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farm here, living in a " partnership " shanty with Mr. E. Miller ; his first crop of wheat was a failure and the second grew in the field before it was threshed, this being done with flails ; his first cart-wheels were made by sawing off the end of a huge oak log, and in this cart the wheat was hauled with oxen to Milwaukee, Mr. Trow sleeping in the open air when night overtook him ; having been eaten out of house and home by land seekers, he and his devoted wife were obliged to subsist on crust coffee and bread made of middlings for some time ; wintering in the old log house of Mr. Baldwin, the next spring Mr. T. built for himself; while haying on the marsh he was so impressed with the luster of the sand on the shores of an adjoining lake as to name it Silver Lake, the name it bears to-day ; a tavern built and kept near it by E. Moody was also called the Silver Lake House ; in 1845 he made an exchange with Mr. Moody, and thus obtained 40 acres of his present farm of 180 ; moving a small frame from Silver Lake, he split the shingles for its roof from oak lo2;s, this shanty offering a striking cootrast to the present roomy and tasteful residence of the old couple. This large farm is also provided with all needed fencing, buildings, etc., placed there by a man who had to borrow money to house his goods in a Milwaukee warehouse thirty-seven years ago. Mrs. Trow was Miss Lucinda Vars, of Otsego Co., N. Y. They have two daughters - Henrietta (Mrs. Chas. Hill) and Valeria (Mrs. W. S. Sherman). Mr. Trow is a Freemason, and, with his wife, a true believer in redemption through Christ Jesus.

HARVEY WAMBOIiD, proprietor of the Bagleville Mills ; born in 1826, in Montgomery Co., Penn. ; coming to Wisconsin in 1848, he at once began building mills, building and owning the steam mill at Granville ; after helping to build the mill of Bertchey & Carr, Milwaukee, he was employed about six years in keeping two large mills in repair; settling in Eagletille, December, 1871, he bought a five years' lease in the mill and water-power; this is the oldest improved mill site in Waukesha Co., built in 1839, by Dr. Bigelow, the present large mill replacing his about twenty-five years ago ; it is provided with three run of stone, and the Kurth patent cockle separator for cleaning seed wheat, costing 1300 ; Mr. W. has cleaned over 1,000 bushels most satisfactorily this spring for the surrounding farmers ; all foul seeds and shrunken wheat are completely separated ; the machine was made to order, and is specially adapted to the wheat grown in this section ; near the mill are the Eagleville mineral springs, four in number, the medicinal properties of each being different and all highly spoken of by those using the water, which is carried to all parts of the State. Mr. Wambold married Miss Mary Barndt, by whom he has had five children - -Henry, Josephine (Mrs. S. Gale), Milton, Leander and Charles (died April, 1879). Mr. W. and wife are Methodists, he supporting men and principles instead of political parties.

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CHARIjES BAASS, farmer. Sees. 15, 11 and 14 ; P. 0. Tess Corners ; born in Pomerania, Prussia, March 28, 1823 ; son of Ernest C. and Sophia (Rahs) Baass ; the father dealt in fish, and the sons followed the sea ; the family emigrated in 1845, located in Milwaukee, where the father dealt in fish, first on Spring street bridge, and later in the First Ward market ; he died in 1877. Charles Baass and wife (nee Wilhelmina Schwhn) came to America and to Milwaukee a year or two later; Mr. B. sailed on the lakes a number of years ; his father bought the land in Muskego in 1855, and in 1856, Charles, August and Henry Baass spent a year here, became disgusted with their life in the wilderness, and returned ; rather than see the land sold, however, Charles Baass returned for permanent settlement in 1858 ; ten acres cleared and a log-house were all the improvements where he now has a valuable 100-acre farm, with a tasteful brick house, with barns, etc. ; his location on the lake is one of the very best for a pleasure resort, but is only open to intimate friends. Mr. and Mrs. Baass have eleven children - Ottilia, Sarah, Rachel and Samuel, born in Milwaukee ; Leah, Hannah, Ernest, Martha, Martin, Lydia and Lena, all born in Muskego. Mr. B. is a Democrat ; was Supervisor eight years, and Chairman in 1871 and 1872.

H. BABCOCK, farmer. Sec. 18; P. 0. Muskego Center; born Jan. 16, 1824, in Fort Ann, Washington Co., N. Y. ; began life at 11, as a canal driver ; in 1843, he met his parents, Barnis and Asenath Babcock, who persuaded him to go with them to Wisconsin ; his father made the claim on Sec. 19, where he died in March, 1869, after making a noble life-record as a pioneer; he is a member of the first constitutional convention, and filled many other offices with honor. C. H. returned East in 1844, and, as a puddler, began working at iron in Litchfield, Conn. ; five years later, he settled and continued the same business in Napanock, Ulster Co., N. Y., where he resided until 1858, when he came aoain to Muskego and settled on his farm of 140 acres ; this is a valuable farm, and he has made it more so by erecting a large square two-story farm house, with barns, etc. ; he has also dug a well which is a curiosity, as it is constantly full, a stream of water constantly flowing from it sufficient for thousands of cattle. He married, in Napanock, N. Y., Miss Hephsie Tomlinson, a native of Manchester, Eng. ; they have an only son, Frank R., born in Muskego Feb. 15, 1864; Mr. B. is a Mason and a Eepublican ; was Chairman in 1861, and enrolling officer during the war, and did his duty, though threats against his life were made by certain irate citizens.

PFiRDINAND BISCHOFF, proprietor of the park and hall, Muskego Lake ; born in Prussia in 183Y ; the family came to America in 1851 ; spent two years at White Fish Bay, then came to Waukesha Co. ; Ferdinand worked three years in Muskego ; in 1867, he with his brothers, Frederick and William, bought a part of the present grounds, then overrun with brush, etc., and provided with only a log house ; the brothers placed a few boats on the lake, built a good frame house, as a summer hotel, in 1874, and in 1877, built a hall, 36x40, arranged for dancing, picnic parties, etc. ; it is situated in a beautiful grove on the banks of the Big Muskego Lake ; the brothers, Ferdinand and William, now own the property, and propose building a larger hotel near the hall ; they own 90 acres, and have on the lake fifteen large row boats, two sailing boats, and thirty or forty hunting boats.

FREDERICK BISCHOFF, farmer. Sec. 13 ; P. 0. Tess Corners ; born in 1849 in Saxony ; his parents, Christopher and Christiana B., emigrated in 1851 ; spent two years in Milwaukee Co., then came to Waukesha Co. Frederick Bischoff^'settled on his present farm of 34 acres in 1873 ; is a cooper by trade, manufacturing pork barrels for the Milwaukee houses. Married Miss Johanna Bravier, of Franklin, Milwaukee Co. : they have three children - Frederick, Edward and William - all born on the home farm. Mr. B. is a Democrat, and a Lutheran, with his family.

FREDERICK BliUHM, farmer. Sec. 24; P. 0. Durham Hill; born near Robell, Mecklenburg, Schwerein, Deo. 13, 1837 ; the family emigrated in 1851 ; spent three months in Milwaukee ; then settled in Wauwatosa, where he worked , twelve years as teamster for Chase & Holson, stone quarry. Married Christina Buddanhagen, who was born in 1837, near Tesein, Mecklenburg, Schwerein ; they settled on the present farm Oct. 5, 1863; began with 76 acres and a log house ; Mr. B. cleared the land of grubs and stone, added 27 acres, cleared 10 of timber, and made the whole smooth enough for machinery; in 1871, he built a 32x45 barn, and in 1876, a house, the upright of which is two stories, 18x28 ; kitchen wing 18x26, and woodhouse 18x26 ; his barn is now 32x76, with basement. Mr. and Mrs. Bluhm have five children - Meena (Mrs. P. Pellman), Lizzie, Frederick, Ernest and Bertha ; Mary died June 8, 1879, aged 14. The family belong to the Lutheran Church ; Mr. B. is a Democrat.

JOHN BURXS, deceased; born in County Meath, Ireland; came to America in 1842, and located on the present Burns homestead, in Muskego ; built a log house in the woods that covered it and kept " bachelor's hall " for a number of years, striking the first blows that secured so good a home. May 20, 1852, ho married Margaret Lannon; she was born in 1832, in County Louth, Ireland, and came to America in 1847 ; Mr. Burns died June 26, 1866, leaving seven children - John, born in 1853 ; James, born in 1854 ; William, born in 1856 ; Anne M., now Mrs. M. L. Goff, born in 1858 ; Maggie M., born in 1860; P]lizabeth C., born in 1863, and Sarah J., born in 1865. Mr. Burns was a stirring and thrifty pioneer settler, as may be seen by the well-improved homestead of 106 acres, on which he built a large and pleasant frame house and substantial barns, which have since been enlarged ; the estate also owns 20 acres near Muskego Lake ; the family are Roman Catholics, and the sons are all on the farm ; are Democrats, and no office holders.

JOHN CARRICkAN, farmer. Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Muskego Center ; born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1838 ; his parents, Edward and Anne (Reynolds) Carrigan, emigrated in 1839 ; spent a year in Canada East; located in Waterloo, Seneca Co., N. Y., where the father worked three years in a factory; in October, 1843, they settled on the present farm of John Carrigan ; were unable to pay for only 40 acres, on which Mr. C. built a log house the same fall, having lived from October until -Dec. 24 in the house of J. Reynolds, a brother-in-law ; the Carrigan's have made a record of success, John, now owning all the 80 his father tried to buy thirty-seven years ago, and 30 besides ; the log house, improved, of course, was the family home sixteen years; in 1859, Edward Carrigan settled on his present farm of 109 acres. John Carrigan married, in 1866, Miss Caroline, daughter of Richard and Ellen (Kelly) Hennessey; she was born in New Berlin ; they have three children - Edward R., Ellen A. and Maurice F., all born in Muskego : the youngest, J. Arthur, died at 2 years and 2 months old. Mr. C. lived until 1877 in a small frame house, standing near the large and elegant one built in its stead ; F. Kolck and J. Maney were its former owners. The mother of Mr. C. died Feb. 1, 1871; he is a Democrat; was Town Supervisor two 3 ears. School District Clerk three years and Treasurer eight years. The family are Roman Catholics.

