Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 14 of 20)

Henry Ost. One of the up-to-date farmers and stockraisers of Sauk County is Henry Ost, proof of which is seen in his finely improved and carefully cultivated farm and his pure-bred stock, his beautiful herd of Ilolsteins being much in evidence. Mr. Ost belongs to a fine old family of the county, one that has belonged to Reedsburg Township for about sixty-two years. ' Henry Ost was bom in Reedsburg Township, Sauk County, Wis- consin, October 21, 1871. His parents were Ferdinand and Frederika (Garske) Ost, both of whom were born in Germany. Ferdinand Ost came to the United States and to Sauk County in his youth and here was subsequentlj^ married to Frederika Garske, who came to Reedsburg, "Wisconsin, with her parents, William and Henrietta (Koplein) Garske. After his marriage Ferdinand Ost bought a farm in Reedsburg Township consisting of 120 acres, and made a number of improvements on the place and then sold it and bought another farm, the second farm containing 152 acres. He took pride and interest in this property and worked hard and made numerous improvements. About ten years before his death he moved to Reedsburg and there he died in his seventyfifth year. His wife died at the age of sixty-five years. They had the following children : Augusta, Henry, Albert, William, Fred, Matilda and Anna.

Henry Ost was eighteen years old when his parents moved on the farm he now owns. He had attended public schools and was ready to give his father assistance and continued with him until the father's retirement, and at the latter 's death inherited the farm. The improvements that Mr. Ost had made are of a substantial kind. He has erected one of the finest residences in the township, and with its equipments of hot and cold water and electric light from his own plant is not excelled in comfort and convenience by any in the Town of Reedsburg. He uses modern methods on his farm and understands the scientific advantage of them, has a silo for winter feeding and has adopted other modern plans that have been found of benefit. He takes justifiable pride in his fine herd of Holstein cattle.

Mr. Ost was married in 1894 to Miss Marie Flohr, who was born in Germany and was a daughter of Henry and Marie (Wolter) Flohr, who came to Reedsburg in 1890 and bought a farm in this vicinity, which they later sold and now live retired at Reedsburg. They had four children: Henry, Marie, Ernest and William. Mrs. Ost died in 1904, leaving two children : Hugo and Maria. In 1906 Mr. Ost was married to Miss Augusta Pufhal, who was born at Reedsburg, a daughter of Ferdinand and Henrietta (Schultz) Pufhal. No children have been born to Mr. Ost's second marriage.

Ferdinand Pufhal, father of Mrs. Ost, was born in Germany, November 13, 1847, a son of William and Henrietta Pufhal, who in 1857 came to Sauk County and both are living near Reedsburg. Ferdinand and Henrietta Pufhal had the following children: Augusta, Emma, Herman, Henry, Martha and Berdina. Ferdinand Pufhal accompanied his parents to Sauk County in 1857 and still resides here and owns a farm of 120 acres in this township. He is a well known and respected citizen.

In politics Mr. Ost is a staunch democrat, as was his father. The latter was a leading man in public matters while living in Reedsburg Township and served three years as a member of the board of supervisors, being a member at the time the bridge was built at Reedsburg, an important era in local public affairs, having much to do with the town 's subsequent development. Henry Ost is also an active citizen and has served six years on the board of supervisors, being progressive but prudent, as was his father, and he is serving at present on the town-

E. J. Battles. The importance of the practical real estate man to any live community is very well demonstrated in the recognition he receives in every locality, for through his efforts and honestly purposeful actions communities are developed and outside capital attracted. While unfortunately there are some who unscrupulously take unfair advantage of their position, the majority of the men engaged in realty transactions are men of probity, upon whose advice and recommendations the investors may rely. Baraboo is one of the flourishing cities of Wisconsin which has advanced greatly through the operations of this class of men, and one who has done much for his city in this respect is E. J. Battles. During a. long business career Mr. Battles has been engaged in a variety of ventures, but since 1906 has been identified with the real estate and insurance business, and has taken his place as one of the city's sound and reliable business citizens.

E. J. Battles was born on a farm four and one -half miles north of Baraboo in Sauk County, Wisconsin, and is a son of James and Rebecca (Teel) Battles. Mrs. Battles was born in New York, was taken to Illinois as a child, and in 1845 was brought to Sauk County, Wisconsin, by her parents, Benjamin and Theda (Morrill) Teel. Aaron Teel, Mrs. Battles' brother, now lives on the farm that was originally settled by her father in 1845. Mrs. Battles died in June, 1872, when her son E. J. was nine years of age, he having been born January 24, 1863. James Battles was bom in Maine and when a youth, in 1847, was brought to Sauk County, Wisconsin, by his parents, James and Abigail (Hackett) Battles, who passed the remainder of their lives here. ]\Ir. Battles met his death in 1866, while working at the Summer Mills, being drowned when the dam went out on Kickapoo Run. There were three children in the family : Barton, of Baraboo ; Frankie M., who is the wife of S. A. Pelton, of Baraboo; and E. J.

E. J. Battles was but nine years of age when he was made an orphan by the death of his mother, and from that time forward until he was seventeen years of age he was reared in the home of Wyman Getchell. His early education was secured in the district schools, which he attended during the winter months, and for three years he was employed in working as a farm hand for monthly wages. Next he took a course at the American School of Telegraphy, at Madison, and while thus worked at Brooklyn for one summer, and then resumed farming operations on the homestead of his uncle, Aaron Teel, with whom he worked for two years. In November, 1886, Mr. Battles was married to Miss Elizabeth Malloy, who was born on a farm north of Baraboo, and in that same year bought a farm in Sauk County, and for the next ' fourteen years confined his efforts to agricultural pursuits. During the last eight years of this time he was treasurer of his home town of Fairfield, and the excellent manner in which he discharged the duties of his official position made such a favorable impression on the people that when he came to Baraboo in 1900 he was elected county treasurer of Sauk County. He vindicated the faith placed in him and was re- elected to succeed himself, being the incumbent of that office for a period of four years in all and establishing an excellent record. Following this he was made deputy sheriff, a position in which he served one fullterm and a part of another, resigning during the latter to take up the duties of clerk of the County Court, to which office he had been appointed and in which he completed the term. Mr. Battles was then made oil inspector of his district, and still retains this post. In 1906 Mr. Battles embarked actively in the real estate and insurance business, to which he has given his attention to the present time with gratifying success. He has sought to keep himself thoroughly informed as to relative values' of property, and has been the medium through which some large and important deals have been consummated. In addition to city realty and farm property in and about Baraboo he is extensively interested in Montana lands. As an insurance man he represents all the old-line insurance companies. Mr. Battles and the members of his family belong to the Presbyterian Church. He is fraternally affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the B. R. F. F., the Equitable Fraternal Union and the Mystic "Workers of the World. In his political views he adheres to the principles and policies of the republican party. In a business way and otherwise he has done much to assist the advancement of his community and all public-spirited movements have his support.

Mr. and Mrs. Battles are the parents of four children, namely: Lura, who is the wife of J. S. Davidson of Fort Morgan, Colorado, and has one child, Richard B. ; Tracy R., who is conducting the Montana ranch; Lloyd E., who completed his course in the graded schools and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, class of 1917, is now in the United States Marine Corps, Eighty-fourth Company, Sixth Regiment; and Ruth F., who resides at home and is attending school.

John Paul Stabnow. One of -the enterpri.sing men and progressive modern farmers of Freedom Township, Sauk County, is John Paul Stabnow, whose well improved farm contains 320 acres. Mr. Stabnow was born on this place, the old family homestead, May 28, 1876. His parents were Siegfred and Wilhelmina (Krause) Stabnow.

Siegfred Stabnow was born, educated and reared in Germany, his birth taking place February 5. 1826. In 1855, accompanied by his family, he came to Watertown, Wisconsin, where he resided three years, coming to Sauk County in 1858 and settling in Freedom Township. He acquired 320 acres and cleared a large acreage himself being a man of great industry and rolnist health. He continued his residence on this property until the year 1899, when he moved to Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, remaining there until 1908 when he removed to the old homestead where he remained until the time of his death, which occurred January 19, 1915. He was a republican in politics and M^as a member of the Evangelical Church. Pie was twice married, first in Germany, 'to Augusta Sastrow, who died June 28, 1866. Eight children were born to that marriage, as follows : Wilhelmina, Herman Frederick, Bertha Louisa, William Charles, Henry Ferdinand, Minna Christina, Anna

Mary and Louisa Anna. On November 9, 1867, Siegfred Stabnow was married to Wilhelmina Krause, who was born in Germany, October 9, 1842. Her parents were Edmond and Wilhelmina (Glasnap) Krause, who came to Sauk County in 1871 and died here. To the second marriage the following children were born : August Frederick, Carl Albert, Amelia Augusta, Ernest Frederick, John Paul and Anna Eliza.

John Paul Stabnow has always resided on the old homestead, which became his own property by purchase in 1915. With his brothers and sisters he attended school in Freedom Township and under the direction of their capable father and sons all became good farmers. Although Mr. Stabnow has not done much building since owning the property, it not being necessary because his father had put up very substantial structures, he has made other improvements, has invested in first-class farm machinery and has improved his grade of stock. He is numbered with the successful farmers of the county. In politics he is a republican and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is not married but his mother resides with him and he is thus assured as to having a comfortable home.

