Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1918 (part 8 of 20)

Charles L. Brewster has been a resident of Sauk County all of his life and for thirty-five years has made his home at Baraboo. He is a product of the farm, having been born on his father's homestead, located one mile south of the City of Baraboo, in the township of the same name, August 28, 1850, and is a son of William and Lavina (Frey) Brewster. His father was born in New York, July 7, 1823, and as a lad accompanied his parents to Indiana, where his father died when he was seven years of age. From the Hoosier state he came with his mother to Wisconsin in 1844, settling on a farm in Sauk County and here engaging in agricultural pursuits. Here he met and married Lavina Frey, who was bom in Virginia, in 1819, and who had come to Wisconsin in 1846 with her grandparents, having lost her parents when she was a small child. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Brewster settled on the farm one mile south of Baraboo, and there the father developed a good and paying property and established himself as a substantial and progressive agriculturist. He was a man much esteemed in the country community, and when he retired from active pursuits in 1882 and removed to Baraboo he left numerous friends behind who had come to know him as a man possessed of admirable traits of character and a business citizen whose word could be depended upon absolutely. Mrs. Brewster died seven years after locating at Baraboo, and Mr. Brewster then went toi live with his son, Charles L., with whom he resided up to the time of his death. William Brewster was one of Baraboo 's most remarkable old men. At the age of ninety years he was still active in body and alert in mind, and until within two weeks of his death, when he was ninety-three years of age, was up and about, in the best of health and spirits, and taking a keen and enjoyable interest in all that went on about him. In January, 1916, he contracted an attack of grippe and this disease was the cause of his death two weeks later. As in the country, he had made numerous friends at Baraboo. There were three children in the family of William and Lavina Brewster, namely: William, who went to Missouri as a young man and there died; George E., who is a resident of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin ; and Charles L.

Charles L. Brewster received his education in the public schools of Sauk County and was reared to agricultural pursuits, in which he continued to be engaged until he came to Baraboo in 1882. In the fall of that year he began teaming and followed that business for three years. During this period he became connected with city contract work and thus was placed in a position where he became a candidate for the office of street commissioner, to which he was duly elected. With the exception of three years Mr. Brev/ster continued to act in that capacity until 1916, discharging his duties in a manner that won him public commendation and confidence. In 1916 he became the republican candidate for the office of city treasurer, and was duly elected to that position, in which he has given the best of satisfaction. Mr. Brewster has fully lived up to his pre-election promises and is conscientiously trying to put the city's finances in the best of condition, his work thus far having been especially pleasing to the taxpayers. During his long residence at Baraboo he has been identified with various movements for the public welfare, and the city has few more public-spirited rnen. Fraternally Treasurer Brewster is identified with the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.

Mr. Brewster was married first in 1871, to Miss Emmeline Prothew, who died in 1900, leaving one child : Harry Z., who resides at home. In 1902 Mr. Brewster was again married, taking as his bride Miss Elizabeth Myers, of this city.

Henry Steinhorst. The Steinhorst family, of which there are worthy representatives in Sauk County, has belonged to this section for over a quarter of a century and its members have a reputation for successful farming and for good citizenship. Henry Steinhorst, who owns one of the best improved properties in Excelsior Township, was born in Germany June 29, 1871, and accompanied his parents to the United States in 1890. He was the eldest in a family of eight children borii to Frederick J. and Johanna Steinhorst.

Frederick J. Steinhorst was born, reared and married in Germany. His occupation was farming in his native land and it continued to be the same after reaching Wisconsin with his family in 1890. For two years after reaching Sauk County he worked at Ableman, then came to Excelsior Township and bought eighty acres of land, and during the remainder of his life succeeded in clearing the greater part of it. He made improvements and carried on farming and stock raising with success. He was a faithful member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics was a republican. His death occurred in December, 1914, at the age of sixty-eight years. His eight children are : Henry, Bertha, August, Herman, Helena, Minnie, Fred and Emma, all of whom survive, as does also his widow, who still lives in Excelsior Township.

Henry Steinhorst was educated in his native land and after reaching Sauk County remained with the family at Ableman for two years, in the meanwhile working bj^ the month for farmers in the neighborhood. Being industrious and frugal, by 1899 Mr. Steinhorst found himself in a position that made it possible for him to buy a farm of eighty acres. The only improvement on the place was a log shanty and there was no well, but these disadvantages did not discourage him and very soon better conditions were brought about. At the present time Mr. Steinhorst has cleared fifteen acres of his heavily timbered property and has added thirty-one acres, has excellent buildings and has invested in good stock. Through his own efforts he has brought about his present prosperous state and is numbered with the best farmers of Excelsior Township.

Mr. Steinhorst was married October 30, 1896, to Miss Emma Eickert, who is a daughter of Fred and Mina Eickert, who came to Sauk County from Germany in 1892 and now resides at Ableman. Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Steinhorst have had nine children, as follows: Edward. Henry.

Herbert, Helda, Walter, Essie, Clara, Otto and Alace, the two last named being- deceased. Mr. Steinhorst is a republican in politics but takes no active part in political campaigns and seeks no public office. With his family he belongs to the Lutheran Church.

Fred Steinhorst, the youngest brother of Henry Steinhorst, was born on the old family homestead May 25, 1888, and now owns this property, on which he has built a fine barn. Like his brother he is a republican and belongs to the Lutheran Church.

John P. Doll is a native of Sauk County, spent a number of years as a practical farmer, and knows farming conditions and farming people. This knowledge has proved of immense value to him in his present business as a dealer in agricultural implements at Prairie du Sac. In point of continuous service he is one of the oldest business men of that village.

Mr. Doll was born in Honey Creek Township of Sauk County June 28, 1865. He is a son of George and Ursula (Masseger) Doll. George Doll was born in Germany in September, 1824, and came to America and located at New York City in the '50s. Ursula Masseger was born in Switzerland in 1828 and when she came to America she also located in New York City. Not long afterwards they were married in the eastern metropolis, and seeking- opportunities to get a home of their own they came to the free and unsettled AVest and became pioneer settlers in Sauk County. Here George Doll bought a farm and spent many years in its improvement and cultivation. In 1888 his noble wife and the mother of the children died on the old place, and being left practically alone he then removed to Prarie du Sac and lived in that village retired until his own death in 1912. He and his wife had seven children: Mary, deceased ; Barbara, wife of Leonard Meyers, of Baraboo ; George and Caroline, deceased; Emma, who died' in infancy; John P.; and Emma, living at Prairie du Sac.

The early environment of John P. Doll was the old homestead farm in Honey Creek Township. Besides getting an acquaintance with the farm and field, all its pleasures and pastimes and duties, he also attended the public schools. In 1886, at the age of twenty-one, he began an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade and followed it regularly as a means of livelihood for five years. With this experience he removed to Prairie du Sac and on February 7, 1891, opened his place of business as a dealer in agricultural implements. He has prospered in every way and his trade has been constantly growing. He owns his building and warehouses and has a splendid stock of implements.

Mr. Doll is a republican in politics. He served as a member of the council at Prairie du Sac four years, and was deputy sheriff under Sheriffs Myers and Nicholsen. Fraternally he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and belongs to the Evangelical Church. Mr. Doll was married June 17, 1897, to Miss Mary K. Witwen, of Troy Township. Her father, Martin Witwen, was one of the early settlers of Sauk County.

Mr. Nehring was born in Germany March 7, 1870. His father, Henry Nehring, died in the old country in 1872. Later his widow, Mary, married Henry Steve. Mr. Henry Nehring of Sauk County was the only child of his father and mother. His mother and her second husband came to Sauk County in 1894, locating on a farm in Baraboo Township, where she died in 1915, at the age of fifty-seven. Mr. Steve is still living in Baraboo. They had four children, named Charles, Herman, Paul and Alvina, the daughter the wife of August Steckman.

Mr. Henry Nehring- grew up in Germany, had only the advantages of the common schools, and was early inured to hard work and the earning of his living by the sweat of his brow. When he came to Sauk County in 1895 he worked out on farms at monthly wages, and subsequently rented a tract of land. It was only by constant thrift and much self denial that he was in a position to acquire the surplus with which in 1900 he bought eighty acres in Freedom Township. He has since developed that land into a good farming proposition, has put up good buildings, and has cleared away many acres of timber and is now practically free of debt and has much to show for his efforts. Mr. Nehring is a successful stock raiser and keeps high grade Shorthorns and Durham cattle. He is a republican in politics and has been a member of the local school board.

In 1896 he married Miss Christina Kapelka. She was born in Germany April 2, 1864, a daughter of Henry and Tena (Schroeder) Kapelka. Her parents were born and married in Germany and in 1893 her father came to Sauk County, her mother having died in Germany. Mr. Kapelka is now living with Mr. and Mrs. Nehring and is seventy-five years of age.

Besides the farm and material possessions with which he is surrounded Mr. Nehring has the satisfaction and pleasure of a happy family of six children, all of whom are living. Otto, the oldest, married Mabel Dawson, of Baraboo, and has two children, Harold and Alfred, these being the only grandchildren. The other children, all at home, are Anna, Leonard, Elsie, Ida and Frederick.

