Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 18 of 20)

Charles M, Kester was reared on the homestead farm and secured his education in the public schools of Ohio and Sauk County. Brought up in a family noted for its patriotism, when the call to arms came at the outbreak of the Civil war he was not slow in answering, and October 1, 1861, became a private in Company F, Third Wisconsin Cavalry. He served his country bravely and faithfully during nearly three years while wearing the blue uniform, but in August, 1864, became incapacitated through injury and illness, and at that time received his honorable discharge. Returning to his home, when he was fully recuperated he resumed farming operations, and continued to be engaged therein in Ironton Township and Reedsburg Township for a period of forty years. In 1905 he disposed of his farm in the latter township and retired to Reedsburg, where he has since lived at the corner of Second and North Walnut streets. During the time that his attention was directed to matters agricultural Mr, Kester was successful in making his labors yield him handsome returns, his native business ability, resource, initiative and general all-around ability and energy enabling him to make a success of each venture in which he embarked. He is now known throughout the community as a dependable and upright man, one who regards his word as he would his bond, and who has ever maintained the highest methods of farming and the noblest ideals of home and community life. Politically a republican, he has served as a member of the board of education, and while residing in Ironton Township acted for a number of years in the capacity of justice of the peace. His fraternal connections are with Reedsburg Lodge No. 157, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Reedsburg Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; and Saint John 's Commandery, Knights Templar. Mrs. Kester belongs to the Presbyterian Church.

On October 4, 1866, Mr. Kester was married to Miss Julia A. Ford, of Ironton, Wisconsin, and they became the parents of two children: X and Charles E. The daughter is now the widow of Allen Reese, who was a successful Nebraska farmer, and has four children, Rosetta, Charley, who is a member of the United States regular army, Jared, who on account of heart disease was rejected as a soldier, and Allen. Charles E. Kester is a resident of Hutchinson, Minnesota, where he is manager and vice president of the Hutchinson Produce Company, a position which he has held for many years. He married Mabel Peck, a daughter of a prominent citizen of that community, and they have two children, Harold and Ora May. Mrs. Kester died April 22, 1891, and in 1893 Charles M. Kester was married to Mrs. Electa (Benson) Wheeler, the widow of Henry Wheeler. Henry Wheeler was a native of Ohio and came to Sauk County in 1854, settling in Ironton Township with his parents, Nelson and Emmeline Wheeler, who died at Reedsburg, his father in 1869 and his mother about 1902. Mr. Wheeler died December 27, 1884. having been the father of four children: William, who is engaged in the machinery business at Madison, Wisconsin; Orton, a successful hardware merchant of Baraboo ; Elias, who was an editor of newspapers at Reedsburg, Kilbourn and Oxford, former proprietor of the Mirror- Gazette and the Oxford Times, owner of 320 acres of land in Bowman, North Dakota, and now a newspaper editor at Bowman, North Dakota ; and Emmeline, who is the wife of A. 0. Sorge.

Mrs. Kester was born in Lincoln Township, Morrow County, Ohio, March 29, 1841, and is a daughter of Almeron and Lucinda (Stanton) Benson, the former born in Oneida County, New York, in 1815, and the latter in Pennsylvania, in 1819. They came to Ironton, Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1855, and purchased a farm, later selling out to buy another property in the same community, on which Mr. Benson died in 1889 and Mrs. Benson in 1897. They had the following children : James, Elias, Sophia and Sarena, who are deceased ; Electa ; Mary ; Phoebe, who is deceased; Samantha; and Jennette, deceased. Mr. Benson was a major of militia in Ohio, and in 1861 enlisted in Company B, Twelfth "Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which he served bravely for two years, then being honorably discharged because of disability. He was a stanch republican in his political views, and a faithful member of the Christian Church, as was also his wife.

John Tait. Sauk County has long been favored with a fine and sturdy class of men who have contributed to its development along commercial and agricultural lines, and in the latter connection John Tait, the subject of this review, demands recognition, as he has been actively engaged in farming operations on the old Tait homestead in Ironton Township during practically the entire period of his career. He has long been known as a prosperous and enterprising agriculturist and as a man whose methods demonstrate the power of activity and honesty in the business world.

A native of Sauk County, John Tait was born on his present farm, in the vicinity of Reedsburg, January 17, 1882. He is a son of Thomas and Annie (Mclntyre) Tait, the former of whom was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his birth occurred in 1842, and the latter was bom at Mauston in 1851. Further data concerning the ancestors and immediate family of John Tait are given in the sketch of his brother Thomas, a brief record of whose life appears elsewhere in this work.

John Tait grew to manhood on the old Tait homestead and his educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the Oak Hill School. He is now associated with his brother Thomas in farming operations on the old parental estate and they are likewise extensively interested in stock-raising. Mr. Tait is a stalwart democrat in his political proclivities and he manifests a deep and sincere interest in all matters connected with the general welfare of his home community.

November 20, 1912, occurred the marriage of Mr. Tait to Miss Catherine McCarthy, a native of Richland County, Wisconsin, where she was born August 20, 1889. Mrs. Tait is a daughter of John and Hannah (Drea) McCarthy, residents of Reedsburg. To Mr. and Mrs. Tait have been born three children, Kathleen, John and Mary. The Tait family stand high in the esteem of their fellow citizens and they take an active part in the social life of the community.

Thomas Tait. Sauk County, Wisconsin, figures as one of the most attractive, progressive and prosperous divisions of the state, justly claiming a high order of citizenship and a spirit of enterprise which is certain to conserve consecutive development and marked advancement in the material upbuilding of this section. A substantial agriculturist who has done his share toward the improvement of Ironton Township is Thomas. Tait, a native of the farm on which he now resides. He was born March 18, 1884, a son of Thomas and Annie (Mclntyre) Tait, the former of whom died in 1913 and the latter is now a resident of Mauston, Wisconsin.

Thomas Tait, father of the subj*ect of this review, was born in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the year 1842. He resided in the Quaker City until he was twelve years of age and then accompanied his parents to Wisconsin. He ably assisted his father in the development of one of the finest farms in this section and in due time he became owner of the parental estate, on which he resided until his death in 1913, as noted above. He married Annie Mclntyre, whose birth occurred in 1851. Mrs. Tait survives her husband, and she bore him the following children : Mary is deceased ; John is mentioned elsewhere in this work ; Thomas is the subject of this sketch ; and Robert is a jeweler at Reedsburg.

The paternal grandparents of Thomas Tait, of this notice, were Thomas and Mary Tait, who settled in Ironton Township in 1854. They bought and sold land in Lavalle Township and prior to their demise were known as well-to-do farmers. He died in the latter township and she lived in Reedsburg when death called her. Their children were: Jane, Mary, Lizzie, Sarah, Robert and Thomas. The maternal grandfather of Thomas Tait came to Wisconsin and settled in Juneau County, where he died.

To the public schools of Ironton Township Thomas Tait, whose name forms the caption for this review, is indebted for his preliminary education, which was supplemented by a course of study in a business college at Stevens Point. For some years past he has co-operated with his brother John in the development of the old family homestead. They own a splendidly improved estate of 204 acres and in addition to agricultural work they devotb a great deal of time to stock-raising.

In 1911 Mr. Tait married Miss Grace Giffers, of Tracy, Minnesota. This union has been prolific of three children, whose names are William, Neal and Dorothy. In his political affiliations Mr. Tait maintains an independent attitude, giving his support to the man rather than the party. Members of the Tait family have always been known for their uprightness and they have ever given a loyal support to all matters affecting the good of the community.

Frank David Hulburt, M. D. In point of years of continuous service one of the oldest physicians in Sauk County is Dr. Frank David Hulburt of Reedsburg. That fact alone might be a doubtful distinction. But Doctor Hulburt is generally recognized among his professional brethren as a leader and one of the ablest physicians in Central Wisconsin. His attainments and his work have placed him in that position. The regard he enjoys from his professional associates in Sauk County

The name Hulburt entered Sauk County annals in pioneer times. Doctor Hulburt himself was born December 23, 1858, at Loganville in this county. His parents were David B. and Josephine M. (Van Scoter) Hulburt. The late David B. Hulburt was one of Sauk County's most prominent men both in business and in politics. He was born at Portland in Chautauqua County, New York, December 8, 1829, was reared on a farm, and was liberally educated. He attended the public schools at Fredonia, New York, and graduated from the Normal Department of the Fredonia Academy. For a number of years he taught school, and in 1857, accompanied by his wife and one child, located at Loganville in Sauk County. That was his home until 1907, when he removed to Reedsburg and lived retired until his death September 19, 1912. Many interests occupied his time and attention. He owned 200 acres of land constituting a model farm adjoining the Village of Loganville. He was also one of the first merchants to have a stock of goods at Loganville.

His abilities were by no means confined to the walks of private life. In the early days he served as postmaster of Loganville and during the Civil war was enrolling officer. For over twenty years he filled the office of county surveyor and was also township superintendent of schools. He had the ability to express himself both instructively and entertainingly as a public speaker. For four years he sat in the Lower House of the State Legislature and served one term as state senator. It was David B. Hulburt who introduced in the Legislature the bill for the ''one mill tax" to increase the common school fund. While in the Senate he was chairman of the committee on party caucuses and was also chairman of several congressional conventions. He was known as a man of very temperate habits, and, while broad minded, was very positive and aggressive when he had at once decided upon a course of action.

