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The original owners of the town of Brodhead were E. D. Clinton, I. F. Mack, John P. Dixon, E. A. West, E. H. Brodhead, and J. L. B. Thomas. As laid out by them in the spring of 1856, the town was a mile square; but the only house there was a log house owned by Samuel Lampson. The place was named for Mr. Brodhead, and he promised to give a bell to the first church built there. Clinton would have been an ap- propriate name for the village; but Clinton Junction had been named for Deacon Clinton, Kilbourn City had been named for another railroad man, and it seemed right that Mr. Brodhead should have his turn in honor of this kind. Citizens of Waukesha, Deacon Clinton's former home, were the first from out of the county to ally themselves with the new town. The next comers were Vermonters, led by Messrs. Moore, Laird, and McLaren. There was the usual question as to which way the village should grow. At first business seemed likely to keep south of the railroad, and Messrs. Clin- ton and Dixon had each a natural desire to lead it into the street bearing his own name. But Martin Mitchell
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(a business man from the village of Decatur, and the first clerk of the town), and a few others, happened to build north of the railroad in the street between these rival streets, and this half way ground became the nu- cleus of the village. Dwellings went up in the new town in the summer of '56 as fast as workmen could be found to put them up. Before the end of September,. Messrs. Sherman & Clinton had erected two good stores and were preparing to build others; and Messrs. Laird & Coffin were ready to entertain all guests of the village at the Manly House. Laird, McLaren & Co.'s lumber yard (the first in the county, and the only one until N. H. Allen started his in Monroe the next year), Messrs. Clinton's warehouse, and a number of stores appeared in 1857. In the first eighteen months after the town was platted, lots were sold to the value of $112,000; and at the end of her second year, Brodhead had over six hundred inhabitants. In the fall of '57, thanks to the farmers, to Deacon Clinton, to Messrs. Graham, the contractors, and to J. T. Dodge, the engi- neer who had charge of the work, the railroad reached Brodhead. In February, '58, the dullest month of the year, the freight shipped from Brodhead amounted to 896,014 pounds. Monroe, Brodhead's senior by twenty- two years, shipped 1,212,206 pounds during the same time.
One of the first improvements in the new village was the mill race, which Thos. and John Hendrie dug from the river dam near Decatur to the site of the flour mill which Messrs. Hendric, H. B. Stewart, and S. C.
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Pierce built in Brodhead. Citizens of Brodhead sub- scribed several thousand dollars to assist in defraying the expenses of the race, which is eighty feet wide, and nearly three miles long, and which furnishes the power for a foundry, several wagon shops, and the Norwegian plow factory. The plow factory, which makes twenty- five plows a day, was built in 1874 by W. A. Wheaton, C. W. Mitchell, H. C. Putnam, and H. H. Sater.
Since August, 1869, Brodhead has had a bank, known as the Bank of Brodhead. The stockholders are Ephraim Bowen, J. V. Richardson, Edwin Ludlow, and Mrs. Thos. Hendrie. It grew out of the necessities of the place, for in point of activity Brodhead is fulfill- ing the promise of its infancy. With good manufac- turing facilities, Brodhead has also the advantage of being the point of shipment for a part of Rock Coun- ty as well as for a large part of Green. There has always been a great deal of business done there, and conductor Wadsworth says there are nearly twice as many passengers to and from Brodhead as to and from Monroe, though the tickets sold in Monroe amount to more than the tickets sold in Brodhead. Since 1870, Brodhead has enjoyed the honors and privileges of an incorporated town, and, notwithstanding her greater age, wealth, and size, if Monroe was not the county town, she might have reason to fear that her lively neighbor would quite overshadow her.
Unlike Monroe, Brodhead never had to wait for any- thing. There were religious meetings there from the first, and Dr. Morris had established his reputation in
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the town as a good physician long before Brodhead was thought of. For some time after the village was started, the Congregationalist was the only religious society, but the first church was built by the Methodists, to whom Mr. Brodhead gave the promised bell. Polit- ical meetings were held at the depot at first. Early pro- vision was made for public schools, including a high school; and since her fourth year Brodhead has never been without a newspaper. Beginning in the latter part of '59 the Brodhead Reporter was edited two years by L. W. Powell, and after him for a short time by T. J. Johnson. In '61 the life of the Brodhead Independent began. It has been edited successively by I. F. Mack, sen., I. F. Mack, jun., E. O. Kimberly, Morse & Stone, and E. O. Kimberly, the present proprietor.
