USA > Wisconsin > Sauk County > A standard history of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Volume II > Part 72
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72
1123
HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY
ROBERT DOWD. Some of the best farms and some of the most pro- gressive farmers are found in Dellona Township, and among them is Mr. Robert Dowd, who grew up in the same section where he is now employ- ing his efforts with such success to the tilling and cultivation of the soil.
Mr. Dowd was born in Dellona Township in 1863, a son of Patrick Dowd, who came to Dellona Township in the early days from County Monaghan, Ireland. Robert Dowd has two brothers, Patrick and James.
After getting his education he took up farming, and has gradually increased his means until he owns a completely equipped farm of 160 acres. He is also known locally as a breeder of Durham cattle. Mr. Dowd is independent in politics.
J. D. LEIGH, one of the men who are giving tone and character to the agricultural interests of Dellona Township, has spent nearly all the years of his manhood in Sauk County, and has founded a place that satisfies most of his ambitions and his ideals of a home and place of business.
Mr. Leigh was born in Wales Township, Erie County, New York, in 1854, son of Charles and Miranda (Pease) Leigh. His father came from England in boyhood and was married in New York State. On coming west he first settled in Dane County, Wisconsin, and in February, 1880, located in Dellona Township of Sank County. He was a prosperous agriculturist and died in February, 1901, in advanced years. The widowed mother passed away August 4, 1906.
J. D. Leigh grew up as a farmer, acquired a common school educa- tion, and is now the prosperous owner of 280 acres of land in Sauk County. He does general farming and has also bred and raised Jersey cattle for dairying purposes. Mr. Leigh is an active republican in poli- tics. In 1897 he married Miss Ida Crosier, daughter of J. W. Crosier.
MICHAEL GLEASON has been numbered among the successful farmers of Dellona Township for over thirty years, and is today the fortunate possessor of a fine farm with all the modern improvements and has a home and family who do credit to his name.
Mr. Gleason was born at Lyndon, in Juneau County, Wisconsin, January 13, 1861, a son of Patrick and Catherine (Quinn) Gleason. His parents came from County Clare, Ireland, in 1859, and were early settlers in this section of Wisconsin. His father died in 1882 and his mother in 1890. They had a family of seven children: Patrick, who married Bridget Griffin; May, who married Ed Murphy; Annie, unmar- ried ; John, whose wife was Agnes Collins; Michael; Thomas and Cath- erine, both unmarried.
Michael Gleason grew up on a farm, and through his own efforts has acquired his present place in Dellona Township of 160 acres. He pur- sues general farming and stock raising. In politics he is an active democrat.
In 1885 Mr. Gleason married Bridget McHugh, daughter of Francis McHugh. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason have five children: Mary, now the wife of Turner Uside and living in Tacoma, Washington ; Francis, Agnes, Roy and Irene, all unmarried and still at home. These children were educated in the local district and the high school.
1124
HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY
F. J. HENRICHS has been a resident of Sauk County over thirty years, and coming to this country an obscure and poor German youth, has steadily progressed by industry and thrift until he is now proprietor of one of the fine farms in Dellona Township.
He was born in Germany, August 1, 1858, a son of John and Marie (Meyer) Henrichs. He grew up and was educated in the old country and in 1884 arrived in Sauk County, first settling in Reedsburg Town- ship. Later he bought the place he now owns, comprising 220 acres, in Dellona Township. That farm has responded to his efforts as an agri- culturist and its many improvements are practically all the fruit of his enterprise and hard work. He is both a farmer and stock raiser.
Mr. Henrichs married Maria Gade. Their children are: William, who married Alwene Neimann, of Baraboo; Dora, wife of C. Farber, of Reedsburg; Edward, unmarried; Ella, wife of Herman Schuette, of Lime Ridge; and Hugo, unmarried. The children were all given good advantages at home and in the local public schools. Mr. Henrichs is a republican in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church.
