Stoughton City (part 2 of 13)

BOWER BOWERS^, Sees. 23, 22 and 26 ; P. 0. Primrose ; born Oct. 19, 1851, in Primrose, where his father, Knudt Bowerson, settled in 1850. He married Margaret Gunhus, and emigrated in 1844 ; they had eight children - Bower, Caroline, Julia A., Polly A., Emily A., Betsy E., Greorge and Agnes ; the father died Jan. 21, 1871, and his widow, marrying again, now lives on the homestead ; the grandfather. Bower Nelson, came with the family, and Bower inherited his estate of 200 acres; he died Jan. 11, 1872, and his wife in March, 1869; he was a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church ; he arrived in America with $14, and left 680 acres at his death, of which George Bowers has 200. The brothers are Republicans, as were their ancestors, and are members of the Hauges Evangelical Lutheran Synod, as was their father. The farm is devoted to stock, and for the past eight years Mr. Bowers has bred Clyde and Norman horses, grade short-horn cattle and Cotswold sheep ; also has 110 Poland-China hogs.

SYVER CHRISTIANSON (Engen), Sec. 32 ; P. 0. Primrose ; born in Buskeruds, Amt Aggershuus Stift, Norway, Oct. 20, 1826 ; worked with his father as a farmer and tailor until he came to America in 1848 and settled in Plymouth Rock Co.; worked at his trade and as a farm hand ; made a visit to Michigan and two to Minnesota; in 1854, he bought a farm in Perry, and, eighteen months later, removed to Sec. 32, Primrose, where he bought 138 acres ; in 1875, he bought the A. Mickleson eighty, and now owns 228 acres. He married, in Rock Co., Wis., Betsy Gulleckson ; she was born in the same place with him, came to America when 1 0 years of age, and settled in Plymouth, where they were married in September, 1854; they have seven children - Christian L., Guleck S., Sjver S., E. Christiana, Jane, Helena and Olena ; the eldest was born in Perry, and the others in Primrose. Mr. Christiansen and family belong to the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Conference ; he is a Republican, and was District Clerk several years. He began in Wisconsin with just $1, and has earned every cent and every acre.

CHARLES^ DAXIELSON, Sec. 14 ; P. 0. Primrose ; was born Oct. 9, 1852, oii the homestead in Primrose ; his father, Ole Danielson, came to America in 1846, and, after settling in Illinois, came to Primrose in 1850, bought the homestead, and lived on it until 1875 ; he now lives in Green Co., Wis.; his son bought the farm of 191 acres in 1872, giving a $4,100 mortgage; has paid oflf every dollar, expended about $300 on the house, and improved things generally. He married Julia Ann Bowerson, born in Primrose in 1854 ; they have five children - Emma, Knudt 0., Benjamin Franklin, Maggie and Jane - all born on the same home farm. Mr. Danielson is a member of the Hauges Synod, and is a Republican. He has stocked down all but 35 acres, and keeps from twenty-five to thirty head of cattle ; be has a few pure-bred Poland-China swine, and usually keeps from fifty to seventy-five head in all.

CHARLES DIXOX, farmer and stock-raiser. Sees. 19 and 20; P. 0. Primrose; born Feb. 16, 1825, in Warwickshire, England; came to Amterica at 15, and finished his apprenticeship afi a blacksmith, at which he worked in New York until 1853, when he came to Monroe, Wis. ; farmed it fen years and worked five years at his trade in the village ; settled on his larm of 355 acres in 1870. He married Barbara Smith, of County Cork, Ireland, in New York City; she died in 1850, leaving two sons - George (died in his 6th year) and Thomas fl. Married again, Mary Martin, who died Nov. 12, 1866, in Monroe, leaving five children - ^Charles I., Lucy L., Joseph J., Kate and John Gr. ; Joseph J. was killed by a runaway team in September, 1875. His present wife was Mrs. Charity Muzzy, of Wabash, Ind. Thomas H. Dixon married Janie Hollar, of Knox Co., Ohio; she died Feb. 18, 1875, leaving two children - Mamie E. and Jennie (died in September, 1875). He married again, Sarah Colbertson, of Wiota, Wis. ; owns 165 acres, which was the site of the first settlement in Primrose ; the old hotel bare, built by Robert Speers, the first settler, is still doing service. The Dixons are now Greenbackers, formerly Republicans ; are also Odd Fellows ; the father was twice a Supervisor of Primrose ; the large farms are chiefly devoted to stock, all the grain being fed on the farms.

D. H. EAST31A1V, Sees. 17 and 18 ; P. 0. Mt. Vernon ; was born ih Stowe, Oxford Co., Me., Deo. 21, 1835 ; his parents, Jeremy and Cynthia Eastman, came to Wisconsin in 1862, where his mother died Dec. 29, 1867 ; the father, at 77, lives with his son, our subject; he came West in October, 1856 ; began as a laboring man and teacher ; taught four terms of district school ; settled, in 1861, on the present Barton farm, on which he buil^a log house; sold out here, and, during the next four years, lived on the La Follette farm, then bought the present farm of Ole Pederson, where he lived until 1873, when he settled finally on the La Follette farm, which he leases, owning 80 acres adjoining it. He married, March 17, 1859, Miss Ellen, daughter of Alexander Buchanan ; he died, and his widow, formerly Mary Ferguson, has since buried two husbands - Josiah La Follette and John Saxton ; she now resides io Madison, where her son, Robert M. La Follette, is now a rising young lawyer, and the Republican nominee for District Attorney. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman have seven children - Orville J., Flora C, Charles S., John W., Walter D., Bert L. and Mamie B., all born in Primrose, as were May D. and an infant, who died. Mr. Eastman is a Greenbacker; has been Clerk of his school district many years; Chairman in 18 - ; Supervisor in 1877 and 1878; Assessor three years; and under the old system was Town Superintendent of Schools ; is a member, with his wife, of the Baptist Church.

GOOL, G. GUNHUS, Sees 31 and 30 ; P. 0. Primrose ; born March 30, 1836, in Buskeruds, Amt Aggershuus Stift, Norway his father, Gonder, died in Norway, and his mother, marrying B. Erikson, came to America with her son in 1849. He resided on JeiFerson Prairie, Wis., until 1854, when he came to Primrose and bought of the United States 80 acres of his farm ; his brother was a partner, but G-. G. bought him out and now owns 329 acres - 80 in Perry. He married, June 8, 1862, Julia Lewis, born Feb. 6, 1841, in Voss, Bergen Stift, Norway ; they have two children - Clara T. and George B., both born on the Primrose farm. Here he has built a 30x50x18 basement barn, and, in 1873, the best farm-' house in Primrose ; it is 22x34, two stories, and is a spacious and pleasant home for the man who began life in Rook Co., Wis., at ^3 per month as a farm hand. Himself and wife belong to the Hauges Synod Lutheran Church ; is a Republican.

moms HAIiVORSON (NASS), Sees. 31, 32 and 33 ; P. 0. Primrose; born Aug. 26, 1826, in Aggerhuus Amt, Christiania Stift, Norway ; in 1846, he landed at New York ; his parents, Halvor and Emilie, and two brothers, were with him ; also a sister ; the father bought a farm in Spring Valley, Rock Co., Wis., where he died April 3, 1871, the mother following June 25, 1876. Their son, our subect, married, Aug. 28, 1851, in Spring Valley, Betsy Olson, born April 14, 1826, in Aggershuus Amt; her parents were, from May 15 to Oct. 15, 1845, on the way from Norway to Spring Valley; six years later, they came to Primrose, where the father, Ole Benson, died July 26, 1871, and the mother (formerly Kari Hanson) died July 4, 1876 (centennial of the United States i. Mr. and Mrs. Halvorson came to Primrose in 1852, the first Norse family in the Sugar River Valley ; their small log bouse was raised from the ground and floorless for a time, so their few sheep crawled under the logs and quartered with them ; they began with a yoke of oxen, a wagon and two cows ; Mr. Halvorson cut saw-logs and exchanged them for coarse middlings and shorts ; to-day he has 320 acres, well improved, and good buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Halvorson have eight children - Emilie, Halvor, Carrie, Ole, Caroline, Christina, Marius and Olena - all born in Primrose ; they lost two young children - Olena and Mary. The familj' belong to the Lutheran Conference ; Republican in politics.

CHARLES HARKER, Sec. 2; P. 0. Mt. Vernon; born Aug. 9, 1823, in Bllerby, Yorkshire, England ; came to America in 1849 ; was two years in Canada, and one winter in Illinois; then in Canada until April, 1854, when he settled on his farm of 256J acres ; on this farm the schoolhouse, district No. 6, was built, 185-. Married, in June, 1852, at her father's, Waukesha County, homestead, Miss Elizabeth Burnell, born January, 1833, in Withernwick, Yorkshire ; her people settled in Mukwon- ago, Waukesha Oo., Wis., in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Harker have nine living children - Matilda, Hannah, John B., Mary, Elizabeth, Hattie C, Henry, Emma and Fannie, all born on the Primrose homestead. Mr. H. is a Republican, and has been District Treasurer several years.

CHRI!§»TIA]V HEIVDRICKSON, Sec. 25; P.O.Belleville; bom in Lier, Christiania, Stift, Norway, June 22, 1816; learned the carpenter's trade in Drammen; came to America in May, 1842, and worked four years in Wiota, by the month, in the lead mines. In the fall of 1846, he settled and built on his present farm, thus becoming the first Norwegian settler in Primrose ; he has 120 acres ; lived «ight years in a log house, and built one of stone in 1855 ; he reached Wiota in debt for his passage, paying it by labor, and arrived in Primrose with a yoke of cattle, wagon and a cow, and 75 cents capital. Milwaukee was his wheat market; pork sold at 12 per hundred in the mines. He married, in Norway, Mary Olson, who died Aug. 2, 1854, of cholera, leaving five children - Caroline M., Henry B., Charles B., John A. and Oscar W. ; by the present wife, Caroline Tvet, he has a son - James Edwin. The eldest (Mrs. J. Osmonson) was born in Norway ; Henry, Charles and Oscar are in Sheldahl, Iowa ; Henry and Charles were born in Wiota, and the others in Primrose. Mr. H. is a member of the Norse Evangelical Luiheran Church, and a Republican.

HEJVRY H08ELI, Sec. 26 ; P. 0. Belleville ; born in Canton of Glarus, Switzerland, April 4, 1833; came to America in 1859 ; first settled in New Glarus, Q-reen Co., Wis., and came to his present farm of 140 acres in the fall of 1865 ; on this farm he has made many lasting improvements, building a good basement barn, etc. Married Ephemia Baumgartner in 1859 ; she was born Jan. 19, 1843, in the same canton ; they have eight children - Marcus, Ephemia, Mathias, Saloma, Barbara, Katrina, Henry and Jacob, all born in Perry,,except the three eldest, who were born in New Glarus. Mr. Hbsli is independent in politics, and a member of the Lutheran Calvinistic Church.

