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

Otis Preston, son of Samuel and Alary Preston, was born at Lanesboro, .Massachusetts. May 13, 1813; apprenticed to a tailor at Sheffield ; was foreman of one of the best shops at Great Barrington ; and came in 1834 to White Pigeon. His education was mainly from good reading and from contention in debating schools. He received from Stevens T. Mason, the "boy governor" of Michigan, a captaincy for possible service in the "Toledo War"; and, as a member of Assembly in 1841 he was a stalwart adherent of Gov. John S. Barry. His business at White Pigeon as tailor and dealer in general goods flourished for a time: but in 1846 he came to Spring Prairie village, and in 1848, having been chosen sheriff over George W. Dorrance (Whig) ami Perry G. Harrington (Democrat), he came to Elkhorn, this his last removal. In 1855 he failed of nomination ( on the Barstow ticket) as state treasurer, but was placed the next year on the Buchanan electoral ticket. I [e served three terms as member of the count)" board, and so closed his official life. Though never a farmer he was an enthusiastic member of the .Agricultural Society and five times its president. He had opened a store for the sale of dry goods and groceries, at the close of his sheriffalty, first with Horatio X. Hay. and later with Benjamin F. Pope as partner. His voice as a town officer and as a business man was always for village improvement. He would have moved the village a half-mile eastward and new-named it "Centralia." His firm built a grainhouse, and across the track southward platted an addition which he named "Byzantium." The business panic of 1857 demolished his and many another's air-castles, and he ended his long life of honest and hopeful poverty January 10, 1890. His wife, Julia Ann, daughter of Simeon DeW itl Corbin and Amanda Pratt, was born m Ohio, July 2, 1818; married at White Pigeon, May 18. 1836; died November 9, \X<>j. They had three children: Orville Marshall, who died while yet a minor, - full of promise for luisincss activity: Lydia Louise (Mrs. Henry Cousins) : Robert (lark, long hi- father's associate in the business of the mice locally famous "Shanty," died at Kan Claire June 4, 1907. Mrs. Preston was a woman "nobly planned." Mr. Preston was a clean-living, kind-hearted, broad-minded, public-spirited man. An earlier ambition had been to make himself an orator, for which his figure, manner and voice lilted him fairly. His later aspiration was toward editot ship, for which he lacked nearly everything.

Osgood. His mother'- ancestors were John1. Stephen-, Hooker3, David4, ( apt. Josiah'"' and wife Jane Byington. Her first husband, Samuel Osgood, of Jonathan, Jr., was her second cousin. Their son Samuel Stillman 1 1. was a good man of Elkhorn. Josiah O. Puffer was born at Sunderland,

Massachusetts, October 22, 1S14; came to Spring Prairie and prospered in shoe-shop, on farm, and in business at the village; married successively Hannah M. Whitmore and .Mrs. Mary Whitmore Hatch. Hannah was born April, 1820; died February 11, 1862, leaving six sons. Alary died January 31, 1897. Mr. Puffer was a deacon in the Baptist church. In the church and out of it he was a man of action, for he was sound and energetic in body and in mind, and had his share in the direction of local affairs. He died March 16, 1895.

Adam E. Ray was a son of Martin Kay (born 1779) and Caroline Phelps (born 1781). He was born at Kingston, New York, in 1808. He came about 1837 to Milwaukee, and served for Milwaukee and Washington counties in the territorial Legislature; lower house from 1831) to 1X42: upper house in [845. About 1X4(1 he settled in section 6 of Troy with wife Eliza, and was four times a county supervisor. At the legislative session of 1851 he was an assemblyman, chosen over Timothy Mower and Mellen Bern*. About 1858 he went to Alabama with intent to try northern ways of farming there. He and his money were made welcome, but within a year or two the political atmosphere became so over-heated that he returned and soon afterward moved to Waukesha, where he died September 20, 1865. His children were Patrick Henry, Eliza, Mary, Augusta, Jane, Ered, Ira, Ida. 1'. Henry Ray enlisted in April. [861, and served in Company K, Second Infantry, as corporal; in Company A, hirst Heavy Artillery, as senior first lieutenant; in Company L, same regiment, as captain; entered the regular service in 1867 as second lieutenant; was retired as brigadier-general; and died in 191 1.

George Augustus Ray, son of Martin and Caroline, was born in Delaware county, Xew York, April 23, [819; came to Mukwonago by way of Milwaukee about 1837; to East Troy about [842; to Lagrange about i860; to Whitewater in 1S70, where he died February 23, [893. lie served for seven terms as county supervisor for Lagrange, ami in [868 was assemblyman, having defeated Henry B. Clark. October 31, 1844. he married Fanny, daughter of Jonah Wicker and Fanny Compton. She was born in Vermont, March 31, [826; died at Whitewater, October 25, 1906. Their children were Mary (Mrs. William R. Taylor): James W. ; Frank P.; Ada (Mrs. Arthur R. Cook) ; Margaret (Mrs. Roby).

HENRY M. Ray, son of Martin and Caroline, was born in April, 1800. at Kingston. He came to Darien before i860. In 1865 he was one of the in orporators of the First National Rank id" Delavan, He died November 5, 1866. Mrs. Mary S. Ray, his wife, was born in Saratoga county; died at Delavan, April 23, 1892. Their children were Asa W. ; W. Augustus; Henry; Mary !-'.. 1 Mrs. Warren W. Sturtevant) : Piatt. W. Augustus was colo-

Edwin Mortimer Rice, son of Jones Rice and Hannah Hemenway, was born in Addison county, Vermont, February [3, 1S17; married December 24, 1840, Laura E.. daughter of Ira Wicker, of Bridgeport : came in 1841 to section 5, Richmond; was member of the county board in 1855 and in the same year began six years of service as superintendent of the poor. In 1807 he moved to Whitewater, where he died May 19, 1904.

Erasmus Darwix Richardson, son of Caleb Richardson and Clarissa Knight, had ancestors Thomas1. Nathaniel3, John3, Caleb4, John5. He was born at Burlington, Xew York. November 26, 1810; in 1834 married Elizabeth \\\. and in 1843 Alma O.. daughters of Abraham Spafard and Sarah Williams. He came to section 31 of Lyons in 1842, and from his farm was taken the addition of five acre- to Lake Geneva, lie began his hanking business at Lake Geneva in 1848 and continued in it until his death, January _\ 1892. His affairs were found somewhat involved, most likely because age had impaired his earlier sound judgment. He had served the town as clerk, and the village as president, and was a member of the Assembly of 1849. 1 te was regarded as one of the safest business men of the county. His one child. Elizabeth, was wife of Charles E. Buell.

