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Enos Kinney ( 1818-1887) was son of Luman and wife, Mary Tuttle. He came in 1844 to section 2. His wife was Nancy Davis.
John Nield ( 1799-1849) and wife Elizabeth (1791-1865) came in 1844. A. Sperry Northrop came to section 13 in 1842. and married Catharine M., daughter of William F. and Catharine Pulver Lyon, December 21, 1843.
Patrick Quigley (1800-1870) married Catharine Chetham (1806-1877) and came in 1843 to section 23.
Joseph Ellicott ( 1821-1885), Russell, and Sidney Wait were sons of Russell Wait and Mercy Booth. Joseph E. married Elvira J. ( 1822-1899), daughter of Spencer Weeks. Russell, Jr., married Adeline Herrick ( 1823- 1902). They went to California, where both died.
Arnold Weeks ( 1811-1897). son of Levi Weeks and Anna Arnold, was born in the valley of the Mohawk. In 1832 he married Hannah, daughter of John Sperbeck and Anna Springstein. In 1842 he came to section 7.
Spencer Weeks (1797-1859) was son of Samuel Weeks and Lydia Williams. His earlier ancestors were George,1 William,2 John,3 William,4 Hezekiah.5 Hence, Spencer was of the seventh generation in America. He married in 1817 Elvira (1798-1883), daughter of Thomas and Sophia Dimock. In 1843 he came to Lyons, section 4, where his ten children grew up to make some mark in the history of the town and county.
VILLAGE OF LYONS.
The settlement at the mill soon gave promise of increase and multipli- cation, and in 1843 the postoffice of Lyonsdale was established with Thomas Lyon, Jr., temporarily in charge. In 1846 William F. Lyon and Martin O. Pulver equipped the saw-mill or built anew for grinding, and, with succes- sive improvements added, the mill is yet at work. Its ownership passed to John Bullen, Frank Holborn, Perez H. Merrick and William W. Vaughan, Matthias Schenk and Peter Strassen, Strassen's heirs, and to Joseph J. Heiligenthal. The Lyons flour long had ready sale at home and else- where, but the general transfer of flour making to the upper Mississippi val- ley and to the larger cities of the West, has left to this, as to many another mill, only local grists and feed-grinding-which is still enough to make the 1.yons inill good property.
It was known, at least as early as 1855, that the railway from Racine would pass over the somewhat higher ground northward. Early in 1856 the track was laid from Burlington to Delavan, and thence to Beloit in the fall. The new station, on the northern side of section Io. is about two-thirds of
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a mile from the mill. Lyonsdale had not yet become too unwieldly to move, and its business with its later increase of population gathered about the station, which a few years later dropped a syllable of its name. The station is 46.6 miles from Milwaukee and 85.2 miles from Chicago. Like other sta- tions on this line, it became an important shipping point for grain and live stock. One item of its business was for a time rather noteworthy, namely, that of calf-buying for the veal trade-the slaughter of innocents. It was not long ago told in a daily newspaper that one buyer's shipments amounted to five hundred calves or carcasses yearly. Of course, these were of the lower grades of cattle. and were brought to the station in part from other towns.
The village has about two hundred and fifty inhabitants, a bank, a hotel, three churches, a good school house, a convenient town-hall, and the needful number of stores and shops. Its streets and roads are well kept and its walks are of concrete. Bridges, in town and village, are substantially built of iron and cement. The village lies on both sides of the railway, and looks every- where clean and homelike. The Methodist and Lutheran churches are of a long familiar style of village architecture, and are kept in the good order, outwardly. observable all about the village. The Methodist society. organ- ized in 1840, built its church in 1857. The Lutheran society was founded in 1868. The Catholic parish of St. Joseph was formed in 1867 and soon built a church, which has given place, in 1910, to a larger and in every way finer building. of pressed brick, with stained glass windows, and all within and without in harmony. This parish has also a cemetery in section 15. about a mile southward.
The State Bank of Lyons was organized in 1909. with a capital of ten thousand dollars, owned by fifty-three stockholders, mostly residents of the town. Its officers were and are: Edgar A. Weeks, president ; John Wagner, vice-president : Wilbur G. Weeks, cashier: Josephine Host, assistant cashier. The bank has now a good buikling of its own, with suitable equipment for its business.
