History of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Part 144

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

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the spring of 1844, and to Helena in April of that year, has resided near Old Helena since that time ; he was employed at the shot-tower for many years ; first, when owned by Terry & Metcalf; afterward, by C. C. Washburne and Cyrus Woodman ; he also carried the mail from Galena to Highland several years. Mr. Lloyd lost his wife Aug. 5, 1880. He has four children-Robert H., Peter E. (now station agent at Helena), John T. (resides in Taylor Co., Iowa) and Mary Jane (now Mrs. Alvah Culver). Has also one adopted daughter-Margaret E. His farm now contains 160 acres. He intends to make his future home with his daughter, Mrs. Culver, at Lone Rock.

PETER E. LLOYD, station agent at Helena Station ; son of Peter Lloyd. He was born in 1850, in the town of Arena : has been station agent at Helena since January, 1876. He was married to Jennie Foster, daughter of Charles Foster ; has two children-Dell and Owen.

A. J. LOCKMAN, merchant and Postmaster, Helena ; son of Tracy Lockman, who was born in Madison Co., N. Y , Feb. 15, 1820, who came to Wisconsin in June, 1847, and settled in the town of Cadiz, Green Co., where he lived until 1857, when he came to the town of Arena and became Superin- tendent of the shot-tower at Helena, which position he retained till 1861. While connected with the shot-tower, he greatly improved the machinery for the manufacture of shot, which increased the manu- facturing capacity of the tower from 1,500 pounds to 5,000 pounds per day. He settled on a farm in Helena Valley, town of Wyoming ; this farm, containing 400 acres, and one of the best improved farms in the town, he still owns. Mr. Tracy Lockman has been one of the solid, reliable men of Iowa Co .; has always taken a prominent part in educational interests. He was Town Superintendent of Schools for the town of Cadiz for many years. He also filled that position in the town of Wyoming for several years ; was Assessor of Wyoming for about a dozen years; Chairman of the Town Board three years, and was Enrolling Officer for the Third District during the rebellion. His first wife was Sarah Brown, born in Montgomery Co., N. Y., June 20, 1821 ; she died Dec. 31, 1872. His present wife was Flavia Hoskell, born in Madison Co., N. Y. He has six children by first marriage, three sons and three daughters- Andrew J., William F .. Cyrus L., Josephine H., Sarah A. and Euphemia. Andrew J. was born in Cazenovia, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1844, he married Mary Ann Lloyd ; has one child-Jessie A. He engaged. in business in Helena December, 1874. Was appointed Postmaster July 1, 1874.

CHRISTOPHER MABBOTT, farmer, Section 2; P. O. Arena ; born in Nottingham- shire, England, March, 1809. He was married in 1830, to Mary Ann Springthorpe. They came to the United States in May, 1845. and settled in the town of Arena; settled on present farm in the fall of 1847. Has had thirteen children, ten of whom are living-William C., John R., Mary Ann, Amos M., Edward J., Christopher A., Thomas S., Martha E., George W. and Laura J. Farm contains about 200 acres.

JOHN R. MABBOTT, proprietor of Helena House, Helena ; son of Christopher M. Mab- bott, who was born in Lincoloshire, England, in 1803, and came to Iowa Co., with his family, in 1844, and settled in Mill Creek Valley, town of Arena; parents had thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters ; nine of the children were born in England ; eleven of the children are still living, eight sons and three daughters. John R. was born in the town of Cottesmore, Rutland Co., England in 1835. He eu- listed Aug. 15, 1862, in the 31st W. V. I .. and served until the close of the war. He participated in some of the most important events of the war, including the siege of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea. After the close of the war, Mr. Mabbott engaged in farming until 1872, when he came to Helena. He was married to Mary C. Villemont ; have ten children. six sons and four daughters.

