History of northern Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources; an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories; biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; views of county seats, etc., Part 164

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052

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JOHN PATZER, liquor merchant, Wausau. Came to Wausau, June 28, 1866, and engaged in teaching German about one year ; taught an English district school seven months, clerked in a general merchan- dising store one year and a half, in a hardware store one year, and in the Spring of 1869, engaged in the liquor business. He was elected Register of Deeds in 1870; re-elected in 1872, 1874 and 1876. In No- vember, 1876, he commenced the liquor business in present location. Mr. Patzer has been a member of the County Board for the last two years. He was the first City Clerk after the incorporation of the city, and served three successive terms, and was Alderman one year. He was born in Prussia, April 1, 1843. and came from there to Wisconsin. lle was married in Neillsville, Wis., Oct. 2, 1873, to Anna Paulus, who was born in Germany. They have four children-Anna, Otto, John and Fred. Mr. Patzer is a member of the I. O. O. F , A. F. & A. M. and A. O. U. W.

HUGO PETERS, Clerk of the Court, Wausau. Was born in Prussia, Dec. 17, 1847, and came to Wisconsin in November, 1863, living at Milwaukee six months, and since that time at Wausau. He was engaged in general work until 1876, when, having lost his left foot in a saw mill, he learned the photographer's art. In May, 1878, he was appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court ; was elected to that office in the Fall of 1878, and was re-elected in 1880. Mr. Peters was married in Wausau, September 21, 1868, to Antonia Schnieder, who was born in Prussia. They have six children-Augusta, Emma, Paul, Laura, Elizabeth and Clara.

DANIEL L. PLUMER, banker. Came to Wausau in 1857; en- gaged in lumbering and civil engineering, making land surveys, etc. In 1869, he made the first preliminary survey for the Wisconsin Central Railway from Unity to Bayfield, and was engaged to some extent in civil engineering up to 1876. He is now engaged in banking and lumbering with George and Willis C. Silverthorn, and is also one of the directors and is treasurer of the Wausau Lumber Co. The firm of Silverthorn & Plumer did a general real estate business from the time they opened their banking institution in 1868, until 1880. Mr. Plumer was County-Surveyor for twelve years, member of Assembly in 1873, member of the County Board for several years, and Member of the Board of Aldermen at the same time. He was City Surveyor several years, and in 1878, was Mayor. Mr. Plumer was born in Epping, Rockingham Co., N. H., July 3, 1837, and came from Epping to Wisconsin, in 1857. He was educated at Epping, Nottingham and the Academy at New London, N. H., and married at Schenevus, Otsego Co., N. Y., Sept. 13, 1869, to Mary Jane Draper.

JUDSON A. PORTER, in company with his brother, J. F. Porter, in the tannery, at Wausau. Settled at Wausau, in November, 1880, and selected the site and began the erection of their tannery. He was born in Autioch, Monroe Co., Ohio, April 20, 1854. He went to Min- nesota at the age of seventeen and engaged in the tannery business at St. Paul, with the firm of J. B. Tarbox & Co. From there he went to Red Wing, where he remained until he came to Wausau. He was mar- ried in Red Wing, Sept. 12, 1876, to Emelia Richm, who was born in Traverse, Minn., May 21, 1858. They have one daughter, Bessie May,

JOHN F. PORTER, of the firm of Porter Bros., proprietors of tan- nery, on the west side of the river, half a mile south of Wausau. Mr. J. F. Porter resides at Red Wing, Minn., where he also owns a large tannery, They erected their tannery and began business in Wausau in the Summer and Fall of 1881. The capacity is 22,000 sides per year. They employ fifty men during the year. They came to Wausau, Novem- ber, 1880, and selected the site for their tannery. Mr. Porter lived in St. Paul six years before going to Red Wing. Minn. He has followed the tannery business since he came West. He was horn in Antioch, Monroe Co., Ohio, May 7, 1843. He was married in Winchester, Ill., March 1, 1870, to Louise Machatanz, who was born in Germany, June, 1847. They have four children-Bertha L., George F., Edward H., and Ina.

