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The one individual, however, who first came to Dodge County, and who, until his untimely death in November, 1846, was identified with the earliest phases of civilization within its borders, was Jacob P. Brower. In company with his father, Paul Brower, and his two sons, J. Lafayette and George W., he settled on the north side of Fox Lake, upon the place now known as the Stoddard farm, in March, 1838. The balance of the family soon followed, leaving Sheboygan in June on board a schooner for Green Bay. Thence the household goods belonging to Mr. Brower were shipped up Fox River to Fort Winnebago (now Portage) in a " Mackinaw," or flat- boat ; while the family took passage in bark canoes navigated by Indians, up the same stream into Lake Winnebago, to Fond du Lac. From the latter point, they were conveyed to their new home in a wagon driven by Edward Pier, of Fond du Lac. The Brower colony was com- posed of the following members : Paul Brower, Rachel Brower, Jacob P. Brower, Martha Brower, George W. Brower, J. Lafayette Brower, Euphemia Brower, Emily Brower, Amelia Brower, T. J. Brower, and Catherine, the domestic.
It was the first full and complete family in the county, and, in fact, the only family that had reached here at that early date. In October, 1838, when the Government land came into market, J. P. Brower sold his interest in the claim to Henry Merrill, and entered, in the name of Gov. Doty, the land upon a portion of which the village of Fox Lake now stands, building a double log house for the accommodation of his numerous family, on the west side of the river, about midway between the present sites of the dam and the bridge.
This auspicious event in the inauguration of the reign of enterprise that has ever since pre- vailed in Dodge County was soon followed by the advent of Hamilton Stevens and family. Mr. Stevens also made a claim and built a log house within what afterward became the limits of Fox Lake Village. In May, 1839, the families of Thomas Mackie and Joseph Goetschius came and added their energy and population to the new settlement. Others soon followed, and Fox Lake for a time became a general rendezvous for those seeking homes and happiness in this region.
Fort Winnebago, twenty-eight miles distant, was the nearest point at which supplies could be obtained; and, until the wild soil was tamed and brought within control of the will and industry
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of man, and the rushing waters of the streams were subdued to his service, there were hard- ships and self-denials endured that the imagination can scarcely comprehend. It was not only before the time of railroads, but, unfortunately, there were few thoroughfares of any description. A Government road had been cut out from Fort Howard to Fort Winnebago, passing within a few miles of the Brower settlement. This afforded the only outlet to civilization on the north. Watertown and Milwaukee had wagon-road communication, but there were no means of reach- ing the former place from Fox Lake as late as 1843, except by driving through the woods, over rivers and ridges. The first to undertake this difficult journey were Jacob P. Brower, his son George, and Joseph Goetschius, in July, 1839. . They started from Fox Lake with three yoke of oxen hitched to a " hoosier " wagon, in which there were a few bags of corn. Their destina- tion was Milwaukee. Arriving at Watertown, they met William M. Dennis, who had just reached that point with his family, having left his furniture in Milwaukee, on account of the almost impassable condition of the road. Negotiations were entered into whereby Mr. Dennis' wagon and oxen were made available, and the Browers and Mr. Goetschius, dividing their orig- inal load, went on to Milwaukee, returning to Watertown with Mr. Dennis' household utensils, thence making the journey to Fox Lake through the woods. The round trip was accomplished in eleven days. A public highway was afterward surveyed and established almost over the identical route traversed by Mr. Brower, passing through Rolling Prairie and Oak Grove. It was the principal road through the county from north to south for many years, and the hills and valleys through which it passes have often echoed the hideous shrieks of " Crazy Joe," " Wicked Pete " and Frank Colt.
During the fall of the same year, J. P. and G. W. Brower made a similar, but less adven- turous, trip to Waukesha, where they purchased and returned with the first seed wheat sown in the northern portion of the county.
With the abundance of wild game then to be found in forest or plain, there was no scarcity of meat upon the humble tables of the early settlers; but it was cheaper for them to purchase this commodity of the Indians than to lose the time necessarily required to hunt it. In Janu- ary, 1840, George W. Brower and his father learning that some Indians, encamped a few miles south of Fox Lake, had a quantity of venison for sale cheap, left their home for the purpose of making the purchase ; but failing to find the red traffickers at the anticipated place, they wan- dered about until night overtook them, and were compelled to camp out. Building a fire in the branches of a fallen tree, they stretched their weary limbs beside the trunk of the prostrated oak and slumbered. A heavy snowfall occurred during the night, and, on awaking the next morning they found themselves enveloped in a mantle of white. The log beside which they slept lay but a few feet north of the place where the Beaver street bridge now crosses the river, in the city of Beaver Dam. In all probability they were the first white men to pass the night in that locality.
