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Daniel F. Bigelow ( 1815-1895). son of Doctor Daniel, was born in Nova Scotia. He married Amy McCart, a native of Ohio, born 1824. died 1897. James ( 1819-1899) married Ann Elizabeth Fowler.
Lewis Crosby married Phoebe MeConkey December 25, 1844.
John H. Ellsworth died in 1859. Sophronia ( 1827-1894), his wife. was daughter of Asa Pride and Susan Bates.
James Whipple Field, born at Scituate, Rhode Island, March 22, 1814. and now living. in 1912, at Elkhorn with his son-in-law. George Kinne, in
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fair health and full of memories, is son of Thomas Field and Thankful Winsor. His older ancestors, reckoned backward, were Thomas, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, and William. He married the half-sisters Angeline and Sarah, daughters of William Adams.
Jolin Fish married. June 28. 1843. Harriet. daughter of Stephen Loomer.
Caleb Kendall married Emily A. Webber. June 19. 1842. and lived in Richmond.
Mr. Kingsley was drowned in Silver lake. 1839. His family came a few days later and returned to their eastern home.
John Martin married May 18. 1840. Eliza Inn. daughter of Ebenezer Chesebrough and Anna Griswold. She was born in 1809, and had entered land in her own name in section 33. Mr. Martin died in 1885.
Silas Minshall died May 16. 1857. leaving widow Rose Ann.
Daniel Nyce was born in August. 1801 : died May 29. 1857.
John Alexander Pierce ( 1817-188;). farmer. mill-owner, and man of many business affairs and very generally prosperous, married, first. Mary Elizabeth ( 1828-1870). daughter of Deacon William Chambers and Phoebe Gray, of North Geneva. She had five sons. He married. second. Hannah. daughter of Henry and Mary Moorhouse. He was son of John Pierce and Maria A. McFarling.
John Rand ( 1810-1898), son of Benjamin and Sarah, was born in Nova Scotia. He married, May 2, 1844. Sarah Sophia ( 1817-1900), daugh- ter of Benjamin and Eunice Loomer.
John Saunders ( or Sanders ) (1806-188-) married Jane Lean ..
Jeduthun Spooner ( 1799-1867). son of Jeduthun Spooner and Hannah Crowell, of Hardwick, Massachusetts, a printer in Vermont, and an early justice of the peace for Sugar Creek, went in 1853 to Allamakee county, Iowa. A nephew of the same name, also of Sugar Creek, a son of Judge Spooner, married Julia Ann, daughter of Sutherland German and Mary, a sister of Christopher Wiswell.
James Strong ( 1810-1890). born near the line of Virginia in Pennsyl- vania, married Lois Parks ( 1817-1876).
Hiram Taylor ( 1814-1805) married. in 1838. Mary L., daughter of Joseph and Lucinda Barker.
Samuel Holmes Tibbets ( 1806-18;2), born in Windham county. Ver- mont. married in Canada. October 2. 1837. Sarah ( 1810-18;8). daughter of Dr. David Pattee. Their three daughters were married: Clarissa to Asa Erster. Sarah Jane to Azel Bird Morris, Hannah Maria to John Henry I auderdale.
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Jacob Tostenson (died 1887) married Margaret Larson (died 1875). Their sons, Tosten and Ole Jacobson, were substantial citizens. Ole was a soldier and became an officer of the Thirteenth Infantry and was a capable and useful man of public and private business. He was born in 1838 at Skien. Norway, and died January 28, 1912.
Nelson Weaver ( 1804-1868) married Ruby Rand ( 1812-1903).
Freeborn Welch. Jr .. ( 1804-1884) was son of Mercy Spike ( 1785- 1857). He married. first, Caroline, daughter of Phineas Brown; second, Ann MeDonough. For some years he kept the long known Gravel Tavern, at Tibbets Corners. Joseph Welch ( 1820-1900) married Eliza Havens ( 1821-1893). Huley Welch ( 1812-1879) had wife Hannah. Josiah ( 1805- 1881) had wife Louisa, and lived for several years in Geneva. These four Welches were brothers, who had lived in Steuben county, New York.
