The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources; an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages etc, Part 133

Author: Western Historical Co., pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1050

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went again to Waukesha, but failed to find employment at his trade, so went to grading on the M. & M. R. R., and in February, 1851, got a position in the railroad shops at Waukesha, where he remained till the shops were removed to Milwaukee ; going to Chicago in 1853, he found work for three or four months, with Gates & McKnight, after which he returned to Waukesha, and worked for Case & Pulling, at building and ironing cars for the M. & M. R. R. Co. ; in the winter of 1853-54, he went to Lake Five, and started a shop for himself, which he continued till the spring of 1859; he then started for Pike's Peak, and got as far as Plattsmouth, when he became discouraged, and returned to Genesee, Wis., where he bought a blacksmith and wagon shop, and carried on the business, under the firm of Erredge & West, till 1862, when he joined the Quartermaster's Department, Army of the Potomae, and remained in the South till the battle of the Wilderness ; were then ordered back to Alexandria, Va. ; then, two weeks later, to White House Landing ; was discharged at City Point, Va., in 1864. He then returned to Genesee, Wis., but soon re-engaged with the government, and was sent to Nashville, Tenn., in 1865, but on account of sickness, was soon forced home again. He engaged in merchandising, till the spring of 1866, when, May 15, he started for Montana Territory ; he joined Capt. Fisk at St. Paul, went thence with a team of six cows and one yoke of oxen, via Fort Benton to Helena City, Montana, where they arrived in October, making the trip in 100 days. He, with two others, bought a claim at "Dry Gulch," and engaged in mining, but met with no success till the winter of 1867, when, with Mr. Foroute, he bought a claim at "Tueker Gulch," where they realized $100 per day, for a time. Refusing $10,000 for their claim, they worked it about a year, and left it without a penny. He then worked at his trade at Helena City, till 1869, when he came again to Waukesha, Wis. In October, 1869, he went to Omaha, Neb., bought a third interest in a railroad hotel, which burned in May, 1870, leaving him again penniless. After a visit to Waukesha, he then went to Sun River, Montana, where he worked at his trade till July, 1873, when he received an injury from a kick of a horse, and returned to Ft. Benton; there he, with six others, bought a small steamer, and sailed down the Missouri River to Bismark, Neb., then the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad ; there he took the train for St. Paul; thence down the river to St. Louis, Mo. ; thence to Oconomowoc, and engaged with I. Rowell & Sons in the foundry, till June, 1876, when he became pro- prietor of his present shop. He was married, Nov. 3, 1875, to Hannah M., daughter of H. G. Jones, of this eity ; they have one daughter, Eliza; he has one son, George H., by a former marriage. Mr. Erredge has been a member of the masonic fraternity for 20 years; he is now Master of the Ellsworth Lodge, No. 133.

JOHN EVENSON, molder for I. Rowell & Sons, was born in Norway, July 27, 1833 ; he begin the trade of a molder when 18 years old, and continued it there till 1862, when he came to America and located at Oconomowoc, and has worked at his trade here since; he began work for I. Rowell & Sons in 1868. He was married in Norway in 1862, to Miss Anna Sunderson, who died at Ocon- omowoc, Wis., May 7, 1876, leaving four children-Inger, Sophia, Eliza and Eddie. Mr. Evenson is a member of the Scandinavian Norwegian Church.

JOHN FALLON, blacksmith ; was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, May 8, 1820; when 17 years old, he began the blacksmith trade with his father, Edmund Fallon, and continued it there for abont five years ; he emigrated to America in 1843, and followed his trade at Boston, Mass., till 1850, whence he came to Waukesha, Wis., and carried on his trade there twenty years ; in November, 1870, he removed to Oconomowoc, and has since continued his trade here. Mr. Fallon has held the office of County Treasurer one term ; was President of the Village Board one term, and several terms a member of that body ; has also been a member of the City Council, and is now a member of the County Board of Super- visors, from the First Ward of the city of Oconomowoc ; he has held other minor offices in the city. He was married at Waukesha, Wis., in 1853, to Miss Catherine Coyle, a native of Cranston, R. I .; their chil- dren are-Winifred, now Mrs. John Williams, and lives at Piperville, Wis .; Mary J. and Nellie A., now teachers in the Oconomowoc public schools ; Elizabeth, Edmund, Esther, Gerald, Malachi and Peter J. Mr. Fallon and family are members of the Catholic Church.

