History of Green County, Wisconsin. Together with sketches of its towns and villages, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, Part 61

Author: Union publishing company, Springfield, Ill., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Springfield, Ill., Union publishing company
Number of Pages: 1168

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J. C. Hall, M. D.,

a native of Langdon, Sullivan Co., N. H., was born May 21, 1821. When he was quite young his parents moved to Maine, where his early life was spent obtaining the foundation of his education in the common schools. He after- wards attended North Yarmouth Academy and Westbrook Seminary. He graduated in the medical department of Harvard University in 1852. The same year he came west and located at Albany, Green Co., Wis. He was com- missioned as examining surgeon for Green county, Oct. 21, 1861, and assistant surgeon of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers, and served nearly three years as surgeon in the field. He was elected a State senator for the two years, 1870 and 1871. Dr. Hall is a member of the American Medical Association, and of the State Medical Association; also is president of the Southwestern Wisconsin Medical Association.

H. D. Fuller, M. D.,

one of the prominent practicing physicians and surgeons of Monroe, is a native of Montgomery Co., N. Y., where he was born May 23, 1848. His parents, Jonas and Margaret (Snook) Fuller, were married in 1821, and have lived together as husband and wife for more than sixty-three years, and now occupy the old home- stead where his father moved in 1787, when he was eight years of age. The subject of this sketch was reared upon a farm and received a common school education, afterwards gradu- ating at Amsterdam Academy. He is also a graduate of Union College. In 1860 he com- menced reading medicine with Dr. D. Belding, afterwards with William II. Robb. In 1872 he went to Albany, N. Y., and prosecuted his studies under Dr. J. S. Mosher. In 1878 he

graduated at Albany Medical College. In the fall of 1879 he settled at Sharon, Walworth Co., Wis., where he remained three years. In the fall of 1882 he came to Monroe, where he has followed the practice of his chosen profes- sion since. The doctor is a member of the Al- bany Alumni and Southern Wisconsin Associa- tion. He was married Dec. 21, 1881, to Jose- phine Dodge, by whom he has had one child- Maynard H. He is a man who takes an active interest in the temperance cause, and was a candidate on that ticket for school commissioner. F. Confer, M. D.,

was born in the town of Washington, Green Co., Wis., on the 18th day of December, 1854; was reared on a farm and received a common school education. When seventeen years old he commenced teaching. At the age of twenty he came to Monroe and entered the high school, graduating in 1878. . In 1879 he entered the of- fice of Dr. J. C. Hall, and prosecuted his stud- ies in medicine for three years. He graduated at Rush Medical College in February, 1882. He commenced practice at Dayton, Green coun- ty. One year later he came to Monroe, follow- ing the practice of his profession. He bere formed a partnership with Dr. N. A. Loofbou- row. In February, 1882, he was married to Carrie Isley, by whom he has one child-Fran- cis M. The doctor is a member of the A. O. U. W.

Fred W. Byers, M. D.,

one of the prominent physicians of the city, was born in Shippensville, Clarion Co., Penn., Feb. 10, 1837, where his younger days were spent. The foundation of his education was laid in the common schools and he afterwards received an academic education at Cooperstown. In 1857, he came west to Stephenson Co., Ill., and Green Co., Wis., where he was employed as teacher in the public schools. He then went to Springfield, Ohio, and attended Witten- berg College, passing into the sophomore class. In the spring of 1860, he went to Missouri as traveling salesman. About this time the War

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of the Rebellion broke out, and the feeling was so strong against northern men, in that section, that he thought it advisable to leave. Accordingly he went to Orangeville, Ill., where he resumed the study of medicine (which he had previously commenced,) in the office of Dr. W .. P. Naramore. In 1861 and 1862, he attend- ed lectures at Rush Medical College. The following August, he was employed in the hospitals at Camp Douglas, Ill., and in the mean time attended lectures, and graduated in Janu- ary 1863. Soon after he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 96th regiment of Illi- nois Volunteers-joining the regiment at Franklin, Tenn. He participated in Rosecrans campaign, of 1863, remaining with that com- mand until the army reached Chattanooga. He was then assigned to duty at Nashville, Tenn. In May 1864, he reported to his regiment, re- maining with it through part of the Atlanta campaign and participating in the battles of Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, and Peach Tree Creek, where he was made chief surgeon of the artillery brigade, of the 4th army corps, served as staff officer during the siege of Atlanta, and the engagements at Jonesboro and Love- joy station. He was present at the battles of Franklin and Nashville, and took part in the campaign to Huntsville and into cast Tennessee. He returned to Nashville, and thence to Chicago where he was mustered out of the service at Camp Douglas, July 8, 1865. He never had a furlough nor slept on a bed, from the time of entering the service until he reached Chicago. After the war, he located at Lena, Stephenson Co., Ill., where he followed the practice of medicine, twelve years, when he removed to Monroe. He was married in July, 1865, to Olive DeHaven. They are the parents of six children-Morna, Winnie, Harry S., Joe Rodney, Grace and Ben Bayard. Dr. Byers is a member of the Southern Wisconsin Medical Association, of which he is secretary; also a member of the Stephenson County

