Eden Town

Eden Town

In a southeasterly direction from Fond du Lac, bounded on the north by Empire, east by Osceola, south by Ashford and west by Byron, lies the town of Eden - named after the habitation of our first parents. Two ridges of limestone, suitable for building material, extend north and south through the town. Otherwise the surface is gently undulating, and was originally composed of prairies, wide hay mirshes, rather small oak openings and limited belts of heavy timber. In early days, wild plums, cranberries, grapes and crab-apples grew in abundance and were unusually large and edible. The highest point of land in Fond du Lac County is said to be on Section 16 in this town, being 352 feet above Lake Winnebago and about five hundred feet above Lake Michigan. There are several large springs in Eden, and several lakes, in which fish and waterfowl, in season, are abundant. The soil is not alike in all sections, but is generally of a deep, rich loam, with a subsoil of limestone gravel. Farmers can follow almost any branch of agriculture with equal and satisfactory success. The town is well watered by springs, lakes, the West Branch of Milwaukee River, and other small streams, some of which flow north and some south. The lake in which the branch of Milwaukee River takes its rise, flowing nearly south, has another outlet on the north, which flows into Lake Winnebago : and streams in the south part find their way into the Gulf of Mexico, through Rock and Mississippi Rivers.

The mounds, pottery, earthenware and various peculiar articles found in this town, make itj a peculiarly rich and interesting field for the archteologist. These i-elics of an ancient and extinct race have been found in no other town in this vicinity in such profusion and variety.

Joseph Carr is generally conceded to be the first permanent settler in what is now Eden, though he did not enter the first land. In November, 1845, he began building a log house, which was the foundation for the first settlement in the town. In February following, Samuel Rand and Peter Vandervoort came with their families, and immediately put up log houses. The first crops were raised in 1847, and they were of such abundance as to exceed the most sanguine expectations of the hopeful settlers. That fall, settlers began to arrive rapidly, or select locations on which to locate in the spring. Therefore, in April. 1848, by authority of an act passed March 11, 1848, a meeting was held at the house of Peter Vandervoort and town officers chosen. Peter Vandervoort was chosen Chairman, and Samuel Rand Town Clerk. The year before, or some time before, a meeting was held to name the town. The proceedings are thus recorded: "Adam Holiday, an eccentric character, arose to propose a name. After commenting on the many beauties of the place, the richness of the soil, the abundance of fruits and flowers, and the beautiful woods and fields, he remarked that Adam dwelt in the garden of Eden, and that there were holy days there." Therefore, amid some merriment, the town was named Eden.

The first child born in the town was a daughter of Adam Holiday, in 1847. The first boy born in the town, who also voted in it, was John L. Martin, now of Fond du Lac. The first religious service was at Peter Vandervoort's house, in August, 184(3, by Rev. Dickinson. Mr. Vandervoort began preaching the same year. The first marriage ceremony was that uniting Margaret Bell to a Mr. Baldwin, in 1848, and was performed by Rev. M. L. Noble. The town of Eden is settled largely by a fine class of Irish in the south, though Dutchess County New Yorkers, Germans and some New Englanders form important elements in the population. In 1850, there were two pretty thoroughly ventilated log schoolhouses in Eden - now there are seven good school buildings in good repair. The Air Line Railroad crosses the town, and maintains a station called Eden, on the southwest quarter of Section 8. There are some good stone quarries and limekilns in Eden, and on Section 17 is a large spring, in which one branch of the Milwaukee River takes its rise, while from Twin Lakes, on the line between Sections 9 and 16, flows a stream into Lake Winnebago.

Edkn ViLLAiiE. - Prior to 1873, there was no village at Eden. The Air Line Railroad gave it birth. The land, owned by L. Batterson, was platted when that road was built, and the first lot sold to A. Edelman, who built the first store. The second purchase was made by M. Altenhofen, who built a store. The large steam elevator was erected by Mr. Batterson. The first wheat shipped from the station was by Isaac Advance. The hotel was built by John Botzem, its proprietor. The post office was established by Peter Vandervoort in 1850. He kept it in his house, near by, until 1872, when he resigned. T. Ilardgrove is the present Postmaster. In addition to three stores and the various shops, Eden has a thriving cheese factory.

St. James' Catholic Church first held services in a log house built in 1849, on the line of Section 29, by Josepli Lawler, C. Mangan, E. Mclnroe, P. Ryan, T. Ward, T. McGinty and others. This was used until 1865, when Rev. J. McGowan built the present structure. The first mass said to this congregation, which now numbers 120 families, was by Rev. Ehrle. Father M. O'Brien, the Pastor, has charge also of St. .John's Mission, in Byron.

Eldorado - Township 16 north, of Range 16 east, bounded on the north by Nekimi (Winne" bago County), east by Friendship, south, by Lamartine and west by Rosendale - was named, in all probabilitjs by John 0. Ilenning, now of Hudson, editor of the first paper in Fond du Lac County. It surface is considerably but gently undulating, and contains less prairie than most of the other towns in the vicinity. It has considerable heavy timber, some oak openings and several marshes; one, called Eldorado Marsh, being of considerable size. From them an immense quantity of wild hay is cut, while some portions have been seeded to tame hay and make productive meadows.

The first settlers were Moses S. Barnett, Theodore R. Sheldon, William Hall and others, who located within its borders early in 1846. It was a large town at first; an act approved March 11, 1848, making what is now Eldorado and Friendship a separate town called Eldorado. The first town meeting was held in April, 1848, at the house of Cyrus Parks, at which M. S. Barnett was chosen Chairman, and James Cowhan, Town Clerk. Another act, passed February 1, 1849, divided the original town into the present towns of Eldorado and Friendship, the first election being held in April, 1849, at the house of William C. W.-dcott.

Eldorado is well wooded, the sale of cord-wood, stave-holts and materials for hard-wood work being an important item with its inhabitants. It is also well watered, has a good soil of loam (except the marshes) and in some parts is well adapted to sheep raising, which is profitably followed. No license for the sale of intoxicating drinks was ever granted in Eldorado, and never but once did the town give a Republican majority on a State or national question. The first school was taught by John F. Steele in the north portion of the town. Now there are six schoolhouses within its limits, in which there is a good attendance. There are also three church buildings, on Sections 18, 15 and 26, the first being built about ISGO. The Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Railway, which maintains a depot near Eldorado Mills, passes through the extreme southwest corner of the town. The West Branch of the Fond du Lac River flows through the southern portion of the town, affording water-power at Eldorado Mills, where Scribner's large flouring mill is in operation. This stream, in an early day, also turned M. 8. Barnett's mill, built in 1846, and the first of any kind in the town.

