Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 4 of 20)

Mr. Schewe was married in 1871 to Miss Dorothea Schulze, of Sauk County, Wisconsin, and they became the parents of three children : Dorothea, a graduate of Reedsburg High School, and wife of George Long, of Chicago ; Agnes, a graduate of the Reedsburg High School, wife of Henry Theman, a druggist of Reedsburg, and mother of four children, Eloise, Gertrude, and Agnes and Lucile, twins ; and Henry, also a graduate of Reedsburg High School, unmarried and a resident of a farm in the vicinity of Rochester, Wisconsin. Mrs. Schewe, the mother of these children, died in 1878. In 1891 Mr. Schewe was again married, being united with Miss Dorothea Koemeke, of Sauk County, and to this union there have been born three children: Paul, a graduate of Reedsburg High School and of the University of Michigan in commercial law, is unmarried and manager of an ice cream factory at Texarkana, Texas; Albert, a graduate of the Reedsburg High School and of the LaCrosse Business College, class of 1917 ; and Miss Florence, a graduate of the Reedsburg High School, class of 1917.

John Lee. Perhaps no European country has contributed to America a greater number of good citizens than has Norway, a sturdy, industrious, reliable people who because of their sterling character are welcomed in every section of this country in which they choose to locate. Sauk County, Wisconsin, can number many Norwegians when it numbers its men of worth, and one of these may be found in John Lee, a prosperous farmer in Baraboo Township.

John Lee was born in Norway, February 2, 1873. His parents were Ole and Bertha (Halverson) Lee. The father was born in Norway in September, 1833, and the mother on August 25, 1844. They were reared in their native land and were married there in 1866. In 1881 they came to Baraboo, Wisconsin, where the father worked at the carpenter trade during his active years. He died in the home of his son John in February, 1913. He believed in the principles of the republican party and cast his vote for years with that political organization. His widow survives and lives with her son John, who is unmarried. She is a faithful member of the Lutheran Church, as was her husband. They had six children : Olavus, who died in April, 1898, in Sauk County, at the age of twentynine years; and Hans, John, Anton, Ole and Otto.

schools. He did not learn his father's excellent trade, preferring an agricultural life, and from early youth until 1892 worked by the month as a farm hand. In that year, however, he decided to invest his savings and bought a tract of eighty acres situated in Fairfield Township, which land he sold advantageously in 1893 and then went to Barron County and purchased a farm of forty acres. He resided there for two years and then sold again, and in December, 1911, bought the old Theodore Steele farm of ninety acres, which lies in Baraboo Township. Here he carries on general farming and stockraising, two of the country 's most important industries, and is meeting with the success that close attention to and thorough understanding of his line of work deserves.

Mr. Lee followed in his father's footsteps in political affiliation and votes with the republican party. He has accepted no political office. but nevertheless is an influential citizen because of his excellent judgment and practical ideas on public as well as local afi^airs. He is a member of the Lutheran Church.

Chauncey M. Blake was one of the first pupils in the first public school ever taught in Baraboo. He is not only one of the oldest residents of the city but has for many years been one of its most industrious citizens, has proved capable in the management of his business affairs, and has made his prosperity of value not only to his family but to the community.

He was born in Franklin County, New York, October 10, 1841, a son of Marvin and Lura (Brown) Blake. His maternal grandparents were Chauncey and Clarissa (Hazen) Brown. Chauncey Brown was in the War of 1812 and witnessed the battle of Plattsburg. He came from Franklin County, New York, to Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1846. His son, George W. Brown, was a notable historical character in Sauk County, and one of the most prominent early business men of Baraboo. He owned the water power and did much to develop it. George W. Brown was killed in 1847. He owned forty acres of land in what is now the City of Baraboo, while Chauncey Brown, his father, also owned forty acres. Chauncey Brown for many years conducted a lumber yard and lumber mill at Baraboo, and was well-to-do when he died in 1863. His wife died in 1854. His oldest son, also named Chauncey, became a wealthy man.

Marvin Blake was born in Oswego County, New York, May 5, 1814. His wife was born in the same state April 23, 1817. In 1844 they came west and located at Whitewater, Wisconsin, but in 1845 removed to Baraboo. Marvin Blake built a log house where the gas tank now stands in Baraboo. He was a carpenter by trade and for a time worked for his brother-in-law, George W. Brown, owner of the water power and mills at Baraboo. He also did a large business as a contractor and builder and subsequently invested much of his means in farm lands in this county. He died in Baraboo June 21, 1899, and his wife passed away December 10, 1901. Of their children Chauncey M. is the only survivor. The first of their children died in infancy in New York. George Franklin, the third child, when a young man, was drowned in Sauk County.

He was not twenty-one years of age when on August 14, 1862, he enlisted in Company F of the Twenty-third Wisconsin Infantry. With the exception of three months spent in the barracks at St. Louis, Mr. Blake was with his regiment in all its campaigns and marches and battles. He was in ten distinct engagements, and made a record as a gallant and faithful soldier, one who performed his duty in the face of danger and every hardship.

After the war Mr. Blake became a factor in a once flourishing industry in this section of Wisconsin, hop raising. He was also connected with a manufacturing company at Baraboo, and as a carpenter he was employed by the Northwestern Railway, and in that capacity helped build the round house at Madison and many depots and bridges. Subsequently, for six years, he was an engine repairer in the Baraboo roundhouse.

Mr. Blake now lives in a comfortable home at the corner of Oak and Blake streets, the latter thoroughfare having been named in honor of his father. Mr. Blake in politics has always affiliated with the republican party, and served as alderman for some years and for five years was poor commissioner for the old soldiers. He is a member and ex-commander of the Grand Army of the Republic Post at Baraboo, and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On August 6, 1867, he married Miss Amanda Turney. She was born in Connecticut October 25, 1845, a daughter of Hiram D. and Jeannette (Johnson) Turney. Her parents came to Sauk County in 1856. Hiram Turney was a clock maker and also a carpenter, and followed the latter trade in Baraboo and subsequently was connected with a furniture company. He spent his last years in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Blake and died in 1905, at the age of eighty-five, his widow surviving him until 1912, when she was ninety-one years of age.

Mr. and Mrs. Blake had five children, Mamie, Edith, Marvin, Agnes and Charles. Mamie is the wife of T. A. Gannon, a leading farmer of Sauk County. Their three children are named Esther, Alice and Chauncey. Edith, who died February 8, 1906, married Edward Mille, and was survived by four children : Gladys, who graduated valedictorian of her class from the Baraboo High School and is now a successful teacher of music at Evansville, Wisconsin ; Philip, who is a member of the Illinois State Guard ; Bernice, a trained nurse ; and Marvin. Marvin, the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Blake, is a machinist in Madison, and by his marriage to Eliza Williamson, who died in 1906, has one son, Marvin, who now lives with Mr. and Mrs. Blake at the age of fifteen. The daughter Agnes was well educated in the Baraboo High School and the son Charles is a machinist.

E. August Runge, who has resided in Baraboo for many years, is well known as a lawyer and a newspaper man. He was bom in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, over sixty year.s ago, and soon after his father died in 1865 the widow and her family moved to Sauk City. He worked in a printing office, was educated in the Jefferson Liberal Institute and the Wisconsin State University, taught school for a time, and studied law.

Admitted to the bar in 1881, he practised for a few years, edited a newspaper and in 1886 came to Baraboo and, with Herman Grotophorst, bought the Sauk County Democrat, of which he became the editor. After 1890, for a number of years, he was also its sole proprietor. Since retiring from the newspaper field, Mr. Runge has devoted himself strictly to his profession. He married Miss Clara Thiele, of Sauk City, an educated and talented Wisconsin girl, who has since become widely known in her home city for her intellectual acumen, her philanthropies and her womanly activities. Mrs. Runge was appointed by Governor Philipp as a member of the Board of Regents of the State Normal Schools and holds that position at the present time.

August Meyer, whose name and position as one of the progressive farmers of Westfield Township appropriately belongs in the record of Sauk County, has spent all his life in this county and is a member of a pioneer family.

He was born in "Westfield Township February 5, 1873, a son of Henry and Dora Meyer. His parents came to Wisconsin from the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, in 1860, locating on a tract of forty acres of wild and unimproved land in Westfield Township. Later the father moved to Dan 0 'Hearn 's place in Washington Township. Still later he bought 240 acres and in 1900 rounded out his possessions with another forty acres. During these many years Henry Meyer came to be recognized as one of Sauk County's most progressive and successful farmers. He and his wife had seven children : Henry, William, Fred, August, Dora, Anna and Sophia.

Mr. August Meyer was educated in the German Lutheran schools and grew to manhood with a competent training in the vocation which he has successfully followed. In November, 1907, he located on his present farm of eighty acres and is handling that most capably as a general farming and stock-raising proposition. Mr. Meyer is a republican and a member of the Lutheran Church, in which he was reared from early childhood. December 23, 1908, he married Miss Mary Wiese, daughter of M. and Elizabeth (Schmidt) Wiese. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer had three children, Henry, Annie and Edward, the two latter now deceased. The son Henry was born November 7, 1909.

