History of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Part 137

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Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 958

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JOHN ROGERS, retired miner, Dodgeville; was born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, in October, 1810 ; came to America in 1840, with his wife; worked for a time on the Croton Water Works, New York, then went to Pennsylvania ; he then made a visit to Missouri, and, later, was in Maryland ; eame West in 1845, reaching Mineral Point in October, and, the next summer, settled at Dodgeville, build- ing his first log cabin in " Redruth Hollow," just north of the village ; soon after, he hecame associated with Messrs. Perkins, Corin & George, in the mines, they succeeding W. M. Todd; in 1852, Mr. Rogers sold out to Joseph Bennett and opened a saloon, which he kept fourteen years ; has since lived in retirement. He married, in his and her native parish, Miss Susan Polkinghorne; they have seven children-Joseph V., born on the Atlantic ; David, born in Allegheny County, Md., and Thomas, Samuel, Virginia, John H. and Adeline, all born in Dodgeville.

JOHN ROGERS, miner, Dodgeville; was born June 17, 1807, in Cornwall, England ; has been a lifelong miner; came to America, with his wife and two children, in 1837; arrived July 4, at St. Louis, Mo .; then came to Mineral Point; thenee to Dodgeville, where most of the land was owned by four men, Gov. Dodge, Madden, Block and Jenkins ; Henry Dodge had a store and grog-shop, while a

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queer character, known as Dutch Mandy, had the only blacksmith-shop ; " Mandy " was shiftless, however, and most of the work was done at ' The Point." Mr. Rogers lived two years on a Linden farm, and may fairly be ranked among the old settlers of Dodgeville. He married Susanna Bailey, of Cornwall, by whom has six children-Susan and Elizabeth (born in Cornwall), John, George, Esther A. and Annie, all natives of Dodgeville. Mr. Rogers was one of the original members of the Dodgeville M. E. Church, and has been a Trustee of the church since 1842.

JOSEPH V. ROGERS, grocer, Dodgeville ; was born on the 5th of May, 1840, while his parents, John and Susan Rogers, were crossing the Atlantic, from England to America, in the ship Mary Ann Jane, Joseph Verney, master ; he was christened Joseph Verney, in compliment to the Captain ; after the settlement of the family in Dodgeville (see sketch of John Rogers), he attended the early schools, and, in June, 1860, began his present business; Mr. R. has never sold out or formed a partnership, and his twenty years of steady business as a grocer has been equaled by no man in the place. He married, in Dodgeville, Miss Agnes Alderson, born near Shullsburg, Wis .; they have four children-Verney J., J. Elmer, Cora May and Bert, all born in Dodgeville. Mr. Rogers is an attendant of the P. M. Church, and has been a Village Trustee.

RICHARD ROGERS, proprietor of the Dodgeville Hotel, Dodgeville; was born in Corn- wall, England, Jan. 14, 1814; his early life was spent as a teamster ; came to America in 1845, with a family ; spent a year in Mineral Point, then came to Dodgeville; mined two years, then went into the " back woods," five miles north of the village, and for three years engaged in burning lime. In 1852, he went to California and spent fourteen months in the mines ; returned, and, during the next fourteen years, burned lime in Wyoming Township ; in 1867, he built his hotel, and, as " Uncle Dick " Rogers, has become one of the most popular of landlords. He married Amy Potter, a native of Cornwall, who died Sept. 25, 1863, leaving two sons-Elijah and Frederick. The present Mrs. Rogers was Mary Webb ; they have three children-Richard, Caroline and Elizabeth.

THOMAS ROGERS, Postmaster of Dodgeville ; is a son of John and Susan (Polkinghorn ) Rogers, both Cornish people, who came to the United States about 1840 ; spent a year or two in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and came to Dodgeville early in the forties; here Mr. Rogers began work in the diggings of Bennett, George & Co. ; years after he engaged in the saloon and livery business, and now, aged about 70, is enjoying a well-earned rest. His son, the subject of this sketch, was educated in Dodgeville, where he was born Jan. 10, 1847. In May, 1864, he was appointed Deputy Postmaster under S. W. Reese. In 1866. he opened up a stock of books, stationery, etc., in which business he has since continued. Was appointed Postmaster in March, 1880, succeeding Joel Whitman. Is a Republican. Married Miss Anne Jones, of Dodgeville, by whom he has a son, Eddie J., born May 6, 1874, in Dodgeville.