Association. Since graduating he has attended medical lectures in the Nashville University of Tennessee, and Missouri Medical College of St. Louis. He is a surgeon in the Wisconsin National Guard and United States examining surgeon for this district. He is the oldest active Knight Templar in Green county, and a companion of the first class in the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Horace E. Boardman, A. M., M. D.,

was born in Rutland, Vt., on the 18th' day of May, 1835. His parents were Elijah and Mary (Foot) Boardman, who were the parents of four sons and two daughters. Dr. Boardman was brought up on a farm, receiving the foundation of his education in the common schools. Subsequently, he attended the semi- nary at Castleton, Vt., and Burr Seminary at Manchester, Vt., and graduated at Mid- dlebury College in 1857. He was associate principal of Chester Academy till 1858, when he was elected professor of mathematics and English literature in Missouri College, where he labored for one year and a half. In conse- quence of the agitation concerning slavery, that part of the country became uncongenial to him, and, in the latter part of 1859, he returned to New England. He subsequently studied both theology and medicine, and, having attended the lectures of 1865, 1866 and 1867 in Hahne- mann Medical College, Chicago, he graduated there in the spring of 1867. He then practiced his profession in Menasha, Wis., for two years, and afterwards in Sun Prairie, Dane county, for nine and one-half years. In the summer of 1878, he came to Monroe, Green county, where he now resides, engaged in the practice of his profession. The doctor is a member and an officer of the Wisconsin Homeopathie Medical Society, and a member of the American Insti- tute of Homeopathy. He has contributed many articles to the medical journals. He was married in February 1863, in New Hampshire, to Susan C. Locke. They have now two children living-Dr. Edgar W., now the house-surgeon

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in Hahnemann Hospital, Chicago, and Horace P., who is fifteen years of age. Dr. and Mrs. Boardman are members of the M. E. Church.

Mrs. H. C. Bennett, M. D.,

of the regular school, was born in Kent, Eng- land, in 1842. In 1850, her parents, John and Hussah (Rolfe) Russell, came to America and located at Sussex, Waukesha Co., Wis., where they resided until 1883. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools and afterwards attended Carroll College, Waukesha county, graduating in 1862. In 1870 she com- menced reading medicine with her brother, Dr. Richard Russell, of Freeport Co., Minn. In the fall of the same year she attended lectures at Chicago Medical College where she gradu- ated in 1875, after which she remained one year in the Woman's Hospital. She then returned to Sussex, her home, and practiced her profes- sion until 1881, when she came to Monroe, and has here been engaged in practicing since. She has been very successful and has gained a reputation as physician, of which she may feel justly proud. She was married in March 1882, to Felix C. Bennett, a native of Ohio, who lo- cated in the county a number of years ago.

L. B. Johnson, M. D.,

was born in Steuben Co., N. Y., Nov. 23, 1822. He is a son of James T. and Lucretia (Ball) Johnson, who were among the early settlers in Steuben county. James T. Johnson was a sol- dier in the War of 1812 and was stationed at Niagara Falls. L. B. Johnson, of this sketch, was reared upon a farm and received a liberal education. At the age of eighteen years he com- menced the study of medicine, and graduated at Geneva Medical College in 1844. Soon af- ter he went to Allegany county and engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1844 he was married to Catharine Hubbard, in Steuben Co., N. Y. Two children were born to them, both of whom died in infancy. Dr. Johnson was, in 1855, elected to the legislature of the State of New York, from Allegany county. In 1857 he came to Monroe where he has since re-

sided. He is a man of more than ordinary ability and much respected in the community where he resides.

Dr. John D. Soscman,

dental surgeon, was born near Akron, Summit Co., Ohio, April 14, 1845. He is a son of Thomas Soseman, who settled in Ohio in 1835. IIe, (Thomas Soseman,) in early life, was en- gaged in milling and afterwards in farming. In 1864 he removed to St. Joseph Co., Ind., where he still resides. Dr. Soseman, of this sketch, was reared upon a farm and educated in the common schools. He commenced the study of his profession in 1871, in the office of Dr. Hall, remaining under his instruction two years. He was married in 1871, to Susan Sweuk, widow of Lewis Swenk. In 1874 he went to St. Joseph Co., Ind., and in April 1883 came to Monroe, where he is receiving liberal patronage, and although a new comer, has already established a reputation for being a skilled and reliable dentist. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., of South Bend, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Soseman have one child.

