Iowa County, Wisconsin - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 3 of 7)

ELL WOOD BROTHERS, Dodgeville. John, Thomas, Isaac and Joseph are all natives of Cumberland, England. They came to the United States in 1852, and worked as carpenters in Oswego Co., N. Y. The next removal was to Stephenson Co., 111., where they planted a nursery, from which they made selections for the establishment of the Iowa County Nursery. This was founded in 1855, at which time the four brothers settled on the 40 acres which they own in the south part of the village. Theirs is the only nursery in Iowa Co., and their stock of clean-looking and thrifty young apple trees is large and complete, embracing those varieties which twenty-five years of careful culture have proven adapted to our Wisconsin climate. Shade and ornamental trees are also grown. They have 600 bearing apple trees; their crop for 1880 was about 1,200 bushels, and 2,000 gallons of cider was made here, which the brothers will convert into vinegar. The vineyard and wine house, however, are a more interesting feature of the EUwood plantation. The first grape roots were planted in 1865, and now about 15 acres are devoted to the culture of the Concord grape, aUhough the Delaware, Hartford Prolific, Rogers' Hybrid No. 15, and others are grown to some extent. Ten tons of grapes was the crop for 1880, 1,200 gallons of wine having been made. The wine house, 18x60 feet, is provided with a cellar under its entire length, where the rows of huge casks bring to mind the stories told of the wine-cellars of feudal England and Fiance. Thomas Ellwood is the wine-maker, and his books and apparatus are most expensive. He is an ei)ihusia.st on the subject, and his success is in proportion with his earnestness. About 5.000 gallons of old asvd oew wine is now on hand. John Ellwood was for eight or ten years President of the Iowa County Agriculiural! Society, and was twice a member of the County Board.

ADA5I EUIiBERCir, of the Commercial House, Dodgeville ; was born in the Province of Nassau, Prussia, July 11, 1835 ; attended school until he was 14, then became the apprentice of his lather as a tailor. His parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Klein) Eulberg, came to America with their seven children, a son, Jacob, remaining in Germany. The father and sons, all tailors, settled in Sheboygan, Wis., and three months later went to Milwaukee; a year later, tempted by the cheap lands of Iowa Co., the father b ught 320 acres in Dodgeville, at 50 cents per acre, and settled upon it. The neighborhood was then known as Pancake Hills, now known as Pleasant Hills. The son, our subject, spent most of his time ort this farm until he was 25, when he was married, went to Mineral Point, and worked four years at his trade. In July, 1865, he opened a saloon in Dodgeville, and continued the business up to August, 1878, when he leased, and has since kept, the Commercial House. His personal supervision of affairs renders it a most pleasant stopping-place, and " Adam's" is a popular resort. Mr. E. is a Democrat. His wife wasformerly Margaret May, born Sept. 22, 1842, in Luxembourg, Germany. They were married on Christmas Day, 1859, and have eight children - Jacob, Mattie and Peter, born in Mineral Point, while William-, Katie, Julius, Josephine and Gertrude were born in Dodgeville.

REV. ]?IEBEDITII EVANS, Sec. 20; P. O. Dodgeville; born Dec. 22, 1812, in Montgomeryshire, North Wales; is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Davis) Evans. He followed farming in hi» native land until June, 1836, the date of his emigration to America ; he first settled at Coldport, Ohio, and engaged as a laborer in the coal mines. His father preceded him to this country, leaving his mother, whoaccompanied him to Portage Co., Ohio, where his father had located ; in March, 1844, Mr. Evans came to- Dodgeville, and began prospecting for mineral. He married Mary B. Waikins, Oct. 27, 1846; has seveo children living - Thomas, Barbara, David, George, Sarah, Meredith and Theresa - all born in the town of Dodgeville. Mr. Evans is an elder in the Welsh Baptist Church, of which he has been a prominent member for many years. He is a Republican in politics. He began with 160 acres and a log house; he now has 320 acres and a recently erected comfortable frame farm-house.

R. W. EVANS, harness maker, Dodgeville; born Ftb. 15, 1852, in Mifflin, Iowa Co., Wis. His father, William Evans, died in 1857 ; the widow has since lived in Dodgeville. From 1870 to 1876, R. W. Evans was in Chicago; was then for a few months with W. N. Currie, of Mineral Point, loca'ed at Dodgeville ; returning to Chicago for a short time, then came to Dodgeville, and took an interest wiih Mr. Currie, in his shop here ; bought him out in January, 1877, and now employs three or four bands, in place of one, as formerly ; Mr. Evans has a good business, and deals in harness, saddles, robes, blankets, whips, trunks, valises, etc., making a specialty of the Concord light harness; a light double harness of his manuflicture was awarded the first prize, at the Southwestern Wisconsin Industrial and the Iowa Co. fiirs in 1878 ; he learned his trade in Chicago, and now manufacturers the finest harness in Southwestern Wisconsin. He married on Christmas Day, 1875, Miss Julia Welch ; born Oct. 4, 1854, in Chicago, 111., ot» the site of Marshall Field & Co.'s wholesale house ; they have two children - Sadie, born in Chicago, and Frances, born in Dodgeville.

HENRY D. GRIFFITH, Sec. 8 ; P. O. Dodgeville ; born Oct. *17, 1814, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales; ho spent his early life as a farmer. In 1839, he came to America with his family, and located in Pittsburgh, Penn. ; here he worked at anything to which he could honorably turn his hand. Arriving with his family in Dodgeville, May 2,1849, he soon made a claim to 160 acres of his presents farm, afterward buying it at $1.25 per acre ; building a small log house sixty y;irds from his present residence, he began work in the lead mines ; the second year he raised wheat, corn, potatoes, etc., and by farming, mining and wood-cutting, has added to his farm, now owning 240 acres, on which he has erected good buildings ; the dense growth of small timber clothing the picturesque blufis around him, has sprung up since his settlement there. He married in his and her native shire, Margaret Howells ; she dii d in 1851, leaving six children - Morris, William 'deceased), Henry, Daniel, John, and au infant, deceased; he married again, Mary Davis, of the same shire ; they have had ten children - David, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Diana (deceased). Hannah J., Jemima and Keziah (twins, both deceased), Thomas (deceased), and Evan.

William Griffith enlisted in Co. C, 31st, W.V.I. ; participated in Sherman's march, served till the war closed, and went to Denver, Colo., where he died in April, 1871 ; Henry enlisted from Sauk Co., Wis., in the 49th. and served in Missouri: Morris served as a volunteer in the Nevada Home Guards. Mr. Griffith is a Republican ; was Town Supervisor three years, and is, with his wife, a member of the Bethel W. C. Church, of which he is trustee and deacon.

HALGRin HALGRIMSON, Sec. 11 ; P. 0. Dodgeville; was born Aug. 12, 1839, in Chri.stiania, Norway. His parents, Ole and Lynora Halgrimson, came to America in 1848 ; spent the winter in Lebanon, Dodge Co., Wis., then removed to their present home, in the adjoining town of Ashippun. Their son, our subject, lived with them until 1868, when he settled on his present farm of 430 acres. He married Anna Swenson, also a native of Christiania ; they have four children - Amelia, Charlotte, Henry and Edward, all born on the hooiestead. Mr. Halgrimson is a Lutheran in religion, and a Republican.

ERICK HALVORSO]*, Sec. 32; P. 0. DodgeviUe ; was born in Ve-le, Numedahl, Norway, Jan. (i, 1824 ; came to .America, and Iowa Co., in 1841, reaching DodgeviUe Sept. II, and began work for a Mr. Ferris ; the winter was spent about five miles to the west, and the next spring he went to New Diggings, La Payette Co., and spent a year. In 1842, his parents, Halvor and Mary, name to America, and they, with their children - Ole, Halstine, Erick, Tollef and Leiv- - settled on the old ocott farm, renting it. En 1845 they made claim to 160 acres, which Erick H. now owns, and on it built a small log house, which was their home till 1850 ; then Erick built a .similar log house, near his present residence, and, on the original 40 acres claimed and entered by the family, his parents lived with him up to thiir death. He married, Sept. 5, I85I, Ingeborg Larsdatter, who was born Feb. 18, 1831, in Valebo, Holden, Norway ; she came to Iowa Co., from Norway, in 1849. Mr. Halvorson has been for many years a trustee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which his family are members. He now has 220 acres, and good buildings. Mr. and Mr. Halvorson have reared a family of ten children, viz : Oliver, Louis, Mary, Ole, Christie, Annie, Elizabeth, Rovina, Henry and E. Charles - four young children deceased.

WILIilAM HARRIS, blacksmith, DodgeviUe ; was born in Cornwall, England, March 29, 1815; learned his trade in England, and in 1846, came with his family to America; located at DodgeviUe. and began blacksmithing, where he had no rival except one " Dock " Wise. Mr. Harris is now the veteran blacksmith and wagon-maker, and employs several hands. A wagon made by him in Sept., 1880, was awarded the first prize at the Iowa Co. Fair ; it is now in his shop, a model of strength and finish. He married, in Cornwall, Miss Mary Anne Bennett. They lost a son, William H., aged 2 years ; their only daughter, Mary J., is the wife of J. T. Pryor, Jr., of DodgeviUe. Mr. Harris and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been class-leader many years. He is a Republican, and has served four terms on the Village Board.

A. S. HEARN, editor and proprietor of the DodgeviUe Chronicle; born Oct. 8, 1846, in Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio; his early life was spent and his schooling attained in Cadiz, Ohio. Entering the office of the Cadiz Republican, at 14, he has since devoted his life to "journalism," with the exception of fifteen months' military service. He first enlisted in Co. E, 88th 0. V. I., and later in Co. B, 180th 0. V. I. From 1869 to 1874, he was in partnership with a brother, then and now editor of the Cadiz Repvhlican. During the winter of 1873-74, he came to DodgeviUe and bought the Chronicle, which he has since published in the interests of Iowa Co., and the Republican party. He married, June 20, 1872, Miss Anna E. Carson, of Cadiz ; she was born in Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio. They have two daughters^ Alice, Ijorn in Cadiz, and Clara B., born in DodgeviUe. Mr. and Mrs. Hearn are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

FRANK P. HOCKING, blacksmith, DodgevUle ; is a son of William H. Hocking, who came from his native Cornwall to America, in 1847 ; settled in DodgeviUe, where he married Sarah Prideaux, a native of Cornwall, Eni;land. She died in 1860, leaving six children - Elizabeth J., Benjamin H. (deceased), Araminta, Frank P., Joseph (deceased), and an infant, which soon followed the mother. The father followed mining up to 1868. Frank P. Hocking, who was educated in the village, spent four years as a farmer, and in 1874 began learning his trade of Wm. Harris ; he afterward worked for Hoskins & Sampson, and opened his present shop in February, 1879 ; does general blacksmithing, and with John Ralph, carries on the manufacture of wagons and sleighs. He married, April 18, 1879, Miss Rosanna Woodward, a native of Highland, Iowa Co.

