Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 16 of 20)

Mary (Fry) Hineman, and all the family are living. Her parents are also yet living and are residents of Ironton ToM^nship. Mr. Hineman is one of the progressive agriculturists and dairymen of Sauk County and has a good farm of 133 acres. ]Mrs. Hineman, the mother, is a member of the United Brethren Church at Reedsburg.

Mrs. Behn is a lady of more than ordinary education. She was educated in the Lime Ridge graded schools of Sauk County and received her teacher's certificate and taught successfully for three years in her native county. She attends the German Lutheran Church vv^ith her husband, but formerly affiliated with the United Brethren Church. She is a lady who aims to keep abreast of the times and she loves good literature and books of an elevating character.

Mr. and Mrs. Behn have three children : Wilma, born February 19, 1907; Mary, born February 16, 1910; and Agnes, born November 30, 1912. Mr. Behn is optimistic in regard to the agricultural future of th§ County of Sauk, and in his own operations has always been more or less of a philosopher, being glad to accept the full and bounteous seasons and not finding it worth while to grumble over the poor ones. In this way he maintains a cheerful outlook upon life and really helps himself to a fuller success.

Mr. Behn's brother, Willie H., was born on the 28th of August, 1888. He resided with his father until 1911, when he became a' partner with his brother August. In 1914 they purchased the farm they now own. On September 18, 1917, Willie Behn was called to be a soldier. He belongs to Battery D, Three Hundred and Thirty-first Field Artillery, Camp Grant, at Rockford, Illinois.

Henry Leslie Sarrington. The commercial and industrial interests of the Village of Delton has for many years been largely in the hands of the Sarrington family. The grist mills there have long been turning out a high grade of flour and other food stuffs, and these mills have successively been under the ownership of the late Henry Sarrington and now his son Henry L. Sarrington.

The latter was born in Delton Township, April 1, 1871, being a son of Henry and Susan (Balderson) Sarrington. Henry Sarrington was born in England, December 25, 1835, and in early manhood came to America, first locating in Neshkoro, Wisconsin, where he married. For one year they lived in Watertown, Wisconsin, and in 1866 came to Sauk County, locating on the site of the present Village of Delton. Henry Sarrington was employed for a time in the old grist mill at that point and he also conducted a store for a few years. He finally traded his farm in that vicinity for the mill which is known as the Delton Queen Roller Mills. He continued the ownership of this milling property until his death in June, 1914, but had retirecl from active business in 1903. In matters of politics he was a democrat.

Henry Sarring-ton married Susan Balderson. She was born in England January 4, 1846, and came with her parents to Wisconsin in 1850. She was a daughter of Kent and Elizabeth (Jack) Balderson, both natives of England, her father born in 1805 and her mother in 1808. After the Balderson family located in Milwaukee Kent was employed for a couple of years by the old-time packer of that city, John Leighton. He then moved to a farm eighteen miles from Milwaukee, two years later rented another farm, and from there moved to Neshkora, where he had a farm and cultivated it until his death in 1864. His widow survived him until 1874. Their children were : Henry, William, Elizabeth and Joseph, all deceased; John; Susan, Mrs. Henry Sarrington, now deceased; and Rebecca, deceased. Of these children, John Balderson was born in London, England, January 3, 1844, and has been a resident of Delton Township since 1866. He was a carpenter by trade. He married Josephine Frances Good, daughter of Benjamin F. Good, one of the early settlers of Sauk County. John Balderson and wife had three children, Fred, Arlena and Benjamin, all now deceased. Mrs. John Balderson died December 4, 1904, and since her death he has made his home with his nephew, Henry L. Sarrington.

Mr. Henry Sarrington married for his second wife Mrs. William Mash. His children, however, are by his first marriage and are three in number: Evelyn Elizabeth, wife of J. I. Sumner, of Detroit, Michigan ; Henry Leslie ; and Grace Susan, wife of M. J. Wolcott, of Necedah, Wisconsin. The mother of these children died in 1888.

Henry Leslie Sarrington grew up at the Village of Delton, attended the public schools there, and from the age of fifteen was working in his father's mill and acquired a thorough knowledge of the milling industry before he reached his majority. In 1903 he took the active management of the mills and is now sole proprietor. In addition to this enterprise he owns forty acres adjoining the mill property and another farm of seventy-three acres adjoining the Village of Delton. He is a very capable miller and business man, and is one of the citizens of high standing in that community. In political matters he votes as a democrat and has served as township clerk and for the past ten years has been township treasurer. He is affiliated with Dells Lodge of Masons at Delton.

On April 12, 1892, Mr. Sarrington married Miss' Laura Harrison. She was born in Excelsior Township of Sauk County June 3, 1872, daughter of John and Mary (Tucker) Harrison, now of Reedsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Sarrington have children : Vera Susan, Ralph Leslie, Charles Oliver, Harold Dolaver and Genevieve.

John W. Herrington. Though he served nearly three years in the Union army during the Civil war, John W. Herrington is still on the active list and has not yet celebrated his seventieth birthday. He is not only a veteran of the war but also a veteran in the railway service, and has been with the Chicago and North Western Railway upwards of half a century, being now head of the telegraph office at Baraboo.

Mr. Herrington is a Canadian by birth, having been born March 10, 1848, but in the following year his parents, John and Julia Ann (Hill) Herrington, moved to Wisconsin and located at Janesville in Rock County. His father was a tailor by trade and was in business at Janesville until his death in 1896. The mother died there in 1873. Their

John W. Herrington grew up at Janesville, where he attended the grammar and high schools. He was just fifteen years old when in March, 1863, he enlisted in Company M of the Tenth Illinois Cavalry, a famous regiment that did a great deal of active service in the middle West and the far South. Mr. Herrington served as a soldier two years, seven months, twenty-two days, until the close of hostilities.

Following the war he returned to Janesville and soon entered the employ of the North Western Railway, and that employment has seen no important interruption to the present time. He came to Baraboo in 1880 and for many years has been telegraph foreman at this point.

Mr. Herrington 's residence has always been on the south side of Baraboo. He served as an alderman in the city council three years, and in voting cast his ballot independently. He is an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic and has served as commander of the Baraboo Post. He is also active in Masonry, having affiliations with Lodge No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Chapter No. 49, Royal Arch Masons, Commandery No. 28, Knights Templar, and Chapter No. 21 of the Eastern Star, all at Baraboo.

In 1882, a year or so after he came to Baraboo, Mr. Herrington married Miss Lettic E. Roberts, of Ridge way, Wisconsin. She died December 2, 1911, the mother of four children : Ida Elizabeth; Blanche, who died in infancy; Lucile Virginia ; and John W., Jr.

Tobias C. Clavadatscher. While agriculture is the oldest of industries and is the most indispensable one, it has never been so scientifically carried on as at present, nor has it ever before claimed so many educated, college-bred young men's interest and attention. A member of one of the oldest families in Sauk County who belongs to the above class is Tobias C. Clavadatscher. He is personally conducting his fine farm of 220 acres situated in Troy Township, and is proving that intellectual acquirements and thorough agricultural training are great assets in the business of modern farming.

Tobias C. Clavadatscher was born on his present farm in Troy Township, Sauk County, in 1883. His parents were Martin and Barbara (Geyman) Clavadatscher. The father was born in Prairie du Sac Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, and was a son of Nicholas Clavadatscher, _ who was one of the first settlers in this county. The other children of Nicholas were: Mrs. John Schneller; John, who lives at Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin; Tobias, who lives at Baraboo; and Christian, who died at the age of twenty-one years. Martin Clavadatscher was married in 1878 to Barbara Geyman, who was born in Greenfield Township, Sauk County, and resides at Prairie du Sac. Of the four children born to them, two died in infancy, the two survivors being Tobias C. and Amelia, the latter being the wife of Walter Baumgarth, who lives at Black Hawk in Troy Township. From the time he was eight years old until his death, Martin Clavadatscher lived on the same farm in Troy Township and for many years was considered one of the leading farmers of this section. He was a man of sound business sense, and in addition to his farm enter- prises owned stock in a large mercantile concern and in the Honey Creek Creamery. He was a republican in politics and frequently was selected by his party to serve in important local offices. For two years he was supervisor and for six years was a member of the township school board, his public duties at all times being performed with the strictest sense of honesty. He was a faithful member of the Evangelical Church at Black Hawk.

Tobias C. Clavadatscher grew up on the home farm and attended the public schools and later became a student in the agricultural engineering department of the Wisconsin State University at Madison, and afterward, because of his proficiency in this line, was accepted as an instructor there in the gas engine department (as pertaining to the carrying on of modern agriculture) and taught in the university for four years. In 1913 Mr. Clavadatscher went into the automobile business as a salesman through Sauk and Dane counties and continued in that line for two years, becoming well known all through this part of the state and making both business and personal friends. He returned then to Troy Township and since 1915 has been devoting himself to farm industries, including stoekraising and dairying with general crop growing. He has gone about his business in the right way and in practically applying his university training has prospered.

On May 11, 1916, Mr. Clavadatscher was married to Miss Ella Klebesadel, a daughter of William Klebesadel, who was born at Mazomanie, Wisconsin. They are members of the Evangelical Church. In politics Mr. Clavadatscher is a republican and his good citizenship cannot be questioned. He has never been willing to accept any public office, his preference being for the quiet, useful life of a farmer.

