History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Part 150

Author: Western Historical Co
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 998

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-Gertie O., Herbert C. and Fred. D. Mr. Vaughn settled where he now lives in March, 1876. The farm was first settled by William Crane, and is known as the Crane farm. It contains 130 acres.

EDWARD ZAHN, proprietor of Vienna Mills, Vienna. He was born in the City of Worms, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in 1818. He came to the United States in 1843. He lived five years in Cincinnati, in the capacity of head miller in a mill in the city. He came to Racine in 1850. He came to Vienna, and purchased the mill here, in 1853, of James Cotton. The mill was burned in 1872, but he immediately rebuilt on a much larger scale. This was a severe loss to Mr. Zahn, as his property was not insured, and his loss was heavy ; but with character- istic energy he rebuilt a superior mill, and being an excellent miller, his reputation for excellent work is not excelled. He is a man of much general information, and as a business man, pos- sesses the confidence of all with whom he has business relations. His wife is a native of Ger- many, but brought up in Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Zahn have seven children, five sons and two daughters,- Julius, engaged in milling in Milwaukee; Emil, druggist in Chicago; Bertha, married, and lives in Racine ; Cornelius, Victor, Edward and Nettie.

TOWN OF LA FAYETTE.

ORGANIZATION.

At the organization of Walworth County in 1838, the present town of La Fayette, constituted the western half of the Town of Spring Prairie, being known in the govern- mental survey as Town 3, Range 17 East, It was set off from Spring Prairie, under the name of La Fayette by Act of Legislature, March 21, 1843, the territory of the town at that time covering 36 square miles. Subsequently,-Feb. 2, 1846,-one square mile forming the extreme southwestern corner of the town was detached to form the north- eastern quarter of the Town of Elkhorn, leaving La Fayette reduced to its present geo- graphical limits-thirty-five square miles. The boundaries of the town are as follows : north by East Troy ; east by Spring Prairie ; south by Geneva and Elkhorn, and west by Sugar Creek and Elkhorn.

NATURAL FEATURES.

The surface of the country is quite varied, the northern portion being gently undu- lating, breaking into hills on either side of Sugar Creek, and the southern part quite level, Spring Prairie covering Sections twenty-four and twenty-five, and the eastern part of Section twenty-three.

When the town was first settled, a variety of forest trees were found on some of the land lying south of the Creek. Sections eleven and twelve having a growth of elm, maple, bass-wood and butternut. The beautiful groves of oak dotted the country on every side, and the pioneer while seeking his claim, often startled the timid deer, and sometimes shuddered to hear the howl of the wolf and the bear.

The burr-oak openings, and the prairie lands, in the southern portion of La Fayette, have a soil of rich loam, and the white oak openings of light clay. The hilly region north of Sugar Creek, and the openings of burr-oak are similar in soil to the more southern portions of the town.

La Fayette is watered by Sugar Creek, which, rising in the town of Sugar Creek, enters La Fayette on Section seven, and runs easterly a little north of the center of the town through Sections seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, a part of fourteen and eleven, and enters the Town of Spring Prairie from section twelve. There are no lakes, of any considerable size, and no living stream save Sugar Creek.

FIRST SETTLERS.

Isaiah Hamblin the first settler in the town, was a native of the State of Ohio. He came to La Fayette with his wife in the month of June 1836, and settled on the south-

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east quarter of Section twenty-five. July 18th, the logs for his house being ready, the settlers from the neighboring towns turned out to assist him in "raising" the first house in the town of La Fayette.

During the year Sylvanus Langdon located on Section 14, and Alpheus Johnson on Section 23.

S. A. Dwinnell, from Massachusetts, secured claims for himself and brothers, to 640 acres of land in the western part of the town in November, 1836.

In company with Mr. Dwinnell was Charles Perrin,-Elias Hicks, who settled upon Section 22, and Isaac Vant also arrived during the year, so that La Fayette commenced to loom up as quite a settled region.

In 1837, the settlers appeared in such numbers as to earn the trite expression-"a tide of immigration."

In November, Daniel Hartwell settled upon section 18.

