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Four of his children, Dora, Chauncey, Warren and Kit, came with him from Ohio; two, Samuel and Eva, were born in this county.
Probably I ought to apologize on two sides, first, to my friend Chauncey, for having mercilessly lopped off the ornaments of his narrative, second, to the readers for the long story, which, I trust, is interesting enough, nevertheless. I hope this apology will be accepted in good faith. .
Some of the material furnished by Mr. C. H. Cooke will be more appropriately employed in the history of Gilmanton and Dover.
John Callahan of Cork Co., Ireland, came to New York, 1848, and to this county Dec. 1, 1856. He says: "I paid one hundred dollars cash from Dunleith for me and wife, cabin passage. The anchor ice was running so that we had to stop at Winona, Minn., and paid fifty dollars for team to Wabasha; found out on the way that we could get across at Alma, and paid fifteen dollars for cross- ing in skiff at Alma, to a gentleman named Spany, now dead."
Traveling under difficulties, I should say!
John S. DeGroff, who came in the Fall of 1857, remarks: "First election in Nelson (which was then Nelson and Maxville combined) the ballot box was an old boot."
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Chas. F. Eager, son of Luther and A. M. Eager, was born in Derby, Vt., Sept. 28, 1852, and came to this county in April 1856. His father located on the old Eager farm 1} mile southwest of Mondovi. He says: "My mother was one of the first three women who settled in the northern part of Buffalo Co., the other two were I think, Mrs. E. B. Gifford and Mrs. James Hunter. When we first settled near Mondovi our postoffice was Eau Galla, and I re- member of father carrying groceries in a basket from Alma. Wild game was plenty, bears, deer and wolves. I have seen many a bear in broad daylight in the valley now a part of the old farm, and I have seen the deer hauled in by sleigh loads, like a large load of wood. I lived in Buffalo Co. 21 years." My friend Charles will permit me to add, that I know him as one of the best informed teachers of that part of our county where he resided.
Mrs. A. M. Eager resides in Dayton, Washington Ter., and James T. Eager, his brother, in Gera in the same territory ..
James Faulds jr., born at Banliston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, came to this county from Pennsylvania in the spring of 1856. He was a miner, engineer and farmer in succession, and but 50 years old when he died. Landed at Fountain City 16 miles from his destined home, on which his family still resides.
Leonhard Fried, has been Town Clerk of the Town of Cross for three years, Justice of the Peace for six, and Chairman of the town for four years. He has also been for many years a successful teacher, and for some considerable time treasurer of the Fountain City Mutual Insurance Co.
John C. Ganz came in May 1857. His son Edwin F. reports: Theodore Meuli built the first cabin in the upper Waumandee Valley on Sec. 2, T. 21, R. 11, which was afterwards occupied by the above settler.
Ferdinand Horst, born at Luedenscheidt, Westphalia, Prussia, settled at Buffalo City in August 1857, took a homestead and set- tled upon it in 1863 in the town of Belvidere, where he lived until 1878, when he removed to Independence, Trempealeau Co. He was a machinist and sawyer, and is now a machinist, blacksmith and merchant of hardware in the last named place.
Jacob Hentges, sen., born at Merl on the Moselle, in 1818, came to this country in 1852 and to this county May 1st, 1857. He was in the old country a farmer and cultivator of the grape, which
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latter pursuit he is engaged in yet on his farm in Cross, adjoining the Trempealeau valley.
Caspar Huber of Nendingen, Wuertemberg, is the only one of the citizens of this county whom I remember to have known in the old country. This was in 1839-40, when I was not quite 14 years old, and he was a young journey man shoemaker in the city of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He came to Buffalo City, April 24, 1857, and when two years later I came to that place, he was, be- sides working in his trade, carrying the mail between it and Foun- tain City, mostly on foot, in high water times, however, in a skiff.
Alexander Harvey, born in Horton, Nova Scotia, came to this county in 1856. His name also appears in Class I, among the sons of Robert Harvey deceased. I really had no reliable informa- tion in regard to his father's advent into this county and this may serve as a correction of previous statements.