Herman Retzlopf, a prosperous and progressive citizen of Excelsior Township, is the owner of a finely improved farm of 180 acres. In addition to his agricultural pursuits he conducts an extensive business in the sale of farm implements. He is a native of Germany, where his birth occurred December 11, 1866. His parents, Charles and Eva (Preskom) Retzloff, were born, reared and married in Germany and they immigrated to the United States in 1873, settling in Pennsylvania, whence they removed to Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1879. The father was a farmer and initiated his work in this line in Sauk County on an estate of sixtyfive acres, which he cleared and improved with modern buildings. He continued to reside here until his death in 1911, aged eighty-six years. His wife passed to eternal rest in 1906, at the age of seventy-two years. ' To them were born ten children, three of whom died in infancy and the remainder of whom are all living in 1917. Following are their names in respective order of birth : Mary, Augusta, Godfried, John, Herman, Ernest and Bertha. Mr. Retzloff was a republican, and he was a devout Lutheran in religious faith. He was a man of sterling integrity of character, was an efficient farmer and he gave his staunch support to all matters forwarded for public improvements.

At the age of seven years Herman Retzloff accompanied his parents to America and his early educational training was obtained in the public schools of Pennsylvania, where he lived until his thirteenth year. He then came to Sauk County, here completed his schooling and eventually turned his attention to the great basic industry of agriculture, with which line of enterprise he has since been identified. He owns the old parental homestead and has added to its acreage until he now has an estate of 180 acres. In addition to general farming and stock raising he has a large patronage and does an extensive business in the sale of agricultural implements of all kinds. He is an enterprising business man and a loyal and public-spirited citizen.

In 1893 Mr. Retzloff married Miss Anna Liebberger, who was born and reared in Germany, where her father died in 1900 and where her mother still maintains her home. Mr. and Mrs. Retzloff have four children: Rienhold, Hilda, Bruno and Esther, all of whom are at the parental home.

Metler Mather, now living retired in Baraboo City, has spent his active career in the farming activities of Sauk County. His labor was a factor in bringing a section of the wilderness into fruitfulness, and the hard work he performed in earlier years not only well justifies his retirement and comfort, but should give him lasting credit as one of the men who have made Sauk County what it is today.

He was born in Sumpter Township of Sauk County March 28, 1856, a son of James and Sarah (Cox) Mather. Both parents were natives of Greenwood, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, where the paternal grandparents, Jesse and Margaret (Shively) Mather, and the maternal grandparents, William and Mary (Batten) Cox, spent their last years. James Mather was bom May 27, 1825, and his wife in 1830. They were married December 16, 1847, and in 1853 arrived in Wisconsin, first locating, in April of that year, in Jefferson, Green County, but in the fall of the same year removing to Sumpter Township in Sauk County. James Mather bought a farm of 160 acres, and in the course of time had it substantially improved with buildings and much of the land under cultivation. He lived there until the last seven years of his life, which he spent in Prairie du Sac, where he died in 1904. His widow died in 1910 in Oakland, California. James Mather was a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their family comprised twelve children : William H., who was a Union soldier, enlisting August 26, 1864, in Company G of the Forty-second Wisconsin Infantry and receiving his discharge in June, 1865 ; Margaret E. ; Jesse A. ; Horace ; Metier; James E., who died August 8, 1877; Mary A.; John C. ; Carrie L., who died in 1914 ; Samuel G. ; Frank M. ; and one that died in infancy.

Some time after reaching manhood he bought a place of 120 acres in Sumpter Township. Selling that he bought 210 acres half a mile distant, and devoted his time and energy successfully to its management until 1910. In that year he sold his farm and removed to Baraboo. He bought a home on First Street, but in 1914 bought his present place at the corner of Elizabeth and Second streets, where he now lives with every comfort and convenience.

Mr. Mather is an independent republican, has never sought office, but rendered valuable service as a member of the school board for a number of years. He is affiliated with Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Guardians of Liberty. His church is the Methodist Episcopal.

On February 19, 1880, Mr. Mather married Miss Jessie Josephine Fob joy. She, too, is a native of Sumpter Township in Sauk County, where she was born August 26, 1859. Her parents were Daniel and Rachel (Rivenberg) Fob joy. Her father was born in England November 25, 1825, and her mother was born in Columbia County, New York, December 3, 1832, being a daughter of Henry and Catherine (Whitbeck) Rivenberg, who spent their last years in New York Citj'-. Daniel Pobjoy and wife came to Sumpter Township in 1855, and at that time acquired the eighty acres of land on which they spent their fruitful years. The father died there January 28, 1878, and the mother passed away August 28, 1907. Mrs. Mather was one of four children, named Henrietta, Jessie J., Richard F. and Isaac G., all of whom are living.

Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mather : Eva ; George, who died October 15, 1884 ; Clinton ; Nellie and Nettie, twins, the latter dying September 1, 1891, at the age of nine months; Rachel: and Schuyler. The daughter Eva is now the wife of John P. Wagner, of Sumpter Township, and their five children are named Lila, Violet, Jessie, Donald and Lowell. The son Clinton married Nellie Tooley and has a son named Virgil. Nellie is the wife of Elmer Kitel and became the mother of two children, Thelma now deceased, and Victor.

William Soltwedel. A farm that has been made to respond to the intelligent cultivation of one man through a long period of years is that owned by William Soltwedel in Westfield Township, near the Village of Loganville. Mr. Soltwedel has lived here for over thirty-five years, and has made one of the best country homes of the county. Thrift and good management are evident in whatever direction one may turn, and this one farm has contributed no small share to the volume of crops for which Sauk County is famous.

Mr. Soltwedel Avas born in Germany, April 3, 1854, a son of Frederick and Johanna (Wagner) Soltwedel. His parents spent all their lives in the old country, his father passing away in 1881 and the mother in 1914.

William Soltwedel grew up in his native country, was well educated in the German schools and was about twenty-six years of age M^hen he came to this country and settled in Sauk County in May. 1880. He first lived near Reedsburg, but in 1882 removed to Westfield Township and to the land that he now owns. The clearing and developing of this land was the object of his labors for a number of years, but latterly he has given all his time to its successful management and cultivation. He has 160 acres and runs it as a general crop and stock farm. He uses the silo system for feeding his cattle and keeps about thirty head, with a dairy of about twenty cows. Mr. Soltwedel is independent in political matters and an active member of the Lutheran Church. He is a citizen who has been frequently called upon to act in capacities of trust and responsibility. He has been a judge in the Loganville Court, and for about ten years has been a member of the Loganville School Board.

Mr. Soltwedel married for his first wife Matilda Gade, of Reedsburg, daughter of Frederick and Dorothy Gade. All his children are by that marriage, named Ernst, August, Herman, Ella, Mary and Paul. Ernst married Esther Gatsch. August married Anna Schrank. Herman married Elsie Gluth. Ella is the wife of Fred Haas. Paul married Florence Brunell. In April, 1897, Mr. Soltwedel married for his present wife Minnie Burmeister, daughter of John Burmeister, whose home was near Loganville.

George J. Seamans, editor and proprietor of the Reedsburg Free Press, has been a resident of Sauk County nearly fifty years, since early boyhood, and during this time he has formed many substantial and useful connections with his community. His is one of the best and most ably edited newspapers of the county and it is one of the few papers of Sauk County whose files are preserved in the State Historical Society at Madison.

Mr. Seamans is of a very old American family. He was born in Genesee County, New York, near the City of Batavia, on March 30, 1864. His parents were Amos George and Anna Maria (Lown) Seamans. His father was born in Connecticut and his mother in New York State. In 1868, when he was four years of age, his parents came to Wisconsin and located in Ironton Township of Sauk County. His father bought a farm there and while improving the land he also burned charcoal and delivering from his standing timber, the burned coal to the furnace at Ironton at a price equal to $1.75 a cord for the wood. He finally retired to Reedsburg, where he died in 1914. His widow is still living at Reedsburg. Amos G. Seamans was an active republican and he and his wife were Baptists, a religion to which the Seamans family had adhered since the time of Roger Williams. The father was also an excellent musician, took an active part in church and social musical affairs and for a number of years gave musical instruction free of charge in the community. There were nine children in the family,: George J. ; Grant, deceased ; a daughter that died in infancy ; Archie, deceased ; Bertie Ulysses, who owns the old homestead in Sauk County ; Amos Leigh, a farmer across the road from the old home place ; Ina, who lives with her mother in Reedsburg ; Frank Merrill, a merchant and farmer at Ironton Village ; Jennie, wife of 0. J. Crane, a farmer at Ironton and a taxidermist by profession.

George J. Seamans grew up on the old home farm and attended the public schools in the country and at Ironton Village. On completing his early studies he took an examination for a teacher's certificate. He was one of the four who held a first-grade certificate in the county at that time. For a number of years Mr. Seamans taught school at North

Freedom and at Valton in this county. For four years Mr. Seamans was engaged in making and selling the Sauk County wall map. Then, in 1899, he removed to Reedsburg and bought the Reedsburg Free Press, of which he has been proprietor and editor to the present time. He is also president of the Reedsburg Land and Improvement Company, of which he was one of the organizers. One of the most successful enterprises with business headquarters in this county is the Reedsburg Silver Black Fox Company, of which Mr. Seamans is secretary. He is also president of the Reedsburg Industrial Association, and has held that office for a number of years.

Politically he is a republican, but is content to express his views as a voter and has never sought an office. He is affiliated with the lodge of Knights of Pythias at Reedsburg and with Forest Lodge No. 106, Independent Order of Foresters. On September 19, 1900, Mr. Seamans married Miss Emma Whiteley, of Reedsburg.

