History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 157

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304

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GEORGE RAYMER was born in Jefferson, Greenc Co., Penn., Oct. 13, 1842 ; his parents. Samuel and Elizabeth Raymer, were both natives of Virginia ; they removed with their family of five sons, to Green Co., Wis., in 1847, and settled on a farm where they still reside. George Raymer enlisted in Co. D, 36th W. V. I., in 1863, and served as a non-commissioned officer with the regiment in the 2d Army Corps until the close of the war of the rebellion ; he was wounded three times during 1864, in the battles around Petersburg, Va .; was mustered out of service Aug. 21, 1865. Was an unsuccessful Democratic candi date for Sheriff of Green Co., in 1866. Entered the University of Wisconsin in 1867, graduated in 1871. Became a partner in ownership and editor of the Madison Democrat in 1871, which position he has since held with the exception of the years 1873 and 1874, when he was made Sheriff of Dane Co.

THOMAS REGAN, plumber and gasfitter, Madison, Wis., is the son of Patrick and Catha- rine Regan, both of whom are now dead. Mr. Thomas Regan was born in Sligo Co., Ireland, Feb. 15, 1840; he came to Madison, Wis., in August of 1855, and worked at his present business in that place for aeven years, when he went to Chicago, where he remained for three years, engaged in learning the best part of his trade; returning to Madison, he began business for himself, but, in 1877, sold out to Mr. Binks, and did not re-engage in business until April, 1880, when he bought back his old business and has since continued in the same. Sept. 24, 1866, Mr. Regan was married to Miss Susan Loraine Pierce, who was born in Allegan County, Mich., on the 15th of March, 1846; they have four children-Katie Maria, horn Nov. 17, 1867 ; Alice Sophia, Nov. 29, 1869 ; Susie Pierce, Nov. 8, 1871 ; and Annie Howe, who was born July 29, 1878; children all born in Madison. The family belong to the Episcopalian Church.

J. E. RHODES, joint proprietor of meat-market and packing-house, Madison, Wis., was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., March 30, 1829 ; he is the son of L. H. and Lucinda H. Rhodes. In October, 1847, Mr. Rhodes came West, with his parents, to Dane Co., Wis., and settled four miles west of Madi- son, Wis., on a farm. Here he lived for four years, then removed to Madison, where, until 1853, Mr. Rhodes was in the saloon and grocery business. He then began as a butcher, and opened a meat-market, in which he has ever since been engaged. Sept. 20, 1854, Mr. Rhodes married Miss Sarah A. Gorum, who was born March 15, 1831. They have four children-Willie E., Herbert H., Asa A., and Jamie. Mr. Rhodes has served as Alderman for two years.

REV. CHARLES H. RICHARDS, Pastor of First Congregational Church, was born in Meriden, N. H., in 1839. He is a son of C. S. Richards, LL. D., who was for thirty-six years Principal of Kimball Union Academy, in Meriden, N. H., now Dean of the Preparatory Department of Howard University, Washington, D. C. His preparatory education was under his father's instruction. He entered Amherst College in 1856, but spent the last two years of the course in Yale College, from which he graduated in the class of 1860. For two years after graduating he was Assistant Teacher, with his father, in the academy at Meriden, N. H. Was six months in the United States Christian Com- mission, mostly in the Army of the Potomac. The first part of his theological course was in the Union Theological Seminary of New York City, and he completed his course at Andover Theological Seminary,

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from which he graduated in 1865. Preached one year at Kokomo, Ind., and, in March, 1867, he entered upon his pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Madison, which relation has been pleasantly sus- tained to the present date. He was married in 1868, to Miss Marie M. Miner, daughter of the Rev. A. Miner, a pioneer Baptist minister of Wisconsin, who was afterward President of the Waukesha County Bank ; they have had three children-Charles M., who died in childhood ; the living are Paul S. and Helen D., both at home. The fortieth anniversary of the First Congregational Church occurred Oct. 10, 1880. During his thirteen years pastorate, 505 persons have been gathered into the church membership, which is now 414. Their elegant stone house of worship, costing about $50,000, was erected in 1874.