The inhabitants of Eldorado are largely Irish-Americans, though a good sprinkling of Germans and Americans is found. The records being burned, only the following Chairmen and Town Clerks can be presented:

The first to make a location in Eldorado was Harvey Anderson, in the fall of 1845. In May, 1846, Moses S. Barnett, now of Neenah, Wis., made a permanent settlement.

The first post oSice was established in the spring of 1848, by Necoli Jorgensen, called Bothelle. Not fir from this time, John 0. Henning was postmaster on the east side of the marsh, and some think his commission was received before Jorgensen's.

Stephen Claggett, Alex. Cronk, and Thomas and James Merchant settled in the town in 1846, after the first settlement. In 1847, Cyrus and Joseph Pasco, John and Robert Cowhan, John Claggett, John F. Steele, William Dilts, M. Duel, Isaac Claggett, John Adams, David Austin, E. and William Williams, A. R. Wilber, Nelson Phillips, A. M. Donelly, H. Dilts and perhaps others.

V. G. AVERIfjL, farmer and shoemaker, Eden; born in Plattsburg, N. Y., June 7, 1829; spent his early life, was educated and learned his trade in his native county ; is a son of Stephen and Susan (Moore) Averill ; Stephen Averill was born in Connecticut,, his parents removing to Plattsburg when he was 2 years of age ; he grew fo bo a man of unusual energy and business talent ; carried on an extensive boot, shoe and leather business in Plattsburg for sixty years; at one time owned two tanneries; was despoiled ot over Sl.OltO worth of leather by the British in 1814 ; died at 91, outliving his wife by many years. In 1850, V. G. Averill removed to Cleveland, Ohio, with his ftimily ; in 1849, opened a shop on St. Clair street, where he did business until 1855, when he removed to Wisconsin and to Eden; bought his farm of 61 acres, on which he resided until August, 187(5, when he removed and began business in Eden Village. Married Mi.ss Margaret Dupys, of Clinton Co., N. Y., 1847 ; they have seven children - Rosanna C.^ Sarah J., Verannus, Alfred, Leonard C, Jasper S. and Maybell M. Mr. Averil! manufactures and sells everything in the line of boots and shoes for both sexes, having a combined shop and store. He is a Democrat, and favors the sreenback.

GEORGE C. BAGIiiEY, of D. S. Bagley & Sons, grain and produce dealers ; P. O. Eden ; born in Coos Co., N. H., March 1, 1851 ; son of D. S. Bagley, who located with his family in Milwaukee, 1856; he engaged first in forming, then in milling; during 1872, Mr. Bagley, Sr., located five warehouses at as many different points on the Wisconsin Central Eailroad, making his home in Plymouth ; Qeorge C. went into the mines of Colorado at this time, remaining four years ; on his return he joined his father and brother, H. F., thus constituting the present firm, which owns seven warehouses and elevators, viz., Eden, New Cassel, Plymouth, Random Lake, Chilton, New Holstein. and Saukville; they buy from 300,000 to 500,000 bushels of grain per annum, and deal extensively in wool, seeds, etc.; amount of business done preceding year, $500,000 ; George C. located at P]den in 1877 ; he has the best-equipped steam elevator on his road, built with a capacity of 12,000 bushels; he also controls the New Cassel warehouse, and is alive young business man, and is a hard-money Democrat. He married Miss Cornelia Dudley in 1876 ; they have one son, Dudley S.. born Oct. 11, 1876.

JLUCIUS A. BATTERSON, former. Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Eden ; born in Medina Co., Ohio, Aug. 12, 1830, son of Lewis and Nancy B., who came from Ohio to Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1847, settling on wild land in Eden, 1848 ; bought 320 acres ou Sees. 33 and 29 heavily timbered with white and red oak. maple, ash, basswood, etc.; Lewis Batterson died soon after, but his family did the work of pioneers, and saw all the experiences of the new settlers ; Lucius Batterson lived on the homestead until August, 1862, whtn he enlisted in the 32d W. V. I.; was with his regiment in pursuit of Forrest in Mississippi and Tennessee; he was also in Alabama and Georgia; was stricken with chills and fever in Memphis, and came home on a six-months furlough ; he rejoined the regiment at Atlanta September, 1864, going with Gen. Sherman on the famous march to the sea ; at Buford, S. C, he was again attacked with his old malady, and was for a time in a New York City hospital ; then transferred to Prairie du Chien and honorably discharged in May, 1865. He spent the summer with his mother; then bought his present farm of 80 acres ; built an elegant residence in 1868, where he lives with his aged mother, who retains her faculties at 84; she is a daughter of A. Derthick ; was born in Chatham, Conn., and married Mr. Batterson in 1813, in his native State, going from there to Ohio. Her son's farm was a part of the Vandevoort homestead, and about 15 acres is in the villa<_'e plat of Eden. Mr. Batterson is an Independent Republican.

JACOB BAOIHART, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Eden ; born in Rhenish Prussia in 1828; was educated iu his native land, and served three years in the Prussian Infantry Guards ; came to America in 1854; spent a year in Ohio; then came to Fonddu Lac Co.; worked about three years for S. Silvester. Married Miss Elizabeth Brem. a native of Switzerland, in 1858, and settled the same year on 40 acres, now owned by his brother ; after selling this he bought 80 acres of his present farm, on which was a good barn and a log house. Mr. Baumhart now owns 155 acres, well improved, and has built a. pleasant home. This is a good record for a man who reached Fond du Lac Co. with §3 in money, and who worked out the first summer at $10 per month, having only good health and good pluck to begin with. Mr. and Mrs. Baumhart have six children - Charles, Samuel, Frederick, Matilda, Carolina and Amelia. The family are Evangelical Lutherans ; Mr. Baumhart is a good farmer and citizen, voting for men instead of party.

MONMOUTH BRIGGS, former. See. 4; P.O. Eden; born in Scranton,_Penn., Feb. 20, 1827 ; spent his early life and was educated inhis native town ; coming to Wisconsin, 1850 ; locating for a time in Empire ; in 1851, he bought his farm of a Mr. Cogswell ; about thirty acres of this was broken and the remaining fifty timbered openings. Mrs. Briggs was Miss Charlotte Berry, a native of Putnam Co., N. Y. ; she was educated in Peekskill and came to Wisconsin and Empire in 1849 ; they were married April 5, 1851, and at once began farm life, living in what was then called the "Old Abbey," a most picturesque log house, well built and partitioned, and ornamented with rustic porches, seats, lattice-work, etc., to complete the picture it was overrun with ivy, honeysuckle and bittersweet ; this cozy home burned 1857 or 1858, and was replaced by the present substantial and elegant farmhouse. Mr. Briggs and wife worked hard, added forty acres to the farm, and have all necessary barns, stock, implements, etc ; the farm and vicinity lie higher than the surrounding country, yet it has near the farm a never-failing and neverfreezing spring ; Mr. B. also has two wells, each about twenty feet in depth, though many-almo.st adjoining farmers have to dig at least fifty feet fur water ; having a pleasant home, they now recall the toilsome days of yore with pleasure ; they have three children - Albert L., Eugene T. and Frank, having lost a daughter, Lottie. Mr. Briggs is a Rejiublican and has been Supervisor ; his wife is a member of the M. E. Church. As a stock-raiser Mr. Brings lias shorthorn cattle, Merino sheep and other stock.

