Outagamie County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1895 (part 5 of 6)

sons, viz.: John, William, Isaac and Vincent, all were among- the first settlers of the town of Dale. Three of the brothers were soldiers in the War of the Rebellion. Wm. Young- was born in 1821 ; was lieutenant in the Thirty-second Regiment Infantry, afterwards he raised a company and joined as captain in the Forty-seventh Regiment Infantry and served until the end of the war ; he entered the first land in the town of Dale on Sec. 35, T. 21, R. 15; in 1855 he boug-ht the n. e. % of Sec. 25, T. 21, R. IS, where he cleared a farm and established a home on which he built a larg-e hotel ; the place was known as Young-'s corners, where he resided until his death, which occurred Nov. 24, 1890. William Young- was a prominent citizen; he represented his district in the state senate from 1867 to 1869 ; his widow now resides on the homestead with her daug-hter who is married to Dr. McIntyre, a practicingphysician.

Was born in Scotland in 1819 ; came to America in 1849 ; lived in Canada one year and lived in Neenah five years ; came to Greenville in 1855 and settled on section 28, then a wilderness, where he cleared a farm and established a home. In 1863 he removed to Clayton, where he now re- sides. He married Elizabeth Ferguson in Scotland; they have three sons and two daughters. Catharine married Wm. Perry Sept. 20, 1856 ; they have one daughter, Eva, born in 1870 ; she married H. W. Russell Sept. 23, 1891 ; they now live in Appleton. Mr. Russell is proprietor of a shirt factory in Appleton.

The Vandebogert Famiey

county, New York, in 1819 ; he came to Appleton in May, 1850, stopped a while in what is now the Third ward of Appleton and helped John Stephens and James Gilmore stake out Grand Chute plat for Conkey, Martin and Bowen ; in August, 1850, he purchased the fractional n. w. % of Sec. 7, T. 21, R. 18, moved on it, cleared a farm and established a home, where he resided many years ; his brother Henry bought the quarter section adjoining it on the f. c. vandebogert. south ; Henry enlisted in

Company D, Twenty-first Regiment, United States Infantry, and died at Murfresborough, Tenn., in 1862; his two sons live in North Dakota, and his daughter lives in Nebraska ; his widow lives with her son in North Dakota. After Henry died his brother Isaac bought the north half of the quarter section ; he is now living in Appleton. F. C. Vandebogert was married to Zelpha Oney,.Aug. 21, 1845; they have two sons and three daughters. First child, Julia, born in 1846,

Second child, Benjamin F., born March 10, 1848, married to Ellen Nettle - ton in 1876 ; they have three daug-hters ; they now live in Elmhurst. Third child, Sarah L., born in 1851, married to Wm. Sykes in 1873; they have one son and one daughter ; Mrs. Sykes died Feb. 19, 1885. Fourth child, Mary E., born in 1856, married to J. B. Vandebog-ert in 1887; they have one son ; they now live in Appleton. Fifth child, Charles F., born in 1858, married to Julia Anderson, May 9, 1884 ; they have one son and two daughters ; they now live in Appleton. F. C. Vandebogcrt moved to Appleton in 1878, where he died, Feb. 10, 1893; his widow now lives with her daughter Mary.

Isaac K. Vandebogert George Ceiby

Was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1807 ; he came to Wisconsin in 1860 (several of his sons came earlier) and settled on a farm in Dale where he established a home and resided until his death in 1875 ; he had a family of six sons and six daughters ; all settled on farms in the town of Dale except one daughter. The sons' names are, Jacob, Stephen, Jonathan, William, Gideon, and George ; the daughters are, Priscilla, married to David Zahner; Rebecca, married to Harrison Miller ; Matilda, married to Fernando Hauk ; Louisa, married to Theodore Spengler of Waupaca of Maine, July 4, 1824; he was a son of David Hopkins of the same place; his grandfather, Robert Hopkins, came from the north of Ireland; he was a soldier in the Revolutionar}T War and served from the commencement of the war until the close and was with Arnold when he went through the wilderness in the winter to attack Quebec. C. W. Hopkins' father married Martha Trask in 1823 ; they had two sons, Charles W. and David, now living in the State of Maine. C. W. Hopkins married Helen T. Ledden in June 1855 ; they have had six children, four now living, three sons and one daughter. Mr. Hopkins came to Wisconsin in 1850 and settled in 1859 on Sec. 32, T. 23, R. 17, now in the town of Black Creek, he being the first settler in that town ; he was supervisor eleven years, and was postmaster at Binghamton seven years, being the first postmaster at that place. Mr. Hopkins was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion and enlisted in First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, Oct. 8, 1864, and served until the close of the war. Mr. Hopkins sold his farm in Black Creek in 1895 and removed to Appleton where he now resides.

Hiram A. Jones

years old he removed to the city of Worcester where he enjoyed such facilities for education as the public schools afforded. At the age of eighteen he entered the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., where he graduated in '53. After teaching* one year he came to Appleton in 1854, where lie was e n g a g e d as tutor in Lawrence University and has served as tutor, adjunct professor, and professor of ancient languages from that time to the present. Mr. Jones has represented the First ward of the city of Appleton as alderman two years, also as supervisor two years and city superintendent of schools one term. He was married to Emily M. Tallmadge, of Fond du Lac, Dec. 8, 1861 ; they have had two sons and one daughter ; the daughter died at the age of nineteen. His oldest son, Lyman Asa, born Nov. 19, 1865. He was married to Mary Davis of Worcester, Mass., Jan. 1, 1895. He graduated at Lawrence University in 1886, also at the Harvard Medical School in 1889. He was for several years physician at State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, Mass. He resigned his position in December, 1894, to prosecute his medical studies in Europe. The second son, David Arthur, born in October, 1875, has his home with his parents, but has been away most of the time on account of his health.

Humphrey Pierce

a son of Moses Pierce. The wife of Charles, whose maiden name was Eord, was a lady of English extraction born July 5, 1801, in New Hampshire, and died near Gorham, Me., in 1849; she and her husband were members of the Methodist church in which he filled the office of deacon for many years. They were the parents of eight chil- dren, their names being Charles, Mary, William, Julia, Angeline, Humphrey, Jonathan and Moses ; the last named was killed May 19, 1863, at the battle of Vicksburg in a charge on the breast works of the enemy ; two other children, Jane and Sarah were born to Charles Pierce by a second wife ; all are living except Moses.

Charles Pierce was a mason by trade and carried on quite an extensive business in the East in that line as contractor and builder until 1845, accumulating considerable property. In 1845 Charles emigrated to the West, first settling near Peoria, 111., where he continued in his business as contractor and builder, and also carried on a farm for several years. In 1849 Charles moved to Alton, 111., and giving up the contractor and building- business engaged quite extensively in stock raising-, farming- and milling- business, and later in real estate; he died at Alton, 111., Feb. 4, 1861, aged nearly sixty years.

His son Humphrey came to Milwaukee, Wis., in August, 1850, -where he lived with his uncle, Jonathan L. Pierce, who kept a dry goods store at No. 13 Spring street, now Grand avenue, until September, 1851, when he went to his father at Alton, 111. After leaving the common school he attended the high school at Woodstock, McHenry county, 111., for one year, 1856-7, and then came to Appleton, Wis., arriving Sept. 3, 1857 ; he immediately entered upon a course of study at Lawrence University and graduated from that institution in June, 1862. After graduating at Lawrence, he entered the Harvard Law School, taking a regular law course and graduated in 1866 ; returning to Appleton, Wis., he was admitted to the bar in 1868 and began the practice of law, in which business he has ever since been and is now engaged ; in connection with the practice of law he became quite largely interested in real estate in and near Appleton and has devoted considerable attention to that branch of business.

His professional calling naturally leading him into politics, both local and state, he took considerable interest in such affairs and has held several offices of important trust. He was elected city attorney of Appleton for several terms, holding the office during the years 1869, 1870, 1874 and 1875; was alderman during the years 1878, 1879, 1883 and 1881; he held the office of district attorney in 1871 and 1872; in 1880 was elected mayor ; re-elected in 1881, and in 1893 was again elected mayor. In 1881-2 was a member of the legislature and in 1884 was a delegate to the State Democratic Convention held at Madison, Wis.

October 15, 1869, Mr. Pierce was married at Milwaukee, Wis., to Emily J. Hauser of that city, a daughter of Capt. Henry Hauser, a lake captain, whose vessel was wrecked on Lake Erie near Sandusky in 1875, and the brave commander drowned. Mrs. Pierce is a member of the Congregational church.

To Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have been born eight children named as follows: Dudley H., Frederick H., Florence J., Jessie E. and Ella C., twins, Genevieve A., Lawrence R. and Jtyron W., all are living except Frederick H. and Florence J.

Dudley H. was married at Appleton, Wis., to Laura A. Briggs of that city on Sept. 19, 1893 ; to this union has been born a daughter, named Josephine E. Ella C. was married at Appleton, Wis., to John W. Van Alstyne of that city on Sept. 5, 1895.

The ancesters of Mr. Pierce came to this country from England early in the seventeenth century and settled at Joppa, near Newburyport, Mass. The old stone house built at Joppa by the early settlers of the family in this country still stands and has been preserved so far as possible as originally built ; the openings left for port holes for defense against attacks by the Indians remain where originally constructed ; pilgrimages to the old ancestral home are frequent by members of the Pierce family ; it stands near the sea shore and is a delightful spot on which to while away a season of rest and indulge in imaginary dreams of the dangers and hardships encountered there by the pioneers of the family.