HORACE H. FAY, baggage master; son of Waterman B. and Ruth M. Fay ; was born in the town of Conway, Berkshire Co., Mass., Dec. 6, 1835 ; when a mere babe, his parents removed with him to Dexter, Livingston Co., Mich., whence, in 1849, they came to Oconomowoc, loeating in the village ; he began elerking for his uncle,G. W. Fay, in dry goods store, and remained with him three or four years, after which he was employed as toll-gate keeper at Hartland till 1854. At the grading of the railroad from Milwaukee to Oconomowoc, he was employed by Fay & Collins on the work for one summer ; then worked at farming for his uncle some time. In 1859, he began farming in the town of Ixonia, Jef- ferson Co., which he continued till 1868, when he removed to the village of Oconomowoc, where, in 1872, he became employed as baggage master for the C., M. &. St. P. R. R. Co. He was married Nov. 6,

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1859, to Mrs. Eunice A., widow of V. B. Campbell and daughter of Moses and Eleanor Kittle, a native of Wyoming Co., N. Y. Born in 1838 and came to Wisconsin with parents in 1849. Their children are George O., born Aug. 28, 1860, now married and lives in city of Oconomowoc ; Charles, born Dec. 9, 1862 ; Lizzie A., born Aug. 4, 1868, Katie, born April 21, 1871 ; Harry, born Feb. 8, 1878. Mr. Fay is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

WATERMAN B. FAY (deceased) was the son of Putnam and Elizabeth Fay, and was born at Brighton, Mass., Sept. 4, 1809, and died June 4, 1879, making his age 69 years and 9 months; his early years were spent in the quiet but laborious duties of farm life ; his early training was such as devel. oped those manly traits of character for which he was so dearly beloved by those who deeply mourn his loss, and which won for him the high regard of all who knew him ; he was one of the earliest settlers of this western clime, having left his eastern home in 1835 to seek his fortune, with his faithful companion, in this then wilderness world ; he first located in Michigan, at Dexter, Livingston Co .; there he remained until the fall of 1849, when he moved to this place; he resided in the village until the following June, when he moved on to the farm now occupied by Mr. Gibbs, southwest of this city ; there he remained for a term of years, and then moved into and took charge of the toll house connected with the plank road; after residing there a number of years, he went to the Campbell farm at the foot of the lake; next he removed into the village, where he was mail messenger for thirteen years and never missed but one trip to the train till disease confined him to his bed. He was married Aug. 28, 1833, to Ruth M., daughter of Levi and Phylinda ( Warren) Parsons, of Brighton, Mass .; by whom he had four children-Horace H., now in Oconomo- woc, George now in Nevada ; Martha W., born May 4, 1840, died May 16, 1840, Mary E., born January 4, 1844, died January 8, 1844. His family consisted of a devoted wife, who was faithful in the highest degree to the very last, and two sons, one of whom fills the position of freight agent at our depot, while the other has sought his fortune in Nevada. Mr. Fay united with the Congregational Church of this city May 1, 1864; in the last month of his life, he was led to feel and acknowledge his shortcomings and remissness in duty, and to rejoice that he was brought " back to his Father's house, " there to receive anew the righteous garb, to receive the ring of the Father's approval, and to partake of the rich repast prepared for every returning prodigal; he was a great, yet ever-patient sufferer, and all who saw him in his last days will witness to the fact that he exemplified the spirit of the religion he possessed in a wonderful manner. Not a murmur escaped his lips, but his common expression was, " All is well." The last expression his Pastor heard him make was, " Bless the Lord." We laid his emaciated form on yonder hillside, but long hours before the angels had borne his weary spirit to the beautiful land beyond. "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his."

