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Prairie and has always been a farmer. He is a Republican in his po- litical affiliations but is not an office-holder at present. Carrie Taylor is a member of the Presbyterian church.
James W, Taylor, a retired farmer of Dane county, Wis., residing on a farm in Bristol, section 2, was born in New York city, January 22, 1853. His parents, James and Maria (Vincent) Taylor, were also born in New York city, the father dying there when his son was but a mere child. His mother was a daughter of Gilbert Vincent, an early settler of Kenosha county where both he and his wife are buried. She moved to Windsor about 1869 and died there three years later. James was her only child. He was educated in New York state and in Kenosha county, Wis. He has always been a farmer and at present owns eighty acres of land. At one time he owned a farm of one hun- dred and sixty acres in Windsor. Although not now actively engaged in the tillage of the soil he still glories in the profession which he has made his life work. He was married January 21, 1859, to Miss Ma- hala Van Kleek, the daughter of James and Jane (Vanderwarker) Van Kleek, both of whom were natives of New York state. She was born in New York, November 3, 1839. Her parents moved to Sun Prairie in 1845 and both died there, the father in 1887 and the mother in 1896. They had eight children, three of whom are living. James Van Kleek was a strong Republican and he and his wife were mem- bers of the Methodist church. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have seven chil- dren as follows : Ida Estella, Frank E., Lida M. (deceased), Elmer J., Mabel M., Jennie L, Clarence R. Both Mr. Taylor and his wife are members of the Methodist church. In politics Mr. Taylor is a Repub- lican and he lias served his party as constable at Windsor.
Richard F. Taylor, senior member of the well-known and pros- perous firm of Taylor & Gleason, printers and bookbinders, was born in Leicestershire, England. April 2, 1848. His parents, James F. and Sarah (Chatwin) Taylor were both natives of the British Isles, where the father was a grocer. In May, 1856, James F. Taylor came to the United States and located on a farm in Dane county. A few years later he entered the employ of the R. K. Findlay (later the Alex. Find- lay) grocery company of Madison. He died in 1877 at the age of sixty-four and his wife passed away three years later. Both were members of the Church of England. Of their six children five are still living. James F. lives in Waunakee ; Arthur died at the age of thirty- two; William H. resides in Oregon; Sarah E. is the wife of John F. Farrell of Gladstone, Mich .; John E. makes his home in Milwaukee. Richard F. Taylor received the limited education afforded by the dis- trict schools and at the age of fifteen went to work in a printing office
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after having served an apprenticeship on the farm. Since 1864 he has been continuously engaged in the same business with marked suc- cess. The firm employs four operators and is busy the year around. Mr. Taylor served in the common council of the city of Madison for six years and for the past ten years has been city assessor. That he is absolutely square and honest in his dealings with his fellow citizens there is not the shadow of a doubt. His election to positions of trust is further evidence of the confidence in which he is held. On January I. 1872, he married Catharine, daughter of Patrick and Bridget Dacey of Madison, and to this union have been born five children, Louis R., a machinist, who married Anna Kingston and has two children, Eliza- beth and Mary : Edwin, died at the age of twenty-two; Daisy, wife of Geo. F. Esser of Madison ; Lillian, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a teacher in Elroy, Wis .; and Joseph, who has just completed his first year in the University of Wisconsin. The family are members of the Catholic church and the father of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin.
