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cated, broadly intelligent, and in all ways womanly. Mr. Simmons has been made known in other chapters as lawyer, county officer, historian and poet of occasions. Besides these labors of duty and of love, he had in hand, in his later life, the work of digesting the reports of judicial decisions in the courts of England, New York and Wisconsin. He was not without ambition, but never had learned to grovel in order that he might rise. He, like his friend Judge Baker, was carelessly taken by his fellowmen at his too modest self- estimate, though his qualities as a citizen and neighbor were neither unseen nor unvalued; but this did not make him blame the world nor despise it. His life was intellectual, moral and social: his convictions in matters of highest public and nearest personal concern were calinly formed and clearly defined ; and he was quietly resolute in following them. AAt home and among neigh- bors he was one of the best and kindest of men.
HARLEY FLAVEL SMITH, son of Richard (son of David) Smith and Sarah. daughter of Edward White and Sarah Tourtelotte, was born at Towns- hend, Vermont, September 28, 1808: educated at Chester Academy and Mid- dleburg College ; went to Saratoga to study law under locally eminent lawyers ; went to Wyoming village where he taught mathematics and classics in a school of some repute in western New York : continued law study at Pike ; admitted to practice in 1838 and opened an office at Castile, where he abode till the end of 1848. In 1850 he came to Elkhorn and formed a partnership with lloratio S. Winsor, and this firm was one of the strongest in the county for many years. About 1870 the firm dissolved, and in 1877 he received a younger part- ner in the person of Jaynes B. Wheeler, ending in the latter's county judge- ship in 1886. The old man's active career then closed, and his few remaining years were given to an endless, unreadable legal defense of the authenticity as historie truth, of the five Mosiac books of the Bible. He wrote with a stub steel-pen, in the crabbedest of characters, and as the ink on the first foolscap sheet would scarcely be dry when he reached the end of the third sheet, the gen- eral appearance of his manuscript would suggest that his left arm defaced while his right hand scribbled. He was a public-spirited and in all ways excellent citizen, a kind and often helpful neighbor, and a friend to be trusted. He never cared to hold office, but would have accepted a judgeship of circuit or supreme court had it come to him without his asking. He married September 15, 1833, Lydia Ann, daughter of David Nourse and Nancy George. She was born at Rockingham, Vermont. December 4. 1809, and died at Elkhorn, May 7. 1881, leaving a daughter. Mrs. Smith was one of the best of home-makers.
LINDSEY JOSEPH SMITHI, son of Sylvester Gardner Smith and Diana Ward, was born in Lafayette, January 8, 1840. His father was a first cousin
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of Palmer Gardner, the settler of Spring Prairie. In 1862 L. J. Smith went into military service as first lieutenant of Company I, Twenty-eighth Infantry, and returned as captain in 1865-a long and active service. He married llelen MI., daughter of James Stewart and Margaret Guthrie, December 21, 1871. He was chosen assemblyman for the session of 1881 over Dr. Caleb S. Blanchard and John Matheson. He died at Troy Centre, August 17, 1907.
SEWALL SMITH, born at Andover, Vermont. December 13, 1802; married in 1825 Nancy Mansur ( 1803-1884) ; died at East Troy January 23, 1881. In 1841 he built and occupied the first store at the village. He was a member of the committee on banks and banking in the first constitutional convention. In 1844 he was a member of the county board, and served his town usefully in other official places. He was also the first postmaster of the village. None of his children remain at East Troy, though his sons George H. and Charles W. Smith were for some years in the business begun by their father.
TIMOTHY CLARK SMITH was son of Noah R. Smith and Susan Dowd. His mother's ancestors were Henry1. John2, David3, Richard13. Ile was born in Cortland county December 20, 1816; came in 1842 from Orleans county to Milwaukee where he was clerk for a dry goods firm ; came to Geneva in 1844 as partner with his employer at Milwaukee ; in 1865 changed his busi- ness to hardware: died December 25, 1888. 1le married Mary S. Bowen in 1857 and Helen Bowen in 1869.
