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EMIL, GARNICH, hardware, Ashland, was born in Prussia, Ger- many, Dec. 10, 1843. Ilis mother died when he was three years old, and his father came to America in 1849, locating at Egg Ilarbor, N.
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J. Ennil came in 1863, having learned the tinsmith's trade in Ger- many. He at once went to Philadelphia and worked at his trade, then going to Michigan, on Lake Superior, he stopped at Eagle Harbor, where he worked for wages, finally buying his employer out and establishing himself in business. In 1872 he came to Ashland and went into the hardware line under the firm name of Leihy & Garnich, and now carries a stock of $5.000 and business of $10,000 He married Miss Isabella Bolls, of Michigan, in 1863. They have four children-Hattie, Annie, William and Erwin ; Carl deceased. Mr. Garnich was Supervisor in 1874 and 1875 ; belongs to the Masonic order and the I. O. O. F.
ADAM GOELTZ, saloon, Ashland, was born in Wurtemburg, Ger- many, and emigrated to America in 1847 with his brother Conrad. They came to Wisconsin in 1849, first to Sheboygan then to Green Bay, and then went to the copper mines of Eagle River and the Cliff mines. In 1854 they took claims in Ashland County. When all the inhabitants of the village left in 1863, they went to Marquette County, and worked in the iron mines near Negaunee. In 1875 they came back to Ashland and worked at the mason's trade and built a brewery. In 1879 Adam Goeltz built his present saloon and boarding-house. In 1861 he married Miss Christina Brenkeg, of Ohio. They have six children, William, Louis, Edward, Charlie, Annie and Otto. He is a member of the Lutheran Church.
GEORGE W. HARRISON, physician and surgeon, Ashland, was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England, Jan. 5, 1850. He moved to Bradford, Yorkshire ; attended Wadson Academy, and after living at Apperly Bridge, he and his mother came to America and to Colum- bus, Columbia Co., Wis., locating on a farm, where she died in 1866. While there he attended Columbia High School and graduated in 1869. He farmed and taught school till 1873, and in 1876 commenced study- ing medicine. Read with Robert W. Earll, and went to Rush College, Chicago, 1878 and 1879. graduating in 1880 and 1881. On the 19th of March of that year he came to Ashland and commenced practice. In 1871 he married Miss Ida Woodhead, of Columbia Co., Wis. They have three boys-Bruce, born July 6, 1872; David, Dec. 21, 1876 ; Earl] W., May 4, 1879. In addition to Mr. Harrison's regular certificate he re- ceived an honorary diploma from Rush.
M. J. HART, County Clerk, Ashland, was born in the west of Ire- land, April 8, 1847. Came to America in 1862, and landed in Canada, at Quebec. He staid there until 1864, and then went to Washington, D. C., where he went into a china and queensware store with his brother, T. J. Hart. He returned to Quebec in 1867, and went into a book and stationery business, but was burned out, after which disaster he came to Ashland, where he arrived in May, 1872. He contracted on the Wis- consin Central R. R. and boarded the railroad men, moving down the line as the road was laid. He is now proprietor of the Campbell House, at Chippewa, and built the Butternut House, of Butternut. He was elected chairman of town of Butternut in 1878, and County Clerk in 1879 ; re-elected in 1880. He is Postmaster of Butternut and Signal Service officer in Ashland for this part of the lake. He was married Feb. 5, 1879. He belongs to the Masonic lodge, of which he is junior warden.
MICHAEL J. HART, meat market, Ashland, was born in Mayo Co., Ireland, Aug. 13, 1849. He came to America in 1862, and landed at Quebec, where he remained till 1864; then went to Washington, D. C., and entered the queensware store of his brother, Thomas J. In IS78 he came to Wisconsin and stopped at Butternut, in Ashland County, and went into the Butternut House run by his brother Mat. J .. who had come out before. He staid there till 1879, when he went to Chippewa Crossing and opened the new hotel called the Campbell House, but rented it to C. A. Campbell ; he then came to Ashland and entered upon his present business. He was Justice while in Butternut, and is one of the charter members of the I. O. O. F.