J, C HOCKING, merchant, DodgeviUe ; was born Feb. 4, 1830, in Cornwall, England, where his young manhood was pa.ssed in the mines. He came to America in 1851, joining his brothers Joseph and Wm. H., and a cousin, Joseph Hocking, in the Lake Superior mines ; from May until September, 1852, himself and his brother W. H. were in Dodgeville ; in September. 1852, they joined a party of twenty-one and went by the New York and Nicaragua route to California ; after two years of gold luiniug, Mr. H. returned Nov. 6, 1854. Nov. 15 of the same year, he married Mary Treloar, who was born 18 months before her parents left Cornwall for America, tbey being among the .settlers of 18.36, in Mineral Point. Mr. Hocking went into partnership with his brother Joseph in the old Rough-and-Ready Hotel, followed it a few months and saloon-keeping a few months, and began his present business in June, 1856. Part of 1864 and 1865 he spent in the Montana gold fields. At his store, corner of Iowa and Division stree's, may be found a large stock of general merchandise, for the country trade. Mr. and Mrs. Hocking have seven children - Wm. J., Joseph F., Llewellyn, Benjamin H., Amelia A., Bertha May and Mabel jane, all born in Dodgeville. Mr. Hocking is a member of the Dodgeville M. E. Church, and was a charter member of the Dodgeville T. of H.

JOSEPH HOCKIMCir, proprietor of the Wisconsin Hotel, Dodgeville; was born Feb. 22. 1823, in Cornwall, England. He came to America in 1844 and .settled in Jo Daviess Co., 111.; a year later, be went to the mines near Pottsville, Penn., and for over a year, was overseer of a mine ; returning to England, he spent one winter, and in March, 1848, married Mary A. Mitchell, of bis native parish (Camborne); in April, 1848, they left England, arriving at Dodgeville, June 10; it was an English and Welsh mining hamlet, containing two hotels, the Rough-and-Ready house, and the hotel of C. Stephens; in 1852, he went to California, returned in 1854, and bought the Rough-and-Ready house, to which he gave its present more appropriate name ; Mr. H. has also built all, excepting that part of the building composed of stone, having in connection a store, where he carries a general stock of goods ; bis commencement, on Nov. 10, 1854, and continuing to this day, gives him the place of pioneer among the Dodgeville hotel men, and probably among those of Iowa Co. Mr. and Mrs. Hocking have four children - Elizabeth A., Ellen, Joseph A. W. and Abbie, and have lost six children, of whom the eldest, Sophia, was aged 16. Mr. H. is a Democrat, and has been twice on the village Board of Supervisors.

J. J. HOSKIXS, attorney at law ; is a son of John Hoskins, who was a son of James Hoskinsi and one of a family of thirteen; of these, seven sons have been residents of Dodgeville, viz.: James, John, Samuel, Peter, Thomas, Josiah and William ; the second, John Hoskins, born in Cornwall, England, married Elizabeth Hoskins, of Cornwall, and at his death, in 1851, left an only son, the subject of this sketch, born June 15, 1849, in Dodgeville; he attended the village schools, graduated in 1874 from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., entered the Albany, N. Y. Law School, graduated in the spring of 1875, and has since practiced in his native village. He is an ardent Republican, and Chairman of the Republican County fommittee, and now represents the village in the County Board; is a Freemason; up to 1869, be was one of the firm of Hoskins, Thomas & Co., and, since the union of the two old mining and smelting firms of Hoskins, Thomas & Co., and Bennett, George & Co., has retained his interest. THOMAS HOWELilj, retired miner, Dodgeville ; was born in Glamorganshire, South Wales, June 16, 1814; his early life was spent in Monmouthshire; came to America in 1833, spent a few months in Pennsylvania, thence to the coal and iron mines of Kentucky, returned again to his relatives in Pittsburgh; in 1843, he came to Dodgeville, having spent a few months at New Diggings; up to 1850, he worked in the mines here, boarding" and keeping " bach's hall;" in 1850, he went overland to California, spent two years, and returned by water ; his second visit to the Golden State was in 1853, be remaining until 1856, then returning to Dodgeville; he married, Aug. 13, 1861, Miss Anne Howell^ she was born in Wales, and came to the United States with her parents when 12 years of age, or in 18.^1 j in 1862, with his wife, Mr. H. again crossed the plains to Oregon, thence went to Idaho, and in 1865 returned; all his time while on the Pacific slope, was spent in the gold mines; he bought his present home in 1866, has improved it by re-habilitating the house, planting shade and fruit trees, laying out walks, etc. Himself and wife are members of the Welsh Baptist Church. He is, in politics, a Republican. THOMAS E. JAJIES, carpenter, Dodgeville ; is a son of Joseph James, a Cornish miner, who settled in Dodgeville in 1830, and was stationed in the fort at Mineral Point during the Black Hawk war; his wife was formerly Maria Eva, and they had six children; of these, T. E. was born Sept. 26, 1838, on his father's farm, one and a half miles west of Dodgeville ; here the father died of cholera Aug. 20, 1850. His son, our subject, began learning his trade at 14 ; was in California from 1863 until 1866, and, two years later, went into partnership with 11. D. Davis (whose sketch see). Mr. James is a Freemason. He married, .May 26, 1869, Miss Mary, daughter of Joseph Davis, a pioneer of 1847, in Dodgeville; she was born here in 1849, and is the mother of three children - Joseph H., Annie, and an infant son, as yet unnamed; all wire born, as were the parents, in Dodgeville.

ALDRO JENKS, attorney at law, Dodgeville ; was born Jan. IS, 1855, in Watertown, N. Y.; »n 1857, his parents, Alonzo and Matilda Jenks, camo West, settled, and still reside, in Darlington, Wis. Aldro worked on the farm and attended school up to his 18th year, then began teaching; worked on the farui in summer and taught winters, and, at the end of four years, held a first-grade certificate ; while teaching, he read law with Cothren & Lanyon, Mineral Point, and was admitted the bar at the March term of the Iowa County Court, ISrU, and, that summer, began practice in Highland, where he continued up to Au-ust, 1878, when the firm of Brlggs & Jenks was established. Mr. Jenks is a Democrat, and is somewhat noted as a political orator, or '' stump speaker ; " he represented the village of Highland on the County B )ard in 1877. He married Miss Laura, daughter of Hon. E. B. Goodsell (deceased), the first settler and found-r of Highland; he was a Vermonter ; came to Wisconsin prior to the Black Hawk war, and held many positions; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1846, etc.

WILLI AM JOHNS, Sec. 23: P. 0. Dodgeville; was born in Tavistock, Devonshire, England, May 18, 1812. He married, in Exeter, England, Miss Anne Jones, who was born Feb. 7, 1817, in Blaiik Torrington, Devonshire. They came to the United States in 1853, with five children, and. in August, 1853, settled in Dodgeville; Mr. Johns worked at his trade of blacksmith here until 1867, when he settled upon his present farm of 80 acres ; he served seven years as a blacksmith's apprentice, and followed the business forty years ; his farm was, thirteen years ago, open prairie, and his labor and money have made all the improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Johns have seven children - Elizabeth (Mrs. James liodgcrs), William, Thomas, Samuel, Henry, John F. and Ellen ; one of their children died while crossing the sea ; J. P. and Ellen were born in Dodgeville ; Samuel and Henry are now in Iowa.

D. a. JOJVES, Register of Deeds of Iowa Co.. Dodgeville; was born Nov. 16, 1831, in Carmarthenshire, North Wales ; his parents, John and Mary (Griffiths) Jones, came to America in 1812 and settled in Tioga Co., Penn., where both died. The son came West in the fall of 1855 ; lived in Nicollet Co., Minn., until 1858, when he came to Ridgeway, Iowa Co.; worked among the farmers of that town until September, 1861, when he enlisted as a private in Co. C, 12th W. V. I.; when the regiment left Madison in 1862, he was 5th Sergeant; later, he was made 2d and 1st Sergeant, and, after the fill of Vicksburg, 2d Lieutenant. The regiment joined Sherman at Big Stianty,and, at Bald Hill, Capt. Wilson was wounded, which placed Lieut. Jones in command of Co. C ; while on the march in South Carolina, he was coaimissioned Captain, which office he held at his honorable discharge in August, 1865. Returning North, he settled in Arena; was elected Register in 1878, and is now the Republican candidate for reelection. Capt. Jones married Rosanna Morris, who was born near his birthplace ; they have a son - Adelbert D., born March 4, 1867. in Arena. Capt. and Mrs. Jones belong to the Congregational Church of Arena ; he is also one of the A, 0. U. W. of Dodgeville.

D. J. JONES, miner, Dodgeville; was born in Wales Aug. 15, 1845; came with his parents to America when about 15 years ot age, an 1 resided in Dodgeville up to August, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. C, 31st W. V. I., serving through with his regiment to the close of the war; returning, he lived in Dodgeville until 1868, when he went to Colorado, and has since spent his time in the mities of that State and Nevada, where he now is. He, however, did return to this pleasant Wisconsin village and remain long enough to marry, on the 17th of March, 1872, Miss Maggie Wickham, she accompanied him to the West, and remained there until April, 1879, when she settled in the elegant home where she and the three children await the coming of the husband and father ; two of the children - Charles W. and James A., were born in Gold Hill, Nevada, while the youngest, Leonard A., was born in Milwaukee, Wis. The Wickham family, parents and ten children, came to America in 1840, from Wales ; of the four sons, David and Daniel served in the Union army during secession times, and Daniel was killed in action near Gettysburg ; David is firming in Ridgeway, and William is now in the employ of Penberthy, Pearce & Co. He married Mary Griffiths, and has two children - Anna M. and Daniel W. Messrs. Jones and Wickham are Rejiublicans.

