Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 11 of 20)

Mr. Sehreiber has given his children all the advantages in his power and as a whole it is a family to be proud of. One son, Louis, is an unusually intellectual young man and is widely known and has many friends in different sections. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and was teaching school at Sun Prairie when the state militia, to which he belongs, was sent to Texas. After completing his military duties there he returned to Wisconsin and then went to Arkansas and taught school in that state. Evidently there is a future for him in the educational Beld. In politics Mr. Sehreiber is a republican. His parents were Lutherans but he has united with the Evangelical Church since coming to Sauk County. As a good farmer, kind and obliging neighbor and honest and sturdy citizen, Mr. Sehreiber is held in high regard in Greenfield Township.

Stephen D. Perkins. Now living retired at Prairie du Sac, Stephen D. Perkins has had a very long and active career, and has known Sauk County since boyhood for upwards of three score and ten years.

He is of New England birth and ancestry. He was bom in the State of New Hampshire, May 4, 1843, a son of Hiram and Elizabeth (Drawn) Perkins. In the family were just two sons. At the age of five years Stephen Perkins came to Wisconsin with his parents and grew to manhood in Sauk County. He attended the district and high schools there, and on leaving school had a practical experience in a store at Prairie du Sac. That experience gave him his start in life, and he subsequentl}^ became a hotel proprietor at Berlin, Wisconsin. For six years he was in the woolen mill business at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and for a time was in that industry with his brother, L. A. Perkins. He then returned to Wisconsin and engaged in flour milling, but finally opened and operated a hotel at Madison. His next location was at Mount Vernon, Wisconsin, where for two years he handled a creamery and also conducted a hotel. From Wisconsin he moved to Ashton, Iowa, where he combined the hotel and creamery business for about five years. Mr. Perkins was for many years a recognized expert in the creamery business and he spent a year installing creameries in various points in the State of Minnesota. During that year he lived at Worthington. Returning to Ashton, Iowa, and then to Wisconsin, he finally settled at Prairie du Sac in 1908. For three years he conducted a hotel, and since 1911 has lived retired except for the management of his private affairs. He formerly owned the hotel at -Prairie du Sac and had a nuinber of other investments in the town.

Mr. Perkins is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Prairie du Sac and the Odd Fellows in the same city. Politically he is a democrat, but has been more or less independent and a voter for the l)est man. His family were long memliers of the Universalist Church and he belonged to the same faith when young but later attended the Congregational.

Mr. Perkins started out for himself at the age of twenty-one and married and gained a home of his own. His first wife was Addie Haynes, daughter of Moody Haynes. To this marriage were born four children: Lucy U., who lives in Oregon on a ranch; Merrell D., who is manager of a lumber yard ; William W., who conducts a wholesale supply house at Seattle, Washington; and Nathaniel W., who is living on a ranch in Oregon. The two older sons are married and also the daughter Lucy. The mother of these children died in 1894. In 1897 Mr. Perkins married j\Iabel Randle, of Watertown, Wisconsin, daughter of Silas E. Randle, formerly a prominent implement dealer at Watertown. Mrs. Perkins' mother was Martha Kein.

Richard Metcalf. One of the well remembered citizens of Sauk County, now gone to his reward, was the late Richard Metcalf, who represented a pioneer family here and for many years was identified with the service of the North Western Railroad Compan3^

Mr. Metcalf was born at Wappinger Falls in New York State August 26, 1847. His parents were Thomas and Mary (Warrener) Metcalf. His father was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1821, and his mother at Kilburn, England, in 1826. They were married in the old country and on immigrating to America they arrived in New York City April, 1847. For a few years they lived in Dutchess County, New York, and while there the son Richard was bom only a few months after their arrival in this country. In April, 1852, when Richard Metcalf was five years of age, the family arrived in Excelsior Township of Sauk County, and here the mother died in 1859. Thomas Metcalf, who lived to the year 1899, was a progressive farmer and developed some land from a state of wilderness. He was a republican and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife had only two children who reached maturity. The older was Richard and the daughter was Alice.

Richard Metcalf grew up on his father's farm in Excelsior To\^tiship, was educated in the local schools, and finally left the farm to become an employe of M. J. Drown in the latter 's business at Baraboo. From that he entered the service of the North Western Railway Company and by various promotions remained in the work until his death, which occurred January 20, 1885. He had been for several years yardmaster at Baraboo.

Mr. Metcalf was a loyal democrat, and was an active and wellthought-of member of BaraboQ Lodge No. 34, Free ;and Accepted Masons, Baraboo Chapter No. 49, Royal Arch Mason.s, and also belonged to the Knights Templar Commandery. His wife and daughter Alice are members of the Eastern Star.

Rhode Island, December 5, 1849. She was brought to Sauk County when a small child, was educated in Excelsior Township, and lived there until her marriag-e to Mr. Metcalf. Of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf only one is now living.. Louis E., the only son, was born in Excelsior Township in 1868, also entered the railroad service, and for a number of years was a locomotive engineer with the North Western and died in 1912. His widow, whose maiden name was Cora Le May, is still living at Baraboo. They had four children, Doris, Muriel, Lou and Richard. Mabel, the second child of Mrs. Metcalf, was born in 1874, M^as graduated from the Baraboo High School, and taught school in Dane and Sauk counties until her death on February 4, 1916. Mary Alice, the only surviving child, was born in 1878, is a graduate of the Baraboo High School and also attended the Whitewater Normal School, and is now a teacher in the second grade of the First Ward. School at Baraboo. She and her mother own and occupy a comfortable home at 308 Lake Street.

Mrs. Metcalf is a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Hudson) Britton, the former a native of Bristol and the latter of Chorley, England. They were married in England, and Mrs. Britton was born in the old country. In 1847 Mr. and Mrs. Britton came to Rhode Island, and from there in 1854 moved to Sauk County, Wisconsin. Isaac Britton bought a farm and by trade was a stationary engineer. For a time he operated the engine for Colonel Ableman at Ableman, in this county, but in 1863 he went to Colorado in a party guarding mule and ox teams, and spent several years on the frontier. He finallj^ returned to Baraboo and lived in that city until his death in 1890. His wife, who is also deceased, was the daughter of W. T. and Elizabeth (Brindle) Hudson, and they deserve mention also as Sauk County pioneers. Both, were born in England and in 1847 came to Massachusetts, locating at Danvers, later removed to Philadelphia, and from there to Sauk County in 1853. W. T. Hudson died at Baraboo and his widow died near Waterville in the State of Washington. W. T. Hudson and wife had the following children : Elizabeth ; Alice, wife of Nelson Bowen ; Hugh, who died near Waterville, Washington, and his widow, whose maiden name was Alice Kay, and her children live near Hudson in the State of Washington.

Mrs. Metcalf was the oldest in a family of five children, the others being named: William, Albert, Alfred, and Bell, the last named the wife of Abner Carpenter, of Crandon, Wisconsin.

Arthur Charles Hills. The Hills family has been identified with Sauk County since pioneer times, over sixty years. They have contributed their share of the heavy labor required for clearing away the forest, grubbing out stumps, and putting the land into cultivation. Mr.- Arthur C. Hills is one of the oldest native sons of the county and for many j^ears has been industriously engaged in looking after a well developed farm in the Township of Merrimack.

He was born in the year 1865 in West Merrimack Township, a son of Charles A. and Elizabeth (Phillips) Hills. His father was born in 1830 in the southern part of England, while his mother was born in Southern Wales in 1827. They came to New York State in 1854, were soon afterwards married and in 1855 came to Sauk County and located in Merrimack Township, where their son Arthur C. was bom the same year. There were three other children, mentioned as follows : Eliza-, beth, Mrs. John Humphreys, living in Iowa County, Wisconsin; George J., who is married and lives in Nebraska; and Alice, wife of Arthur Chalfant, living in California.

On coming to Sauk County Charles A. Hills located in Merrimack Township and for nine years lived in the Village of Merrimack, where the mother was employed in the old tavern owned by Walter P. Flanders, while the father worked on Mr. Flanders' dairy farm. After three years he rented a farm and finally moved from the Village of Merrimack to the Farnsworth farm, four miles west. He was there one year and in 1866 came to a part of the farm now owned and occupied by Arthur C. Hills. Charles A. Hills died in 1880 and his widow is still living, past the age of ninety.

Arthur C. Hills grew up and received his early schooling in Merrimack Township. He has never married and since 1883 has given his time to the working of the old farm which his father bought in 1866. Hls father first bougiit eighty acres and the son has since increased theholdings until it now represents an estate of 240 acres, 180 acres of which are under cultivation. Mr. Hills has cleared up and grubbed out forty acres of this land by his own effort. He is successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising, and has a great deal to show for his life of well-directed enterprise. He lives with his widowed mother. In the early days the Hills family did their farm work with oxen and with the other limited facilities of the time. Mr. Hills and his mother are active members of the Methodist Church and he has been superintendent of the Sunday School of Merrimack for twenty years. His father was a republican, while he himself votes the prohibition ticket,

John J. Hatz. The name Hatz has always signified a great deal in the Prairie du Sac locality of Sauk County. The family of that name came as pioneers, when nearly all of Sauk Countj^ was a wilderness, and by their industry and their integrity they not only made themselves masters of a goodly quantity of land but also lived so as to command the respect and esteem of every one who knew them. Mr. John J. Hatz represents the second generation of the family and is now living retired at Prairie du Sac.