WILLIAM HASSARD, miner, Ashland, was born in New Orleans, La .. Aug. 15, 1848 ; came North to Ontario Province, Canada. where he remained till 1870, when he came to the mining district of Michigan. In 1871 he came to Ashland and began prospecting for iron. He found gold and silver ore that assayed $140 to the ton. He is still prospect- ing in Penoka Range, and has a farm of 160 acres in Bayfield County, on which he lives when not mining.
T. V. HOLSTON, agent for the Wisconsin Central Railroad, Ash- land, was born in Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 1, 1847. While there he at- tended the Ward schools and afterwards the Lawrence University, at Appleton. He taught school in Bailey Harbor and in Oakfield, and then moved to Fond du Lac County and went to farming. He learned telegraphy at Delavan, and then took the Saukville Station, on the Milwaukee and Northwestern Railroad, removing first to Hilbert and then to Stevens Point. In 1879 came to Ashland and conducted the station as well as the telegraph business. In 1871 he married Miss Leila A. Maxson, of Waupun. Ile is a member of the Masonic frater- nity, and belongs to the Baptist Church, as does also his wife.
H. J. JAMES, lumberman, Ashland, was born in Portage Co., Ohio, Oct. 23, 1830. Ile lived at home until 1849, having learned the carpenter's trade of his father. He then came West and located at
Neenah. He first worked at his trade, and then went into lumbering and saw-milling. In 1878 he came here and bought a share in the saw. mill now owned by the Union Mill Company, of which he is president. The mill has a capacity of 60,000 feet of lumber and 30,000 shingles a day. In 1855 he was married to Miss Mary Scanlon, of Ireland. They have five children - Joseph H., Edmund (now in Waco, Texas, farm- ing), Jennie, Helen and Alice.
C. L. JUDD, contractor and builder, Ashland, was born in Cape Vincent, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Aug. 16, 1836. He went to common school till 1854, and then attended Fulton Seminary, in Oswe- go County. Finally, in 1857 he went to Theresa Institute. In 1862 he enlisted in the 10th N. Y. Artillery, Co. M. In April, 1864, he was transferred to the navy, where he was at the capture of Mobile. He was mustered out in Boston, 1865, returning to Cape Vincent and resumed his trade of carpenter. In 1872 he came to Ashland and selectel a place for himself and moved his family out in October, 1873. The house he lives in is one of the first in the village, and was used as the first school-house. In the Spring of 1858 he married Evaline Lee, of Essex Co., N. Y. They have had six children - Etta (now Mrs. Page), Willie, Benjamin and Myrtle ; Emma and Seth are not living. Mr. Judd has been Justice since 1878.
WILLIAM KELLOGG, clerk, Ashland, was born in Oshkosh, Wis., June 23, 1356. He lived there, and went to school till 1868, when he moved to Wrightstown with his parents, where they still live. Here he entered his uncle's store, in the Fall of 1872, where he remained till 1881, when he came to Ashland and went into the general store of C. G. Mueller. He was married in 1879 to Miss May Higgins, of Wrightstown.
A. J. MCDOUGAL, saloon, Ashland, was born in Glengarie Co., Canada, Aug. 20, 1855. He went to New York in 1863 to attend school, returning in 1869 to Cornwall, Guelph Co., Canada. He took agencies for sewing-machines, and continued in that business until 1872, when he went to Stillwater, Minn., where he remained till 1874. He is interested in some mining property on the north shore of Lake Supe- rior, and also owns forty acres of good iron land in Brunsduoeiller, Sec. 23, Town 45. In 1875, he married Miss Isabella McDougal, of Canada. They have one child living - Allen John. They attend the Methodist Episcopal Church.
JOHN E. MAERTZ, saloon, Ashland, was horn in Crawford Co., Ohio, Nov. 9, 1850. In 1853. with his parents, he moved to Hennepin Co., Minn., where they settled on a farm where he lived until 1869, when he started for himself. In 1872 he went to Duluth, and then to Ashland, where he worked on the Wisconsin Central Rail- road. In 1873 he opened a meat market, and in 1874 sailed and fished on the lake. In 1378, worked at lumbering. In 18SI he began his present business. In 1880, he was elected Sheriff of Ashland County.
