Walworth County, Wisconsin - Chapter 40: Makers of the County, 1912 (part 2 of 3)

George Esterlv, son of Peter and Rachel, was burn in Lister county, New York. October 17, 1809. He was three times married. His first wife. Jane Lewis, was mother of his eight children. In [860 their step-mother was named Amelia and the children then at home were Mary, George \\ '.. Eva (now Mrs. Joseph Hubert Page), and Emma. Mr. Esterly came to Heart Prairie in 1837. where he bought nvrv than eleven hundred acres of land and in 1843 sowed three hundred acres with wheat. His mind was of mechanical turn, and here was stimulus for an inventor. By [856 bis reaping and mowing machine was fully in the local market, and in its improved forms found other markets. He attempted, by newspaper articles and pamphlets, t<> discuss and settle some of the politico-economic problem- of hi- time, and his efforts found admirers. "All in all, he was one of the most forceful and remarkable of many strong men of Whitewater." He died about [893 at Hot Springs. South Dakota.

John Allen Farnum, son of Jonathan Farnum (born 1760) and Lettice Kelly, was born in 1797; married Chloe Bennett; was at Hudson in 1842; died in north Geneva, September 23, 1858. Chloe was born in 1808; died March 3, i860. Their children, born between 1826 and 1843, were Ethan B. (married Hannah M. Rouse) ; Alonzo L. (married Nancy Dean) ; Edgar J.; Samantha B. ; Ezra C. (killed at Port Hudson) ; Lucy A.; Mary E.

Timothy Hopkins Fellows, son of Abiel Fellows, Jr., and Dorcas Hopkins, had ancestors William1, Ephraim2 :;, Abiel4. He was born in Wyoming valley March 14, 181 2; his parents removed to Kalamazoo county -in 1829; he married December 1, 1831, Eliza Ann, daughter of William Duncan and Ruth Gilmore; came to Bloomfield in 1839; served three terms in county board; was assemblyman in 1852, chosen over Moses Seymour and Dr. Hilton W. Boyce ; and in 1&53, having beaten Capt. Albert T. Wheeler and Dr. Lewis X. Wood ; died November 5. 1894. Mrs. Fellows was born October 19, 1814; died April 2^, 1887. Six of their children lived to maturity : Gilmore Duncan (married 1. I Lien Augusta Noyes; 2. Dora II. Parmelee) ; Theodore A. died February 10, 1912; Emma Jane ( Mrs. Emerson W. Peet) ; Anna E. (Mrs. Edwin F. Duncan) ; Mary H. (Mrs. Orson S. Avery) ; Catharine L. (Mrs. ' larence X. Reynolds).

Andrew Ferguson was born at Laurens, New York, September 2j, 1803; in [822 went to Cooperstown and became a tanner and shoemaker; married April 24, 1824. Lucretia S. Goodsell. In 1835. with Lewis B. Goodsell, his brother-in-law, and George Campbell, he began a general retail business in Dearborn street, near Lake street. Chicago. His attention was drawn to the Brink-Payne war at Geneva, but was at first too prudent to risk much of his capital in disputed titles. He moved his stuck of goods to Geneva, and from 1S38 to 1850 was postmaster. After six years of farming in Linn he returned, in [866, to Lake Geneva, where he died May 14, 1884. His wife had did \]iril 3, [869, and he married Mr^. Mary L Maynard, September 2, 1873. lie \\a^ of the "Old Guard" of the county Democracy, and was therefore not often burdened with official duty; but he was not therefore less esu d a- a man. llis children were Ami. Thomas Henry, Charles Eugene.

Stephen Field ( Vbner8, William6, Jeremiah'. Thomas821), son of Abner Field and Rebecca Payne, born in Windsor county, Vermont, January to, 1701 : married Mary Jordan I [790-1840), March 7. iXia; died at East Troy, January i~ , 1879. lie came to Mukwonago in [838; to section 20, in (839; was member of the Territorial Legislature in 1845. Of five children, Augusta ( 1818-1873) was unmarried. Martin married Sarah P., daughter of James Meacham and Prudence W'allis, and moved to Mukwonago. He was once a trustee of the State School for the Deaf. Mary (born 1S1 6) was wife of Andrew E. Elmore. Stephen F. married the Sage's sister, Ellen, daughter of Job Elmore. Rosanna (1825-1855) was wife of Alender O. Babcock. Mr. Field was of a Federalist family, and passed naturally to the Whigs and thence to the Republican party. He was a man of substance and of influence among intelligent neighbors and townsmen.

James Flack, son of immigrants from Ireland, born 1782, married Polly Powell, born 1792, and lived in Washington county, Xew York. Their children were John Powell, Thomas. Margaret (Mrs. Thornton), Anna (Mrs. David G. Lytic 1, Garrett, Richard B., James D.

Richard Baker Flack was born December 13, 1815; married Sophia, daughter of John Armstrong and Elizabeth Lytle, March 20, 1838; came to town of Gene-va in 1843; died at Elkhorn, October 30, 1887. Mrs. Flack was born at Lisbon, St. Lawrence county, July 5. 181 5 : died at Elkhorn, February 3, 1901. Their children were James II., Wilbur, Alarada, Emma, Elmina (Mrs. Duane D. Finch).

John Flack, a brother of James, married a daughter of Capt. Isaac Gray. Their son. James Adam, was torn in Washington county June 2, 1804; married, first, Mary, daughter of Samuel Lytle; second, Martha, daughter of Samuel Armstrong and Mary Gregg: came early to the town of Geneva; died March X, [888. Mary's children were John G. David L. and Mary Ann 1 Mrs. Daniel Gross). Martha's children were Arvilla (Mrs; Samuel Lytle, Jr.), Ellen Genevra (Mrs. Henry Delap), Lydia Marilla. Charles Mortimer (married Nellie Cruickshank).

John Gray Flack, born July 3, 1828; married December 18, 1849, Ellen M., daughter of Daniel S. and Maria Benton; she died June 22. 1900; he married Mrs. Hephsibah (Tomlinson) Allen, June 19, 1902; is yet living, at Elkhorn.

David Lytle Flack was born at Lisbon, October 1. 1830: married, first, Philinda, daughter of Richard Crandall and Abigail (Grain) Ransom; second, Mrs. Adelia (Cady) Baldwin; third, Anna Wealthy Moody; 'lied April 20, 1893. Philinda's children were Hiram Crandall, Mary A., John A.

worth4, Nathaniel5. He was born May, 1786, at Williamstown, Massachusetts; came from Vermont to Sugar Creek; died August 27, 1870. Sarah Leach, his wife, was born April 17, 1792; married in 1809; died February 14, 1867. Of their twelve children Jason, Jay and Asa came to Sugar Creek.

Jason Foster was born at Fairfield, Franklin county, Vermont, July 4, [812; married Chloe Johnson; died November 24, 1880. Chloe was born August 26, 1808; married in 1833; died April 25, 1887. Their children were Hale (married Addie Ketchpaw), Eugenia (first, Mrs. McDougald; second, Mrs. William H. Conger), Jane (Mrs. Stephen L. Russell). Sarah (Mrs. Ira Rood), Edna (Mrs. Royal Potter).

Jay Foster was born at Fairfield, April 11, 1828; married December 31, 1854, Marcia, daughter of Loyal Leach and Elizabeth Bradley; died March 1, 1905, in Lafayette. Mrs. Foster was born July 24, 1834; died May 2, 1905. Their children were: Dexie (Airs. Burton Webster). Ann (Airs. Rodney Webster), Scott, Edith (Mrs. James Tripp), Edna (Mrs. Ernest A. West), Angie (.Mrs. Homer Davis), Lora (Mrs. William Tripp), Alary 1 Airs. J. Ashton Davis).

\s\ Foster was born at East Fairfield, Alay jt,, 1830; married September 23, 1858, Clarinda L.. daughter of Samuel Holmes Tibbets and Sarah Pattee; now living in Sugar Creek. Airs. Foster was born at Hawksbury, Ontario, January iN. [839; died July 4, 1892. Their children are Sarah Emogene (Mrs. Charles II. Nott), Jennie (Airs. Charles Mosher), Samuel Tibbets (married Mary Jane Fountain).

George Gale was sun of Peter Gale, Jr., and Hannah Tottenham. His father's American ancestors were Peter8, Isaac54, Abraham32, Richard1. His mother's were Nathaniel4, Elisha3, Eliah2, Henry1. George Gale was born at Burlington, Vermont, November 30. [816; had a fair education, thanks to early tendencies i<> study; read law at Waterbury, and was admitted to the bar in [841, and then set out for Elkhorn. lie at once took an active interest in all movements in furtherance of morals, education, and community development, lie Founded a newspaper at Elkhorn and was for a year its editor. His Form Book, published in 1846, went to revised editions in [848, 1850 and [856. In 1X47 he was member of the committee on judiciar) in the second constitutional convention, In 1850 lie was state senator, chosen over General Boyd and Jeduthun Spoorier. In 1N51 he went to LaCrosse county, was county judge for a term of four years, and was circuit judge [857-63. In [853 he boughl land on which he laid out the village of Galesville, and moved for the organization of Trempealeau county. He gave ten thousand dollars toward establishing a "university'* at his new village. One of his later labors was the compilation of a genealogy of the descendants of Richard Gale and wife Mary, of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1640; and of Edmund Gale, of Boston. He died April 18, 1868, at Galesville. He had married at Elkhorn, December 5, 1844, Gertrude, daughter of Gapt. George Young and Ann W'aldron - the latter one of the innumerable heirs of Anneke Jans Bogardus. Their children were George, William, Helen.

Palmer Gardner (Sylvester11, Palmer', Sylvester4, Nicholas3-, George1), son of Sylvester Gardner and Sarah Cogswell, was born in the town of Hancock, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, February 23, 1803; his parents moved to Manlius, New York, in 18 10, where he received an academic education, and to this added a year at Hobart College. For some years he found employment as a surveyor and civil engineer in Xew York, Canada and Maryland. In 1835 he went forth to see what prospect for him there was in the West. Southern Michigan seemed already pre-empted, and he came by way of northern Blinois to southeastern Wisconsin. Returning, he equipped himself abundantly for prairie-breaking, grain-sowing and home-making. Thus setting forth, he reached by well-deliberated steps the prairie named lor himself and in April, 183d, built his cabin. He entered land in sections 24, 25, 36, of Spring Prairie. February 14. J 844. he married Margaret S.. daughter of Samuel Williams, of Manlius. She was born in 1822 and died May 19, 1871. The official list of his town shows his name but once, - as town clerk in 1847, and in the same year he sat five weeks as representative at the first session of the last Territorial Assembly. His colleague. Charles A. Bronson, of La- Grange, also retired at the end of that session. He seems to have had an unusual if not un-American indifference to public service. After his wile's death he moved to Burlington, where he married again, and died there January i'). 1888. Lucretia May. his daughter, was born November 24, 1844; died January 19, 1805. Ann- Gardner, his father's sister, wife of Willard Smith, brought her family into relationship with other old families of the eastern side of the county.