WILLIAM ROGERS, miner, Dodgeville ; was born March 1, 1815, in Illogen Parish, Corn- wall, England ; his early life was spent in the mines of Redruth Parish ; came to America with his wife in 1839 ; worked in Yorkville, N. Y., and on the Croton Water Works ; later, he went to Pottsville, Penn., thence to Maryland, and in 1845 came to Mineral Point, spent the winter there, and in the spring of 1846, came to Dodgeville, dug lead up to 1852, then went by water to California, mined gold two and a half years, and has since engaged in mining and smelting, having for the past six or eight years been in the employ of Bennett & Hoskins. He married in Illogen Church, July 26, 1839, Mary Palkinghorn, and at once left the church for their new American home ; they have five children-Mary J., Grace, Will- iam, Anselena and Henrietta ; the two oldest were born in Pottsville, Penn., and the others in Dodgeville ; the eldest is Mrs. William Johns, of Dodgeville; Grace is the wife of Benjamin Thomas, Jr. ; the son is in California ; Anselena is Mrs. William Bartle, of Linden, and the youngest the wife of Theodore Millered, of Grant Co., Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers belong to the Dodgeville M. E. Church, of which he has been Class Leader, Trustee and Steward. He is in politics a Republican, and was Town Treasurer.

MATTHEW and W. H. ROGERS, Dodgeville. The father, Matthew, was born in 1827, in Cornwall, England, where he spent his early life as a miner ; came to America in 1847, and after a year in Hazel Green, came to the Dodgeville diggings in 1848; resolution, with health and bone and sinew, was his only capital, he beginning in debt ; after a few years in the diggings, he went to California and mined gold about two years, returned to Dodgeville, and in 1864 went to the Montana gold fields, returning in 1867 ; he has since lived here. The Rogers Block was built in 1879, and here his only son, William H., has a fine stock of merchandise, in the best-arranged store in town. Matthew Rogers is a good type of the successful, self-made man. Is a Republican. He married Miss Anne Roberts, and the only son was born July 20, 1850, in Dodgeville. He married Miss Elizabeth A. Harris, who was born in Min- eral Point, Wis. ; they have three children-Jennie, Bertie and Nannie May, all born in Dodgeville. Mr.

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Rogers is a live young merchant, and does his share of the business here. Is a member of Dodgeville Lodge, I. O. O. F.

WILLIAM M. ROWE, Secs. 10, 19 and 18; P. O. Dodgeville ; born July 15, 1826, in Camborne, Cornwall, England ; his father, John Rowe, died in England, and in 1845, his mother, Jane (Vincent) Rowe, brought her family of six children to America, and located in Dodgeville, where William M. began mining. His mother died in the fall of 1847. Ile married July 29, 1851, Miss Jemima, daugh- ter of Thomas and Sarah Webster ; she was born Aug. 12, 1833, in Camborne; her mother died in Eng- land, and in 1835 or 1836, her father brought his family to America and Iowa Co .; in 1852, Mr. Rowe went to California, returned in 1855, and the same fall bought 160 acres of his present farm ; it was in a state of nature, and, while he made the first improvements, he lived on a rented farm near at hand ; from 1863 to 1866, he was in the gold mines of the Far West. Mr. R. now has 240 acres in the homestead, and owns 460 acres in all. He is a member, with his family, of the P. M. Church, and a Republican in politics. Mr. Webster was a friend of John Hoskins, and their rude cabin in Dodgeville was the favorite resort of the frontier clergymen, and took the name of the " Methodist Tavern." Mr. Webster went with Mr. Rowe to California in 1852, and died in town of Dodgeville, in January, 1861.

H. and J. ROWE, Dodgeville ; sons of John Rowe (deceased ), and Jane (Vincent) Rowe ; the widowed mother came from her native Cornwall in 1846, to America, bringing six children, all born in Cornwall; of these, Henry Rowe, born February, 1835, went from Dodgeville to California in 1858, spent ten years in the mines of California and Montana, returned and went into partnership with his brother James, who came to America before him, and who died in 1872; Joseph Rowe was born August, 1841, and has resided thirty-four years in Dodgeville as a miner and in mercantile business, having clerked for his brothers ; the present partnership was formed in 1872; the firm carries a general stock of dry goods, boots and shoes and clothing, also groceries, notions, etc., etc.

