New Berlin City (part 5 of 5)

B. R. HINKJLEY, retired, Summit Corners ; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; was born in the town of Weston, Oneida Co., N. Y., Jan. 13, 1809. His father," Amasa Hinkley, was born in Connecticut, and went to Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1795. The subject of this sketch spent his early life at farming, working by the month at that occupation for three years; in 1831, he began peddling Yankee notions through Northern New York and Canada, at which he continued three years ; he then returned to Oneida Co., purchased a team and began trading between Utica and Canada, buying dried-apples at one place and disposing of them at the other, returning with his wagon loaded with grass seed, etc., from' the sale of which he realized handsome profits ; after spending a winter in this way, he was employed by a Quaker to buy cattle in Oneida and other counties ; after continuing in this employment for a year, he was then made a partner in the business, and at the death of the old man, formed a co-partnership with his son, and in the panic of 1837, lost all he had: he never, however, failed to keep his credit good, and his friends again supplied him with capital to continue his business, which he did with meager success ; in December, 1843, with Dr. Edwards, a buggy and two horses, he left Rome to try his fortune in the West, and and arrived in March, 1844, in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., Wis. ; here he rented of A. Sweet, of Milwaukee, a farm of 800 acres on Sees. 34 and 35, of this town, at S400 a year, the rent to be paid in improveinents on the farm ; he then returned to New York and borrowed $500 to carry on the business of farming, which he did successfully for three years, when he bought a farm of 160 acres on Sec. 14, of Summit, and after farming there for a number of years, he sold that and bought a half of Sec. 10, of the same town; here he followed farming, trading and dealing in real estate for several years; afterward he disposed of his farm, and has since been engaged in loaning money; in 1860, he, with others, chartered the Bank of Oconomowoc, of which he was elected Vice-President and afterward President, holding the latter position until the bank changed hands ; Mr. Hinkley has been Overseer of Public Highways thirtyfour out of his thirty-six years' residence in the town of Summit, and has done much in shaping and improving the drives of the same ; he was appointed by Gov. Fairchild a member of the Board of Regents of the State University, and was a member of that body for a number of years ; he was a member of the Committee on Location of the State Experimental Farm ; he was instrumental in the re-organization of the State University ; was re-appointed to the Board of Regents by Gov. Washburne ; he was President of the State Agricultural Society for nine successive year.-, and declined further nomination ; he was one of the first Directors of the Madison Mutual Fnsuraricf Co., and remained a member of that Board for ten or fifteen years. He was married in March, 1838, to Harriet Hovey, of Oneida Co., X. Y., who died in the town of Summit, in November, 1852, leaving three children - Mary, now the wife nf Richard Humphrey, and lives at Nashotah ; Helen, now Mrs. Lloyd Breok, ot'Barrytown, N. Y. ; and Henry R., who died in Chicago in 1876. His second marriage was in 1853, to Jeannette Townscnd, a native of Attica, N. Y., who died in February, 1871 ; his third marriage was to Mrs. Bessie Norcott Blinn, of Indianapolis, Aug. 2, 1871.

REV. LEWIS A. KEMPER, D. D., Professor of Exegesis, Biblical Literature and Hebrew ; was born in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1829 ; he graduated from Columbia College, New York City, in 1849, and came to Wisconsin the same summer as a theoioi;ical student of the Nashotah House, where he has since remained as student, tutor and professor; he has been Rector of St. Paul's Church, Ashippun. Wis., since 1853.

A. J. KIDDER, farmer, Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Summit; was born in Windsor Co., Vt., Jan. 1, 1826; he emigrated to Wisconsin in 1845, landing in Kenosha, then Southport, with only 35 cents ; he at once began work for farmers at $10 per month, which he continued in that vicinity till 1847, when he went to Dodge County and made his home with his father's family, spendinc; the winter, however, in -the pioeries ; in December, 1849, he with his brother started by water, crossing the isthmus, and sailing up the Pacific to California, where he engaged in mining till the spring of 1853 ; returning then to ihe town of Lomira, Dodge Co., Wis., he traded for a farm of 200 acres in that town, by giving in exchange 160 acres in Brown County. In February, 1854, he returned to California and spent thirteen years there in mining and teaming, and in the spring of 1863 he went to Idaho, followed mining and gardening till 1867, when he came again to Dodge County, and there he followed farming till 1874 ; he then purchased his pre sent farm of 60 acres, in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co. He was married in June, 1870, to Sarah A. Vangilder, a native of New York ; their children are Burr, Albert, Alice, Joseph and Warren.

SAMUEL. C. liEAVITT (deceased), was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1800 ; his parents, Roger and Lydia Leavitt, were natives of Connecticut, and removed as early settlers to Oneida Co., N. Y ; our present subject spent most of his early lite at farming in his native county. He was married there in 1834 to Prances, a daughter of Marshall H. and Mariba (Fiske) Fairservice, a native of the town ' of Weston, Oneida Co., N. Y., and was born in 1810. In November, 1837, they arrived at Milwaukee, as emigrants to Wisconsin, and about two weeks later they reached the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., spent the winter on the Edgerton farm, and in the spring of 1838 settled on Sec. 22, where he made his claim to 200 acres ; he at once built his log house, which sufficed for a home for several years, and which gave place to the present comfortable residence. Mr. Leavitt devoted his time wholly to agricultural pursuits, never seeking an office, but, nevertheless, was called upon, and complied in filling some of the minor ones of his town. He died in January, 1872, leaving six children, having had seven, as follows: Charles H. and Marshall H., children by his first wife, Mary A. Kilbourn, of Oneida Co., N. Y., whom he married in 1826, and who died in 1831 ; Charles is now in Cahfornia, and Marshall H.-died at Washington, April 6, 1865, from the efi^eots of a wound received at the battle of Petersburg in March previous ; from the second marriage the children are as follows : James M., now at Sioux Falls, Dak.; Adelia, at home ; Samuel F., at Sioux Falls ; Theodore F., Ella F., now the wife of J. F. Redfield, also at Sioux Falls,

JOHIV D. JJlcDOlVALD, farmer, Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Summit Center. This pioneer of Summit was born in Fulton Co., N. Y., in 1816; his father, Daniel McDonald, was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland and died when his son was 12 years old; his mother, Mary Elizabeth Port, was born in Ireland, and died, when he was about 5 years of age ; upon the death of his father, being left the oldest of three orphan children, and with scarcely any means of support, save that earned by his own hands, he spent his time at farm work till he arrived at the age of 16, when he was apprenticed to the glove and mitten trade, at Gloversville, N. Y., where he remained till of age; in November, 1836, he emigrated to the Territory of Wisconsin, spent the winter in Milwaukee, and in March, 1837, westward still he bent his course, till he arrived at the town of Summit, Waukesha (then Milwaukee) County, where he selected his site, and on the 7th day of April following, he entered his claim to 40 acres in Sec. 21 ; he at once began to improve his farm, as rapidly as limited means would permit, and built his pioneer shanty, which has since been exchanged for his present commodious farm-residence ; his farm of 40 acres has grown into one of several hundred acres, which yields its annual rich harvests. Mr. McDonald has held the office of Chairman of the Town Board for eight or nine years, Chairman of the County Board for three or four years, was elected a member of the Wisconsin Logislatyre from his Assembly District of Waukesha County, in 1869, and served with such satisfaction to his constituency, that he was re-elected as a member of that body in 1870 ; he has also served in minor offices, and taken an active part in the aifairs of the town. He was married in 1840 to Miss Sophia, daughter of Gardner and Ruey (Plumley) Brown, a native of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. ; she came with her parents to Summit in 1837, where they afterward died. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have reared a family of six children - Mary, now the wife of C. M. Story, and lives at Red Cloud, Neb. ; Emma E;, now Mrs. E. W. Barnard, and now lives in Summit ; Daniel, John, Maggie, and Nellie at home.