JOSEPH J. WEITZEL has been a resident of Bear Creek Township since 1893, in which year he located on 163 acres. This hardly constituted a farm at that time, certainly not in the modern sense, and in the past twenty-four years Mr. Weitzel has expended a tremendous amount of personal energy and of time and means in its clearing and development. He has now a place which to a large degree satisfies even his particular and critical standards, and is regarded as one of the fine farms of the township. Mr. Weitzel conducts a dairy of about twenty-eight cows.
He was born in Richland County, Wisconsin, September 23, 1863, a son of John and Catherine (Dick) Weitzel. His father was born in Ger- many and his mother at Waukesha, Wisconsin. They were married in Keesville Church in Bear Creek Township in 1862. The father was a well known citizen of Sauk County and died here February 22, 1917, while the mother passed away October 18, 1914. Their children were : Joseph J., Mary, Louise, Edward, Julia, John, Clara and Winnie.
Joseph J. Weitzel married Susan Smyth, daughter of Peter and Mar- garet (Quigley) Smyth of Bear Creek Township. Mr. Weitzel is a dem- ocrat in politics, a member of the Catholic Church. He has served on the school board of his home locality.
W. D. BIBLE is one of the most prosperous farmers of Ironton Town- ship, and both he and his family have long been identified with this com- munity. His maternal grandfather Carr was the first settler in the town- ship, and the valley where the farm is situated is named in his honor Carr Valley.
Wilbert D. Bible is a son of George W. and Esther M. (Carr) Bible. His father was a native of Tennessee and his mother of Wisconsin. George W. Bible fought throughout the Civil war as a Union soldier, and is now living at Reedsburg at the venerable age of eighty-one. His wife passed away in May, 1890. They had a large family of children named as follows: Wilbert D .; Addie of Baraboo; Frank O. of Chippewa Falls; Charles E. of Downing, Wisconsin ; Mary E. of Ironton : Emma B. of North Freedom ; Walter L. of Lime Ridge; and George E. of Chippewa
1125
HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY
Falls. Addie is the wife of Frank W. Cleveland of Baraboo; Frank O. married Rose Heneritte of Ironton Township; Charles E. married Adell Conklin of Lime Ridge; Mary E. is the wife of Alfred J. Blakeslee of Ironton ; Emma B. married George W. Davies, of Spring Green, present superintendent of schools of Sauk County; Walter L. married Elsa M. Bohn of Lime Ridge; and George E. married Myrtle Bohn, daughter of C. Bohn of Lime Ridge.
W. D. Bible was born in Ironton Township, and has always lived on the farm where he now carries on his industry as a practical agriculturist. He bought this place from his father on November 4, 1901. Altogether he owns 196 acres and conducts it as a general farming and stock raising proposition, with a herd of dairy cows.
Mr. Bible married December 1, 1883, Nellie Cleveland, daughter of Henry and Angeline Cleveland. Their daughter, Edna Esther, is the wife of Lee Matthews and they have one little daughter, June, born August 23, 1917. Mr. Matthews is the son of William and Amy (Smith) Matthews of Sauk County, Wisconsin.
W. L. BIBLE, whose skill and attainments as a doctor of dental surgery have brought him a large patronage, is a native of Sauk County and is established in practice at Lime Ridge in Ironton Township.
Doctor Bible was born in that township September 24, 1880, a son of George W. and Esther M. (Carr) Bible. His father was a native of Tennessee and his mother of Wisconsin. Walter L. Bible grew up in Sank County, acquired his education in the local public schools and in 1906 graduated from the Northwestern University School of Dentistry at Chicago. He at once returned to his home locality and with offices at Lime Ridge has built up a most successful patronage. He was born on his father's farm in Ironton Township, and his environment was that of the country until he was twenty-one years of age.
