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was later interested in mining properties in California, and afterwards for a number of years in Arizona. While he was in the West Mrs. Allen remained in Walworth county, for the most part, educating her children, Eugene and Cora; the former is a practicing physician in Seattle, Washington, and the latter is the wife of William G. John, and they also live in Seattle.
Mrs. Allen remained in Burlington ten years, until her children finished high school, then spent four years in Madison, where they attended the State University. The family then moved to Chicago, where they spent six years. while Eugene completed a course in Rush Medical College. After his gradua- tion he was interne in the hospital of Cook County, Illinois, for two years. From there he went into the army, and was in the Philippines eighteen months as contract surgeon. He has been practicing his profession at Seattle since 1902, and is division surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad Company. He has two sons, Richard and Robert. He married Ethel Bagley, of Seattle. Mrs. Cora John also has two sons, Eugene Allen John and Philip William John. Mr. John is in the real estate and insurance business in Seattle and is quite prosperous.
While Mrs. Allen and the children were in Chicago, Mr. Allen also spent most of his time there, then went to Butte, Montana, where he was taken sick. and, Mrs. Allen joining him there, they went to California for his health. His death occurred on February 7. 1901, after an honorable and successful career. Mrs. Allen now lives in a pleasant home in Springfield, this county. with her mother.
DANIEL BOLLINGER.
It is not strange that the people of the little republic of Switzerland should come to the United States and establish homes, for our institutions are similar to their own and they do not have such a hard time adjusting themselves here as do the emigrants from other countries of Europe, born and reared under conditions which are just about the antithesis of our own. The ports of entry to the western republic have ever been ajar for the Swiss, and. having thus extended them a hearty hand of welcome, they have been coming to our shores for two centuries or more, and their substantial homes now adorn the hills and plains of the farming communities all over the Union and there is scarcely a city of note where their homes and places of business may not be found They have been loyal to our institutions and have proven to be splendid citizens in every respect. Thus they have aided us in pushing
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forward the civilization of the western hemisphere and we have helped them in material ways, giving them every opportunity, which they have not been slow to grasp, being people of thrift, tact and energy.
One of this sterling class who has honored Walworth county with his citizenship is Daniel Bollinger, who was born in Switzerland on March 18, 1835, and who, after spending most of his mature years engaged in farm work here, is now living retired in his commodious home in the town of Sharon. He is the son of Sebastian and Barbara (Schwaninger ) Bollinger, both natives of Switzerland, where they grew up and were married and spent their lives, never emigrating to America. The father was born in 1800 and died in 1887, and the mother was born in 1804 and died in 1890, each reaching advanced ages.
Daniel Bollinger was reared in his native land and there received his education. Schooling there is somewhat irksome in view of the fact that the pupils are compelled to go to school the year round, from the age of five until they are eleven years old. From then until fourteen years old, they are per- mitted to skip the summer months. There he remained until he was twenty years old when, having heard so much of the great opportunities offered the willing young men in the United States, he emigrated to our shores in 1855, first settling in Dane county, Wisconsin, where he remained about five years. Then, the great Civil war coming on, he proved his patriotism to his adopted country by enlisting in the Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in which he served very faithfully for a period of four years and three months. Although from first to last he was in active service and took part in many skirmishes, he was not in any of the great battles.
After the war Mr. Bollinger returned to Wisconsin and bought fifty acres of land in Sharon township, Walworth county, in the vicinity of South Grove. Selling this not long afterwards, he purchased one hundred acres in the same locality, which he improved and carried on general farming and stock raising successfully until 1898, when he sold eighty acres to his son, Edward, retaining only twenty acres. He had done well in his work here and, accumulating a competency, he moved to Sharon, where he is still living in a modern and attractive home, one of the finest in this part of the county.
Religiously, Mr. Bollinger is a member of the English Lutheran church, and he belongs to Post No. 270, Grand Army of the Republic, of Sharon. He has taken more or less interest in public affairs and was a member of the city council of Sharon for a year in 1906.
