Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 2 of 20)

ancestry and was born at Vergennes, Vermont, in 1814. His mother was born in Germany in 1822. In 1846 the Dano family arrived in Wisconsin, locating at Janesville in Rock County, but in 1854, when Herbert was two years of age, they removed to Sauk County and located in Washington Township. Margaret Culver before her marriage had been a school teacher at Sandusky, Ohio. Another early settler in this part of Sauk County, coming about the same time as the Danos, was Mr. Joshua Holmes, who married Miss Rosetta Lahmen. Mrs. Holmes had also taught school in Sandusky, Ohio, and the two ladies selected Sandusky as a name for an incipient village in Washington Township, a name that still designates one of the little centers of Sauk County. William Dano served as the first postmaster of Sandusky, having been appointed in 1855. Associated with Mr. Joshua Holmes, he also built sawmills, and they were together in the mercantile business. William Dano resided at Sandusky for ten years, also lived for some time in Baraboo, but spent his last years in Reedsburg, where his death occurred in 1886. His wife had died on the farm in Excelsior Township in 1870. William Dano was a republican in politics, taking a vigorous stand in political questions. He and his wife had the following children : Louisa, who died at Janesville in 1850; Elmer G.. ; Duane M. ; Herbert W. ; Charles; Albert 0. : Edward E. ; Oscar L. ; and Inez Clair, who died in infancy.

Mr. Herbert W. Dano spent some of his childhood years in Sandusky village and attended the public schools there. After his marriage he located on the farm of his wife's father, the old Metcalf place, and Mr. and Mrs. Dano still own this fine homestead, consisting of 240 acres. They also own and for a number of years Mr. Dano looked after the active management of three cranberry marshes situated in Juneau, Monroe and Jackson counties.

Mr. and Mrs. Dano came to Reedsburg to live on March 4, 1908. Their home is at 1118 East Main Street. Their home was destroyed in the high wind of 1915, but it was rebuilt in the same year by a fine residence of every modern convenience. Politically Mr. Dano follows the example of his father and is a stanch republican.

On November 13, 1879, he married Miss Alice Metcalf. Mrs. Dano was born on the old Metcalf homestead in Excelsior Township July 31, 1856. They have one daughter, Margaret, born September 24, 1880. She was educated in the public schools, graduating from the Reedsburg High School, and is now the wife of Walter Morgan. Mr. Morgan is a man of affairs at Ladysmith, Wisconsin, serving as cit}^ engineer, is a wholesale and retail produce dealer and a drainage contractor. For several years he was in the lumber business and has had a very successful career. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have two children, Ruth and Alice.

Mrs. Dano is a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Warrener) Metcalf. Her father was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1821, and her mother in Kilburn, England, in 1826. They arrived in New York City in April, 1847, and located on a tract of new land in Excelsior Township of Sauk County in April, 1852. Mrs. Dano's mother died there in 1859 and her father passed away in 1899. Mrs. Dano is a sister of Richard Metcalf, elsewhere mentioned in this publication.

Adam Leicher, a retired business man of Loganville, enjoys the satisfaction of having given the world a capable service as a mechanic and business factor for more than half a century. Honest and good work has been the means by which he has climbed step by step to a position of prosperity, and he is one of the most highly esteemed men of Westfield Township.

Mr. Leicher was born in Germany, September 16, 1847, a son of Lawrence and Margaret (Ruf) Leicher. In 1857, when he was ten years of age, his parents came to America and located in the wilderness section of Hartford in Washington County, Wisconsin. His father bought forty acres of raw land in Hartford Township, cleared it up with his own hands, and provided for his family by its cultivation. He died at Lavalle, Wisconsin, in 1875, at the age of sixty-nine, and his wife passed away in 1877, aged sixty-six. They had a family of six children: Elizabeth, Catherine, Eva and Lorenz, deceased : and Martin and Adam, still living.

Adam Leicher attended school in Germany for four years before coming to America. He was .just old enough to appreciate his surrounding and environment when the family settled at Hartford in Washington County. The first school he attended there was a private one and in the basement of a house owned by Fred Prien. He is one of the few men still living who can recall the time when the few children of Hartford attended that old institution. Later he went to school in a little red schoolhouse. In the fall of 1865, when he was eighteen years of age, he began an apprenticeship at the wagon making trade, and worked steadily in that line for fifty-one years.

For several years he lived at Neosho in Dodge County, where in 1869 be married Miss Marietta Kendall. She was born in Walworth County, Wisconsin, February 13, 1849, daughter of William and Eliza Kendall. Her parents were natives of Vermont, were pioneers in Walworth County and in 1851 removed to Dodge County and settled at Neosho, where they died, her father July 10, 1892, and her mother in 1855. Her father after the death of her mother married twice. His second wife was Louisa Stoughson, and the one son of that union was William Fenton. His third wife was Jane Goodwin, and she was the mother of a daughter, Nellie.

In 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Leicher moved to Loganville, where he established a Avagon shop and for years his shop w^as the place where the farmers brought their instruments to be repaired and it became one of the leading business establishments of the village. In 1892 Mr. Leicher added an undertaking department, and continued in that business until 1915. In 1916 he practically retired from business altogether, although he is still interested with his sons in a local automobile business.

In matters of politics Mr. Leicher is a republican. His fellow citizens have shown their confidence in his judgment and integrity by electing him and keeping him steadily in the position of justice of the peace for over forty years. With many other good things to his credit it remains to account briefly for his family. Eleven children were born to him and his wife, and most of them have grown up to occupy honorable stations in the world. William L., the oldest, was born March 6, 1870, and is now deceased; Fenton A., born March 20, 1873, is now in the automobile business at Luveme, Minnesota ; Edward L. was born September 23, 1876 ; Albert, October 12, 1878 ; Lyda, June 24, 1879 ; Gilbert C, July 3, 1882 ; Frank J., October 19, 1884 ; Cora May, May 11, 1887 ; Clyde and Claud, twins, January 22, 1889; and Fernando, January 23, 1891. The sons, Gilbert and Frank, with the assistance of their. father as silent partner, established an automobile business at Loganville under the name Leicher Brothers, and they now have the leading garage and repair and accessory shop of the town,

August Thies. Some of the finest and best equipped dairy and general farms in Sauk County are found in the Loganville community, and one of these is in Westfield Township, its proprietor being August Thies. Mr. Thies represents a family that has been identified with Sauk County since early times, and his own part has identified him with the clearing and developing of the land as well as the substantial and well-ordered industry of modern times.

Mr. Thies was bom in Westfield Township, on the farm now owned by his brother Herman, on April 25, 1873. He is a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Meyer) Thies, both of whom were natives of Germany. The paternal grandparents also came to Sauk County after the arrival of some of their children and spent their last days here. The maternal grandparents, George and Elizabeth Meyer, found a hom.e in Sauk County for their last years. George Meyer was a German soldier under the great Napoleon and had marched with the French troops into Russia and witnessed the burning of the Russian City of Moscow. Charles Thies came to America in 1850, when ten years of age, with his two brothers, who located in Dane County, Wisconsin. One of these brothers was Frederick, who was then twenty-one years of age and who passed away recently in April, 1917, at the age of eighty-seven. The other brother was Henry, who spent his life at Cottage Grove in Dane County. When Charles Thies was seventeen years of age he came to Westfield Township with his brother-in-law, Frederick Telker, and bought what is known today as the John Schultz place. He cleared up most of the land contained in that farm and later sold it. Charles Thies then bought a tract of land which he subsequently sold to Mr. Luther mann, the present proprietor. His next purchase was the Briggs farm of 120 acres, and here again he applied himself to the clearing and developing of a farm from practically new land. This constituted the old homestead where August was born and where the son Herman now lives. Charles Thies owned and developed a number of good lands in Sank County. He bought the 160 acres where his son William resides, and later bought 106 acres nearby, and still later the Lew Tarst farm of 152 acres at Reedsburg. This is the farm now owned and occupied by his son Heniy. Charles Thies finally moved to Loganville, where he bought the home of D. B. Hulbert, a good house with seventeen acres of ground. In that home he spent his last years in comfort and plenty and passed 'away in 1913, at the age of seventy-three. His widow still lives among her children and is now eighty-three years of age. The parents were both active in the Lutheran Church and the father was a democrat. Their children were : Henry, who died in early child-

August Thies grew up on his father's farm and attended both the parochial and public schools. In March, 1894, at the age of twenty-one, he married Miss Dora Meyer. She was born on the farm where she and her husband now reside on July 24, 1873. Her parents, August and Dora (Fredericks) Meyer, were early settlers in Westfield Township and cleared up 100 acres of the farm now owned by August Thies. Mrs. Thies' father died there and her mother is still living.

In the year that he married Mr. Thies bought the Meyer place and has since developed it into a modern stock and dairy farm. He keeps from forty-five to fifty head of cattle, including some thoroughbred Holstein cows, and contributes materially to the production of Sauk County as a dairy county. Mr. Thies has all the equipment necessary for stock raising and dairying, including a large barn which in its main dimensions is 34 by 86 feet, with an addition 14 by 46 feet.

In 1917 Mr. Thies was honored by his fellow citizens with election to the office of side supervisor. He is a republican and a member of the Lutheran Church. He and his wife have a fine family of nine children, all of them still living. Their names in order of birth are Martin, Lena, William, Frederick, Freda, Lydia, August, Dora and Paul.