James Brennan. The claim of James Brennan upon the good will and consideration of his fellow townsmen in Baraboo Township rests upon many years spent in progressive and individual work as an agriculturist, upon a meritorious record as a citizen, and upon his activity in promoting education and kindred accompaniments of advanced civilization. While born in New England, he has resided in Sauk County since his infancy, and much of his life has been passed on the farm which he now occupies and a large part of which he himself cleared from its virgin state. He has led an honorable career, and is accounted one of the representative and substantial citizens of his community.

Mr. Brennan was born at Stamford, Connecticut, April 8, 1866, and is a son of Thomas and Alice (Terry) Brennan. Thomas Brennan was born in Ireland, in 1824, and was a young man when he came to the United States, settling in Connecticut, where he met and married Alice

Terry, who had been born in 1834, also in Ireland. While an energetic and industrious worker, Mr. Brennan met with little suceess in his ventures in the East, and in 1867 brought his family to Wisconsin, where opportunities were brighter and better for the achievement of prosperity. Locating in Sauk County, he settled on a farm in Baraboo Township, the one that is now occupied by his son Walter, and here passed the remainder of his life, devoting himself whole-heartedly to the pui'suits of the soil and working out a well-earned success. Mr. Brennan had the confidence of his community. He was a practical agriculturist who believed in using the tested methods, but was never disdainful of the newinventions and discoveries as relating to his vocation, and was always willing to give any method a trial that sounded feasible. As a citizen, while not thrusting himself forward in taking part in the civic life of the locality, he quietly did his share in advancing movements for the general welfare. His original purchase, a modest tract, was added to from time to time by his good business management and shrewd investment, and at the time of his death, in 1909, he owned 320 acres of good land, with modern improvements and good buildings. JMrs. Brennan died on the homestead in 1895. They were the parents of the following children: John, who is deceased ; Edward ; Thomas, deceased ; Alice and James, twins; Mary; Walter, operating the old homestead; William; Bridget, deceased ; Ella, and Peter. Mrs. Brennan, the mother of these children, was a sister of John Terry, a substantial farmer and livestock raiser and head of one of the best known families of Baraboo Township. He was the father of Joseph P. and James M. Terry, mentioned elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Brennan 's father was Edward Terry, who was an early resident of Sauk County and spent his last years at the Brennan home, where he died at the age of eighty-two.

The old homestead furnished the scene for the rearing of James Brennan, for he was but one year old when brought to Sauk County, and his boyhod was passed amid the surroundings of country life. He was reared to habits of industry and frugality and secured the usual country school education in Baraboo Township, and when his studies were completed applied himself to the vocation of his father. Eventually he became the owner of a farm of eighty acres of his own, of which he has himself cleared twenty-eight acres and on which he has erected good buildings and made many improvements. He uses modern methods and appliances in his work, and has made a study of the science of farming, so that he is able to gain a full measure of profit from the labor which he extends upon his land. In addition to his general farming operations, in which he has been very successful, he carries on also the breeding of thoroughbred cattle, making a specialty of Holstein animals, for which he finds a ready and profitable market. Mr. Brennan is a stockholder in the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company and has an excellent reputation in business circles. He is an adherent of democratic principles in his political views, but has not entered actively into political life, nor has he been a seeker for public preferment. With his family he belongs to the Catholic Church, which he attends at Baraboo.

who was born in Winfield Township, Sauk County, October 22, 1876, a daughter of Albert and Catherine (Casey) Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins was born near Burlington, Vermont, in 1844, and was fourteen years of age when, in 1858, he accompanied his parents, Albert and Eliza Hawkins, to Sauk County, the family settling in Winfield Township, where Mrs. Brennan's grandparents both died. Albert Hawkins still owns the original Hawkins farm, but is now retired from active pursuits and makes his home at Reedsburg. He is a democrat in politics and while living in the country was a man of importance in local affairs, several times tilling the otSce of chairman of Winfield Township. He and the members of his family belong to the Catholic Church. Mrs. Hawkins, who also survives, was born in New York City, in 1851, and was a girl when brought to Wisconsin by her parents. She and her husband had three children: Clara, who is now Mrs. Brennan; Nellie; and Albert, who is operating the farm that was the original home of the family in this state. Mr. and Mrs. Brennan are the parents of four children, namely : Alice, Grace, Ella and James.

Robert M. Dickie represents a family well known in Freedom Township. His parents were both born in Scotland, where they were married. In 1850 they settled in Milwaukee and five years later in Freedom Township, where Robert M. was born in 1861. In 1890, having owned several' farms and becoming "well fixed," the father moved to South Dakota to make his home with a married daughter. There were eight children in the family, of whom Robert M. was the sixth. He owns 100 acres of the old homestead and is engaged in both general farming and stock raising,

Mrs. Ella A. Cooper. The Cooper and Cummings families have been known and honored in Sauk County since pioneer times. Membership has comprised faithful men and devoted women, worthy workers in whatever vocation life has called them, and the community is the better for the presence of such excellent families.

It was in the Village of Prairie du Sac, in which she now lives, that Mrs. Ella A. Cooper was born in 1851, a daughter of Albion Paris and Cynthia Cummings. Her father was a native of the State of Maine and her mother of Vermont. Mrs. Cooper grew to womanhood in Prairie du Sac, was liberally educated in the local schools, and for one year attended a private school in Jefferson, Wisconsin. In 1880 she married Mr. Jesse Cooper.

Mr. Jesse Cooper was born in New Hampshire, son of AVillard and Amelia (Perry) Cooper. Both parents were natives of Vermont, and they moved to New Hampshire when Jesse Cooper was about eighteen years of age. He had a district schooling and for two years attended an academy, at the same time working on the farm. He finally became engaged in merchandizing and was postmaster in his New Hampshire town for ten years. After his marriage he took his bride back to New Hampshire, but in 1885 returned to Prairie du Sac and became active manager of Doctor Cummings' drug store. That business he conducted with success until his death in 1897. Mr. Cooper served two years as county assessor and one year as town clerk, and was also a member of

Mrs. Cooper's father was born at Albany, Maine, in 1820, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cummings, both of whom were natives of Maine. Albion P. Cummings grew to manhood in his native state, attended school there and by private reading and work in hospitals acquired a thorough proficiency as a physician and surgeon. He began practice in Vermont, and lived in that state two years and was married there. He then moved west and located at Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, where he began the practice of medicine and continued it actively until about six months before his death. Doctor Cummings was for years perhaps the most familiar figure in his section of Sauk County. Every one esteemed him for his ability and loved him for the kindness and wholesomeness of his character. He practiced over a country manj^ miles in extent, and in the early days endured countless hardships in making his professional calls. He was always looking after the welfare of his patientSj not alone in physical health, but in a material and moral sense. He was a democrat, but was liberal in politics and fair-minded and broad in all the relations of his life. Doctor Cummings' wife was born April 21, 1822, in Temple, Massachusetts, but moved to Canaan, Vermont, when three years of age. She received her education there and it was her home until her marriage. She came west to Wisconsin and located in Prairie du Sac in 1850 and remained a resident of that village until her death on December 26, 1914.

Mrs. Cooper has one son, Louis Albion Cooper. He was bom in New Hampshire in' 1881, but when about four years of age came to Sauk County with his parents and grew to manhood in Prairie du Sac. He attended the local high school and common schools and for two years was in college preparatory work at Morgan Park Academy. In 1901 he entered Harvard College at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was graduated in 1905. For two years he taught at Rockford, Illinois, and then after a year in the University of Chicago he became professor of English literature in the Ohio State University at Colum.bus. He is a man of brilliant intellect and of high qualifications as an educator. He was connected with the Ohio State University six years, and his seventh year was spent in study at Columbia University of New York City. He has since returned to Columbus, Ohio, where he is now located.

GuSTAV Federmann. One of the heavy landowners and successful farmers of Sauk County is Gustav Federmann, who operates and owns 375 acres situated in Troy Township. He was eight years old when his parents brought him to Wisconsin and he has lived here ever since and long has been one of Sauk County's excellent citizens.

Gustav Federmann was born in Germany in 1865. His parents were William and Wilhelmina (Hoppe) Federmann, who came to the United States and to Wisconsin in 1873. For the first three years the father worked at the mason's trade but he wanted a farm and selected land in Sauk County, purchasing eighty acres in Troy Township, which his son now owns. To this first tract he later added forty acres and still later bought 160 acres. Later he sold 120 acres, but all the rest of his land he cleared with the assistance of his sons. There was a large amount of grubbing to be done and only oxen were strong enough to use in breaking up the virgin land. In that section and at that time there was comparatively little farm machinery in use and Mr. Federmann can remember the early years on the farm when the scythe and the cradle were the main harvesting implements. Both parents died on the homestead, the father in October, 1906, and the mother on April 1, 1917. They were worthy people and faithful members of the Evangelical Church. They had four children, namely : Albert, who resides with his family in Spring Green Township ; Bertha, who lives in Troy Township, is the wife of Frank Schukuecht; Gustav; and Lizzie, who is Mrs. Robert Fuchs, lives in Troy Township.

