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The official list for the town of Sharon is nearly complete-supervisors for 1865 and 1866 not shown. In a few instances, here as in other towns, the person elected did not serve, and the person who, as understood, performed the duty, is named instead.
CHAIRMEN OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Henry Smith Young 1843
Edward P. Conrick 1844-5
Pliny Allen 1846-8. '55
David Wilcox 1849, '58 1
Wilson R. Herron 1873-4. '80-1
Darius B. Mason 1850
Jeremiah Daniels 1883-5. '89
Dr. John Dickson 1
1851
Robert Pearson 1886-7
Samuel Wood Voorhees
1852-3
Jonas B. Wise 1888, '90-3. '97
Henry Dennis 1854,'68
Samuel P. Ballard 1894-6
George Mansfield 1856-7
Harry H. Foot 1898-1904
Fayette P. Arnold
1859-63.
Edward .\. Peters 1905-12
65-6. '69. '71
Walter Stocking 1864
John Mcreness 1867,'70
Julius Allen Treat 1872, '75-9, '82
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ASSOCIATE SUPERVISORS.
Charles Adams 1888
Charles Allen 1862-3
Fayette P. Arnold 1854 1 1
James H. Miner
1900-3
Benjamin F. Ayers 1911-12
Dearborn Blake 1843 1
John S. Burrows 1851
Jay G. Callender 1855
Joseph Conley 1870-I 1
Jeremiah Daniels 1867. '79-82
Henry Dennis 1853. 67
George Densmore 1857-8
Langdon J. Filkins 1 1
1847-9
Harry H. Foot 1896-7 I
Nathan Gile 1861
Marcellus B. Goff 1 1
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1850
David E. Hoard
1849.'57
Manning R. Hoard I I
1868
Frank Van Horn 1 898
Henry Van Horn 1851
Morris Isaacs 1
1 1880-1, '85
Samuel Wood Voorhees __ 1856. '70-1
Eugene Kitely
1904
Philip Kline 1806. 99
Martin Luther 1886
George Mansfield 1852. '63-4
Jonas B. Wise 1895
William Wolcott 1887
Archibald Woodard, Jr. 1886-7
Justin Wright. 1855. '58-9. 64. 68, '72
TOWN CLERKS.
Isaac Van Wert Severson 1843
David Larkin 1844-5
Lutke (). Ladd 1846
William P. Allen 1847-52.
55-7. 60-1, 63-4. '60-70
Jay G. Callender 1853-4
John Goodland 1858-9. 62
Orla W. Doolittle 1865
Samuel P. Ballard 1880-7. '89
Charles 1 .. Ripley 1888, '90-5
Clayton E. Rogers I SOG
William H. Pellington 1897
Barton W. Hall
1898-1903
George Heman Mereness
-1904-12
Joseph H. Osmond
1905-7
Edward A. Peters
1897-1904
Christian Pramer
18.45
William F. Randall 1 1 1905-10
E. C. L. Reynolds 1846 1 1 I
Alvah Salisbury 18.47 I 1
Jacob Shager 1888 1 I
Charles A. Sikes 1885
George Sikes
1869. 73-8
Walter Stocking
1856. '59. '62
Jared H. Topping
1875-7
Josiah Topping
1846
David Tuft
1908-10
David Wilcox
1844-5. 48. '53
George Winters 1843-4. '52.
69. '73-4. 78
Cyrus A. Matteson IQII
Garrett Mereness 1872. 79
John Mereness 1 -1850
Derick V. Milmine 1854
Carlostian B. Miner 1861
Edward Huber 1912 I 1
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TOWN TREASURERS.