Dr. J. N. Clemmer

attended the Eclectic College at Cincinnati, having entered that institution in 1852, and holds a certificate from the same. He com- meneed the practice of his profession at Argyle, Lafayette Co., Wis, where he remained three years, then went to Winneshiek Co., Iowa, and two years later came to Green county, and set- tled in the village of Juda, where he has since remained, engaged in practicing medicine in the village and surrounding country. He was absent from Green county two and a half years, during the War of the Rebellion, having en- listed, March 9, 1863, and served until July, 26, 1865. He was mustered into the service at Madison, and at that time, promoted to regi- mental commissary. He was in fourteen battles, serving in the second corps, second division, Ist Brigade, army of the Potomac, Gen. Hancock commander of corps, and was mustered ont at Jeffersonville, Ind. Dr. Clemmer was born in Fayette Co., Penn., Aug. 22, 1826, His father

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was a farmer and he was reared to agricultural pursuits, remaining on the farm until twenty years old. Ile was married Oct. 21, 1847, to Elizabeth A. Zerley, also a native of Fayette Co., Penn. They have nine children living- Lydia L., Mary L., Isabel C., William J., George G., D. Annetta, Anna D., Joseph N. and Eliza- beth A. Lydia J. and William J., reside in Butler county, and Mary L. in Monona county. Dr. Clemmer is a member of the Masonic or- der. He is a man highly respected and es- teemed throughout the community, and has an extensive and remunerative practice.

Dr. J. Jacob Blumer,

son of Dr. Samnel Blumer, was born in Canton Glarus, Switzerland, Sept. 10, 1843, his mother died in 1845, and his father came to the United States in 1848. Jacob remained in Switzerland until 1861, receiving a good preparatory medi- cal education at Bern and Neuchatel. After coming to this State, he enlisted in the 3d Wis- consin Cavalry regiment, and served three years. After the war he went to Pennsylvania and completed his medical studies at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, spend- ing about two and a half years there. He landed in New Glarus in 1869, since which he has been the resident physician of this place. He was married Feb. 28, 1870, to Margaretha Legler.

Dr. Christopher Tochterman

was born in Canton Bern, Switzerland, Oct. 30, 1826. He is a son of Christopher and Margaret (Gally) Tochterman. His parents are both buried in Canton Bern. Christopher was edu- cated at the University of Bern. He attended four courses of medical lectures, and was ad- mitted to practice in the Old Country. In 1852 he came to America and settled in this county, in Monroe, where he practiced medicine a little, and learned the trade of wagon making. He worked at the trade for several years, then started in for himself in Oneco, Ill., where he remained a few years, then purchased eighty acres of land near Shueyville. In the fall of

1862 he enlisted in company G, 22d Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, being mustered in at Ra- cine, Wis. He was commissioned assistant surgeon of 38th regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, serving until 1865, the close of the war, when he returned home. He has 135 acres on section 36 in this town, and has made it a comfortable home. In May, 1852, he was married to Mag- daline Greenwald, of Bern, Switzerland. They have had six children, three of whom are living -Mary M., married to Rev. H. A. Palmer, of East Delaware, Wis .; Carrie, who is employed in the watch factory at Elgin, Ill .; and Godfrey S., who is traveling in California. G. S. Tochter- man has traveled extensively throughout the States and Territories. Mr. Tochterman is a republican, politically, and the family are mem- bers of the German Evangelical Church.

George W. Roberts, M. D.,

was born in Benington, Licking Co., Ohio, April 10, 1841, and was but three years old when his parents emigrated to the Territory of Wisconsin and settled in Rock county, where his father purchased land and improved a farm. Through the influence and teaching of a kind mother, who was possessed of a good educa- tion, he obtained a fair knowledge of the com- mon branches of the English language, which was advanced by four terms at Milton College, Rock county. He commenced the study of medicine in the spring of 1854, receiving in- struction from Drs. Barrows and Treat, of Janesville. In the fall of 1865 he went to Chi- cago and attended lectures at the Chicago Med- ical College and chemical instruction at the Mercy Hospital for six months. Returning home in the spring of 1866 he commenced practice in town of Cook, Rock county. In the fall of 1867 he came to Albany and formed a co-partnership with Dr. Winston of that place. The following fall he again went to Chicago and attended lectures at Rush Medical College, where he graduated and received his diploma. He then returned to Albany, where he has since re- mained, engaged in the practice of his profes-

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sion. As a physician he is popular and success- ful. He deservedly possesses the reputation of a skilled practitioner and an extensive and re- munerative practice. His genial manners and gentlemanly behavior has won for him hosts of friends. He was married in 1857 to Betsey C. Oleson. They have four children-Walter C., William D., Fred H. and Eugene Warren. Walter C. is a graduate of Rush Medical Col- lege and is practicing at Dayton, Green Co., Wis.

