Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 3 of 20)

Mrs. Meyer's parents were members of the Free Congregation of Sauk City and Mrs. Meyer has affiliated with the same church. Politically he was always a stanch republican until in recent years, and he supported Mr. Wilson for the Presidency. He has kept the machinery of good government moving in his home community, served as village president seven years, and for twenty-six years has been secretary of the fire department. He was school clerk four years and has two years yet to serve in that position. He was president of the society of his church for fifteen years.

Mr. Meyer's three sisters lived in Germany all their lives. His brother, Fred Meyer, who was born in Germany in 1833, came to America in 1866 and after landing in Sauk City took up the trade of millwright. In 1869 he went back to Germany, but returned to this country in 1870. He then conducted the new United States Hotel at Sauk City until his death on February 8, 1894. This hotel is now known as the Curtis Hotel. He also ran a livery stable in connection. Mr. Fred Meyer made three trips back to Germany and the hotel was managed by his wife during his absence. He served several years as mayor of the village, and was a very active citizen. In the early days he drove the stage from Sauk City to Mazomanie. Fred Meyer married Ottilie Boiler, who was born February 8, 1850, daughter of Kasper Boiler, They had two children: Ida, who was born January 6, 1872, and died May 23, 1888, at the age of sixteen ; and Meta, who was born March 17, 1882, and is now living at home with her mother.

George Isenberg. There is no vocation to which men devote their energies that has a more important bearing upon the growth and development of any community than that which has to do with building and its allied interests. The calling which has to do with the erection of buildings which house large enterprises is one of the oldest known to mankind, and in its ranks are found individuals who have risen to high places in the world. The community which includes among its citizens able and energetic workers in this field seldom lacks enterprise and civic zeal. These men create a need for their services, and while advancing their own interests promote the community's growth. Among the leading representatives in building work in Sauk County George Isenberg holds a deservedly high place, for he has been connected in this line of endeavor at Baraboo and in the surrounding territory for more than a quarter of a century, and has been interested in the erection of many of the leading structures there.

George Isenberg was born at Bemdorf, Waldeek, Germany, September 9, 1867, and is a son of William and Marie (Schultz) Isenberg, who passed their entire lives in Germany. William Isenberg, who was a carpenter by vocation, diet! when his son George was a small boy, while the mother survived for many years, dying in 1912. There were seven sons and three daughters in the family, George being the youngest son and the third oldest child. Of the sons three came to the United States : Karl, of Baraboo ; Christ, and George.

George Isenberg was educated in the public schools of Germany, and as a youth was apprenticed to the trade of carpenter, in which he spent an apprenticeship of three years. In 1885 he immigrated to the United States, Avhence his brothers Karl and Christ had preceded him. He at once came to Sauk County, in the following year taking up his residence at Baraboo, which has been his home without interruption ever since, although at various times, in the interest of his business affairs, he has resided for short periods at other places. For three or four years he was employed as a carpenter by his brother Karl, with whom he eventually formed a partnership, and the firm of Isenberg Brothers has since that time steadily grown to be one of the leading contracting and building concerns of this part of the state. During this time the brothers have erected many of the largest buildings erected at Baraboo, including all the Ringling buildings, and in 1912 George Isenberg went to Florida, where he erected the winter home of Charles Ringling. His life has been one of continuous activity, in which she has maintained a high standard of business ethics, and has been accorded due recognition of labor. Few have shown greater activity and few have been more greatly interested in Baraboo and its affairs, business and civic. He is at present one of the directors of the First National Bank of Baraboo, and is also a director of the Baraboo Commercial Association. In politics he has always been a stanch republican. Since 1909 he has been an alderman, being now in his third term in that ofBce, and for the past two years has been president of the council. He likewise belongs to the Baraboo Water Commission. His official record is an excellent one, and has been characterized by his sympathetic support of all measures tending to advance the city's interests. With his family he belongs to the German Lutheran Church, and at present he is a member of the board of trustees.

In 1892 Mr. Isenberg was united in marriage with Miss Emma Bender, who was born at Baraboo, Wisconsin, August 11, 1871, and has resided here all her life. She is a daughter of Carl and Grace (Kunzelman) Bender, the former born in Southern Germany, October 4, 1842, and died at Baraboo, June 19, 1911, and the latter born May 22, 1849, and died July 10, 1908. Carl Bender came to the United States as a small boy with his father, Christ Bender, locating in the Town of North Freedom. At the beginning of the Civil war, with his brothers Ehrenreich and Adolph Bender, he enlisted in Company K, Thirteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and fought with the Union army until the war closed and victory rested with the forces of the North. With a splendid record as a soldier he returned to Wisconsin and established himself in business as the proprietor of a blacksmith shop in Baraboo, and for twenty years followed that trade. He also engaged for a time in farming near the city limits, but finally located at Baraboo, where he founded a cement business and continued to be interested therein during the remainder of his life. He was one of the well known and highly esteemed business men of the city. Mr. Bender was also actively interested in civic matters, and for some years was the incumbent of important public offices. After serving as alderman for several years and as commissioner of streets, in 1910 he was elected mayor of Baraboo and was acting in that capacity when his death occurred. Mr. Bender was the father of the following children : Mary, who is the wife of Rev. F. P. Papp, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Ableman, Sauk County ; Emma, who is now Mrs. George Isenberg; Nettie, who is the wife of Charles Goethe, of Baraboo ; Carl, a resident of Madison, Wisconsin ; and Hilda, who is the wife of Edward Cuch, of Baraboo.

Mr. and Mrs. Isenberg are the parents of four children : Ernest August, who is bookkeeper for the First National Bank of Baraboo; Elsie Marie, who has completed a course in home economics at Stout Institute, Menominee, Wisconsin ; Lydia Grace, a graduate of the Baraboo High School, class of 1917 ; and Louis Christian, who is attending the Baraboo public schools. The family is well known in the city, where its members are all recognized as sound and reliable citizens, the kind of material that has helped the city to grow and develop,

Longfellow Turner. Since its establishment in Sauk County in the early '60s the Turner family has unfailingly sustained the most practical and intelligent interests of the community and has manipulated with equal courage and ability the implements of the husbandman and the franchise of the citizen. Its men have demonstrated the worth of industry and integrity, and its women have kept their houses in order and taught their children to be fair, honest and considerate in their dealings with their fellow men. A worthy representative of this honorable family is found in the person of Longfellow Turner, who is engaged in farming in Fairfield Township. It has been his fortune to have realized many of his worthy ambitions in the working out of his career and to have attained at the same time material prosperity and the esteem and confidence of the people among whom his life has been passed.

Longfellow Turner was born in Fairfield Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, December 8, 1866, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Saxe) Turner, the former a native of the State of Maine and the latter of Germany. Samuel Turner was reared in his native New England locality, but when a young man developed a desire to see the West, and in the early '60s came to Wisconsin seeking his fortune. Here he met and married Elizabeth Saxe, who had been brought to this country by her parents as a child, and they began their married life on a farm in Fairfield Township. They were industrious and hard-working people and were well on their way toward the attainment of their ambitions, the establishment of a comfortable home and the making of arrangements for the proper rearing and education of their children, with a possible competence for their own old age, when Mr. Turner died suddenly in 1876, and the mother followed him to the grave within a short time. The children thus left orphans were: Verona, Longfellow, William, Mary and George, all of whom are still living, and all of whom have been successful in life.

country surroundings, and was attending the public school in Fairfield Township when his parents died. The ten-year-old lad was then taken into the home of his maternal grandparents, John and Catherine Saxe, pioneers of Fairfield Township now both deceased, who gave him the best advantages that they could and kept him in school until he had secured a thorough rudimentary education. He remained with his grandparents until after he had attained his majority and then embarked in agricultural pursuits on his own account, and from that time to the present has been constantly growing in prosperity. About the year 1897 he secured, by purchase, the farm which he now occupies in Fairfield Township, a tract of 170 acres of productive and well cultivated land. Here he has installed the latest improvements and has erected substantial buildings, including a comfortable dwelling and two good barns. While general farming has received the major part of his attention, he has also been gratifyingly successful as a breeder of standard Holstein cattle, and is a stockholder in the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company of Baraboo. Mr. Turner is one of the best known of the agriculturists of the section, one who is alive to the possibilities of his vocation and who makes the most of his opportunities. He is one of the largest hay producers of the region, and furnishes great amounts of this commodity annually to the Ringling Brothers at Baraboo. In polities he favors the prohibition candidates, but has not been exceptionally active in public affairs, although he has served very acceptably as overseer of roads. With his family he attends the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

Mr. Turner was married in 1894 to Miss Mabel Bell Herron, of Fairfield Township, Sauk County, who was born in 1873, in the State of Iowa, daughter of Theodore and Susannah Herron, who were early settlers of Sauk County and for many years engaged in agricultural pursuits here. Mr. Herron is now deceased, but his widow still survives and resides in Fairfield Township. To Mr. and Mrs. Turner there have been born seven children, namely : Bessie, who is the wife of Christian Callisch, a farmer of Fairfield Township, and has one child, Genevieve ; Ray, who married July 4, 1915, Edna Smith, of Delton Township, daughter of Thomas Smith, who has resided in that township for about thirty years, and has one child, Lynn ; and Gladys, Myrtle, Edith, Elmer and Esther, at home.

