History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 168

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 V. OTT, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Madison ; has resided in Dane Co. since 1856 ; he was born in Baden, Germany, July 15, 1826 ; came to America in 1848; located in Holmes Co., Ohio, where he followed the tanning business, which he had learned in Germany, till he came to Wisconsin, in 1856. Was married in Richland Co., Ohio, in 1852, to Miss Sophia Blaser, who died in 1855, leaving one son, George T. S. Ott, now telegraph operator at Evansville, Dane Co., Wis. When he came to Wiscon- sin, he settled in Madison; erected a tannery, which he operated, and also opened a leather store, harness and shoe shop, employing some of the time as high as thirteen harness-makers and half a dozen shoemakers in addition to his other business ; he also erected, in 1858, one of the best dwelling houses on Third Lake, and, in 1861, built a large store on Pinckney street, adjoining the State Bank, which he still owns ; in 1872, he closed out his business and rented his store ; in 1877, he purchased a farm of 92 acres on the southeast shore of Lake Monona, about three miles from the city of Madison, where he has since resided. His sec- ond wife was a sister of his first wife ; she was a physician, and practiced several years in Madison. Mr. O. is a Republican.

HENRY PETERS, farmer, Sec. 11 ; P. O. Cottage Grove ; born Aug. 4, 1832, in the city of Schwerin, Germany ; son of John Peters, who came to America in 1853, arriving in New York on the 20th of September ; he came direct to Wisconsin, and settled in the town of Cottage Grove, on Sec. 32, and is now living with his son, the subject of this sketch, who was married Oct. 19, 1854, to Charlotte Winkler, and has four children-Arthur, Lucie, Hugo and Henry, all at home ; one son (Henry) died in 1865, aged 3 years. Was Town Treasurer once in Cottage Grove, and one term in Blooming Grove. In politics, votes for the best man. Has 120 acres of land in his farm, worth $50 per acre; raises grain principally, but this year has 10 acres of Spanish tobacco.

C. N. RICE, farmer, Sec. 4 ; P. O. Madison ; is a native of Addison Co., Vt .; born Dec. 22, 1823; his father, Joel Rice, was a prominent physician of Bridgeport, Vt. ; Mr. Rice left home in 1841 ; went to Knox Co., Ill., and lived there between four and five years; he then returned East, and remained about two years. Was married in 1849, in Bridgeport, to Flora Benjamin, of that place, and, in the fall of 1850, came to Wisconsin ; lived in Walworth Co. till the fall of 1854; then came to his present loca- tion, where he has since resided. His first wife died in November, 1854, leaving two children, having lost one before her death-Erwin, who died in infancy ; the two left were Ella (who died in 1856, 3 years old) and Martin G. (now in Rushville Ill.) He received a military education at Sing Sing, N. Y., at what was known as " Capt. Patridge's School," then conducted by Capt. Wallace Benjamin ; he is now railroad- ing on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in Illinois. Mr. Rice was married the second time July 6, 1865, to Theresa Helms, who was born April 16, 1841, in La Porte, Ind. ; her father, Charles Helms, came to Wisconsin when she was 3 years old, and died in Iowa in 1875; have one child by the second marriage-Flora C., born Aug. 30, 1867. He has been Town Clerk and Supervisor. Is a Repub- lican. Has 78 acres of land, three miles from Madison ; his father, Dr. Rice, came to Wisconsin and died Aug. 19, 1860, aged 68 ; Mrs. Rice is still living in Madison, at the age of 80.

H. M. SAWYER, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. McFarland; has been a resident of the town of Blooming Grove since September, 1847; he was born in Windsor Co., Vt., July 1, 1833; his mother, whose maiden name was Clarissa Bigelow, died when he was 2 years old ; and his father, Thomas Sawyer,

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came to Wisconsin with his family of one son and two daughters in 1847, and died in Blooming Grove May 20, 1848 ; he was buried on the farm of his son, J. P. Sawyer, who had come to Dane Co. some time previous. H. M. Sawyer was married, May 18, 1859, to Rosanna Holden, a native of Canada East, born Sept. 13, 1842; daughter of John and Rhoda Holden ; has three children-Lillian A., born Nov. 14, 1860 ; Ida R., Feb. 1, 1869; and Alta G., Dec. 19, 1873, all at home. He went to California in the spring of 1856; left New York on the 9th of March and spent ten years there, most of the time in the mines. Was married while in California and returned to Wisconsin in 1866. Is a Republican, and has 80 acres of land. Mr. Holden died in Canada April 29, 1857, aged 64; and Mrs. Holden Jan. 24, 1846, aged 47.