Frank Pieper. One of the highly respected retired farmers of Sauk County is found in Frank Pieper, who has been a resident of this county since he was seven years old. He was born in Germany in 1857 and in 1864 accompanied his parents to the United States. They came immediately to Sauk County and the father bought a farm of 120 acres in Honey Creek Township. During the following eight years he did some clearing and then took advantage of an opportunity to sell at a profit, moving then to Greenfield Township. There he purchased a farm on which the family lived for seventeen years. The last farm that Father Pieper bought was a tract of ninety-nine and one-half acres situated in 'Troy Township. His death occurred two years later, in 1895, and the death of the mother of Frank Pieper occurred seven years later. Of their family of ten children the following are living: Fred; August, who lives on the old homestead in Greenfield Township ; Frank ; and John, who lives at Castle Prairie in Troy Township. A number of the children died in infancy but Matilda lived to be thirty-one years old.

Frank Pieper grew to manhood in Greenfield Township and in boyhood attended the district schools. He assisted his father on the farm until his marriage and then began operations for himself and continued to live in Greenfield Township for the next eight years, moving then to Baraboo Township and was engaged in farming there for five years before coming to Troy Township and settling on the old homestead here..

During his many years of agricultural experience, Mr. Pieper became known as a capable farmer and an expert judge of stock. For some years he was also a stockholder in a local creamery, but this stock he recently transferred to his son Herman. - For some time Mr. Pieper has been retired from active labor but still keeps interested in everything about the farm, which now belongs to his son Herman, who is one of the progressive and enterprising farmers and stockraisers of Troy Township.

Mr. Pieper was married in 1879 to j\Iiss Bertha Yerke, a daughter of Gotlieb Yerke. She was born in Germany and was seven years old when she accompanied her parents to Waukesha County, Wisconsin. They lived in that county for four years and then moved to Sauk County and Mr. Yerke bought forty acres in ^lerrimack Township, and on that farm both he and his wife died. Mr. and Mrs. Pieper have had six children, namely : Anna, who died when fifteen years old ; Martha, who died at the age of fourteen years and fourteen days; Amelia, who died in infancy; Mary, who is the wife of Arthur IMarquardt, lives at Plain in Franklin Township ; Herman, who now owns and capably operates the" farm of about one hundred acres ; and Elsie, who lives with her husband at Castle Rock. Mr. Pieper has one grandchild, a son of Herman, who married Laura Myer, a daughter of William ]\Iyer. Mr. Pieper and his son vote the republican ticket. The whole family belong to the Lutheran Church and in every way are people who may be justly classed with the representative citizens of this rich county and great state.

Fred Kraft. Among the substantial farmers of the present time in Sauk County may be found some who came here with not a penny of capital, and now their name on a legal paper will be gladly accepted in any financial institution in the country. Such an one is Fred Kraft, the owner of one of the finest farms in Troy Township, well improved and well stocked and so valuable to its owner that it is not for sale. Mr. Kraft is a man who has made his own way in the world and for many years of his earlier life worked early and late and often under conditions that were most discouraging. He was born in Pomerania, Germany, in 1841.

In 1870 Mr. Kraft came to Sauk County, his parents coming in the same year. They all lived in Honey Creek Township for a time and then they moved to Nebraska and there both died. Mr. Kraft has one brother in California, two brothers and a sister in Nebraska, and one sister, Mrs. Fred Guetzkow, in Honey Creek Township, Sauk County.

Fred Kraft has always been an indutrious man and when he first came to Sauk County looked about to find something to do while acquiring enough money to make a purchase of land. He rented a house in Honey Creek Township, for he had a wife and one daughter at that time, and then secured grubbing work by the day from other settlers who were clearing farms. Afterward he secured a job in a sugar factory at Black Hawk and then moved to. Harrisburg, and during the first winter walked the distance of a mile and a half night and morning. He then moved east of Black Hawk and through the next winter worked in the sugar factory, and when work was slack there returned to grub- bing. In this manner, with the closest kind of economy, Mr. Kraft by 1875 was ready to purchase eighty acres of wooded land. He built his own log house and then with a will began to clear his land, in the earlier stages using oxen because of their great strength. In the course of time he added a second eighty acres to his first and has never parted with any of his holdings. Being thorough in his farming methods, Mr. Kraft has prospered in his undertakings and now has everything comfortable around him.

Of Mr. Kraft's family of ten children six are living, namely: Bertha, who was born in Germany, is the wife of a Mr. Dodd ; Anna, who is the wife of Aaron Middleton, lives in Illinois ; Rhynold, who is unmarried, lives at Black Hawk ; John, also unmarried, lives with his father ; Emma, who is the wife of Lewis Fuchs, lives just across the road from her father; and Ida, who lives on the home farm, is the wife of Erwin Elsing. All the children, except Bertha were born in Troy Township and all attended school here. Mr. Kraft is a republican in politics. He and all his family are members of the Evangelical Church, in which he has been a class leader for many years.

Mr. and Mrs. Fuchs have three children : Mabel, Benjamin and Machim, the eldest of whom was graduated with credit from the public school quite recently. Lewis Fuchs is a son of Theobald and Caroline Fuchs, natives of Germany, who were married in 1866 and settled in Troy Township, Sauk County. The father has served three years in the German army. They had the following children: Carrie and Emma, both of whom died in infancy : Robert, who married in Troy Township, lives at Harrisburg; George, also married, is a rural free delivery postman out of Sauk City ; William, also married, is a farmer in Troy Township ; Lewis, who married Miss Emma Kraft ; Julius, who lives with his family in Troy Township ; Millie, who is Mrs. Henry Sarg, lives at Sauk City; and Benjamin, who is a merchant in Sauk City. Theobald Fuchs lived on his farm until within a few years of his death and then moved to Sauk City and was given a commission by the Government as mail carrier over route No. 1, and died at the post of duty in February, 1902. He was somewhat prominent in township politics and served for several years as clerk of the school board and as assessor and treasurer. The mother of Lewis Fuchs died February 12, 1917. For some time Mr. Kraft has lived retired but he still feels an interest in all that goes on on the farm he worked so hard to secure. The whole family are well known in this section and their hospitable homes are ever open to kindred and friends.

William Henry Caflisch. Sauk County being such an important dairy center in Wisconsin, it is appropriate that some space should be devoted to some of the leading creamery, cheese and butter makers, and perhaps there is none with a larger and more varied experience and more of an expert in that line than William Henry Caflisch of Baraboo.

Mr. Caflisch belongs to the pioneer element of Sauk County. He was bom on what is known as the old English farm in Baraboo Township September 4, 1877. His parents were Christian R. and Barbara (Aukenbrandt) Caflisch, both of German stock. His father was born in Switzerland in 1842 and the mother in Germany in 1852. Christian Caflisch came to Sauk County when a young man, and at once signalized his patriotism to his adopted country by enlisting in 1861 in the Union army. He gave four years of gallant service as a soldier and on returning to Sauk County he married and took up farming, which he has followed now for half a century. For the past twenty years he has lived on his farm in Fairfield Township. He is a republican in polities, and was reared a Lutheran, while his wife was brought up as a Catholic. Aside from their material achievements this worthy old couple deserve great credit for the splendid family of fourteen children they have reared. Some reference to these eight sons and six daughters and their positions in life is here made. Anna, the oldest, is the wife of Harry Brown, of Chicago. Frank married Bertha Thomas, daughter of B. F. Thomas, of Baraboo, and they have five sons, Betie, Everett, Dean, Grordon and Glenn. Marj^ living at Baraboo, is the widow of J. B. Mclntyre, who died in 1907, leaving two children, Bessie and Frederick. The fourth in the family is William Henry. John, a farmer of Fairfield Township, married Avis Bump and has three children, Floyd, Vivian and Kenneth. Lula is the wife of Joseph Postner, of Chicago. George, in the draying business at Baraboo, with home on Oak Street, married Millie Thomas, and their children are Roger, Bryan, Robert, Rodney, Donald, Lucile and Wilbur. Delia married C. J. Cook, of Lyons, Iowa, and has three children, Lola, Thelma and Rudolf. Christian H., a farmer in Fairfield Township, married Bessie Turner and has one child, Genevieve. Anthony, who was born in Baraboo Township October 7, 1887, is a buttermaker by trade and assisting his brother William, and in 1912 married Miss Louise Weber. Catherine is unmarried and lives in Chicago. Vem is a clerk with the Lee Radke Hardware Store at Baraboo. The two youngest children, Marjorie and Archie, are still living at home with their parents.

William Henry Caflisch grew up on a farm and attended public schools in Baraboo, Greenfield and Fairfield townships. His years were passed uneventfully on a farm until he was twenty-three. In 1900 Mr. Caflisch began learning the creamery business with the Elgin Creamery Company. In the fall of that year the company sent him to North Freedom as foreman of the local plant, and little later he went to Baraboo and worked a year, until the Elgin Company failed. Its interests were acquired by the Continental Company, which in turn sold to the Baraboo Company, with whom Mr. Caflisch remained nine months. Then came an interruption to his career as a creamery man and for a year he was a locomotive fireman with the Chicago and North Western Railway. He resumed his regular business with the Excelsior Creamery Company for seven months, and on March 1, 1906, took employment with John Barker in the creamery at North Freedom, where he remained thirteen months. On March 19, 1907, Mr. Caflisch bought the Baraboo Creamery and opened up the business under his management, April 6th of that year. The plant was exclusively devoted to the making of butter and ice cream until February 1, 1917, since which time they have also manufactured cheese and at present there is a large output of these three important commodities.

