Wyocena Town (part 2 of 3)

I cannot give you an adequate representation of the privations and pleasures of frontier settler life, or an understanding of its reality. Still. I will give you a little of my experience. We hear of military and. pinery roads. Where do they lead to ? Green Bay and the pinery. Just as good, as far as you are concerned, as leading to nowhere ; they are only tracks through the dark, wild woods and gi-assy wilderness, scarcely recognizable when you see or meet them. There were some Indian trails, but leading to nowhere in particular. Wherever you went into the woods, swamps, etc, you came in -coiitMcl with liii;' iirass. iiii(UTlini.sli. rotlinji' ilel)ris. wiitcr and mire, very unconitnrtalik' to u:ot tliroufi'h in wrl wi'athiT. Iiiu'i<y was lie who had an ax. luindsaw and hatchet to liuild a hut for shelter ; and also a gun and plenty of ammunition. There was danger of ugly Indians ; there wa.s also plenty of wild ganie to be had. Fish, wild-fowls, deer and coons were abunilant. I sometimes met with eight or more deer in one drove. Such common things as salt, bread and potatoes weri' luxuries if you could get hold of any. but to do so was not very easy. You had to eat the wild, natural provender in the best way yon knew how to prepare it ; sometimes in a very insipid way. witii yellow marsh or lake water for drink, and nothing else most of the time. At night-time you licanl all kinds of queer noises of wild animals, and sometimes the terrilic screeching of Indians, lied foxes were plenty around here. Oftentimes tliey used to bark at night aroinid my log house. One time, early in the morning. 1 went hunting and came on the ice of the Wisconsin Kiver. a little prospect I'rospect Hill, near a heavy-timbered island, where I found myself at once surrounded l)y nine or ten big red foxes barking at me like ugly dogs. At another time. 1 came to a i)art of my claim wliich 1 called the Hiiscli Dell; there, only aliout six feet from me. arose from out of the underbrush a monstrous deer, heavily built, the size of a stout three-year-old heifer, with very short, strong legs, enormous antlers and large, fierce eyes. The beast stared at me with detiance. and did not l)udge for some time. 1 had with me a double-barrel gun - one barrel rifle, loaded with bullet, and the other l)arrel being for shot, was loaded with l)ig shot. Instantly. I was ready for battle, the triggers cocked, and sharply lacing the wild beast. By-and-by. it moved a little backward from me. I also moved a little backward. So we continued moving from time to time further apart, till the deer was aliout five rods distant from me. when it turned around and trotted off. I felt relieved when T got so easily rid of the monster. There were various kinds of snakes - rattlesnaki's included. I have killed thousiuids in the s[)riug and summer time, often averaging a few hundred a ilay. The worst pests were the ditferent species of ants. >Iy land was full of these troublesome insects. Numerous ant-heaps stood like large beehives in every direction. By burningout their haunts, 1 finally subdued that tormenting animal in some degree. Countless gophers, who would root out my new-i)lanted crops, had also to l)e destroyed; Init the greatest danger to the frontier settler were the unexpected and disastrous wood and i)rairie fires when they came with a strong blast of wind.

Among the okU'St, permanent and solid settled men of the city of Portage, whom I now call to mind, were and are, including some that are dead - Henry ^Merrill. AVilliam .Armstrong. Dr. Prentice. J. J. (xuppey, H. T. Haskell. A'alentine Helmann. James Collins. W. K. Clougli. Solomon Leech. John (iraham. Anton Klenert, Bemos Pixley, (ieorge Thakell and Alex. Carnagie.

The 12th day of February, 1S50, I married Miss Louisa Slifer (the marriage taking place on her 2()tli birthday) ; she was born at the village of Trappe, Montgomery Co., State of Pennsylvania ; her father, Samuel Slifer, had taken up the next claim, westward of ray claim on Silver Lake, for a homestead, on the Indian land. .My wife's parents. "Sir. Sanniel Slifer and his wife (her maiden name being Ksther Scholl) of Pennyslvania, were descendants of the Palatinate I'migrants of the seventeenth century, in the time of Louis the XIV. (" (iraud Louis," His Most Cluistian Majesty, King of France, devastating i)oor South (icrinany with his infamous infernal dogs, like Turenne, 3Ielac and ^lontelus, at a fearful rate ; worse than the Huns and .Mongolians.)

S(|uire S. \'an Slyke. a young man. tied the knot.' a little, young'lawyer. a Mr. Soo]), being witness. It liai)pcncd in front of Mr. Slifer's log lK>use. at Silver Lake, on the sod (being very line weather), and under the of heaven. " Here is the statement of the genuine document :

STATE OF WISCONSIN, 1^^ Columbia CoiiNiy. i Hf il Rpmemhereii - TImt nt Fori Winnehngo, in siiid f'ounly (being in the Woods), on the I'Jili day of February. 18")0, Mr, Coiirad Collipp mul .Miss Louisa Slifpr were duly ioined in marriage by me.

S. Van Slyke

This, our marriage, was, I believe, the first legal marriage of white man and woman kind on the Indian lands, hereabouts. Momentous destiny ! Glorious, indej)endent Ijachelorhood now gone - e\a|iorated to zero. The desperate plunge of life had now been made forever. I must confess I dreaded, in an uneasy, anticipative way, the so-called l)unlen, care and sla^very of married life. But l)e it said by inc. the \er\ reverse became the fact in my case ; happiness, success, and entire contentment henceforth to tliis da\'.

God blessed our marriaue with eleven children : eight girls and three sons ; all born at Silver Lake. Jennie Oetavia. was lH)ru the Sth of Deeember. 1S51. and was married to W. W, Lloyd the 27th of Auiiust, 187.'5 ; Louise Anna was born the 20th of January. 1S54, and was married to D. C. Treadway the loth of Septeml>er. 1875 ; Sophia Augusta was liorn the 8d of November. 1855 ; Lydia Amanda' was Iwrn tiie 24th of November. 1857. an<l was married to \X. A. Krause the 22d of November. 187(; ; Katie, or Catharina. was born the !lth of December, 18511 ; Christine Klise was born the 20th of ;\[arch. 18(Jl ; she died at the age of 12 years and 4 months, the 2<lth of July, 1873 ; she was a highly gifted girl. (T took the shock as ealmly as possible, but it commenced to turn my hairs gray. Grim' death had shot the center out of my deiir children.) Lilly Rutii was born the 22d of January, 18(58; Washington was born the 21st of February, 18(55; Horace was born the 13th of Maj', 18(57 ; Platon was bom the fith of May, 18(59 : Hildegard was born the 31st of May, 1871.

September the 9th. 1852. 1 recei\ed one part of my land, as a first actual settler, according to the pre-emption laws of 1842, at the Jlenasha land otiiee. The other part. Oct. 2(1. 1852. under the same law. at the Oshkosh land otHee ; it being 1(50 acres, more or less, in Sec. 31. Township 13, Range 9. and the east part of Lot 2. Sec. (5, Township 12, Range 9. In 1854, I rented land to Jiirgens & Dreyer, for the manutacturing of brick. In 1855. they started the l>rickyard and ran it till 18(55. In 18(5(5, I took the brickyard niyself and ran it. with good success, till 1875. Since 1878, the brickyard has been run liy Ati'elt & (ronten.

In April. 1855. a wood fire swept like a hurricane in a terrible devastating manner over my land. I lost 90 cords of newly chopped wood, 1 1 0 rods of rail fence and many large trees, which stood like burning spires, and would come down at last with an awful crash. AH my laud, except the cultivated parts, looked like a black, dreary waste. I felt pretty rough at the time. The season of planting had arrived, but now my fields lay open. Matters, however, mended, and everything went on as smoothly as ever. In July, 1856, I laid out a road, four rods in width, over the center of Collipp's Point, from the narrowest part of Silver Lake northward to the town line, and from thence westward four rods in width on the town line to the one-quarter line, meeting there the land I had sold to Hon. J. J. (luppey. through which we had formerly fixed the road more westward. la the s'l^riug of 1859. Hon. J. J. (luppey, Charles Hiertel and I built a bridge, about twelve rods in length, over the narrowest part of Silver Lake. The first team drove over the bridge May 11, 1859. :My part of the expense was S250 and one month's work with team. In 1874, the city of Portage took charge of the bridge as a public highway, and. in the winter of 1875, built an earth dam across the same place, where the bridge had stood. In 1875, I dedicated the same road I had laid out in 1851 to the city of Portage as a pulilic highway. It was named Collipp avenue.

In the years of 1853"aud 1854. I built a frame house. 14x22, and, in 1855. a barn, 20x30 feet, on my land on Lot 2, Sec. 0, Town 12. Range 9. A little east of these buildings, I built, in 1858. a convenient, solid brick house, two stories high abo\-e ground, and basement and cellars Iielow. This l)uilding is 32x32 feet, with wing 20x22 feet. Since August. 1858, we have resided in this house.

Since 1854, I have planted a great many fruit trees, vines, ornamental trees and shrubbery, and we have had. since 1858. most every year plenty of apples, grapes, berries, etc. In 18U9, 1 built, on Cook street, in the city of P(irtage. a lirick store, twenty-two feet wide l)y se\-enty-five feet long, two stories high, with cellar under the whole building. In 1875, I built an addition of forty feet in length thereto, making the store now 115 feet long, now rented to Parry & 3Iuir, who keep a large <lry -goods establishment. I have been several times Assessor of the city of Portage, and have been of late years one of the cit}- School Commissioners and County Supervisor of the Fifth \\'ard. and been elected to the last named offices again, this spring of 1880.

Dear reader. God has blessed all our family (excepting the sickness and death of one of our children) since our commencement, and onward till now with good health and plenty, thank God !

JOBf AS COi\KHX, son of Samuel and Margaret Conkliu, was liorn in the town of Conklin, Broome Co., N. Y. His grandfather was the first settler there ; his parents came to Fox Lake, Dodge Co., Wis., in the fall of 184(1. remained there one year, and in 1847 removed to Courtland, Columbia Co.. where his lather died May 11, 1861 ; his mother is now living, and resides with a daughter, ]Mrs. Matilda Rockwell, at Fox Lake. Mr. Conklin came to Wisconsin in 1845, to Fort Winnebago ; he spent seven months in the pineries of Portage Co.. in 1846. then coming back, he worked for Henry Merrell, in the stone and lumber business, most of his time for seven years ; he liought laud in the town of Courtland. Sec. 3, Township 12. Range 12. 40 acres, and 40 acres of timber in Sec. 26, the first purchased in that township in 1846, next spring buying 40 acres more on Sec. 3, and at the present time he owns 100 acres located on Sec. 3. 20 acres on Sec. 26, and 40 acres on Sec. 33. all in the same town. Mr. Conklin was engaijed in buying produce and furs nio.st of the time for about fifteen years ; he had charge of the canal here for about five years, and was engaged winters in freighting between this point and Milwaukee, while he had charge of the canal ; although at present a resident of Portage, he owns and carries on his farm in the town of Courtland. He was Assessor of that town nine years in succession, and held various other otlices in that town : he was elected Sheritl' in 1S7S, He was married in the old Fort ^\'innel1ago, to Frances L. Shipley ; she was born at Potsdam, N. V,; thc\- have three daughters - Frances J.. Ella K. antl Lula JSelle.