Ard Starr Rockwell was a son of Benjamin Sperry Rockwell and Tryphena Starr. Jabez Rockwell, his grandfather, was of Danbury, Connecticut, where his children were born. These were Levi, Eli, Benjamin S.. and Ezra. Benjamin S. Rockwell was horn May im. 1702: married May 4. 1783; died October 30. 1835, at Butternuts, New York, whither he had removed in 171)5. Trvphena was daughter of Jonathan Starr. Jr., and Lucy, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Ruggles. Her earlier ancestors were Thomas'. Dr. Comfort'-'. Thomas3, Josiah4, John5, Jonathan0. She was born May 12, 1762; died March 23, 1851. Their children were Ard Starr. Keziah, Ashbel Ruggles, Amos, Andrew, Asahel. Rachel, Laura, Anson, Almon. Ard S. was born December 5, 1783; married Betsey Shaw in 1809; died at Elkhorn, July 4. 1866. Mrs. Rockwell was born in 1795 ; died December 5. 1875. Their sonwere John Starr. LeCrand. Lester Ruggles, Henry; and there were four daughters.

(ames Oliver Rosencrans (Simeon1, Col. John3, Alexander-'. Herman Hendrick1) was son of Dr. Simeon Rosencrans and Sarah Shoemaker. He was born at Walpack, Hunterdon county. Xew Jersey. June 3, [803; married Susannah, daughter of James Van Campen and I ecelia Meeker, March 3. 1824; came to earlv Whitewater - several namesakes ami relatives also to

Troy, Sugar Creek and other towns; died May 5, 1883. His wife was born November 6, 1805, died September 1, 1892. Their daughter Cecilia was married to Augustus C. Kinne.

Cyrus Rugg, son of David Rugg and Eunice, daughter of Solomon Gleason, was descended from John1, Daniel2 3, Reuben4- He was born at Heath, Massachusetts, January 20, 181 1; married October 7, 1835, Lucinda F., daughter of Zenas and Abigail Taylor. She was born February 29, 1816; died November 2, 1884 - having known but seventeen birthdays. Cyrus died at Logan, Iowa, February 2. 1894. In i860 they had six children. Mr. Rugg came to Bloomfield in 1841. He served the town three terms as its member of the county board. A few of his townsmen remember him as a competent farmer and man of town affairs, and speak of him as one of the best men of his town - and, therefore one of the best of the count}'. His brother, Erastus Root Rugg, was born November 2, 1820: came to Bloomfield in 1841 : married December 25, 1844, Lucy Elizabeth Hatch; went westward in after years; was killed at Portland, Oregon, September 20, 1889. Mrs. Rugg was born January 18, 1827: died September 4. hjoo.

Silas Salisbury, if, as here supposed, he was son of Duty (or Dutee) Salisbury and Cynthia Smith, had ancestors : William1, Cornelius'-'. Jonathan3, Edward4. 1 le married Lydia Dodge and their children were born in Cortland county between [807 and 1830. These were Amanda. Ansel. Oliver, Nelson, Rhoda, Elisha, George, Mary Jane, Christopher, Silas, Samuel, Lydia Ann. Three of the son> came to Whitewater.

Ansel Salisbury was born May 15, 1809; came to Spring Prairie in 1837 ; married 1 Hive Dame at Northport, Michigan, in 1843; went to Lima in 1846; tn \\ hitewater in 1854; owned the branch null [858-1865 : died November 24, [884. His children were: Egbert (married Jean Galbraith) ; Edgar (died aged [3); \\ 'infield Scott (married Mary Earll) ; Stella (Mrs. Clarence J. Partridge); Effie (Mrs. Mannering De Wolf ) ; Willard (married Atlanta Schrom) ; Jessie (married Fred Hurlbut, Jr.).

Nelson Salisbury was horn December 31. 1812. at Marathon; came to Wisconsin in [839; married Esther, daughter of Prosper Cravath and Miriam Kinney. She died April 16, [845, leaving a child Helen (Mrs. Luther L. t I. irk). In January, [880, he married Mrs. Julia Hemenway and died September 1 (. [880.

George Salisbury was lorn April to, [819; came in Spring Prairie in |.o; in Lima in iS|i ; married in [849 Philena Matilda, daughter of Levi Kinne) and ^dah Cravath ; moved to Whitewater in [854; died April y, 1889. Ili- wife was horn July 22, 1N20: died July <). 1902.

Daniel Salisbury suspected some not assignable degree of cousinship between himself and his namesakes. He was born at Homer, January 25, 1814; came to Spring Prairie in 1836; married Harriet, daughter of Isaac U. Wheeler, April 1, 1841 ; she died August 16, 1843; ne married Lucinda Bryant June, 1848; she died May 14, 1878, leaving children: Wayland (1848-1866) ; Alice (Airs. Hugh Paden ) ; Harriet (Mrs. Frank J. Palmer); Celia; Rollin D. : Elsie. He died March 29, 1888, having been for a few years the oldest living settler. Rollin Daniel Salisbury was graduated from Beloit College; was for some years assistant to the state geologist and was or is a geological professor at the Northwestern University, at Chicago. He has made some contributions to geological science and his reports and other works have been published.

Arthur Loomis Sanborn ( Ebenezer Simpson87, John", Ebenezer5, Enoch4, John321), son of Ebenezer Simpson Sanborn and Harriet Blount, was born at Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence county, New York, November 17, 1850. His father died in 1862, leaving two bright boys to be led to honorable and useful manhood by their mother - one of the best and most capable of women. The family had lived some years at Lake Geneva. Air. Noyes gave Arthur a clerkship in the office of register of deeds, and the mother and sons made their home at Elkhorn. In 1875 the clerk became chief, and his spare hours were given to thorough study of the law. In 1879 he was admitted to practice, and at the 'close of his term of office he went to Madison, to take a subordinate place in the office of Gregory & Pinney. A dissolution and remposition of partnerships made the new firm of Pinney & Sanborn. He was later a partner of John C. Spooner and others. Another firm. Berryman & Sanborn, became widel) known as annotators of the Revised Statutes, and a younger Sanborn is still engaged in that work. The death of Judge Romanzo Bunn made a place for Mr. Sanborn in [905 on the federal bench of western Wisconsin. Judge Sanborn, while struggling at Elkhorn, married Alice Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Golder and Sarah Merritt, and has three sons and a daughter.

fosEPH Warren Seaver was born at Arlington, Vermont, July -'3. 1793: married Mary Long; lived in Washington and Genesee counties, New York ; came to Darien in 1837 ; was first town clerk and served in all six terms ; in 1852 he was chosen member of Assembly ovei Gaylord Blair and Plinj Allen: died August 1. [864. His wife was born July 21, [793; died August 30, 1850. Their children, as nearl) as found, were Hora ett I [832-