Jolın H. Topping 1843-4. '46-7
W. Edgar Mereness
1879
Walter Flansburg 1845
William S. Hamlin 1880-I
Alonzo McGraw 1848-9
Amasa D. Truax 1882 1
David E. Hoard 1
I 1
1850-I
John Rogers 1883-4 I I
Jolin Mereness 1852-3 1 1
William Knaub
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I 1885
James W. Suidter 1854-5 1 I
Henry F. Truax
1 1886
Philo G. Spencer 1
1856
Derick V. Milmine 1 1
1887
1 I I 1 Michael Knanb 1857
Burgett Banner 1888 I I 1 I
1 Joseph Stam 1858 1
Henry Wolfram 1889 1 1 I
Benjamin F. LeValley 1859
Jesse S. Weaver 1
1890
Samuel C. Saunders 1860-I
John C. Mereness I891
Garrett Mereness 1862
David McDonald 1892. '94
John Goodland 1863-4
Charles H. Burton
1893
William V. Clymer
1865
Clayton E. Rogers 1895
William Humphrey I 1
1866-7
Edward A. Wolcott 1 1896, '98
Jacob Staley
1 1 868-9 I
Charles A. Bronson 1 1
1870-I
Edward Roth 1899
George Pramer 1872 I
Calvin M. Budlong 1900 I
Horace B. Howell 1873-4
Dr. Charles Ralph Treat 1875
Albert L. Mason 1876
George W. Markell
1903-8, '10-12
JUSTICES OF TIIE PEACE.
William P. Allen. 1860-1, '64-5. 67-85
Salmon G. Arnold 1861-2
Oliver R. Bailey 1907-8
Herman C. Beardsley 1901
William Humphrey
'82-3.
85-6. '98-1902
A. Taylor Blodgett 1909-10
George R. Borst I904-7
Calvin M. Budlong 1897-1900 Miles Chaffee 1867-9
George M. Cory 1896
Dr. John Dickson 1868-9, '72-5
Howland Fish 1 876-9
John Goodland
1857-8, '62-3
William S. Hamlin
1 889-94.
96-7. '99-1900, '02-11
Noyes E. Bennett 1863-6. '70-2
Wallace Ingalls
1884
Martin Kelhofer
1908-1I
Ulysses Grant Kitely
1902-3
Albert C. LeBarron ___ '75, '87-8, '90-5
Benj. F. LeValley __ 1889-96, 1901-11
Albert L. Mason
1860-3
Darius B. Mason (2d )
1888-91
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Rufus Cooley
1901, '09
Joseph Engelhardt - 1902
Cassius F. Arnold 1877-8
Frederick Horick 1897 1
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Dr. David G. Morris 1870-73
Julius Allen Treat 1865-6
Livingston E. Parker 1901-2
Clayton H. Underhill 1895-6
Edward H. Perring 1 897-8
William H. Winters 1894-5
Ray L. Rumsey 1902
Almon Schellenger 1883-4. '86-7
Warren A. Stanbro
1884-5
Archibald Woodard. Jr. 1876-7. '79-86
Frank S. Stupfell 1899-1901
Williams S. Winters 1899
Archibald Woodard, Sr. I866-7
(Bailey, Blodgett. Hamlin, Humphrey, Parker and Stupfell were jus- tices for the village).
A school house was built in section 2. and occupied in 1841. Besides the schools at Allen Grove and Sharon, the town has six district schools, and there are two joint districts: No. 4. with Darien and Walworth, and No. 13, with Clinton.
VILLAGE OF SHARON.
Alan A. Southard and William D. Van Nostrand came to the centre of section 33 as early as 1842, but not to found a city. In 1855 the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company's surveyors laid its line from Harvard to Janesville through this section, and fixed the locus of its station seventy-one miles from Chicago. Robert Campbell, a man of Oshkosh, bought forty acres and platted the village. The rails were laid to Janesville in 1856. In the same year George Milmine built a store and in 1857 Seymour Rice built a hotel. In 1858 a postoffice was established. with John Hodgson among the mail sacks. William P. Allen relieved him in 1861 and gave way to Wilson R. Herron in 1868. Edward Bilyea followed, then Mr. Herron again, Frank L. Henn about 1893. Clayton H. Underhill about 1897. Frank C. Densmore from 1905 till now. This office has two free delivery routes, which supply the greater part of the town, a small part of Illinois and a smaller part of Rock county. Harry H. Bidwell, first railway station agent. died December 13. 1859. Dr. Reuben Willson was the earliest resident phy- sician.