Pioneer Eife Of W. H. Rogers

I came to Appleton in the fall of 184 9 from Elizabethtown, N. Y., where I was born in 1835 ; my father was born in Saybrook, Conn., 1794. He went on foot to Ohio with his brothers, William and Joseph, and settled on the Western Reserve in the town of Randolph, Portage county. He bought a farm in the wilderness and cleared it up ; his brothers also bought farms adjoining where they spent the rest of their lives; he was a veteran of the war of 1812. In 1828 he married Cordillera Davis who was born in 1807, in Elizabethtown, Essex county, N. Y.; she was a daughter of Darius Davis, a farmer.

and moved on the latter. While on this farm I attended a district school and when I was thirteen years old I took charge of running a threshing machine, with the help of a hired man, and also took charge of delivering the product of a forge, which produced about six tons of wrought iron a day. I had to draw it by team, twelve miles, to Westport on Lake Champlain. My father being laid up with rheumatism for two or three years ; my father and mother visited their brothers in Randolph, O., in the spring and summer of 1849 and moved to Appleton in the fall following and bought the present site of the new fair ground and east of it on Spencer street, at five dollars an acre ; he bought one hundred and seven acres of heavy timber land of Burus Craft.

My father had been an invalid for about three or four years and used crutches for the most of that time. Upon the land which he purchased was a fine sulphur spring, the waters of which he used for medicinal purposes, and at the end of two }rears he threw away his crutches and once more walked without their aid.

My brothers Davis, Calvin, James and Madison, who had been separated somewhat from home, again joined their parents in Appleton ; my oldest sister Nancy, died previous^ at my brother James' residence at Pottsdam, St. Lawrence county, N. Y.; my youngest sister, Lucy Ann, died at the age of five in Elizabethtown ; my other sisters, Mary, Helen and Annette, came west with their parents ; my brother James and I stayed until the fall of 1849 ; James going to St. Lawrence county, where he was married at Pottsdam while I came through to Appleton.

At Fond du Lac I saw ox teams out in the lake a long distance with household goods and passengers to meet the boats that were unable to land ; my father in the meantime sold his York state farm of two hundred and forty acres. His household goods were shipped very late in the fall by way of the lakes and were " frozen in " at Milwaukee. Father sent me with a yoke of oxen to get the goods. When I reached Fond du Lac I found bare ground and was compelled to return to Appleton for a wagon, I was two weeks on my next trip, returning- with the g-oods. I met my father west of Neenah, who having- become anxious had started out to look for me. On coming down a big hill one of the oxen fell and the load pushed him to the foot of the hill. I supposed that he was dead but found to my great relief that he was only stunned. I came on that night to Rock River. The water was about eighteen inches deep and not frozen over. I drove through the river after dark and stopped at a hotel over night. In the morning I presented my last five dollar bill to the landlord in settlement for my fare and lodging. To my great surprise the landlord pronounced it counterfeit, but finally a "bank detector " was found and the bill declared genuine and accepted. Getting back my change I departed towards home rejoicing. The next night after traveling through the wilderness over crooked roads, swamps and corduroy I got stuck on a bad hill. * I heard a man chopping off in the woods and got him and his team to help me up the hill. I gave him a dollar but he could not make change with me, so I gave him my jack knife. That night I came to a log house called a hotel. A sign on the barn read, " tame hay." I stopped here and found that only one person could speak English.. This was a young boy. I found good fare for my oxen but rye bread and beer for myself. At supper time all were seated around a bare table on which was a black loaf of rye bread. This bill of fare was entirely new to me, so I ate nothing. The next morning about two miles farther on I found an American family and got an American breakfast.

When I was seventeen years old I hired out to the Richmond Bros, to sell the paper that they made in Appleton. This was the pioneer paper mill. The first paper that they made was dried in the loft of their mill on long rolls about one and one-half inches in diameter and eight feet long. The paper was counted and folded into quires and reams and cut into different sizes by a large lever power. Straw paper sold at six cents a pound and manilla paper for ten cents per pound. Two years later they put in improved machinery, calenders and cutters and made print paper which I sold for twelve and one-half cents per pound. I sold their entire product that went beyond Neenah, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac with a four-horse team, for three and one-half years. I received fifty dollars a month and expenses and furnished one team. In the year 1857 I was married to Lucinda Coats of the town of Vinland, Winnebago county, Wis., the daughter of Orpha (Congor) and Dennison Coats.

I sold a piece of land to my brother Madison and bought eighty acres in Vinland ; two years later I bought another eighty joining the first. I cleared up and improved the whole 160 acres and built a large brick house and three barns. I took an active part in the town official business. My father sold me his Appleton property on the Fox river, just outside of the city limits. I moved my family to Appleton and kept a dairy, partially supplying the city with milk for twelve years; I got my supplies, such as hay, grain and cows, from my farm in Vinland. In the meantime I gradually worked into market gardening, which I have carried on up to the present time.

I started the first greenhouse in Appleton ; Mr. Stone soon after built one opposite the college, which I bought later. I bought property at Appleton Junction and consolidated the two greenhouses there ; I have carried on the florist business ever since. I improved my property at Appleton Junction and finally began to sell lots and build houses on the installment plan. I have built a good many houses and sold a good many lots since I have been here ; I have also added to my greenhouse, so that now we have 15,000 square feet of double strength glass. We have a very satisfactory trade at home and in neighboring towns. About two years ago I took an active part, with others, in establishing a pickle factory industry, which we have worked up into a satisfactory business.

My family consists of four boys and four girls, Herbert, at present justice of the peace ; Haskel, mechanic and stockholder in pickle factory ; Leonard, of the firm of W. H. Rogers & Son ; Fred, student Lawrence University ; Minnie, wife of Miles Meidam, florist ; Alice, teacher in Appleton ; young-est son of Eli Hyde and grandson of Eliacum Hyde, both of whom were natives of Connecticut, and prominent in the community with which they were identified.

The emigrant ancestor of the Hyde family in America settled in New England in about the year 1645, and was one of the colonists of that era who came of aristocratic lineag-e. A native of England, he belonged to the famous old family from which sprang- Sir Edward Hyde, the English historian and statesman, who was knighted and created Earl of Clarendon by King Charles II. in 1661. His daughter, Ann Hyde, became the wife of the Duke of York, afterwards King James II., and was the mother of Mary and Anna, both of whom became queens of Great Britain. The mother of Welcome Hyde, who before her marriage was Mary Campbell, was a native in Rutland, Vt., and of Scotch descent. Eli Hyde removed with his family from Vermont to Northern Ohio, when his son Welcome was ten years old, and settled about forty miles southeast of Cleveland. The son was educated in the district schools of

Ohio, and later in the Rock River Seminary at Mount Morris, 111. As a boy he was kept at work so much of the time that he had comparatively little time for study, and it was not until after he left home and came west that he was able to round out a fair English education ; he was at this time nineteen years of age, and dependent only upon his own resources ; but by frugal living supported himself while attending school at Mount Morris. Soon after leaving that institution he associated himself with a gentleman of means who supplied him with money for the purchase of cattle in the southern part of Illinois, which he drove through to Wisconsin to stock the new farms of that state then being fast brought under cultivation. This business he followed for several years which gave him ample opportunity to become familiar with the resources and prospects of the greater part of Wisconsin.

Having determined to settle in this state and engage in the lumber and farm business, he went in the fall of 1850 and explored the wild and unsurveyed woods tributary to the Embarrass river and located a logging camp for cutting pine timber on what was then called the Indian lands, that since proved to be on Sec. 8, T. 24, R. 15 east, in Outagamie county. He was five days with a crew of eight men cutting out his supply road from the mouth of the Embarrass (now New London) to his logging camp, a distance of about twenty miles ; and his team was the first driven north of New London. He was guided in laying out his road by the old Shawano Indian trail, as far north as Bear Creek, at which place he left the trail and made east to go down to the river. At this point the land bordering on the creek begins to widen into a great alluvial bottom or level tract of rich land, till it becomes nearly two miles wide for a distance of three miles down the creek, heavily covered with a dense forest of oak, maple and basswood timber, with a ridge surrounding it thickly sprinkled with first-class white pine, making an attractive location for a self-reliant and strong determined man. It was here that Mr. Hyde resolved to make his future home. But the land Nvas not surveyed and brought into market till the fall of

1853, at which time he made a purchase, and the next year moved there with his little family. His nearest neighbor for over a year was eight miles distant. During the period of three years while waiting to have the land surveyed and brought into market, Ira Millard bought out the claim of William Johnson, an Indian trader at the mouth of the Embarrass river, and started the village of New London. In the mean time a large number of settlers had worked north of this village, along the first cut out road, among whom were George Lawe, James Payton and Sam Price, and still up north as far as Maple Creek.

Jerry Mirickle, Robert and James Hutchinson with many others had made permanent settlement, but during this period while keeping a vigilant outlook for his favorite location, Mr. Hyde was lumbering, he worked two years, 1851 and 1852, on the lands that comprise the village of Embarrass, having his camp on the exact spot where John Palmer's residence now stands. This camp was situated in a grove of unsurpassed quality of pine, being one thick mass for miles in extent, surrounded by an unbroken wilderness, there being no settlements on the south, nearer than Johnson's trading post, now New London ; on the west, the Wisconsin river without even an Indian trail as a thoroughfare ; on the east, the military road leading from Appleton to Green Bay, and on the north to the village of Shawano, which place had been located ten years before by an enterprising man named Farnsworth, who built a watermill on the outlet of Lake Shawano, and rafted his lumber down Wolf river to Fond du Lac. Previous to this date Curt Lewis, a well known lumberman throughout northern Wisconsin, had bought out Mr. Farnsworth and was running quite a large business there under the supervision of Charles Wescott who had from twenty to twentyfive men at work.