Capt. George Washington Kendall kept a tavern in 1839 at the corners, since known as Tibbets. in section 10. Ile sold this place in 1843 to Francis Rublee, who passed it by deed to his son, Francis M. Rublee, in 1845. Dur- ing the latter's ownership his brother. Martindale, began to build of lime and gravel concrete, as is told: but before his work was finished the place passed by sheriff's sale in 1853 to John D. Cowles, who completed and occu- pied the Gravel Tavern. This landmark fronted northward on the terri- torial road from Milwaukee to Janesville, and on a section-line road leading to Elkhorn. In 1859 Mr. Cowles sold the property to Freeborn Welch, one of the jolliest sons of St. Boniface. When tavern custom wholly ended Mr. Welch made of it his dwelling. His heirs sold the house and ground in 1907 to John and Matthew J. Newman, who pulled down the ancient walls and built a fine dwelling in present century style and added barn, silo, and other out-buildings suitable to a well-managed dairy farm. A few rods eastward along the territorial road Samuel H. Tibbets built a house, about 1842, which for some time served as a wayside inn, and for ten years as a postoffice. Cap- tain Kendall had been postmaster from 1840 to 18.42.
In 1889 a newly established postoffice, named Tibbets, received a tri- weekly mail from Whitewater and Elkhorn.
Congregationalists and Wesleyans joined in 1872 to build their union church, next south of the Gravel tavern. In the same year Bethel church. Methodist, was built on land bought of John Cameron, section 12. about seven miles by road from Elkhorn, to which this church has usually been attached for pastoral assignments. A store, brick school house, blacksmith shop. and Mount Pleasant cemetery are at the Kendall corners.
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Congregationalists, Methodists, and Presbyterians met as early as 1840 in Christian unity at Captain Kendall's, at their own homes in turn, and at the school house. A society of Presbyterians was formed, but soon became Congregational. This body received its ministrations from those early labor- ers in newly broken fields: Cyrus Nichols, Stephen Denison Peet, Amnon Gaston, Cyrus E. Rosenkrans, David Pinkerton, Samuel Elbert Miner, and other clergymen from Delavan and Elkhorn. Among Wesleyan and Free Methodist pastors were George Parsons and George L. Shepardson.
A highway parts sections 8 and 9, and where this crosses the territorial road was an early grouping of settlers, with store, postoffice, church, and in later time a cheese factory. All this was long known as Barker's Corners, for the early settlers of that family name. About 1852 the postoffice was new-named Millard and the office at Tibbets was for some years discon- tinmed.
Seven persons met at Barker's Corners to found a Baptist society. These were Rev. Henry Topping. of Delavan, Thankful Ballard, Jonathan. Joseph and Sophia H. Loomer, Electa Mason and Christopher Wiswell. At the next meeting, a few days later. James W. Field and six of the Loomer fam- ily joined this movement. Mr. Topping divided his well-filled time with the the new society for two or three years. . 1. B. Winchell relieved him in 1844; R. Pickett, 1846; Moses Rowley, 1847: John H. Dudley, 1849: Albert Sheldon, 1851, and again in 1873 (and died April 4, 1874) ; A. E. Green, 1863 to 1868; Nelson Cook, 1869; L. C. Jones, 1873: Mr. Hicks. Mortimer A. Packer, about 1887, and ordained in 1889 (remaining to 1894 and re- turning in 1907): S. F. Massett. December, 1894: George Jerome Kyle. 1897, and in 1899: Eli Packer, 1898: Nicholas Wakeham, 1901: Anthony Jacobs, 1905: George N. Doody, 1910-12. The first church was built about 1850. In 1892 a better one was built and the old one set aside and back- ward for Sunday school and other reputable purposes. This society laid out a few rods north, in section 9, on James B. Barker's land. a burial ground which has become a public cemetery.
There are now five school districts in the town of Sugar Creek, formed by rearrangement from nine districts.
The Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Sugar Creek was organized in February. 1873, for business in the townships of Darien, Geneva. Lafayette, Lagrange, Richmond, Sugar Creek, Troy and White- water. Its officers in toto were: James E. Lauderdale, president ; James Parsons, secretary. At the end of 1910 there were 1,290 policies in force. amounting to $2,566,674. Losses paid in that year, $5.975. Losses paid since organization, $60.126.
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The land area of the town is 21.629 acres, valued at $1,605,800. Value per acre. $74.24. Crop acreages for 1910: Barley, 2,223; beans, 12; corn, 3.909 ; hay, 2,812 : oats. 2,422 ; orchard. 87 ; potatoes, 234; rye, 153; timber, 2.812: wheat. 17. Live stock: 3,202 cattle. $83,300; 1,019 hogs, $10,200; 795 horses, $55.700 ; sheep. $800.
Population : 1850. 1,226; 1860, 1,139; 1870, 992; 1880, 1.015; 1890, 1,004; 1900, 931 ; 1910, 917.
MEMBERS OF COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Dr. Harmon Gray 18.42
Augustus Caesar Kinne 1843
`77-9. '88
Levi Lee 1844, 64-5
Donald Stewart
1876, 80-2,
'84. '86-7
56-7, '70
Jesse Rundell Kinne 1853
Frank C. Weaver
1885
Eli Kimball Frost 1854-5
Sherman Harrington 1890-I
James Matheson
1894. '99
Thomas Davis __ 1860-1, '66-9, '72-3
Duane D. Finch
1897-8
Leonard Loomer
1862-3
George H. Renner
1900-7
Joseph Trumbull Isham 1871
Nim Johnson
1908-9
Ole Jacobson __ 1874, '89. '92-3. '95-6
Charles Harriman Wiswell_1910-12
ASSOCIATE SUPERVISORS.
Herbert J. Barker 1905-6
Asa Foster
1863, '71
Timothy Putnam Barker
1875
Jason Foster
1862
William H. Bartram 1857, 62
Samuel T. Foster
1899-1900
Charles Bray 1897-8, 1908
Herman A. Briggs 1879
John Cameron 1876, '83-4
Nelson Crosby 1816
Ashton M. Davis 1 1906-7
Orrin S. Day 1888 f
James Holloway
1895-6
Albert F. Hulce
1886, 92-3
James B. Doolittle 1864, '67, '70 John Edwards 1902
Eugene O. Ells 1903-4
Jacob Ketchpaw
1866
William Flitcroft
1847-9
Thomas Havens
1852
Edward Hogan
1850. '52
Charles Hollinshead
1859
Resolved Ezra Day 1891
Joseph T. Isham_1858, '61, '68. 77-9 Ole Jacobson 1873
Martin Kettelson
1907, 09-10
Solomon Richard Edwards
___ 1875.
Perry Green Harrington 1845-52,
Nathaniel Palmer Hand
1883
Stephen G. Frost 1858-9
Nathaniel Palmer Hand 1874, '80 Sherman Harrington 1888
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Ole Kettelson
19II-12
George Edmund Pierce
1 889
Edmund Kingman
1855
Nathan Rand
1856
Ilorace B. Kinne 1854
Silas Russell 1856
George Kinne
1886-7. '90
Stephen Leggett Russell
1874,
Jesse Rundell Kinne
1846, '50
SI-2. '85
Frank H. Kinney
1893-4
John Sanders
1851
William Kulow
1908-10
Francis Smith
1 860
Martin L. Ladd
1877
James Bolingbroke Smith
1 892
James H. Lauderdale
1860
Jeduthun Spooner
1849
Harris .\. Loomer
1880-I
Donald Stewart
1871-3
Jonathan Loomer
1847-8, '51
1 liram Taylor
1864-5, '68. '72. 78
Leander G. Loomer
1901
James D. Ward
1853
John W. Watson
1904-5
William John McDonough
1900
Silas Ensley Weaver
1
1895-6
James Matheson
1891
Eugene Webber
1901
1
Rasmus Nelson
1897
Lemuel Webster
1
1
1857
John Ashe Norris
1863
1
1
Freeborn Welch
1855
George W. Nyce
1865. '69
William Henry Welch
1 889
1
Alfred Olson
1898
George W. Wilcox
1875
John Oslock
1882-3. '85
Thomas Wilcox
1869-70
James Parsons
1894. 19TI-12
D. Judson Williams
1887, '90
Abram Peterson
1899
Charles Harriman Wiswell
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TOWN CLERKS.