The village was platted in 1868 for twenty-one proprietors: Zenas B. Burk, Mrs. Ann Campbell, Sumner Chapin, Ela Cone. Ebenezer Dayton. James P. Frazer. AAsa C. Goodrich, Nathan Hazen, Joseph E. Host. Julius Host. Thomas K. Hudson, Isaac B. Merriam, James Moran. Robert Open- shaw. Joseph F. Pendleton. Charles E. Phinney. John Robilliard. John Strassen, Peter Strassen. Alma Taylor, Richard B. Winsor. Mrs. Taylor ( 1702-1868), was wife of Jesse 1 .. Taylor, Esq. ( 1793-1881).
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VILLAGE OF SPRINGFIELD.
The highway from Lake Geneva to East Troy, by way of the village of Spring Prairie, is crossed by the railway 2.8 miles west of Lyons, on the south side of section 7. This road was for many years, before and after a station was made there, an important mail route, and hence a convenient point for retail trade, grain and wool buying, and lumber-selling. In the mid seventies considerable shipments of dressed poultry were made, largely to Boston buyers. Changes in the industries of the county, with consequent effects on the business of villages, have checked the growth of Springfield. though it is not yet a wholly deserted village. A fire in 1910 destroyed the station building. After more than a year of delay it was rebuilt, better than before, and this with a long line of wide cement platform shows that Spring- field is vet of some importance to the railway company. Amid the discontin- uances of small postoffices the office at this place remains as one of the fourth class, indispensable for local and northern service. That part of the road between the station and Lake Geneva, about three and one-half miles, is a stage and mail route on which three trips are made daily, from the lake. For many years Ansel Knowles (died August 19, 1875), of Lake Geneva, made these trips through sunshine, rain and snow, and became well and favorably known to thousands of passengers.
The village was platted by Henry T. Fuller in 1855. There was once a prosperous cheese factory there, a hotel, and an Episcopal chapel, the service of which was supplied in turn by the clerical and lay professors from DeKoven Hall, Racine College. Among the more easily recalled active busi- ness men were Edwin Booth, Edwin Moorhouse, and Asa W. Phelps.
Among the few events which disturbed or enlivened the quiet routine of Lyonese life were two which may warrant a few words here. But it should be understood that there were and are somewhat varying versions of both these affairs, namely. the Neiheisel war and the Robins bridge case. Bal- thazar and Barbara Neiheisel (both born in 1820) came from Germany to section 25. and by 1860 had eight children. The father learned English but imperfectly, and his mind had become somewhat unsettled. A traveling agent had gone that way, about 1859, and would not see that neither himself nor his goods were welcome there. A quarrel arose, incoherent except for some pulling. pushing, and striking, and the agent complained to Jesse Tay- lor, justice of the peace. A warrant for Neiheisel's arrest was given to Sumner Chapin, who called Ebenezer Dayton, Rathbone R. Fellows, and Ralph Taylor to help him, and moved in pursuit of his plain duty. Mr.
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Neiheisel, who seems to have understood little or nothing of the object of this invasion, resisted to the extent of firing on the party and wounding Mr. Fellows. The arrest was made, an examination held, and the poor man was lodged not in the jail but in the crazy wing of the county house. Rumor carried all this, enlarged and embellished, to other towns, and for years thereafter the Neiheisel war was a topic on which men might be as witty as they could, at the expense of the town, its local court, and its constabulary force. The state afterward voted a sum of money to compensate Mr. Fel- lows for his injury in faithful service. Two of the old man's sons, Moritz and Peter Neiheisel, enlisted in the reorganized First Infantry, one of the most serviceable regiments of the Civil war. Moritz served three years and Peter until he was discharged for disability,-a record for the family worth remembering at Lyons and elsewhere.
In 1873 the circuit court at its February term, after a trial by jury, en- tered a judgment in favor of Henry Robins against the town of Lyons for one thousand two hundred dollars damages and one hundred dollars and sev- enty-two cents costs. Mr. Robins had been hurt by or at a defective bridge or culvert, and his canse was taken into court by Capt. John A. Smith, of Lake Geneva, and Ithamar C. Sloan, of Janesville, with Dr. Benoni O. Rey- nolds as medico-surgical witness. Horatio S. Winsor, of Elkhorn, appeared for the town. The result affected the town's vote at assembly district elec- tions for several years afterward, for Smith and Reynolds were then lead- ers in district politics. The case seems to have been one in which law was on one side and equity on the other. The men of Lyons, at least, thought the injury was much overpaid by the sum awarded the sufferer. The town builds and maintains many bridges, now all of steel, and a similar court- cause is not likely to occur again.
