Platteville City (part 3 of 10)

The following is an imperfect list of the Presiding Elders and ministers who have officiated on the Platteville Circuit since 1840 : H. W. Reid, Presiding Elder ; Pastor to be supplied ; 1841 - H. W. Reid, Presiding Elder ; Solomon Stebbins ; 1842 - B. F. Kavanaugh, Presiding Elder ; Charles N. Wayar, Rufus J. Harvey ; 1843 - B. F. Kavanaugh, Presiding Elder ; no supply stated; 1844 - B. F. Kavanaugh, Presiding Elder ; J. G. Whitford ; 1845 - Henry Summer, Presiding Elder ; N. P. Heath ; 1846-47 - Henry Summer, Presiding Elder.

In 1848, the Wisconsin Conference was organized, and in 1852 the Platteville District Henry Summer was Presiding Elder, and in 1849 Henry Yocum succeeded, remaining in position during 1&50 and 1851 ; 1853 - Samuel C. Thomas, Presiding Elder ; W. Wilcox ; 1854 - Samuel C. Thomas, Presiding Elder ; to be supplied ; 1855 - Eli C. Jones, Presiding Elder ; J. M. Stagg; 1856-57 - Eli C. Jones, Presiding Elder; James Lawson ; 1858 - Eli C. Jones, Presiding Elder; Enoch Tasker ; 1859-61 - W. Wilcox, Presiding Elder; E. Tasker, J. Aspenwall, Edwin Buck ; 1862-65 - J. C. Aspenwall, Presiding Elder; Edwin Buck, James Lawson; 1866-69 - Enoch Tasker, Presiding Elder ; P. S. Mather, John Knibbs; 1870-7:^ - William Haw, Presiding Elder ; John Knibbs, W. H. Palmer ; 1874-77 - P. S. Mather, Presiding Elder ; A. D. Dexter, G. W. Case ; 1878-80 - William Hamilton, Presiding Elder : G. W. Case, Henry Goodsell.

Primitive Methodist Church - Was organized in Platteville, as near as can be determined, during the year 1847, through the efforts and earnestness of the Rev. Mr. Lazembee, a pious member of the church, aided by the following, who constituted the original society in Platteville : John Trenary, Henry Snowden and family, Mark Waters and wife, John Chapman, Mrs. Verran, John Clayton, Mrs. Mary Bronson and a limited number possibly, at present forgotten. Services at first were attended at ShuUsburg, and it was not until the building of a church edifice, located then, as now, near the corner of Cedar and Second streets, was completed, that the same were established in this city. Between 1850 and 1860, th§ society increased rapidly in numbers, and compelled the enlargement of the premises, which are now about thirty-five feet square, built of brick, one story high, and capable of comfortably accommodating a congregation of 200 worshipers. The society at present embraces about 100 members, owns property, including a parsonage, estimated to be worth $2,000 ; and has supported the following Pastors : The Revs. Frederick Dobson, John Sharpe, Charles Dawson, Charles Doughty, George Wells, Henry Lees, Christopher Hendra, Joseph Hewett, John Harrington and James Arnold, the present officiant.

The German Methodist Church - Was organized in the year 1848, under the pastorship of the Rev. H. Whithorne. During the following year, a frame edifice for public worship was erected near the corner of Cedar and Second streets, at a cost of $500, the lot having been J^nrf**^ ^^ ^^"'" -^°"'^''''®^- I"^ 1862, the premises were sold to the Christian denomination for J500, and a new church built at the corner of Furnace and House streets, costing $3,300, Mclusive of the price of the lot, for which L. Coates was paid $500, where servicas have since wn held. The constituent members were John Spink, Rebecca Spink, A. H. Spink. Meta ^ink, John F. Nehls, E. F. Nehls, IsTicholas Nehls, Anna Nehls and Henning Nehls, Minnie "fillers, Dietrich Boldt and Helena Boldt, Henning Rige, Nicholas Niehaus and some others.

The present congregation numbers 126 communicants. The church property is valued at $6,000, and the following pastors have officiated: The Revs. John Braener, F. Hemz, L. Kunz, Henry Voshall, C. Schuler, John L. Schaefer, R. Fregenbaum, F. Rinder, Charles Weinreich, E. Felzner, P. Hellwey, F. Fischer, C. Hess, F. Schmidt, J. Schmidt and C. C. Miller.

Th£ Platteville Free Methodist Church - Originally a part of the Mount Valley Conference, was organized as a separate charge in June, 1871, by the Rev. Lewis Bailey, assisted by the Rev. G. C. Caffee, who were the founders of the society in Platteville. The pioneer members included William Hart and wife, Mrs. Lininger, Lizzie Capels, John Capels and some few others, whose names have either been omitted on the roll of membership, or are forgotten by those identified with the primary efforts undertaken by those mentioned to secure the establishment of the sect in this vicinity. At first services were held in the usual place of resort for congregations without local habitations - the schoolhouse - and were there conducted for the period of about one year. In 1872, however, means were provided for the purpose, and a commodious frame church edifice was erected on Cedar street, between Hickory and Chestnut streets, which has since been occupied. It contains accommodations for 300 worshipers, and cost, furnished, a total of $1,000. Since the date when the society first manifested its presence in Platteville, it has increased by annual accessions until to-day. The congregation numbers 150 communicants, with church property valued at not less than $1,000, and is considered as in a gratifying and flourishing condition. The following Pastors have officiated since the society was organized : The Revs. C. E. Coffee, C. E. Harroun, James Scott, John Murray, E. Z. Thwing, L. Whitney and D. M. Sinclair, at present in charge.

Trinity Episcopal Qhurch. - For some years prior to 1862, the limited number of Episcopalians residing in Platteville and the vicinity were dependent upon services at Lancaster and other points, or upon the offices of transient ministers of that faith. This unsatisfactory condition of affairs lasted without interruption or variation until the year above indicated, when the Rev. L. C. Millette visited Platteville, where he established a mission and laid the foundations of the present prosperous parish. At that time there were but two adult communicants of the faith in the village - George R. Laughton, who has lived to see the charge of which he was in part the custodian appreciate from small beginnings, in wealth and influence, and Miss Wilhelmina Hooper, who long since took on the pale seal of the master of mortality and became precious dust beneath the turf. These three Christians were the nucleus about which gathered a congregation measured in numbers, but not in ardor or diligence, assembling weekly in schoolhouses and the residences of members of the flock for worship and communion. This continued for about one year, when the rock schoolhouse was secured for their occupation, and members convened there until the church at the corner of Chestnut and Market streets was taken possession of. The initiatory steps looking to the erection of this edifice were taken as early as 1863 by Mr. H. Kimball, whose endeavors to procure subscriptions in that behalf within the parish not proving satisfactory, went East and raised the necessary funds. In the same year, the Rev. Mr. Millette yielded possession of the charge to the Rev. C. H. Rice, who remained until November, 1864, subsequent to which date the congregation was, in a measure, limited in its regular services, owing to the inability to secure a permanent incumbent. In 1865, the building of the church was commenced and prosecuted without delay until its completion was accomplished in 1868. The Rev. Frances Moore succeeded to the vacancy created by the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Rice, and exercised a large degree of influence in building up the church and promoting the cause in which he labored. Up to 1867, a debt of $12,000 prevented the consecration of the church. This debt, however, was liquidated on Easter Sunday of that year, and in August following the services of consecration were formally celebrated, the Rt. Rev. William E. Armitage preaching the dedicatory sermon. Soon after, the church was again left without a Rector, and no settled services were enjoyed until June 24, 1868, when the Rev. S. W. Frisbe accepted a call and took charge of the parish, which was finally organized and admitted into union with Convention under his administration.

From this last-named date the career of Trinity has been such as to gratify its constituency and commend its labors. The services have been continuous and uninterrupted and the congregation increasing and select. The church edifice is an architectural ornament to the city, and attracts admiration for its symmetry, absence of ornamentation and appropriate furnishings. It is of brick, fashioned after old gothic styles, 40x70, one story high, surmounted by a handsomely proportioned steeple, and cost, complete, not less than $15,000. It possesses a seating capacity of 250, and enjoys a weekly attendance of nearly that number. In 1871, the congregation erected a parsonage costing $1,800, and with the church property represents a present valuation of $12,000.

The following Rectors have served since the Rev. S. W. Frisbe retired : The Rev. James S. McGowan, from July, 1869, to July, 1873 ; C. A. Canfield, from February 23, 1874, to July, 1876 ; and Samuel D. Pulford (the present incumbent) from November 7, 1876.

