in September, 1862, as Captain of Co. C, 29th W. V. I., in which he was promoted to Major in 1864, and Lieutenant Colonel in June, 1865 ; Col. C. was with his regiment in all its engagements except the Red River expedition, during which, on account of a wound received at Port Gibson May 1, 1863, he was detailed to the Quartermaster's Department in New Orleans. After leaving the army, he returned to Horicon for two years ; engaged in farming two years at Oakfield ; moved to Waupun in 1870 for four years ; spent one year on a farm, and came to Pond du Lac in 1876, where he has since practiced his profession. He was married in the town of Herman, Wis., Sept. 13, 1848, to Susan F. Chase, a native of Barry, Orleans Co., N. Y.

D. CRIPPEX, veterinary surgeon and proprietor of breaking and boarding stable ; born in North Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., April 22, 1832 ; came to Fond du Lac in April, 1856. He was married in West Granville, N. Y., April 29, 1852, to Mary E. Parnsworth ; she is a native of West Granville ; they have had six children ; the living are Mary Ida, George Norman, Willard, Charles E. and Ada Belle; they have lost one son - Nathan R., who was born April 8, 1857, and died Dec. 16,

1878. Mr. Crippen commenced handling horses at the age of 8 years, while at home with his father ; for the last twenty-five years he has carried on the business of a veterinary surgeon ; he is among the wellknown horse-trainers, and his reputation for successfully breaking horses is fully established.

AliVA CROFOOT, superintendent of Meyer's saw mill, is a native of Lewis Co., N. Y., where he was born in 1833; came to the State of Wisconsin and settled at Green Bay in 18J:0, in 1841, he removed with his parents to Kaukauna, where they lived for two ygars ; in 1843, he came to Pond du Lac, and began farming, which he has continued in connection with the lumber business since ; in 1853, he began the lumber business with Brand, Olcott & Co., with whom he remaioed until 1865, when for a while he was out of the lumber trade ; he soon began the lumber business again for Mr. Sawyer, remaining with him until he sold out to Mr. C. J. L. Meyer, when Mr. Crofoot began for Mr. Meyer. In 1853, he married Miss Cornelia House, of Lewis Co., N. Y.; they have nine children, as followd : Effie, now Mrs. Kobbs. of Fond du Lao ; Jay P., Edward E., May, Miranda, Clinton A., Carlos B., Minnie and Ella. Mr. Crofoot was a member of the County Board in 1866 ; he owns a farm of 145 acres four miles southwest of Fond du Lac, valued at $7,250.