There are nine school districts, of which one is a joint district with Bloomfield, one with Geneva, and one with Geneva and Spring Prairie. The school at Lyons village has two departments.
The town receives its mail from the offices at Lyons and Springfield, and by two rural routes from the first-named office.
The county clerk's statistics for 1910 show that there were 22,619 acres of land in the town. ( About five acres of section 31 is included within the corporate limits of Lake Geneva, and thus subtracted from Lyons. ) True value of land $1,514,200. or $66.95 per acre. The crop-acreage, as returned. was: Barley, 180: corn. 3,062; hay, 2,757: oats, 3,056; orchard, 104; po- tatoes, 00; rye. 99; timber 176; what. 12. Number and value of live stock: 3.049 cattle, $70,300: 602 hogs, $6.500: 607 horses, $52.300: 1.488 sheep, $1,500. Seven automobiles were valued at $1.600.
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The several federal censuses have shown the population: 1850, 1, 189; 1860, 1.338; 1870, 1,312: 1880, 1.312: 1890, 1,328; 1900, 1,298: 1910, 1,261.
It is rarely that two successive censuses give exactly the same figures, as in 1870 and in 1880. It is quite possible that some small percentage of error affects all enumerations of population, and many another statistic statement besides. The villages were not enumerated separately from the town, but Springfield has about one-half as many inhabitants as Lyons, with less present tendency to increase.
CHAIRMEN OF TOWN BOARD.
Reuben Rockwell 1844. '48. '54
Lewis Brown 1845
Zenas Baker Burk 1846, '50, '55
Thomas Worden Hill __ 1847, '49, '56
Charles Leander Gillette 1851
Hiram B. Read 1852-3, '58-61
Ebenezer Dayton 1857
Ethan B. Farnum 1862, '73-4
William E. Farley
_'09-II
William C. Dodge
1903-4
Enos Kinney.
1864-6
Frank Scheller ' 1905-6
Richard Barney Winsor 1867
Joseph E. Schaefer
1907-8
Cyrus P. Taylor ... 1868-71, '75
Fred Batchelet
-1912
ASSOCIATE SUPERVISORS.
Caspar F. Amborn 1872
Fred Batchelet I9II 1
Joseph Berto 1846 1
Joseph Brickner _1912
Ezra B. Fowlston
1853, '62. '64-5
Valentine Brown I880-I
Reinhard Friese
1901-2
Charles Getha.
1900
Charles Leander Gillette
1852
Watson W. Gott
1896-7
Harvey B. Hand 1
1 1854
William C. Dodge 1887-90
Anton Emerling 1868-71, '75
Joseph Holeamp 1 I
1 882-4
Abner Farnum 1873
Ethan B. Farnum 1872
Luther Farnum 1844
William Forbes 1854
Zenas Baker Burk 1849, '51-2
Wesley John Campbell 1868-'71
Levi Cole 1845
Henry Curran 1885
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Jesse Hand 1844 1 I 1
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1 Andrew J. Host 1867 1 1 I I
John Brown 1872
William Meadows_1876-8, '84. 94-5
Joel B. Smith
1882-3
Joseph Holcamp __ '85-6, '92, 1901-2 Charles Spoor_1887, '93-4, "99-1900 John Greenwood Meadows __ 1888-90 Thomas Tracy. 1891
Ezra B. Fowlston 1863
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Erastus Humphrey 1846-7
Roswell Pembroke Humphrey __ 1857
Joseph F. Schaefer 1 1 1903-4
Spencer E. Johnson_'55, '58-60, '62-3
Frank Scheller 1898-9 1
Cyrus W. King. 1850
Luman Kinney
1845
Martin W. Kinney 1874
Henry B. Locke 1
1848
Charles Stoehr
I 1906-7
Vernon O. Loomis 1908 1
August Luedtke 1910-II
George S. Malsch
1903-4, '09
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Otto Miller 1912 I 1
Edward Moorhouse 1 1
1873
David Olp 1877-8 1
Julius Vorpagel_ 1892-5, '98-9, 1901-2
John Wagner
1887-90
Patrick Powers 1861 1 1
Russell Wait
1855-7, '63
Richard Powers 1886 1 1
G. Vernon Weeks
1 876
Lewis Spencer Weeks
1848
John Prasch 1866
Philip Prasch 1861
Perry Lewis Purdy 1856, '58-60
Joseph Quigley
1876-8
Iliram B. Read
-1850-I
TOWN CLERKS.