WILLIAM BKIR]VE, farmer. Sec. 13 ; P. O. Eden ; born in the town of Underbill, Chittenden Co., Vt., June 7, 1848 ; son of Joseph and Mary Beirne ; William was educated in the Underbill Academy, living on the farm of his parents, and, in 18(34, coming with them to Eden; his father bought his farm . f L, J. Harvey, an early settler, who built a most pleasant residence, inclosing it with a double row of different kinds of evergreens, he at the time owning a nursery in New Jersey; this makes the home of Mr. Beirne among the most attractive in the county ; Joseph Beirne died June 29, 1865, his only son has since owned the homestead of 160 acres. He married Mi.ss Alice, a daughter of John O'Brien, who came from Massachusetts to Osceola in 1858 ; Mrs. Beirne was born, educated and married in Osceola ; they have two children - Joseph and John. Mr. Beirne is a Greenback Democrat, and a member, with his wife, of the Koman Catholic Church.

THOMAS farmer. Sees. 10 and 11; P. 0. Eden; born in the town of Underbill, Chittenden Co., Vt., Sept. 17, 1848; he was a farmer's son and was educated in Underbill Academy ; beL'an teaching in his native State, and has taught twelve terms in Wisconsin ; he spent three years in Eastern New York, and came to Wisconsin in 1869, buying his farm of 118 acres. He married Miss Margaret Rooney in April, 1872 ; she was born in County Clare, Ireland, and came to America and to Eden, 1866 ; they have four children - James M., Rosanna, M. Agnes and Thomas P. Mr. and Mrs. Cale are Roman Catholics. He is an enterprising young farmer, devoting his farm to both grain and stock. Politics, Greenbacker.

HARVEY J. CARTER, farmer. Sec. 35; P. O. Campbellsport ; born in Crawford Co., Penn., March 8, 1817. Arriving at the age of 20, he married and removed to Illinois; in October, 1839, he drove an ox team to Milwaukee, and at once made a "squatter's claim " in that county; here the young couple saw all they wished of frontier life, living on a scant supply of milk and corn-meal, the corn pounded fine in a log hollowed out for the purpose ; knowing that he must have an ox to clear a piece for his first wheat, he tramped to the tlien village and applied to Hal Ludington, then a hardware merchant, afterward Governor of Wisconsin ; he told Mr. L. that he was penniless, but that he would pay with the first money the ox earned ; Mr. L. refused this, though Mr. Carter found a friend and got an ox, and Mr. Ludington lost a customer; Mr, Carter cleared the land and sowed the wheat, and though his nearest mill was Watertown, and his wife and child were often on a starvation diet, his first wheat crop marked the beginning of a brighter era;, on June, 1847, settled on his present farm, and was the first settler in the south half of Eden ; the farm and country around him was a wilderness ; he built a good log house and resumed his pioneer work, al.so helping to lay out all the roads in his vicinity. Mr. C. improved a large farm, has sold 120 acres, and now has eighty and a good home ; his wife, a most faithful helpmeet, was Miss Sarah Cole ; she died in 1851, leaving three children - Miles, Mary J. and Emma. He married again Miss Margeret Mullen; they have six -children - Helen E., Clara S., Delilah N., Sarah L., George H. and Harriet R. Mr. Carter is a Democratic Greenbacker; was Supervisor several years, also Assessor; is a member, with his family, of the Roman Catholic Church.

THOMAS COLEMAN, farmer. Sec. 26 ; P. 0. Eden ; born in County Louth, Ireland, March 10, 1832 ; his parents were farmers, he being educated in his native county; came to America, locating at Vienna, N. Y., where he worked at malting; in February, 1853, he came to Milwaukee and remained until May, then located at Oshkosh ; here he was in the lumber traffic ; settled on his farm in May, 1862, and has improved it in many ways - built an elegant farm residence, other farm buildings, and has all necessary stock, implements, etc. He married, Nov. 23, 1857, in Oshkosh, Miss Ann Murphy, who was born in his native county, coming to America in 1848, and to Wisconsin in 1854 ; they have two children - Thomas A. and Mary A. Mr. Coleman is a Democrat, and, with his family, a Roman Catholic. He has been President of the Ashford Town Insurance Company for five years, and is now serving his fifth term of Town Clerk.

CjiEORGE W. DEWNISTON, carpenter and wheelwright. Sec. 10; P. 0. Eden ; born in Reading, Penn., Sept. 15, 1824 ; spent his early life in Orange Co., N. Y., where he learned his trades of his father, Joseph Denniston, who came with his family to Eden in 1848 ; G. W. Denniston settled on his present location in 1865 ; was made Postmaster of Foster in 1874, resigning in 1879, when the ofiice was removed to Eden. Married, in Eden in 1857, Miss Margaret Mclntyre ; they have four living children - Alice I., Emma L., Anna M. and Florence K. ; have lost two children. Mr. D. is a Republican, and has been Justice of the Peace ; the family are Methodists. He bought a farm on See. 11 of the Government, cleared it and exchanged it fof one on Sec. 15 ; his services as carpenter were in such request that, in 1865, he sold his farm and bought his location of twelve acres, where he has a pleasant home. Mr. D. is the inventor of a double, adjustable land-roller, which gives the best of satisfaction to those using them ; he has applied for a patent, and will manufacture about thirty the coming season.

J. H. DEXXISTOX, farmer, Sec. 35 ; P. 0. Campbellsport ; born in Orange Co., N. Y., Oct. 14, 1826 ; he spent his early life and was educated in his native county ; in 1849, he accompanied his parents, Joseph and Mary D., to the town of Eden ; Joseph Denniston was a mechanic, though he at once bought Government land on Sees. 1 and 1 1 ; this he soon exchanged for a partly improved farm on Sees. 14 and 15; J. H. Denniston lived here until 1863, when he bought eighty acres on Sec. It) ; in 1873, he sold this and bought property in New Cassel, where he lived over two years, at the time owning a farm north of the village ; in April, 1876, he settled on his present farm of sixty acres ; this is » well improved, and on it is a large and handsome farm residence, built by Edmund L. Peck. Mr. Denniston married, Feb. 25, 1857, Miss Anna J., daughter of Joshua and Ellen Morehouse ; she was born in Canada, her parents removing to Clayton, Jefferson Co., N. Y., when she was a babe; the family settled on a farm in Byron in 1849; Mr. and Mrs. D. have five children - Ella M., Warren C, Carrie B., Harry J. and Mabel A. Mr. Denniston is a stanch Republican, and a successful farmer, having all needed buildings, implements, stock, etc.

