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BY WILLIAM H. CANPIELD,

Civile EXGINEE^i

Aw« a—in 1 i rrfjr^^j' IgJHigJJllPJ '"•%ii»* PREFACE.

FIEST. A city upon the Bamboo Rapids by the ancient Mound- Builders. SECOND: The North American Indian's Totem. THIRD: The birth and growth of a city of 5000 souls of the cau- cassian race. We have seen its birth and growth to the present time, from when it was planted to oakes, and carpeted by grasses and bloom by an ominpitant hand; when there was not a mark or scratch of a white man's hand* upon It. The sugar groves, the tall linn's, ash, cherry, butternuts and elms upon the south side of the river; the small prairies and oak openings upon the north side; the rapids of 50 feet fall, the mountain like scenery have made out home here a pleasant one. Our cosmopolitan populace with its push, its enterprise in education, in improvements, in temperance (before saloons Yisited us) and morals; the love and kindnes8 and hospitality of the early settlers, which is perpetuated to the pres­ ent hoilr, ostensibly, by the Old Settlers Association that meets an­ nually. All of the above considerations have been a stimulous to the compiling and production of this, the ninth sketch—(TOWN AND CITY OF BARABOO)—of "Outline Sketches of Sauk County." SECOND VOL. UMNE. The matter of cost has not been considered or the labor or .lime taken in its production, and no expectations of a lucrative bal­ ance in my favor. The richest harvest I could desire will be the approval of neigebors of town and citv. WM. H. OANF1ELD

•• *41 kme> been at a great feast and stolen the scraps." The notes of a single' obsever, even In a limited district, describing accurately its features, civil, natural and social, are of more interest, and often of more value than the grander view and broader generalization of history."

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Entered according* to act of Congress, in December the year 1891, by WILLIAM H. CANFIELD, in the office of the Librarian of Congress aK Washington, D. C. •

976900 CONTENTS.

(* ludicatos pages of portraits and other illustrations.) PA

The First White Family at Mail- His garden m planted -by nature roof was not oi, however. They engaged in mining for about two Mo man ufmid product in his life, re in a snow storm with no years, and again his health failed son aid Barabii, Wis. But atill the All-wiae Creator Saw that he wanted a wife. t a cloth tent. him and he wrote to Victor to come and get him. This was in It Is with pleasure we can give a rely time there was the next S© Adam wis laid ii a elumtier, 1861. He went immediately out photogravure sketch 01 apart of And tier® he lost part of his side; 3r the snow storm of govern- there and got him and started • the Pock family and a short pen When lie aw ok©, In wonder >reme judges, lawyers, etc., He lieheld a most beautiful bride. f/ home. Dr. Oowles was there and sketch. * », taking hold and working with accompanied them homeward. This family must always appear I- She was net t*k©n out of his head, sir ill to -chink up and mud on the _ . .. m m» «. f/i, «*Aii»*i ami >t»iiimnk nvAV ma.nB When they got to Bnsnell's "Wis­ in the early history ofMadieon To reign unci triumph oier man; side , the cracks of their log­ She was not taken out of his feet, sir, consin Ranch'' he died and was and Baraboo from the fact of their in to make the family eomfort- For man to trample upon;- there bnried. He was about 4(1 being the first white family that j 3, one that had just come from But she wan taken out of hie side, sir. years old and was always a bache­ made a settlement at these respect- j ionic of luxury and comforts; His partner and equal to be; lor. He was a truehearted, honest, ive places: stepping upon the j Thej both united in one, sir. but it was but a few days before pleasant, affable, courteous, "©very- Indian's heels when his track was But the man was-atop of the tree. comforts and prosperity were mul­ day man." Mrs. Wheeler says of yet fresh, and erecting their own _ (Mrs. Peek repeated this to ns tiplied here. him, there nfever #as a more sunny, domiciles upon, or near where stood ; by memory.) STEPHIM FECK, after the govern­ agreeable man in a family than his lodges when the embers have jf A. L. Buruham. so long a ment surveying job was completed, r# her uncle Luther. hardly become cold, it is* not the resident of Bamboo, ioilsin of returned to his cable at Peek's intention of this sketch to elaborate |fr8# peck. Baplds, on ltock river, near Water- We were well acquainted with 1 giving many personal incidents, Mr. Peck first went into misiii-.ss town, Wis. He went to Milwaukee ( the two Peeks, Eben and Luther.

< a picture of new country lite; but * as an overseer of a distillery owned and was seen on the road home. ; They were active, honest, enter­ i short genealogy of Mr. and Mrs. (by J udge Hodges. He stayed His team came home but he was, prising business tnr.ied men that * ock's families; and we are sorry to ; jiere 0lie" year, and then went to never afterwards seen—supposed • would make any neighborhood the say that we cannot go far back in • Vermont to father Willard's and to have been murdered. better for living in it. They ^ were that. took charge of his farm tor ME. LUTHER PECK. Was a spe­ too unselfish and liberal to accum­ Eben Peck's parents were from three years, and then went back cial friend of his brother'Kben. ulate much property; and some Shorekam, Addison county,' Vt., jOIlto ys father's farm at Mid lie- He went into the government sur­ would siy their lives, therefore, where he was born in 1804,' bury, Gbnesee Co., N. Y., into a veying job in Wisconsin with him, were a failure. Km opposite view and when quite a child they moved • ^omc by a mw mill he had just and when he emigrated west he would strike us as the correct one. to Miidlebnry, Q-eoesee Oo., N. Y.' completed on a large creek on the came with them and generally made The person that is the most active They had 10 children, 8#boys and • |MCk par| 0f the farm, which he touk it his home in his family. In I860 and unselfish, making everybody two girls; four of the boys have lcharge of. Here Victor!. Peck was he went by the overland route to happy a\x>ut him and perhaps ben­ made their homes in the west, and j korn April 25, 1834. After stay California and traveled a good deal efiting future generations, is the four have always remained in New iig here about a year Eben was over that territory, partly in hopes man whose life has been the great­ England. In 1827 Eben returned induced by Stephen to go to Wis­ of Indiug his favorite brother, est success and the nearest to true to Middletown, Rutland (Jo., Vt., consin on • a surveying trip. fretting no cine to his whereaoouts, Christianity. wheo he engaged as a clerk in the Stephen had, in company, with a he finally settled down at Marys- • VICTOR E. PECK, son of Eben and dry goods store of .Joseph Mr. Mullett of Detroit, taken a ville, where he staid for about five Rosaline Peck, was born April Leffingweli's, While here he formed jj^ rffive townships. years; then his lungs became affect­ 25th, 1834, at Middlebnry, Genesee an acquaintance with Miss Rosaline! ^ wftg |n thc fie!(j lor about-a ed and he was advised by physicians Co., . N. Y., and at the time Willard, a native of Middletown, j year> In tMg trJp he became inured to return to the states. He took a his father went to Cali­

which resulted in a matrimonial j fo aMj enamore

engagement. The hymeneal knot J country nfe# irhen the work was around "the horn" to Jfew York, They were living on a farm ad­

was tied Feb. 24, 1829, the] ooinp|ete(j )ie returned to his fomi- thence to Vandalia, Michigan, to joining the village of Baraboo.

wedding taking place in the house ^ md ^ mm m he mmM make Mrs. Feck's sister Mrs. Nicholson. Victor was taught to take respon­ in which she was born. Their • arrangements, started in a carriage Victoria was there attending sibilities at a very young age.

nuptial occasion was attended by with wife aed 80n m^ &^r H jong school. She accompanied her uncle His Uncle Luther when about home did much to help train him a large ^ number of "Natives ftnd tedious journey, July 1838, tn their home at Baraboo. Bis "in the way he should go." He and friends. John Buruham, Esq., they Cftme t%j a standstill at Kbene- long ocean trip had a very salutary very early showed a taste for graudfather of the bride and' zer Brigham'sat Bine Mounds and effect upon his health. His lungs horses, and they got about them a a verf find- singer, e -livened thej assjsteci tliein in tavern-keeping seemed to become healed. He goodly number and Uncle "Lute" hour with song and wit. One of! through the winter, and in the stayel at Baraboo about a year ! and "Vic" did a good deal of team­ his pieces diftsonrsed roads as fol spring moved on toward Madison, and determined not to settle down ing besides their farming. He lows: arriving" there April 15, 1837, here. He visited his brother Juliutf, changed his occupation to a print­ .Adam and Eve* Boon after Bird brought in fifteen j a wealthy farmer at Zumbrota, a • town about 60 miles west of Wino- er, buyitig out Mrs. Ambler. The When Adam wis first created or sixteen men. ; The winter previ­ "Sauk County Democrat" was then The Lord of the universe round, • na, Minn. After a short stay here he ous Mr. Peck hired some French- fathered by Peck & Phelps—Vie- His happiness ma not completed I went on to Pik^s Peak, where he Until s dear help-mate ho -found. i men to build • a tog house. The tor E. Peck and Pfaelpa. came into another wilderness to Its siie will be reasonable, con­ was oftei sought by his country neigh­ He was in the paper one year and make their home—this being the taining one huniwd and fifty bors, and tie advice aid direct aasistaioe sold out to Walton Hoxie, first white family in the Bamboo pages, more or less, and ready to which he gave it legal, medical and in 1854. In 1862 he enlisted into Valley. Here within 50 years a deliver December 1st, 1888. Price surgical cases, in business malten aid in the 3d WIE. cavalry as aprivate,B. little city has grown up one dollar, to be paid upon all the little aiairs of life evinced a versa­ under Col. Burstow When they to a nnmber of 6,000 in- delivery. arrived at Fort Leavenworth the habitants, while Madison num­ Where a single copy is sent by tility, fertility of resources, practical skill battalion was diYided into four bers about 12,000. Victoria mail and the postage amounts to aid dexterity and spirit of helpfulness parte, one of which was given to has ever remained at Bara­ six cents, one-half will be paid by seldom met with. This wis genorally V. E. Peck as brevet lieutenant. boo, excepting 9 yeAra* residence the 8ender and the other half by dune without pay, aid in addition there­ He serFed nearly throe years in away with N. W. Wheeler, her the Sendee. Whore it exceeds to he often gave of his means co those this capacity. "Then came home husband now deceased, at Chippe­ that amount, the sendee will please who needed it to the farm and stayed here about wa Falls. She is now living in pay all. No extra charge for this In 1883 Mr. Ochsier retired from three years. In 1873 he went to the nice residence that her nus- circular. N«LS. WHIBLIR. active farm life and moved to Baraboo. Milwaukee and took charge of the band had completed but a short Sept 1st, 1883." Bit he was net permitted to enjoy the Mil. & St. Paul R. ft, eating house. time before his death, as shown in Mr. Wheeler was born June 29, He remained in this position un­ the jrravnre page. Her late hus­ 1828, in Worcester county, Mass., fruits of his career of toil an*d usefulness til 1884, with the exception of one band, N. W. Wheeler, Esq., was read law at Beloit, Wis., and In a long aid agreeable autumn of life. year, which he spent with a party well known to this community as practiced his profession at Bara­ Sooi after his removal he begai to fail of health seekers in the mountains a humorist. His vol. of 160 pp., boo, except nine years at Chippe­ in health, and during the last two yean of Colorado. From Milwaukee he entitled "OLD THUNDERBOLT IN wa Falls. Me died July 11, 1885. snifered so from a oomplieation of diseas­ went to Madison and now runs JUSTICE COURT," is in the hands of His home was always mad© cheer­ es that life was rather a burden than a the eating house of the same R. very many of our citizens. We ful, and so were all who came in source of enjoyment to him. for a long R. company. His natural urban­ copy his own reasons for is­ contact with him. time it was known to Mm as well as to ity qualifies him for this very suing such a book. We1 From the Hank Oounty D«mocrmt of Decem­ those around him that only death oould public position. must say that he was not solely a ber it, vm. J His present plant is nicely and humorist. He delivered many pit an end to his tromMes. His Iron very comfortably arranged. A lectures upon literary subjects Death of Henry Oohsner. j ooostitution great If prolonged the strag­ weary traveler can get here all without drawing in the least up­ Again It becomes our duty to ehroni- \gle . He was conirineed that there Is the home comforts that any reason­ on his natural fund of humor. cle the death of a widely • known and jnothin g sapernatnral and that death is able person can possibly ask. HIS PREFACE. highly reppected uitisei of 8auk ooaoty. the end of individual existence, aid un­ Domestic felicity is much enjoyed "To all the lawyers of the earth, Mr. Heary Oohsner is ao more.—The der the circumstances he was anxioas under his roof. and to all other peoplt who need, deceased wis bom ia Naesatkoa, Hat that end shoild cone to Mm soon. VICTOEIA Wisconsin PECK was and 1 hope want, a hook: Caatoa Zurich, Switierlaod, Nov. 2§, Last fYidaj morning, Use. 13, at neven born Sept. 14, 1837, _ at The scarcity of books and the 1825, emigrated to America ia 1841 %nd o'clock in the morning, he quietly passed Madison, the new capital alarming destitution of judicial settled ia the towa of Homy Greek. He into that peaceful slumber nMch knows knowledge on the part of the of the .new territory of spent a time with Mr. J. L Waterbirj at no awakening. Wisconsin, in a new log house, masses, and being unpleasantly which stood in the oak brush and full of legal suggestions which 1 Prairie in 8m to beeomt acqaaiated with The body was buried in the pretence oak openings. The American ax have no right to keep to myself the English -language mad with Ainer* ©I s large ejoiieoufse of people on Sunday, is now first set to work here in a any longer, and anxious to render ioan ways and after thai until his retire­ in Honey Greek, at lie hall ol the free vast wilderness where school life pleasant, 1 have determined ment always had his residence in Hoioj Congregalioii of Sank County, ot which teachers, * preachers, lawyers and to write a book. The title will be Creek, with the emoopdon of two years, the deceased had long been an earnest doctors are a long journey away— 'Old Thunderbolt in Justice 9 IBS? and 1858, during which he was and active member. In e©m§fianoe with yet state officials, artisans and Court. oounty tretanftr and lived in Baraboo. Mr. Ocbsner's own reqmett, Mr. B. F. laborers soon arrived to build The book Hvill contain a pleas­ At tit dose ©t his oftdal term he pre­ Roll, a friend of his and member of the a state house. Not very long after ant description of Thunderbolt's the babe began to look pretty and birth, early life, study of the law, ferred to return to his heme and devote congregation, spoke the parting words at interesting, she receiveil her name his examination and diploma, himself to the chosen occupation of his the grave. The Sank City choir and —the first one was from the most his first location and law­ Me, that of farming. He also held seme the society Orpheus of Honey Creek popular and best queen that ever suit, a description, designed local offices, aid in 1872 wis brought tang apprepriate songs, and loving hands sat upon a throne. The second to be humorous, of jus­ out as an independent candidate for mem­ presented profane aid beautiful floral name, Ouis-consin, is an Indian tices' courts, his second and thfrd ber of the assembly for the then southern^ tributes. idiom signifying flowery. The lawsuits, a friend's lawsuit, and a district of Sank oounty. In 1853, Mr. five children were borp to Mr. aid babe soon became the pet of the few agreeable suggestions. Oohsier returned to his native country Mrs. Ochsier, all of whom are still alive governors, senators, judges and all The contents of the book will be and there on the 22nd day of Beeember and together with their mother and a men hereabouts (for there were, as largely within the lids. a yet, no females but mother and j Its style quaint, Figorons, sweet marrirtd Miss Judith Hottiger, with large circle of friends moirn their groat herself here). Ah, the first .birth ' and reasonably original. whom he returned the following year, and loss. The oldest!. Henry* Aiolph, is liv­ here of a new race to take posses-1 Its matter sensible enough to who surf lies Mm. ing on the old • home * farm in Honey sion of the land of anew and beau-1 intercut the brainy few who have Mr. Ochsnef did not in his youth en­ Creek. The second is Dr. Albert J. tiful state was truly deserving oft patience enough to read it, and joy the advantage of a higher education. Oohsior of Ciienp©-, wit, though quite the best name that could be con- j silly enough to delight the masses He was a adf-made man. His chief young, has already become a physician ceived of, and a happ? conception j who may be foolish enough to buy characteristics, which he also in a and sturgeon of note. Nest is Louise, it was, "Victoria wisconsin." We | it. marked deifree transmitted to and culti­ married to Fred Grotophorst and living presume if the queen of England! The book will bo reasonably Ml vated in his children, were self-relimiee with Mm In Oregon. Edward is a hud known of the circam-j of errors and exaggerations, stance the babe would ha¥e got a enough at least to identify its ail indomitable wH aid energy. He student in the state mniversltj but baa new dress. Like other new conn- author, with now anl then, possi­ was withal a man of far more than ordi- boon home several weeks taking cere of try children she grew and was bly by mistake, a few statements navy aMiiy aid intelligence, of public Ms lather, and Emma, the youngest, is healthy, and with her parents which 1 fear maybe true. spirit a-ttd immof able rcetitiide. Bis aid stil at hose and gone to school hero. m OLD SETTLERSCLUB^SAUK GO. •? We settled in Sauk fa. /// /y •/,-/.

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\V From the Baraboo EepnbJlc %t NOY. 20,1889. towns in the county, ironton, LaYalle, ik was the dominant law of his spirit, very near to his neighbors and friends, DEATH OF JOHN BARKER. Reedsburg, Ablernan, Bessemer, Prairie so that simply by being true to himself with a tender sympathy for their trials, dn Sac, Sank City and Merrimack were he conli not be false to any man. their griefs and their frailties, and was well represented. But this noblest trait of manhood, impartial in his good offices as between An Esteemed Citizen is Tenderly Laid The relatives from abroad who were integrity, all inclusive of other virtues, the greatest and the least of these his to Rest by Kind and present at the obsequies were S. N. ever most manifest its sway by numer­ brethren; in his own misfortunes and Lowing Hands. Barker and wife, of Anawan, III.; W. ous outward tokens, and these make up a ffl etions displaying fortitude and W. Warner and wife, Madison, and the character by which the man is indi­ moral courage, up to the last moment It is with feelings of deep regret that Miss Prank A. Finster, Pulaski Mew vidualized to his friends. And it was more concerned with the welfare of his we chronicle the death of John Barker, York; V. G. Druse and wife, Ableman, true of John Barker, as of almost every frieuds tha*i with his own mortal suffer­ of the law firm of Barter & Reming­ and Joseph Barton and wife, Fairfield. other man so thoroughly righteous ings; and thus he gave to m a type of ton, of Baraboo. The deceased wis In the death of John Barker the com­ that straightforward conduct and plain the manhood that, fully idealized, is the known by all in onr city for bis kind- munity loses a wise and just counselor, speaking were marked characteristics of basis of our religion, the hope and ness of faea * "* sympathy with those and his associates a devoted aud true his life. Woe unto the hypocrites that aspiration of the race. in distress was born in Sand fnecd. Ho leaves a wife, three sons had to do with him! He knew a scoun­ Bank, N. _ . . arch 29th, 1839, was and several brothers and sisters. Two drel from afar. And though this quick educated In Oswego and Jefferson coun­ sisters reside in this city and vicinity, moral instinct, detecting evil under all ties, and took up the study of the law; Mrs, D. Van Sice and Mrs. Joseph Bur­ its diiguise.", and this habit of telling was engaged in olerking in Ohio from ton. A review of the life and work of the troth under all circumstances and '61 to "65, when lie returned to Mexic", dtceased will appear in our neit issue. in all places, naturally unfitted him for resumed the study of the law and was congenial oonipinionanip with snobs or admitted to the bar. He fame to Bara­ From I he Baraboo Republic of Nov. 27. in other false circle.*, they made of him boo in October, 1865, sod opened an JOHN BARKER. a rocE of refuge and safety to worthy, office. During the winter of '65 and When a man like Jolia Barker is taken men in trouble, to men who needed the *66 he was engaged as principal of the by death from any community, uot only counsel or the assistance of a friend Baraboo public schools. He held does a sense of personal bereavement without Ruile. Y*t underneath this various offices of trust, such as that of extend far outside the circle of bis-fam­ plain spoken exterior, in which the soul town eleik, town tressnrer, comity ily and kinsmen, bul throughout the manifested iis predominant energy, were Judge ai-d district attorney, bat was society in which he was a familiar the the tender graces of a comprehensive not a seeker after public favor. Joss ia felt to be real and important. human brotlierho «d. As the ancient philanthropist hatii it, nothing relating His dtatb. which came uot entirely Though the qualities that cause such a to humanity was foreign to him. He unexpected to his family and friends, man to be loved, aud that render him was a Irm friend, and a benefactor that occurred on Sunday last at 1:10 p. m , helpful to Ills fellow men, may seem to dtd not have in view the receipt of com­ canst d by cancer of the lifer. He bad be clearly recoguized during his life, pound interest on hij chantie*. He been ailing for nearly a year and had and though indeed they have in many did not oast his bread on the waters for done comparatively little fffioe work ways been attested by his friends, his sake of the return, bat was benevolent during that time. The last few weeks of activity here no sooner ceases than a and benticent because God so express­ his illness he was confined to the bouse. void in society % becomes obvioua, and ed himself iu the man. The funeral was held yesterday at men look mournfully in each other's Belonging to a profession that con­ 12:30 at the late residence of the de­ faces and ask: "Who can fill nis plao» ?" tains the best aod the worst of men, lie ceased, conducted by Baraboo L'*dge A. JohiJ Barker is worthy the honor of the r ornamented it by fidelity to all trusts F. and A. ftJ.. of which he ww an honor­ wide-spread lament in city and o:>un y and by beiug a peace-maker instead of ed member. that marks his death, nod that in heard beyond the cjuuty borders; for his a breeder of contentions. Blessed are The set vices were conducted by character exhibited many of the noblest the peace-makers. A lawyer who turns Work>hipfnl Master L. Watson aod traits of matihood. traits that mike the away a client, and makes him go home W, W. Andrews. Tliey were well ren­ world a sweeter and wholosomer dwell­ and shake hand.-* with his neighbor dered and eicuedinRiy impressive. He ing place by their mauifrstati »n, and as across a disputed laud line, showo that waa a member of the St.. John Com- well by the emulation that their shin­ the man in him is greater and of more manaery of Koisffats Templar, Heeds- ing quality uaturaHv excites. In him worth than all his learning and his tal­ burg, which was present in full turn- wo saw and possessed the honest man, ents; and that sort of practice mark.-.d berb. H© was also a member of the whom the poet, in hi** noble aphorism, the career of this attorney, and made A. O. TJ. VV. of this city, which was in has declared to be the noblest work of him rich, too, rich iu the only true lice. God. More and more the ethical stand­ wealth, wealth that does not rust, that The eiercises at the house were sim­ ard is seen to be the true teat of char­ cannot be stolen, that alone pnssiblj ple and appropriate, in conformity to acter, it is not by faith, nor by reason, may be carried away out of the world, the life and habits of the deceased. nor by both together, that men are the love of his fellow men. Itef^ Lloyd Skinner, pastor of the rightly to tie measured, or in any sens© it is not for us to intrude upon the Free Congregational church, mude an to be saved, but simply by what they sacred precincts of the home circle that appropriate pr§ter and read fitting are, and this their lives will manifest. is bereft of such a friend, orihink to , selections. MnCfo was rendered by Tried by this standard our friend, with measure the loss that has befallen it, Meosrs. C. A. Langdon, A. Melzl and all the simplicity and modesty of his when we but stammer in expressing the Misfces Louis© McGinn and Bertha Burt. nature, was of towering stature that general and public sorrow, and are un­ .John E. Wright. G. Stevens, H. M. compelled respect and admiration, io able to utter the feelings of onr own Lewi*, R. D. Evans, R. P. Perry and all the relations of life he was honest, heart. But every man who has known G. Stevens, Jr , brother attorneys, were ever honest. With this just praise we John Barker well will acknowledge in­ selected as pall bearers. might end, for integrity is the first of debtedness to the character of the man • A large number of Mr. Barker's virtues and all inclusive of others. for an exemplar in many respects of friends were present from adjoining With him as with every noble character, what his own life should be. He was -^—-jSft^iL

SINGLE MEN. Archibald Barker. Levi Moore. James Lamar. "OLD SETTLERS' CLUB." Richard Clark. Luther Peck. John Gray. Joseph H. Finley. Harry Perry. —Draper. HE Canleld family can be traced back as far as the year 1350, to one Alexander Draper. Ichabod Hill. • Frederick Blabon. who lived in France but was an emigrant from England and for meri­ Blabon was drowned in the great freshet that carried away the old Wood torious service to Britain was granted a tract of land in England, of & Rowen Mill in July, 1844. He was the first white man to die in the which he took possession, with a title and coat of arms. Mot having valley. the genealogy before me, 1 can not say when our branch of the family I think 1 am the only person living of the heads of the fourteen families came to America. The settlement was made in Connecticut about at the present time. There are Barker, Moore and Lamar that we know New Milford. My great grand-father Joseph, and grand-father Joel, are now living of the single men. It is my desire to live long enough to and father Harvey, were from New Milford. Joel moved to LaFayette, make sketches and arrange matter that our children and others may see Onondaga, Co., N. Y., on a tract of 400 acres of state land and improved a record of the part these pioneers took in breaking the bond of savagery it quite rapidly. His market was New York city, Albany and Canada. to civilization. How remarkably fast our whole country is being convert­ On the construction of the Erie canal he and my father took a large con- ed into a teeming civilized nation. 1 have lived to see central New York tract—rock work—at Little Falls beside the Mowhawk river near Albany. and central Wisconsin changed from the primeval forest— the wigwam They made a good deal of money out of this job. My father built giving place to the log house and stick chimney, and that to the frame him a fine brick house on a farm adjoining his fathers farm. Here I was house, and that to houses built akin to the palace. From the old wooden born, April 9th, 1819. They also took contracts on the construction of bull-plow raouldboard to the steel plow; from the "Scotchman's flair* to the the Oswego canal, where they also made some money. Father then went steam thresher. With the flail ten bushels of wheat could be thrashed into manufacturing salt at Salina, where he lost money; then took con­ out and cleaned up in a day. 3000 bushels of wheat can be thrashed and tracts on the first construction of railroads at Union Falls, Onondaga Co., sacked in the same time by the steam thresher. Notwithstanding these' then heavy contracts on the enlargement of the Erie canal at Jordon and wonderful improvements in agricultural implements the average farmer Syracuse. He lost heavily on these jobs. does not seem to increase in material wealth nor are the comforts of a sub­ At the construction of the Split Rock railroad I took my first field stantial home any surer for him than one hundred years ago when there lessons at civil engineering, Edwin F. Johnson, chief; Hugh Lee, division were but few millionaires and no syndicates, and property was more equally engineers. Father took a contract on the construction of the Genesee distributed aud we "ween" that there was then more happiness than at the Valley canal, myself as partner. _ We lost money on this job, but 1 se­ present time. The millionaires are not very happy. The average farmer cured as a wife, while out here, one of the most beautiful twin daughters all through the western states, especially west of the Mississippi river, are in all Livingston county, or of the state of New York, or perhaps of the seven tenths of them hopelessly in debt, mostly for farm machinery, mak­ world. I came near being obliged to take them both, because I could ing a desperate effort to put in several hundred acres of grain to get sud­ hardly tell ope from the other. Therefore I came out pretty well after ail denly rich, but they often fail and then for years work sixteen hours a day on our Genesee Valley canal job. In a couple of years thereafter, like to try to retrieve, but at last succumb to the inevitable. The comfort of emigrating birds, we took our light for the "far west" and lit down on life does not abide in such homes of the average farmer. It the capitalists Skillet creek, Baraboo precinct, Sank county, territory of Wisconsin. are unhappy as a class and the average farmer is unhappy, is it the poor Here we built our nest in the Baraboo woods (for we were not prairie day laborers who are the happy ones? Machinery takes employment from birds), among the elms, pines, sugar maples and oaks, where runs the them. Labor organizations and strikes are tokens of to-day. There seems Skillet creek of soft living water, and after sixteen years' stay the neji an incongruity to exist between capital and labor, but we should graceful­ numbered live beside the old ones, but, alas, in the stormy, deep snow ly submit to the inevitable. winter of 1856-7, we had to lay the two younger in mother Earth's bo­ W.e take pleasure in inserting here a short sketch of Wallace Rowen, som—Arthur and Cory, aged 5 and 3. The next youngest, Willis, lived to a pioneer of pioneers. manhood and chose his father's profession and held several responsible positions as railroad civil engineer. He died May 14, aged J5 years, 7 months and 17.days, at Denver, Colorado, leaving a wife and a daughter. WALLrACE ROWEN. Our eldest, Edgar F., is at present in or near San Francisco, Cal. Our second, Alice A. Darby, is near Crookst.on, northern Minnesota. We L. C Draper, Secy, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, address­ made our golden wedding trip to visit her last summer—1889. Two only ee te to me some two years ago in which he asked for information are now living. about Wallace Rowen, who lived for a few years at Baraboo, and, believ­ In a couple of years aftei* the death of my lather (who emigrated from ing that a daughter lived near this place yet, said he would like to have N. Y. a year after we came here), we moved onto his place at Lyons, near me visit her and collect what information I could get of her father's life. Baraboo, where we have resided over a quarter of a century. During my I could get very few accurate dates but learned that 48 years residence in Sauk county, I must have made nearly or more than Wallace Rowen was a Kentuckian. Soon after his majority he went four thousand farm or county land surveys besides running the pioneer to JacKsonviile, Morgan Co., 111. Here he married Elizabeth Metcalf, railroad level from Madison to Baraboo for the old Rock River Union a North Carolinian. They had here three children bora to them, Emila, Valley Railroad Co., Edwin F. Johnson, chief, and Hugh Lee, resident en­ Archibald and Mary Ann. Then they moved to Piatteville, Wis., where gineers—the same persons I took my first field lessons from in N. Y., and Alminda was born. He then moved to the four lakes, in the neighborhood where the Chicago & North-Western was built I was six weeks running of where Madison now is, and from there to a place called Odds and Ends, levels for VanMenan, chief of engineering corps, Purcell, assistant, in the afterwards Hanie's—Hanie kept a house of entertainment here—and now construction of the C.'& N.-W. R. R. in 1872. named Black Earth. While here, a new country incident occurred. A The center figure of'-Old Settler's Club" is our horse, "Pedro." He difficulty between Hanie and a man named Pelky arose about a claim. has become so Endeared to our family, neighborhood and county, that we Hanie shot Pelky, not fatally however. From here Rowen moved to Poy- have given him a place in the group, even the center. nette, where lie lived seven years. Three children were born here, Rob­ vYhen we came to Baraboo in the spring of 1842, we think there were ert, Elizabeth and Clarissa. While here he was obliged to move to Port­ fourteen families residing in the Baraboo valley, and two at the Dells of age on account of the Blackhawk war. From Poynette he moved to a point the Wisconsin river and a goodly number of bachelors and widowers. on the military road from Ft. Crawford to Ft. Winnebago, 14 miles from FAMILIES. Winnebago and 28 from Madison, on a creek that carried the name of Eben Peck. Wallace Rowen. Abraham Wood, who had Rowen Creek for many yeiirs, now generally known as Token Creek. Mr. Simeon Griffith. Lewis Bronson. a Winnebago woman for Archibald Barker and Rowen went into company in the Indian fur trade Erastus Gilson. James Christie. a wife. business the next year after he moved here. Barker thinks the Rowen Moses Nulph. Solomon Shafer. Valentia B. Hill. family moved to this point in 1837 or 1838. He feels quite confident that Thomas Clark. Edward Kingsley. Edward Johnson. it was in fj7. He built a large double log house and opened a place for Don. C. Barry. entertainment. It proved to be well located for such a house. Often AT THE DELLS OF THE WISCONSIN RIVER. every bed (and he had many) and every foot of loor room would be oc­ — — Comfort. Allen. cupied by sleepers, so great was the travel to and from the pineries. Bet Mr. Eowen loved the Indian light the next morning. memory of man. Snch is pioneer the principal tribe of the Algon­ traffic so much that lie turned Ms We are sorry to say that there quin or Algic race and followed We learn by a granddaughter of behind the fur tmder and Jesuit Mr. Rowen, Mrs. C. E. Myers, that •missionaries and mad© battle upon the name Clarissa as she thinks the Dakotas or Sioux, and their should be Margaret, for she haswa r has continued even to the never heard of an aunt Clarissa present time—for over 200 years. find her aunt Harriet's name is The Sauks and Foxes we think not mentioned. The name of are tribal to the Algonquin or •sT'^~^A^-W XatWratwrat!wris /oArs /-^A<7N /*^#ig=^ ioAic**?335wri^ /~tftf?\ tr %*^3fwanftrcii raf^**^t John is left out. The children Algic race but not such deadly were Aratlnda, Archibald, John, enemies to the Sioux as are the Hubert, Emily, Mary, Ann, Har­ Chlppewas. The Sauks and Foxes AN APOLOGY. riet, Eliiabeth and Margaret. were glad to let the Winnebagoes John is at Wonewoc, Juneau Co., dwell between them and the Sioux For a reason that we will not try her© to explain Wis. Archibald and Eobert are m a peace barrier. The Sauks In the making up of the Peck article an omission was in Oregon, on the Pacific oOast. abandoned their village on Sank made to our great annoyance of a sketch of one of the Arminda is in Fairfield, Sauk Co. Prairie about 1766. The Wlnne­ heads of the family. The matter was arranged, but it (Mrs. J. Lamar). Harriett Is in bagoes are thought to be a south­ did not Ind Its proper place in the article. We amend the best we can. Illinois (husband's name Henry ern Indian who had been reduced MES. ROSALINE WILLARD PICK was the third Ginter). Emily died at Baraboo. by calamities and war to a few child of John and Julia Ann Bnrnham Willard. She Mary Ann, Mrs. Mason, died in j small tribes and got the privilege was born Feb. 24, 1808, at Middleton, Rutland Co., Vt. 111. (?). Mason started with Eben Io f the Sauks to rest upon their Mrs. Edward Johnson, deceased, her sister, came to Peck in 1844 for the gold fields of! western border to recruit and Baraboo as early as 1842. The Willard family seem to h&¥e been of sterling character and ability. Her California with an outfit of wagon 1whe n they had grown strong other sisters are In good worldly circumstances. Mrs. and plow and seven yoke of oxen., claimed the country. They were Caroline Fisk is now in fEurope with her son Prof. The? wintered near Omaha, from; friendly with the Sauks and with Daniel Fisk of Cornell university. She* is 84 and in where Peck wrote back to histh, e Dakotas and Chippewas anil good health. Mrs. Fisk Is quite an authoress as well family a kindly letter. After this! whites—hence a sort of break­ as a traveler, in a foot note at the bottom of page 344 of 6th Vol. of Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll. the society's secre­ neither Peck nor Mason was ever water to the waves of war. Many tary, L. C. Draper, says: "Hermother was Julia Ann satisfactorily heard from. There authors describe them as being Buruham Peck, wife of John Buruham, an able lawyer was a man in California that§ despised by all of their allies as of the Bennington bar, was a sister of den. Isaac Clark claimed to be acquainted with; sly, treacherous and cruel. This of Castleton, V t, a soldier of the revolutionary war, Peck, but upon much careful j may be said of them because there known as Old Riie, and who commanded a regiment ? 111 the war of 1812, making a successful expedition inquiry the family made up their is In the human breast, white or against Massequoi, Lower Canada, Oct. 12, 1813; was a minds that it was not their hus- copper color, an innate love of 1 member of the constitutional convention and judge of band and father. We think that j war and the Wlnnebagoes figured the county court; died at Castleton, Jan. 31, 1822, aged largely on the line of peace. We 73 years. Gen. Clark was the grandfather of Hon. Mason was never heard from. : Satt'erlee Clark, an early pioneer of Wisconsin and for Ihav e Introduced some anecdotes many years a prominent member of the State Senate. The Indians of them that prove at least some L. C. D." Mrs. Peck at this time, Feb. 1890, Is quite ire concisely treated of in the first _nobl e characters among them. infirm, being 82 years old. Her mentality holds out Vol. of "Outline Sketches of Sauk ' 1st. The Mound Builder. the best. She was a peer with Mrs. Kemie, Geo. Doty's wife and other pioneer women who so easily Co., Wis.." Still we have a few! 2nd. Dakotas or Sioux. adapted themselves to a new country pioneer life. She additional Items that may be con­ 3rd. Oglbways (Chippewas) ol was a fine housekeeper, was the life of our early social sidered of interest. The iiakotas Algonquin or Algic race. gatherings, was onr physician and even surgeon, for or Sioox were first lords of the soil 4th. Sauks. A tribe of the dm with our assistance set a broken leg of our eldest son. In short, she was just the woman and an invalu­ here, as far back as HOP years ago. same. able one for a new country. The Algonquins orChippcwas were 5th. Winnebago, a southern the next occupants aid aggressive j salt water tribe. The Chippewas and an overmatch for the 8ioux. jcalle d them the Winne-be-go.

r ffgp rr Q •i-tffc 1 c iiif Hence they drove them back j Winne in their language means and baek ere the white inhabitants stinking, feted or filthy; be, water; supplanted them. In 1TSS that go, gives its character. Hence Algic race—the Ogibwas^-had put- Winne-be-go, or as It now stands session here. The Ogibwan wasi in English, Winnebago. They the tribal name of the Ohippowas, call themselves Ot-cha-gras. who according to some authors ith. Occupancy of the preient ! 1 very suddenly. In the afternoon other early settlers. The plow are believed to ha¥e come from race of whites from 1839 to 1890, he was taken with a pain between 1 now passes over them, 'find even th' e west and north of the Lakes. who have filled the country with the shoulders and died before day-'' the spot will so 11 be lost from the 1Othe r authorities think they were wealth and civilization. 8

The Oglbwas took possession of bault in :kinson ar­ word "wheel and tire" one of the the lands of Sauk county about English pronounced Fariboo.) All rived with his troops from the Jeffer­ parties quickly raised his piece and 1766 by a peaceful alliance with the Day-Eau-rays are eulogized son barracks, and the order of the exclaimed: "You die!" His an­ the Sauks and Foxes. In 1834 by Mrs. Kenzie. execution was countermanded an J tagonist nearly wilted and could they numbered about 6000. While In closing the account of the Indians were permitted to re­ not raise his piece, which struck at Portage recently we visited the troubles at Prairie in Chien turn to their homes. Mo one was the compassionate feelings of the 1 several of the old sc^ ™", particu­ we give an anecdote which places executed. And this ended the plucky one so tenderly that he larly Judge Chip] irhere we the Winnebago character in a Winnebago troubles. forgave him all. We lived some found a book wit! > title of, more amiable light- than any -•- - two miles distant and were not at v " Wan-Bun the «Early Day" in j before related. The militia at Political. the law suit, therefore cannot give the Northwest by Mrs. John EL' Prairie iu Chien, immediately In the spring and summer of further particulars. We refer the Kinzie of Chicago published in' after the affair of the boats, seized 1836 the territory of the present enquirer to Capt. Levi Moore (the 1855 now out of print. She spent; the old chief, Day-Kau-ray, and Wisconsin was set off from Michi­ second), who is now 84 years old, several years with her husband, a I four other Indians; and he was or to Archibald Barker, who was : gan and divided into four counties, (J. S. soldier in the years of 1830 informed that if Red Bird should Crawford being one of them. In present, both of them living now to 1840, chiefly at Ft. Winee-- not "be given up within a certain 1840 Sauk county was set off from (1890) In the city of Baraboo. bago. It is a kind of diary time, he and the others were to Crawford. While Sank prairie They can give minute details of reminiscence charmingly written, •di e in his place. This he stead­ was yet a part of Crawford, there the affair. from which we make some extracts. fastly believed. A messenger, a wms an election held at Frairie du The next lawsuit of any note Dandv was the son oi Four young Indian, was sent to inform Sac in the fall of 1839, and 14 we think was an arbitration be­ Legs, who was a great chief ot the tribe of the state of affairs; and votes were cast. The returns were tween Capt. Pitiley and James 1. the nation. He died in a drunken several days had elapsed, and no made to Prairie du ohien, the Christie. Cyrus ^eland and G. debauch at his village at the information was received of the county seat, via a canoe voyage De-Graw Moore of Trairie du outlet of Lake Winnebago. His, murderers. The dreadful day was down the Wisconsin river. At the Sac and C. C. Metniiigton of Bara­ son was very fantastic and elabor- •near at hand and Day-Kau-ray, session of the territorial legislature boo were the attorneys. Onr ate in his dress. Hence the name being in bad health, asked per­ In 1839-40 the .^auk prairie present county treasurer, Archi­ Dandy given him by both Indian; mission of the officer to go to the settlers petitioned to have a county bald Christie, was the company's and White Man. river to indulge in his long accus­ set off from vJrawford about them book-keeper. He was on the wit­ *She speaks of Old Day-Kau-ray , tomed habit of battling in order to lie called Sank, which was ness stand f -nr days—the trial an ahead chief and the most hon-: to improve his health, upon which granted. A new voting precinct lasting ten days. This suit ended orable of the tribe. The first of Col. Snelling told him if he was aoded, comprising the Baraboo in a duel also, the weapons chosen all of the Day-Kan-rays was a'. would promise on the honor of a vaiky, in 1841. In the fall of being their lists. This seemed to Frenchman, and the old chief; chief that he would not leave towA, 1842 an election was held, an J we settle their differences more than Day-Kau-ray boasted of French! he might have his liberty and believe fhib to be the first election their whole lawsuit, for they were blood in his veins. The whole! enjoy all his privileges until the held in the valley. Sauk county soon friends again. family were fair and of a hand­ day appointed for his execution. was now attached to .Dane comity In the session of 1843-4 the some form. Mrs. K's favorite Accordingly he first gave his hand for judicial pnrp >ses, and the elec­ people M' Prairie du Sac; petitioned among all the Indian women was to the Colonel, thanking him for tion returns were made to Madi­ the legislature to fully organize < 'utnose, a daughter of Day-Kau- his .friendly otter, then raised son, the county seat. Sank county, which was granted. ray's. She was a christian con­ both hands aloft and in the most (See vol. 1st Outline Sketches of Onr jolly humorist li. C. Barry vert and her baptismal name was solemn adjuration promised .that Sauk County, Baraboo sketch, p, 17, w»s elected justice of*the peace, Kli'/abeth. The bright, loving he would not leave the bounds for detailed account.) For a few the tiret one in.the Baraboo valley. • Teat ure particularly won all prescribed, and said if he had a years our politics was local and His first lawsuit ended in a chal­ hearts upon a first acquaintance. hundred lives he would sooner lose intense, the county seat being the lenge by one of the parties to a She certainly did ours from the them all than forfeit hid word. object sought. When we changed duel to be f light with a short rifle outset. She suffered much He was then set at liberty. He our torm of government from ter­ and an old flint lock musket. The from rheumatism, and a remedy was advised by unprincipled whites ritorial to state Jan. 10, 1849, the parties were to be placed back to we gave her soon afforded her to flee to the wilderness and make county was divided into six towns, back—each to step off ten stops almost entire relief. Her gratitude' his escape; but "no," said he, " lo a diagram of which accompanies and at the word wheel and ire. to us knew no bounds. Notivith-' you think 1 prize life ibove hon­ this sketch. Oapt. Levi Moore was chosen sec­ standing that from long suffering] or!" He then complacently re­ ond and wag to load their guns. GOVEKNMENl". she had become partially crippled j mained until nine days of the ten The captain says he put in a large ote village of Baraboo, until die winter she would walk all the way from j which he had to live had elapsed, of 1852, was loc.ited in the town of Brook- charge of powder and only a light the Barribault (Baraboo), a dis-j and still nothing was heard rela­ Jyn, which originally embraced within its tance of ten miles, as often as once j tive to the apprehension of the wad on top of it. They chose the limits the territory now comprising tlie towns of Delton, /airfield, Greenfield, Bara­ iii two or three weeks to visit us.; murderers- His immediate death "island" for their battle ground. Only two or three were to witness boo, and part* of Freedom, Exeebior and (The word Barribault—in thei became apparent;. but no altera­ Dellona, or about one-fifth the entire area French bault is pronounced in! tion could be seen in the counte­ it. They weut to the chosen spot, of the comity. English boo. The same of Fam-' nance of the chief. It so happened marched their ten paces and at the The first town meeting for the town of

NOTE. Sine© the Wallace Eowen article was printed we have learned that he died in 1847. §

Brooklyn WM hold lit the oonrt house in eompletey and oily shows that James A. 1866—Supervisors, f. G. Stanley | chair- \ 18?§—Supervisors, James Dykins (chair­ the Tillage of Bara-bc© on the Sri of April, Maxwell, Charles J. H. Haines and B. B. man), George Hal and David Mnnson; man), Matthew Hill, J. G. Train; clerk,

1849. F. C. Webster, William Babb mid Brier were ohosen supervisors, and L. P# clerk, A. C. Tuttle; treasurer, D. D. Doane; David Mnnncn; treasurer, John W. Blake; David Vanalatine wore the jndges of elec­ Ceok town clerk. assessors, R. G. Camp and 1. Eimble; jus- assessor, E. Walbridge; justices, Gnst»¥ tion, while D. E. Noyes and f. G. Stanley In 1856 the result of the election appears tinea, J. 8. A. Bartley and A, Christie; con- Scharnke, Monroe Bentley, Join E. Wright; acted as clerks, fit ticket chosen was as to have been as follows: Supervisors, C. C. stables, J. C. Dookliam, Eobert Lott and H. constables, L. 0. Holmes, Smith Jennings, follows: Supervisors, Jchn B. Crawford Remington (ohairman), C. A. dark and S. Calkins; sealer, John Caldwell; peunimas- Geo. E. Marriott; sealer of weights and (chairman), Lyman Clark and Solomon M. Bnrdiok; clerk, N. W. Wheeler; assessor, ter, P. Pratt. measures, Chas. H. Davis. 8oule; town clerk, D. K. Huffs; Iowa treas­ E. G. Camp; treasurer, B. L. Purely; super­ 1866—Supervisors, George Mortens 1876—Supervisors, George Jfertene urer, William Griffith; assessor, A. A. intendent, Warren Goehran; justices, Ly­ (chairman), David Mnnson and J. H. (chairman), f. T. English, Matthew Hill; Noyes; justices of tic peace, D. Vanalstine, man Clark and G. B. Crawford; eonstables, Harris; clerk, Mair Pointon; treasurer, D. clerk, D. Munson; treasurer. John W. R.H. Davis, W. H. Oanfteld and D. K. Lyman Messenger, Daniel Smith and P. D. Doane; asaessor, P. G. Stanley; justices, Blake; assessor, Daniel Euggles; justices, *5foyos; superintendent of common schools, Bnrdiok; sealer, ft. Parrish. 1. L. Purdy, D. K. Noyes and J. J. Gatti. '' G. Scharnke, John Ayers; oonstablet, Smith Harvey Canfield; constables, E. W. Piper, ker; constables, J. C. Dockham, Charles ' 1867—SuperrisorB, 1. Martin (ohairman), Jennings, ¥olney Moore, jr., L. 0. Holmes. f. C. Webster and C. A. Clark. The town Pfannstiehl and George Caldwell. j C. C. Barnhaus and D. D. T. Perry; clerk, 1877—Supervisors, Matthew Hill (cbair- baring been divided into thirteen road dis­ 1867—Supervisors, John B. Crawford N. W. Wheeler; assessor, R. E. Remington; man), James Dykins, William Stanley; tricts, the board at its first meeting appoint. (chairman), James Cowles. Asa Wood; clerk, treasurer, B. L. Purdy; superintendent, clerk, Mair Pointon; treasurer, John W. ed a road overseer for each district and John Barker; assessors, E. W. Piper and ; Warren Cochran; justice*, 1. W. Olin, E. Blake; assessor,' Daniel Huggles; justices, apportioned tie taxes of the town, which R. C. Camp; treasurer, D, L. Pearson; jus- \ Martin, R. ft. Remington and B. B. Brier; M. Bentley, William lioiLie; constables. L. amounted to $478.80. tioe, S. M. Bnrdiok; constables, I. C. Dook- constables, D. 8mithf H. H. Webster and 0. Holmes, Chas. Woodruff, Smith Jennings. Tie next town meeting was held on the ham, E. Lott, John Miller. D. Chamberlain; sealer, E. Pnrrleh. 1878—Matthew Hill (chairman), James 2nd of April, !8SC>, town ofioers being 186S—Supervisors, E. Ifalbridge (chair­ 18§8—Supervisors, E. Martin (chairman), LiyMns, Levi Gaboon; clerk, Mair Pointon; chosen as follows: Supervisors, Lyman man), Monroe Bentley, P. Pratt; clerk, L. D. D. T. Perry and A. Uhristie; clerk, ff. treasurer, John W. Hake; assessor, Haniel * Clark (chairman), John Metcalf and Leon C. Slye; treasurer, John Barker; justices, W. Wheeler; treasurer. W. H. Thompson; Euggles; justices, Jasper A. Dibble, A. ¥. ard Thompson; clerk, D. K. Noyes; treas­ George llertens and B. L. Purdy; assessors, assessors, R. G. Camp and R. E. Reming Herfort, E. P. Warner; ennsiables, L. O. urer, Peter Folsom; school superintendent, S. M. Burdick for 2 years, Otis Eyder for 1 ton; superintendent, H. A. Peck; justices, Holmes, W. H. Burdic|t, Smith Jennings. John D. Perkins;'justices, W K. Canfield year; constables, Frank Fletcher, Eobert D. K. loyes, W. H. Thompson, A. Christie and John P. Perkins; constables, C. A. Loit, iiiam Calkins. 1879—Supervisors, Eobert Wood (chair­ and C. Armstrong; constables, D. Smith, E. Clark, James S. Badger and Joshua Peiap; 1869—Supervisors, P. G. Stanley ^ohair. man), Levi Cahoon, George Mewmm; clerk, L. Walbridge and John MPler; sealer, R. sealer of weights find measures, D. Hanson.1 man), M. 8. Gibson. P. Pratt; clerk, Daniel J. 8. Kimball; treasurer, E U. Hoi den; Jones. aseewor. Matthew Hill"; justices, A. A. The new board C4me together on the daj of Munson; treasurer, James Camp; assessor, Eobtrts. J. G. Train, J. A. Dibble; con­ their election and toted to raise $4110 taxes 1859 —Supcrt isors, C h jrfes Armstrong E. G. Camp; justices, Monroe Bentley, A. stables, J. Prot hero, Smith Jenniufpj, H. D. 'to defray the expenses of the town for the (chairman), Daniel" Brown and George Christie, J. G. Obandtar; constables, John Jones; sealer of weights aod measures, ensuing year. Hokh; clerk, A. L. Slye; treasurer, W. H. Wiggins, J. C. Dockham, Hiram Calkins. Thompson; assessors, 11. G. Camp and J. B. Philip Bock. The following was the result of the spriig 1810—Supervisors, George Mortens Avery; superintendent, H. A. Peck; justices, election in 18*31: Superiisors, James B. (ohairman), James Dykins. E. A. Morley; 1880—Supervisors, J.J. Gatti ker (chair­ A. Christie and Charles Armstrong; con­ Avery (chairman). Harvey Canfield and clerk, P. Munson; treasurer, Jasper A. man), Levi Gaboon, Geo. Newson; clerk, J. stables, G. Gibbons, E. Martin and C. Mes­ Isamc Palmer; clerk, Joseph H. Waggoner; Dibble; assesior, E. G. Camp; justices, J, 8. Kimball; treasurer, E. O. Hoiden; senger; sealer, R. Jones. treasurer, J. D. Perkins,; assessor, James W. Geib, Archie Christie; constables, L. 0. assessor, Matthew Hill; justices, A. A. A. MJII:well; superintendent, Josiah Part; 18§H—Supervisors. D. K. Noyes (chair­ Holmes, Daniel H. Kelsey, L. J. lurdlok; Roberts, A. f. Herfort; constables, Smith justices, K. II. J)avis and Peter Cooper; man), F. 0. Stanley and A. Allen; clerk, B. sealer of weights and measures, J. C. Jennings, Jay Prothero. Eussell Delap; seal­ er of weights ani measures, H. Albreeht. constables, Royal C. Gould, L. Parrish and L. Purdy; superintendent, H. A. Peck; Chandler. Samuel Hartley; sealer, W. Andrews, treasurer, C. A. Clark; assessors, R. G. 1871—Supervisors, E. Walbridge (chair­ 1881—Supervisors, David E. Welch In 1852 the officers were: Supervisors, Camp and A. Christie; justices, George Mor­ man), James Dykins, Matthew Hill; clerk, C ohairman), Matthew Hill, James Dykins; Beta Warner (chairman), John Monroe and tens and r. K. Jenkins; constables, G. Gib­ D. Munson; treasurer, John Blake; justices, clerk, J. A. Dibble; treasurer, E. O. Holien; Jabish T. Clement; clerk, Mark Shepari; bons and W, W. Wolcott; sealer, G. Gibbons. Eli Jones, Monrce Bentley; constables, assessor, J. M. True; justices, J. A. Dibble, assessor, M. C. Waite; treasurer, J. H. 1861—-Supervisors, E. Sumner (chairman), Hiram Calkins, L. *0. Holmes, G. J. Pad­ ft. G. Evenien; constables, John ¥oung, Pratt; superintendent, Peter Conrad; jus­ E. Walbridge and A. Allen; clerk, D. P. dock; sealer of weights and measures, L. 0 Homes, Eli Jones; sealer of weights tices, Isaac Palmer and A. B. Dearborn; Doane; treasurer, C. A. Clark; assessor, R. George Doid. and measures, Herman Albreeht. constables, C. H. McLaughlin, J. G. Wheel­ G.Camp; superintendent, H, A. Peek; jus- 1872—Supervisors, i. Walbridge (chair­ 1882— Supervisors, Matthew Hill (chair­ er, G. W. Tucker and R. T. liokham; sealer, tises, D. K. Noyes and A. Christie; con­ man), James Dykins, Matthew Hill; clerk, man), E. A. Marley, Levi Caioon; clerk, Jaiiies Pylons. stables, J. C. Dockham, W. B. Boutwell and David Munson; treasurer, John W. Blake; Newton Morley; treasurer, N. H. Smith; In December, 1852, the county board A. Wilder; sealer, G. Gibbons. assessor, T. T. English; juslioes, M. C. assessor, J. B. Duncan; justices, L. C. voted to change the name of the town of 1862—Supervisors, E. Walbridge (chair­ Waite, F. B. Baldwin; constables, LuciusO. Messenger, f. H. Spencer, Geo. Gibbons, Brooklyn to that of Baraboo, and at the man), A. Allen and P. G. Stanley;clerk, D. j Holmes, J. C. Dockham, G. W. Dockham; Jonathan Miles; constables, E. Eich, H. E. spring election of 1853 the following officers D. Bnane; treasurer. Bela Warner; assessor, sealer of weights and measures. G. G. Goll- frue, Wm. Henry; sealer oi* weights ani were chosen: Supervisors, R. H. Davis R. G. Camp; justices, B. L. Purdv, George 1 mar. measures, J. A. Dockham. (chairman), A. P. Dearborn and H. D. llertens and E. Walbridge; constables^ J. 1878 —Supervisors, E. Walbridge (chair­ 1888—Supervisors, E. A, Morley (chair­ Evans; clerk, E. L. Walbridge; treasurer, C. Beckham, Joseph Seott and Henry man), James Dykins, Matthew Hill; clerk, man), Geo. Hudson, Levi Gaboon; clerk, J. H. Pratt; assessor, M. C. Waite; superin­ Holah; sealer, William irown, : David Munson; treasurer, Joseph N. Sav- Dan. Kimball; treasurer, James Camp; as­ tendent, D. S. Vittuni; justices, D. Schern- 1865—Supervisors, P. G. Stanley (chair­ 1 age, jr.; assessor, T. f. English; justices, sessor, J. B. Duncan; justices, John Bren­ erhorn, C. Armstrong, W. ff. Canield and man), A. Christie and A. R. Case; clerk, D. : Monroe Bentley, 1. A. Morley, M. C. ner, T. H. Spencer, Harvey Lippett; con­ R. M. Eorsythe; constables, L. Parrish, C. D. Donne; treasurer, C. A. Clark; assessors, | Waite, William Hoxie; constables, L. O. stables, Norman North, Chas. Walrath, H. i. McLaughlin, E. Hart and R. O. Gould; R. G. Camp and E. Kimble; justices, A. » Holmes, Geo. W. Paddock, Andrew Whist-jHarris ; sealer of weights ani meaaures, sealer, James Dykins. # Christie and J. S. A. Bartley; constables, J. j anoe; sealer of weights and measures, Chas. | f nomas Johnson. 1864 — Supervisors, Charles Armstrong C. Beckham, Jchn Miller and Eobert Lott; H. Davis. 1884—Supervisors, E. A. Morley (chair­ (chairman), R. C. Gould and H. H. Wetattir; sealer, B. L. Brier; ponndmaster, P. Pratt. | 1874—Supervisors, 1. Walbridge (cnalr- man), E. T. finkham, J. W. Wood; clerk, clerk, 1. L. Walbridge; assessor, M. C. 18§4—Supervisors, R. G. Camp (chair­ ! man), James Dykins, Matthew Hill; clerk, Franklin Johnson; treasurer, James Camp; Waite; treasurer, J. H. Pratt; superintend­ man), William Andrews and A. ft. Caee; David Munson; treasurer, Joseph N. Savage, asseseor, Matthew Hill; justices, George ent, J. B. Avery; justices, William Brown clerk, D. D. Doane; treasurer, George Ho. jr.; assessor, T. f. English; juslioes, Archie Gibbons, Thomas H. 8pencer, A. D. Mo. and Martin Waterman; constables, John Mr, assessor, R. §. Camp; justices, G. Mor­ Christie, A. J. Peck, John Dean; constables, Gilvra. Lyman Messenger; constables, Men- Miller, Daniel 8mith, R. T. Tinkham and tons and B. L. Purdy; constables, J. C. L. 0. Holmes, Eussell Delap, Benj. Pad­ roe Bump, Charks Walrath. Hiram Langdon; sealer, R. Parrish. Beckham, Peter P. Calhoon and Grin dock; sealer of weight! and measures, Chas. j 188i^8«perfiscrs, E. A. Morley (chair­ The record of the election tor 1856 is in Hnyck; sealer, B. L. Brier. H. Davis. man), R. T. Ttnkham, Leonard Eoser; clerk. 1 10 franklin Johnson; trensmrer, James Camp; engaged in mercantile bnsfnesi Dec. l§th, 1887. capacities from cabin boy to captain assessor, Matthew Hill; justices, A. 8. with his brother at Merrimac, when Rodney is now at the state' uni­ ani owner and was familiar with Pettyes, Chas. Hirschinpr; constables, Geo. Paidook, Thomas Johnson, George FsHer. he bought a farm in section 82, versity and 1 think graduates In the location of every town from 1886—Supervisors, ILevi Gaboon (chair­ town of Greenfield, and settled about one year. It Is astonishing Buffalo to the head of Lake Superi­ man), Leonard Eoser, T. W. English; clerk, there. Here he engaged in farm­ to observe how many of onr old or fle also learned the ship car­ A. D. MoGiWra; treasurer, N. H. Smith; ing and teaching until 1874, when penter trade. At the present time, assessor, Matthew Hill; justices, M. 1. settlers have put on the finishing Spring, J. G. Stein, David Sanson; con­ he was elected connty register of touch of the education of their at the age of 81, he has a beautiful­ stables, Thomas Johnson, L. C. Messenger, deeds, and sold his farm and moved children at onr state university, ly constructed model for a wooden N. North. to the now city of Baraboo. He and the prestige It has given them ship nearly completed that he 1887—Supervisors, Levi Cahoon (chair­ held the position ot register six in coming life. * Mr. Tree's urban­ believes to be InordlnariJy strong. man), T. W. English,. Chas. flinchinger; clerk, A. D. MoGilvra; treasurer, G. f. years. While in the town of Green­ ity of manners has qualified him for He thinks it coui 1 hardly be Pallor; assessor, R, I. Eemington; justices, field he was town clerk four years a pleasant chairman uf a public broken short of a terriMe catastro­ G. B. Gibbons,!. C. Eice, Chas. HirsoMng- and chairman of town board two meeting, it Is a great stepping phe. We think he expects to ob­ er; constables, 1. Eicb, Peter Calhoon. 1888—Supervisors, Charles Hirsohlnger years. In 1879 he purchased the stone to places of important trust. tain a patent upon it. (chairman), James Camp, M. E. Spring; farm where h© now resides, on the Boys, remember that a ^pleasant We see that we made a mistake clerk, A. D. MoGiiwa; treasurer, Geo. P. ©astern boundary of the city of Bar­ address is a great stride towards on the 8th page, 4th column, 12th Faller; assessor, f ho mas H. Spencer; jus­ aboo. Mr. True has ever taken an public positions besides the pleas­ tices, C. L. Walrath, L. C. Messenger; line, which should read 82 instead Constables, E. E. Dake, Edwin lien. active Interest In Improved methods ure it gives every person yon come ot 84. in farming, and In the introduction 1889—Supervisors, Charles Hirsohinger in contact with. A captain must always have a (chairman), James Camp, W. C, Hill; clerk, of well bred live stock. Was sec­ We feel thankful that Mr. J. M, mate. He chose Ms in the state of C. H. Pamum; treasurer, Geo, P. Faller; retary of the Joint Stock Associa­ assessor, Thos. H. Spencer; justices, G. True has kindly contributed his New Fork—Miss Adelia Titus. tion that brought the first Imported Lippett, i red E. Wichern; constables, E. photo to our atlas. The times are so About If years thereafter she died, Percheron horses into Sank county. E. Dake, Geo. Armbruster, jr., Oscar Mes­ hard that onr pages are much lean­ leaving Erastns for the captain's senger. Was tbryearsa I'reederofthorough- er than they would be if we were charge and comfort. When he 1890—Supervisors, T. W. English (chair­ ibred Short Horn cattle. man), Geo. Holah, Jr., Geo. f. Faller; clerk, not suffering from the stringency came to the Baraboo country Eras­ Chas. H. Parnum; treasurer, Wm. C. Hill; He now makes a specialty of and the three years' drouth. We tns was put out to board In assessor, Thomas Spencer; justices, Chas. : breeding horses upon his farm. cannot but say that our patron that estimable family of Frescott Walrath, Geo. B. Gibbons, Oscar Messenger; brought money with him to start a constables, ft. E. Dake, Geo. fownsend, The Joint Stock Association by ! Brigand, Sr., on Sank prairie. Cnas. Clark, Ed. Rich. •• its enterprise has wrought "a great new country life with; but we are Erastns was old enough in 1861 to The burden of government seemed to be change in the size and appearance sure that his enterprise and activity enlist in the war of the rebellion, much lighter and more directly suited to ' of the horse. Before the purchase has multiplied it. The town of our wants nnier territorial than state or- • in do. F., Wis, cavalry. He died ganiiation. the U. S. bore a part of the of Esau and others onr homes Baraboo contains many who came at Fltsbnrg, Arkansas. He was a burden, and the department* were olicered were - notably small and scrubby. here—some penniless—who are mild, pleasant boy. by fewer persons pro rate than under state The town ot Baraboo, and, In fact, living now more than comfortably, rule. The light tax of from 8 to 5 mills on We conjecture that the love of the comity of Sank is full of very which has come by the sweat of the the dollar we thought would be made still a iventure led Mr. Moore to aban­ lower when the country would become more fine horses. brow from the soil. don the lake country. He went settled up ani wealthier. But in the change He has been actively identified of the form of government, the complexity Capt. Leti Moore. to Illinois; from thence to Grand in the management,our real ani fancied in the work of the county and Bapids, Wis., and here built a wants via improvements makes our dollars state agricultural societies, being We were very much pleased to boat, the first one that ever ran at the present moment cost un 2 per cent at present one of the state board of obtain* of Mr. Moore his consent to over the rapids. He also built a per annum in order to hold them. It'is the agriculture. He has never lo3t his dark side of a republican-democratic form have his photo to arrange Inagrav- Ferry boat at Harasrthy, now of government. Too many ©fleers—too Interest In educational matters, ure page. But he seemed averse called Sank City. He also built high salaries—too many laws made ani un­ having been a member of the board to having a highly colored picture a boat at Baraboo. He first visit­ made, ani poorly enforced. We have lived of education of the city of Baraboo given of his life. Hence we feel twice under tie County'Commissioner sys­ ed Baraboo In 1840. Spent the tem „and thought it to be better than the 'since Its organization. He is at restrained on giving items #e other­ winter of 1840-41 in hunting deer Legislative system. Gov. Be ways' recom­ : present regent of the state nnlver- wise would give of the part he has and in becoming acquainted with mendation of the Eoai Commissioner sys­ ! sity for the 7th Cong. Dist. Has taken in the drama of life. His the country and located his tem would probably result in better worked i been asiessor in the city of Bare- first acquaintance with the Winne­ roads and more economic. claim about the falls of a creek, i boo for seven years. bago wilderness country on the which he named Skillet from the John M. Trmii ; He was married at Monltonboro, Baraboo river was in 1840. Levi circumstance of conical holes be- Born, In fifoaltonboro, Uarroll, ' N. H., April 30th, 1864, to Mary was the 10th and next to the young­ ing washed out in the soft sand Co., If. fit., Oct. 9th, 1888. Was Beede, who was born in Dover, est of Joseph Moore's family, who rock, that made nice places to educated at the New Hampton N. H., Aug. 98, 1845. Their was formerly from Massachusetts; wash your hands in, as they were Literary and Biblical Institution. children . are: Eodney Howard, thence moved to Mew York, thence constantly supplied by small Taught school In Mew Hampshire, born Oct. 14,1866; Gordon Haines, to Ohio. streams of water. In the winter Massachusetts.and Maine. dame born Bee. 14, 1868; Ernest Beebe, At a very early age he had a of'41-2, he, in company with Alec to Sank County, Wis., in the spring July SI, 1872; Eunice Miriam, fondness for sailing. He went on­ Draper, hunted deer in Back of 1866, and for a few months was June S4, 1881, and Katharine, to the lakes and served in all the Woods near Whitewater. In June, BSSSS2SSBE

