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John E. Hopkins died in 1867. His wife was Joanna ( 1813-1899). daughter of Benjamin and Susan Hoyt.
Benjamin Hoyt ( 1778-1860) was son of Joseph Hoyt and Abigail. daughter of Samuel and Mary Flanders. Older father ancestors were I, John : 2, Thomas ; 3. Benjamin : 4. Enoch. In 1807 he married Susan Hayes, who died in 1862, leaving seven children. Of these. not before named here. Simon Batchelder Hoyt ( 1811-1861) married Elizabeth D. Cady. at Honey Creek. Benjamin Hoyt. Jr. (born 1829), married, first, Sarah Robinson : second, Alvira Kelley. The elder Hoyt was born in Deerfield. New Hamp- shire: his children were born at Cabot, Vermont. From their third Ameri- can ancestors. Benjamin Hoyt and Hannah Pillsburg, were also descended the Hoyts of Allen Grove.
Gilman H. Hoyt (born 1808) married Elizabeth Heath in 1839. Their son. Clinton D. Hoyt (born 1842). was a sergeant of Company C. Twenty- third Infantry.
Avery .A. Hoyt ( 1824-1906) married, in 1847. Caroline M. Hoyt ( 1828- 1897), his cousin Tristram C. Hoyt's daughter. Her grandfather was Enoch. son of Joseph and Abigail. Mr. Hoyt was one of the farmers whose intelligence and enterprise made of Spring Prairie a segment of the garden of Eden.
Samuel P. Jenks ( 1809-1889). a native of Onondaga county. married Pamela ( 1808-1892), daughter of Dan Phelps and Elizabeth, daughter of Israel King and Elizabeth Johnson.
George 1. Kaiser ( 1810-90) was born in Bavaria: came to the States in 1827: married. in 1830. Margaret ( 1816-1897). daughter of John A. Taubert (or Taupert). She. too, was a Bavarian.
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Thomas W. Miller (1788-1863) and wife Mary ( 1788-1855) were parents of Mrs. Samuel Pratt.
George Henry Palmer ( 1804-1873) married Sarah Langmaid.
Alexander Porter ( 1803-1866) was born in Galloway (an old provin- cial name for the counties of Kirkcudbright and Wigton, in southwestern Scotland). His wife Isabella ( 1813-1886) was a native of county Roscom- mon, Ireland.
David Pratt ( 1803-1877) was born in Massachusetts and died at Clay- ton, Iowa. Samuel Pratt was his brother and a sister of Solomon Harvey was his wife.
Josiah Osgood Puffer ( 1814-1895) was born in western Massachu- setts. He was son of Samuel Puffer, second husband of Eunice, daughter of Capt. Josiah Osgood and Jane Byington. Her carlier ancestors were I, John : 2, Stephen : 3, Hooker ; 4, David. Eunice's first husband, Samuel Os- good, was her second cousin. Mr. Puffer's first wife was Hannah M. Whit- more (died 1862) : his second wife was her sister, Mrs. Mary Hatch, who died in 1897.
Louis Schmidter (1811-1881) is sometimes written in records "Smith- ers." His wife was named Amelia.
Erastus Otis Vaughn ( 1808-1880) was not related in known degree to the others of his name at Spring Prairie. His wife (born 1819, married 1837) was Olive, daughter of Benjamin and Susan Hoyt.
Samuel Cole Vaughn ( 1802-1868) was a son of Sammel Vaughn and Ruth Bowker. the latter a daughter of Luke Bowker and Joanna Dunbar. His wife was Sarah Hart Mills Vose, daughter of Thomas Vickery Vose and Sarah Little, granddaughter of Samuel Vose and Phoebe Vickery, great- granddaughter of Robert and Abigail Vose. Mrs. Vaughn's mother was daughter of Joseph Little and Hannah Ingalls.
Daniel Whitmore ( 1817-1909), son of Joseph Whitmore and Hannah Call and grandson of Daniel Whitmore. was born in Essex county, New York. His wife was Mary E. Nobles ( 1817-1896) Joseph ( 1821-1898), his brother. married Sarah, daughter of Sims Edgerton and Harriet Bene- clict.