Lewis Ferris
1844
Asa C. Goodrichi 1854
Amos Kinney
1845
Thomas B. Bullen 1855-6
Solomon Champlin Burdick 1846
Zenas Baker Burk 857-78
Zebina Houghton I847-8
Wesley John Campbell
1879-90
William Penn Lyon
1849
George Vernon Weeks 1891
Lathrop Bullen
1850-I
William G. Fowlston 1892-3
Lorenzo Dow Fonda
-1852-3
Joel B. Smith 1875 1 1 1 1
Charles Spoor
1885-6
Dr. John Stacy 1847 1
Cyrus P. Taylor 1866-7
William A. Towslee
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1864-5
Thomas Tracy 1882-4 1
Lester S. Vantine
1853
August Vorpagel
1891
Charles Vorpagel
1896-7
Robert Otto 1905
Daniel Pierce 1 1 1
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1849
Christian Prasch 1874. 79-81
Martin W. Weeks
1900
Willard E. Weeks
1905-8, '10
Thomas H. Wilcox
_1892
Absalom Williams
1891
Lewis A. Campbell 1894-1912
Mr. Lyon became chief justice of the Wisconsin supreme court. Mr. Burdick was later of Linn, and Mr. Houghton of Elkhorn. The Campbells were father and son. Mr. Fowlston was a soldier of the war for Cuba Libre, 1 808.
Frank L. Riggs 1893-5
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TOWN TREASURERS.
Erastus Humphrey 1844
George S. Holmes 1875
Isaac Lyon 1845-6, 54, '56
John Hicks 1876-80
Theron Humphrey 1847-8
Julius S. Host 1881-4
George C. Smith 1849
Joseph T. Flanders 1885-7, '92
Lewis Ferris 1850-2
95
William Forbes -1853 I 1 1
Horace Cole 1888-90,'93
Gilbert T. Griffin 1
1855
Henry Erdly 1891
Eli K. Pickett
1 -1857 1
Dwight H. Cole 1 1894
Sumner Chapin 1 1
1858-9
Eugene Dodge 1 896-7
Rathbone R. Fellows
1860-7
Winthrop G. Weeks 1898
Joseph E. Host 1868-70 1
Loyal E. Reed. 1899-1900
Hiram B. Reed 1871
Frederick Vorpagel
1901-7. II
Charles G. Healy 1 1
1872
Frank Riggs 1908-10
Joseph T. Pendleton 1 1873
Jacob J. Verhalen
-1912
Almon D. Goodwin
1874
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Sebastian Amend 1860-I
Frederick Batchelet 1904-II
Abram Booth 1866-7
Edwin Booth 1859-60
Joel B. Smith 1878-82
John Syng Spoor 1863-6
Joseph Alfred Strassen 1903-4
Henry B. Towslee 1880-5
William Underwood .1901
Theodore Weeks 1892-5
Absalom Williams 1891-2
William E. Farley 1885-90
Arnold D. Williams 1897-1900
Ethan B. Farnum 1870-1, '74-5
Henry A. Williams -1902
Joseph Taylor Flanders 1895-1901
Charles D. Winsor 1907-II
Emerson Ralph Gibbs 1874-87
Charles G. Healey 1895-6
John Greenleaf Meadows 1903-7
Giles G. Reeve 1893-1910
James Elverton Brett. 1894-1900,
'04-8, '10-12
Zenas Baker Burk 1852-80, '82-95
Wesley John Campbell 1879-90
Stephen C. Chappell 1864-5
Richard Fagan 1874-5
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Rev. Benedict J. Smeddinck (1820-1881), then of the parish of St. Francis de Sales, Lake Geneva, came in 1868 to organize twelve families of Lyons as the congregation of St. Joseph, and began at once to build its church. This was a frame building, thirty-two by forty-eight feet. floor
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dimensions, at an outlay of one thousand seven hundred dollars ; and a par- sonage, ten by twenty-four feet, was built beside it. Father Smeddinck, a builder of churches, divided his time for four years between the parishes of Lake Geneva and Lyons. For twelve years from 1872 service was supplied at Lyons by priests at New Muenster ( St. Alphonsus), at Lake Geneva, and by Capuchin fathers at Milwaukee. Among those from St. Alphonsus were that well tried soldier of the Cross, Rev. Franz Xavier Pfaller ( 1831-1892), and Rev. Leonard Blum. Rev. August Gardthaus was resident priest from 1884 to 1888. after whom came Rev. Charles Drees, under whose direction a school house was built at cost of seven hundred dollars. Rev. William Lette came in 1890, staying two years. After a short vacancy service was resumed by Rev. Cyrus Kufner, who came from Milwaukee on alternate Sundays, be- ginning in March, 1873. Rev. John Diebold, an eminent scholar and author, became resident priest from 1894. In his pastorate a new parsonage was built at cost of one thousand two hundred dollars. Rev. Henry John Korf- hage served at the altar from 1898 to 1902.
