East Troy Town (part 2 of 2)

C. W. SMITH, of the firm of C. W. Smith & Co. . son of Sewall and Nancy Mansm- Smith, was born in Windsor Co,. Vt. . in 1834; came with his parents to East Troy in 1841; was educated in the school of the village, and the Lawrence University of Appleton. In 1858, he purchased the business of S. Smith & Son, and carried on the same until 1868. when he associated with his brother George H., since which time the firm has been C. W. Smith & Co. They now carry a stock of aud are therefoi'e doing a leading mercantile business. Mr. Smith is a Republican, but takes very little intei-est in politics, more than to ]ierform his duties as a citizen, as he has but once in his life permitted his name to go before the people as a candidate for office. He was mai-ried, at Fredonia, N. Y., in 18G2, to Miss Mary B. Edwards, daughter of P. S. and Julia Wliite Edwards. They now have four children living - Leonard S., Carrie J., Herbert C- and Mary L; Hattie Belle, deceased, died in July, 1881, aged 7 years.

EMERY THAYER, deceased, an old settler and a prominent man of East Troy, was born in Medway, Mass., Mai-ch 7, 1806, and spent his early days in Brookfield, N. Y. When 22 years of age, he removed to Saratoga Co., N. Y., where, and in adjoining sections, he continued in business for fifteen years. Failing to advance his fortunes in the East, in July, 1842, he embarked on the steamer " Indiana" for Detroit. There Mr. Thayer met Sewall Smith, an old and successful merchant of Walworth Co., who was on his way to New York to purchase gocjds. The unsuccessful, but plucky merchant, was induced to go to East Troy, where he purchased (he McCracken tavern property, Gaylord Graves drawing the necessary papers. The venture proved the turning-point in his fortunes. Mr. Thayer gathered so goodly a shai'eof this world's goods, and such a fund of esteem from the community, that he retired, in the spring of 1853, to his farm near the village, to live a life of contentment and peace. He, however, continued in the stock-raising business, and was active in organizing the Walworth County Agricultural Society. Mr. Thayer removed to Whitewater in 1870, where he died April 12, 1879. The services were conducted by Rev. B. D. Conkling, of the Congregational Church, and the remains were interred in Hillside Cemeteiy. ^

SIDNEY B. TULLAR, Justice of the Peace, one of the prominent men of East Troy, is a native of Vermont, born Aug, 22, 1814. While yet a small boy, he was taken by his parents into the State of New York, where he was brought up on a farm; received a common-school education. In 1835, he was mamed, at Hammond, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y, to Miss Ruth Bromaghim, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Carey Bromaghim, native of State of New York. Mr. TuUar then continued farming in said State until 1848, when he concluded to go West. He therefore removed his family to Wisconsin, aud first settled near Beloit, but, two years subsequently, he purchased property in East Troy, aud has since been a resident of the village. Here he served as Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk; also pursued farming until 1861, when he responded to his country's call by enlisting in Co. B, 16th W. V. I., and served uutil July, 1862, when he was discharged on account of physical debility. Retm-ning home, his health did not permit him to do much business for about two years, since which time he has spent most of his time (ioing town business, as he has been Justice of the Peace the entire time, and Assessor for twelve years. The childi-en living are C. B., Hattie E., Hobert A. and Dell S.

A. WILMER, firm of Wilmer Bros., dealers in general merchandise, son of Bernard and Elizabeth Wilmer. He was born in East Troy March 10, 1843; was educated at the village school, afso the public schools aud Spencerian College of Milwaukee. Subsequently, he taught school for several terms, and, in 1868, was married to Miss Mary A. Boyle, then of East Troy, but a native of Scotland. After marriage, Mr. Wilmer, in partnership with Theo Haller, engaged in mercantile business, which they continued under the firm name of Wilmer & Haller for about three years, when Mr. Wiluier sold his interest to A. E. Oviatte. In 1871, he erected the store he now occupies, associated his brother, Bernard, as partner, and has since been doing a general merchandise business under firm name of Wilmer Bros. , canying a stock of about $6,000. The children are Charley and Mary. Mi-. Wilmer is a Democrat, but takes nu interest more than to perform his duty as a citizen.

