The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Part 136

Author: Wesern historical company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 899


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REUBEN W. JOHNSON, stock and grain dealer; was born in Ohio Feb. 1, 1836; he removed to Wisconsin in June, 1838, with his father's family; they located on the borders of Rock and Walworth Cos., and remained until 1839, when the family removed to Indiana ; in June, 1840, returned to Wisconsin, and settled in Union, where Mr. Johnson's father, David Johnson, engaged in farming until his death in March, 1877, on the farm he had entered in 1840, at the age of 81 years; he was born in 1796. Reuben W., in 1859, engaged in farming, and continued until 1863 ;. has since engaged in live stock and grain dealing. Mr. Johnson is averse to holding any kind of public office ; has persistently refused to accept office, although frequently urged to do so; has never even served on a jury, although a resident of the county since he was 4 years of age. He married, in Union, Jan. 1, 1859, Miss Ade- laide C. Frost, a native of Vermont; have three children-Helen J., born Jan. 5, 1862; Mary B., Sept. 28, 1865, and Frankie A., March 19, 1867. Mrs. Johnson's father and brother Daniel broke the first land in Catfish Prairie.


J. BOYD JONES, editor, Evansville; born in Union Township, Wis., Dec. 21, 1843; his father, Ira Jones, was a native of Champaign Co., Ohio; born Jan. 3, 1810; emigrated to Wisconsin in 1840, and located in the township of Union, where he engaged in improving land for farming purposes, until his death, which occurred Dec. 19, 1846. J. Boyd, from the age of 16 years, engaged in teaching school, until 1863, when he enlisted as musician in the First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps ; served until June, 1865; mustered out and returned to Evansville, where he remained, school- teaching, until April, 1879, when he assumed the management and editorship of the Evansville Review. He married, in Michigan, May 11, 1873, Miss Ella Roberts, a native of Vermont; has one child, born Sept. 13. 1876:


WILLIAM S. MORGAN, carpenter, Evansville ; born in Wales June 26, 1838 ; his father, James Morgan, came with his family to America in 1841, and located in Ohio, where he engaged in farm- ing and working at his trade of stonemason until 1849, when he removed with his family to Dane Co., Wis., and engaged in farming until 1872. William S. Morgan began learning the trade of carpenter and joiner in 1855, at Janesville ; in 1859, went to Racine ; in 1861, to Evansville, where he has since remained occupied at his business of building and carpenter work. Married, at Beloit, Rock Co., Wis., Jan. 15, 1866, Miss Ellen Vervalin, a native of New York ; has three children-Ida M., born June 21, 1867 ; Myrta A., Oct. 28, 1872; Charles D., Jan. 7, 1876.


DAVID L. MILLS, attorney, Evansville; born in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., March 7, 1816 ; he . came to Wisconsin in 1845. on the old steamer Illinois, commanded by Capt. Black, arriving in Dane Co. June 1; he taught school for a few months; then removed to Fulton, Rock Co., in 1846, where he


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engaged in the practice of law, he having received a law education at Rome, N. Y., which he completed at the college at Stanford, Ky. Mr. Mills was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1846. In November, 1854, he removed to Evansville, where he engaged as stock agent for the Beloit & Madison Railroad Company (now Chicago & North-Western). In 1851, he was appointed to fill a vacancy As Director of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad; was afterward twice elected to the same position. In 1858, he was elected Register of Deeds; his duties required his removal to Janesville, where he remained until the summer of 1863. Mr. Mills was the founder of the Evansville Seminary, begun in 1856, he having granted deeds of property to a chartered corporation under the supervision of the Meth- odist Conference of Wisconsin. Mr. Mills is at present engaged in the practice of law and conveyances in Janesville. He married, in the town of Vienna, Oneida Co., N. Y., May 2, 1852, Miss Lucia S. Parker, a native of the county in which she was married ; have two children, and lost three.