David B. Hulburt was married February 10, 1856, to Josephine M. Van Scoter. She was born November 27, 1835, and died August 17, 1908, aged seventy-two years, eight months and twenty days. She was the oldest of the four children of Doctor Thomas and Abigail (Jones) Van Scoter, the Van Scoters being of old Dutch stock in New York, while her mother was English. Josephine Van Scoter was liberally educated in literature and music at Fredonia, New York, where her father practiced medicine for many years. Doctor Van Scoter died in Fredonia and his widow subsequently came west to Rockford, Illinois, and was matron in the Female Seminary there.

Doctor Hulburt grew up at Loganville, was graduated from the public schools there at the age of sixteen, and at the same time was granted a certificate to teach school. In a short time he went to New Boston, Illinois, and entered the drug store of his uncle, George Lytle, who soon made him head clerk. He spent 3i/2 years in that store and then returned to Loganville. In 1882 he was granted a certificate as registered pharmacist, and became prescription clerk in the drug store of the late Moses Young at Reedsburg.

his course and was given his degree Doctor of Medicine February 19, 1884. Doctor Hulburt began practice at Loganville, but after two years, in 1886, removed to Reedsburg, which has been his home and professional headquarters now for over thirty years. For five years up to 1891 he was physician for the Sauk County Asylum for the Insane. He has held for many years the post of local surgeon for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company. He has probably had a more extensive practice in Sauk County than any other physician. He is an active member of the Wisconsin Central and the Wisconsin State Medical societies and the American Medical Association.

Doctor Hulburt is affiliated with Lodge No. 157, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and with the Reedsburg Lodge of Knights of Pythias. Like his father he is liberal in his religious views. Politically he is a republican and served several terms as alderman and one term as mayor of Reedsburg.

Doctor Hulburt was married February 13, 1887, to Miss Mina Markee. She was born in Reedsburg March 25, 1866, only daughter of Asa Engle and Caroline M. Seeley Markee. Her parents were very early settlers in the old Town of Reedsburg, where her father for many years was a merchant. Mrs. Hulburt 's mother is still living. They have two children : Arthur M., the older, was born July 17, 1894, was graduated from the Reedsburg High School, spent one year at Valparaiso University in Indiana in a business course and one year in the University of Wisconsin, where he pursued a civil engineering course. He is now local agent at Reedsburg for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Milton F., the younger son, was born June 2, 1897, is a graduate of the Reedsburg High School and is now continuing his higher education in the University of Wisconsin.

Asa Engle Markee was for many years engaged in business at Reedsburg and the family have long been prominent in that city. He was born in Ohio, June 20, 1838, a son of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth (Engle) Markee. His parents moved to Sauk County prior to 'the Civil war, and his father followed the business of milling. At one time he conducted the flour mill at Reedsburg, but subsequently removed to Vernon County, where he died. His wife died in Ohio about 1846. Asa Engle was the oldest of their four children. His brother James was a soldier in the Civil war and is also deceased, as are also Levi and Mary.

Asa Engle Markee acquired his early education in Ohio and was a young man when his parents came to Sauk County. For a time he clerked for the firm of Harris & Hosier and then engaged in merchandising at Reedsburg, which he continued until his retirement. He died July 3, 1916. His home was at 147 South Pine Street, where. his widow, Mrs. Markee, has lived for forty years. The late Mr. Markee was a republican and a charter member of Reedsburg Lodge No. 157, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and was a regular attendant at the Congregational Church.

He was married July 3, 1862, just fifty-four years to the day before his death, to Miss Caroline M. Seeley. Mrs. Markee, who is still living in Reedsburg, represents one of the oldest families of the city. She was born in Medina County, Ohio, February 5, 1842, a daughter of Austin and Mary (Kent) Seeley. Her father was born in Lake County, Ohio, November 5, 1820, and her mother, also a native of that state, vi^as born March 25, 1822. They were married in 1838 and on February 1, 1849, the family arrived in Reedsburg, being the first family to permanently locate in this town. Austin Seeley was a carpenter by trade, and though he owned a farm he always followed carpentry as his regular occupation. He died at Reedsburg in 1880 and his wife passed away February 27, 1895. Mr. Seeley was a republican and during the war he gave his influence to the Union cause and rendered some special service as chairman of the Board of Supervisors. His wife was a member of the Congregational Church, and when that church was disbanded in Reedsburg she and two other ladies were the only members left of the original organization. Mr. and Mrs. Seeley had three children: Morris E., who was born May 3, 1840, served as a Union soldier and is still living at Reedsburg ; Caroline M. ; and Ada L., wife of Robert Tate, of Lavalle, Wisconsin.

Mrs. Markee has always taken a great interest in the growing of flowers and for about twenty years has conducted the only greenhouse in Reedsburg. She and her husband were the parents of three children : Fred, who was born in 1863, was connected with a business house at Madison as a clerk and later was a traveling salesman and died at Reedsburg in 1902; Mina is the wife of Dr. F. D. Hulburt, of Reedsburg; and Frank K., born in 1873, died July 5, 1895.

Simon Cobleigh. No name is held in higher regard in Delton Township, Sauk County, than that of Cobleigh, and it belongs to an old pioneer family that has had much to do with developing this section. Of New England birth and training, they brought with them the steady liabits and sturdy citizenship that have been marked characteristics ever since. The Cobleighs have been capable farmers for the most part, but other vocations have not been neglected, while their sterling character and general intelligence have made them the men to whom others have turned for leadership in public matters.

Simon Cobleigh, of Delton township, was born on the farm in this township on which he lives, January 5, 1855. His parents were Simon and Orrel Elizabeth (Way) Cobleigh. The father was born in Vermont, July 10, 1810, and died in Delton township, Sauk County, December 30, 1887. He was married in Connecticut, February 22, 1839, to Orrel Elizabeth Way, who was born in Connecticut, June 15, 1820, and died in Sauk County, March 26, 1889. In 1841 they moved to Mississippi and lived there for ten years, in 1851 coming to Wisconsin and settling in Sauk County. The father bought 120 acres of undeveloped land in Delton township and resided on the tract until the close of his life. Like other pioneers Mr. and Mrs. Cobleigh had to endure hardships but both lived to enter upon days of peace and comfort. They were among the organizers of the first Methodist Episcopal church in the township and continued a liberal support and carefully reared their children in this faith, there being five in number, as follows : Sidney, Mary, Albert, Norris and Simon. Sidney has made his home in Montana for a num- ber of years. He is seventy-six years old and resides on his farm of 320 acres. Mary, who was born August 12, 1844, died in infancy, in Mississippi, i?Llbert was accidentally killed in a runaway in Delton township. Norris was born December 9, 1850, went to Minnesota, was a pioneer in Redwood County, and is now one of the well to do and substantial men of Redwood County. The father of the above family was a leading man of Delton township for many years and he frequently served in such offices as on the township and school boards.

Simon Cobleigh, who bears his father's honored name, was born four years after his parents settled as pioneers in Delton township. They were people of refinement and desired advantages for their children, but in his early boyhood the schools were not to be compared with those of the present day in the same section, and his opportunities were somewhat limited thereby. Being the youngest of the family, he remained at home and gave his father assistance on the homestead, which property he subsequently acquired through purchase. He has ever since carried on general farming and stockraising, increasing his facilities later on by the addition of more land and now owns 280 acres. All of his property is well improved and his surroundings indicate extreme comfort.

Mr. Cobleigh was married June 13, 1889, to Miss L. DeEtte Shaw, who was born in Merrimack township, Sauk County, "Wisconsin, July 28, 1868, and is a daughter of Henry W. and Mary A. (Nelsen) Shaw. The father of Mrs. Cobleigh was born at Mazomanie, Wisconsin, in 1841, and was brought to Merrimack Township by his parents in 1842. They were Samuel and Eliza (Waggoner) Shaw, who moved later to Portage and then to Milwaukee, where both subsequently died. He was a tailor by trade and was engaged in the tailoring business at these different places. To Samuel and Eliza Shaw the following children were born: Henry W. ; Angeline, who is deceased, was the wife of Frank Terrill ; Levantia, who was the wife of Evan Owens, now deceased, and they lived in Racine County; Melvina and her husband, William Bertell, once of Clark County, are deceased; Frances, deceased, was the wife of C. E. Newcomb; and Charles A., who is a mechanic in Milwaukee.

Henry W. Shaw was educated in the district schools of Merrimack township and later bought the farm which his father had owned. He served three and one half years in the Civil war, enlisting September 11, 1861, in Company K, Fourteenth Wisconsin, Sherman's army, and took part in all the engagements from Missionary Ridge to Atlanta and in the march to the sea. A few years after purchasing his father's farm he moved to Iowa and lived there for six years and then came back to Sauk County and bought a farm in Delton Township. On that farm he lived for twelve years and then desired a change and on March 15, 1890, moved to Mulino, Oregon, and bought a farm there and resided on it until 1911, when his wife was taken sick. His daughter, Mrs. Cobleigh, went to Oregon and brought her mother back home with her, where she died on April 14 of that year. The father remained in Oregon until in September, 1914, when he came back to Sauk County and resided with his children until his death, September 17, 1915, at the home of his daughter Mrs. William Premo. The mother of Mrs. Cobleigh was born in Illinois in 1844. Her father, John Nelsen, was a pioneer in Baraboo,

Wisconsin. He was engaged in the butcher business and was a merchant at the time of his death. Both he and his wife died at Baraboo. Mrs. Cobleigh is the eldest of her parents' children, the others being as follows : Francis N,, who remains on the Oregon farm which belongs to the family; Nellie J., who is the wife of William Premo; Eliza M., who died in infancy; Mabel, who is the wife of Christian E. Kramer, of Baraboo; Belva, who is the wife of Edwin Faust, of Oregon; and Charles L., who resides near Portland, Oregon.