John B. Weiss has been a factor in the business life of Sauk County for many years, and is especially well known and a factor in the affairs of Franklin Township, where he is cashier of the Plain State Bank and has had much to do with civic affairs.'

Mr. Weiss was born in Germany, January 28, 1868, a son of John and Theresa Weiss. He immigrated to America at the age of fifteen and he finished his education in the high school at Hillside, Wisconsin.

Mr. Weiss took up a business career as a merchant, but since November, 1911, has been a banker at Plain and his ability and personal popularity have been the chief factors in the success and influence of the Plain State BaTik. He also owns considerable real estate, and his fellow citizens have a number of times called upon him for the performance of those duties which are an indication of general public esteem and confidence. Mr.

Weiss served as postmaster at Plain from 1893 to 1897, during Cleveland's second term, and during the same period he was also town treasurer. Mr. Weiss is a member of the Catholic Knights.

July 28, 1897, at Plain, he married Miss Mary Machreiner. daughter of John B. and Emily (Voelkel) Machreiner. They have a household of six children, named Esther, Marcus, Martha, Julius, Carl and Paul.

Francis N. Peck, register of deeds of Sauk County from 1880 to 1886, is one of the oldest and most prominent residents of the Town of Excelsior and City of Baraboo, A Connecticut man, he came to Excelsior in March, 1856, then in his twenty-eighth year, and has been a farmer ever since. Aside from this, the main business of his life, he has given most of his time to the public affairs of his town, and during the many years of his residence therein was usually serving as town clerk, chairman of the town board, supervisor of the county board, or justice of the peace, often holding several offices simultaneously. Mr. Peck is a veteran and a rock-ribbed republican, and has voted for seventeen presidential candidates, from Gen. Winfield Scott to Judge Hughes. He has been a resident of Baraboo for a number of years.

George T. Morse is one of the leading bankers of Sauk County, and banking has been his chief experience throughout his career. He is now president of the Citizens Bank of Reedsburg and has been actively identified with that institution for over thirty years.

Mr. Morse was born in Schoharie County, New York, a son of Hiram A. and Mary (Mackey) Morse, both of whom were natives of New York State. Hiram A. Morse was for a number of years a merchant at Albany. In 1864 he enlisted for service in the Civil war, and was killed before the conclusion of his service. His widow spent her last years in Reedsburg.

George T. Morse lived in Schoharie County, New York, until he was fifteen years of age. He attended school there and also at Reedsburg, Wisconsin, where he had his first business experience in the bank of his uncle, Joseph Mackey. He was made cashier of the old Reedsburg Bank during the second year of its existence, and then for four years was connected with the First National Bank of Lincoln, Illinois. On returning to Reedsburg Mr. Morse resumed his connection with the Reedsburg Bank while J. W. Lusk was its president.

Mr. Morse organized the Citizens Bank of Reedsburg in 1887, and its first president was Charles Keith, after whom Mr. Morse took the executive management of the institution and has directed its welfare and conserved its resources now for a great many years.

Mr. Morse has one of the attractive homes of Reedsburg on Locust Street. He served several years as alderman and fraternally is affiliated with Reedsburg Lodge No. 157, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Reedsburg Chapter No. 56, Royal Arch Masons, St. John's Commandery No. 21, Knights Templar, with the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite Consistory, at Milwaukee, and the Temple of the Mystic Shrine in that city.

Reedsburg Public Library. Mr. and Mrs, Morse have two children: Ward Stone Morse, who is now manager of the Hotel Leamington at Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Emma, wife of W. H. Brockmann, of Chicago, Illinois.

Peter Henry. An example of that kind of thrift and well applied energy which enables a man to retire from active life at a comparatively early age is found in the career of Peter Henry, who is now living in a fine modem home at 941 Main Street, Reedsburg. Reared a farmer, for many years Mr. Henry was engaged in the pursuit of the tilling of the soil, and for a short time after coming to Reedsburg was connected with a business industry at this place, but since 1913 has lived quietly, enjoying the fruits of his early years of toil. He has always been one of the helpful and public-spirited men of his community wherever he has lived, and at various times has been called upon to act in positions of public responsibility, in which he has discharged his duties in a manner that has always acted for the benefit of the general public.

Peter Henry was born on a farm in Walworth County, Wisconsin, November 16, 1863, and is a son of John Henry and Mary (Priemer) Henry. His father w^as born in Switzerland, July 16, 1824, and was -a young man when he came to the United States and arrived in Walworth County, Wisconsin, in 1848. There he started his career in a modest manner, farming a small tract of land with crude implements until he could afford better ones, living in a rude home until he could build one more commodious, and gradually building up a reputation for sobriety, integrity and worth in his community. In Walworth County he met and married Mary Priemer, a young lady newly arrived from her native Germany, where she had been born February 4, 1839, and together they labored industriously in the building up of a home. In 1866 they changed their place of residence from Walworth County to Woodland Township, Sauk County, where Mr, Henry purchased a farm of some proportions. To his original purchase he continued to add from time to time until he was the owner of 440 acres in that township and 35 acres in Richland County, and on his farm the remainder of his life was passed, his death occurring there September 24, 1894, when he was past seventy years of age. Mr. Henry was a democrat in his political views, but was never mixed up in political matters save as a voter, preferring the quiet life of the farm to the strenuous one of public affairs. He was a faithful member of the Lutheran Church, to which Mrs. Henry, who survives him, also belongs. They were married October 25, 1862, and had the following children : Peter, of this review ; Anna, who is the wife of Theodore Moll, lived on the homestead place until April, 1916, and then removed to her present home at Wonewoc, Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and four children, Joseph, John Henry and Mary and Kate, twins ; Dorothy died in infancy.

Peter Henry was reared on the old homestead farm and was educated in the public schools in the vicinity thereof, completing his studies at the Wonewoc High School. When he left that institution he took up farming in earnest, and for more than a quarter of a century followed the vocation of an agriculturist, winning success in his chosen occupation and invest- ing his earnings with intelligence and foresight. During the period of his agricultural labors Mr. Henry accumulated some 235 acres of land in Woodland Township, which he brought to a high state of cultivation, improved in a modern manner and worked with modern methods, making his property pay him substantially for the labor which he put into its cultivation. In addition to general farming on this tract, which included a part of the land formerly owned by his father, he was a successful breeder of Holstein cattle, and became known in the community as a skilled raiser of crops and an excellent judge of livestock. For about twelve years he acted as supervisor of his township, was school clerk for fourteen years, and for four years was township treasurer, and in all of these offices gave his fellow townsmen excellent satisfaction, his duties being discharged expeditiously and faithfully.

In 1909 Mr. Henry retired from matters agricultural and took up his residence at Reedsburg, where for a time he made his home on Plum Street. During the first four years of his residence in this city he was . employed by S. A. Collins in the monument business, but in 1913 retired from active affairs entirely and settled down to enjoy life in his handsome new home, which he had erected at 941 Main Street and which he still occupies. In 1916 he and his son George bought a one-half interest in the Miller Drug Store, and his son is now active in that enterprise. Mr. Henry is a stockholder in the Condensors at Middleton and Footville, and has several other business interests. In politics a democrat, he has been active in his support of that party's candidates and one of the valuable men of the organization in this section During the past four years he has served very acceptably as superintendent of the Sauk County Agricultural Fair Grounds. Mr. Henry belongs to the Lutheran Church, of which his son is also a member, while his daughters belong to the Presbyterian faith.

On November 13, 1887, Mr. Henry was united in marriage with Miss Alice Carpenter, who was bom at Rockbridge, Richland County, Wisconsin, August 6, 1867, daughter of Silas and Clarissa (Smith) Carpenter, the former born in New York in 1839, and the latter in Vermont in 1841. Mr. Carpenter came to Palmyra, Wisconsin, as a child with his parents, Halsey and Sarah Ann Carpenter, and later removed to Richland County, where his parents both died at Richland Center. Mr. Carpenter and his first wife, who died in Richland County in 1879, had seven children: LeRoy ; Eugene, deceased ; Alice, now Mrs. Henry ; Fred ; Elma ; Nellie, deceased ; and Edith, deceased. Mr. Cai-penter, who still makes his home at Rockbridge, was married a second time, in 1880, to Delia Knapp, and they had two children : Beryl, deceased ; and Mollie. Mr. and Mrs. Henry have three children: George, born July 26, 1890, a graduate of the graded schools and the Reedsburg High School, studied pharmacy and is now engaged in the drug business at Reedsburg, married M^'ss Louise Monn and has one son, Richard George ; Mary, born October 29, 1892, a graduate of Reedsburg High School, taught school for three years, and then entered Wisconsin University, from which institution she was graduated with the class of 1917 ; and Clarissa, bom September 3, 1895, a graduate of Reedsburg High School, and now residing with her parents.

James H. Bailey is one of the oldest native sons of "Wisconsin, having been born in this state nearly ten years before the territory was admitted to the Union. His life has been as creditable and useful as it has been long, and for a great many years he has lived at Prairie du Sac.

He was born at the old town of Belmont in Lafayette County, "Wisconsin, November 21, 1839, a son of Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth (Johnson) Bailey. His maternal grandfather was William Johnson. Benjamin F. Bailey came west from Montpelier, Vermont, and married his wife at Belmont, Wisconsin. He was a blacksmith by trade, and the family cherishes the distinction due to the fact that the first plow which turned the first furrow in Sauk County was made in the Bailey shop. On moving to Sauk County Benjamin F. Bailey drove through from Belmont with six yoke of oxen and six teams of horses. In 1857 he moved to Platteville, and he continued following his trade as blacksmith until his death. He died at Grundy Center, Iowa.