James and William Grimmer and some other main lumbermen had located there permanently. The nearest place supplies could be obtained was Oshkosh, and there was only one poor woods road leading there, requiring five days to make a trip with a team. This road passed about six miles west of Appleton at a point where Greenville now is, and led on to Shiocton where W. D. Jordan about that time had settled, and the road continued north, keeping- east of Wolf river, from one to three miles to Shawano. West of Wolf river there was no thoroug-hfare but an Indian trail, until made by Mr. Hyde. The first winter that he log-g-ed there he had only two yoke of oxen. There was not another camp on that river ; and it was with difficulty that he kept this road open to g-et in his supplies, still he was not easily discourag-ed. The business was such that he nor anyone had more than a bare living-, notwithstanding supplies and wages were lower than now. This induced him, in the summer and fall of 1854 to erect a log house and barn on the site of his present purchase, in what is now the town of Bear Creek, Waupaca county, three-fourths of a mile west of Outagamie county line. Here it might be mentioned that this location was just over the line in Waupaca county, and its interests were so interwoven with this county we cannot well omit it. About this time business generally throughout the country began to improve and the lumber business took a sudden impetus and increased ten fold. Shawano at the head of the lumber interest on Wolf river became a noted place for business. Chas. M. Upham, brother of the present governor, and several other good business men, started up large supply stores, hauling their goods from New London. This, in connection with lumbermen going into and returning from the woods, created a large travel, compelling Mr. Hyde to throw open his house to the public, which forced all the business on him that he could well attend to.

He was versed in surveying, and being an expert woodsman his knowledge was in daily requisition. There was not a settler for miles but he knew and had some dealings with. He surveyed and helped lay out the public roads, and was well acquainted with the streams and surrounding country. He located large quantities of pine for Hon. Philetus Sawyer, Ebenezer Hubbard and other heavy lumbermen of Oshkosh. About this time the Crimean war broke out and engaged the attention of the whole of

Europe which created a great demand for all kinds of American produce, especially wheat, which was from one dollar and a half to two dollars a bushel. This increased emigration, and stimulated all wishing* to g*et farms to locate g*overnment lands.

Mr. Hyde in his explorations had been careful to note such lands which made him useful to this class of men. In the month of March, 1855, he located Norman Clinton and his son Urial on the Pig*eon river at the place where is now the city of Clintonville. They built a saw mill, later on a grist mill, and added much in building* up the new country. That same summer he located Lewis and Nathan Phillipps within a mile south of him, and soon after Allan Phillipps and Lucian Williams settled in the same neighborhood. That fall he got a Geman settlement of fifteen families to locate about four miles west of him. Lewis Schoepke, Lewis Tielkie, Gottlieb Raisler and Chas. Klem were the leading men of this settlement. Their improvements drew around them other representative men, such as August Roloff, Herman and Julius Finger, John Buboltz, Mike Ruckdassel, and many others who settled in Maple Creek, and did much in opening up roads and constructing local settlements. Their children now take an active part in the affairs of Outagamie county. About this time Henry Fulkman, Carl Miller and Joe Long came into the settlement. The former (Henry Fulkman), was a young married man who did business for Mr. Hyde for several years. His children are now among the leading men and women of Clintonville. His eldest daughter is the wife of J. F. Miesner, one of wealthiest merchants of that city. The youngest is the wife of J. H. Brady, editor of the Clintonville Tribune, and helps materially in editing that paper. The boys own and skillfully manage one of the largest stores in Waupaca or Shawano counties. They are good specimens of German, native citizens, born and educated on or near the old Hyde farm, surrounded by disadvantages natural to such an early period, yet they have worked themselves high in the scale of general usefullness. These are only samples of many other children of that early Ger- man settlement. The Raislers, the Schoepkes, Thielkies and Munserts are doing- homage to Wisconsin's best wishes. In the fall of 1858, John Palmer and Eziekel Matterson started the town site of Embarrass on the location of Mr. Hyde's former lumber camp. They erected a saw mill and grisf mill together, with other improvements, which attracted a large community of worthy settlers.

In the years of 1858, 1859 and 1860, on account of the war in Europe, and the high price of produce here, the country had fast been filling up, and many thrifty villages started and began to appear like an old farming district. No people enjoyed themselves better than these old pioneers. That air of freedom and liberty which they had and felt, the interest they took in each others welfare and with the pleasure they enjoyed in their social gatherings, cannot be realized in a dense and thickly populated country. But this scene was to be changed.

In the fall of 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The secession of the Southern States, throwing the North into financial distress, and badly depressing business. Mr. Hyde lumbered that winter following, but when he got his logs to Oshkosh he could get only two dollars and a half per thousand. He sold part for that price and took seven hundred and fifty dollars back to New London to pay his men. When he arrived there was less than one hundred dollars that he could use, the balance was on broken banks that had shortly failed. The cause of this was, these banks used Southern States bonds to secure their issue, and as fast as they went out of the Union this security became worthless. Most of the banks in Wisconsin were based on this kind of security, which converted the great volume of currency into worthless paper and spread ruin and consternation throughout the State.

In the winter of 1861-2 he organized a company, was elected captain and mustered into the Seventeenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. The regiment joined the army at Pittsburg Landing and he continued to serve with it until Sept. 16, 1862, when ill health compelled him to resign. On his return home he took up his old business of locating- land on a much larger scale than before. The effect of the war had inflated the price of every kind of productions. The lumber interest, so badly depressed when it broke out, was now beginning to be more lucrative than ever before. This stimulated the lumbermen to cut the timber from the lands they had bought for that purpose and which had been kept from settling. At this time that part of the county east of the Shawano road for three miles each way, from the old Hyde farm, and comprising the town of Deer Creek, was comparatively a wilderness, notwithstanding a vast amount of lumbering had been done there. It is a very level township, almost a plain, having large, wide bottoms along the creeks and Embarrass river, which originally included more first-class oak, ash and basswood, than any other in the county, and the pine was mostly large, primitive timber, which grew along the barely perceptive ridges, skirting the expansive bottoms, which peculiar kind is never found on poor land. The grove pine, that grows on sandy soil, would not exceed in that town two sections, therefore the quality of the land is genuine, being a rich alluvial deposit, and when rightly understood no town in the county will surpass it for general farming worth.

In 1862 Pat McGloan and J. Mariarty settled on section 31. Soon after Warren Jepson, a well-known exemplary man, followed them. The next year Capt. Hyde assisted many others to locate there, among whom were Martin Dempsey and Daniel Murphy. They were men who well considered the propriety of an enterprise, but when once decided upon, knew no defeat. The former in the midst of prosperity met with an untimely death by the falling of a tree. His four sons are well-to-do men who have nobly filled the highest offices their townsmen could give. Daniel Murphy is now living in the village of Bear Creek, which is located on his old pioneer farm, enjoying in his declining days, the fruits of a well spent life. His son, P. D. Murphy, is doing business in the same village. He is a success in commercial affairs and has worked himself well up on the list of successful men. The next year 1861,

Frank I/yon, an expert in locating- g-overnment lands, came in from Fond du Lac, with a retinue of French settlers and located them in the southeast part of the town. Among- them were Louis Bricco, H. Babino, Oliver Besaw, O. Dery, M. Belthazor, E. Jubert, Joe. Faneuf and Lewis Lehman, with many others, all of whom have proved themselves worthy the effort of their leader.

North of them settled Wm. and J. Knapp, J. Wiesler, F. Werth and other Germans. Soon after followed a Danish settlement of over thirty families. Most of them went in to the northwest part of the town. There cannot be too much said in their favor. They have not only proved themselves reliable citizens, but indispensable to the welfare of the town. Many selections could be made from this Danish society that would honorably fill the highest trust that the county has the power to confer. There are others whose life sketch would be a history of the town. Dan. R. Thorn was among- the first settlers and held the office of supervisor for many terms ; he devoted much time in layingout roads, building- bridg-es and constructing turnpikes ; also had a salutary influence in the affairs of the county. His name will ever stand a worthy benefactor of his town. G. F. Richardson, Issac Thorn and many others who have worthily held offices of high trust are deserving of our notice, but space will not permit mentioning in detail the names of all these old pioneers, which I regret, more so on account of Capt. Hyde's business being so interwoven with the affairs and interests of these first settlers. After he moved to Appleton, which was in 1866 he devoted his time in the woods of Michigan, locating pine and iron lands, the aggregate of which will run into the millions of acres. Probably there are few his equals in this pursuit or who have seen, and passed judgment on more pine timber than he. With a hardy constitution and a wiry frame, he has been able to successfully accomplish Herculean tasks, and few have done more active work and surmounted more difficulties.

parents were of German lineage. They had three children of whom two survive. Frederick, the eldest, is doing- a g-eneral mercantile business at Bear Creek, and also takes charg-e of the old H}rde farm which comprises two thousand five hundred acres. Fifteen hundred being- under a hig-h state of cultivation, having- over twenty-five miles of tile underdraining-, converting- much worthless land into rich fields of meadow and grain, not surpassed in the state. He was married in 1882 to Eibbie Clark, the daug-hter of Walter Clark, who was living- in the villag-e of Hortonville at the time of her birth. She is also the granddaug-hter of the late John McMurdo. They have two children. Edith, born in 1883, and Rodg-er, born March 17, 1893.

