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dealing he has seenred the confidence of the community in which he dwells.
Mr. Scheitz was married near Buffalo C'ity, Wisconsin, March 22, 1886, to Lonise, daugh- ter of John J. and Anna ( Matzinger) Miller, natives of Switzerland. Her father was born in the eanton and city of Schaffhausen, May 14, 1814, and died at Alma, Wisconsin, Oc-| tober 25, 1891. Her mother was born in the parish of Rudlingen, in 1821, and died near Buffalo City, Wisconsin, October 30, 1879. For many years her father was extensively ' Territory of Dakota in the fall of 1850, re- siding, there about a year and a half and then returned to Madison, Wisconsin, and thence to his present location.
engaged in farming operations. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had twelve children, namely: Simon, Lizzie, Anna, Jacob, Lena, Margaret, Alexander, Mary, Louisa, Barbara, Alexander (2), and Caroline. All are living with the exception of Lizzie, who died in May, 1556, and the first Alexander.
Mr. Seheitz was formerly a Republican, but since he settled in Wisconsin has affili- ated with the Democratic party. Ile and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.
ELVIN CHAMBERLAIN has been a well-known resident of the town of Hale, Trempealeau county, since 1552. when he settled on his present farm on sec- tion 12. Ile was born in Wyoming county, New York, May 5. 1546, a son of James L. Chamberlain, a native of Cattarangus county, New York. In 1859, James L. Chamber- lain emigrated with his family to Rock county, Wisconsin, where he now lives. Melvin Chamberlain is one of a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. he being the eldest of the four sons. His boy- hood and early manhood were spent in Wis- consin, and in 1861, at the age of fifteen. he enlisted in Company F, Thirteenth Wisconsin
served three years. After the expiration of his term he re-enlisted-becoming a member of Company K, United States Volunteers. Ile was in active service all the time he was in the army and his health was very much broken during his long service. His final discharge from the army took place at Ehnira, New York, after which he continued for some time in that State and then went to Michigan, where he had relatives living. Returning finally, however. to Wisconsin. he went to the
While living in Dakota he was married to Mrs. Congdon, nee Olive Woodworth, and they have three interesting children: Maud, Pearl and Melvin. to brighten their home. Ile and family are connected with the United Brethren Church, of which he is a minister, and are honored and esteemed by all who know them. In his political views he is a Republican. Mr. Chamberlain's farm. which is one of the finest in this seetion, contains eighty acres of choice land, which he has brought to' an excellent state of cultivation.
RANK REUTER, of Wanmandee, Wis- consin, is one of the prosperous young farmers of Buffalo county.
Mr. Renter was born in Floyd county. Indi- ana, March 25, 1860, son of Michael and Eva (Seipel) Renter. The elder Mr. Reuter was born in Bavaria, in 1817, and his wife. also a native of that country, was born October s. 1828. A farmer by occupation, he came to this country in 1846, located in Floyd county, Indiana. and there engaged in agricultural pursuits. He made his home at that place Volunteer Infantry, in whieb command he |until 1865. when he sold out, came to Buffalo
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county, Wisconsin, and purchased a farm of Lonis Weivers in Wanmandee township, 160 aeres on section> 14 and 15, and eighty acres on sections 17 and 13. This was partially improved. In 1871 he bought another eighty on section 15, making 320 acres in one body. Ile built his barn in 1867, and his dwelling in 1874. lle continued to reside there and cultivate his farm up to the time of his death, making his property one of the finest in the valley. To him and his wife eleven children were born, whose names are as fol- lows: Matilda, who married Charles Ruppert; Magdaline, wife of Adam Kline; Mary, wife of Charles Schmitkencht; Katherine, wife of Robert Grunewald; John, who married Anna Giesen: Frank; Joseph, who married Therisa Gass; Rosa, wife of Adamn Snyder; Jose- phine, wife of George Brenner; Elizabeth, wife of John Beisang; and Louise, who died young. Mr. Reuter was in politics a Demo- erat. Both he and his wife were devoat members of the Catholic Church. His death occurred May 30, 1875. Mrs. Renter is still living, and makes her home at West Superior with her daughters, Rosa and Elizabeth.
Frank Reuter, the subject of our sketch, was reared on the farm, assisting his father and attending the district schools as oppor- tunity offered. From the time of his father's death until 1890, he and his brothers con- ducted the farm, under the administration of his mother. At that time he purchased the farm and has since been condueting the same, having now under cultivation 240 aeres. Among his stock are some fine specimens of half breed shorthorns and some Clydesdale horses. He conducts a small dairy. Among other improvements he has made since buy- ing the home place, is an addition to the barn.