MiVEiON LaMar. In Marion LaMar is found a retired citizen of Fairfield Township whose industrious and well-directed efforts entitle him to a place among the upbuilders of Sauk County. During his long residence within the borders of the county he has worked out an admirable destiny, and from modest beginnings has drawn about him for the comfort and happiness of his later years such compensations as wealth, the affectionate devotion of his well-established children, the credit for having contributed largely to the general development of the community, and the confidence and good will of his business and social associates.

Mr. LaMar was born in Baraboo Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, July 8, 1850, and is a son of James and Arminda (Rowan) LaMar, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Columbia County, Wisconsin. The maternal grandparents of Mr. LaMar, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Rowan, were early pioneers of Sauk County, whence Mr. Rowan came to trade with the Indians, and later he assisted in the building of the first mill on the Baraboo River, in company with Abe Wood. Mr. Rowan died at Lyons, Wisconsin, and Mrs. Rowan later went to Illinois, where she passed away. James LaMar came from Tennessee to Baraboo at an early day and entered 160 acres of land in Baraboo Township, which he sold to Mr. Wells before the Civil war. He bought another 160 acres of Archabold Barker, which he sold to Nelson Morley after the Civil war. He then bought 200 acres of land in Fairfield Township, where his son Marion now resides, and continued to make his home on that property during the remainder of his life. He and his wife were the parents of the following children : Carrie ; Marion, of this notice ; Melissa, who is the wife of A. Z. Norton and resides in Oregon ; Eleanor, who is the widow of Charles Meyers and lives in Baraboo Township ; Rhoda, the wife of Charles 0. Meyers and a resident of Oregon ; James Frederick, who is deceased ; Britomart, who is the wife of Bert Dodge and resides in Colorado; and Alfreda, who is the wife of Robert Gibson, of Delton Township, Sauk County.

Marion LaMar received his education in the country schools of Baraboo and Fairfield townships, and when he entered upon his career adopted the vocation of agriculturist. For many years he carried on successful farming operations, demonstrating what a man can accomplish by pursuing practical and straightforward methods and by exercising always in his associations with his fellow men the qualities of consideration, integrity and honesty. At the present time he is living in retirement, and his son Maxwell is conducting the home farm. Mr. LaMar is a prohibitionist, but is interested in politics only as a voter. He and Mrs. LaMar are members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Fairfield Township.

In 1873 Mr. LaMar was married to Miss Ella Norton, who was born in Fairfield Township, Sauk County, in December, 1855, daughter of Amos and Cordelia Norton, who came to Sauk County in 1849 and settled at Peck's Corners, Fairfield Township. Mr. and Mrs. Norton passed the remainder of their lives here in agricultural pursuits, the latter dying in 1860. They were the parents of the following children : Roswald, born in 1837, who fought as a soldier during the Civil war ; Eli, born in 1840, who also wore the uniform of the Union in that struggle ; Nirum, born in 1842, who likewise showed his patriotism by enlisting in the struggle between the North and the South ; Melissa, born in 1844 ; Sarah S., born in 1847, taught school at an early day until her marriage to Harry Wooden, who was born in New York, came to Illinois to work at his trade as carpenter, enlisted in the Thirty-second Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, served four years in the war and was with Sherman on his march to the sea; then came to Baraboo, Wisconsin, and died in 1907, aged seventy years, having been the father of three children, Ralph Harry, who died aged eighteen years, Viola lone and Russell ; Charlotte, born in 1850 ; Amos Z., born in 1852 ; and Ella P., born in 1855, now Mrs. LaMar. After the death of the mother of these children Mr. Norton married Catherine Marston and had one child, William, born in 1862, and now a resident of Baraboo. Mr. Norton rounded out a long and honorable career as an agriculturist and died in 1894.

Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. LaMar, namely : Lena, who is the wife of Wayne Newell ; Ruby, the wife of Milton Holt ; James, who is engaged in farming in Fairfield Township ; Clifford, a resident of Baraboo ; Percy, living in Fairfield Township ; Lottie, who is the wife of Carl Anchor, of Fairfield Township ; and Maxwell, who is conducting operations on the home farm.

Clare A. Briggs. It is known to perhaps only a comparatively few of the well-informed people of Sauk County that one of the world's ablest and most popular cartoonists was born within the borders of this county, and though his life from early boyhood has been spent in other scenes, it is appropriate to include his name and something of his career among the records of Sauk County people who have gained distinction.

chiefly in Illinois and Nebraska, and from 1894 to 1896 was a student in the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He began his Avork as a newspaper artist with the St. Louis Globe Democrat in 1896, was connected with the St. Louis Chronicle in 1898, the New York World in 1898-99, the New York Journal in 1899, and came into the early fruits of his fame in his profession while with the Chicago American and Examiner. In 1907 the Chicago Tribune attracted him to its staff, and some of his best work was done while exclusively employed by that paper. In 1914 he went to the New York Tribune and since then his illustrative genius has largely been syndicated.

He is known as the creator of ' ' Skin-nay, " " The Days of Real Sport, ' ' ' ' When a Feller Needs a Friend, " " Friend Wife, " " Kelly Pool. ' ' Several of his best known series of illustrations have jjeen compiled and published in book form.

He is a member of the Cliff Dwellers, Chicago Yacht, the Forty Club, the Press Club of Chicago, the Lambs, the Salmagundi and Press clubs of New York, the Wykagyl Country and New Roehelle Yacht clubs. His home is at New Roehelle, New York, and his present address is the New York Tribune.

Henry Harms. For upwards of half a century the name and career of Henry Harms have been identified with Sauk County. The first work he did in the county was as a harvest man, and the accumulations that have made him one of the most prosperous farmers in Westfield Township have been the result of a slow and toilsome progress.

Mr. Harms was born in Germany, November 14, 1852, a son of Frederick and Margaret (Bodenstab) Harms. The family came to Sauk County in 1869, settling in Westfield Township, where his father hired out his services to others for several years, but about 1873 bought the land where his son Henry now lives. The old homestead consisted of eighty acres and its first improvement was a log house. It was gradually brought under cultivation, and the father lived there for a number of years, finally going out to Nebraska with his son William. He died in that state in 1917, at the advanced age of ninety-three years and three months. His wife also passed away in Nebraska, aged ninety-one, in 1915. Thus they were of hardy and vigorous stock and their lives were prolonged beyond the normal expectation of years, though both of them were hard workers. They were active members of the Lutheran Church. Their five children were Henry, William, Dorris, Fritz and Catherine. Dorris died in 1915, at the age of fifty-six.

Henry Harms acquired his early education in Germany. He was old enough to do a full day's work when he arrived in Sank County" in July, 1869, and a few days later he was earning a wage as a harvest hand in Dane County, Wisconsin. For several years he worked, saved and finally invested his earnings in the old homestead of eighty acres. He has since added two other eighties, making his home farm 240 acres. Still another eighty came under his ownership, but he sold that to his son Frederick and later he bought 160 acres which is now owned by his son William. All these tracts of land are in Westfield Township and they represent a splendid estate for one family. Mr. Harms has invested much of his income in buildings and other improvements, and he has one of the finest bams in the toAvnship, 42 by 108 feet in ground dimensions. Many years ago Mr. Harms had some experience in hop growing, formerly one of the chief industries of the county. He runs a fine dairy of Holstein cattle, keeping about forty head of cows besides a large amount of young stock.

In 1880 Mr. Harms married Miss Louisa Gade. She was born at Eeedsburg, Wisconsin, in 1858, a daughter of Fred and Dora (Schroeder) Gade. Her parents, both now deceased, were among the pioneer settlers of Reedsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Harms have eight children, the four younger ones still living at home. Frederick, the oldest, married Martha Hartig, who died in 1904. The son William, another practical and progressive young farmer of Westfield Township, married Elsa Goetsch. Henry married Amanda Peters. The daughter Mary is the wife of Walter Goetsch. The four younger children at home are' Dora, Ludwig, Ernest and Lydia.

Jefferson C. Payne. Sauk County has profited by the stable citizenship and faithful industry of the Payne family since the late '40s. Practically all bearing the name have been identified with agriculture, but their services have been extended also to politics, education and religion. Jefferson C. Payne, now living retired at Baraboo, but for many years known as one of the most extensive farmers and sheep raisers in this section, represents the second generation of his family in the county. He is a native son of Sauk, having been born on Sauk Prairie, February 12, 1850, where his parents, Charles and Orpha (Squires) Payne, had settled in March, 1848. His father was born July 16, 1824, in St. Lawrence County, New York, and was married at Massena, that state, to Miss Squires, who had been bom in Vermont, February 19, 1825.

Seeking a community in which to make a home and to own property of their own, Charles and Orpha Payne came overland from New York to Wisconsin in 1846, their first settlement being in Dane Comity, where they took up land from the United States Government. Their property there did not prove satisfactory, and in March, 1848, they removed their household effects and small farm outfit, including stock, to Sauk Prairie, Sauk County, where the father bought a claim of 160 acres. He was enterprising and industrious and made a decided success of -his agricultural operations, adding to his holdings from time to time imtil he owned 900 acres of land. In 1898 he retired from active pursuits and moved to Prairie du Sac, where Mrs. Payne died in 1899, he surviving until June 22, 1907. He was a member of the Free Masons, a good citizen of his community, and a man held in universal esteem for his integrity and upright character. There were four children in the family, namely : William, born December 21, 1847 ; Jefferson C. ; Isaac, bom January 19, 1853 ; and Elizabeth, born March 8, 1856, who died in 1911.