Ernest F. Stabnow, the fourth born in the family of Siegfred and Wilhelmina (Krause) Stabnow, was born on the old homestead in Freedom Township, Sauk County, June 14, 1874. He attended the public schools and remained on the home farm until prepared to go into business for himself. In 1902 he bought the John Rooney farm of 200 acres, situated in Freedom Township, and has made very extensive improvements,.recently completing a home which is one of the finest in the township. Like his brother, John Paul, he carries on general farming and stockraising and has a fine herd of Shorthorn cattle.

Mr. Stabnow was married in 1900 to Miss Ida Pagel, who was born in Sauk County in 1881, and is a daughter of Frederick and Augusta Pagel, the former of whom was born in 1850 and the latter in 1854, in Germany, from which country they came to the United States, were married in 1879 and settled in Sauk County, Wisconsin. They had eight children, namely: Paul, who is deceased, Ida, Albert, Paul Carl, Herman, Emma, Elsa and Alma. Mr. and Mrs. Stabnow have two children : Clarence, who was born in Januarj^ 1904 ; and Lawrence, who was born September 19, 1907.

Ernest F. Stabnow, like his brother, is a republican in politics and is quite active in township affairs. He served as township supervisor and at present is clerk of the school board, an office he has held for eleven years. With his family he attends the Lutheran Church at North Freedom. The entire Stabnow family is held in high regard in Sauk County.

Roy Chester Steele. That class of citizens whose efforts are directed to the cultivation of the soil and raising of the food stuffs which help supply the demands of the world is represented in Sauk County by Roy Chester Steele, one of the intelligent and progressive farmers of Delton Township.

Mr. Steele was born on the old Steele homestead in Delton Township May 19, 1883, and represents one of the oldest and most prominent families of Sauk County. The founder of the family in this region was

William, Steele, great-grandfather of Roy Chester. William Steele was known all over Sauk County as "Uncle Billy Steele." He was a remarkable character in more ways than one. He came to Sauk County along with the first settlers, and was closely identified with the old settlement of Newport. He acquired a large amount of land there and at one time kept a hotel in the town. Doubtless his was the longest life of any man in the annals of Sauk County. At his death he had attained the age of a hundred and thirteen. His vigor and vitality were with him almost to the last. He was past the century mark when he broke a pair of steers to work. He also married his last wife after he was a centenarian.

Mr. Steele's grandfather was James Steele, who married Sarah Ann Smith. They settled at a very early date in Delton Township, where James Steele acquired 260 acres of land, which is still in the family name. He also owned a large amount of land around Newport. He had some of his father's vitality and died at Kilbourn, Wisconsin, in 1911, at the age of eighty-eight, while his wife passed away in 1915, at the age of seventy-eight. Their children were : Theodore, who died in 1913 ; Lorenzo M. ; Albert and Ida, twins, the former dying at the age of ten and the latter at nineteen ; and Ella, now ]\Irs. W. J. Hurlbut, of Reedsburg.

Lorenzo M. Steele, father of Roy Chester, was born in Delton Township on the same land now occupied by his son, October 18, 1857. He grew up on that farm, attended the public schools at Newport, and was a very successful farmer. Besides the homestead of 260 acres he added another sixty acres, making him a full half section. This remained under his successful management until 1912, when he removed to Kilbourn, where his death occurred November 26, 1915. He was a republican in politics and for many years served on the school board in the Steele district. He married Miss Louisa Anderson, who was born in the State of Iowa, June 17, 1863, and is still living at Kilbourn. Her parents once lived in Sauk County, at Newport, and later had the land included in the present farm of Albert P. Steele. Lorenzo M. Steele and wife had three children : Clara Mabel is the wife of Claud Newell, of Fairfield Township, and is the mother of two children, Genevieve and Everett. Albert P., the youngest child, owns and farms a part of the old homestead.

Roy Chester Steele grew up on the land which has been occupied by the family for over sixty years, attended the Steele district school, and has made a highly creditable record as a successful farmer on sixty acres of the old homestead. In politics he is a republican, but has never aspired to any official position, though well qualified for such duty.

June 6, 1905, he married Miss Celotta L. Allen. She was born in Fairfield Township of Sauk County, September 21, 1884. Her father is Mr. Charles C. Allen, now living at Baraboo and one of the prominent old-time residents of Sauk County. Mr. and Mrs. Steele have three children: Lavetta, born January 21, 1907; Dean, born July 4, 1913; and Elmer, born July 14, 1915.

yci&onal relations, and stood for the best things in the life of the community. Hardly less well known is his widow, Mrs. Anna Gasser, who for many years has conducted the leading millinery establishment at Prairie du Sac.

The late Mr. Gasser was born at Haldenstein, Graubinden, Switzerland, in January-, 1861. He was five years of age when in 1866 he accom- , panied his parents to America. The family located in Prairie du Sac Township, and there he was reared in a simple country atmosphere and attended the local schools. At the age of seventeen he went to Prairie du Sac and entered the employ of Conger Brothers as a clerk. In 1888 he formed a partnership with George Kindsehi and J. B. Ragatz in their general mercantile business. The title of the new firm, was Kindsehi, Ragatz and Gasser. They did a large business under that title for seven years. Mr. Ragatz and Mr. Gasser then bought the interests of Mr. Kindsehi, and after that the firm of Ragatz and Gasser was continued until the death of Mr. Gasser on November 27, 1909.

The success and energy he exemplified in his business affairs were duplicated in his activity as a church member. He was especially well known for Sabbath School work. He and his wife were both strong and active supporters of the Evangelical Church of Prairie du Sac. At the time of his death Mr. Gasser was secretary of the Sauk County Sunday School Association. His frequent attendance upon state and national conventions, his familiarity with the best and latest literature on Sunday School methods and his activity as president of the local Young People's Alliance contributed much to making him a most efficient worker among young people.

In 1887 Mr. Gasser married Miss Anna Glarner, daughter of Henry and Anna Margaret (Yagy) Glarner. Both her parents were natives of Switzerland. Her father was born August 26, 1821, and her mother March 21, 1831. Her father was born in Glarus, Canton Glarus, and her mother in Zitirs, Graubinden. Henry Glarner was a soldier in the Swiss army and spent four years in the service in Italy. He married his first wife in Switzerland and she died while they were crossing the ocean to America. He came on after this calamity and located at Galena, Illinois. In that town, on May 28, 1850, he married Miss Yagy, whose family had settled at Galena some time previously. She was a daughter of John Peter and Anna (Wilhelm) Yagy, both natives of Switzerland. John Peter Yagy died soon after he came to America. His widow subsequently removed to Sauk County, Wisconsin, and died there in the early '60s. In the Yagy family were six children: Barbara, Cecelia, Elizabeth, Margaret, John Peter and Anna. After his marriage at Galena Henry Glarner moved out to Dubuque, Iowa, but in 1858 located at Prairie du Sac, in Sauk County, where he continued his business as a jeweler. He had one of the pioneer establishments in that line in Sauk County, and was active at his work until his death in July, 1895. His wife died in 1902. Their children were : Barbara, wife of J. P. Witwen, of Baraboo; Anna, Mrs. Gasser of Prairie du Sac; Henrietta, of Baraboo, Wisconsin; Emma, widow of Jacob J. Felix, of Prairie du Sac ; Henry, who died in 1884, at the age of sixteen ; and Catherine, wife of H. L. Brethauer, of Baraboo. Henry Glarner was a republican in politics. He was especially active in behalf of temperance at a time when temperance views were not so common as at present. He was one of the organizers of the Evangelical Church and gave his liberal support to that denomination.

Mr. and Mrs. Gasser became the parents of one son and two daughters. Mrs. Gasser has now been in the millinery business for thirtyfour years. In April, 1883, she and her sister Henrietta, now of Baraboo, opened a millinery shop at Zumbrota, Minnesota. They remained at Zumbrota two seasons, and in February, 1884, returned to Prairie du Sac and established themselves in the parlor of their old home. Soon afterward they moved to the quarters still occupied by JMrs. Gasser, at the time that structure was completed. The sisters were business partners for ten years, when Miss Henrietta went to Clinton, Iowa, to take charge of a similar establishment for John Conger. Since then Mrs. Gasser has been in business for herself and has made a remarkable success. She has also carried on the business of dressmaking and for years has conducted what is in reality a dressmaking school. About two hundred ladies in this section of Sauk County learned the art in her establishment, and it is especially worthy of mention that many of the mothers who learned to sew under Mrs. Gasser 's efficient direction nearly a quarter of a century ago are now sending their daughters to the same skillful teacher.

Mrs. Gasser owns the old home where her father conducted the jewelry business for so many years. Her father from his work bench could view the beautiful hills across the Wisconsin River, and many times he remarked that these hills were as beautiful as the much celebrated scenery in Switzerland, his native land.

Mrs. Kate Teel, who has spent most of her life in Sauk County,, is the widow of the late Charles Teel, himself an early settler and long a prosperous farmer in Sumpter Township, where Mrs. Teel still lives.

Mrs. Teel was born in Broom County, New York, in 1844, and was brought to Sauk County at the age of twelve years by her parents, Charles and Ellen (Hoffman) Farington. Her parents were born in Dutchess County, New York, and were married in Poughkeepsie, and on coming to Sauk County located in Sumpter Township. About nine years later they moved out to the State of Iowa, but in 1884 returned to Sauk County and spent their last years where Mrs. Teel now resides. Her father died May 12, 1892, and her mother September 28, 1890.

