Stoughton City (part 11 of 13)

HON. J. S, FRARY, farmer. Sec. 3 ; P. 0. Oregon ; was born in Haverhill, Grafton Co., N. H., Oct. 26, 1821 ; when he was 15, his parents settled in Vermont ; he returned a few years later to his native State and thence to Boston ; ill health caused his visit and final settlement West ; leaving Boston June 18, 1844, he visited his parents in Vermont, left the 1st of September and arrived at Milwaukee the 18th; locating in Oregon, he made a claim, "bached it" that winter, and returned for his family in the spring of 1845 ; he began in a log house on a wild farm on Sec. 24, flOO in debt; money loaned by his father was repaid with that earned by splitting rails ; in 1853, he sold out, settling on his present farm of 160 acres; lived until 1856 in a log house, then built a substantial oneand-a-half story frame, 26x26, wing 16x24; has 120 acres under plow and well fenced, with the needed barns, etc. He married, in 1843, Miss K. B. Martin, who lost a daughter, Alice, aged 20, prior to her death, in 1868 ; she left three "childrpn - Luella, Orelia and Louis, all born in Oregon ; in 1869, Mr. Frary married Mrs. Hannah (Bartlett) Chase. Mr. F. is a Republican and a Freemason ; has been Supervisor and Town Treasurer several terms, and, as Assemblyman from his district in 1865, had the honor of voting for the amendment to the National Constitution which forever prohibited slavery. A fact much commented upon in regard to the settlement of Oregon is that for a number of years there resided in the town at least thirteen men who were born in 1821 ; of these he can recall the names of S J. Pratt, J. D. Tipple, 0. M. Palmer, J. B. Prentice, I. M. Bennett, William Dubois, W. Colman, J. Coville and John Ellsworth. He is a Republican, and has been Town Treasurer three years ; at the earnest request of his many friends in Oregon, he wag made Postmaster in 1869, and has since held the office.

CHESTER FRINBEE, farmer. Sec. 33; P. 0. Brooklyn; born June 26, 1802, in the town of Trenton, Oneida Co., N. Y. (the Holland patent); has been a lifelong farmer, though he was one summer in a machine shop in Verona, N. Y. ; in 1844, he came West and worked a farm in Geneva, Walworth Co., Wis., until 1851. when his means allowed the purchase of his present 160 acres, then as the hand of nature left it, only that a log house was partly built ; this was home during the years of pioneer work - breaking, fencing, etc. ; his frame farmhouse was built in 1865 ; for fifteen years all water used in his house was brought from the well of a neighbor; his present well was drilled to a depth of 116 feet; substantial barns, windmill, etc., have been erected, and 100 acres brought into cultivation, all done in 29 years ; Mr. ,Prisbee is hale and hearty, erect and alert, reads much and eats and sleeps well, and, in spite of his 78 years, is able to do "chores" and enjoy long rides. He married Mrs. Celestia (Burr) De Angelis, of Oneida Co., N. Y. ; she died Feb. 4, 1832, leaving a dau.'^hter, Celestia, now Mrs. Phineaa Vaughan, of Mower Co., Minn. ; the second wife was Miss p]mmeline Stevens, of Whitesboro, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; she died Jan. 26, 1871, leaving six children - Ruth, Jeannette, James B., Frank, Fred and Bessie ; Adeline and Charles died before their mother; the four youngest are in O'Brien Co., Iowa, the eldest in Garden Prairie, Boone Co., 111., and the second with her father.

GEORGE W. GETZ, wagon-maker, Oregon ; born in 1820 in Northampton Co., Penn.; ' worked on a farm uiitil 20 ; learned the trade of millwright at Easton, Penn., and followed it five years ; the family settled in Illinois in 1844 ; a year later, he went to Chippewa Falls, Wis., living for eight months in a howling wilderness, with only a few whites within 250 miles. From there he went to St. Louis, thence to Janesville, where he was in the lumber business until 1853, then engaged in the lumber trade in Stoughton until 1865, then farmed it a year or so; in 1867 or 1868, began wagon-making in Stoughton, removing to Oregon in November, 1870, and has since continued the manufacture of wagons, carriages and sleighs here. He married Maria Dily, in Milwaukee ; they have four children - Simeon N., Rachel A., Lizzie and Cora; the only son, born Nov. 20, 1852, in Janesville, is by trade a blacksmith, and is. associated with his father in business. He married Eva Hull, and has two children - Carrie and an infant. G. W. Getz is a Republican and a Methodist; his grandfather was the Revolutionary Gen. George Getz, who lost an eye at the Wyoming massacre, and a brother of the General was one of Gates' army Burgoyne surrendered.

SCHUYIiER GIL.BERT, farmer, Sees. 15 and 14; P. O. Oregon; born Oct. 11, 1819,_ in Tally, Onondaga Co., N. Y. ; his early life was spent there as a farmer. He came West in 1845, locating 120 acres of his present farm ; built a log shanty, with puncheon floor, oak door and a '' six-light " window ; it was roofed with shingles sawed out by himself and wife ; in November, 1845, they moved into a good log house ; the lumber used in this was sawed from timber " borrowed " from speculators' lands in Green County ; in 1869, he built a good frame house, now his home; of his 165 acres, 120 are held under the old U. S. title. He married, in his and her native county, in December, 1844, Miss Hancy Hills ; they have five children - Frank, Mary E. (Mrs. John Draher), John, Josephine and Alice ; all were born in the log house where the eldest now lives with his family. Mr. Gilbert is a Kepublican, was the first Treasurer of town of Oregon, served twice, and once subsequently as a Supervisor.

HERHAN O. GRAY, farmer, Sec. 22 ; P. 0. Oregon ; born in the town of Benson, Kutland Co.jVt., Jan. 25, 1838 ; his father, Oliver Gray, born in Vergennes,Vt., Oct. 4, 1Y97, was a life-long farmer, a sjldier of 1812 (his widow is now a pensioner) and married, in Benson (her native town), Miss Ma;y Goodrich; she was born Sept. 14, 1803; married Oct. 13, 1830, and died July 18, 1845, leaving three children - Edward G., Fidelia N. and Herman 0. Feb. 4, 1846, Mr. Gray married Adelia Farnsworth, born March 16, 1814, in Burlington, Vt. ; E. G. Gray came west in 1857, located in Oregon and was joined by his parents and H. 0. in January, 1858 ; they lived two years in Fitohburg and two in Dunn, then settling in Kutland, where Mr. G. died Dec. 14, 1863; in 1867, H. 0. Gray settled on the Kurtz farm in Oregon, and, in 1872, bought his present farm of 92 acres ; he leased this until 1877, and has since resided upon it with his stepmother. Is an outspoken Republican ; was Town Treasurer from 1873 to 1878, and a Supervisor of 1879 and 1880; also belongs to the Oregon Lodge, 151, A., F. & A. M. His parents were both Presbyterians, as is Mrs. Gray.

M. M. OREEW, attorney at law, Oregon ; born in Wayne Co., N. Y., Nov. 21, 1837 ; in 1850. his parents, Samuel and Nancy Green, settled on a new farm in Sec. 34, Fitohburg Township ; he attended the Oregon village school, and during the war of secession was the agent of noted parties in Madison to furnish horses on Government contract ; he read law on the old farm; located in Oregon Village in 1866; was in the clothing business in 1868, and then made an extended trip West, finally settling in Madison with his family, where he resided four years ; he studied law in the Wisconsin State University, under H. S. Orton as Dean, and was admitted to the bar of Dane Co. in 1876 ; his present home in the village was formerly the Parsons Place ; here he attends a large legal practice in Dane and adjacent counties, and makes collections on a large scale ; he had eight cases at the spring session of the Circuit Court in 1879. Mr. Green married Miss H. C. Bennett, daughter of Egbert Bennett, Esq., one of Dane County's most substantial farmers ; they have a son, George E., now a medical student, and a daughter Hattie. Mr. G. was a charter member of Oregon Lodge 151, A., P. & A. M., and was its first representative to the Grand Lodge of the State ; has been Master and is now Past Master. Politics Republican ; was Deputy Sheriff four years and has been Justice of the Peace.

J, T. HAYES, dealer in machinery, Oregon ; born May 22, 1847, in Montpelier, Vt. ; five years later, his parents settled where they still reside, in Clinton Co., N. Y. ; his restless and ambitious disposition led him to leave Oberlin College, to which good old institution he had been sent, and when only a lad of 12 he learned the saddler's trade in Redwood, N. Y. ; at 14, he enlisted in the 10th N. Y. A. ; was made Hospital Steward, and fought with the Army of the Potomac ; was in Sheridan's Shenandoah raid, and the battle of White House Landing ; his was one of the first batteries to invest Petersburg, said battery losing heavily in a desperate fight with the rebel Mahone, who covered the rebel evacuation and Lee's retreat; afterward did provost duty in Petersburg, and was mustered out there ; the battery was mustered into and out of the service of New York, on the old battle-ground at Sackett's Harbor ; finding himself in Chicago after the war, Mr. Hayes dropped a stick upon the ground, deciding to go in the direction one end pointed out; his settlement in Janesville was the result ; from there he went to Stoughton, and thence to Oregon ; he began harness-making here with Charles Waterman ; bought him out and did business until October, 1879, since which time he has dealt in agricultural machinery of every description and the best manufacture. Mr. H. is a Republican and a Freemason. As a detective, he has the inside track, as he is connected with associations which assist him greatly ; and the services he has rendered in " nailing" the professional burglars who have " done " Madison of late, renders him an object of sincere hatred of

Wllilil AM H. HAYES, of Hayes Bros., harness-makers, Oregon, is a son of Plympton and Isabel (Zook) Hayes, and was born in Oregon April 15, 1857; began at his trade in 1872, and opened the present business Nov. 1, 18Y8 ; the brothers have the only shop in town, and make and sell any and every thing in light and heavy harness ; also, carriage trimmings, whips, robes, nets, etc. W. H. Hayes married Miss Alice, daughter of G. W. Getz, of Oregon ; their son, Stanley W., born April 20, 1880, is just twelve hours younger than his cousin Annie, daughter of Frank and Susan (Osborne) Hayes ; Prank Hayes was born Feb. 9, 1854, and has been a harness-maker since 1874. W. H. is one of the A. 0. U. W., and a Republican. His father was born Oct. 12, 1822, in Burton, Geauga Co., Ohio, and settled in Oregon in 1846 ; was a farmer until 1870, and has since kept the Oregon Hotel.