Thomas G. Taylor has always been a farmer and since 1850 has been a resident of the town of Dunkirk, where he has been prominent in the community for many years. His father, Israel A. Taylor, was a native of Massachusetts and married Miss Eliza Webb, who was born in Connecticut, daughter of Joshua Webb, who settled on a farm in Rock county, Wis., in 1842, and made that his home until his death. Israel A. Taylor was also a pioneer farmer of Porter, Rock county, Wis. but in 1850 moved with his family to Dunkirk, where he pur- chased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, which he cleared and improved and made his permanent home. In later life he sold the farm to his children and made his home with his son Thomas, where he died in 1872, nearly eighty years of age. He left three children; Thomas G., Harriet who is the wife of Hiram W. Upton, and Edward J. Thomas G. was born May 20, 1830, in Cattaraugus county, N. Y., attended school in New York and accompanied his father to Rock county and thence to Dane county. In 1871 he purchased his present property, a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, upon which he has made many improvements and erected substantial farm buildings. In 1858, he married Miss Lucy D. Upton, daughter of John and Lucy Upton of Massachusetts. Six children have blessed the marriage; John Everett, William G., Edward A., Carrie L., Nellie, who married Dwight Hawley. and Mabel (deceased), wife of Thomas Elwood. Mr. Taylor is a stanch supporter of the Universalist church and a regular attendent upon its services. He is also an ardent sympathizer
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with the Prohibition movement but on national issues votes the Re- publican ticket ..
William H. Taylor, who merits consideration in this publication as one of the sterling pioneers of Cross Plains township, where he is- the owner of two hundred and eighty acres of most productive land, is a native of England, having been born in Sussex county, February 5, 1825, and in that county also were born his parents, Jesse and Eliza- beth ( Billings) Taylor, the latter of whom died there, in 1835. Of the nine children of this union only the subject of this review is now liv- ing. In 1835, soon after the death of his wife, Jesse Taylor came with his children to America, making the trip on a sailing vessel and being on the ocean seven weeks and two days. There were two hun- dred persons on board and the voyage was a very rough one, the ves- sel having narrowly escaped being wrecked. Mr. Taylor and his fam- ily disembarked in New York city and thence removed to Henrietta township, Monroe county, that state, where the father passed the re- mainder of his life, his death occurring in 1854. His second wife was a widow bearing the name of Durand, and after her death he married Mary Jones; of Monroe county, three children having been born of this union and two of the number surviving, Edward and Lucy Ann. The father was a member of the Baptist church. Two of his brothers were soldiers in the English army and he himself was a member of the militia for some time. William H. Taylor was reared in Monroe. county, New York, where he received such educational advantages as were afforded in the common schools, which he attended for but a lim- ited period. At the age of fourteen years he began to depend upon his own resources, finding employment at farm work, and he continued a resident of the old Empire state of the Union until 1846, when he started for the west, making Wisconsin his destination. His brother, James W., had located in Jefferson county, this state, in the preceding year, and having thence removed to Middleton township, Dane county, where he was joined by William H. The latter took up his residence in the same township, remainng five and one-half years, dring three of which he maintained his home in the village of Mid- dleton. He thereafter passed one year in Springfield township and six months in Berry township, and then took up his abode in Cross Plains township, where he has since made his home. Here he secured two hundred acres of wild land, in sections 8 and 17, the same being a portion of his present fine homestead of two hundred and eighty acres, and here he has reclaimed from the forest one of those fine farms which have given to Dane county so high a reputation in connection 56-iii
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with the agricultural and allied interests of the state. He has resided on the homestead since 1853, and all the improvements have been made by him since he came into possession of the property. He has given his attention to diversified agriculture and to dairying and stock-grow- ing, and is a citizen who has ever merited the unqualified respect and esteem which are so uniformly accorded him in the community. He is a Republican in his political adherency but has never desired public office, the only position in which he has consented to serve having been that of clerk of his school district. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church. March 29, 1849, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Taylor to Miss Elizabeth A. Simpson, who was born and reared in England, being the eldest of the five sur- viving children of James and Ann (Burton) Simpson, both of whom were born in England. They came to America in 1845, in which year they took up their residence in Cross Plains township, where the fa- ther became a pioneer farmer, his death here occurring in 1866, while his wife passed away in 1882. They became the parents of ten chil- dren, of whom those surviving are: Elizabeth A. (Mrs. Taylor), Francis J., Eliza S., Rhoda R. and James W. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have seven children, namely: Edmund Orville, who is a resident of Kansas ; William Eugene, who resides in Douglas county, Missouri ; Charles Walter, who has charge of the old homestead farm: George Raymond, who res.des in Taylor county ; Mary Elizabeth, who is a res- ident of Berry township: Matilda Ellen, who remains at the parental home, being a teacher by vocation : and Howard Elmer, who is now a resident of Shellville, Sonoma county, California.
