Fountain Prairie Town (part 10 of 11)

GEORGE IVOLLER, farmer. Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Doylestown ; born in 1821, at Wurtemberg; came here in 1847. Was married at Milwaukee, Wis., to Julia Frey ; they have four children - Fred G., born Oct, 1, 1856 ; Charles, born March 3, 1858; Sophia, born March 3, 1860; Julia Louisa, born Feb 3, 1864; Fred has been three years in the office of the Columbus Democrat, and has just quit to work on the farm for a holiday. Mr. NoUer sent to the Province of Alsace, France, for seed wheat three years ago, and from one (|iuirt raised three bushels, the next year forty-five bushels, and last year sold two hundred and fifty bushels at 84 per bushel (a bushel weighed sixty-four pounds). Mr. Noller owns 120 acres of land.

WILLI AJI H. PROCTOK, farmer. Sec. 30; P. 0. Fall River; was born in Windsor Co., Vt., in 1827 ; his father, Capt. Asa Proctor, was also a native of Wind.sor Co., and obtained his title by being Captain of a State militia company there in his younger days ; his mother, Lorena Proctor, was boru at Mount Holly, Rutland Co., Vt.; Mr. Proctor is the second of a family of five children, one of whom died in Vermont in infancy; two were born in the West; in 1836, his father, with his wife and two children, emigrated to Michigan, and located on a farm in Kalaiuazoo Co.; eight years later, they removed to the town of Fountain Prairie, Columbia ( then Portage) Co., and located on a farm on Sec. 30, where his father died in 1848, his mother in 1855; his father. Col. J. Drake and James C. Carr, were the first inspectors of the first election of the Columbus Precinct of Portage Co., in the fall of 1845 ; William H., our present subject, made his home with his parents till their death, and now lives on a portion of the homestead; he owns 1(50 acres in Sees. 19 and 30. He has been a member of the Town Boarji, and Chairman of the same for four terms. He was married in 1857, to Miss Angeline E.. daughter of Samuel and Mary Lashier : a native of Broome Co., N. Y., born in 1838, and emigrated to Columbia Co., Wis., with her parents, in 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Proctor have sjven children - Ellen L., John S., Willie R., Mary E., Walter A., Clara M. and Alfred H.

THOMAS M. ROBERTS, miller, Fall River; born May 24, 1S58, at Oshkosh, Wis.; son of David A. and Anna (Morgan) Rol)irts ; was clerking three years and milling three years; employed by E. Evans.

FRAIVKLIN RUSSELL, farmer; P. 0. Fall River; was born in the town of Windsor, in Windsor Co., Vt., Aug. 28, 1805 ; son of John and Elizabeth (Hartwell) Russell, of Massachusetts ; settled in Dodge Co. in 1855. made a farm and ran it about thirteen years, then came to Fall River. He was married in the town of Stowe. Washington Co., Vt., by Daniel Moody, Esq., July 6, 1828, to Sylvia, daughter of Samuel and Betsey (Bigf)rd) Parcher; they have had twelve children - two died young, and ten are living, as follows : Cordelia M.. wife of F. H. Coon, of Fall River, who has twochddren - Ada, wife of Charles Taylor, an 1 Nina, wife of Arthur Haughton, of Dodge Co., Wis.; Susan J., wife of David Ash, of Dakota, who has six children - Adelaide, Edward, Clarence, Lily, Burt and Dora (Adelaide is the wife of Charles Wells, of St. Lawrence, N. Y.; Edward's wife was a Martin, and Lily is the wife of W. H. Blanchard ) ; A. H., married Mary A Brayton, of Portage, and has three children - May, Jay and Inez; R. P., married Delia Gilson, now at Wrightstown, Wis., and has six children - -Betsey, Ella, Wilbur and Willard (twins), Minnie and Rena ; Z. B., married Nov. 20, 181)5, at Fox Lake, to Lizzie Simpson, formerly from Ohio, they have two children, Julia and Mattie (Z. B. is a Republican and a Methodist ; was several years Treasurer of the town ; lost a leg at South Mountain, and is drawing a pension ; runs a cigar factory and restaurant, and also keeps a stock of groceries, flour, etc.; the parents of Mrs. Z. B. Rus.sell were R. C. and Matilda (Culver) Simpson, he being a native of New York and she of Pennsylvania ; Mrs. Matilda Simpson died at Wyocena in April, 1873, aged 66 years, and R. C. Simpson is living, at the age of 77, with his daughter, .Mrs. Z. B. Russell, at Fall River; Mrs. Z. B. Russell was 37 years old Dec. 25,1879, and has three brothers and two sisters living; one of them (Henry) was in the army ; Mr. Simpson came here in 1849) ; Betsy A., wife of E. F. Russell, of Dakota, has one child, Sylvia (she (Betsey) was the widow of (iilman Eno, by whom she had two children, Reuel and Derell) ; Philura, wife of Charles Thompson, of Dakota, she has two children, Jennie and Irving ; Franklin, married in Minnesota, and has one girl, Cora; Ezra W., is single, and runs a barber shop and notion store at Ashland, Wis.; Priscilla A., died Sept. 8, 1864, aged 16 years. Mr. Russell has seven great-grandchildren - two in Adelaide's family, in New York, and one in Edward's family, at the same place* Ada Taylor has one ; Nina Haughton has one; Betsey has one ; R. P.'s daughter, Ella Bradley, has one. Mr. R. had four sons and three sons-in-law in the army ; some of his bro'hers were in the war of 1812 ; Mrs. R.'s father was a captain in the war of 1812, and her brother a soldier ; she had four brothers and five sisters. Mr. Russell was a seventh son, a Republican, a Methodist, and a radical total abstinence man, but never signed a pledge ; he used tobacco five years, and then quit both smoking and chewing.

JAMES RAIVDALL, farmer. Sec. 34; P. 0. Fall River; born in Stafford, Genesee Co., N. Y., July 17, 1844. [See Spencer Randall.] Married in Stafford by Rev. Ambrose Burlington, to Mary, daughter of Frank and Lucy ( Deming) Cash ; had one son, died five years ago at 3 years of age ; he came to this place in 1862, and has been farming ever since; he owns 40 acres and works homestead of 200 acres. Is a Republican ; Baptist in religion ; prominent temperance and Temple of Honor man.

SPENCER RANDALL, farmer, Sec. 33; P. 0. Fall River; born iq Stafford, Genesee Co., N. Y., March 31, 1837 ; son of Israel and Celia (Watson) Randall, of Vermont ; came to this town Oct. )iS, 1860. Married, June 25, 1862, at Stafford by Rev. Aaron Parker, to Jane E. Kellogg, who was born in October, 1836, daughter of Russell and Harriet ( Miller) Kellogg ; had five children - Freddie E., died in fijll of 1864; Charles, Hobart, Orrin W., all at home. Mr. Randall is a Republican ; attends the Baptist Church, and is at present Chairman of the Town Board (brother of James Randall) also a temperance man ; owns 80 acres.

BENJAJHIIV A. SAGE, blacksmith. Fall River; born Jan. 17, 1834, in Rutland, Vt.; son of Benjamin and Margaret (Bassford) Sage; settled at Fall River in spring of 1844 ; followed farming about twelve years, and then worked at this trade until, nine years ago, he purchased the shop he now owns, where he runs a general wagon and blacksmith repair-shop. Married, Jan. 1, 1859, by Rev. Rosencranz, of Columbus, to Mary L., daughter of Jonathan and Sally A. (Gale) Chase, of New Hampshire had eleven children - Mary, died young; Frances A., born Feb. 4, 1860 ; Elmer E., born Oct. 29, 1861 Benjamin A., born March 7, 1864; George G., born Dec. 28, 1865; William E., bore Nov. 19, 18G7 Susan M., born Feb. 4, 1870 ; Edgar, twin to one that died, born Aug. 20, 1872; Herbert, born Oct 21, 1S73; Mary L., born Oct. 11, 1875; Claude, born Aug. 18, 1879. Mr. Sage is a Democrat Baptist, and ultra temperance man ; was United States blacksmith in the army until he had smallpox and was discharged (he was stationed at Memphis, Tenn.) ; was several years Town Clerk, and from 1868 to present time Di-trict Clerk, and for nine years a Justice of the Peace, in a Republican town ; we are indebted to Mr. Sage for assistance rendered while engaged on this work.

ANTHONY SNOWI>EN, fiirmer. Sec. 17 ; P. O. Columbus; born in Yorkshire, England, in 1830 ; son of Anthony and Betsey (Atchison) Snowden ; came here in 1847 ; had three brothers and three sisters, all dead but Thomas, who is now in England, raising cattle, sheep, butter, etc.; lived with Mr. Pearson and Whitfield until he built a house two years later, traded at Columbus where there was a mill, tavern, .store and one house ; only four of those living at Columbus at that time are now living ; never married ; 160 acres, 100 cultivated.

WILLIAM SUGDEN, farmer. Sec. 2; P. 0. Fall River; born Nov. 28, 1824, at Lidget, Yorkshire, England; son of Abraham and Ann (Riley) Sugden ; came from birthplace April 28, 1858, landed May 12, and got to Wisconsin May 19 ; twenty years on Sec. 36 in Courtlaud, then here. Married at Yorkshire in 1846, by Rev. Mr. Smith, to Ann Appleyard ; had two children, both died in England. Married second time at same place, to Susanna, daughter of Joseph and Sally Bancroft ; had five children, all dead but one, John, who is now at Edgar, Clay Co., Neb , and married to Emily Dann, of Cuurtland. Married third tiine Jan. 26, 1866, by Rev. J. T. Woodhead at Fond du Lac, to Hannah, daughter of Peter and Henrietta Wright ; had one child, which died youu<r. Married fourth time, March 16, 1868, by Elder Brown, of Fountain Prairie, to Ellen Baxendall, daughter of P. P. and Jenny (Thornburg) Baxendal! ; had six children, four of them living - William Robert, born Oct. 27, 1869; Phineas Ralph, born June 11, 1871 ; Angenette, born Nov. 20, 1872 ; Hannah Ann Alice, born Nov. 10, 1879. Owns 260 acres, 90 acres of which are ctaltivated.