EDWIN H. SCHOLFIELD, harness-maker ; was born July 26, 1827, in the city of Lon- don, England ; his parents, Wm. and Betsy (Turton) Scholfield, came to America in 1832, and located at Toronto, Canada, where both died ; E. H. Scholfield was brought by an uncle, Jos. Turton, to Cassville, Wis., in 1836, and, two years later, to Mineral Point, then a rude mining settlement best known as "Shake Rag." The sessions of the Iowa County Court were held in the old log building so well remembered by the pioneers ; Mr. Turton and young Scholfield afterward went to Galena, Ill., thence to the Lloyd settlement, where Mr. S. put in his first work as a farmer, breaking up what is best known as the old Turton farm; in 1850, he came to Dodgeville and learned his trade, and on March 14, 1853, opened a shop of his own ; probably no man in Iowa Co. has so long a continuons record as a harness-maker. Mr. S. is a Democrat and a Freemason. He married Sarah Elam, who died March 26, 1871, leaving six children-Florence, Geo. E., Osborn, Mary, Rosa and Josie ; a son, James, died in 1862. Mr. Scholfield married again, Mrs. Jane Aulsley. widow of Chas. Aulsley, who at his death, in 1871, left a danghter Mary. Mr. and Mrs. S. have three children-Henry, William and Jennie, all the children were born in Dodgeville.

DUNCAN SILLERS, Sec. 27 ; P. O. Dodgeville ; is a son of James Sillers, a native of the Isle of Arran, and who was a merchant at Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, for many years ; his wife, formerly Anne Hamilton, was a native of Ayrshire, where Duncan was born, Nov. 18, 1825; in 1837, the parents and seven children came to America, and settled in Racine Co., Wis .; went from there to Dodgeville in 1844, locating on the farm now owned by Wm. Sillers ; in 1849, his brothers, Henry and James, started for California, the former died at St. Joe, Mo., and the latter made the trip; in 1850, Duncan and his father also went, the father dying there, and both sons returning, now live in this town. Duncan Sillers settled on his present farm twenty-five years ago ; has 160 acres, and has made first-class improvements. He married Elizabeth Odgers ; her parents, Wm. and Mary A. (Edwards) Odgers, were English people, who, in 1843, settled at Mineral Point, Wis., where she was born. Mr. and Mrs. Sillers have seven children-Henry, William, Laura, George, Jennie, Edward and Charles, all born on the Dodgeville farm. Mr. S. is a Congregationalist; is independent of party politics, and served as Supervisor of his town in 1873-74, and 1877-78.

O. C. SMITH, attorney at law, Dodgeville ; was born Oct. 15, 1832, in Clayville, Guernsey Co , Ohio; he attended the common schools, and received a course of instruction at the Albany Ohio Academy ; came to Viroqua, Vernon Co., Wis., in 1853; was admitted to the Vernon County bar in June, 1867. and during that year, settled in Mineral Point ; in 1869, he came to Dodgeville, and has since resided and practiced here. Mr. Smith is independent of all societies ; is a Democrat, and has never been a can- clidate for any office. He married Miss Mary Williamson, a native of New Jersey, by whom he has five

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children-Elthia I., Effie M., Amaryldia, Eulalia and Birney M .; the two eldest were born in Viroqua, the third in Mineral Point, and the others in Dodgeville.

JAMES W. SMITH, See. 30; P. O. Standart Grove; is a son of Peter and Anne (Dow) Smith, both natives of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where their son, our subject, was born, Oet. 29, 1834 ; the parents and six children came to America in 1844 ; spent two years in Summit Co., Ohio, then went to Jo Daviess Co., Ill .; from there in May, 1847, they came to the Floyd settlement; the father pre- empted, and a year later bought, 80 acres, and 76 were afterward acquired under the graduation act, thus constituting the homestead, where the father died Feb. 4, 1879, and where the widow, aged 79, still lives. J. W. Smith remained there until 1859, then went to Colorado ; spent the winter of 1859-60 at home, and went again to Colorado in the spring of 1860; was in 1861 elected President of the Boulder District, is identified to that extent with the organization of the Territorial Government ; he spent considerable time prospecting for gold on the present site of Leadville, extracting only twenty ounces ; he returned to Dodgeville iu 1864, and the third time went to Colorado in February, 1865, returned in November, 1866, and has since lived on the homestead. He married Dec. 4, 1877, Miss Grace Rodda, born Sept. 16, 1858 on the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. They have two children-Marion E. and William. Mr. Smith is in polities, a Democrat, and is now serving his second term as Supervisor of his township; he is also a member of Dodgeville Lodge, I. O. O. F.