GEORGE W. FAY was born in Brighton, Middlesex Co., Mass., July 9, 1811; came from Boston to Milwaukee, where he was employed in the mercantile business from 1842 to 1844; then went to Oconomowoc in July, 1844, and engaged in general merchandising and farming; he was with W. W. Collins six years ; then Mr. Fay went on a farm for one and one-half years ; then he returned to Ocono- monoc ; twenty-three years ago, he purchased the La Belle House; conducted the house nine years ; he has not been engaged in active business for several years ; at the present time he is one of the Aldermen representing the Second Ward in the City Council; has held the position at other times; Mr. Fay broke the first ground in the place; the first brick building, where Draper Hall is now located, was erected and owned by Mr. Fay. He was married in Woburn, Mass., June 17, 1834, to Abby P. Tufts, a native of Medford, Mass. She died Sept. 22, 1841, leaving two children-George P., born July 19, 1836, now proprietor of a hotel at Bushnell, Ill .; Abby L. P., born Aug. 29, 1841, now Mrs.E. B. Parsons, of Mil- waukee. Mr. Fay was married a second time to Abby S. Collins, Aug. 10, 1843 ; she died June 4, 1846. and left no children. The present wife of Mr. Fay was Rebecca A. Parsons ; they were married Sept. 30, 1847, at Monroe, Wis; Mrs. Parsons was born in Bangor, Me; they have two children -- William B., born Sept. 19, 1849 (proprietor of a livery establishment in Oconomonoc), and Mary E., born Sept. 14, 1854 ; both were born opposite the place where Draper Hall now stands.

JOHN FERRY, farmer, Sec. 23 ; P. O. Oconomowoc, was a native of the town of Amherst, Hampshire Co., Mass. He is the son of Aaron and Elizabeth Ferry, born in 1815; when he was 17 years old his parents removed to Portage Co., Ohio, where he lived on a farm for six years. He was married there in June, 1837 to Miss Betsey, a daughter of Henry and Susan Convers, a native of Vermont, but removed to Ohio in 1832 ; in October, 1839, they started for Wisconsin, and landed in Milwaukee the 20th of that month, and reached the village of Oconomowoc in December, where they settled ; five years later they removed to a farm on the southeast quarter of Sec. 28, where they made their home till March, 1872. He was then appointed Superintendent of the State experimental farm at Madison, for four

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years ; after which they lived at Watertown, Wis., till the fall of 1879, when they returned to the town of Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co., and located on Sec. 23 ; they have six children : Harriet, born in Ohio in April. 1839, now the wife of S. E. Whitney, and lives in California ; Charles H., born in the village of Oconomowoc Jan. 16, 1841, the first white child born in the village ; he now lives in Watertown, Wis. : Ann, born at Oconomowoc Oct. 31, 1842; William D., born at Oconomowoc December 3, 1844, now lives in the village; Edgar J., born July 11, 1846, now a jeweler at Postville, Iowa; John G., born in April, 1854, now a jeweler at Columbus, Wis. Mr. Ferry's family is connected with the Congregational Church.

JAMES FERGUSON, dealer in ladies' furnishing goods, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850 ; his parents, James and Esther Ferguson, both died when he was quite young, his father when he was 2 years old, and his mother when he was 6. Mr. Ferguson came to Oconomowoc in 1865, and in 1871 he began the jewelry trade in Milwaukee, which he followed for two years; returning to Ocono- mowoc in 1873, he followed farming for seven years, and in February 1880, sold his farm and began dealing in ladies' furnishing goods. He was married in 1871 to Miss Elizabeth Goetz, a native of Germany ; their children are Daisie, James, Gussie and Luln.

JOHN FORRA, farmer, Secs. 25 and 26 ; P. O. Oconomowoc ; was born in Norway in 1823 ; his mother died when he was quite young; his father, having saved a wealthy gentleman from drown- ing, afterward, as a reward, received a pension from him for life. Our subject made his home with his father at Brasper, till 1843, when he sailed for America and located in the town of Merton, Waukesha Co., Wis., working for the farmers for seven years ; he then bought a farm of thirty acres in Sec. 26, in the town of Oconomowoc, and now owns, in addition to the above, 150 acres in Sec. 25 and 35 of the same town. He was married in 1851 to Eliza Martina Hanstatter, a native of Norway. He came to Wiscon- sin in 1849. They have one daughter, Josephine, now the wife of William Peterson, who lives with her parents.