About 1848 a school house was built within the later village limits. Additional provision was made as needed. and house and grounds are now valued at twenty-five thousand dollars. The high school began in 1878, with W. A. Germain as principal. Rev. James G. Schaefer had moved the men of Sharon. in 1866, to active interest in advanced education. In 1867 the Sharon Academy was built and was opened in December with nearly one hundred pupils, under direction of Mr. Schaefer and Prof. E. S. Chadwick, of
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Beloit. This school closed in 1878, after an active and useful career, and the high school soon resumed this temporarily suspended work. The public school house was burned in 1880, rebuilt in 1884 and extended about 1908. Its total value, with broad grounds, is about twenty-five thousand dollars. Nine teachers are now employed.
In connection with his academical work Mr. Schaefer began in June, 1868. to publish the Sharon Mirror. At the end of 1869 he sold it to C. C. Hanford, from whom it passed in January, 1871, to Samuel P. Ballard. It was discontinued in September following. Before the end of that year George F. Brigham, a man in many ways useful to his fellow citizens, began to edit and print the Gazette, which he discontinued in September, 1873. In that month J. C. Keeney began anew with the Inquirer. He was a native of Connecticut and a thorough printer. Most of his work was done by himself and a young son, Clarence. In September, 1876, Clarence R. Conable bought the office and in 1878 moved it to Delavan. After three weeks interval, in August, 1878, James II. Phelps and George F. Ziegaus put forth the Re- porter. In 1890 the firm was Phelps & Howell; in 1892 George F. Ziegaus; in 1906 Ziegaus & Son ; in 1908 Fred C. Fessenden ; and is now the Reporter Publishing Company. This paper is independent politically. Its predeces- sors were generally Republican.
Very Rev. Martin Kundig established St. Catherine's mission in 1846. Its services were supplied for more than sixty years by priests of other par- ishes-notably for twenty years or more from the church at Elkhorn. A. chapel was built in 1896, and a church in 1910. Father Hermes came as. resident priest, for a few weeks, in 1910, and after him Rev. Thomas Pierce in 19II.
Nineteen members constituted the Congregational society in 1868, and a church was built in that year. Rev. James G. Schaefer, with a few others of the Lutheran church, were among the organizers of this society. The pas- tors, as nearly as known, have been Isaac Barker, 1870: Albert A. Young, 1871; Albert M. Case, 1875: Thomas A. Wadsworth, 1878; Luther Clapp, 1879; John Mitchell Strong, 1882; John Harris, 1884; Arthur MeCalla Thome, 1885; John Scholfield, 1887; John Sabin, 1890; Daniel R. Grover, 1891 ; William Millard, 1893; Frederick M. Hubbell, 1895; Carl D. Thomp- son. 1896; Thomas Kent, 1900: Robert J. Locke, 1902; H. Samnel Fritsch. 1904. The society became too weak in number to continue long after 1904. and in 1911 their building was sold for conversion to other use.
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Rev. George F. Brigham. then a layman, assembled a little group of Episcopalians and acted as their reader. The first full service was in 1868 by Rev. William E. Wright, then of Janesville. Before building their chapel. in 1879-80, the members met at a dance hall, at the railway station .- at which Mr. Brigham was for many years agent .- and at the Lutheran church. Mr. Brigham received deacon's orders June 11, 1876, and May 27. 1902. he was fully ordained as a priest, and is still in the service of the church, though full of years. From the beginning he has kept a minute account of parish affairs, and his well-stored memory preserves some un- written record of many other things that might otherwise be lost to such as find interest in the men and events of nearly a half century. He was born in 1830, and might be regarded fairly as Sharon's "grand old man."
