The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, containing a history of Dodge County, its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc, Part 106

Author: Western Historical Co
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 774

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SEBASTIAN WEINBERGER, shoemaker and Postmaster of Farmersville; born in Farmersville, Dodge Co., Wis., June 29, 1850; son of Jacob and Northburga W., who settled in Dodge Co. in 1849 ; has spent his life and been educated in his native county; began learning his trade in May- ville at 14 years of age, and has followed it constantly since ; he has a good home and five acres of land, which he has earned himself. Married Miss Mary Remmelmyer Oct. 30, 1872; they have three children -Flora, Elizabeth and Anna. Mr. Weinberger makes and sells boots and shoes, also deals in hides and pelts. He is a Democrat and a Roman Catholic. Was appointed Postmaster at Farmersville Sept. 2, 1879.

JOHN WILD, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Farmersville; born in Bavaria in December, 1834; came to America with his father and brothers in 1852; worked a short time in Racine Co. and two winters in the Michigan saw-mills. In 1855, his father decded him forty acres, which he afterward sold, buying eighty acres of his present 140 acres of well-improved land, which he has earned himself. He married Miss Theresa, daughter of Caspar Sterr, July 4, 1855; they have eight children-John, Frank, Michael, Rosey, Albert, Xavier, Theresa A. and Bertha K. Mr. Wild is a Republican, and the family are Roman Catholics.

THERESA TOWNSHIP.

FRANCIS DODGE JUNEAU, tinsmith, Theresa; born in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1827 ; son of Solomon Juneau, the founder and benefactor of that city ; the subject of this sketch was educated in Milwaukee, and there learned his trade with ex-Gov. L. J. Farwell; he settled in Theresa in 1849 ; in 1851, he went West, and was employed two years as an Indian interpreter ; after an absence of five years, he returned to Theresa. Married Miss Leocadie Beaudoin Jan. 7, 1858 ; they have five chil- dren-Raymond, Eugene, Mary, Matilda and Joseph. Like his honored father, Mr. Juneau is closely

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identified with the history of Dodge Co. He is an independent Democrat in politics and a Catholic in religion. Is now Treasurer of Theresa Township.

P. KUECHENBERG, merchant and Postmaster, Theresa ; born in Prussia in 1844; came with his parents to America in 1848, locating at Richfield, Wis., where he attended school until he was 14, when he entered a store at Germantown, Wis., to learn the business he has since successfully followed; he came to Theresa in 1861, with just 70 cents; worked in a store here until August, 1875, when he began business for himself; now has a large and varied stock of merchandise to supply a general trade ; one department of his store is filled with hardware, stoves, machines, etc .; another with hats, caps and ready-made clothing ; the main store is devoted to groceries of all kinds, dry goods, millinery goods, boots and shoes, glassware, etc., etc. He married Miss Amanda A. Sprout June 6, 1866; they have two children-Frederick William and Guy Paul. Mr. Kueckenberg is a Republican ; was appointed Post- master about 1873.

PETER LANGENFELD, Justice and Notary Public, Theresa; born in Prussia Dec. 8, 1837 ; spent his early life and was educated in his native land ; came to America in 1855; attended the High School in Menasha, Wis .; was clerk in an Iron Ridge store about one year ; he settled in Theresa in 1861, and was teacher of the Theresa Catholic School fifteen years. Mr. Langenfeld is a thorough Democrat ; has served as Justice of the Peace sixteen consecutive terms, Notary Public four terms, Town Clerk two years, is Secretary of the town insurance company, and was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature in 1878. He married Miss Caroline Miller in September, 1864. who died March 3, 1871, leaving two children-Theresa and Elizabeth. In April, 1877, he married Miss Josephine Meyer ; they have one son-Peter T. Mr. Sangenfeld is a member of the Theresa Catholic Church, and is its Treasurer. He is a man well and favorably known in his county.

VALENTINE MILLER, M. D., Theresa ; born in Fulda, Germany, Feb. 28, 1811; was educated in the schools of his country, and studied medicine in Germany and Switzerland, graduating from Heidelberg University in 1837; came to America in 1845; spent eighteen months in Canada ; practiced in St. Louis, Mo., Peru, Ill. and Milwaukee, Wis .; settled in Theresa in May, 1849, where he has since lived and practiced. Married Miss Margaret McCue in 1850 ; they have six children-Matilda, Albert, Ernest, Louis, Josephine and Pauline. The Doctor is a Democrat, and has been Town Clerk twenty-five years. He is among the very oldest of the practicing physicians in Dodge Co. Is in religion a Catholic.