D. M. Hyde, the young-er of the two sons of Welcome Hyde resides in Appleton and is eng-ag-ed in the real estate business with his father, is a graduate of the Northwestern University, of Evanston, 111., and was professor of civil engineering and mathematics in Lawrence University for several years, but resigned, preferring a more active life. He married Miss Inez Angel who is well connected with influential people in Chicago. They have but one child, Gladys, born April, 1888. Frances Hyde, the only daughter of Welcome Hyde, was born Christmas day, 1859, on the old farm. When but a child her parents moved to Appleton where she was educated. In 1883 she was married to James Simpson, which union was crowned with three children, Earl, born August, 1884, Eee, born 1886, and Ethel, January, 1892. On November 11, 1893, she was called by that Divine power, who knows best what is for our good, to leave her beloved children and participate in her long cherished hope of eternity, leaving the world without dread, but in full faith of the things laid up for those who fulfill their probation here. Five weeks only elapsed and her little daughter, Ethel, followed her mother to the grave.

The boys are being brought up by their grandparents where -they have the best of care. Captain Hyde is a thoroughly self-made man. When he started out in the world for himself, he was penniless and the accumulations

O. A. Blackwood

Was born in New Brunswick in 1815; came to Hortonville in 1849 and worked for A. E. Horton, running- his saw mill eig-ht years ; he married Lucy Apt in 1840 ; they have had one son and four daug-hters. First child, Sarah, born in 1842, married to Charles Sweetser in March, 1864 ; they have three daug-hters. Second child, Josiah, born in 1844, married to Rosetta Manley in 1 867; they have one daug-hter ; Mrs. Blackwood died in 1871 ; Mr. Blackwood married his second wife, Emma Foster, in 1874 ; they have one son and one daughter ; they now live in Appleton. Third child, Olive, born in 1846, married to Nicholas Euxing-er in 1865 ; they have one son ; she died in 1887. Fourth child, Betsey, born in 1848, married to Romanzo Hasting-s in 1866 ; they had one son and one daug-hter ; she died in 1874. Fifth child, Laura, born in 1849, married to A. Johnson in 1870 ; they have one son ; Mr. Johnson died in 1875; Mrs. Johnson married James Taylor, her second husband, in 1885 ; they now live in Milwaukee. O. A. Blackwood died in March, 1874, in New London. Joseph Blackwood was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion ; he enlisted Jan. 21, 1863, in Company A, Third Wisconsin Cavalry and served until the end of the war.

Judge John Goodeand Judge John Goodland

Is a native of England, born in the town of Taunton, Somersetshire, Aug. 10, 1831 ; a son of Wm. Goodland, a merchant in Taunton of good standing, whose wife Abigail (Sharman) also a native of England, was a daughter of industrious respectable farming people. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Goodland were the parents of eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom the daughters all died young ; the eldest son, James, was a sailor and was lost at sea; Joseph lives at LaCrosse, Wis. ; Walter is in New Zealand; William is still a resident of Taunton, England, and John is the subjeet of this sketch. The latter received a liberal education at the schools and academies of his native town, proving an apt scholar and a clever one; he and a chum named Geboult carrying off the first prizes at the examination in 1849. At the age of eighteen he came to America ; he stopped in Oneida county, New York until 1854; he came to Wisconsin, and in Walworth county engaged in various pursuits, such as teaching school, clerking in stores, etc. For a time he conducted a grocery business in Sharon, but unfortunatel}r, was burned out. He also served as justice of the peace and as town clerk in that village. In 1864, having been given a clerkship in the service of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway company at Chicago, he removed thither, remaining until 1867, when he was offered and accepted the position of agent for the same company at Appleton, Wis. This incumbency he filled with the highest satisfaction to both the railroad company and the public for a period of seven years, at the end of which time he resigned in order to take up the study of law, in the meantime conducting an insurance business. In 1878 and '79 he was clerk of the judiciary committee of the assembly ; in 1879 he was admitted to the bar of the circuit and supreme courts, and the following year was admitted to practice in the district and circuit courts of the United States. In 1888 he was elected district attorney and re-elected in 1890, resigning in 1891, in which latter year he became a candidate for

Circuit Judge of the Tenth Judicial District, comprising the counties of Outagamie, Shawano, Langlade, Forest and Florence, was elected in 1891, to take his seat in 1893 ; owing, however, to the death of Judge George H. Myers in August, 1891, which caused a vacancy, he was appointed by Governor Peck to fill the vacancy, and accordingly took his seat in August, 1891. In September, 185°, Judge Goodland was married to Caroline M. Clark, who was born in Oneida county, New York, of English parentage, and nine children came of this union. Seven of whom, four sons and three daughters, are yet living, as follows: Abigail, living at home with her father ; Edward in Minneapolis; Walter, postmaster at Ironwood, Mich; his brother Fayette being with him; Mary in Winnebago, Wis. ; Edith in Eau Claire, Wis., married to a son of Judge Bartlett, of that city, and John, married and living at the parental home. The mother of these died in October, 1893. In fraternal association our subject is a master mason of Waverly lodge, No. 51, F. and A. M. Appleton. As a lawyer the judge has been very successful, though never what may be called a money maker, but he earned the high respect and esteem both on the bench and at the bar.

John S. Southmayd

Was born in Jay, Essex county, N. Y., Jan. 24, 1821; he was married to Susan Bruce, Feb. 20, 1851 ; they have four s ms and two daughters. First child, Kittie T., born June 7, 1852, was married to Charles D. Fox, April 30, 1878; they have two daughters ; they now live in Appleton. Second child, E. D., born March 4, 1854, is married and lives in Polk county, Wisconsin. Third child, Frank E., born May 11, 1855, is married and has one son; they now live in Bayfield, Wis. Fourth child, Marcia, born Aug. 17, 1857, was married to Clarence Murch, April 28, 1877 ; they now live in Kearney, Neb. Fifth child, Willie E., born May 9, 1859, died Feb. 1, 1862. Sixth child, John B., born Dec. 5, 1861, married to Ida Becker, July 8, 1885 ; they have one daughter ; they now live in Milwaukee ; he is general agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. John S. Southmayd came to Appleton in 1855 ; he was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion and died in the service at Petersburg, Va., Jan. 24, 1865. His widow died Dec. 10, 1887. Mr. Southmayd was a brother of Mrs. H. L. Blood.

The Grignon Family

Augustin Grignon was born in Green Bay, June 27, 1780. About the year 1800, he came as agent of the American Fur Trade company to Kaukauna, then called Kockaloo and bought the log house, built by Dominic Ducharm in 1790. Ducharm was the first white man, who settled in what is now Outagamie county. He commenced clearing land and making a farm and trading with the Indians, where the city of Kaukauna now stands. He bought of the Indians 1550 acres of land fronting 99 chains, about 1% miles, on the river and a part of it running back in a northwest direction nearly three miles. He numbered his claims No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. He afterwards sold his Indian titles to John Lawe, of Green Bay, the father of Geo. W. Lawe, of Kaukauna, to whom he was indebted for his goods, to trade with the Indians. The claims passed to said John Lawe's heirs, mostly to Geo. W. Lawe, now of Kaukauna. Augustin Grignon bought of rhe Indians 1520 acres of land fronting on the river seventy-one chains and fifty links wide and running north forty degrees, west nearly at right angle with the river two hundred and seventeen chains and fifty-eight links. The United States government afterwards gave him a patent for the same land.

The above described land covered a large part of the lands formerly bought by Ducharm of the same Indians and patented to him. The title to some of said lands is now in litigation.

Indians until his death. His son, Charles A. Grignon, was born in said house (which was standing in 1894) June 15, 1808 and after his father's death he continued the business, buying furs of the Indians, until the United States bought all the remaining land of the Indians and removed them to a reservation in Shawano county. He also built a nice frame house where he died, which is now the residence of his widow and children. Charles A. Grignon married Mary E. Mead, a sister of Mrs. Geo. W. Lawe. and also of M. J. Mead, of Kaukauna. They have three sons named, Augustin, Ross and Charles, and five daughters named Fanny, Maggie, Eydia, Mary and Emelia.

Augustin Grignon was descended from the famous De Langlade family. Ilis mother was Domitelle De Langlade, a daughter of the famous Charles De Langlade whose mother was a sister to the headOttoway chief, King Nessowa-quet, of Mackinaw. Charles De Langlade became a famous leader of all the western Indians, it was he who planned and executed the famous battle known in history as the defeat of Gen. Braddock in 1755; he was also with Gen. Montcalm in the battle before Quebec in 1759, which resulted in the surrender of all the Canadas to the British ; he was also engaged in most of the battles in the French and Indian War from 1755 to 1760.

The children of Augustin Grignon were: Margaret, who married Ebenezer Childs; Charles A., born in Kaukauna, June 15, 1808, Alexander and Paul, and Sophia, who married Louis B. Porlier, and Louis Grignon.

