Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1861 (part 13 of 13)

A little money then would gather to itself four times faster than at the present time. Oetober -'l. LS."i*», Miss Kitherine MeKennan, of Herkimer county. X. V.. sister of the late Dr. MeKennan. of Bamboo, completely spoiled the pleasures of a bachelor life name to the Warren House, and it has always been considered the best in the city. The other a dwelling, one-half mile north from the Warren House: the grounds about it were laid out by Charles Sumner very artistically. The widow of T. M. Warren and her daughter. Mrs. Isabella L. Hoyt. now occupy the homestead. Mr. Warren was a very active business man. knowing well in the subject of this sketch. The | how a dollar made a doll ir. His often union took place at Herkimer. X. Y. I moves broke the rule of "a rolling stone Tlev moved to H iraboo. March. ls!>7 gathers no moss. " It would seem that and soon their eyes became fixed on every roll got mossier. He not only I wo of the finest pieces of property in [worked with his head but hi> hands l h>- city and in process of time it be- [also every day of his life. He toolc an came their own. < >u the north-west iuteresl in everything pertaiii'iu to corner of Fourth and Oak streets was a [ society and improvements, lie was large rubble stone hotel building of president of our Sauk County old Settwenty rooms built b\ Charles Sumner tiers' Association once and always toolc Ulid named the Summer House. Alter an interest in the society. The.\ have it fell into Mr. Warren's hands he re- raised a fa mil v of live children:

M. A. Warren married Miss Roena Willott. May 28, 1888. They live in a tine frame residence in block Noli), old plat of Baraboo. He is a leading business man ever ready to enter into enterprises that are beneficial to the place. They have a young family at present, of two children. Anna Lueile and Willott Marcus. Minnie R. lias one child. Morey K. Hoggins. Oak Park. Illinois. Thompson M. died. He for the last years of his life was largely growing1 horses near the Bid Lands. South Dakota. One day there was an oddly dressed cavalier passed our house. I knew by his equipment that he was a "vow boy." It was T. M. Warren Jr.. who had rode his pony the whole distance from his horse ranch.

l.">t»o miles, to Baraboo. I was much pleased to have had this interview with him seated in his "cow boy" outfit hi the road so near the end of his journ.\ in sight of his old home. He must hive been seated in that saddle for at leasi forty days. He died a bachelor an i was a nice companionable man whom

Frank Avkrv

Frank Avery, mayor of Baraboo. was: ]>oru in Rngland and there received his education. In \*~>'.'> he came to the | I nited States, located tir>r in Syracuse, i N. V.. and three years later coming to Baraboo. where he has since resided. [ For many years he has engaged in the j boot and shoe business, but six years ago i went into the real estate and insurance j business, having an office at ">14 Oak street. He represents sueh well-known companies as the Aetna. National. Hart- j Fortl. Phoenix. Brooklyn. North British ami Mercant ile. Detroit Fire and Marine 1 and many others and his business is | lanre and influential. Mr. Avery lias1 ever taken an active part in public affairs and has done much to promote the advancement id' the city. He was for many years a member of the county board: was trustee of the village mau\ years in. the early days: was alderman the first year after the organization of the city, and was one of the promoters of the public library, and for many years president of the library board. In l*s7 he Was elected to the assembly, and represented his district in the senate in IKX!) "!il. While in the assembly he was chairman of the committee to investigate the question of convict labor: and while il.l the senate was a -member of the commit tee on state affairs and chairman of the committee on roads unci I magistrate, and enjoys the unbounded I iridges during both sessions. As mayor confidence of the whole community, of the city he has fulfilled to the satis- ' No better man could have been selected faction of all the duties of that impor- i for the mayorship than lie. - From tunt office. He is a progressive. bftsi-«j Souvenir Edition Baral>oo Republic.

blacksmith shop. Abb-man. does a general blaeksniithing business. He is the son of Valentine and Mary Lanjjenhan: was born in Saxony. Germany* Nov. 1*4!>: came to the United states in May. 1*<;7: lived in Baltimore, Md.. one year. then came to Sauk county. Wis., and settled at Sauk < ity where he learned his trade. He then worked at different places, at Spring Green, Mazomanie and Wau-au. October l^TH. he came to Abliiuan. Wis., and oj>en**d the shop where he now dors business. He was married in Sauk t'ity. May 1. 1*77, to lila. daughter of Henry and Louisa Schle<relmilch. She was born at that place January lit. lv~>7. They have three children. Walter, who is now telegraph operator and station agent for the ('. & X. W. Railway Co.. was born May 4. 1S7!». Selma was horn March 14. 1881, and is now holding a position as stenographer with .lames A. Stone. Keedsburg, Wis. H. August, who i> learning the druggist trade in Weaver's drug store in Iteedsburg. was born March 2(5, 1883. Mr. Langenhan is republican in politics. lbhas educated his three children that, they may till almost any position in life. Fie has a home on the north side of the river that is a suburban little park of tine taste in landscape beauty. The cottage contains a wife of much more than ordiuar\ talent for the artistic. Two of of the rooms are a museum of curios, minerals and metals. That I might give offense to the hosts by further mention. I will add no more. Friends

Helm

The portraits of Lewis Helm and wife and a chronology of the family has a place in the town history of (Greenfield, published in 1898, by Win. H. Canfield. Having the cut on hand I am permitted to place it also in the Old Settlers* Album. They are old settlers. <See p:ige - .1 They have made a financial success in life and a moral one also. A pleasanter place to make a visit is hard to find. Mrs. Helm is quite a florist. They must he workiind neighbors call and enjoy a ti. , Across the street from Sehrankc ai flouring mill. \V. It. ( for her mother. She still lives in i>.. cottage, drives her own horse an.; bakes her own pancakes. If I ua- i little younger -then what ? - W. II. < '.

Louis Helm, son of Anton and Anna Helm, was born in Bavaria, ('erniam . in '40, and in '47 the family came t«> America and for about ten years lived in and near Watertown, Wis., and then they moved to (Greenfield. Sauk county. Wis., where they have lived since. Hifa' her died at the aye of 71. Himother is living with a daughter It hi- ors to keep all things in. loots and out ; youngest of the family' in a small eOinin the order we see it. Since the date , tortablc house about ten rods from of the Town Historv of (.'reentield Mrs. i Louis's house. She was i'4 vears old

Helm died in 1*< <i. aged »4 years. The youngest daughter was her mother's companion while she lived and she still lives in the cottage on the lawn of the homestead. It is a pleasure to see a family enjoying in so large a degree

February 2. '!»',. Her health is a|>- parently good. Louis was married to Miss Fmergene L. Palmer in '<i\ ' I" 1 1 - \ have two children -a daughter. Lougene. born .May 1<». ''.',. and a --on. Louis Palmer, born June '2.1. "-*<. lithe fruit of the sweat of their brow, has over three hundred acres of land May they live long in good health, is I together with outbuildings, Kn»Mi my prayer, and that faithful daughter Town History of ('reentield. that so long was a nurse and companion !