Alexander H. Bunnell came in from Milwaukee in June 1837, to Palmer Gard- ner's, thence to the western part of Spring Prairie to the place where Solomon Dwinnel then lived, and from there to the log house then owned and occupied by Al- pheus Johnson, in the present town of LaFayette. Mr. Bunnell hired Mr. Johnson to go with him to hunt a claim, for which service he was to receive $1.50 per day and board. Taking a section line, the prospectors went through to Sugar Creek, arriving about noon at the house of Asa Blood, a little log cabin on the bank of Silver lake, built in 1836, by a man named Davis, and at the time of the visit of Mr. Bunnell and his companion, still the only house on Sugar Creek prairie. In those early times every man's house was not exactly his " castle," but might more appropriately be called his tavern, so the travelers "ordered dinner." The bill of fare was boiled beans-simple beans ; not "baked beans," the delicious dish which the New Englander longs for, "wherever he may roam," but beans guiltless of pork, or even salt. Mr. Bunnell was not discouraged however, but on his return the same day, he made his claims on Section 21. He afterwards relinquished it, settling during the same year on Section 20, where he still resides.

Riley Harrington, with his wife and family, came from New York in June, and took up one half a Section on Section 30 in La Fayette, and another half in the ad- joining Section (25) in Sugar Creek.

Phipps Hartwell came in November of this year. He lived in the house of Alpheus Johnson, where his wife died.

H. H. Sterling settled in La Fayette, also in November, upon Section 21. He came with Mr. Hartwell. Mr. Sterling died a few years ago in Iowa.

Wm. West settled on Section 6, during this year, having made his claim in the Fall of 1836.

Charles Heath was a settler of 1837. He moved to the town of La Grange, where he was a leading citizen for many years. He is now a resident of East Troy.

Samuel, Daniel and McDonald Harkness, Nathaniel Bell, Joseph Whitmore, Sen. Morris Cain and Henry Johnson located in the town at about this period.

In 1838 came George W. Dwinnell, Emery Singletary, S. G. West, Sen., J. Pike West, John Wadsworth, David Vaughn, Thomas Emerson, Mason Hicks, David S. Eltin and S. G. Smith.

RECOLLECTIONS OF 1836 AND 1837.

The first settlers of Walworth County probably experienced as long and severe a Winter in 1836-7 as has ever been known in Wisconsin. It was cold even as early as the middle of November, and on the 20th of December, the cold became intense, and continued through the season-the buds on the oaks not turning green until June. Mr. S. A. Dwinnell, one of the first pioneers of LaFayette, describes his first entrance into the county thus :

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" On the morning of the 15th of November, 1836, I took the trail of Black Hawk, at Belvidere, at the point where, four years before, he sunk his canoes in the mouth of the Piskasaw, and, with his army, took the land. His encampments were still visible every six or eight miles, as I proceeded northward to Big Foot Prairie, where I entered Wisconsin, at 4 o'clock P. M. The day was cloudy, cold, and cheerless ; the tempera- ture at the freezing point ; the streams swollen by recent rains, and unbridged. Sever- al times I was obliged to wade from four to six rods. As night set in, snow fell plenti- fully. Big Foot Lake was in view at my left. At seven o'clock, evening, I reached the " Outlet of Big Foot," near Geneva, having traveled thirty-five miles without seeing a human dwelling. The settlement consisted of five families, living in rude log cabins, without floors, chimneys or chambers, the roofs covered with shakes, and hardly a nail used in the construction of their dwellings. There were then twenty-seven families in what is now the county of Walworth, and all but four in the eastern half of it ; all living in log cabins. All of them had come in since Spring, and had put under cultivation about eighty acres. I settled on Spring Prairie, in what is now the town of LaFay- ette."

At the time Mr. Dwinnell settled in the county, not an acre had been broken in the present town of LaFayette ; but twenty-two acres in the old town of Spring Prairie, and eighty-two acres constituted the entire area under cultivation in the whole of what is now one of the richest and most flourishing agricultural counties in the State. The trouble and difficulty of reaching and selecting a claim was so great, that settlers were often obliged to bring in their families before any shelter was provided for them, either camping in their wagons, or remaining at the house of some " neighbor," three or four miles away perhaps, while the logs were prepared for the little cabin, where one room

should serve for kitchen, living room, and sleeping room for the family. When the ex- treme cold weather of the winter of 1836 came on, the settlers in the new country were illy prepared for it. The cabins were often without floors, sometimes with only a hole in the roof for a chimney, so that if the cold was shut out, the smoke was likely to be shut in. The few scattered families were so far apart that, except at a few points, any social intercourse was out of the question. In speaking of the extreme loneliness of the women, one of the early settlers says :

