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Russell & Smith bought the paper in 1885 and changed its name to Netes. Jesse N. Converse owned it in 1888. John C. Clinton in 1890 and Hall & Cowles in 1893. About this time it became the Gasette, and was edited by Rev. Frederick W. Millar and others. In 1895 its owners were Wilton & Law- ton, in 1897 William R. Hotchkiss, in 1898 Hotchkiss & Bloodgood, in 1901 Frank R. Bloodgood, the present owner. Grant H. Lawton is a son of James H. Lawton, of Lagrange.
There is little need here to trace the beginnings and progress of literary and debating societies and other strivings for the higher culture, for these are common to all American communities. From the arrival of railway trains the village became accessible for the lights of the dramatic, lyric, and operatic stage, and for the once and long famous lecturers who carried scientific. aesthetic, sociological, educational, moral, and politico-moral ideas from Boston to the meridian 180° east or west of Greenwich-the line where west
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becomes east and east is west. If these singers, actors, and lecturers could not or would not halt at Whitewater it could and would go to them at Chicago, Milwaukee, or Madison. In quadrennial campaigns of nation-saving by elec- tions, men of Whitewater were persuaded or confused by the oratory of men to whom their own time decreed immortality-though this was not always confirmed by the next generation.
Ample provision of churches and capacious and well-arranged public halls made this often a convenient place for holding conventions of civic and religious bodies. Delavan and Lake Geneva have each some distinctive ad- vantages, given by nature or created by its own enterprise; and so also has Whitewater, which for its business and intellectual life draws something sus- taining from two adjoining counties.
LIBRARIES.
A library association existed something earlier than 1858. For a few years its efforts were directed to maintenance of yearly lecture courses. In 1861 it opened a library for public use, giving out books on Friday of each weck. Robert MeBeath was then librarian. It may be supposed that the normal school library so far served the wants of the village as to delay any considerable development of its own library. The establishment of the high school had been similarly affected from a similar cause.
Mrs. Flavia White, having bequeathed seventeen thousand dollars to establish a public library in memory of Samuel Austin White, her son, the White Memorial Library Association was incorporated, in perpetuity, in 1903. The trustees of this bequest, as named in her will, were Newton M. Littlejohn, Catherine L. White, Mrs. Jane L. ( White) Sherrick, D. Seymour Cook, C. Morris Blackman, and Minor G. Halverson. Thane M. Blackman supplies his late father's place on this board. The city accepted the gift, provided the site, and sustains the library by liberal appropriations. A building of suitable design, worthy of the giver and of the city, was constructed at the sharp angle of Main and North streets-about one-fifth of a right angle. It is so placed as to leave in front a triangular lawn on which is a fine fountain, given by Julius C. Birge, the firstborn of Whitewater. The cost of building was sixteen thou- sand dollars. At present the library has nearly six thousand volumes, and from its beginning has been in charge of Miss Ella A. Hamilton. It is ad- ministered for the city by nine directors chosen by wards.
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MILITARY HISTORY.
A militia company, organizing in 1875 and naming itself the Custer Rifles, was not accepted and mustered into state service until July 7, 1877. It then became Company C of the First Regiment. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer, the General's widow, sent to the company, by Gen. Charles King. a fine photo- graph of her husband, with a suitable inscription. The Custer Rifles now forms Company C, First Battalion of the First Regiment of Infantry, Wis- consin National Guard, Colonel George H. Joachim now commanding the regiment and Major John P. Joachim battalion commander. The officers of the company have been: Captains-John E. Bassett, 1877; J. Ashley Part- ridge, 1878: John J. Downey, 1879; John E. Bassett. 1880: Mannering M. De Wolf, 1881 : Allan F. Caldwell, 1882: Charles J. Walton, 1885; John D. Hogan, 1886; Frank B. Goodhue, 1890; Leverette W. Persons, 1896; Frank B. Goodhue, 1900; Edward T. Weyher, 1902; Severt J. Olson, 1906; Jacob E. Kinzer, 1908; Hubert O. Hamilton, 1910; Philip E. Trautman, Jr., 1912.