EMILE EDWARD NUSSLE, M. D., Theresa ; born in Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, July 12, 1853 ; spent his early life and was educated in his native land ; studied medicine in Geneva and Berne, graduating as physician and surgeon March 17, 1874 ; practiced one year in Dresden, Saxony, and came to America in November, 1876, locating in Jefferson, Jefferson Co., Wis .; he practiced two and a half years ; the Doctor settled in Theresa in February, 1879, where he has a good and increasing practice. He served as First Lieutenant in the Swiss Army about four years. The Doctor is versed in German, Italian and English, as well as French, his native language ; is independent of all societies.

JOHN G. SCHLEY, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Mayville ; born in Prussia April 20, 1830 ; came to America with his parents, who were among the very first settlers in Lebanon in 1843; after eight years, he settled and has since resided in Theresa ; settled on his present farm of 172 acres in 1865 ; he has been Supervisor five years, and now holds the office. Married Miss Wilhelmina Pagenkop in 1855; they have ten children living-John F., Mary, Julius, Gustav, Albert, Matilda, Herman, Augusta, Reichard and Alvina. Mr. Schley is rearing good stock for general purposes, and the usual crops ; he is a Lutheran in religion ; in politics, a Democrat.

GOTTFRIED SCHELLPFEFFER, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Mayville ; born in Prussia Nov. 12, 1838 ; spent his early life and was educated in his native country ; came to America and to Will- iamstown with his parents, who settled in that town ; with 50 cents in his pocket, he began as a farm laborer ; worked by the month until 1862, and settled on his present farm of ninety-three acres; he has cleared and improved this farm, and now has the best of buildings and a good home. Married, May 23, 1865, Miss Frederica Guse ; they have seven children-Charles, Minnie, Herman, Matilda, William, Augusta and Robert. Mr. Schellpfeffer is a Democrat ; he is raising grade short-horn cattle, pure-bred sheep, etc.

G. WEBER, proprietor of the Theresa Brewery ; born in Wurtemberg in 1846 ; came to Amer- ica, with his parents, in 1853, who settled in Theresa; it was among the pioneer families in the place. Mr. Weber has spent his life and been educated in Dodge Co .; at the death of his father, in 1864, he took charge of the brewery, and has been the owner since 1873. He married Miss Mary Husting in 1874 ; they have two sons-Arnold E. and Charles B. Mr. Weber is one of the leading business men of The-

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resa ; he is manufacturing about fourteen hundred barrels of beer per annum ; he owns ten acres of land adjoining the village, and fifty-three acres in the town of Ashford, Fond du Lac Co .; besides his elegant residence in the village, he owns a house and lot. Mr. Weber is, in politics, a Democrat, and, in religion, a Catholic.

CALAMUS TOWNSHIP.

THOMAS H. CONNELL, teacher, P. O. Beaver Dam ; is a son of Thomas and Margaret O.Connell, early settlers of Calamus ; Thomas was born in Springfield, Mass., Oct. 3, 1852, and, in 1855, his parents emigrated to Dodge Co., Wis., and settled in the city of Beaver Dam for one year, then removed to the town of Calamus, which has since been his home; he received his early education in the public schools, after which he attended the Wayland University of Beaver Dam for one year ; in 1869, he began teaching district school, which he has followed most of the time since; when 13 years of age he learned the brickmason's trade, which he followed during the summer vacations. He was elected Town Clerk of Calamus in the spring of 1879.