Gustav Federmann has always lived on his present farm and has made many improvements here. He helped his father clear the land and was his main dependence for many years. He has acquired a large amount of land, all of it valuable, and now owns in addition to the homestead another farm of 280 acres. He has always carried on general farming, has done some dairying and raises first-class stock. For a couple of years Mr. Federmann also operated a lime kiln. In all his undertakings he shows good judgment and is rated with his township's most substantial men.

Mr. Federmann was married in 1892 to Miss Frederika Schaefer, and they have a family of nine children, as follows : Gustav, Minne, Bertha, Edward, George, Samuel, Benjamin, Alfred and Verna, all of whom are living. Gustav is managing a farm that adjoins that of his father. Mr. Federmann has given his children all the advantages in his power and his sons and daughters have developed into men and women who are credits to their parents and the community. The entire family belongs to the Evangelical Church. Mr. Federmann has not at any time been active in politics, but in neighborhood aifairs, when something must be done to benefit the whole community or immediate help must be given in case of poverty or sickness, his fellow citizens know he can be appealed to and that his help is certain and his advice timely and practical.

Sidney E. Wakefield. Upon commerce rests the prosperit}^ of nations as well as communities. Buying and selling, meeting the demands of producer and consumer and so regulating trade that injustice be done to neither and that progress and contentment result, make up so large a portion of the world's activities and engage the efforts of so many people that the business man in commercial fields is one of the most necessary units in the scheme of things. The lumber business, with its various connecting industries, is a commercial relation absolutely necessary to the development of any section. At Baraboo one of the leading industries in this field is the Deppe-Carpenter Lumber and Produce Company, much of the success of which is due to the sterling abilities of its vice president, Sidney E. "Wakefield.

Mr. Wakefield represents the type of business men who have been the architects of their own fortunes. Lie was born on a farm in Adams County, Wisconsin, August 7, 1862, and is a son of Thomas S. and Emily (Temple) Wakefield, natives of Reading, Massachusetts, who came to

Wisconsin in 1860 and located in Adams County. The little family circle was broken up by the demands of the Civil war, for on August 12, 1862, Thomas S. Wakefield enlisted for service in the Union Army, joining a Wisconsin volunteer infantry regiment. After fighting for several years he was granted a furlough and visited his home, but that was the last seen of him by his loved ones, for after he had returned to the front he was captured in battle by the enemy and cast into the awful prison stockade at Andersonville, where he succumbed to starvation and disease and died in August, 1864. There were four children in the family : Marian, who is the wife of H. L. Cornell, of Chicago; Arthur, deceased, who as a lad of seven years was taken by his grandmother to New York, and then on a trip around Cape Horn to Oakland, California, living there until twenty-one years of age and then returning to Kilboum City where he died in 1888 ; Sidney E. ; and Thomas, who is a well-known pharmacist of Oak Park, Illinois. Mrs. Wakefield, who came to Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1866, died at the home of her son, Sidney E., at Baraboo, in 1914.

Sidney E. Wakefield was only two years of age when his father died, and he and his brother were reared on the farm of their grandparents in Adams County. He was educated in the public schools and reared to agricultural pursuits, and when not yet eighteen years of age, March 1, 1880, began working for his stepfather, Charles Pelton. He remained in the latter 's employ until his marriage, December 25, 1888, to Alice Davenport, who was born in Sauk County. They began their married life on a rented farm in Sauk County, on which they resided for ten years. At the end of that time they changed their residence to Eeedsburg, where Mr. Wakefield entered the employ of the Morgan Building Company, a concern with which he was connected for about thirteen years. In January, 1912, Mr. Wakefield came to Baraboo and became identified with the George Carpenter Lumber Company, and in May of the same year, when the organization and incorporation of the Deppe-Carpenter Lumber and Produce Company was effected, he became vice president of the new concern and manager of the Water Street yards, the down town department, the West Side yards being on Second Avenue. This company deals in lumber and produce, carries a complete stock of lumber and building material and buys produce of all kinds. Mr. Wakefield is thoroughly experienced in his line of work and is well known to the trade and an energetic and progressive lumber and produce man. Mr. Wakefield is a prohibitionist, is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, which he joined in 1889, and to the Sons of Veterans.

Mrs. Wakefield is a daughter of Calvin P. and Mary (Gillespie) Davenport, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of Scotland. She was brought to the United States as a child of eight years and married Mr. Davenport in New England, from which locality they came to Sauk County as pioneers. Mr. Davenport, who passed his life as a farmer, died about 1910, while his widow still survives and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Wakefield, at Baraboo. They had five daughters and two sons. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Wakefield taught in the public schools for about six years. She is active in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Sunday school and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. While residing at Reedsburg Mr. Wakefield was superintendent of the Sunday school for about ten years. He was also the first president of the South' Side Social Center Club and acted in that capacity for two years. Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield have two sons : Lawrence S., bom January 26, 1896, now in Waco, Texas, at Camp McArthur with Company A, One Hundred Twenty-eighth Infantry, U. S. N. G. ; and Sidney John, born October 25, 1911.

Otto J. Dahlke. Sauk County has been fortunate in the class of citizens who have made their permanent homes here and it can take a special pride in those families who came from Germany. An excellent representative of this class of local citizens, though himself a native of Wisconsin, is Otto J. Dahlke of Excelsior Township. Mr. Dahlke started as a farmer with limited capital and by hard work and good management has made one of the -excellent farm homes of his locality. He was born in Milwaukee October 14, 1874, a son of John and Henrietta (Henke) Dahlke. John Dahlke, who was born in Germany December 14, 1836, was the only son of his parents, Christoph and Rose Dahlke, both of whom died in Germany. Henrietta Henke, who was born in Germany July 7, 1842, was the only one of her parents' children to come to the United -States. She was a daughter of Adam and Louise (Wintland) Henke. Her father was born December 2, 1812, and her mother in April, 1812. Adam Henke was a shepherd in Germany. The Henke children were : Ernestina, deceased ; Amelia, deceased ; Henrietta ; Peter August, deceased ; Augusta, who still lives in Germany ; William, in Germany, and Julius, deceased.

John and Henrietta Dahlke were married in Germany, September 4, 1864, and on June 1, 1873, they arrived at Milwaukee and from that city moved to Sauk County on April 19, 1875, when Otto was about six months old. Here the father found employment in grubbing out stumps and brush, working as a farm hand, and in 1879 he bought the place known as the David Jones farm of forty acres in Excelsior Township. He was a most capable man and a hard worker and through his efforts as a farmer he provided liberally for his family. He is now living retired at the age of eighty-one. Politically he has identified himself with the republican party and is a member of the German Lutheran Church. There were eight children in the family : Bertha, deceased ; Henrietta, deceased; Augusta, deceased ; Hulda ; Otto J. ; Emma, at home with her parents; Mary, who died in infancy, and Juliu.s, deceased.

Otto J. Dahlke grew up on the home of his father in Excelsior Township and at the same time benefited by regular attendance at the local schools. Responsibilities beyond his age were early thrust upon him. and when only thirteen he was working on a farm and milking fourteen cows night and morning. It is very evident that the success he now enjoys was well earned. For three years he worked on farms in Illinois, but on February 1, 1905, bought a hundred acres in Fairfield Township. He has since sold twenty acres of this, and his well developed farm of

1912 he built a good country home, and has instituted many other improvements, all the buildings being the "result of his management, except the barn. He is a republican without political aspirations, and he and his family are members of the Lutheran Church at North Freedom.

On February 19, 1902, Mr. Dahlke married Miss Emma Milke, who was born in the Township of Greenfield, Sauk County, December 3, 1879, a daughter of Carl and Henrietta (Dickow) Milke. Her parents were both natives of Germany, married there, and in 1876 came to Greenfield Township of Sauk County. Here her father worked as a farm hand, rented land for a time, and in I88I1 bought a place of eighty acres in Excelsior Township. His prosperity as a Wisconsin farmer was gained on that farm and he died there August 4, 1905, at the age of sixty-nine. The old homestead is now occupied by his son Gustave. The widowed mother passed away in December, 1916, at the advanced age of eighty. Their children were : Bertha, deceased, who married Ferdinand Effinger, of Baraboo ; Julius, deceased ; Amelia, wife of August Killian, of Baraboo ; Minnie, wife of John Ziemke, of Sauk City ; Annie, the present wife of Ferdinand Effinger, of Baraboo ; Gustave, on the old homestead ; Charles, and Emma, Mrs. Dahlke.

Mr. and Mrs. Dahlke have four children, the older ones still in school, and it has been their pride and pleasure to give them the best advantages both at home and in local institutions. The record of this family is : Ethel, born July 1, 1903 ; Lucile, born July 28, 1905 ; Lilah, born July 29, 1909, and Floyd, born June 3, 1915.

Samuel Babington. A resident of Sauk County nearly half a century, Samuel Babington earned his position in the esteem of the community by work as a hard headed and practical farmer, and after success came to him in that line and it was possible for him to slacken somewhat the pace he had pursued he was dignified with a number of positions of trust and responsibility, and for many years has almost constantly been engaged in the performance of some public duty. He is now living retired at Prairie du Sac and is mayor of that little city.