HE9IRY C. McDowell, proprietor of the Summit Stock Farm, Sees. 10 and 11; P. 0. Oconolnowoc ; was born in Ontario Co., N. Y., in 1826 ; he removed with his parents, David and Harriet McDowell, to Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, when quite young; there his father entered and improved a farm, and carried on farming, merchandizing, distilling, milling, etc., for many years. Our present subject made his home with his father until 1849, when he began the lake transportation business, which he followed for twenty-five years, conducting also a farm during the time ; in 1873, he purchased what was then known as the J. J. Tallmadge farm, where he now owns 310 acres and where he has since followed farming and stock-raising. He was married, in 1854, to Jennie E., daughter of I^aac and Jane Sherman, of Bridgeport, Conn., who died in 1870, leaving two children - Wenonah S., now the wife of Charles Hacker, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and William S., who lives with his father ; his second marriage was to Viola S., daughter of Dr. Turner, of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873.

CURTIS SIAIVBT, farmer. Sec. 3; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; was born in Washington Co., N. Y., in 1815; he engaged in canal transportation in his native county for a number of years, and in 1846, removed to Buffalo, where he engaged in grain trade and lake transportation till 1858 ; he then came to Wisconsin, to the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., having removed his family here in 1856, he himself remaining at Buffalo two years, to close up his business. He was a member of the Board of Trade in Milwaukee from 1858 till 1875, since which time he has been engaged chiefly in lumbering in Marathon Co ; he was elected a member of the State Senate of Wisconsin, from Waukesha Co., in 1868. He was married in Washington Co., N. Y., in 1852, to Nancy Comstock, a native of that county; their children are Fanny, Frank, William E. and Orville K.

- LEVI P. MERICKIiB, farmer, Sees. 27 and 28; P. 0. Summit Center; was born in the town of Lobo, Canada West, in 1816 ; he spent much of his early life on a farm in Canada till 1836, when he came to the State of Michigan, and spent the winter; in June, 1836, he came to the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., Wis., and worked for Mr. Doubman one and a half years, then made a squatter's claim to the farm on which he now lives ; his mother dying Oct. 8, 1835, his father and other members of the family joined him in Summit, in 1839, and made that their home till 1846, whence they removed to Dodge Co., where he died in 1870. Mr. L. P. Merickle was married in Summit, May 10, 1840, to Miss Phebe J., daughter of Richard and Jane Hardell, a native of Lincolnshire, Eng., born in 1819 ; they made their home on the farm in Summit till 1861, then removed to Dodge Co., whence, in 1863, they went to Blue Earth Co., Minn., where he continued farming till 1880 ; in January of that year, he returned to the old farm in Summit ; their children are Elen A., now the wife of B. T. Ellis, and lives in McHenry Co., 111.; Josephine E., now Mrs. George Webster, and lives in Lac-qui-Parle Co., Minn; William W., who married Sarah Youngs, and lives in Blue Earth Co., Minn. ; Abbie J., now the wife of William Youngs, of Blue Earth Co., Minn. ; Anna J. and Emma W., at home. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Seventh Day Advent Church.

ELISHA MORRIS, farmer, Sec. 7; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; was born in Madison Co., N. Y., June 6, 1817 ; his father, Mathias Morris, was a native of New York, and his mother, Sarah Lathrop, was a native of Connecticut ; in June, 1837, the family emigrated to Wisconsin, and were the first, as a family, to locate in the town of Oconomowoc, his mother and sisters being the first women in that town. His father making his home here for about fifteen years, removed to Winnebago Co., where he afterward died. Elisha, our subject, removed four years later to Sec. 4, town of Summit, where he lived nearly two years, and then removed to his present home, on Sec. 7, where he now owns 50 acres ; he enlisted, in 1861, in Co. H, 1st W. V. C., under Col. Daniels, and was with his regiment in the Army of the Tennessee and South until February, 1865, when he was mustered out of service at Nashville, Tenn ; he then returned to his home in Summit, and has since followed farming. He was married in 1842, to Martha, daughter of Eleazer and Susan Scripture, a native of New York, who died about 1847, leaving two children - Eugene, now in Harper Co., Kan. ; Imogene, now the wife of James Chapin, of Chicago ; his second marriage was to Mary Harmon, widow of Benjamin Harmon, and daughter of Hiram and Sarah Howard, a native of Vermont ; they have two children - Byron, now in Chicago, and Alice, at home.

AlVBIIS NELSON, farmer, Sec. 30; P. 0. Golden Lake; was born in Norway in 1835, and came with his parents, Nels and TuUena Nelson, to Waukesha Co., Wis. ; they were the second settlers in that part of the town of Summit ; arriving in July, 1843, they slept out doors till a pen of ironwood poles was substituted for a house, in December ; their first house was logs, and built on the Norwegian plan, which was their home for a year or two, when their present home was erected; his father died here in 1871 ; his mother in April, 1879, leaving four sons - Annis, our subject, who now owns 100 acres in this town and in Jefferson Co. ; Marshall and Louis, in Oconomowoc, and Morten in California.

CAPT. THOMAS L. PARKER was bom in the county of Kent, England, 1814; at the - age of 13 years, he began spending his vacations at sea, and by the time he reached his 16th year, he had visited the Azores and other Western Islands; when 16, he sailed up the Mediterranean on a two-year's voyage, visiting Greece, Turkey and other European countries; leaving his native country in the autumn of 1832, he sailed for America, and in the spring of 1834 went to Oswego, N. Y., where he was master of a vessel till 1841 ; removing then to Chicago, where he actively engaged in grain, warehouse and lake marine for many years; coming to this city in August, 1874, on a visit, and finding the property which he now owns, about three miles east from the city, on Oconomowoe Lake, for sale, he purchased it about three months later, and now has one of the finest estates, if not the first, in Wisconsin.

JACOB JRJEtJUIiA, farmer. Sec. 14 ; P. 0. Summit ; was born in the Rhine Province, in Bavaria, in 1806 ; he began the wagon-maker's trade at the age of 15, and continued at this till 1832. He was married in 1831, to Philippine Voos, with whom, July, 1832, he sailed for America, landing at New York in August following, and soon after settled at Rome, Oneida Co. ; here he continued his trade till 1838, when, September 1, of that year, he arrived in Milwaukee ; leaving his wife at the last-mentioned place he proceeded to Summit, Waukesha Co., to find some friends who had gone before ; while here he purchased a claim, being the southwest quarter of Sec. 14, and made improvements for his future home ; here he plied his trade for several years in connection with that of farming ; he made the cradle that cut the first wheat in the town of Summit ; he made the first well-buckets that were made in the town, and the coffin for the second burial that took place in Summit. Of later years he has devoted his time to farming. They have had children as follows, namely, Nicholas, Lovina and Lena deceased ; Elizabeth, now the wife of Charles Churchill ; Harriet, the late wife of Martin Coon, of Monroe Co., now deceased ; Lovina, wife of Theodore Hines, and lives in Nebraska ; Eliza, wife of Frank Standard, and lives in Nebraska ; Jennie, now Mrs. Joseph Severling, and lives in Iowa ; Jacob, now married and at home ; Charles at home.