James H. Bailey started life for himself at the early age of thirteen. He began an apprenticeship at the harness making trade and worked at it faithfully until he was past twenty-one years of age. The war broke out about that time and he enlisted for service in the Union army, joining the Sixth Wisconsin Artillery. For one year he was a regular artilleryman, and was then assigned to special duty as a harness maker, and served out the last two years of his enlistment in that capacity.

After the war Mr. Bailey lived at Spring Green in Sauk County six months, following which he was on a farm for two years. In 1867 he married Louisa Utendorfer, daughter of George Phillip and Mary (Brown) Utendorfer. Both her parents were natives of Germany, and they were married at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1842. George Utendorffer followed the trade of cabinet making in the East, biit in 1856 he came to Wisconsin and located at Richland City and soon afterward at Spring Green in Sauk County. In Sauk County he became a carpenter, and that was his chief occupation the rest of his life.

After two years of farming experience Mr. Bailey removed to Prairie du Sac and resumed his work as a harness maker. He followed that trade continuously for twenty-five years, developed a large business and became known as a reliable workman and in every sense a thoroughly energetic citizen. He finally sold his business and since then has occupied himself largely with his private affairs.

Mr. Bailey is a member of the Masonic order and the Modern Woodmen of America. His fellow citienzs have trusted him with various duties of a public nature, and he was a member of the city board for five years and for two terms was deputy sheriff of the county. He is a very earnest and effective exponent of his political faith, which is republican. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church.

To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were born two children: Frances Louise, born January 17, 1869, and now a successful school teacher, and Robert Harold, born May 22, 1883. Robert Harold married Ada Roetner, and their two children are Tom James, bom February 16, 1913, and Robert William, born July 4, 1916.

Henry J. Rodwell. Among the families which have lived in Sauk County for fully half a century one of the best known is that which bears the name Rodwell and whose members have taken a more or less prominent part in the settlement, development and well being of several communities.

When the Rodwells came to this county in 1867 Henry J. Rodwell was five years old. He has spent practically all his life here and today is rated as one of the most substantial farmers and best citizens of Delton Township.

Mr. Rodwell was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, September 2, 1862, a son of Henry and Rachel Ann (Abraham) Rodwell. His father was born in Yorkshire, England, May 7, 1819, coming to America in 1843, and living for a number of years in Northern Ohio, near Cleveland. He married in Ohio in 1855 Miss Abraham, who was born at the City of Cleveland in 1833. In 1867 these parents came to Sauk County and located on eighty acres of land in Delton Township. Here the father pursued his vocation as a practical agriculturist and at the time of his death in 1885 owned a well developed farm of 120 acres. His wife passed away in 1875. He was a republican and the family were Methodists. Their children were : Edward ; Joseph ; Sarah Jane ; Henry ; Martha, deceased; Mary, deceased; Charles, deceased; and Robert, deceased.

Henry J. Rodwell grew up on his father's farm and acquired all his education in the schools of Sauk County. He early in life took up the trade of carpenter and has followed it more or less actively in combination with farming. In 1892 he bought eighty acres of wild land in Delton Township, and that property has responded to his efforts at clearing and development until today after twenty-five years, it has a high value and productiveness and is a property which shows Mr. Rodwell 's well directed enterprise. In politics Mr. Rodwell is a prohibitionist and he attends worship at the Church of God.

December 28, 1891, he married Miss Lillian Burgess. She was born in Ironton Township of Sauk County October 18, 1872, a daughter of Peleg and Lucretia (All) Burgess. Her father was born in Washington County, New York, December 18, 1844, and was brought to Sauk Countj^ in 1851 by his parents, Peleg and Mrs. (Herrington) Burgess. The Burgesses located on a farm in Ironton Township, where grandfather Peleg and wife spent their last years. Peleg, Jr., was reared on the farm, was educated in the public schools, and served nearly three years in the Union army as a member of Company F of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry. He was a republican and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred February 12, 1902, at Lavelle, Wisconsin. His wife, who was born at Albion in Zane County, Wisconsin, April 3, 1852, died September 1, 1904. They were the parents of thirteen children : Lillian J., Mrs. Rodwell ; Walter J., deceased ; Charles P. ; John G. ; Murlian ; AVilliam ; Albert ; Carrie ; Hattie and Sarah, both deceased ; Bertha ; George and Arthur.

Mr. and Mrs. Rodwell have been blessed with nine children, and some of them are still in the family circle. Their names are : Myrtle, deceased ; Esther, wife of Edwin Thomas and mother of two children, Charles and

William Reuschlein. One of the solid and substantial old families of Sauk County is represented by William Reuschlein, whose name is a household word in Franklin Township. Mr. Reuschlein is one of the oldest merchants of the Village of Plain, and has been a figure in public affairs both in his home township and in the county for many years.

He was born at Plain in Franklin Township, a son of Sebastian and Cecelia (Schauf) Reuschlein, His parents were natives of Baden, Germany, and on coming to Wisconsin first settled at Burlington and afterwards in Franklin Township. Their children were : Elizabeth, deceased ; Caroline ; William ; Jane ; Henry J. ; Annie ; John ; Albert and Catherine. The daughter Caroline married John C. Aron, of Franklin Township. Henry J. married Christina Paulus, daughter of Mike and Catherine Paulus. Annie is the wife of Adam Frank, a son of Lawrence Frank, Catherine married Harry H. Plon, of Tory, Wisconsin.

Mr. William Reuschlein married Rose Brechtl, daughter of Ferry and Catherine Brechtl, of Bear Creek Township, this county. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Reuschlein are : Clarence, aged thirteen ; Laura, aged eleven ; Herbert, aged nine ; and Alice, aged three. The older children are making splendid progress as students in the local school.

Mr. Reuschlein for the past nineteen years has been proprietor of a large and well stocked general store at Plain, and not only has the patronage which would normally come to his store but has also attracted a large custom because of the service which he gives and the confidence reposed in his integrity as a business man. For a number of years Mr. Reuschlein served as secretary of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, He is now postmaster of Plain, having filled that office for the past four years. During 1911-13 he was a member of the County Board of Supervisors and has been treasurer of the Town Board of Franklin Township for the past four years. Mr. Reuschlein is a democrat, a member of the Catholic Church and of the order of Catholic Knights.

James Wilson Babb, the founder of Reedsburg, pre-empted his lands in what are now Reedsburg and Ironton townships in 1844, These included 1% sections west of what is now Reedsburg City and 120 acres in the Township of Ironton. With his son John, he came to the Narrows Creek Gap in May, 1845. Proceeding further up the river they reached the fertile tract comprising what became Babb 's Prairie and where they made their principal claim. In December, after they had made some improvements and laid in a stock of provisions at Baraboo, he returned to his home in Ohio and, early in the spring, accompanied by his sons, Strother and John, the wife of the latter and Washington Gray, he settled himself and his little colony at the Ford. Afterward he brought out his wife, another son, his daughter Betsey, and, as stated, the latter 's husband, Sterne Baker. Thus the settlement grew apace and such other promoters as David C. Reed and Mr. Powell rather displaced the original proprietor. But the settlement which developed into Reedsburg was a fixture and Mr, Babb has always been acknowledged as its founder. He was a great friend of the home Indians, especially of Ah-hachoka, the chief of the Winnebagoes. The red men called Mr. Babb Ma-ha-shika Ne-ha-ha-tica, meaning Hairy Breast, and his two daughters were Waeck Peurieka, Wild Flower, and Maka Scow Winca, Wild Rose.

Albert Charles Ringling, showman, was born in Chicago, Illinois, December 13, 1852, son of August Frederick and Marie Salome (Juliar) Rungeling (Ringling). The family dates from a Huguenot refugee named Richelin, who fled from France and settled in Hanover, Germany, where the name gradually changed to Rungeling. The family founded and maintained the celebrated German publishing house of that name, well known in the 17th and 18th centuries. Frederick Rungeling, grandfather of the subject and a native of Dankelshausen, Hanover, fought with the German Hanovarians under Wellington at Waterloo. He attended college, invented potato bread during a famine, and became wealthy from other inventions ; his wife was Rosina Baurmann. On the maternal side the subject was a great-grandson of one Etling, an Alsatian who fought under Napoleon, and a grandson of Nicholas Juliar, of Ostheim, Alsace, various of the Juliars subsequently coming to America and settling in Milwaukee.

August Frederick Rungeling, the father, became a saddler. When financial reverses came to his father he left Germany for Canada, afterwards removing to Milwaukee and later to Chicago, where he changed his name to Ringling. Desirous of engaging in a business for himself, he subsequently took up his residence at Baraboo, Wisconsin. During the famous hop crash in that state he was caught in the vortex, and then removed to McGregor, Iowa. Later the family resided at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Stillwater, Minnesota, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and finally Baraboo became their permanent home. To the circus going public the "World's Greatest Show" was billed as belonging to "the five famous Ringling brothers." There were, however, seven sons in the family; Albert Charles, known to the circus going public and the theatrical profession as Al ; August, Otto, Alfred Theodore, Charles Edward, John Nicolaus and Henry, also one daughter, Ida.