Mr. and Mrs. Cobleigh have three children: RoUo S., who was born in 1890, married Lilah Harrison, of Fairfield Township, and they have two children, Gerald Larelle and Gwendolyn Hazel. Wayne James was born January 11, 1894, and died in the Northwestern Hospital at Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 1, 1915. Perry N. was born June 24, 1897, and resides at home. Mr. Cobleigh and family are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Delton Township. In politics he is a republican. For thirty years he has been a member of the township school board and it may be noted that Delton Township has high grade schools. Mr. Cobleigh has served in numerous township offices that carry heavy responsibility with them, for a number of terms being township treasurer and at present is supervisor. He has interests in addition to those definitely agricultural, and since 1896 has been a director in the Baraboo Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

Frank A. Foss. In tracing the lives of men who have met with success in their undertakings in any community it will be found that each one possesses in common certain qualities, and among them are included ambition, industry and perseverance. To these, as in the case of Frank A. Foss, are often added sound judgment, unswerving integrity, and a thorough appreciation of responsibility, that produce a man of force, usefulness and undoubted achievement. Oftentimes it happens that a man will find a royal road to fortune through the influence of others or by the weight of his money, but for those who have not these advantages to forge ahead and achieve distinction requires just those dominant characteristics outlined above. Reedsburg is fortunate in having such a man in its midst and its business prestige is affected advantageously by the fact that he is connected with such an important enterprise as the Stolte, Dangel & Foss Company, of which firm he is a member.

Mr. Foss was born in Dellona Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, July 30, 1866, being a son of John and Minnie (Springer) Foss, natives of Germany. John Foss was born in June, 1839, and was eleven years of age when brought to the United States by his parents, Christopher Foss and wife, who first settled at Milwaukee and came overland from that city in an ox cart, settling in Dellona Township. Here they bought a farm, in the clearing and cultivation of which they spent the rest of their lives. They had four children, namely: Louis, Christopher, John and Mary, of whom all are deceased except John.

John Foss received the greater part of his education in the schools of his native land, and when little more than a lad began instructing others as a teacher in the public schools of Milwaukee. In this manner he se- cured the capital necessary to give him a start as an agriculturist, and eventually he became the owner of a farm in Dellona township, a property which he cultivated and improved and upon which his son Albert now resides. His long and faithful labor brought him a substantial reward in the shape of a good income, and in 1896 he was able to retire from active pursuits and to take up a quiet and peaceful residence at Reedsburg, where he still makes his home, Mrs. Foss having died in 1914, at the age of seventy-three years. In politics Mr. Foss is a democrat, and his religious connection is with Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, of which Mrs. Foss was also a member. They were the parents of five children, all of whom are living.

Frank A. Foss attended the public schools of Dellona township and Kilbourn High School, and was sixteen years of age when he entered the employ of Harris & Hosier. He became one of the most trusted employes of this Reedsburg concern, gained experience through coming in contact with all departments of the business, and in 1893 became one of the organizers of the new concern of the Stolte, Dangel & Foss Company, which took over the stock of the concern with which he had been connected for eleven years. To the furtherance of the interests of this enterprise he has continued to steadfastly give his attention, and his work and fidelity have been prominent factors in the advancement that has enlarged the scope of this company until it is now the largest department store in Sauk County, occupying a two-story building that runs for an entire block on Walnut Street, from Main to Second Street, and employing fifty people. In connection with the general business done a large cold storage plant is operated, and one of the recent acquisitions of the company has been an automobile department, of which Mr. Foss has direct charge, as he has also of the hardware and implement sections. While Mr. Foss has given his attention almost solely to this business to the exclusion of other enterprises, his name is well known and highly respected in business circles of the city and county, and his judgment is esteemed as accurate, valuable and timely. He is a republican, and has served efficiently and with fidelity as a member of the city council, holding the office of alderman for nine years.

Mr. Foss was married in 1890 to Miss Helen Harris, who was bom at Spring Green, Sauk County, July 30, 1866, a daughter of William Hamilton Harris, a Sauk County pioneer and a veteran of the Civil war. Mrs. Foss was educated in the schools of Spring Green and Baraboo, and is one of the popular ladies of Reedburg's social circles. She and Mr. Foss have had three children : I\Iadeline, who graduated from the Reedsburg High School and the Milwaukee Normal School and taught schoql for two years, and is now the wife of J. A. Lund, of Reedsburg, and has one son ; Lyle, who died in infancy ; and Lloyd, a junior in the Reedsburg High School.

William Hamilton Harris, father of Mrs. Foss, was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1832, a son of Jonathan Whitaker and Abigail (Gracroft) Harris, the former born in 1799 and the latter in 1804. In 1846 the parents of Mr. Harris came to Sauk County and settled at Harrisburg, buying a farm in section 18, Troy Township, where they built a small cabin for their first home. After improving their farm Mr. Harris erected good buildings, and here his first wife died September 14, 1860. On May 7, 1861, he married for his second wife Catherine Shords, of Baraboo, and in 1863 sold his farrii and went to that city, where he resided until his death, October 3, 1872, being laid'to rest at the side of his first wife in Harrisburg Cemetery, Troy Township, on the old home farm which bore his name. By his first marriage he had fifteen children: Phoebe Ann, Sarah Jane, Mary Ruth, Elizabeth Eleanor, John Wesley, James Madison, William Hamilton, Joseph C, Steven Michael, Charles Gracroft, Abner Logan, Wesley Harrison, Abigail Emeline, Lucy Adeline and Joseph Henry.

William Hamilton Harris was educated in the puhlic schools and was fourteen years of age when brought to Sauk County, where he was reared on the farm. On entering upon man 's estate he adopted the vocation of farming, and was so engaged until August 2, 1862, when he enlisted at Harrisburg in Company K, Twenty-third Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, being mustered into the service on the 30th of that month at Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin. Among his numerous battles were Chickasaw, December 25-31, 1862 ; Fort Hindman, January 11, 1863 ; Cypress Bend, i'ebruary 19 ; Fort Gibson, May 1 ; Champion Hill, May 16; Black River Bridge, May 17; Vicksiburg, May 19- July 4 ; Jackson, July 12-23 ; Carrion Crow, November 3, where wounded and taken prisoner; Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864: Cain River, April 23 ; Jackson, October 5 ; Dallas, December 24-25 ; Greenville, February 16-23, 1865 ; and siege of Mobile, March 25-April 12. He was discharged as first sergeant and mustered out of the service at Mobile, Alalbama, July 4, 1865. After the war Mr. Harris returned to Sauk County and resumed farming, his property being situated 3i/2 miles from Spring Green. He was active and prominent in public affairs, was a leader in the ranks of the republican party, and in 1886 was elected sheriff of Sauk County, holding that office in 1887 and 1888. He then resumed farming for a time, but finally went to Spring Green, where he established himself in the 'hotel business, and continued to be engaged therein until within two years of his death, which occurred January 21, 1906. Mr. Harris was married March 22, 1859, to Miss Dorothy Benson, of Columbia County, Wisconsin, who was born January 1, 1836, and was brought as a child to Portage. Mrs. Harris' mother, who died at Whitehall, AVisconsin, in 1909, had reached the extraordinary age of 104 years. Mr. and Mrs. Harris were the parents of the following children: Leo, who resides at Yellowstone Park; Naomi and William, residents of Sauk County ; Helen I., who is now Mrs. Foss ; Jennie B., the widow of Alfred G. Thompson, resides at Minneapolis, and has two children, Harris and Florence ; Eva G., who is the wife of A. E. Giffert, of Reedslburg, and has four children, Juanita, Dorothy, Audrey and Albert; Bertha L., who is the widow of E. R. Hungerford; Irvin, of Canada, who married Bertha Meyer, and has one child, Ruth ; and Alma Ruth, who is the wife of I. L. Hager, of Reedsburg, and has two children, Frances Evelyn and Lewis Hamilton.

have not signified so much as the men themselves, for the business problems have been solved in many ways by the albilities of individuals. With the expansion of trade in the thriving communities, such as Reedsburg, there has arisen a need for concerted efforts, but the personal factor has always been potent. During the last quarter of a century the commercial enterprises of Reedsburg have played an important part, and one of the men of known and acknowledged business integrity is Louis Dangel, whose career has been interesting and is typical of modern progress and advancement. Alert and enterprising, he early utilized the opportunities offered, and has attained thereby notable success, so that today he is president of the largest department store in Sauk County, the Stolte, Dangel & Foss Company.