A number of residents of the town met at Martin Van Alstyne's house, September 27, 1845. to organize the First Evangelic Lutheran church of Sharon. Its name was chosen, its synodical connection fixed upon. and offi- cers elected. Its first yearly meeting was held at the same place, September 28, 1846, Rev. Marcus W. Empie presiding. He read his commission from the Lutheran board of missions of the Franckean synod. and was received as pastor. At a special meeting. October 9. 1849. it was resolved to build a chapel which should be opened freely for the use of other orthodox denom- inations. It was further determined to accept Mr. Van Alstyne's gift of two acres of land and to build thereon at the line between sections 34 and 35. about eighty-five rods from the state line and a little more than one and one- half miles from the present village. The chapel was ready for its use in 1850. Between 1856 and 1861 it was moved to the village and remodeled. and has since been kept in excellent repair. Before 1866 its service was not continuous. Its pastors have been Mr. Empie. 1845-1852 : Rufus Smith, Jr., 1856-1861 : Henry L. Dox, 1863. Continuity began with James G. Schaefer, 1866; Leander Ford, 1868: Mr. Hammond, 1875: Dr. David Harold Snow- den, 1878: Jacob W. Thomas, 1881: J. H. Weber, 1887: I. J. Delo, 1889: Luther L. Lipe. 1801 : Leander Ford (again), 1897: William J. Spire, 1902: Thomas B. Hersch, 1904: William F. Barnett. 1906-1912. This is an Eng- lish-speaking congregation.
A German-speaking Evangelic Lutheran society was formed about 1807. and its church was built in 1903. Its pastor list and dates of service are but partly known: 11. R. Roehr, Mr. Schert. Gerhardt F. Kuehnert. Thomas B. Hersch. 1905: Herman A. Steege. 1906: George F. Hack, 1007: Theodore Bergen, now in charge. Each of these churches has its comfort- able parsonage.
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A Methodist Episcopal society was constituted in 1843 at South Grove and was for some time supplied by circuit riders. In 1856 it built a church at Sharon village and has since improved it and provided a good parsonage. Its clergy list begins with Hiram H. Hersey about 1856, after whom Thomas White. 1857: Stephen Smith, 1860: Andrew J. Mead. 1861 : William Page Stowe, 1863: Daniel C. Adams. 1865: A. C. Manwell, 1866; Clark Skinner. 1868: William H. Sampson. 1869: Norvall J. Aplin, 1871; J. C. Robbins, 1873: Daniel Brown, 1874: A. J. Brill, 1875: A. A. Reed, 1877: Samuel C. Thomas, 1879: Samuel Reynolds, 1880: Charles B. Wilcox, 1881 : Andrew J. Benjamin. 1883: Joseph Anderson, 1884: Frank A. Pease, 1885: Stephen A. Olin, 1888: Payson W. Peterson, 1891; William A. Peterson. 1893: Elvardo C. Potter, 1896: Sabin Halsey, 1898; William Clark, 1899: J. Thomas Murrish, 1902: Andrew Porter, 1903: George W. White, 1906-12. It may be seen that a few of these performed duty at Allen Grove.
Joseph M. Yates and Howland Fish began business as private bankers in 1874. with capital of ten thousand dollars. A few years later Mr. Fish gave place to George C. Mansfield. and yet later Mr. Yates and Mr. Mans- field became respectively president and cashier of the Sharon State Bank. and are still in these positions. This bank's capital has become twenty-five thou- sand dollars and its deposits are nearly three hundred thousand dollars. A steam grist mill was built in 1875 by James Ashley, with the help of liberally subscribing citizens. It was large enough for local needs, having four runs of mill stones. John Ladd bought a half interest in 1879. the other half in- terest owned since 1878 by Mrs. Mary .\. Slocum. This mill has long been disused.
The village found good water for public and private use at depth of six hundred and ten feet. Since 1905 the streets, stores, and homes have been lighted from gasoline works. Cement with sand and gravel is in gen- eral use for public walks, as in all the cities and villages of the county.
