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HISTORY OF
Walworth County WISCONSIN
1
BY ALBERT CLAYTON BECKWITH
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME I
1912 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
THE NEW DOC PUBLIC LIBRARY
707363. ASTON, LEMON AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1915 L
P.
DEDICATION.
This work is respectfully dedicated to
THE PIONEERS.
long since departed. May the memory of those who laid down their burdens by the wayside ever be fragrant as the breath of summer flowers, for their toils and sacrifices have made Walworth County a garden of sun- shine and delights.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
. In preparing this work, which is not so much a county history as a collec- tion of notes to serve the coming historian, the following sources of informa- tion have been used freely: The printed and manuscript collections of the historical societies of the state and county : the records of the adjutant-gen- eral's office at Madison ; the Legislative Manuals and other official publications of the state: the Geological and Hydrographic Surveys of Wisconsin; the county records at Elkhorn, including those at the office of the county judge. county clerk, clerk of the circuit court, treasurer, register of deeds, and superin- tendent of schools : the books of the County Agricultural Society; "History of Walworth County" ( Chicago, 1882) : Cravath's "Annals of Whitewater": Simmons's "Annals of Lake Geneva" ; the files of Delavan, Elkhorn and White- water newspapers : the personal recollections of the compiler and of many of his known and unknown friends, within and without the county; the tomb- stones of forty-five burial grounds: and unreckonable minor or incidental papers. pamphlets, documents and letters.
A few words as to the plan and arrangement of this volume may not be wholly useless. The theory of its construction is that a local history, its inter- est, if any, confined to a narrow plat of ground, cannot have in it too much of the personal element. An arch-necromancer's uncanny skill could not avail to restore anything like the semblance, even though but ghostly, of all those men who once answered to the names found in the lists of land-patentees of 1838, in the juror lists of 1839, and in the town-officer lists of 1843; but the patient searcher of fading records may find a date, a wife's name, a hint of heirs wrangling over a will-something to show that these men have not all of them become as forgotten kings of pre-Mosaic dynasties.
The neighboring counties, in two states, were much like Walworth in their origin and development ; and human nature was and is the same in all of them. Walworth included. But there were little lines in the lives of the earlier men and women of Walworth that are yet of some human interest to their descendants and successors. Too little can be recovered of lives long gone to make each one's tale over-tedious. For most of them, little more than the length of a tombstone inscription remains, but for us that little differentiates
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
Walworth from Rock and MeHlenry and all the other counties of the Union and the Dominion.
If this work were our county history's last word, far more could with reason be required of it than is herein performed. A little, no doubt, worth another workman's consideration, is added to the store of historic material. It will be observed that in the lesser divisions of the volume the towns are taken in their alphabetical order for their readier finding. Citizens of each town of whom nearly nothing was learned but their names and a date or two for cach, are named with their towns. They of whom more detail was found are placed in alphabetical order as a county list.
It would be pleasing to acknowledge explicitly all the favors shown by old and new friends, official and unofficial; but the tally-list would be very long. and omissions would seem coldly careless if not intentional. No person. low- ever. can make even a barely passable local history without that kindly co- operation nowhere to be found more intelligent and willing than in "glorious old Walworth."
ALBERT C. BECKWITH.
Elkhorn. July 15, 1912.
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
All life and achievement is evolution ; present wisdom comes from past experience, and present commercial prosperity has come only from past exer- tion and suffering. The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privi- lege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the pres- ent conditions of the people of Walworth county, Wisconsin, with what they were one hundred years ago. From a trackless wilderness and virgin land, it has come to be a center of prosperity and civilization, with millions of wealth, systems of railways, grand educational institutions, splendid indus- tries and immense agricultural and mineral productions. Can any thinking person be insensible to the fascination of the study which discloses the aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so strongly laid the founda- tion upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace and record the social, political and industrial progress of the community from its first inception is the function of the local historian. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of perpetuation, and which unite the present to the past. is the motive for the present publication. The work has been in the hands of able writers, who have, after much patient study and research, produced here the most complete biographical memoirs of Walworth county, Wisconsin, ever offered to the public A specially valuable and interesting department is that one devoted to the sketches of representative citizens of this county whose records deserve preservation because of their worth, effort and accomplishment. The publishers desire to extend their thanks to the gentlemen who have so faithfully labored to this end. Thanks are also due to the citizens of Walworth county for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking and for their many services ren- dlered in the gaining of necessary information.