U. T. MARCHESSAULT, M.D., Ashland, was born in Montreal, Canada, March 3, 1847. In 1865 he graduated in the classical college of Santa Hyacinthe, about forty miles from Montreal. He traveled rather generally, and was finally induced to study medicine by his hrother. He took preparatory study under Dr. Pregg, and graduated in Victoria University. In 1872 he opened practice in Minneapolis, and came to Ashland in 1873. In 1881 built residence and office on Second street. He was railroad physician in 1878-79; is now examining physician for Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine. In 1879 he married Miss Lydia Boutin, of Bayfield, Wis.
JERRY MARCOTT, saloon, Ashland, was born in Province of Que- bec, Canada, April 22, 1839. He was raised on a farm, and when twenty- three years of age left Canada and went to Michigan. In 1872 he came to Ashland and opened his present business. In 1865 he married, but in 1867 his wife died, leaving one daughter, Georgiana. He was married again in 1871, to Margaret Sir, of Canada. He belongs to the Catholic Church.
JOIIN MARSHALL, saloon, Ashland, was born in Montreal, Can- ada, April, 1841. In 1855 he went to Detroit, Mich., and in 1859 to the copper mines on Lake Superior. In : 871 he opened a shoe shop in Ashland, and in 1877 began in his present business. In 1870 he married Miss Jennie Hockridge, of St. Paul, formerly of Hoboken, N. J. They have had four children-Marie B., John F. and Joe U. and Will- iam H., deceased. Mr. Marshall and wife belong to the Catholic Church.
JOHN MONTAGUE, hotel, Ashland, was born in Wellington, Canada, Nov. 14, 1838. He went to Negaunee, Mich., in 1864, and began mining for iron. In 1881 he came to Ashland and is now engaged as foreman in the mines of the Black River Company. In July of the same year lie opened the Lindell House. In 1859 he was mar- ried to Johanna O'Donnell, formerly from Ireland. They have nine living children-Ellen (now Mrs. Moore), Mary, Sarah J., John, Johanna, Margaret, Catherine, Jeremiah and Elizabeth. One, Michael, is not living.
M. E. MONSELL, merchant, Ashland, was born in New Haven, Conn., April 19, 1850. When seven years of age he went to Wisconsin with his parents and located in Fond du Lac. He moved to Waushara
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County, but returned to Fond du Lac and attended the high school of Mrs. Palmers, afterwards Spafford's He then moved to Adams County, where he was engaged in lumbering. In 1878 he went into a hotel at Auburn- dale, and came to Ashland in 1879. and went into mercantile business, being connected with the Ashland Lumber Co.'s store as manager. In 1879 he married Miss Page, of Stevens Point. They have one child. Libbie. Mr. Monsell is a member of the Masonic lodge of Ashland.
NAT. D. MOORE, miner, Ashland, was born in North of Ireland, Oct. 27, 1847. He came to New York and went into the Rose lead mines of St. Lawrence County, and from there, to Lanark Co., Canada, town of Perth, where he had charge of three mines, the Mississippi iron mine, the Victoria lead mine and the Oliver copper mine. He was cap- tain till 1868, when he went to Marquette, Mich., and began the mer- cantile business at Negaunee. In 1872 he came to Ashland as captain of the La Pointe Fron Co. In November of that year he left and went to Ontonagon, but again returned to Ashland as superintendent of the La Pointe Iron Co. After this he explored various iron regions, and has located over 3,000 acres of iron land. He again went into active mining for the Cambrian Mining Co., where he remained until it went into the hands of the Cliff Mining Co. In 18So he organized a com- pany, called the Union Mining and Exploring Co., of which Samuel Hibbard is president, Nat. D. Moore, secretary, and James Brown, treasurer. They secured two options of William Brighton and started on an exploration which resulted in nothing, and, in paying up, the com- pany disagreed, when Capt. Hibbard and himself withdrew, making up what was called the Black River Mining Co., which organized under the laws of Michigan : A. W. Maitland, president ; Nathaniel Hibbard, secretary and treasurer. and N. D. Moore, general superintendent. They went to exploring on Felch Mountain Range in Menomonee County, Mich., where they struck the Northwestern mine, the largest out-cropping of ore in the county. The option was one belonging to Pittzen Land & Iron Co., and they had privilege to keep it up to June I, but they, failing to locate, Mr. Moore on the 22d of May secured the option and disposed of the last of the shares in June, 1881. The Black River Min- ing Co. has now in Range 45-6-7, Town 47, Michigan, a vein of clear ore forty feet wide. Mr. Moore has bought Green's Hall and a dwell- ing in Ashland, and will go into business, In 1877 he married Miss Ella Montague, of Negaunee. They have had two children-Elizabeth Jane, who died June 13, 1881, and Nathaniel D.