KITTEL KITTELSON (1IOL.AND), Sec 14; P. 0. Primrose; born in Porrisdahl, Christiansand Stift, Norway, April 28, 1817 ; came to America in 1844 ; paid his last dollar for passage I settled in Boone Co., III., and worked by the day and month until 1848 ; then came to Wisconsin and bought his present farm of 140 acres, with Mexican land warrants, of the Government ; built a small shanty and kept bachelor's hall for a time ; all but 20 acres are now fenced and improved ; a stone house was built in 1860, and a basement barn built in 1871. He married Julia Rolfson, who was born in September, 1822, near his birthplace ; they have five children - Hattie, born June 7, 1852 ; Mary, born May 25, 1856 ; Charles R., born Nov. 4, 1859 ; Julia, born March 2, 1861, and Anna, born July 11, 1864. Mr. Moland is a Republican, and, with Kis wife, a member of the Baptist Church.

GEORGE KOXLE, Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Mt. Vernon ; born in Stimpach, Wurtemberg, Nov. 16, 1825 ; came to America in 1852 ; was two years in Pittsburgh, Penn., some time in Cleveland and Massilon, Ohio ; returned to Pennsylvania, and, in 1857, went via the Isthmus of Panama to California ; here he worked and traveled until his return in October, 1861 ; came West the next month, and in April, 1862, settled on his present farm ; 22 acres were then broken and a log house built as the only improvements. He now has 279 acres, of which he has cleared and broken 100 ; has also built a good house and a basement barn 30x60, provided wells, cistern, etc. He married Catherine Holtzworth, July 6, 1862 ; she was lorn Nov. 15, 1835, in St. Tlyen, Baden ; they have three children - George, born Aug. 18, 1864 ; Louisa, bora Aug. 16, 1866, and Catherine, born Dec. 2, 1869; all were born in Primrose, Dane Co., Wis. The lamily are Catholics, and independent Democrats in politics. Mr. Konle began very poor, and has earned every dollar and every acre.

MATHIAS OBERE9IBT, farmer. Sec. 7 ; P. 0. Mt. Vernon ; born April 23, 1828, near Koeln, Prussia ; married, April, 1853, in Eishendorfi", Rhenish Prussia (her native village). Miss Agues Esser; born Aug. 15, 1831. In February, 1854; they came to America; spent eighteen months in Madison, then settled in Fitchburg ; five and one-half years later they located on Springfield Prairie ; settled on the present 212-acre farm, March, 1865. built here a good two-story frame house, granary, slables, etc., all of which were totally destroyed by the tornado of 1878 ; Mrs. Oberembt was absent, but eight of the children were in the house when it left its foundations ; when it struck the ground the children were all bruised, cut and more or less hurt, but none killed ; Mr. 0. was blown several rods and injured in the back or spine ; his farm implements, fences, etc., were also swept away like chaflF, yet, with commendable courage, he has built another house and begun again to face fate. Mr. and Mrs. 0. have eleven children - Isabella, Mary, Kate, Martin, George, Anna, Mathias, Agnes, Herman, John and Joseph; two died in infancy ; the eldest is Mrs. John Gobel ; Mary is the wife of Caspar Pergen ; and Kate, Mrs. M. Bowar ; her husband and Mr. Fergen are partners in a Scotland, D. T., hotel ; George is a harnessmaker in Belleville. The family are Catholics. Democratic in politics.

OLE S. OL.SOX, Sec. 11, P. O., Mt Vernon ; born July 7, 1832, in Bergenhuus Amt, Bergen Stift, Norway ; was sent from home at 12, and lived twenty-five years with Aug. Johanison, of Nordlands Amt ; married Ottine, his daughter, Oct. 24, 1858 ; she was born in Nordlands Amt Aug, 25, 1833 ; they came to America in 1867, and settled on his farm of 80 acres ; his father, Ole Olson, came with his family to America in 1852, and entered 80 adjoining that of his son ; on this 80 is the Devil's Chimney, a noted rock which leads to the farm many a visitor ; Ole Olson died while visiting in Iowa, his widow now occupying his estate. Ole S. and wife have six children - August, born in Norway ; Emil, Martin, Juhana, William and Knudt, all born in Primrose. The family belong to the Hauges Synod. Republican in politics.

ELI PEDEBSOX, Sec. 21; P.O. Primrose ; born in 1837, in Vossevangen, Bergen Stift, Norway; his parents, Peter Oleson, and Susan Ileson, came to America, in 1852, with four children; located for two years in Racine Co., then came to Sec. 21, Primrose, where Mr. Pederson now owns 430 acres; his father bought 240 of the Government ; he died in 18 6-, leaving four sons - Ole, Eli, Knudt and Louis ; Eli married Anna Peterson, born near Kongsberg, Norway ; they have six children - Belle, Susan, Peter, Eli, Anna and Louisa, all born on the Primrose homestead. Mr. Pederson is a Republican ;. was Supervisor one year. Assessor four years - from 1876 to 1880, and Chairman 18 - (see records in this volume).

NORMAIV RASTD ALL, See. 22 ; P. 0. Primrose; born in Bridgewater, Onieda Co., N. Y., Dec. 24, 1809. Married, Jan. 2, 1842, Miss Maria Chandler, ; she was born in Wethersfield, Wyoming Co., N. Y. His parents, Amos and Bordel Randall, both Connecticut people, removed to Wyoming Co. when he was 9 years old ; in 1851 he came with his family to Wisconsin, and bought his present farm of H. C. Chandler ; built a 12x20-foot log house, still standing as an old-time monument ; this was replaced fifteen years later by a substantial stone house ; in 1878 he built a 30x40 basement barn. Mr. R. has 79 acres cleared and broken by himself Is a member of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, and a Republican ; was Chairman several terms. Assessor and Collector, also school district officer. Mr. and Mrs. Randall have had eleven children - Lauren .E., Nelson D., Albert H., Mary E., Lucretia M., Hannah C., Norman S., John A., George W., Charles P. and James ; the eldest enlisted in Co. H., 8th W. V. I. ; lost his health in Alabama, and died at home seven weeks after the expiration of his term of enlistment.

' HENRY H. RIIVDY, Sec. 25 ; P. 0. Belleville ; was born in Nedre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift, Norway, Feb. 25, 1846 ; his parents, Halver Johnson Rindy and Kyersti (Jensen) Rindy, emigrated to the United States in 1855 and spent two years in Washington Co., Wis.; settled, in .1857, in Perry, where they both died. H. H. Rindy settled on his present farm of 160 acres, in 1866 ; has built a good house and basement barn. He married in Primrose, April 1, 1866, Gunvor, daughter of Harris Harrison, who died in Chicago, 111., where she was born ; they have six children - Herman C, Jane, Andrew, Mary, Lena and John. Mr. Rindy is a Republican, and a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod ; was nine years Clerk of his School District, and is now serving his second term as Town Treasurer. Mrs. Harris Harrison married again Halvor Bjornstad, of Bradsberg, Amt Norway, March 3, 1821 ; he came to America in 1844 and located in the Koshkonong country, came from there to Dane Co. in 1850, and is now residing with Mr. Rindy.

HON. G-CNOLF TOLLEFSON, Sec. 23 ; P. 0. Primrose; was born Nov. 11, 1825,_in Bygland, Salersdahlen, Norway; in 1843, his parents, T. Gunnufson and Hage Oleson, left his native place on foot, with their six children ; $180 was their entire capital, and it cost them $6 each for pasfage to Havre, France ; here an American skipper offered to transport them to their land of promise for 9 fivefranc pieces each, all under 14 to go at half-fare, and small children free ; thus they landed in New York with barely $1, and then Mr. Gunnufson was the richest Norse in the large party ; during the voyage, the sailors amused themselves by teaching young Gunolf the EngUsh language, and on slips of paper he wrote out common phrases, like " Do you want to hire a hand?" " What will you pay?" entering a junk shop in New York, he asked the proprietor the price of a pair of coarse trowsers ; " Two-and-six," was answered so quickly that our new citizen didn't catch it, so he says, "I will give you three shillings," and the old Norse garments were quickly thrown aside ; free transportation was given them to Milwaukee, they spending the winter in Norway, JRacine Co.; the next spring young Gunolf started West, reached Jefferson Prairie, and, by splitting 600 rails, was furnished an ox team with which to bring out his people ; here they made and lost a claim ; then went to Beaver Creek, Boone Co., 111., where the old couple died of cholera; returning, young ToUefson wnikrd out four years for Amos Skeels, of Rock Co ; earned 8300, and, in May. 1849, entered 160 acres of his present farm with Mexiean soldiers' warrants; iliat fall, himself aud a brother and a hired man worked here splitting rails, etc.; their flour, from the Moscow Mill, was baked in large batches, and, of course, frozen solid ; at Christmas time they went back to Kock Co., where they wintered. April 26, 1850, he married Julia Gr. Gunlius, who was born twenty-nine miles northeast of Dromme, entirely penniless; both hired out, and, during the summer, earned team, wagon and tools; settled here ia October, 1850, and have since lived here. Mr. T. has 180 acres, all of which can be plowed, and has excellent buildings, and is worth a comfortable sum besides. He is a Republican ; was Assessor, Supervisor, etc., a number of years, and was a member of the Legislature in 1868. Is a leading member of the Hauges Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church, and one of the successful, well-known and publicspirited pioneers of Primrose. Mr. and Mrs. Tollefson have never been blessed with children, and have adopted and dowered a number ; they now have two with them - Dora and Albert.

