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Michael Costello was educated in district school No. I of Byron town- ship and pursued his studies up to the age of twenty years. When he laid aside
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his books he entered the employ of a lumber company for one year and then joined his brothers in the management and operation of the eighty acres of land which they had inherited from their father. The brothers worked to- gether until 1885, when they divided the property and Michael Costello re- ceived his share of the land. Upon this foundation he has built up in the course of his career one of the largest and most productive farms in Byron township. He has added to his holdings at various times during his life and now has two hundred and five acres of rich land under cultivation. He pursues his farming along modern and scientific lines and is constantly making im- provements upon his farm.
On June 15, 1886, Mr. Costello was united in marriage in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to Miss Mary A. Boyle, a daughter of Patrick Boyle, who was a baggage master on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad for twenty-two years and was also on police force and fire department. Mr. and Mrs. Cos- tello are the parents of five children: Addis E., Vincent de Paul, Eugene Boyle, Ruth Ann, Rose Helen, all of whom are living with their parents on the home farm. The family holds membership in the Eden Catholic church and are well known in its affairs.
Mr. Costello is a democrat and has held various public offices. He served from 1902 to 1911 as chairman of Byron township and was then chosen county road commissioner for three years. He has always been interested in educational affairs and active in promoting the welfare of the schools of his district. He has served for twenty-nine years as director of the school board and has done efficient and conscientious work in this capacity. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Order of Foresters, and is also promi- nent in the affairs of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is one of the successful men of Byron township and has done much during the course of his life to promote the growth and progress of that city.
JOSEPH M. GOODING.
The legal profession of Fond du Lac has a worthy representative in Jo- seph M. Gooding, who has been engaged in the practice of law since 1890 and in this city since 1893. What he has accomplished represents the fit utiliza- tion of his innate talents and powers. He has wisely and conscientiously developed his resources and the years have brought him the success which follows earnest endeavor as expressed in the careful analysis of his cases and the logical presentation of his cause before the courts. His birth occurred in Jennings county, Indiana, June 3, 1867. His father, John Gooding, was a native of Prussia, Germany, and was a son of Jacob Gooding, who died at an old age. John Gooding spent the first six years of his life in the village of Saarlouis, and was then brought by his parents to the new world, at which time they settled in St. Ann's township, Jennings county, Indiana, where he was reared to manhood on his father's farm. He early met the experiences of frontier life and his home training acquainted him with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. His energies were devoted to agricultural activities until 1861, when he entered the army as a Union soldier and served until the close of the war. In the spring of 1866 he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Merten, who was born in the village of Morbach, Prussia, a daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Schneider) Merten, both of whom are deceased, the former having passed away at the age of eighty-five years, and the latter when seventy years of age. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. John Gooding began their domestic life in Indiana, but in the spring of 1869 removed to Nevada, settling in the Reese river valley, where Mr. Gooding died in 1897,
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at the age of fifty-nine years. His wife lives in Austin, Nevada, and is a commu- nicant of the Catholic church, to which Mr. Gooding also belonged. He served as county commissioner of his county for two terms and was also representative to the Nevada legislature for one term. For ten years he maintained a school upon his ranch for the education of his children and others in the neighborhood and he was the first man in his state to raise a flag over the schoolhouse. To Mr. and Mrs. John Gooding were born eleven children, of whom the following reached adult years : Joseph M .; Mary, the wife of George N. Dierenger, of the Reese river valley, Nevada; Fannie, the wife of John F. Schmaling, of the Reese river valley ; Margaret E., the deceased wife of John Bowler ; Rose T., the wife of James Day, of Denver, Colorado; and Josephine, of Reno, Nevada.
Joseph M. Gooding was very young when the family left Indiana for the west and in the Reese river valley he was reared, spending his time upon his father's ranch. His education was largely acquired in St. Mary's Institute at Dayton, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1884. For two years thereafter he remained upon his father's ranch, but not desirous of en- gaging in agricultural pursuits throughout his entire life, he went to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he read law. After his return to Nevada he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court in 1890 and in the fall of that year was elected dis- trict attorney. In 1893 he came to Fond du Lac, where he has since followed his profession. He marshals his resources with the precision of a military commander directing his forces in battle. His points are well taken, his deduc- tions are logical and his arguments clear and forceful. These qualities have brought him a clientage that connects him with much important litigation.