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^ -11 1842, we found Mr. Moore at his the deception. Two of the county goncy. The good book tell us that feast we three had and naired the cabin at Skillet falls. He had a commissioners voted to accept the "on© man can put 1,000 to flight." dog. family keeping house for him by j deeds, This the captain very nearly did. "" • ~" ~ the name of Simon Griffith. This j The captain discovered the trick, When he has a cause of justice 'to ^" ^- Tmttli. season or perhaps the next, Moore ? The Prairie du Sac lawyers tried work in, Andrew Jackson could A- y- Tattle first came from entered into the mill business, j their best to convince Mm that not excel him for stubbornees.; Connecticut to W isoonain in the He first helped put in the gearing (the deeds were properly worded We all know that. In 18 he;J0M' mm* to Wood & Rowen's saw mill. In and did not convey the intent he arranged his affairs at Baraboo He first stepped at Madison and vol. I "Outline Sketches Sauk • thought they did; but he was in- and went to Black River and went from there to Portage with a Oounty," under head of "Baraboo'vincible. Long discussions and bought a saw mill. This mill was stock of goods for Nat. JJean, and and Its Waterpowere," there is a explanations were had. He stood destroyed, and he built a new started the first store in Fortag.e. detailed account of his connection alone. The two other county one, and ran it for two or three Ee afterwards returned to Con­ with the mill Interest. At one commissioners ¥oted yes, but lie years. Lumber went down, and necticut, and going Into partnership time, 1846, the people thought to had put In a big no. The clerk, (he sold out and came back to with Mr. David Munson they came organize a military company. Andrew Garrison, recorded the ! Baraboo. In 1878 he went Into to Baraboo In 1848 and started the Mr. Moore wm recommended as vote. Moore told him to put ; cranberry business near Norway first store in that place. Mrs. the proper person for captain. down a big no and Insisted upon I Bidge and maie a great many val- Tattle came with them at that Gov. Dodge gave him a captain's lit. Not satisfied by being whipped I liable improvements on his bog. time. commission. The whole matter'out of justice by treachery, he or- [iii 1886 and 188? railroad fires [There were two small stocks of soon fell through, but he has the jdered the clerk to write out a burned his marshes over very goods brought earlier, the first by old parchment still. His being' protest for him against the swindle I deeply. U e tried to get redress of the the Wood & Rowen Mill Co. in the captain of a lake vessel and . and put that upon the record. Chicago, Milwaukee&St. Paul Ey. 1840, the second, quite a fair sized holding a commission doubly; The clerk said he could not do Co., but was offer© I but a pittance one, by Augustine Haraszthy and : made-the title good, and he Is now that, as It was all he could do to for the datnttge. He finally brought — erapel in 1844 or 1845. spoken of as "the <-apt." record his negative vote. Moor© suit against them and after two Tliis stock was sold at a point Iii August 1846, lie chose his replies, "Garrison, yon are the circuit court trials obtained ajudg-! south of the Baraboo, near the up- second mate, Miss Dibrah Stevens, clerk of this board to record our ment of $6,01)0. He now k quite ' per bridge of the Manchester mill Harris Searles of Sauk prairie tied doings and not to be judge of a hale man. i race.— W. H. C] the "knot." Four grown up them. I am one of this county We do not like to close this per-; About the year 1853 lie bought children and their mother and board of commissioners. A mi­ sonal sketch without referring to-the place where he how lives and father constitute his present fami- nority as well as s majority can an incident which happened while; moved onto It. Mr. and Mrs. lv. The chillren are Mar­ be represented on the books as he Mr. Moore, in company with I Tattle have four eons. The eldest, garet (Mrs. 0. H. Williams) chooses, and you are not to be Count Augustine Haraszthy, Ed-• Albert Clark, was born in Con- Vallou, Carrie and Edith; the judge of what is or is not proper. mund Eendtorff of Lower Sank,; necticut. He enlisted In 1862 and three latter are at home. The Sir, I dumand of you to place up- T. B. Iteiuingtoii, Abraham Wood, was wounded at Drnry's Bluff and Capt. dislikes high colored sketch- on record my protest to the infanci­ and Wm. H. Canfield, of lay in the hospitaLat Hampton for es of a flattering character, ous trick." Garrison wrote out a Baraboo, was .;oing to explore eight months. Hence. \m feel quite free to say protest according to Moore's dicta- the wilderness'iu the back part ot He afterwards married Miss that in the fore part of county seat tion and put It upon the Sank Co. ¥^ood and Moore, old, Mary Savage. They have two war he had a plenty of political book. Not satisfied yet he called hunters,^peed to keep as supplied children, Helen Louise and dlyde enemies made by his action sis one a meeting at the bluffs to show with meat; besides, the rount had Stick ney. of the county commissioners. the trick up to the people. It was The seat of justice of .Sauk largely attended, and the matter a shot pjnn and a setter dog, yet, He has worked at the nursery county was by legislative commis- was so thoroughly sifted that the away back in the wilderness, where ' business the most of his life, but In sioners located at that one of the Sacites offered to make a new now have grown up fine dwellings ' 1881 removed to Kilbourn City, Sauk villages which would make draft for the deeds, leaving out the and broad, rich fields, we had a ; where lie published the Pells fie- the highest bid for It. The upper objectional feature. There was a starvation feast. We subsisted porter for two years, thence to three days upon one partridge, Webster, Dakota, where he puV- town bid was received. Jt consist­ motion made that for the present ed of a donation to the county of the matter be "laid on the table." notwithstanding our three hunters ; lished the Day *Co. Beporter for a certain number of village lots. A Baraboo unparliamentary back­ and a hunting dog. We had ! two years or more, then returned to In their making out a deed -of woodsman moved to amend by j labelled the dog for breakfast nexti Bamboo, where he has since fol- them to the county there was a having the whole matter put un- ' morning; however, about 2 o'clock lowed the nursery business. proviso In them that if the county jder the table, The amendment ' P. ML, as we were lounging In our ; The second son, Herbert B., was seat should ever be removed the | carried by a large majority. We I tent, the three hunters being out, 1 born at Baraboo in the year 1850 lota should revert back to the I re-tell this old quarrel story(which j we heard the sharp report of a I and married ^aura C. Daniels in original owners with all the im-! ought to be forgotten and all Sauk I rifle,"and soon there followed a loud 1876. They have two children, prevention ts upon them. This county b© one loving family) for ; halloo. We started instantly an 1 Genevieve and Hallie Marian.. proviso was so ingeniously worded the purpose of showing what one ' noon found the captain with a nice He worked with his father In the that it was difficult to discover I indomitable will c«^ do in arorir-r- ywirr A glorious, nnrsery business till 1879, when he *i

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moved to Norway Ridge, Wis., aire also musicians and singers. : WW© spending some time at ft. Win-! at their htven each went his ©wi m^m and started in the cranberry busi­ Why should not Mr. Tuttle bo [ »«*ago he farmed an acquaintance with J He worked a placer BUM in oompnnj ness. During the dry seasou of 1886 fire swept over his cranberry married, are industrious and of iwltl fcil1 lm lle lmihm Mr imie>tfcls'mm* Ti# Mm Profii to In a wlwais lmit 18371837 . one, "A'ney quietly attended to marsh, alter which he removed to goodhabite. He has a ine r«M ' (See PP-6 «d 7 of mj ?rich one. They qtieily Bamboo Sketch—article on Wallace their business, burying the dust they ac­ a marsh in Jackson Co., where he dene©, grounds about artistically lioneii—for particulars.) He beoame cumulated. It was their rule tear one to g© is still located. arranged, and one of the finest attached to the family, especially to the to town one week, while the other stayed wind-breakers of pin© and fir, The third son, Merrltt Isaac, was eldest daughter Emily, and a marriage, working aid watching their hidden bora in 1854. He married Miss about 40 feet high, in the state, mumm wm eoteitained, but she died of treaanre. One day after his partner had

Edna M. Bey wolds, of Norway extending for 80 rods beside the J MMamptioD niter severni yearn' illness, gone to town lie looked mer their a©- Ridge, Wis. They have had four road west of the house, a cider in 1847. He never lost his regard for cnmnlation ani found a large share of it children, Charles, Nellie E., Inez mill and evaporator for reducing the Eowen family. He assisted Wood gone. He followed him to town aid Rath and Laura Jennette. • the sweet cider to § jelly, a good ft Eowei in putting mp their saw mill met him and charged him with purloin- He at an early age showed me­ rich soil, and is fond of association (the first one on the Baraboo riter) in ing. tie declared his innocence. Barker, 1839. In the winter of 1840-41 he with revolver in hand, had Mm strip chanical skill but worked in the and hospitable. He has good logged in the Seelef Creek pinery aid from head to font. Me plead innocent a© nursery at Baraboo and spent some health at 78. ran down his lop in the spring. In .the sincerely that he believed him, bit thai time in cranberry cultivation at Archibald Barker. pane summer he built a raft of about night hi left and snipped lor Australia. Norway Ridge and Valley Junc­ I Prom the Sank County Democrat.] !#,©## feet and no il out of the Bara­ Barker had a wealthy brother ii the tion. He removed in the spring The day for his funeral mentioned boo riter, selling it at Peoorab. This Australian gold fields, so he made mp his of 1888 to Fort Morgan, Colorado, in • fear paper brought together a was the first article of commerce run oil mind to follow his partner and visit hia where his business has been that of laiye collection of his old neighbors. It of omr riter (1841). He joined in brother, tie did not succeed in meet­ architect, contractor and builder. was indeed * sad "old pioneers' meet­ partnership with James I. Chriatle to lug ing his old partner. He spent one sea­ Their two youngest children died ing." "It seems too bud that he eomld ii the upper Bttrnbo© pineries, which as son wiiti his brother, adding some to his M in the year 1889 in the short space •ot hate lived at least a year or two yet hid not felt the American ax, and in **pile , then went to Ireland aid wist led of three months. longer to enjoy his new residence in the the late fall of 1842 in crossing a creek hw parents, thence to England ani pur­ city of Baraboo" wins a tery common re- while going to his field ol labor he got chased a stock ol dry goods, largely silks, The youngest son, Id ward Kel­ marl that pawed between neighbor!. his feet wet and tery badly froaen, which \ and shipped for Mew fork city. While logg, was born In 1857- He mar­ Thii boiling and the tastily arranged ©•me near taking his life. On one foot they were oi the coast of Newfoiniland ried Miss Miriam E. Larrabee, of grounds oconpj an entire block. Tie he lost all of hia toea. He was confined the ship strnok a rook, which opened a Winonm, Minn., in the year U82.€ buildings were erected by M. J. Brown to the shanty all winter, and in fact a hole in her, and stie sank, Their sig­ They have two children, Clayton in his prosperous dajs aid pirehased by year's labor was lost to him and mor<% nals brought relief from shore, and no and Miriam. Col. D. S. Vittom soon after his return for he since was not the iron-sided man j li*« were lost, even acme property being He spent one or two seasons at from the war of the rebellion aid recent­ he was before. Mr. Christie pished the aaved. fle secured his trunk. He lost Carman, Minn., but aside from ly by A. Barker. He hid occupied it logging and made out a lair winter's: about 94,000 in this wreck, aa that has devoted his time to the about 13 moot hi. Mr. Parker was a work at a small expense but dig not get \ he had nothing insured. He got nursery and small fruit business quiet, pleasant, prompt, aotive, honorable the logs down intil next spring. After, hack to his Baraoco home in 1864, after at Baraboo. •in, fill of enterprise. His words I they were singly boomed there .came one \ a nine years' absence. He no* got Immediately after the war Mr. needed no prop or the scratch, of a pen,' of the greatest freshets the country ever , acme of his old claim pit mndtr the We think he net er held an office of any I experienced, broke tie boom and carried i f^w. Ijeating John Eowef to take Tuttle be^an the work which he kind in his life except school district j the mill off. Mill and logs were scat* charge, he went onto the Mississippi has since made a specialty, that of treasarer. fle was both physical-: terei ipon the bottom lands sll along. river and bought and sold farm produce raising and testing Russian apple ly and morally oonrageons and fond of'even to the month of the river. Mr. —pork and grain,— occasionally oominsj trees, believing that- those varie­ alientnre. He had enough of native j larker soli his noawmf lots to some itjme co look after affairs, from 1864 ties afford us hardy trees, well combativ enes« ani oomrage to take care j Caledonia tarmers for foir yoke of oxen, to 1868 lie spent most of bis time in suited to endure our severe north­ of himself, but was far from being qnar- j These he took the next winter (1846) tais easiness, still making farm im western climate. [Communica­ relsome and was always jnst. He was into*the Lemonweir pinery and banked protementa. Tbat proved to be tbe ted.] bronght up by protestant parents ani logs for Capt.J ©seph Finley tor a stipend most luorative bnaineas in the same space Mr. A. G. Tuttle is one of the always had a regard for the christian re­ per if and to take his pay in limber. of time tie was ev er in. He invested in large nursery men of the state; ligion, although he made no open proles In the spring lie rafted his limber. He real estate abomt St. Paul. His agent has taken year "after year from sion. At 18 he left his comfortable had .made arraojfemeits with John B. swindled him out of about 94,§§§. The county and state many premiums home and came to America, land­ Crawford aid Wesley Clement to go really best btsiueea arrangement the ing at New York city; went to Mew on fruit. From the State Agri­ with them by the overland route to rote* ever entered into was made Not. Jersey and worked one simmer; then to cultural Society he has taken the California, Clement to bring the team 29,1869. It wwi a contract made with Philadelphia and wintered there; then (hones) and wagon to Galena. Here Sarah Jane Lamborn, of Jaoka©i 0©. first premium for the largest va­ f came to Iowa to visit an old friend, Mr. they shipped than aboard the raft, aid Iowa. An old school mate ani intimate riety of apples 24 out of 25 years. Meed, ail stayed with him one summer, as they were floating down the river they friend of Mr. Barker's niaipried a sister of He has for a number of years past helping him farm; then went to the lead changed their minds and determined to Mim IL. and in •Ming his friend Sarah been a breeder of Jersey stock. mines and spent one summer working go wia the isthmus. Wm. Christie toot Jane netted Mil, and what was belter Mr. Tuttle's four sons are fine and prospecting and got acq inlited with the team aid wagoi bank to lamb©©, •he took him or he took her ©nt© his oil musicians, especially singers, Dunn and M cFarlan, pioieer Wis. pinery aid they after selling went according to claim. Them he waa planted the rest of forming a quartette. Their wives •en, which took him to the pinery. the new armngenieiit. After arriving his natural life. She was an ' American 13

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Ktm^^sK****^.^, jHissm. Mm 18 woman of German and French extrac­ came from near Strassburg on fch« He has two brothers, Michael and ter. There stood Monarch of the tion. Mo more roving or ship wrecks or Ehine, now Germany—then Jacob, and a sister, Mrs. G-eo. N. forest, a tree which for years was robberies or duels or swindles. A fear France. At the age of 22 he mar­ Nippert, who came here with them gazed upon with astonishment by before his aoqaaintanee with Miss Lam- ried a Miss Oatharina Zorn. Bev. and settled on the same section. all who looked upon it. We copy born he had erected a comfortable outfit Jihn A. Salaer, the present veter­ He is now making a specialty of from the Baraboo Republic of of farm buildings. The same week of an northern seed grower and seed raising full-blooded registered fJ er- March 13,1889: the marriage groom and bride were lord and lady in a well equipped manor. merchant of La Crosse, tied the ford cattle. "AX OLD SETTLES GOME. For the last II or 20 years he has man­ nuptial knot. J. W. Wood recently cut a white Tie Town of Baraboo aged a large dairy of 3d or 4© cows Father Hirschinger in the old oak tree on his farm on Skillett malting bitter and now rnns a creamery. country was a professional trait at the present time contains 35| creek of huge dimensions. When Here they lave quietly lived to grower* and gardener. His old- square miles, or sections, exclusive prostrate it measured sixteen feet, see grow np about them six b«iya and country fruit stories crested a de­ of the city of Baraboo, whose area six inches in girth at the butt one girl. He Jiad just purchased the sire in his son to turn his attention is 3| sq. miles. It is bounded end, and over 12 feel at its small­ Col. Vittum place ani got comfortably to planting of fruit trees upon north by Delton and Fairfield; est girth just below the main fork. settled when the summooa came. One east by Fairfield, Greenfield and The tree was one hundred feet in great comfort the mother and children their own lands that they had come so far to get. The Canields, Merrimac; south by Sumpter; west total height and the top spread have is to know that they had a husband by Freedom and Excelsior. The and lather WHO was an honorable man. father and eon, had planted out two over seventy-five feet in breadth Baraboo river runs nearly His early life was so varied and he so bushels of apple seed, a barrel of when it fell. It was 4? feet to the well acquainted with the world and rich peach pits and had bought apple, through the center, east and west^ main fork. One limb was over in anecdotes nod many practical jokes, peach, pear, plum, nectarine, apri­ with "The Lake of the Hills" in three feet in diameter. that it made htm always a cheery conver­ cot, currants, gooseberry, etc., the south-east corner. Ten or The first two cuts from the sationalist, who will long linger in our eleven sections lie upon the Bara- j stump made a cord and three- etc. There was no other nursery l memories. W. H. C. within 100 miles. Charles was boo Muffs. Soil, clay loam; tim- fourths of wood. A hive of wild employed to graft and help lake bered with white and red oak, honey was taken from a limb fifty Charles HirscMrngtr. care of the nursery. He soon be­ hickony, aspen and linden and in feet from the ground about twenty When 10 years old lie came in­ gan to ran a little business of his places ¥ery rocky. It was not the years ago. [By Henry Willard. to Sauk county with his parents* own. The severe winters swept first to 'be improved but at the How could he climb so large a There were but very few families away from us the tender fruits, present time is quite thickly set­ tree?] The lightning had struck then in the Baraboo Valley. They and of course our money, year after tled over and many ¥ery fine the tree twice in exactly the same came in company with the Nippert year, which drove the Canlelds farms upon it and the. farmers place, thus settling forever a much prosperous—soil excellent. They brothers — deorge, Philip »nd out of the business. But Charley mooted question. The last dis­ have a winter crop (wood) as well as ,- Henry. They occupied an eld had not much as yet to lose, and charge jumped from the oak about summer crops to harvest. In the ''"shop building of Wm. H. Can- on this small scale experience 20 feet from the ground and Baraboo valley, upon the south field's far a few weeks, until they taught him what fruits could be tore a small tree out by the roots. side and adjoining the river, there got up buildings upon their own grown in this climate, and he has Mr. Wood was obliged to send is a belt of about J| to two miles lands. Their settlement here was steadily persevered until he now to Philadelphia to have a special wide, ten sections, of very heafy in June. They located their lands takes his rank among- the large, saw made to master this job. This timbered land — linden, maple, upon sec. 8, T. 11 N., E. 8 E. June nursery men and fruit growers of' saw was ten feet long and corre­ f oaks, elm, butternut, cherry, IS, 1847. Charles stayed with the state, taking premiums at the spondingly broad and thick. Two t ash, hickory. Upon sections 8 his parents until his father, State Agricultural and Horticnl-! men at each end of the saw in­ and i, town 11 N., range 8 died. His mother then made tural fairs and county fairs. Hej stead of one, was found to be a E., the Indians had extensive her home with him until she has ma le fine exhibitions for the j great acqusition. sugar orchards. The trees ap­ died. She was blind for several of last 20 years. * I This tree has been visited by a pear to have been tapped the last years of her life. We love great many people from time to Mr. Hirschinger has served il many years, as the scars look very time, who have wondered at its to think of her. for she was one of years as supervisor in the towns of old. Jacob Hirschinger, when a the very beet of women, and her size and admired its symmetry Freedom and Baraboo, 17 years as young lad, found in a cave a best and majestic proportions. Jt son and wife were very tender and chairman and 4 years as side super­ of 5 or 8 brass and copper kettles careful of her in her feeble old age. would seem a pity to cut such a visor. He holds the office of justice and other fixtures that they had notable tree, but it was getting to [Charley reminded me a few days of the peace and county commis­ used in making sugar. Their be bald in the head and gouty in since that In attending an evening sioner of bridges. He is a member troughs to catch the sap were the feet. The ice storm of two school at onr house about these of the German Methodist church. small and very neatly worked out years ago broke out several of its early days, one evening we heard They have a respectable church of small linden trees. Some were huge branches. Its glory had a racket among the tin pans and building within a mile of them to made of white elm bark. There become dimmed and it was pots on the stoop. We ran out worship in. He lives in a very were some of the finest lindens thought best to remove it. It was and there was a wolf eating at the good farm house and has a nice that ever grew here in this grove- not -less than two hundred and -Off flfreaae.] barn, cider press building and Trees 18 inches in diameter, white seventy-five years old, as shown , Chnrl'-o was bom at (Japatine, other con¥enient out buildings. to the Yery center, or at least with­ by counting its annual rings. Its >i '"c, ?V». 26, 1837. Hie parents They have no children of their own. in two or three inches of the cen­ planting anticipated by six years 14 the landing of the pilgrims at It is to be hoped that the retain relatives, - Quaker people, , residing ii provement who later came to Ohio to Stokea .County,..North. Carolina, who look over the works of that yonng mi Plymouth. It was surely a nota­ ing of a-name that the vulgarity desired to get away from slat cry* aid "'its enterprising state, visited Cincinnati, ble tree, and as its huge form" lay of early days has wrongfully given j jnfloenoet.' Finding the oountfy entire. took' dinner and spent the afternoon at prostrate in the silent "dignity of it may soon be dropped. There is Mj satisfactory, the young explorer re- my-father's house. It was my pleasure tmmi hon,homee wwithth , a We to be present during that very important death" could man help feeling a not the remotest parallel between In'the following 'year- •, 1812f^», wit h ^P**ahors-e occasion, as i then looked upon it, listen­ deep sympathy for it, becauseof its this "beautiful casket of nature taken from the plow and 120 in his ing to the conversation of the noted sudden and hopeless overthrow?" rare" and anything that is ugly, pocket, he set out again 01 the long ride governor. David S. Bates, an engineer over the moan tains of western ¥irginia of prominence in the construction of the This beautiful grove of timber mean,devilish, dangerous. How­ and eaitern Kentucky, to make Ms home Erie canal, became the chief engineer of lying about a fine water power ever, it is possible for man to aid a name In the Northwest. the Ohio canals. 1 recall the names of of 50 feet fall of a good sized convert good to bad. My father was first employed as clerk Samuel f orrer and a Mr. Cleveland as of the township trustees of Cincinnati among the leading engineers at the com­ river augured for the poor neviirs Lake, Wie. As time progressed, he became mencement of these works. backwoodsman his future prosper- editor of the Western Spy, the In 1814, my grandfather, Jesse . . . What perveirs© genii rated thy christening ty. At firstn A tthere was no money first paper printed in that village. Williams, moved with •his family from to pay for land. The only outlay f fcllt tkm mi kmwm h^ mA mkfitting Some years afterwards, it became North Carolina to Cincinnati, settling on , | name? the Gazette, edited many years by a farm near the village of Bichmond, was to purchase an axe, crOSSCUt' Fair child of nature, in thy heart alight Charles Hammond, a relative of the Indiana. In 182S, my father called his etu mt young brother Jesse L. Williams, then saw and a voice of oxen, some j v^ !f *^£?"?^fT*- Sherman family, and one of the able , The ©ml name suggests malignant hate, writers of that early period. The paper If years old, from his home on the farm Chains, then pick for the best tim- I lot all thy ways art full of pleasantness, is now the Commercial-Gaiette of Cincin­ and set him it work as chainman on the ber, cut and draw to the saw mill, The heavens thy clear face irradiate. nati Miami.caual, near Dayton, Ohio—then The hills stretch out their arms to thy in charge of Samuel Forrer. In 1832, It was sawed at the halves. The., caress. Liter on he became a member of the •lumber brought |8 per m. The 80 fair this lakelet lies and gently fovea legislature and speaker of the Lower Jesse L. Williams was called to Indiana The feet of hills close gathered hy its side; House, as it was *hen failed. While in as the chief engineer of the Wabash & Baraboobiaus were otherwise Their somber brows deep down in crystal the legislature the question of canals, the ! Brie canal, extending from Terre Haute waves, greit artificial arteries of the inland j on the west line ot the state to the Ofcio favored. Upons ction 8, town 11 Soothed of their sterness, hang all glorified. N., range 8 E., within this belt of Grey hills are they with features hard and commerce of that period, came up. Fol : line near fort Wayne. To aid in the grim,— ^ lowing the example of the state of New ! construction of this canal, congress hard timber above described, in Haply net all its life to them belongs— York,, which was then building the Mew I granted land, being the first land grant a rocky dell within four miles of Two wooded valley seek its shining brim. York and Brie Canal, the legislature, ' for purposes of internal improvement. Lured by the charm of low, murm'riug In 1838, he became the chief engineer the mills, was a grove of beautiful songs. after a stormy contest, passed a bill pro­ viding for two canals—one from Cleve­ of the state, having charge of about white pine. If squared up it Here water-hunting trees their pendant 800 miles ot canal in' various p»rts ot sprays land, on Lake firie, south to Portsmouth, would probably cover from 40 to Beach eagerly far o'er the water*s edge, on the Ohio river, the other from Cin­ the state, the several lines being in 80 acres, and there must have The clinging vine in wild luxuriance strays, cinnati north to Piqus, to be in time progress of location or construction. been taken from it 100,000 m. ft. Softening the contour of each tree and carried through to the Maumee riter, In the tame year, July 9th, my father ledge; near where Toledo was afterwards located, sent'me to my uncle, in Indiana, to learn of lumber and 500,000 m. shingles. But more than these, a brooding spirit file the business of a civil engineer. I Valley and grove, pervading all the air;— the country from Piqna to the month of $10,000.00 must have, been Behold the presence of those oraggei hills, the Maumee being a body of heavy tim­ began my first duties as rodman on the realized from it. The logs were That Sphinx-Ike dumb lie, holding s««r#ts ber land almost uninhabited. White Btver canal, then being 'located there! through Indianapolis, and under the cut and banked upon the creek The Canal Bill was very strongly Bold mounts where untamed nature rules opposed. Dnrinpj its pendencj, the in­ -charge of Thomas A. Morris as resident that runs through the valley and supreme I troducer of the bill was asked by an engineer, who afterwards became a in the spring freshets run down to Oft-times a mellowing light of misty hue opposing member': "Where is the money brigadier general and was with Geo. Mo- Floods them in splendor soft, until they seem to com© from to construct these immense Glellan, as his next in rank, during the the mill. The hind upon which % N© longer mountain solitudes but raise Their ronnied heads in graceful lines, that .worls?" The introducer replied : "We West Virginia campaign. it grew is now partly owned by low will raise the money by pledging the The state of Indiana was quite unfa­ Charles Hirschinger. The land • Away in hurried downward curies to meet faith and credit of the slate ot Ohio." At vorably situated for a complete state sys­ upon the north side of the Baraboo And touch the pulsing waves that come and i this reply, a dteriaite laugh rang through tem of canals, for the reason it was the House. State bonds and state credit necessary to pass into the state of Ohio river is timbered with white, red, To break in ripping music at their foot. : were hardly known at that day. The to connect her northwestern #nd most black and burr oak- and aspen. Mrs, Emily Avery in the Weekly Mmgmime.1 mone y was provided in ihe way indicated, important canal, the Wabash & Erie, The northeast part is a heavy 1 and the canals finished as proposed. with Lake Erie; and her eastern, the From the Sank Oounty Democrat of May I The Canal Bill provided tor a board Whitewater canal, with the Ohio . river clay soil, while the northwestern 29th, 1890. j of 12 commissioners to »rry forward the at Lawrenoebnrg. The state ot Ohio, is more sandy and a litte of it a works. My father was appointed one however, extended the Wabash dc Brie poor lean soil Taking the afea Tie lirtkwist Territory! of the board, and at its orgjanliation for from the state line, near fort Wayne, by of the town as a whole it will fie following interesting paper was read business he aid Alfred Kelly of Colum­ a canal 80 tt. wide at the surface of at a recent meeting of the Bamboo Fort, bus were designated as the acting water, an ordinary canal being 40 ft,, to stand second to but a few towns nightly Literary Club by Major 0. H. Will­ commissioners, having the immediate Toledo, near the mouth of the Maumee iams, who upon general request has kindly charge ot the construction, reporting river, completing the same ready fur of equal size in the state. In the consented to Its publication: the S. E. corner lies "nestled quarterly to the board. The works were navigation in the spring ot 1843, ex­ As reqnested, it our last club meeting, divided about equally between the two tending at the same time the Miami down between wild, rocky hills" 1 have attempted to recall'some of the acting commissioners, Mr. Kelly taking canal Irom Piqua, to intersect with the a sheet of water 1J by f miles, else- j occurrences of interest, connected with j4he half from Cleveland south, being a 60 feet canal, thus making continuous where so fully and frequently de- \ihe ?row*ff the Northwest Territory part of the Ohio canal, as it was called; canal navigation from Cincinnati to Tole­ ., , . , tooming within my recollection aid ©t my father taking charge of the Miami do and from La Fayette, Indiana, to scribed—so many poems written whioh I was imfonned by those who took canal and south' end of the Ohio. Toledo. " Mr. Alfred Avery, the father of it and now a great summer part in them. Before the commencement of these , of our Mr. Allyn Avery, was one of the contractors in the construction of these report for nlfi&fliir? «ake« and va. Mra'Ittnwy lather' , «»caj»Mloajanh Ti.wiiiiams. Williams,, visiwvisitead improvements, my father passed along the Mew York & firie canal, then in the 1 extensions. Ohio also permitted Indiana resort for pleasure mmem and va- the m^e rf CilcilllJlllif 0hi0| mi the course of construction, from Buffalo" to ! to pass through her borders to Lawrence- cationists that we would add no | sonth part of that state in 1811, when \ burg, but connected with the permit the more were it not that the follow-; Albany to tale his first lesson in canal I toninetee look nove yearr thast oldNorthwes. He twi regions sun ti nther thee construction, in .conferring with Gov. I right of tapping the Indiana canal and ing beautiful lines are so truthful.I interest of his lather's family and others Do Witt Clinton, the father of that im­ ) constructing a branch to Cincinnati. Digitized by Google JOHN B. CRAWFORD, to this day as the Crawford place. John was an only child; ft good and faithful one to his parents. As the country developed be was an active member in all public enterprises, especially of a moral or religions charac­ SUMKEB, Jan. 7, 1891. ter. In his two year trip to California some gold dust stuck to his pocket Dear Friend;— I will give you as briefly as may be a few items of our besides obtaining the heart and hand of Ms partner's sister. In a few years family history. Alexander Crawford was bora in Tompkins, Delaware Co., thereafter lie bought up oxen and a great wagon and did freighting in the Mew York, Juno 30,1798, and was married to Hannah Barns, of Masonvillo, mountains in the Pike Peak gold district. He lias given Ms children good in the same oounty, in 1819. In 1830, or near that time, they united with school advantages, and is now reaping some reward. The father, Alexan­ the M. E. church, of which tliey remained firm adherents through life. In der Crawford, and mother Hannah, were universally respected. They 1836 they moved to Huron county, Ohio, and there Mr. Crawford was made were members of the M. E. church and he seemed to love to respond to Lieutenant-Colonel in the state militia, and accordingly the title adhered ideas given out, and that too very heartily. The Amen never came from to him somawbat. In the year 1839 they moved along to Michigan, and him with a whisper. His stalwart form and heavy voice would almost after undergoing an oxperienoe of seasoning with ague and chill and remit­ shake the building. For a series of years they entertained travelers and tent fevers they led to Wisconsin in pursuit of health, and settled down in new comers. One of our early settlers that was traveling in an emigrant Baraboo, [We think they stoppel at Plattevill© or Lancaster remaining wagon intending to stop at Adams, the county seat, went through the place a few months and from there to Baraboo], where they found what they and did not know it, cam© to a log house and "there stood a tall, stout were seeking, and here they lived to aid in organizing and in maintaining built man. 1 said, Sir, is there a place where a stranger could get accomo­ those elements in society that they doeui©d essential to its moral and spirit­ dations over nigbt? 1 discovered in Ms features an open, manly expres­ ual upbuilding, and it was their privilege to see the triumph of the gov­ sion, and intuitively felt that we were safe. He opened his broad, frank ernment in the "irrepressible conflict" and slavery wiped out. mouth and said: 'Yes, if you will take up with such accommodations as 1 Father passed from earth in 1870, aged 72 years, and mother in 1873. have in my little house, yon are welcome,' at the same time starting with at about the same age. 1 was raised on the same farm as pas my father mo towards the house. On entering I found the house unsurpassed for till 1 was 18 years of age, when, as before stated, we came west and was cleanliness—in fact one of the cleanest 1 ever had my foot in." This was with my parents with the exception of a brief sojourn in California in the home of Alexander Crawford, (p. 497 Hist. Sauk Co.) The Crawford 1850-2, down to th© time of their decease. At the age of 32 1 was married family have played a pleasant and profitable part in the early settlement of to Naomi D. Wood, daughter of Dr. L. M. Wood, of Walworth Co., Wis. Baraboo. [We End in the old Sauk Co. Democrat of March 2, 1853, the following notice: "Married.—On the I7th ult. by Eev. Lake, Mr. John B. Cram-ford We solicited of Mrs. Munson a reminoscenco of Col. Sumner, with of this place, and recently of California, to Miss Naomi Wood, of the town whom she lived so long, and also one of David Munson, her husband, and of Walworth, Walworth Co." J. W. Wood, now of Skillet Creek, in the we feel sure that the patrons and readers of the Baraboo sketch will feel town of Baraboo, was partner with J. B. Crawford in their California gold pleased with the just and short narative. It is urged by some that a short digging. He, as we have heard it stated, had made a favorable impression time annuls the memory of the past. As the sun dissipates frost; and thai in John's mind relative to a certain sister of his being a desirable one for a such sketches as we are collecting is of but little moment or concern. A wife. John investigated that matter, but instead, it was Naomi that filled reverse view tells us that it is impressed in our very baing a desire of per­ both eyes full. Hence arose the above marriage notice.] In 1883 migrated petuation; and we know that nature makes no mistakes. Therefore would to South Dakota, and in 1889 moved on to Washington. Of our five we not be committing a wrong in allowing good acts and representative children raised in Baraboo, Alice is now residing in Des Moines, Iowa, persons to pass from our memory without one effort to preserve them. being the wife of W. H. Bailey. J. Charles is in South D.ikata, Kingsbury They have acted well their part in the drama of life and it will take at least Co., and represents that county in th© state senate. Clara W. died in many summer's sun to deface their labors in hewing out of forest and Dakota in 1883. L©\vis A. and Mary E. are here with us in Washington. prairie a civilization that ranks second to none other on the face of the J. B. CRAWFORD. civilizad globe. (See articlo Col. Sumner on another page.)

JOHN B. CRAWFORD came to Baraboo in October, 1814, with a corps of DAVID MUNSON government surveyors. James E. Freeman, the deputy, or contractor, Was born in Colbrook. Litchfield county, Connecticut. At the age of six­ Hugh Moore, Jamas Ball and Badgers, assistants. Freeman was taken teen ho went south into the state of Alabama. During his early manhood sick in camp. 1 fell in with them one day while 1 was coming home from he engaged in the mercantile businsss in Mobile. During this period ho Sauk, and made an eagag-jmont to work for thorn. Moore was using Free­ also traveled in Europe, visiting London, Liverpool, Paris, Rome, and many man's eompass. 1 got up a party and commenced surveying December other places of interest as Mal-Maison, Moscow and Waterloo. His home J 1th. My party consisted of James Bell and J. B. Crawford, chaiumen, remained in the south until 1847. The next year lie removed to Baraboo, Henry Webster, axmau. My cousin, Bradford K. Iiemington, was engaged where be resided until his death, thus being one of our first settlers. In with us iJ Hugh Moore's party. This surveying job was a hard one on that early day he and Mr. A. G. Tuttle were partners in general merchan­ account of the deep snow. We also had the ill-luck to have our tent dising. In 1849 be married Miss Martha Chapman, who was born in burned up, which obliged us to sleep on the snow for a couple of weeks. Akron, Ohio. The marriage was contracted at the home of Col. Edward We would break off oak bushes with the loaves on and lay them on the Sumner, in Baraboo. In the summer following their marriage lie built for snow about a foot in thickness and make our bed on them, which was them a homo, whero they were living at the time of his death. He was an buffalo skins and blankets. While on this surveying job John B. Craw­ honored Mason, and that was his religion. In 1852-3 lie was sheriff, and ford came near losing Ms life by getting lost in the night. And had it not for eight years held the office of town clerk. In public and private life have been for James Bell who beard John hollo just once be probably commanding the estoam of all who knew him. Few men lived a more would have died. But as a piece of good luck the b3ys in camp led by beautiful life. His many friends I think will attest to this tribute. Bell went directly to him. He was holding on to a little tree almost ready "Xone knew Mm but to love him, to fall down, and partially out of his mind; but after one day's rest was able None name him but to praise." to go to work again. After the surveyiug job was finished 1 hired Craw­ He had a pleasant word for all who met him. His last illness was but ford and Moore to help me log in Peck's pinery for one month. John the termination of dyspepsia, which had caused him much suffering for wrote to his father to come and see the Baraboo country, which he did, and many years. He was cared for by wife and friends who watched anxiously concluded to remain here. He came oo and made claim of a piece of land by his bedside until hope went out in death. Ho died December 11, 1876, a one-fourth mile north of the Wood-Rowens mill and built a log house on at the age of 75 years. Was buried with Masonic honors. His wife still the north side of the river near the bank of the old Indian ford, as is known lives in their first home. MARTHA MUNSON. 15

This branch was soon constructed by a almost as prompt as railroad time to-day. ;way, or commenced about that time. embryo city. Haviig the geography ot canal company, I believe, taking the The fast mail was running on the Nation­ I Among the deputy surveyors I recall the place well ii mind, from studying greater part of the business to the larger al road at aid preview to that time as ! Lucius Lyon, who later became general the city maps we had at my Ohio home, city, aid Indiana's canal from the intersec­ far west us Springfield, Ohio, thence to !snr?eyor and removed the office from I saw at a glance my new home on th© tion to the river had but little to do. Cincinnati, met a Mo Adam and gravel : Cincinnati to Detroit, Mich.; a Mr. Burt, west side of the river. I saw an extent These canal improvements of New road constructed under state law. It was • who became quite noted as the inventor of marsh nearly a mile lorth and senth fork, Ohio aid Indiana were largely transported in a coach drawn by four | ef the solar compass to survey in the' from 3 to 7 blocks wide, with a street instrumental in the growth and prosperi­ horses, and arranged to carry the great !iron regions, whose family has recently following along the margin of the river, ty of those states aid made possible our east and west through mails on the in­ j received some compensation from the constricted, as 1 afterwards leaned, by present system of railroads, which had its side, under lock, to be opened only at .government for that invention; Byron carting earth from the hills; aid two beginning largely ia the canal states. prominenl post-oiloes, and having one j Kilbonn, Garrett Vliet aid Joshua other streets at right angles to the river, Lawrenceburg was the early home of seat on top back of the driver for passen­ I Hathaway. .These three afterwards with a few scattered buildings Judge Spooler aid family, the birth gers, who were charged extra fare. 'settled in Milwaukee, becoming qnite along ties© streets. The marsh, place of onr Senator Spooler. Some time after 1836, just whei I am prominent men in the affairs of this state. where the water was not too Wm. B. Archer, a man of ability aid nnable to recall, there came the contest Also a Mr. Hudson, who settled near deep, was covered with tamarack integrity, one of the constructors of the in Ohio to establish pnblic, or free, Waukesha and became tone ot the large stump. This was to be my Ohio canals, moved to Illinois at an early schools, as they were then called. It re­ farmers of the state. future home. The prospect was day, was prominent ii the state and quired the active effort aid influence of Mr. Kilbourn was one of the engi- unsatisfactory and discouraging, one oi the active workers in a hill for* the best men of the day to carry the neers connected with the constriction of I felt tery much like stepping out from canal improvements in that state, among question. When carried, it was quite the Ohio canal. Before he left Cincinnati"th e hind end of the wagon and starting them a thorough cut canal from near difficult to induce the people to send to enter on the surtey of Wisconsin, homeward on foot. Bit I was under Chicago to the Illinois river at Lookport, \ their children. 8ome who had hereto­ it was arranged between him and orders, and haviig been taught to obey, the canal to be 80 it. wide aid 8 or 10 fore paid the sohooli objected, claim my father that he should look accepted the situation and continued on to ft. deep, the latter I believe, and so con­ ing they were not paupers and would well to the country along the lake Stnmpiown, as 1 called it. Milwaukee structed that the waters ef the lake wonld not hate schools in that way. Many of shore to Green Bay, near which oi the east side, being on elevated sf round iow into the Illinois river, through those unable to school their children place his work was, aid determine where and better improved, was more inviting. capacious locks at Lockport, thus pro objected for the same reason, under the the city of the Northwest would proba­ After mingling with the inhabitants a viding at that early day navigation from belief that the free school was for the bly be located. Chicago being without a; few days, 1 came to partake ut their the lake to the Mississippi and a very poor aid that those who were able harbor and at the month ot a very small enthusiasm for and faith in the future of superior water power at Leekport. This would continue to send to private schools. stream, he passed by that village, believ­ ! that young city, and have so continued improvement was well under way, with At Columbus, the seat of government, ing it was not the place for the city. At ! all these years. considerable work done, when the there was a decided feeling against the the place where Milwaukee has since j My father soon returned to Cincinnati, people of the south part uf the stale, con­ schools. To correct this, the influential oeee built up he found the Milwaukee '•and I asasumed my place as a oitiien ol ceiving the idea that it was an enterprise men who had been active in carrying the bay at the month of the strongly flowing Stumptown. Hiring that winter, in in the interest of Chicago and wis being measure, and others set to work quietly stream of that eame; at Green Bay, a company with JJaniel H. Eichards, the built from the state's money, succeeded and so arranged that on the first day of tery fine and capacious harbor, and locat­ editor ot the Milwaukee Advertiser, Mil­ in repealing the bill and stopping the school the children of the prominent, of ed the future city at one of these places, waukee^ first paper, Judge A G. Miller, work. the rich and well to-do, who were giving Milwaukee the preference. At of the U. S. court, Asael Finch, a prom­ The If ttional road from Washington, abundantly able to school their children the first government sale of public inent lawyer, afterwards of finches, D. C, passing through Ohio, Indiana and in the old way, were promptly en hand land iii Wisconsin, held at Green Bay, Lynde & Miller, the latter a Illinois to St. Louis was authorized by at the opening, taking their places as then larger and more prominent than son of the judge, and another an act of» congress. In 1836, when I scholars of the free schools. Chicago, Mr. Kilbonri purchased lands lawyer, whose name 1 have went to Indianapolis, it was completed fle Ffmd of 1832, in the Ohio riter, near the month of the Milwaukee river forgotten, went out to Madison, the terri­ to Columbus, Ohio, graded ani bridged, was one of the things of note. The rise and at Green lay in the joint interest of torial seat ot government. After a few as tar as my knowledge went, to the west was 82 ft. above above low water at. himself and my father and others. After­ days I rode with Mr. Eichards to boundary of Ohio, through Indiana and Cincinnati, reaching a height of 4 ft. on I wards he laid out that part of Milwau­ Mineral Point and Dodgeville to see to Marshall,' Illinois. In Indiana the the floors of the business houses on the i kee on the west side of the river, between the country, passiig near the Blue White river near the Ohio line, the first bench or bottom above the river, and J the Menomonee riter on the south and Mounds through an open retion tery Whitewater river at Indianapolis and the extending lack 3 blacks. The food was the water-power on the north. sparsely settled. As the two tillages had Wabash at Terre Haute, near the Illinois very much higher than any former rise I Mr. Kilbourn was instrumental in but recently commenced, it did not take line, all large streams, had been epanned known to the earliest white settlers. The i having an act pissed authorising the loig to look them oter. ^ by substantial covered bridges, thorough­ Indians had no knowledge of any similar, i construction of a canal from Milwaukee About 1844, in which year my father ly painted, and all the smaller streams Since then the extraordinary floods ii', to the Rook riter, congress making a died, the city authorities of Milwaukee bridged or crossed by well constructed that riter have gradually risen higher; grant of land to aid in its construction, on the west side set to work with tnergy itone culverts. and higher, until within recent years' probably the 2nd land grant, consisting to cover up and improve the tamarack At that time there was in operation they have reached 69 ft. During! of the alternate sections in a 20 mile swamp, by bringing streets to grade aid the Government Pony Express, runniig the '32 flood, quite a number of houses \ strip along the line of the proposed canal. filling the lots, f he grade at the river on the Matronal road from Washington, were carried by the city, along with the' Complications of some kind not now was five feet above the water, ani the and no doubt a branch of the empress rushing waters. One day a cradle was within my knowledge prevented the con­ streets ascended toward the hills, one from Mew ¥ork city, as far west as discovered voyaging towards the gulf. struction of the canal, except the dam foot in each block, so that much of the Springleld, Illinois, I believe, and per­ Some men rowed out to it, finding a across the river at Milwaukee, and one filling was from five to twelve feet in haps to St. Louis. Chicago was small yonng boy babe lying on his back, with mile of canal from the dam to the city. in depth. Finally, after many years and and unimportant ii those pioneer days. his thumb in his mouth, piling away | In June 1842, 1 came with my father a vast expenditure of money, fnriished With a braioh from Springleld, Ohio, for dear life, apparently contented with ] to Milwaukee, it being the intention to by the lot owners, each lot filling its to Cincinnati, this express carried brief­ the situation, but with evident indications | make that my home. We came from half of the street and the lot, Milwau­ ly written messages, or short slip from that the tears had been chasing one I Cincinnati by rail aid stage to Toledo, kee, oi th© west side, became graded m newspapers for the press or others, who another down his cheeks. [ steamboat to Detroit, another short ride its present position, valuable and de­ would pay the extra postage; all oommu- During President Jackson's first term, on a railroad and stage around the south sirable for busiiess purposes aid nioatiois being restricted as to length. my father was appointed geierml survey- end of Lake Michigan to Chicago, stop­ for residence. While at Indianapolis at that time, the or of the Northwest Territory, to fill a ping at a small pnblic honse standing on In 1849,1 was appointed by President express rider arrived from the east vacancy earned by the death of Gen. the ground now occupied by the Tre- Taylor receiver of the Milwaukee iaed stoont the dinner hour each day. The Lytle, an associate of Gen. Jackson's mont House; thence by stage along the office, Mr. Paraclete Potter being the gnests ©f the hotels and many others during the war of 1812, haviig in lake shore to Milwaukee. register. We sold at public sale the generally remained oi the side walk to charge the government surveys in Ohio In going into that new city from the gotenmeit alternate sections of the 20 see the race towards sundown, which and the other states aid territories com­ south, we passed along a larrow piece of mile strip, before mentioned, which was seemed to interest quite as much as a prising the Northwest ferritory. The elevated land called Walker's Point from withdrawn from sal© at the time the first class horse race. The arrivals wet© • snrveys of Wisconsin were then under this point we could readily see the grant was made. All the desirable _-Trir. 7

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pieces of land had been squatted on, and and to Prairie du Chien through Madi­ ing and selling stock. The sum­ Religious Societies. in many instances very excellent improve­ son. mer of 1885 was spent in Colorado. ments made. The claimants were, of After serf ing my term as receiver of course, without title, but hoped congress the public money, 1 bought, in 1853, a Jan. 2nd, 1888, he married our A remarkable religious revival would in some wav furnish -title; this • piece of land in this county, near where school teacher, Rose M., daughter of Lyons and of the whole town of was not done. The land was advertised Ableman now is, aid commenced the work of Charles Augustus and Ruth E. for sale under the general law for that of making a farm, living there until 1871. Baraboo and adjoining towns Clark of Webster's prairie, Bara­ purpose, and these claimants, or squatters, when I moved to a farm adjoining our having their center at the Lyons in no way recognized. our little city. boo. Rose was born near Geneva in many instances there were several The occurences of this later period Lakeie Wisconsin while it was yet school house was held there in the claimants for the same piece of land, and are of so recent date they are no doubt a territory, in that portion of the fall, winter and spring of 1874-5. it was feared there would be men with quite familiar to you and need not be money who would bid against the occu­ mentioned. state now known as Walworth Co. The Lyons school district at the pants, and either buy much of the The land their father bought with same time had just opened a very occupied land or compel the claimants to 1. JL Morley. some additions to it is still the fine library. Complying with the pay the government for the improve- home of Ralsa and Nelson. The 'meits they had made. Because of these Our Baraboo sketch would have , . , A -rt law of the state relative to libra- things, trouble was apprehended and seemed incomplete without its pliotogravure on page between 10 blood-shed feared. After the land if as rie8 the advertised and the squatters came to representing any part of the Morley and 11 represents R. A.'s family ii*: » J received asum of money realise the government would not aid family, as they came here so early its present status. Their respective from it by adding an equal sum them, they organized a squatter court, by and have been active business men. common consent, to which all claims ages when the group was photoed i thereto. In addition the neighbors were submitted. This court decided who They certainly have made "two were: The father, Raisa, 54; j deposited books. We had 10 or blades of grass grow where but one was entitled, as among claimants, to each mother, Rose, 45; Rolla Clark, 20;j15 liewspapef files and bomid up pieoe of land, the strip difided into grew before." Broad fields, ele­ Ralsa Alfred (called Fred), 15: j ,, -, c • i- districts and bidders appointed for each by gant and commodious buildings r» v i. ii* i I** T^ ii xi •old Mes of magazines, making the court, to bid off the several tracts ot land in the names ot the persons to whom have taken the place of the rude Robert Wood, 12 vears. RolJo, the; * 1 6 an they had been assigned. and small frame house. They have oldest,is now, June 1890,takiDgthe!^ * "tensive library and When the sale came it was attended led a quiet, church going life. 11th U. S. census of the town of j Sunday reading room. The Wes- almost exclusively by those who claimed Mrs. R. "A. Morly is a member of Baraboo; the other two are still in ! leyans, the first day Adventistsand the Jitnd Citizens generally were very the Methodist Episcopal church. school. Ralsa has been and now!the seventh day Adventists had busy attending to their own affairs, as trouble was anticipated. All. however, Ralsa A. was of a family of six is a stock grower. Mr. R. A.j their origiu krgely in this revivaL towMorlen yoffices has ofte. (Sen ebee ppn . electe8, 9,d 10.to) . ,. , . , moved along quietly to the end, more so brothers and one sister. As they arem so different from the than at any public sale 1 had before or grew up four of the brothers made The Morley family are of English The seventh day Adventists have since witnessed, there being one bid descent and of the early settlers of popular religious bodies in •inly, that the government priue, ior each their homes in Sauk county, Rus­ piece ol land offered, except in one case, sell and Isaac upon Copper America. R. A.'s grandfather doctrine that we will note some where a person attempted to raise the creek, in the town of Excelsior. served in the war of the revolution. features of diem. 1st. They are bid made by the district bidder, when his Isaac once served our county as He and R. A.'s father together immersionists- 2nd. They believe feet went from under him, and six stout came to Kirtland, Ohio, which is men carried him promptly to the river school superintendent. Russell in the vicarious atonement an! in dock, which was close by, dipped j 5 or 8 miles from Lake Erie. They died 1853. Nelson W. and Ralsa the second and imminent coming him under thfee or four times, set him A. live where they first |moved here with wagons, and on the dock, and told him to leave or of Christ. At the second judg­ he would be served more severely. He settled in the town of Baraboo ac-' when they arrived at the lake fcr ment the wicked will be destroyed. left. cording to its present boundaries.; a part of the #ay onward were Some years previous to 1851, efforts They find 16Q texts in the Scriptures were made by citizens of Milwaukee for (See map). The father, Thomas 1 obliged to take the beach at-the a charter to build a railroad south west to Morley, visited this count? 1850,i+ i j r i u * and 60 in the New Testament that the Mississippi, but without success, and A A. - . «** , . '; waters edge for a road, because of the seventh day of the week is the as claimed, because of the influence and starting from Mentor, Ohio,.. to opposition of the Chicago & Mortnwest- with 1,000sheep, taking with him !t,,e densit^ of tlie hmsL K A*s Lord's rest day, dedicated to man ern My. Co. then building the road Ralsa, then 18 years old. They|father did not stay long in Kirt- as a tnamorial of his creative works from Chicago to Green Bay via Beloif, were 9| weeks upon the road.; land, but moved to Mentor, an ad­ Jauesville etc After several failures a They got here with 950. While joining town, and purchased land and his physical rest requirements, charter was asked and granted from and not one text in the Scriptures Milwaukee to Waukesha. here he purchased a tract of 380 here and in a few years had 50 acres of land. They for a or In 1851, just before this charter acres of this heavy timbered land ( New Testament that has any few vears held it in common. would expire —it required the work to be reference to the first day of the commenced within a limited time—tie In the summer of 1853 Nelson deared up; llew land and fields company was organized and the work took a trip to Springfield, Mass., JWfire added. Upon his first farm week other than a secular day— - put under way. There were two parties and that fall returned accom- j he lived to his death, at 92 'years, hence in obedience to divine man­ ia Milwaukee at that day, the east itders, j aod the west sidera. The west siders panied with a young lady that 10 months. His town was the dates they observe the seventh day had the .control, led by Byron Kilbourn, had born the name of Adaline home of President Garfield. Mr. (Saturday) as the Lori's Sabbath under whom as president the road was | S. Fuller of Springfield, Mass., built to Waukesha. At the following j Garfield at his election sent car­ day and worship" upon it. They election, the Kilbourn party was defeated, | now Mrs. N. W. Morley, and June riages out to collect in to the polls have united temperance with their when it immediately organized the Mil- I '54 Ralsa came out and made his wamkee & La Crosse road and commenced I home with them, although much old men. Mr. Morley was in a religion. The members discard the its construction. Previous to this, the | charter of the Irst road had been extend- j of the time he was away upon load of six, he being then 90, and whole class of stimulants wherein ed to the south-west through Janesville business, a part of which was buy- survived all the others. i is alcohol, and narcotics, as tea, ^