First Lieutenants-Samuel Bowers, 1877; John J. Downey, 1878; J. Aloys Ammon, 1879: John D. Hogan, 1881; Joel W. Richmond, 1882; Charles J. Walton, 1884; Frank B. Goodhue. 1886: Judson J. Rogers, 1890; Ole J. Oleson, 1892; Edward T. Weyher, 1894; William Henry Hahn, 1896; Edward T. Weyher. 1898; Elmer A. Cutter. 1900: Olaf J. Johnson, 1902; Jacob E. Kinzer. 1906; Herbert O. Hamilton, 1908; Philip E. Trautman, Jr., 1910 ; Roland H. Lindbaum, 1912.
Second Lieutenants-Albert L. Arey, 1877: J. Aloys Ammon, 1878; John D. Hogan, 1879; Judson J. Rogers, 1881: Charles J. Walton, 1882; James G. Kestol, 1884: James R. Johnson, 1886; Ole J. Oleson, 1890: William Henry Hahn, 1892; Dennis H. Halloran, 1894: Charles E. Johnson, 1895; Edward T. Weyher. 1896; Charles Spracklin, 1898; Elmer A. Cutter, 1900; Henry J. Cadman, 1902; Philip E. Trautman, Jr .. 1908; Roland H. Lind- baum. 1910: Otto J. Rennemo, 1912.
Regimental promotions from this company were: Charles J. Walton in 1884 to adjutant. Joel W. Richmond in 1885 to adjutant and in 1886 to quartermaster. Allan F. Caldwell in 1888 to lieutenant-colonel and 1891 to colonel, John D. Hogan in 1890 to major, Severt J. Olson in 1892 to adjutant, Joseph H. Tobin in 1894 to sergeant-major, Dr. John Dunn in 1905 to assist- ant surgeon. Rev. Joseph Moran in 1895 to chaplain. Colonel Caklwell was appointed assistant quartermaster-general in 1895.
Governor Rusk ordered this company to Milwaukee in 1886 for active service in preservation of the peace and dignity of the state against the rioters of that year, on the occasion commonly called the Bayview riot. The duty as-
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signed was to guard railway property against lawless violence. The com- pany's prompt response to call and its soldierly conduct on duty were creditable to itself and to the whole body of "baby militia" and "tin soldiers," as the rioters jeeringly named the state's armed forces.
In 1898 Captain Persons recruited his company to its full number for service in the war with Spain. The regiment, at the close of the war, was waiting at Jacksonville, Florida, for orders or for transportation to Cuba. (It may be mentioned here, since omitted at another page; that Peter Kauer, Jr., of Elkhorn, who had enlisted at Fort Sheridan for a term of service in Com- pany A, Second United States Light Artillery, went with his guns to Cuba and was present for duty at the battle of El Caney. As far as known he was the only man of Walworth who stood in line of battle in that war. )
PUBLIC UTILITIES.
Messrs. Jarvis K. Pike, Asaph Pratt and Asad Williams, in 1842, chose an acre from Dr. Tripp's land on the east side and there laid out Grove ceme- tery. It was managed by the town supervisors until 1848, when an associa- tion was formed, two acres of land were added and all the ground was fenced. This now well-peopled territory is wholly surrounded by the city's growth. It was, therefore, necessary to choose a site which would admit expansion in at least one direction. The choice was well made, and in 1858 Hillside cemetery was laid out on the high ground east of Tripp lake and from two sides over- looking the water. The old ground is kept in order, and the new one is con- stantly improved.
The Whitewater Electric Light Company was formed in 1886, its works near the railway station. Its present officers are Edwin F. Thayer, president ; Charles W. Partridge, vice-president and secretary : Oliver B. Williams. treasurer and manager.
Duane Starin gave the city, in 1888, about eight acres of land in his addition, for Prospect park. It is within a few rods of the county line, on high ground with fairly easy slopes to the streets. It is of irregular outline. but bounded by straight lines. Thus far it is a fine natural park, its wide open spaces shaded fairly by trees of second growth, but unimproved except with mowing machines and bush scythes. In this state it is both beautiful and use- ful .- an admirable place for out-of-door meetings and amusements-truly a city's breathing place, without trespass sign, policeman or other needless an- .noyance.