JACOB SWARTHOUT, "farmer, Sec. 28; P. 0. Fall River; born in Chenango Co., N. Y.; son of Thomas and Mary (Schumaker) Swarthout, of Pennsylvania ; settled on the farm he now owns in the fall of 1843. Was married at Dundee, Yates Co., N. Y., by P]lder Martin to Rachel Smaully, Sept. 20, 1839; had two children - Mary, born, 1840 (now wife of Lewis Birdsey, of Columbus), Josephine, 1850 (now wife of William Conger, an engineer of Brookfield, Mo.); married- a second time, Dec. 9, 1852, at home of the bride, by Elder Rosencrans, to Caroline A daughter of Joseph and Mary (Ward) Ma'hews; had six children - Andrew H. born Jan. 31, 1855; Ella B., Dec. 11, 1857; Carrie, Feb. 24, 1859 ; Eddie M., Jan. 1, 1861, died Feb. 20, 1880 ; John Jacob, born June 30, 1862; Willie, Oct. 11, 1866. Mr. S. is a straight-out temperance man ; Republican in politics; Methodist in religion. Was some years Treasurer and Supervisor. His grandfather, John Swarthout, was a New Jersey man, and held a commission as Captain under Giorge Washington in the Revolutionary war ; his uncle, Daniel Swarthout, was a non-commissioned officer in the war of 1812 ; Mr. S. relates that soon after they settled here, a severe wind took the roof off the house, carrying with it his sister Mary (since wife of F. .M. Black, of Columbus, and died in August, two years ago), about eighty rods into a grove of small timber ; himself and mother and Wiliard Grant were in the lower part of the house, and were uninjured except a slight bruise on his mother's arm by a falling joist; Mary received no permanent injury ; he also states that in July, 1858, a gale of wind completely divested some farms of their crops and fences, and wrecked the dwellings of Mr. Hurd and Morey, and that a stranger stopping at the time with Mr. Morey received

MARVIN R. THOMAS, farmer, Sec. 20; P. 0. Fall River; born Nov. 12, 1823, at Hudson, Summit Co., Ohio, son of B. C. and Abigal (Sauger) Thomas, formerly of Connecticut and later of New York, came to Columbus and commenced blacksmithing in lS-t6, built the second fire ever started in Columbus, (out of doors and then built a shop over it), settled here in 1857. Married, Dec. 24, 1852, on Sec. 19, by Rev. Mr. Green, Methodist minister, to Lorinda E. M. Tripp, who was born April 6, 1824. at Oswego, N. Y., daughter of Elisha and Polly E. ( Beebee) Tripp ; have two children - George Clarence, born June 24, 1855 ; Heleo L., Oct. 5, 1857, now at Augusta, Wis., in milliner's trade, formerly a teacher. Mr. Thomas is Liberal in politics and religion, and often splits the tickets in both cases; his son, George C., has been a t«acher three years; his wife nine years a teacher in New York and Wisconsin. The father of Mrs. Thomas died Jan. 15, 1856, of heart disease, and it was often said of him that he was never heard to utter an oath. When Mr. Thomas settled here, it was sparsely settled and times hard, and he relates that a Mr. Proctor living near by once invited a neighbor to take supper with him, which they did; they had break and milk, and he afterward discovered that his wife went without, as there was not enough to " go round." Mr. Proctor afterward became somewhat noted for his liberality, and acquired a competency. They had to go to Jeiferson Co. for provisions, and Mr. Thomas took his plowshare on his back, and went on foot to that place, over thirty miles, to get it repaired. Mrs. Thomas taught the first school in this part of the town in a board shanty, where the cemetery is now located ; her father's father, Calvin Tripp, was a soldier at Valley Forge, and died at the age of 88 years in 1846. Mr. Thomas was the youngest of a family of thirteen children ; the mother of Mrs. Thomas - Mrs. Tripp - was the eldest of twelve children, and the only one living ;. she is now with Mrs. Thomas, 88 years of age, in possession of her faculties, a pleasant, sprightly lady, with good memory, and a " conversationalist " in all that the name implies. Owns 100 acres.

JOHN WATERWORTH, farmer, Sec. 17; P. 0. Fall River; born July 10, 1852; son of Thomas and Sarah ( Greenwood ) Waterworth. Married April 9, 1 878, to Christina, daughter of Frederick and Sophia (Baker) Brightendorf ; no children. The father of Mrs. Brightendorf came here in 1853 with a capital of $300, and has by industry and judicious investments accumulated a comfortable fortune. Owns 80 acres.

JOSEPH WOODHEAD, farmer. Sec. 10; P. 0. Fall River; boru Sept. 10, 1818, near Bradford, in Yorkshire, England; son of Benjamin and Elisabeth (Roper) Woodhead, who settled in this town in 1848, Married, Aug. 10, 1846, at Town Church, near Leeds, Sarah Haley, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Taylor) Haley ; she was born Dec. 15, 1822, in the same town as her husband ; have ten children - Susan, boru Dec, 14, 1848; Benjamin F,, July 2, 185 i, married to Sarah Jane Hardy, Webster Co., Neb.; Emma Jane, Aug. 3, 1853, died at 15 months of age; Ida, born April 10, 1855, wife of Geo. W. Harrison, of Bradford, England - now in Rush Medical College - some time a teacher (has three children - Bruce, David C, and Wallace Earll); Thomas E., May 24, 1857; Salina A., July 17, 1859, wife of Lewis Robinson - one child, Mabel M.; Charles F., Deo. 29, 1861, at home unmarried; Newton H., Nov. 14, 1864 ; Joseph, Oct. 25,1866; Herbert H., Dec. 30, 1868. Mr. Woodhead is Democratic and Free Trade; worked in a coal mine from 62 years of age to 25, then struck for wages with about 300, all went back but three, of whom he was one, the other two went in three months ; he then went to shoemaking in Lancaster for his uncle Joseph 'VVoodhead, and for himself there and since coming here, fifteen years at trade at Columbus, most of the time for Thomas Swarthout, then two years at Doylestowu,»and now at his trade and farming. Owns 129 acres.

Town Of Wyocena

WILLIAM BRITTONALLEGAR, farmer, Sec. 33; P.CWyocena; born July 5, 1846, in Columbia Co., Penn.; son of Henry Allegar, who removed to Livingston Co., N. Y , when he was 8 years old, and went to Iowa in 1875, and now lives in Clinton Co., that State. William B. came to Wisconsin in 1867, and lived in Leeds, Columbia Co., one year, then in Randolph one year, where he was married, Dec. 4, 1870, to Maritta Be.ssac, who was born June 30, 1847, in the city of Hudson, N. Y. ; daughter of Henri L. and Amanda (^Mosier) Bessac, who came to Wiscon.«n in the fall of 1850 aad settled in Randolph, where he died in May, 1853. Mrs. Bessac aflerw.ird married Dr. N. D. Satterlee, and died Jan. 30, 1861, in her 36th year. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Allegar went to Iowa ; lived in Hardin Co. four years and in Clinton Co. two years ; in the fall of 1876, he came back to Wisconsin and bought the farm he now owns. Has three children - Frank, born Nov. 22, 1871 ; C. L. G. (a girl), Sept. 6, 1873, and Maud, Aus;. 28, 1878. Is Treasurer of the School District, and in pilitics a Greenbacker. Has 160 acres of land. When Mr. Bessac settled in Randolph, he moved into his house before the lower part was finished, and one night, while the family occupied the chamber, a pack of wolves came in and took possession of the lower rooms, where they remained till morning without being disturbed.

YATES ASHIiE Y, miller, and at present mail agent on the C, M. & St. P. R. R., Pardeeville ; was born Sept. 10, 1824, in West Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y.; son of Daniel and Hetty (Cooper) Ashley, who removed to Nunda, Livingston Co., N. Y., when he was 3-] years old ; he studied civil engineering and surveying while at school, but spent his early life (after he left school), clerking in the mercantile business; in the spring of 1844, he went t) Madison, Ind., and ran a store there nearly a year, then came to Milwaukee, where he followed the same business till April, 1840, then came to Pardeeville to take charge of the business of John S. Pardee, not only selling goods but keeping his books and acting as his agent, having a s;eneral oversight of all his business in that place, where he remained till September, 1852, then went to Whitewater, Wis., and stayed one year, still clerking ; then spent two years in the engineer corps of the old Milwaukee & La Crosse R. R. Co.; in the spring of 1855, he purchased a quarter-interest in the flouring and grist-mill at Pardeeville, and has resided in that village ever since, though for the last eleven years he has been employed by the Post Office Department, first as route agent five years, then as postal clerk five and a half years, and, for the last six months, route agent again, on the C, M. & St. P. R. R.; was Postmaster two years in Pardeeville, and had charge of the office when first established, though not appointed as Postmaster till some time after. Was married, Oct. 4, 1855, to Virginia M. Pardee, who was born Jan. 25, 1835, in Wadsworth, Medina Co., Ohio; daughter of John and Eunice (Chamberlain) Pardee. (See biography of Charles J. Pardee, of Pardeeville. ) Mrs. Ashley's brother, John S. Pardee, in company with W. W. Haskin, made the first improvements in Pardeeville, and the village took its name from him. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley have four children - Jerry Stanley, born Sept. 12, 185(i ; Ernest P., Feb. 15, 1862 ; Lewis P., June 15, 1868, and Jessie Helen, Aug. 8, 1870 ; lost one daughter, Carrie Frances, who died in October, 1863, aged 3 J years. Mr. Ashley was an old-time Whig, and h as been a Republican ever since the party was organized ; he represented his district in the Assembly two successive terms, to wit, in 1863 and 1864, and was a member of the Board of the Hospital for the Insane, at Madison for eight years ; has 50 acres of land connected with his home in Pardeeville, and still owns a half-interest in the flouring-mill at that place.

A. BATES, farmer. Sec. 28; P. 0. Wyocena ; born Sept. 5, 1822, in Preble Co., Ohio; son of John Bates, a native of Ireland, who removed to Carroll Co., Ind., in 1835, from Ohio. Mr. Bates was married in that county May 15, 1848, to Elizabeth Cline, who was born Jan. 7, 1824, in Muskingum Co., Ohio; daughter of Jacob Cline, a native of Ohio. Mr. Bates came to Wisconsin in 1849; lived in Springvale, Columbia Co., about five years, and in April, 1854, removed to his present location; has eight children - John W., Charles, Thomas, Michael W., Mary E., Amanda M., Robert B., Geo. R. and Sarah Ann. Is Republican ; has 147 acres of land, and himself and wife Universalists.

