Rosendale Village (part 2 of 2)

EDWARD B. PARSONS, farmer. Sec. 2 ; P. O. Rosendale ; is the son of Samuel B. and Mary Parsons, natives of Connecticut, but immigrants to Jefferson Co., N. Y., where Edward B. was born July 6, 1831 ; in 1834, his parents removed to Buffiilo, N. Y., where his father was engaged in the grocery business for four years ; in July, 1838, they removed to Chicago, 111, where his father was proprietor of a hotel for three years : in 1841, they removed to Milwaukee and continued the hotel business for about nine months; thence to Belleville, Wis., for one year ; from there they went to Summit, Waukesha Co., and continued the .same busines.s for a while, and then devoted his time to farming in that county till the spring of 1845, whence, with ox teams, they came as immigrants to the town of Springvale, Fond du Lao Co., and settled on Sec. 2, where they afterward died - father, July 21, 1864, mother, in June, 1871, leaving one daughter and four sons - Mary E., the widow of the late T. G. Burgess, deceased ; Samuel H., who now lives in Phillips Co., Kan.; Henry F., now in Sacramento, Cal. ; Edward B., who now lives on the homestead, and owns 330 acres of land in Sees. 1 and 2 of Springvale, and Sec. 14, Rosendale, and in Sec. 10, Lamartine, also has 80 acres in St. Croix Co., Wis. He has been a member of the Town Board, and has also been Town Treasurer. June 8, 1862, he was married to Caroline, daughter of Benjamin and xlrabella Paddock, early settlers of Neenah, Wis. ; their children are Guy S., Elva M., Georgie. His wife is a member of the Congregational Church.

CHARL.E!!$ R. PEXNKY, farmer, Sec. 15; P. 0. Rosendale ; was born March 10, 1820, in Jefferson Co., X. Y. ; son of Eli and Polly Minor Penney ; came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1861, and settled on his present ftirm of 120 acres. Has been Town Assessor for five years. Oct. 15, 1855, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Phillip and Catharine (Drummond) Blanchard ; she was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y. ; they had two children - Clement M. and George E., both deceased.

WILLIAM PI\CH, farmer,. Sec. 4 ; P. 0. West Rosendale ; is a native of the county of Cornwall, England ; born in December, 1815 ; he is the son of John and Mary Pinch, who were also natives of County Cornwall ; when 12 years old, he began the malting business, which he followed in England till 24 years of age. In 1840, he was married to Miss Jane, daughter of William and Elizabeth Hamley, and afterward superintended a farm for a minister of the Church of England for one and onehalf years ; after the death of the minister, in 1842, he took charge of a farm for Capt. Collins, K. N., for four years, after which he followed the butcher's trade in England till 1852; they came thence to America, and arrived at the village of Rosendale, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., June 28, 1852 ; he lived in the town of Rosendale till the spring of 1854, when he bought a farm of eighty acres in Sec. 4, town of Springvale, which has since been his home ; he now also owns eighty acres in Sec. 8 of this town, Their children are Alfred, who lives in this town ; George W., of Springvale ; Neomi E., now at home ; John W., now a Congregational minister at Escanaba, Mich. ; Pearce, now in Massachusetts ; Mary J., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Pinch are members of the Congregational Church. He has been a member of the Town Board for one term.

FOSDIC C. PROUTY, farmer, Sees. 10 and 15 ; P. 0. Rosendale ; was born in Windham Co., Vt., April 8, 1828 ; son of Amos and Bathsheba fWallacej Prouty ; came to the town of Springvale, Wis., in April, 1847, with his parents; they settled on the farm where he now resides. Married, Jan. 7, 1857, Catharine M., daughter of Philip and Catharine Blanchard; she is a native of Jefferson Co., N. Y., residing in Springvale at the time of her marriage ; they have had ten children ; the living are Louis K., Arthur D., Dee A., Levi B., Marian A. and an infant not named; they have lo.st four children - Clark F., Clarence, Willie F. and Nellie S. Mr. Prouty owns a farm of 120 acres on Sec. 10, and eighty acres on Sec. 15 ; was Town Treasurer one term.