James Waddell

JAMES WADDELL. See page 23 for genealogical tracing.) I will add that this revolutionary Scotch parent by two marriages had twenty-two children - eleven by each wife. His residence was in the Shenandoah Valley, Va. James Waddell second became acquainted with the Nippert's at Freeport. Ill , and he came to the Baraboo Valley to look for a new home and visit his old neighhors. Wild bees were so plenty that they somewhat startel from our settlement to make a bee line for a camp meeting to be held near the Mississippi river. I warned them against the undertaking. But they started. They had Bear Creek, Pine River and Kickapoo Valleys of heavy timber, bramble, undergrowth and very sharp bluffy country to pass over - they got lost, and were three days without food. At last they treed a porcupine. They had him safe and immediately commenced to build a fire to broil it. The trusty rifle brought him prepossessed him in fitvor of this locality: hence he chose a part of section 12-11 --> as his future home, and moved on to it the next year, June 14, 1847, there making a farm in the heavy timber. Bee hunting in the fall - l A harrel of honey was no unusual find.) He was a Methodist preacher: a root and cancer Dr. In filling his Sunday appointments he usually took his rifle with him. On one occasion in eorap.iny with the Presiding Eider James B. Avery and Augustus Clark (I think i

I to the ground and they said it was the | sweetest meat they ever ate. When I they arrived at the camp ground the i meeting was over. Mr. Waddell had j seven children. One died in infancy I and George died from the effects of I soldiering in the war of the Rebellion. j James Waddell, the Barahoo pioneer's house was a free tavern of true Virginia i hospitality. His wife, Mrs. Betsey Ann i Coverston Waddell, was not a really | healthy woman. A few of her last ' years she wasted a-way with a bronchial fireplace and her cheerful countenance made a home attractive aliKe to all. Her husband died February, Ifttia, and sbe April 2s 1887. Kind words are not

Nationality. Holland, on the border of France and Holland. The line ran through the house. Peter the subject of this sketch was born May 13, 1*17. His mother died when she was quite young and he was brought up in a family. (The name forgotten, i He married Tressie Isabella Derike and they decided t<> emigrate to America. Their pilgrimage ended at Rochester. X. V. and tarried here a few month- or perhaps a year, then pushed on to Milwaukee. Wis., and purchased an acre of land in the city for $400. (now worth perhaps $4iJ(K). |{t lived at this place live years While here he formed the acquaintance oM 'ol. S. V. It. Ablenmn. a New Vork Mohawk Hollander, lie contracted to go with him toil place he had selected in Saul: county at tTppef the mouth of Narrows Creek. Tin families came together in wagon-. Here Ableman laid out a village plat. [I made a survey of it. W. H. ( '. - Tinmove was in April. 1N.1-L. So wild did the country look that the women w<-i >- timorous for fear of wild animal-. Matthys purchased lots and built :i house on them and lived here a year or more and worked Ableman's farm, making three years in all. He bought 1>*ii acres of land on the hill from Mifcejv Palmer and he has since added to it. He first built a log shanty with a j -"shake" roof on it and snow would 1 occasionally blow through. In this ! they lived several years: a good loir house was then built. Time haj passed on and now in 1!)00. the place 1 has a fine farm house, a good barn and i out buildings, a well of 2o0 feet deep and a power geared windmill that runs [a feed cutter, wood snv and feed i grinder. The present owner is the I youngest son. David Fran1', the young-

8.1899. Mrs. David Mathys lived on the old farm in Westfield owned by her father up to the time of his death, which occurred a few years before her marriage to D. Mathys'. Herunde still lives and was a Baptist preacher. Peter Mathys at his death had four children livinir. His oldest son. Edward, died a few years before hideath. The children that survived arc David. Mrs. Jerome Benton. Mrs. Laura Tinkham. Mrs. James Fanwworth: Mrs. Laura Tinkham has since lied: also Mrs. .lames Farnsworth.

Joiin P. Mitchell

JOIIN P. MITCHELL. John P. Mitchell was bona in Ohio. January 2H, isis. He eame to Indiana and married Louise Ennis in 1843 and came to Sauk county where they remained until 1885. They then moved to South Dakota, staying there six years: then eaine back to North Freedom and resided here until death called him home February 13, 18SML

Mr. And Mrs. Mitchell

Louisa Ennis Mitchell was horn May -">. 1820, in the state of Kentucky, she came to Indiana when young and lived there until she was married in the year 1*4:5: then they came to Sauk county and lived until death called her home at the aye of t>3 years.

Michael Hanley

MICHAEL HANLEY. There are two brothers Michael and John, or John and Michael that are warmly attached to each other, living in section l!t-l 1-.1. southwest corner of Freedom. Michael was born August -\, 1834, in Roscommon. Ireland. He came to America in June. 1848. The year previous to their immigration the country experienced a famine. One day when he was twelve years old he was sent to a store three Irish miles distant to make a small purchase, he counted on his way thither six persons laying dead and dying, of his personal acquaintances, near the hedges, of hunger. He also met an "out rider" on horseback to clear the road for a landlords carriage of "four in hand." By the road side lay many of the ejected peasantry and on the fine paved rj.id in lordly style the aristocratic landlord could see his ejected tenants dying. The next year. in 1848, Ireland lost one-fourth of its population They spent a year in Connecticut and nine years in Rhode Island as farm laborers, and came to Sauk county. March 4, 1S.">7. where he his resided to the present time, il think there was another famine in about 1S70 to 187.">.) In June 18(i0, he married Miss Mary Kelley a native of Maryland, an Irish yirl by whom they hid six children. All are now dead. September 4. 18TB, she died. Michael again married Miss Bridget Doc certy a native of Rhode Island, an Irish girl by' whom they have had eiyht children. Frank, born Oct. ± 1*77: Mark. Oct. 13. 1878; Walter. Nov. 20. 1870; Augustine. April 2a. 1881; Mary. Feb. 2«. 1883: P. Clarence. Jan. 30, lSv;">: Albert and Edna, Oct. 23. ls>«i. twins: Walter died Dec. M. 1887 and Augustine. September -2. 1882. Mr. II. likes an English man or woman the same as he does any other good man or woman. Rut as to the English government he has no invective strong enough for it. The two Hauley's each are large and prosperous farmers, and their houses are filled with books and newspapers.

.southeast, south and southwest of it. An iron mine on the south side of the bottom land and a gold none on the hills yielding gold in paying quantities as shown by the buildings and furniture in and out of doors. Foreigner,, principally have done this work, ami what is better they love America with a greater love than the native briru citizens.

Chas. Hengstler at IT years of age i portraits are here given, were married came to America with friends, settling October 1. 1X71. and they have tiveil in Lycoming county, Penn.. in 1*:{<). farmer life in this neighborhood. A He was by trade a wagon maker. | nice equipment of farm buildings has September lit. 1H44. he married Miss j come to them through their toil. Con- Margaret Waltz, an American girl. S tentraent now with reasonable industry They moved to Freedom. Sauk county, j will fill life's cup with "peace and happiness*' if rightly conditioned. Mrs. Janet Dickie Hengstler was born August 11. 1'85'Ij in Milwaukee. \Vi>. At four years of age she came with her this new country Here he raised a j parents who bought a home on section fainilv of seven children: Gottlieb, MHl-."». in the town of Freedom, where they now reside. They now have a family of five children. Charles I'.. born October !>, 1*7:": George. August 1. 1874: John D.. April 22, 1881: Eugene. November 10. 1887; Mary, July. J. l*!H. John Dickie the pioneer tells >oiue mamusinpf . stories of his Greenhorn" hack woods life. If that tirst shanty that they lived in could speak it could relate many amusing incidents, of rain and snow being unwelcome visitors indoors. But a plucky perseverance of toil overcame all. That rich bottom land built a log house, theu a frame house, then a tine barn with other buildings, --All hail" to the jolly Scotchman and to America for his nice home.

ABLEMAX. Ableman laying at the mouth of Narrows ( 'reek which drains about a township of very rich soil., and this with other areas naturally tributary to it should give it a lar^e trade. It needs some kind of a railro .id up the valley tO get th^ trade that naturally belongs to it. It now has three stores, one large, and two small ones: two wagon shops, two blacksmith shops and live saloons: two have a tavern j license. A harness and shoe maker: j an agricultural sale room and a stone crusher (Illinois) Steel company's stone quarry besides several private stone quarries and X. W. railroad company's ] stone quarry: a lumber yard and a ! cream or butter factory a little out of town. There are large quantities of stone usually shipped from these quarries, but not this year on account of trust combinations of iron and lumber.