BENJAMIX RISING, farmer, Sees. 23 and 24 ; P. 0. Delafield ; was born in Hampshire Co., Mass., in 1840 ; came to Milwaukee in 1860, and there engaged in the wholesale drug business till 18Y5, when he disposed of that, and bought his present farm of 145 acres, in the town of Summit. He was married at Berlin, Wis., to Lucy L. Ward, a native of Ohio ; their children are Benjamin, Grace, Arthur and Jessie.

ERIVEST SCHWARGER, farmer. Sec, 31 ; P. 0. Golden Lake ; was born in Prussia in 1820 ; he emigrated to America in 1853, and located in Milwaukee, Wis., whence, in April, 1854, he settled on his present farm of 101 acres, in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co. Mr. S. was appointed Postmaster by President Johnson, in November, 1865, and has been retained in that office at Golden Lake since that time. He was married in Prussia, in 1843, to' Amelia Engelmann ; their children are Frank, who married Bagena Hauson, a native of Wisconsin - they now live on Sec. 31, Amelia ; Mina, the late Mrs. Michael Andrews, is dead.

FREDERICK SHEARSMITH, farmer, Sec. 24; P. 0. Delafield; was born in Prussia in 1823, came to America in 1853, and stopped a short time in Milwaukee, when he came to the town of Summit, where he worked one and a half years for Mrs. Wieman ; he then went to the town of Sullivan, Jefferson Co., where he made his home till 1867, and after this returned to Summit, and located on his present farm of 87 acres. He was married in February, 1856, to Elizabeth Poller, a native of Prussia ; their children are John, Frank, Annie, William, Louisa, Emma, Eddie and Mary Jane, who at this time reside with their parents.

SIDNEY F. SHEPARD, farmer. Sec. 29 ; P. O. Golden Lake ; is a native of Rensselaer Co., N. Y. ; born in 1821 ; he spent his time with his parents, Charles and Mercy Shepard, till 1842, when, in the autumn of that year, he emigrated to Wisconsin, and located in the town of Lagrange, Walworth Co. ; there he spent five years at the carpenter and joiner's trade. He was married in the town of Vernon, Waukesha Co., Feb. 1, 1849, to Hannah, daughter of Asher and Jane Stillwell, who was a native of New Jersey, and came with her parents to Waukesha, Wis., in 1839, where her father afterward died ; her mother now lives in Kilbourn City. Soon after marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Shepard settled in the town of Vernon, where he followed farming till the spring of 1872, when he removed to his present farm of 200 acres in the town of Summit. Mr.«. Shepard died Dec. 15, 1865, leaving five children, having had six - Elliot W., who died at the age of 10 years ; Isadora J., now Mrs. William Boundy, and lives in Oconomowoe ; Theron, now in Iowa; Elmore, Sidney L. and Florence M. are at home. His second marriage was June 15, 1866, to Armatha, daughter of William and Catharine Stillwell, a cousin to his first wife ; their children are Ada H., Myra M., Eva A., Catharine F. and Charles.

HENRY STOHM ANN, proprietor of the Golden Lake House ; was born in Hanover in 1813 ; he emigrated to America in 1840, and spent two years as coachman in New York City ; he then came to Waukesha Co., Wis., and located on Sec. 28, town of Summit, where he engaged in farming till 1874; he then became proprietor of the Golden Lake House, which he has since managed. He was married in New York City, in 1842, to Mary Berns, a native of England, who died in 1870 ; his second marriage was to Miss Catharine Meyer, a native of Germany, she having one son, Henry Meyer, now in Nebraska.

CA PT. E. S. STONE, Sees. 9 and 1 6 ; P.O. Oconomowoo ; is a native of Wayne Co., N. Y., born in 1825 ; his parents, ITinman and Mary (Stevens) Stone, were natives of Connecticut, and removed soon after their marriage as early settlers to Wayne Co.. N. Y. Our subject spent the first fourteen years of his life with his father on the farm, and then began sailing on Lake Ontario, which he continued during two summers ; in Sept., 1842, he landed in Milwaukee, then a lad of 17 years, to seek his fortune in the wilds of Wisconsin ; with his wardrobe carefully done up in a bandanna handkerchief, he came on foot to the town of Brookfield, Waukesha Co., where he found employment with Jacob Suttin at rail-making ; during his stay at this place he made a claim, but by reason of his minority he wa" unable to hold it. In the spring of 1843 he returned to Milwaukee and besan sailing with Capt. Calvin Ripley, whose vessel was engaged in the lumber trade between Milwaukee and Manistee, Mich., which he followed for two seasons ; with the first fifty dollars he earned he bought 40 acres of land in the town of Brookfield and built a house on it ; he aflerward sold the above and bought the farm of Capt. Ripley in the town of Grreenfield, Milwaukee Co., though at this period he spent most of his time on the lakes ; in 1853 he removed to Milwaukee, where, still being interested in sailing, he was one of the first members of the Board of Trade, and has ever since been connected with that body ; in 1857 he bought his present farm, " Cedar Beach," of 160 acres, on Sees. 9 and 16 on the east bank of Silver Lake, town of Summit, which has been the home of his family. Capt. Stone has been a member of the Town Board for three terms ; a member of the Wisconsin Assembly in 1873 from his district in Waukesha Co. He was married in 1852 to Nancy, daughter of Deacon George McWhorter, a native of Salem, N. Y., who emigrated to Wisconsin with her parents in 1836; their children are Percy F., a commission merchant in Milwaukee; Ella, now the wife of Theodore P. Leavitt, lives at Sioux Falls, D. T. ; Jennie L., at home ; F. Paul, in railroad business in Milwaukee ; Louis J. and Alice, now at home.

Cr. W^. VANBRUXT, farmer. Sec. 34 ; stock-raiser and proprietor of the Springdale Summer Resort; P. 0. Waterville ; was born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in July, 1830, and with his parents immigrated to Wisconsin in May, 1846. They located on a farm in the town of Burnett, Dodge Co., where our subject followed farming till 1861 ; he then removed to Horicon, where he was engaged in the manufacture of the Van Brunt Seeder, of which he was the inventor and patentee; in 1870, he sold out his interest in the Seeder works, and in 1873 bought his present farm of 320 acres. He was married in Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 1853, to Miss Jane Head ; they have two children, Elvie, now Mrs. E. V. Beals, of Milwaukee, and Charles B., who is now married and lives on the farm with his father.

GEO. H. W ATKINS, farmer, Sees. 8 and 9; P. 0. Oconomowoc; is a native of Philadelphia; was born in 1840; he came with his father, William Watkins, to Milwaukee in 1855, and was there engaged in the manufacture of brick from 1869 till August 1878, when he purchased the Highland farm of 80 acres, on Sees. 8 and 9, town of Summit, Waukesha Co., and has since engaged in farming. He was married in Milwaukee, in 1876, to Miss Jessie, daughter of John Roberts, of that city.