The Oongregational Qhurch of Platteville. - This is one of the oldest religious orgainzations in ths State, having been established over forty years ago. It was organized under the Presbyterian form of government, August 17, 1839, and consisted of nine members. During that year, the congregation was without stated preaching and destitute of any convenient place of worship. In August, 1840, the Rev. Solomon Chaffee began supplying the pulpit alternate Sabbaths with the Mineral Point Presbyterian Church. About the same time, the Rev. James Gallaher, a well-known evangelist, labored for a short time with the church, and under his administration about thirty were added to the membership. During the autumn and winter of 1840-41, arrangements were made for the erection of a building to serve as a place of worship, and also as an academy. A school was at once opened in the second story, the first story being occupied as a place of worship. The Rev. A. M. Dixon succeeded the Rev. Mr. Chaffee, and supplied the pulpit from the close of the latter's labors until November, 1842, when the Rev. E. G. Bradford accepted an invitation to labor with the church. His labors ceased early in 1S44. In the summer of that year, the Rev. J. D. Stevens was installed as Pastor, and continued his labors for nearly three" years. During this year, arrangements of a preliminary character were completed for the erection of a permanent church edifice. The two lots upon which the present house stands were purchased, and, in 1845, the second home of the church was commenced. This was so far completed as to be dedicated to the worship of God December 20, 1846. In the summer of 1847, the Rev. John Lewis accepted a call of the church, and, on September 1, commenced his long and successful pastorate. In July, 1849 (the way having been prepared by a special act of the State Legislature), the church, by a unanimous vote, changed Its name and form of government from Presbyterian to Congregational. Three seasons of very general revivals - in the years 1849, 1851 and 1855 - were enjoyed, and contributed largely to the growth of the church and success of the cause - ^this, too, notwithstanding the ministry of Mr. Lewis was interrupted by ill health. So pronounced did this become, that, in October, 1858, he felt obliged to resign his pastorate, which the church declined to accept, but consented to a recess of one year, hoping that at the expiration of that period he would be able to resume nis labors. During his absence, the pulpit was supplied by the Rev. D. W. Pickard. The Pastor a health continued to decline, and, in 1860, he again tendered his resignation, which, with great regret, was accepted by the church. Five months later, he died, sending from his deathbed this last message to his people : " Remember the words that I spoke unto you while I was yet with you." During 1860, the Rev. Charles Jones occupied the pulpit, occasional supplies only being obtained until October, 1861, when a call was extended to the Rev. J. E. Pond, who accepted, and began his labors in December following. In 1868, the second church building Was taken down and the present commodious, symmetrical, durable and handsomely finished cburch of brick was completed, after plans prepared by George Nettleton, of Janesville, at a cost of $11,000. This house was dedicated July 19, 1869, the Rev. Dr. Whiting, of Dubuque, preaching the dedicatory sermon from Exodus, xxv, 3 : "Let them make me a sanctuary, that 1 may dwell among them." At the close of the sermon, the debt was taken in hand, and in less 'ban an hour's time, through the efforts of the Pastor and others, was liquidated. In the after- noon, Dr. Whiting preached upon the strength and beauty which are in God's sanctuary, and with earnest prayer, the congregation uniting, the house was set apart to the sacred services of God. The church, under Mr. Pond's ministry, enjoyed a steady and uniform prosperity, and continued until 1872, when he tendered his resignation, which was accepted in September of that year. In November following, the church invited Rev. A. P. Johnson, of Woodstock, 111., to act as Pastor for six months. The relationship has been maintained ever since that time to the present date. Upward of 700 names have been enrolled upon the register of the church, out of which number nine have entered the Gospel ministry, as follows : Alvin M. Dixon, Truman M. Douglas, Arthur D. Laughlin, Robert L. McCord, John D. McCord, David Mitchell, Samuel Mitchell, Daniel W. Pickard and Adrian Van Vliet. The church now numbers 228 members, and owns property (including a parsonage purchased in 1880 for |1,800) representing a valuation of $13,000.

St. Mary's Catholic Ohurch. - There seems to have been no effort to establish the Catholic sect in Platteville until about the year 1842, although there were a few scattering members of the church in Platteville and vicinity, principally composed of miners. In the fall of 1842, the Rev. James Causse undertook to establish a mission, and said mass in the houses of John Morrison, Bernhard McKerney and John Micka. So successful were the efforts he put forth that a church was commenced the same year, and completed in the spring of 1843, but its dedication was postponed until 1844, in the meantime mass being said and services held in thehouses of communicants, principal among which, in addition to those cited, were David Gardner, Edward Dorsey and Frank Fies. The church was of frame, 24x36. and its erection, was. promoted by contributions from many non-Catholic residents, Mr. John H. Rountree donating the lot. The leading members of the congregation that season were : John Micka and family, Bernhard McKerney and family, John Morrison and family, Edward Dorsey, David Gardner,, Michael Maher, Peter Carroll, Frank Fies, Patrick Bannagan, Anthony Hallagan, Mr. Droulette, Phillip Reilly, Mrs. Pitts, Patrick McMahon, Cornelius and Joseph Schutner, Casper Hermann, the McGovern brothers, the Henessey brothers, Owen Gallagher, James McLaughlin,. James Savage, Patrick O'Malley and some others. The church was a mission attached to 'Potosi and Mineral Point for some years, but finally became an independent parish. In the summer of 1870, it was decided to build a new edifice, and in the spring of 1871, the foundations were commenced. May 13 of that year the corner-stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies, the Rev. P. H. Albricht preaching the sermon. On November 21, following, the dedication occurred, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Henni oificiating, since when it has been occupied as a house of worship. The building is 40x80, of brick, with a capacity for 400 auditors, and cost $10,000. The present congregation numbers 100 families. The property, including the cemetery and parsonage, is valued at $12,000, and the following prelates have had charge of the Parish : The Revs. James Causse, Father Doherty, Francis de Vivaldi, Martin Hobbes, M. W. Gibson, P.. A. Vorssen, Charles Exel, Joseph Prasch, M. J. Joerger, Philip Albricht, J. M. Cleary, J. Gruemer and W. Miller at present officiating.

The Church of Christ. - Located at the corner of Cedar and Second streets, and owned by the society known as Disciples of Christ, which was first organized in Platteville under the labors of J. P. Lancaster during the year 1847. The society was then composed of James Campbell, M. D., wife and mother, William Tibboot and wife, J. W. Smelker and wife, Mr. Whitaker and wife, Mr. Chatfield and wife, L. H. Wannemaker and wife, and some others, these latter being added to the congregation between the years 1847 and 1854.

In 1865, the present church edifice was purchased for $500, the congregation previous to that date worshiping at various accessible points, including the houses of members, stone schoolhouse, etc. The present value of church property is stated at $600, and the following ministers have served since the organization: The Rev. J. P. Lancaster, Calvin Smith, Mr. Dixon, Charles Levan, John Sweeney, William Sweeney, Henry Exley, E. C. T. Bennett, C. J. Mortimer, Mr. Searls and Mr. Monroe.

The German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Platteville. - The German population of Platteville became numerous at an early day. Most of them were Lutherans, and in the absence of a church attended services at the German Presbyterian Church. In 1855, H. Martens, A. Groath, Messrs. Knebs, Gilbert, Johnson, Mehren and others extended a call to the Rev. S. Fritschel, which was accepted, and services regularly held thereafter until the completion of the church edifice, in the brick schoolhouse. In 1856, a meeting of the congregation was held to make arrangements for the erection of a house of worship, at which Henry Carl donated two lots on " Dutch Hill," upon which the building was put, the same being dedicated in the spring of 1857, the Rev. Mr. Grossmann, of Iowa, oflBciating. The building is of brick, 30x50, with a capacity for one hundred and fifty worshipers, and cost $2,800. In the spring of 1857, the Pastor in charge accepted a call to Detroit, and was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Burk. That gentleman, however, rendered himself unpopular by his advocacy of the " private confession of sins" and the use of a form of absolution which gave universal offense. For these reasons, a part of the congregation withdrew its support and absented itself until the arrival of the Rev. C. Starck, who was substituted for the Rev. Burk.

This trouble caused a division of the church, eight families who supported the latter gentleman withdrawing and erecting a church edifice, on the lot opposite the old church.

In the spring of 1859, the congregation procured the erection of a parsonage, and, in 1862, the Rev. Dr. Neumann was elected to the pastorate, occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Starck, who moved to La Crosse, and remained until 1868, when he retired, and after three months, during which the church was without a minister, the Rev. Dr. Bartlett was installed. He remained only six months, when, developing signs of insanity, which subsequently manifested themselves so pronouncedly as to require the restraint of the victim, he, too, was retired, and the Rev. Mr. Thiele took his place. From September, 1869, till July, 1870, the church was closed, but during the latter month once more opened under the pastorship of the Rev. Mr. Reiohenbecker, who remained until the spring of 1876, being a man of the greatest energy and supported by a strong party. At this date some trouble was experienced, and the church united with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The Rev. Mr. Severingham, President of the Wartburg Synod, arriving in Chicago in March of that year, came to Platteville, re-organized the congregation, and influenced the selection of the Rev. J. Salinger, a member of the Lutheran Synod of Canada, who responded, and remained in charge four years, going hence to Washington. The Rev. C. Starck was elected his successor, and returned to a field of labor he occupied acceptably twenty-one years previous. In the twenty-five years during which the church has obtained in Platteville, 826 persons have been baptized, 882 confirmed, 161 couples married, and 166 funerals have occurred. The sacrament has Ijeen administered to 8,760 members during that period, and the congregation has contributed a total of $20,000 for church purposes.

St. PauV i Evangelical Lutheran Church - Was first organized April! 7, 1876, by the Rev. E. Naltz, then Vicar of the Wisconsin Synod, who held services in the rock schoolhouse on Main street. The congregation, up to that date, had been identified with the German Lutheran Church of Platteville, in which a difference of opinion was caused, on account of what was considered by some the support of inconsistent doctrines. This caused a separation of the congregation, the dissenters establishing the present society. A constitution was adopted, which was signed by about thirty-five members, and the following Trustees were elected : R. Barzmann, W, Goeke, J. H. Wiese, N. Besers, A. Beutz and F. Goeke. On May 14, 1876, it was resolved to erect a church edifice, and work thereon was commenced immediately. So vigorously was the same prosecuted, that its completion was reached early in the ensuing fall, followed by the dedi- Wtion, which occurred October 14, of the same year, when services were conducted by the Revs. Ungredt and Stregenmeier. The edifice is located on Broad street, is of frame 60x36, sixteen feet high, handsomely finished and cost $4,000. Previous to this and in July, the congregation was incorporated, and the Rev. L. Jaeger was ordained Pastor. He remained in charge until August, 1878, when failing health compelled his resignation, and he was succeeded by the Rev. E. Hoyer, who is now in charge. The congregation at present numbers sixty voters, and the value of church property is quoted at upward of $4,000.

A portion of the building is occupied as a parish school, which enjoys an average attendance of fifty-five scholars, but the congregation has in contemplation the erection of a parsonage and schoolhouse during the present year.