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DAVID L. QUAW, Wausau, was born in West Almond, Allegany Co., N. Y., Dec. 13, 1836, and lived there until June 1, 1856, when he came to Friendship, Adams Co., Wis., and, in partnership with Willard Burbank, built a grist mill. In 1859, he went to Mauston, Junean Co., and read law, staying there until April 20, 1861, when, with Gen. J. A. Kellogg and Congressman Dawes, of Ohio, he raised Co. K, 6th Wis. V. I. At the organization of the company he was elected'second lieuten- ant but relinquished the office to Mr. Holden, a drilled soldier, and took the place of first sergeant. A month later he was elected second lieutenant and soon after appointed first lieutenant, by brevet, of the Signal Service, Regular Army, but declined it, and two months after organization he was appointed first lieutenant, and five months later he was detailed to build bridges for the Army of the Potomac. He was appointed captain in June, 1862, and served with the company in thirteen battles. At the battle of Bull Run, July 29, 1862. he was wounded in the left side by a shell explosion, and after examination by the surgeon general of the Army he was given indefinite leave of absence, and in October he resigned and was appoint- ed in the recruiting service of Wisconsin as Deputy United States Mar- shal, and continued in that service until the close of the war, with head- quarters at La Crosse. From 1865 to 1867 he was in the western part of New York, settling business affairs. He then returned to Friendship, Adams Co., and was elected Sheriff of that county, serving two years, and took the census of Adams County, in 1870. In 1871, he was appointed United States Receiver of Public Moneys for the Wausau Land District, and served until March, 1880, having resigned the previous January. Since IS72, he has been engaged in lumber business. Mr. Quaw is a son of Henry and Jane (McGibeny) Quaw ; his father died in 1864 and his mother resides in Wausau, in good health, at the advanced age of eighty- two years. Mr. Quaw was married in Friendship, Adams Co., Wis., in April, 1864, to Lydia E. Hendrick, who was born in Fulton, N. Y. They have three children-Clayton D., William and Dick.

SAMUEL M. QUAW, lumberman, Wausau, was born in West Al- mond, Allegany Co., N. Y., March 1, 1839. He employs about sixty men in the logging season, and ten men during the Summer. He settled in Friendship, Adams Co., in 1857, and lived there ten years. He en- listed September, 1861, in Company H, 11th Reg. Wis. V. I., and served three years and three months, and was mustered out at Madison, Jan. 9, 1865. He then returned to Friendship and began farming. In March, 1867, he moved to Strong's Prairie in same county, and built a grist mill in company with a Mr. Woock, where he remained two years. He then sold his interest and went to Sioux City, Iowa, and began farming and stock raising, which he continued until the Fall of 1872. After various other business ventures he came to Wausau. Was married October, 1874, at Wausau to Susie H. Mauson, who was born in Jackson, N. H., in June, 1846.

GEORGE W. REAY, contractor and painter was born in Stafford- shire, England, in city of Wasil, Dec. 8, 1836. He arrived in Baltimore, Md., May 16, 1844, and remained there until the Rebellion broke out, when he was obliged to leave on account of his Union sentiments, He walked fifty-eight miles through the Rebel country into our lines. In a short time he was commissioned by the Regular Army officers to raise volunteers. He enlisted in Co. G, 3rd Md. Vol. He acted as first lien- tenant two years and was discharged for physical disability. He recruit- ed another company of home guards and was elected Captain and served sixty days. He was elected president of the Hancock Iron and Steel Co., in which capacity he remained a year. He came to Wausau in 1876. He has been married three times.

REV. THEODORE J. RICHARD, priest, Wausau, was born in Arlesheim, Switzerland, Dec. 17, 1851. He was educated in EinsiedIn and University of Frieburg, Baden. and graduated from there in July, 1871, from there he emigrated to Saint Francis, near Milwaukee, and studied in Saint Francis Seminary for Theologians; he remained there until July, 1872, and then attended the Seminary of Our Lady of An- gels, at Suspension Bridge, N. Y., from that time until July, 1873. He was yet too young to be priest, he therefore went to Green Bay and re- mained with the Right Rev. Bishop Melcher until his death, Dec. 20, of that year. He continued there until March 21, 1875. He was ordained priest in Chicago, Jan. 4. 1875, by Right Rev. Bishop Foley. Then he was sent to Wausau, and took charge of Saint Mary's Congregation there March 22. 1875.