JAMES E. PAGE, jeweler, Ashland, was born in Racine Co., Wis., Jan. 14, 1855. Moved to Portage County when he was four years old, and lived on a farm in the vicinity of Stevens Point. Here he attended school and afterward went into the woods and traded with the Indians. In 1873 he learned the jeweler's trade, and in 1877, came to Ashland and established himself in business ; in the same year he married Miss Etta Judd, of Ashland. They have one child, Claude E. He belongs to the Masonic lodge of Ashland.
GEORGE O. PECK HAM, grocery and provisions, Ashland, was born in Chatauqua Co., N. Y., Jan. 4. 1829. Until he was sixteen years of age, he remained in his native State. With his father, came to Green Co., Wis., and went to farming. In 1856, he went to High Forest, Minn., and in 1861 enlisted in the Ist Iowa Inf., Co. A. He re-enlisted in the 11th Iowa Inf., Co. H. In 1863, he enlisted as a veteran till the war was over. IIe was mustered out in Davenport, Iowa, July 18, 1865, and from there went to Winona, Minn. In 1872, came to Ashland, and in the Fall bought the hotel called Ashland House, but was burned out in 1873. He then rented the Adams House and managed that for two years, working meantime at his trade of mason, In 1880, he opened a grocery store. In t866, he married Mrs. Keith, of Minnesota, and has two daughters, Etta M. and Ella M. These young ladies graduated in the Spring of 1881, from the State Normal School at Winona, Minn.
E. F. PRINCE, American express agent, Ashland, was born in Maine, 1832. In 1857, he came to Ashland, but in 1859 went upon the lakes. He returned, however, and settled here. He has four children- Eugenia V. F., John R , Roy B. and Faith W.
MARTIN ROEHM, boarding-house, Ashland, was born in Wurtem- burg, Germany, in 1821, where he learned to be a baker and miller. He came to New York in 1851, and went to Buffalo, where he stopped one year, and then moved to Michigan, From there he went to La Pointe. and thence to Ashland in 1854, and pre-empted his farm of 160 acres. When the panic reached this section, and the people began to leave, he was the only one left in the village of Ashland. This was in 1865. In 1871, fishermen came up the coast, and he now has several hundred neigh- bors. He is engaged in raising stock and keeping boarders. He was married in 1859, and has two children. IIe belongs to the Lutheran Church.
JOSEPH ROUTIER, saloon, Ashland, was born in Montreal, Can- ada, March 15, 1850. Hecame to Grand Rapids, Wis., in 1867, and went to lumhering, where he staid until 1873, when he came to Wausan. He came to Ashland in August, 1880. In 1881 he opened his present business. In 1867, he married Miss Roy, of Wausau. They have two children, Nellie and Willie.
FRANZ XAVIER SCHOTTSMUELLER, brewery, Ashland, was born in Baden, Germany, 1835, emigrated to America in 1851, going from New York to Pennsylvania, and from there to Cincinnati, where he went into the cigar business. In 1852 he went to New Orleans and from there to Missouri and Illinois, stopping a while in Peoria. He came to Ashland in 1872, putting up a brewery and a saloon here. In 1869 he married Miss Annie J Dohm, of Wisconsin. They have a son, Martin Otto.