Charles Teel's first wife was Miss Emma Cargil. Three children were bom to them : Henry J. Teel, now of Milwaukee ; Olive, now Mrs. George Grisim, of Northfield, Minnesota; and Frank, who died at the age of eighteen, when attending high school at Baraboo.

Mrs. Kate Farington Wilson was married in 1881 to Mr. Charles Teel. The two children of their union are both now deceased. The first died in infancy. The daughter Alta married Edwin Keitel, and she and her husband lived with Mrs. Teel on the farm. There is one child of that marriage, Shirley Catherine, who was born in 1910 and is a much beloved grandchild of Mrs. Teel. Mrs. Teel was first married to U. A. Wilson, and to that union was born one son, M. A. Wilson, now of Earl, North Dakota. He also has a son, Ivan A. Wilson.

Mr. Charles Teel was bom in Ohio, May 24, 1832, a son of Henry Teel. He died at the old home in Sauk County, May 23, 1898, at the age of sixty-six. In 1836 his parents moved to Helena, Wisconsin, and when he was eight years of age they came to Sauk Prairie and located on the place where Mrs. Teel now resides. This homestead was acquired direct from the Government and there Mr. Charles Teel spent his industrious years. The family first lived in a log house. The land was mostly prairie and the chief work animals in the early days were oxen. These animals hauled the wagons laden with grain and other produce to Milwaukee before railroads were constructed through this section. Mr. Teel's parents lived with him during their last years. His mother was born in Pennsylvania, February 9, 1786, and died October 2, 1882, at the remarkable age of ninety-seven years. Henry Teel died in 1856, when about sixty-nine years old. The family are all Methodists on both sides and both the Teels and Faringtons furnished numerous republican voters. Mr. Charles Teel was an honored resident of Sumpter Township and filled several local offices, including town clerk and member of the township board.

Hubert Bongard. The name of Hubert Bongard is one entitled to the high respect of the large community in Sauk County and to which he is bound by many ties made in the course of a long and useful life. He is one of Sauk County's oldest residents.

He was born in Germany, in 1823. In 1847 he married Gertrude Johnson. In the same year they set out for the New World, filled with high hopes of the future, and did not stop until they had penetrated the wilderness of Wisconsin into the Township of Prairie du Sac. Here Hubert Bongard took up seventy acres of Government land. Afterwards he bought forty acres more, and the strength of his own arms sufficed to do the clearing and grubbing and also the erection of his own buildings. His first house was built of logs. He made his own chairs, even his own wagons. Oxen were used to perform the farm labor and he hauled his produce to Madison and Milwaukee, frequently . selling potatoes at ten cents a bushel or three dollars a load, whereas now a single bushel would bring as much as a load did at that time. Even with these low prices two full days were required to make the trip front his farm to and from Madison. He also experienced all the crude and early methods of farming, and did harvesting with cradle and scythe and gradually saw the introduction of the modern machinery which is now found in every farm in Sauk County.

On the old homestead he and his wife saw the birth of nine children. The first, Martin, died at the age of two years. The others all grew up in Prairie du Sac Township, and all of them married and arc still living. Mary is the wife of Leonard Scheffer, living in Chicago; Josephine is Mrs. Lee Kechiner, of Chicago; Theodore is married and lives in Chicago ; John is also a resident of that city ; Martin has his home near Grand Rapids, Wisconsin. The seventh in the family is Mr. Carl Bongard. William and Bella, the youngest, are twins and the former lives near Chicago and the latter in that city.

Mr. Hubert Bongard lived on the old farm until he was about sixty years of age, when he retired into Sauk City. His good wife passed away there in 1903, and they had been married more than a half century. He then returned to the homestead and lived with his son Carl for two years and from there accompanied this son to Roxbury in Dane County. In the winter of 1916 he returned to Sauk County, where he is now passing his declining years, having attained the venerable age of ninety-four.

Carl Bongard was married in 1887 to Elizabeth Knipscheld, daughter of Willfam and Frances (Koch) Knipscheld. Her parents were both born in Germany and were living in Merrimack Township of Sauk County when she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bongard have eight children. William is married and lives in Roxbury. Frank is unmarried. Mary is the wife of William Frye, of Roxbury. Eugene, Bella and Clara, twins, Carl and Norbert, are all still young people and living at home. Carl Bongard at the age of twenty-five took the management of his father 's farm, renting it for a few years and then bought the homestead. After selling it he paid $16,000 for a large farm of 400 acres in Roxbury, improved it and with increasing values he sold out for $27,700. He then returned to Sauk City and bought the property where he now resides.

Carl Bongard served two years as a member of the township board and two years on the school board in Prairie du Sac Township. He was formerly affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, is a member of the Catholic Church and in polities is a democrat.

Joseph X. Nachreiner, a prominent and leading farmer of Franklin Township, has been a resident of Sauk County more than sixty-two years, and through all that time the name has been associated with good works and those influences which mean most to any community in the matter of advancement and progress.

Mr. Nachreiner was born in Bavaria, Germany, June 11, 1846, a son of Michael and Franzika Nachreiner. The founder of the family in Sauk County was Michael Nachreiner, who came in 1854 and settled on 120 acres of raw and unimproved land in Franklin Township. That land under his capable hands changed from a portion of the wilderness into a cleared and improved farm, and for years it responded to his efforts as an intelligent husbandman and agriculturist. Michael Nachreiner died in June, 1895, and his wife in July, 1908. Their children were Joseph, Alois, John, Michael, Caroline, Teresa, Frank, Anna and Simon, all of whom are still living except Michael.

Joseph X. Nachreiner was eight years of age when his family came to Sauk County, and he grew up here and received the somewhat limited advantages of the schools of that early day. He developed his opportunities at first as a farmer, and became the owner of a highly developed place of 160 acres. This farm he has since sold to his son Rudolph, who conducts it as a model dairy farm, keeping about thirty head of cattle and milking twenty cows. Mr. Naehreiner is a republican and a member of the Catholic Church.

On June 13, 1872, he married Miss 'Teresa Brueckel, daughter of Daniel and Marv' Brueckel, of Franklin Township. Their children are : Joseph M. ; Robert, who married Bertha Weishan ; Daniel, who married Matilda Malloy ; Otilie, wife of Joseph Brei ; Albert, who married Mary Magli; Ludwine, wife of George Alt; Margaret, wife of William Ring; Herbert, deceased; and Rudolph, who married Rosella Heiser.

Joseph M. Naehreiner, son of Joseph X., married Mary Bettinger, daughter of Louis and Augusta (Hutter) Bettinger, of Franklin Township. They were married October 28, 1902, and have two children : Alma, aged thirteen, and Marie, aged six. These children are being educated in St. Luke "s parochial school at Plain. Mrs. Joseph M. Naehreiner has the following brothers and sisters : Elizabeth, Katie, Philip, John, Rosa, Hilda, Bernetta and Alvin.

Joseph M. Naehreiner lived with his father on the farm up to the age of twenty-six and then entered the hardware and implement store of Lins & Hood at Spring Green. With the experience acquired there he established a partnership with John Beck in the general merchandise business at Plain. In 1902 the firm took in another partner, C. L. Carpenter, and then opened a branch store in White Mound, Franklin Township. In 1906 Mr. Carpenter became sole owner of this branch store. In 1912 John Beck sold his interest to his nephew, Lawrence Beck, who is the present active member of the firm with Mr. Naehreiner. The business is now conducted as Naehreiner & Beck and in their store they handle every commodity and furnish practically every service required by the large eommunity which furnishes them their patronage. They also have an undertaking and embalming department. Joseph M. Naehreiner has been an active and public-spirited citizen, was supervisor of the Village of Plain and for several years in succession has been a member of the village board.

Albert Teel. The Teel family is one of the oldest and best known in Sauk County. References to its members will be found in several places in this publication.

Mr. Albert Teel was born on the farm he still owns in Fairfield Township, December 27, 1854. His parents were Joseph and Mary (Getchell) Teel, and the family was established here by Benjamin and Thede (Morrill) Teel. Joseph Teel was bom in New Hampshire, November 22, 1827, was educated in St. Lawrence County, New York, and was a very young man when he came to Sauk County with his parents. His wife was born in the State of Maine in October, 1831. Joseph Teel took up 100 acres of Government land, now the old homestead farm in Fairfield Township, and cleared and developed this tract and was a substantial farmer and upright and progressive citizen. He died in January, 1908, and his wife passed away October 30, 1896. Their children were : Albert ; Arthur, deceased ; Burr, living in Oregon ; Curtis, who met death by drowning ; Rollo, deceased ; Carrie, wife of

Albert Teel grew up on the old home farm, attended the local schools, and after reaching manhood he acquired an interest in the homestead and now owns its 100 fertile acres. He devotes it to general farming and stockraising and has some fine improvements, including a large barn and a silo. Politically Mr. Teel is a democrat.

March 18, 1897, he married Louise Roser, daughter of Christian Roser, of Sauk County. Two children were born to their marriage, Mary, deceased, and Arthur, still at home.

Patrick McPhillips is. one of the progressive agriculturists of Bear Creek Township. His affairs are in a prosperous condition, and he is possessed of that intense energy and enterprise which are characteristic of the farming element of this county.