GEORGE H. PALMER, merchant tailor, Evansville; born in Littleton, Grafton Co., N.H., Feb. 4, 1821 ; he removed to Wisconsin in 1853, and engaged in his trade as tailor and cutter at Evans- ville ; cut the first coat in the village; he continued his business as merchant tailor until 1863, when he engaged as cutter for an establishment in Janesville; in the fall of 1867, he returned to Evansville, and engaged with the firm of Winston & Bennet as cutter; in the fall of 1878, he entered the employ of his former employers, of Janesville, and managed a branch of their house at Evansville, which he conducted until April 1, 1879, when he opened a business of his own, as merchant tailor, in Evansville. Mr. Pal- mer married, in Littleton, N. H., Aug. 22, 1842, Miss Amanda M. Farr, a native of Littleton ; has three children living, two deceased-Carrie M., born June 24, 1843 ; George A., born July 24, 1849 and died Uct 15, 1851 ; Lucien F., born Dec. 24, 1851 ; George A., Oct. 31, 1854, died Oct. 28, 1855; Hattie L., born Sept. 10, 1855. Previous to his coming to Wisconsin, Mr. Palmer held the office of Postmaster at West Falls, N. J.


WILLIAM B. PATTERSON, farmer ; Sec. 29; P. O. Evansville ; born in Madison, Madison Co., N. Y., June 29, 1819; he came to Wisconsin in October, 1848, and located in Brooklyn Township, Green Co., where he engaged in farming, which he continued until March 25, 1855, when he removed to Union Township, Rock Co., where he has since remained engaged in farming pursuits. Mar- ried, in Allegany Co., N. Y., Nov. 12, 1842, Miss Polly White, a native of Herkimer Co., N. Y .; Mr. Patterson has seven children living ; lost, one son. He is the owner of 130 acres of land.


L. T. PULLEN, banker, Evansville ; born in Maine, in 1825; removed to Wisconsin in 1854, and engaged in mercantile business in Argyle, Lafayette Co .; remained until 1867, when he removed to Evans- ville, Rock Co., where he engaged in mercantile pursuits; in 1870, he assisted in the organization of the First National Bank of Evansville, under a charter granted Oct. 31, of that year. Mr. Pullen was elected President ; in January of 1875, the bank changed from a National to a State Bank, Mr. Pullen continu- ing as President until 1878, in December, when he retired from the position of President to that of Cashier, with his son, Charles F. Pullen, as Assistant ; Mr. Pullen was, in 1875, elected to represen this district in the State Legislature, he having previously represented his district in Lafayette Co. He married, in Maine, Aug. 5. 1849, Miss Catherine B. Pike, a native of Maine; Mr. Pullen's family consists of three children.


K. F. RANDOLPH, lumber dealer, Evansville; born in Crawford Co., Penn., in 1822; removed to Wisconsin in the fall of 1853, and entered the employ of a grocery house in Janesville, Rock Co .; remained until 1855, then entered the employ of a lumber firm; in 1865, became interested in a lumber business which he established in partnership with his former employers at Evansville ; in 1877, the partnership dissolved, and Mr. Randolph established himself as lumber dealer June 1, 1877. He married in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, June 28, 1848, Miss Matilda Kelley, a native of New York.


FREDERICK R. ROSSITER, marble-cutter, Evansville; born in Rock Co., Wis., March 22, 1850 ; his father, Edmund Rossiter, was one of Rock County's early settlers; he was a native of England ; came to Rock Co. in 1844 or 1845; engaged in farming in Spring Valley Township. He mar- ried in Rock Co. Miss Roberts, whose family were also among the earliest settlers ; in 1864, he removed to Iowa, where he engaged in farming, in which he is still engaged. Frederick, in January, 1877, purchased in Evansville a marble manufacturing business ; he had been engaged in that business in Rock ford, Ill., for six years. He married in Rockford, Ill., Jan. 3, 1874, Miss Ella Frampton, a native of New York City ; they have two children.