Mr. Renter was married at Glencoe, June 12. 1553, to Lena, oldest daughter of Adam
and Anna (Prunk) Ziegweid. Her parents were born in Prussia. Her father, a shoe- maker by trade, eame to this country in 1845, and her mother came in 1848.
They were married in Sauk county, Wis- eonsin, in 1855, and are now living at Glen- coe. Other members of their large family are Frank, Anna, now Mrs. R. Wochnsack; Adam, Leonard, Mary, wife of Louis Barth; William, Amelia, Bertha, Secelia and Anthon. Mr. Ziegweid is engaged in agricultural pur- suits.
Mr. and Mrs. Renter's union has been blessed with four children: Adelade, born April 3, 1884; Ignatius, August 30, 1885; Matilda, November 19, 1886; and Elsie, March 17, 1890.
ON. ROBERT A. ODELL, the present Judge of Trempealeau county, was born in Essex county, New York, October 11, 1835, a son of Robert Ferris Odell, who was born in the same county in 1805. Mr. Odell's ancestors were among the early settlers of the colony of New York, and were of Scotch origin. The great-grandfather of our subject came to this country from Scotland previous to the Revolutionary war, and fought in the Continental army in the struggle of the colo- nies for freedom. This original ancestor the genealogy of the family says was twice mar- ried, having one son by his first wife, and several by his second. The son by the first marriage was the grandfather of Judge Odell, and was also named Robert A. Ile removed from the vicinity of Albany and settled in Essex county. Ile was a soldier in the war of 1812, and fought in the celebrated battle of Plattsburg. lle removed to Essex county about 1800, settling on what was known as Morgan's Patent, which comprised about
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4,000 acres. He was the father of four sons, the eldest of whom was Robert Ferris Odell, the father of our subject. The latter was a carpenter and builder by trade, but about the time he reached middle age he became an iron manufacturer, an occupation he followed many years. The mother of Judge Odell, Harriet (Lobdell) Odell, daughter of Levi Lobdell, of Cherry valley, New York, was of Dutch ancestry, and died when her son was in his seventh year. Later the father re- married, by which union he had twelve chil- dren, seven sons and five daughters. Ile is still living at this writing, a resident of Cedar Falls, Iowa. The children are all living but two.
The subject of this sketch, the fourth child and third son, spent his early life in attend- ing school, and in assisting his father in his iron manufactory. In the spring of 1858 he came West, going first to Le Claire, Scott county, Iowa, where he engaged in teaching. In October. 1859, he came to Galesville, Trempealean county, Wisconsin, for the purpose of settling the business of a mercan- tile concern at that place. IIe did not then expect to remain permanently, intending to return to Iowa when his mission should be accomplished, but in the meantime was in- dneed to purchase an interest in the store. and continued in trade until 1865. After an interval of two years, in 1867, he again en- gaged in business, taking charge of the mer- cantile house of Wilson Davis, at Galesville, in which capacity he continued about eight years, after which he engaged in merehandis- ing with A. H. Kneeland. In the fall of 1876 Judge Odell was elected to the office ot Clerk of the Cirenit Court of Trempealean connty, in which he continued for the period of ten years, and since then he has been in the office of County Judge. In 18SS he was appointed to the office to succeed Judge M. Mulligan,
and was elected to the office in the spring of 1589, and is now serving his fourth year.
Judge Odell was married at Galesville, in September, 1863, to Miss Emma Frances Clark, daughter of William P. Clark, one of the well known pioneers of the county, who has the honor of 'erecting its first flouring- mill. He was a native of Vermont, and emi- grated from near St. Albans, in that State, to Waukesha county, Wisconsin, and thence to Trempealean county. His death occurred in 1873. Mrs. Odell was born in Waukesha county, and they have one son, Ross Clark, born in Galesville in 1867. He has been for a number of years engaged with Mons An- derson, one of the leading merchants of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Judge Odell was be- reaved of his wife by death in the spring of 1878, and in August, 1582, he was married to Mrs. Lovisa Newton Boardman, a native of Chautauqua county, New York. She was married iu La Crosse, in 1563, to Arthur Boardman, also a native of that county, and 1873 they went to California, where he died. Several years later Mrs. Boardman returned to Wisconsin, and her father, Albion Board- man. is now a resident of La Crosse. Judge Odell is one of the leading citizens of White- hall, and is well kuown throughout Trempea- lean and adjoining counties as an enterprising and progressive citizen. Politically, he is a Republican, and ever takes a commendable interest in whatever tends to promote the moral and intellectual growth of the commu- nity in which he lives.
