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Lewis G. Kellogg received his early education in the public schools of Ripon, is a graduate of a local high school and completed his studies by a course at Ripon College. After he laid aside his books he settled on a farm which his father had given him and has been active in its management and cultivation until the present time. He has developed his holdings extensively along modern and scientific lines, has done much to raise the standard of construction in farm
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buildings and is always interested in every new labor-saving device on the market pertaining to agriculture.
Mr. Kellogg has always been actively interested in the welfare of his native city and is prominent in educational circles. He served for six years as school commissioner and for four years as clerk of the school board. He has never lost his interest in educational affairs but has of late years been more prominent in political circles. He was elected mayor on the democratic ticket in 1907 to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Weil. His service in this capacity was so efficient that in 1908 he was reelected. He has held the office continuously since that time and was last chosen by the people in April, 1912. Under his administration the affairs of the city of Ripon have progressed along smooth and systematic lines. He always lends his influence to causes and principles which he believes to be just and is well known throughout the city as an honorable and incorruptible official.
On January 28, 1880, Mr. Kellogg was united in marriage to Miss Ida M. Palmiter, a daughter of William and Harriet M. Palmiter, who came from Oneida county, New York, to Wisconsin at an early day. They settled first at Watertown but moved to Fond du Lac county in the early '50s. Mrs. Kellogg was one of a family of two children but her brother died at the age of one year. She received her education at the public and high schools of Ripon and later supplemented this by a course in Ripon College. Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg became the parents of three children. Lela Rose, born November, 1881, lived only seven weeks. Aimee L., who was born in November, 1884, is the wife of Bartholomew Van Der Velde, a prominent attorney of Spokane, Washington. She is a gradu- ate of the Ripon high school and Ripon college and before her marriage was well known in local musical circles as a violinist of remarkable ability. She spent some years before her marriage giving violin lessons and attained an extraordinary degree of success in this occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg's other daughter was Ruth H., who died in Ripon in 1906 at the age of twenty years.
Mr. Kellogg has been for a long period actively interested in the science of horticulture and holds membership in the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. He served as president of this organization for two years and filled the office of treasurer with great ability for twelve years. He is a prominent Mason, holding membership in Ripon Lodge, No. 95, F. & A. M. He has been master and is now high priest of Ripon Chapter, No. 30, R. A. M., and is actively con- nected with the Berlin Commandery, No Io, K. T. He is identified with the Congregational church and has always been interested in religious matters. He has made a record for efficiency and honesty in public office and no breath of scandal has ever marred his career as a politician. He always lends his influence to just and honorable causes and is never swayed by party prejudice. He regards public office not as a means toward personal advancement and gain but as a con- fidence reposed in him by his fellow citizens and he makes it the end and en- deavor of his political life never to be found unworthy of that trust.
JAMES L. FULLER.
Ireland has furnished many capable and efficient citizens to Osceola township among whom must be numbered James L. Fuller, who holds the title to a beautiful farm of two hundred and twenty acres, which is in every way a tribute to his agricultural skill and business ability. He was born in County Kerry in 1847, a son of William and Katherine (Langford) Fuller, who were born, reared and married in the same county and there the father passed away. In 1865, the mother with our subject and his brother Thomas emigrated to the United States to join her other sons and daughters, who were already residents of this country. They
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landed in New York city, coming from there direct to Fond du Lac county, where they established their home.
James L. Fuller was a youth of eighteen years when he came to America with his mother and brother; and has ever since been a resident of Fond du Lac county. They settled in Osceola township and for nine or ten years thereafter he worked out by the month for various farmers in this vicinity. He was am- bitious as well as diligent and thrifty, and although he received but meager wages he ultimately saved enough from his earnings to enable him to buy eighty acres of land, on which had been placed a few crude improvements. This tract was purchased in 1874 and formed the nucleus of his present valuable home- stead. The acquirement of a place of his own seemed to be an incentive to yet closer application and the expenditure of unceasing effort. He is a very practical man and exercised good judgment and intelligence in the development of his property, meeting with a corresponding degree of success, and as a result he was subsequently able to increase his holdings until his farm now comprises two hundred and twenty acres. Much labor and money has been expended in its development during the intervening years, and the result has been well worthy of the effort and it is now numbered among the valuable properties of the township. Everything about the place is in good condition, clearly manifesting the careful supervision and competent management that bespeaks prosperity and brings suc- cess in any line of business. During the period of his ownership Mr. Fuller has transformed this property from practically a wilderness into a highly cultivated farm and an attractive place of residence. He has improved it by the erection of a comfortable house, large barns and ample sheds and outbuildings for the protection of his stock and machinery, while his fields are substantially fenced and his equipment is fully equal to his needs and requirements.
