Walworth County, Wisconsin - Chapter 40: Makers of the County, 1912 (part 1 of 3)

It has been judged useful to add here a few biographical and genealogical notes, from such data as lie most readily at hand, of men and women who were in some sense among the makers of the count)-, and few of whom are now living. It is not attempted, generally, to measure their moral worth or mental stature, nor to catalogue all their capacities for public or private usefulness. Each short statement may be taken to mean that its subject had been in the days of his strength one who had some fair measure of men's esteem and confidence. In the few longer sketches it has been sought rather to fall short of truth than to exceed truth. As to families of like name, if no relationship each to each is shown, it will be understood that evidence of ancestry in common has not been found.

Ika C. Abbott, son of E. A. Abbott and Nancy Gregory, born at Burns, Steuben county, Xew York, December 14, [824; lived at White Pigeon from [835 to 1854; was postmaster at Burr Oak, 1855 to 1861. He served in Company G, First Michigan Infantry, as captain and was wounded at Bull Run. In the regiment as re-organized for three years service he rose Step by step from captain of Company B to the colonelcy and nearly twenty years later was breveted brigadier-general. He came to Delavan in 1N75 1 employed by Allen & Wilber, grocers) ; to Elkhorn in 1880; and a few years later was given a clerkship in the pension bureau for the resl of his active life. I [e died at Washington, October 9. [908, leaving wife Electa, one sun, two daughters. He was a small, soldierly-looking man, of easy manners and modesl in speech, llis regiment was one of the three hundred named by Colonel box the "lighting regiments of the war."

Alfred II. Abell, son of Henry Abell, was born al Duanesburg, Xew York, May 17. [824. He came to Bloomfield in [848; served four terms as chairman of town board of supervisors, lie was chosen assemblyman for 1N77 over Addin Kaye. He died May 24, [882. Marietta Carpenter, his wife, was born December 17. [833; died November 30, [882.

cary ; came to neighborhood of Utica, New York, in 1833: married Elizabeth Ann, daughter of William Adams, at Xew York Mills, July 22, 1836: came to Sugar Creek in 1841 ; next year bought government land in sections 11, 14, Lagrange : came to Elkhorn as register of deeds, 1855 to 1859; began compilation of abstract of titles to real estate; from the organization of the First National Bank of Elkhorn, in 1865, to his death. May 17, 1887, was its competent and trustworthy accountant and teller. His wife was born in Otsego county, September 10, 1813, and died at Elkhorn January 25, 1889. His sons, William E. and Henry Breckenridge, and son-in-law, Reuben Eastwood, were soldiers of Company K, Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry

Alma Montgomery Aldrich, son of William Aldrich and Hannah K. Montgomery, was born at Kirtland, Ohio, May 6, 1837. His father was born at Lisbon, Grafton count)-, his mother at Whiteneld. Coos county, both places in Xew Hampshire. In 1847 the family came to section 35, Spring Prairie. The father served on town and county boards and as justice of the peace. The son was for eight terms a member of the county board, and in 1878 was assemblyman, elected over Andrew Kull, Jr. In 1865 ^ie married Elizabeth, daughter of Lyman Hewitt, of Racine county. In 1899 he removed to Burlington, where he died November 1, 1902, leaving two children.

DwiGHT Sidnkv Allen, sun of George Allen rind Harriet A. Buell. was born at Lebanon, Madison county, New York, February 12, 1843; lived in Linn until a few years before his death, when he moved to Lake Geneva, where he died May 5. [908. In 1862 he enlisted for three years service in Company ('. Twenty-second Infantry, serving as corporal; September 4. 1867, he married Delia A. Sherman, at Eagle. He seiwed his town as treasurer, justice, ami From 1S77 to 1890 as member of the county board, of which body lie was eight times chairman. I [e was a member of the Assembly at its -session of [889, elected over Edward Decatur Page and Huron Irving Hawks. From 1888 to 1908. he was a member of the Soldier's Relief Committee. Mrs. \llen was In nil m [846, :mi>1 has seven children.

George \iu\. grandson of Elisha Mien of Worcester county, Massachusetts 1 Princeton or Sturbridge), and son of Walter Mien and Harriet Holbrook, was born at Lebanon, Madison county. New York, July 23. [820; married Harriet A. Buell January rj, 1842: came to Linn in 1852. settling on section 24 and adding later more than half of section 23 -more than a square mile in all. He and his wife had been teachers; and a fairly educated land- twenty years: and justice of the peace from 1866 to his death, February 26, 1899. Mrs. Allen, daughter of Ira Buell and Chloe Holcomb, was born at Plymouth, Chenango county, January 3, 182 1, and died December 16, 1895.

George Rue Allen, son of Samuel Allen and Maria High, was born at Hartford, Washington county, Xew York, August 9, 1838; came to Bloomfield in 1841 ; married Mary, daughter of James Grier; was thirteen terms a member of the county board and six times its chairman ; served in the Assemble in 1880, having defeated Cyril R. Aldrich, a rock-rooted Democrat of Spring Prairie. He died at Lake Geneva, January 1, 1901.

Lucius Ali.en, son of Dr. Daniel and wife Olive English, was born at Hamburg, Xew York, February 13. 1816; came in 1838 from Geauga county. Ohio, to section 31, East Troy (his parents to section 6, Spring Prairie); moved to latter town and served as town officer and as assemblyman in 1864, elected over William R. Berry; came about 1870 to Elkhorn as building contractor and furniture dealer; member of county board in 1877: died January 12, 1895. His first wife. Mary A., a sister of Adolphus Spoor, married May 27- I&37- died November 15, 1838. left a son Augustus Carlton, who was a soldier of the Eighth Illinois Infantry. July 10, 1842, he married Sarah Ann. daughter of Hosea Barnes, who died July 10, 1842, leaving two children. Her son, Fayette Lucius, died in service at Little Rock in 1865. Mr. Allen married Juliet Barnes, his sister-in-law, in August, 1848. She died March 11, 1878, leaving five children. September 4, 1890, he married Mrs. Hephsibah (Tomlinson), widow of Charles Babcock. Three of these marriages were at Auburn, Ohio, and the last at Elkhorn. Mr. Allen was a clear-headed man. and stood firmlv by his political and moral convictions, which in his later life led him to Prohibitionism.

Samuel Allen, born at Gloucester. England. June 30, 1789, came with parents about 1800 to Xew York. From his majority till 1X3') he was an innkeeper at various places in the state. In 1839 he made his claim to land in sections 20, 30, Bloomfield. and brought his family in 1X41. In 1844 and at a few later elections he was chosen a justice of the peace, and a member of the county hoard in 1 845. I le lnnlt one of the firsl framed houses in the tow n. His wife, married in 1822, was Maria, daughter of Charles and Christine High, of Kingsbury. Xew York. He died at home. November 20, 1866. Mrs. Allen died in June. 1880. Their children were Charles, George l\.. William II.. Samuel and Susannah.

William Cheney Allen, born at Hoosic, New York, February 2, 1X14: married, October 7, 1840. Mary A. McConkey at Voorheesville - a town or hamlet now not easily to be found in Xew York geography. He came in the same year, as a lawyer, to Delavan. and in June, 1843. became probate judge, holding that post till January, 1847. In 1850 he became county judge, and resigned in 1856, in which year he became president of the Walworth County Bank. He was member of Assembly in 1866 and 1867, having been chosen successively over Joseph F. Lyon and Julius A. Treat. He removed to Racine, where he died January 12, 1887. He was a brother-in-law of Hon. Alanson H. Barnes.

William P. Allen, son of John and Alary Allen, was born in Jefferson county, Xew Yurk. in 1821. In 1842 he was a teacher at Portageville, Wyoming county, Xew York. He came to Sharon in 1845, and for fourteen years served that town as clerk and as assessor, and for twenty years, nearly continuously, as justice of tin- peace. In 1873 he became postmaster at the village, at which place he was a dealer in general goods. He was chosen over Samuel W. Voorhees as assemblyman fur 1854. He died July 25, 1901. His wife was Sophronia I.. Lyman.

[-'.LisiiA Lerov Andrus was son of Elisha Andrus and Sarah Wallace. I lis earlier American ancestors were John' 2, Stephen'1, Elisha4 '"' ''. His mother was daughter of William Wallace and Eleanor Drake. He was born at Manchester, Connecticut, May 31. 1813; married, August z~, 1843, Clarissa 1 [823-1899), daughter of Sprowell Dean and Clarissa Scott; came in 1845 to Troy, where he died March (>, 1854. Their sons were Francis Leroy, Arthur Denison, Aaron Sprowell.

I wii ss Wwt. son of Matthias Aram and Elizabeth Tompkins, was born at or near I 'tica. Xew York, August 9, 1813 ; came west in 1838 and to Delavan village in 1840, where he went into retail business A few years, later he became one of a firm of warehousemen and lumber dealers, composed of George Passage, himself, Leonard E. Downie, and Col. Jacob T, hosier. He was successively a stockholder in the Walworth County Bank, a director of the First National Bank of Delavan, and vice-president of the banking house

E. Latimer \( ompany. He was a member of the county board for thirteen term-. [862 to 1875; and a trustee of the Slate School for the Leaf 1872 5. lie served a few years as president of the village, [anuary i>. 1830. he married Susan ( '., daughter of James Rood and Elizabeth Miller. She was horn at Scipio, Xew York, August 10. 1814, died at Delavan December 14. [906. Tin m tin,, children had died, and at Mrs. Aram's death the bulk of their I tie was applied, as the) had wished, to the building and equipment of a it I >elavan.

I I '. Armstrong was son of John Armstrong and Elizabeth Lytle, w ho came earl\ I 1 Geneva with him and their other children, lie w as born in St. Lawrence county, in 1814; married Mary Scripter; came in the later forties or earl)- fifties to Spring Prairie as a blacksmith, and presently as a plow-maker, and for some years had a good local business. Later he lived at or near Elkhorn, and went about 1856 to Trempealeau county. At some time he made the overland way to California and came hack with material for occasional home lectures. He was a ready rhymer, in various measures; but his preference was for the versification as well as the philosophy and satire of Pope. His wife, Mary Scripter, who died several years before him, was a spiritualistic medium, and, as he said, a very superior woman. "Uncle Hat. the Plowmaker," was eccentric only in religio-philosophical beliefs or notions, loving or tolerating everything and everybody except creeds and clergymen ; but was a better Christian than he knew, being one of the hot and kindest of men. His brother James never married. J I i s sister Maria was wife of Yelorous Scripter (Mary's brother), and Sophia was wife of Richard B. Flack.