Mathew H. Mould, cashier of the First National Bank, is the son of a sturdy Englishman, and was himself born in Herkimer County, New York. His father, also Mathew, came to Baraboo with his wife and children in 1857. He was a cabinet and a carriage maker, with a penchant for photography, and most of his active life in this locality was spent in that field of mechanical art. The father was also at one time president of the Village Board and a man of practical ability. Mathew H. has been educated in Baraboo, worked with his father as a photographer, later engaged in various lines of business and about 20 years ago became identified with local banking. He has been cashier of the First National since its reorganization. A list of Mr. Mould's public offices includes the city treasurership, the mayoralty, postmastership (414 years), and member of the water, police and fire commissions. For the past fifteen years he has also served as secretary of the Baraboo Cemetery Association.

Charles F. Ninman. The career of the late Charles F. Ninman was one long service to the community which he esteemed above all others in which he had spent portions of his life. Sauk City has reason to remember this good man, who considered its welfare above his own, and in many ways was instrumental in shaping and influencing its life and affairs.

A native of Wisconsin, he was born on the farm near Watertown December 16, 1846. There he grew up and worked with his father in the fields and the woods until eighteen. In the meantime he had made the best of his advantages at school and he then qualifi-cd as a teacher and taught altogether in different public schools for almost eleven years.

In 1878 he was elected superintendent of the city schools of Watertown. He gave up that position and in 1884 came to Sauk Cit.y, where the last twenty years of his life, constituting perhaps its most valuable period, was lived. At Sauk City he was principal of the schools for six years.

' The publication of this newspaper was a successful business enterprise, but it was more than that, since it was the medium through which he exerted his untiring efforts in behalf of the community. Many times he was accorded the honor of public office and served as police justice, justice of the peace, village clerk, village president, health officer. Pie took a great interest in all public improvements. The building of a new high school in 1891 was in a great measure due to his efforts, and he served on its building committee. The creamery and the canning factory are among the enterprises which he helped to promote, and he served as president of the Canning and Packing Company. He supervised the erection of the electric light plant and was the principal citizen to urge its establishment.

On May 10, 1870, Charles F. Ninman married Miss Sophie Stoevehase. Seven children were born to them, of whom three sons and one daughter are living : Edward, in Tacoma, Washington ; Theodore, in Reedsburg, Wisconsin; Max, in Sauk City; and Mrs. E. G. Von Wald, in LaCrosse.

Charles F. Ninman died March 9, 1904. The attendance at his funeral was the largest ever seen in Sauk City. Business places were closed and the following lodges of which he was a member attended the funeral in a body : Masons, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Modern Woodmen of America and Degree of Honor.

Max H. Ninman, publisher of the Sauk City Pionier Presse, is a son of the founder and for many years the proprietor of that well-known G-erman weekly paper in this county. He was born while his parents lived at Watertown, Wisconsin, December 11, 1878. Of his father a sketch appears on preceding pages.

He attended the public schools and the high school at Sauk City, and at the age of thirteen began learning the printing business under his father. He worked steadily at the case and in reporting and performing other duties of the all-around newspaper man, and when his father died he took over the business and has conducted it with gratifying results to himself and to the community. He now has a thoroughly equipped printing plant and has a newspaper with a wide circulation and a great influence in that section of the county.

From January 11, 1911, to July 1, 1915, Mr. Ninman served as postmaster of Sauk City, during the last republican administration. While he was postmaster he was instrumental in securing the installation of a complete modern equipment in the postofifice building. Mr. Ninman is vice president of the Farmers' Packing Company. One of the chief social occasions of Sauk City in recent years was the "Homecoming" held in August, 1907. Mr. Ninman was the originator and promoter of this event, and was secretary of the committee in charge of arrangements.

There has always been musical talent in the Ninman family and Mr. Ninman has developed his taste in that direction since childhood. In fact since he was a boy he has been director of the local band and has instructed a number of similar organizations. He has been interested in republican politics and through the influence of his father was chosen to serve as delegate to the Republican State and District Conventions in 1900. Another interesting distinction is that he was chosen master of the local lodge of the Ancient Order of United "Workmen when only nineteen years of age, and was probably the youngest master that order has ever had in the state. He is also a member of Eureka Lodge No. 113, Free and Accepted Masons, at Prairie du Sac, and served as its senior warden in 1909, and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America.

On June 28, 1904, at Sauk City, Mr. Ninman married Hannah Lenz, daughter of William and Elizabeth Lenz, early residents of Sauk City. Her father was owner of a brewery and in different ways took an active part in the early development of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Ninman have one child, Charles F., named for his honored grandfather. Mr. Ninman is one of the Associate Editors of this publication.

James B. Fadden, whose fine country hom.e is one of the show places of Dellona Township, is a highly-educated young man who early in life determined to apply the resources of his mind and character to farming, and along that line has made a notable success for one so young.

Mr. Fadden was born in Dellona Township of this county June 25, 1892, a son of Jeremiah and Catherine (Gallagher) Fadden. His parents came from County Mayo, Ireland, in 1852, and his father for several years worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St: Paul Railway. In 1867 the family located in Dellona Township, where the father developed a good estate as a farmer. In the family of Jeremiah Fadden and wife were the following children : John, Mary, Alice, all deceased ; Anne, Jeremiah; William; Catherine; Peter, deceased; James B.; and Teresa, deceased. Jeremiah Fadden was one of the old settlers in Dellona Township, and earned and was rewarded with the respect and confidence of the entire eommunity. One of the daughters, Anne, married James McFadden, who lives at Douglas, Arizona, where he is manager of the Copper Queen Mining Company.

James B. Fadden grew up in the rural district of Dellona Township, acquired a university education, and for five or six years has applied himself successfully to the business of farming on 140 acres. He does general farming, and is also a breeder of Shorthorn cattle. He is now town clerk of Dellona Township and is a republican.

Carl A. Hopmann. One of the native born sons of Baraboo, who is well and favorably known to the citizens of that place, is Carl A. Hofmann, city mail carrier. During a long and active career his operations have invaded several fields of endeavor, and at the present time, in addition to performing his official duties, he is the proprietor of Hof mann 's Dutch Bulb House. Mr. Hofmann belongs to one of the oldest and best known families of Sauk County, and was born in his present home at Baraboo, at 219 Second Street, August 16, 1866, being a son of Michael and Serena (Becker) Hofmann.

Michael Hofmann was bom in Gersheim, Darmstadt, Germany, on the Rhine River, July 6, 1832, and in May, 1851, came to Sauk County, Wisconsin, whence his brother, John Hofmann, had preceded him by two years. After his arrival Mr. Hofmann worked for one year for a Mr.

Jamieson, who was the owner of a farm, and about 1852 came to Baraboo and started to work for James Dykens, a manufacturer of wagons, a work in which he remained for many years. Toward the latter part of his life he became associated in this business with Henry Miller, Sr., and the firm was successfully engaged for a number of years in supplying a local trade as well as a large amount of outside business. Mr. Hof mann became a prominent figure, being for sixteen years street commissioner of the City of Baraboo. He was retained in office until advancing years caused him to resig-n, this being about four years prior to his death, which occurred October 15, 1911. Mrs. Hof mann was. born in Bavaria, Germany, May 21, 1835, and was thirteen years of age when she came to the United States and to Sauk County, Wisconsin, with her mother, Mrs. Rosa (Wolf) Becker, her brother, Alois, having come to Baraboo three years before. Mrs. Hofmann died July 4, 1891, in the faith of the Catholic Church, to which her husband also belonged. He was a democrat in politics. Mr. Hofm.ann was universally respected and esteemed as a good and reliable citizen and as a straightforward and honest man of business. He and Mrs. Hofmann were married at Sauk City in 1855 and in 1858 went to Juneau County to live for two years at Plymouth, but then returned to Baraboo. At that time there were about thirty residents in the city, but Mr. Hofmann lived to see Baraboo become a prosperous and thriving community, and through his activities helped to make it so. He and his wife were the parents of four children : Anna J., who died in 1893; Edward A., who died in 1882; William A., of Duluth, Minnesota; and Carl A.

Carl A. Hofmann was educated in the graded and high schools of Baraboo, following which he spent some time in private study. He started his business career at Oshkosh, where he entered the offices of the J. H. Weed Lumber Company, later was with the Sherry Lumber Company of Neenah, and the Paine Lumber Company of Oshkosh, and then engaged in the newspaper business at Virginia, Minnesota. Disposing of this interest, he returned to Baraboo, where for seventeen years he has been in the employ of the city in the capacity of city mail carrier. As before noted, Mr. Hofmann is also interested in the growing and sale of plants, being a specialist in regard to seeds and bulbs. Among his leaders are Burpee's guaranteed seeds, perennials and plants, and summer flowering bulbs, roses and shrubbery. Politically he is a democrat, and he and Mrs. Hofmann are members of the Catholic church. He is a prominent member of the Knights of Columbus and has held the various chairs in that order during seven years, and is now past grand knight and a member of the state council.

Henry Hahn is one of the old-time residents and business men of Reedsburg, where he has had his home for nearly half a century. His name is one that carried weight and influence in that community.

He comes of that substantial stock of German people contributed to America by the Kingdom of Hanover, in wliicli country he was born December 20, 1847. His parents, Christian and Dorothea (Elers) Hahn, spent all their lives in Germany and both died there in the year 1898^ They had six children : Henry, W. Hahn, Dorothea, Mary, Annie and JVIinnie, all of whom are still living except Dorothea, who died at Reeds-' burg in 1873.