CARIi F. WELTZIX, Sec. 29 ; P. 0. Mt. Vernon ; born May 14, 1827, in Stavanger, Amt, Norway ; came with his two brothers to America in 1854 ; had a twelve weeks' voyage and landed at Quebec, where they suffered from cholera and homesickness ; reaching Chicago, he gave out on account of the cholera, and lay one month in hospital and private houses ; suffered much all the fall and winter, which he spent in Primrose ; the next spring, he paid $170 for part of his present farm, then a wilderness, on which was only a roofless cabin. He married in his and her native place, Maria Johanneson ; she died Dec. 3, 1867, leaving five children - Joachim P., Johannis, Charlotte A. P., Anna (Mrs. William Tjentland, died in Dakota, Dec. 1, 1879), and Greorge W. He married again in 1871, Monsena Jenson ; they have five children - Marie M., Carl J., Agatha P., Sophie and Clara; all except Joachim were born in Primrose. Mr. W. is a Republican ; was Town Treasurer three years during the civil war, and also, a Supervisor for two years. He is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

C. J. WJEIiTZIN, farmer. Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Mount Vernon ; born in Stavanger Amt, Christiansand Stift, Norway, June 1, 1825; in 1854, the good ship Urania brought the three Weltzin brothers to America ; landing at Quebec, they proceeded to Detroit, where C. J. was prostrated with the cholera, and kept until August, when he located near Lake Koshkonong, renting a farm; in 1856, he came to Primrose, and worked rented farms until 1861, when he settled on his present farm of 280 acres, 40 of which are in Springdale ; it was entered by Samuel Noffsinger, and afterward owned by the famous (or infamous) Byams. Mr. Weltzin married November, 1850, in his and her native Amt, Miss Magdalena Sampson, born in 1827 ; they have five living children - Charlotte, Juditte, Susanna, Joachim and Julia, and have lost four children, the eldest was born in Detroit, Juditte, in Perry, and the others in Primrose. Mr. W. is a Republican, and was twice Assessor of Primrose. Is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Has been local agent of the Hecla Insurance Co. since its organization. Devotes his farm chiefly to stock, and has an interest in the local cheese factory.

W. C. B. WELTZIN,, farmer and stock-raiser, Sees. 29 and 30 ; P. 0. Mount Vernon ; born Jan. 22, 1822, in Stavanger Amt, Christiansand Stift, Norway ; his father, Joachim Weltzin, died as a Captain in the Norse Army ; his mother, Charlotte Gr. P., also died in Norway. The brothers, W. C. B., C. J.and C. F., came to America in July, 1854, arriving at Primrose in August; he spent the winter with G. Tollefson, Esq., and the next spring, settled on 120 acres of his present 230-acre farm. He married in his and her native place, Mari Tjentland, they have eight children - Joachim P., Susanna S., Peter, Charlotte A. P., Judith P., William E., Carl 0., and John Ludwig, all born in Primrose. Mr. W. is a stalwart Republican ; was five consecutive years Town Treasurer, then Chairman a few years, then Town Clerk, and again while serving as Chairman was elected County Clerk, serving 1872 and 1873, was then Chairman of Primrose up to 1878, and has since refused all office. He is, with his family, a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod ; and is now breeding good stock, Durhams, etc.

Town Of Perry

L. M. AWDERSOJf, Sees. 26, 27 and 23 ; P. 0. Forward ; born Nov. 13, 1840, ia Buskerud Amt, Aggershuus Stifr, Norway ; his father, A. C. Vee, married Bertha Gulbrandson, they eame to America in 1851, with three children - Lars M., Christopher and J. C. ; in 1852, they settled on the present Syftestad farm, on Sec. 20, Perry, and in 1855, in York, Green Co., where the mother died, and the father still lives; Mr. Anderson s'ettled on his present farm of 446 acres in 1860 ; has improved and built upon it. He married Ragnild Halvorson, in Perry, 1860 ; they have six children - John P., Lena B., Andrew W., Charles M., Christian H. and James Robert, all natives of Perry; Mr. A. served from Feb. 13, 1865, until the close of the rebellion, in Co. I, 46th W. V. I.; is a Republican of twenty years' standing ; was Town Clerk in 1862, held the oflBoe several years ; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1866, and has held the office since ; and has been Chairman of Perry since 1870.; served as County Supervisor from the Fourth Assembly District in 1869, and Assessor of Perry in 1880. As a public record for so young a man, this needs no comment. Besides managing his large farm, Mr. A. has taught six summers and twenty winters, or since 1860. Is a member with his family of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church.

OliE OliSOBf BAKKEN, Sec. 4; P. 0. Perry; Mr. Bakken is the veteran of Perry; he was born in Christiania Amt, Aggershuus Stift, Norway, Jan. 16, 1816 ; married in 1842, Anne Bergnm, who was born in the same neighborhood Sept. 29, 1814 ; in 1848, with his two young sons, Ole 0. and Tidem an, they came to America ; reached Perry in August, 1848; bought the claim of a "squatter" named Andreas Olson, and became the first Norse family to permanently locate here ; Mr. Bakken is now the oldest resident of Perry ; has 250 acres, and excellent buildings, though he began thirty-two years ago in the claim shanty. Is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod ; was for years a Democrat, and is now a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Bakken have lost three children - Troud A., died April 29, 1862, and Erik O., who died April 20, 1862, both of diphtheria ; Thora 0.,died Nov. 1, 1861 ; they have four living children - Ole 0., Tideman, Marit and Astri ; the three youngest are in Trempealeau Co., Wis., and the eldest on his own farm in Perry.

O. B. DAHLE, merchant and Postmaster, Perry; born Oct. 4, 1823, in Ovre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift, Norway ; received a good education, and taught six years in his native land ; came to America after a four-weeks voyage, July 7, 1848, proceeding at once to Milwaukee; he soon retraced his steps to Michigan, where malarial fever drove him back to Milwaukee ; recovering, be reached Christiana, Dane Co., October, 1848 ; taught Norwegian school in the farmhouses of that and adjoining towns during the winter of 1848-49 ; worked out in the harvest of 1849, and in the fall formed a partnership with a cousin, K. H. Dahle ; they went to St. Louis, Mo., in October, and that winter cut cordwood on the Illinois side of the river, living in a " dug-out," over which a few logs were rolled. "Tet," says Mr. D., " it was one of my happiest winters." The work was very hard, but it paid ; April 14, they again visited St. Louis, and from there went to Independence, where their last dollar was paid for a poor outfit with which to cross the plains to California ; they had three Norsemen as partners ; and May 3, 1850, with three yoke of oxen joined a large party and started. The " hungry horrors " of that journey will never be effaced from the memory of Mr. Dahle ; half-fare from the outset ; several of the oxen were killed and eaten ; and they were absolutely without food or water during the last forty-mile march before reaching Carson River; at a distance of twelve miles from it, the fainting oxen were unyoked and driven there to drink ; only two of the poor brutes were then left ; and the Dahles, with a store of fried beef, bade their partners good-by, and started on foot, reaching Georgetown Aug. 24 ; on the way, they had the good luck to sell some spare clothing for $24, and then " lived high," though everything edible cost $1 per pound. The failure of their first week's mining disgusted them, and away they went to Sacramento ; here they worked at $75 per month on the levees, when suddenly dysentery broke out among the hands, and terrible sickness was the result. Finally recovering, they went via San Francisco to Salem, Oregon, where they spent the winter in a saw-mill, earning more than enough to purchase an outfit, in which they returned to the mines near Shasta or Eureka ; here they spent a most successful summer at mining, and, the water giving out, Mr. D. started to look up better locations. They finally opened up a large claim on Humbug River ; here they worked until Christmas ; then went again to Shasta, and mined all winter and summer. Mr. D. visited the Rogue River country, and was again taken sick, and suffered several weeks. In the fall of 1851, they went to San Francisco, and, well-loaded with gold dust, shipped for home ; crossed the isthmus and, arriving at New Orleans, were cruelly swindled out of about $1,600 while making an exchange of their dust. At St. Louis, they made a resolve to go back to the mines the next spring with a drove of cattle ; news reached them, however, of the departure of relatives from Norway ; Mr. D. came to Wisconsin to meet his mother and brother ; but the former died in Milwaukee before the son could reach her. In the spring of 1853, he came to Perry and built the old store, now overshadowed by the new one built in 1870 ; the latter is 24x50, and filled with " all kinds of everything." Mr. D., then inexperienced, bean carefully, and has become opulent ; his two-story stone house was built in 1864, and, while building it, himself and all employes were drafted ; a trip to Janesville, and a $500 substitute settled this. Mr. Dahle was the leading Npirit in building the elegant new Lutheran Church of Perry. His first vote was for President Pierce ; but he has been a Republican since 1856 ; was School Superintendent many years 'under the old system ; Chairman of Perry in 1859, and Justice of the Peace from 1854 to 1880. He married, in Racine Co., Wis., March 29, 1854, Miss Bridget Nelson, born in Hallingdahl, Norway, in August, 1828 ; they have five children - Herman B., Johan T., Henry L., Teah Otilia and Marie E. No man in Dane County enjoys the confidence and general esteem of his fellow-men more than does 0. B. Dahle; his commission as Pos'master dates June, 1871, he succeeding A. Sanderson.

B. T. DAIiEY, farmer. Sec. 7 ; P. 0. Perry, born in Ovre Thelemarkan, Christiansand Stifti Norway, Aug. 13, 1848 ; in 1852, his parents came to America, spent the winter near Koshkonong, and> in the spring of 1853, settled on the Daley homestead, where the father, T. B. Daley, died Sept. 11, 1861) aged 46, leaving 3; wife (now 66 years of age) and five children. His son, our subject, has been a lifelong farmer, and now owns the farm of 120 acres, of which 50 were chopped out of the original timber He married Mary Reirum, born Dec. 25, 1845, in Hadeland, Norway ; they were married May 17, 1871, and she died March 11, 1880, leaving five children - Anne, Isaac, Theodore, Amanda and Clara ; little Maria died on the day of her birth, three days before her mother died. Mr. Daley is a Republican j has been Constable, District Treasurer, etc. ; is, as were his ancestors, a member of tbe Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church.

J. O. DAHLBY, Sec. 17; P. 0. Perry; born in Christians-amt, Aggershuus Stift, Norway, July 6, 1833 ; his parents and grandparents came to America in 1850 ; his mother died in Albion Township, Nov. 13, 1850 ; the entire family settled on the Dahlby homestead in the spring of 1851, the only improvements being a log house on a small clearing ; the grandparents died here, and the father and stepmother still reside here. Mr. Dahlby married, Feb. 26, 1854. Miss Guro Omtand, born Oct. 15, 1835, in Nedenaes Amt, Christiansand Stift ; her parents came to America in 1845 and settled in Illinois ; came, in 1849, to Ridgeway, Iowa Co. Mr. and Mrs. Dahlby have three children - Ole, Nicholas and Anne - and lost three - Andreas, aged 4 years, Grunhild, 10 months, and Andreas, 3 months. Mr. Dahlby is a Republican, and has been Treasurer and Assessor of his town ; is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church.

