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MR. AND MRS. LEOF K. STRAND MR. AND MRS. KNUDT L. STRAND
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Mr. Strand in 1891 bought the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 27 in Tamarack. Later Mr. Larson sold his interest to Ole A. Olson and Mr. Strand, but afterwards bought back an interest. Later Strand, Olson and Larson built the main part of what is now the Tamarack store at the head of Norway Cooley, which they rented to Levi Henderson, of Ettrick, who put in the stock. After remaining one year, Mr. Hender- son sold his stock to Iver C. Myhre, who conducted the business to 1898. He then sold out to C. L. Boleng, who now operates the store. Mr. Boleng rented the building from the company until February, 1902, when he bought it. Mr. Strand is a stockholder in the Farmers' Shipping Associa- tion of Arcadia, the Arcadia Farmers' State Bank, the Tamarack Telephone Company, of which he has been president for the last twelve years. In this enterprise he has ever taken an active part to perfect its service and equip- ment. In politics he has always been a Republican and was chairman of his township board for six years. Mr. and Mrs. Strand are the parents of ten children, all of whom are living, their record in brief being as follows: Annetta, born Nov. 20, 1886, is now Mrs. A. O. Severson, of Norway Cooley. Clara, born March 18, 1888, is unmarried and resides at home. Hilda, born Dec. 12, 1898, is now Mrs. C. W. Peterson, of Buffalo, S. D. Elmer, born Dec. 26, 1891, is operating a homestead farm in Lavinia, Mont. Clarence, born Jan. 25, 1894, is residing at home unmarried. Margaret, born Oct. 7, 1896, is now Mrs. A. M. Olson, of Thompson Valley, Arcadia Township. Laura, born Sept. 17, 1898. Henry, born Dec. 3, 1900; Milton, born March 19, 1903, and Mildred, born May 4, 1905, are all living at home. Mr. Strand and his family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Norway Cooley, which he helps to support. Through enterprise and industry, backed by intelligence, he has gained a position among the prosperous and respected citizens of his township and has never forfeited their good opinion.
John Durisch, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Arcadia Village, now living retired after a long and active career, was born in Switzerland, June 21, 1846. With his parents, Thomas and Anna Durisch, also natives of Switzerland, he came to America in 1852, landing at New York. From that city the family came west to Prairie Du Sac, Wis., where they lived until 1856. They then migrated to Buffalo County, making the trip overland by ox team and driving before them twenty-one head of cattle. Arriving after a twelve-days' journey, they settled in Danuser's Valley, Montana Township, where Thomas Durisch bought 160 acres of new land from the government. With the aid of his son, John, he grubbed and cleared the land, building of tamarack a comfortable log house, 16 by 20 feet, hewn inside and out, which was the pride of all that region. Mr. Durisch continued to cultivate and improve his farm until his sudden death while plowing in the field in 1861. The mother, Anna Durisch, was born Sept. 4, 1810, and died at the home of her son in Arcadia at the age of 100 years. John Durisch was six years old when he accompanied his parents from Switzerland. He had attended the common and parochial schools in his native land and had but little further education after coming to America. At his father's death he was sixteen years of age and he
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subsequently operated the farm for his widowed mother up to 1869, break- ing about forty acres more of the land. His father had built a substantial log barn, 20 by 24 feet, which added to the value of the property. In 1872 Mrs. Durisch rented the farm and with her family moved to Fountain City. The family included, in addition to the subject of this sketch, a daughter, Agnes, who was born in Switzerland, and who married Christ Mauele, a farmer of Montana Township. She died at Arcadia in 1893. The subject of this sketch and his mother resided in Fountain City up to 1874. He mar- ried Lucy, daughter of Christ and Elizabeth Kindschy, pioneer settlers of Buffalo County, in 1870. In the spring of 1874 he arrived in Arcadia Village with his wife. Building a small house on what is now Deer Park Street, he entered into the teaming and livery business, and was thus occupied until 1898. He then traded the business for an improved farm of 160 acres in Lewis Valley, Arcadia Township, but remained in town and rented the farm. In 1876 the big flood came and wrecked Mr. Durisch's house in Arcadia. He then built his present brick veneer residence on Main Street, a nice-appearing and comfortable dwelling. His first wife died in 1893. They had one son, Thomas C., who was born February 10, 1872, died in 1884. Mr. Durisch remained a widower for a short time and then, in 1895, married Katherine, daughter of John and Katherine Maurer, of Arcadia. A Repub- lican in politics, he was elected sheriff in 1894, and served one term, retain- ing his residence in Arcadia, and