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MATTHIAS GOHLMANN, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Sabula; born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1830. He entered the army of his native land in 1850, and remained one year. He came to the United States in the spring of 1851. He purchased the farm where he now lives in the fall of that year, where he has since resided. He married, in 1855, Eleonora S. Iverson. They have had nine children, four are living-John C., Eleonora S., Christina M. and Christian. Mr. Gohlman has 356 acres of land, and is engaged in general farming.
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JERRY GOOS, merchant, Sabula ; born in Holstein, Germany, in 1840. His parents were Henry and Margaret Goos. His father died on the passage to the United States, in 1853. His mother resides at Davenport, where he resided till 1862, when he came to Sabula. Was first employed hy Mr. Stiles in the grain business, after- ward, by another firm in the same capacity. Was also in the employ of J. O. Bard & Co., dry-goods dealers, for five years, then employed as clerk for Canfield & Davis. In 1875, he purchased a part of the stock of this firm, and engaged in business for himself. He married Catherine Wetherman, a native of Germany. Have three children-Fred- erick, John and Margaret.
JOHN J. GRAY, jeweler, Sabula. Mr. Gray was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1836. His parents, Alvin and Eliza Gray, removed to Illinois in 1846. His father was a native of New York ; his mother of Massachusetts. In 1851, Mr. Gray went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he learned the watch and jewelry trade. In 1854, he returned to his father's, in Adams Co .. Ill. In the spring of that year, he came to Belle- vue, remained there three years, then returned to Adams Co., Ill., and was engaged in teaching, clerking and farming, till 1862; then went to Nevada, where he remained till 1864 ; then returned, and again established himself in Bellevue. He married, in 1864, Matilda Bliven, a native of Illinois ; came to Sabula in 1866, and engaged in his pres- ent business. Has four children-Mary J., Gladys, Alice M. and Gertrude. Has held various town offices ; has been Justice of the Peace ; has been City Recorder since 1875. Is Township Clerk, Secretary of School Board, Treasurer of Sabula Bible Society, and Librarian of the Library Association.
FRANK B. HAND, editor and proprietor of the Sabula Gazette and Miles Reporter ; born in Walworth Co., Wis., in 1854; he learned the printing business at Manistee. Mich., where he went when 18 years of age; returned to Wisconsin in 1874; was foreman of the Geneva Lake Herald office 1875 and 1876. In the spring of 1877, went to Deadwood City, Dakota; was connected with the Daily Pioneer of that city one season ; returned, and went to Reinbeck, Grundy Co., Iowa, in the fall of 1877, where, in company with J. G. Palmer, started the Reinbeck Herald; at the end of one year, he leased his interest in that paper. In 1879, he came to Sabula, and purchased one-half interest in the Sabula Gazette and Miles Reporter, of Dr. J. F. Fairbanks. In May following. he became sole proprietor of this paper.
MARTIN HEIN, proprietor of restaurant, Sabula ; born in Holstein, Ger- wany, in 1823. Married in Germany ; came to the United States in 1854; remained a few months in New York City, then came to Savanna, Ill. He came to Sabula in July; 1856. He kept the Iowa Exchange Hotel one year, then engaged in the saloon business. Went into the mercantile business about 1865, which he followed four years. In -1862, he erected the building which he now owns and occupies. Engaged in pres- ent business in 1878. Has four children-William, Ferdinand, Emma and Kate.