PETER DAHLBY, Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Forward; born July 28, 1827, in Christians-amt, Aggershuus Stift, Norway ; came to America in 1850, and, in March 1851, arrived in Perry without a dollar ; by working out, he earned some money, which he invested at once in land, so that in 1854 he owned and settled upon 120 acres. Sees. 8 and 17, Perry; began here with an ax alone, doing without a team for a time; still, he finally prospered, and erected good buildings, which were totally destroyed by the hurricane of 1878, A. Olson, then in the house, being killed. Mr. Dahlby came to his present location in 1874 ; has 140 acres here, on which he has built a good frame house, and basement barn, 30x50 ; he still owns the other farm, on which his eldest son lives. Mr. Dahlby married Aaste Juulson Haavrud ; she died Nov. 1, 1856, leaving a son - Amund P., born Nov. 1, 1856 ; the present wife was Grunhild Olson Tvedten; they have a son - Olaus P., born Feb. 6, 1860 ; both were born in Perry; the eldest married Else Kittleson. Mr. Dahlby is a Republican, and was three yeirs a Trustee in the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry ; he served a few months of 1865 in Co. G, 46th W. V. I.

CHRISTIAN EVENSOIV, Sec. 23, merchant and Postmaster, Forward ; born in Norway, Aggershuus Amt, Christiania Stift, Dec. 24, 1819; as his people were all poor, his early education was slight; in 1854, he came to America, and to Wisconsin, buying his present farm in 1855 ; has 279J acres; opened a small store here in 1874, where he sells groceries, dry goods and notions ; was appointed Postmaster in 1872. He married Rangnild Nielson Brekke in Norway ; they have two children - Agnette and Niels; the daughter was born May 4, 1855, in Madison, and the son July 10, 1857, in Perry. Mr. Evenson is a member of the Hauges Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod ; Independent in politics. Ho stopped for a time near Lake Koshkonong, and spen^. the winter and spring of 1855 in Madison.

SIGMUXD FISCHER, Sees. 10, 9 and 11 ; P. 0. Perry; was born in the village of Assamfltadt, Baden, Feb. 28, 1835 ; came to America in 1853 ; resided in Sauk City, Wis., and on a farm near Koxbury, Dane Co.; 1857-58 were spent at his trade of shoemaker in Wisconsin and Illinois ; settled on -200 acres of his farm in 1859 ; has added 40, and has erected all the buildings. He married, in Roxbury, March 1, 1859, Miss Catharine Platz, born Jan. 9, 1836, in Wurtemberg; she came to America in 1851 ; they have six children - Prank Gr., Prances M., Lona M,, Katie M., Anton S. and Charles G., all born in Perry. Mr. Fischer is a Republican and a Roman Catholic, with his family. He has been Assessor and Supervisor of Perry, and Trustee of his church.

OLiE GRIMSTVEDT, »ec. 16; P. 0. Perry; born Jan. 15,184^, in Ovre Thelemarken, Stift; son of Knudt and Mari (Nass) Grrimstvedt, who emigrated to America in 1850, locating in Ridgeway, Iowa Co., where they still reside ; they brought with them four children - Ole, Kisten, John and Birda, the latter two now dead, and Kisten, living in Jackson Co., Minn.; here he grew up to manhood, receiving in the meantime such common-school education as his parents could afford to give him ; he attended the first school in what is now District No. 7, held in the old log church on Sec. 8; he also helped Mr. 0. B. Dahle haul the first load of lumber from Steele's saw-mill for the store built in 1853. He enlisted Nov. 5, 1861, in Co. C, 12th W. V. I., and re-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864 (was enrolled as Ole Olson) ; served through the siege and capture of Vicksburg and the operations of the Army of the Tennessee up to July 21, 1864, when he received a bullet in the left hip while fighting with his regiment at what is variously known as the battle of Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, etc. ; was eighteen months in the hospital, and was honorably discharged April 2, 1866 ; is now a pensioner. In 1867, he married Miss Grinder ; she was born Dec. 22, 1845, in Aggershuus Amt Christiania Stift ; they have one child, a Clara Matilda, born March 9, 1868. Mr. G. is a Republican in politics ; was United States Census Enumerator in 1870 and 1880, Town Clerk in 1869-70 and 1872-73, and from 1876 to 1880 ; "was also Assessor in 1879. Is a member, with his family, of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church. Has 90 acres, where he settled in 1867. [The good-will and courtesy shown the writer by Mr. G, is fully and sincere thanks are here tendered ; his careful study and thorough research of Norse history and nomenclature, rendered his assistance of double value.]

' mARTIN O. GRINDER, Sec. 7; P. 0. Perry; born Oct. 4, 1842, in Aggershuus Amt, Christiania Stift, Norway ; came to America with his parents in 1859 ; lived in Perry up to October, 1861, when he enlisted in Co. C, 12th W. V. I.; served with the Tennessee Army at Corinth, Humboldt, Vicks- 'burg, the Meridian raid, and fought with Sherman at Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee River and Peach ^Tree Creek, where he was wounded July 21, 1864, receiving a ball through the left wrist joint, and was in the Madison and Detroit hospitals until Aug. 11, 1865, when he received his discharge. . In 1 866, he settled on his 80-acre farm in Perry. He married Miss Anne Svenson Askland, born in Nedenas Amt Christiansand Stift; she died Jan. 26, 1876, leaving three children - Ole, Andreas and Anne; he married again Miss Kari Nielson Mithws, born in Valders, Bergen Stift, Norway, in June, 1841. Mr. is a Republican and a Lutheran.

HANS P. HEGDAHL, Sec. 32; P. 0. Moscow, Iowa Co., Wis.; is now, with two exceptions, the oldest settler in Perry ; was born in 1809, in Stavanger Amt, Christiansand Stift, Norway, and came to America and Perry in 1850 ; first settled on the present Augustus Gobel farm, and two years later to his present 217-acre farm ; here he dug a hole in the hillside, rolled up some logs, and thus began " housekeeping ;" being one of the first Norse settlers in the south part of the town. He married, in his and her na'ive amt, Hjertine Barsta, by whom he had seven children - Staale, Mary, Ingebprg, Hannah, Henry, Lena and Anna. Mr. Hegdahl is a Democrat, and member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of York.

E. M. HELL AND, Sec. 29 ; P. 0. Perry; born in Valders, Aggershuus Stift, Norway, Jan- 10, 1830; came to the United States in 1852 ; worked by the month during the summer in Ridgewayi Iowa Co., Wis. ; and during the winter of 1852-53, cut wood on the Illinois bank of the Mississippi; returned in the spring and settled on 60 acres of his present farm ; dug a celllar or rude Western " dug-out,' -and lived in it all summer ; that fall he built a log house and married Sigri Hendrickson, also born in Valders Feb. 2, 1829 ; they began with small means in the log house ; worked and planned well, and are rewarded by a good farm of 225 acres, on which a good frame house was built in 1866, and a 30x50 basement barn in 1875 ; they have seven children - Michael, Edward, Anton, Julia, Henry, Anne 0. and George, all born on the Perry farm, where all except tfee eldest (now a Minnesota farmer) still live. Mr. Helland and family belong to the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry. Politics, Republican.

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TOBCirER JOHNSON, Sec. 17; P. 0. Perry; born July 15, 1828, in Nedenas Amt, Christiansand Stift, Norway. Married in Norway, Kari Tollefadatter ; came to America, and settled on Sec. 16, Perry, late in 1853 ; is now living with his son-in-law, Edwin Burgeson. Adne Burgeson, of York, Q-reen Co., Wis., was born in Ovre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift,in 1809 ; was of the Norse tenantry. Married Helga Burgeson and came to America in 1843 ; bought Q-overnment land in the town of Christiana, Dane Co., and became one of its pioneer settlers; removed to York in 1855. Edwin Burgeson was born in the frontier log house, Christiana, March 15, 1847, and has always lived in Wisconsin. He married Miss Julia, only child of Torger Johnson, March 18, 1872 ; she was born on her parents' Perry homestead, and has three children - Hannah C, Thea A. and Bertha J. The family belong to the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry. Mr. Bergeson is a Republican ; has been Supervisor, Justice of, the Peace and Town Treasurer. The farm of 307 acres is formed of the old Langemyr and Dahle farms.

ANTON KELLER, Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Mt. Vernon; born May 9,1830, near Kenzilsow, Wurtemberg; came with his brother Simon to America in 1852; worked out the first year in Perry; then bought 80 acres each of new wild land ; built a log cabin and kept " bachelor's hall " until February, 1855, when Anton married Katherine Mousner, born March, 1835, in Bavaria. Mr. Keller now has 200 acres, on which he has built a good house, basement barn, 60x42 feet, outbuildings, windmill, etc. ; has six children - Kasarz (Mrs. F. Korgler), Margeret, Lizzie, Mary, Joseph and Prank,'all born in Perry. Mr. K. is a Democrat and was one of the founders of the Perry Boman Catholic Church ; his farm was oak openings, and the clearing and breaking have been done by him.

OLE KETTELSON, Sec. 28 ; P. 0. Perry ; born in Ovre Thelemarker, Christiansand Stift, Norway, Feb. 8, 1834; the parents and family came to America in 1850 ; first settled in Pleasant Springs, Dane Co., and, four years later, came to Perry, locating on the present homestead ; here the father. Kettle Anderson, and the mother, aged respectively 75 and 64 years, still reside. Their son, our subject, has 260 acres, on which he has built a good frame house, and a basement barn and granary, 30x66 feet. He married Tbrbjbr Burgeson, born Jan. 4, 1837, in the same amt as himself; they have eight children - Mary .H., Kariae A., Anna B., Carl A., Henry M., Edith 0., Teah 0. and Emma J., all born in Perry. Mr. Kettelson had the honor of driving- the team which hauled the first load of dirt for the first railroad in Dane Co. ; he was also a soldier from February, 1865, until the discharge of his regiment (the 46th W. V. I., Co. I.). Is a Republican, and is now serving his third term as Supervisor. Is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry.

WILLIAM II. MACFARLANB, M. D., of Perry ; was born in Washington, Guernsey Co., Ohio, Jan. 15, 1847 ; his father, John MacFarlane, a Highland Scotchman, came to America soon after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, and married Mary MulhoUand, who died in 1849. In 1855, he settled in Lewiston, Columbia Co., Wis., where he now lives, though retired from practice. His son, oar subject, was educated in the city high school of Portage, Wis., and in the Platteville Normal School ; taught a number of terms and began the study of medicine with his father; entered the Rush Medical College, Chicago, and graduated, as physician and surgeon, at the close of the session of 1875-76, and, during the Centennial year, he practiced at Mt. Vernon, but gave it up by agreement with the local physician there, and coming to Perry in 1877, where he has built up a large practice. The Doctor suffered from personal injury and the loss of $500 of property during the tornado of 1878. He married, in 1879, Miss Sarah Ivey, of Moscow, Iowa Co., Wis. Is a member of the Adamsville Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and a Republican.