German Presbyterian Chureh - Located at the corner of Green and Cedar streets, was organized during 1850 as the German Evangelical Church of Platteville, but subsequently received the title by which it is now known. The original members were, in part, as follows : J. J. Brodbeck, Augusta Brodbeck, Maria Brucker, John Valentine Carl, Maria M. Carl, C. N. Doscher and family, Catharine M. Fert, John P. Kolb and family, Valentine Eitz and family, Heinrich Landsberg, Christian Schlegel and family, and others, and the same year the present church edifice was erected with the Rev. John Bantly as Pastor. The church has, from its foundation, constantly held up the Bible as the standard of truth, and advocated the lessons taught in the Heidelberg and Westminster Catechisms. At present, the church is in a flourishing condition, with a numerous congregation, and owning property valued at several thousand dollars. The following Pastors have occupied its pulpit since the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Bantly : The Revs. Jacob Schwarz, John Van Derlass, John Fechudy, John Grab, and Joseph Wittenberger, at present officiating.'

The Platteville Cemetery Association. - Every day comes the sad intelligence that some loved one has put oflF the mortal life and gone to dwell in the realms of everlasting bliss. Every day a flower is plucked from some sunny home, a jewel snatched from some treasure of love. Every day from the summer fields of life a harvester disappears ; every day a sentinel falls at his post, and his funeral train winds like a wintry shadow along the street. A young girl, perhaps, pure as the bridal wreath that clasps her forehead, is stricken down at the altar, and from the aisles of the temple is borne to the slumberer's gardens. A strong man clothed in the garb of victory falls to dust as the psean sounds from his lips. An aged patriarch bowed down with years and pain sinks into his dreamless sleep as he looks out upon the horizon of the future for the coming of the angel host. Each day some pearl drops from the jeweled thread of friendship ; some lyre to which we have listened with ecstatic pleasure is hushed forever. But wise is he who mourns not the pearl and music lost, for life with him shall pass away gently as an eastern shadow from the hills, and death prove a triumph and a gain.

The first cemetery of, Platteville was laid out on land donated by Maj. Rountree and N. H. Virgin, south of the Virgin mill, on a line between Sections 15 and 16. The first burial was that of a young man whose name is forgotten, who died in a miner's cabin, on the Rountree branch, as early as 1829. Here for many years were the dead of Platteville laid. The gentle babe, sinless as an angel ; the ambitious youth, hopeful and generous, whose path was hemmed with flowers ; some aged soldier whose cheerful cry in the sieges and struggles of the past was missed from the bivouac of life, was laid to rest here. During the small-pox epidemic of 1843, the soil of this primitive graveyard was flung upon the form of him or her who had been touched by the icy breath of Azrael the dark-winged, and dreamed no more save in the strength of that promise, " Ye shall live again." In time, the four acres set apart for sacred purposes became occupied with the bodies of those who have gone before, and in about 1850 the grounds were deeded to the village upon the condition that the municipality should care for it forever.

It is handsomely laid out, and bears upon it the impress of care and affection in the monuments that have been erected to commemorate departed worth, in the flowers that deck the hillocks there, in the visitations of friends to the graves of those who shall be awakened at the first call of the herald angels to the flush of that summer which is eternal in the balm-breathing gardens of God.

On September 15, 1855, the present Platteville Cemetery Association was organized by William Butler, John Lewis, Henry C. Lane, Isaac S. Clark, Homer Perry, N. Messersmith, James Kelley, William Woods, J. L. Pickard, J. Alford, Homer Page, N. Goodrich, James Durley and P. D. Hendershot. At a subsequent meeting, John Lewis was elected President,

V. P. Eastman, Treasurer, and I. S. Clark, Secretary, with the following Board of Trustees : N. Goodrich and J. L. Pickard, one year ; H. C. Lane ahd H. Perry to serve two years, and J. Lewis and William Butler, three years. A tract of land comprehending ten acres was obtained fln Section 16, west of the city, and landscaped and laid out in lots, drives, avenues and walks, the same handsomely adorned, and presenting a rare picture of art and nature exquisitely combined. Here, since the organization of this association, have occurred the burials of those who - died in Platteville and vicinity.

longer than any other citizen. This lengthy recital of honors and official positions bears upon its face the highest testimonial that could be furnished of the unbounded esteem and confidence of the communities in which he has lived ; in the sterling worth, integrity and ability of this veteran representative of pioneer times. When he first entered the present State, it was divided into two counties, and contained but a few thousand inhabitants, scattered over the vast territory ; to-day it numbers its inhabitants by the hundreds of thousands. Maj. Rountree has been the witness of the growth of a new empire ; took part in an Indian war ; has seen the aboriginal inhabitants pushed back, foot by foot, until they now possess hardly a rood of land which they can call their own ; he has seen the commencement, growth and prosperity or obliteration of every city and village, with the exception of two or three military posts, in the State - all the improvements, indeed, that in fifty years have converted a great and uncivilized wilderness into a series of powerful States ; in his own immediate vicinity, the change has been no less great ; in place of the rude miner's cabin is seen the stately mansion ; the tew hundred seekers seeking after mineral have been swallowed up in the many thousands whose cozy farmhouses dot the landscape in every direction. To but a few has such an experience been vouchsafed ; Gen. Rountree may well be regarded as a landmark between the past and the present - one who has lived over the whole term of our local history, and served as a prominent factor in making it.

WULIilAm RVlVDELLi, Sees. 12 and 13; P. 0. Platteville ; was born in Cornwall, England, where he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. He came to America and Grant Co. in 1848, in company with his brothers Samuel and Thomas ; Mr. Rundell assisted in building the Waters Schoolhouse on the Lancaster road, and private houses in the vicinity ; he rented a farm for one year, and, in 1853, settled on part of his present farm; he now has 201 acres, on which, in 1869, he erected a tasteful and substantial farmhouse, which was planned by himself and family. His first wifie, Elizabeth Roberts, of Cornwall, died, leaving a son - Hercules 0., born April 18, 1855, and William R., who died at the age of 29, in Kansas. The present wife, Elizabeth (Hooper) Rundell, was born in Parran, Cornwall ; by her he has two children - Jennie May, born Jan. 31, 1871, and Alden T., born April 29, 1876; all the children were born in Platteville. Mr. Rundell is a member of the P. M. Church.

T. SCHNITZIjER, fire and accident insurance agent, Platteville ; is a native of De Pere, Wis., born in 1855 ; came to Platteville in the winter of 1876, and engaged in the confectionery business, which he still continues. He was married in October, 1877, in Platteville, to Miss Anna, daughter of Engle "Vanderlire, one of the early settlers of Platteville, who died Jan. 29, 1880 ; he had been engaged in the insutiance business for the last ten years of his life, and, at his death, Mr. Schnitzler succeeded him in that business.

H. P. SCHRODIiilt, merchant, Platteville ; has been in business in Platteville since March, 1870, in his present location, where he keeps a general store ; he is a native of Prussia, born in 1838. In 1846, his parents came to America and settled in La Fayette Co., Wis., in 1847 ; he left home in 1851, and went to St. Paul, Minn , where he remained till the spring of 1862, then went to California and remained there till 1869 ; he then returned to Wisconsin, and has been a resident of Platteville since that time. He was married, in Platteville, in the spring of 1870, to Miss Minnie C, daughter of John Kenler, of that place. His father, Peter Schroder, went to California in 1849, and died there in the winter of 3851. Mrs. Schroder is still living in Platteville.

S. SICKIiE, cigar manufacturer, Platteville; was born in Treves, Germany, Oct. 18, 1818; came to America iu 1852 and lived two years in Buffalo, N. Y., and eighteen years in Detroit, Mich, most of the time in the mercantile and tobacco business ; came to Platteville in 1873, and has been in his present business since that time ; he is also in the wholesale and retail tobacco trade in company with his son Max, firm S. Sickle & Son. Mr. Sickle was married, in Detroit, Mich., in 1854, to Mrs. Prederica Murcus, daughter of M. Rosenbaum ; she was a native of Sternberg, Germany. Max Sickle was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1860, and has been in partnership with his father itt tbe tobacco business since May, 1880 ; he has been Secretary of the Fire Department of Platteville since April 26, 1880, and was Secretary of the engine company about four years.

HERRillANBi' $!»IEMER$$, of the firm of Siemers & Thiele, saloon-keepers, Platteville ; was born in Pupsen, Germany ; came to America in 1865 ; lived nine months in New York City, then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and came from there to Platteville in 1868 ; worked three and a half months on a farm, and has been in his present business since. In November, 1872, he was married, in Lyons, Iowa, to Lena Kuhl, and has three children - Mary, Julia and Frederick.

THOMAS SHEPHERD, deceased; was born in Yorkshire, England, 1806 ; married Agnes Hoe, a native of Westmoreland, England ; they came in 1850, to America, with ten children, and located

)D a farm owned by Maj. Rountree. The Shepherd homestead originally of 160 acres was then pur- ;hased ; Mr. Shepherd did good work here clearing and improving; in 1857, he built the substantial itone house, now making a good home for his family ; he subsequently sold all except 84 acres ; at his leatb, June 31, 1862, he left his widow and the ten children namely: Allen, Mary, Anthony, Agnes, Thomas, Betsy, Isabella, Hannah, William and Joseph ; Mary is in Otisville, Iowa, and William in Oaklale. Neb. ; all the others are now in the city and town of Plaiteville ; the family are members of the P. M. Church.

JOHX NPEAR, retired farmer, Platteville; was born Sept. 25, 1806, in Little Petherick. Cornwall, England ; in early life he served an apprenticeship as a carpenter and joiner ; going to London, le worked fourteen years at his trade. In this metropolis of the world, he also married Anne Roberts, ipho was of Probus Parish, Cornwall; both their children, John R. and Annie R. were born in London. The family came to America and to Platteville in 1851 ; the journey from New York was a long and edious one. via the Hudson River and great lakes to Milwaukee ; they first located on the present farm )f William Rundell ; remained two years, then came to Platteville and spent a couple of years ; then for six irears they were on a farm in British Hollow, town of Potosi ; afterward they resided and farmed in the ;owns of Lancaster and Benton; in March, 1876, the ill health of young Spear caused the final removal md settlement of the family in Platteville ; they still own a considerable amount of land in this county. Mr. Spear, Sr., made a most enjoyable visit to his native land in the fall of 1880, and takes pleasure in lescribing the progress and power of Merry England, as well as the changes made in thirty years.