Mr. Babington was born in Canada, June 9, 1845, of Irish parentage. John and Ann (Marlin) Babington were both born in Ireland, the father in 1801. After their marriage they immigrated to Canada, where John Babington died in 1871, at the age of seventy. His widow subsequently came to Wisconsin and died in Eau Claire in 1903, at the age of eightyone. John Babington was a farmer. He and his wife had eight children : John, deceased ; Elizabeth ; Samuel ; William ; Ann, deceased ; Mary ; James, deceased, and Charlotte.

His early years Samuel Babington spent in Canada on a farm. He attended the public schools there, and was about twenty years of age when he came to the United States in September, 1865. His first experience in this country was in the oil district around Titusville, Pennsylvania, but he soon went west to Illinois, and worked on a farm one season. In November, 1866, he arrived in Wisconsin, at Mazomanie, in Dane County. The date of his arrival in Sauk County was March 15, 1867, when he located in Troy Township. He began as a farm worker and with growing experience and means he subsequently bought a farm in sections 33 and 34, township 9, range 5. That old homestead he still owns and it is a highly productive and valuable place, consisting of 380 acres. In the earlier years of his ownership it was practically wild land, and Mr. Bahington through this farm has contributed something of lasting and permanent value to the County of Sauk. Besides making the land productive he built substantial buildings and for all time to come this farm is destined to produce crops that will help feed and maintain mankind.

In 1907 Mr. Babington retired from active farming and has since lived retired at Prairie du Sac. He owns a good residence in that town. He is one of Sauk County's prominent men in the creamery industry, he has been one of the officers of the Wisconsin Creamery at Sauk City for twenty-seven years. He was one of the organizers and the creamery opened for business April 1, 1890.

In matters of politics Mr. Babington has always been a democrat. He was chairman of the board in Troy Township for fourteen years and assessor four years, and for three years side supervisor. In 1905 the county board appointed him supervisor of assessments and he served seven years, until the office was discontinued. In April, 1911, he was elected mayor of Prairie du Sac and the people were thoroughly satisfied with his administration of local affairs and kept him in office continuously from that date to April, 1917. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Babington was married in March, 1872, to Miss Thomazine Patterson. Mrs. Babington was born in New York City, March 15, 1851, a daughter of John and Mary (Thornberry) Patterson. In 1854 the Patterson family came west and located in Troy Township of Sauk County and soon acquired the farm which Mr. Babington now owns. Mr. Patterson died here in 1877, while his wife had passed away in 1869. Their five children were : John H., Thomazine, Robert A., Mary Jane and William G., all of whom are still living.

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Babington consists of six children, all living and most of them established in homes of their own. Their names are: John T., Eobert S., Maud M., Bruce D., Lottie Ann and Edith Pearl.

Herman Weinke has for many years cultivated some of the broadest acres and conducted one of the finest farming establishments in Freedom Township. While he now enjoys a large degree of prosperity, Mr. Weinke began life in comparatively humble circumstances and at one time rented some of the land that he now owns.

He was born in Germany, July 13, 1851, a son of Christian and Minnie (Schoenke) Weinke. His mother died in the old country in 1869. The father afterwards accompanied his sons to America and spent the rest of his days in Sauk County, where he died in 1896, at the age of eighty-four. There were five children: Charles, Herman, Ernest, Prank and Louisa, the daughter dying at the age of twenty years.

afterward he came to Wisconsin, spending his first year in Caledonia Township, of Columbia County. He then removed to Freedom Township, and for a time was employed with a construction gang in building the Northwestern Railway through this township. In 1881 he rented the farm he now owns and in 1883 bought it from the firm of Brown & Avery. He carried heavy burdens of debt for a number of years, but each year saw him a little further ahead and nearer to the maturing of his ambitious plans. Under his hands the land was cleared and put into cultivation, substantial buildings arose, and though he is still a hard working citizen he might retire with an ample' competence for all his future needs. Mr. Weinke has done much with thoroughbred livestock, handling high grade Norman horses. Shorthorn cattle and Duroc Jerse.y hogs.

Politically he is a republican, but has always been too busy with his farm and business affairs to look favorably upon office holding. He and his family are members of the Lutheran Church at North Freedom.

In 1877 Mr. Weinke married Miss Rosa Mielke. She was born in Germany in 1859, and died at their home in Freedom Township, November 12, 1913. Her father, Ferdinand Mielke, came to Sauk County in 1870, locating in Freedom Township, where he and his wife spent their last years. Mr. and Mrs. Weinke were the parents of nine children, all of them still living and named in order of birth, George, Mary, Herman, Louisa, William, Sophia, Ernest, Frederick and Arthur. They have been given liberal advantages in schools and Ernest has made an exceptional record in school work. He finished the grade schools in North Freedom, is a graduate of the Baraboo High School, the LaCrosse State Normal, took the training course at Reedsburg and is now engaged to teach in Merrimack for the year 1917-18.

Frank Morley. Without undue disparagement of the labors of others along the same line, a great deal of credit can be given to members of the ]\Iorle.v family for the improvement and development of the better and more substantial grades of livestock in Sauk County. The Morleys have been in the livestock business for many years and through at least two generations in this county. One of the most successful of them is Mr. Frank Morley of Baraboo Township, who for years has had a fai-m noted for its Percheron horses and Shorthorn cattle. Some of his Percherons have taken premiums at the State Fair and his Shorthorn cattle have likewise been premium winners. Mr. Morley is an excellent judge of thoroughbred livestock and has contributed to the permanent advantage of the county as well as to his own profit by his in this line.

The Morley family have long been leaders in the dairy industry of the county, and Mr. Frank Morley is president of the Excelsior Cooperative Creamery Association of Baraboo, having held that office since the association was organized.

He was born March 4, 1868, on the farm that he now owns in Baraboo Township. He is a son of Nelson W. Morley. He grew up on the farm, attended local public schools and the Baraboo High School, and for three years was a teacher, though that was not destined to be his real vocation.

For a number of years he has been farming and raising- stock and in 1915 he bought the fine old homestead of his father, consisting of 240 acres. He was one of the organizers of the Excelsior Cooperative Creamery, of which he is president, and is also a stockholder in the Bank of Baraboo. Politically Mr. Morley is a republican, and for about nine years has been supervisor of Baraboo Township. He and his family attend the Presbyterian Church.

In 1894 he married Miss Alma Knapp, who was born in Sauk County in 1873, a daughter of C. H. and Prussia Knapp. Her people were early settlers in Sauk County and both her parents are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Morley have two children: Alvin J., born November 9, 1900, and now a student in the Baraboo High School, and Kenneth, born August 13, 1912.

William Haseltine is a prosperous retired farmer residing on the family homestead three miles south of Baraboo which his father, Rev. '>V. B., a Methodist minister, purchased in 1855. At one time Mr. Haseltine was a well-known breeder of short horn cattle. Besides being a substantial land holder, he has investments in the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company and other rural enterpri.ses, and has served in numerous township offices.

Henry Stelter. On the roster of the men of Sauk County wlio have won success by industry, good management and hard and well-directed is found the name of Henry Stelter, whose home is now located at Prairie du Sac. Mr. Stelter had no particular advantages in his youth, in fact he was compelled to make his own way in the world practically from the time when he entered his 'teens. The success that he has won - and it is not inconsiderable - is therefore all the more creditable. During the thirty-six years that he has been a resident of Sauk County he has always borne an excellent reputation for honorable and straightforw'ard dealing, and at Prairie du Sac, where he has lived a retired life for the past four years, he is consfdered a valuable and useful citizen.

Mr. Stelter was born in 1851, in Hanover District, Germany, where his parents, natives of that locality, spent their lives on a farm. Henry Stelter was educated in the public schools, and at the age of .seventeen years left the parental roof and made his way to London, England, in order to escape the enforced military service of Germany. In the English capital he worked at whatever honorable employment he could find, and at the end of fourteen months found himself possessed of .sufficient funds with which to take passage for the United States, where he considered opportunities better for the advancement of a young and ambitious man. Shortly after his arrival in this country, in 1870, he made his way to Platteville, Grant County, Wisconsin, and, having no capital, hired out to a farmer as a hand. During the following eleven years he worked faithfully and steadily for several agriculturists of that locality, all the time carefully hoarding his earnings with the end in view of one day becoming the proprietor of land of his own. In 1881, at the time of his marriage, he saw his ambition come true, for in that year he bought 160 acres of Sauk County land from Halom Baxter, for wliich he paid $45 per acre. This farm continued to be his home during a period of thirty-one years, and was developed from a partly improved and not very productive tract into one of the fertile, model farms of the district. Using modern methods, directing his energies along certain well defined channels, and making use of every opportunity, he gradually erected good buildings and installed improvements, so that his farm became not only a paying investment but one of the valuable properties of the county. In 1913, feeling that he had earned a rest from his years of hard labor, he came to Prairie du Sac and erected a comfortable home, in which he has since resided in retirement. At the time of his coming he disposed of his farm, passing its labors and responsibilities on to younger shoulders.