GEORGE RIBENACK, proprietor Lake Shore House, Wausau, came to Kilbourn in August, 1866, and located there. He kept the Tanner lIouse, and was in business twelve years. He speculated, bought hops and farmed for two years, and then went to Wausau, and began business in his present place. He was born in Germany, Sept. 12, 1834 ; he was married, Jan. 28. 1862, to Henrietta Lintner, who was born in Germany, Nov. 3, 1836. They have six children-George, Henry, Albert, Eddie, Bertha, and Willie.

*IION. BARTIIOLOMEW RINGLE, Wausau, was born in Ing- weiler, Land Comisariat Zweibrucken, Rhein Bairen, Germany, Oct 16, 1814, and received a common school education. He is, by profession, a lawyer. Ile emigrated to Germantown, Washington Co., Wis., in 1846, living there about two years; he was then in Herman, Dodge Co.

*As we goto press, notice is sent us that Mr. Ringle dled In Wausau, Oct. 27, 1881.

until the Spring of 1859, when he came to Wausau. He was Postmaster for six years, Town Clerk, Chairman of the Board and Justice of the Peace of the town of Herman. He has been County Judge for twenty years continuously. Was Clerk of the Board of Supervisors six years ; President of the Village ; Justice of the Peace, and Police Justice. He was a member of the Assembly in 1864, 1872, 1875, 1876, 1877, and since then his son, John Ringle, has been a member for three winters. Mr. Ringle is in the land agency business, deals in tax abstracts, tax paying, etc., and this year, for the first time, has dealt in lumber. He was married in Germany, in June, 1834, to Magdelena Pick ; she is a native of the same place as Mr. Ringle. They have eight children liv- ing-Charles, Bartholomew L., Philip, Valentine, John, Elizabeth, Caroline and Louis, and have lost four children, two dying in infancy.

JOHN RINGLE, merchant, Wausaw, was born in Herman, Dodge Co., Wis., Oct. 2, 1848, and lived there until May, 1859, when he came to Wausau. He clerked in the County Clerk's office several years, and in 1872, was elected Clerk, and re-elected in 1874 and 1876. Two years prior to entering upon his duties as County Clerk, he had engaged in ab- stract and real estate business. He has been City Assessor, and in the Fall of 1878, he was elected Assemblyman, and was re-elected in 1879 and 1880. He has been Supervisor for the last two years, and is Chair- man of the County Board at the present time. He has been engaged in lumbering for the last three years. Mr. Ringle was married in Wausau, September, 1872, to Augusta Engel, who was born in Germany. They have five children-Gustav Charles, Edward Bartholomew, Annie Louise, Oscar Louis, and Caroline Beatrice. Mr. Ringle is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and of the I. O. O. F.

PHILIP RINGLE, Wausau, was born in Bavaria, July 3, 1843, and came to Wisconsin with his parents. He came to Wausau in 1859, and two years later returned to Herman, Dodge Co., Wis., living there four years; he then went to the town of Utica, Winona Co., Minn., and engaged in farming until the Fall of 1873, when he re- turned to Wausau, and engaged in lumbering for one year. He was Deputy County Clerk from 1874 to 1878; City Surveyor in 1876, and again elected in the Spring of 1881. Mr. Ringle was married in the town of Herman, Dodge Co., Wis., Jan. 12, 1865, to Elizabeth Neeb, who was born in Hesse-Darmstadt. They have six children living- Louis B, William, Charles, Emil, Otto, and an infant son, and have lost two daughters and one son.

VALENTINE RINGLE, proprietor of the Wisconsin River Pilot, Wausau, was born in Germantown, Wis., June 8, 1847, and engaged in teaching when he was seventeen years old. He taught two terms, and, in December, 1865, established the Wisconsin River Pilot, and has been proprietor of that paper ever since. He learned the printer's trade when he was twelve years of age. In January, 1870, he established the Wausau Wochenblatt. Mr. Ringle has been City Treasurer twice, and Alderman two terms. He was married in Wausau, Aug. 29, 1869, to Aurora E. Engel, who was born in Germany. They have five children -Aurora E., Clara L., Martha, Antoinette L., and an infant daughter. Mr. Ringle is a member of the A. O. U. W., and of the Wausau Cornet Band.