WILLIAM DIISEIVBERY, farmer. Sec. 4 ; P.O. Fond du Lac ; born in the town of Harrison (Harrison's Purchase), Westchester Co., N. Y., Oct. 6, 1817 ; was educated in his native town, living on the farm until he was 18, when he went to New l^ork City, remaining one and one-half years ; after his marriage, he was made overseer of a large farm in Pelham for nine years ; in 1852, he removed with his family to Eden and bought 160 acres (sold 80 in 1869); the land was almost as the hand of nature left it, though a log house had been built; Mr. Dusenbery has improved the farm, built a large, handsome residence, good barn, etc., and has all the belongings to a first-class farm. He married Miss Harriet Bouton June 27, 1839, who died Dec. 31, 1866, leaving seven children - Phebe A. (deceased), William A., George E., Electa, Matilda, Harriet and Rebecca; Feb. 1, 1870, he married Mrs. Clarissa Shays, daughter of Gains Alexander; she was born in Lewis Co., N. Y., where she married Elisha Shaj's ; they lost two children, and he died in the same county. Mr. Dusenbery was the founder and is a leading member of the Empire M. E. Church ; was its Sunday-school Superintendent fourteen years ; he was also one of the original Stewards and Trustees, still holding both positions ; he is a Demoocrat, and is serving his sixth term as Supervisor.

CHRISTOPHER FLOOD, former. Sec. 19 ; P. 0. Eden; born in County Meath, Ireland, on the historic " Hill of Tara ; " he oame with his parents to America in 1843, remaining in Hoosic, N. J., until March, 1848, when he came to Eden and bought his farm ; Messrs. Ward, McGinty and Odekirk were his neighbors ; no road in the town, but a track ran north of the side of his house ; he was joined by his parents, brothers and sisters the next summer, they living first in a shanty, then in a log house ; with a yoke of cattle they used to go twenty-one miles to Mayville to mill, and did good pioneer work chopping, logging and burning the timber. Feb. 22, 1857, he married Miss Catherine, a daughter of James Lynch, who came from County Cavan to America with a family, settling in Dutchess Co., N. Y., where Mrs. F. was born; the family settled in Wisconsin in 1848; Mr. and Mrs. Flood have ten children - James T., Peter F., Thomas, Mary A., Catherine J., Christopher J., John N., Amelia R., Mathias P. and Michael H. The old couple died on the homestead, now containing 130 acres ; on this is an excellent living spring, several good barns, and the largest frame house in Eden, built in 1878 ; the upright is 18x26, wing 18x24, woodhouse and kitchen 16x26 feet ; this is a well-built and handsome residence ; Mr. F. has all needed tools and stock, and is one of the successful pioneers of Eden. With his family, he is a Roman Catholic, and an Independent Democrat in politics. He is a good citizen, and was public spirited enough to give the land on which the district schoolhouse was built.

PETER FLOOD, farmer, Sec. 29 ; P. 0. Eden ; born in County Meath, Ireland, Nov. 19, 1838; .son of Jarae.s and Rose Flood, who emigrated to America in 1841, locating in Hoosic, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., whore they lived until 1848, when they came to Wisconsin and bought Government land, now owned bj' C. Flood; Peter Flood attended the local schools, and, at the age of 17, began teaching; taught nine winter terms in Eden, two in Ashford and two in Sheboygan Co.; in 1861, he settled on his farm of ninety acres, then heavily timbered land, destitute of buildings; as a result of sturdy work with his ax, it is now cleared and improved ; he has also built a large and tasty residence and basement barn, having all needed implements and stock. Married Miss Ann, daughter of George Lloyd ; she was a native of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and settled with her parents in Byron in 1850, marrying Mr. F. in 1864 ; they have five children - George H., James E , Annie, Rose and Peter A. The Floods bought a heavily timbered slice of Uncle Sam's domain, when they had but three neighbors ; built a trough-covered " wigwam," and began pioneer life; the milling was done at Mayville with ox teams; the old couple ended their lives in a pleasant home, won by pluck and enterprise. James Flood was a carpenter, and did the in.side work on the first Roman Catholic church ever built in Eden ; it was built of logs, on the south line of Sec. 29, and served well up to the time of the building of St. James' Church in lSti5. Peter F. is a Greenbaeker, and was twice Supervisor of Eden ; is, with his wife, a Roman Catholic.

PETER HERATY, farmer. See. 17; P. 0. Eden; born in County Mayo, Ireland, Nov. 18, 1839 ; son of James and Bridget H., who emigrated to America in 1847, living two years in Oswego Co., N. Y., then settling on Sec. 5, town of Mitchell, Sheboygan Co., Wis.; they bought eighty acres of heavy timber, crossed by Indian trails and Indians also; built a log shanty, roofed with log "shakes;" having paid their all for the land, they, for three long years, dug the land with a grub hoe ; all meat was obtained of the Indians, the family faring hard and working harder; in 1851 or 1852, they raised a crop of potatoes, and, as the market was good, sold enough to get a yoke of cattle. Peter, the eldest son, did his share of this work, the result of which is the well-improved homestead of 240 acres, a large basement barn, etc. On the 7th of January, 1874, he married in Osceola Miss Ellen, daughter of Daniel and Mary Sullivan ; for their wedding trip, they came to their present farm the next day ; this contains 2UU acres, and, with the large and pleasantly located residence upon it, was earned on the Sheboygan Co. farm by men who were not afraid to dig the new, rooty soil of Wisconsin with a grub hoe. Mr. Heraty received a common-school education and has taught eight terms, his wife having beaten him by one ; they have one son - James, born Oct. 20, 1874. Religion, Roman Catholic. Mr H. has served as Town Treasurer and three times as Town Clerk of Mitchell, and was Town Clerk of Eden in 1875-76 ; his politics are Democratic.