" For two months, during the first winter we were in Wisconsin, my wife did not see the face of a woman. During the next season a young lady moved into a cabin three miles west of us, with her mother and brother. They were from one of the villages of the State of New York. She was so lonely and became so anxious for society as to ren- der her sick, although she did not know the cause of it. Her brother set out one day, with his ox team, to go with her to consult a physician, seven miles distant. They called at our house on the way. After conversing a while with my wife, she felt so much better that she concluded to go no further. She spent the day with her and re- turned at night greatly revived and nearly restored to health."

Mr. Dwinnell was entirely alone in his cabin during the four terribly cold days of the last of December, and had hard work to keep himself alive. He says: "It soon became unendurable in our cabin, and building a large fire and hanging up blankets before it, I sat down in front of them to keep from freezing." Notwithstanding the cold, and the deep snow, Mr. Dwinnell got so thoroughly lonesome that on the twentieth day of January he started on a journey of forty-five miles to have a visit with some friends at Belvidere, Ill., then a little hamlet of six families. When he returned from his visit he was accompanied by a young man, John Wadsworth, who was in search of a claim. Mr. Dwinnell assisted him to select one and he settled upon it, making it his home, and the following season the two friends did their breaking together.

The house in which Mr. Dwinnell and his companion lived through his first Winter in LaFayette, was rather an aristocratic one for the day. On the east the nearest family was two and a half miles away, and in all other directions from six to fifty miles distant.

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The cabin had received, notwithstanding its pretensions to some extra gentility, the sig- nificant cognomen of " Bachelor's Misery." As this bachelor's hall, or bachelor's " misery " was one of the earliest institutions of the town of LaFayette a full descrip- tion is given from the pen of one of its occupants ;

" It consisted of one room, eighteen by twenty feet in size, made of unhewed logs, with no chamber. It was covered with 'shakes,' a kind of clapboard about four feet long, rived from the bodies of large thrifty oaks and laid two or three thicknesses in depth, upon legs which were prepared for their reception, the ends of which rested upon the logs composing the gable-ends of the building. Each course of these shakes lapped upon the one below, and were kept in place by small logs placed upon their ends. Such a roof afforded a good protection from rain as also from snow, after it was once well cov- ered. The first storms of Winter, however, drifted through quite freely.

" The floor was of puncheons, a kind of plank, six feet in length by two in width, and four inches in thickness, split from the bodies of white ash trees, hewed upon the upper side and laid upon sleepers resting upon the earth. The chimney was made of flat sticks two inches in width, rived also from the trees, and laid upon each other cob-house fashion and daubed with mud. Its foundation rested upon two small timbers, six feet apart, running from the logs in the north end, three feet from the ground to a joint across the building, four feet south and seven feet from the floor. This chimney, four feet by six, was made smaller as it passed upwards. A fire back was made by sawing out the logs and inserting in their place a wall of stones and mud. The door was composed of shaved shakes pinned to upright timbers at the sides, hung with wooden hinges, and fastened with a wooden latch, which was raised by means of a buckskin string passed from it through the door to the outside. The string hung out in token of hospitality, and was drawn in to shut out intruders. A few weeks after my arrival, the owner of the hall sent to Chicago, eighty miles distant, for a pine board of which, without plan- ing, he made a new door. He hung it, however, in the same manner as the old one had been, and regarded it as quite 'aristocratic.' A window of six panes of glass afforded us light.

" Our food consisted of bread and milk, pork and potatoes. Tea was offered me, but refused and water substituted. The flour from which our bread was made, had evi- dently been shipwrecked. Much of it was hard as chalk and was crushed with a roller, before kneading into dough. Our bed was of prairie hay, laid upon the floor before a log fire, which burned through the entire night. Our covering was a few coarse blankets. For such fare, I paid $3 per week.