WILLIAM CROFT, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Beaver Dam; was born in Lincolnshire, Eng., in 1829, and is the son of George and Jane Croft ; his father died when he was about 12 years of age, but his mother, a woman of rare Christian virtues, is yet spared him; May 2, 1853, he sailed from Liverpool for America, and landed at St. John, N. B., June 5 following; he then went to Massachusetts, where he followed working on the railroad for a short time, and then worked at farm labor there for fourteen months ; in the fall of 1855, he came to the town of Westford, Dodge Co., Wis., where he built a lime-kiln on Beaver Dam Island, and from which he furnished the lime to build the Fox Lake Seminary ; he continued that business for two years and for the next two years was employed by the C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co. to saw wood; in 1859, he bought a farm of forty acres in Sec. 15, Westford, which was his home till 1867 ; he then sold that and bought this present one of 160 acres in Sec. 9, town of Calamus, where he has since followed farming. March 14, 1856, he married Miss Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Betsey Bonner, of Westford, but a native of Lincolnshire, Eng .; they have six children-George, of Dakota ; Stephen, Sarah J., Dina E., Mary A. and Ella. Mr. C. was a member of the Town Board one term, and several terms a member of the School Board ; they are members of the Wesleyan M. E. Church.

GEORGE W. CURTIS, farmer, Sec. 35 ; P. O. Beaver Dam ; he is the fifth son of William and Sarah Curtis ; born in Steuben Co., N. Y., in 1819; he followed lumbering in that State till 1849, when he immigrated to Dodge Co., Wis., and settled on a farm of eighty acres in Sec. 35, town of Cala- mus, where he has since followed farming ; he now has 160 acres in Sec. 35, and ten and three-quarter acres in Sec. 25, Calamus. Sept. 29, 1847, he married Miss Isabel F., daughter of Isaac and Julia Swarthout, of Steuben Co., N. Y., who died at her home in Wisconsin Aug. 22, 1871, leaving one adopted daughter, Ella E. (Mrs. Henry S. Gilmore), of Calamus. Mr. Curtis has been a member of the Town Board for two years, and was Town Treasurer for one year ; politically, he is a Republican.

JOHN B. DEMAREST ; P. O. Beaver Dam ; son of Juctin and Margaret Demarest ; born in Rockland Co., N. Y., in May, 1831; when he was about 1 year old his parents removed to Bergen Co., N. J., which was his home, and where he followed farming till 22 years old; he then went to New York City, and for two years followed the business of a drayman; in the fall of 1854, he came to Dodge Co., Wis., stopped in the city of Beaver Dam for the winter, and in the following spring he bought a farm of 100 acres in Secs. 11 and 12, town of Calamus, which has since been his home. At Beaver Dam, Wis., in March, 1855, he married Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of John Haring, and daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Vanhouten, she being a sister-in-law to Mr. Mackie, the first white settler of Beaver Dam, and having three children at the time of her second marriage-Peter, now of Beaver Dam ; John, of Minneapolis, Minn. ; Isaac, of Escanaba, Mich .; they have one daughter-Margaret A., who married Mr. Henry Winebrenner, of Beaver Dam, in 1872, and has two children-Jessie and Jennie. Mr. Demarest's family is connected with the Presbyterian Church ; Mr. Winebrenner is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church.

WILLIAM W. EVANS, deceased; was a native of Carnarvonshire, North Wales, and a son of Evan Evans ; born in April, 1820; he followed the business of a State quarrier in that county till 1845, and then immigrated to Racine Co., Wis., where he followed laboring for one year. In 1846, he came to the town of Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis. ; entered a farm of eighty acres in Sec. 23; sold that the year after, and bought another of eighty acres in Sec. 29, which was his home for a few months, when he

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sold that also and bought the present one of 130 acres in Sec. 31. This he carefully managed, and worked till his death, April 11, 1874. In 1845, he married Miss Jane, daughter of Thomas and Mary Parry, of Carnarvonshire, North Wales. They had five children-Evan W., deceased ; Thomas W., of Columbus, Wis., William W., of Calamus; John W., Hugh W., and adopted Jane L .; they are members of the Welch M. E. Church.

