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Phelps, Sherman l' 1465
Phillips, I. F. 917
Phillips, Lewis F 1024
Phillips, Volney B 1024
Pierce. G. Delos. 1333
Pohl, John 1389
Porter, Doric C. 1325
Porter, Lester C.
1323
Potter, Charles E 1213
Potter, Charles H.
862
Potter, Joseph 1462
Powers, Richard
602
Pramer, Fremont P 981
Price, Edwin G. 691
Prudames, Charles A 957
Puffer, George E. 1419
Pugh, Thomas H.
976
Purdy, Perry L
1269
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O'Brien, Harold N 1257
O'Dell, Larmer 1130
O'Leary, Arthur 1446
Oleson, Ole.
1393
Osmond, Joseph H. 951
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Page, Edward D. 1260
Page, Jay W 1174
Palmer, Alexander S. 910
Palmer, Byron S
628
Palmer, Edwin E.
650
Palmer, William E. 718 I I 1
1 Papenfus, Emil S64 1 1 I
1 Parker, B. R. 1207 1
Passage, William T 1013
Pearce, George I). 677
Peck, Charles I 614
Peck, George P. 1396
Pendergast, John W 1167
Peters, Edward A 1247
Peterson, Albert E.
662
Peterson, Almon I 690
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Randall, George E. 1475
Randall, William F 1077
Ranney, Perry C.
Reader, Deacon John
1342
Reader, John B. 1035
Reader, J. J. 882
Redenins, J. H. S28
Reek, James S.
704
Reinert, Edward C. 795
Reinert, Malch & Baumbach 1270
Remirer, George H.
1356
Renner, John. 1357
Reynolds, Benoni O. 666
Reynolds, James C.
664
Reynolds, Merriott E.
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1 935
1 Richards, Horace S 610
Rittman, Eugene 635 1 1
Rivers, John P. 1349 1
Robers, Henry
1
1
803
Robinson, Albert S
60S
Rockwell, Henry 1242
Rockwell, LeGrand, Jr.
1159
Rockwell, LeGrand, Sr. 1160
Mills, Orlin H. 1455
Mitchell, Benjamin F 846
Mitchell, John
1438
Mohr, Henry 918 1 1
Moore, Frank S. 793 1
Moran, Martin. S56 1 1
Morgan, John I
965
Morrison, Smith B
742
Morrissey, Maurice
1165
Mott, Alfred 886
Munson, Charles H. 893
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Nicholas, Father James 624
Nichols, Levi A 594
Nokes, Albert J.
879
Norris, IFarley C.
1084
North, Charles H
638
Norton, William C
1060
Nott, Charles H. 1266
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Peterson, Miss Anna 928
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Rodawalt, Stephen 1253
Rodman, Andrew J 947
Rodman, Willard. 902
Rogers, Harold H. 1184
Romare, Oscar E.
1293
Ross, Bion C
808
Ruehlman, Christian F. W. 1245
Russell, John 1054
Russell. Thomas 1054
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Sage, Chancy L. 1045
Salisbury, Albert. 779
Schmidter, Nathaniel 1441
Schulz, Julius F. W. 960
Schulz, William
1111
1
Schutt, Herman 1087
Schwartz, John A. 1344
Seaver, William L.
1346
Seymour, John V.
1187
Sharp, John 1030
Shaver, Henry J. 1412 1 1
Sherman, Curtis H 663 1
Sherman, Ervin O
889
Sikes, Charles A
894
1
Skeels, John G. 625 1
Skiff, Benjamin F. 1182 1
Smith, Albert E. 1140
Smith, Alfred D
1370
Smith, Alfred J
616
Smith, Charles A
1420
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth B.
887
Smith, Esek D.
1180
Smith, Fred J. 982
Smith, George H. 1432 1
1 Smith. Herman F 1161 I
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Smith, Oliver L
931
1
Smith, Richard
874
Smok, Adam
829
Snyder, John H., Jr.
