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Franklin Mitchell.
Franklin Mitchell lives upon section 6, land purchased by his father, Hon. Abner Mitchell,
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who came here in 1847, accompanied by his wife and five children, of whom Franklin was the eldest. Five other children had preceded them in coming to Green county. James Mitchell, the father of Abner and grandfather of Franklin Mitchell, was a commissioned offi- cer in the American army during the Revolu- tionary War. After the Revolution he served as a volunteer, without pay, in a campaign against the "Logan" Indians, of whom, in one engagement, as a sharp shooter, he was cred- ited with having sent six to their "happy hunt- ing ground." The five sons and daughters of Abner Mitchell who preceded him in this county were-Joseph, Cynthia, Jesse, Benjamin and Washington. Joseph was a tailor, and came in 1846 to Monroe. He afterwards lived in Juda, where he died in 1875. Cynthia came with Joseph, and is now the wife of David Dunwiddie, of Brodhead. Jesse, one of the pioneers of Sylvester, came in 1836. Benjamin settled in Sylvester in 1837, and Washington, in Decatur, in 1845. The five children who came here with their parents were-Franklin, Louisa, Naomi, Ralph and Judson. Franklin remained with his parents; Louisa was married to J. C. Chadwick, of Juda; Naomi was married to George Lyman, and died in Sylvester in 1881. Ralph settled in Jnda: Judson enlisted in the 22d Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and joined Sherman's army. He was captured at Bentonville and confined at Libby prison a short time, then exchanged, rejoined his regi- ment and was in line at the grand review at Washington in June, 1865. His regiment was the first to enter Atlanta and raise the "flag of the Union." IIon. Abner Mitchell was one of the prominent men of Green county. He was for many years justice of the peace, and was always a peace maker in law, and in the neigh- borhood. Acting in the capacity of magistrate, he would state both sides of the case, and labor for a settlement whenever possible, throwing in his costs to facilitate it. He represented Green county in the State legislature in 1854. He
died Oct. 8, 1874, that day being his eighty- fourth birthday. His wife died in August, 1863. Franklin Mitchell, in 1858, removed to section 31, of the town of Decatur, where he had pur- chased government land in 1848. Ile was mai- ried Oct. 6, 1857, to Jane McVean, a native of Fulton Co, N. Y., and daughter of one of the early settlers of Newark, Rock Co., Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have four children-Edward, born in September, 1858; Abner, born in No- vember, 1860; Elizabeth, born in February, 1863, and Louisa, born in February, 1868, all of whom are living with their parents. Mr. Mitchell resides upon the homestead farm for- merly owned by his father, where he has a fine residence. He still owns and works all but forty acres of his Decatur farm. He repre- sented his county in the State legislature of 1877-8-9, and has served as president and vice- president of the Green County Agricultural So- ciety.
F. R. Melvin.
F. R. Melvin was born in the State of Ohio, July 23, 1832. He came to Green county with his parents in 1851, and has since been a resi- dent of this county. May 20, 1861, he enlisted in company D, 2d Wisconsin regiment, Volun- teer Infantry, and remained in the service until the following August, when he was discharged on account of physical disability. Filled with a love of country, having in a measure regained his health, he enlisted a second time in com- pany K, 24th regiment, New York Volunteers. At the Second Battle of Bull Run he had both arms pierced with bullets, and on account of consequent disability, was again discharged in November, 1862. In 1770 he was elected treas- urer of Green county, which office he held six years. In 1879 he represented his district in the assembly. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a good citizen, a trusty friend, and an efficient officer whenever called upon to perform any public duty. Politically he belongs to the re- publican party.
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Ephraim Bowen.
