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 27

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

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J. ARANDS, saloon keeper, Washington street, Green Bay, was born in Manitowoc County in 1858. Came to Green Bay in 1878. Has

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been in the saloon business for the last three years. Was married here to Miss Anna Guyer in 1880. She was born in Oshkosh in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Arands have one child, Lizzie, born June 1, 1881.

D. COOPER AYRES, M. D., is a native of Ohio. Graduated from the medical department of the University of New York in 1848. Came to Wisconsin the following year, and to Green Bay in 1850. Entering the United States service in 1861 as Assistant Surgeon of the 7th Wisconsin, he was promoted Surgeon in 1862, and when the regiment veteranized in 1864, he re-entered the service with them, and held his position as Sur- geon until they were mustered out of service at the close of the war. During these four years he was attached to the "Iron Brigade," con- nected with the Ist and 5th Army Corps, and was on every march and in every engagement participated in by his regiment. Retiring from the army, Dr. Ayres engaged in business until 1871, when he resumed prac- tice in this city. He was one of the organizers of the State Medical Society, and by request of that body, in 1854, presented their memorial for the creation of a State Insane Asylum to the Legislature of the State. He was a member of the Assembly in 1868-71-72. As Chairman of the Committee on Benevolent Institutions, he made an elaborate report before the Legislature of 1868, on the establishment of schools for im- beciles. The report was exhaustive. Action taken on the subject led to the passage of a bill in accordance with the recommendations of the report, but owing to an inadvertency it was not signed by the Governor, and so failed to become law. Office on Cherry street, near Washington.

WILLIAM BAPTIST & SON, owners of the tug " H. N. Mar- tin." This tug, commanded by W. H. Baptist, the junior partner, was purchased in the Spring of 1881, for towing rafts to their mill in Green Bay. Her trip from the mill to the mouth of the Peshtigo River and return, with a float of 400,000 feet, is usually made in twenty-four hours. Her dimensions are : Over all, 100 feet ; breadth of beam, 17 feet ; depth of hold, 9 feet 6 inches ; engines. 2, each 16x16.

THOMAS BENNETT, gardener, is a native of Massachusetts, from which State he came to Green Bay in 1836, where for forty-five years he has maintained a permanent residence. A house painter by trade, he followed that business for three years after his arrival here, and then opened a grocery store, which, in 1857, he converted into a general merchandising establishment, and so conducted it until his house became exclusively dry goods, and so remained until 1872, when an acci- dent, which confined him to the house for months, incapacitated him for business, and he closed ont. Recovering his strength in 1874, he opened a flour and feed store, which he conducted until 1878, then sold out, and has since been principally engaged in gardening, having the past year about six acres under cultivation. In 1872, in connection with Vincent Connoly, of Fort Howard, Mr. Bennett built an ice-house capable of holding 2,000 tons, and the following year rented his interest to his partner, who still conducts the business. This ice-house was burned in the great fire of 1880, by which Mr. Bennett's house and grounds were destroyed, entailing a loss of $5 000 above all insurance. The following Spring, 1881, the present ice-house, having a capacity of 3,000 tons, was built and fully stocked.

B. M. BERENDSEN, Register of Deeds for Brown County. Office in the court-house. He has held this office since Jan. 1, 1875, and is now serving his fourth term. Mr. Berendson is a native of Holland ; received his education at Culenburg, came to America in 1856, settling in Green Bay, and engaging in merchandise, until his election as Register of Brown County.

H. T. C. BERENDSEN, Deputy Register since 1875. Came to this State when only six years of age, and has received his education in this city. Mr. Berendsen has been a resident of Brown County since 1856, and is a member of the City Council at the present time.

T. L. BEST, of the firm of Skeels & Best, wholesale dry goods, is a native of Vermont, from which State he removed to Wisconsin in 1861, and to this city four years later. He was bred to mercantile business from his youth, and has always been engaged in that line of trade.

JOHN P. BOLAND, Deputy County Clerk, has been in his present office since January, 1881. He received his education at Plattsburg, N. Y., and has been a resident of Green Bay for one year.

B. C. BRETT, M. D., established practice in this city in 1872. Dr. Brett is a native of Maine. Graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth College, in the class of 1859; soon afterward entered Demilt Medical Dispensary, New York City, where he remained eigh- teen months engaged in the study and practice of his profession, and then removed to this State. In the Winter of 1861-62, he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the 21st Wis. I .; served with Grant in Mississippi, and was then with Sherman until the march to the sea was over, when he declined a commission as Surgeon of the 17th. Came home in the Fall of 1864, and was engaged in practice at Brookfield, Green County, until his removal to this city in 1872. Dr. Brett is a member of the State Medical Association, and also of the Brown Coun- ty Association. Office over Schellenbeck's drug store, on Washington street.