In placing "Beckwith's History of Walworth County, Wisconsin." before the citizens, the publishers can conscientiously claim that they have carried out the plan as outlined in the prospectus. Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party interested, for correction, and therefore any error of fact. if there be any, is solely due to the person for whom the sketch was prepared. Confident that our effort to please will fully meet the approbation of the public, we are,
Respectfully,
THE PUBLISHERS.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I-PRE-GLACIAL EPOCH-GEOLOGY
Facts Derivable from Geological Surveys-Rock Measurements -- I'nderlying Strata-Glaciers and their Traces.
CHAPTER HI-NATURAL FEATURES Surface of the County-Heights Above Sea Level-Prairies, Openings and Forests-Water Courses-Lakes and Their Sonndings Natural Products Timber-Climate-A Memorable Season.
CHAPTER HI-INDIANS-MOUNDS-GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES: Indian Occupation-British Direct Native Hostility Black Hawk- Chief Big- foot-Mounds and Relies-Geographical Names and Their Origin.
CHAPTER IV- SETTLEMENT OF THE OLD NORTHWEST. 42
Conditions Surrounding First Settlers- Character of the Pioneers Birth- places of Earliest Men of Walworth.
CHAPTER V-SURVEYS-GENEVA LAAKE TROUBLE Contest at Lake Geneva-Christopher Payne- Claim-marks-Peace Restored -Arrivals at Other Towns-The First Settler Contested Claims-Land Sales.
CHAPTER VI-POLITICAL ORGANIZATION Wisconsin Admitted to Statehood - Location of Walworth County-Organiza- tion of Towns-Congressional and Legislative Districts- Judicial Circuits.
CHAPTER VIL-POLITICAL REPRESENTATION 58
First Representatives in the General Assembly-First County Officers- First Meeting of the Board of Commissioners-First Grand and Petlt Jurors -- Extracts from the Records.
CHAPTER VIII -- COUNTY BUILDINGS AND POOR FARM 61
Commissioners Select Location for County Seat-First Court House Second Court House-Second Jall and Register's Office Present Court House The Present Jall-Fire Proof Vaults -Care for the Poor.
CHAPTER IX-THE BENCH AND BAR 72
Hon. David Irvin-Journal of the First Day's Proceedings In Court-Early Jurors-Roll of Attorneys, 1839-IS-Judges of the First Cireult - Attorneys from 1848-Jury Commissioners.
CHAPTER X-OFFICIAL ROSTER 79
Eminent Men from Walworth-Constitutional Conventions Probate Judges -County Judges-Court Commissioners- State Senators- Members of Assem- bly-Chairmen of County Board of Supervisors -County Clerks-County Treas-
CONTENTS.
urers-Sheriffs-Clerks of the Circuit Court-District Attorneys-Registers of Deeds-County Surveyors-Superintendents of School-Superintendents of Poor and Insane.
CHAPTER XI-DIVISIONS OF POLITICAL PARTIES. 97 Party Lines Clearly Drawn in Early Elections-Early Election Returns-Sun- sequent Political Ratio-Progress of the Republican Party.
CHAPTER XII-MILITARY HISTORY OF WALWORTH 104 Territorial Militia-The Sixth Wisconsin Regiment-The Civil War-Response to the President's Call for Soldiers-Wisconsin's Record-Aid Rendered by Women and Non-Combatants-Grand Army of the Republic-Walworth County Soldiers and Sailors' Association-Soldiers' Memorial Roll-Spanish- American War-Enlisted Men from Walworth.