B. WILMER, Jr., merchant, firm of Wdmer Bros., son of Bernard and Elizabeth Wilmer, who were natives of Prussia and emigrated to the United States in 1837; was maiTied, at Boston, Mass., in 1840, and in the same year came to Wisconsin and settled in East Troy, and still resides on a farm on Sec. 34. Bernard, Jr., was born in July, 1845, received a common-school education and lived with his parents until 1871, since which time he has been a member of the firm of Wilmer Bros. He was married, in 1876, to Miss Eliza Boyle, then of East Troy, but a native of Cohoes, N. Y.; politics, Democratic.

Source changes here: from History of Walworth County, Wisconsin .., by Beckwith, Albert C. (Albert Clayton), published 1912; 3,980 words in this source stream.

East Troy Town

The town of Troy, as established in 1838, included two government townships. It was divided March 21, 1843, an(l lts eastern half, town 4 north, range 18 east, became East Troy. The town of Mukwonago lies next north and the town of Waterford is next east. The slightly uneven surface of this town is generally about eight hundred and twenty-five feet above sealevel. Honey creek comes into East Troy at section 18, crosses sections 29, 28, 21, 22, 23, 24, leaves the county to return to the southeast corner of section 36, and drains the eastern part of Spring Prairie. A branch comes nut of section 5 of Spring Prairie, winds across sections 32, 33, 28, 27, 26 and ends its course in section 2^. Potter's lake, sections to, 11, with connected ponds in sections 13, 14, discharge their little surplus into Honey creek at section 24.

The group of lakes now named Beulah lies in sections 4. 5, 8. <). 16, 17. 18. The outlet of these lakes finds its way through Mukwonago to Fox river. Lake Beulah station, Wisconsin Central Railway, in section 12. is a bit more than three miles from the namesake lakes, eighty-five miles from Chicago, and thirty-live miles (by rail) from Milwaukee. These lakes have long been known to local campers, boaters, fishers, and swimmers, - the latter favored by the irregular shore lines. At Hately's Hay (or Brooks Cove) on the upper lake, in section 17, the bottom drops away rapidly to the depth of sixtyseven feet within a lew rods of shore, and for more than a quarter-mile toward the Opposite shore the water is sixty or more feet deep. At other points on the lower lakes bottom is found at forty to fifty-four feet depth. A considerable part of the whole area, however, is but ten feet deep. The little companion lake, named Ainu or East Troy, about a half-mile eastward, in section id. is lint scant seventeen feet deep. A long, irregular island of about thirty-five acres in area is owned and lias been improved and supplied with convenient buildings by the 1 Tnivcrsity of St. Louis. About two hundred and fifty priests and students, escaping tin- discomforts of the city, find here a quiet and healthful summer vacation. There are also other non-resident owners of lakeside property.

First Settlers

The tirst actual settler in East Troy, Mr. Roberts, had sold a recently made claim in Troy when he came, in the spring of 1836, to the north bank of Honey creek, in section 29. near the site of the present village, and was soon joined by Asa Wood. They built a cabin and worked about a year to assemble materials for a saw-mill. Then Jacob Burgit came that way. bought their rights, and built the null, in another year he began to produce mill-stuff for framed houses in the village and elsewhere. Mr. Blood passed over to the town of Sugar (reek, and Mr. Roberts passed from the annals of the town and the county. In that first year of East Troy came also Cyrus Cass to section 2 1 . Daniel 1'. Griffin to section 20, Jacob Haller to section 35. Allen Harrington to section 21. Lyman llill to section 3. Austin Mc( racken to the village site 1 and in 1839 was licensed to keep a tavern), Oliver Rathburn to section 2. The next year brought Gorham Hunker. Jacob Burgit. Dr. William M. Gorham, Gaylord Graves, Benjamin and Elias H. Jennings, John A. Larkin, Henry Powers, Dr James Tripp, lames W. Vail, William Weed and Benjamin Whitcomb.