The next settlement made in the county was by Seymour Wilcox; the date, March 20, 1839, one year after the coming of Jacob P. Brower. Mr. Wilcox made a claim on Rock River within what are now the limits of Waupun. He was accompanied by J. N. Ackerman and Hiram Walker.
A greater part of the land upon which the village of Horicon now stands, was entered as early as December, 1838, by ex-Governor Hubbard, of New Hampshire. His claim included a tract of nearly five hundred acres, but the first settlement made at that point was in Decem- ber, 1845, by Joel Doolittle.
Beaver Dam occupies the third place in point of priority in early settlement, and Thomas Mackie, upon whom the title of Patriarch of Beaver Dam has been bestowed, is doubtless entitled to the honor belonging to the first settler. Mr. Mackie is still in the land of the living, and, with a degree of positiveness that will admit of no contradiction, informs the writer that his was the first cabin erected within the limits of the present site of Beaver Dam. It stood near a spring, known to the present generation as the Mackie Spring, and a street passing near this hallowed spot bears the name of the venerable pioneer. In the construction of his cabin,
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Mr. Mackie was aided by his son-in-law,* Joseph Goetschius, who also settled here a few weeks later. The third settler in Beaver Dam was Morris Firmin, and the fourth Jacob P. Brower, the pioneer of Fox Lake.
The settlement of the eastern portion of the county did not begin till 1844-45. Judge Hiram Barber located a claim two miles east of Juneau in the spring of 1844, and, in the fall of the same year, John Chandler and family settled a mile west of the present site of Horicon. Chester and E. P. May, and William and Alvin Foster were the founders of Mayville, in the fall and winter of 1845. In his explorations in that vicinity, Chester May discovered a peculiar red earth which he supposed was a species of mineral paint. He and his brother entered the quarter-section upon which the substance was discovered, and afterward took a small quantity of it to a blacksmith in Illinois, who found it to be iron, and extracted enough metal from it to make a pot-hook. Three tons of the ore was taken to a blast furnace at Mishawaka, Ind., where it was pronounced worthless, as the ore would not separate. Undaunted, Mr. May returned to his home and was soon on his way back to the Hoosier State with ten tons of the mineral. A large portion of this was wasted before the discovery was made that the trouble resulted from using marl for flux, this ore requiring none. Out of the remainder, a stove and crowbar were manufactured, with which the delighted owner returned in triumph. This was the discovery of the ore beds. now known as Iron Ridge.
The first birth recorded in the county was that of Ira, son of Seymour Wilcox ; the date of the interesting event, April, 1841. William G. McElroy and a Miss Collins are said to have been the contracting parties in the first wedding in the county, also in 1841. The bridegroom had to travel eighty miles to procure a license. The happy couple made a wedding tour to the house of the bride's father at Emily Lake, in a sleigh drawn by oxen. This was doubtless the first marriage that occurred in the county ; but there was a match matrimonial between Cath- erine, the Milesian maiden who came to Fox Lake with the Brower family, and a man named Craig, in the winter of 1838-39. The cooing couple went from Mr. Brower's house in a sleigh to Fort Winnebago, where the ceremony was performed, and, returning, Catherine resumed her duties as domestic. It is believed that Craig did not belong to Dodge County until after his marriage.
ORGANIZATION.
Prior to 1840, Dodge County (which was created by the Territorial Legislature December 7, 1836, and named in honor of Gen. Henry Dodge, then Governor of the Territory) was attached to Milwaukee County "for judicial and other purposes." The county government was organized in pursuance of an act passed January 13, 1840; and, at an election held the first Monday of the following month, John W. Cole, Peter V. Brown, of Watertown, and Mor- ris Firmin, of Fox Lake, were chosen County Commissioners ; Luther A. Cole, Treasurer ; William M. Dennis, Register, and John Fowler and Samuel B. Vinton, Assessors. The Com- missioners held their first meeting March 2, at the house of Hamilton Stevens, in Fox Lake. . Morris Firmin was chosen Chairman, and William M. Dennis, Clerk of the Board. In conse- quence of the absence of Luther Cole (who, was, at that time, cutting steamboat wood in Arkan- sas), Hamilton Stevens was appointed Treasurer to fill the vacancy. The house of William M. Dennis, of the Fifth Ward of Watertown, was designated for the offices of Register and Clerk. The regular April and July meetings of the Board were directed to be held at the same place, and those of October and January at the place they were then sitting.