EDWARD R. JONES, Sees. 18, 7 and 13; P. 0. Dodgeville; was born Sept. 6, 1812, in Merionethshire, North Wales. Married, in May, 1840, Margaret Edwards, and started the next day for America; resided, until 1845, in Oneida Co., N. Y., then came to Dodgeville; in the spring of 1846, Mr. Jones claimed 160 acres of his present farm, and afterward bought it of the Government; the logs for his house he cut himself; during the next few years he worked on his own land, and .some for John Messersmith. Mrs. Jones died May 21, 1858, leaving five children - Robert, Mary, David, Elizabeth and John ; the two eldest were born in Oneida Co., N. Y., and the others in Dodgeville ; by the present Mrs. Jones (formerly Mary Jones), born July 17, 1823, he has five children - Theophilus, William, Margaret, llddie, Sarah, nil born on the old farm. Mr. Jones now has 200 acres, and good buildings; himself and

"wife are members of the Bethel Church (Welsh Presbyterian), of which he has been Trustee, etc. He is a Republican, and has held local offices ; is a genuine old-time pioneer, and need have no regrets in looking over the record of his long and useful life.

HUGH W. JONES, merchant, Dodgeville ; was born in Anglesea, North Wales, Feb. 26, 1838; his early life was spent on a farm and at school; in 1853, he came to America and settled at Waterville, N. Y. ; hired out at $6 per month as a farm hand, and also worked one summer in a saw-mill near Trenton Palls, N. Y., where he also attended a winter school ; in the fall of 1855, he came West and began in Oshkosh, Wis., as a carpenter, then as a clerk and employe in the saw-mills until his coming to Dodgeville in 1857; here he clerked for Hoskins, Thomas & Co. until the firm of Jones & Owens was established in 1863; up to May, 1871, they dealt in produce only, then went into the Morris building with a stock of merchandise; the United States Centennial was celebrated by them in the building of the han dsome brick block which bears their name ; they occupy both the lower and part of the upper floors with the largest stock of goods in the village. He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, in 1860; has for several years served as member of the Village Board. Mr. Jones married, Oct. 25, 1871, in Dodgeville, Miss Mary E. Owens, of Llandudno, North Wales ; they have eight children - Willie C, Winnie May, Jenpie, Mary Ellen, Maria, Robfeie, Arthur R. and an infant ynnamed, all born in Dodgeville.

JOHN T. JONES, County Judge of Iowa County, was born May 21, 1836, in Anglesea, North Wales; he attended school in Carnarvon, then entered a printing office and learned the printer's trade; when about 16. he came to America ; entering the office of the Utica ( N. Y. ) Herald, he worked for a time, then began study in the Whitestown Seminary in order to fit himself as a teacher ; in 1856, he came to Wisconsin and alternately taught, and attended the Platteville Academy until rhe outbreak of the rebellion; enlisting Aug. 6, 1862, in Co. E, 30th W. V. I., under Co,. D. J. Dill, he served on the plains until 1864; the predatory Indian warfare there fitted the regiment to cope with the guerrillas of Kentucky, where the boys served out the remainder of their time; for three years following his discharge in September, 1 865, acted as agent for the Northwestern Life Insurance Company, meanwhile studying law ; in January, 1870, he entered the office of LI. Breese, then Secretary of State, and devoted his spare time for four years to the exclusive study of law ; in 1871, he graduated with the University Law Class ; at the expiration of Gov. Taylor's term, he went to Mineral Point, where he practiced law until his election to his present position, in the spring of 1877. The Judge is a Republican. He married, while on a furlough in 1864, Miss Anue Oldham, a native of Cheshire, Eng. ; they have five children - Thomas W., William W., M. Charles, Arthur L. and John T., Jr. ; all were born in Wiscon.sin, as were Llewellyn Breese and George Lloyd, both of whom died in Dodgeville.

WILIilAM T. JONES, Sec. 6; P. 0. Dodgeville; was born Dec. 24, 1836, in Denbighshire, North Wales ; came to America, and to Dodgeville, in 1857 ; engaged in mining a year ; worked two years for Capt. William Jones, then went to Pike's Peak ; thence to Montana ; spent five profitable years in the gold mines ; returned, and bought his present farm of 156 acres. It was then a brushy, grubby prairie, he having cleared, broken and fenced it. His large farmhouse was built in 1873, and his barn in 1879. Mr. Jones helped to build and attends the Salem Church ; is a Republican. Married Annie Harris, who was born in Ohio ; they have six children - William. Elizabeth, Ellen, Mary A., Sarah and Marion, all born in Dodgeville.

THOMAS KENNEDY, merchant, Dodgeville; is a son of James and Catherine (Ryan) Kennedy ; a great grandfather of his was one of the Revolutionary patriots ; he returned, however, to Ireland, where the next two generations were born. James Kennedy came to America when a younir man, and at difl^erent times resided in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, where he married, and where two children - Richard and Margaret - were born. In 1844, the family settled in the town of New Diggings, La Fayette Co. (then Iowa Co.), where our subject was born, Oct. 3, 1845. The father died Aug. 24, 1878, leaving seven sons and four daughters. Thomas Kennedy was educated in Highland, Iowa Co.; came to Dodgeville in January, 1874 ; was appointed Deputy Sheriff in 1875 ; elected Sheriff in the fall of 1876, by the Democrats, and was re-elected in 1880. The firm of Bilkey, Kennedy & Co. was founded in 1878 ; carries a general stock, and is regarded as among the soundest. Mr. Kennedy married Margaret Duffy, in Highland; they have two children - Maria K. and Margaret J., and lost a son, Richard M.

CHRISTIAN KESSLER, Dodgeville; was born in Kuhr Hessen, Germany, Nov. ^12, 1832. He came to America in 1857 ; first settled at St. Louis; thence, came to Blue Mounds, Wis.; thence, lo Madison, and again to Blue Mounds and St. Louis, finally settling at Mineral Point. He enlisted as a private in Company I, 2d W. V. I., in 1861, and received a bullet through the left shoulder at the battle of Bull Run ; was captured, and, while a rebel prisoner in Richmond, had one of the bones taken from the upper part of the arm, rendering it almost useless; was paroled, exchanged and discharged, uud is now a pensioner. Keturning to Mineral Point, he attended school for a time; was City Treasurer from 1862 to 1868; was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, Iowa Co., in 1868, and served three terms ; was then elected County Treasurer, and served two terms. Mr. Kessler is a Republican. He married Matilda Hoftman ; they have four children - Henry, Elizabeth, Freddy and Archibald. Mr. Kessler belongs to the A. 0. U. W. of Dodgeville, where he now resides, having recently opened a meat market.

RICHARD liANE, of F. W. Stratman & Co , Dodgeville; was born in Queen's Co., Ireland, Dec. 26, 1842 ; is of English descent on the paternal side, while his mother was of the Champ family, of France. While he was yet in his boyhood, his parents settled in Canada, where he remained up to May, 1865, when, after spending some time in the Lake Superior mines, in Warren Co., Ohio, and in Dubuque, Iowa; he came to Dodgeville in the spring of 1868 ; hired with Spang & Stratman, and, after the dissolution of that firm, joined Mr. Stratman as a partner, in May, 1872. The firm occupied five buildings, and have made their wagon factory one of the large industries of Dodgeville. The main factory is 30x80 feet, and thirty men are employed in turning out wagons, carriages, sleighs, cutters, harrows, plows, cultivators, etc. Mr. Lane married Adele, daughter of Joseph Ranger, one of Dodgeville's pioneer settlers; they have five children - George W., Henry H., Lottie, Howard and an infant. The eldest was born in Springfield, D. T., where the parents lived for a time, and where Mr. Lane now owns a tract of land.

LiOUIS LAUN, Sees. 21 and 22 ; P. 0. Dodgeville; was bora in the Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, Oct. 9, 1840. His parents, Henry B. and Sophia (Schwartzman) Laun, came, with six children, to America in 1855, landing, in June, at New York City ; they came to Milwaukee. Louis spent about ten years on his father's farm, near that city, and was in a Chicago distillery three years ; settled oa his present farm of 256* acres in June, 186", 200 acres of this is of the old Jenkins farm, and the gray old barn, built by the pioneer Jenkins, was one of the first of its size erected in Iowa Co. Mr. Laun married, in Mequon, Ozaukee Co., Wis., Miss Lucy A. Shunk, born Oct. 4, 1843, in Germantown, Wis.; thej have five children - Amelia (born in Germantown), Jessie A., Laura J., Mary and Jennie, all bora on the Dodgeville farm. Mr. Laun is independent in politics, and a Lutheran in religion.

JOHN H. IjEWIS, shoemaker, Dodgeville ; was born Dec. 17, 1837, in Bergen, Norway ; came to America in 1857; located at Stoughton, Wis., and began working at his trade, which he had learned in Norway ; had served five or six years in the Norwegian navy and merchant service. At the outbreak of the rebellion, in 1861, he was in Arkansas; came north and worked successively at Wheeler's Prairie, Wis., Janesville and Monroe; went to Dodgeville in 1870, and has since followed his trade there. Married, April 24, 1870, in Dodgeville. Caroline Tangleson, born in Palmyra, Wis. They have five children - Clara L., Luman B., Mary A., John H. and an infant, all born in Dodgeville. Mr. Lewis is liberal in politics, and, with his wife, a member of the Lutheran Church. He is a Freemason of twenty-three years' standing, having united with a Janesville Lodge in 1857.

WILLIAm B. LEWIS, Sees. 5 and 6 ; P. O. Dodgeville; was born March 23, 1824. in Carmarthenshire, South Wales ; is a son of James and Margaret Lewis ; came to America in 1852 ; located at Philadelphia, and worked about two years as a roof-slater, he having served a three years' apprenticeship as mason in Wales. He came to Dodgeville in 1854, and. eighteen months later, to his present farm of 280 acres. He began with 160 acres and a log house, which stands as a reminder of old times, near the handsome modern farmhouse, which supplanted it in 1859. Mr. Lewis has made good progress as a farmer, and is one of the respected citizens of his town. He is a member, with his fiimily, of the Bethel Church (Welsh), and has been Clerk for many years. Is a Republican in politics. He married, in his and her native shire, Elizabeth Evans. They have six children - Charles H., James and Mary, born ia Carmarthenshire ; Samuel, born in Philadelphia, and William and John, born in Dodgeville.

E. H. HIcELHOSE, photographer, Dodgeville; was born June 12, 1840, in Paterson, N. J. His father, a machinist by trade, removed in 1841 to Mexi -o, where he spent a number of years, and is now living in Chicago, 111. His son, our subject, began life at 15 as a carpenter's apprentice. In 1860, he took his first lessons in photography, in Paducah, Ky. The outbreak of the war found him in Trenton, Tenn. During the war, he was at various points in Illinois and ^lissouri, coming to Avoca, Wis., in 1866, and from there to Dodgeville in 1869. Twenty years of constant experience enables him to do excellent work in sun photos, as may be seen by samples in his rooms. He married, in Avoca, Miss Mary Frost, a native of 111. ; they have three children - Arthur D., born in Avoca ; Sarah J. and Mary A., both born ia Dodgeville. Mr. and Mrs. McElhose are members of the M. E. Church. He is a Republican and an Odd Fellow.