Jefferson C. Payne was reared on the old homestead and received his education in the old Baraboo Institute and in the schools of Albion, Dane County. He remained on the farm with his parents, and after his mar- riage, in February, 1872, embarked upon operations of his own, having early adopted the vocation of an agriculturist as his life work. Like his father, he made it his policy to add to his land from time to time, extending his holdings as his means would permit and making improvements as he gained more property, so that when he was ready to retire he had 360 acres of finely cultivated land, with good buildings and first-class equipment. For a number of years Mr. Payne was a leading breeder of Shropshire sheep, and in this connection shipped each year a number of these animals, frequently to far-distant states. In each of his several ventures his sagacity and business ability made him successful, and at all times he maintained a reputation for strict integrity in business transactions that made his name an honored one in business circles.

In 1905 Mr. Payne purchased a modern home at No. 522 Second Street, Baraboo, but it was not until three years later that he laid aside the cares of active toil and moved to this city to live in quiet contentment, enjoying the comforts that his years of labor had brought. He has always been a republican, and while he has not been a seeker for personal prefdtment has taken an active interest in politics in behalf of his friends and his party. His only fraternal connection is with the Modern Woodmen of America.

On February 22, 1872, Mr. Payne was united in marriage with Miss Bettie Hedges, who was born in Elkhart County, Indiana, April 14, 1850, being a daughter of Charles and Phoebe (Hoagland) Hedges, natives of Penn Yan, New York, the former born in 1805 and the latter in 1810. Mr. and Mrs. Hedges were married in their native state, and as young people went to Elkhart County, Indiana, where they made theij;' home until 1852. In that year they answered the call of the West, coming to Sauk County, Wisconsin, where Mr. Hedges, purchased a farm on Sauk Prairie. He continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred in 1865, when he was sixty years of age, while Mrs. Hedges survived him, for thirty years and had reached the advanced age of eighty-five years at the time of her demise in 1895. They were the parents of the following children : Isaac, who died in infancy ; Benjamin, who also died when a babe ; Jane ; Dayton, who fought as a Union soldier during the Civil war and died in Idaho in 1915 ; John, also a wearer of the blue during the Civil war, who with his brother Dayton was wounded at Gettysburg, but who did not come safely through the struggle, meeting his death on the bloody battlefield of the Wilderness ; Cela, who was also a Union soldier in that war ; Clement, who is a resident of Idaho ; Bettie, who is now Mrs. Payne ; Charles, who is deceased ; and William, who is a resident of Idaho.

To Mr. and Mrs. Payne there have been born five children, namely : Delia, born February 24, 1874, has followed an educational career, being a graduate of Whitewater Normal School, after which she taught for several years, became principal at Marinette for five years, taught five years in the eighth grade at Baraboo, took a course and graduated from the Stout Training School, and is now a teacher of domestic science at Eau Claire, Wisconsin ; Edward, born May 7, 1878, a graduate of a business college at Eau Claire, who has succeeded his father in the management and operation of the old homestead ; Jennie, born March 30, 1881, and now the wife of C. F. Rich, who is engaged in farming in- Sauk County ; Dayton, bom February 2, 1884, a graduate from a Milwaukee business college, and now engaged in farming on Sauk Prairie; and Verne C, born in February, 1890, one of the enterprising young agriculturists of Sauk County, and who enlisted in July, 1917, in Company I, 6th Wisconsin Infantry.

Herman Hasz, of Westfield Township, is proprietor of a thoroughly equipped small farm where he conducts a model dairy, producing milk from thoroughbred Holstein cattle.

Mr. Hasz has been a fixture in this community all his life and his people were all pioneers of the county. He was born on the farm he now owns in Westfield Township September 3, 1881, a son of Nicholas and Marie (Luehrsen) Hasz. The parents were both born in Germany, the father in 1836 and his mother in 1841. Nicholas Hasz was brought to Sauk County in 1856 by his parents, Peter and Rebecca Hasz, and they all settled on a tract of raw land in Westfield Township, where the grandparents spent their last years. The grandmother was ninety-one years of age when she died. The maternal grandparents, Henry and Anna Luehrsen, were also among the early settlers of Sauk County, in the year 1856, and Henry Luehrsen, who died at LoganviUe at the age of eightyfour, was a mason by trade and did much of the pioneer work in that line in Sauk County. Nicholas Hasz and wife were married in this county, rented land for a few years, and then bought the farm now owned by their son Herman. This land has been in the family ownership for nearly fifty years, and the father cleared away much of the timber and put in the first crops. He also erected some substantial buildings, and lived there until his death in 1912. His interests were not confined to his farm. He was secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company for thirty-five years and also secretary of the LoganviUe Creamery Company. He was township treasurer and at one time was chairman of the Township Board. Politically he was an active democrat and "he and his family were Lutherans. His widow is still living, at the age of seventysix. They had eight children: Henry, Emma, Anna, Marie, Martin, Theodor, Henrietta and Herman. Of these, Anna, Marie and Henrietta are now deceased.

Herman Hasz grew up on the old homestead farm and received his education from the parochial and district schools. He was a practical farmer before his father's death and after that event he acquired the old homestead and has demonstrated the possibilities of a place of 156 acres for farming and dairying. He has all the necessary equipment in the way of buildings, and runs a dairy of about twenty-five pure Holstein cattle. Mr. Hasz is a democrat in politics. June 7, 1916, he married Helen Sternitzky, of Clark County, Wisconsin.

GusTAv W. Hass. Steady application to the development of an idea and persevering attention to the building up of an enterprise have brought success to Gustav W. Hass, proprietor of a flourishing meat market business at Reedsburg. Mr. Hass is of German ancestry, and from ancestors who were compelled to labor under discouraging conditions inherits char- acteristics of perseverance and industry, but also has an obliging nature and keen sense of humor which lubricate the wheels of his business and bring him into touch with the pleasures as well as profits of existence. In addition to being a substantial business man Mr. Hass has taken more than a passive part in civic affairs, and is also prominently identified with the Sauk County Fair Association.

Gustav W. Hass was born at Mauston, the county seat of Juneau County, Wisconsin, October 22, 1870, and is a son of Gustav and Elizabeth (Perau) Hass. His paternal grandfather was Louis Hass, who died in Germany, following which his widow, Anna Hass, came to the United States about the year 1871 and lived at the home of her son until her death in 1872, at Mauston, in which city she was buried. Gustav Hass was born March 2, 1840, in Prussia, Germany, and was about twentythree years of age when he immigrated to the United States, coming in 1863 to Wisconsin and first locating at Kilbourn. Subsequently he went to Ableman, and from that point to Baraboo, having formerly been in the meat business both at Kilbourn and Ableman. He remained at Baraboo for one winter. February 16, 1867, he was married at Reedsburg to Miss Elizabeth Perau, who was born October 15, 1851, in Hanover, Germany, a daughter of John and Catherine Perau. Mr. Perau died in Germany in 1862, and his widow subsequently brought her daughter to the United States, locating at Kilbourn in 1864. Mr. Hass had purchased a meat market at Mauston, and as soon as married, in 1867, went to that city and for the next forty years was a resident there and engaged in business, having for much of that time as partner Andrew Ely. On April 8, 1907, Mr. Hass came to Reedsburg and purchased a good home at No. 420 South Park Street, where he now lives in retirement from active pursuits, having sold his market at Mauston in 1916. At the time of his retirement he had an up-to-date, well-equipped meat market, with an excellent trade, and at the side of the business building was loeated his comfortable and commodious residence. He was a good business man, industrious, honorable and capable in handling his affairs, and the success that rewarded his efforts was his just due for a lifetime of probity and hard labor. In politics Mr. Hass is identified with no party, always reserving the right to be independent in his views and not tied down by party lines. He and his wife are faithful members of the Lutheran Church. On February 16, 1917, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, at which their children and grandchildren, as well as many other members of the family, gathered to do honor to this worthy old Wisconsin couple. They are the parents of five children, namely : Bertha, Gustav W., of this review ; Arthur, of Tomah, Wisconsin ; Alvin, engaged in the meat business at Reedsburg; and Frederick Wilhelm, who died at Reedsburg in 1916, at the age of twenty-four years.

Gustav W. Hass was educated in the graded and high schools at Mauston, and at the age of fourteen years went to work in his father's meat market, thus early securing his introduction to and training in the business which he was to make his life work. After several years the young man showed such promise that his father admitted him to partnership in the business at Mauston, and this association continued until January 1, 1893, when it was mutually dissolved, Gustav W. Hass coming to Reedsburg, where he formed a partnership in the meat business with Charles Krohn, under the firm style of Hass & Krohn. This combination has continued to the present time and has grown and developed until it is now one of the most successful retail business enterprises of the city, having a large, sanitary store, well equipped with the latest appliances. Mr. Hass is known in business circles as a man of integrity, who respects the highest business ethics and fully lives up to the letter of his agreements.- Sauk County boasts one of the best fair associations in the State of Wisconsin. Mr. Hass was one of the organizers of this association, having formed a stoek company in association with W. A. Stolte. This was sold in 1912, although Mr. Hass still remains as a stockholder in the enterprise. He has been speed superintendent of the venture for several years, and has done much to give it its prestige and reputation as a live and interesting affair. Politically a republican in sentiment, he has always reserved the right to vote independently at times, preferring to rely upon in his own judgment in certain cases. He has served exceptionally well as city treasurer of Reedsburg and in other offices. Mr. Hass is also well known in fraternal circles, being a member of Reedsburg Lodge No. 157, Free & Accepted Masons; Reedsburg Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Reedsburg Commandery No. 21, Knights Templar; Milwaukee Consistory, and Tripoli Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mj^stic Shrine; of the Order of the Eastern Star, to which his wife also belongs ; and of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias.