CHAPTER XIII-NOTEWORTHY INSTITUTIONS 15S Yerkes Observatory-State School for the Deaf-State Normal School-North- western Military Academy.
CHAPTER XIV-WALWORTH COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 170 Fair and Cattle Show, 1850-Subsequent Fairs-Fair Grounds-Officers of the Society.
CHAPTER XV-CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS 176 Early Religious Meetings-Organization of Churches-Baptist Statistics for 1909-Other Denominations-Public Schools-Early Sentiment Strong for
Education-School Superintendency-Present System.
CHAPTER XVI-ROADS AND RAILWAYS 183 Indian Trails-Highways Established by Legislature-Present System-Rail- ways-Collapse of Some Early Railway Plans-Publie Land Grants.
CHAPTER XVII-COUNTY HISTORICAL AND OLD SETTLERS SOCIETIES 193 Early Provisions for Preservation of Local History-Organization of Old Set- tlers' Society-Officers of the Society -- Incorporation of the Walworth County lHistorical Society Members.
CHAPTER SVIH LOCAL EDITORS AND AUTHORS FINE ARTS 199 Writers of Earliest County History- Occasional Writers-Newspaper Editors . Local Poets -- Song Writers and Musical Composition-The Palette and Brush-Oratory.
CHAPTER XIX- MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST 209
Early Temperance Societies -- Saloon Licenses -- Civic Societies- Freemasonry -Lodges, Past and Present -Other Societies-Turtle Creek Drainage District -- Troy Drainage District-Commissioner of Roads-Assessor of Income Tax -- The Speculative Spirit-Melodrama in Court-Early Educational Efforts- Early Teachers-Noteworthy Events- Dairy Interests-Early Births-Early Marriages-In Memoriam-Losses by Fire.
CHAPTER XX-TOWN OF BLOOMFIELD. 226 Origin of Name-Natural Features-Agricultural Returns -- Population-First Permanent Settlement-Early Families- Civil-war Soldiers from Bloomfield-
CONTENTS.
Town Officers-Genoa Junction-Religious Societies-Commercial Interests- Village Organization.
CHAPTER XXI-TOWN AND VILLAGE OF DARIEN 240 Area-Natural Features-Statistics-First Settlers in the Town-Early Growth -Official Roster.
CHAPTER XXII-TOWN OF DELAVAN. 24S One of the Original Civil Subdivisions-Natural Features- Land Area-Pop- ulation-Early Arrivals-Official Lists of Town and City.
CHAPTER XXIII-CITY OF DELAVAN 257
Colonel Phoenix, the Founder, and Other Early Business Men-Hotels and Taverns-Commercial Enterprises-AAdvent of Railroads-The Press-Religious Societies-Educational Interests-Public Library-Water Works-Fire Depart- ment-Delavan Guards-Cities of the Dead-Official Roster-Postoffice Ilistory -Population.
CHAPTER XXIV-TOWN OF EAST TROY 272 Description-Natural Features-Land Area-First Settlers-Official Roster- Village of East Troy-Churches-Newspapers-Village Organization Post- office Public Houses-Business Items.
CHAPTER XXV-CITY OF ELKHORN.
Speculative Enterprise-The Embryo City-Early Comers-Additions to the Village Location and General Natural Features of the City-Churches and Schools-Business Interests-Banks and Bankers-Brick and Tile Making- - - Religious Societies-Newspapers-Public Utilities Official Roster.
CHAPTER XXVI -- TOWN OF GENEVA 316
Origin of Name-Description-Natural Features Area- Population-Land
Office Patents-Early Settlers-Official Roster.