LAWRENCE POST, Sec. 4 ; P. 0. Perry ; born in Spmerset Co., Penn., April 15, 1841 ; was left motherless at 14 days of age, and fatherless at 8 years ; his step-mother married again, John Mergler, and, in 1851, they came to Wisconsin; wintered in Perry, resided two years in Springdale, and located again in Perry in 1855. Mr. Post has lived here since, beginning as a laborer, earning from his board and a shilling per day up to $12 per month. He enlisted, in April, 1861, in Co. K, 3d W. V. I. ; enlisted for three months, but soon after re-enlisted for three years or during the war, in the same company and regiment ; was with the Army of the Potomac in the Shenandoah campaign, in the battles of Wincl^ester and Cedar Mountain, where he was captured and paroled ; after six weeks was duly exchanged, rejoined his company, fought at Chancellorsville, Germania Ford and Gettysburg ; was then in hospital up to his discharge, in July, 1864. Returning, he settled, the same year, on his present farm. Married, Jily 16, 1866, Mary Heller, born Sept. 4, 1846, in Baden, Germany ; they have six children - Peter J., (leorge L., M. Helena, Frances T., August and Julia A., all born in Perry. Mr. Post is a straight Republican, and served his town as Supervisor in 1869, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1879 and 1880; has also been Justice of the Pe?,ce, and in school office for the past fourteen years. Is a Roman Catholic.

O. H. RINDir, Sees. 7, 8 and 18 ; P. 0. Perry ; born in Nedre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stifl, Norway, Aug. 26, 1842; his parents emigrated to the United States in 1855; spent two years in Washington Co., Wis. ; then settled on Sec. 8, Perry, where the father died in 1867. His son enlisted, Aug. 15, 1862, in Co. H. 27th W. V. I. ; was with the Army of the Tennessee at Vicksburg, Little Rock, New Orleans and Mobile ; here he was taken sick, and from New Orleans was sent home on siek furlough ; was honorably discharged Aug. 11, 1865. He married, five days after his enlistment. Miss Anne Peterson ; they have nine children - Henry 0., Julia C, Carolina, Halvor A., Carl J., Anne J., Peter H., Otilda A. and Emma 8., all born on Sec. 7, Perry. The two eldest were born in the log house, built in 1851 or 1852 by Hans Peterson, his father-in-law. The widow of Mr. P. is now with Mr. Rindy, and is one of Perry's veteran pioneers. Mr. R. began with 80 acres in 1868, and now has 197 acres, on which he has erected good buildings ; has 75 acres under cultivation, of which he cleared and broke about 60. Is a G-reenbaoker and a Lutheran, voting with the Republicans up to 1878. Has been Town Treasurer, and twice Supervisor.

ANDREW SANDERSON (OIO), deceased ; bom in Hallingdahl, Aggershuus Stift, Norway, Nov. 22, 1807; came to America in August, 1846; residedin the Koshkonong country until May, 1850, when he settled in Perry ; built a log house and lived two years on the Volstad farm ; then put up a partly log and partly framed house on the Sanderson homestead ; in the framed part of this house the first town meeting was held. Mr. S. was elected a Supervisor, and continued in town office up to 1869 ; was Chairman four years ; was the first Postmaster of Perry Post Office, serving from 1857 to 1871. Was first a Democrat, and finally a stalwart Republican. He also belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Hauges Synod). He married Aagot Plaaten in May, 1840 ; she was born near Plaaten Hallingdahl Jan. 29, 1821. Mr. Sanderson died July 27, 1873, leaving ten children - Birget, Astri, Sandera, Turi, Karine, Carl A., Olina, Olaus, Serina and Adolph A. ; the eldest was born in Norway, the second in Koshkonong, and the others in Perry. Mr. S. began with 80 acres and little means, and left an estate of 280 acres and a good home.

PAUIi O. SYFTBSTAD, Sec. 20 ; P. 0. Perry, born in Ovre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift, Norway, March, 1816. Married, in Norway, Guro Jacobsdatter. Came to America in 1854 ; reaching Chicago, his wife died of cholera ; two days later, the little daughter (Martha) died near Lake Koshkonong ; this left three children - Jacob, Ole and Susanna ; a week later, or late in August, 1854, he settled on his present farm ; only 12 acres were broken, and a log shanty built ; he now has 200 acres, and good buildings. Married again Gro Straand, by whom he has two sons - Olaus and Paul P. Jacob Syftestad enlisted in the 27th W. V. I., and died, in 1863, in Little Rock, Ark. ; Ole is now a Minnesota merchant, and Susanna the wife of Guilbrand Anderson ; Olaus was seven years in Luther College, Decorah. Iowa, and is now studying for the ministry in the Norse Lutheran Seminary, Madison; Paul P. attended the Monona Academy in 1879, and is now with his parents on the homestead. Mr. S. has always been a Republican, and belongs to the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry.

Town Of Bristol

EPHRAIH BAKER, farmer. Sec. 10 ; P. O. North Bristol ; born Nov. 7, 1807, in Hawley, Franklin Co., Mass. ; son of HoUister and Rebecca (Crowell) Baker ; his first wife, to whom he was married Jan. 21, 1830, was Miss Roana, daughter of Alpheus Hawkes ; she died Feb. 18, 1832, in Hawley, Mass., leaving one son, William, who now resides in the town of Bristol. June 12, 1834, he married Miss Fanny M. Hawkes, a sister of his first wife ; he resided in Hawley, Mass., till 1844, then came to Wisconsin and selected his present location, where he has lived ever since. His second wife died in the town of Bristol March 2, 1849, leaving six children, having lost three in infancy, previous to her death ; her oldest daughter, Roana, was married to A. J. Alden, and died July 18, 1863, at the age of 28, leaving two children ; Otis was married to Harriet Crowell, of Franklin Co., Mass., and is now in the livery business in Parkersburg, Butler Co., Iowa; Washburn died Sept. 11, 1871, from disease contracted in the army ; was in the service two and a half years, in the 7th W. V. I., Co. B ; Margaret, now Mrs. C. D. Stiles, of Hamden, Columbia Co., Wis. ; Harriet died Aug. 9, 1857, at the age of 17; Charles was married to Miss Eunice Findley, of Madison, Wis., Sept. 4, 1869, and is now living on the homestead. Mr. Baker was again married, May 23, 1849, to Harriet H. Bice, of Columbus, Wis., who was born in Springfield, Vt., June 29, 1807 ; daughter of Daniel Houghton, and widow of Amos L. Rice, who died Sept.

Town Of Bkistol

20. 1846, leaving one son, George D., now living at Fall River, Columbia Co., Wis. ; his only child by th third marriage, JEreda C, died in infancy. The children all lived at home till they were married. Mi Baker kept the first store in the town of Bristol in 1848 ; he purchased about |400 worth of goods at firsi put them into his granary and employed a man named Sears as clerk ; he helped to lay out the first roa in the north part of the town, and was one of the first to move in the organization of the first school dis trict; has 620 acres of land in his farm, worth about $40 per acre; keeps from 50 to 75 head o cattle, 18 to 20 horses, 200 to 250 head of sheep, and 35 to 40 hogs. Waterloo Creek has its source o his farm, affording an abundance of water for stock. He is a Eepublican. Mrs. Baker is a member of th M. E. Church.

WILLIAM D. CARLETON, farmer. Sec. 32 ; P. 0. Sun Prairie ; descended from the ol English family of Carletons ; Edward was the only one of three brothers that came to America ; he set tied at Old Salem, Mass., in 1626 ; one brother remaining on the estate in Ensrland, and one going to Ire land. William D. was born June 5, 1815, in Hillsboro Co., N. H., in the native town of Horace Greeley he was a son of John and Fanny Carleton. Was married in Manchester, N. H., Dec. 27, 1840, to Clariss J., daughter of Silas and Jane Wells, natives of New Hampshire ; came to Wisconsin in 1847, and settlei in the town of Trenton, Dodge Co. ; in 1857, he sold out there and removed to his present location, wher he has since resided ; has six children - Fannie J., William M., Emmie Ellen and Annie Viola (twins^ Charles Edwin and John Franklin ; have lost two - Mary Adella and Ernest Elmer. William M. is mai ried and lives in Minneapolis, Minn., and Charles Edwin is also married and lives in the town of Windsfir Emmie Ellen is the widow of David Samuels, who died April 22, 1880, in Beaver Dam. Mr. Carletoi has been Assessor and Town Clerk in Bristol, and was Supervisor and Chairman several years in Dodg County, and also Justice of the Peace four or five years ; Republican,. and has 158 acres of land, wortl about $40 per acre.

A. CHIPMAN, farmer, Sec. 32; P. 0. Sun Prairie; 'born Aug. 3, 1826, in Windham, Vt. son of Sabin and Almira Chipman. Was married in New Hampshire, in 1849, to Martha Allen, daugh ter of Abel Allen ; came to Wisconsin in 1852, and located on his present farm, where he has since resided has two children - Ida (now Mrs. Henry Witherell, of Kansas) and Herbert A. (living at home) ; has 70! acres of land in Dane County, valued at about |35 per acre. Has now 13 horses and 179 head of cattle milks from 50 to 60 cows ; has a creamery, 30x50, for his individual use, and made about 12,000 pounds o butter in the year 1879. Mr. Chipman is the present Chairman of the town of Bristol ; although ; Eepublican in a Democratic town, has been Town Clerk, Treasurer and Assessor, and Justice of the Peace Mrs. Chipman is a member of the Christian Church.

PATRICK CLARY, farmer, Sec. 4;'P. 0. North Bristol; born Nov. 15, 1833, in Count; Tipperary, Ireland, parish of Eylass ; his father, James Clary, came to America in 1851 ; lived in Onon daga Co., N. Y., three years, then came to Wisconsin ; lived awhile in Sun Prairie, then removed to th town of Burke, where he died April 3, 1876, aged about, 65 ; Mrs. Clary, whose maiden name was Mar Kennedy, died in Ireland in 1846 or 1847. Mr. Clary was married, Oct. 20, 1863, to Mary Nolan, wh was born in County Kildare, Ireland, in 1835, daughter of Larus Nolan ; has five children - James Francis born June 19, 1868 ; Bernard L., born Aug. 10, 1870 ; Marietta, born Nov. 5, 1873 ; John L. P., bor Aug. 10, 1875, and Charlie Edward, born March 3, 1878. In politics, independent; 205 acres of lane worth $7,000. Both members of the Catholic Church.