FRANK BURGHARDT, meat market, Washington street, Green Bay. He is a native of Milwaukee, born in 1853. He engaged in this

business for Mr. Kalb, with whom he remained for five years, after which he opened business for himself, which he has carried on success- fully for the last four years. The business gives employment to four men. He has a farm rented at present for the feeding of his cattle, hogs and sheep. A slaughter house is connected with farm, rendering the business perfect in every particular.

TIMOTHY CASE, general superintendent G. B., N. & St. P. R. R .; is a native of Vermont; came to Wisconsin in 1845 in connection with some lumber interests requiring attention, and returned to New York the following year. He was engaged in railroad enterprises at the East until coming to this State in 1877 as general superintendent of the Green Bay & Minnesota railroad, which position he held only one month and was then appointed receiver of the road, its affairs having become in- volved. This position he held until the reorganization of the road, June 7, 1881, when he was again appointed its general superintendent.

T. B. CATLIN, pictorial painter, shop on Adams street between Cherry and Walnut streets. Mr. Catlin is a native of Pennsylvania and

Mr. Chapman

has handled a brush for the past forty-five year, twenty-nine of them in this State. He studied painting with his uncle, George Catlin, the noted Indian artist, and traveled with him in Great Britain and on the Continent from 1839 to 1846; most of the time as agent, also, of Bar- num's Tom Thumb troupe, then in Europe. Returning to America in 1846, Mr. Catlin spent six years as portrait painter in New York and Philadelphia. Coming west in 1852 he settled in Madison, remaining some years, then removed to Beaver Dam, at which place, in 1861, he recruited for the United States service, Co. D, 5th Wis. V. I., was com- missioned Captain and took the field. The following year he was commissioned Lieut. Colonel ; served in that capacity until mustered out of the service. Returning to Wisconsin he resumed his brush, and after a short residence in several cities of the State, settled in Green Bay in 1868, since which time he has been a permanent resident of the city.

COL. WILLIAM CHAPMAN was born at St. Johns, near Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Md., Jan. 22, 1810. After receiving an academic education, in 1827 he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. Graduating in 1831, he served his country on the frontier, in Mexico and in the War of the Rebellion, almost continually for a period of thirty-two years-a long and faithful service which few men can have placed to their credit. The following from Collum's Biographic

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Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy, narrates his life in terms eloquent to a military man, because concise and orderly : " William Chapman-Cadet at the United States Military Academy from July 1, 1827. to July 1, 1831, when he was grad- nated and promoted in the army to brevet second lieutenant, 5th In- fantry, July 1, 1831 ; served on frontier duty at Fort Mackinac, Mich., 1831-32 ; on the Black Hawk expedition in 1832, but not at the seat of war ; at the military academy as assistant instructor of infantry tactics, Oct. 20, 1832, to June 29, 1833 ; promoted to second lieutenant, 5th Infantry, March 4, 1833; on frontier duty at Fort Howard, Wis., 1833 ; as adjutant, 5th Infantry, at regimental head-quarters, Nov. 7, 1833, to July 1, 1838 ; promoted to first lieutenant, 5th Infantry, Dec. 31, 1836 ; on recruiting service, 1838-40 ; on frontier duty at Fort Snelling, Minn., 1840-1, and Fort Mackinac, Mich., 1841-2, 1842-5; in military occupation of Texas, 1845-6; promoted to captain of 5th Infantry, June 8, 1845 ; in the war with Mexico, 1846-8, being engaged in the battle of Palo Alto, March 8, 1846, Reseca-de-la-Palma, May 9,

