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SANGER MARSH (christened Jedidiah Sanger, and quite probably a near relative of Judge Sanger, the namesake of Sangerfield. Oneida county, New York ) was son of Wolcott Marsh. He was born at Alexander, New York, August 27, 1815: passed from farm to counter at Nunda and Attica: and married Harriet M. Horton at Nunda in 1841. She died January 22, 1843. leaving a son. Mr. Marsh came to Whitewater in 1845 and went into retail business with John S. Partridge. He married Chelsea Pratt in January, 1851, whence three daughters. In 1864 he became president of the First National Bank of Whitewater. He died October 29. 1872. Ilis son. George Sanger Marsh, was born at Nunda, January 17, 1843 : married May 20, 1874, Rebecca Jane, daughter of Jabez Wight and Rebecca Garrett Worrell. Her older ancestors were Thomas1. Henry2. Joseph", Jabez', John3". Mr. Marsh is now president of the Citizens State Bank of Whitewater.
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EBENEZER MARTIN and his second wife, Joanna Fawcet, had sons Orra, John and Josiah. Two of these and a son of the third came to Spring Prairie. The family was of Mansfield, Tolland county, Connecticut, and may have been earlier of Bristol county, Massachusetts. It is not known that others of their name, in the county, were related to them.
CHARLES MARTIN was a son of Josiah Martin and Rachel, daughter of Titus Williams. He was born at Harvard, Delaware county, New York. November 12, 1818. He had a fair education and was well bred to farming. Ile came to the vicinity of Vienna in 1844. He married May 6, 1846, his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of John Martin and Huldah Cornell. She was born at Mansfield, May 11, 1821 ; died November 11, 1850. Mr. Martin mar- ried November 24, 1853, Caroline Matilda, daughter of Samuel Fowle and Harriet Ingraham. He came to Elkhorn and died March 4, 1906. Mrs. Martin was born April 21, 1834; died January 31, 1892. Of five children three died early. Delia is widow of Emory Williams. Helen is county super- intendent of schools. Mr. Martin was an early member of the County Agri- cultural Society and was once its president. For many years he was superin- tendent of the Baptist Sunday school at Spring Prairie, once one of the best- attended of any in the county. He was one who passed readily among men as an intelligent Christian gentleman.
JOHN MARTIN, son of Ebenezer and Joanna, was born at Mansfield, April 4, 1793. He had a fair education and much natural ability. He was once a member for his town of the lower house of the Legislature, and was also judge of the Mansfield probate district. (One or more towns of Connecticut may constitute such a district. and in Judge Martin's time there were eighty- six such districts in the state. ) Ile married Huldah Cornell, and their children were : Ebenezer (married Lucia, daughter of Charles High, of Bloomfield), Elizabeth ( Mrs. Charles Martin). Joanna ( wife of Samuel, son of Rev. Orra Martin ), John ( married Mrs. Mary ( Cornell) Monroe, his cousin ), Timothy (married Laura Kelly ). Judge Martin came to Spring Prairie in 1842, bringing with him his title for the convenience of his new neighbors. Ile died June 19. 1871. Huldah was born in 1795; died October 26, 1844.
ORRA MARTIN, son of Ebenezer and Joanna, was born at Mansfield. Jan- uary 25. 1791. While yet a young man he became a Baptist clergyman. His wife was Polly S., daughter of Augustus Mitchell. Of their children, Dr. George P'. lived in Racine county, and John H. lived near Vienna. The latter married, first, Joanna Woodman ; second, Adeline Decker. Elder Martin was widely known to members of his denomination in this state. lle and John H. Martin were Democrats, while their relatives were all Republicans. Elder
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Martin was found dead in his bed, January 14, 1885. Other children, at home with parents in 1860, were Juliette S., Carlos D., Thomas M.
ALBERT L. MASON, son of Darius B. Mason and Harriet C. Starr (early settlers of Sharon), was born at Cooperstown, New York, August 23, 1824; came to Sharon in 1840: married in 1847 Sophronia, daughter of William Joiner ; was postmaster 1850-3 at Sharon village; member of Assembly in 1879-elected without opposition ; died March 26, 1896. His father had been a member of the county board, and his son, Darius B., is named in later official lists of the town.