X. P. KELLOGG, farmer. Sec. 18; P. 0. Eden; born in Madison Co., N. Y., in 1825 ; spent his early life in his native county, and, in 1845, came to Wisconsin ; during the first winter, he was in Kenosha Co., Wis.; the next spring, in company with his brother A. G., he made a cart, the wheels of which were sawed off the end of a large log ; with two yoke of oxen on this, they readied Ceresco, Fond du Lac Co.; they bought 160 acres two and a half miles east of what is now Ripon, then open prairie; built a shanty of green lumber, which dried and left wide cracks, through which the snow would often sift to a depth of several inches; here they lived a bachelor's life, getting out fencing and shingles the first winter, and baking bread every day, which froze in their barnlike shanty, in which was an old-fashioned " Jewsharp " stove; the next spring, they alone built, raised and shingled a good log house; they had much trouble to get milling done, and once, Mr. K. going forty five miles to Columbus with a grist, by bribing the miller got his in good time ; he had been long enough on a diet of beans, potatoes and milk ; the brothers bought 160 acres more in 1847, and did good work with their breaking team. N. P. Kellogg exchanged his share of the farm for a hotel near Watertown, where he spent the winter of 1851 ; removed the next June to Forest, where he built the well-known old Kellogg Tavern, on the plank road ; this he kept four years, then farmed it on Sec. 18, same town, until 1868, when he bought his present farm of l47 acres; this was well improved; he has a large and most pleasant farmhouse, and all needful stock and implements. Married, in January, 1854, Miss Anna Owen, of the city of Dublin ; her parents came to America when she was eight years old, locating in New York State, she coming to Wisconsin in 1847 ; Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg have three sons - -Walter N., Charles II. and John F. Mr. K. is a Republican of Greenback tendencies. He is a hardy Wisconsin pioneer, who has earned a good home and enjoys it.

WILLIAM C. KEYS, farmer, Sec. 24 ; P. 0. Waucousta ; born in County Tyrone, Ireland, May 25, 1841 ; came to America in 1849 with his parents, William and Margeret Keys, who came direct to the then village of Fond du Lac ; Mr. K., though then a lad, well remembers the building of Dr. Darling's block ; the family located one and a half miles east of the town, William attending district school, as the schools were then organized ; in 1853, they settled in Osceola, where his father bought heavily timbered U-overnment land, crossed by Indian trails, and Indians as well, during the first two years; this was a genuine pioneer family, and saw much of pioneer life. In 1865, W. C. Keys settled on his farm of eighty acres, marrying, the same year, Miss Ellen Adams, who was born, educated and married in the town "of Forest; they have one son - Willie A., born August 14, 1869. Mr. K. is a Greenbacker, and is both a farmer and dairyman.

DAIVIEL McCarthy, farmer, Sec. 7; P. 0. Eden; born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1814; came to America in 1844, and lived in Ontario Co., N. Y., until 1849, when he and his brother Florence came to Wisconsin and bought 160 acres in Eden ; this took all his money, and he returned to New York, worked to earn more, married, and, on his return, took his share of the quarter-section and built a log shanty, where the young couple lived frontier fashion two years ; he then bought forty acres in Byron, on which was a small house, which ho moved, and is now part of his residence; from this hard beginning, he has prospered ; has a good farm of 226 acres, a well-built modern house, and a basement barn 110 feet in length ; also has over two hundred Merino and Cotswold sheep, besides breeding cattle, honses, hogs, etc. Married JJiss Mary Kingston, a native of County Cork, who came to America in 1847, in Ontario Co., N. Y.; they have three children - Honora, Charles and Daniel. Mr. McCarthy is a Democrat and. with his family, a Catholic ; he is a successful and self-made man.

FLORENCE McCARTHY, farmer. Sec. 18; P. 0. Eden; born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1811 ; came to America in 1842, and was sis years in the service of Thomas Beals, Esq., of Canandaigua, N. Y.; in 1849, came with his brother Daniel to Wisconsin and to Eden, where they spent their all for 100 acres of land ; his wife died in July, 1849, it being the first interment in the Byron cemetery; this was a hard blow to the lonely settler; but he worked away, cleared the ftirra, and then bought a farm of his own. In 1856, he married Miss Honora Butler, who died in 1858. Mr. JlcCarthy has seventyfour acres and a most pleasant home ; was, in old times, an extensive wheat-grower, and sold the first load ever drawn to the Eden market. He is a Democrat and a Catholic, and has held school office. His third wife was Mrs. Mary McGraw, who died in July, 1872, leaving one daughter - Hannah, now the wife of John Scannell, who was born and raised in Osceola Township.

JEREMIAH McCarthy, farmer, Sec. 7; P. 0. Eden; born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1819; came to America in 1845, residing in Ontario Co., N. Y., until 1850, when he joined his brothers in Eden and worked in partnership with them several years ; like his brothers, he began poor and is a self-made man. After his marriage to ftliss Nancy Kingston, he settled and built on his present location. Mr. McCarthy has worked hard, managed well and been successful; has a good farm of 166 acres, part of which is the old homestead of 1849; has a large and pleasant farmhouse, good barns, etc. His worthy wife died Feb. 26, 1871, leaving two children - Florence and Mary A.; the second wife was Miss Mary Mullen, by whom he has three children - Catherine T., Ellen M. and Jeremiah J. Mr. McCarthy lost two children by the first wife and one by the second. He is a Democrat and, with his family, a Roman Catholic; has on the farm 100 good Cotswold sheep, cattle (one Durham), horses, etc.

CiEORCjrE McFARL-4ND (deceased) ; born in Glasgow, Scotland ; came to America about 1832, and worked as a quarryman in Ulster Co.,N. Y. Here, in 1839, he married Miss Esther L. Somes, a native of Greene Co., N. Y., to which they removed. In May, 1844, Mr. McFarland bought a tiirm in Southern Wisconsin, which he sold, and was joined by his wife in 1846, they living in the town of Milwaukee three years; in May, 1849, they bought the McFarland homestead of the Government, built a house of peeled poplar logs, roofed with basswood troughs, and which was the best in the vicinity; Mr. McFarland at once began clearing and breaking; sowed eight acres of wheat the first fall, some of which he ^auled with his ox team to Mayville, twenty miles, to have it ground ; the young couple saw enough of pioneering, but still prospered. Mr. McFarland died Feb. 9, 1865, leaving ten children - Emeline, Phebe A., George E., Charles, Lucy S.,Willi*m, John, Lorenzo D., Wiler (deceased) and Elmer E. Mrs. McFarland has proved a most capable mother, as the house has been rebuilt and made a most pleasant home, several good barns, etc., erected and the farm stocked and made valuable; it is now the home of Mrs. McF., William, Lucy and E. E., and is controlled by William. Mr. McFarland was an Independent Democrat. Emeline is married and is in Mower Co., Minn.; Phebe A. is also married and lives in Fond du Lae, as is also George E.; Charles is married and a resident of Arizona; John and Lorenzo are in Minnesota, the latter owning a farm in Pearlham. Mrs. McFarland is a Baptist in religiou.s belief