His father, Jacob Hatz, was born in Switzerland in 1816 and came as a pioneer to Wisconsin in 1844, four years before the territory became a state. He at that time located in Sauk County, and he brought with him his young wife. Her maiden name was Dorothy Aceola, and she was born in Switzerland in 1814. Their home for the first two years was in Prairie du Sac Township, and then Jacob Hatz moved to the place he had acquired from the Government in Sumpter Township. Jacob Hatz while living in Switzerland had followed the trade of carpenter and mechanic, but in Sauk County his work was as a farmer. He continued to live on the old homestead until the spring of 1880, when he moved to town and he died in the fall of that year. His widow survived him until 1891. They were active members of the Evangelical Church and reared their children in the same faith. These children were eight in number, all born in Sumpter Township : Jacob, Casper, Luzie, Erhart, now deceased, Florian, of Yankton, South Dakota, Kate and Dorothy, both deceased, and John.

Mr, John J. Hatz was born on the old home place in Sumpter Township of Sauk County, April 9, 1857. He lived there continuously until 1915, a period of fifty-eight years. His education came from the local schools of that community and as soon as he was old enough he took an active part in the labors of the home farm and finally succeeded to its ownership, and on the land where his father had provided for his children John J. Hatz lived and prospered and reared a family. Mr. Hatz and his family are supporting members of the Evangelical Church. He was prominent in his country community, spending seven years as a member of the town board and clerk of the school districts twenty -seven years.

Mr. Hatz has five children: Lillian, who married Herman Wilhelm; Kate R., wife of Arno Woffanschmidt ; Jacob A., who married Ruth Gasser; Obert J., whose wife is Ina Hatz; and Lyman, unmarried. The old homestead is now being run by Jacob, and Jacob's son is the fourth generation of the family in that one place, and members of three generations were born there.

John Roonet was a fighting young Irishman in the Civil war, is one of the few surviving veterans of that conflict still living in Sauk County, and one of the worthiest men upon whom the Government ever bestowed a pension.

He was born in Ireland August 15, 1844, but has been an American since early infancy. His parents, James and Ann (McManus) Rooney, were born and married in Ireland and in 1847 brought their family to America, locating in Dolphin County, Pennlsylvania. There James Rooney died on August 15, 1852, when his son John was only eight years old. In 1853 the widow and her family removed to Muskingum County, Ohio, and in 1854 she was married there to George Sullivan. In 1855 the family came on to "Wisconsin, first locating near Elkhorn, in Walworth County, later going to Cross Plains in Dane County, and in 1856 to Green County. In 1857 the Sullivans and the Rooneys came to Sauk County and established their homes in Honey Creek Township. The mother of John Rooney spent her last years in Freedom Township. She died December 28, 1885. By her marriage with James Rooney she had six children : Mary and Patrick, deceased ; John ; Margaret, deceased ; Ann ; and Elizabeth. By her marriage to Mr. Sullivan she was the mother of four children: Edward and Joseph, deceased; George ; and Michael.

John Rooney received all his early education in the public schools of Wisconsin. As a boy he learned how to be independent through hard work, and at one time he was employed during the construction of the railroad between Madison and Prairie du Chien and also on the line between Monroe and Janesville. This work furnished him occupation during the summer and for four winters he attended school in Sauk County, in Honey Creek and Sumpter townships. He also worked as a

In 1862, at the age of eighteen Mr. Eooney enlisted in Company K of the Twenty-third Wisconsin Infantry. He was in the army until his honorable discharge on June 27, 1865. He carried a musket and fought alongside his comrades during the earlier campaigns and at Port Gibson was injured by a spent ball. He was afterwards assigned to the commissary department, but was finally compelled to go to the hospital and remained there until discharged. His injuries were such that for twenty-seven years he has been an invalid and for seventeen of those years has been confined to his bed. Mr. Rooney has the cheerful disposition and nature of the true Irishman, and though bedridden for so many years maintains a cheerful outlook. A great factor in his happiness has been his devoted wife, who has stayed with him and comforted his declining years and has made life worth living.

After the war Mr. Rooney returned to Westfield Township, rented a farm, and in 1869 bought a place in Freedom Township. In 1885 he came to the farm he now owns near Baraboo, buying fifteen acres within the corporation limits of that city.

Mr. Rooney is independent in political matters. He is a loyal and popular member of John Fowler Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in North Freedom Township.

On May 24, 1869, he married Miss Sarah M. Lamb, who was born in Huron County, Ohio, March 10, 1846, a daughter of James Chauncey and Abbie (Petteys) Lamb. In 1857 the Lamb family came to Freedom Township, in Sauk County, and located in the midst of the heavy woods. Mrs. Rooney 's father developed a farm from a portion of the wilderness but subsequently sold this property and he and his wife spent their last years in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rooney, where her mother died in 1887 and her father in 1889. Mrs. Rooney was the second of three children. Her brother George D. died at Madison, Wisconsin, in 1864, just one month after he had enlisted for service in the Union army. Her sister Emma died December 20, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Rooney have two children. Edward James, still living on the farm with his parents, married Theresa Picker. Their four sons, grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. Rooney, are named Sylvan J., Arthur M., Harold Leo Frank, and Lloyd Henry. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rooney is Alice M., wife of Edward J. Curry, now head machinist in the woolen mills at Baraboo. Mr. and Mrs. Curry have a son, Rollo McKinley,

Algernon Fry. While many vocations seem necessary to carry on the activities and industries that make a nation happy, comfortable and contented, there is after all but one that is absolutely indispensable to life, and that is agriculture. The teeming millions must be fed and their food must come from the soil. Those sections of old Mother Earth in which farming and stockraising have been encouraged and dignified are today the hope of nations, and the American farmer has, through circumstances, become the most important factor in the world's commerce. Wisconsin has never taken a backward step in agricultural development since her early pioneer homeseekers came and settled in her rich

Algernon Fry, one of Sauk County's leading men and one of her honored Civil war veterans, was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1846. His parents were Isaiah and Elizabeth (Wilson) Fry, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania, the latter being a daughter of John and Hannah (Harrington) Wilson, who came to Sauk County in 1850 and lived for one winter in Baraboo and then settled permanently on Webster Prairie. Both lived into old age, Mr. Wilson being ninety-three at the time of death and his wife was aged eightyseven years.

The parents of Algernon Fry came with the Wilsons to Sauk County in 1850 and after a short stay in Baraboo also moved to Webster Prairie, but subsequently went to South Dakota and took up a land claim in Lake County, near Wentworth, and there they passed the rest of their lives. They were the parents of the following children : Algernon, Ziba, John W., David, Joel, Henry, Charles, Elizabeth, Mary, Frank and Ernest. The parents were quiet, frugal, law-abiding people and governed their lives according to the peaceful precepts of the Society of Friends.

Algernon Fry had such educational advantages as were afforded at the time in the neighborhood of his father's farm, the first school he attended being in the Village of Lyons and was taught by Doctor Crandall, a well known resident. Mr. Fry gave his time and attention to the business of farming until, in the course of time, he became the owner of a farm on Webster Prairie, on which he continued to reside until 1898, when he traded that farm for one containing 104 acres which lies in Greenfield Township. On this place he has done the greater part of the improving and has a valuable property. He carries on general farming and is one of the county's large raisers of stock. He has had a large fund of agricultural experience to draw on and his industries are carried on with very satisfying results. While Mr. Fry has been busy as boy and man on his farm, he had not yet attained manhood when he proved that following the plow and herding the stock were not the only important facts in a Wisconsin youth's conception of life. When the Civil war came on he soon discovered an unexpected spirit of loyalty and love of a united country and this led to his enlistment, in February, 1864, in Company A, Nineteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in which he served with commendable valor until his honorable discharge on August 9, 1865. The Nineteenth was the third regiment to enter the captured capital of the Confederacy and its flag was the first to be raised over Richmond's state house. He was never wounded nor was he made a prisoner, although he participated in such hard fought battles as Fair Oaks and Petersburg and numberous sharp skirmishes. He is a valued member of the Grand Army Post at Baraboo, of which he has been commander.

In 1868 Mr. Fry was married to Miss Elizabeth Devine, who was born in Ohio and died in Wisconsin in March, 1896. She was a daughter of John and Effie Devine, who were early settlers in Sauk County, Four children were born to the above marriage, namely : Effie, who is the wife of Edward W. Donney, a train dispatcher at Chicago and a well known railroad man, and they have one daughter, Ruth ; Allie, who is the wife of John Gillny, of Portland, Oregon ; John, who is deceased ; and Howard, who is a resident of Belvidere, Illinois, married Viola Kramer and they have two children, Olive and Lester. In 1897 Mr. Fry was married to Miss Maria Lee, who was bom in Delton Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, December 22, 1856. Her parents were Lathrop L. and Hannah 0. (Gardiner) Lee, the former of whom was born in New York in 1823 and the latter in 1830. Mr. Lee came to Sauk County in 1848 and after providing a home went back to New York in the following year and when he returned was accompanied by his wife. They located first in Greenfield Township but later moved to Delton Township and then to Baraboo Township, where Mr. Lee died in 1904. Mrs. Lee resides with Mr. and Mrs. Fry. To this marriage five children were born, as follows : Frank, who is deceased ; Maria ; Mary, who is deceased ; and Charles and Harriet.