Al Ringling was the moving spirit and dominant factor in the organization of the first show and its subsequent additions. In early boyhood days the principal amusement and recreation of the five Ringlings took the form of circus parades and juvenile performances, beginning with what children commonly called a pin show, the price of admission changing from pins to toys and trinkets, and soon they found they could charge a penny admission, and later 5 cents, and still attract their friends and neighbors. Meanwhile they received a thorough public school education and attended Dolkert's private academy for boys at McGregor, Iowa. The success of the brothers in amusing their schoolmates fired their young ambition, and they resolved among themselves to own a real circus some day, and all their plans were made with that end in view. Their first essay at a professional entertainment was in 1883, at Mazomanie, Wisconsin, where with a concert or specialty company, they with a few hired players, gave the first of a series of musical comedies. Their first performance in an "opera house" was an exhibition of stage fright such as is seldom seen. The performance was billed as "Ringling Brothers' Classic and Comic Concert Company, an Entertainment of Mirth and Music." All had taken up music, and they were thus enabled to give an introductory overture with their own orchestra. The program consisted of juggling, singing, dancing, supposedly funny sayings, and a concluding sketch. Mr. Al Ringling and wife (Lou), had one company, and John, Charles and Alfred had another. These two companies were distinguished by numbers, namely, No. 1 and No. 2. Al and Lou Ringling 's number being No. 1 and the other brothers the latter number. Both companies were called Ringling Brothers Comic and Classic Concert Company. Al and Lou Ringling 's company or No. 1 staid and played on the road for over thirteen weeks, bringing home over $1,300. Charles, John and Alfred's company or company No. 2 closed in less than four weeks and came home financially embarrassed or broke. Mrs. Lou Ringling, the wife of Al Ringling, took an active part in this company. She did the lighting crayon pictures and worked in other sketches.

After a few years of this form of entertainment the brothers found themselves in possession of some ten or twelve hundred dollars, and they decided to embark in the circus venture forthwith. At this period they were fortunate in making the acquaintance of John Robinson or "Yankee Robinson," as he was called, a famous circus man of ante-bellum days, and they combined their capital with his reputation. With a tent seating about 600 people the first circus show of the Ringling Brothers was given at Baraboo May 19, 1884. Robinson did not live the season out, but he had no active part in the show, his principal part consisting of a humorous speech to the audience prior to the beginning of the entertainment. He always ended his address with the following prediction : ' ' I am an old man. I have traveled in every state in the Union, and have been associated with every showman of prominence in America. I will soon pass to the arena of life that knows no ending, and when I do I want to die in harness and connected with these boys, for I can tell you that the Ringling Brothers are the future showmen of America. They are the coming men." Subsequent events proved that his judgment of human nature, Yankee grit, ability and perseverance in this instance, was correct. Ever since Robinson's death, in 1885, the Ringling Brothers have conducted the circus business under their own name, adding to it each year horses, animals, equipments and performers until its magnitude not only equaled that of Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth" but has far exceeded it. Aside from the high class entertainment which they give the public, the Ringling Brothers have practically revolutionized the circus business in America. Early in their career they realized that it would be impossible to attain lasting success except by the most honorable and truthful means. They were insistent in employing none but people of good character; they waged unceasing war on dishonest campfollowers, thieves and fakirs who until that time always followed and infested the traveling circus, and they forbade all intoxication and profanity among their own people. In truth, they established such a new moral standard in the handling of a circus that among old time showmen they became known as the new school of American showmen and were sometimes facetiously referred to as the ' ' Sunday-school show. ' ' In the handling of their circus each of the Eingling brothers had his own distinctive duties. Al was equestrian director, and had particular charge of the exhibition before the public. His especial part of the work was to hire the performers, to ''put the show together" - that is, to drill and rehearse them and make them fit to be put on the road. For this reason "Uncle Al," as they called him, was personally known to almost every circus performer in the United States - or in the world. Nearly all of them, at one time or another, had worked under his direction.

During the winter seasons, in former years, the brothers conducted a ' ' Carnival of Fun ' ' while the circus was in quarters for the season. As early as 1887 they had placed on the road a No. 2 circus under their name. In 1888 they were billed as ' ' Ringling Brothers Stupendous Consolidation of Seven Monster Shows." In 1889 the title was Ringling Brothers & Van Amburg's United Monster Shows, and the next year Ringling Brothers United Monster Railroad Shows. In 1898 they operated the John Robinson shows in addition to their own. In 1904 they bought a half interest in the Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Circus, and after managing it on the road for three years they bought them out entirely in 1906. In the following year they bought the famous Barnum & Bailey shows, since which they have been proprietors of all the greatest tented amusement enterprises in the world's history. In 1909 they opened the season by performing at Madison Square Garden, New York City, which previously had been reserved by Barnum & Bailey exclusively. In the same year they bought the celebrated Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and leased it to Cody & Bailey.

No better illustration of what can be accomplished by honest, earnest and steady effort can be given than the brilliant success of the Ringling brothers, who started as poor boys without a dollar, and by indefatigable effort and careful adherence to the most honorable business standards won places in the front rank of their chosen profession. As the oldest of the boys much of the fame that came to the circus was brought to the brother Al. The circus spirit seemed to be more inbued in Al than in any of the others, although each had his part to play. He outlived Barnum and Bailey and the Forepaughs, and at his death was the veteran showman of the country, with a name and fame that has spread to every part of the land. While details of the work connected with the vast circus enterprise were uppermost in his mind, yet he found time for other things. His sympathy was shown in kindly thoughts and worthy deeds and no man was ever more free from ostentation and selfishness. He remained to the last one of the most progressive and liberal citizens of Baraboo, in which city he had reasonable pride. To keep himself from utter idleness he engaged a Chicago architect to draw plans for a splendid $100,000 theater, and spent his last months supervising its building. Thus Baraboo now boasts the Al Ringling Theater. With his brothers he gave $5,000 toward the erection of the new St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Baraboo, dedicated in 1915. His parents were active members of this faith, also was Al Ringling himself and he was buried by this church. He was also a contributor to various public enterprises. On a day in 1915 Baraboo celebrated "Al Ringling Day" in his honor, and Governor Phillips, members of the State Legislature, and many notables went to the city to do him honor.

Al R-ingling found his chief recreation in fishing and owned a summer cottage at Mirror Lake, Wisconsin. His winter seasons in recent years were usually spent at Sarasota, Florida.

On November 18, 1890, he married Miss Eliza Morris. She was born at Bunker Hill, West Virginia, May 12, 1852, a daughter of John and Christina (Lyons) Morris. When she was eighteen months old her parents removed to McGregor, Iowa, and there she grew up on a farm until she was twelve years of age. Her father then moved into Mc- Gregor and was proprietor of a hotel for ten years. Mrs. Ringling after the death of her parents became self supporting, learned a trade, and after her marriage she lived for twenty-five years with the circus. No small part of the success of Mr. Ringling as a showman is due to his capable wife. She performed a multitude of duties when the Ringling circus was a comparatively small affair. She worked in the side-shows, was snake charmer, rode horses, took part in the parades, and for ten winters she had complete charge of the circus wardrobes. She kept twenty girls employed sewing for her both winter and summer. Mr. Ringling always called his wife "Lou" and they were known by every person in Baraboo as "Al and Lou" Ringling.

Al Ringling 's name and memory shall long be honored by the circus going public as well as by the city which honored him and which he repaid in loyalty and appreciable service. Al Ringling died at Baraboo, Wisconisn, January 1, 1916.

Last but not least, Mr. Al Ringling erected a beautiful $25,000 marble mausoleum for himself and his wife in the Baraboo Cemetery and had above the door the names of "Al and Lou Ringling" cut in the marble.

John P. Stone. As one of the noted early industries of Sauk County much attention has been paid to hop growing, and it has a big place in the agricultural history of the county, though it is now practically extinct. One of the men who knows every phase of that business from practical experience is John P. Stone, now a prominent banker at Reedsburg and president of the State Bank of that city.

Mr. Stone is a native of the State of Maine, having been born in Oxford County February 5, 1847. He has been a resident of Sauk County more than sixty years. His grandfather was David Stone, a loyal and gallant soldier of the American army in the war of the Revolution. Mr. Stone is a son of Thomas S. and Sarah P. (Tredwell) Stone. Both parents were natives of Maine. His father was born May 8, 1816, and his mother March 30, 1816. They were married in Maine, and in 1856 brought their family to Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Thomas S. Stone acquired a farm of 120 acres now adjoining the city of Reedsburg. He was hard at work at its improvement and development when he died in 1857. His widow died a number of years later. Their children were eight in number : Mary, Sarah, Cbarles H., Betsey, all deceased ; John P. ; Clara, deceased ; Flora ; and Ella. In February, 1860, the mother married George Kellogg, of Sauk County.

From the date of his mother's second marriage John P. Stone had to shift for himself. He had a very limited education, chiefly in the schools of his native state. Hard work was his portion in the early years, and he was a farm hand and also worked long hours in the hop fields. Finally he and his brother Charles bought a farm, which is now included in the city limits of Reedsburg. There. they were successfully identified with the business of hop growing until that industry proved unprofitable. Mr. Stone continued to live on his farm until 1910, when he removed to his city residence on North Park Street. The old farm has since been subdivided and sold for town lots.