Rev. Benjamin C. Pearce built a frame house in 1836 and moved into it before the end of the year : but, for yet some time to come less pretentious dwellings met the first needs of newcomers. The rapid improvement of water-powers soon relieved a great part of the heavy burdens of building and of subsistence. Israel Williams built a mill forty-five by fifty feet, two- storied, with eighteen-foot overshot wheel and two runs of stones, at the
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springs in section 19. To this he added a distillery with capacity of about two barrels-a little more than he needed for household consumption. Sam- nel C. Vaughn built a saw mill in 1843 on Spring brook, at the northeast corner of section 20. John Martin (the judge) built a saw mill in 1846 on Sugar creek, which in time became a grist mill.
Village settlement began early and hopefully at Honey Creek in section I, Spring Prairie in sections 29 and 30, Vienna in section 18, and Voree in the northeastern corner of section 36.
Honey Creek, on the stream so named, lies partly in Racine county, in which part is the Wisconsin Central Railway's station. The village has three stores, a church, and a cemetery. Among remembered pastors of the union church were George H. Hubbard. George E. Moore, and Frederick T. Bohl. The postoffice has two free delivery routes. The school is of two grades, and its district is partly of Rochester.
Vienna, on Sugar creek, was at first called Martinsburg, from the re- lated Martin families who settled near that point. Judge Martin's saw mill gave place to a good grist mill, which in 1853 became the property of Ed- ward Zahn, who improved it greatly and for several years made his flour locally famous. His sons, Cornelius and Victor, continued the business for a few years. The mill was disused and then burned. Winslow Page Storms built the Vienna House in 1848 and used it for many years as a tavern and a store, and as a postoffice. It long ago became a private dwelling ; for men go to Spring Prairie to buy, to Burlington for prescriptions, and each to his own door or gate for mail. A little burial ground lies a bit more than a half mile southwest of the village, on the way to Spring Prairie and to Burlington. Little more than tradition now remains of Vienna and its past and prospec- tive greatness.
Vorce was the creation of Jesse James Strang, who came in 1844 from Nauvoo and began to build a city and temple. It is not told whether he found the name for his holy city in the Book of Mormon, or whether it was revealed to him in another way. He assembled about three hundred disciples. great and small, of whom he was ruler, chief priest, and prophet. He ap- pointed a day and hour, and September 13. 1845, he found his credentials directly beneath a large tree, on the edge of a high bank of White river, in the form of three gold-colored plates on which had been scratched mathe- matical and astronomical symbols. These he interpreted as a revelation and a heavenly commission. Eighteen more plates were found later. Laban Platt. Aaron Smith, James M. Van Nostrand, Jared B. Whelan and Edward Whitcomb witnessed these revelations. Ile printed a newspaper, for which
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he wrote long "poems": but he did not finish his temple. In 1847 he flitted with his disciples to Beaver Island, in Mackinaw strait, and in 1856 his body was brought for burial after a conflict with a federal marshal's force. He had a few relatives in the town of Spring Prairie and this, with the natural advantages of rich land and good water power, may have determined the place of the city so short-lived, of which but a few fading memories are left.
Doctor Heminway built carly in 1837. in section 30, at a meeting of half-section lines, one of the largest log taverns in the territory, two stories high. He made it in many ways useful, for he opened it for religious ser- vice, for other public meetings, for a store and postoffice, and for a township polling place. This edifice determined the site of Spring Prairie village. In the fall of that year Horace Coleman and J. Crawford placed a stock of goods in a corner of the Heminway House. Samuel Pratt and Erasmus D. Smith built a store in 1844. Doctor Heminway rebuilt his house of brick in 1845. This house was sold in 1847 to William H. Rogers, in 1848 to Nathan A. Howes, in 1854 to Franklin Walbridge, in 1857 to Capt. Ezra F. Weed, its last landlord. It became a stately private dwelling.
