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on August 31. All the rest, of nearly fifty, who went into the fight, were killed, wounded and taken prisoners. Up to August 30, Mr. Haight had never been absent from his company on a march or in a fight ; but the charge on the railroad embankment, where Stonewall Jackson was fortified, that afternoon, had brought him into a place from which he could not reasonably hope to get back alive, and so he reluc- tantly concluded to stay. It was a desperate, fcolhardy charge of onr line against that embankment. The air was full of bullets and fragments of shell, and not fifty men of the regiment were able to reach the rebel works at all; and in ten minutes after reaching them not a dozen soldiers remained there unwounded. The second Union line of battle was delivering a galling fire upon the embankment, from the edge of the woods in the rear, which took effect, chiefly upon their own comrades of the first line, who were unable to find shelter anywhere. At this point, and at the earnest entreaty of his disabled comrades on the embank- ment, Mr. Haight ran over the work, and jumped down among the rebels, seeking permission to bring bis comrades out of range of the Union bullets. Failing, for the moment, he finally obtained leave to take care of eleven men of his company, who were disabled by wounds, and stayed with them until the last man who survived was forwarded to Washington by ambulance a week later. He had himself been paroled a day or two after his capture, but declined to go away until he had provided for his companions. When he arrived within the Union lines, at the rear of a long train of ambulances, he had neither shirt nor hat, both those articles of clothing having been given to his wounded friends, and he was half famished from an almost total absti- nenee from food for seven days. He was not exchanged until three months later, and when he returned to the regiment, in December, he was immediately promoted from Corporal to Orderly Sergeant, and a recommendation forwarded, by his commanding officer, for a commission for him. A few weeks later, he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant of his company, and received another commission, as First Lieu- tenant, just before the muster-out of the regiment at the end of their two years' term of service ; in May following, Lieut. Haight was with his company in the fighting at the ford below Fredericksburg and at the battle of Chancellorsville, but none of the regiment suffered much at either of these engagements. One of his superior officers in the regiment paid the young soldier the compliment of say- ing that he was the only man that he ever saw in a battle who seemed really to enjoy it ; on returning home friend Haight was offered a captaincy in a cavalry regiment, then heing raised, and was tempted to go back ; but he had already lost both his brothers in the army-one in the 94th N. Y. V. I., and the other in the 28th Wis. V. I .- and his parents were in feeble health, and protested against his venturing again ; he therefore reluctantly gave up the idea of military life, and settled down to his studies for the remainder of the season, teaching a village school near home during the winter of 1863-64, and returning to Waukesha Co. the following spring. For a year and a half immediately following, he was Principal of the Mukwonago public school, and, in 1865, entered the office of Gen. James H. Paine & Son, in Milwaukee, as a law student. With this firm he prosecuted his studies, until the junior member, Hon. Byron Paine, was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court, the father soon after retiring from business, on account of the infirmities of age. While in the law office, Mr. Haight amused himself occasionally with newspaper work, both prose and poetry, which attracted considerable attention from critical readers, but brought him in very little money. To replenish his purse, he taught commercial law and arithmetic in the Spencerian Business College, at Milwaukee, for some months, and afterward, in the winter of 1867, he taught the Delafield vil- lage school ; at the close of this school term he received word from Chicago, that the Post of that city wanted the services of an extra man for a few weeks, and that he might try his hand at the work, if he wished ; before the close of his temporary engagement with the Post, he was offered the position of city editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and served in that capacity for several months, but he differed with the proprietors, all along, as to the manner of conducting that department of the paper, and finally retired from it in the fall of 1868, when he was again offered, and accepted, the management of the Mukwonago public school, and continued there as Principal until the spring of 1870, when he bought a half-interest in the Waukesha Freeman and a little later was united in marriage to Miss Annie, daughter of Dr. H. A. You- mans, of Mukwonago, a young lady who had been his pupil during all the time spent by him as Principal of the public school at that place. An opportunity soon occurring to purchase the remaining half-interest in the Freeman, Mr. Haight prevailed upon his brother-in-law, the present proprietor of the paper-then a young man of less than 20-to enter the office as a partner. The Freeman was immediately made the advocate of the business interests of Waukesha, and especially of the merits of the Bethesda Spring, which the new editor was quick to recognize as the fulerum, by means of which the village was to be lifted out of the torpid state in which it was then buried ; as correspondent of several journals abroad at the same time, and especially of the Chicago Times, he labored, in and out of season, to bring Waukesha to the notice of seekers after health and pleasure, and its rapid rise in public estimation, as a summer resort, was probably owing as much to his efforts, as to those of any other one man, except Col. Richard Dunbar ; in the fall of