JOHN S. PYtrALL, farmer. Sec. 4 ; P. 0. Rosendale: was born in the county of Norfolk, Eng., Dec. 12, 1834; came with his parents, Thomas and Sarah Pygall, to America in 1838, and settled in Oneida Co., N. Y., where his father worked at the tailor's trade, till 1844; .they then removed to Detroit, Mich., where, in November, 1848, his fether enlisted in the 1st Mich. V. I., as a soldier in the war with Mexico, and died at Vera Cruz in June, 1841). John S. went as a Captain's waiter in his father's regiment, but when they reached Mexico he enlisted as a soldier and served with his regiment till the close of the war. He then returned to Michigan and made that his home till 1853, and then came to the town of Springvale, which has since been his home. In 1862, he enlisted in Co. H, 32d W. V. I, under Col. J. Howe ; was with his regiment from Atlanta to Washington ; was then appointed Hospital Steward; was mustered out of service at Milwaukee in June, 1865; returned to his home and, in the same year, bought a farm in Sec. 4, where he now has 120 acres. In 1854, he was married to Harriet, daughter of James and Mary Marchant, of Springvale, but a native of England ; she died in the fall of 1868, leaving one son - William H. In 1875, he was married to Anna, daughter of Conrad and Regula Butcher, of this town, Sprinsfvale ; they have two daughters - Carrie and Hattie.

GEORGE W. ROGERS, farmer. Sec. 35; P. O. Ladoga; is a native of Essex Co., N. Y., born in December, 1837, and is the son of^ Daniel Rogers and Olive Nichols, early immigrants to Essex Co. N. Y., where his father died in 1845; in 1847, with his mother and family, he removed to Wisconsin and settled on Sec. 38, town of Lamartine, Fond du Lac Co., where his mother died in the winter of 1858. At Sioux City, Iowa, in 1861, he enlisted in Co. I, 7th Iowa V. C, and was engaged mostly in frontier service during his term of enlistment; he was mustered out of service at Sioux City, Iowa, in 18()3. He soon returned to his home in Fond du Lac Co., Wis., and, in the fall of 1865, bought a farm of ninety acres, in Sec. 35, town of Springvale, where he has since followed farming. In February, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary E., daughter of James J. and Charlotte Davis, then a resident of the town of Waupun, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., but a native of Pennsylvania ; their children are Alice 0., Mary C. and George E. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are members of the Methodist Church.

FREDRICK SCOFIELD, farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Rosendale; was born in the town of Hudley, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Nov. 21, 1821; he is the son of Miner and Lydia (Sherman) Scofield, natives of Connecticut, but both immigrants to New York when young; they were married in March, 1821, and raised a family of ten children, one of whom died in New York in 1844; the others afterward came to Wisconsin ; two now live in the town of Springvale, Fond du Lac Co. Fredrick, the oldest son, came to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Johnstown, Rock Co., in Jlay, 1845 ; Nov. 24 following, he came to the town of Springvale, Fond du Lac Co., and settled on Sec. 3, where he now owns a farm of eighty acres. Doc. 20, 184(j, he was married to Jliss Calista, a daughter of Abel and Laura (Cushman) Bemis ; her mother dying when she was only 8 years old, she was adopted by lleuben and Lucy Tarr, and made her home with them till April, 184ti, when she came to Wisconsin ; they have had eight children, as follows: Katie, the hue wife of Kufus Oliver, of Waupun (deceased) ; Fredrick, Jr., now of this town - Springvale; Edward L., now in llip<]n ; Ellie M., now at hoiue with her parents; William F., deceased; Miner, deceased; Ida E., deceased ; Benjamin F., deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Scofield are members of the Congresational Church.