Andrew Gilbert was born January 15. 1792: married Calma Butler; came from Madison county, Xew York, to section 24. Walworth; died at Delavan, October 22, 1870. Calma was born July 9, 1793; died March 5, 1872. Their children (known) were Ethan Lamphere (married Elizafo Caroline Curtis), Phineas C. (married Elizabeth Aim Lewis), Nelson, Esther L. (Mrs. P. Dudley Kendrick), Sarah 1 Mrs. Fdwin Phelps), Charles II. (married Eliza Day). Ethan L. was a business man at Lake Geneva. Phini a C.'s wife was Hollis Latham's step-daughter. < harles II. died in military service, in 1864.

Zaccheus Phelps Gillet (Zaccheus P.5, Zaccheus4, Isaac3, Nathan- 1), son of Zaccheus P. Gillet and Elizabeth Holcomb, was born November i. 1770: came to Geneva with his sons while that town was yet young, and died August 9, 1861. His wife, Clarissa, daughter of Charles Humphrey (and Naomi Worcester), whose ancestors were Samuel43, Michael2, Samuel1. The later of these Gillets were from Litchfield county, Connecticut, and thence to Oneida county. Xew York. Among their children were Rinaldo Phelps and Charles Leander. by whom the name has been spelled Gillette. Rinaldo P. Gillette married Abigail Boughton, and their daughter, Martha Emeline, born at Victor, Xew York, March 4, 1838, and died at Elkhorn. August 1, 1899, was married to Benjamin F. Skiff. She was one of the brightest and truest of wives, mothers and friends. Charles Leander Gillette married Eliza Ann Hanna Their son, Almerin, was captain and major in the Twentieth Infantry; later railway commissioner of Kansas; and was a man with highest sense of personal and commercial honor.

Peter Colder, son of Peter Golder and Deborah Wood, was born in Dutchess county, July 5, 1819; learned to make shoes as a means to gain a legal education; went to Ontario county, where, at Victor, he married Mary Jane, daughter of Hervey llickox and Lydia West. March 3, 1841 ; came to Kenosha in 1842, and in the same year to Elkhorn. He studied law while he made and mended boots, and was admitted to practice in 1850. About 1855 he formed a short-lived partnership with James Densmore, of the "Independent." In 1857 he was elected county judge (over I lollis Latham) and held that place for twenty-nine years. Squire Smith said that "God made Peter for a probate judge," - this by reason of his qualities as a man and a lawyer: He was a life-long student and also a reader of the best things in literature, from the Atlantic Monthly to the "Republic of God.'* As a personal friend he was one not to be forgotten by any who deserves to be himself remembered. His wife, born at Victor, September 15, 1819, died at Elkhorn. December 6, 1889. Her ancestors, in father-line, were Hervey7, Asa6, John''. Samuel"1, William''. Samuel-'. William1. Judge tinkler's increasing deafness compelled his retirement. He went to Norborne, Missouri, to live with his adopted daughter. Helen Laura, whose husband, George Dana Yiles, had gone there to become a banker. Before his death. July 1 1, 1900, he was wholly deaf and blind.

in 1805; bis parents moved to Otsego county, where he was bred to the business ul" a general store, grist-mill and distillery. His father failed in all this business, and the young man took the wreck of the property and so managed it as to clear away its debts. In 1834 he went to Cincinnati^ to raise farm stuff and to sell goods, and also to begin a Christian life. He seems to have prospered so far as to enable him to come west in 1S36 with a convenient capital for new enterprises. Having lingered a year at Chicago, he came in 1838 to Geneva where he built the first grist-mill. He also bought land in section 12, Linn. He refused to grind for whisky-making and suits were brought to compel him to grind alike for Trojan and Tyrian; but in the end he held his ground. He was a man much after the manner of Mr. Dwinnell and Col. Phoenix, and like them was active in religious work and in opposition to whisky and slavery. He had some not precisely-told part in the foundation of Beloit College. He married twice, - the sisters Abbie F. ami Elizabeth Jennings. In 1850 he removed to Alinnesota, where he died.

Lewis Purr Goodsell, Charles M. his cousin, was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1800; while yet a boy his parents moved to Cooperstoun. where he reached manhood and was bred to business. In 1836 he went into retail business at Chicago, in partnership with George L. Campbell. In 1845 he came to Geneva, and built up an increasing trade. In 1852 he died at New York, whither he had gone to buy goods. His wife was Caroline, daughter of Munson Smith. His son Munson Smith Goodsell married Annie Marie, daughter of Giles T. Arnold and Iris Welton Hickox. He had also a son Henry.

Gavlord Graves, son of James X. Graves, of Springfield, .Massachusetts, was born at Richfield Springs. New York, May 22, 1804; married, first, June 18. 1824. Nancy Tuckerman, who died January 5. 1845 ; came in 1836 to East Troy, and was one of the justices appointed by Gov. Dodge in 1838; he served as town and county supervisor, and in 1846 was a member, at its last session, of the Fourth Territorial Assembly, - lower house. In [848 he was a member of the first State Legislature. March 15, 1848, he married, second, Keziah Freeman, who died in the next spring. His third wife was .Mary Ann, daughter of Isaac U. Wheeler and widow of Calvin Pike. He died August 28, 1889, at Northwood, Worth county, Iowa. His five children were of the first marriage. A daughter, I'arthenia, was wife of Christopher P. F. Chafin.

Harmon Gray, son of Dominicus Gray and Elizabeth Webb, was born at Arlington, Yermont. June 29, 1806: went as a child to Georgetown, D. C, where he was liberally educated, attended medical lectures at Columbia College, and was four years preceptor of an academy at Georgetown. Removing to Norwich. New York, he finished his professional study and in 1830 took a diploma from a county board of medical examiners. He began practice at I nadilla. where June _\ [832, he married Maria Theresa, daughter of David Finch and Mary Ann Mallory. In 1840 he came to a farm in section X.

Sugar Creek, and proved himself a master of two exacting professions. For thirty years he raised crops, attended the sick in a range of great width, voted the Democratic ticket, spoke as he thought, which was "not in the words of a master," made himself respected, and died September 19, 1895. Mrs. Gray was born in New Haven county, Connecticut, in 1809, and died October 20, 1887. Three of their children are dead: Helen (1834-1910); Jane (Mrs. George \Y. Kirchhoeffer) (1836-1876) ; Marcus (1841-1873) ; Mary (Mrs. Henry L. Mallory) lives at Elkhorn.

Isaac Gray, a captain of various services in Massachusetts regiments in the army of the Revolution, had sons Elihu, Daniel Carr and Isaac. The last named married Elizabeth, daughter of Sergeant Thomas Baker, of the same army, and had sons Thomas Baker and Elihu. Besides these were Alexander, Asahel, David, Isaac, John Flack, Phoebe, Tirzah. and possibly others. Daniel Carr Gray married Susan Crawford, and had a son Daniel Carr.

Daniel Carr Gray, Jr., was born May 27, 1813, at Lisbon, New York; married July 31, 1839. Julia Ann. daughter of John Armstrong and Mary Gregg. (It appears that Mary was also wife of Samuel Armstrong.) In 1845 Mr. Gray came to the town of Geneva, and about 1875 to Elkhorn, where he died February 13, 1895. Mrs. Gray was born at Hebron, New York, March 19, 1814; died June 12, 1897. Their only child, Marinda Lydia, is Mrs. William Kinder Chambers.

Elihu Gray, son of Isaac and Elizabeth, was born at Hebron, December [8, [801; married November 3, [826, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Armstrong and Mary Gregg; came to town of Geneva in 1846; was for some time superintendent of the county farm; died at Elkhorn, September 25, [884. His wife was born at Salem, New York, July 31, 1806; died January 22, [899. Their children were Clarinda ( Mrs. George Ross) ; Samuel Armstrong (married Emily A., daughter of James Armstrong and Elizabeth Armstrong and granddaughter of Samuel and Mary (Gregg) Armstrong); Gilbert Elihu I [838-1860) : Cordelia Jane 1 Mrs. Edward M. Latham).

Thomas Baker Gray, son of Isaac and Elizabeth, was born at Hebron, I ebruary 1. [806; married November 15. 1827. Mary Jane, daughter of Samuel Armstrong and Man Gregg;died at Lake Geneva, August 17. [900. His wife was born at Salem. December 5, iSm : died M.i\ 24, [874. Their children were Maria (Mrs. Alonzo Herrick) ; Luthera buster (first, Mrs. Miles X. Herrick, second, Mrs. James Tarbell) ; T. Baker; Elihu Wilbur 1 married Sylvia A. Goodspeed) : Hannah E. I Mrs. Charles Rogers).

ROBERT Gray was burn in Ireland; married Mary Lytic: came to Lisbon before [808; died in July, 1865, aged eight) four years. Mary died before i860. Their sons James, Alexander, Robert and William came to the town of Geneva, in near neighborhood to the afore-mentioned Gray families. James (1808-90) married Tirzah, daughter of Isaac Gray and Elizabeth Baker, June 28, 1832, at Lisbon. They left no children. Alexander married Tirzah, daughter of William Chambers and Phoebe, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Gray. Robert married Phoebe's sister Rachel. William married Alvira Ryder.

William E. Gregory died at Elkhorn in 1847. His widow, Olive, daughter of Nathaniel and Isabel Colburn, was born at Haw lev. Massachusetts, July 28. 1805, and married in 1827. She died April 17, 1891. Her children were William Elliott, who went to Galveston and died November 13, 1895, aged sixty-four years. His brother Asaph, born in 1830, died at Elkhorn November 22, 1879. Elizabeth became, first, Mrs. Michael Thompson, second, Mrs. Bowe. Louise, born 1836, went to Nebraska after her mother's death. Mr. Gregory left his family in comfortable circumstances, and Elliott prospered honorably at Galveston. Asaph was not wholly a bad fellow, though it is not recalled that he had more than one positively good quality. He would say mean true things to men whom none else cared so to affront, but who were better men than he, and who sometimes needed such reminders that they were not impeccable. He was unmarried.

Isaiah Hamblin (Barnabas3, Sylvanus4, Elkanah3, James-1) was son of Mary Bassett and was born at Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1790; married Daphne, daughter of William Haines, November 30. 181 2; moved to Kirtland, Ohio, whence he came in [836 to section 25, Lafayette, where he built his cabin and with his wife endured the first hard winter. His son-in-law, Isaac Fuller, came also. Mr. Hamblin was a disciple of the prophet of Palmyra, Finland, and Nauvoo, and in a few years after coming to this county lie followed his tribe to Utah, and died at Santa Clara in [857. Hi- wife died in 1847 >n Pottawattomie county, Iowa.

Jesse Hand ( 1783-1846) was son of Abraham Hand and M.n\ Southard. He married Lucy J. Cowles ( [783-1866). These two wire buried at Springfield cemetery. Of their children were :

2. Nathan Benton Hand, who married Marcia F. Cowles, September 1. [842; married Mary Antoinette, daughter of Nathaniel Barlow Hand and Mary Palmer, September 2^, 1851.

4. Harvey Hand born about 1805: died in 1882. His wife was named Martha. They had children Eleanor, Linnaeus, Lacon. Bernadotte, Ellery Charming, Arthur. It is not here supposed that these were all of the children and grandchildren of Jesse and Lucy.

Lemuel Hand, related nearly, it is presumed, to Abraham Hand, married Lydia Doubleday, and part, at least, of their children were born in Columbia county. New York. The best known of these were Tared. Osborn, Nathaniel Barlow, all of whom were thrifty farmers i<i Geneva.