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GEORGE 3IICHEAL, butcher, Dodgeville ; was born, Oct. 6, 1846, in Dodgeville ; is a son of George and Kliza (Smitherm) Micheal, who came from Redruth, Cornwall, to America in 1846, settling in Redruth Hollow, north of Dodgeville Village. The father engaged in mining until 1852, the last two years in California. Up to 1861, he kept a saloon in Dodgeville; was then, for two years, in the mines of Pennsylvania, and, from 1867 until 1870, in Dodgeville. la 1870, he went to Colorado; returned in 1872 to Dodgeville, where he died, April 27, 1875. His son, our subject, grew to manhood in Dodseville, accompanied his father to Colorado, was two years in the Lake Superior iron mines, and, in May, 1875, began his present business in his native village. He married Miss Jennie, daughter of Charles Bilkey, the pioneer butcher of the place; they have two children - George W. and Charles - both born in Dodgeville. Mr. M. is a member of Iowa Encampment, No. 27, I. 0. 0. F., and a Democrat.

JO!!$EPH MITCHELL, Sees. 13 and 24; P.O. Dodgeville; born in Camborne Parish, Cornwall, June 21, 1829. After spending his early life as a miner in England, he came to America with his wife in 1848, buying the firm of George Messersmith, one of Iowa Co.'s earliest pioneers. Mr. Messersmith had erected a log cabin about half a mile north of Mr. Mitchell's frame residence. The latter gentleman now owns 160 acres, and his son and .son-in-law own an adjoining farm of 204 acres, where Messersmith last lived in the State. Mrs. Mitchell was Jane Hooper, born in Camborne, and married there May 14, 1848; she died May 14, 1874, leaving six children - Elizabeth J. (Mrs. N. Bailey), Joseph, William, John, James, Mary and Anne. Joseph and William live on an adjoining farm. The latter was so unfortunate as to lose his left arm in a threshing machine, in 1878. John Mitchell married M. A. Griffiths, and Joseph married E. J. Cutler. Mr. M. is liberal in politics and religion.

PETER J. MORRIS, retired blacksmith, Dodgeville ; was born in Carmarthenshire, South Wales, June 28, 1828. On leaving the farm of his ancestors, he served a three years' apprenticeship as blacksmith, which trade he followed until 1852, when he came to America. Reaching Summit, Waukesha Co., Wis., he devoted his time to his trade and to learning the English language. In 1854, he went to Platteville, Wis., and the next year to Cottage Inn, Wis., for a short time. The next removal was to his native Wales, where he married Rachel Evans. Their wedding tour was the voyage to their new American home. After eighteen months in Platteville, or in the year 1858, Mr. Morris and wife came to Dodgeville. He at once bought the lot on which the Iowa Co. Court House is built, it then being occupied by a small blacksmith-shop and numerous " sucker holes." The only semblance of a street was one running in the direction of the Roberts Hotel. The old liberty-pole stood on ground now occupied by the court house portico. Mr. M. built his house in the rear, or to the west, of his shop, digging the cistern, which is still in use by the county officials. Iowa Co., having decided to make a change in the location of the county-seat, bought the lot of Mr. Morris, thus causing his removal across what is now Iowa street^his house to where it now stands, and his shop to ground on which, in 1860, he built the shop now occupied by Prideaux & Kelly. In this shop he worked until his retirement from business, in 1875. Much is due Mr. Morris for his public spirit in building up his part of the village. In 1861, he built the Hahn store, then bought the lot adjoining his shop, and sold it to one Midbow. on condition that he build upon it, he (Morrisj agreeing to take a mortgage upon the property. In 1868, he built the store now owned by him and occupied by Bilkey & Kennedy. He also bought and sold the lot where Joseph Rogers now lives. His plan was to buy lots, and either build upon them or to sell only on condition that the buyer should build, thus promoting the healthy growth of the place, instead of a spirit of speculation. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have eisjht children - James (born in Platteville), Frances, Margaret, Lemuel, Peter, John, Clarence and Hannah J. - all born in Dodgeville. Mr. Morris is independent of churches and societies, and a Republican.

T. R. MUXDY, of Mundy & Pearce, Dodgeville, is a son of William Mundy, who was born, in 1829, near Penzance, Cornwall, Eng. ; he resided several years in Scotland. At 22, married, in the Isle of Man, Miss Deborah Milburn ; they came to America in 1855, where Mr. M. engaired in mining up to 1867, when the firm of Hendy, Mundy & Co. was founded and the present furnace built ; Mr. Hendy retired, as did the Milroy Bros., who were at one time partners; Mr. Pearce, the present partner, joined Mr. Mundy in 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Mundy have five children - Thomas R., born Oct. 28, 1855; Annie, born April 30, 1858; John J., born Dee. 30, 1860; Deborah, born June 15, 1868, and George W., born July 30, 1873 - ^all in Dodgeville ; the eldest son, William H., born on the Isle of Man, was educated at Lawrence University, and became a practical druggist ; in company with the brother whose name heads this sketch, he went to Texas, and died in Kansas on the return trip ; Thomas R. was educated in Dodgeville, and is a jeweler by trade, working at it four years in his native village, but has of late devoted himself to the smelting business, owning an interest. He married Clara Hoskias Dec. 11, 1879, in his and

ROBERT a. OWENS, of Jones & Owens, Dodgeville, was born in Llandudno, Carnarvonshire, North Wales, April 27, 1838 ; his parents, Owen T. and Winnifred Roberts Owens, came to America in 1849 with a family of four children ; settled in Dodgeville, where, after a year in the lead mines, the father died in 1850, of cholera ; in 1855, the son whose name heads this sketch went via the New York & Nicaragua route to California; was in the gold mines there until 1861 or 1862, when he returned to Dodgeville. The firm of Jones and Owens was formed in May, 1863 ( see sketch of H. W. Jones) ; Mr. Owens, like his partner, inherited no property, and has earned every dollar. He is an Odd Fellow, a Republican, and was a Village Trustee. Has a handsome three-story brick residence that is now in process of construction on the southern outskirts of the village, which will be the finest residence in Dodgeville and the home of Mr. Owens and his sister. The mother died in 1879.

WILLIAM OWENS (deceased), was born, in 1S13, in Flintshire, North Wales. Married Mary Griffith, of the same shire, and came with five children to America in 1847 ; located in Dodgeville, where he worked in the lead mines until 1858, when he settled on the Owens homestead of 126 acres ; he died Oct. 30, 1878, leaving six children - Margaret (Mrs. D. L. Roberts), Thomas, Elizabeth (Mrs. W. H. Jones), Peter, John and VVilliam ; of these, the three eldest were born in Wales, and the others in Dodgeville. John Owens, born June 28, 1850. Is a Republican. Married Miss Mary A., daughter of Evan W. Williams; they have one daughter - Edna Mary. William Owens was born March 19, 1854. The family belong to the Salem Church (Welsh Congregational) ; the father was a Deacon in this church and a Democrat ia politics ; he served three years as a Supervisor of his town.

REV. WILLIAM OWENS, Dodgeville, was born in Carnarvonshire, North Wales, Sept. 17, 1821 ; came to America and Dodgeville in 1847 ; engaged in mining, having spent his early life in the Welsh slate quarries; in 1849, he joined the Wisconsin Conference of the M. E. Church, and was placed in charge of the Welsh Mission; a year later, he was sent to Cambria, Columbia Co.; was there until 1852 ; was then for two years with his former charge ; went to Cambria again, and, returning in 1856, has since lived in Dodgeville as a local minister ; has owned a small farm on Sec. 26 since 1857. Married Jane Owens, of his native shire ; they have eight children - -William, Jennie, Ellen, Mary, David, Edward F.. Thomas and Fannie ; Ellen and Mary were born in Cambria, and the others in Dodgeville. Mr. Owens is a Republican, and was Town Treasurer in 1875. His wife came to America in 1830, and to Wisconsin in 1845 ; her father, Ellis Owens, died at Mill Creek.

RICHARD T. PARRY, Dodgeville, Cashier of Reese's Bank ; was born Feb. 13, 1836, in Anglesea, Wales ; was educated there ; came to America in April, 1855, and, in the fall of 1856, to Mineral Point ; in the fall of 1857, his parents, Richard and Catharine (Owens ) Parry, joined him and bought a farm in Dodgeville ; here R. T. spent two years, then married and settled on a farm of his own in Sees. 5, 6 and 4. In the fall of 1862, he enlisted in Co. E, 30th W. V. I, and saw service in enforcing the draft in Wisconsin, in building Ft. Wadsworth, Minn., and, later, in Paducah and Lexington, Ky. ; after his honorable discharge at the close of the war, he resumed farming in Dodgeville; in 1868, he sold his farm and settled in the village of Dodgeville, serving a year as Assessor of the town and as Deputy Register of Deeds ; he then bought another farm ; during the winter of 1870-71, he was Transcribing Clerk in the State Senate; sold his farm in 1877, having accepted his present position in 1876. He married Elizabeth Jones, a native of Pottsville, Penn. ; they have three children - George, William Sedgwick and Anna B., all born in Dodgeville. Mr. Parry is a Republican and a member of the W. C. Church, his wife being a member of the Congregational Church.

JOSEPH PEARCE, smelter, Dodgeville ; was born in Camborne Parish, Cornwall, Eng.) Jan. 2, 1819. He married, in the church of his and her native parish. Miss Jane Treloar ; they were wedded May 1, 1845, and a week later embarked for America, arriving in Dodgeville July 14, 1845 ; during the first three months, his wife stopped with the family of Henry Prideaux ; they then commencing housekeeping in the old log cabin of Ed Thomas ; in 1847, Mr. Pearce built his brick house, it being the third or fourth in the village of that material ; his early life was spent in the mines of old Cornwall, and, after mining lead until 1851, he went to California, and, after three years and eight months of gold mining, returned to Dodgeville ; he owns 150 acres in the village, and is both a farmer and smelter, having associated with William jMundy in 1877 in the latter business (see sketch of T. R. Mundy) ; Mr. and Mrs. Pearce have three children - Joseph ( of Penberthy, Pearce & Co.), William James (now a medical student in Chicago) and Bessie (the wife of J. H. Melbourne, of Michigan). Mr. P. is a Republican

JOi^EPH PEARCE, Jr., of Penberthy & Pearce, Dodgeville ; was born Feb. 18, 1851, in Dodgevillu ; his father, Joseph Pearce, Sr., settled here early, and is now mining, farming and smelting; the son attended the village schools, and learned the tinner's trade; he began his present business in 1874, «nd has charge of the hardware department of this stare. Mr. Pearce married Sarah Ryall ; ^he was born in England, but has spent most of her lite in this town ; they have two children - Joseph E. and Annie A., both born in Dodgeville. Mr. and Mrs. Pearce are members of the M. E. Church ; he is also a member of the Temple of Honor.