Not all who came in the first few years remained long enough to leave distincl trace in record or clear impression in memory. Lucius Mien, the I "liatin brother-. Stephen field. Wilder M . Howard, Martin Pollard and fohn F. I'otter were among the men of 1838; Seth Beckwith and S. Buel Edwards were of those of [839. Among notable arrivals were those of Dr, Daniel Allen. Capt. George Fox and Sewall Smith. Among the departures were that of Mary A 1 Spoor), wife of Lucius Mien. November is. 1838, for a better world; and that of Doctor Tripp for his new village of Whitewater. He built a saw-mill in [838 at the Beulah outlet, and soon found finer-.

Besides these the census of 1842 names, as heads of families: Brooks Bowman, Albert Breens, William Charm. Stillman Dewey, Hersey Estes, Delanson and Reuben Griffin, Lyman Harvey, Robert Hotchkiss, Roderick Kellogg, Samuel Kyburz, James S. Marcy, William Mead, Orrin Moffatt, Hiram Perry, Stillman Pollard, William Porter, Sarah Rose. Abel Sperry. Sylvanus Spoor, William Trumbull. Isaac Webber, Abel Ward Wright.

Homer and Seymour Brooks were sons of David and wife Catharine Simpson, of Ovid, Xew York. Homer, born in [819. is yet living in section 17. near the Beulah lake-group. In 1840 he married Almira, daughter of Jacob Burgit and Mary Gardner. Seymour Brooks 1 [82] 18112) married Sus-in i [826-1898), daughter of Peter Bulman. His farm was in section ;. near the foot of the lakes. Both oi these men were carlv and active in the improvemenl of live stock, anil their work praised them.

Cyrus Cass 1 [812-92) married Elizabeth B. Thomas 1 1825 [899). His farm, an almost lordlv domain, lay both sides of Honey creek, sections 21, 28. ( >f his children, Clarence W. died in service in the Third Cavalry, and Edwin I nomas is a lawver at Whitewater.

Joseph H. Edwards (1781-1853) and wife, Abigail Buel (1 790-1867), came about 1840 to section 15. Their son, Simon Buel ( 1815-1893), was born in Broome county. New York; married, first, Elizabeth Ann (1818- 1881), daughter of Isaac I". Wheeler, in 1838: moved to Whitewater in 1878. where he married again. He was a good tanner and a worker in and for the Count) Agricultural Society.

Chauncey Eggleston (1795-1848) was born in Connecticut. His wife, Chloe. was a daughter of Jonathan Coe. Their daughter, Charlotte Coe Eggleston. was born in 1827 and died in 1897.

Capt. George Fox ( 1 701- 1864) was a descendant of that John Fox whose tremendous work, in two or three folio volumes, entitled "Acts and Monuments of the Church." by powerful condensation became "Fox's Book of Martyrs." and was well read by eight or ten generations of pious men and women. Two daughters of Captain Fox were each in succession wife of Hon. John F. Potter.

James Fraser ( 1787- 1876) and wife Elizabeth (1782-1867) came from one of the Orkneys, and bought land in section 26. Of their children, Alexander. Charles and John were long active in town affairs, and Margaret became Mrs. Orlando Jennings.

Jacob Haller I 1809-1894), a native of canton of Aargau. Switzerland, came to America in 1833. and to section 35 of this town in 1838. His wife was Elizabeth I-".. 1 [813-1894). A daughter was wife of Hon. Frank Fraser.

Wilder Mack Howard (1821-1910), son of Joseph and Rosanna, was born at Andover, Vermont. He was apprenticed to John A. Larkin, a shoemaker and an early settler. His first wife. Electa L., daughter of Timothy and Sally Howard, died in 1878. I lis second wife was Elizabeth fountain. He was a soldier of Company F. First Heavy Artillery

Rev. Erastus Martin Kellogg (born 1815), a descendant in lit'tli generation from Deacon Samuel Kellogg ami Sarah Merrill, was apparently a non-resident investor. Roderick, hi- father'- third cousin, was horn in 170'' ami married Sally Taylor. Of two sons ami -i\ daughters, none are known to have remained in the county.

