USA > Wisconsin > Dane County > History of Dane County, Wisconsin > Part 194
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118 | Part 119 | Part 120 | Part 121 | Part 122 | Part 123 | Part 124 | Part 125 | Part 126 | Part 127 | Part 128 | Part 129 | Part 130 | Part 131 | Part 132 | Part 133 | Part 134 | Part 135 | Part 136 | Part 137 | Part 138 | Part 139 | Part 140 | Part 141 | Part 142 | Part 143 | Part 144 | Part 145 | Part 146 | Part 147 | Part 148 | Part 149 | Part 150 | Part 151 | Part 152 | Part 153 | Part 154 | Part 155 | Part 156 | Part 157 | Part 158 | Part 159 | Part 160 | Part 161 | Part 162 | Part 163 | Part 164 | Part 165 | Part 166 | Part 167 | Part 168 | Part 169 | Part 170 | Part 171 | Part 172 | Part 173 | Part 174 | Part 175 | Part 176 | Part 177 | Part 178 | Part 179 | Part 180 | Part 181 | Part 182 | Part 183 | Part 184 | Part 185 | Part 186 | Part 187 | Part 188 | Part 189 | Part 190 | Part 191 | Part 192 | Part 193 | Part 194 | Part 195 | Part 196 | Part 197 | Part 198 | Part 199 | Part 200 | Part 201 | Part 202 | Part 203 | Part 204 | Part 205 | Part 206 | Part 207 | Part 208 | Part 209
HENRY GOODWIN, farmer and stock-raiser, Secs. 27, 34 and 35; P. O. East Middleton ; first came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1849, and first located in West Middleton ; in 1863, he went to Nevada and engaged in teaming lumber and supplies to Virginia City ; he remained there eight years, and then returned to East Middleton and purchased the place he now resides on; Mr. Goodwin is a native of Derbyshire, England, and was born in 1836. He married Miss Mary Hope, in Middleton, in 1857; she was a native of Scotland; she died very suddenly on the 11th of June, 1880, leaving a little infant only a few days old, and eight other children ; she was a consistent member of the M. E. Church at East Mid- dleton ; she is not only missed by her family, but by the community at large ; the names of the children are as follows ; Charles, aged 22; Joseph, aged 20; Ralph, aged 17; William, aged 14; Mary, aged 13; Francis I., aged 9; John, aged 5; Henreyetta, aged 3; Daniel, infant. Mr. Goodwin has a beautiful farm of 248 acres, worth $10,000 ; it adjoins the village of East Middleton, and is adapted to stock-raising; only two and a half miles from Middleton Station, and eight from the capital ; he is a good farmer, and a thorough man in every respect.
RICHARD GREEN, grain merchant, stock and lumber dealer, farmer and stock-breeder, Middleton ; came to Wisconsin in 1851, and located in Rock Co. He first came to Middleton June 17, 1861; embarked in the grain business, and, by hard labor, industry and perseverance, has accumulated a fortune of $100,000 and upward; he has built two large warehouses and a fine residence besides owning store buildings, an interest in the large lumber-yard and general stock business; a short
1211
TOWN OF MIDDLETON.
distance from the town he owns several farms, where he has branched off into the fancy-stock business for his own amusement; he has a fine herd of "short-horns" of the finest kind, and a flock of imported "Cotswolds." Mr. Green was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1836. Married Miss A. H. Bush, of Middleton, in 1863. Mrs. Green is a native of Missouri ; they have five boys, the oldest about 14 years ; all living at home. Mr. Green's father's name is Joseph Green ; his mother's name was Ruth Green ; his father is still living in Green County. There were only three houses in Middleton when Mr. Green came. Politically, he is a Republican.
