Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 6 of 20)

In June, 1881, Mr. Roick was united in marriage with Miss Mary- Jane Riches, who was born in Sauk County, Wisconsin, August 16, 1858, being a daughter of Robert and Christina (Burga) Riches. Her father was a native of England, born in 1824, and her mother of Switzerland, born in 1832. In 1815 Mr. Riches came to the United States, and after a short residence at Sauk City, Wisconsin, moved to a farm in Troy Township, Sauk County, where he passed the remaining years of his life and died in 1892, his wife passing away in the same year. They were the parents of four children: Elizabeth; Christina; Mary; and John Robert, who is now residing on and operating the homestead farm. Mr. Riches was locally prominent in affairs of the community, being at various times the incumbent of public position and for many years was postmaster at Riches Corners. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, while Mrs. Riches belonged to the Reformed faith.

Mr. and Mrs. Roick have been the parents of three children, namely : Ella, who died in 1913 ; Charles, a jeweler b.y trade and lives in Baraboo: and Virgil H., who is a member of the junior class of the Baraboo Iligli School.

Joseph P. Terry, who is successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits in Baraboo Township, is a worthy representative of the younger farming element in Sauk County. To a very considerable extent it is this element in any community, especially outside of the large cities, which infuses spirit and zest into the activities of the place. It is this element, whose entrance upon the arena of active life dates not further back than the final quarter of the last centennial period, which monopolizes most of the vigor, zeal and pushing energy which keep the nerves of the commercial and agricultural world ramifying all through the lesser towns and communities of the country strung to the full tension of strenuous endeavor. Mr. Terry is a member of this class who is widely known in Baraboo Township, where he has passed his entire life, as an industrious and capable farmer and stockman.

On the old homestead farm in Baraboo Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, Joseph P. Terry was bom January 30, 1880, being a son of John and Katherine (Dorsey) Terry. John Terry was born in 1834, in Ireland, and was a child when his mother died, subsequently being sent to make his home with an uncle who lived in New Foundland. He was given ordinary educational advantages, but early developed ambition that led him to seek about for a location where his abilities would bring him the best results, and eventually decided upon Sauk County, whence he came during the early '60s and established his home in Baraboo Township. With him he had brought gold to the amount of $500, which represented his earnings, and as this metal was a decidedly scarce commodity at the time he was able to dispose of it for a sum approximating $1,000, v/hich he invested in an 80-acre farm in Baraboo Township. This was but a start. From that time forward he prospered and flourished, and eventually became one of the substantial farmers and large landholders of the locality. After he had put his original eighty under cultivation, Mr. Terry bought forty acres adjoining. Later lie bought the old T. B. Byron farm, a tract of 200 acres in the same township, and this was followed by the purchase of the Spandig farm of 220 acres in Delton Township, and the 270-acre farm now owned by one of his sons, James M. Terry, in Baraboo Township. Mr. Terry's career was one in which he displayed perseverance, industry and ability of a high order. His community always knew him as a man who put his best efforts into everything that he did, and who in the working out of his success kept his record personally clean and above board. His death took awa.y from his community a public-spirited and helpful citizen, and one who had brought up his children to honorable careers and had started them upon life with something that made their pathways easier and brighter. He died at the home of his son James M. Terry in 1908, the original residence on the old homestead having been destroyed by fire some time before, and the mother passed away in November, 1914. Mrs. Terry was one of the best beloved ladies of her community, and, like her husband, was a faithful member of the Catholic Church. John Terry was a democrat, and upon that ticket was elected to the office of road superintendent, a capacity in which he served for several years, although he was not one to look for preferment at the hands of his fellow citizens. The ten children in the family were as follows: Edward; James M., who owns and operates 270 acres of fine land in Baraboo Township ; Alice ; William ; Mary ; John ; Nellie ; Joseph P., of this notice; Ann; and Gertrude, whose death occurred in 1904, when she was twenty years of age.

The children of John Terr^^ were given a good trainiiig. They were brought up in the healthy atmosphere of the farm and under good home influences, and were granted educational advantages in the schools of the vicinity. Joseph P. Terry shared with his brothers and sisters in this kind of wholesome atmosphere in building him up in his youth. Trained to be a farmer, his life has been devoted to the activities of the soil, and general farming and stock raising have been the things to which he has given his attention and in which he has made a success. His present tract consists of 200 acres, located in Baraboo Township, and is one of the valuable and handsome properties of this part of Sauk County, its buildings, improvements and general prosperity being indicative of the kind of management which supervises its operation. Mr. Terry is also a stockholder in the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company. Politically he is a democrat, and he adheres religiously to the faith in which he was reared, that of the Catholic Church.

Yoss Harseim has lived in Sauk County since early childhood, through a period of over fifty years, and his efforts have been chiefly directed along the lines of agriculture and with such success as to enable him to live practically retired. He now has one of the attractive small farm homes in Baraboo Township near the county seat.

Mr. Harseim was born in ]\Iilwaukee, January 10, 1852, a son of August and Johanna (Myer) Harseim. His parents were married in Germany and on coming to America located at Baltimore, where August Harseim for four years acted as overseer to the slaves on a southern plantation. He and his wife then came West, lived for a time at Milwaukee, and in 1853 loeated in Sauk County. They settled in the midst of the woods of Freedom Township, where a log house was erected for their accommodation. In 1863 they sold that farm and moved to Baraboo, where Mrs. August Harseim died January 17, 1877, at the age of sixty-three years, ten months, thirteen days. In 1880 August Harseim went to Madison, but returned to Baraboo about 1882 and died in that city August 27, 1885, at the age of seventy-three years eleven months. Their children were : Mary ; August, who died in infancy ; Charles, who died in infancy ; Salena, deceased ; Gertrude, who died in Colorado in 1916 : William, who was a Union soldier in the Civil war and died in Minnesota in 1905 ; Margaret ; Fred, who died April 27, 1873 ; and Yoss.

Yoss Harseim was reared on a Sauk County farm and attended public school in an old log building. Since early manhood his efforts have been directed to farming, and for three years he worked his father's old place. He then removed to Delton T-ownship, continued renting there four years, and then bought a place of 120 acres. That farm he developed and improved and cultivated its crops for twenty-nine successive years. He did his most important work as a farmer there, and he still owns the old homestead and had enough surplus to enable him to remove to the City of Baraboo and buy a comfortable small farm of fifteen acres, the products of which furnish much of the living.

Politically Mr. Harseim has been an active republican and has also become strongly allied with the prohibition movement. He served as treasurer of his local school board for about ' ten years. He and his family are Methodists.

On May 9, 1875, Mr. Harseim married Charlotte A. Whitney, who was born at Windsor, Vermont, August 4, 1850. Her parents, Seneca and Charlotte (Lackey) Whitney, were both born in the year 1813, in the State of Massachusetts. In 1852 the Whitney family came west to Baraboo and built as their first home a cabin near the present site of the waterworks. They soon afterwards settled on a farm in the Skillet Creek neighborhood in Baraboo Township, and some years later removed to North Freedom^ where Mr. Whitney spent his last years and died in 1893. His widow survived until 1895. Their children were : Harriet, deceased, who married Jonathan Miles ; Sarah, who married A. J. Spahr, a veteran of the Civil war ; Delilah, wife of Charles G. Allen, of Baraboo ; and Mrs. Charlotte Harseim. Mr. and Mrs. Harseim have no children.

Henry Pigg. Although more than five years have passed since the death of Henry Pigg, he is remembered as a citizen of Sauk County who resided at Baraboo for several years prior to his demise. Mr. Pigg was one of those who wielded the implements of destruction as well as those of construction, for he fought as a soldier during the Civil war and later was engaged in agricultural pursuits. While he was not a public figure, he was one of the steady, dependable men of his community, a citizen who bore his share of the responsibilities of citizenship and whose career Avas successfully and honorably rounded out.

Mr. Pigg was born in England, in 1840, and was a son of George and Elizabeth (Bordos) Pigg, also natives of that country. The family immigrated to the United States in 1846, at which time they settled at Milwaukee, but ten years later moved to Merrrimack, Sauk County. There Henry Pigg completed the education he had started in the Milwaukee schools, and thereafter learned the trade of molder, an occupation which he followed until the outbreak of the Civil war. In April, 1861, he enlisted for service in Company B, Fifth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for three years. Mr. Pigg took part in numerous important engagements, among them the Wilderness and Fredericksburg, at the latter of which places he was severely wounded in both legs. The bullet that caused these wounds is kept as a memento by the members of his family. When his term of service was completed and he had received his honorable discbarge, after having established a splendid record for soldierly qualities and fidelity, Mr. Pigg resumed the trade of molder, and for a number of years was in the employ of the AUis- Chalmers Company of Milwaukee. He was industrious, energetic and economical and was thus able to save from his earnings sufficient means with which to buy a farm in the vicinity of Merrimack in Sauk County. There he continued to be engaged in successful agricultural labors until 1909, in which year, feeling that he had earned a rest from his work, he retired and took up his residence at Baraboo. His death occurred in April, 1911, at his home No. 514 First Street, where Mrs. Pigg, who survives him, still makes her home. ]\Ir. Pigg was a republican in his political views, but not an office seeker, confining his activity in public affairs to the casting of his vote. As a fraternalist he belonged to Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, while Mrs. Pigg and her daughter, Ada, are members of the Eastern Star. Mr. and Mrs. Pigg belonged to the Congregational Church and were active in its work.