On the 10th of May, 1892, Joseph M. Gooding was married to Miss Carrie Moon, a daughter of Nathan W. and Ann (Leonard) Moon, of Rosendale, Wisconsin, the birthplace of Mrs. Gooding. Her father was a native of Massa- chusetts, while her mother was born in Ireland. He was one of the first settlers of Rosendale and was ever honored as a pioneer settler there. Both he and his wife have passed away. In their family were five children: Emma R., who is the wife of William T. Reed; N. Jesse; William H .; John L .; and Carrie M. Mr. and Mrs. Gooding are the parents of three children, Laurence E., Ralph U. and Marguerite Ann.
In his political views Mr. Gooding has always been an earnest democrat, deeming the principles of the party strong forces in promoting public progress. He was city attorney of Fond du Lac in 1901, 1902 and 1903, and for seven years was one of the police and fire commissioners here. For the past fifteen years he has been court commissioner and has recently been reappointed. He is a prominent member of the Equitable Fraternal Union, also of the National Fraternal League and he is further connected with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Brotherhood of American Yeomen and the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. The basic qualities of these organizations make strong appeal to him, for they constitute the elements which prompt honorable man- hood and progressive citizenship.
SAMUEL C. STANCHFIELD.
Samuel C. Stanchfield is the owner of a valuable farm in Fond du Lac county comprising two hundred and thirty-eight acres of excellent and improved land highly developed along modern lines to which he has given his entire attention since 1893. He was born on May 30, 1864, and is a native son of Fond du Lac county. His father, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, is Samuel B. Stanchfield.
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Samuel C. Stanchfield attended the public schools of Fond du Lac county until he was eighteen years of age and supplemented this foundation by two seasons at Mann's Business College. He early became acquainted with the de- tails of scientific agriculture by assisting his father in the work of the home farm. His first duties were the minor ones suitable to his age and strength, but when he attained his majority he took entire charge of the management and direction of the property and successfully promoted his father's interests until 1893. In that year he moved to the farm of two hundred and thirty-eight acres in Fond du Lac township which he now occupies and has since that time been actively engaged as an agriculturist. He makes a specialty of the breeding and raising of high grade Holstein cattle and is the owner of some of the finest stock in the state of Wisconsin. He exhibits at all the county and state fairs and has never lost blue ribbons when they were offered. He has sixty head of the best grade of Holstein cattle and gives personal supervision to their sci- entific care. He is known throughout Fond du Lac county as an expert in this line and his opinions and advice are often sought. He keeps eight horses upon his land and is always careful to have them thoroughbred stock.
Mr. Stanchfield was married to Miss Gertrude Bartlett, a daughter of Charles and Mary Bartlett, of Fond du Lac. Mrs. Stanchfield's father was a butcher and successful in this line of activity until his death in 1898. His wife still survives him and makes her home in Fond du Lac. To Mr. and Mrs. Stanchfield have been born three children, Mabel G., Samuel C., Jr., and Gancello. The family hold membership in the Congregational church.
Mr. Stanchfield is a stanch republican and even as a boy exhibited a patri- otic loyalty to his country and state. He served as a member of Company E, Second Wisconsin National Guards, for three years in his youth, and has always been interested in military tactics. He belongs to the Masonic order and is prominent in the Knights of Pythias. He holds membership with the Modern Woodmen of America and in the Equitable Fraternal Union. His name is also well known in the National Union. He has devoted his life to doing one thing well at a time, and believing that nothing is attained without industry and energy has founded his success upon well directed enterprise and scientific efficiency.
REV. AUGUST JUNG.