In 1873, Mr. Fuller was married to Miss Ellen Dalton of Eden, a native of Empire, and to them have been born five sons : William Henry; Thomas ; Edward ; John Langford, who married Mary Norges, a daughter of William Norges; and Stephen.
The family are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and belong to St. James Parish at Eden. Mr. Fuller is a democrat in his political views and served as assessor in his township for six years. He is very proud of his farm, as well he may be, and derives great satisfaction from the fact that it has been won through his own effort, as he has made his way alone and fully merits such success as has come to him.
CHARLES BAUDRY.
Charles Baudry, who engages in general farming and stockraising in Eden township, has passed practically his entire life in the immediate vicinity of his present home, his birth occurring in that township on the 21st of May, 1859. His father, John Baudry, was a native of Normandy, France, whence he emi- grated to the United States in early manhood, becoming a resident of Fond du Lac county. He purchased a tract of government land in Eden township, upon which he erected a comfortable house and a substantial barn, and then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, the further improvement and cultivation of his farm claiming his attention for eight years thereafter. He passed away at the early age of thirty-four years, leaving a widow and five children. The mother, whose maiden name was Mary Maurice, was a native of the Isle of Jersey, and a daughter of Lot Angeqie Maurice. The maternal grandfather had resided in Canada for seven years prior to locating in this county, where he passed the remainder of his life. Upon his arrival here he purchased the farm in Eden township, now owned by our subject, which at that time was entirely
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unimproved and covered with a dense growth of timber. Mrs. Baudry, who passed away in 1872, did not long survive her husband, her death also occurring at the age of thirty-four years.
Charles Baudry, who was left an orphan at the age of thirteen years, made his home with his maternal grandparents after the death of his mother. In the acquirement of his education he attended what was then known as Foster's school, which was held in a little log cabin in Eden township in the vicinity of his home. His grandfather early began instructing him in the best practical methods of tilling the fields and caring for the crops, thus qualifying him for the career of an agriculturist, which vocation he has always followed. In 1887 he bought sixty acres of land and began farming on his own account, but it was his ambition to own the old Maurice homestead, which was not only endeared to him through its early associations but was a valuable property, so he gradually purchased the claims of the other heirs and acquired the title to the entire holding. Mr. Baudry is enterprising and progressive in his ideas and during the years of his ownership has greatly improved his farm by the erection of new buildings and the adoption of modern methods in its development. He is prospering in his undertakings, and is numbered among the efficient and substantial citizens of his community. In 1889 Mr. Baudry married Miss Mary Fashant, a native of Minnesota and a daughter of Alexander Fashant. Her parents came from Belgium direct to Fond du Lac when there were but a few houses in the city. They settled on a farm two miles east of Eden, where they lived for ten years. Removing to Minnesota they became pioneers of Wright county in the township of Annandale and there they lived until the mother died. Subsequently Alexander Fashant returned to Wisconsin and died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Baudry. Our subject and his wife are the parents of two children, Eva W. and George. They are devout adherents of the Roman Catholic church and belong to St. Mary's parish. Mr. Baudry leads a life of activity and diligence as is mani- fested by the excellent condition and thriving appearance of his farm, which gives substantial proof of well organized and intelligently directed effort in its development.
JAMES O. ACKERMAN, M. D.
Dr. James O. Ackerman, who passed away on the 25th of August, 1909, was for many years identified with the medical fraternity of Fond du Lac. He was a man of many estimable qualities, prominent among which was his patriot- ism, and he accordingly served the Union valiantly during the greater part of the Civil war, having entered the service early in 1861 and remained at the front until mustered out in 1864.