DANIEL M. ROWLEY, banker; Evansville; born in Erie Co., N. Y., in 1825; he . removed to Wisconsin in 1848, where he engaged in farming in Union Township, Rock Co. ; he engaged also in mercantile business ; in 1877, he became interested in the Evansville Bank, and, in 1878, was elected President of the same. Mr. Rowley has been Justice of the Peace for the last twenty years. He


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married, in Erie Co., N. Y., in 1848, Miss Calista Wells, a native of Wyoming, N. Y. Have one daughter who is now married. Mr. Rowley is a member of the Baptist Church.


L. NATHAN SAWTELL, farmer ; P. O. Evansville; born in Ludlow, Windsor Co., N. Y .; on Nov. 17, 1822; he settled in Wisconsin in 1854, in Union Township, Rock Co., where he engaged in farming ; in 1865, be removed to Evansville and engaged in farming, having purchased a farm in that vicinity. He married, in Rutland, Dine Co., Wis., Dec. 25, 1863, Lucy A. Bigelow, a native of Vermont. Members of the Baptist Church.


LAWRENCE SHIVLEY, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Evaneville; born in Pennsylvania March 7, 1824 ; went to Ohio in 1834, and came to Wisconsin in 1848, locating in Mount Pleasant, Green Co., where he engaged in farming. His whole possessions, when he arrived in Wisconsin, were a wife and 50 cents in money. In 1867, he removed to Evansville, where he engaged in the business of stock broker, and grain and produce dealer, until 1872, when he moved to his farm in Union Township, where he has since remained. He married, in Mahoning Co., Ohio, July 3, 1848, Miss Hannah Pierce, a native of Ohio ; he has three children living-lost five. He is the owner of 200 acres of land in Union Township, and 160 acres in Green Co.


CALEB SNASHALL, hardware merchant, Evansville; born in England in 1840; at the age of 9 years he, with his father's family, came to America and located on the Hudson River, remain- ing until 1864, when he came to Wisconsin, and engaged in the hardware business in Evansville; in 1873, he became interested in the Baker Manufacturing Co., organized in that year, and Mr. Snashall was elected President of the company, which position he still retains. His hardware business, after under- going some changes of partnership, has been, since 1871, under the firm name of Snashall & Mygatt. Mr. Snashall married, at Evansville, in 1866, Miss Emeline Adams, a native of Vermont-has three sons.


GEORGE F. SPENCER, retired farmer. born in 1822, in the State of Vermont; came to Wisconsin, in 1848, and settled in Union ; engaged in farming and boot and shoe making ; he was the first shoemaker in the town ; he followed his trade, with farming, for about four years, when he gave up his trade and gave his whole attention to farming. Mr. Spencer, in 1856 and 1857, was Town Treasurer, also in 1878; he was also the Village Trustee for five or six years. He married, in Porter, Rock Co., Nov. 22, 1849, Miss Elizabeth L. Campbell, a native of St. Albans, Vt. Has two children.


HENRY G. SPENCER (retired), Evansville ; born in Springfield, Vt., in 1812; he removed to Wisconsin in March, 1837, being one of the first settlers of Rock Co .; he engaged in the improvement of land, and continued farming until 1844; then sold his farm and removed to Evansville, where he built a hotel which bore his name until 1879; Mr. Spencer, after managing his hotel for five or six years, has engaged in real estate and loaning since. He married, at La Porte, Ind., June 22, 1839, Miss Margaret E. Campbell, a native of Grand Island, Vt .; Mr. Spencer's family consists of three children.


JOHN T. O. SWAGER, furniture dealer, Evansville ; born on the Atlantic Ocean in 1850; his parents were natives of Norway ; his father, Nelson Swager, located in Janesville in 1851, and engaged in the furniture business; continued until 1866, then removed to Evansville, where he engaged in furni- ture and hardware business until the latter part of 1867, when he removed to Mount Pleasant, Green Co., where he remained at farming until his death in 1873; his wife died in 1871. Mr. J. T. O. Swager entered the employ of Leahman & Bro., furniture manufacturers and dealers ; in 1877, was promoted to the position of foreman, which he retained until Oct. 1, 1878, when he purchased one-half interest in their wholesale and retail business, and has since managed the retail branch of their business. He mar- ried, at Stoughton, Dane Co., Wis .. Oct. 19, 1878, Miss Hattie Magee, a native of Exeter, Green Co., Wis.