583
Southwick, Oliver P 1287
Southwick, William H.
971
Spaight, John 1461
Spensley, Mrs. Eliza 1337 Spensley, Robert 1338
Sperbeck, George W
1277
Sprackling, Charles A. H.
1226
Stafford, Samuel H. 796
Stam, Joseph
1295
Stanford, DeWitt 1086
Starin, Frederick J 1212
Stoneall, Joseph 695
Stopple, Herman I
1171
Stopple, Isaac, Jr. 1099
Stopple, Isaac, Sr. 1112
Stork, Albert.
1474
Stradinger, Gottlob J
1405
Stubbs, Charles H. 1117
Stupfell, J. B. 967
Suessmilch, Ernst L. von 1173
Sumner, Charles B.
1151
Sutherland, Herbert E.
1056
Swartz, Oliver P
1468
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Tappen, George T. 720
Taylor, Benton B. 1385
Taylor, George G. 1025
Taylor, Guy M
1168
Taylor, John H. 1095
Taylor, Ora P. 974
Taylor, William T.
978
Teetshorn, Fern S.
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851
Terrace, Otto Y. 833
Thayer, Henry E. 1001
Thiele, Henry F
1222
Thomas. R. H.
940
Thorpe, James J.
1476
Tobin, John T.
671
Tratt, Ralph
1235
Tubbs, Willis J
1092
Tuft, David.
1252
Turner, Thomas W
1375
Tyrrell, William H.
1051
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Utter, Clarence E
1272
Utter, John W
1291
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Van Slyck, George W
802
Van Velzer, George M.
1315
VanVelzer, Philander K
1100
Voltz, Herman
1068
Voss, John G.
1400
Voss, John L.
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
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Wilcox, Thomas H 738
Wade, Henry H. 1312
Wagner, John. 1105
Walker, Oliver H.
622
Williams, Edward F 578
Walsh, Frank 1176
Williams, F. H. 1231
Walters, Eugene A
921
Williams, Royal J. 1416
Walworth State Bank 820
Williams, Thomas F 942
Watrous, Edward B
1360
Williams, William H. 1259
Williamson, Andrew 1033
Wilmer, August 1433
Webster, Joseph P.
1152
Weeks, Mrs. Esther Ann
126S
Wilmer, Charles B 1427
Weeks, Lewis S. 1269
Wilson. John G.
1331
Weeks, Martin W.
1125
Winn, Henry
1278
Weeks, Spencer 1107
Winn, John H. 1003
Winter, Charles 949
1353
Welch, John S60
Wisconsin Butter & Cheese Co.
590
Welch, Seymour ]
1251
Weld, John W
1248
Welsher, H. J. 946
Wendt, Frederick 1
1451
Wormood, Frederick E 746
West, Ernest
835
Wright, Benjamin F. 1313
West, Frank 1
1023
Wright, Merrick
SGS
West, Mark H. 1367
Wurth, Charles H.
1091
West, Walter A
724
Westphall, Charles D.
1473
Wheeler, Isaac U. 898
White, Edgar E. 1296
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White, Henry H. 656
1407
Zaspel, Otto R.
White, Jay H. 1384
700
Zuill, David F. 1229
Whiting, William H.
Wylie, George W. 1426
Wylie, Herbert E.
1424
Weeks, Wilbur G. 1102
Weinhoff, Father John J
1104
Winter, Frederick C.
818
Wise, Jonas B
Wiswell, Charles H. 1233
Wood, George E 1065
Webb, Sylvester T
1179
Wilmer, Bernard 1431
Weaver, Silas E.
1328
Wilear, William H. 1469
Wilkins, Albert P. 812
Williams, Charles M. 1201
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FRANKLIN ASBURY BUCKBEE.