On December 25, 1890, Mr. Hass was married to Miss Mettie May Pratt, who was born in Juneau County, Wisconsin, a daughter of Lorenzo Pratt, an early settler of Mauston and a soldier of the Civil war, who died at Mauston, where his widow still resides. To Mr. and Mrs. Hass there have been born two children, as follows : George, a graduate of Reedsburg High School, who attended Carroll College one year and the University of Wisconsin two years, and is now attending the Marquette Law School, preparing for a career in the legal profession ; and Louise, a graduate of Reedsburg High School and of the School of Oratory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, residing at home.

John M. True was born in Moultonboro, New Hampshire, October 9, 1838. He received an academic education and taught in the public schools of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. His marriage to Miss Annie Beede took place in New Hampshire in 1864 and together they came to Wisconsin in 1866, locating on a farm near Baraboo, For a time Mr. True combined school teaching with farm work. In 1874 he was elected county register of deeds, which office he held for a period of six years. He served as city-assessor in Baraboo for seven years and for fourteen years acted as supervisor from his ward, being chairman of the Count}^ Board of Supervisors eleven years during this time.

At the organization of the City of Baraboo he was elected a member of the Board of Education, which position he held for a period of more than twenty-five years. For several j^ears he was selected to fill the office of president of the Sauk County Agricultural Society, also acting as secretary of the association several times. Mr. True was active in the Farmers' Institute work in the state for a number of vears and was a regent of the University of Wisconsin during the administration of Governor W. D, Hoard. As secretary of the State Agricultural Society, which office he occupied for six years, he assisted in locating the present state fair grounds in the City of Milwaukee. Upon the organization of the State Board of Agriculture he was asked to act as first president of the board and later he served as its secretary for twelve years.

Mr. True was a member of the State Assembly in the sessions of 1898-1899 and 1900-1901, and of the State Senate from the district composed of the counties of Sauk and Columbia in 1911-1915.

Harry Ellsworth Cole is a son of Thomas Cole who came with his father's family to the State of Indiana in the pioneer days of that commonwealth. Their home for many years had been near Columbus, Ohio. The grandfather of Thomas Cole was a Methodist Divine. The mother, Caroline Moyston Cole, had journeyed with her family from Schenectady, New York, about the same time that her future husband came from Ohio. Her ancestors were the sturdy settlers of New Amsterdam, earnest followers of the Dutch Reformed church. After the marriage of Thomas Cole and Caroline Moyston they located on a farm adjoining the Town of Pierceton, Indiana, and here the son Harry Ellsworth was born soon after the Civil war opened. He graduated from De Pauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, in 1892. He was an enthusiastic member during his college days of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, representing his chapter at the Boston Convention in 1891.

Before attending De Pauw he had taught several terms of school and following his graduation he accepted the principalship of the schools in Pierceton. During these years he had done reportorial work during vacations on the Muncie (Indiana) Daily Times and after a year of teaching he returned to newspaper work, accepting a position upon the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Republican and Leader. On April 27, 1894, in company with A. D. Dorsett, a classmate at De Pauw, he purchased an interest in the Baraboo News from J. F. Kartack. Mr, Cole, Mr. Dorsett and Mr, Kartack began the publication of the Baraboo Daily News on June 4, 1894, Since then Mr. Kartack and Mr. Dorsett have severed their connection with the paper but Mr. Cole is still actively interested in the publication.

On May 24, 1899, Mr. Cole and Miss Dorothy Matchette, of Pierceton, Indiana, were united in marriage, and through the years their home has been one of open hospitality to friends and acquaintances.

Besides his life work, which has been to publish a paper of high ideals and practical usefulness in the community, Mr. Cole is connected with other activities in the locality. As a member of the republican political party he has always stood frankly for his convictions and worked for them. He was one of the organizers of the Sauk County Historical Society and has occupied the position of president of the organization since its beginning. He is a life member and curator of the State Historical Society, On account of his interest in matters historical he was tendered an honorary membership in the Historical Society of the City of Chicago.

Riley J. LIartiny is a Sauk County farmer who has not contented himself entirely with the routine handling of lands and crops and livestock, but has gone in for a specialty. That specialty is the raising of seed corn, and he has adhered to such high standards in the production of seed corn that all he can produce has a ready sale here and elsewhere.

Mr. Martiny was born in Baraboo township of this county March 2, 1868, a son of August and Jane (Wilder) Martiny. On other pages will be found an article referring to his father, one of the venerable old timers of Sauk County who is now living retired near Baraboo.

At the family homestead in this county Riley J. Martiny spent his early years, and at the same time attended the district schools and the Baraboo High School. After his education he worked for seven years with the railroads, but in 1895 came back to the land and bought 137 acres in Delton Township. He has since increased his estate to 247 acres. His building improvements are all modern, and include two large silos and two seed corn drying houses. Mr. Martiny has made a specialty of Golden Glow seed com for the past eight years. His corn has met every test of germination, hardiness and running true to type, and every year's experience gives him a better hold on the business and increases the value of his product. Aside from the production of seed corn Mr. Martiny 's farm is devoted to the breeding of Guernsey cattle and Duroc Jersey swine. He has two large hog houses in addition to his large barn.

Mr. Martiny has at the same time taken an active interest in public affairs, has been a member of the town board for five years, and is an active republican. He and his family worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Fairfield Township.

August 12, 1893, Mr. Martiny married Mary Atkinson, member of an old and prominent family of Sauk County. She was born in Delton Township on the old homestead February 17, 1873, daughter of John and Mandilla L. (Hackett) Atkinson. Both the Atkinson and Hackett names are widely known over Sauk County. John Atkinson, her father, was born at Emden in the state of Maine, January 26, 1818, a son of Christopher and Betsey (Johnson) Atkinson. Christopher Atkinson was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, while his wife was a native of Maine. In Virginia Christopher learned the hatter's trade, was employed in that line at New York for some time and afterwards moved to Farmington in the State of Maine. He married there and had a family of thirteen children. Three of these children are still living. Joseph Atkinson, in Maine ; Mrs. Walworth D. Porter, of Baraboo ; and George, of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Christopher Atkinson in 1856 came to Sauk County and his wife followed him the next year. They lived with their son John in Fairfield Township, and Christopher passed away at the venerable age of ninety-six years in April, 1873, His widow died in Baraboo in 1877, aged eighty-six.

with a public school education, and did much work on the home farm and in the lumber woods in the winter season. It was in 1855 that he came to Sauk County and joined the pioneer settlers, establishing his home in what is now Delton Township. There he bought 100 acres of wild land, and by his own labors cleared up a considerable part of it. It was a farm of excellent improvements long before he passed away. He died there July 21, 1893. His widow is still living on the old homestead, and that has been her home continuously for over sixty years. John Atkinson married in 1856 Miss Mandilla L. Hackett. She was born at New Vineyard, Maine, January 10, 1835, daughter of Hartson and Martha T. (Johnson) Hackett. John Atkinson and wife had five children: Emily is the widow of Frank Wilder and has two children, Frank and Ethel; Nellie is the wife of Frank Getchell and had three children, Perry P., Tina and Dillie; Fannie married Mark Getchell and their one child is Edith ; Mary L. is Mrs. R. J. Martiny ; and Joseph B. died August 6, 1893, at the age of twenty-nine. John Atkinson was a republican in politics, and was one of the founders of that party in the State of Maine. His widow is an active member of the Congregational Church.

Fred C. Kruse is proprietor of the Roseland Stock Farm in Westfield Township. His career is a stimulating example of what may be accomplished by a man of energy in pursuit of a definite ambition and a determination to make a home and achieve something out of the ordinary in farming.

Mr. Kruse is a native of Westfield Township, where he was born March 18, 1868, a son of Herman and Annie (Luehrsen) Kruse. His parents were both natives of Germany. In 1853 they came to New York City, where his father engaged in the wholesale candy manufacture for a immber of years. He realized considerable capital in that and in the fall of 1867 came M^est and invested in land in Westfield Township of Sauk County. For a 160-acre farm he paid sixty-five hundred dollars. That was a rather high price for land at that time. The father spent the rest of his years here and died in 1883. The mother, who was born August 9, 1828, lived to the venerable age of eighty-nine. There were four children : Henry ; Lucy, who died in 1903 ; Fred C, and Annie.