In politics Mr. Fry has always been a republican. As a man of fine business ability and of sterling honesty, on many occasions his fellow citizens have shown appreciation by electing him to public office, especially in relation to educational affairs. For sixteen years he served on the school board in Delton Township and for a little over nine years has been chairman of the Greenfield Township Board. His acquaintance over the county is wide and his name is held in respect by all.

Charles E. Palmer. Prominent among the members of the retired colony at Baraboo is found Charles E. Palmer, who has had a successful career as business man and farmer and is now enjoying the fruits of his years of labor. With the exception of short periods when he was fighting as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, Mr. Palmer has resided at Baraboo and in Sauk County continuously since 1856, and during this time has aided in the progress and development which have characterized the community's growth.

Mr. Palmer was bom in Eaton Township, Madison County, New York, February 21, 1847, being a son of J. Gilbert and Eliza (Crandall) Palmer. J. Gilbert Palmer was born at Athens, Windham County, Vermont, December 12, 1818, and as a young man went to Madison, New York, where he was married September 18, 1844, to Miss Eliza Crandall, who was born at Sangerfield, Oneida County, New York, September 19, 1824. The family came to Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1856, and here J. Gilbert Palmer followed the trade of plasterer for some years, but later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and became the owner of a farm in Delton Township, Sauk County. His death occurred on this property in 1902, Mrs. Palmer having passed away there in January, 1900. There were four children in the family, namely : Charles E. ; Clementine Ruth, born January 23, 1850, at Stockbridge, Madison County, New York; Marion C, bom January 24, 1854, who died in infancy; and Effie Lucinda, born at Baraboo in 1858, and now the wife of S. DeKolyer, of Delton Tovmship.

Baraboo and here completed his studies in the public schools and the old Baraboo Institute. When a youth he learned the trade of plasterer under the guidance of his father, and this was his vocation for some years. He was too young to enlist when the Civil war started, but in February, 1865, he became a member of Company D, Forty-sixth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the. close of the war. Returning to Baraboo when his military experience was finished, he resumed his trade and continued to be engaged in working thereat until March, 1874, when he went to Delton Township and bought a farm. If he had been successful at his trade, he was equally so as a farmer, and through industry and good management developed a property that was well cultivated, highly improved and very productive. It was his home until 1895, in which yeajr he returned to Baraboo and retired from active labor, his present home being at No. 320 Seventh Avenue, a street on which he has lived, at one point and another, for nearly sixty years.

Mr. Palmer is a democrat. He is a stanch adherent of the principles and candidates of his party, but his interest therein has never led him to seek personal preferment at his party's hands. His fraternal affiliation is with Baraboo Lodge No. 34 of the Masonic order, in addition to which he belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and to the Presbyterian Church.

On March 19, 1868, Mr. Palmer was married to Miss Ann McGilvra, who was bom November 20, 1846, at Schuyler, Herkimer County, New York, a daughter of Samuel and Alatheah (Holdridge) McGilvra, natives of that state, the father born April 19, 1829, and the mother February 2, 1829. They came to Sauk County, Wisconsin, at an early day in the history of the county, then returned for a time to New York, but in 1866 again came to this county and settled on a farm not far from Baraboo. There they passed the remainder of their lives, Mr. McGilvra dying November 1, 1894, and Mrs. McGilvra in October, 1895. To Mr. and Mrs. Palmer the following children have been bom : Clara E., who died in 1895, at the age of twenty-four years ; Daisy C, born in 1875, proprietor of an establishment for the manufacture and sale of furs at No. 320 Seventh Avenue, Baraboo, with a large local trade and excellent mail order business, is the wife of A. M. Todd and has one daughter, Elva Lucia, born February 4, 1906, at Placerville, California; and Samuel James, born October 3, 1883, is now auditor of the Public Service Company of Chicago, a firm with which he has been connected for fourteen years, and a resident of the fashionable Chicago suburb, Evanston. He married Miss Maude Lewis, of Baraboo, and has had three children, Dorothea Elizabeth ; Evelyn, who died when two years of age ; and Lewis James.

Davis Hackett. The record of Davis Haekett, of Baraboo, is that of a man who has by his own unaided efforts worked his way upward to a position of affluence. His life has been one of industry and perseverance, and the systematic and honorable business methods which have been followed by him have gained him support, confidence and friendship. While he has for several years been retired from active pursuits he still takes a keen interest in the welfare and developihent of his community and is considered one of Baraboo 's useful and helpful citizens.

Mr. Hackett was born in the State of Maine, October 18, 1839, and is a son of Hartson and Martha T. (Johnson) Hackett, both natives of the Pine Tree State. The father was born August 2, 1806, and the mother in February of the same year, and in 1853 they came to Sauk County, Wisconsin, and purchased a farm in Fairfield Township. After a number of years passed in successful agricultural operations the parents retired from active labor and located at Baraboo, where Hartson Hackett died in June, 1889, Mrs. Hackett surviving until 1892. Mr. Hackett was originally a whig and later a republican in his political affiliation, and he and his wife attended the Congregational Church. Their children were as follows: Mary Sears, deceased, who was the wife of the late John Luce; Emily Vaughan, deceased, who became the wife of the late Joseph Luce, who fought as a soldier during the Civil war in the same company as Davis Hackett; Mandilla L., of Sauk County, widow of John Atkinson ; Davis ; and Oscar, who died in 1865, at the age of sixteen years,

Davis Hackett commenced his education in the public schools of his native state, and was fourteen years old when he came to Sauk County, his schooling being completed in the old Baraboo Collegiate Institute, the teachers of which at that time were Professor Hobart and his wife. After leaving school he began working in the pine woods, but in 1864 he donned the uniform of his country for service in the Civil war, enlisting in Company M, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, with which he served until the close of hostilities. He established an excellent record as a soldier, and at the close of his service returned to Sauk County and engaged in farming in Fairfield Township, where he was the owner of the old homestead until 1880. In that year he was employed by C. L. Coleman, of La Crosse, to act as his agent on the Chippewa River and the Black River in buying logs, contracting for timber and generally looking after the business. In 1883 he came to Baraboo and built a home at the comer of Fourth and Barker streets, to which he moved his family, while he returned to the lumber business, making occasional visits to the city. Mr. Hackett continued to be thus engaged until 1901, when he retired from active labor and came to Baraboo to make his permanent home. The family still resides in the house which Mr. Hackett built in 1883. He is a republican in politics, and at one time was elected police justice, but resigned before the expiration of his term, and has never cared for any other public service. He has been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic since 1901, and his family belong to the Congregational Church.

In 1868 Mr. Hackett was married to Miss Carrie Brown, who was born in England, in 1846, a daughter of William and Mary Brown, who on coming to the United States located on Bigfoot Prairie, Illinois. When the Civil war came on Mr. Brown enlisted in the Union army and died while in the service. Later his widow came to Baraboo and made her home with her daughter and son-in-law- until her death. Mrs. Hackett died January 6, 1916, having been the mother of four children :

Millicent M., a graduate of the Baraboo High School and for several years a teacher in the public schools, who married Richard B. Maloney, of Baraboo, and has one son, Richard Addison ; Edith M., a graduate of the Baraboo High School and a teacher in the public schools until her marriage to Dr. George L. G. Cramer, a physician of Owosso, Michigan ; Ephraim Leonard, now of Baraboo, but formerly of Oregon, where he owned a transfer line and looked after his father's mining interests, married Annie Kelley, of near Baker City, Oregon, and has two children, Nathaniel Desmond and Louis; and Carrie Fern, a graduate of the Baraboo High School, the Milwaukee Normal School and Wisconsin University, formerly a teacher at La Crosse for seven years, and during the past two years a teacher in the Baraboo schools, where she now teaches a high school class, unmarried and making her home with her father.

James A. Stone. The lawyer has ever been accorded, by an unwritten law, first place in securing the greatest liberty and the greatest justice for the society of mankind. The idea prevailing when the ancient Roman laws were framed, that he was the best informed as to the rights of man and the limits of government - both of them prescribed by law - exists today to an appreciable extent. No man in our form of civilization is given such privilege to guide the affairs of state to either glory or dishonor as is vouchsafed by thinking minds to the lawyer. The fact that, financially speaking, there are rarely compensations in law commensurate with the labor given, lends a prophecy of splendid and distinterested achievement to men sufficiently gifted to become successful lawyers and sufficiently honest to maintain the ethics of the profession. One familiar with the jurisprudence of Sauk County will unhesitatingly place within this sphere of largest usefulness the name of James A. Stone, general practitioner of Reedsburg, former assistant secretary of state, ex-city attorney and alderman, and supporter of those enlightening agencies which make for the permanent well being of the community.