In 1871 Mr. Pigg was married to Miss Sarah Ames, who was born at Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin, September 21, 1847, and was brought to Baraboo in 1853 by her parents, Ira and Sarah (Brooks) Ames, natives of New York. Nathaniel Ames, the grandfather of Mrs. Pigg, fought as a patriot soldier during the Revolutionary war, and his portrait is to be found at the State Historical Society's headquarters at Madison. Ira Ames was a blacksmith by trade and followed that vocation until he enlisted, in April, 1862, in the Seventeenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil war. He did not live long after becoming a soldier, death taking him away at Corinth, Tennessee, in June, 1862. He and Mrs. Ames had ten children, of whom three are still living: Frank, of LaValle, Wisconsin ; Mrs. John Wrightman, of Fairfield Township, Sauk County, the widow of a Civil war soldier who died in 1900; and Mrs. Pigg. Mr. and Mrs. Pigg had the following children : Harry, Bessie, May, Walter, Louise, Esther, Edgar and Ada.

Lincoln Barrett. Baraboo is the home of a number of railway men. Among them is Lincoln Barrett, a veteran of the Chicago Northwestern line, who has pidied throttles on engines for that company for over twenty years. Mr. Barrett is a fine type of the railroad man, has proved faithful, efficient and clear headed in all emergencies, and stands high on the holior roll of his company's employes.

A native of Wisconsin, he was born in Grant County November 8, 1864, a son of William and Hannah (Temby) Barrett. His father was born in England in 1833. The mother was born in 1837, probably in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Peter and Hannah Temby. Peter Tenby was a native of England while his wife was a Welsh woman. They lived in Pennsylvania a number of years but finally came west to Iowa County, Wisconsin, Peter Temby being a miner by trade, and was employed for a number of years at Mineral Point. Later he was a farmer and he died in Highlaiid Township of Iowa County about 1883, at the age of eightytwo. His wife passed away about 1876. Mr. Barrrett's paternal grandfather, William Barrett, whose wife was Grace Barrett, came to Wisconsin and also settled in Iowa County. He was a miner and his death occurred at Linden in Iowa County, his wife dying in the same county, both at advanced age. They were buried at Linden.

William Barrett, father of Lincoln Barrett, was a cabinet maker by trade and was also a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He first located in Grant County and about 1865 removed to Sauk County. He died at Spring Green in this county in 1867, while his wife passed away at Wilson's Creek in Sauk County in 1871. Their four children are now living, each m a difl^erent state of the Union: William, in Montana ; Clara, in Michigan ; Lincoln, in Wisconsin ; and Mary, in Missouri. The mother of these children married for her second husband Gordon Farwell, and had a son by that union.

Lincoln Barrett, after the death of his father, which occurred when he was three years of age, was reared in the home of his maternal grandparents in Iowa County. He attended the public schools there, and lived and worked on the farm until past his majority. In 1887, at the age of twenty-three, he entered the service of the Chicago Northwestern Railway Company and removed to Baraboo the same year. He started as a fireman and in 1895 was promoted to the command of an engine and has piloted a locomotive for that company over various runs for twenty-two years. He deserves much praise for his self-made success. At the age of thirteen he began paying his own way in the world and all he has gained has been due to his industry and constant attention to duty. In 1903 My. Barrett Iniilt a fine home at 315 Fourth Avenue, and that is where he and his family now reside. Politically Mr. Barrett is independent, though he usually supports the republican ticket. He is affiliated with Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 51, with the Order of Foresters and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He and his wife are both ainliated with the Eastern Star.

Mr. Barrett was married January 9, 1894, to Miss Allie Blanchet. Mrs. Barrett was born in Kansas November 8, 1872, a daughter of Cyrus and Elizabeth Van Arsdel Blanchet, who have been residents of Baraboo since 1875 and are prominent and well known people of this city elsewhere mentioned in this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett have two daughters. Estelle Elizabeth, born June 15, 1896, is a graduate -of the Baraboo High School and of the Baraboo Business College. Elzaida Mildred was born April 18, 1899, and graduated from the Baraboo High School with the class of 1917.

Charles Hirschinger, Baraboo, was born at Capatene, Ohio, February 26, 1837, was educated in the schools of Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, coming to this state in 1837 when it was still a territory. He was engaged in farming and the nursery business before moving to Baraboo. He served in the State Assembly in 1893-95.

Charles H. Lee. The annals of early settlement in Sauk County make frequent reference to members of the Lee family, who were pioneers in the best sense of the term, were makers of homes in the wilderness, tillers of the soil, and helped convert a wilderness into a smiling landscape of farms and villages. One of the younger members of the family, a native of Sauk County, is Charles H. Lee, M'ho for many years has been one of the prosperous business men of Baraboo and is now proprietor of one of its chief hardware stores.

Mr. Lee was born in Webster Prairie, Sauk County, October 21, 1860. His parents were Lothrop L. and Harriet (Gardner) Lee. His father was born in Livingston County, New York, February 27, 1823, and the mother was born in Madison County, that state, May 13, 1830.

Lothrop Lee first came out to Sauk County in 1847, the year liefore Wisconsin became a state. He was employed by Colonel Maxwell in the construction of the dam and race which has long been known as the Maxwell Dam. After this work, and being- much pleased with Sauk County, Lothrop Lee returned in 1848 to New York, was married there on October 17, 1848, and soon brought his bride bj^ way of the Great Lakes to Milwaukee, from which point they drove with wagon and team into Sauk County, making the journey through the City of Madison. All these activities occurred before railroads were numerous in the West, and Lothrop Lee is said to have been sixty years of age before he ever traveled on a railroad train. His occupation, after making a permanent home in Sauk County, was farming. He had the energy and thrift required for success in that line, and he was a man of strong character and of many fine traits. He was noted for his great love of domestic animals, especially horses. His first settlement was in Fairfield Township, but he sold his farm there and moved to Webster Prairie.

Henry H., David D., Herbert A., Lothrop L., and also one daughter, Mercy E., who is the wife of Henry Cowles, of Chippewa Falls. All the sons are now deceased. Herbert A. and his brother Byron were soldiers in the Civil war. Zadoc Lee, on coming to Sauk County, bought 320 acres in Webster Prairie, and Lothrop, his son, took half of that land. It was the farm on which he lived and prospered over forty years. He sold it in 1898 and then bought a small place about a mile south of Baraboo, where he spent his last years in comfort and retirement. He died in 1904, and his widow is still living there at the venerable age of eighty-seven. The children of Lothrop Lee and wife were : Frank G., who died in December, 1915 ; Maria C. ; Mary E., who died in 1890 ; Charles H., and Hattie E. In politics Lothrop Lee was a republican from the organization of that party. In still earlier days he had been an ardent abolitionist, and in 1844, on reaching his majority, had cast his vote for James G. Birney, a free soil candidate. Zado Lee had voted as a free soiler and abolitionist in 1840. Lothrop Lee was a member of the Congregational Church, which he helped build up in his community, and he afterward became a generous supporter of the Presbyterian Church in Baraboo. He helped build the church that is still standing in that city.

Charles H. Lee had the advantage of good ancestry and good family connections as a start in life, and through his individual exertions he has made the best of his opportunities. He spent his early life on the farm in Webster Prairie, leaving it when past twenty years of age and arriving in Baraboo as a place of residence on April 1, 1881. Here he learned the trade of tinner in the building where his hardware store is now located. This building was then occupied by the firm of Gattiker Brothers. In February, 1893, Mr. Lee engaged in business for himself, setting up his tin shop on Fourth Street, but a year later occupied what is now the Jorg Grocery Store, but was then conducted by Frank Avery. On January 1, 1898, Mr. Lee came to the building he now occupies. His business has prospered and his facilities have likewise been increased to accommodate the growing patronage. The building, when he first occupied it, was 30 by 80 feet, and he has since increased it to 30 by 132 feet. The firm is now known as the Lee, Radtke Hardware Company. Mr. Lee has devoted special attention to warm air heating, and in this line has been very successful. He has been called upon to go to other .states and towns and is consulted by heating men from all parts of the country. He does principally all the installing of plants

Mr. Lee has taken an active part in democratic party affairs without the seeking for office. He is affiliated with Baraboo Lodge No. 51, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with the Independent Order of Foresters. In 1884 he married Miss Ida M. Hoadley, of Baraboo, who died August 26, 1917, and a sketch of whom follows this. Mrs. Lee" was a daughter of Elias Hoadley, one of the early settlers in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Lee had four children : Mary Esther, Lois Ruth, Ida Marjorie and Robert E., all of whom are living.

ing with family and friends in Sauk County, was the wife of Mr. Charles H. Lee of Baraboo. One of her former pastors wrote for publication in a local paper the following tribute :

"A beautiful complete life has closed. A more beautiful, more complete life has begun in that land to which we all journey. No sermon, no eulogy, could express the beauty and joy of living a good life so well as the simple narrative of Ida M. Hoadley, daughter of Elias and Mary Hoadley.