Mr. Henry Hahn grew up and acquired the usual training of a German boy, learned the trade of a carpenter as a result of a thorough and painstaking apprenticeship, and in 1868, at the age of twenty-one, immigrated to America, and in the same year found his first home at Reedsburg. For eleven years he worked industriously at his trade as carpenter, and then in 1879 entered the saloon business and his business interests have been in that line ever since. He is now living practically retired, his home being at 201 West Main Street.

Mr. Hahn is a democrat and has exercised a strong influence in behalf of good government in Reedsburg. At one time he was an alderman. He and his family are members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church and lie has been a member of that organization since he came to Reedsburg.

The place of business of Mr. Hahn, by an interesting coincidence, was the site of the home where his wife was born on July 27, 1853. Her maiden name was Caroline Emser. She was a daughter of Peter and. Dorothea Emser, who arrived in Reedsburg about 1851. Her father was a blacksmith and for many years conducted a shop in Reedsburg, where he died in 1898, at the age of seventy. Mrs. Hahn's mother also died in this city at the age of seventy-eight. Mrs. Hahn was the only child of her parents, but her mother, by a previous marriage to Mr. Wener, had four children, all of whom are deceased except Julia, wife of Hugh O'Connor, of Reedsburg.

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Hahn consists of four children and the three still living are all married and have homes of their own. Lena, the oldest, is the wife of Henrj^ Schroeder, of Neillsville, Wisconsin. Their children, six in number, are Leo, Emil, Helen, Harold, Marvin and Henry. Emil, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Hahn, is a successful jeweler and optician and is connected with the firm of Stolte, Dangel & Foss Company. He married Ida Gittslof and they have three children, Lawrence, Henry and Marion. Edna married Albert Huebing, of Reedsburg, and has five children : Juanita, Edgar, Dorothea, Wilhelm and Clinton. The fourth and youngest child, Edgar, died in 1893, aged fifteen years and four months.

Henry Alexander. During 1905 the retired colony of Baraboo was augmented by the arrival of Henry Alexander, whose activities have been centered in Sauk County since the close of the Civil war and whose career is expressive of the possibilities of country life when directed by a well-trained mind, an earnest purpose and a keen appreciation of its benefits and prerogatives. Mr. Alexander represents a widely known family of this part of the state, whose members bore their full share of the hardships of the war between the states, and who have always been good and helpful workers in advancing the movements which have culminated in progress and public welfare. He was born in Germany, October 15, 1846, and is a son of Jacob and Lucetta (Hahn) Alexander.

that country, and in 1850 immigrated to the United States and took up their residence in Pennsylvania. The mother lived only two years after coming to America, and in 1857 the father left his Pennsylvania community and made his way to Sauk County, Wisconsin, with his son John. Settling in Freedom Township, he built a log house on the 80-acre farm which he had purchased, and to which he subsequently added an additional eighty acres. In 1858 he was joined by his son Henry, and in 1859 his son Peter came to this state, with two sisters : Henrietta, who kept house on the farm until her death in 1864, and Philipina, who had been married to W. Simon in Pennsylvania and who after coming to Sauk Township located on a farm in the Township of Freedom about one mile from the home of her father. Her husband is now deceased and she is a resident of Baraboo. After Henry Alexander married, Jacob Alexander went to live with him and his last years were passed at the home of his son, where he died in 1896, at the age of eighty-three years. His six children were : An infant who died in Germany ; Philipina, now Mrs. Simon, of Baraboo ; John, who met a soldier's death on the bloody field of Antietam during the Civil war ; Peter, who also died in the Civil war while wearing a blue uniform ; Henry, of this notice ; and Henrietta, deceased. Of the three Alexander brothers who joined the Union army, John was the first to enlist, in May, 1861. He became a member of Company A, Sixth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and September 17, 1862, was killed in action at Antietam. Peter Alexander enlisted in the month of October, 1861, joining Company F, Eleventh Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Fort Blakeley, April 9, 1865, and never recovered therefrom, his death occurring May 6, 1865.

Henry Alexander was still a lad when he came to Sauk County, and here his education was completed in the public schools. He was reared on the homestead place, and remained at home assisting his father until the fall of 1864, at which time he took a trip to Pennsylvania. While there he followed the example of his brothers in enlisting in the Union army, becoming a member of Company K, Forty-ninth Regime;it, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a regiment with which he remained until the close of the war. With an excellent record for bravery and fidelity the young soldier returned to the home farm after securing his honorable discharge, and in time bought the property, to which he added eighty acres, at one time having 240 acres in the tract. Later he sold 160 acres, and he still owns eighty acres of the place. Next Mr. Alexander purchased 240 acres in the Township of Westfield, on which he lived until July, 1905, when he retired, buying a good home at No. 717 Eighth Street. He is also the owner of 7i/4 acres of the old Tuttle farm, including a grape vineyard of one acre and a two-acre fruit orchard. Mr. Alexander is a republican, but has never aspired to office. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On October 15, 1866, Mr. Alexander married Miss Sophia Stubaus, and they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary October 15, 1916. She was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1848, a daughter of Peter and Sophia (Schneider) Stubaus, natives of Germany. Mr.

and Mrs. Stubaus immigrated to America on the same boat, met at Baltimore, Maryland, where they were married, and after a few years in that city moved to Pittsburgh. In 1858 they came to Sauk County, Wisconsin, and settled in Westfield Township, having a farm of 160 acres. While on a visit to Pittsburgh in 1890 Mr. Stubaus died at the age of eighty-three years, his wife having passed away on the farm in 1874, aged sixty-eight years. They had the following children : John ; George ; Peter, who enlisted in Company A, Sixth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, was promoted to sergeant, and was wounded at Gainesville and Gettysburg; Philip, who enlisted in Company F, Eleventh Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in October, 1861, and served three years ; Andrew Jackson, who was a sergeant in the Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantiy; and Sophia, Mrs. Alexander. To Mr. and Mrs. Alexander there have been born the following children: John Levi, born November 17, 1868, formerly a teacher and railway postal clerk for eight years, and now engaged in farming in Greenfield Township, Sauk County; William Edward, born February 17, 1869, a farmer owning eighty acres of the homestead in Westfield Township.; Sophia Lucetta, born December 12, 1870, who is the wife of Frank Fostick, of Chicago, Illinois; Harry Philip, born March 7, 1872, who is engaged in farming in Barron County, Wisconsin ; George Alvin, born August 26, 1874, now engaged in farming in Baraboo Township ; Emma Lily, born February 11, 1877, the wife of Edward Davidson, of Barron County ; Henry Percy, born October 2, 1880, the owner of eighty acres of the homestead; and Cora Lyle, born September 1, 1883, the wife of Winifred Biege, of Baraboo, a railroad man with the Northwestern, and a veteran of the Spanish- American war.

Albert L. Foss, a successful general farmer of Dellona Township, has spent practically all his active career in Sauk County, where he is widely known not only for his business enterprise but his civic standards.

Mr. Foss was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 28, 1859, a son of John Foss. On January 8, 1885, Albert Foss married Augusta Rupp, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Rupp, of Portage, Wisconsin. To their marriage were born Lilly, Esta, Bertha, Walter, Alma, Minnie, Edward and Paul. The daughter Lilly is now the wife of Fred Hillman, of Delton. Esta married R. Haines, of Linden, Wisconsin. Bertha is the wife of W. Darrow, of Reedsburg. Mr. Albert Foss is independent in politics,

Philip Cheek. Of the citizens of Sauk County who became widely known and prominent over the state at large one of the most notable was the late Philip Cheek. He had lived in Sauk County from early boyhood, went from this county as a soldier in the Civil war, afterwards rose to prominence in public affairs both in his home county and in one of the responsible offices connected with the state government, attained distinction in official circles in the Grand Army of the Republic, and enjoyed the acquaintance and esteem of many men distinguished in Wisconsin and national life.

May 11, 1841. His parents, Philip and Hannah (Cunningham) Cheek, immigrated to the United States in 1852, first settling in New Jersey, later moving to Providence, Rhode Island, and in 1856 coming to Wisconsin. The late Philip Cheek was about eleven years of age when the family arrived in "Wisconsin and settled on a farm in Excelsior Township of Sauk County. The parents later removed to Baraboo, where they died. Philip Cheek, Sr., was a carpenter by trade, but in Sauk County gave most of his time to farming. There were six children : Jane, who died before the family left England; Mrs. Anna Roberts, who died in Baraboo ; Mrs. Hannah Rothwell, who died in Minnesota; Mrs. A. L. Sweet, who died in Providence, Rhode Island; Philip; and Robert, who was killed at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864.

The late Philip Cheek acquired his education partly in England, in the different communities where his parents resided, and had some of the advantages of school after coming to Wisconsin. He grew up on a farm in the town of Excelsior, and was just twenty years of age lacking one day when he went forth to render all the service he could in the preservation of the Union. It was early in the war, and the second call for troops had been made, the President requesting the service of three hundred thousand men to put down the rebellion. Mr. Cheek enlisted May 10, 1861, in Company A of the Sixth Wisconsin Infantry. From that time forward for more than a year and a half he was in active service, but in December, 1862, was granted an honorable discharge on account of injuries received in the great battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. He then returned to the old Wisconsin farm, but in the fall of 1863 was appointed assistant provost marshall of the district, and performed the duties of that office until the close of the war.