Count Pulaski Johnson, born at Sardinia, Erie Co., N. Y. settled with his father's family in 1857 in September, in the Eastern part of Waumandee on the bluff. He says: I am the oldest living son of Mordecai Johnson, formerly known as "Johnson on the Bluff," the first and for a while the only settler on the ridge between the Waumandee and Trempealeau Valleys, from John Burt's near Fountain City to Cook's Valley, five miles by nearest wagon road to next neighbor. Saw some tough times in opening up a settle- ment. We had to camp in the woods until we could build a house and had no stove to cook with for three months; we subsisted mostly on roasted potatoes and milk, when we could find our cows and get the potatoes. The latter we had to get in Waumandee Valley and carry them three miles, and up the bluff, on our backs. For two days I had nothing to eat but acorns and milk, as it stormed so, that we could not go for potatoes. We were the only family on the bluff, that did not desert the place in the big Indian scare at the time of the Minnesota massacre in 1862. My father was born in the same place as myself and now lives in Redwood County, Minn.
Henry Klein, born at Lauffen a. N. Ober-Amt Besigheim, Wuertemberg, arrived at Belvidere Sept. 6th, 1856 and bought the land, then owned by Joseph Berni, on which four acres were un. der cultivation and of buildings a very small log-house. The road from Fountain City to Alma, what there was of it, was still very
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LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS.
EARLY SETTLERS, CLASS III.
NAME.
BIRTHPLACE.
DATE OF SETTLEMENT
Allen, Ahaz F
Ellisburg, N. Y.
June 1862 ....
Bond, Jos. S ...
Monroe Co., Pa .
October 1864
Bodenstab, G. A. Dr
Diederson, Hannover
August 1864
Blank, Geo. Leonard
Wuertem berg
Spring 1865
Bach, Elizabeth.
Rhenish Prussia
1862
Brose, Fred Brose, Chas.
Ukermark, Prussia
1863
Brose, William
do. do.
1863
Becker, Math
Luxemburg
1865
Benker, Christian
Canton Berne ...
Sept. 1862
Bielefeld, John
Pommerania, Prussia do.
1863
Butler, Isaac. .
Pennsylvania
1864.
Boehme, Chas. A
Muegeln, Saxony
1861
Brenner, Anton
Neidingen, Baden
1862-3
Barth, Louis
Born in the county
1861
Cochran, George
Randolph, Vt.
1865
Cody, Mathew
New York City do.
1864
Cody, James.
Oct. 1864 .
Duerkopp, Carl
Brunswick, Germany
1861
Danuser, Florian
Felsberg, Cnt. Grisons
1860
Durish, John
Maton, Canton Grisons
1861
Ehrich, William
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1861
Ender, Jacob.
Lichtenstein
1860-61
Eberwein, Adam
1860-61
Foster, Anton
1862
Fluri, John
1862
Fluri, Florian
1862
Fluri, George.
1862
Grotjahn, Christ.
Dahlum, Hannover
1862
Geissbuehler, Ulrich
Lamperswyl, Cnt. Berne.
1863
Graf, Joseph
Lichtenstein
1862
Guelzow, Frederick
Gross-Tetzleben, Prussia.
1865
Gebus, Michael ..
Batzendorf, Alsace.
1864
Heuser, Michael.
Baden
1862 1863
Hunner, John.
Buffalo, N. Y.
April 1862
Hebard, Charles Dr
Randolph, Vt ..
June 1865
Haigh, John.
Yorkshire, England.
1863
Hunner, Louis P
Buffalo, N, Y
June 1864
Hynes, Thomas
Ireland.
Vaihingen, Wuertemberg. Andelfingen, Cnt.Thurgau Canton Grisons do. do.
1862
Balk Charles.
1863
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LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS.
EARLY SETTLERS, CLASS III.
FIRST LOCATION.
PRESENT LOCATION.
TRADE, BUSINESS OR OCCUPATION.
REMARKS.
Gilmanton.
Gilmanton ... |Farmer
Naples .
Naples
do.
Fountain C. Physician.
Fountain City Waumandee do.
Waumandee
do.
do.
do.
do.
Alma
Alma .
Nelson
Died 1870 ..
do.
Alma (Town.) Lincoln
Lincoln
Nelson
Died.
do.
Buffalo City .. ! Alma
Canton
Canton.
Farmer
Cross
Fountain C. Farmer, Teacher, Machine Agt.
Farmer
Gilmanton do. do.
Gilmanton .. , do. do.
do.
Farmer
Alma. Glencoe. do.
Montana . Arcadia . . . . Alma (Town) Nelson
do.
do.
... See Appendix.