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1874, Mr. Haight sold his half-interest in the Freeman to his brother-in-law, Mr. H. M. Youmans, although he has all along continued his connection with the paper, as a writer of leading articles. In the winter of 1875-76 he was the Madison correspondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and for two years from April, 1876, was Secretary of the State Board of Charities and Reforms, in which capacity he visits all the penal and eleemosynary institutions in the State, many of them several times, and prepared the elaborate volumes of reports for the Board for 1876 and 1877. In 1878, he returned to Waukesha, to the practice of the law in which he has since been engaged. His copartnership with Mr. F. W. Monteith began in June of 1879, the law firm of Monteith & Haight is now considered one of the ablest and most reliable in this part of the State. In the Order of Odd Fellows, Mr. Haighit is an earnest and effective worker, and he now holds the position of Grand Patriarch of the Right Worthy Grand Encampment of Wisconsin-the highest position in the State, of the highest branch of Odd Fellowship. His residence is a charming place, on the gently sloping hillside across the river from the Bethesda, and overlooking the stream and the beautiful grounds belonging to the spring. Here his three children are growing up and rejoicing the hearts of their parents by their intelligence and health, and here, surrounded by trees and flowers, by music and the books that he is still not ashamed to love, he finds the happiness and content which are often sought for in vain by far wealthier men. He is now serving the second year as Chair- man of the County Republican Committee, and during this time the county has changed from Democratic to Republican, as the votes will show.
GEORGE HARDING came to Waukesha in May, 1859; lived here two years, and was journeyman tinner for Mr. Burroughs for that time; then went to Chippewa Falls, Wis., and engaged in the hardware and milling business for himself; in 1868, he purchased the farm where he now resides ; he carried on his business at Chippewa Falls, however, until 1877, spending his time six months of the year in Waukesha, and the balance at Chippewa Falls, his family most of the time being on the farm ; since 1877, Mr. Harding and family have resided in Waukesha permanently ; he is still owner of pine lands in Northern Wisconsin, principally in the Chippewa Valley region. Mr. Harding was born in Aurora, Erie Co., N. Y., March 20, 1840; his parents removed to Painesville, Ohio, when he was about 11 years of age, and came from there to Waukesha. He was married in Waukesha, July 14, 1863; to Sarah Hall Barstow, daughter of Samuel H. and Susan R. ( Babcock) Barstow ; she was born in Waukesha, Wis., February 18, 1841; they have four children-Samuel Barstow, Frank Waller, Josephine Baldwin and George Winans, all of whom were born in Waukesha. While at Chippewa Falls Mr. Harding was, for eight years, Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners.
CLARK S. HARTWELL, contractor and builder; born July, 1829, in Ticonderoga, Essex Co., N. Y. His early life was spent in Washington Co. ; he learned his trade of his father, Moses S., in York State. They came West together, in 1851, and were in partnership nearly twenty-five years in Waukesha. They are considered to be the leading contractors and builders in Waukesha Co. The father retired from active labors in 1875; and the subject of this sketch is now sole manager of the busi- ness. He was married, in 1852, to Miss Isabel K. Dobbin, who died in 1855, without issue. He has huilt several churches and hotels, and many of the finest residences in the village of Waukesha. He owns a steam-mill, for doing all kinds of woodwork-resawing, scroll-sawing, turning, etc. He was two years Deputy Sheriff of this county. He married his present wife in May, 1860-her maiden name was Mary J. Calhoun-widow of O. F. Baker, merchant, of Milwaukee. They have had two children-one died in childhood-liis only son, Willard S., was horn in 1869. His residence and spacious grounds are on the corner of High street and College avenue. He is a temperance man and a reliable Republican. The family are Presbyterians. For twenty-five years he was leader, and the family were the mainstay, of the Presby- terian Church Choir. A visitor, and a former member of that church, upon his return, finding this faithful family still pursuing their unrequited labors of love, despite storm, weariness and discouragement, thus descourses in the local newspaper : " We always expected them. We knew they would be there. The length of the way was nothing. Dampness, clouds, rain, snow, hail, thunder, lightning and pitch- darkness were nothing. There they were-the father, a man whose merit was only equaled by his modesty, and if ever this trite remark was true, it was so in his case-a man who has the habit of hiding his talents under a bushel ; but who is known, by his associates, to excel equally as a mechanic, a musician and most of all as a warm true-hearted friend. The mother, a whole host in herself, with a stock of goaheadactive- ness to supply a half-dozen ordinary women. The families of both generations were singers. Their memory is enshrined in many hearts. Nor soon will be forgotten the singers or their songs." The article closed with a defense of the too-often-much-abused choirs in our churches, and an exhortation to appreci- ative gratitude for these " ministers in the song-service."