JAMES HARLOFF, farmer and general stock-raiser, Sees. 20, 29, and 32; P. O. West Middle- ton; is a native of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, born in 1824, and is a son of Joachim and Dora Harloff. He married Miss Dora Elver, of Germany, by whom he has seven children living, viz : Lisette, born Sept. 22, 1849 ; Wilhelm, born Sept. 14, 1853; Alvina, born Jan. 13, 1857 ; Carl, born Dec. 10, 1859 ; Gus- tav, born Nov. 9, 1861; Maria, born May 1, 1865 ; Paul, born Oct. 8, 1868; Franeis and Minnie, twins, were born Dec. 20, 1851, Minnie died at birth, and Francis lived until she was 19 years old, and died Jan. 10, 1871 ; Lisette is married to John Findorff, a farmer, and resides in the town of Middleton ; William, the oldest son, is a miller at Chippewa Falls, Wis .; the other five children are all living at home. All the family belong to the Independent German Lutheran Church of Middleton. Mr. Harloff came to Wiscon- sin in the fall of 1852, and purchased the 40 aeres where the church now stands; he sold that and bought just a mile north ; after selling again, he purchased where he now lives, in 1870; he has a beautiful farm of 260 aeres, worth from $8,000 to $10,000, adapted to stoek-raising, about ten miles from the city, and five miles from Middleton Station ; when Mr. Harloff first came, it was comparatively a wilderness ; by hard work and industry he has accumulated a competency ; he is an honest man, respeeted by all. Conserva- tive in polities. He still runs his own farm.
WARREN N. HAWES, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 34; P. O. East Middleton; came to Wisconsin in September, 1848, and located near Middleton ; he moved on to the farm he now occupies in the fall of 1878 ; he was born in New York State, in 1827; his father's name was Mathew Hawes, his mother's name was Joanna Wood. Mr. Hawes married Miss Eliza Fargo, a native of Pennsylvania; they have six children, all living in the State of Wisconsin. Mr. Hawes has a beautiful farm of 130 aeres, well adapted to stoek and grain, nine miles from the capital, and four miles south of Middleton, valued at $5,000. Mr. H. was one of the first who started for the gold-fields of California, going in 1849, and remained there one year and a half, following mining; he is turning his attention at present to the raising of short horns, and going some into tobaeco-raising. In politics he is a Republican.
ANTON HEIM, farmer and stock, Secs. 12 and 13; P. O. Pheasant Branch ; came to Wis- consin the same year as his brother did, in 1848; located on the farm where he now lives, in the fall of 1851 ; is a son of John and Elizabeth, of Bavaria, and was born there in 1826. Married the first time in 1852, to Catherine Wolfling, from Germany, by whom he had one ehild ; his second wife's name was Agnes Persians, whom he married at Madison, in 1879. They belong to the German Catholic Church of Madison. Mr. Heim is a Democrat. His farm is adapted to stock and grain, 120 aeres in all, worth $5,000 ; he runs his own place, is a first-class farmer and good business man.
JOSEPH HEIM, farmer and stock-raiser, Secs. 12 and 13; P. O. Pheasant Branch; came to Wisconsin in the summer of 1848, from Bavaria, Germany, where he was born in 1818; he is a son of John and Elizabeth Heim, of the above place. In the same year that he came, he was married, in Rochester, N. Y., to Miss Theresa Spahn, a native of Bavaria, by whom he has had eleven children ; seven are living, viz .: Elizabeth, aged 28; Rose, aged 26; Kate, aged 24; William, aged 22; Julia, aged 20 ; Mary, aged 16; Herman, aged 10; they have lost four ; Kate married John Boltz, and they reside in Madison ; Rose is saleslady in Mrs. Earlich's store, in Madison ; William is a baker in Madison. Mr. Heim has a beautiful farm of 120 acres, right at the head of Lake Mendota, with two-story briek house and fine barns, valued at $8,000, the improvements alone costing between $3,000 and $4,000. Mr. Heim is a good business man and farmer ; he belongs to the German Catholic Church of Madison ; in politics, he is a Demoerat.
C. HELLER, farmer and stock-raiser ; Sec. 23; P. O. East Middleton ; came to this country in 1850, and settled in Ontario Co., N. Y., where he remained five years ; he then came to Middleton in the fall of 1855; he purchased the farm he now lives upon in 1869; his father's name was Conrad Heller ; his mother's name was Mary Meyer. Mr. Heller was married in New York, in 1855, to Miss Henrietta Waker, by whom he had six children-Katie, aged 22; Henry, aged 20; Caroline, aged 18; Mary, aged 16; Emma, aged 11 ; Clara, aged 7. Mr. Heller has a beautiful farm of 80 acres, valued at $5,000, adapted to stock; he has a three-story stone house, facing south, from which you can see the
1212
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:
capital and surrounding lakes, seven and a half miles distant. They belong to the M. E. Church of Mid dleton ; he is a Republican in politics. Mr. Heller is a thrifty farmer and a good business man ; his son Henry assists him on the farm, and is a promising young man.