W. W. CORNING, son of Warren Corning, Jr., and Khoda (Prouty) Corning ; his father died at IMentor, Lake Co., Ohio, in Septemlier. 1834 ; his mother is still living in Mentor, aged 7S years. The subject of this sketch was born in Mentor Aug. 20. 1S29 ; in 1S4S, he went to Newark, Licking Co.. Ohio, where he resided two years, going thence to Hebron in 1S50. and remaining there until 1854 : from there he removed to Columbus. Ohio, where he lived until 1850 ; going to Nashville, Tenn., in this year, he remained until the spring of 1857, returning to Licking Co.; in October, 1858, he came to Portage, and in March, 1850, engaged in the hardware business at his present location, corner of Wisconsin and Cook streets. Mr. Corning has lieen Mayor of Portage City two terms, and served as Alderman for many years ; in 1872, he was a member of the Assembly, and is now a County Commissioner. He was married at Loveland, Ohio. Pec. 2(1. 1854, to Cornelia E. Smith ; she was born in Cincinnati Dee. 3, 1830; they have five children - Anna ^[.. born in Hebron. Ohio, now Mrs, S, E. Arnold, of (lermantown, Juneau Co., Wis.; Nellie R., William Smith, Mary L. and Bella T., born in Portage. Mr. Corning is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Lodsrc. Chapter and Comnianderv. and of the A. O. U. W.

' ACiJNES N. CORN WEIjL, born in Windsor, Vt., in 1820 ; her life-work has been teaching ; she was educated in the Amherst Female Seminary and at Wilbraham Academy, Massachusetts ; her first teaching was with her two Itrothers in a select school at Newton, Sussex Co.. N. J. She was married in 1842 to Elijah C. Butz. who died in 1842, at Southport (now Kenosha), where he was in mercantile business ; they had one daughter - Carrie A., who is now married and living in New Jersey; in 1847. ^Irs. Cornwell taught the first school in Columbus. Wis.; in 1850. she came to Portage and opened a select school with seven pupils, in the okl .Mcd-'arland warehouse. In T853, she married Jiynian Cornwell, and soon afterward went to California and returned in 1857, on the death of her brother; before returning to California, they built the liou.se wliere she now resides. Mr. Cornwell died in California in the year 1800 ; she owns her cozy home and also has considerable unimproved land in the State. She is a member of the First Presbyterian Church ; she was a competent and conscientious teacher, and her faithfulness is attested by many grateful pupils.

MISS AXNA CROAK, chief dining-room girl at the Corning House, was born in Portage in 1858. and has lived all her life in this county. She is a Catholic; she is the veteran employe of the hotel, having worked under the Fox atlministration about three years ; her fpiick step and i)leas:int smile are remembered by myriads of well-fed patrons of the Corning House.

a. -!. cox, was born in Minnisink. Orange Co., N. V.. Aug. 4. 1832 ; when (i. J. was 5 years of age. his father. Calvin Cox, moved to ^lontrose, Susquehanna Co.. I'cnn.. where he ilied when the suflject of this sketch was a small boy. His mother, BLirgaret L.. now 75 years of age. still resides atMoiitro.se. !Mr. C. came to Wisconsin, locating at Wyocena. in 1854 ; he remained there a little over a year, when he came to Portage and engaged in teaching until the year 1858 ; having studied law before coming West, he commenced the practice of his profession in 1858, and has since continued the liusiness of lawyer. In 1801. he was elected County Judge, of Marquette Co.; from 1802 to 1808, was Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue; in the years 1874 and 1875. was City Superintendent of Schools, and Alderman of Third Ward in 1870 and 1880. Jlr. Cox was married at Wyocena. Oct. 31. 1855. to Eliza A. Wood, daughter of Rev. Nathan Wood, who came to Wyocena in 1840, and still resides there : her mother, Harriet Wood, died there Sept. 4. 1847, being the first person ever interred in the cemetery of that place ; they have five children - Edward E., Hubert H., Margaret C., 3Iabel A. and Mary Alice. Mrs. Cox was' born at Stockliridge, Madison Co., N. Y. Jlr. and Jlrs. C. and son are members of the Presbvterian Church, and Mr. Cox is a member of the lodiic of 1, O. O. F. of this citv.

' tiEOROE CURTIS. Jr.. attorney at law, was liorn at Brecksville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, Dee. 18. 1851 ; followed the liusiness of farming and teaching school until November. 1870, when lie began the study of law at Madison, Wis, Mr. Curtis has been in the practice of his profession at Portage since July 1, 1877. He was married at Lindina. Juneau Co.. Wis., Pec. 24, 1870, U> Alycia M. .^I'. (Iregorv. daughter of Ezra and ^lartlia (Iregory. now residents of (Jleiidale, Monroe

Co.. Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis have two children - George G., born May. 1S7S, and an infant son, born in February, 188(1. Mr. Curtis was elected Justice of the Peace in April 1880.

HEi\RY'HALE Cl'RTIS, attorney at law. was born at Brecksville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. Dec. 15. 1848; removed from there with his parents, George and Elizabeth Curtis, in 185G, to Mauston, Juneau Co., Wis., where they still reside. In 1875, he entered the law office of Winsor & Veeder, at Maustou. Mr. C. followed farming and school teaching; in 1807, he entered the Law Department of the State University, at Madison, from which lie graduated in the class of 1870. and in July of that year came to Portage and liegan the practice of law ; while in Juneau Co.. Mr. C. was Court Commissioner, Justice of the Peace. Town Clerk and the incuml)ent of other local offices. He was married at Lemonweir. Juneau Co.. Oct 11, 1871, to M. E.. daughter of John MeXown, who was killed at the battle of Shiloh ; they have three children - Alfred S., Iwrn September. 1871 ; Norman P., born Fel)ruarv. 1875, and Nathan, born December. 1877.

DAIVIEL J. DAliTON was "born in the town of Springvale. Columbia Co., Wis., Aug. 14. 1853 ; son of Thomas J. and Mary A. Dalton. residents of Juneau Co.. Wis.; entered Mauston High School at tlie age of 17 ; afterward attended the commercial college and State T^niversity at Madison ; began teaching school winters at the age of 18 ; studied law while teaching, and afterward read law with J. B.' Tayler. and was admitted to the liar in May, 1879. :Mr. D. began practicing law in Portage in Augu.st, 1879 ; he is also in the insurance business; he is a member of the Guppey Guards, and attornev for the companv.

JOHN R. DALTON was Ijorn at' York. England, in January. 1835 ; came to America in 1849. locating at Buffalo. N. Y., for six months, after which he settled at Milwaukee, where he resided until 1854. In :Milwaukee. Mr. D. attended school and learned his trade, that of a mason. In 1 854. he came to Portage, which has since lieen his home. He was married, in Portage, to Eniily Ellis, born in England ; they have tw(3 children living - Reginald G. and (ieorge C. Mr. D. is a member of the lodge of A., F. & A. M. Thev have lost one infant child.

HENRY J. DARTON, freight engineer. C. 51. & St. P. R. R. ; born September, 1852, at Hartford, Wis.; his father was one of the earliest settlers of Hartford, his nearest neighbors thenbeing nine miles distant ; began railroad life in the summer of 1809 as fireman onC..M. &St.P.R. R., and was promoted to charge of engine in August, 1870, and has -run" continuously to date. Was married, July 21, 1878, to Miss Alice Dean, a niece of R. E. McMillan, a leading lumberman of Oshkosh. Wis.; they have one son - Harry Irving, born Jan, 4, 1880. (hi the 27th of April. 1879. he was seriously injured by an exploding torpedo on the track, near whicli he was standing. A fragment of the shell is still in the wounded leg. His run is on the Northern Division. He is well spoken of bv " the bovs."

JOHN B. DASSI was born in Lombardy, Italy. Feb. 11. 1825 ; emigrated to Germany in 1840, and to America in 1850 ; located in ^lilwauliee, and engaged in peddling two years ; removed to Portage Nov, 0, 1854, having purchased property here "in 1851 ; erected a residence in 1850; returned "to Milwaukee in 1803, and engaged in clerking until 1809 ; removed to Portage, and, in 1870, engaged in present business. He was elected Justice of the Peace from 1870 to 1880 ; Alderman, from 1871 to 1878 ; meiulier of and organized the Leidei-kranz Singing Society ; was President of that society, and is now Secretary ; was connected with the I. 0. 0. F. from 1850 to 1873. Mr. D. was married in Milwaukee. Nov. 15, 1852, to Barbara Dofmeyer, a native of Bavaria, liorn Feb. 2. 1835 ; came with her parents to America in 1847. .^Ir. and 3irs. Dassi are members of the Irish Catholic Church. 5Ir. D. was ori^anist of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

WILLIAM W. IJATES. The suljject of this sketch was born in the town of York, Racine Co., AVis.. April 19. 1845 ; is the son of Abram and Polly C. Dates, who were early settlers of Racine Co.; they moved to the town of Ft. ^^'illnehago. Columliia Co.. in 1852 ; the fatlier died in October. 1875. and his mother still lives on the homestead. William W.'s life was passed on a farm until he came to Portage in October. 1877, when he engaged in the flour and feed liusiness. which business he still continues ; also is one of the proprietors of the Dates' Flouring Jlill, water and steam comliined ; owns a farm of 75 acres in Marcellon ; he and his lirother, George D., own the old homestead ; George D. and William W., with their mother own the mill. Married Lizzie Jones in the town of Ft. Winnebago December. 1870 ; they have two sous - George E. and Fred.

WILLIAM M. DAVIE, machinist, was born 1820. in Htate of New Jersey ; served his apprenticeship, as machinist, in New York City ; from age of 12 to 18. was a seafarer, and made several voyages as a -- whaler. " He was married, in 1840, to Miss Mary L. A' an Sands, of New Jersey, He has been connected with the N, Y, C. and the N. Y, & N. H. R. Rs. ; he came West in 1854 and was master inechanic on the C. & >I. R. R. ; this was the second raUroad Imilt in the State ; in 1873. he settled in Portage, where he still resides: has worked for many different railroads. l)ut is now in employ of C. M. & St. P. as maehinist. Has three children - .Mary E.. William C. and Winnefred E. : his dangliter is now wifi^ of T. T. Rhodes, and resides in Kansas. (Jwns a pleasant residence next to tlie - little lirown chiiri'h on the corner." situated on Wisconsin street : he is a natural inccliaiiic and a ueniai citizen.