ATiBERT HOOK, musician, Oregon ; born in the town of Oregon, Dane Co., Wis. ; son of Stephen and Lydia (see sketch of Stephen Hook) ; received-- a common-school education in the Dwight District, Oregon ; enlisted in 1864 in the42d W. V. I. ; was on detached service at Cairo, 111., until the close of the war ; returning, he attended Evansville Seminary two or three years, and has taught two terms of day-school ; he began as a music-teacher in the Geauga (Ohio) Seminary, where Gen. James A. Garfield once attended ; after this he attended the Normal Musical Institute under H. E. Palmer; and since 1870 has devoted all his attention to the theory and practice of music; in 1871, he attended the Vinton (Iowa) Normal Musical Institute, under H. E. Palmer ; in 1873, the National Normal Musical Institute, under George F. Eoot. July 4, 1874, he married Mary A. McWilliams, and during the wedding tour attended H. E. Palmer's Institute at Dunkirk, N. Y. ; since April, 1876, Mr. Hook has resided in the village ; his class of musical scholars is constantly augmenting, he now having nearly 50, including a class in Madison ; he has also composed a number of popular vocal and instrumental pieces. Mr. and Mrs. Hook have two children - Harley and an infant; are both members of the M. B. Church. After leaving his study of music in school, Mr. Hook took charge of the musical department of the Upper Iowa University, in Fayette Co., remaining about one year.

STEPHEX HOOK, deceased ; was born in Kent, England, in 1813 ; his parents came to America when he was about 15, and after a few years in the State of New York, went to Ohio. He married in Brooklyn Village, Cuyahoga Co., 0., 1841, Miss Lydia Fish, born in 181 8, in Hartfotd, Conn. ; they spent the winters of 1842-43, in Union, Eock Co., Wis., and the next spring settled in Oregon, Mr. H. claiming 240 acres, and living for a year or so in a log house on Sec. 34: ; he then entered 160 acres on Sec. 17, and on it built a log house which was the family home until the present frame farmhouse was built in 1876. Mr. Hook died April 9, 1880, leaving seven children - Calvin, Albert, Matilda A., Louisa J., Charles, Henry and Alice; Charles Hook, born March 9. 1851, and Henry, born Sept. 14, 1853, are on the homestead, now a most valuable farm of 177 acres ; Charles Hook married, in March, 1876, Sarah A. Mitchell ; they have a son, Harold L., born Feb. 25, 1878. The family are Methodists, and the sons, like their honored pioneer father, are Eepublieans. The Hook brothers have bred Poland-China hogs for the past six or eight years ; have bought of Kiser and Palmer, of Oregon, and Fowler, of Hart Prairie ; have exhibited at the Dane and Eock Co. Fairs and the State Fairs, carrying away their full share of piemiums ; $40 in 1879.

ISAAC HOWE^ M. D., Oregon ; was born Dec. 28, 1824, in the Village of Woodstock, Windsor Co., Vt. ; he attended the common schools, and for four years the famous old Caledonia County Grammar school ; Thad Stevens and Wilbur Fisk onee studied there ; young Howe entered the Vermont Medical College in 1847, graduating as physician and surgeon in 1849 ; began practice in Cabot, soon removing to West Eandolph, where he practiced until the spring of 1851, when he settled in Fulton, Eock Co., Wis. The Doctor is in all respects the architect of his own fortunes, earning means to complete his medical education by teaching ; he taught twelve terms of winter school in Eock Co., farming and teaching until 1863, when he commenced business in Cedar Falls, Iowa; returned to Stoughton in 1865, and went into partnership with a brother, C. M. Howe ; in 1866, they located in Oregon, the Doctor doing business alone since 1869 ; in 1876, he visited Kansas and founded the Florence Herald, still a live newspaper ; on the site of a store built by him in 1876, and burned early in 1880, he is now erecting two stores, one 66x22, and one 66x20; they will be well built and a credit to the village; Dr. Howe will carry an assortment of drugs and groceries in one, and lease the other ; his substantial frame residence he built in 1871. He married in Porter, Eock Co., Wis., in 1855, Miss Sarah Ide,.a native of Saratoga Co., N. Y. ; they have three children - Mary M. (a teacher in Evansville), James E. and Graoia. The Doctor is a veteran of twenty -five years' standing in Fulton Lodge, A., F. & A. M., and a Greenbacker of Democratic antecedents.

Town Of Obegon

Jan. 16, 1816, in Naples, Ontario Co., N. Y. ; they came West in 1854, and located in the wilderness of Kichland Co., Wis., cutting their road and not seeing a house during the last twenty miles of the journey ; accompanied by four other families, they built a mill, store, church and schoolhouse, founding the village of Viola. In 1860, Mr. Jackson was a member of the Wisjonsin Legislature ; in 1861, he went to California ; was two years in business at El Dorado Cal. ; returned in the spring of 1863, settled on a farm on Sun Prairie in 1864, and three years later located on his present farm of 120 acres, the old C. P. Mosely farm and one of the first settled in Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have two children - Helen S. (Mrs Dr. C. N. Dunn) and Bdson B., both born in Sheldon, Wyominci; Co., N. Y. Father and son are Democrats ; the father was elected Chairman of Oregon .in 1871. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Oregon. The daughter is a graduate of Hahnemann Medic > I College, and is practicing with her husband in Centralia, 111. Her former husband, lioscoe Harris, died in December, 1876. The foster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Kathleen Church married B. S. Snyder ; both are practicing physicians of Victor, Iowa.

ElilAS JACOBUS, carpenter and joiner, Oregon; born April 2, 1833, in Essex Co., N. J. ; learned his trade in Newark, beginning at 15, served a six years' apprenticeship, at $30 per year and found j in the fall of 1855, he descended from the stage at Rome Corners ; it was almost like stopping in the forest, as part of the hotel and a new store comprised the village ; the land where his home stands was an oat-field hedged in by woods ; he spent the winter here, assisting the Postmaster during the day and bunking on the counter at night ; began job work the next spring and followed it most successfully until his enlistment, January, 1864, in Co. fl, 8th W. V. I. ; was at once assigned to the pioneer corps, and buil'- bridges, etc., till the close of hostilities. He married in Newark, N. J., April 16, 1857, Virginia B,ey' nolds, born June 1, 1834, in Jersey City ; they have five children - Anna M., Charles C, Willie A., Garrett H. and Emily V. ; Charles C. was born in Blooomfield, N. J., and the others in Oregon. Since the war, Mr. Jacobus has made a competency for his family as a contractor and builder. He is a Republican, and a member, as is his wife, of the Presbyterian Church; is also a member of the A., F. & A. M., and the A. 0. U. W. Lodges of Oregon.

MALACHY KELIiY, farmer, Sec. 16 ; P. 0. Oregon ; born Jan. 15, 1835, in the parish of Moore, County Roscoaimon, Ireland ; came to America in 1852 ; learned the currier's trade in Salem, Mass., and in 1855 went via the isthmus to California ; spent four years in the gold mines of Butte Co.; returned by the same route, and began the teaming and express business in Boston ; in August, 1864, he came West and bought 80 acres of his present farm ; 10 were cleared, and on this was a 14x18 shanty, seven feet high ; in this himself and wife spent five years, while he broke, grubbed and fenced ; his next 40 of school land was covered with the stumps of the original timber ; the destruction of 1 ,400 of these cost him 4 to 6 cents each ; Mr. Kelley's experience equals that of any pioneer, as his farm is cleared, has built a substantial barn, granary, etc. ; built, also a good frame house, windmill, etc. ; will soon build a sheep shed 18x80. He married, in Boston, Catherine Galvin, a native of Moore Parish ; she came to America in 1852, and they were wedded Feb. 17, 1859. Mr. Kelly is a thinking and reading farmer, who has made every dollar and every acre himself Is a Republican, and with his wife, a Roman Catholic.

ISAAC A. KIERSTEAD, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Oregon ; born in the town of Randolph, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Sept. 7, 1832 ; son of Abraham and Rebecca Kierstead, who were New Jersey people of the Knickerbocker stock; the family came to Wisconsin via the lakes, in the summer of 1843, the father making a claim to the present K. homestead, and holding it for a time under the Protective Claim Society ; the family were unfortunate in New York, and began in Wisconsin Territory with but little means ; logs were rolled up for a house, and half the shanty roofed with shingles sawed out by the sire and children, and blankets were hung from this half roof, and the family " moved in " to this floorless, doorless and windowless shanty in November, 1843 ; only a huge fire, kept constantly burning, protected them from the blasts and snows, until the roof was finished of home-made shingles ; to-day we see the blossoming farm and happy home of these brave pioneers of thirty-seven years ago, and feel like seconding Greeley's " Go West." Of the five children, three are dead, viz., Lydia S. (Mrs. Bedford) ; E. A. (Mrs. J. M. Bennett), and Sylvester C; their pioneer mother died in February, 1875 ; the father now 84, is near his son and only living daughter (Mrs. S. G. Abbott) ; Isaac A. Kierstead married Helen M. Saulaburg, in 1857, they have three children - Blwyn H., Ida iVI. and Genevieve, all born on the old farm in Oregon. Mr. K. has been an honorable member of the Presbyterian Church of Oregon for twenty-four years ; is now an Elder. A Democrat in politics, and has been several years Town Clerk.

