History of Grant County, Wisconsin, preceded by a history of Wisconsin, Part 141

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: [Chicago : Western Historical Co.?]
Number of Pages: 1050

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from Maine and three from Wisconsin; two of them never came back. Newell D. Nye was in a Maine regiment, and was killed at the battle of Port Hudson, and George W. Nye. also in a Maine regiment. was killed at the battle of Chantilly, Va. In the fall of 1865, Mr. Nye came to Platteville, and was Princi- pal of the " Rock Graded School " from that time until 1873, when he accepted the position of Principal of the Grammar Department of the State Normal School, and, in the fall of 1873, was transferred to his present position. He was married, in Platteville, in 1860, to Miss Flora A. Tyler, and has five children, three sons and two daughters.

J. L. NYE, photographic artist, Platteville ; is a native of Maine, born in Fairfield, Somerset Co., in 1842 ; he enlisted, Aug. 5, 1861, in the 7th Me. V. I., Co. E, and served as a private two years in that regiment, when he was given a Second Lieutenant's commission in Co. E, 9th U. S. Vols., and served one year in that capacity ; he was in ten engagements while in the 7th Me. Regiment, and was at the siege of Port Hudson with the 9th. After he left the army he returned to Maine, and from there came to Platte- ville, in November, 1865, where he has been engaged in his present business ever since. He married Miss Kate Tyler, of Platteville, in 1867, and has two children-George N. and Mabel.

J. H. PARNELL, Platteville ; is a son of William Parnell, of England, who emigrated in 1842, locating in Galena, Ill., where J. H. Parnell was born in 1844; three years later the family came to Grant Co., where the mother died and the father still resides. His son, our subject, married Miss Mary J., daughter of Thomas Chapman, Esq., of Platteville ; they have three children-Jesse Lee, Lillie May and Carrie Edwards, all born in Platteville. From 1862 until 1874, Mr. Parnell was in the mercantile bus- iness here ; he then began his present business of receiving, feeding and weighing live stock for farmers, drovers, and all who wish such accommodation ; he has convenient buildings, yards, etc., and has estab- lished a good trade ; it was first begun by Chapman & Kirkpatrick. Mr. Parnell is a member of the Platteville Hook and Ladder Co., and of the A. O. U. W.

JACOB B. PENN, retired, Platteville, Wis .; born in Patrick Co., Va., in 1818; when only 3 or 4 years of age his father, Abraham Penn, removed to Christian Co., Ky., where young Penn was brought up ; in the spring of 1839 he left Kentucky, and spent the summer in Illinois and Missouri, then came to the mines in Grant Co .. Wis., the next fall, and to Platteville in the fall of 1840; he was engaged in mining in Grant Co. till 1850, then went to California and followed the same business till 1852, when he returned to Grant Co., and bought a farm two and one-half miles east of Platteville; he followed farming till 1866, then sold out and engaged in the hardware business in Platteville, in company . with L. M. Devendorf, firm of Devendorf & Penn, which he continued till April, 1877, since which time he has been out of business ; he was married in Platteville in 1849, to Samantha Collins, of Jamestown, Grant Co .; his first wife was a lady of the same name, married in Missouri in 1846; has no children living.

HENRY J. PERRY, Sec. 3 ; P. O. Platteville ; was born September, 1834, in Carnarvonshire, Wales, where his father, John Perry, died two years later ; the mother and eight children came to America in 1846, and located in Oneida Co., N. Y .; H. J. Perry spent several years in New York City ; then, going to Princeton, N. J., he married Maggie Blair, and after a residence of ten years there went to Pennsylvania, where he spent a year ; in 1866, he came to Platteville and bought his present farm ; he now owns eighty-five acres in the homestead, and eighty in Lima ; has no children ; member of the Baptist Church ; the mother of Mr. Perry is one of the oldest persons now living in Grant Co. ; she is in her 89th year and, though helpless, has a clear mind.

