Fond Du Lac City (part 1 of 2)

Fond Du Lac City

FRED W. DE QITINE was bom in Calumet Village,\his county, Oct. 30, 1853; in September, 1854, his father, Louis De Quine, died, and he came with his mother to Fond du Lao in 1855; she resides at No. 27 Doty street ; Mr. D. attended school until April 4, 1870, when he served three years' apprentice.ship as a machinist, and has worked ever since at that trade in Fond du Lac; he is foreman of the TTnion Iron Works ; is a Turner, and a member of the I, 0. 0. F. Lodge.

DR. C. E. DICKINSON, demist; was born at Guilford, Chenango Co., N. Y., Nov. 23, 1849, where he lived until removing to Delaware in 1868, whence he came to Fond du Lac in 1871 ; he began the study of dentistry with Dr. C. W. Barnes in 1873, and began practice in April, 1878, in the city of Fond du Lac. where he now has a good business.

JOHN W. DIIiLiON, photographer; was born in London, England, Oct. 27. 1847, and came to America when 12 years of age, living in New York City until July 27, 18G4, when he enlisted in Battery B, 5th U. S. A., for three years, as a musician or bugler ; at the expiration of his term of service in 1807, he went to Chicago, thence to Bloomington and Lincoln, finally, coming to Fond du Lac the same year, and engaging in his present business, that of a photographer. He was married in Fond du Lac Feb. 25, 1873, to Ella M., a native of Ma'nitowoc Co., daughter of Evander Soper, one of the earliest settlers of Wisconsin ; they have two children - -Frank Earle and Harry Walton. Mr. D. belongs to the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias Lodges of Fond du Lac, and has been Alderman from the Eighth Ward since the spring of 187i*.

JOHN A. DITTER, druggist, was born at Baden, Germany, June 2, 1852, whose father, Amos Ditter, now resides in this county; he came to Taycheedah in 1857, where he resided until coming to Fond du Lac in 1868; in 1871, he removed to Waterloo, but after three years returned to Fond du Lac, where, in December, 1875, he began the drug business. In 1877, Mr. Mitchell became his partner, under the firm name of Ditter & Mitchell. Mr. Ditter was married, at Fond du Lac, Nov. 15, 1877, to Katie Trimbor, a native of Marshfield, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Ditter are members of St. Mary's Church, and Mr. Ditter of St. Joseph's Benevolent Society.

PHILIP DITTER, was bom in Baden, Germany, June 27, 1844; came to Taycheedah from Europe in 1857. He enlisted Feb. 15, 1864, in Co. K, 35th W. V. I., and was mustered out in May. 1866 - serving in the Department of the Gulf at the siege of Mobile, White Eiver and ten months in Texas. Mr. Ditter began his trade in March, 1861, and has been in business for himself about nine-years. He was married at Fond du Lac July 6, 1871, to Mary Trimbor, who was born near Marytown, Wis.; they have five children - Joseph A., John P., Mary J., Mathias J. and Edward J. Mr. Ditter is a member of the Capuchin Church, and St. Joseph's Benevolent Society.

HENRY C. DITTM AR, proprietor of a steam dyeing and scouring establishment ; born in New York City July 4, 1846. He entered the United States Navy Feb. 22, 1864 ; served on the steam sloop Pawnee, United States sloop New Hampshire, the flag-ship Malvern and the surveying steamer Bibb ; left the naval service Feb. 20, 1867, and was located in Philadelphia until he came to Fond du Lac in 1873. He commenced work at the business he now carries on twenty-two years ago. He was married in Philadelphia. Dec. 31, 1867, to Catharine Johnson, a native of that city; they have two children - Annie H and West A. Mr. Dittmar is a member of the I. 0. O. F., aod of the K. of P. He is a son (if Henry Dittmar, who came to this county in 1865, and is now engaged in farming in Calumet Township,

HENRY Foreman of the Hook and Ladder Co.; was born in New Holstein, Germany, Dec. 25, 1852; came with his parents, Henning N. and Theodocia Dircks, to America in 1857; after one year's residence in the State of New York they came to Fond du Lac, where they still reside ; at the age of 11 years Henry commenced to work in Griffith's saw-mill, in this city, where he remained three years ; afterward, for six years he was employed in the sash, door and blind manufactory of C. J. L. Meyer; since that time he has been engaged in some work at the Mihills factory. He was married in the town of Lomira, Dodge Co., Wis., Nov. 13, 1879, to Amelia Wollenburg, who was born near Berlin in Prussia. Mr. Dircks was Secretary of the Volunteer Fire Department for about five years ; since the organization of the present system he has been Foreman of the Hook and Ladder Co. He is a member of the Fireman's Mutual Aid Society. He belongs to the Lutheran Church, and St. Peter's Society connected with the church.

RICHARD l>IX, was born in Saxony, April 27, 1827, from where, after attending Jena University, Dresden College, and studying for a veterinary surgeon and practicing th.at profession about one year, he came to America in 1849, locating in Milwaukee; he followed the profession of veterinary surgeon iu Milwaukee and vicinity until 1855, when he came to Fond du Lac and engaged in the business of brewing, which he continued until 1862. Mr. Dis lived in Green Bay three years, where, with his parents, he built the gas-works ; during the last two years he has not been in active business. He was married at Fond du L;ie July 11, 1859, to Josepliina Kreinbs, a native of Wurtemburg ; they have one son - Richard. Mr. Dis also has a son by a furmer wife - Edwin J., who is in C. J. L. Meyer's office at Chicago. The two fine brick stores south of the Patty House belong to Richard Dix, who is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Chapter at Fond du Lac.

JULilUS DOZOTEiLL, engineer; residence corner of Brook and Ruggles street; he was boru in Lewis Co., N. Y., July 20, 1839; in 18-t9 he went to Galena, 111., and came to Fond du Lac in 1850. He married in Jefferson, Wis., in 1861, Jennie Mclnnis; their children are May, Josephine, Jennie L., Caddie V. and Francis A; Mr. Dozotell has been engaged as an engineer for over eighteen years. In politics, lie is a Repuliliean.

KR.4.S1'US W. DRURY^, son of Needham and Clarissa Drury, nee Ladd ; was born in Bangor, N.y., in 1814 ; when he was about 2 years of age, his father changed his residence to Pittsford, Vt., from there, to Highgate, Vt., where he died in 1822. His son Erastus, being then only 8 years of age, was left to struggle upward alone as best he could ; he acquired a taste for study from his father, who was a teacher and had excited his ambitiin ; he afterward improved every opportiinit}', until he acquired a good academic education ; he wasdecidedly a self-made man ; he was early apprenticed to the printing business, and at the age of 18 years, became editor and publisher of the Vermont Argus, a Democratic paper which he conducted with remarkable ability and energy, working until midnight and rising at 3 A. M., thus allowing himself but three hours of sleep, and from three to five minutes for his meals ; he continued the paper about two years, and then passing it over to his brother Hamilton Drury, he devoted himself to the study of law, was wdniitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Middlebury, Vt. In 1837, Mr. Drury was married to Eveline T. Horton, daughter of Daniel G. and Mary Horton, nee Drury, of Sudbury, Vt., went to Washington, D. C, on his wedding tour, and received the appointment of Postmaster at Middlebury, Vt., through the influence of Hon. Silas Wright, U. S. Senator, from New York, and a personal friend of Mr. Drury ; in 1843, he caiue to Wisconsin Territory, and after entering a tract of land near Racine, he came to I'lind du Lao (!ounty and entered 400 acres in Ijamariine ; he then formed a pleasant acquaintance with Dr. Mason C. Darling, became much interested in his plan for "laying out" the village of Fond du Lac, and concluded to make it his future home; he went back to Middlebury, Vt., intending to return soon, but on account of the protracted illness and subsequent death of his wife, he was delayed until 1846, when he returned to Fond du Lac and found the village being formed, with here and there a house on IMain street, and a few buildings seemingly scattered over the prairie, but each stood on a street regularly laid out ; Mr. Drury then formed a partnership with Mr. John A. Eastman, a son-in-law of Dr. M. C. Darling, for the practice of law. In 1847, Mr. Drury went back to Schenectady, N. Y., and was married to Deborah Van Patten, daughter of Simon P. and Hannah Van Patten, nee Toll, and returned soon after to Fond du Lac with his wife, and two children of his first wife, a daughter and son, named Mary Eveline, who died after a few years, and Hamilton Hoiton ; of Mr. Drury's children after his second marriage, but one is living, a daughter named Harriet Deborah ; after having a house built on Marr street for his residence, Mr. Hrury hud a block erected on Main street, opposite from where the Patty House now stands, for stores and offices, in which he had his law office for a number of years until the building was destroyed by fire ; Mr. Druiy made inve-stments in Fond du Lac and the vicinity from time to time, and in different parts of the State ; he continued in the practi -e of law until his failing health compelled him to retire from business. \Vhile Mr. Drury aimed to occupy a respectable position among his fellow-citizens, he was most anxious that his moral and religious influence in the church and community might be such as would meet the approval of his dear Savior to whose ble.sseil service he consecrated himself at the early age of 11 years, when he became a member of the Congregational Church; when he came to Fond du Lac, he united with the Congregational Church, which was then in its infancy, and assisted in sustaining it for several years. When he felt it his duty to join with eleven others of the members in organizing a Presbyterian Church, in which he labored to the best of his ability until his Strength fiiiled and he was laid aside, but he hus been sweetly sustained through many trying years of illness by the presence of the dear Master wh im he sought to serve.

PKTER imFRANE, Jr., grocer, on West Division street; was born in Canada in 1853; when quite young, his parents moved to Fond du Lac, where he has since made his home ; in 1870, he began clerking in a grocery store for C. E. Errard, with whom he remained until 1877, when he began the grocery business for himself. Mr. Dufrane is a member of St. Louis Catholic Church.