MOKTON E. I>A VIS, freight conductor on St. P. R. R.. was l)orn in .Madison Co.. .\. Y.. in 1S4S ; came Wi'St in lS.")(i and lived three years in Walworth Co.. Wis. ; in 1S51I. moved to Hardin Co.. Iowa: his father was a real-estate speculator ; in ISlid. he made Beloit his home : spent ncarlv four years in .Milton College, and graduated therefrom in 1S(J4 ; in 1SG7 and ISdS. lie tried the business of liuying. training and selling horses: for the work he has taste and ahility - seldom misjudges the capaiiilities of a horse. In ISdS. he married Miss Kuphemia L. Vincent, daughter of Christopher \'incent. of Rock County. He tried the livery business first in Kdgerton. and then in Chicago ; the fearful epizootic in 187H found him at (>(-!- and (ill Cottage (Jrove .\ venue. Chicago, in livery, with hirge stock of tine horses, - the result was bankruptcy ; his railroad life began as brakeman in the fall of 1S74. on the Wisconsin Division of the C. & X. ; this he continued till the fall of 1S75. when he tried his hand at the horse business again ; bought some fine Kentucky stock and trained them, and did well, until a mishap in Septeml)er. lS7(i. set him back again : then immediately went to braking again, on Sept. 15. lS7ti. for the C. !M. & St. P. R. R.. and after one year's experience, was given charge of the same train, which he still retains : no accident has ever ha|)pened to his train : he has had even another "horse experience;" in ISfin. he had a first-class training stable at Milton. Wis. ; had seventeen horses in charge, and all of them " fast ; " with the best of these, he made the eastern circuit two seasons ; his affliction this time was that of having two much partner: he is now confining his attention to the -- iron horse : has three children - .Minnie K.. born in 1S72 : Jesse .M. in 187"). and Susie Burdick. called -Birdie." boru in 1878 ; his paii'iits live with him : .Mr. Davis is an .\ncient. Free & .Vccepted Mason and a Knight of Pythias ; although a thoroughbred horseman, he was never intoxicated : is devoted to his family, but has a lingering love for the horse : ' is social, popular and respected.

CHAN. L. l>ERIIV<ir. The suliject of this sketch was born in Sunliury. Penn.. Dec. H, 18;-i(i. and came to Wisconsin in the spring of 184il, locating at New Diggings. LaFayette Co. : lived there until the fall of ISdS ; is the son of Charles and Maria JI. Dering : his mother died at New Diggings in 185!). and his father died in Texas in 1875 ; the year 1808. he came with his father to Columbus, this county; April lit. 18(11, Chas. L. enlisted 'in Co. I. 8d W. V. I., at Shullsburg, entering the ser\ice as a private ; was first Color Sergeant of his regiment, and afterward Sergeant Major ; then promoted to 2d Lieutenant of Co. I ; again promoted to 1st Lieutenant, and mustered out as 1st Lieutenant of Co. B. July 24, 18()3 ; was in all the Itattles his regiment participated in, until he was wounded at the battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 0, 18(52 : Mr. Dering was educated at Platteville .\cademy. Wis., graduating from that institution in 1855 ; also spent one year at Holiart College. (Jeneva. X. Y., and on account of ill health was obliged to leave college l)efore completing his course : had taught school several terms before entering college, and one term afterward ; then commenced the study of law in Shullsliurg, in the spring of 1858, and admitti'd to the bar in the fall of 18511 ; engaged in the practice of his profession, at Cohnnlius. with (Icrry W. Hazlefou. and remained with him twelve years : in 1875, dissolved partnership ; in Xovomber, 187S, in connection with .Mr. Smith, purchased the abstract business of .Vlverson & Y'ule. and continued his [jractice in Columbus, until the spring of 1S79 ; still continues to practice here ; also engaged in abstract and insurance business; was C S. .\ssistant .\ssessor of Internal Revenue from 18(14 to 18(50: was Village Clerk from the organization of Columbus, in 18(14. to the time of city incorporation : then served one year as City Clerk ; Snijervisor of Second \Vard one term ; afterward. Supervisor from Third ^^'ard one term ; winter of 1 8(17, was .\ssistant Sargeant-at-.\rms of State Senate : meml)er of School Board four years liefore the city incori)oration ; three years member of Board of Eilueation ; elected to State Setiate in the fall of 187S. Mr. Dering was married at Waterford, Erie Co.. Penn., Oct. 7. 1874, to S. .Vda .Maxwell: she was born in Chenango Co.. X. \. ; have two children - Jes.se (4. and Irma.

CHARLFiH DEVLIN, engineer on C., .AL & St. P. R. R.. was born Xov. 4. 1840. near Dublin. Irt'laiid : when a mere'lad. he had a great desire to travel, and studied navigation with enthusiasm: he went to Canada in 1S54. clerked nearly two years, and in 185(1. liegan work in the inacliine shop of the (ireat Western Railway of Canada ; he was afterward a fireman, and was promoted to the charge of an engine in 18(11. which he ran uijtil 18(17: for a vear and a half he repreresented Xevlund iV ('o.. Jfrturson, Texas, as salesman for all leading kinds of eountrv produee ; afterward he ran a stationary engine, at Sedalia. Mo.; then was with the A. &. X. R. R. aliout a year and a half, and then the same length of time with the P. & Ft. W. R. R.; was then a year in the C. & X. W. Ry. shops ; In July. 1878. he engaged as engineer on the C. M. & St. P. R. R.. and has been in eontinuous serviee to date ; he was married on the 3d of January, 1S76. to Miss Luey Horning, a resident of Portage, horn in 1848 ; they have one child. Kitty .Maud, horn Oct. :51, 1870. The famih' are Catholics. She was fifteen years in the employ of W. D. Vox. at the Railroad House, as chief cook ; he is a member of the -- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ;" no one was ever injured on his train ; he is a Liberal Democrat ; this season he has erected a fine brick residence on the corner of Dunn and Marion streets.

CH.4R.LES C. "^OW, i'ostmaster ; was born in Piermont, (irafton Co.. X. H.. June 2, 1S8() ; lived in Xcw Hampshire until he came to Wisconsin in 185(i, and located in Portage, engaging in clerking in a hardware store for Josiah Arnold al)out one year, and clerked in other stores until April 9. 18(i], wlien he enlisted as a pri\ate in Co. (>, 2d W. V. L; was in the tirst and second liattles of Bull Run. battles of the Wilderness. Chancellorsville. (iettysl)urg, and all the other engagements that his regiment was engaged in, except South Jlountain and Antietam ; was wounded and disal)led at the first and second battles of Bull Run, and was mustered out June 3tt, 1804, as First Lieutenant commanding the company, having had command of the 'company more than a year prior to this time; returning to Portage, but remaining (mly a few weeks: went to Oulf Department with the 21st Iowa ; in the fall of 1803, he returned to Portage, and clerked in the County Clerk's oflSce for a ^-eai' ; he then clerked in a diy goods store, until 1807 ; then with W. W. Corning until he went to Madison with Secretary of State L. Breese ; remained with him four years ; returned to Portage, and has lieen connected with the U. S. postal service since, on the C, M. & St. P. R. R.. until he received an appointment of Postmaster, in the spring of 188(1. He was married in Portage, Dec. 10. 1807, to Annie K. Jones ; they have three children - W. Corning, Carrie Louisa and Charles Homer. Mr. Dow is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and a Kniii'ht Templar.

THOMAS W. DREW was Ixn-n in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, July 4, 1SH9, and resided there until coming to Portage in the spring of 1855 ; in 1850, he commenced clerking for O. Ward, with whom he remained three years ; then going into the grocery lousiness himself which he continued until the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion, when he enlisted in Co. A, 2d 111. L. A,, in April, 1801, and served four and a half years in the same company and regiment ; was in all the battles his regiment jiarticipated in ; was with Gen. Grant when he was a Colonel ; participated in the Vickslnirg and Red River campaigns, serving as a private : was mustered out in the fall of 1805, and returned to Portage and resumed Inisiness as a grocer, which he continued alone until ^larch, 1879, when Mr. Pugh was admitted to partnership in the grocery business, Mr. Drew dealing in farmers' produce in addition to his other business. He was married in Portage, Feb 1, 1808, to Minnie AVilliamson ; she was born in Canada ; thev have four children - Jennie. Minnie, Delia and Lillie.

Ci^EORGE W. DITSEXBURY was 'born in Canaan, Columbia Co., X. July 27. 1851 ; son of .Alorgan H. and Alniira Dusenbury, who came to Pardeeville when the subject of this sketch was about 8^ years old, and where his boyhood days were passed upon his father's farm, located four miles east of Pardeeville, also lived in the \illage a short time : then coming to I'ortage, he attended school for a 3ear, when he went into the emph^y of the C, M. & St. P. R. R.. and has continued with the company to the present time, with the exception of one year. Married Morgie A. Thompson, a native of Rhode Island, Oct. 22. 1873, at Pardeeville : they have two children - Ovie V. and Bartie. Mr. D. is a member of A., F. & A. M., with the degree of Knight Templar.

JOHN DULL.AWHAN was born in County Louth, Ireland, Xov. 23, 1831 : came t(, America in 1850 ; was in Xew York City for a short time ; removed to South Carolina in 1851, and to Charleston, S. C, in the spring of 1852, and returned to Xew York same spring ; he then went to the Isthmus of Panama and worked for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. at what is known as Xa\y Bay, working for the company eleven months, building piers, etc ; April, 1853, he went to California and remained there mining until 1858, when he returned to Europe, where he was married July 5, 1858, to Ann McShean, County Armagh, Ireland, a native of that county; they have seven children - James Joseph, Stephen ?I., John, Mary Ann, Blargaret, Edward and Elizabeth ; was engaged in Xewry, County Armagh, Ireland, in the grocery and provision business, there ten years ; when he came to Wisconsin in 1808 and locates! in Portage ; engaged in the business of grocery and liquor dealer, etc., since coming here, and has remained in it ever since. Jlr. and Mrs. D. are members of St. Mary's Church, and of St. John's Literary and Benevolent Association.