JAMES McCUTCHIN, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Arena; born in County Tyrone, Ireland. He came to America, with his brother Andrew, in 1842; he was at Mineral Point in the fall of that year. He passed the following winter in the pinery region of Wisconsin. In the spring of 1843, he went to Galena, Ill., where he became connected with the steamer Gen. Brooks, which was employed in furnishing the forts on the Upper Mississippi. He passed the following winter in the pine region. He traveled a good deal in his younger days, and is possessed of much information pertaining to the early his- tory of Wisconsin. The MeCutchin family is a numerous and well-known family of Iowa Co. His father, Robert, was twice married; had five children by first marriage, only two of whom, James and Andrew, survive. Hugh, another of the five, and a prominent man, recently died. There were also five children by second marriage, all of whom are living. Robert, the father, emigrated to this country many years after the older children came. Mr. James McCutchin settled where he now lives, in 1846. He was married to Jane Gurthie, born in the State of New York; they have eight children, two boys and six girls. His farm contains 320 acres.

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WILLIAM A. McKINZIE, grain and stock dealer, Helena ; is a son of Benjamin Mc- Kinzie, who was born on Prince Edward Island in 1795 ; was married to Isabelle MeCloud, a native of Scotland. The family came to Wisconsin, July, 1849, and settled in the town of Ridgeway, Iowa Co .; his father died at Blue Mounds, Dane Co., in the fall of 1872; his mother died in 1876; the parents had nine children, the oldest child, George, still resides at Prince Edward Island, he is a sea captain by oeeu- pation ; eight of the children are still living; Wm. A. was born on Prince Edward Island May 6, 1837 ; has been a resident of Iowa Co., sinee his parents came to the State. He enlisted in 1864, in the 42d W. V. I., and served until the elose of the war. He was married to Naney Ward, daughter of Wm. A. Ward ; have had nine children, seven of whom are living-William, James, John, Clarence, Carrie, Adda and Bessie ; one son. George, died at Milwaukee in 1877, in his 20th year, another child died in infancy. Mr. MeKinzie eame to Helena and engaged in the grain and stock business in the fall of 1872.

W LIAM C. MEFFERT, harness-maker, Arena ; son of Win. L. Meffert, born at Frank- fort-on-the-Main ; his mother was born at Ems, Germany ; the family emigrated to this country in 1845 ; they came to Milwaukee, thence to Mineral Point; lived for a short time at West Blue Mounds, where his father died of cholera in 1852, a sister also died at about the same time of the same disease; after the death of the father and sister, the remainder of the family removed to Dodgeville, where his mother still resides ; his parents had five children, four of whom are living-C. C., born at Ems, now a resident of Centerville, Boise Co., Idaho; Wm. C .; Minnie, now Mrs. B. E. Meigs, lives at Stillwater, Minn .; Eliza- beth, now Mrs. Kellogg, resides at Ft. Dodge; Wm. C. was born at Ems, Germany in 1842. He en- listed May 4, 1861, in the 3d W. V. I., served the time for which the regiment enlisted-three months ; re-enlisted for three years, at the expiration of his term of service, re-enlisted as a veteran, and was dis- charged August, 1865, having served a period of four years three months and twenty-one days. Prob- ably no soldier from Iowa Co., and, in fact, but few in the service, was more actively engaged than he during the long period he was in the army ; he was absent from his regiment but once, a period of four months, when he was engaged in the recruiting serviee; he participated in twenty-two battles, many of which were the most important of the war, including Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, etc .; after his discharge, he returned to Dodgeville and engaged in business ; he came to Arena, Mareh, 1867. He was married to Deliah Rubedeau, born in Galena, Ill., in 1842.