J. C. K.ISER, farmer and stock-breeder. Sec. 2 ; P. 0. Oregon ; born July 26, 1818, in Rockingham Co., Va. ; removed with his parents to Ohio, fourteen years later ; spent eight years near Dayton, one year in Logan Co., three years in Peru, Ind., and was then for five years in mercantile business in Millerstown, Ohio; in 1850, he went to California, and kept hotel on' the Stockton and Sonoraroad; returned in 1852, and was in moroantile business in West Liberty, Ohio, until 1854, when he came to Wisconsin, and. settled on his 300-aore farm ; bought it of Dr. W. H. Fox, when an 80 was cultivated ; Mr. Kiser has made his entire share of improvements, building his large and tasteful farmhouse in 1869, and a 40x60 basement stock barn a few years later ; has also put up other needed buildings, and has a wellfenced farm, though the tornado of May 23, 1878, destroyed 800 rods of fence for him. His wife was Elizabeth Bonsack, born in Roanoke Co., W. Va. ; they were married Nov. 18, 1852, and have seven children - Susan V., John B., Kittie, Addie, Carrie, George and Daniel Elliott; the oldest was born in Roanoke Co., W. V., and th« others on the Oregon farm. Mr. K. is a Democrat, a Freemason, and has been an Odd Fellow. For the past eight years, he has bred registered short-horn cattle ; he has bought of E. P. Brockway, David Selsor, R. Oatly, of Henry Co., 111., and George Oatly, Bureau Co., 111.; usually keeps from twenty-five to forty head, and has been awarded a number of first prizes at the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Fairs, and many at the Dane, Rock, and Green County Fairs ; Mr. Kiser is also a breeder of Poland-China hogs, having bought of the " Shaker " breeders of Warren Co., Ohio, and others.

JAMES lilNDS AY, of Terwilliger & Lindsay, Oregon ; born July 29, 1844, in Lancaster Co., Penn.; was educated in his native State, where he learned the trade of machinist ; worked at that and molding until May, 1861, when he enlisted in Co. B, 32d, Penn. V. I. His regiment was part of the 3d Army Corps commanded by Maj. Gen. W. S. Hancock, the present nominee of his party for President ; Mr. L. served out his time of enlistment with the Army of the Potomac; came West in 1865, and engaged in farming in Fitohburg until 1872. He married Miss Mary J. Terwilliger in 1867; they have a daughter, Hattie. Mr. Lindsay is a Democrat, and a member of Oregon Lodge 151, A., F. & A. M.

HON. R. P. Jff AIST, Oregon ; is of Connecticut ancestry, and was born May 13, 1816, in Stonington, Conn.; he attended the common schools, and for a short time the academy of Stonington ; taught school in Charleston, R. I., and in 1836 in New Jersey, then attended a select school in Philadelphia for a time. He next visited " Ole Virginny," thence to Washington, where he became familiar with the countenances of Webster, Calhoun, Crittenden, Benton, etc. Journeying south through North Carolina, he strayed into Kentucky, and taught a term of summer school ; next he went to Ohio, and taught school, and met his fate, i.e., he was married, in 1838, to Miss Cordelia A. D. Dakin, daughter of Preserved and Elizabeth C. (Prosser) Dakin ; Preserved Dakin was a Quaker, who left his native place in Dutchess County, N. Y., for Ohio in 1804; Mrs Main was born, educated and married in Oakland, Clinton Co., Ohio; she began at fifteen and taught school until married. After six years of farming in Oakland, they removed to Wabash County, 111.; finding the climate sickly, they came North, reaching Rome Corners July 28, 1845, Mr. Main entering a new farm on Sec. 13, where he built a 12x14 log house, " having not only a floor, but a carpet," says Mrs. M.; provisions were brought from Milwaukee, and their furniture was scant, yet they took an occasional boarder. " The best and kindliest of feelings prevailed, as in all new settlements, and the latch-string always hung out." Nineteen years of steady work secured a gbod farm and home, Mr. Main then exchanging for his present 200-aore farm on Sec. 7, in Rutland. In the fall of 1871, they settled in a roomy and well-appointed home in the village ; this house burned with its entire contents in 1873, the pioneer couple having a narrow escape ; since this they have occupied a smaller, yet most pleasant home, Mr. M. managing his farm. He was one of the leaders in the Republican organization in Wisconsin, and one of the members of the first Republican Assembly ; is best known as Squire Main, having been Justice of the Peace eight or ten years. Disgusted with the subserviency of the two " great " parties to the moneyed aristocracy, he has for some years been a member of the Greenback party ; was nominated Sept. 9, 1880, as candidate from the Second District for Congress. Mrs. Main is a member of the Presbyterian and he a member of the M. E. Church, in which he is Sabbath school Superintendent. The Squire is a leading Mason, belonging to the Oregon Lodge and Evansville Chapter. Mr. and Mrs. Main have reared eight children - M. Francis, Louisa A., Harriet E., Martha B., E. Dakin, Anna M., Alice C. and R. Walter; of these, all except the eldest are married, and the combined company of grandchildren numbers twenty-one.

A. B. MARVIN, dealer in grain, Oregon; born Aug. 29, 1824, in Lyne, New London Co., Conn.; his father, Ulysses, was a native of New York, and his mother, Elizabeth, of-Middletown, Conn.; he removed in his fourtli year to Ohio, his father, strong and robust at 80, still residing there, he taking the census of the town of Stowe, Summit Co., in 1880. A. B. Marvin learned carriage-making in Summit County ; spent a year in Portage Co., four in Trumbull Co., then two in Summit Co., coming to Porter, Rock Co., Wis., in 1854; a year later he removed to Rutland, Dane Co., and in the fall of 1856, built and occupied the house in which he has since lived in Oregon Village ; himself and William Bedford built the Getz wagon-shop, Mr. M. the next year commencing business in the old schoolhouse. At the building of the C, & N. W. R. R., through Oregon, he began buying grain in the elevator which he built, and has since enlarged. E. J. Andrew and sons own the Oregon warehouse, and the present partnership was in 1873, the firm of Andrew & Marvin, dealers in grain of all kinds, salt, coal, land plaster, etc.; Mr. M. cast his first vote for Van Buren on the Buffalo platform, was a Free- Soiler, and a Republican ; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1858 or '59, served four years, then refused it ; was Town Treasurer subsequent to this. He married, in Trumbell Co., Ohio, Miss Helen P. Drake, born in Mexico, Oswego Co., N. Y.; they have four children - Henry H., born in Trumbull County, now a hardware merchant in Oregon ; Helen A., born in Summit County ; Judson L., a hardware merchant at Union Center, and Arba U., with his father, the two younger were born in Oregon.

HCiNRY H. MARVIN, dealer in hardware, Oregon; born June 11, 1850, in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio (see sketch of A. B. Marvin); H. H. Marvin received his schooling in Oregon; learnedhis trade of a tinner in Beloit, Wis., at 18 ; left Beloit at 21, and opened a stock of hardware in the old building of C. W. Netherwood ; fortunately, removed six weeks before it burned. During the past six years, he has done business in the old building built by W. 8. Bedford, as a residence, having thoroughly remodeled it ; Mr. M. is the only hardware man in the place, and carries a very complete line of hardware, stoves and tinware, employing two tinners, and keeps two peddling wagons constantly on the road ; his frade is large and increasing, and he does business in a way that merits the good-will and patronage of all. He married Lucinda Bryan, who was born Sept. 26, 1851, in Onondaga Co., N. Y., she died April 2, 1873, leaving a son, Louis B. The present Mrs. Marvin was Miss Rosa A. Bryan, born Sept. 26, 1849, in Onondaga Co., N. Y.; they have three children - Nellie A., Arba B. and Herbert H. Mr. M. is a Mason and a Republican.

fl'IIililAM H. KTEBS, machinist, Oregon; born in Janesville, Wis., Oct. 27, 1845; eon of Dr. Edward and Sarah Myers, of Pennsylvania, and pioneers of Rock Co.; they settled on Wheeler's Prairie in 1855, where the Doctor died. William H. learned blacksmithing in Edgerton and studied machinery at Watertown ; has" also worked in Janesville and Madison, and served six months as blacksmith in the Union army, 1865; began in Oregon in 1869, and worked six years for Gr. W. Getz; built a brick shop in 1877 (the Fox drug store) and his steam feed-mill in 1878 ; has added to it, now having a saw-mill, and wUl add a foundry ; is manufacturing sleighs, harrows, hayracks, stoneboats, wheelbarrows, and some furniture, also does wood and iron turning by the job or pieoe, and means business. He married Miss Elizabeth Tillingham, who died Feb. 14, 1878, leaving five children - Sarah J. and Mary E. (twins), Emily L., Rosie E. and Henry E.; two sons died before her, C. E. and W. E. ; the present Mrs. Meyers was Miss Olive Possel. Mr. M., is liberal in politics and religion.

J. B. MCNGER, proprietor of the Oregon brick-yard, was born Dec. 13, 1817, in Fenner, Madison Co., N. Y.; was a farmer in the East; came West in 1855, and located on a farm in Rutland Township, where he now owns 148 acres in one farm and 22 in another; in 1831, he bought four acres on the southeast quarter of Sec. 12, Oregon, less than a mile from the village, and has since continued the manufacture of brick, averaging from 500,000 to 600,000 per annum; employs eight hands, and sells in Chicago and other points in Illinois ; his brick closely resembles the famous brick of the Cream and were used in building the State Insane Asylum and in the business blocks of Madison ; he also has a large trade with the adjacent country. He married Julia A. Jackson, of Verona, Onieda Co., N. Y.; they have two children - Frankie (Mrs. C. E. Powers born in Cazenovia, N. Y.) and Nora, born in Rutland, Dane Co., Wis. Mr. Munger is full of business in the brick-making season ; is a Republican and was one of the Town Board six or eight years.