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Mr. Bollinger was married on June 25, 1868, to Katherine Kalb, daugh- ter of Peter and Marguerite Kalb, natives of Germany. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bollinger, namely: Edward and Mrs. Emma Ruehlmann, both live in the town of Sharon, Wisconsin; Mrs. Marguerite Hand and Mrs. Carrie Hand both live in Lake Geneva; Frank E. lives in La- porte, Indiana ; Nellie M. is teaching in the city schools at Seattle, Washing- ton. These children received good educations in the local schools.
JOHN DUNPHY.
The following is a brief sketch of the life of one who, by close attention to business, has achieved marked success in the world's affairs and risen to an honorable position among the enterprising men of the city with which his interests are identified. It is a plain record, rendered remarkable by no strange or mysterious adventure, no wonderful and lucky accident and no tragic situation. Mr. Dunphy is a man of honest convictions and sincere purposes, his upright career and wholesome moral' influence making him respected by all who have come into contact with him.
John Dunphy, well known lumber dealer of Elkhorn, was born in this city, April 2, 1862. He is the son of James and Mary (Golden) Dunphy, both natives of Ireland, the father born in county Kilkenny and the mother near Cork, and they spent their earlier years in Erin's green isle, emigrating to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, about 1856, and here established a good home through their industry and spent the rest of their lives.
Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. James Dunphy, named as fol- lows : Mary is the wife of William Carey and lives about three miles north of Elkhorn; Edward James died at Grand Fork, North Dakota, in February, 1910; Honore died in her babyhood; John, of this sketch, was the youngest.
John Dunphy grew to manhood in Elkhorn, and here received his educa- tion in the public schools, and has spent most of his life in his home city, in which he has ever taken an abiding interest and a just pride, always ready to assist in its upbuilding and general progress. He started working for the Barker Lumber Company when he was only fourteen years old. He has been with the same establishment since he was twenty-one years old, the firm then being known as the Matheson Trading Company, beginning work with them on April 1, 1883. He took an interest in the firm five years later, in 1888. In 1904 they sold out to the Elkhorn Lumber Company, Mr. Dunphy becoming
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manager of the new concern in that year and this position he has retained to the present time, his efforts resulting in building up a large and constantly growing business, rendering this one of the leading lumber firms in this section of the state. Besides his interests here Mr. Dunphy has a half interest in a lumber company at Sherland, Illinois. He understands thoroughly the ins and outs of the lumber industry and has kept well abreast of the times in all that pertains to the business. There are only one or two men in Elkhorn who have been in business here longer than he has.
Mr. Dunphy was a member of the school board of this city for a period of fifteen years, and he also served for a time as city clerk.
Mr. Dunphy was married in May, 1889, to Alice Lennon, who was born in Lafayette township, this county, three miles from Elkhorn. She was the daughter of James and Bridget Lennon. To the subject and wife one child. Edward J. Dunphy, was born. He is now attending Marquette College at Milwaukee.
The wife and mother passed away on June 8, 1891. She was a member of the Catholic church. On September 3, 1900, Mr. Dunphy was again mar- ried, his last wife being known in her maidenhood as Anne G. Monahan, of East Troy, the daughter of James and Mary Monahan. Her death occurred on June 22, 1910. She was a member of the Catholic church, to which the subject also belongs. Two children were born of the second union, John James and Anne.
HENRY L. MALLORY.
This representative and honored citizen of Elkhorn, Walworth county, has been distinctively the architect of his own fortunes, has been true and loyal in all the relations of life and stands as a type of that sterling manhood which ever commands respect and honor. He is a man who would have won his way in any locality where fate might have placed him, for he has sound judgment, coupled with great energy and business tact, together with upright principles, all of which make for success wherever and whenever they are rightly and persistently applied. By reason of these principles he has won and retained a host of friends in whatever community he is known.