"She was born in Vermont September 11, 1856. She had lived on the place where the Lee home now stands since about 1860, and was married in the old home April 10, 1884.

"Her character, made up of a kindness which embraced the whole world and sustained by a calm, unflinching courage, was a rare combination. Her husband, who was a great student of history and an ardent admirer of General Grant, often said that her wonderful courage and fortitude was like that of the great General.

"She made such a home that her husband found no other place so attractive, and in his spare time was always to be found there. And when business called him away she often accompanied him. She was wife and comrade to him. To her children she was all that a mother could be. The world will be better because her daughters grew up with the example of her quiet, dignified well doing. And how well we all remember her pride and joy in her little son. And when he became grievously afflicted by sickness and all others gave up hope, she maintained her same calm courage and nursed him back to health.

"Those who watched her go through such trials came to realize that indeed ' They who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. ' Verily ' her children rise up to call her blessed and her husband also he praiseth her.'

"She was a charter niember of the South Side church. It was her hope and prayer that a church might be maintained in that part of the city. To say that she was a faithful member, a hard worker and a' regular attendant expresses but part of the real influence she had upon that church. Her very attitude spoke encouragement to the work and workers. Her pastors look back today and remember that there never was anything but good cheer and helpfulness in her work in the church, and many a friend who worked with her remembers that there was no sting in her friendship. She somehow always found time to help the needy and comfort the so-rrowing. Many remember when she stood by the open grave where someone had laid their heart's dearest hopes, and quietly spoke words of cheer and encouragement that were sorely needed. Someone whose life was saved from wreck, explained it by saying, 'I had a friend.' More than one whose life was uplifted by the influence of Mrs. Lee may well say, ' I also had a friend. '

"When the time came that she succumbed to illness she displayed the same unwavering courage that had marked her care of others. All that medical science could do was done, all that loving hearts could conceive and willing hands do was done, but to no avail - her life's mission was accomplished. And as one preparing for a journey she told her sorrowing husband that 'all was well,' and calmly made all plans for her departure, remembering in detail the comfort of every one. And so a beautiful life ended early on Sunday morning, August 26. As her spirit took its flight to the triumphant life the sun broke forth in all its glory - a fitting emblem of the glorious ending of a life of which we must all say, 'well done.' "

There were many other tributes expressed at the time of the funeral that reveal as well as human expression can the appreciation of a beautiful and loving nature. It is only appropriate that some of these expressions should be here gathered together as a permanent memorial.

In the closing words of his address Rev. Mr. Irish said : "I would like to say, but I need not, to those who mourn especially today, some word of comfort, but I am sure that the very character of this dear heart is sufficient ; that the life she led will bring them peace in the day time, peace in the night time and in their various trials and cares as they go out and go on they shall realize somehow that she still helps them, that she still loves them, and that love can never, never die. May God bless each of the members of this home and help the children to emulate the dear woman they loved so long and so well."

Rev. Mr. Jones, whose published sketch has already been quoted, was also one of the speakers at the final services and his address in part is as follows:

' ' I deem it a privilege to have the opportunity of saying just a word in these rites, near the body of one whom we all love. I have learned this in my experience; that a few beautiful families make a beautiful church - a beautiful church in all its societies - and without a few beautiful families I have found it impossible to have a beautiful church society.

"I learned very early in my pastorate here of a very few very beautiful families, and one was here, and the center of this family, I soon found, was Mrs. Lee, and I found that the beauty that radiated from Mrs. Lee centered and concentered in her life and radiated from her life.

"I will never forget the first one to call upon us when we came, lonely, in a strange town. A little girl came with a basket of red apples that smiled they were so red, and that little girl's face was so radiant and beautiful that the sun seemed to have risen in its glory on that little face of that beautiful girl. And she came to Mrs. Jones and she said : 'Mama sent these to you, ' and she answered her, 'But who is your mama ? ' 'Why,' she said, 'Mrs. Lee.' And I have found in the four years' pastorate that the same token was present. When a word of cheer was needed she was always there ready to cheer. She seemed to know just how and just when, and all through those four years instead of being less, always more. And so today we have only beautiful things to think about Mrs. Lee. Why I could not think anything but beautiful things about her beautiful life that I had four years of acquaintance with and the blessed privilege of working with her in the Kingdom of our God. They fold me among the first things they said about Mrs. Lee that she was the most beautiful woman in Baraboo, but I learned the more I knew her, how much more true it was than I believed, and I have learned more and more that the beautiful woman is the beautiful soul, and I learned that she had a beautiful soul, and of course she could not but do and say beautiful things and compel us to say : 'What a beautiful life,' and I think we are all saying that today and how nice it is to say that, and I wish we would always repeat down through the years 'How beautiful was her life.' 1 believe we will be compelled to say as we shall remember her from time to time, 'MHiat a beautiful life she lived.'

' ' She could not do an unkind thing ; she never learned how, for some reason or other, but she learned so well to do those kind things ; those things that would make you feel happy and comfortable and glad; glad you are living; made you feel that life is really worth living. I am so glad that my life means more to me because I had her acquaintance for those few years while we labored in the work of our Master.

"Sir Galahad it was that said these words. I think we ought to say them today. He said : ' I had the strength of ten because my heart was pure.' I wondered how she could stand so much, how she could do so much, and yet be lovely and Sir Galahad had the secret. 'My strength Avas as the strength of ten because my heart was pure.' Then that other poetical line :

"While I cannot speak of the days of her activity, I can speak of the hours of her suffering. We get new ideas of values, the purposes of life become more clear, more definite when we come into contact with a life, and death like this. Why need we suffer? Why need we serve? But as we look at the life of Mrs. Lee we know that these beautiful things which have been truly said have been compelled by the inner service that this character has been able to perform. I think that is the secret of her beauty, the beauty of her life ; that everywhere she somehow saw an opportunity to serve somebody in some way. I think that has been the remarkable testimony that has come to me as I have visited among people and they have inquired how Mrs. Lee was. Then the comment on her life : ' She was such a good woman ; so thoughtful of other people. '

"How prone we are to rebel when life's struggles are upon us, when the hard things of life come to us; and yet it is only when these hours of trial and testing come that we find the opportunity for the development of character that makes life worth while after all. And just this word to the family that has, during these months, yes, years, been suffering the anguish of an expectancy ; that expectancy of the time that how is. Helpless, she has needed care - much care. Could anything be more lovingly bestowed than that was bestowed? I think not. And after all, the greatest privilege that has come to the lives of these children of hers, the greatest blessing is the chance to pay back a little bit of the care and affection that had been expended upon them in their childhood. It is a blessed thing, this matter of service, this ability to serve one another ; to take the burdens that we bear and share them together. It's a wonderful thing - this matter of trial and distress and anguish when the spirit of the Master comes into it all. It somehow is like an unfolding bud, that, when it has burst into its full beauty, is full of the glory of the sunshine. Just as God has kissed into light it has blushed in its beauty to express His affection. So our lives have the possibility of blossoming in the time of testing and trial. This life went out, I think, the most beautifully that I ever beheld. I have been at many death beds and seen many pass out into the other life but the sweetness of Sister Lee's faith was a very precious thing.

"Just a few days ago in calling, before she had lost her power of speech, after a few moments of prayer in which her heart seemed to rejoice, I asked her how she was and she said : ' The love of Jesus can make a dying bed as soft as a downy pillow.' Characteristic. She loved the words of Tennyson, and I am glad to fulfill the request that these be read. They coincide with the spirit of this departed life and somehow seem to express just as she would like to express the desire in the journey home.

"And she did. If anybody doubts the reality of the power of Jesus Christ to reveal Himself, if I could bring you into the life of this woman as she made the transition from earth to heaven, you could not longer doubt, for she saw Him - she knew Him. He was with her and she went home. She made one last request. It's a request that I'd like to send home. I think only its repetition will send it home. 'Tell my friends to sell all and buy the pearl of great price. ' That was her message, and it has eternal truth wrapped up in it. "

Ferdinand Keller, a resident of Honey Creek Township and a veteran of the Civil war, has been a resident of Sauk County more than sixty years, and with his own eyes witnessed the transformation of the woods and prairies of that section into a broad landscape of fertile farms.