FRAXK F. DUFFY, attorney ; was born in Richmond, Va., Feb. 2, 1851, and was educated at St. Charles College, in RLn-yland, where he graduated in 1870; he came to Fond du Lac in 1872; studied law w'th Coleman & Spence ; was admitted to the bar, and is now serving his second term as City Attorney of Fond du Lac ; he is a member of the law firm of Conklin & Duffy, and has a good business.

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HARVEY DIJRABII» was born ut We.'itficld, Chautauc|uu Co, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1827, where he resided until coming to Fond du Lac, in 1 853 ; he read medicine five years out of curiosity ; after coming to Fond du Lac, was engaged with the engineer corps three years, on the Chicago & North-Western and Milwaukee and La Crosse railroads, after which he engaged in farming and speculating in the town of Fond du Lac about four years, after which he removed to the city where he has since resided, amusing himself by speculating and dealing in real estate ; he has been Assessor five years; was in the Provost Marshal's office of the Fourth District during the war, and has been Deputy U. S. Marshal since 1861. Mr. Durand also spent one year with James Coleman securing the right of way between Fond du Lac and Milwaukee, for the North-Western Union Railway; in 1876, he made a tour of Europe, landing at Glasgow, Scotland, in which country he visited Melrose Abbey, Abbotsford, Dumfries and the birthplace of Burns ; traveled over England and France, spending some time in London and Paris ; visited the amphitheater at Niems; explored Lyons, Versailles, Naney and other French cities; passed down the shore of the Mediterranean to Rome, Naples and the Italian seaports ; ascended Mt. Vesuvius, exploring its crater; spent some time in Venice, at the Italian lakes, in Switzerland, Baden-Baden, and several German and Alsatian cities ; he returned in 1877, bringing, among other valuables, one of the finest guns to be found in England, with which he has since slaughtered great numbers of " yellow-bills," being fijnd of hunting and fishing, to which he devotes considerable attention. He was married at Roscndale, Wis., Sept. 33, 1860, to Jennie E., daughter of John Brown, who was born at Towanda, Cattaraugus Co, N. Y.

HENRY W. DURAND was bom at North East, Erie Co., Penn., Feb. 2, 1843; came to Racine, Wis., in 1855, to town of Fond du Lao the same year, and to Fond du Lac City in 1859 ; he attended school until the rebellion, and then enlisted in Co. I, 1st W. V. I, in April, 1861 ; after serving three months, he re-enlisted, in Co. A, 14th W. V. I., in which he served till the close of the war, being mustered out as First Lieutenant ; he was in all the battles in which his regiment engaged, except the Red River expedition, being at home recruiting, in which he secured fifty-two men ; the principal engagements in which he served were Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Vicksburg, Spanish Fort, Mobile, Tupelo and Nashville ; after leaving the army, he engaged for four years in the fruit and confectionery business, since which he has dealt in hay and grain. He was married, March 20, 1866, at Fond du Lac, to Mary M. Heth, who was born at Silver Creek, Chautauqua Co., N. 1'^., July 12, 1844 ; they have one child - Ella M.,born March 10, 1867.

R. K. DYE, Jr., dealer in musical instruments and musical merchandise ; born in Lomira, Dodge Co., Wis., Dec. 13, 1854; came to Byron, Fond du Lac Co., with his parents, in 1865; resided there until 1877, when he came to this city; engaged in present business ever since ; he has taught instrumental music for the last four years. Oct. 28, 1877, he was married in Washington, Conn., to Sarah Mayhew.

REV. GEORGE B. EASTMAX was born at Rindolph, Orange Co., Vt., Dec. 2 t, 1811 ; pursued his preparatory studies at Orange County Grammar School, enteriug when about 15 years of age, and continuing the same till in his 21st year, when he changed to and entered the freshman class at the University of Vermont in 1832, from whence he was transferred to the sophomore class of Dartmouth College, where he graduated with the class of 1836; for three months immediately following his graduation, he was teacher and theological student under Bishop Hopkins, of Episcopal Institute of Vermont, at Burlington ; in the fall of 1836, he went from there as tutor in Bristol College, at Bristol, Penn., where he remained till the spring of 1837, when he was chosen Principal of the Classical School, at Detroit, Mich., which he held till the spring of 1833 ; in the spring of 1838, he was chosen Principal of the Kalamazoo branch of the University of Michigan, but resigned this in the fall of 1839 for the professorship of language in the Episcopal Institute, of Troy, New l''ork ; resi::ning the professorship in the spring of 1840, he became Rector of Grace Church, at Waterford, N. Y., having previously pursued his studies far holy orders, which he received Aug. 25, 1839, under Bishop McCoskry, of Michigan. He held the pastorate of Grace Church till the summer of 1845, when he was chosen Rector of Christ's Church, Quaker Farms, and St. Peter's Church, at Oxford, having the two charges at that time ; from the summer of 1846 to the spring of 1847, he was general missionary of Rensselaer Co., N. Y., when he became Rector of Zion, Avon, N. Y. ; in 1850, he was chosen Rector of St. Paul's, Brownville, N. Y., and after three and a half years' pastorate at Brownville, he was chosen Rector of St. Paul's Church at Fond du Luc, beiug its second Pastor, and which charge he had for more than twelve years ; in autumn of 1866, he went from St. Paul's, Fond du Lac, to the pastorate of St. Paul's, East Saginaw, Mich., where he remained till the spring of 1870, when he became Rector of Trinity Church, at Monroe, Mich., which, on account of his health, he resigned in May, 1878, and again took up his residence at Fond du Lac, Wis. Dec. 31, 1838, he married Miss Margaret Brother, a native of Geneva, N. Y., where she was born May I, 1819 ; the children are

Wilber, Francis, Henry B.; Mary, now Mrs. GrifEth, of Fond du Lac; Margaret, now Mrs. Col. Ferris, of Idaho; Geori^e K., Catharine M , William T., Elizabeth T., Charles W., and Eleanor H.

HIRAM W. EATON, born in Canada Nov. 28, 1833, son of Hiram Eaton ; came to Wisconsin in 181:5, locating near Whitewater, where he lived fifteen years; .spent the next twelve years in Missouri and Illinois ; returned to Monroe, Wis., and came to Fond du Lac in February, 1874, where he has since carried on the business of manufacturing soda water and spruce beer, which he has followed for twenty years, recently adding facilities for bottling laser beer. He was married at Whitewater, May 10 1857, to Jane, daughter of Wm. Page, who came to Wisconsin in May, 1845; she was born in the town of Marshall, Oneida Co., N. Y.; they have seven children - -Roderick D., Maud A., Blanche, Harry, Charles F., Alma J. and Bessie, and two infants have died.

RUDOIiPH KBKKT, President of the German American Savings Bank; was born at Dcrmbaeh, Grand Duchy of Saxe Weimar, Eisenach, June 29, 1829, and came to America, to Fond du Ijac County in the fall of 1848, first locating in the town of Calumet; he there engaged in farming, which he continued until the spring of 1850, when he moved to Fond du Lac ; he at once secured a position as Clerk in the Register of Deeds' office, which he held until he was elected Register in November, 1852 ; he served 1858 and 1854 - one term - after which he opened an office for the transaction of real-estate, loan and abstract business ; in the spring of 1865, Mr. E. visited Europe, returning in the fall to renew his business, which was continued until 18GB, when the private banking-house of Ebert & Perry was established ; in 1873, the bank was organized under the State law as a savings bank, R. Ebert, President, and J. C. Perry, Ca.shier. Mr. Ebert has been six terms City Treasurer of Fond du Lac, and a member of the Board of Education. In November, 1851!, he was married to Louisa Encking, a native of Holstein, Germany ; they have had six children, but only one is living - -Augustus, born July 22, 1861, and now in the order and sale department of C. J. L. Meyer's factory.

HIRAM EDGKRTOX, retired farmer ; is a native of Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; born in September, 1802 ; he spent his boyhood with his father on a farm, and received a limited education in the district schools of that county; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1846 ; settled on a farm of 160 acres in the town of Fond du Jjac, which his brother Thomas had entered two years prior to their immigration ; having built a small frame house 16x24 feet, though at that time, perhaps, the best in the neighborhood, in the spring of 1847, he returned to New York for his family, with which he reached Fond du Lac June 16 following; he did not get his house plastered, however, till December, and then it was by constantly thawing the mortar by the stoves, around which the family sat while t!ie men plastered the walls. Thus beginning pioneer life in Fond du Lac Co., Mr. Edgerton has always been one of its reliable and successful farmers ; though the toil and struggle were severe, his resolution to succeed was equal to the task, so step by step he has gradually acquired a comfortable home to enjoy in his old age. In 1825, he married Miss Lucinda Felton, daughter of Robin and Sylva Felton, of Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y., who died at her home in Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1864, leaving five children - Francis (now Mrs. John J. Tripp, of the town of Fond du Lac), Sarah (who married Oliver Pier, but her husband dying in three years after their marriage, she married Mr. De VVitt Williams, of Oneida Co., N. Y. ), Sylvia A., (now Mrs. David H. Vinton, of Empire), Ophelia (now Mrs. Samuel B. Stanchfield ), Charles B. (who married Miss Matilda Hamilton, daughter of Henry Hamilton, of Fond du Lac, Jan. 1, 1866 ; they have two children - -Kalie and De Witt). Mr. Edgerton married Miss Jule Olmstead, of Fond du Lac, in the spring of 186G ; she had three children - W. J. Olmstead, C. 0. Olmstead, Dr. Austin F. Olmstead, of Green Bay.