ASA LEWIS MAXON, JR., was born in Rensselaer county, New York, May 5, 1802: lived in Madison and Jefferson counties between 1825 and 1853; came to section 27. Walworth, and bought a large farm. His wife was Julia Ann Read (1823-1897). He died May 5, 1882. Four sons were named : Edgar Read ( 1823-1907) married Emily Wilson, daughter of Austin Rogers ; Henry J. (1826-1892) married Phoebe Howland; Francis W. (1805-1887) married Mary L. Colburn; Dr. Joseph S. married Anna, daughter of Anson Goodrich.
Deacon Alfred Maxon (1785-1858) had wife Mary ( 1787-1864). He may have been an elder brother of Asa L. Maxon. Clark P. Maxon, born in 1818, married Lucy Ann Kinney. His relationship, if any there was, is not shown. The presence, in the same town, of Maxons and Maxsons makes some uncertainty as to the correct spelling for any individual.
COL. JAMES MAXWELL was born at Guilford, Vermont, about 1785. The story of his early and middle life is but scantily told. He must have had a fair education and some experience in business. He lived for some time in Penn- sylvania and in Indiana, and at the time of Black Hawk's war was at Chicago, and at that time, probably, was one of Governor Reynolds's militia colonels. The records of the adjutant-general's office, at Springfield, might make this clear. Coming with Dr. Philip S., his younger half-brother. to Lake Geneva, he left that theatre of war and made a peaccable settlement in Walworth, where he and his son, and with them the Doctor, bought liberally in sections 15, 24, 26, 27. He was a member of the upper house of the second and third Legis- lative Assemblies for the joint district of Rock and Walworth, 1838-42. It is not known when he left the county, but, at the organization of the State His- torical Society, in 1849. he was present from Sauk county. It is said that he «lied about 1869. His son. James Alexander Maxwell, remained in Walworth long enough to find a place in the official list of that town.
PHILIP S. MAXWELL was born at Guilford, Vermont, April 1, 1799; was educated at the Cherry Valley Academy; studied medicine and was grad-
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uated from the Medical College of New York: opened an office at Sacketts Ilarbor in 1832: about that time married Jerusha, daughter of Jabish and Eunice Moore, and was commissioned assistant-surgeon, United States Army : ordered in 1833 to Fort Dearborn; served also at Green Bay; in 1836, being again at Chicago, he, with his half-brother, Col. James Maxwell, invested in the conflicting claims at Lake Geneva and in other land; was ordered to Florida in 1838, and later to Fort Smith : resigned in 1842 and began success- ful practice at Chicago. In 1853 he became state treasurer of Illinois ; but having built and occupied a summer home overlooking Geneva Lake in 1855. his office at Springfield was declared vacant by reason of his non-residence in the state. Ile renounced Illinois citizenship and Democracy, and made his home at Lake Geneva and his political bed with the Republican party : though it pleased him not to hear his old-line Whig associates rail at General Jackson. as they were rather wont to do. He died November, 1859. His wife was born December 28, 1804: died at Lake Geneva, March 27. 1875. Dr. Max- well's family may be regarded as pioneers of the now numerous lakeside- dwelling Chicagoans.
LOT MAYO, son of Elisha, was born at Augusta, New York, in 1803: moved with his father to Chautauqua county, near Mayville, whence both came in the early forties to Elkhorn. He had married successively two daughters of Samuel Tubbs and Polly Frost .- the second wife named Jane, who was born in 1811 and died at Elkhorn, October 26. 1849. His father died the same day, aged seventy-five. Of one or both of these marriages were sons Andrew, Samuel and Elisha. In 1853 he became postmaster at Elkhorn : and. having secured reappointment, he married, third. Mrs. Amanda, daughter of Simeon DeWitt Corbin and widow (since 1846) of Erastus Hubbard. Of this marriage was one child, Zaida. He died January 3. 1870. Mrs. Mayo died November 26, 1893, leaving also a son, De Witt Pratt Hubbard. Mr. Mayo was a working Freemason, and for some years master of the lodge at Elkhorn. He insisted constantly that no man could be a good and true Mason without obedience to the moral law, and his own conduct squared with this profession. He was also a working Democrat, and his political reading had made him a fairly formidable opponent in the partisan debates or wrangles of his time.