The first cemetery is now well within the village, and has long been disused and is mostly vacated. A wild growth of tree, shrub, vine and weed now makes it difficult to explore their tangled thickets in quest of the few old headstones still remaining. Apparently, a quarter century is sufficient for nature to hide before she wholly erases the signs of human effort to care becomingly for the dead. A newer and well designed and cared-for cemetery lies on high ground. a mile northward. The liberality of citizens, singly and in societies, has provided a cemented walk, four feet in width, for the whole distance. In this work the women of the church societies took the lead and bore the greater share of its cost. This ground has at least one distinctive
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feature, in that it is unshaded by tree, shrub, or flower. Nothing but its monuments obstructs the lawn-mower and sickle of the care-takers. This last home is now well peopled, and there one may read the names of many of the fathers and mothers who left the eastern world to plant in fairest wastes till then unplowed.
Young men of the town or village have gone forth to find larger use- fulness elsewhere. Among these was Capt. John T. Fish, who began a lawyer's practice at the village and ended it in the higher ranks of his pro- fession at Chicago. His son, Frank M. Fish, a native of the village, went to Racine and became judge of this circuit. John Goodland is at Appleton and is judge of the seventh circuit. Scott Ladd. a son of John and Sarah Ladd, is a judge of the supreme court of Iowa. (Another judge of that .court is or was Charles Bishop, son of Matthew P. Bishop, of Lagrange).
By a statute of 1883 the village became, in 1892, entitled to its own rep- resentative in the county board of supervisors. Under a later general statute Sharon became one of the four incorporated villages of the county.
Members of county board: John W. Brownson, 1892-6; John G. Skeels, 1897: Samuel P. Ballard. 1898-1900, 1902-1906. 1908; Jonas B. Wise, 1901. 1907, 1912; Wesley C. Lilley, 1909-1I.
Presidents of the village: Dr. David Gardiner Morris, 1900: Heman Allen. 1901 : Andrew A. Lyman. 1902: C. Fred W. Ruehlman. 1903-6, 1909- 10: John Byrne, 1907: John I. Morgan. 1908, 1911 : Wesley C. Lilley. 1912.
Village clerks : William H. Pellington, 1900: Edward H. Perring, 1901; William S. Hamlin, 1902-6, 1908-10; Daniel C. Ward, 1907: G. Augustus Finn, 1911-12.
Village treasurers: Andrew Gallup, 1900: Christian Sund, 1901 ; Jacob Newman, 1902, 1905-6; Charles 11. Burton, 1903; Charles W. Searles, 1904 ; William J. Markell, 1907: Fred L. Ryder, 1908: James Welch, 1909; DeFor- est Hyde, 1910-12.
Principals of the high school: W. A. Germain, 1878; James Ellis. 1880: John G. Skeels, 1882: 1. S. Smith, 188; J. S . W. Bliss, 1803: John G. Skeels, 1805: G. M. Sheldon, 1897; E. T. Towne. 1800; W. B. Collins, 1901 : J. Il. Stauff, 1903: B. D. Richardson, 1907-13.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
TOWN OF SPRING PRAIRIE.
At the division of the county into five towns, January 2, 1838, the two townships, each numbered 3 north, lying in ranges 17 and 18 east, were in- cluded in the town of Spring Prairie, and were so joined until March 21. 1843. when the westernmost town was set off as Lafayette. The name was suggested to Mrs. Abigail A. ( Whitmore) Heminway by the natural features of the southern half of the town-the springs being in sections 19 and 20 and discharging themselves into Spring brook, a branch of Sugar creek. Roches- ter and Burlington lie eastward.