Mr. Stelter was married in 1881 to Miss Margaret Riechers, who was born in 1861, in Germany, a daughter of John and Margaret (Kuehlenkamp) Riechers, natives of Hanover, Germany. The parents of Mrs. Stelter came to the United States in 1865, and in the same year took up their residence on a farm in Grant County, Wisconsin. After a short stay there they removed to Lafayette County, Wisconsin, where they purchased one-half section of land, in the cultivation of which Mr. Riechers was engaged until his death December 8, 1873, at the age of fifty-three years. The mother survived until April 11, 1899, being seventy-eight years of age when she died. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Riechers were as follows : John Herman, deceased, who was a resident of Nebraska ; 'Justin, residing in Wisconsin ; Justice, deceased ; Dorothy, who lives in Wisconsin ; Dick, also a resident of this state ; William, who is deceased ; John and George, who live in Wisconsin ; Margaret, now Mrs. Stelter, and Henry, who lives in Colorado.

Mr. and Mrs. Stelter are the parents of three sons and three daughters, as follows : Katherine, who is the wife of Chris Gruber, and lives on a farm in Sauk County; Sena, who is the wife of George Kingston and lives at Madison ; Margaret, who is the wife of Arthur Wagner and lives at Prairie du Sac ; Albert, who married Leta Bernhart and js the proprietor of a livery business at Prairie du Sac ; Clarence, who is single and working at the carpenter trade, and Howard, who is taking a commercial course in a business college at LaCrosse. Mr. and Mrs. Stelter and their children are members of the Lutheran Church.

Jesse Wilfred Frenz. To tireless energy and industry the inevitable law of destiny accords a successful career, and in no avenue of endeavor are there greater opportunities for advancement than in the legal profession, a vocation whose devotees must, to be successful, be endowed with inherent talent, sterling rectitude of character, power of resource and well-directed purpose, while equally valuable assets are thorough training, close and careful application and broad general knowledge. Among the legal men of Sauk County who fully meet all these requirements is found Jesse Wilfred Frenz, who during his six years of practice at the Baraboo bar has gained an enviable success for so young a man.

Mary Ann (Fauls) Frenz, natives of Dane County, Wisconsin, who were married there and shortly thereafter located at Madison. From the capital city they came to Baraboo in 1888 and here they have resided ever since, being among the well known residents of this city. Mr. Frenz, the elder, is prominently known among railroad men and has . been a passenger conductor in the service of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad since 1882. There were three children in the family, namely : Jesse Wilfred, Millard A. and Lillian M., wife of Lieut. Lyle C. Clarke, United States Army.

Jesse W. Frenz was two years of age when brought to Baraboo by his parents and this city has been his place of residence ever since with the exception of several years while he was gaining his .education. He first attended the public schools, being graduated from the Baraboo High School in 1905, when nineteen years of age, and following this entered the Beloit (Wisconsin) Business College, where he completed a full course of study in 1906. After some preparation he began his legal studies at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduated from the law department of that institution in 1911, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and immediately returned to Baraboo, where he has since continued in practice. He was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in July, 1911, and is allowed to practice in all Wisconsin and Michigan courts. Mr. Frenz 's law practice has been general in character and his ability is evidenced in the large cases which he has handled, for important litigated interests are never placed in unskilled hands. His success may be said to be the outcome of close study, a thorough preparation of his cases, a keen analysis of the facts and a logical application of the law that bears upon and governs them. He holds membership in the Wisconsin State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Commercial Law League of America, and occupies a high place in the esteem of his brother practitioners.

Mr. Frenz has always. taken a keen and active interest in the welfare of his adopted city and has been identified with movements that have made for its advancement and welfare. For two years he was secretary of the Baraboo Commercial Association and in this capacity worked energetically with other public-spirited citizens in the furtherance of civic projects. He was reared in the faith of the Congregational Church, to the movements and work of which he contributes liberally. Mr. Frenz is well known in fraternal circles, being a member of Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is worshipful master; Baraboo Chapter No. 49, Royal Arch Masons; and Maraboo Commandery No. 28, Knights Templar, of the Masonic order: and the Equitable Fraternal Union.

On September 30, 1914, Mr. Frenz was united in marriage with Miss May E. Yager, of Madison, Wisconsin, and they are the parents of two sons : William Yager and Bruce Wilfred Frenz.

Frederick August Langenhan is a veteran citizen and business man of Ableman, now retired. For many years he was the genial village blacksmith, and he prosecuted his labors with such effective energy

The Langenhan home in Ableman is in many respects the most interesting and conspicuous place of the village. He owns a block of land where his home stands and he has expressed his enthusiasm for many years in the cultivation of flowers and rare plants. In the grounds around his home are over 5,000 bulb plants, more than 125 rose bushes and he is famous for his dahlias, of which he has some sixty varieties. Around the house stand some evergreen trees which he planted himself, and in that quiet and beautiful retreat he and his wife have everything that make life enjoyable.

He was born in Germany November 23, 1849, and his parents spent all their lives in the old country. He grew up in his native country, attended the German schools, and also began learning the trade of gunsmith with his father. When he was eighteen years of age lacking a few months he arrived at the City of Baltimore, Maryland, May 1, 1867. Just a year later to the day he arrived in Sauk City, Wisconsin. At Sauk City he completed his apprenticesliip at the blacksmith's trade, and after working there a few years moved to Ableman in 1876. He has thus been a resident of this town for over forty years. He engaged in the general blacksmith business, had a wagon shop and for a time was interested in a harness shop. These various interests he prosecuted with success until he had sufficient for his future needs and retired from business in 1904. Besides his home he owns considerable other property in Ableman, including the site of his former business enterprise.

Mr. Langenhan was one of the first trustees of the village when it was incorporated, and for seven 'years was president of the school board. He has worked for the community because it is the home where he has meant to spend all his years, and his efforts have been from a disinterested patriotism and loyalty. In politics he is a republican.

Mr. Langenhan was married May 1, 1877, to Miss Ida Schlegelmilth. She was born in Sauk City, Wisconsin, February 19, 1857, and that date indicates the pioneer place of her family in this county. She is a daughter of Henry and Louise Schlegelmilth, who came from Germany and located at Sauk City as early as 1852. Her father in the old country followed the trade of cabinet maker, and in Wisconsin he was chiefly a millwright. His death occurred in Sauk City in 1893 and his wife passed away there in 1885. Mrs. Langenhan was the youngest of their three children. Her two brothers are Charles, of Clifton, Wisconsin, and Bernhard, of St. Louis, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Langenhan have three children : Walter was educated in the schools of Ableman and the Sauk City High School and is now employed as an operator at Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Selma, the only daughter, has had a brilliant scholastic career. She graduated from the Reedsburg High School, and then entered the University of Wisconsin, from which she has received the degrees Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. She is still pursuing her research studies in the university. Her husband is E. J. B. Sehubring, a prominent attorney of Madison, and member of the firm of Jones & Schu- bring. Henry August, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Langenhan, was graduated from the Ableman schools, attended the Reedsburg High School, and was graduated from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in chemistry. In 1916 he received the Master's Degree from the University of Wisconsin in the chemistry department. He is now employed as an instructor in the university in the pharmacy department, and also as a chemist. Henry A. Langenhan married Bertha Arnold, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Bert Giegerich is one of the veteran newspaper men of Sauk County and for many years has been editor and proprietor of the Sauk County News at Prairie du Sac.

Mr. Giegerich is still in the prime of life, and almost his entire career has been spent in this county. He was born at Sauk City May 13, 1876, a son of Bertram and Eva Giegerich, his father a native of Germany and his mother of Switzerland. Mr. Giegerich grew up in Sauk City, attended the public schools there, and as a boy he entered the office of the Pionier am Wisconsin, a German weekly newspaper published in Sauk City. In that office he learned the printer's trade, and familiarized himself with the general duties of a country newspaper. This paper was subsequently consolidated with the Sauk City Presse, now the Sauk City Pionier Presse. For a number of years Mr. Giegerich worked as a compositor with this paper and subsequently had some experience in the book department of the Madison Democrat. In 1899 he and Mr. William P. Just bought the Sauk County News from E. J. Browne, and they conducted the paper in partnership for ten years. In 1906 Mr. Giegerich bought Mr. Just's interest, and has since been sole proprietor of this old and influential journal.

Mr. Giegerich is an active Mason and was master of Eureka Lodge No. 113, Free and Accepted Masons, at Prairie du Sac in 1905 and again in 1910-11. He is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Equitabl-e Fraternal Union. He and his wife are members of the Prairie du Sac congregation of the Evangelical Association.

Mr. Giegerich was married at Sauk City May 11, 1911, to Miss Ida Meng, of, Sauk City, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meng, wh6 were pioneer Swiss settlers in the Town of Troy, Sauk County.

Ralsa a. Morley. Morley is a family name in Sauk County around which have gathered many associations due to long residence, success in business affairs, and honorable participation in those movements and activities which are most vitally connected with the general welfare of the community.

A prominent member of this family was the late Ralsa A.- Morley. He was born in Lake County, Ohio, April 15, 1834. His father was Thomas Morley, mention of whom is made in other connections in this work. Ralsa A. Morley came to Sauk County with his people when about sixteen years of age. He subsequently went back to Ohio and attended Oberlin College. He and his father drove from the State of Ohio a band of 1,000 sheep to Excelsior Township of Sauk County. These sheep were owned by I. W. and Russell Morley.