John Fish 1842
John S. Boyd 1843
Iloratio S. Winsor (app.) 1844
Thomas Davis
1865
Levi Lec
18.45
Wyman Spooner. Jr. 1866
Newton H. Kingman
1867
Shuler C. Highee 1847
Daniel Mansfield Stearns
1868
William Bowman
1848-9
Ole Jacobson
1869-70
Frank C. Weaver
1871-9
Duane D. Finch
1880-90
Chester P. Beach
1891
Henry J. Cameron
1892-6
Allen Loomer
1856-8
Josiah C. McManus 1859
James Whipple Field
1860-2. 64
Jeduthun Spooner
1863
William II. Hyatt
846
Benj. Blodgett Humphrey
1850
Francis F. Collier
1851
John Alexander Pierce 1852-3
Stephen G. Frost 1854-5
Will V. B. Holloway
1897-1912
1
Charles N. Moore
-1853
Rial Thomas
1876
Leonard Loomer
1861. '66-7
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TOWN TREASURERS.
John Rosenkrans 1842
Joseph Parker 1872
Theodore Benj. Edwards _1843
James B. Cook 1873-4
Olney Harrington 1844-7
John Oslock I 876-8 1
William Hogan 1848-9
James Matheson 1879 1
Henry O. Gibbs 1850 I 1 1
William B. Ells 1880-4
Rufus Eldred 1851 1 1 1 1
Delos Westcott 1885-7. '89
Joseph T. Isham I 1
1852
Ellsworth Loomer 1888 I
William Tremper 1 1 1
1853
James Parsons 1890
Alonzo Rublee 1 1
1
1854
Martin Kettelson
1891
James Sexton 1855 1 1 1 I 1
Ashton M. Davis I
1 I 1892-3 1
John Rand 1856 I 1
Fenton Palmer
1 1894
George Cameron 1857-8
Duane D. Finch
1 1895 1
Charles Loomer 1
1859. 62
Charles Desing
1 1896
Isaac Flitcroft 1860 L
Herbert J. Barker
1897-8
Stephen L. Russell 1861
George Weaver
1899. 1906
Thomas Davis 1863
Homer Davis _1 900
Timothy Putnam Barker 1 864
John Canutson
1901-3. '05
Jason Foster 1865
Henry J. Brandt
1904
George W. Nyce 1866
John W. Watson
1
1907
James W. Davis 1867
Ole Jacobson
1
1868
Hawley J. Donaldson
1909-10
John Cameron
1869-70, '75
Otis S. Davis 1871
Charles Hollinshead 1863-6
Ole Jacobson 1872-3
Charles A. Davis 1906-7
Reuben E. Eastwood 1907-8
Henry Levi Mallory 1882-3
Ward Mallory
1859-62
George Edmund Pierce 1885-8
Aaron Ellbeck
1870-I
George H. Renner
1899-1900
Isaac Flitcroft 1879-82
Daniel Mansfield Stearns 1871-2
Rial Thomas
1860-9, '72-81
Fred Waters __ 1894-5, '97-8, 1905-8
I
Harry Loomer
1911-12
1
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Frank R. Babcock 1894
John Cameron 1875-80, '90-5
Julius Augustus Edwards 1881-3
Solomon Richard Edwards_1859-70
Marcus Gray 1870-1
Sherman Harrington 1891
1
I 1
1
1
Frank J. Rogers
1908
Levi Lee 1863-5
CHAPTER XXXVI.
TOWN OF TROY.
As one of the five towns constituted by the act of January 2, 1838, Troy included the next eastward township, set off March 21, 1843, as East Troy. The present town is No. 4 north, range 17 east. It is not known why it was so called, but it may have been that its discoverer preferred a short and easily spelled name. About the time of the separation from East Troy the Legisla- ture conferred upon that town the old name and renamed the older town Meacham. To this the sensible Major objected and to such purpose that the two towns were immediately named as at present.