Henry L. Mallory was born on September 29, 1840, in Jordan, Onondaga county, New York. He is the son of Ward and Margaret ( Butts) Mallory, the father born in Kent, Connecticut, April 10, 1810, and the mother in Pennsylvania January 2, 1811. The former died on November 8, 1898. In
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the fall of 1844 he came by boat on the Great Lakes to Michigan where he settled and remained until December, 1847, when he came to Walworth coun- ty, moving here by ox team, several weeks being required to make the trip. He arrived in this county in February, 1848. His family consisted of two sons and two daughters. The family lived in Elkhorn until April, then went to Delavan, where Mr. Mallory opened the White Hotel on April Ist, which place he continued to conduct until 1851, when he rented it and moved to a farm in Sugar Creek township, but later returned to the hotel, the manage- ment of which he resumed until the lease expired in the fall of 1853, then went back to the farm where he lived until the spring of 1865, when he rented his farm and returned to Delavan, where he conducted the Park Hotel until January, 1870. He then went to Marshalltown, Iowa, where he conducted a livery barn for a period of six years, then came to Elk Point, Dakota, then to Sioux City, Iowa, where he lived until his death in 1898. He was a Whig in his early days, later became a Republican. He was justice of the peace for several years and a member of the town board. Four children were born to Ward Mallory and wife: Sarah E. lives in Valley City, North Dakota; Isabelle M., wife of Charles Hollinshead, also lives there; Henry L., of this sketch; Albert W., of Wakita, Oklahoma.
Henry L. Mallory, of this sketch, grew to manhood under the parental roof. He attended school in Delavan, being one of the first graduates under Professor Cheney.
In 1864 Mr. Mallory enlisted in the one-hundred-day service, Company F, Fortieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and he was mustered out in Sep- tember of the same year.
On September 27, 1865, Mr. Mallory was united in marriage with Mary Gray, who was born in Sugar Creek township, Walworth county, Wisconsin, the daughter of Dr. Harmon and Maria T. (Finch) Gray, the father a native of Bennington, Vermont, born June 29, 1806, she born in Connecticut, Jan- uary 1, 1808. The death of Doctor Gray occurred on September 19, 1895, his wife having preceded him to the grave on October 20, 1887. The Doctor came to Walworth county, Wisconsin, in 1840 and here purchased a farm in Sugar Creek township, near Millard, and he continued to reside here until his death. He practiced medicine until about 1885, being one of the well known doctors here of a past generation. To Mr. and Mrs. Mallory one child has been born, Edwin H.
Henry L. Mallory lived on his father's farm one and one-half years, then moved to Millard, on his father-in-law's farm, where he remained until the spring of 1869, then moved to Nebraska where he bought a farm and
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lived until the fall of 1873. Renting his farm he returned to Millard, this county, and again took charge of the farm belonging to his father-in-law, conducting the same until the spring of 1886, when he moved to Elkhorn, where he engaged in the implement and well-drilling business, which he con- ducted with success until the fall of 1892 when he retired from active life.
Mr. Mallory is a Democrat, a member of the Masonic order, and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was justice of the peace for about ten years in Sugar Creek township, discharging the duties of this office in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned, his decisions being characterized by fairness and a broad knowl- edge of jurisprudence, although he had never studied law.
MARTIN W. WEEKS.
This well known citizen is another of the old soldiers who unselfishly left hearth and home and went out to fight their country's battles on the sanguinary fields of the Southland a half century ago. What a splendid sight it is at the present day to see a company of those hardy veterans of the greatest civil war of all history march slowly by on Decoration Day or the Fourth of July, in their faded uniforms and with their tattered flags flying. But they will soon be gone forever, and nothing will be left but a memory. That memory should be something more than a sound. Their deeds should be perpetuated in song and story, in monument and perpetual commemoration, so that future generations may draw inspiration from their patriotism and gallantry.
Martin W. Weeks, for a long stretch of years one of the leading farmers of Lyons township, Walworth county, was born in Schenectady, New York. March 22, 1841. He is the son of Arnold and Hannah (Sperbeck) Weeks, the father born in the state of New York in 1811, and the mother in Crane's village, near Amsterdam, on the Mohawk river, in 1812. They grew up in New York and were married there, and they came to Walworth county in 1842, locating near Lake Geneva. He bought a small piece of land there, but a few years later moved to near where Springfield is now located and there he spent the rest of his life engaged in farming, also bought grain and ran a lumber yard at Springfield and built up a large business, soon after the railroad came through. He was well known and highly respected throughout the county. Politically, he was first a Whig, later a Republican, from the time that party started. His family consisted of five sons : John A. died in Michigan, leav- ing a widow and two children, both of whom are now married and live in
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Michigan, Ernest being a farmer in Oakland county, and Harriet, who is the wife of Edward Wicks. James Henry Weeks died in Los Angeles, Califor- nia, leaving a wife and four children, Lena, Dolly, Walter and William Arnold, all in Los Angeles, except William, who lived farther north in Cali- fornia. Levi Weeks lives at Springfield, Wisconsin, is married and has two daughters, Dora, wife of Albert Hopkins, and Kate, wife of Samuel Hoffman, of West Chicago. Martin W. Weeks, of this sketch, was the fourth in order of birth. Theodore Weeks now lives at Rockford, Illinois; his wife is de- ceased and he and his daughter Genevieve keep the home; he also has two sons, Melvin and Roger. The subject's parents are deceased.