Nathaniel Barlow Hand, born September 3, 181 0: married Mary, daughter seph Palmer and Mary Palmer in 1841 : died November 6, 1891. Wife born May 17. 1825: died March 14. 1898. They left children: Nathaniel Palmer. Mary Antoinette, Joseph Spencer.

;born Hand, son of Lemuel Hand and Lydia Doubleday. was born at New- Lebanon. Xew York. August 27. 1810: married Maria, daughter of Mo>es Cowles and Pamela Fellows, November <'. 1834: came to northern Geneva in 1842: about 1855 to Elkhorn where he died February 1. 1880. Mrs. Hand was born July 21. 1814. died January 25, i8c»o. They had seven children, of whom George Cookman was a soldier of Company A. Thirty-sixth Infantry, and died, a prisoner, at Salisbury. Mr. Hand was a thrifty farmer and - I teacher, thoroughly versed in common school studies, and a reader of the best old-fashioned books. He acquired a clear and forcible style of writing for the local papers, and was an ingenious debater. He was a prudent manager of his moderate means and was able to help his neighbors who could give good security. When money brought its less considerate owners thirty-six ]>er cent, interest lie would receive but twelve per cent., the legal rate. In later life he was a stockholder of the National Bank. He hated slavery, alcohol, and tobacco openly and vehemently. Xo negro, whether freedman or bondman, was refused food and shelter. His heart warmed :ird young men teaching themselves under difficulties. His children were encouraged to study and to earn their living by honorable effort, for he was a judicious as well as kind parent.

James Hakkxi>>. born April 21. 1770. married Man- Ware, born December 12. 1777. and died in her eighty-fifth year. They lived in Washington county. New York. Their children were Jacob: Nancy 1 Mrs. Isaac Wrigh:

They had eight children, of whom Louisa was married to Isaac, son of Henry Moorhouse, of North Geneva. Mr. Hatch was a prosperous farmer, as well as a good citizen.

.Morris Fant Hawks, son of William Hawes and Martha Wood, was born at Warwick, New York, November 12. 1797; moved to Steuben county, was a boy-soldier of the war of 1812; married May 17, 1818, Sarah, daughter of Capt. Nathan Lounsbury, and moved to Chautauqua county, and thence in 1830 to Hillsdale county, Michigan. In 1837 he came to section 34, Richmond. With a few neighbors he built the first schoolhouse on a corner of his land. He was elected member of the first constitutional convention, but did not attend its sessions. He died at Whitewater January 13, 1868. His wife had died July 28, 1859. They had nine children.

Daniel Heimbach, son of Philip and Eva. of an old Pennsylvanian family, was born in Columbia county. May 2, 1821 ; married Harriet (1831- 1901 ), daughter of Gorham Bunker and Rachel Russell; died August 7, 1902. He lived many years on his large farm in section 2^, East Troy, and his estate is still held by his children. The names Benjamin and Peter are also found - apparently these were his brothers. Part of this family spell the name "Himebach."

John Mathias Henderson, son of Dr. Edward Henderson and Mary Mathias, was born June 2j, 17S2, at Bennington, near the battlefield on which his father had served as lieutenant and then as surgeon. He, too, had experience as an army surgeon of the war of 1812. He practiced medicine at Willoughby, Ohio, and came to Elkhorn in 1849, where he died November 29, 1857. lie married June 4. 1815, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Wirt: she was born October 11, [795, and died October 1, 1823, leaving a son. His second wife was Samantha, daughter of Charles I line and Anna Baldwin, burn April 11. 171)1, married June 14. [829, died May 26, 1833, leaving a daughter. His third wife was Mrs. Hetty (Smith) Findley, who was born September 22, 1802; died December 4. 18(17. Of her five children two daughters are living. Her son Edward Henderson was a soldier of the Fourth Infantry-Cavalry, and l>ecame an officer of Louisiana colored troops.

Samuel Wirt Henderson, son of Dr. John M. and first wife, Rebecca Wirt, was born at Willoughby, December 17. 1817; studied in bis father's office and was graduated from the medical college at Cleveland, lie married, January [i, [845, Rebecca, daughter of Nathan Hicks. After practicing in Herkimer county (nine his father's home) and in northern Ohio he came in [847 to Elkhorn. He died May 6, [857, having a week before jumped from a wagon to hard ground, causing intestinal constriction or intussusception, fol- lowed by inflammation. Doctor Henderson's perception was quick, his mind active, and his action prompt, anil he was rated among the better county physicians and surgeons. He was also a working Democrat and persecuted opponents with unbridled tongue, vitriol-dipped pen. and jack-knife wickeder than tongue or pen: for it made caricatures on pine as ugly as modern exag gerations in the Sunday papers. His knife and pen were voluntary contributors to his friend Utter's paper. He left three little boys, of whom |ohn Hicks, the eldest, was a soldier of Company B. First Heavy Artillery.

Jacob Herrick, son of Joseph0 and Hannah Northrup, of Salem, Connecticut, was born in Chenango county, in 1790. His older ancestors were Joseph5, Stephen4, Samuel3, Ephraim-, Henry' of Ipswich. His first wife was Roxana Bradley. In 1841 he came to section 21, Geneva ; married Mrs. Sarah (Corwin) Rouse; died October 30. 1859. His children were Gilbert, Jason, Henry. Miles. Polly Maria. Phoebe, Adeline, Julia and Harriet. All these were long residents and became connected by marriage witli other old families as Armstrong, Gray, Ross, Stevens, and Wait. The brothers, Alonzo and Moses S. Herrick, of the same town, were not definitely related to Jacob's family, but Moses S. married Jacob's daughter Julia.

Thomas Worden Hill, son of Henry Hill and Fanny Worden, was born at Swanton, Vermont, January 9, 1817; in 1822 his parents moved to Lewis, Essex county. Xew York, where they soon afterward died, leaving him to the care of Joseph Wells, his uncle. In 1838 he came to Geneva village, making much of his way on foot. He worked on farm and in mill for R. Wells Warren. Andrew Ferguson, and Charles M. Goodsell in succession for the next five years. In 1839 he bought with his savings a farm in sections 18, 19. Lyons; married February 12. 1843. Lydia, daughter of Lewis Kerris and Samantha Crosby; moved to his farm in 1N44 and proved himself a most capable farmer. He was for nine terms a member of the count} board ami three times it- chairman. In [853 he was assemblyman, chosen over < barles M. I laker and Simeon W. Spafard. and again in [863, having been preferred to Dr. Alexander S. Palmer. In 1865 he began his long service as poor commissioner. He became assured that he could be of greater service to the inmates of the county-house and to the tax-payers by taking upon himself the duties of overseer or resident commissioner. This was neither to his own liking nor to that of his wife, but to both a duty clearly seen was not to b evaded nor to be performed in other way than entirely and well. He died suddenly, while directing improvements on his farm. May 20. 1879. Mrs. Ferris was born at Tyrone. Xew York, April 4. 1823: died at Lyon- Novem- lier 5, 1900. She was granddaughter of Gould Ferris and Lydia Nichols, of Westchester county. New York. Mr. Hill joined the Presbyterian church of Geneva in 1S42. and in his after life his actions showed forth the sincerity and constancy of his profession of faith. His physical and moral courage were one. and equal to each occasion's need. He attended no talking conventions of philanthropic reformers at distant cities, but remained at his post, working hand in hand with the county board, the superintendents of the poor - his colleagues - and the county physician, and was at once their indispensable servant and their practically wise leader. He may be said to have put an undying soul into a half-formed county institution and gave its management definite direction and purpose, with intelligent and business-like methods of overseer-ship. His death was not an irreparable loss, but men might well regret, for a time, that such a life should have been stopped in its sixty-third year. When, if ever, the county shall make up its roll of best and most serviceable citizens, their names placed as nearly as men may judge in the order of their merit, the name of Thomas Worden Hill will not be hard to find in that honorable list.

Edwin Hodges, son of Erastus Hodges and Laura Whiting, was born at Torrington, Connecticut, in 1810. He married Catherine Jane, daughter of John Hickox and Clarissa Dan forth. January 13, 1836; came to Elkhorn in [843 with some money and went into various kinds of business; was county clerk in [846, five times a member of the county board and twice its chairman; five times treasurer of the Agricultural Society, postmaster under a Whig administration. About [868 he went to Kansas, and later to Winterset, Iowa, where he died July 23, 1884. Mrs. Hodges was born at Williamstown, Massachusetts, and died at Hutchinson. Kansas, June 16, [892. Their daughter, Laura E., was married to Charles H. Britton. George VY., their sun, went to Winterset. He was a soldier of Company F, Fortieth Infantry. Clarissa Danforth's ancestors were William1 and Paul2, of Suffolk, England, Nicholas8, Thomas4, Nicholas6, Jonathan6 T. Samuel8, Jonathan9.

William Hollinshead, son of James Hollinshead and Sarah Stroud, burn near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, September 3, [806; was well instructed in common school and in practical farming; came in 1837 to section 3, Delavan; in [839 was county treasurer; married June 20, r8 jj. Caroline, daughter of James Burson and Deborah Stroud and settled for a long and honorably useful life at his new home, lie was the firsl county treasurer. but he was a thorough fanner and was not to be turned aside for official uncertainties, lie was always at the service of the Agricultural Society and of fanners' institutes. When he took part in discussion it was to talk from his own experience and well-matured thinking. He died October 20, 1895. His wife was born November 11, 1815, and died February 11, 1890. Their daughter Elizabeth H. was married to Herman A. Briggs. She was born June 1, 1843; married her cousin April 23, 1880; died, full of good works, September 20, 1908.

Henry George Hollister (Seth L.7, Elisha", Benjamin"' ', John3 - '), was born at Perry, New York, May 15, 1826; came in 1843 t0 sections 13. 14, Delavan; married first, Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Mallory, December 21, 1848; she died December 29, 1873, at Delavan village, whither he had moved. He married, second. November 29, 1877, Mrs. Helen C, daughter of Peter Millspaugh Keeler and Prudence Sturtevant and widow of William Crary. He died December 17, 1902. He was proprietor of a livery stable, and he was for twenty-three years a member of the county board. His son Seth Henry was twice sheriff of this county. Other children were, John H. (married May Howe), Pamelia, Ella.

Kinxek Hollister, son of Isaac Hollister and Elizabeth Newcomb, had ancestors John1 -, Joseph3, Capt. Timothy4. lie was born January 13, 1783; married June 5. 1805. Mary, daughter of Lemuel Winchell; bought government land in Darien and Richmond; died April 28, 1850. Mrs. Hollister was born September 8. 1784; died February 3, 1849. Of their children. Cyrenus N., Lemuel, and William came to Darien.

Cyrenus Xewcomb Hollister was born at Olive, Ulster county, New York, December 11. 1808: married May 7, 1837, Maria Catharine, daughter of Alexander Latimer and Nellie Smith; came in 1839 to Darien; in [866 to Delavan; died January 8, 1890. His wife was born at Middletown, New York. December 22. [816. Their children were Uriah Schutt (married Emma Q. Morrison); Kinner Newcomb (married Fanny M. Tilden) ; Eugene B. (married Xellie V. Jones): Lillian (Mrs. A. Hastings Kendrick) ; William Cyrenus ; Elmer Latimer.