ALEX STEPHENS ; was born in Vegle, Numedahl, Norway, July 22, 1820; his early life was spent as a farmer ; in 1838, he came to America, and hired out to a farmer in East Du Page, Ill., where he spent two years : he then spent about a year in looking over the country. His first view of Chicago, in 1838, was of a small collection of poor houses in a low, miserable-looking marsh ; yet, in 1840, the town showed wonderful growth. In 1841, Mr. S. spent a short time in Mineral Point, and, iu the spring of 1842, began mining near Dodgeville ; continued it until the spring of 1850, when he went overland to California ; spent the winter of 1850-51 in Dodgeville, then went again to California, and speut eighteen months in the gold mines ; returning, he, on the 22d of January, 1854, married Martha Nelson, born Oct. 11, 1833, in Eevya Sogen, Norway ; her family came, in 1844, from Satersdahlen, Nor- way, to New Orleans, where they spent one winter, then came North and settled on the farm now owned by John Rowe and occupied by his son Richard. Mr. Stephens settled on his present farm of 1663 acres in 1854, building a small log house, which Mrs. Stephens says shall be preserved during her lifetime as a reminder of old times; Mr. S. did good work here with his ax and breaking-plow, and is to-day rewarded with an improved farm, a substantial frame house, built in 1876, a basement barn, 30x50 feet, ete. He spent the years 1864-65 in California. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and a pro- gressive farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens have ten children-Caroline, Helen, Mary, Sarah, Matilda, Annie, Henry, William, Esther and Lena, all born in the old log house, as were two others, who died in infancy.

F. W. STRATMAN, Dodgeville; was born in Kronenberg, Rhenish Prussia, Sept. 13, 1832 ; came to America in 1854, in order to avoid military service and secure freedom ; was in the employ of Evans & Adams, Galena, Ill., six and one-half years, then came to Dodgeville; was for twelve years in partnership with Peter Spang, making the plow business his specialty ; in 1872, he bought ont the inter- est of Mr. Spang and associated with Richard Lane, his present partner ; this firm is, the leading one of the village and county in manufacturing, and the present intention is to add a blast furnace and large engine ; a farm-wagon made by this firm was awarded the first prize at the Wisconsin State Fair over 120 competitors. Mr. Stratman married Miss Anna H. R. Tesche, who was born, educated and married in Kronensberg; they have four children-Gustav E., born April 19, 1860; Anna, Feb. 8, 1862; Fred- erick W., Aug. 12, 1865, and George Washington, Oct. 3, 1876; the eldest was born in Galena, Ill., and the others in Dodgeville ; they have also lost nine children. While clinging to the old Presbyterian faith of their native place, they attend the M. E. Church here. Mr. Stratman served on the first Village Board.

ORVILLE STRONG, banker, Dodgeville ; is a son of L. M. Strong, one of the first settlers of Marion, Lynn Co., Iowa, where Orville Strong was born March 25, 1843; in 1848, the family removed to Highland, Iowa Co., Wis. L. M. Strong was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature, was Post- master of the village, and having, through his own unaided studies, secured an admission to the bar, was three times elected County Judge; while serving the third term he died, Dec. 4, 1867. His son, our subject, was educated under the tuition of Prof. Pickard, of Platteville Academy. Enlisted in August, 1862, as a private in Co. C, 31st W. V. I .; was afterward promoted to Sergeant Major and Lieutenant of Co. K, same regiment ; under Sherman, he fought through to Atlanta and made the march to the sea and