Lyman Hint Shaver, a brother of Joseph W., was born at Arlington, Vermont, October 26, [796; lived in Washington and Genesee counties; came in 1837 to Darien; was one of the first town board of supervisors, in 1842; was a member of the constitutional convention of [846 and was one of the committee on schedule for organization of state government (Article XIX) ; died June 1, [864. Sarah, his wife, daughter of Archibald Woodard and wife Anna, was born at Hebron, New York. April 10, 1797: died August 28, 1878. Of their eleven children three died early. The others in uncertain order of birth were William (married Alice Bentley) ; John Woodard (married Helen, daughter of Joseph Chamberlain): Henry Warren (married Mary Jane, daughter of William Harper) ; Julius Horace (married Martha Jane Herron ) ; Lyman 1 1. ( married Lavina, daughter of Aaron E. Bell and Julia Armstrong 1 : Rodney (married Myra A. Dean); Mary Ann (Airs. States K. Corning). There may be some error of detail as to the two Seaver families or wrong assignment 1 if children to them, though some effort was made to rind the whole truth.

Robert Thompson Seymour (Harvey H.6, Abijalr', Thomas4, Matthew3, Thomas2, Richard1 ), was son of Harvey Hine Seymour and Arabella Thompson. ( Harvey 11. Seymour was born July 13, 1790. at Wilton, Connecticut, and died at or near Elkhorn July 20, 1878. His mother was Elizabeth Hine). Robert T. Seymour was born at Rhinebeck, July 13, 1814; had a fair education; had kept a hotel; was for a term sheriff of Dutchess county, and was mice required to execute the sentence of the law upon one convicted of murder in the first degree. No defense had been made in court, except to show circumstances which would now be thought to warrant much less than the extreme penalty. While in jail, the prisoner and sheriff formed a warm friendship, and it needed more than common fortitude to carry out the last act. In 1854 Mr. Seymour bought the Rockwood farm in Lafayette, and also took part in county affairs, and in the business of the Agricultural Society, of which he was president in [856. In the legislative session of that year he was member of Assembly, chosen over Stephen G. West. He was five times a member of the county board and twice its chairman He died at Elkhorn. February 20, [879. His wife was Harriet, daughter of William Jaques and Mary Cooper. She was born at Rhinebeck, October 29, iSu, married March _'<>. 1835, and died October [9, 1S78. They had seven children. Capt. Alexander Thompson Seymour served in Company 1. Twenty-eighth Infantry. and died in 1007. William Harvey Seymour was a business man at Lake Geneva; he died in [894. Mary Catherine is wife of Eli W. Garfield, at Elkhorn.

Elisha Matteson Sharp, son of Capt. John Sharp and Sarah Mather, was born at Reading. Schuyler county, New York, October 21, 1832; came to town of Delavan in 1850. and later to the village; was a teacher and then a dealer in dry goods, etc.; married September 30, [862, Sarah A., daughter of Roswell and Martha Williams, of Darien ; member of Assembly in 1872, elected over William A. Knilans. and in 1875. having defeated Uriah S. Hollister. In 1878 he was appointed consular agent at Paris, Ontario, that office a dependency of the consulate at Hamilton, Ontario. He died October 8, 189 1. and his wife followed March 5, 1901.

John Sharp, son of Jacob Sharp and Esther Matteson, was born in Hunterdon county, Xew Jersey, February 5, 1801 ; his family went in icSu to Tompkins county, Xew York; he married November 27, 1827, Sarah Mather. At some date between 1833 and 1839 he was commissioned as captain of militia, in the regiment of Steuben county. In 1850 he came to the town of Delavan, southeastern shore of the lake ; in 1807 be made a home in the village, where he died December 20, 1871. Mrs. Sharp was born in Orange county. New York, October 12, 1809; died July 13, 17S9. Her parents were Silas Downs Mather and Mary, daughter of Capt. Cotton Mather, and older ancestors were John1, Thomas-, Rev. Richard:!. Timothy4. Rev. Samuel", Rev. Nathaniel0, Ebenezer7, John8. Her children were: Mary \i. (Mrs. Charles V; Bassett) ; Elijah M. ; Susan; Hiram Terry; Elisha (killed in military service): John Mather; Sarah A. (Mrs. William M. Shepard ; Clara 1 Mrs. Winn) : Elizabeth A. (Mrs. Edward Powers).

George Sikes was born in Connecticut, December, [816; his family moved to the state of New \'ork ; in 1843 came to section 23 of Sharon. In 1850 he was member of Assembly, having defeated Amos < llder. His wife was Alvira, daughter of Wesley Perkins, of Boone county. Illinois. Charles A. Sikes. their son, was first and only supervisor of assessors. George Sikes died November 29, 1881.

JAMES Simmons, son of John Simmon-- and Laura Bell, was, as understood, of an old and often honored familj of Rhode tsland. lie was born at Middlebury, Vermont, June 11, 1821 : was graduated from Middlebury College in 1N41 ; studied law ; came to Geneva in [843 and was admitted in the same year to law practice. He married November 12, [848, Katherine, daughter of James and Jeannette McCotter. She was born at Orwell, Vermont, November 29, [822; died February 14, 1895. They had live children, of whom two died earlv. The others were John Bell (married .\h-- Sarah Bernard, daughter of George Sturges and \nn Maria Humphrey); James; Mary E. Mis. Simmons was what is called a "superior woman." That is. she was edu- cated, broadly intelligent, and in all ways womanly. Mr. Simmons has been made known in other chapters as lawyer, county officer, historian and poet of occasions. Besides these labors of duty and of love, he had in hand, in his later life, the work of digesting the reports of judicial decisions in the courts of England, New York and Wisconsin. He was not without ambition, but never had learned to grovel in order that he might rise. He, like his friend Judge Baker, was carelessly taken by his fellowmen at his too modest selfestimate, though his qualities as a citizen and neighbor were neither unseen nor unvalued; but this did not make him blame the world nor despise it. His life was intellectual, moral and social; his convictions in matters of highest public and nearest personal concern were calmly formed and clearly defined; and he was quietly resolute in following them. At home and among neighbors he was one of the best and kindest of men.