CHRISTIAN ANDERSOIT DAHL£, farmer, Sec. 8 ; P. O. North Bristol; born Dec 31, 1831, in Leiconger, Norway ; son of Andrew Oleson Dahle, who came to America in 1852 ; settled i Dane Co. ; afterward went to Minnesota and died there in 1869. Was ' married, in 1857, to Ann Johnson, daughter of John S. Langeteig (known here as John S. Johnson) ; has five children - Christin Carolina, Andrew C, Marcus C, Randa C. and Ella C. Republican. Has 216 acres of land, worth $4 per acre. Both members of the Lutheran Church.

NICK ENDRES, farmer. Sec. 9;. P. 0. korth Bristol; born Nov. 11, 1842, in Sarburj Prussia; his father, Matthias Endres, came to America with his family in 1852, and settled in the tow of Springdale, Dane Co., and is still living there, at the age of 65. Mr. Endres was married, in 1867, ( Rosina Garis, who was born in the town of Bristol, daughter of Valentine Garris, who came to America i 1848, and now lives in Bristol. Mr. Endres has three children - Mary, George Willie and Elvis Nichola He is the present Assessor of the town, and has held several school district ofiices. Politics, Democra Has 160 acres of land, worth about $6,000. Both members of the Roman Catholic Church.

J. M. HANER, farmer. Sec. 22 ; P. 0. Sun Prairie ; born Nov. 8, 1828, in Greene Co., N. Y son of Isaac and Betsy Haner. Was married there, April 25, 1849, to Sarah Stroup, daughter of Georj and Rubannah Stroup ; she was born in tbe city of Brooklyn Aug. 17, 1828; her parents removed to Greene Co., N. Y., when she was a child, and her father died there March 29, 1843 ; her mother came to Wisconsin with her family in 1847 ; lived in Lomira, Dodge Co., several years ; then removed to the town of Byron, Fond du Lac Co., and died there April 27, 1878; Mr. Haner's mother died when he was 3 years old, his father a year later, leaving him an orphan at the tender age of 4 years ; he then lived with a cousin who rented his father's farm till he was 10 years old ; then lived three or four years with an older sister, who married and took possession of the farm, and then worked out by the month till he was 20 years old, first at $7 per month and afterward as high as 860 ; bought a farm in 1848, and sold two years after marriage ; in 1851, he came to Wisconsin, arriving in Milwaukee on the 18th day of May ; lived tempo- , rarily in Lomira, Dodge Co., till the next October ; then came to Dane Co. and settled on the farm he now occupies, where he has since resided ; has a family of six children - Frank, Emma, Sarah, Eva, Cordelia and Uriah, all at home ; Freddie died in November, 1867, in his eighth year. Mr. Haner has held the office of Chairman of the town several years, also Supervisor and Assessor. In politics, Independent. He pays considerable attention to dairying ; has at present forty-seven cows, and makes butter exclusively, and churns by horse-power ; has 539 acres of land, worth about $25 per acre, and a house and lot in Sun Prairie. Mr. and Mrs. Haner are members of the M. E. Church.

JOHX E. HIDDEX, farmer, Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Sun Prairie; was born in Orleans Co., Vt.,Oot. 9, 1818; lived on a farm till 20 years of age; then went to Ottawa, 111., and lived there about a year, when, on account of poor health, he was advised to return to the New England hills, which he did, and, in 1840, commenced clerking in a country store in Vermont, and remained in the same store till 1848; then came West, and spent about three months in Illinois and Missouri, when he returned to Vermont and clerked in his old place till the fall of 1851 ; then went South, and spent almost two months in Macon, Ga. ; he then returned North, and clerked in Lowell, Mass., till the spring of 1855, when he went in as a partner in the same concern, firm of " Griffin, Hidden & Co. ;" in the spring of 1856, he sold out, and came to Wisconsin ; he located in the town of Bristol, and bought, 40 acres of land, which is a part of his present farm, and has followed farming ever since. In August, 1854, he was married, in Lowell, Mass., to Catharine A. Swain, a native of Sanborn, N. H., and has two children living - Walter S. and Charles, both unmarried and at home; William E. died Sept. 1, 1859, a little over 3 months old. Has held the offices of Chairman, Town Clerk, School Superintendent and County Supervisor under the old. system. Has been a strong Republican ever since the party was organized. Has 80 acres of land in his farm, worth about $6,000.

SJUR JOHNSOIS", farmer. Sec. 8; P. 0. North Bristol; born Feb. 22, 1820, in the District of Bergen, Norway; son of John S. Johnson, who came to America in 1848, and is now living with his son-in-law. Christian Anderson Dahle, in the 84th year of his age. Mr. Johnson was married in Norway, in 1841, to Ingebor Thoroson ; came to America in 1846, and settled on the farm he now occupies. His first wife died in 1851, of cholera, leaving one child, John S. Johnson, who is now living in Minnesota. Was married the second time in 1852, to Ingebor Fardahl, a native of Norway; she died in 1859, leaving two children - Aufin, now living in Dakota, and Inger, living at home. Was married the third time, in 1861, to Turi Johnson, daughter of Simon Larson, and widow of Ole Johnson, who died in 1851 ; she had three children by the first husband - Simon, Ole and Tura, all in Minnesota; has also three children by the second husband - Andrew, Carrie and Christian, all at home, Mr. Johnson is a Republican ; and has been Supervisor five or six years. Has 184 acres of land, worth $35 per acre. Himself and wife are both members of the Lutheran Church.

CHRISTIAIV liARSOX, farmer. Sec. 4; P. 0. -North Bristol; born Deo. 17, 1839, in Bergen, Norway ; son of Erick Larson, who came to America in 1846 ; settled in Bristol, and died in 1856. Mr. Larson was married in August, 1876, to Miss Anna, daughter of Halver Anderson; has two children - Edward, born Aug. 27, 1877, and Henry, born Aug. 27, 1879 ; has held the office of Justice of the Peace, and is at present one of the Supervisors of the town. "Straight Republican." Has 216 acres of land, worth $35 per acre. Both members of the Lutheran Church.

JACOB OSTBAXDER (deceased) was one of the first settlers in the town of Bristol; he was a native of Rensselaer Co., N. Y. Was* married in Saratoga Co., N. Y., in March, 1844, to Jerusha - Travis, who was born Nov. 4, 1820, in Baston, Washington Co., N. Y., daughter of Daniel Travis, who came to Wisconsin in 1853, and died Oct. 13, 1874, at the age of 85 ; Mrs. Travis, whose maiden name was Mary Fish, died Feb. 4, 1878. In September, 1844, he came to Wisconsin, arriving in Dane Co., on the 18th of thfe month; he settled on Sec. 17, in what is now the town of Bristol, and resided there till his death, Jan. 21, 1875, at the age of 56. He joined the M. E. Church in 1845, and was the first class- leader in the society ; he left a widow and seven children - Oscar, Isabell C, Ellen Eulalie, Salina C, Salinda M., George D., and James H., all at home, except Isabell C, who is now Mrs. Jerry H. Levering, of Antelope Co., Neb.; the oldest son, Oscar, was born Dec. 30, 1844, and was the first white child born in the north part of the town ; he enlisted in January, 1864, in Co, K, 12th W. V. I.; was in the service till the close of the war; went with " Sherman to the sea," and was in every battle in which his regiment participated during his term of service ; was in five or six hard-fought battles and several skirmishes. Mrs. Ostrander and two of the daughters are members of the M. E. Church; the first summer they lived in Bristol they went to Sun Prairie to church on an ox sled, but the second summer put on a little more style, having a wagon, the wheels of which were solid wood, made by sawing off sections of the body of a large tree; the homestead, which is occupied by the family, consists of 159 acres of land, worth $40 per acre ; P. 0. Sun Prairie.

HEBHAX H. QUAMME, farmer, Sec. 20 ; P. 0. Sun Prairie; born Aug. 7, 1852, in Bristol; son of Hans Hermanson Quamme (see his biography) ; was married Nov. 20, 1877, to Anna 0. Burnson, daughter of 0. C. Burnson Jerde, a native of Norway, who came to Wisconsin in 1856, and now lives in the town of Bristol, on Sec. 18 ; she was born Sept. 1, 1855, in Norway; have never had but one child - Hannah, died Sept. 11, 1878, 9 months old; he is a Kepublican, and both members of the Lutheran Church ; he was baptized, and married by the same minister, the Rev. A. Prause ; was baptized in infancy at a log sohoolhouse in the town of Leeds, Columbia Co., near the Dane County line, and married in a church standing near where the old sohoolhouse did.

HANS HEB9IA1VS01V QUAMME (deceased) was born in Bergen, Norway; son of Herman Quamme; came to America in 1846, lived two years on Rock Prairie, and in 1848, came to Bristol, where he resided till his death, Sept. 10, 1878, at the age of 56. He was married in 1852, in Bristol to Ragnelde Svern, daughter of Herman Svern ; she was born in Norway, and her parents came to America when she was 12 years old ; had thirteen children living at the time of his death, having lost one before (Hellen, died at 3 years of age) ; those living are as follows : Herman (married and living in Bristol), Henry (married and living on the homestead), Andrew (living in Richland Co., Dak.), Billy, Carrie, ,Bertha, Lena, Toinmy, Helen, Johnny, Tilda, Herbie and Theodore ; all single but the two eldest ; last ten at home ; Henry was born Aug. 24, 1854, and married Dec. 18, 1878, to Dora Burnson, who was born in Bristol, Sept. 18, 1856, and has one child, Bhoda, and is living on the homestead, which consists of 280 acres of land, valued at about $9,000. All members of the Lutheran Church, and the boys are all Eepublioans. P. 0.. North Bristol.

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WILLIAM H. A JTGEL.L, farmer and lumber dealer. Sec 5 ; P. 0. Sun Prairie ; was born in West Haven, Rutland Co., Vt., June 20, 1813; a son of Newell and Charity Angell ; came to Wisconsin May 1, 1842 ; settled in the town of Whitewater, Walworth Co.; removed from there to his present location in August, 1844 ; engaged in business at that time as carpenter and joiner. Has held the oflBces of Supervisor, Assessor, School Director, Treasurer and Clerk ; held the office of Postmaster fifteen years, and the office of Deputy Sheriff six years ; he has always taken an active interest in educational matters. Owns 400 acres of land. His father was a native of New York, his mother of Vermont. He married, Jan. 10, 1840, Electa L., daughter of John and Permelia Abernethy. Mr. Angell is President of the Anti- Horse-thief Society. One of his sons, William "B., enlisted in Co. D., 20th W. Y. I., July 24, 1862, and was mustered out in 1864.

