Genesee Town (part 4 of 4)

DANIBli W. WARIVER, Hartland ; was born in Berlin, Hartford Co., Conn. ; in early life he followed a sea-faring life on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for about four years ; he afterward traveled over nearly every State in the Union. In 1847, he came to Wisconsin, locating in Raymond, Racine Co., where he married Martha L. Phillamore, a native of Bennington, Wyoming Co., N. Y. ; after their marriage, they came to Hartland, where they have since resided. Mr. Warner is an old resident, and aperfect encyclopedia of genealogical knowledge ; he keeps horses and carriages, and meets every train, day and night, at Hartland, for the purpose of conveying travelers to any of the resorts in this vicinity, far or near ; and also suitable "rigs " for the transportation of fishing parties to the various lakes and lakelets hereabout. To use his own language, he is " compos mentis," and he is a kind-hearted, obliging man, as well as a trusty and careful driver ; he is always ready, and, although he has had several competitors for his business, has thus far crushed out all opposition ; Mr. Warner can always be depended upon, and that, together with his overflowing good nature, is probably the secret of his success. Long may he flourish.

HOIV. STEPHEIV WARKEIV, the original owner of the viUaoe of Hartland; was born in Hawkesbury, Canada ; when he was 1 year old, his father, Sylvanus Warren, moved to Niagara County, N. Y., thence to Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1834, where Stephen remained until 1838, in which year he came to Wisconsin,' arriving in Waukesha County in February of that year, and at present writing is the second oldest settler now living in the town of Delafield. May 7, 1840, he married, in Merton, Mary Nicholson, la, native of Essex County, N. Y. ; they had two children - Myron H. and Sarah ; Myron was born in Hartland ; he married Emma Crosier ; they have two children - Edith and Stephen ; Sarah died in Hartland, in 1854. Mr. Warren and wife were the first couple married in the town of Merton, and she taught the first school in the town of Delafield. In 1840, Mr. Warren sold the mill-power on his claim in Hartland to Christian Herschey, who built the first flouring-mill in the town, and did a good business for several years. Mr. Warren was a member of the Wisconsin Assembly in 1855, and has also filled various local offices. He owns 270 acres of land adjoining the village of Hartland, and his buildings and grounds add much to the attraction of the place ; he came when the surrounding country was a wilderness on every side ; has been a continual resident, and has been identified with the growth and prosperity of the town from its infancy until the present, when it ranks in its wealth and improvements, as well as in the intelligence of the people, the equal of any in the county.

P. T. YOUELiliS, an enterprising farmer, Sec. 10 ; P. 0. Hartland ; was born in Livingston County, N. Y., in the year 1824, where he remained until 1846, when he came to Wisconsin, remained a short time, then returned to his native county. In 1848, he came again to Wisconsin, and located in the town of Delafield, Waukesha Co., where he married Annie M. Myers ; she was also a native of Livingston County, N. Y. ; they have three children - Edward M., Mary E. and Albert: Mary E. is the wife of Henry. Jones, Dakota. Mr. Youells owns 236 acres of land, finely improved and located in a most desirable portion of the town of Delafield ; he has been elected to many local positions, and is a man who takes an active part in the advancement of every enterprise that promises to be of benefit to the country in general.