HON. JOHN HILSINGER, lawyer and banker, Sabula; was born at Marathon, Cortland Co., N. Y., on the 4th of March, 1835 ; his parents, Barnabus and Polly Coonrodt Hilsinger, were both of Holland ancestry. "The " Judge," as he is familiarly called, is one of a family of thirteen children, twelve of whom are now heads of families; until 16 years of age, he was trained by his father to the rugged, exacting duties of a farmer's life, and the stern logic of circumstances prevented his attending school until his 15th year; his appetite for books was early developed, and, when once afforded means of gratification, he soon prepared himself for teaching winter schools, while working as carpenter and joiner during the busy season ; thus he con- tinued until 1856, alternating his mechanical and intellectual labors, but his love of , study intensified with his growth, and by date of his majority he had developed a strong taste and adaptation for the legal profession ; his first year's study of the law was with Judge Lewis Kingsley, of Cortland Village, and his second with Judge Hiram Crandall, of the same place; he was admitted to the bar at Ithaca at the session of the Supreme Court in the autumn of 1857; the following year, he came West and was admitted to the bar in Charles City, Floyd Co., Iowa ; in July, 1858, he settled in Sabula ; for two years, he was law practitioner and Principal of the Public Schools ;
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since 1860, his entire time has been devoted to his profession and his increasing business, personal and public ; since 1873, he, in partnership with Ira B. Overholt, has con- ducted a banking institution in Sabula; this is the only bank in the city and does a large business, being especially prominent as a general collecting agency. Mr. Hilsinger has served nine or ten terms as one of the County Supervisors; he was appointed Postmaster at Sabula in 1862 by President Lincoln, and held the office until elected to the State Senate in 1864, when, of course, he resigned ; but he was re-ap- pointed in 1873 and has retained the position until the present date, 1879; this fact, and his being chosen three terms as Mayor of Sabula, indicate his local popularity ; while in the Senate, he was on numerous .and important committees and he performed the duties with ability and fidelity ; from the birth of the Republican party in 1856, he has been an active and consistent Republican and has served two years as a member of the State Central Republican Committee ; he voted for John C. Fremont and was a member of the National Convention which nominated Gen. Grant in 1868. He has taken three degrees in Odd Fellowship, is a Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar and has taken the Thirty-second Degree in the Scottish Rite." He affiliates with the M. E. Church, but is a professor of no creed. Probably one of the most important events of his life occurred in 1867, he having in October of that year taken as life partner Miss Mary E. Scarborough, a native of Sabula ; she is a lady of liberal culture, a graduate of Lyons Female Seminary, and, at date of her marriage, was teacher of instrumental music ; two children are living-George E., aged 5, and Margaret Lorinda, aged 3; two children have died in infancy. Mrs. Hilsinger, with her other accomplish- ments. " looketh well to the ways of her household; " she is the financial manager of internal affairs and the trusted counselor of her husband in general matters. Mr. Hil- singer is a public-spirited citizen and thoroughly interested in all matters designed to benefit the city, county or State ; he is unassuming and affable in manner, solid and practical in thought and action ; his business is increasing and he enjoys the unlimited confidence of his fellow-men.
JOHN J. HOFSTETTER, M. D., Sabula ; Dr. Hofstetter was born in Switzerland in 1820 ; he received his literary education in Switzerland and Germany, he began the study of medicine at Brunswick, Germany; afterward, pursued his studies at Boun and Giessen ; his tutor for two years at the latter place was the celebrated Prof. Liebig; he came to New York in 1844, where he began the practice of medicine ; remained four years ; he then removed to Newark, Ohio, where he remained two years ; he came to Jackson Co. in the spring of 1850 ; since that time, he has lived two years in La Crosse, Wis .- 1868 and 1869; resided eight years in Savanna, Ill. He married Mary Brunner, also born in Switzerland ; they have three children-Nettie (wife of George McMillan, of La Crosse, Wis.), Leo (resides in Jackson Co.) and George (now a student of the Wisconsin State University at Madison, Wis.); they have lost two children. The Doctor has practiced medicine for thirty-five years.
