Delafield Town (part 2 of 3)

" Mr. Worthington was about seventy-four years of age at the time of his death. He was so well and so generally known, not only in Madison but throughout the State, that there is no need to recount his many virtues, or do more than state the fact of his decease. The bare mention will recall in many a heart the memory of his venerable appearance, of his gentle voice, of his winning, genial address. He was one of nature's noblemen, and all his natural gifts were heightened and sanctified by Christian principle and a holy life. The world is better, not only for the life-work, but, for the memory of such a man, and many a soul to-day is nearer Heaven because of his example and influence. His removal from Madison and from the parish of Grace Church, of which he had been for fourteen years the Senior Warden, left a blank that has never been filled and never can be ; but the thought of what he would have said and would have counseled, had he been here, has been of greater influence than any of us can express. Of him we can one and all say, in the Spirit's words : ' Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them.' "

" Sorrowing relatives and sincere friends will alike mourn, with heartfelt grief, the death of the Hon. Dennison Worthington, who, it is learned from private advices, died at Denver, Colo., on Friday, April 23, in the seventy -fourth year of his age. Mr. Worthington was at one time a prominent character in legislative, political and commercial circles in Wisconsin, and was for many years a resident of Madison. He was one of the first settlers of Summit, this county, and owned the farm now owned by J. M. Putney, at Genesee Lake. In 1852, he was elected a member of the Legislature, and again in 1854. He was elected a member of the Senate in 1858-59 and 1860-61. In 1862, he removed to Madison, and took the position of Secretary of the Madison Mutual Insurance Company, and it was during his connection with this company that the brightest years of its existence are recorded. Some five or six years ago, he established his home in Chicago, and, surrounded by children, continued his residence there until in the summer of 1879 when, with his unmarried daughter, he removed to Denver. Since locating there, he enjoyed excellent health, and, despite his great age, his death had not been foreshadowed to his relatives and friends in Chicago and throughout the Northwest, and the announcement of his demise came with all the force of a surprise. Throughout his-life, Mr. Worthington gained the esteem of men of every grade, and nowhere in the world had he any enemies. His personal popularity rested upon a respect that was richly deserved, and a good will that was justly his due. He was an upright man in the truest and strongest sense of the word.

" His remains were forwarded from Denver to Chicago ; thence to this city, where they arrived at 2 o'clock, Friday morning, whence they were conveyed to Nashotah, where the funeral services were held.at 12 o'clock, and were conducted by Bishop Welles, assisted by resident and visiting clergy. Interment in Summit Cemetery."

in the midst of that amazing curruption in the year 1856, when substantially the whole State govern- ' ment, including the Legislature as well as the departments, and also including the editors of many of the principal newspapers then published, were bribed with La Crosse Railroad bonds to authorize the issue of those swindling securities. Dennison Worthington was one of the few members of the Senate who escaped unsmirched in the investigation that followed a year or two after. That Waukesha County sent one of the few honest men in that memorable Legislature is pleasant for us to contemplate when we remember the affair at all, and this pleasure is wholly owing to Senator Worthington. Such virtue should not be allowed to sink into oblivion in a quarter of a century, but we doubt whether more than a very small percentage of our readers would recollect, without this or some similar reminder of the fact, the claim which the late Senator had upon our gratitude. In 1861, Mr. Worthington left his humble residence in the town of Summit to become Secretary of the Madison Insurance Company, and occupied that position until 1874, when he resigned, on account of the weight of years, and removed to Chicago. He was a studious, thoughtful man, of more than ordinary intellectual powers, and an intimate knowledge of English literature, the old writers being his favorites, and furnishing him a vast fund of anecdote and quotation."

Matthias J. Bovee was born in Amsterdam, Montgomery Co., N. Y., on the 24th day of July, 1793. His father dying when Matthias was but fourteen years of age, and being the eldest son, the care of a widowed mother and the younger children devolved upon him. He taught school during the winter seasons, and was employed on a farm during the summer months. At the age of twenty-two, he became a merchant, and, many years, and until a short time before his removal West, he was engaged in that occupation. In 1825, he was elected a member of the Assembly of New York, having previously represented his town for a number of times in the County Board of which he was several times Chairman. Mr. Bovee voted for the first railroad charter in the United States (1826) authorizing the construction of the Albany & Schenectady road. In 1834, Mr. Bovee was elected to Congress from the district composed of the counties of Montogmery, Fulton and Hamilton. He was elected as a Jackson Democrat, and represented his district two years in Congress. In 1843, Mr. Bovee, with his family, consisting of his wife, nine children, mother and other relatives, moved to Wisconsin, going around the lakes and landing in Milwaukee on the 8th day of June of that year. He resided in that city for two months, when he moved to the town of Eagle, where he resided until the time of his death, which occurred on the 12th day of September, 1872, being then in his eightieth year. In politics, Mr. Bovee was a Democrat ; in religion, a Universalist. His funeral occurred on the 15th of September, 1872, the ceremonies being in charge of the Masons, to which society he had belonged for over fifty years, and of which he was a Royal Arch member.

John A. Savage, for many years President of Carroll College, was born on the 9th of October, 1800, in Salem, Washington Co., N. Y. He was the son of Abraham and Mary

Savage, substantial farmers in that county. His early life was passed in the discipline of farm duties. His literary tastes were soon noticed and encouraged. He fitted for college in Salem Academy, in his native town, and graduated in the classical course from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1820. While teaching before entering college, he also pursued theological studies ; he completed his course under the tuition of the well-known Rev. Dr. Maxwell, of Delhi, N. Y. He was licensed to preach in May, 1825, and, after having supplied several destitute churches by appointment of the Presbytery, he was settled over his first charge, and was ordained at Fort Covington, Franklin Co., N. Y., in 1827, and served that people five years. He was even in early life a successful educator. Prior to 1824, he was several years acceptable Principal of Delaware Academy, at Delhi, N. Y. When at Covington five denominations worshiped in the church of which he was Pastor. He finished a room over his woodshed for a schoolroom, and gathered a little band of tuition pupils. One of them was a young man named Silver, in whose mind he aroused an ambition for the highest culture, and whose soul was awakened to a higher life. When Dr. Savage came to Waukesha, twenty-five years afterward, he found the said Silver as Pastor of the Baptist Church in this village. Verily he saw the fruit of his labors and was satisfied. He was married, April 21, 1828, to Miss Eliza Turner, of his native place. They had six children - Mary E., John A., Eliza T., Harriet F., dead; Edward, born in 1840, now a minister in Minnesota; William T., born in 1844, and now living in Waukesha. After leaving Covington, he served twenty years as Pastor of a large church at Ogdensburg, N. Y. In 1850, he resigned his pastorate to take the presidency of Carroll College, which then existed only on paper. A preparatory school had been previously established in the basement of the Presbyterian Church, and it was the nucleus of the proposed college. For some years, his duties were chiefly those of organizer and financial agent. Carroll College had been chartered by the Territorial Legislature in January, 1846, but until the advent of Dr. Savage, in 1850, nothing had been accomplished toward its organization, more than merely to secure the perpetuity of its charter privileges. By his tireless efforts, and the co-operation of Christian liberal men, a neat, commodious stone edifice, adapted to all the purposes of instruction, was completed in 1854 ; and in 1855 the college was equipped with a competent faculty and began its educational work under the presidency of Dr. Savage. On the 15th of July, 1857, was held the first commencement of Carroll College. The feith, skill and genius of Dr. Savage were rewarded by seeing a class of six able young men go forth to be and do what would have been impossible had they not borne the wise and loving impress of his inspiring soul. The college never received the financial support expected ; yet the Doctor struggled on, teaching, preaching, and bearing the heavy burdens of the young enterprise. His health was impaired by oppressive labor and the lack of oiBcial support. Full collegiate work was not done after 1860. Dr. Savage died at his home in Waukesha, corner of East Division street and College avenue, December 13, 1864. He was an educator both from choice and special adaptation. Earnest, positive, tireless and magnetic, for him to live and move among men was to teach. Truths secular and sacred were enforced by the strong truth of his character. Wise and loved in the schoolroom, logical and persuasive in the pulpit, affable and reliable, his was a well-balanced character and a well-rounded life.

Outside of the particular denomination to which he belonged, and of which he was always conceded a leader. Robert Boyd was not as widely known, perhaps, as would have been any politician with one-half his ability and energy ; but the fruits of his labors will never die nor disappear - the example of his tireless energy will be one of influence for years to come. He wrought himself into the grave for the good of others, which is the fulfillment of the highest destiny vouchsafed to man on earth. Although not one-half of his life was spent in Waukesha County, the fruits of his mind and genius ripened here, and he is claimed as a distinguished representative of the noble dead of this community.