Lemuel Hollister was born at Dryden, Tompkins county. October 12. 1818; married Gertrude .Ann. daughter of Alexander Latimer, Januar) 26, 1S42: came to Darien in 1844; was living in 1902. 1 1 i -. wife was born January 1 842 ; died October to, 1902. Excepting Melbourne II. 1 1857-10. their children, if there were more, are not found in records.

William Hollister was born at Dryden. May 17. 181 1 ; came in 183.- Darien; married Sarah Van Aernam, January t, [848; died June 26, (884, leaving' children ; Charles and Xellie ( Mrs. James ( arter, 1 >\ I >ai i< n 1

Seth L. Hollister, son of Elisha Hollister and Jane Thompson, was descended from John1 - 3. Benjamin4 "'. He was born at Chatham, Xew York, July 19, 1792: married Catherine Brigham, April 12, 1818; died March 16, 1867. His wife was born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, February 10. 1796: died at East Delavan, May 12, 1868. Children: Catherine Jane (Mrs. Elihu G. Eaton) ; Laura ( Mrs. Harrison Barnes) ; Edward Brigham (married Harriet Eaton) ; Henry George; James Heath (married Elizabeth William.- 1 : Milton L. (married Hannah Eliza Barnes).

Joseph Trumbull Isham (Enoch5, Joseph4, Timothy3, Isaac2, John1), son of Enoch Isham and Mary Carver, was born at Bolton, Connecticut. August 19. 1815. While he was very young his parents moved to Smyrna, Chenango county. He married January 28, 1841, Mary Jane, daughter of James Sturtevant and Lovina Yaw, at Earlville ; came in 1847 t0 Sugar Creek, where he lived as farmer and blacksmith, and occasionally as town officer, until his removal to Elkhorn about 1886. where he died November 7, 1902. Mrs. Isham was bom in Washington county. New York. November 11. 1822, died April 21, 189 1. A child died young. The other children were Helen Mary ( Mrs. Wallace Hartwell ) : Fred Willard ; Dora ( Mrs. Frank Hendrix) , Henry Devillo; Reta (Airs. Arthur Wales). Enoch Isham, born at Bolton. July 29, 17X7: died at Delavan. June 21, 1880; had a son Devillo EC. I 1828-1905) unmarried. Mr. [sham's mother's mother, Esther Trumbull, was of the historic family of her name.

William Willard Isham, son of Enoch and Mary, was born at Smyrna. March 24. 1820; was apprenticed to a carriage maker; in 1842 was master of a shop at Earlville; married March 1. 1843, Eluah Newcomb Francis, daughter of Levi and Hannah Francis, and bad six children, of whom Francis Devillo was a soldier of Company K. Forty-ninth Infantry, and Charles Trumbull was for many years a railway postal clerk. In [845 Mr. Isham. with Charles H. Sturtevant, and later with Joseph Walton, began a steadily increasing business of wagon making, and found distant markets for their products. In [869 be became a hardware dealer In 1S55 be was assemblyman elected over Tosiah Dodge; was a trustee of the school for the deaf; and a town officer. He died November 26. 1876. Mrs. [sham was born in Washington county. New York, November 30, 1822, and died June 15. 1901.

Thomas James, of an old colonial family, was born in the town of Richmond, Rhode Island. June 0. [782; married Dorcas Perry ( who died in April. 1843) ; served as sheriff of Washington county and as a member of the Legislature; came from Providence early in [838 to township 3. range 15. and was one of a group of Rhode Islanders who named the town Richmond; married June 22, 1847. Mrs. Sarah Stowell (who died July 30, [867); moved to Delavan in 1854; died June 17. 1858. Children of Dorcas: Fanny (Mrs. Gardner Kenyon ) : Nancy 1 Mrs. Joseph Barber) ; Hannah 1 Mrs. Robert Sherman) ; Susan (Mrs. Asa Congdon) ; Thomas P.; George E. (married first, Elizabeth Odell, second, Ellen Delaney) ; Dorcas (Mrs. Jonathan Church); Mary | Mrs. Elijah Belding) : Robert H. (married Mary R. Raul) ; Sarah T. (Mrs. David Irish): Elizabeth 1 1830-1891), wife of Earl M. Irish 1 [829- 1891).

Thomas Perry James, son of Thomas and Dorcas, was born June 15. 1816; came with parents to Richmond in 1838: married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel McClary, November 2^,. 1852; died in October, 1896. lie was one of the "solid men" of his town, was one of the organizers of the Citizens Bank of Delavan. and in general terms, was a worth)- representative of an old and honorable American family. Mrs. James died January 9, 1903, leaving her six children: Dorcas Perry (second wife of Rev. Charles Albert Hobbs) ; Thomas; Daniel M. ; Susan 1 Mrs. Charles H. Barker) ; Eliza S. (a teacher) ; Fanny Louisa (Mrs. Rev. Ralph Waller Hobbs). Charles A. and Ralph \Y. Hobbs are respectively father and son.

John Jeffers was born in Lisburn parish, county Antrim, Ulster, in 1822; came in infancy to Oneida county. New York; married Flora Ann Armstrong; came in 1852 to Sharon, where he proved himself a useful addition to the muscle and the mind of the town. He was a zealous member of the Agricultural Society, ready and able to talk, write and work in its interest. In 1864 he was member of Assembly, elected as an independent candidate against Alanson H. Barnes. In 1871 he served for another session, having beaten A. W. Cole. In 1872 he supported the Greeley ticket, and soon afterward became an out-and-out Democrat. He died February 22, 1890. lie was a member of the Methodist church at Darien. a cheerful Christian, tolerant of many differences of belief, and kindly disposed toward all mankind.

Truman Jones i 1783-1833) was son of Amasa and Azubah. lie married Elizabeth (born 1781;), daughter of Stephen Kinne (or Kenney), who was son of Gideon Kinne and Thankful Hewitt. Truman died in Cortland county, probably, for his widow came with part of her eleven children from that county to Darien in 1838, and she was living in 1X60. These sons and daughters, as here known, were: 1. - Loren Kenney 1 [812-1861 ). married Laura H. (1814-1883), daughter of Homer and Rachel Greenman. 2. - Lyman (1813-1889), married Mary Bean. 3. - Parley \Y. 4. - Rowena (1815 ), wife of Newton McGraw. 5. - Mary M. (1816 1X73). wife of Israel Stowell. 6. - Sanford (1820-1864) (wife Levina), soldier of Company F, Thirty-fifth Infantry, and captain of Company A, Thirty-seventh Infantry; died in service. 7. - Arimathea (1827-1872), wife of Joseph F. Lyon. 8. - Horatio.

- Daniel Keeney was son of Ebenezer Keeney and Lois Locke, probably from Connecticut to St. Lawrence county, New York. Daniel was born December 29, 1799; married at Lisbon, April 17. 1822, Margaret, daughter of Robert Lytle and Esther Lytle (probably cousins) ; came to this county before 1N47; lived in Geneva, Delavan, and Elkhorn; died March 2y, 1884. Margaret was born May 6, 1803; died July 27, 1881. Of their children were: Laura (Mrs. Nelson Fairchild) ; Mary Jane (Mrs. Leander Waffle) ; William Ebenezer (married Ann Goldthorp)'; Alvira (Mrs. Alfred Sherman) ; Esther ( wife of Loren Latham, a brother of Hollis) ; Lucy Ann (Airs. Alvin Emory Beals) ; Margaret Maria (Mrs. Joseph Goldthorp); Daniel Wilson (married Mary Hall) ; Loania (wife of Aaron Hickock and of George Taylor).

Albert Keep was son of Chauncey Keep ( 1784-1853) and Prudence (1789-1863), daughter of Parmenio Wolcott and wife Mary. The older Keep ancestors were John1, Samuel2, John3, Capt. Caleb4, and were of Connecticut. Prudence was a descendant of Roger Wolcott. Mr. Keep was born at Homer, New York, April 30, 1826; came from Fredonia with Henry (1820-1897), his brother, to Whitewater in T847 an^ formed a partnership in retail business with Philander Peek. In 1851 Peek &- Keep went into the wholesale trade in dry goods at Chicago. About 1856 Mr. Keep turned his attention to city real estate. Among his affairs was to secure the right of way through the city for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Co., of which he became a director in 1865 and its president in 1883. His administration was vigorous and up-building. He died at Chicago about [908. His cousin, John Martin Keep ( 1813-1861 1. of Beloit, was judge of the first circuit 1S56- 8, and was accounted one of the ablest men on the bench of the state.

\i .phonso G. Kei.lam, son of Harvey and Julia 1 Davis), was born at Scottsville, near Rochester, New York. December 7, 1840: came to Elkhorn about [857 and studied law in the office of Winsor & Smith, lie was an unusually bright student and readily digested whatever he learned. lie was admitted to the bar in [859 and practiced at Delavan until iSoj, when he recruited l ompany D, Twenty-second Infantry, and became its captain: in 1N0] In- was commissioned as major; was mustered out of service in Tune. [865, after an active and most creditable service of nearly three years. He married at Smithville, New York, October 23. 1865, and returned to law practice at Delavan with \lfred S. Spooner as partner. In the earlier seventies he went to Chamberlain, Dakota, and became the first chief-justice of tbe state of South Dakota. Several years later he resigned and went to Spokane, where he died June 15, 1909, leaving his wife and a son, Fred W. Kellam, a lawyer of that city.

Augustus Caesar Kinne was son of Elias Kinne and Lydia. daughter of Jesse (son of Abraham) Rundell. His father, who died at Sugar Creels, June 29. 1854, was son of Nathaniel, son of Stephen, son of John, son of John, son of William, of New London. Augustus C. was born at Norwich, New York, December 3, 1808; came in 1838 to Troy and later to Sugar Creek, for which town he was a member of the county board in 1843. 1° J854 'le married Cecilia, daughter of James Oliver Rosencrans (Dr. Simeon4, Col. John3, Alexander2, Harman Hendrick1 ).. He was a teacher and a farmer. He was a member of the second constitutional convention; and in 184S. 1857, i86t he was defeated Democratic candidate for assemblyman against Enos J. Hazard. Butler <i Noble, and Sylvester Hanson. He died January 23, 1863. His wife was born at Walpack, New Jersey, May 12, 1832, and died at Irwin. Virginia, May 18, 1892. His children: Mary ( Mrs. Walter E. Lauderdale 1 , Dr. Edward, of Elkhorn ; Herbert, a lawyer of Milwaukee.

Jesse Rundell Kinne, son of Elias and Lydia ( Rundell). was born at Norwich. Novmeber 26. 1803; married January 14. [829, Sarah, daughter of Isaac U. Wheeler and Lavina Duncan; came in 1843 to Sugar Creek, where he owned more than three hundred and fifty acres of land, and knew how to thrive by good farming: died March 24. 1886. .Mrs Kinne was born January, 1809; died November t, 1873. Children: Charles 1 married Jane, daughter of Daniel Bigelow) ; Lavina (Mrs. Ezra Resolved Day): George (married Mary E., daughter of James W. Field ). Mr. Kinne was one of the ancient county Democracy. - often seen in conventions, but never in official places, excepting when his Republican neighbors did not like all of their ticket for town office.