Stephen Bull and Thomas Gage built a store across the road eastward and they were followed by a half-forgotten line of successors, each of whom, in his turn. was usually postmaster. The store was extended and a wing added for its hardware department. It was burned in January, 1894, and its business and its higher function passed to a new store at another corner, to which place went the postoffice.
Men of the second and later generations had made of the old hard- ware wing a smoking room and a kind of academic grove where each person was a "professor of things in general" and a receptive pupil. Their unend- ing debates of all that ever was, is, and yet might be were not all profitless. There was much general and special intelligence, wit. racy humor, and harmless freedom of speech at these convocations. These wordy commotions were in no way enlivened artificially, for no man there could remember when drink that rages was sold at the village. Not a few of these men were called hence to the seats of the mighty at Madison and at Elkhorn, and each of these owed this later greatness to the quickening of faculties and sharpening of wits among the nail-kegs, garden tools, and grindstones. Their fathers had disagreed sturdily in matters of church discipline and town polity, and Otis Preston had observed that no man who did not hate somebody was qualified for citizenship at the village. This was far otherwise with their heirs and successors, and the great unifying influence was the blue haze of the hardware wing. Men gathered at other stores in other villages to hear
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and discuss news and as it were to strike fire out of dull substances; but berries are not alike on every bush. The perpetual session at the store was the peculiar institution of Spring Prairie, unlike that which was most nearly like it.
Franklin postoffice was established in 1838 with weekly mails to Racine and Janesville. The name must have been changed within that year, for Spring Prairie and not Franklin competed with Delavan, Elkhorn and Geneva at the choice of a county seat. As far as known the succession of postmas- ters with uncertain dates, has been: Ansel Asa Heminway, 1838: Erasmus Darwin Smith, 1845: Frank .Hall, Stephen Bull. Moses Kinney, 1857 : Graham, Martin V. Pratt. 1861; Clifford A. Pratt, George D. Puffer, Will- iam J. Knight. Leroy Williston Merrick, about 1894: William H. Shaver. Mrs. Martha M. Shaver.
Josiah O. Puffer made and sold shoes as early as 1839. Jacob Kohler brought Parisian styles of men's clothing in 1843, and Otis Preston brought still later styles, from White Pigeon, in 1846. Earliest named village smiths were Henry Elliott. 1840: Nathaniel H. Carswell. 1843: Harrison Arm- strong, 1845. After these were Orman Livingston, Stephen Coats. Edson Merrill, James V. Hemstead, and in 1865 Henry J. Shaver ( 1832-1912). In 1846 and until 1848 Mr. Armstrong's skill and Israel Williams's money were joined for the production of serviceable home-made plows and henceforward the village blacksmith was known to the world and to the muses of lyric and satiric verse as "Uncle Hat, the Plowmaker." Between 1850 and 1855 Mr. Lobdell made small beer and found for it a nearly county-wide sale. This business passed for a short time to Brewster B. Drake. AAbout 1874 Cyril R. Aldrich began to buy, dress and ship poultry to Boston and other places. Henry D. Barnes became his partner, and later the firm was made up of Mr. Barnes, Edward C. Hubbard and George D. Puffer. Their shipments reached fifty tons cach winter. For a few years either way from 1880 Orris Pratt made vinegar for domestic and foreign consumption.
In May. 1841, steps were taken to organize the Baptist church of Spring Prairie and Burlington. Among the clergy who attended these preliminary meetings were Richard Griffing, Phipps W. Lake. Orra Martin. Benjamin Pearce. Henry Topping and A. B. Winchell. The Burlingtonians withdrew in 1843 to form a society at home. The church at Spring Prairie was built in 1846 by William Johnson and James Harrington and extended as needed Causes not unknown elsewhere and in other denominations have so weak- ened this once strong society at the village that since 1881 few or no pastors have been regularly assigned to its service. Dates of the following pastorates
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are not definitely known. but their order is nearly as shown: William R. Manning. 1841 ; Roswell Cheney, 1844; Spencer Carr, 1851 ; Rice R. Whit- tier, Cantine Garrison, Jacob Bailey, A. F. Randall, Thomas Bright, Edward L. Harris, A. Latham, John H. Dudley. Levi Parmly. J. C. Jackson, J. H. Estev. Charles William Palmer, James F. Merriam, Franklin Kidder, George M. Daniels. A. Freeman, J. S. Forward, about 1880. There seems to have been occasional supply from the pulpits at Burlington and Elkhorn. Elder Ebenezer Harrington, whom Mr. Dwinnell describes as an earnest, eccentric man, had begun in November. 1839, to prepare the way for this society.