Excepting the large Honey creck marsh in the southern one-third of the town, the ground is moderately high and well drained. Barometrical obser- vations, taken at eight points, give heights above sea-level ranging between SHI and 895 feet. The principal water course is Honey creek, which comes out of Lagrange into section 31, passes through a corner of section 30 and thence across the town into section 30 of East Troy. Crooked creek flows through sections 4, 9, 10, 3, 2 into Lake Lulu1, thence over the county line into Eagle lake and joins itself to the outflow of Beulah lakes. Booth lake, in sections 13, 24, has no inflowing nor outflowing stream. Its area is one hun- dred and twenty-five acres and its greatest depth is twenty-five four-tenths feet. Pickerel lake, its little companion in section 13, discharges by a short course to the Beulah group. The name Honey creek is a translation of its only native name preserved,-Ah-moo-sis-po-quet-se-pee, and had some aptness from a number of bee trees found and robbed before wasteful white men came and made it needless to place wild honey in the tariff list. Besides the marsh about to become meadow, there are a few gravel knobs of no consid- crable height which rise above the prairie and timbered land; but the town generally is the home of prosperous farmers.
The land area of the town is 22.378 acres, valued at $1.413.000 ; average. $63.14 per acre. Crop acreages in 1910: Barley, 782: corn, 2,680; hay, 2.464: oats, 3.4044: orchard. 35: potatoes, 99; rye, 388; timber, 1.351 ; wheat. 63. Returns of live stock and values: 1.946 cattle, $59.000; 602 hogs, $0.300: 499 horses, $37.900: 931 sheep, $2.800.
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Population of the town, at seven federal censuses: 1850, 1.094; 1860, 1,238; 1870, 1, 176: 1880, 964 ; 1890, 972; 1900, 1,018; 1910, 928.
Major Jesse Meacham and Adolphus Spoor came from Washtenaw county, Michigan, in September, 1835, to Milwaukee, whence they set out for Rock river valley by way of Waukesha and Mukwonago, and as they passed noted favorably the valley of Honey creek. They went home by way of Chicago, and on May-day. 1836. set forth again with their families and household goods which were hauled by two ox teams. They plodded through Chicago to Racine and thence by Ives Grove to the ford at Roch- ester. The Fox was then at high water and they crossed with some diffi- culty and with danger of overturn in mid-stream. They left the families at Levi Godfrey's, a halting place and a host long memorable to pioneers of at least two counties, and went forward, marking their trail as they went by ways till then untrodden by white men, to their chosen place in section 25. Since they had left the old home at Lodi the brothers, Alexander and Othni Beardsley, and Mr. Roberts, also from Michigan, had marked the claim for their own and one of them had a fortnight before begun plowing. It was now May 27th. These five were reasonable men and they in possession sold their claim to Meacham and Spoor and chose their land in other sections.
These men had means sufficient for the wants of early settlers, and they began at once to build their houses on which they bestowed unusual labor. It is told that they sawed boards by hand for their floors and joiner-work. It is not probable that many boards were sawn from each log, nor that their flooring was much less than a half-log in thickness. While they were at this work John S. Spoor came and bought Alexander Beardsley's new claim in section 30, and with him Sylvanus Spoor, who bought in section 24. Othni Beardsley's later claim was in sections 23. 26.
Among men of 1837 were George W. Blanchard, section 11; Samuel Fowler, 27: Charles Heath, 26: George Hibbard, 26; Marcus Montague, 35: Albon M. Perry, 10, 14: Sokan Powers, 10, and Horace Smith. In the next year and thereafter came Elias Truman and William B. Hibbard, sec- tion 26: Jacob R. Kling 29. 30; John Mayhew 34: Ansel Il. Odell 35: AAnson. Charles H1. and Ebenezer Robinson 22: George W. Robinson 27; Warren Ames Robinson 23.