Robert Boyd was born in Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 24, 1816. His parents were highly esteemed members of the Presbyterian Church. Their anxious desire was that he might become a minister of the Gospel. The surroundings of his early home were highly favorable to the development of his imaginative faculties, and a just appreciation of the grand and the sublime. There, on the one hand, were the heath-clad hills towering rock-ribbed up to the clouds, and on the other, the sea stretching far away toward the setting sun. The arrangements of the home were no less favorable to the early development of his religious nature. It doubtless was such an one as the poet Burns so happily describes in his " Cotter's Saturday Night, " where

When about twelve years of age, his parents moved with him to Glasgow, where he enjoyed its superior educational advantages. Between the years of fifteen and sixteen he was converted to Christ. Impressions that he ought to preach now ripened into strong convictions, and immediately he began lecturing and preaching extensively in the north of Scotland and in the north of Ireland ; speaking to large assemblies in the open air on week days, and, as he had opportunity, in churches and Sunday schools on the Lord's Day ; becoming widely known as the " boy preacher. "

While visiting at the house of a Presbyterian Elder whose daughter had become a Baptist, he was requested to convince her of the error of her course. In the investigation for this purpose, he was himself converted to Baptist views, and subsequently she became his wife.

In 1843, Mr. Boyd's health failing him, became to America, and settled first in Brockville, and subsequently in London, Canada, prosecuting in both places his labors in the pastorate with great zeal and efficiency.

Again, his health failing him, with a view to relief, he accepted the pastorate of the church in Hamilton. In about five months, he was obliged to resign and seek absolute rest. For this purpose he came in 1845 to Waterville, Wis.

In about a year, his health was so far restored, that he accepted the call of the church at Waukesha. In 1855, a movement was set on foot by some of the members of the First Baptist Church of Chicago, which resulted in the calling of Mr. Boyd to that city, and the organization of the Edina Place Baptist Church, now the Michigan Avenue Church. Of his labors here, let one who then enjoyed his pastoral care, and was intimately associated with him, speak : "As we look back upon it, this ministry of eight years, in the Edina Place and Wabash Avenue pulpit, seems to us to be a truly wonderful one. The theme was always Christ, yet varied by a remarkable richness of illustration, and so treated as to gather about it the whole doctrinal system of the Christian faith. It could not fail to be evident, even to a casual hearer, that preaching was his delight. It was a shining face, bright with the radiance of near communion with God, which he invariably brought to the pulpit. His doctrine was clear, the enforcement eloquent, his appeals touching and persuasive. As a Pastor, he was a sympathizing brother and friend, a wise leader, everywhere the soul of cheerfulness and inspiration."

In 1863, he returned to Waukesha. About this time ShurtleflF College conferred upon him the degree of D. D. The church in Waukesha, without a Pastor and in a low spiritual condition, called him again to be their Pastor. Although paralyzed in his lower limbs so that he had to be carried to the pulpit in his chair and preach sitting, his grasp for truth was as profound, and his presentation of it as vigorous and interesting, as ever. For four years, with great blessing to the church and the entire community, he was enabled to carry on this precious work.

In 1867, from the eflfects of holding an out-door service in Pewaukee, he was confined to his house, which he never afterward left, until he went to be with Jesus. He resigned his pastorate, but it never was accepted by the church. Sometimes, when the state of his health would permit, he would preach through the open window to the people assembled in his front yard. A portion of the time he wrote for the columns of the Standard. Most of his time was spent in the preparation of works for the press, one of his daughters frequently acting as his amanuensis. The fruits of these years of patient toil, amid great suffering, he has given to the world in his books : " Glad Tidings, " "N"one but Christ, " " Grace and Truth, " " Good Shep- herd," "The World's Hope, " " Wee Willie, " "My Inquiry Meeting," "Lecture to Young Converts, " "Words of Comfort to the Afflicted, " and an autobiography in manuscript.

Little wonder that his pastoral relations with the several churches he served was of the most afiFectionate nature ! His name is a household word with them, and his memory, which lingers in many hearts, is fragrant with the savor of the Redeemer he loved and served. Fidelity to the truth as it 'is in Jesus, and holy fervor in its presentation ; clearness of thought, felicity of language, and richness of illustration combined, were his distinguishing characteristics as a minister. The uplifting the Cross, the honor and exaltation of Christ, were the key-note and grand charms of all his preaching.

Robert Boyd died peacefully at his home in the village of Waukesha, August 1, 1879, aged sixty-three. He had had nine daughters, five of whom are living. He lived long enough to see several of his works translated into diiFeent European and Asiastic languages - an honor accorded to but comparatively few American authors.*

Sebina Barnay, farmer, was born July 22, 1802, in Vermont ; was the son of John and Sally Grove Barney, prominent farmers of the " Green Mountain State." When he was a small boy, his parents moved to Adams, Jefferson Co., N. Y. In Adams Village he learned the trade of blacksmithing, and carried on the business fifteen years. On the 2d of February, 1824 he was married to Miss Polly Mandeville, who was born January 1, 1802. In 1827, he was accidentally shot in the shoulder by careless boys who were shooting at a mark ; this affected his health through subsequent life. In 1836, he made a prospecting tour of seven months in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, purchasing land in each State. In July, 1837, he came West with his family and located on what is known as the "White farm." This large farm was sold in 1854 and he bought a home in the northeast part of the town. In 1855, he became connected with the Waukesha County Bank at its organization and was one of its officers until his death, being for many years its Vice President. After 1861, he resided within the village limits. He was, before the war. Postmaster of Waukesha. He was for many terms a member of the Board of Education, and also Supervisor, and was well known as a " city father." He owned considerable real estate in the village and town of Waukesha. He was for many years a believer in Spiritualism, but during the last year of his life many noticed a gradual change in his sentiments. He died May 30, 1879. He had but one son, George M., born in 1825, who is married and lives on a farm in Waukesha. Mr. Barney was a Freemason. He was a successful farmer and prosperous business man in Waukesha Village and town for inWj forty-two years. He was domestic in his tastes and enjoyed his evenings at home. He was liberal to the unfortunate and afflicted - was a humanitarian. He was a safe counselor in all business enterprises, and was the trusted friend of the poor and the rich. He was a veteran pioneer, benevolent, eminently practical and thoroughly reliable.

Rufus Parks was born in Westfield, Mass., May 24, 1798, and died at his residence in the town of Summit September 17, 1878. The grandfather of Mr. Parks was one of the earliest settlers in the Connecticut Valley, and in the Revolution stood patriotically by the cause of the colonies. He had two sons, the eldest of whom, at the breaking-out of the Revolutionary war, was a Captain in the British army. The patriotic father urged him to resign and enter into the American service. His refusal so incensed the father that he disinherited him, and at his own expense armed and equipped a company of men, placing his youngest son (the father of the subject of the present sketch), in command. The company reached the patriot army at Bunker Hill, and remained in service during the war. Both sons were present in the battle of Long Island on their respective sides. Mr. Parks, on his mother's side, was the grandson of Nathaniel Gorham, one of the signers of the Constitution of the State of Massachusetts, and for two years President of the Continental Congress. He was also connected with many of the prominent families of Boston and vicinity. He received an academic education at Phillips' Academy, at Andover, Mass., and commenced business as a merchant in Boston. Failing in this he moved to Bangor, Me., where he studied law, and in 1836 was appointed by President Jackson (through the influence of his brother, who was then in Congress from that State), the first Receiver of Public Moneys at Milwaukee, Wis. This county was in his land district, and during his administration of this office all the lands in this county were sold to the original settlers. It was said of him that for many years he knew three-fourths of all the settlers in his district. Mr. Parks continued in this office until 1842, when he was removed to make way for a Whig, under a Whig administration. Afterward, in 1846, he moved on to his farm in Summit, where he remained until his death. He was prominently identified with the early history of this State and county ; was in the first Constitutional Convention ,of the State, of which he was a prominent member. Was active, particularly, as a Democrat before the organization of the Republican party, but after that party appeared, he attached himself to it, being ardently opposed to the extension of slavery. His integrity was of the strictest kind. In character he was intolerant of what he knew to be wrong, and never believed in any method to gain right from which the light of day needed to be screened. His manners were of the old New England school, always courteous to all without reference to degree or station ; and the record of his life has not a single stain or blot upon it. His remains lie in the cemetery at Summit, in which town he had lived for thirty years a much respected and revered citizen. Warham Parks, a prominent soldier, and at present Postmaster of the city of Oconomowoc, is Rufus Parks' son.

One of the great and good men of Wisconsin and of the church was Jackson Kemper. The hardships meekly endured, the dangers bravely met, the pleasures cheerfully foregone and the privations heroically sufi'ered in the work of doing good to others by him will never be known to mortal man. He* came of a stalwart race of high-principled, strong-bodied,, stronghearted and strong-brained men. His grandfather, Jacob Kemper, was born at Caub, on the Rhine, the son of an officer in the Prince Palatine's army. He emigrated to America in 1741. The Bishop's father, Daniel Kemper, was born at New Brunswick in 1749. Daniel Kemper was a Colonel in the Revolutionary army. He had sacrificed his means, which were not narrow, freely in the struggle for national independence, and after the war, through Gen. Washington's influence, held for some time an office in the custom house at New York.