JAMES P. SAWYER, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. McFarland; was one of the first settlers in the south part of the town of Blooming Grove; he was born Dec. 3, 1823, in Windsor Co., Vt. ; came to Wisconsin in September, 1845, and lived in Walworth Co. till the 1st of January, 1846; then came to Dane Co. and located on his present farm, where he has since resided ; his father, Thomas Sawyer, came in October, 1847, and died May 20, 1848. Mr. Sawyer was married, in 1856, to Margaret J. Evans ; she was born in Knox Co., Ohio, Feb. 11, 1848; daughter of Sidney Evans, who came to Wisconsin in the summer of 1846. Mr. Sawyer has no children of his own, but has an adopted daughter, Daisy Myr- tle. Mr. S. is a Republican, and has 172 acres of land.

JOHN H. SIGGELKOW, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. McFarland; born Dec. 23, 1841, in Mecklenburg, Germany ; his father, Adolph Siggelkow, came to America in 1851 ; settled first in Bloom- ing Grove, and now lives in Madison at the age of 84. Mrs. S. died about 1868. John H. was married in February, 1872, to Alice McFarland, and has three children-Jennie, Minnie and Herbert. Is the present Town Clerk, which office he has held four years previous to this, and was Treasurer one year. Democrat, and has 114 acres of land, worth $40 per acre.

ERNEST SOMMERS, gardener, Sec. 6; born in Dec. 7, 1822, in Saxony, Prussia ; came to America in 1846 ; lived in Milwaukee four years ; then, in 1850, came to Madison with Gov. Farwell; helped lay out all the streets in East Madison ; superintended the work for two years, and set out all the shade trees in that part of the city ; put out about three thousand cottonwood and soft maple trees between East Madison Depot and the Catfish, and put out hundreds of trees in the park and other parts of the city ; in 1853, he purchased of Gov. Farwell the land he now occupies; erected a dwelling and has fol- lowed gardening there ever since; has 9 acres of land, most of it inside the city limits. Was married in 1851, to Maria Eva Fuchs, a native of Germany ; has had twelve children, only seven of whom are living -Leo, Max, Otto, Julius, Frank, Josephine and Anna. Josephine is now the wife of Conrad Hoffman, of Madison ; was two years Supervisor, when the village and town of Madison were all one ; was four years Treasurer in Blooming Grove during the war ; and has held at different times nearly all the offices in the town ; and was one of the founders of the Madison Horticultural Society. Is a Democrat.

HENRY WACKMAN, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Madison ; came to Dane Co. in October, 1849; settled in Madison and worked at the carpenter and joiner's trade in that city for nineteen years, except one year in the grocery business and one year in a harness shop ; he helped build the east and west wings of the capitol, and worked one winter on the north wing; in September, 1868, came to his present location ; he was born in Ulster Co., N. Y., Aug. 15, 1823; son of Gamaliel Wackman, who came West and died at Madison at the age of 58. Mrs. Wackman is still living in Dayton, Green Co., Wis., at the age of 73. Mr. Wackman was married in his native county Dec. 9, 1847, to Margaret Hoffman, a native of the same county, and has three children-Josephine, now Mrs. William H. Davis, of the town of Madison, Dane Co .; Eugene, now Mrs. Demier, of Oregon, Dane Co .; and Charles H., in the carriage business in Dayton, Green Co., Wis. Mr. W. is a Republican, and has 40 acres of land, worth $2,500.