William Allen Knilans, son of Daniel and Sarah Allen, was bom in northern Ireland, November 22, [833; came with parents and brothers to Richmond in 1840: in 186] enlisted in Company I. Thirteenth Infantry, and was successively first sergeant, second and first lieutenant and was transferred to Company G as its captain; mustered out late in 18(15 at San Vntonio, Texas. He served at Huntsville, Alabama, as provost-marshal and was in all ways a capable and trustworthy soldier. He married February 20. [867, Eleanor Frances, daughter of Samuel Stewart and Margarel Mitchell, became a farm owner and prospered steadily. In his turn he was presidenl of the Agricul- tural Society, oi which he was a working member. He was seven terms a member of the county board for Richmond. His clerical and business qualifications were good, and he was often appointed executor of wills or administrator of valuable estates. Like Messrs. Bell, Coon, Curtiss, Kinne, Latham. Oatman, Page, Stebbins, Treat, Willis and others, he reckoned it honorable to be often a defeated candidate on Democratic legislative and county tickets. He was for several years a member of the county soldiers' relief committe. About 1883 he moved to Whitewater. In 1893 ne went to Sligo to administer an estate of something like twenty thousand pounds value, having been named in an aunt's will as her executor. Jn the second Cleveland administration he bad much influence with Senators Vilas and Mitchell in the distribution of postmasterships within the county. He moved to a farm near Beloit in 1894, where he died June 25, 1909. His children were William Arthur, Alice Elizabeth, Daniel Amos.

Phipps Waldo Lake was born at Hoosick, New York. April 30. 1789; was a soldier of the war of 1812; married Rebecca, daughter of John Beardsley ; came about 1839 to Big Foot Prairie, where he bought about six hundred acres of land. He was a member of the Assembly of 1854, having been preferred by his district to Capt. Albert T. Wheeler. He died August 17, [860. Airs. Lake was born at Richfield, Xew York. May 5, 1892; died May 22, [884. Mr. Lake turned in early life to the service of religion, and was ordained as a Baptist clergyman, lie was one of the earliest in the work of religious organization in the southern half of the county.

Ika Pratt Larnard, son of Elisha Laniard and Nancy Wilson, had ancestors William'. Isaac-', Benoni3, Thomas'. Jonathan"'. Fanning6, Moses7, who married Sarah Pratt. Ira was born at Waverly, New York, January jo, 1 «Sj 1 ; came to Delavan in 1N41 ; two or three years later he bought a wagonshop in which he worked about eight years. In 1845 nc became head of the working partner. In [859 he went to Tike's Peak and returned. From i8(k) In- business was that of insurance agent, and from 1S70 to [890 inclusive, he was town clerk of Delavan and was treasurer of the Baptist society. He married September 6, 1868, Hannah Uida, daughter of Dr, Benoni Bradway and Althea Vanderveer. She is yet living with one of her four daughters. Mr. Larnard died May 2, [912. He was of sound mind and clear memory to the <:n<\ of his life, which was useful, well ordered, exemplary.

1 1 01 1 1- Latham I James"' ' :. Chilton2, Robert1 > was fifth of lift ecu children of James Latham and Mary, daughter of Amos Robinson and Bethany Jones. He was born March 1 _\ 1812, al Northfield, Vermont ; learned enough at home and at district school to make him a plain, good American; came in 1836 to Milwaukee and early in 1837 to Spring Prairie : joined Mr. Rockwell's party on its way to Elkhorn, and chose his home m the Genevan quarter, section 6. In April, 1838, he married Mrs. Lemira Lewis, daughter of Capt. Daniel Edwin Bradley and Elizabeth Sturgis. He served the town for 111.11 13 years as justice of the peace, the county as clerk of the In aid of commissioners and as a superintendent of the poor, the state as trustee of the school for the deaf, the town and county Democracy as its candidate for many defeats, the Republican party when it did not care to send Richard 1!. Mack to the Assembly <-<i 1862, the agricultural society for several years as its secretary and several more as its treasurer. In the second constitutional convention he had been a member of the committee on "executive, legislative, and administrative provisions." Like his old friend Mr. Hollinshead, he had the unhesitating confidence of his fellow men, though there were many observable differences between these two "grand old men." Mrs. Latham was born June 2 i. 1N06, and died July 25, 1885.- She left two sons, not now living: LeGrand, firstborn of Elkhorn children, and Edward Marshall; also a daughter of her firsl marriage: Elizabeth Ann Lewis, wife of Phineas C. Gilbert, Mr. Latham died February 22, [886. His brother Loren (1823-1897) lived forty-five years in Geneva and at Elkhorn.

Ebenezer Latimer, son of Alexander Latimer (died 18(17) ;il1(' Nellie Smith, was born in Lister count). New York, October 25, 1N1N. \\c was bred a carpenter, and in the city of Xew York was for some years a building contractor. He came in 1847 io Darien, where he bought a large farm. 1 le married February 21, 1849, Elizabeth, daughter of Rial X. Weed and Ruth Austin. She was born in [825 and died August 2, [895. Their children \\ere Fred E. and Mary L. 1 Mrs. AJonzo C. Goodrich). Mr. Latimer came to Delavan in 1854, built an elevator, and with his brother and 1 Itho Bell was for some years in grain trade. In 1N73 he became president of the First National [lank of Delavan, and at its dissolution he opened the private hank of E. Latimer & Co., of which he was at the head until 1908. He died March 24. 1910. He was a cool-headed, capable, conservative business man; and on at least two occasions acted mosl serviceabl) as the city's agenl in adjustment of its business with the holders of its corporate bonds, lie was a Jackson 3-Tilden-Cleveland Democrat, and a member of the Methodist church. Ili- sister, Maria Catharine, was wife of < yrenfcs X. Hollister. Hi- brotl lame- Freer Latimer, was horn in [833 and died 1 Ictobei jo. [904, and was hi- partner in earlier enterprises.

James Lauderdale, son of Edward and wife Janet Elliott, was born at Cambridge, Washington county, New York, August 29, 1813; married in Livingston county, May 11, 1841, Margaret, daughter of James P. Stewart and Janet McNaughton ; came to Lagrange in 1842; served on county board; was assemblyman in 1853, chosen over George G. Williams, and again in 1856, chosen over Datus Ensign; died March 13, 1888. Mrs. Lauderdale died October 1, 1909; their children were James Edward, John Henry. Amanda (Mrs. D. Judson Williams), Mary Eliza (Mrs. Chester B. Williams), and Walter Elliot.

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lee, daughter of Ebenezer Chesebro and Anna Griswold, was born in Albany county, New York, July 22, 1815; in 1837 she was married to Nelson (son of Elon) Lee. He was born at Guilford, Connecticut. March 1, 1814; his parents went to Monroe county. New York, two years later. In 1847 Mr. and Mrs. Lee came to Darien ; in 1848 to Sugar Creek; in 1868 to a farm near Delavan. Mrs. Lee died at Sugar Creek, October 13, 1890. Mr. Lee died at Webster City. Iowa, April 9, 1898. It is told, with much color of truth, that she was hardly second to her father in his efforts to secure a state school for deaf children. Her son, Elon Nelson Lee (afterward county superintendent of schools), was a soldier of Company A. Tenth Wisconsin Infantry. He was sick at Elizabethtown. Kentucky, when she went there in February. 1862. Her ministration was not restricted to him. She came home and pushed the work of the sanitary aid societies, and then went to find further service at the Louisville hospital. After the battle of 1 liaplin Hills she went to the hospitals at Danville. The next year she returned with credentials, letters, >>v other helpful papers, from Gov. Solomon, Lieutenant-Governor Spooner, and the Chicago Sanitary Aid Society, and became well known to thousands of soldiers at Louisville, Nashville, and Murfreesboro. I ler son wrote of his parents: "I have said that if I were as truthful and honest as my father, and had the courage, grit and leadership of my mother, ] would feel satisfied." \ et their son has never been reckoned here as a degenerate, but, on the whole, quite worthy of such parentage. Known ancestors of Elon N. Lee were Nelson4, Elon8, Eber2, Elon1, of Guilford.

Chester Deming Long, son of Hugh and Parnell, was bom in Pembroke. Xew York, February 15. 1819. He came with his father to Darien in [839, and married November i. [843, Laura Ann 1 1826- 1893 ) . daughter of Zebulon T, Lee and Sabra. daughter of Orange Carter. In [851-2 he served rm as register of deeds, and his records show that he was a competent and neat-handed officer. In i860 he was elected member of Assembly for one session, over Charles A. Hutchins and David Coon. Jr. tie died June 15, [884. Mrs. Long died January 31, [893.

Isaac Lyon, son of Thomas Lyon and Benjamins Valentine, had older ancestors, Thomas1 2, Jonathan3, Capt. David4. His father and grandfathers were soldiers of the Revolution. He was horn at Nine Partners, Dutchess county, April 4, 1795; served in the war of 1812; married at Chatham, New York. April 2. 1814, Eunice, daughter of Capt. Uriel Coffin. She was horn April 2, 1800; died October 3, 1848. Isaac, with brothers David, Thomas and William Fletcher and their father, came in 1837 to Hudson (Lyons) and were among the founders of the village at the mill. He died December 15, 1884, and was buried at Delavan, whither his father's and his wife's relics were removed from Lyons. His son. William Penn, ex-chief-justice of the state supreme court, is living near Sacramento. His daughter, Maria C, was wife of Amos Phelps, of Delavan, son of Jeremiah and Margaret. Volume VI, Wisconsin Historical Collections (1872), mentioned him as the depositor in the Historical Society's cabinet of his large and interesting collection of curiosities, the labor of years, and as "our venerable friend and benefactor"; and in Volume X it is noted (for 1884) that he "continues, voluntarily and without recompense to supervise the cabinet-department with the same intelligent zeal and interest as in former years."

Joseph Foster Lyon i [saac6, David', Edward4, Samuel3, William-1), son of Isaac Lyon and Sarah Blodgett, was born at Harford, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, April 27,, 1825; came to Waukegan in 1844; to Woodstock in 1850; to Darien in 1854. He married July 26, 1854, at Beloit, Arimathea. daughter of Truman Jones and Elizabeth Kinne. A few years later he went to California and soon returned to Darien. where he studied law and in 1864 was admitted to practice. He served a few terms as justice of the peace, eight terms as member of the county board, and in t868 as assemman, chosen over Julius A. Treat. In 1875 he was appointed clerk of the circuit court, and served a full term by election, brum [875 to his death, December r2. 1902. his home was at Elkhorn. Mrs. Lyon, who was granddaughter of Amasa and Azubah Jones, and whose mother was daughter of Stephen Kinne and granddaughter of Gideon Kinne and Thankful Hewitt, died November 7, 1872, leaving children, Ari May (Mrs. C. \\ . Ferson), Jay Forrest 1 now county judge), and Vernette M. (Mrs. George M. Dunham). Mr. Lyon married December to, 1X73, Amelia 1... (laughter of Leander Dodge and Harriet, daughter of Orange Carter. She was born at Darien, Ma) 17, 1840; died at Chicago, October 10, 1906. Mr. Lyon was an intelligent studenl of legal principles, and was an ingenious reasoner. He had also a marvelous memory of the statute books, himself almost a living index to their contents. - often able to stand in court and trace a chapter from its passage in the fori through one or more amendments to its repeal in the seventies, he looking backward from eighties or nineties. Besides, he was a part of the age in which he lived, in touch with its spirit, and moving forward with its progress; and, moreover, was one of the kindest of men and neighbors. His brother, Charles Lysander, born September 1, 1829, has been coroner since 1883.