Col. Theodore Conkey

served as a soldier in the War of 1812, was a man of marked strength of character ; the first twenty years of Col. Conkey's life was spent on the old farm near Canton ; he enjoyed all the privileges which the common schools of that day afforded and afterwards concluded his studies at the Academy of Cazenovia. In 1841 he came to Wisconsin, stopped awhile in Fond du Lac, where there were then but four or five white familes ; his eldest halfbrother, John Banister's family being one of them ; the succeeding three years he spent at that place and at Madison, teaching the first schools established in those places; about the year 1843, he engaged in the United States service as surveyor, first being associated with Gen. A. G. Ellis, of Green Bay. A large portion of Northern Wisconsin reaching as far north as Lake Superior and from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi were surveyed for the first time by them ; in 1849, Col. Conkey settled in Appleton and acquired that year considerable property interest in company with Hon. M. L. Martin and A. B. Bowen in the site which the Third ward of the city of Appleton now occupies. Col. Conkey was united in marriage to Cynthia Foote, of Canton, N. Y., January 28, 1848; they have had four children ; only one survives, Mrs,

Lyman E. Barnes ; they have one daughter, and three sons living. Edward Conkey was born in 1854 and died in 1882 ; their daughter, Mrs. Alice Reid, born May 21, 1852, died Nov. 21, 1892. Upon the breaking out of the rebellion, Col. Conkey tendered his services to the government ; he raised a company and joined the Third Wisconsin Cavalry in January, 1862 ; his regiment was assigned to arduous duty in southern Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and upon the plains and continued in active service until the October following the close of the war. He was lieutenant of the regiment when it disbanded ; soon after his return from the war, he engaged with the Messrs. F. and C. Pfennig in the flouring business in the famous Genesee Mills ; on the death of Charles Pfennig bought out the other interests, enlarged and improved the mills, kept constantly in the business until near the close of 1879 when he disposed of them to Kimberly, Clark & Co., after which time he virtually retired from business. He served several terms in the Senate and Assembly. His widow survives him ; his daughter, Mrs. Lyman E. Barnes, and her husband now live on his homestead.

Solomon Rhodes

Was born in Massachusetts in 1796; he came to the town of Dale, in 1855, with his five sons, Hiram, Edward, Elias, Andrew and Samuel, all settled on farms in Dale ; four daughters but one now living, she was married to Shed Doty ; they have one son and three daughters. Andrew and Elias Rhodes bought 200 acres of land on Sec. 25, T. 21, R. 15, on which they built the Rhodes Hotel which is now run by Andrew, Elias having died ; the brothers are all dead except Samuel and Andrew. Solomon Rhodes died in 1864. Andrew Rhodes was born Sept. 11, 1816 ; he married Delia Bacon in 1844 ; they have no children ; Mrs. Rhodes was born in 1822.

The Brill Family

married Elizabeth Everhart Feb., 1840, they have nine children, six sons and three daughters. Their oldest son, John Brill, born in 1844, has been sheriff of this county four years and now lives on a fine farm on sections 22 and 23 in Buchanan, is married and has six diughters living. Second son. Mat. Brill, born in 1846 and now lives in Appleton. Third son, Peter Brill, born in 1848, died in Jail., 1885. Fourth son, Joseph Brill, born in 1852, now drives a hack in Appleton. Fifth son, Robert Brill, born in 1854, is married and has three children; he now lives in Kaukauna. , Sixth son, William Brill, born in 1859, is married to Harriett Geenen, a niece of Evert Saunders ; they now live with Mr. Saunders on his homestead. They have four children.

Was born in Scotland, May 12, 1816, came to Nova Scotia, Aug. 6, 1831, came to United States June 22, 1844, came to Wisconsin Oct. 22, 1850 ; settled in the n. e. ^Sec. 32, T. 21, R. 17, now town of Grand Chute where he now resides. He was married in 1852 to Sarah A. Murch, a sister to B. B. .Murch. They have had six children, three sons and three daughters, First son, Thomas Albert. Second son,

Charles S. McKay, now dead. Third son, George W. McKay. First daughter, Alice C. McKay. Second daughter, Amelia E. McKay. Third daughter, Eugenie, now dead. Two sons and two daughters are now living and are well educated and all hold responsible positions in society. Mr. McKay is a prosperous farmer and much respected by his neighbors.

Geo. W. Lawe

from England and settled at Green Bay in 1797 ; Geo. W. Lawe was married to Catharine A. Meade, of Pennsylvania, March 25, 1835 ; they have one son and one daughter. The son, John D. Lawe, born Sept. 17, 1837, was married to Mary Chapman ; they have one son. Their daughter, Amanda Lawe, was married to Capt. D. J. Brothers in 1861 ; thev have no children. D. J. Brothers was born in Canada. He came with his parents to Rochester, N. Y., when quite young, and in May, 1861, came to Appleton, Wis. In 1862 he enlisted and helped organize Co. I of the Thirty-second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in which he was for two years second and first lieutenant. He was in the famous march to the sea, and from the capture of Atlanta to the close of the war he held the responsible position of assist- close of the war in 1865, Mr. Brothers came to Kaukauna, where he has resided ever since. He was twice elected county superintendent of schools and has served several terms as, supervisor and alderman; in 1876, he engaged in the real estate and insurance business which he has continued ever since. In 1894 he built the Hotel Brothers, now the leading- hotel in Kaukauna, and is now proprietor of the same. Mr. Lawe at various times occupied positions of trust and responsibility under the United States and the state and has always discharged these trusts so as to gain the confidence of the entire community. In 1843, he was commissioned Indian agent by President W. H. Harrison. This office he continued to hold with the exception of one short interval till 1852 and in this time discharged his duties very acceptably to both government and Indians. In 1849, Mr. Lawe was commissioned postmaster, but his duties as agent proving too arduous to admit the double burden, he was compelled to resign. In 1878, he was again appointed postmaster, and he continued in this capacity until the administration of Gover Cleveland. Mr. Lawe is now living in Kaukauna ; he is now in his 85th year, hale and hearty and claims to be the oldest living Badger in Wisconsin ; he was born in this state in 1810.

Capt. D. J. Brothers was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion and served until the end of the war. Since then he has resided in Kaukauna and is a prominent citizen, has served the city several terms as alderman and supervisor of the Second ward, and has been county superintendent of schools. In 1894 he built the Brothers Hotel, now the leading hotel of the city. He is also engaged extensively in real estate and insurance business.

Anson Ballard

of Dec., A. D. 1821; he came to Appleton in 1850, and remained until his death on the 4th of April, 1873. He was married in Sheboygan in 1851 to Harriet M. Story. He practiced law with Derr)' H. Smith several years and later on went into real estate business which he followed up to the time of his death. Mr. Ballard was a prominent member of the Congregational church in Appleton, also a Mason and Knight Templar and thoroughly interested in educational work. The names*of his children are Irving M. Ballard, Leda A. Ballard, now Mrs. O. E. Clark ; Irene Ballard, now Mrs. T. W. Orbison ; Della S. Ballard died Oct. 14, 1857 ; Eugene Ballard died Dec. 10, 1864 ; Nellie Ballard, Mrs. W. E. Conkey, died Aug. 10, 1891 ; Frederick J. Ballard, Pearl Edna Ballard died April 12, 1877. Anson Ballard had two brothers, Porter and Jesse Ballard, who came to Appleton in an early day and cleared and established homes on the n. e. % of Sec. 24, T. 21, R. 17. Porter Ballard lived there until his death ; his son, Clinton Ballard, now lives on the homestead. Jesse Ballard removed to Missouri and died there.

Lewis F. Jacquot

C. Wood in 1857 \ they have three sons and three daug-hters now living-. First child, Charles H., born Aug-. 16, 1858, married to Atta Fletcher in 1881, they have three daug-hters now living-, they now live in Minneapolis. Second child, John E., born June 15, 1860, married to Ellen R. Whitman ; they have one son and one daug-hter ; they now live in Hortonville. Third child, Clarissa M., born Oct. 11, 1862, married to Wm. Hollemback, editor of the Hortonville Review ; they have no children. Fourth child, Edwin J., born Feb. 23, 1864, now lives in Appleton. Fifth child, Elizabeth V., born Aug-. 12, 1866, married to Charles V. Benjamin ; they have one son and one daug-hter ; they now live in Hortonville. Sixth child, Hattie E., born Nov. 2, 1868, is married to John Printup ; they have two sons and one daug-hter. Mr. Printup died in Dec., 1893; his widow now lives in Hortonville and keeps the postoffice. E. F. Jacquot is now a prominent citizen of Hortonville, has been justice of the peace several years and filled many important offices, is now president of the village of Hortonville and proprietor of the Arlington Hotel. His brother, John Jacquot, settled in Greenville on Sec. 18, T. 22, R. 16, in 1849, where he cleared a farm and established a home where he resided until his death. His family now occupy the homestead.

Peter Lite

county. He came to Appleton in October, 1855, which was his home until his death, in 1886. He had been married three time^. By his first wife, he had several children, among them is Edward Lite, a pioneer, came to Appleton in 1855 and has resided here until the present time. He was married in December, 1854, to Louisa T. Stroebe, who has several brothers and one sister, Mrs. Drinks, now living in this county. Ed Lite and wife have born to them one son and one daughter. Their son, George M., born July 22, 1861, drowned May, 2, 1881. Their daughter, Clara A. Lite, born Nov. 24, 1855, married to Frank Ehrgott in Nov. 23, 1878; they have one daughter. Mrs. John Goelzer is a half-sister to Ed Lite. Mr. and Mrs. Goelzer came to Appleton in 1855 ; they have two daughters and one son.

Peter Eite Peter Reuter

natives of Belg-ium where they were reared and married ; in 1847, emigrated to the United States, fiftythree days being- consumed in crossing- the Atlantic Ocean. They focated on a farm near Milwaukee, where the father died three weeks later, the mother died there in 1865. They were the parents of five children who all lived in Milwaukee, viz.: Elizabeth who died in 1888. Peter, our subject. Helen, wife of Paul Fisher, of Portland, Oreg-an. Alexander, who came to Kaukauna and was in business with Peter for fifteen years after which in 1884 he moved to Jacksonville, Oregon, where his death occurred July 10, 1893. Joseph, who died in Milwaukee the year of their arrival.