In qualifying himself for his profession, Dr. Ackerman first graduated from the Detroit Medical College, and later pursued a post-graduate course in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, of which he was also a graduate. He was a man of progressive ideas and studious habits and was always striving to advance the standard of his profession. For many years he made a close study of the drug and liquor habits and did much research work in his efforts to discover an effective and permanent cure for these evils, and at last succeed- ing, devoted much of his time during the latter years of his practice, to this specialty. When electricity began to play such an important part in medical practice, Dr. Ackerman acquired a complete equipment and was one of the first physicians in the city to adopt electricity in the treatment of disease meeting with excellent success in its use. When the Civil war broke out Dr. Ackerman enlisted in Company E. Third Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and served for a year and a half. At the expiration of his period of service he reenlisted this
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time with the Sixth United States Cavalry and served under both Sherman and Custer. He received his discharge on the James river in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1864.
Dr. Ackerman was married on the Ist of October, 1864, at Rochester, New York, to Miss Elizabeth H. Townsend, a daughter of William K. Townsend, a well known criminal attorney of that city, who died February 20, 1882. Three children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Ackerman, a son and two daughters. George W., who is auditor for the Cleveland Cliff Furnace Company of Marquette, Wisconsin, married Helen Sullivan and they have three children, James O., Jessie and John. Mabel after teaching for several years in the public schools accepted a position in the purchasing department of the Soo Railroad at Min- neapolis, where she was employed up to the time of her death on the 26th of March, 1897. Jessie is the wife of Charles E. Brown of Fond du Lac.
Mrs. Ackerman is very attached to animals, in particular to horses and enjoys the possession of two high-bred and valuable ones, of which she is very fond. She is deeply interested in objects of art and has some choice specimens in her home, which is also filled with beautiful and rare plants.
Dr. Ackerman always gave his political allegiance to the republican party, but he was too deeply absorbed in his profession to become active in its affairs, although he was not remiss in the duties of citizenship, and did much to for- ward the moral, intellectual and social welfare of the community.
VALENTINE HILLEBRAND.
Valentine Hillebrand is one of the representative citizens of Eden township, where he owns a valuable farm of one hundred and seventy-three acres and a half interest in the general mercantile business of Flood & Hillebrand at Eden. His life record was begun in a little log cabin on a farm in Polk township, Washington county, this state, on the 16th of September, 1852, his parents being Carl and Amelia (Englebert) Hillebrand. The father, who was a native of Westphalia, Germany, emigrated to America with his wife and eldest daugh- ter Rosa in 1847, coming direct to Washington county, Wisconsin, where he settled on a tract of government land, covered with timber, surrounded by a forest and miles remote from a white settlement. There were more Indians than white men in that section of the state at that period and the woods were filled with wild animals. The prospects were not particularly encouraging or hopeful, but Mr. Hillebrand had come here to establish a home, so he built a rude log cabin and began clearing his land and placing it under cultivation. Some conception of the wildness and desolation can be formed from the state- ment made by Mr. Hillebrand in later years, when he told how he used to have to guard his hogs at feeding time to keep the deer from stealing their corn. Later he sold this place and bought another eighty acres of woodland, which he cleared and cultivated until his death in 1880, at the age of sixty-three. He had long survived the mother, who passed away in 1858. The family of Mr. Hillebrand numbered thirteen children, eight of whom were born of his first marriage. For his second wife he chose Miss Louisa Fischer, and they be- came the parents of five children.
The early years in the life of Valentine Hillebrand were passed on his father's farm in Washington county. The educational advantages of that period in the rural districts were poor and inadequate but he attended the common schools until he was fifteen years of age and then began to learn the black- smith's trade. In 1872, he established a shop of his own at Maxenville, which he operated for three years, and then was located for two years at Kewaskum. At the expiration of that time he removed to Eden, where he continued to
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follow his trade until 1898. In the latter year he disposed of his shop and purchasing his present farm turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. When Mr. Hillebrand came to this farm he had thirty acres which were utterly worth- less on account of stones in the land, but he cleared this tract and has thereon today a fine crop. He had made many improvements on the place during the period of his residence, including the erection of a stable forty by eighty feet, and it is now one of the most valuable and attractive farms in the township. In 1909, he bought the interest of John Flood in the general mercantile business of Flood & Flood at Eden, but he has never been actively identified with the enterprise, being represented in the management of the concern by his son John.