Rev. Frederick J. Hillenbrand was sent here from Kenosha in July, 1903, and the next year a new school house, its cost three thousand dollars, replaced the old one. Under direction of two Sisters of the Order of St. Francis, forty pupils are taught in all the study courses of the eight grades of public schools and instruction in the German language is given to such as wish it In 1910 a wholly new church was built at expense of twelve thousand five hun dred dollars and furnished at nearly one thousand dollars. The parish now has about fifty families, among which are some of the most substantial of the township.
In 1856 a mission was established in section 34, a nearly five-mile ride due southward from the village, and was named St. Kilian's. Its service was for long supplied by Rev. Carl Josef Franz Schraudenbach and others of New Muenster, occasionally by priests of Lake Geneva, and for the last quarter- century by those of Lyons. The parish has about twenty families of Lyons and Bloomfield. Father Hillenbrand, a well-trained and true servant of the church, goes to the little chapel in the fields every Sunday, let the weather be what it may.
The Methodist Episcopal society of Lyons was organized early and a church was built at the village in 1857. The names of the earlier clergy are not clearly shown, but those of Joseph C. Parks, Aurora Callender, and Joseph M. Walker, without dates, are followed, with occasional vacancies or uncer- tainties, by those of John H. Hazeltine, 1858-9: John Edwin Grant, 1861-2; W. Carver, 1863: G. A. Smith, 1864-5: William Sturges, 1866-7: William
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Averill, 1868; S. M. Merrill, 1869; Andrew J. Mead, 1871; Joseph Hayden Jenne, 1872; Gideon W. Burtch, 1873: Samuel C. Thomas, 1874-6; Rossiter C. Parsons, 187 -: Alonzo Mansfield Bullock, 1880; John Howard Brooks, 1881-2: Wilson J. Fisher. 1883-5: George W. White, 1886-7; I. M. Wolver- ton, 1888-9; William R. Mellott, 1890-1 ; Robert Davidson, 1892; Mark A. Drew. 1895-7: Orlando P. Christian, 1898; John J. Lugg, 1899-1900; Edgar J. Symons, 1901-3: George Kenneth McInis, 1905-7; Jeremiah H. Hicks, 1808 : David N. Phillips, 1909 : Forest H. Woodside, 1910.
POSTMASTERS.
Postmasters at the old village of Lyons were Thomas Lyon, Dr. John Stacy. William Fletcher Lyon, Lathrop Bullen, Seth P. Hall. After 1856 were Ebenezer Nicodemus White, Hamilton D. Brown, Wesley John Camp- bell, Giles G. Reeve, Peter Strassen, Jr., 1885, Horace Cole 1889, Andrew P. Prasch 1893, Joseph A. Strassen 1896, Dwight H. Cole 1897, Thomas H. Wilcox 1902, Joseph A. Strassen 1909. From 1893 to her death in 1896 Cecile Aurelia Cole, daughter of Horace and Aurelia Celestine (Pendleton) Cole. performed the work of the office.
At Springfield the postmasters recalled were Edwin Booth, Ethan B. Farnum. Edward Moorhouse, Asa K. Phelps, Harry C. Olp, John Abbott.
CHAPTER XXXII.
TOWN OF RICHMOND.
Town 3 north, range 15 east, was at first included in largest Elkhorn. At an extra session of the territorial Legislature by an act dated August 18, 1840, this town was made a part of Whitewater. Five months later, Janu- ary 12, 1841, it was set off as the town of Richmond. Among the first-comers to the town were Thomas and T. Perry James and Robert Sherman, from Richmond, Washington county, Rhode Island, and their influence, just then, was sufficient to place another Richmond in the field of American geography.