HIRAM C. WILLSON, farmer, Sec. 5; has been a resident of Dane Co. since 1864, when he came to his present location; he was born Aug. 18, 1836, in Hampshire Co., Mass., and was married in that county Sept. 27, 1859, to Ruth Sophia Blackmer, who was born in the same county Nov. 25, 1839; he was engaged in farming in Massachusetts ; came to Wisconsin in April, 1864, and has followed the same business since ; they have lost two children, all they ever had : the oldest, Lillian Sophia, was born Aug. 15, 1860, and died Aug. 5, 1873, in Wisconsin ; Rosalind Olivia was born March 26, 1841, and died the 25th of August following; they have an adopted daughter, Ruth Elmina, born May 10, 1875. Mr. Willson formerly owned a part of the Simeon Mills farm, where he now resides, but disposed of it some time ago to A. C. Mcknight. He is a Republican. Mrs. Willson is a member of the Congre- gational Church.

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THOMAS BALFOUR, Sec. 30 ; born in Doon, Perthshire, Scotland, April 27, 1833 ; was for six years in the hardware business in Creef and Stirling; came to America in 1856; engaged in farming and hop-growing in Otsego Co., N. Y. ; came to Wisconsin in 1858, and went from Montrose to Goodhue Co., Minn., where he engaged in wheat-growing for fourteen years ; he then returned to Montrose, where he has 61 acres. Mr. Balfour is a self-taught blacksmith, and on his land is a shop (built by James Wilson), where he manufactures wagons, sleighs, etc. He married Matilda Jane, daughter of Robert Oliver ; she was born in Wyota, Wis., and is the mother of five children-Nettie, John, Nellie, Emma and Agnes; the three eldest were born in Montrose, and the others in Leon, Goodhue Co., Minn., of which town their father was Chairman three years, and Town Clerk two. Mr. Balfour is a Republican, and, with his wife, a Methodist.

S. A. BARKER, of Belleville; born Feb. 18, 1818, in Bradford, Orleans Co., Vt. ; son of William and Naomi (Andross) Barker; learned harness-making of his father when a lad of 10; came West in 1842, locating at Johnstown, Wis .; began farming, and, in 1849, hotel-keeping; went via the Nicaragua route to California in 1852; worked at his trade and at gold-mining until 1858; returned via the isthmus to New York, and to Wisconsin in 1859 ; worked at harness-making in Belleville from Decem- ber, 1860, to 1875, when he bought and has since kept the village hotel ; is a straight out-aod-out Repub- lican, and has been an Odd Fellow since 1850. He married Esther E. Seeley, and has two daughters- Georgiana (Mrs. A. Robbins) and Dora Belle.

F. A. BIRD, Secs. 20 and 21 ; P. O. Paoli ; born in Madison, Wis., Sept. 22, 1839 ; his father, Charles Bird, came from New York to Wisconsin in 1837, and was one of the historic party of sixteen who made the famous trip to Madison; after working as a carpenter on the old capitol, he built and for a time kept the old Madison House ; later, he became one of the pioneers of Sun Prairie, where he still lives. His son, the subject of this sketch, enlisted, in August, 1861, as Quartermaster Sergeant in the 11th W. V. I .; Nov. 4, 1861, he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster of the regiment, with rank of Second Lieutenant, by Gov. Randall ; on the 11th of August, 1862, Gov. Salomon commissioned him Second Lieu- tenant of Co. B, 20th W. V. I .; was wounded at the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark., and thenceforth was on detached service, first as Regimental and then as Brigade Quartermaster, participating in the siege and capture of Vicksburg, in the Alabama, Louisiana and Texas service, and in the reduction of the Mobile forts ; was commissioned Captain of Co. B in August, 1865, by Gov. Lewis, and was honorably discharged the same month ; has since owned five different farms in Sun Prairie and Bristol Townships; settled on his present 280-acre farm in June, 1879. He married, in Cottage Grove, March 13, 1867, Miss Celia A., daughter of Albert and Adeline Gaston; she was born in Saline, Mich., and settled in Cottage Grove in' 1845. Mr. and Mrs. Bird have a daughter-Minnie E., born in Bristol. He is a stanch Republican ; was Deputy Sheriff six years, and the first Village Marshal of Sun Prairie; is a member of Sun Prairie Lodge, 143, A., F. & A. M.