Patents were issued from the land office at Milwaukee to John and William B. Austin, section 30; James Babcock, 20; Lewis Bartlett, 18; Chester C. and John C. Beach, 7: Samuel Brush Beardsley, 21: Ezra Ben- nett, 29: John E. Bolkcom, 3: Benjamin Bonney, 20: Hiram Brewster, 27; Chauncey Brown, 11, 12; Alexander F. Bunker, 10: Calvin Cary, 3: John
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Chapman, 9: Jeremiah Clute, 29; Stephen Cooper, 8; Gurdon Cox, 4. 29; Jacob Coxshall, 28; Richard Day, 30; Sprowell Dean, 14. 15. 34: Alonzo Dougherty. 34: John Fearnley. 19; Loren Ferry, 28: Walter P. Flanders. 2, 17: Philip Foot, 31: Elbert W. Fowler, 33: William Henry Gilbert. 7; Rufus Goodall, 28: Clement llare, 32 : John Hink, 28: William Holcomb, 10: James Ingledew. 30; Adeline Keats, 12: Moses Kelloway, 29; John and William King. 19. 29; Nelson Lake, 13; James and William F. Lauderdale, 30. 31, 32: Archibald Lighbody, 8: George Matthews, 26, 34. Edwin Wallis Meacham, 24: James Megginson. 32; James C. Miller. 2; John Morrison, 9; Timothy Mower, 12: Hiram E. Nourse. 29: Peter O'Brien, 17. 18: Samuel Pillsbury, 19: John W. Pixley. 19: Samuel Lyman Porter, 11 : Selah Smith Porter, 20: Edwin F. Randall, 9, 10; Norman A. Rice, 22: John Sanford, 31 : Paul Schwartz, 2; Israel Scott. 14, 23; Ephraim Whitney Smith, I : William Thompson, 8: Jesse Tombleson, 1; Andrew Underhill, 2: Thomas Walker, 32: William L. Ward, 2: Mark Watson, 28; James Weeks, 10: Stephen G. West, Jr., 31 : George Wilson. 31 ; Asa Wood, 18: John M. Worthley, 13. Joseph Babcock died in 1867.
John Chapman died at Little Prairie in 1885.
John Fearnley ( 1804-1867), born in Yorkshire, died in Lagrange. His wife was Ann ( 1806-1858).
William Ilolcomb married Juliana Rogers, December 7, 1846.
Moses Kelloway ( 1805-1863) had wife Ann ( 1808-1860).
Caleb Newcomb ( 1776-1855) and wife Phoebe ( 1779-1850) were prob- ably from Nova Scotia.
Peter O'Brien died 1888 in Dakota.
George W. Robinson was born 1808, died 1856.
John Sanford died in 1858.
Chester C. Beach (1823-1882) was born in Connecticut and died at Heart Prairie. He married. first. Elizabeth \. Reynolds; second, Harriet J. Emmons.
Ezra Bennett ( 1816-1904) moved to New Berlin, but died at East Troy.
lliram Brewster ( 1806-1861) married Achsah Mansur ( 1812-1882). Ile left sons.
Richard Day ( 1808-1885) died at Whitewater. His wife was Susan ( 1821-1885).
Sprowell Dean ( 1795-1843) married Clarissa Scott ( 1796-1880). Israel Scott and W. Augustus Dean were his sons.
Loren Ferry ( 1817-1880) married Hannah Rice, February 27. 1845.
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Samnel Fowler ( 1809-1894), son of Linus Fowler and Huldalı Bagg, was born in New Hampshire. His wife, Dorothy A., a native of Vermont, daughter of Allen Dewey, died in 1885.
Charles Heath (1817-1889) died in Lagrange. Harriet E., his wife, was born in 1817.
Elias Hibbard (1793-1856) had wife Lydia C. ( 1800-1875) : George, his brother (1807-1900), married, first, Elizabeth Clark, 1808-1865 : second, Mrs. Naomi Waters. He died at Elkhorn. The Hibbards of Troy were Massachusetts-born.