" Before commencing to work on my claim, I was obliged to send to Chicago, eighty miles distant, to purchase an ax, the one which I had in Indiana, was left in my trunk, at . South Bend, and not obtained until the following Spring.

" I have thus particularly described this cabin, because it was as commodious and convenient as many others which were occupied for months and sometimes for years, by the families of graduates of Eastern Colleges and others who afterward took prominent positions among us in business and professional life. As a result of their toils and suf- ferings, many of their children, scattered over this Western country as tillers of its soil and in its various trades and professions, are permitted to reside in well furnished mansions."

Settlers of 1839 : H. M. Curtis, Duer Y. Smith, Wm. Bohal, Daniel Stearns, J. C. Mills, Anthony Noblet, Peter Noblet and John Wood.

Of the settlers of 1836 only two are living : Elias Hicks, at Elkhorn, and Charles Perrin, in the State of Iowa.

Of those who came in 1837, the following only are living : Daniel Hartwell, A. H. Bunnell, Riley Harrington, and James Harkness, still residing in La Fayette; Daniel Whitmore, in Spring Prairie, Wis .; and Samuel Harkness in Oregon.

George W. Dwinnell, Emery Singletary and David Vaughn still reside in the town

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in which they settled in 1838. John Wadsworth, who settled there in the same year, now lives in Iowa.

PIONEER EVENTS.

The first school kept in La Fayette was in 1840. It was a public school taught in the chamber of a private log-house on the southwest quarter of Section 20, by Miss Ruth A. Bunnell (sister of Alexander Bunnell).

J. O. Eaton opened the first store in a dwelling-house on the southeast quarter of Section 25.

The first breaking in La Fayette was done on Section 23, in the year 1837, by Al- pheus Johnson, and the result was a crop of 1500 bushels of turnips. During this same year also, Daniel Hartwell and Riley Harrington broke land. In 1838, Mr. Hartwell harvested five acres of Winter wheat ; five of Spring wheat ; eleven of corn ; five of oats ; two of beans and two and a half of potatoes. James Harkness, Nathaniel Bell, A. H. Bunnell, Joseph Whitmore, Sr., and Charles Perrin each raised crops during the same year.

The first child born in La Fayette was Harriet Whitmore, daughter of Joseph, born October 1837 (afterward the wife of Dr. Daniel Harkness).

The first marriage was that of Henry Johnson, son of Alpheus Johnson, to Miss Hamblin, in 1837. Col. Perez Merrick of Spring Prairie, solemnized the marriage.

The second marriage was the somewhat notable one of Mr. Alex. H. Bunnell, Nov. 19th, 1839, an account of which is given elsewhere in this work.

The first saw-mill was built in 1843, by Peter Hinman on Section 12. William Densmore built a grist-mill on the same section in 1856, both mills being now owned by A. M. Foster, and in running order. These are the only mills in operation in town. In 1844, Christopher Payne built a saw-mill on Section 15, which cost him about $1,200. It was afterward known as the " Harkness Mills." It has now fallen into decay.

The first bridge was built across Sugar Creek, Dec. 12, 1837, on Section 12.

WAR HISTORY.

La Fayette did its duty bravely during the war, sending seventy-one of its own citizens into the field, twenty-two of whom sacrificed their lives in the service. The town also raised $11,000 for bounties and $300 for the families of soldiers. The following are the names of the soldiers who enlisted from La Fayette, being actual residents of the town : Sanford Doane, Irwin Harris, Ebenezer Colton, Robert Cheney, George Sewell, James Short, Holley Peck, Plimpton Babcock, Ira Babcock, F. J. Harrington, Henry Wiswell, Eugene Ellsworth, Smith Hartwell, Alexander Seymour, Samuel Bell, Wm. O'Brine, Charles Hide, Nelson Johnson, Martin Shaver, Alonzo Vaughn, Henry vaughn, Anthony Noblet, Alva Hubbard, Fayette Ranney, Charles Stuicht, Henry Wood, Stephen Concklin, Charles Concklin, George Farrar, William Bowman, Duncan Wright, Thomas Pollock, James Coulthard, James Rockwell, Ralph Burr, Leland Doane, John Hodges, John Mountain, John G. Matheson, Daniel Matheson, Albert Daniels, Michael O'Brine, Harvey Shubert, George Holland, John Shubert, Geo. W. Wylie, Jay Randall, Frank Sterling, John Carl, Dwight Stevens, Rual Whitmore, Alvin Gould, Burnham Gleason, H. P. Frank, George Short, James Wilson, Patsey O'Brine, J. Tomit, Samuel Bentley, Asa Cole, Isaac Waters, Henry Concklin, Moses Ranney, Charles Wiswell, Delos Smith, Charles Bunnell, George Coborn, James Sterling, David Mountain, John Whitton, Edwin Parmalee.