Harley Flavel Smith, son of Richard (son of David) Smith and Sarah, daughter of Edward White and Sarah Tourtelotte, was born at Townshend, Vermont, September 28, 1808; educated at Chester Academy and Middleburg College; went to Saratoga to study law under locally eminent lawyers; went to Wyoming village where he taught mathematics and classics in a school of some repute in western Xew York; continued law study at Pike; admitted to practice in 1838 and opened an office at Castile, where he abode till the end of 1848. In 1850 he came to Elkhorn and formed a partnership with Horatio S. Winsor, and this firm was one of the strongest in the count}- for many years. About [870 the firm dissolved, and in 1877 he received a younger partner in the person of Jaynes B. Wheeler, ending in the latter's county judgeship in 1886. The old man's active career then closed, and his few remaining years were given to an endless, unreadable legal defense of the authenticity as historic truth, of the five Mosiac books of the Bible. He wrote with a stub steel-pen. in the crabbedest of characters, and as the ink on the first foolscap sheet would scarcely be dry when he reached the end of the third sheet, the general appearance of his manuscript would suggest that his left arm defaced while his right hand scribbled, lie was a public-spirited and in all ways excellent citizen, a kind and often helpful neighbor, and a friend to be trusted. He newer eared to hold office, but would have accepted a judgeship of circuit or supreme court had it come to him without his asking, lie married September 15, 1833, Lydia Ann, daughter of David Nourse and Nancy George. She was born at Rockingham, Vermont, December 4. i8o<), and died at Klkhorn. Mav 7, [881, leaving a daughter. Mrs. Smith was one of the besl of home-makers.

of Palmer Gardner, the settler of Spring 1'rairie. In [862 L. J. Smith went into military service as first lieutenant of Company I. Twenty-eighth [nfantry, and returned as captain in 1S65 - a l°ng and active service. lie married Helen M.. daughter of James Stewart and .Margaret Guthrie, December 21, 1871. He was chosen assemblyman fur the session of [88] over Dr. Caleb S. Blanchard and John Matheson. He died at Troy Centre, August 17, 1907.

Sewall Smith, born at Andover, Vermont. December 13, [802; married in 1825 Nancy Mansur 1 [803-1884 ) ; died at East Troy January 23, 1881. In 1 84 1 he built and occupied the first store at the village. J Ie was a member of the committee on banks and banking in the first constitutional convention. In 1844 he was a member of the county board, and served his (own usefully in other official places. He was also the first postmaster of the village. None of his children remain at East Troy, though his sons George H. and Charles W. Smith were for some years in the business begun by their father.

Timothy Clark Smith was son of Noah R. Smith and Susan Dowd. His mother's ancestors were Henry1. John-. David3, Richard45. He was born , in Cortland county December 20, 1816; came in 1842 from Orleans county to Milwaukee where he was clerk for a dry goods firm ; came to Geneva in 1844 as partner with his employer at Milwaukee; in 1805 changed his business to hardware; died December 25, 1888. He married Mary S. Bowen in 1857 and Helen Bowen in 1869.

Alfred Stephens Spooner (Joel5, Wing4, Daniel3, Samuel2, William1) was son of Joel Spooner and Lydia, daughter of Capt. Israel Trow and Mary Clapp. He was born March 3, 1819, near Keene, New York; was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and between work and study found no idle hours; married Sarah Maria, daughter of Isaac Bristol ami Sophia Holcomb, December 2^. 1844. In 1849 he came to Delavan to work and study, and in [850 was admitted to the practice of law. From 1854 to [858 he was district attorney. and was called back in 1878 for another term, having defeated Joseph I lubcrt Page. He served for many years as justice of the peace at 1 lelavan, ami n also a court commissioner, lie had nine children, of whom few are living. lb' died April 22. [895. Mr. Spooner was a vigorous newspaper writer as well as a good lawyer. He had one of the best law libraries in the county, and a large family of good and bright children.

Wyman Spooner (Jeduthunr\ Thomas4, John -. William1) was son of Jeduthun Spooner and Hannah, daughter of Joshua I rowell and Mary Shive rick. He was born at Hardwick. Massachusetts, July 2. [795. He passed at fourteen from the common school at home to In- uncle Mden Spooni printing office at Windsor. Vermont. \t twentj 1 me be had earned die degree of master printer, and by orderly promotion became editor of the Advocate at Royalton and later at Chelsea. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Fish and Elizabeth Holmes, at Hardwick, November 10. 1818. She was born at Upton, November 17, 1794, and died in the town of Lyons, February 16, 1877. Air. Spooner studied law at Royalton under Hon. Jacob Collamer, and at Chelsea under Hon. Daniel A. A. Buck, and was admitted to practice in 1833. In 1835 he went to Canton. Ohio, and practiced in the courts of Stark and Tuscarawas counties. In 1842 he came by way of Racine to Elkhorn ; served as judge of probate 184(1-9: was circuit judge for one term of court by appointment; served in the Assembly tour terms (twice as speaker): state senator [862-4, and president of the Senate (and acting lieutenant-governor I ; lieutenant-governor by two elections, from 1864-68. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party of Wisconsin in 1854. In his youth he had been a Federalist and afterward a Whig of the anti-slavery type. In 1872 he thought it possible to make a new party of administrative reform, and joined the Greeley movement. In 1876 he voted for the last time, and for Hayes. He died November 18, 1877, at his son Wyman, Jr.'s, home in Lyons. Governor Spooner was well read in the English classics and thence formed a plain, clear. forcible style of speaking and writing. His faculties seemed always at his command, and he was thus equipped for instant service as editor, contributor, speaker, judge, chairman, or conversationalist. His sense of propriety kept his discourse, spoken or written, free from false ornament and hi- delivery unmarred by trick of the stage. I le cared more for essence and substance than for form; but. to his mind, a courtroom, a public meeting, a business conference, a meeting of family or friends, had each of right its decencies of behavior and speech, each it- appropriate dignity. As a lawyer, one who had been his partner, and well-qualified for estimating men's higher personal and professional values, -aid of him: "lie was thoroughly educated in the principles of hi- profession, and regarded its practice as a means to secure justice as its end." For such men as he the first and highest aim of politicians must be "to secure and maintain the best form of government, honestlj and justly administered."

John Syng Spoor, -on of William Spoor and Christine Wilcox, was horn in Erie county, New York, March _>o, 1805. In 1835 lie married Mariette, daughter of Jesse Bivins and 1 ydia Byington. She was born at Clarence, New York. October 5. t8id. and died at Burlington, Wisconsin, August 10. [898. In 1837 he came from Washtenaw county, .Michigan, to the Meacham settlement and presently made his home in Fast Troy. In [842 he bought land ections to, 11. 12 of Lyons, and lived in that town till his death. April 2,

1867. His son Charles ( 1843-1909), a soldier of the Twenty-eighth Infantry, married Almira J., daughter of Window P. Storms, in 1866. Other children live in other counties and states. The elder Spoor served four years as justice of the peace.

