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SOLOMON ASHLEY DWINNELL (Solomon+3, Henry", Jonathan1), son of Solomon Dwinnell and Mary Ashley, was born at Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, August 9, 1812 (eldest of eight children ) ; was educated at Phillips Academy ; came in 1836, by way of Indiana, to Lafayette, where he bought land in sections 11, 14, 18, 20, 23, 24 for himself and brothers,-their father at Millbury advancing money needful. He passed the hard winter of 1836-7 in a new cabin and in the spring set about the work of founding a county on a basis no narrower than that of evangelical religion, anti-slavery,
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total abstinence, and publie instruction. He preached, plowed, lectured, or- ganized, served as justice of the peace, and as station master on the "under- ground railway." These things and more he did until duty or inclination sent him, in 1850, to Reedsburg, where he founded a Congregational church and became its pastor, after his ordination in 1853. He urged, among other things, suppression (by statutory enactment) of profanity and Sunday- breaking. He married, at or near Keene, New Hampshire, April 24, 1837, Lydia Herrick Gove, daughter of John Gove and Lydia Herrick. He died at Reedsburg, June 15, 1879. His wife was born in New Hampshire, January 18, 1811; died at Amiret, Minnesota, October 16, 1892. Their children are : Frances (Mrs. J. Perry Elliott, of Indianapolis) ; Osgood Herrick; Harriet ( Mrs. Samuel John Smock) ; Eugene Ashley (married Mary Beery) ; Mary (Mrs. William I]. Finch ), Herbert Augustus ( married Fanny Longley ). Mr. Dwinnell seems to have been unable to finish his reminiscences of Walworth county and two of its towns, and after his death his manuscripts were sent to the State Historical Society. Since so little else of the kind has been preserved, these papers are of much value to such as care to study the beginnings of new communities.
ELIJANI EASTON was born at Afton, Chenango county. New York, May 18, 1815; came to Walworth in 1842; served in Assembly of 1851, having been elected over William P. Allen and Lyman H. Seaver; went to California in 1860: to Minnesota in 1866; died at Owatonna, February 27, 1905.
JULIUS LYMAN EDWARDS was a son of Julius Edwards and Theodosia, daughter of Solomon Lyman and wife, Lois. His older ancestors were Alex- ander1, Benjamin2 3 45. He was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 29, 1821 : came in 1839 to a farm in section 27, Sugar Creek, and his father bought parcels of land in Lafayette and Troy ; married March 5, 1846, Wealthy Amanda, daughter of Seth Rust and Jerusha Starr. Iler father's ancestors were Henry1. Israel2 3 45. She was born at Northampton, July 8, 1817: died at Elkhorn, April 2, 1906. In 1861 Mr. Edwards became presi- dent of the bank at Elkhorn, at which place he came to live about 1866. Ten years later he became senior member of the dry goods firm of Edwards & Preston, the junior being Dwight Preston. He died August 4, 1890. His children were Frances Adelaide ( 1848-1893) and Alice ( Mrs. J. Edwin Wheeler, of LaCrosse ).
SIMON BUEL EDWARDS, son of Joseph Edwards and Abigail Buel, was born at Windsor, Broome county. New York, November 10, 1815: went in 1822 to Sherburne, where he married March 8. 1838, Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Isaac Underhill Wheeler and Lavina Duncan ; came in 1839 to East Troy
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and built for himself a blacksmith shop: also bought farm land in section 4, (his father bought in section 15) ; did occasionally duty as supervisor ; deputy sheriff under Russell HI. Mallory: was a working member of the Agricultural Society and in 1874 its president ; moved in 1878 to Whitewater. His wife, born April. 1818, died November 21. 1880, leaving seven of her eight children. Mr. Edwards in 1885 married Mrs. Clarissa ( Kuch), widow of J. Curtis Utter. She was born at Great Bend, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and died January 23, 1889. Mr. Edwards died August 14, 1893.