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HIBAm CliAFIilN, farmer, Sees. 8 and 9; P. 0. Muskego Center; born Deo. 9, 1817, in West Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y.; his parents, John and Sally Claflin, removed to Ohio in his infancy; his mother died there ; in 1843, he came with his wife to Muskego, and bought 80 acres on Sec. 8 ; built a log house, drove pins into the logs for shelves to rest upon, and made some rude furniture ; his last dollar went for the window lights and door fixtures ; by trading some cloth, he obtained a yoke of steers ; did hard work among the grubs ; in 1858, he added 80 acres more, and continued the work, which has resulted in an improved farm of 212 acres, a large and tasteful home, etc. He married Miss Sallie, daughter of Romanta and Polly Peck; she was born in Starksboro, Vt., and died April 28, 1879, a good and kindly remembered pioneer woman ; their adopted, son, Albert Claflin, was born in Orleans Co., Vt., June 9, 1849, his parents locating in Vernon, Waukesha Co., soon after, and at the death of his mother, two months later, his father, William Wood, consigned him to the care of the Claflin's. He married, Oct. 20, 1879, Miss Eliza Kingston, daughter of William Kingston, and a native of New York ; they have two children - Hawley W. and Nora, both born in Muskego. Messrs. Claflin are both Republicans, the younger now serving as Justice of the Peace, by appointment, and are stirring, successful farmers.

THOMAS COXROY, farmer, Sees. 10 and 15; P. 0. Muskego Center; born in 1810, in County Louth, Ireland, where his early life was spent as a farmer and shoemaker. He married Margaret McCabe in 1836, and came to America ten years later, joining his brothers, Patrick and James, in Muskego ; began very poor, and lived six or seven years near his brothers ; then bought 12 acres of his present farm ; it was a wilderness of timber ; he lived in a log house many years, chopping and clearing, the result of which is a good farm of 61 acres, on which he has built a neat brick house, a good barn, and a most convenient carriage house, corn house and hog house combined ; as he began without a dollar, few have done better. Mr. and Mrs. Conroy have three living children - Mary, now Mrs. McEneny ; William and Anne ; they have lost four, one on the sea in crossing, and Catherine, who married John Ward, and died in 1879. Mr. Conroy and family are Catholics and Democrats.

CHARLES DOUGHERTY, farmer. Sec. 3 ; P. 0. Tess Corners ; born in Orange Co., N. Y., Dec. 13, 1831 or 1832. His parents, Edward and Mary Douiiherty, came to Milwaukee in 1840, where his father worked out, settling, four years later, on the Muskego homestead of 63 J acres, then heavily timbered ; it was cleared by him and his sons Charles, Peter and Edward ; Charles D. went, by of New York and the isthmus, to California, in 1863; farmed four years in Oakland Valley, and six months in the mines of Idaho, returned to the valley, and, a year later, to Wisconsin ; he has since lived on the homestead, where his father died in 1875; the daughters, Mary and Sarah, are in California; Peter is farming in Racine Co., and Edward is a carpenter in Milwaukee. Charles Dougherty is a Democrat, and was Town Treasurer in 1876 ; Roman Catholic in religion.

EDWARD DOYLE, farmer, See. 10 ; P. 0. Muskego Center; born in County Carlow, Ireland in 1823 ; his parents, Gerrett and Annie Doyle, came to America in 1825, located in Troy, N. Y., and lived there until June, 1837, when they came to Milwaukee, spent a few months, and went to Chicago, where they remained until 1839, when they came to Muskego, and bought the Doyle homestead. Mrs. Doyle was a daughter of James and Margaret Collins ; her father was employed by the English at Palermo, Italy, where Ellen was born in 1815 ; seven years later, tliey came to America, located in Canada, where she married John Vallier, a French Canadian, who died in 1846, leaving five children - Alexander, James, Talbot D., John and Ellen (Mrs. Charles Finley). M^ Vallier settled in Ottawa, Waukesha Co., in 1836 ; his wife joined him in 1837, being one of the first white women in the town, and who made the first butter in that section, while in the employ of T. C. Dousman, the first settler of Ottawa. In 1848, Mr. Doyle and Mrs. Vallier were married, and, in 1852, they, with Alexander, James and Ellen Vallier, and their two children, went overland to California; they lacked only ten days of a six months' trip, and saw many hardships ; after two years, they returned by water to New York City, and have since lived on the Doyle homestead of 80 acres. Anna Doyle is now Mrs. Thomas Welch, of Muskego ; Edward, born in a tent at Diamond Springs, Cal., married Anne Newnan, of Manitowoc, Wis. ; Alexander Vallier now lives in California, where James died ; T. D. resides in Iowa, while John is in the Rocky Mountains.

JAMES ELLIOTT, farmer. Sec. 16; P. 0. Muskego Center; born June 1, 1802; in province of Maghera, County Londonderry, Ireland ; came to America in 1832, located in Rutland County, Vt., where his wife and two children joined him in 1833 ; removed from Vermont to Wisconsin in 1846 ; settled on a rented farm in Franklin, Milwaukee Co., for three years ; then settled on his present farm of 83i acres ; over 50 of this has been cleared of very heavy timber, which was rolled up and burned in log heaps. He married in Ireland, Miss Jane Maitland ; they have four living children -

Matthew, Rosanna, William and Martha Jane. Four sons of Mr. Elliott enlisted to defend the old flag, and two laid down their lives in the cause ; Matthew and Thomas enlisted early in 1862, in Co. E., 19th W. V. I. ; Matthew was promoted to Corporal, served three years and three months, fighting at Chapin's Farm, Blaokwater, Suffolk, and with Grant in many bloody battles in the Virginia campaign ; his was the first regiment to hoist a flag over Richmond, and he has, like his brother William, an honorable discharge ; he now resides with the old folks and owns 40 acres adjoining them; he was Chairman in 1858, and held his present, office of Supervisor a number of years ; Thsmas was struck by a Cohorn shell in front of Petersburg, Va., June 30, 1864, died at McDougal Hospital, New York, a month and ten days after, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery ; Samuel Elliott was shot dead at Chickamauga, and was buried, if at all, by the rebels on the battlefield; he enlisted August, 1861, in Co. D, 1st W. V. I. ; William Elliott enlisted January, 1862, Co. C, 15th W. V. I., and was with Sherman on the famous "March to the Sea," and through the Carolinas. He is married and carries on his father's farm ; has been Supervisor and is now serving a second term as Town Treasurer.

CHARLES FINIiEY, farmer. Sec. 3; P. 0. Tes3 Corners; born Oct. 27, 1843, and was one of the early births in the Town of Muskego ; his parents, John and Elizabeth Finley, came from New York City to Muskego in 1842, buying the homestead of Esquire Cone, a pioneer settler. Mr. Finley has spent his life in the county, with the exception of three years in the Union army, enlisting in August, 1862, in Co. G, 28th W. V. I. ; he was engaged in the battles of Helena, Pine Bluff, Saline River, and Little Rock, Ark., and in the fiery siege of the forts around Mobile ; the regiment was transferred to Texas ; Mr. Finley was c jnfined in the Marine Hospital, at New Orleans ; was honorably discharged in July, 1865 ; returned, and has since resided on the homestead of 120 acres, where his father died, in 1857, aged 55 ; the mother still lives, aged 67, and with her sons - John, Joseph and Charles - owns the homestead. Joseph Finley married Miss Helen Vallier (see sketch of Edward Doyle). The Finleys are Roman Catholics and Democrats. John has been Supervisor, and Charles was Town Treasurer in 1869, and Town Assessor in 1880.

SAMUEL FOSTER, farmer, Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Prospect Hill ; born in North Kerry, near Taunton, Somersetshire, Eng., May 12, 1822 ; he engaged in farming on his father's large estate until he came to America and Wisconsin, in 1845, settling, and for ten years doing good work on a farm in Pewaukee; in 1855, he settled on his present farm of 165 acres ; on this he has built a 30x54 basement barn, and built, in 1871, a tasteful farmhouse, of Milwaukee brick ; the upright part is 18x26, two stories high, wing 16x26, and one and a half stories high, kitchen one story, 16x40 ; this makers a most pleasant home. Was married, in 1844, to Miss Mary Bartlett, who was born in Stokes, St. Gregory, in Somersetshire ; they have four children - MaryJ.jbornJan. 22,1847; William A., born July 31, 1849; Ellen W., born Sept. 3, 1857, and Franklin B., born Jan. 30, 1860 ; the two eldest were born in Pewaukee ; Mary J. is Mrs. H. Hunkins, of Milwaukee ; William A. married Elnora Primrose, and lives in New Berlin ; Ellen, now Mrs. Robert Cannon, resides in Cameron, Mo. ; Frank B. remaining with the parents. Mr. F. attends and helps sustain the F. B. Church. Is a non-office seeking Republican, and has for years been agent of the Continental Insurance Company of New York. He formerly dealt in wool, stock, etc,

CHARLES FREED Y, farmer. Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Hales Corners, Milwaukee Co. ; born in Hanover, Germany, ^1844 ; his parents located in Muskego soon afler, beginning poor, afflicted with ague, and saw much hardship, running f 100 behind-hand the first year, but made a farm and home; the mother died in Muskego, and the father in Racine County ; Charles Freedy learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1867 engaged as sawyer in Siegel's steam saw-mill, Hale's Corners ; worked here five years, and settled on his present farm of 176 acres, in 1872 ; in 1873 he again sawed for his father-in-law, he having married Miss Rosette, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Siegel, who came from Wurtemburg to America in 1850, locating at Buffalo, N. Y., where Rosette was born in 1852 ; Mr. Siegler came to Wisconsin in 1853, spent four months in Milwaukee, then settled and has since resided at Hale's Corners, where he built the steam grist and saw mill ; he also built the steam mill at Muskego Center, which burned in 1876 ; Mr. and Mrs. Freedy have three children : Frank, born Dec. 14, 1873 ; Otto, born Sept. 4, 1875, and William, born Feb. 28, 1878 ; Mr. Freedy is a stirring farmer, has cleared about 16 acres, built a 30x42 barn, granary 20x30, corn house 18x20, etc. A Mr. Justin formerly owned the place, built the large house, and planted an orchard of 400 or 500 trees.