JOSEPH SCRIBNER, farmer, Sec. 3; P. 0. Rosendale ; was born in Fairfield Co., Conn., Dec. 13, 1824, and is the son of Ju.seph Scribner and Sarah Kellogg, a descendant of the well-known Kellogg family of that State ; his parents were both natives of Fairfield Co., Conn.; Joseph is the fourth of seven children, six of whom live in Fond du Lao Co., Wis.; one, with his father, is deceased; he spent his life on a farm in his native county until 23 years of age ; Dec. 16, 1847, he, in company with B. Pinkney, started for Wisconsin, and reached the town of Rosendale, Fond du Lac Co., in February, 1848; he entered IGU acres of land in Sees. 31 and 32 of that town, but devoted his attention to merchandising in the village of Rosendale, and afterward disposed of liis real estate in that town; in January, 1852, he devoted xchanged his stock of goods fur a farm of 85 acres, in Sec. 3. town of Springvale, where he has since his time to farming, though he has bien closely connected with everything pertaining to interests of the village of Rosendale. In February, 1851, he was married to Miss Olive, daughter of Worthy and Bulah A. White, then residents of the town of Eldorado, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., but emigrants from Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1849; their children are Josephine (now the wife of William W. Stuart, of Montana, lately of Ripon, Wis.) ; Fred H., Angclletta (now the wife of John W. Scribner, of Rosendale), and Adelbert E. Sir. and Mrs. Scribner are members of the Cunc;rogational Church of Rosendale.

CHA.RLES H. SEYMOUR, larmer. Sec. 'it.) ; P. 0. Rosendale; was born Nov. 13, 1829; in the town of Weston, Fairfield Co., Conn.; son of Charles and Ann Foote Seymour; when 8 years of age, he removed to Westport, Conn., where he was educated, and remained most of the time until 1852, when he removed to Norwalk, Conn., where ho had previously been employed as a clerk for about three years, and also taught school for about eighteen months ; resided in Norwalk until 1854, when he came to Wisconsin and located in the village of Rdsendale, where he lived until August, 1855, when he purchased the farm where he now resides; his parents joined him here in September of the same year. In September, 1857, he uiarried Cornelia S., daughter of Anson M. and Cornelia Miller; she was born in Bedford, Westchester Co., N. Y.; they have had one daughter - Cornelia A., who died at the age of 7 years. Mr.

HEMAN C. SHERWIN, farmer. Sec. 22; P. 0. Ladoga; the subject of our present sketch is a native of Genesee Co., N. Y., and is the third son of Bildad and Philinda Sherwin, natives of Vermont, but early immigrants to Genesee Co., N. Y., where H. C. was born Sept. 4, 1820 ; in 1836, he, with parents, removed to Steuben Co., Ind., where his father and mother afterward died ; in 1840, he returned to his native county, and followed the carpenter and joiner's trade for ten years. Here, Jan. 1, 1845, he was married to Sarah D., daughter of James and Maria B. Coddington, natives of New York, but of Holland descent; in 1850, they, with a family of three children, immigrated to Wisconsin, and settled in Appleton, where he continued his trade for five years ; he then removed to Stevens Point, Portage Co., Wis., where ho began the life of a flirmer, which he has followed most of the time since. In 1863, he was elected Treasurer of Portage Co., in which capacity he served for two years; in 18l]5, he disposed of his interests in that county, and removed to the town of Springvale, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., where he now has a farm of 170 acres, in Sees. 22, 26 and 27 ; in 1877, he was elected Master of the State Grange, to fill a vacancy of a year, and, at the expiration of this term, he was again elected to the position which he had so worthily filled ; his second term expired Jan. 25, 1880. During his official term, he visited all the counties in the State, giving lectures both before the Grangers and in public. Their children are as follows - Edwin C, Frank, Addie E. - -now Mrs. M. H. Pinkertonof this town ; they attend the M. E. Church.

GrEOR(]}E W. SIZER, P. 0. Risendale ; is a native of Oneida Co., N. Y., where he was born Oct. 14, 1820 ; his parents, Jabez and Lucy B. Sizer, were natives of Connecticut, but immigrated to Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1805, where his father enlisted as a soldier in the war of 1812. George spent most of his time on his father's farm till the panic of 1837 swept it from them ; he ihen rented a farm for three years, after which ho tried hotel-keeping for a year, then blaoksmithing for one year; in May,