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through the Carolinas. Since the close of the civil war, he has resided in Dodgeville. Was elected Town Clerk in 1868 and appointed Village Clerk the same year, holding the latter office eleven years ; was elected Clerk of lowa Co. in 1868, which position he held until Jan. 1, 1881, and held the office six years ; was appointed to the office of Deputy County Treasurer in 1878. He is a Democrat, a Mason, and belongs to the A. O. U. W. During the past fourteen years, he has done a most successful business in real estate, loans and insurance; on Jan. 8, 1881, he established a bank in Dodgeville under the firm name of Orville Strong & Co. Mr. Strong married Miss Louise, daughter of George Sims; she died in April, 1874, leaving three children-George L., Luman M., and an infant that soon followed the mother ; by the present wife (nee Miss Minnie Carkeek) he has two children-Mary L. and Throop M.

JOHN SYMONS, Sec. 7; P. O. Dodgeville; was born in 1822 in Poundstock, Cornwall, England, where he spent his early life as a farmer. He came to the United States in 1852, and at once to Dodgeville, with team from Milwaukee. His father in-law, James Webb, had located here in 1850, and lived here till his death, in 1876. During the first three years, Mr. Symons rented a farm, and, in 1855, entered 80 acres of his present farm, which he bought of the Government at 75 cents per acre. It was burr-oak opening land, and his Norwegian neighbors cleared it for him at the rate of $1 an acre, and cleared an acre per day. During 1855, he built a frame house, 14x24, one of the first, and for years the best, in his vicinity. He has added to his house and his farm, now owning 210 acres and a good home. Wheat, his principal crop, was ground at Moscow, twenty-two miles distant, two days being needed to- make the trip. The numerous springs on the farm adapt it to stock-raising, to which he now devotes it. He married, in his and her native parish, Miss Jane Webb, born April 6, 1825, and married April 20, 1849, in the parish church. Their children are Mary J. (Mrs. David Potterton), Elizabeth G. (Mrs. George Potterton), William, John, Caroline, Mary A., Lewis, Margery and Ellen ; all except the eldest were born in Dodgeville. Mr. S. is a Republican, and an attendant, with his family, of the M. E. Church.

BENJAMIN THOMAS, Sr., the premier merchant of Dodgeville, was born in Cornwall, England, Jan. 6, 1815 ; came to America, in 1837 ; spent six weeks in Mineral Point; in August, 1837, settled in Dodgeville, the present county seat of Iowa County, then comprising about eight or ten log buts. Hy Dodge had a small stock of goods in one of them, and a large stock of whisky in another. Twenty- five or thirty persons were all the population, and among them were J. E. Bartle, Thomas Jenkins and a Mr. Carnes. During his first year at mining here Mr. T. just earned his board ; living in a dug-out, roofed with poles and sod ; all the daylight visible was through the smoke-hole and door. Hy Dodge was the merchant, and John Lindsay the butcher, of those days. Flour cost, including transportation from Galena, $14 per barrel. In 1842, the mercantile firm of Hoskins, Thomas & Co., was founded ; in 1847 he built the old Rough and Ready House ; in 1849, 1850 and 1851 he was in California; with the excep- tion of three years in the lumber trade, he has since been in mercantile life, at Jonesdale. Mr. Thomas is a Democrat; was County Commissioner one term, and has been several terms Chairman and Town Treasurer. In 1841 he married Anne Prideaux, of Cornwall; they have five children-Benjamin, Will- iam H., Elizabeth A., Eliza J. and Edward.

THOMAS THOMAS, Sec. 26; P. O. Dodgeville; was born March 26, 1806, in Monmouth- shire, England; came to America in 1832; spent over two years in Newburg, N. Y., and Pottsville, Penn .; went to St. Louis, in August, 1834, and from there to the " Blackjack " mines, now in the town of Mifflin, in April, 1837 ; later he went to Grant Co., Wis .; to Blue Mounds in 1838, and Dodgeville in 1839; in 1841 he bought his present farm, of a Mr. Ward, a son-in-law of Gov. Dodge. He married, in 1842, Mrs. Catharine (Campbell) Jones, born Jan. 13, 1805, in Lanarkshire, Scotland; she came to America, and to Dane County, in 1838, as the wife of Terence Jones-their son, Edward P., was the first white child born in the Fourth Lake settlement ; he was born Dec. 28, 1839, and Mr. Jones died in 1841. For nearly two years after the wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas lived at Blue Mounds, then settled and have since lived on the Dodgeville farm. They began in a log cabin, so small that the bed and fire- place were dangerously close together, with scant furniture and still less money, yet the latch-string always hung out, and the wayfaring man was none the less welcome on account of the scant room. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are a genuine old pioneer couple; own 260 acres, and were never parties in any law-suit whatever. They have three children-William T., now in business in Dodgeville ; Thomas, now on the homestead, and Mary Anne, widow of Neil Davison.