Ralsa A. Morley finally joined his brother, Nelson W., and together they bought 320 acres of land in Baraboo Township from their father and engaged in business as farmers and stock raisers. He finally acquired the interest of his brother and the old farm constituted the scene of his useful activities until his death in 1896. For a number of years he had carried on the business of dealing in stock on a large scale, and drove many herds out of Sauk County to market at Milwaukee and Mazomanie and frequently drove hogs to Kilbourn City. A large part of the land owned by the Morleys in Sauk County was acquired direct from the Government.

Ralsa A. Morley was for several years a member of the town board and its chairman, and superintended the construction of the insane asylum. He was a republican, and for some years served as chairman of Baraboo Township, being always deeply interested in politics. He was an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On January 2, 1866, he married Miss Rose M. Clark, who was born in Walworth County, Wisconsin, November 19, 1842, and is still living on the old farm with her two sons, Rollo and Robert. She is the daughter of Charles A. and Ruth E. (Sanford) Clark. Her father was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, May 24, 1816, and her mother in Rensselaerville, New York, November 15, 1815. The latter came to Walworth County in 1840. Charles A. Clark when a child went to Indiana with his parents, Benjamin T. and Betsey M. Clark, who subsequently removed to Sauk County, Wisconsin, where both of them spent their last years. Charles A. Clark went to Walworth County about 1840, was married there, and in 1848 he and his wife came to Baraboo, where they owned the first frame building in that little village. Mr. Clark was a mason by trade. Later he took up a farm in Baraboo Township and died there May 3, 1865. Mrs. Morley 's mother lived until 1901. Their children were: Rose Mary; Caroline Augusta and Charles Augustus, twins, both deceased ; Ruth Beatrice, deceased ; Burgess Buell, of Carthage, Missouri.

Rollo Clark Morley was born on the old homestead in this county September 2, 1867, attended the local schools and the Baraboo High School, and for a number of years has lived at home with his mother, and with his brother, Robert, has had active charge of the farm. These brothers are well known breeders of Shorthorn cattle, an industry that was established here by their father on October 1, 1878. They have also bred Percheron horses. Rollo C. Morley was for ten years township assessor, and for the past twelve years has been a director of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company. Politically he is a republican.

Ralph Fred Morley, who was bom December 12, 1872, is a graduate of the Baraboo High School, later attended the University of Wisconsin, graduated from Lake Forest University at Lake Forest, Illinois, and also from the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago. He is now a successful attorney at Tulsa, Oklahoma. He married Augusta Moore, and they have one child, Lucile.

Charles H. Stoddard. At the age of eighty-six Charles H. Stoddard still goes about his work, active and vigorous, in a manner that bespeaks a wonderful store of youth and vitality. Mr. Stoddard is one of the oldest business men of Prairie du Sac, where he located over sixty years ago. The record of his career and of his family has a most appropriate place in the history of Sauk County.

He was born at Coldbrook, New Hampshire, July 10, 1831, and has in his veins the stock of the sturdy New Englander. His parents were Asa and Sarah (Little) Stoddard. His mother died in New Hampshire in 1842. She was survived by the following children : W., deceased ; Charles H. ; Abigail and Calvin, both deceased ; Emma, who died after her marriage to Hugh Shull. Asa Stoddard subsequently married Philanda Frizzle. By that marriage there were three daughters : Sarah, Lueinda and Fannie, Sarah being now deceased. Asa Stoddard and his second wife came out to Sauk County in 1862 and located at Prairie du Sac, where he lived out his remaining years. At his death in 1884 he was eighty-two years old. His second wife died in 1885.

Charles H. Stoddard grew up in the environment of the typical New Hampshire home, attended the public schools there, and had his early experiences and training for life on a farm. It was on the 14th of July, 1855, that he obtained his first view of Prairie du Sac, the village which has known him and honored him during all the subsequent years. When a youth of nineteen, in 1850, he had become an employe of the Grand Trunk Railroad. He took up the carpenter trade and worked on bridges from Montreal to Island Pond and thence to Portland, Maine. After removing to Prairie du Sac he continued his trade as a carpenter and also that of a mover of buildings, an occupation he had already followed to some extent back in Vermont. Some of the oldest buildings in and around Prairie du Sac testify to the skill of Mr. Stoddard as a contractor. He is still in business, and his work now is fortified by the many years of experience. He has kept for years all the facilities needed for moving buildings of every kind, and is probably the best known man in that business in Sauk County. For about forty-six years Mr. Stoddard has lived in one of the substantial homes of Prairie du Sac.

In politics he became a republican at the organization of that party and was steadily affiliated with its policies and principles until recently, when he has chosen to vote largely independently. Some years ago he was a member of the council. For forty years he was active in the Good Templars organization, and the principles of that order express his own theory and practice as to the use of liquors and tobacco. His parents were active members of the Free Will Baptist Church and Mr. Stoddard himself has served as a supply minister of that denomination.

son died at Roekford, Illinois, at the age of thirty-four. He had become a successful teacher and for a number of years conducted a commercial college at Rockford, building up the school until it had an enrollment of 500 students.

On July 3, 1870, Mr. Stoddard married' for his second wife ]\Iiss Florence Higday. She was born in Iowa County, Wisconsin, October 12, 1850, a daughter of George and Clarinda (Hatch) Higday. Her mother was a daughter of Jonathan Hatch and wife, who came to Sauk County as early as 1844 and both died at Lyons in that county. Jonathan Hatch married for his second wife Polly Johnson, sister of William Johnson, the man who plowed the first furi-ow in Sauk County. George Higday, father of Mrs. Stoddard, was born in New York State, while his wife was a native of Ohio. He came to Evansville. Wisconsin, at a very early day and was married at Prairie du Sac. Subsequently he located at Dover in Iowa County, and was a merchant and manufacturer there. In 1855 he removed to LaPorte County, Indiana, and while there he went into the army. He died in LaPorte County in 1864, at the age of fifty-three. In 1865 his widow and family returned to Prairie du Sac, and she died at the home of Mr.. Stoddard in 1889 at the age of sixty-three. In the Higday family were four children : Florence ; Elizabeth ; Caroline ; and George, who died when about five years old.

Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard have four children, Lawrence C, who was born at Prairie du Sac November 2, 1872, married Lucy Young, and Their three children are Ralph, Cecil and Lyle. George Bruce, who was l)orn May 27, 1875, married Elizabeth Stillwell and has two sons, Charles Bruce and James Henry. Roy Charles, born July 7, 1881, married Alma Buehler and has a son, Lynn. Myrtle, born December 16, 1884, is now a proficient linotype operator in the Democrat office at ^ladison. Thus in his declining year's Mr. Stoddard has both the retrospect of an honorable business career and also a home made delightful hy children and grandchildren.

John IT. Claridge, of Reedsburg, is a native of Franklin Township, Sauk County, and came to the city when he was twenty-one years of age, in 1881. For a period of twenty-four years he was in the contracting business with G. W. Morgan under the title of the Morgan Building Company, and the firm constructed some of the largest buildings at Reedsburg. Mr. Claridge was afterward engaged in the produce business and for the last six years has been a real estate dealer. He has also been assessor at Reedsburg for there years, and is widely known in fraternal circles. His father, Thomas W. Claridge, is an old settler, and among his fond and proud recollections is the part he took as one of the body guards of the martyred Lincoln. A detailed biography of the elder Mr. Claridge is published elsewhere. John H. Claridge has four sons - the eldest a practicing physician and surgeon, another studying medicine in Chicago, a third serving in the national army, the youngest a school boy, but all anxious to "get to the front."

tion of this sketch is now spending his declining' years in comfortable and contented retirement at Baraboo. Mr. Paddock passed his active years as an agriculturist and was the owner of a large and well-cultivated farm, which he had developed through the application of intelligent and well-directed methods. He has been successful in a material way and is looked upon as a good citizen and a representative man of a flourishing community.

Mr. Paddock was born in Onondaga County, New York, May 17, 1843, being a son of Daniel and Jan (Van Loon) Paddock, the former a native of New York and the latter of Pennsylvania. While a resident of New York the father was connected with canal boating, but after coming to the West he devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He was married in New York, and in 1844 brought his family to Illinois, where he spent three years in farming, then moving on to Baraboo. He soon succeeded in securing 160 acres of United States Government land, which he later traded for another tract of like acreage in section 31, Baraboo Township. There his death occurred in 1871, when he was fifty-nine years of age, while Mrs. Paddock survived him for a long period and passed away at the home of her son, George J., at Baraboo in 1897, being then eighty-four years of age. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Paddock was a republican. There were six children in the family : Ann, who is deceased ; George J., of this notice; Edwin B., deceased; Cynthia J.; Orlando F. and Laura J., the last two named being deceased.