ALFRED STEPHENS SPOONER (Joel5, Wing4, Daniel3, Samuel2, William1) was son of Joel Spooner and Lydia, daughter of Capt. Israel Trow and Mary Clapp. He was born March 3. 1819, near Keene, New York : was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and between work and study found no idle hours ; married Sarah Maria, daughter of Isaac Bristol and Sophia Holcomb, December 25. 1844. In 1849 he came to Delavan to work and study, and in 1850 was ad- mitted to the practice of law. From 1854 to 1858 he was district attorney. and was called back in 1878 for another terin. having defeated Joseph Ilubert Page. He served for many years as justice of the peace at Delavan, and was also a court commissioner. He had nine children, of whom few are living. Ile died April 22, 1895. Mr. Spooner was a vigorous newspaper writer as well as a good lawyer. He had one of the best law libraries in the county. and a large family of good and bright children.
WYMAN SPOONER (Jeduthun5, Thomas4, John 3 2, William1) was son of Jeduthun Spooner and Hannah, daughter of Joshua Crowell and Mary Shive- rick. He was born at Hardwick, Massachusetts, July 2, 1795. He passed at fourteen from the common school at home to his uncle Alden Spooner's printing office at Windsor, Vermont. At twenty-one he had earned the degree
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of master printer, and by orderly promotion became editor of the Advocate at Royalton and later at Chelsea. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Fish and Elizabeth Holmes, at Hardwick, November 10, 1818. She was born at Upton, November 17, 1794, and died in the town of Lyons, February 16, 1877. Mr. Spooner studied law at Royalton under Hon. Jacob Collamer, and at Chelsea under Hon. Daniel .A. A. Buck, and was admitted to practice in 1833. In 1835 he went to Canton, Ohio, and practiced in the courts of Stark and Tuscarawas counties. In 1842 he came by way of Racine to Elkhorn ; served as judge of probate 1846-9: was circuit judge for one term of court by appointment : served in the Assembly four terms ( twice as speaker) ; state senator 1862-4, and president of the Senate ( and acting lieutenant-governor ) ; lieutenant-governor by two elections, from 1864-68. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party of Wisconsin in 1854. In his youth he had been a Federalist and afterward a Whig of the anti-slavery type. In 1872 he thought it possible to make a new party of administrative reform, and joined the Greeley movement. In 1876 he voted for the last time, and for Hayes. He died November 18, 1877, at his son Wyman, Jr.'s, home in Lyons. Governor Spooner was well read in the English classics and thence formed a plain, clear. forcible style of speaking and writing. His faculties seemed always at his command, and he was thus equipped for instant service as editor, contributor, speaker, judge, chairman, or conversationalist. His sense of propriety kept his discourse, spoken or written, free from false ornament and his delivery unmarred by trick of the stage. He cared more for essence and substance than for form; but, to his mind, a courtroom, a public meeting. a business confer- ence, a meeting of family or friends, had each of right its decencies of be- havior and speech. each its appropriate dignity. As a lawyer, one who had been his partner, and well-qualified for estimating men's higher personal and professional values, said of him: "He was thoroughly educated in the prin- ciples of his profession, and regarded its practice as a means to secure justice as its end." For such men as he the first and highest aim of politicians must be "to secure and maintain the best form of government, honestly and justly administered."
JOHN SYNG SPOOR, son of William Spoor and Christine Wilcox, was born in Erie county, New York, March 20, 1805. In 1835 he married Mari- ette, daughter of Jesse Bivins and Lydia Byington. She was born at Clarence, New York, October 5. 1816, and died at Burlington, Wisconsin, Angust 10. 1808. In 1837 he came from Washtenaw county, Michigan, to the Meacham settlement and presently made his home in East Troy. In 1842 he bought land in sections 10, 11. 12 of Lyons, and lived in that town till his death, April 2,
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1867. His son Charles (1843-1909), a soldier of the Twenty-eighth Infantry, married Almira J., daughter of Winslow P. Storms, in 1866. Other children live in other counties and states. The elder Spoor served four years as justice of the peace.