SOLOMON RICHARD EDWARDS, son of Julius and Theodosia, was born at Northampton. November 29, 1823 : came to section to, Sugar Creek, in 1839; went back. to a seminary at East Hampton, for his better education: in 1848 went around Cape Horn to California, visited Honolulu, and in 1853 returned to Sugar Creek, bringing home a large collection of stereoscopic views and other memorials of his journeyings. He married April 12, 1854. Sarah Almira, daughter of Augustus Smith and Almira Stiles, of Troy, and had a son and a daughter. He was five times a member of the county board and served often as justice. From 1894 he lived at Elkhorn, where he died Octo- ber 26. 1901. Mrs. Edwards was born at Hadley, Massachusetts, August 28, 1832, died at Chicago, December 31, 1904. Their children were Julius Augus- tus and Helen Viola ( Mrs. Frank Porter Stone).
STEPHEN R. EDGERTON, son of Sims D. Edgerton and Harriet Benedict. was born at Rome, New York, October 24. 1832; his father came in 1846 to Spring Prairie and died there in 1873; he owned a farm in sections 13. 14. Lafayette: married, first. Olive, daughter of David Tower Vaughn and Rebecca Densmore. December 31, 1857; she died in 1877 ; he married, second, Lila B., daughter of Silas Patten and Charlotte T. Sweet ; she died August 13. 1881. Mr. Edgerton's name may be found in the official lists of his town and of the Agricultural Society. He was well read in the current literature of farm and dairy, and took a ready talker's part in convention discussions. He was elected to the Assembly in 1870 over Maurice L. Ayers. He moved to Elkhorn in 1894, and died at his daughter's home. Oregon, Wisconsin, April 9. 1901. A few years before his death he lost all his earlier thrift had gained. by investments in lower Louisiana and on the Pacific coast.
EDWARD ELDERKIN was seventh of eleven children of Anthony Yeldorf Elderkin and Pamela Fuller. His father's ancestry ran : Bela5. Col. Jedidiah1, John3 21. This family was long of Norwich, Connecticut. Edward was born at Potsdam, New York, January 5, 1815 : was academically educated ; studied law at Canton, the home of Silas Wright : came to Elkhorn in 1839; married
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Mary Martha, daughter of Bennett Beardsley and first wife, Mrs. Susannah ( Johnson ) Gardiner, December 25, 1843. (Mr. Beardsley's second and third wives were sisters, Belinda and Frances Townsend, each of whom left chil- dren. ) About 1882 the family moved to Racine, where Colonel Elderkin died December 11, 1887. Mrs. Elderkin died at Elkhorn, September 11, 1889. They had seven children. Among the family papers is a commission signed by Governor Dodge, February 10, 1841, naming Edward Elderkin as colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Wisconsin militia. He bought a farm south of the village, which produced excellent wild mustard. His clerical qualifications were excellent, and on the whole he grew relatively wealthy with the growth of the village, in which he laid out a sontheast addition to the original plat. He named two streets therein "Jackson" and "Wright." But a few years later he became a Republican, and in 1872 turned again to Democracy. Colonel Elderkin was a man of impulses,-seldom reflecting before acting, and some of his actions at law and in business needed much excusing. Ile was one of the kindest of men at home, and thoroughly sociable and democratic every- where. If a neighbor or stranger fell sick he was at hand. If there was a case of cholera or smallpox in town he would take his turn with Lot Mayo and see the patient made well or buried. His safeguard against contagion was "to chew tobacco and swallow the juice." Mrs. Elderkin, like her sister, was an early and lifelong member of the Episcopal church, and, like her sister's. her life was filled with well-doing.
CHARLES PERKINS ELLIS, son of William Ellis and Rhoda, daughter of Capt. Lamrock Flower, had ancestors, Richard1, son of a British soldier in Ireland, came to New England in 1717: Reuben", David3. He was born at Ashfield, Massachusetts, March 20, 1812: lived in Pennsylvania and in Michi- gan : came in 1842 to section 21, LaGrange ; was a capable town officer and an excellent citizen. He married December 15, 1839, Sarah, daughter of Jere- miah Harris and Priscilla, daughter of Barnabas Cole. He died January 22. 1881. Mrs. Ellis was born at Henderson, New York, May 11, 1816: died January 7, 1894. Their children were Priscilla A. (Mrs. John E. Menzie). James R., Charles E.
HON. STURELY ELLSWORTH, born 1761, and wife Mercy, born 1775, at some time went to Hartwick, Otsego county. Of their eight children at least three came to Walworth county. Stukely Stafford Ellsworth was born at Hartwick, February 9. 1803: married May 31, 1832, Nancy, daughter of Nathan and Mary Field: came about 1846 to Lafayette: died August 21, 1881. Mrs. Ellsworth was born at Otsego, August 5. 1805 : died October 19.