JOHX H. PENBERTHY% merchant, Dodgeville ; was born July 9, 1835, in Cornwall, Eng. ; his father. James Peuberthy, came with his family to America and to Dodgeville in 1846 ; in 1852, he removed to Canada West, and died at Bruce Mine ; his widow and seven children were in Dodgeville, where J. H. labored manfully to assist in the support of the family ; the burden was a heavy one on his young shoulders, and, hearing "glad tidings" from his old friend, James Roberts, then in Calif irnia, he wrote to him asking that he send a remittance that would enable him to join him ; the generous friend promptly sent the money, and during the year 1856 he reached the Golden State; after four years of successful mining, he returned to Dodgeville, and for two years carried on the lumber trade in Dodgeville and Jonesdale, Wis. ; began mercantile business in 1863, and spent part of 1864 and 1865 in the mines of Montana; he carried on mercantile business alone in Dodgeville from 1S66 to 1875, then associated with Joseph Penberthy and Joseph Pearce, Jr. (^now J. H. Penberthy & Co.); the firm carry a general stock of merchandise, including hardware. Mr. P. has held local offices, and is a Republican. He united with the M. E. Church of Dodgeville in February, 1851 ; was ordained local Deacon by Bishop Sampson in 1871, and local Elder by Bishop Harris Sept. 28, 1880. He married Miss Elizabeth Rogers, born Oct. 22, 1836, in Cornwall, Eng., and a resident of Dodgeville since 1837.

HENRY PENtrELiIiY, of Pengelly Brothers, Dodgeville; was born in Pottsville, Penn.. March 23. 1849; his parents both natives of Cornwall, England, came to the United States in 1848, and to Dodgeville in 1856 ; here the father, William Pengelly, engaged in farming; he died October, 1861 ; he left four children - William, Henry, John and Mary; the mother is now a resident of the village; the oldest son is farming in Kansas, where Henry spent part of the year 1874 ; he had previously spent a winter in Colorado. In 1864, he began work for the Ellwood Brothers, and continued in their employ for about twelve years; he and his younger brother formed the partnership in 1876. and have since been in the livery business; the brothers have spared no pains to succeed, and have built up and added to their establishment, now owning five good teams, with the accompanying" rigs." Henry Pengelly married jNIiss Mary Hopkins, a native of Painesville, Mo. ; they have three sons - William, James and George, all born in Dodgeville. Mr. P. is an Odd Fellow and a Djiuocrat ; is now serving his fourth term as Constable.

THOMAS PERKINS, hardware dealer, Dodgeville ; was born in Calstock, Cornwall, England, Feb. 20, 1845; is a son of James and Mary Anne (^Jenkins) Perkins, who came to America in 184(1 ; resided in New York State until 1848, then came to Mineral Point, and a year later to Dodgeville, where they still live. Thomas Perkins was one of the party from this locality that went to Montana in 1864 ; he returned in the fall of 1865, and the next year began his present business ; is himself a practical tinsmith ; he employs two h:inds : cirries a full Hue of hardware, stoves, tinware, etc. He married Anne Kelly, a native of the Isle of Jlan ; they have a daughter - Mabel, born in Dodgeville.

REV. SE.II PHILLIPS, of the Welsh Congregational Church, Dodgeville ; is a son of Thomas and Sarah Phillips, and was born Jan. 21, 1826, in New Church, Carmarthenshire, South Wales; was received as a member of the Bwlchnewydd Church ; spent three years in the preparatory schools of FfrwJ-y-fal and Narveth ; graduated in the college of Brecon ; was ordained in 1878, at Llangynid ; afterward trau,sferred to Llantrisant ; came to America in 1866 ; was placed in charge of two congregations in Steuben, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; and, in July, 1872, came to Dodgeville, where he has since resided in charge of the vi lage church, and the Holyhead, and Bethel-in-the- Woods Churches. The Revs. D. M. Jones, Evan Owens, J. D. Davis and Benjamin Jones were his predecessors.

FRANCIS PRIDEAl'X, of Prideaux & Hooper, merchants, Dodgeville ; was born in November, 1832, in Cornwall, England ; his father, Francis Prideaux, came with his family to America in July, 1837, and began mining in Linden. Iowa Co. In 1841, he went to Weston, 111., where he died June 14, 1847 ; his widow, formerly Sarah Sims, then returned to her relatives in Dodgeville. In 1851, young Prideaux went to the mines of Lake Superior, and went in 1855 to California, where he spent ten years and three months in the gold mines; returning, the firm of Hocking & Prideaux was formed ; and, in August, 1868, the former sold out to William Hooper. Mr. Prideaux married Jan. 10, 1867, Miss Susan A. Treloar, whose father, William T., was one of the pioneers of Dodgeville, where she was born ; they have seven children - Eddie P., William M., Annetta B. and Kittle E. (^twins), Oscar C. and Alvin and Orlin (twins). The firm carry a general .stock : dry goods, clothing, hats and caps, boots and shoes, everything in the grocery line, notions, etc., etc. Mr. Hooper was born in 1837, in Cornwall ; came with his parents to America in 1848 ; resided in Dodgeville up to 1863; then spent a year in the Montana gold fields. Married Miss Alice Treloar, who was born in Mineral Point, Wis.; she died July 23, 1879, leavin_' five children - Elizabeth M , William J.. Albert H., Charles and Alice E., all born in Dodgeville.

WILLIAM H. PRIDEAUX, smelter, Dodgeville ; is a son of Capt. Henry Prideaux, and was born May 11, 1837, in Camborne, Cornwall, England. The family came to America and to Iowa Co. in 1838, Capt. P. engaging in the mining and liquor business since, with the exception of four years spent in California. In 1862, he again went West, and remained until 1865, in the mines of Colorado, Montana, Idaho and California. During the past six years, he has been Street Commis.sioner of the village. His son, our subject, attended the noted old pioneer school, taught by " Papa" Jenkins, and, when grown to manhood, went to the Montana gold hills, spent three years, and returned in 1866. Prior to this, or when 18, he taught two terms of school, and kept a small confectionery store several years ; he also spent .several years at teaming; began work for Hendy, Mundy & Co., in 1867, and for the past ten years has smelted for this firm, and when not engaged at this has taken contracts for digging cellars, etc.; is a Republican, and served a term as Town Clerk, by appointment ; is now serving his third term as Secretary of the Iowa County Agricultural Society ; married Elizabeth Corin, a native of Camborne, horn May 19, 1841 ; married Aug.lo, 1858, They have eight children - Amelia (Mrs. L. Ryall), Henry L., Willie F., Flora J., Celia C, Lizzie I., Prances J. and Sarah E.; all were born in Dodgeville.

RKV. JAMES T. PRYOB, was born in Corawall, England, Sept. 4, 1814, and married, Feb. 5, 1838, Miss Mary Harris, of the same county. They sniled March 13, 1842, for America, arriving at Mineral Point, Wis., July 15, 1842; r^-aided there until the fall of 1849, then went to Dubuque, Iowa, returning to Mineral Point in 1850. Here he engaged in the retail grocery trade, in connection with a tailor shop. In 1851, he was admitted on trial, in the Wisconsin Conference of the M. E. Church ; was ordained Deacon in 1853, and Elder in 1855. Upon the division of the Conference, he became a member of the West Wisconsin Conference, with which he is still associated. During twenty-five years he was in the effective ranks, and was, during four years. Presiding Elder of the Prairie du Ghien District. His health having failed, he was granted a superannuate relation, and in 1875, settled, and has since resided in Dodgeville. in impaired health. Of their six children, only the eldest, J. Thomas Pryor, is now living. Joseph, the fifth child, enlisted inCo. H, 7th W. V. I , in 1861 ; died at Falmouth, Va., July 6, 1S62. of typhoid fever.

J. THOMAS PRYOR, cashier in Orville Strong & Co.'s bank : is a son of Rev. James T. and Mary Harris Pryor, and was born July 11, 1839, in Redruth, Cornwall, England; came to Iowa Cn. with his parents in 1842 ; received a common-school and a partial academic education. Beginning when a little more than 15 years of age, he was engaged in teaching most of the time until 1866, during the last .seven years, in Dodgeville Village. In 1866, he was ordained a local Deacon, admitted on trial in the West Wisconsin Conference M. E. Church, he was stationed at Spring Green, Sauk Co., Wis. His health failing during his second year's service, he was granted a location at his own request; returned to Dodgeville in the fall of 1868, and was employed in the County Register's ofiice, under Mr. Kearton Coates ; in January, 1869, was appointed Town Clerk, and the next spring elected to the same office. In the fall of 1869, he took charge of the schools in Dodgeville, and continued in that capacity until 1 873 ; in 1874, was appointed Deputy County Treasurer, re-appointed in 1875, and in the spring of 1876, again elected Town Clerk of Dodgeville; in the fall of 1876, was elected County Clerk, and again in 1878, declining a nomination in 1880; is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the following societies: Dodgeville Lodge, No. 119. A., F. & A. M., and Iowa Chapter, No. 6, 11. A. M., Mineral Point; Mineral Point Commandery, No. 12. K. T.; Dodgeville Lodge, No. 71, A. O. U. W., and Dodgeville T. of H., No. 212. He married Miss .Mary J. Harris, a native of Cornwall; they have three children - Mary Caroline, Ellen Josephine and James William ; another son died in infancy.