JAMES MAHONEY, farmer. Sees. 7 .and 8; P. 0. Eden; born in County Cork, Ireland, June 20, 1830 ; came to America in 1844, locating in Ontario Co., N. Y., where he remained until M.ay, 1847, when he came to Eden and bought Government land for his brother, which he began clearing; after two years, he received eighty acres of this in payment ; he reached this by an Indian trail, and was penniless, of course seeing many hardships ; used to carry a tomahawk and blaze the trees in getting about the country, going to Watertown and Sheboygan Falls to mill ; he stayed the first few nights on the soft side of Mr. Bishop's cabin iioor ; the best of feeling existed among the pioneers who used to go eight and ten miles to a raising; he says it took half the men in the county to raise Col. Conklin's mill, since burned. Paul Cayee, Cass, Vandervoort and Bailey were his neighbors; Mr. M. is now the oldest actual settler, except Q. Hayes and Dr. Vandervoort. He married, in 1856, Miss Mary J., daughter of P. Kelly, one of the first settlers in Byron ; she died May 7, 1871, leaving eight children - Patrick, Ann M., Margeret, James, Michael, Mary, Daniel and Eliza. On the 7th of November, 1871, .he married Miss Catherine, daughter of B. Twolig ; Mrs. M. was also of County Cork, coming to America in 1848, and to Osceola in 1853 or 1854 ; she was educated and began teaching in this town, and has taught thirteen terms; they have three children - -Nora A., Bartholomew S. and Katie. Mr. Mahoney was a most successful pioneer, now owning 204 acres, with good buildings.

THOMAS F. MEADE, farmer, Sees. 21 and 29; P. 0. Eden; born in Washington Co., Wis., June 28, 1851, son of Patrick and Catherine M., who came to Washington Co., Wis., in 1850, and to Eden, 1856; they bought the present Meade homestead of W. Odekirk, the Meades adding to both the farm and the buildings; in 1874, Patrick M. removed to a farm in the northwest part of Byron, he and his wife coming from Ireland to America in 1848; they have five children - Thos. F., Mary A., Charles L., Andrew and Wm. H. Thomas F. Meade now owns 100 acres of the farm, and has control of the remaining 100. He married Miss Mary P., daughter of A.'Dolan, of Byron, Nov. 27, 1877, she dying June 6, 1879. Mr. M. is a Democrat of (greenback tendencies, and a Roman Catholic. He is a good type of the stirring, progressive young Wisconsin farmer, devoting his farm to the usual grains and all kinds of stock.

CHARLES MITCHELL, ftirmer, Sees. 6 and 7 ; P. O. Eden ; born in Middletown, Conn., March 1, 1819; when about 16, he wont to New York City where he learned the carpenter's trade; then locating in Onondaga Co., N. Y. where he married Miss Caroline Austin. Mr M. spent the winter of 1843 in Kenosha, Wis. ; then lived in McHeury Co., 111., until May, 1846, when he bought United States land on Sec. 7, town of Eden, on which he settled; on the arrival of his wife, they lived for a time in their wagon, he building a rude shanty, roofed with hollow basswood logs split in half, the door hewed from a log, and in one end, a rude fire-place ; he plowed a furrow for his first potato crop, turning back the tough sod on the seed, and says ho did raise the murphys." but that they were flat as pancakes ; Indians, bears, doers and wild-cats were his neighbors, the latter sometimes "borrowing" his poultry. Mr. Mitchell helped to lay out the road past his form, and many others; drew his first grist to Fisher's mill, waited two weeks, returned, and could find neither bags or grist ; after a period of semi-starvation on rice, etc., he went with his ox team to Watertown to mill ; then, owing to the rush of grists, was obliged to bribe the miller in order to get his ground ; he used to carry an ax in his wagon to repair the primitive Ijridges of the times, and was often out of both money and food ; his wife, a most worthy helpmeet, died June 20, 1879, leaving nine children - James, now an Iowa farmer; Helen, now Mrs. Chas. Hanson; Austin, a New London (Wis.) M. D. ; Esther, wife of F. Anderson, of Clinton, Iowa ; and Oscar, Charles, Carrie, Lula and Lenora, all on the farm. Mr. M. is a Republican, and a member of the U. B. Church in Christ; has 120 acres, on which is a valuable ledge of limestone, and a lime kiln, now managed by his sons.

JAMES J. OUEKIRK, farmer. Sec. 22, P. O. Eden; born in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Feb. 17, 1822 : spent his early life and was educated in his native town of Hoosick : came to Wisconsin and to Eden in 1847, buying heavily timbered land of the Government; he built a shanty, 12x20, with a flat roof of basswood troughs ; among the first trees he cut was an immense " bee tree," from which he and his wife took four pails of honey, which was a most welcome feast; during the first years, Mr. 0., in order to live, used to seek and find work by the day, sometimes many miles from home, his plucky wife remaining for days alone in the forest cabin, with Indians and wild animals for neighbors ; the pre.sent Fond du Lac road was then an Indian trail; one dark night, in coming from the house of a neighbor with a lantern, they lost their way in the dense woods, and actually " camped out" that February night, building a fire by the aid of the lantern ; most of their household furniture was home-made - a pork barrel and soap barrel dug from logs, and a butter-bowl and ladle made of maple, the latter still in active use, and kept as a token of old times ; they made large quantities of maple sugar, and exchanged it for coarse flour ; as a result of this toilsome and needy beginning, Mr. Odekirk has 135 acres well improved, several large barns, (one new one), and a pleasant residence, besides property in Fond du Lac - a good showing for a man whoused to make his summer shoes of old boot-legs. He married, Feb. 12, 1846, Miss Almira Kelyer, a native of Grafton, N. Y., who was then 16, and began frontier life at 17 ; they have two children - Emma

(now Mrs. S. M. Kuter), and Alice A. (the wife of Charles Youmans). Mr. Odekirk is a Republican, and has b'Ben Supervisor and Justice of the Peace. Three of the children are not living - Harriet A., James F. and Julia.

WILIilAM E. ODEKIRK, farmer, Sec. 26; P. 0. Eden; born in Peninsula, Ohio, May 16, 1853; his parents, Josiah P. and Harriet L. Odekirk, removed from Ohio to Eden, Wis., in 1857 ; his father bought the homestead, which was then an oak and maple forest, and built a rude troughcovered shanty, where the, family lived a number of years ; he did good work on the farm, built the farmhouse, and made improvements which are a monument to his memory. Enlisting September, 1864, in Co. F, 43d W. V. I., he died in the service at Clarksville, Tenn., in February, 1865; his only son attended school in the district, and after the marriage of his mother to Mr. B. Williams, his home was sometimes with him, and at other times with his grandfather, Isaac 0., in Ashford. April 9, 1874, he married Miss Mary A., daughter of J. Keuncy, who removed with his fiimily from New Haven, Conn., to Fond du Lac in 1855 ; Mrs. 0. was educated in Fond du Lao, and came to Eden in 1865 ; they have three children - Mary J., Jirah F. and Edward J.; Mr. Odekirk has owned the homestead of lUU acres since 1874, has built a large basement barn, has a good flock of line-wool sheep, etc., with all needful implements. He is a progressive youn<; flirmer, and, like his honored father, is a Democrat, and, with his wife, a Roman Catholic.