The village is already so old that this brief sketch has had space for but few of the names of which a more detailed history would make frequent mention, so old that it has already been called to mourn the death of some who were long and intimately connected with its progress. The names of J. B. Blanchard, John L. Mc Nair (whose brother and former partner Miles McNair still lives in the village), Edson Clinton, H. T. Moore, and W. B. Wheaton will at once suggest themselves in this connection.
BRODHEAD DIRECTORY FOR IS77.
BANK OF BRODHEAD.
Bowen & Co.
B. R. Clawson. Kurtz Bros. Morrison & Son.
DRY GOODS.
Orr & Putnam.
S. Stewart.
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BUTTER AND EGGS.
G. S. Parlin.
GROCERIES.
F. W. Smith.
Dickinson & Son. F. W. Owen & Co.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
Wm. Fleek.
FURNITURE.
F. B. Smith. Shirk & Atkinson.
BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. B. W. Beebe.
PROPRIETOR YOUNG IIOUSE.
J. A. Young.
DRUGS AND GROCERIES.
Broughton Bros, Clark & Towne.
HARDWARE.
Bloom & Roach.
G. T. Spaulding.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
L. S. Fisher. Fred Hintz. J. Bush.
J. Myers. Chas. Itman.
PRODUCE DEALERS.
Edward Cole. T. D. Laird.
LUMBER, SASII AND BLINDS.
H. Bowen. Lampson & Button.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Bloom & Roach. Geo. West.
J. B. Searles.
MERCHANT TAILORS.
E. Hahn.
Wm. Mooney.
Miss C. Burnham. Mrs. J. Thompson.
Mrs. Mary A. Cole.
J. A. Broughton, Jas. Mitchell.
MILLINERY.
LIVERY.
Geo. B. Wooster.
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MEAT MARKETS.
Wm. Clapp. Ross & Taylor.
Sawyer & Douglas.
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
John J. Pfisterer.
O. Errickson.
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
M. Jones.
C. W. Lucas.
ATTORNEYS.
C. N. Carpenter.
A. N. Randall.
PHYSICIANS.
R. Broughton, M. D. E. W. Fairman, M. D.
R. Morris, M. D. L. E. Towne, M. D.
DENTIST.
F. R. Derrick.
HARNESS SHOPS.
Brandt & Golden. Colby & Wright.
CARRIAGE FACTORIES.
Bartlett & Son. Lauby & Beck.
Williams & Ballou.
FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP.
Rugg & Gosling.
FLOUR MILL.
S. C. Pierce & Son.
PLANING MILL.
Worcester & Cole.
NORWEGIAN PLOW FACTORY.
Chamberlain, Mitchell & Co.
OFFICERS OF BRODHEAD FROM 1870 TO '77, INCLUSIVE.
CHAIRMEN.
I. F. MACK. A. C. DOUGLAS. H. T. MOORE. BURR SPRAGUE.
GEO. SPAULDING. L. H. LASSELLE. J. V. RICHARDSON. S. C. PIERCE.
CLERKS.
T. V. VANCE. O. S. PUTNAM.
P. J. CLAWSON. H. KIMBERLY, five years.
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LARGEST FARMERS IN DECATUR IN 1876.
Names. No. of Acres.
Names. No. of Acres.
Wm. Asmus, - 165
R. G. B. Fleek, 564
W. Atherton,
193
W. E. Gardner, 508
Frank Atkinson,
247
S. Graham, IS7
J. I. Bowen,
316
Daniel Keene,
170
F. J. Burt, 160
Phil. Kilwine, 168
James Burt, - 166
French Lake, -
32I
H. W. Button,
450
L. N. Lewis, 176
Rufus Colton,
206
I. F. Mack, 283
Jesse Copp,
160
Wm. Maddock,
232
Lydia Copp, 160
Washington Mitchell, 380
I. K. Cortelyou,
2.40
Thos. Munger, .