Rev. August Jung is a minister of the German Evangelical Lutheran church in Byron township, Wisconsin, and has been a member of the clerical profes- sion since 1885. During his long period of service he has been identified with only two parishes. He has spent seventeen years in the town of Byron, faith- fully performing his duties and gaining a reputation in his community as a helper and friend of his congregation. He was born in Foreston, Illinois, and is a son of William and Susan (Seidenstricker) Jung, both natives of Germany. His father was born in that country March 22, 1833, and his mother on Novem- ber 5, 1836. They came to America when the father was twenty-one and the mother twelve years of age. Both settled in St. Louis where they resided for a number of years. They were married in Illinois and became the parents of eleven children, five of whom are deceased. Those living are : August, the sub- ject of this sketch : Eliza; Matilda; Mary ; William and Rose, who married Peter Lorenzen, a prosperous farmer of Minnesota, by whom she has four children, August, Amanda, Mary and Alfred.
August Jung was educated in the public schools at the various places where his parents resided, and later attended the colleges of the German Evangelical Synod of North America in St. Louis, graduating in the ministry in 1885. His first charge was in Indiana where he remained for nine years. This was the
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only other parish which Mr. Jung presided over beside his present field of activity. He came to the town of Byron in 1895 and has been active in religious work in that vicinity since that time. Mr. Jung is a true minister, eager for the welfare of his congregation and active in promoting it. He is constantly in- fluenced by the highest and loftiest motives and his work is conducted along lines of broad humanity and a sense of the universal brotherhood of mankind. His hand is always outstretched to aid the poor and suffering and his name is well known among the poorer and humbler classes in Byron where it is a syn- onym for all that is charitable and worthy.
In his political views Mr. Jung keeps himself entirely independent of party lines. He takes no active part in political affairs, his time and attention being fully occupied in the arduous duties of his calling. He brings to the perform- ance of these duties a kind, prayerful and humble heart which would dignify a humble position and which is a constant adornment to a high one.
JOSEPH J. LAMB.
Joseph J. Lamb is successfully engaged in the cultivation of his farm lo- cated in Friendship township, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin. He was born in the township in 1866 and is a son of Peter and Marguerite (Crowley) Lamb. He was reared in his parents' home and received his early education in the public schools of Friendship and was later graduated from the business college in Fond du Lac. He has been engaged in farming during the major portion of his active life and is known to be one of the up-to-date and prosperous farmers of his part of Fond du Lac county.
Joseph J. Lamb was united in marriage, in Chicago, to Miss Anna O'Connell, who is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and they are the parents of five children, as follows: Anthony, who is a youth of thirteen; Marguerite a maiden of twelve; Genevieve, who is nine years old; and Gertrude and Dolores, who are six and four years of age respectively. Mr. Lamb belongs to the republican party, served in the office of town clerk from 1906 to 1910 and is acting in that capacity at the present time. He and his family are members of the Roman Catholic church. He was for a number of years a member of the Wisconsin Nat- ional Guards and a lieutenant of his company at the time when he received his honorable discharge. He is one of the substantial and reliable citizens of Friend- ship township and is always ready with his cooperation in the furtherance of any public measure intended to be of educational, religious and business service to the community in which he lives.
HORACE E. WHITTAKER.
Horace E. Whittaker is one of the well known and prosperous farmers of Fond du Lac county where he is successfully engaged in the operation of a stock farm of two hundred acres located in Byron township. He was born in the town of Byron, June 4, 1886, and is a son of Horace E. and Belle (Treleven) Whittaker. The father was a native of Liberty, Sullivan county, New York, and the mother of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and they became the parents of two children: Elmer H., who married Miss Barbara Sweet, of Fond du Lac; and Horace E., who is the subject of this sketch. The father passed away in 1887.
Horace E. Whittaker was educated in the public schools of Fond du Lac, and after having passed through the lower grades was graduated from the high school of that city. He afterward completed a course in the agricultural depart-
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ment of the Wisconsin University at Madison, being graduated with the class of 1906. At the age of nineteen years he took complete charge of a farm of two hundred acres on which he makes a specialty of raising pure blooded Aber- deen Angus stock, and in that business he has been very successful. His herd at present consists of seventy head of registered cattle, and in the operation of · his place he requires the use of six horses. This large stock farm he succeeds in operating with the additional help of one man whom he employs the year through.
