History of Walworth county, Wisconsin, Volume I, Part 16

Author: Beckwith, Albert C. (Albert Clayton), 1836-1915
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Indianapolis, Bowen
Number of Pages: 792


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From time to time, after the Civil war, a faint hope was revived in the minds of men by rumors of new corporate combinations which would or might find it expedient to lay tracks from Lake Geneva to Whitewater and obliquely onward toward the arctic circle. Between 1871 and 1881 the Chi- cago, Portage & Lake Superior Railway Company acquired some more or less disputed title to the right of way, cuts and dumps of the dead Wisconsin Cen- tral company, and the brighter day for all here concerned seemed about to break in sun-lighted splendor. But a transfer of a million dollars in paid stock of the new company to the Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha company, whose interest, it seemed, was not to build this piece of road, soon dissipated that short-lived dream.


At the legislative session of 1882 a bill to bestow a grant of public land upon the last named company was considered and passed. Donald Stewart. an assemblyman for Walworth, moved an amendment requiring the company to pay certain old claims hell by citizens of the county against the old com- pany. The amendment failed of passage, but Mr. Stewart signalized him- self by a speech that commanded hearing, though it had no further effect at Madison. His opponents spoke in such high terms of this speech that his constituents were nearly persuaded that in the combative farmer of Sugar


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Creek the county had found its ablest and stoutest representative, past, present, or likely soon to come, of its interests. He served another term, and then hi's district forgot him and his great speech.


William R. Chadsey, one of the old Central company's building con- tractors, had some real or shadowy rights in its forlorn road-bed, and these were more or less complicated by suits and cross-suits in the federal court at Milwaukee. Having himself outlasted whatever commercial credit he might once have had. he urged the attention of a few capitalists at New York to a railway map of Wisconsin. Thus they might see readily that time had but confirmed the wisdom of the first projectors in their choice of a way from Chicago to anywhere in the farther Northwest. Long lines had since been built on each side. leaving a rail-less belt of rich and highly improved farms, each with its enormous barn, wind-mill. and other evidences of wisely-directed and well-rewarded industry, and dotted with villages waiting but the railway- builder's touch to make them each a forever-flourishing city. Gen. William S. Rosecrans was called to their councils and was commissioned to come with Mr. Chadsey and see for them what had been done, what must be done, and to judge of the likelihood that enough local business could be assured to warrant the outlay. The two men went over the line from Lake Geneva to Portage, in July, 1883, and on reaching Whitewater found there a federal marshal's deputy awaiting them with papers, enjoining them to perform no act denoting possession of any part of the old line. Whatever General Rose- crans reported. it has not since appeared that the men at New York cared to invest in an endlessly complicated suit in the federal court.


In 1886 a new Wisconsin Central railway was built from Chicago, cross- ing the older lines from Kenosha and Racine at Fox River and Burlington, respectively, and entering Walworth county at Honey Creek. making a station at Lake Beulah. and passing through Waukesha county into the indefinite northwest. It is now known as the Chicago division of the Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Sainte Marie railway system, controlling about four thousand miles of track.


In 1901 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul company built its Chicago. Janesville and Madison division, crossing the towns of Linn and Walworth and a corner each of Sharon and Darien. Its stations within the county are Zenda (in Linn). Walworth village, and Bardwell. at first named Tioga, in Darien.


Two short but very useful electric lines at present complete the railway list of the county: from Harvard to Walworth village and Fontana in 1800 and from Milwaukee by way of Mukwonago to East Troy village in 1968. Men


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were securing rights of way in 1911 for an electric line from Lake Geneva to Whitewater along the grades of the old Wisconsin Central company. Though this action does not assure an early construction,it has raised, in the minds of men, some renewal of old hope.


CHAPTER XVII.


COUNTY IHISTORICAL SOCIETY-OLD SETTLERS SOCIETY.


The county board, January 8, 1846. adopted a resolution directing Sheriff Bell "to lease without rent the middle office on the east side of the hall in the court house for the use of an historical society whenever said society shall be formed in the county and shall desire the use of the same for a library and cabinet. Said lease to be completed and ended whenever the board of super- visors shall so order, and said society is prohibited from keeping a fire and lights in said room without the special consent of the sheriff." It is not prob- able that the board thus acted on its own initiative, but quite likely that Messrs. Dwinnell and Gale had prepared its way. Fifty-three citizens signed a call for a meeting, to be held April 2d, to organize such a society, but that date had been fixed for a school convention at Elkhorn, and the matter was neglected and forgotten.