MASON SPENSIiE Y, Platteville ; was born Jan. 14, 1815, in Yorkshire, England ; came to &.merica in 1841, and located in the Catfish Mining Settlement near Dubuque, Iowa; here he was employed both as a miner and smelter ; in 1850, he formed a partnership with Richard Straw, Ralph Spensley and Thomas Staley ; the firm rented the old furnace of Bell & Co., on the Big Platte River ; in 1852, Ralph Spensley withdrew, the remaining partners removing to Platteville ; here in 1855 or 1856, Mr. Staley met m accidental death. Messrs. Spensley and Straw have since continued the business ; their blast furnace was purchased of L. Coates ; from 700,000 to 1 ,100,000 pounds of lead are annually produced. Mr. Spensley married Frances A. Taylor, a native of Knox Co., Ind., where her parents both died in her infancy ; an aunt brought her to Dubuque when she was 9 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Spensley have nine children - James T., Rosa, Frances A., John T., Maggie, Richard, Mary, Allie and Cora.

REV. C. STARCK, Pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Platteville : is a native of Erfurt, Germany, born in 1824 ; he was educated and entered the ministry in Germany, and same to America in 1851; came to PlattevilUe in 1857, and remained till 1862; in 1871, he went to Louisville, Ky., and was professor in a high school there two years, then accepted a pastorate at Springfield, [11., and remained there till the spring of 1880, when he was recalled to Platteville ; he was for many years one of the Directors of Carthage Lutheran College of Illinois, and is at present. President of the Wartburg Synod of the E. L. Church.

J. J. STEPHENS, Sees. 2 and 3 ; P. 0. Platteville ; was born in Peyrdinzabuloe, Cornwall, England, Feb. 3, 1825. His father, James Stej)hens, came to America and settled in Grant Co., in 1840, bringing with him his sons Thomas and J. J. The mother and the remainder of the children came with the "Stephens Colony" in 1842. The brothers, Thomas and J. J., dug several wells, and helped build the dam for Virgin's mill, as their first work. The father and sons continued mining and farming here up to the removal of the brothers to California in 1852. J. J. returned in 1853, and located on a farm East of Platteville, where he remained eleven years. He then bought the Ed Thomas estate of 195 acres, which is now his home. He married, Jan. 25, 1845, Miss Jane, daughter of Michael Stephens. They have eight children - James H., Selinda, Charles A., Almon M.. Sidney A., Olive N., Harlen K. and Fannie L., all born in Platteville. They lost two infant sons. Mr. Stephens is independent in politics, Eind the family attend the P. M. Church. Besides the Thomas farm, he owns 1461 acres of timber and pasture in Lima, and also a house and lot in Platteville.

JOHN STEPHENS, farmer ; was born in the Parish of Peyrdinzabuloe, Cornwall, Englaodj Nov. 11, 1797. He came to Platteville, Wis., in 1841, and took up a farm near town, now within the city limits. His twin brother, Michael, came over the next year with all the other brothers but one, and his brothers-in-law and their families, fifty-two persons in all, and all settled in the vicinity of Platteville. All the Stephens brothers were married in the same parish church in England, and now, all the sisters and sisters-in-law are buried side-by-side in the cemetery at Platteville. John Stephens was married Jan. 22, lR2fi, to IVTi^' Ciithnrinn Repppr; she died at Platteville; they have had siven children - Ann, now Mrs.

William Laughton ; Catharine, who died in 1864 ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. H. H. Jacobs ; Thomas, living in Placerville, Cal.; Jane, now Mrs. Walsh, also in California ; John R., living at Yankton, Dak.; Mary L., now Mrs. Hookett. Mr. Stephens had a stroke of paralysis in 1879, since which, he has not been able to attend actively to business, and his daughter, Mrs. Jacobs, has moved back to the old homestead, where he lives with her. Mr. Stephens has been a member of the Town Board of Platteville several terms, and has held other town ofifices.

W. C. STEPHENS, Platteville, is a son of Michael and Mary (Conlin) Stephens. He is one of ten children, and was born Oct. 22, 1820, in Peyrdinzabuloe Parish, Cornwall, England. His father was born same place Nov. 11, 1797. In June, 1842, no less than forty-nine members of this historic family arrived in Platteville, and it was the settled home of the different branches of the family until the outbreak of the California gold fever in 1850-51. In 1852, Michael Stephens and his sons went to California, remaining until 1853. W. C. Stephens built, in 1844, a frame house near his present residence, and a family is now sheltered under the same shingles he laid thirty-six years ago. The pleasant home which hid family now enjoy is the result of his own handiwork, he having accustomed himself to the use of carpenter's tools from boyhood. Mr. Stephens has a 146-acre farm on Sees. 1 and 12 in Platteville, which was his home for twenty years. He married, March 28, 1842, in England, Miss Ann Mitchell, of his native Parish. They have four children - Mary A., Allie, George and Amo, all born in Platteville. Mr. Stephens is a Republican, and is with his wife a member of the P. M. Church. His aged father is a twin brother of John Stephens, and both are wonderfully well-preserved specimens of the hardy and stalwart men who have so proudly and successfully carried old England's flag around the globe.

E. STINOIJE, merchant tailor and dealer in ready-made clothing, gents' furnishing goods, hats, caps, boots, shoes, etc., is a native of Bohemia, Austria ; born in 1841 ; came to America in September, 1865 ; lived in Milwaukee nearly one year, then went to Monroe, Green Co., Wis. ; was in business there till September, 1875, since which time he has been in business in Platteville ; was married in Monroe to Miss Augusta Roth, and has three sons - Benjamin, Leopold and Emanuel.

RICHARD STRAW, of R. Straw & Co., smelters, was born Feb. 15, 1817, in Derbyshire, England. He came to America in 1828, with his father, residing in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania until 1834 when he came to Dubuque, Iowa. Here he engaged in mining and teaming. In 1840, he came to Hazel Green, Wis., and engaged in mining; ten years later he formed a partnership with Messrs. Mason and Ralph Spensley and Thomas Staley, and began the smelting business, which he has since followed (see sketch of Mason Spensley). Mr. Straw married Mary Place, of Yorkshire, England, by whom he has six children - Hannah, Mary A., Anne, Margaret, Carrie and Richard. Anne and Margaret were born in Montford, Grant Co., and the others in Platteville. Mr. Straw is a Republican, and a member with his family of the M. E. Church. He has served many years on both the town and village boards.

HEXRY THIEJLE, member of the firm of Siemers & Thiele, saloon-keepers, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1840 ; came to America in 1866, lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, nine months, and came to Plattevill in August, 1867 ; has beeo in his present business since 1868 ; he was married in Platteville in 1868, to Dora Pranga, and has two children living - Harry and Mary ; lost one, August, who died when 3 years old in 1874.

E. W. THOMAS, retired, was born in Salem, Mass., in 1802 ; removed to Ohio in 1844 ; lived in Ashland Co., till 1851, and came from there to Grant Co., Wis., where he has since resided ; he followed farming two miles north of the village till 1865, and since then has lived in the city; he in company with his son, Hudson, built what is known as Thomas' Block, in which Thomas Hall is located, completing it in 1871 ; he was married in Madison Co., N. Y., in 1825 to Polly Bacon, daughter of James Bacon, and has six children - Mary, Hudson, Huron, Homer, Miirtha and Hadley; Hudson enlisted in 1863, in the 33d W. V. I., and served as Secjnd Lieutenant of Co. A till the close of the war; he is now living in Lyon Co., Minn. Huron was in the 25th W. V. I., Co. E, enlisted in 1862, and was Sergeant of his company ; went with Sherman to the sea, and was discharged on account of sickness at Savannah, Ga.

H. J. TRABER, Mayor of Platteville, was born in Albany Co., N. Y., Nov. 9, 1833; when 17 years of age he left home and went on a whaling voyage in the ship Montezuma, Capt. Williams, of New London, Conn. ; they sailed on the 15th of July, 1850, and returned on the 15th of May, 1853, crossed the equator seven times on the voyage, and visited during the time, the Azore Islands, St. Paul's Island, New Zealand, East Cape, in Russian America, Sandwich Islands, King Mills Group, La Drone

Islands, Tihita, ard thence around Cape Horn, home ; he soon after made a voyage to Liverpool, Eng., then returned to America, and visited Bath, Me., Boston, Mass., and then went to Chesapeake Bay^ Portsmouth, N. H., and back to Albany ; in the spring of 1855 he sailed to BuflFalo, N. Y., and followed the lakes till July of that year, when he landed at Chicago on the 0th and came to Platteville July 16, and has been a resident of the city since that time ; Aug. l-i, 1862, he enlisted in Co. A, 33d W. V. I. as a private and was in the service three years ; in September, 1864, he was transferred to Co. H of the same regiment as Second Lieutenant, and had command of his company from that time till the close of the war; he was in twenty-one engagements during his term of service and was never wounded and was never a day off duty ; he is the present Mayor of Platteville, elected in April, 1880 ; he was married in 1859, in Lancaster, Wis., to Miss Sarah Kines, and has had four children, three of whom are living.