WILLIAM HOLZ, farmer. Sec. 13 ; P. 0. Tess Corners ; born in the village of Boell, Meoklenburg-Schwerin, Sept. 10, 1826 ; spent five years in the army, helping to fight Sweden in 1848, and the revolutionists in 1849 ; came to America, in 1853, doing his first work in the woods, on the site of the Soldiers' Home, burned lime a year, then worked four years as foreman in a stone quarry. He was married in Johannes Church, Milwaukee, in August, 1853, to Mary Damon-; she was born Feb. 11, 1833, in Mentzow, Meoklenburg-Schwerin, and emigrated in the same ship with Mr. Holz ; in December, 1859, Mr. Holz bought 102i acres, where he now lives ; has since sold 16 acres, and bought 30 ; here he did the best of work, cleared 20 acres of brush, etc., fenced the farm, and improved it ; began in a log-house, and in 1870 built a large brick residence, the main part two stories, 18x26, wing 18x28, and kitchen and woodhouse 16x18 ; in 1862 he built a 30x40 barn, and in 1872 one 28x36 ; all except 18 acres (marsh) is under cultivation and made what it is, by the labor of the entire family ; there are seven children : Bertha (Mrs. Aug. Kuester), Rudolph, Caroline, Mary, Louisa, William and Edward, the two eldest were born in Wauwatosa, and the others in Muskego ; three children died ; the family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Holz was nine years secretary. Mr. Holz is an independent Democrat.

HJBB9IAX KURTZE, farmer, Sec. 15 ; P. 0. Muskego Center ; born in Goze, Prussia, September, 1839 ; his parents, David and Rosine Kurtze, emigrated 1852, and located in Milwaukee, where Herman was engaged in Wertstein's Hotel for five months ; he then engaged under Dr. Fassel for six years, and during the next six years worked the Doctor's farm in New Berlin ; was engineer a year in Siegler's saw-mill, Hale's Corners, and in 1868 settled on his present farm of 110 acres, most pleasantly situated on the shores of Muskego Lake. He married Miss Paulina Warder, she was born in Prussia, and came to America in 1854 ; they have nine children : Emma, Bertha, Ida, Salina, Ella, Adda, Amanda. Charles, and Frances, all born in Waukesha County, the three eldest in New Berlin, and the others on the home farm, which is susceptible of being made a most beautiful .summer resort. Mr. Kurtze is a Republican.

THOMAS liAlVlVOIif , farmer. See. 3 ; P. 0. Tess Corners ; born in County Louth, Ireland ; in 1818: emigrated to America 1836; worked- as a laborer in New York, Ohio, and Michigan ; carried on a store with a brother-in-law in Monroe, Michigan, for a time, and in June, 1842, settled in the forest covering his present farm ; the only roads in Muskego then were the Janesville, Waterford & Town Line Road, which passed his log cabin ; he built this, and it still stands as a monument to old times, when its floor was strewn with sleeping Indians, who came to trade with Mr. Lannon ; he had a small stock of goods and a barrel of whisky, and was a favorite with the "Reds," who exchanged furs and skins for fire water ; yir. Lannon is an old settler, who has an improved farm and good home, standing near the log-house. He married Mary A. Carroll ; she was born in Java, Wyoming Co., N. Y., in 1834 ; they have four children : Mary, Thomas, Catherine, and Anne, the eldest is Mrs. Thomas Made, of Muskego ; Mr. Lannon is a Democrat, and a Catholic. He was formerly Road Commissioner, Town Treasurer, Assessor, Supervisor, etc. ; and has held his present office of Justice of the Peace for eighteen years, and is the the veteran "Squire ' of Muskego.

AXTHOIVY LOUGHXEY, farmer. Sees. 2 and 10; P. 0. Tess Corners ; born 1832 in County Mayo, Ireland ; his parents, Mathew and Winnifred Loughney, came to America 1839, remaining in Montgomery Co., N. Y., until 1841, when they located on 80 acres of new wild land, in New Berlin ; they paid $200 for it, covered with heavy timber and stones, built a log-house, and did the work of early settlers, making the farm (now owned by Mr. L.) one of the best in New Berlin ; here Anthony attended school, and in 1856 with brothers bought his farm of 120 acres; has since bought out the brothers, his labor, management and money erecting all the buildings and removing the girdled trees, and hundreds of stumps and stones, which then covered it ; his smooth and handsome meadow was then overgrown with willows ; his 36x66 basement barn was built in 1879 ; Mr. Loughney has horses from the Atlantic Chief, Swigert Jr., and Gen. McClellan stock ; a most excellent brood mare of the latter stock is his pride. He married Catherine Carroll, of Wyoming Co., N. Y., in 1861 ; they have had six children : Winnie, Emma, Katie, Mathew M., Lulu M., and lost a son, Louis G., aged six. Politics, Republican ; religion Roman Catholic.

JAMES McDOWOUGH, farmer; Sees. 2 and 11; P. 0. Tess Corners; born in County Mayo, Ireland, Feb. 22, 1834 ; his father, Terrence, died a year later, James being reared by his widowed mother, who came with him and her bachelor brother, Morgan Sweeney, to America in 1837 ; located in Summit Co., Ohio ; James attained an education here, living on his uncle's farm until 1856, when he came to Muskego and bought his farm of 160 acres which he has since improved to some extent. Married Feb. 2, 1860, Miss Mary, daughter of Patrick Conroy, the first Irish settler in Muskego; he married Bridget Ward, who died in August, 1847 ; Mrs. McDonough was born in June, 1843, on her father's homestead in Muskego, and is the mother of six children^Terrence, Mary E., Anne, James, Teressa and Agnes, all born in Muskego. Mr. McDonough is a Democratic Greenback er ; was first Town Clerk

(appointed) then elected Justice of the Peace several years ; elected Chairman in 1865 and held that office eight successive years ; in 187^ he was elected Register of Deeds and held that office two years. He has the best of stock on his farm ; high-grade Durham cattle, Cotswold sheep and a Clyde stallion, Netherby Jock, Jr., weighing 1700 pounds, and a young stallion sired by the famous Johnny Coope, the heaviest horse in America, which weighs 2450 pounds, now owned by Col. Holloway of Monmouth, 111.

JAMES McElVENY, farmer. Sec. 10; P. 0. Muskego Center; born June 17, 1821, in County Monahan, Ireland ; his parents, Bryan and Margeret, emigrated in 1823, located in New York City, whore the son engaged in the coal business until 1859, when he settled on Sec. 23, Muskego, where his wife (formerly Anne Dillon), and his mother, died early in 1860 ; he removed, in 1861, to his present farm of 107 acres. Married, in 1862, Miss Mary Conroy, who was born in County Louth, Ireland ; they have ten children - Margaret, Thomas, John, Hugh, William, Barney, Redwin, Patrick, Mary and Catherine ; the first wife left two sons - James and Edward. The family are Catholics. Mr. McEneny is a Democrat, and has been for fourteen years Treasurer of District No. 2 ; he has done good work as a farmer, having cleared about 45 acres, and built a good frame house, in place of the log one of nineteen years ago.

JOHIV McSHANE, farmer; Sec. 12; P. 0. St. Martin's, Milwaukee Co. ; was born in September, 1836, in New York City ; his parents, Michael and Rosanna, natives of Ireland ; came to New York in 1828 and settled in Muskego in 1842 ; Mr. McShane bought out the heirs and has owned the 92-acre homestead since 1861. Married Miss Catherine Haekett, who was born in Milwaukee; they have eight children - Mary E., James, Maggie, John, Bernard, Katie, Edward and Ellen, all born in Muskego. Mr. McShane is a Roman Catholic and a Democrat; was town Treasurer in 1865 and 1866. His father died in 1843; his mother married Owen Carey, and lives near him ; Mr. McShane is a noted breeder of horses ; his first horse. Young Plow Boy, sired by old Blackhawk ; was owned by him from 1862 to 1867; in 1866 he bought Young Robin Hood, sired by imported Old Robin Hood ; in September, 1878, he bought, near Ottawa, Canada, the splendid imported horse, Honest Sandy ; this horse is a beautiful dapple brown, seventeen hands high and weighs 1,800 pounds ; his stock, found among the best breeders of Washington Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth and Waukesha Counties, prove him to be the best horse in the State. Honest Sandy took three prizes at the Centennial, viz. : the International, the United States and a special award, and never fails to carry off the prize he competes for ; his owner now has a belt on which are seventeen medals and cups, won by this noble horse, as prizes.

HENRY M. PECK, farmer; Sec. 16; P. 0. Muskego Center; born near Whitehall, New York, May 5, 1827; his parents, Romanta and Polly (Durgin) Peck, both Vermonters, settled in 1835 in Mendon, Monroe Co., N. Y., where Henry M. lived until 1837 ; his brother, Rufus C, made claims for himself and a brother, W. D., in Muskego during 1836; and in May 1837, R. C, and Henry M. Peck settled on See. 8 ; here the pioneer brothers worked together nine years ; the first summer was spent in a 12x13 claim-shanty; in this, were R. C. Peck, wife and two children, besides Henry- M. Peck; they lived under a bark roof on a puncheon floor ; cooked in a small tin " baker," and in kettles hung on poles over a fire-place, backed up with mud and stones ; only blankets hung in the door and windowopenings to separate them from the wolves howling outside ; in 1846, Mr. Peek bought eighty acres of the very heavy timber on Sec. 16; one tree cut by him here was eighteen feet in circumference; he now owns 150 acres, of which 90 have been literally chopped out; the timber at first burned in " log heaps," was at a later day sold as cordwood and lumber ; the log-house of early days was replaced in 1873 by « tasteful brick farmhouse, and a good barn, etc., built. He married Miss Harriet, daughter of John and Lucy Post ; Mrs. Peck was born in England, her parents coming to America when she was three years old, and were early settlers in Muskego, where they began with just five cents and made a good record. Mr. and Mrs. Peck have nine children - Josephine, Oscar, Henry F., Eva, Michael, Nellie G., Hazen, Dora and Ada, all born in Muskego ; Mr. Peck is an attendant of the local churches ; a Republican and was town Treasurer once, and Supervisor twice.