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1846, Monterey, Sept. 21-23, 1846; Vera Cruz, March 9-29, 1847 ; capture of San Antonio, Ang. 20, 1847, where he was wounded ; Chern- busco, Ang. 20, 1847 ; brevet major, Aug. 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco ; Molino del Rey, Sept. 8, 1847, where, upon the fall of his superiors, he com- manded his regiment ; storming of Chepultepec, Sept. 13, 1847 ; assault and capture of the city of Mexico, Sept. 13-14, 1847 ; brevet lieutenant colonel, Sept. 8, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey ; in garrison at Fort Columbus, N. Y., 1848-9; on frontier duty at Fort Gibson, I. T., 1849-50; conducting recruits to Texas, 1851 ; Clear Fork of the Brazos, Texas, 1851-3; Ringgold Bar- racks, Texas, 1854-5 ; march to Eagle Pass, Texas, 1855-6, and Ringgold Barracks, Texas, 1856-7; on frontier duty, Utah expedition, 1857-8, 1859-60 ; march to New Mexico, 1860; at Fort Bliss, Texas, 1860-1; promoted to major, 2d Infantry, Feb. 25, 1861; Fort Fauntleroy, N. M., 1861, and Fort Union, N. M., 1861. Served during the Rebell- ion, in command of regiment, in the defenses of Washington, D. C., January to March, 1862 ; promoted to lieutenant colonel, 3d Infantry, Feb. 20, 1862; in the Virginia Peninsula campaign (Ariry of the l'oto- mac), March to August, 1862, in command of the 2d Brigade of Regu- lars, being engaged in the siege of Yorktown, April 5 to May 4, 1862 ; hattle of Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862; skirmish at Harrison Landing, July 2, 1862; Northern Virginia campaign, August to September, 1862, being engaged in the battle of Manassas, Aug. 30, 1862 ; on sick leave

of absence, Sept. 20, 1862, to Dec. 3. 1863; brevet colonel, Aug. 30, IS62, for gallant and meritorious services at the second battle of Bull Run, Va .; in command of draft rendezvous at Madison, Wis. Dec. 3, 1863, to Feb. 28, 1865; retired from active service Aug. 26, 1863, for disability resulting from long and faithful service and disease contracted in the line of duty; on special duty at Washington, D. C., Feb. 28 to Sept. 11, 1865 ; unemployed from Sept. 11, 1865, to Oct. 1, 1866; as member of Board of Examination of officers for promotion in the army, Oct. 1, 1866, to Jan. 9. 1867. Since then Col. Chapman has been un- employed." The Ist of July, ISSI, was the golden anniversary of his marriage to the United States army, and it was fittingly observed hy Col. Chapman, his family and hosts of friends. Col. Chapman was married in 1836 to Miss Abby Ann Wheelock, daughter of Gen. Jonathan Wheelock. They have had one son and two daughters-now married. Such have been Col. Chapman's constant military duties that, even if so inclined, he would have had no opportunity to serve his locality in civic capacities. He has never held an office of that kind-has never mixed with politics in any way. Col. Chapman springs from military stock. Ilis father, Maj. Henry HI. Chapman, of Maryland, was an officer in the Revolutionary War. He served during the latter part of the conflict, being a lientenant of Diges's Regiment at the battle of Yorktown. Maj. Chapman was only nineteen years old at the time. As became the spirit of a patriotic young man, he was a member of the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of officers of the American army. Among other relics treasured with merited care by Col. Chapman, is his father's certificate of membership, signed by George Washington, President, and J. Knox, Secretary. Maj. Chapman's wife was Miss Mary Davidson, · of Annapolis, Md., Coming from such parentage-their youngest son -and having been schooled in the life he was to follow, it is no wonder that Col. Chapman is a dignified, upright, straight-forward military gen- tleman, both in personal appearance and in traits of character.

W. C. COREY, M. D., dentist, was born in New York ; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1847, and to this city in 1865, where he was route agent for the American Express Company until 1868. He commenced study for the regular profession of medicine in 1859 ; en- listed in the ISth Wis. I. in 1862, and was soon afterward promoted to be hospital steward. In 1864, he was examined by a regularly con- stituted board of medical examiners for appointment in the regular army ; passed his examination, and received his papers, and was duly commissioned. After leaving the service of the express company in 1868, he entered the dental office of E. J. Adams, and some months afterward purchased the office and entered fully upon the practice of his profession. He is a member of the State Dental Association, and also of the K. of H. and T. of H. beneficiary associations. His office is under the Business College.

ALFRED COZZENS, lessee and manager of Cook's Hotel, corner Washington and Cherry streets, Green Bay. Mr. Cozzens was born in Madison Co., N. Y. ; removed from there to Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent a good portion of his time. From there he went to Milwaukee and was connected with the Newhall House for three years. He came to Green Bay in 1870. Mr. Cozzens has been in the hotel business all his life. This house is centrally located in the most business part of the city, and is convenient to boats and cars.

CRANE & CARABIN, physicians and surgeons, No. 124 Wash- ington street. The members of this firm are C. E. Crane and Louis Carabin, and their partnership was formed in 1879.