On March 10, 1898, the State Bank of Reedsburg was opened for business with Mr. Stone as president. He has guided the destinies of that financial institution with wisdom and discretion and has made it one of the strong banks of Sauk County. Mr. Stone is a republican in politics, is a member of the Presbyterian Church and has been an elder for many years.

On April 22, 1874, he married Miss Amy P. Phillips, of Sauk County, daughter of Otis and Janet Phillips, who were settlers in this county in the year 1866. Both are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have two children. Winifred P. is a graduate of the Reedsburg High School and the Whitewater Normal School, was a teacher in the Reedsburg schools two years, and is now the wife of Mr. N. T. Gill, cashier of the State Bank of Reedsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Gill have two sons, Kenneth and Charles H. Stone Gill. Charles H. Stone, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Stone, is a graduate of the Reedsburg High School, the University of Wisconsin, has his law degree from the State University, and is now a successful attorney in his native city. In addition to his private practice he is serving as income tax assessor for Sauk County. This young lawyer married Edna Bryden, of Reedsburg, and their three children are named Thomas S., David and Portia.

Bert Mahoney. Among the younger representatives of the farming element in Sauk County few have made better progress in material prosperity since reaching years of maturity than has Bert Mahoney, of 802 Ash Street, Baraboo. In Mr. Mahoney 's return to the country is found ail instance of the call of Nature rising above the din of the city and the possibly more rapid compensations of a commercial career, for during several years he was identified with mercantile matters, only to again take up the vocation of his forefathers, that of the husbandman. He is at this time the owner of 160 acres of well-cultivated land in Excelsior Township, and is numbered among the skilled and progressive farmers of his part of the county.

Bert Mahoney was born at Janesville, Roek County, Wisconsin, April 11, 1888, and is a son of Cornelius J. and Agnes (Bevins) Mahoney. On both sides of the family he is descended from families who have resided during a long period in Wisconsin, for his father was bom at Clinton and his mother at Janesville, both in Rock County. Cornelius J. Mahoney followed railroading all his life, and for forty-five years was conductor on a passenger train on the Northwestern Railroad, running out of Janesville, in which city his death occurred April 6, 1913, when he was fifty-nine years of age. He was one of the trusted employes of his company, a reliable, steady and faithful trainman, and a general favorite with the traveling public who journeyed over his branch of the road. In political matters he took no part, and in regard to a preference for one or another of the parties, he invariably maintained an independent position, his ballot being cast in favor of the man whom his judment told him was best fitted for the duties of the office at stake. He and Mrs. Mahoney, who survives him and still resides at Janesville, were members of the Catholic Church. They had four children : Frank, Bert, Estelle and Catherine.

Bert Mahoney received his education in the public schools of his native city, and after his graduation from the Janesville High School secured employment in a mercantile establishment there. There he resided until 1907, continuing to be connected with business matters, and in the year mentioned came to Baraboo, where he became associated with a business house as a traveling representative. He was successful in this direction and undoubtedly would have gone far as a business man but the call of the country was too strong to resist and in 1913 he took up farming in Excelsior Township, where he now has 160 acres of good land, although he still makes his home at Baraboo, having a comfortable residence at No. 802 Ash Street. He has brought his land to a high state of cultivation and has improved his property with modern buildings, equipped with the latest appliances. As a general farmer he has reaped the success that is given as a reward for industry and good management, and his stock-raising efforts have also met with prosperous returns. In the life of the community he takes an active part, although public matters have had little interest for him, and had he so desired he would have found it difficult to find time from his farming duties to enter the lists as a candidate for office.

On January 15, 1913, Mr. Mahoney tvas married to Miss Maud Kellogg, who was bom in Greenfield Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, October 9, 1887, a daughter of Arthur and Mary (Wilson) Kellogg, the former born in Greenfield Township, March 27, 1858, and the latter at Decorah, Wisconsin, in 1866. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Mahoney were Albert Frederick and Sarah Jane (Bassett) Kellogg, pioneers of Sauk County and the first of this family to come to Wiseonsfn, the former home of the Kelloggs having been in New York. Albert F. Kellogg was engaged during the early days in teaming between Baraboo and Milwaukee, and became widely and favorably known to the people of this locality. He died in 1887, at an advanced age, having rounded out a full and useful life, while Mrs. Kellogg survived until 1913, and was also well advanced in years at the time of her demise. They had the following children : Chauncey, Ansel, Elwin, Levi, Almira, Alice, the wife of Charles Mattoon, of Watertown, Connecticut ; and Arthur.

Arthur Kellogg was educated in the public schools of Sauk County, attending the primitive log schoolhouse in Greenfield Township and receiving instruction from J. M. True, one of the pioneer teachers of the county. For a number of years he was engaged in farming and stockraising, and also was a stock buyer with George Hill, of Baraboo, but later embarked in the livery business, and continued to be engaged therein dur- ing a period of seventeen years. He then retired from active pursuits and went to Janesville, where he resided for several years, but his death occurred at Portage, Wisconsin, Thanksgiving Day, 1913. He was a republican, but not a politician. Mrs. Kellogg had passed away July 28, 1904, the mother of five children, all of whom, survive : Maud, now Mrs, Mahoney ; and Beatrice, Charles, Frederick and Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney are the parents of one child : Mary Patricia, born June 27, 1916.

Henry H. Tinkham. Back to stanch old New England stock does Henry H. Tinkham, of Baraboo, trace his lineage, and that in his character abide those sterling qualities which have ever marked the true type of the descendants of Vermont's sons is manifest when the more salient points in his career are considered. Since the year 1881 Mr. Tinkham has been identified with the service of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and during this long period he has advanced steadily in the esteem of his employers as well as in the confidence of his fellow workers, and at the present time is the possessor of one of the most desirable passenger locomotive runs out of Baraboo.

Mr. Tinkham is a native son of Sauk County, having been born in Baraboo Township September 25, 1862. Plis parents were Hiram W. and Harriet (Foster) Tinkham, the former born at Dickerson, New York, October 28, 1833, and the latter at Yorkshire, England, October 28, 1835. The paternal grandfather of Henry H. Tinkham was Jacob Tinkham, who was born October 24, 1797, at Windsor, Vermont. He married Rebecca Nutting, who was born August 4, 1800, at Reading, Vermont, and shortly thereafter they removed to New York, where they lived for some years. Making their way then to the West, they stopped for a time in Illinois and then pushed on to Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1846, and took up land from the United States Government in section 3, Excelsior Township . Here they continued to be engaged in successful agricultural operations until 1870, at which time they went to Michigan to live with their youngest daughter, Anna Violette, the wife of Doctor Parmeter, at whose home Mr. Tinkham passed away November 24, 1871. Mrs. Tinkham continued to live with her daughter to the time of her death, which was in October, 1882. There were seven children in the family, namely : Matilda ; Amos W. ; Harriet P. ; Irving Wilbur, who died on a Southern battlefield while wearing the uniform of his country during the Civil war ; Hiram Wesley, the father of Henry H. ; Aralette Rebecca and Anna Violette.

John Foster, the maternal grandfather of Henry H. Tinkham, was born in England, and on bringing his family to the United States settled in the vicinity of Whitehouse, near Toledo, Ohio, where his death occurred not long thereafter. His daughter Harriet came to Sauk County, Wisconsin, with a family by the name of Hunter, when she was about eighteen years old, and about two years later, in 1855, was married to H. W. Tinkham. They became the parents of seven children : William Watson, deceased ; John, deceased ; William, deceased ; Henry H. ; Alice, deceased ; Sarah, and Eva B., deceased.

of carpenter, which he followed for some years, in addition to which he drove a stage coach from Prairie du Sac to Kilbourn. He likewise spent three years in Iowa in working at his trade, but eventually returned to Wisconsin and became a farmer in Baraboo Township, a vocation which he followed during the remaining active period of his life. He was a democrat in politics, but never sought public office.

Henry H. Tinkham was reared on the home farm and secured his education in the public schools. Like many other farmer boys he was attracted by the life of the railroad man, and finally secured a position with the Chicago & Northwestern Railway on June 3, 1881, entering upon his duties in a minor position in the yards. There he soon found that railroading was hard work and not a romantic life at all, but he was determined upon remaining in the business, and about four months later was given his chance to work as a fireman. He proved steady and dependable and November 20, 1884, was promoted to the position of engineer, which he has since retained. In 1912 he was given a regular passenger run. Mr. Tinkham has been very prominent in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, which organization he joined at an early day. He has been chief of the local lodge, and secretary and treasurer thereof at different times, and has been a delegate to a number of national conventions, including those at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1902, Los Angeles, California, 1904, and Columbus, Ohio, 1908. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, having joined as a charter member in 1886, and attends the Congregational Church. In politics he has preferred to maintain an independent stand.