JAMES EDMITND, foreman of engine-room and round-house of N.-W. R. R. Co., is a native of Yorkshire, England, born in 1829 ; spent most of his time till 20 years of age on a farm; came to America in 1849, and settled at Fond du Lac, where he engaged in farming for about two years ; from 1851 to 1854, he was employed in the construction of the Rock River Valley & Union Railroad ; in 1854, hi! was employed in the Union Iron Works, where he continued three years ; was next employed as engineer in Butler <& Hiner's saw-mill for three seasons ; from 1861 to 1866, was employed as machinist in the shops of the N.-W. R. R., when he was appointed foreman in the car and locomotive shops of railroad at Fond du Lac, which position he now holds. He married Miss Alice Gainford, a native of Durham, England, in 1856 ; they had two children - William J. and an infant deceased. Members of the Presbyterian Chtirch,

IVILLARU EDSON was born at Swanton, Franklin Co., Vt., Feb. 5, 1813. Was married at Braintree, Vt., to Ann Pratt, in May. 1837 ; she died Dec. 24, 1852, leaving one son - Solon W.

SOL-ON \V. Ei>SON, was'born at West Randolph, Orange Co., Vt., March 31, 1838; came to Wisconsin in October, 1854, where he has since resided; he was eight years clerk in a shoe store; since then has been engaged ia manufiicturing pumps, horse-rakes, and various articles in wood. Mr. E.has teen a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge since 1859. He was married at Greenbush, Wis., March 31, 1864, to Frances Josephine, daughter of Perry 0. Weaver ; she was born in Chittonango, N. Y., in 1833 ; they have two children living - Eugene Willard, born May 17, 1808, and Mabel Elizabeth, born Dec. 8, 1878, and have lost two^Mary Knowles, died at the age of 6 months, and Anna Pratt died at the age of .about 5 years. Edson & Son are manufacturers of plain and ornamental building-work, brackets, moldings, newel-posts, st.iir-railing, balusters, etc.; ornamental carving, furniture, office- work, turning and scroll-sawing to order. Much of their work will be found in the private residences, public buildings, lodge-rooms, churches, etc. Solon W. Edson was a member of the Fond du Lac Fire Department from the time of its organization until the abandonment of the hand machines, a period of about twenty years, the last five years being an honorary member. He helped draw the first engine from the depot.

VITAL. EDWIW, foreman of yard at McDonald's saw-mill, was born in France in 1838 ; came to Fond du Lac in 18G3, and began work for Sexmith & Davis, in a saw-mill, where he continued for six years, after which, in 1869, he worked one year for the Fond du Lac Lumbering Co.; in 1870, he worked in a planinsj-iuill for Mr. McDonald, whence he was transferred to the position of foreman of the lumber-yard by Mr. McDonald. Married Miss Jlalvina Deneault, of Russelltown, Canada, in 1859 ; they have seven children - Alfred, Lafayette, Thelisford, Alexander, Adaline, Merceline and Emma. Owns house, and lot and five acres of land two miles from the city.

OSCAR C. fiGER, order and shipping clerk for C. J. L.Meyer's sash, door and blind factory, was born in Saxony in 1854 ; came to America with his parents in 1858, and settled at Watertown, Wis., where he lived and attended school most of the time till 1874; in 1874, he came to Fond du Lac, and was employed as clerk in Sarp & Whittelsey's dry-goods store for one year ; in 1875, he was employed by Mr. Meyer as salesman iu the sash, door and blind factory ; in 1878, he was made order and shippingclerk of the manufictory. Mr. E. has been a member of the I. 0. 0. F., since 1875 - Knights of Pythias since 1878.

CHARLES A. ELDREDGE was born at Bridgeport, Vt.; when a child he moved with his parents to the State of New York and settled in St. Lawrence Co., near the village of Canton ; at this time, St. Lawrence Co. was little better than a wilderness, and Mr. Eldredge endured the hard.ships incident to the settlement of a new country, enjoying only the meager educational advantages afforded by the district schools of the neighborhood; from about the time he was 18 years of age, he attended the academy at Canton, being able to secure this aid to his education only by the severest labor, supporting himself and, at the same time, paying the wages of a man to take his place upon his father's farm ; when 21, he had prepared himself for college, but, finding that he must still rely upon his own exertions alone, he unwillingly gave up the hope of attending college, entered the law office of John L. Russell, of Canton, and began his legal studies ; here he remained for nearly six years, supporting himself by teaching school ; some of the time, also, acting as Superintendent of Schools; in 1847, he was admitted to the bar; in 1848, having practiced for some time in the lower courts of New York, he came West, settled at Fond du Lac, and at once began the practice of his profession. In 1849, he married Maria A. Bishop, only daughter of Arch Bishop, then of Washington Co., N. Y., but afterward of the town of Eden, Fond du Lac Co.; his family consists of five children^William A., Arch B., May R., Charles and Adda. In 1854, Mr. Eldredge was elected State Senator, served two terms and refused a renomination ; in 1862, he was elected a Representative in Congress over Edward S. Bragg, a Democrat, who accepted the Republican nomination ; in 1864, 1866, 1868, 1870 and 1872, Mr. Eldredge was unanimously renominated, and re-elected by large, though varying, majorities; his opponents, during this time, were A. Scott Sloan, J. A. Watrous, Orrin Hatch, Judge Frisby, of West Bend, and Louis Baetz, formerly State Treasurer; in 1874, Mr. Eldredge was defeated for a renomination, the result being largely, if not wholly, due to his action on the " back-pay bill," generally called the " Salary Grab," which measure he supported and defended in Congress, and as to his error or wrong in the matter is still unconvinced. Mr. Eldridge's service in Congress was during the most heated and bitter time of the war, and, while he supported and flivored, with all his energy, every measure having for its object only the suppression of the rebellion and the forcing back of the seceding States to their allegiance, he opposed with equal vigor every measure which he believed had for its object the subjugation of those States as con(iuered provinces; every measure tending to keep alive and prolong the- hostile and bitter feelings resulting naturally from the war ; he claimed then, and the same doctrine has been held by every court which has yet passed upon the question, that only by successful rebellion could those Slates get out of the Union, and that legislation by Congress which produced or admitted such a result was only less criminal than actual rebellion in that it saved the country from the horrors of war ; by his speech on the subject, he forced from Thaddeus Stevens the announcement that the rebel States were out of the Union ; were conquered provinces and rigjhtly to be treated as such. Mr. Eldredgo served for many years upon the Judiciary Committee of the House, and, with Mr. Marshall, of Illinois, made the minority report against the impeachment of Andrew Johnson; he opposed the passage of the law known as the " Federal Election Laws," and, in his speech upon the bill, foretold, with a clearness almost prophetic, the result; his predictions have been more than fultilled, and the time is rapidly coming when they will be blotted from our statute-books ; when the question of the distribution of the Geneva award was before Congress, Mr. Eldredge differed with both the majority and minority of the Judiciary Committee, and. in opposing the bill proposed by the majority, held in a forcible and eloquent speech, that as the money awarded came from (jreat Britain, whose wrong was against the United States, and the losses from which the whole people of the United States suffered, and as it was an indemnity paid by a neutral nation for wrongs done to this nation or its citizens and for losses sustained by the nation or its citizens during the war, nothing would more completely and justly satisfy the demands of equity, than to cover the money into the people's Treasury for the people's use, and not to pay it over to insurance companies and corporations who were making money and dividing among themselves two dollars for one of their investments, while the mass of the people suffered all the horrors and calamities of the war. In 1870, Mr. Eldredge opposed the right of the Federal Government to determine the qualification of electors, and in an able speech spoke against the action of party and party spirit in regard to such a measure. In opposing a bill very materially changing our present naturalization laws, making it much more difficult for foreign immigrants to become citizens, Mr. Eldredge advocated '- that the immigrant, coming here in good faith to make this country his country and to cast his lot in with us, should be granted all these privileges at once. Actual residence, with intention of remaining, renunciation of all former allegiances, and his oath of allegiance to the United States being all that should be re((uired.

W. A. ELDREDGE, of the firm of Butterfield & Eldredge, merchant tailors; born in Fond du Lac June 25, 1850 ; son of Hon. C. A. Eldredge, who came here in 1849 ; Mr. Eldredge graduated from the Law Department of the Georgetown University at Washington, D. C., in June, 1875 ; he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia ; he was engaged in practice at Milwaukee for a short time prior to engaging in his present business, in November, 1878. He married Miss Lillie Cook, daughter of Charles Cook, of Washington, D. C, in Washington, Nov. 11, 1873; she died in that city in March, 1875 ; his present wife was Anna, daughter of William Mason, of Fond du Lac ; they were married Deo. 25, 1878; she was born near Windsor Castle, England.

C. li. EXCKING, real-estate agent, was born at Holstein, Germany, Jan. 17, 1837 ; came to Taycheedah in 1852, where he lived two years ; he then came to Fond du Lac and engaged as a dry-goods clerk with Sewell & Co.,, which firm he bought out eighteen months later, the firm becoming Bower & Encking ; this firm continued two years, after which Mr. Encking followed agricultural pursuits until 1862, when he returned to the city and, in .January of that year, be^an clerking in the Register's Office, which he followed until December, 1864, when he bought out R. Ebert's real estate, loan and notary business, and has continued in it ever since ; he is also ocean steamship ticket agent, abstracter of lands, perfecter of titles, etc. He has been City Comptroller two terms, Alderman and in other local offices. He was married, at Fond du Lac, Jan. 6, LStiS, to Ida Bechaud, a native of Germany ; they have two children - Emelie and Louise. Mr. Encking is a member of the Commandery, Chapter, Masonic Lodge, Concordia Benevolent Society and German English Academy.

CAIjICE E. EKRARD, proprietor of grocery store ; was born in Canada in 1824 ; he grew up and lived on a farm there until 1862, when he went to Vermont, from there to New Hampshire and thence to Michigan, .spending six years in the three States, after which he returned to Canada and spent the winter of lS(>8-Gy ; in the spring of 1869 he moved to Fond du Lac and began the grocery business, in which he has continued since that time. He married Miss Delphine Ladduke, of Fond du Lac, in 1874, and has two children - Malina and Joseph. Mr. Errard and his family are members of St. Louis Catholic Church.