After the war Mr. Cheek was elected clerk of courts of Sauk County, and filled that office with characteristic fidelity and efficiency for four years. While in the office he took up the study of law, was admitted to the bar, and on giving up his office he entered into active practice and soon had a paying clientage. He was elected district attorney, and the four years spent in that office laid the basis for a still larger reputation. He was then called into the official life. of the state by election as Insurance Commissioner of Wisconsin, and by re-election held the office four years. Those four years he spent most of his time at Madison, though the family still remained at Baraboo. During his last year in the office he resigned. Mr. Cheek then became special agent of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company for Wisconsin, and continued with that company, with headquarters at Baraboo but with a range of business duties which took him all over the state, for a period of twenty years.

Mr. Cheek was honored by his old comrades by election as Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, served two terms, was a member of the executive board of the National Commander, remaining on that board four years, his other associates being Nevins of New Jersey, Brown of Ohio, Burton of Missouri, and Tanner of Washington, District of Columbia. Mr. Cheek was for six years one of the trustees of the Waupaca Home for Veterans, and was on that board when he died.

in the State of Wisconsin. He was also a member of the Masonic order, and for years was a trustee of the Baraboo Methodist Church, and was on the building committee when the new church edifice was erected.

In July, 1861, while on a furlough from the army, Mr. Cheek married Catherine Faller. Mrs. Cheek, who still resides in Baraboo, was born May 24, 1840, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1853 came to the Town of Freedom in Sauk County with her parents, Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Horn) Faller, both of whom were natives of Germany, but came to America in youth and were married in Pennsylvania. They spent their last years in Freedom Township. Mrs. Cheek is one of the oldest living residents of Sauk County and has spent sixty-three years in the county. She has taken a very active part in many interests and institutions outside of her home, has been active in the Woman's Relief Corps, and in the church and missionary societies. She was educated in the district schools, in the Ladies' Female Seminary at Baraboo, and for a few years before her marriage taught school. Mr. and Mrs. Cheek had three children. Robert, the oldest, was killed by lightning in 1880 at the age of sixteen. Arthur resides at Baraboo. Jane, the youngest, is the wife of Henry Black, assistant postmaster of Baraboo, but they reside on the old homestead with Mrs. Cheek. Mr. and Mrs. Black have two children, Catherine and Dorothy.

Arthur P. Cheek, only surviving son of the late Philip Cheek, was born in the Town of Excelsior, Sauk County, March 13, 1866, but since 1871, when his parents removed to Baraboo, he has made that city his home. He was educated in the high school at Baraboo, and in the Spencerian Business College at Milwaukee. In 1885 he entered his father's office. After that he became a special agent of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. In April, 1891, Mr. Cheek bought an interest in the fire insurance and abstract business with Edwin Selleck, making the firm Selleck & Cheek, which has now been in business for a quarter of a century. In 1898 Mr. Arthur Cheek was appointed postmaster of Baraboo, and served until 1911. Since then he has been agent of the Guardian Life Insurance Company. He married Miss Emma Randall, and they have one child, Ruth.

Frank R. Bentley, district attorney of Sauk County for four years and a lawyer of substantial standing, especially in corporation practice, is also the son of a well-kno\\Ti attorney and citizen. His father, Mr. Bentley, and his grandfather and uncle, all served in the Civil war. The first named moved to Baraboo in 1869, when Frank R. was a year old, practiced law for thirty years and was one of the first supervisors of the village. The son, with the exception of four years spent in Seattle, Washington, has resided in Baraboo since he was an infant. He was a student at law in the State University, was admitted to the bar in 1891, and first entered into partnership with his father. Subsequently he formed professional connections with John M. Kelley and James H. Hill. Besides conducting his private practice, performing his duties as district attorney and general counsel for the Cazenovia Southern Railroad and attorney for other corporations, Mr. Bentley served for five years as internal revenue collector and has been a director in the First National

Bank, in the railroad mentioned and in several land and investment companies. He is a stalwart republican, has been a candidate for attorneygeneral and was one of Governor Philipp's campaign managers.

George M. Clark. With the exception of nineteen years spent in South Dakota the activities of George M. Clark and those of his farm have gone hand in hand in Fairfield Township ever since the attainment of his majority. An association of many years argues stability for both man and property^ but particularly does it reflect the faithfulness and ability of the human side of the partnership. In the same degree that he has been an important agricultural factor in Fairfield Township, so has he also been an intelligent observer of the changes that have taken place during his residence here. He is a native son who has won his success in the locality of his birth, for he was born in Fairfield Township, Sauk County, March 5, 1852, and is a son of Frank and Mary (Bliss) Clark.

The parents of Mr. Clark were born in the Empire State, where they were reared, educated and married, and there settled down to farming for a time. About the year 1849, believing that greater opportunities were awaiting them in the rapidly opening and fast-growing West, they came to Wisconsin and located in the new County of Sauk, where land was to be secured at reasonable rates and where the soil was promising ^nd the outlook bright. Of those who came to the new locality, only the fit remained. There was no room for any except the courageous, the vigorous, tlie persevering ; others returned to the East or the South and left the field in possession of the sturdy few, upon whom rested the task of hlazing the way for the civilization that was yet to come. Frank and Mary Clark had all the sound and practical characteristics that made possible the settlement of the state. They purchased a farm of about 120 acres located in Fairfield Township, and after partly clearing it sold out and moved to another farm, which they also developed. With this they parted at a price substantially in advance of what they had paid for it, and at that time went to Michigan, where they spent about six years. Again pushing to the West, with the true spirit of the pioneers, they took up their residence in Colorado, and there Frank Clark died about 1904, at the age of eighty years. He had been an industrious and persevering workman, wanning success from his various undertakings by reason of his steady application no less than by his fidelity and soundness, his good business judgment and his foresight in taking advantage of opportunities. In each of the communities in which he resided he was respected and held in confidence by his associates, and took an active part in the civic life and development of his locality. His political belief made him a republican, while his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After the death of her husband Mrs. Clark returned to Sauk County and took up her residence at the home of her son, George M., where she died in 1911, aged eighty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were the parents of the following children : Emma, the widow of AVilliam A. Darling, residing near Sparta, Wisconsin ; George M., of this notice ; and Clarence, a railroad man living in Wyoming.

schools of Fairfield Township, and when his school days were over returned to the home farm. Like many country youths he was attracted by the vocation of railroading and for a short time worked as a trainman, but eventually returned to the homestead. There he remained until 1882, in which year he went to South Dakota and took up 320 acres of land, which he cultivated and improved, and upon which he continued to carry on operations during a period of nineteen years. He became the owner there of a valuable property, but in 1901, when he received a favorable offer, he disposed of his South Dakota interests and returned to the vicinity of his birth and is now the own-er of 120 acres of good Fairfield Township land, which he bought in 1902. He has good buildings and all modern improvements, follows progressive methods in cultivating his tract, and is accounted one of the men who have given encouragement to the science of agriculture through their maintaining of high standards. He follows stock-raising to some extent in connection with his general farming operations, and is also interested in dairying, disposing of his product to the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company of Baraboo. In politics a republican, he has taken an active interest in the affairs of his community, and on several occasions has been elected to responsible public offices, having served as treasurer of the Fairfield Township Board for twelve years, and in the capacity of overseer of roads.

Mr. Clark was married in January, 1892, to Miss Marian Palmer, who was born in Penfield Township, Sauk County, in 1862, a daughter of James and Parmelia Palmer, who came to Sauk County in 1848 and located in Penfield Township. Mr. Palmer died here in 1910, at the age of eighty-one years, while Mrs. Palmer survived until April, 1917, and was seventy-nine years old at the time of her demise.

Patrick Holton who by a life of sustained industry and good management has built up one .of the fine farm estates of Dellona Township, represents a family that has been identified with Sauk County for nearly seventy years, in fact covering the entire period of development of the county from the wilderness conditions in which the pioneers first found it.

Mr. Holton was bom in the City of St. Catherine's, Province of Quebec, Canada, December 3, 1849. In the same year of his birth his parents, Cornelius and Mary (Connerton) Holton, emigrated to Wisconsin and settled at Portage, but soon afterward moved to Dellona Township of Sauk County, where they were instrumental in developing some of the new land and establishing one of the early homes in that section. The father died there July 31, 1884, and his widow passed away September 14, 1892. They reared a large family of nine children, named Thomas, Patrick, Mary, Catherine, Ellen, James, Henry, Annie and Bridget. These children were well educated in the public schools of Sauk County and all of them married except Bridget.

Patrick Holton, after leaving school, found plenty to do on his father's farm until twenty-seven years of age, and gradually developed his individual interests as a farmer until today finds him the possessor and proprietor of 520 acres. Nearly all of this is suitable for cultivation and he has made it a general farming proposition with livestock breeding and

Mr. Holton has also identified himself in a public spirited manner with town and church affairs, is an active democrat and is a member of the Catholic Church, in which faith his children were reared.

In 1876 Mr. Holton married Bridget Bresnahan, of Adams County, Wisconsin. Their large family consists of the following children : Cornelius, Catherine, Ellen, John, Margaret, Charles, Esther, Patrick J., Elizabeth, Julia and William. All of these were given the advantages of the local public schools, while Julia and Elizabeth had further training in academies.