1846. he came to the Territory of Wisconsin, with the ditorraination to make farmin<;; his vocation, unless it forced hiin to buy his brcal. Habits of industry acquired in early life, stimulated by a determination to regain in the West what adverse cirjumstinces lial swept fr )ni liiai in tiie l"]ast, urjred him at once to secure a homj ; he enterj.l eighty acrjs of Ian 1 in Sjj. 21, town of Springvale, but having little or no means, he could mike no imfir )veinonts till he cjuld earn sjm; m)n3y with which to improve; carefully guarding his little nucleus of eighty acres, it ha.s now grown to a farm of 280 acres, in Sec. 23 and 2G, and he also has fifty-seven acres in Sec. 1, town of Laimriine. In .\pril, 1S4S, he married Miss Fannie A., daughter of John A. and Fannie Newman, of Oneida Co., N. Y., but natives of Massachusetts ; her mother now resides with them ; their children are Georgiana, Jabez W.; Helen, now Mrs. George A. Rogers, of Hudson, St. Croix Co., Wis. ; George W., Jr., Charles H., Ada D., Mary I., Frank S., Elmer M. A.. Lucy B. and Louis J.

MAKTIN SKERLS, larmer, Sec. 4 ; P. 0. West Roscndale; is the son of William and Ann Skeels ; born in tiie town of Whitehall, Wa^hingtm Co., N. Y., Aug. 21, 1814 ; his father was a native of Connecticut, and his mother of L >ndonderry, N. H , but of Soo'ch descent. Mr. Skeels has devoted his life to farming. In 1838, he was married to Mrs. Sopliia, widow of Giove Wright, and a daughter of Tiiomas Richardson, thcii of Washington Co., N. Y. ; in June, 1849, they came to Fond du Lac Co , Wis., and settled on a farm on Sec. 4, town of Spriiigvale, which he had purchased the previous yi!ar. Ho now owns a farm of 241) acres in that scctiim ; iliey had two children - James W., who enlisted in Co. B, 1st W. V. C. (was taken ])risuner ; was in Aiidersoiiville J'rison: was paroled and sent North, and is supposed to have dii'd on board the .steamer during the trip); Lucia S.,thc late Mrs. Henry Porter, who died April, 1805. Mrs. Skeels died at her residence Feb. 28, 1877, aged 74 years. Mr. S. is a member of the Congregational Church

L.KVI F. SK1:NKER, farmer. See. 33; P.O. Brandon; is the only son of Aaron W. Skinner and Sally S. Far.nsworth, natives of INLis^achusetls, but immigrants to Eiie Co., N. Y., in 1818, where ho was born in December, 1830 ; he was brou'.;ht up as a farmer boy in his native county, and, in December, 1855, was married to Mi-s Piielinda. daughter oi' Amos and Alcy (Chace) Whiting, of Erie Co., N. Y., she being the youngest child and only daughter of a family of .«even children; they soon immigrated to Wisconsin and .settled first on Sec. 3, in the tfiwn of Waupun. Fond du Lac Co., which was their home till 1861 ; he then bought a farm of IGO acres in See. 33, town of Springvale, which has since been their home; he also has eighty acres in Sec. 28, and lortj-cight acres iii Sec. 32 of this town - Springvale. Their children arc ati infant son (deceased). Minnie L. (now a stud'^nt at 0 hkosh), Mary A., Frank (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. S. are members of the Free- Will Baptist Church. Mr. S. has been a member of the Town Board for two terms.

N.4THAN A. TI^KHAM, farmer. Sec. 22; P. 0. Ladoga; is a son of Orin and Joanna Tinkhani, natives of Vermont, but ininiigiants to Genesee Co., N. Y.. in 1812, where his filher enlisted as a soldier in the second war with England. Natl an A., our present subject, was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., in 1821, and spent his life there on a f.irm till 184U ; he then with parents came to Kenosha, Wis., thence to Green J^ak^ Co., where he lived till 1800, and wliere his f.itlier died in I80I, and mother in 1868. In 1863, he married ^liss Maria, daughter of John and Mary llogbin, emigrants from England to Fond du Lac Co. in 1855; in 1866, he purchased a farm of 160 acres in Sec. 22, town of Springvale, where he has since followed farming ; they have had lour cliil Iren, namely, J'^ffio J., Alfred C. (deceased), Frank E. and Edith .^I. 'J'hey arc members of the CongrcL'ational Church.