TOWN ROSTER.

1843: Supervisors-J. C. Mills, chairman, Alex. Wilson, Sherman M. Rockwood ; Town clerk-R. B. Burroughs ; Treasurer, S. A. Dwinnell.

1844 : Supervisors-Nathaniel Bell, chairman ; Alex. Wilson, Peter Hinman ; Town clerk-Charles Seeley ; Treasurer, Joseph Whitmore, Sen.

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1845: Supervisors-Nathaniel Bell, chairman, Peter Hinman, Hiram Humphrey ; Town elerk-Charles Seeley ; Treasurer, S. G. Smith.

1846 : Supervisors-Nathaniel Bell, chairman, Ralph Patrick, H. M. Curtis ; Town elerk, Charles Seeley ; Treasurer, S. G. Smith.

1847 : Supervisors-C. Wiswell. chairman, Peter Hinman, H. M. Curtis ; Town elerk-A. H. Thompson ; Treasurer, S. G. Smith.

1848 : Supervisors-H. M. Curtis, chairman, Ralph Patrick, Peter Hinman : Town clerk-A. H. Thompson, Treasurer, S. G. Smith.

1849: Supervisors-Ralph Patrick, chairman, Hiram Humphrey, C. H. Wylie ; Town elerk-Geo. W. Sewell ; Treasurer, A. H. Bunnell.

1850; Supervisors-Nathaniel Bell, chairman, H. M. Curtis, John Wadsworth ; Town clerk-George W. Sewell ; Treasurer, C. Wiswell.

1851 : Supervisors-Nathaniel Bell, chairman, A. D. Harris, S. G. West ; Town elerk-H. M. Curtis ; Treasurer, J. W. Peck.

1852: Supervisors-John Bell, chairman, S. G. West, Wm. H. Conger ; Town clerk, H. M. Curtis ; Treasurer, Peter Hinman.

1853 : Supervisors-John Bell, chairman, Wm. H. Conger, Absolom Williams ; Town elerk, W. Hendrix ; Treasurer, N. H. Briggs.

1854: Supervisors -- James Harkness, chairman, S. G. West, J. V. Hemstead ; Town elerk, Geo. W. Wylie : Treasurer. Jacob Wright.

1855 : Supervisors-James Harkness. chairman, Lester Allen, Nelson West ; Town elerk, Geo. W. Wylie ; Treasurer, Wm. M. Whitney.

1856 : Supervisors-R. T. Seymour, chairman, C. Wiswell, Porter Green ; Town elerk, Geo. W. Wylie ; Treasurer, Wm. M. Whitney.

1857 : Supervisors-R. T. Seymour, chairman, E. B. Smith, C. H. Wylie ; Town elerk, Geo. W. Wylie ; Treasurer, R. B. Burroughs.

1858 : Supervisors-R. B. Burroughs, chairman, C. H. Wylie, C. Wiswell ; Town clerk, George W. Wylie ; Treasurer, Wm. P. Ellsworth.

1859: Supervisors-R. B. Burroughs, chairman, Joseph Potter, James Child ; Town elerk, Geo. W. Wylie ; Treasurer, R. S. Hendrex.

1860 : Supervisors-C. Wiswell, chairman, Julins Derthick, S. C. Sanford ; Town elerk, Geo. W. Wylie ; Treasurer, Stephen Williams.

1861 : Supervisors-C. Wiswell, chairman, E. B. Smith, Town elerk, C. H. Wylie ; Treasurer, George Wright.

1862 : Supervisors -- C. Wiswell, chairman, E. B. Smith, H. H. Sterling ; Town elerk, S. R. Edgerton ; Treasurer George Wright.