WILLIAM MARSHAL EDWARDS (ilrusr clerk with John Graham); was born in ^lihvaukfL'. March 15, 1850 ; son of Samuel and .Sarah (Keene) Edwards ; came to Portaije with his parents in 1851 ; in 1800, removed to Winona, where he lived until 1867 ; commenced learning the drug business with his father in Winona in 1804 ; has been with Mr. Graham since 1807. Married in Portage, Sept. 5, 1875. to Lizzie J. Baxter, daughter of D. R. Baxter, of Sauk Co. Mr. Kdwards is a memlier of three branches of the Masonic Order, the Lodge, Chapter and Commandrv.

WILLIAM EDWARDS, lock-tender on the Portage Canal, which connects the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers ; he was born in Wales Oct. 15. 18.30 ; his parents came to the United States in 1832. and settled in Deerfield. Oneida Co.. N. Y., where they resided until their death. He was married in March. 1855, to Miss Johanna C. (Jray, of Deerfield, N. Y.; in March. 1855, they came to Portage, and this county' has been their home to present date. 1880 ; he lived seven years on a farm near Portage ; on Sept. 22. lS(i4. he enlisted in Co. B, 22d W. V. L; he was on detached <luty until the close of the war : soon after the war. was nearly two years in railroad service as foreman at the yards in Portage, of C. M. & St. Paul R. R.; he was then night watchman in Portage for eight years, and was then City ^larshal two years : has been nearly two years in charge of Government interests on the canal, with the nominal appointment of lock-tender ; he has been thoroughly identified with the growth and improvement of Portage, He is a Repulilican. but has held ofliee ten years in I'ortage, which is a Democratic city ; thej" have no children. Himself and wife are members of the M. E. Church. ( )wns an attractive home on Cook street.

HENRY EMI>ER is a native of Prussia, born Aug. 27, 1831 ; came to America May 1, 1850 ; was in New York and Boston until ho came to Milwaukee, in 1851, where he remained until 1853; then removed to ^ladison. where he resided until 1S55. when he came to Portage. Was engaged in the railway lousiness l)efore coming to this city. From 1855 to 1858. was clerk in a grocery ; since in the hotel l)usiuess ; was proprietor of the National Hotel for ten years. In 1870. erected his elegant hotel, which he has successfully managed up to present time. Mr. E. was married in >lilwaukee, July 23. 1854. to Pauline .\rsand : she was born in Prussia. They have five ciiildren - Louisa, Emma, Paulina. George W. and Charlie H. Is one of the oldest members of the I. O. O. F.; also memljer of Leiderkranz Societv.

MRS. REBECCA L. EMERTOIV, widow of Thomas J. Emerton ; was born May 15, ISlO. in NiirtiiHekl, Merrimac Co., N. II.; she is daughter of Benjamin and Lucy Hoegg Rogers. She was educated in the public schools of her native town, and taught several terms before her marriage. She was married Vah. 23. 1833. to Thomas J. Emerton, of (Jrafton Co.. X. H. He was born March 15, 1805 ; he was a successful farmer in the East, and enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citizens ; held several town otiices. and was several times elected to the Legislature. In 1851. the family came to Fort Winnebago and bought the farm which he carried on seventeen years ; in 1808. he moved to Westficld, Marquette Co., where he died on the 14th of January, 1870, leaving one (laughter and two sons - Benjamin J., born .Jan. 10. 1835 : Lucy R.. born Sept. 21, 1838, and Andrew .J., born Aug. 24, 1841, Her daughter married Robert Cocln-ane, and lives in Portage: her sons are married, and are farming in F(irt Winnel)ago. She owns some real estate in Wisconsin and a pleasant home on Conant street : her young granddaughter resides with her. She is a Presbvterian. She is threescore and ten. and is cheerfuUv nearins the smiset land.

FRANK B. ERNSPEROER. merchant. Opera House ; born Oct. 14. 1838, in Rockford, Wood Co., Ohio. His pareuts arc of Swiss ancestry. Began commercial life as a dry -goods clerk, at age of 14 ; after 1.S41. his parents lived in Sandusky Co., Ohio; at age of 20. he located in Fulton Co., Ind., and continued as salesman ; in 1801, he went into trade for himself, at Rochester, Ind., with a large stock of general merchandise. He was married in Jlay, 1801, to Miss Mary A. Lyon, formerly of Pennsylvania. He h;ul a large trade for many years, being the leading house of the city, and doing both a retail and a jobbing trade ; he closed his business there in 1879, and opened business in Portage on 1st of .January, 1880, in the elegant Opera House Store ; keeps good stock of dry goods, boots, shoes, and hats and caps. Has four children - Lillie X.. Cecil R., Laura M. and Edgar B. He is a member of I. O. O. F.. and is a Royal Arch Mason. Is a thorough temperance man and an active Methodist. Previous to 18S(l, his history was connected with another State, but he is rapidly becoming identified with the city wherein are his commercial interests and his chosen home.

CHRISTIAN P. ETTEN was bom at :\luffen<l(.rf Rhine Prussia. March 31. 1839; was educated as a musican.and served in the military band of the Prussian Third Grenadier Guard. After leaving that, he played one year at home, and then came to America, arriving in Chicago in

March, 186-t, where he remained three j-ears ; lived at Rocktbrd two years, and tlicn came to Port age, where he has since resided, except one year spent in Madison, teaching music and as organist of St. Raphael's Church, which position he still holds. He teaches vocal and instrumental music. He was married at Kenosha, Wis., March 5, 1866, to Amelia Toemmel, who was born in Mering, Prussia, Nov. 1, 1847. They have six children - Fannie, born in Rockford ; Lizzie, John B., Mary B., Albert, and Emma L. M, born in Portage ; Joseph, died in Chicago, aged 5 months. They are members of the Catholic Church.

MARTIN FARRAR, passenger engineer on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-' way ; was born in April, 18lj(j, in ^'crmont. He began railroad life at the age of 19, as flreraau on the Rutland & Washington Railway, and he continued with that road eight years, the last one of which was as engineer. He was married, in 1862, to Miss Hannah Driscoll, of Vermont ; came West in May, 1863, and engaged as engineer for the St. Paul Road, and lived in Milwaukee till 1866, when he moved to Portage, where he still resides and continues in the engineer service. He has one son, born October, 1865, and named George. Mr. Farrar belongs to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ; his neighljors report him as a reliable, candid man ; his residence is No. 28 Franklin street. " EDWARD FINK was born in Prussia Jan. 10, 1839 ; came to America in 1854 ; located in Cleveland, Ohio, one year, Sandusky two and a half years, Norwalk one year : came to Portage, Wis. April. 1859, and has since Ijeen engaged in the bakery, restaurant and confectionery Inisiness, which he began in 1854, most of the time since. Mr. F. was married at Portage. JIarch 24, 1861, to Teresa Kettler, who was born in l^russia. They have six children living - Amarudie H., Henry L., Anna M., Willie C, Freddie E., Edward Daniel Emil ; Carl, born June 19, 1872, died at the age of 4 months and 11 da vs.

ALEXANDER D. FORBE$$. deceased, was born in Madrid, N. Y., in 1823, He early engaged in the mercantile l)usiness in Waddington, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he remained till he C'aine to Wisconsin in 1856. He and his brother, AV. W. Forbes, engaged in general merchandising in Portage till 1870. He was married on the 7th of August, 1869, to Miss Carrie E. Baxter, of Prairie du Sac, Wis. They had four children - Frederick, born Feb, ,18, 1863, and graduated, in 1880, from the liigli school "in Portage ; William R., liorn June 22, 1865 ; Carrie A., born Dec. 17, 1867; Fraukie, l)orn March 13, 187o', and died April 9, 1871, He owned a farm of 320 acres, and one of 170 acres, Ijoth in township of Arlington, Columliia Co., and a fine brick residence on Conant street, besides other real estate in the city. This property Jlrs. Forljes still retains. When ^Ir. Forlies began business here, onlj- three stores were in Portage. He was a careful, quiet, successful business man, attended closel3- to his business, and was devoted to his family. He took but little interest in politics. He was a patient sufferer for five years with consumption, and he died Jan. 12, 1871. The residence on Conant street was built and fitted up in 1865, and Mrs, Forbes and familv continue to live in their i)leasant homestead. No family is more highly respected.

J. C. FORBES was born in 'Aurora, Erie Co., N. Y., July 8, 1828 ; lived there and in the vicinity until coming to Kingston, (xreen Lake Co.. Wis., in July, 1861, where he remained for seven years ; removed to Portage in 1867, and engaged in his present Inisiness, which he still continues to follow, that of watchmaker and jeweler, the same business he has been engaged in for the last thirty years. Married in the town of .Marilla, N. Aug. 7, 1851, to Betsey M. Ells ; she was born in Evans, Erie Co., N. Y.; they have six children living - James S., Melissa M., Henry M,, Samuel L., Frederick J., and (^eorge C., - lost two children, one daughter, Amelia, who died at the age of 4 years and 5 months, and one son, Sherman, at the age of 10 months. iNIr. F. is a member of the Temple of Honor.

CHARLiES FOSTER was Iwrn at Fox Lake, Dodge Co., Wis., JNIay 10, 1855 ; son of Lucius and Blargaret Foster, His father was born in Watertown, N. Y., and settled in Jefferson, Jeflferson Co., before the admission of Wisconsin as a State ; in 1848, located at Fox Lake, and engaged in mercantile Inisiness ; removed to Melrose in 1859, and carried on hotel and lumber lousiness for seven years : then went to Sparta and engaged in the mercantile business for several jears, since which time he has been farming in La Fayette, four and one-half miles from Sparta, Charles, the suliject of this sketch, remained with his parents until 1875, then became connected with the railroad eating-house at Sparta, remained there one year ; since that time, until Jan. 12. 1880. with W. D, Fox in tlie Corning House at Portage, and at present with A. E. Smith in the same house. He is a nu'mber of the A. 0. U. W. Mr. Foster's mother was a native of Great Bend. Penn.

JOHN FOSTER was born in County Antrim, Ireland, >Iarch 16, 1820 : came to the town of Jackson. Washington Co., N. Y., in the spring of 1847 ; lived there until the fall of 1850, then came to Buttalo. .Marquette Co.. Wis., and engaged in fanning, dealing in ive stock, butchering, etc.; resided tiiere until the fall of lytllt. then came to Portage in the fall of 18(iil ; in the spring of 1870, eonnnenced dealing in general produce and dressed meats for the mining regions of Wisconsin and .Michigan, which he discontinued six or seven years ago; he has been dealing in live stock since 1S70. which business he still follows, also extensive dealer in wool : while a resident of Buffalo, was Supervisor and Justice of the Peace. Mr. Poster was married in Portage. May 2, IStil. to Margaret (ialloway, a native of Fyfeshire. Scotland; they have three children - James A.. Jennie H.. (leorge G. 3Ir. Foster and his partner, Mr. Keid. own a large ranch in Saline Co.. Xeb.. on which they have 275 head of cattle.