AUBROSE TREG-AIVOWAN, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Platteville; was born March, 1810, in Fryock, Cornwall, England, where his early life was spent in the mines. In 1840, he came to America, and began work in the Virginia coal mines. This came near being his last work in this world, as he was nearly crushed to death by being drawn from the shaft against some timbers overhead by a thirty horse power engine. For months, it was thought he could not live, and it was years before he was able to work. However, he came to America again in 1846, and lived in Platteville until 1850, when he went to California. Nine months later, he returned, and settled on his present farm in 1853. He has 80 acres. His first wife, Peggy Mitchell, died in England. He then married in Platteville Ellen Stephens, who died thirteen months later. The present Mrs. Treganowan was Catharine Pothour, born in Trumbull Co., Ohio. He has no children, but in spite of his many misfortunes preserves a warm heart and generous nature.

JOHN TREIVARY, farmer. Sees. 12 and 13; P. 0. Platteville; born- July 10, 1809, iu Redruth, Cornwall, England. His early life was spent in the interests of his father's large mercantile and other business. He came to America in 1840, kept the old Blue Run tavern for a time, and, in 1843, came to Platteville, where he engaged in mining and auctioneering. His first wife, formerly Eliza Pollard, of Redruth, died in 1847, leaving four children - Eliza, now in Kewaunee, 111.; John, a Methodist Jh-piscopal preacher ; Ellen, now residing at Big Patch, and an infant that died three months after the mother. In 1848, taking his three surviving children, he returned to England, where he remained eighteen months. Marrying Clarissa Lory, of Elstone, Cornwall, he brought her and the children to Platteville, and settled on a farm adjoining the one he now owns. Mr. Trenary now has 175 acres in the home farm, and 40 of timber in Lima. He was one of the founders of the Primitive Methodist Church, of Platteville. For more than twenty years, he has been Class-Leader and Sabbath School Superintendent. Mrs. Trenary has been a member for twenty-five years. They have ten children - Charles, Edwin, Carlin, Nelson, Eldred, Sarah, Lucy, Rosina, Albert and Eli.

HON. NOAH H. VIRGIN, Platteville, one of the pioneers of Grant Co. ; was born in Fayette Co., Penn., Dec. 6, 1812, son of Eli and Nacka (Hyatte) Virgin. When 6 years of age, his father died, and a few years after his mother married Col. Heaton, of Fayette Co., who owned a flouring mill and a woolen factory, in which young Virgin worked for some time, then learned the millwright's trade of his brother-in-law, Isaac Hill, of Greene Co., Penn. He came to Wisconsin in 1835, and worked at his trade in different places until April, 1836, when he came to Platteville, where he has resided since that time. He, in company with John H. Rountree and Neely Gray, built the Platteville flouring mill, which was completed in 1840, and was the first flouring mill built in Platteville. He afterward bought out his part ners, and has owned and run the mill himself up to the present time. Since 1870, he has been engaged in grain dealing in company with his son. Col. Horatio Virgin, in addition to his other business. Mr. Virgin was a member of the Assembly in the last Territorial Legislature in 1847, and also the first State Legislature in 1848, and again in 1855. He also served two consecutive terms in the State Senate, ending in 1861. He commenced political life as a Whig; was a Republican from 1854 till 1864, and since that time has acted with the Democrats. In 1866, Mr. Virgin was a candidate for Congress from this dis- Lrict, against Amasa Cobb, who was elected. On the 15th of January, 1839, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Pamelia E. Adams, daughter of Rev. Bartholomew Weed, of Platteville, and has had eight children, four of whom are still living - Horatio H., living in Platteville; Emma, now Mrs. George H. Laughton, jf Chicago ; Mary, now Mrs. William Laughton, of Platteville, and Eugene, the youngest, living in Plattecille. His eldest son, Col. H. H. Virgin, was born in the village of Platteville April 9, 1840, and grew jp to manhood in his native village. In April, 1861, he enlisted under the three months' call, and was issigned to the 7th Regiment, but did not go out of the State. The next October, he was appointed Aid )n the Governor's staff with the rank of Colonel, and, on the 18th of December following, was appointed

Battalion Adjutant of the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry (1st Battalion), and assigned to duty under Gen. Sehofield in Missouri, in the spring of 1862. On the 30th of August, 1862, he was commissioned Major of the 33d W. V. I., and, after March 1, 1864, had command of the regiment till the close of the war, being in command in every engagement except three, while he was with the regiment. He was temporarily in command of a brigade in the battle of Yellow Bayou, on t.he Red River expedition. APer the battle of Nashville, he held a Lieutenant Colonel's commission till the close of the war, and was then brevetted Colonel. During his term of service, he was iu forty-two engagements, and never received a scratch, though he had three horses shot under him, and on one occasion a ball passed through the top of his boot, and on another he had a lock of hair shot off just above his ear, cutting a hole through the rim of his hat. After the close of the war, he was three years in the coro business in St. Louis, and two years in the grain business in Booneviile, Mo. In 1870, he returned to Platteville, Wis. ; built a warehouse, and siuce that time has been engaged in buying grain, in company with his father, under the firm name of N. H. Virgin & Son. Jan. 1, 1874, he was married to Miss Annie E. Kane, of Dodgeville, Wis.

CHARLES WEITTENHILLER, manufacturer of cooperage; was born in 1844 in Bavaria, Germany ; came to America in 1853 with his parents and settled in Platteville, where they still reside. Learned his trade of his father, Sebastian Weittenheiller, who carried on the same business in Platteville till 1864. Charles Weittenhiller enlisted in February, 1864, in the 25th W. V. I., Company E., and was in the service till the close of the war. On the 22d of July, 1864, he was taken prisoner at Decatur, Ga., and was two months in Andersonville Prison, before he was discharged. He has been in business since 1867. He was married in 1867, in Platteville, to Miss Jennie Marshall, daughter of E. H. Blarshall, and has four children - Cora, Addie, Marenus and Charles ; has been Justice of the Peace for the last four years, and was on the Village Board one year.

^SEBASTIAN WElTTENHILIiER, Sections 5, 7 and 8; P. 0. Platteville; was born April 7, 1824, in Eichseichstadt, Bavaria. Here in his and her native village, he married Annie Schiell, born Jan. 16, 1822. He came to America in 1849, spent eighteen months in New York, then came to Galena, and, after visiting Iowa, came in May, 1853, to Platteville. His wife came from Germany in November of the same year. Mr. W. had learned the cooper's trade in Rochester, N. Y., and for eleven years followed it in Platteville; in 1864, he bought his present 164 acre farm, and has since lived upon it. Mr. and Mrs. Weittenhiller have nine living children - Charles, Mary, Annie, Conrad, Emil, Pliillip, Lena, Jennie and Etta. They also lost five children, one of whom met an accidental death by the falling of a horse. The family are Presbyterians.

PETER WESTTZ, southwest quarter Sec. 3; P. 0. Plafeville; born July, 1814, in Scheresfeldt, Bavaria, where he married Sarah Miller; his early life was spent at farming and coal mining. In 1854, he brought his family to the United States, spent eighteen months in Pennsylvania, then came to Platteville where he first bought 10 acres which he sold. Next he bought 40 acres on Sec. 3, which he sold in 1877, and that year bought his present 160-acre farm of I. Penberthy. Mr. and Mrs. Wentz have four children - Barbara, Sarah, Charlotta and Christian, all four in Bavaria; the only son, born March 23, 1852, married Mary Linden, who was born in Potosi, Grant County, Wis.

D. B. WILKINSON, retired farmer; P. 0. Platteville; was born Oct. 7, 1823, in Owersby, Lincolnshire, England ; he spent his early life as a farmer. Married Elizabeth Marshall, who was born >larch 24, 1823, in Storton-by-Stow, Lincolnshire. They came to America and located in Cayuga Co., N. Y., in 1846. Later, Mr. Wilkinson purchased a farm in Oswego Co., N. Y. In 1850, they came to Wisconsin and located on a new wild farm in the Whig Settlement, Grant Co. Beginning with 40 acres and a log house. Mr. Wilkinson made steady progress toward better things, and more of them, increasing both his farm and home in size. The homestead of 200 acres is now in charge of his only son, Robert W. He was less than two years old when the parents came to the United Strtes. His wife, nee Frances McRundell, of Fennimore, Grant Co., Wis , is the mother of three children - Lillie E., Flora B. and Lulu M. Since 1 868, D. B. Wilkinson and wife have resided in the city of Platteville. He was, in former years, a most successful miner, he having discovered some of the rich " diggings " in Whig, one of these yielded him $1,000 net profit.

DAVII> WILSON, dealer in fruit, fancy groceries and confectionery, Platteville ; was born in -Oswego Co., N. Y., in 1826 ; came to Wisconsin in 1844, and settled in Platteville ; learned the jewelry business in New York City of Wilson Brothers, 460 Maiden Lane ; was there two years previous to coming to Wisconsin. He was married in Potosi, Grant Co., in 1848, to Miss Mary Ann Sturgeon ; he lived about a year in Platteville afler marriage, then went to Canada with his family, where he remained about -a^ear and a half, and then returned to Platteville; in 1854, he went to Richland Co., Wis., and com- enced clearing; up a farm ; his wife died there Nov. 8, 1856, and he soon after returned to Platteville; e ran a peddling wagon about a year, then went to Reedsburg, Sauk Co., Wis., and was engaged in the welry business about a year ; was in the same business in New Lisbon, Juneau Co., four or five years, id Elkhorn one year ; he then kept hotel in Trempeleau one year, and boarding-house in Winona, Minn., year and a half; he then went to Preston, Minn., and ran a jewelry store three years; from there he ent to Fountain, on the S. M. E. R., and built the first hotel in the place in November, 1869 ; this was illed the "Wilson House," and he kept it till it was burned down in November, 1872; he then sturned to Platteville and bought what was called " Hodges' old stand," and carried on the grocery and id fruit business till he was burned out again in April, 1874 : he rebuilt the same fall, and kept a city istaurant about three years, and since that has been engaged in his present business ; his second wife, to horn he was married in New Lisbon, Wis., Oct. 28, 1857, was Mary Judd ; she died Sept. 11, 1878, id he was a^^ain married Aug. 20, 1879, to Mrs. Helen Lewis, widow of J. H. Lewis, one of the early ittlers of Platteville ; has four children, all by his first wife.