having a deputy, N. L. Fredrickson, in charge at Whitehall. For many years he served as village marshal, a member of the village board and as street commissioner. In 1914 he retired from active business life and in the same year sold his Lewis Valley farm. A number of years ago he invested in lands in the state of Montana, his interest in which he still retains. He is also a stockholder in the Western Wisconsin Telephone Company. Among his earlier activities may be mentioned the fact that, with J. I. Dewey, Charles Miller and James Gaveney (father of John C. Gaveney), he made the first canvass of Arcadia Township for 500 cows to stock the first creamery in this section, which creamery was built at Arcadia, west of the Trempealeau River. For a number of years Mr. Durisch hauled cream and butter from this creamery, often taking as many as sixty 60-pound tubs at one load. Mr. Durisch was reared in the faith of the German Evangelical Church and is an active member of St. John's Church of that denomination at Arcadia, of which with A. F. Hensel, Herman Cloug and Jacob Schneller, he was one of the founders. He was treasurer of the church for twenty-two years and for a number of years superintendent of the Sunday School. He and his wife are members of the best society in the village.
Collins Bishop was a type of the noblest ideal of the American pioneer. Lofty of purpose, keen of mind, kindly of heart, rugged of body, strong of personality, resourceful of disposition, he represented those noble tradi- tions which are infused into the very soul of our national life, and in defense of which so many a noble patriot has given his all. His contemporaries whom he met in the stress and toil of every-day life delighted to do him reverence and honor, they regarded him as the possessor of every moral and manly excellence, with character and life that were well nigh flawless.
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The spirit of the whole community which took his name, also took on something of the aspect of his high worth, and his excellencies and influence were woven into the very warp and woof of the community's growth. Citizen, friend, patriot, pioneer, soldier, farmer, official, husband and father, in every capacity of life he did his highest duty, and nobly fulfilled his loftiest destinies. The halo and heritage of honor which he left has been passed on not only to his family, but also to the entire population of that prosperous county in whose founding he had so important a part. Collins Bishop was born in Nelson Township, Portage County, Ohio, January 9, 1822, one of a family of four sons and three daughters born to Ebenezer and Annie Bishop, all of whom lived to adult years, and all but two of whom became residents of the Trempealeau Valley. He was reared in his native state, and as a young man came to Wisconsin and located in Dodge County. From there, in 1855, accompanied by James Broughton, George Shelley and George Dewey, he came up the river from La Crosse to Foun- tain City, and found his way over the ridge to the present site of Old Arcadia, where he founded the colony long known as Bishop's Settlement. Thus located, he devoted his life to agricultural pursuits, living upon the same place for some fifty-five years. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he assisted in the raising of Co. C, 30th Wis. Vol. Inf., that famous company commanded by Captain Alex. A. Arnold, and recruited from the flower of fearless and heroic young manhood of Trempealeau County. Owing to dis- ability, Mr. Bishop was soon transferred to Co. A, Veteran Reserve Corps, but he was as lion hearted in his patriotism and fealty to the Union as though baptized in fire like his comrades in the gallant Company C. As the years passed he was blessed with prosperity and success. He changed a wild tract of land into a rich, fertile, modern farm, he passed through the strenuous endeavor and hardships of pioneer life and lived to see his little settlement the metropolis of a great county. After a long and useful life he died Jan. 19, 1911, surrounded by the love and care of his large family. At that time it was said of him: "He died as he lived, with a clear mind, a clean conscience and without a fear of going into the Great Mystery. In his death his children lost a worthy parent, his friends lost a genial, kind-hearted and companionable fellow, his community and county lost an upright citizen and a soldier-patriot. His character and repute may be commended as most worthy of emulation. The virtue and excellence of such a man deserve to be recorded in the archives of history. Mr. Bishop was married July 24, 1844, at Cherry Valley, Ohio, to Emily A., daughter of Obed and Delight Warren, and this union was blessed with eight children: Florence, Rose, Emily, Blanche, May, Hiram, Howard W., and Winfred E. Florence married George W. Webb, and is now deceased. Rose married Arthur A. Markham, of Independence. Emily died in infancy. Blanche is the widow of Martin Woodhull. May is the wife of Frank Warren, of Black River Falls, Wis. Hiram died in 1868. Howard W. lives in Whitehall. Winfred E. lives in Arcadia. A book might be written of the life of Collins Bishop, and it would be replete with interest from cover to cover. A few stories of his experiences are still preserved in the traditions of the county. In the early days there were no physicians in