Albert M. Techam is a prosperous farmer of Middleton and is of German origin. 'His father, Henry Techam came to America in his early youth and was brought up on a farm in the town of Mid- dleton. Here he lived until he was eighteen years old when he bought two hundred and forty acres of land, upon which his son Albert now resides. Henry Techam has retired from active farm- ing and has now a comfortable home in Middleton. He is a mem- ber of the German Lutheran church as is also his son. Mr. Techam and his wife, Mary A. B. Techam, have two children ; Albert and Josephine, the wife of Otto Niebuhr of Middleton. Mr. Techam is a Democrat and has held the office of constable. Albert Techam was born August 23. 1878, attended the home schools and early be- came interested in the work of the farm, which he has since carried on. He is also a Democrat but not a strong party man, believing in securing the best possible administration of local affairs by men of either party. August 16, 1899, he married Miss Minnie Denner.
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daughter of John and Catherine Denner, natives of Germany. Mrs. Denner is a widow and resides with her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Techam have one daughter, Edna, six years of age. Mr. Techam has always been interested in the diseases and treatment of stock and in October, 1905, decided to pursue a course in veteri- nary surgery.
John Techam, a retired farmer of Middleton. Wis .. is the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and thirty acres in the vicinity of Middleton which he operated until recent years. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Techam, his parents were born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and remained there until after their marriage. Fritz Techam was a weaver and a farmer. With their family they started for Amer- ica in 1853 and arrived in New York city after a terrible voyage of nine weeks during which they narrowly escaped shipwreck. De- ciding to locate at Middleton, Wis. Mr. Techhamn obtained two hundred and forty acres of wild land, which he proceeded to clear and make habitable. His work and improvements made the land valuable and he occupied it until his death in 1883. Mrs. Techam died in 1853. Of their four children three are living; John, Mary and Henry, all of Middleton, Wis. Fritz Techham was a Demo- crat and a member of the German Lutheran church. John Techam was born October 29. 1846 and had but little opportunity to attend school, working on the farm at home until he was twenty-seven years old. In January. 1874, he married Miss Luzetta Willenberg, a native of Holstein, Germany, and after their marriage the young couple resided in Verona where they obtained one hundred and forty acres of land. This farm was their home for nine years after which it was sold and they purchased a farm near Middleton, often called the old Bailey place, which has since been their home. This large and valuable farm is all under cultivation, many improve- ments have been made and a handsome new house built in 1902. Mrs. Techam died in April. 1895, leaving five children ; Louisa, now the wife of Chas. Albrecht of Verona ; Amanda, Mrs. August Nie- buhr of Middleton ; Frederick, who married Miss Lena Schuelburg and lives in Middleton; Fannie, who keeps house for her father; Carrie and Hilda who also live at home. The children were educated in the district schools. Mr. Techam is a Democrat in his political sympathies and has held the office of school treasurer and other local offices. He is a member of the Evangelical Association.