As a matter of history, as well as fact, it may be well to state that the first election held n Dodge County was not entirely free from party strife. The Whigs and Democrats were about equally divided, or near enough so to make the election an interesting one. The inevit- able county seat question, then just budding into a first-class political issue, also entered into the contest. Both Fox Lake and Watertown had the county seat fever, and this very naturally created, within the county, a "solid south" and a "solid north." In point of population, the
* Died September 30, 1846.
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prospects were in favor of the latter, but the result was a great surprise to the dominant faction. There were two polling-places-one at the house of Hamilton Stevens, in Fox Lake, and the other at the house of William M. Dennis, in the Fifth Ward of Watertown. Each party had its ticket, made up from the respective constituencies, and when the ballots were counted, and the people of Fox Lake found themselves beaten by a majority of seven, they were sadly impressed, and concluded that Watertown must be gaining rapidly in population; but it was only a little piece of political strategy on the part of that good and great man, William M. Den- nis, who had entertained fifteen of Cole, Bailey & Co.'s mill-hands the night before the election, and voted them the next morning; that was all. The south was "solid" to the extent of 22 votes, while the north polled but 15.
At the next meeting of the Board (in April), Luther A. Cole (who had made a stake in Arkansas and returned to his home), and Jacob P. Brower. were appointed Assessors in the place of Fowler and Vinton, who failed to qualify. At the July meeting, the Board levied a four-mill tax, and, in October, elected Edmund S. Bailey as Collector. From the statement made by the Board at their January session, 1841, it appears that the tax levy amounted to $159.58, of which $102.71 had been collected, and that the county expenditures had been $126.40 during the year, in addition to which, the percentage due Jefferson County and the Territory made the sum total of liabilities $152.32. The sum due Jefferson County was for court expenses, Dodge being attached to that county for judicial purposes during the previous year and until it was fully . organized, when it was assigned to the Third Judicial District, by an act which took effect March 1, 1844.
The above facts and figures are taken from private records still in existence. The unfor- tunate destruction of the county's papers by fire, in September, 1877, has caused no small amount of annoyance to the compiler in completing this important chapter of the history, and, for the following names and dates, he is chiefly indebted to Luther A. Cole, of Watertown ; Judge Hiram Barber and the Hon. J. B. Hays, of Horicon ; G. W. Brower and the Hon. Ben- jamin Ferguson, of Fox Lake ; the Hon. H. W. Lander and the Hon. David C. Gowdey, of Beaver Dam, and Judge E. C. Lewis and Richard Mertz, of Juneau :
In 1842, John W. Cole, John W. Fowler and Peter V. Brown, were chosen County Com- missioners. Hamilton Stevens and William M. Dennis, continued to hold the offices of Treas- urer and Clerk and Register, respectively, whether by re-election or sanction of the Board cannot be positively ascertained. The meetings of the Commissioners were held at the places before mentioned until July, 1843, when they met in the present town of Oak Grove, in pursuance of an election on the first of May previous; but, in January, 1844, Fox Lake was made the county seat. An act of the Legislature, approved February 13, 1845, provided for its permanent loca- tion at the geographical center of the county, as soon as the owners of the land should lay out a suitable village plat of forty acres. The site soon after platted, in compliance with this condi- . tion, was first named Victory (in commemoration of the defeat of the Fox Lake county seat champions), but was recorded as Dodge Center, which was subsequently changed to Juneau, in honor of Solomon Juneau.
On the 1st of March, 1844, by an act of the Territorial Legislature, Dodge County was divided, judicially, from Jefferson, and, in April of that year, the first full county ticket for county officers was elected, as follows: Sheriff, Peter V. Brown : Treasurer, Amasa Hyland ; Register of Deeds, Isaac Noyes ; Clerk of the Board and Clerk of the Court (the latter office by appointment by the Judge), William M. Dennis ; District Attorney (also by appointment), Charles S. Bristol ; Surveyor, Jacob P. Brower ; Commissioners, Hamilton Stevens, J. P. Brower and Thomas McCaughey.