JEREMIAH BliAISDELIi, farmer, Sec. 7; P. 0. Pardeeville; born Sept. 11, 1798, in Rockingham Co., N. H. Was married, Feb. 7, 1822, to Abigail Brown, who was born March 28, 1803, in Deerfield, Rockingham Co., N. H. Mr. Blaisdell came to Wisconsin in July, 1852, and settled on the farm he now occupies ; he learned the carpenter trade when young, commencing at the age of 1 6 ; worked in Boston seven years, and followed the business altogether about thirty years. Has five children living - Enoch B., lives in Iowa ; Abigail, now Mrs. R. M. Haynes, of the town of Wyocena ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Daniel Marston, of Pacific ; Rosetta, now Mrs. A. W. Diefendorf, of Wyocena, and Warren, living on the homestead ; lost four - Alpheus J., died Oct. 15, 1834, aged 7 years; Ruth, died Aug. 21, 1831, aged 2 years; John, died Jan. 12, 1835, 6 months old, and Alpheus S., died Jan. 21, 1875, in his 35th year. Mr. and Mrs. Blaisdell are members of the Free- Will Baptist Church; he is a Republican, and has 160 acres of land. Warren Blaisdell was born Aug. 18, 1844, and was married Dec. 5, 1864, to Mrs. Mary Gibbs, daughter of John S. Diefendorf, a native of Montgomery Co., N. Y., who came to Wyocena in 1846 ; she was the widow of B. F. Gibbs, who died May 19, 1861, aged 30 years ; she has two daughters living - Alice M., now Mrs. Albert Phillips, of Portage, and Emma F., now Mrs. 0. F. Harter, of Wyocena ; has no children by her second marriage.

<^EOR4]rE BRIFFETT, hotel-keeper, Pardeeville; born May 31, 1.S25, in Somersetshire, England; his father died while he was a child, and, in 1839, he, with a brother two years older, came to America, and lived in Onondaga, N. Y., about a year ; he then came to Wisconsin, and worked at brickmaking about seven years in Kenosha; enlisted in Milwaukee, in the fall of 1847, in the 4th U. S. Infantry, and was in the Mexican war, under Gen. Zach Taylor, about eighteen months ; after the close of the war, he went from Vera Cruz to Florida, about the 1st of June, and remained there till the last of August, and was then discharged ; he then came back to Wisconsin, and June 26, 1849, was married in Racine Co. (now Kenosha) to Theressa E. Dean, daughter of Jabez Dean, an old soldier of the war of 1812; immediately after marriage, he came to Columbia Co., and put up a frame for a house, where Portage now stands, but failing to get lumber to inclose it, he became discouraged, and left it ; he then located on Sec. 12, in what is now the town of Wyocena, and has followed teaming and farming ever since (except when in the army), till November, 1879; then exchanged one of his farms for the hotel in Pardeevillo, known as '- Diamond Hall," and has kept it since that time ; in August, 1864, he enlisted in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, and was in the service about eleven months, most of the time on the Potomac. Has six children - -Geo. and Charles, living in Wyocena ; Arthur; Sarah, now Mrs. John Brush, of Springvale; Mary, now Mrs. John Hepler, of Pardeeville, and Ella, at home. Has a farm of 160 acres on Sec. 12, in Wyocena.

JAIIES BRIFFETT, farmer, Sec. 14; P. 0. Wyocena; born July 28, 1820, in Somersetshire, England ; came to America in 1856 ; settled in the town of Wyocena, and has resided there ever since. Was married in England, in 1844, to Mary Ann, daughter of James Davis; has seven children - George, lives in Winona, Minn.; Henry, in Lincoln Co., Minn.; Elizabeth, now Mrs. G. V. Johnson, in Hennepin Co., Minn.; Nathaniel, born in England, now at home; Jane, is now Mrs. Ira Hall, of Poynette. Wis.; Frank, is iu Lincoln Co., Minn., and Ellen Mary, at home ; has lost four children ; three died in infancy in England, and James served three years in the 3rith W. V. L, Co. D, and died in Minnesota, in 1877- from disease contracted in the army; George served three years in the 2d W. V. I.; was wounded by a musket-ball through the right shoulder, in the first battle of Bull Run ; he was afterward taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg, and paroled on the field. Mr. Briffett is a Republican, and has 320 acres of land.

AliANSOX A. BULL, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Wyocena; was born Feb. 8, 1804, in the town of Wallkill, Orange Co., N. Y. His father, Ebenezer Bull, had a set of blacksmith's tools on his farm to do his own work, and Alanson learned the trade at home before he was 21 years old ; when he first went out for him.self, he worked at blacksmithing for the Government two and a half years at West Point. He was married, Jan. 27, 1828, to Martha Jane, daughter of John Brooks; she was born in New York City Jan. 21, 1810. After his marriage, he worked at farming two and a half years; then worked at his trade again one winter; then kept a hotel in the town of Monroe, Orange Co., one year; then followed lumbering two years ; then sailed a sloop on the Hudson River one season, and then bought a blacksmith's shop at West Point and worked there two years. In the spring of 1840, he went to New York City, and engaged in the milk and butter business ; also had a slaughter-house in Hoboken, and u market in New York. He followed business there till the fall of 1848, then came to Wisconsin, and settled in Wyocena Village ; he kept a hotel there sixteen months, in a house commenced by Maj. Dickason before his death. In the spring of 1850, he sold his lease and removed to his farm, which he had located in August, 1848, and where he has since resided. He has but two children living - Benjamin Franklin, who lives in the town of Lowville, and John Alanson, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Have lost four children - Andrew Jackson, died in New York in 1840, aged 14 years ; Mary Ann, died in 1839, at West Point, aged 11 years; Stephen Decatur, died in New York in 1840, aged 4 years; Sarah Elizabeth, married Samuel Barnett, of Cleveland, Ohio, and died in August, 1877, aged 44, leaving a family . of eight children. Mr. Bull is a Republican, and has 240 acres of land.

HENKY S. CALVERLE Y, farmer. Sec. 7 ; P. O. Portage City ; was born Dec. 7, 1855, in the town of Pacific, Columbia Co., Wis.; son of Stephen Calverley. (See his biography.) He was married, March 6, 1877, to Florence C. Meriton, who was born May 3, 1856, in Portage City, daughter of H. Meriton, a surveyor, and native of England, now living in Portage. Mr. and Mrs. Calverley have but one child - Margaret, born Oct. 12, 1878 ; have one adopted son - Andrew, about 10 years old. Mr. Calverley is a Republican ; has been Treasurer of the School District, and has 122; acres of land. Mrs. Calverley is a member of the Episcopal Church.

STEPHEN CAL.VERLEY', Sr., farmer. Sec. 7 ; P. 0. Portage City; was born ^larch 5, 1820, in Yorkshire, England ; son of Stephen and Mary (Wilson) Calverley. He was married Nov. 22, 1844, in Slaidburn, England, to Ann Slioger, who was born Aug. 2, 1825, in Slaidburu, daughter of Henry Slinger. Mr. Calverley came to America in 1848, and settled in what is now the town of Pacific, being the first settler in the town except those belonging to the garrison of Fort Winnebago; lived on Sec. 13, in Pacific, till June, 1876 ; then removed to his present location. ' He is a Republican, straight, and was either Chairman or Side Supervisor most of the time he lived in Pacific; has also been Town Treasurer, and, when the town was first organized, was Assessor for nine years ; has been Chairman of Wyocena two years. He has seven children living;- - Stephen, Henry, Mary (now Mrs. Orlo Patchen, of Wyocena), Ann (now Mrs. Daniel Smith, of Franklin Co., Neb. ), Lucy, Ellen and Elizabeth ; his oldest child, Margaret, died Jan. 15, 1874, aged 26 years ; Stephen was born May 4, 1850, and was the first white child born in the town of Pacific. Mr. Calverley has divided up 412 acres of land between his two boys and has 93 acres left.

KORHIAIV COAPMAN (deceased); was born in Hallsville, Montgomery Co., N. Y., July 26, 1830 ; was married Jan. 13, 1852. in Arcadia, Wayne Co., N. Y., to Kate B. Smith, who was born May

5, 1828. in Ghent, Columbia Co., N. Y., daughter of Jeremiah and Christiana (Van Valkenburgj Smith. Mr. Coapman came to Wisconsin with his family in March, 1855, being on the first passenger train that crossed the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls. They located at that time in the town of Wyocena ; lived on the Ellis farm one year, then removed to the village of Wyocena, and resided there till his death, April

6, 1878. He left a widow and four children. The oldest daughter, Alice T., is the wife of Elmer Food, Principal of the high school at Lodi, Wis. ; Ida M. is the wife of F. W. Farrington (dentist), of Wyocena ; the two sons, W. J. and Lynn N., reside in Wyocena. Mr. Coapman enlisted Oct. 9, 1861, in the 8th W. V. I., but the band, to which he belonged, was mustered out of service by special order, in 1862. After he returned from the army, he went into the grocery business, but sold out when the La Crosse Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad was built, and was the first agent appointed by the company at Wyocena, and held the position till his death, except about eight months, while he was learning to telegraph. At his death, his son, W. J., was appointed in his place, and still retains the position. Mr. Coapland was a Republican in politics, and held several town offices during his residence in Wyocena ; was Chairman, Supervisor and Town Clerk a number of years. In religious belief, he was a Universalist. His ancestors were among the first settlers of the Mohawk Valley, in Now York, and the farm on which he was born and raised was in possession of the Coapman family over one hundred years. His great-grandfather, Abram Coapman, held a major's commission under Gen. Stark, in the Revolutionary war, and his grandfather, Jacob Coapman, held a captain's commission in the war of 1812. His father, John Coapman, was a militia Captain in Montgomery Co., N. Y. Mr. Coapman had three brothers in Wisconsin - Anson lives in the town of Pacific, Columbia Co. ; Abram is station agent at Reesville, Dodge Co.; and James W. is District Attorney of Kewaunee Co. Had one sister - Mary E., no^ Mrs. Charlan Eastman, of Moravia, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Mrs. Coapman and the two sons occupy the homestead, 80 acres with a fine brick residence.

RKV. JABEZ B. COLiE, Pastor of the Lamartine Methodist Church ; was born in Lincolnshire, England, Feb. 12, 1845 ; he is the son of Rev. Thomas Cole and Elizabeth Brown, and with them, May 4, 1845, set sail from Liverpool for America, and landed in New York City in June following, they came thence to Sheboygan, Wis., where they arrived the 1st day of July; his father purcha.:ed a farm in the town of Green Bush, Sheboygan Co., Wis., where he devoted much of his time to farming, and was local minister to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of that town. The subject of this sketch spent the first nineteen years of his life on his father's farm, and attending the district school ; he united with the church at the age of 11, and when 19, he entered as a student of the clas.sical course at Lawrence University of Appleton, AVis. ; at the end of six years, on account of limited means and ill health, he was forced to leave oif his studies at college ; he soon joined the conference and was ordained local Deacon ; in October, 1871, he joined the conference at Milwaukee, and was assigned to the Clinton Circuit; while there he pursued the course of study prescribed by the canon ; in 1872, he was sent to the Wyocena circuit, in Columbia Co., Wis-., for two years; here, Oct. 13, 1873, he married Miss Cecelia E., daughter of A. A. and Ruth Cole, early settlers of WeKsh Prairie, Columbia Co. ; in October, 1874, he was assigned to Shawano, Shawano Co., Wis., where he remained in charge of the church for three years ; in 1877, he t(ok charge of the church at Markesan, Green Lake Co., and in 1878, came to the Lamartine charge. They have three children, as follows : Jessie E., born in 1874; Mary R.. born in 1876 ; Charles F., born in April, 1879.