GEORGE RUDER, brewer, Wausau, was born in Bavaria, Sept. 7, 1827, and came from Germany to Stevens Point, Wis., in 1854, living there until 1860, when he came to Wausau, and engaged in the brewery business. He built his brewery in 1860, began operating it in 1861, and has continued it ever since, with the exception of eight months' time spent in lumbering. He employs on an average five men in the brew- ery, and manufactures about 3,000 barrels of beer a year. Mr. Ruder was married at Stevens Point, in April, 1857, to Louise Schmidt, who was born in Prussia. They have ten children-Louis, Emil, Hermann, Clara, Emma, Edward, Henry, William, Helen and Ella. Mr. Ruder is a member of the I. O. O. F .; he has been village President, and was Alderman four terms.

LEWIS SCHLECHT, proprietor Adams House, Wausau, settled in Milwaukee, May 10, 1852; lived there eleven years, and enlisted in Co. D, 14th Regt., Wis. V. I., April 26, 1865; served ten months ; was mustered out Dec. 22, 1865. Then he engaged as sailor, for two years, on the Goodrich Line; then went to the Lake Superior mines, and worked six months; then to Stevens Point, and ran the river, and fol- lowed lumbering until 1870. He then located at Stevens Point, and started a boot and shoe shop. Followed that until 1881, then came to Wausau. He was born in Bavaria, April 19, 1847. He was married at Stevens Point, July 2, 1869, to Catherine Stenger, who was born in Germany, Dec. 12, 1845. She was reared in Callicoon, Sullivan Co., N. Y. They have four boys-Lewis, Frank, William and George.

AUGUST W. SCHMIDT, was born in Prussia, Sept. 15, 1830, and came to Wisconsin from Germany, arriving at the town of Berlin, Mar- athon Co .. in September, 1856, living there until 1879. He was elected Register of Deeds in the Fall of 1878, and re-elected in 1880. He has has held various town offices ; was Town Clerk six years, County Com- missioner five years, Chairman of the Town Board several years, and Justice of the Peace for a number of terms. He was married at the town of Berlin, in 1859, to Charlotte H. Neimann, who was born in

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Prussia, They have four children-Louise M., Robert F., Albert H., William O. Mr. Schmidt is a member of the A. O. U. W.

CHARLES SCHNEIDER, mason, contractorand builder, Wausau, was born in the province of Posen, in Germany, Feb. 21, 1851. He came to the United States, in March, 1870, and visited various portions of our country, going from place to place for five or six years, finally settling in Oshkosh, in 1876, where he lived until 1880. He then moved to Wausau.

OTTO SCHOCHOW, blacksmith, Wausau, was born in Pomern, Germany, Dec. 25, 1841. He came to America, in June, 1867, and settled in Wausau. He was married, in Wausau, January. 1869, to Au- gusta Merquardt, who was born in his native place in Germany. They have six children-Bertha, Gustaf, Martha, Robert, Otto and Emma.

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WILLIAM SCHOLFIELD, deceased, first settled near Mineral Point, on coming to Wisconsin, about the year 1856. He bought a farm, and went to what is now Scholfield, to get lumber to to fence it, being in company with Captain Lumbard. Up- on arriving at the last mentioned place, then a wilderness, he bought a saw-mill of a Mr. Martin, which he operated for some time, but after having rebuilt the mills, they were burned. Then he purchased the whole interest and rebuilt them alone. From that time until his death he followed the lumber business. Since his death the business has been conducted by Mrs. Scholfield and her brother, in the firm name of C. P. Haseltine & Co. Mr. Scholfield was born in Salem, Ohio, March 7, 1810. He was married, in Joliet, Ill., Oct. 28, 1852, to Mary S. Hasel- tine, who was born in Canaseraga, Allegany Co., N. Y., April 2, 1833. They had five children-Kate M., now married, Wm. B., deceased. Elizabeth R., Mary V., and Margaret A. Scholfield.