First settlers found about three-fourths of the township more or less wooded-forests and openings. Spring prairie. in the southwestern part. and Gardner's prairie, in the southeastern quarter, have each from fifteen hundred to two thousand acres of natural garden. A smaller meadow, a half section or more in area, lies near Honey Creek, in the northeast. Sugar creek enters at section 7. crosses a little south of east and meets Honey creek near the county line at the southeast corner of section 13. The latter comes out of East Troy and runs nearly due southward through sections 1, 12 and 13. Spring brook, entering at section 19, meets Sugar creek near the town center. Marsh creek begins in section 10. and by way of section 1I reaches Honey creek in section 12. White river winds a few miles in section 36 and escapes into Racine county by way of the southeast corner of section 25. The southern sections are drained by small southward-flowing branches of the White. These larger streams were in earlier days made useful for driving saw-mills and grist-mills. For a few miles along Sugar creek, on each side. the ground rises to parallel ridges which give the highway from Spring Prairie village to East Troy almost a down-eastern ruggedness of profile. Limestone erops out in some of the valleys, more noticeably in sections 16 and 36, though quarries have been worked but superficially and for local use. This is presumptively of the Niagara formation. Elevations above sea-level, at ten points of observation, vary between 766 and 979 feet-the lowest in sections 36, the highest in section 5. The average height in sections 7 and 8 is 918 feet.
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In 1910 the land area was returned as 23.007 acres, valned at $1,754,- 900, or $76.27 per acre. Since the entire acreage of a township, land and water included. is 23.040 acres, it may be judged that the streams and ponds are now at their lowest, or, that there is a slight clerical or printer's error in the returns. Crop acreages were: Barley. 795: corn, 3.803; hay, 3.177; oats. 2.407 ; potatoes, 126; rye. 168; timber. 3.177 ; wheat. 270. There were 3,459 cattle, valued at $92.900 : 886 hogs. $10,300 : 905 horses, $63,400: 3.783 sheep. $12,900.
Population : 1850, 1.418: 1860, 1,311 : 1870, 1,209 : 1880, 1. 107: 1890, 1.155: 1900, 1.126; 1910. 1.007. The difference between the first and the latest of these enumerations tells again the story of other towns, a tale in two parts-the one of busy mills and of small local shops supporting a few me- chanics at once hopeful village sites, and of sons who stayed at home to help the fathers on the farms; the other of the re-distribution of local trade by the coming of railways, of farms worked by machinery, and of the attraction of great cities and of the farther west.
Palmer Gardner came April 15. 1836, to section 25, and two days later began to build. In May he planted and sowed, and in antin gathered. Solomon Harvey, Dr. Ansel A. Ileminway, and David Pratt came in that year to section 30. In May, too. William J. Bentley and Isaac Chase came to sections 28. 29. and Daniel Salisbury to section 29. Frederick T. Hunt came to work for Mr. Gardner. Gilman Haines Hoyt reached section 1 in July, and with him came Reuben Clark. Rufus Billings came in October to section 23. Benjamin and Benj. C. Pearce to section 36.
Of the men of 1837 were Chester Baker and sons, Edwin, Francis, sec- tion 10, and Purlee, George and John Bell. 23: Jabesh T. Clement, mill- wright : Horace Coleman, 29, 30: William Darwin Crain, 27: Isaiah Dike. 27, 34: William HI. Dunning, 34; John Egerton Hopkins. 1; Benjamin Hoyt, 1 : Avery Hoyt. 2: James MeNay, 12: Roderick Merrick, 20. 29; Ansel Salisbury, 34: Perrin Smith and wife Abigail, 28, 33: Oliver Van Valin, Samuel C. Vaughn, 20. Mr. Hopkins married Joanna, daughter of Benja- min Hoyt and sister of Avery A. and Gilman 11. Hoyt.