JESSE MEACHAM was born at Burlington, Otsego county. December 10. 1791 ; served as a soldier of the war of 1812, and as a prisoner was nearly lost by shipwreck at the mouth of the St. Lawrence: afterward became a major, by a governor's commission or by the courtesy of his neighbors ; came to Lodi, Michigan, soon after his marriage, in 1828, to Patience Wallace.
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widow of his brother James, whose children he made his own. Having visited Honey Creek valley in 1835 he came with his family and a few friends in 1836, settled a town and founded a village. He died July 29. 1868. Patience was born July 20, 1794: died March 12, 1875. Her children were: Urban Duncan (married Prudence Geddes ), Edwin Wallace ( married Emeline M. McCracken ), Edgar ( married Sarah Mason ).
Urban D. Meacham's son, William Pitt, was born September 27. 1836. first native of Troy. He married Celesta J., daughter of Stephen Smith, of Monroe, Wisconsin, and returned in 1865, after twenty-one years absence, to his grandfather's place. He died there November 3, 1911.
ZERAHI MEAD was born at Rutland, Vermont, June 4, 1800: from 1825 to 1832 worked a woolen factory at Waddington, St. Lawrence county ; mar- ried Fama. daughter of James Mott and Abigail Barnum, October 6, 1832: came to Whitewater in 1837 and bought land in section 15. He was one of the several justices of the peace appointed by Governor Dodge for the county in 1838 and became aged and gray in that office. A son, James M. Mead, died in military service at Helena in 1863. Squire Mead was assemblyman in 1852. having defeated Willard Stebbins. He died March 23. 1875. Mrs. Mead was born November 17, 1813: died April 30, 1898.
PEREZ MERRICK was born January 28, 1766; married Hannah Williston in 1789: lived at Franklin. Delaware county, New York. His ancestors. Thomas1 and wife. Elizabeth Tilly: James" and wife, Sarah Hitchcock ; Joseph3 and wife, Mary Leonard : Joseph+ and wife, Deborah Leonard. Perez and Hannah had children: Gordon ( died at Akron). Perez, Roderick, Austin L., Alonzo ( married Samantha Wylie). Flavia ( Mrs. Samuel White ).
Col. Perez Merrick was born June 12, 1792 ; married Jerusha, daughter of Dr. S. Hutchinson : came to this county in 1836; was.one of the earliest justices of the peace : died .August 25. 1854. His daughter Juliette was wife of Horace Coleman. His son, Perez H., born June 9, 1825, married Mary A .. daughter of Nicholas and Mary Briggs, and had a son, Orlando Briggs.
Roderick Merrick was born August 5. 1794 : married Rebecca Gates, Jan- uary 24, 1828 ; came to Spring Prairie in 1837; died May 18. 1870. His wife was born July 16. 1806: died February 24. 1895. Their children were : Flavia (Mrs. Alonzo Daniels ), Hannah Rose ( Mrs. German Moore), Gordon Williston ( married Celeste Annette, daughter of Jeremiah Sheffield and Han- nah Gardner Smith). Oscar D. (married Emily, daughter of Nathaniel Bell and Saralı Cook), Elnora, Albert H.
Austin Leonard Merrick was born January 2. 1807: came to Spring Prairie in 1836: married December 12, 1839. Esther Celestia Cook, who left
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seven children ; married July 28, 1856, Gratia Putnam, daughter of Josiah Crane and wife Ruth; died December 19, 1887. His wife, Gratia P., was born May 20, 1815; died December 16, 1900. Mr. Merrick's children were : Leroy Williston (married Luella J. Ellsworth), Josephine Louisa (Mrs. John H. Norton), Esther Priscilla, Augusta Deborah (Mrs. Vernon H. Raleigh), Agnes Flavia (Mrs. Frank Jones), Dr. Jerome Cass, Irene Celestia.