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MOSES S. HARTWELL, retired, born Aug. 24, 1806, in Hillsboro, N. H. ; by the time he was of age, he had learned the trade of carpenter and joiner ; in 1827, he removed to Essex Co., N. Y .; he was married in September, 1828, to Miss Mary Orcut, who died in March, 1836, leaving five children - Clark S., Adelbert, Henry M., Electa B. and George; in 1830, he removed to Washington Co., N. Y., which was his home for twenty-one years ; in both counties he carried on the business of car- penter and joiner ; married his present wife in February, 1838 ; her maiden name was Harriet Stout, born in Washington Co. Nov. 28, 1812; in 1851, he came West, and, on the night of April 10, 1851, he stopped on the land where he now lives, which is in a thickly settled portion of the village of Waukesha; he has a comfortable home on an acre of charmingly ornamented and beautifully situated land ; he owns other real estate in the village ; for thirty-five years himself and wife have been members of the Presby- terian Church, and for the last quarter of a century himself and son have been the leading contractors and builders in Waukesha Co. ; in cheerful competency, himself and his worthy wife are now nearing the land " whence no traveler returneth."
WILLIAM HASLAGE, firm of Anderson & Haslage, proprietors of the Silurian Springs, was born in Germany in 1827; when but a lad, he sought the broader, brighter business fields of the Western World ; 1845 found him at the age of 18 in Pittsburgh, Penn., engaged as a groceryman's clerk, with the princely (?) income of $3 per month and board. Several seasons of faithful labor followed, quite profitable to his employer, but yielding little improvement to his own condition. About 1850, he saw a desirable opening to start a grocery store, but his entire capital of aggregated savings amounted to just $29. His industry, courtesy and integrity had secured him friends and credit. Business prospered, and his energy and frugality enabled him soon to seek a wider field, and he established himself at No. 15 Dia- mond, where he carried on business eleven years. Careful forethought and rare business qualifications have enabled him to pursue an uninterrupted course of prosperity, notwithstanding panics, fires and the vary- ing tides of commercial life. Since April, 1871, he has occupied his own palatial store, No. 18 Diamond Square, Pittsburgh, Penn. It is the largest grocery store in the city, and does an immense retail trade, besides an increasing wholesale business. For elegance and convenience, the " Palace Store " is described as unsurpassed in the West. As a specimen of the sales, their tea trade alone exceeds fifty thousand pounds, mainly at retail. The pay-roll of employes of this store exceeds $1,000 per month. The trade of the firm of William Haslage & Co. includes every department of the grocery business. His home is on Spring Hill, Allegheny, where he has a grapery of 12,000 vines. His business qualifications have made hin a valued director in several corporations ; his protracted devotion to business affected his health as early as 1870. Serious disease, mainly diabetes, totally unfitted him for business, and for nearly three years his sufferings were so intense that death would have been welcome relief; eminent physicians declared the uselessness of ordinary medicines, and advised the use of mineral waters. His attention was called to a widely advertised spring in Waukesha, and as a forlorn hope he was induced to test its efficacy. Not ex- pecting to return alive, he made his will before leaving Pittsburgh ; on arriving at Waukesha, June, 1879, he drank the water of the spring referred to for two weeks without receiving any marked benefit. Then, on advice of a resident physician, he began drinking the water of the Silurian Spring, and was immediately blessed with a change for the better. The quenchless thirst of the previous years speedily vanished, and in two months there was a complete restoration to a healthy condition. The relief being so immediate, and the cure so perfect and permanent, he determined to own the curative spring. Having secured it by a large investment, and having expended many thousands of dollars in establishing a hygienic institu- tion, and in rendering the spacious grounds more attractive, he nevertheless invites all humanity to come and partake of the water of Silurian, without limitation, and "without money and without price," at the spring. With the co-operation of his partner, Mr. Anderson, he intends to make its merits known throughout the land. His family are at Waukesha. The sales of Silurian water are rapidly increasing, and already extend throughout both hemispheres.