Mr. Dangel was born in the City of Oswego, New York, December 7, 1865, and is a son of Peter and Dorothea (Pereu) Dangel. His parents, natives of Germany, came to the United States as young people, at different times, and were married at Oswego, where they made their home for some years. In 1866 they left the East and came to Wisconsin, their first settlement being at Kilbourn, from whence they subsequently moved to Reedsburg. Here the elder Dangel was employed in the grist mills by the Mackeys, and later embarked in business on his own account in partnership with Paul Bishop, with whom he conducted an establishment for the sale of boots and shoes. After he had disposed of his interest in this business he bought the W. Roeckel meat market, which he operated in partnership with his son Peter, and continued in that business until his retirement, about one year before his death. He was a democrat and took an active part in political affairs, and as a man of integrity and substantial worth was called upon to serve his community in official positions, being a member of the village board for many years. He and Mrs. Dangel attended the Lutheran Church, the latter being a member of Saint Peter's congregation. They were the parents of five children: Louis, of this notice ; Peter, who is still a substantial business man of Reedsburg ; Gustav ; Louisa, who died at the age of eighteen years ; and William, whose death occurred in infancy.

Louis Dangel received his education in the public and Oerman Lutheran parochial schools, and when a lad of fourteen years began to clerk in the Harris & Hosier store. There he received the initial training for the business in which he was to gain success in later years, and there he continued to work until about the time that he attained his majority, when he went to Mauston, Juneau County. At that point he had an experience as the proprietor of a mercantile establishment, but after two years returned to Reedsburg and entered the employ of Webb & Schweke, with whom he remained two years. He was working in this firm's employ, in 1893, at the time he with Frank A. Foss and William A. Stolte founded the Stolte, Dangel & Foss Company, with which he has been connected ever since, in the capacity of president. From a modest beginning this concern has grown to 'be the largest department store in Sauk County, occupying a two-story building on Walnut Street running the entire block from Main to Second Street, and employing fifty people. A great deal of the success of this concern is due to Mr. Dangel's wise judgment, and his associates place the utmost faith in his advice, looking to him for leadership in many cases of importance. He is essentially a business man and has not looked for honors aside from those to be achieved through an honorable career in the commercial field ; therefore his name has never appeared as a candidate for official position. In politics he maintains an independent stand, his vote being invariably cast for the men whom he believes best equipped for the offices at stake, without regard for party adherence. With his family he belongs to Saint Peter's Lutheran Church.

Mr. Dangel was married May 10, 1895, to Miss Margaret Fix, of Reedsburg, and they have had two daughters : Dorothea, born September 27, 1898, who graduated from the Reedsburg High School in the class of 1916 and is now a student at the University of Wisconsin; and Margaret, who was born in 1908, and died in 1913.

Charles Gasser. A native of France, Charles Gasser came to America in 1871 and has been a resident of Sauk County during practically all the intervening years to the present time. He is strictly a selfmade man, having advanced from a destitute boyhood to a competent old age. His success in life is due entirely to his own efforts and for that reason is the more gratifying to contemplate. Mr. Gasser is now living retired in the Village of Ironton, where he is held in high esteem by all who know him. Born in Lorraine when that territory was an adjunct of France, Charles Gasser first saw the light of day April 21, 1851. He was bereft of his parents at an early age and in 1871, accompanied by his brother Felix, he crossed the Atlantic, landing in New York, whence he came immediately to Sauk County. His first work was that of chopping wood and later he was employed in a charcoal works. Subsequently he located in Ironton and worked in an iron furnace for some years. He then purchased a farm of forty acres near Cazenovia, Richland County, later selling that and returning to Ironton. Here he bought an eighty-acre farm, which he soon sold and then settled permanently on an estate a mile and a half west of Ironton. He cleared most of his land, erected some substantial buildings and resided on this place for a period of thirty-five years. He was very successful in his farming ventures and is now living in retirement, enjoying to the full the fruits of his former years of earnest toil and endeavor. Mr. Gasser is a republican in politics and is a communicant of the Catholic Church. For a number of years he was chairman of the board of trustees of Ironton Township and as an active politician he has done much good for his home community.

In Ironton occurred the marriage of Mr. Gasser to Miss Sarah Buchant, whose birth occurred in Ironton, October 11, 1858, and who is a daughter of Frank and Caroline (Rebbity) Buchant. The Buchants were pioneer settlers in Ironton Township, where they were successful farmers and where Mr. Buchant was ernploj^ed in the iron works for a number of years. Mrs. Buchant passed to the life eternal in 1906 and he died in 1909, in Colorado. Mrs. Gasser was called to rest December 6, 1907, and she is survived by the following children : John, Frank, Adelia, Evaline, Eugene, Arthur, Caroline, Charles, Frederick, Raymond, Marie, Omer and Sarah.

In his prime Mr. Gasser was a man of unusual enterprise and initiative. Self-made and self-educated in the most significant sense of the words, he progressed steadily toward the goal of success until he gained recognition as one of the foremost farmers of this section of Sauk County. He gained and retains the admiration of his fellow citizens, who respect him for his exemplary life and marked ability.

Edward George Marriott. Of the men who have contributed to the development of business interests and the advancement of the civic welfare of Bara)boo, few have held in greater degree the respect and esteem of the people than did the late Edward George Marriott. He was a resident of the city for a period of forty-seven years, during which time he rose from poverty and obscurity to independence and prominence, winning success and reputation as a business man and establishing a record for upright action and sterling integrity in the discharge of his duties as a public official. When he died, August 11, 1916, the community was deprived of the services and example of one of its most useful men.

Edward George Marriott was born at WoUaston, Northamptonshire, England, September 30, 1850, and was a son of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Green) Marriott. His father, who had been a merchant in England in a small way, came to the United States in March, 1870, and secured a position with the Northwestern Railroad at Baraboo, with which line he was connected for a number of years. In September, 1870, he was joined by his wife and several children whom he had left in England, and in later years he and his sons William and Henry were engaged in the hardware business. Mr. Marriott was an enterprising and industrious man and a citizen who was lawabiding and willing to do his share in assisting his community to grow. He rounded out a successful life and passed away at Baraboo at an advanced age, as did also his wife. They were the parents of the following children : Mary Ann, who is the wife of Benjamin Clark, of Baraboo ; Elizabeth, who is the wife of W. Toole, a pansy specialist of this city ; Edward G., deceased ; Emily, who is the widow of Reuben Wilby, of Boulder, Wisconsin; Henry and William, who are deceased ; Eliza, who is the widow of Rev. Christopher Nitzel, of Stevens Point, Wisconsin ; and Ezra, a resident of Champaign, Illinois.

Edward George Marriott was reared in his native England, and received few of the advantages which boyhood at this time considers as its right. His education was a decidedly limited one, as he started to assist in making his own livelihood when he was but nine years of age, his occupation at that time being the scaring of crows from the farmers' fields. This vocation and similar ones he followed until he was thirteen years of age, at which time he was given a definite start in life by being apprenticed to the trade of shoemaker, a vocation which he mastered. In 1869, when a youth of nineteen years, he crossed the Atlantic for a visit to his uncle, Isaac Green, who had resided for some years at Baraboo, and who was a partner in the shoe firm of Avery & Green. Mr. Marriott worked in this establishment for some time while learning the customs and business methods of this country, but subsequently went to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he followed the same line of work and further prepared himself for his career. In 1875, returning to Baraboo, he established a shoe business of his own, and in the fall of 1876, having been encouraged by a fair measure of success in his first venture, bought out the business of Joseph Dibble, which had been established some time before. This he built up and developed, eventually becoming one of the leading men in his line in the city, and continued to conduct the same establishment until 1913, when he left business to give his entire attention to the duties of assessor, to which he had been elected. He died while still in office, August 11, 1916.

A republican in his political views, Mr. Marriott took an active part in politics and wielded a distinct influence in the ranks of his party in Sauk County. He had held a number of offices, having been constable when it was still the Village of Baraboo, later becoming alderman of the second ward, an office which he held for twelve years, and finally being elected mayor, an office in which he served for four years. His official record was a clear and unblemished one, and through his energetic work in his public capacities Baraboo benefitted greatly. Mr. Marriott was an honorary member of the Grand Army of the Republic, which turned out in force at his funeral, and he and his wife were honorary members of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry. Fraternally Mr. Marriott was affiliated with the Masons, having reached the Knight Templar degree, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His religious faith made him a Unitarian, to which belief Mrs. Marriott also belonged, and he was president of the Unitarian Society and had been for some yeart at the time of his demise. While he did not have great educational advantages in his youth, he educated himself through observation, study and much reading, and was particularly interested in history, national, state and local, being a member of the Wisconsin State Historical Society and the Sauk County Historical Society.

On May 2, 1876, Mr. Marriott was united in marriage at Baraboo to Miss Elizabeth Kelley, who was born August 24, 1857, in Chautauqua County, New York, and who was two years of age when brought to Wisconsin by her parents, Edward and Mary (MacPaque) Kelley, natives of County Antrim, Ireland. They were married in their native land, emigrated to this country and settled in New York, and in 1859 came to Wisconsin. Two years later, at the outbreak of the Civil war, Mr. Kelley enlisted in Company H, Seventeenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, the famous Irish Brigade, in which he served one year, then receiving his honorable discharge. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and died in 1885, his widow surviving until 1889. They had three children : Hugh ; Ellen, who is deceased ; and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Marriott. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Marriott : Isabella, who is the wife of J. W. Palmer, of Chicago, and has three children, Elizabeth, Marriott and Deane; William H., his father's successor in the shoe business at Baraboo, who married Catherine Eber, of this city; and Deane, who is a resident of Chicago. The late Mr. Marriott had a number of important business connections, among which was a directorship in the First National Bank of Baraboo.

Patrick Dowd. Everywhere in Dellona Township the name Patrick Dowd is spoken with that respect due to the practical achievements of the good farmer and the good citizen. The name is one of the oldest among the families of Sauk County.