A. I>. WOSifiSOR, born in Aurelia, Can.; came to Platteville in 1867, and, in September of lat year, opened business as a barber in the basement of the old Tyler House ; a year later he removed

) a room over Wright's drug store, and, after four years, to the present Riege store ; here he operated Qtil 1876, when he purchased and located in his present building, on Main street ; here he has a large id well appointed shop, and the three chairs are well patronized ; he is eminently the barber of Platteille ; his wife is an adept at the manufacture of hairwork, and keeps in stock everything that the ladies esire in that line of rolls, puflFs, switches, etc., etc. Mr. Wonzor likewise has rooms devoted to the dyeig of clothing which has proven a most remunerative business ; as his means have increased he has gratied his love for fine and fast horses ; was at one time the owner of Wild Rose, a 2:35 trotter which was .olen by her trainer in Milwaukee during the State Fair of 186S; Tyler's Black Hawk, one of his best orses, died on his hands in 1878. He now owns a Black Hawk mare, " Creole ;" time 2:45, and a oble stallion of the English coach, and Morgan stock, called Black Prince ; he is a fleet and powerful orse ; his pride now, however, is Bay Charlie, which beautiful horse he purchased in March, 1880 ; Bay harlie trots in 2:35, and has beaten many of the best steppers of Dubuque ; his sire, Patchen, Jr., had a icord of 2:27 J, and a half brother; Sam Purdy went in 2:20^; he is a mahogany bay, with black Dints, maoe and tail; weight, 1,050 pounds.

B. F. WYNE, Postmaster; was born in Adair Co., Ky., in 1818 ; came to Illinois in 1837 and ittled in McComb, McDonough Co., where he engaged in the jewelry business which he continued in lat and Schuyler Co. till 1848 ; in October of that year he came to Platteville and carried on the same usiness till April, 1864, when he received the appointment of Postmaster, and has held that office ever nee; he held the office of Justice of the Peace twenty-five years, resigning in 1880 ; he was also Town id Village Clerk for about fifteen years. He was married in 1846, in Rushville, 111., to Miss Cynthia otter, a native of Connecticut; and has had nine children, seven of whom are still living.

V. H. YOUNG, photographic artist, Platteville; was born July 19, 1848, in the town of Lima, rant Co., Wis. His father. Dr. B. F. Young, was a native of New York ; he came to Wisconsin in the inter of 1845, and settled in Lima, his family coming in the spring of 1846 ; he practiced medicine in ima and vicinity till his death, which occurred March 6, 1862, at the age of 45. Mrs. Young, whose laiden name was M. A. Barstow, daughter of Joseph Barstow, is still living in Lincoln Co., Dak. Dr. oung was a graduate of Cleveland Medical College, and attended medical lectures at Cincinnati, Ohio. [e was married in Trumbull Co., Ohio, where he practiced his profession before coming to Wisconsin. V. [. Young learned photograping in Webster City, Iowa, commencing in July, 1871 ; he worked in various laces in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan, and finally located in Lincoln, Neb., in February, 1872 ; he imained there till October, 1877, then went to Webster City, Iowa, and from there to Platteville in 1879; le first three years of his stay in Lincoln, he was in partnership with J. W. Chase, formerly of Chicago, rm of Young & Chase, and since he came to Platteville, has been in company with John Robertson. [r. Young was married in Ludington, Mich., Jan. 28, 1872, to Miss Louisa Voigt, and has two chilren - Virgil Herbert and Winnefred Louise.

Town Of Boscobel

SE.VER ANDERSON, boots and shoes, Bosoobel ; born in Norway. In 1870, came to Madison, Wis., followed this trade, which he learned in Norway, commencing at the age of 15 years. In 1872, came to Boscobel and opened this shop. Married in 1871, to Bhoda Davison ; she was born in Norway. They have four children, two sons and two daughters. He is a member of the United Workmen; member of the Fire Department and member of the Lutheran Church.

JL. G. ARMSTRONG, M. D., born March 7, 1834, in Cortlandville, CortlanS Co., N. Y., where he resided with his parents until 5 years old, when the family removed to Groton in Toojpkins Co., from there to Whitewater, Wis., in 1845, and in true pioneer style laid his claim, and began opening up a farm, where " the whole time" was occupied in driving breaking-team, building fence and opening stone quarries. In 1852, he entered the State University at Madison, where in due course of time he began the study of medicine, with Prof. S. P. Lathrop as his preceptor, where he remained as much of the time as his means would admit. To recuperate his purse, school-teaching was just to his hand, not neglecting to board around among the scholars. In the early part of 1856, he went to Chicago, where he placed himself under the special care of Profs. Davis and Evans, who furnished him odd jobs of nursing their patients for ready cash. At the commencement of Kush Medical College, February, 1858, he graduated in a class of thirty-one, receiving the first honors of the class in surgery, and second honors in theory and practice of medicine. During the spring of 1858, he went to Palmyra, Wis., and opened an office for the practice of his chosen profession, where he remained until April, 1860, when he came to Fennimore and opened an office on the Military Road, one and a half miles northwest of the present village. In January, 1861, he was married to Miss S. D. Bond, of Milton, Wis., and after the lourning of the Gilluian Hotel, at which he lost every particle of property he had accumulated, he began houskeeping in the little cottage by the roadside, remaining here faithful to his business until August, 1862, when he volunteered as Second Asit. Surg, of the 8th W. V. I., and was assigned to duty at Corinth, Miss., in care of " wounded rebs." The arduous duties of the position, together with the unsanitary surroundings soon so much reduced his physical condition as to oblige a return to the North to recuperate his strength. After a year he was again able to take the field, this time as First Asst. Surg, of the 6th W. V. I., in the old " Iron Brigade," near White House Landing, in Virginia. Continuing with the regiment until the organization of the 48th Wisconsin, of which he was commissioned as full Surgeon, doing duty with the regiment as Surgeon through all the titne the regiment was in the field, and, in addition to his other duties, filling the position of Post Surgeon, at Fort Scott, Kas., until he received orders to disband the hospital and proceed to the plains to establish a line of hospitals along the Arkan.sas River, extending from Fort Zaroh to Fort Dodge. After the regiment was mustered out of service, he wus retained with a detachment of regular troops at Fort Lamed, Kan., until relieved in February, 1866. March 5, 1866, he opened an office in Buscobel, for the practice of his profession among his old friends and neighbors, where he has continued without interruption to the present time, building up a first-class practice as a surgeon and physician. In the social circle and the private family, he has many characteristics which are too well known to the inhabitants of Grant County to require any eulogy from the present historian.

LEONARD BIEDERMANN, farmer, Sec. 35 ; P. 0. Boscobel ; born in Austria. In 1848, he came to America, locating in Clayton Co., Iowa, where, for seven years, he followed the butcher business. In 1855, he came to Prairie du Chien, and, for two years, engaged in the same trade. In 1 857, he came to Boscobel and engaged in the saloon and butcher business for six years ; then built the first brewery, which has since burned, and for the past six years he has been farming. He owns 86 acres of land. When he landed in America he had only 81, and all he possesses he has made by industry and perseverance. He is in fact a self-made man. He was married in 1854, to Christina Krout, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany. They have nine children - six sons and three daughters.

A. BOBEL, proprietor Central House, Boscobel; born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany. In 1853, came to Ohio, the following year to Milwaukee; was clerk in a stove store; from 1856 to 1861, in the wholesale grocery business ; then came to Boscobel and started a saloon, afterward opened a small tavern ; he enlarged the house from time to time ; he then built his hotel known as the Central House, the finest in the county ; it was burned Jan. 7, 1881, but was immediately rebuilt. All of this property Mr. Bobel las acquired since comino; to the State. Married March 3, 1856. Mrs. Bobel was born in Germany. They have six children, three sons and three daughters.

DJt. D. W. CAKLiEY, physician and surgeon, Boscobel ; born in Otsego Co., N. Y. At the ,ge of 22, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Charles M. Turner, Tompkins Co., N. Y.; graduted at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1856. He then came to Platteville and formed a partnership pith John D. Wood ; they continued about six months. In 1857, came to Boscobel. Was commissioned, n 1862, 2d Assistant Surgeon of the 33d W. V. I.; held this position till February, 1864, when he reigned on account of ill health ; returned to Boscobel, where he has since been engaged at his profession

T. CARRIER, firm of Carrier & Co., hardware ; born in Chittenden Co., Vt.; when a boy he ame with his father to Ohio ; October, 1848, came to Jefierson Co., Wis.; here he followed the wagonoaking business for five years; in 1854 came to Grant Co., engaged in farming about four years ; in 858 came to Boscobel, started a wagon-shop which he afterward traded for a hotel, run it about eleven ears ; was elected Sheriff in 1853, served two years ; in 1875, he established the present business ; has been Chairman and President of the City Board. Married, in 1852, to Amelia Powers; she was born in Jardner, Me.; they have three daughters.

AL/AJfSOlV CASE, meat-market, Boscobel ; is a native of Lorain Co., Ohio ; worked r.n a arm with his father until about the age of 18, when he came to Racine Co., Wis.; continued farming here about five years, then returned to Lorain Co.; bought a steam saw-mill which he run several yciirs ; le then came to Crawford Co., Wis., and bought a farm of 120 acres, improved and afterward sold ; then rent to Pittsburgh, Penn.; remained about two years ; in 1875, returned to Crawford Co., bought and im- )roved his present farm, consisting of 120 acres; October, 1880, he removed to Boscobel and opened his meat-market; has been Chairman of the town of Marietta, Crawford Co. ; was the first Treasurer of the own of Union ; is a member of the Odd Fellows and United Workmen. Married, in 1844, to Miss Eunice Kenny ; she was born in New York ; they have four sons.