HAZEN PECK, farmer. Sec. 19; P. 0. Big Bend; born April 21, 1817, in Starksboro, Vt., in 1823, his parents, Romanta and Sarah Peck, settled in Washington Co., N. Y., where he resided until he was seventeen, thence to Genesee Co., N. Y., where he remained until October, 1848, when he came to Muskego ; a month later he bought his present farm of seventy-six acres ; forty were broken ; the barn built, a good log house, and part of the house he has since enlarged and made so good a home ; he has also cleared twenty acres of the original heavy timber ; improved the land, re-sided the barn, etc. Married Eliza Allen, who was born March 26, 18^0, in Mendon, Monroe Co., N. Y. Their oldest son, Allen, born in Mendon, came West with them, enlisted in Co. G. 28th W. V. I., served a year and died at Duvall's Bluff, Ark. The four living sons are all Badger born ; Harvey, born June 27, 1850, Hiram, May 9, 1854, Edgar, June, 12, 1856, George, April 9, 1861. ' Mr. Peck, like all true Green Mountain Boys, is an old Whig Republican ; was a supervisor one year and lacked only one vote of a re-election at the advent of the Democratic power in Muskego, and has since refused all nominations.

C. L. PELiIiMAWN, farmer. Sees. 2 aud 11 ; P. 0. Teas Corners ; born Sept. 30, 1813, in Prussia; came to America in June, 1846, and settled in the woods of Milwaukee Co., having made a visit to Illinois, during the heated season, and become homesick ; he lived seven years in Milwaukee Co. with Indians for neighbors ; a little daughter (since dead) was stolen by the Indians. Mrs. Pellmann, warned by a white man, gave chase, overtook the Indians and rescued the child ; as young Pellmann says, " The Indians had red babies enough, and wanted a white one." In early times Mr. Pellmann used to travel by the aid of blazed trees ; he began in Muskego on 40 acres, in a small log house (still standing) then shut in by the woods, through which were only tracks, no roads laid out near him ; his 40 acres, with some stock and tools, cost him $700 ; the farm contains now 106 acres, well improved, a good brick house, and a 30x86x24 basement barn has been built and great changes made since 1846. He married ]\Iiss Jane Ludwig in 1838 ; they have six children - Preiderioka, Frederick, Minnie, born in Germany, Richard, Paul and Louis, born in this country. Richard and Paul are on the homestead, Paul having married Minnie Bluhm ; Louis is with the old folks at Tess Corners, where they have lived since 1877. and own 22 acres. ThePellmanns are liberal in Dolitics.

HEIVRY ROSENBERG, merchant and Postmaster, Tess Corners ; born in 1830 in Bavaria ; his parents, Christian and Margaret, emigrated in 1835, and lived twenty years in New York City ; here Mr. R. learned his trade of brass finisher; lived three years in Albany and two in Troy, N. Y.; came to Tess Corners in 1861, bought his store, and did business until Sept. 13, 1864, when, as one of the 6th W. V. I., he went South ; was with his regiment at Hatcher's Run, Five Forks, Gravel Run, etc., in the fights on the Weldon Railroad, and with Sheridan when he overhauled Lee and held him at bay at Appomattox ; since the close of the war, Mr. R. has done a mercantile and saloon business at Tess Corners, having rebuilt and improved the old store ; has been Postmaster since January, 1867. Married April 6, 1856, Miss Caroline Seasongood ; she was born in Saxony, and came to America in 1854 ; they have three children - George S., Henry and Augusta ; the eldest son has been Town Clerk two years, and took the United States census in Muskego in 1880 ; he was born in 1858, in New York City; the other children were born in Muskego ; Henry is now a bricklayer in Milwaukee. The family are Lutherans and Democrats.

JOHX SCHMIDT, farmer, Sees. 1,4 and 33; P. 0. Tess Corners; born April 23, 1833, in Wirschweiler, Prussia ; his parents, Peter and Katrina Schmidt, settled in Muskego in June, 1846, the second German family in the town ; Mrs. S. died April 16, 1869, and her husband Oct. 6, 1874. John Schmidt attended the schools of both Prussia and Muskego ; has been a lifelong farmer ; owns 260 acres and a good home; is a stanch Democrat ; was Town Treasurer in 1857 and 1858 ; Assessor from 1865 to 1878 ; has been Chairman since for three years, and was a member of the State Legislature in 1864 and 1880 ; his oflBoial record is most satisfactory to the people of Muskego, and one of which he may be proud. He was married Sept. 25, 1857, to Mary Wollman ; she was born in German Bohemia, and accompanied her parents, Franz and Barbara Wollman, to America, in 1852. Mr. and Mrs. S. have eleven children - Emilie, Mary, John, Henry, Christian, Leda, William, Jacob, Ella, Peter and Frank, all born in Muskego. The family are Lutherans. For the past twenty-eight years, Mr. S. has been a breeder of excellent horses ; Netherby Jock, purchased by him in 1872, in Canada, was the best Clydesdale ever imported ; he died in Waukesha, in 1874 ; Mr. S. has owned many others of wide repute as stock getters, but has been very unfortunate, having lost five by death ; he now owns Young Princeton, a Norman weighing 1,600 pounds, and Netherby Jock, Jr., sired by the old horse, and weighing 1,300 pounds ; he also owns the pure bred Durham bull Nonesuch, bought of and bred by Gov. Ludington, and a herd of grade cattle ; is also agent for J. I. Case and other leading manufacturers of first-class machinery.

JOHN C. SCHIIET, merchant and Postmaster, Muskego ; born Jan. 5, 1840, in Mecklenburg, Germany ; he attended school in youth as do all Germans, and was two years a student of the Dargun high school ; his parents. Christian and Mary Schuet, emigrated in 1857, locating at Tess Corners, where his father followed his trade of stonemason. John C. clerked two years in Milwaukee ; was a year in charge of the store at Tess Corners, then went to St. Louis and remained eighteen months in business ; he returned to Muskego in 1860, and the next spring opened the store, hotel and saloon, which he has since enlarged to keep pace with his growing business ; he has the only hotel in the town, and carries a very complete general stock of goods ; lias been Postmaster sinbe 1861. Enlisted in 1864 in the- 6tli W. V. I., and served through with Grant, fighting at Hatcher's Run, Five Forks, Gravel Run, on the Weldon Railroad, and was with Sheridan when he grappled Lee at Appomattox. Mr. S. is a Republican ; was elected County Clerk in 1871 and 1872 ; Register of Deeds in 1873 and 1874, and Chairman of Muskego in 1877. He married Carrie Horn, a native of Franklin, Milwaukee Co.; they have three sons - Otto, George and Frank - all born in Muskego.

ARXOLiD STALIiMAlV, farmer. Sec. 7; P. 0. Muskego Center; born in Bassom, Hanover, 1828 ; his father, Ernest S., was in public office in the hardware business, and an extensive farmer ; his wife dying in 1847, he married again, and in 1849 brought his family to America, bought a farm in GreeiifielJ, Milwaukee Co., Wis., where Arnold lived four years ; he is a tinsmith by trade, and made a trip through Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Indiana ; returning, he worked at his trade two years for the Nazro Bros., Milwaukee ; farmed it seven years in Waterloo, Jefferson Co., then settled on his present farm of 80 acres ; the former owners were Gutherie, Garvin and Christie, and only 40 acres were poorly cleared ; the buildings were a wreck ; land full of stones, etc. Mr. S. has worked here fifteen years, has 66 aores'cleared of all obstructions, over which he can run a reaper ; has rebuilt the house, built a 30x46 basement barn and made a good record. He was married Feb. 4, 1856, to Johanna Roemer, a Prussian by birth, who came to Milwaukee Co. in 1847 ; of their eleven children, Arnold was born in Milwaukee ; Eliza, Frances, Charles and Pauline were born in Waterloo ; Anna, Louis, Adolph, Emma, Julia and Laura were born in Muskego. The Sfallmans are an historic old German family, as may be seen by a record now in Mr. Stallman's house ; probably an older record cannot be . found in Waukesha Co. Mr. S. is a Republican and a member of Bismarck Lodge, No. 193, I. 0. 0. F.

SOLOMOl^ VAlVDEWAIiKER, farmer, Sec. 18; P. 0. Big Bend; born in Minden, Montgomery Co., N. Y., Sept. 2, 1830 ; his parents soon after moved to Brownville, Jefferson Co., N. Y., where he grew to manhood, attending the common and select schools; also taught six terms of school ; in 1854, he came to Milwaukee, engaging in the mercantile and livery business until the fall of 1856 ; then, with a few buggies, harness, etc., from his livery, and only $100 in cash, he came to Muskego and bought 40 acres, but would have lost it had not his uncle, Daniel Vandewalker, generously mortgaged his farm to raise means to make the payment; success has since attended him ; he now owns 157 acres as a homestead, which is well improved with excellent buildings ; Mr. Vandewalker also owns 155 acres on See. 8, and 10 acres of marsh on Sec. 20 ; he has taught in the districts around him eighteen terms of school, and as he began in debt and in a log house twenty-four years ago, his record is certainly good. He married, June 3, 1856, Miss Maria, daughter of D. Vandewalker ; she was born in Manlius, Onondaga Co., N. Y.; they have three children - Charley C, D. Edgar, and Orley S., all born on this farm. Mr. V. is a Republican, and was Town Superintendent of Schools under the old system ; is also serving his fourth term as Secretary of the Vernon Union Protective Society.

HEIVRY R. WEIiCH, farmer, Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Muskego Center; born in Dexter, Mich.r July 19, 1839 ; that fall his father, John Welch, made his first visit to Wisconsin, with an'ox team, by way of Chicago, and spent the winter in Milwaukee ; his wife (formerly Anne Richmond), joined him the next summer, and during the summer of 1840, John Welch, following a line of blazed trees, came into Muskego and bought at Government price the present Welch homestead ; returned to Milwaukee and spent the year in helping grade the first streets with Mat. Galligan, who, with a family, accompanied the Welch family to Muskego for permanent settlement in 1841 ; they began in a log house, and did good work among the giant timber ; hay was cut, cured, and hauled to Milwaukee, and traded for goods the same day, and to reward the pioneer work, the farm of 50 acres is now under cultivation, a good twostory frame house has replaced the log house. John Welch died Oct. 6, 1872, leaving his widow and eight children - William and Stephen (twins), Charles, Samantha, Henry R. and Mary (twins), Thomas and James. Henry R. Welch attended the early schools and lived in Muskego until the fall of 1864, when he enlisted in Co. P, 44th W. V. I.; was engaged in the terrible and decisive battle of Nashville, and served until his honorable discharge, July, 1865 ; his brothers, Thomas, James and William, were in the employ of the Government, and Stephen was a volunteer in the 12th W. V. I. H. R. Welch married, in St. Paul's Church, Milwaukee, Feb. 24, 1873, Miss Mary Eagan ; she was born in Muskego, and is a daughter of M. and C. (Doyle) Eagan ; they have four children - Edward, William, John and Mary ; the eldest was born at Bay View, Wis., where Mr. W. worked from 1873 to 1876 in the rollingmills. Mr. W. is a Republican and was one term a Supervisor,; a Roman Catholic in religion.