Fred C. Kruse grew up on a farm, attended school at Loganville, and when only fourteen years of age he started out to make his own way in the world. Nothing has ever been given him and by looking out for himself he has steadily made progress to his present prosperous and satisfying situation. He learned the milling trade and worked at it two years. Then for four years he worked in mills and on farms, and always having an eye to the future he saved his wages until he could buy forty acres in Westfield Township. That was the nucleus of his present estate and he has since added to it until the Roseland Stock Farm comprises 136 acres. He cleared up a large part of the land with his own sturdy right arm, and in getting the land ready for cultivation he sold any number of cords of wood at eighty cents per cord. Most of the returns from this timber he invested in permanent improvements, and he now has some of the best building equipment found in the township. His stock and dairy barn is 40 by 84 feet. For the past eleven years Mr. Kruse has been handling thoroughbred Holstein cattle. He has a dairy of about twenty-five cows and keeps about forty-five head of livestock. Another feature of his industry is the breeding and raising of high class poultry. His farm is operated on a business plan and under the firm name of Fred C. Kruse & Sons.

Mr. Kruse has always been interested in movements directed to improve the condition of the community, and especially the local schools. He has served as school director, but has never been an aspirant for offices in the political sense. He is a republican and a member of the Lutheran Church. November 29, 1892, he married Miss Anna Hasz. She was born in Loganville in 1870, a daughter of Christ and Dora (Westedt) Hasz. Her parents were early settlers in Sauk County and her father died here at the age of fifty-five and her mother at fifty-one. Five children comprise the family of Mr. and Mrs. Kruse: Conrad, who married in 1916 Elsie Feldtman, of Loganville ; Paul ; Edwin ; Martha, who died at the age of four months; and Clara.

Eduaed Clement. Beginning his career as a school teacher and as clerk in a, country store, Eduard Clement is now a member of one of the largest mercantile firms in Sauk County, operating a department store at Reedsburg.

Mr. Clement is a native of Sauk County and was born in Sauk City January 25, 1874. His people have lived in this section of Wisconsin fully seventy years. His father is the venerable Lucius Clement, who is now living retired at Sauk City. Lucius Clement was born in Southern Switzerland, at Graubuenden, in 1838, a son of Henry and Margaret (Schneller) Clement. In 1847, the family came to America, landing at New York City, going on to Milwaukee, and from there driving across the country with wagon and ox team to Sauk City. Henry Clement took up forty acres of Government land, and while proving up and developing his farm he followed his trade as carpenter. Henry Clement lived on the old homestead, and in 1871 moved into Sauk City, where he died three years later. He was born in 1800 and died in 1874. His widow survived him about ten years and was eighty-two years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of five sons : John Jacob, who died on a farm in Minnesota ; Lucius ; Flourin, who lives in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin ; Matthew, who died as a soldier in the Civil war ; and Henry, who is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church at St. Paul, Minnesota.

At the age of twelve years Lucius Clement began making his own way in the world. For his first work he was paid two dollars a month during the year 1848-49. The following year he worked at wages of four dollars a month, and after that felt that he was on the road to prosperity because his wages were raised to seven dollars a month. During the summer he would drive teams for breaking the sod, and the winters were spent in splitting rails.

country in 1848. She died in 1917. After his marriage Lucius Clement took up some land of his own. He continued farming actively for about eight years, at the end of which time he sold his land and moving to Sauk City engaged in the grain and agricultural implement business. He was one of the leading dealers in that class of commodities for about twenty years. At the same time he improved a farm of forty acres near the village, and had that farm largely in order to give his sons something to do. About twelve years ago he retired from farming and had previously given up his mercantile interests. Lucius Clement is an active member of the Evangelical Church, was a member of the town board, the first after the village was incorporated, and for about fifteen years was alderman and for about ten years was assessor.

Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Clement had six sons and six daughters, and ten are still living, six sons and four daughters. Henry is a farmer in Dakota, and by his marriage to Helen Tasker, of West Point, has three children. John, who lives in Iowa, married Eva Tasker and has four sons and one daughter. Margaret is the wife of Dr. Whitlaw, of Lodi, Wisconsin. Joseph is a carpenter at Sauk City and married Selma Buerli. Christiania is the wife of Mr. Habberman, a manufacturer at Lodi, and they have five children. Lena married Michael Kindschi, a shoe merchant at Plattsville, Wisconsin, and their family consists of four boys. The seventh in age is Eduard, of Reedsburg. Sarah married William J. Neu, who lives at Three Lakes in Oneida County, and they have four children. Lucius married Emelia Miller and has one child. Lucius Clement has had a very interesting career. He graduated from the Sauk City High School, taught school two years, was a student in Milwaukee College about one year, and then joined the Fifth United States Cavalry and went with that regiment to Porto Rico. After the Spanish- American war he became superintendent of school and organized one of the English schools in Porto Rico. Returning to America, he entered the railway mail service and for two years had one of the fast mail runs between Chicago and St. Paul. He then became assistant superintendent of mails at St. Paul, and has handled the responsibilities of that office for the past nine years. The youngest of the living children is Benjamin C, who gained his active business experience as clerk in Milwaukee and Three Lakes, and is now managing a store at Clayton, Wisconsin. He married Mary Berns.

Mr. Eduard Clement grew up in his father's home at Sauk City and had a good education. He finished grammar school course under Superintendent W. II. Schultz, and then for two years was a teacher in Sauk County, and another two years in Dane County. Removing to Lodi, Mr. Clement entered the store of Seville & Bissell, and after Mr. Seville retired he became a member of the firm. He was in active business there until 1903, when he removed to Reedsburg and took employment with the firm of Webb & Schweke. In 1908 Mr. Clement with others organized the present large department store conducted under the firm name Kruger, Huebing & Clement. Mr. Clement is president of the company and has been instrumental in the building up of its magnificent trade. It is a store containing five distinct departments and handling all classes of general merchandise and also dealing extensively in farm produce.

The main store is 86 by 80 feet, two stories and basement, and there is also a warehouse for flour and seed. Mr. Clement is interested in another mercantile house in Clayton, Wisconsin.

In matters of politics he is affiliated with the republican party. He has been a member of the school board for about six years and was president of the board two years. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. In 1899 Mr. Clement married Miss Estella Leeson, of Spring- Green, Wisconsin. Five children have been born to their union : Rebecca, Robert, Ruth, Eugene and Edna, all of whom are living, all at home and they have received the best of advantages in the local schools.

J. Bbiggs. Among the substantial business houses of Baraboo that owned and operated by J. Briggs, who carries flour, feed, seeds and groceries, enjoys a dependable reputation and perpetuates 'an old and honorable name in Sauk County, the parents of Mr. Briggs having been pioneers here in 1855.

J. Briggs was born in Oneida County, New York, May 16, 1854, and is a son of Amyntus and Emily (Dunham) Briggs. They were born, reared and married in New York and from there came to the Baraboo country in January, 1855. The father was a cooper and a chair and basket-maker, and carried on his business in the village of Newport. He was born in September, 1802, and died in 1887. His widow survived until 1896, dying at Baraboo. They had thirteen children and six of these survive.

In the public schools of Sauk County J. Briggs secured an excellent common school education. In the spring of 1876 he went to Minnesota and spent three years in Winona County, going then into Wadena County and there purchased 160 acres ofJand, on which he resided for twenty-one years. In December, 1899, he returned to Sauk County and in 1902 he embarked in his present business at Baraboo and since 1904 has been loeated at No. 139 Third Street. Mr. Briggs has a wide acquaintance which yearly grows wider because of the dependable quality of the commodities he handles and of his honorable business methods, his store therefore being the leading one of its kind in the city.

In 1885 Mr. Briggs was married to Miss Jessie E. Troup, who was bom in 1863 in St. Joseph County, Michigan. - She is a daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Eunice (Batholamew) Troup. They were very early settlers in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, and built the first house, a primitive one of logs, west of the Lac qui Parle River. Later they removed to Todd County, Minnesota, and resided there until 1907, when they came to Baraboo. The father of Mrs. Briggs died here in 1911, and her mother died May 15, 1917, being in her eighty-fourth year. Mrs. Briggs has one sister, Florence May, there being but two children in her parents' family.

Mr. and Mrs. Briggs have four children : Beulah, Marie, Wesley and Reginald. The comfortable family residence is at No. 502 Sixth Avenue. In politics Mr. Briggs has never been unduly active but his strong sentiment in regard to absolute temperance has made him an adherent of the prohibition party and he takes much satisfaction in the very apparent growth over the country of temperance feeling and the wise legislation that is being contemplated in every progressive commonwealth. With his family he belongs to the Congregational Church.

Grant A. Briggs, brother of J. Briggs, and a well-known and highlyrespected resident of Baraboo, now engaged in the fur business at No. 141 Third Avenue, was born February 26, 1862, in what was then the village of Newport, in Delton Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin. He was educated in the public schools and the old Newport Academy. Early uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, he subsequently became a local minister in that body ^nd for two years was supply preacher for Doctor McKay, the regular pastor of the church at Parker's Prairie, and later, for two more years, engaged in evangelistic work, with great encouragement.

In 1899 Mr. Briggs came to Baraboo, where his brother William had started a fur business. In this way he became interested in this line, subsequently succeeding his brother, and has continued in the business up to the present time, being assisted by his son, Harry Milton, who was educated in the grade and high school and in a business college at Baraboo.