Mr. Patrick Dowd was born in Dellona Township in 1860. His parents were among the earliest arrivals in the wilderness of Sauk County, locating here in 1848, the same year that Wisconsin was admitted to the Union.

Patrick Dowd grew up in Dellona Township, learned his lessons in the local schools and has successfully applied his efforts to farming. He is the owner of 200 acres, devoted to crops and stock. Dr. Dowd has also been a man of leadership in the democratic party and in public affairs for many years and for the past three years has been chairman of the town board of Dellona.

Patrick F. Healy. A practical farmer in "Winfield township is still on the old homestead which was settled and improved by his honored father and altogether the name Healy is one that is spoken with much respect and admiration throughout that section of Sauk county.

The father was the late Patrick Healy, who came from County Cork, Ireland, to New York in 1850. For a few years he worked near Staten Island, receiving the paltry sum of $6 a month, but out of this meager wage he for some time saved money to send to his people in the cholera stricken district of Ireland. In June, 1855, he came to Wisconsin and*settled among the pioneers of Winfield township. He lived a most industrious life, looked after his interests as a farmer and business man, and passed away full of years November 2, 1912. Prior to coming to Wisconsin he married Annie Egan, who died March 27, 1902. Their children were Katie, Mary, Nora, Maurice, David, Patrick and Annie. The daughter Katie became a Sister of Mercy in a convent in Milwaukee and died December 12, 1908. The daughter Mary is still unmarried. Nora married Timothy Kelly. Maurice married Jane Carroll LaValle. David married Mamie Kitson. Annie is the wife of Patrick Carroll. All the children were well educated in the public schools.

Patrick F. Healy was born on the old farm in Winfield township. His sister Mary is living with him and keeping house. Patrick Healy has made a success as a farmer and owns a hundred sixty acres which he uses intelligently and successfully for raising crops and keeping good stock. In 1904 Mr. Healy was elected town assessor and he also held other town offices for several years. He is a democrat in politics.

Frederick Schroeder. The successful agriculturist, like the man who makes a success in any other line of endeavor, must not only possess the knowledge necessary to keep abreast of the advancement of the times, but also the ability to apply this knowledge so that it will be productive of satisfying results. In Sauk county, where rapid progress is being made in farming and stock-raising, the average of intelligence and ability is more than ordinarily high, and one who is contributing to this prestige is Frederick Schroeder, who is carrying on operations in Reedsburg

Mr. Sehroeder was born in Germany, November 10, 1864, a son of George Sehroeder. When he was less than two years old his father, while serving in the German army, was killed, and in 1866 his widowed mother emigrated to the United States, bringing her two children, Frederick and Dorothy, the latter now a resident of Lakeland, Minnesota. Mrs. Sehroeder settled in Reedsburg Township, Sauk County, where she shortly thereafter was married to Peter George Meyer, a native of Germany and a veteran of the Civil war, who had settled in this county at an early day. They purchased a farm in Westfield Township and engaged in the growing of hops, but when the great boom burst they, like others, lost their all and were compelled to make a new start. After several j^ears they purchased the farm in Reedsburg Township now owned by Frederick Sehroeder, at that time consisting of seventy-eight acres, and built a long house, barn and outbuildings, continuing to make that property their home until their retirement and being successful in the development of a fertile and well improved property. Mr. Meyer died at Reedsburg, in 1901, aged sixty-three years, and his widow still makes her home here at the age of more than seventy-six years, having been born March 3, 1841. They were the parents of ten children : Mary, George, Annie, Emuma, Ida, Bertha ; Eddie, deceased ; Adolph ; Martha, deceased; and an infant son, deceased.

After completing his education in the district schools of Reedsburg Township, Frederick Sehroeder began assisting his stepfather in the cultivation of the home farm, of which he became the owner by purchase in 1897. Since that time he has added to the acreage and erected new buildings, in addition; to which he has installed improvements and appliances of the latest kind, making this one of the valuable farms of the township. Both as a general farmer and a breeder of livestock he has achieved success, and his high standing in the confidence of his fellow-citizens rests upon many years of honorable dealing and straightforward transactions. He is a republican, but not a politician, while his religious connection and that of his family, is with St. John's Lutheran Church of Reedsburg.

Mr. Sehroeder was married November 26, 1889, to Miss Catherine Richert, who was bom in Germany, January 28, 1869, daughter of August and Catherine (Burmasterj Richert. Mrs. Richert died in Germany in 1871, leaving two children : Catherine and Henry, and Mr. Richert subsequently married Dorothy Spratz. In 1886 he came t(J the United States located in Reedsburg Township, where he first farmed on rented property and later on a farm of his own, and was successful in the accumulation of 200 acres, now owned by his son, Otto. Mr. and Mrs. Richert, who are now both deceased, had six children: August, Dorothy, Lizzie, Otto, Olga and Albert.

Mr. and Mrs. Sehroeder now make their home at Reedsburg, although he continued to supervise the operations on his farm. They have had eight children, as follows : Rudolph ; Pauline, who is the wife of Herman Biehl and has three children, Arthur, Florence and Harry ; Irving, who was married ]\Iay 12, 1917, to Louisa Redders, of Madison, Wisconsin;

Timothy F. Howley, who has been actively indentified with the farm enterprise of Dellona Township for over twenty years, is a Sauk County citizen who has justly earned all the material prosperity associated with his name and also the esteem so liberally bestowed upon him in his home community.

Mr. Howley was born in Ohio in 1854, a son of Thomas and Margaret (Howard) Howley. His parents came to Wisconsin many years ago and both of them died in Juneau County, his father in January, 1907, and his mother on February 8, 1902. Their children were : John, who married Catherine Casey ; Timothy F. ; Martin, who married Viney Costello ; Thomas and Patrick, both deceased ; Mary- Jane, unmarried ; Cornelius, deceased, and William who resides in Juneau County, Wisconsin.

Timothy F. Howley grew up as a farmer, learned the lessons of the local schools with his brothers and sisters, and in 1894 settled on his present farm in Dellona Township. He has a complete quarter section under his ownership and management, and is devoting it to general farming and stock raising. Mr. Howley is an active democrat in politics and with his family worships in the Catholic church.

On June 14, 1881, he married Catherine Kelly, daughter of Terence and Ellen Kelly, of Juneau County, Wisconsin. They are the parents of two children : Margaret M., who married Joseph Timlin and lives in Dellona Township of Sauk County ; and Thomas J., unmarried.

John E. Wadleigh has been successfully identified with the farming enterprise of Winfield Township for a great many years. He is a native son of Wisconsin and belongs to the pioneer element in this state.

His birth occurred in Dodge County, Wisconsin. His parents, William E. and Sophie (Stevens) Wadleigh, came from New Hampshire in 1856 and settled at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. John E. Wadleigh grew up on his father's farm, acquired an education in the local schools and went to farming in Sauk County with limited means but unlimited energy. He has seen his resources grow until he is now owner of 251 acres in Winfield Township, and is one of the leading general farmers and stock raisers of that section. His specialty is Shorthorn cattle, and he keeps from thirty to forty head of those fine animals.

Mr. Wadleigh married Jennie Blatchley, who died in 1898, leaving him "four children. Earl, Elsie, Alice and Hubert. These children were all educated in the public schools. Mr. Wadleigh is a republican, is affiliated with Lodge No. 5670 of the Modern Woodmen of America, and is a Knight of Pythias.

Dietrich G. Schweke was for many years actively and prominently engaged in business at Reedsburg, has retired with a competence, but still exercises considerable influence over the business affairs of that community. He is one of the prominent early families of Wisconsin and is a brother-in-law of the present Wisconsin governor.

Deitrich and Bertha (Schuckart) Schweke. Both parents were natives of Germany. His father was born in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1826, while the mother was born at Dessau, Germany, December 19, 1841. Dietrich Schweke, Sr., came to America tn 1845 with his parents, his father being also named Dietrich. Grandfather Schweke died soon after arrival in Milwaukee. Bertha Schuckart came to Milwaukee with her parents, Gustav and Fredericka (Ulrich) Schuckart, in 1850. Gustav Schuckart and wife spent the rest of their lives in Milwaukee where he died in 1852 and she in 1863. Dietrich Schweke, Sr., was aroused by the discovery of gold in California in 1848, and soon afterward left with a party of gold seekers bound across the plains with wagons and ox teams. After some experiences on the gold coast he returned to Milwaukee and was engaged in the grocery business for several years. In 1865 he removed to Reedsburg and was a merchant where the Stolte Hotel now stands. For a number of years he was associated with Mr. William Stolte under the name of Schweke & Stolte. They also engaged extensively in the hop business when that was an important industry in this section of Wisconsin. The senior Schweke made a business trip to New York City in 1869, and while in the metropolis his death occurred on March 31. He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Reedsburg, and one of its first trustees. He and his wife were married in Milwaukee in 1861, and their children were : Dietrich G., Gustav C, Dora, now the widow of George Herner, and Bertha, wife of Governor Emanuel L. Philipp, himself a native of Sauk County. The father of these children was an active democrat. A brother of his wife, Albert Schuckart, was a veteran of the Civil war and spent his last days in Reedsburg.