REV. W. M. HOYT, Middleton ; came to Wisconsin in August, 1868, and located in Mid- dleton; he is the son of Thaddeus Hoyt and Hannah Seymour, and was born in Delaware Co., N. Y., in 1812; Mr. Hoyt has had two wives ; in 1842, married Mary A. Bennett, of New York, who died in 1847. In 1849, he married Mary A. Hitchcock, a native of Norwich, N. Y. Mr. Hoyt founded the Presbyterian Church at Middleton, and has had charge of the same all the time. In 1839, he graduated at the New York University, and, in 1842, he graduated at the Theological Seminary of New York. He went direct from the seminary to Chenango and took charge of a church, where he remained nearly twen- ty-four years before locating at Middleton. He has been preaching thirty-eight years, and, what is more wonderful, has never missed a Sabbath from his labors. It has been hard work to build up his present church, but he has never looked back, and now has the society in a healthy condition. Mr. Hoyt has a very large library, some old books dating as far back as 1509. He has a beautiful place in the center of the village, 9 acres of land, valued at $4,000.
E. S. HUNT, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 34; P. O. East Middleton. The subject of this sketch was born at Royalton, Vt., in 1836 ; he moved to Wisconsin in the fall of 1856 and located first at Verona, this county, and opened a new farm ; after selling the same, he located where he now lives, in the fall of 1867 ; he is a son of S. B. Hunt and Polly Kimball. In 1855, he was married to Sarah Jane Richardson, of Rochester, Vt., by whom he has three children, all living in Wisconsin ; the oldest son, Ira L. Hunt, married Miss Ida Schweinkert, and remains at home and runs the farm ; Sarah E., married Henry Cowie, and resides in Verona Township; Eddie M. Hunt lives at home. Mr. Hunt enlisted, in 1864, in Co. B, 11th W. V. I., and remained in the service one year and three months ; he was in all the battles the regiment participated in, winding up with the nine-days' siege of Mobile. Mr. Hunt has a beautiful farm of 133 acres, with first-class improvements, worth $6,000; he raises hogs, largely of the Chester white breed, and has all the conveniences for the business; he is a thorough farmer and business man. Republican in politics, believing the office should seek the man. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are members of the M. E. Church.
H. B. KNOWLTON, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Middleton ; came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1850, and located on the farm he now lives on in the spring of 1869; he was born in the State of New York in 1810; his father's name was Ephraim H. B. Knowlton ; his mother's name was Annie Lepper. Married Elizabeth Flanders, of Vermont, in 1842; they have two children, one daughter in Chicago, who. married John Tiedeman ; and Thomas E., who owns and runs an adjoining farm. Thomas E. married Margerie Bethel, of Oregon, Wis. Mr. Knowlton has a fine farm of 80 acres, worth $4,000, three miles from Middleton ; he is a Democrat of the old-fashioned kind ; his father was one of the pioneers of the county.
JOHN LORCH, general merchant, Pheasant Branch; came to Wisconsin in 1851, and located at Pheasant Branch, and first worked at his trade of wagon-making; he embarked in the general merchan- dise business in 1863, and has carried it on successfully ever since ; he is a native of Prussia, and was born in 1842; he is a son of J. and Christina Lorch, who are both dead. Mr. Lorch has been married twice; his first wife was a daughter of W. A. Wheeler, of Madison ; they were married in 1864; she dying in 1872, leaving one living child-Alice. In 1874, he was married in Madison to Miss Ottilie Reuter, a native of Hamburg, Germany, by whom he has four children-Ottilie, aged 7; John, aged 6; Wauda, aged 3; Josephene, aged 18 months. Mr. Lorch has a fine store and residence in the center of the village ; carries a stock from $5,000 to $8,000; he is one of the best merchants, keeping his goods up in good shape, and always has a full assortment ; in fact, he can be called one of our self-made. men.