George J. Paddock's educational instruction was obtained through attendance in the primitive log schoolhouses of his day and locality. He was a scholar at the first school in Baraboo Township, and was graduated from a log shanty schoolhouse, following which he returned to the farm. When the Civil war came on his patriotism was aroused, and after several months of fighting he offered his services, in October, 1861, and was accepted as a private of Company A, Nineteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer -Infantry. With this organization he fought until September, 1865, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Paddock's service was largely in Virginia and North Carolina, and in the former state he was in the fighting around Richmond and participated in the fall of that city. In all he was in thirty-seven, battles and came through the war without a wound, although he had numerous narrow escapes and on one occasion his hat was shot from his head. His army record showed him to be possessed of the qualities of courage, steadfastness and fidelity to duty, and when he returned to the affairs of civil life he applied these qualities there, with the discipline he had received as a military man, to the tasks which daily presented themselves. The result was that his operations proved successful and lie eventually became the owner of the home farm. This he cultivated prosperously until 1891, when he sold out his holdings and came to Baraboo. Here he purchased a whole block on Ninth Avenue, where his home is now located at No. 506. He lives a quiet, retired life, content in being able to enjoy the fruits of his enterprise and early industry in congenial surroundings, among his many friends, and holding the

On October 10, 1867, Mr. Paddock was married to Wealtha Force, who was born in Dane County, Wisconsin, March 18, 1850, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Kelchbaugh) Force, natives of Connecticut who came to Wisconsin in 1846. After developing a good farm, Mr. Force sold it and moved to near the home of Mr. Paddock at Paraboo, where he spent the rest of his life and passed away in 1884, when eighty-five years^ of age, Mrs. Force djdng two years later, aged sixtyfive years. They had children as follows:" John, who died during the Civil war ; Sarah ; Deborah ; Lydia, deceased ; Wealtha ; Daniel W. and Elizabeth, deceased. Three children have been bom to Mr. and Mrs. Paddock : Edwin D., formerly a railroad man and now living with his father; William J., an engineer, who died June 25, 1915, aged forty-three years ; and Ernest G.

Ernest G. Paddock, youngest son of George J. Paddock, was born on the home farm in Baraboo Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin,. May 9, 1876, and was reared there, in the meantime securing his education in the public schools. At the age of twenty years he began railroading, subsequently took up dray work, and in 1907 went back to the Northwestern Railroad in the capacity of locomotive fireman. In 1912 he was promoted to engineer, a position which he still holds. He is a republican, attends the Congregational Church and is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers and the Order of Foresters.

In September, 1896, Mr. Paddock was married to Miss Annie Brewster, who was born in Baraboo Township, Sauk County, daugliter of Uriah, and Anna (Miller) Brewster, natives respectively of New York and Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster came to Wisconsin during the Civil war period and bought a farm in Baraboo Township, on which Mr. Brewster died March 26, 1914, aged eighty-six years. J\Irs. Brewster had died November 3, 1897, aged fifty-one years, leaving a family of five children: Edward, Charles, Annie, ]\Iary and Alice. To Mr. and Mrs. Paddock five children have been born, all of whom survive: Hazel Alice, a graduate of the Baraboo High School and of the Oshkosh State Normal School, class of 1917 ; Raymond, a graduate of the public schools of Baraboo; Laura, who is in her second year of high school ; Eva, who is in seventh grade in the Baraboo schools ; and Adda May, who is in the fifth grade.

William C. Holtz. Diligent and ever alert for his chance of advancement, William C. Holtz has progressed steadily along the road to success until he is recognized today as one of the foremost farmers of the younger generation in Excelsior Township. Here he is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens, who honor him for his ability and for his fair and straightforward career.

William C. Holtz was born in the Empire of Germany, October 17, 1881. His parents, Henry and Augusta (Schloff) Holtz, were bom and reared in Germany and there was solemnized their marriage. They resided in the land of their birth until May 27, 1883, when they packed their belongiugs and started out with their family to face a new life in a new country. They came direct to Wisconsin and settled in the Village of Ableman in Sauk County. Mr. Holtz decided to take up farming and located on a fine landed estate of 315 acres within the city limits. He cleared his land and erected a fine house and barn, ])oth of which are still standing and which are now occupied by the son, William C, subject of this review. Mr. Holtz is now sixty-two years of age and, having retired from active participation in business affairs, he lives with his son on the old homestead. His beloved wife died April 19, 1898, aged thirty-nine years, and she is survived by the following children : Bertha, William, Fred, Adolph, Emma, Paul, Anna and Walter.

When William C. Holtz arrived in Wisconsin with his parents he was an infant of but two years of age. What schooling he received as a boy came in the intervals of a rugged life of farm work and consisted of such facilities as were afforded in the country schools of that period. He was seven years old when his father purchased the farm on which he now lives and, being the oldest son in the family, he early began to assist his father in its work and management. In 1909 he bought the farm from his father and it now comprises 267 acres, of which sixty-seven acres are within the village limits of Ableman. He devotes his attention to general farming and stock raising and in both those lines has won marked success.

In 1911 Mr. Holtz married Miss Amanda Behnke, a daughter of Henry Behnke, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this edition. They have three children : Willis, Evan and Loraine.

Mr. Holtz and his family are members of the Lutheran Church in Ableman. His interest in political questions is deep and sincere and he gives an earnest support to republican principles, believing that the platform of that party contains the best elements of good government. He was assessor of Ableman for five years and served three terms as one of the supervisors of the village. He is conscientious in the performance of duty and is generous and sincere in his friendships.

John M. Kindschi is well and favorably known all over Sauk County, and for the past eighteen years has served as commissioner of the poor. At the urgent solicitation of his fellow citizens he has accepted other places of trust and responsibility. For many years he was a progressive farmer in Prairie du Sac Township, but is now living retired in the Village of Prairie du Sac.

It was in Sumpter Township on a farm that he was bom February 2, 1860. He is a son of Michael and Verena (Gasser) Kindschi. Bo(-h parents were born in Switzerland, the father in 1830 and the mother in 1833. Michael Kindschi was a son of John and Margaret (Accjla) Kindschi. Margaret Accola died in Switzerland. The paternal grandfather, John Kindschi, brought his family to Sauk County in 1846, locating at Prairie du Sac and buying the farm previously owned by John L. Accola. John Kindschi lived out the rest of his useful life there and died in 1884, at the age of eighty-four. He and his wife had four children : Michael, deceased ; Peter, deceased ; Kate, living

Verena Gasser, mother of John M. Kindschi, came to Sauk County in 1856, and a year or so later she married Michael Kindschi. They located on a farm in Sumpter Township, and by their industry and economy they prospered and at one time owned three farms. Michael Kindschi spent his last years in Prairie du Sac Township, where he died March 5, 1916, at the age of eighty-tive. His wife had passed away in 1896, aged sixty-three. Their children were John M., Jacob, George, Christ H., Michael J. and Mary, wife of John M. Meisser, living in Montana.

Within the limits of Sauk County John M. Kindschi has had his chief experiences in life and has worked out a substantial career. He was reared and educated in the county, had a farm training, and farming became his regular vocation. For many years he operated successfully a 160 acre place in Prairie du Sac Township, and after his children had grown up so as to relieve him of the heavier responsibilities he removed to the Village of Prairie du Sac in 1915 and bought one of the fine homes of that place, where he now enjoys every comfort and advantage.

In politics Mr. Kindschi has always been affiliated with the republican party. He has served as township clerk, as chairman of the board of supervisors five years, having been township clerk four years, and since 1899 he has looked after with that carefulness and .efficiency which are characteristic of him the interests of the poor in his capacity as poor commissioner. Mr. Kindschi and family are members of the Evangelical Church.

He was married in 1884 to jMargaret M. Ragatz. Mrs. Kindschi, who died January 29, 1912, leaving her husband and four children, was born in Troy Township of Sauk County in 1860, a daughter of George and Caroline (Meyer) Ragatz. The Ragatz family were among the early pioneer settlers of Sauk County and both parents are now deceased. Mr. Kindschi had four children : Ella C, wife of Henry G. Witwen, of 1239 North La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois ; Emma S. ; Julia J. ; and Arthur H., who died October 8, 1917, at the age of twenty-two years.

John Voeck. The Voeek family has been a factor in the prosperity and development of certain favored portions of Sauk County for nearly half a century. Mr. John Voeck was fifteen years of age when he came to the county and has made his career one of great prosperity and of substantial community influence in Freedom Township.

He was born in Germany June 24, 1853, a son of Christian and Augusta (Krengel) Voeck. His father was born in the old country in 1813 and his mother in 1823. When they brought their family to Sauk County in 1868 they settled in Freedom Township with a son-in-law, William Duramer. Mr. Dummer is now living in Baraboo. Later Christian Voeck resided with his son John and died at the latter 's farm in 1901, having survived his wife who passed away in 1899. Both were active members of the Baptist Church. They had a family of four children : Fredericka, wife of William Dummer ; Charles, a resi- dent of Baraboo, where for nearly forty years he has been an employe in the railroad roundhouse; John; and Minnie, deceased wife of George Urbon.