HOMER PERRY was born in Hartford, Trumbull Co., Ohio, Feb. 18, 1821 ; received a good common-school education and grew to manhood on a farm ; on the 13th of April. 1849, he reached Platte- ville, and during the winter of 1849-50 taught school in the Johnson District ; up to 1873 he hardly missed teaching a single winter ; his work was almost entirely done in the city and town of Platteville ; Ex-Gov. Dewey, Geo. S. Hammond and himself constituted the district board when the brick schoolhouse was built ; Mr. Perry served twice as town superintendent of schools, and is everywhere well known as the veteran teacher, and a man ever ready to advance the interests of education ; he married, Dec. 31, 1853, Miss Julia, daughter of Col. Joseph Dickson ; they have three children-George H., Nannie E. and Susie M., all born in Platteville; since the marriage Mr. Perry has resided in the pleasant home he then built on the outskirt of Platteville. Col. Dickson, a settler of 1827 in Grant Co., won his title in the Black Hawk war. He was wounded at the battle of Bad Ax, and was, in consequence, a life pen- sioner.

CHARLES POTTER, deceased, was a native of Brighton, Beaver Co., Peun .; Feb. 11, 1837, came to Platteville with his parents when 7 years old ; he worked with his father, Joel Potter, in

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his plow-shop, and was in partnership with him under the firm name of J. Potter & Son, till the death. of his father in 1874, and the last three years of his life was in partnership with Samuel M. Jones, firm, Potter & Jones. Mr. Potter's death occurred Dec. 18, 1880 ; he left one son, Charles A., born Sept 14, 1868. He was married Sept. 30, 1863, to Miss Annie E. Foshay, who survives him ; she was born in Sing Sing, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1843, danghter of Garrett Foshay, who came to Wisconsin in May, 1854, and still lives at Patch's Grove, Grant Co.

JOEL POTTER, deceased; was a native of Plymouth, Litchfield Co., Conn., born in 1807. He was married in 1829, to Miss Mary Payne, who was born in Vernon, Tolland Co., Conn., in 1806. Came to Schuyler Co., Ill., in 1837, and from there to Platteville in November, 1844. Immediately after com- ing to Platteville, he started a plow-shop in the village, which was the first shop of the kind in Wiscon- sin west of Madison; he continued that business till his death March 29, 1874. The oldest daughter, Mary, died in August, 1847, aged 17; Seth died in California in 1851, aged 19; Hattie was married to A. Y. Felton, and died Feb. 14, 1874; Charles died Dec. 18, 1880, and Julia in 1846, 3 years old ; John now lives in Eagan, Dakota, and Henry is in the mercantile business at Lake Benton, Minn. Mrs. Potter is the only one left of a family of six, four brothers and two sisters, and she is doing her own work and living alone, at 75 years of age.

PHILLIP REILLY, a veteran farmer and miner of Platteville, was born in 1804, in County Cavan, Ireland, where his early life was spent on his father's farm. He came in 1841, to Amer- ica, and worked in the mines and on the canals of New York and Pennsylvania until 1843, when he came to Platteville ; worked the first year near this town, and, in the summer of 1844, went to Lancaster and worked in the Pigeon Diggings until 1845, since which time he has resided in the town of Platteville. Settled on his present farm in 1857 ; built in 1877, a large and elegant house two stories high, the main building being 18x28; wing, 16x18. Since 1860, Mr. Reilly has done but little mining. He married in New York City Mary McGovern, of County Cavan, Ireland ; she came to America in 1843, and is the mother of four living children-Frank, Phillip, Edwin and Kate, all born in Platteville, as were four children now deceased. The family belong to the Roman Catholic Church, Platteville.

THOMAS REILLY, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Platteville; was born in 1815, in Ireland, where his early life was spent on a farm. Came to America in 1843, and came from Pennsylvania to Platteville in 1847. Engaged in farming and mining in this town up to 1858, when he purchased 80 acres of his present farm of Mr. Tollman ; later he bought out the Richard Bonson farm, one of the first settled here, and has since made additional purchases ; he now owns 250 acres. The farm was originally timbered, and the old Bonson log honse (which still stands near Mr. Reilly's substantial frame residence) was, when built, one of the best in the town. Mr. Reilly married Mary Reilly, of his and her native county ; they have four living children-James, Jane (Mrs. Connell, of Platteville ), John and Mary A .; they also lost a daughter-Lauretta. The family belong to the Catholic Church of Platteville. The record of Mr. Reilly is one of steady, honorable and rapid progress. He owns the farms of two of the pioneers who preceded him in settlement, yet began with little or nothing, except a strong arm and a resolve to win a home and competence for his family.