W. D. FOX was born in Richmond. Ontario Co.. N. V., Dec. (!. 1824. and lived there until 1843 ; then went to Black Rock. Erie Co.. N. Y., remained there until 1845 : then to Ohio near Wooster. Wayne Co.: came to Milwaukee in the spring of 1847, lived there a few months, then came to Watertown and lived two years, wliei'e he was engaged in the milling business : from M'atertown he moved to Kingston and c<intinue<l in the same business until spring of 1857 ; in May, 1858, came to Portage and engaged in the hotel business being virtually proprietor of the A'eeder House, hotel was burned two years later ; in April, 18()(l. went to Faribault, Minn,, September. 18G(). and took charge of the depot and eating-house, until it burned in the winter of 18(i2-(i3 : early in 18()8, took charge of the railroad eating-house and hotel at Milwaukee until 187(J, and was for a portion of the same time jiartner in the Plaukinton and Newhall Houses of Milwaukee ; alter returning to Portage in June, 1 870, lie took charge of the railroad eating-house and hotel here : in 1873. sold out the Milwaukee Cnion Hepot eating-house business : in 187(l.opened the Corning House, remodeled it and ran it until he sold it to A. E. Smith. Jan. 1.1880 : he took possession of the Cameron Hou.se at La Crosse. Wis., March 1. ]88(». which he now conducts : he owns and runs seven farms in .Martin and Faribault Cos., Minn. Married in Fond du Lac. Dec. 10, 1855, to Alvina Smith, daughter of Asa Smith, who settled in Fond du Lac in an early day. Mr. A. Smith died in St. Paul three years ago : Alvina Smith was born in Manstield. Ohio. Mr. F, is the son of (Jeorge and Hulda (Sheldon) Fox ; both parents died in New York State at Richmond : they have one child, Hattie M.. now attending Bishop Whipple's school at Fariliault. .Minn.

MISS DOKA FKl'SiD, pastry cook at the Corning House: was born in 1857, in Germany ; came to I'niteil States in 18()5, Her parents are farmers. She has worked out since she was 14 years of age. and has been in the hotel nearly four years. She is a Methodist. She is responsible for the " jjies and things" which are so freely from the tables of the Corning House.

\VILliI.4M FULTON was born in Keighley. Yorkshire. England, May 12, 1843: educated to the drug and grocciy liusiness in Skipton, England; came to America Feb. 22, 18(5(5. and to Wisconsin same \ear, and located in Portage about March 1, 186(5. For some time after coming here, was employed' by the ('.. M. & St. P. R. R, Co.; clerked for N. H. Wood & Co.: also for John Fulton: purchased present business Dec, 2(>, 1872, with Alex Thompson; buying Thomp.son out in 1880. he has since carried on the business alone. Was married Jan. 22, lS(iO, in Waukesha Co,, Wis., to Agnes T. .More : she was born in Glasgow. Scotlan<l. They have two children - Agnes .V.. aged 1(1 years, and Mary H.. aged 5 years. .Mr, and .Mrs, F, are members of the Prcsljyterian Church, and .Mr. F. belouiis to the Temple of Honor. .Mr. l'"ult<in carries on the business which was originally established by T. .M. .McMillan.

J.4MFiS FYFE, born in Scotland .Vug, 8, 1837; came to .\merica in 1854, and h)cated in Chicago, where he remained until 18(i0 ; then going to Davenport. Towa. where he was employed in the C, R. L & P, H. K. shr)ps (then the Miss. «fe Mo. R, R, Co.) From Davenport, he went to Bloomington, HI., working for the C .\, «& St. L. R. R. Co.; then returning to Chicago in 1804, and remaining there until 1805, when he came to I'ortage, where he started a general jobbing and repair shop (iron work) : commenced the manufacture of plows in the fall of 1877 : his step-son is at present associated with him in business. .Married .Clarion Crow at ])avenport, Iowa, .Vug. 22, 1800 ; she was born in Dumfriesliire. Scotland. They have four children - George C,, Fannie McD,. Marion C. and James J.,.; ^Irs. Fyfe has a son by a previous marriage - John C. .\nder.son. Mr. F. has been Sui)ervisor of Second Ward, and City Engineer ; he is a member of the A., F. & A. 51.. and is also Secretary of the Curling Club.

STEPHEN P. WAfirE (deceased) was born in Vermont in May. 1813: he removed to Pennsylvania at the age of 14. He was married. Jan. 1, 1834, to .Miss Lavinia Maria Baird, of Crawford Co.. Penn.. who was born in Massachusetts in 1814. Mr. Gage was a successful farmer, and a natural racfbanic ; he lived on the old homestead in Crawford Co.. Penn., till November. 1858. when he sold out. came ^^'est, and liought a tarm in Medina, where he lived two year.s, and then rented the farm and liegan hotel life : in 18(j(l. he was keeping hotel at Beaver Dam, and afterward was four years at the -- Blue Tavern," in Scott Towilship. Dodge Co., Wis ; they had large patronage from the line of stage coaches running between Portage and Beaver Dam - was often called upon during the night to get supper for as many as thirty teamsters and travelers ; in 1805, he exchanged his farm for the City Hotel at Portage, which is now the property of Mrs. (rage. Mr. Gage dieil on l-ilst of May, 1873 ; at time of death had begun preparations to build a large brick hotel - much of the material being already on the ground ; a fire in 1877 destroyed the barn and a portion of the hotel ; by relniilding and repairing,' the property has been placed in better condition. Mrs. Gage and her son carry on the business. The hotel is favorably located, Iteing on a corner near the business center. She also owns ()<l acres of woodland. They had nine children - Wheeler W., Myron M., Richard, Julia (dead). William, Oliver, Stephen. Lavina and Lucy (dead). The family affiliate with the Presbyterian Church. 3Ir. (iage was Alderman at time of his death ; his neighbors speak of him as a good man in all thi' relations of life.

C. R. CrALLETT was born in town of Benton. Yates Co., N. Y.. Jan. (1. 1883 ; lived there until 12 years of age, then moved to Petersburg. Rensselaer Co., N. Y.; remained there two years: then went to Penn Yan, N. Y.; after remaining there a short time, he entered Lima Seminary, at Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y.; after completing his studies there, he was engaged as a teacher' of pulilic schools of his native county ; came to Wisconsin in 1854 ; came to Portage in 1855 ; his first liusiness was surveying and engineering, which he followed until 1860, when he entered the mercantile establishment of N. H. Wood & Co., as clerk ; afterward with the firm of Wood, Loomis & Osborn ; in 1SG3, he commenced business for himself; member of the firm of Wood, Loomis & Co. about two years ; afterward N. H. Wood & Co., until 1869, Mr. Gallett being the only partner of Mr. Wood in 1869, when the present firm of Loomis, Gallett & Breese was formed. Mr. Gallett has given some attention to his farming interests since 1865. Married at Portage May 5, 1865, to Lydia V. Wells ; she was born at Pittsfield, Mass.; they have five children - Sarah, Henry W.. Anna, Robert M. and Charles H. Mr. Gallett is a member of the I. 0. 0. F., A. (). U. W. and A.. F. & A. M.; for two years he was President of the Curlei's' Club. He served as Bridge Commissioner two years. Alderman several terms. Mayor three terms, memljer of the Assembly in 1879; while he was Mayor he held positions as follows : President of the Portage Manufacturing Company, President of the Waterhouse ^Manufacturing Company, C. P. of the L (). 0. F. Encampment, N. G. of L 0. 0. F. Lodge ; all these offices, together with his business interests, demanded more attention than it would seem possible for one man to devote to them, but in every position to which Mr. Gallett has been called, he has been found capable of discharging the duties thereof satisfactorih".

GEORGE IV. GATES was liorn in Portage Sept. 18, 1852 ; son of John and Almira (Austin) (rates ; his father died here Aug. 2, 1872 ; mother now resides in this city ; father carried on the gi'ocery an<l livery l)usiness ; he came to Portage in the spring of 1851 ; when he first came, he carried on the dry-goods and grocery Inisiness for a time. He also held some positions of trust - Assessor, etc. George succeeded his father in business ; was in the grocery business for two years and sold out. and has since continued in the livery business.

FERDINAND GERSTE\KORN, blacksmith, in machine-shops of C, M. & St. P. R. R., at Portage ; born Jan. 1, 1S35, in Germany ; served an apprenticeship in the old country and reached the United States in 1854 ; spent a year and a half in Milwaukee ; then in fiiU of 1855 went into the employ of old Horicon Railroad, at Horicon Junction, under foreman Alexander Thomas ; in summer of 1861, began work at ^lilwaukee, for C, M. & St. P. R. R.; in January. 1S66, was transferred to Portage, Ed. Kilbridge being in charge ; and through all the changes of administration, he has remained continuously to date. He was married at Horicon on June 13. 1858, to Miss Bertha Jesse ; have buried four children ; tlu-ee are living - Earnest, born in 1862; Bertha, born in 1866 ; Paul, born in 1873. Since 1859, he has been a member of the I. O. 0. F.: has a fine brick residence. No. 444 Wisconsin street.

B. F. GOODELL was born in Ashtabula Co.. Ohio, July 12. 1843 ; when about 7 years of age, he removed with his mother to Manjuette Co., Wis., where lie was married. May 16, 1865, to Mary L. Waldref ; two children have been born to them - Mary A. and (Juy F. Mr. Goodell has been in the newspaper business for many years, being now one of the proprietors of the Wisconsin State Rcf/ister.

PHILIP GOODMAN, dealer in read}--made clothing and merchant tailoring ; was born in Bavaria Feb. 2. 184(3. and came to America in IStil to Pontiac. Mich., where he remained only a short time, moving to Port Huron, where he lived one year : he then wont to Rochester, X. Y., where he remained three years. Married Sarah X. Cardoza in Rochester in 186(5 ; she was l)orn in London, Enijland ; thev liave two sons - Morris W. and Louis.