CH ARLiES$ W. NETHERWOOD, Postmaster of Oregon ; born in the town of Watervliet, Albany Co., N. Y., Jan. 14, 1843 ; three years of his early life were spent in a woolen factory ; he came to Wisconsin in 1856, with his parents, Joseph and Emma Netherwood, who settled on a farm in the south part of the town of Oregon, where he took his early lessons in Western life at driving cattle. Enlisted in the 2,3d W. V. I., Co. E, in August, 1862 ; did good service in Kentucky; at Memphis, Arkansas Post, and the first attack on Vicksburg, and later in the desperate battles preceding thd first investment ; at the battle of Baker's Creek, Mr. N. was knocked senseless by a piece of iron thrown from an exploding shell, and was thought dead by his comrades ; was at the extreme front at the battle of Black River Bridge, though a non-combatant ; he did recover in time to participate in the bloody assault of May 22, 1863, on the works defending Vicksburg, receiving a rebel ball through the lower part of his face ; rendering necessary the removal at different times of 3l the lower jaw-bone on that side ; his torment was extreme, as eating was out of the question, his experience as a Dr. Tanner lasting a week after the final operation; he was honorably discharged in December, 1863 ; returned to Wisconsin ; attended school for a time ; tried farming, clerking, making and peddling brooms in company with M. M. Green, but was foiled in all by ill health ; he is on the list of permanent pensioners, receiving $18 per month ; his first wife, Eva Bedford, died in 1867. In the fall of 1868, he married Mrs. Lucy H. Gilbert, a native of New York ; her former husband, Thomas G-ilbert; a Sergeant in the 8th W. V. I.,. was killed on almost the last battle of the war at Mobile, after serving through the war ; he left a daughter, Addie. Mr. and Mrs. Netherwood have four children - Harry, Eva, Lucy and Pearl, all born in Oregon. Mr. N. is now Secretary of Oregon Lodge A., F. & A., M., of which he was Master four years.

CORNELIUS CBRIEN, farmer, Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Oregon; born in Plymouth, Luzerne Co., Penn., March 15, 1839. His father, Michael O'Brien, was educated in one of the Dublin universities ; married and came to New York City, where he engaged in business ; from New York he went to Caracas, 8. A. (see sketch of John O'Brien); Cornelius O'Brien attended school in his native county, and in 1853 came to Wisconsin ; attended a select school in Brooklyn, and in 1861 bought 80 acres of his present farm ; broke 30 acres and the next year 20 acres ; bought 95 acres more in 1864, and settled on his farm in April, 1865. In 1868, the small grubs covering 25 acres of his land were cleared and the land broken;, up to 1875, Mr. O'Brien resided in what is now his granary, he that year building one of the largest and best farmhouses in his town, making a close examination of a number of recent build ; he combined the best points of each in his own ; the house is an upright and wing eighteen feet high, 18x28 and 16x26 respectively ; the kitchen is 14x16x20 ; the whole painted, blinded and finished in the best manner ; two' carpenters worked fifty days on the inside-finish. Mr. O.Brien married Abegail, daughter of Michael and Mary Barry ; she is a native of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.; they have two children - Emmet S. and Emma F. Mr. O'Brien is a Democrat, and a Catholic, as is his wife.

JOHX O'BBIEX, farmer. Sees. 35 and 36 ; P. 0. Brooklyn ; born in 1828, in the city of Caracas, South America; his parents, Michael and Catherine O'Brien, were natives of Cork, Ireland, who first located in New York City, going from there to South America; while -they prospered in Caracas, the climate was killing the wife and mother, causing a second settlement in New York, where the family fortunes were wrecked in the panic of 1837 ; in 1838, the family settled on a farm in Luzerne Co., Penn.,. where the parents spent the remainder of their lives. John O'Brien has led a life as strange as his birthplace; while yet in his cradle, his parents were driven from the house by an earthquake, he being forgotten for the time and literally rocked by nature's hand ; his young manhood was spent on the canals of Pennsylvania and Maryland ; in 1853, he came West and settled on his present 130-acre farm ; here he replaced a log house with a well-built frame one, and, in 1862, built a substantial basement barn. He married, in March, 1851, Miss Catherine Kichardson, of Luzerne Co., Penn.; they have nine living children - Mary E., Joseph, Johanna, Margaret A., Anastasia, Eliza J., Catherine, Julius Fi and Agnes ; two sons, Daniel and John died in infancy. The entire family are Roman Catholics, he serving on the Church Committee from 1856 to 1876. Is a Democrat and favors greenbacks. John O'Brien is a live and successful farmer, yet is ever mindful of the teaching : " It is more blessed to give than to receive."

E. H. OISBORIV, M. D., Oregon ; born Jan. 14, 1830, in Geauga Co., Ohio ; son of Joseph and Mary Osborn, both New England people ; they settled in 1842, on a farm in Porter, Rock Co. ; the next year, E. H. spent three months in a select school on Rock Prairie, which was followed by a threeyears' course at Milton Seminary, under Prof Bic'snell ; was for nearly a year prior to this a student in the old Beloit Seminary; began the study of medicine under M. N. Barber, M. D., of Racine, Wis.;, attended at term at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, and one at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, from which he graduated in 1852 ; his first eighteen months' practice was in Fulton, Rock Co., Wis. ; he then located in Belleville where he practiced twenty years ; the Doctor settled in Oregon in 1874 ; has practiced since with the exception of a two years' rest. Married in Belleville, April, 1867, Miss Marion, daughter of the Rev. M. A. Fox, of Oregon; they have two children - Mary G. and Charles D. ; a daughter, Jessie S., died when 3 years old. The Doctor is a Republican, and a member of Oregon Lodge, A., P. & A. M.

O. M. PAIiMER, of Oregon Village ; was born in the town of Northeast, Erie Co., Penn,, Jan. 28, 1821 ; has been a lifelong farmer; came to Wisconsin in September, 1853 ; spent a year on an unimproved farm on Sec. 17, Oregon ; and a year later bought his present farm of 160 acres, Sec. 2 ; 70 acres were broken, and a claim shanty built in which himself and family lived five years. In 1860, Mr. P. built a frame farmhouse 24x28, and later a 28x32 barn, also a 20x40 hot-house ; selling his farm in 1 876, he removed to the Pierce farm, and, in 1878, settled in Oregon Village, where he has one of the finest of its many pleasant homes ; the farm is still his, owing to the failure of the buyer. He married Miss Hulda Hall, in her native town of Fairville, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. ; she was born Sept. 23, 1821, and has three children - Mary, Cassius, now on the farm, and John, a resident of Minnesota. The daughter married Cole Kierstead, who died in January, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are members of the M. E. Church of Oregon, of which he was class leader for seventeen years, and for many years a steward. Is a Bepublican, and was Supervisor in 1855 and 1871.

A. S. PARISONS, of Oregon, was born Oct. 12, 1833, in Moravia, Cayuga Co., N. Y. ; his father, A. G. Parsons, of New York, married Nancy Thompson, of Maine. In 1850, the family settled on Sec. 12, town of Oregon, beginning in a log house on a then new, but now, improved farm, where the father still lives, aged 91, while his aged wife is now an invalid; their son, Our subject, learned the trade of carpenter of his father ; spent 1856 in the mercantile business in Monroe Cd., Wis. ; was appointed Deputy Sheriff in 1861, and served until January, 1864, when he enlisted in Co. P, 13th W. V. I., as a recruit ; was with A. J. Smith up the Ked Kiver, and in the fight at Pleasant Hill, where the 33d made an heroic record guarding the Union retreat, and afterward at the three days' fight at Tupelo, Miss. ; their hardest service was in the forests and swamps of Missouri pursuing Price - one cracker per day for each man, and many of them barefooted; after guarding a thousand rebels to St. Louis, they went to Nashville in time to participate in the great battle which destroyed Hood's army ; the siege and capture of the forts at Mobile added fresh palms to the splendid wreath of heroic deeds woven by the 33d. Mr. Parsons well remembers the incidents of march, siege and battle, and saw his last service on the 150-mile march up to Montgomery, Ala., traversing pine swamps for a distance of 75 miles without seeing a house; after the discharge of the 33d he was transferred to the 11th W. V. I., and kept five weeks longer in service, then returned to Oregon. Aug. 31, 1857, he married Miss Louisa, daughter of S. S. Johnson, a pioneer of 1844 in Oregon ; he died in November, 1879. Mr. P. settled on the Johnson farm, of 100 acres, in 1874 ; he also owns 23 acres on Sec. 12. No man in the town has been so closely identified with temperance work ; a Good Templar in good standing since September, 1855, he has held all the offices of the order, and is now State Deputy ; as Lodge Deputy, this is his seventh year ; he has also been a leader in Sabbath school work. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons have seven children - Mary L., Hubert A., Elmer S., Charles A., Laura J., Ira S. and Rena B. »

J. G. PIERCE, farmer. Sees. 4, 5 and 3 ; P. 0. Oregon ; born in 1836, in Jefferson Co., N. Y. ; son of John and Alvira (ilyatte) Pierce, both natives of New York; in June, 1842, the family settled on a wild, new farm near Janesville, Wis., and after building, breaking, etc., exchanged for 160 acres of the Pierce farm in Oregon ; Mr. P. and sons did good work here, cleared the scatterina; burr oaks, the father owning 120 acres, J. G. 280, Sylvester 120 and Alfred 80 ; there were nine children - ^Mary A., Sylvester, Orelia, John G., Jane, Rebecca and Nancy; were born in Jefferson Co., N. Y. ; Melvinwas born and died in Rock Co. ; Alfred was born in Oregon. No family in Dane Co. suffered equally with them from the tornado of May 23, 1878 ; the old couple and Alfred were in the substantial, well-framed house when the storm struck them ; the son, standing in the door, was hurled headlong and laid senseless as the house rose bodily from its foundations, striking the ground twice, was crushed like an egg-shell the third time ; Mr. P. was badly injured, three ribs and his right leg broken, while his wife caught by the falling timbers and held by them against the hot stove, where she lay half an hour mercifully unconscious ; she was finally taken out but died in great agony June 7, 1878. The barn, corn-crib, 400 bushels of oats and 150 of corn were also swept away, not an ear of the corn ever being seen. Sylvester's house and one owned by J. G. were also raised from their foundations, while the residence of the latter was unroofed, and his barns, etc., totally wrecked. The father has not rebuilt his home, but lives with his son. J. G. Pierce, married, in 1865, Angeline Woodward, who was born April 4, 1846, in Walworth Co., Wis. The family belong to the M. E. Church, Oregon, of which John Pierce was steward twenty -five yeare. All Republicans and non-offiee seekers.