HENRY REWEY, retired farmer, Platteville ; was born in Stockbridge, Mass., July 9, 1805. Up to the age of 15, his life was spent on a farm. He then with a brother, interested himself in the wool-carding business. and eventually became the owner of a factory near the line of Tompkins and Tioga Cos., N. Y. He married, Sept. 27, 1832, Mary Wiltse, who was born Nov. 29, 1810, in Sara- toga, Saratoga Co., N. Y. They came West in 1844, locating on a new farm in Lima, Grant Co., Wis. The 160 acres cost him $320; half of this farm he cleared and improved. In 1860, he removed his family to a farm in Mifflin, Iowa Co., where they resided four years. Since 1864, he has resided near the city of Platteville, owning three lots of respectively 6, 15 and 20 acres about the place. Mr. and Mrs. Rewey have five stalwart sons to perpetuate the family name. The eldest, Addison, is now farming in Lima; Jefferson W., one of the foremost business men and farmers of Iowa Co., has represented the Southern District of that county several terms in the State Legislature. A station on the new Chicago & Tomah Railroad was named in his honor. Jasper L. now resides in Platteville, and is Deputy Sheriff of Grant Co .; he was born Aug. 18, 1837, in Tioga Co., N. Y., and married Susan Gal- breth ; he served during the rebellion in the 7th W. V. I., and was wounded. M. Freeman is now in the hotel business at Rewey Station ; he is also Overseer of the Iowa Co. Poor Farm. Jay, the young- est son, was born Dec. 3, 1852, in Lima; married Albina Trowbridge, of Darlington, and is with his parents in their Platteville home; he now owns 80 acres of the old Lima farm ; the average weight of the five brothers is from 180 to 190 pounds. All are like the father, Republican in politics. Henry

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Rewey enlisted in Co. C, 7th W. V. I .; was twice wounded, and removing to Nebraska, died there in November, 1874; he left a wife (nee Abbie Moore) and a little daughter, now with her grandparents.

DANIEL RICHARDS is one of the real pioneers of the county; born April 15, 1807, in Broome Co., N. Y., he accompanied his parents on their removal to Jacksonville, Ill., in 1823; four years later, he came to Galena, Ill., and began mining. The year 1829 was the date of his settlement in Grant County, it then being an integral part of the Northwest Territory of Michigan. He, with a brother. William T. Richards, made their home one and a half miles southwest of Platteville, and engaged in teaming, hauling " mineral" to the furnaces and lead to Galena. In 1834, Mr. Richards married Mrs. Lucretia (Curtis) Davis and located in Cassville; here he followed farming about 14 years, at the end of which time he removed to Hazel Green ; seven years of mining here were followed by his final settlement in his present and pleasant, though secluded and quiet home. Mr. and Mrs. Richards have four living children- Ruth S., wife of J. D. Babcock ; Harriet P., Mrs. W. H. Dobson (both of Lincoln, Nebraska) ; Emma, Mrs. Daniel Spaugey, of Kansas, and Abigail C., now the widow of the brave Fred T. Bachelor, who per. ished in the Andersonville Prison pen. He was a volunteer in the 25th W. V. I. George C Richards, one of the then deceased children of Daniel Richards, also died in the Union army, the others were Daniel and an infant. Mrs. Richards also lost a daughter, Ann E., by her deceased husband.

GEORGE E. RICHARDS, M. D. ; was born in 1852 in Pittsfield, Mass .; when young, his parents removed to Illinois, resided a short time in Springfield and went from there to Amboy, where they still reside. The doctor was educated at Amboy, Ill., and Pittsfield, Mass., and is a graduate of Hahne- mann Medical College of Chicago. He practiced in Ottawa, Ill , till June, 1880, since which time he has practiced in Platteville. He was married in Amboy, Ill, April 25, 1877, to Miss Estelle Badger, daugh- ter of Simon Badger, Esq., a prominent citizen of that place.

E. RIEGE, merchant, is a native of Hanover, Germany, born in 1837; he came to America in 1856, and was engaged in the mercantile business in New York City for five years; came to Wisconsin in 1861, and commenced business in Platteville in April, 1862, and has followed it ever since. He now owns four stores on Main street, and carries on a general and clothing store himself, the other two being rented ; he also owns a brick dwilling, where he resides. He was married in 1863, in Platteville, to Katie Dascher and has had eight children, four of whom are now living.