Peter Reuter was but 9 years old when he came to Milwaukee. He received such education as the primative schools of that day afforded, the school house being the proverbial log cabin with puncheon floor, and slab seats and birch rod on the teacher's desk. When his school days were ended he learned the carpenter's and joiner's trade which he followed in the vicinity of Milwaukee for nine years and was then induced to go to Appleton as foreman in a hub and spoke factory, now known as Marston and Beveridge. He was foreman four years when in 1869 he came to Kaukauna and here in company with his brother, Alexander, he built a hub and spoke factory which proved a profitable venture. After fifteen years he bought his brother's interest and established the Reuter Hub and Spoke company which moved to Rice Lake, Barron county, in 1886 and is successfully managed by his two enterprising sons, Henry and Alexander L.

Mr. Reuter had always taken an active interest in organizing capital and in 1879 he established a State bank, himself being president, A. L. Reuter, vice-president and F. L. Towsley, cashier. The success of the Bank of Kaukauna is known far and wide. This institution was first organized in 1878 as a private bank by Henry and W. P. Hewitt and P. D. Norton, of Menasha, who sold out the following year to Reuter brothers. Mr. Reuter was married in Milwaukee to Gertrude Burlinghousen, a native of Milwaukee county, Wis., a daughter of Gottfried and Catherine Burlinghousen, natives of Prussia who came to the above place in an early day. Her father died there and her mother resides in Cleveland. Four children blessed this union, viz.: Henry married and resides in Rice Lake. Alexander L. also married and resides in Rice Lake. John P. an insurance man in Milwaukee, Wis. Paulina who died when four years and six months old. Mrs. Gertrude Reuter died in 1872 and Mr. Reuter subsequently married Maria Wessel, a native of Prussia, to which union five children were born: Lena, Joseph, Maria. Anna and Peter. Mr. Reuter is an earnest advocate of the Jeffersonian principles of the Democratic party and for three terms was mayor of the city of Kaukauna. He has taken an active part being always foremost in that which furthered its growth and prosperity. In 1879 he erected the well-known Reuter Block which is a two-story brick structure with a fifty foot frontage on Wisconsin Avenue, being the first brick block erected in Kaukauna. He also owns other real estate. He visited Europe with his family in 1891, making an enjoyable trip of continental Europe as well as Great Britain.

Edward West

West ; they were both natives of Pennsylvania. He was a farmer, engineer and land surveyor ; he traces his ancestry to England. Edward West resided at home on the farm until his fourteenth year, early in life assisting in such labor as his strength would admit. In 1832 he was sent to Washington, Pennsylvania, College and for three years pursued his studies in that institution, leaving college when 18 years old. He journeyed westward, arriving at Detroit April 10, 1836. He journeyed across Michi gen territory on foot to Milwaukee, leaving orders to have his trunk sent around by water on a schooner as steamers had not then found the way around the lakes. He arrived with only three dollars. He found it difficult to get a bed in the tavern then in Milwaukee, but the landlord gave him a bed on the floor that night. As the land around there was not surveyed, he was employed by land speculators to survey out their claims at five dollars per day. He continued in that business during all the summer of 1836. He also located a claim for himself four miles from the then little hamlet of Milwaukee in a southwest direction toward where Mukwonaga now is, on which he erected a cabin with the help of some Menomonee Indians, covered the same with shakes three feet long and a puncheon floor, the Indians carrying the logs together for which he paid them a barrel of flour, then worth $25.00 per barrel - which was his home for the next five years. He taught two terms in the first school and in the first school house built in Milwaukee with from forty to seventy scholars about 1841. He moved to a farm in what is now the town of Summit about 1847. He selected land while surveying five miles west of where Oshkosh now stands which he improved and made a farm where he resided until the spring of 1853, when he came to Appleton and located on a farm on Sec. 23, T. 21, R. 17, se a part which afterwards was used for the county fair grounds. In Jan. 5, 1855, he purchased 533^ acres of land on the south side of Fox River including Grand Chute Island and the south side water power now in the Fourth ward of the city of Appleton. His present wife's name was Amanda M. Fenno. They were married in 1865 ; they have one daughter, now the wife of Dr. Frank Studley, a practicing physician in Milwaukee, they have one daughter. Mr. West and his wife now reside on Prospect street in the Second ward of Appleton. After he built his cabin in Milwaukee, his only neighbors were the Winnebagoes, Chippewas, Potamatamies and Menomonee Indians. He soon learned their language and could talk with them and found them very kind neighbors. They were kind and peaceable except when under the influence of "fire water."

Stephen Baeeiet

Was born October, 1826, in Richland county, Ohio; he came to the town of Dale in 1853 and settled on the ne % of Sec. 28, T. 21, R. 15, where he cleared his land and established a home, where he now resides. He married Christina Zehner in 1848. They have had one son and five daughters now living. Their son, David H. Balliet, married Ellen Cannon in 1883 ; they have three sons. D. H. Balliet was treasurer of this county four years and now lives in Appleton, dealing in grain, etc. Their daughter, Cassia, married E. A. Wolcott, a physician and lives in Berlin, Wis. Their daughter, Mary E., married Wm.

Strange and now lives in Menasha ; they have one daughter. Their daughter, Sarah L., married Frank McLaughton ; they have one son and two daughters ; they now live in a part of the homestead in Dale. Mrs. Stephen Balliet's father and two brothers and four sisters settled on farms in Dale in 1854. Several of them are living there now.

The Pooee Famiey

of s. w. % Sec. 35, T. 22, R. 15, and cleared his farm and established a home where he resided until his death in 1878'; he was married to Sarah A. Crooks in 1830; the}' had three smis and two daughters. First son, Orren W., born July 4, *.832, married to Susctta Thompson in March. 1854 ; they have three sons and one daughter ; they now live in Ashland. Orrin Poole died in Hortonville in 1881 ; his wife died ' in 1866. Second child, Orvilla W., born in 1836, died in 1852. Third child, oklow m. pooee. Orlow M., born in 1840, married in 1865 to Hallie A. Cornish ; they have four sons and three daughters ; their oldest son, Silas A., born in 1870, married to May Sesler in 1894 ; they have one son and are now living on the homestead; their oldest daughter, Sarah M., married to Wm. M. Nims in 1887 ; they have two daughters; they now live in New Londoij. Third child, Orpha J., born in

The Abbott Family

E. B. Abbott was born in Connecticut Feb. 28, 1811 ; came to Green Bay in 1835 and lived there five years afterward ; he lived about two years in the Oneida Indian settlement ; then he located, in 1842, on Section 11, n. e. yA in T. 22, R. 18, now in the town of Freedom and there cleared his land ami established his home and lived there until his death in 1880; he married Ella Webster, of New York, while he lived in Green Ba}r ; they have had thirteen children, seven boys and six girls ; three boys and two girls are now living. The oldest son, Wm. Abbott, born in 1840; he married and moved to Kansas where he died in 1887, leaving four children. Second son, Alfred, enlisted in the Twenty-first Regiment and died in Andersonville prison. Third son, Charles A. Abbott, born in Dec. 8, 1845; married July 22, 1869 in Illinois to Mary A. Izzard ; they located on Section 15 in Grand Chute where they now reside; the}T have had five children; three now living, two boys, and one daughter now married to Wm. Stephenson ; they now live in Appleton, have one son and one daughter. Fourth son, Edwin Abbott, born Feb. 28, 1846, is now a Baptist preacher; married and lives in Lodi, Wis. ; they have three children, one boy and .two girls ; the oldest girl is a student in Lawrence University and will graduate next June. Fifth son, Frank Abbott, born in 1848; he now lives in Chicago, is married and has two children ; first daughter, Susan Abbott, born in 1850 ; is married to Willis Knickerbocker and lives in Appleton ; they have three children ; second daughter, Emma Abbott, is married and lives in Dakota ; they have two children. E. B. Abbott and three of his sons enlisted in the Union Army and served in the War of the Rebellion. Charles A. Abbott is the only survivor of the four who enlisted in the Army.

B. B. Murch, the pioneer of Outagamie county, son of Nathaniel and Polly Bingham Murch, was born in Jay, Essex county, N. Y., Oct. 12, 1813, and lived in that place until 183^, when he went west. He spent some time in Cleveland, Ohio, and then traveled over other states, teaching in various places. He preempted land in Missouri, but in 1810 left his claim with his brother and returned to his old home. Here he remained teaching and working at carpenter and joiner work until 1846. On June 2 of that year he was married to Sarah Boynton and two days later they left for the territory of Wisconsin. A wagon ride of twenty miles took them to Keesville where they stopped for the night. They were joined the next morning by Adaline Finch. A shorter ride brought them to Port Kent. From there they went by steamboat to Whitehall, and by canal boat to Buffalo. They found some old acquaintances on the canal boat and made some new ones; among the latter Dr. Foote, his sister, Mrs. Richmond, and her husband from Oneida county, N. Y. They stopped in Buffalo over Sunday and on Monday having to wait for the boat went to Niagara Falls and spent the day. From Buffalo they took the steamer Missouri to Chicago, stopping at Mackinaw where they were met by James Blood and taken to his uncle's, Capt. Lavaque's, an old townsman of theirs. From Mackinaw they went direct to Green Bay by the

Astor, a small steamer owned by Mr. Goodell. The Bay was very rough and the boat finally stopped at .Beaver Island to wait for calmer weather. At Green Bay they were guests of Dr. Ward and there they found old neighbors in the persons of Henry Blood, his wife and sister. Staying there one day, they next went by wagon to what is now Wrightstown. That week Mr. Murch selected his land and the next Monday, June 30, 1846, entered it at the land office in Green Bay. They lived in a small house in Wrightstown until November.