Mr. McPhillips was born in Ireland February 14, 1855, son of Michael and Mary (Smith) McPhillips. He was about thirteen years of age when his parents came to Wisconsin in May, 1868. The family lived at Bear Creek about a year and then settled on sixty-eight acres near Spring Green. The father was a man of much industry, and finally added forty acres to his original estate and continued a resident of tlie country districts until his death in August, 1912. The mother died in 1886. Their children were Patrick, Susan, John, Mary and Owen. Of the.se Mary is now deceased.

Patrick McPhillips finished his education in the public schools of Spring Green, and for the past forty years has been an industrious farmer, steadily forging ahead in the business of making a home and providing for those dependent upon him. In October, 1910, he settled upon his present farm, where he owns 320 acres. Some of this land he has since cleared, and most of it is in cultivation and in itself represents a competence. Mr. McPhillips has interested himself in community affairs, was for three years clerk of School District No. 2, is a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church.

In November, 1879, he married Catherine Burns, of Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. McPhillips are the parents of eight children, Mayme, James, Anna, Elizabeth, Rose, Susan, Leo and Genevieve. Mayme is the wife of Henry Ellefson; Anna married George Bauer; Elizabeth is the wife of Anton Weitzel; Rose married AA'^illiam Coyle, while the other children are still unmarried and at home.

Mayme McPhillips is a graduate of Spring Green High School and taught" in the schools of Sauk County for fourteen years. Anna aud Elizabeth graduated from the Richland County Normal and taught in the schools of Sauk and Richland counties for a number of years. Leo is the proprietor of the Muscoda Cheese Factory at Muscoda, and has operated the same for several years.

Hon. George Carpenter. It would be difficult to name an essential element in the advancement and development of Sauk County, and more particularly of the community of Baraboo, that does not bear the impress of the strong individuality of Hon. George Carpenter. He has beeu a very important factor in the industrial and commercial activity of the county, has been a leader among its farmers and stockmen, has advanced its moral and educational interests, has been one of its prominent representatives in the field of politics and in public life, and has founded business enterprises that stand as ' monuments to his enterprise and well directed efforts.

Mr. Carpenter was born in the Town of Franklin, Sauk County, Wisconsin, April 22, 1866, and is a son of Daniel and Margaret (Thompson) Carpenter. His father was born at Newark, Ohio, May 2, 1828, and was married at Lexington, in that state, to Margaret Thompson, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, January 13, 1829. Some time after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter came to Wisconsin, and in October, 1853, secured a land warrant in the Town of Franklin, where they made their home for many years and developed a well-cultivated farm. In 1885 they retired from active life and moved to Reedsburg, where both passed away at the age of sixty-nine years. They were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and were exemplary people in every way. Mr. Carpenter was an industrious citizen, of sterling integrity, who led a life of absolute probity, it being said of him that he never uttered an oath during his lifetime. In politics he was a republican, but was not a seeker for office, being satisfied to pass his existence in the pursuits of agriculture. On two occasions he endeavored to enlist in the Union army for service during the Civil war, but in each case was rejected by the examining officers. However, he had four brothers who fought in the uniform of the North: Isaac, Justin, LaFayette and John H. The last named is serving as a member of the county board of .supervisors of Sauk . County, of which his nephew, George, is also a member, and resides at Spring Green, Wisconsin. LaFayette is now a resident of near Lexington, Ohio. These two are the only ones now surviving of a family of ten sons and one daughter. Daniel and Margaret Carpenter were the parents of seven children, of whom five survive, namely: I. W., a resident of Gentry, Arkansas; Alice, who is the wife of J. H. Bear, of Spring Green, Wisconsin; Lorinda, who is the Mddow of George W. Morgan, who was in the lumber business with George Carpenter during the early days; Eliza, who is the wife of John H. Claridge, who was George Carpenter's first partner during the early days, when they did grubbing by hand ; and George. George Carpenter received his education in the public schools of Sauk County and early showed himself possessed of more than ordinaryindustry and ambition. By the time he was seventeen years of age he was already deeply interested in the stock business, and became a shipper at that time, also buying stock for >and with E. W. Evans andon his own account. This business has always had a large share of his attention, for it Avas the enterprise in which he really secured his start. When he was but nineteen years of age he took entire charge of the home place, which he operated successfully for three years, and then became interested in the lumber business at Reedsburg, where he also was engaged as a building contractor with G. W. Morgan and John H. Claridge, as the Morgan Building Company. This venture occupied his attention for two years, at the end of which time he went to Illinois.

There he homesteaded a tract for a short time, but soon gave up the venture, as he felt that he had been deceived as to the crops, Avhich were not those of Sauk County, and that there was no place like Wisconsin. Mr. Carpenter's experience in the Prairie State led him to believe that the water supply was poor and that the neighbors were not so friendly, helpful or hospitable as they were in the county of his birth, and he returned to Wisconsin and for one summer worked in the employ of the Morgan Building Company. Following this he purchased the William Hubing farm, on which he carried on operations for seven years, later was the owner of the Cahoon farm near Baraboo, which he cultivated for nine years, and then bought the Brown place, in which he retained a one-half interest. Mr. Carpenter's next venture was at Faulkton, South Dakota, where he spent one summer, then returning to Baraboo, where he established his present business, the Deppe-Carpenter Lumber Company, of which he is still president. In starting this business Mr. Carpenter purchased twelve acres of land adjoining the City of Baraboo, built a lumber yard, erected suitable business buildings, and in a short time had established one of the fast-growing enterprises of the city, and one which later extended materiall.y by taking over the interests of the Stewart Lumber Company. In connection with this business he handles a general line of building material, feed, produce, etc., and the management of this business occupies the greater part of his attention, although he also is extensively engaged in the buying, breeding, selling and shipping of cattle. When his son Floyd was fourteen years of age, the latter expressed a desire to enter the cattle business, and Mr. Carpenter, remembering his own early success in that line bought for him the Thomas Barker farm, a 335-acre tract, which he equipped as an up-to-date cattle farm. This has proved an investment more valuable by far than it could have been expected to be at its start, for it is now nationally known as one of the best stock farms in America for the breeding of Shorthorn cattle. The cattle from the Carpenter place have won over 500 first prizes and more than 100 championships, including the grand championship and the championships of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Texas, Toronto (Canada), Washington, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri. In lots of 50 and 100 head the Carpenter farm has topped the three leading sales in the United States in prices.

Mr. Carpenter has been a lifelong republican and at various times has held public office. He served one term in the Wisconsin Legislature, and was renominated by a 739 majority larger than ever before received by a candidate for that office. That he is an excellent debater is evidenced by the opinion of Senator Everett, who said that no man in the Legislature could influence more votes when on the floor than could Mr. Carpenter. At present he is one of the board of county commissioners and one of that body's most energetic workers. With his family, Mr. Carpenter belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Beavers and the Modern Woodmen of America, and is vice president of the Skillet Creek Farmers Club.

Mr. Carpenter was married in 1886 to Miss Minnie Utendorfer, who was born at Spring Green, Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1867, a daughter of George and Marie (Brown) Utendorfer, natives of Germany, who came to the United States as young people. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have had three children : Vertie, who died at the age of nine years ; Floyd, born July 1, 1897 ; and Marie, born in May, 1903.

William Rose. Science during recent years has done much to teach the farmer how to adapt his crops to the soil, how to combat the diseases which afflict his cattle, how to improve the quality and quantity of his crops and how to use to best effect the many appliances which have been invented to make his labors easier - in short, it is teaching him to treat his vocation as a profession and not merely as a means of gaining a livelihood. Sauk County has many farmers who have responded readily to these teachings and who, through grasping every opportunity, have secured satisfying results and are enjoying the prestige and material prosperity that success in the agricultural field brings. Among these is William Rose, the owner of a finely improved farm in Reedsburg Township and a progressive farmer who has not been backward in adopting modern scientific ideas.

William Rose was born in Germany, March 14, 1866, a son of John and Sophia (Bliss) Rose, who immigrated to the United States in 1868 and located in Sauk County. During the first four years here the family resided in Westfield and Reedsburg townships, then went to a rented farm in Honey Creek Township, where John Rose carried on operations for nine years, and finally located about one and one-half miles south of Reedsburg, in the township of that name, where the father purchased 120 acres of land. Here he followed general farming and stockraising during the remainder of his life, and died in 1882, aged fifty-four years. By that time, through the exercise of good business management, he had developed a good property, and by his honorable conduct of all his affairs had established himself in the confidence of the community. Mrs. Rose survived him for a long period, dying in 1901, when seventy years of age. They were the parents of four children : Henry ; Dora, who died in Germany ; William ; and Herman, who is a merchant at Tomah, Monroe County, Wisconsin.

Henry Rose, the eldest son of the above parents, was born September 10, 1858, in Germany, where he received his early education, and was ten years of age when he accompanied his parents to the United States. He was reared on the home farm, and after he had completed his education in the parochial schools secured employment in the lumber yard owned by Thomas Young, of Reedsburg, where he worked for several years. However, he soon returned to farming, going to Westfield Township, where he rented a farm until 1894 and in that year purchased it. He now has a good property of 101 acres, nearly all of which is under cultivation, and on this land he has substantial buildings, including a new barn and commodious silo. He follows general farming and stockraising and the success that he has won has been well deserved, as it has been attained purely through his own efforts. Mr. Rose is a republican, and attends the Lutheran Church. He was mar- ried January 26, 1883, to Miss Fredericka Elilert, who was born in Germany, January 1, 1859, a daughter of Fred and Carrie (Pancho) Ehlert, who came to Sauk County in 1881 and settled at Reedsburg, where Mrs. Ehlert died in 1909, aged seventy-five years. Mr. Ehlert is now living retired at Reedsburg and is eighty-three years of age. They were the parents of twelve children: Fredericka; Carrie; Frederick and Herman, deceased ; Charley ; Minnie ; Augusta and Martin, deceased; Augusta (2) ; Sophia; John and William. Henry and Fredericka Rose are the parents of nine children : Emil, Elma, Lydia, Paul, Freda, Martha, Esther, Ruth and Florence.