S. J. PRATT, Sees. 11, 12 and 2; P. 0. Oregon ; born in Erie Co., N. Y., Jan. 22, 1821 ; son of Stephen' and Anna (Jones) Pratt. Stephen Pratt, born Feb. 13, 1790, is now the oldest person in Oregon, with one exception. The family settled in Ohio in 1837 ; S. J. Pratt came to Oregon in 1844, and bought his present farm of 200 acres ; bought of the Government ; burr oak openings ; he has, by his own labor, made it equal to any prairie farm ; two years' work among his pioneer neighbors earned a team some implements, etc. ; he then built a log house, and, in 1848, married Artimissa Wolf, who died in February, 1853, leaving two children - Isadore L. and Charles Wallace. He married again Catherine L. Whipple, who died in November, 1874, leaving seven children - Ned, Addie, Cora, Edith, Clifford Nellie and Ralph, who met an accidental death in 1876. The present Mrs. Pratt was Julia Olds ; she married William Slater, a Wisconsin calvaryman, who died in the prison pen at Andersonville, leaving two children - Seymour, and Ella, who died in January, 1874. The mother of Mr. P. died in 1847. None of the pioneer settlers of Oregon have borne greater sorrows than he, yet sustained by a manful spirit of enterprise, he has made a good record.

H. B. RICHARDIS, grain and produce dealer, Oregon ; born in the town of Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn., July 11, 1816; attended school and worked as a farmer till he was 21, then went South as collector for a company dealing in clocks ; followed this three years, returned, and farmed two years, then clerked seven years, and, in 1852, began mercantile business in Litchfield ; came to Wisconsin in 1856, clerked a short time in Footville,' then farmed it, speculated, and did Justice business until his settlement in Oregon, Nov. 1, 1865 ; worked a year in the depot here, then formed a partnership with B. A. Foot, who built the Oregon warehouse, which Mr. R. bought three years later, at the dissolution of the firm of E. A. Foot & Co. ; up to 1879, he dealt extensively in grain, now renting the warehouse. Squire Richards has been Justice of the Peace in the village for the past ten years, and has done most of the Justice business. Is a Republican. He married, in her native town, of Litchfield, Conn., Miss S. A. Phelps ; they had two daughters - Anna E. (Mrs. C. H. Cronk) and Fannie A., who died in Footville, aged 19. The Squire has a pleasant home in the village, owning 17 acres adjoining, where he farms on a limited scale.

JEjRSi RICHARDS, of Lovejoy & Richards, lumber dealers, Oregon; born in Exeter, Penobscot Co., Me., in 1826, passing his school days there ; he attained ,his majority, and went to Savannah, Ga., and after four years, to Tallahassee, Pla. ; seven years later he went to Jacksonville, Fla., and was there at the stormy outbreak of the civil war ; was in the lumber business during these fourteen years ; returning to Maine, he spent a year, and, in 1863, came West,; began lumber business at Lyons, Iowa ; thence to Dixon, 111. ; thence to Chippewa Falls, Wis., where he did business on his own account ; again going South, he built saw-mills at Cedar Keys, Fla., and was employed by the same firm to found a lumber yard at Galveston, Tex. ; yellow Jack, not war, drove him North a second time, after a dangerous attack of the fever ; recruiting his health in the pure bracing air of old Maine, he again, and finally, came West ; spent 1869 in Lyons, Iowa, and, in 1870, formed the partnership with A. P. Lovejoy, a native of Maine, and a resident of Janesville. Mr. R. has since resided here, having the only lumber-yard in town ; a very complete stock of lumber, lath, shingles, sash, doors and blinds, pickets, moldings, etc. ; the firm have a similar stock at Brooklyn, Green Co:, and at Baraboo, where his only son is in charge. Mr. Richards married, in Savannah, Ga., in 1850, Miss Mary E. Hartt, of the State of New York ; they lost two daughters, one in infancy, and one aged 8 years ; the only living son, Walter C, was born Aug. 31, 1858, near Tallahassee, Fla. Mr. B. is a Republican, and a member of Oregon Lodge, A., F. & A. M.

G ARRIiTT RUNE Y, farmer. Sees. 24 and 23 ; P. 0. Oregon ; is a son of the first settler of Oregon Township, viz., Bartley Runey, who was born in Maryland in 1795 ; he married in his and her native State, Margaret Garnett ; they settled in Ohio in 1824. Garrett Runey was born in Preble', Clinton Co., Ohio, Oct. 10, 1832 ; in March, 1841, Mr. Runey left La Porte Co., Ind., with team and covered wagon, and reached Janesville, Wis., April 8 ; early in the spring of 1842, he made the first claim, built the first house and became the first permanent white settler of what is now Oregon ; the log house was on the southwest quarter of Sec. 24, and did good service till the spring of 1843, when part of the present frame house was built ; this was the Pioneers' Hotel, and in it the first religious service was held. Thirty-eight years ago, the nearest house was that of William Quivey, in Fitchburg. Mr. Runey was accidentally killed in September, 1846, by the overturning of his wagon, on a steep hill three miles south of Madison ; he left a wife and nine children - Susan (Mrs. P. Russell), Eliza (Mrs. S. Hutson), Jane (Mrs. D. Anthoney), Reason, Mary (Mrs. J. Fox), Catherine (Mrs. L. Hanan), Garrett, Mervin and Clara (Mrs. George Tarrant). Mrs. Runey, Reason and Mervin, all died on the old homestead of 168 acres, now owned by Garrett. He married Maria Costleman, born May 20, 1832, in JeflFerson Co., N. Y.; they have had six children - Joseph B., Frank (deceased), Helen A. (deceased), Willis B., Clarence E. and Clara B. (twins) ; all were horn on this first improved farm ; 240 acres were first claimed, but Mr. R. had paid for only 120 at his death, the son adding 48 acres, and has rebuilt the house, erected the barn, etc. Mr. R. is a Republican, and a member of the U. B. Church of Rutland ; his father was a Democrat.

CROYDEN SARGEAXT, farmer, Sec. 34; P. 0. Brooklyn; born Jan. 27, 1821, in Chesterfield, N. H. ; attended the common schools, the old Chesterfield Academy, and a review course at the M. E. Seminary at Newburg, Vt. ; began at 18 and taught five terms in New England ; came West in 1843, and paid almost his last dollar for 40 acres of his present farm ; teaching Freeport, Dl., with just

60 cents, he obtained a school near Cedarville ; afterward taught at Evansville and Wiota, and several winter terms after his permanent settlement on the farm in 1845 ; has taught in all, twenty terms. Sept. 22, 1846, he married, in Sutton, Vt., Miss Lucy W. Hutchinson, of St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; they began on the homestead in a small log house, and,, as their only capital was youth and health, saw what would now be termed hardships; in 1852, they removed to an adjoining 40, which he bought, and lived in a long, low, rickety frame house until the present tasteful residence was built, in 1866 ; Mr. Sargeant has 220 acres, with good barns, stables, etc. - 125 acres under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Sargeant have had four children - William E., Amy J. (deceased), Grace A. and Charles H. Mr. Sargeant is liberal in politics and religion, being governed by reason, not prejudice; he was one of the School Commissioners of Rome Precinct in 1845, and once after the organization of Oregon Township ; was also Town Superintendent under that system.

E. R. SHEPHERD, merchant, Oregon ; born in the town of De Ruyter, Madison Co., N. Y., Oct. 28, 1843; educated in his native town, and bred to mercantile life; while yet a student, he enlisted, July 28, 1861, in the 3d N. Y. V. C; spent the first year in Virginia, and fought at Ball's BluflF; was also in the famous Shenandoah Valley, and engaged at Marysville and Winchester ; transported to North Carolina, the regiment spent two years in raiding over the State ; Mr. Shepherd re-enlisted at Norfolk, Va. ; rejoined his regiment at Newbern, N. C, but was finally sent to join Gen. Butler at Petersburg; returning from the thirteen-days raid under Gen. Wilson, they were surrounded by a largely superior force, and, after the desperate fight at Reem's Station, were driven back to the Yellow Tavern ; the regiment took an active part in the cavalry battle at Mountain Hill, July 31, 1864, and in many others on the Weldon Railroad and James River, sometimes mounted and at others on foot ; a narrow escape from capture was one of his adventures after the explosion of Ft. Hell, they being deserted by the 11th P. V. I. ; Mr. Shepherd was Orderly Sergeant two years, and commanded his company three months ; was mustered out July 25, 1865; returned to his native State and settled in Oregon Oct. 12, 1867 ; clerked two years for J. W. Scoville; spent 1870 in the State of New York; again came to Wisconsin, and, after a year's work for Scoville, began business with Charles Bunker; since the spring of 1873, he has conducted business alone, carrying a general stock of everything except boots and shoes. He married, in Oregon, Oct. 12, 1869, Miss Cornelia A. Page, a native of Vermont; they have four children - Jessie M., Frankie, Florence and Fred (twins). Mr. Shepherd is a Republican; was Town Treasurer in 1871, and the present year ; is a member, with his wife, of the Presbyterian Church ; also a member of Oregon Lodge, 151, A., F. & A. M.

SAlIUEIi SHEPARD, farmer, Sec.' 18; P. 0. Oregon; born April 25, 1814, in Byron, Genesee Co., N. Y. ; his parents, William and Mary (Hill) Shepard, were farmers and New England people; in 1846, Mr. Shepard visited Badgerton, coming from Milwaukee to Mukwonago, Johnstown, Mt. Zion, Janesville, Cooksville, etc., to Madison, where he found a store or two and a hotel - a party of six making the entire trip on foot ; they followed an Indian trail to what is now Storytown, spent a night with old Capt. McFadden, and on their return Mr. Shepard claimed 120 acres, which he entered at the Milwaukee Land Office ; in June, 1847, he brought out his family. Mr. Shepard was the first shoemaker in Oregon, working ten or twelve years in a 14x16 log house, one story, with " shake roof; " " nretty shaky, too," as the gray-haired pioneer now says ; ox teams, Indians and log houses were then as common as high taxes, " style " and jealousy now are ; after many happy years in the old log house, Mr. Shepard huilt his present substantial brick in 1857. His wife was formerly Hannah Story, born Oct. 8, 1817, in Staflfbrd, Genesee Co., and married in Batavia in 1837 ; they have two children - Omer S., born Nov. 26, 1842; and Mary E. (Mrs. J. C Trotter), born Feb. 12, 1845, in Byron, N. Y. Samuel Shepard now has 77 acres, 0. S. has 127, and Mr. Trotter 100, all on Sees. 17 and 18. Father and son are Republicans, each having been a member of the Town Board five or more years; Mr. Shepard was one of the founders of the Storytown Baptist Church, of which his family are members.