A small county, its towns settled nearly simultaneously and having be- tween them no physical or other barrier : most of its permanent citizens known each to each in the transaction of public and private business, and not a few of them affected by ties of blood and marriage : the pioneer period only thirty years behind and vividly remembered-such a county is the natural home of an old settlers' society. So thought the men who met at the Farmers' Hotel, in the homelike village of Darien, March 30, 1869, organized a new county institution. and gave the old and the young of Walworth another yearly holi- day. A constitution was adopted : a president. seventeen vice-presidents. a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, and five executive committeemen were chosen; a day was fixed, October 5, 1869. for the first yearly assemblage, on the fair ground at Elkhorn: and this constituent assem- bly then adjourned.


At the October meeting, the second Wednesday in June was appointed for the county reunions: but, since 1875. these meetings have been held on other June days and on other week days The sixth and seventh meetings were held at Lake Geneva, the ninth and tenth at Delavan, the eleventh and twelfth at Whitewater. All the other meetings were held at the fair ground, Elkhorn.


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It was resolved June 18, 1879, to take measures to procure the compila- tion and publication of a short, authentic history of the county with some accounts of the lives and characters of no longer living pioneers ; to urge the co-operation of living pioneers and their children in the work of collecting data ; to appoint a historical committee to receive the gathered information and to determine how much of it should be printed-the rest to be preserved with the records of the society, -- and to authorize the committee to choose a suitable person as editor, who should prepare the selected matter for the printer. AAll expense incurred was to be paid from the society's fund and from proceeds of sales of the finished work. A special meeting was held at the court house, September 2, 1879, at which James Simmons, Stephen G. West and Rev. Joseph Collie were chosen as the historical committee, and a large sub-committee of one or more men of each town was appointed for the work of collecting data. The Western Historical Company (publishers ). of Chicago, became aware of the society's purpose, and arranged with the com- mittee to take from Mr. Simmons the information-which must have been considerable-already accumulated, to finish the compilation, to canvass the county, and to deliver the completed work to subscribers. The book was as nearly faultless in plan and execution, editorial and mechanical, as most county histories of thirty years ago. Many of its minor errors might have been corrected had proofs been sent to Mr. Simmons for revision. The his- tory of each town closed with biographical sketches of notable citizens, nine hundred and ten in all. The compiler, William G. Cutler, of Milwaukee, was at almost infinite pains to secure full and accurate information. ( His father. General Lysander Cutler, was one of the commanders of the Iron Brigade- men of Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan-the fame of which should be deathless. ) The book was published in 1882.


The presidents of the society have been men whose names appear once or oftener in the official lists of the county and its towns, and hence most readers will readily assign each to his home :


Daniel Salisbury March, 1860


Charles R. Beach 1879


Le Grand Rockwell __ October, 1880


Stephen Gano West 1 880 Charles Minton Baker 1870. '71


Seymour Brooks 1881 Perry Green Harrington 1872


Chester Deming Long 1882 John William Boyd __ 1873. 74. 75


Cyrus Church 1883


George Cotton 1876


.Avery .Atkins Hoyt 1884


Hiram Ashley Johnson 1877


Julius Allen Treat 1885 Otis Preston 1878


William Densmore Chapin. 1886. '93


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Carlos Lavallette Douglass 1 887


Nelson West 1 899


Daniel Locke 1 888


Dwight Sidney Allen 1900, 05


Simon Buel Edwards. 1 889


Henry George Hollister 1901


Doric Chipman Porter


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Darwin P. Clough 1902


Washington S. Keats.


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Theron Rufus Morgan 1903


Herman .\. Briggs 1892


George Washington Wylie 1894


William Allen Knilans 1906


Asa Foster 1895


Alexander Hamilton Allyn


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James Simmons 1896


James S. Reek (of Linn) 1908


Mortimer Treat Park 1897


Leonard Cyrus Church 0161


William Pitt Meacham 1898


Walter E Babcock 19II


The corresponding secretary from 1869 to 1881 was Edward Elderkin, except in 1872. when Peter Golder was chosen. The recording secretaries were :


James Simmons 1869 to 1881


Levi E. Allen 1882 Fred Willard Isham __ 1883 to 1889 Jay Forrest Lyon, 1890 to 1894, '01


Stephen R. Edgerton ___ 1895, 1896


Henry Henderson Tubbs. 1897 '98


Wallace Hartwell 1899


Le Grand Latham 1900


Wilbur George Weeks __ 1902, 1903


Francis Havilah Eames, 1904, 1905


John Henry Snyder, Jr .. 1906, 1907 Norton E. Carter 1908


George Olney Kellogg 1909


Will Edmund Dunbar


James Elverton Brett


Albert C. Beckwith was chosen in 1894. but could not serve, and thus Mr. Lyon added another year to his official usefulness.