GARDNER C. MEIGS, Arena; born in Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y., Sept. 6, 1820 ; his parents were natives of Vermont, and returned to that State when he was 2 years of age; when he was 9 years of age, they removed to Canada, and settled near St. John's. Mr. Meigs came to what is now the town of Highland, Iowa Co., in 1844, and engaged in mining; he went to California in 1850, where he remained about two years, he then returned to the town of Highland; he came to Arena in June, 1852, and was engaged in business with Mr. Henry Rowell for about two years; he then purchased a farm on See. 15, now owned by Mr. Thomas Jones, which he sold in the spring of 1865; in 1866, he engaged in the mercantile and grain business in Arena ; he continued the grain business about two years, but fol- lowed the mercantile business till the fall of 1878, when, on account of his failing eyesight, was obliged to discontinue business. Mr. Meigs has served three terms in the General Assembly of the State, was elected in 1859. and re-elected in 1860-61 ; he served two years as Sheriff of the county, eleeted in 1862 ; has held most of the town offiees, Chairman of the Board, Assessor, etc .; has been Justice of the Peace and Notary Public many years. He was married to Louisa Jane Barnard, daughter of John Barnard, of Avoca; they have eight children-Gardia A., wife of Dr. Herbert Bird ; Rebecca N .; John B .; Nettie, wife of Rev. A. N. Hitch ock, of Mazomanie; Andrew L., Kate E., Anna M. and Grace C.

JAMES MELLEVILLE, farmer, Arena; born in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., England, in 1808. He came to this country, by way of New Orleans, in 1846; thence, up the Mississippi River to Galena. He settled in Dane Co., where he lived five years; thenee, to the town of Arena, where he pur- ebased a farm. and where he lived for seventeen years; he then settled in the village of Arena. His first wife was Helen Lithgo ; she died in 1877. His present wife was Mrs. Anne Cork ; had five children by the first marriage, all of whom died in infancy, except one son, Thomas, who enlisted in the 23d W. V. 1., and died during the war.

XAVIER MILLER, farmer, See. 11; P. O. Mazomanie ; born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1817. He came to Wisconsin from Germany in 1853; he lived in Madison about two years, afterward settled in town of Arena ; settled where he now lives in 1865. He was married to Rosa Crocker, who was born in Bavaria ; they have four children-Josephine, now Mrs. John Varath, lives in Dane Co .; Rosa, now Mrs. Robert Gruber, lives in Morrison Co., Minn .; Joseph, who was born in the town of Arena in 1858; John, born in 1862. His farm contains about 200 acres.

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REV. ADAM PINKERTON, Pastor of the Congregational Church, Arena; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1821. He was educated in his native city ; graduated at the high school, and attended the University at Edinburgh for two years. He came to the United States in 1851, and settled in Tippecanoe Co., Ind., where he was engaged in teaching until the breaking-out of the rebellion. He enlisted July, 1862, in the 72d Ind. V. I. The regiment to which he belonged served as infantry till after the battle of Murfreesboro, when they were mounted, and became a part of Wilder's brigade. He enlisted as a private of Company G; at the organization of the company, was elected its Captain. He held that position until September, 1864, when he became Major of the regiment. He was severely injured by a fall while his regiment was making a charge upon the enemy. The injury he received inca- pacitated him for further military duty, and he resigned Nov. 28, 1864. He went to Eagle, Richland Co., Wis., in 1865, and shortly after became Pastor of the Pleasant Hill and Bird's Creek Churches, where he remained till April, 1871, wlien he came to Arena and became the Pastor of the Congregational Church of this village. Mr. Pinkerton's first wife was Nancy C. Crouch ; she died June, 1873. In February. 1875, he was married to Angeline I. Paine, who died in August of that year. He has seven children by his first marriage-Dr. William T. Pinkerton, who graduated at Louisville Medical College, February. 1879, and is now practicing medicine in Arena ; Mary B., wife of John W. Williams, of Richland Co .; Lizzie L., Katie B., Margaret A., Archibald C. and Anna Grace. Mr. Pinkerton is a clergyman of much force, earnestness and ability as a speaker ; conscientious in the discharge of his duties, and respected and esteemed, not only by his own church, but by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.