Doctor Bible married Elsa M. Bohn, daughter of R. L. and Belle (Cushman) Bohn of Lime Ridge. Mrs. Bible has the following brothers and sisters: Otto Bohn of Lime Ridge; Mrs. Nellie Kamps of Marsh- field, Wisconsin ; Mrs. Nina Hall of Livingston, Alabama ; Mrs. Eva Ful- ler of Reedsburg; Alta Bohn of Lime Ridge; Clarence of York, Pennsyl- vania, now serving in the United States Army; Harvey, also serving in the United States Army ; Blanche; Carl and Lucile, all of whom live at Lime Ridge.
FREDERICK KOENIG, now seventy-five years of age, and a retired resi- dent of Washington Township, has been identified with the farming interests and the civic affairs of Sauk County for over forty years. He won his prosperity in Sauk County, and is extremely loyal to the county and its people.
Mr. Koenig was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1842, son of Henry and Caroline (Mueller) Koenig. His mother died in 1867 and his father in 1863.
Reared and educated in his native country, Frederick Koenig eame to America in 1874 at the age of thirty-two. For a time he was in Illinois, but later in the same year came to Sauk County and soon acquired his.
1126
HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY
first interest in the lands of Washington Township. He proved an in- dustrious and energetic farmer and gradually built up the homestead whose fruit he now enjoys.
On November 17, 1878, Mr. Koenig married Fredericka Rambow, daughter of William and Wilhelmina Rambow of Brandenburg, Ger- many. Mr. and Mrs. Koenig have only one child, Ida. She was married March 9, 1911, to Mr. Emil Kappen, son of Rudolph and Bertha Kappen of Ironton Township, Sauk County. Mr. Kappen is now active manager of the homestead farm, which contains eighty well tilled and fertile acres. They operate the farm as a dairy proposition, have about fourteen milch cows and altogether about seventeen head of good cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Kappen have three sons: Alvin, aged five; Arthur, aged four; Everett, aged about two years, and their only daughter, Alma, died in infancy.
Frederick Koenig is a republican in politics and is an active member of the Lutheran Church.
FRANK MCCARVILLE, a native of Sauk County and member of one of its oldest families, was blessed with health and strength and with the enterprise that enables any man to make the best of his circumstances and opportunities. He has employed these advantages to help himself and help his community, and is numbered among the ablest farmers and citizens of Bear Creek Township.
Mr. MeCarville was born in Bear Creek Township May 1, 1863, a son of James and Julia McCarville. His parents came from Ireland in 1847 and in that year, before Wisconsin became a state, located in the wilderness of Bear Creek Township, where they began the development and improvement of a wilderness tract of eighty acres. The father was prospered in his endeavors and subsequently acquired 200 acres more, all of which he saw well cleared and improved before his death which occurred in October, 1910. His wife passed away in 1874. Their chil- dren were: John, deceased; Daniel, deceased ; Frank; Catherine; Delia ; and Mamie.
Frank McCarville has spent all his life in the locality where he was born, and as a boy he attended the local public schools. About the time he married in November, 1891, he settled on his present farm, where he now owns 340 acres. Some of this land was improved and cleared by his own hands, and any part of it is now worth several times what he paid for it. Mr. McCarville conducts general farming operations, keeps about sixty head of livestock, is a breeder of Holstein cattle, and runs a dairy of thirty-nine cows. Mr. McCarville is a democrat in politics, belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and he and his family worship in the Catholic Church.
On November 27, 1891, he married Julia Farley, daughter of John and Margaret (Dwyer) Farley. Mr. and Mrs. McCarville have not only enjoyed prosperity in a material sense but they take much credit them- selves for the fine family of children who have grown up or are growing up within their home. These children named in order of birth are : Genevieve, Moniea, Bessie, Rae, Viola, Loretta, Camilla, Marguerite, Bernadine, Vivian, Madeline and James.
1127
HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY
WILLIAM MIHLBAUER. One of the best farm homes in La Valle Town -. ship, and one that contributes its share to the dairy industry of Sauk County, is that of William Mihlbauer, one of the young and progressive agriculturists of this section.