Samuel Armstrong, a brother of John, married Mary Gregg. At least ten of their eleven children came from St. Lawrence county to Geneva and Elkhorn. The order of their birth is not known with exactness. James, a carpenter, married, first, his cousin Elizabeth Armstrong; second, Jane Cruickshank (whose brother Alexander was a building contractor of Elkhorn and of Chicago). Jane was wife of Thomas B. Gray. Agnes, wife of David Wells (not known here). Elizabeth (twin with Agnes), wife of Elihu Gray. Maria, wife of Martin Russell. Hawaii, second wife of John Dunlap. Julia Axx. wife of Daniel Carr Gray. Samuel married Hannah Van Allen. John A. married Elizabeth ( daughter of Isaac) Gray. .Martha, wife of James Adams Flack. Lvdia, wife of Henry J Smith. [See black. Gray, and Lytle families.] John Armstrong, a soldier of the Revolution, father of John and Samuel, had a daughter, wife of Nathaniel Carswell, whose son. Nathaniel H. Carswell lived in Racine county, and thence came to Elkhorn in

Alaxsox Browx Arnold was born in Cayuga county. New York. December, 1812; married at Medina. New York, January 1. [835, Dorothy Althina. daughter of Joseph Davis : came in [865 to a farm in Linn ; died August 3, 1885. Mrs. Arnold was born in 1N15; died December 28, [896. Their children were Joseph Davis. Henry Alanson, Francis Lamartinc. Robert Bruce. Clifton Sumner.

Fayette i'. Arnold, one of four sons of Luther and wife, Mary I'nuity. was born near Hubbardton, Vermont, in [826; attended an acadeniy at Poultneyville : studied law: came to Sharon in 1X50: was admitted to practice in 1851 ; was member of the county board nine terms; chosen assemblyman, without opposition, for the session of 1862; died January 9, 1872. His wife, Jane Willis, was born in 1830. A son, Cassius F., was town treasurer in 1877-8.

Salmon G. Arnold (July 15, 1820-March 10, 1896J, of Sharon, was son of Luther Arnold and Mary Frouty. He married in 1848 Ann Eliza, daughter of Chester Hotchkiss and Elizabeth Gillette. She was born May 1 1. 1826; died March 3, 1901.

Varnum Arnold was son of Joseph and Susannah Arnold, who were natives of Rhode Island. It is not unlikely that both parents were of old and often honored families of the colony, for it is about evenly probable that the wife was born Yarnum. Fheir son was born January 18, 1819, in Cayuga county, New York. After a short career as a teacher he married, at Auburn, January 22, 1845, Julia A., daughter of Dennison and Lucy Butts, and in the next year moved to section 32 of Richmond, where he bought a large farm. lie served his town as one of its supervisors and also as assessor. He died September 20, 1901.

Andrew W. Arwood, son of John and Christina Arvedson, was born at near Holden, Norway, August 25, 1841, and came with his parents to the town of Whitewater in 184(1; enlisted August 21, 1861, in the Twenty-eighth Infantry and thirteen days later married Prudence, daughter of Samuel Loomer and Deborah Strong, Me served three years as corporal, and came home to be one of the best of citizens. His farm at the Heart Prairie church was well managed and improved and the church well attended. He died at \\ hitewater 1 citj 1 in January, [909. Mrs. Arwood was born in Nova Scotia, September 7, 1836; died July 10, 1809.

Henri II. Austin, born July 28, 1832. at Mexico. Oswego county, New York; came to Easl Troy village in 1X54 and went into retail business as clerk, in [857 as partner, and later as wool and produce buyer. He married I [elen M., daughter of Samuel and Doroth) \nn Fowler, September 1 1, i860, and died at East Troy, March [8, [906. llis son Charles 11., is now of Chicago; daughter Lucy I-', is wife of Prof. Leonard Sewall Smith, of the University ami grandson of an early settler of Easi Troy : Mary Belle is wife of Rev. II. II. Jacobs.

\l \i uiu Lloyd Wers was son of Jehiel Ayers and Clarissa Niles. His earlier American ancestors were John1 1 s..n of Thomas Eyer, of \\ iltshire), Obadiah2, Thomas8, Levi4, Edward6. \li ^.yers was born in Delaware county, New York, December 4. iSm. lie married, in [845, l.tithera Cook Aikin, daughter of Edward Aikin and Lucinda Stone, and came in the same year to a farm near Honey Creek, where he died June n, 1884. Mrs. Avers was born in 1823 and died May 11, 1896. Their children were Althea Amelia (Mrs. S. Dwight Slade), Frank Jehiel, Edward Aikin, William Henry, Clara. Mr. Avers was as much business man as farmer, and as he was strong and forceful he became one of the solid men of his town. He was a Democrat of an unchanging type, usually attended conventions of his party, and was often its willing candidate for certain defeat.

Alexdek O. Babcock was born at Homer, Cortland county. New York, in 1817; studied law; came to Whitewater in 1842 and formed a law partnership with Warner Earle and Frederick Cady Patterson, but passed in the next year to East Troy; served for several years as justice of the peace; served five terms on the county board of supervisors ; was elected over Adam E. Kay as member of the Assembly for 1850; was elected as district attorney in 1862 over James D. Merrill. He married, April 12, 1855, Rosanna F., daughter of Stephen Field and Mary Jordan. He died July 3, 1874. He was a good lawyer and a useful citizen. He left no children, nor known relatives of his name. Mrs. Babcock was born May 20, 1825; died July 5, 1906.

Stephen Sly Babcock, son of Stephen and Elizabeth, was born at Jerusalem, Albany county, Xew York, June 16, 1824. In 1827 the family moved to Wayne county. About 1846. with his brothers, Caleb Sly and Willard Blanchard, he came to Darien, and all became men of character and substance. (Caleb S. Babcock died at Delavan, August 9, 1885, aged fifty-three. He married Sarah Emeline Brundige. Willard B. Babcock, born 1822, married Louise Burnett, died at Delavan, September 13, 1882.) In 1851) Stephen began business at Delavan as grocer and nurseryman. He had some years of more active experience as advance agent of a circus and menagerie - traveling in the Southern states and Cuba. He served as justice of the peace for Delavan in 1877-8, and at election of [878 was chosen sheriff over Benjamin Bassler. with another election in 1882 over John I'. Cutler, lie was once a member of the county board, and several times president of the \ illage. I te died at Florence, Alabama, November 4, [894. His wife, Eliza Jane, daugh ter of Nehemiah Barlow and Orinda Steele, was born at Rochester in 1821): married December 14. 184c;; died at Vincennes, Indiana. July 10, 1906. Mr. Babcock was tall and strongly built, and in the line of duty feared neither man nor weapon. While he was sheriff be showed much --kill in tin- detective work of his office. He was well-informed, sound-judging ami companionabli

Enoch Bailey (Charles5, Stephen4, James3, John2, James1, of Rowle) 1 was son of Charies Bailey and Abigail, daughter of Daniel Safford and Hannah Hovey. He was born < >ctober 1, 1771 : died April 8, [866. Hi- second wife, Susannah Bangs, was born March 4, 1784: died September 20. 1858.

Both were buried at East Delavan. His known children of first marriage were: I. Charles Stewart (1811-1877); his wife named Laura C. (1820- 1874). 2. Enoch Henry Martin (horn 1820): married Amanda Bartlett. 3. Levi Parsons (1823-1874) ; married first, Phoebe S. Lippitt (1828-1853) : second. Delia Louisa Shumway. 4. Samuel Wills, born 1825, of whom little nunc is now remembered than that he went westward. The three older sons were men of substance and in business and official ways useful to their town.

Charles Minton Baker, son of James Baker ( 1779-1851 ) and Elizabeth Price ( 1 780- 1 870), grandson of David Baker, of Morristown, Xew Jersey, was born at Xew York (city), October 18, 1804; the next year his parents went to Addison count}-, Vermont; he entered Middlebury College in 1 822 ; studied law at Troy in Samuel G. Huntington's office ; was named in a n ill of attorneys at Troy in 1831, and also as commissioner of deeds ; married, first. Martha W. Larrabee, of Shoreham, Vermont. September 6, 1830; settled on section i, Linn, in 1838; district attorney 1839-40; married, second, Eliza Holt, July 1. 1841; served four years in Territorial Council, 1842-6; chairman of committee on organization of judiciary in first constitutional convention; in [849 was head of the commission to revise statutes; earlv in March. 1850. appointed to vacancy in circuit judgeship, but refused nomination at the April election, and hence served but six or seven weeks, holding a term in Racine county for April. In the latter part of the Civil war be was draft commissioner for his congressional district. In April, 1871, he was chosen justice at Lake Geneva for one year, lie died there, February 5, 1872. Mr. Simmons wrote of him: "As a man he was foremost in the promotion of every cause which tended to the real advantage and permanent benefit of his fellow citizens. As a lawyer his talents were of a high order but he was not ambitious to make them known. He was from bis early youth a Christian, and was always recognized here as a strong and earnest one', a pillar in the church, tlie right hand of bis pastor, and a chosen leader among his brethren." This testimony is useful since it may explain why Judge Baker did not ask his fellow citizens for high places among them, and why they did not offer many such tokens of their favor.

Ih.\m Barlow, sou of Nehemiah Harlow and Orinda Steele, was born November 23. [815, at Ballston, Xew York; came from Perry, Xew York, in [838 to sections 5. (,. Delavan; married July 3. 1S41. Kniclinc. daughter of Daniel Edwin LaBar and Hannah Rees - perhaps the first marriage at Delavan; served a few years as supervisor; was an opposition candidate in 1872 i"i assemblyman, defeated by Carlos L. Douglass: died \ugust f>. 1884. Mrs. Barli 'W was ,rn in 1 Sj 1 , near Stroiidsburg, l'euns\ Kama; died September J2, 1890.

John Whitney Barlow, youngest son of Nehemiah and Chimin, born in western New York. June _'<>, 1838; appointed from Wisconsin about [857 as a cadet at the United States Military Academy. Wesl Point; second lieutenant, second artillery. May 6, 1861 ; nine days later first lieutenant; brevet captain May 2~, 1862. for distinguished service at Hanover Court House; transferred to topographical engineers July 24, 1862; to engineers March 3, 1863: captain July 3. 1863; brevet major for service in Atlanta campaign; brevet lieutenant-colonel for conduct in battles before Nashville; major of engineers in 1869, and successively lieutenant-colonel anil colonel; superintended Tennessee river improvement at Muscle Shoals; performed other engineer services, and in 190 1 was retired as brigadier-general. Now living at Xew London, Connecticut.

Nehemiah Barlow, son of John Barlow and Sarah Whitney, was born December 23, 1781. at Ridgefield. Connecticut; married at Windham. New York, in August. 1810, Orinda, daughter of Perez Steele and Hannah Simmons; came about 1839 from Perry, Xew York, to Delavan ; died in Darien, in October. 1846. Mrs. Barlow was born at Tolland, Connecticut, April 4. 1792; died January 25, 1876. Their eleven children were: I. - Hannah Simmons (1811-1907), wife of William Harrison Petit. 2 - John Whitney (1813-1838). 3. - Henry. 4. - Stephen Steele. 5. - Mary, wife of Stephen P. Fuller. 6. - Sarah Anne, wife of Dr. Henderson Hunt. 7. - F.liza Jane ( 1826-1906), wife of Stephen S. Babcock. 8. - William Augustus (1829 1908). married Antis Almira Mallory. daughter of Samuel Mallory and Jane ranees Hart. 9. - Harriet, first wife of George Bulkley. 10. - Emily Wright (born [834), wife of Henry Pettit. 11. - John Whitney (born 1838). Hannah S.. William A., and Harriet lived at Elkhorn. Nearly all the others are found in the history of Delavan. Mrs. Orinda (Steele) Barlow's American ancestors were : George1. James2 3, Rev. Stephen4, Stephen"'. Perez11. Mr. P>arlow's ancestors came early to Xew England.