Mr. Cafliscli is also one of the organizers and a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Baraboo. He is independent in politics, and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Equitable Fraternal Union. In 1900 he married Miss Eva Powell, of Fairfield Township. Their four children are named Aylmer, Virgil, Audrey and Elva.

Ferdinand Harder. Farming and stochraising are old industries and in no section of the country have they brought in their train more substantial and satisfactory rewards than in Sauk County, Wisconsin, One reason may be that many of the agriculturists here are stead}^ hardworking men who give their entire attention to their business and through thoroughly understanding it make it profitable. One of the successful farmers of the county who came here thirty-four years ago, with but small capital, is now the owner of one of the finest farms in Reedsburg Township. He acquired his property through his own efforts and what he has accomplished is creditable to him in every way. This well known farmer and stockman is Ferdinand Harder, one of the county's most respected citizens.

Ferdinand Harder was born in Germany, October 28, 1856. His parents were Christian and Wilhelmina Harder, who spent their entire lives in Germany, the father dying in 1882 and the mother in 1884. They had eight children, namely : William, August and Albert, all deceased ; Ferdinand ; Franz, who is deceased ; Henry, who is a resident of La Crosse, Wisconsin; and Bertha and Wilhelmina.

Ferdinand Harder grew to manhood in his native land and was married there in 1882 to Miss Minnie Manska, and in the same year they came to the United States and located in Sauk County, Wisconsin. Mr. Harder soon found employment with a Mr. Gale, for whom he worked for eight and a half years, being careful and saving in the meanwhile, and by 1893 was in a position to buy a farm for himself. He found a tract of ninety-two acres situated in Reedsburg Township that suited him, and soon the transaction was concluded that made it his property. Mr. Harder has done a great deal of improving here. He has cleared a part of his land and has put up substantial buildings. He raises grain and other products and keeps excellent stock. Mr. Harder may be called a modern farmer because he uses modern methods intelligently and has plenty of first-class farm equipments.

Mr. and Mrs. Harder and their children are members of the Lutheran Church. They are nine in number, as follows: Henry, Walter, Meta, Arnold, Esther, Otto, Ida, Rudolph and Elva, a fine family reflecting credit upon their parents and the neighborhood. Mr. Harder votes the republican ticket. He has never accepted any political office, although he keeps well posted on all that occurs in a public way in the township, for he is a good citizen and desires to lend his influence to promote the best interests of this section.

Conrad Kruse is one of the youngest independent farmers in Sauk County, but, regardless of age, there is no one who shows more competence and ability to manage a good farm than he. i\Ir. Kruse is both a practical and scientific farmer and is getting ahead in the world because he is willing to study and learn not only from his own experience but from the experience of others.

Mr. Kruse was born in Westfield Township October 20, 1893, a son of F. C. and Anna (Hasz) Kruse. His parents are well known people of Westfield Township, and more extended reference to the family will be found on other pages of this publication.

Conrad Kruse was educated in the Loganville public schools and in order the better to equip himself for the vocation he had chosen he has spent two winters in a course in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. On March 1, 1916, Mr. Kruse located on his present farm of eighty acres in Westfield Township and though the two seasons he has spent there have not been altogether ideal from, a farmer's standpoint, he has already laid a good foundation and success with him is only a matter of time. Mr. Kruse handles high grade Holstein cattle, keeping about twenty-three head of that fine stock and has a dairy herd of fourteen cows. Besides the other general equipment of the farm he has two large silos.

Mr. Kruse is a republican voter and a member of the Lutheran Church. He married Miss Elsie Feldmann, daughter of George and Dorothy (Kohlmeyer) Feldmann, of Westfield Township. Mrs. Kruse has the following brothers and sister : Edward, Henry, August, George, all of whom live in North, Dakota ; William, of Loganville ; Otto, of Loganville; Ernest, of Reedsburg, and Emma, also a resident of Sauk County.

J. Stephen Tripp. In the contemplation of such a character as was the late Hon. J. Stephen Tripp realization comes as to the great loss sustained by his city and county in his death. His was a life of signal usefulness and its influence was potent and beneficial. Fidelit.y to trust and conscientious performance of every duty formed part and parcel of his very nature. Highly gifted, he exercised his talents nobly. Benevolent in a great degree, he distributed his donations wisely, and his public spirit led him to make gifts to his city and his state which will stand as monuments to his progressive nature in years to come. A resident of Sauk County from 1853 until his death in 1915, the greater part of this time was spent at Prairie du Sac, where he was favorably known not only as a capable banker and as an excellent citizen, but as a friend . to those who needed and were worthy of friendship.

J. Stephen Tripp was born at Duanesburg, Schenectady County, New York, July 5, 1828, and was a son of Benjamin and Martha A. (Stephen) Tripp. His father was a farmer by vocation and the youth was reared on the home place, but cherished greater ambitions than the opportunities which seemed to be offered in an agricultural career, and w^hen still a boy made plans to break away from the implements of the soil. He was fortunate in securing a good educational training, first attending the public schools and subsequently entering Schoharie Academy, one of the most noted educational institutions in the Empire State. Having been attracted by the law, at the close of his academic course he applied himself assiduously to the study of his chosen calling, with the result that he mastered its complexities and perplexities sufficiently to pass the examination, and in June, 1853, was admitted to the bar.

While there were numerous opportunities for him to establish himself in practice in a community where he was known and where he would have had the support, moral and material, of friends, the young lawyer preferred to make his way without this kind of assistance. He answered the call of the West soon after being given permission to practice, and in 1853 arrived in Sauk County, his lirst settlement being at Baraboo, where he remained only one year, being in partnership with his cousin, Giles Stephen, now Judge Stephen, of Reedsburg. In 1854 Mr. Tripp located at Sauk City, where he hung out his shingle and solicited law business, and the people of that city soon came to know that the young man from the East was possessed of more than ordinary legal knowledge and acumen, and with his success in a number, of eases came an added patronage that soon placed him well upon the high road to success. In 1867 he was sent from his district to the General Assembly of his state, and while in that body was made chairman of the committee on contingent expenses and a member of the committee on corporations and others. He gave his district good service and his record in legislative halls was an eminently honorable one.

While engaged in the practice of the law, Mr. Tripp had acted as counsel in a number of cases where he was compelled in the course of his legal activities to familiarize himself with the working machinery of the banking business, and in this way he became more and more interested in financial affairs until he finally decided to venture into that difficult field on his own account. In 1868, therefore, he established his first banking enterprise, a private institution at Sauk City, which grew and developed from small proportions into extensive and important ones, the magnitude of which finally engrossed his attention to the exclusion of all else. From that time forward he was not engaged in the practice of law, but his knowledge thereof was of great help to him in his business, and his advice and counsel were always at the disposal of his fellow bankers. During the twenty years that he was engaged in the banking business at Sauk City he discharged the duties of citizenship by serving in the capacity of citj- clerk, his incumbency in that office extending over a period of sixteen years. In 1888, or thereabouts, Mr. Tripp changed his center of operations to Prairie du Sac, and that city continued to be his home during the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in July, 1915. He had rounded out a long and useful life, in which he had contributed materially to the welfare of his fellow men, and the closing years of his career were characterized by public and personal philanthropies. Among these was his gift, March 4, 1912, of $10,000 to the Village of Prairie du Sac for the erection of a public library, which threw open its doors to the public in October, 1913. In 1915 Mr. Tripp added to the beauty and value of this institution by the presentation of a number of handsome and highly valuable paintings which for years had graced the walls of his own home. Shortly before his death he donated $40,000 to the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. In "Sir. Tripp's death the Village of Prairie du Sac lost a true friend.

a citizen who had done much for its welfare and progress, and a man who always shouldered more than his share of civic responsibilities. His memory, however, will long be kept green in the hearts of his fellowcitizens who knew his sterling qualities and admired them.

Mr. Tripp was married first in 1857 to ]\Iiss Fannie AV. Hallett, of Fairfield, New York, daughter of Sheriff Hallett. She died without issue in 1865, and Mr. Tripp was again married, in 1874, being united with Miss Nellie M. Waterbury, daughter of the Hon. James I. Waterbury, of Prairie du Sac. They had one son, who died in infancy, and Mrs. Tripp passed away in 1893.

Frank Kaney is a native of Wisconsin and has lived steadily on one farm in Franklin Township for the past forty-three years. He has made the land respond to his capable efforts as an agriculturist and from it has been able to provide for his growing family and at the same time perform his share of responsibilities as a public-spirited citizen.

Mr. Kaney was born in Whitewater Township of Walworth County, Wisconsin, June 4, 1855. He is a son of James and Annie (McGuire) Kaney. Both his parents were natives of Ireland. His father came from County Leitrim in 1847 and his mother from Kings County, Ireland, about the same time. They married in this country in 1850. James Kaney was a cooper by trade and for some years followed that occupation at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. In 1867 he located on a tract of land in Sauk County, partly cleared and improved, and had it well developed as a good farm before he passed away. Both parents died in the same year, 1887, the father on April 3d and the mother on July 28th. Their children were named Alice, Frank, Elizabeth, Anne, Mary, Margaret, James and William, all still living except the oldest and the youngest.