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1880. Their children were: Rosina (Mrs. Joseph Potter) ; Stewart D. (mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Silas Ranney and Martha Sawyer ) : William Pierce (married Jeannette Rebecca, daughter of Christopher Wiswell and Almira West) : Mercy Ann ( Mrs. Waldo Hartwell) : Henry (married Mar- tha Ann Gadsy ) : Eugene.
Dr. Chester F. Ellsworth was born July 21, 1810; married Harriet R. Smith, February 22, 1852 : came to Spring Prairie about 1867 and to Elkhorn a few years later. He died October 19, 1877. Mrs. Ellsworth was born at Little York, Cortland county : died at Spring Prairie, May 2, 1899. Children : Luella J. (Mrs. Leroy W. Merrick ) ; Cora A. : Elmer.
John H. Ellsworth married Sophronia Pride and had sons, Julius M .. Lucien, Luzerne, Clarence.
EXPERIENCE ESTABROOK was son of Seth Willey Estabrook and Hannah. daughter of Moses Hibbard and Hannah Alden. llis grandfather was Ex- perience. son of Nehemiah, son of Rev. Samuel, son of Rev. Joseph, who came to Massachusetts in 1666. He was born at Lebanon, Grafton county, New Hampshire. April 30. 1813; educated at common school, with private teaching : studied law and was admitted to practice: came from Erie county. New York. in 1840. to Geneva ; was district attorney 1841-5 ; married April 17. 1844. Caroline .A., daughter of Col. James Maxwell: was chairman of com- mittee on education and school funds in constitutional convention of 1847; member of Assembly in 1851, chosen over Samuel D. Hastings and Cyrus Rugg : attorney-general of Wisconsin, 1852-4: appointed attorney-general of Nebraska Territory in 1855; claimed seat as delegate in thirty-sixth Con- gress, but was not seated ; died at Omaha, March 26, 1894.
GEORGE ESTERLY, son of Peter and Rachel, was born in Ulster county. New York. October 17, 1809. He was three times married. His first wife, Jane Lewis, was mother of his eight children. In 1860 their step-mother was named Amelia and the children then at home were Mary, George W., Eva (now Mrs. Joseph Hubert Page), and Emma. Mr. Esterly came to Heart Prairie in 1837, where he bought more than eleven hundred acres of land and in 1843 sowed three hundred aeres with wheat. His mind was of mechanical turn. and here was stimulus for an inventor. By 1856 his reaping and mowing machine was fully in the local market, and in its improved forms found other markets. He attempted, by newspaper articles and pamphlets, to discuss and settle some of the politico-economic problems of his time, and his efforts found admirers. "All in all, he was one of the most forceful and remarkable of many strong men of Whitewater." He died about 1893 at Hot Springs. South Dakota.
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JOHN ALLEN FARNUM, son of Jonathan Farnum (born 1760) and Let- tice Kelly, was born in 1797 : married Chloe Bennett ; was at Hudson in 1842; died in north Geneva. September 23, 1858. Chloe was born in 1808; died March 3, 1860. Their children, born between 1826 and 1843. were Ethan B. ( married Hannah M. Rouse) : Alonzo L. (married Nancy Dean ) ; Edgar J. ; Samantha B .; Ezra C. (killed at Port Hudson) : Lucy A. ; Mary E.
TIMOTHY HOPKINS FELLOWS, son of Abiel Fellows, Jr., and Dorcas Hopkins, had ancestors William1, Ephraim2 3, Abiel4. He was born in Wyom- ing valley March 14, 1812 ; his parents removed to Kalamazoo county in 1829; he married December 1, 1831, Eliza Ann, daughter of William Duncan and Ruth Gilmore: came to Bloomfield in 1839: served three terms in county board : was assemblyman in 1852, chosen over Moses Seymour and Dr. Hilton W. Boyce : and in 1853, having beaten Capt. Albert T. Wheeler and Dr. Lewis N. Wood: died November 5. 1894. Mrs. Fellows was born October 19, 1814; died April 23, 1887. Six of their children lived to maturity : Gilmore Duncan (married 1. Helen . Augusta Noyes : 2. Dora H. Parmelee) ; Theodore A. died February 10, 1912; Emma Jane ( Mrs. Emerson W. Peet) ; Anna E. ( Mrs. Edwin F. Duncan) ; Mary H. (Mrs. Orson S. Avery ) : Catharine L. (Mrs. Clarence N. Reynolds).