William J. Teckemeyer, president of the Teckemeyer Candy com- pany of Madison, was born in St. Louis, Mo., October 24, 1857. His parents were Henry and Mary (Meyer) Teckemeyer, natives of Prus-
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sia, Germany. The mother died about 1870 at the age of thirty-five and the father was buried on his seventy-first birthday, April 17. 1905. William J. Teckemeyer received his education in the parochial and public schools of St. Louis. For a few years he served as clerk in a wholesale grocery house in that city and in 1882 came to Madison, and in 1888 he organized a confectionery company. The firm name was Teckemeyer & Kurz, but upon Mr. Kurz's death in 1896 he as- sumed the management of the whole concern and incorporated the business under the name of the Teckemeyer Candy Co. A son, H. O., is the vice-president of the company, and a brother, Edward H., is secretary. The business is increasing rapidly, and the firm employs four men as traveling salesmen. Mr. Teckemeyer has been twice mar- ried. His first wife was Miss Charlotte Owens, a native of St. Louis, by whom he had one son, H. O. now vice-president of the company. Mrs. Teckemeyer died in 1889 at the age of thirty-two. Mr. Tecke- meyer's second marriage was to Miss Emma O. Brendler, a native of Cross Plains, Dane county. They have three children,-Russell Arthur, Adolph Otto, and Oscar William. The wife is a member of the German Lutheran church. Mr. Teckemeyer is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mrs. Teckemeyer's parents were Michael and Elenora Brendler, the father a merchant and farmer of the town of Cross Plains. Mr. Brendler is dead, but his wife still lives, making her home in Milwaukee.
C. O. Tellefson & Son carry on a thriving general merchandise business in the village of Rockdale and also deal in all kinds of farm produce. Charles O. Tellefson worked for his father until 1877 when he went into partnership with S. Bronty and after two years started in business as a partner of his father. He was born in Rockdale, Dane county, in September, 1856, and received his education in the schools of that district. His father, Chester Tellefson, was a native of Norway and came to America in 1843. A year was spent at Water- ford, Wis. and at the end of that time the young man returned to Nor- way to bring his parents to Wisconsin. On their arrival the family located at Albion and Chester worked out on farms for a time and then entered the store of Daniel Davidson as clerk. For four years he worked at Cambridge and then opened a general store at Rockdale in 1853 which he continued until 1879 when he took his son Charles O. as partner. Chester Tellefson was prominent in local matters, served as school treasurer, was elected justice of the peace and appointed postmaster of Rockdale. He was a stanch Democrat. Eleven chil- dren were born to Chester Tellefson and his wife, Haga (Asmonson) .
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Tellefson, also a native of Norway. Eight are now living; Serena is Mrs. John Halverson of Rockdale; Charles O. is the oldest son ; Theo is a furniture dealer and undertaker of Rockdale; Louisa is married to George Lien and lives in Granite Falls, Minn. ; Hannah is Mrs. Martin Lien of Rockdale ; Amelia is Mrs. Ed. Ellingson of Edgerton ; Henry is in partnership with his brother Theo at Edgerton, Wis .; Ella is Mrs. Olson of Rockdale. Chester Tellefson died in 1889 and his wife lives in Rockdale. Charles O. married, March 9, 1878, Miss Sena Anderson, daughter of Amond Anderson, of Norway, who came to Albion in the early days and lived on a farm. Seven children blessed the marriage. Adolph, the oldest son, is his father's partner in the store ; Harlow has a butcher shop in Rockdale, his wife is Stella (Anderson) and they have one daughter, Verna ; Marcus died in in- fancy and the next son, also named Marcus, is employed in Milwau- kee as a machinist : Reuben, Clara and Ralph are the younger ones. The children of the family attended the Rockdale schools and the Albion academy. and all are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church of Rockdale. Mr. Tellefson is active in local politics, a mem- ber of the Democratic party, and has been justice of the peace, school treasurer and chairman of the town for two years. He succeeded his father as postmaster of Rockdale.