Ephraim Bowen, a prominent and representa- tive man of Green county, is a native of Evans, Erie Co., N. Y., and was born Jan. 14, 1824. His parents were Pardon and Maria (Marvin) Bowen. His father was a native of Rhode Island, and cleared a farm on the "Holland Purchase," in western New York, where he reared a large family. Ephraim Bowen lost his mother when he was eight years old, and was bereft of his father at the age of fifteen. He managed the farm for one year after his father's death, and then engaged as a farm hand for three years; working the two first years for $10.50, and the third year for $11 per month. At the expiration of this time he spent one year traveling, as a dealer in patent rights, re- ceiving for his services $18 per month. Having a desire for mercantile life, at the age of twenty years, with a capital of $300, he came to Wis- consin and located in the town of Exeter, in this county, where he engaged as clerk in a store at $15 per month. Subsequently he be- came a partner in the business, and after six years of successful trade, found himself in the possession of $3,000. With this sum he re- moved to Albany in 1853, erected a building and established himself in the mercantile and produce business, and also engaged to a consid- erable extent in real estate operations. At that point he conducted his business successfully un- til 1867, when he purchased at Green Bay 2,000 acres of pine land in connection with a mill, and conducted a successful lumber trade for a number of years, and added largely to his al- ready ample fortune. Subsequently he was largely instrumental in establishing the First National Bank of Brodhead, a full history of which appears elsewhere in this volume. Of this institution he was president and largest stock-holder. He also erected a fine residence, surrounded it with comforts and luxuries, and now lives in the enjoyment of the fruits of a successful and honorable business life. As a business man Mr. Bowen possessed remarkable
financial ability, and he is widely known for his shrewdness, cautiousness, and for his decided, vigorons and confident action. In political af- fairs he holds decided views, and though an earnest worker, has no desire for official honors. He was formerly a whig, but is now a republi- can. Mr. Bowen was married June 8, 1853, to Mary Ann Pearsons, of Sheldon, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Mrs. Bowen has contributed largely to her husband's success in business, and is a lady of culture and superior intelligence. They have had three children, two daughters and one son. The eldest, Ella Amanda, died in Septem- ber, 1864, at the age of ten years. The two living are Jennie M. and Myron P.
MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE FROM WISCONSIN.
[A complete list of United States senators from Wisconsin, with the date of the election of each, has already been given in this History.] WISCONSIN TERRITORIAL DELEGATES AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WILO HAVE REPRESENTED GREEN COUNTY.
The act of Congress approved April 20, 1836, organizing the Territory of Wisconsin, con- ferred upon the people the right to be repre- sented in the National Congress by one dele- gate, to be chosen by the votes of the qualified electors of the Territory. Under this anthority there were elected the following
Wisconsin Territorial Delegates.
George W. Jones, elected Oct. 10, 1836; James D. Doty, elected Sept. 10, 1838; James D. Doty, elected Aug. 5, 1840 ;* Henry Dodge, elected Sept. 27, 1841; Henry Dodge, elected Sept. 25, 1843; Morgan L. Martin, elected Sept. 22, 1845; John II. Tweedy, elected Sept. 6, 1847.
George W. Jones
was born in Vincennes, Ind., and gradnated at Transylvania University, Kentucky, in 1825. He was bred to the law but ill-health prevented him from practicing. He was clerk of the United States district court, in Missouri, in
*Doty afterward resigned, he having been appointed gov- ernor of the Territory by President Tyler, Sept. 13, 1841.
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1826 and served as an aid-de-camp to Henry Dodge in the Black Hawk War. He was chosen colonel of militia the same year (1832), and subsequently major-general. He was at one time judge of the county court of Grant county. In 1835, as we have seen, he was elected a dele- gate to Congress from the Territory of Michi- gan, and served two years. In 1839, he was appointed by President Van Buren surveyor- general of the northwest. He was removed for political considerations in 1841, but was re- appointed by President Polk and remained in that office until 1849. In 1848, he was elected a United States senator from the State of Iowa for six years, and re-elected in 1852 for the same length of time ;- officiating as chairman of the committees on Pensions and on Enrolled Bills, and as a member of the committee on Territories. At the conclusion of his last term, he was appointed by President Buchanan min- ister to New Grenada. In 1861, he was charged with disloyalty and imprisoned in Fort War- ren.
Henry Dodge.
Foremost among the names enrolled in the pages of the early history of Wisconsin, is that of Henry Dodge. Born Oct. 12, 1782, at Vincennes, in the present State of Indiana, he removed to that portion of Louisiana Territory afterward set apart as Missouri, where, in 1808, he became sheriff of Cape Firardean county. Early in 1812, he entered the military service as captain of a mounted rifle company; later the same year, he was com- missioned a major of Louisiana militia, and sub- sequently a lieutenant colonel. During the war he was employed in many active duties on the western frontier, the most important of which was in 1814, when he commanded an ex- pedition up the Missouri river, for the purpose of holding in check the Indian tribes of that region, and ascertaining their condition and numbers. He took a prominent part in the affairs of Missouri until 1827, when he removed to the present limits of Wisconsin, and engaged
in the business of lead mining near the present location of Dodgeville, where he is said to have erected the first smelting furnace north of the Illinois line.
