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 139

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

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ISAAC DENTON, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O., Oconomowoc ; was born in Erie Co., Ohio, in 1833; he emigrated, with his parents, Jonas M. and Maria (Furman) Denton, to Wisconsin in 1850, spending the winter in Elkhorn, Walworth Co .; in the spring of 1851, they settled on a farm in the town of Con- cord, Jefferson Co., Wis .; he made that his home most of the time till 1862, when, in the fall of that year, he enlisted in Co. E, 28th Wis. V. I., and was with his regiment in the army of the West, till mus- tered out at Brownsville, Texas, in September, 1865 ; he then returned to his father's home, in Concord, and spent five years, at which time he purchased the homestead, his .father then removing to Jefferson. In 1877, he disposed of the above farm and bought his present property, in Sec. 10, in the town of Sum- mit, Waukesha Co. He was married in 1867, to Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Clarissa Neff, of Waterville, Wis .; their children are Charles and Gertrude.

MILES N. DODGE, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Oconomowoc; is a native of Delaware Co., N. Y. ; bot in 1813; his father, William Dodge, in Hudson ; his mother, Abigail Burgin, was of the old New England stock, born in Connecticut. At the age of 19, Miles N. left his father's home, in Dela- ware, and went to Genesee Co., where he followed farming till 1846; April 30 of that year, he arrived in . he town of Summit, Waukesha Co., as an emigrant to Wisconsin ; he with his brother then bought a claim of 220 acres on Secs. 2 and 11 of that town, which they afterward divided, he taking 80 acres on Scc. 11 and 40 acres on Sec. 2, which has since been his home. Mr. Dodge has been a member of the Town Board for three terms. He was married in Genesee Co., N. Y., in 1840, to Emily K., daughter of Elisha and Phila ( Billings) Holdridge, a native of Herkimer Co., N. Y .; their children are Marshall, now at Canby, Minn .; Eugene H., now in La-qui-parle Co., Minn .; Helen P., at home, and George A., deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Dodge are connected with the Congregational Church.

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REV. JOHN H. EGAR, D. D., professor of Ecclesiastical History, Nashotah House, was born in Cambridgeshire, Eng., in 1832 ; came with his parents to America in 1846, and to Milwaukee in the spring of 1847 ; he was there employed in the Sentinel and Wisconsin offices till 1852, when he entered the Nashotah House as a student of theology, and graduated from the same in 1856; he was subse- quently rector of the church at Prairie du Chien, Waukesha and Beloit, Wis., Galena, Ill., Leavenworth, Kan., and St. Peter's, Pittsburg; while rector of St. Peter's he published a book entitled " The Three Graces of the Holy Trinity," and has also written several small pamphlets, among them, "The Doctrine of the Trinity Defended ;" in January, 1872, he returned to Nashotah to accept the professorship of ecclesiastical history, in which position he has since been retained.

MARSHALL FAIRSERVICE, deceased ; born in Boston ; removed early in life to the State of New York, and settled near Rome, in Oneida Co., where he followed farming till 1837 ; he then emigrated to Wisconsin, and settled in the town of Summit, near the lower Nehmabin Lake, where he devoted his time to agricultural pursuits till the time of his death ; he was married to Mariba Fisk, a native of Massachusetts, and the fruits of this marriage were five daughters, namely : Frances, now Mrs. Leavett, and Harriet E., now Mrs. Parks, both of the town of Summit ; Agnes. now Mrs. Orson Reed, formerly of the same town ; Caroline, now Mrs. Albert Allen, of Delafield ; and Mary, now Mrs. Richard Lush, formerly of Summit.

CHARLES H. FLINTON, farmer, Secs. 4 and 5; P. O. Oconomowoc; was born in Lin- colnshire, Eng., io 1830, and came to Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1854, locating in the town of Summit ; he began working for farmers in this locality soon after his arrival, and made this town his home till 1863, when he removed to Colorado, and there followed farming till 1876, when he returned to Summit. He was married in 1860 to Harriet E., daughter of Richard and Jane Hardell, a native of Lincolnshire, Eog., but came with her parents to Summit in 1837.

MICHAEL GELSHER, farmer, Secs. 5 and 6 ; P. O. Oconomowoc ; was born in County Meath, Ireland, in 1820. When 21 years of age, he emigrated to America, and stopped in Sussex Co., N. J., where he worked in an iron blast-furnace for N. Brooks for eleven years; in the spring of 1851, he moved to the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., Wis., having been out there the year before and bought a farm of 40 acres ; he made his home there till 1873, when he sold his farm, which he had increased to 120 acres, and removed to the city of Oconomowoc ; three years later he purchased his present farm of 132 acres, situated on Secs. 5 and 6, in the town of Summit. He was married in 1846, to Mary Greene, the ceremony being performed on board the vessel during their voyage to America ; they adopted a dangh- ter, Catharine, who is now the wife of Henry Dougherty, who lives at Dubuque, Iowa.