HANMER ROBBINS, farmer ; was born in the town of Deerfield, Oneida Co., N. Y., Dec. 11, 1815. In addition to a common-school education, he attended Hobert Hall Institute, alternating his attending school falls with working on farm summers and teaching winters, during 1834, 1835 and 1836. In May, 1837, he came to Platteville, Wis., and, in June, was teaching the village school, which school he continued to teach for the following two years ; then followed mining for about eight years; then, mean- while, having bought a farm near the village, he engaged in farming, which occupation he still follows ; he went to California in 1850, and returned in 1852. He was married June 1, 1847, to Miss A. L. Goodell, of Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. They have had seven children, four of whom are still living-Fanny, now Mrs. Gray, of Madison ; Thomas, Roderick and George. Mr. R. was Town Superintendent of Schools, from 1854 to 1860; was elected to the State Legislature for the years 1857, 1858, 1861, 1864, 1866, 1867 and 1868, and was Chairman of the Committee on Education during four of the seven years. He was Chairman of that Committee in 1858, when the State University of Wisconsin was re organized and women admitted to the University. He was a member of the State Board of Regents for Normal Schools ten years, and was mainly instrumental in securing the law establishing several Normal schools instead of only one, as well as in securing the location of the first State Normal School at Platteville. He was Presi- dent of the D., P. & M. R. R., from its first inception until it was bought by the C., M. & St. P. R. R., in 1880 ; also General Manager during its construction.

JOHN ROBERTSON, photographer and proprietor of " Robertson's Art Gallery," is a native of Stirling, Scotland, born in 1824; he came to America in the spring of 1852, stopping in Canada a few months ; he came on to Wisconsin and settled in Beloit the next fall. He was there engaged in the jewelry business, which he had learned in Scotland, till September, 1854, then removed to Lancaster, Grant Co., and carried on the same business there till October, 1858, since which time he has been in business in Platteville. He learned photography soon after coming to Platteville, and has been engaged in the business ever since, and also owns a jewelry store, carried on by his two sons, Robert B. and David B. He was married in Scotland to Miss Mary Black, who died in the spring of 1860, leaving four chil- dren-Robert B., Jane W. and David B., who are still living, and an infant who died a few months after its mother. He was married the second time in Platteville, Nov. 20, 1862, to Alice G. Armstrong, by whom he has had six children-John, Willie, Arthur, Mary (deceased), Allie and Pearl Athol.

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ENOCH ROBINSON, farmer and miner ; P. O. Platteville ; was born Oct. 7, 1813, in Mon- roe Co., Ill., where he spent his early life on a farm. His father, a Pennsylvanian, and his mother, a Vir- ginian, were among the earliest settlers of Illinois. The father, David Robinson, went to Galena in 1827. Both father and son were in that then new mining settlement at the time of Stillman's defeat. They af- terward engaged in mining at Menomonee ; assisted in building the block-house at the Sinsinawa Mounds, and to bury the murdered Boxley and Thompson, who were victims of the Indians. Since the Black Hawk war, Mr. Robinson has worked at mining in Platteville (1840), Fair Play, Menomonee, Beetown, on the site of Warren, Ill., and at Hazel Green, where he remained fourteen years. He was the discoverer of the Robinson Lead at Platteville. On Oct. 13, 1872, he married Mrs. Mary Dickson, widow of Col. Joseph Dickson ; she was born Mary 17, 1820, at Prairie du Chien, Wis .; her father was Maj. William D. Adney of the U. S. Regular Army, and her mother's maiden name was Julia Fisher. The latter died in Galena, and Maj. Adney married again, Catharine Hoffman, who still resides at Dunleith, Ill. Maj. Adney was the finder of the Adney Lead at Hazel Green, and died Sept. 9, 1832, in the town of Platte- ville. His daughter, Mary, married Col. Dickson, when she was in her 13th year, and bore him eleven children, eight still survive, namely, Julia A., Samuel T., Susan C., Maggie C., Joseph H., John A., William H. and Josiah P .; those deceased are Sylvester C., George W. and Sarah J. All were born in the town of Platteville, where Col. Dickson settled in August, 1827. He broke about 20 acres of raw prairie on what is now the Roseleib farm, and, in the spring of 1828, planted what is thought to have been the first field of corn in Wisconsin grown by a white farmer. He commanded a spy company during the Black Hawk war, served with distinguished bravery and efficiency, and was severely wounded by the In- dians at the battle of Bad Ax. He died Feb. 28, 1871, on his farm, four miles southwest of Platteville. This farm is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson ; here Mr. Robinson continues mining, for which fascinating occupation he has acquired a strong passion during his forty years' experience at it in Wisconsin.