Samuel W. Barlow, whose grandparents are said to have come from England, was born in Xiagara county, Xew York. January 28, (802; married Almira, daughter of William Wright, was a carpenter, farmer, and Wesleyan preacher: came to town of Delavan about i860; died March 24. [889. His wife was born in 1807; died January iS. iNX_>. They had seven children, of whom Silas Van Xess Barlow, bom January c), [835, married Antoinette. daughter of Stephen C. Goff and wife Matilda.

Stephen Steele Barlow, son of Nehemiah and Orinda. was bom August 17, 1818; came to the village of Delavan and was admitted to practice in the territorial courts. He married October 4. [843, Anna Maria, daughter of James Parsons and Olive Beach. He was a member of the county board in 185 1 ; elected assemblyman in the same year over Perry G. Harrington; moved to Dellona, Sauk county, about 1855; was chosen presidential elector at large in j 868 ; state senator 1868-9; elected attorney-general in 1869 and 1871 ; died at St. Paul, October 5, 1900.

John Barr was son of Allen Barr, who died at Paisley in 1828. John was born in Renfrewshire in 1792. He married Barbara Black (born in 1789 at St. Andrews). He was bred a shawl-weaver, and on his father's death he came to New York (city). In 1833 he went to Taunton, Massachusetts, and to Fall River in 1840. In 1848 he came to a farm in Linn. He died in i860 and his wife died in 1873. They had eight children. One of these, George W. Barr, was for several years chairman of the county board.

William Ayres Bartlett, son of Joshua Bartlett and Airs. Martha (Martin) Phoenix, and half-brother of Henry and Samuel F. Phoenix, was born later than 1800. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Ichabod Brainard and Alary Cleveland, and sister of Cyrus Brainard. She was born about 1804 and died May 29, 1857. Air. Bartlett was a member for Walworth of the territorial legislature of 1843-4. He seems to have moved from Delavan after

Troy, New York, August 17, 1843; came before i860 with his parents to Darien; married September 29, 1864, Clara A., daughter of Leander Dodge and Harriet Carter; lived at Delavan and later at Racine: was national bank examiner 1893-8; died at Alilwaukee, Alay 18, 1910.

Adelaide < ow i.r.s Beardsley, elder of two daughters of Bennett Beardsley and firsl wife, Mrs. Susannah (Johnson), widow of Jetur Gardiner, was Imni at Walton, Delaware county, New York, June 1, 1815: was baptized in childhood at the Fpiscopal church of Walton, and in due time truly confirmed, "foi her faith never wavered nor were good works once forgotten or neglected." The sisters came to Flkhorn in 1843, where she called the children together for non-sectarian primary instruction in Christian dot-trine and practice. She also taught in the earlier common school. Every bishop of her diocese, from Kemper to Webb, knew and esteemed her. "She was capable, clear-seeing, justly judging, resolute, and enduring; and she was always sunny, kind, sympathetic, helpful, modest, self-effacing, womanly - a somewhat remarkabl) endowed person." She died at Elkhorn, June 10. 1907. Her fullsister, Mar) Martha, was wife of Col. Edward Flderkin.

(a native of Nova Scotia) ; lived at East Troy some years each way from i860; removed to Oceana county, Michigan, and died. His son Alanson married first, Caroline Waters, of East Troy, January 30, i860; second, Miss Quackenbush; now lives in Oceana county. Seth Beckwith, not nearly related to any namesakes in the county, came to East Troy with wife Elizabeth in 1839, and in 1842 sold his land, in section 12. to Abel Sperry. He may have gone to Omro.

Warren Beckwith, son of Silas Beckwith and Polly Green, and grandson of Silas Beckwith and Esther Fales, of Charlemont, Massachusetts, was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county. Xew York, August 13, 1827; came about 1849 to Geneva, section 3 ; was teacher, farmer, surveyor, civil engineer and town and village magistrate. He married, first, Hannah Vincent ; second, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Prouty ; and died at Lake Geneva, August 30, 1904. A brother. Luther (wife Betsey Clute), lived for some years in the county, and moved to Mauston. There is no reason to doubt the descent of these men from Matthew, of Hartford, New London, and Lyme, though names in four generations are wanting.

Nathaniel Bell, son of James Bell and Isabel Harkness, was born at Truxton, New York, February 22, 1800; married, before 1830, Sarah Leonard, daughter of John Cook and Dorcas Case. She was born in 1810 and died January 31, 1847. Major Bell came to section 25, Lafayette; in 1839 was chairman of the first board of county commissioners, and was five times a member of the county hoard of supervisors. He was the last territorial sheriff, 1845-8. It is not known whence he derived his military title, but he may have been a drum-major, if not a major of New York militia. He, with Riley Harrington and Lot Mayo, with or without General Walling, usually made martial music on" patriotic or Democratic occasions. John Hell, his brother, was assemblyman in 1853. His sister, Mary Ann, was wife of Dr. Jesse C. Mills.

William Berry was horn at Salem. Massachusetts. December 20. 17X0; married April 3. 1798, Nancy Mellen, of Pelham; moved to Madison county, New York, and thence to Cortland county, where he held for a term a nominal judgeship of the court of common pleas. (From 1823 to 1847 eacb countv of New York having forty thousand inhabitants had such a court, composed of a first judge, who was presumably competent, and four associate judges, in common speech called "side judges." The first judge and at least two of the associates made a quorum : but the latter usually had no voice in the court's rulings and decisions. Some amusing incidents are told of these court 0111,1 ments.) In 1843 Judge Berry came to Honey Creek, and in 1846 was men- ber of the first constitutional convention, - the oldest member of that body. Because of his delayed attendance he missed assignment to a committee. He died late in 1848. Mellen Berry, his sop, died July 5, 1859. He had also a daughter, Sally Ann.

Seth M. Billings was born at Rutland, Vermont, in 1814: married Lena Markle February 16, 1855; came to Whitewater in 1839; chosen sheriff in i860; enrolled the men of the county liable to military service, in 1863; died at Whitewater, January 18, 1880. A daughter, Mary E., was wife of Charles Morris Blackman; a son, Henry M., married Emma Pamela, daughter of Colonel Elderkin. Sheriff Billings, though not above medium height and build, was resolute in performance of official duty. He was an upright and intelligent citizen.

William Birge was eldest of thirteen children. If one of these was George Richmond Birge, son of Elijah Birge and Mary Richmond, who also was an early resident at Whitewater, their ancestors were Richard1 (of Dorchester in 1630) and wife Elizabeth Gaylord, Daniel-'". Jonathan4. Hosea5, William was born at Hartford, Connecticut. November 18, 1813: came to Jackson, Michigan, from Ithaca, New York, in 1834: with brothers Henry and Leander to Milwaukee and thence to Cold Spring and Whitewater in 1837. 1 bun's stay was short, hut William and Leander stayed to build a city. William married January 9, 1839, Mary Alvina Nobles, whose father was in business at Milwaukee. Their son, Julius C, was born November 18, 1839, the first native of Whitewater. Mr. Birge's business activity at Whitewater was an important part of the history of that rising village. He died May _>_>. i860. Mrs. Birge was horn in [808 and died March <;. 1892.

M att 1 new P. Bishop, son of Ira Bishop and Sarah Patrick, born at West Windsor, Vermont, Augusl 15, [822; came by way of western New York to Eagle in 1845: married, first, Roxana Alvord November 14. 1848; bought a farm in Lagrange in 1803; his wife died in the same year; married second, his sister-in-law, Mary E. Alvord, in 1873; he died at home. January 1, [883, He was six limes a member of the county board - twice its chairman, and in other ways useful in his town. A son, Charles \. Bishop, became a supreme 0 lurl judge in Iowa.

('n vhles Morris Li n< km w. son of Aha Blackman and Almira Brisks, was born at Bridgewater, < hieida county, New York, October 10, 1833: came to Stoughton in 1847 and in 1850 engaged in business. In 1803 he came to \\ luicwatcr as cashier of the First National Lank, of which he was from 1873 until his death, \pril 10. 1912, president. He was also a trustee of the White and Sarah Piatt, was born at Clarendon, Rutland county. Vermont, October 22. 1808. and was academically educated at Auburn, New York. He studied medicine, attended lectures at Castleton, Vermont, and about 1828 was admitted to practice. ( But this date may be suspected of error.) He came to Racine in 1842 and to Delavan in 1847. From 185 1 to 1854 he was assistantsurgeon of the regular army at a post in Xew Mexico, and then returned to Delavan. He served as surgeon of the Fortieth Infantry in 1X64. and as surgeon of the Forty-ninth in 1865 - both regiments of Wisconsin. Ikreached and held a high place in his profession. His death was March 25, 1X79. His wife. Nancy Foster, was horn January, 181 1; was married at Arcadia, Xew York, March 2-, 1831 ; died at Delavan, January 9, 1910, within a very few days of her ninety-ninth full year. Of their three sons, Charles Carroll studied and practiced in his father's profession. He had served a half year as private of Company D, Twenty-second Infantry, and under hi> father as hospital steward of Fortieth and Forty-ninth Infantry. Two other sons of Deacon Willard and Sarah were also physicians. Dr. Caleb Sly Blanchard was born at Victory, Cayuga county. New York, May 8, [818. He practiced for many years at East Troy. He was a member of the Assembly of 1880, having been elected over John Matheson ( then a Democrat) and Daniel Kinney Sanford, Greenbacker. Dr. Pliny Willard Blanchard passed over the state line to Rockford, or in that vicinity. There was some maternal consulship of the Drs. Blanchard with Stephen S. Babcock and his brothers, as indicated by names.

Joseph Bowker. son of Silas, was born at Locke. Cayuga county. Xew York, October 9, 1797: married Eliza Maynard, October 10. 1X17; crime to Geneva in 1844 and soon after to Delavan, where he went into retail business. He was a member of the first constitutional convention. He died at Delavan, March 26, [856. He left a son, Silas \V. Bowker, who was for some years in retail trade a^ member of the firm of Bowker & Staley.

John William Boyd, son of John Logan Boyd and Electa Bacon, was born at Solon, New York, September 15. [811; was academically educated; married Elizabeth Lee. who died within a year; married November 10. [842, Wealthy A., daughter of Gen. Samuel G. Hathaway, at Solon ; came in 1844 to Linn and bought a large farm; was one of Governor I lodge's major-generals; in first constitutional convention was of the committee on state execu tive: in [848 was first state senator for Walworth, and served again, [858 9, having been elected over Perry G. Harrington; married third wife, Septembei 9, 1858. Mrs. Persis Annette, widow- of Abram Mudge, daughter of Ira Buell

(second wife had died June 14, 1855) ; in 1874 was chairman of the county board of supervisors: between i860 and 1876 served the Madison Mutual Insurance Company as director and part of that time as president; died January 28, 1892. Mrs. Persis A. Boyd died June 27, 1906. General Boyd left six daughters. He had at times hoped to be his party's nominee for representative in Congress, but the other counties of the district willed it otherwise.