W. S. HAWKINS was born in the town of Fairfax, Franklin Co. (now Lamoille Co.), Vt., Jan. 5, 1808 ; lived in Vermont, and a little while in Plattsburg, N. Y. (perhaps two or three years in the latter place before he was 8 years of age) ; balance of the time in Vermont, until he came to Wisconsin, July 15, 1846. Mr. Hawkins came to Waukesha on that day with his family; he commenced the practice of law immediately, and has continued practice ever since ; he has been Clerk of the Board of Supervisors three years, County Treasurer afterward for two years, and Justice of the Peace several terms. Mr. Hawkins was married in the town of Richmond, Chittenden Co., Vt., Jan. 5, 1830, to Mary M. Jackson. She was born in the town of Richmond Dec. 20, 1797. They have had two children-Mary Elizabeth, married B. L. Lyman, and died in Montana ; Juliette Amelia, died in Richmond, Vt., before Mr. H. came
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West-her age was 5 years. Mr. Hawkins is a member of the A., F. & A. M .; had the honor of starting the lodge and chapter ; Secretary of Blue Lodge a great many years; he is now Chapter Secretary, and has been since its organization.
HON. CHARLES S. HAWLEY was born in Amherst, Mass., Dec. 25. 1813. Moved to the town of Floyd, Oneida Co., N. Y .; lived there until 1835, then moved to the town of Berlin, Chenango Co., N. Y. Remained there and engaged in the mercantile business until the spring of 1845, when he came to Waukesha and engaged in farming and building for about three years then engaged in mercantile business, which he continued most of the time until July, 1865, when he finally sold out. After closing up his mercantile affairs two or three years, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and has been re-elected and served every year since; has been Assessor of the village and town since the spring of 1872; Town Clerk one term, as early as 1848-49. At the time of the organization of the village, he was one of the Trustees and was afterward President ; he was also Street Commissioner. In 1856-57-58, he was a member of the General Assembly of the State. In 1848, he was candidate for Sheriff, but was defeated. In 1851, he was again candidate and defeated, but ran both times far ahead of his ticket. Mr. Hawley was married in the town of Rome, N. Y, in February, 1832, to Chloe Hibbard. She was born in Rome; died in Waukesha Oct. 6, 1875, leaving two children-Susan E., now Mrs. J. B. Taft, of Racine, Wis .; Arba B., now a resident of the town of Bloomer, Chippewa Co., Wis. They lost one son, who died in Waukesha in April, 1864. Mr. Hawley was married the second time in Waukesha, Oct. 29, 1877, to Mrs. Kate M. Parcell, who was born near Newark, N. J. Mr. Hawley is a member of the Congregational Church, and one of the charter members of the Sons of Temperance.
THOMAS HAYNES was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, Nov. 9, 1817; came. to Milwaukee from England, May 18, 1863; remained there one year, and removed to Waukesha, dealing in general farm produce, feed etc., since coming here. He was married in England, May 3, 1848, to Hannah Kendrick Lester. Three children by this marriage-Thomas Lester, born March 29, 1849; William Henry, born Dec. 2, 1851, Hannah Lester, born Jan. 17, 1855; all born in England. Mr. Haynes present wife was Henrietta Gordon Harper-married at Dudley, Staffordshire, England, June 18, 1862. They have six children, all of whom were born in America, and as follows Frederick Robert, Sept. 21, 1864; Alexander Gordon, March 29, 1866; Henrietta, Sept. 16, 1867 ; Charles Lester, Sept. 14, 1868; Jennie Meredith, Sept. 4, 1870, and George Albert, Nov. 21, 1877. Mr. Haynes has been a member of the Waukesha Village Board of Trustees.
DR. A. HAWLEY HEATH, of New York City, Medical Director of the Asahel Mineral Spring of Waukesha (see description of the spring in the general history of Waukesha). Dr. Heath is a native of Herkimer Co., N. Y., and is a descendant of eminent Revolutionary patriots. His grand- mother was first cousin of the brave old Gen. Herkimer, who lost his life at the battle of Oriskany. His mother is own cousin of ex-United States Treasurer Spinner. His first cousin, the late Maj. Gen. Herman H. Heath, was Buchanan Postmaster at Dubuque, Iowa, when the South seceded, and he immedi- ately raised a company of cavalry, and entered the Union army. He was wounded in a number of battles, and steadily promoted to be Major General of volunteers. One of his sons was killed by his side in battle. His brother, Dr. Allen S. Heath, joined Col. Corcoran's regiment as Surgeon, and was subsequently made Gen. King's Brigade Surgeon. Dr. A. Hawley Heath has made chronic diseases his specialty in New York City since 1849, and is the only physician in that city who has thoroughly established the Waukesha Spring water in their practice as a special branch. He purchased and introduced the Asahel. Mineral Spring, as such, in April, 1875, and has a large number of letters of most wonderful cures.