.See Appendix
Mondovi
Mondovi
Lincoln
Lincoln
Alma
Alma
do.
do.
Modena
do.
Modena Nelson do.
Nelson.
do ,
1
Alma (Town) Waumandee
Ellsworth, Wis .. ... Alma (Town) .. Montana ..
do.
do.
do.
do.
Cross
Waumandee Alma
Cross. Waumandee Eau Claire ...
do.
Merchant, etc Physician & Surgeon Farmer . . .
Druggist, Merchant, Banker etc ...
Farmer
Montana. ..
Brickmaker, Farmer
do. Fountain City Glencoe. do. do.
Alma
Nelson
Waggonmaker, Farm'r Farmer etc. do.
Died
Cross. .
do. do.
Farmer, Carpenter. do. and Miller
... See Appendix.
See Alma.
See Pol. History.
do. do. do
Carpenter & Farmer ... Farm, Saloon & Store. Farmer do. do.
Farmer, etc. Carpenter & Farmer. Farmer do.
Merchant.
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LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS.
EARLY SETTLERS, CLASS III.
NAME.
BIRTHPLACE.
DATE OF SETTLEMENT
Hadley, Daniel.
Hartford, Vt ..
1861
Hunter, Peter.
Clackmannanshire, Sctld. Fulda, Hesse-Cassel.
May 1865
Hoefling, William
Fall 1863.
Horbach, Jacob
Ditweiler, Rhen. Bavaria Nassau, Germany ..
1863
Imrie, James
Scotland .
1864
Iberg, John.
Canton Aargau
1863
Jackson, Walter
Fifeshire, Scotland.
May 1862
Kindschi Paul
Canton Grisons .. do.
1864
Kohlhepp, William
Hanau, Hesse-Cassel.
1861
Wuertemberg.
1865
Korb, John.
Coelln in Pommerania
1862
Kent, Wm. E.
Warren, Vt.
1864
Kins, Herman Jenson Kins, Jens
do.
1861
Kins, Henry H
do.
1861
Kins, Nels .
do.
1861
Kins, John
do.
1861
Leonhardy, Jacob
Canton Grisons
1861
Lee, Halvor A.
Valders, Norway
1864
Litchfield, Thomas
Springfield, Vt.
Sept. 1864
Lee, Cornelius.
Ireland
1865
Lengert, Geo ..
Erfurt, Prussia
1864
Leonhardy, John S.
Schwanden, Cnt Glarus.
July 1863
Leonhardy, Emil
Parpan, Cnt. Grisons. do.
July 1863 1863.
Leonhardy, John.
Canton Grisons.
March 1863
Mathys, Christian
Summer1864
Mathys, Christian
May 1863 ·
Morgan, Frederick
West-Randolph, Vt .. do.
1862.
Wuertemberg
1865
Ireland .
1861
Canton Grisons.
1865
Mecklenburg, John
Mecklenburg. . do.
1864
Mecklenburg, Charles
1865.
Mann, Anton
Dornstadt, Wuertemberg 1865
Merritt, M. S
1861.
Merritt, Loren A.
Canada Ohio
1861
1865
Kindschi, Nicholas
Kochendorfer, John
Norway
1861
Leonhardy, J. M.
do. do.
Sept. 1862
Morgan, Vesper.
Muehleisen, Geo
McCabe, James
Meisser, Michael.
Feb. 1865
Huett, Adolph
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EARLY SETTLERS, CLASS III.
NAME.
BIRTHPLACE.
DATE OF SETTLEMENT
1864
Newton, Roland H.
Cateraugus Co., N. Y
1864
Newton, Sylvester L Nally, Walter
Alleghany Co., N. Y Ireland
1862.
Owen, Louis.
England .
1861.
Patzner, Joseph
Silesia, Prussia
1865
Preston, Curtis O
May 1861
Philippi, Nicholas
Philippi, Philipp.
Pfund, Adolf.
Canton Schaffhausen
Fall 1863
Pember, Dan. B.
Randolph, Vt.
Oct. 1865. ..
Rosenow, Fritz
Prussia
1862
Rockwell, Auren
Canaan, Conn . .
March 1862 ..
Ripple, Mathes
Unadmgen, Baden do.
May 1863 ... May 1862 .....
Reinhardt, G. M.
Rabbas, Fred
Doehren, Prussia do.