E. D. SHOLTS, farmer. Sec. 24; P. 0. Oregon; born Aug. 10, '1821, in Yates Co., N: Y.; his father died in 1840, and in 1846 the mother and four children came West, Mr. Sholts buying 80 acres, of which 72 are a part of his present 104-acre farm ; he also owns 80 acres io Town of Rutland ; his first log house, built with shake roof covered with sods, was so leaky as to cause tubs, pans, etc., to be placed on the beds during heavy rains, and they were quite apt to be filled. His first breaking was a blunder, as he broke on the corners where four "forties" joined, and of these only one was his; still, Mr. Sholts has made the best of progress, having good buildings and a pleasant home, and now receives instead of paying interest. On the 30th of April, 1844, he married, in her native county (Lake Co., Ohio), Miss A. Searles; they have three children - William A., Hannah E. and Charles Sumner; the parents belong to the U. B. Church of Kutland, and were among the eight founders of it ; Mr. Stolts has been a Trustee for many years; be is a Eepublican, and was a Whig; was also one of the first farmers to insure in the Madison Mutual.

H. S. SMITH, farmer, Sec. 25] P. 0. Brooklyn; was born in 1806 ia Orange Co., Vt.; his early life was spent in Onondaga, Monroe and Yates Cos., N. Y.; he married in the former county Miss Irena Wright, of Bennington, Vt.; she died Oct. 3, 1842, leaving two daughters, Elfie and Louisa; the second marriage, with Miss Phoebe Walford, was in her native county (Yate's); two years later, he came West and bought 80 acres of his present farm; in the fall of 1847, he brought out his wife and four children, up the lakes to Milwaukee, thence with ox team to Oregon ; of the 80, only 7 were improved, and on this was a double-log house; "double," says Mrs. S., "because the Welshman who first lived in it shared it with his pigs;" it was roofed with shakes, and she spent many homesick hours in those cramped quarters ; during one fortnight, she saw none but her own family ; Mr. S. began poor and worked hard ; the result is a splendid 320-acre farm, with good buildings ; his frame house was one of the first built in Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. S. have five children - Elizabeth (Mrs. And. Bennett), Henry S., Thurlow T., Edward B. and J. P.; Louisa died in October, 1862 (wife of Hy. Parker) ; Elfie is Mrs. L. Nourse, of Iowa ; the three youngest are Badger born ; of the others, Elizabeth was born in Yates Co., N. Y., and Henry in Ontario Co. Mr. Smith is an old-time Yankee Whig and Kepublican ; was Chairman of Oregon two or three years, also Justice of the Peace, which office is now held by his eldest son. Mr. and Mrs. S. are members of the Rutland U. B. Church.

WIIiljIAM SOI>EN, wagon and carriage maker, Oregon ; born in the town of Butternuts, Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1837 ; came to Rock Co., Wis., with his parents, in 1845 ; was on his father'sfarm eleven years ; began as apprentice to a wagon-maker in Fulton, was six months in Madisoji, and finished under William Bedford, in Oregon; soon after went to Edgerton, thence to Stoughton. He enlisted in the 1st W. V. I. for three months,. served out his time, and in Oregon, July, 1862, enlisted in the 23d W. V. I.; served three years in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri ; was in the battle at Arkansas Post and through the Vicksburg campaign ; was captured at the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, and held fourteen months at Camp Ford, Texas ; was released at the close of the civil war ; returned to Wisconsin ; lived at diflFerent times in Oregon ; was six years on his father's farm, and settled in Oregon in the spring of 1880 ; has bought property and means to stay. He married, in Oregon, Hattie L. Hayes, born in 1841, in Indiana, and a resident of Oregon since 1845 ; they have four children - Lora, Minnie, Willie and Freddy ; the eldest was born in Edgerton, Minnie in Oregon, Willie in Evansville, and the youngest in Porter, Rock Co. Mr. Soden is a Republican, a member of the M. E. Church, and of the Oregon Lodge, A., F. ^ A. M.

M. W. TEKWILiLJGER, of Terwilliger & Lindsay ; born in Chenango, Broome Co., N. Y., Jan. 3, 1845 ; his parents, James and Emmeline Terwilliger, came to Wisconsin the next May ; he resided on his father's farm in Fitchburg and attended district schools, until he entered the Wisconsin State University ; after two years of study here, he spent part of 1866 in Conover, Iowa ; returned and took a course in the Northwestern Business College, Madison ; clerked eighteen months in Madison, taught one term of school in Blooming Grove, and one in Fitchburg. He was married in May, 1869, to Miss Lucy M., daughter of E. J. Boies, of the Empire State. He taught two terms after this ; in 1872, he began business with his brother-in-law, J. J. Lindsay ; the first year they did business in the old butcher-shop, which was on the site of the present store ; these gentlemen carry a very complete stock of general merchandise; also rent a warehouse, and deal in stock and produce ; have been express agents for Oregon since 1872. Mr. Terwilliger is a Republican and a Freemason. He has three children - Arthur, Mabel and an infant.

E. P. TRACY, of Tracy & Comstock, merchants, Oregon ; was born in the manufacturing village of Johnson, Vt.; was educated there, and was for twelve years in a woolen-factory. He married, in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1869, Miss Julia E. Page; she was born in Waterville, Vt., educated in the Johnson State Normal School, taught in her native State, in Magnolia, Iowa, and, in 1868-69, in the village school of Oregon ; they have four children - Bertrand P., Edwin S., Maud E. and an infant son Both are supporters of the Christian doctrines. Mr. Tracy is a Republican and a member of the Oregon Lodges, A., F: & A. M. and A. 0. U. W.

JACOB WARXEB, farmer, Sec. 7; P. 0. Oregon; born Sept. 22, 1822, in Wurfcemberg; his father, the Rev. Jacob Warner, an M. E. preacher, was once brought before the King of Wurtemberg, to answer for some of his liberal, religious and political ideas, and brought his family to America in 1832, locating in Lycoming Co., Penn., where his wife died ; he came West in 1846, and is well remembered as a U. B. preacher ; he died in South Chicago in 1870. His son and namesake grew to a healthy, rugged manhood in the pine woods of Pennsylvania. Married in August, 1845, Mary Werlioh ; they soon came West, remaining from September until January, near Chicago, where Mr. W. neglected some splendid offers of city property ; in January, 1846, Mr. W. and wife, and Thomas Bethel and wife, came to Oregon. Mr. W. claiming the northwest quarter of Sec. 19 ; part of the summer of 1846 was spent in a floorless, doorless and windowless shanty, on Sec. 19 ; here their eldest was rocked in a trough hewed out, and placed on rude rockers by his father; while he worked day and night for some time in the old Dayton saw-mill, walking home seven miles on Saturday night ; the liberality (and meal bin) of Daniel Hess supplied him with his only food, while he split thousands of rails in " Fisher's Valley ; " he spent two years on Sec. 18 (present farm of 0. S. Shepard) and then settled on his present farm of 125 acres ; here he split thousands of rails by moonlight ; in short, his early experiences here were one long struggle with poverty and sickness ; still he succeeded, now having a splendid home farm, with excellent buildings ; 40 acres in Montrose, and 20 on Sec. 19, Oregon ; has also helped his children most liberally. Mrs. Warner died Jan. 20, 1879, leaving eight children - William, Samuel Gr., Alma, Mary J., Louisa (Mrs. T. Algard, died July 20, 1880), John F., Josephine S. and Emily M., all born in Oregon Township ; the eldest, James, -died when 19. " Jake " Warner, as he is familiarly called by his old neighbors, is a substantial type of Dane County's successful men ; is a Bepublican and a member of the U. B. Church. s^

S. G. WARNER, of Case & Warner, Oregon ; was born July 21, 1851 (see sketch of Jacob Warner) ; he attended the schools of Oregon, and a course at Evansville Seminary ; taught three terms in District No. 2 (Flemmings) and one in the Fox District, Montrose ; this and his work on his pioneer father's farm occupied his time until September, 1879, when he bought out the interest of 0. M. Case, thus constituting the present firm. Mr. W. is a Republican. The firm carry a complete general stock, including dry goods, groceries, crockery, glass and woodenware, hats and caps, notions, etc., etc. These gentlemen were among the sufferers by the fire of May 29, 1880, losing half their goods, causing them to locate in the building of Charles Powers.

CHARIiE$$ WATERMAN, Oregon ; bom Oct. 13, 1822, in Orleans Co., Vt. ; afterward resided in Springfield, Mass., and Windsor Looks, Conn., where he was in business. Mr. W. came to Oregon in 1849, and in May bought his present farm of 200 acres. The first survey for a village plat was in March, 185-, under his direction and on part of his land ; in 1858, he opened, and for two years, kept the Oregon Exchange Hotel; in 1860 and 1861, was in mercantile business; in 1862 and 1863, was a contractor in grading the C. & N.-W. R. R., from Oregon to Madison. Began the livery business in June, 1374, and continued, until Aug. 2, 1880, when he sold to Powers & Fisher. Mr. W. has improved his farm and built a pleasant home in the village. He married in Munson, Mass. (her native place). Miss Alvina E. Chaffee. In politics, Mr. Waterman is a Democrat ; has been Justice of the Peace, Collector, and was six years Deputy Sheriff.