Nov. 6, 1846, Mr. Murch left to-day with a small load of boards, some bedding and a week's provisions. Nov. 9, crossed Wright's Ferry just as the sun rose with a load of things for our future home. A little before twelve the load stuck fast in the ravine (now the west line of Appleton city). I walked on till I found my home to be, and sent Mr. Murch to the relief of the horses and driver. Found some potatoes roasting in the ashes and some water boiling in the coffee pot and soon had dinner ready. The log pen was not high enough to allow me to stand upright on the lowest side so another tier of logs mud be added so we slept that night in the board shanty open on the front where a fire was kept blazing. On Saturday Mr. Crafts, our neighbor, just across the county line, helped put on another course of logs, I set the glass and chinked between the logs. At sundown the roof was on, the floor down, a pig pen built, and the stove up, so we got tea by it. After tea the door was made and fastened up with two nails. It was Saturday night and we were in our own house, on our own land and though we had neither chair, table nor bedstead, we were comfortable and happy. Monday, we finished the shanty. It was twelve by fourteen feet inside. The rest of our things came and at eight o'clock we opened our boarding house, we had from one to five boarders for the next three weeks and frequent calls from travellers sometimes for meals and lodging, but oftener to enquire for the road. That last we didn't have. There was only an Indian trail along- the river. In one week from trees that were growing- in the woods and from boards that had to be hauled seventeen miles with one day's help from Mr. Crafts, our house had been made. For five weeks I never saw a woman, our nearest neighbors were in Neenah. About the last of December our flour g-ave out and Mr. Murch went to Neenah and as a special favor g-ot six pounds of flour and six of beef paying- a big- price for them. He then went to Green Bay and I stayed alone two nights. He had not been at home ten minutes when the wolves beg-an to howl. We lived in this shanty one year, then we moved into an unfinished frame house. In this house our four children were born and lived until they were grown up. Georg-e H., our oldest, was born Dec. 9, 1847, the first white child born of American parents in the county. The old farm was sold to Mr. Carter about 1882, and Mr. Murch bought a place in Green Bay where he lived several years, then came to Appleton to spend his last days. He died Feb. 20, 1891.

One Of The Oed Pioneers

Obed Thurston Boynton, oldest son of Ephraim and Alice Thurston Boynton, was born in Jay, Essex county, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1822. He came to Wisconsin in 1847, married Isabella Lockwood and made himself a home on Sec. 32 in what is now Grand Chute, Outag-amie county, but was then Kokalieu, Brown county. He was a man loved and honored by all who knew him. He served in the War of the Rebellion in the Fourteenth Wisconsin Reg-iment and died in Sedg-wick Hospital of wounds received in an attack on Spanish Fort, and was buried in Monument Cemetery Square thirty-five, grave number two. The above sketch was written by Sarah B. Murch, widow of B, B. Murch, April, 1895.

Dr. Byron Douglas

by the second wife of Beriah Douglas, brother to Dr. Stephen Douglas, who was the father of Stephen A. Douglas. He received his education at the common schools and academy of his native place, then took up the study of dentistry under the preceptorship of his father, who was a physician and dentist and with him practiced his profession for a time in Albany, also with his half-brother in Albany one year. In 1852 he came to Appleton, where for a time he was employed in the store conducted by his father-inlaw, Mr. Woodward, at the same time to a limited extent following dentistry. In 1855 he opened a regular office, becoming the first regular dentist in Appleton, and since then he has continuously and successfully practiced his profession. He is a member of the American Dental Association, also of the Wisconsin State Dental Society and its treasurer for the last number of years. On April 2, 1849, Dr. Douglas was married to Sarah L. Woodward, who was born in Geddes, now a part of Syracuse, N. Y., a daughter of John W. Woodward, an early settler of Menomonee Falls, Wis., whither he moved from the east in 1851 and from there to Appleton. To this union were born three children, two sons and one daughter ; Earl W., now practicing dentistry in his father's office;

Willard and Sophia, the latter two being- deceased. Politically our subject is a Democrat and in 1856 he was elected to the office of county treasurer, in which he served four years. In 1862 he was elected to the assembly, servingone year. In religious faith, he and his wife are members of the Methodist church ; socially, he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Temple of Honor.

Peter Tubbs

Jacob Tubbs, was born in the State of New York, and his mother, Clymena H. (Cottrell) Tubbs, was born in Massachusetts, ancestors tracing back to the Mayflower. Governor Washburn and the noted Washburn family were first cousins of my father. At the age of seven years I moved with my parents and six sisters to Wisconsin, settling on a new farm in the town of Lebanon, Dodge county, Wis., in 1848, where I lived helping on the farm and attending school summer and winter until I was 21 years old, when I enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, in Co. I, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, and served until the close of the war, participating in all the battles and skirmishes the regiment was engaged in. Returning home July, 1865, was married to Phebe H. M. Armitage, Jan. 4, 1866 ; engaged in farming two years, working three farms on shares ; December, 1867, bought the present homestead farm of W. S. Warner on contract, for $4.00 per acre, paying- $100.00 down,. In the winter of 1868, chopped five acres and in September, 1868, moved with wife and one child, Lloyd H., onto the present homestead, where I have lived ever since. There was only two log- houses at that time in the now city of Seymour and only a trail with blazed trees north of the city of Seymour to mark the trail north. In two weeks after landing- here I had four acres of winter wheat sown and was living- in a board shanty erected the next day after arrival, which we lived in during the winter while erecting- the main part of the present house we now live in. Was elected town treasurer in 1869 ; town clerk, in 1870; chairman, in 1871, and later assessor. Established the Seymour postoffice and was appointed postmaster in 1870, the office then supplied by carrier from Lime Rock postoffice in the town of Osborn. I took an active part in voting- aid for the present railway, and signed the $7,000 bonds as town clerk. After trains ran regularly on the road the postoffice was moved to Seymour villag-e, Mr. Dix being appointed postmaster and has since been held by T. H. Mitchell, L. H. Le Mieux, D. A. Kenyon and Geo. Falck. The income of the postoffice the first quarter after its establishment ranged from nine cents to fifty-seven cents per week. Periodicals were then paid for at the office of delivery. The postoffice now pays a salary of nearly $1,000 per annum, which is a true index of the growth of the town. From the beginning of 80 acres in the wilderness, now called the Woodland Farm, has been increased to 420 acres, including farms given and now occupied by son and sons-in-law. I am now principally engaged in dairying and shipping butter and farm produce for fifteen years. Have been an active although Independent Republican, having been chairman of the Republican assembly district and also represented Outagamie county on the Republican congressional committee. Am a firm believer in a high tariff and a home market for American products. Have held the presidency of the Seymour Fair and Driving Park Association three years, putting it on a firm financial basis. Have held the office of chairman of the town the past two years and am now chairman of the County Board, 1895. My family has increased from one child to nine, as follows : Lloyd H. who married Effie B. Shepherd Dec. 25, 1888 ; now have three children, Harry, Cora and Ralph. Lloyd has held the office of secretary of Seymour Fair three years. Carrie J. married Adelbert Carter Dec. 29, 1887 ; now have three children, Edith, Mildred and Clyde. Flora E. married Chas. R. Blanshan April 2, 1890, and have one child named Peter. Mary F., Leonora L. and Phebe L., Georg-e P., John H. and Eleanor E., five years old Nov. 26, being- just twenty-four years young-er than Lloyd. My mother is now living- in Minn., in her 90th year with all her faculties unimpaired. I am an active member of the Methodist church, taking- an interest in all its advancement.

he came to Wisconsin ; he settled on Sec. 19, T. 22, R. 16, now the town of Elling-ton. He now lives on the n. e. Sec. 28, T. 22, R. 16, where he cleared his land and established a home where he now resides. He was married to Louisa Adams, of Cayug-a county, New York in 1844; they have had four children, three now living-. Orson Manley born Jan. 12, 1854; he was married to Mrs. Mang-ie Hewitt; they have two daug-hters, now living- at home. J. O. Manley is now living- on his farm on then. e. Sec. 27, T. 22, R. 16; his second son, Perry

Manley, born in 1853; he was married to Ida Johnson; they have two sons now living- ; he now lives in Kaukauna. Wm. R. Manley has one daughter, now the wife of Wm. Tyler ; they live on a farm in Ellington. Mrs. Wm. R. Manley died June 10, 1855. Mr. Manley married for his second wife, Nettie E. Keesler; they have one son.

Wm. H. Munger moved to Bergen, Genesee county, N. Y., in 1807; in 1843 he moved to Dane county, Wisconsin; in 1860 he moved to the town of Seymour, Outagamie county, Wis., and located on the n. e. Sec. 32, T. 24, R. 18, now in the city of Seymour. In 1809 he was married to Sally Evarts, of Connecticut ; they had two sons, Simeon W., and Levi W. Mrs. Munger died in 1814 ; in 1817 Mr. Munger married his second wife, Achsak Brooks ; they had three sons and two daughters. The sons' names are Daniel H., Wm. N. and Levi W.; the daughters' names are Sally E. and Elizabeth C. Gary Munger, a son of D. H. Munger, is proprietor of a livery stable in Seymour and now represents his ward in the county board of supervisors. Sally, a daughter of Wm. H. Munger, now lives in the city of Seymour. Wm. H.