Theo. Tellefson, undertaker and furniture dealer of Rockdale, is a son of Chester and Haga (Asmonson) Tellefson, who came from Norway in 1846, and a brother of Charles O. Tellefson of the firm of C. O. Tellefson & Son, a sketch of whose life appears elsewhere. He was born in Rockdale, Dane county, Wis., August 15, 1858, at- tended the home schools and obtained his first business experience associated with his brother Charles in his store and in the tobacco business. He worked for his brother from 1883 to 1892 and then opened the store which he now owns in Rockdale, where he carries a fine line of furniture, carpets, pianos, etc. Theo. and his brother Henry have been associated in business for some time and in 1900 started a furniture and undertaking establishment at Edgerton, in which they have been very successful. The firm is Theo. Tellefson & Brother. In recent years Mr. Tellefson has enlarged the stock carried in Rockdale until it now includes all kinds of farm machin- ery and he has taken his son Chester into partnership with him. Theo. Tellefson was married November 22, 1882, to Miss Mary Clachan, daughter of Andrew and Isabela Clachan, who came from Scotland to Jefferson county in the early days. Mr. Clachan died in 1892 and Mrs. Clachan lives in Cambridge. Five children make up the family circle of Mr. and Mrs. Tellefson. Isabella was grad-
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uated from the high school at Cambridge and subsequently from the Gregg school of shorthand and typewriting in Chicago, with the class of 1903. She is now employed by the firm of Donnelly & Son in Chi- cago. Chester is in partnership with his father. Genevieve, Bernice and Wesley remain with their parents in Rockdale. The family is identified with the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran church of Rockdale, of which Mr. Tellefson has been treasurer since its or- ganization in 1892. He has also served as town clerk and is a Democrat in his political sympathies.
Andrew A. Tenjum is a well-known business man of De Forest who has for some years been engaged in the purchase of tobacco from the farmers. He is a native of Dane county and his parents, Andrew P. and Carrie (Anderson) Tenjum, were born in Norway in 1825 and 1827 and came to Dane county in 1856, where they located upon a farm. Their home consisted of a farm of one hundred and ten acres, in the town of Pleasant Springs, which they cleared and im- proved and made their residence for many years. Mr. Tenjum now lives in Stoughton. Mrs. Tenjum died in 1868 and Mr. Tenjum mar- ried Miss Anna Peterson. Six children were born to the first mar- riage, of whom five are living, and six to the second marriage, of whom four are living. Andrew A. was born in Pleasant Springs, August 2, 1858, received his early education in the district schools and early en- gaged in farming. For a few years he worked out by the month and then rented a farm upon which he engaged in tobacco growing. Later he purchased a farm in Norway Grove and operated it for some years. In recent years he has engaged in the purchase of tobacco and sold his farm in Norway Grove. In political sympathy Mr. Tenjum is a Republican and is a member of the village council. He was school clerk for three years in Vienna and is now clerk of the Windsor town- ship free high school. January 31, 1886, he married Miss Carrie Kal- land, who was born in Norway, July 25. 1863, daughter of Sjur and Carrie Kalland. who came from Norway to Stoughton in 1870 and there spent the residue of their lives. To Mr. and Mrs. Tenjum were born three children; Clara Louise, who is a senior in the Windsor township high school : Sine Christina, who attends the same school and Adolph John, who is in the graded school. Mrs. Tenjum died Feb- ruary 25, 1902. The family is identified with the Norway Grove Lutheran church, of which Mr. Tenjum has been trustee and treas- urer.