AMOS WAGMAN STAFFORD, grandson of Amos and son of Samuel H. Stafford and wife Nancy, daughter of Jacob Ferguson, was born at Saratoga Springs, November 2, 1810; moved to Victor, New York, in 1824; married. first, Ann Sabrina, daughter of Stephen and Jane Ellis, May 20, 1832 ; came to Bloomfield in 1844 and bought a farm (with his father) in section 4; wife died November 7, 1882 ; moved to Lake Geneva and May 10. 1887, married. second, Mrs. Juliet, daughter of R. Wells Warren and Mary Knapp, and widow of Simeon Gardner ; he died September 20, 1900. He was seven times a mem- ber of the county board, and was chosen assemblyman for 1872 over Maurice L. Ayers. He had five children. Eliza was wife of Abner Farnum, and Sarah. wife of Jefferson P. Harlow.
HENRY J. STARIN, son of Jacob F. Starin and Mary Schermerhorn, was born at Glen, Montgomery county, New York, August 25, 1808; married Ella Green Schermerhorn in 1835; came to Whitewater in 1840; was a horti- culturist, and the village owed much to his early efforts in planting shade trees. He was found dead in his bed, May 5, 1880. Hc'had sons Henry Allen, and Duane, a soldier of the Civil war. His brother, Frederick Jacob Starin, born April 17, 1821, married Jane Martha Groat ; died October 2, 1896. He was a surveyor and civil engineer and was connected with most of the early railway building in which Whitewater had great concern.
HIRAM ALDEN STONE was born at Pawlet, Vermont, March 4. 1811; came to Milwaukee in 1840, and later to Darien. In 1858 lie was elected sheriff over Michael Thompson and in 1866 without opposition. Ile died at Milwaukee November 4, 1896. Lucinda, his wife, was born in 1817; died in 1878. Their daughter Mary A. was married in 1859 to Orange Willianis. His brother, Moses Bushnell Stone, was born in 1814; died August 4, 1866; married Harriet Sumner ( 1818-1901). Sheriff Stone was a stout-built man of few words, of clear judgment, resourceful, resolute, and had much ability and experience in detective work.
Other sheriffs, not named in these notes, were elected : Carver over Perry G. Harrington and Amos C. Leland; Crumb over Harrington and Stone : Derthick over William A. Knilans, Milton L. Hollister; Fay over Mlbon M. Perry ; Flanders over John L. Fulton, Edward T. Weyher ; Foster over Harold H. Rogers, James Cleary : Gates over Cyril 1. Oatman : Goff over Fred W.
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Hutchins ; Hollister over Harvey W. Curtis, William Brown; Humphrey over George II. Willis ; MeMillan over Austin R. Langley ; Perry over David Coon, Jr. : Piper over F. Maxwell Porter : Taylor over George O. West, John Mathe- son : White over James F. Jude, F. M. Porter; Wiswell over Taylor F. Fland- ers : Wylie over Willard Stebbins, Willis, Knilans.
WINSLOW PAGE STORMS, son of William Storms and Clarissa Hill, was born in Cato, New York, June 9, 1820. He married, February 22, 1843, at Milwaukee, Melissa Persis, daughter of Isaac Meacham. She was born at Brownsville, New York, December 21, 1818, and died April 26, 1909. In 1845 Mr. Storms settled at Vienna, in section 13, Spring Prairie. His house long did occasional service to hungry and benighted travelers as a wayside inn. He owned a farm in the same section. In 1861-2 he was a member of the county board, and served the town at times as supervisor, clerk, treasurer and assessor. He died at Lyons, July 20. 1903. leaving three of his five children. Of these, Almira J., now of Milwaukee, is widow of Charles Spoor.