HENRY BONING, Sec. 11; P. O. Paoli; born in the village of Goldenstedt, Oldenburg, Germany; son of John H. and Catherine M. (Flege) Boning; his father died in 1839, and, thrown upon his own resources, young Boning came to America in 1843, located at Cincinnati, and, in 1849, went to California ; two years of gold-mining here were followed by a voyage to Australia ; himself and two or three partners established a rude bakery at Ballerat, where they " dwelt in tents," like Abraham of old; the return voyage was via Callao and the isthmus to New York ; his gold was then coined at the Phila- delphia Mint, and a visit made to the Fatherland, which came near resulting disastrously to him, as he was arrested for non-fulfillment of military service, fined $1,000 and six years' imprisonment; Duke Paul Frederic, however, released him upon bis procuring a substitute; this cost him $300, and was done in spite of the best efforts of the American Minister, ex-Gov. Marcy ; finally returning to America, he spent a few months in Cincinnati, then came to Wisconsin and settled on his present farm in 1856. Oct. 23, 1857, he married Janet Clark, of Stirlingshire, Scotland, by whom he has eight children-Henry, Jessie, Helen, Margeret, Lillie, Minnie, Jane and James; they, besides these, lost a son, James, aged 2} years; all were born on the Montrose homestead, which contains 220 acres; here their parents began in a log house, and have worked their way up to a pleasant home; the substantial stone farmhouse was built in 1867. Mr. Boning is a Republican.

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WILLIAM CALDWELL, farmer, Sec 33 ; P. O. Belleville; born in the parish of Magil- ligan, County of Londonderry, Ireland, December, 1825; he emigrated in 1843, locating in Exeter, Green Co., Wis .; began as a laborer, running a breaking-team, harvesting, thrashing, etc .; owned a farm in Exeter several years, and his present farm since 1853. Married . Margaret Norris, of County Donegal, in Exeter; she died in October, 1852, leaving a son-William N., born Dec. 9, 1851, in Exeter. After losing his wife, Mr. C. resided a number of years in Exeter, then settled in Belleville. In the fall of 1868, he married Mary J. Sheperd, a native of England, and settled on his 200-acre farm ; on this he built a basement barn in 1861, and a handsome farmhouse in 1868. As he began in Wisconsin with $2, this is not a bad showing. His only son was only prevented, by failing health, from graduating from the State University, after attending three years ; he began mercantile business in Belleville, in May, 1877, and is doing a large business ; in February, 1879, he was appointed Postmaster. Father and son are Repub- licans. Mr. and Mrs. William Caldwell have a daughter, born Aug. 11, 1870.

EDGAR W. COMSTOCK, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Paoli; is a son of William and Fanny Comstock, who settled in Dunn, Dane Co., Wis., in 1845 ; the father was a native of Rhode Island, and the mother of New York, and they came West from Pennsylvania, beginning on Government land, with Dr. William H. Fox for the nearest neighbor, in the first log house. E. W. was born Aug. 9, 1847; grew to manhood in his native town, and married, Dec. 23, 1867, Miss Anna, daughter of R. P. and Cordelia (Dakin) Main ; she was born Sept. 25, 1848, in a log house, where her parents first settled in Town of Oregon. In September, 1872, Mr. C. went to Iowa, and for four years tried his fortunes on a new farm, in Buena Vista Co. ; he then returned to the homestead and remained until March, 1877 ; he settled on his present 120-acre farm, with about 90 acres under cultivation and good buildings ; is a Green- backer. Mr. and Mrs. Comstock have four children-William R., born in Dunn; Jay M., born in Iowa ; Ethel U., born in Oregon, and Frank C., born in Montrose. Mrs. Comstock is a member of the Paoli Methodist Episcopal Church.

PETER CLARK, Sec. 4; P. O. Paoli ; born Feb. 11, 1830, in the parish of Denny, Stirling- shire, Scotland; learned the stone-cutter's trade; came to America in April, 1849, and located at Hadley Falls, Mass., thence to New York City, and from thence, via the isthmus, to California ; after eighteen months of gold mining, he went to Australia, and fifteen months later returned to Peru, thence to New York City and to his present Wisconsin farm in 1854; has 295 acres, and has erected excellent buildings ; has grade Cotswolds and grade Durhams, and is a thriving, well-to-do farmer. Has been a Republican since the party was formed, and looks upon the future as did Paine and Voltaire.