ANDREW FERGUSON was born at Laurens, New York, September 27, 1803: in 1822 went to Cooperstown and became a tanner and shoemaker ; married April 24, 1824. Lucretia S. Goodsell. In 1835, with Lewis B. Good- sell, his brother-in-law, and George Campbell, he began a general retail busi- ness in Dearborn street, near Lake street. Chicago. His attention was drawn to the Brink-Payne war at Geneva, but was at first too prudent to risk much of his capital in disputed titles. He moved his stock of goods to Geneva, and from 1838 to 1850 was postmaster. After six years of farming in Linn he returned, in 1866, to Lake Geneva, where he died May 14. 1884. His wife had died April 3, 1869, and he married Mrs. Mary L. Maynard, September 2, 1873. He was of the "Old Guard" of the county Democracy, and was there- fore not often burdened with official duty ; but he was not therefore less es- teemed as a man. Ilis children were Ann, Thomas Henry, Charles Eugene.
STEPHEN FIELD (Abner", Williams, Jeremiah4, Thomas3 2 1). son of Abner Fickl and Rebecca Payne, born in Windsor county, Vermont, January 10, 1791 ; married Mary Jordan ( 1790-1840). March 7, 1814: died at East Troy. January 27, 1870. He came to Mukwonago in 1838: to section 20. East Troy, in 1839: was member of the Territorial Legislature in 1845. Of five children, Augusta ( 1818-1873) was unmarried. Martin married Sarah P.,
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daughter of James Meacham and Prudence Wallis, and moved to Mukwonago. He was once a trustee of the State School for the Deaf. Mary ( born 1816) was wife of Andrew E. Elmore. Stephen F. married the Sage's sister, Ellen, daughter of Job Elmore. Rosanna ( 1825-1855) was wife of Alender O. Babcock. Mr. Field was of a Federalist family, and passed naturally to the Whigs and thence to the Republican party. He was a man of substance and of influence among intelligent neighbors and townsmen.
JAMES FLACK, son of immigrants from Ireland, born 1782, married Polly Powell, born 1792, and lived in Washington county, New York. Their chil- dren were John Powell, Thomas. Margaret (Mrs. Thornton). Anna (MIrs. David G. Lytle), Garrett, Richard B., James D.
Richard Baker Flack was born December 13, 1815; married Sophia. daughter of John Armstrong and Elizabeth Lytle, March 20, 1838; came to town of Geneva in 1843; died at Elkhorn. October 30. 1887. Mrs. Flack was born at Lisbon. St. Lawrence county, July 5, 1815 : died at Elkhorn, February 3. 1901. Their children were James H., Wilbur, Alarada. Emma, Elmina (Mrs. Duane D. Finch).
James Douglas Flack, born September 27. 1828; married Sarah Eliza Cook ; died March 7, 1911. Mrs. Flack was born in 1834 : died March, 1909. Children : Furness, Mary, James, Alice, Lucy, Willie E.
JOHN FLACK, a brother of James, married a daughter of Capt. Isaac Gray. Their son, James Adam, was born in Washington county June 2, 1804; married, first, Mary, daughter of Samuel Lytle : second. Martha, daughter of Samuel Armstrong and Mary Gregg : came early to the town of Geneva : died March 8, 1888. Mary's children were John G., David L. and Mary Ann ( Mrs. Daniel Gross). Martha's children were Arvilla (Mis. Samuel Lytle, Jr. ). Ellen Genevra (Mrs. Henry Delap). Lydia Marilla, Charles Mortimer (mar- ried Nellie Cruickshank).
John Gray Flack, born July 3. 1828; married December 18, 1849, Ellen M., daughter of Daniel S. and Maria Benton : she died June 22. 1900 : he mar- ried Mrs. Hephsibah (Tomlinson) Allen, June 19, 1902 ; is yet living, at Elk- horn.
David Lytle Flack was born at Lisbon, October I. 1830; married. first. Philinda, daughter of Richard Crandall and Abigail (Crain) Ransom : second, Mrs. Adelia (Cady) Baldwin : third. Anna Wealthy Moody : died April 20, 1893. Philinda's children were Hiram Crandall, Mary A., John A.