HENRY CONVERSE, retired farmer, Wyocena; born Dec. 28, 1813, in Randolph, Vt., son of Frederick Converse, a native of Connecticut. Mr. Converse left Vermont in March, 1835, stayed one year in New Hampshire , then went to Akron, Ohio, where he lived eleven years, working in a stove and tin shop. In September, 1847, he Cijme to Wisconsin, and lived in Milwaukee till April, 1851 ; then came to Wyocena, where he has since resided, working at farming and mechanical work. He was married the first time in Vermont, Dec. 39, 1828, to Charlotte Blodgett, who died Jan. 15, 1842, in Akron, Ohio, aged 38, leaving no children. April 23, 1843, at Akron, Ohio, he married Lucy Burnham, who was born July 14, 1814, in South Windsor, Conn, (then called East Windsor). She was a daughter of Elijah Burnham. In politics, Mr. Converse was Republican ; held the office of Chairman four terms, in 1853-54

- 57-63 ; was Town Clerk several terms, and was a member of thi Assembly in the Lagishtuij of 1357. Mr. am) Mrs. Convcr.se both bolonj; to the Uuiver||jilist Societj'.

Ireland ; son of Thcitnas Dalton, who earn? to Ameriea when Peter was a child and settled in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Mr. D.ilton came to Wisconsin in 1842, lived in Ricine about eii^htecn years, and, in April, 1860, removed to his present location in Wyoeetia. \Va< married in Racine, in H5I), to Elizabeth Mack, who was born Feb. 14, 1840, in Vermont, near Rutland, dau^'hter of Patrick Mack; have had eleven children, nine of whom are livin<j - .Jane, Ida, Ellen, Sarah, Charles, Elizabeth, Daniel, Harry and Kate, all at home ; one died in infancy, and Frank died .Jan. 27, 1880, ai^id 18 years a-id 4 months. Mr. Dalton first came to Columbia Co. in 1847, and entered the north half of the southwest quarter of Sec. 25 in Wyocena, on the 'Jth day of February of that year, and then returned t) Racme and lived there till 1860. He is a Democrat, and has 280 acres of land in his farm ; both are members of the Catholic Church.

BEN.FA11IX DEY, farmer. Sees. 17 and 28; residence Wyocena ; born Feb. 27, 180(5, in Seneca Co., N. Y.; son of David Dey, a native of New York City ; lived in his native county and followed farmin'.: till 24 years old, then went into the mercantile business and followed it six years ; then farmed it in Leriaweo Co., Mich., two years, and, in the fall of 1844, came to Wisconsin, settled in Wyocena, and has been engai^ed in farming and milling ever since, except when in the army. When the war broke out, he went to Missouri as wagonuiaster, and, on the 4th of March, 18l)3. enlisted at St. Louis in the 11th Mo. V. C, Co. D, and remained in the service till the close of the war; was wounded in the thigh bv a niinie ball in the battle of Jacksonport, Ark., and had his horse shot under him at the same time. Was married, Jan. 15, 1833, in the town of Romulus, Seneca Co., N. Y., to Margaret T., oldest daughter of John Sinclair, a prominent wheat speculator of that county ; has five children living - Thompson, lives in the city and State of Oregon, and is a miller by trade ; David M. and Robert P., live in Wyocena Village ; Margueretta, is the wife of Judge Harrison Blair, of Union Co., Dakota, and Scott S. attending school and about to enter the law office of Wm. M. Vilas; have lost two children - Catharine S., married Frederick Yale (see his biography), and died Nov. 10, 1878 ; Benny C, died at the age of 15, in 186(i. Mr. Dey is a Democrat, and has a farm of 240 acres. His father, David Dey, was an Orderly under Gen. La Fayette in the Revolutionary war, and his grandfather had a colonel's commission, and furnished supplies for the army. His residence in Bergen Co., N. J., was the headquarters of Washington and La Fayette when they were in that vicinity.

S. DOrD, farmer. Sec. 36; P. 0. Wyocena; birn May 15, 1824, in Essex Co,, N, Y.; son of Samuel Doud, a native of Rutland, Vt. (The name is some'imes incorrectly spelled Dowd.) When 10 years old, his parents removed to Ohio, and lived in Trumbull Co. from 1834 till 1847, then came to Wisconsin and settled in Lowville, and died in 1859, aged (iO. Mrs. Doud (whose maiden name was Chloe Leonard) died April 1, 1875, aged 84. Mr. Doud v?as marriid in Ohio, Dec. 31, 1846, to Mary Jane Scott, who was born Jan. 10, 1829, in County Tyrone, Ireland, daughter of William Scott, who came to America in 1839 and settled in Ohio, In 1850, he came to Springvale, Columbia Co., Wis., and died in August, 1877, in bis 75th year. Mr. Doud first came to Wisconsin in 1844; stayed one year, and then returned to Ohio; he came again in the spring of 1847; lived the first 3'ear in Lowville, and, in December, 1848, removed to his present location, which has been his home since. He enlisted, Aug. 30, 1864, in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, Co. M, and remained in the service till the close of the war. Has five children - Helen M., Chloe Jane, Virginia, Wm. James and Augusta ; lost one son - Winfield, died Aug. 29, 1848, aged 10 months and 10 days. Mr. Doud built the first lime-kiln in the county on Sec. 6 in Otsego in 1847, and was the first Pathmaster in this precinct before the organization of the county; has since held the office of Supervisor, and is a Republican; has 120 acres of land. Wm. J. (the only .son) was married, Jan. 1, 1880, to Corintha Tillottson, who was born Sept. 17, 1860, daughter of Geo. S. Tillott,son, of Hampden, Columbia Co., Wis.

JOHIV tJ. DUSE\BERY, merchant, Pardeeville ; born in the town of Schodack, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Dec, 24, 1840; son of Morgan H. Dusenbery ; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1860, and settled in the town of Springvale, Columbia Co.; came to Pardeeville in the fall of 1865, and commenced sellinsi goods in November, 1873, which business he still continues. Was married Dec. 13, 1871, to Emily Hepler, daughter of Killian Hepler, an old resident of Pardeeville ; has two children - Guy, born Sept. 12, 1872, and Glen, born Aug. 16, 1876. Is Republican in politics.

C. Li. EARRINWTOIW, merchant, Wyocena; born Sept. 30, 1818, in Onondaga Co., N. Y., town of La Fayette; came to Wisconsin in 1837 ; lived one year in Milwaukee; then went to Lenawee Co., Mich., and followed farming eleven years ; came back to Wisconsin in the fall of 1849, and located on a farm two miles east, of Wyocena Village; lived there till the spring of 1851 ; he then removed to the village, and built a store in company with his brother, E. W. Farrington, now of Portage City, which was the third store in the place; sold goods there four years ; then went to Marquette Co , and built a grist mill at Harrisville, where he did business twenty-one years; then sold out, and, in January, 1876, came back to Wyocena, and again went into the mercantile business in company with his son, Willard ; firm name, C. L. Farrington & Son, where he still continues to do business. He was married, March 20, 1853, in Wyocena, to Nancy, daughter of Darius and Lucena Lobdell, who came from St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.. to Wisconsin in 1849 ; she was born at Plattsburg, Clinton Co., N. Y., Jan. 17, 1836 ; have two children - Willard C, born Jan. 26, 1856; married Nov. It), 1877, to Inez Huyck, and in company with his brother in the dry-goods business; Emerson L , the youngest son, was born Dec. 19, 1869. Mr.s. Farrington is a member of the M. E. Church, and Mr. Farrington is a Congregationalist, and Republican in polities.

BKVAN GORMAN, farmer. Sec. 33; P. 0. Wyocena; was born in 182G in County Meath, Ireland ; son of Wm. and Catharine Gorman ; his mother died when he was about 2 years old, and his father came to this country in 1834; settled in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and died there; Mr. Gorman came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1848 ; lived in Racine one year, and in the fall of 1849, came to Columbia Co., and located in Wyocena, where he has since resided. Was married in Canada, in the summer of 1848, to Mary Williams, who was born in Wales; daughter of Evan Williams; have had eleven children, ten of whom are living - Wm. W., Catharine, Jane, Christopher, John C, Michael W., Mary Ann, Harriet E., Elizabeth A. and Lorena M.; one child died in infancy. All are members of the Catholic Church. He has 180 acres of land, and in politics votes for the best man.

H. GL'NDERSON, farmer, Sec. 34; P. 0. Wyocena; born Ocd. 15, 1830. in Norway; son of Gunder Halverson, who came to America in 1851, and now lives in Dakota; Mr. Gunderson went to sea when about 18 years of age, and followed that business till 1851 ; in 1850, while making a trip from Liverpool to New Orleans, on board the Leonidas, of Baltimore (which took three months"), they were driven from their course by a storm, and before they reached port, lost about one hundred passengers by yellow fever ; he was in the hospital at New Orleans about two weeks with the same disease ; after his recovery, he made another voyage to Europe, staying some time in France, and finally brought up in New York City in 1851 ; came to Wisconsin in July, 1852, and lived in Whitewater till the spring of 1869 ; worked the first five years in a warehouse for Marsh & Putrits ; then worked seven years in a paper-mill ; dealt in stock, and kept a meat market one year, and was four years in the Esterly Reaper Works; then, in the spring of 1869, removed to his present location. Was married in Whitewater, in 1855, to Cornelia Taigosan, a native of Norway, who came to America with her parents in 1852 ; has seven children - ('arrie A., Annie C, Amelia G., Halbert M., Louisa M., Henry A. and Thomas 6. Has 160 acres of land ; Lutheran and Republican.

