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Antone Jacoby grew up on the home farm, received his education in the local schools, and at the age of twenty-four went west to Iowa, where he spent one year, and one year more in South Dakota. After returning to Sauk County he had a part in the management of the farm until the death of his father, when he bought a place in Honey Creek Township.
In 1886 Mr. Jacoby married Emma Kaufman, daughter of John Kaufman, of Honey Creek. Five children were born to them: John, who is married and lives on the homestead; Nell, living at home; Alex, at home ; Mrs. Lula Strassman, of Madison ; and one that died in infancy.
As a farmer Mr. Jacoby still owns and operates 174 acres of land, constituting the old homestead, and some years ago he sold 200 acres to his son John, who is one of the leading and progressive young farmers of this section. Mr. Jacoby has been quite active in public affairs, hav- ing served four years on the town board and nine years on the school board. He is a stockholder in the local creamery and he and his family are all members of the Catholic Church of Sauk City.
FRANKLIN JOHNSON, a resident of Baraboo, was born in Greenfield, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, in 1849, was educated in the common schools, taught school, and in 1881 moved to Baraboo where he engaged in the fruit business. He has held several town offices and others in the local insurance company. He served several years as president of the State Horticultural Society and is the inventor of the "Johnson Index
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System for Tax Collectors." He served in the lower house of the Legis- lature from 1901 to 1903.
HENRY ROICK. Two vocations, those of farming and milling, occu- pied the active career of Henry Roick up to the time of his recent retirement at Baraboo. For more than a half a century he was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Sumpter Township, Sauk County, and is still the owner of a valuable farm there, although since 1904 he has been a resident of Baraboo. His career has been one of sturdy industry and has been fittingly rewarded by a full measure of success.
Mr. Roick was born on his father's farm in Sumpter Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, April 13, 1853, and is a son of Charles E. and Catherine (Francel) Roick, natives of Germany. On first coming to the United States Charles E. Roick settled at Milwaukee. He had learned the trade of carpenter in his native land and being a skilled . and industrious workman had little trouble in securing employment, but it was his desire to be the owner of a farm. Accordingly, when he had earned the means, he walked into Sauk County from Milwaukee and purchased eighty acres of uncleared land, but at that time could not start farming as he had exhausted his means. Returning to Mil- waukee, he worked at his trade for a year, and thus was able to pur- chase a wagon and an ox team, with which he and his brother, who was also a carpenter, began to break the land. At odd times Mr. Roick went to Milwaukee to work, and for his labor accepted lumber, thus getting the means of building his house, and as time went on he and his brother acquired another eighty acres southeast of his original pur- chase. Mr. Roick continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1880, in which year he disposed of his farm to his son and took up his residence at Baraboo. He had secured success from his experi- ence in farming, but was an energetic and industrious man and occupied his time by working at his trade, having lost none of his former skill in that direction. He continued to be so engaged until within a short time of his death, which occurrerd at Baraboo in 1906, Mrs. Roick hav- ing died here in 1890. Mr. Roick was a republican, but never sought office, and took only a good citizen's interest in political matters. He and Mrs. Roick were the parents of four children, namely: Harry, Caroline, Francis and Emma.
Henry Roick was educated in the public schools of Sauk County and was reared to the life of an agriculturist, a career which he adopted upon attaining manhood. He was twenty-seven years of age when he assumed ownership of the old homestead place, and there he continued to successfully operate until March, 1904, when he came to Baraboo. He had won success as a farmer, and on coming to the city became pro- prietor of a feed mill, which he built, and this proved a profitable venture under his systematic and energetic business management. In 1914 he sold his interest in this enterprise, and since that time has lived retired from active pursuits, although he gives some attention to the supervision of the farm in Sauk County, of which he is still the owner. Like his father, Mr. Roick is a republican, and, also like him, the uncer- tain honors of public position have not been sufficient incentive to draw
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him into public life, it being his preference to remain simply as a private citizen. He is the owner of a beautiful home at No. 530 Fourth Avenue.