NATHANIEL FOSTER was son of David Foster (a soldier of the Revolu- tion) and Lydia White. Other ancestors were Thomas1 2. John3. Chillings-
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worth+, Nathaniel5. He was born May, 1786, at Williamstown, Massachu- setts; came from Vermont to Sugar Creek; died August 27, 1870. Sarah Leach, his wife, was born April 17, 1792; married in 1809; died February 14, 1867. Of their twelve children Jason, Jay and Asa came to Sugar Creek.
JASON FOSTER was born at Fairfield, Franklin county, Vermont, July 4, 1812; married Chloe Johnson ; died November 24, 1880. Chloe was born August 26, 1808; married in 1833; died April 25, 1887. Their children were Hale (married Addie Ketchpaw), Eugenia (first, Mrs. McDougald; second, Mrs. William H. Conger), Jane ( Mrs. Stephen L. Russell ), Sarah ( Mrs. Ira Rood). Edna (Mrs. Royal Potter).
JAY FOSTER was born at Fairfield, April 11. 1828; married December 31. 1854. Marcia, daughter of Loyal Leach and Elizabeth Bradley : died March 1, 1905, in Lafayette. Mrs. Foster was born July 24, 1834; died May 2, 1905. Their children were: Dexie ( Mrs. Burton Webster ), Ann ( Mrs. Rodney Webster ), Scott, Edith ( Mrs. James Tripp), Edna (Mrs. Ernest A. West), Angie (Mrs. Homer Davis), Lora (Mrs. William Tripp), Mary ( Mrs. J. Ashton Davis).
ASA FOSTER was born at East Fairfield, May 23, 1830; married Septem- ber 23, 1858, Clarinda L., daughter of Samuel Hohnes Tibbets and Sarah Pattee ; now living in Sugar Creek. Mrs. Foster was born at Hawksbury, Ontario, January 18, 1839; died July 4, 1892. Their children are Sarah Emogene (Mrs. Charles H. Nott), Jennie ( Mrs. Charles Mosher ), Samuel Tibbets (married Mary Jane Fountain).
GEORGE GALE was son of Peter Gale, Jr., and Hannah Tottenham. His father's American ancestors were Peter", Isaac5 4. Abraham3 2, Richard1. His mother's were Nathaniel, Elisha3, Eliah", Ilenry1. George Gale was born at Burlington, Vermont, November 30, 1816; had a fair education. thanks to carly tendencies to study : read law at Waterbury, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. and then set out for Elkhorn. Hle at once took an active interest in all movements in furtherance of morals, education, and community develop- ment. lle founded a newspaper at Elkhorn and was for a year its editor. His Form Book, published in 1846, went to revised editions in 1848, 1850 and 1856. In 1847 he was member of the committee on judiciary in the second constitutional convention. In 1850 he was state senator, chosen over General Boyd and Jeduthin Spooner. In 1851 he went to LaCrosse county, was county judge for a term of four years, and was circuit judge 1857-63. In 1853 he bought land on which he laid out the village of Galesville, and moved for the organization of Trempealeau county. He gave ten thousand dollars
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toward establishing a "university" at his new village. One of his later labors was the compilation of a genealogy of the descendants of Richard Gale and wife Mary, of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1640; and of Edmund Gale, of Boston. He died April 18, 1868, at Galesville. He had married at Elkhorn, December 5, 1844, Gertrude, daughter of Capt. George Young and Ann Waldron-the latter one of the innumerable heirs of Anneke Jans Bogardus. Their children were George, William, Helen.