W. H. ROGERS, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Mt. Morris, Livingston Co., N. Y .; born March 15, 1850. When two years of age his parents came to Portland, Dodge Co., Wis., where he resided until he entered the Wisconsin State University ; graduate of College of Arts, class of 1875, and law department, class of 1876, and has been engaged in practice in Madison since the fall of 1876. Mr. Rogers was District Attorney in 1877 and 1878; member of the City Council, in 1879, from the Second Ward. Married Sept. 18, 1874, in the town of York, Mattie E. Snow ; she was born in Leroy, Genesee Co., N. Y. They have two children-Mattie M. and Gracie M.

PROF. WILLIAM H. ROSENSTENGEL, Professor of German Language and Lit- erature, Wisconsin State University ; was born in Barmen, Rheinprovin, Prussia, in 1842 ; was educated in the Realschule at Barmen ; was afterward teacher in Elberfeld and Radevormwald ; came to the United States in 1865, and settled in St. Louis, Mo. ; was 1st Assistant, then Principal, of the German private school, and in 1869, entered the public school as German Head Assistant ; and from 1870 to 1879, he was 2d Assistant in the Central High School in St. Louis ; in August, 1879, he accepted a call to the Professorship of German Language and Literature in the Wisconsin State University ; his colleagues and the school authorities of St. Louis expressed their high appreciation of Prof. R. and of his educational and literary labors. In addition to his duties as teacher, he contributed to German papers in this country and in Germany ; he was one of the proprietors of the Western, also assistant editor of the German- Ameri- can Educational Monthly, and is the author of nearly all the articles on literature in Klemm's " History of German Literature." He published " Lessons in German Grammar," which is still used in the St. Louis High School ; is also author of a work on " Irregular Verbs ; " has manuscript nearly completed for a " German Scientific Reader," and for a "German Classical Reader," and " German Reader for High Schools." He is officially connected with several German educational and literary associations. Was mar- ried, in 1865, to Miss Lina Wirth, of Radevormwald, Germany ; they have four children-William R., now in High School; Emma, Rudolph and Hattie. Prof. R. is President of the Madison Kinder- garten Association ; during the past year he taught an average of eighty students per term ; he is in demand as a popular lecturer on German literature; he has a library of choice selections, numbering 1,300 volumes, all works of note on German literature, and a good representation of works on the English language and literature. Is an indefatigable worker, a conscientious teacher and a growing reputation as a German literator.

HON. ALDEN SPRAGUE SANBORN, son of Amos Sanborn and Sophia Frost ; born at Corinth, Vt., Oct. 21, 1820 ; Amos Sanborn, the oldest child of bis parents, was son of Moses Sanborn and Abigail Sanborn, nee Rowe; and Sophia Frost was daughter of William Frost, of Groton, Vt .; Moses Sanborn and William Frost settled in Vermont a short time prior to 1790, the former at Corinth, and the latter at Groton, both hailing from Massachusetts. The children of Moses Sanborn were ten, six sons and four daughters, viz., Amos, Polly, Robert, Edson, Ezra, Lodicea, Dudley, Rachael, Allen and Harriet ; the oldest was Amos, born in June, 1790, and he settled on a farm adjoining the farm of his father. He first married Sally Clement, of Corinth, who died four years thereafter. . In 1818, he married Sophia Frost, of Groton, Vt., who died at Corinth in 1847, and he died at West Topsham, Vt., eighteen years ago ; his death was caused by a fall from an appletree; the children by the second marriage were four, one son and three daughters, viz., Sally C., Alden Sprague, Julia Ann and Amelia S. ; they are all living ; Sally married Dana M. Sawyer, of Corinth, Vt., and now resides at Creston, Iowa ; Julia Ann married Harvey Cheney, of Vermont, and now resides in Milwaukee; Amelia first married Theodore Campbell, of Mazomanie, Wis., who died soon after ; subsequently she married Harrison Bennett, who then resided near Libertyville, Ill., and now resides at Alden, State of Iowa; Aldens was married at Mil- waukee, Wis., Feb. 10, 1847, to Huldah M. Eastman, daughter of Searl Eastman and Sally Eastman, nee Moulton, of Haverhill, N. H., but formerly of Bath, N. H., her birthplace ; the children of this marriage are five, viz., Emma Justine, born at Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 17, 1850; Perley Roddis, born in Appleton, Wis., Feb. 1. 1853 ; Ada Blanch, born at Mazomanie, Wis., Nov. 10, 1856; Prentiss, born at Mazoma-