Col. Kemper was one of the original members of the Order of the Cincinnati; among the Bishop's heirlooms is his father's cross and jewel of the order, made in France under the direction of La Fayette, just after the Revolution.

The Bishop was born at Pleasant Valley, in Dutchess County, where the family were temporarily residing, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1879. On Col. Kemper's receiving the' appointment mentioned above, he removed to New York City, which was shortly after the Bishop's birth, and it occurred in that way that the child was baptized by Bishop Moore.

His full baptismal name was David Jackson, being so named after his uncle. Dr. Jackson, of Philadelphia. In after years, the Bishop dropped the first name altogether, and his signature was simply Jackson Kemper.

When about twelve years of age, the future Bishop was sent to the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Conn., of which Rev. Dr. William Smith had just taken charge. Here he remained two years. He was then brought back to New York and put under the charge of the Rev Dr. Barry, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and at that time one of the most distinguished classical teachers, as he was one of the most finished scholars, in the country. Under his able care, young Kemper was prepared for college, having as schoolmates, among others, Bishop Onderdonk, of New York, and the Rev Dr. Wyatt, of Baltimore. He entered the Columbia College in 1805, and graduated in 1809, as the valedictorian of his class.

The Bishop's mind had been fixed all along upon the sacred ministry. He had a vocation to preach the Gospel. From boyhood his purpose was settled, and the sweetness of his temper, his natural and unaffected piety, his purity of mind and character, marked him for the altar and the pulpit.

Immediately upon his graduation, he began the study of theology under the care of Bishop Moore and the clergy of Trinity Parish. There were no theological seminaries in those days, and candidates for orders were under the private tuition of the best learned clergy.

On the second Sunday in Lent, in 1811, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop White, in St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, and that afternoon preached his first sermon in St. James'.

He was immediately called to the assistantship, under Bishop White, of the united parishes of Christ Church, St. Peter's and St. James', made vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Blackwell. In May, he removed to Philadelphia and entered on the duties of this position which he held till June, 1831 - twenty years.

During this time, the young clergyman had two vacations. They used to have " vacations " in those days, and the Rev. Mr. Kemper had his. It is as well we should know exactly what those old-time ministerial vacations were, that we may compare them with modern ones.

In 1812 and 1814, he was granted leave of absence from the parish to perform missionary tours in the West. In Western Pennsylvania, Western Virginia and Eastern Ohio, he took his first lesson in the work to which God was soon to call him for life. In those, at that time, wild regions of the Far West, he traveled far and wide, and, in many places, was the first to hold divine service, and read the Common Prayer.

These were his "vacations" the only ones he ever took in his life. He needed them because his general health, especially his voice, had failed seriously under the strain of devotion to his parish duties, and so, to rest himself, he turned border missionary, or undertook the thankless task of begging for a church institution.

Bishop Kemper had been twice married. In 1816, to Miss Jerusha Lyman, of Philadelphia, who lived but two years. In October, 1821, he was married to i\Iiss Ann Relf, of Philadelphia, the mother of the daughter and the two sons who survive him.

In June, 1831, the Rev. Jackson Kemper accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, Conn. His residence here was to be short, although marked all his days to him by the sorest sorrow of his life - the early loss of his tenderly beloved wife, who died at Norwalk in 1832, and who rests, all that is mortal of her, in the churchyard of St. Paul's.

Sanctified by his sore bereavement he consecrated himself anew to his high calling. God had quenched the happy light of his home, and from his darkened hearth he was ready to go where the Master called.

In St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, at the altar, where, twenty-four years before, he had knelt to take upon him the orders of a deacon, he knelt again to receive the plenary apostolic commission, a man who had purchased to himself as deacon and priest, if any man had, this highest and last degree. It was the last consecration at which Bishop White ofiiciated, September 25, 1835.

The Missionary Bishop left his three motherless little ones under the loving care of their mother's mother, at her home in Philadelphia, and went forth into the wild West to his appointed work. For eleven years, he was literally a homeless man. The fire that had died out into cold ashes in 1832, in Norwalk, was never rekindled all those years, even in semblance. Bishop Kemper was a stranger and a pilgrim on the earth. During those eleven years his books were never unpacked. He had not even a study. He traveled on horseback and on foot, he went over rough roads and untrodden paths, he swam rivers in his many journeyings. He preached in way-side cabins, in taverns, schoolhouses, and upper rooms. His saddle-bags contained his worldly goods - his robes, and his Communion Service, his Bible and his Prayer- Book.

In his first journey to the West, he was accompanied by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Roosevelt Johnson, late Professor in the General Seminary, a man of like spirit with himself, who from that time forth has been his loving and most beloved friend, and who, among the many, far and wide, who grieve to-day for his loss, will miss him sorely till the day he joins his dear old friend and Bishop in the Paradise of God.

In 1835, early in the winter, the Bishop reached St. Louis, where he took up his residence, as far as he might be said to have a residence, until he removed to Wisconsin in the fall of 1844.

His jurisdiction comprised "the Northwest." Out of it have been formed the Dioceses of Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. Over all those regions the Bishop was expected to travel, to watch their development, to seek out the scattered families of church people, to establish church institutions. He was set as the watchman on the border, and was to move on as the border receded, leaving organized dioceses behind him, for diocesan Bishops to occupy.

It came to hiin in 1837-38, at the request of Bishop Otey, who was suddenly disabled by sickness, to take care also of the Southwest. He visited the Southern States, from Louisiana to Florida, devoting several months to the work - comfirming, ordaining, and consecrating many churches which had been used, sometimes for years, but had never before been visited by a Bishop.

It was at this time that he was recalled to the East, by being elected to the bishopric of Maryland. This he declined. He was a Missionary Bishop, and a Missionary Bishop he would remain.

Shortly after, the Bishop removed to Wisconsin, and, in the summer of 1846, purchased land adjoining the newly founded institution of Nashotah, and, in the fall of that year, took up his residence thereupon in the humble cottage ("the Bishop's Palace " as it was pleasantly called), which old settlers so well remember, and which still stands beside the family residence, and there, with his children about him, for the first time since the breaking-up at Norwalk, he might be said to have a home.

There still remained all his vast charge except Missouri. Indiana had been an organized diocese since 1838, but had elected no Bishop. She was the next to relieve the burdened Missionary Bishop by the election of Bishop Upfold, who was consecrated in 1849.

In 1847, Wisconsin had been organized into a diocese, and the Primary Convention had elected Bishop Kemper, Diocesan. This he had declined. He could not see his way to settling down to the charge of a diocese, so strongly did he feel it his duty to be a Missionary Bishop^ to the end. It was not till seven years after, when he was again unanimously elected in 1854, that he accepted, and then only when it had so been arranged by the General Convention that, his acceptance would allow him to remain Missionary Bishop still.

He traveled extensively thereafter in the then Indian Territory and Kansas, and during a part of the time in the latter Territory when the border troubles were at their worst. He had. some severe experiences during the disturbed times, experiences which his happy temper always^ turned into amusing adventures afterward. It is only fair to say that personally he never met with anything but respect and kindness from men of any party at that time. All recognized the good man on his mission of love and peace, and the rudest " border ruSian " bade Bishop' Kemper God-speed.

" I now, with deep emotion, tender to the church my resignation of the office of a Missionary Bishop, which, unsought-for and unexpected, was conferred upon me twenty-four years ago. Blessed with health and cheered by the conviction of duty, I have been enabled to travel at all seasons through Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, 'and partly through Kansas and Nebraska.

. My days must soon be numbered, for in less than three months I will be seventy years old. As age advances, I trust I have an increasing love for our Divine Master and that church for which He shed His most precious blood."

" He was the father of seven dioceses, the founder of seven bishoprics in the Church of God. It was fitting that the crosier of an Archbishop should rest upon his coffin. He was an Archbishop by the appointment of Heaven. Six dioceses, as well as Wisconsin, mourn their father. If we miss him more here, or love his memory more, it is because we know him better and possessed him, to our blessing, longer. Twice this diocese honored itself by electing the great Missionary Bishop its Diocesan, by a unanimous vote ; once at its Primary Convention, when he declined, and again in 1854, when, to the joy of all Wisconsin churchmen, he accepted."

At twenty minutes past 2, on Tuesday afternoon, May 24, 1870, in his study, to which his bed had been moved a few days before, his children only being present, the Bishop breathed his last. In the same room he lay, in the sleep of death, until the following Monday ; and the few who entered it will never forget the contrast between its mournful silence then, and its usual aspect before his work was done.