JACOB SCOTT, retired, Ashland, was born in Little Falls, Her- kimer Co., N. Y., June 18, 1804. In 1816 he moved to Gene- see Co., town of Shelby, living on the farm there till 1823, when he went to work at carpentering in Black Rock. In 1843, marrying, he went to Put-in-Bay Islands and had the agency of wood and stone sup- plies there. He staid until 1846, when he took a farm on Scott's Point, named after him, and famous for the great amount of fish caught in its surrounding waters. He lived here until he exchanged for a farm ad- joining Ft. Clinton, and then exchanged this one for saw and grist-mill, at the mouth of Portage River. These mills burned in 1855. He then worked for George Reynold, of Lockport, taking the superintendency of F. K. Barney's farm of 300 acres. In 1860 he went to Sandusky City and opened grocery, and later, bought what is now called Scott's American Hotel, kept by his son. He came to Ashland in 1876, and bought the Central House, also pine lands on Sec. 15, Town 44, Range 2. In 1831 he was married to Miss Margaret Harr. They had three children-Voltaire ; and Adelaide and Winfield, not living. Mr. Scott belongs to the Masons, having been a member for twenty-seven years.
E. C. SMITH, manufacturer, Ashland, was born in Worchester Co., Mass., Jan. 23, IS35 ; came westward in 1856, and settled at St. Cloud, Minn. where he went into mercantile business, in which he was engaged until 1873. He then moved to Ashland, Wis., and began the manufac- ture of boots and shoes. In 1879 he was elected Town Treasurer, and still holds that office. He married, in 1858, Miss Mary E. Mattoon. They have one son, Benjamin S. Mr. Smith belongs to the Masonic fraternity.
PETER STEFAN, general merchandise, Ashland, was born in Bavaria, Germany, Aug. 15, 1838 ; came to America in 1846; stopped at Buffalo, N. Y., where he learned the butcher's trade, which, not suit- ing him, he worked in a saw-mill, afterward learning the carpenter's trade , and, in West Seneca, went to day and night school till 1852, when he went to Chicago and worked at his trade. He then returned to Buffalo, N. Y., and went into a saw-mill for himself ; but the dam was washed out and he then took a saw-mill in Hamburg. In 1863 he re- cruited for the service and enlisted in the 98th N. Y. militia, and was mustered out in 1864. In 1867 he went to Chicago and from there to Duluth, Minn., where he put up the first wagon and blacksmith shop, staying till 1872, when he and Wilhelm came to Ashland and went into the liquor business. In 1876 they dissolved, and Mr. Stefen built on Vaughn's Division. He has been Assessor and Justice. and in 1874 he married Miss Catherine Lenhard, of New York. They have two chil- dren, Charles and Catherine.
W. R. SUTHERLAND, lumberman, Ashland, was born in Glen- garie Co., Canada, Nov. 17, 1841. He lived on a farm until coming to Wisconsin, when he went to the woods and lumbered in Juneau County. In 1867 he went to Dubuque in the lumber business, where he remained till 1874 ; then came to Ashland and entered the Ashland Lumber Company as secretary. He was married in. 1873 to Miss Jane Ross, of Montreal. They have five children-Edward R., Grace, Walter A., Margaret and Joseph. He is now County Treasurer of Ashland, also contractor for Northern Pacific Railroad.
W. M. TOMKINS, lawyer. Ashland, was born in England, near London Feb. 24, 1845. He came to America in 1850, and moved to southwest Wisconsin, where his father was a Methodist preacher, and moved from place to place. Ile died in 1870 Mr. Tomkins took three terms at Bronson Institute, and was in the junior course of the State University, when he was compelled to leave in order to support the family. In 1870, he entered mercantile life in Adamsville, in Iowa County, and afterward went into a grist-mill, but sold out to his partner, and in April, 1873, came to Lake Superior. He came on foot from Duluth to Ashland, and on arriving went to work with ax and shovel to clear the town site. He was appointed Town Clerk in 1873, and also filled the offices of Deputy County Clerk and Justice, at the same time commencing the study of law. lle was elected Town Clerk in 1874-5, and was admitted to the bar. He was elected District Attorney in the Fall of 1875, and Superintendent of Schools in 1878. He is now Dep- uty County Treasurer, practicing attorney and real estate and abstract broker. He married, in 1872, Miss Elizabeth A. Pierce, of Iowa County. They have three children-A. Pierce, G. Webb and W. Clark. Mr. Tomkins belongs to the Masonic order.