JOHM^ RALPH, wagon-maker, Dodgeville; was born in Cornwall, England, Dec. 10, 1840. His parents, William and Mary (Richards) Ralph, came to America in 1850; were two years in the Michigan copper mines ; then went to Hazel Green, Wis., where the parents died. The son, our subject, grew to man's e^tate in Hazel Green ; enlisted in 1861 in the 25th W. V. I., and, as one of the regimental band, was mustered-out in 18G2. In the spring of 1864, he re-enlisted in the 5th Iowa Cavalry ; served till the cidse of the war in the Southwestern army in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee ; took part in the decisive battle of Nashville, and when finally discharged returned to Hazel Green ; came to Dodgeville in 1867, and has since been engaged at his trade here. He was united with Dodgeville Lodge, No. 147, I. 0. 0. F., in 1872, and has held all its oflBcial positions; also those in the Iowa Encampment, No. 27 ; was a charter member and has since been Recorder of Dodgeville Lodge, No. 71, A. 0. U. W. Is a Republican. He married Miss Frances Gribble, who was born near Hazel Green, Wis. ; they have six children - Frank A., Justin, Myrtella, Minerva, John and William; the two eldest were born in Hazel Green, and the others in Dodgeville.

JOSHUA REESE, Sec. 14 ; P. 0. Dodgeville ; born in Carmarthenshire, Wales, June 3, 1816. His early life was spent at mining. In September, 1841, he engaged in the mines of Pennsylvania, Sugar Creek, Minersfield, Blo&sburg, etc., for several years ; then spent a few months in Rhode Island. In 1845, he came to Iowa Co., and worked in the lead diggings until 1856, when he settled on his present 180-acre farm. All was timber, except 3 or 4 acres, on which stood a log house. Mr. Reese has done good work here, erecting a storehouse, granary, stables, etc. He married Anne Jones, also born in Wales ; they have five children - Anne, Evan, David, Henry and Mary, all born in Dodgeville. Mr. R. is a Democrat.

S. W. REESE, attorney and counselor at law, Dodgeville ; is one of the solid men of Iowa Co.; born Nov. 29, 1829, in Montgomeryshire, North Wales; attended the common schools there, and, later, the select schools of Shropshire, England. In 1845, he came to the land of the free, locating in Cincinnati, Ohio; came to Dodgeville in 1852, and was employed as clerk by that veteran merchant, B. F. Thomas. In 1856, he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar two years later ; has continued in active practice since. In 1871, he opened the first bank in Dodgeville, which proved a most successful business venture. No more firm advocate of Republican principles can be found in the State than Samuel W. Reese. His first vote was cast for Gen. Scott, and he has been a stalwart Republican since the organization of the party ; has been Chairman of the town and President of the village several years, and was elected District Attorney in 1876. He married Miss Alice N. Ennor, by whom he has four children - Emma, William, Eddie and John, all born in Dodgeville.

SAxlirEL F. ROACH, Sec. 19; P. 0. Dodgeville; was born April 16, 1824, in Pembrokeshire, North Wales. His early life was spent as a farmer. In 1845, he landed at Quebec, and came thence to the Blue Mounds, where he moved lead three years ; then, after farming for a time, went to Madison, where he dug wells during the winter of 1848-49. In the spring, he went overland to California, and remained until the spring of 1852, when he spent a month in his old home. The second trip was made by water, he remaining just two years; returning, he bought a farm west of Dodgeville, where he lived nine years; sold out, and went again to California; spent three years; returned, and bought his present farm of 160 acres. His last trip to California, in 1879, was over the Union Pacific R. R., which gave him an opportunity of noting the wondrous changes in the West made since his overland trip in 1849. Mr. Roach was married, in 1853, in Dodgeville, to Margaret Owens, a native of North Wales; they have four children - Francis, Sarah A., Martha and Margaret, all born in the town of Dodgeville, and have lost four children - Elizabeth, aged 7 ; David, aged 10 ; Emma, aged 8, and an infant. Mr. R. is a member of the W. C. Church.

RICHARD ROACH, Sec. 33; is the third son of John and Blanche (Curnow) Roach, and be was born Feb. 18, 1838, in St. Ives, Cornwall, England. He came to America with the family, in 1844, (see sketch of Thomas Roach), and has since resided in Dodgeville. He owns 240 acres of good land, and has good buildings and improvements. Married Feb. 17, 1871, Miss F]lizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Thornton) Elam ; she was born in Dodgeville, in August, 1847 ; they have five children - George H., Sarah, Sybella, Josephine, Edward A. and James E., all born on the Dodgeville farm. Mr. Roach is a Republican.

THOMAS ROACH, Sec. 33; is a son of John and Blanche (Curnow) Roach, of the parish of Towednack, Cornwall, England, where their son, our subject, was born July 14, 1839. The fiimily came to America, Mineral Point, in 1844; here, the father, who was a carpenter, built a house of his own, and lived in it three years ; he then pre-empted the present Roach homestead, and built a temporary shanty by setting posts in the ground, a small doorway was cut, but it was floorless and windowless ; here they spent the months of July and August, then a good log house was built, which was the home of the family eight years. There were five children - John, Samuel, Richard C., Thomas and Mary A. The father died in

May, 1875, and the mother in April, 1873. Thomas Roach married in December, 1874, Miss Rebocca, daughter of William and Sybella Bennett ; she was born in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, and came to America and Dodgeville. They have three children - John, Luman and Mariannie. The wild, rough tract ot thirty years ago, has been made into a fine and productive farm of 240 acres, a good house of frame and stone has been built, and other improvements made. Many an Indian arrow and spear head has been found on this farm, also stone knives, bowls, tomahawks, etc.

A.B. ROBINSOX, Dodgeville; was born April 25, 1819, in Sussex Co., Del. In May, 1885, he located in Knox Co., Ind., where he learned the trade of tanner , worked at this business in Edwardsport, Ind., until 1850, when he removed to Highland, Iowa Co., Wis., and began the livery business, after a time spent in the mercantile business; in June, 1859, he came to Dodgeville, and has since kept a livery stable here ; going in 1874, to Bon Homme Co., D. T., he was one of the victims of the grasshopper pUgue of that year, and, leaving his son in charge of the farm, returned to Dodgeville. Mr. R. is an old stager as well, bavins run the stage line from Highland to Mineral Point, and the Lone Rock and Richland C nter line from 1854 to 1858. In 1849, he joined Wabash Lodge, Xo. 20, I. 0. 0. F., Vincennes, Ind., and was a leading spirit in founding, and a charter member of, the Dodgeville Lodge, as he says, " I am just one day older than Odd Fellowship in the United States, and am one of the few living men who have vi.ted for eleven Presidents of the United States, in a space of less than forty years." His first vote was cast for Gen. Harrison, Nov. 3, 1840, and his last for Gen. Garfield, Nov. 2, 1880. He married February, 1852, in Edwardsport, Ind., Miss Rhoda Goodman; they have four children - Edward J., Millie A., Laura B. and Mary F. ; all except the youngest were born in Highland, a daughter, M. Leonie, died in Dodgeville, aged six years.

A. li. ROBBI^TS, insurance agent, Dodgeville ; was born in Wadsworth, Medina Co , Ohio, Feb. 22, 1850. His parents, L. D. and Juliette (Byam) Robbins, afterward settled in Dane (,'o.. Wis., the father dying in Belleville. The son attended the select school at Mt. Horeb, and the city schools ar Mineral Point. He married November, 1871, Miss Georgiana Barker, who was born in Johnstown, Wis. ; while in Mt. Vernon and Belleville, he worked with his father at wagon-making, but, .^^ince his location in Dodgeville, has devoted his time to the insurance business, acting for Ma'iison Mutual, Continental, Commercial and West Chester, of New York, the Heckla, of Madison, and the St. Paul Fire & Marine Ci>mpanies, office, Strong & Co.'s Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins have three children - Lizzie A., Ella B. and Nellie, all born in Dodgeville. Mr. R. belongs to the Dodgeville Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., the Iowa Encampment, No. 27, of which he is District Deputy, and the A. 0. LT. W. Is in politics a Republican.

JAMES ROBERTS, druggist, Dodgeville; born Oct. 2, 1835, in the parish of Camborne Cornwall, England; his parents. Thomas and Ann (Rule) Roberts, came to America, with their children, in 1846, and settled it] Dodgeville; here they both died. In 1852, James Roberts went, via the Nicaragua route, to California, and was in the mines of the Golden State until 1859 ; he then returned to Dodgeville, and was in the smelting business with Bennett, George & Co. until April, 1864, when he again went West, and was in the Montana gold mines until November, 18155. He began his present business in the fall of 1866 ; he carries a large and full assortment of everything usually found in a village drug store. Is a Methodist, and belongs to the I. O. 0 F. and A. 0. U. W. of Dodgeville. He married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary A. (Jenkins) Perkins, of R druth, Cornwall; they have eight children - Edith A., Henry F., Luella M., Alfred, Clarence J., Jennie T., Hattie R. and Nellie, all born in Dodgeville.

JOHN ROCirERS, retired miner, Dodgeville ; was born in Redruth, Cornwall, Engl ind, in October, 1810 ; came to America in 1840, with his wife ; worked for a time on the Croton Water Works, New York, then went to Pennsylvania; he then made a visit to Missouri, and, later, was in Maryland; came West in 1845, reaching Mineral Point in October, and, the next summer, settled at Dodgeville, building his first log cabin in " Redruth Hollow," just north of the village ; soon after, he became associated with Messrs. Perkins, Corin & George, in the mines, they succeeding W. M. Todd; in 1852, Mr. Rogers sold out to Joseph Bennett and opened a saloon, which he kept fourteen years ; has since lived in retirement. He married, in his and her native parish. Miss Susan Polkinghornc ; they have seven children - Joseph v., born on the Atlantic ; David, born in Allegheny County, Md.. and Thomas, Samuel, Virginia, John H. and Adeline, all born in Dodgeville.

JOHSi ROtrERS, miner, Dodgeville; was born June 17, 1807, in Cornwall, England; has been a lifelong miner; came to America, with his wife and two children, in 1837 ; arrived July 4, at St. Louis, Mo.; then came to Mineral Point; thence to Dodgeville, whore most of the land was owned by four men, Gov. Dodge, Madden, Block and Jenkins ; Henry Dodge had a store and grog-shop, while a queer character, known as Dutch Mandy, had the only blacksmith-shop ; " Mandy " was shiftless, however, and most of the work was done at The Point." Mr. Rogers lived two years on a Linden farm, and may fairly be ranked amons the old settlers of Dodgeville. He married Susanna Bailey, of Cornwall, by whom has six children - Susan and Elizabeth (born in Cornwall), John, George, Esther A. and Annie, all natives of Dodgeville. Mr. Rogers was one of the original members of the Dodgeville M. E. Church, and has been a Trustee of the church since 1842.