Dr. C. E. Crane is a native of Ohio ; graduated from the medical department of Western Reserve College in the class of 1849; came to Green Bay and established practice the same year, and has continued in practice since that date with the exceptions of three years spent in the medical service of the United States. He entered that service June 7, 1861, as Assistant Surgeon of the 5th Wis. Inf. ; was promoted Sur- geon in 1863, and served with his regiment until it was mustered ont in 1864. Was re-commissioned but declined the appointment on account of his health and returned home. Was one of the organizers of Brown County Medical Society, and its president from 1868 to 1880. Was Mayor of the city of Green Bay in 1874-5-7-8 and 9, and has seen his full share of service as a member of the School Board and the Board of Public Health.

Dr. Louis Carabin was born in Green Bay; is a son of the Dr. Lonis Carabin, who settled here in 1846, and died in 1864. The present Dr. Carabin graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, in the class of 1879, and settling in Green Bay, formed his present partnership with Dr. Crane, who was a fellow student with the elder Dr. Carahin, in Ohio, thirty-five years since.

F. B. DESNOYERS, dealer in hats, caps and gents' furnishing goods, solely, No. 120 Washington street. Mr. Desnoyers is a native of Green Bay, and was for two years with the dry goods house of Skeels & Best, before opening trade on his own account last Spring.

C. M. DICKINSON, dealer in all kinds of farming machinery and agricultural implements, corner Washington and Main streets. Mr. D. is a native of New York State, where he was reared and educated. In 1874, he came to Green Bay, having previously been engaged for ten

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years in the mercantile business in Illinois, two years at Ottawa, and eight years at Henry. In 1878, he started the present business which he has successfully conducted since. Ile was married in 1863, to Miss Sarah C. Bassford, a native of Illinois. They have three sons and two daughters- Mabel C., Charles Frederick, Albert Newell, Edwin Mason and lIelen Rockwell.

H. & J. DOUGHERTY, dealers in staves. Office same as McCor- mick & Co. This house commenced business in Canada in 1864, the members of the firm being natives of the Dominion, and transferred their operations to Wisconsin in 1872, making their head-quarters at Green Bay. Their business is the manufacture, purchase and shipment of staves for the foreign market, and has reached as high as 6,000,000 per annum, but operations have decreased of late years, as timber has become scarcer and their transactions now cover from 2,000,000 to 2 500,000 a year. Their present working force is small, six or eight hands, product being mainly furnished on contract. Their shipments are usually made by water to the Atlantic sea-board, to which they find outlet through the St. Lawrence and Erie canals.

A. DUCHATEAU. wholesale dealer in liquors, is a native o France ; came to America in 1856, and was engaged in the wine and liquor trade as a traveling salesman until he came to Green Bay in 1867, when he opened a retail store which he kept, until the establishment of the present house in 1870.

L. Duchateau, is also a rative of France and has been a resident of this city since 1864, the year after his arrival in America.

O. ECKHARDT, cigar manufacturer, Cherry street, Green Bay. The business was established in 1875 by Shause & Eckhardt. In 1879, Mr. Eckhardt bought the entire interest in the management of Mr. Shause and has so enlarged it, that it gives employment to eleven men and has an extensive retail department in connection with it. Mr. Eck- hardt is a native of Germany; came to this country in 1853, and stopped at Milwaukee, where he was educated and learned his trade. He was married to Miss Christina Baden ; they have a family of four children living and one dead.

A. H. ELLSWORTH, dentist, No. 123 Washington street. This business was established by the present proprietor in 1854, at which date he came to this city, having spent the previous seven years in Mil- waukee, in the practice of his profession, making a continual residence of thirty-four years in this State, all of them spent in dental practice. He is a native of Connecticut ; was educated at Ellington Academy, in his native State, after which he was engaged in teaching for three years, then came to Cincinnati, studied for his profession, and practiced it two years before coming to Milwaukee, as previously stated. In 1865, he was elected Superintendent of Schools for Green Bay, and held that position for twelve consecutive years.

EDWARD ENGELS, saloon, Green Bay, was born in the province' of Leiges, canton of London, Belgium, in 1839 ; came to this country and State in 1856 ; was married to Miss Flora Vincent, by the Rev. Father Dames, in 1867, who was vicar general of the diocese. Mrs. Engels was born in Belgium in 1844; came here in 1856. They have seven children living and one dead-six boys and one girl living. Mr. E. commenced business in 1867 in groceries and provisions, following it till 1877. In 1872, he built the place he now occupies, and commenced the saloon business he now manages.

REV. JOSEPH A. FOX is a native of Green Bay ; was for five years a student at the St. Francis of Sales Seminary near Milwaukee, after which he went to Europe ; was four years a student at Louvain and or- dained priest at Mechlin in 1879. In 1880, he was assigned to the church of St. John the Evangelist in this city.