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Greenfield, Milwaukee Co., where Adolph remained until 1866; he then located on his farm of 94 acres; has cleared it of the stumps of the original timber, and built, in 1873, a large and pleasant farmhouse ; has also enlarged the original barn, it now being 30x80. and built one 26x30. Married Miss Meena, daughter of C. L. Pellman ; she was born in Saxony ; they have five children - Tillie, Rudolph, Amanda, Edward and Ella, all born on the home farm. Mr. W. is a live farmer ; formerly bred horses, but at present is raising grain ; politics. Democrat.

CHARIiES WOLLMAN, farmer. Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Tess Corners ; born in Hannig, German Bohemia, April 26,1839; his parents, Franz and Barbara WoUman, came to America fn 1852, and located iu Muskego. Charles WoUman settled on 86 acres of his farm in 1864 ; it was covered with stumps and stone-piles, and almost without buildings ; during these sixteen years, Mr. W. has built a 35x60 and a 30x36 barn, and a large and tasteful brick farmhouse, the main part of which is 28x30 and two stories high ; the wing is 25x28, one and a half stories ; also built a stone and brick granary and hog-house ; these, with the smaller buildings, make almost a village ; his farmyard is inclosed by a solid stone wall five and a half feet high ; his land, in three locations, comprises 126 acres, and is well improved. He married, June 10, 1864, Miss Charlotte Schmidt, daughter of Peter Sc'hmidt ; they have seven children - Charles, Louisa, Emma, Prank, Eda, Tilda and Sarah, all born on the homestead made so valuable by the labor and good management of the parents. No one in Waukesha County has done better work in improvements, in the same time, than has Charley WoUman ; politics. Republican.

FRANCIS WOLL.MAX, farmer. Sec. 2 ; P. 0. Tess Corners ; born in Reignberg, German Bohemia, in 1811 ; his father, Anton, was a doctor and a large farmer. Prandis attained a good education, knows four languages, and learned the farrier's profession in Germany ; he fought on the patriot side through the rebeUion of 1848, and can show scars of sword, bayonet and bullet wounds then received ; he assessed three Bohemian towns in 1850, and collected the taxes in them ; and served three and a half years as Supervisor, resigning a week before coming to America in 1852, with his wife, formerly Barbara Ehrlich, born 1813, in Reignberg, locating the same year on his homestead of 110 acres; it was then a wilderness of heavy timber, except 15 acres of stumps ; they began in a leaky log house ; were stricken with ague, and we can hardly blame Mrs. W., who had left an elegant home, for being heartsick and homesick ; they kept on, and the large and pleasant home, with a number of large and well-filled barns, is the reward. Mr. W. has prospered well, and has given each of his children $1,000 in land or money ; he has owned over 400 acres ; has also followed the practice of veterinary surgery with the best of success, over a wide range in all adjoining towns, and even in Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. WoUman have six children - Frank, Mary, Charles, Annie, Julia and William, all born in Bohemia; Anthony and Emilie (born in Muskego), are dead ; Frank is in a store in Appleton, Wis.; William, only, remains with the old folks ; he married Sarah Baass.

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E. F. BENNETT, farmer. Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Greenfield, Milwaukee Co., Wis. ; born in the town of Onondaga, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Oct. 11, 1816 ; his father, Ezra Bennett, born in Rhode Island, followed the sea for years prior to settling in New York in 1815 ; he was finally lost at sea ; his mother, marrying again, settled and died in Canada. Mr. B. was reared by one J. C. Stanton, came to Wisconsin in 1839^ and bought a farm in Greenfield, and spent two years chopping and clearing; then settled on his present location ; thirty-nine years ago, this was a wilderness of heavy timber, the ax wielded by him cleaijing over 100 of the 160 acres ; the large and tasteful residence of to-day stands in sight of the humbl6.,home where he began in New Berlin. He married, in July, 1843, the widow of'' Waterman Field ; she was formerly Amanda M. Rathbone, born in Chenango Co., N. Y., and at her death, Nov. 7, 1874, left four children - Fraok A., Blanche, Ida li. and Alice, all born on the homestead, as was the daughter Florence, who died July 19, 1866. Alice Bennett died Dec. 16, 1876 ; Frank A. is in Troy, Walworth Co. ; Blanche (Mrs. J. A. Stapleton), lives in Milwaukee, and Ida E. (Mrs. Frank Korn), is on the homestead, which her husband bought of her father in 1875 ; Mr. Korn has built a large barn and otherwise improved the place ; his eldest, Alice, was born in Waukesha, and his son Harry was born on the home farm, which Mr. B. still makes his home. Mr. Bennett is a Republican, and no ofiice seeker.

BERNARD CASPER, farmer. Sec. 20 ; P. 0. New Berlin ; born June 29, 1824, in Alsace, Prance ; engaged in farming in early life, and in 1845 came to America ; learned coopering in

Eoehester, N. Y., and in 1848 went to Canada ; married, in Preston, Canada, Aug. 14, 1848, Miss Catherine Lehman, and the next day they left for Milwaukee, where Mr. Casper worked at his trade three years; settled on 10 acres in New Berlin, March 25, 1851 ; began coopering; has since l)ought more land, now owning 125 acres ; he finished his large brick house in 1858, and in it, on the 4th of July, 1858, opened the saloon which he has since kept ; he also continues his farming and coopering. Is a Democrat ; was Town Supervisor twelve years, and School Clerk three years ; was also one of the leading men in building St. Valerius Church, which, with the school house, were built on his land. Mr. and Mrs. Casper have seven children - Bernard, Aloise, Katie, Lizzie, Andrew, Valentine and John.

BENIVETT CHEANJEY, farmer. Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Elm Grove ; born, Nov. 18, 1819, in the town of Big Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y. ; his early life was spent on a farm ; coming to Wisconsin in 1839, he hired out at $20 per month, and was set at chopping cordwood ; tiring of this, he " struck," and was employed by the same, man at the same work at $1.25 per day ; in the fall, he joined a party of surveyors, and spent the winter among the swamps on the Wisconsin River ; returning in the spring of 1840, he bought his present farm, and, two years later, built the old log house now standing as one of the oldtime relics ; during these thirty-eight years, Mr. C. has cleared his farm of timber, broken and cropped it, built substantial barns, and, in 1871, a handsome brick house - a good home earned by the same spirit which prompted him to cut cordwood in " dog days" forty years ago. He married, in 1844, Miss Sally Harmon, born in Cazenovia, N. Y. ; they have four children - John, Joseph, Andrew J., and Amanda; Nancy A. died when 12 years of age, and all were born on the homestead ; all are residents of New Berlin except Joseph, who married Miss Helen Noble, and lives in Wauwatosa, Wis. ; Andrew J. served a year in the .Union army, and was discharged at the close of the war ; his wife, formerly Cynthia Ottawa, died in March, 1879, leaving two children - David and Jennie (since deceased) ; Amanda is Mrs. L. Hines. Mr. Cheaney is an old pioneer, settler, surveyor and hunter. Politics, Republican.

HARKY B. CHEIVEY, farmer. Sec. 33 ; P. 0. Prospect Hill; born in the town of Alexander, Genesee Co., N. Y., Feb. 12, 1815 ; son of the Rev. Rufus and Pruday (Piper) Cheney (see sketch of John Cheney). Harry B. Cheney married, in Attica, Wyoming Co., N. Y., June 20, 1835, Miss Saloma F. Hamlin, who was born May 14, 1815, in the town of Ofcisfield, Maine ; during the next few years they resided in New York and Pennsylvania ; Mr. C. made his first visit to Wisconsin in 1840, his father then giving him 80 acres of his New Berlin farm ; returning to New York, he came up the lakes in a sailing vessel in June, 1842, himself and family landing at Milwaukee, June 16 ; his means were very limited, so that after his settlement on Sec. 32, New Berlin, he was obliged to pay half on a $14 cow by turning in a pair of boots ; his home for a number of years was in a board-roofed shanty, minus chamber floors ; the ax swung by Harry B. Cheney in early times cleared many an acre of the dense timber around him, though his family saw much of pioneering while living beside the Big Spring on the farm which he cleared ; sixteen years later he sold out and settled in .Rochester, Racine Co., where he made a good record and held town offices ; in 1869 he sold again, and went to Ottawa Co., Mich., resid ing there four years ; then spent three years in the village of Rochester, settling on his present farm of 57 acres in 1877 ; on this he has built a most pleasant home, where he overlooks the scene of his pioneer labors; Mr. C. also owns a 19-acre fruit farm in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney have an only daughter, Pruday P., who married Allen Marten, a native of England and now a resident of Rochester ; Mr. and Mrs. C. lost two children - Susan A., who died aged 36, and Henry B., died in infancy, from an accidental fall. The old couple are Free Baptists, and enjoy the fruits earned during well-spent lives. Mr. Cheney is a sturdy and outspoken Republican.

JOHIV CHEXEY, farmer. Sec. 32 ; P. O. Prospect Hill ; born April 9, 1807, in the town of St. Johnsbury, Caledonia Co., Vt. ; his father, the Rev. Rufus Cheney, was born May 4, 1780, in Antrim, N. H., where he grew to manhood, and married Pruday Piper, also of New Hampshire ; he was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1810, and made his residence in various Eastern States prior to his coming to Franklin, Milwaukee Co., Wis., in 1838 ; his first visit here was in the spring of 1836, and he was the first Free Baptist preacher to locate in Wisconsin ; settling on Sec. 32, New Berlin, in the fall of 1839, the first Free Will Baptist church was organized in his log house on the 11th of July, 1840. then called the New Berlin Free Will Baptist Church, now the Prospect Hill Church ; this pioneer preacher, earning the love and reverence of all by his blameless life, died Aug. 30, 1869 ; his son, our subject, removed from Genesee Co., N. Y., to New Berlin in June, 1842 ; his first trip was in 1841, and this farm, bought then (partly of his father), has been his home for thirty-eight years ; he has cleared it, fenced and cultivated it, and made a good home. He married, in Genesee Co., N. Y., Ann Eliza Gray, of Attica, Wyoming Co., N. Y., who died in 1842, leaving four children - Francis M., Teresa C. (Mrs. Dr.