In December, 1874, Mr. Hillebrand was united in marriage to Miss Lena Dapper, a daughter of Andrew Dapper, of Polk township, Washington county, and to them have been born eight children, Charles, Frank, John, William, Joseph, Edward, Katherine and Henry, all of whom are living. The eldest son, Charles, was the first child born in the village of Eden. Mrs. Hillebrand passed away on November 10, 1910, and was buried in the Calvary cemetery at Fond du Lac.
The family are communicants of the Roman Catholic church, and belong to St. Mary's parish, of which Mr. Hillebrand was one of the organizers, hav- ing been the first to advocate the establishment of this church. He has resided in this immediate vicinity for thirty-seven years and has many stanch friends who accord him the esteem and regard his honorable methods and upright business dealings justly entitle him.
SIDNEY STORRS HALL, M. D.
In his successful and useful career as a general medical practitioner, Dr. Sidney Storrs Hall is carrying on the honorable and worthy traditions of his father and grandfather, both of whom spent their lives as practicing physicians. He was born March 1, 1844 in East Bloomfield, New York, and is a son of Dr. Storrs and M. E. (Scribner) Hall. The former was born in Middle Gran- ville, New York, May II, 1814, and practiced his profession at Rosendale, Wisconsin, about 50 years until his death which occurred January 13, 1905. His wife was born in Connecticut on May 1, 1817. She died January 30, 1912. Dr. Storrs Hall was the father of four children: Dr. Sidney Storrs Hall, of this review; William S., engaged in mining in Denver, Colorado, who is in the sixty-sixth year of his age; Charles E., who was born in 1852 and is living in Russell, Kansas; and Ira, whose birth occurred in 1860 and who is now a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The grandparents of our subject were Dr. Ira and Rebecca (Parker) Hall and the former was a practicing phy- sician in Middle Granville, New York.
Dr. Sidney Storrs Hall received his early education in the public schools of Ripon, Wisconsin, and later attended the Fond du Lac high school. After taking one year of a medical course in the University of Michigan, he entered the United States service during the Civil war as surgeon steward in the United States Navy Mississippi squadron. He was present at the surrender of the Kirby- Smith army at Shreveport, Louisiana, and was mustered out at the end of the war with honorable discharge. At the close of the war he finished his medical education at Harvard University graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1867. He practiced at Rosendale, Wisconsin; Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Morrison, Illi- nois, until 1882, when he settled in Ripon-in the general practice of medicine, specializing, however, in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He has attained in the course of his career as a physician an extensive clientage which he built up by his energy, activity and thorough knowledge of his work. He
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has always kept himself abreast of the times by exhaustive reading and by his association with various societies affiliated with his profession. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and is prominent in the affairs of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin. He has been treasurer of the latter organization since 1889 and has done efficient work in this capacity. He also holds membership in the Fond du Lac County Medical Society and in the Brainerd Medical Society, of which he is an ex-president. He is also promi- nent in the affairs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. His cooperation can always be counted upon in every movement looking toward the advancement of the Medical profession and he has done much remarkable work along this line.
On July 14, 1868, Dr. Hall was united in marriage in Rosendale, Wisconsin, to Miss Frances Powell, whose birth occurred August 18, 1848. Her parents were the Rev. John and Mary (Walrath) Powell, the former a prominent min- ister in Rosendale. Rev. and Mrs. John N. Powell were the parents of three children: Frances, the wife of the subject of this sketch; John W., deceased ; and William P., who makes his home at Saginaw, Michigan. Mrs. Hall died February 21, 1902. She was the mother of six children. One died in infancy. John S. married Miss Ruth Nohl and they became the parents of two children : Powell Storrs, aged thirteen; and Elizabeth, aged eleven years. John S. Hall died in 1902 at the age of thirty-one years. Edwin was born in 1873 and is a civil engineer in Chicago. He married Pearl Hendrickson of Manitowoc, Wis- consin, and is the father of two children: Sidney S., who was born in 1904; and Edwin C., whose birth occurred in 1910. Jennie who was born in 1874 took a degree of Master of Arts from Ripon College. She is teaching science in the Ripon high school, and is living at home. Mary was born in 1876, is a graduate of Ripon College and resides with her father in Ripon. Robert S., the youngest of the family, whose birth occurred in 1879 is a civil engineer in New York city. He married Arloine Ayer and has two children, John A., born in 1907, and Dorothy E., whose birth occurred in 191I.