Frederick Kyburz (1809-1892) came from Switzerland. Hi- wife. Louisa (born 1822). was bom in Hanover. Daniel Kyburz, born in 1777 and living in i860, was probably his father and Mr-. Jacob Haller as probably hi- sister. This family lived in section 14.

Martin Pollard ( 1813-1895), son of Joseph Pollard and Martha Martin. married July 9, 1840, Rachel (1810-1895). daughter of William Powers and Susan Cooper, and settled in section 2. Rachel died March 29th and Martin followed April 1st. One funeral service committed them to the burial ground at Mukwonago.

The early settlers included several of the most capable and successful farmers and stock breeders of the county and the movement for organizing a county agricultural society began with men of East Troy and their relatives and neighbors of Troy. While the trade with Milwaukee was overland and sometimes difficult and tedious, the town's position gave an advantage, by a few blessed miles, over men of other towns. When placed between two railway lines, with little direct advantage from either, the East Trojans sat not on their plow-beams sadly, but made the best of their not wholly unhappy situation until the Wisconsin Central Railway Company made a station at Beulah and gave them a direct way to Chicago. This line passes from Honey Creek by sections 25, 24, 13, 12, 1, 2, leaving the town near Mukwonago, about six miles of its tracks within the town of East Troy. The electric line from Milwaukee passes by way of Mukwonago across sections 2, 3. 10. 9, 16, 20 to East Troy village.

Justices Of The Peace

There are five school districts wholly within the town, a joint district with Troy and one with Waterford. The postoffice at Lake Beulah, of the

Jacob Burgit and Austin McCracken laid out their village in 1847. on each side of the territorial road from Milwaukee to Janesville, making Main street of that part of the highway lying within village limits. Running from its eastern beginning nearly southwest by westerly (making an angle of $8y20 with the meridian line), this street makes an angle of 1570 at its Church street crossing and leaves the western limit at an angle of 8y2° with an east and west line. This one irregularity lends a slightly metropolitan aspect to the village plat, the other streets lying in the direction of section lines. The site was well chosen, affording short drainage lines, and the soil permitting dry cellars of any desired depth. Lots were sold on easiest terms to buyers, and as there were already a few dwellings and stores, the village had a healthy and hopeful infancy.

In the first period of railway building one line from the lake to the river parsed by ten miles northward and another about as far southward, and the Milwaukee & Beloit Company, in 1857. brought but delusive hope to villagers. Several years later a line from Chicago crossed the township five miles eastward, and the branch line from Elkhorn to Eagle is nearly as far westward. East Troy for more than forty years lay in a rail-less area. The village worked, hoped, waited, and respected itself, and at last rejoined the long lost world in 1907 by way of an electric line to Milwaukee. hi spite -1 this long want of railway connection the village was always fair in the eyes of visitors, and its quickened prosperity has added something to its earlier attractions.

William Burgit built a grist-mill in 1S44. near the village. In [848 he sold it to George M. Cousins, Peter A. Cramer and Gideon Garrett. The next year Mr. Cousins left tin- firm and the mill was sold hack to Mr. Burgit. from whom it passed in [853 to !K-in\ I:. Evans. I d vard II. Ball and [ohn W. Denison bought it at a sheriff's -ale in [862, in I sol 1 il in 1863 to Byron Brown. William I) Smith bought it in f866, Jonas IL ami William II. Fox in 1869, Charles F. Zartrow in 1870, Charles A. Schmidt in 1876. No further change of ownership is found in record. The mill is yet in operation for local custom.