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the vicinity. A new family moved into the adjoining town of Glencoe. Soon after that a visit of the stork was expected. Having received a medical education through a two years' course in a medical college in the East, Mr. Bishop had acquired, through pioneer necessity, considerable skill and repu- tation as an obstetrician. On this occasion, after a hard day's work on the farm, he walked several miles to the sick woman's house, performed his duties as an obstetrician, and cared for the mother and child until the next day, when he was relieved by a neighbor woman. He never asked nor took pay for such errands of mercy. His resourcefulness in the most trying circumstances is shown in the story of his dead ox. One hot summer day he was on his way to obtain provisions at Fountain City, twenty or more miles away, with an empty wagon drawn by a pair of oxen. Over on the ridge, four or five miles from Fountain City, one of the oxen became over- heated. Mr. Bishop unyoked him and went down in the valley afoot and brought a pail of water. But on his return the ox was dead. So Mr. Bishop rolled him aside and gave the water to the other ox. By means of ropes and chains he harnessed up this remaining ox so that he could pull the wagon to town, while Mr. Bishop himself put his own head through the other bow, and thus held up the yoke as he walked beside the ox and con- tinued his journey.
Winfred E. Bishop, one of the leading agriculturists and seed-corn growers of this county, is known far and wide for his character as a man, his usefulness as a citizen, and his worthy efforts in the cause of rural betterment. The son of the county's most distinguished pioneer, he lives on Arcadia's pioneer farm, and is worthily following the high traditions of his family, combining an intensely modern spirit of progress with the stability of the foundation upon which his career is based. Born on the historic place where he now lives, Jan. 25, 1869, the son of Collins and Emily Bishop, he was reared in an atmosphere of piety and culture, and received his education in the district, graded and High schools of Arcadia, supple- menting this with a course in the Lambert Business College at Winona. Trained throughout his boyhood as an agriculturist, he became his father's partner at the age of 20, and this arrangement continued until his father's death, when he bought the interests of the other heirs and became sole owner and proprietor of the farm which he had assisted so materially in developing and improving. This development and improvement has since continued. The character of this farm, and the care with which it has been conserved during the sixty years that it has borne crops, is shown by the fact that it contains the first piece of land broken in Arcadia, which bore its first crop in 1857, and in 1917 yielded 85 bushels of oats to the acre. The two houses on the place are surrounded with a beautiful wooded lawn, the barns and outbuildings are commodious and modern, the farm is well fenced, and the tools and equipment are in every way adequate to the demands made upon them. Mr. Bishop makes a specialty of raising seed corn of the Golden Glow Yellow Dent Wisconsin No. 12 variety, with which he has won many prizes at the county and state exhibitions, and for which the demand is so great that it is only by refusing many orders that Mr. Bishop is able to keep enough for his own use. The industry was
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inaugurated several years ago on a small scale, when Mr. Bishop started the preparation of his first seed by drying and ripening it by the fire. Now he has a hot-air fan system, and raises some twenty acres each year, six- teen acres being for seed purposes exclusively. The pride of the neighbor- hood is Mr. Bishop's fine herd of Holstein-Friesian cattle, all high grade. While not the largest herd in the county, these creatures are acknowledged to be the sleekest and best cared for in every particular. Farming, as he does along such modern lines, it is natural that Mr. Bishop should take an active part in the work of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Associa- tion, and that he should have been chosen to his present position as presi- dent of the Farmers' Co-operative Creamery of Arcadia. He has not cared for public office, but has listened to the call of duty and for two terms has done most excellent service as town treasurer. His fraternal relations are with the Masonic and Independent Forester orders. Mr. Bishop was mar- ried Jan. 25, 1890, to Hattie E. Wheeler, who died in March, 1891, leaving one son, Glenn, who is now a telegraph operator for the Northwestern Railroad in South Dakota. Nov. 30, 1893, Mr. Bishop married Ruth Weeks, and they have one child, Florence M., who is soon to graduate from the Arcadia High School. The family faith is that of the Christian Science Church.