Mr. Keller was born in Switzerland in 1843, a son of Ferd and Eosena (Stulke) Keller. He was twelve years of age when the parents left their native land and, seeking the better opportunities of America, arrived in Sauk City aiid afterward established a home in Honey Creek Township. At that time they acquired the farm where Ferdinand Keller now resides. It was nearly all wild lands and the father went through many years of hard labor in redeeming his share of the wilderness and in establishing a home. The parents spent the rest of their days on the farm, where the father died in 1881 and the mother in 1888. They had a very large family, fifteen children, eight of whom are still living. A brief record of the family is as follows : Lena, a widow, living in Colorado ; Ferdinand; Henry, who died in Italy when young; Herman, who died at the age of eighteen ; Albert, who died in 1887, at the age of thirty-nine ; Emma, Mrs. F. A. Harter, a widow, living in Chicago, where her husband died two years ago ; Emilia, unmarried and living with her brother Ferdinand; Emil, who died young; Edward, unmarried and living at Amboy, New Jersey ; Alfred, single, and a resident of Colorado ; Minnie, Mrs. F. A. Fetz, living in Colorado; Mark, who died at the age of two years ; Otto, who died at the age of twenty ; Richard, who is married and lives in Colorado; and the fifteenth child died in infancy. Ten of these children were natives of Switzerland, while five were born in Sauk County. All the children grew up on the old homestead.

At the place where he now resides Ferdinand Keller had most of the associations of his youth from the age of twelve, and he acquired some education in the local schools. At the age of eighteen he enlisted for service in the Union army with Company D of the Ninth "Wisconsin Infantry, and spent three years with his regiment, doing his duty faithfully, participating in many hard fought battles, and returning home at the age of twenty-one with a well-earned meed of glory as one who had fought for the preservation of the Union.

After his war service he settled down to work on his father's farm, and was part of the family household until the age of forty, when he married Miss Fredericka Block. Mrs. Keller died seventeen years ago. She was the mother of one child, Herman, now twenty-one years of age, and has assumed most of the responsibilities of managing the home place.

Mr. Keller's farm comprises 220 acres and it is devoted to general farming and stock raising. Most of the land w^as cleared during the active years his father lived here, though Mr. Keller himself shared in that hard labor and knows the toils and vicissitudes of pioneering. In the early days oxen were used almost exclusively to do the plowing and even the hauling of produce and six oxen made a team for drawing a plow through the stubborn soil. Mr. Keller also recalls the old time agricultural implements used in harvesting grain, the sickle and the cradle. He has swung these implements himself many hot and weary days in the field and has bound up the grain by hand. Mr. Keller's father served as clerk of the local school board in the early times and the son

Blias D. King has spent practically every day of his life in Sauk County. It is his birthplace and was the environment in which he grew up, and in which the best efforts of his life have been expressed.

He was born on a farm in the Township of Snmpter in 1851. His birthplace is only an eighth of a mile from his present residence. He is a son of Solomon and Ursula S. (Buck) King. His father was born in Ohio in 1818 and his mother was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in 1819. Crandfather King was twice married. By jiis first wife he had nine children, and he then married a widow, Polly Fox, who also had nine children. Of this second marriage there was another child born, Reuben F.

Solomon King came to Sauk County with his father and mother in 1843. In the same year Ursula S. Buck had come to Madison, Wisconsin, with her sister, and on March 19, 1846, she came to Sauk County and in the same year was married to Mr. King. He then located at King's Corners in Sumpter Township, and in coiniection with their farm they conducted a hotel or wayside inn for about eight years. That was before railroads were built and when all transpo}'tatioii and traffic went overland. Their house was the headquarters for the stage coaches and many' travelers were entertained there. They also furnished lodging and board to the teamsters in the pineries. For their crops they were paid only twgnty-five cents a bushel for wheat after liauling it over the rough roads, with ox teams, to Milwaukee. The grain was' cut with cradles and was threshed out with flails. Gradually various improvements came into use and the King family has always kept up with this advance and gradually substituted horses for oxen and power machinery for the old hand methods. When the Kings located at King's Corners Indians still lived about in the county and nearly all the country was new and unbroken. Solomon King spent years in clearing up his land. Besides farming and keeping tavern he also followed his trades as a gunsmith and carpenter and had a shop on his farm, where he was busil}- employed during the winter seasons. In 1857 he built a new home, where his son Elias now resides. Solomon King had sawed most of the timbers that went into the construction of that building, iticluding boards and shingles. Within this more comfortable shelter he passed his remaining years and died in 1869. His widow lived there until February, 1893. She was appointed the first postmistress of the postoffice of King's Corners, and subsequently Elias D. King served as postmaster for six years, from 1888 to 1894.

Mr. Elias D. King was married in 1893 to Mrs. Ella (Brooks) Haynes. Mrs. King by her former husband had three children: Raj^mond Earl Haynes, who died in 1889; Myrta E., wife of Fred Zantow; and Mabel A., Mrs. Charles Watkins, both of which families live on farms in Sumpter Township.

Mr. Elias D. King was reared and educated in Sauk County, and at the age of twenty-one began farming as a renter. He rented the home place five years and then spent some time in Nebraska. On returning to

Sauk County in 1888 he again began farming the home place and also conducted the operation of a threshing outfit in the harvest time and in winter operated a saw mill. He was well known* as a thresherman and went about over the country district during tlie harvest seasons for nine years. He also conducted a saw mill for about seven years. In later years Mr. King has been successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising. He has about eighty-seven acres of land and does nearly all the work himself.

Besides his position as postmaster he served as path master two years and as justice of the peace for two terms. His parents were active members of the Methodist Church. His mother had three brothers who became Methodist ministers in New York, and the oldest brother had a son who is now preaching in California.

George P. Hanson has for many years been identified with those solid activities that make up the agricultural and business resources of Sauk County. He is now living retired in the City of Baraboo, though he still keeps an active interest in business and other affairs.

Mr. Hanson was born in Delton Township of Sauk County April 15, 1866, and is a son of Asa and Jane (Morey) Hanson. His father was born in Vermont in 1820 and his mother in New Plampshire May 15, 1837. They were married in the East, and settled in Sauk County during the latter '50s, locating in Delton Township. Asa Hanson left the farm to assist in the construction of one of the railroads through Sauk County, and while in that work contracted smallpox, which brought about his death. All the children were af&icted with the same disease. He and his wife had five children : Albert, Olin, Wilbur, Laura Jane and George P.

George P. Hanson grew up on a farm, attended the common schools and eventually acquired a farm of 200 acres in Fairfield Township, and also one of 100 acres. He owned and operated that large place until 1916, when he sold out. Since January, 1913, he has lived in Baraboo and in 1914 he bought his present residence at 321 Fifth Street. Mr. Hanson supports the prohibition party in politics. He is a member of the Good Templars and the Beavers Society and is an active member of the Baptist Church. He and his wife for over twenty years sang in the choir of the old Baptist Church in their country community, close to their farm.

Mr. Hanson assisted in organizing the Farmer's Co-operative Creamery Company of Fairfield. This was a small plant and has since been consolidated with the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company located at Baraboo, the largest creamery industry in the county, with about six hundred patrons. Mr. Hanson was also one of the organizers of the first telephone company in the county.

On March 16, 1887, he married Miss Elizabeth Dustin, who Avas born in Fairfield Township September 20, 1867. She is a daughter of Miles and Sylvia (Holden) Dustin. Her father was born in New York State in 1841 and came to Sauk County with his parents in the earl}' days. Plis people lived in Webster Prairie, but his parents died in Northern Wisconsin, near the center of the cranberry industry. Miles Dustin was a miller, merchant and farmer, also drove stage in the early days, and at one time was identified with the pioneer hop growing industry of Sauk County. He died in 1900. His wife, Sylvia Holden, was born in Ohio in 1849, a daughter of" Henry S. and Elizabeth (Cowles) Holden. Elizabeth Cowles was a daughter of Alpheus Cowles, who came to Sauk County with his daughter and spent his last years here. Henry S. Holden served three years as a Union soldier and located at Baraboo while the war was still in progress. Later he moved to a farm in Fairfield Township, and his last days were spent in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, where he died January 25, 1913, at the age of eighty-seven. At the time of his death Henry S. Holden was the head of five generations, having a greatgreat-grandchild. His wife had died many years before him. He outlived all his own children, and Mrs. Hanson was the oldest of his grandchildren. Mrs. Hanson had only one brother, Charles Edgar, now living at Stratford in Marathon County, Wisconsin. Mrs. Hanson's mother died in 1870.

Mr. and Mrs. Hanson have five children. Grace is the wife of Richard Herwig, a farmer near Kilbourn, Wisconsin, and their children are Gordon, Kenneth, Phyllis, Edith, Meta and Chester. Miles, the second child, died in 1902, at the age of fifteen. Clinton lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Homer is a senior in the Baraboo High School, and the youngest of the family is Claude, a junior in the high school,

Paul Neitzel. There are found young men who at the opening of their business careers declare that in modern times there are no more real opportunities. Such may well consider the case of Paul Neitzel, who is one of Sauk County 's men of wealth and importance, and thereby learn, perhaps, the secret of not only properly seeking for these obscure business opportunities but also of finding them. When a young man starts out, as did Paul Neitzel, with no superior educational advantages to help him, with no capital and no influential friends to further his cause, and yet far within the usual space of time covered by the activities of the ordinary man honestly accumulates a goodly portion of a township's acreage, his methods may well be worth following and emulating.