1863: Supervisors-C. Wiswell, chairman, Riley Harrington, W. Hendrix ; Town elerk-S. R. Edgerton ; Treasurer-George Wright.

1864: Supervisors-E. B. Smith, chairman ; Town elerk-S. R. Edgerton ; Treas- urer-Geo. Wright.

1865 : Supervisors-E. B. Smith, chairman, Nelson West, J. W. Peck ; Town elerk -C. H. Wylie ; Treasurer-George Wright.

1866: Supervisors-R. T. Seymour, chairman, B. B. Drake, W. G. Derthick ; Town clerk-C. H. Wylie; Treasurer -- Charles W. Concklin.

1867 : Supervisors -- R. T. Seymour, chairman, W. G. Derthick, H. A. Hubbard ; Toun elerk-W. W. Hartwell ; Treasurer-N. E. Oviat.

1868 : Supervisors-R. T. Seymour, chairman, W. Hendrix, H. A. Hubbard ; Town clerk-W. W. Hartwell ; Treasurer-N. A. Hendrix.

1869: Supervisors -- S. R. Edgerton, chairman, W. P. Ellsworth, A. C. Norton ; Town elerk-W. W. Hartwell ; Treasurer-R. B. Webb.

1870: Supervisors-J. W. Peck, chairman, Alonzo Potter, N. W. Mower ; Town clerk-C. H. Wylie ; Treasurer-Sanford Doane.

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1871 : Supervisors-C. H. Wylie, chairman, James Childs, J. C. Keyes ; Town elerk-N. A. Hendrix ; Treasurer-Sanford Doane.

1872: Supervisors-C. H. Wylie, chairman, James Child ; J. C. Keyes ; Town clerk-N. A. Hendrix ; Treasurer-Sanford Doane.

1873 : Supervisors-S. R. Edgerton, chairman, R. T. Seymour, John Derthick ; Town clerk-N. A. Hendrix ; Treasurer-Sanford Doane.

1874 : Supervisors-H. M. Curtis, chairman, R. D. Harriman ; Town elerk-M. B. Ranney ; Treasurer-George Wright.

1875: Supervisors-A. C. Norton, chairman, Joseph Potter, B. B. Drake ; Town clerk-M. B. Ranney ; Treasurer-George Wright.

1876: Supervisors-Joseph Potter, chairman, S. H. Foster; Town clerk-M. B. Ranney ; Treasurer-George Wright.

1877 : Supervisors-J. P. Wylie, chairman, Joseph Potter, Fred Winter ; Town clerk-M. B. Ranney ; Treasurer-Theodoras Northrop. 1878 : Supervisors-C. H. Wylie, chairman, Fred Winter, B. B. Drake ; Treasurer -Theodoras Northrop ; Town elerk-M. B. Ranney.

1879 : Supervisors-Virgil Cobb, chairman, George Bentley, A. Noble ; Treasurer -Theodoras Northrop ; Town elerk-M. B. Ranney.

1880 : Supervisors-Virgil Cobb, chairman, Geo. Bentley, H. A. Hubbard ; Clerk -M. B. Ranney ; Treasurer-Theodoras Northrop.

1881 : Supervisors-Theodoras Northrop, chairman, H. M. Carter, Augustus Voss ; Clerk-M. B. Ranney ; Treasurer-E. B. Smith.

The principal Justices of the town have been S. A. Dwinnell, Alex. Wilson, James Child, E. B. Smith, W. Hendrix, R. B. Flack, and S. R. Edgerton. The principal As- sessors : H. M. Curtis, Geo. W. Wylie, and C. M. Wylie.

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.

The only church edifice in the town is " Bishop's Church," erected by the Congre- gationalists, in 1856, on Section 10, at a cost of $800. There are now eight school- houses in the various districts, none of the schools being as yet graded. At Fayette Sta- tion, on the Eagle branch of the Western Union Railroad, there is a store in operation which carries a general assortment of all the varieties of goods usually found in country stores. This is the only establishment of the kind in the town. There is but one blacksmith, and he is also located at Fayette Station. One clergyman ministers to the spiritual wants of the people, and one shoemaker, and three carpenters pursue their sev- eral avocations within the limits of the town.

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History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Part 150

Author: Western Historical Co Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 998

Author: Western Historical Co
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 998