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18 lap and threw the decanters and. In a few days after the raid con­ of his sons away from school to b© To Wm. H. Canfield from J. A. contents into the street. Prom' stable Morsbach of Harasithy (now educated. The first was • my fa­ Maxwell this 25th of May, 1890. - thence they marched to No. 2, Sank City) served a warrant up­ ther; born 1789 or '90, married in [* James Maxwell took his seat where they met some resistance. on six of _ the rioters marked in 1811 and went to soiling g6ods in in the council at the first session A gun was if©d over their heads; .the list with a # to appear the town of Beraarelston, Frank­ •f the second legislature, which but this was -unheard by them. before Ghmrles Halaez, Esq., ot lin Co., Mass., where 1 was born convened at Madison Nov. 28, His stock in trade was consigned Haraazthy, to answer an offense Dec. 28th, 1812. A younger 1838. In the sessions of J 839— to the earth. They now reached against thelaw for riot. -He'found brother of my father's, named 40 he cfecupied his seat in its No. 3. They found thedoor barred them guilty and plmced the Ine Philip,studied medicine, became a four respective sessions. In 1840 and personally defended. The at |500. However, upon a writ of practitioner, M. D., married and —41 he was chosen president of ladies were told that his kgmihed habeas corpus, they were set free settled at Sackett's Harbor, on Lake the 3rd legislature, first session, properly would be defended and for six weeks. At the expiration Ontario, was elected a member of (Blue Book of 1873, pp. 139—142) what they might do would be at of this time the county judge, E. the York state legislature and W.H.C.] their peril. They replied that they G. Wheeler of Reedsburg, decided there got appointed surgeon in If ORB FACTS A2ID AMBCDOI1S ©FOOL. were willing to pay him somthing fhat they were not guilty of th© the U. S. army and was stationed for his legalized. While this par­ crime charged against them. at Fort Deai burn about the time JAMBS MAXWBLL ASTD HIS SOK, ley was going on the officers with To prevent legal proceedings of the Black Hawk war. My MA J. JAMfS A. a posse made an entrance by the for priYate damage the husbands father came to Wisconsin in 1834, From the Reed«bars Free Press. back door; the lancets were soon agreed to pay as a gross damage spent the summer mostly on horse­ As these last numbers of my opened and decanters taken care to the vendors §200, which we back in company with another sketches have been passed through of. Th© party soon returned and have understood never was paid. man with a pack horse and camp the Free Preu I have been too sick outfit; was at the four lakes, at Ft. reported that the whole thing was M success from the beginning, to give much attention to them, settled. No vendor was slighted. Winnebago, thence down the Fox leaving a conciousness behind and some facts and anecdotes have The streets were now full of men that the trafficker had in this ease to Green Bay, thence down the been omitted which have added and boys discussing the pros and reaped a just retribution. for in­ lake coast through Milwaukee to cons. When the battle was over jury done to a peaceful and quiet Chicago. In 1835 he located land interest to them. As an instance, the company of 30 to 80 quietly community. for me on Bigfoot prairie, in Wal­ when Col. Maxwell resided in retired ia good order, with no one The present trend of the tem­ worth Co., Wis., and arranged to Fountain county, Ind., he brought wounded or killed, and with the perance warfare of public opinion have 100 acres broken, and bought to Chicago a splendid pair of full satisfaction that they had is not to restrict license and regu­ for himself a fourth interest in matched black four year old paid a just tribute to the vendor late but to prohibit the manufac­ the water power and village plat horses. They were perfect in every for the unkindness previously ture and sale of poisonous inebri­ at th© foot of Geneva lake in said respect except that when they dealt out cruelly to them and ating beverages. county. In March 1836 1 moved were not properly handled they to Bigfoot and put in crops on the their families. This company has would run away with any wheeled been estimated at from 30 to 60 in 100 acres plowed the year before The Maxwells. vehicle to which they were har­ and fenced it with oak rails in number, from maidens to A memory sketch by James A. time to sa¥e the crops. The same nessed. The old French trader at matrons. Maxwell of the genealogy of his year or the next my father was the post, whose name 1 think was We give the names of those in branch of the Maxwell family. elected a member of the territorial Beaumont, took & fancy to the said company as we ha¥e gathered Two brothers, both single men, legislature, which met at Burling­ team and Offered him f200 for from some of the company. came from Scotland to America ton, Iowa, while the two territories them, which was accepted, Dr. Mt8. Barton Anderson, about the middle , of the seven­ # were yet one for judicial purposes. Maxwell being witness to the bar­ Mrs. Martha H. Battles, leaders. teenth century and settled near That winter congress divided Lynn, Mass. The older brother gain. The old trader harnessed Mrs. Dr. Chas Cowles * them and made an appropriation became a Quaker and married a them to his carriage, took in his Mrs. Cordelia Flanders * for a stmte house at Madison as the Quakeress and raised a large fam­ family, and taking the ribbons Mrs. Martha Maxwell * seat of government. Mrs. Eansonae Jones * ily and became wealthy. The himself, started off to give his fam­ Mrs. Wm. H. Thompson • younger brother (Philip Maxwell, My father was two years a mem­ ily a ride and show his new "team. Mrs. N. W. Wheeler (1st wife) * who was my grandfather) .married ber at Madison and the last year Before starting Col. Maxwell cau­ Mrs. Eber Crmndall Abigail -Rice, whose family was was speaker of the house. * tioned him to drive with a firm Miss Melissa Grain _ * from the north of Ireland, and In 1840, after the adjournment rein. The horses soon ran away, of the legislature, I think he visit­ Mrs. Grain settled on a farm in the town of threw out his family and himself ed Baraboo to see the country and Mrs. Coon Guilford, Windham Co., Yt, and and dashed Ms carriage to pieces. raised a falnily of Ive boys and .to learn what Fan Slyke had done Mrs. Emma Maxwell He came back to Col. M. very an - Mrs. Henry Wallace three girls, all of whom grew up, with means 1 had furnished him. gry and demanded his money Mrs. Luca Perkins married and rained children. My All that follows you already back, when Dr. Philip inquired of Miss Lowell father, James Maxwell, was the know, so I need write nothing more. Mrs. Morehouse third child and the second son.- Out of the foregoing you can as­ him whether he drove the team Mi«s Maria Crandall My grandfather was a thrifty, sort only such as is applicable to m his brother directed. He was Miss , daughter of E. 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plaint against his brother. Col. December 1867. He was born of wm% 0f Geneva, in the year 1837, No. 2. JAMES A. MAXWELL was Maxwell finally bought the team Furitan stock in Onilford, Vermont, anj with his son James A. settled born Dec. 28, 1812, at Barnards- back, giving the trader eighty in May, 1789, and reared a farmer ! upon a farm, town, Franklin Co., Mass. Re­ acres of land for them. He took in that town, where he continued j In 1838 he was elected the Irst ceived a common and academic them again to Wabash and gave to reside, following the same oc- j member of the Territorial Council education. He married Miss them to his son, James A. They onpation until the age of twenty- for the counties of Eock and Wal- Susan V. Clark May 5, 1836, by were a good team on the plow six, when he removed to Barnards- worth, without distinction of party. whom they raised a family of two and James had turned over the town, Franklin county, Massa­ Political party lines had not been boys and four girls. While they soil of a large field of 160 acres or chusetts, a few miles south of nis drawn. This office was the high­ were at Baraboo the boys were so. Col. M. went out one day to native town, and engaged in busi­ est in the gift of the people except called (James and Lon). The girls where James was at work, and ness as a merchant. Delegate to Congress, The Coun­ were Emma, Nellie, Ophelia, Au­ gusta. His wife died Aug. 2,1853. found him putting on a load of A tier residing there a few years, cil was the Senate of the Territo­ 1854 he married Miss Martha a stones upon a double wagon, and he took up his residence in Cayuga rial Legislature. The %members daughter of Mrs. Amy Dartt then asked him what he was about to county, Mew York, which was then were elected for four years. He living at Lower Skillett Falls, do. He replied that he intended comparatively a * new country. served but one term and was suc- Baraboo, by whom they had one to give the colts a chance to run. While there he was engaged as a j ceeded by Hon C. M. Baker, of child, a daughter, May. Mr. Max-' So he helped him hitch on the sub-contractor in work upon the Geneva, in 1842. He served the well took "the western fever" and team, and James mounted th© Erie Canal, about the year 1824. Territory with great dignity and ( load, gave them a loose fcin, and He then was two years in Tioga faithfulness and to the entire satis-1 disposed of a part of his Baraboo they started on a full run.. He county, Pennsylvania, and five faction of his constituents, so for! property and moved to Boulder, guided them In a circle around the years as a merchant in Oldham as 1 ever heard. ' Colorado, where he now resides, a widower 78 years old. In the newly plowed field until they were county, New ITork. His next re- He evidently inherited from his winter of 1888 and 1889 he paid tirud out arid wanted to stop, when moval was to Fountain' county,! ancestors great nobility of charat- Baraboo a visit. Much the same lie applied the whip tfnd kept them Indiana, seventy-five miles aboye ! ter» Physical,intellectual and mor- may be said of him in a general running over the soft ground until Terre Haute, where he remained :al» which- m far as "V knowledge way as what we have said of his they were thoroughly exhausted five years iu milling and mercantile\of hini extended, he retained ua father except that Tie was no office and entirely cured of their habit o! im alred and transmitted to pursuits. In 1834 he took up Ills, P seeker or holder. Was a true and running away. They never gave a Let his memory be residence in Chicago, and was' faithful member of the M. E. him any trouble afterwards in that offered three" lots near the Court! Prmous- S. A. DWINNELL. direction. church, a good singer and would House in exchange for a horse he' meet with the choir if his business Ma]. James A. got his title not II ives m mmh brought with him from the Wabash, i 8 P^asure that mras ever so urgent so fond was he " by service in the war of the rebel­ we ha¥e been able to ar e This offer was refused. These lots ' »»g *> of singing. He had a weakness lion 1 nt upon the organization of a : to-day are worth something numerous a photo gravure page of for horse-trading but was honor­ regiment of militia in Walworth Col James Maxwell and his de- more than those of u Winne­ able in that. He had a Yankeism county, when Edward" Elderkin : cendants. He inherited a vigorous bago City, W. T.," (which in his speech that had become was chosen or appointed colonel, • constitution, full of life from birth habitual with him of 4I1 guess," Urban D. Meachain lieutenant was a' paper town,) 1 reckon. . to death, six feet or over in height that was once (so says rumor) colonel, and J. A. Maxwell major. In those days, however, wise men * of a weight of about 200 lbs. His amusingly applied in the sale of They called their regiment together were often deceive,! in regard to „i •,. ... ij . generation at the present time a tract of land that was almost one at Elkhoro one autumn day, and numberfe s about 50. His conver­ the sites upon which would rise our u L L rn „. solid bed of rock. In describing as nearly as £ now remember we sational gifts were much above large towns and cities. it to the purchaser he said the soil were all dressed in citizens'clothes, In the summer of 1835, several i ordinary men- Yet he was not a was good, had a plenty of timber, some carrying rifles, some shot mm in Chicago became pecuniarily !bHc speaker> %lwajg r,fusing was well watered, and had on it guns, some canes and some clubs. interested in a claim to lands and a when mUed >|e pos8e88ed some stone, "1 guess." The officers drilled us awhile and village site at the outlet of Big I an exoelleiit combination of the then dismissed us. They got their Foot Lake, in what is now the;phvsical and mentaL An ener. MRS. MAXWELL'S MUSEUM. titles and we returned home, aid connty of Walworth. It was then ! ^ md houest business mail. Miss Martha Dartt, before her s that was all the military drill I a wilderness. Among t ie iproprie-' But oM ag9 «crept ona pace,"and marriage to Mr. Maxwell, was pay- ever had in Wisconsin. 1 never tors were Dr. Philip H. and Col. j for a few years ^e retired for quiet j ing a good deal of attention to saw any more of it until the open­ James Maxwell. 1. W. Warner | an(j resi peCi j^ ] 869, he was j the sudy of natural history and ing of the war of the rebellion in was also one of the owners, and • stricken down in his parlor and learning the art of taxidermy, ha v- 1861. employed to lay out the village (died in a few moments. He shaved ing arranged quite a good sized OOL. JAMES MAXWELL. \ and erect a saw-mill, make a dim everyday. His photo makes him cabinet. Her marriage relations To the Editor of the Republic: ' and dig a race- The villag3 was look very young and it correctly did not destroy her natural bent 1 have just read your obituary named Oeieva. Hence the re-' represents him. He was bald and of mind and the cabinet grew, notice of Col James Maxwell.1 ceipt given by Warren for which' always wore a wig. Was 80 years Their new home in Colorado 20 seemed to open a field for her engineering and has become a man county, N. Y. He came to Bara­ (From the Sunk Gonnty Democrat) energies. United with ner natur­ of prominence in his locality. boo in 1849 and remained one A Uniqit ail Interertbiff Oooaalon. year, serving as clerk in the store al and acquired skill besides tak­ No. 4. C. A. MAXWELL, second of the Maxwells; then returned to FIRST DAY OF THl W11K, AUO. 10,1890. ing instructions from masters in son of James A. and Susan V. his father's home, which was then The relatives, • lew freinds aod neigh­ taxidermy she became much per­ Maxwell, born at Big Foot, Wal­ in Pennsylvania, remaining five bor! ot J. W. Wood met to pay their fected in the art. She pur­ worth county, Wis., Feb. 15,1841. years, and returned to Baraboo in adieu regards to Warren, his son, who chased a fine rifle and became In 1860 he accompanied his 1855. In the fall of 1856, married for several yean past has resided 01 the an expert in using it in father's family to Boulder, Colo­ Miss Emma A. Maxwell. Jan. Pacific coast, it Sumner, If ash., en­ 28,1878, Mr." Potter died, leaving gaged in oi?il engineering and surfaying. collecting such specimens as rado. His father now makes his a family of wife and five children. After a six weeks' visit he will within a she desired for "mounting." Her home with him. His 23 years' residence at Baraboo few days return. After the party had had won to him many, very many gathered and spent an hour or more in cabinet became so large as to be No. 5. MES. EMMA POTTEM, conversation, they went to the falls and dignified as a museum, a door fee eldest daughter of James A. and warm friends. The positions of gathered about the lower pool. Eld, being charged. She went into the Susan V. Maxwell, born July 16, trust he held in different organi­ B. M. Meigs of Arena irst led into the zations corroborate this fact. . A mountains camping out with par-' 1837. Educated at Lawrence water Edward (a young man), ion ot G. Eleasant, stirring active man. Ha W. Waterbnry ot Sank prairie, aad ties and would bring in large game University, Appleton, Wis., in­ ad accumulated here at Baraboo baptised him; then followed Warren such as bear, moose, etc., she cap­ cluding a thorough course in a comfortable competency. Mrs. Wood; then Mrs. Bertha Gasser; then turing many with her own fire­ music. Oct. 15,1856, she married Potter has in her house a geneo- Mary, a miss of 12, daughter of G. W. Water bury. About Ii reiatitea and arm. After a trip through Cali­ Henry Howard Potter. They had logical book of the Potter family recently published. It traces back neighbors were present. From accounts fornia for the purpose of obtaining born to them and raised five this branch of the family about given of the natural pool in the falley ol new material for her museum it children : Carrie ¥., Ida A., Kate 250 years, to colonial times in Hionom in the environs of Jerusalem these skilletts or pools from which our became quite noted. Upon the W., Mary B., and Howard H.j America, and shows that some little creek, of similar siie to that, ot opening of the world's fair aud Mr. Potter died Jan. 28, 1878.! of them have held high posts of Shiloah, k which was the pool ol Siloam, centenial exhibition at Philadel­ Since his death she has! honor in our government from was gl?en its name, with the falls and early elates to the present time. phia, the state of Colorado in­ succssfully managed their busi-l rooky chasm and natural basin aid with No 11. MR. G. W.^RUST was a little imagination and this occasion trusted their mineral products to ness affairs besides attending I the originator and editor of the added, a parallel between them may be her care to be arranged with her to society and church • require­ first live stock journal published conceited to exist. museum in the fair buildings. Al­ ments, and has been much of the in the west. His was published Oh I what a beautiful place, the soon© in Chicago. He died in 1887. ot the occasion we now enjoyed. The together it made one of the most time a member of the public school resoltes made for a better purer lite, the prominent and attractive features No. 12. DR. CHARLES BBACE, a board. A healthy, energetic, sym- practicing physician at Boulder, old one biried here in a liquid grave, of the Philadelphia exhibition. pathic, charitable, capable woman. Colo. We have only learned from fathers, mothers, brothers, sistera, Upon certain occasions she would oousins and friends as witnesses, beside No. 6. Mas. NELLIE HILL, third friends that he is an honorable, the appear'dressed in her hunter suit, daughter -of James A. and Susan pleasant man. "Rocks, that time has worn to grandeur which would attract crowds of V. Maxwell, born at Big Foot, May Nos. 13,14,17 are sons; 15, 16 With hts breath, are daughters of James P., grand­ Steadfast as a righteous canon, visitors to see the woman mountain 10,1845. Married Wm. Hill, who HUch above the vanished ages, children of James A. (No. 2), great Moveless ,mld snrrouadlng death; hunter. Her photos in this attire was many years editor and pro­ grandchildren of Col. James Max­ • • » sold rapidly. Also her pamphlet In luterstleea are prietor of the Baraboo Republic, well. Fines, that heal the air with perfume giving a history of her museum, now residing at Neodesha, Wilson Nos. 18 and 24, wife and chil­ Towering high, hunting, etc. The exhibition Co., Kansas, in the banking busi­ dren of C. A. aud Mary Maxwell,' Beckocl with conea for jewell, pendent grandchildren of James A. and In your green. Immortal vesture, over, she moved her effects to L#ng ness. Ihongh your heads are In th© sky. great grand children of Col. James Yet, Hie mortal man beneath yon, Island, near New York. Her No. 7. Mas. OPHELIA RUST, Maxwell. Yon must rest your feet npon the solid fttbrf© museum was a success here. Her second daughter of James A. and Nos. 19, 20 and 21, children of Or must die." ambition prompted h^r to remove and Susan ¥. Maxwell, bom at G. W. and Ophelia Rust, grand We believe that onr brother Warren, it to England, but she sickened and children of James A. and great who has grown up ani taken his part in Big Foot, Walworth county, Feb. the drama of lite upon the far Pacif­ died. The museum was sold and grandchildren of Col. James Max­ 28,1843. Now living in Colorado. well. ic coast, can join with lis playmate Mary her daughter May went back to her No. 8, MRS. AUGUSTA Frames, Nos. 23 and 24 are children of Dartt, who then resided at the lower childhood home to her father at Skillett Pall'", and who in her school fourth daughter of James A. and Dr. and Mabel Brace, grand­ days was so full ot poetry. Boulder, Colorado. It does seem Susan V. Maxwell, born at Big children of James A. and great ••I only think of memories dear, that any person of force of char­ Foot, July 13,1847. Now resides grandchildren of Col. James Max­ Of music. Ills and glee; acter could generally accomplish well. . Of woodi and birds, with song notes dear; at Joplin, Mo. The Baraboo old ThocTst nothing dark to me." whatever they bent their whole settlers will long remember ADDENDA. The ceremonies over, the friends re­ energies to. "Gussie" as the sweet singer. turned to Mr. Wood's and enjoyed hia Col. James (the old man) re­ hospitalities. As the etening drew near No. 3. JAMES P. MAXWELL, eld­ No. 9. MBS. MABLE BEACI, fifth ' marked to Robt. Wood, then a the ettoharistio feast wat partaken of, est son of James A. and Susan V. daughter of James A. and only boy at work for the Colonel, "To­ followed by a religions sociti meeting. Maxwell, born at Big Foot, Wal­ daughter of Martha Maxwell, born day 1 am 55 years old and I have ••Ami the j sang an hymn and went out." This pleasant occasion will neter pawn worth county, Wis., June 21st, at Baraboo 1858. Mr. B. is a cradled in this harvest to this date 55 acres of wheat." from tha memories of those present. ] 839. He accompanied the fami­ practicing physician at Boulder, The candidates were biptiaed on pro - In third column of 18 page first ly to their new home at Boulder, Col. fession of faith simply. Bektiwes ami line the word school should read friends represented five or six different Colorado, in the spring of 1880. No. 10. H. H. POTTBE, born Nov. HOME, and on fifth line-Bernard- lines ol religions tenets. The Elder m m Has followed surveying and civil 6, 1824, at Hartsville, Onondaga ston should read Barnradstown. first Day Advent. W. H. C. 'J ^> A v (Vr.cT.Pwwr Woolen Mill ^l(\\u)I soon wuhdjew.ht '' hou Ha do//t was < nut anddu- -Niig tkesitmntcp a Mill

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Digitized by Google JOHN MUNROE. together with much care and hard work have had their full effect, and he But little is known of the ancestors of John Munroe. His grandfather was forced to give up farming for the comparative leisure of the city. So who was of Scotch decent, was born in Saratov Co., N. Y. He was a sol­ in 1886 he purchased a pleasant home in the city of Baraboo, where he dier In the revolutionary war, served seven years under General Wayne and hopes to spend the remaining days of his life in peace and comfort. was in many battles, and retired on a pension, and died at good old age in 1808. He was th© father of Ire children, four sons and one daughter. THE TINKHAM FAMILY, The third son George, was the father of the present John Munroe. George presented in these pages, are of Scotch and English descent, though very was early apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade, when they had to serve remote. Beyond this we know nothing of their history before the nine­ se%*en years, and about the time he had learned Ms trade the war of 1812 teenth century. Amos Tinkhaui, grandfather of Hansom, was born at Old was declared. He enlisted and served until its close and was honorably Middlebury, Mass., but baing left an orphan at an early age was adopted discharged. But his health was impaired so he was never quite well after. by a Mr. Howland. After growing to manhood lie removed to Windsor, At the close of the war he went back to his trade. He purchased a farm Yt. He raised a large family, and among them Thomas Tinkham, who and built a shop on it near the town of Oanastota, Madison Co., N. Y. afterward remo?ed to Waitsfield where Ms son Ransom was born in 1821. He married Betsy Tale in 1815, who was of Irish parentage by whom he The latter grew to manhood in that vicinity, working most of the time in had ten children, three boys and seFen girls. He died in 1842 leaving this his father's blacksmith shop, but liking the farm better he came to Wiscon­ large family to mourn his early loss. He left considerable property but he sin in the following fall of 1845. The next spring he purchased of the gov­ had been a kind-hearted man who could not say no if a friend asked a ernment the eighty on which he now resides, and returning in the fall of favor, and he had signed and endorsed notes for people, and after his death 1847 to old Yermont he spent the winter there and was married April li, his property had to go to pay these notes, and under the unskillful man­ 1848, to Mary L. Pease, who was brought up at Rochester, that state. agement of the administrators there was little left. Since then his home has been continuously as at present. The present John Munroe, the subject of this sketch %vas the fourth child and but family consists of five children, two having died in infancy. On the death 20 years of age at the time of his father's death. He was at school at of Mrs. T. on Dec. 14, 1866, the oldest daughter, Ellen, took charge of the Rochester, N. Y., at this time, but he gave up school and went home to try then young family, sacrificing her own interests that they might be eared, and take care of Ms mother and sisters. His two brothers who were older for. She is still housekeeper, though small children no longer claim her were married and had families of their own to care for, and upon John de­ attention. Merritt remained at home until the spring of 76 when he con­ volved the caring for his mother and six sisters, all younger than himself. cluded to take Horace Greeley's advice and started for Dakota. He is now This he did by settling their business and paying every dollar of indebted- one of the prosperous farmers of Minnehaha county, owning three-quarter edness, and converting what was left of a fine property into cash and going sections of land, with good buildings and plenty of stock thereon. In west. In the fail of 1811 he purchased 40 acres of land in Walworth coun­ January, 1879, he was married to Jzero Knowles, and they now can boast ty, Wis. There wai a house and some crops on the land, and there the of three stout, hearty young farmers. Geo. Tinkham is at present in that next year he brought his mother and sisters from a large house to a small vicinity, where he is engaged in drilling wells. He remained at the homo one; from an old and thickly settled community to the sparsely settled, farm for several years after reaching majority, leaving in the spring of 1890. and at that time sickly, west. Their farm was in a lonely place even for The two remaining members, Jenni J and Mary, are Sauk Co. school teachers. the west, and they were so homesick that they planned to go back in the spring, but by spring they were getting acquainted with the people, and instead of going back they sold their little farm and took one to work on LEWIS N. WOOD, M. D., shares until they might get acquainted with the country. John worked was born in N. J. in Jan., 1799. Was eleven years old when Washington this farm three years and managed to support the family and keep hia lit­ died. Was educated at Burlington, in the same state. Married in 1821 to tle capital together and learn what he could of the surrounding country. Naomi Davis. Moved to Madison county, N. Y., in 1824, to WaterviEe, Meanwhile his sisters taught school and were getting aloug finely, but Oneida county, N. Y., 1832. Conducted the Waterville Academy till fall John was not content to work on another man's land, and as land was too of 1836. in the meantime studying medicine with Dr. Simon Z. Haven. dear for Mm to buy a good farm in Walworth county he looked further Graduated in medicine at Geneva Medical College in the spring of 1837 north. After looking around considerable concluded the best he conld do and started at once for Chicago, getting passage around the lakes in a sail­ was to locate in Sauk county, near Baraboo. He purchased two hundred ing vessel. His family (wife and eight children) followed him to Chicago acres of land in said county, four miles east of Baraboo, in what is now the in 1838. Eobert, the oldest of the children, having already learned to set town of Greenfield, in 1843. The next year he, in company with two type, found work at once with "Long John" Wentworth in the Democrat neighbors, Cooper and Tucker, who had bought land abjoining him, office. From the doctor's and the son's earnings the "stocking" was slowly loaded their household goods in two wagons drawn by oxen, each two loads, filled with "land office money" with which to buy the claim that the doctor which gave them four yoke of oxen for breaking land. They came in the had made during 1837 in Walworth county, Wis., but which did not come spring of 1850 and built two small frame houses. They put their oxen into market till some years later. In the spring of 1839 the whole family together and broke an equal amount on each farm, built fences and stables. moved to the claim where the doctor and his wife lived till they moved to They had driven up five cows apiece and had brought provisions enough to Beraboo in 1856, where he died in March, 1868. On his wild farm in Wal­ last until they could raise a crop. Then they sent for their families, hired worth county he made much improvement and at the same time grew into a neighbor with a horse team to bring their women, Mr. Cooper's wife and quite an extensive medical practice. The doctor was always a student and two little girls, Munroa's mother and two sister's, were all that were left to made, even in his later years, great attainments in science and educational his care, the rest having married. Here they commenced life with youth, matters, stowing away what he learned in an available and accurate form vigor and health, three excellent adjuncts to happiness. Here, with hard and parting with it in very unassuming and pleasing conversation. He was work and good management, everything prospered, and John Munroe be­ a lover of the study of minerology and brought to Baraboo a large cabinet gan to think it was time to look for a wife. He didn't have to look far, as of minerals. He came here, retired from business with poor health. He a young lady had come into the neighborhood to teach school from Illinois, was above ordinary men in conversation—an easy approachable manner- who seemed to be just the one wanted to make the home complete. John language always quite pure and entertaining. Two of his sons, Eobert and Munroe was married Dec. 25, 1851, to Miss Adelia A. Paddock. He worked J. W. Wood, now live near Baraboo and are wel known to the community. industriously and successfully, adding more acres, building a commodious A daughter, Naomi (wife of John B. Crawford, an early settler) lived here farm-house and several barns. Four children were born to them, George many years. Mow they are upon the Pacific coast. J., who is a successful lawyer at Joliet, HI., Ward H,, who is part owner of Naomi Davis Wood, wife of the doctor, was born in N. J. in 1830. Her the Baraboo cold storage and feed store, and Bessie M. Teel, whose hus­ life's journey has already been marked out in what has been said of her band is a business man in Baraboo. John Munroe has filed many places husband, but pen can hardly do justice to the wonderful fortitude with of trust in Ms township, always having the respect and confidence of Ms which she met and overcome the labors, perplexities and hardships of ioneering in Wisconsin over 60 years ago. She died in Baraboo in 1883. friends and neighbors. He was many times chairman of the board of f he and the doctor were members of the Baptist church, first in Walworth supervisors, assessor, tressurer, etc., of his town. But the round of years, then in Baraboo. 21 Note* I Maxwell's old friends, about a Politioal Land Millions^ sion the town of Flora was cre- In th© first Vol. of- "Outline! ^zeo of them, and none of them Tfaa first white settlement west ated and in 1853 was changed to Sketches * * * w the date of the! under 70 years old, had scats by ol the Wisconsin Eiver (except i Fairfield. Nov. 15 Winfield was settlement of Eben Peck's family; themselves to the right of the pul- Prairie du Chien) was at the In-j set up. Spring Green was upon the Baraboo Rapids is given! pit. The mourners occupied dian villages on Sauk prairie, and j brought in to the town family with other particulars, but it does;frcMl1 scate* 0n fchc wall over the what was then Sauk Co. was made j in 1850; also Dellona, and Meeds- not appear on pp. 3 & 4 of this sec-! pulpit hung, a photograph of th© one voting precinct. This district burg on the 11th of December and ond Vol. Th© family took pos- i deceased, surrounded with heavy was divided into two voting pre- Freedom. In December, 1851, the session of their cabin, which was j folds of crap. Rev. Hisseg first cincts, Prairie du Sac east of I he town of Dells wa<* set up. In 4§ or 50 rods south of the present I "»d appropriate selections from Baraboo Bluffs, and the country August, 1851, the town of Marston lower dam, in th© fall of 1840.! the Scriptures, and after a song. west of the Baraboo bluffs was was organized. In September, New country cabins were always | "Thou Art Gone to the Grave, but called the Baraboo precinct. The 1852, Greenfield was made. Nov., running over full of sociability J We Will Not Deplore The©," by! settlement on the North side of 1852, the town of Winfield was hospitality and kindness. But the choir, preached an eloquent • Sauk prairie was subsequently made and the name of the town this cabin was even more, for Mrs. of Dells was changed to Kildare. Peck was our musician and physi­ TieriBS oiE&xo-xisrAXj TOWZKTO OP SJLXTIR: COTTISTTTT. The town of Hillsdale was created. cian and her house a great visit­ Most of it lay in Juneau Co. At ing centre. Mr. Peck was an R2E 8 4 j 6 j i | t this session the name of Brook­ affable, kindhearted, intelligent lyn was changed to Baraloo and man. W0OMAN0L LA VAU.E. WMHEUX DELLONA. S3 OELLTON. I ** . the southern part of Prairie du B A *§t A B o o. 1 Sac into Lower Prairie du Sac. James JL Maxwell is Dead. - —.. ' FAIRFIELa In 'November, 1854, the town of The sad news was received by ItO HEEDE-MIRO. EXCELSIOR. 5 Keedsburg was divided and the Mrs. H. H. Potter to the "effect . IRONTON. new town called Westfield. Also that her father, Mr. James A. BROOKLYN. — at this session of the county board Maxwell, died at his home in E A Q L E OREENFIELa s FREE0OM. Kingston was divided and the Boulder, Colorado, during Thurs­ WAtHINOTON. WEtTFIELO. I _1 new town called Merrimack. day night, Jan. 22, of apoplexy. K 1 N GST ON. 1J Also Honey Creek was divided Mr. Maxwell attended a prayer SUMFTER. MERRIM'K. •* meeting and a busines? meeting © , S and the town of Franklin created. «EAR GREEK. FRAMKUN. HONEY GREEK. •. * at the Methodist Episcopal church PRAIRIE In December, 1855, Marston fMI CHIC*. was divided and the new part in the evening, and on returning HONEY CR EEK. *, *. m CO called Washington. In January, home sat down to read the paper, 1 TROV. *• 11857, Woodland was formed out and when the family arose in the SMMM GREEN. morning he was found dead j of Marston. In December of the . . s * H ' •'••. H in his chair with his glasses 00 m j same year the town of Troy was on, and the paper lying by * X ! set up out of towns Honey Creek his side. Deceased was in his land Spring Green. At this date i K2K I 3 | 4 | 8 80th year, having been born in • 1 ' • Excelsior was formed out of Del- Vermont in 1812. Mr. Maxwell lloua and Freedom. Under this The divisions marked in broad lines and lettered with large! resided in Colorado since 1863 capitols are the original towns. The difisions marked with light'date Sees. 19, 20, 29, 80, 31, 82, and was very prominent through­ lines and lettered with small tpye are the present towns. T. 12 N. R. 6 E. were taken from out the state.—Jan. 1891. We further insert a few lines Freedom and attached to the town from a Boulder paper, relative to and touching sermon, taking as j created into a third voting district* of Baraboo, and Freedom was his text, "Being dead, he yet known as the "Bluff" precinct. farther abridged by gi¥ing to the funeral ceremonies: w "Father" Maxwell generally oc­ speaketh. When Wisconsin became a state Baraboo Sees. 5, 6, 7, 8,17, 18, It, During the sermon the audience Sank Co. was given its bounds cupied the seat on the left end of 20, T. 11 N. R. 6 E. In Sept., the front row when he attended was frequently moved to tears. and organ."?. - } into towns accord­ The life of the deceased was brief­ ing to thj p>-»t here given, Jan. 1858, the town of Bear Creek was church, and this to-day was va- f cant, while at the top of the seat ly but graphically portrayed and 1';, '-' 'M Tht. ? towns have been •created out of the town of Frank' i A was pinned the emblem of sor­ the universal sorrow in which u't- i )v.j^se The names lin. In Nov., 1859, Iron ton was l n row, a long piece of crape. The town was thrownL by his i * .!• b u KH:J-;- Kingston and formed out of Marston and Wash­ ? i -, , church was crowded, every seat was commented on. 1 • - r Ui#* • r>';.' - have o-'-n supplanted ington. In November, 1881, tht v,t '"-•-'1* t>eing occupied, people standing sermon a long f\». .- *i !/;%.. •> '..:• "•**'* ' ; i^o rame Baraboo % i f, l name of Kingston was changed to in the aisles, the vestibule and out followed tb . < *. • • l-.'n , ISC" ]\r,\w\ >.r :tt". been given to ; } Snmpter and Maraton to La Valle. on the sidewalk. Seldom has tery, where, ^-•• i l .iCi .* .mprfiS? *i ve- L'rook ju January 5, 1850, there been such an outpouring to services,th© A^..-. ':S \\ t;•: ; lr%( : t«- i UP* town of New Buffalo was ere- New Buffalo was changed to Del- a funeral in Boulder. "Father* their eternal r*-' 'ated. Mm atihe same board ses- ton. 22

Sherman If. F...... A Gazeteer of Landholders in the I*. i Stme B.....»...... M 12 K ' Stme K...... Dockham J. A...... 16 li Lancdoa...... spring M. E...... Town of Baraboo. m Ijanlch J...... M... 8 ii DftTis Mrs. E...... m u 11 LIppettH...... BchwurU P...... Donald Wm...... 12 il » u . Speucor M...... m L1ppettH....»... 3.' it I hiewiirt Kornnin...... 117 » ! Dunean Mm. J. B. Langdon W, J.. 30 LangdOB W. J.. m10 1m2 Smith Alex...... •i 1 i | I Draper...... 11 LawanB N. A... m li Mteln J. a...... 100 A. 1 | Dodd...... 26 12 Lteby Q...... aw •a 12 Kneatheii Dr. J. P...... 120 t m Laweha ...... »i© m 12 81v«*r J. M...... 100 Dodge...... m2 6 12 mi Smith N. H...... 120 (1 ti Losby H...... 28 li AtiUrewa Aim. A...... * Divine E...... ISO 21 12 LawahaR...*..... 2s5 12 8m til Alex...... Apker £...... ii 16 ii I 84 12 m Hnilth Mr*. J...... 40 DakeBojal...... Luaby Wm...... 2« 2S 12 Hei'ker dies...... » Armbrusier G...... 7 11 Keclter Chas...... 80 Andru» R. M...... m S 11 E. M. fcleclier Chan...... m EVANGKLIG.IL CHUhCU... 7 (i Btuiirt C. K...... Milaer G. E...... • 10 ft 12 | H-an ley P. O...... 81' Adams M. J...... sc 4 n Kiiiery tie©.... 40 20 11 MeGllvra A. D.... *0 25 1: i Stanley W. O...... 20 Anubrumer G. A...... 9 l! Inierj G-...... 4© 4 tl McGllvra A. D..... 2 12 « Sin one H...... 411 Milaer G. P...... SI 2» l'£ ; ^mlih N. P...... 40 Arnold John ...... 81 § 11 English-T. W.. 274 19 12 v 120 McOlnnta D.....M.. 120 i I: 8tupper x...... d^k...... Arnold John...... 4t. 4» 1*2 English T. W„ 20 12 McOiniils F...... •i 21 it 1 Simons Henry...... :...... 20 Andrews Wm. Eat...... 41 11 V£ English T. W.. 28 12 McPwrlln J. W..... 22 12 ; Sellout houM In Dint. No. i Morley If. W...... 8•'0 •22 12 1 Andrews Wm. £<*t...... 4€i 12 26 12 Joint- with Pa'rOeld...... m Elkington J.I.. SO Mnrphy N. 8...... 148 21 12 School house In Hist. No. 1...... Andrews Wm. JStft...... 4l» 2r- 12 Morfey E. W...... 18 •ill li­ School lions© In Dlst. Mo. 1 Aurirewa Witt, fet...... • 26 m 1*2 Metclert F...... Mi 111 lt Joint with (4reenfleid...... ADVENT CHURCH (iiu Day) M VI F. Marlln Lndwif ..... 80 2» 11 Hchnol lionse In Hist. Mo. 3 Martin...... -.. 23 1- joint with Delton...... Aldneli J*me«...... 1 $4 It Faller 11. Eat., 80 8 11] MartlaCE...... i^#i 1-3 11 Urlnmil hnuse In DUt. Mo. 8 Martin C.E...... 4 11 Julnt with ttumpter...... Farnam C H.. 11 11 4 MeaaengerL. C... 80 m School house In Dint. No. B. Foster...... 16 11 Marquardt...... 80 11 1« Joint with Freedom...... Fosgate N...... W 4 11 Marqnardt...... 8P 17 11 Pchool lionse In Hist. No. 5... Fcx Wm...... 27 12 Meyeri R...... 40 17 il School hunse In Diet. No. 5 •Boyguiun .....••...... , TS VI Miles Mra. H. D... m 14 11 Joint wiih Preedom...... Burn* II...... 80 •28 12 Martin C E...... 40 13 11 Sehool house In Diet. Mo. 6 In M»rih A...... 18 11 42 20 VI G. Lyons...... Barker A. £*i...... Mefwenger L. C... 80 ii 11 Scho«il house in Dim-. No. 7.. Brennnn Miss...... » •20 VI Morley ti. A...... 40 4 11 40 11 6 Sch ol houMe In Dlst. No, •Birum T. Euf...... 78 ill 1*2 ttntwiukel tt... McOllvra 8...... 40 i: U Joint with Delton...... US 11 S Marteaa A...... (1 Bretitiau A...... 02.60 19 42 Bimes A. C... i SI'IHMII hou^e In ulst.. No. 11 40 11 S Moore Levi...... m 12 Biirieh Albert..... , Via 9 il Gowan Mm.... Hartlny A-...... if) nt 11 10 11 i Basset t Wm ...... im 20 11 Gurt A...... Morley N. W...... m 28 12 40 11 6 Morley N. W...... it 2 12 T. firewater & Foster.. i(J m 11 GollmarG. G.. Gerlaugh 0..... 60 11 i Morley R. A...... 820 m 12 Bork L...... 4(1 •10 11 Myew C. E...... • - 2? 12 85 11 6 Tinnier N.M...... Ii II Berk L...... SCI 17 11 ' Gerlaugh O.... McFurlln J. B...... 1-. SO 12 S #• as Turtle & Newsen...... 41) 11 11 Biirker John...... rO 16 11 | Gnttiker J. J., Tinkham M...... 10 S 11 120 12 S Bellow"! ...... 40 16 il • Griswold L..... Tinkham E. T...... 40 10 11 120 12 8 m. Toole Wm...... #1 li Brmltien It. S...... 40 14 11 , Griswold L...... s 12 T-ttle A. O...... 20 12 40 VI 11 , Griswold L...... 120 6 Mlpperi F...... 120 N 11 m Benton J...... Nippert M...... 11 11 Tinkham E. T...... m Si 12 Bender 0...... 1 il 90 IK 11 Turner J. H...... 3J 11 Neltael F...... Tfiwnsend Geo...... w37 18 Brown 4. D...... 20 8 11 H. Neltxel...... 7 11 JM 30 12 11 Tuttle A. O..BARABOU VAL- It Bmwn A...... 8 11 Noyea D. K...... LEY NURSERY...... 80 31 ii. m Mart I. C...... 120 12 Bflppert F. M. Eat.. 7 11 Burr C...... 4 11 11 Terry John...... 120 60 Hart 1.0...... 80 12 North N...... ft »li 8- 4 1*2 Nerth ff...... 100 32 1 Terry Walter...... 200 Brenner J...... 65 11 Hatch Wm...... » Terry Jainea.*...... 68.82 li if Brewaier U...„ ..... 4 il Hallihpn P...... 40 12 Nlchola...... 15 •if 12 It 21. Helm Mm. J...... 70 12 Brown J. fct...... 6li 4 11 Hatna J.H...... 60 12 Bryant G. W...... 4ii U 12 Halua R. A...... 20 12 o. Birum A. 6. Est... !2 H1IIE. M...... 20 11 u. 1211 m Haseltlne Jacob.. 80 11 urgaa A. P.. HOI 2i| Jit Barter A. fist...... 80 •in 12 Hlmea A. C...... 80 11 O'Oonnel J.. 30| 11 111 Brown Mrs. Win...., 76 -m 12 Hlinea J...... M...... 8tJ 11 Barker A. fot...... •ib 12 COUNTY NUK8ERY...... 1! Borde II ...... Ii 26 12 Haseltlne F...... 20 II Bloom G. W...... 3-"i 21 12 Howlett H. H.t MUBSEKY.. 80 11 Piatt H«iry...... 80 m 11 Van i>re«»eii. H»WB1 tine...... 2" 11 Putter Mra. E...... 120 n 11 Van In an J Hnaeltine...... ill II Potter A...... 80 17 11 Volhiidge..... si 11 Park G. W...... 1111 lli 11 Hlmea...... II 40 11 li c. Baseitfn© W. B...... 110 Pratt P...... II Ppitheto L...... 107 m 11 Haaeltlne Wm...... 100 11 60 4 11 Cuwlvs IItiter...... 4U \t H Hunt J...... 50 Pad-iock Ge<>...... w. 40 10 11 11 Paddock C. J...... II 11 Cowlea Lewitf...... Hrtpklni W. H...... SO li Paclclocli Mrs. J., 4'- 31 12 Curg'e Lewis...... 40 18 11 Hill E. K...... Wiischir»Ky A...... 80 20 11 a 12 Paddock O.J...... HO 31 12 Warner Mrs. E. J...... 40 Hill Jamea...... 40 I IS 11 Casefhfriiii...... 80 Hi tt 30 12 Puclilock Mra. J.. 80 w«Mid it. .!...... -...... 40 111 Hill Matthew Eat...... 102 ni 12 f 11 16 11 ITO 12 Pettey A. s...... m ond J. W. LIME MILJM.. 2W i© Camp Jits...... 8«. HarrlaH...... 12 Pettev w. li...... f 11 Cist T...... 16 11 Hoialt Geo-...... 151 Waller B...... 1* 10 il a- Halne** Jms. H...... 105 U Powell J. W...... m 25 12 Watfcinp O. G...... 80 10 11 Camp Jas ...... %b 15 11 li Wilaht N. 8...... 60 1? 11 Hacirtt J. L ...... ai 12 Clark C. W...... 11 Hehm Mini, J...... 7© Watkln*...... ii 16 11 " 12 Wrights. N...... ii If 11 Claude L J...... 18 11 Hnillhati P...... 40 If Hayea K. A...... 211 WatklnK A. K...... 40 15 11 CEMETERY...... 5 11 12 Whlard Henry...... 44 IS 11 Haines J. H...... ™...... 00 12 Cspener Geo...... 39) 12 11 Hallfhan P...... 40 R. Wlthlngton Mrs....:...... 4# If 11 Cahoon Levi...... 212 II il Warren T. M...... LIS 1 11 Warren T. M...... Itl 11 II 1 11 i. Ryan Henrv...... 40 IS 11 Croneli L...... Rleh H. H...... 40 2» 11 Welrleli...... 40 i 11 Cluuse Geo...... 20 il 11 Hoser Henry...... 4f • H 11 WIchernK...... ao S li 6 11 Ryan H...... 104 3 1 Walrath *:. L...... #0 4 11 Case A. B...... Wlchern John...... 8f § 11 40 $4 12 j. Kniand Gen...... 00 23 11 Corty A...... Ruland Geo...... 40 11 11 Wichern Henry...... II Wlchern J...... m • 11 Canfield Wm. H...... 60 84 12 .leffreya...... 1 201 2SI 121 i Rywi Mm. A...... 40 3 11 S Wein 0. Est...... m It 12 9R\ *JTI If II RodwellJ...... 60 3 11 m Crowley P. Est...... m Wllrox O...... «i It Owe A. T...... 12 Ro»er F...... 45 4 11 m m Itoser Leonard...... 80 5 11 Wilder E...... » w li Christie Wm...... 112 31 12 M. By nil Meory...... an S4 12 Woodruff E...... 4© m ii Coltun Mrs...... 142 80 12 Rodwell T...... 20 84 12 Woodruff R...... 80 Ward well...... 10 m m Kunselmann A.... 19 11 Remlngfoii R. tt. Eat.. 80 34 12 23 it Crowlev P. Eat...... 28 12 m 120 19 %l*ebster H. H...... ill 21 it Kunzelmann...... 10 19 11 Ragata J. Q...... II Woodruff J. K...... CEtfJSTERY, BARABOO.. 40 26 12 KlaierH...... 80 19 11 8U » m Crotioh L...... ••••••••• .....•« 10 23 12 Kirk N. €...... 21 11 Currj J. £...... M» 28 12 Kuban A...... 80 17 11 8. Kamtetter MM...-. 80 7 11 X. Curry J. £...... , Hi TI 12 ill Kurten H...... M.... i© 17 11 Bhourda J. R...... 40 11 Capener Wm...... Mi 2*2 12 Kimball A.'D...... 30 It 11 HUeve...... » 40 17 11 Clark C. A...... •21 12 Kunzelmann J..... m 4 It Spencer T. H...... 20 15 11 Kunselmann A.... m ' 11 Speneiir L. C...... m 15 11 Currj J. I.....*...... 120 28 12 Knobe...... 124 S& il Snonrda J...... 80 Ih 11 Croaeh L...... 10 •28 12 Kooni Peter...... 160 28 12 8«hellenberger €.. 7 11 Ckptntr Wm...... 40 28 12 Koone Peter-^-*. f? If Koona H...... ~....«. OIM Harrison...... 200 11 U Keaarta 8. 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f li Oounty oi Sank Both are well knowo attorneys ol thU S:ii9 Pertinent Items. But th© trees are not long-lived city Tho town of Baraboo has two as compared to New Jersey apple is now composed of 22 towns, viz: 6. B. Gibbons »f Baraboo suooceda , acllV0 ,jr,ck unh trees. Twenty years is nLotit tho Woodland, Freedom, S. W. a*viihi»f Prairie da Sao ns cor- J ' Paddock &j La Valle, Baraboo, iincr, aod 8. P. Barney «i La Valle D.; Son mako both white and red average life of a tree here. Every Winfield, Greenfield; i. iiiltisft of Iniganvillc us count j aur j briek of nn excellent quality, dis- man with a favorable locality Dellona, Merrimack, f6 t:lllt iim railcs wcst from ilm cm should have a large orchard of Delton, Sumpter, 5o eo«rc heme has been occupied by j ^ apple trees as a prof Habit* farming Fairfield, Honey Creek, a set iif offm-M paiiwiakio^ in tho dw ! tre of the city on the south side of Excelsior, Franklin, charge of ilu-ir ilutit-a, isctiiKfiuniiSy ami ! fjje river, industry. He should buy his Reedsburg, Bear Creek, (obliging to l*»th fwiiikiil frimtlj and 1 ^,,101 trees when but a year old at a opponent*; end for the credit and interval Uiaries feeeker makes With Irontoo, Spring Green, ul the Dtf::inrratio party and Sauk ciiuiiiy! red and white briek, also tiles. small figure and luivc ft small Washington, Troy, midilnik.iirlt»« th,«e who villhavo j Hc ;s ]ocatcd 0n the north side of nursery growing to supply old Wcstficld, Prairie do Sac. dfahn^a wuh the new incuuiiieiita let IW' dying out trees. hope that I lies© will even cJtvel their the river, three miles m*est from | Tha Changs if Gouty Officials. predecessor*. the centre of the city. In 1S7S there wes a Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company or­ [From Sauk County Democrat, Jan. 8, 1391.1 There arc two florists cutsidc ganized in the town. 11 lias «;rown Death cf Hernial Aibrechfc the city limits. So great a change in count j officer* [From Sauk County Democrat, Feb. 12, 1SC1] •s occurred on Monday has wot becu »ee»i lo number about 400 members. ! Wm. Toole, who makes pansics In Sauk county for a generation, The' A no her good, well known and highly, ... T . .. . Its assessments for flic past nearly c ii i i- • : i. i . • i » . r o , i 'aspecialty. Located 1 mile south- 14 years have not exceeded S| ttrtnsofall those biennially electcu « {esteemed cais.-n ol Sauk couotv lias; , f mills on the dollar of assessed pired on that day. aod every ono of the . ],|itJl,tj |||C thml m^mj. n^,, I west oi the centre of the City, property. The losses i':i this time. ineambenta, ill Uepubhcaiw, went out ot j . (Jocllcda, Fred Wickcm cultivates a Ulli- have been §2,000. There is about oiice and was succeeded by a JLl^iiioerar. i J i • i In tho sheriff si office may be found j province of SJXHMJ, kiiig-knu if Prussia, j versa! catalogue. $575,000 worth of property sub-. the lew high blierilT, James Miles ol I Germauy, whero hia huher was majcr, j Each have wiliter green houses. jeet to assessment. Thus the far­ Reedsburg, who haa appointed tho lot im i)w. I3f 1835. In JSJ3 the fa icily _^^_^ mers have saved at least one-half lowing aubordiiiata: !emigrated to Aim no and allied on a In the Skillctt creek neighbor- of what they would have paid for­ boSy -l-«•!>"». ol B,ra | ^ Tnkw||.i% Qzmkm mmmJ§. hmd ihcm h established a Fur- eign insurance companies. Deputes—E. G. Sialic of Ri-cdftburg j Wb. Three ycaw later they^ left ^ thero [ mors' Alliance. They run a small village and Martiu Van Durcu ol Spring kee, until tUy tuu!d lii.ii a new hi-iuc,! city, Florian Buchler of Prairie do Sac j an I after apendin^ a-in* IIIII-J in Milwau theistorrc stockewantsd. witIt h hagoods bees tno supplin ex-y On Skillctt Creek, | mile below Green. moved in i he town oi" Sutnpu-r, iu thiaj m \Y. O. Canon, the outgoing a her iff, county, where they air-iin devoted lliem-* lStCllCO several years. Their the Lower Falls (Peewit'* Nest) ha8 returned with his family to his fjim [M-IW* to t.innfii.'. inoautject ol thia »monthly meetings aro made a is located a steam saw mill by M. In tho town oi Woodland .aketcli jhjred the iiiala and hardal.ipB| ,eas.mt mcM Ci,WtaililneEt. It J. Adams. The circuit court records arc now kept! endured by many ot the £auk county | * by J. E. Buckley, of Honey Creek, the I Ms during tho civil war, nerving in the i numbers oU lamilics. The cheese factory that has new clerk. Ob predecessor, Charles ' JRUHC nearly three y^ars and a hair, as a There are three nurseries of been running in tho town c-f Colcmac, who came here tfow the town J im-mbiTMd C •• D, 9tlrK»-«t, Wis. Vol. Sumpter is being moved by tho ot Esetjis»Iort is now pension ngent and lot. Duiin-r liic K*rvico iw was shot in fruit trees in the town. proprietor, A. F. Brown, onto his police justice in this city. I the lt^ and received internal ii jut tea iu A. G. Tuttle and Chas. Hirsch­ A. F. Uerlort of the city ol Baraboo ' the re.»i»iii ol IIHJ eh* a; by an acoident farm in the town of Baraboo, two Ills the conntf clerk's "office. The 1 while driving a IC.TJ.HI.^ lulSG5hewaa inger established at nn early dato miles wesl of the city on the south lorjier clerk, C J- H. Erffm-yor, who married «•• Mi.*diy. Feb 10, 1S9L, at 20 fessional fruit growers have had a came up to the bluffs. 1 learned M. L. Patterson ol Prairie dn Sac, iiiinuiih after *wel\ts o*eli«ck IIIHIII, at the long experimental testing exper­ from an Indian that there was the new register of deeds, is assisted by early si#^e »»f 53 yens, lie never had a ience of every kind of fruit that such a place as Devil's Lake, so MUs Linic fowler, daughter ol J. U, child. Hi* wid.»w Mirvivcs him. The the morning of the 4th 1 thought Fowler ot Sumpter, is copyist. List. iiilo id MiJ «r C Twith in i'r.iirie du Sac can be grown in our count}'. In I would lintl it. I took my fish­ summer she eierked in ihe couuty clerk's! is his M^iei; nnnihrr *•:»*:er, Mrs. Johi their parlors may be seen diplo­ ing tackle and started out and olico of Richland couuty, from which j Harach. «i%*i-s at L'*ist Iowa, and a mas and silver ware that has been caught a pickerel that weighed 20 place she comes well recommended.; brother, ll»»Wrt, m liruno, Neb. Mr. f pounds. John W. Blako, the retiring register, Albreclit was fn-aily beloved for Ms won at state and county agricul­ will retiri t© Recd^borts and reaume|kiud. ^euiil, ehatixablo and generous tural and horticultural fairs. In the fall I mo veil Mrs. Peck charge of his paper, the Free Press. . naturo. The obs»quiia wiil bo held at These men of experience and over to Baraboo with two yoke of W. H. Sehu's of Troy has entered | two o'clock this i»i ermwii, it ilie opera cattle. Wo crossed the river mpoi the duties of superintendent ul i house, aud as i he dec *as*5i had a great reputation for honesty are ex­ where Maxswell dam now is. My schools. K. C. Wiawall, of Prairie du! man? friend*, will undoubtedly be largely changed largely by our farmers cattle were a little afraid so I had Sic, who has faithfully and ably ii led j attended. He waa a member ot the for unrighteous fruit tree solici­ to wade, and Mr?. Feck made tho the offiee during tho past eight yeany Odd Feliowa, tlu A.O. U. W. and the tors. Men's credulity seems mar- remark: "Well, I guess you will will, wo understand, again dotoie himself t im I looker p«*t. Ttm first ^ named will get cooled off!" to teaching and can probably secure a s bnry lie remains with their rites and the velously great with strangers but 1 Abe.Wood was the first whito more lucrative and desirable pnailioi other two also eacortihem to their last criticising with acquaintances. man I saw on the Bamboo. tin the ©no ho has list tacaiei. ! resting place. Rrw. Crooktr of Malison Respectfully, As district attorney B. D. Etats is! will spwl tin parting words aid a Our vicinity ia favorable for •icceedci * by Hernial Or©t©pl©rst.: special choir sing appropriate songs. profitable apple tre© growing. ISAAC GIBUS. ffiiwnn m^ mini ill niinr-inniH.Miiu nilMIIUimULmniUnnMiimLUIUinniiiirnii .I.I.JLIW^^. !ittiie».mi>ttiMii.iijii^^p>y*w,n.w^,

24. bods of two kilns are as plainly marked as would be the beds of our brick •THE/SITY OF BARABOO. kilns of to-day. I was once there and saw where in a cultivated field one of these kilns was located, the plow turning over a pure bed of burned red clay, bricks and pots on a space of 20 feet square and probably from one to two feet thick. The wall enclosure of the Lapham survey gives 17J acres of land; some of the tumuli outside th* wall are 20 feet high and 75 feet base. Many of them have been opened. In some of them time has con­ sumed all organized matter. In others have been found skeletons, some wrapped in cloth girded with rope, all of the textile being so decomposed that it was as fragile as ashes. Rev. A. N. Somers, a lecturer upon Archoeology, delivered a course of lectures at Baraboo in March, 1891. He says that Mr. Lapham's survey of Aztalan did not extend over the whole of the ancient city. In fact the larger part was left out. He gave me a trac­ LUI8TRATED ing of his additional survey. Rock river valley is the garden of Wisconsin, and this citadel being in the valley and central to the effigy mound region, shows that they had an eye for a fat soil and a husbandry life and well lo­ S||SgHE contour is uneven and about 60 feet above the river with no river cated relative to their commercial relations. The Baraboo valley is of less

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IV RELECT1VE. THE SIOUX, SAUKS, FOXES, AMD WINNRBAGOES. C Comparison, ...... 4% Causality, ...... 5 After the Mound-builders, have each in turn possessed the land. This chart shows that the affective, or feeling faculties, prevailed Our Winnebago neighbor that we bought our land of must have over the intellectual ia the proportion of 4.3 to 3,9; and the se¥eral lived upon the Rapids over a hundred years. Here they mad'e their maple groups of organs are developed in the following order: sugar. (It was interesting to see their little bark sap troughs that would Propensities, ...... 4.8 Sentiment, ...... 3.9 hold from one to two quarts each, made of White Elm Bark, also their

Reflective, ...... -4-7 Perceptive, ...... v.3.8 little dug-out basswood ' troughs that would hold from two to four Last, though not least, although not of Sauk County or of Wiscon­ quarts.) They also cultivated their corn. (When the first while settlers sin, in archaeologic lore is the little image and sphere represented in took possession of their lands they frequently found their corn-storage the centre of our gravnre page. It was found in New York, a foot be­ rooms. They were an excuvation made in the earth in some dry neath the soil. . , place and lined and covered over with bark and then with leaves. - The corn was parched before placing therein. RICHLAND CENTER, Wis., Feb! 24th, 1891. The Baraboo Bluffs, with their rocky, wild canyons, not only were a Mr. William H. Canleld, home for the Rattle Snake but game as well, and the beautiful "Lake of Baraboo, Wis., the Hills" was abundantly stored with Ish. Extensive wild rice waters DEAR SIR.—The statement you made in your other book, about my were within twenty miles of them, also the cranberry, both bush and finding that relic in father's garden, was not quite corrert. vine, within easy reach. The Wisconsin River formed a segment of a It was not in my "father's garden, but was bv a wood-shed, circle around them, the Rapids as its centre, with a radius of about •where the sod had ne?er been broken, that 1 dug up a spot for my gard™ twelve miles swinging from the north to east and to the south about en that spring. That was the way 1 came to find the relic. The pieces them, giving a long coast of a large river for fish and fowl catching. of the broken globe 1 found, were lost, except the piece attached to the With all of these luxuries for the Indians so profusely scattered within a figure. short distance of the Rapids, and its neighborhood being high and dry, 1 have given you the thoughts and opinions of some strong minds. without Marsh lands to travel through, all-in-all, how could a* home be You can arrange them as you see proper, if you see fit to use them. better arranged and more bountifully supplied for Indian life than the The relic found by T. F. Ayres. in the state of New York, in 1850, Baraboo Rapids. It is no wonder thxt when their head chiefs sold their is considered one of the greatest Historic Relics of the Mound-builders. possessions that had become so dear to the families by long occupation 1st. It shows their manner of dress, with neat tidy and graceful that when the United States dragoons came to forcibly eject them the appearance wearing their hair parted in the, middle. women and children wailed so that they were heard when a mile away. 2nd. That they understood the art, of cooperage, by the cask she is leaning upon. 3d. That they understood making pottery, by the urn that leans against the cask; piobably for carrying on the head. How the Caucasian f(ace 4th. That they understood the earth was round, and that they lived takes possession. In surveying his wild new home he finds a rich on the outside of It. prairie adjoining the Rapids on the East (Peck's), one within two miles 5th. That this was a God of the world, or the Mother of Creation; North (Webster's), White, Black and Burr Oak openings, most of which also a God of protection, as she has her cask of water and her urn of are good farming land. Upon the south side of the river a very fine wine or liquor and her loaf of bread in her right hand; every thing to bell of heavy timber with a rich soil, and well watered with soft water, sustain life, while she is watching over the world. with a width of about two miles. The extensive sugar maple groves No doubt this m'as an Idol universally worshiped all over this con­ yielded to the pioneer its delicious luxury. The pine groves by the tingent, as this one was found in the state of New York, and another simple outlay of an axe, cros-cut saw and an ox team to bank the logs was found in one of the Mounds in Michigan bearing the same de­ upon the river bank, brought food, clothing and means to purchase scription, as if made by the same hand. mthe government at f 1.25 per acre. It is claimed by many that this is the greatest Historical Relic of Was not the Baraboo Rapids a favored place for the white as well the Mound-builders that has been discovered, as it shows their manner as the copper colored man? There were so many conditions laclened of dress, their arts, and their knowledge that the world was round, and with latent wealth to be seiied upon, waiting and apparently begging to that they were worshipers of Idols. be appropriated. These conditions have made many and many a poor Respectfully Yours, industrious man rich in goods, or at least in very comfortable circum­ T. F. AYRES, stances. Our Father of Mercies has more than fed, clothed and made Richland Center, Wis. us rich. He has given us a pleasure park so beautiful that our distant Besides the one found in Michigan there has been one found of and less favored neighbors visit us by thousands annually and leave with «omewhat like character and presented by Judge Hubbell to the Wis­ us thousands of their dollars, for the privilege of viewing this scenery consin S::0.* tlistorical Soceity. A missionary from India pronounced country. The territory particularly rich in romantic scenery is about 30 t'i.'s 'i liii'l-i'nsfs God. It is figured in our gravure page marked Budah. miles long by 15 miles broad, from the Sauk Villages (Sauk City and 26 Prairie du Sac) to Kilbourn City and the Dells of the Wisconsin Ri¥er. ning. Monday 12th, sawed with Thomas Remington in the pinery. That beautiful Sauk Prairie" is bounded on the east and south by the [This pinery was -Uncle Sam's and what was Ms was ours.] Tuesday 13th, Wisconsin river, % mile in width, dotted with islands, and its east bank drew logs out of the pinery on to the ice in the creek. "Wednesday bristling with jagged bluffs presenting their bald rock faces smiling upon 14th, ditto. Thursday 15th, ditto. In the evening went to the school the lower carpeted prairie. On the south and west by the Honey Creek house to a lyceum, got home at 11 o'clock at night. Friday i6th, drew marsh and timbered bottom lands behind which are still taller bluffs, logs out of the pinery on to the ice of the creek. " Saturday 17th, ditto. cliff fronted and juniper hooded. On the west. Otter Creek bluffs of the Sunday 18th, at home. -Monday 19,'drew wood "to the door. [We same character. On the %orth, by the canyoned Baraboo Mountain used an open fireplace to cook by.] Tuesday 20th, drew hay [from Muffs. Sauk Prairie in a state of nature was like a handsome picture set what is now called the Johnson bridge, 5 miles below town]. Wednes­ in a beautiful frame. It contains about 14 square miles, two broad, seven day 21st, drew a log from the pinery home for shingles. In the after­ long. noon worked at making an ox yoke. Thursday 2 id making ox yokes. The northern border of our scenery territory is the Dells of the Friday 23d ditto. In the evening went to Webster's to a party. We Wisconsin river.. Here, for a mile or two, the broad river is turned up danced ail night. Saturday 24th at Moor's in the forenoon, at home in edgewise and has worn its narrow bed through a soft sand rock, making the afternoon. Sunday 25th at home. Went to singing school in the abrupt instead of graceful turns. In low water it is placid and is navi­ evening. Monday 26th, went to Mr. Webster's, got home about 5 gated by a little pleasure steamboat for the curious to view its excentric- o'clock P. M. Tuesday 27th chased deer most of the day. • Wednesday itles, sinuosities and curiously worn soft sand rock. Its western 28th, went to the river and commenced surveying a town plot for Moore limits are the Narrows of the Baraboo river and of Narrows Creek. and Wood, Lyons. Stayed the night at Webster's. Thursday 29th, surveyed. Here the quartiite bluffs have opened ani their cliff sides 300 feet, moje Took breakfast at Mr. Crawford's. - Friday ~joth, surveyed. • It stormed or less, in height, of perpendicular and iambic down fragments inter­ quite hard all day. Saturday 31st, in the-house mil day, .sick from wa­ spersed with Pine, Hemlock, White and Yellow Birch, Oaks, Mountain ding in the water so much yesterday. Ash &c. The eastern boundary may be placed at the lower Narrows of There was a vigorous logging business done in Peck's pinery that the Baraboo river, which has similar characteristics to the upper Nar­ winter. We had no trouble by using the spring loods in getting logs rows. The south-eastern is made more interesting by the exhibit of down the creek into the river. ancient glacierai morane deposits in the shapeW "Kettle Hills." The town of Merrimack, in particular, can be studied with much interest in this branch of geology. Merrimack is also rich in ancient mounds. The Baraboo Rapids are a geographical center to this scenery county, was the first village-platting done. It seemed to be the pleasantest and has been much visited by students of geology. The up-heaved point to found a village and perhaps a city upon the Rapids. But a pall metamorphised sand rock, teimed quartzite, has bee^ studied with much was soon thrown over the locality by political working. The locating interest by college professors and their students. ot the County Seat by commissioners at Prairie du Sac raised a sharp The white man, upon his occupancy of the Rapids* Irst set his ser­ political war. There were four points contending for the county capital. vant, the water; to work to reduce the pineries that were upon the branch­ At the Territorial Legislature, session of 1845-6 a bill was passed giving es of the river into dollars, which purchased his homestead and supplied the people the privilege of re-locating the County Seat by vote of the his wants, and secondly, to make his home pleasant and his fields to people. The desired points were Prairie du Sac, the Geographical Cen­ 1 "bud and blossom as the rose. ' The seclusion here in behind the ter of the county, and Reedsburg., Baraboo by a close votf and by Baraboo Huffs from the concomitants of civilized society made the donating a % section of land won the battle. This % section viz: the pioneer rejoice at the appearance of the first trt-weekly stage coach. S. E. % Sec. 35, T. 12 N. it. 6, E., was the place that the necessity of But mills were erected, and the Settlement grew on apace. the day declared should be given the County Seat. (For farther par­ My private journal for January, 1846, shows how we busied our­ ticulars sec ist Vol. "Outline Sketches" * * *) April 1847, Charles selves in those days. O. Baxter, the County Surveyor platted this % section into village lots Thursday, ist, in the house all day, rainy. Friday ad, at the mill and they were sold at public vendue at seven and ten dollars a piece, taking care of lumber. Saturday 3d, ditto. Sunday 4th, about home. by and for the county. The County Seat was named Monday 5th, cut and sawed logs with Thos. Remington. Tuesday 6th, drew three logs to the mill and went to Mr. Crawford's. Wednesday 7th, worked at shoeing my sled (with ironwood shoes). Curtis Bates and wife visited us all day and evening! They stayed the night at fathers. by Prescott Brigham, out of respect to John Quincy Adams. Mi. Brit- Thursday 8th, drew logs to the mill In the evening we had a deba­ ham, who lived at the Muffs on Sauk Prairie, was an active i ' *rd to this ting school, Mr. Bates went with his team. We got home at 10 o'clock point and advanced money to buy the said % section, 'iher? was a at night. Friday 9th, drawei logs to the mill. Saturday 10th, helped village laid out upon the opposite side of the river from AoUi:ic by the chop and clear out the creek, and worked some in the pinery. [We Browns' and named Baraboo. banked our logs upon the ice of Pine Creek below the pinery, 4 miles west of Baraboo.] Sunday nth, at home until after tea; then went to In 1852 the name of the Adams post office was changed v» Baraboo. Willard's, thence to Crawford's, thence to Culver's and home in the eve­ In 1853 the name of the town of Brooklyn"and the Village war d^ ijmi

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27 to Baraboo, and the Brown Plat became known as "Old Baraboo." in G. W. Marchant, P. Pratt, G. Schamke, John Thatcher, W. Stanley and real estate conveyancing it is yet termed Old Baraboo. J. H. Halstead; Justice of the Peace, B. T. Warner; Supervisor, Geo. Mer- In the session of the State Legislature of 1865-6 an act was passed tens; Constable, L. O. Holmes. Officers appointed: Phil. Cheek, Jr., Clerk; incorporating these two villages as one village under the name of W. Stanley, Treasurer; Henry Cowles, Marshal; Wm. Hatch, Pound Master; M. Hoffman, Commissioner. 1877. President, D. S. Vittum; Trustees, W. Stanley, D. E. Welch, Isaac Green, W. Scharnke, W. Hoxie ani T. Thatcher; Clerk, Philip Cheek Jr., Treasurer, Henry Cowles; Police Justice, -B. T. Warner; Constable, L. In the following chronological list the reader may ind some error O. Holmes; Assessor, E. Walbridge; Supervisor, J. J. Gattiker; Attorney and omissions as it was a difficult matter to make out from the old [appointed] John Barker; Street Commissioner, Geo. Clans. records: 1878. President, D. S. Vittuin; Trustees, Wm. Powers, Isaac Green, First election held April 2, 1867. Whole number of votes cast 104. W. Hoxie, A. Fisher, J. G. Train and E. A. Watkins; Clerk, Philip Chock Jr.; Treasurer, L. O. Holmes; Police Justice, B. T. Warner; Superfisor, J. S. M. Burdick, President; B. P. Mills, A. Andrews, * rig, J. E. J. Gattiker; Commissioner [appointed] M. Hoffman; Marshal, L. O. Holmes; Hall, B. L. Purdy and C. C. Remington, Trustees. Pound Master, W. Hatch. Second election held March 9th, i8§8. M. Mould, President and Po­ 1879. President, D. S. Vittum; Trustees, Wm. Hoxie, Wm. Powers, J. lice Justice; E. Walbridge, C. T. White, T. D. Lang, James Dykins, Wm. G. Train, A. Fisher, W. Scharnke; Clerk, Bolia E. Noyes; Treasurer, M. Powers and Andrew Andrews, Trustees. The appointed officers this Hoffman; Police Justice, Jasper A. Dibble; Justice of the Peace, T. C. year were Anton Fisher, clerk; E. M. Strong, Treasurer; Frank Fletcher, Thomas; Marshal, L. O. Holmes; Constable, J. Prathero; Supervisor, Geo. constable; Wm. H. Clark, Attorney; Wm. H Canfield, surveyor; M. C. Mertens; Commissioner [appointed] M. Hoffman; Attorney, John Barker; Waite, Warden; James Goodwin, pound master. Pound Master, M. Hatch. 1869. J. R. Hall, President; M. C. Waite, Police Justice; N. W. 1880. President, Wm. S. Grubb; Trustees, Geo. Nicholson, W. Dower, Wheeler, Frank Avery, W. Burrington, Appointees: Anton Fisher, Clerk; J. Dykins, W.Stanley, Ira L. Humphrey and Frank Avery; Clerk, B. B. R. M. Strong, Treasurer; C. C. Remington, attorney; J. C. Dockham, Griggs: Treasurer and Commissioner, E. O. Holden; Police Justice, J. A. constable; W. H. Canleld, surveyor; James Goodwin, pound master. Dibble; Justice of the Peace, T. C. Thomas; Supervisor, Geo. Mertens; 1870. J. R. Hall, President; M. C. Waite, Police Justice; N. W. Pound Master [appointed] F. N. Boss; Attorney, John Barker. Wheeler, Frank Avery, J. C. Chandler, Thomas Oates, T. T. English and 1881. No Becord. B. F. Brown, Trustees; Appointees: Anton Fisher, Clerk; R. M. Strong,- On the 4fch Tuesday of March, 1882, Treasurer; Wm. H. Clark, Attorney; D. E. Relsey, constable; E. Barstow, BARABOO BECAME AN INCORPORATED CITY. Street Commissioner; James Goodwin, Pound Master. 1871. President, J. B. Hall; police justice, M. C. Waite; trustees, J. C. A. Swineford, was elected the Irst mayor. G. Train, D. Munson, B. F. Brown, A. Andrews. Geo. Mortens and G. W. Aldermen First Ward—Frank Avery, 3 years; Harmin Albreeht, 2 Marchant; supervisor, J. G. Train. Officers appointed—Anton Fisher, years; J. Tan Orden, 1 year. clerk; Mair Pointon, treasurer; C. C. Bemington, atty.; B. G. Paddock, Aldermen Second Ward—J. S. Worthman, B years; Jamas Dykins, 2 constable; Daniel Pruyn, commissioner; Abram Hunt, pound master. years; T. T. English, 1 year. 1872. President, James Dykins; Police justice, M.C. Waite; Trustees, Aldermen Third Ward —Henry P. Barlow, 8 years; Henry D. Potter, Frank Avery, Wm. Hoxie, T. T. English, M. Mould, J. J. Gattiker, J. G. 2 years; P. Pratt, 1 year. Train. •Supervisor, J. G. Train; Officers appointed: Philip Cheek, Jr., Frank Atery chosen President of the Council; J. G. Train, city clerk; clerk; J. J. Gattiker, treasurer; John Barker, atty.; A, Andrews, constable; Henry Cowles, city marshal; John Barker, city attorney; B. G. Evenden, M. C. Waite, Ire warden; S. W. Emery, commissioner; Thos. Oates, pound city surveyor; C. H. Davis, city street commissioner. master. The city clerk's salary ixed at $350 per annum; city marshal's salary 1873. President, S. S. Grubb,; Trustees, J. M. Haines, F. Baringer, at $150 per annum; street commissioner 12 per day. License of saloons $100. Wm. Hoxie, T. T. English, T. D. Lang, H. H. Websterr Supervisor, Wm. Supervisors—First ward, D. E. Welch; Second ward, J. J. Gattiker; Stanley. Officers appointed: Philip Cheek, Jr., clerk; T. D. Lang, treas­ Third ward, C. H. Williams. urer; H. J. Huntington, atty.; A. Wistance, marshal; Geo. Nelson, pound Justices of the Peace—First ward, R. G. Evenden; Second ward, master. Wm. Bell. 1874. President, M. Mould; Police Justice, Eli Jones; Trustees, T. T. 1883. T. M. Warren, mayor; E. O. Holden, treasurer; J. M. True, English, T. D. Lang, J. Dykins, John Barker, P. Pratt and A. Andrews; assessor; J. E. Wright, police justice, to 111 vacancy; Eli Jones, J. P., Supervisor, Wm. Stanley* Officers appointed: Philip Cheek, Jr., Clerk; First ward; Richard Metcalf, J. P., Third ward; Win. Power, alderman John Barker, Attorney; J. B. Davis, Marshal; Andrew Patrick, Pound First ward, 3 years; Charles Bender, alderman Second ward, 3 years; Wm. Hoxie, alderman Third ward, 3 years. D. E. Welch, supervisor First ward, Mister. i year; J. J. Gattiker, supervisor Second ward, 1 year; C. H. Williams, 1875. President. M. Mould; Police Justice, J. W. Blake; Trustees, supervisor Third ward, 1 year. T. T. English, T. D. Lang, Wm. Hoxie, John Barker, James Dykins and Oustavtis Scharake; Supervisor, W. Stanley; Justice. S. Hartley. Officers 1884. T. M. Warren, mayor; E. O. Holden, assessor; M. H. Mould, appointed: Phil. Cheek, Jr., Clerk; Fred Johnson, Treasurer; J. B. Davis, treasurer; J. E. Wright, police justice, 2 years; T. C. Thomas, J. P., Second Marshal and Commissioner; W. C. Hatch, Pound Master. ward; Eli Jones, J. P., First ward; D. Boch, J. P., Third ward; J. Van 1876. President, Frank Avery; Police Justice, J. W. Blake; Trustees, Orden, alderman First ward; Wm. E. Briscoe, alderman Second ward; L. ttHM

28 l<\ Wackier, alderman Third ward; Frank Avery, supervisor First ward; 1890. M. H. Mould, mayor; August Ockershauser, treasurer; John M. .1. J. Gattiker, supervisor Second ward; Chas. H. Williams, supervisor True, assessor; A. F. Herfort, police justice; D. E. Welch, supervisor First Third ward. ward; G. H. Bacon, supervisor Second ward; F. Effinger, supervisor Third 1885. T. M. Warren, mayor; J. M. True, assessor; H.P.Jones, treasurer: ward; A. F. Fisher, alderman Second ward; W. F. Wackier, alderman James Hull, alderman First ward; Ira L. Humphrey, alderman Second Third ward; A. L. Slye, J. P., First ward; E. August Runge, J. P., Secoud ward; Win. Marriott, alderman to fill vacancy for 2 years. Second ward; ward: J. H. Dopier, J. P., Third ward. $200 each license on saloon. Therou Case, alderman Third ward; Frank Avery, supervisor First ward; In the synopsical sketch (we refer the reader to volume 1, "Outline 7 J. J. Gattiker, supervisor Second ward; Chas. H. W illiams, supervisor Sketches" for minute particulars) may be noticed a steady growth of the Third ward; A. L. Slye, J. P., First ward; Walter Noyes, J. P., to fill place in about 44 years from zero to a city of 4605 inhabitants. There has vacancy for 1 year, Second ward; Smith Jennings, J. P., Third ward. been four dams built. Some of the mills have gone down and others have beeu erected, but the water-power industries upon the whole have declined. What currency value may be placed upon the full capacity of the power economically used upon each of tho four dams, its possibilities may be safely estimated at $800,000 per annum, or §1,000,000. Taking as a basis to reckon from what tho Island Woolen Mill now does. We take the busi­ ness that they are doing and double it, assuming that they use one-half of the power that may be had at that dam, and multiply that sum by four, the number of dams. It is belioved that there can be one more dam built a mile below the lower dam without injuring it. It is not a chimerical flight of imagination to see the population of our beloved city doubled within the next decade.