Mr. Dietrich G. Schweke has lived at Reedsburg since he was a small child. He attended the public and parochial schools and also the parochial schools of Milwaukee. When twenty years of age he took a business course and since then has made his own way in the world. His first experience was as clerk with the firm of Kellogg & Harris. He was with them seven years, beginning in 1876, and gained a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of merchandising before starting out on his own account. In December, 1883, he entered business for himself with Mr. H. H. Webb and his brother, Gustav C. The name of this firm was Webb & Schweke and it is a firm title that is still spoken in terms of respect over a large community. They were general merchants, conducted a large department store, and handled an immense volume of business every year. The firm was continued until 1908, since which time Mr. Schweke has lived retired, merely looking after his private interests.

Mr. Schweke has lived at the corner of Pine and Second streets in Reedsburg for twenty-three consecutive years. He has a beautiful home there and has everything to make life attractive. In politics he is a republican and was an alderman of the city when it was first incorporated, but his aspirations have never been for political honors. He is an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mr. Schweke was married in 1893 to Miss Mary Roper, who was born at Reedsburg in 1868, a daughter of William and Dora (Schierwater)

Eoper. Her parents were among the early residents of Reedsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Schweke have two children. Florence is a graduate of the Reedsburg High School and is now a junior in Downer College at Milwaukee. Antoinette is a student in the parochial schools.

William Roper is one of the prominent old time citizens of Reedsburg, and became widely known both to the local and the traveling public as proprietor of one of the leading hotels of the city. He is now living retired.

He was born in Germany December 18, 1839. He grew up and received his early advantages in the schools of his native land, and in 1867 married Miss Dora Schierwater. She was born in Germany March 27, 1843.

A year after their marriage the young couple started for America. They soon located at Reedsburg in Sauk County and Mr. Roper took up ho^el work and for thirty-five years was proprietor of the City Hotel of that town. He was an excellent and genial landlord, a capable business man, and from the fruits of his well earned prosperity he retired and for the past eight years has looked after his private affairs. In 1909 he built a fine brick home at 136 Second Street, and is now enjoying its comforts with his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Albert Roper. Mr. Roper is a democrat in politics, and he and his wife, who is now deceased, were very active members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church. They were the parents of the following children : Mary, wife of D. G. Schweke, one of the wealthiest business men of Reedsburg; William, a dentist, who died in 1907 at the age of thirty-five, his widow, Harriet Roper, being now a resident of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, and the mother of two children, Janette and William ; Albert ; Laura, who died in infancy; Otto, who is unmarried and is in the offices of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company at Sioux City, Iowa; Frona, wife of George C. King, a cement contractor living in Iowa, and they have a child, George ; Paula, wife of R. C. Pride.

Albert Roper, a son of Mr. William Roper, was prominently identified with business affairs at Reedsburg until his death on March 31, 1916. He was born at Reedsburg April 12, 1875, was well educated in the public schools, and after leaving the high school took a course in Toland's Business College at LaCrosse. For several years he was actively identified with his father in the management of the hotel and then entered the Daylight store at Reedsburg and was manager of its grocery department at the time of his death. Politically he was a republican, and filled the office of constable and for eleven years was connected with the fire department. He was also one of the early members of the State Militia and was connected with that organization about ten years. He and his wife were active members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church.

Albert Roper was married August 17, 1910, to Miss Anna Rosenthal. Mrs. Albert Roper, who now makes her home with her father-inlaw, Mr. William Roper, is the mother of one daughter, Dorothy Pauline, who was born September 5, 1912. Mrs. Albert Roper was born at Reedsburg January 4, 1880, a daughter of Gustav and Pauline

(Collies) Rosenthal. Her father was born in Milwaukee in 1846 and her mother in Reedsburg in 1860. Her mother was a daughter of August and Pauline Collies, very early settlers of Reedsburg Township, Their home was a farm 2i/^ miles west of Reedsburg. Both had come from Germany and both died in 1908. Mrs. Albert Roper's paternal grandfather was August Rosenthal, who likewise M^as an early farmer settler of Reedsburg Township. He and his wife were also emigrants from Germany. Gustav Rosenthal, father of Mrs. Roper, was for about thirteen years engaged in the foundry business at Ironton, and for over twenty years was connected with what is now the Reedsburg Supply Company. Mrs. Roper was one of a family of nine children: Fred, who died in infancy; Anna, Mrs. Roper; William, of Reedsburg; Edith, wife of Herbert Wischoff of Reedsburg; George, who lives at Reedsburg and married Elizabeth Wollschlager ; Louis, a resident of Thompsons Falls, Montana, who married Eva Miller; Edward, connected with the lumber company at Reedsburg, married Freda Huebing ; Leona ; and Arthur, who is unmarried and is employed in the Daylight store.

Harry Thornton^ who became specially well known over Sauk County during his service as register of deeds, is a business man and banker at the Village of LaValle. His own life has been lived within the boundaries of Sauk County since birth, and his people were early settlers in this region seventy years ago.

He was born at Ironton, Sauk County, November 30, 1861, a son of John and Hannah (Harrison) Thornton. John Thornton was born in Yorkshire, England, February 9, 1833, a son of Reuben and Betty Thornton. The Thornton family emigrated to America and settled in Sauk County, "Wisconsin, in 1849, the same year that Wisconsin was admitted to the Union. They were pioneers at Ironton and Reuben and his wife both died there. Their children were John, who lives in LaValle, and Richard, Charles, Sarah, Hannah and Emma, all deceased. The daughter Sarah who died in 1915 attained the great age of ninety-five.

John Thornton was fifteen years of age when he came to Sauk County and after reaching manhood he acquired a farm in Ironton Township and conducted it until his death. Politically he was a republican. He was married in Ironton Township to Hannah Harrison, who was born in England in 1836. Her parents, George and Martha Harrison, came to Sauk County as early as 1847 and located on a tract of wild land in La Valle Township. Both of them spent their last years there. ' Their children were : James, Eleazer, George, Jemimah, Rachel, Martha, Salena, Hannah and Malissa. John and Hannah Thornton had five children : Rachel, Jane, Harry, Martha and Edward.

Harry Thornton grew up on his father's farm, and wisely improved his advantages in the local schools. Farming offered him his first opportunities in life and he lived on and cultivated a tract of land until he was nearly thirty years of age. In 1890 he removed to LaValle and took up the lumber and produce business. Later he became one of the organizers of the State Bank of LaValle and from 1901 to 1904 served as cashier of that institution. In the latter year he was elected register of deeds for Sauk County and by re-election filled that position two terms, during which time he and his family lived at the county seat, Baraboo. After returning to LaValle at the close of his official administration, Mr. Thornton had charge of the roller mills for two years and then resumed his position in the State Bank as cashier, an office to which he has been giving his chief time and attention.

Mr. Thornton is a republican in politics. He has served as supervisor of LaValle and is now treasurer of the village. Fraternally he is affiliated with Ironton Lodge of Masons, with Reedsburg Chapter of the Royal Arch and he and his wife are active in the Reedsburg Chapter of the Eastern Star. He was also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.

In 1884 Mr. Thornton married Miss Sarah Pearson. Mrs. Thornton was born in Sauk County in May, 1861, and her parents, Charles and Martha (Harrison) Pearson, came to this section of Wisconsin about 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Thornton have one daughter, Elsie, who was graduated from the Baraboo High School in 1906 and is now assistant cashier of the State Bank of LaValle.

Charles F. Wilkinson. In point of development, equipment, stocking and general management it would be difficult to find a more satisfying farm estate than that of Charles F. Wilkinson in La Valle Township. This farm represents the successive and progressive efforts of three generations of the« Wilkinson family. What the grandfather won by the hardest of efforts from the wilderness his son in turn added to, and in the third generation Charles F. Wilkinson has again increased the holdings not only in extent but in value and development.

Mr. Wilkinson was born on this farm in La Valle Township September 7, 1879. His paternal grandparents, Sammy and Martha (Pearson) Wilkinson, were natives of England, the former born in 1814 and the latter in 1815. Martha Pearson was a sister of Manlius Pearson, a prominent Sauk County pioneer whose name occurs elsewhere in this publication. The Wilkinsons left England when in middle life and came to Sauk County, arriving here in 1857. Not long afterwards Sammy Wilkinson bought eighty acres contained in the present homestead above mentioned. He cleared up the land and before his death had increased it to 160 acres. He lived there usefully and honored in the community until his death on January 11, 1870, his widow passing away in 1874. They were the parents of eleven children, Orlando, Zena, Grace, Alexander, Patience, Isabella, Randolph, Ronald S. P., Adolphus, Sammy and Charles.

Ronald S. P. Wilkinson, father of Charles F., was bom in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, in April, 1849, and was eight years of age when brought to Sauk County. He grew up in the midst of a pioneer environment, learned his lessons in the primitive schools, and on arriving at manhood went forthwith into a career as a practical farmer. He finally bought the homestead and his management was so successful that he increased it to 280 acres and also erected the residence which still stands there. In his time a small building served the purposes of a barn. He was at one time a successful breeder of shire horses, and continued his residence on the farm until 1904 when he moved to the Village of La Valle for three years and later to Augusta, Wisconsin, in which section he bought a farm of 100 acres. He still owns this land and rents it, and is now living in the Village of Augusta. Ronald Wilkinson married Emma Lycan, who was born in Sauk County April 18, 1857, her parents having also been pioneers here. She died at the old homestead in La Valle in 1903. Ronald Wilkinson is a democrat in politics and his brother Charles was chairman of the township board of La Valle for twelve years. Charles is now living in Juneau County, Wisconsin. Ronald Wilkinson and wife had a family of eleven children: Georgia, Mattie, a son that died in infancy, Charles F., Jessie, Ronald, Alice, Cleveland, Clem, Irma and Dorothy. The father by a previous marriage had one child named Patience.