JOHN POPE, farmer, Section 28; P. O. Arena ; born in Somersetshire, England, December, 1832. He emigrated to New York City December, 1855, and removed to Janesville, Wis., in the fall of 1856. He lived in Janesville one year, and then removed to the town of Union, Rock Co., where he lived seven years; removed from Union to Dane Co., where he lived two years ; settled where he now lives in the spring of 1866. He was married to Martha Douche, who died in Arena. His present wife was Caroline Thomas, daughter of David Thomas. He has four children by his first marriage, and the same number by his present wife. His farm contains 160 acres. He and wife are members of the Prim- itive Methodist Church.

CHARLES PORTER, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Arena; son of John Porter, who came to Wisconsin from England in 1845, and settled in the town of Arena, where he died December, 1879. Charles was born in England April 14, 1833. He came to Wisconsin with his parents; went to Cali- fornia in 1854; returned in 1858. He enlisted, in 1863, in the 31st W. V. I .; served until the close of the war. He was married to Polly Miller, daughter of Andrew Miller, who was born in Pennsylvania. They have nine children, six sons and three daughters. His farm contains 80 acres.

WILLIAM E. ROWE, Arena; born in County Cornwall, England, in 1820; his parents emigrated to Canada in 1834. Mr. Rowe came to Blue Mounds, where he was engaged in mining for several years. He was married in Dodgeville, to Miss Anna Jewell ; she was a victim of the cholera epi- demic of 1849; Mr. Rowe also lost a daughter, at about the same time, of the same disease. Mr. Rowe removed to Dodgeville in 1850, where he was engaged for a time in mining, farming and hotel keeping ; kept hotel about two years. His present wife was Elizabeth Tregaskis, born in County Cornwall, England, April, 1822 ; her father emigrated to Wisconsin in 1834, and settled at Mineral Point, where he owned a valuable mining interest. He died in 1842. The mother of Mr. Rowe died in Canada. His father died in Missouri in 1856. Parents had seven children, all born in England, five of whom are still living. One brother, John, was killed in Missouri, by the premature explosion of a blast ; one sister, Phillippi, died in Kansas. Mr. Rowe had two children by first marriage-Mary Jane and Rose Ann ; the former was drowned in the flume at her father's mill in 1854 ; she was in her 8th year ; the younger daughter died of cholera, as mentioned above. During the many years that Mr. Rowe has resided in Iowa Co., he has been one of her most active and promi- nent business men, and has held several public positions. He was a member of the Legislature of Wis- consin for the years 1859, 1862, 1863 and 1864. He has been Chairman of the Town Board for several years. He is owner of the " Model Mill," on Blue Mounds Creek, in connection with which he has a fine farm and a pleasant home.

JAMES W. SLAUSON, farmer, Sec. 19 ; P. O. Arena ; born in Orange Co., N. Y., Sep- tember, 1836 ; he came to Wisconsin with his parents, Reuben and Rachael Slauson, about 1845 ; the family settled in the town of Union, Rock Co., where his parents still reside. Mr. Slauson was married in Rock Co., to Susan E. P. Emery, daughter of Robert Emery, who emigrated from England to Massachu - setts with his family, and thence to Wisconsin, and settled in Grant Co. about 1844. Mr. Slauson came to Iowa Co. in the spring of 1867 ; has resided in the town of Arena since that time. He has seven chil-

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dren-Charles E., Ada L., Edwin M., James S., Herbert W., Daniel R. and Clarence Garfield. His farm contains 160 acres.

DEWITT C. SMITH, farmer, See. 11; P. O. Mazomanie. Mr. Smith was born in Rensse- laer Co., N. Y., May, 1827; he came to Wisconsin with his parents, Daniel and Charity Smith, October, 1844; the family settled in Waukesha Co., where his father died ; his mother still resides there. His par- ents had eight children, seven of whom are living; his youngest brother, Frank. was lost on the steamer " Lady Elgin." His first wife died in 1876 ; she came from the State of New York with her parents in 1836, and settled in Walworth Co. His present wife was Sarah Bates. He has three children by first marriage-Walter, Eugene and George. Farm contains 280 acres.