JOSEPH V. RO(]}ERS, grocer, Dodgeville; was born on the 5th of May, 1840, while his parents, Johu and Susan Rogers, were crossing the Atlantic, from England to America, in the ship Mary Ann Jane, Joseph Verney, muster ; he w:is christened Joseph Verney, in compliment to the Captain ; after the settlement of the family in Dodgeville (see sketch of John Rogers), he attended the early schools, and, in June, 1860, began his present business; Mr. R. has never sold out or formed a partnership, and his twenty years of steady business as a grocer has been equaled by no man in the place. He married, in Dodgeville, Miss Agnes Alderson, born near Shullsburg, Wis.; they have four children - Verney J., J. Elmer, Cora May and Bert, all born in Dodgeville. Mr. Rogers is an attendant of the P. M. Church, and has been a Village Trustee.

RICHARD ROGERS, proprietor of the Dodgeville Hotel, Dodgeville ; was born in Cornwall, England, Jan. 14, 1S14 ; his early life was spent as a teamster; came to America in 1845, with a family ; spent a year in Mineral Point, then came to Dodgeville ; mined two years, then went into the " backwoods," five miles north of the village, and for three years engaged in burning lime. In 1852, he went to California and spent fourteen months in the mines ; returned, and, during the next fourteen years, burned lime in Wyoming Township ; in 1867, he built his hotel, and, as " Uncle Dick " Rogers, has become one of the most popular of landlords. He married Amy Potter, a native of Cornwall, who died Sept. 25, 1863, leaving two sons - Elijah and Frederick. The present Mrs. Rogers was Mary Webb ; they have three children - Richard, Caroline and Elizabeth.

THOMAS ROGERS, Postmaster of Dodgeville; is a son of John and Susan (Polkinghorn) Rogers, both Cornish people, who came to the United States about 1840 ; spent a year or two in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and came to Dodgeville early in the forties ; here Mr. Rogers began work in the diggings of Bennett, George & Co. ; years after he engaged in the saloon and livery business, and now, aged about 70, is enjoying a well-earned rest. His son, the subject of this sketch, was educated in Dodgeville, where he was born Jan. 10, 1847. In May, 1864, he was appointed Deputy Postmaster under S. W. Reese. In 1866, he opened up a stock of books, stationery, etc., in which business he has since continued. Was appointed Postmaster in March, 1880, succeeding Joel Whitman. Is a Republican. Married Miss Anne Jones, of Dodgeville, by whom he has a son, Eddie J., born May 6, 1874, in Dodgeville.

WILLIAM ROGERS, miner, Dodgeville; was born March 1, 1815, in Ulogen Parish, Cornwall, P]ngland ; his early life was spent in the mines of Redruth Parish ; came to America with his wife in 1839 ; worked in yorkville, N. Y., and on the Croton Water Works ; later, he went to Pottsville, Penn., thence to Maryland, and in 1845 came to Mineral Point, spent the winter there, and in the spring of 1846, came to Dodgeville, dug lead up to 1852, then went by water to California, rained gold two and a half years, and has since engaged in mining and smelting, having for the past six or eight years been in the employ of Bennett & Hoskins. He married in Illogen Church, July 26, 1839, Mary Palkinghorn, and at once left the church for their new American home ; they have five children - Mary J., Grace, William, Anselena and Henrietta; the two oldest were born in Pottsville, Penn., and the others in Dodgeville ; the eldest is Mrs. William Johns, of Dodgeville ; Grace is the wife of Benjamin Thomas, Jr. ; the son is in California; Anselena is Mrs. William Bartle, of Linden, and the youngest the wife of Theodore Millered, of Grant Co., Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Roiiers belong to the Dadgevillc M. E. Church, of which he has been Class Leader, Trustee and Steward He is in politics a Republican, and was Town Treasurer.

MATTHEW and W. H. ROGERS, Dodgeville. The father, Matthew, was born in 1827, in Cornwall, England, where he spent his early life as a miner ; came to America in 1847, and after a year in Hazel Green, came to the Dodgeville diggings in 1848 ; resolution, with health and bone and sinew, was his only capital, he beginning in debt ; after a few years in the diggings, he went to California and mined gold about two years, returned to Dodgeville, and in 1864 went to the Montana gold fields, returning in 1867 ; he has since lived here. The Rogers Block was built in 1879, and here his only son, William H., has a fine stock of merchandise, in the best-arranged store in town. Matthew Rogers is a good type of the successful, self-made man. Is a Republican. He married Miss Anne Roberts, and the only son was born July 20, 1850, in Dodgeville. He married Miss Elizabeth A. Harris, who was born in Mineral Point, Wis. ; they have three children - Jennie, Bertie and Nannie May, all born in Dodgeville. Mr.

WILLIAM 11. ROWE, Sees. 10, 19 and 18; P. 0. Dodgeville; born July 15, 1826, in Camborne, Cornwall, England; his father, John Rowe, died in England, and in 1845, his mother, Jane (Vincent) Rowe, brought her family of six children to America, and located in Dodgeville, where William M. began mining. His mother died in the fall of 1847. He married July 29, 1851, Miss Jemima, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Webster ; she was born Aug. 12, 1833, in Camborne; her mother died in England, and in 1S35 or 1836, her father brought his family to America and Iowa Co. ; in 1852, Mr. Rowe went to California, returned in 1855, and the same fall bought 160 acres of his present farm ; it was in a state of nature, and, while he made the first improvements, he lived on a rented farm near at hand ; from 1863 to 1866, he was in the gold mines of the Far West. Mr. R. now has 240 acres in the homestead, and owns 460 acres in all. He is a member, with his family, of the P. M. Church, and a Republican in politics. Mr. Webster was a friend of John Hoskins, and their rude cabin in Dodgeville was the favorite resort of the frontier clergymen, and took the name of the " Methodi.st Tavern." Mr. Webster went with Mr. Rowe to California in 1852, and died in town of Dodgeville, in January, 1861.

H. and J. ROWE, Dodgeville ; sons of John Rowe (deceased), and Jane (Vincent) Rowe '< the widowed mother came from her native Cornwall in 1846, to America, bringing six children, all born in Cornwall; of the.se, Henry Rowe, born February, 1835, went from Dodgeville to California in 1858, spent ten years in the mines of California and Montana, returned and went into partnership with his brother James, who came to America before him, and who died in 1872 ; Joseph Rowe was born August, 1841, and has resided thirty-four years in Dodgeville as a miner and in mercantile business, having clerked for his brothers ; the present partnership was formed in 1872; the firm carries a general stock of dry goods, boots and shoes and clothing, also groceries, notions, etc., etc.

EDWIBf H. SCHOLFIELD, harness-maker; was born July 26, 1827, in the city of London, England ; his parents, Wm. and Betsy (Turton) Scholfield, came to America in 1832, and located at Toronto, Canada, where both died; E. H. Scholfield was brought by an uncle, Jos. Turton, to Cassville, Wis., in 1836, and, two years later, to Mineral Point, then a rude mining settlement best known as "Shake Rag." The sessions of the Iowa County Court were held in the old log building so well remembered by the pioneers ; Mr. Turton and young Scholfield afterward went to Galena, III., thence to the Lloyd settlement, where Mr. S. put in his first work as a farmer, breaking up what is best known as the old Turton farm ; in 1850, he came to Dodgeville and learned his trade, and on March 14, 1853, opened a shop of his own ; probably no man in Iowa Co. has so long a continuous record as a harness-maker. Mr. S. is a Democrat and a Freemason. He married Sarah Elam, who died March 26, 1871, leaving six children - Florence, Geo. E., Osborn, Mary, Rosa and Josie ; a son, James, died in 1862. Mr. Scholfield married again, Mrs. Jane Aulsley. widow of Chas. Aulsley, who at his death, in 1871, left a diughter Mary. Mr. and Mrs. S. have three children - Henry, William and Jennie, all the children were born in Dodgeville.

DriVCAlV SILLERS, Sec. 27 ; P. O. Dodgeville; is a son of James Sillers, a native of the Isle of Arran, and who was a merchant at Dairy, Ayrshire, Scotland, for many years ; his wife, formerly Anne Hamilton, was a native of Ayrshire, where Duncan was born, Nov. 18, 1825; in 1837, the parents and seven children came to America, and settled in Racine Co., Wis.; went from there to Dodgeville in 1844, locating on the farm now owned by Wm. Sillers ; in 1849, his brothers, Henry and James, started for California, the former died at St. Joe, Mo., and the latter made the trip; in 1850, Duncan and his father also went, the father dying there, and both sons returning, now live in this town. Duncan Sillers settled on his present farm twenty-five years ago ; has 1 60 acres, and has made first-class improvements. He married Elizabeth Odgers ; her parents, Wm. and Mary A. (Edwards) Odgers, were English people, who, in 1843, settled at Mineral Point, Wis., where she was born. Mr. and Mrs. Sillers have seven children - Henry, William, Laura, George, Jennie, Edward and Charles, all born on the Dodgeville farm. Mr. S. is a Congregationalist ; is independent of party politics, and served as Supervisor of his town in 1873-74, and 1877-78.

O. C. SMITH, attorney at law, Dodgeville; was born Oct. 15, 1832, in Ciayville, Guernsey Co , Ohio ; he attended the common schools, and received a course of instruction at the Albany Ohio Academy ; came to Viroqua, Vernon Co., Wis., in 1853; was admitted to the Vernon County bar in June, 1867. and during that year, settled in Mineral Point; in 1869, he came to Dodgeville, and has since resided and practiced here. Mr. Smith is independent of all societies; is a Democrat, and has never been a candidate for any office. He married Miss Mary Williamson, a native of New Jersey, by whom he has five children - Elthia I., Effie M., Amaryldia, Eulalia and Birney M.; the two eldest were born in Viroqua, the third in Mineral Point, and the others in Dodgeville.

JAMEIS W. SMITH, Sec. 30; P. 0. Standart Grove; is a son of Peter and Anne (Dow) Smith, both natives of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where their son, our subject, was born, Oct. 29, 1834 ; the parents and six children came to America in 1844; spent two years in Summit Co., Ohio, then went to Jo Daviess Co., 111.; from there in May, 1847, they came to the Floyd settlement; the father preempted, and a year later bought, 80 acres, and 76 were afterward acquired under the graduation act, thus constituting the homestead, where the father died Feb. 4, 1879, and where the widow, aged 79, still lives. J. W. Smith remained there until 1859, then went to Colorado ; spent the winter of 1859-60 at home, and went again to Colorado in the spring of 1860 ; was in 1861 elected President of the Boulder District, is identified to that extent with the organization of the Territorial Government ; he spent considerable lime prospecting for gold on the present site of Leadville, extracting only twenty ounces ; he returned to Dodgeville in 1864, and the third time went to Colorado in February, 1865, returned in November, 1866, and has since lived on the homestead. He married Dec. 4, 1877, Miss Grace Rodda, born Sept. 16, 1858 on the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. They have two children - Marion E. and William. Mr. Smith is in politics, a Democrat, and i.« now serving his second term as Supervisor of his township ; he is also a member of Dodgeville Lodge, I. 0. O. F.