Men of 1838 were llarry Ambler, 4: John Bacon, 28; John Camp Booth, 26: Richard Chenery, 20: Corbin Clark, 8: Josiah Burroughs Glea- son. 34: Samuel P. Jones, 31: Josiah P. Langmaid, 12: John Martin, 24: Thomas W. Miller, 29. 32: Abel Neff. 25. 34: George Henry Palmer, 12: Josiah O. Puffer, 27 : Louis Schmidter, 4: Erastus O. Vaughn, II : Jeremiah Walker, 17: Daniel Whitmore. 17: Dwight Whitmore, 27: Israel Williams,
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Men of 1839: Dr. Daniel Allen, 6: George W. Arms, 26; James Baker, 5; Marcus Reynolds Britten, 15; Samuel Brittain, HI : Kimball Easterbrook, 22; George Hatter, 4; Thomas Hill, 31 ; John Mather, 5; Samuel Neff, 35; Alex- ander Porter, 5, 8; Silas Salisbury, 34; Selah Whitman, I.
In 1840: Zebulon Bugbee. John Densmore. 18; Louis Kearns, 18; Jona- than Leach. 31 : Rev. Orra Martin, 23; James Mather, 5, 8.
In 1841 : William Berry and son Mellen, 12; Charles Bowman, 6; Lans- ing D. Lewis, 15: Franklin J. Patton. 22; Benjamin L. Reed, 22.
Besides these, the dates of whose coming are fixed, the following named men bought land of the government: Harvey Bacon in section 33; Luke Billings, 23; Robert Brierly, 8; Arthur Brown, 19: Tyler M. Coles, 17; Joseph Dame, 21; Elijah Delap, 34; John Flitcroft, 5: Benjamin Haight, II, 12; James Harkness, 18; George Healey, 4: Abiram Holbrook, 2; Ben- jamin Jones. George Kaiser. 7: George Kneeland, 17; William Lay, 21; Francis McKennan, 36; Austin L. Merrick, 21; James Monahan, 10; Jona- than Neff, 35; Benjamin Pearce, 6; Benj. Carpenter Pearce, 36; Lemuel Rugg, 33; William Maxwell Sherrard, 30, 31; Lemuel Rood Smith, 25; John Sweeney, 7; Amory Townshend. 2; William Brice Wade, 12; Bern- hardt Weigert, 3; Joseph D. Whiteley, 4, 9; Joseph Whitmore, 18.
Dr. Daniel Allen ( 1787-1859) came from Hamburg, New York, with his wife, Olive English ( 1782-1864). to section 31, East Troy. in 1838, and to the next town. His son, Lucius, became a man of county affairs, and a daughter. Lucinda, was married first to John Mayhew and second to John Young.
John Bacon ( 1785-1865) was born at Kinderhook and came here from Angelica. New York. His wife was Sarah Perry.
Robert Brierley died in 1864.
Marcus R. Britten ( 1815-1890) was born at Amsterdam, New York. His wife was Caroline Klock ( 1815-1898). He was a Baptist deacon and opposed Freemasonry.
Samuel Brittain ( 1810-1890) was born in Lincolnshire and came to the States in 1834. In 1836 he was at Geneva and took a two-handed part in the battle with Payne's man, Schoonover. His wife was Elizabeth ( 1814- 1893). daughter of Benjamin Hoyt and Susan Hayes.
Reuben Clark married Maria Van Valin. September 3, 1837. She was a daughter of Daniel Van Valin.
Isaiah Dike ( 1802-1882) came from Vermont. His wife was Mary (1803-1894). daughter of Samuel Vaughn and Ruth Bowker.
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Benjamin Haight died in 1866. His first wife was Alma Beach. Genealo- gists find Haight and Hoyt descended from the same remote ancestors, but there was no known kinship between Mr. Haight and the Hoyts at Honey Creek.
James Harkness ( 1776-1861) had wife Mary ( 1783-1851), daughter of Joseph Whitmore and Hannah Call.
George Healey ( 1810-1884) had wife Hannah ( 1808-1885). Both were of English birth.
Dr. Ansel Asa Heminway ( 1805-1895) was born in Erie county, Penn- sylvania, and died at Eugene City, Oregon. He had studied medicine, and his service was early and for long in local demand. He was postmaster 1838-1845. His wife, Abigail .A. ( 1814-1906), was a daughter of Joseph and Hannah Whitmore.
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