THOMAS ATKINS, farmer. Sec. 34; P. 0. Cottage Grove; has been a resident of Sun Prairie and resided in his present location since the spring of 1845 ; he was born Oct. 22, 1814, in the County of Sussex, England; came to America in the spring of 1839, and lived in Madison Co., N. Y., lul he came to Wisconsin. In November, 1844, he married Mary Jane Putnam, a native of Oneida Co., N- Y., born July 27, 1824, daughter of George Putnam, and a descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam ; they have four children now living - Emma (who is the wife of Hugh Davison, of Sioux Co., Iowa), Libbie, tharles and George ; the last three are at home ; they have lost four children, as follows: George, died oept. 14, 1849, aged 1 year and 4 tnonths ; De Witt Clinton enlisted in Co. F, 36th W. V. 1., March 14, loW; was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor; came home, and died of his wounds Aug. 14, 1864; John, died Feb. 8, 1863, aged 6 years; and Ella, died August 4, 1864, aged 12 years. Mr. Atkins is a

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Republican, and a member of the M. E. Church ; has held the offices of steward, class-leader, exhorter and trustee in the church, and the first religious meetings in the town of Sun Prairie were held in his Ic house. He has 157 acres of land, worth $35 per acre.

CASPBK R. BABCOCK, merchant. Sun Prairie; has been doing business in the same store since 1860, and keeps a general stock. He was born in Pharsalia, Chenango Co., N. Y., Oct. 6^ 1835 ; commenced clerking when a boy, and has beea engaged in the mercantile business ever since. He was married in Shoreham Village, Vt., Sept. 23, 1864, to Sarah E. Jones, a native of the town in which she was married ; they have two children - Mattie, born Nov. 25, 1867, and Reba, July 13, 1873. He has been either President or Trustee of the village ever since it was organized, and is at present one of the Trustees. He is a Republican. Mrs. Babcock is a member of the Congregational Church.

ROBERT BEECHAm, farmer, Sec. 6 : P. 0. Sun Prairie ; born Aug. 29, 1802, in King's Co., Ireland; when 16 year^ old his father, Robert Beecham, came to America, settled in New Brunswick, and died there ; Robert came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1843, and has lived in his present location ever since; was married, in New Brunswick, Sept. 9, 1830, to Fanny Jane Cromwell, who was born in St. John's, N. B.. Nov. 2, 1814 ; has six children living - Deborah, now Mrs. Isaac Hayden, of Sun Prairie village; Amelia, now wife of Charles F. Bayha, editor of the Neligh Republican, of Antelope Co., Neb. ; Maria, now Mrs. George Watkins, of Sun Prairie ; Ella, now Mrs Henry Delamater, of Fremont, Neb. ; Robert, living at Neligh, Neb., and Henry, living in Minnesota ; have lost nine children; his eldest son, Charles, enlisted in the 7th W. V. C, in the spring, of 1862, for three years, and died about the 8th of July, 1864, of typhoid pneumonia, at Little Rock, Ark, ; Robert enlisted, in the spring of 1861, in the 2d W. V. I. ; served three years, then re-enlisted and was appointed 1st Lieur. in a colored regiment ; was taken prisoner at Petersburg, Va. ; was confined at Columbus, S. C, nearly eight months ; received a Captain'd commission and served till the close of the war ; he was also taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg, and kept at Belle Isle about a month ; Henry enlisted, in the fall of 1861, in the 7th W. V. I., and was in the service chree years; was wounded at the battle of Fall Church by a counter shot through the thigh ; was in the artillery service the last two years, in Battery B. ; Robert was in the first battle of Bull Run, and served till the close of the war. Mr. Beecham's ancestors went with Cromwell from England into Ireland, and his grandfather remained and married in Ireland. Republican, and Bap'ist in principle, though not a member of the church. Mrs. B. is a member of the Baptist Church.

JACOB BEEMER, farmer. Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Sun Prairie; born April 18, 1823, in Prussia; came to Am3rica in 1854; lived two years in Illinois, about ten years three miles north of Madisnn, twelve years in the town of Bristol, and about a year in his present location. Was married, in 1857, to Mrs. Mary Stumiller, who had two children by her first husband. Christian Stumiller; her maiden name was Mary Heopker ; she died in the fall of 1879, leaving five children - Henry, Christiana, Willie, Augusta and George, all at home; has 80 acres of hnd, worth about $2,000.

CHARLES E. BUELL, teacher and farmer, and present Superintendent of schools of Dane Co.; was born Oct. 26, 1855, in the town of Sun Prairie ; his father, George M. Buell, a native of Connecticut, was one of the first settlers in Sun Prairie, having come therefrom Western New York, in 1845 ; he settled on Sec. 23, and resided there till his death in 1872, at the age of 66. Mrs. Buell, whose maiden name was Lucinda Berdine, is still living in Sun Prairie, at the age of 60 ; Mr. Buell was educated at the State University at Madison, and was a member of the graduating class of 1878 ; the following year he was Principal of the Free High School of Middleton, Wis., and in the fall of 1879 was elected County Superintendent of schools in Dane Co,, which position he still holds ; resides on Sec. 23; P. 0. Sun Prairie; owns a farm of 93 acres, and is a Republican.

W. H. CHAlVDIiER, farmer, residence Sun Prairie; farm of 240 acres on Sec. 1, in the town of Burke; was born in Brattleboro, Vt., Nov. 18, 1830; was married there, Feb. 14, 1854, to Lucinda J. Wellnaan, of Hinsdale, N. H. ; came to Wisconsin immediately after his marriage ; lived in the town of Darien, Walworth Co., one year, then came to Dane Co., and resided on Sec. 20, in the town of Windsor, till March, 1 869, then sold out and removed to his present location ; has only one child living - Frances A., born April 30, 1860 ; one daughter, Gertrude E., died at 17 months old, and his only son, Arthur S., died in September, 1876, aged nearly 21 ; he was attending the State University at the time he was taken sick, and nearly ready to graduate. Mr. Chandler has held various public offices ; was Chairman, Supervisor and Town Superintendent of schools; was five years County Superintendent, seven years in the Legislature, being three years in the House and four years in the Senate ; was President pro tem. of the Senate two years ; has been a member of the State Board of Regents for the last three years, and is

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C Cr. CROSSE, physician and editor. Sun Prairie ; was born in Cortland Co., N. Y. State, April 26, 1828 ; came to this State in 1864 ; first located on Hart Prairie, Walworth Co. ; removed from there to Sauk Co. ; removed ftom Sauk to Sun Prairie in 1860 ; has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery since 1853; has held the offices of Supervisor, President of the Village Corporation, and has been a member of the Legislature. He enlisted in 1864, in the 50th W. V. I., in the capacity of First Assistant Surgeon ; was mustered out in October, 1865. His parents were David and Mercy Crosse. He married, Sept. 25, 1854, Rowena N., daughter of David and Fanny Smith, natives of Amherst, Lorain Co., Ohio ; they have three children - Theodore P., Charles S. and Edith J. Thedore P. a a graduate of the Rush Medical College, and is now associated with his father in the drug business. Charles is publisher of the Countryman, one of the leading Republican newspapers of Dane Co. Edith J. is a graduate of the Wisconsin University.

H. DANIBIiS, farmer ; residence Sun Prairie Village ; farm on Sees. 4 and 5 ; has been a resident of Dane Co. since the spring of 1850, when he settled in Madison and went into the business of stonecutting and building, which he followed till about 1870 ; at that time he owned a farm in the town of Verona, which he carried on in addition to his other business ; from 1870 to 1875, he lived on his farm altogether ; in February, 1875, he exchanged his farm for the property he now owns in Sun Prairie, where he has 147 acres, 107 of which lie inside the village corporation. He was born Feb. 10, 1824, in Gloucester Co., England, parish of Minehinhampton ; son of Michael Daniels, who still resides there. Mr. Daniels learned his trade of his father, who followed the same business. Was married in his native place, in 1845, to Maria Turk, who was born in the same county ; he came to America and to Wisconsin in 1850 ; has ten children - Charles, living in Colorado ; Ellen, now Mrs. George Rhinehart, of Nebraska ; Jehu, lives in Eau Claire, Wis. ; Mark, lives in Colorado ; Emma, now Mrs. F. Casebeer, of Verona, Wis. ; George W., lives in Nebraska ; Mary Ann, now Mrs. Phillip Casebeer, of the town of Madison ; Josephine, Lucina, Walter and Herbert, the last four at home. Republican.

JOHX M. MjINT, farmer,, Sec. 5; P. 0. Sun Prairie; was born in Randolph, Orange Co., Vt., Feb. 10, 1822 ; came to Wisconsin Dec. 19, 1856; first located in the town of Bristol, Dane Co. ; removed from there to present location in September, 1866 ; has been engaged in farming since he came to the Slate; has 120 acres, worth $5,000. He held the offices of State Senator and Superintendent of Schools in Vermont ; since coming to Wisconsin, he has been a member of the Assembly, Superintendent of Schools and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. Married April 25, 1844, to Lavinia Lillie Hebard ; she died Feb. 22, 1878. Mr. Flint's present wife was Anna E., daughter of A. P. and Mary Allen ; married, Feb. 15, 1879.

P. A. FLOWER, farmer,;SeB. 24 ; P. 0. Deansville ; born Jan. 5, 1837, in the town of Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y. ; his father, Calvin Flower, came to Wisconsin in 1845, settled in Sun Prairie and still lives on Sec. 24. Mr. Flower was married. May 5, 1870, to Mrs. Fannie P. Ward, who was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., May 26, 1839, daughter of John Pridmore, and widow of Hope Ward ; has one child - -W. C., born Feb. 18, 1874 ; has been Town Treasurer three or four terms and Assessor one. Republican, and has 70 acres of land, worth |45 per acre. Mr. Pridmore, father of Mrs. Flower, came to Wisconsin in 1858, and died Aug. 9, 1874.

H. A. FREEMAN, farmer. Sun Prairie Village; farm of 150 acres, 110 in Sees. 4 and 5 Prairie, and 40 opposite in the town of Bristol, and 3 acres with residence in village; was born in town of Lyle, Broome Co., N. Y. ; when 12 years old, his father, Henry Freeman, removed to Ohio, and lived in Laramie Co. till 1864, then came to Wisconsin. Mr. Freeman was married, in Laramie Co., Ohio, m 1843, to Lucy Knapp, a native of New York; has seven children - William, married, and living in Madison; Ida, now Mrs. Henry Pebkham, of Sun Prairie; Emerson L., at home; Electa, now Mrs. Monroe Peckham, of San Prairie Village ; Hattie, now Mrs. R. J. Cole, of Mauston, Wis. ; Oscar and Esther M. at home ; Gracie Johnson, a daughter of Mrs. Monroe Peckham by a former marriage, is also living with them. Emerson L. spent five years in the regular army as a musician, in Co. K, 5th Regt.; <ame home in 1875, re-enlisted in 1877, and was in the service about one and a half years. Mr. Freeman 18 Republican, and a member of the M. E. Church; and Mrs. Freeman is a member of the Episcopal Church ; she was born in Delaware Co., N. Y., town of Harpersfield, and her parents removed to Ohio she was three years old.