1862
Rabbas, Henry
Dec. 1861.
Ruppert, Charles
Bavaria
do.
Spring 1862 Spring 1862
Rupp, Caspar.
Seis, Canton Grisons
May 1865.
Schneider, Franz
Bohemia .
1863 .
Schneider, Fred
Diesbach, Cnt. Berne
1865
Sendelbach, Jos.
Bavaria ..
1862.
Shane, Thomas
Montour Co., Pa
Aug.
1861.
Sweet, Eri P.
Sweet, W. H.
Schulte, Martin Steinke, F.
Novem. 1864 May 1864 Oct. 1865. ..
Steiner, David.
Goeppingen Wuertemberg Briesenhorst, Prussia
1862
1865 1861
Norway . Canton Berne.
1862
Schwendimann, John Sexauer, G. Jacob
Semling, Anton.
Schmelzer, Jacob
Pennsylvania.
1864
Scharr, Ulrich.
Trowbridge, Charles H.
1863.
Vaihingen, Wuertemberg Cataraugus Co., N. Y ·
1861.
Schultz, J. F
Schwedes, Christopher Serum, Nels
Hesse-Cassel
Koenigshaffhausen, Baden Wuertemberg
1862 .
May 1865 ..
New York state. do.
Oct. 1863. 1865
Oesdorf, Prussia.
Starkhuette, Prussia
May 1863 ....
Riple Gregory
Rosenow, John.
Liepen, Prussia Schwarzbach, Saxe Meiningen April
1864
Rebhan, P. V.
Providence, Rhode Island Near Trier, Prussia do.
1861. April 1863 ...
Nold, Gottlieb.
Wetzlar, Pru sia
1862
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LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS.
EARLY SETTLERS, CLASS III.
FIRST LOCATION.
PRESENT LOCATION.
TRADE, BUSINESS OR OCCUPATION.
REMARKS.
Nelson
Nelson
Farmer.
Canton.
Canton
Printer, Farmer ..
Gilmanton Glencoe
Gilmanton .. Glencoe.
do.
Canton.
Canton
do.
Milton
Milton
do.
Canton.
Canton.
do.
Glencoe
Alma
do.
do.
do.
Wheatbuyer etc.
Modena
Gilmanton .. Buffalo City ..
Modena .. .. Died 1865 .. Belvidere . . Modena . Montana .. ... Arcadia
do.
do.
do. Saloon
Waumandee Nelson,
Montana .. Alma
Farmer, Ins. Agt. etc .. Wheatbuyer etc.
Alma. ..
Died 1886 .. Alma
Graindealer, Veterinarian ..
Farmer
Waumandee do. do.
Waumandee do.
do.
do.
Alma .. .
Alma
Butcher
do. Waumandee Modena .. .
do. do.
Waumandee Modena . . . . Died 1887. .. Modena . . Buffalo
do. do. do.
FountainCity Canton.
Belvidere .. do.
Canton .. . Belvidere .. Lincoln
do. do. do.
Alma Nelson ... do.
Glencoe ..
Alma (Town)
Nelson ..
do.
do.
Mondovi ...
[Carpenter
... See Appendix. do.
SeeOrganization.
Farmer
Sailor, Blacksmith, Teacher, Farmer Farmer
Modena.
Glencoe ..
do.
do.
See Organization
... See Appendix.
Tailor
Alma
Modena ..
Farmer
Carpenter etc
Dodge Center, Minn Fountain C .. Alma (Town) ... Nelson .. ·
Wagonmaker Farmer do. do.
Mondovi.
Montana Died.
do.
Farmer
do.
... See Appendix.
See Org. & App.
do.
Farmer
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LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS.
EARLY SETTLERS, CLASS III.
NAME.
BIRTHPLACE.
DATE OF SETTLEMENT
Tester, J. W .
Rongellen, Cnt. Grisons ...
1861
Thoeny, Christian
Canton Grisons. do.
1863
Thoeny Jacob.
1865.
Thoeny, Henry ..
do.
1865
Wismolek, Jacob
Poland .
Summer 1861
Walker, Jas. E.
England
Nov. 1863 ...
Weisenberger, Jacob.
Baden
April 1863 ..
Wohlwend, Martin
Lichtenstein
1863
Wohlwend, Frank
do.
1863
Walker, Matson
Huntington Co., Pa
1861.
Dinger, Charles.