CHARLES HOLMES STURTEVANT, son of Francis and Jerusha ( Bartlett), was born in Orange county, Vermont, June 3. 1818: came in 1837 to Chicago, and in 1841 to Delavan as carpenter, cabinet-maker and later was Mr. Isham's partner in a wagon-shop. He was in general retail business for a few years, and then went into insurance and collecting agencies. In September, 1842, he married Prudence, daughter of Peter Millspaugh Keeler and Prudence Sturte- vant. of Darien : she died in October, 1855. and he married Amanda. daughter of Orlando Brown, of Allegany county, about 1857. There were six children of the first marriage and four of the second one. Ile was three times a mem- ber of the county board, and once its chairman, and was assemblyman in 1863 without opposition at the polls. He died December 19, 1899.
AARON HARDIN TAGGART was born at Greenwich, New York. December 30, 1816. He came to Delavan in 1837 and with George Passage built a brick store, stocked it well with general goods and continued in business seven years. He owned a large farm lying in sections 19, 20, south of the village. and to this he moved in 1856, and died April 25. 1874. He had married September 1, 1846, Martha, daughter of Henry Phoenix and Ann Jennings. She was born in 1826; died in 1905. Their children were Sarah A., Henry 11., Ada E., George M., William P .. Louis H., Fred H. Louis H1. Taggart. now of Lake Geneva, married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George Sturges and Ann Maria, daughter of Hiram Ilumphrey and Mary Blodgett.
HENRY TOPPING, son of Jared and Sarah, was born in Montgomery county, New York, March 14. 1804: taught school ; opened a store at Lees- ville, Schoharie county ; married in that county, December 31, 1828, Nuel,
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daughter of William and Nancy S. Van Doren; was ordained as a Baptist clergyman in 1835 and was pastor at Leesville until 1839, when he came to a farm in Darien. From 1841 to 1850 he preached at Delavan, East Delavan and Walworth; went to Sauk county, and returned in 1857 to Delavan. In 1867 he moved to southernmost Illinois, and thence to Kansas, where he died, at Ottawa, November 20, 1870. His wife died October 11, 1880-her birth September 24, 1808. They had two sons and two daughters. One of the latter, Harriet Nuel, was Mrs. Samuel Rees LaBar.
JULIUS ALLEN TREAT. son of Oren Treat and Nancy Thompson, had ancestors : Richard1 2. Thomas", Richard+, Timothy". Thomas". He was born at Aurora, New York, November 17, 1814; was a surveyor; married Sarah D. Crocker in 1839 : came to a farm in section 25, Sharon, in 1844; was a retailer at Elton for a short time ; moved to the village of Sharon in 1858. where he was a lumber-dealer. His wife was born March 13, 1815; died October 22, 1874. His second wife was Ellen Brownson. He died February 22, 1892. He held various local offices, but his Democracy kept him from the higher places that he might have filled with credit. His brother, George Treat, born September 17, 1818, married Sarah C., daughter of Thomas and Lucinda Foster : died December 25, 1882. \ cousin, Dr. Charles Ralph Treat, son of Oren's brother Isbon and wife Apphia Thompson, was born January 12, 1826; married January 1, 1862, Margaret Reesman ; died May 8, 1901. His wife was born January 15, 1839; died AAugust 9, 1905.
JAMES TRIPP was born at Schenectady, September 5, 1795; studied medi- cine and was graduated about 1817 from the medical college at Albany ; went to Mobile, but returned in 1819: by Governor Clinton's commission he became in 1822 surgeon of a regiment of state militia, an honorary rank ; married, January 4, 1825, Rosepha Ann, daughter of William Comstock, of Otsego county ; came in 1837 to sections 4, 5 of East Troy ( then included in the town of Troy), and built a saw-mill at the outlet of Tripp's lake ( Lake Beulah), which he soon sold. He had plenty of money, for the time and place -plenty and scarcity then as now relative terms-and was induced to build a gristmill at Whitewater. In 1840 this mill was grinding for a large part of the country for eight or ten miles around it. He platted the village of White- water, chiefly on his own land, and dealt justly and liberally with lot-buyers. But he would not doctor them, except in emergencies, in which his knowledge and skill were trusted by his fellow physicians as well as by his patients. He died September 4, 1844, at the rising village he had founded and named, and which he had planned with intelligent foresight. Mrs. Tripp was born at Laurens, New York, November 2, 1802, and died, full of good works, Febru-
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ary 2, 1881. She had been baptized in the Episcopal church, and she brought with her an abiding faith and a habit of showing it forth by kind and helpful deeds, to the end of her life. Her memory, too, was well stored with matter for local/history : for she had seen the infancy of one of the finest small cities of Wisconsin.