John F. Brom, one of the successful farmers of Dodge Township, resid- ing in Section 6, was born in Pine Creek Valley, this township, May 23, 1875, a son of Frank and Katherine (Pribyl) Brom. Both parents were born in Bohemia, the father in 1850. Frank Brom came to America in 1861 or 1862, with his parents, they settling first in Winona, Minn., but soon the father of Frank homesteaded 160 acres of wild land in Section 6, Range 9, Township 19 (Dodge), and Frank was brought up on this farm, having abundant opportunities to make acquaintance with hard work. In course of time he succeeded to the property. He cleared and developed the land, adding 49 acres to the farm, which increased its size to 209 acres. He also built a two-story frame house, two large barns, a granary, machine- shed and poultry house. All the buildings are painted and in good shape, while of the land, 125 acres are under the plow, the balance being in pasture and timber land. Frank Brom was engaged in general farming and dairy- ing, keeping grade cows and selling cream at Arcadia and later at Dodge. He died at Winona, Minn., in 1911. His wife died in Pine Creek Valley, Dodge Township, in 1887, and is buried at Winona. John F. Brom remained on the farm with his father until his marriage, his education having been acquired in the district and parochial schools. January 24, 1899, he was married to Frances, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Weir) Brizinski, and took his wife to his father's home, where they resided until the fall of that year. They then moved to the Pribyl farm, adjoining the Brom home- stead on the northeast, which farm had been bought by Frank Brom, who gave it to his son. On this place the present residence had been built in the summer of 1899. The house is a two-story upright with two wings and is modern in its furnishings, having bath, hot and cold water and every- thing desirable except electric lights. The barn is a frame building with hip roof, 36 by 60 by 20 feet; the granary is 20 by 28 feet, with a lean-to,
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20 by 28 feet ; the other buildings being a wood shed, 14 by 20; buggy shed, 14 by 24, with shop lean-to, 10 by 20; poultry house, 12 by 24; machine shed, 24 by 60, and a cement block silo, 12 by 26 feet, all painted and in good condition. Mr. Brom has 120 acres of land under the plow, the balance of 242 acres being in pasture and timber land. In 1912 he bought the old home- stead of 120 acres from his brother, Martin, who had inherited it at the father's death. He is engaged in general farming and dairying, keeping 18 grade Shorthorn cows, 25 grade Duroc Jersey hogs and 160 Shropshire sheep. He also has a small orchard of three acres. His farm is 16 miles from Winona, 15 from Galesville and 9 from Arcadia. In politics Mr. Brom is a Democrat. He has taken part in the government of his township, having served as supervisor two terms, being chairman of the board one term, and clerk of School District No. 2 for nine years. Aside from his farming interests, he is a stockholder in the First State Bank of Dodge, in the Western Wisconsin Telephone Company and in the Dodge Shipping Association. He and his wife have had eight children: Benjamin, born March 24, 1900, who is assisting his father on the farm; Theodore, born August 24, 1902, who died October 15, 1908; Richard, born September 2, 1906; Florence, August 7, 1908; Cyril, May 25, 1910; Clarence, April 14, 1912; Alvin, January 23, 1914, and Isadore, October 17, 1915. Mr. Brom, with his wife and family, are members of the Catholic Church, attending Sacred Heart Church at Pine Creek.