The duties of treasurer have been well discharged by :


Hollis Latham 1869 to 1884 Fred Willard Isham 190I Charles Wales 1885 to 1896 Charles Dunlap 1902 10 1908 Wallace Hartwell. 1897. 1898, 1900 Harley Cornelius Norris ___ 1909-1I


Le Grand Latham 1899


These yearly meetings, in the best of all the months, made opportunities for a few hours of reunion of such of the pioneer families as had been neigli- bors and friends in their eastern homes, but had long been separated by nearly the county's width. There was for several years yet so much of the pioneer ways among them that it was not unusual to bring with them old-fashioned picnic baskets, well filled with the richness of this favored land. and the fair-


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ground buildings gave shelter when needed. Fortunate was the villager of Elkhorn, who, straying among the several groups, found at lunch time old or new friends from the county corners. For that once in the twelve-month such hungry, water-mouthed wight might do as "Governor Hartran-uft." who, it was told, "h'isted food at the Eisteddfod and stuffed, and stuffed. and stuffed." It was a custom, for a few of these earlier years, of good Elk- horners to supply the lunchers with enough coffee, sugar and cream for the (lay's need. The pioneers are gone, and a fourfold cord no longer binds the society, but a threefold cord is still strong enough to hold together their suc- cessors. The year's business is generally dispatched with little debate and less dissenting vote. Domestic and imported speakers fling about their spells of woven words and waving arms, thus to bind indulgently consenting hearers to their hard seats and wearying standing places, alternating with band play- ers and double-quartette singers. Governors, congressmen and eminent thunderers at the bar of greater county seats have aforetime come this way in much desired June, and may come in long aftertime to lend the day each his "small peculiar." and to see old Walworth in one of its non-sectarian, non-partisan, uncommercial, unscheming aspects.


The Walworth County Ilistorical Society was incorporated AAugust 29, 19044, by ten members of the Old Settlers' Society. It was not attempted, as in other years, to aronse the indifferent, nor to assemble unknown friends of such a movement. Mr. Page said to a friend, "Let us act at once." Eight more friends were ready for instant action, and the dream or hope of 1846 became a reality. Nine of these movers were named in the first officer list. which is yet unchanged ( except as to treasurer) by election, resignation. re- moval, or death ; and the tenth lies in a soldier's grave. In its first report. in September. 1904. to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, to which the county society is auxiliary, was shown a list of twenty members. Pursuant to provisions of chapter 650, statutes of 1907, a room in the basement of the county court building. well warmed and lighted and accessible, was in that year placed at the society's service for storage of its bulkier collections. About two hundred feet of shelving is crowded with its variously valuable printed matter. How this society sees the task it has undertaken may be judged, perhaps, from the following extract from its report for 1906:


"This body is made up of intelligent members, who are therefore ca- pable of doing some useful work, and who, by the fact of their membership. may be presumed to be willing so to contribute to the society's objects. To find and take some working part. great or small. is to assure and increase each one's permanent interest in the institution we have founded. We have


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and the passing, and can move onward with the ceaselessly coming. gather no inconsiderable fraction of the records and memories of the past minds and hands can do all that has been too long left undone: but we can and continuously, is but a just expectation. Neither one nor a hundred willing taken the first step, which costs; and movement forward at some fair rate.