This Board of officers (with the exception of Sheriff, who held until the fall of 1846) remained in office till the fall of 1845, when an election took place with the following result : Treasurer, James A. Williams ; Register of Deeds, Jacob P. Brower; Clerk of the Board and Clerk of the Court (appointed), William M. Dennis; District Attorney (appointed), A. C. Ketcham ; Surveyor, Judson Prentice.
C. Mitinghunt, Dead.
JUNEAU.
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In the spring of 1846, Sheriff Brown resigned, and G. W. Brower, who was Brown's Under Sheriff, was appointed by Governor Dodge to fill the vacancy.
Since then, elections for county officers (except Supervisors) have taken place in November of every record year, as follows :
1846-Sheriff, David Lewis; Treasurer, Samuel Drown; Register, *J. P. Brower; Clerk, of the Board, William M. Dennis; Clerk of the Court (appointed), W. H. Lander ; District Attorney (appointed), A. C. Ketcham ; Surveyor, Judson Prentice.
1848-Sheriff, Whitman Sayles; Treasurer, John C. Lewis; Register, Clark Lawton ; Clerk of the Board, John Lowth; Clerk of the Court, W. H. Lander; District Attorney, E. C. Lewis ; Surveyor, Judson Prentice.
1850-Sheriff, Mortimer Sayles ; Treasurer, John C. Lewis; Register, Edwin Giddings ; Clerk of the Board, John Lowth; Clerk of the Court, J. B. Ribble ; District Attorney, E. C. Lewis ; Surveyor, Artimedorus Ingersoll.
1852-Sheriff, Benjamin Ferguson ; Treasurer, Leonard Mertz; Register, Narcisse M. Juneau ; Clerk of the Board, Edmund Sweeney; Clerk of the Court, John B. Ribble ; District Attorney, E. C. Lewis; Surveyor, William M. Morse.
1854-Sheriff, Mortimer Sayles ; Treasurer, fLeonard Mertz; Register, Paul Juneau ; Clerk of the Board, Edmund Sweeney ; Clerk of the Court, H. D. Patch ; District Attorney, E. C. Lewis; Surveyor, William M. Morse.
1856-Sheriff, O. S. Phelps; Treasurer, Allen H. Atwater ; Register, Lucas S. Van Orden ; Clerk of the Board, John C. Halliger ; Clerk of the Court, Samuel Noyes; District Attorney, William H. Butterfield ; Surveyor, H. H. Case.
1858-Sheriff, ¿D. L. Townsend; Treasurer, A. H. Atwater; Register, Dike W. Hall ; Clerk of the Board, John C. Halliger; Clerk of the Court, James Thorn ; District Attorney, William H. Butterfield ; Surveyor, George H. Walthers.
1860-Sheriff, George W. Brower ; Treasurer, Clark Lawton; Register, Fred. W. De Lorme ; Clerk of the Board, J. C. Halliger ; Clerk of the Court, James Thorn ; Distrist Attor- ney, A. J. Rising ; Surveyor, W. M. Morse.
1862-Sheriff, Columbus Germain; Treasurer, Michael Ames; Register, Richard Mertz ; Clerk of the Board, Charles End; Clerk of the Court, James B. Hays ; District Attorney, H. W. Lander ; Surveyor, William M. Morse.
1864-Sheriff, William L. Parker; Treasurer, Lawrence Connor; Register, Richard Mertz; Clerk of the Board, Charles End; Clerk of the Court, James B. Hays; District Attorney, A. J. Rising ; Surveyor, William M. Morse.
1866-Sheriff, Columbus Germain ; Treasurer, Jacob Bodden ; Register, Richard Mertz ; Clerk of the Board, John J. Thornton ; Clerk of the Court, John Lowth ; District Attorney, Edward Elwell; Surveyor, W. M. Morse.
1868-Sheriff, Charles E. Goodwin; Treasurer, Jacob Bodden; Register, William Oestreich ; Clerk of the Board, John J. Thornton ; Clerk of the Court, John Lowth; District Attorney, Edward Elwell ; Surveyor, W. M. Morse.
1870 -. Sheriff, Henry Bertram ; Treasurer, E. C. McFetridge; Register, §William Oestreich ; Clerk of the Board, James Higgins; Clerk of the Court, John Lowth; District Attorney, ||A. J. Rising ; Surveyor, Judson Prentice.