E. ADAMS FOWLER, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Fall River; is a son of Elisha and Edith (Griffith) Fowler, born in Windsor Co., Vt., in 1830, and is a descendant of the long line of Fowlers, beginning with Jonathan the giant, who killed a bear with a club, and whose fame was so widespread that George II, then Monarch of England, caused an oil painting to be made, on the margin of which were these words: "Jonathan Fowler, the giant, in the act of killing a bear with a club." E. A. spent his early life with his father, on a farm, near Skaneateles, Onondago Co., N. Y., whither his parents removed, when he was quite young; when about 20 years of age, he began the machinist's trade in a large cabinet manufactory, of Skaneateles, where he continued eighteen months ; then went to Windsor Co., Vt., and followed his trade for another eighteen months; here he met a man from Moline, Ill., who was on his way East to purchase machinery for such a factory to be established there, and who induced Mr. Fowler to go to Illinois and put up the machinery for him ; reaching Moline, Dec. 25, 1853, where he was employed for six months ; then went to Milwaukee, and was brakeman on the M. & M. R. R., between Milwaukee and Madison, Wis., till 1855; he was next baggage-master on the Milwaukee & Watertown; then conducter of a passenger train on the road 'between those points for six months. In 1856, he returned to the factory at Moline for six months; thence again to Milwaukee, and was then employed to take charge of the machinery in a cabinet-ware manufactory, till 1860. In the fall of 1860, he bought a farm of 103 acres in Sec. 19, township of Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis., which has since been his home. In 1863, he was elected Chairman of the Town Board, was re-elected in 1864-66-67; was a member of the County Board of Equalization in the fall of 1863 ; in 1867, he was elected Justice of the Peace, re-elected in 1871, and at every election since ; in 1869, he was elected by a large majority a mem- ber of the State Assembly from the First District ; politically, he is a stanch Republican. April 30, 1866, he married Miss Catherine, daughter of Archibald and Sarah McFadyne, of Milwaukee; she being a native of New York City ; they have seven children-Charles E., Harry S., of Columbus, Adam E., Sarah L., Mary G., Archie B., Katie S. Mrs. F. is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

HENRY S. GILMORE, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Beaver Dam; is the only son of David S. and Lorend S. Gilmore; born in Racine Co., Wis., in 1848; when 6 years of age, with parents, he removed to the town of Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis., where his father bought a farm of eighty acres, in Sec. 26, which has since been his home; here the father died in July, 1873; he now has 120 acres in Sec. 26, Calamus, and twenty acres in Sec. 32, town of Lowell, Dodge Co .; in the spring of 1874, he was elected a member of the Town Board ; was re-elected in 1875-76, and in 1877 was elected Chairman of the Board ; politically, he is a Democrat. In 1875, he married Miss Ella E. Sunderland, a native of Lincoln- shire, England ; born in June, 1856, and an adopted daughter of George W. and Isabel Curtis, of the town of Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis .; they have two children-Phebe A. and Dora E.

JAMES HALL, farmer, Sec. 12 ; P. O. Beaver Dam; is a native of Oneida Co., N. Y. ; born in 1809 ; is the son of Sylvester and Martha Hall; in 1833, he removed to Miami Co., Ohio, and followed farming for seven years; then, in 1840, he returned to New York and settled in Jefferson Co., and con- tinued farming till 1854, whence he immigrated to Dodge Co., Wis., bought a farm of forty acres in Sec. 12, town of Calamus, which has since been his home. In 1833, he married Miss Emma J., daughter of Joseph and Polley Birch, of Oneida Co., N. Y .; they had two children-Adeline, now Mrs. Charles Doster, of Minneapolis, Minn. ; J. Dwight, of Clayton Co., Iowa. Mrs. Hall died in April, 1853; in 1856, he married Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of Joseph N. Downing, and daughter of Russell and Elizabeth Thompson, pioneers of Dodge Co. in 1844; her husband having been frozen to death on the Fox River, in 1849, leaving her one daughter, Emma E., now the widow of the late Archibald Pringle, who was drowned in the Red River of Dakota, in March, 1877, leaving her with one son, Archibald D. He was also a soldier in Co. C. of the 16th W. V. I .; was wounded at Atlanta; mustered out in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have two children by second marriage-Lottie M. and Elzora D.

FREDERICK IHK, deceased; was a son of Frederick and Margaret Ihk, Germany ; born May 6, 1818; when 20 years of age, he began the brickmaker's trade, which he continued till 1846; he then came to America and settled on a farm in the town of Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wis .; six years after, he moved to the city of Watertown, which was his home for two years ; in 1854, he bought a farm of eighty acres in the town of Shields, Dodge Co., Wis., where he followed farming for ten years ; and in 1864 he bought a farm of 226 acres in Sec. 7, but afterward sold off 106 acres, leaving the estate of

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120 acres at his death, Dec. 16, 1879. In Germany, in 1844, he married Miss Wilhelmena, daughter of John and Mary Studamann, whom he left a widow with seven children, as follows : Charles, now of Columbus ; William, Augusta, Matilda; Mrs. Ricko, of Watertown, Wis .; Annie, Mrs. Conrad Grade, of Chicago ; Eliza, Frank and Max. They are members of the Lutheran Church of Columbus.