On September 24, 1885, Mr. Tinkham was united in marriage with Miss Minta H. Brown, who was born at Baraboo, March 29, 1866, a daughter of Bela E. and Sabrina (Allen) Brown, the former of whom was born in Broom County, New York, October 15, 1835, and the latter in Ohio, March 5, 1840. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Tinkham, Armour Brown, was born July 17, 1808, and his wife, Clarissa Howe, January 31, 1812. They were married June 22, 1831, and came to Sauk County at an early day, Mr. Brown following the trade of carpenter here for some years. During the '60s, however, they went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and there both died. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Tinkham was Alden Allen, who was born April 11, 1802, and died October 7, 1872. He married Harriet Williams, who was born March 1, 1812, and about the year 1847 came to Sauk County and settled in Baraboo, later making their home in Reedsburg, where the grandfather died, the grandmother subsequently going to Dakota, where she passed away. They were the parents of the following children : Malissa, bom March 17, 1830 ; Arlotha, born November 23, 1832, died Januarv 21, 1914; Amanda, born April 21, 1834, died May 19, 1838 ; Olivia, bom April 14, 1836 ; died May 21, 1843 ; Elmira, born July 1, 1838, now a resident of Kilbourn ; Sabrina, born March 5, 1840; Jane, born September 15, 1844: Alden, Jr., born May 21, 1846, died April 3, 1847; Oscar, born November 25, 1847; Mary Adele, born July 18, 1849, died September 21, 1872; Henry, born November 26, 1851 ; and Almond, born January 27, 1853, died November 11, 1853.

his parents. He enlisted in Company E, Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, but remained in the army only four months and on account of sickness was honorably discharged. He then returned to Baraboo, where he had left his young wife, to whom he had been married March 18, 1860. Mr. Brown assisted in building the foundations of the woolen mills at Baraboo and worked there during many years of his life, being at the time of his death, October 31, 1879, boss carder. He and his wife, who still survives him and is sevety-seven years of age, were the parents of seven children, all of whom are living: Alba E., Armour J., Minta, Charles E., Bela, LaVerne A. and David D., all of whom were born at Baraboo.

Mr. and Mrs. Tinkh£|,m have had three daughters : Laura," born May 30, 1886, a graduate of the Baraboo High School and of Knowlton Training School for Nurses, Milwaukee, died at Milwaukee, January 5, 1912 ; Eva Eunice, born December 14, 1887, received her education in the Baraboo High School and is a graduate of the Baraboo Business College, and now the incumbent of a business position at Madison ; and Ruth A., born November 7, 1902, who is still attending school. The pleasant family "home is located at No. 321 Fourth Street, Baraboo, where Mr. and Mrs. Tinkham located shortly after their marriage, in 1885.

Henry L. Naumann, a native of Wisconsin, is one of the men who are contributing their enterprise to the making of Sauk County a great dairy center, especially in the production of cheese. Mr. Naumann has one of the most modern and best equipped and best conducted cheese factories in the county in Bear Creek Township.

He was bom in Door County, Wisconsin, April 9, 1885, a son of August and Katherina Naumann. His parents came to this country from Germany about 1851 and were married in Wisconsin. They are still living. The father located on 120 acres in Door County and cleared up and improved that, being one of the pioneers in that section of the state. The parents had the following children : Annie ; William and Louise, both deceased; Ida; Henry; Minnie; Lilly; Herman; Mary; Elsie, and August.

Mr. Henry L. Naumann was educated in the common schools, and at an early age learned the business of cheese making. On February 20, 1912, he established himself independently in the manufacture of cheese, and his factory is situated in the center of a very fine farming district. The factory is absolutely modern and Mr. Naumann bears the reputation of being one of the best in the business. He handles an average daily supply of milk of about 35,000 pounds.

March 16, 1910, Mr. Naumann married Louise Scholl, daughter of William Scholl, of Bear Creek Township. Two children were born to their marriage, August" who died at the age of two months, and Henry, now five years old.

Peter Zins is one of Sauk County's representative and estimable citizens, a farmer of advanced ideas, well trained in business and honorable in all his civic and personal relations. He represents one of the early families of the county.

He is himself a native of Sauk County, and was born a mile and a half west of Lodde Mills in Prairie du Sac Township January 28, 1860. His parents were John and Motlena (Durish) Zins. His mother was born in Switzerland in 1825 and died at the age of sixty-seven, while his father was born in Germany February 17, 1815, and died at the age of seventy-seven. The first of the family that came to America was Andrew Durish, the oldest brother of Mrs. John Zins. He located in Sauk County in 1847. He was followed by his parents and other members of the family and a year later John Zins came to Sauk County and was married at Sauk City in 1848. For two years after their marriage they lived at Roxbury and then came to Prairie du Sac Township, where they paid $1.25 an acre for 160 acres of land. Subsequently John Zins bought forty acres a mile from where his son Peter now lives. On the old farm John Zins prospered and spent the rest of his life. There were six children : Lena, born in 1850 and now deceased ; Lizzie, born in 1855, wife of Arch Baker, of Sauk City ; Anna, born in 1857, wife of Robert L. Leinenkugel, of Sauk City ; Peter, the fourth in age ; Andrew, born April 1, 1862, living on a farm a mile west of Lodde Mills; Mary, born in 1865, wife of John Baultes, of Roxbury.

Mr. Peter Zins grew up on the old homestead farm, attended school, and after his marriage went to farming on his father's place. In 1902 he removed to Lodde Mills and was in the saloon business eleven years, since which time he has given his attention to farming. Mr. Zins received $300 from his father as a start in life, and the rest of his prosperity has been the results of his steady efforts and wise management. He now has a fine farm of 355 acres, a hundred acres in the Township of Troy and the rest in Prairie du Sac Township. Mr. Zins served eight years on the school board and is a democrat in politics. The family are members of the Catholic Church.

On February 20, 1900, he married Amelia Paepke, daughter of William and Minnie (Balk) Paepke. Her parents were both born in Germany and for forty-five years have lived at Roxbury. They were the parents of ten children : Willie, forty-three years of age and still living in Troy Township; Mrs. Zins; Charles, a resident of Prairie du Sac Township; Mrs. Clara Westerman, living at Bismarck, North Dakota; the fifth in age died young; Rose, is Mrs. Robinson, living in California; Mrs. Gusta Winninge lives in Milwaukee ; Bertha is unmarried and lives at Sioux Falls, Iowa; Mrs. Freda Miller lives at Castle Prairie; and Herman is unmarried and lives at Honey Creek, Sauk County.

Mr. and Mrs. Zins have four children : Otto, born in 1901 ; Clarence, born in 1902 ; Rudolph, born in 1905 ; and Lawrence, born in 1909. The children are all being educated in the Prairie du Sac Township schools.

Francis M. Baker, a leading agricultural implement dealer and prominent citizen of Reedsburg, is a son of Sterne Baker and Betsey Ann (Babb) Baker. On his mother's side he is therefore descended from James Wilson Babb, the founder of the place. His parents were married in Green County, Ohio, December 8, 1846, and in 1850 crossed the Baraboo River at Babb's Ford, now Reedsburg; which was six years after Mrs, Baker's father had settled there and pre-empted over 1,000 acres of land, a portion of which was in what is now Ironton Township. That was a few months before Francis M. M^as born. He was brought up on Babb's Prairie, afterward educated in the Reedsburg public schools, and subsequently engaged in various lines of business, finally forming a partnership with a cousin, Henry Babb, and taking contracts to thrash for neighborhood farmers. In 1901 he sold the old homestead to advantage and in the following year located at Reedsburg and established himself there as a dealer in agricultural implements.

Samuel Welch, now living retired in the city of Baraboo, is a veteran of the Civil war, and he made his substantial success in life as a farmer. He cleared up many acres in Sauk County, harvested crops year after year during his prime, and as a result of his industry and good judgment was finally able to retire with a competence sufficient for all his needs.

Mr. Welch was born at Milton, Wayne County, Ohio, February 19, 1847. He is a son of Nelson and Anise (Griswold) Welch, being the only child of these parents. His father was a native of New York State and his mother of Ohio. The Welch family came to Wisconsin in 1849. In 1850 they located, in Rock County and in 1851 moved to Baraboo, and the father bought 160 acres of land in the town of Delton. Nelson Welch spent his last days in Baraboo, where he died in 1889, at the age of sixty-seven. He was three times married. By his first wife there were two children : Laura, deceased ; and John, who was a Civil war soldier and is also deceased. For his third wife Nelson Welch married Nancy Murphy, and there were seven children of that union : Stantia and Clayton, deceased ; Frank, Ralsa ; Hattie ; Eva and Lottie.

Mr. Samuel Welch has spent practically his entire lifetime in Sauk County, though his varied activities have at times taken him beyond the boundaries of his home county. He was educated in the loeal public schools and grew up on a farm. Though he was extremely young at the time, he enlisted in 1861 in Company F of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry. He proved his mettle as a soldier and fought alongside his older comrades in that regiment for one year. He re-enlisted in Company F of the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry. He went into the service at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and remained until the end of hostilities. A notable part about his service is that he marched with the victorious armies in the Grand Review up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, a tried and seasoned veteran, and worn and weary from nearly four years of active service. Just fifty years later to the day he went back to Washington, then with the burden of many years upon him, with hair grown gray, but Math spirit still alert and young, and again marched over the same ground and again was reviewed by the President of the United States.

With the close of the war, but still under age, he returned to Sauk County and for the next thirteen years he spent his winters as a lumberman on the Chippewa River. He finally settled on his father's old homestead, buying the farm, and subsequently removed to Baraboo Township, where he rented land for some years. In 1909 Mr. Welch retired from the farm and bought a comfortable home at 202 Fifth Avenue in Baraboo.

a soldier in the army during the Civil war. He has been a loyal republican, and while living in Delton Township he served on the township board seven years and for many years had a part in directing the district schools as a school director. His father was an active member of the Baptist Church.