EZRA AMES MULFORD was born in Albany county, New York, in 1804; studied medicine at the neighboring medical college : practiced for some years in his native state; married Zilpha Packard (born June, 1804). a native of New Hampshire, and came in 1845 to the town of Walworth. In 1847 he was a member of the committee on general provisions at the constitutional convention, but took little part in the work of that body. He continued in medical practice in Walworth until his death, November 1, 1861. He had six children.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS NOYES ( Abel7, Moses", Joseph" +3. Rev. James-, Rev. William1), was son of Abel Noyes and Sophia Shepard Hatch ( Tim- othy" 5.4. Benjamin3, Jonathan2, Thomas1), daughter of Timothy Hatch and Abigail, daughter of Moses Porter and Sarah Kilham. He was born in Otsego county, New York, September 3, 1812; improved his cominon school educa- tion by judicious reading ; went to Buffalo in 1830 as a shipping clerk ; came to Chicago in 1836, and thence to Geneva, where he bought, with his cousin, Orrin Hatch Coe, one-fourth interest in Brink's claim to the mill-site. This share of the bone of contention was soon sold to R. Wells Warren, whose sister, Nancy Page, daughter of Thomas Warren and Anna Page, was married to Mr. Noyes, January 23, 1837. Before the end of the year he recrossed the state line, made and sold claims; was post- master in 1839 at Tryon, Illinois ; returned to Geneva in 1850 only to set out for California: in 1853 bought an interest in the water-power at Genoa Junction ; again to California in 1858, returning to Lake Geneva in 1872, where he died November 25, 1881. Record of Mrs. Noyes' birth and death is not found. Their children were: Ilelen Augusta (Mrs. Gilmore D. Fel- lows), Mary Elizabeth ( Mrs. Franklin Rowe). Charles Augustus ( 1841- 1807), a soldier of the Civil war ( married Jenny Lind, daughter of Benjamin B. Humphrey and Juliet Smith ). Martha Irene ( Mrs. James Ervin Fuller ), Josephine AAmanda ( died early ).
CYRIL. LEACHE ONTMAN Was grandson of George and son of Eli Oatman and Mary, daughter of Joel and Patience Symonds, of Pawlet, Vermont. ( His father died May 30. 1851, aged seventy-four: his mother died February 16, 1861. aged eighty.) Cyril, seventh of eleven children, was born at Middle-
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town. Vermont. April 10. 1815. His sister. Calista ( fourth child), was wife of Russell H. Mallory. In 1835 Mr. Oatman went to St. Louis; in 1838 he came with Mr. Mallory to Geneva and (except a few years in business at East Troy) made his home there till his death, May 17, 1889. Ile served as under-sheriff for Mr. Mallory, and the two made the census of 1842. Being a Democrat, as well as a man of property, character and ability, he was many times defeated on the county and legislative tickets of his party. After Mr. Mallory's death, March, 1852, his family was adopted by Mr. Oatman, who never married.
RICHARD O'CONNOR was born at New York. March 17. 1816: married Elizabeth Morgan about 1846, and left the city by the sea for the city by lake and creek in the same year. He founded a good business in drugs and books,- the pioneer store at Whitewater in such goods. He was town assessor for more than twenty years, and was among the earliest effective movers in the matter of good walks and shaded streets. In business sense he was one of the builders of Whitewater. He died December 27, 1881. leaving a well-estab- lished business to two sons.
ALBERT OGDEN ( Zenas7. Daniel". John5. David1. Thomas". David?, John1). son of Zenas Ogden and Julia, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Marsh, was born at Walton, New York, February 1. 1815: came to Milwau- kee in 1836, and joined himself to the founders of Elkhorn. He married Charlotte, daughter of Peter Boyce, September 7. 1843; she died July 25. 1844: his second wife was Emma Oricia, daughter of Miner Watkins and Anna Barr, married April 29. 1847. Mr. Ogden made no ripple in politics, nor was named on election tickets : but he was a Whig as long as Clay and Webster lived to lead. From 1854 he was a Democrat, and lived to vote for Pahner and Buckner. He prospered moderately and noiselessly, and at his death. August 5, 1903, left a fair property and no children. Mrs. Ogden was born at Stockbridge, Vermont, May, 1824; died at Elkhorn. November 29,- 1905.