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Ingersoll), William H., and Cynthia M. Francis M. is in Alameda, Cal, and the two youngest in Kice Co., Minn. ; all were born in Attica, N. Y. Mr. Cheney married again - Mary A. Parmenter, of Attica. He is a sturdy old settler, and Republican (old-time Abolitionist), and has been for forty-two years a member of the Free Will Baptist Church ; was also one of the first Assessors of New Berlin.

JOHN E VAXS, farmer. Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Greenfield, Milwaukee Co , Wis, ; born in the town of New Lisbon, Otsego Co., N. Y., July 6, 1819 ; th-' first nineteen years of his life were spent here, he attending- the common schools, and learning the trade of shoemaker, which he followed about six years in Alabama, Genesee Co., N. Y. Married in Alabama, Miss Lucy L. Peckham, a native of Norwich, Conn., born in 1822, and removed with her parents to Genesee Co., in 1824. In 1844, Mr. E. made his first to Wisconsin, stopping for a time with his brother Sidney, the first settler in New Berlin, visited Racine and Walworth Counties, I'eturned, and in May, 1846, came again and bought out his brother Sidney, who claimed and settled on it late in May, 1836; built the first log-house, by a " pale-face," within the boundaries of what was then the town of Mentor, now New Berlin ; it was twelve feet square, and stood about twenty -five feet east of Mr. Evans' brick residence ; his claim shanty, previously rolled up, was on the site of George Long's house. Sidney Evans, was born in Pownell, Vt., and came to Waukesha Co , from White Pigeon, Mich.; his first framed house was burned, and the one replacing it, and sold to John Evans, was sided with lumber brought from Chatauqua Co., N. Y. The 80-aore farm of John Evans, once a forest, was for many years, in early times, assessed higher than any other farm in the town, as more clearing and better buildings were to be found upon it. Mr. E., a true Democrat, was first elected Assessor in 1847, served six or eight years, and a number of years as Supervisor ; be was elected Chairman in 185 - (see County Records in General History), served through the war, doing much to secure New Berlin's splendid war record, and has been a member of the County Board longer than any other resident of the county ; he was Chairman of the County Board in 1878-79, and his ofiicial record is above reproach. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have four living cbOdren - Philena A., bom in Alabama, N. Y. ; Mrs. Alonzo L., Alva E. and Elbert J., all born on the New Berlin homestead. During the past twenty years Mr. E. has been a member of the M. E. Church, his wife, formerly a Baptist, joining him in 1868. Mr. E. takes a lively interest in all relating to early times, and was the leading spirit, with A. E. Gilbert, in collecting the data, for the township history, in 1871.

LiYMAN EVAjrS, farmer. Sec. 12; P. 0. Greenfield, Milwaukee Co., Wis.; born Jan. 24, 1824, in the town of New Lisbon, Otsego Co., N. Y., where he lived up to 1837 ; that year his parents, John and Mary (Martin) Evans settled in Genesee Co., N. Y. ; he left there in 1844, coming on the second boat from Buffalo to Milwaukee, and reaching New Berlin in May ; the first year was spent as a laboring man, and the next year he bought his present farm of 80 acres, a few acres were cleared, and the remainder was a wilderness; the labor of Mr. B. has cleared oif the farm, with the exception of 15 acres, and also built a most pleasant farmhouse for a home, besides a substantial basement, barn, etc. He married in 1846, Miss Maria, daughter of Capt. John Bell; Capt. B. was a native of Otsego Co., N. Y., and married Sally Harrington (a sister of Perry G.); Mrs. Evans was born in New Lisbon, Otsego Co., N. Y., and accompanied her parents to Greenfield, Milwaukee Co., 1842 ; her well-known pioneer father, now in his 89th year, still resides where he then settled, and where his wife died, Aug. 25, 1877 ; Mr. and Mrs. Evans have three children - Mary, Orville and Hattie ; the second son, Albert, died Jan. 9, 1877, aged 21 ; the children were all born on the farm the father bought thirty-six years ago, and now enjoy the home he has earned for them. Mr. E. is a Democrat, and has been a Supervisor of New Berlin.

A. K. GILBERT, farmer. Sec. 27; P. 0. Prospeat Hill; is u son of Daniel Gilbert, who was born in April, 1791, in New Hampshire; removed from there to Vermont and settled in New York in 1817 or 1818. Married Catharine Showerman, by whom he had ten children ; of these, A. E. was born Aug. 17, 1824, in Alexander, Genesee Co., N. Y. ; the family came up the lakes in August, 1839, spent a few weeks in Milwaukee, and drove their team into New Berlin late in September, 1839, joining Hiram Hollister, whose family soon arrived from the East; the twenty-two persons in both families occupied this single-roomed log house until Mr. Gilbert finished one on his claim, which he bought for |50 ; two or three acres only were cleared, and the remainder a forest ; Mr. Gilbert, at one time, owned 480 acres, and 200 were cleared by himself and his sons, A. E., Sylvanus, Myron and Seymour; he died, full of years and honors, in December, 1877, his widow still residing with Sylvanus, on his 195 acres of the homestead. A. E. Gilbert first located, for two years, on Sec. 33; sold out in 1852, and went to Will Co., 111.; he was in charge of a gang in the construction of the St. L., A. &. C. R. R., also others, and was engaged in the quarries at Joliet for a time; returning in 1861, he bought his present farm of 190 acres; on this the improvements were made by Mr. Hollister, who claimed it in 1837. Hiram Hollister was born in

Massachusetts, April 4, 1798, and died Jan. 1, 1874; his widow, formerly Sophronia Barrow, was bora Aug. 18, 1795, in Connecticut; their daughter, Harriet E., born in Oneida Co., N. Y., married A. E. Gilbert in Oct. 1849, and they have four children - Minnie M., Willis L., Florence M. and Herbert M., all born on the homestead ; they lost two sons, Ernest and Willie, in Illinois. Mr. Gilbert is a Republican ; served several terms as Town Clerk and Treasurer, represented his District in the State Assembly in 1878-79, and is now Chairman of the Town, although it is strongly Democratic; as a Religionist, Mr. Gilbert believes in doing right in this world, and leaves the rest to Him who doeth all things well.

PETER GOFF, farmer. Sec. 35; P. 0. Tess Corners; born in or about 1808, in the province of Leinster, Co. of Louth, Ireland ; he came to America when 17 or 18 years of age, worked a short time in a factory at Paterson, N. J., then engaged in farming on the Holland Purchase (Wyoming Co., N. Y.) ; sold out his claim there in 1836 and went to Cook Co., 111., where he owned 380 acres; in 1840, Philip Riley, Patrick Kerwin and himself came to Waukesha County, Mr. Goff settling where he is now, and Messrs. Kerwin and Riley near him ; Mr. Goff began here in a claim shanty built among timber so dense as to shut out the noonday sun ; felling trees to right and left, he planted a few Irish potatoes among the stumps for his first crop ; these grew as large as quart cups, while white turnips were immensely large ;. the seed potatoes were brought in by him, on his shoulders, from the Pox River Valley; from wheat bought of N. K. Smith, he raised the first crop in this vicinity. Peter Goff is a genuine old settler, whose salt pork was, in early times, brought from Milwaukee; his 240-aore farm, with the excellent buildings, prove that his labor and management were rewarded. He married Mary Loughney, of Telara, County of Mayo, Ireland ; they have four children - Matthew L., Eliza, Mary and Teresa, all born on the New Berlin Homestead ; the family are Catholics and Democrats. Mr. Goff, in early times, assessed the town, but would not qualify as Justice of the Peace; he is also a radical temperance man, who has not allowed a drop of liquid damnation to be used upon his farm. M. L. Goff, born in 1845, was educated in the district schools and Carroll College, spent 1877 and 1878 in Nebraska, visiting Missouri, Kansas and Iowa. He married, in Feb. 1880, Miss Annie M., daughter of John Burns, deceased, one of th& pioneers of Muskego.

WIJLHAM GRAISER, farmer. Sec. 21; P. 0. New Berlin; born June 10, 1848, on the homestead in New Berlin ; his parents, Jacob and Wilhelmina (Wischan) Graser were born and married in Bavaria; their settlement in New Berlin was in 1847, on forty acres of the present farm ; of the dense wilderness not a stick had been cut; the first blows were towards a log house, which did for a time without doors or windows; roads, bridges, schoolhouses, etc., were as rare as big oak and maple trees were plenty; timber was rolled up, burned in " log-heaps," and the ashes exchanged for necessaries. Our subject first saw the light among these primitive scenes, and has grown up to manhood on soil now valued at from $60 to $80 per acre. The father died in 1874, and the mother in 1879 ; William received his schooling, ia early times, in District No. 1. Married Miss Johanna Schaetgel, of German town. Wis., by whom he has four children - Elizabeth, Catharine, William and an infant son ; a daughter, Wilhelmina, died when 17 months old. Mr. Graser is a live young farmer, owns 73J acres in the homestead and 60 in Muskego ; he has been a thrasher since he was 18 ; belongs to the German Reformed Church. Is a Democrat; has been Constable twice, and is now Town Treasurer.