ALEX STEPHENS ; was born in Vegle, Numedahl, Norway, July 22, 1820 ; his early life was spent as a farmer ; in 1838, he came to America, and hired out to a farmer in East Du Page, 111., where he spent two years ; he then spent about a year in looking over the country. His first view of Chicago, in 1838, was of a small collection of poor houses in a low, miserable-looking marsh ; yet, in 1840, the town showed wonderful growth. In 1841, Mr. S. spent a short time in Mineral Point, and, in the spring of 1842, began mining near Dodgeville ; continued it until the spring of 1850, when he went overland to California; spent the winter of 1850-51 in Dodgeville, then went again to California, and spent eighteen months in the gold mines; returning, he, on the 22d of January, 1854, married Martha Nelson, born Oct. 11, 1833, in Eevya Sogen, Norway; her family came, in 1844, from Satersdahlen, Norway, to New Orleans, where they spent one winter, then came North and settled on the farm now owned by John Rowe and occupied by his son Richard. Mr. Stephens settled on his present farm of 166J acres in 1854, building a small log house, which Mrs. Stephens says shall be preserved during her lifetime as a reminder of old times; Mr. S. did good work herewith his ax and breaking-plow, and is to-day rewarded with an improved farm, a substantial frame house, built in 1876, a basement barn, 30x50 feet, etc. He spent the years 1864-65 in California. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and a progressive farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens have ten children - Caroline, Helen, Mary, Sarah, Matilda, Annie, Henry, William, Esther and Lena, all born in the old log house, as were two others, who died in infancy.

F. W. STRATMAN, Dodgeville; was born in Kronenberg, Rhenish Prussia, Sept. 13, 1832 ; came to America in 1854, in order to avoid military service and secure freedom ; was in the employ of Evans & Adams, Galena, 111., six and one-half years, then came to Dodgeville; was for twelve years in partnership with Peter Spang, making the plow business his specialty; in 1872, ho bought out the interest of Mr. Spang and associated with Richard Lane, his present partner ; this firm is the leading one of the village and county in manufacturing, and the present intention is to add a blast furnace and large -engine; a farm-wagon made by this firm was awarded the first prize at the Wisconsin State Fair over 120 competitors. Mr. Stratman married Miss Anna H. R. Tesche, who was born, educated and married in Kroncnsberg; they have four children - Gustav E., born April 19, 1860; Anna, Feb. 8, 1862; Frederick W., Aug. 12, 1865, and George Washington, Oct. 3, 1876; the eldest was born in Galena, 111., and the others in Dodgeville; they have also lost nine children. While clinging to the old Presbyterian faith their native place, they attend the M. E. Church here. Mr. Stratman served on the first Village Board.

ORVILiLrE STRONG, banker, Dodgeville ; is a son of L. M. Strong, one of the first settlers of Marion, Lynn Co., Iowa, where Orville Strong was born March 25, 1843; in 1848, the family removed to Highland, Iowa Co., Wis. L. M. Strong was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature, was Postmaster of the village, and having, through his own unaided studies, secured an admission to the bar, was three times elected County Judge; while serving the third term he died, Dec. 4, 1867. His son, our subject, was educated under the tuition of Prof. Pickard, of Platteville Academy. Enlisted in August, 1862, as a private in Co. C, 31st W. V. I.; was afterward promoted to Sergeant Major and Lieutenant of K, same regiment; under Sherman, he fought through to Atlanta and made the march to the sea and through the CaroHnas. Since the close of the civil war, he has resided in Dodgeville. Was elected Town Clerk in 1868 and appointed Village Clerk the same year, holding the latter oflBce eleven years ; was elected Clerk of Iowa Co. in 1868, which position he held until Jan. 1, 1881, and held the oflSce six years; was appointed to the oflBce of Deputy County Treasurer in 1878. He is a Democrat, a Mason, and belongs to the A. O. U. W. During the past fourteen years, he has done a most successfiil business in real estate, loans and insurance; on Jan. 8, 1881, he established a bank in Dodgeville under the firm name of Orville Strong & Co. Mr. Strong married Miss Louise, daughter of George Sims; she died in April, 1874, leaving three children - George L., Luman M., and an infant that soon followed the mother ; by the present wife {nee Miss Minnie Carkeek) he has two children - Mary L. and Throop M.

JOHN SYMONS, Sec. 7; P. O. Dodgeville; was born in 1822 in Poundstock, Cornwall. England, where he spent his early life as a farmer. He came to the United States in 1852, and at once to Dodgeville, with team from Milwaukee. His father in-law, James Webb, had located here in 1850, and lived here till his death, in 1876. During the first three years, Mr. Symons rented a farm, and, in 1855, entered 80 acres of his present farm, which he bought of the Government at 75 cents per acre. It was burr-oak opening land, and his Norwegian neighbors cleared it for him at the rate of $1 an acre, and cleared an acre per day. During 1855, he built a frame house, 14x24, one of the first, and for years the best, in his vicinity. He has added to his house and his farm, now owning 210 acres and a good home. Wheat, his principal crop, was ground at Moscow, twenty-two miles distant, two days being needed to make the trip. The numerous springs on the farm adapt it to stock-raising, to which he now devotes it. He married, in his and her native parish, Miss Jane Webb, born April 6, 1825, and married April 20, 1849, in the parish church. Their children are Mary J. (Mrs. David Potterton), Elizabeth G. (Mrs. George Potterton), William, John, Caroline, Mary A., Lewis, Margery and Ellen ; all except the eldest were born in Dodgeville. Mr. S. is a Republican, and an attendant, with his family, of the M. E. Church.

BEHf J AMLIN^ THOMAS, Sr., the premier merchant of Dodgeville, was born in Cornwall, England, Jan. 6, 1815 ; came to America, in 1837 ; spent six weeks in Mineral Point; in August, 1837, settled in Dodgeville, the present county seat of Iowa County, then comprising about eight or ten log huts. Hy Dodge had a small stock of goods in one of them, and a large stock of whisky in another. Twentyfive or thirty persons were all the population, and among them were J. E. Bartle, Thomas Jenkins and a Mr. Carnes. During his first year at mining here Mr. T. just earned his board; living in a dug-out, roofed with poles and sjd ; all the daylight visible was through the smoke-hole and door. Hy Dodge was the merchant, and John Lindsay the butcher, of those days. Flour cost, including transportation from Galena, $14 per barrel. In 1842, the mercantile firm of Hoskins, Thomas & Co., was founded ; in 1847 he built the old Rough and Ready House ; in 1849, 1850 and 1851 he was in California; with the exception of three years in the lumber trade, he has since been in mercantile life, at Jonesdale. Mr. Thomas is a Democrat; was County Commissioner one term, and has been several terms Chairman and Town Treasurer. In 1841 he married Anne Prideaux, of Cornwall; they have five children - Benjamin, William H., Elizabeth A., Eliza J, and Edward.

THOMAS THOMAS, Sec. 26; P. 0. Dodgeville; was born March 26, 1806, in Monmouthshire, England; came to America in 1832; spent over two years in Newburg, N. Y., and Pottsville, Penn.; went to St. Louis, in August, 1834, and from there to the " Blackjack " mines, now in the town of Mifflin, in April, 1837 ; later he went to Grant Co., Wis.; to Blue Mounds in 1838, and Dodgeville in 1839; in 1841 he bought his present farm, of a Mr. Ward, a son-in-law of Gov. Dodge. He married, in 1842, Mrs. Catharine (Campbell) Jones, born Jan. 13, 1805, in Lanarkshire, Scotland; she came to America, and to Dane County, in 1838, as the wife of Terence Jones - their son, Edward P., was the first white child born in the Fourth Lake settlement; he was born Dee. 23, 1839, and Mr. Jones died in 1841. For nearly two years after the wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas lived at Blue Mounds, then settled and have since lived on the Dodgeville firm. They began in a log cabin, so small that the bed and fireplace were dangerously close together, with scant furniture and still less money, yet the latch-string always hung out, and the wayfaring man was none the less welcome on account of the scant room. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are a genuine old pioneer couple; own 260 acres, and were never parties in any law-suit whatever. They have three children - William T,, now in business in Dodgeville ; Thomas, now on the homestead, and Mary Anne, widow of Neil Davison.

returning to the lead diggings in 1836 ; spent five or more years in Jo Daviess Co., 111.; was in Dodgcville in 1850, 1851 and 1852; that year he went to California, and remained in the Golden State and Australia until 1857, when he returned to his family in Dodgeville ; in 1859, he again visited California, and in 1862 settled in Dodgeville, where he died, Oct. 12, 1880. John Temby, his sou, was born July 12, 1846, in Jo Daviess Co., 111.; has been a resident of Dodgeville since 1850; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and now Master of Dodgeville Lodge, 119, A. F. and A. M. He married Miss Bathsheba Perkins, a native of Cornwall, England. They have four children - Joseph P., Baihsheba, Jane and Clarinda - all born in Dodgeville. The firm of Pryor & Temby, was established Fob. 25, 1876; carries a general stock of groceries, boots and shoes, crockery, notions, etc., and is looked upon as one of the substantial firms of the county.

JOHN C. TREZONA, merchant, Dodgeville; was born in Cornwall, England, in 1848; the family came first to America and then to Cliff Mine, Lake Superior, thence to Dodgeville in 1859 ; he returned to Lake Superior and again came to Dodgeville in 1861 ; returning to England, in March, 1862, they went, via the Cape of Good Hope, to New Zealand, where the father engaged in mining ; they returned to England in 1867, via Cape Horn, and, crossing the Atlantic the third time, came again to Dodgeville, where they still reside. J. C. Trezona entered the employ of Spang & Stratman, as a carriage-maker ; afterward at Appleton, Wis., and in 1879 the firm of Trezona & Treseder was formed ; in April, 1880, Mr. Trezona bought out his partner, and continues the business, carrying a general stock of goods, dry goods, boots and shoes, hats and caps, groceries of all kinds, glassware, crockery, notions, etc.