Ten memhers constituted a Baptist society, Octoher 5, 1842. These were Elvira, Irene and William Duncan, Mrs. Elizaheth Ann (Wheeler) Edwards, Gaylord and Nancy Graves, Horace Smith. Eliza Sperry. Gilbert and Mary Waters. The line of pastors was Aha Burgess 1842, James Delaney 1845. Milo B. Tremain. James Squier, George W. Gates, Peter Conrad. Orra Martin ("temporary). Amos Weaver i860. Daniel Dye 1861, E. L. Scofield 1805. C. J. B. Jackson 1868. James Delaney 1869, W. A. Rupert [879-82, Wilbur W. Conner 1883. David P Phillips 1886. There were intervals, short and long', during which the pulpit was supplied from neighboring churches, or was vacant. Mr. Phillips died July 5, 1886, and hut occasional service was held until Rev. David L. Holbrook came on April 4. [898, and with that day closed the record of this once strong church, so reduced by deaths and removals. Soon after this the building became a hall for the Modern Woodmen. In 1905 the remaining memhers received formal letters of dismissal.

Before 1 848 Rev. Thomas Morrissey and others of the Catholic Faith came from Burlington, Lake Geneva, and Waterford to hold service at private houses. In that year Vicar-General Kundig ministered similarly, and after him Rev. Matthias Gernbauer. In 1854 a church was built at a cost of twelve hundred dollars. In 1855 Rev. Sebastian Seif became, for a few months, the first resident priest of St. Peter's. After him was Michael Haider 1855, Thomas Keenan 1857, James Stehle [859. Lawrence N. Kenne) r86o, George I.. Willard 1864. fohn Casey [866, A. Craves [868, 11. F. Pairbank [869, Thomas Bergen 1870. James Fitzgibbon [876, J. Eugene Mini 1N81, Hugo Victor 1884. John II. Keller 1887. John T. O'Lean [893, Charles Schmid [896, John Joseph Weinhoff in the same year and until now. Of these, the dates of birth and death are shown for Father Bergen 1844-79. Fitzgibbon [827-97, Haider [820-85, Keenan [829-80, Kcnncv 7836-70. Kundig [805-79, Willard [836-80. In 1870 a substantial church was built at eost id" sixteen thousand dollars, and a school house in [889 at cost of four thousand dollars. The somewhat variable membership is now about one hundred twenty families. St. Peter's cemetery, laid out at a well-chosen point in section 17. nearly two miles from the village, was for main- years the resting place of the Catholic dead id" other towns, even as far a\\a\ as Elkhorn.

Mrs. Mary (Gardner) Burgit, Elizabeth Chafin, Stillman and Caroline Dewey, Amasa, Arabv. and Clarissa A. Hotchkiss, William Trumbull, James W. and Rebecca A. Vail, William and Elizabeth Weed met at Mr. Yail's, June 22. 1839. to form a Presbyterian society. (Within two years Mr. Hotchkiss died and Miss Clarissa had become Mrs. Trumbull.) A church was built in 1849. '" [855 the society became Congregational, and in 1856 began to build a new church. This work was suspended from 1N57 to 1871 and finished in 1872. Its clergy list is: Lemuel Hall 1839, David A. Sherman 184L Cyrus E. Rosenkrans 1845. Charles Morgan 1852, Avelyn Sedgwick 1858, Miles Doolittle 1859. Charles Morgan 1X60. Hanford Fowle 1X74. Asher W. Curtis 1X7N, Josiah Beardsley iK8i . Augustus J. Hayner [888, George Mackey Whyte 1895, Thomas W. Harbour 1897. S. Wilbur Bloom 1 901. Joseph Herbert 1002. Walter C. Graf 1904, Albert E. Pauly (unordained) 190S. Isaac P>. Tracy 1910. A parsonage is part of the church property.

In 1874 fifteen families organized as St. John's Evangelical Lutheran society. In 1881 it was reorganized as St. Paul's and the society bought the old Congregational building. L'ntil 1894 the pulpit was supplied from the church at Elkhorn. In that year Rev. Gustav Schmidt became resident pastor, and was yet there in February, 1912. In 1903 a brick church was built at cost of eight thousand dollars, and a parsonage has been supplied.