REV. JOHN F. GIBBS, is a native of Otsego Co., N. Y .; his father, Daniel Gibbs, was born in the town of Litchfield, Conn., ahout 1767, and at the age of 16 (his family being broken up during the Revolutionary war) he went into Vermont; some years after, with others, he went thence to the Genesee country in New York, where he, with them, cleared up a farm near what was known as Waskey Flats, for one Seth Price, who afterward offered him 80 acres of land where the city of Roch- ester now stands, as payment for his services, but which he declined to accept ; he then went into Herki- mer Co., N. Y., where he afterward married Magdalena Lighthall, a lady of German descent ; they had a family of ten children, three of whom died when young; John F., the youngest, was born in Otsego Co., N. Y., May 10, 1820; he spent the first years of his life in Otsego, Genesee, and St. Lawrence Cos., and then located in the village of Theresa, Jefferson Co .; here he engaged in farming for a time; also owned and run a boat on the Erie canal from Buffalo to Albany, which he continued to do until 1848, when he engaged in merchandising there till 1852; closing out his business, he then removed to Wisconsin, and located on a farm in the town of Le Roy, Dodge Co., which was afterward his home till 1874. when he removed to his present farm on Sec. 5, town of Summit, part of which lies within the city limits of Oconomowoc. He united with the M. E Church in 1860; began at once the study and work of the ministry as an exhorter at Iron Ridge, Dodge Co .; was licensed in April, 1861, and continued the work, under the regular pastor, as local preacher; was ordained Deacon, October 1868; was ordained Elder at Whitewater, Wis., in October, 1873; continned his work in Dodge County till 1874, when he removed to Oconomowoc; he has sioce continned the work of holding services on alternate Sundays at Cohb Schoolhouse, Summit, Waukesha Co., Concord, Jefferson Co., and occasionally holding service, as supply, in Oconomowoc, having traveled over 18,000 miles, preaching a free gospel. He was married in Jefferson County, N. Y., to Mary Hawkins, a native of that county, who died in Dodge Co., Wis., Jan. 5, 1866, leaving four children-William F., at Hustisford, Dodge Co .; Mary A., now the wife of Alanson Bacon, and lives at Middleburgb, Neb .; Ellen M., now Mrs. Geo. W. Cowls,

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lives in Richardson Co., Neb .; Chloe E., now the wife of Allen A. Billings, now of Oconomowoc. The second marriage was on July 5, 1866, to Adelia M. Crossman, a native of Jefferson, N. Y., their chil- dren are George L., Jennie I. and John W., who are now at home.

A. GIFFORD GURNEY, farmer, Sec. 14: P. (). Delafield; was born in Duchess Co., N. Y., in 1809; his father, David Gurney, was also a native of that county, and followed farming for a livelihood. Our subject, A. G., spent his time at the same vocation till 1836, when he began business for himself, and followed teaching and farming till 1846; he then emigrated to Wisconsin and located on his present farm, where he now owns 80 acres. He was married in January, 1846, to Susan, a daughter of Judge Henry Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y .; they have had two children-Edwin L., deceased, and Jennie L , at home

ABRAM G. HARDELL, farmer and stock-raiser; Secs 33 and 34; P. O. Golden Lake ; was born in Yorkshire, Eng., in 1826; his parents, Richard and Jane Hardell, were natives of Lincoln- shire, Eng., and when their son, Abram G., was about 2 years old, they sailed for America; in the follow- ing year they removed to Utica, N. Y., and later still to Clinton of the same State; in 1836 they arrived at Milwaukee, and in 1837 settled in the town of Summit. Our subject made his home with his parents till his marriage, which occurred July 3, 1854, to Mary, a daughter of Robert and Mary Wilkinson, of the town of Mukwonago, Waukesha Co .; he has ever since continued to reside on the homestead, and he now owns a farm of about 500 acres in the same town Mr. H devotes much of his time to breeding short-horn cattle and Spanish Merino sheep. He has been member and Chairman of the Town Board, and has held other and minor offices in his town