SEBASTIAN EUDEMILLiER, proprietor of marble works, was born in Germany in 1829; came to New York City with his parents in 1845 ; in 1846, he began his trade with the firm of Fisher & Bird, of New York City, and with whom he remained until 1861. when he came to Fond du Lac, and was in the employ of Sterns & Sherwood, marble men, for one year ; in 1863 he began the business for himself, and has since been proprietor of the same. He is one of the charter members of the German Odd Fellows' Lodge, prior to which he was a member of the American Lodge ; was a member of the City Council from the Second Ward in 1875; was assistant engineer of the Fire Department for two years; organized the Hook and Ladder Company, of which he was Foreman until 1873 ; he was also a member of the Fire

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Department while in New York City. In 1852, he married Mis.s Barbara Schneider, of New York ; they have seven children - Rebecca, Barbara, Katie, Paulina, Matilda, Louisa and Charles.

OWEN EVANS, Foreman of Fire Engine No. 3 ; was born in Trenton, Oneida Co., X. Y., Nov, 22, 1855; came with h;.s parents, William and Catherine Evans, now residents of the city, to Fond du Lac in 1868 ; Mr. E. has been connected with the fire department three years, prior to which time he was connected with various mills and factories ; he is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge.

ASAPH C. EVEREST, grain-dealer; was born in the town of Addison, Addison Co., Vt., in 181ti, his parents, Zadock Everest and Olive Taylor, both died in Vermont; in 1836, he immigrated to Knox Co., III., and for one and a half years was engaged in merchandising, and then removed to Rock Island, 111, whence, in 1840, he returned to Vermont ; in 1841, he came again to Knox Co., 111., and was in business one year in Knoxville and then returned a second time to Vermont ; in 1846, he came to Fond du Lac Co., Wis., and settled on a farm in the town of Lamartine, where he followed farming till 1854; he was one of the organizers of the town of Lamartine and was the first Chairman of the Town Board ; in 1854, he entered some land in Minnesota, but never settled on it; in the fall of 1854, he removed to Galesburg, 111.; remained the winter, and, in the spring of 1855, came to the city of Fond du Lac, where he has since been dealing in grain and produce. In June, 1846, he married Miss Clara Drury, who died in the spring of 1857, leaving two children - -Anna, now the wife of Daniel Abercrombie and lives in the Province of .Quebec, Canada, and 31ary D., now the wife of William Coolbaugh and lives in Algona, Iowa. In 1857, he married Thankful M., daughter of Ralph and Sarah Abercrombie. of Lower Canada ; their children are Kate A. (now a student at the State University), Byron (deceased), Albert C., now at home. Mr. and Mrs. E. are members of the M. E. Church. Mr. E. has been a member of the City Council several terms.

JAMES EWEN, retired ; is a native of New York City, where he was born in 1806 and resided until 1831, spending much of his time with his brothers, who were civil engineers of that city, and, at the same time, devoting his attention to steamboat building; in May, 1831, he went from New York to Canada to build steamboats for the navigation of the St. Lawrence River, which he continued till 1835, when he returned to the city of New York and made that his home till 1840 ; after an absence of five years from Canada, he was again sought by the company, in whose employ he had been, to again engage in building steamboats for them, which he consented to do, and remained with the company for nine years ; in 1849, he came to Fond du Lac and began the lumber trade, which he continued one year, when he exchanged that business for a hotel, then known as the '- Lewis House," of which ho was proprietor for a little more than ten years ; his wife growing weary of such a life, he rented the hotel and retired to private life ; in two or three years after that, he disposed of the hotel building, and has since been mostly engaged in buying and selling real estate, cashing notes, loaning money, etc. He married Miss Isabella Milton, of Niagara, in September, 1835, by whom he has had seven children, three of whom are now deceased ; those living are Mariah (now Mrs. Dudly, of Fond du Lacj, Milton, John J., Isabella and Frank E.

J. Li. D. EYCLESHIJIER is a native of Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., born June 1, 1824, and is the son of John P. and Mary (Cushman) Eycleshimer, also natives of New York, but of Holland descent; he spent his earlier life on a farm in his native county, and, in October, 1850, immigrated to Wisconsin ; he firsi settled in the city of Janesville, Rock Co., where for seven years he was engaged in the livery business and at the same time carried on a farm ; during the year 1858 and part of 1859, he was dealing in fast horses, and spent much of the time in the Southern States ; returning to Janesville in October, 1859, he formed a copartnership with Louis P. Harvey, afterward Governor of Wisconsin, H. 0. Clark and John S. Harvey, and began millinc; at Shopiere, Rock Co., Wis., which they, as a firm, continued till 1865 ; Nov. 21, 1859, he removed to the city of Fond du Lac for the purpose of supplying their mill with wheat from that market; after the dissolution of their milling; firm in 1865, he continued dealing in grain and produce, more or less, till the fill of 1870 ; in November, 1862, he was elected Sherifl" of Fond du Lac Co; in the spring of 1864, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Public Works in the city. In the fall of 1870, he was elected Register of Deeds of this county and filled the oflfice with such credit to himself and satisfaction to his friends that he was re-elected to that ofiice in 1872; his term of ofiice expiring January 1, 1875, he again resumed the grain trade, which he has followed most of the time since; spent one year (1879) in the business in Dakota; he is now operating in grain at Rosendale, Fond du Lac Co. Sept. 1, 1847, he married Miss Harriet A., the youngest daughter of Elisha and Lydia Sherman, of Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y.; they have two sons - Charles S., now Deputy Register of Deeds of Fond du Lac County, and Fred L. D., who is now a student at stenography in this city. Mrs. Eycleshimer is a member of the Baptist Church.

JAMES H. FARHfS WORTH, Secretary of the La Belle Wagon Works ; is a native of St. Charles, 111., where he was horn in 1S;>9 ; his parents soon afterward moved to Racine, Wis., where they lived till James was about S years old, when in 1843 they came to Fond du Lac; in 1868 he became a partner in the firm of Farnswort.h, Knapp & Co., wholesale and retail hardware msrchants ; then the largest wholesale house in the State outside of Milwaukee ; in 1878 he disposed of his interest in the hardware trade, and in 1874 became business manager of the La Belle Wagon Works, in which capacity he served till 1879 when it became a stock company and he was chosen Secretary for the company. In February, 18GS, he married Miss Aurelia S. Ingram, niece of Dr. Darling, of Fond du Lac; they have three children - Dana A., bora Nov. 29, 1871 ; Claire, born April 1, 1875 ; Annie, born Dec. 20, 1877. Mr. F. and wife are members of the Congregational Church. Mr. F. has been a Mason for a number of years. Mr. Farnsworth has been connected with the La Belie Wagon Works since its origin ; he was one of the originators of the wiu-ks which are now so well known throughout this country.

WILLIAM FARXSWORTH, (deceased); was born in Groton, Mass., Oct. 23, 1819; received his education at the Seminary of Groton by the time he reached his 15th year; in 1834, he with his parents moved to St. Charles, 111.; he desired to learn the cooper's trade, and his father agreed to give him his time and all he could earn from that time on ; before he reached his 21 year he had saved $300 from his earnings, but the company failed and caused him so much trouble in getting his hardearned savings that he firmly resolved that in after life he would make, his living with his brains rather than his hands, which resolution he faithfully kept ; in 1810 he with his parents moved to llacine, Wis.; whence in 1848 he came to Fond du Lac, landing here with only $5 in his pocket to meet his expenses till he could find a way by which he could rejilenish his much-reduced purse ; his first business after settling here was with his father in the manufacture of grain cr.ujles, which he continued till 1854, when he established the wholesale and retail hardware store ; in the same year he took Mr. Isaac Sherwood in as a partner when the firm was known and existed till 1868 as Farnsworth & Sherwood, hardware merchants ; in 1868 James H. Farnsworth and William H. Knapp purchased Mr. Sherwood's interest, and the firm was then known as Farnsworth, Knapp & Co.; in 1868, under the name of Farnsworth, Knapp & Co., the La Belle Wagon Works were established, Mr. Farnsworth being the prime mover in the establishment, and the most active and energetic man connected with the works till 1873, when the business changed hands, though he continued an interest in the business till 1876 ; in June, 1877, he went to Colorado and was there interested in the sale of wagons and lumber till his health suddenly failed him and he was compelled to return to his home at Fond du Lac, shortly after which he died, Sept. 3, 1878. In 1852, he married Miss Mary Edgerton, sixth daughter of Dr. J. Edgerton, of Fond du Lac, whom he left a widow with three children - Cara, M. Antoinette and Emma. Mr. Farnsworth was one of those enterprising and public-spirited men to whom much credit is due for the establishment of some of the mo.st beneficial industries of which Fond du Lac to-dav is so justly proud.

HON. JAMES FITiZGERALD, was born in County Cork, Ireland, April 13, 1817 ; came to Boston April 20, 1848; resided in the town of Randolph, Mass., six years; arrived at Fond du ' Lac July 12, 1854, and began the business of shoemaker, which he has followed for over fifty years. Mr. F. has taken an active part in politics ; served as Alderman of the Fourth Ward, and was a member of the Assembly for the city of Fond du Lac in 1878. He was married in Boston, Aug. 5, 1849, to Johanna Berry, horn in county Cork, Ireland. They have five children - William, James, John, Thomas, Edmund and Johanna.