HIRAH E. HAIiE, farmer and miller, P. 0. Prospect Hill; born April 30, 1825, in Manchester, Hartford Co., Conn. ; his parents, William and Myra (Flint) Hale, were both of Connecticut, and had six children, four sons, each of whom took their father's trade of millwright ; William P., the eldest,. came to Waukesha Co. in July, 1839, locating in New Berlin, in the spring of 1840 ; he bought the water power, on Sec. 32, in 1841 ; built a dam and started a turning lathe ; built a saw-mill in 1843 ; and was joined by his brother, Hiram E., who bought a third interest ; they then put in flouring machinery, and, in 1848, an engine, which ran the mill about twelve years ; W. P. Hale sold, in 1855, to 0. G. Nevins, who was bought out, three years later, by H. E. Hale ; the old mill is dismantled, and has been silent since 1 868 ; Mr. Hale bought the water power on the town line, in 1861, and built the flouring mill in 1868. He has^ eighty-five acres of land, beside his grist and saw mill, the only one in New Berlin or Muskego. He married, in 1849, Miss Juliette Clark, of Litchfield, Conn., who died in 1873 ; in November, 1873, he married Miss Malinda A., daughter of Daniel Gilbert, who settled with a family in New Berlin, in 1839. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have two children - Winnifred E. and Floy C. Mr. Hale was educated in his native State, united with the F. B. Church in 1847, and has been deacon of the Prospect Hill Church for many years, Politics, Republican.

DENNIS HANNA, deceased ; was born on Palm Sunday, 1812 ; in 1842, he married Elizabeth Dugdale, in her native town of Douglas, Isle of Man ; they emigrated two years later, and came,.

via Albany, the Erie Canal and lakes, to Milwaukee ; they stopped for a short time with William Killips, Mr. H. then going to Illinois, where his wife afterward joined him, they residing, near Aurora, until 1845, when they returned, Mr. Hanna working two years for Mr. Killips, then settled on 40 acres of the present farm, built a log house, and started for himself; adding 40 acres in 1859, and died April 6, 1872, leaving seven children - Margaret, Julia, Dennis, Christopher, William, Frank and James ; the eldest was born on the Isle of Man, and the others in New Berlin. The family belong to the Catholic Church, and are Democrats. Dennis Hanna was an honest, hardworking man, who served with credit as Chairman and Treasurer of his town ; his third son, William, is now serving his second term as Assessor ; the mother and three children are residing in a good brick house, built on the old place, in lieu of the log cabin of yore.

JOHN L,. IIVGERSOLLi, Prospect Hill; born Oct. 20, 1823, in pittsford, Eutland Co., Vt. His father, the Rev. John Ingersoll, was born in Bennington Co., Vt., July 5, 1792 ; educated at Middlebury College, studied theology under Rev. Di. Hopkins, and was ordained as a Congregationalist minister; he married Mary, daughter of Judge Robert Livingston, a pioneer of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Elder Ingersoll was the father of five children; Ruth A., born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. ; John L. and Mary J., born in Pittsford, Vt. ; Ebon C, born Dec 12, 1831, in Marshall, Oneida Co., N. Y., and Robert G., born Aug. 12, 1833, in West Dresden, Yates Co., N. Y. E. C. Ingersoll studied law, came to the bar in 1854, settled in Illinois, and, at the death of Owen Lovejoy, succeded that anti-slavery hero, representing his district, the 5th, for seven years in Congress, dying in Washington, D. C, May 31, 1879. Robert G. Ingersoll studied law with his brother, and, as is known around the world, has risen to the foremost ranks of America's orators, writers and thinkers ; his original, always fresh and eloquent, speeches have commanded the attention of all civilization, and need no eulogy here; the mother of these three sons died in 1835, they accompanying the father to Waukesha, in 1848 ; the two younger sons are attending Carroll College, under tuition of Prof Wenaeus ; John L. was for three years a student of Oberlin College, studied medicine in Lee Co., 111., and attended the lectures in Rush Medical College from 1846 to 1848 ; began practice upon his settlement at Prospect Hill, in 1849 ; married in 1851 Miss Teresa C, daughter of John and Anneliza (Grey) Cheney ; she is a granddaughter of the Rev. Rufiis Cheney, and was born in Attica, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Dr. Ingersoll named Prospect Hill at the establishment of the post ofBce here, on account of its commanding one of the finest views in the State. He, like his distinguished brother, is a Republican. In early times he was Town Superintendent of schools ; is a notary-public, and has been for years. Dr. and Mrs. Ingersoll have four children - -Mary A., born 1853, in New Berlin ; Burton C, born 1856, in Niles, Mich. ; John P., born 1859, in New Berlin ; and Ruth A., born 1861, in New Berlin ; the youngest son is now agent of the mail route from Portage to Stevens Point. The Doctor is large, well-built and seemingly in the full vigor of manhood, a staunch advocate of temperance ; his clear and forcible ideas are always in demand at meetings of this kind.

ABRAHAM KERX, farmer. Sec. 16 ; P. 0. Waukesha ; born in Sprendelingen, Province of Rhine Hessen, Hesse Darmstadt, Jan. 2, 1819 ; he was educated in Germany, and, in 1843, his parents, Lorenz and Katrina Kern, came to America, reaching Milwaukee, July 18, and New Berlin, Aug. 3, 1843; Lorenz Kern bought and improved a farm on Sec. 17, where he died, July 5, 1869, and where his widow now lives, in her 91st year (the oldest person in New Berlin). Abraham Kern lived eight years with his parents, then settled on his present farm of 40 acres ; it was then a forest, and has been cleared by Mr. Kern, who has built a pleasant home, with barn, etc., his land and that around it being worth fivefold its value thirty-seven years ago. In 1849, he married Matilde Wilde, who was born in Barwalde, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, in 1823, and came to America and Wisconsin, in 1848. They are members of the Evangelical Reformed Church. Mr. Kern is a Democrat, was Collector in 1854- 55, and is now serving his fourth term as Supervisor.

JACOB KERX, farmer. Sees. 16 and 18; P. 0. Waukesha; born, Aug. 28, 1821, in Sprendelingen, Hesse Darmstadt; his parents, Lorenz and Katrina Kern, came to America in 1847, settling on Sec. 17 ; there were five children. Jacob, two years later, bought 40 acres of his present farm, built a log house, 18x24, among the trees and began the chopping, clearing and burning, which has resulted in his owning a good farm of 135 acres, on which is a large frame farmhouse, good barns, stables toolhouse, etc.; he paid $2.50 per acre for land now worth S75. He married Miss Catherine Damm ; she was born, 1822, in Kreigsfeldt, Bavaria, and came to the United States in 1844; they have seven children - Abraham, born Dec. 20, 1846 ; William, born Nov. 9, 1848 ; Catherine, born Feb. 22, 1855 ; Simon, born May 1, 1853 ; Henry, born Jan. 11, 1858 ; Peter, born Nov. 11, 1860, and Mary, born March 25, 1863 ; Jacob Kern died, when 23, in New York State ; all were born on the homestead, and are members of the

WILLIAM KILLIPIS, farmer, Sees. 20, 21, 28 and 29 ; P. 0., Prospect Hill ; born Nov. 13, 1818, in County Down, Ireland; came to America in 1837, and began as a day laborer, in Onondaga Co., N. Y. ; during three years and three months he saved $5, voted for Harrison, at Manlius, N. Y., and at once left for Wisconsin, via the lakes ; Milwaukee wa^ a village, with only a few stores; for two weeks ensuing, he made daily visits, on foot, in company with a Scotchman, to Waukesha Co., each night finding them at Vale's tavern, in Milwaukee ; unable to get a $50 piece changed, they went supperless several evenings, and finally applied to Col. Andrews, one of the early hotel-keepers of New Berlin, who supplied them and said, " all right, pay when you can ; " and, says Mr. Killips, " I did pay, and did not forget the kindness of the Colonel, whose tavern was near the site of my store." Mr. Killips had his money changed by Alexander Mitchell, in his small bank, perhaps twelve feet square, and, that fall, bought his first 120 acres of Government land, in New Berlin, adding 40 acres ; that winter, which he spent with that kindly pioneer preacher, Rufus Cheney, he built a house, and was joined by his wife in the spring ; this wild land was cleared and reclaimed, and the good work continued ; Mr. Killips settled in his present home in 1868, he owns 400 acres in New Berlin, and has earned a competence ; several years ago he built two large stores in Kewaskum, Wis., where his sons engaged in business; in 1877, he built a store and hall in Pranksville, Racine Co., where his son, Joshua, is in business ; the next year, he built on Sec. 28, New Berlin, the large store and hall where his son Daniel now does business ; the hall is in " L " shape, 22x44 and 18x26 ; it is the only one in town furnished with an organ, and has been used by Happy Home Lodge, I. 0. G. T., since the organization ; it is also used for lectures, parties, etc. He married Miss Elizabeth Morgan, born, 1821, in, Haddam, Middleton Co., Conn., by whom he has six living children - Joshua, Daniel, William, Lydia A., Esther and Emma, all born in New Berlin ; Robert, the eldest, enlisted in Co. B, 28th W. V. I., served a year, and died at Helena, Ark. ; Joshua enlisted and served out his term, 100 days. Mr. Killips is a member of the P. B. Church, a stanch Republican, and a most earnest advocate of temperance ; to illustrate : While building a new house, his carpenters refused to work without free whisky; oneiof them, George Hollister, stood by Mr. Killips, and urged him to hold out, going to the trouble of procuring new workmen, who finished the house, without the aid of fire-water ; Mr. Killips has ever and always acted on this principle.

W. J. KILPATRICK, farmer. Sec. 13; P. 0. Prospect Hill; born in the County of Antrim, Ireland, in 1825; his parents, Francis and Agnes (Anderson) Kilpatrick, were of Scotch ancestry. He married, in 1848, Jane Ann Fellows ; came to America, in 1852, locating in Guernsey Co., Ohio, where he lived thirteen years, and owned two different farms ; his wife died in 1860, leaving three children - Jeanette, now Mrs. C. R. Damon ; Margaret J., now Mrs. John Killips, and Mary E., now Mrs. Albert Killips; the next year Mr. Kilpatrick returned to Ireland, and on Aug. 25, 1861, married Sarah Owens; she was born in the County of Antrim in 1832, and is of Welsh descent; they returned to the Ohio farm in December, and came to Wisconsin in 1864, settling on the farm now owned by Mr. Becker, in New Berlin ; the next purchase was the Vanderpool farm in Vernon ; they then spent eighteen months in Waukesha Township ; in November, 1872, Mr. Kilpatrick bought the old estate of J. H. White ; 84 acres of this, with 73 on the same section, formerly the Martin place, constitute his homestead ; Mr. Kilpatrick also owns 160 acres on Sec. 2 in Genesee, 60 acres near Muskego Lake, and 800 acres of maple timber in Michigan ; as he spent the first five years in Ohio as a renter, and has earned every dollar and every acre himself, his record and example are well worthy of preservation. Mr. and Mrs. Kilpatrick have four sons - James A. and Francis 0., twins, born in 1862, in Ohio ; Henry J., born 1864, in New Berlin, and William R., born 1866, in New Berlin. In politics Mr. Kilpatrick is a Republican.