Edwin Monroe Hoag. During the more than forty years in which he was engaged in business at Baraboo the late Edwin Monroe Hoag was connected with several commercial enterprises which were identified with the business prestige of the city and which he assisted in developing to important proportions. His career was one which gave him a creditable standing among the business builders of the city and his activities as a citizen were of a nature which made his death be considered a loss to Baraboo and its interests.

Mr. Hoag was a native of Peru, New York, and was born November 9, 1851, his parents being Emery and Almira H. (Weston) Hoag, natives of Peru, where the former was bom November 22, 1807, and the latter January 1, 1819. The family resided in the Empire State until 1860, in which year the parents brought their family to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, two years later removing to Baraboo. Here Emery Hoag was engaged in the grocery business until his death, which occurred July 3, 1872, Mrs. Hoag surviving until June 2, 1889. They were faithful members of the Presbyterian Church, and the parents of three children : Henrietta A. E., deceased; Almira C, who married William Haseltine, a farmer; and Edwin M.

Edwin M. Hoag was nine years of age when he was brought to Wisconsin, and here he supplemented the public school education which he had secured at Peru, New York, by five years of attendance at the Baraboo Institute. With this preparation he entered upon his career as a clerk in the store of Huntington & Bacon, where he assimilated business methods rapidly. In 1873 G. H. Bacon sold his interest in the store to William Stanley, and in 1875 Mr. Hoag was admitted as a member of the firm of Huntington & Stanley, an enterprise which carried on a large business until 1898. In that year W. Stanley died and the business was sold to the present Stanley Company, with which concern Mr. Hoag remained in the capacity of business counsel until 1911. He then retired and for two years lived quietly, but in 1913 his energetic nature caused him to resume activities, this time as a partner of Charles Lee in the hardware trade. He remained in this business until his death April 7, 1916, since which time his widow has been a member of the firm. Mr. Hoag had at all times the full confidence of his business associates and the esteem and confidence of the general public. He was a republican, but had no aspirations of a public character, his only interest in political matters being centered in his desire for his party's success. His religious afifiliation was with the Presbyterian Church, to which Mrs. Hoag, who survives her husband and lives at the family home at No. 318 Fourth Avenue, belongs.

On August 19, 1875, Mr. Hoag was married at Waterloo, Iowa, to Miss Stella R. Partridge, who was born at Lebanon, New Hampshire, May 31, 1857, daughter of Maynard and Harriet (Parker) Partridge, the former born in 1825 and the latter in 1829. In 1858 Mr. and Mrs. Partridge brought their family to Merrimack. Wisconsin, where Mr. Partridge engaged in the manufacture of furniture. Feeling that Baraboo offered greater opportunities for success, Mr. Partridge came to this city not long thereafter and here built up a successful enterprise, only to see the results of years of labor swept away in 1865, when a disastrous tire destroyed his plant. In seeking to get a fresh start Mr. Partridge went to Winona for one year, but returned to Baraboo to become foreman of the chair factory of M. J. Drown, and remained in this capacity until 1870. In that year he went to Waterloo, Iowa, and engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, which he placed upon a sound basis and sold, at that time going to a farm, on which he carried on successful operations for about twelve years. He then went to Le Mars, Iowa, where he engaged in a house furnishings business as a manufacturer, building up this trade until it was necessary to employ in the neighborhood of fifty men. He was finally successful in the accumulation of a competency ancl returned to spend his last years with his daughter, Mrs. Hoag, at Baraboo, at whose home he died in 1898. Mrs. Partridge passed away in 1908. They were the parents of four children, namely : Henry, who died in infancy; Stella R., who is now Mrs. Hoag; Arthur W., born in 1864, who is now a resident of Omaha, Nebraska; and Lottie, born in 1868, who died at the age of eighteen months.

Mr. and Mrs. Hoag became the parents of three children : Emery M., who died in infancy; Dr. Arthur E., born May 29, 1880, a practicing dentist of Carrollton, Illinois, who married Bertha Nell Moorshead ; and Ethel Grace, born September 8, 1889, a graduate of the Baraboo High School and Beloit College, and for the past five years a teacher in the school at Evansville, Wisconsin.

Jacob J. Felix. The business as well as the civic activities of the Village of Prairie du Sac owe much to the enterprise and good judgment of the late Jacob J. Felix. INIr. Felix continued in business in that town until his death, and his family still live there, including the widow of Mr. J. J. Felix, whose home has been in Sauk County since her early childhood.

The late J^eob J. Felix was a native of Sauk County, having been bom in Troy Township November 15, 1859. His parents were Gaudenz and Catherine (Leutcher) Felix, both natives of Switzerland. After their marriage they immigrated to America, seeking the better opportunities of the New World, and arriving in Troy Township of Sauk County the father took up a tract of Government land. He was busy with its improvement and clearing and in time came to enjoy a moderate prosperity. Both he and his wife died in that community. Their children were : Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary and Jacob.

On the old home farm in Troy Township Jacob J. Felix spent the first twenty-five years of his life. His education was confined to the advantages of the local schools. Removing to Prairie du Sac, he began his business career as a clerk in the store of Schneller, Patterson & Company. As a result of the fidelity which was one of his dominant characteristics, supplemented by great industry, he mastered the details of business and subsequently was made a partner in the firm. He then continued actively in business at Prairie du Sac until his death on July 19, 1913.

Not only was he attentive to his business but also to those movements which express the real progress and welfare of the community. He was affiliated with Eureka Lodge No. 113, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and with the local camp of the Modern Woodmen of America. Pie and his wife were active in the Presbyterian Church.

In 1886 Mr. Felix married Miss Emma Glasner. Mrs. Felix was born at Prairie du Sac June 16, 1865, a daughter of Henry and Annie Margaret (Yagy) Glasner. Her parents and her people for generations back were natives of Switzerland. Henry Glasner was born at Glarus, SM'itzerland. August 26, 1821. Mrs. Felix's mother was born in Graubinden, Switzerland, ]\larch 21, 1831. She was a daughter of John Peter Yagy and his wife, Ann (Wilhelm) Yagy, both natives of Switzerland. - The Yagy family came to Galena, Illinois, in the pioneer times and John Peter Yagy died soon after arriving in that country. His widow subsequently removed to Sauk County, Wisconsin, and died there in the early '60s. In the Yagy family were five daughters and one son : Barbara, Cecelia, Elizabeth, Margaret, John Peter and Anna, all of whom are now deceased. Henry Glasner, father of Mrs. Felix, served the regular time as a soldier of Switzerland and spent four years with the army in Italy. He married his first wife in Switzerland and she died while on , the way to the United States. Henry Glasner then proeeeded to Galena, Illinois, and on March 28, 1850, in that town, he married the mother of Mrs. Felix. From Galena he removed to Dubuque, Iowa, and subsequently to Sauk County, Wisconsin, locating at Prairie du Sac in 1858. Mr. Glasner became a well-known business man in that community and was a jeweler. He continued his business until his death in July, 1895. His widow survived him until 1902. In the Glasner family were the following children : Barbara, Mrs. J. P. Witwen, of Baraboo ; Anna, living at Prairie du Sac, widow of Fiorina Gassen : Henrietta, of Baraboo ; Mrs. Emma Felix ; Henry, who died in February, 1884, when about sixteen years of age ; and Catherine, widow of H. L. Brethauer, of Baraboo.

The late ]\Ir. Glasner was an active republican in politics and also a strong temperance man. He and his wife were active members of the Evangelical Church. He was one of the organizers of the first Evangelical Church at Prairie du Sac.

Mrs. Felix, since her husband 's death, has continued to live in Prairie du Sac and is comforted by the presence of several of her children who still remain in the same community. She is the mother of five children : Gertrude is the wife of H. C. Moore, of Prairie du Sac ; Miriam is now engaged in school work at Menominee, Wisconsin; Henry has succeeded his father in the mercantile business, so that the name Felix is still well

Patrick Coyne is member of a very well-known family in Bear Creek Township, and his family for years have distinguished themselves as very capable farmers.

Mr. Patrick Coyne was born in Onondago County, New York, February 8, 1857, a son of Anthony and Annie Coyne. His parents were both natives of Ireland, were married there, and in the early '50s left County Galway and established their home in America. Five children were born to them in the old country, named Mary, Michael, Nora, John and Anna, all of them now deceased. The three children born after they came to America are : Thomas, born August 6, 1855 ; Patrick, born February 8, 1857; and Margaret, born October 28, 1861.

Anthony Coyne died January 14, 1895, and his wife died September 26, 1908. Their three surviving children, Patrick and his brother and sister, all live together on the home farm in Bear Creek Township, and all of them are unmarried. They have a fine farm, owned jointly by them, and handle it as a general farming and stock-raising proposition. Mr. Patrick Coyne has served on the Board of Supervisors for a number of years.

Their sister Anna, now deceased, married Benjamin Brumaghin, of Albany, New York. When she died she left one daughter, Mabel, then three years of age. Mabel married John Hartel and is the mother of three children, Anna, Agnes and Grace, aged respectively sixteen, thirteen and ten years. The two older Hartel children are part of the Coyne household in Sauk County. The daughter Anna has completed the third year of the high school at Spring Green, while Agnes enters high school in September, 1917.

Ernest H. Cady, of Excelsior Township, represents the second generation of a family that has played a worthy part in the affairs of Sauk County during the past half century. He is now managing with thrift and a high degree of prosperity a good farm in the locality where he was born and is also a citizen in whom the community has reposed a great deal of confidence and entrusted with the handling of local affairs.