BARABOO. POST OFFISB.

[We are uuder obligations to M. C. WATE for the matter of this article. ] Up to 1845 or 6 the Baraboo Settlement got their Mail Matter at Prairie du Sac. (In those days we paid 25 cents to get a letter out of the office besides traveling 15 miles to get it). Dr. Seth P. Angle was our first Post Master. An ordinary desk and table easily held all the mail matter received and distributed for several years. The name of the office was [SAUK COUNTY COURT HOUSF.1 1886. F. N. Lang, mayor; J. S, Worthman, clerk; H. P. Jones, treasurer; called ADAMS and was first located near where the Catholic Parsonage now J. M. True, assessor; B. S. Doty, marshal; J. H. Dopier, deputy marshal; stauds. Prescott Brigham, who lived at the Bluffs on Sauk Prairie, was J. Hawes, police justice; C. L. Brewster, street commissioner; John Barker, the first carrier of a weekly mail. In 1847 Mr, Angle resigned and Eber city attorney: R. G. Evenden, surveyor; C. E. Boughton, night watch; Craudall was appointed P. M. and the office moved onto Water Street to a B. S. Doty, commissioner on Canada thistles; A. L. Slye, J. P., First ward; point near the Kelsey place, now F. N. Peck's. At this time D. K. Noyes Walter Noyes, J. P., Second ward; C. M. Blake, J. P., Third ward; Frank acted as deputy. A plain Pigeon hole desk answered the wants of the Avery, supervisor First ward; D. K. Noyes, supervisor Second ward; Chas. office and may yet bo seen in the back room of our present P. O. Before H. Williams, supervisor Tnird ward. Aldermen —First ward, F. Baringer, the expiration of Crandall's term the office was moved to the store of Mun­ Jas Hull, J. VanOrdeu: Second ward, W. C. Richards, Ira L. Humphrey, son & Tuttle where Fisher Bros. Drug store now is on Oak St. After B. L. Win. Marriott: Third ward, Jas. Hill, T. M. Case, W. F. Wackier. Purdy's appointment it was moved to his residence on the opposite side of 1887. J. VanOrden, mayor; W .C. Richards, president; J. S. Worthman, the street from D. K. Noyes' present residence. Upon Mrs. Lucy Perkins' clerk; Amos A. Hull, treasurer; J. M. True, assessor; B. S. Doty, marshal; appointment it was moved to her residence nearly east of the present High II. Delap, deputy marshal; A. F. Herfort, police justice; C. L. Brewster, School building on Ash St. Upon the appointment of J. H. Wells it was street commissioner; John Barker, city attorney; R. G. Evenden, surveyor; moved to the corner of second and Oak Sts., 1857. In 1859 J. M. C E. Boughton, night watch; A. L. Slye, J. P., First ward; Walter Noyes, Wood succeeded Wells. In 1861 Sam'l Hartley followed Wood and moved J. P., Second ward; C. M. Blake, J. P., Third ward; Frank Avery, super­ the office across the Street into his building, there using 472 boxes visor First ward; J. J. Gattiker, supervisor Second ward; F. N. Peck, and 76 drawers. In May 1867, D. K. Noyes became P. M. and put in 200 supervisor Third ward. Aldermen -First ward, Jas. Hull, F. Baringer, Yale lock boxes, 392 glass front boxes aud 83 large drawers, in the place of J. P. Wilson; Second ward, Ira L. Humphrey, W. C. Richards, A. F. Hartly arrangement. D. E. Welch was appointed P. M. aud took posses­ Fisher; Third ward, T. M. Case, Jas. Hill, W. F." Wackier. sion of the office Feb. 1st, 1884. Soon after, he purchased an entire new 1888. J. VanOrden, mayor; W. C. Richards, president; J. S. Worth- outfit except the Yale boxes, at an expense of over $1300 and put up in the man, clerk; Amos A. Hull, treasurer; J. M. True, assessor: B. S. Doty, Wright Block. The same office being the one now in use and in the same marshal; R. Delap, deputy marshal: A. F. Herfort, police justice; C. Ben­ place and consists of 68 lock drawers, 200 Yale lock, 1000 call boxes besides der, street commissioner; John Barker, city attorney; R. G. Evenden, sur­ the general delivery. Welch held the office until Nov. 30, 1885. When he veyor; C. E. Boughton, night watch; A. L. Slye, J. P., First ward; Walter was removed by President Cleveland and M. H. Mould appointed. Noyes, J. P., Second ward; J. H. Dopier, J. P., Third ward; Frank Avery, su­ Mr. Mould held the office in the same place until April 1st 1890 when Mr. pervisor First ward; J. J. Gattiker, supervisor Second ward; R. Henderson, Welch again took charge under commission from President Harrison, and supervisor Third ward. Aldermen—First ward, F. Baringer, J. P. Witwen, is at present our affable and obliging P. M. Baraboo has been particularly E. O. Holdon; Second ward, W. C. Richards, A.F.Fisher, I.L.Humph­ blessed with this kind of P. O. service, and it is with pleasure we can recall rey; Third ward, Jas Hill, W. F. Wackier, G. M. Hill. to mind their kind and faithful service.

DigitizecLby GoogI(> %^1 TH Wi gt> i\ ^P V'f fiSi -fe^ ^pf yyi \M ^-^ ^g^ ^4 \j|p of the young in civilized countries is mostly through schools. They are at the present day models of systematic training of the intellect; the moral and physical to some extent; and of late, hygene. If Miss Hygenia was crowned in America as with the ancient Persians, then the U. S. A. would be indeed, a model in government, in learning, in physique, in temperance,—rich in soils, in minerals, in mind. One school of intemperance is of incalculable damage to any neighborhood, in immorality, crime and poverty, and may we not be speechless, when we can count 16 to iS such schools in a city of 5,000 inhabitants*.1 SELECT SCHOOLS ! Soon there were plans laid for found­ ing a College. A legal corporation in these times were popular. In t OUR FREE COMMON SCHOOLS, was formed under th© title of 1854 Miss Marie Train opened a « _0 . „ _ _ select school and conducted it with BARABOO GOLLEOIATE INSTITUTE. Our Free Common Schools were born in weakness and had to grapple with much ability for about two years • aristocratic champions who desired by their acts and speech that children It failed iu the end toobtain an endow­ when she united her life destinies should not be placed upon a common level in the attainment of an education ment, but for a series of years they with C. C. Remington, Esq. and that it should be made equally free to all. But the democratic senti maintained a most excellent school. Warren Cochran and Miss Savage, Through the influence largely of P. meiit relative to tho supporting" of them by taxation has been taking root- principals; A. L. Burnham, Prof, of A. Bassett a charter was obtained deeper and deeper, until at the present time, even the pupil's text-books Mathematics. A commodious building for a Female Seminary. are loaned to him free of cost. of several apartments was now erected 1856. Miss Mary A. Potter, prin-; The result of this course has brought out bright and rip© scholars from cipal; L. A. Underwood, Lucy A. j for tlia school and Prof. Pillsbury, of many an indigent family, who have filled responsible positions in affairs of New York, was called to the chair but Cattle and Jane Gregg, assistants. ' life. soon retired. Prof. E. F. Hobort, from 1859. Miss Mary Mortimer, prin- ! There are many ways that our Common Schools have a saltitory in­ Beloit- College took his place. He and cipal, with Susan Warner, associate, 1 fluence upon Society. Their features are parallel with a Republic founded his wife as teachers soon filled up the conducted it Bwe years. L. A. Under- > upon democratic principles. rooms with students and for several , wood, Janie Hall, Susan W. Hall ! The free common school considers only the ability and moral character years taught one of the best of schools. Susan Warner, Minerva Brace,' of the pupil without regard to rank, wealth or religion. So with our Re­ Prof. J. S. Kimball-, of Baraboo, a Dart- Helen Brace, Eva Catlins, Helen! public. They are upon Society an equalizer that makes a republican gov­ moth graduate, followed Hobert and Curtis, Beva A. Bassett, Eliza A. ; ernment run more evenly; the whole being able to work together either in soon purchased the building, and for it Chapman, Helna Gastrovons, Ka- . politics, literature or science. The}- have made tho masses a buhvork of lime continued the school. But lie was soy Sophiatt, Miss Mortimer's as- ' strength - -for knowledge is strength. They have opened the avenues of obliged to suspend for want of pupils. sistants; then H. H. Kellogg and wealth to the poor because of his knowledge he can make available. They *'Th© Die was cast" as against private his daughter Julia; then Bevie Bas- 1 draw man nearer to his Creator by a cultivated mind. schools, however good. Free graded sett and Ellen Robison. The sehol- , The following is a list of teachers in the Public schools of Baraboo. schools were now made so excellent, arship of this school always stood It is necessarily somewhat imperfect. ! and the steps from kindergarten to a ' Parchment from our State University, high. Miss Mortimer was a most 1H43. E. M. Hart first taught a small private school; then was hired to j so nicely graded and necessarily linked excellent instructor. This school teach the district school, followed by R. P. Clement, (now a lawyer in : in step by step have, like an immense did a noble work for Baraboo. San Francisco) L). K. Noyes, Wm. Joy. There were buildings erected for magnet drawn nearly all scholastic 1848. May 29, Wisconsin became a state. the seminary. Mr. Bassett, from training to its polls. A grand achieve- 1S50. A two story frame school house, 35 feet square, erected on rnen. The poor and rich on an equal­ the beginning to the end was a firm block 38, north side, three apartment?, which sufficed for 20 years. ity as far as the highest school advan­ friend of the institution. His fail­ 1851. M. Mason, A. M. Noyes, E. Howard, Frances A. Canfield, H. tages are concerned. ure in business was the chief cause J.Van Valkenberg. of its suspension. My call upon Miss Crandall reveal™ 1852. D. G. Moore, Mrs. George R. Clark, Miss E. S. Camp, T. M. 1S64. Miss M. M. Nethaway ed the fact that she is an enthusiastic Morley. opened a school for masters and school teacher for small children and 1853. George R. Clark, Adelia Clark, Sophia Munroe, Louisa Wheeler, misses. It flourished. When the would have continued her school to E. Crandall, Louisa Parker, Frances Ames. the present time only that duty called public graded school was opened she j 1 her to lead a home life. It was a con­ went into that ; 1854. Nancy Wyman, Mrs. Wheeler, E. Crandall. 1855. Mr. Smith, Miss M. M. Nethaway, Miss E. Chapman, Mrs Lit­ tinual joy for her to be with the little 1867. ' Rose P. Thrall opened aj ones in the school room. She went tle, Miss Hili. school in Taylor's Hall, Latin and abroad and perfected herself in Kin­ 1856. J. Lovell, H. j. Lovell, Eliza Chapman. music were taught. Rev. Hudson dergarten work but did not confine 1P57. S. J. Hart, A. L. Burnham, Eliza Chapman, M. M. Nethaway. and wife conducted a parish (Epis­ herself to it. She was never satisled copal) school in one of the seminary 1858. Prof. Burnham, Wm. H. Joy, Miss Nethaway, Miss Chapman, with present attainments and desired buildings for a while. Miss M. Sprague. to be better qualified and fitted for 1875. Grace Crossman opened a 1859* Prof. Burnham, Miss Martin, Miss Nethaway, Miss Chapman, her work. Miss M. Sprague. school for little ones, introducing It was the little ones leaving home i860. Prof. Burnham, Mrs. Pearson, Miss Nethaway, Miss Chapman. some kindergarten features. for the first time to enter school who 1861. Mrs. O. W. Fox, Mrs. Helen Hoadley, Miss Atkinson, Miss 1876. Miss Crandall joined her mostly made op her number, which Nethaway, Miss Sarah Flanders, Miss A. E. Thompson. as an assistant. was over forty at one time and not 187-. Miss Crossman retired and 1862. D. N. Hitchcock, Mrs. Hoadley, Misses Atkinson. Nethaway, less than twenty, with th© exception Miss Crandall has since continued it. Sarah Flanders and Sarah Stewart. of the term and a half taught at her Almost simultaneous with the es­ 1863-64. Record deficient. home, where the children were con­ tablishment of the Female Seminary 1865. John Barker, Misses Chapman, M. J. Vail, M. F. Flanders and veyed thither in the hack. After was Rev. Warren Cochran's High M. J. Perigo. teaching in the **OId Institute Build- School established in our little village. I 1866. Ten different teachers. The names of those teaching the first ing" and "Old Baptist Church,*' she 30

purchased a neat cottage on 5th St., term only being given Misses E. M. Park, G. H. Dennison, L. A. Inlan­ Although her teacher felt she had and was happy to be in perfectly com­ ders and Ella E. White. accomplished more than at first seem­ fortable, home-like rooms. She en­ 1867. Martha A. Shepard, Louisa Meyers, Lucy A. Flanders, Ella E. ed possible, she never ceased to urge deavored to make her school, as near­ White, Mary F. Flanders, Belle Hurlbut and Lillian D. Park. her mother to send her where she ly as possible, a connecting link be­ 1868. The Misses Flanders, Ella E. and Maria H. White, James T. Lunn, could have the best possible advan­ tween the home and the public school. Miss Hurlbut, and Fannie C. and Alice J. Guiner. tages in a school for the deaf. This purpose was understood and ap­ 1869. John M. True, Lucy Flanders, Miss Nethaway, Clara Yocum, Eva The little boy was taken to Miss preciated by the better class of peo­ Slye, Mary Haines, Eleste Palmer, A. N. True, and Gertrude Dennisou. Crandall when seven years of age, and ple, consequently children who were as ho did not talk, his parents feared sensitive aud delicate were entrusted his silence was caused by some men­ to her care. tal deficiency. But his intelligent Interesting pages could be written eye and finely shaped head was suffi­ about the little people whoso names cient assurance to Miss Crandall that are pn the roll call. But we will only his mind was good. attempt to mention two of especial in­ So she undertook his instruction terest on account of their deafness, hopefully, and in three weeks time and will give some facts not known to succeeded iu teaching him to speak all who may read this sketch. The name words and short phrases. But little girl's on tiro deafness was caused he did not speak many words outside by a sorious fit of sickness be'ore the school-room. He did not easily learning to talk. Miss Crandall at become interested in objects around first refined to accept her as a pupil. him. He seemed to be absorbed in Insisting that she could not instruct his own thoughts. Just why ho did her. But her inothor felt that her not voluntarily talk was hard to de: child needed companionship, and termiue, for he could speak distinctly urged Miss Crandall to lot her come FIRST WARD SCHOOL HOUSE, the words he had been taught, con­ and sit in the room, also thinking she 1870. Isaac A. Sabiu, Mrs. Hoadley, Miss Nethaway, Miss Palmer, Roxie sequently one would suppose ho could C. Taylor, Ida Meyers, Hattie H. Brown, Mrs. L. L. Cochran, and Clara G. might pick up a little information hear quite well. But finally it seemed Newsou. watching tho other children in their to suddenly dawn upon his mind, that 1871. Prof. I. A. Sabim Mrs. L. L. Houdlev. Jennie Sprague, Anna Tay­ exercises, as well as enjoy their so­ lor, Mrs. Maria Dennett. conversation had a meaning, and he ciety. u 1872. C. A. Hutchins, Mrs. L. L. Cochran, Mir,. M. Dennett, Miss Martha began to ask: What! what!" when Miss Crandall soon noticed that Lawson, Miss Jennie Dodd, Miss C. Sheldon and Misses Newson, Tyler, he noticed others talking. He learned little Bessie was a very bright child, Sprague, Taylor, Palmer and Cooper. to understand many words by the and began to wish she could teach 1873. T. H. Terry, Mrs. M. Dennett. L. L. Cochran, aud Misses Dodd, motion of the lips, aud being able to her. She had been a very short time Newson, Palmer, Lawsou and Cooper. hear a little, one could not know that in a school for the deaf. So Miss 1864. Prof. William A. it was a case of very serious deafness Crandall learned what she could of Willis, Miss Newson, Mrs. until many experiments had been the methods used there. M. Dennett, Mrs. B. Clark, tried, and until he too understood that The work was slow and tedious, Miss M. Gattiker, Miss his hearing was imperfect, and could presenting many difficulties. But Dennison, Miss B. Blach- tell what sounds ho could hear. He with a naturally persevering disposi­ ley, Miss Bell Bacon, Miss wrote a very neat hand and learned to tion, she never faltered, and was stead­ Maggie Moore, Mies read aud spell. His chief delight was ily encouraged by Bessie's mother Sprague, Mrs. S. Briscoe, the study of arithmetic, iu which he who marked tho improvement so ap­ Joseph Luce, music exer- made rapid advancement. parent to her. She very readily learn­ cise. No one can know, who has not ed to write words and to understand 1875. Prof. W. A. Wil­ taught deaf children, how very diffi­ their meaning. She never pretended lis, Miss Sallisbury, Win. cult is the work. It is a great strain to understand unless she did. And Akeu, Mrs. H. Noyes, Miss Dennison, Miss Newson, upou the nervous system. Notwith­ she never had to be told the second Miss A1 lice B. Crawford, standing all this, Miss Crandall was time. Misses Clara Martin, Gat­ never happier than when teaching Her teacher obtained all of the tiker, Clark, English, Ali JO these children. They were both very needed objects to show her the mean­ Sears. happy, aud beloved by their school­ ing of name words and had her act 1876. Prof. W. A. Wil­ lis, Misses Dennison, New- mates. Each child regarding it a the meaning of action words. After son, Remington, Crawford, great privilege to do some kind act for she learned to read and spell in the Randall, Groat, Sears, Bessie and Hugh, and were therefore second reader she enjoyed her lessons Cottington. a great assistance in helping Miss very much. She kept up with her 1877-78. Prof. W. A. Crandall collect objects for their in­ class in uumber work &c, and did all Willis, Misses Crawford, struction. She in fact had a perfect of her work so neatly, that in that Gillispie, Dennison, New- son, Remington, Mrs. G. museum in the building, consisting of particular, as well as in drawing and Fallon, Misses H. Terrill, articles mentioned in their reading kiudergarten work, no one in school Holden, Warner, E. War­ lessons and needed in other lessons. could excel her. She learned to speak ner, Gattiker, Bacon. Miss C. closed her school in 1891, many short sentences distinctly SKCOM) WARD SCHOOL HOUSK. making 20 years of school labor, enough to be understood by any one. 1878-79. Prof. W. A. Willis, Misses Romington, Holden, Bacon Hun­ with many regrets by herself and her She successfully took part in little tington, Little, Terrill, Gillispie, Dennison, Newson, Reul. patrons. Notwithstanding the efficacy dialogues which afforded her a great 1879-80. Prof. W. A. Willis, S. Williams, Misses Holden, Little, Hun­ of the primary departments of the tington, Bacon, Terrill, Dennison, English, Mrs. Falton, Misses A. Blaehlev, public school. Miss CTs private school pleasure. A. Schultz and Miss Willett. has been a great blessing to Baraboo.

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31 1883. W. A. Willis Superintendent and Principal; Fanny W7albrfdge, has always taken advance ground in the county and state in education. Emma Gattiker, G. Dennison, M. Remington, T. Little, M. Davis, S. Holden, Miss M. Nethaway, Francis A. Canfield, Abby Peck, Miss Ball, Eber Alice Amy, Mary Greenwood, Nellie Brown, Sebi© Greenslit, Mrs. Bevle Crandall, A. L. Burnham, Frank A¥ery (two winters), S. F. Beede. Clark, Josie Benton, O. Logan, O. S. Ward. 1868. Frank Avery, Hannah Holah. 1884. Prof. W. A. Wilis, Supt. and Prin.; Prof. C. W. Cabeea and 1869. Mrs. A. B. Savage, S. Beedo, Jennie Dodd. Maud Remington, assistants; May Remington, May McAssay, Matti© 1870. Wm. B. Sprague, BobertCrandall, Mrs. A. B. Savage, Mary Davies, Susie Holden, Ada Rankopp, EEa Marsh, N. C. Brown, Eudera Perigo, Belle Flanders. Clans, Jessie Denton, S. A. Greenslit, C. W. Randall, May Southard, O. 1871. Robert Crandall, Jennie Dodd, Delia Odell, Jennie Dodd. Logan, Mrs. Allen. 1872. Prof. J. S. Kimball, Delia Odell, Berta YanSiee, Belle Flanders, 1885. Prof. C. W. Cabeen, Principal; Maud Remington, May Rem­ Mary Perigo. ington, Gerti© Dennison, Mra. Bavie Clark, Katie Miley, Ella Marsh, Matti© 1873. Prof. J. S. Kimball, Frank Twist, Belle Remington, Belle Davies, Ester Brown. First Ward, Alice Green, Jennie Tinkham, May Flanders. Southard, Barbara Gre.mwjjl. Tuird Weird, Elith Moore, Ball© Flan­ In the fall of 1874 and winter of 1874-5 sprang up an increased inter­ ders, Nellie O'Connell, Mrs. C. W. Randall, Miss Atwood. est in school matters, more notably the building ur> of ft district library 1886. Prof. W. J. Brier, Supt. and Prin.; Clara Wilson, Assistant for and reading room. At the annual school meeting the district voted a High School. First Ward, Barbara Greenwood, Edith Moor©, Flora C. tax to be raised of $25.00. According to law the state gave us an equal sum Rico, Alice Green. Second Ward. Miss Esther Bowen, Matti© Davies, making $50.00. With this sum, as small as it was, we made a fine addi­ Ada Johnson, Araa Atwood, Mrs. Bevie Clark, Gerti© Dennison, Maud tion to the old library—50 volumes. 33 volumes were brought in by A B Remington. Third Ward, Annie £!. Buckley, Nellie O'Connell. May and C and left subject to withdrawal, making 83 volumes. In a Sunday Southard, Kate E. Buckley; Herman Grotophorst special teacher in Ger­ reading room we supplied a great variety of newspapers and pamphlets man. (Up to sixth grade text books furnished free.) got at the Baraboo printing presses: their exchanges. Each 1887. High Seho3l Dapartmant: W. J. Brier Supt. and Prin.; Clara member brought his own papers and magazines and exchanged with his E. Baker 1st assist., Clara Bung© '2d assist., Maud Remingtod 3d assist. neighbors. The average book loan was 18 per week. The amount of First Ward, Ella MoFetrtdge, Edith Moor©, Flora C. Bice, Alice Greene. reading done for a few years was largo in this neighborhood. Second Ward, Esther Bowen, Matti© Davies, Helen Holden, Ella Mc- 1874. B. Be Lacy Evans, Frank Twist, G. A. Pabodie, Belle Flanders, Arthur, Mrs. Bavie Clark, Gertrude Banisjn, May Ramington, Lillie W. B. Sprague, Emma J. Jones. Davies. 1876. B. D© Lacy Evans, EraraaJ. Jones, W. B. Sprague, Geo. Gross. 1888. Sam© as 1887, except in High School Tillie E. Reul in glace of 1876. B. B. Remington, Jr., Gep. Gross, Flora Bacon, Nellie Bacon. Mrs. Rung©. 1877. R. B. Remington, Jr., W. B. Sprague, Flora Bacon. 1888. High School, W. J. Brier, Supt. and Prin.; Carrie E.Baker 1878. R. R. Remington, FloraBacon. and Till© E. Raul assistants. First Ward, Ella McFetridg©, Edith 1879. R. R. Remington, Flora Bacon, Dora Calhoon, Willi© Warner. Moor©, Alio© Amy, Ada S. Johnson. Second Ward, Ester Bowen, Matti© 1880. Geo. W. Warner, Rev. A. A. Drown, Flora Bacon, Sara J. Hol­ Davies, Eda McArthur, Hellen Holden, Gertrude Dennison, May Remington, den, A lie© Amy. Third Ward, Mary Evans, Mary Stahl, Nellie O'Connell, Hattie Stahl, 1881. E. D. Warner, Sara J. Holden. Lillie Davies, Kindergarten teacher. 1882. Gilbert Grisim, Dora A. Grisim, Alice Amy, F. B. Lee. 1889. L. H. Clark, Supt. and Prin.; Flora L. Lawson and Tillie E. 1883. Gilbert Grisim, Alice Amy, EEa Marsh, Jennie Tinkham. RMI Assistants. First Ward, Ada L. Johnson, Alice J. Amy, Ella Mc­ 1884. Hattie A. Huntington, Jennie Tinkham, Alio© Amy, Jennie Fetridg©, .Hellen Holden. Second Ward, A. H. Fletcher, Gertrude Den­ Tinkham, Eva J. Slye. nison, Bevi© A. Clark, Eda McArthur, Hatti© Huntington, Matti© Davies, 1885. Hattie A. Huntington, Eva J. Slye. Esther Bowen, Lillie Davies (Kindergarten), Hatti© Stahl, (in Baptist 1886. Grace Palmer, Anne Douglas. church). Third Ward, Lena Little, Nellie O'Connell, Mary M. Stahl, 1887. Grace Palmer, Mary Harris. Mary Evans. 1888. Rodney True, Mary Harris. 1333. H:gaSc:o3l. L. H. Clark, Supt. aud Prin.; Fbra Lawson, 1889. Grace Sanner, Anna Douglas. Tillie E. Keul and Emma Gattiker, assistants. 1890. Arthur Amy, Anna Douglas. Ward Schools. Millie Brownie©, Gertrude Dennison, Mrs. Bevie A. 1891. Arthur Amy, Anna Djngias. ' Clark, Miss Eda McArthur, Liili© Davies (Kindergarten), Flora Spicer, In 1883 the district changed text books, and within a year thereafter Alio© Amy, Ella McFetridg©, Hellen Holden, Ada S. Johnson, Carrie Jones, loaned them to th© scholars free of cost, and have ever since followed Gertrude Williams, Hattie Davies, Eithar Bjwen, Lena Little, Nellie this plan. Suparinteudent J. T.Lunn told us that w© ware th© second O'Connell, Bell© Potter, Mary Evans. in the state to adopt this plan. District No. 6 (Lyons) has always been 1891. Th© same teachers until more are elected this year. enterprising in education. Enrollment for year 188»~3©f 1075. Enrollment for year 1890-91, 1171. Enrollment of High School for 1S89-90, KKJ. Enrollment of H%'i School far 1830-91, lit1. Average dally attendance of High School for 1889-90, S3. Average dally attendance of High School for 1899-91, about 103. THE COUNTRY SCHOOLS are but little, if any, inferior to the city, of the same grade. AS BESBLTS OF OUR PEEE HIOH SCHOOLS (DISTRICT No. 6.) mammoth printing houses have employment. There is not a hamlet in th© In its ©arly days numbered about as many scholars as at th© present time remotest corner of the civilized world that has not a parlor table loaded from the fact that it took in so much territory. There has from the Irst been with literature. Lecturers, preachers, physicians, lawyers, legislatures, an excellent school maintained here, and it is with some pride that we give judges, congressmen, even president of th© U. S. A., may be looked for to th© names as school teachers, those persons who ha¥© been prominent ed­ come from some obscure home that had th© latent genious brightened by ucators of our county. FIEE SCHOOLS that otherwise would have been buried in ignorance and We are unable to get hold of any records until 1868. The district must superstition had education cost largo sums of money. Another very ijave bmn organized about 1849. A contract was let {p B. R. Remington, noticable feature is the position in society and the business transactions of Sr., to build a good frame school house 24x36. The Irst school was life that females are now occupying. A poor girl can aspire to and obtain taught in it by Daniel Buggies, who taught th© winter term of 1840-50. lucrative positions that heretofore was not oponed to her. The walks of This was the Irst frame school house north of the Baraboo bluffs, commerce, schools, arts, science and literature have for her at the present and we think in the county, W© repeat again that th© Lyons school times ten where fifty years ago but one could be found. RELIGION AND SOCIAL RELATIONS.

Genl. 27: -'So God created man in-his own image: In the image of God created He him, MALE and FEMALE created He them." The Duo are one. The distance of one is dependent upon the other, a co-necessity. Prom this Duo springs families. - Trace the Duo or double principle a little farther. An individual man is mostly composed of Duo's, two eyes, arms, nose, ears, legs, lungs, heart, blood circulation. Take away the male or female, the other may exist but the world would be soon as desofate of its kind, "from families nations are born." The Duo principle exists in religion. Worship and morality a Duo. The mind may represent the religious stomach. If it has pure literature to digest the body is built up and made a pure body. But ala!>! there is an enemy to God's laws and religion'in the world. To hold him in check are required organized different religious bodies. OUR CHURCHES. METHODIST. city and a house of worship erected on Fourth street. Since then the The first Methodist Episcopal church - as'she generally is, was the membership has steadily increased and the society numbers now 53 pioneer religious body upon the Baraboo rapids. Its early history was families. Since Rev. GiesePs time .four different ministers have been fully sketched by James Lawson, preacher in charge in 1871 (see p. 24 laboring in the congregation, viz.: Revs. Duerschuer, Scheffelmann, of Baraboo and its Waterpowers, in vol. 1 of Outline Sketches of Sank Mikolean and the present minister. Rev. Popp. The present minister is Co., Wis). They have the largest auditorum seating capacity of any of a graduate of the N. W. University located at Watertown, and of the the clutches. Their present membership, including probationers, is Milwaukee Lutheran Seminary. He has been in charge of the congre­ 250. Sunday school 350. Preachers in charge since 1861: James gation over three years. The trustees of the congregation are: - Dr. Evans, Joseph E. Irish, S. W. Horner. J. E. Irish 1880; W. J. McKay Koch, Fred Fisher,. Julius Gust, Karl Beuchow, Wm. Schulz and Julius 1S81-3; G. \V. L. Brown 1884-5; M- Benson 1886^8; T. Snod- Rodke. The seating capacity of the church is about 250. garss 1889-91. Their working force h through the Epworth. League for foreign missions and charities. CONGREGATIONAL. [Tho Prouty family have kindly responded to questions I asked SOUTH SIDE M. E. CHURCH. them relative to their church in the following (For details of its early In 1884 Rev. W. J. McKay, pastor of the north side Methodist history see Vol 1 Otline Sketches, p. 26, of Baraboo and its Water- Church, seeing a population of 1300 people on the south side of the powers.—W. H. C.) river without any religious services of their own, appointed W. A. Law- 1. The dimensions of the church are 60x35, 2O feet posts; seating son as class leader of his parishoners who lived there. Steps were also crpacity is about 300. 2. The present membership of the church is 116. taken to secure a room in which Sabbath School and preaching might The resident membership is 96. 3. She membership of the Sunday be held, but no suitable place was aFailable. In the fall of 1885 Rev. school is about 125. The average attendance is avout 80. 4. Pastors E. Yocum was sent to the south side as pastor. Two of the members of from 1871 to 1891: Rev. Fairfield from Oct. 1872 to Feb. 1874; O. G. the north side Methodist church volunteered to erect a building 22x40 May from Nov. 4874 to fill of 1875; J. B. Bidwell April 1876 to April which was ready for occupation by Feb. 1, 1886, for the use of the 1S77; N.T. Blakeslee May 1H77 to July 1878; Pearse Pinch Jan. 1886 to society, which was organized Ma?- 15, 18811, with 13 members and a Feb. 1887; J. A. Wood Sept. 1887 to present time. 5. The societies Sabbath School of 30 members. The pastors of the church have been: connected with the church are Ladies Aid Society, Ladies Home Mis­ E. Yocum, fall of '85; C. Irish, f86; T. J. Snodgrass, '87; E. C. Booth, sionary society, Ladies Foreign Missioaary Society, Y. P. S. C E., Sun­ '88-89; B. Nott, '90. This missionary enterprise has had a rapid and day School. In 1886 a Christian Endeavor Society was organized by healthy growth. From a church membership of 13, and Sabbath School Rev. F. L. Fisk, but as the movement was a new one there was not very of 30 in f86, to a church membership of 85, and Sabbath School of 170 much accomplished. On July 3, 1887, the society was reorganized in 190. A beautiful red brick building was erected in 1890 at a cost of under the model constitution, with a charter membership of 16. The $6,500. The railroad people of the south side call this their church, history of the society is one of harmony and pro?p.»rity, ami at the and they are proud of its presence. present time with a total membership of 72, is considered one of the strong branches of the church.

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN. - The Evangelical Lutheran Society of Baraboo was founded in the PRESBYTERIAN. year 1870. Before that time the tew Lutheran^ occasionally attended Extracts from Miss Eliza Chapman's history of the church, written service in Greenfield where they met in a school-house. But in 1870 for and read before a called meeting of the church at their house of the first steps were taken to organize a congregation and secure regular worship, March 17, 11*91, for the purpose of celebrating their 40th service. A meeting was called and a society formed by about fifteen anniversary: families. A call was extended to Rev. Baumbach, living in Honey "Our church proper dates its birth from Feb. 26, 1851. Its legal Creek, to come to Baraboo every fourth Sundae, preach the word of christening and union with the society occurred the 17th of the* follow­ God and administer the sacraments. He accepted, and for some vears ing March. Our record shows that on Feb. 26, 1851, a meeting was duly executed his duties as minister. But he was often hindered to keep held in the Methodist chapel. Rev. Dexter Clasy, agent for the home regular services by the bad roads, especially in autumn and spring, and missioary society, of Wisconsin, presiding. After a sermon by him from therefore it was deemed necessary for the welfare of the society to call a Mathew 16-26 "Upon this Rock will 1 Build My Church," the fol­ resident minister to our city and build a church. All this time the ser-^ lowing persons from other churches presented letters and entered into vices were conducted in the so-called "Institute" of the first ward. This an organization to be known as the First Presbyterian Church of Bara­ was accomplished in the year 1878 when Rev. John Giesel came to this boo: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Camp, Albert G. Tuttle, John L). Perkins, 33 Wm. Griffith, Geo. W. Ccok, Benjamin L. Briar, Mrs. David K. Noyes 1886 J. T. Killen; May i883 Rev. D. E. Long; Feb 1891 our present and Mrs. Anna Wood. A meeting of individuals of Adams and Baraboo pastor. held at the office of John D. Perkins, Feb. 7, 1851, the following articles The above is but a very compressed synopsis of the history of the of association were adopted, to-wit: "We, the undersigned, believing forty years of this church read by D. K. Noyes on the 17th inst. There it to be the duty of all persons to worship the supreme being, the great were many able and affectionate letters read by members from distant creator and preserver ot the universe, do hereby associate and form points. D. K's. recollections of the many, many, many good times of ourselves into a society, the sleigh-rldes, festivals, prayer meetings, with the Crawfords, Blakes, Pow­ objects of which shall be to ad­ ells, Bassetts and a host more. His mention of the glorious past does vance the cause of religion by not include a special mention of a church visit down to Orange Cooks. supporting a minister or teach­ One frosty night a couple of loj.ds, more or less, of the brethern and er; building a house of wor­ sisters in furs halted as per previous arrangement at the gate. Mrs. ship and performing such other Noyes said she was in her wraps but would not come out into the cold acts as shall promote the cause until David came, and told him they were waiting for him. They wait­ of religion. Signed, Wm. Grif­ ed, and waited, and waited; finally Mrs. Noyes said she would go and fith, John D. Perkins, Ralph see what the matter was, and there he was cleaning out the pig pen. He G. Camp, Albert G. Tuttle, soon came and said those pested boys always left him to do the chores Marvin C. Waite, David Mun­ Their working force consisted of a Home and Foreign Missionary So­ son, Benjamin L. Briar, Geo. ciety, a Society of Christian Endeavor. They have a membership of W. Cook, David K. Noyes, 172, with a very large Sabbath School. Henry Crampton, Marvin Blake, Loomis Parish, Ira Nor­ BAPTIST. ton." The society met at the Up to this date, July 5, 1890, the church has received 456 members, court house March 17, 185 1, to of which 187 have been Baptised; the remainder, 279, were received by elect trustees. Camp, Griffith letter and experience. The present resident membership is 70. The and Noyes were chosen trus most important historic event connected with the church is the purchase tees. John D. Perkins having of a new site and the erec­ been previously elected elder. tion of a new edifice on the The church to be called the corner of Third and Broad­ "First Presbyterian Church and way streets, at an expense Society of Baraboo." rhebuild- of over $8,000, and is now i-iiiwiiYTKKiAN CHmien. ^K committee hired the upper entirely free from all incum­ room of the public school house, at $2 per month. Rev. J. Kasson preach­ brance at this date, July 8, ed the first sermon July 31, 1851. He received a call ana assumed the pas­ 1890. Ministerial record: torate October 5th, at S400 a year. The new little frame edifice was Rev. L. M. Newell, April 1, completed and occupied Feb 22, 1852. Kev. E G. Minor preached the 1870, to Nov. 1,1871. Rev. S. dedicatory sermon. The first communion sets for both Presbyterian Stimpson, March 16, 1872, and Methodist churches were presented by Messrs. Finch and Barnes, to July 12, 1873. Rev. Levi of New Haven, Conn., friends of Mrs. A. G. Clark, sent in response of Parmely, Sept. 21, 1873, to her solicitation. Mr. John Taylor, a merchant of Baraboo, presented April 1, 1876. Rev. J. B. the church with a roll of carpeting sufficient for isles and pulpit. The Mann, July 11, 1876, to Feb. church building was enlarged to its present proportions in 1858 and sold 2, 1877. Rev. E. J. Stevens, to the German Methodist in 1868 for $ 1,300. Our crowning effort was June 24. 1877, to April 15, the purchase of a bell. Our pastor paid $20 out of his silary of $400 a 1878. Rev. A. A. Drown, year. What a jubilee when the bell was brought from Milwaukee by June 1, 1878, to June 1, 1880. Ira Bacon and F. G. Stanley (free of cost). It was placed upon a frame Rev. W. J. Kermott, Oct. 21, outside the church, and the following sabbath morning the hills and dales 1880, to April 2, 1881. Rev. seemed hushed into reverent silence as the peels and echoes of that L. M. Barnes, April 7, 1881, blessed bell pealed over them. (Cost of bell at Troy, N. Y., $136.00) to 1882. Rev. G. W. Mr. Kasson was succeeded by Rev. Charles M. Morehouse, July 2, 1854, Freeman, Nov. 15, 1883, to and Oct. 1855 he by Rev. Geo. Spalding for six months. He by Rev. April 13, 1884. Kev. A. M. BAPTIST CHURCH. Sidney Barteau. Spalding and Barteau were temporary supplies. In Bacon, Nov. 8. 1885, t

Digitized by GoQgk M they call each other brother, and they put up that tent and did all that INDEPENDENT. f work and never sm ore once." After listening to that report from the The Free Congregational Society of Baraboo was organized Feb. children I became quite interested and made inquiry of them as to their 16, 1861. Rev. Ichabod Codding, a famous and powerful abolition and work and found they were not altogether a new sect but had been doing temperance agitator, having lectured here a number of times in 1859 good work for the Lord for some thirty years, in the east and south, and i860, was invited to preaA in the Court House several successive and that they 'had held a tent meeting in the town of Sumpter, Sauk Co., Sundays.* From his efforts grew this independent church-independent the previous year. They preach the necessity of coining out'from in all denominational lines. He drew around him the best elements of among the world, in its fullest sense. They found some of their own the community and his influence was wide reaching for good. He was people here. Bro. and sister Blackman and Bro. Halsted, the latter one of nature*s noblemen, a "strong son of God." His memory is cher­ taking part in the preaching service during the tent meeting. There ished on all hands and in many hearts he dwells alive this day. May was much interest manifested from the start, and before many days there 18, 1861 he took regular and formal charge of the society, which still was not half room enough in the tent for those who came. The meet­ continued to meet ill the Court House. All during the war the services ings lasted as late as October and then Bro. Button and son and sister both of society and passor for the anti-slavery and temperance causes C. S. Jenkyn, were left to look after the lock, and Bro. Hanmer staid and the sanitary commission were unremitting. Mr. Codding resigned long enough to mature plans for the erection of a church building, on his charge about March 1, 1865 and died in Baraboo June 17, 1866. the corner of Seventh and Summit streets, to be 32x4s feet. The build­ Rev. A. A. Roberts was settled Oct. 8, 1865 and ordained Feb. 13, ing was done in time for Christmas day service. The first class con­ 1866. The commodious Gothic building occupied by the society on the sisted of fifteen members, with O. W. Watkins, leader. Much interest corner of Fourth and Birch streets was built largely through Mr. Roberts' was shown all through that winter and spring, and much seed sown. efforts as a Codding Memorial. Over 83,000 were raised by subscrip­ There was also a class formed at Caledonia, Columbia county, which is tion and the American Unitarian Association gave I200 and loaned still in a most flourishing condition; and one at Greenfield, also still $500 more, taking for the latter a mortgage on the property under such alive and in the spirit. A class was formed also in the town of Excel­ conditions that it was-substantially a gift. The building was dedicated sior, with some lively members, and they are still in- the spirit. Dec. II, 1867, Rev. C. A. Staples, of Milwaukee, preaching the dedica­ DAVID HANKS. tory sermon. Mr. Roberts closed his pastorate Sept. 27, 1868 and on Oct. 11, Rev. Fred May Holland took charge of the soctety. He re­ mained in charge about four years, continuing to reside here, however, CATHOLIC, until 1867. Until the year 1859 there was no Casholic priest resident in Bara­ In the summer of 1^74 Rev. Samuel Longfellow occupied the pulpit boo, but ."the lost tribes pf the House of Israel" were attended occa­ for ten weeks and then for a-few months Rev. J. O. M. Hewitt acted as sionally from Sauk and other places by Revs. Gaertner, Montague and pastor. In Jan. 1876 it was decided to turn the church building into a Heiss. In the above year the Catholics purchased the little church of hall, to be known as the Free Congregational Hall. Accordingly the the Congregationalists on the corner of Second and Oak streets. Rev. pews were sold and replaced with benches and chairs, and a stage was Jas. Schreiner was pastor until 1869. Rev. Matt. White, 1869-71. Rev. erected with curtains, scenery, and • other accessories. The building Wm. J. Coughlin, 1871-73; he died here and is interred in the cemeter r was used in this way about seven years. beyoud Lyons town. Rev. A. Verberk succeeded him, and remained In 1881 efforts were made to inaugurate religious services once more about a year, When Rev. Aloy Laigneil was appointed in 1874. The and in October of that year Miss Mary H. Graves was installed as pas­ little red brick church was sold under his administration and the pres­ tor. She continued in this capacity until Aug. 1882. In die fall of 1882 ent St. Joseph's church erected. In 1876 he returned to his native Bel­ Rev, J. H. Crooker, of Madison, began to preach here Sunday evenings, gium. Rev. Chas. Gunkel was next pastor until 1878; Rev. A. Michel and for four years, with tireless missionary zeal, he continued his labors. until 1880, when Rev P. J. Lavin succeeded, remaining till 1887. Since In 1885 he turned the work over to Rev. Joseph Waite, of Janesville, then Rev. John T. Durward has been pastoj. The parish numbers at who for three years preached here Sunday evenings. present about 140 families. It is out of debt and the church will soon It was the desire of all that a resident pastor be secured if possible, be too small for the needs and devotion of the people. and one was found in the present incumbent, Rev. Lloyd Skinner, who It is, we understand, the intention of the Catholics of St. Joseph was settled May 1, 1889, and ordained May 5, 1880. The society is in church, Baraboo, to build a new church edifice and using the old one a prosperous financial condition being out of debt and expecting to have for a parochial school. The Catholics are pioneers in all new settle­ a balance in the treasury at the close of the year. There are about one ments in the christian religion. Old Father Gartner located at Lower hundred members and the congregations average between seventy and Sauk, at an early day, and made trips to Baraboo through the snow on eighty. The Sunday School has an average attendance of thirty-two, the Unity Club about twenty, and the Ladies Societv numbers between foot to establish the sacraments and rites of the church; and from here forty and fifty members. The present officers are: President, Ransom he went on to Dellona, Sank Co., for the same purpose. Jackson; Vice President, William Ellis; Secretary, E. Aug. Runge; Trustees, Hon. E. \V. Young, Hon. Fiank Avery, R. Jackson, Mrs. Clara T. Runge, Mrs. H. W. Abbott, E. G. Marriott. ADVENT. LLOYD SKINNER. The Advent Christian Church of Baraboo was organized and ac­ cepted ia the state conference in June, 1883. The first pastor was A. M. Barber, who came here in July, 1886, preached until March, 1880, SALEM CHURCH. in a rented hall on Oak street. Then commenced building a church on On the 24th of October, 1875, the first religious service of this Fourth street, east, which was dedicated Aug. 25, 1889, by Elder Meigs, denomination was held in the postoffice hall, by Rev. C. F. Finger. it having a seating capacity of joo in audience room. In April, 1880, a Among the leading names of those who figured in the early history of society of Young People's Christian Endeavor was organized in connec­ the society are the following: William Scharnke, Geo. Wolf and wife, tion with the church. Gust Scharnke and wife, Leo Schmidt and wife, Peter Sprecher, J. P. ( _-ie above was per kindness of Mrs. Geo. Capener. — W. H. C] Witwen and wife, T. Clavadatscher. In 1879 a neat brick veneered 35 church edifice was built on Second street and Broadway, at a cost of THE LADIES GUILD OF TRINITY CHURCH, BA1ABOO. about 12,500. This house of worship was dedicated the 12th of Octo­ • The object of this society is to promote the spiritual and temporal ber, 1879, by Bishop Thomas Bowman, of Chicago, 111. The Wisconsin interest of the church. The average membership since 1878 has been Conference held its session here in 1883. In 1880 a parsonage was built. This society works for foreign and home missions, and for the home The following pastors served since.its organization: Rev. C. F. Finger, poor, not confining themselves to church members in their charity. The I. C. Brendel, C. F. Reichert, C. Weagand, P. Massenger, H. Huelster, Guild since 1878 has earned by their work and iociables the sum of F. Illian, M. C. Werner. The membership ot the church is about 100. $2,826 which h-as been expended in missions, charity and preparing the The Sunday School numbers from 50 to 75, Rev. Rote, Supt. In 1890 grounds for the church which is now in process of erection; also assist­ a Women's Missionary Society was organised with the following officers: ed in building rectory. Mrs. E. Erffmeyer, Prest.; Mrs. H. Brown, Vice Prest.; Miss H. Meiss- ner, Sec; Mrs. Siebeckcr, Treasurer. GE1MAN M. E. CHU1CH. TRINITY. The German M. E. Church of Baraboo was organized in February, . In 1854 Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson made his first visit to Baraboo 1872. The Irst trustee board of tho same was elected Feb. 11,1872, con­ and was the missionary of the Protestent Episcopal Church in these sisting of George Wolfe, Ernst Sharnke and W. Shamke. Previous to this parts for three years. The Rev. Thos. Corlett settled as missionary in time the society met and held services in the basement-of the Irst if. E# 1858 and remained two years. There were no public sermons until 1866 church in Baraboo. The pastor of the Baraboo Circuit was Rev. Charles when the place was visited by the Revs. C. P. Dorset and William Dofter, Iwert, who, assisted by John Faller, local preacher, supplied this charge at who, to the great pleasure of the members held service in Taylor's Hall. that time. The following year, 1873, this society bought the church in The Rev. A. Z. M. Hudson came to reside in the place in 1867. The which they have since worshipped, situated on Second street opposite the name of the parish, under his ministry, was changed from "St. Paul" to high school building, from the Presbyterian society. The pastors have "Trinity." Mr. Hudson obtained subscriptions and purchased the pres­ been: C. W. Iwert, 1872 to 1875; Christ Werz, 1875 to 1876; Charles Hed- ler, 1878 to 1878; W. F. Kraeehman, 1878 to 1880; Gust Magdsich, 1880 to ent property at a cost of $3,700. During his ministry there was a Par­ 1881; F. B. Meyer, 1881 to 1884; S. F. Fritz, 1881 to I880; A. Berg, 1885 ish School, taught by the members of his family. In 1875 ^e¥- Mr. to 1888; C. F. Netzel, 1888 to 1890; A. H. Kopplin, 1890 to 1891. Hudson resigned and was succeeded by the Rev. Robert Ritchie, who P. H. KETSEB. remained from 1874 to 1878. In 1889 the Rev. W. T. Lemon was rector There are four churches In this circuit: One in the town of West-field, one in Freedom, and under his administration The Ladies Guild of Trinity Church, one in Caledonia, and one In the City of Baraboo. Whole membership 148, That of Baraboo Baraboo, was organized (see their report). On July 1, 1880, the Rev. City 30 fuU members, seven probations. Membership of Sunday School 45. Samuel B. Cowdrey accepted a call to the parish and during his minis­ try the parish has removed the old chapel to the northwest corner of the lots at a cost of f 2oo. Besides a new "rectory, graded the lot and built EGAS SOCIETY. sidewalks at a cost of over $1,900. The benediction of the rectory took place on Thursday evening, May 3, 1888 at 9:30. November 12, 1890, A very prominent association of Women in the beginning* of the war of the contract was made for the building of a new stone church to cost the rebellion was the "Dorcas Society," It was unsectarfan, ani its chief about f 6,000. Wednesday, April 19. 1891 the ground was broken for the office was to administer to the needs of union soldiers. In September, 1883, at a called meeting a re-organization was had under the name of "Ladies new church, the work on which is in progress at the present date. The Charitable Association." Mra. M. A. Donovan, President; Mrs. M. Mires, size of the new church is 35 by 75 feet, with a seating capacity of Secretary. What moneys or charities raised at Thanksgiving sermons were about 300. It is expected that the building will be ready to occupy by usually put into their hands. Messrs. Huntington, Mires, Train, Slade, October 1, next. The present number of communicants is about 40; Rich and many others have done and are doing much to alleviate human of families 43; persons connected with the congregation 152. The suffering. A lady said to me that: "she had lived in several other towns, present value of the church property fnot including the new church) is but Baraboo exceeded all that she knew of in charities." The religious $3,000. SAM'L B. COWDREY, Rector. societies look very much after the poor that are not only of their own mem­ June 15, 1891. bership but others as well. CIVIC SOCIETIES.

E. G. E¥enden, City Civil Engineer has kindly furnished the W. D. Truax, S. D.; G. O. Miller, J.-D.; David Munson, Secy.; M, C Baraboo Hist. Sketch a few items of interest: Waite, Treasurer; Daniel Ruggles* Wm. Phelps, I). Schemerhorn, T. L. BABABOO LODGE NO. 4? KNIGHTS OP PYTHIAS. The following named individuals have been W. M of the lodge, now dead and now living, to-wit: Col James A. Maxwell, dead; W. D. Organised 1886. Charter issued May 12, 1886. Membership 60. Ob­ Truax, dead; M. C. Waite, living; Edward Sumner, dead; Daniel Eug­ ject, social enjoyment and mutual assistance. gles, living; F. M. Stewart, living; Wm. Jay, dea-d; H. A. Peck, dead; T. C. Thomas, living; li. S. Vittum, dead; John Barker, dead; W. W. Andrews, living; W. B. Blachley, living; R. Metcalf, dead; Levi Crouch, BABABOO DIVISION NO. 22 UNIFOEM BANK KNIGHTS OP living; J. C. Link, living; J. H. Hull, living; Lawrence Watson, living; PYTHIAS. and W. W. Andrews, the present incumbent. Some six of the above Organized 1890. Charter issued May 7, 1890. Membership 30 military have held the office two or three terms during the pa-it 39 years. rank. Object the same as above. Tee lodge has always been in a prosperous condition and has made many masons. Quite a large number having demitted at different times, some for the purpose of forming new lodges, to-wit: Eureka at DEVIL'S LAKE CAMP NO. 390 MODE EN WOODMEN OP Sauk City, Reedsburg and Delton. Others have left this jurisdiction. AMEBIC A. Q lite a number have died, to-wit: Harvey Canfield, Col. Jas. Maxwell, D. Munson, D. Crandall, Bela Warner, Beia Brown, E. D. Olio, A. W. Organized 1887. Charter issued September 1, 1887. Membership 56. Slarks, S. V. R. Ableman, H. G. Jones, H. C. Sanford. Lewis Btitterleld, Object, insurance, social enjoyment and mutual assistance. Horace Rice, J. G. Wheeler, H. A. Peck, R. A. Orvis, Wm. Jay, Benja­ min Thomas, Oliver Th-jmas, T. D. Lang, Isaac Flynn, P. J. Parsliall, D. S. Vittum, Wm. Hudson, John Barker, T. W. Jacobs, G. G. Pearle, BABABOO LODGE NO. 80 ANCIENT OKDEB UNITED WORKMEN J. Gibbs, T. Ferris, J. B Dunn, A. Haero, R. Metcalf, E. T. Peck, J. A. Organized 1881. Charter issued May 23, 1881. Membership 156. Struthers, E. A. Watkins, J. Weirich, Charles Wing, N. W. Wheeler, Geo.

Object,insurancef social enjoyment and mutual assistance Miller, H. Mc Kennan, H. Peachlie, J. Spencer. The lodge now numbers about 160 in good standing. The lodge has, by its committee, lately purchased the old Peter Pulsora property BABABOO YALLEY LEGION NO. 7 SELECT KNIGHTS OF on the corner of Oak and Second streets, where they will soon erect a AMERICA, MILITARY ORDER 1885. masonic temple to be occupied by the Blue Lodge and Chapter, and Charter issued Jan. 27, 1885. Object, insurance, social enjoyment likely by the Right Royal Cpmmandry of Knight Templars. There may and mutual assistance. Members are uniformed and are required to be some errors and omissions. The ab we is as correct as I am able attend drill. to give from the records of the Blue Lodge M. C. WAITE.