1851 ; settled on See. 3, T. 21, R. 15, where he cleared a farm and established a home and resided until 1879, when he removed to the village of Hortonville, where he resided until his death in Sept., 1891. He was postmaster and chairman of the town several years. He was married to Elizabeth Hunter in 1835, also from Scotland ; they have had eight children, three sons. and five daughters. First, child, James H., born Sept. 1, 1836, married to Sarah E. Clark,

August 23, 1863; they have no children; they now live in Hortonville on a farm. Second child, Janette, married to Walter Clark; they have one son, now dead, and two daughters living. Mrs. Clark died in 1878 ; Mr. Clark now lives in Ashland. Third child, John, born Aug. 24, 1840, married to Lucinda P. Whitman Nov. 20, 1868 ; they have no children. Mr. McMurdo died in June, 1888, in Hortonville; his widow now lives in Hortonville. Fourth child, Mary, born in 1842, married to James Douglass in 1864 ; they have two sons and three daughters living ; they now live on a farm one and half miles east of Hortonville on the Appleton road. Fifth child, Isabel, born in 1844; married to Jacob Steffen in 1862 ; they have one daughter. Mr. Steffen died in 1863 in the army ; his widow married Frank Steffen in 1866 ; they have two sons and two daughters living. Frank Steffen died in 1879; his widow now lives on a farm two miles west of Hortonville. Sixth child, Catherine, born in 1846 ; married to John Douglas in 1867 ; they have one son and two daughters ; they now live in Hortonville. Seventh child, Robert, born in New Brunswick, May 7, 1849 ; married to Lena Ausel in 1889 ; they have no children ; they now live in Hortonville. Eighth child, Libbie, born July 4, 1852 ; married to David Hodgins ; they have no children ; they now live near Hortonville. John McMurdo, Sr., had a brother, James, who came to Hortonville in 1851 and settled on Sec. 3, T. 21, R. 15, where he cleared a farm and established a home and resided many years ; he now lives in Hortonville village.

Seth J. Perry

Was born in Otsego county, New York, Oct. 27, 1813 ; came to Wisconsin in 1839, located in Walworth county; in 1849 he came to Greenville and located on the s. e.

Sec. 27, where he cleared a farm and resided until his death Nov. 30, 1890. He was married in Otsego county, New York, to Abigail Wilcox Jan, 3, 1838; they have one son, William, and one daughter, Susan, married to George Putney ; they have three sons and one daughter. Abigail Perry was born in Otsego county, New York, Nov. 7, 1817 ; came to Greenville with her husband in 1849. William Perry, their son, married Catharine McLeod in Sept. 20, 1866 ; they have one daughter, Eva, married to H. W. Russell. Wm. Perry lived on the homestead established by his father until May, 1892, when he removed to Appleton where he now resides. Miles R. Perry, a brother of Seth J. Perry, located on Sec. 26 in Greenville in 1849 ; he was married to Acha Eldred in Otsego county, New York ; they have two daughters. First daughter, Sylvina, mar- ried Alexander Culbertson ; they have four sons. Second daughter, Libbie, married Joseph Leppla ; they have three sons and four daughters ; they now live in Greenville.

Daniel, Schulze

county in April, 1853, and located in the town of Greenville on the n. e. corner of Section 3, T. 21, R. 16, where he cleared his land and established a home and resided until his death which occurred Oct. 16,1879. He was married to Lorsa Behrent in 1826 ; they have had five children ; two only are now living-, Charles Frederick now living- in Appleton and Martin August now living on a farm on Section one in Greenville. Mrs. Schulze died in 1839. Mr. Schulze was married daniee schueze. to his second wife, Mrs.

Rev. Reeder Smith

Rev. Reeder Smith was born at Pittsburg, Penn., Jan. 11, 1804; in 1831 he joined the Genesee, N. Y., Methodist conference. In 1840 he removed to Michigan and accepted the agency of the Wesleyan Seminary at Albion, Mich.; in 1847 or 1848 he came to Wisconsin as agent for Amos A.

Lawrence and selected the location for the site of the present city of Appleton and of Lawrence University. In 1853 he laid out the village of New London. I am unable to give the date of his marriage to his first wife, by which he had four daughters, all now living. He married for his second wife Eliza P. Kimball, of Boston, July 6, 1846 ; they have one son and three daughters now living. Their son, A. A. L. Smith, is now a member of the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum & Vilas, in Milwaukee. Their oldest daughter, Josephine, is now the wife of W. J. Allen, a lawyer, in Milwaukee ; another daughter, Susie W., is the wife of H. G. Freeman, cashier of the Commercial National Bank of Appleton. Their daughter, Angeline, now lives in the homestead. Mr. Smith died in Appleton Jan. 24, 1892. His wife died Jan. 21, 1895.

Stephen Root

Stephen Foot was born in England May 29, 1803 ; he came with his parents to America in 1805, stopped at Sacket's Harbor, New York. He came to Wisconsin in 1857 ; settled in Greenville, was married to Sophia Brec^a in 1831 ; they have had six sons and two daughters. Their oldest son, Philo Root, born in 1832 in Jefferson county, New York; was married to Julia J. Horr in Jefferson county, New York, Sept. 26, 1855 ; they have two sons and five daughters. First son, Frank, born in 1856; married to Ora Belzer in 1889 ; they have no children ; they now live in Ellington. Second son, William A., born in 1866; he is now principal of the high school in Highmore, South Dakota. First daughter, Hattie A., born in 1858 ; married to Charles G. Warner ; they have one son and one daughter, now living ; they now live in Appleton. Second daughter, Charlotte A., born in 1860 ; married to Eugene E. Kidney ; they have one son and one daughter ; they now live in Michigan. Third daughter, Electa A., born in 1862; married to Peter McLeod ; they have one son ; they now live in Clayton. Fourth daughter, Nila A., born in 1864; mar- ried to N. L. Calkins ; they have one son ; they now live in South Dakota. Fifth daughter, Myrtie A., born in 1874, now lives with her parents. Philo Root came to this county in 1854, has resided on farms in Greenville and Dale and now resides in Hortonville. His brother, Wm. Root, came to' this county in 1855 ; settled in Greenville, afterwards settled on the n. e. Sec. 36, in Dale, where he resided until his death in 1890. His widow and her two sons and two daughters now live on the homestead. His brother, Warren L. Root, now lives in Medina.

Martin Gerrits

country and settled in Little Chute the same year where he resided until his death. He was married to Elizabeth Gisbers in 1851 ; Mrs. Gerrits died in March, 1895; they have thirteen children ; seven of them died previous to 1882. Lina Garrits was married in 1884 to C. H. L. Hamer, who is now and has been for several years clerk of the city of Kaukauna ; they have two children. First child, Peter Gerrits, born in 1861. Second son, John Gerrits, born in 1862 ; married to Mary Smith in 1892. Third, Minnie Gerrits, born in 1864 ; married to John Lamers in 1886 ; they have five children. Fourth, Fred Gerrits, born in 1868. Fifth, James Gerrits, born in 1869 ; married to Dora Peters in 1892 ; they have one child. Martin Gerrits was a prominent citizen ; he filled several town offices with great ability and taught school in Little Chute many years and was much respected by all his neighbors.

Thl Wolcott Family

on the s. ^ of the n. w. % of Section 23, T. 21, R. 17, now in the town of Grand Chute. He died in the Odd Fellows' Home in Green Bay October 29, 1894, aged 81 years and two months ; his wife died several years previous ; they left no children. Gideon Wolcott, his brother, was born June 30, 1805 ; he came to Appleton in the spring of 1849 and settled on the n. w. % of Sec. 23, now in the town of Grand Chute. He was married to Ruth H. Sweetland, June 27, 1830, by Dr. Lansing, of Utica, N. Y. ; they have had ten children, of which seven lived to grow up. First child, Ellen Maria, was born Oct. 19, 1832 ; was married to Timothy W. Lyman, June 2, 1856, by the Rev. William H. Sampson ; they have had six children, four are now living ; three are living in Appleton and one in Watertown, Wis. Second child, Edwin Billings, was born Sept. 17, 1834 ; was married to Mrs. E. Stoddard Jan. 2, 1871 ; they have had had three children, two are now living in Grand Chute. Edwin B. Wolcott died in 1878 ; his widow now resides on the homestead in Grand Chute. Third child, Charles Edward, was born Sept. 1, 1837 ; he married Elizabeth Faville Sept. 1, 1862; they have had six children, four are now living-, all in Appleton except one, who is living- in Bear Creek. Fourth child, Jane Eliza, born Nov. 23, 1841 ; was married to Victor F. Goff in 1867 ; they removed to Blue Earth county, Minnesota ; they have had six children. Fifth child, James Alonzo, was born April 4, 1844 ; he married Sarah A. Woodland Nov. 22, 1875; they have had three children, two now living- in the town of Grand Chute. Sixth child, Francis Henry, was born March 21, 1846; he was married to A. J. Nesbitt Nov. 6, 1867 ; they have had three children, now all living- in the town of Grand Chute. Seventh child, Susan Ruth, was born Feb. 17, 1848; she was married to Ransom B. Haw Feb. 17, 1867 ; they have had three children ; they now live in Shawano county. Gideon Wolcott died March 31, 1867, aged 61 years and nine months. Ruth Wolcott, his wife, died July 9, 1891.

Daniel Huntley

spent in Weybridge, Addison county, Vermont. He came to Wisconsin in 1849, taught school in Dodge county one term, then came to Appleton where he taught the first public school in that city. In 1852 he returned to Vermont, and on the 9th of November of that year he was married to Helen M. DritelJ, daughter of Osange Britell, of Weybridge, Vt., and immediately after came back to Appleton and taught school there and in other town s in Outagamie county till 18oO, when the family moved to the farm in Grand Chute where they now reside. They have had eight children. Florence, who died at eight years of age; Jerome B., a fruit grower in Marion, Indiana; Herbert B., lawyer in Seattle, Wash.; Arthur O., ranchman in Idaho ; Flora and Fleta, twin daughters, the former is a successful teacher, the latter is at home with her parents. Two sons died in infancy.