175
*J. N. Davis, -
520
Alex. Murray, 400
J. J. Dawson,
360
W. P. Murray, - 200
Martin Dixon,
3So
S. Northcraft, 320
R. J. Day,
20S
S. C. Pierce, 397
John Douglas,
313
H. D. Putnam,
232
*D. Dunwiddie, Wm. Frazee,
240
A. G. B. Fleek, -
291
*B. H. Fleek, 564
*E. T. Fleek, -
S40
J. A. Fleek's heirs,
240
J. B. Fleek,
340
Jacob Ten Eyck's heirs, 483
Fred Gumber,
424
The first town meeting was held in the school house near the residence of Wm. Jones.
TOWN OFFICERS FROM IS49 TO '77 INCLUSIVE.
CHAIRMEN.
GEO. GARDNER. JOHN P. LAIRD, two years.
ALEXANDER CLARK, two years. JOHN DOUGLAS, two years. J. N. DAVIS.
SAMUEL NORTHCRAFT, two yrs. JOHN J. PUTNAM.
W. A. WHEATON, three yrs.
ALEX. CLARK.
R. J. DAY, five years.
JOHN J. PUTNAM.
D. DUNWIDDIE.
E. T. FLEEK, two years.
J. V. RICHARDSON.
D. DUNWIDDIE, three years.
A. N. RANDAAL.
CLERKS.
MARTIN MITCHELL.
ROWLEY MORRIS, six years.
MARTIN MITCHIELL, two years. DONALD JOHNSON.
R. M. SMITH, three years.
S. A. POTTER, two years.
C. N. CARPENTER, six years. ALFRED WOOD. C. N. CARPENTER.
P. J. CLAWSON.
H. KIMBERLY, five years.
*Largest stock raisers.
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3SI J. J. Putnam, heirs, Sam. Rowe, heirs, - 249 Andrew Smith, 200
Mrs. E. Spangler, 160
Thos. Stewart, 222
W. Strawser, 164
YORK.
The first settlers of Green County never tired of ex- tolling the beauty of its prairies. Sometimes, when they watched the play of the sunlight on the long grassy billows before them, something of its bright- ness entered into their own hopes; and, with unusual confidence in the world's progress, they remarked to each other, sometime, though it wo'n't be in our day, these prairies will all be in farms. Then, because they had come, originally if not immediately, from a wooded country, and it seemed to them more in accordance with the fitness of things to spend life making a clearing than to take one of nature's making, a great many of them turned their backs on the beautiful prairie and made their homes in the timber, though a few of them, after grubbing away their best years, adopted a contra- ry opinion and removed to the prairie, where they speedily acquired a competence. Even while they ad- mired the prairies, most of these denizens of the forest lamented the country's great scarcity of trees; and, as the Indian was known to be the cause of some of the
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inconveniences to which they were subject, they as- cribed the deficiency of trees also to him, or at least to the fires which he sent sweeping over the country every year to make the hunting good. By the time York was settled, prairies were in better repute than they had been five years before. It does not appear which one of the opposing theorists on the treelessness of prairies numbered the first settlers of York among his followers. These pioneers may have seen the cause of prairies in climatic influences, in dried-up lakes, or in peculiarities of soil; though, since they saw that the seeming deficiency of trees was really a blessing- and there has always been a superabundance of wood land-it might have seemed to them a pity to deny the blame-laden Indian the credit of it. Whatever their theory was, and it is possible they never bothered them- selves with any theory, the first settlers of York left the timber of the northern and western parts of the town unclaimed, and made their settlement on the prairie, near the south-east corner of the township.
John Stewart, the first settler, came from Ohio in 1840. The next settlers, Wm. C. Green, Chas. Reed, and Ezra Wescott, came together from New York state. They also came in 1840. In 1841-'2, Amos Con- key, Albro, Chester, and Wm. Crowell, Joseph Miller, Philander Peebles, H. H. Hurlbut, J. F. Wescott, Wm. Spears, and Simeon Allen came, most of them from New York, the others from Ohio. Most of them settled at once in the south-eastern part of the town, calling their settle- ment Green's Prairie. They were poorly prepared for
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the cold winter of 1842-'3, but they had health and hope, and only one person died-a little daughter of Philander Peebles, who had contracted consumption in New York.