ZENAS OGDEN, son of Daniel Ogden and Phoebe, daughter of Moses Lindsley and Irany Raynor, was born at Morristown. New Jersey, February 3. 1793 : married Julia, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Marsh ( born 1794; died June 16, 1828) : married again. in 1833. Melita Baird (born at Becket, Massachusetts. November 2. 1800: died at Elkhorn, December 10, 1880) in 1833 : came in the forties to his farm in the southwestern quarter of Elkhorn ; (lied December 12, 1861. lle was a cousin of President William B. Ogden, of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company. In his middle life he was a
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Whig, in later years a Republican. His eight children ( three by second mar- riage) were Harriet Thankful ( Mrs. Elijah Smith). Albert, Mary ( Mrs. Gabriel Smith Sawyer), Stansbury ( married Ruth A. Mallory), Lucy (Mrs. A. Sidney Downs), George Washington ( married Mary M. Jewell ), Henry (died young ). Elizabeth ( Mrs. W. Frank Jewell ).
JOHN STANLEY PARTRIDGE, son of Stanley Partridge and Priscilla Ash- ley, wasborn in Genesee county, New York, June 28, 1819; came, in 1846, to Whitewater and went with Sanger Marsh into general retail business, to which they later added grain-buying, having built a large warehouse and elevator. In April. 1848, he married Henrietta M., daughter of Uriah Johnson, of Leroy, New York. In 1883 he became president of the Citizens National Bank. He died July 3. 1892. His wife was born March. 1823: died Decem- ber 13. 1890. His earlier ancestors were George1. John". George3, James+, Stephen“, Rufus6. His children were, in 1860, J. Ashley, Clarence J .. Ernest G.
DAN PHELPS, son of Joseph Phelps and Jemima, daughter of Israel Post, had other ancestors: William12. Timothy3, Joseph+ 56. He was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, September 18, 1779; married Elizabeth, daughter of Israel King and Elizabeth Thompson ; came from Darien, New York, to sec- tion 1, Geneva, in 1842; died April 26. 1868. His wife was born April 18, 1789 : died July 3. 1864. Their children were Cyrus K., Pamela (Mrs. Sam- nel P. Jenks). Sarah ( Mrs. Eli Webber ), Lavina ( Mrs. George Wickwire), Adelia ( Mrs. David Williams).
Cyrus King Phelps was born at Darien, New York, July 4, 1818: mar- ried September 26, 1843. Adeline C., daughter of Thorp Williams and Clar- issa Peters : died October 24. 1899. Mrs. Phelps was born at Darien, June 28, 1822 : died September 2, 1879. Their children were Asa W., Jane J., Jerome D., Arthur H. Mr. Phelps was a careful breeder of fine sheep and cattle, a thorough farmer, and in some fair sense a model citizen and neighbor.
HENRY PHOENIX, son of John and wife Martha Martin, was born at Greenwich, New York, June 28, 1792 ; was apprenticed to a tanner at Painted Post ; after various business ventures he settled for a time at Perry, where he was postmaster. In 1836 he came with his brother, Col. Samuel F .. to Dela- van, and the two joined in platting the village and naming it. in mill-building, in a general store, and in real estate business. He had married. November, 1819. at Painted Post, Ann, daughter of John Jennings. They had eleven children. He died February 27, 1842. His widow was killed by a railway train while she was crossing an icy trestle-bridge west of the village. November 19, 1857. She had eleven children. Martha was wife of Aaron HI. Taggart. and Mary C. was wife of John F. MeKey.
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SAMUEL FAULKNER PHOENIX, son of Jolin and wife Martha Martin, was born December 23, 1798, probably in Washington county, New York. Ilis father died about two years later and his mother was married to Joshua Bart- lett. It is conjectured that the family removed to Chenango county before reaching the town of Dansville, in the northwestern corner of Steuben county, where the boys learned the process and the business of tanning. Samuel mar- ried October 24. 1822, at Sherburne, Chenango county, Sarah Ann, daughter of Samuel Kelsey and Elizabeth Carver. She was born in that county Septem- ber 3, 1799, and died at Delavan. May 9, 1894. The brothers had gone, about 1816, to Perry (then in Genesee county ), and in the next few years built a prosperous business as tanners and added general stores at Perry and Frank- linville to their enterprise. In 1827 Samuel became colonel of the Twenty- seventh New York Infantry, and at or about the same time joined the Baptist church. In 1830 the brothers spilled their stock of alcoholic liquors and de- voted themselves to the cause of total abstinence. In 1835 Samuel was a delegate to the Utica convention, which formed the State Anti-Slavery So- ciety. This was the meeting which was mobbed at Utica and was entertained by Gerrit Smith at Peterboro. In 1836 he came to Spring Prairie, and set out in quest of a site for his ideal village, which he named, and concurred with Baker. Dwinnell and others in naming the county as worthily. Colonel Phoenix died September 6, 1842, from bilious colic. He had brought to Dela- van, with his military title, his business shrewdness, his endless activity, his zeal for religious and moral reform, and his interest in public education. He preached at Delavan, Spring Prairie and at other settlements. He was a moving spirit in early conventions of temperance men and of slavery-haters.