BADGER LODGE NO. 2 DEGREE OP HONOR, ANCIENT ORDER OP UNITED WORKMEN. INDEPENDENT OBDEB OF ODD FELLOWS. This lodge was organized, but was not successful, and soon went 'Organized ia 1889. Charter issued Nov. 11, 1889. Membership down. The present lodge, No. 51, was chartered Oct. 23, 1871, with the 80. This order is similar to the Rebecca of the I. O. O. F. The wives following charter members: O. K Noyes, E. M. Coon, H. H. Webster, and daughters of members of the Ancient Order of United Workmen as H. D. Snell, James Dykins and W/O. Stephenson. It has now a lit­ members of the order are admitted into this order. Object, social. tle over loo members. The lodge owns its own building, 22x110. Store THE BADGER LODGE No. 2, Degree of Honor Auxiliary to the An­ on irst loor, lodge above- The following is the list of Noble Grands cient Order of United Workmen, organized in Baraboo, Nov. 11, 1889. from 1871: D. K. Noyes, H. H. Webster, L. O. Holmes, H. D. Potter, Its object is to embrace and give equal protection to all classes, and H. D. Snell (d.Md), J. W Blake, A. A. Roberts, A. H. Cowles (dead), kinds of labor, mental and physical. Give substantial aid to the needy, F. Baringer, R. G Evenden, S. F. Smith, E. G. Marriott, H. Marriott, and inspire a true appreciation of the stern realities and responsibilities A. F. Herfort, 1. N. Turner, J. G. Gollmar, T. Speilan, Phil Bock, €. L. of life. This association has opened an industrial school for girls free to Brewster, W. b\ Wackier, R. L. Hoskin, A. J. Carow, H. E. Cross, C. C all. No one is eligible to membership in the Degree of Honor unless Horstman and Will Little, the present incumbent. ihey be a relative of a member in good standing in the Ancient Order of Northwestern encampment No. 20, L O. O. F. was instituted at United Woikmen ^ Reedsburg on the 15th day of June, 1868, by C. C Cheeney, of Janes- viile. After two years work the lodge at that place ha¥ing suspended the camp surrendered its charter. On the 15th day of November, 1875, BARABOO LODGE NO. M, A. F. & A. M. it was renewed and located at Baraboo. The following were the char­ Received its dispensation in 1851. Names of the applicants of the dis­ ter members: L. O. Holmes, P. P. Palmer, H. D. Potter, Thos. Libby, pensation were Col. James Maxwell, Harvey Canleid, David Munson, A. H. Cowles, A. C. Tuttle and S. F. Smith. The camp was instituted by Dr. J. H. Vivian, Grand Patriarch of Mineral Point The following Daniel Schemerhorn, G. G. Gollmar, D. W. Truaxf J. G. Wheeler, Geo. Miller and Hjratio G. Jones, all now dead but one ~G G. Gollmar. are the past Chief Patriarchs: L. O. Holmes, A. F. Herfort, A. J, June, 1852, application was made in state grand lodge for charter Carow, C. L. Brewster, H. Shoenfeldt, H. D. Potter, F. Baringer, D. K. by M. C. Waite. Charter granted. Members under the charter: Col. Noyes, J. W. Blake, S. Jennings and C. Coleman, the present incumbent. James Maxwell, W. M ; Harvey Canfield, S. W.; G. G. Gollmar J. W.; The camp has about 50 members and has a Past Grand Patriarch (L. O. 37 HolmesJ among its members, who is now Grand Scribe, with head BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS. quarters of that branch of the order in Baraboo. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division 176, was organ­

CANTON RELIANCE NO. J, PATR1AECH*S MILITANT 1. O. O. F. ized at Baraboo, Wis., in December, 1874, with five charter members, and have steadily increased until at the present time the? have a mem­ This is the uniformed branch of the order and is composed of bership of 108. Four members have been killed during this time while Royal Purple Dsgree members from Baraboo to Elroy." Has about 40 in discharge of their duty, and two have died a natural death, and forty- members. Was instituted by Maj. Van S. Bennett, of Rockton. L. O. three have withdrawn to join other divisions. All of these members Holmes is Captain, Wm. Raetzman Lieut, C. D. Huff, Ensign. have held the responsible position of engineer on the Madison division [I solicited fnformation from Lucian Holmes relative to the history of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and at present the 108 mem­ of the L O. O. F. of Baraboo and was favored with the above. The bers are employed here, with one or two exceptions, and a very large principles and objects of the society is self protection, as we believe, majority of them live in Baraboo. and is generally well understood by the public.-- W. H. C] The present officers of this division are: J. E. Fellows, Chief Engineer; J. E. Shields, First Engineer; P. Michaud, Second Engineer; C. W. Shelper, First and Second Assistant Engineer; T. D. Byrnes, JOE HOOKEB POST. Third Assistant Engineer; W. G. Wallace, Guide; A. A. Hull, Chap»* Joe Hooker Post No. 9, G. A. R., was organized March 3, 1880, at lain. Their meetings are held in their hall, on third street, the first 3 P. M , by comrade A. G. Densmore, chief mustering officer, and the Monday at 7:30 P. M. and the third Sunday at 1:30 P. M. of each following admitted as charter members: H. Albreeht, C. Bender, W month. Palmer, Geo. Bloom, J. C. Spencer, H. Southard, P. E. Longley, W. H. The total number of Divisions of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Staten, R. Delap, Vol. Moore, Tom. Scott, J. Whitty and G. A. Pabodie Engineers throughout the United States and Canada are 452, with a total After muster they elected as Irst officers: Phil. Cheek, Jr., P. C; L. O. membership of about 35,030. Holmes, S. V. C; G. A. Pabodie, J. V. C; IL Albreeht, Q. M.; T. C About two years ago a division of the Grand International Auxiliary Thomas, O. D.; W. H. Stattn, O. G.; I). K. Noyes, Chap. J. C. Spen to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was organized here by the cer was appointed Adjt. The following week H. McKennan was mus< engineers' wives, which has done much towird the social entertainment tered and elected surgeon. Their first meeting was held in Odd Pel ot railroad people of this city. 1 hey have at present a membership of lows' Hall. The first death of a comrade of Joe Hooker Post was D. S 30. Their meetings are held in the engineer's hall the first and third Vittum, April 10th, 1880, and the last that of our late Quarter Master, Saturdays of each month, at 2 P. M. HENRY. TINKHAM, Eng. H. Albreeht, Feb. 10, 1891. There were mustered and re-instated the first year 50; 2d year 31; 3d year 18; 4th year 71; 5th year 12; 6th year 15; 7th, 8th and^jth years 25; 10th year 15; and last year 10; making BROTHERHOO ^ LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN. a total of 247, of which number we have with us in good standing 141 A LOBOE No. 26. members, the others having either withdrawn, been suspended or are The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is for the purpefse of dead The Past Commanders of Joe Hooker Post are: Phil Cheek, Jr., uniting locomotive firemen and elevating their social, moral and intel­ D. E. Welch, L. O. Holmen, H. Albreeht, D. K. Noyes and M. Spring, lectual standing, and for- the protection of their interests and the promo­ our present commander. The following comrades have held positions tion of their general welfare. It is the aim of the Brotherhood to culti­ in our department. Phil. Cheek, Jr., Dept. Commander; H. Albreeht, vate a spirit of harmony between the members of the Brotherhood and Q. M. General; L. O. Holmes, Chief Mustering Officer; J. H. Whitney, their employers. Realizing the fact that our vocation involves ceasless Assistant Adjt. Gen. and Chaplain; D. E. Welch, Council of Adminis­ peril, and that it is a duty we owe ourselves and our families to make tration. suitable provision against those disasters which almost daily overtake The Post is in good working order, with a good average attendance. us on the rail, the necessity of protecting our interests as firemen, of Our society is not one of wealth, but a needy comrade never has to let extending to each other the hand of charity, and being sober, industri­ his wants be known but once and they will be granted if in our power. ous and honorable men, becomes self-evident; and hence the Brother­ With such backing as we have to look after the poor, needy and sick hood has adopted as its cardinal principle the motto: Protection. Char­ comrades and their families as our W. R. C. there is no such word a^ ity, Sobriety and Industry. fail. They have taken a good deal of hard work off our shoulders, be­ Alpha Lodge No. 26, Baraboo, Wis., was organized April 28, 1882, sides helping us financially and socially. Socially our Post is in a good with a charter membership of 16. The progress the lodge has made is condition, with one of the best Drum Corps in the Dept. With poets, shown by the present membership of 75. The officia! organ of the singers, off-hand speakers and our Relief Corps to ah1 us, the prospects Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is the magazine published at Terra are that Joe Hooker Post No. 9 will be in a flourishing condition for Haunte, Indiana, one of the first labor organization journals published. some time to cjnie. Respectfully submitted, The first lodge of Locomotive Firemen was organized at Port Jarvis, N. W. O. PIETZSCH, Adjt. Y., December 1, 1873. Now there are organized 425 lodges in the United States and Canada, with a membership of 20,000 firemen. THE JOE HOOKEB EEL1EF CORPS NO. 36, AUXILIARY TO GRAND ARMY OF THE FEANZ FARWELL. REPUBLIC. Organized in Baraboo, Dec. 28th, 1888, with 25 charter members. To BARABOO LODGE 177 B. OF R. T. the present date it numbers 57 members. "The Woman's Relief Corps is to assist the Grand Army of the Republic and inculcate lessons of This lodge was organized December 21. 1885, with 15 charter mem­ patriotism and love of country among our children and tho community bers. Since its organization it has prospered in every way and now it in which we live." To render assistance to widows, orphans and army has the largest membership of any railroad order in the city, its prin­ nurses of the Sokliers, Sailors and Marines of the G. A. R. All loyal ciples are Sobriety, Benevolence and Industry. The membership is women are eligible to membership in the Woman's Relief Corps. Each composed of conductors, brakemen and switchmen, m*hich come under Corps works under a Department of the State in which they are organiz­ the head of trainmen. Their meetings are held in the A. O. U. W. hall ed. Th^ir motto being Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty. the second and fourth Sunday at 2:30 P. M. [uggw—Miirt

38 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS. WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. Baraboo Lodge No. 13, I. O. G. T., was organized July 5, 1889, by The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was organized In Bara­ Rev. E. O. Taylor, district lecturer. Charter members: Loma Young, boo April ii, 1879, and Put forth the following as their reason for organ­ Florence Young, Carrie Nixon, Lizzie Nixon, Isa Rogers, Foy Conway, ization: Ethel Dopp, Alfie Thomas. Florence Sawyer, Jessica Sawyer, Eifie Lip- We, the undersigned, believing that the use of intoxicating liquors pitt, M. A. Burt, H. L. Palmer, Wm. Thomas, Harry Harpe, Ernest is the cause of much crime, pauperism and degradation, and that woman Bentley, Geo. Carrow, E. R. Sidell, Wm. Simon, T. J. Snodgrass, W. A. has a special duty and interest in the promotion of purity and good Lawson, Alburn Lippitt, LeGrande Lippitt, Geo. Tinkham, R. B. Griggs, morals do agree to abstain from the use of all intoxicating liquors, in­ Willard Sherman, J. JNL Savage, Mrs. R. B. Griggs, Mrs. J. C. Collins, cluding wine, beer and cider, and do form ourselves into a society for Mrs. Geo. Dopp, Mrs. W. A. Lawson, Mrs. Emma Sherman, S. E. the purpose of disseminating the principles of total abstinence, and will Sweet, Lizzie Williams, Annie Skinner, Loyd Skinner, P. H. Keyser, hold ourselves in readiness at all times to carry out such measures, as Claude Grover, E. W. Young, Edna Thomas, Dan Ruggles, F. N. Catliin, shall, by us, be deemed wise to the end that the manufacture, traffic in Arthur Capener, Jennie English, Emma Simon, Alice Rooney, N. H. and UPC of alcohol as a beverage may be forever abolished, trusting that Sherman. Present officers: Grace McFarlin, chief templar; Anna the Divine Ruler of the universe will aid us In every good work. Douglass, vice chief templar; Alice Rooney, secretary. Number of Mrs L. G. Kendall presided at the irst meeting, April 11, 1879J members in good standing, 45. when the following officers were elected: Mrs. S. W. Horner, Pres.; Mrs. Wm. Butler, 1st ¥. fres ; Mrs. L. G. Kendall, 2d ¥. Pres.; Mrs. S. A. Walton, Rec. Sec'y; Mrs. E. P. Lewis, Cor. Sec'y; Mrs. Sam. G. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Crouch, Treasurer. In June, 1887, in a room 10 by 12, over the jewelry store of C. E. The following ladles haYe acted as officers: Presidents —Mrs. S. W. Ryan, was formed the first Young Men's Christian Association with Horner, Mrs. Wm. Butler, Mrs. L.Thompson, Mrs. H..L. Halstead, eight members. The membership was small but they were full of enthu­ Mrs. J. O. Prouty, Mrs. H. C. Strong. Vice Presidents—Mrs. Wm. But­ siasm." In May, 1882, the association was organized under the name of ler, Mra. L. G. Kendall, Mrs. S. A. Walton, Mrs. S. O. Brown, Mrs. J. O.. the Railway Young Men's Christian Association Since that date the Prouty, Mrs. W. E. Conway, Mrs. H. Webster, Mrs. R. J. McGinnis. association has been more aggressive and more useful. After several Miss Or. Messenger, Mrs. J. W. Wood, Mrs. E. P. Lewis, Mrs. M. Ben­ years of patient and united effort, a lot on the corner of Second and Ash son, Mrs. H. L. Halsted, Mrs. R. B. Griggs, Mrs. W. A. Lawson, Mrs. L. streets was bought and the foundation of a building laid In the sum­ B. Avery. Recording Secretaries—Mrs. S. A. Walton, Miss A. Sneathen, mer of 1890 a brick veneer building 53x63 was erected and in October Mrs. J. G. Ford, Mrs. W. R. Greenwood, Mrs. E. K. Tuttle, Mrs. W. A. of the same year it was opened to the public. The building consists of Lawson, Mrs. F. T. Brewster. Corresponding Secretaries—Mrs. E. P, a reception and game room; reading room with the leading papers and Lewis, Mrs- C. A. Alexander, Mrs. H. C. Strong, Mrs. D. A. Lewis, Mrs. periodicals, also a library of about 500 volumes; a members' parlor, R. B. Griggs. Treasurers—Mrs. Sam'i Crouch, Mrs. J. G. Ford, Mrs. E. nicely furnished; a fine parlor for'the use of the Ladies* Auxiliary, who P. Lewis, Mrs. S. G. Walton, Mrs. R. B. Griggs, Mrs. J. Tillotson. render valuable assistance to the association; a boys' room and lecture The National W. C. T. U. prosecutes over 40 departments of work room. In the basement is the Gymnasium nicely equipped with ail the and each union decides for themselYes, the departments they will take apparatus necessary for all the proper development of the body; also up. The Baraboo Union have taken up the following departments: two bowling alleys extending the full length of the building. The bath 1. Sabbath observance. 2. Sunday school work. 3. County fair work. room containing tub and shower water is also of much importance. 4. Scientilc temperance instruction. 5. Press department 6. Social The value of the association and the building to the city cannot be esti­ purlety (white cross and white shield). 7. Evangelistic. 8. Lumber­ mated, nor its assistance and benefit to the young men tabulated. The men's work. 9. Temperance literature. 10. Jail and prison. 11. So­ officers and directors at present are: F. T. Brewster, President; H. C cial department 12. Flower mission. 13. Juvenile department Strong. Vice President; E. A. Prouty. Rec. Sec'y; P. H. Keyser, Treas.; 14. Demorest contest. D. A. Lewis, Gen. See's; R. Henderson, J. T. Gething, Dr. G. L. G. All'the departments have their special line of literature and a na­ Cramer, J. Tillotson and W. H. Jacobs. The present value of the prop­ tional state and local .superintendent. The national organ of the W. C. erty owned by the association is 111,000. T. U., "The Union Signal," at the time of the organization of the Bara­ There is a "Woman's Auxiliary" to the Y. M. C. A. that renders boo Union had a circulation of 3,000. After suffering a loss of one- much aid to the working of the institution. Mrs. J. W. Wright, Prest.; third their" circulation by boycott during the presidential election of Mrs. Squires, Vice Prest.; Mrs# Henry Hale, Sec'y; Mrs. Henry Mar­ 1884, they iiave to-day (1891) a circulation of 85,000 copies. The "Statc riott, "Treas. Work," published at Madison, is the organ of the state Union, and has a good circulation. The Baraboo Union consists of 92 members and holds business meetings regular on the first Thursday of each month. THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. (A. P. A.) Public meetings, lectures, etc. are held at Intervals during the year. Organized April, »I88I, by — Dixon, state organizer. Objects: County districts, state and national conventions are held regular. Since 1. Free maintenance of our free school system. 2. No union of church 1884 the Baraboo Union has raised and expended $1,327.50, 8100 of this and state. 3. All contracts shall be fulfilled before any money is paid amount being their contribution-to the Temperance Temple now being on them. 4. We believe in a restriction of immigration. 5. To become erected in Chicago at a cost of $1,000,000. The Influence of the com­ American citizens, all allegiance to foreign power, either ecclesiastical bined organization is, well Illustrated in the passage of Scientific Temper­ or political should be renounced. 6. All members must be 21 years or ance laws in 34 states, and the national law covering 10 territories, the over of age. At the present time (July) they number about 100 and in Dist. of Columbia and all military, naval and other schools under fed­ the U. S. 2,000,000. eral contral. Laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors in 31 [We have nnderstood that no Romanist can tojloirj to Oils society; and we hate further states, the Dist. of Columbia and several cities. Woman of all political been told that the Romanists have an orgaalzation the object of which are to antagonize the A. P. A.. And we have further heard that there already have been collisions wherein firearms and religious beliefs are cordially welcomed to membership, i.nly one have been used. If these Items are true it is a bad showing for Christianity—the mother church condition being imposed; Total abstinence from ail intovicatl-ig liquor and her rebellious offspring, A christian should lo¥e and not hate; even his enemies he should and a small fee; in the Baraboo Union 52 cents per year. not late; ant not be secretly plotting one against the other for injury. Digjfeed-by Google I much regret that the features of the IMAQK which Is sealed upon a sphere representee! stationed along the way at frequent intervals, as that road was considered upon the opposite side of this leaf should have been so obscured by dark shading, for they are very perfect In th* little statute, from which the photo was taken, which Is made of some hard then pretty well on the frontier. material, so hard that a pocket knife will not scratch It, and so perfect that yon seem to read her "My father was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. You know Bur- thoughts, and say she is pensively meditating. goyne was a good deal of a boaster and he had said to the British govern­ ment, 'Give me 10,000 picked men and I'll start from Quebec and swing along down through the colonies and close up this Yankea upstart war in no time at all' Well, he got his 10,000 men and started out very bravely, COL. EDWARD SUMNER. making for the head of Lake Champialn and striking across the country to O get down to the Hudson river. My father and some fifteen or twenty of his His Deaih Occurred November 12th, at ike Advanced Ago of Ninety-four. friends had started out on a hunting expedition and had pushed a good waj into the western wilderness, expecting to make a camp, and remain several months. But they heard that Burgoyne and his army were not more than twenty-five miles away and they determined to see him, so they followed the The venerable patriarch, Col. Edward Sumner, father of Mrs. J. T. army up until the Yankees had surrounded Burgoyne and he was finally Taylor of Locust street, passed awaj yestesday morning at 3 o'clock, after forced to surrender, my father and his friends being on the spot." having been confined to his bed for eleven months. Although his physical powers had succumbed to the advance of old age, Col. Sumner retained his "Of course that was long before my day, but 1 was a well-grown lad of mental vigor in a remarkable degree to the last. sixteen when the war of 1812 occurred and remember those times well. 1 He was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, June 27,1796, and was, therefore, was in New York City and it was pretty stirring times. You know all about considerably over 94 years of age. Born in the last term of the presidency the great naval victory of the frigate Constitution over the British slip of George Washington, Col. Sumner's reminiscences of the events of the cen­ Guerriere, which the British had formerly captured from the French. I tury were most interesting, and his vigorous memory enabled him to recall was in New York when the Constitution towed the Guerriere into the har­ the history of his life and time in detail. A lengthy sketch of those events bor, the old French ship being completely dismasted and dismantled." appeared in the Surf last March, fle had been an invalid for a long while, Mr. Sumner, after a few moments reflection, said: "I believe 1 can re­ but was mercifully spared severe stiff ?nng at the last and his death was member a few lines of an old song that was very popular and was sung by peaceful. everybody in those days just as popular songs are now. It was something Col. Sumner leaves two daughters, Mrs. J. T. Taylor, who has been de­ like this: voted to him during the long months of his helplessness, and Mrs. Bobert "The bold Constitution, a ship of some fame, Taylor ot Oakland; also a son, Henry Sumner. Sure each jolly sailor remembers her name, The funeral services will be held at the Taylor House this afternoon at On the 19th of August o'er took the Guerriere, 2:30 and the remains will be taken to Oakland for interment. A frigate once captured from *General Mounseer.' The Surf of March 15th, 1890, gives the following interesting reminis­ "Proud Acres commanded the enemy's ship, cences of the eventful life of Col. Sumner: Who often had sworn every Yankee to whip, In the hurried life of this Western coast one of the many privileges too And had boasted that it would be his delight often neglected is that of talking with those aged people still among us To beat an American frigate in fight. whose lives and memories stretch away back into the morning of the cen­ "This boasting commander his crew now addressed, tury, and who often possess a fund of reminiscence and experience which is Which was partly composed of Americans pressed, too valuable to allow it to pass away with their shortening days. Says he, 'my brave lads, my wish is fulfilled, There are many of these in Santa Cruz, and among them perhaps the For it's better to captur? a ship than to build. most venerable patriarch is Edward Sumner, father of Mrs. J. T. Taylor, of "And just fifteen minutes of our fierce British fire the Taylor House on Locust street. A Surf representative, having asked Will give me the ship, and you your desire/ the privilege of a little talk with Mr. Sumner, was cordially welcomed and Then at it they went in a deluge of fire, invited to the room where he is lying ill, or rather worn out with years and Each party too stubborn an inch to retire. waiting anxiously for the day when lie shall "pass over ^° the other side" and be with those who have gone before. He is a gentleman of fine ap­ "Fifteen minutes they fought, then the British gave in. pearance, with a massive head crowned with snowy hair ani a face which, Their ship was disabled and they could not win, though aged, does not seem as if it had so nearly looked upon the close of a On her rigging and spar, Yankee shot had told well century—for he will bo ninety-four years old if he lives till June next. He And main-mast and mizzon-tnast tottered and fell." retains his faculties in a remarkable degree. "The Constitution and Guerriere wore both fully repaired and one fine The Sumner family, one of the largest and most influential in New Eng­ day saw them sail down the New York harbor with every inch of canvas land, was founded by three brothers who came to America with the Pilgrims. spread. It was a glorious sight and was witnessed by the whole population. One settled in New Hampshire, one In S. Carolina, where he founded the fam­ They sailed around the bay two or three times as if proud of their own ily of Sumners of the South, and one settled in Boston and, as is well known, beauty and then made for the open sea. At that time the British had ail in later years the population of that city was pretty largely composed of Sum- our ports blockaded but the two ships slipped out without being attacked. tiers. Governor Increase Sumner of Massachusetts was a great uncle of Mr. However, the 'British bloodhounds' were soon after them in full chase. The Edward Sumner. Constitution and Guerriere put for the Connecticut shore and slipped into "My father, Thomas Sumner," said the old gentleman, "was not a sol­ the mouth of the Thames river. They kept on up the river, lightening as dier of the Revolution but, as he was engaged in the business of transporta­ they went by unloading their guns and planting them on the banks as de­ tion, he saw much of the war and had many memorable experiences. He fenses until they got miiere the water was so shallow they could go no furth­ had a great reverence for Lafayette and an affection for France because of er. On each side of the river were growing fields and the two big ships her aid in our time of need. A part of this aid was in the substantial form looked as if they were resting in a corn field. The British officers from the of a ship-load of five-franc pieces which sailed into Boston harbor from la blockading vessels used to come ashore in New York and have pretty good belle France. This had to be distributed where most needed. My father times with our officers, and one night a jolly Britisher said to a party of loaded a six-horse wagon with five-franc pieces and drove it from Boston to Americans, "You've got the best of us this time but we'll have the Guerriere Fishkill Landing on the Hudson river. There was not so mnch danger back again if we have to bring her out of the corn field by the peck!" about the trip as you might suppose for there were a good many soldiers "General Harrison, at that time, had command of all the Western fron- 40 tier and made, as you know, a fine military record. Afterwards, during the In the sketch of Mr. Sumner there is left a blank of more than 4 hard cid«r' campaign of 1840, w?hen Harrison ran for president, 1 lived in 50 years. Much of that time I was a personal friend in his family, and Ohio and, being an enthusiastic Whig, I was with Harrison a good deal. 1 write from memory alone, therefore not exactly elear as to dates. In 1822 went with him to a celebration held at Fort Meiggs, on the Maumee river, he, with his young wife, who was only fifteen years of age, opened a board­ above Toledo, where he had achieved a victory over the Indians. We made ing house in Middleburg, Ohio, now a part of Akron. Later he and his quite a night of it, had a camp fire and a sham battle, and the General told brother Increase were engaged in merchandise quile successfully for a few many a reminiscence of Ms Indian fighting days. One that interested me, years. He then left the village and wont to farming one and a half miles was his account of how he won the battle of Tippecanoe, which gave him from Akron, where he remained until he came to Wisconsin in 1847. Wis­ his name of 'Tippecanoe' Harrison. consin was then a territory. In April of that year Baraboo village was plat­ "The British met him on the plains of Tippecanoe and their forces far ted, tho county seat given here, and Mr. Sumner was among the first to outnumbered his. They were, you know, aided by the great Tecumseh and locate here. He built the first hotel, was largely interested in all public his Indian wrarr!ors. The enemy were drawn into line of battle, two deep, building and improvement of every kind. In 1849 he and his eldest son with the Indians supporting the center. General Harrison• was too cute to Walstein went to California, but with little success financially. His invest­ place his men in a lino which wouldn't have been more than half the length ments in village property here returned him a very pretty profit. He was a of theirs. So he called to counsel the gallant Gen. Richard M. Johnson, true man, generous, genial and kind. He and his family were Uuiversalists who camnianded a body of brave Kentuckians mounted on blooded *blue in their religious views, yet charitable to all orthodox churches; their doors grass' stock and said, "General, can you and your cavalry break the center were open to all. Mr. Sumner believed in Spiritualism, although ho never of that line?' *I think we can, General Harrison.' attempted to force his views on others. In 1862 or 1884 ho returned to Cal­ 'Well, form your men in solid column, four abreast, and, at the blast of ifornia with his family, consisting of a wife, two daughters and three sons, the bugle, make a dash for the center.' all highly respected and loved by all who knew them. Mrs. Sumner died "This order was strictly carried out, Johnson dashed for the center, about ten years ago. Since that Mr. Sumner has made his home with Mrs. broke the line and deployed his men to the left and right, using sabres and John Taylor, his daughter, where he was living at the time of his death. pistols with deadly effect. He told me that the only wound he received Few men, I think, leave a fairer record than he. Although his life was not was the loss of the thumb of his bridle hand. As soon *as it was gone he filled with startling and great events, yet that man is a great man who took the reins between his teeth and dashed on. The Indians, who had ex­ leaves a clean record and esteemed by all who knew him. He was a relative pected a stand up fight, were completely demoralized and scattered every­ of Senator Chas. Sumner. His brother John was highly excentric (interesting where. Gen. Johnson himself was the man who killed Tecumseh. anecdotes can be related of him). He had several brothers that were "Well," said Mr. Sumner, laughing quite heartily, "that was a great wealthy, respectable men. campaign, but we beat 'em with log cabins and hard cider and coon skins. 1 was one of a committee to invite Gen. Harrison down to our town of Akron for a mass meeting, and when the time came, I was marshal of the day. We marched out to receive him in military style, had a field piece COL. MARVIN C. WAITE. and plenty of lags flying—It was a great day." Was born in East Mendon, Munroe Co., N. Y, December 13, 1809, "Do you remember your first trip on a railway?" asked the reporter. where he resided until. 14 years of age. Ho then went to Batavie, Genesee "O, yes; it was a short road from Albany to Schenectady. The weather Co., N. Y. From 1829 to 1833 he was traveling on the road with a wagon, was cold and the rails covered with ice. The little engine couldn't start the selling patent medicines. In 1835 ho went to Darien, N. Y., where he lived train so at every station we begged ashes from the nearest house to put on a little over a year. In 1836 he went to Tecumseh, Mich., and engaged In the rails till we could get started. There is quite a steep grade going down the hotel business for over a year. Iu 1838 he went via. Pikes Peak to into Schenectady and the only way they could manage that hill was with Oregon, to the Columbia river and to Its mouth. In the spring of 1839 he a cable which was hitched to the rear of the train to hold it back, when going came back to Palmyra, N. Y.; remained there until October in the brick down and also used to pull it up again. One day the cable broke and the trade. Went to Mud Creek, Steuben Co., N. Y., then went Into hotel and train went smashing down Into town and demoralized a small house or two. grocery business until the fall of 1841. He then bought a woolen mill and "The first steamboat I traveled on was a little one that carried passengers saw mill near Bath in the same county; ran it one year and a half, then on the Hudson between Albany and Troy." went to Parted Post and kept hotel until the fall of 1847, then came to Ra­ "You have witnessed many inventions and improvements, Mr. Sumner," cine, Wis.; was there until tho spring of 1848, then removed to Whitewater, said the reporter. Wis., where he practiced law until November, 1849, tvhen he came to Bara­ 44Yes, yes; when 1 look back over the century it seems as if the wonder­ boo where he engaged in law, real estate and nursery business, giving much ful things had crowded upon each other so fast that it almost dazes me to attention to horticulture. In 1873 went to Bloomington, 111., arid engaged think of it. in the abstract, loan and insurance business. Returned to Baraboo in Oc­ "1 believe I am one of the oldest Masons in the United States. It is tober, 1879. He was court commissioner 12 years; was appointed by Gov. 72 years since I joined the order at Glen's Falls, New York. I have been Dewey first appraiser of the university lands of this district; notary public Master of a great many lodges, and High Priest of the Chapter. 1 think 1 20 years; appointed by Gov. Dewey Colonel of the 27th Light Infantry. have conferred as many degrees as any living man. I have also established Was married first in Medina, Orleanes Co, N. Y., in 1834, to Elvira C. a great many lodges, and have been called upon to lay the corner stone of Shole; she died in 1837, leaving one child, Helen E., now Mrs. Edson many fine edifices, among them Hudson College and the Masonic building Wheeler, of Valley Springs, Minnehaha Co., D. T. Married his second wife at Columbus, Ohio. I have seen Masonry live through many and serious at Hornellsville, N. Y., Dec. 1839, Miss Emily A. Robinson. There was attacks, but it survives and will; it is stronger than its enemies." one child living of this marriage, Clara V., now Mrs. H. G. Ellis, of Mr. Sumner In bidding good bye to the representative of the Surf, spoke St. Louis, Mo.; second wife died in 1867; in 1868 he married Susie A. of his death as likely to occur very soon, with as much calmness as if it was Tyler; She died in 1875. Married again Oct. 1878 at Madison, Wis., to the beginning of a brief journey. He has been a Spiritualist in belief for Mrs. Lydia A. Garlick; she died on Decoration Day, May 30, 1885. He be­ many years, and says he finds nothing but happiness in the thought of came a member of the I. O. O. F. In 1839. Became a Mason in 1834 in going. He does not speak of the future as a matter of faith or belief, but Genesee Co., N. Y. joined the Baraboo lodge in 1851. Was educated at as a matter of which he knoim as certainly as he knows the most every day East Bloomfieid Academy and at Hamilton College. Is now 82, doing affairs. His devoted daughter speaks of his life as having been one of some business, but spends much of his time in his lower garden. He exemplary devotion to duty, and his last days are passing as peacefully as thinks of giving up a business life to spend his remaining winters with his most loving friends could wish for him. some grand-children in tho south. His circumstances are easy and he is —From the Santa Cruz (Cal) Daily Surf. awaiting the summons. SSS MMBaBB

41 Sauk County Agricultural Society This was estimated at 700 inches, producing nearly 150 horse power. The prime sbject was the conversion of our ample supply of timber into had its organization in the village of Baraboo. The meeting was held furniture and agricultural implements. Tie so-called upper mill furni­ February 22, 1S55. Alciander Crawford was chosen chairman, and ture factory was at once consolidated with It, and its proprietor, Mr. James S. Moslcy, secretary. Articles and by-laws were made. Then Henry Ryan, became manager for a short time of the new enterprise. followed the election of officers for the ensuing year: James M. Clarke In the great revival of all sech industries at the close of the civil war was chosen President; Daniel Pound, Vice President; James S. Mosiey, this company for many years shared the benefit. Its capacity was taxed Secretary and R. H. Davis, Treasurer. An invitation being extended to to the utmost eitent and Its trade expanded north and south as well as west. The succeeding managers were Mr. M. Partridge, 1868] Mr. those present to become members by signing the constitution and paying Chas. Sumner, 1869 and 1870, and Mr. M. J. Drown then followed. In into the treasury the sum ol $t9 the following named individuals re­ 1878, during the disastrous period 'of contraction incident to a sponded: James M. Clarke, William J. Huntington, R.-R. Remington, return to specie basis, it passed from the hands of the original com­ Benjamin L. Brier, Isaac W. Morley, Charles A. Clarke, B. B. Brier, pany into the hands of the creditors. About 1882 Messrs. Morse and William Stees, Francis K. Jenkins, John B. Walbridge, B. F. Mills, Rufus Law, furniture men from Janesviile and BMoit, became Its lessees. Dur­ ing this period in January, 1884, the factory was destroyed by fire. It N. Flint, Alexander Crawford, John 1. Crawford, S. ¥. R. Ableman, was not rebuilt bit the lot and water-power has been sold to the present Charles H. Williams, Moses M. Chaplin, Ebenezer Martin, Stephen M. owners (1891) of the Island Woolen Company. A brief but interesting Burdick, Samuel Northrop, Oliver W. Thomas, James S. Moseley, Daniel and accurate notice of this company and Its organization can be found Pound and John Acker. An Executive Committee was chosen as fol­ In the outline sketches of Sauk county by Mr. Wm. H. Canfield. These lows: Messrs. Morley, Remington, Williams, Jenkins, Acker and E. O. have been recently compiled by their author, and form a work of the Rudd, A. F. Kellogg, Zoeth Eldrldge, Henry Ochsner, Alexander Stewart greatest value to every student of our local history. A. A. A. William Andrews, E. G. Blakeslee, Albert Kelley, Ranson E. Stone, James K. Thompson and John Young. A premium list was arranged, and October 16, 1855, a fair was held B. B. CATASTROPHE. in the John Taylor building, on the corner ot" Third and Broadway, now Mov. 25, 1890, a notable R. R. catastrophe occurred as the 11:30 occupied by Fillip Keyser, grocery and seed store, and was a Yery credit- night train was crossing the Baraboo river at Lyons, one and a half miles west of Baraboo, The middle span of the bridge In the center of the abe exhibition. In 1S59 ten acres of ground was leased of John B. river gave away and perclpltated 23 ears loaded with grain and lour, Crawford, and in i860 was fenced by P. A. Bassett with a 6 ft. board wheat, barley and lax seed into the river. The train broke In two, leay- fence. The society was now in a flourishing condition, and the exhibi­ Ing the engine and two or three cars with it to pass on. No lives lost, tions were excellent—it was claimed nearly equaled the state fair—bat it was a heap of fragments wonderfully pummelled Into a small compas. towards the end of the 10 year lease of ground it was on the wane, and Ii was no fault of the bridge. A breakage or some displacement of tim­ Sept. 18, 1869, a meeting of the Executive, Committee was called, but bers occurred a quarter of a mile before the train reached the bridge and dragged heavily upon the ground, and reaching the bridge caused a quorum not being present those in attendance decided not to have a that car to derail and break through the ties. The hinder cars fair. In May, 1870, It was decided to hold a fair. Forty acres of land doubled on to II which was too much for the strength of any bridge, had been purchased of Adam Nixon for I1540, and the one-half of it hence their percipitancy. It took the company nearly a week to clear sold for #600. At the close of this year's fair the society was §779.59 ^m ths river of cars. A good deal of flour was recovered and sold at a debt In 1871, after tie fair, the society was #1155 in debt, owing to the reduced price, and some grain, but the recovery was soon given over to erection of buildings and fence. For several vears the fairs were ex­ whoever wanted. Immense quantities of grain was fished out during the winter by persons who had horse or cow. Some farmers got many a cellent, but they carried a debt. We think It was about 1870 when the wagon load. sjciety began to hold winter meetings. Th© fairs for several years after this date were not sufficiently sneoess- ful InanciaBy to diminish the indebtedness, and In 1882 or 1883, the entire Mr. Philip H. Keysar, known and respected as one of th© most intelli­ amount of the debt, some $1200, was raised by subscription, among leading gent, reliable business men of Baraboo, Is welcomed home by Ms many farmers in th© vicinity of Baraboo and th© business men of tho city. Since friends from a trip to Europe, on which he departed June 8th, being absent that time largo additions have be©n made to the exhibition building on the just two months. Mr. Keysar traveled through England, Germany ani Switzerland, and cmrefuEy observed the condition of the people, Informing grounds, neat and substantial stables erected for the various Hnds of stock himself as to their labors, earnings and modes of living. The condition of exhibited, and the grounds enclosed by a new and tasty fence. An Indebt­ the laboring classes especially, was Incjulred into. H© found stalwart men edness of a few hundred dollars rests upon the Society, which la being an­ laboring in the harvest ields In Germany for 87 cents per day. The Mving nually diminished by an arrangement which gives no embarassment or un­ of the laboring people consists mainly of sour milk, coarse rye broad and potatoes. Beef of the cheapest kind is 20 cents per pound; lard proportion­ easiness to the Society. The grounds ar© among the best In th© Stat©. ally high; butter never seem on the poor man's table. Not oftener than once a week can th© family have meat of any Hnd, and then it is usually a shank or other coarse cut, or quite as often only a soup bone. Those known BABABOO MANUFACTURING CO. 1 there as the weE-to-do people—smaE farmers, merchants, and sMled arti- The late Baraboo Manufacturing Ccmpany (1867 to 1884) was an zans—ho found receiving less Income, and living on a lower plane than the organized stock company of local business men and capitalists. It be­ poorest class of American laborers. The finest clothing is somewhat cheap­ gan operations at the Island Water Power In 1867 w*th a capital in hand er there than here, but in that is no advantage except to the aristocrats, for of $35,000. Its plant embraced five acres on the north side of the the .poor people wear only the coarser grades of clothing, which can be woolen mill race, with all the water power there excepting 300 Inches. bought In America as cheap as in Europe. 42 I From the Baraboo Republic]. ways was and at the present time is of League, the Secularists and the Bro­ son to watch the legislature. It may A Religio-Politioal Speech. a gnostic character, 1. e., half christian thel League." "They must be fools or be that the Sunday laws of this state dishonest" as they are seeking to break are too equitable and liberal. A Ine piece of oratory was delivered half heathen, except with the Puri­ The National Reform Association in the M. E. church Sunday evening, tans. In a Catholic catachism, "What down the A. S. Would not the Lord's many years labored to get names to a Oct, 18, 1891, by Rev. J. P. Mills, rep- warrant have you for keeping the S. D. S. be equally abnoxius to a etition asking congress to abolish the resenting the "American Sabbath Sabbath, preferable to the ancient "brothel league" or a "brewers' f rst article of the amendment to Union," reflecting upon by the Seventh Sabbath, which was Saturday! We league" or gamblers! "We emphati­ the Constitution, and pass Sunday cally affirm that It would be more so, laws, and in course of years they Day Adventists. have for It the authority of the Catho­ as the Sabbatarian Is far more strict in claimed to have obtained 7,000,000 The orator desired to have his pica lic church, and the Apostolic tradi­ his observation of the seventh day names, and secured a letter from Cardi­ for the "American Sabbath" consid­ tions." (Saturday) than first day keepers are nal Gibbons to the great convention to ered strictly secular, and in no wise re­ The A. S. U. claims as a cure for all be called at Washington, D.C.,wherein of Sunday. When the sun sets Fri­ the cardinal declairecl himself favor­ ligious. vices and Immorality the establish­ day night he lays all secular business able to the objects of the association. Therefore after stepping into the ment of a legal national "American to one side until sundown Saturday Upon this they struck hands with the muddy pool of politics, it becomes a Sabbath" aud enforcing rigidly its night. This puritan life of virtue mother church, and added another 7,- privilege and duty of the secular press, mandates. would be more distasteful to the 000,000, making 14,000,000, which was classes the orator places the S. D. A. some miles In length. Senator Blair, which ventilates and purifies the civil Countries where this manner of of Xew Hampshire, presented a bill to Ijody, to carefully weigh the good or force is applied are behind our own •in, than the loose and lax class of his fit the case In the senate. It was refer- evil that might result from his plat­ where it Is not applied. It teaches brethren according to his own account ed to a committee of which he was form of principles, and the action pro­ people dishonesty. To do secretly of them. The saloon keepers of our made chairman. At his suggestion posed to be taken. "The National | what they ought to do openly. In city all, or nearly all, close their doors the committee consented to have the clergymen of the U. S. .assemble and Reform Association" and the "Ameri­ | order to livw a truly conscientious life Sunday. They like a ride In the coun­ try or a visit and a quiet rest, they can present their petition and talk to It. can Sabbath Union," both of which j and feel equal with his neighbor, he truly go "hand In glove" with the lax They selected the great Methodist Mr. Mills represents, are very active I must do In his own way as his neigh­ church members in visiting, doing auditorium for their meeting. This and aggressive for forcible religious bor does in his own way. great petition went around the great some business, etc., etc., and It Is no room many times. civil legislation, when the truth is that Our orator, would by no means In­ venture In asserting that 100 or 1000 An Invitation was sent to a vast every kind of religion has ail the pro­ terfere with the conscience or religious Sunday church members are custom­ number of clergy and the great room tection bp the civil authorities that | liberty of any one. But he would im- ers at saloons to one S. D. A. It Is they was filled. The seventh day Baptist in reason could be asked for; and the j prison any one who could not eon- that vote them license to sustain their were Invited but not the Seventh Day beautiful homogenious character of traffic and to send out A. S. lecturers. Adventist, and time allotted to every | scienciously rest upon the same day denomination except the S. D. A. The onr brotherhood of man, with our cul­ thai, he rests upon. The church as a Xo, friend M. the coon Is on the other S. D. B. was United to a 10 minute tivated moral consideration for each body seldom, if ever, persecuted. It tree, sitting on that rotten limb In speech. The S. D. A. delegates com­ other, assisted by our highly devel­ is the priesthood that stands behind plain sight. The S. D. A. are young plained to a senator that they had a oped school system, makes forcible bad oppresslfe laws, that lecture and in years, but their growth In the world delegation of two. but were left out of is rapid, and their literature like the the program. Whereupon a senator measures unnecessary. We speak of | preach civilians to do the active work, at a proper time took one of the de­ U. S. laws, and know that most of the j Mr. M. stated that the 7th Day Bap- leaves of a tree, sending out about three car loads of printing matter per legates, D. T. Jones, of Battle Creek, states have tampered with religious j tists were with them in their work. Mich., onto the stand. He was In­ week at their head quarters, which is formed that there were so many to enactments, which in general are a We read the "Light of Home," one of not one half of what is printed in all sort of dead letter, and when enforced speek that he could have but little | their organs, and have never seen any their presses. Xo persons can join time to speek In, and how little could it is to oppress and harras a brother thing of that kind In it, but many the society of S. D. A. that uses intox­ he get along with. He asked for 4 christian who conscientiously differs strong articles against It. Mr. Mills icants or narcotics. Tea, coffee, cocoa hours. One was granted him. After in truths from the popular mass. The stated that the Baptist minister of the or swine flesh, is also no part of their his subject was mapped out and he end worked for is to nullify the Irst place was not present, but that they began to amplify, ne was Interrupted regime, believing that a healthy, clean by over 100 questions from the chair­ article of the amendments of the Con™ were with them. We take the *' Stand­ body is necessary to a correct spiritual man of the senate commltteetand many stitution of the U. S.: "Congress shall ard" a irst class denominational pa­ life. When the church was organized from others. In answering these make no law respecting an establish­ per, and think that In their state as­ a sanitarium was planted, which has questions It gave him an opportunity ment of religion, or prohibiting the sembly they condemned the move­ flourished and grown Into mammoth to "plow" his whole field. The steno­ graphic report makas a volume of over free exercise thereof." In this way ment. 1 know that there was a strong proportions, ani to-day has 300 pa­ tients of ail religions and people, and 200 pp., and it is a fine document, as they think to drive the Sabbatarian to paper read against it and 1 think it re­ It shows .both sides of this great the wall. ceived the opproval of the body. They Is the largest Institution of the kind in question of American liberty. the world. We mention these things have not forgotten puritan colonial A little more relative to those A. S. As- they have no "thus saith the to prove to friend M. that they mis­ days. He stated that the Lutherans "Watch Dogs." They profess to be Lord" iu the bible for Irst day wor­ took a bunch of green leaves for a coon, christian animals. They have ex­ shiping, .therefore they are seeking to —excepting the German part—were for a real live one Is on that dry limb changed the name (very appropriately establish a "thus saith" Uncle Sam. with them. That again seemed strange, in the other tree. But never mind; It so) of lambs under the great shepard They are ahead of time, for he as yet for 1 have seen and conversed with pleases rather than offends our S. D. for Dogs under the American Sabbath many and know by the secular press Union Association. We would have saith not. Mr. M. complains bitterly A., for by your civil scheme you mve belittled ourselves If we had stooped at the trend of the times in desecrat­ how they stand upon parochial schools, us access to secular papers, and all we to any thing of the kind. We can ing the beginning of the week among and have twice talked with their min­ desire Is an open fair discussion. Rea­ only feel sorry for Mr. Mills that he his own church brethren—a visiting ister of this city, who is thoroughly son Is more powerful than rhetorical does not use his great oratorial powers (lay—reading Sunday newspapers in against them. But these Inaccuraces flourishes. on the true side of the question. "The I excused, realizing that he was mak­ After the speech, money from the Dogs" have snapped out a lamb in preference going to church—In neg­ audience was collected to sustain an the state of Arkansas 3 or 4 years ago. lect of family worship, pray­ ing a political speech. But to the organization in this city, to be com­ The result of which was that at trie er meeting, extetra. Why? Because Seventh Day Advents he laid a broad posed of the pastors of each A. S. next session of their legislature the the day was never sanctified by the foundation of epithets. He pictured church, and a lay member from each lambs were better protected. They are Lord. Man, and a church that bro­ the gambler, the brothel, the scums A. S. church, Secretary and treasur­ now eating at the vitals of one in er. The chief object was to get funds Tennessee. All any S. D. A. desires ther M. would call rotten, does attempt and slums, and that "they are linked enough to send a "Watch Dog" (this Is to be an equal citizen with his to place sanctity upon It, but It al­ hand and glove with the Brewer's was the language they used) to Madi­ neighbor In all respects. - s. D. A. *"ffTW1 nimiimitottottBffi ^^aKWWPW«ftnfftmfltf, ,

43 1884. It has lived 8 years. It has come to stay we opine, Th© three NEWSPAPERS. presses have all the work they wish to do with a moderate working force. • ' THE ^ BESSEMER TIMES. A SYNOPTICAL MENTION OF. Geo. L. Conklln established this paper at Bessemer (now called North IA fuller history of the earlier ones, Is given on pp. 28-30, of "Baraboo Freedom). In 1889 he moved It to Baraboo and run it for about a year, and its Waterpowers," In Vol. 1, "Outline Sketches of Sauk County.] and then moved it to Reedsburg. Eight different newspapers have had their existence In Baraboo. SAUK COUNTY STANDABD was established by Cyrus McLaughlin, now a prominent citizen of Denver, Colorado. H. A, McFadden soon took a Co-partnership. Politics, "Whig"; soon changed to Democrat. In 1851 M. C. Wait© bought out McFadden. Henry MeRennao, M. D.f Duncan C. Nevln bought out Waite. In June 1852, end of first Vol., Was born in Herkimer, N. Y.f in 1835. In 1857 he commenced practicing Joseph H. Wagoner, of Baraboo, and Geo. E. Clark, of Chicago, became his profession In Sauk City, Sauk County. In 1861, he gave up his practice proprietors. March 10,1852, Wagoner sold to Blchard H. Davis. In Sept. to enter the army to put down the rebellion of the Southern States, as 1852 D. S. Vitum succeeded Clark. Dec. 22 C. H. McLaughlin took B. H. surgeon of the l#th Wis. Vol. Inf. Bsfore the close of the war he was Davis' place. In Aug. 1853 McLaughlin became sole owner. Aug. 30,1854, appointed Surgeon-ln-Chief of Brig. Gen. Gresham's command, and medical A. C. Holt stood at the helm. Then Victor E. Peck and James I. Dennis. Inspector of the corps. He was with Gen. Grant during the siege of Vicks- •May S th© title of the Press took its appropriate name "Democrat". In burg, and with Gen. Sherman in his "March to the Sea." After the close Dec. J. W. Phelps appears as editor. In March 1856 J. H. Wells. of the war he returned to his old home in Sauk City, remaining there until THE BABABOO EEPUBL1C 1871, when he removed to Chicago, where he followed Ms profession until was established in Dec. 1851 by Silas Noyes, of Portage, and D. K. Noyes, J 876, then came to Baraboo, continuing his medical practice until his death. of Baraboo. Polities "Whig"; but rather taking the new name, "Republi­ He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity In the State, also of can." Oct. 13, 1855, Silas withdrew. Oct. 20th Henry A. Perkins and John the "Ancient Order of United Workmen." He held the position of State Blake became publishers. In 1856, D. K. Noyes having been elected mem- Medical Examiner for the latter order for several years. No man was better lier of State Legislature, Nelson Wheeler, the joker, made his editorial bow. known or more respected, than Dr. Henry McKennen, in th% county and In Sept. 1856 Ansel L. Kellogg became associated with Mr. Noyes and State. He died March 2, 1888. A man of few words, modest and retiring, edited the paper In connection with H. A. Perkins. D. K. Noyes now re­ a skillful surgeon and a tender hearted physician, loved by all. He married tires after a two years voyage. In June 1862, Kellogg withdrew and J. W. Miss Mary Turner, May 3, 1859, daughter of H. J. Turner, from Utica, N. Blake and C. E. Stuart were proprietors. In August 1863, Stuart withdrew. Y., who was at that time conducting a French academy for boys, at Sauk April 12, 1865, Wm. HIE. August 28, 1872, Joseph H. Weirich stood at City. Dr. McKennan's ancestry were of Scotlsh extraction. His grand­ the helm. In 1874 Edwin E. Woodman associated himself with the "Re­ father moved to the north of Ireland during the Stuart trouble. public." In January 188(1, J. H. Powers came in. In 1882 Mr. Woodman "The bonnle mon has left a bank;" was the remark of on© when the news retired. In 1891 a joint stock Co., bought out Powers, W. H. Bennett, of Dr. McKennan's death reached the city. editor and manager. It Is one of the best printing offices In the state. The press Is propelled by water power. "THE INDEPENDENT" was established by D. K. Noyes in 1866. Politics Republican, notwith­ William Grubb. standing Its name. He run It one year and sold to W. H. Canield, Mr. J. In reply to my letter. William Grubb writes: Drown and D. S. Vittum. Politics shadowing on Democracy. Canfield as CHICAGO, Aug. 5, 1891. editor. J. C. Chandler, known as Shang-haie Chandler, and Peter Richards MY DEAI Ma. CANFIELD: had an editorial voice, hence the paper was as its name Indicated. In Aug. * * -Regarding the sketch of my brother and myself, 1 do not knomT 1868, Canield withdrew, in June, 1869, it was suspended and with its what to write. Welther of us were notable characters in the sense of con­ presses and furniture the spicuous greatness, yet we strove to do our duty and preserve pur good SAUK COUNTY HERALD name and maintain our family reputation. My brother traveled extensively was established and run for a while by J. C. Chandler, then -ns a job office in Europe, Asia and Africa, during the years 1853, '54, "65. He was Presi­ by Peter Klchards and J. H. Powers, and for a short time by Fred E. Ever- dent of Baraboo village during 1878. 1 was president in 1880, and served ette, a Ine young man who has since established an excellent reputation as two terms in the legislature of-Wisconsin, 1882-3. Yon may remember that an editor. David Munson and myself tried to manufacture leather; that is, we backed THE SAUK COUNTY REPUBLICAN up one Mr. Daniels, to the tune of quite a number of thousand dollars; hoisted banner Dec. 23, 1879, by Waiter Noyes and C. W. Dykins and his but manufacturing in Baraboo successfully, has been "hard sledding" on father, James Dykins. The firm Dykins & Son. They bought and used account of excessive transportation charges. 1 was attached to the staff of the first power press ever brought to the county. Go?. Randall during the war (home militia) but never Ignred in th© gory THE SAUK COUNTY DEMOCRAT held. 1 have always taken an interest in the welfare of my old home, Bara­ was established Jan. 31, 1879, by Joshua G. Ford. In 1886 it was sold to boo, and shall never lose one particle of the same deep Interest which Herman Grotophorst and E. August Runge, and since 1890 the latter has seems to grow as years roll by. When life's stormy scenes are over, 1 hope been the sole proprietor. E. August Bunge, editor, Ed. L. Luckow, Local to rest beside the many dear ones that will have preceded me, and others editor. The "Democrat" has established an excellent record as an able, that follow me, on the crest of the beautiful hill that overlooks the city and gentlemanly, reliable sheet. valley of Baraboo and the beautiful Lake of the "Hills." THE BABABOO NEWS. Upon further solicitation Mr. Wm. S. Grubb replies: In 1883 the Kartack Bros, established a Job Printing Office. In 1884 My brother and myself sprang from good old Quaker stock. They a co-partnership of J. P. and G. A. Kartack was entered into for the pur­ pose of publishing a newspaper. Its first number was sighted • came from England, and arrived at the mouth of the Delaware river In ,/f/}/•// .?. ,//i?////•/J. Q^A^&miy.. //r.j7/////t//i.

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44 the same boat with Wm. Penn. Agustlne Grubb and wife, however, did not imitation of scrolls and other ornaments with the most brilliant colors. We accompany him to Philadelphia (that was to be), but landed on the western now lit our candles and examined the hieroglyphics that covered all the shore of that river a few miles below the future site of that city, the land­ walls from the lofty ceiling to the very ioor. They were arranged In col­ ing place still designated on the time table of the Pennsylvania R. R. as umns about six Inches wide, each figure being as fresh as the day when It "Grubb's Landing." There was a necessity for Immediate landing, and 1 was cut. These figures showed the manners and customs of the ancients once read in the pages of an old history of Pennsylvania, in the Franklin almost as plainly as reality. On each side of the doorways were sculpturwd Library, of Philadelphia, athat to these worthy couple was born a child, the large figures of an ancient king. From the grand hall doorways opened Irst child born of Quaker parents upon the soil of Pennsylvania." My Into smaller departments. The loors also sounded hollow, as If other ancestors and their descendants (many of them) have lived within a few chambers were underneath. At one place we came to a square hole. We miles of this landing place, in the cities of Wilmington and Philadelphia, dropped a stone into It. A considerable period elapsed before It struck the and through the frequent inter-marriages with other quaker families, there bottom and then we heard it roll on. Amongst the rubbish we could see has been no difficulty in tracing a relationship to nearly every Quaker pieces of mummy cloth and the remains of jackalis and wolves. "Stable family in that region. The quakers you know encouraged inter-marriages Antar" is the principal to«™^ Tin* tombs are all arranged in successive among their- own sect. My brother and myself were born In the good old tiers at different eievatlt .sited the second tomb called "Stable city of Wilmington, Delaware. I purchased several hundred acres of land Hamam." It retains Its g ly which has on each side the collossal at the head of Lake Mendota, Dane Co., Wis.. The Irst purchase In 1854, figure of and Ancient King. This tomb Is about 60 feet square by 40 high when 1 was a very young man. In all 1 acquired 540 acres. I Improved with door way to different apartments * * * -Mr. G's description of this two farms, erecting good houses and barns thereon. I married in 1856. .catacomb Is here about half completed, but we must cut it off. If his My wife and myself lived thereon very pleasantly some eight years. whole journal was printed It would make a valuable book. He collected a Farming In those days, so far as prolts were concerned, was not more re­ cabinet of most beautiful and costly relics which are Interesting to look at. munerative than In latter days In Kansas, yet we did not contribute any­ How densely populated and how magnificent in mechanism was Egypt thing towards turning loose on the country such representatives of our in her meridian of prosperity. Besides her tombs, her Necrapolls was of woes as sockless Simpson and Senator Peffer. fabulous extent. Ship loads of human bones are taken to England and Yours very truly, ground up for fertilizers. WM. S. GRUBB. The two brothers married sisters, daughters of H. J. Turner from Terrell Thomas, Utica, N. Y. Mr. Turner taught a French school for boys at Sauk City, Terrell Thomas was born In St. Clalrsvllle, Ohio, Jan. 10th 1826, was the son of Benjamin and Joanna B. Thomas, both of whom were members opened in the spring of 1854 with 30 pupils from all parts of the state. of the society of Friends, they were known for the purity of their lives, and Wm. S. was married to Josephene J. Turner the 12th month 11th day, spared no pains In raising their children to habits*of Integrity and honesty- 1856. Sam'l S., was married to Elizabeth T. Turner the 10th month 27th Terrell being the eldest son was brought Into early requisition. His edu. day, 1862. catlonal advantages were limited, and at the age of 21 he went to Baltimore to learn the dry goods business. He remained there 8 years, gaining a The three Turner sisters lived In Baraboo for twenty-three years. Their fine knowledge of that business and also of collection and banking. In especial kind heart is well known to the poor. Their charities and hospi­ 1854 he removed with his father's family to Wisconsin, where they settled talities have been known to all with whom they had Intercourse. on a farm. Soon he went to Madison, accepting of Samuel Marshall, presi­ dent of the State Bank, position as cashier, which he held three years. In 1857 lie left in order to organize the Sauk County Bank of Baraboo, In Samuel Grubb company with Simeon Mills, of Madison, Wis., holding position of cashier; after two years he became president and held that position until he sold In his three years "abroad" kept a very full and complete journal and the institution to the organizers of the First" National Bank. In all finan­ copied it Into an octavo blank book bound neatly In moroco covers. The cial panics which occurred during the seventeen years of this bank's exist­ transcribed document looks as neat and plain as type work. His narration ence it maintained a high standing and was considered an institution of Irst class responsibility and credit. Upon settling in Baraboo Mr. Thomas is minute and full of Interest, especially the boat trip of three months up resolved to make It his future home and took an active interest in all enter­ the Mile. A company of which himself and his uncle formed a part. They prises pertaining to the developing of the place, and early identified him­ hired a Frenchman at Cairo, a boat with captain, steersman and eight men, self with Its water power and manufacturing Interests. He was one of the projectors of the Baraboo Air Line Railway, whose charter extended from including board on the boat, for $175 per month. They also hired a drago­ Madison to the Mississippi river, and devoted his entire time to the subject man. The party having control of the progress of the boat, stopping at of Its construction. After th© stock was all sold, by a unanimous vote of points they wished to visit as long as they desired. They visited at Osloot or the stock-holders, he was elected president and remained in this capacity until the road was consolidated with the Chicago & Northwestern By. He Sloot, the capitol of Upper Egypt, and residence of the governor. It stands was married m 1857 to Miss Sarah A. Williams, of Cinclnatti, Ohio*. * Her some distance from the river. It Is said to contain 20,000 inhabitants, father, Micajah Terrell Williams, was one of the public spirited men of his 1,000 being christians, and Is the best built towTn of the land. It is the re­ day and was connected with many of the great enterprises of Ohio. sort of caravans from Darfur which come through the Great Oasis. * *. * S. A. THOMAS. Benjamin Thomas* farm wasaear Ableman, Sauk Co. Occasionally he In their passage to the city his donke boy pointed out a gallows which was would bring a quaker preacher to our village to preach In the court house. a simple block and tackel to hoist the culprit off the earth. The tombs of Benjamin would take the stand with the speaker and sit with his broad brim­ the ancient city were in front of a mountain overhanging the present city. med hat on during the ser?ice. Some, if not all, of the preachers would meas­ Crossing a bridge we soon reached the base of a mountain which was fairly ure off their sentences in a "sing song" manner. Their sermons were pure, spiritual and complete In thought and logic. Mrs. Terrell Thomas, who honey-combed with grottoes and tombs. When we reached the entrance has lately returned from southern CaL, and SanFrancisco, where she spent chamber to a principal one, Stabl Antar, which was cut in the solid rock. a couple of years, occupies her fine residence In Baraboo. She cannot see I was soon lost In awe and wonder as I gazed on this monument of a race that the Pacific Coast has many, If any, advantages as a whole over our own locality. She is a'sister of Maj. Chas. H. Williams, so well known as long passed. The arched, roof of this portico and chamber was co?ered a Durham cattle raiser, wTho resides In Baiaboo. They were brought up with stars, the colors almost as brilliant as the day when they were Irst Quakers. touched by the brush of the artist. We next entered the grand hall. This The Thomas and the Williams boys heeded not the noncombattant tenets of their parents. In the war of the Rebellion one became a Major, room was about 75 feet square, with ceiling 40 feet high and painted in another a Lieutenant. 45 T T ^itttker. Syracuse until the spring of 1856, when he came west and located In Bara" boo in the month of April, where he has resided ever since. In September J. J. Gattiker was be zerland April 18th, 1826. He had all of the same year he entered into co-partnership with Isaac Green and estab­ the advantages of a good education and afterwards taught for ten years, lished the business of manufacturers and dealers in boots and shoes under holding the highest position In a school where only the higher branches of the name of Avery & Green, which was continued for 20 years, when Mr. knowledge and the languages were taught. Later he was In Italy for on© Green retired leaving the business In the hands of Mr. Avery, which he year as private tutor. Being somewhat Impaired In health, he came to now conducts alone. He also is agent for several of the leading standard America In 1855 and bought a farm In Honey Creek, where he lived until Fire Insurance Companies of the cauntry. Politically he was reared in the 1858 when he was elected county clerk for Sauk Co. and removed to Bara­ ranks of the Liberal party In England, and although not a voter there, he boo. He held the office for 8 years and then went Into the hardware busi­ early took a great Interest In political questions, and when he became a ness In company with his brother. He remained in this until 1886 when he citizen of this country he naturally allied himself with the Republican retired from active business. He was a member of the county board for a Party which had just been organized, and which represented to Mm Liberty number of years, being chairman for two successive terms. While he was and progress. He cast his first vote for J. C. Fremont and has been an president of the school board the first ward school house was built under ardent supporter of the Republican party ever since. He has been called his supervision. upon to fill many offices of public trust, in village, city, county and State. He was president of the village In 1876, a member of the City Council, a ~" npson M. Warren member of the County Board representing the 1st ward of the city for several years, and was elected a Member of the Assembly for the year 1887. Was born May I, at Buckfield, Oxford Co., Maine. His father's* Two jears later he was chosen State Senator to represent the 14th Senatorial name was Andrew warren and his mother's Folly Alden. They were r£ District consisting of the counties of Sauk and Juneau. old New England stock. His mother was a descendant of the Miller famil; who were active patriots during the revolutionary war. He was educate.. dred Years from Ocean to Ocean —New at the Clireton Institute, N. Y. His father being in humble circumstances, Country Life. he started for New York City at the age of 17 where he arrived with one About the year 1800 Joel Canfield moved from New Milford, Conn., to dollar and fifty cants In his pocket with which he commenced the book Lafayette, Onondago Co., Ne»v York. Here they fettled In a wilderness, opened a large farm, planted out apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries trade. He remained there about five years, then removed to Albany where and quince. He had some money to Improve with, and It went on rapidly. he engaged in the merchant!le business and remained here about five years, His fruit trees matured; fruit rotted on the ground—fed to hogs, given thence to Herkimer, Herkimer Co., from there to Dixon, 111., from there to away. Barrels of cider and perry In the cellar. Some money must be had for a few necessaries of life and taxes. Beef and pork transported by wagon Mineral Point, Wis. Here he did a large and paj'lng business In general 150 miles to a market. Cider a common beverage. When a neighbor visited, merchandising, in company with his brothers, Marcus, and Andrew Warren, "mulled" elder, apples and pears were always set before them. Jr. In 1845 he went to Sauk City. Iu the spring of 1846 he settled And more, a laggon of whiskey set In the cupboard filled with compli­ ments for preacher and laymen. Grandfather here raised his family, my upon a farm in the town of Roxbury, Dane Co. He bought and sold land father, Harvey, being one of them. When 1 was about six years old and loaned money. His surroundings here did not quite suit him and he he went onto a new farm In a new settlement In the town of Clay, Onondaga Co., leaving a speculative life to make a home on a farm. removed to Baraboo. He now resides upon the Charles Sumner property. Mother rejoiced at the move. It was four miles from Salina, two from The dwelling, a very fine one, standing in a plato laid out in fine landscape Liverpool, and now the city of Syracus almost reaches the old farm. It had garden arrangement. The whole a place of beauty. He remodeled and on it a log house, double log barn and about 10 acres cleared of the 150. The house had a "stick chimney" with a mouth large enough to swallow a enlarged the Chas. Sumner Hotel on the N. W. corner of 4th and Oak Sts., large dining table. The lower four feet was made of stone. To build a fire in 1887 and entitled it the Warren House, and has run a successful hotel in the winter a log four feet long and often two feet In diameter was placed to the present time. His son, Marcus A., Is Its present owner. It is the against the back of the fireplace; another, some smaller, on the top of It, and another still smaller on the top of that. These were the "back logs." No. 1 hotel of the city. Then a "fore stick," about 10 Inches in -diameter, placed upon "Ire dogs," Mr. T. M. Warren was raised a Baptist. At present he holds no religi­ or "Andirons," then kindlings and dry wood laid on the Andirons between ons tenets. Was raised a Whig. Is now a Republican. He was married the back logs and fore-stick, and fire started. Then the pots and kettles were swung over the fire by the wooden craln apd embers drawn out upon Oct. 23, 1855, to Miss Katherine McKennan, of Herkimer County, N. Y., the hearth for the frying pan and bake kettle. The table spread and lighted sister of the late Dr. Henry McKennan of our city. They have five children, by "tallow dips." Before davlight the breakfast eaten and chores done, and Marcus A., Minnie E., Thompson M. Jr., William A., and Isabella (now the choppers In the woods to cut wood for salt boiling. (400 or 500 cords was the usual winter's work). At 9 o'clock the children In school. These Mrs. Lester E. Hoyt). Mrs. Hoyt resides In Baraboo. Her husband is In were happy days. So passed day by day, and nine successive winters, the flouring mill business. William A., Is Cashier of the "First National when father caught the gold fever which "took him to the North Carolina Bank of Baraboo.1' T. M., Jr. is In Montana in the cattle business. Min­ gold district. Mother had to conduct the farm. Father came within four feet of making a fortune. While he owned the mine It barely paid for the nie E., is unmarried and living at home. Marcus A., conducts the "Warren working. But his purchaser struck the "pile." Sometimes the Grain's arm House." The father, T. M. Warren's health is quite poor this winter (1891). would get on fire, and sometimes the stick chimney would get on fire. An iron arm was substituted for the wooden crain arm, with tramels and hooks. The mother's health is good for her age. Mr. Warren has always been a Our back log would last sometimes two or three days. But what a nice hard laboring man, active in business, of plain frugal habits and successful breakfast mother would get, and how lively and happy we were. In a year in amassing quite a fortune. or two a frame addition was attached to the log house. An open-front stove (Franklin stove) warmed it, and a rag carpet placed on the floor. We now had a nice visiting room. Neil came a new frame corn house. In It In the summer time the big yarn wheel was run to make plaid dresses and shirts, Frank Avery and In the winter the little foot wheel was used to make linen and tow Was bom in Tenterden, Kent, England, Nov. 17th, 1839, was educated in cloth. The flax seed was sown and grown, and the stalks pulled and spread the British Secular Schools and at a private Academy In his native town. on the grass to get partly rotted, then bundled, then broken with a fiax- At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to tho trade of shoemaking, the same break, then "smingelled" the shelves out, then hatchetted, then spun into thread, then woven Into linen and tow cloth, then made up Into summer trade that his ancestors had followed for generations. In tho spring of clothing—Into shirts and pants, linen towels, sheets, fable cloths, etc.; all 1853 he emigrated to America, taking passaga in a sailing vessel from Lon­ of which 1 took a part In, and have now In our Baraboo home specimens of don. After a five weeks voyage he landed In New York and settled in this product of former days, We hare In clay made our own sewing silk f-loowk. Ch-eAf y, jf®. TfCcWben y.UMZCCtfe^ ,