PETER FORSYTH was born in Norway in 1821, and lived with his father, Nelson Forsyth, on a farm till 1843, when he came to America ; landing in New York city, July, 1843 ; he came in the following August to Oconomowoc, and lived on farm in the town of Summit near the village of Ocono- mowoc, a short time ; then removed to the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., and lived on a farm of 112 acres on Sec. 1, till the autumn of 1876, when he removed again to Oconomowoc, where he has since resided. He was married in 1847 to Miss Olive Lee, a native of Norway, but came to New York in 1839, and to Waukesha Co., Wis., in spring of 1844; their children are Nicholas, now on the farm in Ixonia; Olaf, now a resident of Pierce Co., Wis., Anton, in Pierce Co. John, deceased ; Melia and Herman at home. They are members of the Lutheran Church.

GEORGE W. FULMER, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Oconomowoc ; was born in Oswego Co., N. Y., 1823; at the age of 20 years, he began the cooper's trade in his native county, which he continued until 1845 ; he then emigrated to Wisconsin and entered 40 acres of land on Sec. 19, Oconomowoc Town. He built a cooper shop on his farm and worked at his trade for the next twenty years ; since that time he has been engaged in farming and brick-making. He was married in 1843, to Betsey, the daughter of William and Caroline Martin, a native of Canada; the children of this union are Richard, now at home ; Mary; now the wife of Edward Morgan, lives in the town of Oconomowoc; Adelia, the wife of M. Thompson, lives in Oconomowoc; Washington, resides in town of Oconomowoc; Thomas, in the town of Merton, and Charles, at home. When Mr. Fulmer came in, he had to open the road from his house to Oconomowoc.

THOMAS C. FULMER, carpenter and joiner, was born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., in 1826; when 16 years old, he began the carpenter and joiner's trade, and followed it in his native county till 1854, when he removed his parents to Waukesha Co., Wis., and located them at the foot of La Belle Lake, in the town of Oconomowoc; in the following year, he moved his own family from Cayuga Co., N. Y., to Wisconsin, and settled in the village of Oconomowoc, where he has since continued his trade, and has been connected with the erection of some of the most prominent buildings of the city, among them two stores for John Metcalf, one for E. D. Parsons, a residence for Dr. Miller, Lardner and others. He was married in 1848, to Miss Cynthia W. daughter of R. and Almira Dutcher, a native of Oswego Co., N. Y .; their children are George G., now a resident of the town of Oconomowoc ; Ralph V., now in Walnut, Crawford Co., Kan. ; Grave G., now at Sheboygan, Wis., Wyman F., at Oshkosh; Grant S., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Fulmer attend the Congregational Chuoch.

CARL S. GASMANN, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Mapleton ; was born in Norway in 1819, and emigrated to America in 1843 with his parents, Hans and Christina (Peterson) Gasman ; they located at Pine Lake, Waukesha Co., though they purchased land in the town of Ashippun, Dodge Co.,

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where his father died in 1857; his mother at his home in the town of Oconomowoc in 1876. Carl S. made his home with his father a year after the settlement in Dodge Co., then began working for farmers and others, teaming, etc., etc., till 1849, when he crossed the plains to California and there spent eight Wis., to which they cut their way through the woods from Stove Bank, removed in the spring of 1844, months at mining ; returning then to Wisconsin, he located on a farm in Sec. 1, town of Oconomo- woc, Waukesha Co., part of which his father had entered in 1844 or '45. This he has since made his home, and now has 140 acres on Sec. 1 and 2. Mr. Gasmann has been a member of the Town Board several terms. He was married May 4, 1855, to Mary C., daughter of Abraham and Inger Martinson, a native of Norway, born in October, 1833, and came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1845 ; their children are, Henry, now in Dakota Co., Minn. ; Alfred, now a shoemaker at Stone Bank, Waukesha Co. ; Charles, John and Annie at home. Mr. Gasmann's family is connected with the Episcopal Church.

HERMAN GRULKE, farmer, Secs. 16 and 17 ; P. O. Oconomowoc ; was born in Prussia, Jan. 19, 1815 ; came to America in 1862, and settled in the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., Wis .; the following year, he moved to the town of Oconomowoc. He now owns where he is living, 118 acres. He was married in 1845, to Wilhelmina Grasch, a native of Prussia. Their children are Eliza, Albert, Amelia, Bernhard and Mena. They are members of the Lutheran Church.