CHARLES STEBRITZ, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Mazomanie; born in Germany in 1837 ; he came to this country in 1863, and located in Watertown, Wis. ; he afterward removed to the village of Mazomanie ; he settled on his present farm in the fall of 1877. He was married to Mena Yonga, born in Germany; they have eight children, six boys and two girls. His farm contains 120 acres.

CHARLES W. SUTCLIFFE, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Mazomanie ; born in Yorkshire, England, Deeember, 1820 ; he came to Iowa Co. in 1845, and located where he now lives. He was mar- ried to Sarah A. Blakey, who came to Iowa Co. with her parents in 1846; they have had nine children, eight of whom are living-Robert W., John and Eliza A. (twins), George, Dean, Henrietta, Charles W. and Blakey H. (twins) ; they lost their ninth child, Mary E. Farm contains 130 acres.

JOHN G. TYLER, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Mazomanie ; born in Sehoharie Co., N. Y., in 1832; he removed to Ohio with his parents in 1835, and to Illinois in 1837. His father was drowned in the Pecatonica River. Mr. Tyler came to Iowa Co. in 1855, and settled where he now lives. He was mar- ried to Amelia Watson, born in the State of New York ; they have two children-Albert and Algernon S. His mother died February, 1875. His farm contains abont 200 acres.

D. H. WILLIAMS, lumber dealer, and editor of the Arena Star, Arena; born in the State of Pennsylvania in 1847 ; he removed with his parents, Daniel and Elizabeth Williams, to Spring Green, Sauk Co., in 1851, where the family resided till 1863, when they removed to the town of Ridgeway, Iowa Co. ; his mother died in the town of Ridgeway ; his father went to Missouri in 1868, where he died about 1870. Mr. D. H. Williams has been a resident of Iowa Co. since his parents settled in the town of Ridgeway ; in his early manhood, he was engaged in farming during the summer and in teaching in the winter season : he taught ten terms of school in Iowa Co .; he came to Arena and engaged in the lumber trade in 1873; on the death of Mr. J. T. Shumway, editor of the Star, Mr. Williams became its editor ; he had been connected with the paper for some time previous to that time. Mr. Shumway died in Decem- ber, 1879. Mr. Williams was married to Jane, daughter of Thomas N. Williams ; they have two children -Daniel H. and Ella J. ; lost their second child-George E.

JOHN WILSON, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Mazomanie. Mr. Wilson was born in the town of Ripon, Yorkshire, Eng., in 1823; his father's family was one of the many early English families who set- tled in this part of the State of Wisconsin under the auspices of the English Temperance Association ; his mother died in England; his father and his six children came to Wisconsin from England in the spring of 1844; the names of the children in the order of their ages were John M., Joseph, Elizabeth, Ellen, Thomas and Rose Anne; father first settled in the town of Mazomanie, about one mile west of the village, where he lived about four years ; removed thence to Cross Plains, thence to Arena, thence to the town of Berry ; returned to the village of Mazomanie, where his father died in March, 1872, at the age of 76 years. Mr. Wilson was married, in Ohio, to Mabel Aurelia Henry ; she died Oct. 15, 1851 ; his present wife was Anne Smith, born in Scotland ; he has four children, three sons and one daughter-Francis P., Emon H., John J. and C. J. Mr. Wilson settled on his present farm in June, 1851 ; it contains 336 acres.

JOHN WILKINSON, farmer; P. O. Arena; son of John Wilkinson, who came from Sheffield, Eng., to the State of Illinois about 1845 ; his family came the following year ; they resided in Illinois till about 1848, when they removed to Iowa Co. and settled in the town of Arena, where the father died about 1857 ; mother also died in the town of' Arena ; parents had thirteen children, all of whom were born in England, six of whom are living; one daughter still lives in England ; six of the children died before the family came to this country, and one son died in Illinois. John Wilkinson was born in Sheffield; he came to Illinois some time after the family removed there, but he came to Iowa Co. at the same time, and has been a resident of the town of Arena since that time. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Porter, daughter of John and Elizabeth Porter,, who came to Arena from England in 1845; her father died in

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December, 1879 ; her mother died many years since. Mr. Wilkinson has held most of the town offices ; is at present Assessor of the town. He sold his farm, which was a part of the homestead, and settled in the village of Arena in March, 1877. Mrs. Wilkinson is a member of the Primitive Methodist Church.