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46 and sold It to the stores, and the fioss was worked into women's stockings.. by Deputy Grand Patron, Brother W. W. Perry, of Eagle, Wis. The order We here planted out apples, pears, peaches, quinces, plums and mulberrys. is In a most flourishing condition and will add much to Masonic Interest In Father became tired of farm life and sold the farm wo so loved, and entered into contracting on public works. A few years pass by, marriage contracts this jurisdiction. are entered into, another push for the great west, goods boxed and put on a line boat on the great Erie canal, n young married couple going with them on their journey to the prairies. We sailed along night and day sitting in our'floating parlor and sleeping iu the comfortable bunks. The first day our hearts were sad to mourning QII leaving old Onondago county, every Old People. object even the little flowers and spears of grass seemed to bid us a weep­ Baraboo town and city Is full of old people from seventy and over, a se­ ing good-bye. The next day we became joyful, as little hamlets, towns and quence from the age of the settlement. The pioneers were largely young cities were- passed. The great Tonnawanda swamp with its hug© mosqui­ toes, and fruitful fields and orchards, and the locks at Lockport, a distance people that made homes here in the forties and fifties', and when they be­ of about twenty miles from Viagra Falls. Wo are lifted by locks onto the came established many of their parents and relatives came. The first set- top of the bench that forms the floor which the waters of the great lakes fall 'tiers at thirty .to thirty-five In the forties would make their ages from over. We were four and one half hours locking up onto the-plains of Late Erie. The next day we are beside the great St. Lawrence river, and in due seventy-five to eighty-five years. In the fifties from sixty-five to seven­ time beside one of the greatest bodies of fresh water in the world—Lake ty-five. The selubrity of our climate may be given as one chief reason for Erie, beside the Buff ale harbor filled with a swarm of ships and steam boats so many old people being here. great aud small. A choice was soon made and we and our goods-were soon afloat on Lake Erie for the west. We stop over winter with friends in, Mich­ Frederick Filber, ninety-three years old, is quite hale and active. igan that was yet a new country. The Indian removed farther west, and Mr. G. N. Newson, an octogenarian, may be the only strict vegetarian in ihe wild tnrkies not all gone. -The spring of 1842 found this young couple Sauk county. He has lived at Baraboo over thirty years, and has not tak­ iu central Wisconsin, on the bank "-of a little creek, in the arms of great oaks, •. bass wood, -maple, elms, etc., In Sauk county, thirty or forty miles beyond en Into his stomach flesh of any-kind. He Is hale and works at his trade, roads and on the western border of rn. sixteen family settlement, walled in stone cutting. His wife died many years ago. She was a hygenlc practi­ on tho east by the Baraboo bluffs. Now with the woodman's axe in hand a cing physician, the only one Baraboo has ever had. farm was to be cleared, w'nch was soon accomplished far enough to have an orchard planted of apple, pear, plum, peach, quince, aprlcdt and nectarine, This winter there has passed to their final "rest" •that our good father sent to us, and we got them at a great freight expense. Mr. A. W. True, (father of John M. True,) aged 90. Died Dec, 1889. But alas, our Wisconsin winters killed ail but the apple, besides using them Mr. Henry Willard, died January 18th, 1892, aged sixty-five years. "; -•roughly. The log. house, open fireplace with a cooking stove, the two hun­ dred miles travel to get our first grist of flour and corn meal ground. Here Mr. Sylvester Langdon, died January 22, 1892, aged seventy-two years. our children were born. Beads were built. A weekly stage, then tri-week- ' MT.'T. M. Warren, died February 28th, 1892, aged eighty years. ly—then daily; some rafts and boats floated- to a southern market; a tele­ graph—and lastly our great railroad. This new country settlement of fifty Mra. Amelia Clark, (wife of Deacon Clark, deceased,) died January 7th, years has been and Is radically different from those made, prior lu Ononda­ 1S92, aged eighty-three years. ga Co., N. Y., in consequence of the wonderful strides In science and the arts ; Mra Emma Wlthlngton, aged 56. Died 1891. during this period of fifty years. Wonderful to contemplate. A voluble of one thousand pages could not tell the wonders. Our whole country has be­ .' Mrs/Cordelia, (wife of Dr. B. F. Mills,) died Jan. 7th, 1892, aged 66 years. come rich in minerals, In agriculture on the great western plains formerly Mrs. Charlotte, (wife of P. Pratt,) died January 4th, 1892, aged-67 years' known only as the great American desert. Rich In education, in mind, in •Mrs. Harriet Halstcd, aged 93. Died March 1st, 1892. mechanics, all bringing the luxuries of life. From the Atlantic to the Paci­ fic Is one gm^t garden bed of developed riches; millions of miles'of railroad Mr. Jeremiah, (son of Patrick Kelly,) died Jan. 14th, 1892 aged 25 years. Interlace the North American continent. We burn the breath of Mother Mr. Jacob Weymar, died January 16th, 1892, aged 58 years.- Earth. Are warmed and cook and travel by her coals; also lighted and Mr. Lyman Smith, died November 16th, 1891, aged seventy years. travel by her electricity, etc., etc. I have a son upon the' Pacific 'coast. Thus four generations have spanned the continent In the western emigrat­ Mr. Solornan flrown, died November 4th, 1891, aged 84 years. ing tide, all within one hundred years. Three pleasant homes jiave been made. It is a great country for homes, much of Europe's teming, over­ crowded population have been made happy and rich In American homes. WILD HONEY—Was plenty, and a source of revenue to be© hunters, forty God has blessed America. or fifty years ago.- Also large per diems were realized in digging jensing. The dried root selling as high as $1.00 per pound; some days $3.00 to $5.00 • The Order of the Eastern Star was realized. From 1865 to 1872 there were large sums of money; realized Is to'work in conjunction with Free Masonry, by the wives, daughters and out of the hop culture, but- more lest in the end. sisters of Masons^yet It Is not a factor of ancient Free Masonry proper. The 'following is from the politeness of the secretary of the order: Baraboo Chapter Mo. 21, O. E. S-, was organized July 2nd, 1892,. with a membership PorLfRT YARD.—Mr. Julius O. Stommer has a finely arranged poultry of fifty-two. The first and present officers were appoi-nted as follows: yard. He. hatches, by incubator. Buildings cost about $700. The ar­ Mrs. Lousia M. Kendall, Worthy Matron; W. W. Andrews, Worthy Patron; rangement seems complete for accommodating over EjpO—perhaps 1,000hens. Mrs. Katherine P. Brewer, Associate Matron; Mrs, Ellen E. Briscoe, Treas­ ure,?.; Mrs. Bell W. Bliss, Secretary; Mrs. Mary Pietzseh, Conductress; Mrs. Harrlette Johnson, Associate Conductress; Eev. Thomas J. Snodgmss, Chap­ Sauk'County "Stock Breeders* Association1* was principally a Baraboo lain*; Mrs;*'Thresa Andrus, Ada; Mrs. Anna Hollenbeck, Ruth; Mrs. Jennie affair, confined mostly if not entirely to horses, and was organized June 13, ,Brewer, Esther; Mrs. Ella Hofstattor, Martha; Mrs, Mary A. Briscoe, EJeeta; 1874. The Norman horse was introduced. The town Is now well-filled Mrs. Mary-Foster, Warden; Thomas Whistance, Sentinel. The.-presfnt with large draft horses. There Is also many fine "roadsters" raised. The membership Is ninety, on Feb. 25th, 1892. On March 3d, they received Percherons are now quite largely raised. In cattle the Durhams take the their charter from the State Grand Chapter, and the officers were installed lead. At the present-time the Jerseys are much raised as butter cows. /\ Source to tr^e "prosperity of TBaraboo

1 S Its mountain-like scenery. It has In "Outline Sketches of Sauk Co.," and There has beeu a project discussed of late by the Baraboo city 1 in this number been quite fully described. It is referred to again to show people of runuiug an electric K. K. from the city to the lake, but is the preseut improvements, at the Lake in particular. The scenery region "tabled" for the present. Thousands of dollars are annually left in Bara- is no small factor m building up our town. The Lake and its surround­ ings alone is a point of great attraction, not exceeded in natural beauty by auy from the Adirondack^ to tne Rocky Mountains. The poetry of it has provoked from the gifted stanzas worthy of a place iu cultured didactic literature. It early attracted to its shore, for a permanent home, persons of poetic taste. The heads of three families may be mentioned. Louis Claude, from the north of England, near by Lake Windemere, village of Am beside. Westmorland, a mountainous region. He saw in our bluff Lake a reflection of Wiudemere and of Baraboo an Am beside. He settled here in the spring of 1857. The family consists of wife (an American lady), son and daughter. A pleasant, kind-hearted, affable familv. Mr. Claude has seen much of the world but his preseut home is his ideal point. His health for the past season has been poor. He may be called the father of Land­ scape gardening and rural architecture at the Lake. Three English families from Westmorland made their home here. Thos. Thompson, a skilled worker in wood, W. Gowan and A. Withington. The two last named, and Mrs. Withington, are dead. Mrs. Gowan survives, and resides in Baraboo. Mr. G. aud W. erected neat English cottages on the road from Baraboo to the Lake. Upon the north-west end of the Lake Mr. Claude built a rustic cottage on an elevated plateau leaving much of the natural forest about it, and up- ou the shore of the Luke. He was educated a Civil Engineer and practiced his profession when he first came to this country, iu Kentucky. He was a fine draftsman and possesses much mechanical ability. Not dependant on hand labor for a livelihood, yet ever busy. He delights to be iu his shop IHX> by Summer Tourists and Lake visitors which are now numbered by (a comfortable room in bis house). Pieces of parlor furniture from his t bousands. hands are met with among his friends. Quaint, with carved designs, and fit­ (From W. B. Pearl's Utile leaflet to the Piihlfr.) ted together with great exactness, and completed without brad, uail or glue. THE LAKE. At the south end of the Lake we have N. C. Kirk, a rural, rustic, home man. He purchased from 200 to 300 acres of mountain and valley laud The lake itself, one mile and a' quarter loug, by three-quarters wide, is and commenced improving it first as a matter of fancy in 1854. His mother perched nearly 200 ft. above the Wisconsiu River, and rests there, a reser­ was still living and his home was with her in the village until her death. voir of the purest, softest water iu the world, surrounded almost entirely bv The Lake valley is not subject to late and early frosts, hence he early plant­ the wildest aud most picturesque quartzite bluffs, from 520 to 620 feet high ed out an orchard and a vineyard. He was in company with Timothy Kirk above the water. These bluffs, composed of quartzite broken into every (a brother) and David Updegraff (brother-in-law) in general merchandising fantastic form, peak, pinnacle aud ruined tower, and clothed or framed in from 1850, when he came to Baraboo, to 1854, when thev sold out. His pine, cedar, birch and other foliage, and draped with vines and mosses. orchard and grapery soon came into bearing. The pure juice of the grape present au almost endless succession of the wddest and most perfect "bits" was barreled and stowed away in a deep and ample wine cellar. Improve­ of crag and evergreen foliage. No one, however, will over know the full ments of his park went on year after year. The small pavillion built for beauty and variety of tne scenery who does uot climb the bluffs aud slow­ touchers, picnics and music feasts has now given place to a large and ele­ ly follow the margin above and in sight of ths Lake, taking iu every sepa­ gant one: with a large open fireplace, rustic ornamentation, a piano, lamps rate glimpse downward of the Lake. They who do this eveu once will and chairs. The window view from it is very pleasant. In 18/9 his honor­ never forget the entrancing loveliness of the crystal water seen far below, ed mother died. After enduring two years of real bachelor life, to 1882, he through vistas of boken crag aud lofty piue. The fish contained in the married Miss Sarah Warner and now they quietly and peacefully occupy lake are pike, pickerel, black bass, yellow perch, sunfish and minnows. the rustic cottage up there by the rocks. No one visits the Lake without Deer are increasiugly plenty ou the surro Hiding bluffs, the growth of the calling upon Noble C. Kirk and enjoying his Park and when they leave underbrush protecting and feeding them, liufried grouse iu the woods and taking home with them a bottle of "Kirk's Native Wine" for "sickness" a few prairie chickens on the Baraboo and Wisconsin River prairies about There is a flag station at the park called complete the game. In ferns and mosses the shadier clefts and ravines of the bluffs are singularly rich, affording many prizes to the herbarium. KIRK LAND. He has built summer cottages to accommodate parties who wish to tarry HEALTH. here for a season. A huudred or more guests can be accommodated in this A fact most important to all is that this district of country, and especi­ mauner Tt can be truly said that KIRKLAND is fast becoming one of the ally that immediately surrounding the Lake, is peculiarly healthy and ab­ most popular resorts for "vacationists" and others in the north-west. The solutely free from all malarial influences, and nowhere can those afflicted scenery, the soft water, the quietness from bustle and traffic are the magnets with ague aud the whole catalogue of the effects of malaria, so soon shake that attract people here. Mr. Kirk owns but about one half of the valley. them entirely off. The other half has changed hands several times and for many years there EXCURSIONS. lias been a hotel kept there, of late it has been known as the Shelden House. Excursions can be made that will repay the lovers of pure air aud wild This vear it was conducted by Oscar Messenger. The property is now and beautiful scenery, in almost any direction. But the main points are: owned by a capitalist at Davenport, Iowa, E. T. Hopkins, who is enlarging The wonderful Dells of the Wisconsin River; tfiis is a full day's trip 14 and refurnishing it to make it a first class hotel. There is an orchard and miles bv carriage to Kilbourn and thence by steamer through the Dells vineyard upou the premises. Besides apples, two bushels of pears were themselves. The Upper Narrows of the Baraboo and Narrows Creek, by harvested this year. There are connected with the hotel summer cottages railroad 14 miles. The Lower Narrows, on the road to Portage, by carriage and a first class bathing house is to be built next season. * 7 miles. Palfrey's and Dorward's Gorges, by carriage six and nine miles The other person referred to as clever in rustic architecture and who respectively. Also the Pewit's Nest, six miles from the Lake. The view of has done much in adding to nature's poetry, is W. B. Pearl, who for 16 Sauk Prairie and the Valley of the Wisconsin, from the Sauk road as it de­ years past has admirably conducted the Cliff House. New buildings are scends the bluff to the plain below, is unsurpassed in extent aud loveliness. erected and improvements made yearly and the coming season it is con­ And for every and any day the walks over and ,< iu ng th< I. \.-. Bluffs will templated to bring a large spring of soft water into the main buildings and form the staple attractions. small cottages. The property now has upon it two large buildings which The top of the bluffs east of the Lake I -w« t*•r moren^ of an ancient will accommodate 200 guests. They are furnished with every luxury usual glacier very marked. Some of the conical f.v.r ^ i JUS r.re iilS-d with water; to places of this character. A large pavillion with old fashioned fire-place, infant lakes. The population is German aiul lri*h. A dviv* fi\.m the lake sofas, chairs and piano. There are several small family cottages. Mr. to Dorward's is rich iu scenery, and you may P ag.n< yourself Germany Claude also has family cottages. or Ireland as you journey. A 8 team boat makes regular trips from the Cliff House to Kirkland.

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The public is much indebted to the Baraboo Republic for an article that J. C. Sturdevant, No. 708 4th St., D. E. Welch, No. 300 6th St., cor­ has cost much labor to prepare, besides the expense of purchasing some new two story residence. $2,200. ner 6th and Birch St., painting and engravings. The use of such portions as are thought desirable for this His­ E. Selleck, No. 314 4th St., rebuilt improvements. $150. torical Sketch of the city has been secured: house, $2,000. Abe Lezert, No. 628 4th St., home L. G. Kendall, No. 417 4th St., two remodeled. $500. story residence, $2,300. Mrs. Bennett, No. 207 7th St., Abe Lezert, No. 626-28 4th St., house rebuilt. $1,000. double tenement house. $2,500. V. C. Dillingham, No. 215 6th St., F. T. Brewster, No. 330 6th St., two repainting. $100. story house, $2,500. E. O. Holden, No. 120, 5th St., ad­ Arthur Wells, No. 402 6th St., 1J dition to barn. $100. story cottage. $1,500. Levi Crouch, No. 209 5th St. re­ Airs. Pilley, No. 527 7th St., H story modeled tenement and repainted cottage. $1,800. home. $250. Mary Carpenter, No. 541 8th St., German Evangelical Church, re­ cottage. $1,000. pairs and painting church and parson­ J. R. Hofstatter, No. 433 9th St., age. $200. cottage. $1,200. Sauk County, new barn, out build­ J. W. Sutherland, No. 10th St., ings, grading grounds and laying cottage, $1,300. walks. $1,000. Mr. Baer, No. 318 10th St, cottage, Mrs. Wm. Powers, corner 1st and $700. Broadway, additions and improve­ C. J. H. Erffmeyer, No. 404 10th ments to home. $350. St., house and barn, $1,800. • Ben Clark, corner 1st and Broad­ P. A. Wood, No. 603 Ridge St., 1J way, home repainted. $100. story cottage, $1,500. P. Pratt, No. 213 Birch St., barn re­ Daniel Adams, Sixth street, new painted and grounds improved. $250. cottage, 1250 P. McGinnis, Cor. Oak and 1st St., L. M. Patterson, North Oak street, home painted and improved. $100. new house, 1,800 D. K. Noyes, No. 417 Oak St.. tene­ Total for new buildings,... .$73,650 ment repainted and improved. $100. Chas. Young, No. 309 2d St., house ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. remodeled and painted. $200. A. G. Locke, No. 619, Oak St., BRIDGE OVER THE BARABOO RIVER. Frank Avery, No. 506 2d St., im­ Two years ago it was found necessary, to accommodate the travel between bakerv remodeled. $100. provements and painting. $100. the north and south divisions of the city, that a new bridge over the Baraboo C. A. Langdon, No. 104 7th, corner A. L Walton, No. 518 2d St., house river should be built, and aecoraingly the substantial and beautiful structure, Oak. and 7th, repainted house. $250. remodeled. $800. of which the above is a photographic view, was erected. It is entirely of iron, Geo. Bowers, No. 1005 Oak St., ad­ John Monroe, No. 533 2d St., re­ resting on substantial stone abutments and piers, and crosses the river im­ dition to home. $150. pairs and painting. $100. mediately above the falls of the dam, as the picture represents. It is 620 J. H. Halstead, No. 210 7th St., ad­ Lon Ferris, No. 605 2d St., repairs feet in length. There are two spans; one 234 feet, and the other 102 feet, dition and painting. $200. and painting. $100. and 296 feet of tressel. The road-bed is 26 feet above the water in the dam, Wash Burrington, 123 7th St., home Doctor H. E. Cross, No. 214 2d St., which is about 12 feet high. The whole height is 58 feet. and tenement painted. $200. new barn, house repainted and repair­ Chas. Wild, corner 4th and West ed. $350. THE YEAR'S RECORD. Sts., home remodeled. $1000. George Young, No. 305 2d St., new It Is not claimed for the following that It is a complete list of buildings D. B. Reynolds, No. 406 4th St., barn and improvement of home. $150 and improvements for the time covered (from Sept. 1st 1890 to Dec. 31st 1891) new barn ana home painted. $200. Peter Keller, No. 309 Birch St., nor that the amouuts given as expended are accurate. But it is confidently Henrv Rich, No. 530-4th St., home house repaired and repainted. $100. believed that the aggregate is within the actual expenditures. It has been remodeled and sundry improvements. Walter Anderson, No. 614 2d St., aimed to note only improvements to the extent of $100 or over. The sums $1,200. house repainted and repaired. $100. less than that, and the eutire omissions, of which there are doubtless many, Alfred Baer, corner 5th and Park, will, it seems safe to estimate, fully offset any overstatement of expenditures house repainted. $100. Dr. Jennings, No. 803 2d St., repairs that may appear. The figures given are from judgement on viewing the Mr. J. Lehn, No. 723 Park, home and painting. $100 property, aud include all expenses in each case—not merely the mechanics repainted. $100. J. S. Worthman, 429 2d street, bay bill of labor and materials for buildings proper. All experience warrants Alfred Rich, No. 5th St., house window and repairs. 100. the conclusion that the actual cost of building and completing, or even re­ repainted. $100. G. Armbruster, corner West and 4th pairing, is not represented by the architects or contractors figures by 10 to S. F. Amy, No. 514 5th St., home streets, addition aud repairs. 300 25 per cent. With that fact in view the following record of expenditures for repainted. $100. E. W. Young, Cheek's Hill, addi­ buildings and improvements was made up: Jacob Gollmar, No. 509 5th St., new tion and repairs. 300 out buildings and repainting. $150. E. f- Gollmar, Third street, addi­ FIRST WARD. new house under construction, esti" Wm. Kendall, No. 422 5th St., house tion to shop. 300 NEW BUILDINGS. mated cost $1,500. repainted. $100. A. Gattiker, Third street, refitting William Moore,803 Oak, corner Oak Masonic Temple, corner Oak and Mrs. S. S. Grubb, No. 423 5th St., store. 300 and 6th Sts.,*wo story residence, cost 2d Sts., two story terra cotta brick, home remodeled. $350. Island Woolen Mills, addition and complete, $5,000. 65x114, $15,000. Geo. McFarland, No. 416 5th St., repairs. 450 Samuel Crouch, No. 709 Oak St., M. McGann, No. 2d street, new home repainted. $100. Mr. Butterworth, No. 525 Ridge two story residence, cost complete. residence. $2,000. J. H. Halstead, No. 510 5th St., St., new barn and repairs. $150. 16,000. tenement repainted. $100. Chas. Sarahan, No. 507 Park St., H. M. Johnston, 818 Broadway, cor­ William Emery, No. 620 2d St., lesidence, $2,000. William Ellis, No. 228, j5th St., repairs and painting. $100. ner Broadway and 7th, elegant new home repaired and repainted. $200. Louis Horstman, No. 615 3d St., residence, $6,000. John Terrv, No. 419 Ridge St., resi­ R. B. Fleming, No. 208 5th St., new barn and painting. $250. H. M. Johuston, 501, Broadway, dence. $1,800 home repainted. $100. J. Savage, No. 533 3d St., painting corner Broadway and 3d, two story Joe Teel, No. 517 Ridge St., resi­ James Curry, No. 232 6th St., home and other improvements. $100. brick veneered olfice and store room. dence, $2,000. repainted. $100. W. H. Jacobs, No. 526 3d St., re­ $5,000. H. P. Jones, No. 325 3d St., house, Mrs. P. C. Fruit, No. 716 Birch St., pairs and painting house and barn* \ r* Holden, No. 715 Broadway, $2,000. improvements of home. $150.

Digitized by Google 46 Frank Teel, No. 423 3d St., new gant two story residence, grading lots, William Hoxie, repainting and re­ Mr. Payhe, 328 6th St., two houses barn. $200. &-c. $5,500. pairing home. 100 repainted. 100 Henry E. Metzke, No. 417 3d St., A. J. Carow, 213 7th St., rebuilding Mrs. Schwartz, 701 2d St., addition, Hugh Rooney, 3326th St., remodel­ home remodeled. $150. house, new barn and repainting. painting and repairs. 350 ing and painting, 300 Percy Grossman, No. 408 3d St., 1,500. Henry Greenslet, east end of 2d St., J. H. Halstead, 327 6th St., house painting and other improvements. R. D. Evans, 133 8th St.. new two addition and painting. 100 rebuilt and painted, 300 MM). story house, filling and grading, to Mrs. Green, 612 2d St., repainting John Finnigan, painting and re­ R. H. Plant, No. 414 3d St., new complete. $3,500. home, 100 pairs, 100 sheds, Ac. $100. A. Reinking, 1106 Ash St., new Ed Gardner, 308 Elizabeth St., re­ Minnie Warren, East St., house re­ Geo. Gollmar, No. 326-32 3d St.,— house under construction, to complete. painting home, 100. built and painted. 200 two houses*—repairing. $150. 4,500. W. H. Prentice, 513 2d St., repairs, Wm. A. Warren, 205 8th St., new Ed. Gollmar, No. 323 3d St., repairs L. E. Hoyt, 1121 Ash St., elegant painting and grading, 150. barn, painting, grading lots, laying home, foundation for addition. §200. 2§ storv home and fine bare, grading George Bindley, 427 2d St., grading walks &c, 1200 Geo. Huber, No. 320 3d St., addi­ and filling lots. $8,(111 and painting, 100. James Curry, east part of city, re­ tion. $100. B. Flickner, 702 Mound St., resi­ D. K. Noyes, 322 Ash St., repairs modeling and painting home. 300. Chris. Mesner, No. 3d St., re­ dence. $1,200. and painting, 100. E. Barstow, 1220 Ash St., rebuild­ painting. $100. J. E. Elkington, 610 Mound St., Dr. Hall, 414 Ash St.. new barn and ing house and barn. 350 Dan Shilling, Xo. 909 3d St., re­ house under construction estimated other improvements, 800. Mr. Porter, 203 10th St., grading modeling and painting. $200. at $1,500. E. Archer, 224 3d St., new barn, lots and painting. 100 Geo. Sumner, No. 227 4th St., new Thos. McMann, 421 2d St., new painting &c. 400. Frank Kartack, 125 10th St., grad­ barn and addition. $250. house and Improvement of grounds. N. R. Tousley, 233 3d St., addition, ing and improving lots. 100 H.aW. Abbott, No. 319 4th St., $2,500. repairs and painting, 200. J. B. Donovan, 709 Ash St., paint­ painting and repairs. $100. Julius Gust, 417 2d St., large new Mrs. M. Calahan, 235 2d St., re­ ing and repairs. 100 A. L. Burnham, No; 332 4th St., house, graded lots, &c. 3,500. modeling home, 350. lire. T. J. Lavoo, 124 Ash St., ad­ painting and repairs. $100. Tim Lewis, 337 2d St., new home, Mr. Schultz, 504-510 East St., re- dition to store. 500 J. H. Halstead, No. 4th St., re­ graded &c. 3.000. pain tidg two houses. 150. 0. Carpenter, Water St., improve­ building and painting. $300. William Muleahy, 503 2d St., fine Zant Wood,-414 3d St., grading and ments to house and new barn. 150. • Laura Watson, No. 502 6th St., re­ new resilience, Including lot improve­ improving grounds, 150. E. Carpenter, Water St., addition building and painting. $1200. ment. 3,300. Mrs. Meegan, 433 3d St., painting and painting. 100 D. L. O'Dell, No. 541 7th St., re­ Mrs. Lizzie Fisher, 310, 320 to 382 and repairs. 100. ^ Mary Mcfutire, east end of Water pairing, &c. $100. 3d St., two new houses, new fences, Mrs. Nels. Wheeler, 436 3d St., im­ St.. addition to home. 100 Peter Sprecher, No. 509 7th St., re- sodding &c. 3,500. proving grounds and new walks. 100. W. H. Prentice, new barn, fencing pairing, &c. $1(1). Rube Lock wood, 404 3d St., new Chas. Manning, 5103d St., addition, and improving lots on 2d St. 200 Mary Ryan, No. 320 7th St., re­ house, and grounds fitted up. 2,500. painting and repairs. 250. J. C. Link, grading lots for building paint ing, &c. . $100. Joe Schrofer, 408, 3d St., elegant- E. Doerschlag, 516 3d St., repaint­ on 2d street. 100 .John Griggs, No. 222 7th St., home new house, and grading lots. 3,500 ing home, 100. W. H. Jacobs, new sub-division repainted. $100. Mrs. C. Bacon, 506 3d St., addition O. B. Gould, 526 3d St., repainting with streets, avenues, fencing, grading Louis Piatt, No. 227 7th St., rebuilt and repairs to home. 1,000.. and improvements. 150. and general improvements, expended home. $800. Earl Peck, 515 3d St., new house, Mrs. J. Miles, painting and repairs $11,000. J. H. Halstead, No. 304, 308 7th St., and improvement of grounds. 3,000. of home on Elizabeth St. 100. John M. True, opening streets, tenement remodeled. $200. J. E. Elkington, 122, 126 4th St., E. Doherty, 1st St. east of Elizabeth, fencing &c. on East line of city. 300. Henry Schultz, No. 305 8th St., 2 two story -touble business block (In new barn and repairs, 200. Mr. Weirieh, opening road to Man­ houses (epainted. $100. fall of 1890). 7,500. E. L. Palmer, 526 5th St., additions chester Mills. 150 Henry Cowles, No. 316 8th St., re­ Curling Kink, 112 5th. St., (In winter and improvements, 450. Geo.^ Reul, new engine room and pairs and painting. $100. of 1890 91). 1,500. J. H. Halstead, 510-520 5th St., re­ other Improvements at the mill on Mr. ^ Schultz, No. 503 8th St., re­ Chas. Waddell, east end of 8th St., modeling two houses. 300. Water St. 200 modeling and painting. $150. home rebuilt and repainted, and large John Somers, 620 Barker St., new fEnglIsh Estate, opening and grad­ Jerrv Dodd, No. 706 8th St., new new barn. 1,500. oil house, painting and repairs. 300. ing streets, grading and Improving barn. $300. Julius Reul, 233 6th St., new house, Mrs. John Barker, 500 4th St., new lots, north of 10th street toward ceme­ Clarence Buckley, No. 10th St., and improvement on grounds. 2,000. barn, repainting house, 250. tery. 2,000 improvements. $100. George Keuhns, 722 East St., two Mrs. M. Chapman, 426 4th St., re­ 1. L. Humphrey, 3rd street,-remod­ Mr. Neibour, No. 513 9tb St., re­ story house, furnace &c, to complete. painting and repairs, 100. eling store. 300 * painting and improving. $100. 3,500. Bert Peck, 514 East St., addition to A. F. Herfort, Ash street, near old Mr. Lawsha, on Cheek's Hill, new O. L. Glazier, 211 10th St., new barn and painting, 100 bridge, addition and Improvements, barn. $150, ' ; house, barn ,100 our earlv da vs. interested in.

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Digitized by Google 51 Shows. The character aud habits of all of these gentlemen is such as would Rinalina Brothers World s Greatest Sljows. do honor in whatever station of life they might choose to labor. Their his­ tory is an interesting one, and many reminisences of their early career are told by those familiar with their struggle for supremacy. The most inter­ | An epitome of the Ringlings' hippodrome and menagerie was written for esting ones can be told by the brothers themselves. Burns said, "The best this sketch by one who is familiar with the miuutia of their business, and is laid plans of mice and men oft gang aglee." There could be volumes an enthusiastic admirer of their indomitable will and tenacity that at last written on the happenings and mishaps of these busy amusement kings if has brought them success.—ED.] we were to go back to when they were au amusement institution in their "Among Baraboo's many industries that contribute to her wealth, none swaddling clothes. The first amusement venture they made was in the play so vast and varied a part as the great circus of the Ringling Brothers. theatrical line, when they were mere boys. It was known as Ringling Bros.' Baraboo is the only city in tho state, or in the northwest, that can boast of classic and comic concert company. A winter season outing in Iowa, Da­ being the winter quarters of one of tho few big shows of this couutry. That kota and Minnesota. The gentle blizzards made havoc with their invest­ its citizens are proud of tho institution which enjoys universal popularity is ments. With indomitable will which from the start characterized their under­ evident by the hearty good will which every resident of Baraboo speaks of takings, they managed to keep on the road and fill their engagements. the Ringling Brothers and the enormous aggregation. Everything used Their first season closed with little financial success. They learned the about their great establishment is made in Baraboo, and consequently truth of the saying that "nothing succeeds like success." Instead of com­ brings many dollars which have beeu gathered in other states home to our plaining of their losses they avowed their success and started the followiug people. Besides the army of people needed to take care of several hundred season with a much improved comedy company, known as Ringling Bros.1 horses, a great menagerie of wild animals, etc., the skilled performers, who Carnival of Fun. Results were more gratifying in this venture, and they spend their winters here in the training building, also spend their dollars continued for several years steadily gaining in popularity and lucre, until here, besides agents and their families, and a complete contingent of people they had amassed enough to start a small circus. Here is where their pros­ that are needed for so varied an enterprise. There is scarcely a farmer in a perous career began. They soon found that a circus was not a very cheap radius of many miles who does not have something to sell to the Ringling thing to buy. After investing in the necessary paraphenalia and advertising Bros ; hay, grain, vegetables, meat for the animals, blooded horses, etcetra. material their treasury was so far depleted that the question of buying a There is not a merchant but profits by the circus. Some of their bills run sufficient number of horses to transport their show from place to place, was up to the thousands. Carriage makers, blacksmiths, and o*her mechauics, to say the least a puzzle. However horses or no horses things had to be have much work from the company. Many run extra forces to meet the de­ kept goiug. So with a stock of three scrawny old horses, and about ten mands of the company. During the winter fully thirty seamstresses are hired teams, the s^ow made its iuitial bow to the public. The famous old employed on the rich and costly silk and velvet costumes, made for the pa­ Yankee Robinson had become associated with the concern, and it was known rade and spectacular exhibition. At the winter quarters can be seen sculp­ as Yankee Robinson and Ringling Bros.' Great Double Show. Through ture modelings in wood, rich carvings for tho chariots and tableaux. In the pluck and energy of the proprietors, the show returned in the fall a win­ their paint shops gilders are covering their work with gold and silver; paint­ ner. Good horses having been added, and the pockets of the Ringling Bros, ers are putting fine art productions upon the costly vehicles; stripers and so well filled, that the next year they went out with a much enlarged and im­ varuishers, decorators and common painters. The full force represents a proved show, which was known as Ringling Bros.' Great Double Show. scene that almost rivals there the artist's scenes. At the harness and sad­ Yankee Robinson succumbed to Bright's disease the first season. The dlery shops a busy host are at work repairing and making now equipments. show grew so rapidly from its second season that within ten years it has A force is kept busy making new seats, poles and tent paraphenalia. At become a big railroad show, so great In size and merit that all like institu­ the railroad headquarters of tho the show, the many trains of cars are being tions with two or three exceptions, are no longer to be compared with it. overhauled and repainted, and thus while the showmen are making active Its first three horses have grown into three hundred of the finest stock. Its preparations for the coming season, the citizens of Baraboo are each month menagerie is without a counterpart in the United States. Its three ring cir­ adding thousands to their prosperity, while to tho people the Ringling Bros, cus embraces the best of American and European artists. Its great hippo­ are known as progressive, wide awake business men, who add greatly to drome presents the greatest counterpart to the famous Maximus of Rome. the growth and prosperity of their city. To the public throughout the Its tents are the largest ever constructed. Its railroad equipments the best. United States they are known as the proprietors of the World's Greatest Thus is the proverb verified, "From little acorns mighty oaks are grown." Show, au institution of such universal popularity that its name and fame is sounded with mpre pleasure by its patrons than the namo of any other cir­ cus in the country. This is not only due to the excellent exhibition and superb equipments which distinguish it from all others, but also to the con­ scientious regard with which the Ringlings protect the rights of their pat- MORE CIRCUS. rous. Everywhere people attend their show who never go to any other, simply because it is conducted on a plan the motto of which is "fairness Gollmar Brothers have started a circus. It is a year old. On their re­ and courtesy to every one," thus the objectionable features of dishonest fol­ turn last fall they reported it a success. It is born, and time will write its lowers, fakirs, and gamblers are unknowu to visitors, and the boisterous, history. The Gollmar family is among our most respected citizens, and loud aud sometimes profane language heard among tho employes of like have long been residents of Baraboo, steady, hardworking blacksmiths. institutions is here unknown. The public recognizes this, and for this rea­ Theirs is a large family of boys like the Ringling's. They take great pains son the Ringling Brothers have tho sauction and support of many people, relative to the moral aspect of their exhibitions. No gambling allowed up­ who look with distrust upon most circuses. The brothers are five in num­ on the ground, or catch-penny devices. Their employes are required to be bers, rauging in age from 25 to 39 years—Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles and quiet and respectful to all. The very atmosphere of Baraboo makes moral, John, constitute tho proprietorship. Besides these five there are two other honest men. If United States, Wisconsin, Baraboo & Co. did not keep sa­ brothers, August and Honry, who are connected with tho World's Greatest loons here, our city would be a paradise.

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52 COMMERCE AND PUBLIC WORKS. passed into the hands of the Chicago and North western R. R. Co. [The chartering; the buying ind selling'; the change of titles &c. have been omitted for brevity. ] THE MADISON DIVISION of this now great system of the C. & N W. fly. broke ground Sep. 1870, at Oregon, near Mad­ In n short time after settlements were made, there wis needed a more ison, and upon the tunnels, in 1871, which was-the last point dii the div- extended commerce than the neighborhood exchange. Water navigation ison, completed, the length of these tunnels are No. 1, 1510 feet ;*No. 2, 1660 was the thought at first, and we felt ourselves fortunately located that we feet; No. 3 4020 feet. The Irst train of cars reached Baraboo, Sept. 8th could float our produce to a southern or to an eastern market; if to the 1871; on the 12th, a grand jubilee was held to celebrate the occasion of a eastern, It would be via, Fox River to the Great Lakes, or by the Bara­ veritable railroad train ot cars drawn by the one eyed horse. The whole boo and Wisconsin rivers to the Mississippi River. The settlement at country from "Dan to Bt-erdhcba" were present; cannon were fired, speeches the Baraboo Rapids, sent a few boat loads of produce to the southern mar­ made; a triumphal arch erected for the Iron Horse to pass under. The ket. Tills marketing was too slow in realizing returns, and the people pioneers dream was now a rcalitv. A Railroad to Baraboo. Hurrah! resorted to waggoning to Milwaukee ; llie freighting In this way cost $1.00 Hurrah 11 Hurah!! I We used to say, as early as 1842 that -the 'rapids per hundred. Sonic men made it their special business to "team on the would be a city, from the upper to the lower end; (2 miles) the present road,"and many taverns were built to accommodate tlie teaming trade. city limits, almost covers the whole ground anticipated. From Watertown to Milwaukee there was a very good plank road. Plunk road building was much talked of throughout the country, es­ This Madison Div. extends from Belvidere, III. passing through Beloit pecially at Bamboo, and surveys were made antl a company partially form­ Janesvillc, Madison, Lotli and Meriinnao; through Devil's Lake Gap, to ed to construct one across the Baraboo Bluffs lo Sauk Prairie. The dis­ Baraboo, the head-quarters of the division; thence'to Reedsburg, Wonc- tance from Baraboo to Milwaukee was 120 miles. The early settlers al­ woe, Elroy ; through three tunnels; thence'-through Sparta to Winona. ways entertained n belief that at the Baraboo Rapids there would he a city. Then from Milwaukee, through Waukesha, Lake Mills, Madison. RAILROADS soon became the topic ot discussion, and we had learned Montford, to Lancaster; with branches from Montford to Galena, and enough of the contour of the country between the Wisconsin and tlie Miss­ from Lancaster junction to Woodman; from Evansville to Janesvillc; issippi rivers lo lie confident that the Bamboo Rapids lav the nearest to an from Janesvillc to Afton; Irom Winona junction to La Crosse; from air line of any available route between Chicago and St. Paul, the great­ Trempealeau to Galcsville; and from Xecedah junction to Xecedah, a t*» est two cities of the Northwest ; hence as early as "1850 the citizens of tal distance of 512 miles. • - •' the Baraboo Valley obtained a charter lor a railroad to run through it." The HEADQUARTERS of the division — The MACHINE and REPAIR Instrumental surveys showed that about the her.d of the Kickapoo SHOPS, which have become extensive, employing over 100 operatives.^-Thn River there were deep valleys and high ridges on this finite: and Mil­ waukee engineers decided it impracticable, and bent their line so far north HOUND HOUSE of 25 stalls; and 'OFFICES for OFFICIALS are located at BARABOO. Most-of the employees from Sup't to Brakeman reside as to leave the B'traboo Valley to the south, and even then a tunnel would here. The numerous fine residences dotted over the town, are quite lie necessary to the entering ot" the Mississippi Valley. Chicago engineers reported that by some tunneling it was a feasible route; hence the Baraboo largely built by Railroad men. A Brakeman makes about $65 per mouth ; Valley interest became identical with that of Chicago. In the fall of 1851 a Fireman $70 ; Engineer Si 10: Conductor. Train Despatchcr and Depot the citizens of Baraboo sent Col. James Maxwell and P. A. Bassett lo Agent, each*'$100; Clerks $50; Master Mechanic §150; Workmen In Washington to see if Congress could not be induced lo give some of the tlie Shops from 11. 25 to SS.00 per -day. There are from 1.500 to 2.0UU public domain for the const ruction of a railroad between the two great employees on this division. The present officials are, R. A. Cowan, Sup'f. commercial centres of the Northwest. Their efforts were so fur successful, who began railroading in 1864, a brakeman on a freight train—conductor that-iu 1852, there was a bill framed graining certain tracts of land to the train despatchcr—assistant superintendent, now superintendent. Chicago St. Paul and Fond du Lac R. It. Co. but it was lost by a majori­ J. II. Hull, Train Master; (Air. Hull has been In the employ of the ty of ont* vole. company ever since 1855) William A. Lawson,'Chief Train Despatchcr; A.grant of land was finally obtained in 1856 and placed at the dispos­ Geo. S. Rockwell, Ass't Train Despatchcr; John Wrivht, Road Master; al of the state of Wisconsin for railroads. This donation opened a despe­ Wm. Elliott, Sup't., ot Buildings and Bridges; II. C. Strong, Agent; rate struggle between Chicago and Milwaukee's commercial interests. Un­ H. D. Page, Master Machauic; G. W. Biann, Store Keeper. H. D. der Coles Bash ford's administration in 1857, the State Legislature had Potter, from commencement 2o years ago, most of the time as Baggagfe to decide the matter. As a means to curry favor of the b'jdy, the Chicago IU aster. • interest opened a free house of entertainment, on the cast, side of flie Capi­ Among some of the oldest Engineers still 111 the employ of the Com­ tol Park, where legislators lobbyist and all citizens con Id meet and discuss pany arc; Jas. llecox, Chas, Froth Ingham, R. C. Luther, Thus. Dolair, public interest* over banquets and be wailed upon by colored servants; the J. W. Anderson, R. Laftertv. M. A. Miles, J. Lnder, C. E. Sherwood; house was fitted up inelegant style. »U free of cost to any one who wished to* A. Lemav, P. Midland, A. Sivield, C. E. Wri-lit. G. W. Young go there. The liquor bill alone was no small item in this scheme: this II. J. Miller. J. E. Shields, II. C. Brown. J. W. Shields, W. 11. Clark, House was dubbed MONKS HAIX. This indirect way of buying legisla­ T. Reynolds. C. W. Shelper. E. Miller, C. C. Spencer, J. L. Walsh, tive votes was greatly out-done by Milwaukee. Railroad bonds were pre­ J. E. Fellows, F. Ptircell, E. Sherman, and J. Pierce. sented to such members as favored Milwaukee interest's; 13 Senators, oil The following passenger conductors have been employes of the com­ Members. BaiikComptrollcr, Lieut. Govenor, and 23 Lobbyist were among pany for 15 years, (Mr Barrett serving In his present capacity that long.) the iniplicated. Bonds and stock to the par value of §175.000 were given A. F. Barrett, Geo. E.-Willott, Geo. K. Kuhns, John H. Dower, John Mc-» to senators; $355,000, were assigned to members, one received £20.000. Guire, Chas. M. Marriott, John Zeininger, C E. Hallisey, E. J. Cannon, ONE senator who voted for the land grant bill, refused to receive bonds or James W. Hazen, Wm. H. Searies, Alfred C. Ashup, D. G. Burghardt, Geo. stock ; 18 voted against the bill. State officers received $10,000 each, and H. Devens, H. W. House, Chas. A. Ballard. $50,000 WHS distributed in sums of $1.000-each : in the list were five dashes, The following freight conductors have been 111 the employ of the road for it was evident who they intended to represent, from a reply to a question 15 years or more: A. E. Erickson, J. R. Filkios, J. Tillotson. H. H. Cowan, C. propounded to Byron Kilbourn; he was asked if the«e dashes represented A. Carpenter, A.B. Robblns, Wm. Ward, M. V. Hapeman, W.J. Wentworth. the Govenor? He replied that the enquirer was "a very good guesser." Conductor Henry H. Cowan has been a R# R. mall for S7 years; was 18 years on Madison Division. About $600,000 was the amount of corruption bonds and stock thus The shops emplov 150 men; among some of the "old lime ones"' arc given. The-bestowal of the .congressional railroad grant to Wisconsin, W. L. Fogarty, G. J*. Golmar, 11. II. lliilbert, C. G. Lee, G. W. Page, was finally made a compromise between different parties of the Stale. W. H. Statlen, B. Clark, R. Henderson. T. Desuion. J. W. Fay Notwithstanding this disgraceful squabble, by which, perhaps the A. Richards. CL II. Dyrude, E. M-11-riott, M. Tobin, T. Mc Malum, State lost as much money in investigation, in court trials and legislative 11. Sehob, II. Kelly, J. Palory. P. Lehau. J. McNaunasand W. Sand berg. proceedings, as the value of the donated lands. Ira Harris. All of this disappointment did not cool the ardour of the people of All of flic foregoing men have been In the service, for more than lo the Baraboo Valley, or the city of Chicago in their air line railroad years, mid many for more than a quarter of a century. The shop pay roll' scheme; the matter was continually pressed. July 23, 1863 the- Baraboo amounts to nearly 8100.000 annually. We arc indebted to G. W. Biann, Air Line R. R. Association was formed with P. A. Bassett as president: Store and Time Keeper, for a part of these item«. September following, the Chicago and Northwestern R. R. Co. made a From Madison lo La Crosse, the road cost $.r>.:U2.1G9; about $42,000 survey from Madison to La Crosse. The Baraboo Air Line R. R. scion per mile. The wooden and temporary structure*, are now supplanted 53 J with stone and iron of the best engineering type, and now stands one of Strasser, who had baen In the employ of the company for several years, took the best built and equiped railroads in the United States. his place. Mr. Strasser makes an efficient officer, and has gained the confi­ With the liberal wages received, and with temperance and frugality, dence and esteem of our citizens. C. P. McLain Is the general manager, many .employees are able to luy-tip a snug sum, which is usually invested and Is a practical business man. The successful operation of the water here. . Here trains are broken up to suit the grades (.-ibotit 50 feet per works largely devolves on the engineer at the pumping station, Mr. Wm. in 11 f) leading Into and out of the valley of the Wisconsin River. Quinn, who has been with the company here since the plant was founded. 1 Fifty cars In ti train can be drawn from Baraboo to Kendall; whereas He has proved an competent man for the position, reliable and careful, and twenty make a load from Baraboo to Madison and Belvidere. Only if-- looking well after the works. The company do a plumbing business teen cars can be drawn from Kendall to Sparta and twenty five from Mad­ In connection with the water-works, keeping In stock a complete line of ison to Milwaukee. These heavy grades arc on a line enough shorter brass goods, pipes, etc., and have In their employ Mr. John Arnott, from Chicago to St. Paul, to compensate for the extra power required, to one of the best plumbers in Wisconsin. The Water Works also furnish wa­ ter moter power for several establishments in this city, one of the moters draw the loads, and to successful! compete with the more level grade being used In this office and it has never failed to do Its work perfectly, roads in the trade of the Northwest. There is a dally average of about giving the best satisfaction. Baraboo may well feel proud of her water GOO cars passing through the Baraboo R. Wy. yards, and 800 have been works plant, for ^ it Is not snrpiissed In any other city In the state and crowded through. There arc daily two passenger trains from Chicago to is a valuable acquisition to the Improvements of the city. BARABOO BEPUBLIC. St. Pant and two dally (Sundays excepted) from Chicago to points in Minnesota and return, making eight passenger trains that go over the road dailv, besides several accomodation trains. DEATH. Excellent Water System. Before the pages of the Baraboo Sketch are out of press there can further toe chronicled the death of the following old settlers: One of ih© most essential requisites of a city Is a good supply of pure Mrs. Chas. H. Williams, died March 12,1892, aged 69 years. water for household use, and for protection against Ire. Most cities have Mrs. John O'Connell, died March 16th, 1892, aged'56 years. «sen th© need of this, and have within the past few years, put In systems Mrs. Wm. H. Canield, died March 17th, 1892, aged 68 years. of water works, ivhich furnish their citizens with this much needed arti- ^ Of the latter there Is a gravure figure of her person on page 4-5, and men- • ole. A city well supplied with a system of water works is an Indication lion made of her on pages 6 and 45. She Is the last female who was at the that it Is keeping up with the times and that the welfare and actual wants of head of-a family at the time of our settlement within what Is now the town its citizens are well looked after. Baraboo has not been backward In of Baraboo In 1842, eicept Mrs. Kosallne Eeck, who lingers but feebly on. this respect, and has the reputation of possessing the best system of water A few tender lines composed to her memory by a neighbor were handed" us a %¥orks of any city of her size In the state, which supplies our citizens few days after her death. with an abundance of as pure water as can be found anywhere. In 1886 the "On her face the light of peace, city Issued bonds of $100,000 for the construction of- water works, which Death is only a sweet release, were commenced In the fall of that year and finished In the spring of '87 Still and cold those worn hands He, by Moffett, Hodgklns & Clarke, the contractors, at a cost of $75,000, and , They were ready, ready to die. to say that they have ever since given the best satisfaction, will voice the Victor over last of foes, sentiment of our people. She calmly rests In sweet repose, The water Is obtained from a group of living springs located about a mile No more heavy burdens and cares, northeast of the city, near the Baraboo river, and Is of the purest quality. No more tears, no more prayers The pumping station, which Is built of brick, stands about 700 feet from From those cold lips ascend. the springs, and contains two Bean pumps, whose pumping capacity Is All the tears are wiped away, 1,000,000 gallons each, every 24 hours. These pumps are propelled by water No more need for her to pray, power from a large dam race one-half mile long leading from the river, A crown for her! O friends rejoice! stud has a fall of 12 feet giving one hundred horse power. Two large She hears the Bridegroom's voice. Northwestern turbine wheels complete the propelling power. The stand pipe May the "God of peace comfort yon*" which is located In the north part of the city, on an eminence of 142 ft. above t he level of Main street, is 52 feet high and 30 feet in diameter, and has a ca­ pacity of 150,000 gallons. The average pressure on Main street, is 85 jjotifids, and on Linn street, on the south side, 98 pounds, while it is 108 THE KINGS DAUGHTERS. pounds at the* pump house. A separate main leading to the railroad stiops has Its source from the river. When tho works were finished there An open society by this name has been formed for nurses to the sick and were 7 miles of mains which have since been exteuded to ten miles. There as dispensers of charities to the poor. The girls fearing the society might are 98 hydrants, and 5(K> patrons nse the water, the gain being steady, over fall to exist any length of time prefer not to put themselves on record as a 100 being added last year. permineut association. There are nine of them at present. They have done Moffett, Hodgkins & Clarke, the contractors, have over 50 other plants a very active and noble work this winter, and their praise is on everybody's In different cities which are giving general satisfaction, and they consider lies. They hint to the boys that wood needs to be sawed here, and some the Baraboo plant one the very best. The first Superiutedent of the Bar- help needed there, and watchers needed at A's house and so on. Of course nboo Water Work was the late J. W. Heade, who served till the time of his it IJ promptly done. The society might have Its name changed to Ameri­ death, which occurred last May, when the present Superintendent, J. 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JNDA. Judge Young. Waterpowers. This Sketch has yet in opportunity of recording the death 1 have not attempted in this Sketch to giye a full and de­ of a very honorable and useful citizen, in the person of th© above tailed description and history of the water powers of the Bara­ named. Not an old settler of our city, but in his stay with us boo Baplds, as it is minutely detailed in my pamphlet, entitled, «nce 1885, he much endeared himself to onr people. Born Oct. "Baraboo and Its Waterpowers." This, in connection with a 7, 1821. Graduated ^ at Harvard University In 1848. Studied scenery sketch, making nearly 100 pages, in paper cover, I can law. fn the fall of 1856, came to Wisconsin; 1857 to Prairie du sell for 50 cents. Sac; 1885 to Baraboo to IU the office of County Judge. An affable, kind hearted man. A. J. Carow came to Baraboo in August, 1872, and has followed contracting as an architect and builder, and has erected .many of the fine buildings of our city, and some business blocks. The Pfannstiehl bakery and Burriugton block. These were the two The Manchester Roller Mills first brick blocks erected on the hill, excepting the bank. are located three-fourths of u mile from the court house. The mills have a capacity of 50 barrels of lour per day; have ten C. M. Smith and Charles Brewster each have steam thresh­ sets of rolls and all other necessary machinery for manufacturing ers and clover hullers. a first-class article. The mill uses 20,000 bushels of wheat an­ nually, the product of which, Is principally marketed In this S. F. Amey, carpenter and general jobber, house moving, city, and also has an unlimited demand In Chicago. The pro­ bridge building, etc., Baraboo City. prietors cordially solicit the patronage of all, and take pleasure In assuring farmers of a hearty welcome, prompt service and The great delay in concluding this Sketch, was caused by guaranteed satisfaction; will also pay the highest cash price for th© difficulty in getting printing done within the time specified. wheat. w. H. c. I AN OLD SETTLER GONE.

From the Sauk County Democrat published at Baraboo, Wis.

OBITUARY. can be had at Mr: Mould's gallery. Mr. T. was born July 25, 1821, mak­ Died, at his residence in the town of ing his age 72 years, 10 months and 19 Baraboo, Sauk county, Wis., R. T. days. His birthplace was in the town Tinkbam (Ransom Thomas Tinkham), of Waitsfield, Washington Co., Ver­ June 14, at 12:30 p. M , of a complica­ mont. He left home at the age of 24 in company with Osgood, Josling and tion of maladies, largely nervous, akin Siscomb for the Baraboo Valley, Wis., to rheumatism and consequently very through representation of Enos Kim­ hard to endure. His health had been ball, a neighbor who-had previously somewhat impaired for the past two been here in the spring of 1845. He years. This was the only severe illness remained here, working in the lumber business for two years, returning spend­ of his life. He was confined to his ing the winter of 1847-48 at his old room and bed for nearly six months and home. April 19, 1848, he married Miss much of the time under great pain. He Mary L. Pease, and his wedding trip was a home man, pleasant and cheerful, was their long journey to the very bor­ and a strong magnet to his family. His der line of western civilization. Their medical attendants were the best and palace was a log house, afterward a the nursing all that could be given. shanty and afterward a frame house and His eldest son/ Merritt, left a large still after their fine residence with ex­ farming business in- Dakota and was cellent outbuildings and broad cultivat­ most of the time, night and day, by the ed fields, the original claim, whereon father's bedside. His wife in her let­ June 16th his funeral was held. In the ters said—Stay by your, father, I can fall of 1866 his wife sickened and Dec. manage our affairs here in some way. 14 died, leaving five children, the eld­ She was the only relative absent at the est, Ellen, 16 years old. In her Mr. T. funeral. The sermon was preached by soon saw that his little motherless fam­ Elder W. B. Bushnell, the M. E. min­ ily had a mother. The young girl as­ ister at Baraboo. His remarks were sumed the place of maternal head of the founded upon the fore part of the last family and to the present time has held chapter of Ecclesiastes. Mr. Tinkham her position. Their own mother could in religion was a Universalist and in hardly have filled the place better. The politics a democrat. The family often family has been raised, ^educated and said—How very, very kind the neigh­ married under her guidance. It seemed bors are. After acquaintance of nearly no sacrifice but a pleasure to give her half a century we can say we loved the life's energies to them. A more pleasant man. The profusion of bouquets and house to make a call or visit in could wreaths attested this sentiment. They hardly be found. Peace be to the dust have been photographed, and a copy of R. T. Tinkham. A NEIGHBOR.