HARVEY CLARK, groceries, etc., Boscobel ; born in Steuben Co., N. Y.; came to Richand Co., Wis., in 1856; followed the carpenter trade eight years, then came to Boscobel and continued he carpenter business till 1862, when he enlisted in the fall in Co. C, 20th W. V. I ; served about four nonths ; was discharged on account of physical disability, then returned to Boscobel ; soon after went - Jast, where he remained, about two years; in 1864, he returned to Boscobel, continued the carpenter rade till the spring of 1875 ; he then opened a drug store, continued it about four years ; February, 1880, tarted his present business. Married, in 1854, to Eliza J. Skiff, of Yates Co., N. Y.; they have four ihildren - two sons and two daughters.

BEIIVJAJHIN M. COATES, deceased. He was born in New Harmony, Ind., in 1819 ; in ibout 1837 came to Platteville, followed mining several years, removed to Beetown and continued minng ; in 1849, went to California ; returned in the winter of 1853, and, in company with Samuel Moore, luilt a linseed oil mill ; ran it about eighteen months, then sold out his interest to Mr. Moore ; went to Huscoda, engaged in merchandising with Jonathan Moore ; they continued about two years, when he old out to Mr. Moore, and opened another store ; this he carried on till 1863, when he came to Boscobel ,nd commenced business, the firm being Palmer & Coates ; they closed out their business about 1866 ; since hen he has been engaged in banking here till his death, which occurred Aug. 27, 1880. He has held he office of Internal Revenue Collector about three years; was member of the Assembly during 1869 ind 1874. Married Miss Mildred La Pollette March, 1854 ; she was born in Cincinnati, Ohio ; have one laughter - Mrs. Parr.

WILiJLIAM S. COATES, farmer. Sec. 34 ; P. 0. Boscobel ; born in Philadelphia, Penn., lut removed when a child with his parents to Indiana, where he engaged in farming In 1836, came to Platteville, Wis., and there followed farming and mining until 1856, when he moved here, where he has ilwaye resided since. Owns 1 20 acres of land, all the improvements upon which have been made by himelf Has been a member of the Town Beard several years, and has held a number of school offices. Was narried in 1842 to Miss Cynthia Cain ; she wa« born in Tennessee. They have five children - two sons ,nd three daughters ; Jefferson, the eldest son, died Jan. 27, 1880, aged 37 years.

M. F. CROUCH, farmer; P. 0. Boscobel ; born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., in 1823 ; followed arming there till 1856, when he came to Grant Co.; settled on a farm at Potosi. In 1864, removed to ?ennimore and continued farming there. He owns a farm of 160 acres, also property in Boscobel. He las always been connected with school interests since coming to this county ; when in Fenniraore he was Fustice of the Peace two years. In 18S0, ho removed to Boscobel where he has since resided. Married

CHARL.E$$ K. DEAX, farmer, Sec. 36; P. 0. Boscobel. Mr. Dean was born in Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Conn., Sept. 29, 1820. November, 1844, he came to the West and made Michigan his first stopping-place. The year following, he came to Walworth Co., Wis., where he bought and improved a farm in this county, and remained there until 1848, when he returned to the Eastern States. Ill health admonished him to again try the Western air, and he returned to his Walworth County farm in 1851. He soon after engaged with the Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien - or, as it was then known - Milwaukee & Mississippi Bailroad, and first entered Grant County as an employe of this road in the fall of 1853. During 1853 and 1854, Mr. Dean was engaged with others in the preliminary survey, and location of the road between Madison and Prairie du Chien ; while engaged here he worked the right of way, descriptions and platting of the same. In 1855, he was made Division Engineer of construction from Muscoda to Woodman bridge, his residence at this time being in the " Hall House " situated on the present site of the city of Boscobel, arid for some time himself and Mrs. Dean were the only irhabitants of this site. In company with others, Mr. Dean selected a location for a railroad station, and purchased 240 acres of land covering a portion of the ground now occupied by the city. In 1856, he severed his connection with the company, and removed to his present farm on the southwest quarter of Section 36, where he again engaged in the occupation of farming. This farm, so beautifully situated, encircled by the verdured hills, has been his residence up to the present time. While Boscobel yet formed a part of Marion Town, namely, from April, 1857, to the same month in 1858, Mr. Dean served as Chairman of the Town Board of Supervisors, and since the erection of Boscobel into a separate town, he has served twice as Assessor, and once as Chairman of the Town Board. Mr. Dean was elected to the Legislature of 1858, which had in charge the investigation of the La Crosse Land Grant Corruption, and the revision of the statutes. Of late years, Mr. Dean has resolutely fet his face against all tenders of office, prefer» ring to remain one of the sovereigns, rather than seek the brief bubble fame, as a servant of the sovereigns. On the 21st of April, 1861, two companies of troops were organized at Boscobel, both of which Mr. Dean had been instrumental in organizing, and of the first he was almost unanimously chosen Fir>t Lieutenant. This company subsequently became Company C, 2d W. V. I. Lieut. Dean served as Adjutant of the regiment at the battle of Bull Kun, and continued to serve in this capacity until honorably discharged. May 18, 1863. At Beverly Ford, August 11, 1862, Lieut. Dean was taken prisoner, and together with Pope's officers, was given a taste of rebel prison regime during a month's confinement at the renowned Libby Prison at Richmond. Mr. Dean has been a frequent contributor to different journals on a variety of subjects. Detesting the abominations in high places, which have become so prevalent during this latter portion of the nineteenth century, his trenchant pen has always been among the first to prick these unsavory bubbles as they appear. Although denied the advantages of a liberal education when young, Mr. Dean has always been a close student, which in turn has brought him to a liberty of thought that, however, is the result of well-grounded convictions. Possibly he may be impolitic, speaking after a worldly fashion, in this independence which leads him to a free and vigorous expression of his sentiments upon all subjects of popular interest. It is one of Mr. Dean's well-grounded articles of belief, however, that mental independence is the best expression of true manhood. Among other bits from his facile pen, is the following sentiment inscribed originally in a young lady's album: " Golconda gems ; gems dug from the earth wheresoever found, are bought and sold for money, but no number of them can eive luster to the mind. Ignorance and vice personified, may wear them. The inbred jewels of the mind : Virtue, affection, constancy and sympathy, best exemplified in the life of a true woman, are priceless gems resplendent in a priceless setting."

W. E. DeLi AP, Postmaster, Boscobel. Is a native of Monroe, Wis. ; came to Boscobel about 1860 ; was employed as clerk in a dry goods store from 1871 to 1879, when he received the appointment as Postmaster. Married in 1875 to Miss Amelia Taylor ; the lady being a resident of Platteville, Wis. They have one son.

IIIRI§(. C H. DICKERSON, notions, toys, etc., Boscobel ; is a native of Somerset Co., Penn.; at the age of 8 years, she came with her parents to Platteville ; soon after her marriage, which occurred in 1853, they came to Boscobel. Her husband soon after received the appointment of Postmaster, which position he held about fifteen years ; he died Nov. 10, 1876, aged 49 years. After his death, Mrs. D. held this office about four years. They have had seven children - five sons and two daughters.

H. W. FAVOR, of the firm of Sawyer & Favor, drugs, books, paints, oils and fancy groceries, Boscobel ; was born in Bristol, N. H.; worked on a farm till about the age of 16 ; then was employed as clerk in a store about eleven years; then followed the clothing business about three years; in 1863, he came to Boscobel ; engaged in the produce business several years, then opened a grocery with Mr. Smith ; continued this two or three years ; in 1870, he, with Mr. Sawyer, established this business. Is City Clerk ; has held this office three or four years. He was married in 1860 to Miss T. H. Gage, of Enfield, N. H.; she was born in Nashua, N. H.; they have one daughter.

GEORGE COCHKAIVE HAZELTON was born in Chester, Rockingham Co., N. H., Jan. 3, 1833. He came of good stock, his father, William Hazelton, tracing his descent back through many generations of Engl'sh ancestry. His mother, Mercy J. Cochrane, comes of an old and noted Scotch family. The homestead in which he was born had been in the possession of their family for three generations. His father was, for many years, a merchant, but finally turned his attention exclusively to the farm, and there raised a family of six children, of whom G-eorge Cochrane was the fifth. Up to his sixteenth year the life of George was that of a New England farmer boy. There was plenty of hard work during the summer, and the district school and chores during the long, cold winters. As was the case in such New England homes, politics was always a subject of family debate, and our young lai listened to his father and mother and the elder brothers as they discussed the questions of the National bank, the tariff and free trade, which was soon to be supplemented by that more absorbing topic - the anti-slavery agitation. In these family debates, the mother always took a leading part. At that time she was noted for che keen interest she took in public affairs, and now, at the ripe age of eighty-two years, she possesses all her faculties intact, and keeps herself well informed on the issues of the day.

The elder Hazelton was a Henry Clay Whig, and a Republican by natural inheritance, when that party came into existence ; and he cherished its principles to the day of his death. In this wide-awake and intelligent New England family, George naturally grew up a firm believer in the equal rights of all men, and with decided convictions as to the wisdom of the policy of protection for American labor.

When he was sixteen years old, he entered an academic school at Derry, N. H. Here he prepared himself for college at Dummer Academy, in Oldtown, near Newburyport, Mass., under the instruction of Prof Henshaw, who was afterward so well known in connection with Rutger's College, in New Jersey. There was no royal road to learning for the sons of this New Hampshire farmer. A home he could give them. In all other respects they must make their own way in the world ; and George soon knew what it was to teach school in country districts, and board around. By this, and similar means, he educated himself; and so well was he prepared, that he entered the sophomore instead of the freshman class of Union College, at Schenectady, N. Y. Here, he had for President of the Faculty the venerable and celebrated Doctor Nott. And here, as in other places, he supported himself until he graduated in 1858. In the same year he was admitted to the bar at Malone, N. Y. One of the curious incidents of political life in our country is to be found in the fact that Judge James, a member of the 47ih Congress from New York, was one of the four judges before whom young Hazelton appeared at Malone for examination. It is needless to say that the veteran lawyer from the Empire State and the rising young advocate from the West are warm friends.