DR. Ij. W. weeks, farmer. Sec. 10; P. 0. Oconomowoc; was born in Caledonia Co., Vt., in 1805 ; his father, Lemuel Weeks, was a native of Massachusetts, and removed to Hardwick, Caledonia Co., Vt., in 1802, and followed farming till his death; his mother, Fannie Wheeler, was also a native of Massachusetts, and was connected with a family that was prominent in the Revolutionary war ; the Dr. received an academic education, after which he took up the study of medicine and graduated from the Medical Academy of Castleton, Rutland Co., Vt., in 1828; he immediately entered upon the practice of his profession at Ticonderoga, N. Y. ; a year later he removed to Keysville, N. Y., and continued the practice of medicine till 1836 ; in June of that year he arrived in Milwaukee, then a small hamlet, and where he afterward made his home till 1875. In 1838 or 1839, he was appointed deputy U. S. Marshal at that place, in which position he was retained for several years ; he was one of the Rock River Canal Commissioners in 1838-39 ; was a member of the City Council of Milwaukee for many years, serving several terms as President of the same body. In July, 1836, he, in company with a party, came on foot through this part of the country, going to Hustisford, Dodge Co., looking for a fall in Rock River. Thence they went to Madison, and while there he entered 1,000 acres of land in Dane Co; he returned then to Milwaukee, and afterward became one of the most extensive dealers in real estate in that city ; in 1875, he bought his present farm of 50 acres in Sec. 10, town of Summit, Waukesha Co., where he has since engaged in breeding the Jersey stock. He was married in Montpelier, Vt., in 1829, to Mary, daughter of Bphraim and Mary (Bradbury) Sands, a native of Maine ; their children are Horace S., now merchant in New York City, and Mary, now the wife of George Jones, of Pine Lake, Waukesha Co.

DANIEL WILLIAMS, farmer. Sec. 27; P. 0. Summit; born in the town of Exeter, Otsego Co., N. Y., June 22, 1829. His father, Sherman Wjlliams, was a native of that town and county, and followed farming there till his death, which occurred in Novemher, 1857. Our present subject spent his summers at fdrmiog and winters at teaching, till he was 28 years old ; in 1857, he came to Wisconsin, purchased a farm of 16H acres on Sec. 27, in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., to which he, with his father, expected to remove at once, but the death of the latter prevented his return to Wisconsin for two years. He was married iu 1857, to Lucy C. Beach, with whom he came to Wisconsin in 1859 ; in August, 1869, his wife died, leavin<; three children, Esther, Amanda and Mary. Mr. Williams was town Superintendent of schools in 1862 ; he has been a member of the Town Board for three years ; Chairman of the same for two years ; Town Clerk eleven years ; Assessor one year ; Census enumerator for three terms, 1865, 1875 and 1880 ; Justice of the Peace in his town for twelve years, and Secretary and Treasurer of the town Insurance Company since its organization in 1874. His second marriage was June 11, 1879, to Lovina, daughter of 0. W. Thornton, town of Medina, Dane Co., Wis.

JOHIV WIIiLIAMS, farmer. Sec. 23, 148 acres; P. 0. Summit; was born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, in 1815 ; he is the son of John and Blizibeth Williams, with whom he spent his time at farming till 1841, when he was married to Catharine Jones; May 31, 1847, they sailed for America; landed at Quebec July 29 following; August 11, they reached Milwaukee, and the 15th day of the same month, they came to the town of Genesee, Waukesha County, and on the 7th day of October of that year settled on Sec. 29, town of Ottawa, where he made his home till 1859, when he removed to the town of Sullivan, Jefferson Co., and ten years later, came to his present home in the town of Summit; Mrs. Williams died in 1866 ; his second marriage was in 1867, to Martha, daughter of John and Elizabeth Williams, a native of Wales, and emigrated to Wisconsin with her parents in 1854 ; her first marriage was to John R. Williams, who died in Milwaukee in 1861, leaving her with two children - John R. and Margaret.

ROBERT WIIililAlIS, farmer, Sec. 36; P. 0. Waterville ; was born in Caernarvonshire, North Wales, October 1816 ; he emigrated to America in 1846, and located in the town of Genesee, Waukesha Co., Wis., where he followed farming till 1873; he then bought his present farm of 220 acres in the town of Summit. He was married in Caernarvonshire, Wales, in 1840, to Sidney Jones; their children are Sydney, now the wife of Robert Edwards, of the town of Delafield, Waukesha Co. ; Catharine and Jane at home ; the above three were born in Wales ; John, Ann and Owen born in Wisconsin and now at home.

Town Of Eagle

C B. BANSTISTJER, homoeopathic physician, Eagle; born in Pownal, Bennington Co., Vt., April 6, 1817; after graduating at Union Academy, Bennington, he managed his mother's farm a few years, and in 1839, went to Madison Co., N. Y. ; beg^n the study of medicine with Dr. Samuel Fuller, but, owing to impaired health, gave it up and bought grain for a short time in Fayetteville, N. Y. ; returning to his native State, he farmed it there two or three years, and, in April, 1845, settled in Mukwonago on a farm ; resumed his medical studies with Dr. L. Nash and practiced while owning the farm, which he sold in 1866 and, at the request of several residents, settled in Eagle, where he has since resided in active and successful practice. Married, 1841, Miss Maria W. Lawrence, of Saratoga Co., N. Y., who died June 20, 1878, leaving two children - Charles, who enlisted in February 1865, in the 46th W. V. I., serving until the close of hostilities ; he married Miss Esther Morrow, of West Troy, Wis., and has three sons - Harvey, Byron C. and Charles, Jr. ; is now a railroad man in Troy Center, Wis.; his only sister, Venora, died Aug. 23, 1878. The Doctor married Miss Mary P. Rowland, of Chester County, Penn., July 9, 1879. In politics Democratic, he was Superintendent of Schools and Town Commissioner under the old system, besides serving on school boards,, juries, etc. Dr. Bannister well represents the energetic type of the pioneers from New England.

JONATHAN BETTS, farmer. Sec. 33; P. 0. Eagle; born in Elsen, Norfolk, England, September 1813; came to America in 1830, and, after four years spent in Rome, N. Y., removed to La Salle Co., 111. ; engaged in stage-driving in Illinois and Indiana about three years; settled in Eagle July 12, 1838, in company with F. Draper, they buying and farming 240 acres together till 1841, when Mr. Belts, took eighty acres on the east side of the road; he has since bought eighty acres of Government land. These were about the first men to locate in these parts, and, as they had six yoke of cattle, soon became known throughout the town, Mr. B. driving breaking team about five years and turning over thousands of acres of Wisconsin virgin soil; his first furrow turned on Sec. 28, and his first twenty acres of wheat sown among the burr oaks which sparsely covered their claim. Feb. 17, 184-1:, he married Miss Lucina Ewer, a native of Marcellus, Wayne Co., N. Y., he having previously lived with the Draper family in their log house. When Mr. Belts built his barn, he bought the lumber from the first large consignment, ever sent over the M. & P. du C. R. R. Mr. and Mrs. B. have seven living children - Mary J., Susan A., Alice M., Melissa A., Charles M., Fremont A. and Daisy L. ; the elder son, a carpenter by trade, married; Dec. 30, 1879, Miss Jennie Coulter, a native of the State of New York and a resident of Troy Center ; the younger son is also on the old homestead, and all are Republicans in politics.

E. Id. BOVEE, merchant, P]agle ; born in Amsterdam, Montgomery Co., N. Y., in 1833 ; son of M. J. and EUzabeth M. Bovee, who settled in Mukwonago, June 8, 1843, locating on a farm now owned by Joseph Sprague, in 1844; there were nine children - Sarah J., Emily M., Benedict A., William -R., Marvin H., Ehzabeth, Holsey W., Edward L. and Hattie M. Mathias J. Bovee was one of the historic pioneers of Waukesha Co. ; a staunch Democrat he had held many positions prior to his election to the U. S. House of Representatives, during Jackson's administration ; selling his farm he finally settled in the village of Eagle, where he died Sept. 12, 1872, aged 79 ; his wife still lives to furnish this sketch, in good health, at 87. E. L. Bovee resided on the farm until Nov. 4, 1876, when he began business in Eagle, dealing exclusively in groceries, and doing a good business at the manufacture of sausage during the winters. Married in Eagle, Nov. 4, 1859, Miss Elizabeth B. Hellier, a native of Bradford, England ; they have five children - Dewit C., Herbert and Halsey twins, Marvin and Emily L. Mr. Bovee is a Democrat.