In the death of the late Franklin Asbury Buckbee, Walworth county lost one of its representative citizens. As the day, with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of activity, its evening of complete and successful efforts, ending in the grateful rest and quiet of the night, so was the life of this honored man. His career was a long, busy and useful one, and although he devoted his attention primarily to his individual affairs, as is quite natural and right, he never allowed the pursuits of wealth to warp his kindly nature, but preserved his faculties and the warmth of his heart for the broadening and helping influences of human life, being to the end a kindly, genial friend and gentleman with whom it was a pleasure to meet and converse. Through the long years of his residence in this locality he was ever true to the trust re- posed in him, whether of a public or private nature, and his reputation in a business way was unassailable. He commanded the respect of all by his upright life, and engraved his name indelibly on the pages of Walworth county's history.
Mr. Buckbee was born at Chili, Monroe county, New York, June 8, 1828. He was the son of Jesse and Mary ( Secor) Buckbee. His mother was born in Orange county, New York, and was of French parentage. Her father, John Secor, was a large iron manufacturer, along the Hudson river, also operated a mill and a store ; he was a slave owner. Mr. Buckbee's father was a farmer of English extraction. He was prominent in his community and very active and well known in the Methodist church. When Franklin .1. Buckbee was seventeen years old the family moved to Rockford. Illinois, and engaged in farming near there. The father's death occurring soon after they took up their residence there, Franklin A. had to take his place at the head of the family, shouldering the responsibilities of the same. When he was twenty-four years old he engaged in the mercantile and produce business When the Civil war came on he was a member of the Ellsworth Zouaves, that was drilled by the famous Major Ellsworth. He went to Chicago to drill troops there and became known as a splendid drillmaster. He accom-
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panied the troops to Kentucky, but was taken very seriously ill with a fever and was brought back to Illinois. Much as he wished to go back into ser- vice, he was dissuaded from doing so. He came to Walworth county in 1864 and settled in the town of Lyons and engaged in farming in that vicinity. having charge of a farm of two hundred and twenty-nine acres. belonging to Doctor Palmer, his wife's father. In 1874 he and his wife and her mother went to California, where they remained until July, 1875, then returned to Walworth county, locating at Lake Geneva.
Mr. Buckbee took a great deal of interest in public affairs and he served as justice of the peace at Lake Geneva from 1877 until about 1906. He was also police justice from May, 1879, until about 1906, when failing eyesight compelled him to give up the position which he had filled with such signal satisfaction. He also served two years in the Legislative Assembly, having been elected in 1866 and again in 1873, and there he made his influence felt for the good of his community and the party. As a public servant he per- formed his every duty most faithfully, in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents, eliciting their hearty approval by his fairness, promptness and commendable course He was a wide reader and kept well advised on current questions and issues on which men and parties divide, and knew the working of the civic code and the basic principles of jurisprudence. He was justice of the peace for over twenty years, during which time his decisions were noted for their fairness and justice to all.
Mr. Buckbee was married in 1854 to Abigail Jennie Hubbard Palmer. daughter of Salmon and Abigail (Sears) Hubbard. Her parents died when she was young and she was adopted by Dr. A. S. Palmer and wife, Mrs. Palmer being a sister of Mrs. Buckbee's mother. Mrs. Buckbee was edu- cated at Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, being graduated from that institution in 1854. a member of the first graduating class of that institution. While there she met Mr. Buckbee and their acquaintance was continued until their marriage, ten years later. She is still residing at Lake Geneva, her pleasant, neatly kept and attractive residence facing that picturesque body of water.
Mr. Buckbee was active and prominent in Masonry; he was a Knight Templar, and was master of the blue lodge, also master of one of the higher degrees for a number of years.
The subject and wife spent considerable time in travel, passing many winters in the South, having large interests in real estate in various places, and they also spent one winter in Cuba.
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The death of Franklin A. Buckbee occurred in the latter part of May, 1908. He was held in the highest esteem by the citizens of this locality. Personally, he was a man whom it was a pleasure to meet, genial, obliging. gentlemanly in demeanor, kind of heart and broad-minded, and he numbered his friends by the scores wherever he was known.