JOHiV WATSON, f..rmcr, Sec 27 ; 85 acres; P. 0 Brandon ; is a native of Roxburghshire, Scotland, and is the s.in of James Watson and Isabel Douglas, born in September, 1820. In August, 1850, he was married to .\'.:nes, daughter of John McDonald and Margaret Turnbull, of Roxburghshire, Scotland, who unfortunately lost lur mother when i|uit ; y^ung; in May, 1802, he left his family in Scotland and sailed for America ; land.ng in Qii bic, be came diicct to village of Brandon, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., where his brother then lived ; hewoikcdfor the farnnrs in that vicinity till 1805, when his wife and son, James W., who is now a teacher in this town, juineil hiin in his Western home; they rented a place for one year, and, in 1866, he bought a farm of 85 acres in Sec. 27, town of Springvale, wtiich baa since be^n his home. Mr. and iMrs. Watson are members of the Con;;regational Church.

HENRY WHEELER, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Rosen.lale'; is a native of Gloucestershire, England, born Nov. 9, 1820; he is tlie son of Richard and Mjry Wheeler, with whom he emigrated to America in 1832, and settled in Oneida Co., N. Y.; in lM44, he left his father's homo in New York and came to Waukesha Co., Wis., and in the following year his parents settled there also; in the spring of 1840, they removed to the town of Springvale, then Rosendale, Fund du Lac Co., Wis., where he and his father entered 160 acres of land, 80 acres each, in See, 2, which has since been his home, and where his parents afterward died. In May, 18-13, he married Miss Matilda, daughter of James and Mary Merchant, emigrants from England to the town of Springvale, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., where they have since died ; they have five children - Harriet, now the wife of Charles Clark, of the city of Fond du Lac; George T., who now lives in this town - Springvale ; Sallie, now Mrs. Willie Dood, of Dakota ; Charles H., William S. They 'attend the Episcopal Church.

F. 31. WHKELKR, former, and senior member of firm of F. M. Wheeler & Co., lumber dealers; P. O. Brandon; is a native of Vermont; came West in 1855, and settled in township of Springvale, on the farm he now occupies, which comprises 21 G acres of first-class land, all under good state of cultivation ; common report styles his the premium farm ; he has a fine flock of Merino sheep; raised from the Hammond stock, which he brought from Vermont; has also raised several fine Morgan hor.ses; he still superintends his farm, but since 1S73, has carried on an extensive business in the sale of lumber, sash, doors, etc. He has been a member of General Assembly once, and Supervisor four times. In 1849, he was married to Miss Susan Pray, of Saulsbury, Vt.; they have two children now Uving - Edward M. and George F.; their only daughter, Louisa E., died at the age of 21. He is a stalwart Republican, and is a public-spirited citizen. Although not a church member, he is a liberal promoter of the best elements of society.

A. CHAPIX WHITII¥«-, fanner. Sec. 22 ; P. O. Ladoga. This pioneer of Fond du Lac Co. was born in the town of Boston, Erie Co., N. Y., May 20, 1825; his parents, Amos Whiting and ALsey Chace, were natives of Massachusetts, but early settlers of Erie Co , N. Y.; he received his early education in the district schools of his native county, after which he attended an academy for a short time ; in 1844 he came to the then new Territory of Wisconsin, to try his fortune as a farmer within its boundaries; his first location was at Johnstown, Rock Co., whither his father had immigrated two years before ; passing through Fond du Lac Co., on his way to Canada in 1846, he made some investments in the town of Springvale, to which, after spending the winter at teaching in Canada West, he returned and settled on his farm of SO acres in Sec. 22, which has since been his home and where he now has 320 acres. Oct. 9, 1850, he married Miss Valucia V., daughter of Joseph and Lucinda B. Williams, nee Blockmar, and a lineal descendant of Roger Williams, her father being his great-grandson ; she was born in Erie Co., N. Y., May 20, 1826, where they were married in 1850, as above .stated ; they at once came to their Western home in Fond du Lac Co., and afterward her father joined them and made his home till his death in 1870, at the age of 82 j^ears, leaving her as the only one of the family living - -her mother and others having died in the East. Mr. and Mrs. Whiting have had eight children, all of whom except the youngest have been teachers; their names are as follows: D'Everado, of Springvale ; Lucinda B., Mrs. George A. O'Neil, of Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa; Martin, deceased; Morgiana, Mrs. E. C.Curtis, of Rosendale; Philinda, now a teacher of Rutherford Park, N. J.; Elmina R., a teacher of Ripon ; Robert A., now a teacher of this town, and Joseph "W. Mr. Whiting was the .second Clerk of the town of Springvale - held the office from 1848 to 1850 ; in 1852 he was elected Chairman of the Town Board; was re-eiected in 1853 ; in 1864 he was appointed United States Deputy Revenue Collector for Fond du Lac Co., which office he held till the fall of 1865 ; in the fall of 1866 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from the Second Assembly District ; he is now President of the Fond du Lad County Agricultural and Mechanical Association. Such is a brief life-history of one of Spriugvale's oldest and most respected citizens.