Robert Lytle married Esther Lytic Both were of the north of Ireland, and were children of immigrants. They had children: Isaac (married Nancy Armstrong) : Elizabeth ( Mrs. John Armstrong) : Lucy ( Mrs. William Lytle) ; William (married Nelly Lytle): James (married Chloe Haskins. and Elizabeth Henry) ; Margaret (Mrs. Daniel Keener).

A brother of Robert or of Esther had children : Samuel ( his second wife. Mrs. Harriet Campbell Magee); Nelly (wife of above mentioned William Lytle) : William (married above-named Lucy Lytle) ; James; John.

Samuel Lytle and his first wife had a daughter Mary, wife of James Adam Flack. Of his second wife, Harriet (Campbell) Magee, were Samuel, whose wife Arvilla is daughter of James Adam Flack's second wife, Martha Armstrong; Thomas (married Sylvia Rust) : Henry (married Julia, daughter of Richard Potter) : Louisa (Mrs. Cyrus Cole).

Thom \s Morris McHugh was grandson of Lieut. Stephen McHugh, of the British army, and son of Rev. Stephen McHugh, of the early Episcopal church of Wisconsin. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Berry Xorris, - if county Leitrim, Connaught. Thomas was born in Mohill parish, of that count}. November jj. iN_>_>; had academic education: studied law at Utica, New York: came in 1 S44 with his father's familj t" Delavan; admitted to practice, at Elkhorn, in [849. He was secretary to the Territorial Council in 1 847 : a secretary of the second constitutional convention; was the first secretary of state for Wisconsin and gave form and order to the business of that office: chief clerk of the Assembly in 1853 and [854. He died, unmarried, at Palatka, Florida, March 19, [856. lie has been credited with "a tireless activity, versatile mind, a winning address, a clear head, and a warm heart."

I homas McKaig, son of William, whose wife was named Dawson, was of a Scotch-Irish Family of Lister. He was horn at Stewartstown, county Tyrone, December i-\ [812. He crossed the sea in [831, and five years were passed at Quebec and Detroit, part of that time as a teacher. In [836 he was empli yed in the land -office survej of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Me chose a Farm in section 29, north of Duck Lake, and was employed in platting the village of Geneva; ami kept so far in touch with it- citizens a- to play the trombone in it- earliesl brass hand, and to become a member of its division of the Sons of Temperance. He was one of the earliest justice- of the county and remained several year- in service. From 1847 to 1853 he was county surveyor. He married July 25, 1S40. Asenath, daughter of Robert Dunlap, a soldier of the Revolution, and Mary Letts. He died August -'4. [888. -Mrs. McKaig was born at Ovid. New York, December ir, 1S1 1. and died at Elkhorn. March 25, mod. They had six children, of whom a daughter and three sons are living. Mrs. McKaig, in her old age. joined the Milwaukee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in recognition of her now unusual qualification for such membership she received from that body a gold spoon of an appropriate device.

Samuel Mallorv i David"' \ Benjamin3, Joseph2,. Peter3 ). .-on of David Mallory and Sarah Eldridge, was horn at Sharon. Connecticut, April 18, 1798; lived a moving life in Broome, Cortland. Tompkins and Yates counties, as farmer, wool-carder, chair-maker, innkeeper. He married, first, Nancy Hooper. July 28, [821, at Homer; she was horn March 19, 1707; died January 17, 1827. He married, second, in Tompkins county. May 2, 1829, Jane Frances, daughter of Amos Hart and Sarah Eldridge - the latter his mother's cousin, perhaps. In 1844 he came to Elkhorn. bought a farm, and for four years kept the hotel at Walworth and Broad streets. In 1846-7 and in 1855-6 he was count}' treasurer, and was once treasurer of the Agricultural Society. He retired from his farm, within the village, and moved a few rods eastward about 1877. I le died April 2. 1897 - sixteen days before the end of his ninetyninth year. His daughters, all of the second marriage, were Nancy Jane ( Mrs. Henry Bradley), Ruth Ann (Mrs. Stansbury Ogden), Anstis Almira (Mrs. William Augustus Barlow), and Betsey Frances (Mrs. Robert Harkness). Of these the first only is living.

Sanger Marsh (christened Jedidiah Sanger, and quite probably a near relative of Judge Sanger, the namesake of Sangerfield, Oneida county. New York) was son of Wolcott Marsh. He was horn at Alexander. New York, August 27. [815; passed from farm to counter at Nunda and Attica: and married Harriet M. Horton at Nunda in 1841. She died January jj, [843, leaving a son. Mr. Marsh came to Whitewater in 1845 and went into retail business with John S. Partridge. He married Chelsea Pratt in January, [851, whence three daughter-. In 1864 he became president of the Firsl National Bank of Whitewater. He died October 29, 1872. His son, George Sanger Marsh, was horn at Nunda, January 17. [843 : married May 20, [874, Rebecca Jane, daughter of Jabez Wight and Rebecca Garrett Worrell. Her older ancestors were Thomas1, Henry2, Joseph8, Jabez4, John1 ,;. Mr. Marsh i- now president of the < itizens State Bank of Whitewater.

Ebenezer Martin and his second wife, Joanna Favvcet, had sons Orra. John and Josiah. Two of these and a son of the third came to Spring Prairie. The family was of Mansfield, Tolland county, Connecticut, and may have been earlier of Bristol count}-, Massachusetts. It is not known that others of their name, in the count}-, were related to them.

Ciiari.es Martin was a son of Josiah Martin and Rachel, daughter of Titus Williams. He was born at Harvard, Delaware county, New York, November 12, 1818. He had a fair education and was well bred to farming. He came to the vicinity of Vienna in 1844. He married May 6, 1846, his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of John Martin and Huldah Cornell. She was born at Mansfield, May 11, 1821 ; died November 11, 1850. Mr. Martin married November 24, 1853, Caroline Matilda, daughter of Samuel Fowle and Harriet Ingraham. He came to Elkhorn and died March 4, 1906. Mrs. Martin was born April 21, 1834; died January 31, 1892. Of five children three died early. Delia is widow of Emory Williams. Helen is county superintendent of schools. Mr. Martin was an early member of the County Agricultural Society and was once its president. For many years he was superintendent of the Baptist Sunday school at Spring Prairie, once one of the bestattended of any in the county. He was one who passed readily among men as an intelligent Christian gentleman.

John Martin, son of Ebenezer and Joanna, was born at Mansfield, \pril 4, 1793. He had a fair education and much natural ability. He was once a member for bis town of the lower house of the Legislature, and was also judge of the Mansfield probate district. (One or more towns of Connecticut may constitute such a district, and in Judge Martin's time there were eightysix such districts in the stale. 1 lie married 1 [uldah t 'ornell. and their children were: Ebenezer (married Lucia, daughter of Charles High, of IJloomtield ), Elizabeth (Airs. Charles .Martin). Joanna (wife of Samuel, son of Rev. Orra Martin), John I married Mrs. Man (Cornell) Monroe, his cousin), Timothy 1 married Laura Kell\ 1. Judge Martin came to Spring Prairie in 1842, bringing with him his title for the convenience of his new neighbors, lie died )\\\w [9, [871. Huldah was born in 1795; died Octoln-r 20. 1X44.

Ouk \ Mas riN, son of Ebenezer and Joanna, was born at Mansfield. Jannai \ 25, 1701. While yet a young man he became a Baptist clergyman. His wife was Tolly S., daughter of Augustus Mitchell. Of their children. Dr. ( leorge P, lived in Racine county, and John 1 1, lived near Vienna. The latter married, first, Joanna Woodman; second, Adeline Decker. Elder Martin was widely known to members of his denomination in this state, lie and John H. \lutiii were Democrats, while their relatives were all Republicans. Elder

Albert L. Mason, son of Darius B. Mason and Harriet C. Starr ( earlysettlers of Sharon), was bora at Cooperstown. New York, August 23, 1824; came to Sharon in 1840: married in 1847 Sophronia, daughter of William Joiner; was postmaster 1850-3 at Sharon village; member of Assembly in 1879 - elected without opposition; died March 26, 1896. His father had been a member of the county board, and his son. Darius B., is named in later official lists of the town.

Asa Lewis Maxon, Jr., was born in Rensselaer county, New York, May 5, 1802; lived in Madison and Jefferson counties between 1825 and 1853; came to section 2j, Walworth, and bought a large farm. His wife was Julia Ann Read (1823-1897). He died May 5, 1882. Four sons were named: Edgar Read (1823-1907) married Emily Wilson, daughter of Austin Rogers; Henry J. ( 1 826-1892) married Phoebe Howland ; Francis W. (1805-1887) married Mary L. Colhurn ; Dr. Joseph S. married Anna, daughter of Anson Goodrich.

Deacon Alfred Maxon (1785-1858) had wife Mary (1787-1864). He may have been an elder brother of Asa L. Maxon. Clark P. Maxon, born in 1818, married Lucy Ann Kinney. His relationship, if any there was, is not shown. The presence, in the same town, of Maxons and Maxsons makes some uncertainty as to the correct spelling for any individual.

Coe. James Maxweee was born at Guilford, Vermont, about 1785. The sti >rv of his early and middle life is but scantily told. He must have had a fair education and some experience in business. He lived for some time in Pennsylvania and in Indiana, and at the time of Black Hawk's war was at Chicago, and at that time, probably, was one of Governor Reynolds's militia colonels, The records of the adjutant-general's office, at Springfield, might make tin's clear. Coming with Dr. Philip S.. his younger half-brother, to Lake Geneva, he left that theatre of war and made a peaceable settlement in Walworth, where he and "his son, and with them the Doctor, bought liberally in sections 15. 24, 26, 27. He was a member of the upper house of the second and third Leg lative Assemblies for the joint district of Rock and Walworth, [838-42. Ii not known when he left the count), but, at the organization of the State I [is torical Society, in 1840. he was present from Sauk county. It is said thai he died about 1869. His son, James Alexander Maxwell, remained in Walworth long enough to find a place in the official list of that tow n.

uated from the Medical College of New York; opened an office at Sacketts Harbor in 1832; about that time married Jerusha, daughter of Jabish and Eunice Moore, and was commissioned assistant-surgeon, United States Army: ordered in 1833 t0 Fort Dearborn; served also at Green Bay: in 1836, being again at Chicago, he, with his halt-brother, Col. James Maxwell, invested in the conflicting claims at Lake < ieneva and in other land ; was ordered to Florida in 1838, and later to Fort Smith; resigned in 1842 and began successful practice at Chicago. In 1N53 he became state treasurer of Illinois; but having built and occupied a summer home overlooking Geneva Lake in 1 N 5 ; , . his office at Springfield was declared vacant by reason of his non-residence in the state. He renounced Illinois citizenship and Democracy, and made his home ;it Lake Geneva and his political bed with the Republican party;, though it pleased him not to hear his old-line Whig associates rail at General Jackson, a- they were rather wont to do. He died November, 1859. His wife was born December 28, [804; died at Lake (ieneva. March 27, 1875. Dr. Maxwell's family may be regarded as pioneers of the now numerous lakesidedwelling Chicagoans.