In the same year the city drilled a well at a lower corner of the park. At nearly a thousand feet depth was found water which rose a little away above
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the surface, and is pumped into the stand-pipe at the highest point of the park. This work was done by C. E. Gray, of Milwaukee, who made a contract with the city to run twenty-five years, for constructing water works and a system of street mains, and whatever else was required for the city's water supply. and to operate the whole system. Mr. Gray received a half acre of ground and twenty-five thousand dollars. This contract expires in 1914, and a propo- sition to take the works into city ownership and control is about to be sub- mitted to a vote of the citizens at a special election. The system now includes a well six hundred feet deep and two wells of more than two hundred feet depth and the entire present valuation is placed at eighty-eight thousand dollars.
A city hall was built in 1899 at the acute-angular meeting of Centre and Whitewater streets. It is of red pressed brick and is interiorly arranged for all the departments and uses of the city administration, their records, and the apparatus of the fire department. Its approach from the front is guarded by a siege gun,-a forty-pounder Parrot-its calibre a fraction more than four inches, and under its muzzle a little pyramid of eight-inch shot.
In 1904 the several Masonic bodies built a "temple" at Main and Fre- mont streets, about forty feet wide by seventy-five feet long and of propor- tionate height of red brick with stone trimmings. Its overhanging gabled pediment rests on an Ionic colonnade of stone, giving a convenient and sightly front porch. All without is classically plain and therefore tasteful.
A postoffice was established in April, 1840, and the village thus had weekly mails from Troy. David J. Powers was the first postmaster, and after him were Thomas K. LeBarron, Warner Earle, Eleazar Wakeley, Isaac U. Wheeler, 1849: George G Williams. 1853; Lallemand H. Kann, about 1861; Edmund B. Gray, about 1867; Henry O. Montague, about 1869; Pros- per Cravath, 1872 ; Henry McGraw, 1880; Edward F. Donnelly, 1887; Edwin D. Coe, 1891 ; John H. Fryer, 1895; Frank B. Goodhue, 1899, probably until 1915. Mr. Fryer remains in the office as first assistant. About 1892 this office was raised to the second-class, and it is at the head of five rural free delivery routes. It also has a city carrier system.
VILLAGE INCORPORATION.
Forty-two villagers signed a call, published in the Register of March 6, 1858, for a meeting at which to consider a plan for incorporating the village. At this meeting Warren Cole, William De Wolf, Edson Kellogg, Newton M. Littlejohn, Richard O'Connor, John S. Partridge and Augustus H. Scoville were directed to prepare a charter. The Legislature, then in session, passed
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an act to incorporate the village under this charter. At an election, May 27th. Newton M. Littlejohn was chosen president; Charles E. Curtice. George Esterly, Samuel Field and Mr. Scoville, trustees; Lallemand H. Rann, clerk ; Edward Barber, treasurer; Edward F. Tarr, marshal. (Mr. Tarr was also a federal deputy marshal for the district court of eastern Wisconsin, and as such took the census of 1860 for his assembly district.) City government began in 1885, but ward division, with a county board member for each, began in 1883. A slight, formal change in 1897 made Whitewater a statutory city of the fourth class.
VILLAGE MEMBERS OF COUNTY BOARD.
Samuel Austin White. 1871. '73 John W. Denison 1874-8, 'SI Thompson Dimock Weeks 1872 William Le Roy Stewart_1879-80. '82
Robert MeBeath, William L. R. Stewart, Philip Trautman were ward members for 1883 ; MeBeath, Stewart, Edwin T. Cass for 1884.
CITY MEMBERS OF COUNTY BOARD.
For First Ward-Sylvester Hanson, 1885-6; Martin K. Wood, 1887-8. 92-3: Minor G. Halverson, 1889: E. Benjamin Chamberlain, 1890: William B. Reider. 1891 : Charles Chaffee, 1894: Truman Rollin Spooner. 1895 ; Henry R. Charles, 1896-1901, '03; Albert Hanson, 1902; John F. Henderson, 1904-12.
For Second Ward-William L. R. Stewart, 1885-1901; George B. Averill, 1902 ; J. Nelson Humphrey, 1903-4: Thomas E. Lean, 1905-8: Robert C. Bulkley, 1909; Newton R. Steele, 1910-12.
For Third Ward-Robert F. Mccutcheon. 1885. '91. '93-5: Edward F. Donnelly, 1886-7; James Casserly, 1888-90; William Allen Knilans, 1892: Charles A. Alexander, 1896: Henry Lingemann, 1897: Stephen Henry Smith, 1898-1908; George W. Sperbeck, 1909-12.
PRESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE.