Charles F. Wilkinson has spent nearly all the days of his life on the old homestead in La Valle Township. He grew up there, his childhood associations center around it, and he attended the local schools. Only two years were spent away from the home farm while he was doing agricultural work in the State of Minnesota. In 1904 he bought the homestead and has continued its operation and has also added 120 acres, and he now has the ownership and management of 400 acres of rich and valuable land. His building improvements show to the casual visitor proof of his progressiveness as a farmer. His barn is undoubtedly one of the best in the county, its ground dimensions being 122 by 30 feet and equipped with everything that serves the purpose of a methodical and systematic farmer. He also has two silos, one 14 by 30 and the other 12 by 30. As a stockman. Mr. Wilkinson keeps good grades of Holstein and Shorthorn, and has a number of thoroughbred Hereford cattle. Through the year he usually has from sixty-five to seventy-five head of cattle, besides other stock. Mr. Wilkinson is independent in casting his vote, and his only public service has been on the school board. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America.

In March, 1911, he married Miss Lucy Gabbitas, a native of Sauk County and a daughter of John and Ann Gabbitas, who were early settlers here. - Her father died in 1908 and her widowed mother is still living in La Valle. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson : C. H., Gail and John Wesley, the last now deceased.

Lewis B. Robinson. One of the best known residents of Sauk County is Lewis B. Robinson who, for many years, has been a representative citizen and a substantial farmer and stockraiser. For over a half century Mr. Robinson has resided here and a history of pioneer days as he endured them, would be an exceedingly interesting chapter to preserve with other county annals. A few of the early settlers came with capital and thereby had fewer hardships to face, but Mr. Robinson came practically empty-handed and what he has acquired has been the result of his industry and good management.

Lewis B. Robinson was born in England, April 7, 1843, and came to the United States in 1861. He desired to secure a farm and a permanent home and in cherishing this ambition sought work of any kind to assist him in realizing it. After he reached Ironton, Sauk County, Wisconsin, he found hard but well paid for work in the furnace there and with the money he earned and saved he laid the real foundation of his present state of financial independence. In the course of time, in partnership with Edward Briggs, he bought a tract of 120 acres, then owned by Bailey Pearsen and situated in La Valle Township. To this first tract the partners added twenty acres and worked hard and with much self denial, to develop the land.

Circumstances changing somewhat caused Mr. Robinson to sell his part of the first farm and he then bought the one he yet owns, a fine tract of eighty acres which is favorably located in La Valle Township, being well watered and thus suitable for carrying on one of his most important industries, this being the raising of high grade Holstein cattle. For many years Mr. Robinson superintended all his farm industries himself but is now practically retired, his son Frank having taken over the management of the farm and is proving his business capacity. Mr. Robinson has seen wonderful changes take place here in every way and in every vocation and he has done his part in bringing about many of the admirable conditions which make life pleasant, profitable and comfortable in La Valle Township. "When he came here in the early days there was practically no school system and he has been one of the men to give encouragement to the public schools and for many years served on ihe school board.

Mr. Robinson was married in 1864, to Miss Margaret Hendricksen, who was born in Ohio in 1844 and came to Sauk County with her parents when young. She died in 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson had six children, namely : Joseph, who is a resident of Tacoma, Washington ; Nellie, who is the wife of Frank Beier, residing in Wisconsin ; Alfred, who lives in South Dakota; Edith, who is the wife of Franklin Borchers of Des Plaines, Illinois; Eddie, who lives in South Dakota; and Frank, who, as above mentioned, is the manager of the home farm. He married Flora Robinson and they have three children : James Edwin, Mildred and Ruth Margaret.

Nominally Mr. Robinson is a republican but he has long been a close and intelligent student of public questions and frequently votes according to the dictates of his own judgment. In addition to serving in educational bodies, Mr. Robinson has been township clerk and supervisor and has been chairman of the board. Some years age he visited his native land, for which he naturally entertains feelings of affection, but in all essentials Mr. Robinson is an American and rejoices that the tie between the two countries is so close.

Francis James Thompson has been most successfully engaged in farming and stock raising during practically the entire period of his active career thus far. Honest and industrious, his success in life is due entirely to his own well directed endeavors and for that reason is the more gratifying to contemplate. A native of Sauk County, he was born in Ironton Township, October 13, 1857. His parents, Abraham and Elizabeth (Ashfort) Thompson, were both bom and raised in War- .wickshire, England, the date of the former's birth being August 25, 1829, and that of the latter May 17, 1832. They came to America and were married at Troy, New York, in 1854. In the spring of 1857 they came to Sauk County and settled temporarily in the City of Reedsburg, in the meantime erecting a house on the farm he' had purchased while still in the Empire State. In due time they cleared the land and during the years 1873 and '74 made brick on the farm with which to erect a brick house. In addition to general farming and stock-raising Mr. Thompson bought and sold stock and in 1890 he located in Reedsburg, where he owned considerable property, and there confined his attention to stock dealing. His beloved w^ife died in September, 1912, and he passed to eternity in March, 1914. They were conscientious workers and their genial hospitality was extended to all in need. To them were born eleven children, whose names are here entered in respective order of birth : Lizzie, Francis James, William A., Edward, Robert, George, Etta, Belle, Jennie, Rose and Martha. Mr. Thompson was a democrat in politics and he and his family were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the old Thompson homestead, in Ironton Township, occurred the birth of Francis James Thompson and he was the second child in a family of eleven. As a boy he assisted his father in the work and management of the farm and he was educated in the neighboring schools. He has been identified with farming operations all his life and in 1915 purchased the Henry Thies farm, comprising 156 acres. This estate boasts every improvement and is known as one of the ideal farms of this section of the county. A republican in his political convictions, Mr. Thompson is a director on the school board and he ever manifests a deep and sincere interest in all matters forwarded for the betterment of the community.

June 29, 1884, occurred the marriage of Mr. Thompson to Mrs. Ida A. Castle, whose maiden name was Ida Babb. Mrs. Thompson was born in Indiana, August 19, 1857, and she is a daughter of the Rev. H. M. Babb and Ann (Lane) Babb, who lived in Ohio and went thence to Indiana in 1833. In addition to being a minister Rev. Babb was a skilled cabinet-maker and he also figured extensively in land deals. When he ' settled in Indiana he engaged in the hotel business and followed that line of work in different states for thirty-five years. His wife died in Indiana and he passed away in the home of Mr. Thompson, in Sauk County, in 1903. at the patriarchal age of ninety-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have six children: Florence, Emmet, James, Harvey C, Frank and Ricliard.

Patrick D. Carroll. The Carroll family is one of the oldest and most substantial of Sauk County. They first arrived here more than sixty years ago, when most of the timber was uncut, the marshes undrained, and comparatively little of the land fit for cultivation. A good many acres have been brought under the plow and made productive through the instrumentality of the people of this name. They have lived upright and honorable lives and have been valuable factors in any community.

a son of Patrick and Bridget (Casey) Carroll. His parents were both born in Ireland, his father in 1817 and his mother in 1830. Patrick Carroll, Sr., came to Reedsburg', Wisconsin, in 1855. His father had died in Ireland, but not long- after his arrival in Sauk County he was joined by his widowed mother, Jane Carroll, his brother John and his sister Catherine. Patrick D. Carroll's maternal grandparents, John and Mary Casey, were also among the pioneers of Sauk County, living in Winfield Township for a number of years, but afterwards going to Dane County, where both of them died. For about five years after coming to Sauk County, Patrick Carroll, Sr., was employed by the Maekeys at Reedsburg, and then in 1861 he and his brother John bought a hundred twenty acres* in La Valle Township. This estate they divided between them, John taking eight acres and Patrick forty acres. This forty acres is the homestead now owned by Patrick D. His father subsequently bought another forty acres, and the present farm consists of a hundred acres, Patrick l3. having added another twenty. Patrick Carroll, Sr., was well fitted for pioneer life, was industrious and strong, and though he took the land when it was absolutely raw, he soon had a clearing made and a log house erected for the shelter of his family. All his children were born there and both he and his wife died in that home. Their children were John, Jane, Ellen, Mary, Patrick, Anna, William, Maggie, besides twins who died in infancy. The daughter Mary is also deceased.

Patrick D. Carroll grew up on the home farm and as a boy remembers when it was in the process of clearing. He attended the local public schools and since reaching' manhood has given a good account of himself as a successful farmer and stockman. In 1914 he built the comfortable home where he and his family now reside.

Mr. Carroll is a democrat in politics, has filled the office of school treasurer for a number of years and was treasurer of the township for eight years. He and his family are Catholics.

June 18, 1895, he married Miss Anna Healy. She was born in Sauk County, daughter of Patrick and Anna Healy, early settlers of Winfield Township and both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll have six children, all living and named in order of birth: Gaynold, Kathleen, Byron, Ivan, Mark and Norman. The oldest, Gaynold, was educated in the local district schools, the Villa Sancta Scholastica, at Duluth, Minnesota, for two years, and also the Reedsburg High School. She is one of the most successful and popular teachers of Sauk County. The daughter Kathleen was educated in the same schools as her sister and also two years in the La Valle High School. The son, Byron, finished his education in the La Valle High School. The other children are still in the local schools.