FRANK A. FIjOWER, journalist; was born at Cottage, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., May 11, 1854 ; began attending school at the age of 6, and, from that time until his edacation was finished, was never absent a whole day from his classes ; at 13, he was sent to Madame Staats' private school for Latin, French and literary students ; at 14, to the Gowauda Academy, and at 15 to the State Normal School at Fredonia, N. Y., where he took a classical course. His first contributions to the press appeared, under a fictitious name, simultaneously in the New York Trihiine and Ellicottsville Union, in 1867. From that time he has written continuously for the leading newspapers and periodicals. At 18, he was engaged for one year as reporter and traveling correspondent for the Fredonia (^N. Y.) Admrtker and Union. At 19, he was engaged as Principal of the school at Perrysburg, which position was retained until he came to Fond du Lac in November, 1874. At school, he was chosen editor of the Zetesian and the Suns iSouci. He wrote several dramas, which were successfully put upon the stage, and numerous stories, while carrying three extra studies in school. At the graduating exercises at the State Normal School, after delivering his oration on " Hogs Amongst Kings, or Kings Among.st Hogs," he was requested to elaborate and deliver it as a lecture for the benefit of the Public Library of Sinclairville, which he did to a full house. This earned for him the title of " boy lecturer," and this oration, or '- lecture, ' was delivered twenty times iluiing that winter in Erie, Cattaraugus, and Ciiautauqua Cos. After arriving in Wisconsin, Mr. F. engaged to deliver the same lecture in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, but, being taken severely ill, only filled two engagements - at Eureka and Winneeonue, Wis. During the winter of 1874-75, he did his first newspaper work in Wisconsin upon the Ripon Commoiiivi^alfli,, which he loft in the early spring of 1875, to read law with Coleman & Spence. May 1 of that year, ho engaged as local editor of the Fond du Lac Saturday Reporter, continuing in that capacity until the paper changed hands, after which he was employed upon the Milwaukee News. Connection with that paper was severed in the fall, and Mr. P. took the " stump " with Congressman Charles G. Williams, Hons. E. C. McFetridge, Satterlee Clark and Quartus H. Barron against the re-eleetion of William R. Taylor for Grovernor, his first speech being at Waupun. Immediately after the State election of 1876, he went to Iowa, where he taught school one term at Mitchell, returning to Pond du Lac March 1, 1877, to become associate editorof the Daily Commonwealth, which position he held, performing most of the necessary editorial labors, until Nov. 8, 1879, when he resigned on account of ill health, and to accept literary labors of a less exacting nature. Mr. Flower was married at Ripon, Deo. 22, 1875, to Mi.ss Nettie E. Appleby, born in Green Lake Co., Wis., April 20, 1854. He never has used tobacco in any form, played a game for money, or used liquor as a beverage. In 1874, he was awarded the cash prize by the National Butter and Egg Association, which was paid by Daniel W. Dake of Beloit. Wis., for an illustrated pamphlet on the manufacture of butter and cheese.

CHARLES W. FLOWER, dealer in books and stationery ; was born in Middlebury, Vt., Dec. 22, 1842 ; lived several years in Montreal, Canada; came to Pond du Lac in 1864, and engaged in the lumbering business; in 1871. he began his present business. Married at Chicago, Jan. 18, 1870, to Frances E. Arnett, of Chicago ; tliey have one child - William Arnett Flower, born in April, 1874. Mr. Flower's only brother, Aaron Parker Flower, is a hardware merchant at Spring Valley, Minn.

EDWARD FLYNN was born in County Waterford, Ireland, in 1882; his parents, William and Honora (Corcoran) Plynn, were also natives of that county; he came to America in 1853, and stopped in Massachusetts for three years ; in 1856, he c?,me to this city, where he has since lived ; he now owns a house and lot on corner of Rees street. He was married to Catherine, daughter of Joseph and Julia Lynch, nee Poly, also natives of County Waterford, Ireland; their children are John, Hanora, William, Ellen, Patrick, Mary, Julia, Edward, Joanna, Margaret. The fiimil}' are members of St. Patrick's Catholic Church.

E. F. FORD, paper dealer ; was born at East Livermore, Me., March 14, 1840, where he resided until 1852, when he moved to Massachusetts, after which, Aug. 15, 1854, he came with his father to Fond du Lac; after 1858 he was the traveling representative of a confectionery establishment at Milwaukee for nine years , three years thereafter, represented a wholesale grocery house, and, in 1877, began dealing in paper, bags, twine, etc., at Fond du Lac. Mr. P. was married, Sept. 23, 1863, to Maggie Dewrose, who was born near Pittsburgh, Penn.; they have one child - Nellie E. Mr. Ford's father, Luther L. Ford, died at Fond du Lac in 1872.

FRAK^K N. FOX, dealer in hats, caps, ladies' fine furs, gents' furnishing goods, sachels, valises, etc.; born in Prussia Nov. 4, 1842; came to Milwaukee with his parents in June, 1854. In August, 1865, he enlisted in Co. C, 24th W. V. I.; served until June 28. 1865, when he was mustered out at Milwaukee : during his service, he was detailed to do provost-marshal duty at Gen. Sheridan's -headquarters for about nine months. Came to Fond du Lac in August, 1865; commenced business here Aug. 25, 1865 ; learned the trade of hatter and furrier in Milwaukee ; commenced work at his trade in 1858 ; Mr. Fox is a member of the Turner Society, I. O. O. P., and A., P. & A. M. Married, in Pond du Lac, to Miss Mary Altpass, Aug. 20, 1867 ; they have two children - Prank E. and Edwin F.

JOH^ FRAXCIS was born in Cornwall, England, July 17, 1834 ; came to Canada in 1854 ; to Portage City in 1S57. where he resided one year, and to Fond du Lac, June 28, 1858, engaging for two and a half years in the livery business, since which time he has been in tlie hardware trade ; he first began this businsss with S. E. Lefferts, and has been with him and his successor twenty years. Mr. F. was married in the town of Ashford, Fond du Lac Co., April 25, 1861, to Mrs. Sophronia Harris, born near Cornwall, Canada, Dec. 19. 1833 ; she is a daughter of Elizabeth Hitsman, who came to Fond du Lac Co. in 1845.

EDWIN C. FRENCH (deceased), was a native of Cornwall, county of Stormont, Can.; born JVIay 5, 1817 ; he received a common-school education in his native county, and early in life began to earn his own living by clerking in a dry-goods store ; later, he became interested in public works, as follows ; Beauharnois, Lachine and' St. Ann's Locks; the Northern Railroad, of New York; the Bytown & Prcscott. now called the Ottawa and St. Lawrence, of Ontario ; the Union Canal, of Pennsylvania, and several railroads of Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The last few years of his life were devoted tothe manufacture of gas and building of railroad bridges; having thus spent most of his life in public enterprises, which shall be of lasting benefit to those who may come after him, he died at his home in Fond du Lac June 30, 187G; he was a man of an active and acquisitive disposition, and by his public spirit, enterprise and industry, he accjuired a reasonable portion of this world's goods as the fruits of his honest toil. Nov. 21, 1848, he was married to Miss Marj;aret, daughter of Daniel and Esther Mc Arthur, of Montreal, Can., by whom he had five daughters - Esther A. (the late Mr.s. G. P. Knowles), Catherine (now Mrs. G. P. Knowles, of Fond du Lac), Josephine, Jennie and Jessie JL The family are members of the Episcopal Church.

CHARLES L. FREDERICK, attorney, was born in Eldorado, Fond du Lac Co., in 1853 ; son of Charles W. and Louise D. Frederick, who were early settlers of the town ; attended the Fond du Lac High School and Commercial College ; was in the Register's office two years ; studied law with Coleman & Spence, after which he entered the Michigan University, graduating in the law and literary departments in 187G, being then admitted to the bar of the Circuit and Supreme Courts of Michigan ; he was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin the same year, since which time he has been in the practice of his profession.

JACOB EREY, of the firm of J. & C. Frey, grain-dealers and brewers; was born in Germany in 1824 ; came to Milwaukee in August. 1848, and in May, 1849, he, with his brother Charles, began the brewery business here in the summer of 1849, and have since continued the business ; in 1866, they purchased an elevator, having capacitor of 30,000 bushels, and have since been engaged in buying grain in connection with their brewery establishment. Mr. Jacob Frey married Miss Dora Newkirk, of Milwaukee, in 1850, she being a native of Germany also ; they have three children - Amelia, Frank and Anna. Mr. Frey was a charter member of the first Odd Fellows' lodge organized at Fond du Lac.

CHARLjES EREY, partner and brother of Jacob Frey; was born in Germany in 1826; came with his brother Jacob to Milwaukee in 1848, and to Fond du Lac in 1849; has always been been a partner in business, so that the history of one's business is a history of the other's also ; in 1859, he married Miss Mary Schafer, of Fond du Lac, by whom he has three children - Charles, Julia and Johanna. Messrs. J. & C. Frey are now the oldest German residents in the city of Fond du Lac, the few who came prior to them bavins died or moved away.

RUDOLPH FRITZ KE, Principal of German Lutheran School ; was born in Prussia Oct. 7, 1849 ; came to America in 1867 and settled at Milwaukee, Wis. ; he was educated at Du Page Seminary, Addison, 111., where he entered in 1871 and graduated in 1873, soon after which he began teaching in the Lutheran school at Fond du Lac, and after his first year's work, he was made Principal of the school, which position he has since held. In 1874, he married Miss Emma Luseberg, of Addison, whose - acquaintance he formed while there at school ; they have three children - Julia, Emma and Rosa.

JACOB C. FUHRMAN, superintendent of J. C. Huber & Co.'s drug-mill ; was born in the town of Calumet, Fond du Lac Co., April 11, 1851 ; son of Jacob and Kate Fuhrman, now residents of that town ; Mr. F. was raised on a farm ; served an apprentice.ship at wagon-making in Calumet Village ; worked at that trade three years ; went to California in 1870 ; returned after six months to Missouri, where he worked one year at his trade ; removed then to Woodville, Calumet Co., where he worked one year at his trade, and two years at farming ; in 1874, he sold out and came to Fond du Lac, where he has since been engaged in the medicine-manufacturing business, associated with J. C. Huber ; Mr. F. is one of the proprietors and Superintendent of the drug-mill. He was married at Fond du Lac April 15, 1879, to Clara L. Bischoff ; she was born in the city of Fond du Lac Aug. 22, 1856. He is a Turner and a member of Economical Lodge, K. of H.