PAUL FOX, of the firm Parish & Fox, is a native of Prussia ; came to this city in 1841, and has been actively engaged in business here for over thirty-five years ; first as dealer in groceries and liquors and as keeper of a house of entertainment for strangers before any regular hotels were established. In 1872, he built the block, in the south store- room of which, he now does business. It is a substantial three-story brick building 66x80 feet, the upper stories of which now form part of Cook's Hotel. Mr. Fox served as Town Treasurer before the city of Green Bay was incorporated, and since then has been several times member of the City Council. He was one of the original members of Germania Fire Company.

ISRAEL GREEN, M. D., now ninety years of age, has not wholly abandoned the practice of his profession, which he has followed since 1816. He was born in Washington, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Jan. 27, 1792 ; was educated in his native town ; studied medicine with Dr. Heaton Plattekill, Ulster Co., same State, attended lectures in New York and received his diploma from the College of the Physicians and Surgeons of that city in 1816. Ile located for practice the same year, in Monroe, Orange Co., and was there in practice until 1845, when he removed to this State. Settling in Washington County, he remained four years, when he became a resident of this city, thirty-two years since. He has devoted his life exclusively to the practice of his profession and has ever held himself aloof from political affairs. In 1817, Dr. Green was mar- ried to Miss Phoebe Townsend, of Monroe, Orange Co. In 1875, after

fifty-eight years of happy married life, Mrs. Green died in this city leaving her husband and five married children, one only of whom re- sides here. The doctor is still a hale man for his years and one sultry Summer's day last season, made five sick calls and walked a distance of not less than twelve miles. His residence is with his son-in-law, A. E. Potter, corner Madison and Spring streets, on Astor Heights, in the old home the doctor built for himself twenty-four years since.

GEORGE GROEPL, foreman of the Green Bay Brewery, has been connected with the establishment since it came into the hands of Mr. Van Dyke in 1876.

HASTINGS & GREENE, attorneys-at-law, successors to Ellis & II istings, established in 1867, which firm became Ellis, Hastings &

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Greene in 1870, and llastings & Greene when Judge Ellis went upon the Bench the following year. Their offices are on the corner of Adams and Pine streets, well furnished with a law library of fully 1,200 vol- umes. S. D. Hastings, Jr., one of the most prominent lawyers of Green Bay and of Northern Wisconsin, was born in Philadelphia, June 19, 1841, coming to Wisconsin four years later, at the time of its admission as a State ; a graduate of Beloit College in 1863, and of the Albany Law School two years later. Mr. Hastings practiced law in Madison until 1867, forming a partnership there with E. W. Keyes. In 1867 he removed to Green Bay, forming a partnership with E. H. Ellis then. In 1870, George G. Greene was admitted to the firm. When in 1871, Mr. Ellis was elected Judge, the firm, Ellis, Hastings & Greene, became Ilastings & Greene, the present co-partnership. Prior to 1878, the Supreme Court was composed of one Chief Justice and two Associate Justices. During that year an amendment to the State Constitution took effect, increasing the number of Associate Justices to four. It was mutu- ally agreed that there should be no political contest over the positions, but that a Democrat and a Republican should be supported. Mr. Has- tings received strong support from the Bar and the Press of this and adjoining circuits as the Republican representative. But the matter was finally settled by the politicians, the different parties in the Legislature, which was in session at the time, making the nominations. In ISSo, by the death of Chief Justice Ryan, a vacancy occurred in that office, and

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the duty devolved upon Governor Smith of appointing his successor. It was assumed that the appointee would be a Republican, and the entire Bar of the Tenth Circuit, as well as a majority of the legal members residing in Northeastern Wisconsin, and many of its most prominent citizens, united in urging the appointment of Mr. Hastings to the posi- tion. But the superior claim of the politician was again recognized. It will thus be the inference, which is the fact, that Mr. Hastings has never been a politician ; but in the practice of his profession he ranks among the foremost of the State Bar. Although his attention is principally devoted to real estate questions and matters growing out of the lumber- ing interests, his range is not at all limited to these branches. Ilis mind is broad and essentially judicial. Although comparatively a young man, in graces of scholarship and solidity of legal learning, Mr. Hastings has few superiors in the State. lle is dignified in deportment, yet urbane in disposition, and a straight-forward man of business as well as a superior lawyer. Mr. Hastings was married in 1863 to Mary C. Ken- dall, of Beloit. His first wife died in 1868. Two daughters by this

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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