It was several years before any settlement was made- in the northern and western parts of York. Since 1853- 4-'5, these parts of the town have been mostly occu- pied by Norwegians. There are also a few Germans. and Irish, and near the south-west corner, Yankees are numerous enough to give one place the name of Yankee hollow.
As the prairie north of Green's Prairie was settled,. it began to be called York, in honor of the original home of the people; and at the suggestion of the Rev .. Augustus Hurlbut, the first clergyman in the township,. this name was given to the town, which would probably have been named for Mr. Green had not Green been the name of the county. In 1846 or '47, Green's Prairie obtained a post office, to which the first postmaster,. Lemuel Chase, gave the name of Farmer's Grove, in allusion to a grove near his house, A little later, Ed- ward Sendel opened a store on the prairie. Both office and store were farther north and west than the present village of Farmer's Grove. Mr. Sendell closed his store and Mr. E. T. Gardner opened another a short distance west of the site of the village. In the mean- time Bem post office, named by admirers of the Hunga- rian general, had been established on York prairie, and the Farmer's Grove office had been moved south, and after several changes in the ownership of the store,
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store and office met at the house of Mr. J. F. Wescott, where the small village of Farmer's Grove has grown up around them.
The village of Postville dates its beginning from the arrival of Albro Crowell, who made his home there when he first came to the county. The second and third houses were built by Ira Walker and Edwin Crowell. In 1858, Gilbert Post built the fourth house, the lower story of which was used as a store. After a time, Mr. Crowell started another store. A drug store, a tailor shop, a harness shop, and more dwellings fol- lowed. The Stewart post-office, so called for York's first settler, was moved there from its first place a mile or two west, and the village was recorded as Postville. Through all succeeding changes Postville has pros- pered. The first store has been transformed into a hotel, and long ago the village was thought large enough to have a saloon; but York has never had a board that would grant a license.
During the summer of 1876 four large cheese fac- tories, all owned by companies, were in operation in York. At Farmers' Grove, at the factory north of the village (where was formerly Eli George's tavern, the first voting place in the town), and at Yankee Hollow Limburger cheese is made. At Postville the cheese is American cheese.
LARGEST FARMERS IN YORK IN IS76.
Names.
No. of Acres.
Names. No. of Acres.
O. Ames,
175
D. Ash, - 205
C. Anderson,
224
Holver O. Brenden, - 16I
Hans Arneson, - 200
Ole Burgeson, 160
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Names. No. of Acres.
Names. No. of Acres.
Wm. Byrne,
- 300
Joseph Miller, 340
*Richard Byrne, 4So
R. S. Mosher, - IS9
S. C. Campbell, 230
Helga Olson, 233
A. Crowell, -
I 89
*Gilbert Olson, - 4.50
R. Crowell,
190
James Cullen, 320
164
A. O. Eidsmoe,
170
C. O. Eidsmoe, 2.42
*Gilbert Post, -
489
Hans Embertson,
220
Chas. Reed, sen., - 240
K. T. Fjose, 195
T. C. Richmond, 279
*Hiram Gabriel, 643
Davis Robb, 203
*J. S. Gabriel, 2So
S. M. Sherman, 176
R. Gabriel,
170
B. O. Slitten, 204
Geo. Gilbert,
365
Ole C. Sorum, - -
172
C. Gulson, 390
A. A. Strowmen, 2SS
Andrew Hanson, - 200
Erick Sviggum, -
259
Ole O. Hougen, ISO
Hans S. Sviggum, 223
H. H. Hurlbut,
I7I
Knud J. Sviggum, - 200
Ole Jeremiason, 214
Ole & A. Thompson, 360
John Johnson, 326
Christian Toreson, -
161
A. O. Jorde, 178
John C. Ula, 170
Annon Kjellesvig, 167
J. T. Vollen, -
I 60
Erik Larson, 2.40
A. Wheeler, I So
TOWN OFFICERS FROM IS49 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. CHAIRMEN.
WM. C. GREEN, four years.
J. STEWART.
J. STEWART.
D. STEWART, three years.
WVM. C. GREEN, four years.
D. C. DAY.
P. PEEBLES.
P. PEEBLES.
H. H. HURLBUT.
D. STEWART, five years.
J. STEWART.
P. PEEBLES.
No record for IS61.