JOHN F. M. 4irAERTNER, overseer of the County Poor and Insane Asylum ; was born in the province of Rhine in 1831 ; emigrated to America with his parents, John and Barbara Gaertner, reaching the town of Byron, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., Aug. 12, 1847, where he followed farming for about fourteen years, whence, in 1861, he removed to the city of Fond du Lac, where he was in the employ of J. & C. Frey, brewers, from 18C2 till 1868, after which, for one year, he was interested in the grain trade with Mr. Louis Rupp, of that city ; he next was in the saloon business till September, 1877 ; Jan. 1, 1879, he was installed overseer of the County Poor and Insane Asylum, by the County Board, which office he has efficiently filled. . In January, 1855, he was married to Miss Helena, daughter of Mathias and Mary Schmidt, of the town of Lamartine ; they have five children - Maggie, Mary, Bertha, Dina and Annie. .Mr. Gaertner and family are members of the Catholic Church.

CHARLES NELSON GALL AND, carpenter and traveling salesman ; was born in the town of Lamartine, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., Deo. 25, 1857 ; a son of William and Mary Galland, who came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1841, and who are still living on Sec. 2, town of Fond du Lac ; at the age of 14, Charles N. be<;an learning the carpenter's trade, which he has ever since followed, working winters in the McDonald Manufacturing Co.'s shops, and traveling summers selling and setting up their machines.

CHARLFiS ALFRED GALLOWAY, lumber manufacturer ; was born near Lowville, Lewis Co., N. Y., in April, 1S35; came to Fond du Lie in 18G3, where he very soon after enlisted in the 3yth W. V. I. ; on his return from the army, he was employed in the lumber business with his brother, Edwin H. Galloway, now deceased, with whom he continued a few years before entering the same business for himself, which he still follows on an extensive scale, being a member of the firm of Moore & Galloway. Mr. Galloway has served as Alderman, Mayor, member of the Board of Supervisors, and, March 4, 1880, was appointed by President Hayes United States Collector of Revenue for the Third Wisconsin District. He was married at Sergeant's Bluffs, Iowa, in November, 1870, to.Emma A. Kennedy; they have one child, born in September, 1871.

JAMES trAYNOR, luuibermm ; was born in Canada in 1830, and lived there till 1855, when he went to Janesville and lived one year; in 185l!, he came t) Fond du Lac ; began the lumber business, rafting from Oshkosh to Fond du Lac, which he continued till 1874, since which time, he has been operating in lumber over on the Chippewa and it.s tributaries, where he has 7,000 acres of pine land, shipping from three to five million feet annually down the Mississippi River. Mr. Gaynor has a one-acre lot on Sheboygan street which is covered by a growth of the natural forest trees, making one of the nicest lots for a dwelling in the city of Fond du Lac. He was a member of the City Council from the Second Ward in 1875. Married Miss Mary Doherity, of Fond du Lac, in 1872 ; they have three children - Terresa, Stella and Edward J., all of whom, with their parents, are members of St. Patrick's Catholic Church.

AUtwUST GEISLER, proprietor of meat market; was born in Germany in the year 18.30 ; he followed farming there until 1855, then came to America and began the butcher trade in Milwaukee, whence he came to Fond du Lac in 1871. In 1855, he married Miss Ernestina Bericle, of Germany, by whom he has three children - Edward, Paulina (deceased), Amelia. He and family are members of the Lutheran Church.

HE\RY J. GERPHEIDE,attorney at law; he was born at Manitowoc, Wis., May 5, 1853; from 1871 to 1873, he was a student at the State Normal School at Oshkosh ; he then entered upon the study of law with the firm of H. G. & W. J. Turner, of Manitowoc, and continued in their ofiScc until early in the year 1875; after spending a short time in xVppleton, he came to Fond du Lac, locating here in March, 1875; May 7, of the same year, he was admitted to the bar, and has continued the practice of his professionin the city ever since. In October, 1878, he married Eleanor P. Perkins, daughter of Hon. George Perkins, present County Judge of Fond du Lac Co.; she was born at Brandon, in this county ; they have one sou - George H.

JOEL B. Cw ERMO IV D, watchmaker ; he was born at Pleasant Valley, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1818; in 1839, he removed to Savannah, Ga., where he lived two years; lived one year in Philadelphia ; twenty-three years in New York City ; removed to Chicago in 1865, and to Fond du Lac in 1872. Mr. G. began the business of watchmaking in 1833, and has worked at it ever since. He was married in New York City, April 12, 1849, to Pernielia Hunt, born in that city March 23, 1828 ; they have four children - Irving Hunt, Joel Arnous, Harry Johnson and Myra Jane.

GEORGE GIDOIi\GS, of the firm of Do Groat & Giddings ; is a native of Wisconsin, and was born in 1S52 ; lived at Sheboygan till 14 years of age, when, with his parents, he came to Fond du Lac ; was educated in the public scliools of Sheboygan and FimdduLac; followed farming till 1872; from 1872 to 1875, he worked in a flouring-mill with his father ; in 1876, became a partner of Mr. De Groat, in the firm of De Groat & Giddings, manufacturers of engines, mill machinery, etc. In 1878, he married Miss Hattie Belle Hunter, daughter of George Hunter, of Fond du Lac; she is a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Giddings has been a K. of P. since 1878.

STATHAIV C. GIFFIX ; was born Oct. 18, 1833, at Hamilton, a small village seven miles south of the city of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.; he is the oldest son of Nathan Ford Giffin, and a lineal descendant of Simon Gllfin, who, about the year 1761, was a prominent citizen of Halifax, Nova Scotia; his s;randfather, David Giffin, was a native of Bennington, Vt., who, in 1800, at the age of 34 years, settled in St. Liwrence Co., N. Y., on a farm in the town of Oswegatchie, six miles above Ogdensburg, where he resided for forty years ; he was a captain during the war of 1812. Nathan Ford, his fourth son, in 1830, at the age of 25 years, located in Hamilton, where he still resides, having, by his untiring energy and strict business habits, secured a competeacy for his old age ; he has one daughter, his firstborn, who resides in Nebraska, and his six living sons (one died at the age of 16 years) are all married and well settled in life ; two are lawyers, one a physician, one a merchant, one a teacher and one is a farmer. Dr. L. W. Giffin, the youngest of the family, is a resident of this State and at present located at Menasha. Nathan C. Giffin, the subject of this sketch, was educated at tlie Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, N. Y., and Union College, of Schenectady, N. Y., at which latter institution he graduated in 1859, and at once went to New York City to finish his law studies ; he was admitted to the bar in 1800 ; during the Thirty-Seventh Congress, he was Clerk of one of the United States Senate Committees. In 1862, he was married to Miss Jane C. Eddy, daughter of Zephaniah Eddy, a prominent farmer of the town of Philadelphia, N. Y.; in 1863, he came to Fond du Lac with his wife and infant daughter, (where he has since resided"), and opened a law office; he has held several prominent positions here; has been a member of the Board of Education, Chairman of the First Ward, President of the Common Council, for five years. City Attorney, and for four and one-half years County Judge, and is at present one of the Directors of the Public Library, which is maintained by the city of Food du Lac. He has four children, three daughters and one son. He, his wife and three daughters, are members of the M.E. Church, of which he is one of the Trustees. Judge Giffin is at present practicing law in the city of Fond du Lac, and 0. T. Williams, a graduate of Lawrence University and a promising young lawyer, is his partner. Mrs. Giffin is well known throughout the county, and is noted for her benevolence and zeal in every good cause.

iJOHX W. (jrlljli, roadmaster of the Sheboygan & Foud du Lac Railroad ; was born in County Mayo, Ireland, June 24, 1838; came to America in 1849 ; resided in Syracuse, N. Y., until he came to Fond du Lac, in November, 1856 ; Mr. Gill has been in the employ of the Chicago & North- Western Railway Co. about twenty years, spending four years in their employ in Michigan. He was married at Neenah, Wis., to Catherine Mongan, June G, 1864, a native of County Roscommon, Ireland ; they have five children - Mary A., Ellen M., William J., Catherine and John C. Mr. Gill has served several terms as Alderman ; been member of the County Board, and for many years President of the St. Patrick's Benevolent Societ}'.

COIi. Bf. S. GIIjSOX, attorney at law; was born at Middlefield, Geauga Co., Ohio; he came to Wisconsin in 1860 ; in September, 1861, he enlisted at West Bend, in Co. D, 12th W. V. I.; he entered the service as a private, and was jiromoted to be Sergeant of his company, then as Sergeant Major of his regiment ; during a portion of the year 1862, his regiment was doing duty in Missouri and Kansas; in June of that year, they joined the Army of the Tennessee at Columbus, Kentucky; a portion of the time he was with the Army of the Cumberland on detached duty ; in August, 1863, he was promoted to the first lieutenancy of Company H, 58th Regiment U. S. Colored Infantry ; he participated in the siege of Vicksburg, siege of Jackson, battle of Perryville, and other engagements ; he served as Judge Advocate of the District of Natchez, on the staff of Maj. Gen. Davidson, and in 1865-66 was Judge Advocate of the Department of Mississippi, on the stafi' of Maj. Gen. Osterhaus, and also on the staif of Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Wood; he was mustered out of the service as Lieutenant Colonel June 12, 1866, and was brevetted Colonel of U. S. Volunteers by the President. After leaving the army, Mr. Gilson spent a year at the Albany (N. Y.) Law School, graduating in 1867; in 1868, he began the practice of his profession in the city of Fond du Lac ; since that time Col. Gilson has served one term as City Attorney of Fond du Lac, and one term as District Attorney of Fond du Lac County ; he is now practicing law as a member of the firm of Gilson & Ware, at Fond du Lac.

L.OIJIS GOIjI>STUCKER, Justice of the Peace ; born in the kingdom of Hanover, in January, 1S19; came to America in October, 1849; came to Fond du ijac in April, 1853; elected Justice of the Peace first in 1857.