Lot Mayo, son of Elisha. was born at Augusta. New York, in 1803: moved with his father to Chautauqua count}-, near Mayville, whence both came in the early forties to Elkhorn. He had married successively two daughters of Samuel Tubbs and Polly Frost, - the second wife named Jane, who was born in 18] 1 and died at Elkhorn, October 26, 1849. His father died the same day, aged seventy-five. Of one or both of these marriages were sons Andrew, Samuel and Elisha. In 1853 he became postmaster at Elkhorn; and, having secured reappointment, he married, third, Mrs. Amanda, daughter of Simeon DeWitl Corbin and widow (since [846) of Erastus Hubbard. Of this marriage was one child. Zaida. lie died January 3, 1N70. Mrs. Mavo died November 26, [893, leaving also a son. DeWitt Pratt Hubbard. Mr. Mayo was a working Freemason, and for some years master of the lodge at Elkhorn. lie insisted constantly that no man could be a good and true Mason vvithoul obedience to the moral law, and his own conduct squared with this profession, lie was also a working Democrat, and his political reading had made him a fairly formidable opponent in the partisan debates or wrangles of his time.

Jesse Meachaw was born at Burlington, Otsego county. December 10. 1 791; served as a soldier of the war of tSu, and as a prisoner was nearly lost by shipwreck at the mouth of the St. Lawrence: afterward became a major, bj a governor's commission or by the courtesy of his neighbors; came to Lodi, Michigan, soon after his marriage, in [828, to Patience Wallace.

widow of his brother James, whose children lie made his own. Having visited Honey Creek valley in 1835 he came with his family and a few friends in 1836, settled a town and founded a village. He died July 29, [868. Patience was born July 20, [794; died March i_\ 1875. Her children were: Urban Duncan (married Prudence Geddes ) , Edwin Wallace (married Emeline M. McCracken), Edgar (married Sarah Mason).

Urban D. Meacham's son. William Pitt, was horn September jj. [836, first native of Troy. He married Celesta [.. daughter of Stephen Smith, of Monroe, Wisconsin, and returned in 1865. after twenty-one years absence, to his grandfather's place. He died there November 3, 191 1.

Zerah Mead was born at Rutland, Vermont, June 4. 1800; from 1825 to 1832 worked a woolen factory at Waddington, St. Lawrence county; married Fama, daughter of lame- Mott and Abigail Barnum, October 6, 1832; came to Whitewater in 1837 and bought land in section 15. lie was one of the several justices of the peace appointed by Governor Dodge for the count) in 1838 and became aged and gray in that office. A son. James M. Mead, died in military service at Helena in 18(13. Squire Mead was assemblyman in [852, having defeated Willard Stebbins. He died March 23, 1875. Mrs. Mead was born November 17. 1813: died April 30, 1898.

Perez Merrick was born January 28. 1760; married Hannah Williston in 1789: lived at Franklin. Delaware county. Xew York. His ancestors. Thomas1 and wife. Elizabeth Tilly; James1' and wife, Sarah Hitchcock: Joseph3 and wife, Man- Leonard: Joseph4 and wife, Deborah Leonard. Perez and Hannah had children: Gordon (died at Akron), Perez. Roderick. Austin L.. Alonzo 1 married Samantha Wylie). Flavia (Mrs. Samuel White).

Col. Perez Merrick was born June 12, 1792: married Jerusha, daughter of Dr. S. Hutchinson: came to this county in C836; was one of the earliesl justices of the peace: died August 2^, 1854. His daughter Juliette was wife of Horace Coleman. His son, Perez H.. born June 9, 1825, married Mary V. daughter of Nicholas and Mary P>riggs, and had a son, < frlando Briggs.

Roderick Merrick was bom August 5. [794; married Rebecca < rates, January 24, 1828; came to Spring Prairie in 1837; died May 18, 1870. Hi- wife was torn July 16, 1800; died February 24. [895. Their children were: Flavia (Mrs. Alonzo Daniels). Hannah Rose ( Mrs. German Moore), Gordon Williston (married Celeste Annette, daughter of Jeremiah Sheffield and Hannah Gardner Smith), Oscar D. (married Emily, daughter of Nathaniel Bell and Sarah Cook), Elnora, Albert II.

seven children; married July 28, 1856, Gratia Putnam, daughter of Josiah Crane and wife Ruth; died December 19, 1887. His wife, Gratia P., was born May 20, 1815; died December 16, 1900. Mr. Merrick's children were: Leroy Williston (married Luella J. Ellsworth), Josephine Louisa (Mrs. John H. Norton), Esther Priscilla, Augusta Deborah (Mrs. Vernon H. Raleigh), Agnes Flavia (Mrs. Frank Jones), Dr. Jerome Cass, Irene Celestia.

Ezra Ames Mulford was born in Albany county, New York, in 1804; studied medicine at the neighboring medical college ; practiced for some years in his native state; married Zilpha Packard (born June, 1804). a native of Xew Hampshire, and came in 1845 t0 tne t°v\'n of Walworth. In 1847 ne was a member of the committee on general provisions at the constitutional convention, but took little part in the work of that body. He continued in medical practice in Walworth until his death, November 1, 1861. He had six children.

Charles Augustus Noyes (Abel7, Moses11, Joseph5 4 ?', Rev. James-', Rev. William1), was son of Abel Noyes and Sophia Shepard Hatch (Timothy654, Benjamin3, Jonathan2, Thomas1), daughter of Timothy Hatch and Abigail, daughter of Moses Porter and Sarah Kilham. He was born in Otsego county, Xew York, September 3, 1812; improved his common school education b) judicious reading; went to Buffalo in 1830 as a shipping clerk; came to Chicago in [836, and thence to Geneva, where he bought, with his cousin, Orrin I latch Coe, one-fourth interest in Brink's claim to the mill-site. This share of the bone of contention was soon sold to R. Wells Warren, whose sister, Nancy Page, daughter of Thomas Warren and Anna Page, was married to Mr. Noyes, January 23, 1837. Before the end of the year he recrossed the state line, made and sold claims: was postmaster in 183.9 al Tryon, Illinois; returned to Geneva in [850 only to set out for California; in 1853 bought an interest in the water-power at Genoa Junction; again to California in 1858, returning to Lake Geneva in [872, where he died November 25. 1X81. Record of Mrs. Noyes' birth and death is nol found. Their children were: Helen Augusta (Mrs. Gilmore 1). Fellows), Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Franklin Rowe), Charles Augustus (1841- [897 I, a soldier of the Civil war 1 married Jenny Lind, daughter of Benjamin B. Humphrey and Juliet Smith). Martha Irene (Mrs. James Ervin Fuller), [1 isephine Amanda 1 died early I,

Cyril Li v< 11 < >atw vn was grandson of George and son of Eli Oatman and Mary, daughter of Joel and Patience Symonds, of Pawlet, Vermont. (His

1 died Ma\ 30, 1X51. aged seventy-four; his mother died February [6, [861, aged eighty.) Cyril, seventh of eleven children, was born at Middle- town. Vermont, April 10. 1815. His sister, Calista (fourth child 1. was wife of Russell H. Mallory. In 1S35 Mr. Oatman went to St. Louis; in [838 he came with Mr. .Mallory to Geneva and (except a few years in business at East Troy) made his home there till his death. May 17. 1889. He served as under-sheriff for Mr. Mallory, and the two made the census of 1842. Being a Democrat, as well as a man of property, character and ability, he was many times defeated on the county and legislative tickets of his party. After Mr. Mallory's death. March, 1852. his family was adopted by Mr. Oatman, who never married.

Richard O'Connor was born at New York, March 17. [816; married Elizabeth Morgan about 1846, and left the city by the sea for the city by lake and creek in the same year. He founded a good business in drugs and books. - the pioneer store at Whitewater in such goods. He was town assessor for more than twenty years, and was among the earliest effective movers in the matter of good walks and shaded streets. In business sense he was one of the builders of Whitewater. He died December 27. 1881. leaving a well-established business to two sons.

Albert Ogden (Zenas7, Daniel6, John7', David1. Thomas3, David2, John1), son of Zenas Ogden and Julia, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Marsh, was born at Walton, Xew York. February 1. [815; came to Milwaukee in 1830. and joined himself to the founders of Elkhorn. lie married Charlotte, daughter of Peter Boyce, September 7. [843; she died July 25, 1844: his second wife was Emma Oricia, daughter of Miner Watkins and Anna Barr. married April 29, 1847. Mr. Ogden made no ripple in politics, nor was named on election tickets; but he was a Whig as long as Clay and Webster lived to lead. From [854 he was a Democrat, and lived to vote for Palmer and Buckner. He prospered moderately and noiselessly, and at his death. August 5, 1903. left a fair property and no children. Mrs. Ogden was born at Stockbridge, Vermont, May, [824; died at Elkhorn, November 29, 1905.

Zenas Ogden, son of Daniel Ogden and Phoebe, daughter of Mo Lindsley and Iranv Raynor, was born at Morristown, Xew Jersey. February 3. [79 : married Julia, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Marsh 1 born [794 : died lune [6, [828); married again, in [833, Melita Baird 1 born at Bed

Whig, in later years a Republican. His eight children ( three by second marriage) were Harriet Thankful (Mrs. Elijah Smith), Albert, Mary (Mrs. Gabriel Smith Sawyer), Stansbury (married Ruth A. Mallory). Lucy (Mrs. A. Sidney Downs), George Washington (married Mary M. Jewell), Henry (died young), Elizabeth (Mrs. \Y. Frank Jewell ).

John Stanley Partridge, son of Stanley Partridge and Priscilla Ashley, was-born in Genesee county, New York, June 28, 1819; came, in 1846, to Whitewater and went with Sanger Marsh into general retail business, to which they later added grain-buying, having built a large warehouse and elevator. In April, 1848, he married Henrietta M., daughter of Uriah Johnson, of Leroy, New York. In 1883 he became president of the Citizens National Bank. He died July 3, 1892. His wife was born March, 1823; died December 13, 1890. His earlier ancestors were George1. John-. George3, James4, Stephen5, Rufus6. His children were, in i860, J. Ashley, Clarence J., Ernest G.

Dan Phelps, son of Joseph Phelps and Jemima, daughter of Israel Post, had other ancestors: William1 2, Timothy3, Joseph456. He was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, September 18, 1779: married Elizabeth, daughter of Israel King and Elizabeth Thompson: came from Darien, New York, to section 1, Geneva, in 1842; died April 26. 1868. His wife was born April 18, 1789; died July 3, 1864. Their children were Cyrus K., Pamela (Mrs. Samuel P. Jenks), Sarah (Mrs. Eli Webber), Lavina (Mrs. George Wickwire), Adelia (Mrs. David Williams).

Cyrus King Phelps was born at Darien, Xew York, July 4. 1818: married September 26, 1843, Adeline C, daughter of Thorp Williams and Clarissa Peters; died October 24, 1899. Mrs. Phelps was born at Darien, June 28, 1822: died September 2, 1879. Their children were Asa W.. Jane J., Jerome 1).. Arthur H. Mr. Phelps was a careful breeder of fine sheep and cattle, a thorough farmer, and in some fair sense a model citizen and neighbor.