GEORGE D. WOODS, former. Sec. 36 ; P. 0. Ladoga; was born in Edwards Co., 111., in February, 1846, and in 1864, with parents, George and Ann Woods, removed to Fond du Lac Co., Wis., and settled on Sec. 2, in the town of Waupun ; eighteen montlis later, his father purchased a farm of 100 acres in Sec. 36, town of Springvale, which was their home till November, 1878; his parents then removed to a small place on Sec. 2, town of Waupun, and left the farm in their son's care. In October, 1871, he was married to Miss Emily, daughter of J. M. and Abaline Hawkins, of the town of AVaupun, Fond du Lao Co., Wis.; their children are Bernice A., Ralph L. and Solomon D., an adopted son.

Source changes here: from Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, by McKenna, Maurice, published 1912; 1,269 words in this source stream.

Rosendale Village

Flowers of many descriptions abounded in luxuriance in this locality in an early day. Roses predominated, so that it appeared to Mrs. George D. Curtis as a perfect dale of roses and that condition suggested to her the name of Rosendale, which was applied to this town. The community was created in 1846 and on April 7th of that year the first election was held at the house of Samuel Sanborn, at which time W. H. H. Dodd, Samuel Sanborn and IT. C. Ward were elected supervisors; F. Scofield, clerk; S. Sanborn and IT. S. Bixby, assessors; J. D. Price, collector; H. W. Wolcott, W. H. H. Dodd and Dana Lamb, jus¬ tices; Jerome Yates, B. Dodd, S. E. Smith, constables; Jerome Yates, H. W. Wol¬ cott, O. Grant, school commissioners ; G. D. Curtis, Dana Lamb and A. Kenyon, fence viewers ; C. Bolcom, A. Kenyon and L. A. Bemis, road commissioners ; Stephen R. Sanborn, sealer of weights and measures.

Samuel Sanborn was the first settler in this town. ITe located on the south¬ east quarter of section 35, in June, 1844. During the summer he kept "batch/' broke ground and sowed wheat in the fall. He then returned to his old home in Waukesha county, where he remained through the winter. In the early spring of 1845 he brought his family to Rosendale and became a permanent settler. Prior to this, however, Dana Lamb with his family had located in the town. Before the year 1845 had closed there were over twenty families in the town. In 1846 there were about as many more and from that time on settle¬ ments were made rapidly and the town became in point of the number of its population one of the most important communities in the county.

The west branch of the Fond du Lac river, with tributaries, waters the western and lower half of the town, and the Sheboygan-Fond du Lac rail¬ road enters the town in section 36 and leaves it at section 19. Rosendale sta¬ tion is on section 25.

Since the village of Rosendale was laid out in 1872 it has become somewhat of a trading point for that section of the town. It maintains the Rosendale State Bank, has general stores, physician, Congregational, Methodist and Evan¬ gelical Lutheran churches, high school, a lodge of Odd Fellows and of Masons. There is an elevator, a factory where is manufactured Rosendale spreaders, a lumberyard, an agricultural implement concern, and withal it is a busy little community.