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nie, Jan. 13, 1861 ; Gertrude Lu, born at Mazomanie, April 24, 1864 ; Emma married George R. Cook, of Madison, Wis .. Jan. 17, 1869, and they now reside in Madison ; Perley married Jane Robbins, daugh- ter of James Robbins, of Madison, Wis., Nov. 11, 1875, and they now reside in Milwaukee ; Prentiss, died Dec. 14, 1874, at the age of 14 years, less 30 days ; he came to his death by drowning in Lake Mendots. Alden Sprague Sanborn had the ordinary common school advantages until 16 years of age ; is not a graduate of any college or university, but pursued a classical course of study for four years in aca- demic schools and with private tutors ; read law with Hon. Seth Austin, of Bradford Vt., and subse- quently, for a short time, with Hon. Richard P. Marvin, of Jamestown, N. Y .; was admitted to practice in Orange Co., Vt., in January, 1846; came to Wisconsin in September following ; taught school in Mil- waukee for several terms; was elected Treasurer of Milwaukee Co. in 1848; removed in the spring of 1850, to Appleton, Wis., then in Brown Co .; was District Attorney of Brown Co. in 1851 and 1852, and after the county of Outagamie was organized, was District Attorney thereof for 1853 and 1854; was one of the Commissioners to locate the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane ; removed to Dane Co. in the fall of 1854; resided at Mazomanie from May, 1855, to May, 1864, and was in the meantime member of Assem- bly for the West Assembly District, for 1862, 1863 and 1864; at the expiration of the session in 1864, he removed to Madison, where he has since resided ; was elected Mayor of Madison in 1867, and City Attorney in 1869, and again in 1870; was member of Assembly for the Madison District in 1870; in a triangular candidacy, in 1877, was elected County Judge of Dane Co. by a plurality vote, for the term of four years, which commenced Jan. 1, 1878; he now resides in the Second Ward of the city of Madison, where he has resided for the last sixteen years.

ARTHUR L. SANBORN, attorney at law, of the firm of Pinney & Sanborn ; was born in Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence Co. N. Y., Nov. 17, 1850 ; came to Wisconsin in 1859, and located at Geneva Lake ; remained there until 1869 ; then moved to Elkhorn, where he studied law. Married at Elkhorn, Oct. 15, 1874, Alice E. Golder ; she was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y. ; they have one child-John S. Mr. Sanborn was Register of Deeds in Walworth Co. from January, 1875, to 1879 ; then came to Madi- son and formed a partnership with Mr. Pinney.

JULIUS SCHADANER, cigar manufacturer and dealer, Madison, Wis .; was born in Arch, Province of Austria, March 22, 1845, and came to America in 1855, after which he lived in Buffalo, N. Y., for two years, when he removed to Madison. Wis., reaching there July 3, 1857, and has since made his home in that city ; learned his trade there, and began his present business in 1877. Sept. 7, 1869, in Madison, Wis., he was married to Miss Amelia Rigl, who was born in Austria Nov. 29, 1849; they have two children-Amelia R., born Feb. 18, 1871, and Julius A., born Feb. 1, 1878. Mr. S. belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, and is a member of the Temple of Honor.

HENRY SCHELER, proprietor of meat-market, Madison, Wis. ; is the son of John Paul snd Elizabeth Scheler, and was born in Saxe-Cobourg, Germany, Sept. 7, 1836 ; he came to America in 1856, and lived at Ft. Plain, N. Y., until he came West; nearly twenty-two years ago, he removed to Madison, and began his present business there ; from 1860 to 1861, Mr. S. was in Colorado. In the fall of 1861, Mr. S. enlisted in Co. D, 23d W. V. I., and served three years ; he was in the battles of Arkan- sas Post, Red River expeditioo, siege of Vicksburg and Mobile ; returning from the army, Mr. S. began bis present business. In the fall of 1865, Mr. Scheler was married to Miss Sophia Schmidt, who was born in Germany Nov. 9, 1842 ; Mr. and Mrs. S. have a family of six children, viz. : Ellen Johanna Caroline, Carl Otto Henry, Carl Louis Henry, George Ferdinand Henry, Rosetta Emma Ida and Emil Andrew. Mr. and Mrs. S. belong to the German Presbyterian Church. Mr. S. is Alderman of the Fifth Ward ; he belongs to the Odd Fellows' and Turners' Societies.