Newton M. Littlejohn __ 1858-9, '82-3 William LeRoy Stewart 1867 Joseph L. Pratt. 1860, '69
George W. Esterly 1868
George G. Williams 1861-2
John Stanley Partridge 1872 William De Wolf 1863-4. '60. 70-1
Thomas Bassett 1873 Jacob J. Starin 1865
Sylvester Hanson 1874-5. '78
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Thomas A. Brann 1876-7 Simon Buel Edwards 188 1
George Augustus Ray 1879
Alvin D. Coburn. 1 884
Fernando Cortez Kiser 1880
MAYORS OF THE CITY.
Samuel Bishop 1885
Henry J. Wilkinson 1899
Edward Engebretsen 1887. '89
Newton Moore Littlejohn 190I
George W. Steele 1891
James G. Kestol 1903. '05
Lyman M. Goodhue 1893
Paul H. Tratt 1906, '07
Zadock Pratt Beach
1895
David F. Zuill Sept. 1907. 'II
Frank W. Tratt
1897
Arthur A. Upham 1909
Mayors are elected for two-year terms. Mr. Kestol and his successor served each a part of two terms.
VILLAGE CLERKS.
Lallemand H. Rann 1858-9
Matthew Allen 1870-1
James McBeath 1860
George W. Stecle 1872
Joseph L. Pratt
1861
Henry Heady 1873. '79-81
Isaac U. Wheeler 1862-4. '66. '78
William H. J. Hewitt I874-5
Ulysses B. Woodbury 1865
Ira Pearson 1876
James D. Robinson
1867
Winfield Scott Salisbury 1877
Fred E. Day.
1868
James Casserly
1882-4
Charles D. Chaffee
1869
CITY CLERKS.
Charles J. Walton 1885, '89-90
Albert W. Martin 1892-4
James G. Kestol 1886
Frank H. Holmes 1895-1904
Howard S. Salisbury 1887-8
George W. Rankin 1905-6
Herbert E. Smith 1891
William J. McLane 1907-
VILLAGE TREASURERS.
Edward Barber 1858-9
(Not shown for 1860.)
Theodore Hempel 1861.'63
William L. R. Stewart 1866
John Wilson 1862
Lewis Cook 1864
Abraham Van Valkenburg 1865
Elliott D. Converse
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Thompson D. Weeks 1869 John Taylor Smith I879-81
Joseph Haubert 1870-3 Isaac Underhill Wheeler 1882
George S. Marsh 1874-8 Edward Engebretsen 1883-4
CITY TREASURERS.
Edward Engebretsen 1885
Ferdinand Kraeplin, Jr. 1897-8
Fernando C. Kiser 1886
Charles Addison Pratt 1899-1900
John Bonnett
1887-8
Ebenezer B. Finch .190I
John D. Ilogan 1889-90
Milton B. Carey. 1902-4
Alphonso B. Esterly 1891-3
Allan F. Caldwell
1905-7
Makendre J. Rawson 1894
Jacob Koelzer 1908-1I
B. F. Cook 1895
August Krahn
1912
Frank P. Hall 1896
The roll of village trustees is of little historic value, but in it are names that old citizens and those of middle- age recall with interest and pleasure. Among these are: Gilbert Anderson, Sylvester Barnes, Peter H. Brady, Byron Brown, George A. Caswell, Augustus Y. Chamberlain. Roswell Coburn, John M. Crombie, Albert W. Curtiss, Benjamin M. Frees, James Gleason, Thomas Goodhue, Gulik Halverson, Job Harrison, Jr., Joseph Hau- bert, Frederick A. Hurlbut, Edson Kellogg. Francis L. Kiser, Henry Mc- Graw, Henry O. Montague, Ole Rosman, Leonard C. Smith, Ole Sobye, John D. Sweetland, Daniel C. Tripp, Salmon II. Tuttle, Dr. Henry Warne, John Wilson.
The population of the village in 1860 was 2.831; in 1870, it was 3.280; in 1880 it was 3,621. Federal and state censuses for the city-In 1885 : First ward. 1.335; second ward, 1.367; third ward, 1.456; total, 4,158. In 1890: First ward, 1,416; second and third wards. 2.943: total, 4.359. In 1895, not shown by wards, total, 3.799. In 1900: First ward, 997: second ward, 1,290; third ward, I, II8; total. 3,405. In 1905 : First ward, 867 : second ward, 1,300 ; third ward, 941 ; total. 3.108. In 1910: First ward, 912; second ward, 1.282 ; third ward, 1,030 ; total, 3.224.