Episcopal services were held in the village in 1847 by Bishop Kemper. In April, 1861, Rev. F. Durlin organized St. Mark's Episcopal church. B. Pinkney was senior warden and A. H. Bowe, junior warden. The vestrymen were George Walton, W. Danielson and Adam Seely. The corner stone of the church edifice was laid in 1863 and the building was consecrated by Bishop Kemper, April 12, 1864. The Congregational church was first presided over by Rev. Dana Lamb. It was organized in the schoolhouse May 21, 1848, with twenty members. The first deacons were David Brinkerhoff, Homer Barnes and W. G. Winnegar. A building was erected by Rev. Lamb in 1854 and was dedicated in 1855. Later it was enlarged, repaired and rededicated. The first pastor was Rev. L. Bridgeman. A Methodist class was organized in December, 1849, in the schoolhouse, by Rev. Lathrop, and was comprised of Mr and Mrs. H. G. Halsted, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kibby, J. W. Ennis, Miss E. Covell, Mr. and Mrs. E. Warring, W. Hyde and his mother, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Ballard and two daugh¬ ters. The first trustees were: H. G. Halsted, John M. Cowhan, A. H. Bowe, H. W. Wolcott, George D. Curtis, J. Berto, Almon Burt, A. L. Kibby and Wil¬ liam Stevens. Services were first held in the schoolhouse until 1854, when a building was erected at a cost of $1,200. It was dedicated by Rev. M. E. Cobleigh in January, 1855. The first pastor was Rev. Lathrop.

A Baptist minister named Jeremiah Murphy preached the first sermon in the township at the house of Samuel Sanborn, in January, 1846. The first church was erected in 1853 011 section 35 by the Congregationalists.

A postoffice was established at Rosendale in May, 1846. Dana Lamb was the first postmaster. In a short time after the postoffice was opened, Jonathan Daugherty had in running order the first store, of which Fay & Collins were the proprietors.

Springvale was created a separate town March 11, 1848, when the first elec¬ tion was held at Abel Willard's house. Warren Whiting was elected chairman and Charles D. Beers, clerk. The town received its name from Squire Dana Lamb by reason of the numerous vales and springs which abound within its limits. The town is bounded on the north by Rosendale, on the east by Lamar¬ tine, the south by Waupun and west by Metomen. It is devoid of villages and railroads but is a splendid farming community and ranks well as an agricul¬ tural center with its sister towns.

The first settler was William Cheeney, who settled on section 31 on Wedge's Prairie, in April, 1845. Prior to this, however, John A. Allen entered section 35 in 1844. Alban Harroun, W. H. H. Dodd, Rev. Dana Lamb, James Post,

E. R. Parsons, 'Squire Dana Lamb and a number of others had settled in this town. Among other arrivals were Warren Whiting, Charles D. Beers, A. C. W hiting, H. I. Ackerman, James T. Elliott, Joseph Scribner, Edward Ensign, W. B. Disbrow, F. M. Wheeler, J. B. Spencer, G. F. Wheeler, James H. Sco¬ field, C. H. Seymour, S. Wilkinson, G. W. Sizer, T. K. Gillett and Frank Bowe. Many of these men just named are also claimed by the town of Rosendale as first settlers, which is due probably to the fact that at one time Springvale was a part of that town.

The first marriage in Springvale was that of E. Smith and Miss Sallie War¬ ren, in November, 1846. F. Scofield and Calista C. Bemis were also married in that month and year.

The birth of H. Sydney Hazen, son of John and Melissa Hazen, in Septem¬ ber, 1847, was the first to occur in this town, and the first death was that of Phoebe, wife of John Yates, and daughter of Amos Prouty. The death occurred March 14, 1848.

The first school was taught by Mrs. H. M. Jewett in a cabin on section 18, and the first religious services were held at William Cheeney's house in Novem¬ ber, 1845.

A Methodist class was formed June 3, 1846, by Rev. W. G. Miller at the home of William Cheeney. The members were William Cheeney, Abigail Cheeney, D. S. Cowles, Ann Cowles and Henry Moore and wife. The Method¬ ists erected a church on section 2 in the town of Waupun in 1868, which was used largely by members living in Springvale. The trustees were J. M. Haw¬ kins, William Cheeney, W. S. Randall, G. G. Randall and W. M. Stearns.

There was also a Baptist society organized in the town. The Universalists organized in 1849. Rev. Joseph Ward at the time was pastor and there were twenty members. The first Catholic services were held in 1847 by Father Haley, of Watertown, at the home of J. O. Riley. For three years thereafter meet¬ ings were held at William Riley's residence, conducted by various priests of the diocese. A building was erected in 1858 on section 17, which was supplied by a clergyman from Fond du Lac, Ripon and Waupun.