JOHN GRUETT, farmer, Sec. 20 ; P. O. Oconomowoc ; was born in Prussia in 1839; was occupied in farming in his native land until 1864, when he emigrated to America, going to Waterloo, Jefferson County, where he stayed until the spring of 1866. He then returned to Prussia, and after a 14-months' stay, came back to Wisconsin, and in the fall of 1869 bought the farm of 70 acres where he now lives. He was married, Nov. 3, 1869, to Albertina Buske, a native of Prussia, who came to Wiscon- sin in 1856. They have two sons, Robert and Charles.

ABNER B. HALL was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1810 ; at the age of 15 years, he began the tailor's trade, which he followed in Oneida County till 1833; removing then to Wyoming Co., N. Y., he continued it there for ten years. He emigrated to Wisconsin in 1843, and located at Oconomowoc, where he worked at his trade for three years. In 1846, he settled on a farm in the Town of Summit, where he followed agriculture and stock raising till 1863; when he returned to the village of Oconomo- woc and has been engaged in various kinds of business. Mr. Hall was Street Commissioner for eight years ; a member of City Council from Second Ward one term. He wasmarried April 7, 1831, to Miss Emily, a daughter of Hezekiah B. Round, of Newport, Herkimer Co., N. Y., but a native of Massachusetts, born in 1809. Their children are Hayden H., who served three years as a soldier during the rebellion ; was killed by the bursting of a steam boiler at Burnet, Burnet Co., Texas, Jan. 1, 1880; James J., who enlisted in Company C, 28th W. V. I., in 1862, and served with his regiment in all its principal battles and move- ments till the close of the war ; he is now a resident of this city.

WILLIAM HAMLER was born near Tallahassee, Fla., Nov. 11, 1846; lived there until he was 6 years of age; was then sent to New York; here he attended school until his 14th year, when his mother died ; then his father sent him to the military school on Governor's Island for three years ; in January, 1861, he left school and went to Augusta, Me., then to his old home, and from there to New Orleans, getting there a short time before the first proclamation of President Lincoln ; then, on account of the danger surrounding him, he went to Washington, and for a time, worked in the Government Printing Office, having begun that trade while at Governor's Island ; during the next four years, he traveled far and near, working through the Eastern States; came to Chicago in 1876, and engaged on the Inter Ocean ; from there he went to Milwaukee in 1877, and after working on various papers in the State, finally anchored where he now is-foreman of the Oconomowoc Free Press.

CHARLES M. HARTWELL, farmer, was born in New Hampshire, in 1820. His parents, Simon and Thusta ( Williams) Hartwell, were natives of New York; they removed in the spring of 1825, in a wagon, to Cleveland, Ohio, it then being a small village of log houses. Located on a farm near there, he devoted his time to agriculture and dairying till 1844. He then spent five months in traveling with Judge Hayward, over the Alleghany Mountains, after which he returned to his home at Cleveland, and remained on the faim for awhile. He-then began clerking in a paper-hanging store, where he remained till 1846, when he went to Cincinnati and was engaged in bottling and selling mineral water for two years. Coming to Oconomowoc to visit a sister in 1848, he spent five months in this county, being favorably impressed with the advantages of the new country. Returning to Cincinnati in January, 1849, he engaged extensively in the mineral water trade till 1856, when he came to Milwaukee, and there followed painting and paper-hanging till 1858 ; he then came to Oconomowoc and began dealing in boots and shoes, which he continued till May, 1872, and in the following autumn was elected Sheriff of

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Waukesha County. His term expiring in January, 1875, he returned to Oconomowoc, and has since engaged in farming. He was elected Chairman of the Town Board in April, 1880, and has held several minor offices in the town and city. He was married November 3, 1850, to Miss Henrietta J., a daughter of Andrew and Jane (Tucker) Anderson, a native of Lawrenceburg, Ind., her father, of New Jersey, and died at Lawrenceburg, Jan. 1, 1848 ; her mother of New York City, and after the death of her father married Mr. Robert Hobbens, and lives in Pennsylvania. Their children are Charles A., now of Rock Island, Ill. Ida J., now the wife of E. H. Berry, and lives at Rock Island, Ill. Naomi Emma, deceased; May, deceased; Ella B .; Jennie, deceased ; Mabel. Mr. Hartwell's family attend the Methodist Church.