Glacial action left the town of uneven surface, but not more so than other towns. The high ground of eastern Whitewater is continued through north- eastern Richmond and thence irregularly southeastward to the state line in Bloomfield ; but it nowhere becomes hills. A large part of Rock Prairie, its elevation eight hundred and ninety-four feet above sea-level, lies in the south- western part of the town. Turtle lake, its greatest length about one mile and average width about one-third of a mile, lies at the meeting of sections II. 12. 13. 14. There are small glacial lakes, or large pot-holes, one cach in sec- tions 4. 9. 10. Turtle creek, the only noticeable stream in the town, flows from its lake southwardly with double curvature to Delavan, where it turns westward and with another sigmoid flexure crosses Darien and thence to the Rock. In its course through Richmond it crosses sections 14, 23. 26. 35. 36. It is bordered by a large marsh, now about to be reclaimed.
There was an incipient village, with postoffice. at the southwest corner of Whitewater, where a town-line road meets a county-line road. It was named Utter's Corner, and its church was and is on the Richmond side of the two highways. There is a church, a well-kept cemetery, a store, and a post- office-named Richmond, at a meeting of roads in section 17-but as yet no village there. Not a mile of railway, either steam or electric, touches the town, but the roads to Delavan and Whitewater are excellent, and Richmond trade is of appreciable value to both of those cities,- and by delivery routes from each it receives mail.
There are eight school districts, one jointly with Sugar Creek and one with Whitewater. The interests of public education here as in the other towns have always been influenced and directed by men and women who know
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well the true foundation of an American community. Manual work, busi- ness, and religious organization are indispensable : but the American child receives its first and lasting impulse toward fellow-citizenship in the school room and on the school play ground.
Morris F. Hawes left Michigan in 1837 and coming by way of Chicago and the valley of Rock River reached section 1. August Ist, and thus began the civilization of Richmond. He also bought in section 3. In the same year Perkins S. Childs came to section 17, Thomas James to section 34, Andrew and Arthur Stewart to section 33. The next year brought Joseph Compton and Charles Hamilton to section 5, George E. James to section 33. T. Perry James to section 34. Ira Sanborn ( 1805-) and Cyrenus Wilcox to section 5, and John Teetshorn to section 6.
William Campbell, Joseph and James Gorham Humphrey. Isaac and Stephen Keech, Simeon W. Newbury, Joseph Prentice, and Anderson Whit- ing came in 1839. settling on sections 5. 6, 7, 18.
In 1840 and thereafter; among the advance guard were Gilbert S. Able- man. John Almy (1791), Varnum Arnold. John Arvedson ( 1798-), John Balfour, Albert Barton, Elijah Belding. Harrison Bishop (in 1844). Silas Bishop, John Allison Bowen, Joseph and William Bowman, Andrew and Richard Bradt, James Cameron ( 1803-1879), William Carpenter. David A. Christie, John Clague (1802-1886), Charles Claxton. Robert M. Cockrell, David and James Compton, Asa Congdon (died 1850). Warren Congdon, James Connelly ( 1817-). James Cotter. Daniel Cross ( 1794-1878) and wife Merey. Christopher J. Dockstader. Freeman Emerson, Morris Ensign. Solo- mon Finch ( 1809-1882), Jones Gage ( 1789-1868). Emery and Irving Gage, Jared Hall ( 1813-), Joseph Hall ( 1802-1878). William Hatton, Henry C. Hemenway. Henry Hess ( 1817-), Lewis J. Higby, Seth Hill ( 1781-1858), Kinner Hollister. Elisha Hulce. Jasper and Norman Humphrey. Fenton and William Hurd. Joseph E. Irish. Amos Ives ( 1823-1896). Horace James, Alvah B. and Peter Johnson, Lyman Jones, Horace B. Kinne, John Langley ( 1818- 1865). John Langworthy, John Lester, five Loomers, Abram G. Low ( 1818-), Henry MeCart (died 1847), James MeKay, Thomas M. Martin, James Mat- thews. Andrew Mills. Edward Mitchell ( 1809-1890). James Moffatt. Ambrose, Robert ( 1810-18(9). and Sylvester Moore. Charles J. and John C. Morgan. Elisha Newell, George Osborne, Joshua Parish. William Patterson ( 1806- 1875). George W., Lemuel and Zebulon Paul, John and Richard Pemberton, Oliver Perkins ( 1800-). Harvey Prentiss ( 1821-). Benjamin, John and Nathan Rand. Edwin M. Rice. James Robinson ( 1814-), Alexander Rowley, (25)
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