J. S. GABRIEL, three years ..
H. H. HURLBUT.
CLERKS.
E. B. CROWELL.
E. T. GARDNER.
E. B. CROWELL.
H. GABRIEL, three years. J. F. WESCOTT. H. GABRIEL.
H. H. HURLBUT. A. ALDER.
J. F. WESCOTT. No record for IS61.
D. STEWART, two years. F. A. DUNHAM.
J. F. WESCOTT, two years.
J. M. PEEBLES, five years. A. O. EIDSMOE, two years .. J. A. KETTLESON. WM. C. KING.
A. O. EIDSMOE. A. PETERSON.
Ole H. Lee, - 191
M. J. Owens, guardian, 265 J. M. Peebles, - P. Peebles, - 241
*Largest Stock Growers.
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ALBANY.
In 1840, five years after he came to the county, James Campbell built the first house in the town of Albany. It was near Sugar river, about a mile farther south than the present village of Albany. The same year, Mr. Higby built a house in Rock County, which was so near the north-east corner of Albany that it has been called the first house in the township. Mr. Camp- bell did not go to Albany to live until 1841. It is his opinion, and the opinion of Mr. Christopher Martin, who came from New York in 1840, and who lived with Mr. Campbell during parts of 1841-'42, that the next comers were Hiram Brown and Samuel Mitchell, both of whom were here before the end of '42, as were also John Broughton and Wm. Burgess. Some of the next settlers were Christopher Minert, Joshua and A. Whit- comb, S. L. Eldred, and Aaron Broughton in '43, Daniel Smiley, Asa Comstock, Wm. Webb, Israel Phillips, and A. S. Holmes in '44. Gilbert McNaught, Mc Vee, Edward Copp, Geo. Bagley, Price Hills, and Aaron Kellogg, were among those who came in 1845-'46. Among the occasional residents of Albany was Reuben Folsom, or old Reube the wolf hunter, a
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discharged soldier who came from Fort Winnebago to Sylvester in 1840, and who would have made a good character for one of Cooper's novels. Kind, generous and brave, with a fund of anecdotes equaled only by his wonderful power to endure hunger and fatigue, he was at home with all the settlers, but his most constant companions were his dogs. A cave in the bank of the river, a few miles from the village of Albany, is pointed out as one of his retreats.
The locality of the village of Albany was first known as Campbell's ford. The land comprised in the village was entered by James Campbell and Thos. Stewart, and through their influence Capt. E. O. Pond and Dr. S. F. Nichols went there in the spring of 1846, and built a log cabin (the first in the village), which was occupied by the families of both until a frame house could be erected. With a yoke of oxen S. A. Pond, then sixteen years of age, hauled the lumber for the second house from Amos Sylvester's mill, being some- times obliged to first cut the logs and take them to the mill. Both houses were east of the river, the log house about ten rods from where the dam now is, and the frame house on the ground where Mrs. Pond still resides. At that time there were but two frame, and two log, houses between the ford and Janesville. On a few rough shelves in one corner of Capt. Pond's house, the frame house, were kept the dry goods and the boxes and barrels of groceries constituting Albany's first store. The report that Pond and Nichols were going to build up a village at the ford attracted others. A. R. Bur-
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gor and John and Nelson Stevenson came with them, and in August, Robert Gleason, who was employed to build the mill the next year, removed there with his family. In '46, with the assistance of J. V. Richardson as surveyor, Pond and Nichols laid out the village of Albany. They also built a saw mill, and succeeded in getting a mail route established from Beloit via Janes- ville, Albany, and Exeter to Mineral Point. Capt. Pond was the postmaster at Albany. The next year, J. B. Sawyer and Dr. Stearns built the American House, Capt. R. H. Hewitt opened a general store, and several new families came. They all shook with the ague, and all talked proudly of their beautiful coun- try and their noble river. In the mean time, the flat- tering prospects of Albany had led Messrs. Bugor and Stevenson to lay out the village of Independence, on the river, three-fourths of a mile below Albany, but Independence never grew beyond half a score of houses.