DAVID HASTINGS was born in Hampshire Co., Mass., Sept. 18, 1812; and is the son of Lucins and Olive (Smith) Hastings. He hegan the cabinet-maker's trade at the age of 15 years, and, after working at that for two years, he took the shoemaker's trade, which he continned most of the time till 1842. He was married Brattleboro, Vt., July 24, 1833, to Miss Mary Smith Sprague, daughter of Oliver and . Martha Sprague nee Rogers, a native of Easthampton, Hampshire Co., Mass., born in 1808. Mr. Hastings came with his brother to Wisconsin in Nov., 1842, and located on a farm on Sec. 32, where his wife and family joined him in June following ; he built his present home in 1851, for a tavern and kept it as a public house for seven years ; after which he devoted his attention wholly to farming till 1868. He has since lived a more retired life. They have had eight children, as follows : Olive, who died in Deer- field, Mass .; Lucius, now at Plymonth, Iowa; Martha, now the widow of the late Thomas A. Jones, deceased. she lives at Greenville, Mich .; William, who enlisted in Company E, 16th W. V. I, died at Shiloh, April 8, 1862 ; Henry C., enlisted in Company E, 16th W. V. I., died at Shiloh April 29, 1862 ; Sarah E., now the wife of F. W. Weber of this city ; Eliza, deceased ; Horace, now in Plymouth Co., Iowa.

HORACE HASTINGS, retired, was born in Amherst, Hampshire Co., Mass., in 1814 ; his father dying when he was young, he removed with his grandfather at the age of 14 years to Franklin Co., Mass .. where he spent most of his time at farming till 1843, when he came to Oconomowoc, but soon located on a farm on Sec. 25, in the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., Wis., which was his home till 1869, when he removed to the village of Oconomowoc, but continued to manage his farm till 1877, when he disposed of it. Having lost his sight in 1852, he has amused himself much of the time by making puzzles and carving various kinds of implements out of wood that are truly curiosities. He was married in 1839 to Miss Sarah B., daughter of Medad and Ruth Squires, a native of Franklin Co., Mass .; born 1816 Mr. and Mrs. Hastings are members of the Congregational Church.

J. SMITH HASTINGS. The name Hastings is of an illustrions family in history. The race to which it applies is of Danish origin. In the early days of the British Kingdom the Danes made frequent incursions upon that part of England and Scotland bordering upon the North Sea. It was in one of these incursions that Hastings, a Danish chief, made himself formidable to Alfred the Great, by leading a large body of men upon the coast. He took possession of a portion of Sussex, and the castle and seaport were held by his family when William the Conqueror "landed in England, and they held the crown for many generations." The grandfather of our subject was born in England May 20, 1746, and came to America prior to, and was married in, 1769, to Hannah Billings, of Amherst, Mass. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and afterward located at Amherst. This is the origin of the Hastings family in America. His parents, Lucins and Olive Smith Hastings, located in the town of Amherst, Hampshire Co., Mass., and raised a family of six children-four sons and two daughters. The daughters now live in Massachusetts- Sarah S., in South Deerfield, and Sybil W., in Hadley, Mass. Our subject was born in Amherst, Hamp- shire Co., Mass., Sept. 18, 1818, and came with his brother David to Wisconsin in November, 1842. His brothers Horace and Hamilton came in the following June. He located on a farm on Sec. 30, town of Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, where he made his home for two years; then removed to the town of Ixonia, Jefferson County, and engaged in cutting heavy timber for awhile. He was Assessor of the towns of Concord and Ixonia before their separation, and was one of the Board at the time of their divisions. He, with his brother Hamilton, who lived on an adjoining farm, built the Maple Grove House on the plank road from Milwaukee to Watertown in 1850, and two years later he bought his brother's interest and ran the house alone for awhile. Trading the hotel at Maple Grove for property in Watertown to Mr. John Gibbs, he returned to Massachusetts for the winter, but came again to Wisconsin in the following spring. He began merchandising at Rock River, Rock County, and Pipersville, Jefferson County, which he continued for six years. He then engaged in the manufacture of saleratus till 1863, when he sold out and engaged in agriculture in Rock County till 1867, when he returned to Oconomowoc, and has since lived a more retired life. He was married at Ashfield, Franklin County, Mass., June 26, 1839, to Miss

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The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources; an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages etc, Part 133

Author: Western Historical Co., pub Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 1050

Author: Western Historical Co., pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1050