M. F. BRADY, farmer, Sees. 9 and 10; P. 0. Eagle ; born in Leahary, County Cavan, Ireland Nov. 1, 1818 ; came to America in 1842, locating in Kirkland, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; during his first harve.st hiere he worked for |8 per month, taking " store pay ;" from this time until 1855, he worked for three men, but on the same section, a slow and hard but sure way to get his start in life ; reaching Eagle in the fall of 1855, Mr. Brady bought 160 acres, which is still his; on this was a 12x12 log house, where he and wife lived several years, doing the honors of a new country to the many " Down Bast " friends who called upon them in looking out homes for themselves, often keeping ten or a dozen over night in this narrow house with its leaky ronf of warped oak shakes ; as a result of this lowly beginning, Mr. B. has his J'arm well improved, several good barns, one costing $600, and a large and well-built farm house ; not a bad showing for the young man who reached America penniless. Married in Kirkland, in 1852, Miss Catherine McCabe, of his native town ; they have six children - Thomas J., John J., Peter, Mary A., Katie and Maggie J. The family are Roman Catholics, Mr. Brady having served as Supervisor twelve or fifteen years, also serving on Grand and Petit Juries, and as Justice of the Peace ; in politics votes independently.

HENRY BURNELL, farmer. Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Jforth Prairie; born in 1832, in Yorkshire, England; son of John and Ann (Walgate) Burnell, who came to America in 1834, and to Waukesha Co. in 1837, his father having bought Government land in Mukwonago, in 1836, where the subject of this sketch resided until 1859, when he began with 70 acres of his present farm of 305 ; be.sides enlarging his farm, Mr. Burnell has built the largest basement barn in Eagle, 30x96, beiides a spacious and elegant residence ; has brought this land to a high state of cultivation, S3t out shade and ornamental trees and made a most successful record as one of Waukesha County's progressive farmers; is an attendant of the M. E. Church, and a Democrat in politics.

JOHN BURDEIV, farmer ; Sec. 24 ; P. 0. Eagle ; born in Cornwall, England, Aug. 25, 1816 ; son of John and Sorda (Roe) Burden; spent his early life in England, and married Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas Mathers, in 1841 ; they came to America in 1857, with a family of seven children - John, Samuel, Mary A., Grace, Edward, William and Susanna (a twin born with William deceased) ; Celia, tbe youngest, was born in Palmyra, where the family lived for the first two years. Removing to the town of Waukesha, he paid $50 down for 80 acres of land, this leaving him 25 cents ; at the end of nine wellspent years, he exchanged farms with Hy Kipp, and by giving him a $7,000 mortgage, obtained his valuable farm of 232 acres ; Mr. Burden paid 100 cents on every dollar of this debt, and has just bought 128 acres more of W. B. Sprague ; Mr. B. had to borrow $12.50 in order to remove his family from Milwaukee to Palmyra, 23 years ago ; his flock of over 200 merino sheep is second to none in the town, their average clip per head in 1879 being seven pounds. Mr. B. is a Democrat, his family attending the M. E. Church, Eagle.

WLLIilAM CRANK, butcher and saloon, Eagle; born in Eagle, Waukesha Co., Wis., Dec. 22, 1852; is a son of Anton and Agatha Crank, who settled here in 1845 or 1846; having lost both parents at 14, Mr. Crank learned the trade of butcher, and followed it one year in Eagle ; he then spent a year in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and, on his return, was in the employ of W. A. Vanderpool one year, and, in 1874, opened a saloon of his own, where he is now located, thoup;h he occupied part of the Eagle Hotel about four years; in March, 1879, he built his large two-story saloon; he also owns a house and lot near it. He married, Oct. 22. 1872, Miss Alsina Marcley, of Eagle, whose parents were also early settlers here.

liAMBERT COLYER, farmer; P. 0. Eagle; born in Sullivan, Madison Co., N. Y., 1819. When of school-boy age, Mr. Colyer was at work in the pineries of his native State, living and working there in Onondaga and Oswego Counties till 1840, when he made his first visit to Wisconsin, buyiog 120 acres of Grovernment land in Sees. 10 and 15, Mukwonago ; returning to New York State that fall, he stayed there until 1843, when he came with his wife to Milwaukee ; his first business in the West was in teaming through Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, with a horse team ; it often required ten hours to drive fourteen miles in the Milwaukee woods, he carrying many a load of supplies to the Indians in the region of Winnebago Lake, and many a family into the wilds to begin pioneer life ; a favorite feeding-place with him used to be the open prairie, now the site of Juneau, carrying his own provisions and horse-feed, and using an open wagon; this was the way in which he earned enough to make a beginning on his land, which he did in the fall of 1845 ; the hardships endured by a man who left home and began life's battle at 19, nerved him for his work here, and, as a result of this, he has the old Mukwonago farm, every acre of which has been cultivated, with a large house and two good barns, 10 acres of timber in Vernon, and the old Sherman estate, 144 acres; the family residence here is a large twostory hip-roofed house, with wings, fitted up in modern style, besides all needed barns, carriage-house, etc. ; his Pierce County farm was recently sold for $6,01)0. Pew have done better than this man who reached Wisconsin thirty-seven years ago, with just $15. He married, in 1840, Miss Martha Cunningham, who died in 1879, leaving eigbt children - Frincis A., Williim Lee, Mary J., Charles H., Blgathe. Martha, De Witt C. and Delia E. ; on the 15th of March, 1880, Mr. Colyer married Mrs. Sarah Holmes, a resident of East Troy, and a native of Oswego Co., N. Y.

FREDERICK GOI«iE, farmer, Sees. 21 and 17; P. 0. Eagle ; born in Westphalia, Prussia, 1820; spent three years in the army, and on the 25th of March, 1848, left the Fatherland for America, reaching Milwaukee July 3, 1848; a tailor by trade, he worked four and a-half years there ; then settled on 80 acres of his present farm of 220 acres ; it was then wild land, destitute of buildings; he, having erected a tasteful house, good barn, etc., married, 1845, Miss Elizabeth WhifFen, of his native province ; they have nine children - Millie, Frederick, John, Carrie, Theresa, Martin, Libbie, Bttie, and Katie, having lost four children. The family are Roman Catholics. Politics, Democratic ; Mr. Gose has been Supervisor and Treasurer of Eagle several years ; has about sixty good sheep, besides horses and other stock.

MARTIN HELGEI^EN, farmer. Sec. 1; P. 0. North Prairie; born in the town of Ottawa, Waukesha Co., Wis., Oct. 15, 1844; son of Helge Helgesen, who settled in Ottawa in an early day and bought his farm of the Government, being one of the sturdy pioneers who were not afraid to eat bread frozen so hard as to require breaking with a hammer. His son was educated in his native town, and, in 1874, went into business at North Prairie Station, after a year settling on his present farm of 1 26 acres, 40 of which are in Ottawa ; this live young farmer has added to the house, remodeled and enlarged his barn, put up a wind-mill and generally improved his farm. He married, Oct. 21, 1873, Miss Sarah^ only daughter of Seymour Frayer, Esq., of Ottawa; they have three children - Alice M., Henrietta and Mary E. Mr. Helgesen supports men and principles, not political parties, and has the usual stock and crops.