JAMES E. LEONARD, proprietor of saloon, Sabula ; born in New Lon- don, Conn., August, 1828 ; his parents, James and Elizabeth K. Leonard, came to Sabula in 1838 ; at that time, the family consisted of his father, mother, himself and sister Elizabeth Leonard, now the wife of Mr. James Grant, of Davenport ; his father was one of the prominent pioneers of Jackson Co .; he was a member of the Territo- rial Legislature in 1844, but died before the close of that session ; his mother resides at Davenport ; Mr. James E. Leonard entered a farm in Iowa Township, where he lived for many years. He married Maria Higgins, of Scott Co .; they had four children -Bessie G., Henry, Edwin and Mary ; his wife died, October, 1869. His present wife was Elizabeth Thompson, of Jackson Co .; they have two children-William and Ellen. J. G. LEONARD, lumber-dealer ; born in Chenango Co., N. Y., in 1833; he went to Eau Claire, Wis., in 1856, where he engaged in the grain business till 1865 ; he then engaged in the lumber trade for Daniel Shaw & Co .; he became a mem- ber of the firm in 1870, and located in Sabula ; the firm is known here as the Sabula Lumber Co .; headquarters at Eau Claire ; the Company have yards, also, at Lake City, Minn., McGregor, Iowa, and at Hannibal, Mo .; they manufacture about 25,000,000
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feet of lumber per year, about 3,000,000 of which is handled at Sabula. Mr. Leon- ard has two sons-Eugene and Roy.
ENOCH LONG, firm of E. & M. H. Long, lumber-dealers, Sabula ; was born near Concord, N. H., Oct. 16, 1790 ; his father, Moses Long, was a soldier of the Revolution ; he was present at the surrender of Burgoyne, October, 1777, and partici- pated in the battles that preceded and led to that event ; he was, also, in Washington's army during that memorable winter at Valley Forge ; he was at the battle of Mon- mouth, and many other engagements of the Revolution. Mr. Enoch Long married Mary Hastings, of New Hampshire ; in 1816, he went to Alton, Ill .; he came West for the purpose of joining a Government surveying expedition to the Far West, but was too late to join that enterprise ; his brother, S. H. Long, was engaged in Government exploring expeditions from 1816 to 1821; he discovered and explored Long's Peak, which received his name; Mr. Long removed his family to Alton in 1821, which was his home for twenty-five years ; in 1826, he went to what is now Galena, and engaged in mining ; he traveled the entire distance on foot, accompanied only by a lad 18 years of age, a distance of about 500 miles ; he passed several summers in the mines, return- ing to his family in the fall ; in May, 1820, he established a Sunday school at Upper Alton, which, at that time, was the only Sunday school in what is now the State of Illinois ; in the fall of 1844, he removed his family to Galena, where he lived till 1863, when he came to Sabula, and engaged in the manufacture of lumber ; Mr. Long is a worthy and rare representative of the Western pioneer of sixty years ago; his wife has been dead for a number of years; he has had three children-Lucia M., Moses H. and Stephen H .; only one, Moses H., survives ; he was born in Alton, Ill., in 1825; he worked at the carpenter business for ten years; went to Galena in 1856, where he was engaged in the lumber business with his father for seven years ; came with the latter to Sabula in 1863. He married Miss Hannah E. Archer, of Salem, Mass .; they have four children-Lucia M., Nellie A., William E. and Jessie H .; have lost two children.
JAMES MURPHY, farmer, Secs. 24 and 25; P. O. Sabula ; born in Pennsyl- vania in December, 1805 ; in about 1826, went to Canada; came to Sabula in July, 1838,. and settled on the farm he now owns in the same year. He married Sophia Morden, of Canada ; they have one daughter, Mrs. Jane Doty, who resides in Montgomery Co., Iowa. Mr. Murphy is one of the most extensive and successful farmers of Union Township. He and wife are members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
HARVEY REID, book-keeper for the Iowa Packing Co., Sabula ; born in Washington Co., N. Y., in 1842; his parents, William H. and Margaret A. Reid, removed to Wisconsin in 1844, and to Carroll Co., Ill., in 1861; during the winter of that year, Mr. Reid taught school in Wisconsin. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the 22d Wis, V. I., and served till the close of the war; was in the Atlanta campaign and in Sherman's march to the sea. He came to Sabula July 8, 1865; has occupied his present position since that time. He married Miss Nettie Allen, of Sabula; has three children-Ella, Ada and Mary. His parents reside at Preston, and his wife's parents at Miles. He is Master of the Masonic Lodge, Resurgam, of Sabula.