Frank Kaney was educated chiefly in Sauk County and he learned farming by practical experience from his father. In November, 1874, he located on his present place and is now the owner of 120 acres, devoted to general farming and stock raising. He keeps about forty head of cattle and has a dairy herd of sixteen cows. Mr. Kaney has manifested a commendable interest in the welfare of his community, is an active republican, a member of the Catholic Church and has filled several church offices.

He married Anna Walsh, daughter of Peter and Catherine (Curran) Walsh, both of whom came from Dublin, Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Kaney have the following children : James, Catherine, John, Mary, Anna and Leo. These children were all well educated in the local schools and all of them are still unmarried except James, whose wife was Margaret Doyle.

M. R. Prouty. Since pioneer times the name Prouty has stood for success and extensive holdings of land in Sauk County. It is in many ways an honored name. Hundreds of acres of the fertile soil of this section have been developed by Prouty enterprise and the members of the family have also borne a worthy part in every movement for community betterment.

M. R. Prouty was born in Bear Creek Township of this county January 18, 1868. He acquired a good education, and starting out with limited capital he has found a way to success by industry and by a growing knowledge of farming and all its kindred industries.

Mr. Prouty located on his present place in Franklin Township near the Town of White Mound in 1898. Some of the lands which he acquired he cleared by his own efforts and has become one of the largest land holders in that section. His first purchase was 200 acres, and later he bought another tract of 220 acres, and finally 120 acres. While he has sold some of this he still owns a magnificent place of 440 acres and , is using it to provide feed and room for his extensive operations as a breeder and raiser of Shorthorn cattle. Mr. Prouty has about 100 head of cattle, and is one of the recognized experts in this field of stock husbandry.

Mr. Prouty married in February, 1889, Miss Wilda Jane Henry, daughter of Jacob and Jane Henry. They are the parents of three children, Robert, Walter and Marion. Robert, a capable young farmer in his own right, owns eighty acres adjoining the old homestead. Walter is also a farmer on his own account, and has a place of eighty acres near his father's home. Robert married Julia Carpenter, daughter of Charles and Rachel Carpenter, of Spring Green. Walter married Ella Welsh, daughter of Mike and Mary Welsh.

Mr. Prouty has T3usied himself with local affairs, served as town treasurer four years, and for twenty-seven years has been school clerk. In politics he is a republican.

GusTAV C. ScHW^EKE. A member of that old family of Reedsburg which has played so important a part in its commercial and civic affairs, Gustav C. Schweke has been a resident of Sauk County most of his life, for many years was a prosperous merchant at Reedsburg, and is now living retired in that city.

His birth occurred in Milwaukee March 14, 1864. He is a son of Dietrich Schweke, elsewhere mentioned in this publication. He was only a child when his parents moved to Reedsburg, and his early education was acciuired in the German Lutheran Parochial School and the Reedsburg High School. He early began to learn merchandising by practical experience as a clerk. One year he was employed by 0. H. Perry, for four years by H. C. Hunt, and another year by Hunt & Bueyington. After one year with the firm of Harris & Hosier he engaged in business for himself as junior partner in the firm of Webb & Schweke. This was one of the firms that did a large part of the volume of business transacted in Reedsburg and the partnership was continued successfully until 1907. It was this firm which was the first in Reedsburg possessing the courage and enterprise to put in operation a cash system, and after they had given it a thorough trial and justified its value not only to merchants but to individual patrons, the plan was copied and used by many other merchants in the town and elsewhere.

Street, at the corner of Third Street. Mr. Schweke is a republican without any political aspirations and he and his family are members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church.

He was married February 1, 1893, to Bertha Reineke, a native of Reedsburg and a daughter of Gustav and Louisa Reineke. Her parents were early residents of Reedsburg and her father was a baker by trade and subsequently was in the hotel business for a number of years. Her mother is still living at Reedsburg. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Schweke. Phillip, after completing the course of the Reedsburg High School entered the University of Wisconsin, where he was graduated with the class of 1917. Rupert is a graduate of the high school and is now a student in the LaCrosse Business College. Norma is a junior in the Reedsburg High School, and the three younger children, still in school, are Amy, Arthur and Ruth.

Peter Sussner. The mere fact of a man being born on a farm does not make him a farmer, but it very often influences, through immediate opportunity, his choice of vocation. Accustomed to the duties of farm life from youth up, he naturally is better informed in regard to the different industries than another who has had a different training. One of the successful farmers of Sauk County, Peter Sussner, is the son of a farmer and was brought up amid farm surroundings.

Peter Sussner was born in Richland County, Wisconsin, February 16, 1869, and attended the public schools there. His parents were Andrew and Gustina (Pufhal) Sussner. They were born in Germany and from there came to the United States and were married in Sauk County. Afterward Andrew Sussner bought a farm in Richland County and it was while the family lived there that Peter Sussner was bom. His father sold his farm there and came back to Sauk County and lived here the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1879. The mother resides at Reedsburg and is now in her eighty-seventh year and active both in mind and body. They had five children: Paul, Peter, Amelia, Mary and William, all of whom survive except Paul.

Peter Sussner bought his first farm, a tract of 220 acres in Dellona Township, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henry Benzaman, but later sold his interest. In 1906 he bought 100 acres in Reedsburg Township, and this farm he has improved so that it is one of the most valuable in this section. His buildings are all first class, and his residence is equipped with modern comforts and conveniences. He has one of the largest bams in the township, the structure being 55 by 48 feet, and has a silo that is 46 feet high and 14 feet across. His operations are carried on according to modem methods and he is unusually successful.

Mr. Sussner was married September 21, 1899, to Miss Lizzie Kruger, who was born at Reedsburg, Wisconsin, August 29, 1874, and is a daughter of Henry and Mary Kruger. They were early settlers in Sauk County and Mr. Kruger owned a farm in Reedsburg Township and there he died in 1898, at the age of fifty-six years. Mrs. Kruger lives at Reedsburg, being in her sixty-sixth year. Their children were : Bertha, Lizzie, Ida, Albert, Mate, Louie and Rudolph, Bertha and Mate being deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Sussner have had three children, namely :

Mr. Sussner has always been identified with the republican party, but he has never been willing to serve in a political office, although well qualified in every way to do so satisfactorily. With his family he belongs to the Lutheran Church. Mr. Sussner is a man who stands well in his community, being a friendly neighbor and honest and upright in all his business transactions.

Henry Westedt has been a resident of Sauk County for over half a century, and has given his capable attention to various lines of business, but chiefly to contracting and building. With headquarters at Loganville, he has extended his work as a contractor all over this section of the state, and besides much other high class work he erected two hotels at Loganville.

Mr. Westedt was born in Germany, May lOj 1846, son of Henry and Mary (Schultz) Westedt. His father was bom in 1818 and his mother in 1822. The father died in Germany in 1852, when his son Henry was six years of age. The family continued to live in Germany for some years, where Henry Westedt grew up and received his education. On June 9, 1866, he landed in New York City with his mother and two sisters, Dora and Mary. They soon came on west and settled at Loganville in Sauk County, where his mother passed away in 1893. Mr. Westedt's sister Dora married Christ Hasz, daughter of Peter Hasz, of Loganville. His sister Mary married William Schmidt.

Mr. Henry Westedt married Dora Sehmedt, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Retzmann) Sehmedt. They have reared a splendid family of children named William, Otto E., Dorothea, Ida, Fredericka, Ewald H., Caroline and Ruth. The son William married Anna Schuette ; Otto E. married Annie Lueders ; Ida is the wife of Charles Bartenbach ; and Caroline is the wife of Edward Kohlmeyer. The other children are still unmarried. The daughter Fredericka is a graduate nurse. The son Otto enjoys a very successful practice as a physician and surgeon at Loganville. Ewald is now finishing his work in preparation for the degree Doctor of Dental Surgery.

Merton Lester Porter. Two of the most honored and respected names in Fairfield Township are Porter and Webster. M. L. Porter, representing one of these families, has spent much of his active career as a substantial farmer in Fairfield Township. His wife was a member of the Webster family, which located here in very early pioneer times.

Mr. Porter was born in Fairfield Township December 17, 1867, a son of Harrison and Elizabeth Sophia (Thayer) Porter. His father was born in Massachusetts in September, 1823, and his mother in the same state on January 9, 1829. They married in Massachusetts and during the early '50s came west and located in Fairfield Township of Sauk County. Harrison Porter acquired 105 acres of land and developed it to the uses of civilization. He spent his last days there and died May 27, 1892. His widow survived him until January 10, 1903. Politically he began voting as a republican and in later years was a prohibitionist.

Their children were : Harley, of Sauk County ; Perry, of San Jose, California; Herman, who died in 1908, at the age of forty-four; and Merton L.

Merton L. Porter spent his boyhood on the old farm and indulged in the pastimes and occupations of the average Wisconsin farm boy. He attended the public schools of Fairfield Township. For three years he was employed in the butter tub factory at Brandon in Fond du Lac County, and then returning to Sauk County he located as a tenant farmer on the place he now owns. He began there in October, 1896, and in 1903 bought 160 acres of that farm, known as the old Webster estate. Under his management this land has become increasingly productive and its improvements have been brought up to a high standard. Mr. Porter is one of the leading dairy farmers of the county and has some excellent Holstein cattle. He is a stockholder in the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company of Baraboo. Politically he is a prohibitionist, is a director of the local school board and he and his family are members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

On December 17, 1890, Mr. Porter married Miss Octa Irene Webster. She was born on the farm where she now lives November 11, 1870, a daughter of Samuel H. and Rose (Loveland) Webster.