His age was eighty years and five months, precisely. He lies buried at Nashotah, near the scene of his richest labors - a spot made as beautiful by nature as he had by godliness made his life pure and useful

The funeral took place on May 31, and was very largely attended. Eight Bishops and one hundred clergymen of the Episcopal Church followed his remains to the tomb. The ceremonies attending the interment were beautiful and impressive. Although the body had been kept one week it was in a state of wonderful preservation, and the face of the venerable Bishop seemed to be reposing in peaceful slumber. The chapel at Nashotah, where the body lay, was very appropriately draped in white and purple. It is estimated that about two thousand persons were present at the funeral, nearly all of whom were from a distance, as the mission where the late Bishop resided contains but a small population, mostly made up of students in "Bishop White Hall," the college where young men are educated for the ministry. The ceremonies were concluded at about 6 o'clock. The memorial poem was by Bishop Henry W. Lee, as follows:

The subject of this brief sketch was a son of Lemuel White and Emily Brainard, and born in Cazenovia, N. Y., August 29, 1830. He removed with his parents to Illinois in 1838, and to Waukesha,. Wis., in 1840. In his childhood, he attended the Waukesha Academy, and afterward Carroll College - then in its incipiency - as a pupil of Prof. Sterling. At the age of fourteen, he entered the post oflSce as clerk, under his father - who was then Postmaster - pursuing his studies in the mean while. At nineteen, he went to Milwaukee as an assistant in Mitchell's Bank, and afterward acted as Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County. His father being elected Clerk of the Court for Waukesha County, in 1852, he returned to act as his Deputy. In 1853 he, with Col. Sidney A. Bean, edited a village paper, called the Independent Press. In 1854, he was married to Elizabeth A. Chester, and soon after removed to Bloomington, 111. Finding his health impaired by close confinement in an office, he entered into more active out-door life, engaging in the lumber and grain business. With a taste, however, for the legal profession, he relinquished this business in 1857, returned to Wisconsin, and established himself in the practice of law at Waukesha. In 1861, he was elected District Attorney of the county. He held this office in 1862, at the time of the organization of the twenty-eighth Wisconsin Regiment of volunteer infantry, in the formation of which he took an active part. He entered the military service as Captain in this regiment, and served the entire period ot enlistment, three years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He returned home at the close of the war, in the fall of 1865, but with a constitution badly undermined by the exposure incident to the war service.

Much of the time while in the army, he was engaged in important detached dutyl During the last year of his service, he held the position of Provcst Marshal General of Arkansas, on the staif of Maj. Gen. J, J. Reynolds. He participated in Steele's campaign to Southern Arkansas, which was only saved from being disastrous, from the failure of Banks' Red River expedition, by the hard fighting of Gen. Steele's command.

In November, 1865, he returned to Little Rock and entered into a law partnership with Col. - now U. S. Senator - Augustus H. Garland. As he was about Returning for his family in the summer of 1866, he was taken ill of typhoid fever, and was held in that climate until November. He then started North, with buoyant hopes that the pure air of his Wisconsin home would recruit his wasted health. Reaching Chicago in a feeble condition, he was conveyed to his brother's suburban home at Evanston, that of Gen. Julius White, where, after lingering a few days, he died November 15, 1866, aged thirty-six years and three months. His remains were taken to Waukesha, Wis., and interred in the village cemetery. Helefta wife and two young sons, Calvert C. White, born at Waukesha April 11, 1863, and Edwin Chester White, born June 21, 1866, all residing at Waukesha. In private life Col. White's reputation was without blemish. His public service, whether civil or military, was distinguished by an intelligent appreciation and conscientious discharge of the duties devolving upon him. While reasonably ambitious, he never thrust himself forward, but, as in his entry into military life, always accepted positions of less importance than he might have obtained, thus evincing the true spirit of self-abnegation ; or, at least, appeared to the world as one subordinating any desire for advancement to conscientious and patriotic sense of duty. His success, and great promise in his chosen profession of the law, were most thoroughly attested by his associates of the bar and the bench, both in Wisconsin and Arkansas.

Adam E. Ray was born in Delaware, N. Y., in 1808. He secured a good practical education, and began mercantile life in 1831, at Saugerties, Ulster Co., N. Y. In 1832, he was married to Miss Eliza Breasted, of New York State. They came West in 1888, and engaged in farming at Mukwonago, Waukesha County. He went South in 1859 to Alabama and built a saw-mill and a corn-mill, and had fitted them with first-class machinery, when the election of Lincoln in 1860 made the locality very unhealthy for a Unionist ; he came North, and all his movable property was destroyed or confiscated by the Confederates. He also owned between one and two thousand acres of Southern land, which has not been reclaimed since the Rebellion. His Alabama losses were about $14,000. He died in 1864, leaving ten children. They have had thirteen children ; the living are Charles, Edwin, Henry, the twins Mary and Eliza, Augusta, Jennie, Frederick, and the twins Ira L. and Ida V.; seven are married. Mr. Ray was a Democrat until the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, but was thereafter an active Republican. He was a member of the Territorial Council from 1839 to 1841, and afterward held several town and county offices. From 1845 until his death, he owned a farm in Walworth County, and, while living there, was elected State Senator from that district ; he was instrumental in securing the building of the old Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien Railroad, and sacrificed heavily in its behalf. He was interested in whatever affected the public welfare, and his counsel .was sought both by private citizens and public officials ; he was naturally a leader among men. He was devoted to the Republican party, and was well posted in political affairs ; he was a Master Mason. The entire family has always been highly esteemed. Mrs. Ray and her younger daughter have a pleasant home on Wisconsin avenue, in Waukesha Village. The head of the household passed away in the full vigor of his meridian powers, aged fifty-six. For twenty-six years, in the early life of this county, ne was a potent factor in all public affairs. His was a positive character, energetic, but not aggressive, spirited, but not eccentric ; his fellowcitizens always reported him capable and popular.

Richard Hardell was born June 10, 1795, in Lincolnshire, England. His father was a gardener and did an extensive busriness. At the age of twelve, he entered, voluntarily, with bis father's consent, upon a seven years' apprenticeship at the carpenter and joiner's trade, earning at the same time, by over work, what little pocket money he could, as he received only board and clothes for his regular service.

At the age of nineteen, he was married to Jane Wingate, who was five years his senior. Soon after the marriage, the young couple moved to Yorkshire and settled, Mr. Hardell going into the contracting and building business, which business he continued until 1828, when he had accumulated sufiBcient means to enable him to carry out a desire which he had for some time entertained, viz., that of trying his fortunes in America.

Accordingly, he settled his affairs, made such preparations as he deemed necessary, and with his family set sail in March of the ahove-named year, landing without accident in New York City, a few weeks afterward. He almost immediately found work, after landing, upon the- Bowery Theater, which was then being built, and proved himself to be so good a workman that he was the last one discharged.

Soon after leaving the theater work, he moved to Utica, N. Y., then a growing place^ and resumed his old-time occupation as contractor. Here he did a very good business on a limited capital, and also acquired such a reputation for honesty and integrity that one of the leading bankers of the place (Joseph Stibbins), when Mr. Hardell's paper was presented, wouldl indorse it with the addition of the word "good." In 1830, he removed to .Clinton, N. Y.,, and continued his accustomed vocation. During the time he was here, he did a very large and profitable business, being employed as architect and builder of some of the finest edifices, both public and private, to be found in that locality at that time.

The Clinton Liberal Institute building, quite a famous organization in its day, was planned and erected by him, and as a memento of his connection with that enterprise, his name was carved in white marble over the front entrance. In the spring of 1836, the tide of emigration was setting in heavily toward Wisconsin, whither he determined to come, where he believed he could enlarge his own fortune not only, but better pave the way for the future prosperity of hisfamily, which had now increased to seven. He embarked at Buffalo. They arrived at Milwaukee in July, 1836. Soon after landing, he found employment as draftsman and foreman with the firm of Prentice & Bird, contractors and builders, and remained with them until the spring of 1837. In the fall of 1836, he, in company with others, made a trip to the town of Lisbon, located a claim and made some improvements, and returned to the city the same season ;. afterward he disposed of his claim. Early in 1837, while Mr. Juneau was surveying the Territorial road from Milwaukee to Madison via Jefferson, he made several claims at different points along the route, one of them being for Mr. Hardell, on Section 34. A few weeks later, Mr. Hardell, in company with Mr. Dousman and Mr. Edgerton, came out on horseback to examine these claims. Mr. Hardell, after looking over his claim and the surroundings, at once purchased an additional one-half section adjoining, making in all one section of land. He went to work at once and built a shanty and broke six acres of land, and in June went into the city and brought, out his family. From this time he devoted his energies almost wholly to agricultural pursuits. During the erection of the capitol building at Madison, he was appointed inspector of the work, and thereby saved the State an expense of several thousand dollars. He was also appointed inspector of the court house at Waukesha. At his death, which occurred June 10, 1878, at the advanced age of eighty-three years, the county and community lost one of its most worthy citizens - a man noted for his radical and just political opinions ; of undoubted probity of character and rare intelligence. He left one of the finest estates in the town of Summit, consisting of 1,800 acres of land, improved and stocked. There are now but four of the family left, two sons and two daughters. They are W. J. and A. G. Hardell, and Mrs. Charles H. Flinton and Mrs. L. P. Merickle, all of whom reside in the town of Summit.