In June, 1881, Mr. Roick was united in marriage with Miss Mary Jane Riches, who was born in Sauk County, Wisconsin, August 16, 1858, being a daughter of Robert and Christina (Burga) Riches. Her father was a native of England, born in 1824, and her mother of Switz- erland, born in 1832. In 1845 Mr. Riches came to the United States, and after a short residence at Sauk City, Wisconsin, moved to a farm in Troy Township, Sauk County, where he passed the remaining years of his life and died in 1892, his wife passing away in the same year. They were the parents of four children: Elizabeth; Christina; Mary; and John Robert, who is now residing on and operating the homestead farm. Mr. Riches was locally prominent in affairs of the community, being at various times the incumbent of public position and for many years was postmaster at Riches Corners. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, while Mrs. Riches belonged to the Reformed faith.
Mr. and Mrs. Roick have been the parents of three children, namely : Ella, who died in 1913; Charles, a jeweler by trade and lives in Bara- hoo: and Virgil H., who is a member of the junior class of the Baraboo High School.
JOSEPH P. TERRY, who is successfully engaged in agricultural pur- suits in Baraboo Township, is a worthy representative of the younger farming element in Sauk County. To a very considerable extent it is this element in any community, especially outside of the large cities, which infuses spirit and zest into the activities of the place. It is this element, whose entrance upon the arena of active life dates not further back than the final quarter of the last centennial period, which monopo- lizes most of the vigor, zeal and pushing energy which keep the nerves of the commercial and agricultural world ramifying all through the lesser towns and communities of the country strung to the full tension of strenuous endeavor. Mr. Terry is a member of this class who is widely known in Baraboo Township, where he has passed his entire life, as an industrious and capable farmer and stockman.
On the old homestead farm in Baraboo Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, Joseph P. Terry was born January 30, 1880, being a son of John and Katherine (Dorsey) Terry. John Terry was born in 1834, in Ireland, and was a child when his mother died, subsequently being sent to make his home with an uncle who lived in New Foundland. He was given ordinary educational advantages, but early developed ambi- tion that led him to seek about for a location where his abilities would bring him the best results, and eventually decided upon Sauk County, whence he came during the early '60s and established his home in Baraboo Township. With him he had brought gold to the amount of $500, which represented his earnings, and as this metal was a decidedly scarce commodity at the time he was able to dispose of it for a sum approximating $1,000, which he invested in an 80-acre farm in Baraboo Township. This was but a start. From that time forward he prospered and flourished, and eventually became one of the substantial farmers and large landholders of the locality. After he had put his original
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eighty under cultivation, Mr. Terry bought forty acres adjoining. Later he bought the old T. B. Byron farm, a tract of 200 acres in the same township, and this was followed by the purchase of the Spandig farm of 220 acres in Delton Township, and the 270-acre farm now owned by one of his sons, James M. Terry, in Baraboo Township. Mr. Terry's career was one in which he displayed perseverance, industry and ability of a high order. His community always knew him as a man who put his best efforts into everything that he did, and who in the working out of his success kept his record personally clean and above board. His death took away from his community a public-spirited and helpful citizen, and one who had brought up his children to honorable careers and had started them upon life with something that made their path- ways easier and brighter. He died at the home of his son James M. Terry in 1908, the original residence on the old homestead having been destroyed by fire some time before, and the mother passed away in November, 1914. Mrs. Terry was one of the best beloved ladies of her community, and, like her husband, was a faithful member of the Catholic Church. John Terry was a democrat, and upon that ticket was elected to the office of road superintendent, a capacity in which he served for several years, although he was not one to look for preferment at the hands of his fellow citizens. The ten children in the family were as follows : Edward; James M., who owns and operates 270 acres of fine land in Baraboo Township; Alice; William; Mary; John; Nellie; Jos- eph P., of this notice; Ann; and Gertrude, whose death occurred in 1904, when she was twenty years of age.
The children of John Terry were given a good training. They were brought up in the healthy atmosphere of the farm and under good home influences, and were granted educational advantages in the schools of the vicinity. Joseph P. Terry shared with his brothers and sisters in this kind of wholesome atmosphere in building him up in his youth. Trained to be a farmer, his life has been devoted to the activities of the soil, and general farming and stock raising have been the things to which he has given his attention and in which he has made a success. His present tract consists of 200 acres, located in Baraboo Township, and is one of the valuable and handsome properties of this part of Sauk County, its buildings, improvements and general prosperity being indic- ative of the kind of management which supervises its operation. Mr. Terry is also a stockholder in the Excelsior Co-operative Creamery Company. Politically he is a democrat, and he adheres religiously to the faith in which he was reared, that of the Catholic Church.