A. D. HENDRICKSON was horn near Rome, N. Y., Nov. 24, 1817. When not more than 2 years of age, his parents removed to Oswego Co., town of Richland, near Pulaski; lived there until his mother's death, December, 1826; soon after she died, he went to live with a farmer in Jefferson Co., N. Y. ; remained there two years ; then returned to the town of Richland and worked for a brother-in-law until he was 21 years of age; he then entered Rensselaer Academy, at Mexicoville, Oswego Co., N. Y .; he was there nearly four years, and then went to Fulton, Oswego Co., as teacher, in what is now known as Falley Seminary ; was two years there, and then became Principal of Red Creek Union Academy, at Red Creek, Cayuga Co., N. Y .; he was there three years in that position, and was for six years Principal of the public schools in Weedsport, N. Y. ;. he then spent two years in a chemical laboratory in New York City ; one and a half years at Harlem, N. Y., as teacher in No. 1 of the public schools of that place. After another year, spent as Principal of the Weedsport school, he came West to Whitewater, Walworth Co., Wis., arriving in April, 1855 ; he engaged in farming there for four years, superintended his farm, and taught in the Whitewater public schools, as Principal, three years of this time. Mr. Hendrickson then
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moved to Eagle, this county, and taught the Eagle Summit school two and a half years; he was then appointed County Superintendent of Schools ; he filled the unexpired term of Capt. Enos, and was re- elected, and served in all over three years; he resigned that position in October, 1865, to accept the position of Superintendent of the Reform School, at Waukesha; he continued in that capacity for eleven years and three months, his wife was matron of the institution for the same period, and his two daughters taught in the school connected with the institution. Mr. Hendrickson resided in Janesville, Wis., from April, 1877, to October, 1879; and at that time he took charge of the Industrial School at Waukesha, until the recovery ot Mr. Steep, a few months later ; since which time he has been Assistant Superintedant of the institution. Mr. Hendrickson's father and mother were William and Keziah Drake Hendrickson. He was married in Mexicoville, Oswego, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1841, to Olive Densmore; she was born in Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y .; she died Ang. 8, 1878, leaving three children-Clesson A., a resident of Harvard, Clay Co., Neb. ; M. Louisa, now Mrs. Herbert Lawrence, of Janesville, and Jennie K. Clesson. A. Hendrickson served three years in Co. C, 24th W. V. I., and participated in all the battles his regi- ment was engaged in. Mr. Hendrickson, Sr., has been a member of the M. E. Church since he was 14 . years of age. During the three years that he was teaching, and conducting his farm at Whitewater, he filled the pulpit of the M. E. Church of that place; and while there received deacon's orders, which he still holds. He also conducted the religious . services of the Sabbath, in the reform school, for several years. Before entering Falley Seminary, at Fulton, N. Y., he, and his wife, started a select school, and afterward, in about six months, he consolidated his school with the young ladies' seminary, which resulted in the formation and organization of Falley Seminary, in about one year, Mr. Hendrickson, being prac- tically the founder of that institution. Mr. H. represented Wisconsin as delegate to the Prison and Re- form Congress, which met at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1870; he also represented Wisconsin in the International Penitentiary Congress, held in the city of London, England, July 3, 1872.
HEPP & BREHM, general store on Broadway. The senior partner, William Hepp, was born Jan. 29, 1848, in New Berlin, Waukesha Co., Wis .; early life was on farm ; learned mercantile busi- ness in Milwaukee ; was married, Dec. 15, 1875, to Miss Myrta Moore, daughter of Josiah Moore, a prom- inent farmer in the township of Waukesha; has one child, William Charles, born in September, 1876; residence is on East St .; he belongs to no society. Mr. Brehm-the junior partner, is of German par- entage-is unmarried ; was several years book-keeper for a large firm in Milwaukee; he is a Catholic. The firm established their present business in February, 1880, and are popular and prosperous.
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