PLINY CLARK, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Paoli; born in Andover, Windsor Co., Vt., Sept- 10, 1810; his father, Samuel Clark, was born in Townsend, Mass., in 1772; married when 29, and at once settled in Vermont; was seventeen years in the State Legislature ; a self-educated lawyer ; was Chief Justice of Vermont thirty-seven years, and died at 91; of his father's eleven children the youngest to die was 75 years of age, and the eldest 107. His son, our subject, married, in 1834, Miss Valeria A. Fletcher, of Walpole, Mass .; while farming in Windsor and Addison Counties, he devoted great care to the breeding of Spanish merino sheep; in June, 1846, he came West and bought his present farm of Uncle Sam; built a log shanty, and began pioneer life ; in 1849, he bought in Vermont a $300 ram and fifteen thoroughbred ewes; these were the first blooded Spanish merinos ever brought to the State; to Mr. C., also, is due the honor of having bred the sheep which sheared 29} pounds of wool ; his sheep, for years, took all the prizes over such exhibitors as the Hammonds, of Vermont; he also intro- duced the first Morgan stallion into the State, in 1851, and the first Durhams in 1852. Himself and wife were the first two to register as members of the Montrose Methodist Episcopal Church, and his house has ever been the resting-place of all godly men. In early times, Capt. McFadden's barn was the meet- ing-house, and a pair of cattle and " prairie buggy" the conveyance to it. Is a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have nine children-Samuel P., Alvin F., Valeria A., Ozro M., Corphelia J., Cleora A., William A., Frank L. and Loella E .; the eldest five were born in Vermont, and the others in Badgerdom.

J. R. CROCKER, the second eldest resident of this town, came here in May, 1842, accom- panied by Author Smith and S. Esty ; his parents, Benjamin and Rebecca, joined him here in September, 1842; his mother was the first adult to die here, in October, 1845 ; her funeral service was the first relig- ious service here. Mr. C. is a stanch Greenbacker, and was in the Wisconsin Assembly in 1870, repre- senting the eight southwest towns of Dane County. His wife, Jane Lester, of Cayuga Co., N. Y., died June 11, 1873; they had nine children-James B., Horace A., Andrew E., Erastus G., George W., Sid- ney E., Henry O., Frances C. and Flora B. Three of his sons enlisted in the Union service-J. B. died at Brazier City, La. ; A. E. was mortally wounded June 2, 1864, in front of Petersburg, and died July

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10, 1864 ; Horace served through the war. The five sons are now in Minnesota, where the father intends to remove ; " J. R.," as he is best known, was born Oct. 23, 1820, in Salem, Washington Co., N. Y. ; his father was first Justice of the Peace of Montrose.

J. HOLLIS CROCKER, Secs. 30 and 31; P. O. Montrose ; was born Nov. 13, 1827, in Salem, Washington Co., N. Y .; his parents, Benjamin and Rebecca, left his native town in the fall of 1842, and on the Great Western came up the lakes to Milwaukee, thence to Montrose, where they joined J. R. in September ; during that fall they lived just over the Green County line, meanwhile building on his present farm a log house, the shingles for which were shaved out on the farm; this house still stands sixty rods northwest of the frame house which supplanted it; wooden plows and pitchforks, ox teams and lag houses, were the rule ; teachers were paid $20 for a summer term, and expected to "board around," fifty cents per week being allowed for this ; their wheat was floured at the Hicox mill or the Curtis mill, on Richland Creek. Mr. C. worked out for a number of years in Green County, sometimes at less than $10 per month ; he now has 200 acres, 120 of which was entered with a Mexican warrant in 1849. He married, Aug. 17, 1850, Caroline Esterday ; she was born in Gratiot's Grove, La Fayette Co., Wis., July 16, 1829, and is one of the first white natives of Wisconsin ; her parents removed from Manitoba to the lead regioas in 1825. Mr. and Mrs. C. have ten living children-Margaret, Charles, Rebecca, John, Mary, Matilda, Sarah, Emma, Peter and Barbara ; also lost a son Thomas, aged 5. Mr. Crocker is liberal ia politics, and belongs to the M. E. Church of Montrose. For the past twenty-eight years, Maj. William Devise, one of Wisconsin's veteran pioneers, has made his home here; he was born March 16, 1793, near Huntersville, Va .; is of French and Scotch ancestry ; in 1826, he came West and spent two years at Vandalia, from there he reached Shullsburg in March, 1828, and was at the Blue Mounds a few months before Col. Brigham made permanent settlement there. He won his title in the Black Hawk war, and is thought to have plowed the first furrow in Green County.