EMIL G. BUCHHOLZ, a harness man- ufacturer and boot and shoe dealer of Whitehall, was born in West Prussia, Germany. January 13, 1551. where he was reared and learned the trade of harnes -- mnak-
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ing. Ilis father, William Buchholz, still | in many of the issues of the day, and may lives in his native land. The subject of this , now be regarded as an independent politi- cian. He is a prominent Odd Fellow, being a member of Trempealeau Valley Lodge, No. 249, in which he has ocenpied all the chairs. He also belongs to Colfax Encampment, No. 776, Oliphant, Pennsylvania; is a member of the Grand Lodge of the State, and has occupied the offices of District Deputy Grand Master. Mr. Buchholz is a successful busi- ness man, and a worthy and respected citi- zen.
sketch came to America in 1868, and atter landing in New York went directly to llack- ensack, New York, and worked at farming for a few months; next he went to Port Jar- vis, New York, where he was engaged in harness-making and railroading; in 1871 he went to Seranton, Pennsylvania, and engaged in working at his trade; then to Oliphant and worked at coal mining, after which he traveled through New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. From the latter State he went to Chicago, thence to Prairie du Chien, - Wisconsin, and in 1876 came to Trempealeau county, and worked at his trade as a journey- ILLIAM G. MACLACIILAN, A. B., M. D., is the physician and surgeon of the village of Ettrick, Trempealeau county, where he located Semtember 5, 1890. lle was born in Ontario, Canada, and re- ceived his literary education at Toronto Uni- versity, graduating in 1879. In his literary course he took honors in the natural sciences, having in view the study of medicine, but his eyes became weakened by close applica- tion to study, and he was compelled to modify his plans for the future to some ex- tent. Ile accordingly became head master man in a harness shop at Whitehall. After working at this place for a time he went to Ilale township, where he married Miss Cath- erine Malony, a native of Massachusetts, and of Irish parentage. She came with her par- ents to Adams county, Wisconsin, when a child. and to Trempealean county when twelve years of age. Soon after his marriage Mr. Buchholz went to the village of Osseo and started a harness shop, but after remaining there two and a half years he returned to Ilale township and purchased a farm and engaged in farming. In 1882 he again : of a high school, preparing students for teach- moved to Whitehall and established his ; ing law, medicine, engineering and the arts. present business.
Mr. and Mrs. Buchholz have five children, 'the study of anatomy as his somewhat im- three sons and two daughters: William, Maggie, James, Mary and Francis. The father is numbered among the intelligent and progressive citizens of Whitehall, and though of foreign birth he believes emphat- ically in American institutions. He is a friend of education, and takes a commend- able interest in whatever tends to promote the best interests of the community in which he lives. Politically, he was formerly a
But in the meantime he gave such attention to paired eyesight permitted. Recovering his health he renewed his medical studies, and in 1886 entered the medical department of the Michigan University at Ann Arbor, at which he graduated in 1890. The last year of his course at the university he did hospi- tal work, and also practiced for a short time near the city of Detroit before coming to Wisconsin.
Dr. MacLachlan was married in Canada, to Republican, but now differs from that party , Miss Christina Forrester, university under-
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graduate. He was deprived of his wife by death, leaving one daughter.
The father of the subject of this sketch. Hugh MacLachlan, a native of Canada, is now living at Gary, South Dakota, where he owns a large farm. The Doctor's paternal grandfather was a native of Scotland, as was also his wife. They emigrated to the State of New York where all their children were born except Hugh. On his mother's side the Doctor is descended from an early Vir- ginia family: the original American ancestor emigrated from England and became a Vir- ginia planter. Later the Virginia branch of the family took np their residence in Canada. The subject of this sketch, the only son of his parents, has a sister, married and living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Another sister died in Dakota, at the age of twenty-two years, soon after the family removed there from Canada. The Doctor is a well educated gentleman, both his literary and medical attainments being of a high order. Though
bnt a short time established at Ettrick, he | sixty churches and twenty pastors. HIe, being has gained the confidence of the people by his intelligence and upright bearing, and is highly esteemed by all, both socially and professionally.