The Old Settlers of the Baraboo Valley met in Backet t's Grove at eight o'clock in the evening, of June 13, HfOO. The ground was tilled with teams. The brushheap was set on tire which made the grounds look cheerful and visiting had a vigorous commencement. The president called the meeting to order and two or three jocose reminiscences were related and .1. F. Croat, of Ironton, gave us his religious experience. Xew country stories were called for but no one responded, and the president adjourned the meeting until 9:30 A. M. the next day.

JUNE 14. - The Old Settlers of the Baraboo Valley had a large and very pleasant gathering at John Haekett's grove. It was astonishing to witness the turnout of tine carriages that packed this tine grove. One sad sight was to wittier the dead tree- in it. Our dry, cold winters has for the past two years killed most of the shallow rooted trees. The tap rooted ones are the survivors. The same seems to lathe case with the Sauk County. (). S. A. As far as the secretary had means of knowing there was but one response to the call out of the Baraboo valley, to this, the twenty-eighth annual meeting. That person was Paul Lochman, of Sauk City. Another sad feature of the meeting was the lacking animal membership fees from its many members now living in the Baraboo valley. The president, treasurer and secretary. besides their labor, pay their annual dues. A. ( '. Harris and wife and Flihu Wilson, .lohn M. True .and Silas .!. Seymour, when alive i. were generally present and always paid their dues. S. C. fish paid his membership fees this year. Since the meeting Charles Hicschinger and M. Bentley have paid each *>0 cts. F. It. Bentley besides preparing his address and delivering it, paid his annual fees. There was one new member. Albert M. Fisk. Thenwas received in all for fees. t4.">0. There were points made by speakers worthy of preservation of which we have a complete stenographic report but it must lay in "crow tracks" for want of money to put it into letter press for the public. If nori-paying members should be taken from our list it would leave ten or a dozen persons only to bear the burdens, pay the bills and reap the criticisms and "shake the golden bush for religious societies and literary clubs to catch the silver dollars as they fall from it." Wm. Toole responded to a call for remarks. He thought there should be a spirit created for literary work by the association. All right, friend Toole, give us your poetic lines and make more, and that will be a point upwards. Let me here say that for the last forty years I have been a collector and preserver of local items such as you suggest. From the mound builders with accurate surveys of them with hints of their prehistoric works record. Next the Indian: next the white settlers with our civilization. With poems that are poetry indeed. With pioneer reminiscence, besides much sense and >.. nonsense. This volume contains a>» five hundred pages. Let us not fm.- the past days when Victoria IV. handed us occasionally her » , Levi Moore once or twice haiufc I ; us $o and many others ft . to support the good can- I Wm. and Samuel Grubb are reim . bered. I then could give to the an -:: I bers a printed report and after supph ing the members I would have an i-dition run off for myself and pay for il. Thus have I accumulated about mi« fourth of the five hundred pages »! local literature. Thus have i spent from first to last $500 or $(>0U for hoiuhistory and literature and I shall, if tin health is spared, this fall put a port:.' of it out to the public. John Wiggiuwas elected president for the ensui;.. year: John Hackett. treasurer an Wm. H. Cantield, secretary.

Adam Fey. merchant. Ableman. son ' ment store, carrying at present abcarj of Adam and Anna Thomas Fey. was stock of general assortment goods. < >:. born in Holtzhousan. Prussia, February May ">. 1872. at Madison, he was inn - 10. 1N27. He left the country in is.">4. ried to Hannah Uueder. daughter itl coining to Iowa. Cnited States and to.Adolph Uueder. They have but mm- Wisconsin in 1K.V) and located in the living child, a young man. who tak - town of Troy; Sank county an<l farmed ! his father's place in the store as Idfrom IS.").") to l^i! i. In lSd'.i he opened a father's health is poor. He has \n*-n general assortment store in Spring treasurer in the Ablcm in school di-- Green. In 1^71 he removed his mer- i triet for eighteen - years. His sun icantile operation to Ableman: for now clerk of the village of Ablttwenty-nine years, he in company with man.

TheApker"s are of German English the father in Holland. KImt'- descent. The grandfather of Eber. father, l'eter Apker. was horn « >ct. 12. who is an old settler of Bar a boo on 17'. ii, at llallston. Lyconring <<>.. I'.i-- school section l»>-ll-i> came from a farmer, was married to ('hail""1 Holland, a young man of Ut or 2o years. Maicres. They raised a family of. Ithe year uncertain, but it was before children. lie died December -">. ls,,; the American revolution. The grand- i.at Woodland, Salik ctmntv. Wis. of the hoys served in th< War of the Itebellion. One was in the Libby prison. Became home a living skeleton. One died at Mobil.'. Mrs. Maieies Apker born April 2~>. 1>><H at Williams Port Pa., farmers. EbeR Apker, born January 18, l*.V> at Itallston. Lycoming county, Pa. and lived with his parents until fifteen years of age. then came to Baraboo. Sauk county, with them and after his majority worked out at common labor.

In 1*<>4 he purchased the place he now lives on in section H>-ll-ti. October .10. is.")!i. he married Harriet Dennis and moved to Eau Claire. Wis. and fanned it a few J ears; thence moved back onto the land he had purchased. Here they have lived thirty-six years (now 1900) and raised one boy. < If any one has a bad word to say about this family let them speak out. We hear no one speak. The Dennis's lived fourteen years neighbors to Apker.

Death Of Captain Moore

Levi Moore was born in New York state. Essex county. Dec. IT. 1^07. and was the son of -lost ph Moore, formerly of Massachusetts, but later of New York state and afterwards of Ohio, who did valiant service in the war of the revolution and whose brave deeds are now to be found in the records of Massachusetts.

Levi, early in life, showed the pioneer spirit, and in the early days of < >hio went onto the lakes as a sailor and served in all the capacities from cabin boy to captain and owner. That business at that time was carried on between Buffalo and the head of Lake Superior.

In 1S4<» he came to Wisconsin. Sauk county, where In- located. Six years after his arrival in the county he married Mis- Deborah Stevens. Their children now living are two daughters and a son. Mr. Moore w;is connected in various ways with tin- pioneer history of the county.

the Baraboo river where the Island Woolen Mills now .stand and his mill turned out the lumber with which much of the early building was done. He also manufactured brick for building purposes at a later period. His last industry was cranberry cultivation, which he followed for many years.

Mr. Moore was given to doing benevolent deeds of which the world knows but little. The needy and suffering never applied to him in vain. He bore bis serious affliction of disease with patience and fortitude and was never heard to murmur. His wife ami son

America nine years after the historical --May Flower" landed its preeiotis load of pilgrims. They settled in Massachusetts. Some of them became rich. The other part went into the Vermont died in Oct. 1^2. at the advanced a»v of 82 years. H. W. Tinkham. father nf Henry, the engineer, cune to th> country witli his parents when a |M.v and lived in and around Raraboo un-

Oreen mountains. They were among | til 1882 with the exception of four year* our Oreen Mountain soldiers of the spent in Xorthwestern Iowa. Mr. Revolutionary war. The other part ' Tinkham wasof asocial disposition and about l*-hi 47. Mr. Tin1- »infs «rrand- vears of age and settled in Ohio, remoxfather. Jacob Tinkham iwtled in town ing to Delton, Sauk county, about leu lived here ever since, except the four years spent with his parents in Northwestern Iowa, when a small boy. and has therefore lived here a greater numher of years than either of bis ancestors. He is one of ten children, six of whom are still living' two sisters and a hrot her live in Washington: a brother in Spring Valley. Minn., and a sister in Baraboo. He received a scanty education at the public schools and entered the employ of the ('. & X. W. H.'y Co. at the age of 18 years and he has continued in their service ever since. For the past sixteen years he has held the responsible jiosition of locomotive engineer. Henry H. Tinkham andMinta H. Brown were married in Bamboo. Sept. 24. Ins"). They have two daughters, Laura Louise ami Eva Eunice. who are now attending the high school at Baraboo.