When, in the summer of that year, the miners were obliged by the outbreak of the Winneba- go Indians to collect in Galena for safety, Dodge was chosen commander of a corps of mounted men, organized for the defense of the place. On the breaking out of the Black Hawk War in 1832,he was chosen commander of the sev- eral companies of mounted volunteers enrolled in the mining settlements, holding a commission as colonel from the governor of Michigan Terri- tory. He displayed remarkable energy and efficiency in maintainig the defense of the ex- posed mining district until sufficient forces were gathered from the south and east to take the offensive, making two expeditions in the face of the enemy, to Rock river, to communi- cate with Gen. Atkinson, commander of the approaching forces, and one to the Four Lakes to quiet the Winnebagoes. On the 16th of June, with twenty-eight men, he pursued a party of seventeen of the hostile Sacs, from the vicin- ity of Fort Hamilton, now Wiota, Lafayette county, until they were compelled to come to stand, selecting for that purpose a strong posi- tion in a bend of the Pecatonica. Here posting a few scouts and leaving another detail with the horses, Col. Dodge, at the head of the main body, twenty-one strong, advanced to attack them, and received their fire from their hiding place at pistol-shot range, at which three men fell. Instantly a charge was ordered, and exe- cuted in so impetnous a manner that not one of the savages escaped to tell the tale.
Col. Dodge with his mounted battalion soon afterward joined the army of Gen. Atkinson at Lake Koshkonong, and greatly distinguished himself in the pursuit and destruction of Black Hawk's forces, which followed leading the charges in the engagements at Wisconsin Heights and Bad Ax. In March, 1833, when the first United States Dragoons was organized,
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he was made its colonel, and, in 1835, led his command on an expedition to the Rocky moun- tains. He resigned his commission, upon the organization of Wisconsin Territory, to accept the office of governor thereof and superin- tendent of Indian affairs by appointment from President Jackson, dated April 30, 1836. He occupied that position until super- seded by James D. Doty, in September, 1841, on account of a political change in the adminis- tration. At the election of that year he was chosen delegate in Congress, and was re-elected in 1843, continuing in that office until re-ap- pointed governor by President Polk, April 8, 1845, which position he held until the admission of Wisconsin as a State in 1848, being, there- fore, its first and last Territorial executive. He was elected one of the two first senators in Con- gress from the new State, and, his term expir- ing in 1851, he was re-elected for six years. At the end of his senatorial career, in 1857, he retired from public life, and passed the remain- der of his days partly at Mineral Point, and partly at the home of his son, Augustus C. Dodge, in Burlington, Iowa, where his death occurred June 19, 1867.
Morgan L. Martin.
Morgan L. Martin was one of the most con- spicuous and distinguished among that band of pioneer settlers who early gave a national repu- tation to Wisconsin. He was born in Martins- burg, Lewis Co., N. Y., March 31, 1805, and graduated at Union College, New York, in 1824, following the same by a thorough legal educa- tion. In 1826, he removed to Detroit, Mich., and the next year settled at Green Bay, where he has ever since resided.
In 1831, he was elected a member of the leg- islative council of Michigan, serving until 1835. In 1838, he was elected to the Territorial council of Wisconsin, and served continuously through all sessions to 1844. In 1845, he was elected as Territorial delegate to Congress for two years. On the failure of the first constitution to be rat- ified by popular vote in 1846, he was elected a
member of the constitutional convention in 1847, and was chosen president of that body. As he, in this position, appointed all committees in con- nection with other duties, his record is less marked in some respects than that of some oth- ers; and yet the part he took in debate and upon the floor, was in the highest degree creditable, and materially guided the deliberations and con- clusions of the convention. His remarks on ex- emption, internal improvements, banking, pub- lic lands, judiciary, boundaries and miscella neons provisions are especially noticeable for ·vigor, directness, profound legal learning, personal knowledge of the subject matter of debate, and natural bearing upon the future of the new State. He was especially distinguished in presiding, for uniform dignity and courtesy, and merited, as he received, the highest testi- monials of respect from all his associates.
In 1855, he was elected a member of the as- sembly, and in 1858, to the Senate. In 1861, he was appointed paymaster United States Army, serving until the suppression of the rebellion in 1865. In 1873, he was again elected to the assembly.