W. J. HARDELL, farmer, Secs. 26 and 27; P. O. Summit; was born in Lincolnshire, Eng., and emigrated to America with his parents, Richard and Jane Hardell, when he was but 4 or 5 years old ; landing in New York, they stopped there nearly a year, where his father followed the busi- ness of a contractor and builder; later they removed to Clinton, N Y., whence, in 1836, they came to Wisconsin and landed in Milwaukee; here they remained till May, 1837, when the subject of this sketch, with a team, came by the way of Waukesha, then Prairieville, to the town of Summit, being the first wagon that came from Waukesha to Summit; his father having preceded him and made a claim to a section of land in sections numbered 28, 33 and 34, he joined him at the above-mentioned place, where they at ouce began to make preparation for the family, which arrived some weeks after ; during the first year they realized many of the hardships and privations of pioneer life, but, with that perseverance which characterizes the first settlers of this country, they managed to provide themselves with food enough till the soil could supply them with a crop. After making his home in this town for 11 years, Mr. H. removed, in 1848, to LaSalle Co., Ill., where he continued farming most of the time till 1863, excepting that in each of the years 1849 and 1853 he made a trip to California; in the first of these he remained five months, and the second, three years; in 1863 he returned to the town of Summit and settled on his present farw of 160 acres He was married in 1848 to Permelia Tyler, a native of Madison County, and an emigrant to Wisconsin in 1847; they have four children-George B., who is now in O'Brien County, Iowa; Frank, in Nebraska; Richard H., at home; Addie, now the wife of F. Alger, lives in Oconomowoc.

JOHN CHRISTIAN FREDERICK HARTMANN, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Ocono- mowoc ; was born in Prussia in 1836, and came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1844; they settled on a farm of 160 acres, in the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., which his father entered from the Government, and afterward bought more, till he had quite an extensive farm at the time of his death, which occurred in 1874. John C. F. made his home in Ixonia a year after the death of his father; then removed to the city of Oconomowoc, where he engaged in selling farm machinery for two years; he removed to his present farm of 103 acres in 1878; in May, 1879, he formed a copartnership in the Oconomowoc foundry and machine shop, under the firm of Hartmann, Hubner & Co., of which firm he is now a member. He was married, Sept. 8, 1864, to Miss Louisa, daughter of William and Sophia Waltmann, a native of the town of Lebanon, Dodge Co., Wis., who died Aug. 7, 1874, leaving six children, as follows: William F. L., Louis A., Alexander E., Agnes A., Louisa A., A. Edward. His second marriage was, Dec. 13, 1874, to Miss Mary Waltmann, a sister to his first wife, by whom he has had three children-Fredereck B., Celia M., John F., deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann arc members of the Lutheran Church.

B. C. HILDRETH, farmer, Secs. 17 and 20; P. O. Summit; was born in New Hampshire in 1811;, and at the age of 6 or 7 years, he removed with his parents, Jesse and Betsey (Cobb) Hildreth, to Oneida Co., N. Y., where he followed farming until 1837. He was married there, in 1835, to Priseilla Preston, with whom and his father's family, in the fall of 1837, he emigrated to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., his father and brother having preceded them some

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months and made claims on Secs. 17 and 20 of this town; the house for the family was not yet completed when they arrived, but they found shelter in a shanty on Mr. Baxter's farm till December, when they removed to their new home ; he and his father found work at chopping logs near Waukesha during the winter months, by which they provided their families with bread, and in the spring of 1838, he sowed the first wheat in this town ; his father died on the homestead in 1852, his mother died in Adams Co., Wis., in 1842. B. C., soon after their permanent settlement, put up a log house on the homestead, which sufficed for a home till 1857, when his present edifice was erected; his wife died June 12, 1841, leaving three children, having had four-Jane, the late wife of Edward Henry, now deceased, Hamilton, who died Nov. 9, 1837 (the first death in the town), Helen, now the wife of William Potter, and lives in Bates Co., Mo .; his second marriage was June 9, 1842, to Priscilla Labar, a native of Tompkins Co., N. Y. ; they have two sons-Charles O., now in Saline Co., Neb .; Henry H., who married Jeannette Kimball and has five children-Edna M., Ida M., Nellie, Bertram C. and Maria M. Mr. Hildreth has been a member of the Town Board three or four terms, Assessor four years, Town Treasurer two years.