W. W. HASKIIV, farmer. Sec. 3; P. 0. Pardeeville; born Jan. 8, 1815, in Castleton, Vt.; left there in 1837 ; went to Rochester, N. Y., and tended bar at the " Eagle Tavern " one year ; then went to Lyons, Wayne Co., and went to clerking in a dry-goods store ; in 1840, engaged with Gerdon Merrell to come to Wisconsin, and clerked for his brother, Henry Merrell, at Ft. Winnebago, from September, 1840, till January, 1842, and, in the mean time, was appointed Sheriff by Gov. Doty, which ofiice he held two years; after he left the fort, he clerked for Finch & Blanchard, of Madison, about one jear and a half, at the same time acting as Deputy Sheriff, under A. A. Bird, two years, being employed as clerk in the store of the " American Fur Co.," at Ft. Winnebago, the last six months of the time. In July, 1845, he returned to New York, and was married in Lyons, Wayne Co., in September, 1845, to Miss Rosette Carpenter, daughter of Samuel Carpenter ; he then came back to Wisconsin, tended bar in Milwaukee, one winter at the " Cottage Inn ; " then went back to Ft. Winnebago, and clerked another year for Mr. Merrill ; in May, 1847, he entered 40 acres of land on Sec. 3, where Pardeeville now stands, in company with J. C. Pardee, and afterward bought 160 acres more, and built the first house in Pardeeville, into which he moved in January, 1848, and has resided in the village ever since ; has four children living - Julia, now Mrs. A. B. Wheeler, of Pardeeville ; Ella, now Mrs. W. K. Rogers, of Leon, Monroe Co., Wis.; Don and Frank, both at home ; lost two - Etta died April 15, 1853, aged 11 years, and Lillian died April 13, 1852, aged 2 years and 7 months. Mr. Haskin is a Republican, and held the office of Justice of the Peace one year ; has about 100 acres of land, most of it in the village corporation of Pardeeville; his father, T. K. Haskin, came to Wisconsin in 1845; lived at Fox Lake two years; then moved into Ft. Winnebago, and kept a boarding-house there about seven years; then came to Pardeeville, and died in 1852, aged 72 years. Mrs. Haskin, whose maiden name was Fanny Willis, is still living at Pardeeville, keeping house by herself, and doing her own work ; when she was a little over 75 years old, she walked from Portage City to Pardeeville.a distance of ten miles, making the trip in about three hours ; she takes several newspapers, and spends a good deal of her time iu reading, and is very fond of reading history ; she was born iu Old Deerfield, Mass., and lier father, Ebenezer Willis, was an old Revolutionary soldier.

KIL.IAN HEPLEK, hotel-keeper, Pardeeviile ; born Aug. 14, 1811, in Columbia Co., Penu.; son of George Hepler ; went to Medina Co., Ohio, in 1832, and worked at cabinet-making and manuliicturing fanning-mills till the spring of 1850, then came to Wisconsin and bought some land, in the town of Wyocena, then returned to Ohio, stayed through the winter and in the spring of 1851 came on with his family and settled in Pardeeviile, where he has since resided ; he was engaged in manufacturing fanningmills and dealing in lumber, till the spring of 1863, then went into the " Hepler House " and has kept it ever since. Was married. Nov. 14, 1841, in Ohio, to Elizabeth Renshimer, and has had seventeen children, eight of whom are still living - Margaret, Sarah Ann, Maria, George, John, Emily E., Adam and Catherine; those that died were, Mary, Killian, Charles, Frank, William Henry, Rachel Ann, Daniel, Samuel and Jacob ; the first and second died in Ohio, Mr. Hepler is a Democrat and owns 40 acres of land, the " Hepler House," and .some other village property in Pardeeviile.

WlLI.iIA]fI JOHIVS (deceased) was born Aug. 12, 1802, in Glamorganshire, South Wales. Was married in St. Andrew's Church, Wales, March 8, 1827, to Alice Yorath, who was born about six miles from where her husband was born, in the same shire, March 6, 1806 ; came to America in 1841, arriving in Boston on the 1st day T)f July, lived there till the fall of 1852; in the butchering and milk business ; came from there to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Springvale, Columbia County ; lived there till 1868, then sold his form and bought a gristmill in Wyocena. known as the " Bisbee Mill," located on Sec. 23, with 40 acres of land on the same section. Here he remained till his death. May 19, 1875, leaving a widow and six children - David, born June 6, 1828, lives in Tomah, Wis.; Thomas, born Sept. 30, 1830, lives in Mitchell Co., Iowa; Shadrach, born Nov. 12, 1832, is a blacksmith in Waupun ; Daniel, born Feb. 11, 1836, lives in Harrison Co., Mo. He was a Lieutenant in Co. H, of the 12th Mo. V. C, and was in the service during the whole of the war of the rebellion except about a year while he was disabled from a gunshot wound in the face, received in action ; the first four boys were born in Wales ; Meshack was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1843, and was married Nov. 18, 1877, to Anna Margaret Farrington, who was born Sept. 12, 1858, in Harrisville, Marquette Co., Wis., daughter of William Albert Farrington, who now lives in Dane Co., Wis.; they have one child, Jessie Alice, born March 16, 1879, in Saline Co., Neb., where he moved in April, 1878, and where he still owns 160 acres of land; he returned to Wisconsin in December, 1879. Is a Republican. The youngest child and only daughter of William Johns, Alice, was married to J. L. Lobdell. (See biography of Darius Lobdell. ) Mrs. Johnsand herson Meshack occupy the homestead of 40 acres and grist-mill, on Sec. 23, P. 0. Wyocena.

DARIUS L.OBDELL (deceased) was born Aug. 3, 1808, in Plattsburg, Clinton Co., N. Y. Was married in 1832, to Lucena Moxley, who was born in Eden, Vt., Feb. 20, 1814 ; came to Wisconsin in November, 1849, and settled on a firm, three miles west of Wyocena, on Sec. 18. He died Aug. 20, 1852, and Mrs. Lobdell died Feb. 17, 1880, leaving eight children - Nancy (now Mrs. C. L. Farringtnn, of Wyocena) ; Augustus (living in Benton Co., Minn. ) ; John L., lives in Wyocena ; William H., in Pardeeviile; Darius, in Wyocena; Ellen, is now Mrs. David B. Johnson, of Richmond, Ind.; Richard, lives in Wyocena, and Emma, is Mrs. Hiram King of Dorchester, Wis. Augustus was in ihe navy three years during the war of the rebellion ; Darius was in the 16th W. V. I. about two years, and William H. was in the 3d Regulars, Co. K, during the whole of the war. John L. was married, Feb. 6, 1878, to Alice C. Johns, daughter of William Johns. (See his biography.) She died July 4, 1879, aged 28 years 6 months and 24 days, leaving no children. He is a Republican and has 160 acres of land, that his father first located, on Sec. 18 P. 0. Wyocena.

(wEORGE MUGGLETON, farmer. Sec. 27, and steward at the county house, at Wyocenae born Sept. 25,1826, in Leicestershire, Eng., son of Edward Muggleton. Was married in his nativ ; place, Aug. 20, 1855, to Harriet, daughter of Isaac Taylor ; she was born March 26, 1827, in the same County ; came to America soon after marriage, arriving in New York Oct. 1, 1855 ; came direct to Columbus Co., Wis., and lived seven years in Lowville ; in 1862, returned to England and stayed three and a half years; came back to Wisconsin in June, 1865, and bought a farm in Wyocena, where they resided till April, 1875, when he was appointed to his present position in the county house, and has resided there since ; they have three children - Edith A., Ernest E. and Bertha F.; have also one adopted daughter, Maria Jane. He has 140 acres of land ; is a Republican, and himself and wife are members of the Baptist Church.

ISA.AC OVIATT, farmer, Sec. 30; P. 0. Wyocena ; born Nov. 27, 1809, in CamSridge, Washington Co., N. Y.; came to Wisconsin in 1855, and settled on the farm he now owns. Was married in Ohio, Sept. 22, 1836, to Elizabeth McNish, who was born Nov. 4, 1810, in Schenectady Co., N. Y.; daughter of James McNish, who went to Ohio in 1832 and .settled in Geauga Co. Mr. and Mrs. Oviatt have had eight children, six of whom are living - ^Mary Ann, is now the wife of Henry O. Thrall, of Waseca Co., Minn.; Henry M., lives in Wyocena ; James C, lives in Berlin, Wis.; Sarah and Isaac, are living at home, and Agnes is the wife of Charles Ellis, of the town of Wyocena ; Elizabeth married Theodore Crow, removed to Minnesota and died April 2U, 1875 ; Adaline married Bruce White, and died in Dekorra Sept. 9, 1876. Mr. Oviatt is Republican to the backbone, and has 80 acres of land.

CHARLIjS J. PARDBli, conveyancer, Pardeeville ; born in Wadsworth, Medina Co., Ohio, Sept. 5, 1829; son of John Pardee and brother of John S. Pardee, the founder of Pardeeville; his early life was spent in his father's store, where he learned the dry-goods business, but carried on business for himself about five years in Ohio before coming to Wisconsin ; he cime to Pardeeville to reside iu the spring of 1860, and has made that his home ever since ; was Justice of the Peace several years in Ohio and Postmaster three years ; in Wisconsin, he has been Justice of the Peace twelve years. Chairman five years, and is the present Town Clerk, although a Democrat in a strong Republican town ; since living in Pardeeville, in addition to his official business, .has been engaged in clerking, conveyancing, etc. Was married July 15, 1851, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Antoinette, daughter of Reuben Stevens, of Connecticut; have three children - Cora E., John Charles and Malcolm Ives, all at home. His brother, John S. Pardee, was born in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1819 ; when he was 5 years old, his father removed to Medina Co., Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business ; he clerked for his father till 1842, then carried on business for himself in the same place till 1845, then removed to Milwaukee and opened a store, where he continued in busine-s till 1850 ; from Milwaukee, he went to Pardeeville, where he already owned property and had been carrying on business for some time; in the spring of 1854, he received the appointment of United States Consul to San Juan Del Sur, the Pacific terminus of the Nicaraugua route to Calif irnia, where he died about a month after his arrival. Mr. Pardee's father, John Pardee, was born in Litchfield Co., Conn., in 1796 ; removed, with his parents, to Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he remained and followed farming till 1824 ; then removed to Medina Co., Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued till 1856, then came to Wisconsin and followed the milling business in Pardeeville till bis death, June 26, 1873.