E. B. WHITMORE, farmer, Sees. 14 and 11 ; P. O. Oregon ; born Nov. 1, 1835, in Eden, Madison Co., N. Y. ; his father, Seth Whitmore, a stone-mason and farmer, removed twelve years later to Tioga Co., Penn. ; here E. B. lived until 1854, when he located in Waushara Co., Wis. ; afterward lived in Adams County, and frem there came to Oregon in 1858 ; settled on his present farm of 160 acres in 1859. Enlisted in September, 1861, in Co. B, 11th W. V. I. ; saw service in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama and Texas ; was in the battles preceding, and through the siege of Vicksburg ; also engaged in the capture of the forts at Mobile, where he received his honorable discharge after a most eventfiil military service of just four years ; has since resided on his farm, on which he has built a substantial farmhouse, etc. He married on the day of Gren. Grant's first inauguration, March 4, 1869, Miss Jennie Burnett; she was born in Chardon, Geauga Co., Ohio; her step-father and her mother moved to Stoughton, Wis., in 1859, and still reside there. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore have two children - Nellie D. and Grace. Mr. W. is a Republican.

ABRAM WIIiLIAMSON, farmer, Sees. 7 and 8 ; P. 0. Oregon ; born Deo. 8, 1818, in Union Co., Penn. ; five years later, his parents settled in Lycoming Co., Penn., where he grew to manhood, farming and lumbering; his father, assisted by the sons, operated a saw-mill twenty-five years ; in 1854, Abram with a brother bought a steam saw-mill, which afterward burned ; he then associated in business with one J. Metzgar, they owning and running a steam shingle-mill, until he came West in 1869 ; Mr. W. bought 200 acres ; on this he has built a large and tasteful frame farmhouse and substantial barns, etc., his only son, having nearly duplicated them in forming a separate establishment on the homestead. Mr. Williamson married in Lycoming (her native county) Miss Mary Emory; they have two children - Sarah A. and John S. ; both born in Lycoming County, where the daughter married A. M. Tincher, of that county ; they are with the old couple. John S. married, in her native town of Oregon, Miss Phebe J. Bethel ; they have two children - Laura J. and Cora Belle. The younger men now manage the farm, to which has been added 20 acres on Sec. 19. These gentlemen are all Eepublicans.

MANIJEI^ WOIiFE, Oregon; was born in New Market, Upper Canada, in March, 1826; ten years later, his parents removed to Bichland Co., Ohio, where he attended and afterward taught school ; coming to Walworth Co., Wis., in the fall of 1846, he taught a winter school on Sugar Creek Prairie. Mr. Wolf bought 40 acres of his present Oregon farm in the spring of 1847, himself and parents beginning here in a log house. He also taught in the town of Union, Eock Co., where he marrifid Miss Emma Gifford ; she was born and educated in Jefferson Co., N. Y. ; her parents first tried Western life in Illinois, where she taught two terms of school ; they settled in Union, Bock Co., in 1848, where she continued teaching. In place of the 40 acres and the log house, Mr. W. now has a well-improved farm of 244 acres, on which he lived until 1867, when he located, and has since resided, in the village, continuing the active management of the farm. He is a Bepublioan ; was Chairman of Oregon ; Town Clerk six or seven years ; Town Treasurer in 1878-79, and was elected, as he says, for the last time as Chairman in the spring of 1880. Mr. W. is a member, and the present Treasurer, of Oregon Lodge, No. 151, A., F. & A. M. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf have ten living children - Clarence H., Charles S., Jennie, Frank P., MayB., Josie C, Carrie B., Hattie A., Harold G. and Percy W., all born in Oregon Township, as was Fred M., who died in infancy.

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liEWIS li. ADAMS, farmer, Sec. 29 ; P. 0. Stoner's Prairie; born July 27, 1823, in Chester Co., Pean. ; his parents, John and Eliza L. (Davis) Adams ; removed two years later to Ontario Co., N. Y., whence he came West in May, 1847 ; spent some time looking over the country, footing it to Baraboo ; Ry W. Salisbury showed him his present farm ; Mr. A. at once entering 120 acres where his buildings now stand ; this paid for, his only remaining capital was health and pluck; that winter, he fenced 40 acres, and out the logs for a house, finished in 1848. Married, June 29, 1^48, Miss Mary A., daughter of R. D. Salisbury, and a native of Canandaigua, N. Y., born Aug. 8, 1830. In November, 1848, they began life in the log house, which (with some repairs) still stands under the shadow of the large and wellbmilt two-story frame farmhouse, which supplants it as the family home ; twenty years and four days were spent in the log-house, and during that time the best of work was done, as may be seen by the 240-acre farm, improved and well cultivated, the substantial buildings, fruitful orchards, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have nine children - Mary L. (Mrs. E. H. Henry, of Nebraska), L. LlewUyn, Kussel D., Elon A., Winnifred, Cora E., E. May, Arthur A. and Charles F. Death has nevei- invaded this blest home circle. Mr. A. is a Republican, and has been thrice a Supervisor, though never an office-seeker.

niCHAEIi BARRY, farmer, Sec. 28 ; P. 0. Oregon ; born in 1812 in the Parish of Ahada, County of Cork, Ireland ; came in 1834 to America, locating in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. ; began a laboring man, clearing timber by the job, finally becoming the owner of a small farm. Married Mary Barry, of Cappagliwhite, County Tipperary ; they came to Wisconsin in 1848, Mr. B. entering 80 acres of his present farm, built^ shanty of logs and lumber, and began the work which has given him a 280-acre farm, with substantial buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Barry have ten children - Phillip, Patrick, Garrett, Mary (Mrs. James Whalen), Abigail (Mrs. 0. O'Brien), John, Catherine, Bridget, Teresa and Thomas F. ; the four youngest are at home ; the eldest, born in New York, was Clerk of Dane Co. The family are Catholics, and Independent in politics.

R. C. BENXETT, farmer. Sec. 34 ; P. O. Oregon ; is a son of H. R. Bennett, who was born 1819, in Ontario Co., N. Y., and came to Fitohburg in 1846, entering 160 acres on See. 31, which he soon traded for 80 of the present homestead, afterward buying the 80 on which are the buildiiigs. In October, 1846, Thomas Gilbert, wife and six children left Ontario Co., N. Y., and settled in the town of Oregon, bought 80 acres on Sec. 6, and built a log house, where his daughter, H. R., and Mr. Bennett were married, Feb. 29, 1848 ; she was born in Ontario Co. in 1829 ; they began life in a log house, standing a few yards north of the present house, the upright part of which was built by Mr. B. prior to his death, Oct. 7 1854 ; his only son and child, born here in 1852, has since cleared about 80 acres, and made substantial improvements. He married, in Union, Rock Co., Wis., Ida, daughter of Norman Hough, of Evans-' ville ; they have two children - Claudia and Maudie, both born on the old homestead. He is a Republican, and the entire family belong to the Presbyterian Church. Alive to progress, he has now four young Hambletpnian horses ; his father was a carpenter and joiner by trade. Three generations his mother's ancestors were warriors. Thomas Gilbert was a Revolutionary hero, his son and her father was in the War of 1812, and her brother, Thomas, was shot dead at the close of the last fight of the war of secession, at Spanish Fort, March 27, 1865 ; he had gone safely through the mighty struggle of four years, only to die thus - his brother, James Gilbert, was Lieutenant of the same Company, B, 8th W. V. I.

W. D. BIRD, Sec. 2 ; P. 0. Madison ; born Feb. 2, 1821, in Madison Co., N. Y. ; son of Zenas and Tabitha Bird ; his mother's father was a nephew of, and a soldier under. Gen. Burgoyne. Mr. Bird, with his mother, two brothers and a sister, left New York for the West in the fall of 1836, and came with team, reaching Milwaukee in December, 1836 ; spent the winter there, and made his first visit to Dane Co. in April, 1837. The present site of jyiadison was then in a state of nature. In July, 1837, he made a second trip, and at once began work on the capitol building. He afterward worked as engineer in a steam saw-mill, and, in 1839, bought and settled upon an 80 on Sec. 35, town of Madison, and was the first settler south of the settlement. Has resided in Madison and Fitchburg Townships since this time as a farmer. Mr. Bird is a Democrat ; was formerly one of the County Supervisors ; was Chairman of the town of Madison one term ; Chairman of Fitchburg several terms, and has held various minor positions .

is now Treasurer. He married, on the old " Seventy-Six," or Dr. Jacob's farm, in January, 1843, Miss Lucetta Chillson, born in Ft. Edward, N. Y., but a resident of Windsor Co., Vt., from her 6th year to 1841, when her people settled in Dane Co. Mr. and Mrs. Bird have five children - Horatio, De Monoey, Henry Clay, Helen and Mary, all born in Dane Co. Mr. B. served two years and twenty-two days in the 1st W. V. H. A., and was honorably discharged on account of disability in September, 1864.

BEIVJAIIIN F. BROWX (deceased) ; born in Virginia, Feb. 14, 1817 ; his parents, John and Sarah (Wright) Brown, settled in his boyhood in Southern Indiana, going thence to La Porte Co., Ind., where he married, Oct. 1, 1857, Miss Elizabeth K. Kress ; she was born in Troy, Bradford Co., Penn., and a daughter of George and Charlotte (Baldwin) Kress. In 1858, Mr. and Mrs. Brown located in Cedar Eapids, Iowa, and later, in Independence, Iowa. In 1860, they came to Dane Co., and boughtt he homestead on which he died. Mr. B. did good work here as a farmer, building, in 1861, the hand some square mansion, of Milwaukee brick, which stands a monument to his taste. His varied and extensive reading made him a most pleasant and instructive companion, yet he lived for his family, not for the public. His death, on March 28, 1874, was the result of an accident, and was a crushing blow to his wife and adopted daughter. Mr. B. was liberal in religion, and a Democrat politically. During his younger life, he made an extended tour to California, Australia and South America, returning in 1854. The ancestors of Mrs. Brown were both historic families in Chemung Co., N. Y. The old Kress and Baldwin homesteads still remain in the families. Her father's mother was a De Puy, and she married a man whose first vote was cast for Washington and his last for Lincoln. He died in his 99th year, never having used spectacles or sufiered from disease.