DARIL^S A. GOODYEAR was born in Sopronius. X. Y., Aug. 9, 1822 ; is the son of John and Julia (Bradley) (loodycar ; when an inlaut. his parents removed to (Jenesee Co., X. Y.. near Batavia : lived there only a year or two, when his parents died, anil the chililren were taken back to Cayuga Co., where he remained until about (i years of age, then to Chemung Co.; remained in that county two years, when he went to Ft. Defiance. (Jhio. where he remained until a lad of about 15 years of age ; during the next five years, was in Brooklyn- and Xew York City most of the time up to 1841 ; was employed as clerk and collector for a large lumbering and commission house. In the year 1846. he engaged in business with his brother-in-law. C. C. AVaterhouse (lumber-yards in Brooklyn and commission house in Xew York). Mr. Goodyear took charge of the lumber-yard in Brooklyn, and continued'there up to the time of coming to Portage ; in the spring of 1858. engaged in the lumlier business, and has continued in it ever since, manufacturing now at Mather, or (joodyear's Jlills. He is tiie owner of large tracts of pine lands in this State. Mr. (}. has been engaged in the lumber trade most of the time alone ; his son. Charles A., is now associated with him. and has been since 1S76 in the mercantile business, which has been carried on in connection with his mills ; manufactures aniuuilly between four and five million feet. Mr. (I. was married at Johnson's Settlement, near Havana. Schuyler Co.. X. Y.. in the spring of 1848. to Mary Ann Waterhouse ; she died in Brooklyn Dec. 7. 1849. leaving one son - Charles A., born Sept. 22. 1849 ; present wife was Sarah Holmes, married near Ithaca. X. Y., April 16, 1851 ; she was born in Solon, Cortland Co.. X. Y.. daughter of Linus and Jlary (Lindsey) Holmes ; her father now resides with them ; he is a native of (Jolerain. Mass.. and was born in 1797 ; her mother died in September. 1877. aged 81 years. Charles A. married Fannie, daughter of Alva Stewart. Sept. 11. 1872 : they have three children - Alva, born April 18, 1875 ; Mary Bell. Sept. 19. 1877. and Ella Josephine, born at Tomah Feb. 28. 1880. .Mr. (ioodvearhas made two trips to California. He has been Alderman one term.

HOMKRS. GOSS, a native of ^'ermont ; born in Randolph. Orange Co., \t., Xov. 3<t, 1838, and remained thereuntil coming to Portage in April, 1861, and engaged in clerking for (). Ward in the dry-goods liusiness : remained witii him a year and a half; afterward with A. D. Forbes, dry -goods merchant, also remaining with him a few months, when he engaged with Miles & Co., and their successor, John (h'aham, where he still remains. ^Ir. (i. is a member of the A., F. it A. 31.

JAMES GOWRAN was l>orn in Ft. Ann, Washington Co.. X. Y., Oct. 18, 1883. and resided there until he enlist.'d in the 16th X. Y. Heavy Artillery, Co. I, at Troy, X, Y.. Sept. 7, 1864 ; was mustered out of the 1 States service at Alexandria, Va., Aug. 1, 1865. and out of State service at Harts Island, near Xew York City, same month ; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1S65. locating on a farm in the town of Xew Haven. Adams Co., when he came to Portage ; was in business one year with H. O. Lewis, and in trade by himself for last six years, selling agi-icultura! ini|ileuients. .Mr. (i. was married at Ft. Ann, April, 1856, to Mary Ann Stephens; they have two children - Edward A, and Carlton C. Mr. G. is a charter member of the Temple of Honor and of the A. O. r. W.

ROBERT GRACE, passenger engineer. C, M, & St. P. R. R. ; born in Hyde Park. Dutchess Co.. X. Y.. in July. 1841; he is a son of Patrick and Catherine Grace ; his lather was 21 years and 6 months in the em|)loy of one man. James H. Wilkes, in Dutchess Co.. X. Y.: Robert is one of a fiimily of sixteen children, of whom fifteen were lioys; only three are now living - Joseph. Oliver and the subject of tiiis sketch : he came West in the fall of 1855 ; began working for the railroad company, in 1857. as engine wiper, then as fireman, and. since 1864. as engineer. Was mariicil. June 15. 1868. to Miss Louisa Dall ; she is a native of Wisconsin, and was twelve years chief dining-room girl at Fox's Hotel, in Portage ; have four children - Willie, born 1870 ; Oliver, 1875 ; Myra L.. 1877. and Horace (ireeley. 1880. He is an earnest and consistent Temperance man ; was a leading organizer, and is a loyal supporter of the Headlight Temple of Honor, Xo, 163. in Portage ; he owns a neat lirick residence near the depot.

JOHN GRAHAM, a iu»tive of Scotland, son of Alexander and Jane (Duncan) Graham ; his father was born at Mulbirn, parish of Skerlig. county of Peeliles. Scotland. March 22. 180(i. died May 16. 1850. dying on his passage to this country ; his mother was born April 1. 1805. at Fordal. parish of Xew Battle. Scotland, and is still living and resides here. The subject of this sketch was liorn in Edinburgh. Scotland. Api'il 14, 1833; came from Europe to Portage in the 3-ear 1850; was employed at Ft. Winnebago in the post office for a short time ; afterward in, the employ of Samuel Edwards as clerk ; in the fall of 1856. he commenced liusiness for himself - drugs and gro- <;eries - under the firm name of Jliles & Co., W. K. Jliles l)eing his partner ; they continued business together until the time of Mr. M.'s death, which occurred in 18(i7, since then Mr. Graham has been in business alone ; he has one brother, James T., who resides at La Crosse. Wis. Mr. (Graham married Fannie M. J^dwards, a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. G. has Ijeen Alderman of Second Ward several years ; Mayor one term, SujK'r\'isor, etc. JIeral)er of A., F. & A. M. Lodge and Episcopal Church.

ALiPHEUS S. CirRBIiilV wa.s born on the Atlantic Ocean, twenty-seven miles from Boston, in American waters. Nov. 8, 1812 ; son of Wells and Alngail (Ballard) Green. nati-\-es of London. pjUgland ; they located at Gill, Mass., where they resided twelve years ; removed to Utica, N. Y.. remaining there four years ; then to Rochester. N. Y.. resided there eight years ; removed to Buffalo, where they resided ten 3'ears ; came from Buflalo to Portage, Wis., in 1852. where they have lived ever since. Mr. G. learned the liaker's trade in Utica. and after coming to Portage worked one year for others, then commenced business for himself, which he carried on for five jears ; afterward served as Deputy Sheriff, two years under Robinson, two years under E. F. Lewis, and as Deputy ^larshal for one year under Daniel Gindner ; returned then to New York for ten months, but during the last seven years has Ijcen night watch. He was married at Utica. N. Y., Nov. 20, 1834, to Mary A. Jaques, born in Oneida Co.,, N. Y., in 1814 ; thej- have had three children, one of whom is living - Marv Jane, now Mrs. John Brown, of Portage.

'LUCIUS E. <i}REElVLEAF was born at Elyria, Ohio, Dee. 8. 1843 ; in 1845, he came with his parents to Markesan. Green Lake Co., Wis.; remained there one year; at ^Manchester one year ; Kingston two years : Marquette two years, and then returned to Kingston, where the family resided twenty years ; his father, Alltert (Treeuleaf resides at Kingston ; his mother. Mary Greenleaf died at Chicago in 1873. Mr. G. was in the employ of the American Express Co.. at Milwaukee and elsewhere, thirteen years ; engaged in dry-goods business at Kingston from ISGOto 1871. and since 1878 has resided in Portage ; at present with Schulze Brothers, hardware dealers: while in the emplo}' of the American Express Co., Mr. G. was at Hannibal, Mo., Quincy, 111.. Kansas City, ^[o.. and in other places, many years acting as route agent for that company. He was married at Randolph. Columbia Co., in 1870, to Isabella, daughter of George B. and Cynthia AYilliugton ; they have four ehil<lrcn - JIary Belle, Jennie, Samuel George and Lucius Alljert. 3Ir. G. is a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge at ^lilwaukee.

REV. (j^EORUE P. GUILD, A. M., Pastor of Baptist Church, Portage ; was born in .Vmherst, Mass,, Jan. II), 1832; he was born totally l)lind. His father, George Guild, was the first architect and builder who settled in Milwaukee ; in 1835, he built the first church in Milwaukee, and was killed by accitlent in 1842. while building the First Unitarian Church, on Spring street ; in June. 1843, his mother died, leaving six children, all of whom were provided for except the "blind l)oy ;" noliody wanted him ; " liy earnest personal eftbrt and the aid of a few friends, he secured a place in the Institution for the Blind, in New York City, where he remained six years, leaving in 1850 ; that year, at the Eye Infirmary, he had performed an operation for an artificial pupil, which resulted in giving partial sight to one eye ; he graduated from Shurtleff College, at Alton, 111,, in 1850, and immediately settled as Pastor of the Union Baptist Church, at Jersey ville. 111.; he remained five years in that place, and was then five years Pastor at Waverly, and afterward two j'ears in Jacksonville, followed by three years at Pittsfield, 111, ; he was four years agent for the American Printing House for the Blind, after which he was Pastor five years at Ahnapee, Wis.; in ^lay, 1878, he became Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Portage. He was married June 30, 1859, to Miss JIary 3Ioore, of Jerseyville. 111.; the widowed mother, Mrs. Hannah Moore, aged 75, is a member of the famil}', and an example of Christian serenity, 3Ir, (luild has two children living - Leah and Betsey - and one, Jesse, died in childhood. He was a member of the first llepulilican State Convention ever convened in America, which was at Madison. Wis., in 1854 ; his only political speech was at Upper Alton, in 1850, when Republicanism was dangerously unpopular ; he was acquainted with Al>raham Lincoln ; was one afte.inoon driving slowly past Lincoln's home, who hailed him and intpiired who he was searching after ; the reply was. " a Baptist Deacon ; " to Lincoln's inquiry of what they were good for. Guild said it was their duty to keep the preacher over night, and take care of his horse ; Lincoln says, '-I'll be Deacon," and suiting the action to the word, liegan unhitching the horse, and both preacher and horse were welcome for the night ; years afterward, at the White House, in

Washiiiiiton. Mr. (liiild I'lilU'il to pay his respet'ts to the Chief Magistrate, and Lincohi. in.stantly rememheriii'; tiie incident, asked. -AVell. Klder. have you found a Deacon yet?" Mr. (iuihl is an earnest temperance advocate : while in Jerseyviile. he was County Commissioner of Schools ; during his pastorate he has built six churches, and baptized fully one thousand persons ; like all the blind, his touch is exceiMlinuly delicate - he will easily read his Bible througii eight folds of handerchief ; one eye is still in darkness, and the other very dimly reveals the outer world, but happy sunshine <lwells ever in tiic inner world, lit bv the smile of (jod.