CHARLEN Hllili, farmer. Sec. 1; P. 0. Eagle; born in Upwell, Cambridgeshire, Eng., Dee. 31, 1836 ; at 18 he left for America, and was for eighteen months in Fairfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y.; located in Eagle, 1855, and, gradually working his way up, bought a farm of the Government, in Dunn Co., Wis. ; exchanged this in 1865 for 73 acres of his present farm ; has added 200 acres on Sees. 1, 2, and 12 ; remodeled, enlarged and painted his house; re-sided and placed on a basement wall his 28x60- foot barn, and made a most pleasant home. The record of this man is one of steady and honorable progress; married, Dec. 18, 1861, Miss Henrietta Trow, of Eagle, by whom he has two children - Ellsworth and Lutie. Mrs. Hill is a member of the M. E. Church. As a farmer, Mr. Hill has 150 finewool sheep, with other stock, and returns his wheat crop of 1879 at 700 bushels.

EDWARD P. HINKLEY, farmer. Sec. 10 ; P. O. Eagle ; born, Dec. 29, 1839, in China, St. Clair Co., Mich. ; his parents, Oramel and Phebe (Earle) Hinkley, were Vermonters; in June, 1840, they came to Eagle ; lived that summer with A. R. Hinkley, building that fall a log house on land which Mr. H. had not entered at the Land Office ; a certain man on learning this, started for Milwaukee on horseback, but was distanced by Mr. H. on foot ; this sturdy old pioneer reached the town, entered his land, and footed it home, stopping only for a meal in town. At his death, Aug. 18, 1855, he left seven children - Edward P., Emily E., Urania E., Albert A., Urzelia, William H.,and Charles 0. Mr. Hinkley lived on the homestead until Aug. 21, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. G, 28th W. V. I. ; was with his regiment in the Yazoo Pass and White River expeditions, in the fight at Helena and the capture of Little Rock ; was then, for thirteen months, at Pine Pluff, Ark., participating in the Saline River Expedition and the battle at Mt. Elba ; the regiment was then sent to Mobile via New Orleans, investing Spanish forts, and being thirteen days under fire ; after the capture of Mobile and the forts, the regiment made a 200-mile raid north in Alabama, and took the rebel navy yard at Ray's Landing ; the next move was to Texas ; Mr. Hinkley, being sick at Brazos, was honorably discharged in August, 1865 ; he says that his regiment did more steamboat riding than any in the service. On his return, he bought 80 acres of his present farm, where he settled in 1872 ; has added 40 acres ; also owning his share of the old homestead. Married, July 4, 1872, Miss Salena, daughter of William and Ann Ardiss, of Lincolnshire, Eng. ; they have three children - Hubert A., Percival E., and Myrtle G. The mother of Mr. H. died Feb. 27, 1879. He is a Republican, and, with his wife, a member of the M. E. Church. Is devoting much attention to growing and manufacturing sorghum, his mill turning out from 1,000 to 2,000 gallons per annum.

A. R. HINKLEY, farmer. Sees. 11, 12 and 14; P. 0. Eagle; born in Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. H., Oct. 23, 1810 ; was educated in his native town, and liv«d on his father's farm till he was 21, when he spent a year in Massachusetts. In August, 1836, he landed at Milwaukee. Wisconsin comprised nearly all of Iowa, then ; and Milwaukee consisted of the two-story house of Juneau, near the present Mitchell block, a small jail built on "stilts," and a new houses on Wisconsin street ; the heart of the city was a marsh, where the Indian boys used to shoot blackbirds with bow and arrow. About the 18th of August, Mr. H., his brother, Hy. A., Mr. Charles Rayness, and Andrew Schofield, left the village with ox teams, and spent the second night in a log shanty on the present site of Waukesha, and the next night at the cabin of David Orrendorf, who had built near Judge Field's race course, Mukwonago ; a terrible rainstorm arose that night, and the travelers passed a miserable night, on bedding laid on poles placed across the corners of the roofless shanty ; next morning, Mr. H., with his brother and Mr. S., started on an Indian trail for Eagle Prairie ; their first view of it was from a hill, now in sight from the residence of Mr. Hinkley ; reaching a large spring on his farm, they were so struck with the beauty of the locality that each started for a tree, knife in hand ; Mr. Hinkley cut his" name first, at which Mr. S., a Quaker, exclaimed, " Ahira, thee is quick with thy knife I" on condition that Mr. H. lend him $100 he agreed to look further ; thus was made the first claim by an actual settler ; Mr. Hinkley that fall built a log house, which still stands, near the spring, and which was the first built in Eagle. In 1838, Mr. Hinkley returned to Plainfield, N. H., and married Miss Mary Daniels, who left a mansion for her husband's 12x12 log cabin, which had to shelter all their furniture, bedding, etc. Mr. H. now has 400 acres, having sold 240 ; the old log house is supplanted by a handsome stone farmhouse, built in 1848, which for years was the only roomy and complete one in town; is frame barn, built in 1842, was the second one built here. Mr. and Mrs. Hinkley have seven living children - Leonard D., Anna E., Frank D., Mary L., Emmeline J., Laura W., and Grace L. Death has never yetvisited the house of this hardy pioneer. Mr. and Mrs. H. are almost life-long Methodists; he being a staunch Whig Republican, who has held various town offices.

FRANKLIN HUNT, farmer. Sec. 34; P. O. Eagle; born May 2, 1808, in Brandon, Rutland Co., Vt. ; his early life was spent in his native State, where he had poor facilities for education ; at 27 he went to Milton, a few miles south of Boston, remaining there two years ; he then went to Warren, Penn.; going, in 1838, down the Ohio and Mississippi, via the Gulf, to Texas ; not a building stood then on the site of Galveston ; engaging in speculation, he, after two years, came north to Fredonia, N. Y., where he farmed it eight years. Resided in Erie, Penn., from 1848 to 1854, when he spent a few months in the towns of Lake and Eagle, then owning the Ray farm, in East Troy, for a year ; the next eight years were spent on a farm in Mukwanago ; settled on his present farm, of 70 acres, in 1865 ; it is well improved, and has excellent buildings. Mr. Hunt married Miss Cordelia M. Biggars, a native of Waterford, Erie Co., Penn., she living in that historic town until the marriage, in 1852. Their adopted son, Peter W. Sykes, was born in Manlius, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Feb. 14, 1838 ; came to Wisconsin when 8 years of age, and has been with Mr. Hunt since he was 21. Married, Oct. 24, 1877, Miss Amelia J. Williams, of Rome, Jefferson Co., Wis., by whom he has a daughter, Katie L. Messrs. Hunt and Sykes are liberal in their political and religious views.

WILLIAM LE FEVRE, farmer; P. 0. Eagle; born in Sherbrooke, Canada; son of C. P. and Mary Le Pevre, who located in New York City when he was an infant, he being educated here and in Clinton, N. Y.; the family reached Milwaukee in 1843, his father buying a farm two miles from the then village ; this he still owns, it now being within the limits of a city of 100,000 inhabitants. In 1858, William Le Pevre came to Eagle and bought 160 acres of Joseph Sprague; has since bought and sold various tracts, buying his present homestead of William Kliue, who had built the handsome residence overlooking the village, and other buildings which Mr. Le Pevre has enlarged and improved ; he began breeding pure-blooded Spanish Merino sheep at the time of his settlement in the county, and has constantly improved the stock, dealing with the best-known Vermont breeders, also with the Loomis Bros., N. Prairie, and T. Tratt, of Whitewater; he now owns seventy, but has had flocks of over 200; about 1875, he bought Ris thoroughbred Jersey stock, of H. Durand, Racine, Wis., and has since bred grades, having eighteen head. In politics, Mr. Le Pevre is a Republican, and has ever been an outspoken temperance man ; a few years ago, Mr. Theodore Underbill, the Democratic Chairman of the Town Board, resigned, when Mr. Le Pevre was appointed to fill the vacancy, and to enforce the license laws ; a certain class of the Democratic element questioned the legality of his appointment, which question was settled by the Supreme Court of the State, which decided that Mr. Le Pevre was the de-facto Chairman.

