Juneau, Wisconsin

With one exception, this is the oldest village in the county, and, like Hustisford, came near being a noted place, for in the early day, before Juneau was even thought of, it was the temporary seat of justice, and, had its proprietor exercised a little worldly wisdom and enterprise, it might have been made the permanent county seat.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

J. Cjt. AliLiARD, firm of Allard & Martin, dealers in general merchandise, Juneau ; was born in Pierreville, District of Three Rivers, Lower Canada, Sept. 10, 1850 ; when he was 14 years of age, he came West with his parents, who settled in Dakota Territory ; his father is still living ; his mother, however, died in June, 1868; Mr. Allard remained with his parents, assisting them on the farm, until he was 16 years of age, when, having determined to carve out his own fortunes, he first came to Chicago and engaged as clerk in a grocery, and afterward in a dry goods and furnishing store, -until he was 19 years of age, when he went to Menominee, Mich., and opened a grocery store, which he afterward sold out and engaged in the employ of Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick Co. until the year 1878, when he came to Juneau and formed a copartnership with Frank Martin (formerly of Whitehall, N. Y.), under the firm name of Allard & Martin, in the general merchandise business, which they have built up to be the largest at that point ; they are engaged also in the buj-ing and selling of produce mostly over the whole county, and run the only hay-press in the county for shipping purposes. Mr. Allard married Miss Margaret Morean, of Plattsburg. N. Y., May 31, 1876 ; they have one child - Henry D.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

ALBERT MEKTZ, Master in the United States Navy ; son of Leonard and Kathinka Mertz ; born March 26, 1851, in the town of Shields, Dodge Co., Wis.; moved to Juneau in October, 1852; removed to Beaver Dam in June, 1855 ; in June, 1867, was appointed Cadet Midshipman in the U. S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md., from the Fifth Congressional District, by the Hon. Charles A. Eldridge, M. C; graduated at Annapolis in June, 1872, receiving the diploma from the hands of President Grant; in August, 1872, was assigned to duty as Midshipman on board the U. S. corvette Yantic, serving on the East African coast, in the East Indies and on the coasts of China and Japan, until Ajiril, 1874, when he was assigned to the flagship Hartford, under Rear Admiral A. M. Pennock, U. S. N.; during the term of service on board the Yantic, visited the Island of Zanzibar, in connection with the British under Sir Bartle Frere, in the suppression of the Zanzibar and Muscat slave-trade ; visited, also, the islands of Borneo, Phillipines. Celebes, Sumatra and Java ; returned to this country in flagship Hartford in October, 1875, having traveled, during his forty months' absence, a distance of over fifty-four thou.sand miles. In November, 1875, examined for, and promoted to, the grade of Ensign ; from January to July, 1876, served as navigating and ordnance officer of the U. S. monitor Ajax, attached to the West India squadron, on waiting orders from July to December, 1876 ; December, 1876, assigned to duty on board the U. S. corvette Wyoming, then receiving-ship at the Washington navy yard; in April, 1877, detached from Wyoming and ordered to special duty in the U. S. Coast and Geolitic Survey, under the Treasury Department, serving at first on schooner Drift, engaged in making tidal current observations between Cape Cod, Mass., and Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, afterward serving on schooners Earnest and Silliman, cmjiloyed in making hydrographic survejs on the coasts of Maine and Florida ; in June, 187S, examined at Washington and promoted to the grade of Master in the navy, ranking with First Lieutenant in the army. In July, 1878, married at Beaver Dam to Mary E., second daughter of Columbus Germain. At presant he is in command of the U. S. Coast Survey steamer Hitchcock, employed in making triangulation surveys in the lower Mississippi River.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

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