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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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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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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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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.


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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