MARTIN RYAN, farmer. Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Eden ; born in County Tipperary, Ireland, 1820 ; came to America in 1847, settling on forty acres of Government land in Eden, April, 1850 ; built a small shanty by splitting logs and carrying them on his shoulders, as he had no team, or money to buy one, and then du£ up an acre with a spade to raise corn and potatoes ; the furniture was made with an ax out of logs. Mr. R. use to thrash oats from dawn till dark for every ninth bushel ; then shoulder a bag of flour and carry it ten miles to his home ; his young wife, alone in the shanty day after day, used to take her child on her back and tramp oft' at night to find their cow in the woods ; they fared for weeks on potatoes and salt, Mr. R. being glad to hoe corn at 50 cents per day. The wife was Miss Ellen McMahon, who was married at 18 ; they have nine children - James, Thomas, John, Michael, Margaret, Anna, Laura, Ellen and Mary. In recompense for the hardships of pioneer times, Mr. R. now owns 330 acres of good land, with a large house and several barns. The first fifteen years were spent in the shanty, which was four logs high, with a trough roof Mr. Ryan is an independent Democrat, and, with his family, a Roman Catholic.

THOMAS (SEAMAN, farmer. Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Eden ; born in Norfolk, England, Feb. 16, 1837 ; when 18 years of age, he resolved to seek hig fortunes in the New World ; locating at Syracuse, N. y., he began as a laborer, educating himself; came to Fond du Lac Co., in 1859. Enlisted Oct. 5, 1861, in Co. B, 10th VV. V. I., operating against the Tennessee railroads for some time ; participating in the bloody battles of Stone River, Chattanooga and Chickamauga ; was on special recruiting service in Madison, Wis., six months, as acting Quartermaster Sergeant; rejoined ^lis regiment at Atlanta in May, 1864; at the expiration of his time, became back to Wisconsin, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant by Gov. James T. Lewis Jan. 28, 1865. He married, in 1867, Mrs. Hannah Carr, born in Norfolk, England, who came to America when a babe, with her parents, settling in Wisconsin in 1849 ; she married, in 1853, John Carr, who bought Government land in Eden in 1848, the patent being signed by James K. Polk. Mr. C. enlisted, in 1864, in the 4th W. V. C, and died at Memphis, Tenn., April 25, 1865, leaving seven children - Joseph, Calvin, Ann M., John H.. James W., William W. and Hannah. Mr. and Mrs. Seaman have one child - Hattie G. Joseph Carr, the father of John, was the first actual settler in Eden ; his old homestead, now the Seaman farm of 156 acres, is one of the very best in the town, well watered and cultivated. Mr. Seaman was among the first to introduce the Lost Nation wheat, and sold his crop for three years for seed; he is now testing other varieties, which he_will, in time, olfer for sale ; his wheat crop for 1872 averaged forty-eight bushels per acre. Mr. S. is a stirring farmer, and a Republican in politics.

V. THOMAS, farmer. Sec. 19; P. 0. Eden; born on the homestead in Eden, Feb. 14, 1852; son of Edward T., who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to America, locating in an early day in Waukesha Co., Wis., removing in 1849 to Eden, with his family, and buying 131 acres of the homestead, and has since bought forty acres ; the farm was wild and as nature's hand left it ; Mr. Thomas built a log house and sowed wheat the first fall ; his wife was Ann Robinson ; they have nine children - Mary, Sarah, Richard, John, George V., Willam, Charles, Jennie and Anna. George V. Thomas was educated in the district and in the Fond du Lao High School; at 21 he went to Kansas, remaining two years, and was one summer in the Northwest, part on the United States survey, helping to lay out fiftyseven townships; has since resided on the homestead. Married, Nov. 11, 1875, Mi.ss Belle, daughter of Isaac and Mary Nightingale, who came from England to America and Wisconsin nearly together ; married and settled on Government hind in Byron; Mrs. Thomas was bora in Byron, and educated in the High Sehoul in Fond du Lac, and has taught two terms ; they have two children - Geneva and Ethel. Mr. Thomas, like all his and also his wife's relations, is a stanch Republican. Mr. Thomas, Sr., has been Justice of the Peace and Supervisor, and is now a resident of Fond du Lac; Mr. Nightingale has also held various town otBces. Mrs. Thomas is a member of the Byron Methodist Episcopal Church.

GEORti^E TITIIS, farmer. Sec. 5 ; P. 0. Eden ; born in Orange Co., N. Y., March 1, 1835 ; son of Albert and Margaret Titus, with whom he came to Eden in 1857, locating on a farm on Sec. 10 ; Mr. Titus enlisted in Co. A, 14th W. V. I., Feb. 23, 1863 ; at Rome, Ga., Mr. Thomas was in the hospital three and one-half months, but was under Thomas in the bloody battle of Nashville, and did good service at Spanish Fort and Mobile, his regiment there being under fire thirteen days and nights ; at the end of the war Mr. Titus again took hold of the plow. On the 24th of March, 1866, he married Miss Lydia, daughter of Martin and Mary Beas, who came from Erie Co., N. Y., to Eden in October, 1852; she is a native of Erie Co., and was married in Fond du Lac ; they have one son - Willie A., born .Nug. 30, 1868 ; Mr. Titus is an enterprising farmer; has an excellent farm of forty-eight acres and a good home. In politics a Republican. His father died in August, 1873 ; his mother is still living with him.