J. A. LINS, merchant. Eagle ; born in Prussia, Oct. 3, 1840. Spent his early life and was educated in his native land, and came to America in 1857, locating in Milwaukee, where he remained until April, 1861, when he enlisted in the 6th W. V. I.; was with the grand old Army of the Potomac, participitating in the battles of Williamsburg, the siege of Yorktown, the Peninsular campaign, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, North Anna River, and the deadly assault on Cold Harbor, where Mr. Lins was shot through the right side and badly wounded ; was confined in hospital in Alexandria, Va., from June 1 until Aug. 15, when he returned to Wisconsin, his time having expired July 13 previously. In company with his brother he began the butcher's business in Eagle, fall of 1864. After three years entered into mercantile business, where the postoffice is now kept, with S. E. Neustatter. In 1869, Mr. L. built his present large store, where he carries a very complete stock of general merchandise ; also having another store for clothing and gents' furnishing goods ; is also the builder and owner of the large store occupied by Lins & Schmitz. Married Miss Mary Witte, of Eagle, 1873.

EDMUND LISTS, proprietor of meat market and saloon. Eagle ; was born in Prussia, Aug. 10, 1827 ; was educated in the Fatherland, and did three years good service in her army ; coming to America in 1856, he was in business in Milwaukee until 1861, when he spent one year on a farm near Eagleville; in 1862, he and J. Boie, began the present business in Eagle; a farm having been bought by them, Mr. B. retired to it in 1871 ; Mr. Lins has the only meat market in the village; he built his handsome brick residence in 1876; owns a 60-acre farm in Sec. 16, and is prospering. He was married in 1863, to Miss Henrietta Macholdt, by whom he has five children - Edward, Lena, Lizzie, Christopher and Mary. Mr. Lins is a Roman Catholic, and a Democrat.

WOLFGANG LOIBL, farmer. Sec. 20 ; P. 0. Eagle ; he was born Oct. 31, 1823, in Bavaria, where he was educated and where he lived until August, 1847, when he came to America ; spent over two years in Utica, N. Y.; and nearly a year in Milwaukee ; settled on Eagle Prairie in 1851, and began life here as day laborer ; worked his way up, and now has 136 J acres of land, which he has cleared, broken and improved himself. His wife was Miss Catherine Waas : born in Bavaria, Aug. 31, 1825 ; they have eight children - John, Catharine, Mary, Anton, Theresa, Anna, Henry and Magdalen. The family are Roman Catholics ; in politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Loibl has been Supervisor, Constable and Town Treasurer.

ANDREW McC A BE, farmer. Sec. 11: P. 0. Eagle; born in the County of Monahan, Ireland, in 1826; came to America at 19, and lived as a laborer for seven years in Oneida Co., N. Y. ; in 1852, he settled on 80 acres of his present farm in Eagle, on which was a log house ; to get his start here he worked two months for $10, $8 of which bought his first plow ; he gave mortgage of $400 on the land, and begun with nothing but health and pluck. He was married in 1854, to Miss Amorett Cole, a resident of Eagle, and a native of Oneida Co., N. Y. ; they began life in the log house, which still stands as a monument of their past life of laborious privations ; for ten years Mr. McCabe, having no well, used to draw all the water used in the family from a spring brook, a mile distant ; his next step was to buy 49 acres, going $800 in debt ; this gentleman was at one time paying 12 per cent on a debt of $1,500 ; he now o^ns 249 acres, has built a roomy frame farm-house, with stables, etc., and a wind-mill how raising wellwater at his door ; Mr. and Mrs. McCabe have four children - George E., Alice, Eva and Willie ; he is a Roman Catholic, and a Democrat.

FRANCIS G. PARKS, Postmaster, Eagle ; born in Addison Co., Vt., June 1, 1824; after receiving a common-school and a partial academic course of instruction at Brandon, Vt., he taught several terms of school, and in 1846, removed to St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he was in charge of a branch of the famous Pairbank Scale Works for eight years ; Mr. Parks represented the town in the Legislature of his native State in 1854 and in 1855 ; he settled in Mukwonago, removing to Eagle in 1863 ; is in the real estate and insurance business, acting for the Phoenix, Hartford of Conn. Home, New York, the ^tna Fire and Life, and the Northwestern of Milwaukee. A staunch Kepublican in politics ; he was first elected Justice of the Peace in 1863 or 1864, and has served ten or more years ; has been Chairman, etc., of Eagle, and was a member of the Legislature of Wisconsin in 1873 ; Mr. Parks has devoted much time to the study of law, and is nearly always retained on one side or the other in local lawsuits, but says he is credited with possessing mure legal knowledge than belongs to him ; he succeeded J. L. Perry as Postmaster of Eagle in July, 1874. He was mrrried in Mukwonago in 1855, to Miss Susan E. Webb ; they have three children - Frederick W., Mattie E. and Luella M. The son is in a Palmyra, Wis., drug store ; the daughters acting as their father's deputies.

JONATHAN PARSONS, deceased; born, April 26, 1811, in Coos Co, N. H. ; his parents, Jonathan and Lovisa P., had nine children, Jonathan and several of his brothers migrating Wes'i to Cattaraugus Co. N. Y. In 1836, Lamas, Jonathan and Jerry Parsons, accompanied by their sire, settled in Waukesha Co. ; the father settled on the Barber farm ; Lamas on the present farm of Joseph Sprague ; Jerry on that of J. H. Pitcher, and Jonathan entered a half-section on 25, in Eagle ; William Sherman, a brother-in-law, settled about the same time on the Burden farm ; Jonathan Parsons built, 1840, the first frame house in the town of Eagle, and one of the first in the county; married, 1841, Miss Jane Cross, then of Southport, Wis. ; they had six children born in this historic old house - Henry, Edwin, George (deceased), Horace, Gertrude and Mary. None of the pioneers of this town made a better record than Jonathan Parsons; in 1842, he was in the Territorial Legislature, and any and every year might be found working for the best interests of his fellow-men ; in 1859, he built a handsome brick residence, where he quietly spent the remainder of a useful and honorable life, dying in June, 1876 ; he had for years been a consistent Methodist, and the use of $500 of his property was willed to the M. E. Sabbath School, Eagle. Henry Parsons was born Jan. 6, 1842 and, after a course in the old Jericho schoolhouse, was sent to Lawrence University for a year; after trying farming and canvassing, he enlisted, January, 1864, in the 9th 111. V. C. ; this regiment was badly cut to pieces, in the sadly remembered Sturgis raid, and was in the Tupelo raid, also in fights at Oxford, Holly Springs, etc ; engaged with Hood's pickets at Florence Ala., and fought at Lawrenceberg, Columbus and Franklin ; after two days' terrific fighting at Nashville, the boys drove Hood to the river, and, after a raid into Alabama, were mustered out. During the next thirteen years Mr. P. was in business in Chicago, eight jears in the employ of Hart, Asten & Co. ; married in Chicago, Novembr 25, 1867, Miss Chloe, daughter of James and Adeline Coe, of Warren Co., 111. ; their only son, Jonathan, was born October 1, 1878, or 110th year to a day from the day of his grandsire's birth. Since leaving Chicago, Mr. Parsons has resided on the homestead; politics Republican.