ALBERT SALISBURY.
That life is the most useful and desirable that results in the greatest good to the greatest number, and, although all do not reach the heights to which they aspire, yet in some measure each can win success and make life a bless- ing to his fellow men. It is not necessary for one to occupy eminent public positions to do so, for in the humbler walks of life there remains much good to be accomplished and many opportunities for the exercise of talents and influence, that in some way will touch the lives of those with whom we come in contact making them better and brighter. In the list of Walworth county's successful citizens, the late Albert Salisbury, a prominent Wisconsin educator and for many years the efficient and popular president of the State Normal School at Whitewater, long occupied a conspicuous place. In his record there is much that is commendable, and his career forcibly illustrates what a life of energy can accomplish when plans are wisely laid and actions are governed by right principles, noble aims, and high ideals. His actions were ever the result of careful and conscientious thought, and when once convinced that he was right, no suggestion of policy or personal profit could swerve him from the course he had decided upon. His career was complete and rounded in its beautiful simplicity ; he did his full duty in all the relations of life, and he died beloved by those near to him, and respected and esteemed by his fellow citizens.
Professor Salisbury was born in Lima, Rock county, Wisconsin, near Whitewater, on January 24, 1843, being the first white child born in Lima township. His parents, Oliver and Emily (Cravath) Salisbury, were mem- bers of a colony which emigrated about 1840 from Cortland county, New York, to what is now Whitewater, Wisconsin, his maternal grandfather, Deacon Prosper Cravath, being the central figure of the migration. The members of this colony were all of New England birth or extraction, having tarried in central New York for a generation on their westward way. His paternal grandfather, Silas Salisbury, also emigrated from Marathon, New York.
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The subject's maternal grandfather, Deacon Prosper Cravath, was one of the early pillars of the Congregational church of Whitewater, and before the church edifice was erected services were frequently held in his home, and it was in his log cabin that the local church was formally organized as the First Presbyterian church. He was of Huguenot ancestry, and he was in the highest sense a man of good will. He married Miriam Kinney, and their daughter, Emily, mother of Professor Salisbury, was one of the constituent members of the church. The death of Deacon Cravath occurred on April 22, 1841, after a life of much good among the early settlers.
The pioneer life of Albert Salisbury in Wisconsin, before the day of railroads and improved farming machinery, was a hard but wholesome school for the boy born into it. His father was a hard-working farmer, and later in life a sheep raiser and nurseryman. The youth accordingly served appren- ticeship to all these lines of industry, and retained for the last named an interest in trees and flowers which materially influenced his later life. His early schooling consisted in a few months' yearly attendance at the district school, up to the age of eighteen years; but he owed much to the careful tuition of his mother, who had been a teacher before her marriage. She gave him a vigorous training in Warren Colburn's Mental Arithmetic and in Day's Algebra. Later he became a student in Milton ( Wisconsin) Academy, which afterwards became a college, an institution famous for the number of prominent educators among its alumni. From Milton College he was grad- uated with its first class, in 1870, his course having been interrupted by the Civil war and other causes. From this institution he later received the degree of Master of Arts and of Doctor of Philosophy. The two years from December, 1863, to December, 1865, were spent as a private soldier in the Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, serving chiefly in the Army of the Cumber- land, and after the war was over he spent several months in Texas, in the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine as against Maximilian.
Professor Salisbury was married on November 20, 1866, to Abba A. Maxson, a native of Allegany county, New York, who died May 21, 1881, leaving four children: Gertrude, who married Isaac Peterson; Oliver M., who married Alma Pierce; Grace, who married J. C. Partridge, and Wini- fred, deceased.