Gera, Germany
1865
Liefering, John.
Herzig, Luxemburg ..
|1865.
APPENDIX TO CLASS III.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bach and her first husband, Caspar Schmitz kept the first store and saloon in the Waumandee.
John Dwrish now of Arcadia, but formerly of the Town of Montana, says he is well pleased with the country, especially Buf. falo County, and thinks that those who think differently have to blame themselves for their dissatisfaction, especially in view o the advantages of present times over those of the early pioneers.
John Hunner, now of Eau Claire, the brother of L. P. Hunner of Alma, gives the following narrative: "First business after land ing was hauling wood. In the fall of 1862 engaged with Iberg Bros. Was with them about two years and bought them out. Ir buying them out I also bought the Alma Journal and published it until the summer of 1872. After purchasing Iberg Bros.' inte. rest in the store, conducted the business for two or three years and then sold out, Became one of the charter members of the Bee Slough Co., was elected Secretary and Treasurer, which positior I held two or three years, and at the same time formed a part nership with Conrad Moser, jr., in the law business; was admitted to the bar in 1865, I think. Sold out my interest at Alma ir 1872, and moved to Eau Claire, and in partnership with Jas. M Brackett, the former publisher of the Alma Journal, started the
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Rowland H. Newton says: "Came from Ravenna, Portage Co., Ohio, to Durand in the fall of 1861, moved to Lima, Pepin Co., in spring 1862 and about the first of April 1864 to my. persent place of residence."
Sylvester L. Newton, was a Lumberman before settling in this county, and a Sergeant in Company D of the Second Regiment of Minnesota Infantry.
Auren Rockwell came to Alma March 16th, 1862, and bargained for the land where we now reside. Returning to my native place in Connecticut, I brought my family out here, but finding that J. K. Benedict, brother of Mrs. Rockwell had gone to Wabasha, I brought them to that place, where they lived until Oct. 20, 1864, on which day they moved into the house I had built on the farm. They have ever since been living there. I was eight years in the Agricultural Implement business, but am now living with my family and expect to remain here. Stock and horses are our spe- cialities.
Eri P. Sweet, reported by Mrs. Sarah C. Sweet: "Eri came from New York to Burns, La Crose Co., where we were married; moved from there to Modena. He enlisted for the first time in Nov. 1861, and the second time in 1865."
TO THE LIST OF CLASS IV. INTRODUCTION.
I have to remark that my intention was at first to draw a rigid line at 1865, but a few beyond that period having accumulated, I did not want to destroy them, and had, therefore, to extend the time to 1870, beyond which I did not enter any. There are some reasons for that:
1st. 'As not all citizens could be named, nor all were Early Settlers in our sense of the term, the older ones had, of course, a precedence.
2d. Of those who came later the natural chances are for being still alive, and present, and their acquaintance could be made read- ily enough, and much better than from a book.
It is true the natural chances do not always hold true in ex- perience, and many of the later settlers have died, or left for other parts, while many of the earlier ones are living and still present, Indeed there seems to be more endurance and a firmer attachment to their homes among the old settlers, at which we should not be
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surprised, considering the many privations and hardships they had to pass through in acquiring them, which on one side makes these acquirements more dear to their hearts, while a repetition of the process in other quarters is not so very desirable.
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LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS.
EARLY SETTLERS, CLASS IV.
-
NAME.
BIRTHPLACE.
DATE OF SETTLEMENT
Auer J. G ..
Cnt. Schaffhausen
1867
Auer, Jacob ..
do
1867
Brunkow, David
Doelitz, Prussia ..
1869
Bitzan, Thomas
Cecha-Hadka, Bohemi!
1868
Beissel, Anton
Heppingen, Rh. Prussia
1867
Breuer, Fritz .
Deinst, Hannover.
1866
Clark, David .
Herkimer Co., N. Y.
1870
Hass, Lutzi.
Canton Grisons.
1866
Kleiner, Peter.
Baden
1867
Latschaw, Jacob K.
Berks Co., Pa .
1870
Michaels, Carl jr.
Prussia
1866
Moser, Fred
Canton Berne.
1868
Meili, Jacob.
Bonstetten, Switzerland
1866
Pelunek, Charles.
Wranan, Bohemia.
1866
Schladinsky, Chas.
Altflies, Prussia
1866
Schmidt, August.
Prussia .