«EX. .lOSHLA J. GI'PPEY. of Portage, was born at Dover. N. H.. Aug, 27. 182{»: graduated at Dartmouth College. Class of ]S48 : was Captain of the college military company ; was admitted to the bar at Dover. N. II.. in April. 1840 : settled in Wisconsin, at Columbus. Columbia Co.. in the fall of l.S4(;, and commenced i)racticing law : was api)ointed Colonel of the militia of Columbia Co,. Feb. Ci. 1,S47 : was appointed Judge of Probate Sept. 2!'. lS4!t ; was elected County Judge in Sept. 18411. for four years from Jan. 1. 1S5(I ; removed from Columbus to Portage in 1S51 ; was re-elected County Judge in 1S5H. for four years from Jan. 1. 1854 ; was Superintendent of the public schools of the city of Portage, from 1S5S to IStil : was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Kith W. X. I.. Sept. 13. 18(il.and was in active service as such thereafter until July 25. 1862. when he was promoted to Colonel of the 28il W. V. I., and held that position till the end of the war. He participated in the first assault on "\"icksl)urg. in I)ecember. 18(52. and took part in the capture of Fort Hindman. Ark., and all the important battles around Vicksburg which resulted in the capture of that stronghold : his regiment was then transferred to the Department of the (rulf and while in that department, on the od of November. 18(i:5. at Carrion Crow Bayou. La., he was wounded and taken priscmer. but was exchanged in a short time ; he was breveted Brigadier (Jeneral from INIarch IS. 18(i5. -for gallant and meritorious services during the war." In April. 18(;5. while absent in the military service, he was re-elected County Judge for four years, from Jan. 1, lSli(J. and has held that office ever since by successive elections, his present term closing Dec. 31. 1881. In 1S(){). he was again elected Superinten<lent of the public schools of the city of Portage, and held that office by successive elections till 1871!.

CHARLES HAERTEL, son of Charles and Barbara Haertel. was born in Portage May C. isoo ; lirought up in the l)rcwing business with his father, whose family consisted of four girls and one son - .Margaret, now Mrs, F'red W, Schulze: Lizzie, now Mrs. Jacob Best; Mary, now Mrs, Fred C, Starke, of Milwaukee ; F]mnia and Charles. The subject of this sketch. ^Ir. H., is a member of the Turners Soeietv ; also ot' the Hook and Ladder Companv,

MRS. MARIA. P. HASKELL, widow of Hon, H. S. Haskell, whose extensive biography appears in this volume, in the list of the Illustrious Dead" of this county. She is the daughter of Sayles and Hannah (Hubbard) Ilawlev. of Vermont, and a native of Waterbury, same State ; she was educated in the iniblic schools of her native town, and in the Academy at Mcmtpelier. \t. Her fir.st husband was William Pride, who died of consumirtion in 184(). leaving one daughter - Martha M.. who married Kmmons Taylor, of Portage: both the daughter and her husband are now dead. Mrs. H. was married in 1850 to ;\Ir. II. S. Haskell, and soon after they removed to Columbus, where he practici'(l law nearly four years : previous to marriage, he had studied one year in the law office of Judge Nogglc. and had previously read, one year, in the office of Ex. (iov. DilHngham ; he was a law partner of Judge (Juppey. By her last marriage she had two children, both of whom died in infancy. ^Ir. Haskell died Feb, Ki. 187!t. She has no blood relatives in Wisconsin ; she lives in her fine brick residence, on Howard street, which was erected by her husband not many years before his death : she is a member of St. John's Kiiiscopal Church in Portage ; she is a lady of culture and refined tastes, also of a (juiet. retiring disposition, and. while attractive socially to friends, she is. uevertheless, more thoroughly attached to home than to society.

(jEO. E. HELMAXBJ was born in Prussia. (Jermany. Feli. 2(i. 18o7 : came to Portage. A\'is,, in April, ]8r).3 ; engaged in carpentering for a few years : then clerking, until he commenced the grocery l)usiness, in which he has continued for the last filteen years. Mr. Helmann was married, in Portage, to Johanna Schwartz, a native of Prussia, They have seven children - fieorge, Lizzie, Willie, Anna. Kmma. Otto, and an infant son. Mr. H. has been a member of the Odd Fellows Lodije.

VALENTINE HELMANN, Ixirn at Smalcalde (now Prussia). Sept. 2!l. 1831 ; came to America Aug. 1. 1S47. landing at New York City: came to Kichwood. town of Shields. Dodge Co.. with his uncle. Sept. 15. 1S47 : came to Portage May Id. 1^5(1: worked at the carpenter's trade most ol'the time, until the spring of 18(i4. although he engaged in insurance business in 18C3 ; he served as Justioe of the Peace several years ; in the spring of ISlU. lie was elected City Clerk ; again elected to that position in 1874 : spring of 1875, once more electeil Jnstice of the Peace; elected City Clerk in 1870 and 1877 ; City Treasurer from 1878 to 1880. .Married at, Portage. Nov. 2. 1851, to Margaret AVard : she died April 8. 1873. leaving nine cliildren. all now living - George P., Wm., John V.. Lawrence F.. Chas.. Lizzie, Henry. Katie and Anna. Married for second wife. Catharine Koljerstein. at Milwaukee. Aug. 2(1, 1875 ; she was born in Bavaria ; by tliis marriage there are two children - Rosa and Barliara ; Jlr. H. is a member of the Board of Kducation, from Fonrth Ward ; also a memlier of Leiderkranz Society.

NICHOLAS M. HENRY, born on the Isle of Guernsey ^Murcli 1, 18:-]1 ; came to Portage in l.SdtJ ; in 1807. he spent nine months at Oxford ; balance of the time has liccn engaged in flour, feed and grocery trade in Portage. He was married in New York City. July <i. 1808. to Caroline LePage : she was Itorn on the Isle of Guernsey Jan. 30. 1833. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist Cluirt'li.

WILLiIAll HESfSEL, wagon-maker, born in Schleswig. Germany, on the 1st of March. 1835 ; he, with his parents, came to the Fnited States, and .settled in Milwanivoe. in 1840 ; in 1850. he went to California, and was with his uncle in business ; in 1859. returned, and lived in St. Louis till 1801. when he enlisted in the 2d Mo. X. I. ; was Sergeant of Company H ; served three years, and then. 1804. came to Portage. Was married. Oct. 4, 1805, to Miss Paulina Filterinan, (jf Portage ; had six children - Louis, born in 1807; Willie, born in 1800. now dead ; Henry, liorn in 1870 ; Sophia, born in 1872 ; Willie, born in 1874. and Lizzie, born 1870. and lately dead. He was Chief Engineer of the Fire Department four years, and .Vssessor two years ; belongs to Ancient Order of Cnited Workmen," also to Independent Order of ( )dd Fellows : has been representative to the (irand Lodge and to the Grand Encampment of Wisconsin ; is partner in firm of Collins & Ilensel. wagon-makers ; business is prosperous.

JOHN HETTINGER was b(jrn near Buftalo, Erie Co., N. Y.. Aug. 2, 1830 ; Nx'ated in Freeport, 111., in 1844 ; came to Portage, Wis., with his parents, Michael and Frances Hettinger. May 12, 1849; Mr. H. began hotel l)usiness in Portage, March 20, 1805, in whicli he has continued ever since ; also engaged in speculating in horses, real estate, etc. ; his father, Michael Hettinger, commenced brewery business at Portage, in 1849, and continued it until his death. Oct. 20, 1802; his mother is still living, now Mrs. Zetz. of Freeport, 111. Mr. H. was married in Portage, April J22, 1801, to Wilhehnina Eljerline, a native of Hesse-Darinstadt ; they have six cliildren living - Lizzie J.. Clara F.. Anna, Josephine, Minnie. Emma F. ; lost three sons - John, aged a little over 5 months ; one infant. Willie; Johnnie, aged less than 5 months.

DRAYTON A. HILL.YER was born in Granby. Hartford Co., Conn., Dec. 21, 1840 ; came, with his parents, Andrew A. aiul Nancy llolcoml) Hillyer. to Portage. Wis.. Feb. 1. 1857; associated with his fatlier as clerk in tiie drug business, until the time of his father's death, Dec. 27, 1862; he then continued the business alone until 1808; has not been engaged inactive business since; his mother is now a resident of Portage. Mr. H. was married at Green Bay, Wis., Sept. 21, 1871, to Alice W. Hickox. born in Pottcrsville. Warren Co.. N. Y., daughter of llev. llickox. an Episcopal clergyman, who located in Wisconsin aliout 1857. ^Ir. H. is a meml)er of tiic three A.. F. & A. ;M. Ixidies here, and also belongs to the Milwaukee Consistorv,

ED C HINMAN was born at Battle Creek, Mich., .March 1. iS52 ; received his education at Michigan University, graduating as civil engineer in January, 1874 ; appointed Assistant Engineer of Fox and Wisconsin Ili\ers improvement, and has lieen stationed here since Aug. 4, 1874. ]>Ir. H. was married at Ann Arbor. Jlich., Oct. 25, 1870, to Carrie L. Bisdon ; she was born at Ann Arbor ; they have one child - Gertrude B., born April 1. 1879.

WILLIAM HOLDEN is a native of Rochester, England ; born Aug. 10. 1S29 : Uved there until he came to America, coming to Milwaukee in August. 1849 ; remained there until fall of 1850, when he came to the town of Pacific, Columbia Co., and was occupied in farming there for two years; he then removed to Portage and worlvcd at wagon-making about three years, when he returned to his larm, where he remainetl until enlisting in Co. (i, 2d W. X. ].. .May 20. 1801 ; was in every liattle the regiment participated in until he was discharged. Feb. 24. lSt)4, on account of disability caused by ill-health ; entered the service as a private and was mustered out as First Sergeant of same company ; returning from the army and living on the farm a year, he then came to Portage; on account of illness, was not engaged in active business for a miml)er of years ; engaged in cabinet work for the last five years. Married in Wyocena ^March 10, 1851, to Harriet Ann Corsten ; she was born at Wrotham Heath, county of Kent, England ; she died Oct, 30, 1870 ; present wife was Mrs. Elniira R.. widow of John dates ; was married Sept. 2S. 1877; she was born in New York State. Mr. H. has two eliildren l)y adoption - Helen E. (Wright), adopted wlien an infont only 12 weeks old. and is now aged 23 years; Wni. Henry (Whitam). adopted when ti weeks oltl. and is now 15 years old.

Jl'LIi:S ii. HOLSTEN, brakeman on freight. C. M. & St. P. R. R.: born in Cedarburg. Wis.. July 27. 1S51 : his parents moved to Portage when he was a child ; with the exception of three years spent in La Crosse, this has been his home ever since ; began as brakeman in 1808 on St. Paul road, and in fall of 1870, he got a train as conductor and run till 1877; then, as result of '-running against flags," he was set liack to braking, which he still continues. He was man'ied in September. i8(i,8. to >Irs. Minena A. Clemens, who was born in Burlington. Essex Co.. "\'t.. on the loth of Feliruary, 1848 ; she is one of thirteen children, eight of whom are living; they have no children. Charles V. Monroe is lier son by a former marriage : he works on the river; two of her brothers have been killed by railroad acc-idents. She is a Presbyterian ; they own property soutli of the canal, but live on Pe Witt street, near tiie St. Paul depot.