GEORGE FOX, Sec. 35 ; P. 0. Oregon ; born in 1820 in County Westmeath, Ireland ; son of the Rev. William and Ellen (Lynn) Fox, who emigrated to the United States in 1834, with six children ; they first settled near Tecumseh, Mich., then went to La Grange Co., Ind.; in 1842 (autumn), his elder brother, Dr. William H. Fox, and himself drove a horse across the country to Chicago, and with the same horse and buggy came via Crystal Lake, Delavan and Janesville to Madison, thence by a circuitous course to the small prairie where their farms were located ; Harvey Bush guided them to it, describing it as fine land, but in such an out-of-the-way place; George Fox entered 120 acres, spent the winter in Michigan City, and in June, 1843, brought out his wife and two children for permanent settlement; built a 16x20 log house, the first erected by this now noted family of Dane County pioneers - and lived in it thirteen years, it being the gatheiing place of relatives, who soon joined him. He married in Indiana, Catherine Keenan, who was born in King's Co., Ireland, and came to the New World in 1838; they have six living children - Philip Pox, M. D., of Madison ; Ellen (Mrs. Dr. Wilson), William Fox, M. D., of Milwaukee ; Maria (Mrs. Theodore Colladay), Katie (Mrs. G. Barry, of Oregon), and Addie ; Mr. and Mrs. Fox now enjoy the comforts of a good home, a farm of 320 acres, and a substantial stone house built in 1856. Mr. Fox, hale, erect, and ruddy, is a fine representative of the pioneers of thirty-seven years ago. His wife is a member of the Boman Catholic Church. He is, in politics, Independent, supporting men and principles irrespective of parties.

WILIilAM H. FOX, M. D., is a son of William Fox, of the family of O'Sionach (anglicized Fox) - his residence was in both Seffia and Kilconrcey, County Westmeath, Ireland, and the maiden name of his wife was Eleanor Lynn ; their son, our subject, was born September, 1814, in Moate-a-Granough. County Westmeath, and received his early education there; came to America in 1833, and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1839 removed to Lima, La Grange Co., Ind., where he began the practice of medicine; in November, 1842, the Doctor came to Wisconsin, and, impressed with the natural beauty of the country south of Madison, entered his present farm at the Milwaukee Land Office ; his large farm is on Sec. 35, one and one-half miles north of the thriving village of Oregon. In the spring of 1843, he settled and began making improvements here ; the Doctor is among the veteran physicians of the State, and few of the pioneers enjoy so pleasant a home ; the Doctor had the good taste to preserve intact a noble park of burr oaks, which with ornamental trees planted by him, surround his large and picturesque farmhouse ; sheltering in winter, and beautifying in summer. Dr. Pox was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1847 ; though he has seen much of frontier life and its hardships, his sixty -six years sit lightly upon him, and his strong frame and fresh, healthful face are still seen in various parts of the county, whither his large practice leads him. The Doctor has several children by a now deceased wife, his son, Arthur Fox, being one of the live and progressive young stock-breeders of Wisconsin, he owning a farm adjoining that of his father.

NICHOIiAS HAIGHT, Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Syene ; born July 10, 1818, in Westchester Co., N. Y.;son of Caleb and Sarah M. (Jackson) Haight; he attended the common schools, and for eighteen months the North Salein Academy ; worked seven years at harness-making and taught school seven years, principally in his native county and at Stamford, Conn. ; was three years an employe of the N. B. Jlubber Co. of New York City; in the spring of 1857, came West, locating on Sec. 31, town of Blooming Grove, paid his last dollar for 80 acres, at $11 per acre, then hired $1,000 of his father, with which he lived eighteen months, and did his breaking, building, etc.; in 1868, he sold out for $2,800, and bought his present 160-acre farm for $6,000, this left him $5,000 in debt, every dollar of which was paid in nine years ; he has besides remodeled and added to his house, also raised and enlarged his barn, and made other lasting and substantial improvements. He married in his and her native town of Bedford, Miss Catherine Williamson; they have reared and educated a family of six children - James C, born in Connecticut ; William J. and Sarah M., born in Westchester Co., N. Y.; whild Thomas W., Mary J. and Lizzie M. are Badger born. Mr. H. is a Republican of Greenback proclivities, and the family are Episcopalians ; the great-grandfather of Mr. Haight cleared up a farm from what was then a wilderness, only twenty-three miles from New York City ; this old homestead, near Rye, is still ia the family.

J. T. HA WES, Sec, 18; P. 0. Madison; born June 17, 1834, in Erie Co., Penn. ; his parents, Matthew and Anna M. (Miles) Hawes, came West in 1842, reaching Madison with a team Dec. 24, 1842; while here, J. T. attended school under tuition of Theodore Conkey; afterward a Union Captain and member of the Legislature ; he also attended the first Sabbath school, taught by the Rev. Mines, in the old capitol. The family settled in Verona in March, 1843, the second family in that town, and in their house the first religious service was held by the Rev. Stebbins in the summer of 1843. J. T. attended school in the first schoolhouse, built in 1846, near what is now the poor farm ; his father also kept open house for the traveling public ; in 1849 and 1850, he kept the old National Hotel, on the site of the present Vilas House. In 1856, J. T. Hawes married Mary J. Williams, of Oneida Co., N. Y. ; she was born Sept. 27, 1834; her father, B. W., was a lineal descendant of Roger Williams, founder, of Rhode Island ; and her mother, Abigail Sheldon, a native of New York. Since 1856, Mr. Hawes has lived on his present 130-acre farm; has four living children - Estelle A. (Mrs F. A. Matts), Edith A., Mary L. and Fred W. ; and lost an infant daughter, Charlotte E., died in 1872. Matthew Hawes died M^ty 4, 1873 ; he was a Democrat ; and was elected Justice of the Peace and Supervisor on the first town ticket in Verona ; was later Town Treasurer and one of the Commissioners to lay out the Madison and Wiota road ; his son, our subject, has made his own farm and home ; he is likewise a Democrat and has been Justice of the Peace eight years ; he served seven and a half months of the year 1865, in Co. G, 49th W. V. I. ; was honorably discharged on account of disability, and still suffers much from partial loss of speech and eyesight ; has made application and will doubtless receive a pension.

HENRY HELMS, deceased; born Aug. 7, 1808, in Otsego Co., N. Y. ; worked in early life as a farmer and miller. Married in Ellington, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Feb. 21, 1839, Miss Lydia, daughter of Orrin and Margaret (Buchanan) Kingsley ; they were New England people, and she was born July 22, 1821, in Oneida Co., N. Y. In 1845, Mr. and Mrs. Helms came West and settled on the Helms homestead, then in a state of nature. J. French and F. W. Bird were the only settlers to the north of them till Madison was reached ; their youth and health were their all ; Mr. Helms worked somewhat during theharvest of 1845, and corn and potatoes were raised for food - butter, eggs, chickens, etc., were sold to pay for the first 40 acres, and money hired at 25 per cent to pay for the balance - a splendidwheat crop, sold at five shillings per bushel, paid^this and opened brighter prospects, which were duly improved ; Mr. Helms died June 15, 1860, leaving ten children - Marvin, Harlow, Hudson, Denzil, Dracania (first one born in Wisconsin, died in her 20th year), Salina, Homer, Andrew, Martha and Bstella; the two eldest were by a former marriage with Mahala Abby, who died in 1837. Mr. H. was a Methodist and a Democrat. Marvin Helms was a Lieutenant in the 8th W. V. I. ; and Denzil, a private in the same regiment; both served through, veteranized and were discharged with that grand old regiment in September, 1865.

HOST. JOHX KEBNAN (deceased) ; born March 21, 1816, in King's Co., Ireland ; with two brothers and two sisters he came to America in 1838, locating near Lima, Ind. ; in 1843, four of them, John, George, Catherine and Frances I., came to Dane Co. Mr. Keenan at once bought part of the present homestead, and did good work as a pioneer of the times, clearing and breaking ; 80 acres were under cultivation, and a good log house built at the time of his marriage with Flora McKee in 1850 ; she was born in County Down, Ireland, whence her parents, David and Jane McKee, came to the United States in 1844 ; and from New York City to the town of Dunn, Dane Co., in 1848, when Madison was the village capital of a new State. Mr. and Mrs. Keenan began in the log house and made a cultivated homestead of the wild prairie around them; in 1864, the pioneer house was supplanted by a large and most pleasantly located farmhouse ; Mr. Keenan died Dec. 18, 1870, leaving six children - John A., Robert

M., Jennie I., Charles T., Agnes and George. Mr. K. was a regular attendant of the Presbyterian Church ; was a Democrat, and represented his district in the Wisconsin Legislature ; was also Chairman, etc., of his town for many years; no man ever filled these positions with more modesty and ability; his widow and children now enjoy a pleasant home, and splendid 568-acre farm earned by him.

WIlililAll C. KISER, See. 12 ; P. 0. Madison ; born July 17, 1828, in Eockingham Co., Va. ; has been a life-long farmer ; in 1832, his then widowed mother located on a farm, now occupied as the National Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio ; eight years later, he removed to Logan Co., Ohio, and engaged in farming there until 1862, when he came to Wisconsin and bought his present farm. William Packham made the first improvements here, though Mr. K. has erected a basement barn, 56x.32, and other equally substantial buildings. He married, in Salem, Champaign Co., Ohio, Miss Lucy Block ; her father, a Ken tuckian, settled in Ohio in 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Kiser have seven children - Emma F., Mary,C., Jennie, James A., William C, Dora and Perlie, and have lost a daughter, Lizzie. Mr. K. is a Democrat; was Sherifi' of Dane Co. in 1874, and is now serving his third term as Chairman of Fitchburg ; is a member of Madison Lodge and Chapter A., F. & A. M., and is an Odd Fellow. Mr. Kiser devotes his 250 acres to the breeding and feeding of fine stock ; his first Poland-China hogs were brought from Ohio in 1862 ; and he has since dealt with the Lusson Bros., of Illinois, W. W. Ellsworth and the Newell Bros.; has also bought Berkshires of the Bow Park Breeding Association, of Canada West ; his first short-horns were purchased of E. P. Brockway, and later he bought of T. J. MoGibbon, Kentucky; Avery & Murphy, of Detroit; C. H. Williams, Baraboo ; and A. Strawn, of Illinois ; Mr. Kiser has held two sales - one in April, 1879, and one in February, 1880; about fifty head sold; has exhibited stock at Madison, Oshkost and St. Paul, and never failed in winning a fair share of prizes.