Congregationalists met in 1840, and among them was Mr. Dwinnell. They acted jointly with members at Burlington for two years. Rev. Cyrus Nichols ministered at first to this mission. A society was fully organized February 8, 1852, by Rev. Samuel E. Miner. In 1860 the Congregational and Methodist societies built a union church, with seats for about three hundred persons. Its building mechanics were Scott & Nims. This church, too, has been discontinued, in effect, since 1881. Its pastors were Christo- pher C. Cadwell. 1853: Jedidiah D. Stevens, 1854-5; Avelyn Sedgwick, 1861-2: P. C. Pettibone (from Burlington), 1863: E. D. Keevil, 1864-5; Sidney K. Barteau, 1866, and Charles Morgan.
In 1837 Jesse Halstead and Samuel Pillsbury traveled and preached in a circuit lying in four counties and having eleven infant Methodist societies. These were at Big Foot. Burlington, Caldwell's Prairie, East Troy, Fort Atkinson, Geneva, Hudson. Janesville. Rochester, Spring Prairie and White- water. David Worthington preached in 1840. From that date to 1860 little is told. Since the latter date the yearly assignments of pastors have usually been to Lyons and Spring Prairie together. The parsonage is at Lyons. There is a German Methodist church in section 2.
Israel Williams sold one acre in the southwest corner of section 30. in 1842, where Nathaniel Bell laid out and named Hickory Grove cemetery. Its area has been increased and improved, and it is one of the finest rural burial grounds in the county. Its first tenant was the wife of William Baumis.
Juliette, daughter of Col. Perez Merrick, taught school in 1837 and 1838 at the Heminway House. In the spring of 1839 a school house, enclosed with rough oak boards, was built at the corners, and Mary S. Brewster taught there. In the same year Mrs. Coleman (no longer Miss Merrick) taught near Gardner's prairie. There are now six districts in the town, and besides there are two which are joint districts with parts of Racine county and one with part of Lafayette. At the village the house now in use was built in 1864. The partial list of teachers, with nearly correct dates as to the earlier named is :
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Leander F. Frisby. 1847-8; William Wilcox. 1848-9: Mr. Paine, 1849-50; Frederick O. Thorp. about 1851; George W. Burchard, 1853-4: Almerin Gillette. 1854-5: Frank Hall, 1855-6: Frank Patten, 1856-7; Benjamin F. Skiff. 1857-8: O. F. Avery, 1858-9: Frank Hall, 1859 to '61 : Daniel Pratt, 1865-6: Orren T. Williams, 1866-7: Mary L. Edwards. Amanda Herkimer, Fred W. Isham, Rhoda Locke, May Merrick. Anna M. Greene, Alice Mo- loney, Patrick McCabe, Florence Shove. Edmund B. Gray, Frank Tyrrell, Harriet Allen, Bell Derthick. Mr. Frisby became attorney-general. Mr. Thorp served as state senator from West Bend. Mr. Burchard has been known in state affairs. Mr. Williams is now a judge of the Milwaukee circuit court. Miss Edwards became Mrs. James G. Kestol, of Whitewater. Miss Greene has since visited all quarters of the globe. Colonel Gray com- manded the Twenty-eighth Infantry in the Civil war. Miss Shove practices osteopathy at Chicago. Mr. Isham became county superintendent. Lorenzo D. Harvey, afterward state superintendent, once taught a select school here.
MEMBERS OF COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Dr. Jesse Carr Mills 1842
Martin V. Pratt 1871
Benjamin L. Pierce 1843 Alma Montgomery Aldrich 1872-7.
Austin Leonard Merrick 1844.