William Rose has passed his entire life in an agricultural atmosphere. He was reared on the home farm, and when not assisting his father in the duties of the homestead attended the district schools, receiving an education similar to that of other farmers' sons. This has since been supplemented by reading and observation, and Mr. Rose is now a well-informed man upon many subjects. In 1889 he became a property owner, when he purchased forty acres of land in Reedsburg Township, and this has since been his home property, although he has added an additional forty to it. He has a substantial and comfortable residence, a splendid barn, 32 by 58 feet, and a modern silo, 12 by 25 feet, and his improvements are modern in character, reflecting his ideas of progressive methods and appliances in the treatment of the soil. His operations as a general farmer and raiser of stock have been consistently successful, and he is accounted one of the agriculturists representative of the element which has given prestige to Sauk County. In politics Mr. Rose is a democrat; his religious faith is that of the Lutheran Church and he belongs to Saint Peter's congregation. As a stanch friend of education, he is now serving in the capacity of clerk of the school board.

Mr. Rose was married November 6, 1887, to Miss Emma Halbersleben, who was born in Reedsburg Township, June 6, 1868, a daughter of August Halbersleben. Mr. and Mrs. Rose have been the parents of eleven children. Amanda, who is the wife of Edward Schafer, and has two children, Wilbert and Gerhardt ; Hilda, the wife of Oamiel Van Basselaere, of Reedsburg; Martin, a soldier at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois ; Teona ; Arnold and Reinhold, deceased ; Agnes, at home ; Bernhard, deceased ; and Adeline, Norma and Rubina, at home.

William Halbersleben, a brother of Mrs. Rose, was born in Germany, October 9, 1860, being a son of August and Christina (Miller) Halbersleben, natives of Germany, the former born in 1827 and the latter in 1829. In 1863 they came with their children to the United States, locating at Reedsburg, and in 1872 located on the farm now owned by their son, on which not a tree had been cut at that time. Here they continued to be engaged in farming until 1898, when they retired to Reedsburg, the father dying there in 1902 and the mother in 1913. They succeeded in developing a good farm and in establishing themselves as useful members of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Halbersleben were members of the Lutheran Church, and the parents of six children: Elizabeth, August, William, August (2), Emma and Louis. William Halbersleben was educated in the Lutheran parochial schools and in

1877 went to Madison, Wisconsin, where he was at the experiment station for five years and on other farms for about seven years, returning to the home farm in 1888. When he bought the homestead it consisted of 120 acres, and this he has made iflto one of the model general and stock farms of the Township of Reedsburg, with fine improvements of every kind. He has long been prominent in official life in the locality, having been chairman of the township board for some years and now a member of the state road and bridge committee and treasurer of the school district, which latter position he has held for twenty-seven consecutive years. He is a supporter of the principles of the republican party.

Mr. Halbersleben was married in 1888 to Miss Mary Stroebel, who was born in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, in 1859, daughter of Rev. Frederick Stroebel, a pioneer minister of Sauk County, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Halbersleben have one child, Esther, who is the wife of August Henrichs and the mother of two children, Robert and Irma. By a former marriage, in 1884, to Miss Mary Kempf, of Madison, Wisconsin, who died in 1886, Mr. Halbersleben had one daughter, Emma.

David J. Bennett has made his life's efforts count for a great deal as a farmer and citizen in Sauk County, and for many years his work has been identified with the management of a fine farm in Winfield Township, where he is prosperously situated and has a family of capable and bright children growing up around him.

Mr. Bennett was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 18, 1869, a son of William J. and Mary (McKnight) Bennett. His father, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1833, died in 1904. The mother was born at Albany, New York, in 1836, and passed away in 1880. Their eight children were named William, Sarah, Andrew, Hugh, Isabel, Anna, David J. and Jack, all of whom are still living except Hugh and William.

David J. Bennett came to Sauk County in early life and has steadily identified himself with the basic industry of agriculture. He is now proprietor of a farm of 220 acres in Winfield Township, and besides general farming he makes something of a specialty of Durham cattle. In politics he is independent.

On February 3, 1897, he married Effie Mills. Mrs. Bennett is a cordial and genial lady and well educated. She has ably and faithfully performed her part as wife and mother in the building up of their happy home. She is a native of Juneau County, Wisconsin, born April 17, 1873, a daughter of Orson and Lodema (Luke) Mills. Her father was one of the brave men of Wisconsin who offered his services to the Government during the Civil war and was a member of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry. He faithfully performed his part as a soldier as well as a good citizen and he died in 1913. The mother of Mrs. Bennett is still living and is a resident of Kendall, Wisconsin. She is a faithful member of the United Brethren Church. Mrs. Bennett received a good common school education and also attended the graded schools of Lavalle. She was a successful teacher for five years, two years in Juneau County and three years in Sauk County. Their children, Arthur J., Clyde E.,

Frank A., Daisy and Helen, are all being accorded the best advantages of the local public schools. The son Clyde was a member of the Reedsburg High School, in the third year, but is now a soldier and a member of Company A, which was organized in Texas, where he is located at the present time, at Waco. Mr. Bennett has been a useful man as a citizen of his township, having served as township assessor for four years and as director and treasurer of his school district for fifteen years.

Harry Leon Gray, well known to Sauk County as a banker at Spring Green, was born at Mazomanie, Dane County, Wisconsin, August 26, 1885. His parents were Harry and Elizabeth (Linley) Gray, of Iowa County, Wisconsin. His mother died December 17, 1906, and his father died September 9, 1917.

Harry Leon Gray married, September 24, 1910, Miss Josephine Jost, daughter of Herman and Anna Jost, of Presto, North Dakota. Mrs. Gray died January 23, 1916, leaving one child, John William, who was born September 9, 1911.

James P. Hart. A pioneer citizen of Sauk County who did his life work well and honorably and left a name deserving of kindly remembrance was the late James P. Hart.

Mr. Hart was born in County Sligo, Ireland, crossed the ocean to New York City in 1848, and in 1851 arrived in Sauk County and joined the earliest settlers of Winfield Township. He was successfully identified with farming there and provided liberally for his family, who still enjoy some of the competence he won by hard effort.

James P, Hart married January 31, 1854, Mary Conway. Both of them are now deceased, James P. Hart passing away August 15, 1898, and his wife on September 12, 1895. Their children were named Mary, Michael, Martin, Bridget, Honor, James Peter, Patrick Henry, Ellen, Catherine, John and -Sarah. John and Ellen are now deceased. None of the sons ever married. The daughter Mary married Mr. Heiner, who died May 7, 1891, leaving a son, Eugene. The daughter Bridget married Richard J. Brennan, of Chicago. The daughter Honor married, November 26, 1884, Henry Diener. Mr. Diener died July 14, 1913. Mrs. Diener and her youngest child, Honor Margaret, now fifteen years of age, are living in Baraboo, and her oldest son, John V. Diener, is a successful attorney at Green Bay, Wisconsin. Her daughter Mary Magdalene is a school teacher in Baraboo, and her son Charles Norman Diener is now enlisted for service in the new National army.

The Hart family own jointly 200 acres of land in Winfield Township, and it is devoted to general farming and the raising of Durham cattle. Two children of the late James P. Hart live at Baraboo, Mrs. Catherine Kaseman and Mrs. August Rathman.

Edwin Green is clerk of Fairfield Township, has spent practically all his life on one tract of land there, and represents a family of early settlers.

He was born in the township January 6, 1863, a son of Richard and Martha (Felt) Green. His parents were both natives of England, the father born in 1823 and the mother in 1831. They were married and soon afterwards came to America and settled in Sauk County. The father homesteaded forty acres near where the son Edwin now lives and gradually increased his holdings until his estate consisted of 131 acres. He spent a very useful and industrious life and died on the old farm in 1885. His wife passed away in 1883. Politically he was a republican. They were the parents of twelve children. Two of them received the name John and both are now deceased. Two died in early infancy. The others were named James, Sarah Ann, Mary Jane, William, Fred, Edwin, Louis and Walter.

Edwin Green grew up on the home farm and attended the local schools. In time he acquired the ownership of the old homestead and in time added to that until his present fine place consists of 220 acres. It is devoted to general farming and stockraising and for a number of years Mr. Green has been a successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle. He has also taken a conspicuous part in the affairs of his home township and served as treasurer four years, two. years as supervisor, and for the past ten years has been clerk of the township. Politically he is a pro-' hibitionist.

Mr. Green was married in 1895 to Miss Mary Cameron, who was born in Sauk County in 1875, daughter of Thomas and Addie (Fuller) Cameron. Her parents came to Sauk County during the '60s. Her widowed mother is still living with Mr. and Mrs. Green. The latter have four children, all living, and named Paul, Edith, Burr and Louis. Edith is now a student in the Baraboo High School.