CHAPTER AL.
MAKERS OF THE COUNTY.
It has been judged useful to add here a few biographical and genealogical notes, from such data as lie most readily at hand, of men and women who were in some sense among the makers of the county, and few of whom are now living. It is not attempted. generally, to measure their moral worth or mental stature, nor to catalogue all their capacities for public or private usefulness. Each short statement may be taken to mean that its subject had been in the days of his strength one who had some fair measure of men's esteem and con- fidence. In the few longer sketches it has been sought rather to fall short of truth than to exceed truth. As to families of like name, if no relationship each to each is shown, it will be understood that evidence of ancestry in com- mon has not been found.
IRA C. ABBOTT, son of E. A. Abbott and Nancy Gregory, born at Burns, Steuben county, New York, December 14, 1824; lived at White Pigeon from 1835 to 1854: was postimaster at Burr Oak, 1855 to 1861. He served in Company G. First Michigan Infantry, as captain and was wounded at Bull Run. In the regiment as re-organized for three years service he rose step by step from captain of Company B to the colonelcy and nearly twenty years later was breveted brigadier-general. He came to Delavan in 1875 ( employed by Allen & Wilber, grocers ) : to Elkhorn in 1880; and a few years later was given a clerkship in the pension bureau for the rest of his active life. He died at Washington, October 9. 1908, leaving wife Electa, one son, two daughters. He was a small, soldierly-looking man, of easy manners and modest in speech. His regiment was one of the three hundred named by Colonel Fox the "fight- ing regiments of the war."
ALFRED II. ABELL, son of Henry Abell. was born at Duanesburg, New York. May 17, 1824. He came to Bloomfield in 1848; served four terms as chairman of town board of supervisors. He was chosen assemblyman for 1877 over Addin Kaye. He died May 24, 1882. Marietta Carpenter, his wife, was born December 17. 1833 ; died November 20, 1882.
HENRY ADKINS, son of Henry Adkins and Elizabeth Huekstep, was born at Ramsgate, Kent, England, December 23, 1812: apprenticed to an apothe-
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cary ; came to neighborhood of Utica, New York, in 1833: married Elizabeth Ann, daughter of William Adams, at New York Mills, July 22, 1836; came to Sugar Creek in 1841 ; next year bought government land in sections 11, 14, Lagrange : came to Elkhorn as register of deeds, 1855 to 1859; began com- pilation of abstract of titles to real estate; from the organization of the First National Bank of Elkhorn, in 1865, to his death, May 17, 1887. was its compe- tent and trustworthy accountant and teller. His wife was born in Otsego county, September 10, 1813, and died at Elkhorn January 25, 1889. His sons, William E. and Henry Breckenridge, and son-in-law. Reuben Eastwood, were soldiers of Company K, Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry
ALMA MONTGOMERY ALDRICH, son of William Aldrich and Hannah K. Montgomery, was born at Kirtland, Ohio, May 6, 1837. His father was born at Lisbon, Grafton county, his mother at Whitefield, Coos county, both places in New Hampshire. In 1847 the family came to section 35. Spring Prairie. The father served on town and county boards and as justice of the peace. The son was for eight terms a member of the county board, and in 1878 was assemblyman, elected over Andrew Kull, Jr. In 1865 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Lyman Hewitt, of Racine county. In 1899 he re- moved to Burlington, where he died November 1, 1902, leaving two children.
DWIGHT SIDNEY ALLEN, son of George Allen and Harriet .\. Buell, was born at Lebanon, Madison county, New York, February 12, 1843: lived in Linn until a few years before his death, when he moved to Lake Geneva, where he died May 5. 1908. In 1862 he enlisted for three years service in Company C. Twenty-second Infantry, serving as corporal; September 4. 1867. he married Delia A. Sherman, at Eagle. He served his town as treasurer. justice. and from 1877 to 1890 as member of the county board, of which body he was eight times chairman. He was a member of the Assembly at its session of 1889, elected over Edward Decatur Page and Huron Irving Hawks. From 1888 to 1908, he was a member of the Soklier's Relief Committee. Mrs. Allen was born in 1846, and has seven children.