The story of his early life is imperfectly and not quite consistently told. It is not quite certain that his father was not William, as Mr. Dwinnell's papers tell it : though it is probable that as to this Mr. Cutler was correctly in- formed at Delavan in 1881. Colonel Phoenix was at his coming westward a relatively wealthy man, and must have made himself so between his eighteenth and thirty-sixth years. He did not live to see the early failure of his purpose to build a city as well on moral ideas as on commoner principles of business ; but the good seed he sowed was not all wasted, though tares took root there, too. His only child, Franklin Kelsey, was born at Perry, March 3, 1825; married Mary E., daughter of Thomas Topping. of Darien, December 2, 1850; died February 3, 1911. His children were Samuel T., A. Melville. Fred S .. May (Mrs. Cameron ), Frank, Carrie ( Mrs. Edward F. Williams). Jolin Jay ( married Eva, daughter of W. Wallace Bradley).
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WILLIAM PHOENIX, a cousin of Henry and Samuel F. Phoenix, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, March 17, 1793; was a farmer and teacher, and in time a retailer of general goods. He wandered about western New York and northern Pennsylvania for a few years before settling at Perry, whence he came in 1836 with his cousins to Delavan, and in 1837 be- came postmaster at that village. He was once assessor and twice a member of the county board. He died November 25, 1855. It seemed fore-written by the Fates that others should reap what these Phoenixes had sown so well. He had married at Milo, New York, July 18, 1818, Susan, sister of John Bruce, of Darien. Their children were Henry H., Mary A. ( Mrs. Edwin Brainard), Samuel .A., William .A., John W.
JARVIS KING PIKE was son of Jesse Pike ( 1756-1799) and Rebecca King ( 1763-1833). He was born in Dutchess county, New York, December 19, 1781 ; married December 24, 1801, Rebecca Mead, who was born June 4, 1782, and died December 6, 1867. In 1813 he served as aid to his maternal uncle, Gen. Nathaniel King, of the New York militia, at Sacketts Harbor ; in 1821 as a member of the New York constitutional convention: in 1837 as a judge of tlie Cortland county court of common pleas. In 1841 he came to Whitewater, where he built a house, but later moved to Cold Spring, and in 1849 was a member of Assembly for Jefferson county. He died January 16. 1863. His children, whose lives were more or less of Whitewater, were : Calvin ( married Mary Ann Wheeler), Clarissa ( Mrs. William Field ). Elnora , (Mrs. Hezekiah M. Sanders), Mary Ann, Alanson (married Fidelia Cra- vath ), Sarah.
JOHN FOX POTTER (John", Rev. Isaiah", Daniel+ 3, Nathaniel", Will- iam1), son of John Potter and Caroline Fox, was born at AAugusta, Maine, May 11, 1817. He was educated at Phillips-Exeter Academy, and had as schoolmates and friends the five Washburne brothers, who were afterwards of as many states ; namely, Maine, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and California, and all more or less politically fortunate. He became, like his father, a lawyer. and coming to East Troy in 1838 he became also a farmer, having settled on three hundred and fifty acres of land in sections 10, 11, 15. His land nearly enclosed a lakelet, and on its high bank he built his house. He married Octo- ber 15. 1839, Frances E. 1 ... daughter of Capt. George Fox and Rebecca Lewis, and they had six children. Their son, Alfred Charles Potter, was a sergeant of Company 1, Twenty-eighth Infantry. The places Judge Potter tilled and those he declined have been mentioned. As a member of Assembly he exposed a railway company's method of influencing a governor, a judge of the supreme court, a legislature, and part of the daily press to secure to itself
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