JOB WILKINSON, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Arena ; son of John Wilkinson, Sr. (sec biography of John Wilkinson ), born in Lincolnshire, Eng., in 1830 ; he came to Iowa Co. with his parents from Illinois about 1848; he has been a resident of lowa Co. since that time. He was married to Har- riet, a daughter of Dr. Robert Addison, who came to the United States from England in 1842 ; he located at Providence, R. I., and came to Wisconsin in 1849, and settled at Dover, town of Arena, where he engaged in the drug business and also practiced medicine ; he afterward removed to the village of Arena; he has eight children living ; he died in Minnesota in 1876, at the age of 73 years. Mr. Wilkinson has Seven children-Florence, Kate, Alice, Amey, Guy, Stanley and Harold. His farm contains 220 acres.

WALTER WILKINSON, the youngest son of John Wilkinson, Sr., resides in the town of Arena, near his brother Job; he was born in Sheffield, Eng., in 1837 ; he was married to Emily, daugh- ter of Dr. Robert Addison ; they have three children-Albert, Hattie and Edoa.

S. J. YORKER, lumber dealer, Arena; Mr. Yorker was born in Columbia Co., N. Y .. in 1828. Except about eight months which he spent in Michigan, in 1852, he resided in Columbia and Rensselaer counties till 1856, when he came to Iowa Co. and settled in the town of Dodgeville ; he was engaged in teaching till the fall of 1860. He then went to Spring Green, Sauk Co., and engaged in the grain business. In the fall of 1862, he came to Arena and engaged in the lumber business. He was married to Eliza, daughter of Hugh McCutchin, of Wood Co., Wis. They have four children-Minnie, Mary, Walter and Winnie.

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ALVAH CULVER. farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Helena ; was born in the town of Bainbridge, Chenango Co., N. Y., in 1811, where he was married to Catharine Foster, also a native of the State of New York. Mr. Culver is not only one of the earliest settlers of Iowa Co., but is also numbered among the early pioneers of Wisconsin. He went to Green Bay in June, 1836, where he worked at his trade, that of a carpenter and joiner. In October of that year, he came to what is now known as Old Helena, for the purpose of assisting in the construction of a warchouse at that place. After getting the timber on the ground and prepared for this purpose, the foundation of the building not being ready, he was dis- charged, and returned to the State of New York, February, 1837, where he stayed till the following June, when he removed with his family to Green Bay, and engaged in work at his trade. After a few months, he was again sent to Helena to erect the warehouse, but, the foundation not yet being ready, he returned to Green Bay and removed his family to Helena, where he built a hotel, which he kept as such for many years. He established the first ferry at Old Helena, and ferried over the first team at this place. He conducted this ferry for twenty-five years. Hc removed to Helena Station about 1863, and settled where he now lives in 1872. His farin contains about 170 acres. He has had six sons and three daughters- five sons and one daughter are still living.

RICHARD DUNSTAN, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Wyoming; born in Cornwall, England, in 1837 , emigrated to Illinois with his parents, Henry and Elizabeth Dunstan, in 1840. The family came to Dodgeville in 1844, where his father died in 1844; the mother still lives in that town. Mr. Dunstan was married to Eliza Jane, daughter of Jonathan Carpenter. Mr. Dunstan was Register of Deeds for the years 1871 and 1872, and for 1875 and 1876. He is the present Town Clerk of Arena. His farm contains 120 acres.

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History of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Part 144

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