GEORGE H. NEAL, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 20; P. O. Middleton ; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1851, and located where he now lives; he was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1827; his father's name was Joseph Neal ; his mother's name was Fanny Dales. Mr. Neal was married, Dec. 8, 1857 ; to Miss Jessie Gillatly, a native of Scotland; Mrs. Neal was born in 1830 ; they have four children- Charles H., aged 21; Jessie, aged 19; Frank A., aged 18; Mary Jane, aged 8, all living at home ; Mr. Neal belongs to the Church of England, and Mrs. Neal is a Presbyterian. In politics, Mr. Neal is a Repub- lican ; he has a nice farm of 80 acres, with fine improvements, worth $5,000, about ten miles from Madison. Mr. Neal is a brick-maker by trade, having worked at it since a boy in the old country, and six summers in this county ; he is turning his attention considerably, of late, to stock. -
1213
TOWN OF MIDDLETON.
H. F. NIEBUHR, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 15; P. O. Middleton ; came from Mecklen- burg, Germany, where he was born in 1818; came to Wisconsin June 28, 1850, and located where he now lives; he is a son of John and Mary Niebuhr, of Germany. He married Miss Louisa Mowingle, of Middleton, a native of Hanover, Germany, by whom he has three children ; he has a fine farm of 160 acres, valued at $8,000, well adapted to stock and grain, eight miles from Madison and one and one-half from Middleton. The family all belong to the Independent German Lutheran Church of Middleton. Mr. Niebuhr is a Democrat.
JOHN NIEBUHR, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 23; P. O. Middleton; is a son of John and Sophia, and came to Wisconsin in the summer of 1851; settled on the farm where he now lives. In 1854, he was married to Miss Sophia Blecker, by whom he has nine children, two of whom are married ; the fam- ily belong to the Independent German Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Niebuhr is a Trustee; he has a beautiful farm of 320 acres, seven miles from Madison, valued at $15,000. There is a two-story brick house on the place, with other first-class improvements, costing, in all, upward of $8,000 ; the farm is well adapted to stock and grain. Mr. Niebuhr votes always for the best man, regardless of party. He com- menced with only 80 acres, and by hard work has accumulated a competency, which he justly deserves.
C. ORT, farmer, Secs. 15 and 16; P. O. Middleton ; born in Germany in 1828, and emigrated to America in 1858; remained in New York two years, and then located where he now lives in the fall of 1860. In 1864, he was married to Miss Caroline Witenburg, of Middleton ; they have four children, all at home-Louisa, aged 14; Charles, aged 11; Armanda, aged 9; John, aged 6; they are all members of the Independent German Lutheran Church of Middleton. He has a beautiful farm of 160 acres, worth $5,000, a fine two-story brick house and other improvements; Mr. Ort raises mostly grain ; he is a first- class farmer and attentive to business.
L. M. PALMER, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 9; P. O. Middleton; came to Wisconsin in 1843, and located where he now lives in the fall of 1845; he has held the offices of Supervisor and Jus- tice ; was born in Monroe Co., N. Y., in 1816; his father's name was Isaac Palmer, and his mother's name was Esther May. He married Jane A. Downing, in 1847; Mrs. Palmer was born in Indiana Co., Penn., in 1826; they have six children, one in Iowa, one in New York and the other four at home; his farm of 160 acres is beautifully located, one mile from Middleton and eight from the City of Madison; he has a large two-story stone house, facing the main road, which equally divides his farm ; Mr. Palmer works his own farm, is a man of unusual endurance, and holds his age remarkably.
A. PAUL, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. East Millleton; born in England in 1833, and came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1855. He was married at Middleton, in 1872, to Mrs. Liddie Drake ; Mrs. Drake has two daughters, and they are still at home; the eldest, Emma Drake, is 20 years old; Amelia Drake, 17; Miss Emma is a successful teacher in the district schools. Mrs. Paul is a member of the M. E. Church at Middleton. Mr. Paul is a Republican. He has a fine place of 10 acres, situated near the village, valued at $1,000.