Samuel H. Webster was bom at Fairfield, Vermont, in 1830. He came to Sauk County in 1855 and at that time bought the land now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Porter. He was a man of great energy, of fine character, and became widely known throughout Sauk County. In his later years he left the farm and moved to a comfortable home on East Street in Baraboo, where he died in 1901. He was married in Sauk Counry. His wife had come to this section with her parents, Thomas Quimby and Roana (House) Loveland. They were both natives of Trumbull County, Ohio. Thomas Q. Loveland died at Brookins, Brook County, South Dakota, in January, 1916, at the age of eighty-four. His wife passed away in the same state in 1900, at the age of seventy. Thomas Q. Loveland had seen active service in the Civil war, and Mrs. Porter's father was also a Union soldier. Mrs. Porter was the second of four children : Effie, Octa Irene, Myrtle E. and Herman J.

Into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Porter have come two daughters. Vivian, born in March, 1898, is a graduate of the local schools of Fairfield Township and is still at home. Lois, born November 3, 1902, graduated from the common schools in 1916 and is now in the first year of the Baraboo High School.

Joseph Mackey. There are few names more highly respected in Sauk County than that of Mackey. Especially has Reedsburg great reason to honor and perpetuate the memory of those of the name, for on every side are tangible evidences of this family's useful activities, of father and son, and proof of the civic pride and interest that inspired them. To recall the name to many of Reedsburg 's most worthy citizens is to arovise testimonials of personal esteem as well as gratitude.

Joseph Mackey, with his two brothers, Safford and Ebenezer, founded the family in Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1854. He was born in Schoharie County, New York, in 1822, attended school there and studied law and before leaving his native state had served as district attorney in Schoharie County. The brothers settled at Reedsburg and Ebenezer, who was a physician, became eminent in his profession here, retiring later in life to a home at Catskill, Greene County, New York. Joseph Mackey engaged in the practice of law at Reedsburg and became widely known in his profession, and in many other directions was a man of consequence. He owned some of the early mills in Sauk County, brought the first thoroughbred horses into this section, was largely instrumental in getting the first railroad through Reedsburg and founded the first bank. It was Mr. Mackey and his family that made possible the erection of the first Presbyterian Church. Late in life he retired to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and there his death occurred in 1882.

Joseph Mackey was married in 1850 to Miss Cornelia Mackey, who was born in Schoharie County, New York, in 1831. His brother Safford married his wife's sister. Miss Harriet Mackey. To Joseph Mackey and wife two children were born : Franklin J. and Callie. The latter married Harry Mcintosh, and they are residents of Chicago and have two children, Marjorie and Donald.

Franklin J. Mackey was born in Schoharie County, New York, in 1852. He was educated at Reedsburg and has never forgotten his old home, although his wide business interests have demanded his presence in other cities and even in another land. He has resided in Minneapolis and Chicago and has maintained a home at Leamington, England, for many years. He was married in Minneapolis to Miss Florence Day, who died in 1912, leaving no children. She was laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery at Reedsburg, to the beautifying of which sacred plot Mr. Mackey has devoted much attention. In his business undertakings in other sections he has been a very successful man, but Reedsburg is the home of his mother and was so long a leading interest to his late father that it seems to give him pleasure to make such improvements as paving the streets and in many directions making the city comfortable and attractive. It is said that he demonstrates, in one way or another, his love and respect for his father at all times and that any one, laborer or capitalist, who ever proved trustworthy to his father finds in him a friend.

Evan W. Evans, of Spring Green, was one of the oldest residents of Sauk County at the time of his death, which occurred August 6, 1917. He bore an honored and honorable part in local affairs for many years, and his children have grown up here and have occupied prominent positions in affairs, including his son, the widely known Judge Evans, now member of the Federal Judiciary.

The family for many generations lived in Wales, where Evan W. Evans was born June 13, 1841, the third in a family of fourteen children born" to Evan and Margaret (Williams) Evans. Evan Evans came to America in 1841, bringing his wife and three children. They first located in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and in 1849 came west and settled at Spring Green, Wisconsin, where they were among the early pioneers. Evan Evans developed a farm and most of the land is now within the limits of Spring Green. Seven of the children are still living.

Green. He acquired his education in the local schools and in 1861, early in the Civil war, he enlisted in the Sixth Wisconsin Battery. He saw three years of strenuous and active service.. He was in the campaign by which the Mississippi Valley was won from the Confederacy and among other great battles participated in the siege of Island No. 10 in the Mississippi River, and afterwards in the siege of Vicksburg and the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.

After the war Mr. Evans returned to Sauk County and for two years taught in the country schools. In 1868 he bought his farm, and continuously identified himself with its cultivation and with the profitable growing of staple crops of this section during the remainder of his life. In the meantime his fellow citizens sought him out for special honors and distinctions, and for four terms he represented them in the lower house of the State Legislature.

Evan W. Evans was married June 13, 1868, on his twenty-seventh birthday, to Mary Ellen Jones, of Spring Green. Her parents, Thomas D. and Mary (Lewis) Jones, were also of Welsh stock. Mrs. Evans was born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1850, and her mother died there in 1853. Thomas D. Jones came west soon after the death of his wife and he had the distinction of erecting the first house in the Village of Spring Green. He followed farming for many years near that village.

Mr. and Mrs. Evans had seven children. Emma is now agent of the state school at Sparta, Wisconsin. George graduated with the degree civil engineer from the University of Wisconsin and is now practicing his profession at St. Louis, Missouri. Mary is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, with the degree B. A., in 1904, and now teaches history and mathematics in the public schools of Eau Claire. Evan A. has attained distinction as a lawyer and is now federal judge on the Seventh Circuit, including the states of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. His official headquarters are at Chicago, but Sauk County still regards him as one of its foremost citizens. Isaac is manager of the home farm and is a stock buyer at Spring Green. Lillian is a graduate in the classical department from the University of Wisconsin with the class of 1904 and is now teacher of English in the Kenosha High School. Alice was graduated A. B. from the University of Wisconsin in 1906 and is the wife of Henry J. Steeps, superintendent of schools at Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

William F. Waterstreet is one of the most expert cheese makers of the State of Wisconsin, noted for its products in that commodity. He has had long and thorough experience and is now manager of the Spring Green branch of Schmitt Brothers, wholesale cheese dealers. The Schmitt Brothers headquarters are at Blue River, Wisconsin. This firm buys immense quantities of Wisconsin cheese and ship the product all over the world. The Spring Green branch, of which Mr. Waterstreet is the manager, consists of a frame warehouse, two stories high with basement, 115 by 30 feet, and located near the railway station on the railway tracks. Through the Spring Green branch six cars of cheese are marketed and shipped out every week. This means about 250 cars per year, and as each ear holds on the average about 20,000 pounds it can be seen that the business done through Spring Green is an enormous one.. The price in recent years has averaged about 19 cents a pound.

Mr. Waterstreet was born at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, March 20, 1874. His father, Frederick -Waterstreet, was born in Germany in 1841, and married in the old country Sophia Keuhl, who was born in Germany in 1848. They came to America in 1868 and located on a farm near Kewaunee, Wisconsin. Frederick Waterstreet died there in 1904 and his widow is still living at Kewaunee.

The fourth in a family of eleven children, William F. Waterstreet grew up on his father's farm and received all his early education at Kewaunee. At the age of fifteen he left home and going to Morrison, Illinois, was employed as a farm hand three years. It was in 1893, at the age of nineteen, that he began his career as a cheese maker at Kewaunee. He acquired a practical knowledge of the business during the three years spent there and subsequently he was located two years at Cadott, Wisconsin, one year at Dundas, and another j^ear at Big Hollow near Spring Green.

In 1900 Mr. Waterstreet was appointed instructor in cheese making. It was the firm of Crosby & Myers, well known wholesale cheese dealers at Chicago, who employed him in this capacity to look after the output of their 100 plants in Wisconsin. The duties of this position required almost constant travel. After two years the firm built the large warehouse at Spring Green, and Mr. Waterstreet was then employed to take active charge of the branch. In 1914 Crosby & Myers sold this station to Sehmitt Brothers, but Mr. Waterstreet remained with the new firm. Besides handling the business of the branch storage and warehouse he personally supervises the operation of eight cheese factories in and around Spring Green.

Mr. Waterstreet has also acciuired other business interests and is a stockholder in the Larsen Automatic Pump Company of Menominee, Wisconsin, and in the Madison Bond Company of Madison. For two years he served as a member of the village board of Spring Green. He is active in the German Lutheran Church.

On December 31, 1902, he married Miss Grace Flyun, of Spring Green. Mrs. Waterstreet was born at Mazomanie, Wisconsin, May 7, 1881, a daughter of Larry and Mary (Murphy) Flynn. Her father was born in Ireland in 1841 and after coming to America he enlisted in a New York regiment for service in the Civil war, served gallantly until captured and spent six months in the foul Libby Prison at Richmond before he was released. He afterwards came to Wisconsin and for many years was active in the railway service but is now living retired at Spring Green. His wife, Mary Murphy, was born in Ireland in 1848. Mr. and Mrs. Waterstreet have two children : Mary Valerian, born October 20, 1903 ; and Neal William, born October 18, 1907.