The subject of this sketch was born in Westmoreland, Cheshire Co.,N". H., September 4, 1813. He was the youngest child of John and Nancy Pratt, natives of Massachusetts, who settled in New Hampshire in 1805. The fathep of A. F. Pratt was an extensive farmer and cattle-dealer, who died in 1822. Alexander continued with his mother at tlie old homestead up to the age of sixteen years with the ordinary advantages of a country common school, with the exception of the last two years, when he was sent to an academy in the adjoining town.

At the age of sixteen, he was employed in a dry-goods store in Woodstock, Vt., where he remained two years, when he went to Boston, Mass., and engaged as salesman in the wholesale dry -goods house of J. T. Hobart & Co., where he remained until the fall of 1836. He then came to Milwaukee with a stock of goods, and opened a store in a shanty, as there was no better building to be had. He built a shanty of boards on a leased lot large enough to hold his stock of goods, which was valued at $5,000, and commenced business under the firm name of Hobart & Pratt. Milwaukee was at that time, a big town on paper, but not much of a place for selling dry goods, as there were no roads in either direction by which to get into the country and but few people in the country when you got there. The trade was principally confined to dickering in city and town lots, which were bringing at that time from $1,000 to $5,000 each. The ground had been broken for the erection of a court house, out in the woods, as it was then called, and lots in that vicinity were a legal tender. In December, 1836, many speculators had left Milwaukee, and business became exceedingly dull. Mr. Pratt during that winter traded his stock of goods for a little money and the balance in town lots and settlers' claims. None of the land had been offered for sale by the Government and settlers' claims were good. In the spring of 1837, he purchased of M. D. Cutler, a claim on 480 acres of land on Fox River, in the town of Prairieville (now Waukesha), paying $1,000 for the claim in four village lots in the village of Ottawa, 111., and commenced to build a house and make other improvements. He employed a man and his wife, and at once commenced farming. In January, 1839, he married Antonette M. Powers, daughter of Henry Powers, who had recently come from Plattsburg, N. Y., and settled in Troy, Walworth Co., Wis. Mr. Pratt had three children - two daughters and one son. Elizabeth S. was born in 1839, married Darwin Fuller of St. Louis, and died in December, 1871. Charles A. was born in 1843, married Emma Brown, of St. Louis, and is now one of the proprietors of the Garrison House, Sedalia, Mo. Francis H. was born in January, 1849, married Clarence A. Jones, and resides in St. Louis. Mr. Pratt resided on his farm until the Government land sale in October. 1839, after which, until the spring of 1844, he resided in Milwaukee ; whilst in Milwaukee, he was Constable and Deputy Sheriff, and was considered the best detective in the Territory. In the summer of 1843, he built a house on Cass street, near Division, and cut a road through the brush from the court house before he could haul his building material to the site. In the spring of 1844, in company with his brother, George C, he returned to the farm in Prairieville, and purchased quite a large lot of lands adjoining the old farm, built another house, and commenced farming on quite a large scale for those times. The Pratt brothers, in 1845, had under the plow over 300 acres, and had a large stock of cattle, horses and sheep. Farming in those days, on a large scale, was anything but profitable. The best of winter wheat sold in Milwaukee for 38 cents per bushel, after hauling through thepiud with ox teams. From 1844, that part of Milwaukee County now Waukesha, began to fill up rapidly with actual settlers, Mr. Pratt being what was then termed an old settler, was called upon to do considerable public business, such as laying out highways and building bridges. Out of settlers' claims, grew a great many little law suits, and Mr. Pratt became quite a celebrated pettifogger. This public life suited him better than tilling the soil. In the winter of 1847, Mr. Pratt and his brother sold a large part of their farm, which was the end of farming. Together with W. A. Barstow, A. E. Elmore and A. W. Randall, and perhaps a few others, during the session of the Territorial Legislature of 1846, he conceived the idea of seceding from Milwaukee, and organizing a new county.*

Politics, at that time, had not entered very much into our elections. Mr. Pratt was an uncompromising Democrat, and upon the admission of the State became one of the leading Democrats in the county and State. In 1848, he was elected Sheriff ; he discharged the duties of the oflSce to the general satisfaction of the people.

Mr. Pratt was usually at Madison during the sessions of the Legislature, either as member of the " Third House " or as correspondent of some Democratic paper.

He was the reporter for the Milwaukee ^Evening Wisconsin when that was a Democratic paper, and was reporter at Madison for the Milwaukee News for several sessions. In about 1853 or 1854, he commenced the publication of the Plaindealer at Waukesha. It was a strong supporter of Franklin Pierce's administration, and Mr. Pratt was appointed Postmaster at Waukesha by him.

Mr. Pratt went to Kansas in the spring of 1862, with the Third Wisconsin Cavalry (Col. Barstow), in the sutler's department. Whilst in Kansas, he wrote for the Milwaukee News, and was for a short time editor of a newspaper at Leavenwortii. His editorials in that paper were not pleasing to Gen. Blunt, who was in charge of the department, and he ordered the paper suppressed, and very soon Mr. Pratt (for something said in his correspondence to the Milwaukee iVews), was banished from the sutler's department and escorted over the line into Missouri, he remained three or four months. At the end of that time, the command of the Department of Kansas had passed into other hands, and it became necessary to look for some of the parties whom Mr. Pratt had accused of stealing from and defrauding the Grovernment. The officer in command being a Wisconsin man, and having some knowledge of Mr. Pratt's reputation as a detective, sent for him, and Mr. Pratt was appointed United States Detective to hunt some of the very men who had caused his paper to be suppressed, and himself to be banished beyond the Union lines.

He returned to Waukesha in July, 1865, and commenced the re-publication of the Plaindealer, which he continued up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 30th day of November, 1874.

Mr. Pratt held various town, village and county offices ; was twice elected to the office of Sheriff, three times elected President of the village of Waukesha, and discharged the duties of all these offices with honor to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. In public progress and improvement, he was always in the advance, and few men in Waukesha ever did more to make the village what it now is than Alexander F. Pratt.

He was liberal in his religious views ; a member of no church, but contributed to the support of the Episcopal Church, of which his wife and family were members. His long residence and business connection with Waukesha County made him one of the best-known men in it.

Mr. Pratt was always ready to express his opinion, never waiting to find out the opinion of others ; and when he engaged in ariy enterprise, never abandoned it till he got to the end. Sometimes he would fail to accomplish his object, but never for want of energy or perseverance. He was a very warm and true friend, as well as a very bitter enemy. He was a very kind neighbor, always ready to grant any relief in his power to persons in trouble, and at his death many exclaimed, " I have lost my best friend."

Sidney Alfred Bean, the subject of this sketch, was born in Chesterfield Village, Essex Co., N. Y., Sept. 16, 1833. He came with his parents to Waukesha in the year 1846, the previous years of his life having been spent in about equal portions at the place of his nativity and in the city of Milwaukee.

Physically, he was of a somewhat slight organization, though but seldom prostrated by sickness, or in any way prevented from discharging thoroughly and successfully the many arduous duties that thronged his young life. In his early childhood he displayed an unusual fondness for learning, as well as an unusual facility for acquiring it. At the age of ten years, he was quite proficient in the science of algebra, and, while still a mere lad, became far advanced in many of the higher branches of knowledge.

In 1850, he entered the sophomore class of the University of Michigan, and graduated in 1852. going forth into the world with every promise of a brilliant future. One of the professors of the university wrote that " he was distinguished for the ease and rapidity with which he acquired knowledge. Indeed, he seems to have mastered the subjects almost intuitively, so that, while his scholarship was thorough and accurate, he was enabled to devote much time to independent literary and scientific studies outside of the regular college curriculum. His proficiency in mathematics already indicated for him an exalted position in this branch of science ; besides, the talent and earnestness which he thus early exhibited as a speaker and writer, promised unusual eminence in more popular fields of usefulness."

His first business venture after leaving college was the establishment of a newspaper, entitled the Press" and in its columns he wrote with the ardor of youth, and yet with marked intelfectual acumen, making appeals in behalf of the weak, the down-trodden and the poor. In all things he raised his voice for justice; and there could exist no meanness or vice that did not meet his scathing denunciation. At the time of the border trouble, known as the Kansas war, he was untiring in his efforts to rescue that fair Territory from the clutches of the slave power, and it is well remembered with what graphic eloquence he sought to rouse the people to a realization of their impending peril.

He afterward became connected with Carroll College as a Professor of Mathematics. This institution was, at that time, in a most flourishing condition, and gave promise of becoming a seat of learning second to none in the country. No one labored more assiduously, or gave more freely of his means that the institution might be established on a lasting foundation, than did the subject of this sketch. His specialty as a student had thus far been the science of mathematics ; but he now sought other fields of learning and became engrossed in the study of language. "Not of the languages," as he wrote, '- but of that science which treats of the forces that underlie all forms and idioms, and out of which all forms and idioms grow."

In the year 1859, at the request of Chancellor Barnard, he delivered a lecture before the University of Wisconsin on the " Study of Language ;" and among his papers are found an elaborate outline of a philosophical treatise on this subject, which it is known he intended to publish.

He was a careful and accurate writer, and, aside from the purity of his style, he always wrote with the well-defined purpose of doing good, of correcting abuses, and of exalting the standard of human conduct.