HEBTRY KORIV, farmer, Sees. 16, 19, 20 and 21 ; P. O. New Berlin ; born near Kerckheimbolanden, Rhenish Bavaria, May 11, 1822 ; his father, Peter Korn, died when the son was six months old, and his mother, formerly Margaret Wagner, was married to Christopher Damm (see sketch of Jacob Korn) ; Henry Korn reached New Berlin in company with his relatives, and remained uatil the fall of 1843; he wintered in Columbia Co., N. Y., with old friends of his brother Jacob ; in the spring of 1844, he went to Europe and spent a year, returning to America and New Berlin. He was married in 1846, to Miss Philippine Schwartz, of his native village ; she came to America in 1844 or 1845 ; they began on 120 acres of his present farm, on which a few acres were cleared, and only the ashes of a log house ; Mr. Korn did the best of pioneer work here among the timber, and now owns 310 acres well improved, a tasteful frame farm-house, in place of the log house of early times, with all needed barns, etc. ; he also has, 120 acres on Sec. 19, with fair buildings; Mr. and Mrs. Korn have six children - Philippine, Jacob

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Peter, Mary, William and Katie ; the eldest is 3Irs. William Steele, of Pewaukee, and Peter is foreman of the Reform Sohool Farm. The family belong to the German Reformed Church, and are independent in politics.

JACOB KOBN, farmer. See. 20 ; P. 0. Prospect Hill ; born Feb. 19, 1812, near Kircheimbolanden, Rhenish Bavaria ; his father, Peter Korn, died in 1823 ; the son came in 1834 to America, looacing in Columbia Co., N. Y. ; in 1837, he went to Florida, working on the railroads and as a carpenter ; as he was in a dire predicament, seeing much sickness and hardship in both Florida and Georgia, he returned to New York. He married Miss Katherine Eiler, of Bavaria, and in August, 1840, reached Waukesha Co., with his mother and step-father, Christopher Damm, his wife and brother Henry made up the party of five, and were the first Germans to locate in New Berlin ; Mr. Korn is not only one of the first, but one of the most prosperous of New Berlin's pioneers, having a splendid 200-acre farm, with the best of buildings, and a competence besides. Mrs. Korn died in March, 1877, leaving six children - Jacob (the first German born in New Berlin), Adam, Frank, Katie, Lizzie and David ; they had lost three - Theodore, Celesta and a babe ; the present Mrs. Korn was Mrs. Louisa Weinheimer (formerly Beyer) ; Mr. W. left seven children - Adam, Jacob, Maggie, Caroline, Phillip, Louisa and John ; Jacob and John are on the farm, and the others are in Buifalo, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Korn are members of the German Reformed Church. In politics he is a Republican.

HEXRY A. lilJKE, farmer. Sec. 19 ; P. 0. Waukesha ; born Aug. 12, 1843, in New Berlin ; is a son of Henry A. and Barbara (Damm) Luke, and was the third German child born in New Berlin ; the family settled in September, 1841, on Sec. 20 of this town. Christian Damm, the father of Mrs. Luke, settled here in August. 1840, and in 1846, gave 3Ir. Luke 80 acres of land; beginning on this timbered farm in a log house, he worked mott faithfully, replacing the log house in 1860, with the large and handsome residence now so good a home for his family. Mr. Luke died in June, 1862, leaving two children - H. A. and Katrina C. Mrs. Luke married B. Prior, and shares the home with her son who married Amelia Dexheimer Oct. 4, 1865 ; she was born in December, 1849, in Bavaria, her parents coming to America soon after ; Mr. and Mrs. Luke have four children - Emily A., Tina C, Henrietta F. and Alvina M., losing the eldest, a son, Louis H. The family belong t^the German Reformed Church. In politics, he is a liberal and independent. The homestead contains 160_aeres, and Mrs. Prior has 66 ; the home buildings and farm have been much improved by Mr. Luke since his honored father's death.

JAMES MURPHY, farmer, Sec. 32 ; P. 0. Prospect Hill ; born June 27, 1842, in County of West Meath, Ireland ; his parents, Daniel and Elizabeth Murphy ; came to America in 1851, located in Westchester Co., N. Y ; came to Wisconsin 1856, residing in Beloit and Richland Cos. James Murphy enlisted, November 1, 1861, in Co. P. 3d W. V. I. ; the regiment was first in Missouri and Kansas ; at Montevello, the first fight, the officers became excited, gave contrary orders', the men got scared and "skedaddled;" Mr. M., as gunner for a howitzer, was ordered to Ft. Gibson, I. T. ; participating in the battle of Prairie Grove, after which he was one of a party of twenty sent to stampede a rebel force at Cane Hill, Ark., and by a night attack, did stampede ; the boys next took Van Buren, Ark., repulsed an assault by Hindman, and left the town, re-occupying it a year later, and using it as a base for raiding ; a raid on Dallas, Texas, gave them 100 prisoners; pursuing Gen. Price from Jefferson City, Mo., the wily rebel turned and thrashed them, driving them to Independence, where they were reinforced, which enabled them to whip him in turn, and drive him over the Arkansas; at the end of three years and four months Mr. M. received his honorable discharge, and rejoined the old folks in Richland Co., where he lived until September, 1870, when he settled on his present farm of 40 acres ; seven years later he built of Cream city brick, a large and elegant house, and made other improvemtuts ; his wife was Harriet J., daughter of William Vanderpool ; he was born in Albany Co., N. Y., and married Elbridge Dodge, a native of Ltidlow, Vt., who died, leaving her three children - Dike H., Bben V. and Gertrude L. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, have two children - Guy J. and Dan M. Mr. Murphy is a Republican ; Mr. Dodge enlisted August, 1862, in the 25th W. V. I., which regiment was sent to Minnesota, at the time of the Sioux outbreak ; he returned to Cairo, 111., where Mr. Dodge died, and is buried.

E. O. RfEEDHAM, farmer, Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Elm Grove; born in the town of Union, Tolland Co., Conn., Feb. 1, 1817 ; his father, Elisha, married Chloe Strong, and died in 1822. E. G. Needham farmed in Connecticut until June, 1840, when he came to Wisconsin, bought, and three years later sold, a farm in Brookfield ; purchased his present farm in 1842, paid $400, $100 down; during the next six years he boarded with a family in Brookfield, and chopped, logged iind burned on his own land, completed a log house in 1849, which still stands as a monument in memory of times thirty years ago. He married, Jan., 10, 1850, Miss Caroline Koch, a native of New Teirmgin, Prussia ; her parents died in her infancy.

she coming with an uncle to America in 1847. Mr. and Mrs. N., lived 19 years in the log house, he then building the ^ubstantial stone house now so good a home for them and their six children ; Chloe, Mary, Louisa, Esther, Julia and Anna ; a son Martin, died at 12, and they lost three others. Mr'. N. is a Congregationalist, and a Republican. In 1840 there was no house on the line of the present Town Line Eoad for two or three miles east or west of where he now lives ; $1.75 and $2 per cord was what his cord-wood sold for in Milwaukee ; his 120' acres is now partly covered with timber, which is worth about as much as the cleared land.

WIIjIjIAM. S. PARSOIVS, deceased; was a pioneer of New Berlin, as well as one of its most favorably known residents; was born Jan. 25, 1810, in Boston, Mass.; orphaned at nine years; his schooling was attained in his native city, where he learned blacksmithing in a carriage factory. Hannah St. John was boril Nov. 5, 1814, in Norwalk, Conn., where she married Mr. Parsons, Jan. 2, 1831 ; soon after, they started West to Coldwater Prairie, Mich., residing there until June 1837, when they came to New Berlin. The present Parsons homestead was claimed by a person named Turk, who sold it to Mr. Conover, who abandoned it; Mr Parsons and family settled in a log bouse here in June, and on Conover's return bought the claim for $10; it was heavily timbered and slow progress was made, scarcely enough being raised to supply the needs of the family during the first two years, so that when the claim came into market, in 1839, Mr. Parsons was compelled to induce a Mr. Scott to buy the claim and hold it for him ; Willam S. Parsons was not one to give up the ship, however, kept his ax swinging and finally saw the dawn of better times, paid for his land in 1843, opened in a rented log house, the well-known " farmer's inn;" it was a few rods southwest of the present family home, which was built on the site of the second " farmer's inn," built in 1845, and burned after twelve years of prosperity. An incident is related by Mrs. P. of a certain Whitewater man who was more than suspected of stealing the oats from his fellow teamsters : A certain shoemaker returning from Milwaukee, placed a bag of shoepegs where the Whitewater man could help himself, and all went well until, at breakfast the next morning, some one rushed in to tell Mr. E. that his horses were sick, didn't eat their oats, etc. ; the crowd proceeded to the barn, where about six quarts of shoepegs before each horse, revealed the true inwardness of aifairs, and caused endless fun among the patrons of the old " tavern." liighty acres of the present farm is part of the old plaim of 1836, and the remaining 23 were bought by Mr. Parsons in 1840, he living to clear and cultivate a good farm and build up a most pleasant home. Mr. Parsons died Dec. 20, 1875, leaving two sons - William S.,born Aug. 11, 1851, and Charles 0., born June 14, 1854; W. S. Parsons attended - Jennings Seminary and the American Commercial College, at Aurora, 111., and with his pioneer mother now occupies the homestead ; he married Nov. 25, 1872, Miss Emma M., daughter of Hazen H. and Aurelia Hurfkins, and has three children - W. Hazen, born in Waukesha, May C. and Nellie A., born on the homestead where their father was. Mr. P. is a stanch Republican, as was his honored father, and is now Town Clerk, also Deputy Sheriff of Waukesha Co. Charles 0. Parsons learned the carpenter and joiner's trade in New Berlin, which was his home until 1877, when he located in Albert Lea, Minn., where he now owns a half-interest in a machine shop with Aleck McNeil ; his mother has resided in New Berlin longer than any resident of it, unless it be A. L. MoWhorter.