Zebina Warren's grist mill, R. J. & Wm. Richard- son's general store, S. A. Pond's book and drug store, and a number of shops were among the acquisitions of Albany in 1849-'50. A sad occurrence in May, '51, seemed for a time to blast the prospects of the village. Moved by a spirit of wild adventure, Wm. Richardson and S. A. Pond went over the dam in a skiff, and the former lost his life, the latter barely escaping. The Richardson brothers had just bought a large stock of goods, and had made preparations to build a large bus- iness block; but the surviving brother was so overcome
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with sorrow that he closed the store and left the place. But enterprise could not be stopped. J. H., L. H., and E. F. Warren became the successors of the Richardson Brothers, and E. Bowen, Robson and Prentice, Jas. Campbell, Hunter & Kellogg, E. B. Noble, Burt & Harris, John Lemuel, C. T. Barton, J. Johnson, J. Dunkleburg, T. Carrier, V. R. Vancuren, and a score of others were soon identified with the business inter- ests of the village, which promised to become the lar- gest village in the county, and even the death, before 1855, of several leading men, Capt. Pond, Zebina War- ren, and Robson and Prentice among them, delayed its progress but a little time. S. A. Pond did a large real estate and brokerage business, and a Madison firm opened the Bank of Albany. S. & A. Johnson erected a sash, door, and blind factory, and T. Kellogg another grist mill. In May, '58, I. S. Dexter and Y. T. Lacy transformed Monroe's languishing "Jeffersonian Dem- ocrat " into the Albany Times, in the control of which they were succeeded by Joseph Baker.
The tenor of Albany's way has never been even. Fate has doomed her to an astonishing number of re- verses and disappointments. Her failure to get the Southern Wisconsin Railroad has been told in another part of the history. Recovering from this disappoint- ment, she fixed her hopes on a Sugar river valley road, and, with James Campbell as the champion of her claims, seemed likely to achieve success. In June, 1857, subscriptions to the road reached nearly $100,000. De- pot grounds were purchased at Albany, and failing
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then, the project has occasionally been revived, and this year, more than for several years past, hopes are enter- tained that it may sometime be accomplished. The projected road, for which the grading from Albany to the state line has long been done, is to form a connect- ing link between the road from Madison to Portage, and the road from Rockford to Rochelle.
The crisis of 1857 ruined some of the business men of Albany, and the decline in southern securities caused the failure of the bank in 1861; in 1866 the river carried away the saw mill, the sash and and blind factory, and the bridge; a freshet of 1868 destroyed the Warren store and flour mill, damaged the Kellogg mill, and again took away the bridge, and a fire that year de- stroved five stores. Messrs. Warren, Tompkins, and Eroe, S. A. Pond, Parker & Kellogg, J. F. Lacy, John Hahn, and J. Lemuel rebuilt that same year, and in a manner that made the change a great im- provement to the village, all the buildings destroyed in 1868; but the loss from fires which in 1869 and '71 destroyed a hotel, a gun shop, and five stores, has been put partially repaired. The Albany Times came to an end when its editor entered the army, and its only successor, Messrs. Osgood & Bartlett's Albany Journal, was published only from October, 1865, to May, 1866. There is no bank in the village, and the number of stores -- which may fairly be taken as an indication of the pros- perity of the village-is smaller now than of old, includ- ing only those of Bartlett and Roberts, H. B. Jobes, J. M. Dodge, and John Lemuel. Brodhead, Evansville, and
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Brooklyn have dispelled the brightest of Albany's vis- ions, at least for a time; but they can not destroy her good water power, which is even now persuading Messrs. J. H. and E. F. Warren, and S. A. Pond to build a large woolen mill there; nor can they entirely destroy her hope of a railroad, the realization of which would, she thinks, restore to her all her old life and activity.
At the present time Albany ranks first among the unincorporated villages of the county. In 1876 the vil- lage lots in the town of Albany were appraised at $43,065. Those of other towns followed in this order: Jefferson $30,270; New Glarus $20,495; Mount Pleas- ant $18,006; Brooklyn $16,010; Exeter $8,573; Cadiz $3,285; while lots in Monroe and Brodhead were valued at $696,075, and $253,826.
LARGEST FARMERS IN ALBANY IN IS76.
Names. No. of Acres.
Names.
No. of Acres.
Richard Atkinson, - 200
Richard Hamer, 200
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