In a lecture delivered in Waukesha when he was not yet twenty years of age, he said : " The holiest thing a man can do, is to make himself a perfect man by loving and living for his brother. Do good ! 'Tis a simple phrase, but there is a melody in the thought of it that out-sings all the weariness of the heart. Oh, suflFering, sad humanity ! In thy name will we live to do good, in thy name do we cast in our lot with that little band of which Jesus is the King, who are laboring for their fellows, to beautify the world with blessings, and give it an undying garniture of noble, and disinterested deeds." Among his best-remembered lectures, are those on " Heroism" and " God in History ;" they were both of them masterly discourses, compact in logic and style, and replete with passages of fervid eloquence. The moral of the latter one was that God takes cognizance of the actions of nations, and that he will most certainly punish them for every deviation from the principles of justice and mercy. He insisted that human slavery , was such a deviation and in answer to the plea that it had Christianized the African race, he exclaimed : " Oh, the iniquitous solecism of evoking the Christian from the ashes of the man ! If the Jews held slaves, not so much the better for slavery, but so much the worse for the Jews. Slavery is fairly responsible, not only for all the actual consequences of it, but for all the possible consequences. It is logically held for all the evils which exist in posse and not for those alone in esse. A law or an institution which confers a power to do wrong, is criminal to the full extent to which that power may be carried under any circumstances, because a power that ought never to be exercised ought never to exist." At the breaking-out of the late war, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth Wisconsin Infantry, and dedicated his great abilities and his great heart to the cause of human freedom. No purer or more disinterested patriot ever drew his sword in defense of the right. Pew men occupied positions so enviable as his ; surrounded by everything that makes life pleasant, a happy home, warm friends and bright prospects of future honor and usefulness, he sacrificed all to his sense of duty, and followed his country's flag, until he met a soldier's death in the hour that its showy folds waved victoriously over the enemy's works. In his military career, as in every other undertaking to which he applied his comprehensive mind and unwearying energy, he was eminently successful. On the promotion of Col. Halbert B. Paine, he was made Colonel of his regiment, which position he held at the time of his death. It is not designed in this brief sketch of Col. Bean to give a narrative of his career as a soldier, for the materials at hand will not permit ; but from the glance that has here been presented of his exalted character and noble life, it will readily be inferred that in the field of arms, as well as in the quiet walks of life, his star was still in the ascendant. Such was the fact, for the exceptional adaptability for mastering whatever task came to him, that had characterized him as a scholar, a writer and a public speaker, soon bore him to the front rank as a soldier. It is entirely within bounds to say that no young officer in the great army of volunteers understood the military art with more thoroughness and precision than he. The love and admiration of his men and of all who enjoyed his friendship, knew no bounds. He drew his sword distinctly to give freedom to the enslaved, that thereby his country- might rise to her true glory. Through clouds and disappointment, he fought with an unswerving faith that the desired end would be gained, and, though he fell ere the great battle was won, his faith was justified. The end was gained, and who shall say that his precious blood was spilled in vain ? He entered the service at the commencement of the war and served faithfully and most gallantly until the fatal morning of May 8. 1863. When in front of Port Hudson, Louisiana, directing a movement designed to silence one of the enemy's batteries, and in the front line of the national troops, he was shot through the right lung and instantly killed. So ended, in its twenty-ninth year, the life of Sidney A. Bean. He gave his life for the country and principles he had loved so well, and left to his friends and his State an enduring monument of fidelity and valor that in no age or clime has been excelled. In closing this brief tribute to the worth of a true hero, the words of the world's greatest poet inscribed upon his tomb seem most appropriate-:

Among those who came to Waukesha County quite early, and were somewhat active characters in its history, was C. H. Purple. He was born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., in 1820, and came to Waukesha in 1844. He at once engaged in mercantile business in Waukesha (then Prairieville) ; some years later, he removed to Brookfield, where he was engaged in the same business, together with that of lumbering. In 1854, Mr. Purple was elected a member of the Wisconsin Legislature, and in 1858, he was appointed bank clerk of the State Treasurer's office. He then removed to Madison, and in 1859 he was appointed Assistant State Treasurer, under S. D. Hastings, a position he held during Mr. Hastings' term of office, and also during that of William B. Smith, the present Governor, until April, 1868 - in all over eight years. In 1869, he removed to Watertown, Wis., where he engaged in the lumber business until his death, which occurred in December, 1879. In addition to his correct business habits, Chauncey H. Purple was an active worker in the reforms of the day, particularly in the temperance cause. He was a charter member of the Rescue Temple of Honor, and its flourishing condition and acknowledged usefulness were largely due to his untiring eiforts. In all of his active life, he established for himself a reputation which commanded the respect of all who knew him. Few men can do more. His brother, Ezra S. Purple, is still a resident of Waukesha.

William A. Barstow cariie of a highly respectable family, whose ancestral seat was Naburn Hall, York, England, and some of the name are still found there. Four brothers came on the "True Love," landed at Boston in 1635, and settled in Hanover and Hingham, Mass., from whom all the Barstows are distinctly traced- William Augustus Barstow was born in Plainfield, Windham Co., Conn., on the 13th of September, 1813. He remained at home attending school, and assisting in farm work, until the age of sixteen, when he left home and became,a clerk in the store of his eldest brother, Samuel H., at Norwich, Conn., where he remained four years. S. H. Barstow then removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where William soon followed, in April, 1^34. The next year another brother, Horatio N., came out, and W. A. entered into the forwarding and commission business at Cleveland, and milling at Dresden, Ohio, where he remained about five years. In May, 1839, Samuel H. came to Prairie Village ( so called at that time ) to look after the building of a mill, and in November, William A. came with the mill-irons and to make his home here, which now began to be called Prairieville. ' The establishing of a flouring-mill with a smut machine was a great event for the settlers, as the flour made before that time was of a slate color. William A. subsequently became one of the principal owners of the mill property, -which embraced a good portion of the village.

In the small community of Prairieville, the miller and merchant combined was a personage of no small importance, and he had frequent opportunity for the exhibition of his kindly character, being ever ready to extend a helping hand to a suffering neighbor. He was known and respected for other traits than those of kindness and generosity, however. He was the true and loyal friend who never made "the promise to the ear but broke it to the hope," the acute, farsighted counselor, and the honorable and upright judge to whom all were willing to refer their -causes of difference. He held at one time the office of Postmaster, and was appointed one of the three commissioners of the county of Milwaukee, which then embraced what is now Waukesha County within its limits. He was prominent and efficient in the creation of the new county, and had the assistance of his brother, Samuel H. Barstow, at that time a member of the Legislature. In 1844-, William A. married Maria Quarles, of Southport ( now Kenosha ), and continued to reside in Waukesha. In the fall of 1849, Mr. Barstow was nominated by the Demo- -cratic State Convention for the office of Secretary of State, and was elected. On entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, he found its affiiirs in the condition of chaos. His clear mind soon brought order out of confusion, and with patient labor he wrote out, in the most complete and finished manner, nearly the full record of the office, up to the time when it came under his control. He was an earnest advocate of the first railroad enterprise in this State, and was among the foremost of those who lent their influence toward securing the charter of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad. As one of the original subscribers to the capital stock, and one of the first directors of the company, his efficient aid was of importance in its early struggles.

In 1853, he was nominated for Governor by the Democratic State Convention, and was elected to that honorable position. He then removed his family to Madison, where they made many friends. He was nominated for a second term, but the election was contested, resulting in the installation, by the courts, of his opponent. Coles Bashford, although Mr. Barstow resigned before the decision was rendered, and Arthur McArthur was Governor for a few days. Gov. Barstow then removed to Janesville and entered into banking business, which did not prove a successful venture. He then took to milling again with his younger brother, G. H. Barstow, for a short time, when the war commenced, and he obtained permission to raise a regiment of cavalry, which he proceeded to do. There'were many ready to respond to his call. The regiment was twelve hundred strong, of which he was commissioned Colonel, Nov. 9, 1861. In March, the regiment started for St. Louis, but before reaching Chicago some cars were thrown from the track and ten or twelve killed. Col. Barstow was a great favorite with all, both officers and men, who still cherish his memory. His health failed so that he was not able to keep to the saddle, and he was appointed to the head of the court-martial at St. Louis, where he presided. At the close of the war, he was mustered out and honorably discharged, March 4, 1865. That wonderful power to secure the attachment of those around him was never on any other scene of action so completely and usefully manifested as it was among the officers and men of his regiment. His previous station in civil life and his evident strength of character and mind, secured him universal respect, among the officers of all ranks, in both the regular and volunteer army, with whom he came in contact. His dignity of manner and remarkably fine personal appearance attracted attention alike in camp, on the march, on parade and in the military court over which he presided. While in Leavenworth, he was prostrated with a disease which had become chronic, and his illness proved fatal. He died at Leavenworth on the 13th of December, 1865, at the age of fifty-two years. There were none of his relatives present except his two oldest sons, Frank Q. and Augustus Barstow, who were with him during his last sickness. His other relatives were not aware of his failing condition. In the excitement of the moment of her arrival, his wife directed his remains to be taken to Brighton, Ohio (near Cleveland), where his family were interred. His many friends feel that his place of rest should have been in Waukesha, the place he had done so much for, and where the people would have wished to raise a monument to his memory.