Mr. Cady was bom on the old farm in Excelsior Township May 23, 1873. He is a son of William and Imogene (Huntington) Cady, his father a native of Berkshire, Massachusetts, and his mother of Illinois. His father was born July 18, 1822, and came to Sauk County as early as 1849, only a, year after Wisconsin was admitted to the Union. He married in Sauk County and in the early days he hauled grain with wagon and team from this section to Milwaukee. His own home was in Excelsior Township, at the place known as Cady's Corners, on the north Baraboo and Reedsburg road. He later moved to Baraboo and finally to Milwaukee, where he died in 1912. The widowed mother is still living in Milwaukee. William Cady acquired a place of 240 acres in Excelsior Township and much of the land was cleared by his individual exertions. Politically he was a democrat and for twenty-nine years he filled the

Ernest H, Cady gTew up on the home farm, and besides the instruction afforded by the local district schools he was a student in the Baraboo High School four years. His choice of farming as a vocation has been a most satisfactory one and his prosperity has been gained in that calling. In 1903 he bought his present farm in Excelsior Township, containing eighty acres, and has devoted it to general farming and stock raising. Mr. Cady is now in his fourth consecutive year as township treasurer and in politics is allied with the republican party.

On September 16, 1897, he married Miss Ida Schlegelmilch. Mrs. Cady was born at Clifton, Wisconsin, February 25, 1877, a daughter of Charles and Amanda (Stottleman) Schlegelmilch. Her father was a native of Germany and when eight years of age was brought to the United States by his parents Henry and Lizzie Schlegelmilch. The date of the immigration was 1850, and the family were pioneers in Sauk County. His mother died in Sauk City and his father at Clifton, Wisconsin. Charles Schlegelmilch was a blacksmith by trade, and died at Clifton, Wisconsin, at the age of seventy-five. His wife was born in Sauk City and died in 1877. Their four children were: A son that died in infancy; Josephine; Selma; and Ida, Mrs. Cady. Her father married for his second wife, Cuna Merklein, and the children of that marriage were: Amanda, deceased; Charles; Marie; Henry, deceased; Margaret; Lizzie ; Norbert, deceased ; and Lenora.

Mr. and Mrs. Cady are the parents of seven children, all living and named as follows : Wayne Curtis, Charles Clifton, Merle Seldon, Raymond Wallace, Ernest Luther, Kenneth Donald and Inez Louise.

James H. Hill, who has served as district attorney since 1913, comes of an old Spring Green family. His father, Thomas Hill, is an Englishman, who came tO' the United States with his parents when a young boy and lived for a time in Racine County before the family moved to Spring Green. Until he was about thirty, the elder Hill was engaged in merchandise in the village ; was also postmaster for nearly twenty years, but since 1879 has resided on a large farm near Spring Green, which, with the assistance of his eldest son he has cultivated and improved. He has also been a member either of the County Board or of the School Board for thirty-five years. The future district attorney left the home farm in 1907, when he was twenty-five years of age, located at Baraboo, where he was mainly educated, read law, was admitted to the bar in 1909, served as clerk of the Circuit Court in 1906-08, and since then has been engaged in practice, either as district attorney or a private lawyer or in both capacities.

W. J. Thieding. One of the most practical farmers and largest land owners in Westfield Township is W. J. Thieding, who has lived in that one locality continuously for over forty years.

Mr. Thieding was born in Hanover, Germany, September 25, 1863, a son of John H. and Catherine (Meine) Thieding. When he was ten years of age his parents came to America, and in April, 1873, settled in

Westfield Township of Sauk County. In the following year they located on the land now owned and occupied by W. J. Thieding. At the time only fifteen acres had been cleared and the father went to work with his characteristic vigor and enterprise and had the land largely in a state of cultivation before he retired from work. John H. Thieding was. a stone mason and contractor in Germany but his most successful efforts in Sauk County were as a farmer. He passed away in January, 1913, and his widow is still living at the age of seventy-nine and makes her home with her son, W. J. They have three children : W. J., Carl and Dorothy. Carl married Anne Schroeder, of Westfield Township, daughter of Henry Schroeder; and Dorothy is the wife of William Weise, of Westfield Township.

W. J. Thieding grew up on his father's farm, and as soon as his strength permitted he took a part in the work and business of agriculture. He is now the owner of a fine estate of 349 acres, and the improvements classify it as one of the most valuable farms in Westfield Township. Mr. Thieding is a breeder of Durham cattle, thoroughbreds chiefly, keeps on an average about fifty head of livestock and has a dairy herd of twentyfive. Among other evidences of his enterprise is the use of the silo for feeding, and he and his family reside in a very comfortable home. Mr. Thieding is a democrat in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church.

He married Fredericka Meyer, daughter of Carl and Wilhelmina Meyer, of Westfield Township. Mr. and Mrs. Thieding are the parents of eight children, all of whom are unmarried and still living with the exception of two. Named in order of birth they are Amanda, Fredericka, Herman, William and Albert, twins, and both deceased, Agnes, Earnest and Lawrence. The children were given good advantages both at home and in the public schools, and the daughter Agnes recently graduated from District No. 4 of Westfield Township.

Alfred W. Ladd. Notwithstanding all the other agencies through which a country is developed, the most important must remain those pertaining to agriculture, for every human being claim.s his share of the product of the farmer's industry. At no time in the world's histor}- like the present has cultivation of the soil to its utmost limit and growing of stock to the farthest end possible been of so much grave importance, not only as personal undertakings to insure against private future need, but as public duties that must be carried on in the name of humanity. To such a call farmers of Sauk County have nobly responded and one of these of assured standing is found in Alfred W. Ladd.

Alfred W. Ladd was born in Franklin County, New York, June 19, 1856. His parents were John and Selina (Trask) Ladd, the former having been born in Pennsylvania, and the latter in New York, in 1826. The paternal grandparents lived and died in Duane Township, Franklin County. John Ladd enlisted for service in the Civil war when the first call came for soldiers to preserve the Union, and he continued in the army for four years and died in 1869, at Washington, District of Columbia. His widow was left with two children: Eliza, who is the widow of 0. B. Hubbard and lives at Los Angeles, California; and Alfred W. Mrs. Ladd subsequently married Chapman 0. Lenstead, and died in

To lose one's father at the age of thirteen years is usually a very serious matter, greatly interfering with proper schooling and eliminating the innocent recreations of boyhood, especially when a family's responsibilities are added to this calamity. Alfred W. Ladd was but thirteen when his soldier father died and it became absolutely necessary for him to assist his mother, and for a long time his work was not considered worth more than three dollars a month in wages. He was faithful to the duty thus imposed on him and cared for her until he was twenty-seven years of age.

In 1879 Mr. Ladd came first to Sauk County, and he worked through one summer and then returned to New York, but in 1881 he came back to Sauk County and rented farming land here until 1885, when he purchased a farm of 100 acres in Freedom Township. This property he has greatly improved, in the way of erecting substantial buildings and shelters and in bringing his fields under a fine state of cultivation through intelligent and scientific methods. He keeps a general line of high grade stock and devotes much attention to his herd of Shorthorn cattle. He is considered a sound farmer and an excellent judge of stock.

Mr. Ladd was married December 31, 1883, to Miss Amelia Carlo w, who was born in Honey Creek Township, Sauk County, July 9, 18(52. She is a daughter of William and Henrietta (Glasknop) Carlow, who were born and reared in Germany and were married there May 12, 1861, and immediately set off for the United States. When they reached Sauk County, Wisconsin, they located in Honey Creek Township and Mr. Carlow worked by the day or by the month as opportunity came, and through his industry and his wife 's frugality he became able to buy first a tract of forty acres and later twenty more and left this estate to his family. He was born October 9, 1830, and died December 6, 1912. His widow survives, she having been born May 12, 1835. They had seven children, namely : Amelia, Mollie, August, Louisa, Matilda, William and Ida, all living except August, Louisa and Ida.

Mr. and Mrs. Ladd have had two children : Clara, who lived nine months and twelve days ; and Clarence, who was born April 15, 1893, and since completing his education in the public schools has assisted his father. In politics Mr. Ladd is a republican and on a number of occasions has been chosen for public office in Freedom Township and has served on the school board and as supervisor.

Solomon DeKoeyer has lived in Sauk County more than forty years. This was a new and largely undeveloped region when he came, and his vigorous strength and capability enabled him to clear up considerable land and make it fruitful for agricultural purposes.

As pioneers and developers of new country the people of Holland have always had a conspicuous and enviable record. Mr. DeKoeyer, though a native of the United States, is of Holland-Dutch parentage. He was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 20, 1854, a son of Elias and Ada (Hendrich) DeKoeyer. His father and mother were both born at Amsterdam, Holland, and were married in the old countrv.

Three children were born to them there, John, Kate and Cornelius. In 1853 the little family came to America and joined a large colony of Hollanders in Western Michigan at Grand Rapids, The Hollanders are today among the chief elements of population in that section of Michigan. While they lived at Grand Rapids two other children were born, Solomon and Dora. The parents then went to the vicinity of Marshall, Michigan, where they bought a farm and where the father spent his last years. He died January 24, 1868, at the age of forty. His widow survived him forty-three years, passing away on the old Michigan homestead in 1911, at the age of eighty-seven. After they moved to Calhoun County, Michigan, other children came into their home, named Elias, Ada and William.