Paul Neitzel was born in Germany, January 9, 1863. His parents were Frederick and Johanna Neitzel, who came to the United States and reached Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1882, .ioining their son Paul, who had come here in the fall of the previous year. They were no longer young people and the strain of the long voyage and the severing of old ties proved too much for the father to bear and his death occurred ten days after reaching Sauk County, his age being sixty-five years. The mother survived for five years, her death occurring July 2, 1887, also aged sixty-five years. They had twelve children, as follows: Bertha, Pauline, Julius,' Augusta, Fred, Hannah, Paul, August, Frances, Emma, Richard and an infant unnamed. Of these three live in America, Paul, Fred and Richard.

Paul Neitzel received his education in the public schools of his own country. It was his desire from boyhood to become independent as a farmer and this was not possible in his section at that time and thus it was that he turned his eyes to the United States and resolved to come here and through hard work, if need be, acquire some of the valuable land in Wisconsin that needed only careful cultivation to become unbelievably productive. In 1881 he reached Tayloj- County, in the following year settled in Sauk County and by 1884, though industry and frugal living, had saved enough to buy eighteen acres of land in the southwestern corner of Baraboo Township. In 1894 he went to Greenfield Township and bought eighteen acres and lived on that property for seven years and then bought 200 acres, his present home place in Baraboo Township, to which in 1917 he added 120 acres adjoining, lying in Delton Township. Mr. Neitzel has not been satisfied with the mere acquisition of land, its highest possible improvement has also been his object. He has put up handsome, commodious buildings with modern conveniences installed and on his home farm he has had a silo constructed that has a capacitj^ of 120' tons. He carried on general farming, understanding his business in a scientific way, and gives a great deal of attention to his high grade stock. His Shorthorn cattle and Percheron horses are features at many exhibitions and command high prices on the market. The prosperity that has come to him is the direct result of intelligent industry and wholesome manner of living.

. Mr. Neitzel was married March 9, 1884, to Miss Bertha Mielke, who was born in Germany in 1862. Her parents were Ferdinand and Fredricka Mielke, natives of Germany wdio came to Wisconsin and settled in Baraboo Township, Sauk County, in 1870. The father of Mrs. Neitzel died in 1891, at the age of seventy-six years. Her mother spent her last years with Mr. and Mrs. Neitzel, dying here in January, 1904, when aged eighty-one years. Of their eleven children all died in Germany except three, William, Lena and Bertha, who is Mrs. Neitzel. To Mr. and Mrs. Neitzel the following children have been born : Kichard, who is deceased ; Edward, who resides at home ; Carl, who is a farmer in Delton Township, married Hazel Springer and they have two children, Kenneth and Dorothy May ; Alice, who married Albert Zimmerman, and they have one child, Esther; and Stella, Harry, Mabel, Paul, Catherine and John, all of whom reside with their parents.

As may be inferred, Mr. Neitzel has always been a very busy man, but has never been too much occupied with his own concerns to forget his responsibilities as a good citizen. He votes with the republican party and has served three years in the otfice of township treasurer and is serving his second year as assessor. With his family Mr. Neitzel belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Henry James Farnum. The County of Sauk has numerous citizens who have laid aside the cares of labor after long years of honorable effort and now are spending the evening of their lives in the peace and comfort that reward those who have been ipdustrious during the period of their manly strength. Perhaps a large majority of these men have been enlisted from the ranks of the agricultural class, for during the prime of life the farmer gives to his work labors of the most strenuous kind that make him ready to accept with relief the quiet that comes with well-earned retirement. In this class is found Henry James Farnum, now one of the well known residents of Sumpter Township, and a resident of Sauk County for more than sixty-five years. During the greater part of this period he has devoted himself to the work of the husbandmau. He has tilled the fertile soil of the county, has aided its advancement by good citizenship, has seen it grow and advance in prosperity, and during this time has succeeded in the accumulation of a property that allows him, now that his period of labor is over, to spend his remaining years in comfort and peace.

Henry James Parnum was born in 1831 at Girard, Erie County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of William and Lydia (Randall) Farnum. His parents were agricultural people who owned a small farm in the Keystone State, but who felt that in the new places in Wisconsin they eould better themselves and their fortunes, and accordingly, in 1851, left their eastern home and started overland for Sauk County. Here the father took up land from the United States government in Sumpter Township, and on that property he continued to operate industriously during the remainder of his life, both he and Mrs. Farnum passing away at the homestead which they had developed from the wilderness and where their children had been reared. They were the parents of the following children : William, Jr., Dexter, Henry James ; Eliza, who became the wife of E. T. Kellogg; Jane, who married Daniel Barber; and Anna, who is deceased.

Henry James Farnum came with his parents to Sauk County. He had commenced his education in his native state, and after coming to Wisconsin continued it here, but the county at that time had no excellent school system as at present and he was forced to be content with several months of attendance each year at the primitive school of his district. He was reared to the life of an agriculturist, and was but twenty-four years of age when he was married, in 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Shell, a daughter of David and Lavina (Kenter) Shell, of this county. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Farnum commenced keeping house on forty acres his father gave him. He continued to live in Sumpter Township, adding from time to time to his holdings, as his finances allowed, and always working industriously and managed his business affairs honorably. Thus, while accumulating a good property, he also gained a reputation for integrity and fidelity that has remained as one of his chief assets to the present time. At the time of his retirement Mr. Farnum did not sell his property, as so many have done, but rented it out to others, and thus he is still the owner of the farm which he developed through so many years of hard and earnest work. The members of his family belong to the Methodist Church. Mr. Farnum is a strong prohibitionist and has done much for the cause of temperaiice in his community. In local civic affairs, while not active as to seeking political preferment, he has done his share in bettering conditions, and while residing on his farm served as a member of the school board of Sumpter Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Farnum have been the parents of the following children: Ida, whose death occurred as a child of eight years; Charles H., who died October 21, 1916, at Baraboo, Wisconsin, married Ada Lyrieck, who is a resident of that city; Emma Jane, who died in infancy; and Dr. Edward J., a graduate of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, who has been engaged in a successful medical practice for a quarter of a century.

Charles Stadi^er. Of that service which means as much to the welfare of modern nations as any other department of activities, railroading, Charles Stadler is a veteran and after more than thirty years of continuous connection with the Chicago Northwestern road is now living retired in comfortable quarters in the City of Baraboo. Mr. Stadler belongs to Sauk County, which he claims as his native soil, and has always considered it his home, though his work as a railroad man required his residence in other centers.

Mr. Stadler was born in Greenfield Township of Sauk County December 7, 1859, a son of Joseph and Lucinda (Fetter) Stadler. Both parents were natives of Germany. His father was born in the Kingdom of Wuertemberg, February 22, 1822, while his mother was born August 7, 1827. They were married in Germany, and in 1854, with high hopes of bettering their fortunes in the New World, they crossed the Atlantic Ocean an4 arrived at Sauk County, Wisconsin, which was practically a wilderness. Buying land in Greenfield Township, Joseph Stadler applied himself to its clearing and development, and underwent many of the hardships and privations of existence. He and his wife lived in a log cabin for a number of years and gradually they were able to see the light of better fortune and surrounded themselves with many comforts for their declining years. Joseph Stadler died in 1891 and his wife in 1899. After becoming an American citizen he was a staunch ally of the republican party and he and his wife were faithful attendants in the Catholic Church. Before coming to this country Joseph Stadler had served his time in the German army. The children were : John ; Charles ; Almena, who died in 1889; S. H., who lives in Canada; L. C, an engineer of the Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha Road ; Joseph, also a resident of Canada ; and Lucinda, deceased, who married Edward Koerth.

The Sauk County farm was the early environment of Charles Stadler, and his education came through the public schools. When only eighteen years of age he entered the service of the Chicago Northwestern Railway as worker on a bridge gang. Later he became a locomotive fireman and was promoted from that to engineer. With steady hand and the poise and efficiency of the well co-ordinated mind and body he. handled the throttle of his engine for twenty-eight years, and had many of the important runs of the road. He was continuously with the company for thirtyone years and is now enjoying the honors of a position on the retired list. For eight years of his service his home was in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Mr. Stadler and family now reside at 227 Third Street, Baraboo.

Mr. Stadler has been active in the buying and selling of Baraboo real estate. He built a house next to the hospital and also bought another house, and has dealt considerably in local property, which he believes the best of investments. His prosperity is the direct results of his own labors and intelligent management. Besides his local property he has interests in Montana and he and his wife made a trip to that state in August, 1916. The old Stadler homestead of his father was owned by the family until 1914, when it was sold to Edward DeBoyce.