Mrs. Tinkham's grandfather. Armor Brown, came to Baraboo with his family when there were few living here. He being a carpenter by trade, many of the oldest buildings, still standing

Death Of Col. D K. Noyes

( 'ol. I). K. Xoyes. long ]H>stmaster and one of the best known veterans of the state, died Saturday morning. He had long been failing from kidney disease. Two years ago Col. and Mrs. Xoyes celebrated their golden wedding. Col. Xoyes came to Wisconsin in 1S44. lirst settling in the southern part of the state and with Amasa Cobb, a prominent man in the state at the time, engaged in mining. TJU^lext year he remove 1 to Beloit. ;'u..*i read law in the office of Xoggle & Spalding and was admitted to the bar in 1*47. when he removed to Baraboo and after estabwere built by him. He moved to ( )shkosh about thirty years ago and is still living at the advanced ag:' of 9.5 years and is active like mid age. His wife died eight years ago at the age of 80 years. Mrs. Tinkham's father. Bela E. Brown, was one of the first workman in the construction of the Island Woolen mill and when it was complete he entered their service and became a foreman in carding for several years. He died Oct. 31. 18I& Bela Brown's wife came to this county with her parents from ( )hio. and she still lives here. Mrs. Henry Tinkham was born March 2u. 1S(H>, in Baraboo and is the only girl in a family of seven children, of whom all are living. She has always lived in Baraboo where she has a large circle of friends.

Henry Tiukham*s twenty years of railroad life has brought him a wife and two children. Wife at fclOO.OOu: each daughter. -*">(). I »(M»: three houses in Baraboo: a fruit farm in Washington. In l^TS Henry was my chore boy one winter. Twenty years of steady industry and temperate habits lias brought abundance of the comforts of life. W. H. C.

Col. Xoyes was born in the town of Tunbridge. Orange county, \'t.. < k*t. :X 1*_M. During his residence in Baraboo he has held many offices of trust. In 1N.V> he established The Baraboo Republic and edited that paper for two years.

13Rwas wounded at Autietam Sept. IT. 18<>2, when he lost his right foot, in January, 18<>3, was appointed to the charge of the state recruiting1 corps, which position he held until July, 1S(>4. In the following winter he again entered the service as a major of the forty-ninth Wisconsin volunteer infantry and served until November, I8fi5. having been commissioned lieutenant colonel prior to his discharge. He was appointed postmaster of Barahoo in 1807 and held the position for twelve years. He also held the office of treasury agent and served in the assembly, representing Sauk and Adams counties in L8ofi.

Mrs. Noyes was born at Chelsea. Vt., in 1S22. and was graduated from the academy at Lawrence. X. H. Her father was ('apt. J. Barnes. Her greatgrandfather was Daniel Barnes, a major in the Revolution. She was married at Chelsea. The union has been blessed with four children: Arthur H.. now a district judge in

The funeral was held Monday aftcr- I noon from the residence. The doc | Hooker Post. C. A. TL, and the Masonic 1 lodge attended in a body. The services | were conducted by Rev. Mr. Van Vranken and Rev. Mr. ('owdrey. The pall bearers were J. S. Worthman. ! (has. Coleman. Phil. Cheek. J. B. Ashley. P. H. Keyset- and Boyd Blachley. Among those from abroad in attendance at the funeral were Judge and Mrs. Huntington. Miss Laura Huntington. Green Bay: Mr. and Mrs. H. ( '. Noyes and son. Clifford. Willis Morse and K. Bryant. Madison: George Hall. Sparta: Jesse Noyes. Stevens Point. Sauk County Democrat. Nov. 2'.). l'.Miu.

Alex Weidman

Samuel, father of Alex, was horn in Lancaster county. Pennsylvania. The mother of Alex was also born in Lancaster county. Penn. Mary Shank Weidman. mother of Mrs. A. Weidman. was born in Washington county. Penn. Her father was born in the same county. Alexander was horn August 1H. 1833, in Summit county. Ohio. At Mi years of age he came to the town of West-Held and made his home with his sister. Mrs. Walt/., of the same town, working at whatever he could get to do. either in the pineries or -un the farm. August --">. 18o0. he married Miss Edner McKlvane and immediately commenced keeping house on a sixty acre tract of land he had bought on the bluff near his sisters, two ami one-half miles west of A hi ei nan. Add it ions have since been made so that the acreage now stands at 24o -KM) under cultivation. In IKKli Mr. Weidman took a pleasure trip to California with his brother. Samuel. who made it for his health, he heim.' afflicted with asthma, lit' now lives in Reedsburg. health not improved. Mr. Weidman had a family of seven children. Ltverne. born August 21. lsiiu. On January 22. 187*. she married .les.-e Graham, and she had four children. Blanche, born Oct. 27. l»7'.e Fay J.. Aug. l'.t. 1**1: Guy. July lit. |8H3: Jessie. Sept. 2H. IJWi. Second. Henri A. was born May 2*. IHtil. and married Lena Pierre July 3, 1887. They now l'"Ml have live children. Eleanor l«l. born May 22. ISH8: Irene. April. l*!>u: Ralph A., Nov. 7. LSH2: Lola. Dec. 31. !*<!»-*-: Kenneth. February 23. |8<M». Cram was Iwn-n March .'!!.* l*f>2. and was marr;,.,l Oct. 4. tss<i to Belle frieteraft. R. , born July 11. 1*74. Dud May Si, They have two children - Harvey, born 1883. Alex Weidman served as a June 12. 1S«»:>: Herbert, Aug. 19. 1894. : soldier in the war of the rebellion. He ried. He is at home "running1 the farm, funnel, born Oct. 11, 1871. He graduated from the country school, then the Iteedsburg high school, two years rtudy; then from the state university

Mrs. Alex. Weidman

Mrs. Weidman's health at this time 1 1900] is excellent, she doing her own work. They have a fine farm house and an extra good little barn with other farm buildings. He had a small pentwo years in geological class and is at j sion. It was the fat soil and frugal inilie present time (1900) under pay in ! dustry that built u}> this tine honn I nited States Geological corps. Angel

Samuel D. Slent/.. the subject of this *keteh, was born in Dayton. Green Co., Ohio, in 1S-J"). His early life was spent hi Southern Illinois where his father kept a tavern. In the winter of 1*4">. lie came to Wisconsin ami laid claim to ' M'Ction of land lying in sections .">. ii. - aiul S-ll-t;. He was in the stock raising business for about thirteen years.

Minnie Konshausen. January IS, 1*74. Three children survive them. Marion, born Sept. 2">. IST'i. is a farmer; Samuel D.. born April .">. ls77. is attending a law school at Dixon, 111., and Corwin. born duly 14. 187.S. is taking a business course at Dixon. He died May s. 1899. after an illness of about two months. The tirst and second generations of this

He then returned to his old home in j pioneer family are dead and the thin I iet(l, mi. now l?arabo<» where lie spent i are widely separated except S. I). 'In* remainder of his life attending to 1 Slentz's family.