Throughout a public career of great and un- usual length, covering much more than the whole period of Wisconsin's local annals, Mr Martin has borne an eminent and distinguished part, and it is but faint praise to say, as the united testimony of all, both associates and cit- izens, that it has been one of honor, uprightness and dignity,-reflecting the highest credit not only upon himself but upon those so ably repre- sented. To great natural abilities, he added the matured results of profound research, and a wide range of intellectual culture, enriched by a per- sonal experience which few indeed, even among pioneers, had opportunity to enjoy. Although representing a party, he was never a partisan, and it is a pride to record, was ever more of a patriot than politician. His military services, although less showy, were in no sense less im- portant than his civil career, even if forgotten, as is the case with so many others who periled
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health and life in defense of national union. At home among personal acquaintances, no citizen ever stood higher in public estimation, or had warmer friends. His whole career has been above suspicion as above reproach. Old age finds him surrounded by universal respect and reverence for years and wisdom,-the bene- factor of multitudes, the friend of all. That he may long survive to witness the maturing work in large part of his own genius and labors, is the earnest hope of all, and especially of those who have enjoyed his more intimate acquaint- ance.
John H. Tweedy.
John II. Tweedy was born in Danbury, Conn., Nov. 9, 1814. After a preliminary education, he entered and graduated at Yale College, and adopted law as a profession, in the practice of which he speedily obtained high distinction. As a public man and prominent citizen he has been widely known from the beginning of Ter- ritorial government. Ile located in Milwaukee in October, 1836, and has ever since resided there. In 1841 and 1842, he was elected a mem- ber of the Territorial council. In 1846, he was elected to the constitutional convention from Milwaukee county, serving in that body on the committee on the Constitution and Organization of the Legislature, and also took a conspicuous part in the general proceedings. In 1847, he was elected Territorial delegate to Congress, being the last incumbent in that position. After State organization he was the first whig candi- date for governor, but as the democratic party was then largely in the majority, he was de- feated by Nelson Dewey. In 1853, he served as a member of the assembly. Since that time, Mr. Tweedy has retired from public life, and, unless locally, has taken no special part in polit- ical affairs.
During his whole career, Mr. Tweedy has been noted for great and conspicuous abilities, profound learning, sterling integrity and unsel fish interest in all enterprises for the promotion of the general welfare. Naturally a student, of
retiring disposition and modest merit, he has usually preferred quiet and retirement to pub- licity, and only exercised his great powers of oratory and persuasion, on pressing and impor- tant occasions. Wisconsin has had no worthier or more upright citizen.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS OF WIIICII GREEN
COUNTY HAS BEEN A PART.
By the constitution adopted when the Terri- tory became a State, in 1848, two representa- tives in Congress were provided for by dividing the State into two congressional districts. The first district was composed of the counties of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Jefferson, Racine, Wal- worth, Rock and Green. The second district was composed of Washington Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Calumet, Brown, Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Marquette, Sauk, Portage, Columbia, Dodge, Dane, Iowa, Lafayette, Grant, Richland, Crawford, Chippewa, St. Croix and La Pointe. Under this authority, an election was held May 8, 1848, and William Pitt Lynde was elected member of Congress for the first district ; Mason C. Darling, of Fond du Lac, for the second district. The people, there- fore, then living in Green county, were repre- sented in the 30th Congress by William Pitt Lynde.
In 1849, the number of districts were increased to three. Rock, Green, Lafayette, Grant, Iowa, Dane, Sank, Adams, Portage, Richland, Crawford, Chippewa, St. Croix and La Pointe counties constituted the second congressional dis- trict of Wisconsin.
In 1861, the State was divided into six dis- tricts. Green, Lafayette, Iowa, Grant, Craw- ford, Richland and Sauk counties, were formed into the third congressional district.
By an act of the legislature of Wisconsin, of April 4, 1872, the following counties were formed into the (new) third congressional district . Grant, Iowa. Lafayette, Green, Richland and Crawford.
The State was again re-districted by an act of the legislature. By this act Green county
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fell again into the third district, composed now of the counties of Dane, Green, Lafayette, Iowa and Grant.
From (and including) the first election for representatives in Congress from Wisconsin, there have been chosen in the several districts in which Green county has fallen, the follow- ing
Members of Congress: I .- First District.
XXXth Congress, William Pitt Lynde, eleet- ed 1848.
II .- Second District.
XXXIst Congress, Orsamus Cole, elected 1849.
XXXIId Congress, Ben C. Eastman, elected 1851.
XXXIIId Congress, Ben C. Eastman, elected 1853.
XXXIVth Congress, C. C. Washburn, elect- ed 1855.
XXXVth Congress, C. C. Washburn, elected 1857.