CHAPTER XXVH-CITY OF LAKE GENEVA 32.1
First Settlers at Geneva Lake-Au Historie t'ontest and Its Outcome-Early Owners of Land-Taverns and Hotels-Other Early Comers Religious Socie- ties-Early Business Men-Schools-Newspapers-Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation-Public Libraries-Banks -- Waterworks and Electric Lights -Fishing and Navigation Cemeteries -- The Lake Shore-Village and City Charters Official Rosters-Population and Valuation.
CHAPTER XXVIII -TOWN OF LAFAYETTE 319
Description-Natural Features-Agricultural Statistics and Valuation First Immigrants-Land Entries-Well Known Names in 1942-Official Roster.
CHAPTER XXIX-TOWN OF LAGRANGE 357
Natural Features -- Soil -First Land Claim Other Immigrant Arrivals Land Entries -Prominent Pioneer Families Valuations and Crop Statistics Popul- lation -Official Roster- Churches.
CHAPTER XXX-TOWN OF LINN
Origin of Name-Area-Natural Features -- Crop Acreages First Settlers
Official Roster.
-
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXXI-TOWN OF LYONS. 372
Naming of the Town-Boundaries-Elevations-First Settlers-Immigrants of 1840 and Later Years-Village of Lyons-Business and Religious Interests- Village Platted-Village of Springfield-Noteworthy Events-Statistics Official Roster of the Town-Religions History-Postmasters.
CHAPTER XXXII- - TOWN OF RICHMOND 3×4 Location-Natural Features-Education-The Pioneers and Other Early Set- tlers The Nova Scotian Settlers-The Methodist Church-Farm Statistics- Population-Official Roster.
CHAPTER XXXHI-TOWN OF SHARON 302 Location and Description-Crop Aereages-Population -- The First Comers- Land Entries-Allen Grove-Noteworthy Events-Religions Societies-Official Roster-Village of Sharon-Schools-Newspapers-Churches-Bank-Cene- fery-Town Officers.
CHAPTER XXXIV-TOWN OF SPRING PRAIRIE 105 Origin of Name-Primitive Condition of the Land-Streams-Land Area-('rop Returns Population-First Settlers-Honey Creek-Vienna-Voree-Franklin -Early Village Business Interests -Religious Societies-Schools-Official Roster.
CHAPTER XXXV TOWN OF SUGAR CREEK 418 Name Derived from Local Industry- The First Settler -- Other Pioneers- Well Known Early Tavern-Tibbets-Churches-Insurance-Land Area and Crop Valnes-Population-Town Officers. Past and Present.
CHAPTER XXXVI -- TOWN OF TROY 426
One of the Original Towns-Lakes and Water Courses-Land Area-Crop Re- turns -- Early Settlers-Village of Troy-Troy Center-Local Interests-MAX- lew Little Prairie -Adams-Official Roster.
CHAPTER XXXVII-TOWN OF WALWORTH 437
Land Elevations-Streams-Geneva Lake-Land Area-Crop Statistics-Pop- ulation-Early Settlers-Land Patents-Postoffices -- Churches-Schools-Big Foot Academy-Village of Walworth-Fontana-Williams Bay-Official Roster.
CHAPTER XXXVIII-TOWN OF WHITEWATER 451 Origin of Name-Surface of the Land-Lakes and Streams-Land Area-Farm Statistics - The First Comers - Land Sales - Live Stock Breeders - Official Rosier.
CHAPTER XXXIX-CITY OF WHITEWATER 460
Early Ese of Water Power-Other Early Utilities-Town Organization -- Ad- vent of Railroads-Business Enterprises -Taverns and Hotels-Banks and Bankers-Religious Societies-Education-Libraries- Military History-Public Utilities-Village Incorporation-Official Roster-Population.
CHAPTER XLMAKERS OF THE COUNTY 4S1
Blographical and Genealogieal Notes of Early and Prominent Citizens of Wal- worth County.
BIOGRAPHICAL 573
HISTORICAL INDEX
-
AAdams
Agricultural Society 169
F Allen's Grove 395
Art 207
Assemblymen S4
Assessor of Income Tax I
219
Attorneys, 1839
18, 74
Attorneys from 1848
76
B
Baptist Societies 170
Bench and Bar 72
Big Foot Academy 442
Bigfoot, Chief.