Oliver W. Spaulding was born in j died Feb. 1'0. l*<>.*{. Mr. S. marri. . Harthmd. Windsor county. Vt.. .May 7. I again Mrs. Mary E. Little Nov. :>. I*t.4 LSI."). Ele left his native town in 1*4*. j whose maiden name was Mary K "jfoiiiiT west" to an objective i>oint. He j Carver. Mr. Spauldjng died Oct. l:> entered from United States, south-west j 1*!»~ The lirst school taught in (lis quarter section ii-12-."». now of the town j trict Xo. <>. in the town of Belton, u;i of Helton, on which he improved. ' the tirst half taught in his house unti adding another SO. making 240 acres. I the new school was finished. Mr. S. He was married S»i»r. T. 1*41. to llut.h \ was once supervisor of the town of New K. Pike. They had eight children. : Hutfalo when it included his homestead. Henry died Jan. l«. ISW): Annette died \ R|i ^ h,.,tloUM.,. tljWI1 ,)ffices< A lu;tll

Tk Ami'S

The United States of America is a nation of tramps. To begin with it declared "all men free and equal.-' Christ was a tramp and "had not wherewith to lay his head." It is harder for a ru:h man to enter the kingdom of heaven than a camel to pass through the needle's eye."' Think of the parable of the "Rich Man and Lazerous. " Possibilities in U. S. A. are such that the grasping become very rich which engenders distinction. Combined wealth easily rules the country making quassi slaves of their brother men. They hold our offices and make them lucrative adjuncts to their riches. When will the mass of citizens rise as one man and obtain the helm of state and cut down officials' fees and salaries one-half. I opine then there would he a less struggle for office. Now money buys office and we quassi slaves pay tin- bill, lie form is needed.

Mv Bxpj23Ikstce With A Tramp

In IftlMI (Jottlieb Schramm had visited an uncle in Iowa thinking to leave a sea faring life and hoping to make a home hi the center of America. He found his uncle a drunkard. He could yet ho work there for Farming was done by machinery and winter a dreary waste of time, lie started for tin- sea coast afoot and alone on railroad lines. His money gave out at Wonewoc. Wis., and just before he got to Haraboo his heart almost gave out. He could not speak Knglish. He left the track one day and went into a clump of hushes and prayed to Cod for work. He had not gone two miles further when Brother llobert Koenig overtook him and they could converse. Koenig told him he could get work for him and took him to his home and in the course of a week he hired out to Charles Waddell, where he worked a year. In this time he learned to speak, read and write the

Knglish language. He was a large, bony, stout man and laziness was not in him. During this year he joined the Seventh Day Advent church and took an active part in it. At this time I was a widower. Schramm got his loving eye on a Swiss girl at Fond du Lai". Miss Margaretta Trummer. They were pronounced man and wife July SO. !*!>:!. August I!>, 180*, they moved their goods into my house. May l!>. 1 !-»!>:{, J came home from town one day, and S., with large smiles on his face, opened the bed clothes and there laid by the side of his wife a finely dressed seven-pound live doll. She subsequently received the name of Martha. Oct. 13, 1S9:{, Gottlieb Schramm died of an abcess on the brain. He had been very kind to me. and was much esteemed where known. He was about 3.1 years of age. His wife had been brought up in the family of < tester, at the foot of the Alps in Switzerland, as a shephardess. She came to America in 1888 with Buchlen. a cousin, who settled in Fond du Lac. She remained in the family until married. For eight and one-fourth years after marriage she was my housekeeper. She was almost a pure vegetarian. Flesh and eggs, lish or oysters she ate not. except a beer soup occasionally. Tea and coffee, spirits and all narcotics she touched not. During the eight and one-fourth years she was scarcely sick a day. She was a great worker, cheerful and fond of company and active in religion. Little Martha is a tine scholar, easy to learn. My daughter and husband Mrs. D. A. Darby and Florence and Cornelia, aged 20 and 14, decided to occupy the old homestead and Mrs. Schramm and Martha to leave for the Pacific coast to dwell with her cousin with whom she came to America. They took the car with a promise to return if their new home should not be as pleasant as be one they left. It is interest ing -to I to see them reaping America's o[>|>< >ree foreigners, who have escaped op- 1 tunities. "All hail the power of Hvssion. making1 their farewell how to I America's name,"' whose arms are tings, lords, dukes and priests. Then I wide open to receive them. VV. H. ('.

jIH. AND MllS. DAVID BOWMAN. David Bowman was horn at Herki- .ier. Herkimer county, X. V.. Nov. II, N2t>. His parents were of German escent. His great-grand father was ras one of three brothers who came pom Alsaee. Germany, to New York ity, <then New Amsterdam) in H>4">. Ie. with his parents moved to .Tefferjn county, New York, in 1^!<>. On (ay 8th, 1*42. he married Miss Ruth f. Clement. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman line to Wisconsin in lS">ii. locating al kdton, Sauk county, Wis. hi IBoil ley removed to the town of Siimpter here thev lived until IS'.i4. when thev

I moved to North Freedom where they | lived until their death. Mrs. Bowman i was horn in the town of Root?, Montgomery county. N. Y.. Dee. 12. l*S-'>. When she was about seven years of age her parents moved to Jefferson county. New York, where she lived until her marriage. They had three children: Melvin E.. dead, and at the j time of writing this Wm. H. the oldest. 1 lives at Beardsley. Minn, and Herbert K. the youngest, living at North Freedom, Wis. Mrs. Bowman died at North Freedom April 4th. l*(.>.">. Mr. Bowman died at North Freedom. February "-">. flHMi.

IIAilVKV t AXFLKLD. Harvey Cantield. father of Win. fj. Cantield. was bom July 4. 17!>:;. at New Milford. Conn. His father's name was Joel C, a survivor of three sons, two died of small-pox in the army of the American Revolution. Joel. ( '. assayed to move into the --far west" coining into the central portion of New Vork. La Fayette. Onondaga county, Kl miles southwest of the present /Syracuse. He had some money and soon opened a large farm: he had purchased "MMj acres. The timber, except nice lumber timber, was worth but *."» per M. Ttie rest was cut up into lo_r and brush heaps and drawn together and burned up, and the ashes were collected and sold to the "pot ashery." His family consisted of Itutb Chitteudon Cantield. Harvey. Maria. Sarah. Joseph, and Amanda. Joseph and Amanda were born in New Vork, He and Harvey took a contract on the first construction of the Krie Canal rock excavation at Little Falls on the Mohawk river. Thev made handsomely out of it. and on public works. With this money he built a brick house on a ninety acre farm his father had given him adjoining the homestead. February J. 1818. he married Miss Sarah Root, of Canaudiagua, X. V. That evening Roswell Root had another daughter married to Roswell Remington Sr. Hisson. R. R. Remington, is the well iknown school teacher of Sauk county. Wis. Roswell Sr. was a pioneer settler of Baraboo Rapids. Sauk county. Harvey ( '. brought his wife home to La Fayette and commenced housekeeping in his new brick house. It was here Wm. H. C. was born. Public; contracting had so stimulated H. ('. that farming bad lost its charms. His second contract was to excavate a new outlet to Onondaga lake, lowering it about four feet: next building a towing path ou the left bank of the Seneca river from the outlet of Onondaga lake to Three River Point. The next move was to sell the farm and move into the village of Salina. X. Y.. and enter into the grocery business and the manufacturing of salt He then bought a farm four miles from Salina and two miles from Liverpool. It was a new heavy timbered place of bill acres, ten acres cleared. There was a log house, open fireplace, a "stick chimney" and a log barn. Cutting cord wood for salt boiling made corn fields. His speculative taste took him to North Carolina gold fields, the family remaining on the farm. He bought a mine in a creek bed and worked a year, more or less, uotgetting much profit, sold it and came home. The purchaser struck the lode making a small fortune out of it. His next move was to take a contract on the Syracuse iS Auburn railroad. The firm name was < 'anfield. Howlett A Bracket. Howlett was tin- father of Henry Howlett, our Bueuboe nursery man. They were three years .com pie t- ing it. The farm was sold. H. < '. took I was horn August :»o. IT'.i* and died An--. a con tract of enlarging the Krie canal 1 2f*, 180*. She was the mother of four from 42 feet wide to To feet, wide from i children. Win.. Harvev. Newman lio.-