Mrs. Adeline L. (Goodrich) Keats ( 1806-1879) was born in Connecti- cut. and came to Troy from Michigan. Two of her sisters were married to two of the Spoor cousins.
John King ( 1806-1899), son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born in Lan- cashire. His wife was Hannah Hilton ( 1808-1887). They came to Rome, New York, in 1837, and front 1841 lived in Lagrange.
Jacob Kling ( 1785-1883) married Dorothy Gasper .( 1793-1874). They were of Schoharie county, New York. Not all of their fourteen children came with them to Troy, but enough of them to connect by marriage a con- siderable part of southwestern Troy.
Jacob Rensselaer Kling (1815-1892) married Emily ( 1817-1907), daughter of Gideon Bliss and Prudence Pease.
John Morrison ( 1815-1864) married Rachel Lightbody ( 1815-1898). William Henry, their son, was for several years director of farmers' institutes for Wisconsin.
Hiram E. Nourse ( 1824 -- ). son of Elisha Nourse and Sarah Mur- dock, of Vermont. married Elizabeth ( 1823-1885), daughter of Jacob and Dorothy Kling.
Asaph Perry (1779-1856) and wife Anna ( 1787-1858) had sons, John Adams, who became sheriff, and Albon Mann ( 1817-1902), whose first wife. Susan, was born in 1825 and died in 1870. Both sons lived long at Elkhorn, and were radically opposed in politics.
Selah Smith Porter ( 1805-1887) had wife Cornelia .A. (1806-1849).
Soldan Powers ( 1805-1889) came from Vermont in 1837 and, May 31, 1842, married Ann Flanders ( 1820-1899), who was a sister of Royal C. Flanders, of East Troy. Mr. Powers was a man of education, property and influence. He served his town variously and for several years as member of county board, town clerk and justice of the peace. He was of the Demo- cratic old guard of the county.
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Martin Ray, born 1779. married Caroline Phelps ( 1781-1849), who (lied at the home of one of her sons. Three of their large family came to the county, and all had some part in its greater affairs. These were Adam E., George Augustus, and Henry M. : the last named was of Delavan.
Norman Alonzo Rice married Elizabeth Holcomb. December 3, 1845.
Paul Schwartz ( 1811-1895), born in Bavaria. was son of Adam Schwartz, who came to America in 1832. Paul married Elizabeth Wagner ( 1815-1881). Their children are yet well known in the Troys.
Mark Watson ( 1810-1896) married Elizabeth Randall ( 1810-1897).
Major Meacham made his village, which he named Troy, at the point where the line between sections 25 and 26 is crossed by the Milwaukee and Janesville road, though that was not laid out until 1838. This was a few rods south of Honey creek, which afforded a good water power at which Meacham built his grist mill in 1844. This mill was well built and equipped and was long locally useful. In 1839 he was a licensed inn-keeper. In 1843 he built the largest barn in the county. It was forty feet wide and one hundred feet long, and it was not merely a barn, for it served for dancing and for other public gatherings.
AA school was opened in 1839. Lucinda, daughter of Dr. Daniel Allen and Olive English, taught in a neighboring district of the town in 1840. Miss Allen was twice married, first to Jolm Mayhew and then to John Young, and there were three children of each marriage. Two of her May- hew children became teachers. Her eldest daughter of second marriage was Emma, who became wife of William Pitt Meacham.
Troy was a fairly promising village until it found itself shunned by rail- way builders. It had a mill. tavern. stores, shops, postoffice, church, school and cemetery. Its two intersecting streets are well traveled highways. and the surrounding country is fair and fertile. It is but two and one-half miles from East Troy, its more thriving rival: three miles from the railway sta- tion at Troy Center, and nearly as distant from Mayhew. Within the period between 1857 and 1880 the village felt the depressing influence which for a great part of that period had affected the larger villages of the county, and its aspect was to stranger eyes that of a hamlet for which two panic periods and a civil war had wholly blighted every earlier hope. The changes which encouraged and brightened elsewhere brought a quickening spirit to Troy. Housebuilding, repairing, painting, lawn-mowing and tree-trimming have made it look at least pleasantly habitable.
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