JOHN PIEH, hotel, Pheasant Branch ; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1855, and located where he is now ; was born in Kurhessen, in 1829, a son of George Pieh and Elizabeth Hetterich. On the 29th of October, 1850, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Lorch ; the names of the children and dates of births are as follows: John F., born Aug. 30, 1853 ; Rosetta, Jan. 1, 1856 ; Mary, April 4, 1858 ; Christina, Jan. 23, 1862 ; William, Dec. 12, 1864 ; Julius, Aug. 8, 1868 ; George, Aug. 22, 1871; and Lovina, Feb. 15, 1875 ; they have lost five children. Mr. Pieh has a hotel at the head of Lake Mendota ; he also runs a butcher and produce shop ; his place is a favorite resort for summer visitors, who come both by boats and carriages. Mr. Pieh is a good business man, enterprising, and wide awake ; his property is valued at from $2,000 to $3,000. Democratic in politics.
C. W. POPE, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 26; P. O. East Middleton ; came to the State of Wisconsin in 1842, and went directly to the pineries, where he logged at first and then run a saw-mill; he remained there until he located where he now lives, on Sec. 26, Middleton, in the fall of 1853. Mr. Pope is a native of Oneida Co., N. Y., and was born in 1821; father's name, Samson Pope; mother's name, Lydia Pope. He married his first wife in the year of 1844; her name was Maria Lyon, by whom he had seven children ; three are living and remain on the farm assisting in running the same; she died in 1867 ; his second wife's name was Fannie Lyford, by whom he has eight children, all living at home; he has a beautiful farm of 160 acres, valued at $8,000, overlooking the city and lakes, about seven miles from Madison and one and a half miles from East Middleton, adapted to stock-raising, having living water on the place; he runs his own farm with the help of his boys. Conservative in politics ; cheerful in disposi- tion and respected by his neighbors.
ZZ
1214
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES :
DAVID RICHARDSON, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 32, Middleton, and Sec. 5, Verona ; P. O. East Middleton ; was born in Rochester, Windsor Co., Vt., in 1826 ; his father's name was Josiah Richardson ; his mother's name was Sarah E. Barker. Mr. Richardson first came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1851, and settled where he now lives. He was married in 1853 to Miss Lucy A. Hawes, of Verona ; they have four children, all living in the State of Wisconsin ; Mr. R. has a beautiful farm of 165 acres, valued at from $6,000 to $7,000, well adapted to stock and grain ; he has about forty head of pure- bred Devon and a large flock of merino sheep ; he has maple trees set in rows on the road-sides, to the number of 500 ; also has an orchard on the place of 1,500 trees; his buildings are in the center of farm and command a view for miles around ; on the place is a wonderful cave, running into the lime-rock, under the ground some 1,000 feet ; it is a place of great resort ; there are in the cave some of the finest beds of ochre in the country, and they seem to be forming continually ; the farm receives the wash three miles one way and two the other, and can properly be called the cave basin ; the wash being gradual, naturally makes the farm richer. Mr. Richardson, in politics, is a Greenbacker. Mrs. Richardson died the 10th of May, 1876, of heart disease.
A. A. ROWLEY, M. D., Middleton. The subject of this sketch is a son of Dr. N. C. Rowley, one of the first practitioners in Middleton, was born in Ohio, in 1841; his mother's name was Sarah H. Davis ; Dr. R. graduated at Rush Medical College in the spring of 1868, and has been in continual practice since in Dane Co .; he has a very large practice and good success. In the spring of 1865, he was married to Miss Olivia Wheelwright, by whom he has three children-Jesse N., aged 14; Edna, aged 11; Antinous G., aged 5. Dr. Rowley has the finest residence in the town, also runs a drug store. He is a determined Republican ; social, wide awake and enterprising.