EV. JOHAN HIELSEM has been the efficient pastor of St. Pauly (Lutheran) Church at Strum, Trempealean county. since 1877. The church building was partial- ly built and enclosed, and services had been held in it for a time when he came. Under his administration the church was completed, and he also built the present fine parsonage in 1880. The congregation of this church now numbers abont 100 familes, and every- thing pertaining to the church is in a pros perons condition. Sunday-school is held at
the church and at various schoolhouses within the limits of his congregation. Paro- chial schools are also held at the various schoolhouses between the terms of public schools. Born in Norway, October 7, 1841. Mr. Helsem was educated in his native coun- try and came to the United States in 1968; was a student at the Augsburg Theological Seminary at Marshall in Dane county for a time, and was ordained in 1870. His first church was at Colfax, in Dunn county, going thence to Chippewa Falls, where he was pas- tor for five years, coming to Strum from the latter place. But the immediate charge of his present church by no means includes all the labor and responsibility that rests upon the pastor, Mr. Helsem. He has also charges at Pigeon Falls, in Trempealeau county; Pleasant valley, in Eau Claire, and also one in the town of Dramman, in the same county and one at Northfield, Jackson county, and another at Fairchild. He also has charge of the Ean Clairie distriet, which includes abont chairman of this listrict and " visitator," is expected to visit each congregation once in three years at least. The religious body to which Mr. Helsem belongs is known as the United Norwegian (Lutheran) Church of the United States, which includes over 900 con- gregations and about 300 ministers.
Mr. Helsem was married at Red Wing. Minnesota. in 1868, and has three children. one daughter and two sons, viz .: Landrik Palmer Elvin, Hersleb Arup and Louise Helene.
R USSELL BOWERS, the popular Post master at Hamlin. Trempealean county. is one of the pioneers of this county. Ile settled where he now lives June 22.
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1-57. Ile was born in the town of Line, Jeffer- four boys and fonr girls, viz .: James, who is son county. New York. in 1825. son of now in Dakota; Fred. Adeline, and George, all at home; Jennie, wite of Frank Loller, a resident of Sumner; Loretta, the wife of James Donahue, a prominent lumberman of Ean Claire; Charles and Elsie. They lost four children in early life. During their long residence in Trempealean county, Mr. and Mrs. Bowers have ever possessed the respect and confidence of their fellow-citizens. Mr. Russell Bowers has had the postoffice where he now resides for the past thirty-five years. Zachariah Bowers (also a native of the State of New York) and Adeline (Hubbard) Bowers. They were the parents of five children, two suns and three daughters. Russell Bowers ! lived in his native State until he was about eighteen years of age when the family moved to Wisconsin and located in Waukesha county. From Waukesha county they went to Dane county, and in 1549 Mr. Bowers, Sr .. started with a company overland for California and reached that country safely, but lost his life in San Francisco in 1857. The manner of his death was never known, his body having been found on the street. The mother died in Dane county in 18ss. Russell Bowers was married to Rebecca Chase, who was born in the town of Stowe, Summit county, Ohio; they removed from Ohio to Illinois and thence
AMUEL S. LUCE, of Galesville, a pioneer of Trempealeau county, was born at Stowe, La Moille county, Ver- mont, in 1919, where he was reared to the to Dane county, Wisconsin, and when Mr. ocenpation of farming. His father was and Mrs. Bowers came to Trempealean county Chester Luce and his paternal grandfather was Zimri Luce, a native of Martha's Vine- yard and an early settler of Stowe. The sub- ject of this sketch in early life learned the trade of builder and architect, which he fol- lowed for many years, and superintended the construction of many important buildings, both in the East and the West. they were accompanied by the parents of Mrs. Bowers, who settled on an adjoining farm. The parents of Mrs. Bowers removed to Barron county from Trempealean county, where the father died, and the mother is still living, making her home with her youngest son. Joy II. Chase. near Traverse City, Michi- gan, at the advanced age of ninety-one years.
Mrs. Bowers is one of four children, two boys and two girls, viz .: Salome, wife of John Warner, of Indiana: David, the eldest son, was in the Twenty fifth Wisconsin Regiment, and was killed at a battie in Georgia; Joy II. also served all through the war, and now lives in Michigan: Mrs. Bowers is the next in are.
Russell Bowers enlisted in 1564 in Com- pany K. Thirty-sixth Wisconsin Regiment, and served his country loyally and well until the close of the war.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowers have eight children.