Walter C. Roberts, M. D.,

resident physician of Dayton, was born in Ful- ton, Rock county, Dec. 18, 1858. He is a son of Dr. G. W. Roberts, of Albany. Walter early decided to enter the medical profession, and with that view studied with his father. He fin- ished his preparatory medical studies at Rush College in Chicago. Dr. Roberts is a constant student and intends to keep pace with the ad- vances in medical science. His literary educa- tion was obtained in high schools and at Milton College. He practiced in Monroe county, and in Elroy and Monewoc previous to coming to Day- ton in 1883. He is gaining the confidence of the community and his practice is steadily in- creasing.

William Ellwood Ziegenfuss, M. D.,

of Albany, Wis., was born in Pleasant Valley, Monroe Co., Penn., Aug. 8, 1854. He is of German descent. He is the youngest of seven children of a good family, well to do, long lived, intelligent and religious. His great-great-grand- father, Andrew Ziegenfuss, and wife, left Stras- bourg, France, for America in 1740. They set- tled near Philadelphia, Penn., from whence the family has scattered through that State, New Jersey and Virginia. The parents of the sub- ject of this sketch, George and Catharine Zieg- enfuss, are still living in Pennsylvania, aged respectively, seventy-eight and sixty-six years. His father is a retired miller. The educa- tional advantages in the doctor's time and home were limited. All his education, so far as received from schools, was obtained in Mon-

roe county, at the district school, four months a year, under teachers of but limited qualifica- tions. At the age of seventeen, having privately studied of late, he began teaching school at $30 per month. He taught and at- tended the normal schools alternately for the next five years, thus taking an elective course of study, embracing a very liberal English educa- tion. Having a natural inclination towards scien- tific studies, he entered the office of Dr. M. G. Lesh, and began the study of medicine. In the autumn of 1876 he entered the department of medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan, and graduated in the first advanced course of studies in June, 1878. After gradu- ating he spent a year in the east studying, trav- eling and corresponding for various papers, which, in addition to contributing to various medical journals, he still . keeps up. In 1879 Dr. Ziegenfuss came to Dexter and began the practice of his profession. IIe is eminently successful as a physician. On Dec. 23, 1879, he was married to Hattie Loraine Sill, of Dexter, born at Port Huron, Mich., Oct. 19, 1857. Mrs. Ziegenfuss is of English-French descent. Her grand parents on both sides were early resi- dents here. Her parents, George S. and Sarah P. Sill, live in Dexter, Mich. She is the oldest of three children, having a sister and a brother younger than she. Dr. Ziegenfuss is a man of extensive reading, both in his profession and in the colateral sciences, possessing native talent for metaphysics and the natural sciences. He is the author of various medical articles, and is a fine writer.

L. E. Towne, M. D.,

located at Brodhead in 1862. Dr. Towne is one of the well known physicians of this part of the State of Wisconsin, having for many years had an extensive practice in this and ad- joining counties. He was born in Windham Co., Vt., on June 18, 1826, where he was reared. His father, Thomas Towne, was a na- tive of Massachusetts. The doctor began reading medicine at the age of seventeen, with a ma-

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ternal uncle, Dr. L. A. Smith. He continued with his uncle two or three years, having the use of his medical works. In 1848, in com- pany with two other young men, he started for the west. He came to Rock county in this State that season, and engaged in teaching. In 1850, he resumed the study of medicine, and began practice with Dr. Samuel Harroud, of the town of Newark, Rock county. Ile continued in practice some years previous to graduating, taking his degree at Rush Medical College in 1867. In the early years of his practice, the country was new and sparsely settled, and physicians were scarce, and his ride extended over a great area of territory, and he became widely known as a skillful and careful physician. Dr. Towne removed to Clarence in 1851, com- ing to Brodhead, as stated, in 1862. He has now, to a great extent, retired from practice, attending to professional calls only in the vil- lage. He was the second physician in the vil- lage of Clarence; Dr. P. B. Springstead being the first. Ile is now interested in the drug business, his son being associated with him. He has a beautiful and pleasant home in the village, and a fine farm of 160 acres near town, also owns thirty acres adjoining the village plat. Dr. Towne has been twice married. His first wife was Fannie Kendal, who died in Feb- ruary 1850. He was again married in the winter of 1850 to Caroline W. HIarroud, daughter of Dr. Harroud, who died at Darlington about 1858. The doctor has one son by his second wife, Lucius A., who is associated with his father in the drug business. He was born at Clarence in 1861. He lost a son, W. II. S., in 1873, in his nineteenth year, also a daughter at Clarence, in 1859, at the age of seven years.