Solomon DeKoeyer grew up on a Michigan farm, and had such advantages as were afforded by the local schools. On reaching the age of twenty-one and seeking opportunities for himself he came to Sauk County in 1875 and bought a farm of 120 acres in Delton Township. After keeping this land and improving it he sold to advantage in 1881 and then bought the place he now occupies in the same township. This is a splendid farm of 160 acres and its present developments and improvements reflect the achievements of Mr. DeKoeyer as a farmer and developer. The ground was almost completely covered with timber when he bought it, and he bravely undertook the task of clearing it all away and making fields. He has also erected substantial buildings and though now retired from active responsibilities is well content to live on the farm. His business has been general farming and stock raising.

Mr. DeKoeyer is a democrat in politics and he served as treasurer of his home school district for about fifteen years. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Baraboo. On June 22, 1876, Mr. DeKoeyer married Miss Effie Palmer. On June 22, 1916, Mr. and Mrs. DeKoeyer celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary, and at that time more than a hundred guests came to their home and paid their respects to this worthy old couple and wished them continued long life and prosperity. Mrs. DeKoeyer was born at Baraboo January 12, 1858, a daughter of James Gilbert and Eliza (Crandall) Palmer. Her people have long been prominent in Sauk County. Mr. and Mrs. DeKoeyer had three children : Gilbert, born April 5, 1877, lives at Baraboo and is an engineer for the Chicago, Northwestern Railway. He married Carrie Herfort, and they have a daughter, Elizabeth. Ada D., the second child, was bom March 22, 1880, and died February 28, 1884. George, the youngest child, was born July 3, 1883, and for a number of years was a rural mail carrier. Out of his experience he invented a very excellent type of supply boxes for rural mail carriers, and is now giving his time to the manufacture of these boxes and has a large sale for them. He married Lorena Stephens. They have one child, Arthur.

William Siggelkow. The active career of William Siggelkow has connected him closely with the agricultural as well as the business interests in Sauk County. For a number of years he was a practical farmer and gained a large acquaintance with the farming element of this community. In later years he has been a salesman for threshing machinery,

Mr. Siggelkow was born in Caledonia, Columbia County, Wisconsin, September 23, 1870, a son of Christopher and Wilhelmina (Fryer) Siggelkow. Both parents were natives of Germany, were married in the old country, and in 1856 arrived as early settlers in Columbia County, Wisconsin. His father followed farming and cleared up a large tract of land in that county, but in 1873 he moved to Sauk County. His place of sixty acres in Columbia County he sold to his sons Charles and Moses. In Greenfield Township of Sauk County he bought a larger place of I37I/2 acres, situated near the Tucker Bridge. He finally retired from his farm and spent his last years in Baraboo, where he died November 28, 1912. His wife passed away in July, 1909. Their children were : Mina, Mary, Charles, Helmuth, Otto, Moses, William and Sophronia. All these children are still living.

William Siggelkow was about three years of age when his parents located in Sauk County. He attended the public schools here, grew up in a country atmosphere, and also had the advantages of the Evansville Seminary. When he was still a youth he went out to North Dakota and spent a year and a half in the Northwest. While there in the fall of 1888, he enlisted in Company K of the Eighth Cavalry, United States Army. He had the training and experience of a regular soldier for six months and nine days, but beyond the regular routine of army post life there was no special incident nor any active warfare.

On October 8, 1890, he married Miss Mary Alice Murphy. Mrs. Siggelkow was born in Baraboo Township of Sauk County March 3, 1870, a daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Brown) Murphy. Her father was born in Pennsylvania in 1828 and her grandfather, Moses Murphy, was born in the same state in 1808. Moses Murphy married Frances Smaltz, and in 1851 they came west to Sauk County and were pioneer settlers in Baraboo Township. Moses died there in November, 1898, while his wife passed away in 1873, when about seventy years of age. Nicholas Murphy acquired the old homestead of his father and lived there until his death in 1906. His wife, Mary Brown, who died in 1870, was the daughter of Ralph Brown, who married a Miss Hubbard. Mary Brown was bom in Connecticut in 1846, and both her parents were natives of the same state. The Brown family came out to Sauk County and were among the early settlers of Baraboo Township, where Ralph Brown followed farming until his death. Marj^ Brown had only one brother, Delos, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Murphy had the following children : Emma, wife of Stephen Abelman, of Baraboo ; and Mary Alice.

After his marriage Mr. Siggelkow removed to Baraboo and was employed as a railway locomotive fireman until the spring of 1895. At that date he bought the old Murphy homestead and on that place he made his success as a progressive and practical farmer. He lived there until 1909, when he returned to Baraboo and bought one of the attractive homes of the city at 630 Eighth Avenue. During the past seven years Mr. Siggel- kow has been traveling representative for the Advance-Rumley Threshing Machine Company, whose machinery is manufactured at LaPorte, Indiana, but the branch office to which Mr. Siggelkow reports his business is at Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. Siggelkow knows his goods thoroughly, and also understands the people among whom he travels, and has made a splendid record as a salesman.

While living on the farm he served as township treasurer two years. He is an active republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Beavers, the United Commercial Travelers and the Illinois Commercial Men's Association. He and his family are Baptists.

Mr. and Mrs. Siggelkow have three children : Luella, who was born June 10, 1894, and iS' now the wife of Clyde H. Thomas, of Lombard ; Marion, born March 31, 1896; and Florence, born September 24, 1898. All the daughters are graduates of the Baraboo High School.

Charles R. Tuttle. To the lover of nature no occupation known to man furnishes more interesting possibilities than the nursery business. Recent developments along this line have been as wonderful as they were formerly unexpected and unbelievable. Yet even to the man who labors faithfully to maintain standards already established and who has lio time to explore in luring paths of promise, there is always that satisfaction in accomplishment possible only when one works in collaboration with the elements of creation. Sauk County has its share of earnest, painstaking nurserymen, men who delight in their labor and contribute liberally to the well being of the community. Few, however, have had a more prosperous career than Charles R. Tuttle, of Baraboo Township, who is busily engaged in his labors at this time as nurseryman and fruit grower.

Mr. Tuttle was born on the farm which he now owns, adjoining the City of Baraboo in Baraboo Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, July 12, 1879, and is a son of Merritt I. and Edna (Reynolds) Tuttle. Albert G. Tuttle, the paternal grandfather of Charles R. Tuttle, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1814, and when he left his native state took with him a recommendation from the Seth Thomas Clock Company, for which concern he had done work. On his arrival in New York City he became identified with a dry goods concern, which, recognizing his abilities, sent him to Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, to trade with the Indians. In the early '40s Mr. Tuttle came to Baraboo, and in partnership with a Mr. Sumner embarked in a general store iDusiness. This was a successful venture, but about this time Mr. Tuttle 's health began to fail, and he accordingly began to look about for a desirable farming property, feeling that the country life would benefit him. Finally, in 1848, he bought the farm now owned by his grandson, a tract of eighty acres, from a Mr. Thompson, who had entered it from the Government. Later he added to this twenty acres, and subsequently sixty aeres in the City of Baraboo, his holdings running from the farm of his grandson to Eighth Street. He was personally acquainted with Baribou, for whom the river was named. Mr. Tuttle continued to be engaged in farming until 1860, in Avhieh year he began to devote the greater part of his attention to the nursery business, establishing the Baraboo Valley Nursery Company, which is still conducted by his grandson under the same name. Albert G. Tuttle continued to follow farming, the nursery business and fruit growing until his death, which occurred in 1905, when he was ninety-one years of age. Politically he was an abolitionist prior to the Civil war, following which he joined the democratic party, and, all else being even, would give his support to the candidate who was a prohibitionist. He belonged to the Presbyterian Church. Among the early settlers of Sauk County he was held in the highest esteem and confidence and his business standing was beyond question. He married Elizabeth Clark, for whom Elizabeth Street, Baraboo, was named, who Avas born in Connecticut in 1818, and died in Baraboo Township. They became the parents of the following children : Albert, Herbert, Merritt and Edward.

Merritt I. Tuttle, father of Charles R. Tuttle, was born in 1849, in Baraboo Township, Sauk County, and here received his early education. When still a boy he left home and went to Illinois, where he attended school, subsequently going to Connecticut, where he lived with an uncle and completed his education. After leaving school he became an architect and engaged in contracting and building, and for some years made his home in the West, but in 1893 returned to Baraboo, although shortly thereafter he went to Colorado and there, in addition to following his regular vocations, engaged also in the handling of real estate. About the year 1911 he went to Montana, where he still m.akes his home, living in Clark 's Fork Valley, near Billings. Mr. Tuttle owns- considerable property in that region, including his home, Fromberg, thirty miles south of Billings. During his long and varied career he was engaged in building in various sections of the country, and two summers were spent in putting up hotels in Yellowstone Park. Mr. Tuttle married Miss Edna Reynolds, who was born at Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1858, and they became the parents of the following children: Charles R., of this notice; Nellie, who is the wife of Oss Woolman ; Harvey; Ada, who is the wife of a Mr. Hostatter; and Dorothy, who resides with her parents. The maternal grandfather of Charles R, Tuttle was William Reynolds, who was born in Connecticut and came to Wisconsin at an early daj-, settling among the first residents of Appleton. He was sent by the Appleton Company to a point north of Tomah, Wisconsin, and there his death occurred while he was in charge of sawmills for the company. He and his wife had two children : Edna and William..