Henry Bradley (Daniel Edwin5, Ezekiel4, James3, Daniel2, Francis Jr.1 ) was son of Daniel E. Bradley and Betsey Sturges, born at Sidney. Delaware county, Xew York, in the valley of Ooleout creek, an affluent of the Susquehanna, December 26, 1823; came with parents in 1S37 to section 7 Geneva (near Elkhorn). married, April 17, 1847, Nancy Jane Mallory (Samuel6, David3 4, Benjamin3, Joseph2, Peter1), whose mother was Jane Frances Hart. He went overland to California with his wife in 1852, and alone in 1859. In 1861 he succeeded Lot Mayo as postmaster at Elkhorn, retiring in 1886, and returning in 1890 for four more years. He was for many years a village officer, and member of the school board, - always for the good of the village and its schools. He died at home August 17, 1909. He was not a money maker, but he owned a substantial house, with valuable lot, and a three-story brick store in Walworth street. He loved justice and square dealing, and had courage to speak truth though it might lay himself in the wrong. He was an early and serviceable friend of the free library, to which he contributed fifty volumes.

William Wallace Bradley, son of Dr. Enos Bradley and Ada Hoyt, of Groton, Xew York, was born May 20, 1826; came about 1846 from Darien, New York, to Kenosha and thence in 1848 to Delavan, where he was the first dealer in men's ready-made clothing. His business expanded and he became of the best known drvgoods dealers of the county. He drew trade from afar, and he left his name to the knitting works now owned mostly by his heirs. He married July 23, [850, Cynthia, daughter of Peter Millspaugh Keeler and Prudence Sturtevant. She died December 31. 1853. He married \|nil 21, 1855, Esther, daughter of Elisha Laniard and Nancy T. Wilson, lie left two daughters: Alice (Mrs. William H. Tyrrell) and Eva (Mrs. Ji ihn J. 1 'hocnix ).

Abel Brigb km, son of Joel8 Brigham and Elizabeth Brown, had earlier ancestors, Thomas1 and Mercy 1 llurd) of Watertown in 1035, John23, Sammi1. Joel5. Abel was born at Sudbury. Massachusetts, January ri, 1814: died at Troy. February 14, iSS l 1 lis wife, Fmeline, daughter of George and ii Hibbard, was born at North Hadley, August 23, [824; died at Troy June 2. [902. Their children were : Maria, Truman Elbridge (married liar-

Martin Ff. Brigham, son of Jabez and Elizabeth, earlier ancestors unknown, was born at Perry, New York, August 29, 1821 ; came to East Delavan in 1842; married Elizabeth Richardson, May 7, 1847; died October 25, 1894.

John Bruce was born in 1788: came from western New York in 1837 to section 22, Darien. and also bought land in section 27, where he built a house which was temporarily an inn and also a postoffice. He built a grainhouse at the station in 1858, and also added a few lots to the village plat as it was laid out in 1856. This addition lies between Beloit street and the railway, and at the west end of the village. His first wife was Fear H. (1776- 1832); second wife was named Cornelia (1822-1870). He died April 17, 1870, having outlived his wife by five weeks. His son James R. Bruce built the first hotel in 1843 and died July 23, 1845, a?e^ thirty-one years. His sister Lydia was wife of Cyrus Lippitt, and his sister Susan was Mrs. William Phoenix.

Francis A. Buckbee (Jesse4, Russell3, Elijah-. John' ) was son of lesse Buckbee and Mary, daughter of John Secor. He was born in the town of Chili, Monroe county, New York, June 18. 1828; went in 1845 to Rockford. After some experience as farmer, retailer and produce-buyer he came in 1863 to a farm in Lyons. He married, February 18, 1863, Abbie Jane, daughter of Salmon Hubbard and Abbie Jane Sears, and adopted daughter of Dr. Alexander S. Palmer. He was member of Assembly in 1867, elected over Charles Wales, and in 1874, elected over Ethan B. Farnum. He served several terms as justice of the peace at Lake Geneva. He died May 24. 1907. Mr. Buckbee was a fine looking man of very pleasing address and intelligent conversation, and a nearly perfect Masonic workman in lodge and chapter.

Joseph Sidney Buell was eldest child of Ira Buell and Chloe I folcomb. His father's ancestors were William1. Samuel23, Joseph4, Thomas". Era's other children were Harriet V 1 Mrs. George Allen), Persis A 1 Mrs. John W. Boyd), Wallace J., William Ira, Henry C, Charles Edwin. J. Sidney Buell was born at Plymouth. New York, March 7, [819; married Mary I.., daughter of Rufus Maynard and Chloe Wheat. September 7. [847; she died April 24, 1855; he married June 13. [856, Marie Antoinette, daughter of Abncr Holcomb and Susan Hubbard. His father and all or mosl of the fain- ily came in [849 to Linn, where they bought an almost lordly domain on and near Bloom Prairie. He died at Lake Geneva in December, 1895. Of his children, Ira M. has gained some distinction as a geologist. J. Sidney Buell was a capable farmer, an intelligent and excellent citizen, and was one of a notable group of men who were faithful working members of the County Agricultural Society.

Alexander Francis Bunker was a son of Francis and Eunice, and grandson of Shubael and Lydia. Francis was born at Nantucket. July 30, 1758. and Eunice was born January 19, 1759. They were married in Dutchess count\', Xew York, April 22, 1779. Their children were Susannah. Elizabeth, Mary, Robert, Alexander F., Shubael, Gorham. The last three, with Simeon, son of Robert, came early to the Troys. Alexander F. Bunker was born in Columbia county, October 28, 1793; married Sarah Meade, December 22. [814; died at his home in Troy. April 10, 1872. Sarah was born in 1791 ; died March 2j, 1871. Their children were Samantha, Nathaniel M., Mar}'. Richard M. (married Jane Chapman), Phoebe S. (Mrs. Charles D. Baldwin), Hannah ( Mrs. George Worth) Louise M. ( Mrs. Charles B. Ackley), Ann E. ( Mrs. John G. W'atrous), Sarah V. and Helen M. (in succession Mrs. Collamore Severance).

GORHAM BUNKER, son of Francis and Eunice, was born in Columbia county. Xew York, April 4, 1798, and died September 20, 1N74. He was a farmer and a blacksmith. Rachel, bis wife, was a daughter of Airs. Cynthia Russell. She was born June 13, [800, and died November 28, 1869, at Fast Troy. Their children were, as far as here known, "George, Henry, William, < larissa.

Nathaniel Meade Bunker, son of Alexander Francis and Sarah Meade. \\ a- born at .Milan, Dutchess county. Xew York, ^.ugusl 31. 1S1 7 : married, first, Phoebe E. Prescott in [840; she died in [853; in [854 he married Phoebe Stratton. Coffin and came the next year to section 10 of Troy. In 1S71 In- was del rated by Judge White at the elect ii m fi »r member of Assembly, and in [875 be defeated Henry Oreb Montague tor the same post of honor. In that ii In wcni into warehouse business at Troy Center with (apt. l.indsey J. Smith as partner, lb' died March 25, [889. His children were Nathaniel, Nettie, Sarah (Mrs. Charles B, Babcock), Carrie. Ward Smith, and George Worth. Mrs. Bunker is yet living at Troy Centre.

Shubael Bunker, son of Francis and Eunice, was born in Columbia ci unty, January 1 |. [896; married Edith Russell, lii^ sister in-law : died Sep tember 17. [858. Their children were Charles, John Russell, Hiram Shubael, Cynthia 1 Mrs. II. C. Mincer), Eliza M. 1 Mis. William Alexander 1.

Solomon Champlin Burdick (1812-1891) and wife Martha M. Crandall (born 1S12), came in 1845 t0 section 10, Lyons; then to section 29, Linn. He died at Lake Geneva. He was son of Peleg C. and Olive Burdick, who also came to the county. One of his sons, Charles Herbert (1820-1903), was a soldier, editor and poet, whose second wife was Almina Maria, daughter of Kiah Bailey and Emily Ward. A grandson, Hugh Abram Burdick, was districtattorney.

William Burgit, son of Jacob Burgit and Alary Gardner, was born at Richford, Tioga county, Xew York, December 6, 1818. He came with his parents in 1837 to sections 29, ^30, East Troy. The claim included a good water power, near the village site. His father, a prosperous and respected citizen, was born in 1796; died March 21, 1870. His mother was born in 1790; died June 4, 1858. William Burgit married Maria Jane, daughter of James Burleigh and Dorcas V. Carr, January 14, 1862. Their child, Edith F., is wife of Hubert Stephen Bovee. Air. Burgit died September 23, 1892. Airs. Burgit was born September 17, 1833; died January 21, 1911. Air. Burgit served eleven terms as member of the county board. In i860 he contested with Judge Spooner the nomination for assemblyman and, losing, ran independently, only to lose again. In 1870 he was elected to the Assembly over James D. Merrill and in 1874 over Perry G. Harrington.

Zenas Baker Burk, grandson of William and son of David Burk and Mary, daughter of Andrew Springer and Desire Baker, was born at Moscow, Aiaine, December 9, 1814; came in 1842 to section 10 of Lyons; married, June 23, 1844. Alary W., daughter of Amos Cahoon and Alary Williams, of North Geneva. He had two sons and three daughters. Of the latter Flora Al. (Mrs. Charles D. Winsor) lives at Lyons. Air. Burk was town clerk twentytwo years, on county board six years, justice of the peace thirty-five years. Hewas also a trustee of the Alethodist church. In all his life his fellow citizens had but to think and act on the right side to find Squire Burk already with them.

David Ward Carey, son of Amos E. Carey, a soldier of 1812-15, was born in Columbia county. Xew York. November 26, 1808. He married Jane E. Rann, and in 1844 came to Bloomfield. He was for some years in business at the Junction, and once had for his partner William Youlen, a bright young man whose record-book, as town clerk in 1850, was kept admirably. Mr. Carey's abilities were practical rather than show}- and were useful to him and his community. Of his six children. Julian Marcellus was a soldier in active service, and has since served his town in various way-. The father died December I, 1880. Airs. Carey was born at New York, .May 17, 1 X 1 - . and died March 12, 1855.

Nathaniel Henry Carswell, son of Nathaniel and a daughter of John Armstrong, of Revolutionary service, was horn at Hebron, Xew York, November, 1S15 ; married Harriet Louisa, daughter of Joseph Gillis Taylor and Jane Todd, January 7, 1841 ; came to Yorkville, Racine county, in 1843; t0 Spring Prairie in 1853 and in same year to Elkhorn. where he owned a blacksmith shop. Mrs. Carswell died March 24, 1868. At her funeral "The Sweet By and By," then but newly composed, was sung publicly for the first time. Air. Carswell was a close friend of Prof. Webster, and. having been himself a singer, he as well as Mr. Pip might have been called the "Harmonious Blacksmith."' He died November 11, 1874. Of three sons, one is living: Orland, Nathaniel and Charles.