WILLIAM TEMBY, one of the pioneers of Dodgeville, now deceased, was born in 1810, in . Cornwall, England ; in 1835, he left England for America, and during the year arrived at Dodgeville, then consisting of a few rude hovels for the use of the miners ; a year later he revisited his native land,

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returning to the lead diggings in 1836 ; spent five or more years in Jo Daviess Co., Ill .; was in Dodge- ville in 1850, 1851 and 1852; that year he went to California, and remained in the Golden State and Australia until 1857, when he returned to his family in Dodgeville ; in 1859, he again visited California, and in 1862 settled in Dodgeville, where he died, Oct. 12, 1880. John Temby, his son, was born July 12, 1846, in Jo Daviess Co., Ill .; has been a resident of Dodgeville since 1850; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and now Master of Dodgeville Lodge, 119, A. F. and A. M. He married Miss Bathsheba Perkins, a native of Cornwall, England. They have four children-Joseph P., Bath- sheba, Jane and Clarinda-all born in Dodgeville. The firm of Pryor & Temby, was established Feb. 25, 1876; carries a general stock of groceries, boots and shoes, crockery, notions, etc., and is looked upon as one of the substantial firms of the county.

JOHN C. TREZONA, merchant, Dodgeville; was born in Cornwall, England, in 1848 ; the family came first to America and then to Cliff Mine, Lake Superior, thence to Dodgeville in 1859 ; he returned to Lake Superior and again came to Dodgeville in 1861 ; returning to England, in March, 1862, they went, via the Cape of Good Hope, to New Zealand, where the father engaged in mining ; they returned to England in 1867, via Cape Horn, and, crossing the Atlantic the third time, came again to Dodgeville, where they still reside. J. C. Trezona entered the employ of Spang & Stratman, as a carriage-maker ; afterward at Appleton, Wis., and in 1879 the firm of Trezona & Treseder was formed ; in April, 1880, Mr. Trezona bought out his partner, and continues the business, carrying a general stock of goods, dry goods, boots and shoes, hats and caps, groceries of all kinds, glassware, crockery, notions, etc.

WILLIAM TYRER, one of Iowa Co.'s earliest settlers, was born Sept. 29, 1810, in Broome Co., N. Y. His father, Asa Tyrer, was born in 1788, in Vermont, and removed with his family to Illinois in 1822; there Asa Tyrer engaged in farming, and, in the summer of 1828, went to Dodgeville with hi- son, whose name heads this article, they spending the summer on what is now the Thomas Parry farm, north of the village; their winters were spent in Illinois until after the Black Hawk war. William and Simon Tyrer were among the last to seek refuge in Brigham's fort at the Mounds, and a few days later left for Galena, thence down the Father of Waters in a rude canoe, to Quincy, Ill., where the parents then resided, and where the mother now lives, at the age of 90. Asa Tyrer died in 1874, in Quincy, and before his death used to relate the events connected with his ride on the first steamboat that ascended the Upper Mississippi from Quincy. William Tyrer went to California in 1849, and again in 1852 ; has been a resident of Iowa Co. since the Indian war of 1832; settled where he now lives, on the noted Van Meter survey, in 1840; his wife, formerly Louisa Tyrer, of Erie Co., N. Y., died Nov. 10, 1879, leaving four children-Oscar, Helen (Mrs. Sanford), Amy and Alvin. Oscar Tyrer, born April 28, 1845, in Erie Co., N. Y .; has spent his life in Iowa Co., Wis .; he married Marietta Boring, of Covington, Ky .; they have six chidren-Effie, Cora, Nellie, Millie, Louie and Lela. Father and sons arc Republicans, and the elder son is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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History of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Part 137

Author: Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 958

Author:
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 958