WM. H. TAGGART, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Evansville; born in Cortland Co., N. Y., Sept. 21, 1827 ; be came to Wisconsin in 1845, and located in Union Township, Rock Co., and engaged in farming, following also his trade of mason and plasterer; he has always been a resident of Union since coming to the State. His father, Levi Taggart, is still living, at the age of 81 years ; was born March 7, 1798; he is one of the oldest of the early settlers still living. Mr. Wm. H. Taggart married, in Union Township, Dee. 27, 1849, Miss L. M. Arnold, a native of Cortland Co., N. Y. Mr. Taggart has one child living, lost one-Orrissa V., born March 4, 1851; Hattie A., born Dec. 20, 1854, died Feb. 27, 1873. Mr. Taggart is owner of eighty acres.


WM. H. VANHISE, merchant, Sec. 10; P. O. Union ; born in Mercer Co., N. Y., Feb. 29, 1829; he came to Wisconsin in September, 1849, locating in Fulton Township, Rock Co., where he engaged in farming, which he continued until 1865, when he went into mercantile business in Milton ; in 1868, he removed to Milton Junction, remaining in business there until 1870; then went to Evansville,


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and carried on business at that place four years, removing thence to Union, where he received an appoint- ment as Postmaster, and has since continued in business at the latter place. He married, in Fulton Township, April 20, 1851, Miss Mary A. Goodrich. a native of Maine; they have seven children.


IRA WALKER, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Evansville ; born in Franklin Co., N. Y., Feb. 17, 1805; he came to Wisconsin in 1848, locating in Union Township, Rock Co., and engaged in improving land ; he has continued farming, up to the present time, on the farm on which he settled. He married, in Herkimer Co., N. Y., March 20, 1831, Miss Polly O'Conner, a native of Herkimer Co., N. Y., who died March 1, 1878; Mr. Walker has six children living. He is owner of 160 acres of land.


JAMES R. WEST, merchant and Postmaster, Evansville; born in Stephenson Co., Ill .. June 28, 1837 ; his father, Jacob West, who was a native of Champaign Co., Ohio, born March 6, 1812, settled in Illinois in 1836, and, in 1840, he removed with his family fo Rock Co., Wis., locating one-half mile from the center of the present village of Evansville, having the previous year secured a claim, on which he settled ; in the fall of 1841, he sold his claim and with his wife and two children went to Ohio, making the trip in a one-horse wagon ; the following year, he returned by the same route; having purchased another horse, he made the return trip with a double team, arrived in Union Township, Rock Co., in June of 1842, where he located and engaged in improving land for farming purposes ; farmed until 1853; in 1846, began brick-making; made the first brick in Union Township ; after a short trip to Southern Iowa, in 1853, he engaged in mercantile business in the town of Union, which he continued until 1856. From 1850 to 1869, was Justice of the Peace; then retired from active duties ; in 1876, he again resumed the duties of the office; from 1856 or 1857 to 1867 or 1868, he was Town Clerk ; has been Assessor from 1868 to the present time; in 1861, was appointed U. S. Assistant Assessor for the Second District, which he held until 1864 ; re-appointed in 1865 ; held office until 1866. He married, in Champaign Co., Ohio, Dec. 1, 1831. Miss Margaret Robinson, a native of Ohio; has had eight children ; four sons were in the army ; Stephen, a member of Co. D. 13th W. V. I., died in the army April 21. 1862 ; he has six chil- dren living and thirteen grandchildren. Mr. West was Postmaster of Evansville from 1855 to 1858. James R. West, in 1856, commenced his apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and joiner : after a serv. ice of three years, engaged with Mr. A. Johnson as partner in making sash, doors and blinds at Albany, Green Co., Wis .; in November, 1863, he sold out, and removed his family to Evansville, Rock Co., and, Dec. 25, enlisted in Co. G, 16th W. V. I., and went into active service with the regiment until the battle of Bald Hill, near Atlanta; he was severely wounded, a minie ball passing through both his thighs i this was the battle in which Gen. McPherson was killed ) ; he was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in April, 1865, and discharged on account of wounds, July 4, 1865, when he returned to Evansville, and received the appointment of Postmaster of Evansville, by P. M. General Wm. Dennison, which position he still holds ; he is also engaged in the book and stationery business. He married, at Gray's Valley, Tioga Co .. Penn., Feb. 19, 1862, Miss Flora Comfort, a native of Olean, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y .; born July 29. 1839; have had four children-Minnie E., born Jan. 17, 1863, died April 17. 1864 ; Mary M., born Feb. 14, 1864; Elbert J., born June 19, 1872, died Feb. 23. 1873; Evelyn F., born Aug. 5, 1874.