30
Biographical Sketches.
4$1
Birthday of Walworth County 59
Birthplaces of Pioneers 44
Births, Early 217
1 Black Hawk. 35 1
Bloomfield Center 231
Bloomfield, Town of 226 1
Brick Clay I 1
1 1 1
C
Care for the Poor 71
Catholic Missionaries 177
Chairmen of Supervisors ST
Chicago & Northwestern R. R. 1.57
Chicago, MiL & St. P. R. R. 191
Chief Bigfoot 39
Circuit Court Clerks 02
Virenits, Judicial 1
City of Delavan 257 t I
City of Elkhorn 1 I
City of Lake Geneva 1
1 1
32 1
('Ity of Whitewater 160 1 t 1
1 Civic Societles 210
Olay Products
Clerks. County
Clerks of Circuit Court
Climate
Colored
Troops.
Commissioner of Roads 212
Commissioners' Journal
Commissioners' Records.
61
Congregational Societies
177
Congressional Districts,
5-4
Constitutional Conventions
Constitution, Votes on
SO
Contest at Lake Geneva 16. 324
Coroners
01
County Agricultural Soclety 1699
County Buildings 64
County
Clerks.
County Commissioners, First Meeting 50 County Historical Society 196
County House. 71
County .Indges 82
County Officers. First 59 1
County Seat Located 1
I 6-1
County Surveyo 03 : 1 1
County Treasurers 1 1
Court Commissioners
Court. First Term of 72
Court House. First
Court House, Present
Court House, Second
Creameries
217
D
Dairy Interests .
217
Darien, Town of 210
Deaf. State School for
Deaths, Early_
221
Delavan Churches
Delavan, ('Ity of
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Delavan Guards. 267
Delavan Newspapers 261
248
First Cavalry.
113
First Circuit. Judges of 1
1
I 1
District Attorneys. 1
92
Districts, Legislative
54
l'irst County Officers I
1
Drainage
Drainage Districts 211 1
E
Early Births 217
Early Deaths
021
Early Educational Efforts 214
Early Ilighways
184
Early Marriages
210
1 1 Fortieth Infantry 1
146
Early Teachers
214
Forty-eighth 1 Infantry 152
Forty-fifth
Infantry
1 150
Early Trails
184
East Troy, Town of.
272
Forty-ninth
Infantry
152
East Troy Village.
Forty-second Infantry 1
148
Ilitorship
195
Forty-seventh Infantry 151 1
Educational Convention. 1
1.80
Educational Efforts, Early 1
214
Eighteenth Infantry
134
1 Fourteenth Infantry 133
Fourth Battery. 122
Fourth Infantry-Cavalry
117
Eleventh Infantry
128
Elkhorn
286
Elkhorn Banks.
Elkhorn Business Interests 1 1
Elkhorn Churches
Elkhorn Located 64
Elkhorn Schools 203
Geneva Lake Contest 46. 324
Geneva. Town of. 316
Genoa Junction 231
Episcopal Parishes 177
Events of Note
215
Geographical Names
27
ords
61
Grand Army of the Republic
210
1I
Fair, the First 169
Fifteenth Infantry 133
Fiftieth Infantry 151 1 1
1 Fifth Battery 122
Fifth Infantry 12%
Fifty-first Infantry
154
Fifty-second Infantry
154
Fire Lassos
Fire-proof Vaults. 70
Irvin. David
1
1
1
I
1 1
Indian Occupation. I
35
1
First and Third Batteries 122
First Assembly
5S
Delavan, Town of
1
1
I
31
First Court House 1
First Fair
160
First Grand Jurors
1
J
1
1
First Heavy Artillery 1
120
I First Infantry 124 F
First Petit Jurors
1
1
L
1
1
I
1
1
1
Forty-sixth
Infantry
150
Forty-third Infantry 1 L
149
Eighth Infantry
126
Electric Lines.