GEORGE W. SANFORD, farmer and apiarian, Sec. 27; P. O. East Middleton. The sub- ject of this sketch is a son of J. D. and Sibbel Sanford, and was born on the old homestead, at East Mid- dleton, Oct. 29, 1844. He married Miss Leora A. Van Buren, of New York, in 1863; they have three interesting daughters, viz., Jessie, Josie and Mary, aged respectively 16, 14 and 2 years. He has a beautiful 80-acre farm, one mile from East Middleton, valued at $5,000. Mr. Sanford enlisted in the late war in 1864, and was mustered out in 1865; was in Co. B, 11th W. V. I .; he was in all the battles his regiment participated in, and in the last battle of the rebellion, the charge of Blakely at the siege of Mobile, when he received injuries which disabled him for manual labor and caused him to seek lighter employment; he chose bee-culture, and he makes it a specialty on scientific principles; it is really won- derful to see him perform with them; he extracts the honey from the comb with his patent "honey extractor," and replaces the comb again for the bees to fill ; the extracting of the honey is a great saving to the bees, as they do not have to build new combs ; a good season, Mr. S. says, the honey can be extracted every week ; he has extracted and sold as high as four tons in a season, and he ships all over the United States ; has had one swarm make as high as 60 pounds per week ; he keeps the thoroughbred Italian bees, raises his own queens and makes all his swarms, never allowing them to swarm in the old way ; he has taken first premiums a number of times at State fairs for best Italian bees, for best bee-hive, best extractor, and also for best method of handling bees. Politically speaking, Mr. S. votes for the best man. He has held the office of Justice of the Peace; is now Secretary of the Town Insurance Company, and Master of the Grange. As to Mr. and Mrs. Sanford's religion, they are " free thinkers," believing, as most all sensible people do believe, that all are not called to preach the Gospel. Mr. S. is a thorough business man, and practical in all things ; Mrs. S. is a lady of fine mind, and has few equals and no superiors.
J. D. SANFORD, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 27 ; P. O. East Middleton ; first located his farm where he now lives, and paid " Uncle Sam " for the same in the spring of 1836; came to Madison in 1839, and moved on to his farm in the fall of 1841 ; he was born in New Haven Co., Conn., July 27, 1813; his fathers name was Jared Sanford; his mother's name was Abigail Wooster. Mr. Sanford married Sibbel Hayden, in Michigan, in 1835 ; Mrs. Sanford was born in the State of New York in 1809; they have twelve children, five living in Wisconsin, four in Minnesota, two in Nebraska and one in Dakota. Mrs. Sanford's father's name was John Hayden ; her mother's name was Lois Babcock. Mrs. Sanford was the first white woman in the town of Middleton. She belongs to the first M. E. Church at East Middleton. They have 160 acres left of the large tract he first purchased, having sold some and given some to his children ; it is beautifully located near the village, and valued at $8,000. Mr. Sanford brought the first drove of sheep into Dane Co. He has brought up a large family of children and educated them and started them all in good shape, costing him upward of $25,000 in land and money; he never has had a mort- gage on his premises. Republican in politics. He is hale and hearty, and as cheerful and full of jokes as a boy.
1215
TOWN OF MIDDLETON.
CHARLES SCHENCK, minister of the Independent German Lutheran Church at Middle- ton, and farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Middleton. Rev. Mr. Schenck, the subject of this sketch, was born in North Germany in 1823, and came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1854, and located at Roxbury, Dane Co., where he farmed and preached the gospel ; moved to the town of Middleton in 1858, where he still continues in the ministry, having charge of four large congregations ; is, a son of Fritz and Ellen Schenck, of Germany. He was married, in 1849, to Miss Christena Granzow, of Germany, who died in 1879. Mr. S. has seven children, all living in Wisconsin ; has a beautiful farm of 120 acres, valued at $5,000, eight and a half miles from Madison, from which he has a view of Lake Mendota and the capital. Mr. Schenck is an earnest Christian man, a good neighbor and citizen. In politics, he is conservative.
THOMAS SCOTT, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Middleton ; came to Wisconsin in September, 1852, and located at Middleton ; born in the north of England in 1822. Mr. Scott lost his first wife in Scotland in 1845; she was a native of Glasgow; second wife he married in Wisconsin, who died in 1864; is a brother of Joseph Scott, who died at Middleton in 1854, a prominent man of the county. In early days Mr. Scott was a railroad contractor. He has a beautiful farm of 40 acres, one mile from the station, with a fine view, valued at $2,000. In politics, he is a Democrat.
JOHN STAACK, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. East Middleton ; is a son of John and Eliza Staack, of Germany, where he was born in 1850 ; emigrated to this country in 1869, and located in Wisconsin ; purchased the farm he now lives upon in the fall of 1878, and the same fall was married to Miss Rosada Prien, of Middleton ; they have one boy-John G. Staack, agcd 18 months. Mr. and Mrs. S. belong to the Independent German Lutheran Church of Middleton. Mr. Staack is a Democrat; has a beautiful farm of 120 acres, within one-half mile of the village of East Middleton, worth $4,000, which he is improving in good shape. He is a first-class farmer and good manager.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.