JOHN W. WEST, Superintendent of Schools, Evansville; born in Evansville. Rock C ... Wis., Jan. 31, 1844; son of Squire Jacob West, one of Rock Co.'s earliest settlers, who settled in Union Township in the fall of 1840; John W., in 1862, at the age of 18 years, engaged in teaching school, in Exeter Township, Green Co., at what was known as the Ross School. remaining there until May, 1863, when he enlisted in the 40th W. V. I., Co. D, in the 100-days service; serving his time he was mustered out with the regiment at Madison ; returning to Rock Co., he resumed school-teaching, which he continued during the winter seasons, occupying his summers in farming, except one or two seasons, when he, with his father, engaged in brick-making ; his father started the first brick-yard in Union Township ; he was elected, in 1875. Superintendent of Schools of the First District of Rock Co. ; was re-elected in 1877. and is at present occupying that position. He married in Janesville. May 5, 1869. Miss Dora M. Campbell. . native of Rock Co., Wis .; they have three children-Hattie B., born Jan. 21. 1871 ; Theodore C., May 27, 1873; John W .. Jan. 27, 1877.


CHARLES H. WILDER, lumber dealer, Evansville ; born April 12, 1824, in Wyoming Co., N.Y .; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1858, located in Green Co., Wis .. and engaged in farming; in 1865, removed to Evansville and built a cheese-factory, one of the first in Rock Co. ; in 1873, shipped cheese from this factory to Liverpool; in 1874. shipped twenty-eight car-loads to England, and in 1875, shipped forty car-loads. He married, at Bennington, N. Y., March 22, 1849. Annette Noyes, of Bennington, N. Y .; born Oct. 19, 1830, died April 21, 1864. Married at Allen's Grove, Walworth Co., Wis., Jan. 24, 1867, Betsy A. Lee, of Genesee Co., N. Y .; in 1877, Mr. Wilder sold his cheese business and purchased the lumber business of Fifield & Gold, at Evansville.


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PERRY C. WILDER, merchant, Evansville; born in Ohio Nov. 7, 1852; his father, the Rev. Calvin H. Wilder, removed with his family to Wisconsin in 1862, and was a minister of the Baptist Church in Lafayette Co .; in 1868, he removed with his family to Evansville, Rock. Co., where Perry C. entered the employ of Winston & Co., as book-keeper, remaining in the employ of the firm until 1872, when he and Mr. Pullen, one of his employers, engaged in mercantile business until the spring of 1878 ; in the fall of that year, Mr. Wilder engaged in the grocery business, and in the spring of 1879, he opened a livery and board- ing stable, continuing, also, his business as grocer ; he is enterprising and energetic, and will become one of Evansville's prominent citizens.