Amos Wagman Stafford, grandson of Amos and son of Samuel H. Stafford and wife Nancy, daughter of Jacob Ferguson, was born at Saratoga Springs. November 2, 1810; moved to Victor, New York, in 1824; married, first, Ann Sabrina, daughter of Stephen and Jane Ellis, May 20, 1832; came to Bloomfield in 1844 and bought a farm ( with his father) in section 4; wife died November 7, 1882; moved to Lake Geneva and May 10, 1887, married, second, Mrs. Juliet, daughter of R. Wells Warren and Mary Knapp, and widi >\\ of Simeon Gardner; he died September 20, 1900. He was seven times a member of the county board, and was chosen assemblyman for 1872 over Maurice L. Avers. He had five children. Eliza was wife of Aimer Farnum, and Sarah, wife of Jefferson P. Harlow.

Henry J. Starin, son of Jacob F. Starin and Mary Schermerhorn, was born at Glen, Montgomery county, New York, August 25, 1808; married Ella Green Schermerhorn in 1835; came to Whitewater in 1840; was a horticulturist, and the village owed much to his early efforts in planting shade trees. He was found dead in his bed, May 5, 1880. He'had sons Henry Allen, and Duane, a soldier of the Civil war. His brother, Frederick Jacob Starin, born April 17, 1821, married Jane Martha Groat; died October 2, 1896. He was a surveyor and civil engineer and was connected with most of the early railway building in which Whitewater had great concern.

Hiram Alden Stone was born at Pawlet, Vermont, March 4. 1N11; came to Milwaukee in 1S40, and later to Darien. In 1858 lie was elected sheriff over Michael Thompson and in 1866 without opposition. He died at Milwaukee November 4, 1896. Lucinda, his wife, was born in 1817; died in 1S78. Their daughter Mary A. was married in 1859 to Orange Williams. His brother, Moses Bushnell Stone, was born in 1814 ; died Augusl 4. [866 married Harriet Sumner 1 1818-1901). Sheriff Stone was a itoul built man of few words, of clear judgment, resourceful, resolute, and had much ability and experience in detective work.

Other sheriffs, not named in these notes, were elected : Carver over Perry G. Harrington and Amos C. Lei and : Crumb over Harrington and Stone; Derthick over William A. Knilans, Milton L. Hollister; Fay over Albon M. Perrv : Flanders over John L. Fulton, Edward T. Weyh< 1 I oster over Harold H. Rogers, Tames Cleary; Hates over Cvril 1.. Oatman; Goff over hied W.

Winslow Page Storms, son of William Storms and Clarissa Hill, was horn in Cato, New York. June 9, 1820. He married, February 22, 1843. at Milwaukee, Melissa Persis, daughter of Isaac Meacham. She was born at Brownsville, New York, December 21, 1818, and died April 26, 1909. In 1845 Mr. Storms settled at Vienna, in section 13, Spring Prairie. His house long did occasional service to hungry and benighted travelers as a wayside inn. He owned a farm in the same section. In 1861-2 he was a member of the county board, and served the town at times as supervisor, clerk, treasurer and assessor. He died at Lyons, July 20, 1903, leaving three of his five children. Of these, Almira J., now of Milwaukee, is widow of Charles Spoor.

Charles Holmes Sturtevant, son of Francis and Jerusha (Bartlett), was born in Orange county, Vermont, June 3, 1818; came in 1837 to Chicago, and in 1 84 1 to Delavan as carpenter, cabinet-maker and later was Air. Isham's partner in a wagon-shop. He was in general retail business for a few years, and then went into insurance and collecting agencies. In September, 1842, he married Prudence, daughter of Peter Millspaugh Keeler and Prudence Sturtevant. of Darien; she died in October, 1855, and he married Amanda, daughter of Orlando Brown, of Allegany county, about 1857. There were six children of the lir^t marriage and four of the second one. He was three times a member nf the county board, and once its chairman, and was assemblyman in 1863 w ithout opposition at the polls. He died December 19, 1899.

Aaron Hardin Taggart was born at Greenwich, New York. December 30, [816. He came to Delavan in 1837 and with George Passage built a brick store, stocked it well with general goods and continued in business seven years. He owned a large Farm lying in sections 19, 20. south nf the village, and tn this he moved in [856, and died April 25, 1874. He had married September 1. 184(1, Martha, daughter of Henry Phoenix and Ann Jennings. She was horn in 182(1; died in 1905. Their children were Sarah A., Henry II.. Ada K.. George M., William !'.. Louis II.. Fred II. Louis H. Taggart, now of Lake Geneva, married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George Sturges and Ann Maria, daughter nf Hiram Humphrey and Mary Blodgett,

111 \ky Topping, son nf Jared and Sarah, was horn in Montgomery county, New York, March 14. 1804; taught school: opened a store at Leesville, Schoharie county; married in that county, December 31, 1828, Nuel, daughter of William and Nanq S. Van Doren; was ordained as a Baptist clergyman in 1835 and was pastor at Leesville until 1:839, when he came to a farm in Darien. From 1841 to 1850 he preached at Delavan. Mast Delavan and Walworth; went to Sauk county, and returned in i S57 to Delavan. In 1867 he moved to southernmost Illinois, and theme to Kansas, where he died, at Ottawa, Xovemher 20, 1870. His wife died October 11, 1880 - her birth September 24, 1808. The)' had two sons and two daughters. One of the latter, Harriet Nuel, was Mrs. Samuel Rees LaBar.

Julius Allen Treat, son of Oren Treat and Nancy Thompson, had ancestors: Richard12, Thomas", Richard4, Timothy', Thomas'1, lie was born at Aurora, Xew York, November 17, 1814; was a surveyor; married Sarah D. Crocker in 1839: came to a farm in section 25, Sharon, in 1844; was a retailer at Elton for a short time; moved to the village of Sharon in 1858, where he was a lumber-dealer. His wife was born March 13, 1815; died October 22, 1874. His second wife was Ellen Brownson. lie died February 22, 1892. He held various local offices, but his Democracy kept him from the higher places that he might have filled with credit. His brother, George Treat, born September 17, 1818, married Sarah C, daughter of Thomas and Lucinda Foster; died December 2^, 1882. A cousin. Dr. Charles Ralph Treat, son of Oren's brother Isbon and wife Apphia Thompson, was born January 12, 1826; married January 1, 1862, Margaret Reesman; died May 8, 1901. His wife was born January 15, 1839; died August 9, 1905.