47. 52
Lansing D. Lewis 1845
Roderick Merrick 1846. '49
Ephraim Foote 1848. '50
Thomas Gage 1851. '53-5
James McNay 1856 1 I
Jonathan Leach 1857
Daniel Salisbury 1858-9 1
William R. Berry 1860
Winslow Page Storms 1861-2
Lucius Allen 1863. '68
Abner Chamberlain 1864-7
Mark Harmon Foote 1860
William 11. Aktrich 1870. '06-7
Joseph H. Brierly 1908-12
ASSOCIATE SUPERVISORS.
Alina M. Aldrich
1871 William H. Aldrich
-1854-5.
Cyril Rounds Aldrich 1883-4
'69. '93-5
'83-4
Edward Decatur Page_
1878-80.
'89-90. 93-5
Orris Pratt 1881-2
Leroy Williston Merrick 1885-6
William H. Hubbard 1887-8
Barnis B. Rose 1891
Albert D. Whitmore 1892
Victor Zahn
1898
Charles F. Aldrich
1899-1900
William P. Meinzer 1901
Horace Cocroft
1902
Frederick Hemstreet 1903-5
William G. Bartholf 1906-7
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Lucius Allen 1861-2
Charles H. Babcock 1 892
Josiah P. Langmaid
1846. '48
Jonathan Leach
1848, '56
George W. Lee
1889-90
George Bayer
1880, '85-6
Archibald C. Loomis
1901-2
Mellen Berry
1863
James McNay
1854
Henry D. Barnes 1 1 I
1
1872-4
J. L. Brierly
1
1 896
1 I 1 I
1898
William P. Meinzer
1891, '93
Joseph H. Brierly 1
1
1906-7
Daniel P. Carpenter
1847
1
Abner Chamberlain
1863
Reuben Clark
1842
Frank H. Patten
.1900
Frederick Perkins
1 859-61
William Porter
1887-8
Charles H. Potter I 1883-4
Woodruff Potter 1 1863. '75-6
Orris Pratt
1867-8
1
I
John Rigg
1899
1
John C. Gaylord
1855
1
1
Charles P. Greene 1875-6
William Greiner
1889-90
Frederick Hemstreet
F
1902
John E. Hopkins 1844
Alfred Hubbard 1856-7
Charles I. Hubbard
1881-2
Ogden T. Hubbard 1865
William H. Hubbard 878-80,
85-6, 1906-7
Frank C. Humbert 1908-1I
Avery Atkins Hoyt 1 860, '65-6.
70, '72-3
Durward C. Ingham
1899-1900
Stephen Jones 1858
Charles N. Kingman -1853
John H. Zick 1897-8 I 1 1
I
1843. 45
Daniel Salisbury
1862
Louis Schmidter_1850, '68-9. '71, 77
Lemuel Rood Smith
1847. 49
Winslow Page Storms
1858
Daniel F. Thompson
1878-9
Henry Vanderpool
1857
Samuel Cole Vaughn
1852
William W. Vaughn
1892, 1904-5
George Walworth 1850
Stephen Gano West (Sr.) 1842
Absalom Williams
1870,'74
Israel Williams
Victor Zahn
1891
TOWN CLERKS.
Daniel Salisbury 1842 Erasmus Darwin Smith I845-6.
Josiah Osgood Puffer __ 1843-4. '57-8 48-9, '51
Perez Merrick
1851
Roderick Merrick
1843
Henry J. Noll
1894-7, 1908-1I
Horace Cocroft
190I
William D. Crain
1846.'59
Lewis G. Dame
1881
1
I
Edward W. Dwight
1852
1
I
Sims Edgerton
1851
1
Mark Harmon Foote
1
1864
Reuben J. Royce 1849 1
Ansel Salisbury
1
Milton M. Mayhew 1887-8
John Brierly I
1
1
John A. Kneip 1882
Perlee Baker 1864. '66-7
William G. Bartholf 1863-5
Leonard G. Marck 1903 1
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Palmer Gardner 1847
Henry Schwartz 1 890
Stephen Bull 1850, '55-6
Charles H. Potter 1891, '94-5
Thomas M. Hobbs 1852
William Kingston 1892-3
Bert Bartholf 1896-7
Winslow Page Storms 1857-60
Benjamin F. Vaughn 1861-77
James Nipe
1878-80
Leroy W. Merrick __ 1881-2, '98. 1900
Charles F. Aldrich
1908-12
TOWN TREASURERS.