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IKK //. CANFIELD, C. E. CONTENTS. Page The Town of Greenfield, Sauk County, Wisconsin 1 Political : 2 The First Poniologioal Efforts In Sauk County, Wisconsin 3 Gazeteer 4 The Town of Greenfield 5 Lutheran Church 5 Evangelical Church 5 B. 8. Jeffries 6 John B- Van Pelt 6 Louis Helm 6 Isaac Palmer 6 A. G. Albert... .v ' 6 Peter Buck 6 Charles Farnsworth 6 William Eikey.... George W. Tucker Orson Stmonde Kellogg Family.-.- Netcher Sketch ;J. . ^ Henry Bradbury ., 8 Seth MoGilvra Y 8 Thomas Jones..« *. 8 H. W. Konkel. */•.#• 8 Christoff Seggelkow. J 8 W. S. Smith..... ^ 8 J. E. Savage. - 8 Durward. 8 Benjamin Simoads 9 Christian Zuoh.; 9 Gustoff Zuoh... — -r.. 9 Charles Newman 9 Kessler 9 Timothy Rlggim 10 Herman Sohubrlng 10 R.G. Cowles 10 George R. Johnson 10 Leonard Thompson 11 Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Wilkinson 12 Gilbert Harmon ^ 12 The Lead and Shot Trade * 13 John Metcklf.. 13 < Helm Obituary- 13 Awny Worm. ;...... ' 13 AMMkT^m- -""''-'• '*•"'.-:->:•: :-::':"-:::l tf GtoH-tGUtir*- Standi . . . . // Wff.Gtov«r

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THE TOWN OF GREENFIELD, I small vale laying between quartz­ ber and in inhabitants. plateau you get an occasional SAUK CO., WIS. ite bluffs, its rivulet unites with First the Baraboo bluffs are the glimpse at the valleys, creeks,riv- the Baraboo river a little above highest table laud in the state, the ers, prairies, marshes; etc., some Being favorably situated this the lower narrows; its width about Blue mounds excepted. The 400 or 500 feet below you. The winter, \Hd(>, I thought I could be one-half mile. Its small marshes morane of the ancient Green Bay capital of our state can be seen 40 of some service to some of my fel­ are now under cultivation. Its glacier is more peculiarly marked miles distant. This the scenic low citizens and with a hope of springs and rich soil are making here than elsewhere; it resembles character. gaining a little competency to my­ man and beast happy. A school a chopped up sea, to use a sailor's Second, the soil is not of that self I commenced a canvass of the bouse in its center, occupied by a expression, i. >., the rounded humus character of a prairie soil town of Greenfield to collect bio­ school inarm, completes, the ne­ kuowlsand sunken holes, convex which is composed of a vegetable graphical and political incidents cessary conditions for man's and concave surface. The con- mould, but of au argillaceous to be placed in connection with coarse character that was made by my Baraboo historical sketch of TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNS i Tomis rubbing together and crushing 1801, considering that this town OF different kinds of rock by ancient has Baraboo for its business cen­ glaciers. It is rich in phosphates, ter, in fact it seems to be u part SAUK COUNTY hence is well adapted to thegrowth oi Baraboo in business and social and the cufy-cmuiff Cknui/ies of cereals, as barley, wheat, rye, relations. It has not a store, a etc., making its fruit plump aud post-office or even a blacksmith OAMS CO* well matured, its most natural shop. There is at the present time m product is timber. Since the fires a temporary small lumber saw have been mostly kept off the tim­ mill near Tucker's bridge. I Id 1 t •arTT £« .Z1% >•••• ber the oak aud popple in partic­ Its typography is peculiarly »£***.* MM *)"£* ular has grown up very rapidly. interesting lor its natural wealth vv »«»»» -.mm*, ass y- *«!$'*> ^ ;v^- F. 72". T • %_ 55 •-•• .' ''• '7,9** • ••*''• Many of our fruit growers think and beauty of scenery. its scen­ ssjss §*,: ss« ••*«** that it is the soil for apples. Long ery is unique from the fact of its UJTTf experience will settle that ques­ laying in the form of a basin with EflE3*V tion. The wild apple seems to a hole broken out of one edge of love a more humus soil as that of it where the Baraboo river einp-1 river and creek bottoms. ties itself into the delta of the Wiscconsin river through the Third, the people are mostly lower narrows, which is near the foreigners, largely German; a peo­ northeasl corner of the town, the ple that are homelike in character, river taking a diagonal course frugal, temperate, industrious and from southwest to northeast, leav­ persevering. They have grubbed ing two-thirds of tho town south and cleared away the timber, sel­ of the river, the great quartzite IOWA COUNTY ling cord wood and hoop poles; Baraboo bluff' upon the south and have cleared their fields of stone, the lesser quartzite bluff upon the R2E getting in many cases enough, to fence it into 10 or 20 acre fields. north. The morane of the ancient happiness of earthly priveleges. cave depressions are very fre­ With all this toil before them Green Bay glacier kettle hills The wealth of the town is in the quently partially filled with water they have made nice buildings, which dammed A\> the river on fatness of the soil and its scenic giving almost every farmer a almost if not quite as good as the the west making the rapids. points. The river bottom is al­ goose pond, the last season ex­ average farmer on the low lands. A breakfast plate with a notch ready so drained of its stagnant cepted. The great drouth emp- Almost all have at least comfort­ broken out of one edge to the bot­ water that the plow is king and tied them. These water cups feed able homes and not one can be tom on one side and one of a less the grain fields queen. A few numerous springs. The snow aud found that would go back to the depth at the other, the one notch more years and the wild grasses rains are retained here and are of old country to live. They love to receive the river and the other will be known only in memory. great value for economical pur­ their homes and their adopted to discharge it. The country on the Baraboo bluff poses. To take a carriage ride by country. Wilkinson Creek valley is a is rich in scenery, in soil, in tim- them on the top of this elevated 1868—Supervisors, John Munroe (chairman), O. H. Cook, S. J. Thompsos; POLITICAL. clerk, John M. True; treasurer, Chauncy Warner; assessor, G. W. Simonds: The first town meeting of the electors of the town of Greenfield was held on justices, Amos Johnson, Isaac Palmer, James Taylor; constables, Peter Wilkin­ the 5th day of April, A. D. 1853, at the house of .John Munroe, Peter Cooper, son, Ignates Steimetz, Byron Pruyn. - chairman, Isaac Palmer and John Munroe, board of inspectors, and A. P. Kel­ 1869—Supervisors, Amos Johnson (chairman), O. H. Cook, Ira Dennis; clerk, logg, cleric of the meeting. The following officers were elected: John M. True; treasurer, Herbert R. Palmer; assessor, John Munroe; justices, 1853—Supervisors, Leonard Thompson (chairman), Hiram Bailey, Isaac V. John C. Miller, John M. True; constables, Joseph T. Palmer, John Loos, John Mack: clerk, A. P. Kellogg; treasurer, Amos Johnson; town school supt., C. W. N. Wing. Kellogg; assessor, Nathan Denison; justices, A brum Hooge, Thos. L. Clark, 1870—Supervisors, Amos Johnson (chairman), O. H. Cook, Wm. Fessler; Job Barstow Jr.; constables, George Simonds, Amos Johnson, Samuel Thompson: clerk, John M. True: treasurer, H. R. Palmer; assessor, Isaac Palmerrjustices. sealer of weights and measures, Nathan Den ison. Amos Johnson, I. Palmer; constables, J. T. Palmer, Geo. R Bassett, H. R. 1854—Supervisors, Isaac Palmer (chairman), Irfaac.V. Mack. Hiram Baily; Palmer. clerk, A. F. Kellogg: assessors, Nathan Denison, Hiram Bally; treasurer, 1871—Supervisors, Amos Johnson (chairman), A. F. Kellogg, Seth McGll- Peter Cooper: school supt., C. W^Kellogg; jtmlces, Isaac Palmer, Abram Hoege; vra; clerk, John M. True; treasurer, Patrick Kelley; assessor, Alex. McGllvra; constables, Nathan Dennison, Geo. W. Bioom, B. J. Jeffries: sealer of weights justices, Geo. W. Tucker, A. J. Crawford; constables, G. R Bassett, J. W. Jack-, and measures, William Elkey. Election held at Eikey's school 11. son, H. R Palmer. 1855—Supervisors, Leonard Thompson (chairman), John Wing, Hiram 1872—Supervisor-, Amos Johnson (chairman), John M. True. O. H. Cook:- Bally; clerk, A, F. Kellogg; assessors, Nathan Denison, Hiram Baily; school clerk, Benj. Simonds; treasurer, Patrick Kelley: assessor. Wm. Fesler; justices, supt., C. W. Kellogg; treasurer, Peter Cooper; justices, Geo. Simonds, Simeon G. W. Tucker, John M. Tru«-, Amos Johnson, L Palmer: constables, H. W. Crandall; constables, Wm. Fessler, Ralph Cowles, Geo. W. Tucker. Election Albert, J. T. Palmer, John Carlin. held at Eikey's S. H. 1873—Supervisors, John M. True (chairman). Abram Hoege, Arnold Hojd- 1856—Supervisors, Hiram Baily (chairman), John Wing, Amos Johnson; ridge; clerk, Benj. Simonds; assessor, Samuel 8. McGllvra; justices, Andrew olerk. Simon T. Gilbert; school supt.. Simeon Crandall; assessors, Hiram BaiJy, Prentice, I. D. Gano; constables, Geo. W. Simonds, O. H. Cook, John G. W. Tucker; justices, Isaac Palmer, Gilbert Johnson, Aziarlah Beach; con­ Helm. stables, Norman Simonds, G. W. Tuoker, Ralph Cowles. 1874—Supervisors, John M. True (chairman). H. W. Albert, Alex. McGll­ 1857—Supervisors, Hiram Bally (chairman),. Isaac Palmer. Abram Hoeg«r; vra; clerk, Chris. Mohr; treasurer, J. T. Palmer; assessor, Amos Johnson: clerk, A. F. Kellogg; school supt., Darius Palmer; treasurer, Nathan Dennison justices, John M. True, Amos Juhnson, Chris. F. Mohr: constables, Arnold Hold- Jr.; assessors, Peter Cooper, Hiram Bally; justices. C. W. Kellogg, John Wing, ridge, John B. Van Pelt, Andrew Pivntice, John Carlin. Leonard Thompson; constables, Ralph Cowles, A. F. Kellogg, E D. W. Daw ley. 1875—Supervisors, A. F. Kellogg (ohairman), Patrick Kelley, Levi Pearson; 1858~»Supervieora, John Munroe (chairman), Job Barstow Jr.. Waller Simp­ clerk, Benj. Simonds; treasurer, J. N. Wlnjj; assessor, Alex. MeGilvra; justices, son; clerk, C, W. Kellogg; school sunt., Simeon Craodali; treasurer, Peter O. H. Cook, A. F. Kellogg, J. B. Van Pelt: constables, Henry Bradbury, Job Cooper; assessors, Nathan J. Angel, Geo. W. Tuoker; justices, Nathan J. Angel, Barstow, John Carlin. Simeon Crandall, Nathan Denison Jr., Joseph Sbepard; constable!, Peter 1876—Supervisors, Amos Johnson (chairman), O. H. Cook, Gilbert Harmon: Wilkinson, Ralph CowleB, Abram Hoege, Henry Konket. '• . clerk, Benj. Simonds; treasurer, J. N. Wing; assessor. Wm. Fessler; justices, > . ' r859—Supervisors, John Munroe {chairman), Robt. Crawford, Alex. Simp- Joseph Palmer, Pete*' Wilkinson, John Carlin, I. D. Gano: constables, A. John­ ' sop: clerk, B. Simonds; treasurer, Peter Cooper; school supt., Simeon Crandall; son, Geo. F. Winters, Louis Helm, O. H. Cook. assessor, O. H. Cook; justices, Simeon Crandall, N. J. Angel, T. L Clark, Amos 1877—Supervisors, Amos Johnson (chairman), Levi Pearson, H. W Albert: .-Johnson; constables, John C Miller, Geo. D. Green, L. T. Gilbert., clerk, Benj. Simonds: treasurer, Henry W. Bradbury; assessor, J. F. Palmer: 18(50—Supervisors, John Munroe (chairman), Job Barstow Jr., Henry Kon­ justices, G. W. Tucker, P Kelley, I. D. Gano, Michael Lindsley: constables, kel; clerk, Benj. Simonds: treasurer, O. H. Cook; school supt., Alex. McGllvra; Fred Verch. H. R Palmer, Joan Helm. W. R. Glover. assessor, Peter Cooper; justices, Geo. W. Tuoker, Isaac Palmer; constables, 1.878—Supervisors, A. F. Kellogg (chairman), John N. Wing, O. Simonds: Edward Barstow, Peter Wilkinson, Joseph Palmer. clerk, Benj. Simonds; treasurer. Ed. C. Warner: assessor, Joseph Palmer: , 1861—Supervisors, John Munroe (ohairman), Robt. Crawford, Alex. Simp- justices, I. D. Gano; PatR. Kelley, C. W. Kellogg: constables, G. T. Kellogg. son; clerk, Benj. Simonds; treasurer, Peter Cooper; assessor, O. H. Cook; school Henry Willie, Ward Munroe. Louis Helm. supt,, Simeon Crandall; justices, Simeon Crandall, N. J. Angel, T. L. Clark, 1879—Supervisors, John Munroe (chairman). Patrick Kelley, Levi Pearson: Amos Thompson; constable, John C. Miller. olerk, Geo..T. Kellogg; treasurer, Ed. C. Warner; assessor, Benj. Simonds; justices, Benj. Simonds, J. T. Palmer: constables, Freeman Simonds, John Helm* . 1802—Super visors, Amoe Johnson (chairman), A. Hoege, G. W.Tucker; 1 clerk, G. W. Simonds; treasurer. A. F. Kellogg; assessor, Isaac Palmer;-justices, Wm. Brinson, G. W. Warner. Gfc;W. Tucker, Isaac Palmer, Jas. Taylor? constables, J. Palmer, Wm. P. Ei.cey, 1880—Supervisors, John Munroe {chairman), Pat Kelley. A. G. Albert; clerk. Gilbert Harmon. Geo. T. Kellogir: treasurer, Chas. L Brewster; assessor, Benj. Simonds: Justices. 1883—Supervisors, A. FVKellogg (chairman), Amos Johnson, Seth McGllvra; Pat Kelley, G. W. Tupker; constables, Louis Helm, Chas. M. Jackson. olerk, G. W. Simonds; treasurer, Wm. Fessier; assessor, 6. H. Cook; justices, 1881—Supervisors, Pat K«-ttey (chairman), Augustus G. Albert. A. F. Kel­ .N. J, Angel, Wra. Weaver; constables, Gilbert Harmon, J. Palmer, John N. logg; olerk, Benj. Simonds; treasurer, Arthur Kellogg: assessor. Amos John- Wing, T. L. Clark. sou; justices. Benj Simonds, Henry Konke); constables, John Parson, Chas. W. 1864—Supervisor*, Isaac Palmer (chairman), G. R. Baker, N. J. Angel; Jackson, Geo. R Bassett. clerk. Jas. Taylor; treasurer, G. W. Tuoker;' assessor, Isaac Palmer; justices, 1882—Supervisor Amos Johnson (chairman), A. G. Albert, Chas. W. Jas. Taylor, Isaac Palmer, Amos Johnson; constables, Joseph Palmer, John Brewster; clerk, Geo. T. Kellogg; treasurer, John Munroe; assessor, Wm. i Wing, A. Hail: Fessler; justices, Pat Kelley, Herman Keopp, I. D. Gano, Alex. Simpson: con­ 1865—Supervisors, Isaac Palmer (chairman), Alex McGtlvra, J. B. Jackman; stables, Walter Konkel, Orson Simonds, Andrew Prentice, John Helm. clerk, Samuel Thompson: assessor, O. H. Cook; justices, Samuel Thompson, 1883—Supervisors, Amos Johnson (chairman), Herman Koepp, Pat Kelley: John Munroe; constables, Byron Pruyn, Louis Helm. L. Helm beat G. W. olerk, Geo. B. MeGilvra; treasurer, J. N. Wing; assessor. A. F. Kellogg; Tuoker by one vote; •''••;'„; s ., justices, A. G. Albert, Walter C. Pruyn; constables, Arthur Kellogg, John i860—Supervisors, Isaac Palmer (chairman), Job Barstow, Wm. Fessler; Helm, Joseph B. Mann. ..clerk, C. W. Kellogg; assessor, Geo. Simonds; justices, I. Palmer, C. Warner; 1884—Supervisors, Pat Kelley (chairman), Walter C. Pruyn, Herman Koepp: oonsUbles, C. A. Jackman, Heury Tucker. clerk, Geo. B. MeGilvra; treasurer, J. T. Palmer; assessor. A. G. Albert: justices, 1807—Supervisors, Isaac Palmer (chairman), Newton Clark, Wm. Wilkinson; Pat Kelley, I. Uc Gano, Herman Koepp; constables. Cilburn Palver, Waltea olerk, C. W, Kellogg; treasurer, Amos Johnson; assessor, IsaaoPalmer, justices, Konkel, WtHis-Cowles, Goo. T. Kellogg. f - 1 T G. R. Baker, John M. True; constables, John Carlin, John M. Jack man, Henry 1885—Supervisors, Pat Kelley (chairman), .Walter C. Pruyn, Albert Koepp; clerk, Geo. B. McGtlvra: treasurer, J. T. Palmer: assessor, A. G. Albert; 3. justices, G. W. Tucker, A. G. Albert; constables, Fred Verch, Samuel Brown. breakfast. On our return trip we had a similar experience. I then had Dick, 1886—Supervisors, John Munroe (chairman), Arnold Holdrldge, Albert our black boy, with me. On this occasion I got under the wagon with my Koepp; clerk, Geo. T. Kellogg; treasurer, Levi Pearson; assessor, Lewis Proth- blanket and Dick took to a great white oak tree and sat against it wrapped in ero; justices, Pat Kelley, Wm. Pruyn; constables, W. H. Konkel, Geo. B. Me­ his blanket. About midnight we concluded that we might just as well move on. Gilvra. I drove the team and Dick felt the road out with hia feet. After all we had -"I some pleasant days. 1887—Supervisors, John Munroe (chairman), Henry Netcher, Arnold Hold- At 2 o'clock, Friday, April 29, the first nursery stock that ever eame into ridge; clerk, G. T. Kellogg; treasurer, Levi Pearson; assessor, Alex. McGllvra; Sauk county was anchored on Skillet Creek, town of Brooklyn (now Baraboo). justices, Pat Kelley, G. W. Tucker, A. G. Albert; constables, Charles Cowles, It consisted in main of 200 orchard trees, a barrel of peach, pita, a bushel of William Palmer, Willis B. Cowles. apple seed and shrubs, etc. We committed It to the earth as soon as possible. 1888—Supervisors, A. Johnson (chairman), Henry Netcher, Wm. Kern; The following year we budded peaches, apprlcots, etc., by the thousands. There- clerk, G. T. Kellogg; treasurer, Frank Cook; assessor, Alex. MeGilvra. were two, three or four favorable winters on tender varieties of fruit trees; still, 1889—Supervisors, Amos Johnson (chairman), Pat Kelley, Ward Kern; within this time we had enemies to contend with. First, In 1845 or 1846 we clerk, G. T. Kellogg; treasurer, Frank S. Cook; assessor, A. G. Albert; justices, were visited by the army worm. We fought them as best we could by plowing C. L. Pearson, A. G. Albert; constables, C. R Fessler, Chas. Cowles. ditches aod using the spade to finish them up, and made pit holes every rod or so In the bottom of the ditch. This saved the nursery mostly. These traps 1890—Supervisors, Geo. Kellogg (chairman), Wm. Brandt, August Eberleln; caught the chief rank and file of this army of worms. The next season or two clerk, Sllburn Palmer; treasurer, S. A. Johnson; assessor, Orson Simonds; the Aphoid destroyed whole rows of trees. We' checked them by making a justices, A. McGllvra, W. H Konkel; constables, Jacob Kramer, Fred K. Karg, strong decoction of tobacco, putting It into a shallow basin and bending the Charles Cowles. young tree over into the fluid and giving it a tobacco bath. 1891—Supervisors, Geo. T. Kellogg (chairman), August Eberleln, Wm. During these mild winters* Mr. Alburtus, in Honey Creek, 'had a peach Brandt; clerk, L. H. Palmer; treasurer, S. A. Johnson; assessor, Henry orchard that gave him two crops of fruit, but at last the winters came that swept Netcher; justices, A. G. Albert, Pat Kelley, J. G. Train; constables, Louis out of existence the peach, apricot and quince, and badly damaged apple trees. Helm, Jacob Kramer, Albert Moerke. Still, we found a few of our list of apple trees more hardy than others which wo 1892—Supervisors, G. T. Kellogg (chairman), E. G. Albert, W. C. Pruyn; largely propagated and sold, such as Tallmans, Sweeting, Strawberry, Swan clerk, L. H. Palmer; treasurer, S. A. Johnson; assessor, Henry Netcher; justices, apple or Fameuse, Early Richmond Cherry. The fine variety of plums a G. T. Kellogg, Jacob Kramer; constables, Fred Verch, Preemai. Simonds. Blockers Guage, Ballmers, Washington and Green Guage seemed to me to stand the winters quite well, but the curoulio was so great an enemy we 1893—Supervisors, W. C. Pruyn (chairman), August Eberleln, Henry stopped growing them. For several years I sold a considerable of that fruit. I Netcher; clerk, S. H. Palmer; treasurer, S. A. Johnson; assessor, A. G. Albert; have had for the past five years quite a desire to send to Syracuse or Rochester justices, A. G. Albert, Pat Kelley; constables, Fred Verg, Jacob Kramer. and get those noble old varieties and start me a plum orchard. There is no 1894—Supervisors, W. C. Pruyn (chairman), Wm. Kern, Herman John; richer fruit raised. Trees are quite hardyand Lbejieve^hat the curoulio could clerk, J. F. Pearson; treasurer, S A. Johnson; assessor, A. L. Albert; justices, be handily destroyd. /•/ /£/ (j JfU^ f\ L. H. Palmer, H. Netcher; constables, A. Koepp, Aug. Eberleln. y ID 1848 James M. Clark, a g&itfefcaV, Scnolftr^anTl an honest man came 1895—Supervisors, Pat Kelley (ohairman). Wm. Kern, Herman John; clerk, amongst us, settling in what is now the town of Greenfield two and one-half 1 J. F. Pearson; treasurer, Jacob Kramer; assessor, Walter Konkel; justices, Pat miles southeast of the village, now olty of Biraboo. For several years he did ' Kelley, Chas. Cowles; constables, Fred Karg, B. T. Ames. quite a large nursery business. Geo. Holah did some business In this line. His large old orchard looks quite well yet. On Sauk Ransom E. Stone followed close after my effort. Payne and Perkins, also on Sauk dabbled some in fruits Charles Hirschinger, a graduate of the Canfield nursery, commenced in a small The First Pumologioal Efforts In Sauk Oounty, Wisconsin. way and worked up, and Is now a leading man in the business both in the tree line and fruit with his great and beautiful orchard. Being solicited by the editor of the Northwestern Horticulturist to give a A. G. Tuttle commenced a nursery business in 1858 and rapidly enlarged his reminiscence of our early fruit growing experience, I will give you our "green­ orchard and small fruit acreage. He has introduced many varieties of new and horn" experience, and to make it more complete must mix with it early settle­ hardy fruits, especially "apples. From the fact of his taking the first premiums ment reminiscences: for many years on apples in succession in both county and state fairs, this locality I came into the heavy timbered belt in the town of Brooklyn, now Baraboo, baa been placed as first in the state for apple growing.J^Willlam Fox's several on Skillet Creek in the spring of 1842. My father was a friend of Smith and state premiums upon grapes successively proves possibilities in that line of fruit Thorpe, those large nurserymen at Syracuse, N. Y. He wrote me relative to culture. At horticultural meetings there is much said about the causes that starting a nursery to supply demands that would be required as the settlement contribute to hardiness, winter killing, etc., of our cultivated fruits. should grow. My replies were that It was already a fruitful country in many I believe that the soil and humidity of the atmosphere plays the greatest ways. Groves of wild apples and plums were here in abundance and some of the part in the whole matter. Plants like animals require food congenial to it. plums were delicious. We have butternuts and hickory nuts. The black and The now, horse, sheep, goat, deer, moose, elk, etc., etc, require each its proper ;. red raspberries and gooseberries, the vine and. bush cranberry, leaks, onions, regime. In the oak family each variety Is partial to and flourishes best on its •':;_ mandrakes, cherries, wild honey so plentiful that a good bee hunter could some­ God given proper food. Red, black, white and burr oak get their best foods in • times get a barrel of hooey in the fall, and we have old Indian sugar bushes to different soils. Commpn observation tells us of a white oak soil, a bur r oak, etc. .f supply us with sugar. Our waters filled with fish, and the air with game birds The linn, maple and elm get their best food from different soils. A proper, and the rock ledges with rattlesnakes, and the woods with large game, such as prairie soil will not allow a tree to grow In it if left free to fight its own battles. ' deer, bear, etc. We have no skunks, Canada thistles or mean men. How many times we have seen heavy timber growing up to a prairie line not My father bad already settled in two new countries and those letters of mine four feet wide; the great trees leaning over the prairie side to get the more sun­ determined bim to make one more. So in the fall of 1843' he made me a visit light and of course dropping their fruit onto the. prairie, yet in the elapse of and stayed the winter, and in the spring had his nursery stock shipped to Beloit, time there is no encroachment of trees on the prairie side. Babb's prairie in thinking to plant it there, but Anally concluded to have It brought to Baraboo. Sauk oounty gives a good illustration of this. Hence, with our cultivated fruits So in the spring I went with my ox team and got it. Of that trip I will only to flourish best and stand our Winters best each must have its proper food and a mention two events. One was on my way down. One night I stopped for the good degree of humidity. I would not, however, ignore the fact that climate has f. night, it being my first "osmp out" in my tife, I had got* fire started when a , something to do with the condition of the cultivated fruit tree. Most fruit trees wind cloud came up and blew it entirely away and a heavy rain storm set io. I will stand a great degree of cold If there is moisture enough in the atmosphere.; lost my supper but managed to keep dry through the night. It sleeted, rained Pomologlcal physiology should heclosely studied by him who deals in fruit and froze. In the morning the oxen were coated with ice. At •!••« I raising and in schools it should be taught as much as animal physiology. •, "hitched up" and started and got to Madison, a ten-mile drive, taJMfejHMock WM. H. CANFIELD, o Seiliert, Jacob 118.13 111 Simonds, C. 42.13 211 Simonds, F. W or— - Glover, W. R Luebke, Fred 47 311 78 6111 80 3« 12 Simonds, Orson 116.43 311 Glover, W. R. 38 Lange, J 40 11 Schrieber, L Glover, O. H. Ludwlg, p.... a 106.66 311 LAND OWNERS 24 50 84.08 4 11 Stackman 7fl 511 Glover, J. F. . 23 Lucht, H 102.48 4 11 Stanley, M Greenour, C. . 10 5 11 ——IN THE 4012 Look hart, J. 40 12 11 S J 15 11 Graves, Wm.. 250 5 Gllsch. Jacor.. Slye. A 60 11 TOWN OF GREENFIELD. 91 Sebring, M 21.75 7ft 1 1 Slye, A. L 20 7 11 if Simonds. L 17 7 11 MeGilvra, Seth 210.28 30 12 1 S M. F 10 1 11 Mattke, Albert.... 120 60 30 12! 7 Schubriog. Herman. 80 8 11 Helm, Flora. 80 29 12 Mattke, Gustuvus . 64 25 1.2 7 Scbubring, Herman. 40 8 11 Hoffs tetter 100 29 12 Maher. Joseph 80 31 I2i 7 Sohubring, Herman. 1 40 lti 11 Hill, Edward 40 1ft 11 Munroe, John. 204 34 12 1 Schubrinsr, Herman. 80 17 11 Hoege, Orln 40 28 12 Moerke m 1 11 7 Smith, W. S 40 8 11 Hoege, Alba 8028 12 Mann. F. R 159 73 3M 7 Stanke. G 1 120 11 . Ankenbrandt, Adile 40 25 Hoege. Elizabeth 40 28 12 McGllvra. A 143 6 11 7 Stackman, Herman . 120 1!0) 11 Ankenbrandt, A ' 80 2ft Huntington. L. J , 80 31 12 McLich. Charles .. 40 12 11 7 Stadler, Sophier 80 10 11; Ankenbrandt, A I 40 38 Huntington, A 20 31 12 Madden, J 80 13 11 7 Stanke, Wm 80 11 11: Ankenbrandt, A 40 36 Huntington, Arthur.. 40 3212 Madden. Maurice . 120 11 7 Staudmei«-r, .1 40 12 111 Albert, A. G 14012 Hi'lro, Louis 205 lift 12 Madden, M. F 40:14 11 7 Stopper, Wm 112.50 1611 Helm, Louis 20 2 11 Marquart, A. E. 40116 11! 7 Schultz, M 40 16|11| Harmon, Gilbert 80 2 11 Marquart, A. E... 4016 11 7 Stanke, Julius 77 16-11 Herman*, John. 80 1 11 Mai-quart-, A. F. .. 40 16 111 7 Stanke. A 80 18|ll! Harman, R 20 1 11 Marquart. Matilda 80! If 11 7 Brown, Samuel 1109.80 20 12| 7 Harmon, Gilbert. 160 2 11 Miller, M 1018 11 7 Bradbury, W. C ! 4032 12 Hoggins, T 160 ft1 1 Bradbury, Henry I 120 32 12 Hoggins, Timothy 127 10 11 X Bradbury, Henry 79.64' 311 Hoflvin*. M 20 8 11 Tucker. George Barstow, Alien 403512 True. Orln C Bents, Fred. .\ 120 1 11 Neitael, P. H 40127112i 7 Thompson. Leonard. Bowman, E. 60 3 11 Nettle, T. J 37j 7 11 7 Thurer. Simon Betker, Fred 120 9 11 Newman. Charl. s 79 50J 811 7 Train. I J '129 35; ftjfl! 7 Bender, Chas 28.23 611 Nlcoli, Wm 80)1711 ll 7 Brandt, Wm 93; 11 Bradley, C 1200 14 11 o ~n*W£i Belden. August 80 15 11 Buck, Peter. 80 1811 .1 5 5; 11 7 J B. 8.... 1ft 75 7 11 7 O'Neii. Thomas . 172 II HI 7 Johnson. Lawrence.. 80 18! 11 7 c Jones. Thumus 2011 33 12 i Johnson, L. A 45 10 88 12 7 Van Pelt, John B 40 29112, Van P. It, John B 80 32|12! Cowles, A i 100)2912 Johnsuu, Amos 100 33 12 7 Pruyn, W. C 105 34 12 7 Varnell 78 31(12 Cole, Alfred t 120 27 12 Johnson, Amos 40 4 11 7 Pruyn. W. C 40 2 12 7 i Verch. F 79 3ft Crouch. L 27 26 12 Johnson Joseph 55 34 11 Palmer, L. H. ... 200 2 12 7 Cook, Eva 80 12 Jeffries, S 67.50 6 11 7 Pleper. Autfusius. 59 95 1 11 7 Cook, Eva 161.33 11 Jeffries. S 10 7 11 7 Peek. F. N 87 11 7 w Cook, Geo 64 50 11 Johnson. A 40 11 7 Potter, H. M 90 ft1 1 7 Cook, Geo 78 07 11 P 10 5e 11 7 Cook, Frank Weiriuh, Jacob IOO<29|I2, 7 140! 5 II K P W 14 7 11 7 Wilkinson, Peter 120 2712 Carlon. J 27|33 11 Pearson. L-vi 75.80 11 7 Wilkinson, Joseph.. 80 27121 Cowles, R. G 87.50 3311 Pell.ck. C 4C 12. 11 7 Keortb, Godfrey— 120 Wilkinson, Peter 27(12! Cramer, J. S... 40 311 Prentice. A 40 12 11 7 W H 18 II 271121 Crawford, E 20 611 Keortb, Lewis 160 80 13 11 7 Kaufmann, L 40 Pelleck Wordelman. Herman 80 31 Crawford, J. F 10 II Puis, Wm 10c 14 11 7 Welland. Rud 40 33 Crawford, Jas. 20 Kaufmann. Charles. 80 15111 Karodorff, Fred 80 161 Pulz. Auir 80 14 11 7 Wing, Charles 40 Capener, A 24 2ft! 7 Witthunn 85 Capener, A.... 30 70! 7 Kern, Wm 179 17 Krause, Wm 4dl7 Q Wiug. Charles 40 111 Kurtz 8018 Welk, Fred 80 311 II Kelley, Patrick.... Wood, R. J 40.15 5;11 Kelley, J 40 it Welrich, Jacob 107.50 2812 Dawley, Ed W. 40 29 12 7 Kastun, William ... 120 Welland, Herman 108 Dunzo.... S2 20 28 12 7 Koepp, Julius 156 Rogers, David Weiland. Herman 40 Dudley, Geo 130 Rabine, F J Welland, Rud 80 40 35 12 7 Koepp, Herman. ... 80 Draper, 8 15; 7 11 7 Koepp, Albert 200 R'-igtar, J Welk, Fred £$•»*£ Edward Wordelman. H 30 8-11 Dooahoa, Jas 12013 12 i Krofft;Adolph 80 Donahoe, Wm... 12014 12 7 Kellogg, C. W 95 50 RaadalrHJ B Wlnkleman. F 40 811 Dalke, Aug 12 7 Kellogg, G.T...... 23 Weiland. Wm 100 811 Donahoe. C 4*«0) 1m7 12 7 Kelley, Patrick. ... 160 30 M Kelley, Patrick 13 50 Kelley, M 13 50 Schuider, Henry 40 29 12 Kelley. T.... 1350 Slgglekow, Chris!off 155 8C 26 12 m Karg, Fred 49 90 Sohlender, William 8C 25 12 Edwards, E. F. 80.2M2 7 Schlender. William 114 12 80135 12 7 Konkel, H. W 16 36 ;IH Eberleln, Aug. Koepp, J 40 Stanley. F G 80 12 Effinger. F.. .• 40| 3 11 7 ;n Younger man, G. 40 18.11 K rainier, J 71.50 Smith, W. S 4fJ 31 11 Youni?erman. G 39 75 Kessler, Christoff. . 360 Smith, W. S 4(J 611 Yencfc. Chas K easier, W 10 Smith, W 612 r Kimble, A. B 22*25 Savage. J. E ,. m1 31 12 Frlok, Fred. 187.68 Kelner, J. , 20 Simonds, Benjamin. 40 32 11 35 Fessler, Wm. Kessler. August 80 10 Simonds. Benjamin. 17 712 Farnsworth, Chas.. Koerth, Wm 40 10 11 Simonds, F. W 20 •Villi Zuck,C | 40 7 11 - Falkenstern, Chas. Korberslem, J 40 Schneider, Jabn 80 35113! Zuok, C 120 8 11 1 Faher. F Kleser, Frank 80 SteinhB ftst 40 36)12 Zuok, C I 160 9 11 Fitzsimmons, M Koberstein. J 40 Sohne! 80.44 1 11 Zuck, Gust. 1 80 8 11 1 f).

THE TOWN OF GREENFIELD. acter. "The grass did not grow under his feet." Not In early times but in later The town of Greenfield was set off from Brooklyn In 1853. Its boundaries years Elkey and Stamatzes joined farms. Both were men of strong characters have not been changed since, in 1841 Edwin Johnson made a claim of sw£ of and natural ability. We can apply the saying "when Greek meets Greek then section 31 and put up a cabin. The family consisted of a wife and three chil­ comes the tug of war" I loved them both. Stamatzes became Interested in the dren. He was the first shoemaker in the Baraboo valley. Richard Clark was mill site that Eikey & Bassett first Improved on Leambro creek. The store tho next settler. He put up a bachelor cabin about ten feet square by a large house of mind has chronicled James A. Clark, known as Judge Clark. He was spring, which now is dry. He soon had from fifty to one hundred hogs and thought for a term our second county probate judge and our register of deeds and also our thai he would winter them on ••mast" (nuts), but the winter of 1844 caused him second nurseryman. A man of enterprise and rural architectural taste. On his to lose nearly the whole number. Towards spring it required two of them to old homestead and nursery ground and near the house now stands a Red Astrlc- make a perfect shadow. He had a horse, "old Nell," wnich was the first and an apple tree over fifty years old. It may be the oldest in the state. It is sound only horse in the settlement. Uncle Dickie was a very kind hearted man, hence and vigorous yet. The place Is now owned by the Pearson family. At the Red old "Nellie" was a neighborhood horse. His son, Thomas, came the next season School house near by is Glen Vill Corners. (There Is a large white school house and took up a claim where the J. G. Train farm is now situated. In 1843 or 1844 now In the place of the red). The boys and girls of the Glen Vill neighborhood he purchased a'pair of eighteen-inch burr mill stones and put up a frame build­ have for many years supported a literary association, and for a time had a baby ing, bringing the water into the top of it at a fall of 25 feet, more or less. It printing press from which issued the "Glenville News." It was like young was on the IVothero creek, which was made up of springs and was the outlet children—very mirthful. of a small lake occupying about one-half a section of land. The mill building is The Pearsons now living on and near the place are three boys and a mother. n-Mfcr the red school housi locality. Tne first Biraboo valley grist Two of the boys are married. The eldest, J. F., to Miss Jeffries and the next mill without screen, boult or smut mill, cracked our wheat and corn. We younger to Miss Mary Tinkham. Levi Pearson, born In 1821 In the town of could take a bushel of wheat or corn or both there and go a fishing down to Troy, Vermont, moved with his parents to Depeysville, St. Lawrence county, the Baraboo river and towards night get our grist and put it onto an ox sted and N. Y., in 1848 when three years of age. He came to Wisconsin in 1854 and lo­ go home, having had a visit and got a string of fish (if we were in luck). Said cated about fourteen miles northeast of Portage City. hire. Parnell Pearson John C. Barry: "That little mill was the most industrious one I have ever seen. was born in 1832 In Manorkill, Scoharrie county, N. Y. She came to Reedsburg "When it had gxttwtd one kernel it would go right at another until the grist was at an early day, she formed an acquaintance with Mr. Pearson and they were finally ground.'' Alter this mill had fulltilled Its mission, the building and wa­ married at Baraboo in 1856. In 1870 he bought the Judge Clark place, where ter wheel was used for a carding mill and afterwards for a turning lathe.. It he resided until his death. He had often held offices in the town and was re­ was in this turning lathe that Mr. Pearson was killed by a stick that he was spected and loved by all. Deceased left a wife and six children. Three girls— turning. It Haw out of the lathe, striking him In the pit of the stomach and Nellie, Myrtle and Susan—have passed to the beyond. J. F., C. S. and S. S. causing his death a few days later. Farther up the creek Abraham Lazeartt live on and near the homstead. A boy died In infancy. built and operated a saw mill for several years, and still farther up Mason Proth- LUTHERAN CHURCH. ero built a saw mill and turning lathe. At this time there Is no improve­ The first church organization was the Lutheran. The following parsons as­ ments upon it excepting the use of the water for Irrigation purposes which has sociated for the purpose of organizing a Lutheran church: Herman Schubring, been done with excellent success. This little stream could be made to Irrigate Christ Zuch, Carl Newman, Carl Yerka, Christ Yearmann, Fred Wlnkelmann, a good many acres. Carl Stavnow, Gotleb Yerke, August Zuch, Ludwich Baiter, John Wolf, William In 1843 Lorln Cowles came and built a cabin by a large spring in swi of Koerth, Gotleb Youngermann, William Putz, Ludwick Koerth, William Ruda, section 33, town 12 n, range 7 w. He had four children. Lorln J. lives in August Batter Fredrick Marlin, Christoff Kessler was the first preacher. The the northern part of the state. Dr. Charles Cowles was the first practicing church edifice was completed the year of the church organization. The first physician in the Baraboo valley. R. G. Cowles lives within one-half a mile from preacher was Geasel; third, Scheffelmann: fourth, Kessler; fifth, Henry Gruber; the old home. Ollle (Mrs. Schaffer) had a daughter, Mary, who was the first sixth, Henry Vlestenz; seventh, Wm. Bradenway. There are about forty mem­ child born in the territory that this town n >w e »vers. Mary was born In 1843 bers at the present time. The church building is fair-sized and nicely finished. and her mother, Ollie, died in March, 1844, and this was the first death in this They have a parsonage—a large, square frame building. Their present occupant, territory. In 1845 came Moses Nulpb, Aaron Nelson. In 1846 Job Barstow Sr., Wm. Beadenway, is a young college graduate. He has a fine library. Both be Charles Cowles and Wm. Eikey; in 1847, Simeon Crandall Sr., Thomas Risley; and his wife show culture and congeniality. His charge extends over Caledonia, John Sanborn, Andrew Garrison, John McGee, Abeam Hoag, Thomas Jones, Merrimac and Greenfield. He teachers a class of youngsters preparatory to Mr Denison, Geo. W. Tucker. In 1848 Andrew Garrison died on the plains en canflrmation. Those persons who are condemning parochial schools should route for California. (). V. Troop, a relative of the Garrison family, came from first give proof that Luterans substitute them to supplant the secular or com­ New Brunswick toassldt Mrs. Ann Garrison in her business enterprises, joining mon school. As far as my observation goes I never have known such a case. We his interests with hers. Mrs. Ann Garrison was a woman of much character. should love to Bee Lutheran or Catholic parents take enough interest in their Her urbanity of manners was winning and almost Irresistable as she desired to children to have them taught by their preachers and priests the right road to make impressions. Presidents of colleges, or a laborer with a shovel or axe, life eternal as they believe. Who iu Sauk county can point to a common school were equally a prey to her will. She was a mona-manalc upon the subject of in a Lutheran or Catholic neighborhood that is not well sustained. To show mining for copper or, lead, and caused deep shafts to be sunk upon her farm for tholr view of religious liberty I will relate an experience I had In this neigh­ the coveted ores. Even gold was searched for, but she was careful that none of borhood two years ago. 'A man came to me one Friday to engage me to survey the expense came out of her pocket. A pottery was once started upon her farm out a tract of land not far from this church: the next day (Saturday) I told htm to make ware of a superior quality. The clay did as she proved by analysis that I understood to be the Sabbath of the bible, and that if he it would and china could almost ba made from it. O. V. Troop dammed the was In a hurry for his work I would do it Sunday if he wished. All right, he Baraboo river and built a saw mill and did some.business, but it was soon washed said, we will then run it out on Sunday. Accordingly on Sunday I was at hia out and was not rebuilt. Dr Dilametas, of Cleveland, president of a m-3dleal col­ bid. We went on to the tract and did his work, sme of the neighbors assisting. lege, came near taking an Interest in her town plat that had been laid out and As a party was returning from church, one of ther number directed his steps called Garrison. She married a Dr. Taylor, an Englishman of culture and some towards us. He gave those church brethren of his that were with us a very im­ means. They lived on the place for several years, then abandoned it and he pressive lecture even to a ill of anger. When he concluded ho turned and came finally left her. They had no children. In- 1849 John Munroe, Peter Cooper, to me and I expected a •"broad-side" of angry broken English. Not so. He Austin Tucker and Aaron Wilkinson came into town. mildly said, "Mr. Canfield, I do not blapae you; you kept Sabbath yesterday but but those of our brethren who hold office In our church are mean fellowa and I'll The (irst school was established in 1850. It was kept iu the house of Job Barstow and taught by Miss Van Valkenburg. sue them to-morrow." In 1875 Amos Johnson, John Munroe, O. H. Cook, Seth McGllvra, O. F. Kel­ EVANGELICAL CHURCH. logg, C. W. Kellogg, Joseph Palmar, Henry Bradbury, Peter Wilkinson and The Evangelical Association of North America has an organization and a nice John Dean organized themselves Into a stock company for the purpose of manu­ little brick chapel about one-half mile ea*t of Tuekjr's bridge. Frederick facturing cheese. Capital stock was $2,200. It was run successfully for several Lunbeke, ChristotT Sieggelkow, Frederick Sieggelkow and John Piper years but now the building stands empty. were the organizers in 1882, and the little brick chapel, was completed that We call to mind S. Stamatzes and the episodes between him and year. The first preacher who preached here was J. Ragatz. About fifteen fam­ Wm. Elkey and his hospitable heme. He was a man of much energy and char­ ilies now constitutes the church body. 6.

Ii. 8. JEFFRIES After his majority he went to New York City and worked at his i trade tor ten years. In June following this term ot years he mar- was born in Tennessee in "22. ire removed with his parents in '30 \ ricd Miss Irene Brewer, of New York city, and started for the wilds from Tennessee to Missouri and remained there during the Black ; of Wisconsin and arrived here July 10, '56. He first purchased Hawk war Being both a strong abolitionist and a temperance man 137^ acres lying in the vallev of Wilkinson Creek and sold it 20 he did not care to cast his lot in u slave state and where, at that time, I years ago ami purchased the place that he now lives oi:. He raised I a family of five children. John F. and Ellen F. died in infancy; there was a super-abundance of liquor. Accordingly in '41 he emir- ' Erastns S., Nov. 20,'51; Sarah Marie Van Pelt March 13, '55; Win. grated to Grant county, Wis., where he remained until the spring of ' Feb. 2, '54, who is living at home. Wife died June 13, *$2. '45 and then came to Baraboo and settled in good bachelor style on I Lot'IS HELM

the James Crawford place, now owned by John Draper,and with an j son of Anion and Anna Helm was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 40 and 47 the family ox team worked the first week on the first bridge built across the Bar­ [ came 10 America and for about leu years lived in and near Watertuwn, Wis., and then aboo river. The same fall there being only two voting places in Sauk I they moved lo Greenfield, Sauk county, Wis , where tbey have lived since. His father county—Prai rie du Sac and Lyons—he cast his vote at the latter place; died at the age of 71. Hia mother is living with a daughter (the youngest of the fami­ ly) in a small comf»rtat>le house about 10 rod* fiom Louis s house. She was '.14 years old the total number of votes cast in the county was 73,- In March, '48, February 'I. ''.••> Her health is apparently good. Louis was married to Miss Eoiergene L. he was juarried to Martha Crawford, and selling nis first claim to 1'uiiner in '68. They have two children-—a daughter. Lougene, born May 10, '"8, Jas. Crawford Sr. he moved to his present home where out of a wilder­ and a son, Louis Palmer, born June TI, 7-.. lie has over 'MM acres together with out­ ness of timber, brush, rattlesnakes and Indians they have made a buildings. ISAAC PALMKK cozy and comfortable home. His frontier life was fraught with many was boro March 80, 17, iu the state of New York, and wa-. married to Mary 1'hildinda an incident characteristic of a new country. He relates the follow­ Kinyon Nov. Is, '40, and moved i" Baraboo. iu ia, wliere th-y lived one year; then ing: "In thoje^days when there were so few people here medical care moved on section U4, Greenfield, where he lived lor iweniy-five years. He died Feb. 23d, '78, leaving a wife and eight children, four of whum were born in the slate of New York and nursing was not to be had other than what the neighbors could His .wife died four years later. Mr. Palmer was justice of the pence most of the lime give. In the fall of'40 tho mularial fever was epidemic and among that he lived in Greenfield, was assessor many times and look a lively interest in schools, those who wore sick was a neighbor of mine by the name of Nelson in town and county matters and WHS never known to miss au eleciiou unlit two or and his five children, living on the place now owned by Louis Shrib- ihree yearn before his death. The eldest child F.llen A. is now living at Colorado Springs and tne youngest daughter is also living in Colorado, The oldest son, Parin P., lives in er. I had been taking cure of them day and night, going home Baaaboo. The second daughter, Emergeue L. [Mrs L. Helmi adjoining the old home­ night and morning to do my chores. One day returning home I stead. George died in 1877, aged ^S years; Herbert It , Wilberi A and Douglas S. passed within thirty feet of a large bear that stood looking at me and. ..moved to South Dakota iu '7'.' aud are living there now. let me pass and when I got out of his sight I ran as I never ran be­ A. G. ALBERT . -vl fore, and never made that trip again without my rifle and amunition. came to Wisconsin from Hanover, Germany, with his parents when lie was but one year I helped tho wife and mother care for her family for nine days and old. They settled in Waukesha county iu '4'i. After three years the family moved, lo Danecoumy, where they resided until Jan. ti, '57, and iheu came to their preseut home on nights, seeing in that time no other human being, aside from that section 1*2, town 11 ii, range 7 e. uf 140 acres. A G Albert was married Jan. •>. '"•>. to family until the old gentleman died, when I went to make the very Miss Mary Jane, daughter of William and Mary Ann Taylor. She was born Sept. IJ, '~:.\. limited preparations for the burial. I dug the grave myself, the They have had eleven children; nine are now living--iwo girls and seven boys. His mother is living with them and is eighiy three years old aud quite smart. His father is coffin was of plain pine and the hearse a lumber wagon drown by an dead. He has, after many years of hard labor, cleared and made a nice farm out of heavy ox team and obliged to ford the river to reach the burial place. 'iiuber and "some stone, I guess." It is well adapted to fruit, cereals or grass being well Uncle Alec Crawford conducted the funeral service. Another inci­ sheltered and not subject to late or early irosts. He takes a lively interest in politics, es­ dent was i.i regard to the primitive grocery. The first store in Bar­ pecially in town affairs, and dearly loves American citizenship. He t« courteous and hospitable. A good home for tramps, and a pleasaui neighbor. aboo was built near the race of the Manchester mill and run by a man by the name of Grupel and his stock of groceries consisted of PETER BUCK hardware and liquor. I had an errand to the store one morning is among the early settlers of bis neighborhood ou ihe hhiti's. He was born and lived with hia parent* until IU years of age. By correspondence with his brother-in-law, Abra­ and when 1 arrived there I found a man who was a noted whisky ham Lazeart, he WHS induced to come to Baraboo village aud resided here six years and drinker had been locked out.' When I got within a few feet of him then went onto the farm he now lives on. He was married December 28, '49, They he picked up a piece ol a log that took all of his strength to raise and have raised a family ot seven^children—George C-. born March ">1, '40; Catherine. Sept. hurled it against the door The hinges and lock gave way and the 28, '61; Andrew. Jan. 7, '54; Amanda, March 12, '55; Frank. June 1S,'<>0; HowardJ August 14. Has line improvements; is neat and tidy in his work. Both husbai log and door went into the room and he demanded more whisky. This and wife are pleasant to visit with. Two grandchildren, daughters of his sou, one frighted Grupel, who took me to o.ie side and told me that I would Ihe uher 13 years old, came alone from Los Angeles, California, iu February, 'Otj, have to stay as long as that follow did and asked me what we had bet­ live with their grandparents. They hud never befoie seen snow. ter do with him. I told him to give hiiti all the drink he wanted. CHARLES FAKNSWORH so ho told him to 'help himself. Mr. Drunkard ponred it out into a wns^oruin Lyooming Co . Pa., December 11, '18. Elizabeth Wright vwife) born Aug. quart cup and witix Borne brown sugar aud some ton-penny nails 2'>, '31. Parents of both parties were born in this same county. They were married in '47 and came lo Caledonia. Columbia county, Wis., and seven years later moved onto stirred it with au IS inch tile "to make it stout," he said, ne guzzled Ihe farm where they still.reside. •'When they first came the country was thickly set­ and drank until it v«as lipcm before I succeeded in coaxing him to go tled with mosquitoes and they came near returning from whence they came, but con­ away and f could goto aiywork." cluded to fight it out Portage was their best trailing place and it took from sunrise till dark to make the trip with an os team. It was woods all around and we could make W|p • '' 'jhOEKf^. VAN PELT j • roads where we pleased." There were nine children born to tttem -Martha (-Mrs. Bow -Was bom. iti die town of Marl^twigli, Man worth Co., N. J., Oct. 31, jey of Caledonia), John, a farmer in Murray county, Minnesota; tieorge, a minister of the Free Methodist church of Embarrjs, Wis.; Mary, deceased; Alice, now Mrs. Lang- %0, aud lived there with his* |fl*rent6 until ho was 21 years old don, of Russels, Kansas; Benjamine. a farmer in Delton; Phoebe KNwortH and Roy still working with his father, who iv^^^arjieiitet, and became proficient. at home.

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WILLIAM EIKEY section 32, town 12 n, runge 7 e, and have improved it to a high state of cul» came from Germany in 1K40, stopping first at Madison for perhaps a year and tivation. Ho helped urganizj tbe town ul Greenfield and was its first school worked at his trade. lie was an excellent mason. He came to Prairie du Sac superintendent, which position he held for saveral years. He held tbe ofioe and made lime just over the river In Dane county. He came to Baraboo in 1847, and in 1848 took up new land in section 25, town 12 n, range 7 e. This selection of town clerk fur three yean; also treasurer's office in the school district. They was made because of a ledge of lime rock; the only lime rock for a long distance. had six ohildien. George Trowbridge, the eldest, has held the office town clerk His claim had also one of the largest springs upon it in this vicinity. The rill seven years and chairman ol the board three years. Anna, Mary, Kate and that run from it had three large beaver dams across it before it emptied into Fitdoriok, deceased; Caroline, deceased, aod Arjhiba'd, two bachelors aod two Leambro oroek. For years he burned lime for the whole surrounding country. maidooa aod the mother now constitute tho family. (See photo gravure page This lime deposit has a different lithology from the lime rock of the country, of house and family.) The father, C W. Keilog,-, died April 2, 1888, io hie contained different fossils. The analysis is different. It was dark colored and (jS'h year As I can vast over the town the universal expression is "he was a the bond principal stronger than the magnetian lime of the country. For stone work very flue, but not so good for plaster because not white enough. Mr. El­ nice man." A record oi this kind left to a family aod a community ia of great­ key married Miss Anna Amburger, daughter of Abraham and Sarah Amburger er va'oe upoo earth than a bohest of much wealth. Besides the word bespeaks of Wythe county, Va., February 18, 1840. The fruit of this marriage was one for him lite eternal. f child, Mary C, born January 11, 1851. They lived upon this beautiful home ANSEL KEI.I.OI;oi of the ladder." with the eccentric J. C. Chandler command with General Sherman on his campaign to its end and the general re­ of that place. He came to Birabooandio '55 assumed the editorship of the view at Washington May 25tb, 186.). He was born at Hanover, N. Y., February Baraboo Republic, which he continued to edit for ui\ years. Here, in'59, he 12, 1826, and came to Two Rivers, Wis., in 1847 and worked there three years in was happily united in marriage to Miss Annie Barnes. At the outbreak of the a steam saw mill. He came onto the land he now occupies in 1854. Mr. S. married in July, 1852, Miss Evallne Dolly, by whom he bad seven children- civil war the country newspaper Buffered serious imbarrassment owing to the en­ Martin O., born June, 1843; Belen M., born August 14, 1854; Mary M., Septem­ listment of their compositor* and pressmen, tor their service io the army. It ber 1st, 1855; Freeman W., Nov. 7, 1856; Martin J., July 1, 1858; Cyrus H., .Feb. was on one occasion when it seemed impossible to issue bis paper io time,that Mr. 6, 1860; Edwin Roy, Oct. 11, 1872. Mr. S. has held some town offices. He is now KtJIoyg'.M fertile mind conceived the idea, alterwards developed aod perfected in living with his fourth wife. The firt.t died April 17, 1884. Married the second hissyxtein of auxiliary printing, knowo under the various names of inside, out- July 18, 1884, a sister of his first wife. She died May 10, 1885. The third Phi- sides, exteriors, auxiliary sheets, etc. The first "Auxiliary Print," formed lena Tompkins, he married December 25, 1886, and she died June 20, 1888. The part of tbe issue of the R publie of July 10th, "61, and the success of the plao fourth wife, Mrs. Lorinda Glover, he married July 31st,!1890. Her photo is on our photo-gravure page with her husband's. Mr. Simonds Is a quiet, peaceable wa^ demonstrated. Io '65 he ostablifhed hitus-df in Chicago io the business of farmer. He went into tbe army to help make peace at the point of the bayonet. supplying country journals with auxiliary ahee's. In Ootober, '71, occurred the We see also that he does not Intend to lead a widower's life long. great fire nt Chicago,-which consumed the Auxiliary Printing establishment KELLOGG. with its presses, type, etc , but in four weeks new presses were running aod sup­ Tbe laiuily reckon their geueah»Ky back to Joho Rogers the martyr in plying as many journals as before. He afterwards moved to New York. He Queen Mary's time, in 1665. A younger son from which this ancestry is had a patent on a printing press. His first literary work was publishing a gene­ reckoned was present tit the execution. Tbe father of the three young alogical book of the Kellogg family. Tnis must have cost him much laoor and Kelloggs that emtio to Baraboo, Frederick, was a wholesale and retail mer­ and correspondence. He died March 28. '86. chant in N^w York city lor ten ye..ra and then removed to Reading, Pa, y NELCHEH. where he remained ten yearn. Alter the loss of a daughter in Pennsvlva There were two Peters in this Hessian Germina family that came to U. 8. A. John nia his mind became somewhat impaired. In '55 he cam. to Baraboo and was prefixed to tbe name of Peter of tbe first born. It is no uncommon occurrence in tbat country for children of ihe same family to bear the same name. John Peter was lived with hischi drew. He died January 8, '60. born Peter waa born February 22, 1820. Tbe boys came m ALBBRT was born at Reading, Pa., March 20, '2*, and lived with his U. 8. A. and lootted at Wheeling, V«., in 1840. When the Mexican war bioke out John parents until he was 10 years old; then went to his grandparents, Warner, Peter enlisted as a soldier and went through it. uninjured, and came to 8auk county in aud lived with th m until lie WUM 24. tie was then tornman in a flax mill 1860 and located a land warrant of 100 acres on section II, town 11 n, range 7 e, and at Sobeneoteda one year. August 26,'50, he married Alias Sarah Jane bought other land adjoinibg amounting in all to about 40u acres. A year later Peter Bassett, of Litchfield, Conn., and came directly toIJirab'O ani elected a came and took an interest with bis brother. In 1864 be married a Miss Schuster, of Sauk City; and soon moved into the cabin on the place thai had been put up by the farm OD siotiou 33, in Broiklyn now Gieendeld, where he lived until his bachelors, and commenced making improvements John Peter made his home with Jos. death. He left his farm in a high state of culti Stadler. When tbe war of the rebellion broke out in 1801 John Peter enlisted as a vatiou; he aUi had a good house, barn and other buildings to correspond. soldier and served to tbe end uninjured, making two wars through which he served. He left a wife and two children—Alico, who married Charles B. Mattoon and Since the war his friends have not beard from him. Peter died May 18,1880, leaving is living in Connecticut, and Arthur, who is a liverjiuan in Baraboo city. a wife and six children- The mother now lives with her son, a carpenter of Baraboo, and is in good health. Henry, the eldest son. took his father's place after hit death, and GHAUNCV VV., was born at Plymouth', Conn., Dec. 15. '21, and was mar- tt has much improve 1 it. He married a young widow with ason and the three constitutes riei 0**'oW . '4tt» to Miss M«ry E isibeth, daughter of George an J Sarah the family atpre*eot. They have an excellent and well furnished house, a fine barn and Bassett. She was biro io J>roy, Conn., March 3rd,'26. They came to ou'-buil«lioc,8. While Father Peter was alive he was active ia all good works. Held Brooklyn, now Greenfield, Sauk county, Wis., io '51 and bought a farm in offices in the town and school district. 8.

HENRY BRADBURY an auction and sold his farm machinery and neat stock and intends was born November 27. 1883, in Otsego county, N. V. From here the family moved to to relax the toil that he has had to accumulate his property. His Newport, Herkimore county, N. Y., where he attained his majority. At ~2 or 28 he children are ail away from lome, except the son-in-law, came to Sauk oounty with tbe McOil varies, taking charge of a drove of horses in 1867, January 1868, he was married to Miss Lottie C. MeGilvra, leaving the parent3 alone. He says that he is by Warren Cochran, elder of the Congregational church. They have very thankful that he came to America. In his born to them seven children, one died in infancy. Hannah H., Feb. 12. 1858; Daniel J. "fatherland" he eould hardly clothe his back and feed his stomach. June 19, I8»u— at the age of 4 years aud 8 months he died; William C, July ll, 1866; Lucy May, May 10, 1807; Ina B.. Feb. 16, ls71; Ellen R., Sept. 15, I87&. William C. Here there is enough and to spare. married Clara L. 8now March 28, 1887, and have at this time three children—two girls \V. S. SMITH nnd one boy. Father Henry Bradbury's ancestry ia English, the mother's is Scotch, was born in'Bennington, Vt., Dec. 3rd, '27, and lived there 16 years. lie and the whole family have been a very hard working family improving his farm, building nice buildings and report aays that they have money on hand for "a rainy day." His father was in the Seminole Indian war of Florida in'28 and died At first he was in debt for his place. in the hospital. His mother was born in Benniugton, Vt., and died in the town.of her birth, aged 89 years. The subject of this sketch BETH McGILVRA cared for and supported himself from the age of seven years. He was born in 1824, town of Schuyler Herkimer Co., N. Y., and came to left Vermont at the age of 16, where he had been doing farm work. Baraboo in the spring of '54. lie purchased a farm of 450 acres, He lived nine years in Massachusetts, during which time he learned which he improved for a home. He has been married three times. the tailor's trade. He married Miss Jeanett Pratt, of Vermont. In First, to Miss Seviah, daughter of Amos aud Aurella Harrington. She l '53 they moved to Barabojand carried on the tailor's business until ' died and left three children—Mary, George B. and Albert D. In April the war of the rebellion broke out. In '59 he started for Pike's Peak '01 to Miss Mary A., daughter of Samuel and Sarah Huntington. She and got as far as Ft. Kerney and was taken with the fever and ague. died leaving three children—Seviah C, Louise and Emma. In 2 He turned his back to the gold fields and came home to Baraboo and to Mrs. Mary StejyarJ. Cranson, daughter of Isaac and Hulda Stewart. here put in a year of genuine misery with the shakes. In'58 he From this union there has been two children born—Avis A. and bought the farm that he now lives on and where he expects to live Sarah. Mr. MeGilvra has always taken a lively interest in the until he dies. He says that he never whipped any man, nor never affairs of life about him in town and school district and is a mem­ was whipped by any man; he never sued any man nor was never ber of the Methodist church since '54. sued by any man. THOMAS JONES, son of Griffith and Ann Morgan Jones, was born in Cardiganshire, Wales, August 10, J. E. SAVAGE 1827. Hia father was a meohanio, but Thomas had a taste for farming and left home was born in the town and county of Ashtebula, Ohio, Jan. '38. Came for America in 1817. He came directly to Sauk county and made a choice of land on to Baraboo in the summer of '65 and was married to Emma JSmith, section 8, town \'£ n, range7 e, for his home. He afterwards added forty acres upon daughter of W. S. and Jeanett Smith, Nov. 4,'06. Went to Grand which his house now stands. Instead of the two shillings which he had when he oame to Baraboo he now owns two hundred aoresof beautiful land well located and product­ Traverse, Mich., in '68, returned to Baraboo in '77 and settled in ive. He was married Sept. 4, 1848, to Ann Morgan, from !>is former home lu Wales, by Greenfield in '78. Worked as carpenter for C. & N. W. R. R. eight whom be had six children, the latter three are dead—David, Mary and years, since which time he has been engaged in the retail milk trade John M. Mrs Jones died March 7, 1869. Mr. Jones again married delivering in Baraboo. His wife, Emma Smith, was born in Ervin, to Miss Ellen, daughter of Robert and Jane Owen, of Caledonia, Franklin Co., Mass., Sept. 20, '49, and came to Baraboo with her November. 1800- They had eleven children, three of whom are living—Robert, Evan and William. Five children died of diphtheria within two weeks and three died parents in '52. There were two Savage families of a prior genera­ in infanoy. Mr. Jones died of asthma. He was a member of the Methodiat church in tion, cousins I believe, that figured in early business transactions of Caledonia- A quiet peaceable, cheerful, honest man. Baraboo—J. N. and Harper T. (see "out-line sketches" page 11, of Baraboo and its water powers). These generations are New Eng­ H. W. KONKEL land Savages and are in no wise connected with the Winnebago was born In Lycoming county, l*a., April 13, 1828, where he lived until he was twenty- two years old. He came to Sauk county in i860, and In tbe following year bought his savages. farm in section 88, Greenfield. After five years of hard labor he returned to his birth DURWARD. plaoe and married Miss Mary Wilkinson, who was born June 9, 1834. They have lived "The family and the glen I thought to give a notice of in my Greenfield here in Greenfield and raised a family of seven children—four boys and three sketch. It is not within the town nor in Sauk county, but lies near the bound­ girls—Dewitt C, Clara E., Walter H.. Emily A., Henry W., Reubin W., LilaB. In 1887 ary line. Of my trespass upon Columbia county history element I plead guilty. he built a combined grist mill and saw mill on the little trout brook near his residence. But our relationship via Baraboo bluff scenery and kindred associations is my Mr. Konkel commenced hia mill improvements in lb«6 and little by little has made im­ plea of defense. provements of a permanent oharaoter. He gets about thirty feet tall and has power B. I. Durward was born in 1817 at Montrose, Scotland. He early developed enough that will equal a 20 horse power, sufficient to grind a barrel of flour in an hour. a taste for art. Leaving his native land he went to England, where for some CHRISTOFF SEGGELKOW years he practiced portrait painting. In 1842 he married Margaret Hilyard, of Manchester, and in 1845 came to America with two sons born in England. He was born December 10, '28, in Germany and came to U. S. A., mak­ came to Wisconsin while it wtis still a territory. In 1852 being called upon to ing his first home in Caledonia, Columbia Co., Wis., having but paint a portrait of Archbishop Henni, of Milwaukee, for the state Historical $20 in pocket. In 1874 moved into Sank county and society, he first became acquainted with the claims on us of the Catholic church and within the year following he and his whole family entered its communion. hired out for few years and earned some money; the whole Prom this time it was mostly to religious art that he gave his attention and was family also worked to the end of having a home of their own. He run- shortly after appointed professor of Belles-letters in the Ecclesiastical Seminary in debt for his land and now is almost free from debt, has a fair house of St. Francis, near Milwaukee, which position he held nine years. ~In 1863 he and a very fine barn and other out buildings. His property cannot be came to reside permanently in Caledonia. estimated at less than 4,000. This spring, 1896, he has rented the A pleasant day In March, 1896, I dined with B. I. Durward at the "Glen House." How did you come to find this romantic glen? "In company with place, reserving a part of the house, to his son-in-law and has had friends we set out for a pleasure canoe or boat trip down the Wisconsin river.