Mr. John Voeck received all his education in Germany. On coming to Sauk County he was able to take a hand in cultivating the fields and doing other work, and he began his career without money and with nothing to depend upon except his industry and an ambition to make the most of his opportunities. He worked out by the day and the month, was employed by a railroad for a time, and subsequently began farming as a renter. His purchase of land was forty acres in Freedom Township adjoining the place where he now lives. This was sold later and he then worked in the stave and sawmill at North Freedom, being head sawyer. After some fifteen years of this employment he bought the Sproul farm of 155 acres, and was owner of that well known place for nine years. He then sold out to the Iron Mining Company, retaining only ten acres on which he built a comfortable house and a good barn and managed it as a small farm until April, 1916, when he traded for the place he now, owns in Freedom Township, comprising 120 acres. This farm is producing a big contribution to the general agricultural total of Sauk County and he also raises considerable stock.

Mr. Voeck is a republican and for four years was supervisor of Freedom Township and for the past four years has been township assessor. He is a member of the German Baptist Church of North Freedom.

March 1, 1880, Mr. Voeck married Miss Katie Mueller. Mrs. Voeck represents a family of prominent pioneers in Washington County, Wisconsin, where sbe was born April 10. 1862, a daughter of Henry J. and Margaret (Swentener) Mueller. Her father was born in Germany June 26, 1836, and her mother in Switzerland March 23 1887. Her father died in August, 1900, and her mother on May 6, 1917, at the age of eighty years. Henry Mueller came to Washington County, Wisconsin, when a child, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph MueUer, who spent the rest of their lives in that county. Mrs. Voeck's mater a 1 grandfather was Michael Swentener and her grandmother, Kate Swentener. The Swentener family established their home in the wilds of Washington County in 1846, the grandparents spending the rest of their lives there. Henry Mueller and wife were married in Washington County in April, 1856, and they have thirteen children, named Margaret. Peter, Katie, Henry, Minnie, Lydia, Tillie, Carl, Nellie, Freda, Mary, Benjamin and Arthur. All of these are still living except Carl, Mary and Arthur. Mrs. Voeck's parents were active members of the Baptist Church, and her father was a local minister in that denomination for twenty-five years. He enlisted with a Wisconsin regiment and served three years in the Union army. He was a very prosperous farmer and besides his possessions in Wisconsin he owned a farm in Minnesota and also one in Kansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Voeck have some very capable children and also some grandchildren. The names of their children in order of birth are Arthur, William, Lillian, Gilbert and Edna. Arthur, who was born

February 19, 1884, married Edith Wilzewske and they have one son, Kenneth. "William, born May 14, 1887, was accidentally killed May 2, 1914. He married Alice Lange and left a son, William. The daughter Lillian, born June 23, 1892, is the wife of Otto Wilzewske, and they have two children, Marie and "Walter. The son, Gilbert, was born December 19, 1894, and the youngest child, Edna, was born January 21, 1906, both of them still being at home.

John C. Bunn. The successful baking business of John C. Bunn, which is now in its twenty-second year at Baraboo, has become known as one of the reliable and substantial commercial enterprises of this thriving Wisconsin city. The business was primarily founded upon honesty, excellence of goods and a fair representation of the same, and this policy has continued to be its watchword, therein lying in a large degree its success. Its proprietor, John C. Bunn, is an industrious man of business who has done much in a commercial way to contribute to the welfare of his city, and who also, in thQ capacity of alderman, has since 1912 had a share in shaping its civic government.

John C. Bunn was born in 1865, in Germany, being a son of Christian and Mary (Petschow) Bunn. The family came to the United States in 1884, locating at Arlington, Wisconsin, where three years later the father died, being aged about fifty-two years. Mrs. Bunn survived until 1909, and was about seventy years of age when she passed away at Beloit, Wisconsin. They had a family of six children, namely : John C. ; Ernest ; Freda, who died in 1913 ; Charles ; William ; and Frank.

The education of John C. Bunn was secured in the schools of Germany, and in that country he was apprenticed to the trade of baker, a vocation which he learned thoroughly. In 1883 he immigrated to the United States and first located at Arlington, where he resided for two years, then going to Madison, where he secured employment at his trade. During 1887 and 1888 he traveled through Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas, working at his trade, and in the latter year returned to Wisconsin and began his first independent venture, a bakery at Hartford, Washington County. After li^ years in this business he sold his establishment and turned his attention to farming in Columbia County, Wisconsin, but in December, 1894, gave up agricultural pursuits and, returning to Madison, again began working at his trade. In February, 1896, he took up his residence at Baraboo, at the same time establishing his present business at No. 114 Walnut Street. Under his able management this has become one of the most successful commercial enterprises in the city and his business has grown and developed yearly until his goods are in demand not only throughout Baraboo, but in the surrounding country and in a number of the smaller towns and villages nearby. He enjoys an excellent reputation in business circles for fair and honorable dealing, as well as for good citizenship. A democrat in politics, for some years he has been interested in the campaigns of his party, and has accepted public service as a part of the responsibilities of citizenship.' He served as a member of the board of county commissioners of Sauk County for three years, and in 1912 was elected alderman of Baraboo, a capacity in which he has since acted very efficiently. He and Mrs. Bunn are consistent members of the Lutheran Church.

Mr. Bunn was married in 1893 to Miss Caroline Behrend, who was born August 25, 1870, in Germany, a daughter of W. and Mary Behrend. Mrs. Behrend died in Germany, in 1874, and Mr. Behrend was left with three children : Carl, Caroline and Bertha, the last named of whom died in September, 1884. For his second wife he married Mary Baden, who died in 1889, in Germany, without issue, and his third wife was Mary Buscke, by whom he had three children : Ida, who died in Germany; William and Freda. Mr. and Mrs. Behrend came to the United States and located at Madison, Wisconsin, where he continued to be engaged in business until his death in 1907, when he was seventy-two years of age. His widow still survives him and makes her home at Madison. Mr. and Mrs. Bunn have no children.

Stephen N. Kinsley, who is now living a retired life at Reedsburg in his eightieth year, was one of the founders of Loganville, as will appear by reference to the sketch of that place in the general history. He comes of combined Vermont and New York stock, and when twentytwo years of age migrated from the Empire State to Racine County, Wisconsin, and then, in 1854, to the site of the Village of Loganville near Narrows Creek, this county. He had only been preceded to that locality by Chauncey P. Logan and R. B. Balcom. Mr. Kinsley had taken up 200 acres of Government land in that locality, divided the water power with Mr. Logan and at once joined him in the erection of the sawmill, and in the following year became the first postmaster of the place. As will conclusively appear from the historical sketch of Loganville, Mr. Kinsley played as large a part in the development of the village as Mr. Logan himself. He continued to operate the sawmill for a number of years, improved much of the land he had purchased, and did not dispose of his interests at Loganville until 1899. when he located at Reedsburg. In 1856 Mr. Kinsley married Miss liucy A. Seamans; one of the first to teach in the county, as was he himself. His first wife died in 1868 and he married a younger sister. Miss Elizabeth E. Seamans, who had also come on from New York to teach school. He has had four children by each wife.

Hon. John B. Quimby was born in Ireland, in 1823, his family name being Bartlett. He was a son of John Bartlett, also a native of Ireland. John Bartlett 's mother died in Ireland when the former was five years of age, and he soon afterwards went to Canada with his father. In Canada he was adopted by John Quimby, whose family lived in Vermont, and he ever afterwards honored the family name of Quimby. John B. Quimby grew to manhood in the East, was educated in the common schools, and finally took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar and on coming west, he located at Baraboo for a short time. Not finding the opportunities he desired at the county seat, he walked across the country to Prairie du Sac and made that his home. He also taught school in Sauk City for a couple of years and in 1850 set up as a regular lawyer at Sauk City. He continued in active practice until 1890, when he retired. During these years he held the office of county clerk, was county judge two terms and state senator six years. In 1870 he bought the old Baxter

Farm, lying between the towns of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac, and spent much of his time in the country. He was widely known over Sauk County and was always active in behalf of the public welfare. He was a strong republican, a member of the Masonic Lodge, and in younger days was a Methodist, but later attended the Presbyterian Church, He died February 2, 1904,

John B, Quimby married Sarah E, Leland. She was born at Peoria, Illinois, April 10, 1837, a daughter of Cyrus and Sarah Leland, of Peoria. When Mrs. Quimby was two years of age, in 1839, her parents moved to Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. They were among the first settlers there. The surrounding country was a total wilderness and the family endured! many privations before getting well settled. In 1843 Cyrus Leland established a sawmill, which became the center of a small settlement known as Leland, in his honor. After two years he removed to Sauk City and subsequently members of the Leland family moved out to Kansas and some of them are still found in that state. At the age of sixteen Sarah Leland was given charge of a school at Sauk City, and she taught until 1856, when she married John B. Quimby. She died March 5, 1917.

The family of John B. Quimby and Sarah Quimby were eight children: John L., of'Duluth, Minnesota; Mrs. Fannie M, Boder, of St. Joseph, Missouri; Edward B., of Spokane, Washington; Jessie A., of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin; Mrs. Mildred E, Ickstadt, of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin; Cyrus L., of Sauk City, Wisconsin; Howard B., of Reedsburg, Wisconsin ; and Herbert W., of Hunters, Washington.

Oscar Altpeter has been a successful business man in Baraboo for a great many years and practically his entire career has been identified with the bottling business. He now owns and operates one of the largest bottling plants in Sauk County, and through his energy and business acumen has kept the establishment up to the highest grade of quality and extent of patronage.