NoRRis Wilcox. Of the substantial old families of Fairfield Township, one that has been longest identified with that community and in a most progressive way in its development is that of Wilcox, represented by Mr. Norris Wilcox, who owns and occupies part of the homestead which has been in the ownership and management of the family continuously since it was acquired from the Government.

Mr. Wilcox was born on the old homestead August 20, 1859, a son of Norris Case and Charlotte Augusta (Oldes) Wilcox. His father was born near Syracuse, New York, June 25, 1824. His mother was born in Ohio in 1822. When the family first came to Wisconsin in territorial times they located near Clinton Junction on a tract of forty acres. In 1847 they removed to Sauk County and in 1848, the year Wisconsin was admitted to the Union, Norris C. Wilcox bought 120 acres of Government land, including the present farm of his son Norris. He went industriously to work clearing up, removing the trees and brush and gradually getting the land under cultivation. On this farm he was engaged busily the rest of his active life and died there March 6, 1893. His wife passed away in September, 1878. He was a democrat in politics and a man of notable influence in the community. He served as assessor of Fairfield Township, for many years was on the school board, and he assisted in laying out the State Road from Portage to Prairie du Chien. There were five children : Norris ; Henry, who died in infancy; Mary, wife of Miner E. Brown, who lives on part of the old homestead ; Ulysses G., living near Kilbourn, Wisconsin ; and Minnie A.

Norris Wilcox attended the local schools, and in his mature years he has become owner and farmer of eighty acres of his father's land. This land has responded to his capable management in generous crops and he has put on it excellent buildings. He follows both general farming and stockraising. Mr. Wilcox is a stockholder in the Excelsior Cooperative Creamery Company at Baraboo.

Politically he is a prohibitionist. He has served as treasurer of Fairfield Township and also as a member of the township board. He and his wife are active in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On March 22, 1883, he married Sarah E. Smith, who was born August 14, 1858. Her parents, Chase and Dorcas A. (Hatch) Smith, came to Sauk County in 1867 and later bought a farm in Fairfield Township. They spent their last years in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox. Mr. Wilcox has two daughters. Anna May was educated in the public schools and the high school at Baraboo and is still at home. Flora A. was married on Thanksgiving Day in November, 1916, to E. P. Good. Mr. Good is now assisting in the cultivation of the Wilcox farm.

Edgar Stanley Powell, the present supervisor of Winfield Township, is a native of that locality and has made his enterprise count for a liberal success in farming and in his influence as a citizen.

Mr. Powell was born in Winfield Township, a son of Thomas H. and Elizabeth (Fish) Powell. His parents were natives of Albany County, New York, and were pioneers in Winfield Township in the year 1855. The father lived until 1914, while the mother passed away in 1903. Their children were Ida M.. Charles D., Frederick J., Alden T., Edgar Stanley, Clarence S. and Bessie R.

Mr. Powell is busied with the management of a large farm of 267 acres, and is one of the leading stockraisers of the township, keeping about twenty-five head of Holstein cattle. He has filled the office of supervisor for several years and is an active democrat. He and his wife have five children, Virgil H., Florence E., Lulu E., Lyman, now deceased, and Vesta May.

John Terry, Jr., now occupies the old homestead which his father, John Terry, Sr., developed from a portion of the wilderness of Sauk County. John Terry, the son, has never married and he and his sister Nellie keep the old home and preserve its associations and attractions for the family, several of whom live in Baraboo Township and vicinity.

On the old farm where he now resides John Terry, Jr., was born in Baraboo Township June 15, 1876. He grew up in that environment, attended the public schools, and always lived at home and has succeeded to the ownership of 120 acres of the old homestead. He has introduced many improvements and new methods and is one of the leadino- general farmers and stockraisers of the township. He is also a stockholder in the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company in Baraboo. Mr. Terry

George C. Astle. Among the representative men of Sauk County no one stands higher in public esteem than does George C. Astle, who is president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Baraboo and for many years was one of the county's most extensive and progressive agriculturists. Mr. Astle was born in Sumpter Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, September 25, 1848. His parents were William and Sarah (Moscow) Astle.. They were born, reared and married in Derbyshire, England, and when they came to the United States, about 1843, brought with them their family of seven children : Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Eliza, William and Harriet. Two more children were born to them in Wisconsin : John H. and George C.

William Astle and family came first to Merton in Waukesha County, but soon secured a homestead in Sumpter, then called Kingston Township, in Sauk County, buying a tract of 160 acres of timber land. This he cleared and improved, and resided on the place until his death. He was one of the pioneers of this section and the family saw much early hardships, as was inevitable. They lived at first in a log house put up by Mr. Astle, but in 1861 he replaced it with a substantial stone house that yet stands. His wife survived him many years, living into old age, seeing her ninetieth birthday. She and her husband were among the organizers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which they were most worthy members. William Astle became a naturalized citizen and at first was affiliated in politics with the whig party and later became a republican, voting that ticket as long as he lived and always remembering with pleasure that he had assisted in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency on two occasions.

George C. Astle was reared on the home farm and in his boyhood attended the country schools as opportunity offered, but, like " many other men who have become prominent and successful, he had no such educational opportunities as are not only offered but are actually forced upon the boyhood and youth in every section of the country at the present time. He remained on the old homestead, which became his, and in 1885 traded that farm for the Thomas Stone place, consisting of 360 acres, lying one mile east, and resided there until he sold that farm. He now owns 160 acres in Greenfield Township, situated one and threequarter miles from the City of Baraboo. At different times he has owned and sold many other tracts of land, having had numerous transactions along this line, and has dealt heavily in lands in both South Dakota and Colorado. He always entertained progressive ideas as to his agricultural operations and believed in keeping his property in fine condition and in handling only fine stock. He had pure-bred Polled Angus cattle, Percheron horses and did a large business in raising Kentucky-bred standard road horses, at one time having seventy-five head. He shipped to Chicago, New York and also Colorado. At present he specializes in dairying. Mr. Astle was one of the enterprising men of his township and always was first in the field with new ideas. He continually held an office of trust in his own township, serving as super- visor, chairman, treasurer, assessor, etc. He was earnestly interested in the education of the children and served on the district school board for over twenty years, as treasurer, his aim being to hire the best available teachers regardless of expense. His daughters graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was one of the organizers of the Sumpter Creamery, and continued one of the directors of that successful industrial plant until he left the neighborhood and came to Baraboo in 1908.

In 1869 Mr. Astle was united in marriage with Miss Alice Dean, who was born in Green County, "Wisconsin, and died in 1903. Five children were born to them, namely : Herbert, Cora, Celia, Jessie and Winifred, Herbert and Jessie being deceased. The family home at No. 138 Eighth Avenue is one of the fine residences of Baraboo.

After coming to this city Mr. Astle entered the financial field, assisting in the organization of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, which has central location on the corner of Oak Street and Fourth Avenue. It is a solidly financed institution, its officials are all capitalists, and it has the support and confidence of this whole section, Mr. Astle 's name as president being a very valuable asset in itself.

In politics Mr. Astle has long been an important factor in the republican party in township and city, and is also a strong temperance advocate. He is president of the Sauk County Agricultural Society and has been for the past eight years. On' June 11, 1914, Mr. Astle was married to Miss Daisy Beecroft, of Madison, Wisconsin.

Robert F. Taylor. One of the citizens now gone to his final rest who, while he visited numerous foreign lands and practically every state in the Union, preferred to make his home in Sauk County for many years, was the late Robert F. Taylor, of Baraboo, who during a long, interesting and eventful life was identified with several of the leading circuses of this country and at the time of his demise was one of the most valued men in the great army that made up the famous Ringling Brothers organization.

Mr. Taylor was born at Mill Grove, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1857, and was given a graded and high school education. As a young man he engaged in railroad work, being for some years with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and thus became familiar with transportation matters. His love of adventure, as well as his knowledge of the country, took him into circus life and for a number of years he traveled with the Walter L. Main Shows and later with Sells & Forepaugh, and in his subsequent travels he visited nearly all the civilized countries of the globe, including Australia. The Ringling Brothers, always alert to secure good material for their organization, induced him to come to Baraboo in 1893, and here he was made manager of transportation, one of the most important departments in a traveling institution of this kind, requiring intimate knowledge of conditions, stupendous executive ability and a voluminous amount of labor. He became one of the most valued and dependable of the men who helped to make this great circus famous throughout the world, and continued to be connected therewith until his death in 1913. Just as he was one of the best known men in his line in the country, so was he also one of the most popular. He proved his mettle and worth on innumerable occasions when disaster threatened and his personal courage was as unquestioned as his ability was proved. Mr. Taylor was a member of Baraboo Lodge of Masons and a Knight Templar, and belonged also to the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of Pythias. He was a republican in politics, but the nature of his business forbade that he enter actively into political affairs.