Austin Leonard Merrick 18.42
Rufus M. Billings 1843
Perez Merrick 1844, '48
Clifford A. Pratt 1873-5
Orrin Elmer 1845-6
George D. Puffer 1877
Charles Martin 1847, '56. '61
Leroy W. Merrick
1878-9. 1907
Winslow P. Storms 1849. 57. '76
James A. McIntosh
1880, '82-4
Stephen Jones 1850
James Utter 1851
William D. Crain 1
1852
Charles I. Hubbard 1887-9
Walter E. Babcock 1890-I
'99-1900, '08-1I
Edward Carpenter Hubbard
1892
George P. Remier 1893-5
Frank C. Humbert 1896-7
Woodruff Potter 1860. '62
Alvin F. Clark 1 898
John Bacon 1863
William H. Hubbard 1901-3
Martin V. Pratt 1865-6, '68
Ilenry J. Noll
I904-6
Ephraim Perkins 1867
Ralph Todd Wiswell
- 1912
Otis B. Houghton 1 I 1860
JUSTICES OF TIIE PEACE.
Licitis Allen 1859-62
Francis E. Anderson 1882-9
Walter E. Babcock 1868-1911
Benjamin F. Hoyt 1857 Azel Barry 1859-65
John Ellis Bartholf 1865-84
Joseph II. Brierly
: 190I-II
Abner Chamberlain 1860-2
Frederick Hemstreet 1909-10
Avery Atkins Hoyt. 1867-8. '70-81
Francis McKenna 1905. 07-II Leroy W. Merrick __ 1892-3. '95-1901, '06-7
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1854
James McNay 1855
Dr. Hilton W. Boyce 1858
Benjamin Hoyt, Jr. 1859. 64
Cornelius Zahn 1885-6
George Healey
I
Nathan Smith, Jr. 1 1 1853
George H. Kinne -1870
Giles G. Reeve 1871-2
Wellington Hendrix 1853-4
George F. Bayer 1899
Willianı Fraser 1901-4. 07
Bert Childs Whitmore 1905-6
Frank E. Anderson 1883-9
Vernon II Raleigh 1881
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James A. McIntosh I891-8
Ezra Miller 1881-2, '84-6
Josiah Osgood Puffer_1860-9, '74-91
Henry Schwartz 1881-8
Oscar Smith Sheffield 1870-3
Orlando Stetson
1891-4
Benjamin F. Vaughn 1867-76
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CHAPTER XXXV.
TOWN OF SUGAR CREEK.
Township 3 north of range 16 east retained the name of Elkhorn after Lagrange, Richmond, and Whitewater were set off and new-named, and until a new town of Elkhorn was created February 2. 1846. The larger town, after thus losing section 36, was so called from its principal water course, the name of which translates the Pottawattomie compound. Sis-po- quet-sepee. From some immemorial time the numerous sugar-maple trees along the valley of the creek had been tapped and the Indians had practiced at least one art of white men's civilization-that of sap-boiling. The creek rises near the west line of the town, in section 19, crosses eastwardly to the southeast corner of section 13, turns nearly northward, and leaves the town by section 12. Holden's lake, Otter lake. Silver, and a few pot-holes make up nearly the rest of the drainage and reservoir system of the town. The ancient valley of the creek is wide, and for many years more or less marshy ; but most of it is now usefully occupied. As a whole, the town is well drained and contains several of the finest farms of the county. Among the higher points above sea-level, as officially shown, are those in sections 4. 5. 9. 23, respectively 931. 945. 918 and 890 feet.
The only actual settler in 1836 was John Davis, who built a cabin near Silver lake in sections 13. 14. passed the cold winter there, and a year later sold his claim to Asa Blood and went away.