SAMUEL STUART VAUGHN, merchant, Ashland, was born in Bereir, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, Sept. 2. 1830. He went to Eagle River, Mich., in 1849, and worked in the mining district. Leaving there with his brother they went to La Pointe, Aug. 4. 1852, where he engaged in fishing and fur trading with the Indians till 1855, when he went to
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Cleveland, Ohio, and attended commercial college. He returned to La Pointe and resumed his trading, which he carried on till 1856, when, in the Fall, he came to Ashland and took a claim, or pre-empted 160 acres, and then opened a store in Bayfield, one of the first there, which he carried on till 1872. In 1869 and 1870 he was elected and served in the Assembly, representing Burnett, Polk, Barron. Douglas, Ashland and Bayfield; was Postmaster at Bayfield eight years ; Chairman County Board Ashland and Bayfield counties several terms. In 1870 he was appointed director of the Central Railroad, but when the company re-organized he retired. On coming to Ashland he built docks, warehouses and a store. In 1871 laid out Vaughn's division of Ashland, and at present is some- what interested in lumber, putting in 10,000,000 of logs in the Winter, 1880-81. In 1864 he married Miss E. Patrick, of Ohio. William S. is the only son.
H. D. WEED, druggist, Ashland, was born in Oswego Co., N. Y., Sept. 9, 1829. At four years of age he was taken to Pontiac, Livingston Co., Ill., where his father took a claim. In 1840 his father took some heavy contracts on the old Illinois Central Railroad and was ruined ; he died in 1842. H. D. Weed attended school in Pontiac, and in 1839 went to Binghampton, N. Y., attending school there and at the Ithaca Academy. In 1844 he entered his uncle's drug store in Utica, N. Y. In 1850 he went to California, via Isthmus of Panama. On arriving he engaged in mining and came back in 1851 with $5,000. He engaged in the drug business in Milwaukee and moved from there to Chicago, where he re- mained three years. He then went to Rock Island, and from there to Minneapolis, where he opened a grocery. In 1859 he started for Pike's Peak, going on to California, where he stayed till 1863, when he returned to Minnesota. He then went to Montana, and while there was elected in 1865, to the Territorial Legislature. In 1866 returned home on a flat boat, down the Yellow Stone and Missouri rivers. He opened a drug store in Rushford, Minn., and moved to Winona in 1870, and thence to Ashland in the Spring of 1872, and opened a drug store. In 1854 he married Miss Cole, of Waukegan, Ill .; lost wife and child in 1856. He married Miss Benjamin in 1868, of Prophetstown, Il]. They have a daughter, Fannie H. Mr. Weed was elected Town Treasurer for Ash- land in 1876, and was United States Enumerator in 1880.
R. D. WERNER, restaurant, Ashland, was born in New York City, Aug. 30, 1851. His parents moved to Lake Superior shores of Mich- igan, and at nine years of age he went to work in the copper mines ; he then learned the barber's trade, and followed. that and work on the canal until 1866, when he went sailing and cooking on the lakes. He cooked in various places, until 1880, when he began his present busi- ness-barber shop, restaurant and bakery-and is doing about $3 000 per annum. In 1871 he married Miss Murray, of Marquette, Mich. They have three children-Emma D., Ameil and Mary.
JACOB WILHELM, saloon, Ashland, was born in Rhine, Bavaria, Germany, Feb. 4. 1845. He learned carriage and wagon making in Germany, and emigrated to America, landing in May. 1865. He came to Duluth, Minn., and opened the first shop in the village. He came to Ashland, May 6, 1872, and opened a liquor store. In 1870 he married, but lost his wife six months afterward. In 1874 he again married. His present wife was Miss S. Albert, of Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Wilhelm is a member of the I. O. O. F. He is also a Mason, and belongs to " Deutscher Harugari," of Buffalo, N. Y., and "Ordens der Freiheit." He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was Supervisor in 1876 and ISSo.
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