JAMES LAWRENCE TUBBS, son of Samuel Tubbs (a soldier of the war of 1812) and Polly Frost, was born at Augusta, New York, September 10, 1824; came with parents in 1843 to Lafayette : qualified himself as a surveyor, and in time, as a civil engineer ; married December 10, 1849, Anna Rebecca, only child of Dr. John Mathias Henderson and Samantha, daughter of Charles and Anna Hine ; was elected eight times county surveyor, and served occasionally as undersheriff. At first a Democrat, he became a Freesoiler and then a Republican. In 1872 he supported Greeley and returned to the Democracy. His profession brought him little revenue until past middle life, when he be- came more profitably occupied in laying out the village of Williams Bay, and in civil engineering work for Chicagoan owners of Geneva Lake (shore) property. He also began the compilation of a second general abstract of titles to county property, and this work had begun to bring him revenue be- fore his death, which was September 6, 1899. Mrs. Tubbs was born at Wil- loughby, Ohio. December 13, 1830, and died at Elkhorn, December 25, 1904. Mr. Tubbs was a lifelong student of pure mathematics, and even in latest years found much pleasure in the study and mastery of quaternions. His clerical habit was neat and exact, and his memory of the political events of his time, of the actors therein, and of men who in earlier years had come to and gone from Walworth county was seldom matched.
REV. JOHN WILLIAM VAHEY, son of James Henry Vahey and Mary Devitt, grandson of Patrick Vahey and Margaret O'Hora, great-grandson of Fergus Vahey and Margaret Prendergast, was born near Castlebar, county Mayo, Connaught, June, 1830. He came in 1848, already advanced in scholar- ship, to the Lazarist seminary at St. Louis. He studied law and practiced four years in the courts of Missouri. In 1854 he received priest's orders at Dubuque. Ile served at the federal military prison at .Alton as chap- lain. In his active career as a parish priest at fifteen towns of Indiana, Illi- nois, Iowa and Wisconsin, he built several churches, including that at Elkhorn. He had also at times lectured to classes in philosophy and languages. He wrote and published several books and was protagonist for the church in several newspaper controversies with Episcopal clergymen. He bought a farm within city limits, having become disabled for the service of the altar, but in a short time retired to find what rest remained in this life, and died June
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27, 1903. He had a wide range of secular knowledge and his wit was ready for most emergencies. His personal qualities drew to him many friends not of his ancient communion. A faithful sister, Miss Margaret, cared for him in his health and in his long last sickness and lives to keep his memory green.
SOLMOUS WAKELEY was born at New Milford, Connecticut, March 17, 1794; was a farmer and a shoemaker and lawyer; went to Cortland county ; married Hannah Thompson in 1818; from Erie county, New York, to Lorain county, Ohio, and thence to Whitewater in 1843; member of committee on bill of rights in first constitutional convention ; member of county board 1851-5 : member of Assembly in 1855 without opposition, in 1857 defeating Willard Stebbins. He died at Madison, January 12. 1867.
CHARLES WALES, son of George Wales and Sally Crane, had father-an- cestors : John1 of Idle ( Yorkshire ), Nathaniel? (of Dorchester ), Timothy3, Nathaniel+, Ebenezer5, Elisha", Nathan™. His mother's ancestors were John1, Benjamin2, John3. Ebenezer4, Jonathan5. He was born at Plymouth, New York, October 22, 1818; bought a farm in north Geneva in 1845; married October 26, 1848, Eliza Ann, daughter of Richard Crandall and Abigail Crane ; moved to Elkhorn in 1875. Mrs. Wales had died in 1868, and in 1869 he married Lorahama, daughter of Elijah Butler. He died June 20, 1903. Ilis children : Ruth Eliza (Mrs. Fred W. Isham) : Rosa Philinda (Mrs. H. Augustus Newton ) : Belle Bethania (Mrs. Clinton D. Dewing) ; Charles Mar- shall, a mechanical engineer, of New York. Charles Wales was a local officer at Geneva and Elkhorn, a working member of the county agricultural society, an intelligent. upright and prosperous man.