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We tied up at a point not far from Dekorra and went out to the Baraboo bluffs selves of such bondage. It was to enter into the lumber business, making a aaw mill far and called upon an old friend, Mr. Prentice, who took us through the glen. I themselves. For this they had to pay a government tax and then buy the trees of a became enchanted with the place. It was owned by a bachelo r brother Scotch­ landlord and-then had to draw the logs to their mill or erect their mill by the fallen tree. man, who lived in a log cabin among the rocks. He could not be persuaded to This consisted of cob work or frame work that the log might be raised upon high part with his cliff house. I pressed the matter but he was rigid. We and enough for a man to stand comfortably under it. Then one would stand upon the log and time went on apace and the "auld lad" at a time devised a plan to catch a one under it and with saw in hand, made on purpose for his use, would make the log np "lass" to share his pleasures of nature's loveliness and make the cabin more into boards. (This in English it termed whip sawing.) Just think of government levy­ cheerful. He erarnished and cleaned up out of doors and In doors and made a ing a tax on such a primitive saw mill. For all of that this lumber company by long eon feast, Inviting lad and lass In hopes of winning a smile from some of the fair sex continued hard work obtained the goal for which they sought. When little by little The story does not tell of the smiles he won, but the cabin still held but the money had been hoarded sufficient to pay their passage to Waukesha, Wisconsin, they bachelor." were happyy to bid farewell to the oppressed. In course of time Mr. B. J. Durward was the owner of the glen. In 1863 Christain Zuok was born August 16, '64, and was married to "Fraulein Anna Pauk- improvements were commenced. A fine frame house was built for his anen.'' In'71 they came to Baraboo with "just nothing." The three years in Wanke- family. His studio was planted upon a Sat rock large enough for a small cabin. sha he worked for 50 cents a day and laid by money enough to bring a sister to Wauke­ Beneath It came out a spring of soft, pure water that in a few feet emptied Into sha from Prussia—$40. When they were running their aaw mill tkelr father was 80 a babbling trout brook. In this cabin father and son executed many fine and years old and smart. He died while in bed at the age of 97 in apparently good health. costly portraits and altar pieces. The Catholics of Caledonia assisted in putting He worked on the Chicago and Northwestern R. It. with the construction train nine up a chapel of undressed stone. It was built before the Catholic church at Bara­ years. In '75 he purchased the land that he now lives on—140 acres. He afterwards boo. Later the studio was removed to a more pretentious edifice, and still added 40 acres and recently 160 acres—tbe Charles Brewster place—making a total of later a stone building erected for a museum and art gallery 300 acres. His wife died January 3, '86. They had six children—three boys end two present is a museum, studio and art room. At the old studio cliff the spring Is girls. Wm. H., born April 8, '72; John M., Feb. 18,'74; Christoff F., March 29, '76; made to run through masonry of stone with an arch of nicely dressed cut stone Guetave A., May 30, .88; Bertha I, May 21, '69; Minnie V., March 23, '78. The young­ that stands out from a hammer, dressed stone back, about two feet. Cut stone est daughter is their housekeeper. His fields are partly fenoed with boulders picked up floor two feet wide by ten long. Height of arch about ten feet In the center of in them. The good frame house with oomfortable ouubuildings for cows, horses swine and this floor is a block of white marble In which a basin is hewn out that will hold ebickens are what the "land of the free" pays for well directed industry. several gallons., JThls basin has a hole In the bottom through which the water scapes. Three small water pipes, projecting from the mason work, conduot the GUSTOFF ZUCH. pure, soft spring water Into the basin. In the mason work a little above the Gustoff Zuoh was born , at the same bouse with Christian and pipes is a slab of white polished marble in the form of a Greek cross, three feet crossed the Atlantic with him; and was with him in Waukesha and Baraboo until he got high by three feet horizontal. It bears this inscription engraved in It. married Nov. 8, '78, to Miss Barbara Habeoker. He built a cabin on his brother's plane in which he lived a few years, and then bought 80 acres near his brother's farm and now has about twenty aores under cultivation with quite a fine orchard and oomfortable CHRIST buildings and farming tools. He worked eleven years upon the railroad as a common SAID laborer. He raised a family of nine children—five boys and four girls. Emma V.. born I Nov. 18, '72; 8usie B-, Sept. 7, '74; Lixiie M., March 17, '76; Anna C. April 10, '77; THIRST Christian G.. April 17, '80; Edward C, June 4, '88; Cbrlstoff A., March 29. '86; Otto H., Nov. 5, '88; Frederick ft, July 19. '90. He has about him more than he could have dreamed of when he was in Prussia. Instead of harnessing himself in a cart to draw BROTHER OR SISTER wood and other things he has horses and wagons and farm machinery to do his work. THINK Is landlord instead of servant. A land where the oppressed are set free; bat it is a hu­ miliating fact to know that this '-land of the free" is year by year growing more and more like Europe. Efforts are being made yearly to deprive certain religionists equal rights with other certain religionists. Riches are amassed more and more. Capital and labor is holding frequent contests. CHARLES NEWMAN. Charles Newman was born November 18, '84, Province West Prausten, Germany. He was married twice in Germina—to Freulein Louise Zuoh in Oct. 1868, and the second time In our minds we read It thus: From beneath the cross of Christ flows the to her sister Fraulein Loi/Ue Zuch Deo. 6, '68. They left '•Fatherland'' Sept. 16, '69, pure water of life Into the basin of our souls. We may retain It or not, as we and were ten weeks and three days on the ocean. They stopped at an Island near New may will. The three conducting tubes may be styled tbe Father, Son' and Holy York"city (a small island) and here worked for their board while he was corresponding Spirit. Altogether the fountain is unique and suggestive. with friends to get money to bring them to Waukesha. Here he lived two years and then BENJAMINE SIMONDS moved to Baraboo, a neighbor to bis brothers-in-law. He now worked out chiefly on the was born at Fredonia, Chautsuque oounty, N. Y., and moved to Illinois at the age of railroad as a common laborer for three "years and bought the place, where they now live nine years, and four years later came to Greenfield. Wis., with his parents Joseph and - eighty aores under cultivation. He lives yet in his log house which is a large and a Susanna Simonds. Both of his grandfathers served in the New York militia in the war of very good one. He has good ouubuildings mostly of log. They have raised a family of 1812 and four of his brothers served in the civil war. Mr. Simonds finished his educa­ seven ohildren. Minnie G., born May 18. '66; Gustaff H.. May 4, '87; Amelia C, Feb. tion at the Baraboo college institute. He was superintendent of schools the last term of 18, '71; Charles W., March 30, '78; John M., Jane 24. '76; Jacob A., Oct. 1, 78; Helen the town school system, assessor of his town two years and clerk six years and took the L.. June 6, '81. Mr. Newman worked seven years on the railroad gravel train, four years U. 8- A. in 1880. He taught school Blxteen terms in the oounty and is now a member of after he bought his farm, making 900 or 1000 days that he traveled np the mountain to the Maple Valley Literary 8ooiety and delights in debates. He was married November his home after a hard day's work and starting the next moraine **> *i» work before , 1868, to Hellen E., daughter of Sheldea and Philena Thompkins, he being a nephew Hgbt. Twenty-five years in the aggregate of R. R. work have these three families pot of Daniel B. Thompkins, vice-president of the D. S. under Monroe's administration. She in and they have raised 22 children. Shame to the '-native American" who will speak was born in Aurelius, Cayuga county, N.Y. 8he has two daughters—Minnie Belle and slightingly of foreign born brethern. Let the oppressed of Europe come. They and their Mabel Clair Mr. Simonds lived seven years in the city of Baraboo, then moved to th e children make onr best citizens. "They are the salt of the earth." Warren dairy farm. He sold milk in the city encoessfully for four years and is now liv­ KESSLER ing on hia own farm on section 82, town 12 n, range 7 e, Greenfield, 2\ miles east of This family has a genealogy that dates back 200 or 800 years. The subject of this Baraboo at peace with all the world. sketch has a graphic chart of it Rev. Cbriatoph Kenler was bora in Bavaria on tbe CHRISTIAN ZUCH AUD GUSTOFF ZDCH 2nd of June, '29. His theological education was gotten at Beyern, Neudettelaea. After were brothers that came to U. S A, in 1868, making their first settlement at Waukesha, graduating he and several of his olassmates were assigned to U. S. A He was married Wis. In Gertaina for a co -non laborer to earn morn than to sustain life in food and in Dubuque. Iowa. He first devoted his time to the Indians In Wyoming Territory about three years, then received a call from Iowa, whioh he accepted. He brought an clothing was akin to a miracle. These brothers undertook an enterprise to relieve them 10.

Indian boy with him who was one of the family for several years when he died. Wberrfn ly of three children. Frances J., born April 7, 97; C. Herman, March 16, '70; Freder­ Iowa he served as pastor for several congregations. He did not stay very long here. He ick Wm., Maroh 6. '78. At this outlet end of tbe marsh where Mr. 8c hub ring'a house ease to Sauk oounty in '64, and bought no aores of land la sees. 18, 11, 4, near the and building's are is a high beaver dam that made a lake where a marsh now is. These Lutheran atone church. He got this land that hia children might learn agriculture. He droughty seasons a team can be driven all over it. preached to several congregations. Of tbe hardships he endured daring tbe first years of his labors In Hauk county muoh might be said and written. But his endurance seemed R. G. COWLES to be sufficient for the occasions. Not so with his wife. Her nervous system seemed son of Lorrln and Betsey Cowles, loet hie mother, when a young boy, by a tree to become deceased and shattered by her stay in the Indian country for she was so des­ being blown down aod falling across the wagon In which she was riding at Kal­ perately afraid of them. This and their hardships in Weetfield completely unbalanced amazoo, Mich. In July, 1843, in company with his father he crossed the Wis­ her mind so that she became a great trial to her family and to herself; a living death . Bn consin river at Sauk City, swimming their cattle. On the 7th they came over the kind husband and the family never allowed her to be taken from them. He sold his the well-nigh Impassible bluffs to Baraboo. They settled on section 33, now In twenty acres in Weatfield and bought 820 acres upon almost the highest part of the Bara­ Greenfield. The secogd settler lo the town. His sister, Mrs. Solomon Shaffer, boo bluff* in tha town of Greenfield, and put him up a good sised oomfortable house gave birth tc a daughter in October, 1843—the first white child born in the This point ia quite isolated from neighbors. In his first settlement in Westfield he made town. The father died and R. G. and brother entered the land In 1847. In 1857 his pastoral calls and meeting appointments upon foot. His appointments being from ten he was married to Lucretla A., daughter of James and Lucy Crawford. She to fifteen miles apart and their living consisted of the scantiest kind. In the beginning he was born In April, 1832. Five children was born to tbem—Lorio H., born Sept, did not even have a bed, but had to take his hard earned night's rest upon a buffalo robe. 3. 1852; married, Sept. 16, 1874; Orpha, born January 22, 1857; died October 19, At the time of bis death he waa serving five congregations as pastor. He died at his res­ 1864; Elmer E., born May 28, 1861; died October 4, 1884; Fred M., born July 20, idence March 27, '89. The funeral was very largely attended by his parishioners irom 1866; Lula E. born October 29, 1872. He has been a hard working quiet farmer Retdsburfr, Loganville, West field, Ableman, Caledonia, Freedom and Baraboo. Remarks and has brought the land Into remunerative condition and built comfortable at the house by Rev. F. P. Popp, of Baraboo. The great procession then moved to the | buildings. A fe* lines from R G. Cowles: Father and myself settled in what ohnroh two miles distant. Rev. Is now know as Greenfield, Worth, of Loganville, preached four miles east of Baraboo, tbe funeral sermon • Children, father having previously et whom he was so fond, made purchased the claim right the greatest demonstration of of one-half section from grief. HlHhmily consisted of Thaoker, and the winter seven children—six are living. prior to our moving had Charles, born Feb. 4, '64; built a log house. The land Maria, Deo. 8, '95; Theodore, had five acres of wheat on Oot. 81, '69; Christopher, Aug. It when we bought It—the 21, '70; Eugene, Pec. 4, '76; first five acres in cultiva­ Frederiok, May 4, "78. The tion within a radius of ten wife, who he so kindly oared miles. My father was the for and loved as tbe "apple ef first man elected to the of­ hia eye," died May 24, '89— fice of county judge when one month and twenty aeven the county seat was at daya after him. Prairie du Sac during the years ot 44 and 45, and dur­ TIMOTHY HI0GINS v ing his absence I remained waa born in Galloway, Ireland, alone for/ a week at a time and grew up here and waa mar­ with no one nearer than ried to Miss Mary Roa?b. three miles. I was eleven Soon after marriage he moved years old when we moved to England and remained here here, two years before tho twelve years working chiefly land was surveyed and at farming. England, he says, eight years before there ia a far better oountry to get a was an organized district living In than Ireland, for Ire­ school. I have resided 53 land, he thinks, is the worst of years on the same piece LORIN H. COWLES. FREDERICK M. COWLES. any in the world. From there of land. R. G. COWLES. MBS. LULIE COWLES CRAWFORD. he eame to the U. 8. A., and MRS. B. Q. COWLES. R. O. COWLES. landed at New York Feb. 8, '63. From there he went to Fort Winnebago and here met a brother. Timothy lived in the old fort buildings two years and then moved onto GEORGE R. JOHNSON a farm a* renter near Mr. Weir'sand stayed here one year; then worked a farm for a year, one year for F. Welle; then moved to Greenfield and bought land that had some thirteen or was born in London, England, and at the age of nine years imigrated or fourteen aores under cultivation and year by year he has added more plow land until with his parents to Prescott, Canada, and lived here 35 years. At at the present time they have sixty -five aores. Tbe plaee is now owned by hia son Peter, this age he married Miss Laney Lazeart, a sister of onr old settler who was the youngest one of the family and the only one living. Four children died when young. Mother Higgins died March 4, '98. Peter married Miss Nellie Donahoe Abraham Lazeart. In 1865, May 4, he moved to Baraboo. Ten Oot. 19, 88. There is every appearance of comfort about the place—good buildings, etc. children were born to them in Canada. Catherine born Nov. 25, '47; Father Higgins ia living and enjoys good health. Joseph, April 4, '40; Wesley, Sept. 29, '51; Mary, Jane 7, 53; Sarah, HERMAN SCHUBRING June 17, 54; Hannah, July 23/56; Abraham, August 4,'58; Eliza, Jan. f -- was bora Sept. 17, '86, la Prussia and came to the U. 8. A. at the age of 20 and went to 7, '60; William, Dec. 27, 61; Lawrence, Aug. 21, '62. George R. Bank prairie and worked out among the farmers for 6 years. November 25,1882, he Johnson diod April 4, '93. His wife is living, aged 75 Jan. '96. She was married to Miss Wilmlna Kruger, of Merrimae, Wis. They lived with father Krager is now living with her son, Lawrence Johnson, on the old Abe Lazeart 11$ years. For six months he waa in the last of the war of the rebellion. They moved to Baraboo and lived in a house on Brewster oreek below the Laseart saw mill eight years. place, and yet, says the old lady, "I can do more work than any of my They then bought the Daniel Brewster plaee on the bluff, where they now live, of 160 girls." . , , since which he has added other lands, am ou a ting to 820 aores. They have a fami- ':* 11.

LEONARD THOMPSON. five cents in money. All honor to the dear old man who made a home in the wilderness, and reared a family of fonr, gave them all the schooling he could and brought them up in respectability. And toou r dear mother who has stood by nur father In his BIRTHDAY HONOE8 A ITER 8EVENTY PEACEFUL YEARS. days of affliction, God bless her. But forhe r watchful oare these congratulatory lines MONDAY, Nov. 11th, 1889, was a red-letter day in the life of Leon­ would never have been written. May our father and mother live many yoars, and may ard Thompson. It was the 70th anniversary of his birth, and there we as grateful children scatter roses in their pathway all the way to tbe "Golden Gates." was a gathering of the clan at the old homestead. The call was sound­ Mrs. Wing, the only daughter, lovingly spoke as follow*: ed by the "gude wife,'' aud the family came from far and near, and "DEAR FATHER:—We congratulate you on this return of your natal day. 8evsaty years have come and gone since first yonr life began. How anxiously your fond parents with their children and other relatives to the number of nearly thirty, watched your growth from year to year, and wondered what your future would bring. taking him by surprise as he sat quietly reading. It has brought Its share of sorrow and I trust its share of joy. May muoh more joy than Leonard Thompson, our old and much respected early settler, was sorrow fill the coming years. born Nov. 11, 1819. Was married in Huron Co. to Miss Almira Craw­ The last speech was made by Erastus. It was uttered and listened ford. Moved to Illinois and stayed one year; thence to Sauk Co.,Wis., to with emotion. He said: in tho fall of 1846 and took up 120 acres whero A. G. Tuttle now lives, • DEAB FATHBB:—We congratulate you: Sec. 25-12-6. In 1849 moved onto Sec. 33-12-7 and here lives at the 1st. That you have reached the three score years and tea alloted toman . present time, July 4th, 1896. His wife died Nov. 18, 1864. They 2nd. That you have had the oompanionship and loving care of our pure, noble had five children, one died in infancy, Carlos and Erastus who are engi­ mother, which to a great extent has been tbe means of prolonging and making endurable these last few years. neers on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, Samuel who is a fanner 3rd. That you have a family who one and all are ready to stand by you in sickness or near Mattston, Juneau oounty, Wis., and Mrs. Chas. Wing Jr., who re­ In health; and who, in the last great trial went down into the ''valley of the shadow of sides on the homestead. Mr. Thompson was married to a second wife, death" with you, and hailed your return with suoh joy. Miss Mattie Springer, Sept. 3rd, 1865. Had no children, she died Dec. 4th. That you have dared to live suoh a life that it is a pleasure for us to meet you on this, your 70th birthday, and call you our father." 13, 1893. Mr. Thompson now lives with his daughter, his health is These speeches were delivered feelingly and were received by the impaired, his mentality seems as strong as ever. company with mingled tears and smiles, while Mr. Thompson was After the banquet was ended and while the guests chatted awaiting white to the lips with suppressed emotion. After a moment's pause he tho hostess' signal to rise from the table, she turned to Mr. Thompson's said, (his voice at first husky with agitation, but clear and firm at the eldest son—S.J.Thompson—and said he had a word" to say. He close):— rose at his place and in his inimitable manner, made a speech. He said: "DBAB CBILOBBM AKD FBIBHDS:—It Is a jrratlfloation to have you all at my table to-day. I cannot express my thanks to you for this pleasant surprise. Lately I have feared reach To Oca DF.AR FATHEa— Greeting: Many happy returns of this glad day! May your that 1 would never sit down with my entire family about me. I am very thankful for shadow never grow less, jour sorrows few and your joys many. And this and all remain­ the privilege. I realize the disadvantage of trying to respond to the cordial and loving ing days may your heart be gladdened with the assurance of the love and sympathy of greetings of my children without preparation. I thank you again for your presence and us all,—a untied family. We feel truly thankful that it is so well with us all, and ea kindness, and it gives me more pleasure than I can express to meet you all under suoh peoially so that you have passed through your sore affliction and are spared to meet us happy circumstances. And above all I am glad and proud to know that my children are on this, your 70th birthday; and you are a living witness to the fact that within ns lies not only living, but that they have grown up honorable; none have gone astray; and that something that can ne'er grow old. Though time may dim the eye and whiten the looks, among them none have brought a blot upon the name." the loving heart is ever young and keeps time with younger hearts though time goes on apace. Father, hail! Though time has passed and miles have intervened, you have After t*he enthusiasm following this part of the feast had subsided never been forgotten. Your sorrows have been our sorrows. And when eame the joyful tho following congratulations from abroad were read to the delight oi news of the glad release, did not our hearts leap for joy ? And to our dear mother, let all: They were excellent, but we think them to lengthy to insert in me offer tribute for her kind and watchful oare. God bless you, mother, for your kind­ ness to us all. May you both live to a green old age. And when the summons comes, go this sketch, except Gaylord Davidson's in verse: "like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant A BIRTHDAY GREETING. dreams." TO LEONARD THOMPSON. At the conclusion of Samuel's speech his wife .arose and paid the following graceful tribute: Another milestone: Three score years and ten I Though- leavea are falling in the wood and glen 'DKAR FATHBB:—We have met with you to-day a happy, grateful eompsny that we are And autumn winds do hail a winter blast, permitted to come to the dear old home and meet your cheery, pleasant face on this, A summer ended and the harvest past, your 70th birthday. When one thinks of the many severe trials you have- been called There Is great joy 1 A happy throng. to pass through we might almost wonder that the smiles are not hidden by frowns long With words of cheer and merry song, ere this did we not know you better. In thinking bank to the time when I first became Have come to meet you on the way, a member of your family I can but recall some of the changes that have taken plaoe in To celebrate this bright glad day! the lives of each as time has passed. Those who were then looking to you for oare and A glorious ripening of these years; guidance are now in their turn each representing separate homes. 'That you may live to And after, toil, and hopes and fears see each home gladdened by the same unswerving faith and trust in their father's God Reward has oome,- reward and rest, that has sustained you through all these years, and that time may deal gently with you Time's benediotlon and behest. and our dear mother in the years that await you is my dearest wish. Tie hall thee with our love so true, This was followed by a characteristic speech by Mr. Carl Thompson. A birthday greeting then to youl Your Affectionate Nephew, He said: GAYMBD DAVIDSON. To Otia DKAE OXD FATHBB—Greeting: To the dear old man who, when a young man, Carthage, III.,Nov. 11,1889. left a land of peace and plenty, and braved the perils of a pioneers life—whose only Leonard Thompson had a surprise brithday family reunion and earthly possessions when he arrived in this state—then a wilderness, were a wife, a baby boy, an old pony team, a wagon, two chests containing a scanty wardrobe and seventy- neighborhood gathering Monday, Nov. 11,1889. AKD Mas. JOS. WILKINSON. And this picture waa reality over fifty years Plian it is he is the object of Ihe gentry's Then the school ma'am and the cobbler, ago. / jealous scorn. later on the bridal pair, Back inNorthumberland coun­ Tbe pleasing picture changes and I see a For his honors above all otbere seem to her Or perhaps you have guessed the sequel ty, in the old Keystone state, Mr. country lad. to be preferred, that 'twas Aunt Sarah and Uncle Joe, Who were the happy bride and bridegroom Wilkinson began an active life He ia atookenleaa and ahoelers and in home­ Aad this has filled them all with a malace, of just fifty years ago. Jan. 6, 1813. When only six spun garment clad; all their hearts with envy stirred. years old hie parents died. Iu Hia hat is broad yet jaunty and the eye And when the last of golden ears is gathered Little knew they of the joys that for them company with his sister, Mrs.. thai shinea beneath from its stalk, were held in store; Yonkin, he went to Sycamore la one that speaks of cheerfullneas which He it is who has the pleasure of the envied Little thought tbey of the tempest that county, Pennsylvania, where he smiles do unwreath. homeward walk. might drive their bark ashore. remained until he was fourteen. And still at times it tells na that his life of And we the young folks of to-day must see Then the future was hid in mistery now He was then bound out to the five brief years and feel aod know, 'tis writ on history's page; shoemaker's trade, which he Has tasted of griefs bitter, has known of That affairs were managed business like, Little hopes then fondly cherished lie. buried served four years and at the age sorrows' tears. over fifty yeeos ago. of eighteen he engaged in the lum­ For deaths cruel band bereft him of his Next I see the same knight errant and in the dust of age. And in place of ebildUke maiden, we've a ber business, which he followed parents' tender care blushing at his side, bride of seventy-two, until 1844. In the same year he And denied him the benefits of a parental Stands the selfsame dlstaiot school ma'am, Firmly to her promise cleaveing, to her married Miss Sarah A. Shick and home to share. now bis newly wedded bride. But time, the labor that bealeth, and re- Void of any gloom or shadow brightly their pledges ever true. on the banks of the beautiful storeth overv joy, new life's morning gleamed, And tn place of youthful lover smiling on Susquehanna they lived until Has filled with hope the boaom of that little AU their future full of promise, full of many the bride he'd won, September 27th, 1852. orphan boy. happy dreams. We have now as proud a bridegroom, count­ Mrs. Wilkinson was born in And he has learned the lesson which many First he was a lumber dealer, earned their ing his years at eighty-one. Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, an older hath not. bread by honest toil. And as here we gather round them, this That the way to conquer Borrows is to let But he settled in the country, became a their goiden day to share, March 22,1822, where she resided them be forgot. We extend congratulations to this hap'ly on a farm and taught school sev­ tUler of the soil, So bouyant in spirit and face beaming with And wden eight crops he'd gathered from wedded pair. eral terms prior to 21. After this healthy glow. Pennsylvania's stony ground Fifty years we now are marking and may she went to school until married. Seemed this little lad of fifty years ago. Rumors reached him thai an Eden in the twenty-five more to come On the 27th of September, 1852, Again the scene is altered for many years mystic West waa found. • Find us here in like assemblage, celebrating they bade farewell to their Penn­ havo flown, Prairies waiting for the plowman to up hteir diamon'. GILBERT HARMAN. sylvania home and with the tide And I behold my modest maiden to a turn their fertile loam; of emigration moved westward comely woman grown. Fenoeleas wastea of grassy acres where knee Gilbert Harman, son of John and reached their present Sauk She has shouldered responsibilities, she has deep the stock might roam. and Ann Harman, was born in oounty home on the 8th of the a realm to rule; Yes, he learned how nature reveled, how Brooklyn, July 18, 1831. His following montu. And I see her dally teaching in a little dis­ the crops were ever fair, father came from Wurtemburg in trict school. And he wished he might behold it, longed 1818, and married a lady upon Perhaps some of "ua have experienced the Sketch from Life. to be a dweller there. Long Island, but soon moved to excitement and alarm, . My unbounded fancy pictures a playful So he moved his little family to a land we Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, silvery brook Occasioned by the arrival of the distriota's all well know, new school marm. To the beautiful Wisconsin, not quite fifty from which place his son, Gilbert, Wandering in among the boulders, visiting came west as far as Madison in many a eosy nook; She's the subjeot of speculation as to the years ago. Here he fixed their humble dwelling when 1852. He was married Nov. 26, Chatting with the many flowera growing on amount she knows And aa to whether her strength ia equal to the country still waa new, 1854, to Mary Ann, daughter of ita mossy bank. the largest boy that goes; Had the Indians for their neighbors, had of Charles Hunt, of Sun Prairie, Sporting with the fickle sunshine, till to white friends very few. Dane county, she only living a rest it finally sank; AU do prate about her ability and a score of things or more, Well they bore the many hardships of tbe few months, dying May 27, 1855. Carelessly it rippled onward through Byl- western pioneer; -<* Relate the instance of her standing some In October, 1855, he came to Sauk vauia'a gloomy wood, Drank In freely of the blessings that were poor urchin on the floor. county and was married to Sought a smiling open valley where a sent their hearts to cheer. Amanda, daughter of David and Thus it waa our heroine's fame swiftly in But many years have now rolled o'er them modest cottage stood. Martha Sutton, Dec. 23, 1855, the world did grow and behold all things are changed, Here it rested from ita rambles nor desired who was born in Michigan, June to go beyond; While a be waved the soeptered ferule over Houaee dot the well tilled aores where the fifty years ago. 1,1835. Happy were the hours it whlled sporting in herds In common ranged. Next I see a social gathering; 'Ua an old an old mill-pond; They have welcomed all new comers; made time husking bee. On March 1,1856, Mr. Harman For 'twas here by nymph like maidens them feel that they were friends; came to his farm residence in beautiful In rural bloom, AU the flower of the country spend the eve Inscribed their names in each heart's album Sailed chips upon its bosom till they met in genial glee Greenfield on sec. 2, T. 11, R. 7, some fatal doom, Aud as o'er the bulsy buskers I pats my where remembrance never ends. where he ha3 20O aeres of bluff Or perhaps in its shallow borders safe from wandering eye. But perhaps you now are wondering who clay soil well adapted to wheat and any ohanoe of harm, Blushing io a distant corner I the pretty these friends of ours may be, fruit. Mr. Harman has probably She would wade, while the brooklet would school ma'am spy- Those who in successive piotures I have done more hard work than any - claep her in ita liquid arm; caused you now to aee Bat who is it near her seated on a fallen Then regretfully the streamlet passed on­ First, the thoughtless little maiden, and the man in the county, and as a result shook of oorn T ward la. its flow. Utile boy of care; 13. -' he has above 110 acres nicely Libby, PH. D. The article occupies market, the proceeds of which cleared, also has excellent build­ 70 pages octavo, of which we have 'built houses and turned the the liberty to make some extracts. soil, and built up villages and ings, especially a barn, built at a John Metcalf, the chief manager of the cities In Wisconsin, our own large outlay of'time and money Helena Shot Tower, for the last few Sauk oounty towns sharing and good for one hundred years; years of his Ife lived at Baraboo at largely in the game. Upper Mills. a fine orchard of 170 trees gives Lead—the second great him good fruit. JOHN METCALF. source of wealth that the good John Metcalf was boru In Rhode Is­ Lord gave us was as easily land in 178S, and died at Baraboo, Wis., obtained as the timber gift Jan. 22, 1804. Educated at Boston, at and as free. The outfit, a the age of nineteen he began the prac­ spade, pick and rope for a tice of law in New York. Hit. health windlass. Many deposits not failing him, be went to Pennsylvania far below the surface. One out and worked in the pineries a few yean. of every 38 of the population of Thence he went to Missouri, in the in­ WlsoonBin were engaged in this "suck­ LOUIS HELM AND WIFE. terest of a stock company that had pur­ Being dissatisfied with my own er hole" mining. In 1840 there were 49 chased land '.here. Thinking It un­ blunders In executing the photogravure likely that the small French town of smelting bouses putting out 15,129,350 figures of our old and muoh respected St. Louis would ever develop Into a pounds annually, worth 8500,000. Most citizens shown J have had these etch­ business center, he located at Hercula- of this went down the Mississippi. In ing portraits made to do them justice neum, where he built and ran two 1841 Wisconsin's "put out" of lead was In our G reenfleld sketch. stores and was connected with a shot- over 20,000,000 pounds. The Mississippi tower. He next purchased a farm In river first enjoyed the lead trade, but OBITUARY. Jefferson county, Mo., where he resided by the lakes and Erie canal the transit Mrs. Anna Helm, who died on Friday for a number of years,holdlng the office Increased so that by 1850 the northern evening, August 14, was one of the of sheriff for many terms. In 1831 Daniel route had most all of the trade. Until oldest and best known residents of Sauk Whitney hired him to take charge of the competition of railroads lead county. She was born on February 2p- his business at tho portage; and some freighting to Milwaukee was by wagon 1802, in Bavaria, Germany. In 1826 she became the wife of Anton Helm, years later, probably 1838, he was giv­ —a broad track and broad tire, capable en the management of the Helena shot- and the couple came to Amerioa in of carrying five or six tons drawn by tower, which position he held until 1847, settling in Water-town, where 1847. In 1843 he bought a third inter­ six or eight yoke of oxen: canvassed they resided until 1858 when they came Mr. Harman has lost three est In the Shot-Tower Company, whloh top wagons, and were at home where to Sauk county and settled in town children, Sarah Ann, William, In 1847 he sold to Washburn & Wood­ they saw fit to stop for the night. They Greenfield. Mr. Helm died there in and Rosie E. C. He has two man. In December, the same year, be lived for the summer in this canvas 1872 and Mrs. Helm remained at the daughters, Mary Melissa, who is bought of Alvah Culver a half In­ covered* "prairie schooner." Freight old home until the time of her death. terest In a sawmill at Baraboo (Sauk Co. 50 cents per 100. Lead to Milwaukee She passed peacefully Into the sleep of married and living in Iowa, and Deeds. Vol. A, p. 438). Out of this In­ and merchandise back. Woe to the death, which was not caused by any par­ Laura Ann, who is still living at vestment was later involved the firm of ox that attempted to shirk. "That per­ ticular disease, but old age. She was home. Mr. Harman drew a lottery Metcalf, Paddock & Waterman. (See suader," the stalk two feet long and lash a kind and loving wife and mother, and prize in the first draft, which he Can field,Barabo o and its Water Powers, eight feet, the tip end of whloh would her memory will ever be cherished by the members of the family and friends. p. 12). Metcalf was a gentleman of tbe bo brought In contact with his buck or paid $300 to transfer to another old school, a man without an enemy, a Tbe funeral was held from St. Joseph's broad's back, giving a report like that man. He also served his district thoroughly upright and honorable church on the 16th lnst. of a pistol, would bring him to his task. 21 years in different offices,and is character. Such Is the unvarying test­ The following children survive her: It would take about ten days to make imony of all who knew him during his Mrs. Fannie Stennetz, Seattle, Wash­ at the present time owner of 225 the round trip. The gold fever of Cali­ acres of land, having retired from sixty-three years of residence in ington; Mrs. Rose Schott, Jollet, Illi­ Wisconsin. With Daniel Whitney he fornia and the exhausting of the shallow nois; John Helm, Louis Helm and hard work and provided a snug is to be remembered as one of the deposits lessened the annual yield of lead Mrs. Annie Rlechert, Baraboo. little home one mile east of Bara­ founders of the shot-making industry in for many years. But to-day the "output' boo. Having in early manhood our state, as well as one of the of lead exceeds any time In the history Army Worm. formed the habit of being prompt first lumbermen on the Wisconsin riv­ of Wisconsin lead mining, owing.largely The true army worm when fully er. His account book, and many other grown is one and three-fourths inches in meeting payments when due, to the growth of young lead and facili­ of his papers are in the possession of ties for deep mining. in length and striped lengthwise with his word is as good as a note. His the Wisconsin Historical Society. black, dull warclsh green and yellowish family worship at Methodist lines, intermingled with marginal Lead and lumber were products of AN INCIDENT IN HELENA SHOT TOWER white hair lines. The head is light or Wisconsin soil that helped many a church ; he himself is a Democrat. SAM PATCH BEATEN. yellowish brown, and has two blackish penniless pioneer to a 40, 80, or a 160 bent lines on the face. K has sixteen THE LEAD AND SHOT TRADE acre tract of land for a home whloh he A horse some twelve years old jumped feet—six small black ones in front, and his future born family have since from the high ban k at the shot tower eight fleshy ones along the middle part, lu Early Wisconsin History by Orln Grant so nicely Improved. An ax, cross-cut over a perpendicular precipice of and two at the hind end. On the out­ Llbby, PH. D. — Life of saw, a homemade wooden shod sled side of the eight intermediate feet are John Metcalf. one hundred and eighty feet into and an ox team—the outfit for the conspiciously a black spot on each. The An interesting article has been pub­ woods, with liberty to go where he the river below and came out safe body of the moth is stout, and it ia lished in the Wisconsin State Historic­ pleased and select the choicest stump- and sound, after swimming a half nearly or quiet two inches across the al Society's report of 1895 under two age. The U. S. marshal came around mile. The water at the point where expanded wings. The front wings are heads. First—Significance of the Lead occasionally but his threats were not the leap was made was from 20 to 25 of a dull or dirty yellowish color, and Shot Trade in Early Wisconsin much heeded. In the spring, fleets of feet deep. "We have the above par­ faintly sprinkled with blackish dote. History; second—Chronicle of the lumber of the very choicest kind dotted The hind wings are partially trans- Helena Shot Tower, by Orln Grant the Wisconsin river for the Mississippi ticulars from reliable authority." 14. parent, with a smoky and purplish and even each other. It Is generally prevents the worms from originating or by crushing with rollers. When appearance. Its ravages begin about more destructive in a wet year follow­ in such meadows or fields. A ditch the soil Is sandy, so that the ditch can­ the last of May or first of June, great ing a dry one. The moths are gener­ with side towards the field to be pro­ not be made with a vertical side, It numbers of them traveling together. ally called owlet moths and belong to jected perpendicularly, or sloping should be dug deeper than in other The favorite food plants of the army the night flyers because they usually under, will protect a field from inva­ cases and the side made as near per­ worm are grass, the smalls and corn. remain quiet or secreted through the sion from some other Infested regions pendicular as possible, so that when Timothy, bluegrass and winter wheat day and fly abroad at night. If lumin­ when the worms are marching. When the worm attempts to crawl up the are more generally Injured than any ous traps are set In the fields after the they are collected In the ditch they sand will crumble beneath them and other crop. Tbe worms rarely touch crops are removed, millions of them may be destroyed either by covering cause them to fall back again. clover and are not fond of rye, but, may be captured. Burning over a them up with earth that Is pressed up­ W. H. CANFIELD. when hard pushed, will eat various meadow, or prairie, or field of stubble on them, by burning straw over them, vegetables, the leaves of fruit trees— either In winter or spring effectually by pouring a little coal oil in the ditch

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; - KOEPP FAMILY. growing older I cannot stand any Thanksgiving Reflections. brotherhood. There can be at least i Albert Koepp, was born in amount of hard work, as I worked Fiom tbeSauk County Democrat. sixty cases where Inoffensive and moral Sloven['" lice. 17, 1841, and was very hard when young. In the Baraboo News.of December 2d citizens have been summoned before there appeared an article headed as courts because they have not walked reared^Birkholiz. Kreis Dram- Mr. CANFIKLD — If there is any­ above, containing the following para­ in ethical paths dictated to them by mbupg1, Prussia, Germany. My thing that you would like to add graph among the other rejections: their dominating brother. The King fatlior 'WHS a carpenter and so I to the sketch concerning the place, "The right of every man to worship case was one of these. The president­ why then vlo so. Yours Truly, God as best suits his own convenience elect before a W. C. T. U. convention learned the trade from him and signifies a cause for gratitude worthy declared himself in favor of more l>ej#¥> U> work at the trade when ALBERT KOKPP. of a higher tribute than merely satis­ rigidly enforcing Sunday laws. Wash­ only sixteen yoar.s of age aud con­ I fying the appetite In remembrance of ington said: "If I had the least idea of It needs no addition or sub­ tinued tp work at the same until the occasion." any difficulty resulting from the con­ traction to my mind. I am en­ Are such rhetorical expressions, stitution adopted by the convention of lS'fi.S, when I enlisted as a soldier. tirely unacquainted with the man which are common in this day, l-Wiii, which I had the honor to bo president Inl.S*>f>I fought in the war in or his family and they may be true ? When our courts from the low­ wheo it was formed, so as^to en­ Austria and the following Octo­ est to the supreme have declared that danger the rights of any religious de­ mean, bad folks, but my visits to nomination, then 1 never would have ber, l$ii7, eame to Air erica. Here "the U. S. Is a Christian government I them impressed me much to the and must be. governed by christian attached my name." Are we usuuges and laws." (notably the King not living in perilous times? This case). Is notour country's constitution rellgous despotism Is one factor and equally open to ALL religions? "Con­ the power of money and great wealth gress shall make no laws establishing another. At present christian citizen­ religion or prohibit the free exercise ship by these reformers is much talked thereof." [Art. I. of Amendments]. of. Why not Mohammedan citizenship, What means it when numerous socle- Buddhist citizenship, Infidel citizen­ ties have come into exlstenoe within ship ? is it Intended that christians the last twenty-five years, antagonizing alone have citizenship in this country ? that most holy and beneficent article ? Our country from a few million inhaoit- National Reformers, Y. M. C. A., ants is now growing to have a hundred W. C. T. U., Y. P. C. E. and Sabbath million. The richness of our soil for Union. These are growing to an alarm­ products and mines of metals with now ing extent, permeating every state, a teeming population has developed county, town and neighborhood and great wealth and every son of Adam is working to the one end—viz.: To have crazy to get it. The power of money the constitution of the U. S. A. deplet­ loves a crown of gold. Luxuries heaped ed of those equal right articles, and upon luxuries Is the movable mark christian articles substituted. Long that keeps going upwards according as petitions to this end have been present­ wealth is attained. Like a farmer who ed to congress for the last two decades. owned the whole world wanted enough Their fast increasing strength is the more to make him a potato patch. alarming part of it. The meeting of Rome sustained a republic longer the Y. M. C. A. world's convention than any other nation ever has. or p-ob- about the steps of our national capitol ably ever will, but at last her conquest was the largest religious gathering tho poured into her lap streams of gold and U. S. had ever seen. To read tho silver. Palaces, castles, villas, parks, speeches made there and the plans for theaters, fish ponds, game reserves, future action is sad in the extreme. retinue of servants, etc., etc. Money, For one hundred years our country as at present, was then tbe only enjoyed freedom of speech, press and thought. Concentrated and organized religion never before fully paralleled. capital is more dangerous to free insti­ ALBERT KEOPP. Jew, Christian, Mohammedan, Budd­ tutions than all other organizations. MRS. KEOPP. ALMA KKOPP. hist, Agnostic, Infidel could sit down Labor organizations are to secure a AiiNKS SHOP p. ANNA KEOPP. , i at one table and discuss religion, poltf- a living for self and family when op­ ical ethics, learning, charity'- via pressed by capital. They stand and I worked two years at my trade, reverse of that. I seemed to read of contact. The same year of the ever will stand as antipodes. The wording of Abraham Lincoln that our when in l-Sfill my parents also comfort.happinessund a great deal French Revolution the TJ. S. of A. formed the free governmental Institu­ government is "of the people, and by came from Germany and then to­ of refinement and education en­ tions. .'From hen own past example of the people and for the people" when gether we went farming. In 1871 shrined within that home. His religious bigotry and the Infidelity of the largest sum of money spent in an I began laruiing on my own ac­ good buildings, carriages and do­ French she meant to steer her ship of election campaign makes it sure of a success, It proves that money takes the cord and here I still reside. I mestic animals all contribute to state clear of both by leaving religion outof her secularstatutes. This brought place of tho people. It now stands that have raised four children—Anna, form my conclusions. He has a a state of prosperity and happiness that our present government is of money, Rosa, Agnes and Alma—three of brother owning an adjoining farm no other one hundred years ever paral­ for money, by money. It sums up— whom are living, Kosa having that shows the same degree of leled In any nation. People of the religous liberty •clause of the U. S. thrift. A virtous, industrous, the world come to our shores constitution is to be substituted by a died when only rive years old. special religion. Money makes a economical life is precious to God to enjoy this freedom. But alas! I must say that I have a com­ alas! within the last two decades cbris- farce of our elections. Where are we fortable home and am satisfied and man. God bless our foreign tion religionists have assumed to them­ and what are we ? Are we a republic ? Ask history. W. H. CANFIELD. with all about me, but as I am brethren. selves unequal rights of the country's 16

GEO. B. McGILVRA FAMILY. those small active bodies occasion­ and in October, 1888, they Sebeck and followed this avoca­ Geo. B-* MeGilvra was born in ally met with—equal to any retu rn ed to Ba raboo. r I e h as bee i) tion for almost ten years. In East Schuyler, Herkimer Co., N. emmergeney from the-"Betting a honored by his townsmen by 1850 he came to Baraboo, finding hen to setting a broken bone. being elected to several important Y., June 26,1853, and came with employment in B. L. Briar's card­ his parents to Baraboo in April, She is and most of the time offices. In politics he is independ­ ing mill in Manchester (the lower 1854. His wife, Edith J., the since her girlhood has ent always voting for whom he youngest child of Hiram and been a teacher in the M. E. JS.S. considers the best man for the water power in the Baraboo rapids). Jennette Turney was born in They think their lives not a finan­ office regardless of party. Having April 23, 1853, he married Miss Baraboo August 5, 1855. They cial success. That may or may an organ and guitar and a Abbie A. Ayers. Her parents were married March 18th, 1874. not be true. But to leave a family double quartette of their own, were of Rockingham, Vermont. their home is full of music. They have eight children, four of eight children with a strong She came to Baraboo in 1852. body and a well trained mind is Though not what is called "society lioys and fourgirls—a nicely bal­ December 9th, 1857, they moved anced up family. From a slight better than hoarded gold. Most people" tney enjoy society and onto a farm; 87 acres is rich al­ personal acquaintance we would of their married life has been never more than when their home luvium Baraboo river flats, 30 acres upland and 44 acres wood­ land in sections 6 and 7, town 11 north,range6east. He has a three- fourths inch pipe 1,900 feet long that brings the water from the La­ zeart creek to his barnyard. His place has comfortable buildings and is well supplied with agricul­ tural tools. September 30, 1895, he received a paralytic stroke of the right side which has since confined him to the house. They have had twochildren—Ira Frank born August 30, 1854, Janet born September 26, 1859, in Greenfield. She died Septem- 10, 1864. Frank now carries on the farm. The Ayers's side of the family are long lived. Her mother lived to be 97 and then CLARENCE T. EGBERT A. ARTHUR G. MR. AND MRS

M. II. MOULD. A. O. BlH'KI.KV. Mould & Buokley, R. JACKSON, Dealer* tu BOOKS, STATIONERY, Wall Paper, Window Shades, Sowing Machines, Toys, Fancy Goods, and Musical Merchandise. I 804 OAK STBEET, BARABOO, WIS. Next Door to Postoffice,

Weirich Bros., WISCONSIN. DKALKK8 IN Fresh and Salt Meats, «»H, GAM*, BTO. HOPPE, H. SCHOENFELD, 2 Doors from P. O. Gun and Lock-Smith, tage; Wm. Marriott, cottage; Buck­ Dealer in Sporting Goods, ley, R. D. Evans, Reinking, Presbyte­ No. 310 Third St.. rian manse, L. E. Hoyt, O. L. Glazier, Nf GL0TH1NG. IjH Baraboo, - - Wisconsin. Geo Hill. Arthur Cheek, Charles Wild, L. Kendall, I. W. McFarland, Henry *—«*"*r—- Chas. O-orst, M. D., M. Johnson, C. E. Effinger, R. L. Glazier, Geo. Gibbons, E. Selleck, A great plenty of the very best. More new styles. More handsome Physician and Surgeon, J. R. Hofstatter, Porter, Rev. Skin­ selections and choice novelties than ever before. Such fine office over Kin her Brut. Drug Store, ner, Frank Kartack, Wm. Warren, goods you never saw sold so low. Baraboo, - - Wisconsin. Geo. Keuhns, Julius Reul, E. Hal s ed, Mrs. E. Bacon an addition, J. E. English. M.D., Mr. Wood, Mr. Pilly, Lawrence Wat­ son, additions; Jacobs, the barber, MERCHANT TAILORING Physician and Surgeon, A. J. Carow, Halstead, Mr. Carpenter, Office la liiirringU.il Block, A. R. Tousley, Archer, Walton, John A SPECIALTY. A. W. POUTER. W. J. GERES. Baraboo, - Wisconsin. M. True have purchased lots aud will build this season. The editor Geo. L. Cramer, closes his article thus: "Remember­ ing that one entire ward of the city • PORTER & GERKS, Physician and Surgeon, is not touched; that minor buildings Mill* Block, are omitted and that almost certainly Undertakers and Embalmers, Baraboo, Wisconsin, there was much escaped notice in the territory so hurridly canvassed, our - AND DEALERS IN - Furniture, Carpets, Picture Frames, Baby Carriages, Etc. Mrs. L. L. WASHINGTON, M. D., estimate of $250,000 being expended in building and improvements within Upholstery and Repairing a Specialty. HtMetftttaic Physicist, the city this season will not be count­ 811 THIRD STREET, - - - BARABOO, WISCONSIN Office 10a Third St. ed too nigh. Mr. Henry M. Johnston has opened Baraboo, Wisconsin. a large lumber yard and erected a fine brick office at S. W. corner of public HENRY M. JOHNSTON, Dr.J.F.SNEATHEN, square. About 600 feet of concrete DEALER IN - sidewalk in the Court House square is now being laid down; masonictem- LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, DENTIST, le is in process of erection; Mrs. Building Paper, Lime, Cement, Stucco and"Hair. -Bank Block, - Satone Fischer is building two fine Baraboo, - Wisconsin. residences. BAKABOO, - WISCONSIN. __ _ c H. E. CROSS, M. D. i Tbe Masonic Temple now in process 8UHQKON AND i of erection will, when completed, be Homeopathic Physician. I tbe fittest building iu town. Tho cedar block paving of Third I )iKca>.fs of children and females a specialty. FINE MERCHANT TAILORV Office over Savinm Bunk. Hours I Ut'-aoV. M. street, between Ash and Broadway, and evening at residence, id Hi., opposite the Jail. (60 rods) is noaring a completion. A I.ARliK AND WK1.1, SKl.E(TKl) LINE OF William Power came to Baraboo in L. O.SLYE,M.D., , 1850 and opened business as merchant Poreian and LVomestic Woolens Cllwovs 'f\ept in eStock tailor and continued tbe business until Homceophist, he died, in August, 1889. His son, | W. J. Power, has continued the bus- 325 THIRD STREET, BARABOO, WIS. BARABOO, WISCONSIN. i iness, keeping on hand a large stock , of goods.

FISHER BROS., There aro several residences going GOOD ENOUGH FOMNYBODY! up on South Side, and three at Lyons. Prescription Druggists, There will be, we estimate, 50 resi­ If you want to be Good, feel Good, and look Good, buy your dences go up this season, and most of CLOTHING of BARABOO, WISCONSIN.

R. B. BVANS, -jH. P. JONES,')*- MjBCHANT TAILOB, hAWYER. Men and % Boy's t Outfitter, M. BENTLEY, W.J. POWER, ATTORNEY-AT -LAW,

BARABOO, - WISCONSIN. rVLARGE ALWAYS ASSORSMENTof « IN STOCK. •> S. S. BAB LOW. J. E. WBIOHT. Wfml®m Barlow & Wright, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. ATTORNEYS - AT -LAW,: 210 OAK STREET, - - - BARABOO, WIS.

BABABOO, SAUK CO., WIS. L [SIM MOULD, KiGGS Photographer! CLOTHING. them are elegant new style buildings, WARREN BUXK, and are built by old residents. They Baraboo, Wisconsin. have made their money here and are WILLIAM hiTTLE & 80N, spending it here for permanent homes.

Ira L. Humphrey, Farther Mention of School-;. DKA1.KK IN We read in a little pamphlet pub­ BARABOO, WIS, lished as a memoriam of Phebe Caro­ HARDWARE, line Clark, who May 5,1853, was mar­ A Fine Assortment of Cloths and Trimmings ried to Rev. Edward G. Miner, Boston, THIRD STREET. Mass., then preaching at Prairie du Constantly on Hand. Sac, Sauk Co., Wis. He preached in Racine, Lake Geneva, Whitewater, All I/lforte Warranted.. Fit Guaranteed. AUG. KILIAN, and Beloit, and died July 4, 1875. MA.NUKACTUKKR OK Mrs. Miner remained at Lake Geneva Carriages, Boggles, Wagons. until the summer of 1885, when she PHILIP H. KEYSER, DEALER IN 8LED8, ETC. came to Baraboo, her old homestead. Horse-Shoeing Promptly Attended to. August 22,1886 she died. Now when BARABOO, WISCONSIN. she came to Baraboo with her parents Merchandise, Seeds and Woof, D

in the summer of 1850, at the age of G. RAMSEYHR, 17, she opened a private school which M. REULAND, we think was the second private school MANUFACTURER Or Watchmaker ana Jeweler, in our village (E. M. Harts of 1843 being the first). This school she con­ Bank of Baraboo Block. tinued between 2 and 8 years. Carriages, Wagons, Sleighs, Etc. 30 Yearn' Experience In Kurope aud America. Our public school at the present time is in a very flourishing condition ALBERT HOOK, and words of commendation can be spoken of all of its departments. •*HORSE * SHOEING * A * SPECIALTY.*- PIANOS *0^GAI?S, Most of the old teachers have been re­ - AND A I.I. KINUM (IK - tained as well as the perfect drill of WATER STREET, BARABOO, WIS. MUSICAL MERCHANDISE. tbe teachers, many of whom have been *_jj*- second Hand good* taken In Exchange. retained for several years. JOHN E. ELKINGTON, Fine Carriages, Carts and Sleighs

LIGHT AND HEAVY FORGING. All Kinds of Farm Machinery.

Just East of tho Post Office, FOURTH STREET. J. B. DONOVAN & Co, BARABOO. WIS.,

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ED. BARSTOW, The annual school census of Bara­ «((K •_. A.XTX) rEAT.TiBS IT*"- boo, just taken, shows the total num­ FLOUR & FEED STORE. ber between the ages of 4 and 20 to HAY SCALES IN FRONT. be 1423, against 1330 in 1890- a gain 4 IMIM mMiMii. mn «» Stock and Barrel Salt. of 98, or about 7 per cent. Estimating the population of the city to have in­ "HEAtsiiABTERs." Third St., Baraboo. creased in the same ratio. Baraboo Perfumery and Stationery, to-day numbers 4927. Paints. Oils, Glass Pntty, Etc. Homeopathic Remedies. -«J GEM )*- The census of 1890 made our popu­ lation 4605, adding 7 per cent, the ART SUPPLIES. actual increase of school population, shows that now we may reasonably (STEAM LAUND^YI claim the number stated, and in an­ other year if the same ratio ia main­ J* —*. tained the city's inhabitants will ex­ jjpzs«j THE FAIR, )))r=^fc (j J. B. ASHLEY, PROP. \ ceed 5000. BARABOO. WIS. 380 Fourth Stre*t, Baraboo Wlaoonain. By wards and sex, the school chil­ dren are found to-number as follows: Conducted, by — First ward—males 236, females 282; Granite and Marble. total 517. Second ward—males 194, females E. O. HOLDEN, 204; total 448. MANUKACTURKK AND DEA1.KH IN Third ward—males 199, females 249; ON SPOT CASH BASIS! total 448. irtonuments, ileaastones, Females predominating by a ma­ jority of 167. Probably the only concern in the county that TABLETS, ETC. There have been enrolled in the BARABOO, - WISCONSIN. schools during the year 1168, showing carry out. cash principles to the letter. E

: • E. SELLECK. A. P. CHEEK. City Officials for 1891. SELLECK & CHEEK, CHAS. WILD, Chan. Wild, mayor; H. Marriott, THE PIONEER Abstracts. president; J. S. Worthman, clerk; A. FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE. Christie, treasurer; J. B. Ashley, asses­ Minn IlAKAJiOO, WISCONSIN. sor; B. S. Doty, marshal; R. Delap, "' ( deputy marshal; W. Sharp, night The only Practical Embalmer in Sauk County. Welch & Erswell, watch; Charles Coleman, police justice; FUNERAL DIRECTORS C. M. Smith street commissioner; S. A COMPLETE STOCK OF S. Barlow, city attorney; R. G. Even­ Carpets. Wail Paper and Window Shades. ItKAI.KU* IN den, city surveyor; A. L. Slye, justice I carry the Stock, do three-fourths of the-businees, and am never undersold. of the peace, first ward; E. August FURNITURE, Runge, justice of the peace, second ward; J. H. Dopplor, justice of the Carpets, Oil Cloth and Matting. peace, third ward. Supervisors—First Marriott Bros. Picture Frames to Order. ward, Frank Avery; second ward, J. BACON BLOCK. SAUK COUNTY HEADQUARTERS FOR H. H. WEBSTER, Hardware, Efcoves, Tinware Blacksmith, r.KIDUK STltKET, oinre NO, 132. Hall No. i ; Kaftt Third Street. Bamboo, Wiwons.n. 4 HOUSE FURNISHING G00DS> J. O. LINK, 315 and 317 Third Street, Baraboo. DRARF.K IN Watches, OIOCRS, ^Silverware — ETC.. ETC. ' |y Repairing Watches a Specialty. J. R. HOFSTATTER, WEST SIDE OF OAK 8TBEET. DEALER IN Corner Drug: Storp.

C H EVEBSON, Ph. Ch, DRUGGIST. PURE AND RELIABLE DRUGS. Carner Third and Dak Sts., { «r South East Cor.ier of Third and Oak Streets. SARASOO, = - WIS. B.'&S. RASCHEIN.

Ilinerv and LV ressmabina M. True; third ward, Paul Herfort. EAST SIDE OF OAK ST., Alderman—first ward, Wm. Moore, F. First door 8 >ut i of the Corner Dnig Store. Baringer, L. O. Holmes; second ward* STANLEY & HOAG, —J U NGE'S— H. Marriott, A. F. Fisher, Charles DEALERS IN Junge; third ward, H. H. Hulbert, W. BAR1U1R SHOR F. Wackier, F. C. Peck. Chief of Fire Department—J. ii. Seamens. * ((< GENERAL MERCHANDISE.))) * CHAS. JTJXGrS, Prop. Charles Junge came to Baraboo CONSISTING OF 308 Oak Street, BARABOO. in May, 1866, and opened a barber shop, and has continued the business Groceries. Chinaware, Ladies' & Children's Fine Shoes, Wm. 8. Grubb & Co., since,' employing at the present time Dry Goods, Carpets, Clothing, Notions, Etc. REAL ESTATE and LOAN8 two assistants. 91 No. 116 DKARBORN Street, PV\ ir»wnr» (Ultnota Bank Budding.) \-IilO«V4VJ' J. W. Davis has been in trade in Baraboo for 18 years. His father eame J/W. DAVIS & CO., Stephen E. Thayer. Arthur Remington. here in , and last spring, 1891, en­ Thayer & Remington, joyed a golden wedding family gath­ ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, ering. J. W. was a member of the BRY §00DS.AND §R0e&RIES. Pacific Natl Bank Building. family until he attained hia majority. ,u B Largest Stock and Lowest Prices. rSSp&eV -! TACOMA, WASHINGTON. See J. W. Davis & Co's ad. D2 Theo. Koch, M. D., 255, or less than 18 per cent, of those eligible to school privileges who have FRANK AVERY, Physician and Surgeon not attended the public schools during sac.AtX.EX*. irfcr Office over Cor. Drug Store, the year. For tbe year preceding the enrollment was 1075, showing gain in BARABOO, - WISCONSIN. enrollment and school population to BOOTS AND SHOES J. F. Bailey, M.D., be precisely the same—98. RUBBER GOODS, ETC., SOUTH SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE. Physician and Surgeon, Mr. Henry Moeler came to the vil­ lage of Baraboo in 1856, in June, and Also agent for following reliable standard Baraboo, Wisconsin. opened the wagon and carriage FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES: business, and has steadily followed it .ETNA, PHCENIX, AMERICAN, N. Y. ever since, and of course is well known ALFRED BAER, ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE, FIREMAN'S FUND, to this community. His work has al­ NATIONAL, OF HARTFORD. PH0T0GRAPH&R, ways been tasty, neat and perfectly finished. m Corner of Oak and Second Sts., BARABOO, WISCONSIN. L. E. HOYT & CO., THE* SHOE * M A N Merchant Millers, Good Goods! Low Prices! Baraboo Roller Mills, WATER STREET. Chas. W. Waddell, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in L. J. Horstmann, HAY, STRAW # AND * WOOD. BALED HAY ALWAYS ON HAND. MEAT f MARKET, Office 409 Fourth Street, - - Baraboo, Wisconsin. o»k si., Kurt utile Public Hquarc Fresh and Salt pleats, KIHII AMD POULTRY. J. G. ATON &. SON, -DEALERS IN- K. O. MARRIOTT. D. R. Chamberlain, E. G. Marriott commenced business Pianos, Organs I Xewiniflachlnes. iu 1875, and has never had a partner, Carpenter and Joiner. nor any change only to enlarge his ATTENTION GIVEN TO REPAIRS. business, and is the oldest business 325 Third* Street, - - Baraboo, Wis. house, without any change, except Continuous iu businoss from 1852 to 91. C. E. Ryan, in the city. Baraboo Steam Planing Mill. Charles Coleman, The Brown. Bassett, Strong and Hoyt Flouring Mill is still at work. It has always done a large business, REUL & SON, U. S. CLAIM AGENT. MANUKACTURKR.S OF- Notary Public. especially under the proprietorship of P. A. Bassett before R. R. times. SASH, DOORS, BLINDS & MOULDINGS, Police Justice. For years it formed the chief com­ Office and Church Furniture^ Brackets, Base, Casings, Newell Posts, mercial business of the town. Three Norlli Side ..f Thiril St., Iiclweeii Ash awl Onk. Stairs, Handrails, Balusters, Etc. Turning and Scroll Sawing. or four broad-tired wagons with ox teams were continually drawing flour Cor. East and Water Sts, STEAM tc Kilbourn City, to Milwaukee & St. J.W REUL, mP** Paul R'y., besides what was drawn by farmers. Under the proprietorship of R. H. Strong the mill was overhaul­ J. I. STEWART, ed and added to. Under the present DEALER IN proprietorship, L. D. Hoyt & Co., the Men's Clothing Cleaned, Colored, mill has 6 double sets of rollers and Pressed and Repaired. other machinery necessary to manu­ Dress Goods, Cloaks, Shawls, Etc., facturing 140 barrels flour every 24 • Utft-^UUiU^iu^a/ifuiu, %m Dyed to any color. hours. The mill also has a complete feed and rye mill, with a daily capac­ Mouldings, Building Paper Etc. A.J. HURD&CO. ity of 500 bushels feed, and 200 bush­ Cor. of Ash and Second st. els of rye. Corner of East and Water Sts., - ' Baraboo. F

Peck & Herfort, I.. M. Purdy Dead. K. I.. Ot.A/.IKU. C. K. COLLINS Dry Goods, Groceries, From the Bamboo Republic. Sept. 3, 18SI. ('rockery. Ladies apd Gent's The telegraph brought to Baraboo ou Tuesday a. m. au announcement GLAZIER & COLLINS, FURNISH INU GOODS, ETC., that Mr. L. M. Purdy died that day Walnut Street, South Side. <.««. *--* ritoritiEToits OP —4 )»»i at his home in Yankton, S. D. Mr.! LOCK'S DOMESTIC Curdy was attacked with lagrippe last' winter, which terminated in lung Bakery & Restaurant, trouble, causing death. Deceased was LIVERY, FEED a SALE STABLES, ai7 Tlitrtl St., ami <>ak SI., m-at <1\>< ia Hnuw. a native of Baraboo, and resided here' ASH STREET, NEXT TO PRESBYTERIAN CHGBCH. All giMMlo Home M.ul.- uutil 1869, having been from the early , II..I I'dtlJ-r ami l.un.li at all hours. age of 15 associated with Dr. Mills, as | "The Best Cup of Coffee in SAUK County. clerk and partner in business. At the ] First O'-ass Fiss it Treasonable Frices> age of 21 he went to Yankton, super-1 Your Pjjtrohage Solicited. J. N. Vanderveer, intended there the erection of a store P. WILKINSON'S OLD STAND, BARABOO, WISCONSIN. building and assumed charge of the Contractor and Builder. business established by Dr. M. and PLANING MILL. himself. His superior business energy aud exemplary character at once placed him at the front in his new; home, a Moeller & Thuerer, F. N. G-askell, position which ho maintained until death. He served for some time as DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF H A R D W ARE, Auditor of the territory of Dakota, and at the time of his death was a Walnut St.. South Side. , bank director. Few men in so short I a life, accomplish so much as Mr. CITY TIN SHOP, 1 Purdy did, having reached but 43 CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, AUG. OCKEE3HAU8ER. Prop. years of age. He loaves a wife, but -T"* Hoofing, Galvanized Cor­ no children. nices, Gutters, Furnaces. Hot Water Heating. Klflrii- Hells. Etc. Ten years ago from this date (1891), Fourth Street. two beardless boys formed a co-part-1 Horse Shoeing and General Repairing. WESTERN PHOTOGRAPHIC uership for tho purpose of selling j COP*ING HOUSE OF general merchandise, 'and made their plant ou Walnut St., "Old Baraboo." 5! ALL WORK WARRANTED. :i P.J. SCHADDE & SON, They have hail no quarrels with each IIAKAHOO, SOI" Til S1DK. other. Now they carry a large stock Life Size Portraits a Speciality. of goods. Their past deal and steady habits have won public confidence. J. HERFORT, H. BLOCK, \\ e notice one of their uames as alder­ K K.M.I. It I N man. The sign over their store door DEALER IN - is "Peck & Herfort." They are now Fresh and Salt Meats. among the leading firms of our city. /•"— 'Z / ' * / <—~^ / * Cash paid for Hides. SOl'IH SIDE. Ul III.AMI'S Itl.iM'K. Two young men, full of ambition, have recent ly bought the Peter Wil- W. GETCHELL, kenson livery stable, and have put up ••j2tv=: a new carriage house and .stable, and * s South Side Bakery! it looks very neat. Tho boys are sure SOUTH SIDE, BARABOO, WIS. of success if they have steady habits, AM) LI NTH ROOM, and are gentlemanly and keep gentle­ Second Door South of Old Bridge. manly help.

The Fisher Brothers have a large druggist trade. A. F. Fisher, a Warren HotM, farmer boy in 1876, came to Baraboo and hired to G. H. Bacon to learn the drug?est business. In 1878 he formed a co-partnership WARREN & WATSON, with J. H. Whitman, who bought out Bacon. In about eight months Whitman retired. Jan. Proprietors. 10, 1880 he moved into a newly finished off room of the Gattiker block just erected ou Oak street. In 1885 he associated himself with his two brothers, Earnest and Herman. The trio are represented in the cut. BARABOO, - WIS. • a

1 r i 1 Dew York Sfor©. H H r r\i Lake View Hotel. J .\0j Em Devil* Lake, South End. v OH M E R L v HIII:LDUN HOIK E. At North End of Devil's Lake. Oscar MeNseRflfcr, Proprietor. Millinery vS paney <3ood$, The Only Hotel at * * * W. B. PEARL LANDLORD, * m * South End of Lake. No. 124 3rd Avenuo. For the Past Sixteen Years. U4.?Ea »i.so r>sz% CA."S". }£as a Pavilion, Family Csttages, Seats and Fishing Tackle, besides many arrange­ ments/or the comfort and pleasure of his auesis,

BARABOO FRED TOBLER,

Cash Grocery! .AMPLE R00M. FULL LINE OF Maple 3. paney 6roeerie$ No. 153, 3rd Avenue. Corner of 3rd and Ash St. Wfyo Baraboo <2itcj Manchester Holler Mill, QRBbN H0USES, C. JOHNSON & SON, Manufacturers of Choice Brands of FiTTmg Skins IV. Arthur Elliot, Proprietor, 'Po "'-sasupe Out FlowerH, Funeral ami Wedding p>Is>€>l3r^. Arehi["eef" ana wullaer. Designs, Plants, Bulbs, Etc. JOHNSON'S BEST, "PATENT," EXCELSIOR, EUREKA. Orders left at Wm. Moore's store will receive prompt attention. Gattiker Block, 3rd Ave. North. E. J. LEZEART, j Residence 213, 7th St. East. 304 7th Ave. Late with Carr & Co. p Q BQX J225. of Chicago. BARABOO CITY BREWERY, "p. "Bffinger, "proprietor.

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DELIVERED" ON SHORT N0TI8E. South Side Livery AND FEED STABLE. W. H. PRENTICE, O. ^. LBrooan, "proprietor, II - DEALER IN- KKttil»ll-heil In 1867. fllilx NEW fflVD 06MM»Diea3 W«j5, P«I0EjS SEffijejSflBIiE. 6eo. RuMand, Proprlet'or. Fish, and Poultry, NO. 123 VINE STREET. Best of Beer Always on Hand Grams in its Season. And Delivered ou Short Noti<© 115 3rd Street. Your Patronage is Solicited.