After being admitted to the bar, with the exception of a few months spent in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C, he practiced law at Amsterdam and Schenectady, N. Y., until the autumn of 1863, when he decided to settle in the West. His elder brothers, William and Gerry W. Hazelton, the present United States District Attorney for Milwaukee, had settled in Wisconsin some year previous. To be in their vicinity was the principal reason of his settling, in September, 1863, at Boscobel, in Grant County, Wis., where he has since resided. If there is any one trait that pre-eminently marks the character of Mr. Hazelton, it is self-reliance. Our great philosopher, Emerson, in his essay on this admirable trait of American character, says: "A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who, in turn, tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not studying a profession, for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances."

Mr. Hazelton was all this, and more, for he had the profession which he had struggled to obtain, and "which he still loves. With a firm faith in his capacity to make his way upward and onward in life upon his own individual merits, and having decided, in September, 1863, where his home was to be, in the following November, poor as he was in this world's goods, but rich in more than " a hundred chances," he -wedded Ellen Van Antwerp, of Schenectady, N. Y., an accomplished lady, who has been to him a helpmeet in the highest and truest sense of the word. Four children have blessed this union, two of whom - the eldest boy, Harrj, and the only girl, Alice - are deceased. Greorge and John Hampdon still live to cheer the home and bless the hearts of their parents.

Having decided on a home, and found a wife to preside over it, the self-reliant young lawyer went to work to win that which he came to Wisconsin for - a place among men. There were no shilly-shally efforts, but direct, forcible work. He had his chosen profession. He was a born orator. The country debating schools and the college lyceums always had special attractions for him. In his new home, these natural gifts were soon brought into full play. In November, 1864, he was elected District Attorney for Grant County, and, in 1866, was re-elected for the second term. Nor did this rapid progress cease here, for we find him elected to the State Senate, in 1867, and he was chosen President ^ro tempore of that body. He was again re-elected to the Senate in 1869. Peeling that he must gain a more solid reputation in his profession, we find him, at the expiration of his last term in the State Senate, giving five years of close and diligent attention to the practice of law in the State and United States Courts. Here he soon became known as one of the leading lawyers of Wisconsin'. His success as a jury lawyer was most marked, and soon gained him an extensive practice and a wide experience.

If he was anything, he was an active and ardent Republican. Bach recurring canvass found him vigorously engaged. The result was that he was again called upon to represent his fellow-citizens, this time in the National Legislature, being elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, in November, 1876. He entered Congress at a time when Jie found himself numbered among the Republican minority. This was peculiarly unfortunate, for the Democratic majority, through their committees prepared and controlled alt legislation, and never willingly allowed any Republican to do any work, or take any part J^hat would test either hLs ability to work, his knowledge of politics, or his skill in debate. His real public life commenced under these adverse circumstances. But he was not thus to be repressed. Whenever opportunity offered, his readiness and ability to state a point with rare terseness and force soon began to command the attention of the House. Such was the state of affairs with him when he was re-nominated in 1878. The leading question in the Third Wisconsin District was finance. Briefly stated, it was this : Shall the Nation have an honest dollar and keep faith with its creditors, or shall we enter upon another era of paper money inflation. All of Mr. Hazelton's convictions as to what was not only the best policy, but the soundest politics, made him believe that a speedy return to specie payments was the only sure road to future national prosperity. Although a majority of the voters of his district seemed against him, he never wavered for an instant. He was re-nominated in 1878, and at once took the stump on the Republican financial platform. Both Greenbackers and Democrats united to beat him, and it was only by the most persuasive speeches and untiring labor that he overcame the majority, and was re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress.

In the first session of this Congress he had his first opportunity to show the real quality of his intellect. In February, 1879, when the majority were openly threatening the immediate repeal of the re-construction measures, he delivered a speech on the " Powers of Government," in which he not only exhibited a thorough knowledge of the legal and political phases of the question, but a boldness of thought in applying principles that clearly showed that he had been a close student of our political history. In the following April, when the same majority were attempting to impede the resumption of specie payments, he spoke on the subject of the National Banks. This speech, made in favor of honest money and national good faith, was one of his greatest efforts. It attracted much attention at the time, and was widely published and commented upon in the daily press. His efforts during this session ranked him among the best orators in the House, and, in the autumn of that year, he was invited to go to California and assist in the canvass in that State. The election was for members of Congress, and it was regarded as the test case of the coming national campaign of 1880. The Republicans carried the State, and no one man from outside of it contributed more to that success than Mr. flazelton. He has, if any man has, the courage of his convictions. He was invited to deliver an address at the famous Arlington cemetery, on Decoration Day, 1880. Here he made a wide departure from the usual line of thought followed by most speakers on similar occasions. He said that we had apologized long enough for conquering the rebellion, and then he told the assembled veterans that the Union soldiers, living and dead, in putting down the rebellion had accomplished a work such as had never been accomplished before. This speech was also published in the daily press, and Union soldiers all over the land spoke of it in the warmest terms. The soldiers have in him a warm and energetic friend, and as more than a score of grateftil pensioners can testify, and whether as a member of the committee on invalid pensions, or in helping along a case delayed in the pension office, he omits no effort to see that justice is done. In 1880, he was re-nominated for the third time, and most triumphantly re-elected, his majority ranking among the highest ever given for any man since the close of the rebellion.

In a consideration of his marked traits of character : He did not die young ; he is strong in his likes and dislikes, and often frankness itself in expressing them ; he sometimes wounds the feelings of sensitive people, not that he would wrong any one, but being a man of positive convictions, and of a most sanguine temperament, he is almost the ideal of a " blunt man," and speaks just as he thinks. In a word, he has that good, but very impolitic habit of saying " yes," or " no," at once. Such a man must, at times, wound his friends and embitter those whom political and other reasons have made his enemies. But oncelet him see that he has been wrong, and, like all men of his temperament, he is the first to acknowledge his error. Nor does he cherish animosity toward political opponents in his own party. When once a struggle has been ended in caucus or convention, if he and his friends have been defeated, it is the end of the battle with him, no matter what personal interests may have been at stake, and he is one of the first to hold out his hand, and say, " All, right, boys ; we did our best to beat you, but now we are with you." When he says this, it means no halffhearted work either. On the other hand he possesses, in the highest degree, the power of attaching men to him. Often has he been heard to speak, in the warmest terms, and with real emotion, of the many helpful and faithful friends he has found since his home has been in Wisconsin. " Whatever of success I have had," said he, " I owe to them." That his energy and ability as a lawyer and a man of politics, his fidelity to his principles and to his friends, are known and appreciated by those who are best acquainted with him, is shown by the fact that they have steadily called him to higher and more important duties. He is now in the prime of his mental power.

DR. C M. HEWITT, physician and surgeon, Boscobel ; is a native of Oneida Co., N. Y.; when a boy, he commencced the study of medicine with his uncle in Batavia, N. Y.; he afterward came tcf Canada and continued his course of studies with Dr. Merrick about three years ; studied with Dr. Nash about two years; he then came to Detroit and continued his studies uuder the supervision of Dr. Stephen Henry; graduated in the winter of 1838-39, a', the College of Physicians at the New York University; he then returned to Canada and commenced the practice of his profession at Port Rowen and St. Th imas ; continued about two years ; in 1841, came to Grand Detour, 111.; thence to Grant Co., Wis.; in 1859, he removed to Boscobel ; he has practiced in Lancaster, Potosi and other places in this county ; he is the oldest practicing physician in Grant Co. He was one of the School Commissioners whose duties were examining school teachers, etc. He was married in 1840 to Miss Lizzie Nash ; she was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y.

GrEORGE F. miiDERRAWD, firm of Parker, Hildebrand & Co., general merchandise, Boscobel ; is a native of Prussia ; in 1856, came to Waukesha, Wis.; in 1858, came to Boscobel ; was employed as book-keeper for Dwight T. Parker ; held this position five or six years ; he was then admitted as a partner into the firm of Parker, Hildebrand & Pepper ; this firm continued some years, when George W. Parker bought out Mr. Pepper's interest; since then the firm has been Parker, Hildebrand & Co. This firm carries on the largest business of any house in the county ; their sales are over $120,000 a year.

T. N. HlIRRELLi, firm of Bitter & Hubbell, hardware, Boscobel. The subject of this sketch is a native of Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio; when a boy, he came to Bloomington, 111.; afterward removed to Pana, 111. ; he secured the position as expressman with Valentine's Express, running between Cairo and St. Louis ; he continued with this company until they retired from business ; he then returned to Bloomington and engaged in the hotel business both there and at Pana ; in about 1859, came to Lancaster, Wis., and engaged in general merchandise business; he also opened the first store in Woodman, which he carried on for several years; in 1874, he came to Boscobel and entered upon his present business ; when in Woodman he was Chairman of the town about four years ; also held the oflSce of Town Clerk ; since coming to Boscobel he has held various offices ; among others was Chief Engineer of the Fire Department four years, and Chairman of the Town Board ; he is now Mayor of the city, having been elected in 1879 ; re-elected in 1880 ; he was one of the five members who served on the County Board under the old law. Married, October, 1856, to Miss E. A. Bitter ; she was born in Salem, Ohio ; they have one son, now assisting his father in his business.

DR. W. T. HURD, dentist, Boscobel ; was born in Wiota, Wis. ; in 1871, he came to Madison, and entered the profession of dental surgery, studying with Drs. Hurd & Chittenden ; graduated in 1874 at the State Dental Association of Milwaukee ; practiced with Dr. Enos one year in Milwaukee ; in 1876, he came to Boscobel and at once established himself in business, and has been a resident here since; he is the only resident dentist in the city.