LiEUT.-Gov. Edw^ard F. Dithmar. Sauk County has sent a number of men from its boundaries into the larger service of the state, and none has reflected more credit upon this constituency than the present

Mr. Dithmar is serving his second term as lieutenant governor. He was first elected in the campaign of 1914. His service in the office was of exceptional merit, especially because of the dignity and impartiality with which he presided over the state house during the extraordinarily long session of 1915. In the primaries of 1916 his choice by the republicans as lieutenant governor was approved by an overwhelming vote, and he went into office a second time with the substantial endorsement of the people.

Mr. Dithmar was born in Reedsburg January 31, 1873, of German parents, Rudolph E. and Fredericka (Dargel) Dithmar. His parents were both born in Germany. His mother came to this country with her parents in 1865. His father was a druggist and physician and died at Reedsburg August 4, 1873. The widowed m.other is still living in Reedsburg. There were just two children, and the oldest son, J. T. Dithmar, is assistant attorney general at Madison.

Lieutenant Governor Dithmar was educated in the German Lutheran School and the high school at Reedsburg, and in 1890 entered the University of Wisconsin, graduating with the class of 1894. He had already had some public experience, having been a messenger in the general assembly during the session of 1889. In 1894, at the age of twenty-one and fresh from college, he was elected clerk of the circuit court for Sauk County and re-elected in the campaigns of 1896 and 1898, serving creditably for six years. While circuit clerk he was diligently pursuing the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1899. Since 1901 he has been in active practice at Baraboo.

Mr. Dithmar served four years as chairman of the Sauk County Republican Committee, four years as member of the Republican State Central Committee and in 1910 was vice chairman of that committee. He was secretary of the Republican State Central Committee from the campaign of 1912 for two years.

Governor Dithmar married Miss Emily Upham, daughter of Professor A. A. Upham, of the Whitewater Normal School. They have two sons, Edward Upham Dithmar and John Upham Dithmar.

Fred J. IIot.tz. In contemplating the careers of those who have attained more than ordinary success in the pursuits of life, one is interested to know just Avhat qualities have gone into the making up of such lives. In almost every case it is found that the foundations , of the fortunes of today have been laid Iw industry, close economy and strict integrity, and particularly is this true in the career of Fred J. Holtz, who is now the owner of one of the finely cultivated farms of Reedsburg Township and a citizen of Avorth and standing in his community. Mr. Holtz has been a resident of Sauk County for thirty-seven years and during this time has been identified with the agricultural interests of this rich region, so that his experience has been extensive and he has had ample time to familiarize himself with conditions existing here as to climate and methods.

Adolph and Minnie Iloltz. In his native land the father was a farmer in a small way, but did not make the success that he desired, so in 1880 brought his family to the United States and settled in Sauk County. Four years later he bought a tract of twenty acres in the vicinity of Ableman, to which he subsequently added thirty-two acres by purchase, and put the entire tract under cultivation. In 1893 he disposed of this property and removed to Eeedsburg Township, where he bought the 120-acre property that is now being operated by his son. Here he passed the remainder of his life in the industrious tilling of the soil, and died in 1901, at the age of fifty-one years. Mr. Holtz was one of the substantial men of his community, a hard-worker, possessed of honorable business methods and good judgment, and respected by his fellow-citizens. He voted the republican ticket at elections and was a member of the Lutheran Church, to which Mrs. Holtz, who is sixty-one years of age, and resides with her son, also belongs. They had two children : Fred J. and Augusta.

Fred J. Holtz was four years of age when brought to the United States by his parents, and his education was here secured in the public school at Ableman. He was brought up to habits of honesty and industry, and carefully trained by his father in the work which must be done by the successful farmer, and his tuition in this direction was secured in the school of hard work and practical experience. From the outset of his career he has been devoted to farming, and his present 120 acres, the home tract, shows every evidence of the presence of ability and business judgment,- its buildings being of modern character and its improvements in other directions of the best. In addition to general farming, Mr. Holtz has carried on stockraising to some extent and at this time has about twenty head of high grade Holstein cattle. Politically a republican, Mr. Holtz has not been an office seeker, but has discharged his civic duties in a public spirited way, and as a friend of education has served as a member of the board of school directors. He belongs to the Lutheran Church and has liberally supported its movements.

Mr. Holtz was united in marriage, October 25, 1903, in Sauk County, to Miss Ida Schulze, who has passed her entire life in Reedsburg Township, where she was born December 13, 1875, a daughter of Fred Schulze of Reedsburg, and a grand-daughter of Fred Schulze, Sr., one of the oldest citizens of this place, still living at the age of ninety-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Holtz are the parents of two children: Reuben, born December 19, 1904 ; and Lucille, born July 21, 1906.

James Hill, now living retired at Baraboo, is himself an old timer and member of one of the old families of Sauk County. Within his own recollection much of what is 'now pioneer history was unfolded in this section of Wisconsin, and he is one of the few men whose memory goes back nearly seventy years.

Mr. Hill was born in Scotland, August 6, 1833, a son of W. and Elizabeth (Smith) Hill. His mother was a native of England and his father of Scotland. They were married in Scotland and about 1842 the father immigrated to America and soon afterward located in Sauk County, where his family joined him about 1850. He was a miller and millwright by trade, and had his pioneer milling enterprise in Honey Creek Township. He also established a number of other mills in this section of the state, including a mill at Baraboo. Most of his subsequent life was spent in Baraboo, though he also worked at Ableman and Lavalle. He also acquired a farm in Freedom Township, but subsequently sold that and bought other land in Excelsior Township. His son Captain W. Hill, who made a creditable record as an officer in the Civil war, also bought 160 acres in Excelsior Township and subsequently for some years was editor of the Baraboo Republic and is now living retired at the age of eighty-six in Neodesha, Kansas. Captain Hill is president of the Bank of Neodesha.

W, Hill, Sr., died at Baraboo at the home of his son Edward in 1891. His wife passed away in 1894. Their children were : Mathew, deceased ; Elizabeth ; William ; James ; Mary Ann ; Ediward ; Janet, deceased ; Seymour, deceased ; and Douglas. The father of these children began voting in America as a whig, subsequently becoming a republican, and his sons followed him in that party affiliation. He was active in the Presbyterian Church.

James Hill was about seventeen years of age when he came to Sauk County and had had a public school education in Ohio. His career here has been that of a farmer and for a number of years he owned 160 acres in Excelsior Township and participated in the hop growing industry when that business was at its prime in Sauk County. Later he sold his farm and removed to Baraboo and in 1887 acquired thirty-six acres of land adjoining the city, known as the Indian Ford Farm. He still owns this land, but it is rented and he is living retired.

Mr. Hill is a republican and served as chairman in Freedom, Excelsior and Baraboo townships and for about four years was a member of the City Council of Baraboo. He regularly attends worship in the Presbyterian Church, although he is not a member.

Mr. Hill was married October 30, 1867, to Miss Emma Barringer. She was born in Pennsylvania September 5, 1847, a daughter of John F. and Margaret (Bergen) Barringer. Her parents removed to Sauk County in 1855, locating on a farm in Excelsior Township. Her father died there in 1868 and her mother passed away in Baraboo in 1886. The Barringer children were : Margaret, Frederick, John, Jacob, Mary, William and Emma. Mr. and Mrs. James Hill have eight children : Nettie, wife of E. B. McCoy of North Freedom; Edward; William; Robert; Lorene, wife of H. C. Duncan, of Baraboo ; Ernest ; Grace, wife of Ernest Edwards ; and Max.

George Horkan. Including his sons, who are now prosperous agriculturists, George Horkan, living retired at Reedsburg, represents a family which for three generations has been identified with the improvement, development and cultivation of Sauk County lands. The family have proved industrious and valuable citizens in every sense of the word. More than seventy years have come and gone since the name was first introduced into Sauk County annals, and they especially figure in the early history of Dellona Township.

eliild of about six years. He was born in Toronto, Canada, December 25, 1840, and was a Christmas gift to his parents, Peter and Bridget Horkan. His parents were both natives of Ireland and moved to Toronto, Canada, a short time before the birth of their son George. Peter Horkan kept a hotel in Toronto a couple of years and then moved to a farm near Port Hope, Ontario. From there he went to Illinois and had a farm in that state. In 1846 Peter Horkan, Patrick Mulligan and William Recliff all walked from their Illinois community to Sauk County, Wisconsin. After pursuing their investigations for some time- they finally located upon land in Dellona Township near the north line of the county. Peter Horkan acquired a tract of Government land and it was one of the first tracts taken up by a permanent settler in that township. After bringing his family here he lived through all the hardships and changing conditions of the frontier settler. He saw the land which he had taken up gradually improved and developed into a fine farm and at the same time the region about him was opened up and gradually peopled with substantial settlers. Peter Horkan died at his home in Dellona Township about thirty-eight years ago and his widow subsequently removed to Reedsburg and has now been deceased about twenty years. They were the parents of six children : George ; Ellen ; James, deceased ; Mary ; W. Horkan, who lives in Duluth ; and John, who occupies the old homestead.

