Ottawa, Wisconsin

TAIiBOT C. DOUSMAW, farmer ; Sees. 2, 3, and 10; P. 0. Waterville ; Mr. D. is of Scotch and Dutch lineage, and was born in Mackinaw, Mich., 1816 ; resided in his native town until 1835, receiving a thorough education at Mt. Pleasant Classical Institute, Amherst, iMass ; in June, 1835, Mr. D. located at Milwaukee, building a warehouse which still stands on E. Water street , boarding during the first summer with Solomon Juneau ; was engaged in the forwarding and lumber business here a number of years ; he voted at the first election held here, called by Gov. Mason, of Michigan, to elect members of a council to meet at Green Bay ; thirty-eight votes were cast, of which Mr. D. thinks not more than three or four were legal, as a year's residence was required by the laws of Michigan, he was then but 19, and voted on the express condition that the negro cook of Mr. Juneau should also vote. Capt. Gilbert Knapp, of Racine, and B. H. Edgerton, of Milwaukee, represented that county in the council ; among other remmiscenees, Mr. D. relates that Mrs. Kinzie, wife of the first settler of Chicago, and an ardent Episcopalia;n, caused a clergyman of that faith to visit Milwaukee and referred him to her friend, Mr. Dousman ; now, Mr. D. had never looked inside an Episcopal -prayer-book, and was in a dilemma ; giving a boy $5, he induced him to visit the English settlement at Oak Creek, and at his request one of these footed it to Milwaukee in time to be the only actual communicant at the first Episcopal service which was held in the old Towles law office ; the Englishman and clergyman consulting Mr. D., and treating him as the Deacon of the church, though he had hard work to fill the part successfully. In 1841, the first election for Ottawa and Genesee, was held at the house of Benjamin Jenkins, I. H. Tweedy (Whig), and Joseph Turner (Democrat) were candidates for the Territorial Council ; Mr. D. worked hard that day, three Democrats agreed to vote for Tweedy, if he, Dousman, would secrete the tickets behind an old log barn. Next came nine English Democrats, to the leaders of whom Mr. D., addressed himself, telling him that he believed Tweedy to be a rascal, but that it was far better to vote for him knowingly, than to vote for Turner in good faith, and then be disappointed in him, as the Democrats had previously been in the absconding Dr. Cornwall ; this novel argument worked like a charm, and nine more Whig votes were cast by Democrats ; as Mr. Tweedy had seven majority in the county, the reader can draw his own inference. Mr. D. made the built the first frame barn within the present limits of Waukesha County ; his log house was built in 1837, and in this the first sermon (Episcopalian) was preached by the Rev. Mr. Hull ; in 1839, George Paddock, an Englishman, removed from Cleveland, Ohio, to Delafield, Waukesha Co., with his wife and two daughters - Jane A. S., and Helen P.; the elder of these, born in Litchfield, Herkimer Co.,N. Y., was educated in Black River Seminary, Watertown, N. Y., and married Mr. Dousman 1839 ; he having business interests in Mackinaw, two summers were spent there, the young couple settling on the Ottawa claita in the log house in 1840 ; this has since been their home, though the log house was replaced long ago with a spacious mansion built in a rambling fashion, and in both a New England and Southern style of architecture ; it is heated with the second furnace ever sold in Milwaukee ; a more beautiful old place than Ingleside " can not be found in the county, as the noble burr oaks around it are interspersed with all the evergreens, flowering shrubs, etc., needed to make it so ; the old barn, those built since the cheese factory, etc., making up a small village ; Mr. and Mrs. D. have two children, Hercules F. and Laura C; the son was educated in Racine College, and the daughter in the Oooriomowoc Ladies' Seminary ; T. C. Dousman now owns over 400 acres here, and is a splendid type of Wisconsin pioneer settlers ; he was for two years a resident of Green Bay, engaged in business with A. E. Elmore during the late war ; Mr. D. is an outspoken Republican, and was the first Chairman of his town, which office he held many years ; his son was Chairman in 1873 and 1874, and represented the district in the legislature of 1877 ; the family are Episcopalians.

Passage source: The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880.

SEYMOUR FRAYEB, farmer. Sec. 36, P. 0. North Prairie; born in the town of Copake, Columbia Co , N. Y., Deo. 17, 1819 ; resided in his native state as a farmer until 1846 ; married Miss Betsey Plank, in Nov. 1842 ; their only son, Wesley D. was born in Feb., 1845. In 1846 the family set- tied on 1 60 acres on Sec. 35 , Ottawa, the only building upon it being a log house, where they lived nine years . Here the only daughter, Sarah, Mrs. Martin Helgesen, was born ; Mr. P. did good work with his breaking team for five years among the early settlers, when Wisconsin was a Territory, and when he could travel for miles without seeing a fence ; wheat was drawn with oxen to the then village of Milwaukee, over rough roads and corduroy bridges; after making a good home on his first location, Mr. F. sold 100 acres of it in 1868, bought where he now lives, and owns a first-class farm of 200 acres, well improved, with excellent buildings ; W. D. Frayer has spent his life in the county, attending in his boyhood the school organized by his father and others as District No. 9 ; Mr. F. has also taught several terms. Married Miss Abbie Shultis, of Columbia Co., N. Y., Sept. 3.0, 1869, by whom he has a daughter, Florence. Father and son are Republicans ; W. D. Frayer has been Assessor two years.

Passage source: The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880.

DUNCAW 9IAIJL1E, farmer. Sec. 15 ; P. 0. Ottawa; born May 1809, in Perthshire, Scotland. His early life was spent on his father's farm and at shoemaking, emigrating to the United States Id Feb., 1843. They came via the Erie Canal and the lakes to Waukesha Co. the next May. Unable to pay for a claim made in Ottawa, he pulled up stakes and located in Sullivan, Jefi'erson Co. Beginning here with but little, a yoke of cattle and a cow, he did good work among the timber of that town. Living in a log house they made steady progress, but, finally, to escape the infection of fever and ague, returned to Ottawa, where Mr. Maule engaged for the next eight years at his trade, and, during this time he bought 125 acres of his present farm, an old barn and a log house comprising the buildings. The reward of thirty-seven years of well directed toil may now be seen in the village of tasteful farm buildings erected by him, the first being a 14x54 foot sheep-barn, wagon and hog house 22x50, and main barn 30x64. His family for over twenty years lived in ordinary frame house, now supplanted by a spacious and elegant farmhouse, built of the famous Cream City brick, this completing a set of farm buildings second to none in his town. Mrs. Maule was Miss Ann B. Reed, a native of Kinross, Perthshire, and married at Saline, Fifeshire. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. M. is a Trustee. Mr. M. is an Independent Republican in political faith.

Passage source: The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880.

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