On March 1, 1888, Mr. Briggs was married to Miss Minna Goulix, of Delton Township, Sauk County, >vho died May 18, 1894, the mother of two children: Cassie P., who is the wife of Samuel Harvey, of Baraboo, and they have three children, Philip, Lillian and Ethel; and Dean, who died at the age of three years. In 1896 Mr. Briggs was married to Miss Gertrude Alexander, of Verndale, Minnesota, and they have one son, Harry Milton, who was married on Thanksgiving Day, 1916, to Miss Edith M. Huntington, of Baraboo. Since old enough to cast a vote Grant A. Briggs has given his political support to the temperance cause and has reason to believe that his influence in this direction has had weight.

John Block has acquired financial independence by many years of successful enterprise as a farmer in Sauk County, and while not completely retired he is in a position to enjoy a well earned leisure and busies himself largely with the supervision of his farm from his home in Prairie du Sac Township.

Mr. Block was born in Germany December 26, 1842, a son of John and Sophia (Wolf) Block. His parents came to America and located at Milwaukee in 1862, when he was twenty years of age. A year and a half later they came to Sauk County and with their son Fred bought a farm and lived with this son the rest of their lives. The father died here about twenty-five years ago and the mother twelve years later. There were six children : Fred, who died ten years ago ; Louis, who lives in the Village of Prairie du Sac ; John ; Henry, who died at Baraboo four years ago; Reka, who is married and lives in Milwaukee; and Sophia, who married Vinzens Nold, of Sauk City, and died about five years ago, leaving four children.

John Block was reared and educated in Germany and after coming to Sauk County at the age of twenty-six married Miss Theresa Juble. Seven children were born to their marriage. Charles is now farming in Minnesota and is married and has six children. Robert is married and has a home adjoining" his father. George is proprietor of a grocery store at Hinsdale, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. William lives on the same farm as his father at Prairie du Sac and is unmarried. Anna married Richard Roberts, and her husband is connected with the grocery store at Hinsdale with her brother George. Emma married Herman Brown, lives in Baraboo, and has seven children, one of whom is married. Clara is the wife of Ed Ketline, a farmer in Prairie du Sac township, and they have four children.

Mr. John Block early interested himself in farming in Sauk County, and in time acquired a farm of 240 acres in Prairie du Sac Township. Most of this is sandy soil and is highly productive. From the fruits of that farm he has provided for his own future and reared his family and lived on the same place for forty-three years. He then sold to his son Robert and moved to Sauk City, where he now spends most of his time. His success as a farmer came from raising the staple crops of rye and corn and he always kept good grades of livestock. He made the improvements out of the work of his own hands and did a great deal of building. Mr. Block is a member of the Evangelical Church and in politics is a democrat in national afiPairs.

William Terry. The name of Terry has been well known in Sauk County since pioneer days, and it has always belonged to men of enterprise and industry who have been good citizens and supporters of the schools and churches. Through intermarriages this family is also connected with a large number of other old families, and these relationships have bound them closely together. One of the well-known and highly-regarded bearers of this name is William Terry, who by birth, education and large property interests, particularly belongs to Sauk County. He was born in Baraboo Township, on the old Terry homestead, September 21, 1874. His parents were John and Catherine (Dorsey) Terry, extended mention of whom will be found in this work. His father was an extensive farmer.

William Terry grew to manhood on the present farm and obtained his education in the public schools. He assisted his father for many years and later on bought the old home, a valuable tract of 222 acres and since then has made many substantial improvements, these including the putting of a fine basement under the farmhouse. Mr. Terry is of the modern type of farmer, understanding the facts of science and applying new methods in the growing of many of his crops. He raises excellent stock of all kinds but gives the larger part of his attention to raising Shorthorn cattle.

Mr. Terry was married in 1911 to Miss Ava Chase, who was born at Oregon in Dane County, Wisconsin, and is a daughter of Denman and Sarah (Mallen) Chase. Her father came to North Freedom, Sauk County, as an employe of the Northwestern Railroad Company and continues with this company but now lives at Baraboo. Mrs. Terrj^ was educated in the public schools and is a lady who is highly thought of in Delton Township. Mr. and Mrs. Terry have three children, namely: Elizabeth, John and Elaine. The family belongs to the Roman Catholic

Church. In polities Mr. Terry is a democrat and takes much interest in local political matters. He is a believer in the public school system when intelligent and conscientious men take an interest and he has served as clerk of the township school board for the past six years. Genial and hearty, he not only is popular within the wide circle of kinship in the county, but with all with whom he has relations in the way of business.

William Toole, proprietor of the noted pansy farm, mentioned in the general history as one of the institutions of Baraboo worthy of a visit, is an old resident whose good influence has extended into many practical, as well as cultural fields. He has been farmer, florist, botanist, horticulturist, historian, thoughtful father to two families, useful citizen and kind and generous friend. So that it would be impossible to find anyone in Sauk County who has more or warmer supporters than William Toole. Although he was born in Lancashire seventy-six years ago, his good Irish inheritances have kept him young and elastic. What education he received was obtained in the schools of Providence, Rhode Island, and in its neighborhood and in 1857, when about sixteen years old he went with other members of his family to Massachusetts. For a time he followed his father's old trade as a calico printer, but in 1859 migrated to Excelsior Township, Sauk County. General farming occupied him for many years, but he had gradually become interested in the cultivation of pansies, and in 1887 moved to what have become so widely known as Pansy Heights, overlooking Baraboo. There, with one of his sons, William A., he has built up a business and a farm for the cultivation of seed pansies which he literally loves; and he treats and fondles his flowers as if they were his children, of whom he is proud when they flourish and sick at heart when they languish. William Toole has been a member of the school boards of Excelsior and Baraboo townships for thirty years; was, for a long time president of the County Horticultural Society and served, for two years, as president of the state organization. His papers and investigations along agricultural and horticultural lines have brought him commendatory testimonials from the experts of the State University. He has also been foremost in the co-operative social work among the various farming communities and clubs and for five years was president of the Sauk County Country Life Association ; in fact, Mr. Toole and George W. Davies, county superintendent of schools and secretary of the association, have been behind the movement from the very first - pushing it, as well as leading it. It seems to be a sort of revival, on a broader base, of the old Farmers' Alliance, of which Mr. Toole was also a recognized leader in the county and the state. In line M'ith the general movement to strengthen and uplift the rural communities of the county is the establishment of accessible circulating libraries. Mr. Toole is now president of the Sauk County Traveling Library Association and as such Is throwing his genial weight in favor of that organization.

August Hamburg, a resident of Sauk County for over half a century, has well established his name and fortune as a prosperous farmer and stockman in Franklin Township, where he has lived the greater part of his active career.

Mr. Hamburg was born in Hanover, Germany, July 28, 1852, a son of John and Elizabeth (Bodenstab) Hamburg. When he was seventeen years of age, in July, 1869, his parents arrived in America from Germany and established a home in Westfield Township at Loganville. His father bought eighty acres and in the course of time had it improved and in cultivation. It was on this farm that August Hamburg gained his first knowledge and experience of American ways of farming. Mr. August Hamburg was one of four children : Henry, August, John and Fred, the last two now deceased.

August Hamburg acquired his education chiefly in Germany and his life since coming to Sauk County has been a continuous round of industry and accomplishment. He is the owner of a fertile. and well-cultivated farm of 123^ acres in Franklin Township, and conducts it both as a general farm and stock-raising enterprise. He keeps about thirty-three head of cattle and has a dairy of nineteen cows. Mr. Hamburg is a republican and a member of the Lutheran Church.

He married Johanna Kalba, daughter of Christian and Mary Kalba. Mr. and Mrs. Hamburg 's children are Adolph, Johannis, August, Amelia, Arnstena and Bertha.

Ralph Percy Perry, a native son of Reedsburg, reared and educated there, Ralph Percy Perry gave up a large and promising practice many years ago to devote himself largely to a career as a business man and banker. He is president of the Reedsburg Bank and has in many ways assisted legitimafe industries and enterprises to secure substantial hold in this community, and has also done an important part as a public spirited citizen and generous benefactor of the town.

Mr. Perry's parents were early settlers in Reedsburg, where he himself was born June 22, 1859. He is a son of Oliver H. and Mary J. (Mc Cloud) Perry. Oliver H. Perry was a merchant in Reedsburg from 1848 until 1880. In the latter year he was elected sheriff of Sauk County, He was a very forceful as well as successful man and stood as an example of the strictest integrity of character. The ancestors of Oliver H. Perry were early located in New Hampshire and from there removed to Essex County, New York. Oliver H. Perry's paternal and maternal grandfathers, respectively Abijah Perry and Capt. Joshua Brown, were both soldiers in the American Revolution, and Captain Brown served with special distinction as an officer. The McCloud family were Scotch and were early settlers in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

Ralph P. Perry was the second in a family of four children. His older brother, Arthur, is the secretarj^ of The St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. His two sisters, Florence and Alice, also live in St. Paul.

Ralph P. Perry left his studies in the public schools at Reedsburg at the age of fifteen and soon afterward entered the law office of J. W. Lusk, one of the well-known attorneys of Reedsburg at that time. He pursued his studies with such determination and energy that at the age of twenty he was qualified and admitted to the local bar. Three years later he became a partner of Mr. Lusk, and that partnership continued until Mr. Lusk resigned and went into practice at St. Paul. In 1884, at the age of twenty-five, Mr. Perry was elected district attorney, but resigned while still in office in order to take charge of two large estates.