Edward B. McWeeny, town chairman of Arcadia, prominent member of the county board, and enthusiastic road builder, is one of the leading citizens of the county. Coming of a family of which several members have gained national prominence, he has preferred to devote his life to this vicinity, and his work has been productive of much good. His voice on the county board has ever been raised in behalf of those things which he believes to be for progress and betterment consistent with consideration for the tax payer, and his work in behalf of good roads is widely known. He successfully farms on Section 29, Arcadia Township, and has a pleasant and attractive place. Edward B. McWeeny was born at Glencoe, Buffalo County, this state, March 28, 1874, son of James and Catherine (Scanlon) McWeeny, thrifty farmers. James McWeeny is now dead, having passed away in 1900, but his wife is still living. They had a family of eight children: John, who resides in Chicago, Ill .; Nellie, unmarried, who is a trained nurse at South Bend, Ind .; Mary, wife of Adam Ziegweid, of Beach, N. D .; Elizabeth, who is the widow of Joseph Boyle and resides in Chicago; Patrick, of Chicago; James, who is a foreman in the Illinois Steel Com- pany's plant at South Chicago; Edward B., subject of this memoir, and Frank, a cattle buyer, who resides in Arcadia. Edward B. McWeeny acquired his education in the district school, which he attended from the age of eight years to that of 17. He remained on the McWeeny farm at Glencoe until he was 27, except for one summer which he spent in North Dakota. April 8, 1902, he was married to Sophia, daughter of Engelhart and Elizabeth (Bills) Doelle, of Cross Township, Buffalo County. Previous to this event he had purchased a 200-acre farm on Independence Road, two miles north of Arcadia Village, and here he and his wife began housekeep-
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ing in the two-story frame house on the property. Since then he has erected a good frame barn, 36 by 84 feet, with half basement. He does general farming, having at present 125 acres under the plow. He has an ample equipment of teams, wagons and tools for the profitable cultivation of his land, and his property presents a neat and thriving appearance. Aside from these interests, he is a stockholder in the Arcadia Shipping Associa- tion and the Farmers Co-operative Creamery of Arcadia. A Democrat in politics, Mr. McWeeny has been chairman of the town board for four years. He and his wife have had eight children: James, Leo, Lenore, Bernard, Albin, Henry, Eleva, and Elizabeth, of whom the last mentioned is now deceased. All were born on the farm. The family are members of the Catholic Church at Arcadia, and Mr. McWeeny has been a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters for the past twenty years, and of the Knights of Columbus since 1913.
Lorenzo D. and Frank Tubbs, livestock dealers and real estate agents, constitute the firm of Tubbs Brothers, for many years intimately con- nected with the business life of Independence. They came to Burnside Township from Hixton, this state, in 1874, with other members of the family, and engaged in farm pursuits on the home farm. Later they engaged in the livestock business. In this connection Lorenzo D. had charge of the Dakota interests of the firm. For a while they engaged in the implement business in Independence, but later sold out to R. Warner Brothers. The Messrs. Tubbs now handle considerable real estate, and deal extensively in livestock, making a specialty of buying and selling horses. The parents of these gentlemen were Lorenzo and Mary Jane (Colwell) Tubbs, both now deceased. After the death in 1856 of the father, who was an Ohio farmer, the care of the family devolved upon the mother, who in 1872 brought them to Hixton, this state, and in 1874 to Burnside. Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Tubbs had nine children: James, Mary L., Elma, Elizabeth, Frank, Adelle, Lorenzo D., Sarah Jane, and Alice. James, Mary L. and Elma are dead. Elizabeth is the widow of Lee Hutchins, of Independence. Frank is in the real estate and livestock business. Adelle is the wife of Robert Watson, a farmer of Buena Vista, Colo. Lorenzo D. was born Oct. 18, 1852, was educated in the district schools and in Gale College, was married in October, 1894, to Lydia L. Grout, is engaged in the real estate and livestock business and has been a member of the village council of Independence since 1910. Sarah Jane is the widow of George Walker and lives in Detroit, Mich. Alice is the wife of J. M. Hall of Detroit, Mich.