James Tripp was born at Schenectady, September 5, 1795 ; studied medicine and was graduated about 1817 from the medical college at Albany; went to Mobile, but returned in 1819; by Governor Clinton's commission he became in 1822 surgeon of a regiment of state militia. - an honorary rank: married, January 4, 1825, Rosepha Ann, daughter of William Comstock, of Otsego county; came in 1837 to sections 4, 5 of East Troy 1 then included in the town of Troy), and built a saw-mill at the outlet of Tripp's lake (Lake Beulah), which he soon sold. He had plenty of money, for the time and place - plenty and scarcity then as now relative terms - and was induced to build a gristmill at Whitewater. In 1840 this mill was grinding for a large part of the country for eight or ten miles around it. I le platted the village of Whitewater, chiefly on his own land, and dealt justly and liberallj with lot-buyers. But he would not doctor them, except in emergencies, in which his knowledge and skill were trusted by his fellow physicians as well as by his patients. He died September 4, 1844, at the rising village he had founded and named, and which he had planned with intelligent foresight. Mrs. Tripp was born at Laurens, New York, November 2, 1802, and died, full of good works, Febru- ary 2, 1881. She had been baptized in the Episcopal church, and she brought with her an abiding faith and a habit of showing it forth by kind and helpful deeds, to the end of her life. Her memory, too, was well stored with matter for localfliistory ; for she had seen the infancy of one of the finest small cities of Wisconsin.

James Lawrence Tubbs, son of Samuel Tubbs (a soldier of the war of 1N12) and Polly Frost, was born at Augusta, New York, September 10. 1824; came with parents in 1843 to Lafayette; qualified himself as a surveyor, and in time, as a civil engineer; married December 10, 1849, Anna Rebecca, only child of Dr. John Mathias Henderson and Samantha, daughter of Charles and Anna Hine; was elected eight times county surveyor, and served occasionally as undersheriff. At first a Democrat, he became a Freesoiler and then a Republican. In 1872 he supported Greeley and returned to the Democracy. His profession brought him little revenue until past middle life, when he became more profitably occupied in laying out the village of Williams Bay, and in civil engineering work for Chicagoan owners of Geneva Lake (shore) property. He also began the compilation of a second general abstract of titles to count}' property, and this work had begun to bring him revenue before his death, which was September 6, 1899. Mrs. Tubbs was born at Willoughby, Ohio. December 13, 1830, and died at Elkhorn, December 25, 1904. Mr. Tubbs was a lifelong student of pure mathematics, and even in latest years found much pleasure in the stud)- and master) of quaternions. His clerical habit was neat and exact, and his memory of the political events of his lime, of the actors therein, and of men who in earlier years had come to and gone from Walworth county was seldom matched.

Rev. John William Vahey, son of James Henry Vahey and Mary .i, grandson <>f Patrick Vahey and Margaret O'Hora, great-grandson of Fergus Vahey and Margaret Prendergast, was born near Castlebar, county Mayo, - onnaught, June, 1830. He came in 1848, already advanced in scholarship, i" the Lazarist seminary at St. Louis. He studied law and practiced four years in the courts of Missouri. In 1854 he received priest's orders at Dulmque. He served at the federal military prison at Alton as chap- Iain. In his active career as a parish priest at fifteen towns of Indiana, Illinois. Iowa and Wisconsin, he buill several churches, including thai at Elkhorn. He had also at times lectured to classes in philosophy and languages. He wrote and published several books and was protagonist for the church in il newspaper controversies with Episcopal clergymen, lie bought a farm within city limits, having become disabled for the service of the altar. but in a short lime retired to find what rest remained in this life, and died Tune

27, 1903. He had a wide range of secular knowledge and his wit was ready for most emergencies. His personal qualities drew to him many friends not of his ancient communion. A faithful sister, Miss Margaret, cared for him in his health and in his long last sickness and lives to keep his memory green.

Solmous Wakeley was born at New Mil ford, Connecticut, March 17, 1794: was a farmer and a shoemaker and lawyer: went to Cortland county; married Hannah Thompson in 1S18; from Erie county. New York, to Lorain county, Ohio, and thence to Whitewater in 1843; member of committee on bill of rights in first constitutional convention; member of county board 1851 -5 ; member of Assembly in 1855 without opposition, in 1857 defeating Willard Stebbins. He died at Madison, January 12, 1867.

Charles Wales, son of George Wales and Sally Crane, had father-ancestors: John1 of Idle (Yorkshire), Nathaniel2 (of Dorchester). Timothy1, Nathaniel4, Ebenezer5, Elisha'', Nathan7. His mother's ancestors were John1, Benjamin2, John3, Ebenezer4, Jonathan0. He was born at Plymouth, New York. October 22, 1818: bought a farm in north Geneva in 1845: married October 26, 1848, Eliza Ann, daughter of Richard Crandall and Abigail Crane; moved to Elkhorn in 1875. Mrs. Wales had died in 1868, and in 1869 he married Lorahama, daughter of Elijah Butler. He died June 20. 1903. His children: Ruth Eliza (Mrs. Fred W. Isham) ; Rosa 1'hilinda (Mrs. 11. Augustus Xewton ) : Belle Bethania 1 Mrs. Clinton D. Dewing) ; Charles Marshall, a mechanical engineer, of Xew York. Charles Wales was a local officer at Geneva and Elkhorn, a working member of the county agricultural society, an intelligent, upright and prosperous man.

George Walworth was born at Rome, Xew York. August 15. [793; died January 13, 1853. He was son of Jesse4 (James3, William2 ' } and wife Hannah, daughter of Bartholomew and Sarah Daggett, of Danby, Vermont. He married Keziah Thayer, and in [843 came to Spring Prairie with his brother Jesse, Jr., who soon returned to Rome. In 1847 he was a member of the last territorial Legislature. He was related in some not very remote degree to Chancellor Walworth, and probably to his namesakes of the county who were soldiers of the Civil war. Of three daughters, one came to Wis consin.

Greenleaf Stevens Warren, son of Thomas Warren and Anna Page of Ludlow, Vermont, was born in 1802; about 1814 went with his brother, R. Wells Warren, to Essex county. Xew York; thence about 1823 to Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Returning, after a successful venture in the leadmine region of Dubuque count}', he married Martha, a lister of VrnestUS I >. Colton. He came in 1837 with his brother to Geneva and built a house whii h by enlargement became a hotel (afterward kept by Mr. Colton). He also built a house and a store. He died in 1852. on his way home from a twoyears residence in California. He was succeeded as landlord of the Lake House by Thomas D. Warren, his brother, who was followed by Mr. Colton.