Mr. Welch was married June 25, 1871, to Miss Laura Spencer. Mrs. Welch was born in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, March 18, 1852, and is a daughter of Thomas Hardy and Nancy (Maynard) Spencer, Mrs. Welch is of very old American stock. In 1640, more than two and a half centuries ago, three brothers named Spencer came out of England, one of them locating at Saybrook, Connecticut, and he was the original American ancestor of Mrs. Welch. Coming down the line there were several of her ancestors who fought as soldiers in the Revolution. Her great-grandfather, Samuel Spencer, another great-grandfather, Lebbus Chapman, and a great-great-grandfather, Captain Kirkland, were all Revolutionary patriots. Mrs. Welch's parents were married at Brownsville, Jefferson County, New York, August 15, 1841. Her father was born at Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1813, and her mother at Lenox in Madison County, New York, on February 15, 1819. In 1849 the Spencer family came to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and soon afterwards moved to Baraboo Township, where they lived on a farm. Mrs. Welch's mother died in 1887 and her father died at Baraboo in 1900. He was a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, There were eleven children in the Spencer family, all of whom grew up and eight are still living : Charles, a Civil war veteran ; Julia, deceased ; Marietta ; Louisa, deceased; Jane; Laura: Cyuthia; Martha; John and Milton, twins, the former deceased ; and Mary,

Mr. and Mrs. Welch gave a good home and careful training to their six children, most of whom now have homes of their own and there are a number of grandchildren, Dwight Spencer, the oldest, married Belle Astle, daughter of John H. Astle, a well known Baraboo citizen, and they have three children, AVinifred, John and Harley ; Fred Warren, the second son, lives at Spokane, Washington; Samuel Rolla is married and lives in Spokane, Washington ; Harvey Griswolcl married Laura Bauer and has two children, Florence and Lorene; Thomas Hardy Welch married Lula Washburn and has four children. Clifford, Samuel, Dorothy and Anna Laura; Laurie Clifford, the youngest son, married Edith Brownell,

He was born in that rural community of Sauk County in 1882, a son of Auarust and Wilhelmina (Hoelke) Dorow. His parents immigrated from Germany in 1881 and in 1884 settled in Dellona Township, where they acquired a farm and where they were long honored citizens. The father passed away in July, 1914, and his widow is still living. Their family consisted of the following children : Charles, who married Mary Verthein; Albert and Bertha, unmarried; Amelia, wife of Emil Klenn; August, who married Anna Leight ; Hulda, wife of Frederick Gardner ; and Herman.

now proprietor of 104 acres, devoted to general fanning and stock raising. Mr. Dorow is an active republican and with his family worships in the Lutheran Church. On January 6, 1908, he married Mildred Hewett, daughter of Wellington Hewett. They have four children, Walter, Mina, Herman and John.

Mrs. Henry Weirich, widow of the late Henry Weirich, has been a resident of Sauk County for over forty-five years and has played her part beautifully as wife and mother and as one of the kindly and helpful members of the old community of Sumpter Township, where she has had her home for many years.

She was born in Pomerania, Germany, a daughter of Carl and Henrietta (Konda) Swanka. Mrs. Weirich came alone to America in 1871, and somewhat later she was followed by her parents and brothers and sisters.

Henry Weirich was also a native of Germany and came to America about 1861. At first he worked in the pine woods of Wisconsin, then lived a few years in Honey Creek Township of Sauk County and finally settled on the home farm in Sumpter Township where his widow still resides. That farm has been in the possession of the Weirich family since about 1867, a period of fifty years. Henry Weirich lived there the industrious life of the sturdy farmer until his death in 1901. As a farmer he began with only a pair of oxen and a grubbing hoe. In the early days all the grain was cut with the cradle and was handled entirely by hand. He hauled some of his first farm produce to Milwaukee. At that time only one store occupied the present site of the Village of Prairie du Sac. There were no railroads anywhere in the com.munity. The nearest railroad came to Portage, and then grain and produce were hauled to that town. Transportation was almost entirely in wagons with ox teams. Before his death, as a result of his industry and thrift, Henry Weirich had acquired a well-improved farm of 140 acres.

His first wife was Helena Miller. Their children were : Susan, Mrs. Julius Crom, living at Reedsburg, Wisconsin; Louisa, deceased; Mary, who is unmarried and lives in the State of Washington ; Charlotte, Mrs. Clark Burrows, of Milwaukee; and Anna, Mrs. J. E. Venn, of Chicago. Mr. Henry Weirich 's first wife died in 1872.

In 1874 he married Miss Swanka, three j^ears after she had come to this country. Mrs. Weirich is the mother of ten children, six of whom are still living, as f ollov/s : Ida, Mrs. William Leiser ; Lydia, Mrs, Ernest Haskins; Lena, wife of Ed Payne; Lillie, Mrs. Louis Grosse; Henry, who is married and manages the old homestead ; and Charles, who is unmarried and lives with his mother.

George M. Hill has spent nearly all his life in Sauk County and is the oldest dealer in livestock in the City of Baraboo. Probably no one from personal experience could give a better account of livestock values in this section of Wisconsin than Mr. Hill. He has paid the lowest as well as the highest market prices for stock, and has been the medium of shipping out many hundreds of carloads and has also brought in much stock from outside places. He knows his business thoroughly, not only

Mr. Hill was born in Carroll County, New Hampshire, November 20, 1851, a son of Amos E. and Nancy S. (Moulton) Hill. Both parents were New Hampshire born and of New England ancestry. His father was born in 1807 and his mother in 1816. The father was a thrifty farmer in New Hampshire and died in that state on June 29, 1865, at the age of fiftyeight, when his children were still young. In March, 1866, the widowed mother brought her two children west to Merrimack, Sauk County, and in 1867 moved to Baraboo, where she bought some property on the South Side. She lived there with her children until her death on January 31, 1890, at the age of seventy-three. She was the mother of one daughter and one son. The daughter, Sarah E., was born August 24, 1850, and died in Sauk County at Baraboo.

George M. Hill was fifteen years old when brought to Sauk County. Most of his education had been acquired back in New Hampshire, but he also attended the Collegiate Institute taught by Professor Kimball in Baraboo, and later was a student in the public schools. The old school house which he attended as a boy was subsequently sold to the City of Baraboo and used as the city hall. In that building Mr. Hill attended council meetings as a member of the city council for three years.

He has been making his own way in the world since an early age. For two years he clerked for George Arnold in the grain business, and at one time he hauled freight on the streets of Baraboo with a wagon and ox team. He also worked on a farm and he did some practical farming for himself on forty acres which he bought from William Bassett. For another two years he was employed in "William Bassett 's stave factory. He finally sold his local interests and went West, but did not remain long and on returning to Baraboo he bought George Lodi's meat market. For a few months he also conducted a livery and horse shipping business. For about thirty-five years now he has been engaged in the general business of livestock shipping, and has survived all his early contemporaries and competitors in that line. Mr. Hill has prospered and at different times has owned considerable property in Baraboo and has done much to develop it. His fine residence is at 1009 Ash Street. He built that home and he also built the Peck store on the South Side, leasing the building for three years to the firm of Peck & Herfort, and finally selling the building. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Baraboo. Politically Mr. Hill is a republican and was elected on that ticket to the city council. He was formerly affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and he and his familv attend the Congregational Church.

On April 14, 1886, Mr. Hill married Miss Sebie A. Greenslet, of Fairfield Township, Sauk County. Her parents, Fred and Ruth Greenslet were early settlers in Sauk County and her father died in 1914, her mother still living. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have two children: Laura F., born in 1888, is a graduate of the Baraboo High School and the University of Wisconsin and is now the wife of A. J. Gafke. The second child, George A., was bom in 1900 and is still carrying on his studies in the Baraboo High School.

Dennis H. Dederich is one of the best known citizens of Bear Creek Township, where for a number of years he has carried unusually heavy responsibilities as a farmer and land owner and has done his share toward developing this section of a peculiarly rich and prosperous Wisconsin community.

Mr. Dederich was born in Bear Valley of Richmond County, Wisconsin, October 9, 1862, a son of A. D. and Mary (Schaefer) Dederich. His father came from Germany in 1848, the year that marked the revolution in that country and the exodus of so many of its best citizens to America. He and his wife were married at Roxbury, Wisconsin. A. D. Dederich was a wagon maker by trade, but he finally turned to farming and acquired 550 acres. Taking this land in a rough and wild state, he cleared most of it and was in very prosperous circumstances when he died October 20, 1898. His widow passed away October 20, 1892. Their children were Margaret, Gertrude, Peter, Adolph, Tony, Dennis, Gerhard, Ramie, Francis and Joseph.

Dennis H. Dederich grew up on his father's farm, was educated in the local schools, and at an early age began farming on his own responsibility. He established himself at his present home" in Bear Creek Township December 1, 1903. Here he owns 200 acres and thirty acres were cleared up by his own hands. He has built a good house and barns and is conducting a model dairy of thirty-one cows, while he has about forty-two head of cattle. Mr. Dederich is independent in politics and a member of the Catholic Church.

He married Philomena Weiser, daughter of Frank and Genevieve (Danger) Weiser, of Bear Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Dederich have six children, named Genevieve, Philomena, Joseph, Gertrude, Margaret and Hilda, all of whom have been carefully educated in the public schools.