1872- Sheriff, John Leslie; Treasurer, August Wagner; Register, Richard Mertz ; Clerk of the Board, Warren Marston ; Clerk of the Court, John Lowth; District Attorney, S. W. Lamoreux; Surveyor, W. M. Morse.
1874-Sheriff, Charles End ; Treasurer, Ody W. Traynor ; Register, Christian Hemmy ; Clerk of the Board, Warren Marston ; Clerk of the Court, John Lowth ; District Attorney, James B. Hays ; Surveyor, TW. M. Morse.
* Died November, 1846 ;. W. H. Lander appointed to fill vacancy.
¡ Resigned June, 1855 ; A. Jacobi, appointed.
# Died September, 1879.
¿ Died October 22, 1872; C. H. Marx appointed to fill vacancy.
| Resigned after serving one year ; Charles Allen appointed.
T Died July, 1875 ; George W. Morse appointed
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1876-Sheriff, Jacob Bodden ; Treasurer, Ody W. Traynor; Register, Christian Hemmy ; Clerk of the Board, Ferdinand Gnewuch ; Clerk of the Court, Eugene O'Connor ; District Attorney, James B. Hays ; Surveyor, G. W. Morse.
1878-Sheriff, J. L. Rix; Treasurer, George Schott ; Register, Christian Hemmy; Clerk of the Board, John Solon; Clerk of the Court, James E. Malone ; District Attorney, James B. Hays ; Surveyor, G. W. Morse.
THE SUPERVISORS.
With commendable foresight, Sherman & Gowdey, editors of the Beaver Dam Argus, have preserved copies of the printed proceedings of the County Board of Supervisors for the past eighteen years, and we are thereby enabled to give an almost complete list of those serving on the Board since 1860. The system of town representation, then as now, was in vogue-the Chairman of the Town Supervisors, elected in April of each year, serving on the County Board.
At the annual session of the Board held at Juneau November 12, 1861, the following members were present : From the town of Ashippun, George Sanford ; town of Beaver Dam, F. H. Kribs; Burnett, A. Lockwood; Calamus, P. V. Dunn; Chester, Isaac M. Fowler ; Clyman, Connor Dempsey ; Elba, George H. Adams; Emmet, Lawrence Connor ; Fox Lake (town), Stephen Collins, as a substitute for D. J. Pulling ; Herman, Jarius R. Cole ; Hubbard, John .W. Stillman ; Hustisford, August Boeing ; Lebanon, John Douglass; Le Roy, Oscar Terry ; Lomira, F. C. Wilson ; Lowell, W. H. Green; Oak Grove, Charles Billinghurst ; Port- land, Dearborn Clark ; Rubicon, N. S. Conklin; Shields, James Higgins ; Theresa, William Milbrot ; Trenton, C. C. Ammaok ; Westford, Oliver Ashley ; Williamstown, Jacob St. John ; Beaver Dam City (First, Second and Fourth Wards vacant), Henry Stultz; Watertown, Philip Piper ; Waupun, L. J. Preston ; Fox Lake (village), Benjamin Ferguson ; Horicon, William Decker.
In 1862 (changed to District System, and Supervisors chosen in November, 1861, at the election for Assemblymen); First District, Miles Burnham ; Second, George Price ; Third, Lawrence Connor (Chairman) ; Fourth, Jacob Bodden ; Fifth, George Newton. The seats of Messrs. Burnham and Newton, from the First and Fifth Districts, were successfully contested by J. W. Davis and William M. Morse.
This Board was re-elected in 1862, and served till November, 1863, with Jacob Bodden as Chairman, when its members were succeeded by Hiram Sawyer, Chairman, William M. Morse, Andrew Willard, John W. Davis and John C. Bishop.
The succeeding Board, elected in November, 1864, was the same, with the exception of Mr. Davis, P. V. Dunn being returned instead. Mr. Sawyer was Chairman.
1865-First District, Miles Burnham ; Second, Rees Evans; Third, H. C. Griffin (Chair- man) ; Fourth, John R. Merrill ; Fifth, D. D. Hoppock.
1866-William M. Morse (Chairman), William R. Wilcox, Benjamin F. Gibbs, Rees Evans, and John R. Merrill.
1867-Same Board, with John R. Merrill as Chairman.