appearance and distinctive qualities of men in public service, and similarly of graves : of epidemic diseases and other notable calamities; of the personal where men and families came from, and whither they went for greener of past generations-how they lived, how employed and amused themselves ; opinion : of early mail communication ; of wayside taverns ; of stage routes ; caucuses, conventions, and public meetings; of various phases of public changes in the county landscape arising from known causes; of earlier and the causes thereof; of crops greatly above or below the average; of business development, and changes therein ; of the decay of certain industries ways; of the growth of villages; of church building; of earlier schools; of relatives and esteemed friends ; of pioneer road-making; of abandoned high- accounts of early arriving families; of the earlier social life; of long-gone society-is what each member or his friends may contribute : Manuscript portant division of our work-one that may yet give some distinction to our such matter will accumulate with comparatively little effort. The most im- pictures, autograph letters, and relics of real interest is very desirable : but "\ great collection of books, pamphlets, circulars, maps, charts, diagrams,


like of which we miss in the merger details of the histories of our ancestral graphical names now disused or not found on maps-in short, of things the lawyers, physicians, and clergymen ; of personal service in war : of local geo-


and first decade of the twentieth centuries lived, thought and acted." tions, since they will show how men, women and children of the nineteenth Eastern towns, and which will be valuable in many ways to coming genera-


MEMBER LIST.


Adkins, Henry De Lafayette, Elkhorn


*Beckwith, Albert Clayton, Elkhorn


Beckwith, Edward Seymour ( died ). Elkhorn


Bill. Dr. Benjamin Jephthal, Genoa Junction


Bradley, Henry ( died ), Elkhorn.


*Bradley, William Mallory, Salt Lake City


Brett, James Elverton, Springfield.


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Mr. Morgan died September 28, 1905: E. S. Beckwith, May 28, 1909;


Henry Bradley, August 17. 1909; Captain Fellows died February 10, 1912;


Mr. Flanders. December 16, 1909. AAsterisks denote members of the State


Society. Officers, 1904-1911: Beckwith, president ; Lyon, vice-president :


J. 11. Snyder, secretary: Kinne, corresponding secretary: Eames, librarian :


Carswell, treasurer : Page, F. W. Isham and Sprague, executive committee.


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*Isham, Fred Willard, Elkhorn


Isham, Ruth Eliza ( Wales). Elkhorn Kellogg, George Olney, Elkhorn


*Kinne, Dr. Edward, Elkhorn


Lean, Frank William, Lagrange Larnard, Ira Pratt, Delavan


Lyon, Jay Forrest, Elkhorn Meacham, William Pitt ( died). Troy


Morrison, Smith Baker, Elkhorn Morgan, Theron Rufus (died ), Elkhorn


Page, Jaw Wright, Elkhorn


Rockwell, Le Grand. Elkhorn


Skiff, Iris Emeline ( Stowe). Elkhorn Skiff, Benjamin Franklin, Elkhorn


Snyder, Clifford Francis, Munich


*Snyder, John Henry, Jr., Elkhorn


Sprague, Edward Harvey, Elkhorn


Thomas, Katherine Wentworth, Elkhorn


*Wales, Charles Marshall, New York


*West, Walter Aaron, Elkhorn


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Cook, Daniel Seymour, Whitewater


Derthick, Edna Lorene, Elkhorn


* Douglass, Carlos Stewart, Fontana


Eames, Francis Havilah, Elkhorn


Flanders, Joseph Taylor (died), Lyons


Frater, George William, Elkhorn


Goff, Sidney Clayton, Elkhorn


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CHAPTER XVIII.


EDITORSHIP-AUTHORSHIP- THE FINE ARTS.


Since no country nor generation of men is permitted to foreknow how much of its own literature shall live and become classic, it is, of course, vet too early to say what and how much of the Walworthian product of seventy- five years will outlive contractor-built state houses and the everywhere seen triumphs of statuary art. If another Sidney Smith should ask who reads a book, goes to a play, looks at a picture or statue, of Walworthian make, or what the world owes to Walworthian science or industrial skill, the answer must be a re-echo of the unkindly needless question. But, if there is a great uncaring world outside of Walworth, there is, too, a modestly self-esteeming world-in-little within her borders-one which lives not alone by the products of her fertile acres. As yet it is true (not too true, but simply true ) that neither son nor daughter of one of these seventeen towns has gained greatest dis- tinction in literature or other form of art, or has greatly enlarged the domain of pure or applied science. or has added to the list of best-selling patent rights. But there were early signs and are yet tokens of aspiration in all these directions.


The foundations of written history, for this county, were laid chiefly by Mr. Dwinnell, Judges Gale and Baker, Prosper Cravath and James Simmons. Others have contributed their personal recollections and impressions, of less historical value, but interesting and useful. But if these five forethought ful men had not made and preserved notes concerning men they knew and events in which they had a part. the county's history would be but gleanings from the broken files of newspaper, from the sometimes discontinuous official lists, and from the meager and disjointed minutes of clerks and secretaries of the courts and boards-often needing for their interpretation the intelligent men- ory of men long ago dead. It is not much which these early chroniclers and annalists have left to posterity, but, such as it is, it supplies the dry bones of clerical entries with some flesh and blood to give them more human aspect.