Martin W. Weeks grew to manhood on the home farm near Springfield and there he assisted with the general work when a boy, attending the neigh- boring schools in the winter time. In 1861 he enlisted in the Fourth Wiscon- sin Volunteer Infantry and was sent to Baltimore, where he did guard duty until the spring of 1862, then went south with General Butler, and was in the capture of New Orleans and afterwards started on the Red River expedition. On the way they captured a great many Texas ponies, thus, being mounted, were later changed to a cavalry regiment. He took part in the siege of Port Hudson, the battle of Baton Rouge and other engagements. IJe had a great deal of skirmishing and scouting to do, and in the hard fighting the regiment lost many men. The subject was wounded by an accidental shot from a soldier's carbine, the bullet passing through both thighs. Owing to his dis- ability he came home from Baton Rouge on a furlough and was at home when his time expired. He was discharged with his regiment in 1864, having served three years and three months.
After the war Mr. Weeks returned home and engaged in farming, which he has continued practically ever since. He was married in 1865 to Esther Booth, daughter of Edwin Booth and wife. She was a sister to Mrs. Henry Boyle, in whose sketch, on another page of this work, appears the ancestry of the Booth family.
Mr. Weeks has farmed in the neighborhood of Springfield most of his life. In 1866 he went to Kossuth county, Iowa, and bought agricultural col- lege land and farmed there about two years.
Two children were born to Mr. Weeks and his first wife, Willard E. and Ethel. The former married Maude Russell, daughter of John Russell, of Lake Geneva, and he is farming with his father near Springfield; he has three children, Marjorie, Marian and Kenneth. Ethel Weeks married Alex- ander Henry and lives on the home farm just west of Springfield, and they have seven children, Willard, Mary, Ethel, Ruth, Florence, Ray and Roy.
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The death of Mrs. Martin W. Weeks occurred in Iowa in March, 1869. After this event, Mr. Weeks went to Chicago, where he spent three years, then returned to the old home in Wisconsin, which he finally bought, and he has lived ever since on the old Weeks homestead which his father bought in the early history of the county. He has been very successful as a general farmer and has kept the place well improved and well cultivated.
Mr. Weeks was again married, his last wife being Helen Morrow Lock- wood, sister of William Lockwood, near Lake Geneva, and daughter of one of the leading old families of the county. She died about a year and a half after their marriage. Mr. Weeks is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and McPherson Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Lake Geneva.
FRANK A. HUBBARD.
Prominently identified with the industrial and civic affairs of Walworth county, where he has spent his useful and hard-working life, Frank A. Hub- bard, one of the leading farmers of Troy township, where he has long re- sided on his beautiful farmstead, is deserving of special mention here.
Mr. Hubbard was born on the farm on which he still resides on March 29, 1849. He is the son of Edward A. and Eliza (Kinney) Hubbard. The father first bought sixty acres here and two years later purchased the place now occupied by Frank A. of this sketch, which consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, also bought forty acres elsewhere. Here he spent the rest of his life, developing a good farm. When he came here he found old log buildings and poor improvements, but in due course of time these were changed to modern, substantial ones. Here his wife spent the rest of her life, also. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom are still living. The elder Hubbard was very active in Republican politics, and for many years he was chairman in his township. He belonged to the Presby- terian church.