WILLIAM W. CROCKER, farmer; Sec. 30; P. O. Montrose; born June 6, 1831, in Salem, Washington Co., N. Y. ; coming West with his parents in the fall of 1842, he remained with them up to his father's death ; then began working by the month, six years in all, for such men as L. Ross, William Woodel, Robert Oliver, Elom Elder, etc. He married, July 20, 1854, Miss Mary A., daughter of Richard and Anne Sharman ; she was born Oct. 26, 1834, in Derbyshire, England ; her parents settled in Montrose in 1853 ; here her parents died, and her brother now resides. Mr. Crocker has 144 acres, which he has improved ; is a member of the M. E. Church of Montrose, and has been Steward ; is a Greenbacker, of Whig-Republican antecedents ; has four children-Eliza, Abraham, Wallace and Arminda ; and has lost five-Amy, died aged 2 months ; Abraham, 3 years old ; Benjamin, 2 years; Richard, 10 years, and Isaac, 16 years.

BLY COWDREY, retired farmer, Belleville ; was born Jan. 1, 1799, in Tunbridge, Orange Co .; Vt .; his younger life was spent in Hartland, Coan., and in traveling, he having been in fourteen dif- ferent States of the Union ; came from White Pigeon, Mich., to Montrose, in the fall of 1844; located, with his wife, formerly Nancy Woodruff, of Canton, Conn., on Sec. 34; here they began as pioneer set- tlers, seeing much of frontier life ; his first wheat crop, 1,400 bushels, was hauled 100 miles to Milwau- kee, and sold at 60 cents per bushel ; one trip, made by ten teams, occupied fourteen days. Mr. Cowdrey is now the oldest settler in the Belleville neighborhood, and has lived in his pleasant village home since 1860; this cozy, even elegant place, is the result of his own labors and good taste, and has been well earned. Mr. C. is a Republican, and a do-right in religion. His only son, T. B. Cowdrey, is doing a good business in Oregon, where he has a clothing store.

JAMES DERRICKSON, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Paoli; born in Greenridge, Gloucester Co., N. J., Nov. 20, 1811 ; five years later his parents, John and Mary (Packer) Derrickson, moved to a farm ncar Miamitown, Ohio, going on a keelboat from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati ; suffering much from the fever and ague of that then new country, they "pulled up stakes" and went to Shelby Co., Ind. Here he married Miss Sarah Foster, born Nov. 8, 1815, in Monongalia Co., W. Va. ; they came to Wisconsin in June, 1848, locating on Sec. 1, Montrose Township; bought 320 acres of Government land, put up a " cat- faced" shanty with a huge stone chimney, and began when Indians and wild animals were more plenty than white people around them. Wheat brought from 45 to 60 cents in Milwaukee, and 37} in Madison ; Mr. D. has owned and sold much land ; now owns 211 acres on Sec. 1, and 40 on Sec. 4 ; his son, Charles W., also owns 100 on Sec. 2, and 108 on Sec. 1. Mrs. Derrickson died Oct. 2, 1878, leaving two children-Mary E. and Charles W .; H. A., A. W., J. R., E. J., J. H., Jane and Josephine, all died before the mother. Mr. D. and son are old-fashioned Democrats ; the father was the first Clerk of District No. 1, and held school office twenty years ; the son was Town Treasurer 1874 and 1875. Mr. Derrickson

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is a genuine old pioneer hunter, and his pride is now the trusty old Kentucky rifle, with which he can now outshoot most of the young Americas around him.

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History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 168

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