William A. Carroll younger brother of Patrick D., was born in La Valle Township, April 27, 1871, and since leaving school has applied himself to the business of farming and owns a good place of a hundred acres near his brother. He is a democrat and a Catholic. In 1896 he married Mary McCabe of Winfield Township, who died childless in 1901. In 1905 William Carroll married Ellen Fanning, of Juneau County. Their four children are Margaret, Madeline, Agnes and Rita.

George A. Karstetter. To the Karstetter family belongs the distinction of building the first house in LaValle Township. It probably was a rude log cabin, as were the dwellings, of the pioneers of that early day, but the fact of its construction will always link the name of Karstetter with the early settlement of this section of Sauk County. The family has continued to live and prosper here and one of its worthy representatives of the present day is George A. Karstetter, one of the county's most respected citizens.

George A. Karstetter was born in Fulton County, Indiana, March 3, 1849. His parents were Joseph P. and Mary (Jackson) Karstetter. The father was born in Pennsylvania, in 1820, and was a son of Sebastian and Mary Elizabeth (Marks) Karstetter, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania and later moved to Ohio, and then to Indiana, and in 1848 they moved to Sauk County, Wisconsin, and the house they built, which was long a landmark, stood on the farm in LaValle Township that is now the property of John Carscaden. This land was entered from the government for Sebastian Karstetter by his son, Samuel Karstetter, the transaction including 240 acres for the former and 360 acres for the latter. Sebastian Karstetter and wife passed the rest of their lives on this land and passed away about 1870.

Joseph P. Karstetter was married in Indiana to Mary Jackson, who was born in Marion County, that state, in 1828, and was a daughter of Henry and Mary Jackson, who moved from Ohio to Marion County, Indiana, and at one time they owned seven acres of the present city site of Indianapolis. Mr. Jackson was born in 1797. In 1856 he and wife removed to Wisconsin and both died in Sauk County.

In 1855 Joseph P. Karstetter and family eame to Sauk County. Here he bought 120 acres of state land, later trading forty acres of his purchase for another forty-acre tract, and still later, in 1876, sold forty acres to his son George. He was a vigorous man both in body and mind and survived until 1898. His widow died in 1900. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and were Christians in fact as well as in name.

George Karstetter had few such school privileges in his boyhood as the young people of the present day enjoy. At that time boys were, probably, just like the boys of the present, healthy, hearty little lads, full of animal spirits and each one with a touch of mischief, and then, as now, none' were more devoted to their books than they were interested in their sports. Of the latter there was no lack, but just the difference that circumstances inevitably bring about. Bears were plentiful in the heavy timber that surrounded Mr. Karstetter 's boyhood home and he yet recalls his boyish anguish when he discovered Bruin eating his little pet pig.

In 1875 Mr. Karstetter was married and in 1876 he bought his farm from his father and began to operate it for himself, making use of oxen as motive power and never dreaming then of the day when the great farm tractor would under many conditions do the work of hundreds of oxen. Mr. Karstetter carried on general farming and raised good stock without making a specialty of that feature, and continues supervision although he has two sturdy, capable sons who now carry on the farm industries.

Mr. Karstetter was married in 1875 to Catherine Hendrickson, who was born in Ohio in 1846, a daughter of Thomas Hendrickson and wife, who came to Sauk County in 1856 and died here in the '60s. Mrs. Karstetter died in 1912, the beloved mother of four children, namely: Charles, who died at the age of twenty-eig-ht years ; Elvin, who married Margaret Formater, lives at Eoscoe, Illinois, and they have one son, George Lewis; Harry and Ernest, both of whom are managers of the home farm, well educated young men, but neither have married. The farm has been well improved with commodious and substantial buildings, one of these being a barn with dimensions 30 by 54 feet.

Mr. Karstetter belongs to a long-lived family. His parents had the following children, all but two of whom are living, as follows: John, deceased ; George ; Adaline, deceased ; Amanda, Alfred, 'Jane, Thomas and Margaret. In his political views he hasj always been inclined toward independence of thought and action as far as consistent with good citizenship. He has been a school director and for forty years has served in the office of school clerk ; was for fifteen years road overseer of Town of LaValle. With his family he attends and gives support to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

William Sussner. In view of the nomadic spirit which dominates the American public and causes its citizens to wander restlessly about from one place to another, it is most gratifying to come in contact with a man who has passed practically his entire life in the place where he was born and reared. William Sussner, a native of Sauk County, was born in Washington Township, August 28, 1875, and he is a son of Rev. Andrew Sussner.

To the public schools of this county William Sussner is indebted for his early educational training, which has since been supplemented with extensive reading and association with men of affairs. As a young man he purchased a farm of eighty acres in the vicinity of Reedsburg, subsequently selling that tract of land. In 1915 he bought an estate of 133 acres, formerly a part of the Henry Miller farm. This place he has put into good condition in every respect and recently erected a new hog house and silo. He is a stock-raiser, making a specialty of high-grade Holstein cattle, and he has also met with marked success as a general farmer. He is a staunch republican in his political proclivities, has served for a number of years on the local school board, and at the present time, in 1917, is road overseer. His farm is located in section 36, LaValle Township.

June 26, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sussner to Miss Anna Knipple, a native of Reedsburg, where she was born November 29, 1878, and who is a daughter of William and Mena (Stetfen) Knipple, both of whom were born in Germany, the former November 26, 1845, and the latter July 4, 1850. The Knipple family came to Wisconsin in 1870 and settled in Dodge County, where their marriage took place in 1871. In 1874 they bought a farm in Sauk County, near Reedsburg, the same comprising eighty acres. Mrs. Knipple passed away October 7, 1887, and Mr. Knipple is now living retired on his farm, on which he has resided for thirty-eight years. The Knipple family consists of three children : Emma, Mary and Anna, the last of whom is the wife of Mr. Sussner, as already noted. Mr. and Mrs. Sussner have one son, Paul, whose birth occurred October 6, 1898, and who has taken advantage of the splendid educational advantages offered in the Reedsburg schools. Mr. Sussner is a progressive farmer and representative citizen whose interest in public affairs has ever been of the most sincere order. He and his wife have many friends in this vicinity and they are held in high esteem by all with whom they have come in contact.

ViLLARS G. FuNNELL. While one of the younger farmers and stockmen of LaValle Township, V. G. Funnell has shown a progressiveness and enterprise that caused his name to be spoken with respect, especially among cattle breeders.

Mr. Funnell 's farm comprises eighty acres, and since attaining manhood he has done a big work in clearing and improvement of the land. Two years ago he built a fine silo and he operates his farm with special emphasis on the dairy industry. He milks ten to twelve cows, of the best Holstein stock. Mr. Funnell owns a thoroughbred Holstein bull which took first prize in the Reedsburg show in 19.15 as a nine-months old. The pedigree name of the bull is King Elza De Kol Komdyke No. 154950 H. F. H. B.

Mt*. Funnell was born in LaValle Township of Sauk County, November 25, 1880, a son of J. G. and Minerva Funnell. His father was born at Greenwich, England, and his mother in New York state. They were married at Lloyd, in Richmond County, "Wisconsin, and after living there four years settled in LaValle Township in 1876. -

Villars G. Funnell was reared and educated in LaValle Township, and took up farming soon after reaching his majority. He is married and has five children : Floyd James, Averilla Minerva, Edward Charles, Irene and Ella. The daughter Irene was born June 8, 1912, and the daughter Ella on May 29, 1916. Politically Mr. Funnell is a republican.

Frank W. Apple. The Township of La Valle acknowledges one of its most capable and prosperous farmers in the person of Mr. Frank W. Apple, whose life from birth to the present time has been identified with Sauk County. Mr. Apple is a good business man and in the past has exhibited a strenuous performance and activity in the various lines of farming, and is now in a position to take things somewhat more leisurely.

He was bom in Washington Township of this county on October 3, 1858, a son of Philip and Sarah Apple. His father was a native of Germany and of good old German stock, and his mother was born in Pennsylvania. In 1847 they settled among the pioneers in Washington Township of Sauk County. Their labors helped to develop that section of the county and their lives were closely identified with the early history.

Frank W. Apple grew up in the county, acquired a common school education, and has found in farming a business suited to his talents and offering a good field for the exercise of his ambitious endeavors. He has been a resident of La Valle Township since 1899.

and Marion. In 1899 Mr. Apple married Louise Eder, daughter of Adam Eder. In the year of this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Apple located on their present farm in La Valle Township. To the second marriage were bom three children, Glenn Eder, Clarence Adam and Sylma Anna. Mr. Apple's older children were educated in the local district and high schools, and his younger children are all in school and giving good account of themselves as students. The son Glenn has taken the first year of the agricultural course at Madison, Wisconsin.

Mr. Apple's farm comprises a hundred and twenty-two acres. He has given maeh attention to the breeding of Holstein cattle and keeps an average number of about twenty-five head of this fine stock. He is also a director in the Farmers Warehouse Company and is vice president and director of the La Valle Creamery Company. In politics he is an independent, and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America.

Fred A. Hinrichs is a man of unusual enterprise and initiative and has met with such marvelous good fortune in his various business projects that it would verily seem as though he possessed an "open sesame" to unloek the doors to success. As a result of his own well applied endeavors he has progressed steadily toward the goal of success until he is recognized today as one of the foremost farmers and citizens of La Valle Township, where he has resided during most of his active career.