T. C. HAYDEN, farmer. Sec. 16 ; P. 0. Sun Prairie ; born March 16, 1842, in King's Co.. Ireland ; his father, Christopher Hayden, came to America when he was a child, settled at Evansvillei

Ind., and died there in 1849 ; Mrs. Hayden then came to Wisconsin with her family, and settled in the town of Sun Prairie in 1851 ; Mr. Hayden had but two brothers, who were both in the army, as well as^ himself, during the late war ; his brother William was in Co. G, 11th W. V. I., and was killed in the battle of Peach Orchard, Mo., in June, 1862. Judge Henry Hayden (who was since murdered in Grand Rapids, Wis.) was First Lieutenant of Co. H, 35th W! V. I. ; enlisted in December, 1862, and served till the close of the war. T. C. Hayden enlisted in the spring of 1863, in the 40th W. V. I., and remained in the service till his regiment was disbanded ; he was educated at the State University, went to Wisconsin in 1867, was in the lumber business about five years in Livingston Co., and four years of the time was Superintendent of Schools. Was married in Wisconsin, Jan. 14, 1869, to Ella Gage, who was born in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1848 ; has five children - Bstella, Blanche, Belle, Qracie and Ella; has been Chairman of Sun Prairie three years; is a Democrat; has 160 acres of land.

FETER HI1IEBA1ICH, farmer, Sees. 32 and 34; P. 0. Deansville ; born Sept. 11, 1815, in Northumberland Co., Penn. ; when 10 years old, his father, Philip Himebauch, removed with his family to Livingston Co., N. Y. ; he afterward went to Niagara Co., and died there in 1834. Mr. Himebauch came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1843, and located in Walworth Co. Was married in Burlington, Racine Co., in 1847, to Maria Eastman, who was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., April 10, 1823, daughter of Amos Eastman, a native of New Hampshire, who came to Wisconsin and died in 1860, aged 90 years. Mr. Himebauch has six children - Stella, now Mrs. M. H. Perigo, of Deansville, Wis. ; she is now reading medicine with Dr. Kanouse ; Amos, at home ; Eva, Ella, who is now the wife of E. H. Hart, son of Joseph Hart, of Medina ; Lenna and Birdie at home. Mr. Himebauch came to Dane Co. in 1864, and haslived in his present location ever since ; in 1850, he went to California, starting in February; was six months making the trip across the plains, and returned in December, 1852; in thefallof 1853, he went again, via the Panama route, and staid three years ; Republican, and has 205 acres of land, worth $40 per acre. CABI<0$$ H. JONES, farmer and wool-buyer ; residence Sun Prairie Village ; was born Jan. 11, 1827, in Shoreham, Vt.; son of Asa and Susan (Hemenway) Jones, and is of Welsh descent; was married in Vermont, Dec. 24, 1851, to Martha Andrews, daughter of Nathaniel K. and Eunice (Barnes) Andrews; she was born in Pittsford, Vt., Feb. 11, 1829 ; Mr. Jones came to Wisconsin in September, 1854, and located at Sun Prairie, where he has since resided ; was one of the first wool buyers in the county, the first to introduce the American merino sheep in Wisconsin, where many of the best flocks are from those of his introduction. When he first came to Sun Prairie, he carried on the mercantile business for about eight years in addition to his farming ; has three children - Mary Ella, born May 22, 1853, now Mrs. Theodore Meeker, of Chicago ; Grace Ware, born April 26, 1861, and Laura M., born Sepf. 10, 1874. Mrs. Meeker was married May 22, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the Congregational Church. He is a Republican, and has 135 acres of land ; 40 acres of it on Sec. 5, in Sun Prairie, and 95 in adjoining town.

D. M. KAXOUSE, wagon-maker. Sun Prairie ; was born Sept. 23, 1840, in Washtenaw Co., Mich.; his father, John G. Kanouse, a native of New York, was a New-School Presbyterian Minister ; he preached about twelve years in Michigan ; then came to Wisconsin in 1844, and settled in the town of Cottage Grove, Dane Co., where he preached twenty-six years in one church ; he also practiced medicine in Dane County about seventeen years in addition to his clerical duties ; he died in Sun Prairie in 1872, aged 72. Mrs. Kanouse'is still living in Watertown, Wis., with her son Theodore, whose labors in the temperance cause has made his name familiar to all Wisconsin readers. D. M. Kanouse was married in. 1861, to Sarah Hall, a native of Steuben Co., N. Y., and has four children - Morris, Charles, James and Joseph ; has been Deputy Sheriff and Marshal of Sun Prairie for nine years ; Republican, and himself and wife members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Kanouse was one of nine children, all boys but one, and all living in Central Wisconsin, except one living in Washington, and Allen, deceased. In 1864, he enlisted in Co. F, 36th W. V. I., and was in the service, and in prison till the close of the war ; - he was taken prisoner June 1, 1864, at " Cold Harbor," was sixteen days in Libby," ten days in "Belle Isle," and in Danville about a week ; he was then taken to Andersonville, where he remained seven months, then, to Columbus, thence to Savannah, and from there home; having been an inmate of rebel prisons nine months, he returned home a mere skeleton, and has never recovered from the effects of his prison life. J. C. KANOUSE, blacksmith. Sun Prairie ; born in Newark Village, Essex Co., N. Y., Nov 11 , 1829 ; son of Rev, J. G. Kanouse (see biography of D. M. Kanouse, of Sun Prairie) ; came to Wisconsin with his father, and was married in Dane County to Maria L. Skinner, of Ticonderoga, N. Y. ; has three children - Walter, Elijah and Calvin; learned the blacksmith's trade in Michigan, in 1840, and ha» followed the buoineps ever since ; was in the construction corps of the army in Tennessee during the war about six months ; has held the office of Constable two years, and Justice of the Peace four years ; Republican, and a member of the Coneregational Church ; has a farm of 36 acres on Sec. 5, in Sun Prairie.

L. V. LEWIS, physician and surgeon, Sun Prairie ; was born in Addison Co., Vt., July 9, 1844 ; came to Wisconsin in 185Y ; located at Sun Prairie, formed partnership in 1870, with Dr. C. Gr. Crosse, has continued in practice of his profession ever since ; graduated from Rush Medical College in 1870; held the office of Justice of the Peace ; has held the office of Worthy Master, in the Masonic Lodge, also Secretary ; is a son of Chaunoy A. and Mary Lewis, both natives of Vermont ; married in 1872, Ada, daughter of William and L. P. Annis. Dr. Lewis is a member of the Dane County Medical Society.

GEORGE MAIiONEY, merchant, Sun Prairie ; came to Wisconsin in 1855 ; located at Milwaukee ; removed to Sun Prairie in December, 1859 ; he has been engaged in mercantile business since coming to the State. Mr. M. was born in Tompkins Co., N. Y., in January, 1835 ; he is a son of James and Deborah Maloney, both natives of New York. He has held the position of President of the Village Board, and has been prominently identified with the interests of Wisconsin. In 18(54, he martied Miss Belle Woodward ; they have two children - Mary and C. R. ; Mrs. Maloney is a daughter of Dr. E. A. and Mary Woodward.

CHARLES W. MEAD, farmer. Sec. 18 ; P. 0. Sun Prairie ; born Oct. 8, 1844, in Putnam Co., N. Y. ; his father, W. W. Mead, came to Wisconsin with his family in 1854; lived in Madison one year, then removed to Sun Prairie and settled on the farm now owned by Charles W., where he resided till his death, Sept. 29, 1877 ; was accidentally killed by his team running away while attached to a mower. Mrs. Mead died in 1873. Mr. Mead, Jr., was married Jan. 25, 1871, to Sarah Cooper, who was born in Yorkshire, Bug., Oct. 10, 1845 ; daughter of Joseph Cooper, who came to America in 1848, and settled in Madison ; Mr. Mead has no children. Democrat, and has 160 acres of land, worth $30 per acre. Members of the Episcopal Church.

JAMES T. MITCHELL, farmer and stock-dealer, Sees. 26 and 27 ; P. 0. Deansville ; born in the North of Ireland, in County Down, and is of Scotch descent ; his father, George Mitchell, still resides in Ireland ; came to America in September, 1867 ; settled in his present location and lived alone three years ; now has two sisters, Mary and Isabella, living with him ; has 160 acres in his farm, which is owned by himself and his brother, Robert T. Mitchell, of New York City. His parents arc Presbyterians, and he and his sisters attend that church, though not members. Republican.

J. E. MANN, hotel-keeper, farmer and liveryman ; proprietor of the American House, Sun Prairie^ was born April 29, 1817, in Unadilla, Otsego Co., N. Y. ; his father, Andrew Mann, was a native of Connecticut, and came from Otsego Co., N. Y., to Michigan, in 1835 ; in 1842, J. E. Mann went to McHenry Co., 111., and lived there till 1850. Was married there, July 5, 1842, to Emily J. Bliven, from Fall River, Mass.; she was born Nov. 22, 1824; in 1850, he went to Madison, Wis., and removed his family there in 1851, and engaged in the livery business with his brother Andrew - firm of J. E. & A. L. Mann ; was in that business five years ; then sold out and went on a farm in the town of Fitchburg, where he remained till 1872 ; then sold out, and, February 1st of that year, took possession of the American House at Sun Prairie, which he had purchased, and has kept it since ; he is also running a livery stable in connection with the hotel, and has a farm of 80 acres on Sec. 9, which is worked by his boys ; he is agent for George T. Smith's middlings purifier, and also agent for the " Consolidated Middlings Purifier Co.," of Jackson, Mich. Has had eleven children, nine of them now living, as follows : Hattie (now Mrs. George E. Knapp), of Sullivan Co., N. Y. ; Louis, living in Jackson, Mich., and his twin-sister, Louise (now Mrs. C. H. Chittenden), of Lenawee Co , Mich ; Josephine, William T., Fred B., George A., Charles E. and Catharine Almyra ; lost his two oldest children ; Juliette was the wife of A. M. Seymour, and digd March 6, 1879, aged 34 years, and Joseph A. died at the age of 28, July 20, 18(3. Mr. Mann has been Deputy Sheriff six years, and Superintendent of the Poor three years ; Democrat. Mrs. Mann is a member of the Episcopal Church.