C. E. TRIPP, farmer. Sec. 13 ; P. O. Eden ; born in the town of Floyd, Oneida Co., N. Y., Feb. 15, 1847 ; in 1853, his parents, E. R. and S. P. Tripp, removed to Walworth Co., Wis., remaining several years, Chester attending school; about 1863, the family came to the town of Fond du Lac, he then attending a select school in the city ; the family, after three years, located on a farm in Eden ; Mrs. Tripp died in Fond du Lac Township in 1863, followed by Mr. Tripp in 1876. C. E. Tripp married, Dec. 8, 1870, Miss Hannah J., daughter of William and Margaret Keyes, who left County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1851, when Mrs. Tripp was a babe, coming at onca to Fond du Lac Co., Mr. Keyes buying land in Osceola in 1853, when the forest was so dense that he cut a road to his farm ; then cut more for a building .spot ; Mr. and Mrs. Tripp have two children - Herbert E. and Rose B., Mr. Tripp, a progressive young farmer, has a most pleasant home and a good farm of sixty acres ; lie is a practical butcher and stock-dealer, selling beef and stock in Chicago and Fond du Lac ; he is also a contractor for the Northern Wisconsin markets. In politics a Democrat, and a member in good standing of the Fond du Lac Lodge, No. 30, I. 0. 0. F. Mr. Tripp, in company with J. J. and E. J. Tripp, is owner of a steam-thrasher.

H. W. VAX TASSEli, agent of the Chicago & North-Western Railway Co., and American Express Co., Eden; born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., Nov. 5, 1844. In 1852, his parents removed to Kenosha, Wis., where H. W. attended the public schools; in 18i)l, he enlisted in the grand old 1st W. V. I.; was under Rosecranz and Sherman in the battles of Perryville. Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Rocky Face Ridge, Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Kingston, Marietta, Chattahoochie River and three desperate battles before Atlanta, also at Jonesboro, where the regiment made an unusually brilliant record, doing what; several veteran regiments failed to do, and holding the rebel position ; this was not only the first Wisconsin regiment to go forward, but is the first on the pages of Wisconsin's glorious war record ; going into the service 1,204 strong, it came out in October, 1865, with 131 men all told ; Mr. Van Tassel lost but eight day in three years, and came out safely with a sergeant's commission. During the next six years he sailed on Lake Michigan ; kept a restaurant in Muskegon two years; then began his railroad life, helping to grade and fence both the M. & N. and the N. W. Union roads ; in October, 1873, he was appointed to his present position, which he has since held ; did the business for three years in what is now the well-house, as the depot was not built. Married 5Iiss Sarah Guyou, of Kenosha, in 1870 ; they have one son - Louie, born in Ashford June 23, 1873. Mr. Van Tassel is a stanch Republican.

M. VAXDERVOORT, M. D., Eden; born in Clinton Co., N. Y., Aug. 24, 1840; son of Rev. Peter Vandervoort, who came to Eden with his family in March, 1846, buying a large tract of Government land ; he built a log shanty which served in those days as a hotel, and for town meetings; roads were trails, and bridges very primitive in those days; Rev. Peter Vandervoort, preached the first sermon in the town, and the only ones for years ; he is thought to have preached the first funeral sermon in the county, in the spring of 184(5; the Elder now resides in Fond du Lac; has identified himself with the U. B. Church for many years. In the fall of 1849, the district schoolhouse was built, and of A. Briggs, the first teacher, ftlichael Vandervoort learned the rudiments of his education ; when about 16 he attended a private school in Fond du Lac ; was then in the city High School one year ; during the winter of 1858, he taught school, and in 1859, went overland to Pikes Peak, spending six years in Colorado, Mexico, the Northwest Territories and British Possessions ; he had made a study of medicine during his travels, and on his return to EJen devoted his whole energy to the study of his chosen profession ; in the spring of 1866, he entered Hahnemann College, Chicago, graduating from the full course as physician and surgeon in the fall of 1867; has since practiced in Eden, with the exception of the year 1875, when he practiced in Walla

Walla, \V;isliiD<»ton Territory ; the Doctor has always, when in the county, lived on the original homestead which he owns; his residence is most pleasantly located, about eighty rods from Eden Station. In 1877, he married Miss Lois, daughter of Sumner Sweet, Esq , one of the pioneers of Byron. Dr. Vandervoort is a Greenback Republican, a most successful practitioner; he has, by his unremitting attention to his professional duties caused a partial failure of his health ; he has been for three years a member of the Wisconsin State Honnieopathic Society.

AARON WALTERS, former. Sec. 10; P. O. Eden; born in Plattsburg, Clinton Co., N. Y., Aug. 7, ISUt); was educated in Plattsburg Academy; was by trade a blacksmith; was in business five years at Rouse's Point; in 1846, he visited Wisconsin, and bought his farm of Uncle Sam ; returning to his native State, he remained until August, 1849, then settled on his claim in the oak openings; he soon cleared and broke forty acres of this, also worked for many years at his trade ; as an early settler, he saw and can relate many interesting incidents of pioneer life. Mr. Walters is closely identified with the early history, as he was Chairman of Eden sixteen years, and as a stanch War Democrat, did his town good service in war times ; was a County Superintendent of the Poor twelve years, and a County Supervisor .«ix years ; was a member of the Wisconsin Assembly in 1857 and in 1872; Mr. Walters is well known in his county, as a successful farmer and public-spirited citizen ; his official record is above reproach ; with his only son, he owns and manages 200 acres, with the necessary barns, stock, implements, etc.; he built the second frame house in Eden, has remodeled it, added to it and made it one of the best. Married his first wife in 1831 ; she was Orpha B. Griswold, died 1839, leaving three children - Roswell W., Sarah J. and Mary (deceased). In 1840, he married Rosanna Averill, who died in 1858, leaving two children - Mary E. and Aaron (deceased). In 1859, he married Mrs. Mary Norman, born in 1818 in Bennington, Vt., and a daughter of Daniel and Rebecca Welch, she married Chester Norman, and settled in Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1843; he died in 1855, leaving three children - James C, Frances and Mary J. ; the mother of Mrs. W. was a native of Dutchess Co., N. Y., and a near relative of ex-Governor Enos T. Throop (deceased), of Auburn, N. Y.

BE1ISL.EY WILLIAMS, farmer. Sec. 26 ; P. O. Eden ; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., Nov. 10, 1820 ; was educated there and resided there until November, 1855, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled on his present farm in Eden; began with forty acres of heavy timber, on which a shanty had been put up and left unfinished; Mr. W. was something of a carpenter, and at once finished the house, then began the hard labor of chopping and logging ; burned the timber at first in order to clear a wheat-field ; he has done " full tasks " as a woodsman, as his present farm of 234 acres was then a forest , has sold wood in Fond du Lac, and also burned large quantities for charcoal. Married Miss Lucy North, who died July 23, 1860, leaving five children - Emma F., Emerette M., Susan E., John B. and Mary H. Id 1866, he married Mrs. Harriet L. Odekirk, a daughter of Justice Da Lee, of Washington Co., N. Y.; she married, in 1851, J. P. Odekirk, who died in 1865, leaving one son, William E.; Mr. and Mrs. W. have one daughter, Minnie E. Mr. Williams is independent in polities and religion; he has devoted considerable attention to the improvement of his stock of cattle, sheep, etc.