Frank A. Hubbard grew up on the home farm and received his educa- tion in the local district schools, later attending Beloit College two years. He returned home and farmed a few years, then followed teaming for twelve years at East Troy, then returned to the home farm, where he owns eighty acres, and for a time he operated the one hundred and sixty acres. He has built an excellent house here and kept the place under high-grade improve- ments. He worked hard and accumulated a competency and for the past two
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years he has lived retired. He was married in 1872 to Sarah Morrison, whose death occurred on June 14, 1894. She was born in New York state and came to Wisconsin in the late forties or early fifties with her parents, William and Malinda (Pettit) Morrison, the father born at Falkirk, Scot- land, and she was born in New York. They came to Walworth county in 1855 where they began farming.
To Mr. Hubbard and his first wife the following children were born : William M., Harris J., Mary E., Hattiebelle, Susie is deceased; one died in infancy unnamed. In December, 1895, Mr. Hubbard was married again, his last wife being Mary E. Morrison, sister of his first wife.
Mr. Hubbard is a Republican and active in local affairs, but he has never accepted office. Fraternally, he is a Mason and he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star.
Edward A. Hubbard, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Greene county, New York, March 12, 1824, and his death occurred in Troy, Wisconsin, January 25, 1887. He came to East Troy township, Walworth county, in 1845 and started life in the wilderness. He was the son of Alfred and Hannah (Steele) Hubbard, of Greene county, New York, and in the fifties they came to Spring Prairie, this county, purchased a farm and spent their last years in Walworth county. Eliza Kinney was born in Mt. Morris, Greene county, New York, September 15, 1826, the daughter of Ezra and Louisa (Clough) Kinney. After the former's death, the latter came to Wal- worth county, Wisconsin, and here her last years were spent. Eliza (Kin- ney) Hubbard died on February 10, 1903.
DAVID D. JOHNSON.
It would have been hard to have found a more whole-souled or popular gentleman in Walworth county during the past generation than the late David D. Johnson, a man who lived to good purpose, ordered his course well and left behind him a good name-a thing that is more to be desired than riches.
Mr. Johnson was born in Albany, New York, August 29, 1834, the son of William and Caroline ( Vrooman) Johnson, the father a native of Canada, and the latter of Mohawk valley, New York, and of Dutch ancestry.
David D. Johnson came west when nineteen years of age, and located at Polo, Ogle county, Illinois, and there engaged in farming and dairying. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Seventh Illinois Cavalry, and served faithfully
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in the Union army four years, having re-enlisted after being out a year. He was in the battles of Shiloh and Corinth. He was taken sick and was sent to the hospital in St. Louis in the New House of Refuge. Upon recovering, he was detailed in the commissary department, remaining in the same sixteen months. He attained the rank of corporal. After the war he returned to Polo and ran a dray, remaining there until 1877, then moved to Walworth county and bought two hundred and six acres in the north part of Geneva township and lived there until the spring of 1888. He then lived one year in Geneva and in 1899 he moved to Springfield, where he spent the rest of his days, being paralyzed during the last nine years of his life and unable to do any work. His death occurred on July 5, 1904.
Mr. Johnson was married on October 25, 1854, to Miranda A. Bogardus, daughter of Jacob E. and Harriet (Coffin) Bogardus. She was born in Lysan- der township, Onondaga county, New York, in 1835. Her father's grand- parents came from Holland and settled in Greene county, New York. Her mother was born in 1810 in Lysander, New York, and Jacob E. Bogardus was born in Greene county, New York, in 1804. In the spring of 1845 the Bogardus family came to Illinois and located near Polo, in Buffalo township, Ogle county. When the family came there they found a wild, unimproved prairie, over which one could look twenty miles and not see a house. Cattle ranged at will over the unfenced prairies. "There Mrs. Johnson grew up and was married. Fourteen children were born to them, one of whom died in early infancy, one when sixteen months old, the other twelve growing to maturity, married and are still living. They are, Mrs. Sarah Hollenbeck, who lives at Burlington; Charles H. lives in Polo; James William lives in Lake Geneva; Mrs. Ida E. Palmer lives in Belmont, Wisconsin; George D. lives in Springfield ; Mrs. Carrie Myers lives at St. Charles, South Dakota ; Owen A. lives in Lake Geneva; John M. also lives in Lake Geneva; Bert .1. lives at Gray's Lake, Illinois; Leslie J. lives with his mother at Springfield, Walworth county : Mrs. Alice M. Beham lives at Graybull, Wyoming; Mrs. Nina A. Malsch lives at Lake Geneva.
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