Mr. Taylor was married March 20, 1898, to Miss Alvena Boltzman, who was bom near Spring Green, Sauk County, Wisconsin, April 11, 1880, a daughter of Fred and Christina (Penning) Boltzman. Her parents were natives of Germany, where they were married, and came to the United States about 1875, first settling in New York, but soon coming to Sauk County and locating on a farm in Reedsburg Township, where Mr. Boltzman still lives, aged eighty-three years. Mrs. Boltzman died in 1885, and Alvena, then a child of five years, was taken to rear by her sister, Mrs. Charles Westfall, of Reedsburg Township, who affectionately performed the duties of both sister and mother. Mrs. Taylor was educated in the public schools of Reedsburg Township, and since her husband's death has been the proprietress of the picturesque spot loeated about one-half mile north of Reedsburg, a twenty-acre tract of land in Reedsburg Township known as Pine Grove Park. This is a summer resort and picnic grounds, with many attractive features, and is greatly patronized, not only by Reedsburg people and those of the surrounding country, but by many who come from far-distant points. Mrs. Taylor is one of the popular ladies of her locality and a valued member of the Order of the Eastern Star. While she has traveled extensively in many states of the Union, she, like her husband, believes that Sauk County is one of the finest spots in the country and is satisfied to make her home among its hospitable people. She has beautified and adorned her pretty summer resort home with neat cottages, an artificial lake and boats. Her "Pine Grove Park" is one of the beauty spots of the vicinity of Reedsburg. Mrs. Taylor is a lady of pleasing personality and cordiality of manner and her extensive travel over the United States has made her conversant with all parts of the country, so that she is a pleasing conversationalist, and her guests and friends always receive cordial greeting at her home. Mrs. Taylor was one of six children born to her parents : Fred, a resident of Spooner, Wisconsin ; Dora, now Mrs. Charles Westfall, of Reedsburg Township ; William and Freda, deceased ; Anna, also deceased ; and Alvena.

Mrs. Dora (Boltzman) Westfall was born January 28, 1861, in Germany, and was about fourteen years of age when the parents, Fred and Christina (Penning) Boltzman, came to the United States. She completed her education in the public schools and was married in 1885 to Charles Westfall, who was born May 3, 1863, in New York, a son of John and Louisa (Prange) Westfall, natives of Germany. His parents were married in that country and about the year 1860 came to New York, five years later moving to Sauk County and settling in Freedom Township, where they purchased forty acres of land and made it their home for seven years. At the end of that time they came to Reedsburg Township, where they remained two years, then returning to Freedom

Township, where they rented land during the remaining period of their active careers. Mrs. Westfall died in 1905, at Reedsburg, her husband passing away in 1910, aged seventy-two years. They were the parents of eight children: Minnie, Charles, John, Lena, Lizzie, Augusta, Sophia and Emma.

Charles Westfall entered upon his career with little more for his capital than a public school education, but his industry was great and his ambition strong, and after renting land for some years, in 1908 he bought 122 acres located one mile north of Reedsburg, where he has developed a handsome property. He has been the architect of his own fortunes and is well-to-do, now enjoying all the rewards that are to be obtained through a life of industry and integrity. He engages in general farming and keeps a good grade of Holstein cattle, and his buildings and improvements, most of them of his own construction, are modern and attractive. He is a republican and as a citizen is highly thought of in his community. Mr. and Mrs. Westfall have had four children : William, deceased, born in 1886; Edward, born September 19, 1888; Carrie, deceased, and Madeline, born August 6, 1903, and now attending the Reedsburg High School.

Fred W. Schutte. Among the business men of Reedsburg who have been the authors of their own success and who have worked their way to positions of substantiality without the aid of outside influence or assistance, one who is well known is Fred W. Schutte, a member of the important department store firm of Stolte, Dangel & Foss Company. When he entered upon his connection with mercantile affairs Mr. Schutte began in a humble capacity, and the success that has attended his efforts should prove an incentive and encouragement to the youths of today who are compelled to start their battle with life with naught but ambition and determination to aid them.

Mr. Schutte was born on a farm in Westfield Township, Sauk County, . Wisconsin, August 1, 1865. His parents, John and Elizabeth (Williams) Schutte, were born in Germany, where they were married in 1851, and about ten years later came to the United States, settling in 1861 on a farm in Westfield Township. After a few years on this property they sold out and bought a tract of 180 acres located in Reedsburg Township, to which they moved in 1867, and there succeeded in developing a valuable and well-improved farm. In 1885 the father retired from active pursuits and moved to Reedsburg, where his death occurred in 1886, when he was sixty-seven years of age. The mother survived until 1898, and was seventy-three years old at the time of her demise. They were faithful members of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church, and in politics Mr. Schutte was a republican. There were five children in the family : William, Henry, Dora, Catherine and Fred W., of whom the first two named are deceased.

Fred W. Schutte received a country school education and passed his youth in assisting his father in the cultivation of the home farm. He felt, however, that a better future awaited him in mercantile lines, and when he was twenty years of age left home and secured his first experience in business affairs, in the humble capacity of delivery boy in the employ of S. J. Dearholt. After about two years thus spent he was experienced enough to take up the duties of clerk with the firm of Webb & Schweke, with which concern he remained for about three years, then entering the employ of H. C. Hunt, of Reedsburg, in the same capacity. Two years later he transferred his services to the firm of Stolte, Dangel & Foss Company, an enterprise which had been founded in 1893, and in his new environment he rose rapidly, so that in about 1897 he was admitted as a member of the firm. He is now manager of the clothing department of this great business house, and is accounted one of the most experienced men to be found in his line in Sauk County. Mr. Schutte has made his own opportunities and luck or chance have not entered into the making of his success. He has a high standing in business circles, and as a citizen is ever ready to lend his support to worthy movements, giving freely of his time, energies and abilities. He is a republican, but has not entered actively into public or political affairs. With his family he belongs to St. Peter's Lutheran Church, and at this time he is serving in the capacity of secretary of the congregation.

On February 1, 1891, Mr. Schutte was united in marriage with Miss Anna Huebing, who was born at Reedsburg, February 18, 1866, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Huebing, pioneers of Sauk County, who are both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Schutte have one daughter, Miss Elva M., who was born March 13, 1895. She is a graduate of the Reedsburg High School, attended the Milwaukee Normal School for two years, and is now teaching English at St. Peter's Lutheran School, Reedsburg.

She was born in this state in 1864, a daughter of J. and Alvina (Harris) Nichols. She became the wife of Mr. George W. Smith in 1882, and two years later they located on their present farm of 200 acres in Bear Creek Township. This farm has been completely developed and cleared under their management, and is now operated by Mrs. Smith, with the aid of her sons. They keep about fifty head of livestock and have a dairy of twenty-eight cows.

Mrs. Smith's children are Herbert, Henry, Walter, Wilbur, Grace, George and Earnest, the last two being deceased. The son Herbert married Grace Strang, of Little Willow, Richland County. The daughter, Grace, is the wife of Henry Christian, of Spring Green.

Grant Dryer, a former sheriff of Sauk County, has lived within the limits of this county since his birth, and his name stands not only for efficiency and honor in public affairs, but also for success as a practical farmer and stockman.

Mr. Dryer was born in Dellona Township of this county January 25, 1868, and except for the period he lived in the county seat has always had his home in that section. He is a son of James L. and Adeline Dryer, who came to Sauk County from New York State in 1864 and located a farm in Dellona Township. Their children were : Helen J., unmarried ; Etta, deceased; Bertha; John W., deceased; George, deceased; and

Grant. The daughter Etta married Stephen Green, of Sauk County. Bertha is the wife of D. A. Bradley and lives at Denver, Colorado. Eva . married 0. J. Green, of Oklahoma.

Mr. Grant Dryer married in April, 1893, Blanche Weidman, daughter of Leonard L. Weidman, of Sauk County. They have three children : Hazel, Lila and Clifton. The daughter Hazel is the wife of Percy Bass, of Dellona Township, and has one daughter, Dorothy. Lila, who is unmarried, is a successful teacher in a school in the Village of Merrimack. Clifton married Bessie Simpson and has a son. Grant.

Mr. Grant Dryer served a term as sheriff of Sauk County in 1909-10. He has always been an active republican aid a leader in any movement for the general welfare of his home community and county. As a farmer he owns 210 acres in Dellona Township. Fraternally he is affiliated with Knights of Pythias.

Robert Greenv^ood. One of the men whose lives have given character to the agricultural and civic enterprise of Winfield Township is Robert Greenwood, the oldest resident of that section.

Mr. Greenwood is an Englishman by birth and parentage, having been born in that country August 14, 1839. He had five brothers and four sisters, and all of them are now deceased except himself and his brother Miles.

He arrived in the United States from his native land of England May 9, 1848, and since 1852 he has been an honored citizen of Sauk County, Wisconsin, with the exception of the two years when he served his adopted country as a soldier in the defense of the Union. He received his honorable discharge and returned to his home in Sauk County and this has since been his home. Farming has constituted his life's activities, and a number of years ago he acquired 120 acres in Winfield Township, which he has developed by the erection of good buildings and by the clearing up the land for cultivation. He follows general farming and stock raising and has a beautiful and valuable estate.

Mr. Greenwood married Eveline Miller. Their children are named as follows : James, Joseph, Vesta, Eva, Robert, Carrie, Benjamin and George. All of them were educated in the district schools of Sauk County. The sons, Joseph, Benjamin and James, are all members of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Greenwood is an active republican in politics and he and his son, Benjamin, and wife, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His sons and daughters have grown to man and womanhood and are honored citizens of their communities and an honor to their parents.

Grant Weidman has spent his active career in Sauk County as a farmer, and is still employed in the management of his farm in Reedsburg Township.

Mr; Weidman was born in Westfield Township of Sauk County March 31, 1866, a son of Alexander and Eleanor (Mcllvain) Weidman and a brother of Samuel Weidman, whose achievements as a scientist and scholar have been noted on other pages.