PALMER GARDNER (Sylvester", Palmer", Sylvester+, Nicholas3 ", George1), son of Sylvester Gardner and Sarah Cogswell, was born in the town of Hancock, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, February 23, 1803 : his parents moved to Manlius, New York, in 1810, where he received an academic educa- tion, and to this added a year at Hobart College. For some years he found employment as a surveyor and civil engineer in New York, Canada and Maryland. In 1835 he went forth to see what prospect for him there was in the West. Southern Michigan seemed already pre-empted, and he came by way of northern Illinois to southeastern Wisconsin. Returning, he equipped himself abundantly for prairie-breaking, grain-sowing and home-making. Thus setting forth, he reached by well-deliberated steps the prairie named for him- self and in April, 1836, built his cabin. He entered land in sections 24, 25, 36, of Spring Prairie. February 14, 1844, he married Margaret S., daughter of Samuel Williams, of Manlius. She was born in 1822 and died May 19, 1871. The official list of his town shows his name but once,-as town clerk in 1847, and in the same year he sat five weeks as representative at the first session of the last Territorial Assembly. His colleague, Charles A. Bronson, of La- Grange, also retired at the end of that session. He seems to have had an un- usual if not un-American indifference to public service. After his wife's death he moved to Burlington, where he married again, and died there January 19, 1888. Lucretia May, his daughter, was born November 24, 1844: died January 19, 1865. Amy Gardner, his father's sister, wife of Willard Smith, brought her family into relationship with other old families of the eastern side of the county.
ANDREW GILBERT was born January 15, 1792; married Calma Butler ; came from Madison county, New York, to section 24, Walworth; died at Delavan, October 22. 1870. Calma was born July 9, 1793 : died March 5, 1872. Their children (known) were Ethan Lamphere ( married Elizabeth Caroline Curtis), Phineas C. (married Elizabeth Ann Lewis), Nelson, Esther I. (Mrs. P. Dudley Kendrick), Sarah ( Mrs. Edwin Phelps ). Charles 11. (married Eliza Day). Ethan L. was a business man at Lake Geneva. Phineas C.'s wife was Hollis Latham's step-daughter. Charles H. died in military service. in 1864.
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ZACCHEU'S PHELPS GILLET ( Zaccheus P.5, Zaccheus+, Isaac3, Nathan= 1), son of Zaccheus P. Gillet and Elizabeth Holcomb, was born November 1. 1776; came to Geneva with his sons while that town was yet young, and died August 9. 1861. His wife, Clarissa, daughter of Charles Humphrey (and Naomi Worcester), whose ancestors were Samuel+ 3, Michael2, Samuel1. The later of these Gillets were from Litchfield county, Connecticut, and thence to Oneida county, New York. Among their children were Rinaldo Phelps and Charles Leander, by whom the name has been spelled Gillette. Rinaldo P. Gillette married Abigail Boughton, and their daughter, Martha Emeline, born at Vic- tor. New York, March 4, 1838, and died at Elkhorn. August 1, 1899, was married to Benjamin F. Skiff. She was one of the brightest and truest of wives, mothers and friends. Charles Leander Gillette married Eliza Anu llanna Their son, Ahnerin, was captain and major in the Twentieth In- fantry ; later railway commissioner of Kansas; and was a man with highest sense of personal and commercial honor.
PETER GOLDER, son of Peter Golder and Deborah Wood, was born in Dutchess county, July 5. 1819; learned to make shoes as a means to gain a legal education ; went to Ontario county, where, at Victor, he married Mary Jane, daughter of Hervey Hickox and Lydia West, March 3. 1841 ; came to Kenosha in 1842, and in the same year to Elkhorn. He studied law while he made and mended boots, and was admitted to practice in 1850. About 1855 he formed a short-lived partnership with James Densmore, of the "Indepen- dent." In 1857 he was elected county judge ( over Hollis Latham) and held that place for twenty-nine years. Squire Smith said that "God made Peter for a probate judge."-this by reason of his qualities as a man and a lawyer. He was a life-long student and also a reader of the best things in literature, from the Atlantic Monthly to the "Republic of God." As a personal friend he was one not to be forgotten by any who deserves to be himself remembered. His wife, born at Victor. September 15. 1819, died at Elkhorn, December 6, 1889. Her ancestors, in father-line, were Hervey7. Asa", John5. Samuel4. William3. Samuel, William1. Judge Gokler's increasing deafness compelled his retire- ment. He went to Norborne, Missouri, to live with his adopted daughter. Helen Laura, whose husband. George Dana Viles, had gone there to become a banker. Before his death. July 11, 1900, he was wholly deaf and blind.
CHARLES MOREHOUSE GOODSELL was born at East Haven, Connecticut, i11 1805; his parents moved to Otsego county, where he was bred to the busi- ness of a general store, grist-mill and distillery. His father failed in all this business, and the young man took the wreck of the property and so managed it as to clear away its debts. In 1834 he went to Cincinnatus to raise farm
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