HENRY ROGERS, jeweler, Sabula; born in Connecticut in 1829 ; his parents removed to Winnebago Co., Ill., in 1845 ; Mr. Rogers went to Massachuetts in 1847, where he learned his trade ; he came to Sabula in 1857, and engaged in the jewelry business ; remained two years, and then went to Mount Vernon, Iowa, where he lived twelve years ; in 1871, he went to Elgin, Ill., and worked in the watch factory at that place for two years; thence to Geneva, Wis .; he returned to Sabula in the spring of 1877. He married Hannah King, native of Germany ; has three children- Ida, Frank and Hattie.
ROBERT A. SCHRØDER, merchant, Sabula ; Mr. Schroder was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1848; when he was 4 years of age, his father died; he came to this country with his mother and sister in August, 1867 ; they came directly to Sabula ; Mr. Schroder engaged as clerk for the firm of Smith & Beebe for one year, and then went to Lyons and clerked for F. Grusendorf for six months; then returned
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to Sabula and engaged in business with J. M. Rice, of Lyons ; in August, 1873, he purchased his partner's interest, and has since conducted the business alone ; he is hav- ing a fine trade; his sales, entirely retail, for the current year ending Aug. 1, 1879, were $50,000. He married Christina Gohlmann ; they have had three children, only one, Elwine, is living.
FREDERICK SCRAMLING, carpenter, Sabula ; Mr. Scramling was born in Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1817 ; his parents removed to Canada when he was 7 years of age ; in 1838, his parents came to Sabula ; Frederick came in June, 1840 ; in the fall of that year, he went to Hanover, Ill., where he learned the trade of wagon- maker ; he returned to Sabula and followed the business of wagon-making till 1848 ; lie again resided in Hanover, Ill., but came back in the spring of 1862 ; he then sold goods in Sabula for a time; went to Montana and engaged in mining in 1864; returned in fall of 1866; was then variously engaged till 1876; is now engaged as carpenter. Married Eleanor Farquhar, of Hanover, Ill .; have four children-David C., John F., Elizabeth and Frederiek.
PETER SEEMAN, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Sabula; born in Germany November, 1834 ; he came to this country with his brothers, Hans and Frank Seeman, in 1853 ; his older brother, Hans, bought a farm in Elk River Township, Clinton Co. ; with him Peter lived three years; he went to California, in 1859, and remained three years, thence to Idaho and Oregon for about four years, returning in 1866 ; he bought his present farm in the fall of 1866. He married Julia Burton ; have two adopted children, brother and sister of wife; has 135 acres of land. Mr. Seeman and wife are members of the M. E. Church.
PETER W. SPRING, Principal of Graded School, Sabula; born in Grafton, Vt., in 1833; his parents removed to Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., in 1840; he was educated at Springville Academy, Erie Co., N. Y. ; he began teaching in Yorkshire, Cattaraugus Co., in 1848, when he was but 15 years of age ; he went to Belvid re, Ill., in 1856, where he taught three years; came to Sabula in the spring of 1859, and engaged in teaching ; has been a teacher of Jackson Co. since. He married Miss Cath- erine McDole, a native of Cortland Co., N. Y. ; they have five children-George V., Horace F., Phoebe A., Aldis A. and Albert E.