Orange"' Carter ( Ebenezer4, Thomas32, Rev. Thomas1) was son of Lieut. Ebenezer Carter and Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Buell. He was born December 21, 1774, probably at Warren, Connecticut. He married in 1797 Elizabeth Rumsey, at St. Albans, Vermont. She was born at Danbury, Connecticut, July 20, 1777; died at Darien, January 11, 1847. He came from Darien, New York, to Darien, Wisconsin, where he died September 9, 1855. Ten of his eleven children, or most of these, came early, already or si miii thereafter so intermarried" with several pioneer families of Darien as to make the Carter family record of unusual genealogical interest. These children, born between 1798 and 1818, were: 1. Ann (Mrs. John Williams, Jr.) ; 2. Orra (Mrs. Price Matteson) ; 3. Daniel married Maria Matteson; 4. Sabra 1 Mrs Zebulon T. Lee); 5. Harriet (Airs. Leander Dodge): Ackley married Melissa Hough; 7. Lucy (Airs. Asa Foster); 8. William Thurston married Adeline Al. Seaver; 9. Orange Walker married twice; 10. Betsey Irena (Airs. John L. Ward). It is not known that Daniel Carter came westward.

Ackley Carter was born April 16, 1808. (His grandmothers second husband, Alaj. Benjamin Ackley, of Castleton, Vermont, was his namesake.) He married Melissa Hough; a son, Edwin Buck Carter, married Sarah Maria, daughter of Jonathan Hastings and Almira Slocum. Ackley Carter died April 3, 1893.

Orange Walker Carter, born September 10, 1815. at Darien, New York, and came to this county in [838. (His father and William T. Carter, his brother, bought government land in section 21.) His first wife, Elvira (1815-1880) was daughter of Samuel Matteson, Jr., and Electa Mead. His second wife, Harriet 1 [827-1899), was daughter of James G. Tiffany and Martha, daughter of Samuel Matteson, Sr., and was widow of Manuel Taft. James, son of Orange W. and Elvira, married Nellie, daughter of William Hollister and Sarah AI. Van Aernam. Lewis, another son, married Bettie ('.. daughter of David Williams and Adelia Phelps.

Christopher Page Farley Chafin, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, was born at Weston, Vermont, April 9, 1S19; came with his mother and brothers Samuel and Wilder C. Chafin to East Troy in 1837; married Parthenia, daughter of Gaylord Graves, September 26, [849. (His brother. Wilder C, had married Amelia Graves. January 29. 1845.) Mrs. Chafin was born at Fowler, St. Lawrence county. New York, September 23, 1826; died at Sugar Creek May 29, 1908. Mr. Chafin died at East Troy August 25, 1893.

William Dknsmore Chapin (John3, Jacob2, John1), son of John Chapin and Clarissa Patterson, was born at Heath, Massachusetts. April 28, 1814. He came to Bloomfield in 1837, and the next year he with his parents and his brother, Jonathan Patterson Chapin, bought land in sections 5. 6, 22. of that town. His father was born March, 1790, and died December 29, 1865 ; his mother was born in 1794 and died April 2^,, 1873. He married September 29, 1847. Loretta, daughter of David Walker Hyde and Dorothy Church. She was born in Bennington county, in 1824; came with her parents to Linn in 1846; died August 26, 1894. Mr. Chapin served eight times on the county board and in 1856 as assemblyman, having been elected over Dr. Ezra A. Mulford. He died April 20, 1904. His second wife, Lucina Hotchkiss, died November 18, 1905.

Silas Barnum Chatfield, son of Levi Chatfield, Jr., was a cousin of that Levi Starr Chatfield who, for a term of office between 1845 and 185 1 was state treasurer of New York, and for whom a Minnesota county was named. Silas was born in Connecticut, October 21, 1822; lived as a boy in Chenango and Madison counties; came to Troy from Ohio in 1846; married Mary E. Holcomb, December 22, 1849. She died December 31, 1854, leaving two children. In 1857 he married Catharine L. G., daughter of Jacob Kling and Dorothy Gasper. There were seven children of this marriage. He died February 8, 1908. Mrs. Chatfield was for nearly thirty years a contributor of "items" to the newspaper at Elkhorn, relating to the families within the Adams post office delivery.

Augustus Jackman Cheney, son of Moody Cheney and Susan Burbank, daughter of Paul Jackman, was born at Byfield, Massachusetts, March 1, 1837: was graduated from Dartmouth College in [857; came to Racine in 1858 and the next year to Delavan as principal of the high school. In [862 he was chosen county superintendent of schools, - the first to hold that office, for Walworth county, and was re-elected in 1864. In May, 1864, he raised a company of which he was captain - Company F, Fortieth Infantry, for one hundred days' service. On his return he raised Company K. Forty-ninth Infantrv. for one year's service, and was successively captain and major.

While in this later service he was detailed for various duties requiring technical knowledge and sound judgment. These military services took him away from his duties as a school officer, and his second term was served by Osmore R. Smith. He was among the earlier members of the State Teachers' Association, and one of the most intelligent and active among them. He was western manager for various school-book publishers, among them G. & C. Merriam. He made his home, several years ago, at Oak Park, Illinois, but his business was largely in Wisconsin, and there were few great soldier-meetings in this county or state that he failed to attend. To the end of his life he seemed to his old friends of the sixties as still one of "Old Walworth'' ; while between him and such of his pupils as had obeyed him as captain the bond was twofold and not to be broken. He died at Oak Park, February 27, 1907. He had married at Racine, August 5, 1862, Sybil Ann, daughter of Duncan Sinclair and Lucretia Ashley, who, with an adopted son, lives ( 191 1 ) at Oak Park. Major Cheney's ancestors were John1, Peter2, John3, Edmund4, Moses5, Jonathan0, Mark7, Moodys. Rufus Ellis Cheney, of Whitewater, had only the first of these ancestors, and thus was the major's fourth-cousin twice removed.

Ebenezer Chesebro, son of Christopher6 (Elisha543, Samuel2, William1) and Abigail Williams, was born June 27, 1784, at Stonington, Connecticut ; married Anna Griswold ; moved to Berne, Albany county ; came early to Darien, with Christopher Columbus and Jabez Brooks Chesebro, his sons, where they bought land in sections 1, 11, 14, 15, 19. One of his children, Ariadne I'., was born or became deaf. This misfortune gave him a quickened interest in mute-instruction, and for a few years his house became a schoolhouse for her and a few others like afflicted. As if for him it was a logical conclusion from his first step he moved effectively about the county and at Madison to secure a state school for the deaf at Delavan. Another daughter, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Nelson Lee), made her name memorable by her ice in federal military hospitals. He died February 10, 1867. Mr-. Chesebro was born May 15, 1784; died September iS, [866. Their children were Eliza Ann ( Mrs. John Martin). Jabez Brooks (married Mary Simpson) ; Edwin I. married sisters. Jane and Clara Nessle ; William D. (married Mary Jane Chase) ; Mary Elizabeth; Christopher Columbus (married Maria Johnson), Wickham Ebenezer (married Almira J. and Charlotte E. Whiston) ; Washington (married Caroline A. Hastings) ; Aaron 1 married Lvdia Gardil; Vbigail Isabella: Samuel (married delta [ves) ; Ariadne P., born 1820 and dud \pril 26, 1858.

wife Olive Rose. Hon. Salmon Child was a soldier of the Revolution, who was born at Woodstock, Connecticut, September 19, 1765, died January 28, 1856. William Child was born January 4, 1798; died April 24, 1865; Susan was born December 26, 1796; died April 17, 1865. James Child was born August 23, 1823, at Greenfield, Saratoga county; died near East Troy, November 24, 1901. He, with his parents and grandfather are buried at Hickory Grove, Spring Prairie. This family came to section 1 of Lafayette in 1847, from Gorham, Xew York. September 15th of that year James married Esther, daughter of Melzer Dinsmore. She was born March 4, 1827, and now lives at East Troy. In i860 Mr. Child was a member of Assembly. chosen over Gregory Bentley. From 1877 he served twelve years as county surveyor, but derived small revenue from that office. He was well taught in geometry and trigonometry, and was skillful in the use of his professional instruments. Mr. and Mrs. Child were for long members of the Baptist church at East Troy. Outside of the church James Child was evenly just and kind, and was a man with whom to talk on matters in general was not a waste of his hearer's time. Of eleven children four are living, one of whom is of his father's profession.

Cyrus Church, grandson of Uriah and son of Elijah Church and Violet Holcomb. was born in New Haven county, July 27, 1817 ; came with parents in 1821 to Broome county, and in 1833 to Ohio; thence in 1838 to Walworth, where he built a frame house, the second in that town. He was among the foremost in organizing and developing schools, and had a good citizen's interest in all town and county affairs. He married Emeline Russell, December 17, 1843 : sne died June 2^. [854, leaving five children. He married, second. Mary, daughter of John Boorman (born at Maidstone. England, June 5, 1828 J ; had three children. He died January 7, 1899.

Alvin Dexter Clapp was son of James Clapp and ( Irilla, daughter of Nathaniel Field4 ( Zebulon3. Richard-, John1, of Providence) and wife Sarah Leonard. Mr. Clapp was born in 1814 at Taunton, Massachusetts; in 1840 married Martha Dinsmore Viles, daughter of Joseph Viles and Eleanor I Ieald ; came to section 9, Geneva, in 1847; died August 28, 1898. Mrs. Clapp was born in .Maine in [819; died November [8, [896. Eli (1843-1863), their only son, a promising young man, died in military service at Helena, Arkansas. Of their two daughters, Orilla is Mrs. Samuel Decatur, and Mareda is Mrs. Edward M. Waffle, of Elkhorn.

Dr. Henry Clark was born in the state of New York, July 10, 1793. He came in 1839 to section 16 of Walworth - quite opportunely, since he had there and then but one professional competitor. At the three sessions of the last territorial council, 1847-8, he served as member for the county. His wife was Lorinda Coon and their children were twelve, a patriarchal number. Dr. Clark died April 16, 1853. Mrs. Clark was born March 16, 1814; died .March 5, 1896.

Dr. Joseph A. Clarke was born at Stowe, Lamoille county, Vermont, September 23, 1813; came with his parents in 1831 to Townshend, Ohio; studied medicine at Bellevue, Huron county, Ohio; married Mary Jane Stedman in 1840 and came to Whitewater, in 1845 became a partner of Dr. Willard Rice. He died in 1873. He was the "beloved physician" of early Whitewater.

Edwin Delos Coe (Orris K.T. Seth", Ephrainr' *, John 3, Robert- 1) was son of Orris Kirtland Coe and Paulina Stevens, daughter of Thomas Bushnell and Nancy Blood. He was born at Ixonia, Jefferson count}', Wisconsin, June 11, 1840; married Emma Ellsworth, daughter of Joseph Spaulding, of Janesville, September 26, 1865; had five children, of whom Joseph Spaulding Coe died in 1896, in his twenty-third year. Mr. Coe was educated at the Universities at Beaver Dam and Madison; enlisted and served two years in Company A, First Wisconsin Cavalry; studied law at W'atertown and practiced at Janesville ; gained newspaper experience at Watertown and Beloit ; bought the Register at Whitewater in 1871 ; was elected to the Assembly in 1878 over Daniel K. Sanford, and to that of 1879 over George H. Smith ; was chief clerk of the Assembly of 1882; defeated in 1890 for secretary of state; was postmaster at Whitewater 1891-1895; chairman of the Republican state central committee in 1896; and was United States pension agent at Milwaukee under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt - eight or more years. The congressional district convention of 188(1 was held at Elkhorn. The leading candidates were Lucien B. Caswell, with Jefferson and Rock at his back, and Henry A. Cooper, obstinately supported 1 \ Racine and Kenosha. Nobody could win without Walworth, and her delegates offered successively Newton M. Littlejohn, Thompson D. Weeks, and Edwin I). Coe. The choice at last fell again upon Caswell. Mr. Coe died Ma\ 5. 1909.