He was born on the old homestead in La Valle Township April 3, 1874, a son of Philip and Mary (Eder) Mihlbauer. The father was born in Germany in 1843 and was about fourteen years of age when his parents. came to Sauk County and settled in the wilderness. The maternal grand- parents Adam and Barbara Eder were also German people and identified themselves with Sauk County in early times. They settled on the farm where Frank Appel now lives and both of them spent the rest of their days there.
Philip Mihlbauer grew up in Sauk County, married here and his first wife passed away in 1877 leaving three children, George, Susie and William. He afterwards married Kate Salzenbarger, and the children of that union were: Pauline, wife of George Gardner; Mattie, Edward, Hilda, Wendell, Annie, Laurie, John and Anthony, the last three being deceased. The mother of these children passed away in 1914, and Mr. Philip Mihlbauer is now living retired at the age of seventy-five on the old farm.
William Mihlbauer was three years of age when his mother died. He. grew up on the home place, secured his education in the local schools, and from the first has been identified in a special manner with. the agricul- tural industry. In 1904 he bought a farm of sixty acres, including the site of his present residence, and later bought eighty acres of woodland. He has since sold seventeen acres so that his farming operations are now conducted on 123 acres representing a most complete and well managed farm. He has erected some good buildings, including a good home in 1912. He farms the land to the staple crops of this region and raises: considerable stock, his dairy consisting of about twelve graded cows. In matters of politics Mr. Mihlbauer is a democrat and in religious faith is a Catholic.
June 1, 1904, he married Miss Lizzie Leicher. Mrs. Mihlbauer is also a native of La Valle Township, where she was born in 1887, a daughter of Lawrence and Bena Leicher. Her parents were early settlers in Sauk County and her father died here in 1898 and her mother in 1913. They had seven children named Joseph, Annie, Rose, William, Matilda, Eliza- beth (Mrs. Mihlbauer), and Gertrude. The son William died at the age. of twenty-six and Gertrude is deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Mihlbauer are the parents of four children. Paul, the oldest, is deceased, and the other three who constitute the family circle- are Emery, Emeline and Leonard.
ANTHONY OLSON. . Among the men who have borne the hard work of clearing and establishing farm homes in Bear Creek Township, one is Anthony Olson, owner and proprietor of one of the leading dairy and general farms of his community.
Mr. Olson was born in Norway June 7, 1850, son of Hans and Matilda (Gilbertson) Olson. On the 4th of July, 1856, the Olson family arrived in Dane County, Wisconsin, but three years later moved to Iowa County Vol. II-36
.
1128
HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY
in this state, where the father bought forty acres of new land. Hans Olson was a very industrious and capable pioneer, and before his death owned 280 acres. He passed away March 12, 1908, and his widow is still living at the age of ninety-two. Anthony is the only survivor of their four children, his brothers and sister having been Louis, Albert and Caroline.
Anthony Olson grew up and received his education in Wisconsin and was well trained as a farmer under the direction of his father. He came to Bear Creek Township and bought his present farm in the spring of 1904. He owns 300 acres, and eighty acres of that were cleared under his immediate supervision. He has a splendid group of building improve- ments including barns, silo and a comfortable home. He keeps on the average seventy head of livestock and has a dairy of thirty-seven cows. His home occupies a rather historic site, the ground having been occu- pied in early times by an old grist mill which ground the grain for many of the pioneer settlers of this community. Mr. Olson is a republican in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church.
On April 11, 1872, he married Miss Dina Nelson. They have reared a large family of children, namely : Martin; Nicholas; Samuel ; Henry, deceased ; Albert ; Louis ; Caroline; Augusta ; and Christopher.
DATE DUE
MAR 0 1 1908.
MAR 0 2 1996
MAY 1 3 1936
SEP 0 2 1998
DEMCO, INC. 38-2971
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY 3 1197 20894 6431
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.