NELSON WINSTON, banker and merchant, Evansville; born in New York Oct. 15, 1820, came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1841, and engaged in farming in Union Township (now Porter), Rock Co .: in 1849, removed to Dane Co., and engaged in mercantile business in Oregon, in partnership with Mr. Isaac M. Benuett ; in the spring of 1855, Mr. Winston settled in Evansville, and engaged in mer- cantile business with his father, John Winston, and his brother Reuben, under the name of J. Winston & Sons; in 1861, the firm dissolved, and Mr. Nelson Winston continued the business ; in 1864, Mr. Wins- ton, with Mr. Bennett, his former partner, engaged in the lumber business; in 1870, he and Mr. Bennett secured a charter, under which the First National Bank of Evansville was organized, with Mr. Winston as Vice President; in January, 1875, the bank changed from a National to a State bank, when Mr. Wins- ton withdrew ; since, he has been engaged in mercantile business and real estate and loaning. He mar- ried, in Oregon, Dane Co., on March 27, 1851, Miss E. A. Parsons, a native of New York ; have four children. Members of the Congregational Church. His father, Mr. John Winston, was born Albany Co .. N. Y., in 1796 ; came to Wisconsin with a family of twelve children ; in 1841, settled in Union and engaged in mercantile business. He was an active worker in the interests of the county, then newly set- tled ; he was for many years Commissioner of the Poor; was the originator of the movement which resulted in the organization of the First Baptist Church in Union ; after an active and useful life, he died Nov. 13, 1867, within a few days of his : 1st year.


REUBEN WINSTON, merchant, Evan,ville; born in New York Nov. 17, 1826; he came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1841, and located in Porter, Rock Co., at that time under Territorial Government. Mr. Winston's father, John Winston, engaged in farming in the fall of 1855. Mr. Reuben Winston, with his father and his brother Nelson, engaged in mercantile business in Evansville, under the firm name of J. Winston & Sons; continued until 1861, when the firm dissolved, and Mr. Reuben Winston and his father started in business under the name of J. Winston & Co .; continued until 1864, when Mr. Winston bought out his father, and continued the business with several changes. In 1875, he took into partnership Mr. Woodbury, since, his dry-goods business has been conducted under the name of Winston & Woodbury. Mr. Winston, in the spring of 1873, also established a lumber business-still continued. He has a farm rented. He has been for the past nine years Treasurer of Evansville. He married, in Union, Rock Co., Nov. 27, 1853, Miss Mary H. Nicholas, a native of Ohio. Has two children living, one having died.


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E. D. BARNARD, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Evansville; born in New York Aug. 27, 1827 ; be came to Wisconsin in 1847, locating in Porter Township, Rock Co., and engaged in farming. In 1850, he went to California, remaining until 1853, then returned to Porter Township, and resumed farming. He married, in Porter, Rock Co., February, 1850, Miss Susan Webb, a native of New York, who died in 1863, leaving five children. Mr. Barnard married again, in the same place, in August, 1875, Miss Jane Osborn, a native of Canada. They have one child. He is owner of 400 acres of land.


JOHN DA WE, farmer, Sec. 22: P. O. Fulton; born in Devonshire, England, Jan. 15, 1835; he came to America in 1856, locating in Fulton Township, Rock Co., Wis., in September of that year. He engaged in farming, which he continued until 1867, when he removed to the village of Edgerton, where he opened a produce and commission business. In 1869, he engaged in general mercantile business. In 1871, he gave up mercantile business, and went to farming in Albion Township, Dane Co., until 1876; he then purchased a farm of 160 acres, in Porter Township, on which he has since remained. He is one of the members of the Board of County Supervisors, and has held several local offices. He married, at Fulton, Rock Co., in 1858, Miss Anna S. Downing, a native of Pennsylvania, who died April 4, 1872, leaving three children. He married again, in Dunkirk, Dane Co., Oct. 29, 1873, Miss Anna S. Spike, a native of Yorkshire, England. They have two children.


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THOMAS EARLE, farmer, Sec. 21 ; P. O. Evansville; born in Ayrshire, Scotland, Dec. 15, 1815 ; he came to America in 1840, and to Wisconsin in 1844; entered Government land in Porter Township; in 1854, he went to California, where he remained until 1857, then returned to his farm in Rock Co .; he was elected to represent his district in the State Legislature in 1853; he has also been Sheriff of the county, and has held several minor offices. He married in Hamilton Co., Ohio, March 17, 1874, Miss Mary A. Waters, a native of Ohio; has five children living-lost two. He is the owner of 280 acres.




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