( >rrin 1 1 \ 1 1 11 ( oe, a third cousin of Edwin IX Coe, was thus descended : Robert1 '-'. John3, Ephraim4, Aaron"', [thamar8, Martin ( >.T His parents were Martin < >liver Coe ( [786-1861 ) and Clara (1790-1863), daughter of Timothy I Catch and Abigail Porter, and a sister of Mrs. Sophia S. Noyes. < )rrin 1 1. Coe was born August 8, (8 1 6, and married Louisa Nowland. He came to Chicago in [836 and thence to Geneva with his mother's sister's son, Charles V Noyes, and had some pari with him in the negotiations For a share in the mill-site.

Joseph Collie, son of George Collie and Alary Ross, was born in Aberdeenshire, November 14, 1825. He was left fatherless in his boyhood, and in 1836 his mother came with her children to the neighborhood of Aurora, and a few years later to Plattville, Wisconsin. He seemed a predestined student and teacher, and he continued his education from the common school to an academic course at Mineral Point, and thence to Beloit College, where he was graduated about 1851. He had worked his way to this end as many an American boy has done, and this under somewhat unusual difficulty, that of congenital lameness. In 1854 he was graduated from Andover, and in 1855 was ordained and installed in the Congregational church at Delavan, and continued in its pastorate through his active life. He married November 4, 1856, Ann Eliza, daughter of Rev. Lucius Eoote. He died July 8, 1904. For many years he owned a bit of land at the entrance of Williams Bay. on the north shore of Geneva Lake, with a landing place for steamers. - likely to be known long hence as long heretofore to local geographers as Camp Collie.

Nicholas Spencer Comstock, son of Aaron ( 1769-1843) and wife Patience, daughter of Nicholas Spencer, was born at West Greenwich, Rhode Island, November 5, 1802; married, first, Mavilla Evans; second, Catharine Mulks (1822-1879). He came to Darien in 1837 and bought government land in sections 7, 9. In 1845 he, with Salmon Thomas, were chosen town assessors. He died at Darien, October 3, i860.

David Coon was born in Rhode Island, March id, 1785; lived in Madison and Jefferson counties, New York; in 1852 followed his sons to the town of Walworth; died June 9, 1858. Alary Bentley, his wife, was born June 5, 1787; died September 25, 1870. Not enough has been gathered as yet from family records to determine all of their children or next nearer kindred. Gardner Coon (1808-18791 and wife Damans (1808-1883) hail children, William, Henry, Charlotte, Alzina. David Coon. Jr., (1810-1886) married Hannah M. (1818-1889), daughter of Stephen Clark and Judith Maxon; their children were Louisa and Lucy. Elisha Bentley Coon 1 1817-1901 1 and wife Louisa had daughters Catharine and Caroline. Ik- had been a teacher in his wander-years, and among his pupils had been John Griffin Carlisle, ol Kentucky. Charles Douse Coon (born 1825) and wife Cynthia X. Crandall (born [826) had children Charles. Mary. William. Some of these names and dates may he incomplete and inexact. They are shown by the census of [860, which also shows, in the same town, Dr, Nathan Coon (aged thirtyeight), wife Penna (aged thirty-seven), daughter Josephine (aged fourteen). Also, Orrin Coon (aged forty-eight), wife Mary (aged forty-seven), daugh- ters Catharine (aged nineteen), Harriet (aged fifteen). George Coon (aged twenty) lived with William Clark. Besides these, Marshall Coon (1856-1908) married, first, Lucy Campbell; second, Luella Crandall. He left two sons.

Harlow Merrill Coon did not suppose himself related to David. He was son of Ezra Coon and Cyrena (or Serena) Burdick, and was born in Otsego county February 14, 1819. He came in 1843 to section 25, Walworth. For some years he was in retail business at the village and then returned to farm management. He died April 13, 1899. His wife, Harriet E. Crumb, was born March 3, 1823; died November 10, 1884. Children: Phoebe S. (once a teacher at the seminary), Eva H., Harlow Irving.

George Cotton, son of Nathaniel Cotton and Prudence Goodwin, was born at Claremont, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, January 5, 1815; educated at the Hopkinton Academy and at the military school, Norwich, Vermont. After a few journeyings in the South and the West, he went home and married May 8, 1844, M. Maroa Chillis, of Newport, New Hampshire, and came in that year to a Darien farm. He was four times a member of the county board for that town, and was chairman of that body in 1852. The next year he moved to Delavan village, where, in 1854, he became postmaster for a term of four years. His politics shut him from the larger places, but he was found useful in unpaid municipal stations, including presidency of the village. In 1878 he became president of the Citizens Bank. He died December 8, 1886, and Mrs. Cotton"s death followed quickly, March 27, 1887. Mr. Cotton was short, stout, swarthy, keen-eyed, an excellent appraiser of property and of personal values, a shrewd investor of money, an easy-mannered neighbor, ami a good citizen, lie was an old-fashioned Democrat, not subject to change with time or circumstance.

Dyar Lamottk Cowdery was descended from William1, Nathaniel-, Samuel3, Nathaniel4, William"' '', Lyman7. The last-named, son of William and wife Rebecca Fuller, was horn in [802 and died in 1881. He married in 1825 Eliza, daughter of Robert Alexander and Catharine Campbell. He was admitted to law practice, served a term as county clerk, and a few months as county judge. The children were Helen Mar (Mrs. Darius Coman), Sophia Amanda (Mrs. Francis A. Liter), Dyar L., Lyman Emmet. Mrs. Cowdery was learned in all household wisdom and well experienced in ways of neighborly goodness; wherefore the Judge was used to say thai Dyar was his mother's boy. and in this he judged mother and son truly and kindly. She was born in 1S05 and died in 1879.

printing office, and a few years in California filled his time until 1859. He worked at the Independent office as foreman and at times as editor-substitute from that year till 1875, when he followed Mr. Dewing as county clerk and served until his death, May 10, 1900. He had married at Richmond, Illinois, Lydia Malvina, daughter of Sylvanus Aldrich and Lydia Crandall, November 24, 1864. Of their two children Edith Aldrich died in bright young womanhood, and Kirke Lionel is a professor of the French language and literature at Oberlin. The county clerk's records show the minutely nice habits of mind and hand which had made Mr. Cowdery a skillful and tasteful printer. His thorough knowledge of the county's business made him for long an invaluable county-seat correspondent of the Whitewater Register, of whom Mr. Coe often spoke with his characteristically generous judgment.

Judge Cowdery's brother, Dr. Warren A. Cowdery, married Patience Simonds. of Pawlet, Vermont. Of their children Martius Dyar Cowdery, long a resident of the town of Geneva, was born at LeRoy, New York, October 29, 1819; married, first, Caroline B. Craig; second, Vesta L. Lawrence. He died April 26, 1898.

Oliver Cowdeiy, one of the prophet Joseph Smith's "witnesses," was another son of William Cowdery. After the prophet's death he left the stricken church, and a few years later died also.

Pitt Noble Cravath, only son of Prosper Cravath and Maria P. Noble, was born in town of Lima, Rock county, August 1, 1844; his parents moved the next year to Whitewater ; he was graduated from the State University in '63; served as private of Company D, Fortieth Wisconsin Infantry, in '64; was graduated from Albany law school in '65; married Alarcia Dowd at Waukesha. October 20, 1867 ; went to Louisiana in 1868 and served two years as assistant secretary of state. Returning, after a short stay at Milwaukee, he went to Algona, Kossuth county, Iowa, where for five years he practiced law and editorship. In 1870 he was again at Whitewater, and at once began to publish the Puddingstick, - shortly renamed Chronicle. At first it was an organ of a loosely bound opposition to political and local policies supported by the Register. In 18X4 he supported Cleveland, - and. about this time, had Samuel Bishop as a law partner. He sold his paper a little later, and gave his time to law practice and to his duty as city surveyor. His wife, who had been to him in some ways more than wives commonly are u> husbands, died October 20, 1898. He died November 28, 1898. Mr. Steele says of him: "Kind and genial in all his ways, he filled a peculiar niche in the affections of all who knew him."

Prosper Cravath, eldest son, and one of sixteen children of Deacon Prosper Cravath and Miriam Kinney, was born at Cortlandville, New York, May 28, 1809; began study of law in 1829; married Maria Prudence, daughter of Solomon Noble, March 27, 1834. He came in 1839 from Lime Ridge, Huron county, Ohio, to the north half of section 13, Lima, - about three miles from the site of Whitewater. The earliest settlers did not bound all their affairs strictly by county and town lines. Thus it may have been that Mr. Cravath appeared at Squire Mead's court in June, 1S39, as counsel in the cause of William Birge vs. Willard B. Johnson, an account for labor and goods and against it an account in offset ; Warner Earle for plaintiff, Cravath for defendant. Earle was out-generaled and lost. Thus began legal contention at Whitewater. In 1843 Mr. Cravath was admitted to practice in courts of Jefferson county, and in 1845 removed to Whitewater. He served town and village variously as clerk, supervisor, justice, and the village as postmaster. He was member of Assembly for the first session, June, 1848. He was defeated for county judge in 1848 and for district attorney in 1850. He died May 20, 1886. Mrs. Cravath, born at Blandford, Hampden county, Massachusetts, August 20, 1813, died at Whitewater, February 11, 1890. Early Whitewater was in many neighborly ways indebted to this grand old couple, and these obligations are still willingly admitted. To Mr. Cravath more than to any of his neighbors the county, town, and city owe the gathering and preservation of most of the names, dates and facts relating to the settlement and development of the old town of Elkhorn. As not seldom happens, the historian has told much less of himself than posterity would read with interest and pleasure. He need not have told all. nor was there need to suppress an) thing.

Booth Beers Davis, son of Gershom Davis and Margaret Vorhees, was born in 1X10; perhaps in Delaware county, New York. He came to a farm in I 'ins about 1841. He lost both legs by freezing when hauling a load of flour to or from Fort Winnebago. In 1842 he came to Elkhorn as register of deeds, and at the end of his term remained here till his death, February 20, 18S0. lie had married Adeline Irene, daughter of Joseph Barker, at Batavia, New York, - )ctober 24. [833. I fer father was afterward one of the early settlers of Sugar Creek. Mr, Davis went into business as a dealer in dry goods and groceries, and until the crash of [857 had a large and apparent!) profitable trade I le went under, as did all his neighbors, but started anew and struggled, with moderate success, till the end of living and striving. Mis wife died at cago, September 2, [892. One of his daughters, Adeline, was wife of Henr\ Fish Spooner. The other, Frances Augusta, was wife of Dr. Louis Joseph Kords, of Burlington.