GEORGE ALLEN, grandson of Elisha Allen of Worcester county. Massa- chusetts ( Princeton of Sturbridge ), and son of Walter Allen and Harriet Hol- brook, was born at Lebanon, Madison county, New York, July 23, 1820; mar- ried Harriet A. Buell January 12, 1842; came to Linn in 1852, settling on section 24 and adding later more than half of section 23-more than a square mile in all. He and his wife had been teachers; and a fairly educated land- holder usually finds some fair place in the esteem of his townsmen. Mr. Ullen was member of the county board seven times between 1854 and 1867. and chairman in 1866; member of Assembly in 1855: assessor more than
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twenty years ; and justice of the peace from 1866 to his death, February 26. 1899. Mrs. Allen, daughter of Ira Buell and Chloe Holcomb, was born at Plymouth, Chenango county, January 3, 1821. and died December 16, 1895.
GEORGE RUE ALLEN, son of Samuel Allen and Maria High, was born at Hartford. Washington county, New York, August 9, 1838: came to Bloom- field in 1841 ; married Mary, daughter of James Grier : was thirteen terms a member of the county board and six times its chairman ; served in the Assembly in 1880. having defeated Cyril R. AAldrich, a rock-rooted Democrat of Spring Prairie. He died at Lake Geneva, January 1, 1901.
LUCIUS ALLEN, son of Dr. Daniel and wife Olive English, was born at Hamburg. New York, February 13, 1816; came in 1838 from Geauga county, Ohio, to section 31. East Troy (his parents to section 6, Spring Prairie) : moved to latter town and served as town officer and as assemblyman in 1864. elected over William R. Berry ; came about 1870 to Elkhorn as building con- tractor and furniture dealer; member of county board in 1877; died January 12, 1895. His first wife, Mary A., a sister of Adolphus Spoor, married May 27, 1837, died November 15. 1838. left a son Augustus Carlton, who was a soldier of the Eighth Illinois Infantry. July 10, 1842, he married Sarah Ann. daughter of Hosea Barnes, who died July 10, 1842, leaving two children. Her son, Fayette Lucius, died in service at Little Rock in 1865. Mr. Allen married Juliet Barnes, his sister-in-law, in August, 1848. She died March 11, 1878. leaving five children. September 4. 1890, he married Mrs. Ilephsibalı ( Tom- linson), widow of Charles Babcock. Three of these marriages were at Auburn, Ohio, and the last at Elkhorn. Mr. Allen was a clear-headed man, and stood firmly by his political and moral convictions, which in his later life led him to Prohibitionism.
SAMUEL ALLEN, born at Gloucester, England. June 30, 1789. came with parents about 1800 to New York. From his majority till 1839 he was an innkeeper at various places in the state. In 1839 he made his claim to land in sections 20, 30, Bloomfield, and brought his family in 1841. In 1844 and at a few later elections he was chosen a justice of the peace, and a member of the county board in 1845. He built one of the first framed houses in the town. His wife, married in 1822. was Maria, daughter of Charles and Christine High, of Kingsbury, New York. He died at home, November 20, 1866. Mrs. Allen died in June. 1880. Their children were Charles, George R .. William H., Samuel and Susannah.
WILLIAM CHENEY ALLEN, born at Hoosic. New York, February 2, 1814; married. October 7, 1840, Mary A. McConkey at Voorheesville-a town or hamlet now not easily to be found in New York geography. He came in
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the same year, as a lawyer. to Delavan, and in June, 1843, became probate judge, holding that post till January, 1847. In 1850 he became county judge, and resigned in 1856, in which year he became president of the Walworth County Bank. He was member of Assembly in 1866 and 1867, having been chosen successively over Joseph F. Lyon and Julius .A. Treat. He removed to Racine, where he died January 12, 1887. He was a brother-in-law of Hon. Alanson H. Barnes.
WILLIAM P. ALLEN, son of John and Mary Allen, was born in Jefferson county. New York, in 1821. In 1842 he was a teacher at Portageville, Wyoming county, New York. He came to Sharon in 1845, and for fourteen years served that town as clerk and as assessor, and for twenty years, nearly continuously, as justice of the peace. In 1873 he became postmaster at the village, at which place he was a dealer in general goods. He was chosen over Samuel W. Voorhees as assemblyman for 1854. He died July 25, 1901. His wife was Sophronia L. Lyman.
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