"Barstow and the balance" were charged by the newspapers with stealing vast sums from the State in the management of the school lands and in locating the State Hospital for the insane at Madison. As to the truth of these charges, Edward M. Hunter, Gov. Barstow's private secretary, wrote as follows for the published reports of the State Historical Society : " It may not be amiss for me in this connection to state, that, intimate as I necessarily was with all that was done or considered in the executive office during the time Gov. Barstow retained his position, there was nothing done or proposed aifecting the public interest, but what might have been printed in the largest type, and hung upon the outer wall of the capitol for the inspection of all. He, during that period, neither counseled, took into consideration, nor did, a public wrong, and his children need never fear to direct the closest scrutiny toward his acts as Governor of Wisconsin. When he first entered upon the discharge of the duties of the office, he was in comfortable circumstances ; when he left it he was poor, and was harassed for the want of means, and all that he subsequently secured and lost did not repay him the amount he expended during his official term from his private purse." And it might be added that David S. Vittum, who was Captain of Company F, in Mr. Barstow's regiment, saw his old commander in Leavenworth a few days before his death and then gave him $25 for the purchase of luxuries to nourish the fast wasting body. These things go to prove that Mr. Barstow was honest in handling the public moneys of the State.

As to the military career of the noted Democratic chieftain whose life is the subject of this sketch, Elias A. Calkins, of Milwaukee, a Major in Mr. Barstow's regiment, wrote liberally at the request of the State Historical Society, and the following extracts are from his article : "In August, 1861, at the request of a number of gentlemen who desired to enter the volunteer army in a cavalry organization, for which their tastes and some study had adapted them - I visited the headquarters of Gen. Fremont, at St. Louis, with letters from Gov. Randall, certifying that I represented responsible persons interested in raising a force of cavalry, which the State authorities were not authorized to recruit and equip. I met Gov. Barstow at St. Louis, where he had been called by a business undertaking, and stated to him my mission. I was unable to procure any satisfactory reply from Gen. Fremont, and Gov. Barstow, who had several friends in military and civil life there, proposed to interest himself in the object I had in view, to which I cordially assented, and placed all the matters connected with it in his hands. He then made a proposition to Gen. Fremont to recruit, equip, mount and arm in Wisconsin a cavalry regiment, independent of State authority, except as to the commission of officers, the expenses to be re-imbursed by the Government ; and his proposition was accepted. Gen. Simon Cameron was then Secretary of War, and about that time visited St. Louis, to inspect the affairs of Gen. Fremont's department, and Gov. Barstow's authority to raise the cavalry regiment was approved by him. Several weeks had, of course, elapsed, and it was October before Gov. Barstow returned to the State, when he established the camp of rendezvous at Janesville, and issued notices of his readiness to receive recruits. Intelligence reached him almost immediately of the formation of several , companies for his camp, when he was notified that his authority to raise the regiment had been revoked by the War Department. The recruits, of course, generally disbanded, and many went into other organizations. A few of the companies, however, retained their standing. Gov. Barstow proceeded at once to Washington, and, after a short delay, procured a renewal of his authority to raise the regiment, with which he returned to the State. It was still some weeks before he could procure camp equipage, and the baffling delays had discouraged recruiting. These difficulties were, however, surmounted, and in December the first companies entered camp. In January, 1862, the regiment was filled to the minimum, and in February the maximum was reached. Col. Barstow was probably in June, 1 862, appointed Provost Marshal of Kansas. Martial law had been declared, and the extreme lawlessness of the country made the duties of his office more than usually manifold. In September following. Col. Barstow was relieved from duty as Provost Marshal ; the lawlessness and violence from which the State suffered was not suppressed during his administration ; in fact, they rather increased than otherwise. The guerrilla forces of Quantrell were very numerous and active, and outlaws who were the refuse and ' cow boys ' of both armies, swarmed like pestilent vermin throughout the country. His successors produced smaller results, if possible, than he did. For a year afterward, during which Quantrell's sack of Lawrence occurred, a reign of terror prevailed along the entire border. Peace and quiet were not, in fact, restored till after the war closed. After being relieved from Provost Marshal duty. Col. Barstow was assigned with several companies of his regiment to the First Brigade of the Army of the Frontier.

" Camp duty and army fare told seriously upon Col. Barstow's health, and incapacitated him for the long rides and rough duties on which the men were ordered. He was, however, in such health, and possessed the confidence of the army commander to that extent, that he was placed in command of the camp of invalid reserves, including the teamsters and the guards of the baggage and supply trains at Rhea's Hills, when the army marched out to meet the enemy, until the close of the battle of Prairie Grove. He rejoined the regiment the next day, at its place of bivouac on the battle-field, and resumed command. Other operations of considerable extent and magnitude followed, in which the regiment was constantly engaged, including the magnificent raid on the rebel camps in the Arkansas Valley and on Van Buren, which occupied the last days of December, 1862, and the first days of January, 1863. During a portion of this time, he was with the regiment, and part of the time he was detained in camp by illness.

"In the midst of these stirring events, and probably in the month of November of that year, 1862, the regiment was encamped with the main body of the Army of the Frontier, at a point some forty or fifty miles southwest of Fayetteville. While there I received a letter from a trusted adviser and an intimate friend of Gov. Randall, and of his successor. Gov. Harvey, inclosing a proposition that influences should be brought to hear, with Col. Barstow's consent, to procure his appointment as Brigadier General. It was suggested in the letter that enlistments were tardy, that the enforcement of the draft was unpopular, and that it was the policy of the Administration to attract the Democrats to the support of war measures, by showing that the favors, or, in other words, that military official commissions, were distributed without regard to partisanship, among the leading men of both political organizations. The letter conveyed an intimation that, when promoted to brigadier rank, he would be recalled to the State to superintend and stimulate recruiting. It was suggested that, as a basis of the application for his appointment, I should procure the certificate of army officers as to his capacity and fitness for the duties of a higher military position. I showed him the letter, but he declined to take any of the steps that it mentioned as the means of procuring the proposed promotion. He expressed the opinion, that, if the appointment was desirable for the public reasons stated, it would be procured by the State authorities at home, without any steps being taken by him or his friends in the field. Nothing further was ever heard of the proposition.

"During January and February of 1863, Col. Barstow remained at Fayetteville, Ark., suffering constantly from ill health. The army then moved back into Missouri, to be nearer the base of supplies. Col. Barstow accompanied the regiment as far north as Cassville, Mo. From there, in' February, probably, he proceeded to Kansas to inspect the detachments of his regiments in that section, hoping also to procure an order for them to join the main body in the field. This was his last service with the regiment. His health was considerably broken, and he was unable to perform field duty. He remained at Fort Leavenworth during the spring and following summer. He was then detailed on court-martial duty at department headquarters in St. Louis, and remained on detached duty of that character until the end of his term jof service.

He never fully recovered his health, but was constantly feeble, and often prostrate, during the remainder of his term of service. He was finally mustered out, and honorably discharged, March 4, 1865. By the assistance of influential friends, he then procured a trade permit from the Treasury Department, authorizing him to trade at any post on White or Arkansas Rivers. I learn that the day he received this permit, he was offered $20,000 for the commercial privileges which it covered, and for the use of his name. He refused the off'er, thinking it was as valuable to him as to anybody; having also arrangements on foot and capable backers for large stocks of goods to be put on sale at the various points named in the permit. He visited that country to select and establish trading-posts before sending the goods ; and, on his return to St. Louis, was met by the information that all restrictions upon trade on the Mississippi River and its tributaries had been removed. His permit was, therefore, of no more value than so much blank paper. He soon afterward proceeded to Leavenworth, where he remained during the summer and autumn. He was, while there, again prostrated with the disease which had become chronic in his bowels, and this illness proved fatal. It being fully established that he died of disease contracted in the service, an officer's pension was granted to his widow.

" He never shunned a duty because it was a painful one. While Provost Marshal General of Kansas, he was directed by the department commander. Gen. Blunt, to suppress the publication of a radical Democrat newspaper at Leavenworth, and he discharged the command promptly and without question. The publication of the paper was afterward undertaken by an old Wisconsin friend of Col. Barstow's, to whom such indiscretions were imputed that the same discipline was directed to be applied against him, and the order was enforced literally, and without delay.

" A more eloquent and elaborate tribute than this is due from me to William A. Barstow. During many years of arduous and embittered political warfare I was by his side, and in my^ profession it was frequently my duty as it was my pleasure to defend his character from partisan and personal assaults. I believe that he cherished for me a reciprocal regard, and our friendship was cemented in hardship and danger, and amid scenes of blood, to which we were called by common sentiment of patriotic duty. He fills a soldier's grave, for he as truly died in the cause of his country as if he had received a fatal wound in battle. And I shall never cease to cherish his memory, for his many manly virtues ; for his intrepid spirit, which was not disturbed either in the decisive emergencies of political conflict, or in more trying vicissitudes of peril and distress ; for the integrity with which he adhered to one set of principles and to one set of friends throughout his public career ; and as the foremost man, living or dead, in the Democracy of the State!"