James A. Stone was born at Smithfield, Madison County, New York, December 1, 1856, and is a son of James Riley and Pamela C. (EUinwood) Stone, both natives of Smithfield. James Riley Stone was a stonemason by vocation, and many fine evidences of his skill and good workmanship are still to be found in New York, an especially good specimen being at the Village of Peterboro, where stands a stone arch bridge marked ''Erected A. D. 1854, by J. R. S." Mr. Stone followed his occupation successfully until August 15, 1862, when, feeling that he was needed by his country in its hour of peril, he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, with which regiment he went to the front as captain of his company. He did not return. After several severe engagements and others of a minor character came the awful struggle at Gettysburg, where his company was cut off and captured by the enemy. Captain Stone spent one year at Libby Prison and was then transferred to Macon, Georgia, where, after untold hardships and privations, he died August 12, 1864. His widow, left with five children, struggled bravely on for a time in the East, but finally decided that in a state further west she would be better able to give them advantages and opportunities and accordingly in 1869 started for Reedsburg, where the little party arrived in December. Later she went to Sully County, South Dakota, after her children had been well established, but returned to Reedsburg on a visit, and here died December 12, 1886 ; she was buried in this city. The children were as follows : Dr. Willis C, who is a successful practicing physician of Chicago; James A., of this notice ; Orna P., who was a student at West Point, received an appointment in the United States Census Department at Washington, D. C, and died in 1881 ; Minna L., who was a teacher in the high school at Madison, Wisconsin, for nine years prior to her marriage to John H. Gabriel, who is now an attorney of Denver, Colorado; and Orlando Lincoln, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits at Cresbard, Faulk County, South Dakota.

James A. Stone attended the public schools of his native place, and was not yet eight years of age when his father died. His mother, however, managed to give him a further educational training, and he was duly graduated from Evans Academy, a private institution at Peterboro, New York, where was situated the stone arch bridge mentioned above. He was thirteen years of age when he came to Reedsburg, an enterprising and ambitious lad, and here entered the Reedsburg high school and was a member of the first graduating class from that institution in 1875. He had determined that he would have a college education, and in the fall of 1875 entered the University of Wisconsin, but soon found his funds inadequate to meet his many expenses, be as economical as he might, and he accordingly gave up his ambition for a time and returned to Reedsburg, where he began to teach school during the winter terms, adding to his income by working in the fields as a farm hand during the summer months. Thus he was able to save some small earnings, and in the fall of 1881 again entered the University of Wisconsin, where he spent two years. In addition to this he had previously had one year of training as a student in the law office of G. Stevens at Reedsburg, and with these qualifications went to South Dakota in 1883 to start practice. Like all young lawyers, he had to go through his probationary period, a trying time for most young men who are endeavoring to get a foothold upon the ladder of success, and in order to piece out his meager legal earnings he worked on a homestead when not engaged with the interests of his clients. In 1887 Mr. Stone returned to Reedsburg and entered the office of R. P. Perry, where he remained until he passed the examination of the state bar, and in 1889 was admitted. to practice. From that time to the present his success has been assured, and as the years have passed his cases have become more and more important and his clientele more and more prominent.

Mr. Stone cast his first vote for James A. Garfield as a republican in 1880. He was with the reform movement and LaFollette in 1904 and since that time has acted with the progressive wing of his party in this state. He was a delegate to the national republican conventions of 1912 and 1916 and alternate in 1908, and from 1901 to 1903 served as assistant secretary of state of Wisconsin, resigning in the latter year. At Reedsburg he has been city superintendent of schools for two years, a member of the Board of Education for one term and city attorney several times, and at present is acting as alderman. His entire public service has been characterized by faithful and capable performance of duty, and his record is one which does him honor. Fraternally Mr. Stone is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America" and the Masons, belonging in the latter to Reedsburg Lodge No. 157, Free and Accepted Masons, and Reedsburg Chapter. While a Unitarian in his religious belief, he attends the Presbyterian Church. He has various business connections, and is a stockholder in the State Bank of Reedsburg and a director of the Baraboo Valley Agricultural Association and of the Harley Davidson Motor Company of Milwaukee.

On April 19, 1884, Mr. Stone was married to Miss Minnie L. Corwith, of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, who was born in Troy Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, March 6, 1857, a daughter of Silas W. and Anna L. (Abrecht) Corwith, the former born at Southampton, Long Island, and the latter in Germany. They were pioneers of Prairie du Sac, where Mrs. Stone's father died, while her mother still survives and makes her home at Reedsburg with her son-in-law and daughter. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stone: Anna L., who was married in Marcli, 1914, to James R. Semple, and died November 5, 1914; Riley, a resident of Reedsburg and a farmer of Sauk County, married Vera Milhaupt, who came to this city from New Holstein, Wisconsin ; and Millie C, who resides at her home with her parents. A son was born to Riley Stone and wife July 6, 1916, and named for his ancester James Riley Stone. Riley Stone was drafted into the service of the United States and left Baraboo August 3, 1917, in charge of the thirty-four men, Sauk County's quota on that date. He was assigned to Company A, Three Hundred and Forty-first Infantry, Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, where he is now stationed.

William Dobratz. The Township of Merrimack has no more industrious citizen than Mr. William Dobratz. He owns a large amount of farming land, well and efficiently tilled and most of it cleared and improved. This property represents his individual labors and while constituting a valuable estate is at the same time a valuable contribution to the aggregate resources of the county.

Mr. Dobratz has lived in Wisconsin since he was fifteen years of age. He was born in Germany in 1857, a son of John and Minnie Dobratz, also natives of the fatherland. The family came to Wisconsin in 1871, spending the first ten years in Milwaukee. John Dobratz was an agriculturist and on leaving Milwaukee he moved to Sauk County and acquired a farm of sixty acres in Greenfield Township. In that locality he spent the rest of his life, though he retired from the farm about a year before his death. His widow survived him ten years.

William Dobratz grew up in Germany and in Milwaukee and lived at home until he was twenty-six. He then married Miss Barbara Schinder, daughter of Michael Schinder, of Sauk County, and took up his independent career. Mr. and Mrs. Dobratz have four children : Walter, who is married and living in the Village of Merrimack; John, still single and a farmer in Merrimack Township ; Anna and George, still at home.

On starting his independent career Mr. Dobratz became a farmer two miles east of Baraboo, where he bought eighty acres. After five years there he moved to Merrimack Township and for eighteen months farmed a place 1^^ miles north of his present location. For the past twenty-six years he has lived on his home farm and has 160 acres, 120 acres of which are under the plow. He has cultivated his land with the staple crops of this region and has also raised considerable stock and has operated a dairy. Besides his home farm he has another 160 acres a mile north, and of this 140 acres are cleared.

It has required constant and vigilant work to build up such a property, but Mr. Dobratz has not for that reason neglected an active participation in local affairs. For a number of years he served as a member of the town board and for ten years was on the school board. He is a republican and with his family is a member of the Lutheran Church.

Mrs. Adelaide P. Keysar. Among the old and honored residents of Sauk County few there are whose lives in this community have extended over a longer period of time than has that of Mrs. Adelaide P. Keysar, - whose home is now at Prairie du Sac. When Mrs. Keysar arrived in this locality with her parents, an infant in arms, in 1846, the country hereabouts was in the stage of its infancy, nearly as it had been left by the disappearing Indians, with trails instead of roads, comparatively few houses, and these at widely-separated distances, and educational and religious facilities of the most meager kind. She has lived to witness the development of a fertile and prosperous community, a center of agricultural and commercial activity, and the home of modern schools and fine churches, a section prolific with good roads, fine transportation facilities and modern improvements of every kind.

Mrs. Keysar is a native of the old Granite state. She was born in a house on the banks of Indian Stream at Pittsburg, Coos County, New Hampshire, in 1845, being a daughter of Joshua and Harriet (Hall) Perkins. Her father was bom in New Hampshire, where the family was an old and numerous one, among his brothers and sisters being Nathaniel and Hiram Perkins, Mahala (Perkins) Bunnell and Polly, a sister who was also married but the name of whose husband is now forgotten. All save Joshua passed their lives in the East. The Hall family came from New York, where Mrs. Perkins was born, and when members of this family came to Wisconsin they settled in Dodge County, where they became a part of the agricultural community. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins were married in New Hampshire, where they resided for several years, the father being engaged in agricultural pursuits. He found the soil unproductive and his labor unremunerative, and after an endeavor to make his operations pay decided to try his fortune in the West, where land was to be secured cheap and where he felt he could get a start upon the road to independence. Accordingly, in 1846, with his wife and child, he made the long and dangerous trip across the country to Sauk County, stopping for a short period at the little settlement of Prairie du Sac, at that time just a cluster of rude houses inhabited by the sturdy pioneers and then pushing on two miles west of the hamlet, where he took up land from the United States Govern- ment. This he secured for what today would be considered a ridiculously small price. For the next fifteen years he farmed this land faithfully and industriously, thus making ^ome headway with his finances, and then sold out and moved to Rolling Prairie, Dodge County, in the same community in which his wife's family had made their settlement. The new locality did not suit him, he soon became homesick, and in a short time he returned to Sauk County and took up his residence at Prairie du Sac, where he engaged in the nursery business, doing tree-grafting in a small way for the rest of his active career. His death occurred in 1895, when he was seventy-seven years of age. Mr. Perkins was extremely fond of his home, and for that reason was not to be found taking any prominent part in activities which would carry him far from his fireside and family. He voted the democratic ticket at election times and did his share in contributing to the advancement, of his community, but never cared for public office nor felt himself called upon to serve in such. A faithful member of the Universalist Church and a deacon therein, he was very strongly set in his religious sentiments, and exemplified his faith in his every-day life. For a number of years he belonged to the Masons, but finally withdrew from that fraternal body.