From September, 1870, until March, 1873, he was principal of the public schools of Brodhead, Wisconsin, then became professor of history and con- ductor of teachers' institutes in the Whitewater State Normal School, which position he held for nearly ten years. While thus engaged he had an important share in developing the famous Wisconsin system of teachers' institutes. In
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1882 he accepted an appointment as superintendent of schools for the Ameri- can Missionary Association in its work among the freedmen and the Indians. Making his headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia, for the next three years, he traveled about thirty thousand miles yearly, being on the road chiefly nights and Sundays, spending the school days each week inspecting and supervising educational institutions from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to the Rocky moun- tains and the Dakotas.
In August, 1883, Mr. Salisbury was again married, this time to Agnes Hosford, a teacher in the Whitewater State Normal School, who had been previously county superintendent of schools in Eau Claire county, Wisconsin. One son, Albert, was born of this marriage, whose death occurred on May 18. 1905, a month before he was to have graduated. In the summer of 1884, Mr. Salisbury moved his family from Atlanta to Montclair, New Jersey, but con- tinued his work and traveling in the South and West. In the spring of 1885 he was called to the presidency of the State Normal School at Whitewater, in his old home. He accepted and commenced work in August of that year. From that date until his death he administered the affairs of this well-known institution, developing new departments of work, greatly enlarging and im- proving its buildings and equipment and assisting in putting the normal sys- tem of the state on a better foundation and in a stronger position in the regard of the public. He was president of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association in the year 1887 to 1888. and he was a member of the board of examiners for state certificates for several years and was at one time a trustee of the State School for the Deaf at Delavan. Later Professor Salisbury became greatly interested in proper provision for the care and training of the feeble- minded. Backed by the State Teachers' Association, he carried on a cam- paign of several years' duration. With patience, tact and convincing argument he persuaded a reluctant Republican Legislature to pass a bill for establishing the Wisconsin Home for Feeble-Minded, but the governor vetoed the bill. Nothing daunted, Professor Salisbury secured its passage at the next AAssem- bly, which was Democratic, and again it was vetoed. Again the Legislature became Republican and the subject got them to pass the bill, and this time the governor signed it. Professor Salisbury's work in that matter was recog- nized as a great public service. He had spent much time and money in arousing public sentiment in the interests of a school for these unfortunates. He also championed many other reforms, assisting in securing the consolida- tion of rural schools, the grading of rural schools, improving the rural school course of study, presenting exhaustive reports on the needs of those schools. Although very busy as a high school principal, educator of teachers' insti-
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tutes, and president of a normal school, he found some time for authorship and published many books, some of them being text books of study, some of which have been widely circulated and put through several editions. He wrote the "Geography of Wisconsin" in 1876; "Historical Sketch of Normal Instruction in Wisconsin" in 1876; and another work under the same title in 1893; "History of the Wisconsin Teachers Association" in 1878; "Orthoepy and Phonology" in 1879; "The Duty of the State to the Feeble Minded" in 1890; "First Quarter Century of the Whitewater Normal School" in 1893; two reports on the "Rural School Problem" in 1897 and 1898; "The Theory of Teaching and Elementary Psychology" in 1905; "Early Annals of Whitewater, Wisconsin," in 1906; "School Management" in 1911. He was the historian of education in Wisconsin. Whenever a large educational gathering seemed to demand history pertinent to it be seemed to be the only man capable of presenting it adequately.
The growth of the Whitewater Normal during the twenty-six years he served as its president is a matter of local history. Three times the building has been substantially enlarged, and once it was recovered after a disastrous fire, and the growth has been steady, many-sided and healthy, the advance in things scholastic keeping pace with the improved facilities and also with the general advance in management. President Salisbury possessed a remarkable memory, being able to recall the names of his pupils, the number who attended the normal during his presidency running into the thousands, but he could almost invariably recall their names, and he maintained an active interest in their success in the profession in which he helped train them.