Robert Wells Warren, son of Thomas and Anna, was born at Ludlow, October 15, 1798; bred to his father's calling of millwright, in which he acquired much master's skill; went to Lewis, Essex county. New York, about 1814; married, March 19, 1820, Mary, daughter of Seth Knapp and Martha Fuller, at Willsborough, in that county; went about 1823 to Cussewago, Crawford county. Pennsylvania, and thence in 1837 ')V wav ot Chicago to Geneva. Here he came into possession of the disputed mill-site and of a large part of the village-site. In 1838 he built a gristmill for Mr. Goodsell, and afterward owned it - for many years a valuable property. In his later life he was used to early-morning walks, surveying his substantial possessions with quite reasonable satisfaction ; for he had found them in the rough and had made them shapely. He died December 30, 1875. Mrs. Warren, born February 22, 1806, died July 27, 1879. Of their live children, Seth Knapp, born at Lewis, September, 1823, known locally as a photographer and portrait painter, married May 7, 1846, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Harvey Church, and died December 21. 1890. Juliet was married, first, to Simeon Gardiner; second, to Amos W. Stafford. Seth K. Warren was not of such practical turn of mind as was his father; but preferred to let his soul wander farther away than the solar walk, even unto the polar regions of the universe, in search of evidence wherewith to confound presumptuous speculation on the origin of all being.

Thompson Dimock Weeks (Spencer7, Samuel6, Hezekiah5, William4, John3, William-, George1), son of Spencer Weeks and Elvira, daughter of Thomas and Sophia Dimock. was born at Norwich, Massachusetts. November 5. 1832; came in [843 from Darien, New York, to a farm in Lyons; received academic education at Milwaukee and a collegiate course at Appleton; was graduated from the law school at Albany in 1851). After a few months at Racine he went in [860 to Whitewater and became a partner with Prosper ( ravath, lie married, June 7, 1N1.5. Adelaide M. Farnsworth, At the session (if [867 he was assemblyman, chosen over Capt. Edward S. Redington. In [875 he wa» slate senator, his involuntary opponent at the election having been John F, Potter, who voted an open ticket, straight Republican, including the name of Mr. Weeks, lie appeared again in the senate in 181)3. having beaten Archibald Woodanl. lie died February 11. 1901. He became early in his professional career one of the ablest lawyers of the county, and was favorably known in the courts of other counties and in the supreme court of the state. He talked easily and candidly to juries, and without blustei or fustian, and he was a ready and pleasing speaker out of court. He was in sympathetic touch with all the educational interests of his city, county and state. His probity in public affairs and in private life was undoubted.

Stephen Gano West, son ©f William, married Rebecca, daughter of Jesse Pike and Rebecca King, and came about [839 to sections 5, 6, Lafayette. He married again, November 9. 1841, Diana, daughter of Joseph and Luanda Barker. Rebecca's children were Almira (Mrs. Christopher Wiswell) ; Jesse

Stephen Gano West, Jr. (1826-1889), married December 31, 1852, Martha, daughter of Nelson Lake and Martha Brandon. The last named was daughter of Charles W. Brandon and Martha, daughter of Lieut. Daniel Knowlton, of Ash ford, Connecticut, an officer of the Revolutionary army.

Isaac Underbill Wheeler was born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, in 17X7; was apprenticed to a carpenter; raised a company for the war of 1812- 15; had some experience as a justice of the peace; came to Wlhitewater in 1840 and became one of that city's active and substantial citizens. From [840 to his death, February 9, 1870, he served as justice of the peace with but one interval - that of his postmastership under the Taylor-Fillmore administration. This unbroken public service tells something of the man. He married in 1875 Lavina Duncan, who died in 1835. leaving six children. ( )f these were Sarah ( Mrs. Jesse R. Rhine) ; Mary Ann ( Mrs. Gaylord Graves 1 ; 1 1 arriet (Mrs. Daniel Salisbury); Elizabeth A. (Mrs. S. Unci Edwards); and sons Egbert and William II. Mr. Wheeler married, second, Januarj 26, [837, Nancy Palmer (1810-1890).

Samuel Austin White, son of Samuel and Flavia, daughter of Perez Merrick, was born in Delaware county, New York, August 10, 1823; was graduated in 1841 from Hamilton College; studiel law at Hamilton and al Buffalo; came to Geneva as a teacher in 1845, ani1 m I,s4'' married Mary, daughter of Andrew Ferguson. He went to I'mt Washington, where he was postmaster under the Pierce administration-; member of Assembly for < >zaukee in 1N57; county judge in [861. He came to Whitewater in [863 and easil) gained and held a high place in the esteem of his fellow citizens. Being a war Democrat, he was made assistant bank comptroller in 1864-5. '" |S(,5 he was appointed regenl of normal schools. He served as assemblyman in 1N71 and (872, having successively defeated Nathaniel M, Bunker and William Burgit He died March 4, 1878.

Asad Williams was born at Stonington, Connecticut, September 26, 1781 ; moved to Massachusetts and married, October 13, 1808, Jennie, daughter of Jonathan McGee, of Colerain ; went in 1814 to Herkimer county, New York, whence he came in 1839 to Whitewater; died May 16, 1864. Mrs. Williams was one day younger than Captain Williams. She died February 11, 1880. She was truly a pioneer mother - all the village her debtor for endless kind offices. Two children died young. Asad Dean Williams married Cynthia, daughter of William Powers and Susannah Cooper, and niece of Soldan Powers, of Troy. Jonathan McGee Williams (born 1820) married Sarah O., daughter of Dr. Thomas Hamilton and Sarah Armstrong and had sons Leo A., Frank H., Charles M. The first, ex-superintendent of schools, and the third are lawyers. The second, for many years town clerk, is on the home farm, near the city. Nathan married Betsey A. Allen and had children George W., Alma, Cassius C, Linn A., Leona B. Captain Asad Williams was a locally famous musician, and his sons Nathan and Thomas W. were for long widely famous performers on wind and string instruments.

David Williams, son of Thorp Williams and Clarissa Peters, was born at Darien, New York, January 6, 1818; married September 4, 1838, Adelia, daughter of Daniel Phelps and Elizabeth King: came to Geneva in 1846: was twice a member of the county board; assemblyman in 1858, elected over Charles \\ . Smith; moved to Darien in 1868 and was for many years a justice of the peace. Mr. Williams was a steady-minded, generally sound-judging, neighborly man, a fair parliamentarian, an excellent Masonic workman, and an unshaken believer in the doctrine and revelations of spiritualism. He died February 7, 1898. His wife was born at Alexander, New York, April 18, [820, died April 22, 1897. They had two children.

George G. Williams, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born at Cornwall. Orange county. New York, October 15, 1803; married at Athens, Greene county, November 7, 1824, Harriet C. Fitch; came in 1847 t0 Whitewater, and presently invested in pottery making, lie was for several years a justice of the peace, and from i860 to 1867 was postmaster - appointed by Mr. Buchanan. He served a term as trustee of the State School for the Deaf. His death was August 8, 1889.