John Potter Davis, grandson of John Davis, son of Peter Davis (1800-18O1) and wife Rebecca J. Kingsnorth (1809-1892;, was born at Woodchurch, Kent, England, July 9, 1834, and came to America in 1850, and lived at Deans vilie, Oneida county, New York. He married December 12, 1855, Mary, daughter of John Alack and Electa Truby, December 12, 1855, at Stockbridge, Madison county, where she was born March 6, 1837. In 1857 he came to Oakland, Wisconsin, and thence in 187O to section 7 of Richmond. Mr. Hulce, a poor commissioner, induced him and his wife in 1882 to undertake the management of the county poor farm and the care of its inmates. Their administration, from which they retired in 1901, earned for them the fullest approval of the commissioners, the county supervisors, and the community, - and, though yet living, a place in the county history. Their children were: Emma Luella (Mrs. Franklin Gage), Edgar Monroe (married Helen Goodhue), John Frederick (died in his first year), Mabel Josephine (Airs. Charles Kinne Dunlap).

Johx W. Denison was son of John Denison, Jr., and Martha Coe. His mother was daughter of Daniel Coe and his wife Martha. Her grandparents were those of Edwin D. Coe's father. Air. Denison was born at Durham, Greene county, New York, April 6, 1819. His parents moved about 1829 to the Genesee valley. He was bred to business at Spencerport, and from there came in 1847 t0 East Troy to establish the branch house of E. H. Ball & Co. He continued in the business of both eastern and western concerns until [866, when he came to buy, with Leonard A. Tanner, the paper mill at Whitewater. At Spencerport he had married Alary A., daughter of Julius A. Perkins, March 9, 1854. They had four children. Mr. Denison served five terms as village member of the county supervisors. He died September 8, [897. I lis lather was born in 1778. in Connecticut; died September 15. [853. I lis mother was born in 1781 ; died October 5, 1852.

Julius Derthick, son of Ananias Derthick and Tryphena Skinner, was born at Winchester, Connecticut. September 30, C795; married Esther Mon roe at Sharon, Connecticut. December 30. 1821. She was born at Cornwall. Connecticut. March 26, 1799, and died April 12. [879. Their children w< born in Connecticut. New Jersey and Ohio. In [854 he bought a farm in Lafayette: served as supervisor in [860, and died at home Augusl m. [863. He had four daughters and two sons, one of whom was twice sheriff, the other a member of the Legislature.

Walter Georcp: Dkkiiik k. -on of Julius Derthick and Esther Monroe, was born at Shalersville. Portage county, Ohio, December 8, 1839; came to Lafayette in 1854; married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Hell and Sarah L.

Cook, August _'0, 1 80S. (After her mother's early death Mrs. Derthick's childhood and young womanhood were passed in the family of her uncle, Dr. Mills.) Mr. Derthick was active in town and county politics, and was sometimes chosen justice of the peace. In 1882 he was Assemblyman, elected over Edward D. Page. He died September 13, 1905. He was a prince among good fellows. A son, Julius Mills Derthick, was a soldier of the war of 1898. The only daughter, Helen Bell, is a teacher at Elkhorn.

Ely Bruce Dewing (Dextere, Jeremiah5, Solomon4, Andrew321), seventh of eight children of Dexter Dewing and Deidamia Weaver, was born at French Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, June 21, 1834. His parents came to Elkhorn in 1843, where he finished his schooling. He learned printer's ways at Centerville, Michigan, and at White Pigeon. He married, August 15. 1855, Elizabeth, daughter of George Dixon and Theresa Sowerby. Commercial pursuits, a few small investments in village real estate, sports of held and stream, and local politics occupied him until 187G, when ill health forced him to less strenuous life, in 1873 he began work as local contributor to the Lake Geneva Herald, but did not bind his pen to "rural scoops"; for it rambled in a way that delighted many readers and but mildly rasped a few. He wrote a few songs for his friend Webster's music - his pen-names, "Edwin Bruce," "Luke Collins." "Paul Vane." Among these were "All Rights for All," "Get Out of Mexico," "Our Soldiers' Welcome Home," "There's a Light in the Window for Ale." "The Past We Can Never Recall." "The Spring at the Foot of the I [ill," "Under the Beautiful Stars." "To Little Hattie Harvey," - perhaps few or none of them now in demand. He had served the village as supervisor, and was experienced in affairs of the county. In 1878 he was chosen assemblyman over Hollis Latham, the one man in the district whom a coalition of Democrats. Greenbackers and anti-Reynolds Republicans might hope to elect. In the contest at this session of Howe. Carpenter and Keyes for a I'nl! term in the Federal Senate, Mr. Dewing voted for Horace Rublee. His editorship, [884 88, and service in the circuit clerk's office. iSNu-04. have been told. In 1900 he became president of a new board of library directors, his last public service. While canvassing the county for his return to the kship (if the circuit, a short, sharp illness closed his useful and honorable lift-. VugUSl 7. Hi'1-'. It might he said of him that he touched nothing but to do it well, and often admirably. One of the most modest of men. few or none of his friends knew all his intellectual measure.

Myron Edwin Dewing, sixth child of Dexter and Deidamia, was born at French Creek, New York, March 27. [832. At two years old. having Stumbled with hands reaching forward, and fallen into the embers of an out- door chip-tire, all his fingers were so burned as to maim him for life. When his forearms rolled outwardly the baby fingers were seen folded upon the palms, under a new covering skin. The more usual appearance was that of amputation at the wrists, the effect of longer cuffs to shirt and coat. This mishap was of advantage to his brother, born a few weeks later; for the younger became to the elder a bodyguard in their childhood and a close companion in study in their youth. Both were thus taken from the trowel and builder's scaffold for other usefulness. He qualified himself at common schools for teaching, and thus earned means for more liberal self-education. He was a fair Latinist, and between himself and Ely some graceful translations were made from such scraps of French and German literature as fell in their way. He made himself a good marksman, a bold and graceful horseman, and taught his stumps to move his pen freely and with clerkly neatness over papers and record books. He could deal skillfully from a pack of cards, open his mail and his pocket-book, and shift for himself in most ways. His tongue was witty, keen, caustic, and made for him friends and unharming enemies. He was most annoyed by impertinent curiosity. In 1856 he was elected clerk of the county board over Charles Daniel Handy, and served till his death, March 26, 1874. He had lived with his parents until their death, and with Ely until his own. He left to his brother and his sister, .Miss Melvina, his small property interests and his library of one thousand volumes, - bought mostly by himself and well read by all three. In 1901 these heirs gave six hundred and fifty volumes to the new free library, still held together as the Dewing Collection, and these unusually well chosen books give some distinction to the whole array of shelving.

John DeWolf, son of John DeWolf and Eunice Ludington, was born at Frankfort. Xew York, June 7, 1817; came from Otsego county in [85 | to Darien, where he bought two hundred or more acres of good farm land; served his town three terms as its member of the county supervisors; served the Baptist church at Delavan as deacon, and the Citizens Bank at that city as a stockholder; was chosen assemblyman for the session of i860 over Robert R. Menzie; died September 7, 1895. His wife was Susan Emeline, daughter of Samuel Vinton and Lydia Merry. She was born in Herkimer county, June 7. 1 S 1 7 : married October 31, [838; died September 7. 1893. Their children were Myron (married Julia Gray), Rev. Delavan (married Minnie Churchill), Elizabeth (Mrs. George Fisk), Etta (Mrs. Charles T. [sham). Deacon DeWolf was an upright man, who prospered honorably, and whose advice in the general conduct of business was regarded as sound.

William DeWolf, son of Jabez and wife, Thankful Fairchild, was born at Bridgewater, Xew York, Jul}' 21, 1821 ; came to LaGrange in 1842 and bought a farm on Heart Prairie; in November, 1845, ne married Eunice Lucena. daughter of Morris F. Hawes and Sarah Lounsbury, of Richmond. In 1852 he became a partner with Lucius A. Winchester in the business of plow-making, and as hardware dealers. About 1878 he built and operated a mill for making wire cloth. He was living in 1906. Mrs. DeWolf was born in 1824; died February 5, 1904. Of their four children (in i860) Xettie became Mrs. Henry H. McGraw, and Mannering M. became an officer of the Custer Rifles.

Nathaniel Dickinson, grandson of Nathaniel and Theoda and son of John and wife Eleanor Hicks, was born at Calais, Vermont, December 20, 1810; became a joiner and building contractor; worked at Boston, and at 1 laverhill, Xew 1 lampshire ; was member of a military company at Boston, and a captain of New Hampshire militia ; married at East Calais, January 2(1, 1841, I'hila, daughter of Artemas Foster and Priscilla Titus. (Her father-ancestors were Rev. Thomas1, Thomas2, John3, Chillingsworth4, Nathaniel"', Thomas6, Artemas7. Her mother-line of Titus was Robert1, John'-', Thomas34, Michael", Priscilla6. ) In 1843 he came to Burlington village, was a supervisor for four years, member of count}' board two years, and justice two years, in [846 he was member of committee on boundaries and name of state in the firsl constitutional convention. Under Governor Dewey he was captain of < ompany G, Fourth Wisconsin Militia. He came to Spring Prairie in 1854, li> Delavan in i860, and to Elkhorn in [863. Mrs. Dickinson was born at Easl Calais. April 10, 1815; died at Elkhorn, March [3, [873. Mr. Dickinson's death was March 14, 1883. They had live children. One of these, Ransom Cass, was born ai Burlington and died there. His father's military preceptor in Vermont was Col. Truman B. Ransom, who was killed at Chapultepec in command of the Ninth United States Infantry. Mr. Dickinson \\a- all his life of the unwavering Democratic old guard, that could die hut would join neither I'reesoilers nor Greenbackers. For the rest, he had the usual quota of civic and domestic virtues, with the none too usual qualities of resoluteness in doing and in enduring, and that of unvarying temper that could not In' upsel h\ trifles nor could be tempted to hasty speech or action.

Josiah Dodge, grandson of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Rumsey and son of losiah |)<«lge and Phoebe Wilson, was born in Seneca county, Xew York, in 1 Ski; came to < ienesee count) in [818; married , first. Julia, daughter of 1 high I ong, in [834; came to Darien in (843; his wife died 111 )\u\c. [867; her children were l.osette, Mary. Hugh. Phoebe. Julia. Delia M. He married,

Leander Dodge, son of Josiah and Phoebe, was born at Romulus, New York, April 10, 1802; married Harriet, daughter of Orange Carter, November 28, 1827; bought farm in section 28, Darien, in 1838; in 1866 moved to Lyons, where he died October 22, 1880. His children were Eugene, Wilson Rumsey, Levant, Laura, Leroy, Amelia L., Elizabeth, Harriet, William. Wilson R. Dodge married Susan F., daughter of Cyrus Lippit. Amelia L- was second wife of Hon. Joseph F. Lyon, - an admirable home-maker.