HICKS W. PHELPS, farmer. Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Wyocena; born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., April 14, 1808. Was married in 1830, to Harriet Kellogg, of his native county, who died in November, 1861, aged 52 ; was again married the same year to Nancy Bloom, whose first husband, Charles P. Bloom, enlisted in the commencement of the war of the rebellion, in the 2d W. V. I., Co. G, and was killed in the second battle of Bull Run ; he left one daughter - Hattie H., who is now the wife of George M. Dallas Wright, a hardware merchant of De Kalb Co., 111. Mr. Phelps came to Wisconsin in 1840, and lived in Racine Co., near where the city of Racine now is, till the fall of 1849; then came to Columbia Co. and has lived in Wyocena ever since; has only two children ; his oldest child, Cornelia, was married, first, to Volney Carpenter, who enlisted in the 19th W. V. I., Co. D, and was killed in action on the 27th day of October, 1864; she afterward married a man named McEwen and now lives in Milwaukee; his son, Roldun Phelps, is married and lives in Wyocena. Mr. Phelps has no children by the second marriage ; is a Greenbacker, and has 40 acres of land. His father was Samuel Phelps, one of the first settlers in Cayuga Co., N. Y. Mrs. Phelps was a daughter of William Dunham, a native of Vermont, who was in the war of 1812, and died Jan. 24, 1877, aged 88. Although 72 years of age, Mr. Phelps is able to earn .^2.50 a day laying stone.

CORNELIUS PHILLIPS, farmer. Sec. 32; P. 0. Wyocena; born in County Louth, Province of Leinster, Ireland; son of Patrick and Mary (Skelley ) Phillips ; came to America in 1843 ; lived in Kings Co., N. Y., on Long Island, five years, and, in October, 1848, came to Wisconsin ; lived in Racine two years, then came to Columbia Co. in September, 1850, and located in Wyocena, where he has since resided. Was married. May 21, 1848, in the State of New York, to Mary Heelley, who died in Wyocena Sept. 15, 1851, leaving no children; was married the second time, Sept. 4, 1853, to Mary Ann Halpin, who was born in County Meath, Ireland; daughter of John Halpin, who came to America and died Jan. 28, 1860, aged 68 ; Mr. Phillips has eight children - Edward, James, Cornelius, Eleanor, Theressa, Nicholas and Marcella and Mary (twins); the four first mentioned are teachers. Mr. Phillips has held the office of Supervisor several terms and has been Clerk and Collector of the school district for the last eight years. Is a Greenbacker, and all members of the Catholic Church. Has 180 acres of land.

(liKORGE PURVIS, farmer, Sec. 13; P. 0. Wyoceoa ; born April 28, 1826, in Edinburgh. Scotland ; son of James I. Purvis. (See his biography.) He remained with his father till 1851, when he was married in VVaddington, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., to Margaret Hodg, who died in 1859, leaving one daughter - Jane, now Mrs. William Salisbury, of Olmsted Co., Minn. Wa.s married the second time Doc. 19, 1865, to Rebecca Babcook, who was born July 22, 1845, in New York, daughter of Daniel Babcook, who emigrated to Wisconsin and now lives in Pardceville ; has five children by the second marriage - James, Charles, Thomas, Margaret May and George. . He is a Democrat and has been a Supervisor three terras. Has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity about eighteen years ; has 240 acres ot hind in his home farm and ;{20-acre farm in Olmsted Co., Minn., where he lived about a year and a half and then returned to his first love in Wyocena.

JAMKS I. PURVIS, flirmer, Sec. 14; P. 0. Wyocena; born June 4, 1801, in Berwickshire, Scotland; .son of George and Isabel! (Ingalls) Purvis; he was bound out to learn the tailor's trade when 10 years old and served till he was 17 ; when 20 years of a.:e, he obtained the position of foreman in one of the principal establishments in the city of Edinburgh, where he remained till March 18, 1828. Was married in Edinburgh in 1824 to Rebecca, daughter of Walter Wear, a portrait painter or "limner ' (as they are called there); she was born Feb. 16, 1802; they started for America on the 4th of March,, 1828, and landed in New York City on the 2d of May; he lived in New York about six months, then Went to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and went into business for himself in the town of Waddington ; three years after, he bought a farm of 70 acres in an adjoining town and carried that on in addition to his other business till the summer of 1844, when he sold out both and started for Wisconsin, arriving at Racine, on the 5th of August; he lived in Racine Co. till Nov. 3, 1847, 'hen came with his family to Columbia Co. and settled on the farm he now owns in Wyocena, having purcha.sed about a year previous to that time. Mr. and Mrs. Purvis have had ten children, five of whom are still living; George lives on Sec. 13, Wyocena; Thomas lives in Olmsted Co., Minn.; John lives on the homestead; Elizarah is now Mrs. B. S. Vradenburg, of Sec. 4. Wyocena, and Jane is the wife of Royal Hawkins, of Olmstoad Co., Minn ; three children died in infancy ; Rebecca died when 3 years old, and Walter W. died in the army soon after the battle of Pittsburg Lauding, in which he was engaged ; was in the 18th W. V. I., Co. F. Mr. Purvis is a Republican and has been Town Treasurer three terms and Supervisor several terms ; has thirtyfour grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Purvis are members of the First Congregational Church of Wyocena. He has 300 acres of land in company with his son John, who was married in 1866 to Emma Price and has seven children - Rebecca, Prank, Sarah, James, Walter, Olive and Mary, all at hiimo.

HIRAM W. ROBLIER, farmer, Sec. 15 ; resides at Wyocena; was born May 7, 1824, in Big Flats, Chemung Co., N. Y. Was married at Horseheads, same county, in May, 1855, to Deborah Rowley, daughter of Judah Rowley; she was born in Steuben Co., N. Y., Oct. 7, 1831. Mr. Roblier came to Wisconsin in 1853 and lived in Lowville one year ; then removed to Wyocena and has resided there since. In polities. Republican ; ha:? held various local ofiices ; was Chairman of the Town Board three years, and, in 1858, was elected Superintendent of the Poor of Columbia Co. and re-elected at each successive election of the Board and still retains the position ; was Superintendent of Schools two years in New York, two years in Pennsylvania, one year in Michigan and two years in Wisconsin ; taught school twenty-one terms in the four States above mentioned, and represented his A.ssembly District in the Wisconsin Legislature of 1874, receiving 719 votes, against 367 for J. W. Robinson, and received every vote except two in his own town. Has no children of his own, but has an adopted son (^ William j about 10 years old; has 235 acres of land.

R. O. SPEAR, merchant, grain and stock dealer, and member of the firm of Falkner & Spear, of Pardceville ; was born March 1 1 , 1841, in the town of Friendship, Allegany Co., N. Y.; son of Charles .(see his biography); remained on the farm with his father till he w.as 21 years old, and, in September, 1864, enlisted in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, Co. F, and remained in the service till the close of the war, as Sergeant of Co. F ; after he returned from the army, was engaged in the grain, stock and produce business in Rio, Wis., about four years, in company with 0. D. Van Dusen, firm of Van Dusen & Spear. In the summer of 1878, he went to Iowa, and biught 480 acres of land in Lyon Co., which he still owns. The next fall he returned to Wisconsin and bought the warehouse at Pardeeville, and engaged in business there, which he still continues, buying grain, stock and all kinds of produce. March 8, 1880, he bought a one-half interest in the principal dry-goods store of Pardeeville, Mr. Lawton retiring from the firm nf Lawton & Falkner, and Mr. Spear taking his place - firm of Falkner & Spear ; keep a general assortment of dry goods, groceries, hardware, clothing, boots and shoes, Yankee notions, etc. Was married Sept. 11, 1869, to Sabra B. Rowley, who was born in Chemung Co., N. Y. - daughter of Judah Rowley. Mr.

and Mrs. Spear have four children - Hiram B., Alice, Eva May and Edith. Has 480 acres of land in Iowa, and a residence in the village of Wyocena.

CHARLES SPEAR, farmer, Sec. 22; P. 0. Wyocena; born in Redding, Windsor Co., Vt., May 31, 1812 ; son of Elijah Spear, who emigrated to Allegany Co., N. Y., when he was 10 years old. Mr. Spear was married in Cuba, Allegany Co., Nov. 3, 183G, to Electa Talcott, who was born Nov, 4, 1818, in Manchester, Conn., eight miles from Hartford - daughter of Rodolphus and Anna Talcott. Mr. Spear came to Wisconsin in May, 1845, and lived in Racine Co. till the next February ; in October, 1845, he came to Columbia Co., and located some land in Wyocena, on Sec. 22, and came up with a part of his goods the next March, and his family came on in June, 1846, and have since made this their home. Has seven children - Priscilla (now Mrs. Jesse Seaver, of Milton, Rook Co., Wis.), R. 0. Spear (now resides in Wyocefla, and is in the dry-goods business at Pardeeville), Amerett (now Mrs. Hugh Hill, of Saline Co., Neb.), Eliza (now Mrs. James Patchen, of Olmsted Co., Minn.), M. W. Spear (living on the homestead), Americus (living in Moody Co., Dakota), and F. N. Spear, the youngest son, 17 years old, at home. Mr. Spear is a Republican, and was the first Justice of the Peace in this precinct, before the town was organized. He married the seeond, third and fourth couples married in the town, but not the first ; has 163 acres of land. Mr. Spear is a member of the Baptist Church.

HEIirRY C. STANLEY, farmer. Sec. 9 ; P. 0. Wyocena; born April 22, 1842, in Randolph, Orange Co., Vt ; son of Theodore S. Stanley, who came to Wisconsin in 1855, and settled in Wyocena, where he still resides. Henry C. was married, Oct. 1, 1867, to Ada E. Twitchell, who was bora Sept. 12, 1848, being the third white child born in the town of Wyocena ; she was a daughter of Moses W. Twitchell, a native of New Hampshire, who came to Wisconsin about 1846, and is now living in the town of Wyocena. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley have two children - Belle, born May 10, 1870, and Guy, born April 11, 1879. Mrs. Stanley is a member of the Congregational Church ; he is a Republican, and has held the offices of Town Treasurer, Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace; has 220 acres of land in his farm. Enlisted in the 23d W. V. I., Co. F, in August, 1862, and was mustered out July 4, 1865 ; was in sixteen battles, and received a flesh wound in the arm in a skirmish at Carrion Crow Bayou, in Western Louisiana.