Israel Williams, son of Ephraim. was born September 24, 1789, perhaps at Ashfield, Franklin county, Massachusetts, of which village his father was one of the founders. He married Lavina, daughter of Lieut. Nehemiah Joy, Jr., and wife Hannah. Tier mother came with her to Linn and died Mil km- to, 1838. aged seventy-seven years. The earlier generations of this Joy family wen' Thomas1, Joseph28, Simeon4, Nehemiah" and wife Miriam

Turner. Mr. Williams brought his family in 1837 to a log house on section iS. of Linn. In 1841 he built a frame house on section 6, besides the bay of his name. He died October 14. 1846. Lavina was born August, 1781: died June 28, 1852. At least four of their sons came with or before them to Linn and Walworth : Moses Daniel. Israel. Royal Joy, Festus A. Other children were Francis, Lavina. Austin, Hannah, Fordyce.

Royal Joy Williams (named for his mother's brother, Dr. Royal Joy) was born at Ashfield May 1, 1818; came to Linn in 1836; married April 5, 1848, Lucretia S., daughter of Samuel. Warren and Abigail Williams; died August 26. 1886, at Williams Bay.

Lucius A. Winchester, son of David D. Winchester and Susan Wilson, was born at Hartford, Vermont, September 22, 1821 ; became a blacksmith, ami came in 1843 to Milwaukee; in 1844 came to Whitewater and took James Rogers as shop-partner. In 1850 he married Lucy A. Wakeley (who died February, 1861) ; in the same year he began plow making in partnership successively with Daniel C. Tripp, William DeWolf and John S. Partridge, and in 1864 added wagon-making to his growing business. In 1873 was formed the Winchester & Partridge Manufacturing Company, which added materially to the general prosperity of the otherwise enterprising village. His second wife was Charlotte E., daughter of Moses and Charlotte Clarke. He died April 9, 1890.

Horatio Sales Winsor, son of Matthewson and Nancy P. Winsor, was born in Rhode Island, December 21, 1815. His parents moved t" Ontario county, Xew York, and gave him an academic education, lie began to study law. finishing his preparation at Elkhorn, whither he came in 1839, and was admitted to practice in 184 1. He was county treasurer [842-4, and chairman of the county board in [851. From 1850 to [869 he and llarley F. Smith were of one of the strongest law-firms of the count}-. In 1865 he was a member of Assembly, elected as a Union candidate over Harvey M. Curtiss. In 1880 he formed a new partnership with a younger man. Edward II. Sprague. He died at Mitchell, South Dakota, January 23, 1892. Maria L. Husted, his wife, was born September 14. 1824: married January 1. 1840 : died December 7, 1890. Their daughter, Ella M. died 1867, at eighteen. Their sons were Curtis Husted. Frank Horatio and Ed., all in South Dakota, and the first two are lawyers.

Christopher Wiswell was youngest but one of eight children of ] [enry WisweU and Elizabeth Salter. Captain Wiswell. with Zenas Crane and John Fox, began about 1800 to make paper at Dalton, Massachusetts, and from this beginning was developed the present Crane paper-mill, known througl the country for its bond paper and other fine products. Christopher was born January i. 1811, and about a year later his father died. Edward Salter took his sister and her children to Chenango county. In time, Leonard and Christopher owned a tannery at Norwich. In 1840 the brothers Zenas Crane, Leonard and Christopher, and their sisters, Mary (Mrs. Sutherland German) and Elizabeth (Mrs. Solomon Lewis), came west - all but the first to Lafayette or Sugar Creek. Christopher had married August 12, 1837, Almira, daughter of Stephen G. West, Sr., and Rebecca Pike. Mr. Wiswell was a good farmer, and in 1865 he was able to lay aside plow and hoe, sign national bank notes and fill various village offices at Elkhorn. He died March 3, 1883, two days later than his wife's death. She was born February 9, 181 7. Their eight children, who lived, were Jeannette Rebecca (Mrs. William P. Ellsworth), Henry Christopher, Charles Edward (died in military service), Philip Stephen (married Mary L. Harriman), Frances Almira (Mrs. Everett C. Rouse), Jane Maria (Mrs. William L. Holden), George Nelson (married Clara M. Perry), Jessie Leora (Mrs. Frank H. Winsor).

Lewis X. Wood was born in Cumberland county, New Jersey, January 12, 1799; lived in Otsego, Madison and Oneida counties; was principal of the Waterville Academy in 1832; was graduated as a physician from Geneva in 1837; came to Walworth in 1839; was an early mover in school matters and served as town superintendent; in 1848 was defeated by George H. Lawn for assemblyman; elected over John W. Boyd in 185 1 ; defeated by Timothy H. Fellows in [852; moved to Baraboo in 1856; died in 1868. He married Naomi Davis and had eight children, three of whom died in the county, while the others went with him from the county. Dr. Wood was a collector of I'ussil remains and of mineral specimens.

Cai't. George Young, son of Rev. John Young (of the Lutheran church l and Christiana Vought, was born at Hagerstown in 1773: went to Seheneetad\ omiiU and married Anna (or Nancy), daughter of Capt. Hendrick Waldron and Margaretta Van Vranken; came in 1843 to Elkhorn and died in August, 1844. Of fourteen children, four died young or were unknown here but by names. The others were: Margaret, Mary 1 Mrs. Lewis Freeman), Jean C. ( Mrs. John Pike), Gertrude 1 Mrs. George Gale), Anne 1 Mrs. William Vanderpool). Dr. George Henry, John, Catherine (Mrs. Thomas Liddle), Jacob Hollenbeck, and Dr. William McKowan Young. Margaretta Van Vranken was daughter of Richard Van Vranken and Anneke Truax, whose father, \ham. was son of [saac Truax and Trytje Rasborne; Trytje's parents were Pieter Jacobus Rasborne and Mariche lioganlus. whose father. Pieter, was son of Rev. Everardus Bogardus and \.nneke. widow of Roelof Jansen

George Henry Young, son of Capt. George and Nancy, was born at Duanesburg. New York, March 18, 1817; studied medicine al Schenectady, New York, and at Fairfield (Herkimer county), and was graduated from Castleton in 1837. Among Ids preceptors was Dr. Theodrick Romeyn Beck. and among classmates was Dr. Nathan S. Davis, for long of the Chicago Medical College. He practiced a few years in Albany and Schoharie counties, and came in 1843 to Elkhorn. lie had married, March 21, 1838, Hester, daughter of Peter and Ann Hilton. Doctor Young was a student of his profession until the end of his life, and seemed to keep easily in step with the advance of medical knowledge. He died December 28, 1891. Mrs. Young was born at Sharon, New York, October 24, 1817; died December 31. (894. Their son, George H, follows his father's profession. A bright boy died in 1864. in his ninth year. There were daughters: Ann. Mary. Hester. Helen.