MICHAEL KRAUS, farmer, Secs. 11 and 12; P. O. Beaver Dam ; was born in Germany in 1813; he came to America in 1845 and stopped for nine years in Chicago ; in the summer of 1855, he came to Dodge Co., Wis., bought a farm of eighty acres in Secs. 11 and 12, and has since made it his home. At Chicago in 1847, he married Miss Josephine, daughter of Peter and Magdaline Peters ; they have seven children-Annie (now Mrs. George Aman, of Westford), John (of Calamus), Josephine (now Mrs. John Rosenmeier, of Westford), Barbara (now Mrs. George E. Gergen, of Beaver Dam), Francis, Joseph and Sophia. They are members of the Catholic Church.

JOHN C. LONG, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Columbus; was born in Germany in 1806; is the son of Joseph Long; in the spring of 1854, he came to America and settled on a farm in Columbus, Columbia Co., Wis., where he lived until 1868, when he bought a farm of 80 acres in Sec. 28, town of Calamus, where he has since lived. In 1829, he married Miss Margaret Kitzerow, of Germany; they had five children-Louisa, Annie, Sophia, John and Fred; Mrs. Long died Aug. 7, 1861. In 1868, he married Mrs. Sophia, widow of Fred Nevermann, of Columbus, she having, at the time of her second mar- riage, three children-Henry, Fred and Annie; since second marriage, they have four children-Charles, Louis, Ida and Lizzie. They are members of the Lutheran Church.

JOSEPH PETERS, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Beaver Dam ; was born in Bavaria in 1843, and is the son of Peter and Magdalena Peters ; in 1846, he came with his parents to America, and settled in Chicago, which was his home till 1855, whence they removed to the town of Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis., which has since been his home; in 1861, he bought a farm of 80 acres in southwest quarter of Sec. 1, to which he removed ten years after. In 1874, he was elected Town Treasurer of Calamus; was re-elected in 1877, 1878 and 1879. He was one of the originators of the Mutual Insurance Co. of Calamus in 1872; was a Director and agent of the Company for three or four years. Politically, Mr. Peters is a Democrat. In 1871, he married Miss Catharine, daughter of John and Theresa Rosenmeier, of the town of Beaver Dam, she being a native of Germany. They are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church; Mr. Peters has also been Secretary of the Church for two years, and was re-elected, Jan. 5, 1880, for the third term.

ROBERT W. ROBERTS (deceased), was the son of Robert Rogers, of Denbighshire, North Wales; born in May, 1816; his mother dying when he was quite young, he was raised by his grandfather ; in the summer of 1849, he came to America, and settled on a farm of 80 acres, in Sec. 30, town of Calamus, which, by his own industry and toil, he improved and increased to 133 acres, in same Section. Dec. 25, 1849, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Daniel and Ann Roberts, of the town of Elba, Dodge Co., Wis., she being a native of Carnarvonshire, North Wales, but an emigrant to Dodge Co. in 1845 ; Mr. Roberts died Feb. 26, 1875, leaving a widow, with three children, as follows-Robert M .; Ann, now Mrs. Edward P. Roberts, of Westford ; and William D. They are members of the Welsh M. E. Church.

ALEXANDER D. ROSS, farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Beaver Dam ; the subject of this sketch is the third son of David and Helen Rose, nee Monroe, born in Rosskeen, Rosshire, Scotland, June 29, 1814; he was educated in the public school of his native county, and spent most of his early life with his parents on the farm ; in the summer of 1840, he took passage at Assint, Scotland, on board the ship Dev- ron, on her voyage from Glasgow to the British Provinces, and landed at Pictou, Nova Scotia, June 19, stopping at Pictou for four years, where he was engaged in various kinds of business ; in 1844, he went to Providence, R. I .; thence direct to Boston, Mass., where for twelve years he was engaged in shipbuild- ing most of the time ; he spent the winters of 1848-49-50 in Mobile and New Orleans, working at his trade ; May 22, 1855, he came to Dodge Co., Wis., and bought a farm of 200 acres in Sec. 14, town of Calamus, which, by his own honest toil and industry, he has changed into a commodious home. At Bos- ton in 1855, he married Miss Christina, daughter of George and Elizabeth McKay, of Nova Scotia; they have had eight children-Helen (deceased), Mary Ellen (deceased), David W., Eliza M., George A., Clara J., Anna C. and Ada B. They are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Beaver Dam.