John Schmidt was one of the early settlers of Buffalo County, this state, and by developing a good farm took a part in its progress and growth. He was born in Langwies Canton, Graubuen, Switzerland, in 1817, there grew to sturdy manhood and married Mary Roth. She died in her native land, leaving four children-George, Dorothy, Nicholas and Ursula-and in 1867 Mr. Schmidt with his children set out for the United States, embarking at Hamburg on the steamship "Saxonia." Landing at New York after a voyage of nine days, they came directly from that city by train to La Crosse, Wis., and then by boat up the Mississippi River to Fountain City, where they landed May 29, 1867. Mr. Schmidt lost no time
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in getting settled, as he immediately took up 180 acres of partially improved land in Cross Township, Buffalo County, and set to work to develop it. There was much hard work to do, but he persevered, and in time his efforts were rewarded, and he found himself the owner of a good farm with sub- stantial buildings. This place was his home until 1883, in which year he went to North Dakota, where he spent ten years, dying in Cass County in that state in 1893.
George Schmidt, educator, agriculturist and public official, is doing most efficient service as assessor of incomes for Wisconsin District No. 28, comprising Buffalo, Pepin and Trempealeau Counties, and has to his credit a long term of office as superintendent of schools in Buffalo County, as well as considerable other public work. Born in Langwies Canton, Graubuen, Switzerland, June 26, 1857, the son of John and Mary (Roth) Schmidt, he was brought to Buffalo County by his father in 1867, and remained on the paternal farm until he had grown to manhood. He first prepared himself in the district schools of Cross Township and in the Fountain City graded school, after which he attended Gale University (now Gale College) for one year. When he was 18 years old he began teaching school in District No. 1, Buffalo Township and County, and taught subse- quently for 11 years in different schools of the county. That he made a good record may be inferred from the fact that in the fall of 1886 he was elected to the office of superintendent of schools in Buffalo County, commencing his duties Jan. 1, 1887, at Alma, the county seat. He remained superintendent of the Buffalo County schools for eight years, maintaining a high standard of efficiency. Then, in the fall of 1895, he moved to Trempealeau County, locating on the Hiram Tracy farm of 276 acres, which he had previously purchased. He later increased the acreage of the farm by additional land purchases until it now contains 440 acres, having two sets of commodious buildings. In 1905 Mr. Schmidt purchased the Henry Dewey farm of 63 acres, situated one mile east of the village of Arcadia, the location being known as East Arcadia. The first store in Arcadia was built on this place in 1857, but after the Green Bay Railroad was constructed in 1873 the population moved into the valley, thus changing the location of the village. Mr. Schmidt removed to the Dewey farm in the spring of 1906, preferring this place for a residence in order that his children might enjoy the advantage of attending the Arcadia high school, and here he has since made his home. He was married May 14, 1888, to Lina, daughter of John and Louisa (Waelty) Ochsner of Waumandee, Buffalo County, Wis., and he and his wife are the parents of six children : Erwin R., Walter E., Oscar J., George A., Louisa M. (first) and Louisa M. (second), whose record in brief is as follows: Erwin R., born Dec. 26, 1889, in Alma, Wis., graduated from the Arcadia high school in 1913, and from Washington University at St. Louis, Mo., in 1915, receiving the degree of M. D. He is now an interne at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis. Walter E., born at Alma, Wis., April 2, 1891, is a graduate of the Arcadia high school and of the Wisconsin University (agricultural department), in the class of 1913, and is now engaged in farming at Spring Grove, Va. Oscar J., born at Alma, Wis., June 5, 1895, is a graduate of the Arcadia high school
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