Charles H. Tenney is a member of the well-known and influential firm of Tenney, Hall & Tenney, attorneys, and is a direct descendant of Daniel and Sylvia (Kent) Tenney. The earlier history of the
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family is found in connection with sketch of Daniel Kent Tenney and the incidents in connection with the life of Horace A. Tenney, paternal grandfather of Charles H. are given in the sketch under his name. Charles Kent Tenney, father of Charles H., the first son and second child of Horace A. and Juliette (Chaney ) Tenney, was born in Madi- son, April 19, 1848. He was married in Janesville, Sept. 28, 1870, to Miss Anna Baldwin, daughter of Jonathan and Eliza Baldwin, a native of Everett, Mass., born April 26, 1847. He is an attorney by profes- s.on and a resident of his native city. A recently published sketch says of him: "He was educated at the University of Wisconsin, and like many other good men served his term in the State Journal office. He studied law with H. W. and D. K. Tenney and was for four years city attorney. Mr. Tenney is logal adviser to many interests and many fraternal orders do not consider the meeting constitutionally under way until this Nestor of right procedure is present." He has practiced law in Madison for thirty-eight years. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Tenney were all born in Madison; of these Chales H., the subject of this sketch, is the oldest and was born Au- gust 1, 1871 ; of the others, Fred B., born September 15. 1872, died October 9, of the same year, and the youngest, William D., born Octo- ber 21, 1873, is a resident of Madison and connected with the Madi- son lumber company. Charles H. Tenney was educated in the Madi- son public schools and the University of Madison and was graduated from the law department of the latter in 1896. He practiced under his own name unt'l 1898 when he became associated with his uncle, D. K. Tenney. F. W. Hall afterward joined the partnership and that business relation is maintained up to the present time. Mr. Ten- ney practices in the state and Federal courts, and besides his general law practice is interested in the Virginia Land & Improvement Co. As a representative of a family largely devoted to the legal profession the family traditions are not likely to fail in his keeping, as he is one of the most popular and promising of the younger attorneys of Mad- ison. He is fond of out-door life, is secretary of the boat club and a member of the Maple Bluff golf club, and spends his summers in his cottage on the shores of Lake Mendota, driving back and forth to his work in the city. Mr. Tenney was married October 22, 1902, to Miss Elizabeth M. Abbott, the daughter of H. W. and Helen P. Abbott, of Baraboo. Mrs. Abbott died September 1, 1901, aged fifty-five years, and her husband still makes his home in Baraboo. Mrs. Tenney is a member of the Episcopalian church and was, before her marriage, a very successful teacher in the state school for the blind,
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at Janesvlle, and still retains a large interest in all educational mat -. ters.
Daniel Kent Tenney, senior member of the law firm of Tenney, Hall & Tenney, is a descendant of an old English family the dis- cription of whose coat of arms reads as follows, "Tenney, Salsbury per Chevron, Sable and Argent, three Griffins' heads erased and counter-charged." and of the crest, "Griffins' head, couped gules." The colonial history of the family began in 1638, when Thomas and Ann Tenney came to Salem in company with a party of twenty families in charge of Rev. Ezekiel Rodgers. The following year with an addition of forty families they formed the settlement of Rowley, Essex county, about sixteen miles from Salem. The direct line of descent is as follows: Thomas Tenney, married Ann ; John, married Mercy Parrot, February 21, 1664; Samuel, married Sarah Boynton, December 18, 1690; Jonathan, (name of wife and date of marriage unknown) ; Benjamin, married Susannah Jewett, probably about 1782: Daniel, married Sylvia Kent, October 26, 1815; Daniel Kent Tenney, subject of this sketch, born December 31. 1834. The Kent family is also among the earlier colonial fami- lies, the first representative being Richard Kent, who emigrated from Ipswich, England, to Massachusetts in 1634 in the "good ship, Mary and John." In the history of the Indian wars and of the Revolution the name of Tenney frequently appears. In 1770 John and Nathaniel Tenney were among the signers to the report of a committee "appointed to consider what measures may be proper for this town to take in order to prevent the importation of British manufactures, and encourage our own, and make report to the town at an adjourned meeting," and Oliver Tenney was one of the committee of thirteen who drafted the report. In the subse- quent agitation, protests and setting forth of publie grievances, as well as in the war itself, the Tenneys showed themselves to be of good fighting material, and the family traditions are supported by documentary evidence that Benjamin Tenney. the direct ancestor of D. K. Tenney, took part in the Revolutionary War. This con- densed account of the family as well as some other facts have been taken from the "Genealogy of the Tenney Family," published in 1875, for private distribution. Daniel Tenney, father of D. K. Tenney, was born February 13, 1794, at Temple, N. H. He mar- ried Sylvia Kent, October 26. 1815. and moved to Grand Isle county, Vt .. in 1819. In 1835 the family started west, Green Bay, Wisconsin. being the objective point, but the sickness and death of one of the children. Myron, delayed them at Little Falls, N. Y.,
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