Syraeuse to Geddis one ami one-half , miles. At another letting he took 1 much mechanical work. The Jordan ; aqueduct, a seven span trnncaled structure, besides seven canal bridges and nine culverts under the canal: one i hulk head and two wastewares. Some ] of this work he had completed: about i one-half was under construction. This [ fall the politics of New York changed ! from whig to democrat. Public works i closed. Some contractors made money by it, others it ruined. H. (.". was among the ruined. While he was eni gaged on the Erie canal he attended a j letting for the construction of the Cen- \ essee Valley canal and took a contract of excavating and embankment of Sec. 29 (one mile). This Win. H. Garifield had in charge, but made no money out of it. save winning the heart of a farmer's twin daughter, worth in his mind *Kmuhhi. Nov. li. i«t4.'{. be made VV. H. (.'. a visit and spent the winter here and the next year moved his family here, consisting of father, mother. Mrs. C. ('. McGowan, Miss Frank C and Dick (Uichard Fry I a black hoy. H. ( '. had brought up two foster children hesides Dick, Lyman ( onkey who made a tine reliable business man and Kate Fury. At Raraboo H. < '. was once elected school superintendent of the rounty or town. I disremember, and he was appointed commissioner by the | county hoard to sell village lots at the j -onnty seat to huild a court house, i l'liey sold corner lots for *1»>. others j 'or tT. Al>out the court house square j .hey sold higher. He was plowing in ' .lie fit-Id Oct. is. ]s(ii. iind fell dead ' iistantly of heart disease. He was! mried by the Masonic lodge.

well. Cornelia Caroline and Prancis Amanda. The second one die I Tidy 1"). 1*2-. ayed I year. 2 months, an 1 2.' days. The third one and her husband, Mark Shepard. is now living near Sacramento. Gal. He was associated with t\ ('. Remington, attorney at law. making the lirst law firm in the Barahoo Valley. The fourth married Gates Angle, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She months and 22 days. The first one ito-day. Nov. 15, P.mmi. writing the biograpby of his parents. My mother was quite a large woman, generally cheerful and excellent company for young folks. Her father. Roswdi I loot, a laf_rc. hony. big-nosed in inl>orn August :!. ITHl, died at the age nf * ' years. 1 month and 8 days. Her motlier. Hepsebah Gillet, a large woman. Imrn July ]-">. ITtiM. died at the age of -"'! years. 1 mouth and 21 days. They srt- Sar;ih Adams Root I 'anfield I tied in township Xo. 0. live or six mile-

Another episode in the Ho-well Hoot's geuealogy. This item I obtain from relatives of Abraham Hoot. His father. Abraham, was one of the pilgrims from England, that settled in Holland, and afterwards came to America in a ship of his own. He was a rich trader. His ships were taken from him during the Hevolutionary war. A large tract of land near Utica, X. V.. was promised him as indemnity. The war over, his claims were rejected. That left him a poor man. His son. Roswell, started for the far west, his family consisting of himself, wife, father and one or two children with an ox team and cart. He managed to bring his fathers old sea money ehest as a memorial of vanished riches. After they became settled in their new home his fathers elaims for war indemnities were placed in the hands of Dudley Marvin for collection. The hotel in which Marvin boarded burned down and Marvin claimed his papers were burned. The Hoot's became discouraged and gave up their just case as a total loss. They always thought that Marvin did collect the claim.

Terry

lames and Walter Terry left Ireland. NVaterford county, in the fall of IfViO. lit crossing the ocean the vessel sprang >» leak and they by dint of hard labor »t the pumps reached a port on the inland of St. Thomas. Here they laid dl winter repairing. They reached \ew York in March. L8."»L They went M visit an uncle. John Terry at Stanord. Conn., and there got work in a '"lliny mill. In 1*-V> uncle John and A'alter went West searching a home 'J Wisconsin. The un.de bought land >' Sauk county in what is now the town »f Excelsior. Walter went back to tauforil and in ls">'! be married Miss fc'hulan. of New York City, an Irish irl. In ts<;[ rhev came west and

| bought land in the town of Delton. Sauk | county: he also bought land in the town j of Baraboo. which his brother James , now occupies. They went back to the trolling mill in Stanford an 1 there worked for ten years an I a;iiu e.ime west and bought sixty acres of land in section l'.t-12-ii an 1 he ad lei to this S:> acres. This made a home, for he soon brought under cultivation a line firm, and at this time one of his boys occupies it. He died iu Augmt. IHSMfc

Walter's brother. John, left Ireland in the spring of ISM, coming to St. Johns. Xew l'\i;ia ll.m 1. an I became ;i sailor in the sealing fur trade and soon raised to second mate of the vessel. In ls<i."i he left the sea and came to his relatives in Sauk county and bought

Their brother. Patrick, left Ireland in 1851, or perhaps '52, and landed at New York. In 1858 he came to visit his brothers, and after returning he worked on the railroad. In 1868 he came to his brother's and bought ^t*>0 acres of land and has made a nice farm of it, now residing on it. He has two boys and one girl living.

James married Miss Eliza Tench, of Stanford, Conn., and came onto the place he bought of Walter and he has made a nice farm of it with nice buildings. He has three children: Mary Josephine, born June 2t». 1861, at Stanford, Conn.; Walter 1'.. June 29, 1st,]; Eliza. July <S. 1863.

The uncle. Old John, as he is called, also has a tine farm and buildings. II.- Imd seven children, four of whom nvv living. He died Sept. 27. 1899, aged !»4 years.

Mrs. Brennan. sister of the Terry brothers, came across the ocean with her brother Patrick. They settled in this neighborhood. She had eleven children.

Mrs. Donahoe. a sister of the Terry's, crossed the ocean with her brother. John, and came direct to the Terry settlement and married Donahoe in 1800. They had five children. For the above sketches I am indebted to Walter P.. son of James Terry.

Wyman's. of Irish-English lineage were very early settlers in America. Solon Fayette Wyman born in Dutches county. N. Y.. Nov. 14, 1*14. spent his minority at home. At of age again married Miss Mary Woolsey September, is.").'?, formerly of Onondaga county. N. Y.. by whom he hail two children, Don and liichard. Solon moved from New York to S.iuk county buying land at government price. Td.2-"> per acre, in section 25-11-4. town of Westtield. Here he anchored for life. His moving out tit consisted of a horse and wagon with sundry choice articles for a new country life. Long stories of his one horse moving experiences he has left behind for his children. A shanty was built, the floor of "puncheons. "* the roof, af "shakes." in which [hey lived several years. Its history k'ould tell of snow-drifts inside ;e> well is rain-falls, [n it Dan. Thomas and l)ick were born. Dan now lives on the 'arm. Dick has a farm near Fayette. Iowa. The beloved old "puncheon" Jour, "shake" roof palace, after a dozen.

j less or more years was supplanted by a I loir house of goodly features in which j they lived for many years. It burned | down April 8. 18H4. A frame house I took its place. Don. at the age of 24. 1 married Miss Margaret McManus j March 16, 1881. They have six living j children. Harriet Josephene. born | Jan. 19, 1882: Henry F.. August 29. 1883; Bernard C. May 31, 181)6; Mary I E.. July 27. 1889; Eve E., Nov. 27. |H9I: : Donald J.. July 8, 1895: Oliver J.. Aug. I 1*. 1S«»7. BernardO. died Feb. 20. 1*94. I Mrs. Don Wyman's pirents lived al Washington. D. C, near the c.ipitol. Margaret and her playmates have played, when a young girl, "hide and seek*"about the government buildings. When she became a young lady her parents made a pleasure trip to Sauk county. Wis., to visit friends, taking Margaret with them. While here Don made a bargain tha.t spoiled the purpose of her returning. The outgrowth of which is the famliy above described. The Solou Wyman familv have ju>t reason to have pride in a relationship that exists between them and the [. A. Lapham family of Milwaukee, the scientist: the ( '. E. Father of tieweather bureau and Chief of the First geological corps. A tine Quaker family.