Ih\k\ Phoenix, sun of John and wife Martha Martin, was born at Greenwich, Xew York, June 2^, 1792: was apprenticed to a tanner at Painted Post ; after various business ventures he settled for a time at Perry, where he was postmaster. In 1836 he came with his brother. Col. Samuel F., to Delavan, and the two joined in platting the village and naming it. in null-building, in a general store, and in real estate business. He had married. November, [819, at Painted Post, Ann. daughter of John Jennings. They had eleven children, lie died February jj. [842. I lis widow was killed by a railway train while sin- was crossing an icy trestle-bridge west of the village, November 19, 1857. She had eleven children. Martha was wife of \aron II. Taggart, and Mary ( ',. w as w ife of |ohn 1'". MeKey.

Samuel Faulkner Phoenix, son of John and wife Martha .Martin, was born December 23, 1798, probably in Washington county, New York. His father died about two years later and his mother was married to Joshua Bartlett. It is conjectured that the family removed to Chenango county before reaching the town of Dansville, in the northwestern corner of Steuben county, where the boys learned the process and the business of tanning. Samuel married October 24, 1822, at Sherburne, Chenango county, Sarah Ann, daughter of Samuel Kelsey and Elizabeth Carver. She was born in that county September 3, 1799, and died at Delavan, May 9, 1894. The brothers had gone, about 1816, to Perry (then in Genesee county), and in the next few years built a prosperous business as tanners and added general stores at Perry and Franklinville to their enterprise. In 1827 Samuel became colonel of the Twentyseventh Xew York Infantry, and at or about the same time joined the Baptist church. In 1830 the brothers spilled their stock of alcoholic liquors and devoted themselves to the cause of total abstinence. In 1835 Samuel was a delegate to the Utica convention, which formed the State Anti-Slavery Society. This was the meeting which was mobbed at Utica and was entertained by Gerrit Smith at Peterboro. In 1836 he came to Spring Prairie, and set out in quest of a site for his ideal village, which he named, and concurred with Baker. Dwinnell and others in naming the county as worthily. Colonel Phoenix died September 6, 1842, from bilious colic. He had brought to Delavan, with his military title, his business shrewdness, his endless activity, his zeal for religious and moral reform, and his interest in public education. He preached at Delavan, Spring Prairie and at other settlements. He was a moving spirit in early conventions of temperance men and of slavery-haters.

The story of his early life is imperfectly and not quite consistently told. It is not quite certain that his father was not William, as Mr. Dwinnell's papers tell it: though it is probable that as to this Mr. Cutler was correctly informed at Delavan in 1881. Colonel Phoenix was at his coming westward a relatively wealthy man. and must have made himself so between his eighteenth and thirty-sixth vears. He did not live to see the early failure of his purpose to build a city as well on moral ideas as on commoner principles of business; but the good seed he sowed was not all wasted, though tares took root there, too. His only child. Franklin Kelsey, was horn at Perry, March 3. 1825; married Mary E., daughter of Thomas Topping, of Darien, December 2, 1850; died February 3, 191 1. His children were Samuel T.. A. Melville. Fred S.. May (Mrs. Cameron). Frank. Carrie 1 Mrs. Edward F. Williams), John Jay (married Eva. daughter of W. Wallace Bradley 1.

William Phoenix, a cousin of Henry and Samuel F. Phoenix, was born in Sussex county, Xew Jersey, March 17, 1793: was a farmer and teacher, and in time a retailer of general goods. He wandered about western Xew York and northern Pennsylvania for a few years before settling at Perry, whence he came in 1836 with his cousins to Delavan, and in 1837 became postmaster at that village. He was once assessor and twice a member of the county board. He died November 25, [855. It seemed fore-written by the Fates that others should reap what these Phoenixes had sown so well. He had married at Milo, Xew York. July [8, 1818, Susan, sister of John Bruce, if Darien. Their children were Henry H., Mary A. ( Mrs. Edwin Brainard), Samuel A.. William A., John W.

Jarvis King Pike was son of Jesse Pike (1756-1799) and Rebecca King (1763-1833). He was born in Dutchess county, Xew York, December [9, 17X1 ; married December 24, 1801. Rebecca Mead, who was born June 4, 17X2, and died December 6, 1X07. In 1X13 he served as aid to his maternal uncle, Gen. Nathaniel King, of the Xew York militia, at Sacketts Harbor; in iXji as a member of the Xew York constitutional convention; in 1837 as a judge of the Cortland cdunty court of common pleas. In 1X41 he came to Whitewater, where he built a house, but later moved to Cold Spring, and in [849 was a member of Assembly for Jefferson county. He died January id. [863. I lis children, whose lives were more or less of Whitewater, were: Calvin (married Man Ann Wheeler), Clarissa ( Mrs. William Field). Flnora 1. Mrs. I le/ekiah M. Sanders). Mary Ann. Alanson (married Fidelia Cravath I. Sarah.

John Fox Potter (John1', Rev. Isaiah"', Daniel1"'. Nathaniel2, William1), son <>f John Potter and Caroline Fox, was born at Augusta, .Maine, May 11, 1X17. lie was educated at Phillips-Exeter Academy, and had as schoolmates and friends the five Washburne brothers, who were afterwards of as many states; namely, Maine, Illinois. Wisconsin. Minnesota and California, and all more or less politically fortunate. J le became, like his father, a lawyer. and coming to Easl Troj in [838 he became also a farmer, having settled on three hundred and fifty acres of land in sections 10. 11, 15, His land nearly '1 a lakelet, and on Us high bank he built his house, lie married ( >ctOber [5, [839, Frances E. 1... daughter of Capt. George Fox and Rebecca Lewis, and they had six children. Their son, Alfred Charles Potter, was a sergeant of Company I. Twenty-eighth Infantry. The places Judge Potter tilled and those he declined have been mentioned. As a member of Assembly .1 railwaj company's method of influencing a governor, a judge of the Supreme court, a legislature, ami part of the daily press to secure to itself a large grant of public land in aid of railway building, lie voted for its bill, but refused its present of bonds, though that was the share of a senator. In two of his eongressional terms the unending debate on the admission of Kansas, with all its wanderings, overshadowed other proceedings, and in his third term the consideration of war measures was always in hand. In the first four years he found occasions to use his lists with much practical and some scenic effect in Homeric battles on the floor of the House, in which he left the marks of his peculiar grace on the godlike countenances of William Barksdale, Reuben Davi> and Lucius O. C. Lamar - all of Mississippi. "1 'otter, the wiry, from woody Wisconsin." lives sub-immortally in Punch's hexametric story of these congressional diversions. Mr. Potter never quite liked thai so much importance should be given to his affair with Mr. Rryor, which grew from a correction and counter-correction of a passage in the record of a previous day's debate. The matter was wholly personal, but the excited state of partisan discussion prepared men's minds to take tire over-easily. Northern opinion justified Mr. Potter's acceptance of the foolish challenge. He always spoke appreciatively of General Pryor's personal and professional qualities, and similarly of General Barksdale and Colonel Davis - but not so of Judge Lamar. Near the end of his last session, in 1803, Mrs. Potter died of typhoid fever contracted while trying to better the conditions of a badly managed military hospital. She was a high-minded, intelligent and brave-spirited woman. December 7, 1865, he married her sister. Sarah Lewis Fox, who died in [882. In 1873 the Greeleyan bolters of the year before, with the Democrats of the county, needlessly mistaking his position, named him as their candidate for state senator. He was not fully aware of this action until election day, when he disclaimed such political fellowship. Taking an open Republican ballot. Infolded it before all men present and thus voted for Mr. Weeks, his quasiopponent. He died May 18, 1899. He was a ready, easy speaker, without tricks of elocution, and cared more to convince his hearers than to electrify them or to stir them to transient emotion.

Robert Knight Potter (Joseph'1, Thomas5, John' :; -. Robert'), son of Joseph Potter and Anna Knight, was born at ( xanston, Rhode Island, April 1 1. 1 791. Two of his brother-, Alonzo and Horatio, were bishops of the Episcopal church (the first of Pennsylvania, the other of New York), and Paraclete was eighty years ago editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal. Mr. Potter* married Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Phoebe Line. December 25, 1813, and lived many years at Beekman. Dutchess county, where four children were 1m. 111. In or about 182^ he moved to Monroe county, and thence in [843 to sections 18, 19, Lafayette, with his twelve children. In 1857 he left the farm to bis son Joseph and built a house at Elkhorn, where he died March 15, 1883. Airs. Potter was born in 1793 and died July 6, 1887. Their children were long known in half of the county: Emeline (.Mrs. Cyrus Cole) ; Russell (married Lavinia Avery ) ; Amelia ( Mrs. Gain R. Allen) ; Joseph (married Rosina Ellsworth; 2d, Mrs. Caroline (Randall) Penny) ; Rebecca (Mrs. Marcus C. Russell) ; Alonzo (married first, Laura Pitkin; second, Adelaide Merrick) ; Robert (married Mary E. Patterson); Horatio; Monroe (married Eliza Emily Bemis) ; Lorenzo Dow; Paraclete (married Arabella M. Seymour).

David J. Powers was born in southeastern Vermont, June 3, 1814; had a common school education ; was apprenticed to a machinist; married and came in 1838 to Milwaukee. Here he met Willard B. Johnson, who told him of golden possibilities at Whitewater, and he came at once to see, and to buy half of section 12 (in his wife Caroline's name). Dr. Tripp gave him a hotel site in the new village, and he built and occupied the first hotel at Whitewater. He was also postmaster, but he bad a wider and larger aim. In 1S42 he bought a mill-site at Palmyra and platted that village. He was member of Assembly in [853, and for the next fifteen years tarried at Madison to publish and edit the Wisconsin Farmer, and to serve as secretary of the State Agricultural Society. Ik- next went to Chicago, and thenceforth became of that city and its manufacturing interests a part. His career was, on the whole, prosperous, and Whitewater is vet pleased to remember him as one i>t its founders.

Samuel Pratt, son of Samuel and Hephsibah, was burn at Enfield. Massachusetts, October 6, 1807; his wife was a daughter of Thomas Miller; lie came to White Pigeon in [829 ami to Spring Prairie m 1837. He was Assemblyman in 1849, elected over Ansel A. Memenway ami James Porter; in [855 over Thomas Russell, in [863 over Mollis Latham; senator in 1870 over Latham, in [872 over c "apt. John Turtle, lie died March 23, [877. 1 )a\ id Pratt, an early settler, was his brother and there were I Matt s of the next generation at Spring Prairie related to him. lie was an upright, intelligent. self-respecting man and a reputable legislator. Mis only son. Orris Pratt, served in the Assembly of [883, having been chosen over Dwight S. Allen. w hi 1 had been defeated in the nominating convention.

Freeman Liberty Pratt, son of Asaph and Hannah, was born at Eaton, Xew York, July 31, 1814; married a1 Smithfield, March 24, [836, Melinda Al.. daughter of Terry Mack and Catherine l )emott ; came with his brother Norman in [839 to section 5. Whitewater. Their father came and built a mill. Me died in 1844. The Pratl brothers built the first log house, the only other building at the time being a shanty, filled with unmarried rovsterers. Freeman died February r8, [880 Mr-. Pratl was born April 17. 1820. and died July [8, 1898, She was Whitewater's Kind and useful "Aunt Melinda."