WILLIAM B. SCHOLFIELD, book-keeper and general overseer of Scholfield's mill, Scholfield. The firm name is C. P. Haseltine & Co. Scholfield's mills were erected in 1855 and 1856. The capacity is 125,- 000 in twenty-four hours. They employ 125 men. Mr. William B. Scholfield was born in Stevens Point, Nov. 15, 1856, where his parents lived until he was eight years of age, when they moved to Scholfield, and remained about nine years. They then moved to Wausau, where he attended school for some time ; then he attended the school at Jefferson about five years. Since then he has made his home at Scholfield. He was married, in Wausau, September, 1880, to Zoa Mauson, who was born in Wausau, Sept. 1, 1858. Mrs. Scholfield is a daughter of R. P. Mau- son, of Wausau.

ERNEST SCHULZE, saloon, Wausau, was born in Germany, April 16, 1836. He came to Wausau, July 22, 1862, and went into co-part- nership with Jacob Gensmann, remaining with him two years, in the

boot and shoe business. Then he worked alone, at same business, un- til 1879, when he began in his present occupation. He was married, Dec. 26, 1872, at Wausau, to Augusta Luepky, who was born in Ger- many, April 12, 1844. They have four children-Emma, Bertha, Ed- ward and Henry.

ALBERT SCHWANTES, blacksmith, Wausau, of the firm of Schwantes & Raddant, was born in Maysville, Dodge Co., March 19, 1855. He came to Wausau in 1872, but afterwards returned to Mayville and learned his trade, coming to Wausau again in 1877. He was mar- ried at Wausau, April, 1877, to Caroline Reddant, who was born in Germany. They have two children. Lizzie and Ottelia.

JOHN JOE SHERMAN. Mr. Sherman is one of the compara- tively late comers in Wausau, but by his intelligence and accommodat- ing spirit, coupled with energy and enterprise, he is winning a wide cir- cle of friends. He was born in Addison, Washington Co., Wis., Aug. 28, 1535. From the public school he went to St. Gall's Academy, Milwaukee, and attended the Normal at Whitewater, teaching, mean- time in all, ten terms in his native county, and two seasons in Milwaukee, at times, keeping an evening commercial school, afterward engaged in mercantile pursuits at Hartford and Schleisingerville. Married, Feb. 18, 1879, Mary E. Dengel. They had one son. Went into business with his wife's father, under the firm name of Dengle & Sherman. Another son of Mr. Dengel is now in the firm, which is A. Dengel & Co. They sel! general merchandise, dry goods, crockery, and glassware, boots and shoes, farmer's produce, farming implements, etc. Mr. Sherman is one of the Trustees of the Catholic Church, and a rising young man.

HON. WILLIS C. SILVERTHORN, lawyer and banker, Wausau, was born in Toronto, Canada, Aug. 30, 1838. His parents, George and Sarah (Austin) Silverthorn, came to Oakland, Jefferson Co., Wis., when he was three or four years of age, probably in 1842, and that was his home until he came to Wausau, in 1864. Commenced the practice of law here, having been admitted to the Bar in the Fall of 1863. He was educated at Albion Academy, in this State, and the Wisconsin Univer- sity. In 1869 he also engaged in banking business with D. L. Plumer, and George Silverthorn, his broher. Mr. Silverthorn has been District Attorney, twice member of the Assembly-in 1868 and 1874- and was State Senator in 1875 and 1876. He was first married in Madi- son, April 20, 1865, to Maggie Virginia Myers, who was born in Bowl- ing Green, Ky., and died Jan. 29, 1878, leaving three children-Willis V., Margaret G. and Nellie C. Mr. Silverthorn was married in Wau- sau, June 20, 1879, to his present wife, Ida M. Single. They have one son, James C.

GEORGE SILVERTHORN, Wausau, was born in Toronto Town- ship, Canada, Feb. 13, 1832, and came to Wisconsin in October, 1843. living in Oakland, Jefferson Co., Wis., until the Spring of 1850, when he came to the Big Eau Claire, and was engaged in lumbering, except the time spent at school at Baraboo, and later at Lawrence University in the Winter of 1856 and 1857. In the Fall of 1858, he went to St. Louis and dealt in lumber for John Slothower, until the Spring of 1861. when he came to Wausau to remain permanently. He has been inter- ested in the lumber business ever since he came here ; he has dealt in real estate, looking after his own interests principally. In 1852 or 1853, he helped put in the dam. Mr. Silverthorn was married in Summer. ville, Canada, Jan. 6, 1874, to Mary A. Alderson, a native of Summer- ville. They have one child, Caroline Sarah.