JOSEPH ROBINSON; P. O. Platteville; born Jan. 1, 1821, in Yorkshire, England, where his early life was spent as a farm servant. He married Hannah Bratton, and, in the spring of 1841, left for America. At the end of a tedious three-months' voyage, he found himself on the borders of Grant Co., which has since been his home. Forty acres of his present farm he bought of the U. S. Government, it having been reserved as mineral land. His brother, Thomas Robinson, also bought 40 acres, and both erected log cabins, which stood somewhat nearer the " Branch " than do the substantial brick structures which replaced them. His 40 acres was the site of the block-house built by the settlers during the Black Hawk war, and Mr. R. well remembers plowing over the old rifle-pits. He was one of the leading spirits in the founding of the " Block-House Branch " P. M. Church, of which he for several years officiated as local Elder. Mr. Robinson has buried two wives, and has ten living children ; two of his sons, John W. and Joseph S., were among the defenders of the Union who went out from the Badger State. Mr. Robin- son has 270 acres on Secs. 25 and 36.

THOMAS ROBINSON, Secs. 25 and 36 ; P. O. Platteville ; born in April, 1816, in York- shire, England. He came to the United State and Grant Co. in 1841; with him were his father, M. W. Robinson, his brother, Joseph and wife, and his brother-in-law, William Hilton, a lad of 14 (see sketch of Joseph Robinson). In place of the log house of forty years ago, Mr. Robinson has a capacious brick farm house, with farm buildings to correspond. The original 40 acres has increased to 255. He married Ann Hilton, a native of Massingham, Lincolnshire, England. They have had nine children-Sarah, Jane, Mary, Thomas, George H., Charles W., James R., Amelia and John M. All were born on the Platteville farm except the eldest; she married James Huntington, and died at his home in Seymour, La Fayette Co., Wis. Mr. Robinson was with his brother, Joseph, and a few of his neighbors, among the founders of the local P. M. Church.

WILLIAM ROBINSON, retired farmer, Platteville ; was born in Yorkshire, England, Sept. 22, 1811. His early and subsequent life was spent as a farmer. In 1834, he came to the United States and located in Ohio. In the summer of 1836, he came via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Grant Co., which has since been his home. Three days after his arrival, he bought team and wagon, and for a year or more hauled lead to, and supplies from, Galena. He then rented a farm for a time, and, in 1838, bought of James Vineyard 160 acres of his present farm. He was at this time in partnership with a brother, John Robinson, and the log house in which they kept bachelor's hall stood on the site of William Robin- son's substantial brick farmhouse of to-day. Mr. Robinson married Mary S. McBride, whose father was one of the garrison of Fort Crawford when it, Green Bay and Fort Winnebago were the only footholds of white men in Wisconsin; she died in 1867, leaving eight children-Sarah, Jane, William J., Rosanna, Richard H., Lena and Emma. The present Mrs. Robinson was Miss Jane Blaylock, who was born in

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Platteville, where her father settled in 1836. By her Mr. Robinson has three children-Benjamin S., Nora A. and Ida R. Rosanna Robinson died about two years after the death of her mother, at the age of 21. Richard H. is now in the butchering business in Charles City, Iowa. The eldest son is on the splen- did 350-acre farm, his father having resided for the past fourteen years in the city of Platteville. Mr. Robinson is a man who has become wealthy through his own exertions, he having earned every dollar and every acre.