Ile was married December 7, 1847, to Miss Hannah Gale, a daughter of Peter Gale. Her paternal grandfather, also named Peter Gale, was an early settler of Barre, Vermont. Mrs. Luce is a sister of the Hon. George Gale, the founder of Galesville. In the fall of 1857 Mr. Luce came to Galesville and was followed by his family to the same place in the fall of the same year. Ile fol- lowed the occupation of architect and bnilder for a considerable length of time, planning and erecting the residence of Judge Gale and also the university, which he began in 1859. lIc established the Galesville Transcript in
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1860, -- one of the first newspapers published
sons and two daughters. The former are in Trempealeau county, -- which he condneted | William, Robert S. and Elmer. Jennie, the eldest daughter, is the wife of Marshall Snell, of Tacoma, Washington. Mr. Snell is a lawyer by profession. The second daughter is Gracie.
till 1865. In the fall of that year he was elected County Superintendent of Schools, a position he held four years. He was also connected with the publication of the Inde- pendent for a long time, and owned this paper in connection with his son, Walter S., for ten years. In 1876, in connection with his wife, he published a volume of poems, and in 1881 he published another volume, called "Echoes of the Past;" and six years later appeared "The Woodman."
Mr. and Mrs. Luce have two sons and a daughter: Flora F. is the wife of William V. Darwin, of Durand: George S. is a publisher, as is Walter S., their younger son, the latter being publisher and proprietor of the La Crosse Daily Press.
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ILLIAM McDONAH resides on sec- tion 27, in the town of Trempealeau, where he settled in 1853. Ile entered, two years previous to that time, 160 acres of land, which includes the site of the present village of Centerville. On that land he located and lived for a number of years, when he settled where he now resides. Ile was born in the town of Derby, Orleans county, Vermont. The subject of this sketch came to La Crosse county, Wisconsin, and : tions. He was a personal friend of Presi- worked for James Giltillan for some time. dent Arthur, and is intimately associated The first land he owned was that which he entered as above mentioned. lle has always been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and has 550 acres of land, being one of the larger farmers of the town of Trempealeau.
He was married in Oshkosh, to Sarah A. Cusick, who died May 14, 1585. His second wife was Clara Sanders, who died in 1889. By his first marriage five children were born. three
R. MOSES W. WATERMAN, of Four- tain City, Wisconsin, was born in New York city, September 12, 1850. Ile is a son of Sigismund Waterman, an eminent physician of New York, and Helena (Wolf) Waterman. His father was born February 22, 1814, at Bruck, Bavaria, and came to the United States some time in the '30s. He studied in Germany, and after coming to this country entered Yale College and grad- uated in that institution. Ile subsequently became a professor of languages there and remained as such for eight or ten years. He then removed to New York city and estab- lished a medical practice, which he has since continued. He is one of the most dis- tinguished physicians of that city. He served as police surgeon for thirty years, at the end [ of which time he was retired on halt pay. He was one of the founders of the home for the aged and infirm of the order of B'nai B'rith at Yonkers. During the war he was draft surgeon, and also hell other local posi-
with many of the leading publie men of our country, including Vice- President Morton. Ile is still actively engaged in his pro- fessional duties, and says he " wants to die in the harness." Ile is noted for his researches in spectroscopie analysis. and has written extensively on that science. His wife died in New York in 1854. They were the parents of seven children. namely: Kate, who was
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the wife of G. Bergman, is now deceased; Moses W .. B. Frank, Rosa, who married Louis Bock. a merehant of New York: Beulah, now Mrs. Henry Meisel; and Nebem and Jennie, who died in infancy. The Doc- tor is an enthusiastic Republican, and has taken an active part in political matters, but has never consented to be a candidate for offiee.
Dr. Moses W. Waterman was reared in New York, where he received his primary education. Ile entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York in 1865, and graduated in 1571, receiving his diploma two months before he was of age. After his graduation he went to the State Hospital. then under Dr. Hammond, and studied nervons diseases, remaining there two years and a half. At the end of that time he came West and was appointed surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and while on his trip was taken sick at Buffalo with typhoid fever. Before he recovered his place was filled by another appointment. After wan- dering abont for a time he finally located in Fountain City, February 5, 1873, and here opened an office for the practice of his pro- fession. Ile has lived here ever since, with the exception of the years from 1579 to 1885. During that time he was Deputy Coroner of New York three years, and for two years had charge of the Aged Infirmary Home at Yon- kers. Hle then made a tour of the West, visiting the Pacific States and Territories, accompanied by his family, and after a sojourn of five months again took up his abode in Fountain City, and here resumed his prac- tice, which he has since continued with flat- tering success. He has been Health Officer since he located here, with the exception of one term, and is at present a member of the Board of Aldermen.
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