1868-Rees Evans (Chairman), William Detloff, George Jess, William M. Morse and War- ren Marston.
This Board, it appears, served till April, 1870, when the old system of town representation having been adopted, the following named individuals were elected : From the town of Portland, L. P. Knowlton; Calamus, J. C. Clark; Westford, Michael McKenna; Fox Lake, G. W. Brower ; Trenton, B. F. Gibbs ; Beaver Dam, M. E. Babcock ; Lowell, W. H. Green ; Shields, John Solon; Emmet, E. O'Connor ; Clyman, Th. Schmidt; Oak Grove, A. H. Atwater ; Bur- nett, J. S. Church ; Chester, D. L. Bancroft ; Le Roy, H. Barnes ; Williamstown, August Schelpfeffer ; Hubbard, Carl Hanf; Hustisford, A. M. Greene; Lebanon, F. Gnewuch ; Aship- pun, John Leslie ; Rubicon, W. M. Morse ; Herman, J. R. Merrill ; Theresa, Adolph Fickert; Lomira, B. P. Bishop. Cities and villages : Beaver Dam-First Ward, Ed. Hohl; Second Ward, Th. Huth ; Third Ward, E. C. McFetridge; Fourth Ward, Chas. Burchard. Watertown
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-Fifth Ward, William M. Dennis; Sixth Ward, F. Herman. Waupun, William Hobkirk ; Fox Lake, Benjamin Ferguson ; Randolph, John E. Root; Juneau, Eli C. Lewis ; Mayville, S. W. Lamoreux ; Horicon, A. J. Rising (Chairman) ; Hustisford, J. G. Daily.
1871-Portland, Arthur Burnham ; Elba, Morris Burnham ; Calamus, T. J. Jones ; West- ford, Samuel Smith ; Fox Lake, John T. Smith ; Trenton, John Cochrane; Beaver Dam, M. E. Babcock ; Lowell, William H. Green; Shields, Jeremiah Driscoll ; Emmet, Eugene O'Con- nor ; Clyman, Thomas Moran ; Oak Grove, A. H. Atwater; Burnett, J. S. Church ; Chester, D. L. Bancroft ; Le Roy, H. S. Burtch ; Williamstown, Charles Barwig; Hubbard, Carl Hanf; Hustisford, Mark Lovell; Lebanon, F. Gnewuch ; Ashippun, John Leslie; Rubicon, William M. Morse ; Herman, J. R. Merrill ; Theresa, Adolph Fickert; Lomira, W. Marston. Beaver Dam City-First Ward, B. F. Sherman ; Second Ward, W. L. Parker; Third Ward, A. Willard ; Fourth Ward, W. Hathaway. Watertown-Fifth Ward, W. M. Dennis (Chairman) ; Sixth Ward, F. Herman. Waupun, W. Hobkirk ; Fox Lake, Benjamin Ferguson ; Horicon, A. J. Rising ; Mayville, Henry Spiering ; Juneau, Eli C. Lewis ; Randolph, J. E. Root.
1872-Portland, A. E. Burnham ; Elba, J. W. Hartley ; Calamus, T. J. Jones ; Fox Lake, J. T. Smith ; Trenton, John Cochrane; Beaver Dam, M. E. Babcock ; Lowell, S. P. Damp ; Shields, Jerry Driscoll ; Emmet, Eugene O'Connor ; Clyman, Thomas H. Moran ; Oak Grove, J. W. Perry ; Burnett, J. S. Church ; Chester, D. L. Bancroft; Le Roy, Henry S. Burtch ; Williamstown, Albert Burtch, Sr., ; Hubbard, Carl Hanf ; Hustisford, Mark Lovell ; Lebanon, F. Gnewuch ; Ashippun, John Leslie ; Rubicon, William M. Morse ; Herman, J. R. Merrill ; Theresa, William Milbrot ; Lomira, W. Marston. Beaver Dam-First Ward, Ed. Hohl; Second Ward, G. Stolz ; Third Ward, A. Willard ; Fourth Ward, C. Burchard. Watertown-Fifth Ward, William M. Dennis (Chairman); Sixth Ward, F. Herman. Waupun, E. M. Beach ; Horicon, Sat. Clark ; Fox Lake, Benjamin Ferguson ; Mayville, S. W. Lamoreux ; Juneau, E. C. Lewis.
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