THOMAS GOlKirH, groceryman; was born in Ireland in 1833, where ho lived on a farm till 1852, when with parents he moved to Quebec, where he remained for three and one-half years; he came to Fond du Lac in the year 1856 and began clerking in a hardware store for R. Deacon, with whom he remained for one year; he then clerked in different stores in the city of Pond du Lac till 1863, when he entered the store of E. H. Jones & Bro., for whom he clerked eight and one-half years-, leaving them in 1871 he started a grocery store of his own, which business he has since continued. He married Miss Katie Kelly, of Elba Township, Dodge Co., Wis., in 1870, who died in June, 1872, leaving three children, whose names are as follows : Mary, John T. and Katie; Mary and John T. are now living, but Katie, the youngest, lived only about two weeks after the death of her mother. Mr. Gough married Miss Sarah Ford, of Rosendale, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., in 1876, by whom he has one child - Annie. Mr. Gough and all his family are members of the Catholic Church.

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JOHIV E. (irOlTLiD, farmer; was born in Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1821. In April, 1846, he with his parents - John and Margaret Gould - set sail for America, and landed in New York June 8, following ; they stopped for one year at Minersville, Penn., where he engaged in coal mining ; thence to Clinton, Ohio ; thence, in 1849, to Fond du Lac Co., and followed farming in the town of Eldorado till 180.5. He then disposed of that farm and bought his present home of ninety-eight and one-half acres in Section 4, town of Fond du Lac, of which he sold nineteen and one-half acres, leaving him seventy-eight acres, valued at about $80 per acre. He married Miss Isabella Kendall of Eldorado, in 1861 ; they have had three children - George, Charles (deceased), Martha. His wife is a member of (he Presbyterian Church.

WENDEIi CJRAUS, proprietor of saloon ; was born in Prussia in 1821; immigrated to America in 1845; landing at New York, he went to Pennsylvania; thence to Ohio, and there was employed as a molder in a foundry for about sis years ; leaving Ohio in 1856, he spent most of that year in traveHng through Illinois, Iowa, down the Mississippi to St. Louis and back to Cincinnati, Ohio ; thence he emigrated to California, where he remained till 1861. He then returned to New York, and there set sail for Europe, where he visited Hamburg, Heidelberg, Baden, Ludwick, Paris and Southampton, and various other places of interest. He set sail from Southampton, and reached America again in 1863, and settled in Pond du Lac, where he soon began his present business. Married Miss Eva Halk, daughter of Michael Halk of Germany ; they have four children as follows : Louisa, August (deceased), George (deceased ), Joseph, now of New York. Mr. G. and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Mr. Graus was a member of Common Council from Fourth Ward, for one term - 1869.

IjEROY graves is a native of Truxton, Cortland Co., N. Y., where he was born in 1830, and lived till 15 years of age. He moved to Waukesha, Wis., and was engaged in the manufacture of saleratus and pearl-ash for about two years ; moved to Rochester, Wis., and was with his father in same business for about three years ; after which, he founded Gravesville, Calumet Co., and from which county he was a member of the State Legislature in 1861. From Calumet Co., he moved to Kansas, and was engaged in the horse and mule trade till 1866, when he began the dry-goods and grocery business at Fond du Lac. In 1867, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee of Councilmen of Fifth Ward; in 1868, was elected Chairman of the Board of Public Works, and has twice .since been elected Chairman of the Council from the Sixth Ward. In 1878, he built a store at Coleman Station on Wisconsin Central Railroad, which burned Jan. 6, 1879, since which time he has been engaged in looking after lands along the Weston & Lake Shore R. R. Married Miss Kate Baldwin of Lowell, Dodge Co., Wis., in 1848, who died in 1866. In 1868, he married Miss Marietta Cumming of Pond du Lac, by whom he has had three children - John L. and Edwin (now deceased), and Pearl H. Mr. Graves has been an active worker in the Greenback party, and was one of the Delegates to the State Convention at Madison in 1876.

EDWIN C GRAY, physician and surgeon; was born at Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y., in April, 1838 ; studied medicine with his brother at Eaton, Madison Co., in the same State, where he began practicing in 1862 ; it the fall of 1867, Dr. Gray came to Fond du Lac, where he has since resided, engaged in the practice of his profession and in manufacturing. He is a member of the Masonic, Kniglit< of Pythias and Knights of Honor Lodges, and is the State Medical Examiner of the last-named order.

JAMES T. CirREENE. abstracter and insurance agent; was born at Rochester, N. Y.; came to Fond du Lac in 1847, which has since been his home; he was engaged in farming until 1863 ; in 1866, he entered the Register's office as Deputy, where he remained until January, 1871, where he was appointed Enrolling Clerk of the State Senate; Mr. G. then spent one year in Oregon; returned to Fond du Lac, and in May, 1862, became a member of the firm of Laijib & Greene, which lasted until January, 1875; he was then Deputy Register one year, after which he engaged in his present business; recently the firm became Greene & Newton ; Mr. Greene was City Assessor in 1878 ; City Comptroller since April, 1879 ; Superintendent of the Poor and City Purchasing Agent since February, 1880.

COL,. THOMAS H. OREEJV, architect; was born in East Greenwich, Kent Co., R. I., April 2, 1828; reared in the town of North New Berlin, Chenango Co., N. Y.; on his 17th birthday, started for Fond du Lac, which has since been his home, arriving here May 1, 1845 ; after serving three years with Isaac Brown as carpenter, began contracting and building, his first contract being to build Fry's first brewery ; in 1855, opened an office as architect, having done much of that kind of work previous to that time. Col. G. enlisted April 17, 1861 for ninety days, in Co. I, 1st W. V. I.; commissioned First Lieutenant April 23, 1861 ; at end of the ninety days, he re-organized the company for three years, and was commissioned Captain of Co. K., Aug. 28, 1861 ; was with his regiment in all its principal engagements; was shot through the neck at Perryville, July 8, 1862; wounded in left foot and forehead at Chickamauga, September, 1863; promoted to Major July 1, 1864, having acted as Major and had virtual conamand of his regiment after first year's service as Captain; discharged Oct. 13, 1861; soon after entered Gen. Geors^e H. Thomas' army, as Field Hospital Sutler, of the Army of the Cumberland, in which he served to the close of the war ; he then speculated in oil during two years in Canada, returning afterward to Fond du Lac and his profession. Col. G. was married at Fond du Lac, April 17, 1851, to Sarah I., daughter of Selim Newton, who located in Fond du Lac Co. in 1814; they have three children - Charles T., born Feb. 2, 1853; Lucy A., now Mrs. C. W. Morris, born Jan. 26, 1855; Dwight E., born Dec. 21, 1860. The finest blocks, residences and public buildings in Fond du Lac, Waupun, Clinton' Escanaba and other cities, were from designs by Col. Green ; in Fond du Lao, some of them are the High School, residences of M. D. Moore and W. B. Brand, No. 5 engine house, Bartlett's market, Murphy Block, La Belle wagon works, storehouse and many others. He served as Alderman of the First Ward in 1856.

DJft. E. L. GJRIFFIIV, physician and surgeon; was born at HilLsboro, N. H., Sept. 21, 1821 ; he was educated at Kimball Union Academy, of Meriden, N. H., and Dartmouth College; graduated at Pittsfield, Mass., from the Berkshire Medical College, in 1849; he practiced medicine in New Hampshire until 1855, when he came to Fond du Lac, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. Dr. G. was one to take initiatory steps in forming the State Board of Health, of which he is Pre-iident ; he is also a member of the Rock River Medical Society, and a prominent member of the Congregational Church. He married Abby M. Mason, of Newburyport, Mass.; they have two daughters living and two dead; the living ones are Abbie W., now Mrs. J. W. Bass, of Red Wing, Minn., and Susan M., residing with her parents; the deceased were an infant and Helen T., who died Sept. 12, 1868, aged 15 years.

JOHiV Q. GRIFFITH, lumberman ; was born at Pike, N. Y., March 1, 1818 ; came to Fond du Lac in 1850 and followed the transportation business between Fond du Lac and Sheboygan until engaging in the manufacture of lumber in 1856; he operated the old Wilbor & Henry mill in 1859, and, in 1860, purchased the Forest Street Mill, which he run until 1871, when he erected his present large mill on West Division street; in 1866, his son. Carver N., was admitted to partnership, and, in 1870, Wilbur A., another son, was also ajlmitted, the firm being since that time, J. Q. Griffith and sons. Carver N. Griffith was born at Centreville, Allegany Co., N. Y., and Wilbur A., at Hume, in the same county. The maiden name of the first Mrs. J. Q. Griffith, who was born in Vermont, and died in January, 1853. leaving four children, was Lucy Goss; the present Mrs. G. was Jennie M. Riddell, of Massachusetts; the children are Carver N., VVilbur A., Albert G., Hattie S., now Mrs. J. C. Heitbahn, of Fond du Lao, and Jennie (a daughter by the second Mrs. Griffith), now Mrs. Dr. Haueker of Oshkosh.

JOHN GKISSMANN, farmer. Sec. 21 ; was born in Germany in 1803 ; he learned the stone and brick mason's trade, which he continued there till 1847, when he immigrated to America and settled in Sheboygan Co., Wis., where he followed farming till 1876; he then bougiit his present farm of eightysix acres in Sec. 21. In 1847, he married Maggie Sittler, of Germany; they have six children - Herman, Annie, John, Jr., Charles, Augustus, Jennie.

S. S. (jrlJILE, veterinary surgeon; residence on Twelfth street; office and stable on Third street; he was born in Batavia, N. Y., May 11, 1832 ; in his native city he learned the profession of veterinary surgeon, and practiced there until 1853, in which year he came to Wisconsin, and practiced in Brandon, Fond du Lac Co., until about 1865, when he commenced delivering a series of lectures on the various diseases that the horse was heir to, and traveled over several of the Northwestern States and Canada; in 1872, he located permanently in this city (Fond du Lac) and successfully followed the practice of his profession here since ; he has several tine blooded stock horses that are unequaled in the State. Mr. Guile has been twice married; his first wife was Martha Jones; she died in Rochester, Wis.; his present wife was Meta Paine ; has one child - Nellie, born in Fond du Lac Co., Wis. In politics, Mr. Guile is a Democrat. In his profession he has an extensive practice, and has attaint-d a good reputation as u thoroughly qualified surgeon.