JAUES W. STEELE (deceased) was born Oct. 11, 1837, in Oneida Co., N. Y.; his father, James Steele, died when he was 6 years old, and his mother came to Wisconsin in 1845, when he was 8 years old, and lived in Madison a few years; then went to Elkhorn, Walworth Co., and when he was 14 years old came to Wyocena ; about two years after she removed to Newark, N. J., where she died when he was about 16 years old ; he learned the cabinet-maker's trade in Newark, and worked in that place till he was 20 years old ; then came back to Wyocena, and worked at his trade till his marriage, Nov. 8, 1859, to Louisa M., daughter of Linus and Nancy Blair, who came from Erie Co., N. Y., to Wisconsin in 1845, and came to Wyocena in the fall of 1848, and settled on Sec. 34, two miles south of Wyocena Village, where they spent the remainder of their days; he died Deo. 7, 1862, aged 70, and Mrs. Blair died Nov. 28, 1864, aged 62, leaving four children - William M., Eliza J., Louisa M. and Harrison. Mr. Blair was a Deacon in the Congregational Church of Wyocena from its organization till his death Mr. Steele commenced farming in Lowville the spring after his marriage, and in March, 1864, enlisted in the 36th W. V. L, Co. H, and was in the service fourteen months ; soon after returning from the army he sold his farm in Lowville and bought in See. 34, in Wyocena, lived there three years, and then removed to the village of Wyocena, and worked at his trade till about two weeks before his death ; then returned to the farm and died Nov. 6, 1875, from disease contracted in the army; he left a widow and four children, but was soon followed by his two little daughters, who died of diphtheria - Agnes L., on the 9th of November, 1875, being the day after her father was buried, nearly 12 years old, and Emma E., the 12th of December following, aged 9 years; the oldest son, J. Willie, and the youngest, Charlie H., are living on the homestead with their mother. P. 0. Wyocena ; have 120 acres of land. Mrs. Steele is a member of the Congregational Church.

W. J. TOWSfER, blacksmith, Wyocena; born Dec. 1, 1823. in St. John's, Lower Canada; came to Wisconsin about 1846, and lived in Burlington and Vienna, Walworth Co., till the spring of 1848 ; then tame to the village of Wyocena, and built the second blacksmith-shop in the village ; lived there about three years; then went on a farm three miles east of the village, and lived there till 1870, then sold the farm, came to the village, and has worked at his trade ever since ; he is now building a hotel which is nearly completed, to be called the " Towner House," a neat two-story frame building, 22x22 feet, well located. Mr. Towner was married in Genesee, Walworlh Co., about 1847, to Miss A. C. Wood, of Vienna ; has six children living - Thomas, George, Ada, Louisa, Etta and Lottie ; have lost two - John and Lovina. He enlisted in October, 1864, in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, Co. F, and was discharged at the close of the war.

M. W. TWITCHELt., farmer, Sees. 14 and 23; P. 0. Wyocena ; born March 21, 1810, in Sullivan Co., N. H. He was married in Cheshire Co., N. H., Oct. 18, 1842, to Mary M. Mann, who was born May 22, 1819, in that county, on the farm formerly owned by her grandfather ; Mr. Twitchell first came to Wisconsin in 1846. located land in Springvale, Columbia Co., and then returned to New Hampshire for his family ; he arrived in Springvale in June, 1847, and the next October removed to his present location in the town of Wyocena. Have two children - Ada K., now Mrs. H. C. Stanley, of Wyocena (see his biography), and Mendelson K., who was born Sept. 30, 1850, and married July 27, 1875, to Miss Maranda Salsbury, daughter of S. H. Salsbury, one of the first settlers of Wyocena ; they have one child, Jesse, born Oct. 8, 1877. Mr. Twitchell is a Republican, and has held the office of Supervisor one year. Chairman one year. Town Treasurer and Justice of the Peace, which office he now holds ; owns land; Mrs. Twitchell is a Congregationalist. '

ISAAC VALEXTIl^E, farmer, Sec. 20; P. 0. Wyocena; was born Aug. 13, 1818, in Saratoga Co., N. Y., town of Charlton ; son of John C. Valentine; learned the miller's trade when young ; came West in the fall of 1843, and lived in Lake Co., 111., till the spring of 1844 ; then went to Milwaukee, and remained there till the next August ; then lived in Beloit a few months, and went from there to Delavan, where he remained three years. He was married while living at Delavan, Jan. 27, 1847, in the town of Libertyville, Lake Co., 111., to Lucy Ann, daughter of Parker and Emma Piorson, natives of New Hampshire, who came to Illinois in 1839 ; in the spring of 1847, he went to Waupun, and lived there till February ,,1851, then went to De Pere, Brown Co., and from there came in June, 1852, to his present location, and has followed farming since. Enlisted Sept. 1, 1864, in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, Co. M, and was in the service till the close of the war. Has only one child, P. P. Valentine, born Aug. 17, 1851. He is a Republican, and has held the office of Supervisor one year in Wyocena; both are members of the Episcopal Church.

O. D. VAX DUSE.^, grain and lumber dealer. Pardeeville; was born March 31, 1832, in Gene.see Co., N. Y.; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1850 and located in the town of Marcellon ; lived there till 1858 on Sec. 9 ; then went to Marcellon Village, and lived there two years, and in tlie fall of 1860, removed to Pardeeville, where he has been engaged in his present business ever sine;. Was married, in 1854, to Emeline Ensign, daughter of Wm. J. Ensign; has six children - Leona E., Emily E., Cornelia, Grant Bertha and Floy, all at home. Is a Republican, and has been Supervisor two terms. Mrs. Van Dusen is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

JOH\ B. VAN !!$CHAICK, retired farmer, Pardeeville; born February, 1818, in Schoharie Co., N. Y.; son of Josiah Van Schnick, who removed to Onondaga Co. when he was 7 years old. He was married in that county, in 1847 to Sophronia Adams, who died April 30, 1877 ; he came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1855 and settled in the town of Springvale, Columbia Cj., and lived there till September, 1879, on his farm, which he still owns; has 151 acres on Sees. 8 and 17 ; has six children- Mary (now Mrs. J. H. Delany, of Minnesota); Harriet Adelia (now Mrs. E. P. Upham, of Springvale); Sarah Louisa (now Mrs. James Cowley, of Springvale); Charles J. (living at Black lliver Falls); Thomas D. (lives at Eau Claire) and Rose Josephine ; they lost three, not married. Was married the second time, Sept. 21, 1878, to Mrs. Susan Falconer, who was born in the citv of Norwich, England, Feb. 22, 1826, daughter of Thomas Wicks, who came to New York City in 1830, where she afterward married John W. Falconer and lived in the city till 1855. Mr. Falconer died June 12, 1878, in Columbia Co., Wis., leaving six children - Russell C. (living in Pardeeville); Mary H. (now Mrs. S. W. Briggs, of Dunn Co., Wis.); Elizabeth, John S., Frank and Henry. Mrs. Van Schaick was appointed Postmistress in the fall of 1877, and still holds the office, also keeps a drug-store in connection with it. Mr. V. still owns a farm of 151 acres on Sees. 8 and 17 in Springvale, and is running a meat-market in Pardeeville. He is a Republican, and both are members of the M. E. Church.

JOHN WATERS, f..rmer. Sees. 24 and 25; P. 0. Wyocena; born the 15th day of April, 1823 or 1824, in County Cork, Ireland ; son of Daniel Waters, who came to America when he was only 10 years old ; stayed in Upper Canada one winter, then went to S'. Lawrence Co., N. 'Y., and died Nov 8, 1855, aged 62 years. Mrs. Waters died in Portage City about 1872, aged 65. Mr. Waters was married in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Feb. 17, 1352, to Margaret Jane Bacon, who died Sept. 24, 1877. in Wyocena, aged 41 J leaving seven children - Daniel J, ( working on the C. & N.-W. R. R. >; William Charles (railroading in Iowa); John J., Michael, Edward, Thomis, George and Mary Agnes (the last five at home). Mr. Waters came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1856, and settled on the farm he now owns, and

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FREDERICK YALE, farmer, Sec. 26; P. 0. Wyocena; born July 24, 1824, in Augusta, Oneida Co., N. Y.; came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1849, and settled on the farm he now occupies. W-As married, July 4, 1855, in Kingston, Green Lake Co., M^is., to Catharine S. Dey, who died Aug. 13, 1879, aged 44, leaving two children - Kent, who lives in Dakota, and Freddie, at home. Was married the second time, Feb. 24, 1880. to Hannah, daughter of Geo. VV. Willard, a native of Vermont, who died in Springvale March 23, 1878. Mrs. Yale is a member of the M. E. Church. Mr. Yale started the first lumber-yard in Pardeeville, when the railroad was first completed to that place, and was a member of the first agricultural society in the county. Has a farm of 440 acres ; is a Democrat, and one of the heaviest taxpayers in the town of Wyocena. In 1877, he found a piece of native copper on his farm, which weighed 120 pounds.

GEORl^E BAIN, farmer, Sec. 15 , P. 0. Portage City ; born March 9, 1845, at Koslin, Scotland, six miles from Edinburgh ; son of George and Margaret (Longmuirj Bain, who came to America in 1850 (with the old Potter Society) ; settled in Moundville, Marquette Co., Wis.; Mr. Bain died Feb. 3, 1880, aged 77 years ; Mrs. Bain is still living, at the age of 70 ; George spent his early life on his father's /arm, and was married, June 25, 1874, to Eliza Ann, daughter of Thomas and Fanny (Bonell) Moss, natives of Crewe, England, who came to America in 1849, and, in the fall of that year, settled in Marquette Co., Wis.; Mr. Moss enlisted, in October, 1864, in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, Co. I, and remained in the service till the close of the war ; he died Aug. 5, 1865, of chronic diarrhoea, contracted in the army; Mrs. Miss is still living in Marquette Co., aged 50 years. Mrs. Bain was born Dec. 19, 1851, in Moundville, Marquette Co., Wis.; she is an Episcopalian, and Mr. Bain a Presbyterian; he came to Columbia Co. in 1871, and bought his farm in March of that year ; fr im that time till he was married, he worked on the farm summers (" keeping bach.") and spending his winters in Marquette Co., in his old home. He is a Republican; has been Supervisor of the town, and has 120 acres of land. Mr. and Mrs. Bain have one little daughter - Fannie Margaret, born Sept. 10, 1876, a " Centennial rosebud."

CHARL.E!$ BAKER, farmer. Sec. 2; P. O. Portage City; was born June 14, 1823, in Somersetshire, England ; when 3 years old, his father, William Baker, died. He remained in England until 1839, then came to America ; lived in Canada about six years; then returned to England and lived there about about a year, during which time he was married, June 7, 1847, to Priscilla Stubbins, and in August following, came to America; came to Wisconsin April 15, 1848, and lived in Kenosha (then Southport) until the next May; then he came to Columbia Co., located the land he now owns in Fort Winnebago, and then returned for his family ; came on the June following, and has resided in the town and on the same farm ever since. His first wife died in September, 1862, aged 55 ; he was then married the second time, Jan. 21, 1863, to Clarissa Halloway, who was born Feb. 22, 1841, and died Dec. 14, 1867 ; was married to the third wife March 12, 1868, with whom he is now living ; her maiden name was Lura Hall, daughter of Daniel Hall, and a widow of Jessie Howe, who died in August, 1875. Mr. Baker has seven children living, five by the first wife and two by the second - Edmund S., Charles Wm., Priscilla Ruth, George W., Robert Ralph, Andrew Johnson and Joanna Emery ; lost three children - Albert J., Henry E. and Caroline E. Mr. Baker joined the Odd Fellows in Canada in ] 845, and he is the oldest Odd Fellow and the oldest settler in the town of Fort Winnebago. His oldest son, Edmund S., was born Oct. 27, 1848, and was the first white child born in the town outside of the garrison of the fort. Mr. Baker has been Chairman, Assessor, Treasurer, and Justice of the Peace several terms, and he iias 500 acres of land in his farm.