T. W. PITTMAN, farmer, Sees. 21 and 22 ; P. 0. Eagle ; born in New York City, Dec. 2, 1798 ; was educated in his native city, and early became a speculator ; resided about eight years in Newbern, N. C. ; came to Waukesha Co. May, 1844, and at once settled where he is now. But little of the land was then entered, and the old Janesville and Milwaukee was about the only road ; Waukesha was Sol. Junease's trading post, with a few houses ; Mr. P. soon built a part of his present house, which was the first frame structure in the vicinity, and is the oldest in the village - sowed wheat that fall, and his yield from 65 acres was 1,600 bushels. Dr. Bigelow had a mill at Bagleville, but on a small scale ; begining with 480 acres ; Mr. P. has bought and sold over 2,000 acres of school and other lands. Eagle was platted by him about 1852, and at the time it was proposed to call it Pittman, but he insisted upon the present name ; was Station Agi nt here ten years, and also Postmaster, besides Town Treasurer, Assessor and Supervisor ; politics, a stalwart Democrat ; owns 600 acres and a beautifully situated home on the outskirts of the village ; married in Amsterdam, N. Y., 1836, Miss Sarah J., daughter of M. J. Bovee, she being a native of Amsterdam; they have had four children - Matthias B., now a druggist at Boscobel, Wis. ; Emma (deceased), Noria (Mrs. Harvey demons), and Sarah (Mrs. Willianj McWilliams). In transferring land and village lots, this old couple have probably signed more deeds than any in Waukesha County.

JAMES V. SHARP, farmer, Sec. 24 ; P. 0. Eagle ; born in Halcott, Greene Co., N. Y., Feb. 25, 1840 ; his parents, John and Betsey fVanderburg) Sharp, were farmers ; he received his schooling and lived in his native town until he was 22, when he settled in LaSalle Co. Ill ; was for six years a farmer, and two years in a meat market ; is also a carpenter, and worked at his trade both in Illinois and Wisconsin. Married in his native town of Vermillion, LaSalle Co. 111., Sept .2, 1868, Miss Hannah J., daughter of Henry and Almira (Hall) Angell. The first few months of their wedded life was spent in Muskegon Co., Mich. ; they settling in Eagle, 1869, where Mr. S., owned a house and 5 acres ; selling this, he settled on his present farm of 80 acres in 1876 ; on this he has built a barn, set out trees and made other improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp have four children - -Durell B., Mabel, Leroy E. and John H., all born in Eagle ; Mr. S., is a Democrat.

JERRY AlKfGELIi, farmer, Sec. 24 ; P. 0. Eagle ; born in Vermillion, LaSalle Co. 111., April 5, 1855 ; son of Henry and Almira Angell. Henry A., was a native of Khode Island, and his wife of Massachusetts; they settled in LaSalle Co., as early 1832, and were the parents of nine children - Isaac, Benjamin W., Albert, Hannah J., Everett, Ann, Welcome, James and Jerry ; the subject of this sketch was educated in his native town, where he lived until January, 1878, when he settled on this'farm, having an interest here, besides an interest in the Illinois homestead ; is a Republican in politics.

ENOCH SHERMAHir, farmer, Sec. 33; P. 0. Eagle; born in Rupert, Bennington Co., Vt., Feb. 24, 1826, son of Sterling and Jane (Nobles) Sherman. Attaining his majority in Vermont, he in 1847 located on a farm four miles sourh of Waukesha ; he and S. M. Murdock were then in partnership on a 240-acre farm till 1856, though Mr. S. and wife spent 1851 on the Andrews farm in Mukwonago ; at the time of his settlement on his present farm (1856) only 60 acres were under cultivation ; 100 acres are now well improved, the remaining 60 being pasture and timber. Mr. Sherman is now completely remodeling his home. He married Miss Lauraette, daughter of Nathaniel and Laura (Jones) Walton, of Batavia, N. Y. ; the family settled in Waukesha in 1836, where she married Mr. S., Dec. 12, 1849 ; they have three sons - Walton S., Wm. H. and Jas. A-. ; the eldest is a farmer in Eagle, the second is travelling for a Milwaukee firm, and the youngest is on the homestead. Mr. Sherman is a Republican, and a progressive farmer who has devoted his land to grain and stock.

JOSEPH SPRAGUE, farmer, Sec. 26 ; P. 0. Eagle ; born in Summit Co., Ohio, in 1825 ; is a son of Dr. F. A. and Bridget Sprague, who settled on Sec. 25, in Eagle, in 1842 ; buying 200 acres of John Parsons ; Dr. S. built a frame house, plastered outside and in, which was, doubtless, the first in the township ; this is well remembered by the pioneers of that day. Joseph S. married, March 15, 1848, Miss Ann E., daughter of Hon. M. J. Bovee, one of the first settlers here, buying a farm of Edward Skelton the next year ; he resided upon it six years, then bought his present farm of 200 acres ; it was then broken, and on it were two barns and a log house ; Mr. Sprague has rebuilt and enlarged the barns, and replaced the log house in 1860 with a spacious and elegant farmhouse. Mrs. Sprague died Oct. 10, 1875, leaving two children, Theodore J. and Ambrose F. ; on the 8th of May, 1878, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Patrick Sheridan, of Mukwonago. As a breeder of thoroughbred Spanish merino sheep Mr. S. has made his mark during the past thirty years, keeping from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty ; he has never competed for premiums, but, by dealing with the foremost breeders, has raised his flock to a high standard. Mr. S. is a staunch Republican.

EBEXEZER THOMAS, farmer, Sec. 13; P. 0. Eagle; born May 11, 1806, in Wales, where his younger life was spent ; came to America in 1829, being among the early settlers in Cass Co., Michigan. Married in 1838 Miss Elizabeth D, Wolf, a native of Canada, whoso parents settled in Cass Co. when she was a babe. In the fall of 1836 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas left for Wisconsin with teams and wagons, accompanied by a young man who drove their stock ; they reached Eagle Prairie in October, 1836, building on their claim the present homestead, the first house built by whites, and were the first family to settle here; this was a shake-roofed log house, with a puncheon floor and a stick and mud chimney built on the outside; this was a true pioneer family, as their flour, costing from $15 to $35 per barrel, was drawn from Milwaukpe over roads cut through the woods by Mr. Thomas himself ; the roads of that day wore Indian trails, Mr. T. having the only horse, teams in town for some time. Mr. and Mrs Thomas have nine children - Daniel, Ransom, Fanny, Jacob, Mary, Ebenezer, Orilla, Isabella and Benj. F. Mr. T. has prospered in the good things of this world, has sold half his land, and now owns 160 acres well improved with excellent buildings ; in this pleasant home of to-day the old couple delight in recalling the memories of pioneer life. For many years past both have been active and consistent members of the M. E. Church ; father and sons being Republicans.

THOMAS TROW, farmer. Sec. 11 ; P. 0. Kagle ; born in Wales, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Trow ; in 1832 or 1833 he came to America, working in the woolen mills of New York State until 1843, when, with his wife, he settled on Coon Island, so named by D. H. Melendy ; Mr. Trow bought a small