Dr. Hall is a stanch supporter of the republican party and is a firm believer in the principles and policies for which that organization stands. He is well known socially and has many friends in Ripon. He is a member of the Mil- waukee Harvard Club and is a member of the H. S. Eggleston Post, No. 199, G. A. R. He is essentially Protestant in his religious faith but a firm believer in the right of every man to think for himself. Dr. Hall is one of the most prominent practicing physicians of Ripon and his kindly and genial character and his accurate and scientific methods have gained him many clients in a long and useful life.
CHARLES H. PRIEST.
Charles H. Priest, president of the C. H. Priest Fuel Company of Fond du Lac, was born in the state of New York on the 15th of June, 1852. He is the elder of two sons born of the marriage of D. W. C. and Sarah (Joy) Priest, his brother being Edward B. Priest. The parents were also natives of the state of New York, whence they removed in 1858 to Fond du Lac, where the father, who was a lawyer, engaged in the practice of his profession.
Charles H. Priest, who was a child of six years, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to this city, pursued his education in the graded and high schools until he was fifteen years of age, and then took a course in the De Lands Business College, being graduated from that institution three years later. He began earning his living at the age of eighteen, his first position being that of brakeman for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company.
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After serving in this capacity for two years he was made fireman and three years later was put in charge of a construction crew. He held the latter posi- tion for four years and then gave up railroading, locating on a farm which he had purchased, in this county, and turned his attention to agricultural pur- suits. He assiduously applied himself to the improvement and cultivation of his property for the succeeding seventeen years, and at the expiration of that time sold his farm and once more became a resident of Fond du Lac. In 1911, he purchased the fuel business in the conduct of which he is associated with his only son Fayette B., and is meeting with success.
Charles H. Priest married Miss Elvira Brown, a daughter of Fayette Brown of this city, and to them have been born three children, Fayette B., Etna C. and Nettie A. Fayette B., married Mildred V. Scholl, a daughter of Michael and Irene Scholl, and they have one child, Marion J.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Priest attend the Baptist church. In politics the former is a republican. He is a public-spirited man and always takes an active interest in all local affairs. He served as treasurer of Fond du Lac township for five or six years and for fifteen or sixteen years he was clerk of school district No. 3 of that township. He has passed the greater part of his life in this vicinity and enjoys an extensive acquaintance in the community, where he is held in high esteem.
JOHN ROSENBAUM.
John Rosenbaum is one of the respected and well known citizens of Empire township, Fond du Lac county, where he is successfully engaged in the culti- vation of his highly developed farm of one hundred and twenty acres. He was born in Germany July 6, 1849, and is a son of Frederick and Sophia (Roehl) Rosenbaum, both of whom were natives of Germany and celebrated their mar- riage in their native land. The father, with his wife and two children, emi- grated to the United States in 1851, making the voyage across the ocean in an old-time sailing vessel. Upon reaching the shores of the new world he made his first settlement in Wisconsin near Milwaukee where he rented a farm which he worked on shares, continuing the cultivation of that land for ten years. In 1862 he removed to Forest township, Fond du Lac county, where he purchased sixty acres of mostly unimproved land, and there established his home. He built a loghouse on his farm and there continued to reside during the active years of his life. Some time before 1900 he retired from work and lived with his son John of this review until the time of his death which occurred Feb- ruary 17, 1904, at the age of eighty-four. He was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Roehl, and to that union four children were born: John, of this sketch ; Louisa; Caroline; and Matilda.
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