Early in 1838 Rev. Salmon Stebbins held the quarterly meeting for the Aztalan mission at Daniel P. Griffin's house and there organized the Methodist society of East Troy, with the Griffin families. Benjamin Jennings. Mrs. Austin McCracken, John S. and Mariette (Bivins) Spoor as members. Mrs. Rebecca A. Vail and Mrs. Elizabeth Weed. Presbyterians, joined temporarily. A log house served for a meeting place until early in 1840 when a framed building took its place and for the next ten years was used more or less h\ other societies as well.

Mrs. Austin McCracken and Artemisia McLeod, her sister, Mrs. Rebecca A. Vail, and other pious women began their Sunday school work in 1838, with John S. Spoor as superintendent. Until the formation of church societies this work was non-sectarian.

Mrs. Vail opened a boarding school for girls at her house, in 1839, joining religious to secular instructions. She was excellently qualified for this work and she is said to have drawn pupils from as far away as Milwaukee. She was also a pioneer teacher at Geneva.

Louisa Augier (who in 1842 became Mrs. Charles Taylor) began as a public school teacher in 1839, for some years in the chapel building. A schoolhouse was built in 1846, and about 1854 a new one took its place. This, with extensions of house and grounds, is wrorthy of the village. The value of the school property, including four acres of ground, may be about fifteen thousand dollars. This school has for many years done good high school work, and it now employs seven teachers.

In 1839 S. Buel Edwards built his blacksmith shop opposite a corner of the park, so well framed and so large that with a little outward improvement and much inner alteration and adjustment it is now a sightly and convenient town hall and clerk's office, with an occasionally useful calaboose in its rear.

Oak Ridge, a scant mile from the village, became in 1876 the care of an organized cemetery association. It is well laid out and kept in order, and has become the resting place of Hon. John F. Potter and most of his family, and of many another early settler. St. Peter's lies little more than a half-mile away.

Francis 1). Craig began in August, 1N70. to publish the East Troy Gazette, sold it about a year later, bought it again in 1S81 and discontinued it about 1882. He also published monthly the American Merino in the interest of sheep breeders of East Troy, Caldwell's Prairie, and adjacent towns of three counties. In [885 and 1886 Wilbur ( \. Weeks published experimentally an Easl Tro) edition of the Delavan Republican, named the Star, with Simeon i\. Graves and Washington S. Keats in turn as local editors. In [893 Samuel K. \dams published the East Tray \'c;cs and sold it in [896 to Oscar R. Kurzrok, who has made it permanent. I lis equipment, which includes ;i power-presS) is modern and good, and his newspaper and his job work prove him a real printer. Politically the Nezvs is independent, but is not a "common scold."

Village Organization

At a special election, May 26, 1900, by a vote of one hundred and five to fifty-three, the village decided to organize its government agreeable to the general statutes. Officers were chosen June 23d : Trustees, Richard Brownlee, Alva Lumsden, Owen H. Marshall. Anthony Noblet, Charles \V. Smith, Oscar F. Winne ; marshal, Edwin R. Hicks; street commissioner, Nathan J. Randolph ; health officer. Dr. Orlo S. Canright.

Members of county board of supervisors : Washington S. Keats 1900, Adam C. Deist 1901-2, Lawrence Clancy 1903. Charles H. Zinn 1904-7. Lawrence Clancy 1908-12.

It is told that the first postoftice in the township was established in 1839, at the house of Henry Powers, in section 3, with John F. Potter as postmaster. In 1S41 the office was transferred to Sewall Smith"s store, at the village. About 1844 it was discontinued for a short time and restored, still under Air. Smith. Edward H. Ball was appointed in 1848. John D. Hawes [853, Thomas Russell about 1854, Mr. Smith again in 1861. Henry B. Clark [866, Joseph W. Church i860. Perry O. Griste in the same year, Rudolph Haber nicht 1894, Mr. Griste [898, Edwin R. Hicks 1902, Benjamin F. Schwartz [911. October 1, njir. this postoffice was passed from the fourth to the third class, and the postmaster's -alary became eleven hundred dollars.