REV. FATHER HAAS, ex-Custos of St. Joseph's of the Capuchin Order; is a native of Switzerland ; born Nov. 25, 1826 ; he received his preparatory education at S.ilura and Lucerne and pursued the higher studies of philosophy and physics, in the Lyceum at Lucerne, but completing that part of his education in the Seminary of Resoul, France ; his theologicil studies were pursued in^ the Universities of Freiburg, Tubingen and Munchen ; he was ordained to the Holy Order by Bishop Solzmann, of Basel, of Salura, Dec. 28, 1851 ; from the time of his ordination till 1856, he was assistant priest of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church, Liesberg ; in 1856, he, in company with Rev. Father Bonaventura Frey, came to America to establish the Capuchin Order ; they located at Kenosha for six months, and, in the spring of 1857, returned to Europe to get the ecclesiastical approval of the establishment of the Order "in America, and also to bring over seven brethren, with Antowine M. Gachet, the appointed

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Contents

The city of Fond du Lac is situated at the south end of Lake Winnebago, on a level prairie, where springs and many artesian wells abound, the latter taking on the appearance of fountains, which gave to the place the "nickname" of the "Fountain City." The location was chosen by James Duane Doty and other mem¬ bers of the Fond du Lac Company, and the first house built in the county was erected by the Company in 1835, which was occupied by Colwert Pier in the early part of 1836.

From the fact that the city was located near the lake and that the land con¬ tiguous thereto was low and marshy, precluding a harborage and, consequently deterring merchants and others from entering into lake traffic to any considerable extent, it became a much mooted question as to whether the Company had made a good selection for the site of a city, - the metropolis and capital of the county. They were rather foresighted, those pioneers, and, today, no better built, better kept, prettier little city exists, than that of Fond du Lac, and it is probably not surpassed by any community in the state for healthfulness. The place where Fond du Lac now stands was a favorite and general camping ground for the Indians and was the site of several Indian villages. When the first whites came to the spot remains of Indian corn and potato fields were in evidence on every hand and, on Forest street, was an Indian burial ground. The latest of these Indian tribes were the Menominees and they were here as early as the Winnebagoes. These Menominees were friendly and outstayed the Winnebagoes for some years. Eventually, they became troublesome, only to the extent, however, of carelessly setting fire to property and stealing the white man's stock. When removed to the reservation the settlers, especially the women, were not sorry, but rather much relieved.

It has already been shown that Colwert Pier was the first settler in the county. He came to the future city of Fond du Lac with his wife in Tune, 1836, and was soon followed by other members of the Pier family. On the 3d day of March, 1838, John Bannister, Fond du Lac's first surveyor, came from Green Bay and with his family settled down in the Company's log house and became a regu¬ lar citizen of the new village. About April 12, 1838, Mason C. Darling, a poor, young physician, came from Sheboygan and settled here, having come through an arrangement made with the Fond du Lac Company. Tames Duane Doty, one of the Company's officials, had foreseen the advantage of having a physician in the settlement and could see the necessity of it. The Company desired to attract immigration to Fond du Lac, so that, Doty, as trustee, entered into a contract with Dr. Darling, whereby, in consideration that the Doctor should locate in Fond du Lac, practice his profession and cultivate certain lands to be given him as compensation, the Company transferred to Dr. Darling certain lots of land in the village of Fond du Lac near the river, eighty acres of land now in the heart of the city and a large tract of land in the town of Fond du Lac. After starting what was known as Clarke's Mill and building on the "eighty," as agreed, the lands mentioned in the contract was delivered by warranty deed to Dr. Darling. He also came into possession of some of the company's stock and in 1844, brought action against the land corporation for a division of property. This suit while pending, prevented the Company from disposing of its lots and taking advantage of this condition of affairs. Dr. Darling had bought land in what is now the south part of the city and cut it up into town lots. Many of these lots he sold and others he gave away to those who would come to Fond du Lac, locate and build on the lots. By this means he accelerated the sale of his lots and the value of his "eighty at the same time the value of the company's lots in "Middle," or "Lower Town" remained stationary or depreciated, while their sale was stopped completely. The master in chancery had already decided that no more land belonging to the Company should be sold pending the adjudication of the matter in controversy. This did not estop Dr. Darling from disposing of his possessions, so that, having a keen business eye and great foresight, he gave to the county the tract of land on which the court house now stands, under the condition that the county should at once erect a building there. These enterpris¬ ing gifts of lots to the county and settlers secured to Fond du Lac the distinc¬ tion of being the county seat and attracted a great many more people to the grow¬ ing village than would have otherwise located there. So that it is well said, Dr. Darling was the father of Fond du Lac and accomplished more than all his neighbors in starting Fond du Lac on the road to its future growth and pros¬ perity.

On the 14th day of June, 1838, the family of Dr. Darling - his wife and three children, Keyes A., Helen M. and Louie - arrived at their new home, coming from Sheboygan by way of Calumet. From the latter settlement Gustav de Neveu and A. D. Clark had met the party and brought its members to Fond du Lac in a large yawl on the lake. In addition to the Darlings were A. T. Den¬ nison, his wife and two children, and a Mrs. May and child. Owing to a heavy . storm, the boat was driven to Taycheedah, from which point all walked to Fond du Lac, a distance of three miles. The members of the Darling family lived in the Company's house until the Doctor had completed the building of a residence on the corner of Main and First streets, where some years later stood the well known Darling block. The next year after his arrival, learning that John Ban¬ nister's lease of the "Fond du Lac House" was about to expire, Dr. Darling rented the property, which he closed and becoming successor to Bannister as postmaster, he moved the postoffice to his new home, which he had named the "Fond du Lac House" and where he not only kept a hotel but dispensed mail to his neighbors.

It can be seen that Dr. Darling at once took a leading part in the affairs of Fond du Lac. By the many inducements he offered settlers to make Fond du Lac their home, in many instances giving them lots on which to build houses, the village grew apace. All who came, however, did not remain. But Fond du Lac was the distributing point for those seeking farms and foregathered here before going into the interior of the county and selecting land. To these people both the caravan¬ saries known as the ''Fond du Lac House," the old "Fond du Lac House" and the new one, presided over by Dr. Darling, were their homes until other habita¬ tions had been prepared for them.

By the year 1847 the population of Fond du Lac had increased to about four hundred souls and the men of affairs, having every confidence in the future of the place, were ambitious and desired autonomy for the settlement, separate and apart from the town. The legislature had granted a village charter and notices had been posted in conspicuous places, apprising all qualified electors that a meet¬ ing would be held on Monday, March 1, 1847, for the purpose of adopting or rejecting the village charter. At that meeting Dr. Darling presided and J. J. Driggs was clerk. There were 60 votes cast, the balloting having commenced at 11 o'clock in the morning. The charter was adopted by a vote of 49 to 11 and an election immediately was ordered for the selection of village officers, which resulted as follows: For president of the village, Mason C. Darling; trustees, John A. Eastman, Moses S. Gibson, T. L. Gillett, Isaac Brown, S. S. N. Fuller, J. J. Driggs ; treasurer, E. W. Drury; clerk, W. A. Dewey; constable, O. S. Wright. These officials qualified for their duties by taking the oath of office on the 7th of April, and at a meeting held for the purpose M. C. Darling, Isaac Brown and S. S. N. Fuller were appointed to act as a committee and prepare "a code of by-laws for the village. " At the same time a committee composed of T. L. Gillett, S. S. N. Fuller, J. A. Eastman, J. J. Driggs and M. S. Gibson, was appointed to draft and report ordinances for the village of Fond du Lac.

The second village election was held on March 6, 1848, at the Cottage Inn, which stood on the corner of Main and Court streets. .A tie vote between M. S. Gibson, A. D. Bonesteel and Cornelius Davis, candidates for trustee, threw the election over into the next day, when the decision of the electors, of which there were 97, was in favor of A. D. Bonesteel and Edgar Conklin.

One of the first questions to absorb the legislative activities of the trustees was how to finance the new municipal corporation. And another was like unto it - the question of making and improving streets. This, undoubtedly, gave rise to many arguments among the merchants and citizens and it would have been strange, indeed, if there were not a certain amount of "wire pulling," by persons more or less interested. Certain it is, that for months the village trustees strug¬ gled over the proposition of opening Western avenue and building sidewalks. Finally, in March. 1848. the decision was reached to build cross walks. As the streets were deep with mud in inclement weather, this advance in improvements was hailed with delight. This is evidenced by a paragraph in the local paper, which read : "Only think of it ! Scarce three months have passed since the ordinance was passed to construct sidewalks, and full one-tenth of the work is now completed. At this rate, this grand, extensive improvement will be finished in the unparalleled short space of two and one-half years from the date of its commencement !"

In 1847 the village of Fond du Lac showed a population of four hundred and had four general stores, two groceries, one harness shop, three tailor shops, three shoe shops, a jeweler's repair shop, tin shop, a cooper shop, wagon shop, three blacksmith shops and two taverns. A grist mill was in course of construction, as were also a jail and court house. Of course, there were lawyers and physicians. The population continued to grow and business enterprises increased with the years, so that, by 1852, Fond du Lac was clamoring at the doors of the legislature for greater and more extended municipal privileges and seeking to be incorpor¬ ated as a city.

That parcel of land from Main street to the river and from First to Forest streets was Dr. Darling's yard, the house standing almost in the center of the tract, which was adorned with shade and fruit trees as late as the year 1853. I 11 1851, the old Darling block was completed, and stood on the northwest corner of Main and First streets. This was the beginning of the dismemberment of the Darling homestead. The old residence was taken away for a new one. Macy street was ordered to be opened from First to Forest later on and the new house was moved onto Macy street. The trees began to disappear, business houses encroached on the property and it was not many years before the Darling homestead was cut into many parts, now the sites of modern stone and brick business blocks and handsome residences.