Jonathan Miles was an early I into t he St. Lawrence river the forepioueer. He was eeeentrie in man refused to pay him a.-coniinir t<> character, out-spoken extreme plain- rout rart. Miles by law "tied up the ness of dress ami hrmne«s raft and -tied for his wages. He built in extreme: a rigid temperance man. i a cabin on it ami lived here through a lid with all a pleasant and irood neigh- the summer season. In the winter he hoi. He worked one winter in a pinery hoarded near by and was "on it every day. The owner after a year and three months, made an honorable settlement. paying him for his labor and for a year and three months for holding the raft. J. M. always had the courage to do what he believed to be right without compromises. He was born at Loraine. Jefferson county. N. Y.. Feb. 26, 1822. He came to Baraboo in the spring of 1847, and lived part of the time in Freedom, and the rest in the town and city of Baraboo. His last business act was to erect a brick block on lot 3, block 33, Baraboo plat. The rent of which at the present time. 1900, quite comfortably supports his widow. He died .Tulv 21, 1883.

Mrs. Harriet Whitney Milks

They have had three children. Lyman ('.. born Dec 8. 18")."), at Wonewn.-. Juneau county, and at 11 years of agiwhile out in the woods hunting he aecidentally shot himself fatally. Murta. born May 1"), 1850. in Baraboo. and wa> married March 20. 1878. She has four children. Eugene and Ernest are alive. Miles and Wilber are dead, Myra M , born Sept. .">. 1801. She married Charles Gibbons and they have one child, Ida, alive. She died Nov. 4. 188o.

Tolif Birum. was born in Konesber>r. Norway. April. !», 1813, and married Caroline Solvert June 17. 1830, ami came to America in 1844. He was seven weeks on the ocean with his youn^f wife and four small children. Sophia. Enor. Andrew and Carlos. Born in America. Lucretia, Eliza. Albert, Charlotte josephene. i-now Mrs Geo Hatch) Sarah. In 1*47 he entered 100 acres of land in section 13-6, on which he lived until his death. Jan. 17. 188!). At this date. 1900, eight children are alive: Lottie and Knar are , dead There are thirty-seven grandchildren and ten ^reat-^randchildrtn Caroline, his wife is now living at her daughters. Mrs George Hatch, aged 8") years She says they first worked and got a yoke of oxen and soon got enough to live on and have never wanted for a good living.

Col. S. Y. R, Ablkman. Gen. A.

had a military turn of niitul and each achieved high military distinction. Neither one have sons to perpetuate their name. Both at an early age settled near the Upper Narrows of the Baraboo river. Their genealogies are thoroughly traced in my Tth sketch of Sauk county, town of Excelsior, page 10-19. It is not pleasant to recall unpleasantness that existed for a time between these old-time friends. That cruel, unehristain. Civil war between the north and the south of the United States of America. One of them took one view of the matter of our national ferment of 1861 and the other an opposite view. A lack of charity engendered bitterness and even worse. But when one of them lay on his bed of final sickness, the other implored forgiveness for the past differences and rendered every act of kindness possible in this trying hour. John Starks. an only son of A. W. S.. must ever be remembered by the early residents of the Baraboo Valley. ;See p. IS. of 7 sketch of outlinesketches of Sauk county) A noble boy of the army of the rebellion.

Jonas Tower

JONAS TOWER. In May. 1S.">7, I laid out his village plat of Ironton, Sauk county. Wis. Mr. Tower was obliged to be absent a few weeks. He put the plan of the smelting stock into my hands for execution. The firm then consisted of Jonas Tower. EL M. Tant. John H. Tant. M. ( ooper, Charles Keith and - - Blackman. After the iron mine was purchased he bought l.tioo acres of heavy oak timbered land and some river bottom and built a saw and (louring mill. He then dammed Tower ("reek and built his furnace group of buildings. Mr. Tower was an accurate, mechanical, thorough business man and also a social, pleasant person. Some time in the near future I hope to obtain a genealogical tracing of this most excellent family. He had no taste for politics although he served his town as chairman more than once. He said to me many times, if he could but get John F. Smith to come and take an interest in this plant he would be pleased. Smith had been associated with him in the iron business at Mayville or in N. V.. and would have married his daughter, but Tower then opposed the match and the opposition was effectual in their never marrying, either of them. Mr. Tower's will and Mr. Smith's were very just. (See p. 028, History Sauk county.) The above is written from recollection and their may be errors in it. * W. H. C.

J. F. Sanford

J. F. SANFORD. J. F. Sanford was an active business man and dealer in general merchandise: first in Sauk county July. 1*48. at Baraboo. and was the first merchant in Reedsburg. in 1861, and then at La Valle. Here he owned and ran a flouring mill also. He was born July 10. 1811, at New Haven. Conn. He was a roving emigrant to Pennsylvania. New Hampshire, Michigan and Illinois. In 18IJ8 he married Ruthana Parker at Dixon Ferry. 111. She was from Stockhome. Oneida county. N. Y., and was an estimable lady. They had two son*, Frank, and Oeorge P.. who was an active business man at La Valle. Sauk county. Wis. (See page Ti>2. history Sauk county by Chicago Western History Co.) J. F. S. He became very deaf for many years before his death. He was an honest square dealer and a restless pioneer. At one time while he lived at what is now Roekford. 111., he wished to mail a letter and he and a man named Garner started for thtnearest post-office. Cherry Grove, 4-~> miles distant and snow being nearly two feet deep, they had to camp two nights and reached the post-ottice most frozen.

John Metealf. the center figure of this | vania. lie was about ten years in th. group of pioneers of the quartzite b.isin ' Shot Tower at Helena. Wis. He boughl of the Raraboo valley, was a man al- I a one-half interest in Upper Mills. Barniost faultless. [ never heard a man aboo. Wis. The firm name was known speak of his moral character but with ! as Metealf. Paddock »S: Waterman. lbwords of praise. He never had a photo j brought on a large stock of dry goods taken of himself, but after death before I and groceries. He resided here sevenhe was placed in the casket we had one teen years. He ran down the WisContaken of him. He was horn at Rhode [ sin river the first raft ever run down ii. Island in 1788 and died at Raraboo. i (See page !.*> of my Greenfield Town Jan. 22, 1S(>4 He was educated in Bos- ' History for full and interesting ton and commenced practicing law in biography of John Metcalf. j He never New York City. To regain his health married.

parents were of Scotch descent. Hesiin I8~>(> he came to Raraboo and bought out Wm. Hoxie's grocery business an 1 remained here several years in company with his brother, Robert A. Thev moved their grocery building ami dence. Cald Itaine. Mass. He left home goods up onto the comity scat nil :i at Hi years of age and went to Kenosha, lot knowu afterwards as the Maxwell Wis., in lH4o and worked on a farm for Corner and ran a grocery ami <h;. three years. He then bought I <«0 acres I goods store for about twenty-live years, of land in Dane county. Win., at govern- Washington's health failing him he incut price and opened a f.trn\ on ir. auJ ; went out of business alioitt twentx