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
Free and Accepted Masons
G
Genealogical Notes
-151
Heights of Land.
·x)
Honey Creek
110
1
E
I
1
1
1
1
1
1 1
1
1
I
1
1
1
10]
Franklin Postoffice 412
Extraets from Commissioners' Rec-
Glaciers
Indian Trails.
1
65
First Settler
First Term of Court
Fontana
I Forty-fourth Infantry 150
Early Temperance Societies 209
L 1
Indian Names.
Enlistments from Walworth 113
0)1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
J
Jail. Present 69 1 1
Jail. Second 67 1 1 1 1
Judges
82
I
1
Indges of First Circuit. 1 1
75
Judges of Probate
I
1
Indicial Circuits.
56
1
Jurors, First
I
L
Lafayette. Town of 349
lagrange. Town of.
Lake Geneva, Cily of 324
Lake Geneva Contest
46.
324
1
Lake Soundings
Lakes 1 1 I
BI
Land, Ileights of 29 1
1 Land Sales 51 1
Legislative Districts 54 1 1 1 1
Linn. Town of
366
1 1 Literature 204 1
Little Prairie 433
Location of County Seat. 64
Location of Walworth County 59
Losses by Fire
223
Lutheran Churches 178
Lyons, Town of. 372
Lyons, Village of. 375 1
M
Makers of the County 481
Marriages, Early 219 I
1 Marshes 30 1
101
Records of Commissioners. 61
Register's Office.
I 67
Registers of Deeds
Relies 30 1 İ
Religions Organizations. 1
176
Memorable Season I
36
1 Methodist Churches 1 1 1
17%
Military Academy 1
I
Military History.
101
Milwaukee & Mississippi R. R
Mounds
Ninth Battery 122
Ninth Infantry
127
Normal School
Noteworthy Events
215
Noteworthy Institutions
15%
Nova Scotian Settlers
0
Officers. First County
Official Roster
1
1
1
Old Settlers' Society
Oratory
1
Original Towns
1
1
1 1
Peat
Pioneer Sketches. IS1 1
Political Organization
Political Parties 07 1
Political Representation 58 1
Poor Farm 71 I 1
Prairies :0 I
Pre-glacial Epoch
Presbyterian Churches 177 1
Present Court House
Present Jail 69
Presidents of Agricultural Society 179
Probate Judges.
Publie Schools
179
R
Rallways 1.85
Ratio of Votes
1 1 Masonry 1 1 I
210
Mayhew
1 1
1
1
1 4 I
1
Melodrama in Court
213
1 Members of Assembly 1
S.I
1 1
1
Representatives 5.S
Richmond, Town of. 381
Roads and Road-making 181
Rock River
30
Rock Strata
S.
School Commissioners, Work of 1.50
Natural Products
Nineteenth Infantry
134
School for Deaf
160
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
I
1
1
I 31 1 1
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Second Cavalry 114
Second Court House. 1
65
Thirty-ninth Infantry 146
Second Infantry 1
124
Thirty-second Infantry 143
Second Jail
17
Thirty-seventh Infantry 1
145
Thirty-sixth Infantry I
144
Senators
t 1 I
Settlement of Northwest. 1
42
Thirty-third Infantry
144
Setter, the First
50
Timber 34
Seventeenth Infantry
I 134
I Town of Bloomfield. 226 1
Seventh Battery
122
Town of Darien I
I I
I
240
Seventh Infantry 1
125
1 Town of Delavan 24S 1 1
272
Sharon. Village of
400
1 I Town of Geneva 316
349
Sixteenth Infantry I
134
Sixth Battery
122
1 1 Town of Linn. 366
Sixth Infantry 125
Sixth Wisconsin Infantry
104
Snow Blockade
36
f I 1 Town of Sharon 392
105
Song Writers 1
205
Town of Sugar Creek
I 418
Spanish-American War 156
Town of Troy
1 1 t 426
Speculative Spirit 1
212
Town of Walworth
137
Spring Prairie, Town of. 405 L
1 I Springfield, Village of 377
State Normal School 1
166
Troy Center.