Adelaide P. Perkins was an infant when brought to Sauk County, and her childhood was passed amid pioneer scenes and surroundings. She secured her first schooling in Yanka Street, about two miles west of Prairie du Sac, where all the Yankas had settled at that time, and later went to the public schools of Prairie du Sac. She remained at home as a dutiful daughter helping her parents until she was married, at the age of twenty-four years, in 1869, to Holmes C. Keysar, who at that time was engaged in the mercantile business at Prairie du Sac. Later Mr. Keysar embarked in the stock and grain business and built up a fine enterprise in spite of the numerous difficulties attending a venture of that kind during those days. As there were no railroads he was compelled to ship everything via the steamboat Ellen Haidy on the Wisconsin River to Portage, to meet the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, while his stock he drove to Merrimac, fifteen miles, to the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. Furthermore, produce brought only a small price, butter being frequently as low as 5 cents per pound and eggs 8 cents per dozen. In spite of all obstacles he developed a paying and successful business, and in 1905 was enabled to retire from commercial cares and worries. Up to that time he had never found time for rest or pleasure, but in that year he built a cottage at Lake Mendota, where he and his family spent the summers thereafter in hunting and fishing, while in the winters they lived at Prairie du Sac. His death occurred here May 4, 1915. Mr. Keysar was a member of the Masonic order, in good standing. His people belonged to the Unitarian Oliurch, and while he never united with that faith, he supported it generously and donated liberally to the building of the church of that denomination at Prairie du Sac.

here, where her friends are legion, and where she is greatly esteemed for the many excellencies of her mind and the kindnesses of her heart.

James H. Turner. By the accident of birth James H. Turner is a native of England, though his entire life since infancy has been spent in Wisconsin, most of it in Sauk County. Mr. Turner learned a mechanical trade when a young man, but his most productive efforts have been put in as a farmer, and he now owns one of the well improved places in Baraboo Township.

He was born in England November 4, 1846, a son of James and Sarah Turner. His parents were also natives of England, and in 1846, the year their son James was born, they immigrated to America and first located in Walworth County, Wisconsin, moved from there in 1848 to Milwaukee, and soon afterward came to Merrimack in Sauk County. Here for a time James Turner, Sr., operated the ferry over the Wisconsin River for Walter P. Flanders. From there he removed to Baraboo and became identified with the firm of Pouiton & Brown in the pottery business. By trade he was a mason. His death occurred in Baraboo Township in 1873 and his wife died there in 1871. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his family followed him in the same religious worship. There were four children: George, who served in the Forty-sixth Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil war and died November 8, 1865 ; Elizabeth, who lives on Eighth Avenue in Baraboo, is the widow of Romine Van Orman ; James H. ; and Mary Ann, wife of Henry Brisco, who was also in the Forty-sixth Wisconsin Infantry, their home now being in Baraboo.

James H. Turner was reared at Baraboo, attended the public schools, and on leaving school learned the trade of mason. In 1887 he began farming in Baraboo Township, and acquiring a tract of seventy acres he cleared most of it and put it in condition for cultivation. That is his present home and all its valuable improvements are the results of his energy and good management. One experience of his earlier career should be recalled. In 1871 he and Henry Cowles hauled the first railroad iron for what was known as the Steam Shovel Cut at the end of Devil's Lake.

Mr. Turner is a democrat in politics but has never sought public office. He was married in 1870 to Miss Esther Jane Brown. Mrs. Turner was the first white child born in Summit Township of Juneau County, Wisconsin. Her birth date was October 31, 1851. Her parents, Thomas and Esther Brown, were among the pioneers of Juneau County. Mr. and Mrs. Turner had three children. Isabel died when eight years old. Cora is living in Baraboo and the widow of William McFarland. She has one child, Vem William McFarland, who is a graduate of the public schools of Fairfield Townsh'ip and is now in the second year of the Baraboo High School. George William, the youngest child, is still at home and unmarried.

AARON F. Teel. If any resident of Sauk County has reason to feel at home in this rich and beautiful part of Wisconsin it would seem to be Aaron F. Teel, widely known and universally esteemed, for almost three-quarters of a century have rolled away since he, a boy of eight years, was brought by his parents to his present home. For seventyone years Mr. Teel has lived on this farm in Fairfield Township, in which part of the county he has long been a man of large importance, not only because of his wealth but because he has always taken so deep an interest in its progress and development.

Aaron F. Teel was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, November 27, 1837. His parents were Benjamin and Phoebe (Morrill) Teel. They were born in Massachusetts and lived in St. Lawrence County, New York, when rumors reached that section of the great agricultural possibilities offered in the but sparsely settled territory of Wisconsin. They were courageous and enterprising people and the suspected hardships of pioneer life did not prevent their deciding to seek a new home in the rich territory that then was largely given over to foreign settlement. They came by water and the impression made by the little Town of Chicago, lying on her sand flats, was not favorable enough to make them desire to pause there as they passed through. They continued on their journey and crossed the Wisconsin River at Portage on September 15, 1845, on their way to Sauk County, their objective point, and settled at once on the land in Fairfield Township which has been the home of their son Aaron F. to the present time. They both died there, the mother in 1869, at the age of sixty-six years, and the father in 1885, he having reached his eighty-fifth year. They were the parents of seven children, namely : Hannah, who was the wife of P. J. Parshall, survived to be ninety-one years old ; Joseph, who was also an example of family longevity, died when aged eighty years; Lucy, who is deceased, was the wife of Benjamin Clerk; Rebecca, who is deceased, was the wife of James Battles ; Aaron F. ; Susan, who is the wife of Porter Buck, of Reedsburg, Wisconsin; and Almina, who is the wife of Joseph Hackett, of Baraboo. The mother of the above family was a member of the Congregational Church.

Aaron F. Teel obtained his education in the public schools which became well established soon after the admission of Wisconsin to statehood in 1848. Farming and stock-raising have engaged his attention since boyhood and in all his undertakings a sense of good judgment has prevailed and made them successful. For a number of years he was numbered with the heavy landowners of the county, having over 700 acres, and he still retains 380 acres, all of which is exceedingly valuable. Although now retired from active participation in the farm industries, his interest is not lost and his judgment on all agricultural matters remains unimpaired.

Mr. Teel was married in 1861 to Miss Mary Watts, who was born in Ohio in 1835, and her parents too, Joseph and Sophia Watts, were early settlers in Sauk County, where they died when full of years. Four children were born to Mr. and - Mrs. Teel, two sons and two daughters, namely : Frank D. ; Lillie, who is the wife of P. W. Post, residing at Evanston, Illinois; Nelson, who is a farmer in Fairfield Township, married Emma Malloy, a member of one of the old county families ; and May S., who is the wife of Robert Schneller, who is a

Mr. Teel was reared, by his father, to believe in the principles of the democratic party, and this organization has always received his hearty support. He has always taken much interest in educational matters in his township, which, largely through his efforts, has excellent schoolhouses and good teachers, and for over thirty years he has served as treasurer of the school board in his district. In him Fairfield Township has had a wise, practical and honest supervisor and also assessor, and he has served in these offices for over a quarter of a century. He has always been a leader in his community in all movements looking to the public welfare and his influence counts largely when subjects of county, state or national moment are brought forward for discussion, for his fellow citizens have entire confidence in his good judgment and unselfish opinion.

Edward P. Terry. Farming and stockraising have been industries in which the Terry family of Sauk County have met with success. This well known family was established here in 1853, when Patrick Terry and his young wife came to Baraboo from Milwaukee, where they had been married. Patrick Terry was born in Ireland, in 1837, and was a young man when he came to America. He found work as a laborer in Wisconsin and helped to build the first railroad that entered Madison and also assisted in the construction work of the branch of the Northwestern Railroad which was extended to Baraboo. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was married to Ellen Tinnel, who was born in Ireland in 1838, and they had four children born to them: Patrick, who died at the age of twelve years; Edward P.; Margaret, who died when aged sixteen years; and John, who is a member of the household of his brother Edward P. Terry. When Patrick Terry began farming it was on a tract of forty acres situated in Delton Township, and through his industry and good management as years passed by he became the owner of 310 acres. He was a son of Edward Terry and, like all of the name, was a man of sterling character. In politics he was a democrat and all his life was a faithful member of the Roman Catholic Church. His wife died September 28, 1898, but Mr. Terry survived until February 20, 1917.