George Horkan had limited opportunities to gain an education when a boy, since the early schools of Dellona Township were largely supported on the subscription plan and their terms lasted for only a few months each winter. He found plenty of employment in the woods or in the fields of his father's farm and after reaching his majority he acquired part of the old homestead and his enterprise enabled him to add to his possessions there until he owned 160 acres. This farm is now a complete and model place and is occupied and managed by his son James. Mr. Horkan also cleared up and improved another tract of land and later bought the Riley farm of 163 acres in the same township, where his son Frank now lives.

After nearly fifty years of continuous work as a farmer Mr. Horkan came to Reedsburg in 1909 and has since lived retired at 446 North Park Street. He is the owner of considerable city property, including three houses and lots in Reedsburg. He began life with very little except his own industry and has accomplished a satisfying material independence. For years he plowed his land with oxen and he bought and paid for his first yoke of oxen by cutting hoop poles. In politics Mr. Horkan is a republican. At one time he was chairman of the township board of Dellona Township. He and his family are active members of the Catholic Church.

In January, 1871, he married Miss Bridget Davenport, who was born in the State of Vermont May 18, 1850, a daughter of Stephen and Mary (MacNemara) Davenport. During the early fifties the Davenport family came out to Wisconsin and located in Juneau County, where her parents spent the rest of their worthy and useful lives. Her father died in 1882 and her mother in 1889, and both were about seventy-two years old when they passed away. Mrs. Horkan was the fifth in a family of six children.

While Mr. Horkan's material achievements have been exceedingly creditable, he and his good wife deserve all added praise for the twelve children who came into their household and most of whom have grown to stalwart manhood and gentle womanhood. James W., the oldest, was bom November 4, 1871, and is playing the part of an active and progressive farmer on the old farm. By his marriage to Catherine Timlin he has six children, named Loretta, Annetta, Glenn, George T., Fern and Agnes. John Henry, the second son, was born March 25, 1873, and is a resident of the State of Nevada. Frank Edward, born May 18, 1874, has the farm where his father resided until he retired and moved to Reedsburg. His wife's maiden name was Catherine Welch. They have no children. Mary E., the oldest daughter, was born February 4, 1876, and by her marriage to Edward Donahue, of Dellona Township, is the mother of seven children, Mary Elizabeth, Charles, Ann, Grace, Helen and Edward and Eleanor, twins. Ellen Agnes, bom February 23, 1877, is now deceased. By her marriage to Nels Winney she was the mother of two children, Helen, who lives with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Horkan, and Alice Thelma, deceased. Delia H., born October 27, 1878, is living in Kansas City, Missouri, unmarried. Stephen Joseph, whose home is in Baraboo, married Theresa Hayes, of Dellona Township, and their two sons are Edward and Donald. George Thomas, bom October 27, 1881, is a merchant at Reedsburg, and by his marriage to Lena Welch has a child, Mary. Michael Austin was bom June 14, 1883, and died when a child in 1890. Caroline, bom August 7, 1885, is a milliner and is now located at Sterling, Illinois. Theresa, born March 24, 1888, is a teacher at Wonewoc, Wisconsin. Catherine, the youngest of the twelve children, was bom May 27, 1889, and is still at home with her parents in Reedsburg.

John Quinn. In the farming district of Washington Township are many prosperous and progressive men who believe that the happiest life as well as the most independent one is to be lived on the farm. Prominent among these is John Quinn. Mr. Quinn has been identified with Sauk County almost all his life, and his present home is a farm that was developed partly by his father and partly by himself, from the woods and wilderness which once held sway all over this section of Wisconsin.

Mr. Quinn was bom in Dodge County, Wisconsin, May 21, 1853, but came with his parents to a farm in Washington Township on May 9, 1854. He is a son of James and Anna (Riley) Quinn, both natives of Ireland, his father a native of County Wexford and his mother of Queens County. His father was born November 1, 1816. James Quinn first married a Miss Laughlin, and there were two children of that union, Michael and Elizabeth. By his marriage to Anna Riley there was one child, John. Mrs. James Quinn was also' twice married, her first husband having been Thomas Cahill. Her two children by that union were James and Michael, both now deceased.

County he applied his industrious labors to the development and clearing, of his land, and was a man of prominence in that locality. He was one of the organizers of his home school district, in which he held offices, and was also treasurer. His death occurred September 24, 1875, and he was buried in old St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bear Creek Township. His wife, mother of John Quinn, died October 28, 1865, and was buried at Keysville, Wisconsin.

Mr. John Quinn grew up in the locality where he now lives and has witnessed the entire transformation of this district from woods and unproductive places into a smiling landscape of farms and comfortable homes.

Mr. Quinn married for his first wife Mary Ahern, daughter of Daniel and Hannah Ahern, of Washington Township. Mr. Quinn 's children are all by his first wife, their names being James, Mark, Bessie, Lawrence, John, Edna and George. Of these two are now deceased, Mark and Bessie. For his second wife Mr. Quinn married Mary Gavin, daughter of Daniel and Bridget Gavin, of Bear Creek, Wisconsin. Mrs. Quinn has two brothers, William and Michael. William married Margaret Lee and Michael married Johanna Anglium.

The John Quinn farm in Washington Township comprises 140 acres. His postoffice is Loganville. Mr. Quinn has carried out a program of farming here for more than forty years, and is one of the milk and cream producers of the section. He keeps on an average about twenty -four head of cattle, and at present his dairy herd consists of sixteen fine Holsteins. Mr. Quinn is a democrat in polities and an active member of the Catholic Church. He has given much of his time to public office, having been a member of the town board, and is present chairman of that board, and has been town assessor and town clerk. He has also been a trustee in his home church.

William Brennan is one of the sturdy and thrifty men upon whom the agricultural burdens of Sauk County rest, and has given a good account of his energies and abilities in passing years.

He was born in Baraboo Township April 27, 1871, a son of Thomas and Alice (Terry) Brennan. His parents were both natives of Ireland, his father born in 1824 and his mother in 1834. They came to America before their marriage. In Connecticut they lived for several years and were married at Stamford, and in 1867 arrived in Sauk County, locating on the farm now owned by their son Walter. Thomas Brennan was a very industrious Irishman and after developing his first land he increased its acres until he had a complete half section and all in a high state of cultivation. He spent his years on the old homestead and died there in 1909. His wife passed away in 1895. Their children were : John, deceased; Edward; Thomas, deceased; Alice and James, twins; Mary; Walter ; William ; Bridget, deceased ; Ella ; and Peter.

Mr. William Brennan grew up on the old farm, attended public schools, and took up the vocation to which he had been trained from childhood. As a farmer he has the management and ownership of 142 acres close to the old homestead. He devotes it to general farming and stock raising and is a dairyman and a stockholder in the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company at Baraboo. Mr. Brennan is a demo- crat in politics but has never sought any official honors in the county. His parents were devout members of the Catholic Church and he and his own family are communicants of the church of that faith at Baraboo.

Mr. Brennan was married January 27, 1904, to Miss Mary Power. She was born in Sauk County January 17, 1876, daughter of Michael and Catherine (Donahue) Power, both of whom were natives of Ireland, her father born in 1828 and her mother in 1833. Michael Power came to Baraboo when a young man in pioneer times and his wife came to Baraboo at the age of fourteen. They were married at the county seat -and the good wife died in 1910. Mr. Power is now living on the old farm. Their nine children were named : William ; Ellen, deceased ; John, deceased ; James ; Michael ; Edward ; Catherine ; Mary ; and Agnes.

William H. Townsend. It is not unusual to find men who after many years of successful agricultural effort turn to the city and its manifold business activities for the rounding out of their careers, but it is not a common thing to see the successful business man turning his attention to the farm. This latter, however, has been the case with William H. Townsend, of Reedsburg. During a long period of praiseworthy effort he became known as a successful business man of this city in the field of contracting and building, and a number of structures here and elsewhere testify to his skill and good workmanship. As a farmer, which vocation he adopted in 1913, he has been equally successful, and his fine property, located in Reedsburg Township, shows ample evidence of the presence of good management and system.

Mr. Townsend was born near Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, July 9, 1862, and is a son of Joseph H. and Flavilla (Miller) Townsend. Joseph Townsend was born in Oneida County, New York, January 15, 1827, and was a youth when he accompanied his parents, Lewis and Sarah Ann Townsend, to Wisconsin, the family home for a number of years being in Ozaukee County. There were fifteen children in the grandparents' family, of whom several still survive, and a number of the sons wore the Union blue in the Civil war. Lewis and Sarah Ann Townsend moved from Ozaukee County to Sauk County, where they lived east of Sandusky for a time, but the closing years of their lives were passed at Waterville, Minnesota.

Joseph Townsend remained on the home farm in Ozaukee County until the early '50s, when, fired with the news of the fortunes that were being accumulated in the gold fields of California, he made the long and perilous journey to that state. On his return he resumed his residence in Ozaukee County, but in 1868 moved to Sauk County, locating east of Sandusky, where he owned a farm of forty acres and also conducted a blacksmith shop. At various times he owned farms in several parts of the county, but finally retired and moved to Reedsburg, where he lived quietly for twenty-five years and died January 13, 1913, being buried on his eighty-sixth birthday. While living here he owned about six acres within the city limits, and, more to keep himself occupied than anything else, engaged to some extent in gardening. He was a member of the United Brethren Church, as was also Mrs. Townsend, whose death occurred in February, 1873. Her parents were early settlers of Sauk County, at Sandusky, although both died at Richland Center. Among their children were a number of sons who served in the Civil war. In fact, on the paternal and maternal sides William H. Townsend had fourteen uncles who fought at one time or another during the war between the states. Joseph and Flavilla Townsend were the parents of five children : Janie, who died young ; William H., Adaline Elizabeth, Clark L. and Richard.