LOUIS RUSHLOW, farmer, Secs. 12 and 13; P. O. Beaver Dam; is a son of John B. Rushlow and Josephina Martell, natives of the district of Three Rivers, Lower Canada, but immigrants to Clinton Co., N. Y., in 1814, where Louis was born in 1827 ; in 1832, he with his parents removed to the town of Swanton, Franklin Co., Vt., where they both died-his father in 1853, and mother in 1871; when 11 years old, Louis went to live with Mr. V. S. Ferris, proprietor of a large flouring-mill, at Swan- ton ; he attended school for the first two winters, his teachers being the poet John G. Saxe and his brother ;

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when not in school, he was learning the miller's trade; he was next a cook on board a steamer on Lake Champlain, and by the year 1846 he became quite a sailor, as well as cook and miller; he was then employed by Mr. Catlin, proprietor of the Catlin Mills, of Burlington, Vt., and also of a line of steamers on Lake Champlain ; the first three years of his stay at Burlington were in the mill, but the last six sum- mers he was Captain of a steamer on the lake for Mr. Catlin, spending the winters in the mill, however ; in May, 1855, S. P. K. Lewis, of Beaver Dam, Wis., came to Burlington and employed Mr. Rushlow to come to Wisconsin and take the position of miller in the mill at Beaver Dam, in whose employ he remained fourteen years ; in 1869, he with three partners bought the Beaver Dam mill of E. R. Hoyt, but he soon sold his interest, and was employed as miller in the same till February, 1873; he then went to Tomah, Wis., and was employed as foreman in the mill of which Freeman & Runkle were proprietors ; in Novem- ber, 1874, he returned to Beaver Dam, and was miller for S. P. K. Lewis & Sons till 1878 ; in 1877, he bought a farm of twelve acres in Secs. 12 and 13, town of Calamus, where he has devoted his attention to farming since he quit the mill. At Burlington, Vt., Oct. 27, 1849, he married Miss Aurelia, daughter of Basil and Margaret Lapeire, of Verchere, Lower Canada; they have had nine children-Louis R. (of Mitchell, Iowa), Juliette (now Mrs. F. F. Williams, of Mitchell, Iowa), George W., Rhoda (now Mrs. William E. Labaron, of Mitchell, Iowa), Fred S., Francis (deceased), Francis E., Eugene (deceased), Lester J. Mrs. Rushlow is a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Beaver Dam.

HARVEY SMITH, farmer, Secs. 1 and 12; P. O. Beaver Dam ; is a son of Allen and Leah Smith ; born in the town of Plattsburg, Clinton Co., N. Y., July 26, 1796, spent his early life with his father on a farm in his native country. Sept. 27, 1820, he married Miss Eleanor, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Sanburn, of Plattsburg, after which he followed farming, in Clinton County, N. Y., for thirty-five years; May 9, 1855, they started for Wisconsin, and settled in the city of Beaver Dam, where he made his home for ten years ; in 1856, he bought a farm of 100 acres in Sec. 7, town of Arling- ton, Columbia Co., Wis., from which he derived the larger part of his income, while he lived in Beaver Dam; in 1866, he sold that farm and bought his present one of 100 acres in Secs. 1 and 12, town of Cal- amus, which has since been his home ; he held the office of Assessor in the town of Plattsburg for ten years, and was twice elected to the same office in the Third Ward, city of Beaver Dam. Mrs. Smith died Dec. 12, 1876'; they had seven children-Melancthon, now of Beaver Dam ; Susan R., deceased ; George, deceased ; Henry N .; three infants, deceased. Mr. Smith is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Beaver Dam. Henry N. married Miss Julia A., daughter of Harry and Julia Medberry, of Calamus, June 27, 1867 ; they have two daughters-Mabel and Delia. She is a member of the Assembly Presby- erian Church.

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The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, containing a history of Dodge County, its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc, Part 106

Author: Western Historical Co Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Co. Number of Pages: 774

Author: Western Historical Co
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 774