During the war, German and Irish companies were raised throughout the State. In speaking of this feature of recruiting, a local paper, in August, 1862, paid the following tribute to John Hodgson:

"All, all, have received a cordial recognition at the hands of the military bureau except our English citizens. Yet, although they have been overlooked, we by no means think it has been intentional. It is an error of the head and not of the heart. Waukesha and adjoining counties have a large population of English-born citizens, than whom none bear deeper or raore loyal devotion to the institutions of our country. Among this number is John Hodgson. When a mere child, he left ];iis home in Old England, determined, much against the wishes of his family, to seek his fortune in the New World. He arrived in Detroit penniless, and without a friend or acquaintance. Passing along the street, his eye accidentally caught the sign of the Surveyor General of Michigan. Now, surveying was a business with which young Hodgson, even at that time, possessed good knowledge of - for his father was a surveyor, and the earliest inclinations of the son were trained in a similar channel. Walking into the office of the surveyor, the youth asked some kind of employment, which he fortunately obtained, and was duly installed in the family of his employer.. It was but a brief pei'iod before his employer discovered that he possessed rare talents as a surveyor. Thereupon, the library of the surveyor, and everything which could facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, were placed at the disposal of the young student. At sixteen years of age, young Hodgson was associated with the Surveyor General in business, having established a reputation for integrity, as well as mathematical correctness, which was of more value to him than mines of wealth. At twenty-one years of age, Mr. Hodgson had accumulated $5,000 as the fruits of his profession. He married the daughter of Capt. Blake, the gallant old veteran of the lakes, whose name, not many years ago, was as familiar along the lines of our great inland lakes as household words. Removing to Wisconsin, Mr. Hodgson, by a judicious investment of his means, added to the rise of real estate, soon became the possessor of a handsome property. His strict and honorable dealings and business qualifications attracted to him hosts of friends, and for. years he was Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Pewaukee. When Dennison Worthington resigned his seat in the State Senate, Mr. Hodgson was nominated and elected by acclamation to fill the unexpired term ; and it was only because of the peremptory refusal of Mr. H. to serve, that he was not unanimously re-elected to the same position.

" Governor Salomon ! the times are of startling moment in our history ; times too, when every man's physical and moral power is needed to drive back the hordes of despotism who are undermining the foundations of Government. We have called your attention to the representative man of the English-born in our State - and who in the county of Waukesha combines more influence than all the politicians and lawyers together. Gov^ Salomon, "cut red tape," send John Hodgson a colonel's commission, leave to him the officering of the regiment, and all other details, and in thirty days he will furnish a taousand hearts of oak to fight the battles of the Union. We know not as Mr. Hodgson ever thought of taking the field ; certain it is, that he never accepts any position of honor unless pressed upon him. But this we know, our English citizens constitute a large portion of our best population, and Mr. Hodgson is their representative man, and a true patriot. He needs no offices nor emoluments, for of wealth he has a sufficiency, and it requires not honors to be thrust upon him to enhance his popularity. A colonel's commission, therefore, to Mr. Hodgson, would not only be a recognition of a large class of citizens heretofore almost entirely ignored, but it would be a compliment to them which he, as a true patriot and lover of his adopted country, could not consistently refuse."

The above extract shows more the esteem in which John Hodgson was held in Waukesha County, and the influence he carried, than the details of his life. His father was the steward of a famous estate near Scarborough, England. On the death of his father, the oldest son, older than the subject of this sketch, succeeded to the position of steward, in which he naturally " put on some airs." He issued orders to young John at one time which were not obeyed, and thereupon proposed to inflict a flogging upon the brother, who resented being made a menial. John then went to his mother and declared he should leave England. Whatever could be said to prevent so young a lad, for he was only sixteen, from going alone into a strange country, was urged, but to no purpose. His mother therefore prepared him for the journey. John had always been a pet of the surveyors, and had thus acquired a complete knowledge of the business, and also of mathematics, in which science he was a prodigy. This surveyor, when his young friend was about to sail, packed a trunk, with such books as he thought would be most useful for him in the New World - among them the best works on surveying.

The young Englishman arrived in Detroit in 1827, and began at once to look over the country, his purse suffering the while, until nothing was left for his support but the chest of books. In this strait he began a search for work. Seeing a sign, " Gen. Lucius Lyon, Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory," he walked in and asked for Mr. Lyon. He had addressed that gentleman in person. This took away every particle of the penniless English lad's courage, and instead of talking about surveying, as he intended, he meekly inquired if a chore-boy was wanted. One was wanted - he must go up to Mrs. Lyon, who would engage him. He was engaged to milk, care for the horse, prepare the wood and do general work, although he knew nothing about such labors. His place was the kitchen. In that room no light was provided except such as the fireplace afforded. John, after his work was done, would start a blazing fire and lay down upon the hearth to peruse the books his old friend sent. Night after night for a month or two this programme was repeated, when, one evening. Gen. Lyon entered the kitchen and found him thus engaged. He walked up to John, reached for the book and took notice of its title. " What do you know about the contents of this book ? " he asked. John replied that he knew all about them. " Can you work this problem ? " queried the surveyor, John said he could. A slate was brought, and the chore-boy wrought out whatever proposition or problem was ofi"ered, and with such rapidity as showed a master mind. " Who are you?" demanded Mr. Lyon. "I am John Hodgson," said the lad. '-But what does this mean ? This is a rare work - the most elaborate ever published. Who are you ? How came you to know all about this book? Where are you from? " Thus the astonished official plied his young chore-boy with questions, finally learning his history. John was asked if he would like to go into the office. He would. Mrs. Lyon objected at first, saying he was the best chore-boy they ever had ; but her husband settled the matter by saying that John " knew more about surveying than he did himself." And John entered the office. After remaining two or three years with Gen. Lyon, Mr. Hodgson went to Cincinnati and entered the land office. There he worked by the piece. His - companions would always quit when they had earned $3 per day, which required from three to six hours, but he never left his work until he had earned $10, which required from twelve to sixteen hours per day. This ambitious industry characterized all his after life.

In 1834, Mr. Hodgson came to Wisconsin and surveyed until 1838, when he returned to Michigan for a brief period. In 1842, when he located on his farm in Pewaukee, he had entered nearly 9,000 acres of land. He entered the land on which Eagle and North Prairie stood ; a large portion of the site of Geneva, in Walworth County, where he built the first dam and saw-mill, and large tracts near Madison, in Dane County, as well as in various other localities. He thus became a very wealthy man by his own efibrts and good management.

In 1861, Joseph Bond was nominated for State Senator. A few days later, John Hodgson was nominated as his opponent, by the Republicans. As soon as Mr. Bond learned of this, he refused to make the canvass, and wrote Mr. Hodgson that he would support him ( Hodgson ) for Senator. Mr. Hodgson received all the votes cast, except about 200, in the county.

While mass meetings were being held to recruit for the Twenty-eighth Regiment during the war, Mr. Hodgson made a stirring speech, which will always be remembered by all who heard it, and which he closed with these words : " To the government of the United States I am indebted for protection, both to person and property, and I gladly yield whatever I have that is required to maintain that government."

From 18t)2 until his death, Mr. Hodgson was a member of the Board of Managers of the State Industrial School for Boys. He died at " Derwent Farm," his home in Pewaukee, December 22, 1869, aged fifty-seven, and the procession that followed his remains to their last restingplace was the largest one ever seen in Waukesha County.

The subject of this sketch was born in the village of Ames, Montgomery Co., N. Y., in the year 1819. After passing through his school days, a comparatively brief but successful period of his life, he read law, and was admitted to the bar at the age of nineteen. Soon after he emigrated to Wisconsin, locating at Prairieville, now Waukesha, in 1840. He commenced the practice of his profession and had a large share of business, which he managed with success.

He returned to Canajoharie, N. Y., in the summer of 1842, where he married Miss Mary C. Van Vechten, daughter of Herbertis and Susan Van Vechten. He returned in a few weeks with his bride to Waukesha, where they continued to reside The death of Mrs. Randall occurred in the fall of 1858. Mr. Randall continued to make Waukesha his home until 1865. Their only child died in 1852, in the ninth year of her age.

He devoted so much of his time to politics that it interfered considerably with his legal practice. Mr. Randall was originally a Democrat. He was always zealous in the cause he espoused, and a working member in the full sense of the term, of the party with which he acted. His first office was that of member of the First Constitutional Convention, in 1846. He took a prominent position in that body. In 1848, when the Free Soil movement was inaugurated, Mr. Randall was prominent in that movement. He did not, however, long harmonize with that party, but soon fell back into the ranks of the regular Democracy.