Edward P. Terry, who owns eighty acres of the old Terry Homestead of 310 acres, was educated in the public schools in Delton Township and has always devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. In addition to the farm land he owns in this township, Mr. Terry has 160 acres in South Dakota and lived there for fourteen months. He has made many substantial improvements on his farm and has everything very comfortable. In politics he is a democrat. Being a sound business man and highly respected citizen, he has often been mentioned for public office in his neighborhood, but has never consented to accept any position except membership on the school board.

Mr. Terry was married October 25, 1886, to Miss Ann Mullowney, who was born near Mauston, Juneau County, Wisconsin, February 7, 1864, and is a daughter of Patrick and Mary (Dorsey) Mullowney.

The father of Mrs. Terry was born in 1828 in Ireland, and the mother was born in 1836 at Syracuse, New York. They were married in Juneau County, Wisconsin, and settled in Seven-Mile Creek Township, where he took up Government land. TTie mother of Mrs. Terry died there in 1896 and the father in 1908. They had a family of eleven children, as follows : Eliza, Mary, Edward, Ann, Ellen, James, John, William, Kate, Severnia and Frances, all of whom are living except William and Frances.

To Mr. and Mrs. Terry six children have been born, namely : Mary, who is the wife of Robert Cleary; Margaret, who is a popular teacher in the county, attended the Reedsburg training school and was graduated in 1911 from the La Crosse State Normal School, and for seven years has devoted herself to educational work; Helen, who, like her sister, is well educated, after graduating from the Reedsburg High School becoming a student in the La Crosse State Normal School, from which she was graduated in 1911, and has been a successful teacher for four years; Patrick, who is a farmer in Delton Township; and Francis and Edward, both of whom died in infancy. Mr. Terry and family belong to the Roman Catholic Church.

Sylvester E. King. Shrewd business ability, special adaptiveness to his calling, appreciation of its many advantages, and belief in his own power to succeed, placed Sylvester E. King among the foremost and most substantial promoters of agriculture in Sauk County. From the prairies his unaided industry brought forth ample means, permitting his retirement to Baraboo in 1912 and his consigning to younger hands the tasks that made up the sum of his existence during his active years. He has a modern and well-furnished home at 115 Sixth Avenue, and is regarded as one of the financially strong and morally high retired farmers.

Mr. King was born on Sauk Prairie, Sauk County, Wisconsin, January 12, 1845, and is a son of Eli and Clarinda (Eaton) King. He belongs to one of the old families of this region, his grandfather, Hosea King, having settled on Sauk Prairie among the pioneers of 1842. He became one of the extensive and prominent farmers of his day, and when he founded a hotel a small community grew up about it, the name of the hamlet being called King's Corners in his honor. He had come from Ohio, and by his two marriages was the father of ten children, among whom were : Eli, Hosea, Garress Norman, David, Solomon, Lucinda and Alvira, by his first wife, and Reubeu and two others by his second wife. Eli King, father of Sylvester E., was bom in Ohio and there educated, reared and married, his wife, Clarinda Eaton, being also a native of the Buckeye State. They accompanied Hosea King's party to Sauk County in 1842, and here Eli King bought out a claim of 120 acres, to which he subsequently added forty acres, and still later twenty acres, continuing to be engaged in farming throughout his life. He was one of the industrious and energetic men of his community, an intelligent farmer who used the most modern methods of his day and a man bearing an excellent reputation in business circles. As he had learned the blacksmith trade in his youth he often had recourse to this vocation, not alone in the repairing of his own implements and tools, but in doing work for the farmers of his neighborhood, and his little blacksmith shop stood as a landmark and memento of the old days until recent years. As a citizen Mr. King filled various township offices, and for quite a period was a melnber of the school board. He and his wife were the parents of six children : Sylvester E. ; Euphemia, deceased; Malinda, deceased; Mary, deceased; Myrtie, who is the wife of Grant Pobjoy and resides on the old Pobjoy family homestead in Sauk County; and Irving, deceased.

The boyhood and youth of Sylvester E. King were passed on the homestead farm, where he acquired a thorough knowledge of agricultural work, while his education was secured first in an old log schoolhouse on Sauk Prairie and later at the old Baraboo Institute, under the instruction of Professor Hobert. He adopted farming when he came of age and succeeded to the old family homestead, which he managed to such good advantage that when he was ready for retirement he had accumulated 230 acres. This was a well-developed, fertile and finelyimproved farm, which Mr. King sold to his son-in-law in 1912, on March 3d of which year he took up his residence at Baraboo. He has since lived in quiet retirement, enjoying the comforts that his years of hard labor had earned. Mr. King is a republican and for a long period was one of the prominent and influential men of his party in his locality. He served as township treasurer for five years, as a member of the school board in Sumpter Township for fifteen years, and as justice of the peace for five years, and his public record was one which was clean and commendable, his services always being of a character to attract and retain the confidence of the people of his community. With his family he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been generous in his support of worthy enterprises, whether civic, religious or charitable, and his influence has been felt in the securing of reforms which has made his section better governed and a more desirable place in which to reside.

Mr. King was married March 24, 1869, to Miss Salome Almeda Burdick, who was born July 31, 1849, in Clinton County, New York, daughter of Stephen and Betsey (Cadwell) Burdick, natives of the Empire State, the former born in 1823 and the latter in 1826. The parents of Mrs. King brought their family to Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1851, and located first in Baraboo Township, where they bought a farm, but subsequently sold this and went to Sauk Prairie, where they obtained another property. There Mrs. Burdick died in 1863, having been the mother of tlie following children : Amelia, deceased ; Ira, who died March 5, 1917 ; Salome Almeda, who became Mrs. King ; Mary, Julia and William, who are all deceased; Charles H., who is a passenger locomotive engineer on the Northwestern Railway and resides at Baraboo; and Clementine and Peter, who are deceased. Mr. Burdick was later married to Miss Amanda Roberts, and they became the parents of two children : Edwin and Clara, the former of whom is now deceased. When he was elected to the office of sheriff of Sauk County in 1864 Mr. Burdick came to make his home at Baraboo, having formerly been chairman of the board of township supervisors in Sumpter Township and a member and clerk of the school board. He was likewise a member of Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Free and Accepted Masons. Later he went to North Freedom, where he became foreman, of a fence gang in the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and while thus engaged was at the head of thirty men. Still later he went to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he attended gates at the railroad crossing until his retirement, when he returned to Baraboo, and here died in 1906. His widow, who survives him, resides at North Yakima, Washington. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. King were Lester and Hannah Burdick, who came to Sauk County in 1851 and passed their lives here, the former being for many years a well known veterinary surgeon.

One child was born to Mr. and Mrs. King: Bessie, born in 1871, who became the wife of Marvin Wilson, of Sauk Prairie, and they had one son, Ivan, bom in 1898. The mother died in 1900, and her husband and son are now residing on a cattle ranch in North Dakota.

I. J. NoRRis, one of the oldest men living in Merrimack Township, being now in his ninetieth year, has been a resident of Sauk County since the early '70s and has lived a purposeful and worthy life and one that entitles him to the high respect paid his name. Mr. Norris was born at Danbury, New Hampshire, November 27, 1827. His birth occurred while Andrew Jackson was President of the United States, before a single line of important railroad had been constructed in this country or in the world, and only two years after the opening of the Erie Canal to traffic. He was almost grown before the telegraph was invented, and was nearly past military age when the Civil war was fought. Few men have had such a remarkable period of history within their own lives.

Mr. Norris is a son of William C. and Sarah (Elliott) Norris. His father was born in Massachusetts, and early moved to New Hampshire. The mother was a native of England and brought to this country by her parents when she was a small child. She died in New Hampshire in 1877 and the father in 1879.

I. J. Norris grew up and received his schooling in the district schools of New Hampshire. When he was thirty-one years of age in 1858 he married Harriet Augusta Leeds, who was born in 1840. They lived together seven years after celebrating their fiftieth or golden wedding anniversary. Mrs. Norris passed away in 1915. The youngest of their six children is now nearly forty years of age. George William, who was born in New Hampshire in 1860, is postmaster at Beaver Crossing, Nebraska; Charles B., who was born at Yaphank, Long Island, in 1862, died twelve years ago ; Daniel C, born in New Jersey in 1864, is married and lives at Bruster, Nebraska, and has five children. Nellie Erma, born at Portage, Wisconsin, in 1870, is the wife of William Taylor, a mechanic living in Chicago; Ned J., born in 1875 in Merrimack Township of Sauk County, is still living in that community at his father's home and is married and has three children; Bertha B., the youngest child, was born in 1880, and is the wife of William A. Rogers, of Madison, Wisconsin.

Portage, and the following year at Baraboo. He then moved to Merrimack Township, where he has lived for the past forty-five years. For fifteen years Mr. Norris was connected with the Chicago & Northwestern Railway as boss of the grading gangs. He then secured his present farm of 85% acres iu Merrimack Township and has given his later years to its superintendence and management. Mr. Norris knows all the experiences of farming, and has benefited both from the era of high prices as well as low prices. He sold wheat at 50 cents a bushel, butter at 10 cents a pound and eggs at 6 cents a dozen. He did all the clearing of his land and used oxen for a number of years. His individual integrity has commended him to the confidence of his fellow citizens, who have frequently requested his service in public positions. For ten years he was a member of the school board, served several years on the town board and was justice of the peace several terms. In politics he is a democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his wife having also been a devout member of that denomination.