GEORGE SCHERER, proprietor of meat-market, Madison, Wis. ; is the son of Paul and Barbars Scherer, and was born in Bavaria, Province of Rhine, Germany, Dec. 31, 1829, at 11.30 P. M .; he came to America in 1854, landing in New York on the 19th of April ; Oct. 12, 1854, he went to Mil- waukee, Wis., where he lived until June 12, 1855, when he removed to Madison, Wis., where he has lived ever since; he learned his present business at this place, and began business for himself in the fall of 1859 ; from 1863 to 1878, Mr. S. was leader of the Madison Brass Band; he christened the band, and is now its business agent and treasurer. Mr. S. has been twice married ; first in Madison, June 12, 1856, to Miss Mina Silvuaguel; she died July 12, 1878; by this wife he had eight children, viz .: Louis, George, Frank, Philip, Auna, John, Mina and Ida. Mr. S. was married, for the second time, to Miss Johanna Weber, on the 7th of February, 1880; this lady was born in 1847. Mr. S. belongs to the German Cath- olio Church.

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JOHN SCHLINGEN, saloon-keeper, Madison, Wis. ; came from Prussia to Milwaukee, Wis., with his family in the fall of 1854; and, in April, 1855, removed to the town of Perry, Dane Co., Wis., and settled on a farm ; two years later he removed to Primrose, Wis. Mr. S. was born near Cologne, Prussia, April 3, 1842; received German education in his native land, and afterward gained English edu- cation in the common schools of Primrose, Wis. ; October, 1863, he removed to Madison, Wis., and tended bar for three years; December, 1866, he began business for himself as a saloon-keeper. In 1872, he be- came Notary Public ; and since that time, besides his business in the saloon, has acted as money-loaner, insurance agent, etc. He has served as Justice of the Peace for one term. Dec. 26, 1865, Mr. S. was married to Miss Amanda Josephine Heffner, who was born in Little York, Penn., July 20, 1845; her parents were Bavarians ; Mr. S. has had six children, five of whom are living-William E., born Feb. 2, 1867 ; Frederick Matthias, Aug. 4, 1868 ; Louise Catharine, April 3, 1870; John Michael Bruno, Oct. 6, 1872; and Bertha Sibilla, Sept. 14, 1874; Maria Theresa, who was born Oct. 9, 1876, died Dec. 2, 1876. The family belong to the German Catholic Church.

GEORGE SCHLOTTHAUER, proprietor of the Lake City House; is a native of Germany ; came to the United States in 1852; after living in several different cities he settled in Madison in June, 1857, and has lived here ever since. Was married in New Orleans in 1857, to Miss Gertrude Parkham, by whom he has had two sons-Oscar, who graduated from Northwestern Business College in 1880, and Julius, who clerks for his father. The Lake City House is of brick, on corner of Wilson and East Canal streets; has accommodations for twenty-five boarders and guests, and was built in 1876. Patronage includes all nationalities ; when he came to Madison all was brush and unimproved nature where he now lives; he had traveled in many States, and thought Madison the most beautiful place he ever saw.

MRS. DOROTA SCHLUNDT, nee Appell, millinery and fancy goods at No. 221 Main street, and notions at 64 Williamson street ; she was born in 1822 in Germany, and learned her business in that country. She was married, July 26, 1850, to John Schlundt-a carriage-maker by trade, who also was born in 1822 in Germany ; they came to the United States immediately after marriage in 1850, and settled in Rahway, N. J., where he worked at his trade eleven years ; removed to Madison in spring of 1858, where he worked at his trade till 1875. Mrs. Schlundt opened a millinery store in 1870, and has continued the business with increasing patronage to the present date. Family are Methodists. They have had four children-one, Nicholas, died in infancy ; the living are Emma E., Philata and Johanna D. The oldest daughter married A. V. Prentice, a railroad man. They own residence No. 64 Williamson street. She employs five assistants ; carries a large stock of goods and has an extended patronage, both English and German.

