Summit Village (part 2 of 2)

JAMBS J. PUNCH, farmer. Sec. 18 ; P. 0. Waukesha ; born July 3, 1817, in Cork, Ireland ; attended school in his native city, and came to America in 1837 ; settled at Highgate, Vt. ; afterward entered the service of Judge Aldis, of St. Albans ; removed to Boston and worked two years for 0. Dalrymple, then nine years on the farm of Chas. Stetson, near Lynn, Mass. ; Daniel Webster was a frequent visitor on this farm, and was often seen by Mr. Punch. With his wife he came to New Berlin in 1851, settling on 90 acres of his farm, for which he paid $18 per acre ; did good work clearing, breaking and sowing ; his second crop of fall wheat burned with his new barn, one of the largest in that secuon ; that fall he bought 65 acres more, and of the 155 acres once covered with huge trees nearly all are cleared, not oven the stumps three and even four feet across being left to tell the story ; Mr. P. has built a large farmhouse and good barns, etc. ; his wife, formerly Hannah Fitzgerald, was born in the County of Cork, and came to America when about 18 ; they have ten children - Phillip, Johnj Mary A., Edward, Eilen, James, Jane, Hannah, Thomas Jefferson and George McClellan ; the eldest served through the war with Grant in the 17th W. V. I., is now a prosperous blacksmith in Chicago, is also a Captain in the Ind. S. M. ; John, now in poor health, was for years a yard-master in Milwaukee ; Mary is Mrs. Capt. O'Connor, of Milwaukee, her husband being a commander of the Light Guard, also an engineer, and is now constructing water works at St. Joseph, Mo. ; Edward is an engineer at Effingham, 111. ; Ellen is a most efficient teacher ; James is the unfortunate one who lost a leg by the bite of a savage dog ; he was educated in Carroll Cqllege, and is with the three youngest on the homestead ; Jane is one of the trusted employes of Field &