Russell Broughton, M. D.,

is a son of John Broughton, of the town of Al- bany. He was born May 16, 1842, during the same year his parents came to Green county, and but a few weeks previous to that event. He received his early education in the public schools of his town. He afterwards entered Milton

College, in Rock county, intending to take a full course of study, but was diverted from his purpose by joining the army in 1863. After the close of the war he pursued a commercial course of study at Bryant & Stratton's Com- mercial College, Milwaukee, and having decid- ed to enter the medical profession, pursued a course of study at Rush Medical College, in Chicago, where he graduated in February 1869. His taste for this profession developed at an early age, and he was greatly encouraged in fitting himself for it by Dr. HI. F. Persons, of Albany, in whom he found a true friend. Since . he began practice in 1869 he has had a steadily increasing business, and is widely known as a skillful surgeon and a careful physician. His entire career has been marked by industry and frugality. He began without means, and even while receiving his education paid the most of his expenses by hard work. At the age of twenty-one he had never been inside of a saloon, never used tobacco, and had never spent a half day in town. In these habits of morality formed in early life, we find the secret of Dr. Broughton's suc- cess. He has accumulated an ample fortune, and lives in the enjoyment of all the comforts of a happy home. Ile has never held public office, except that of superintendent of the pub- lic schools of Brodhead from 1872 to 1875; as he has no aspirations for official position. Dr. Broughton was married Feb. 1, 1869, to Miss J. A. Smiley, daughter of David Smiley, of Al- bany, this county.

E. G. Bennett, M. D.,

located at Brodhead, May 1, 1878. He was born in Saratoga Co., N. Y., in 1849. His father, John G. Bennett, removed with his family to Rock Co., Wis., in 1853. Dr. Ben- nett was reared in Rock county, and received his literary education at Milton College, pre- paring himself for teaching and also laid the foundation of his medical education. He fol- lowed the occupation of teaching four years, at the same time pursuing his medical studies. He began the study of medicine in 1873, and

B. Beach

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graduated at Rush Medical College in 1878, taking three terms at that institution, locating here soon after. Dr. Bennett possesses excel- lent literary attainments and is skilled in all branches of his profession. He has a large and growing practice. His wife was Ruby E. House, whose father settled in Rock county in 1864.

À. E. Bulson, M. D.,

was born in Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1847. His father died when he was a child, and when nine years of age he removed with his step- father to Westville, Ind. He entered the army in 1861, when only fourteen years of age. He enlisted in company I, 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After two years he was promoted to the position of first principal musician of his regiment, which he held to the close of the war, re-enlisting in 1864. He witnessed many of the most exciting and important events of the great Rebellion, among which was the destruction of the frigates Congress and Cumberland, by the rebel ram Merrimac, and the fight between the Monitor and Merrimac on the succeeding day. He accompanied his regiment throughout McClel- lan's campaign on the peninsula; was present at the battles of Fredericksburg, second battle of Bull Run, Gettysburg, battle of the Wilderness and at the surrender of Gen. Lee. At the close of the war he attended school at Westville, where he also began the study of medicine. He graduated at Chicago Medical College in 1868. After graduation he practiced five years at Gobleville, Mich. Desiring still better op- portunities to extend his knowledge of the sci- ence of medicine and surgery, he went to New York city, where he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and from which he graduated in 1874. Returning to Gobleville he resumed his practice, remaining there until 1879, when he came to Brodhead. Dr. Bulson is thoroughly educated in his profession, and his large and increasing practice attests the confidence that is placed in his professional skill. He was united in marriage with Sarah

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History of Green County, Wisconsin. Together with sketches of its towns and villages, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, Part 61

Author: Union publishing company, Springfield, Ill., pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Springfield, Ill., Union publishing company Number of Pages: 1168

Author: Union publishing company, Springfield, Ill., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Springfield, Ill., Union publishing company
Number of Pages: 1168