REV. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SCHMIDT, President and First Theological Professor of the " Norwegian Lutheran Seminary ;" was born at Leutenberg, Germany, on the 4th of January, 1837; came with his parents to America in 1841; was educated in St. Louis, Mo., and grad- nated in 1857, from Concordia Seminary ; he was then Pastor two years of the German Lutheran Congre- gation at Eden, near Buffalo, N. Y .; then two years in charge of an English Lutheran Church in Balti- more, Md .; from 1861 to 1872, he was connected with the Luther College, now located at Decorah, Iowa, which is a preparatory school for the Theological Seminary with which he is now connected. From 1872 to 1876, he was the Norwegian Professor at Concordia Seminary-his Alma Mater. Since 1876, he has been President of the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, Thirty-seven young men during the past year have pursued their theological studies in this seminary, and four have graduated in the full course. The seminary was once owned by the State, and known as the "Soldiers' Orphans' Home." President Schmidt was married in 1858, to Miss Caroline Allward, of Plato, Cataraugus Co., N. Y .; they have seven chil- dren-Augustus M. and Herman T. are at Ft. Wayne, Ind., in Concordia College ; the remaining five are at home, namely, Edward W., Bertha M., Clara S., Otto E. and Paul G. For two years he was editor of the Lutheran Watchman, and for six years county editor of The Kirketidende, both of which were published at Decorah, Iowa ; he is now publishing the German monthly named Altes and Neunes; also publishes occasional pamphlets, and is a well-known contributor to other publications; he has a library of fully two thousand volumes-mainly theological and classical, some of them bearing date early as 1524. One volume bears the autograph, written May 6, 1570, of " Mathias Flacius Illyricus," who was Professor of Theology at Gena, Germany ; he has a copy of the Weimar Bible, known as the " Electoral Prince's Bible," published in 1640; its size is the largest folio, and contains about two thousand pages of the thickest paper ; he has a copy of the first original edition of the " Book of Concord," which contains all the symbolical books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church ; it was printed in 1580; he has several volumes

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of American History, and an average representation of works on general literature, but for the amount of ancient, theological Lutheran works, the Professor's library is said to be equalled by only two other private libraries in the United States ; he is a man of large mental grasp, and is notel for the logical clearness of his statements of doctrine and belief-for solid thinking in clear language devoid of all verbal ornamenta- tion; he is regarded as a sound theologian and an able defender of the Lutheran faith.

PHILIP SCHOEN, proprietor of Capitol bakery, restaurant and saloon; is the son of Peter and Margaret Shoen, and was born in Prussia, near the Rhine, June 24, 1824; came to America io 1847, and went to Albany, N. Y .; removed to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1848, and worked in the bakery business for five years, then went to Madison, Wis., where for four years he was proprietor of "Golden Star" and bakery .; thence he went to Watertown, Wis., and was for two and one-half years engaged in distillery business ; returning to Madison, he resumed the business in which he is now engaged, and, in 1875, built his present building. Mr. S. has been twice married, first to Miss Mary Seelbernagel, on Jan. 1, 1852 ; she died Aug. 12, 1865; by this marriage there were six children, four of whom are living, viz .: Anna, Clara, Frank and Mary. Mr. S. was married the second time on March 27, 1866, to Miss Mar- garet Seelbernagel, who was born in July, 1844; by this marriage there are five children, viz .: Charlie, Theresa, Katie, Edward and William. The family belong to the German Catholic Church.

JOSEPH SCHWEINEM, ice-dealer, Madison; is the son of Bernard and Agnes Schweinem, and was born in the Province of Rhine, Germany, April 5, 1830; he came to America in 1851, and landed in Madison, Wis., in July of that year ; before leaving his native country, Mr. S. had learned the tailor's trade, and, after coming to this country, worked at it for several years; he began his present business in the spring of 1866; he puts up ahout 4,400 tons of ice per year. Aug. 19, 1854, he was married to Miss Gertrude Lerhar, who was born on the Rhine, in Germany, Feb. 18, 1838 ; they have had ten children, eight of whom are living, viz .: William, Kate (now Mrs. Schulkamp), Minnie, Hubbard, Josie, Lena, Johnnie and Sophia; Bernard and Annie are the names of the two that are dead. Mr. and Mrs. S. belong to the German Catholic Church. ..

JACOB SEEMANN, Justice of the Peace; was born in Laurvig, Norway, June 13, 1830; came to America June 1, 1854 ; was at Port Washington, in county offices, until September, 1855, when came to Madison ; was assistant editor of the Norwegian American until the fall of 1856 ; was in the State School Land Department until January, 1860 ; then was Director aud Treasurer of the North Star Newspaper Association ; also worked as clerk for some time; in 1865, he opened an office for prosecuting military claims, which he continued till 1870; he was then elected Justice of the Peace, and re-elected five times since. He was married in the village of Black Earth, in May, 1858, to Johanna Marie Bruns- berg, a native of Norway ; they have one daughter, Eleonora K .; they lost one daughter, Minnie, who died May 2, 1875, aged 16 years.