GEORGE WALWORTH was born at Rome, New York, August 15. 1793; died January 13, 1853. He was son of Jesse' ( James3, William2 1) and wife Hannah, daughter of Bartholomew and Sarah Daggett, of Danby, Vermont. He married Keziah Thayer, and in 1843 came to Spring Prairie with his brother Jesse, Jr., who soon returned to Rome. In 1847 he was a member of the last territorial Legislature. He was related in some not very remote de- gree to Chancellor Walworth, and probably to his namesakes of the county who were soldiers of the Civil war. Of three daughters, one came to Wis- consin.
GREENLEAF STEVENS WARREN, son of Thomas Warren and Anna Page of Ludlow, Vermont, was born in 1802; about 1814 went with his brother, R. Wells Warren, to Essex county, New York ; thence about 1823 to Crawford county. Pennsylvania. Returning, after a successful venture in the lead- mine region of Dubuque county, he married Martha, a sister of Arnestns 1). Colton. He came in 1837 with his brother to Geneva and built a house which
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by enlargement became a hotel (afterward kept by Mr. Colton). He also built a house and a store. He died in 1852, on his way home from a two- years residence in California. He was succeeded as landlord of the Lake House by Thomas D. Warren, his brother, who was followed by Mr. Colton.
ROBERT WELLS WARREN, son of Thomas and Anna, was born at Ludlow, October 15, 1798; bred to his father's calling of millwright, in which he ac- quired much master's skill; went to Lewis, Essex county. New York, about 1814; married, March 19, 1820, Mary, daughter of Seth Knapp and Martha Fuller. at Willsborough, in that county ; went about 1823 to Cussewago, Craw- ford county, Pennsylvania, and thence in 1837 by way of Chicago to Geneva. Here he came into possession of the disputed mill-site and of a large part of the village-site. In 1838 he built a gristmill for Mr. Goodsell, and afterward owned it-for many years a valuable property. In his later life he was used to early-morning walks, surveying his substantial possessions with quite reason- able satisfaction ; for he had found them in the rough and had made them shapely. He died December 30, 1875. Mrs. Warren, born February 22, 1806, died July 27, 1879. Of their five children, Seth Knapp, born at Lewis, September, 1823, known locally as a photographer and portrait painter, mar- ried May 7, 1846, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Harvey Church, and died De- cember 21, 1890. Juliet was married, first, to Simeon Gardiner; second, to Amos W. Stafford. Seth K. Warren was not of such practical turn of mind as was his father; but preferred to let his soul wander farther away than the solar walk, even unto the polar regions of the universe, in search of evidence wherewith to confound presumptuous speculation on the origin of all being.
THOMPSON DIMOCK WEEKS (Spencer7, Samuel6, Hezekiah5, William4, John3, William2, George1), son of Spencer Weeks and Elvira, daughter of Thomas and Sophia Dimock, was born at Norwich. Massachusetts. November 5. 1832 ; came in 1843 from Darien, New York, to a farm in Lyons ; received academic education at Milwaukee and a collegiate course at Appleton ; was graduated from the law school at Albany in 1859. After a few months at Racine he went in 1860 to Whitewater and became a partner with Prosper Cravath. He married, June 7, 1805. Adelaide M. Farnsworth. At the ses- sion of 1867 he was assemblyman, chosen over Capt. Edward S. Redington. In 1875 he was state senator, his involuntary opponent at the election having been John F. Potter, who voted an open ticket, straight Republican, including the name of Mr. Weeks. He appeared again in the senate in 1893. having beaten Archibald Woodard. He died February 11, 1901. Ile became early in his professional career one of the ablest lawyers of the county, and was favorably known in the courts of other counties and in the supreme court of
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