William H. Townsend was six years old when brought by his parents to Sauk County, and here his education was completed in the district' schools of Sandusky. As a youth he learned the trade of carpenter, and in 1887, upon first coming to Reedsburg, he accepted employment in the lumber yard. Subsequently, with his brother, Clark L., he embarked in the building and contracting business, which they followed in partnership for about fourteen years, during which time they erected numerous structures which still stand as monuments to their enterprise and industry. One of their contracts was the building of the big brick church at Logansville. William H. Townsend built the main part of the Townsend-Metcalf Garage, and later he and his brother built a 3-story addition to the main building. While Mr. Townsend was more than ordinarily successful in his business operations, he had for some years desired to engage in agricultural pursuits, and this ambition reached fruition in 1913, when he purchased a farm of 200 acres located in Reedsburg Township, i/^ mile from the city limits. Here he has developed a handsome property and engages in general farming, in addition making a specialty of raising Holstein cattle, with which he has had much success. It has been his fortune^ to secure prosperous results from all of his efforts, but these have not been attained without earnest and well-directed labor. Politically Mr. Townsend is a progressive, and on the ticket of that party he was elected alderman of Reedsburg for six years. His fraternal connections are with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, and he and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On December 31, 1891, Mr. Townsend was united in marriage with Miss Nellie Maud Randall, who was born November 1, 1872, in Reedsburg Township, Sauk County, daughter of Byron and Frances M. (Flitcroft) Randall, of Reedsburg. To this union there have been born two children: Doris Lucerne, born September 27, 1893, a graduate of the Reedsburg High School, who spent two yea^s at Lawrence University and attended the University of Wisconsin, and is now the wife of Maurice Deppe, of Baraboo ; and Donald William, born August 5, 1910, and now attending the public schools. The pleasant and comfortable Townsend home is situated at No. 717 Main Street.

Byron Randall. Of the citizens of Reedsburg who, while attaining individual success, have contributed to the material welfare and improvement of the community one of the best known is Byron Randall. During the twelve years that he has been serving in the capacity of alderman, nearly all of the civic improvements of Reedsburg have been installed, and a nnniber of these have been brought about largely through his support and initiative. He was born in Reedsburg Township, Sauk County, December 8, 1850, and is a son o£ George and Naamah (Thompson) Randall.

George Randall was born in 1810, in New York, and removed as a young man to Illinois, where be was married to Naamah Thompson, who was born in England, near the City of London, February 29, 1828. She came with her parents to the United States in 1841, and after a short stay at New York went to Illinois. Her parents later went to Columbus, Wisconsin, where her father died in 1874 and her mother some time later. After their marriage, in 1847, Mr. and Mrs. Randall removed to Columbus, Wisconsin, then going to Juneau County, and finally, in 1849, locating in Reedsburg Township. There they took up Government land and developed a good farm, on which both passed the rest of their lives, Mr. Randall dying in 1887. In politics he was a democrat, but never aspired to public office. He and his wife assisted in the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal Church on Narrow Prairie and later Mrs. Randall was a member of the church of that denomination at Reedsburg. They had nine children, all of whom are living : Alfred, Byron, Charles, King, Frank, William, James, Lester and Clara.

After securing his education in the public schools Byron Randall devoted himself to assisting his father in the cultivation of the home farm, and eventually went to work for his brother Alfred, who was the owner of a threshing outfit. He spent fourteen years in this kind of work, and in 1880, came to Reedsburg, where, with the same brother, he established a machine shop, an establishment which they conducted in partnership for nine years. Mr. Randall then became a clerk in a hardware store for a time, but now for a number of years has been in the employ of the Brithingham & Hixon Lumber Company as a carpenter. From the outset of his career he has been a democrat, but his prohibition leanings are strong and he has voted in favor of the representatives of prohibition since the time when there were only seven votes cast in that way at Reedsburg. He has long been a foremost figure in public movements here, and for tlie past twelve years has been elected alderman. During this time he has attended every meeting of the council except one, and every special meeting except one. He was a member of the building committee when the high school was built, and has been alderman while the most of Reedsburg 's other improvements were made, including the park. While he is progressive and always in favor of uev^ innovations, he is of a sound, practical nature, and does not believe in fly-away policies. He and Mrs. Randall are members of the Christian Science Church.

On December 3, 1871, Mr. Randall was married to Miss Frances M. Flitcroft, who was born in Walworth County, Wisconsin, December 28, 1852, a daughter of John and Regina (Thomas) Flitcroft, the former born in Steuben County, New York, in 1826, and the latter in Canada, November 4, 1829. They were married in Walworth County, Wisconsin, in 1851, and came to Sauk County two years later, settling in Reedsburg Township, on the property adjoining the Randall Farm, a part of which Mr. Flitcroft secured from the Government. There the parents of Mrs.

Randall rouncted out their lives in industrious agricultural efforts, the father passing away August 24, 1888, and the mother in August, 1916. They were the parents of five children, all of whom are living : Frances, Charley, Lillie, Belle and Walter. Mr. and Mrs. Randall have one daughter : Nellie Maud, who is the wife of William H. Townsend, formerh^ a l)usiness man of Reedsburg, and now a prosperous farmer in the Township of that name.

Edgar A. Wood, a resident of Sauk County nearly all his life, has applied himself successfully to the business of farming and in a public spirited manner to the affairs of his home community of Washington Township.

Mr. Wood was born at Necedah in Juneau County, Wisconsin, October 31, 1874. He is a son of the late Albert Wood and Ida (Organ) Wood, who came to Wisconsin from Jefferson County, New York.

Albert Wood, who played a notable part in the affairs of Sauk County for many years, was born December 28, 1844. When he was twelve years of age in 1856 his parents came to Washington Township of Sauk County and joined the earliest pioneers of this section. Grandfather Wood was a pioneer physician and a man of great force, ability and learning.

Albert Wood was educated in the common schools of that day and he also attended Milton College of Wisconsin. Though very young at the time he joined the Union army and fought for the preservation of the Union. For many years he taught school, and his education was largely self acquired. He was naturally studious, and directed his studies to such good purpose that he secured a life certificate as a teacher. Along with teaching he combined farming and he finally retired to the old homestead in Washington Township, where he looked after his parents during their declining years. There was never a time when his interests slackened in the welfare of his community educationally and otherwise. At one time he was his party's candidate for county superintendent of schools. When well advanced in years he took up the study of law. In 1906 he was admitted to practice in the courts of this state and though his legal career was brief he distinguished himself by his industry and careful and efficient management of all interests entrusted to him. All his life he enjoyed communion with the great Spirits of the world through books, through active contact with men, and acquired a great fund of general information which was available when he took up the profession of law. After his admission to the bar he opened an office in his home town and acquired a favorable clientage.

Albert Wood died at his home in Washington Township March 9, 1914, leaving his widow, his son Edgar A., and two daughters, Estella and IMabel. Estella is the wife of Byron Chapin.

The Sauk County Bar Association, under date of April 18, 1914, prepared resolution, from which the following is a quotation : ' ' Therefore be it resolved that in the death of Albert Wood the bar of Sauk county has lost an honest, conscientious member. Resolved further, that we extend his widow and family the sympathy of this association and

Mr. Edgar A. "Wood, who is unmarried, now occupies the old homestead of his father with his unmarried sister Mabel. He has a farm of 120 acres, and is operating it along general lines, keeping about fifteen head of cattle and having a dairy of about ten head. He uses the silo system of feeding, and enjoys a justly earned place among the progressive farmers of Sauk County.

Mr. Wood is a director of the school board and for five years was road commissioner in his district. From 1905 to 1908 he served as postmaster of Woodlawn. He is an active republican, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and is secretary of the Beavers Lodge,

Thomas Morley, whose name is numbered among the successful fanners in Sauk County, was born in Excelsior Township March 31, 1859. He comes of a widely known family, conspicuous among whom was his father, the late Isaac W. Morley, who served as the first county superintendent of schools of Sauk County.

Isaac W. Morley was born at Mentor, in Lake County, Ohio, September 2, 1820, a son of Thomas Morley, who is elsewhere mentioned in this publication. Isaac W. Morley came to Sauk County in 1849. He acquired 160 acres of Government land. His brother Russell also took a quarter section and another brother, Alvin, took the farm where Isaac 's son Harvey now lives.

Isaac W. Morley taught school from early youth and did considerable work as a pioneer educator in Sauk County. November 5, 1861, he was county superintendent of schools, and had the distinction of putting the county school system into operation. He also conducted a farm and a sawmill, and was a man of good ability in every line. He married in Ohio Mary F. Smith. Isaac Morley was a republican, but later became stanchly aligned with the prohibition party. He and his wife had a large family of children : Mary, wife of A. C. Cole, of Excelsior Township ; Alvin, deceased ; Lucian, who died at the age of three years ; Lucius, who died in November, 1916, at the age of sixty ; one that died in, infancy ; Thomas ; Harvey, who now owns the 200-acre homestead which his Uncle Alvin once had ; Leaphe, who is unmarried ; and Minnie, wife of Arthur Stanley.