Christopher Douglass was twice descended from William and Ann, who came to Boston in 1640, and to New London about 165 1. He was son of Capt. Daniel-1 (Robert4, Thomas3, Robert-, William1), and Lydiar' (William4, Richard3, William- 1) ; that is, these were third-cousins. Christopher was born February 22, 1787, at Xew London, Connecticut; married Phoebe Douglass, his mother*s brother William Jr.'s granddaughter. Her parents were Ivory Douglass and Phoebe Smith. He came from Cattaraugus county, New York, to section 28, Walworth, in 1837, with ten children. He was chairman of the board of county commissioners. 1840-2. and a supervisor in 1848. He was one of the earliest school commissioners. He died February 16, 1867. His children were : Oscar Houghton, Christopher Columbus, Aurilla Ann, Roxana Columbia. Maria Theresa, Gilbert Lafayette, Phoebe Angeline, Agnes Noailles, Carlos Lavallette, Maria Louisa Josephine.

George Washington Dwinnell, son of Solomon and Mary, was born at Millbury, Massachusetts, October 6, 1818; came to Lafayette in 1838; married Abigail Catherine Wilson, November 16, 1845. About 1880 he bought the Squire Lee house, at Elkhorn, and a few years later went to Pawnee City, Nebraska, where he died July 24, 1892. His wife was daughter of Alexander Wilson and Abigail, daughter of George and Abigail Bishop. She was born at Waynesburg, Ohio, April 11, 1827; died at Pawnee City, April 22, 1902. Their children are: Emily M. (Mrs. Smith A. Hartwell), and Mary A. (Mrs. Frank L. Bennett).

Solomon Ashley Dwinnell (Solomon1 Henry-, Jonathan1), son of Solomon Dwinnell and Mary Ashley, was born at Lee, Berkshire county, Ma>sachusetts, August 9, 1812 (eldest of eight children); was educated at Phillips Academy; came in 1836, by way of Indiana, to Lafayette, where he bought land in sections n, 14. 18, 20, 23, 24 for himself and brothers, - their father at Millbury advancing money needful. He passed the hard winter of 1836-7 in a new cabin and in the spring set about the work of founding a countv on a basis no narrower than that of evangelical religion, anti-slavery, total abstinence, and public instruction. He preached, plowed, lectured, organized, served as justice of the peace, and as station master on the "underground railway." These things and more he did until duty or inclination sent him, in 1850, to Reedsburg, where he founded a Congregational church and became its pastor, after his ordination in 1853. He urged, among other things, suppression (by statutory enactment) of profanity and Sundaybreaking. He married, at or near Keene, New Hampshire, April 24, 1837, Lydia Herrick Gove, daughter of John Gove and Lydia Herrick. He died at Reedsburg, June 15, 1879. His wife was born in New Hampshire, January 18, 181 1 ; died at Amiret, Minnesota, October 16, 1892. Their children are: Frances (Mrs. J. Perry Elliott, of Indianapolis); Osgood Herrick; Harriet (Mrs. Samuel John Smock); Eugene Ashley (married Mary Beery); Mary (Mrs. William H. Finch), Herbert Augustus (married Fanny Longley). Mr. Dwinnell seems to have been unable to finish his reminiscences of Walworth county and two of its towns, and after his death his manuscripts were sent to the State Historical Society. Since so little else of the kind has been preserved, these papers are of much value to such as care to study the beginnings of new communities.

Elijah Easton was born at Afton, Chenango count}'. New York, May 18, 1815; came to Walworth in 1842; served in Assembly of 1851, having been elected over William P. Allen and Lyman H. Seaver; went to California in i860; to Minnesota in 1866; died at Owatonna, February 27, 1905.

Julius Lyman Edwards was a son of Julius Edwards and Theodosia, daughter of Solomon Lyman and wife, Lois. His older ancestors were Alexander'. Benjamin2846. He was born at Northampton. Massachusetts, September 29, 1821 ; came in 1839 to a farm in section 27, Sugar Creek, and his father bought parcels of land in Lafayette and Troy ; married March 5, 1846, Wealthy Amanda, daughter of Seth Rust and Jerusha Starr. Her father's ancestors were Henry1, Israel23 ' She was born at Northampton, July 8, [817; died at Elkhorn, April _>. 1906. In 1861 Mr. Edwards became president "i the bank at Elkhorn, at which place he came to live about 1866. Ten s later he became senior member of the dry goods firm of Edwards & Preston, the junior being Dwight Preston, lie died August 4, 1890. His children were Frances Adelaide (1848-1893) and Alice 1 Mrs. J. Edwin Wheeler, of LaCrosse).

and built for himself a blacksmith shop; also bought farm land in section 4, (his father bought in section 15) ; did occasionally duty as supervisor; deputy sheriff under Russell H. Mallory; was a working member of the Agricultural Society and in 1S74 its president; moved in 1878 to Whitewater. His wife, born April, 1818, died November 21, 1880, leaving seven of her eight children. Mr. Edwards in 1885 married Mrs. Clarissa (Kuch), widow of J. Curtis Utter. She was born at Great Bend, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and died January 23, 1889. Mr. Edwards died August 14, 1893.

Solomon Richard Edwards, son of Julius and Theodosia, was born at Northampton, November 29, 1823; came to section 10, Sugar Creek, in 1839; went back, to a seminary at East Hampton, for his better education; in 1848 went around Cape Horn to California, visited Honolulu, and in 1853 returned to Sugar Creek, bringing home a large collection of stereoscopic views and other memorials of his journeyings. He married April 12, 1854, Sarah Almira, daughter of Augustus Smith and Almira Stiles, of Troy, and had a son and a daughter. He was five times a member of the county board and served often as justice. From 1894 he lived at Elkhbrn. where he died October 26. 1901. Mrs. Edwards was born at Hadley, Massachusetts, August 28, 1832, died at Chicago, December 31, 1904. Their children were Julius Augustus and Helen Viola (Mrs. Frank Porter Stone).

Stephen R. Edgerton, son of Sims D. Edgerton and Harriet Benedict, was born at Rome, New York, October 24, 1832; his father came in 1846 to Spring Prairie and died there in 1873; he owned a farm in sections 13, 14. Lafayette; married, first, Olive, daughter of David Tower Vaughn and Rebecca Densmore, December 31, 1857; she died in 1877; he married, second, Lila B.. daughter of Silas Patten and Charlotte T. Sweet: she died August 13, 1881. Mr. Edgerton's name may be found in the official lists of his town and of the Agricultural Society. He was well read in the current literature of farm and dairy, and took a ready talker's part in convention discussions. He was elected to the .Assembly in 1870 over Maurice L. tyers. He moved to Elkhorn in 1894, and died at his daughter's home, Oregon, Wisconsin, April 9, 1901. A few years before his death he lost all his earlier thrift had gained, by investments in lower Louisiana and on the Pacific coast.

I !i\\ \rii Elderkin was seventh of eleven children of \nihom Yeldorf Elderkin and Pamela Fuller. His father's ancestry ran: Bela5, Col. Jedidiah4, |(>hn:: - '. This famil) was long of Norwich, Connecticut. Edward was born at Potsdam, New York, January 5, 1815; was academicall) educated; studied law at Canton, the home of Silas Wright; came to Elkhorn in 1839; married

Mary Martha, daughter of Bennett Beardsley and first wife, Mrs. Susannah (Johnson) Gardiner, December 25, 1843. (Mr. Beardsley's second and third wives were sisters, Belinda and Frances Townsend, each of whom left children.) About 1882 the family moved to Racine, where Colonel Elderkin died December 11, 1887. Mrs. Elderkin died at Elkhorn. September 11, 1889. They had seven children. Among the family papers is a commission signed by Governor Dodge, February 10, 1841, naming Edward Elderkin as colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Wisconsin militia. He bought a farm south of the village, which produced excellent wild mustard. His clerical qualifications were excellent, and on the whole he grew relatively wealthy with the growth of the village, in which he laid out a southeast addition to the original plat. He named two streets therein "Jackson" and "Wright." But a few years later he became a Republican, and in 1872 turned again to Democracy. Colonel Elderkin was a man of impulses. - seldom reflecting before acting, and some lit his actions at law ami in business needed much excusing. He was one of the kindest of men at home, and thoroughly sociable and democratic everywhere. If a neighbor or stranger fell sick he was at hand. If there was a case (if cholera or smallpox in town he would take his turn with Lot Mayo and see the patient made well or buried. His safeguard against contagion was "in chew tobacco and swallow the juice." Mrs. Elderkin, like her sister, was an early and lifelong member of the Episcopal church, and, like her sister's, her life was filled with well-doing.

Charles Perkins Ellis, son of William Ellis and Rhoda, daughter of < apt. Lamrock Mower, had ancestors, Richard', son of a British soldier in [reland, came to New England in 1717: Reuben-'. David3. He was born at Ashfield, Massachusetts, March jo, [812; lived in Pennsylvania and in Michigan; came in 184-' I" section _' 1 , LaGrange; was a capable town officer and an excellent citizen, lie married December 15. 1839, Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah Harris and Priscilla, daughter of Barnabas Cole, lie died January jj. [881, Mrs. Ellis was born at Henderson, New York, May 11. [816; died January 7. 1894. Their children were Priscilla A. (Mrs. John E. Menzie), James R.. ( 'harles E.

Hon. Stukely ELLSWORTH, born 1701. and wife Mercy, born 1775. at some time went to Hart wick. Otsego county. Of their eight children at least three came to Walworth county. Stukely Stafford Ellsworth was born at I 1 .1 rt w irk. February 9, [803; married May 31, 1832, Nanc\ . daughter of Nathan and Mary Field; came about 1846 to Lafayette; died August 21, [881. Mrs. Ellsworth was born at ( Itsego, August 5, 1805; died October 19,

1880. Their children were: Rosina (Mrs. Joseph Potter) ; Stewart D. (married Elizabeth, daughter of Silas Ranney and Martha Sawyer) ; William Pierce (married Jeannette Rebecca, daughter of Christopher YViswell and Almira West): Mercy Ann (Mrs. Waldo Hartwell) ; Henry (married Martha Ann Gadsy ) ; Eugene.

Dr. Chester F. Ellsworth was born July 21, 1 8 1 0 : married Harriot R. Smith, February 22, 1852; came to Spring Prairie about 1807 and to Elkhorn a few years later. He died October 19, 1877. Mrs. Ellsworth was born at Little York, Cortland county: died at Spring Prairie, May 2. 1899. Children: Luella J. (Mrs. Leroy W. Merrick) ; Cora A.; Elmer.

Experience Estabrook was son of Seth Willey Estabrook and Hannah, daughter of Moses Hibbard and Hannah Alden. His grandfather was Experience, son of Nehemiah, son of Rev. Samuel, son of Rev. Joseph, who came to Massachusetts in [666. He was born at Lebanon, Grafton county. New Hampshire. April 30, 1813 ; educated at common school, with private teaching: studied law and was admitted to practice; came from Erie county. New York, in 1840, to Geneva; was district attorney 1841-5 : married April 17. 1844. Caroline A., daughter of Col. James Maxwell; was chairman of committee on education and school funds in constitutional convention of 1847; member of Assembly in 1851, chosen over Samuel D. Hastings and Cyrus Rugg; attorney-general of Wisconsin, 1852-4; appointed attorney-general of Nebraska Territory in 1855; claimed seat as delegate in thirty-sixth Congress, but was not seated; died at Omaha, March 2<>, 1894.