In 1887 he became manager of the Reedsburg Bank, and has been connected with that institution for thirty years and much of the time as president. Mr. Perry assisted in reorganizing the Reedsburg Woolen Mill Company, and was its treasurer until the plant was sold to the Appleton Woolen Mill Company. In politics his work has been done with the republican party. When he has assumed the role of a public speaker he has done so with credit and has taken part in a number of campaigns. He belongs to the Wisconsin Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons, and is a member of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Sons of the Colonial Wars, and his wife is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Society of Colonial Dames. Both are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder.

Mr. Perry was married in 1883 to Miss Helen S. Neely, of Platteville, Wisconsin. Mrs. Perry is a graduate of the Plateville State Normal School and first became acquainted with Mr. Perry while she was teaching in Reedsburg. Three children have been born to their union : Edna M., now Mrs. N. T. Yeomans, Mildred I. and Katharine. From the means acquired by a successful business career Mr. Perry has contributed generously to local churches and philanthropic enterprises in Reedsburg, and Mrs. Perry is an active member of the public library board. Mr. Perry was a delegate from Wisconsin to the Republican National Convention of Chicago in 1904. Among other interests he is serving as a member of the board of trustees of Carroll College at Waukesha.

Albert Walsteb. Among the early names of permanent settlers in Sauk County is recorded that of Walster, and that name is now a prominent one because of the sterling character of those who bear it, men who have been born in this county and have never sought any other home. Such a one is Albert Walster, who is an extensive farmer and breeder of Holstein cattle in Troy Township, and through a farther extended area is known because of other business activities. Sauk County owes much to that sturdy class of pioneers who came here and took up raw land that required many years of ceaseless toil to convert into the present fertile, well improved farms. They came from many lands but almost all accepted the hard conditions of early days in Wisconsin in order to build a home, to enjoy the independence that comes with the ownership of land, and to feel that a duty was well performed in thus providing for their possible descendants.

Albert Walster was born in 1859, on the farm in Troy Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, that is now his own property. His parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Bonham) Walster. The father was born in 1817, in Lincolnshire, England, and the mother in 1827, in Buckinghamshire. When they came to the United States in 1849 they located first in Ohio and remained there two years, coming then to Wisconsin and in 1851 secured a homestead in Troy Township, Sauk County, that being in the year following the admission of Wisconsin to the Union. While discoveries, inventions and scientific methods have served to make the farmer's life no longer one of unremitting; labor, it must be remembered that these assistants were not available sixty-eight years ago, when Samuel Walster found himself confronted with the task of clearing acres and acres of prairie and woodland before he could make even a beginning in profitable cultivation. He accomplished it, however, and remained on the farm he had rescued from the wilderness for many years, but finally raioved to Iowa and lived there for the five years preceding his death in 1897.

The following children were born to Samuel and Elizabeth Walster : Mary, who is deceased ; Horatio, who is married and lives in Iowa ; Hattie, who is the wife of Edward Palmer and lives in North Dakota; Albert; Parker, who has a family and lives in Noth Dakota; Belle, who is the wife of William Bear and resides in Iowa; and Isa, a highly educated woman who has been a school teacher at Charles City, Iowa, for twentyfive years. She is unmarried.

Albert Walster was reared on the home farm and attended the district schools. His farm training was thorough and practical and when he was prepared to begin life for himself he had useful experience to draw upon. He now owns 380 acres of excellent land, well adapted to carrying on general farming and stockraising. He raises many hogs but makes a specialty of breeding Holstein cattle and his herds command high prices when sold. He also has large dairy interests.

Mr. Walster was married in 1882, to Miss Mary Stelzman, who is a daughter of Franz and Mary Ann (Hocking) Stelzman. Her mother was born in England and her father in Germany. They came to Sauk County in the '50s. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Walster, namely: Harlow, who is an educator in the Wisconsin State University at Madison; Edna, the wife of George Habberman, who conducts a blacksmith business at Lodi, Wisconsin, and they have two children ; Edith, who married Alfred Reiser, and they have one child and live at Black Hawk, Wisconsin ; Cecil, who is the wife of Iras Radle, and they live at Spring Green, Sauk County; and Clarence, who is his father's dependable assistant on the farm.

Mr. Walster has been somewhat prominent in politics and for fifteen years has been chairman of the township board, and for twenty years has been a member of the school board. Aside from his agricultural activities he has been interested in enterprises in which he has shown much business capacity as well as public spirit. He was one of the promoters of the Troy-Honey Creek Telephone Company and was also interested in the establishing of the Twin City Telephone Company of Prairie du Sac. He is a man of clear foresight and early recognized the permanent value of telephone service. Fraternally he is connected with the order of Modern Woodmen of America at Black Hawk, and with his family attends and liberally contributes to the Presbyterian Church at Prairie du Sac.

Cassius S. Jeffries.. The Jeffries family has been represented in Sauk County for over sixty years. As a family they have been characterized by honest industry, ability to make homes and perform their proper

One of the prominent representatives of this family is Cassius S.. Jeffries, a prosperous farmer in Baraboo and Delton townships. Mr. Jeffries was born in Greenfield Township of Sauk County June 22, 1858, a son of Benjamin and Martha (Crawford) Jeffries. His father was bom in the State of Tennessee, April 16, 1822, and when about sixteen years of age he went out to Missouri and from there came in 1845 to Sauk County, where he preempted eighty acres of land in Greenfield Township. Pie was a practical and industrious farmer and lived in this county until his death on June 15, 1897. He married in Sauk County and his wife was born in Ohio April 27, 1825, and died January 25, 1902. Her father, James Crawford, was one of the notable pioneers of Sauk County, locating in Baraboo Township at what is now called Crawford's Crossing, in 1847, the crossing being named in his honor. He bought a farm in Baraboo Township near the city of that name and there spent the rest of his life. His wife was Lucy Wallice. The Crawford children were named Daniel, Robert, Jackson, James, Sarah, Lucretia, Emely, Eleanor, Lucinda, Martha and Adelaide. Benjamin and Martha Jeffries had seven children : Wilburn, born January 16, 1849, in Greenfield' Township and died October 2, 1916 ; Jessie, born June 27, 1851 ; Erminie, born March 14, 1853 ; Ralph, born November 5, 1855, died June 15, 1915 ; Cassius S. ; Alma born January 18, 1862, and died in 1864; and Florence, born December 24, 1865.

Cassius S. Jeffries grew up on the homestead farm of his father, and he made the best of such advantages as were to be obtained in the local schools. He has made farming his occupation from the first, and in 1883 he went out to South Dakota, or what was then Dakota Territory, and took a homestead of 160 acres. He lived on it and developed it as a farm for two years. On returning to Sauk County he bought twenty acres in Fairfield Township, and that was the scene of his agricultural activities until 1894, when he acquired an eighty acre farm in Delton Township. There he made most of the improvements, clearing up some of the land from the woods, and is now numbered among the substantial residents of that community. Mr. Jeffries is independent in political matters. AVhile living in Dakota he served as a member of the school board.

February 28, 1883, he married Miss Martha E. Post. Mrs. Jeffries was born near Springville in Linn County, Iowa, March 25, 1854. She is a daughter of William T. and Rosetta (Sharpe) Post, both of whom were natives of New York. Her father was born February 28, 1817, and her mother May 1, 1817. Mrs. Jeffries was only five years of age when her mother died on November 26, 1859. The Post family came west before the days of railroads, journeying by canal and lake to Chicago, and from there overland to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. About 1873 her father came to Sauk County, and took up his home at Reedsburg, but for the last three years of his life lived among his children. His death occurred September 28, 1899.

Mrs. Jeffries was one of a family of six children. The record is : Sarah, born May 31, 1841 ; George, born August 17, 1843, a Union soldier; Daniel, born September 8, 1847, who also was in the Civil war ; "William

T., born February 20, 1849 ; Ellen, born January 4, 1851 ; and Martha, born March 25, 1854. Mrs. Jeffries and her sister Ellen are the only ones of the family now living.

Frank Carson. The Carson family has played a notable part in the agricultural life of Sauk County for nearly sixty years and in the second generation of the family here Mr. Frank Carson is widely known as one of the most prosperous citizens of Franklin Township.

Mr. Carson was born in Westfield Township of Sauk County March 25, 1859, a son of Daniel and AVinifred (Norton) Carson. His father came to America from County Antrim, Ireland, in 1844 and settled in New Jersey. The mother came out of County Roscommon, Ireland. The parents were married at Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1857 and in the next year they settled in Westfield Township of Sauk County. The father acquired eighty acres of wild land, paying the government a dollar and a quarter per acre. At that time the government land office was at Mineral Point in Iowa County, Wisconsin, and Daniel went all the way to that town to make his first payment and enter his land. He was a vigorous and industrious Irishman, and his hard work cleared the land and made it a valuable farm. He was a man of influence in the community and served in both church and school offices. He is now living in advanced years, while his wife passed away December 20, 1913.

Mr. Frank Carson, the only child of his parents, has satisfied his ambitions by his work as a farmer and is the owner of a splendid place of 220 acres. He is a breeder of Shorthorn cattle, and progressiveness is a keynote of his farm in every department. He has excellent buildings, including a silo, and refuses to be satisfied with anything but the best results and the best methods of farm management.