Louis Wichern is one of the young and progressive farmers of Baraboo Township, and has spent practically all his life on the farm that he now occupies.

He was born on that farm January 8, 1883, and is a son of the late Mathias Wichern, a citizen long and favorably known in business and farming circles of the county.

Mathias Wichern was born in Hanover, Germany, September 13, 1833. His parents spent all their lives in Germany. He was reared and educated in his native land and during the '50s, when about twenty years of age, he came to Baraboo, Wisconsin. In July, 1859, he married Miss Louisa Kroher, who was born at Pirmassens, Germany, March 3, 1838. She crossed the ocean to New York City in 1855 and arrived at Baraboo in 1857. Her parents also died in Germany.

On coming to Wisconsin Mathias Wichern was employed in Henry Ryan's chair factory and subsequently engaged in the furniture business at Baraboo. He later bought a farm but sold it and moved to Lodi, Wisconsin, where he was in the furniture business three years. In 1878 he bought the farm where his son Louis now resides, and he was engaged in its management and operation until his death in March, 1909. Had he lived four months longer he and his wife would have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. In politics Mathias Wichern was a republi- can and he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His widow is still living at Baraboo and owns the old homestead. A brief record of their children is as follows: Fred, who lives in Barron County, Wisconsin, and by his marriage to Bertha Ryan has three children, named Feme, Fred and Hazel; Anna, wife of Louis Armbruster, of Baraboo; George, Henry Franklin and Albert, all of whom died in infancy ; Samuel, who died at the age of twenty-one ; Emma, who is living at Baraboo, unmarried ; Frank, who married Carrolyn Fellows and has two children, Harold and Julia Louise ; Carl, a farmer in Baraboo Township, who married Nettie Kimbel, and has a daughter, Ethel May; and Louis, who is the youngest in this family of ten children.

Mr. Louis Wichern grew up on the farm where he now resides, and besides managing it for his widowed mother he is personally the owner of forty-three acres of Baraboo Township land. Mr, Wichern is a practical general farmer and stock raiser, and for several years has made a success of breeding thoroughbred Guernsey cattle and Poland-China hogs. He is a republican in politics and attends the Methodist Episcopal Church in Baraboo.

On June 14, 1916, he married Miss Lottie Owen. Mrs. Wichern was boirn in Fairfield Township of Sauk County May 30, 1884, a daughter of Evan D. and Elizabeth (Steumpfig) Owen. Her father was born in Wales in 1848, and was three months old when he crossed the ocean and came to America with his parents, David and Jane Owen. David and Jane Owen brought their family across the ocean on the ship Jamestown and settled in Racine, Wisconsin. Their seven children were named John AV., Evan D., Rachel, Jane, Walter, Joel and Mary In 1847 Evan D. Owen came to Sauk County and in 1878 married Elizabeth Steumpfig, who was born in Columbia County, Wisconsin, in 1853. Following his marriage Mr. Owen engaged in farming in Fairfield Township and his widow still owns the old place. He died February 11, 1917. He was a republican, served as a member of the school board, attended the Presbyterian Church and was a member of the Masonic order. Mr and Mrs. Owen had three children : David, Lottie and George. ^

William Stackhouse, Sr., is a retired farmer, who was prominent in the affairs of the Town of Westfield for many years and served as sheriff of the county in 1901-02. His oldest son, William, Jr., also held that office for a term. They both now reside in Baraboo, the younger man being a conductor on the North-Western line. The family came to Sauk County from Pittsburgh in 1858, locating on a farm in the Town of Westfield. William Stackhouse, Jr., M^as then about fourteen years of age. Three years afterward, in the fall of 1861, he enlisted in Company F of the Eleventh Wisconsin Infantry, and served in its ranks until January, 1865. He then returned to the Westfield farm and lived thereon until May, 1909, when he moved to Baraboo. During that period of forty-four years he held numerous offices connected with the government of the township, as well as the shrievalty, and when he went to reside at the county seat he had fairly earned his position of comfort and good standing.

He has spent most of his life in Sauk County but was born at Decorah^ Iowa, February 5, 1874, only son and child of E. H. and Louise (Larsen) Ellefson. Both families were early settlers in this section of M'^isconsin, where the father came in 1*861 and the mother in 1868. Grandfather Halvor Ellefson was a prominent pioneer of Sauk County. E. H. Ellefson and wife were married at Decorah, Iowa, January 18, 1873, and for several years they lived on a farm in Iowa but in 1879 located in Bear Creek Township of Sauk County. Both the father and grandfather had an active part in clearing up this land which came into the possession of the family in 1865. Grandfather Halvor Ellefson died in December, 1904.

Henry J. Ellefson was educated in the Spring Green High School and also had technical training in one of the Indiana colleges. He is now living on part of the land which was developed by the family in early times, having bought a part of his present holdings from Mrs. 0. Kettleson. Mr. Ellefson has 253 acres in his farm and is doing a prosperous business as a farmer and stockman. He keeps about fifty head of milch cattle.

A. G. Baumgarten has been identified with the business interests of Sauk County for a long period of years and is now one of the leading merchants of Loganville.

Mr. Baumgarten was born in Germany, son of Fred and Wilhelmina Baumgarten, and came from that country in 1862, the family locating on a farm five miles east of Loganville in Sauk County.

In 1879 Mr. Baumgarten went to Chicago, was in that city eighteen months, and in the summer of 1883 was at Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he engaged in the gardening and sodding business. From there he went to North Dakota, but in the following October returned to Loganville in Sauk County and bought a half interest in the Loganville Grist Mill. That was his chief business connection for six years. During 1889-90 he conducted a hotel and saloon at Loganville, selling out in the latter year. For five years he was in the agricultural implement business at Ableman, having bought out E. P. Richardson in 1895. In 1900 Mr. Baumgarten returned to Loganville and bought the general store of E. F. Merrimen. For ten years he continued to sell goods as a general merchant and farm implement dealer, and. then disposed of the general merchandise department and concentrated his entire attention upon agricultural implements. In 1914 he added automobiles, and this is now one of the most thriving enterprises of that section of Sauk County.

Mr. Baumgarten has been twice married, both wives being now deceased. He first married Katherine Licht, and by that union had three children, named Hulda, Martha and Irene. For his second wife he married Bertha Huebing, and by his second marriage there were four children, namely: Edwin, Lawrence, Levera and Harold.

Henry F. Schewe. When Henry F. Schewe first came to Reedsburg to enter upon a business career his available assets consisted of a small amount of capital which he had been able to save from his earnings while working on farms. He had, however, many far more dependable resources and among them were grit and determination and an unlimited capacity for industry. These have elevated him to a place among the substantial business men of the city, to prominence in commercial circles, and to public-spirited participation in all that tends to the permanent upbuilding of the community. Likewise, he is a well known figure in the hardware trade, and the Reedsburg Hardware Company, of which he is the head, has been built up to important proportions upon a policy of business honesty.

Mr. Schewe was born in Germany, July 3, 1855, and was still a child when brought to the United States by his parents, Henry J. and Dorothea Schewe. In their native land Mr. Schewe 's parents had been small farmers, honored in their community and industrious workers, but lacking in opportunities for the achievement of success, whereupon they decided to try their fortunes in the United States, the land of opportunities. Upon their arrival in Sauk County they purchased a farm in Westfield Township, and this they improved and developed, subsequently^ adding to it by further purchases until they had about 500 acres. In their declining years they retired from active work and removed to their comfortable home at Reedsburg, where the father died in 1900, at the age of seventy-five years, and the mother in 1908, when seventy-eight years of age. They were faithful members of the Lutheran Church, attending St. Peter's Church at Reedsburg, and were honored by the people among whom they had lived for so many years for their innumerable sterling qualities of mind and heart.

The only child of his parents, Henry F. Schewe was still a child when brought to America, and his rearing was on the farm in Westfield Township, where he was given his education in the country schools. When he reached his majority he engaged in farming on his own account and that vocation continued to occupy his attention for some years. However, he had in his makeup a predilection for business matters, and the call of the city finally became so strong that in 1890 he left the homestead and came to Reedsburg, where he had his first business experience in a hardware store, as a clerk in the business in which he was later to become prominent. After being engaged thus for about six years he embarked in the liquor and malting business, conducting an establishment of this nature at Reedsburg for eleven years, when he again became identified with the hardware business, in partnership with E. L. Schulze. The venture was started in a modest manner, but with the passing of the years a good and constantly increasing trade has been attracted to the Reedsburg Hardware Company, under which style the firm is conducted, and various additions to the rooms and stock have made this one of the important commercial enterprises of Reedsburg. Mr. Schewe has become a keen and far-sighted business man, and through close study and observation of conditions and the trade has become thoroughly familiar with the needs of the community in his line, and now carries an excellent stock of modern goods, including shelf and heavy hardware, implements, stoves.

etc., these being the products of some of the leading manufacturers of the country. The store is situated on Main Street, and has come to be looked upon at Reedsburg in the light of a necessary commercial adjunct. Mr. Schewe is primarily a business man, with large personal interests, but has realized that citizenship carries with it certain responsibilities and has therefore entered actively into the life of the community. He has preferred not to ally himself with any certain political party, voting independently and relying upon his own judgment in his choice of candidates for public office. His own public service has included six years spent ill the office of alderman, a capacity in which he acted ably and with fidelity to the interests of the city. He and his family are members of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church.