At a meeting of the leading educational lights of Great Britain in Lon- don, he was one of the speakers and was appreciated and applauded with the best of them. His many addresses at the normal school were always thor- oughly prepared, showing splendid scholarship and a fine literary diction. At least three times a week he delivered addresses rich in thought, with a wealth of counsel and of inspiration, never repeating himself. These talks will long be remembered by those fortunate enough to hear them, as the most valuable part of the day's program. He thought logically and clearly, reaching posi- tive convictions, and with unswerving fidelity and courage made the ideal good take form in tangible, practical betterment. Not alone in Whitewater and in Wisconsin, but in the national councils also, was he a potent and invariably a righteous influence. His life was as an open book, with nothing to conceal. He was a man of rare gifts and immense moral courage, never shifting his burdens to others, and always choosing the harder tasks himself.
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Sham, pretense, instability and inefficiency were foreign to his nature. He would choose rather to rebuke a wrong boldly, even at the risk of injury to the wrongdoer, believing that it was best for the one rebuked to be set right. He was impartial and insistent for order, strength, harmony.
A wide reader and profound student, President Salisbury was familiar with the world's best literature, leaving no branch unexplored, and he was a fearless and independent investigator. His interests were broad and gen- eral. He felt that money, time and talent were for the furtherance of great ends and good causes. He gave himself and his possessions to the further- ance of what was uplifting in life-the school, the church and worthy chari- table institutions. He was reserved and unobtrusive, never intruding his presence. His character was many-sided, in some ways unique-a man in whom others repose implicit confidence. He could be very congenial and companionable, as well as stern and impassible, as occasion demanded. He had a very strong sense of justice. He was an energetic leader in the church, devoutly religious and steadily consistent; he was a strong supporter of the Congregational church and an inspiration to the religious life of the com- munity. While not posing as an orator, he was an able speaker, bringing to his audience something worthy of their consideration. His diversion was the study of plants, and it was largely through his direction that the normal grounds are widely known for their beauty and variety of plant life. As an all-around scholar he had few equals, and had a great capacity for hard work. He never gave one the feeling that he was self-seeking, but he was ever try- ing to be helpful to all with whom he came into contact. He was a man of handsome presence, tall, vigorous physique, strong-minded, quick wit and possessed a keen sense of humor and biting sarcasm, with a generous sympathy. He was a cheerful companion, a faithful friend, but a danger- ous antagonist. He had an accurate and varied knowledge over an amazingly wide field of human interests, and was able until the last to grow mentally, morally and spiritually. Sincerity was a dominant trait with him, not only in words, but in deeds and in thought. Continuous application through a long period of years gave him a clear and comprehen- sive insight into the philosophy of education and the largest wisdom as to the method and means of attainment of ends, while his steady growth in public favor and his popularity with teachers and pupils won for him an educational standing second to none in the state and that was even national in its scope. He possessed the personal charm and tact which made him popular with the young. He was industrious, concentrated, tireless in penetration and search
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for the higher truth, and his mental and moral achievements were radiant; he was harmonious, and breathed cleanliness in manner, in expression, in the thought. in the secret of his comprehension and in the power of his silence in the benevolent purity of his personality, and his spirit was great in omni- presence. When this excellent citizen was called to take up his abode in the "windowless palaces of rest" on June 2, 1911, Walworth county realized that she had sustained an irreparable loss, but was grateful for the legacy he left of being one of the purest, most intellectual and most useful men that lived in his native state.
CHARLES LAWRIE.
Another of the sterling sons of bonnie Scotland who left his native brakes and braes for our land of greater opportunity, and, after making vari- ous investigations, decided that Walworth county, Wisconsin, appealed to him in a way that no other section did. is Charles Lawrie, of Lake Geneva, a man who, owing to his habits of industry, frugality, fortitude and unbending in- tegrity. would have succeeded in any portion of the great western republic. He has never sought to be a leader in the affairs of this locality, merely striving to live up to the standard of good citizenship and make a comfortable living. and while revering the scenes of his native land, as is quite natural and right. he has nevertheless been most loyal to our flag and institutions, and we are glad to number him among our representative citizens.
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