Royal Arch Masons, Baraboo Commandery No. 28, Knights Templar, and the Scottish Eite Consistory and Tripoli Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Milwaukee. Mr. Stadler has been a Mason since 1893, and when he attained the Consistory degree he was the youngest in the state. While active in railroading he was also a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stadler are members of the Eastern Star.

He was married March 17, 1901, to Miss Ella Wipman, of Baraboo. Mr. and Mrs. Stadler spent three months in California during the Panama Exposition and attended the opening of that great fair.

Hermajst Grotophorst, Baraboo, was born in the Town of Honey Creek fifty-nine years ago. He was appointed by Governor R. M. LaFollette as a member of the State Board of Control and served until 1904. He was named by Governor Philipp as a member of the State Board of Education, which office he now holds. He is a lawyer by profession.

Nicholas Schneider is one of the stirring and enterprising young farmers and business men of Honey Creek Township, where he carries on the old homestead farm of his father and is also a dealer in automobiles.

He was born on the homestead where he still resides in 1876. His parents, Nicholas and Eva (Weaden) Schneider, were both born in Germany. Nicholas Schneider, Sr., came to Sauk County during the '40s, locating in Honey Creek Township when all that district was one vast and unbroken wilderness. He took up a claim or homestead from the Government, and with little more than his individual energy and ability had to undertake the heavy task of clearing and making a farm of it. He cut down the first trees, grubbed the first stumps and planted the first acres on that homestead. All his farming at first was done with the aid of ox teams, and gradually he reached th& position where he could command more resources and farm more extensively. In the early days he hauled his potatoes and other produce to Madison. He and his good wife lived on that old homestead and long before they passed away they saw its fields blossom as the rose. The father died there only two years ago, while the mother passed away in 1898. There were six children : John, married and living in Sauk City ; Mary, Mrs. John Lamberty, living at Cross Plains ; Clara, Mrs. Joseph Colts, of Dane County, Wisconsin ; Andrew, who is married and lives east of Madison ; and Barbara and Nicholas, both, of whom are unmarried and live together on the old farm. These children all grew up and received their educations in Honey Creek Township.

About ten years ago Nicholas Schneider, Jr., took over the management of the farm for his father, and has worked it ever since. His management is along the lines of general farming, stock raising and dairying, with particular attention to the raising of hogs. Mr. Schneider has 340 . acres under his care and cultivation.

His father was a stockholder in the first creamery in Honey Creek Township. Mr. Schneider and his family are members of the Catholic Church, and in politics he votes independently.

Martin Moely, of Sumpter Township, has lived in close touch with the soil and its related activities all his life, and has gained a splendid prosperity well represented in his farm and its products.

He was born in Sauk County in 1866, a son of Conrad and Clara (Bernhard) Moely. His parents were both natives of Switzerland. Conrad Moely came with his widowed mother to Sauk County in 1855, when a young man, and they located in Prairie du Sac Township on what was known as the old Wolf Farm. Five years after coming to Sauk County Conrad Moely married. He began with eighty acres of land and gradually increased his holdings until he had a well developed farm of 120 acres at the time of his death. He deserves a place in the memory and gratitude of the people of Sauk County for what he achieved in pioneer work. He cleared up many acres, grubbed out the stumps, broke the land, and that this was a great achievement none who are familiar with the processes described will doubt. His early crops were chiefly wheat. Farm produce brought very little actual cash when sold. The father took his grain to be ground to Milwaukee or Madison, hauling it with ox teams, and frequently it required a week to make the journey. He and his wife had seven children : Lizzie, deceased ; Barbara, Mrs. Anton Van Wald ; Andrew, living at Prairie du Sac ; Mary, Mrs. W. C. Cook, living in Texas ; Lola, wife of Christian Ploety, of Prairie du Sac ; Martin ; and Conrad, who is married and lives in Prairie du Sac. The father of these children died in 1867 and was survived many years by his widow. The children all grew up on the home farm and acquired their education in the district schools.

Martin Moely had a rigorous farm training and took up the vocation as an independent means of existence with all the qualifications necessary for success. In 1891 he established a home of his own by his marriage to Emelia Diehl, daughter of Peter Diehl. They had three children : Clara, wife of Rudolph Shlog, of Merrimack Township ; Diehl, aged fifteen ; and Russell, aged eleven.

Mr. Moely began his independent career as a farmer in 1890, having a place on the prairie. Twenty-four years ago he bought his present farm in Sumpter Township from Uncle Joseph Johnson. His business as a farmer is an extensive one and involves the successful operation of 400 acres of land. He does considerable stock raising and dairying and is one of the stockholders in the Farmers' Creamery at Sumpter.

Mr. Moely has also been a leader in the public life of this section of the county, having served as chairman of the town four years, as member of the side board eight years, and was on the school board twelve years. He and his family are members of the Evangelical Church and in partisan politics he cast his vote according to the dictates of his independent judgment.

George Weirich. Now living retired at Baraboo, George Weirich, who is eighty-four years of age, has spent over sixty-five years of his lifetime in Wisconsin and most of it in Sauk City. He is one of the veterans of old time lumbering, log driving, forest clearing and the heavy tasks of winning the wilderness.

of Peter and Anna Maria (Treiber) Weirich. His parents, after most of their children were born, sought a home in the New World, soon after the revolutionary troubles of 1848, and came to Wisconsin in August, 1849. They lived about two years in Kenosha, but in 1849 Peter Weirich had made a trip to Sauk County and had located a homestead in Sumpter Township. This homestead comprised 120 acres, and in 1851 he moved his family to the new farm. They made the trip from Kenosha with two wagons and some young stock. Peter Weirich was industriously engaged in making a farm in Sauk County until his death in February, 1862. He was accidentally killed by a runaway team. His widow survived him until about 1882. They reared quite a family of children. The two oldest were Henry 'and George. Michael, who now lives at Augusta, Wisconsin, was bom February 17, 1835, and is now eighty-two years of age. He served as a soldier in the Civil war in the Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry, and much of the time was out on the western frontier guarding the settlements against Indians. John, the fourth child, was born in 1841 and was a soldier in the Ninth Wisconsin Infantry, afterwards became a farmer on Sauk Prairie and died at Baraboo in 1916. The only one of the children born in this country was Lottie, who was born at Kenosha.

George Weirich was about sixteen years of age when his parents came to America. Most of his education had been acquired in Germany and he attended two winters in Kenosha. In 1851 he walked from Kenosha to his father's new home on Sauk Prairie, and for many days swung a scythe cutting the wild hay so as to provide forage for the livestock during the winter. He remained on the homestead, and was busily engaged in clearing and cultivating and also worked in the lumber woods. He engaged in many of the river drives, which were notable features of the lumber industry of that day, and sometimes went on rafts of lumber down the rivers as far south as St. Louis. Out of his savings he bought 160 acres of Government land in Adams County, Wisconsin, and after keeping it a year sold it for $500 in gold, making a profit of $300 on the transaction. For two years following he was in Clark County, Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm in the summer and in the woods and on the log drives down Black River in the winter. About that time Mr. Weirich made a purchase in Eau Claire County of six 80-acre tracts, two for himself, two for his brother Henry and two for his brother Michael. Michael is still living on the quarter section thus acquired. Mr. George Weirich did not retain his land in Eau Claire County long, and after selling he bought eighty acres on Sauk Prairie in Sauk County. He also acquired ownership of his father's old farm, and improved both places. He has bought and sold several farms and his industry and good judgment gave him a competence when still in middle age.

In 1884 Mr. Weirich moved to Baraboo, buying twenty-six acres of land close to the city limits, and still owns all that except six acres. Here he engaged in the manufacture of brick, and conducted one of the leading brick yards of the county for six years. From the brick manufactured at his plant he built in 1885 the brick store at Baraboo now occupied by his sons, Weirich Brothers. Mr. AA^'eirich is now living retired at 417 Third Avenue.

He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln during the war. He has been a steadfast republican ever since. He and his wife were reared as Presbyterians but he is liberal in his religious views.

Mr. Weirich was married October 28, 1859, to Miss Wilhelmina Kuehn. She was born in Germany November 16, 1842, a daughter of Edward and Ernestine (Erbe) Kuehn, who came to Sauk City in 1853, and both of them died there in 1898. Her father was a musician and cabinet maker. Mr. and Mrs. George Weirich have six living children. Anna Maria, wife of Henry Adolph Ochsner, of Honey Creek Township, Sauk County; Edward, living on the old homestead ; Louis, of Baraboo ; Emil, of Baraboo ; Lottie, wife of Fred GoUmar, of Baraboo ; and Herman, a farmer in South Dakota. Three children died in infancy, George and Wilhelmina, twins, and another child named George.