LUTHER H. STEEN, merchant, Sabula ; born in Sabula Feb. 27, 1838 ; Mr. Steen, so far as can be ascertained, was the first white child born within the limits of Jackson Co. His parents, Ulysses and Lucinda Steen, came to Sabula in March, 1837 ; his father, long a prominent and respected citizen of Sabula, died Sept. 3, 1873 ; his mother died July 7, 1859. Mr. Steen has two sisters, Mrs. Caroline M. Pennington, born in 1848, resides in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Mrs. Imogene V. Morse, born in 1850, resides at Williamsville, N. Y. His brother, Jeremiah Steen, was long prominently connected with the Northern Line of steamboats on the Mississippi River ; was for many years first elerk, and at one time owner of the steamer Bannock City ; he died at St. Louis in March, 1875. Mr. Luther H. Steen married Augusta R. Morse, of Buffalo, N. Y .; her father is a member of the staff of the celebrated Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo ; they have onechild-John M. Mr. Steen was a commercial traveler for many years, representing several of the prominent grocery houses in Chicago ; he engaged in business in Sabula in January, 1879.
PERLEY G. STILES, of the Iowa Packing Co. (formerly Stilcs, Goldy & McMahon, established in 1859), Sabula ; born in Massachusetts in 1830 ;. his parents, Vernon and Lucy Stiles, removed to Connecticut, in 1832, and came to Racine, Wis., in 1849, where his father died; his mother resides in Sabula; Mr. Stiles came to Sabula in the fall of 1859 ; he first engaged in the milling business; afterward engaged, with his brother Josiah, in the packing and general produce business; the former has grown to be a business of great magnitude and importance, a full account of which will be found in the body of this work. Mr. Stiles married, in 1857, Lucy M. Beeson ; they have one daughter-Mary, born in 1858.
JOHN G. SUGG, attorney, Sabula; born in London, England, Dec. 14, 1809; he came to New York June 1, 1833 ; thence to Philadelphia and Baltimore and thence
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to Pittsburgh, where he remained till November, 1834; he then went to Danville, Ill., where he married, in September, 1836, Miss Jane Wilson, a native of the North of Ireland ; they came to Sabula, then Charleston June 28, 1843; he pursued the study of medicine, both in London and Pittsburgh, which he followed as a profession till 1868. The Doctor always had a love for the study of law, which circumstances in early life did not enable him to pursue as a profession, yet he has been, to a greater or less extent, a student of law for many years ; he finally relinquished entirely the practice of medicine, and devoted his whole attention to the study and practice of his favorite profession ; he was admitted to the bar in March, 1874. The Doctor has been Justice of the Peace for fourteen years, and continuously since 1870 ; has been Notary Public since 1868 ; he still owns the farm which he entered, in Secs. 13 and 24, containing 220 acres. His wife died June 16, 1879 ; has had four children who reached maturity -- Sarah F., born in Illinois in 1838, married Theodore Ross (died April 30, 1868) ; Mary Ellen, born July 4, 1842 (died April 29, 1863) ; John F., born March 8, 1845, married Sarah A. Reid, of Sabula, has two children ; and W. H. C., born Aug. 31, 1848, married Emma Adams, of Sabula, has three children. He also had several children who died in infancy.
ROBERT C. WESTBROOK, Sabula; born in Ohio in 1815; his father's family came to Iowa in the fall of 1839; in the spring of 1840, Mr. Robert Westbrook and his brother Royal, made claims in Iowa Township; these claims included the farms now owned by James Graham and Wm. Davis. Mr. Graham married, in 1842, Louisa Baldwin, of Van Buren Township; she died in 1872. His present wife was Armenia Fry. Mr. Westbrook has three children by his first marriage-Lottie, Herbert and Julia ; has two by present marriage-John and George. He has resided in Sabula since 1861. His father died in Sabula in 1854; his mother died Aug. 10, 1879, aged 90 years.
ENOCH A. WOOD, Sabula; born in Knox Co., Ohio, in 1811; he removed with his parents, James and Margaret Wood, to Cass Co, Mich., in 1834 ; they came to what is now Sabula in April, 1836; his father entered a claim about three and one-half miles west of Sabula; his parents brought with them seven children, only three of whom are now living; Mr. Wood, Sr., died in Sabula in 1845. In 1836, Enoch A. Wood made a claim in Sec. 19, Union Township ; this farm he still owns ; he engaged in mercantile business in Sabula in the spring of 1837, and has been connected with that business most of the time since. In 1845, his brother Jeremiah became associated with him in business; this partnership continued till 1852; Jeremiah is Captain of the steamer Alexander Mitchell. Mr. Enoch A. Wood is still engaged in mercantile business ; also in the milling and farming business. His wife was Harriet H. Hudson ; her parents, Benjamin and Harriet Hudson, were from Connecticut, and early settlers of Jackson Co. in 1838; they had two children-Ella A. (wife of Mr. David Kelso, an attorney for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R. R. Co.), Ada (died Sept. 20, 1852, in her 6th year).