Mr. Whittaker is a republican and a member of the Episcopal church. His stock farm, which is one of the well known places in Fond du Lac county, is among the best conducted of its class.
MICHAEL J. HINZ.
High in the list of Fond du Lac county's successful and efficient agricul- turists, stands the name of Michael J. Hinz, who owns and operates "Evergreen Farm," which contains one hundred and ninety-two acres of land, and is one of the model farms in this section of the state. Thoroughness united with capably organized and intelligently directed activities has been the dominant factor in the success of Mr. Hinz, who is a practical man and never dissipates his energies but concentrates his efforts upon the achievement of a well defined purpose which he earnestly pursues.
He was born in Germany, on the 3d of May, 1857, and is a son of Gottfried and Augustina (Ertmann) Hinz, who passed the early period of their domestic life in the fatherland. They emigrated to the United States with their family in 1862, locating in the vicinity of Marquette, Green Lake county, where the father subsequently purchased two hundred acres of land. He cultivated this place with a fair measure of success until 1871, when he disposed of it and in- vested the proceeds in a farm in Winnebago county, where he continued his agricultural pursuits until his death in 1886, at the age of sixty-seven years. He is survived by the wife who has attained the age of ninety years and still has full command of her mental faculties and enjoys good health. She is active and takes great delight in her flower garden in which are to be found an endless variety of blossoms well known fifty years ago, but seldom seen today. Mrs. Hinz is the mother of nine children, four of whom are residing in this state. Since the death of her husband she has made her home with her son Michael J.
Michael J. Hinz has but vague and indefinite memories of his childhood home in Germany, as he was a lad of only five years when he sailed for America with his parents. He acquired a good, practical education in the common schools of Green Lake and Winnebago counties and while engaged in the mastery of the fundamental principles of English learning was qualifying himself for the heavier duties of life by assisting his father about the farm. His responsibilities in this connection were increased as his strength developed and long before he had attained his majority he was doing the work of a man. Reared in a home where much stress and true valuation were laid upon the qualities of thrift, diligence and honesty in the acquirement of success, he developed into a man of earnest purpose and definite aim as is evidenced in his daily life. After the death of his father he purchased the old homestead in Winnebago county, in the cultivation of which he engaged until 1906, when he disposed of it and bought his present farm in Ripon township, this county. During the intervening years, Mr. Hinz has made many changes in his place, which have greatly en- hanced the value and appearance of the property. He is a very progressive man and a strong advocate of intensive rather than extensive farming. His
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fields are carefully tilled and fertilized in strict accordance with the methods of the modern scientific agriculturist, and are kept in a high state of productivity by a systematic rotation of crops. There are no better cereals produced in this section of the state than are raised on his farm, and at the grain show held at Winneconne he was awarded the first prize on his barley, oats and wheat, and at the Fond du Lac county fair last year his sons received the first prize on their corn. In connection with his general agricultural pursuits, Mr. Hinz engages in breeding and raising high-grade stock, making a specialty of Guernsey cattle. He owns one of the finest registered bulls in the county and ships his cattle all over the country to stock breeders and raisers. He is extensively engaged in dairying and maintains a herd of about twenty-five cows, meeting with as pro- nounced success in this as in other lines of his business. He is a man of marked capability, unremitting diligence and persistent endeavor and whatever he en- gages in, is accorded his full powers and best efforts, as he feels that anything which is deserving of his attention is worthy of his highest exertions.