U'.iyearis ago. At this <lnt »-. HUM), bis health is fairly good. He wa> married Aug. 3li 1851, in Dane county. Wis., to Miss Maria Moore. She was of Scotch* Irish descent, horn. Oct. 22. 1834. Town Dumfries. U. ( '. They have had seven children: two die J in infancy. Fva born in Windsor. Dane county. Wis.. April 11. L8nfi, now Mrs. Spencer Kimball, of St. Paul. Minn. Willis A.. bom Nov. 27. 1857, and was. married March 25 ». 1^.".. He died at Pierre. South Dakota. Oct. 12. 188U. He had been Dept. state treasurer and auditor for about eight years. Ella, horn Feb. 2"). ISCiO. jnarried John 11. Hofstatter Sept. 1. 188*1. Jennie, born Dec. I8i>2. married F. K. Brewer March 25>. 1881. Frank, born Sept. 28, I8fi4, married Miss Josephene Aery. Jan. 2'.'. IX! a

It becomes a pleasure to make a special note from an obituary of W. A. Burrington who went to South Dakota in its early days and entered into the mercantile business. During L. L. Taylor's term of office as auditor. W.

A. B. accepted a clerkship in that office. Soon after W. W. Taylor's election for state treasurer, he ottered W. A. B. a deputyship which he accepted. W. W. T. defaulted. W. A.

B. withstood the court ordeal faultless. Kirk Philips continued W. A. B. 's office through both of his terms of office of state treasurer. John Schamher. a successor, decided to make no change of deputyship to that office. What a lesson of honesty the above sketch shows. Boys, take notice.

Virgil II. Cilrtv was horn in town j eleven years «»f age when he removed Excelsior. Sauk county. Wis.. Dec. 2~>. to Bar a boo. His parents- are old set- 1874!. lb- lived mi the farm until ' tiers of Sauk county.

A city is judged largely by the quality of its newspapers, and Baraboo measured by that standard, ranks among the first of its class in Wisconsin. In the newspaper development of Baraboo. The Baraboo News Publishing Co. has played an important part. While it is the youngest of the trio of newspaper establishments in the city, it has forged to the front in recent years until to-day it claims a place second to none in the entire Third congressional district.

The News I weekly ) was founded by J. F. and C. A. Kartack in 1*44. A little later G. A. Kartack retired and left J. F. Kartack the owner. In 1894, H. K. Cole and A. D. Dorsett purchased an interest and the Baraboo News Publishing Co. was formed. In that year Tlie Evening News was given to an expectant public and it has continued to Hourish six days in the week ever since. During that period of time Mr. Kartack sold his interest to J. K. Matehett of Pierecton. Ind.. who in turn sold his interest to Messrs. Cole & Dorsett. who are now the sole owners, editors and publishers. Two years ago the Baraboo News German] was started and now numbers a large list of subscribers. The daily and the two weekly editions show a subscription list of nearly S.WK1. and command a large advertising patronage.

A. I). DOP.KKTT. A. I). Dorsett was born in Schuyler county. 111.. May 1'. I*<i7. His early days were spent on a farm, and he attended country school during the winter months. In l*s;; his father retired from the stock raising business and moved to liushville. where the son tiad the privilege of attending an excellent high school anil from which he graduated in issi; as the valedictorian of his

In the fall of 'Sli Mr. Dorsett enter. ,. the preparatory school of De P,anw university at Greencastle. Ind.. an. I two years later was admitted to th< Freshman class. He graduated from the institution in l*t>2 with the degree of Ph. B.

Mr. Dorsett 's newspaper experience be^rau in his early teens, when seate.l on a plow while the horses rested he wrote items for a county seat paper. During his junior year in college In was exchange editor of one of the college weeklies and during his senior year was editor-in-chief of the paper.

Henry Harrison Howletr. our Bara- Hoo nurseryman and farmer. «;is horn at Howlett Hill. < )nundaya county* S: V.. Sept. iMst. 1840. and with his mother and her three children moved to Baraboo. Wis., in Jan. 1*.~>7. where he has since resided.

Parley How.ett. father of Henry, was burn at Bennington. Vt.. in 1784. and became one of the pioneers of Onondaga county. N. V. A man" in the war of 1^12 and he was in three engagements against the British, lbowned and curried on a large farm: an extensive pork and beef packer, buying1 the stock and driving them in large droves to his slaughtering and parking houses in Ohio. Indiana and New Vork. He was a contractor in constructing the Syracuse and Auburn railroad: he

Indiana hut he early in life forsook the farm for the college, entering De Pauw university in 1888. He completed his college course in 1*!>2 and the year following'occupied the position of principal of schools in Pierceton, Indiana. During his college days his vacations were spent in doing reportorial work for various newspapers and his inclinations leaning in this direction, he gave up teaching after one year's experience to accept a position upon the staff of The Republican and Leader in La Crosse. Wisconsin. Remaining in La Crosse but little more than a year he

I The success he has attained in newspaper work is largely due to his untiring energy and genial disposition which made him one of the most popular

Henry had one elder brother* Harvey ,('.. and one elder sister. Mary K.. both I recently deceased. Henry was married Nov. 2»>, 1871, to Miss Josephene j L* Strong, who was horn in Sauk county. Wis., and with her parents moved to ! Illinois. She finished her education at the Kansas State university. , Lawrence. a successful school I teacher and writer for several leading newspapers. Mrs. Howlett died in May. 1*7*. leaving one daughter. Josephine M.. who was born Dec. 2"». I ST J.

In 1^4") I came with my parents and settled in Jefferson county, Wis. In lSol I moved to Lembnweir. Juneau county. Wis., and in 18*51 inlisted in the War of the Rebellion of the U. S. I and served until 'he clos- of t he war. I was ;i member of Co. F. of Hi Wis. infantry and Co. K. <i Wis. Infantry. I came to the town of Freedom in IWMi where I have since resided.

Mr. Trumhle at present is Iceepimr ; a hotel having built a new addition to it in IS'.'!'. It is truly a comfortable place for a weary traveler or one that is not weary and their courtesy to all in not excelled. Their location is opposite to the Methodist church and <>ne ' block from the deiHrt. May -'">. I*''.. ! he 'was married to Miss Mary, daughter of the pioneer. .lames Waddell, Free- ' dom's first preacher. She was the first child born in Freedom and an ex- i celleiit ty[>e of her mot her. W. H. 1 '.

Fkaxk Bcriungton

FKAXK BCRIUNGTON Frank Burringtou. youngest child of W. Bur ring ton. was born Sept 28th, isti4. He received, besides his Barabpo high school education, a thorough training in Madison. Wis . commercial school. after which he was taken in his father's store as delivery hoy. and then clerk. When his father retired from active business in 18S3, Frank who at that time had not obtained his majority, went to Chicago to seek his fortune. "You'll be back in two weeks" was the parting salutation he received from his friends He remained in Chicago upwards of fifteen-years, all of which time was spent in the employ of the larger retail dry goods houses. His vears of methods were invaluable, and eape- | cially fitting to him. when in 188SJ he ; returned to his home city and placed j his name on the list of Raraboo's mer- ; chants He thus continues the family : name in the business history of Bara- , boo which is familiar to the oldest set- I tier In ISO.'!, during the World's Fair

20 Joseph P Drew and wife !,?i Monroe Bentley. A commuui.i- 27 Elihu Wilson and wife. tion from Henry Rich while in Paris 2* Home -Birthday Party. and travels in Europe. 2U Baraboo Vail. -y j- (is J. H. Powers and wifeof Baral