On February 14, 1912, Mr. Terry was married to Miss Alma Louise Hempel, who was born at Monee, Illinois, April 13, 1882, daughter of John R. and Margaret (Otten) Hempel, the former born in Saxony, Germany, in 1843, and the latter at Monee, Illinois, in 1858. Mrs. Hempel's parents, John and Margaret Otten, were early settlers of Illinois, and were married at Chicago, from which city they subsequently removed to Monee, and at the latter place spent the remainder of their lives. They had seven children, all of whom are still living: Anna, Ida, Alma, Edward, Charley, Lillian and Richard. Mr. and Mrs. Vol. II-10
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Terry have two children: Grace, who was born November 25, 1912, and Vera, born November 30, 1914.
Yoss HARSEIM has lived in Sauk County since early childhood, through a period of over fifty years, and his efforts have been chiefly directed along the lines of agriculture and with such success as to enable him to live practically retired. He now has one of the attractive small farm homes in Baraboo Township near the county seat.
Mr. Harseim was born in Milwaukee, January 10, 1852, a son of August and Johanna (Myer) Harseim. His parents were married in Germany and on coming to America located at Baltimore, where August Harseim for four years acted as overseer to the slaves on a southern plantation. He and his wife then came West, lived for a time at Mil- waukee, and in 1853 located in Sauk County. They settled in the midst of the woods of Freedom Township, where a log house was erected for their accommodation. In 1863 they sold that farm and moved to Baraboo, where Mrs. August Harseim died January 17, 1877, at the age of sixty-three years, ten months, thirteen days. In 1880 August Harseim went to Madison, but returned to Baraboo about 1882 and died in that city August 27, 1885, at the age of seventy-three years eleven months. Their children were: Mary; August, who died in infancy ; Charles, who died in infancy ; Salena, deceased; Gertrude, who died in Colorado in 1916: William, who was a Union soldier in the Civil war and died in Minnesota in 1905; Margaret; Fred, who died April 27, 1873; and Yoss.
Yoss Harseim was reared on a Sauk County farm and attended public school in an old log building. Since early manhood his efforts have been directed to farming, and for three years he worked his father's old place. He then removed to Delton Township, continued renting there four years, and then bought a place of 120 acres. That farm he developed and improved and cultivated its crops for twenty-nine successive years. He did his most important work as a farmer there, and he still owns the old homestead and had enough surplus to enable him to remove to the City of Baraboo and buy a comfortable small farm of fifteen acres, the products of which furnish much of the living.
Politically Mr. Harseim has been an active republican and has also become strongly allied with the prohibition movement. He served as treasurer of his local school board for about ten years. He and his family are Methodists.
On May 9, 1875, Mr. Harseim married Charlotte A. Whitney, who was born at Windsor, Vermont, August 4, 1850. Her parents, Seneca and Charlotte (Lackey) Whitney, were both born in the year 1813, in the State of Massachusetts. In 1852 the Whitney family came west to Baraboo and built as their first home a cabin near the present site of the waterworks. They soon afterwards settled on a farm in the Skillet Creek neighborhood in Baraboo Township, and some years later removed to North Freedom, where Mr. Whitney spent his last years and died in 1893. His widow survived until 1895. Their children were: Harriet, deceased, who married Jonathan Miles ; Sarah, who married A. J. Spahr,
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a veteran of the Civil war ; Delilah, wife of Charles G. Allen, of Baraboo; and Mrs. Charlotte Harsein. Mr. and Mrs. Harseim have no children.
HENRY PIGG. Although more than five years have passed since the death of Henry Pigg, he is remembered as a citizen of Sauk County who resided at Baraboo for several years prior to his demise. Mr. Pigg was one of those who wielded the implements of destruction as well as those of construction, for he fought as a soldier during the Civil war and later was engaged in agricultural pursuits. While he was not a public figure, he was one of the steady, dependable men of his community, a citizen who bore his share of the responsibilities of citizenship and whose career was successfully and honorably rounded out.