CHARLES ROSELIP, P. O. Platteville ; is the owner of one of the oldest and best farms of Grant Co .; it is also historic, as it was here that Col. Joseph Dickson, the first owner, planted, in the year 1828, the first crop of corn grown by an Anglo-Saxon farmer in Wisconsin. Col. Dickson disposed of the farm to Judge E. M. Orme, who erected a small house and made other slight improvements. In 1848, John Roselip, a Prussian emigrant, bought the place of the Judge; he was the father of Charles Roselip, who was born Jan. 14, 1840, in Prussia ; the son has owned the farm since 1865; beginning fif- teen years ago with 140 acres of the original 160, he has added 40 acres, grubbed and broken 70 acres, erected, in 1875, a 30x40 feet basement barn, and, in 1877, built a tasteful frame farmhouse. The old farm, originally prairie with the exception of a few acres, is now in a splendid state of cultivation, and the buildings are in striking contrast to those standing here during the Black Hawk war. Mr. Roselip mar- ried Miss Anna, daughter of A. S. Lothman, of Platteville; she was a native of Hanover, and came to this country when she was about 15 years of age; they have six children-John A. M., Lizzie, Minnie C., Charles H., Ellen C. and William D., all born in Platteville except the eldest. Mr. Rosclip spent 1864-65 in the gold region of Montana.

HON. JOHN HAWKINS ROUNTREE, Platteville; the ancestral record of this eminent and venerable pioneer settler of Grant Co. is as follows : His great-grandfather, Randall Roun- trec, emigrated from Ireland in 1720 and settled in Virginia, where he resided until his death ; his grand- father, Thomas Rountree, moved from Virginia to the vicinity of the Mammoth Cave, Warren Co., Ky., with his family, in 1795, where he remained until he died; John Rountree, his father, also settled in the same place, which was his place of residence until his deccase; in this same locality John H. Rountree was born March 24, 1805; the education received by " the Major" at this period he himself describes as "very common-school," the schoolhouse being one of those primitive affairs so common in earlier times, composed of unhewn logs, with holes cut for windows, while a broad fire-place, with its huge open chimney, furnished the heat for the room in frosty weather; Maj. Rountree moved from Kentucky to Hillsboro, Mont- gomery Co., Ill., in February. 1824, where he was appointed as Deputy Sheriff, and served as such until he reached his 21st year, when he was elected Sheriff, an office that he held until his resignation upon his re- turn from his trip to Wisconsin in 1827 ; May 24 of this year, he reached New Diggings (now a portion of La Fayette Co.), and afterward came to Platteville, then just coming into notice ; there he has since re- sided, a period of 54 years. Aug. 7, 1828, Maj. Rountree was married to Mary Grace Mitchell, of Ga- lena, Ill., and the next day, with his bride, moved to his log cabin in Wisconsin; Mrs. Rountree died in 1837 ; Sept. 3, 1839, he was again married, to Miss Lydia H. Southworth, of Platteville; after a long and pleasant companionship, extending over nearly a half century, this lady passed on before, her death ·occurring June 16, 1881. The numerous positions held by Maj. Rountree are the best evidence of his high standing among his neighbors for the numerous decades hidden beneath the switftly-revolving wheel of Time; in May, 1826, he was commissioned as Major of Illinois Militia, and the same year elected Sheriff of Montgomery Co., in the same State; in 1829, he was appointed Postmaster at Platteville, and was several times re-appointed ; also the same year appointed and commissioned Justice of the Peace for Iowa Co., Michigan Ter., of which Wisconsin then formed a part; in 1832, he was elected Captain of a company of mounted volunteers enlisted by him to serve in the Black Hawk war; in 1834, he was ap- pointed Chief Justice of the County Court of Iowa Co., by the Governor of Michigan, which position he held until the Territory of Wisconsin was organized in 1836; in 1837, he was appointed Judge of Pro- bate of Grant Co., which was organized that year ; in 1839, he was commissioned as Aid to the Governor, with the rank of Colonel ; in 1838, he was elected a member of the Territorial Council for four years, and, in 1842, was re-elected to the same position ; in 1847, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, serving in that body on the Committee on General Provisions, which embraced a large number of the most important articles under consideration, as well as upon several select committees ; in 1850, Maj. Rountree was elected to the State Senate, and the following year was appointed a Regent of the State University ; in 1853, he was appointed Major General of Militia of the Second District of Wisconsin ; in 1857, he was appointed Postmaster of Platteville; in 1863, was elected Member of Assembly, and, in 1866, was again elected to the State Senate-thus having served in the Territorial and State Legislatures

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History of Grant County, Wisconsin, preceded by a history of Wisconsin, Part 141

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899 Publication date: 1881 Publisher: [Chicago : Western Historical Co.?] Number of Pages: 1050

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: [Chicago : Western Historical Co.?]
Number of Pages: 1050