George Ferber has lived in Sauk County more than seventy years. His endeavors as a practical farmer were liberally prospered, and in later years he has lived at Sauk City largely retired, though he has never permitted himself to be without some useful occupation and interest. He is one of the best known citizens in that part of the county.

Mr. Ferber was born in Switzerland November 19, 1842, but was brought to America in 1846 by his parents, Felix and Margaret (Parrli) Ferber. Both parents were natives of Switzerland and on coming to America they located in Sauk City. A short time later Felix Ferber took up a tract of Government land in Honey Creek Township. He was busied with its care and development for about two years and then returned to Sauk City, where he died in 1853. Felix Ferber was a tailor by trade, an occupation he had learned in his native land. There was little demand for the services of a tailor in the pioneer times of Sauk County, and regular occupation thus being denied him at his chosen pursuit he found work wherever it offered. Felix Ferber and wife had five children : George ; Alec, who is now living retired at West Allis, Wisconsin, and his three children are all married ; Badger, deceased ; Henry, who is married and lives in Sauk City ; and John, also deceased. The mother of these children died when seventy-six years of age.

. George Ferber, being the oldest of the family, had to assume unusual responsibilities and burdens soon after the death of his father. He was eleven years of age when his father died and at the age of thirteen he began working at wages on neighboring farms in order to contribute to the support and maintenance of the household, consisting of his mother and five children. In this way he worked hard and earnestly until he was nineteen.

Mr. Ferber has a record as a soldier of the Union army which will always be cherished by his descendants. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Ninth Wisconsin Infantry, and saw 3i/4 years of active service. He was in many of the notable campaigns of the South, and at the close of the war he laid down his arms and came home with health much impaired by his hardships. After resting a year he went out to California with his brother Alec and for three years they worked at the logging business. After coming back to Sauk County George Ferber bought a farm, and in the fall of 1870 he was joined by his brother Alec. Two years later Alec sold his interest in the place to George, and the latter then had active charge and continued farming as his vocation until about nine years ago. He then sold his farm, which had greatly increased in value in the meantime, and has since lived in Sauk City.

In 1873 Mr, Ferber married Miss Louisa Meyer. She died in 1890, leaving six children : George, who is unmarried and lives in Sumpter Township ; Henry, a machinist living at Milwaukee and married ; Millie, wife of Anton Dietrichson, a resident of Payette, Idaho, and they have three children; Clara, deceased; Walter, who is a Government employe in Washington; Louis, who is unmarried and living in Chicago, where he is connected with the postoffice. In 1893 Mr. Ferber married Anna B. Myer. One child was born of that union, Alec, who is married and lives in Sauk City. All the children were well educated in the public schools of Sauk City. Louis also spent two years in the Toland Business College at La Crosse.

Mr. Ferber has had much to do with public affairs in his section of the county. For ten years he served as school clerk, was on the town board six years, was a member of the village board in Sauk City seven years, and for nineteen years was on the Farmers Insurance Board. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World.

Paul Cahoon is both a farmer and business man and has exemplified the progressive spirit which has put Sauk County far ahead in the matter of agriculture and agricultural organization and system.

He is also an auctioneer by profession, but his chief business has' been centered around farm enterprise. He was born in Baraboo Township of Sauk County February 23, 1875, was educated in the public schools and grew up in a rural community. In 1900 Mr. Cahoon bought the farm he now owns in Baraboo Township. It comprises 120 acres, and has become highly developed under his direction in the way of first class improvements.

Mr, Cahoon and two of his neij^hbors built the first three concrete silos in Baraboo Township. He is a dairyman and keeps a herd of fine Jerseys. In 1915 the farmers of about twenty-two counties in Wisconsin organized a packing company, with plant at Madison, known as the Farm Cooperative Packing Company. Mr. Cahoon under the auspices of the organization established the shipping association of the company during 1916-17. He is also one of the organizers of the Excelsior Creamery Cooperative Company of Baraboo and served as its treasurer for about nine years. This is a consolidation of several creameries in and around Baraboo, and one of them was known as the Excelsior Creamery, and that name was taken for the larger association. Mr. Cahoon was a member of the building committee which established the fine plant at Baraboo.

father was one of the pioneers of Sauk County, and extended reference to his career and family history will be found on other pages. His mother, who was born in Walworth County, Wisconsin, July 4, 1846, and died at Baraboo June 13, 1905,. was an early day teacher in Sauk County. His father cleared up 215 acres of land in the woods of Baraboo Township. His later years have been spent in retirement and he now resides at Baraboo. Paul was the fourth in a family of six sons. The oldest, Wells, was killed in a railroad accident in 1892, when about twenty-five years of age. Concerning Wilber, a farmer of Baraboo Township, mention is made on other pages. Lee H. went to the Northwest when about eighteen years of age and has since become an extensive farmer, horse dealer and cattle feeder in Montana. Roger, the next younger than Paul, is a physician at Baraboo. Ora, the youngest, was graduated from the Baraboo High School at the age of seventeen, the University of Wisconsin at twenty-one, and then worked on the ranch of his brother. By profession he is an electrical engineer and served at one time as superintendent of the electric light plant at Chippewa Falls, subsequently was with the large Moline factory, and is now at Chicago, employed as an expert by the Sturdevant Company, manufacturing motors for aeroplanes and submarines for the Government.

Mr. Paul Cahoon served as treasurer of Baraboo Township for three years and is an independent in politics. He is affiliated with Baraboo Lodge No. 234, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with the Knights of Pythias at Baraboo and the Modem Woodmen of America. He was married in 1895 to Miss Myrtie Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer and a granddaughter of Thomas Spencer, one of the pioneers of Sauk County. Mr. and Mrs. Cahoon have four children: Ruth, who graduated from the Baraboo High School in 1917; Horace, who has completed the work of the Baraboo public schools and is now in Company I, Sixth National Guards of Wisconsin ; Ethel, a junior in high school ; and Myrna, also in the public schools.

He has lived in Wisconsin since childhood, and was born in Madison County, New York, in 1842. His great-grandfather, Samuel Spencer, was a soldier in the Revolutionary army in the struggle for independence. His grandfather, Reuben Spencer, was married February 22, 1807, to Nancy Chapman, and they removed from Connecticut to the vicinity of Oneida Lake in New York.

Thomas H. Spencer, father of Charles L., was born in Connecticut October 1, 1813, and was married August 16, 1841, to Miss Nancy Maria Maynard, who was born in Massachusetts February 15, 1819. In 1850 Thomas H. Spencer moved to Wisconsin and in 1861 located in Sauk County on a farm 31/2 miles west of the City of Baraboo. He was a practical farmer and spent his last years in retirement at Baraboo, where he died in 1897. His wife passed away in 1886. Their children were Charles; Julia, born October 14, 1843; Maude A., born June 26, 1846 Louisa, born March 14, 1848; Nancy Jane, born February 14, 1850

When Charles L. Spencer was eight years old his parents removed from New York to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and two years later to Lodi, Wisconsin, He there attended school and in 1857 removed to Caledonia in Columbia County, Wisconsin. In 1861 he came to Sauk County, and after living here about two years enlisted, on July 4, 1863, in Company C of the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. Mr. Spencer saw two years and three months of active service in the Union army and was not granted his discharge until November 21, 1865, some months after the close of actual hostilities. For years he has been a member of the Grand Army Post at Baraboo.

After the war he returned to Sauk County and took up farming. He still has his well improved farm of eighty-five acres but since 1910 has lived retired at Baraboo. Politically he is a republican.

On December 28, 1868, Mr. Spencer married Miss Salena Jones, who was born in Walworth County, Wisconsin, in 1850, a daughter of David and Maria (Delap) Jones, both natives of New York State. Her parents removed to Walworth County, Wisconsin, locating on a farm, and in 1854 came to Sauk County, where her father died April 3, 1861, at the age of forty-one. Her mother attained the age of eightyfour and died May 9, 1916. Mrs. Spencer was the oldest of eight children, the others being Elizabeth, Abbie, Rosa, David, Fred and Byrd.

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer have four children: Rosette, Arthur, Myrtie, wife of Mr. Paul Cahoon, and Charles Hardy. Rosette is the wife of Fred Burdick, of Baron County, Wisconsin. Their children are named Harold, Irwin, Lester, Willis, Cecil and Helen Salina. Charles Hardy, who occupies his father's farm in Baraboo Township, married Gladys Pearson, a daughter of C. L. Pearson, formerly state senator. Their four children are named Charles Lavern, Thomas Hardy, Ruth Blanche and Pearson.

Joseph E. Premo. The old pioneer family of Premo, which was established in Sauk County in 1850, has among its worthy representatives some of the leading men of this section, one of whom is Joseph E. Premo, who is well known in this section of the state in the livestock industry. Mr. Premo was born in Merrimac Township, Sauk County, June 17, 1864. His parents were Charles and Eliza Ann (Astle) Premo.