WILLIAM N. SEYMOUR is a son of Hon. William Seymour, who represented the Twentieth Congressional District of New York in the Twenty-Fourth Congress, of 1835-37, and who was a member of the New York Assembly in 1832 and 1834; he was born at Binghamton, Broome Co., N. Y., April 22, 1808, and came to Madison Jan. 29, 1838, and has resided here since that time ; he has held many offices in the town, village, city and county ; he was the Justice of the Peace for a long series of years, and was the first Clerk of the City Council in 1856. Esquire Seymour is still living at Madi- son, and is a well-known and esteemed citizen ; for many years he has suffered from paralysis.

SAMUEL SHAW, Superintendent of the Madison Public Schools, was born in 1842, in Southern Scotland ; he came, with his mother, to the United States in 1852, and settled in Oshkosh, where his mother still resides; he was educated in the public schools of Oshkosh, and afterward taught several years in the same city; traveled one year in Europe ; then was four years Principal of Omro High School, Winnebago Co., and, from 1867 to 1871, was Superintendent of Schools in that county; after- ward, he was two years Principal of the Berlin High School. In 1873, he was called to the superin- tendency of the public schools of Madison, Wis., which position he has since retained. Was married, in 1865, to Miss Louise Webb, of Omro; they have two children-Lula and Grace. He was President of the State Teachers' Association in 1872. His family are Presbyterians. Largely through the efficiency of Superintendent Shaw, the public schools of Madison are thoroughly graded and of an advanced standard.

S. L. SHELDON, dealer in agricultural implements, Madison ; he was born in Rupert, Ben- nington Co., Vt., April 1, 1828 ; he spent his boyhood on the farm of his father, Stephen S. Sheldon, assisting him in carrying it on, and, at times, clerking in his store, up to the age of 24, when, having

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determined to seek his fortune in the West, he came to Wisconsin and settled, in 1854, in the town of Burke, in this county, where he purchased a farm of 168 acres, part of it being in Sec. 32, and part in Sec. 33; there were only seventeen acres under the plow, the balance being at one time heavily timbered, but then thickly covered with an underbrush of from ten to twenty feet high; he afterward added enough to make his farm 540 acres; he set out an orchard of over one thousand trees, put out about two miles of shade-trees and built about the same amount of fencing that year, and, at the time of its sale, had cleared 250 acres. Mr. S. taught school in the old log schoolhouse, which was one of the first dis- trict schools ; but, in 1855, having sold that part of his farm to Alex Lisk, in the winter he taught in his own log cabin, at the same time superintending the work of three hired men, did the housework and sawed and split fire-wood in the evening. In 1856, he engaged in the sale of agricultural implements, and, the first year, sold twenty-eight reapers; his business, from this small beginning, steadily increased, until, at the present time, bis sales from his warehouse in the city of Madison amount to half a million dollars a year; his business extends over the States of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Dakota Territory, being one of the largest dealers in the Northwest. The first reaper trial in this section occurred on the farm of H. P. Hall, of Burke Township, and between Mr. Porter, the representa- tive of the McCormick. and S. L. Sheldon, of Seymour & Morgan, which last was the successful machine. In 1857, he was elected Assessor, and fulfilled the requirements of the office to the satisfaction of all con- cerned, and was again elected to fill the office. During this year, the Legislature changed the old law so as to require the Assessor to put in the land at its real value. So sacredly did Mr. S. perform his duty that the result showed a larger increase of taxes. Mr. Sheldon was one of the foremost men in every- thing pertaining to the interests of the town of Burke. In 1862, he moved into the city of Madison, where, besides being engaged in his preseot extensive business, he also looks after some fifty farms, scat- tered over the Northwest. Mr. Sheldon has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Frances Bel- den (daughter of Daniel Belden, of Brockport, N. Y., and sister of C. A. Belden, one of the early set- tlers of Madison), to whom he was married in September, 1856; she died, leaving three children, one now living, a daughter, Minnie R., and two since deceased, David and Katie. His second wife was Miss Anna R. Clark (daughter of Griffin Clark, an old settler of the town of Oregon, Dane Co.), to whom he was married May 6, 1869; they have two children, both living, a daughter, Georgie R., and a son, Henry T.

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History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 157

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 1304

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304