Men of 1837: Daniel F. Bigelow, section 21 : James Bigelow, 17. 20: Asa Blood, 11 : William Bowman, 9. 15: John Byrd, 6, 7: Milton Charles, 4: Nelson Crosby, 31; Perry G. Harrington. 15. 22: James Hoklen. 5: George W. Kendall, 10: Jonathan Loomer. 7: Samuel Nelson Loomer, 18: Stephen Loomer, 17: Henry McCart. 8: Caleb Miller, 11: John Rand, 8: Salmon Salisbury, 24: Jeduthun Spooner, 14, 23: Freeborn Welch. 3. 10: Joseph Welch. 11, 14, 23.
Joseph Barker, section 10: John S. Boyd. 11 : Lewis Crosby. 31 : Julius Edwards, 2. 10: Augustus C. Kinne. 7: Alanson and James Martin, 9. and Charles Rand -, same in 1838: James W. Field. 8; Caleb and William Ken- dall, 10, in 1830: Henry Adkins, 11: Dr. Harmon Gray, 8; Benjamin Rand. 18: John Fish, William HI. Hyatt, Russell Thurber, Samuel II. Tibbetts. 11.
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and Nelson Weaver. 18. in 1840. Other settlers, within the next five years. were James Varnum Holden, 14: George Ketchpaw, 23; Horace B. Kinne, Jesse R. Kinne. 7: John A. Pierce. 9. 16; Jonathan Parks, 23: Wyman Spooner, Jr .. 14 : James and John Strong, 23 : Hiram Taylor, Hulcy Welch, 22.
Other men bought government land : John Adams Baird, Chauncey and Chester Baird. all in section 35; Francis and Joseph Lewis Barker. 4; Curtis Bellows. 35; Harvey Birchard, 17. 20. 36; George W. Blanchard, 10; Asa Blood. Jr .. 14: Isaac Burson. 4. 20. 33; William Carr, 2: Azariah Clapp. 4: Adolphus Colburn, 26; William Colton, 23: Nelson Tibbetts Corey. 6: Shel- don Raymond Crosby, 30, 31, 32: Lucien B. Devendorf. 31; John Henry Ellsworth. 22; Isaac Flitcroft. 26: William A. Flitcroft, 28: Henry Foot. 19: William O. Garfield. 26: Charles Nicholas Hagner, I : Olney Harring- ton. 32: Francis William Hawley, 25; Edwin Aug. Hollinshead. 34; Hiram Humphrey. 12: Elias Kinne. 7: Martin L. Ladd. 21; James Leach, 23. 24: George Leland. 5: Benjamin McVicker, 28; Ward Mallory, 30; John Mar- tin, 28: Benjamin Minshall. 28: Silas Minshall, 21: William Sullivan Nichols. 5. 8: Jolin Olson, 20: William Parrish, 18; John Sannders, 22: Orley Shaw, 29: Reuben Smith, 25: Jedidiah Sprague, 34: Alexander M. Sturges, 13: James N. Sturtevant. 29: Jacob Tostenson, 20, 21 ; Loren Ward, 28: Joseph Webb. 35: Ransom Wells. 29: Jesse Pike West. 12: Jeremiah Wilcox. 12: George Wilson. 13 : Charles Wolcott. 23.
John A. Baird's widow died at Trempealeau in 1865, aged seventy-five years.
Joseph Barker ( 1781-1857) and wife Lucinda had nine children, of whom eight came to Sugar Creek. Joseph Lewis married Phoebe T. Roberts, April 2. 1846. Timothy Putnam ( 1818-1878) married Elvira Shumway (1827-1886). James B. (1823-1898) married his cousin Almeda ( 1824- 1901). daughter of Hugh Barker. Francis ( 1821-1875) married Mrs. Maria Baldwin. Russell married Sophia Baker. Adeline ( 1811-1892) was wife of Booth B. Davis, of Elkhorn: Mary L., wife of Hiram Taylor: Diana. second wife of Stephen G. West, Sr., married November 9. 1841.
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