Charles Premo was born in 1835, in the State of New York, and died on his farm in Sauk County in 1901. He was a son of Joseph and Melvina (Delegerie) Premo, both of whom were bom in France. In 1850 they came to Sauk County and located first in Sumpter Township, improved property in the county and he died in Merrimac Township in 1877 and his wife died in 1880. He married Eliza Ann Astle, who was born in England in 1837, a daughter of William Astle, and died in Sumpter Township in 1903. Of their family of eight children three survive, namely: Stephen, Joseph E. and William H., and the follow-r ing are deceased : Sarah, Elizabeth, Herman, Ada and George.

Sumpter Township. Under the supervision of his father he learned the principles of agriculture and when ready to enter upon business life for himself found his knowledge thorough and practical.

In 1901 Mr. Premo bought his first farm, consisting of 103 acres situated in Baraboo Township, near Devil's Lake. In 1908 he bought the farm in Greenfield Township that is now owned by his brother William, to whom he sold it in 1912, when he bought the old Albert McGilvra farm of seventy-two acres and also a tract of twenty-five acres in Greenfield Township. This was followed by a purchase of twenty acres located within the eity limits of Baraboo, being a part of the Stanley farm. Mr. Premo devotes the larger part of his acreage to the maintenance of his extensive stock and cattle industries. For sixteen years he has been a heavy breeder of Poland China hogs and Shropshire sheep, and he stands among the foremost in this part of Wisconsin as a successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle. He has made adequate provision and many improvements of his different properties, insuring the best of conditions for his valuable stock. Mr. Premo is a man of enterprise and belongs to the modern type of agriculturist, to which not only the United States but the world is turning an anxious eye in anticipation of future needs.

Mr. Premo was married May 2, 1892, to Miss Emma E. Fowler, who was born near Lansing, Clinton County, Michigan, September 8, 1870. She is a daughter of Dr. John and Mary (Blodgett) Fowler. Doctor Fowler and wife had four children, namely: Eva, who is the wife of John Searls and lives in Montana; James; Emma E., who is the wife of Joseph E. Premo; Dora, who died at the age of three years. Doctor Fowler, father of Mrs. Premo, was born in England in 1842 and her mother was born in Ohio in 1841. They came to Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, in 1882, and there Doctor Fowler engaged in the practice of medicine for three years. In 1885 he came to Baraboo for a time and then went back to Michigan, his earlier home, where he practiced one year more and then returned to Baraboo. Here he died June 21, 1916, his wife passing away at Baraboo in 1899. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Premo, as follows : Ada May, who is a graduate of the Greenfield public school, the Baraboo High School and the State Normal at Plattville, Wisconsin, and she taught school most acceptably for two years; Flora, Charles and Alice, all of whom have creditably completed their public school courses in the grade schools and the latter became a student in the Baraboo High School in 1917 ; Selinda Berniee ; and Nellie Margaret, who died in infancy.

Mr. Premo is nominally a republican in politics but is a man well able to do his own thinking and on many subjects entertains independent ideas that regulate his support of political candidates at times. He has never been desirous of political honors for himself but once consented to serve as road overseer in Baraboo Township and has always displayed & commendable interest in the public schools.

Samuel P. Searle. Of the men who have actively participated in the agricultural transformation of Sauk County during the past half century none are better or more favorably known than Samuel P. Searle, of Delton Township. Mr. Searle has had a long and active career and for a number of years has been in a position where he might retire and enjoy financial independence.

Mr. Searle is a native of England, where he was born April 19, 1847. His parents were William and Ann (Pollard) Searle, both natives of England and of English ancestry. In 1859 they crossed the ocean with their family to Quebec, soon came to the United States, spending about two months at London, Ohio, then went to Rockford, Illinois, and in 1860 to Mauston, Juneau County, Wisconsin. Still later they located in Columbia County, Wisconsin, and in October, 1867, established their home in Delton Township of Sauk County. Here the father bought the eighty acres now owned by his son Samuel and also eighty acres which he subsequently sold and is now owned by Edward Terry. The father acquired another farm of eighty acres and later a place of 160 acres in Excelsior Township. He was a very practical business man and to his qualifications as a farmer he added the experience and skill of a veterinary surgeon. During the American Civil war he was in active service one year, enlisting in the Tenth Battery of Light Artillery, with which he went to St. Louis and subsequently transferred to the Ninth Battery and crossed the plains to Pike's Peak on an expedition against the Indians. He died in Sauk County in December, 1891, at the age of eighty-two. His wife passed away March 26, 1874. In politics he was a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. He and his wife had the following children: John, deceased; George, who became a sailor and died and was buried at Havana, Cuba; Samuel, who was third in age; Elizabeth, who died in 1916 ; and William Francis, a resident of Barron County, Wisconsin.

Samuel P. Searle was twelve years of age when he came with his parents to America. He had received his first instruction in the schools of England, and for a brief time attended school in this country. At the age of fifteen he tried to enlist in the Union army, but was rejected on account of his extreme youth. His early life was spent on a farm and farming became his permanent calling in life. He still owns and occupies the eighty acres of the old homestead acquired by his father fifty years ago and he has added to this forty acres. The passing of years has brought many improvements through his hands, and in his earlier and more active years he spent many weary days cutting down trees and grubbing up stumps. He has most of the land under cultivation, improved with good buildings, and is one of the leading general farmers and stock raisers in Delton Township. He has served as township supervisor and was chairman of the board for three years. Politically he is a republican.

On June 4, 1874, Mr. Searle married Miss Constantine Welch, who died September 25, 1880, leaving two children : Louis Claude and Grace Ann, the latter the wife of James Fry, son of A. H. Fry. Louis Claude, when fourteen years old, suffered the loss of a leg and at the age of sixteen he attended a school of telegraphy. At the age of eighteen he" started in as a telegraph operator, and is now train dispatcher at Three Forks, Montana.

Graves. She was born in Delton Township of Sauk County April 21, 1859, and belong^s to one of the pioneer families of Sauk County. Her parents were Willett Johnson and Rebecca (Murphy) Graves, the former a native of New York and the latter of Pennsylvania. They came to Sauk County when young people, were married here, and after their marriage they located in Delton Township, where her father followed farming actively until his death in 1883, at the age of sixty-three. Mrs. Searle's mother died in Baraboo in 1912, at the advanced age of seventy-nine. Mrs. Searle was one of nine children : Carrie, Lettie, George, Melissa, Moses, Daniel, Arthur, Mary and Albert. Mrs. Searle 's father was for a number of years a member of the school board in Delton Township,

To Mr. and Mrs. Searle were born nine children: Clara, the oldest, is the wife of Clyde McFarland, of Tacoma, Washington, and they have a daughter, Catherine ; Catherine, the second child, was formerly a teacher and is now the wife of John Owen, their home being in the State of Oregon; Martha married Otto Powell and they have two children, William Searle and Arlene; Jennie is a graduate of the Reedsburg Training School and has been a successful teacher for eight years; Samuel P. is a graduate of the Baraboo Business College and lives at Milwaukee ; William is still at home ; Eva Belle died in infancy ; Howard died at the age of six years ; and Ruth, the youngest, is now in the junior class of the Baraboo High School.

James W. Dibble. Through three successive generations members of the Dibble, family have been connected with the boot and shoe making trade in Sauk County. James W. Dibble is a son of a pioneer shoemaker of Baraboo, and he himself followed that business throughout his active career but is now living retired. His son still continues the trade in Baraboo.

For sixty-seven years a resident of Sauk County and an honored veteran of the Civil war, James W. Dibble was born at Danbury, Connecticut, February 2, 1845, a son of James S. and Julia (Johnson) Dibble. His parents arrived in Baraboo July 7, 1850, when that city was a mere village and when most of the surrounding country was a wilderness. James S. Dibble worked at his trade as a shoemaker in the employ of Andrew Anders for a number of years. Both he and his wife died in Baraboo. They had three children : Julius R., who became a soldier in the Civil war and died at St. Louis while still in the army, in 1863 ; Jasper Rufus, who died at Baraboo in 1897 ; and James W.

James W. Dibble was five years of age when brought to Baraboo. The family had made the journey from Milwaukee to this frontier town with covered wagons. He attended some of the first public schools at Baraboo and was still a youth of eighteen when on December 16, 1863, he enlisted in Company F of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry. He was with that splendid regiment during its later service in the war, and he performed all the arduous duties assigned to him and gave nearly two years of his young life to the cause. He was mustered out in October, 1865, and then returned to Baraboo and began active work as a shoemaker. For thirty-four years he was connected with the Marriott Shoe

Company. For about twelve years he lived at Bloomer in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, where he also followed his trade and on returning to Baraboo he began work with the E. G. Marriott Shoe Company and was with them continuously until quite recently, when he retired, after having been a follower of his trade for nearly half a century.

Mr. Dibble has been a loyal republican since he followed the flag of the Union during the Civil war. He is now commander of Joe Hooker Post No. 9, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Wisconsin, and has served as its commander three different years and as chaplain two years.