Town Of Vernon

HIRAm AUSTIN, farmer. Sec. 17 ; P. 0. Mukwonago ; born in Columbia Co., N. Y., in 1827 ; son of Alson and Annie Austin, also New Yorkers ; the family of six came to Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1846, settled on the Austin homestead ; at this time, the grave of an Indian squaw was indicated in the timbers on this farm by a gayly painted post, it being among the roots of four trees around it ; the family began clearing the timber on the first 75 acres, and cut the trees spoken of; the resultsof the thirtyfour years occupying by the Austins of this farm may be seen in the 141 -acre farm, well fenced and mostly cultivated, a small but good house and a substantial basement barn built 1879 ; Alson A., died in September, 1876 ; his wife having died in 1849. Hiram Austin enlisted August, 1864, in the 3d W. V. C; the regiment was at Little Rock, Ark,, doing scouting duty until March, 1865, when a squad of forty were sent to surprise and capture a party of " Johnnies " thirty-five miles from Pine Bluif; they arrived early in the morning, but found the enemy ready, and waiting to fire the first volley which killed the Union Captain ; the rebels then made a dash for our boys and captured Mr. A. and seven others ; he was kept two months at Camden, Ark., and Shreveport, La.; was paroled, exchaaged and rejoined the regiment ; he reached home after eleven months of stirring military life. In the spring of 1 850, Mr. Austin married Miss Maria A. David, a native of New York State, by whom he has had six children - Alson H., John H., Asa A., William C, George M. and Louis D. Jlr. Austin is a Democrat. In conclusion, we may say that the Indian grave was forgotten after the protecting stumps of the old trees decayed, and was found by William C. Austin while plowing the field in the spring of 1880, his plow struck the skull, and the entire skeleton was discovered, the skull and several of tfie booes now being kept by Mr. A. as curiosities.

REV. JOHN S. BAI.DWIN, farmer. Sees. 7, 8 and 18; P. 0. Vernon; was born Dec. 5, 1814, in Susquehanna Co., Penn.; learned harness-making in early life, and, having united with the Baptist Church of his forefathers, began study at 20, in the Hamilton (N. Y.) Theological Seminary ; was ordained at 22, and during the next eight years worked to the best of his ability for God, and the cause of human freedom, by both sermons and public lectures. In 1844, he located in Vernon, and the next year went to East Troy ; 1846 found him in Mukwonago ; here he rented a farm, preaching alternately in the old Baptist Church in Mukwonago, and the old square-log schoolhouse in Vernon ; and prior to the war delivered many a stirring lecture to alleviate the wrongs of the slave ; since the war, he has preached the war, but has done good work in the temperance cause, and preached the funeral sermon of many of the old settlers and early friends around him, who usually request it among their last wishes ; besides his able lectures on temperance, the Elder does all he can to forward the cause at the polls, thus securing the election of a Prohibition ticket in Vernon, 1877, and brought to punishment several violators of the law that year. The Elder is an old-time Abolitionist- Whig-Eepublican, serving for many years as both Town Superintendent of Schools and one of the Supervisors, and is active enough to take the census of 1880, as the Deputy United States Marshal in Vernon ; he has 256 acres of land and a good home. The Elder married in his and her native county, ]Miss Polly West ; they had seven children - Henrietta, PJveline, Alfred, Leander, Susie and R. H.; the eldest son, Leonidas, enlisted in Col. Daniel's 1st W. V. C, and died a few months after at Kenosha, Wis.

BOYAIi li. BAYIvEY, mechanic and Postmaster, Dodge's Corners ; born July 22, 1814, in Derby, Orleans Co., Vt.; learned the cooper's trade in Windsor, Vt. On the 14th of September, 1841, he married Miss Eliza Hammond, of Windsor, they leaving for Wisconsin on the same day ; they spent the winter with, relatives here, he buyiag 50 acres of John Dodge, on which he built in the spring of 1841 a ribbon house, or a house of oak strips nailed one upon the other ; Mr. B. also built a shop and worked many years at his trade, also, as carpenter and joiner ; he was first appointed Deputy Postmaster, by John Dedge, and served thus until 1855, when he received the appointment and has since served. His wife died in 1869, leaving five children - Haller H., James L., Thomas P., Mary E. and John D.; the eldest is in Atchison, Kan.; J. L. is in Washington Territory ; Thomas P. is a farmer in Vernon ; the daughter resides in Racine County ; and the youngest son is on the homestead of 128 acres. Mr. Bayley married again. Miss Susan Story, of Windsor, Vt. He is a stanch Republican, served as Town Clerk many years in succession, also Supervisor, etc.; he has a large and pleasant farmhouse for his home, which was completely remodeled in 1866 ; he is the inventor of a new and somewhat novel way of laying stone walls for buildings, etc, by which the wall is " pointed up" at the time the wall is laid.