Grant Weidman grew up on his father's farm, acquired a public school education, and for many years has occupied his share of the old homestead in Eeedsburg Township. The eighty acres in this farm he devotes to general agriculture and stock raising, and has done much to improve its equipment. He has a set of good buildings, including a barn 36 by 60 feet. Mr. Weidman is a democrat but has never sought any official honors in or out of the party. He is affiliated with the Modem Woodmen of America.

October 2, 1889, he married Miss Bell Flitcroft, who was born at Reedsburg September 13, 1867, daughter of John Flitcroft. John Flitcroft was born in New York State June 13, 1826. He married Regina Thomas, who was born in Canada November 4, 1829. In 1852 John Flitcroft arrived in Reedsburg Township, where he was one of the earliest pioneers and settled on land which as a result of long and continuous labor on his part was developed into a good farm. He died at his home August 24, 1888, his widow surviving him until August 12, 1916. There were four children in the Flitcroft family : Frances, wife of Byron Randall, of Reedsburg; Charles, who lives at Red Deer in Western Canada ; Lillie, wife of Joseph Mepham, of Reedsburg Township ; and Bell, wife of Mr. Weidman.

Mr. and Mrs. Weidman have two children. Harvey, the older, was born June 12, 1893, was educated in the Reedsburg High School, spent three years at Ripon College and then entered the School of Mines at Platteville, Wisconsin. In 1916 he served with the Wisconsin troops on the Texas border and in 1917 he organized a company and is now commissioned a captain in the Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, located at present at Camp Douglas preparing for a German campaign. The youngest son, Hubert, was bom August 19, 1894, was educated in the Reedsburg High School, spent two years in Ripon College, and is a graduate of the School of Mines at Platteville. He was located at Paris Island in South Carolina, but is now at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, South America.

Charles F. Shelden. With the exception of two years spent in Minnesota and the period of his serviqe as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, Charles F. Shelden has been a resident of Sauk County since 1855, the greater part of this time having been passed at Reedsburg, his present home. For many years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and a large portion of his energies has been devoted to discharging the duties of public positions, but he is now retired from business and official activities and is enjoying the repose and comfort that reward the efforts of the energetic and industrious.

Charles F. Shelden was bom in Oneida County, New York, September 2, 1841, and is a son of DeWitt Clinton and Maria (Smith) Shelden, natives of the Empire State. In 1845 they struck out for the West, their destination being Walworth County, Wisconsin, where they made their home for ten years, the elder Shelden being engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1855 the family place of residence was changed to Sauk County, where the father purchased a farm, which he improved, and on which the family lived until 1862, when they moved to Reedsburg.

Here the parents rounded out long and useful lives, the father dying at the age of seventy-six years and the mother vi^hen seventy-nine years of age. DeWitt C. Shelden was a republican in politics, and he and Mrs. Shelden were members of the Congregational Church. They were the parents of the following children: Caroline and Ezekiel B., who are deceased ; DeWitt M. ; Charles F. ; Kirk W., who is deceased ; and Amy Gardner.

Charles F. Shelden received his early training on the home farm and received his education in the country schools. The Civil war found him ready and anxious to serve his country, and January 27, 1862, he was accepted as a private of Company A, Ninteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which regiment he served until the close of the war, with the exception of about six months when he was on detached duty on an army gunboat. He received his honorable discharge January 27, 1865, after having made a most creditable and honorable record as a soldier, having taken part in numerous important engagements. When he returned the young soldier remained on the farms of the community for several years, and then went to Cottonwood County, Minnesota, where he purchased a farm. Two years of residence there convinced him that he could better himself in his former residence locality, and accordingly he returned to Sauk County and settled at Reedsburg, where, not long afterward, he was appointed assistant postmaster, a position which he retained for ten years. He was also express agent for a like period, following which he embarked in the mercantile business, conducting a general store with success for several years. He also acted in the capacity of justice of the peace for thirty-three years, during which time he established a commendable record for fidelity to duty and capable handling of the matters that came to him for adjustment. In 1880 he erected a commodious and comfortable residence on South Pine Street, and here he has since made his home, the past several years having been passed in quiet retirement. Mr. Shelden is one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of his community and has taken an active part in many of the movements that have served to make for civic development and betterment. His political support has always been given to the republican party. In Masonry he has risen to a high rank, being a member of Reedsburg Lodge No. 157, Free and Accepted Masons ; Reedsburg Chapter No. 561, Royal Arch Masons; and St. John's Commandery No. 21, Knights Templar. He belongs also to the Grand Army' of the Republic.

Mr. Shelden was married in 1868 to Miss Isabel Hood, of Racine, Wisconsin, and they are the parents of two children : Walter D., M. D., one of the brilliant and eminent physicians and surgeons of Rochester, Minnesota, is connected at that city with the famous Mayo brothers. He married Byrd Hunter and has two sons, Charles Hunter and James Thomas. Mabel is the wife of W. D. Whitney, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a member of the firm of Twin Cities Rapid Transit Company. They have one daughter, Mary Isabel.

chandise business there, but has since given up the role of merchant and is now devoting himself to his duties as village clerk, notary public and as an insurance man.

Mr. Schlosser has spent most of his life in "Wisconsin. He was born, however, in K^oenigshofen, Bavaria, Germany, October 15, 1857. In 1867, at the age of ten years, he came to America with his parents, Gustav and Lona (Gerstner) Schlosser. They all located in Merrimack Township of Sauk County, where his father was an active farmer for two years. He then removed to Sauk City, and making his home in that village followed his trade as carpenter the rest of his life. He died in Sauk City in 1877, at the age of fifty-six. His widow survived him nearly thirty years, passing away at Sauk City in 1906, at the age of eighty-two.

Anton Schlosser lived at home with his parents until he was fifteen, and then began making his own way in the world. He had a limited public school education, but was a boy of natural industry and of keen observation and good habits. Thus he was prepared to make a favorable impression and win promotion when he started as a boy clerk in a store at Black Hawk in Sauk County. He remained there accumulating experience and earning a living for five years. The proprietor of a store at Spring Green was S. M. Harris, and he next clerked for him five years. In the spring of 1882 Mr. Schlosser, capitalizing his experience, opened a general stock of merchandise at Spring Green and soon had a profitable trade. In 1883 he took in as a partner Albert Held, under the name Schlosser & Held. In 1894 Evan Davis joined the firm, under the name Schlosser, Held & Davis. In 1900 Held & Davis sold their interest to J. A. W. Sprecher and William Bonham, and the title of the new firm was Schlosser, Sprecher & Bonham.

In 1904 Mr. Schlosser sold his interest in the store, which in the meantime had grown and prospered, to Eli Schoephorster, and after that he lived retired from business entirely for two years. In 1905 Mr. Schlosser went to Broadhead in Green County and bought an interest in a general store from the Stair Brothers. He had as partners in this enterprise Henry Jones and Henry Schwartz, the firm being Schlosser, Schwartz & Jones. Mr. Schlosser also moved his family to Broadhead, but in 1906 he sold out and returned to Spring Green. For about ten years he had no special business connections except as representative of several insurance companies, but in 1916 he became village clerk and now gives most of his time and attention to that office. He has also served as villasre assessor five years. He is secretary of the Inter County Fair Association. Mr. Schlosser is a member of the Congregational Church, is treasurer of his Lodge of Odd Fellows and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

On February 24, 1881, he married Miss Rosina Diehl, of Troy Township, Sauk County. Mrs. Schlosser was born in that locality February 24, 1862. and was married on her nineteenth birthday. Her father, Ludwig Diehl, was a farmer in Sauk County and is now deceased. Her mother's maiden name was Carolina Fey. Mr. and Mrs. Schlosser have two children : Pearl C, at home, and Irene, a graduate of the Whitewater Normal School and now a teacher in the Reedsburg public schools.

Anthony S. Winckler, of Reedsburg, is enjoying a well earned retirement at the age of past fourscore. He knows both the modern and the pioneer life of Sauk County, which he has known for over fifty years. In business he has been prospered, in patriotism he tested his loyalty by three years of service in the Civil war, and his influence has always gone to the betterment of his community.

Mr. Winckler is a native of New York City. He was born on Broadway, February 12, 1836, and spent some of his early childhood in that city. He knew Broadway when it was little more than a highroad above Thirtieth Street, and from that small metropolis he was transferred by the removal of his parents to the veritable wilderness of Wisconsin. His parents were Gotlieb and Henrietta (Warner) Winckler. His father was born in Germany in 1799, was educated in the old country and learned the trade of baker at Heidelberg. He came to America when about sixteen years of age, and worked at his trade as baker in New York City for a number of years. Subsequently he and his brother Andrew engaged in building flatboats and operating them from the headwaters of the Ohio at Pittsburg down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans. Subsequently he resumed the bakery business in New York City, where he married Miss Warner, who was born there in 1809. In 1852 Gotlieb Winckler brought his family west to Wisconsin and secured a tract of Government land in Marquette County. After doing some development work he sold this and about the beginning of the Civil war moved to Dane County. For several years he lived in Sauk County, but went back to Dane County, and from there went west to Nebraska and bought a fine farm in that state. Again he pulled up and went to the far Northwest in Oregon, where he operated a fruit ranch until his death in 1881. His widow died at Oregon City in 1891. They were the parents of eight children, including Anthony S. ; Nicholas, who fought in the same company in the Civil war with his brother and for many years followed farming near Reedsburg, where he died in 1913 ; Maria, who lives in Oregon ; Andrew, deceased.