I
431
Troy Drainage Ditch. 1
1
I 211
Troy, Town of 426
Troy VIlage. 180
Turtle Creek Drainage District 211
Twelfth Infantry
1:20
Twentieth Infantry 13
Twenty-eighth Infantry
139
Twenty-fifth Infantry - 139
139
1 Twenty-ninth Infantry 113
Twenty-second infantry 125
Twenty-seventh Infantry
130
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Twenty-third Infantry 13
Vaults, County_ 70
Vienna
410
Village of East Troy
1
279
Village of Lyons I
375
Village of Sharon 1 1
100
Thirty-eighth Infantry
116
Thirty-fifth Infantry
1.44
Village of Springfield 1 1
1
377
Thirty-first Infantry 1-13
Village of Troy.
130
1
1
1 1
I
1 I
1
1
1 t Swamp Lands 30 I
T
Teachers, Early "14
Temperance Societies. 209
Tenth Battery_ 123
Tenth Infantry_ 127
Third Cavalry _.
116
Third Infantry 125
Thirteenth Battery
122
Thirteenth Infantry 120
Thirtieth Infantry 14:
I
1
L
Sharon, Town of
302
Town of East Troy 1 1
I
1
1
1
Sheriff's 90
Town of Lafayette
Town of Lagrange 357 f
Town of Lyons.
1 372
I
I
Soldiers' Memorial Roll 112
Town of Spring Prairie
L
I
I
I
451
State School for Deaf. 160
State Senators. 83
Sugar Creek, Town of 418
Superintendents of Poor and Insane.
Superintendents of Schools 94
Supervisors, Chairmen of ST
Surface of County 29
Surveyors
1
1
1
1
1
I
I 1
I
I
Thirty-fourth Infantry 144
Town of Whitewater 1 1
Treasurers, County
Town of Richmond 384 1 1 1 I
1
Twenty-fourth Infantry
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Voree
410
War Meetings 107
Water Courses 30
Votes on Constitution
SO
Votes, Ratio of.
101
Whitewater. City of 460
Whitewater, Town of. 451
Williams Bay 140
Wisconsin Central R. R 189
Wisconsin Troops
107
Writers of Local History
199
Walworth County Soldier and Sailors'
Association 111
Walworth, Town of
437
Yorkes Observatory
15%
Walworth County, Location
Walworth County Agricultural So- ciety
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
A
Beardsley, Hermon C.
Berkman, Albert. 1351
Abell, Stephen B.
Arkley. Albert H.
Adkins. Henry DeL
Bennett. Francis A
1150
Adsit. Aliley
996
Pesecker, Charles 0). 1031
Agern. John
Best. William F' .. 619
Allen. Francis G.
1110
Allen. George 01-1
Bilyea, Clarence I
Blackman, Charles
Bloodgood, Fred I. 1205
1395
AAllyn. Alexander 1] .1016
Bollinger, Daniel
1120
MIrick. A. K. .1279
Altenburg. Charles E THIS
Dultz. . John
トノド
AAmborn, Anton I. 05-4
1037
Ames, Erastus IL.
.1005
Andrus. Francis L 1
1
1
Atkinson, Josephus I
1142
Aver. Edward E. 1155
Avors, Henry W
B
Babrock, James W
Baker. Charles 11
Baker. Harvey_
Baker, Louis ( 973
Baker, Simeon W 1406
Brown. George I.
Brown. James, Ir. 1IS1
Brown, Lewis G.
Brown. William C.
Barnes, Dwight B
924
Barnes, Henry D
1190
Brown, William
Buckbee, Franklin A.
Barrett. Ellis 1251
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