WIlililAM CIjARK, retired, farmer. Sec. 13 ; P. O. Portage City ; was born in Saratoga Co.,N. Y.,at Ballston Spa, June 13. 1797. He learned the tanner's trade when young, and worked at it till 17 years old; then enlLsted in the army during the war of 1812, under Col. David Rogers; was in the service about four months; then he returned home, and soon after went to Otsego Co., N. Y., where he was married, Jan. 20, 1820, to Nancy Campbell, who died in 1833, aged 40. He was married again in March, 1835, to Polly Standish, who died in October, 1862, aged 63. He was married the third time, April 5, 1863, in Fort Winnebago, to Damaris Murray, who died Feb. 15, 1873. Soon after his first marriage. Mr. Clark went to Cortland Co., N. Y., and lived in the town of Willett until 1851 ; then came to Wisconsin, and lived in Marcellon till 1861 ; then he sold out and removed to his present location. Mr.

Clark has seven children living, the first four by his first wife - Eliza (now Mrs. Henry Mowers, of Big Sprinj;, Adams Co., Wis. ), George C, William (also in Big Spring), and Henrietta (now the widnw of Rev. Almon Rounds, a Baptist minister, lately deceased J ; the children of his second wife were John W. and R. D. (who is practicing medicine in Plymouth Co., Iowa), and Catharine Laura (who died when H years old). John W. Clark was born July 6, 1838, in Cortland Co., N. Y., town of Willett, and was married, Sept. 1, 1865, to Ella E. Keeder, who was born April 20, 1840 ; they have five children - Judith A., \Vm. Arthur, Wesley Eugene, Laura Evaline and Alfred, all at home. He enlisted Jan, 30, 1862, in the 16th U. S. I., Co. A., 2d Battery, and was in the service three years, participated in eii;ht battles, and skirmishes too numerous to mention. He is a Republican, and lives on the old homestead of 120 acres, and his father lives with him.

JAIMEN CLITHERO, farmer. Sec. 4; P. 0. Portage; was born in July, 1812, in Lancashire, England, son of Henry Clithero. He was married in England in May, 1835, to Mary, daughter of Richard Chiphendle ; she was born in Lancashire in 1808; Mr. Clithero came to America in 18411, and settled in Furt Winnebago, on the farm he now occupies, and where he has since resided ; has five children living - Jane (now Mrs. John Turner, of Portage City), Henry (lives in Lowville), James (lives in Kansas), Thomas i^lives at Geneva Lake, Wis.), and George (lives at Be Pere. Wis.) ; have lost two - Alice married David Wiseman, of Indiana, and died in February, 1876, aged 42, and Elizabeth married William Elliott, of Moundville, Marquette Co., Wis., and died Nov. 9, 1878, aged 40. Mr. Clithero is a Republican in politics, and has been Supervisor, and was School District Treasurer three times in succession ; has also been Postmaster most of the time since he lived in the town ; both are members ot the Episcopal Church, and he has 173 acres of land ; he is still carrying on his farm, and Mrs. Clithero, although nearly 72 years of age, does all of her housework, and takes care of the milk of seven cows, and not a gray hair in her head.

JOH\ B. COOK, farmer. Sec. 23 ; P. 0. Portage ; was born in the town and county of Schoharie, N. Y., son of Richard and Lanina ( Butler) Cook, natives of Connecticut. He was first married in Schoharie Co. in 1836 to Anna Maria Zea, a cousin of Gen. Banck of that Stale ; she died in 18311, leaving no children. He was again married in the same county in 1840 to Sarah Ann Anthony, with whi,m he is still living. Mr. Cook learned the carpenter's trade while a boy, commencing at the age of 16, and worked at it over fifty years; came to Wisconsin in 1841, and lived in Walworth Co. till the fall of 1850, then removed to his present location in Columbia Co.; has five children^Kneeland B., Elbert F., Anna Maria, Scth C. and Clara E., the first three teachers. Kneeland was in the army a few months durinj; the last part of the war in the 52d W. V. I., Co. B. Mr. Cook is a Democrat, and has 100 acres of land, and himself and wife are Universalists.

ABRADl DATES (deceased) was a native of Cayuga Co., N. Y., and was married in that county in 18 - to Polly C. Henry, who was born in the same county in 18 - , daughter of Levi Henry. Mr. Dates was a miller in his younger days, but after his marriage he went to farming ; came to Wisconsin in 1845, landing in Racine on the 18th day of May, lived in that county seven years; came to Columbia Co. in the spring of 1852, and settled in Fort Winnebago on Sec. 1, where he resided till his death Oct. 23, 1875, in the 60th year of his age ; in January, 1863, he purchased what was known as French's mill in Sec. 1, and ran that in addition to his farming while he lived. During his residence in Columbia Co.,, he was called upon to fill many oflnces of public trust, and always discharged his duties with marked fidelity ; in all the relations of lifa, both public and private, he maintained an unsullied reputation, and his name will be held in cherished remembrance by all old settlers; he left a widow and four children - Levi H., William W. and George D., his only daughter, Mary A , born May 18, 1843, was married Jan. 12, 1868, to Kneeland B. Cook, who was born Oct. 30, 1841, lives on Sec. 24, and has 140 acres of land, and two children - Caroline L., born June 12, 1869, and Jay B., born Nov. 6, 1878. Mr. Cook was tha oldest .son of John B. Cook, of Fort Winnebago.

MRS. POLLY BATES (widow), Sec. 1 ; P. O. Portage City; was the wife of Abram Bates, one of the old settlers of Fort Winnebago. [See his biography.] She was born Dec. 17, 1821, in Cayuga Co., N. Y., daughter of Levi and Arela (Bowkerj Henry, both natives of Cayuga Co.; Mr. Henry was a farmer and spent his whole life in his native county ; he was born March 22, 1800, and died Oct 1 1, 1860. Mrs. Henry is still living at the age of 75. Mrs. Dates and her son George, who is unmarried, are living on the homestead, which consists of a 100-acre farm, and the grist-mill known as Dates' Mill; which was built in 1857, by the Chapman brothers, on the site of the old saw-mill known as French's mill, built in 1847 ; have 3 acres of land with the mill, and also 40 acres in Marcellon.

CALVIN EASTMAN, farmer. Sec. 10; P. O. Portage City; born in Chittenlen Co., Vl., Dec. 27, 1827 ; when he was 5 years old, his father, Calvin Eastman, removed with his family to Cayuga Co., N. Y., town of Brutus ; lived there three years ; then five years in JeflFerson Co., N. Y., and, in 1844, came to

"Wisconsin and lived in Kenosha Co. till the spring of 1850 ; then came to Columbia Co. and settled on Sec. 10, in the town of Fort Winnebago, where he resided till his death, May 8, 1871, aged 71. His mother, whose maiden name was Ardela Grain, is still living on the old homestead, at the age of 77, and still able to weave four yards a day, beside doing her housework and taking care of the milk of two cows ; she has been a member of the M. E. Church over sixty years, and Mr. Eastman was a member the last forty years of his life, and his house was a " minister's home," without regard to the denomination to which they belonged. Calvin, Jr., was married in November, 1853, to Charlotte V. Baldwin, who was born Sept. 27, 1820, in Genesee Co., N. Y., daughter of Asa Btldwin, who came to Wisconsin in 1847, and to Fort Winnebago in the fall of 1849 ; she taught the first organized school in what was then District No. 1, in Portage, and taught nine terms in the same sahool. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman have but one child, Hiram C, Feb. 22, 1858 ; he had one sister, Laura, who married A. T. Spicer; he died May 14, 185S, and she died April 12, 1874, leaving one daughter, Carrie Ardella, who is living with her grandmother. Mr. Eastman is a Republican, and has 220 acres of land in his farm. May 26, 1850, the first Sabbath after the arrival of his parents in Columbia Co., they held the first religious services, and organized the first Sabbath school in the town at the log house of Avery T. Spicer, their son-in-law.

JAMES M. FORREST, farmer. Sec. 24; P. 0. Portage City; born June 13, 1812, in Merrimack Co., N. H. Has been married four times ; his first wife was Almira T. Ames, who died in 1847, after a married life of seven years, leaving three children - Adaline E. (now Mrs. Joseph E. Wells, of Portage City) and G. A. Forrest, who is now a lawyer in Manitowoc; Susan was married to James Oviat, and died in March, 1876. His second wife was Laura F. Waters, who died after three years of married life, leaving no children. The third wife was Matilda Abbott, who lived four years after marriage, and died without issue. His fourth wife, with whom he is now living, was Susan H. Sargent, who was born Sept. 24, 1828, in Stratford, Belknap Co., N. H., daughter of Challis Sargent. Mr. Forrest came to Wisconsin in 1850, and settled on the farm he now owns. Has been Chairman of the town and School Superintendent. Is Republican. Has 217 acres of land. Both are members of the M. E. Church,

D. ai. (jrALLiOWAY, farmer. Sec. 10 ; P. 0. Port Hope ; was born June 28, 1828, in Fifeshire, Scotland; son of George and Jane (Miller) Galloway; came to America in the spring of 1851 ; came direct to Wisconsin ; lived in Waupun the first summer, and the next fall located land in the town of Buffalo, Marquette Co.; remained there three years, and in the fall of 1854 returned to Scotland and remained one year; in the fall of 1855 came again to America, bringing with him his parents and five sisters fhe being the only son) ; his mother died in December, 1876, aged 87 years, and his father is still living in Marquette Co., at the age of 79. Mr. Galloway was married, Dec. 9, 1856, to Sarah Muir, who was born Feb. 19, 1836, in Dunbar, Scotland, in the shire of East Lothian, daughter of Daniel and Anna (Gilrie) Muir, who came to America in 1849 and settled in Buffalo, Marquette Co., Wis., and are living there still. Mr. Galloway has three children living - Anna G.,^J. Cecelia and S. V. Gracie - all at home ; his only son, George E., was accidentally drowned in the Fox River while bathing, June 8, 1879, on his 19th birthday. In politics, Mr. Galloway is Republican, and himself and wife are members of the Baptist Church. He has 173 acres of land.