XXXVIth Congress, C. C. Washburn, elect. ed 1859.
XXXVIIth Congress, L. Hanchett (died) elected 1861. W. D. McIndoe, elected 1862. III .- Third District.
XXXVIIIth Congress, Amasa Cobb, elected 1863.
XXXIXth Congress, Amasa Cobb, elected 1865.
XLth Congress, Amasa Cobb, elected 1867.
XLIst Congress, Amasa Cobb, elected 1869.
XLIId Congress, J. Allen Barber, elected 1871.
IV .- Third District.
XLIIId Congress, J. Allen Barber, elected 1873.
XLIVth Congress, Henry S. Magoon, elected 1875.
XLVth Congress, George C. Hazelton, elect- ed 1877.
XLVIth Congress, George C. Hazelton, eleet- ed 1879.
XLVIIth Congress, George C. Hazelton, elected 1881.
V .- Third District.
XLVIIIth Congress, Burr W. Jones, elected 1883.
William Pitt Lynde
was born in Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y., Dec. 16, 1817; he graduated at Yale College in 1838, and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1841, set- tling in Milwaukee the same year. In 1844 he was appointed attorney-general of the Terri- tory of Wisconsin. He also received the ap- pointment in 1845 of United States district attorney of Wisconsin Territory, holding the position until the admission of the State into the Union. In 1848, Mr. Lynde was elected a representative to Congress in the first district of which Green was one of the counties as already noted in this chapter. In 1860 he was elected mayor of Milwaukee. He was a member of the State assembly in 1866 and elected a State sena- tor in 1868. In 1874 he was elected a repre- sentative to the 44th Congress, from the fourth congressional district. He is now (1884) a practicing lawyer in Milwaukee.
Ben C. Eastman
was born in the State of Maine in the year 1812. He settled in Wisconsin in 1840. He was clerk of the Territorial council of Wisconsin. He also prepared reports of the old Supreme Court of Wisconsin. He served in Congress as al- ready indicated in this chapter from 1851 to 1855. He died at Platteville, Wis., Feb. 2,1856.
Cadwallader C. Washburn .*
The Washburn ancestry is traceable back, on both sides, to the early settlement of New Eng- land by the Puritans. John Washburn was sec- retary of the Plymouth colony in England. IIe came to this country in 1631, and settled in what was then known as the "Eagle's Nest," in Dux-
*This sketch of Hon. Cadwallader C. Washburn, who, for three snecessive terms, represented the second congression- al district of Wisconsin, of which Green was one of the counties, was prepared by C. W. Butterfield, of Madison, for the Northwest Review( largely from a number of meno- rial addresses on Washburn's life and character (particularly one by David Atwood, of Madison, Wis.) delivered before the Historical Society of that State, July 25, 1882.
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bury, Mass. He was a very prominent man in his day; an extensive farmer, and the proprie- tor of a large iron furnace in Raynham, Mass. He was for many years a representative in the general conrt. Israel, a son of John Wash- burn, was a resident of Raynham, served in the Revolutionary War, was a member of the Mas- sachusetts convention that ratified the Consti- tution of the United States, and was repeatedly chosen to represent his people in the general court-the New England name for legislature in early days, and sometimes used at the present time.
Israel's son and namesake was born in Rayn- ham, Nov. 18, 1784. He moved to Maine in 1806, stopping a brief time in several places, teaching school and following his trade as ship- builder. In 1809, he purchased a farm and store in Livermore, where he continued in trade till 1829, when he gave up his mercantile pur- suits and spent the residue of his years on his farm-"The Norlands." He represented his town in the legislature in 1815, 1816, 1818 and 1819. At this time Maine was a province of Massachusetts. He died Sept. 1, 1876, at the advanced age of ninety-two years.
John Benjamin, who arrived in this country on the ship Lion, in 1632, was a proprietor of Cambridge; but at an early day settled at Water- town, where, in the fifth generation, Samuel Benjamin was born, Feb. 3, 1753. He became the fourth settler in Livermore, in 1783, where he continued to reside until his death, April 14, 1824. He married Tabitha Livermore, of Waltham, Mass., Jan. 16, 1782, and they raised a family of ten children of whom Martha, born Oct. 4, 1792, became the wife of Israel Washburn, second, on the 30th of March, 1812, and died May 6, 1861. Their issue is the celebrated "Washburn family," of seven sons, four of whom have occupied seats in Congress from four different States, while two of these have been governors, and a like number have represented the Nation at foreign courts.
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