On the 27th of November, 1883, Mr. Hinz was married to Miss Matilda Meyer, who was born in Germany on July 28, 1865. In 1868 she came to Amer- ica with her parents, who located in Rosendale, this county. There she was reared to womanhood, acquiring her education in the schools of Oshkosh. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Hinz numbers eleven, all of whom are living at home with the exception of the two eldest sons, who are married and have established homes of their own. In order of birth they are as follows: Albert, Arthur, Helen, Nora, Clara, Otto, Meta, Eldor, Rupert, Esther and Alta. They have all been given the advantage of good educations, the sons being graduates of the agricultural department of the State University at Madison. Two of the daugh- ters are teaching school, while some of the others have specialized in music and are qualified to teach this art.
The family are members of the German Lutheran church, in the work of which they take an active interest, Mr. Hinz having on various occasions been identified with its official life. He is public-spirited and takes a deep interest in political affairs, although he is not a party man but gives his support to the men and measures he deems of greatest benefit to the general welfare. Mr. Hinz is one of the substantial and highly prosperous men of Ripon township. The progress and development of which he has materially aided during the period of his residence through his competent and capable method of conducting his own interests. His farm is one of the most attractive in the community as well as one of the most profitable. The residence is a large, comfortable country house, the appearance of which is much improved by the well kept and tastefully arranged grounds surrounding it. His barns are large and commodious, while his outbuildings are substantially constructed and kept in repair. Everything about the place manifests the exercise of good judgment, competent supervision and a careful regard for details in its operation, and to these must be attributed in a large measure much of the success which has attended its owner.
HUGH SCOTT, M. D.
Dr. Hugh Scott is now living retired in Fond du Lac county after many years of successful practice along professional lines. His experience dates back to the time when the family doctor was a pioneer in the community and when a life devoted to medicine meant a career of hardship and weariness, filled with patient service and rewarded by the friendship and gratitude of patients. Dr. Scott was born in Scotland, on September 1, 1832, and is a son of James and Anna Belle Scott. His father was a shepherd in his native country and died in
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1866 at the age of sixty-five years. He and his wife were the parents of six children, Hugh, Margaret, Christina, Ann, John and Mary.
Dr. Scott was educated in the public schools of his native country and was graduated from the Edinburgh University with the degree of M. D., in 1859. He practiced his profession in Scotland until 1863, when he made the journey to America and settled in Chicago. There he engaged in general medical prac- tice for twenty-six years and built up a large clientage and was extremely suc- cessful during that period. Dr. Scott is a physician who regards his profession as a high and sacred calling and who has devoted his life to the service of his fellowmen. He is known as the father of training schools for nurses and has the distinction of having opened, over forty years ago, the first institution of this kind in Chicago. He brought to the practice of his profession an exhaus- tive knowledge of its details and an intelligent and unprejudiced mind, com- bined with a broad humanity which made him a successful practitioner in days when a physician was also a servant of the people. After his long career in Chicago, he removed to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1889, and spent four years in that city. In 1893 he came to Fond du Lac, where he has resided since that time. He was as successful in this city as he had been in his previous places of residence and his practice increased greatly every year. Patients who came to him once were drawn to him by his evident knowledge of the matter in hand. his thorough understanding of their necessities and sufferings and his undoubted ability as a physician. He is now living retired in a beautiful home situated in the midst of five acres of land in the town of Fond du Lac.
Dr. Scott's first marriage was to Miss Margaret Moore, a native of Eng- land, who died in 1892. Later Dr. Scott was again wedded, his second wife being Miss Ida B. Caldwell, of Fond du Lac. She died in 1898, and some years subsequently Mrs. Helen Treleven became his wife. Dr. Scott is the father of two sons by his first union: James, who now makes his home in Chicago, Illinois ; and John H., of Hammond, Indiana.
In his political views Dr. Scott is consistently republican but has never taken a very active part in public affairs and has never sought office. While he was a resident of Chicago, he took an intelligent interest in the efforts of that city to promote its public health and served as a member of the board of health there for four years. In this capacity he did remarkably efficient work, and his term of service is still remembered in Chicago. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church of Fond du Lac. He is now eighty years of age and can look back upon a long life of service in the cause of humanity. He brought to the practice of his profession rare talents, an efficient education and conspicuous ability, and in his fifty-three years of active practice these powers have never been unworthily used.
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