Reference is made elsewhere to the career of Louis Weirich, active member of the firm Weirich Brothers at Baraboo. The other member of that firm is Emil Weirich, a son of George Weirich. Emil was born in Sumpter Township of Sauk County September 10, 1868, grew up an the old home farm, and gained his education in the public schools. He was still young when he moved to Baraboo with his parents, and in 1887 he engaged in the meat business. He and his brother have since conducted this business and have extended their operations -until the firm Weirich Brothers is now one of the leaders in the commercial life of Baraboo. Emil Weirich is a republican and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Beavers and the Mystic Workers.

On May 20, 1897, he married Miss Mabel Young, of Baraboo. They are the parents of three children : George Michael, born in November, 1899 ; Monroe William, born in November, 1902 ; and Edith Ruth, born in November, 1904.

Louis Weirtch. The active business association of Mr. Weirich with the City of Baraboo covers a period of thirty years. Throughout that time he has helped feed the people with a steady and reliable supply of good meats, and his is the oldest and the best known retail meat business of the city. The firm is Weirich Brothers, and his business associate is his brother Emil Weirich.

Mr. Weirich, who is a son of George Weirich, a notable Sauk County pioneer mentioned elsewhere, was born on Sauk Prairie in this county June 10, 1863. He spent the first twenty years of his life upon a farm. His education came from the old Kern school house. When it came time for him to make his own living and find his own opportunities he spent one winter in the pine woods and during one summer was employed in the lumber indsutry at Eau Claire. Returning to Baraboo, he found steady employment with his father in the brick yard, and in 1887 he put up the brick building which he has since occupied as his place of business. That building and business are reckoned as one of the chief landmarks of the town, and many families have steadily patronized Weirich Brothers for their meat supplies for over a quarter of a century. The business is located at 407 Oak Street.

Mr. Weirich is a republican, though he has never shown any desire for public office, but is well fitted for public responsibilities. He is affili- ated with the Knights of Pythias of Baraboo. On April 3, 1890, he married Miss Annie Maria Falkenstein, of Lodi, Wisconsin. They have one daughter, De Etta Monetta, who was born December 23, 1900, and is now a student in the Baraboo High School.

Henry Carl Manthey, township supervisor and treasurer of the school board of Excelsior Township for a number of years past, is successfully engaged in agriculture on an estate of 219 acres in the vicinity of Ableman. He was bom in Prussia, March 31, 1848, and is a son of Carl Frederick and "Wilhelmina (Heier) Manthey, who were born, reared and married in the old Fatherland, whence they immigrated to America in 1865. The Manthey family landed in New York City May 19, 1865, came to Freedom Township the twenty-ninth of May and on June 4th located in Excelsior Township. Mr. Manthey bought 160 acres of land on which was a frame shanty, and with the exception of a tract of five acres he chopped down the trees and cleared the land. He was engaged in general farming and stock raising until death called him from the scene of his mortal endeavors in 1905, aged eighty-eight years. His cherished and devoted wife died in 1899, aged seventy-six years. In politics he was a republican but he never aspired to public office of any description. He was a blacksmith in Western Prussia before coming to this country and after his arrival in Wisconsin he studied for the ministry and was a Baptist preacher in addition to attending to his farming work. He preached at North Freedom and at Ableman and was one of the influential men in the erection of the Baptist Church in the latter place. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Manthey : Matilda, who died in Chicago; Henry C, the subject of this review; August, engaged in farming in Excelsior Township ; Mary, who died in Baraboo; and Pauline, the wife of Herman Wordleman, and they live in South Dakota.

In the schools of Prussia Henry Carl Manthey received his early educational training and he was seventeen years of age when he accompanied his parents to the United States. He assisted his father in the work and management of the old homestead, and for three months was engaged in railroading. After reaching their majority he and his brother each received eighty acres of land from their father; they bought an additional eighty acres and then divided the entire tract between them, making a farm of 120' acres for each of them. Since then Mr. Manthey has purchased additional tracts and his estate now comprises 219 acres. He is engaged in diversified agriculture and is well known as a breeder of Norman horses and Shorthorn cattle. Since 1915 he has rented his land to his son Arthur but he still gives it a general supervision. In his political convictions he is a republican and he has been supervisor of Excelsior Township for the past eleven years. He is also interested in educational work and has served as treasurer of the local school board for eighteen years.

In 1874 Mr. Manthey was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Schunemann, who was born in Germany, March 6, 1857, and who is a daughter of Carl and Fredericka Schunemann. The Schunemann family came to Wisconsin in 1867 and settled first at Reedsburg, then at Loganville, then in Excelsior Township, and finally in Ableman, where both died Concerning the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Manthey the following brief data are here inserted : Carl was educated in the public schools of Ableman and now operates a farm of eighty acres adjoining his father's estate. He married Emma Panser and they have two children, Henry and Marie. August studied engineering in night school and is now foreman for a large construction company in New York City. He married Lucy Helen Grane and they had three children : Lawrence, Lucy Helen (died in infancy) and Helen. Louis is an engineer at Grand Junction, Utah. He is unmarried. Wilhelmina is a trained nurse in Milwaukee. George, a farmer in South Dakota, married Alvena Lange and they have two children, Amelia and Jack. Arthur rents the old homestead from his father. Albertina was graduated in the Baraboo High School and for a number of years taught school. She is now the wife of Chester Tyer, principal of Indian schools in South Dakota. Henry died in infancy. Holland graduated from the BarajDoo High School and is now a student in the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Mrs. Henry Gattwinkel represents in her own family and through her late husband some of the oldest settlers of Sauk County. Mrs. Gattwinkel is now living at her old home in Sumpter Township at Prairie du Sac.

She was born in Germany in 1835, a daughter of Christian and Lucile (Schultz) Stiedtmann. Her parents were both natives of Germany and they came to America in 1848, the year that marked such a generous immigration of sturdy and thrifty Germans to this country. They located in the pioneer wilderness of Merrimack Township of Sauk County and secured a tract of Government land. Their first home was on an uncleared place of forty acres in the midst of the woods and surrounded with wild game and other conditions of frontier life. Christian Stiedtmann was a very energetic citizen, and his industry and wise business management . enabled him to acquire the materials for substantial prosperity. In time he owned three tracts of twenty acres each and had it all cleared and Avell developed as a farm. He and his good wife lived on the homestead the rest of their years. He died in 1877 and his wife in 1875. Christian Stiedtmann was a butcher by trade, and he followed that vocation during the winter seasons, farming the rest of the year. He and his wife had five children : Mrs. Henry Gattwinkel ; August, who lives in Madison ; Louisa, deceased wife of Adam Frenzel, of Warsaw; Paul, who lives in Prairie du Sac ; and Emilia, who married Richard Tyler and is now deceased.

Mrs. Henry Gattwinkel grew up in Sauk County from the age of thirteen, and in 1852, at the age of seventeen, she married Mr. Henry Gattwinkel. They then located where Mrs. Gattwinkel is still living. Their first home contained only two rooms and was built up from the ground on four blocks of timber. The rooms were not plastered, and the only protection from the outside elements was a sheet of weather boarding. In time many comforts and additional property came to them, and they also had ten children born into their household, nine of whom are still living. A brief record of the children is as follows : Elizabeth,

Mrs. Paul Schlag, living in Baraboo; Edmund, who is unmarried and is manager of the home farm; Herman, married and living retired as a farmer in Prairie du Sac ; Charles, who is unmarried and lives on a farm next to that of his mother ; Edward, married and a farmer in Merrimack Township ; Rosalia, Mrs. Fred Waffensehmidt, of Sumpter Township ; Emelia, Mrs. Christian Waffensehmidt, of Merrimack Township ; Bertha M,, widow of Henry Thoelke; Elmina, Mrs. Charles Brown, of Sumpter Township ; and Laura, Mrs. U. C. Keller, of Prairie du Sac.

Mr, Henry Gattwinkel died on the old homestead in 1914, at the age of eighty-nine. He was one of the earliest settlers of Sauk County, and spent a career useful to himself and to the entire community. His name is one that is spoken with respect and esteem in many parts of Sauk County. For several years before he married he spent his winters regularly in the pine woods as a lumberman.

John R. Hofstatter, who has been a resident of Baraboo since 1870, has been in the mercantile business for more than thirty years past. He has also been a public man, having served as alderman for twelve years and one term in the State Assembly. He is of German parentage, his father locating in Sumpter Township in 1855, and there John R. was born three years later. The family came to Baraboo in 1870, where both the parents died.

John H. Astle. One of the fine old citizens of Sauk County who have gone to their reward was the late John H. Astle, whose life was spent productively and usefully in the farming community and who, with an ample competence for his needs, finally retired to the City of Baraboo, where he died.