Mr. Carson is a democrat in politics and he and his family are members of the Catholic Church. On September 9, 1891, he married Mary Carney, daughter of James and Mary Carney, of Franklin Township. Mr. and Mrs. Carson have one son, James, born January 9, 1895. Mrs. Carson 's brothers and sisters were : Margaret, deceased wife of Mike Quinn ; Bridget, who is unmarried and lives in Chicago ; Catherine, wife of Henry Fargen, son of John and Bridget Fargen; Anne, unmarried; and Frank, who is unmarried.

Frank H. Metcalf, now postmaster of Reedsburg, has played a spirited and successful role in business and public affairs in this county for a number of years, and his experience has also taken him into the Northwestern states. Mr. Metcalf is a native of Sauk County, and a member of one of its oldest pioneer families.

He was born on a farm in Excelsior Township March 14, 1864, a son of Isaac and Mary (Riding) Metcalf. Both parents were born in England, where they were married, and in 1849 they came to Sauk County, which was then a virtual wilderness. In Excelsior Township Isaac Metcalf acquired a tract of Government land and proceeded forthwith to its development and improvement. He and his wife lived in a log house for some years, until it was replaced by a substantial frame structure. Later he retired to Reedsburg to enjoy his well earned prosperity, and died in that city March 23, 1908, at the venerable age of eighty-five. While living in Excelsior Township he was not only a progressive farmer but also a man who took much interest in local affairs. He served as a member of the township board for several years. He was also one of the early supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this community. His children were eight in number: Martha, Annie, Nellie, Frank H., Fred, Emma, Charles and Louis. The daughter Emma died in South Dakota in 1917.

Frank H. Metcalf spent his early boyhood on the old homestead in Excelsior Township. While there he attended the common schools, and his first practical experiences were in connection with farming. Subsequently he went to the Northwest and was in the grain business in the State of Washington and also spent some time in the State of Idaho. In 1906 he returned to Sauk County and located at Reedsburg, becoming financially identified with the large department store firm of Krueger, Huebing & Clement. He was personally active in that store until November 14, 1914, when he was appointed postmaster of Reedsburg by President Wilson. Mr. Metcalf entered upon his new office with zeal and understanding and has applied business methods to its management. Mr. Metcalf while living in Excelsior Township was treasurer of the township and clerk and has long played an active part in democratic politics in this county. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

He was married in 1885 to Miss Pet Rose, who was born in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. They have one child, Emma R., who was educated in the Reedsburg High School and in business college and is now the wife of B. L. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have a daughter, Wanda E.

Thomas W. English, president of the First National Bank of Baraboo for the past ten years, is one of the leading citizens of that place. He is a son of Thomas T, English, a farmer and merchant who moved to Sauk County from Virginia, when Thomas W. was three years of age. The father was also one of the early directors of the First National Bank, a trustee of the Village Board and a town assessor for several terms. There were five children in the family, of whom Thomas W. was the oldest ; the second, J. E. English, is the physician. Mr. English, president of the First National, is a graduate of the Wisconsin University, was engaged in the hardware business for many years, has held most of the township offices, served one term in the Legislature, and has been identified with the First National Bank since 1906.

Fred W. Luhrsen, The blacksmith who has wandered so long through song and story, the man of hard muscles, strong physique, genial manner, ready wit and innumerable companionable qualities, seems to have a living counterpart in Fred W. Luhrsen, owner and proprietor of a blacksmithing establishment at Reedsburg. Increasing prosperity and popularity have hovered around this shop ever since the owner sent out the first merry clang of his anvil here in 1892, although he had been in business here eight years before that time. Mr. Luhrsen was born near

Christopher Luhrsen was born in Germany, in 1822, and was there married to his first wife, with whom he came to the United States about 1851. There Mrs. Luhrsen died, and in the metropolis Mr. Luhrsen was married a second time, to Christina Ensh, who had been born in 1826, also in Germany. In 1855 they came to Wisconsin and settled in Dane County, near the City of Madison, residing there until 1857, when they removed to Westfield Township, Mr. Luhrsen there purchasing a farm. After some years passed in agricultural pursuits in Sauk County he removed his family to Loganville, where for a period he was engaged in merchandising, but eventually returned to agricultural pursuits, buying a farm one mile east of the village mentioned, where he passed the remainder of his life and died in 1906, at the age of eighty-four years. Mrs. Luhrsen died September 22, 1917, having reached the remarkable age of ninety-one years. They had a family of eight children : Elizabeth, Nicholas, Fred W., Anna, Emma, August, William and Edward, of whom all are living except William.

Fred W. Luhrsen was reared on the home farm and received his education in the public schools of Westfield Township and the parochial schools of the German Lutheran Church, of which faith his parents were devout members. When he was nineteen years of age he learned the blacksmith trade. In 1876 he eame to Reedsburg, and in 1884 he established a business of his own, since that time having built up a prosperous business. During forty-one years Mr. Luhrsen has not lost in time over two months, a remarkable record and one which speaks well for his great industry and energy. The present blacksmith shop of Mr. Luhrsen is one of the busiest and best managed establishments of its kind in Sauk County. Its forge and anvil have been in almost constant operation since 1892, when the present shop was built, and the trade which rewards the owner's enterprise and skill in continuous and appreciative, being recruited both from the city and county. He has the most modern and practical appliances of his trade, and his work is invariably well done and satisfactory. In addition to his shop he has a comfortable and attractive residence, located at No. 628 Main Street. Politically Mr. Luhrsen is a prohibitionist. He has never cared for public office, although always a good citizen and a supporter of public-spirited movements. He and Mrs. Luhrsen are faithful members and supporters of the Church of God.

Mr. Luhrsen was married in 1880 to Miss Sarah Colling, who was bom at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1850, a daughter of Daniel and Sophia (Gerss) Colling. Mr. and Mrs. Colling came to Westfield Township, Sauk County, in 1855, and here spent the rest of their lives on a farm, the former dying in 1881, at the age of seventy-four years, and the latter in 1891, when eighty-one years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Luhrsen have five children : Agnes, who is the wife of Walter Thomas, living near the City of Milwaukee, and has had four children, Beatrice, who died in infancy, Glenn Douglas and Marshall ; Walter, of Red Lodge, Montana, who is married and has two children, Richard and Gertrude ; Josie, who is the wife of P. J. Smart, of Carthage, Missouri, and has had four sons, Howard F., Stanley (1), deceased, Stanley (2) and Russell; Vernie, a traveling salesman for an automobile company, with headquarters at Missoula, Montana, who is married and has one son, Robert; and Lillie, who is the wife of Victor Seagraves, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and has two children, Richard and Gerald. Mrs. Luhrsen has one half-sister : Sophia, of Avada, Colorado ; and two sisters : Sarah ; and Nancy, the wife of Charles Schulte, now living on the Colling homestead.

Mr. Luhrsen has acquired a competence through his labor, and, what is better, has won the regard of hosts of friends and the confidence of the entire community. His patrons come from many miles in the country, and for many of them he has been doing work for more than a score of years. His life is a lesson of industry, frugality, honesty and good humor.

C. F. Henry Meyer, now retired, was for many years a prominent factor in business and civic affairs at Sauk City, and still exercises a large influence in that community. Mr. Meyer is of German birth, but has lived in "Wisconsin for about fifty years.

He was bom at Nordenbeck, Waldeck, Germany, August 29, 1846, a son of Frederick and Mary (Berges) Meyer. His father and uncle had made a brief trip to the United States as early as 1846. While here they spent a short time in Louisiana, but then returned to Germany. As a boy Henry Meyer heard his father tell many of the interesting things about America and it was those stories heard from the lips of his father that eventually caused him to seek his own fortune in the New World.

Thus it was that in October, 1865, C. F. Henry Meyer, then a boy of nineteen, landed at New York City. A few days later he was a new arrival at Sauk City. In the old country, after the thorough apprenticeship required of all mechanical trades there, he had learned millwrighting. At Sauk City he was unable to find employment in that line and instead he worked two years as a carpenter for Charles Ross. He then entered the service of Martin Lodde, millwright, and was in his employ steadily until 1872, making good wages as wages were measured at that time.

In 1872 Mr. Meyer returned to the old country and remained there about four years, finishing the learning of his trade. While there he attended a Barschule, the German name for an architectural school, at Halzminden, an institution attended by several thousand students.

On March 16, 1878, after returning to this country, Mr. Meyer married Miss Emma Boiler. Her father, Kasper Boiler, owned a general merchandise store at Sauk City. He continued active in the business until 1891, when he sold out to Conrad Kuoni. In 1892 Mr. Meyer and his father-in-law, Mr. Boiler, built a cold storage building at Sauk City. Mr. Boiler was active in business affairs until his death on February 6, 1907. He was born August 29, 1828. After Mr. Boiler's death Mr. Meyer continued the business until 1913, when he sold the establishment and has since lived practically retired. They built up a large and prosperous business.

ticing medicine in Chicago. He has been married thirteen years. Lena, born January 31, 1881, is the wife of Theodore Crusins, of St. Louis. Edgar C, born March 10, 1883, is now conducting a general merchandise store at Sauk City and was married two years ago. Freda, born May 11, 1890, was married three years ago to Walter Pune, foreman of a machine shop in St. Louis. Ralph, born July 18, 1892, is unmarried, lives at home and works in the store with his brother. All the children attended school at Sauk City.