Rev. Solomon A. Dwinnell. for nearly fourteen years resident in La- fayette, removed in 1850 to Reedsburg. He then seems to have planned a history of the pioneer period of the county he had left. He made a considerable roll of scrappy notes-historical. descriptive. reminiscent and


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reflective. His papers contain autobiographical sketches, prepared at his re- quest by Dr. Mills and Judge Allen. In these papers Judge Allen, though not excessively diffident nor sparing of words, tells too little; while Dr. Mills, thought quite modest enough and not too lavish of words, tells too much. Mr. Dwinnell died in 1879. and Mrs. Dwinnell gave his manuscripts to the State Ilistorical Society, and part of their contents have been published in that body's "Collections."


Judge Gale made sixteen very orderly, legible and helpful foolscap pages of notes on the settlement and organization of the county. its early school meetings, temperance movements, and the first newspaper-his own, at Elk- horn in 1845. He knew that of which he wrote, and his accuracy may easily enough be trusted. His interest in public affairs was active and intelligent. and his judgment of men with whom he acted appears to have been calmly favorable-neither censorious nor eulogistic.


Judge Baker's chief service to local history is contained in a paper first read at a meeting of old settlers in 1869, then revised by himself and, with an introduction by Lyman C. Draper, published in the State Historical So- ciety, sixth volume of "Collections." It naturally lacks Judge Gale's concise- ness, since it covers a longer period of time and includes greatly more detail of local interest. His estimate of Judge Irvin proves himself an indulgent judge of his fellow men.


James Simmons published his carefully compiled "Annals of Lake Ge- neva." 222 pages octavo, in 1807. He was in every way qualified as to judg- ment, taste and literary turn of mind, and by his personal knowledge and his wide acquaintance with men of the county. for the preparation of this valuable local history. He should have been, had other pursuits allowed. the historian of the county. In such case, his work would have been done with all possi- ble fullness and accuracy, and in kindliest spirit-and in his own clear, grace- ful style.


Prosper Cravath, surveyor and lawyer, and not unskilled in the art of telling-himself "for many years really the foremost citizen of Whitewater" --- in 1858 published his recollections and impressions of the village as he knew it between 1837 and 1857. This was in a series of articles for the Whitewater Register. Pitt N. Cravath began a continuation of his father's work by compiling from the local columns of that helpful newspaper. His friend. Spencer S. Steele, who had promised to share the proposed labors. presently found himself sole compiler. Cravath's notes having been lost. Mr. Steele was obliged to begin at 1858, and he carried the work forward to 1868. The Civil war, as it affected the town and village. received full attention. and


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several circumstances of long later interest to soldiers and their friends are thus preserved permanently. In 1906 these partial histories, with short papers by Mrs. Melinda ( Mack) Pratt, Julius C. Birge, Mrs. Louise ( Wood- bury ) Palmiter. Daniel Seymour Cook, Mrs. Rachel O. (Shepard) Cook, Edwin D. Coe and Albert Salisbury, were published as "Annals of White- water." a duodecimo volume of 283 pages, edited by Prof. Salisbury and pub- lished by the "Federation of Women's Clubs in Whitewater."


The newspaper, from 1845 onward, afforded an outlet for the breathing thoughts and unfrozen words of men who cared not to go to the length of pamphlet or book on politics, temperance, public morals, currency, state reve- nue and many another more or less fiercely burning question of their time; and on the less combustible topics of schools, farmers' interests and local im- provements. These articles, even if unsigned, were often, if not usually, too carefully thought and too ably and forcibly written to be mistaken for edi- torial effort : though editorship here was not inferior to that of other counties. At the least, these volunteer contributors gave wholesome variety to the weekly editorial entertainment. Among the occasional writers now most easily and clearly recalled were Judges Baker, Gale. Golder, Spooner and Wentworth, Cyrus Church. Cravath, Eastman, George Esterly, Milton Gard- ner, Osborn Hand. Dr. Henderson. Menzie, Dr. Reynolds, Simmons, H. F. Smith and A. S. Spooner.




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