He was a native of Wisconsin, born at Merton, April 4, 1846, before Wisconsin became a state. His parents were both born in England. They moved to Sumpter Township in Sauk County when he was a boy, and he grew up in the country districts there, attended common schools, and chose the life of the agriculturist. He finally bought a farm in Sumpter township adjoining that of his father, and some years later sold that and bought the J. W. Wood farm. He was a man of great industry, of shrewd intelligence in the management of his farming affairs, and by many successive years of hard work and well directed efforts he prospered. When his children were grown and his own circumstances justified the move, he left the farm, and on October 27, 1909, bought city property at 526 Second Avenue in Baraboo. He lived there quietly until his death October 23, 1910. Mr. Astle was a republican without political aspirations, was affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He was married November 18, 1868, to Miss Flora Stone. Mrs. Astle was born in Maine September 13, 1850, but since early girlhood has lived in Sauk County. Her people have long been prominent in this county. Her parents were Thomas S. and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone, both natives of Maine. Her father was born at Albany, Maine, May 8, 1816, and her mother, at Waterf ord March 30, 1816. In 1855 the Stone family came to Sauk County and located at Reedsburg, where the father bought land, but had little opportunity to develop it since death called him away on June 3, 1857, His wife passed away July 24, 1888. There were ten children in the Stone family, and those still living are Mrs, Astle, of Baraboo, Mrs. W. D. Johnson, of Baraboo, and John P. Stone, who is president of the State Bank at Reedsburg.

Mrs. Astle, who makes her home in a comfortable residence at Baraboo, is the mother of three children : Fannie was born February 12, 1870. Anna Bell was born November 15, 1875, Aimee Pearl was born October 31, 1881, and died February 16, 1885.

F. Henry Rischmueller. Around the village of Plain in Honey Creek Township may be found some of the most progressive and reliable farmer citizens of Sauk County. One of these is Mr. Henry Rischmueller, whose life has been spent almost entirely in this locality.

He was born there in 1860, on the land which his grandfather had acquired in 1845. Thus the Rischmueller family was of true pioneer stock. Grandfather Rischmueller paid $300 for an 80-acre tract containing as its chief improvement an old log building covered with clapboard roof, a well and a log barn.

F. Henry Rischmueller is a son of Henry and Eva (Jigl) Rischmueller. His grandfather was Henry S. Rischmueller. The early generations of the family in the paternal line lived in Hanover, Germany, but Henry Rischmueller 's mother was a native of Switzerland.

Henry Rischmueller, Sr., was eighteen years of age when he came to America with his parents. He had two sisters, and all of them were natives of Germany. Father Rischmueller was killed in a threshing machine the first fall he spent in Sauk County, and his son Henry then took charge of the homestead and married at the age of twenty. He lived on and cultivated the land until his death in 1905, being followed by his good wife one year later. Henry and Eva Rischmueller had eight children : F. Henry, Anna, Caroline, Fred, Peter, "William, John and one that died in childhood.

Besides the original homestead of Grandfather Rischmueller the father bought eighty acres next to the homestead and built a good house and barn. He did most of the cleariiag and grubbing with oxen and w^as a very prosperous and hard working farmer. In early days he hauled his produce to Lodi and Mazomanie until railroads were built in Sauk County. He was also an active citizen, serving two years on the town board. His children all grew up and received their education in Honey Creek Township.

F. Henry Rischmueller after leaving home worked out for eight years, and in 1895 he married Miss Caroline Steuber, daughter of Casper and Charlotte (Schulte) Steuber. Her parents were residents of Honey Creek Township. Mr. and Mrs. Rischmueller have four children : Ella, now the wife of Fred Heiser ; Arthur, unmarried and living at home ; Ruth, also at home; and Oscar, who works out.

Mr. Rischmueller began farming for himself two years before his marriage, and has alwaj^s lived on the place where he may now be found enjoying the comforts and prosperity of many years of consecutive endeavor. He has done much building and other improving and operates his 230 acres as a general farming, stock raising and dairying proposition. Mr. Rischmueller is a stockholder in the Leland Creamery, has served three years on the school board, six years as road supervisor, and is one of the men of affairs in his community. The family are members of the Lutheran Church and in polities Mr. Rischmueller votes independently, according to the dictates of his conscience and judgment.

Henry Thoelke. In Henry Thoelke is found a sample of that material which has brought Sauk County into the limelight as a prosperous agricultural center. Endowed at the outset with average, ability and backed by shrewd business judgment and determination, this agriculturist has worked his way to the ownership of a handsome and productive farm in Sumpter Township, which he has owned since 1900 and which he is devoting to general farming and stock raising. There are indications of his progressive methods oh every hand and of a struggle to attain to the best thus far achieved in agricultural science. Mr. Thoelke has a special leaning toward high-grade stock, and is particularly proud of his hogs, the raising of which is made a feature of his work.

Henry Thoelke was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1859, but has been a resident of the United States since he reached the age of nine years. His father was John Henry Thoelke, who was born in 1812, in Germajiy, and his mother, Adelheit Krenhopp, who was born in that country in 1822. They were married in 1841 and settled down to a life of hard and continuous work on a small farm owned by Mr. Thoelke in Germany, but as the years passed and they made no progress in their labor toward the attainment of a competence and the making of a home for their increasing family, they decided that no future lay before them in Germany and resolved to try their fortunes in the United States. The father, therefore, converted his property into money, and in 1868 the family embarked for America, arriving at Castle Garden on May 2d. After several days they started for "Wisconsin, their destination being Grant County, and after their safe arrival the father rented a farm, on which he worked while familiarizing himself with the customs, methods and language of his new country. Three years later, in 1871, he brought his family to Sauk County and located in Sumpter Township, on the farm now owned by his son. For this land he paid $9,000, and it seem^ed that he at last was upon the high road to success, but he did not live to secure the reward to which he was so eminently entitled, for he lived only four years longer, his death occurring in 1875.

Henry Thoelke was given his educational training in the public schools of Grant aiid Sauk counties, and was but sixteen years of age at the time of his father's death. However, he had been brought up to industry and to a recognition of the value of hard work, and with his brother Herman undertook the management and operation of the homestead. The brothers were successful in making the farm a paying investment for their labor, and continued to conduct it for their mother until 1890, in which year the brothers bought the property. The mother's death occurred three years later. Henry and Herman Thoelke continued as partners in the operation of the farm for ten years, but in 1900 the first named bought his brother out, and since then has farmed it alone.

The successful management of a farm of this size in a community where competition is rife and high standards prevail presupposes the possession of a thorough knowledge of agricultural science, as well as of shrewd business ability. When these requisites are met in the head of a farming interest and to them is added the progressive and inquiring tendencies of the present day, a harmony should result as gratifying generally as it is financially. Such a combination of interests is found on Mr. Thoelke's farm. He has erected substantial buildings and installed modern improvements, making his property both attractive and valuable, and its ownership places him among the well-to-do men of the township. While he has devoted his interests generally to ordinary operations in the field of agriculture, he has also made somewhat of a feature of stock raising, and his hogs are always in demand and bring a good price in the markets. He belongs to the Guardians of Liberty, and adheres to the faith of the Lutheran Church, of which his parents were members and in the belief of which he was reared. While in political tendencies he has a leaning toward republicanism, he is apt to disregard party ties on occasion and give his ballot to the man whom he deems best fitted for the office, without taking party affiliation into consideration.

In 1900 in Sumpter Township, Mr. Thoelke was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Gattwinkle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gattwinkle, old and honored residents of Sauk County and well known among the agricultural element. To this union there were born two children, namely: Henry, born in 1902, who died at the age of six years; and Harold, who was born in 1907, and is now attending the public schools of Prairie du Sac. Mrs. Thoelke died in October, 1907, and in 1909 Mr. Thoelke married Miss Louise Franke.

GusTAV Rudy. One of the substantial and highly regarded citizens of Sauk County is Gustav Rudy, who is an enterprising and progressive farmer and stockraiser in Excelsior Township. He was born in Germany, February 7, 1865. His parents died in Germany. He attended school there until twelve years of age and then accompanied his uncle, Gottleib Jesse, to the United States and to Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Gustav Rudy remained with his uncle until he was eighteen years old and then went to work for Doctor Koch and remained in the physician's employ for five years. After that he had considerable farm experience in different sections. For a time he worked in Minnesota and then came back to Sauk County for two years, after which he went to South Dakota and was a farmer there for five years. He had left good friends, however,' in Sauk County and then returned here and has never seen any reason to leave this fine section of country since. Mr. Rudy has become a man of ample fortune here through his own industry and thereby has set a good example. For eight years after his marriage he rented a farm and then bought 100 acres in Excelsior Township. Subsequently he sold twenty acres of his estate but retains eighty acres and this land he has brought to a high state of cultivation and also has developed a valuable herd of Holstein cattle. He has taken pride in his surroundings and has erected fine and substantial buildings and keeps them in repair.

born in Germany in 1867 and was a daughter of John and Henrietta (Henke) Dahlke, well known residents of Excelsior Township, Sauk County. Mrs. Rudy died December 23, 1915, a faithful wife, devoted mother and kind neighbor. Three children survive her : Elma, George and Martha. Mr. Rudy and family are members of the German Lutheran Church at Ableman. In politics he is a republican and at times has been elected to township offices, especially being identified with the public schools. He has been a member and clerk of the school board for thirteen years and through his careful, methodical methods, the school records are well preserved.