Public Houses

Austin McCracken built his 1<>" house in [836 and made it serviceable as an inn. Emery Thayer bought the place in [842 and in [845 built a house of two stories on the same site, and this is yet a pari of the Easl Troy I louse Other owners have been Timothy Mower 1855, Loren J. Edwards [856, S. Buel Edwards [862, Orson B. Morse [864, Henr) B. I lark- [868. In [872

Mr. Clark's son-in-law, Harold H. Rogers, became his partner and at his death, in 1875. Mr. Rogers was his successor. Later proprietors have been Oscar B. Rogers. J. Frank Brooks, and E. Louis Brooks, who now sits at the receipt of custom. Besides these are remembered, with very uncertain dates, as tenants if not owners, Austin Wright, Seymour Brooks, William Hare. Joseph H. Edwards, Alansori Beckwith, Charles W. Smith, and James F. Jude. Clark & Rogers bought an old church and joined it to the hotel. Thus, the East Troy House is a two-fold relic of the village infancy.

Samuel Bradley built a cobble-stone house of three stories, between 1846 and [849, named it the Buena Vista House, and occupied it for a few years. This property has changed ownership several times. Among its owners and occupants have been Daniel J. Kees about i860, Richard Hotton. lames H. Hall. Wright J. Larkin, and Messrs. Primmer. Justin and Churchill severally. It is now no lunger used as a public house.

Business Items

Sewall Smith built a store and displayed a stock of goods in 1841. Austin Wright began competition in 1842. and within a short time Cyril L. Oatman and ex-Sheriff Mallory. from Geneva, combined these two enterprises. Other early general dealers distinctly known were Alonzo Piatt (once of Elkhorn), Henry 11. Austin with John 1). Dorrance. and Joseph R. Stone with variable partnerships, as Peter S. Markham, Hiram J. Cowles, and Joseph H. Hurlbut. Later dealers have been Jonathan Bailey. E. K. Barker, Adam C. Deist, Perry O. Criste. Wilder M. Howard, George and William Meadows, Charles W. Smith, llobart A. Tullar, August and Bernhardt Wilmer.

Ilenn II. Austin, |uhn P. Chafin, William T. Donaldson, Alexander and Frank L. Fraser, Perry 0. Griste, Walter C. Hatch. Harold H. Rogers, Charles W. and George II. Smith organized the State Bank of East Troy, November 10. [892, and began business on the following New Year's day, with Rogers as president, Griste vice-president, Chafin cashier. Mr. Rogers died March 23, [897, and in December Mr. Griste became president and George Meadows vice-president. Edward B. Rohleder was then chosen assistant cashier. In September, H|ii. Mr. Griste retired from the bank and Mr. Chafin became president. Mr. Rohleder vice-president (and assistant cashier), ami Henry E. Henry, from Kew askum. cashier. The capital of this bank is thirty thousand dollars.

and John B. Crosswaite, Albert Jude, James F. Jude (president), Dr. Timothy J. O'Leary (vice-president), .Matthew J. Powers (cashier), Frank J. Rice, Charles Taft, and Valentine Zimmerman, and named Leonard Martin as assistant cashier. In February, 1912, workmen were laying the deep concrete foundation walls of a new building for this bank.

Friday. December 13, 1907, the villagers saw the arrival from and return to Milwaukee of electric cars, and themselves restored to easy and frequent connection with that greater world which their parents and grandparents had left seventy years before.

A village system of water-works began in 1908 to afford reasonable protection from fires, and bonds were issued to the amount of thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. A well was bored six hundred ninety-one feet in depth, reaching water enough for present use, at the least; and pumping works with steel tower and tank provided. The water rises in the well within about twenty-one feet of the surface. The drill passed through ninety-two feet of drift, three feet of limestone, and thirty-six feet into St. Peter's sandstone. In 1 910 the population was 673.