Mr. Pigg was born in England, in 1840, and was a son of George and Elizabeth (Bordos) Pigg, also natives of that country. The family immi- grated to the United States in 1846, at which time they settled at Mil- waukee, but ten years later moved to Merrrimack, Sauk County. There Henry Pigg completed the education he had started in the Milwaukee schools, and thereafter learned the trade of molder, an occupation which he followed until the outbreak of the Civil war. In April, 1861, he enlisted for service in Company B, Fifth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for three years. Mr. Pigg took part in numerous important engagements, among them the Wilderness and Fred- ericksburg, at the latter of which places he was severely wounded in both legs. The bullet that caused these wounds is kept as a memento by the members of his family. When his term of service was completed and he had received his honorable discharge, after having established a splendid record for soldierly qualities and fidelity, Mr. Pigg resumed the trade of molder, and for a number of years was in the employ of the Allis- Chalmers Company of Milwaukee. He was industrious, energetic and economical and was thus able to save from his earnings sufficient means with which to buy a farm in the vicinity of Merrimack in Sauk County. There he continued to be engaged in successful agricultural labors until 1909, in which year, feeling that he had earned a rest from his work, he retired and took up his residence at Baraboo. His death occurred in April, 1911, at his home No. 514 First Street, where Mrs. Pigg, who sur- vives him, still makes her home. Mr. Pigg was a republican in his polit- ical views, but not an office seeker, confining his activity in public affairs to the casting of his vote. As a fraternalist he belonged to Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, while Mrs. Pigg and her daughter, Ada, are members of the Eastern Star. Mr. and Mrs. Pigg belonged to the Congregational Church and were active in its work.
In 1871 Mr. Pigg was married to Miss Sarah Ames, who was born at Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin, September 21, 1847, and was brought to Baraboo in 1853 by her parents, Tra and Sarah (Brooks) Ames, natives of New York. Nathaniel Ames, the grandfather of Mrs. Pigg, fought as a patriot soldier during the Revolutionary war, and his portrait is to be found at the State Historical Society's headquarters at Madison. Ira Ames was a blacksmith by trade and followed that vocation until he enlisted, in April, 1862, in the Seventeenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volun- teer Infantry, during the Civil war. He did not live long after becoming
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a soldier, death taking him away at Corinth, Tennessee, in June, 1862. He and Mrs. Ames had ten children, of whom three are still living: Frank, of La Valle, Wisconsin ; Mrs. John Wrightman, of Fairfield Town- ship, Sauk County, the widow of a Civil war soldier who died in 1900; and Mrs. Pigg. Mr. and Mrs. Pigg had the following children: Harry, Bessie, May, Walter, Louise, Esther, Edgar and Ada.
LINCOLN BARRETT. Baraboo is the home of a number of railway men. Among them is Lincoln Barrett, a veteran of the Chicago Northwestern line, who has pulled throttles on engines for that company for over twenty years. Mr. Barrett is a fine type of the railroad man, has proved faithful, efficient and clear headed in all emergencies, and stands high on the honor roll of his company's employes.
A native of Wisconsin, he was born in Grant County November 8, 1864, a son of William and Hannah (Temby) Barrett. His father was born in England in 1833. The mother was born in 1837, probably in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Peter and Hannah Temby. Peter Tenby was a native of England while his wife was a Welsh woman. They lived in Pennsylvania a number of years but finally came west to Iowa County, Wisconsin, Peter Temby being a miner by trade, and was employed for a number of years at Mineral Point. Later he was a farmer and he died in Highland Township of Iowa County about 1883, at the age of eighty- two. His wife passed away about 1876. Mr. Barrrett's paternal grand- father, William Barrett, whose wife was Grace Barrett, came to Wiscon- sin and also settled in Iowa County. He was a miner and his death occurred at Linden in Iowa County, his wife dying in the same county, both at advanced age. They were buried at Linden.
William Barrett, father of Lincoln Barrett, was a cabinet maker by trade and was also a minister of the Methodist. Episcopal Church. He first located in Grant County and about 1865 removed to Sauk County. He died at Spring Green in this county in 1867, while his wife passed away at Wilson's Creek in Sauk County in 1871. Their four children are now living, each in a different state of the Union: William, in Montana ; Clara, in Michigan; Lincoln, in Wisconsin; and Mary, in Missouri. The mother of these children married for her second husband Gordon Farwell, and had a son by that union.