JAMES BEGG, farmer. Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Vernon ; born in Ayrshire, Scotland, July 15, 1810 ; when he was 8 years old, his parents emigrated and settled in New York State ; here Mr. Begg spent his younger life, and was educated, and married Miss Janet Espie ; her parents left Glasgow, her native city, and in 1818 or 1820 settled in New York City, where her father carried on business, and she was educated; they removed to Caledonia in 1829 ; in 1841, Mr. B., wife and eldest son, settled in Pewaukee, and spent the winter ; the next spring Mr. B. bought two eighties or his present farm, one of a Mr. Parr and one of J. C. Snover, now County Judge ; an acre cleared and a log house was all he bought with the farm, which is now one of the best in Vernon, with a handsome two-story farmhouse and substantial barns built on it ; Ms. B. was the first Scotchman to vote in this town, and had some exciting adventures with wildcats, etc., in early times ; none of the early settlers here saw more of sorrow or heartache ; they have had six children, viz.: James, who served as a brave Union soldier, and died after the war ; John, the second son, born March 18, 1843, is the only one living, and is now on the homestead ; Margaret, the third, and the two youngest Willie and Mary (twins) all died within a few days of each other, in May, 1857, and were buried in one grave; Thomas, the fourth of the children, grew up to manhood, and died Dec. 13, 1866, aged 19 ; Mr. and Mrs. Begg have been members of the United Presbyterian Church since the organization of the society, he serving three or four years as Elder ; his farming is most successful, the farm now containing 170 acres. Mr: B. says he raised the first turkeys in Vernon in 1842.

IRA. BliOOD (deceased). Among the well-remembered pioneers of the southwest part of the county \^as this gentleman, who was born in Hollis, N. H., Dec. 30, 1811 ; his parents, Isaac and Elizabeth Blood, settled in Andover, Vt., soon after; at 15 he went to sea with an uncle, but in consequence of an accidental fall, was so injured as to abandon sea-faring life ; he then began clerking at Weston, Vt., which business he followed at various points in New England ; entering Chester Academy, he attended several terms, and in May, 1836, in company with Martin Fields, .left for Chicago. During the summer he and Fields were engaged in surveying here, and the following October made their first visit to the Indian village of Mequonago," reaching it by way of Milwaukee and Waukesha; soon after they were employed by the three proprietors to survey out the village plat ; after this, Mr. Blood made a claim on Sec. 31, in Vernon, and built a sham log house to hold it ; in December following, he and Mr. Fields returned on foot to Chicago, going from there to Elennepin, 111 , where Mr. B. taught a winter term of school, returning to his claim in the spring of 1837, on which he lived until the fall of 1839, when he returned to Vermont and married, in Chester Miss Esther P., daughter of Josiah and Esther Jordan; her father was a native of Brookline, Mass., and her mother of Chester, Vt., where Mrs. Blood was born and educated, though her ealy life was spent in Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties, N. Y. ; the bridal tour was made to Mr. Blood's Vernon claim, where his parents awaited them, Mr. B. now devoted all his energies to his profession, and was often absent from home for weeks together on this business ; he also surveyed Kneeland's Addition to Millwaukee, and much of the west part of Racine Co. ; in 1858, he was elected County Surveyor and member of the Legislature over L. Martin ; two years before this were spent in Mukwonago, in mercantile business, lumber business, and as a teacher ; he also taught in an early day in the old log house of Mr. Hough, and served several terms as town Superintendent of Schools. A stanch advocate of Temperance, he delivered many a stirring lecture to further that cause; but all his labors were ended on the 22d of February, 1868, his death causing a feeling of sincere grief throughout the county where he was known by all to be an upright and energetic man, ever ready to lend a helping hand to aid any enterprise calculated t o benefit mankind. His widow, now a resident of Mukwonago, furnished most of the above facts, and others regarding the school taught by her during the winter of 1839-40, when G. W. Lucy, Wis and Cornelia Munge, E. B., Elizabeth, Sarah, Frances and Augusta Thomas, Addison Resique, Theo., Samuel and Monroe Payne, and Evalina Masters were her pupils among others. Mr. Blood left four childreti - Isaac, Ed-