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M. S. ALLEN, ex-Sheriff of Jackson Co., Miles; born in Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1809; he removed to Clinton Co., Mich., in 1836; he came to Sabula in the spring of 1838; he remained two years, and the returned to New York; went to Michigan in 1840. Was elected Sheriff of Clinton Co., Mich., in 1844; was also State Representative in 1849. He returned to Sabula in the fall of 1856. Was elected Sheriff of Jackson Co. in 1867; served six years. He came to Miles in 1875, and engaged in the banking business with Mr. J. W. Miles, which business he continued three years ; in 1860, he bought a farm in Van Buren Township, Sec. 26, and farmed for two years; returned to Sabula in 1862, and engaged as clerk in the packing-house of P. G. Stiles ; returned to Miles in 1875. His first wife was Maria Hudson, a native
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of Connecticut; she died in Sabula in 1864. His present wife was Elizabeth A. Pear- son, a native of Kinderhook, N. Y. He has two children by his first wife-Nettie (now Mrs. Harvey Reid, of Sabula), Addie (now Mrs. John S. Ray). Mr. Allen was the first Justice of the Peace of Jackson Co., being appointed by Gov. Lucas in 1839.
THOMAS J. ALLEN, Postmaster, Miles; Mr. Allen was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., in 1819; his parents removed to Michigan in 1836. He married Marian Benson, native of Vermont. He came to Jackson Co .; purchased a farm in Van Buren Township; engaged in farming till 1872, when he located in Miles; he was engaged one year in buying grain. Was appointed Postmaster in April, 1873. Has three children- Alva E., Charles C. and Ernest E.
WILLIAM M. AMOS, M. D., Miles ; was born in West Virginia in 1844. Graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk, Iowa; he began the practice of medicine in Springville, Jackson Co. He removed to Preston, Iowa, in 1871, and located in Miles in April, 1874. He married Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Greene Co., Penn .; they have two children-John W. and Minnie. Doctor Amos enlisted in 1862, in the 12th W. Va. V. I. ; served three years ; was under Sigel, Hunter and Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley ; he was discharged in June, 1865.
HENRY BRAASE, grain and stock-buyer, Miles ; was born in Schleswig- Holstein, Germany, in 1833; he came to the United States in 1857, and located at Davenport, Iowa ; he came to Miles in 1871; he kept hotel and lumber-yard for two years, and engaged in grain and stock-buying in 1873. He married Caroline Kreft, a native of Germany ; they have one daughter-Louisa.
GEORGE BRYANT, farmer, See. 8; P. O. Sterling ; born in Somerset- shire, England, in February, 1822. He was married to Elizabeth Gane. When Mr. Bryant eame to Jackson Co., he settled on the farm in Section 4, now owned by his son Jehu ; he settled on his present farm in August, 1875, which he had purchased in 1867; has five children-Jehu, James, Joseph, Anna and Faith E. ; has lost two sons-Albert and Wesley, and two daughters-Elizabeth and Emma. Mr. Bryant and wife are members of M. E. Church.
JEHU BRYANT, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Sterling; is a son of Mr. George Bryant, and was born in England in 1847. He was married to Miss Matilda Fitzgerald, daughter of Thomas and Matilda Fitzgerald, born in Iowa Township in September, 1844 ; before her marriage, was a teacher of Jackson Co. for several years; they have five children-C'ora A., Elmer G., Jessie D., Edith M. and Bertha L.
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