Lincoln Barrett, after the death of his father, which occurred when he was three years of age, was reared in the home of his maternal grand- parents in Iowa County. He attended the public schools there, and lived and worked on the farm until past his majority. In 1887, at the age of twenty-three, he entered the service of the Chicago Northwestern Railway Company and removed to Baraboo the same year. He started as a fire- man and in 1895 was promoted to the command of an engine and has piloted a locomotive for that company over various runs for twenty-two years. He deserves much praise for his self-made success. At the age of thirteen he began paying his own way in the world and all he has gained has been due to his industry and constant attention to duty. In 1903 Mr. Barrett built a fine home at 315 Fourth Avenue, and that is where he and his family now reside. Politically Mr. Barrett is indepen- dent, though he usually supports the republican ticket. . He is affiliated
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with Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 51, with the Order of Foresters and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He and his wife are both affiliated with the Eastern Star.
Mr. Barrett was married January 9, 1894, to Miss Allie Blanchet. Mrs. Barrett was born in Kansas November 8, 1872, a daughter of Cyrus and Elizabeth Van Arsdel Blanchet, who have been residents of Baraboo since 1875 and are prominent and well known people of this city else- where mentioned in this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett have two daughters. Estelle Elizabeth, born June 15, 1896, is a graduate of the Baraboo High School and of the Baraboo Business College. Elzaida Mildred was born April 18, 1899, and graduated from the Baraboo High School with the class of 1917.
CHARLES HIRSCHINGER, Baraboo, was born at Capatene, Ohio, Febru- ary 26, 1837, was educated in the schools of Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, coming to this state in 1837 when it was still a territory. He was engaged in farming and the nursery business before moving to Baraboo. IIe served in the State Assembly in 1893-95.
CHARLES H. LEE. The annals of early settlement in Sauk County make frequent reference to members of the Lee family, who were pioneers in the best sense of the term, were makers of homes in the wilderness, tillers of the soil, and helped convert a wilderness into a smiling land- scape of farms and villages. One of the younger members of the family, a native of Sauk County, is Charles H. Lee, who for many years has been one of the prosperous business men of Baraboo and is now proprietor of one of its chief hardware stores.
Mr. Lee was born in Webster Prairie, Sauk County, October 21, 1860. His parents were Lothrop L. and Harriet (Gardner) Lee. His father was born in Livingston County, New York, February 27, 1823. and the mother was born in Madison County, that state, May 13, 1830.
Lothrop Lee first came out to Sauk County in 1847, the year before Wisconsin became a state. He was employed by Colonel Maxwell in the construction of the dam and race which has long been known as the Maxwell Dam. After this work, and being. much pleased with Sank County, Lothrop Lee returned in 1848 to New York, was married there on October 17, 1848, and soon brought his bride by way of the Great
Lakes to Milwaukee, from which point they drove with wagon and team into Sauk County, making the journey through the City of Madison. All these activities occurred before railroads were numerous in the West, and Lothrop Lee is said to have been sixty years of age before he ever traveled on a railroad train. His occupation, after making a permanent home in Sauk County, was farming. He had the energy and thrift required for success in that line, and he was a man of strong character and of many fine traits. He was noted for his great love of domestic animals, especially horses. His first settlement was in Fairfield Town- ship, but he sold his farm there and moved to Webster Prairie.
In 1854 the parents of Lothrop Lee, Zadoc and Esther Lee, also came out to Sauk County. These parents had the following sons: Byron B.,
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Henry H., David D., Herbert A., Lothrop L., and also one daughter, Mercy E., who is the wife of Henry Cowles, of Chippewa Falls. All the sons are now deceased. Herbert A. and his brother Byron were soldiers in the Civil war. Zadoe Lee, on coming to Sauk County, bought 320 acres in Webster Prairie, and Lothrop, his son, took half of that land. It was the farm on which he lived and prospered over forty years. He sold it in 1898 and then bought a small place about a mile south of Baraboo, where he spent his last years in comfort and retirement. He died in 1904, and his widow is still living there at the venerable age of eighty-seven. The children of Lothrop Lee and wife were: Frank G., who died in December, 1915; Maria C .; Mary E., who died in 1890; Charles H., and Hattie E. In politics Lothrop Lee was a republican from the organization of that party. In still earlier days he had been an ardent abolitionist, and in 1844, on reaching his majority, had cast his vote for James G. Birney, a free soil candidate. Zado Lee had voted as a free soiler and abolitionist in 1840. Lothrop Lee was a member of the Congregational Church, which he helped build up in his community, and he afterward became a generous supporter of the Presbyterian Church in Baraboo. He helped build the church that is still standing in that city.
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