R. E. HOLiSTOX. station agent. Southern Division of the W. C. R. R.. at Portage ; born in 1840 in Wauwautosa. Milwaukee Co.. Wis.; lived in his native town till 18G8, tlien moved to Delavan. Walworth Co.. where lie lived till 1874 ; most of his labors prior to this were on a farm ; in fall of 1874, began railroading at Elkhart Lake. Shelioygan Co.. Wis.; then to Saukville, Ozaukee Co.. in 1875; then to Westfield, Manpietto Co.. in 1877. and came to Portage in June, 1879 ; in each and all of these places he was the station agent. Was married in March. 1873. to !Miss Edith E. Barlow, of Delavan. Himself and wife are Baptists ; they have two children - Grace, born in 1S74. and Eugene. l)orn in 1876. Takes no active part in politics, but is a reliable Republican ; residence is on Conant street.

M. Hl^BER is a native of France ; l)oru in Alsace Sept. 28, 1835 ; came to New York City in 1854 ; connuenccd working at the business of linker in New York City ; ^May 11, of same year, came to Portage and engaged in the bakery trade ; erected his present hotel, eating-house and liakery on the same spot where he tirst located when he came here. ^Married in Portage, Sei)t. 9. 1858. to Dora Erhart ; she was born in Saxony ; they have six children - Sartdi. Emma M. C Georgianna, Charles T.. Samuel J. T. and Nellie May. Mr. Huber is a charter member of the tire department^ - diploma gi^-en him for serving his term of ten years as foreman ; he also is a member of A. 0. H. W.

JOSEPH R. HUEBL was born in Austria, March 19, 1845 ; came with his parents to Portage. Wis.. July. 18(il ; was in the employ of the >L & St. P. R. R. Co. for four years, one and a half years with Charles Haertel, of I'ortage, brewer ; one year at Madison in a Ijrewery ; returned to the employ of Haertel ; afterward in the mills of Waterhouse, and also awhile with Wells & Craig ; Mr. H. went to Oregon, and remained one year ; returned and worked on IIk' Government impro\ementof the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers a short time. He was married in Portage in 18l!9, to Louisa Haertel, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt. They liave three children - loseijh. Charles R. and Eliza Mary. Mr. H. is a inemlier of the Lcidcrkranz Society. Father died in I'ortage. and mother is living with her son, J. R. He has held the oliice of Alderman, and was elected City Treasurer April li. ISSd ; lias been emploNcd in hardware store of AV. W. Corning for the last seven years.

JOSEPH HI'EB\ER was born in Prussia Jan. 22.'^ 1845 ; came to America in 1871. and liveil in New (Jrleans. La., tliree years ; then came to Ciiicago for a few months. an<l in the summer of 1 874 came to Portage ; has worked at the tailor's traile twenty-two years. JIarricd in Portage April 13, 1875. to Miss Helena Swanz ; she was born in Prussia. They have three children - Charles, born .Alarch 24, 1870 ; Mary, born Jan, 13, 1877, and Paul, born Nov. 8, 1878. Mr. H. is a member of I. O. O. F. Lodge and Encampment. He is now employed as cutter in the extensive tailoring estal)lishment of Ph. Goo<lman.

MRS. MliVNIE L. HrRliBl'T, M. D., liorn Oct. 30, 1835. in Defiance, Ohio, daughter of .Jacob and Minerva Kniss. Her father was a merchant. In 1853. she. with her parents, came to Wisconsin and .settled in New Lisbon. Juneau Co. She had enjoyed the advantages of the public schools in her native city, and afterwaril attended one year at Delton Academy in Wisconsin ; she taught the tirst school in New Lisbon. Siie was married on the 7th of Octolier. 1850, to Roderick W. Coe. of Delton. who died Dec. 15. 1857. She had. from early life, an aspiration for the medical profession, and nnich of her reading and study liad tliat end in view, several years before beginning her systematic course of pre|)aration. On tlie 2Uth of January. 1859. she was married to Hiram H. Hurlbut. of Delton. The^' have two sons - Wendell J'hillips. born Dec. 21, 1859, and John

Fremont, born Sept. 29, 1861 ; W. P. is in Wayland Academy, at Beaver Dam, Wis., and the other is at home. Mrs. H. studied medicine three years in tlie office of Dr. Woodruff, of Lima. X. Y. ; she attended two fall courses of lectures at Hahnemann Medical College in Ciiicago. and graduated in 1872 : she remained in the college as Assistant House Physician, and spent one season in hospital work. For nearly three years after graduation, she practiced her profession in Delton, and tlien located in Portage, where she has a well-estal)lished and increasing patronage. They have a spaci(jus home, which, in connection with their bathing estabHsUm^'ut. is known as the Portage Sanitarium ;" a few boartling patients are acccjmmodated : in 187S. they purchased and fitted, at the expense of SI. 000. the celebrated - ^loliere Thermo-Electric Bath ;" this, they claim, is the only one of the kind l)etween Chicago and San Francisco. Her husl)and. Hiram H. Hurlbut, is ((uite enthusiastic in proclaiming the etticacv of these l)aths. and in their use he is said to be experienced and skillful : electricity is closely allied to life, and the specific virtues of this over the ordinary bath are unquestioned : the philosopliical construction and re\'ivifNing power of tliose baths are well attested. Mr. H.. who has chief care of them, is a man of diversified attainments, having studied music, medicine, theology and law ; he was born April 30, 1814, in LeRay. Jefferson Co.. N. Y.

EVAN H. fIl.I4i}HES, merchant tailor ; was born in Bangor, Nortli Wales, June 19, 1838 ; came to America in "Shiy. 1850. settling with his parents at Racine, Wis., where he resided seven years ; removed to Chicago for three years, and. after working in various places in Wisconsin and Illinois, came to I'ortage in ISlU. where he has been engaged in business for himself most of the time since. ;Mr. Hughes was married at Cambria. Wis. - where he resided one year - June 8, 1801. to Sarah E. Roberts, born in Wexam. Xorth Wales. They have eight children - William, Minnie. Maggie. Walter. Fannie, Roltert. Byron and Sarah. Mr. H. is Senior AVarden of the A., F. & A. M. Loda'e. His parents. Evan E. and Mary Hughes, are living, and reside at Racine.

JOf^E'PH HURST, round-house carpenter at Portage for the C, M. & St. P. R. R.: is of English parentage. l)ut was born in Ireland on Feb. I.), 1833 ; he came to the United States in 3Iay, 1849, and served an apprenticeship as carpenter in New Haven, Cf)nn. ; after fi^'e years' service, he came to Portage in 1854, and has been in the employ of the railroad company ever since the road ran into this city. He was married Feb. 8, 1849 (when at the age of 10). to Miss p]lizabeth Boardman, who Was but 15 years old ; she is of Quaker parentage, but was born in Dublin, Ireland, They have had nine children, two died in childhood ; the living are named - Benjamin, who is a fireman ; (ieorge T,, an engineer : Aliigail IM., Joseph W., a fireman ; Hannah M., Fanny and John F. are in school ; the sons and daughters all live at home. Himself and wife are memliers of the Jipiscopal Church. While in New Haven, his main business was church building. He is a Royal Arch Mason.

GEORGE C. JACKSOX, a native of New York State, was born in East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y., Feb. 13. 1825. and lived there until 1846. when he went to Chicago, where he resided until 1850 ; he then made an overland trip to California, was there eighteen months, came back, only remaining three months, when he again went to California wliere he remained until 1854, working as overseer at Sacramento of a wagon manufactory and employed as general superintendent of the business : he then went to Orange, N. J., and went into wagon manufacturing for himself, selling his wagons to the California firm which he had been formerly connected with ; remained in (_)range two years, then lived in Newark six months, when he came to Wisconsin, locating at Portage in June. 1857. and engaged in his old business of manufacturing carriages, wagons, sleighs, etc., and is now engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. Married in Buffalo, N. Y,, to Rosina I. Day, she was Iiorn in p]ngland ; they have had nine children, six now living - James C., William H., Ella A., Charlotte "\^, Walter L, and Percy F. - lost three who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. J, and two daughters are members of the Baptist Church.

OLE JOHNSON, son of John and Julia Johnson, was born in Norway, Sept. 5, 1854 ; came to Lewiston, Columbia Co., in 1809, where liis parents are farming ; came to Portage in 1873, where he has since Iieen engaged as salesman with Schumacher & Schulze. Jlr.Johnsonwas married at Lewiston. June 17. 1879. to Amelia, daughter of Andrew Jackson. Both are members of the Lutheran Church,

SILAS S. JOHNSON, born in Boston. :Mass.. March 19. 1809 : when about 10 years old, went to Leicester. Addison Co.. A't.. with his parents. Silas and Abigail (Rhodes) Johnson ; resided in Yermont. two j'ears of the time in Montpelier. tlien returned to Leicester and kept hotel for a time until he came to Wisconsin in 1845. to Eagle Prairie. ^lilwaukee Co. (now Waukesha Co.), where he lived lor six years, then coming to Portage, where he engaged in blaeksmithing and the

MICHAEI^ R. K.4\'K. horn in Ireland Sept. 2!t. ISO.i ; came to New York in Septemher. IS.Hd ; settled in ^Milwaukee in Sei)tenilier. isy>7. On the Stli of Septeniher. 1S37. he was married to Miss Mary Cox. of Pennsylvania, who is of Scoti-h parentage, lint was liorn in Armagh. Ireland, in 1S2II. .Mr. Kane ser\ed three years and six months in Co. !>. l!Uh W. V. I.; held rank of Sergeant ; he was commissioned lirevet Captain liy (rov. Lucius Fairchild. for meritorious conduct on the battle lield." on the 27th of .\pril. LSG4 : he was jailer of the first jail liuilt in Columbia Co.. and afterward was gate-keeper at Waupun Penitentiary. They had seven children, five of whom died in chililhood. and a son. James, ilied in St. Louis Xov. 23. 1S70. of intermittent fever, aged 23 years : one daughter survives, named .NIary .).. who is a native of Portage ; was educated in the public schools of Portage, and for several years has been an acceptable teacher in intermediate departments of the city schools. On the Stii of January. 1877. Mr. Kane sufl'ered a eoml)'>und fracture of the leg as a result of a runaway accident. He is now at the Soldiers' Home in .Milwaukee. The family own a pleasant brick residence on Wisconsin street. Mrs. K. is an Episcopalian.