1866
Schneider, Lawrence
Oberschlages, Bohemia.
1867
Unser, Simon.
Rastadt, Baden
1866
Walker, Silas.
Greenville, Mercer Co., Pa 1866
White, John.
Twidale, Kent, England ..
1866.
Ziebertowsky, Albert.
Berent, Prussia
1868
CONCLUSION.
Looking back upon the tedious labors, the many disappoint- ments in collecting the reports, which had to form the basis of this list, and the weary task of making it up, I can not but regret that they are not more complete, and that they are in many respects not as accurate as I imagined them to be when I set out upon their compilation. There are about 650 names in the different classes, and about 630 of them in the three most important ones, yet they would be fuller if my arrangements had every where found the desired co-operation. Starting out I had 700 blanks printed in English, and 500 in German, and was obliged after. wards to have 200 more printed in the former language. These blanks were sent out to individuals, to friends and to agents, as it was impossible for me to visit every one, especially during the time of writing up the whole book. Personally I have, neverthe-
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be found, either as a county officer, or a member of the legislature of this state in the senate or assembly. But it is not necessary to waste more words about it. I have conscientiously endeavored to collect the matter, and if I have not succeeded to perfection, I must beg every one who should happen to have been omitted to ask himself the question, whether he has exerted particular dili- gence to be inserted.
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TOWNS.
TOWNS.
I am aware of the chance that some people will be a little dis- appointed with the history of the "Towns." Those, especially, who have been reading such books as the "History of Northern Wis- consin," or the "History of La Crosse County," may have become somewhat amused, if not fascinated, by the stories told there about who settled first, or built the first house in a town; who was the first to be born in it, who contracted the first marriage, and finally who was so unexpectedly accommodating to die first. All that may be, or may have been, a merit, and should, perhaps, not be omitted or forgotten. Yet, after the lapse of so many years, it is sometimes very uncertain, at least I have found it rather difficult, to find satisfactory evidence of these and similar matters. I have come to think that so many people did not take interest enough to remember things that happened much later, and therefore but little reliance could be placed upon stories about things which hap- pened so much earlier. I have also found that now and then those knew the most of such things who had no chance whatever to testify from actual experience. Another feature of the books named is the large number of biographies, going at times into the minutest details of a person's history, which could not be of any interest whatever to any one, not even to the subject of the sketch himself, as it was put down in print. Not that I would accuse those, upon whom these descriptions were inflicted, of vanity. They would answer questions, and the agent of the compilers would note down the answers and assume the wish of having it printed. But, while a few were thus supposed to be favored, how many were forgotten? No one will deny the importance of certain indi- vidualities in the development of certain towns or localities, but we should never forget that frequently by favorable conditions and opportunities persons have acquired a certain local and tem- porary prominiscence, who under different circumstances might
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have been entirely overlooked, and that many an individuality was overlooked, or at least undervalued, which under more favor- able circumstances might have shone out brilliantly.
This book pretends to be a history of Buffalo County, and as each town and corporation is an integral part of the county, each is entitled to as much consideration as any other. The older towns have the longer history, and this will not be overlooked, but as all new towns have once been parts of the older ones, the events before the separation can not be repeated intelligibly in the history of the newer ones, and would certainly no longer be inter- esting, if repeated. Instead of biographies I have introduced an impartial list of " Early Settlers " to which I refer the reader.
In the history of a town the interesting points seem to be:
1. A topographical description, including extent, horizontal and perpendicular configuration and adjoining towns.
2. Time of setting off, organization and important alterations and their causes.
3. History of settlement and develpoment; causes of the latter.
4. Population. The number of the present population and its increase during the years between the census of 1880 and that of 1885 are found in the respective tables for the whole county.
5. Schools and other improvements. Much of this is related in the chapter on Education and that on Transportation.
In all these respects I intend to be as brief as possible, and not to repeat those statements, which had to be made in the pre- ceding chapters.
In the following the towns and corporations will be mentioned in alphabetical order. Adjoining towns of Pepin and of Trempea_ leau Counties will be named on the authority of the Atlas of Buf_ falo and Pepin County published 1878 as to Pepin Co., and the Atlas of the State of Wisconsin by F. H. Walling published 1876. as to Trempealeau County. There is a possibility of changes hay- ing been made in the names of towns in the latter county since the time, but I am not aware of any official information of it.
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