BENJAMIN SINGLE, proprietor saw mills on the Little Rib River, four miles west of Wausau. The first mill was erected in 1844, it being run by water. In 1851 they abandoned that mill and built a steam saw mill near by, which they operated about twenty years, when it burned. Their present saw mill was erected in the Summer of 1873, the capacity of which is 40,000 in twelve hours. They employ thirty- five men. Mr. Single settled in Milwaukee in June, 1836, and lived there and in that vicinity three years, and followed the carpenter and joiner trade, then he went to Grand Rapids, arriving in the Winter of 1839, There he engaged in lumbering, which he followed until the Summer of 1845, at which time he settled in his present location. except 1850 and 1851, when he resided in St. Louis, Mo. He was born in Bayford, Hertfordshire, England, Aug. 20, 1820. He was married in Wausau, Aug. 23, 1849, to Jane S. Boswell, who was born in London, England, May 28, 1 :27. They have one daughter, Rozetta W., now Mrs. Lyman W. Thayer.

JACOB SLIMMER, dealer in gents' clothing, furnishing goods, boots and shoes, Wausau, located at Mineral Point, Wis., May 2 1875 ; lived there one year and clerked in a store ; from there he went to Austin, Minn., where he remained four years; then came to Wausau in April, 1880. He began business here May 10. He was born in Obersitzke, Germany, March 27, 1854. He was married at Austin, Minn., Jan. 6, 1877, to Lizzie A. Wagner, who was born in Springfield, Dane Co., Jan. 4, 1854. They have two children, Max D. and Felix R.

JOHN SLOAN, proprietor Sloan House, Wausau, settled in Wau- sau, April 22, 1864, and labored at various kinds of employment for ten years. He kept hotel, corner Jackson and Main streets, until February, 1881 ; then moved to his present locality. He was a member of City

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Council two years. He was born in St. Edward's, Canada, March 18, 1844. He was married in Portage County, July 29, 1873 ; his wife's maiden name was Lina Brossoit ; she was born in Bohornway, Canada, June 29. 1843. They had two children, both of whom died.

JUDSON M. SMITH, Wausau, came to Wausau in August, 1874, and engaged in the construction of the Wisconsin Valley Railway, build- ing the road from Knowlton to Wausau in about sixty days. Mr. Smith was associated with William F. Thompson in the contract for building. The road was opened for business Nov. 9, 1874. Since January, 1875, Mr. Smith has resided in Wausau, his family coming here to reside in February of that year. He deals extensively in lands of his own and those belonging to the railroad company. Mr. Smith was born in Braintree, Orange Co., Vt., Jan. 18, 1827, and lived in Roxbury and West Randolph, Vt. When the Vermont Central Railway was built, he engaged as foreman in its construction, probably in 1846 ; during the last half of that year until the Fall of 1847, when he came to New York State and engaged upon the Ogdensburg and Rouse's Point road (now a part of the Vermont Central); he was there, in different capacities, until 1852, when he be- came interested in the construction of the Great Western Road, of Can- ada. He was employed upon that for two years and a half; he was then engaged in building, as contractor, the extension from Stamford to Niagara Falls; was with the Erie & Ontario Company one year. He then had a contract on the Sarnia branch of the Great Western, and built the Grand Trunk from Mt. Clemens to Detroit. In 1860, he built railroad bridges in Tennessee. He was in the tannery business for six years in Canada, the only time he was out of the railroad business from 1846 until the Fall of 1874. He was connected with the Buffalo & Erie road, on the Chicago, Michigan & Lake Shore line, and in 1872 built the double track of the Michigan Central from Detroit to Chicago. He was then engaged on the Big Rapids branch of the Chicago, Michi- gan & Lake Shore road. Then built the Wisconsin Valley, and several smaller roads, building over 200 miles through the woods in a little over two years. Mr. Smith was married, Sept. 15, 1858, to Thirza D. Booth, who was born in Brockville, Ontario. They have one child, Helen E. They are members of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Smith is a mem- ber of the A., F. & A. M.

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Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 1052

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052