B. R. HINKLEY, retired, Summit Corners ; P. O. Oconomowoc ; was born in the town of Weston, Oneida Co., N. Y., Jan. 13, 1809. His father, Amasa Hinkley, was born in Connecticut, and went to Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1795. The subject of this sketch spent his early life at farming, working by the month at that occupation for three years ; in 1831, he began peddling Yankee notions through Northern New York and Canada, at which he continued three years; he then returned to Oneida Co., purchased a team and began trading between Utica and Canada, buying dried-apples at one place and dis- posing of them at the other, returning with his wagon loaded with grass seed, etc., from the sale of which he realized handsome profits; after spending a winter in this way, he was employed by a Quaker to buy cattle in Oneida and other counties ; after continuing in this employment for a year, he was then made a partner in the business, and at the death of the old man, formed a co-partnership with his son, and in the panic of 1837, lost all be had; he never, however, failed to keep his credit good, and his friends again supplied him with capital to continne his business, which he did with meager success ; in Decem- ber, 1843, with Dr. Edwards, a buggy and two horses, he left Rome to try his fortune in the West, and and arrived in March, 1844, in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., Wis. ; here he rented of A. Swect, of Milwaukee, a farm of 800 acres on Secs. 34 and 35, of this town, at $400 a year, the rent to be paid in improvements on the farm ; he then returned to New York and borrowed $500 to carry on the business of farming, which he did successfully for three years, when he bought a farm of 160 acres on Sec. 14, of Summit, and after farming there for a number of years, he sold that and bought a half of Sec. 10, of the same towo ; here he followed farming, trading and dealing in real estate for several years ; afterward he disposed of his farm, and has since been engaged in loaning money ; in 1860, he, with others, chartered the Bank of Oconomowoc, of which he was elected Vice-President and afterward President, holding the latter position until the bank changed hands ; Mr. Hinkley has been Overseer of Public Highways thirty- four out of his thirty-six years' residence in the town of Summit, and has done much in shaping and improving the drives of the same ; he was appointed by Gov. Fairchild a member of the Board of Regents of the State University, and was a member of that body for a number of years ; he was a member of the Committee on Location of the State Experimental Farm ; he was instrumental in the re-organization of the State University ; was re-appointed to the Board of Regents by Gov. Washburne; he was President of the State Agricultural Society for nine successive years, and declined further nomination ; he was one of the first Directors of the Madison Mutual Insurance Co., and remained a member of that Board for ten or fifteen years. He was married in March, 1838, to Harriet Hovey, of Oneida Co., N. Y., who died in the town of Summit, in November, 1852, leaving three children-Mary, now the wife of Richard Humphrey, and lives at Nashotah ; Helen, now Mrs. Lloyd Breck, of Barrytown, N. Y. ; and Henry R., who died in Chicago in 1876. His second marriage was in 1853, to Jeannette Townsend, a native of Attica, N. Y., who died in February, 1871 ; his third marriage was to Mrs. Bessie Norcott Blinn, of Indianapolis, Aug. 2, 1871.

REV. LEWIS A. KEMPER, D. D., Professor of Exegesis, Biblical Literature and Hebrew ; was born in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1829; he graduated from Columbia College, New York City, in 1849, and came to Wisconsin the same summer as a theological student of the Nashotah House, where he has since remained as student, tutor and professor; be has been Rector of St. Paul's Church, Ash- ippun, Wis., since 1853.

A. J. KIDDER, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Summit ; was born in Windsor Co., Vt., Jan. 1, 1826; he emigrated to Wisconsin in 1845, landing in Kenosha, then Southport, with only 35 cents ; he at once began work for farmers at $10 per month, which he continued in that vicinity till 1847, when he

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went to Dodge County and made his home with his father's family, spending the winter, however, in the pineries ; in December, 1849, he with his brother started by water, crossing the isthmus, and sailing up the Pacific to California, where he engaged in mining till the spring of 1853 ; returuing then to the town of Lomira, Dodge Co., Wis., he traded for a farm of 200 acres in that town, by giving in exchange 160 acres in Brown County. In February, 1854, he returned to California and spent thirteen years there in mining and teaming, and in the spring of 1863 he went to Idaho, followed mining and gardening till 1867, when he came again to Dodge County, and there he followed farming till 1874 ; he then purchased his prosent farm of 60 acres, in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co. He was married in June, 1870, to Sarah A. Vangilder, a native of New York ; their children are Burr, Albert, Alice, Joseph and Warren.

SAMUEL C. LEAVITT (deceased), was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1800 ; his parents, Roger and Lydia Leavitt, were natives of Connecticut, and removed as early settlers to Oneida Co., N. Y ; our present subject spent most of his early life at farming in his native county. He was married there in 1834 to Frances, a daughter of Marshall H. and Mariba (Fiske) Fairservice, a native of the town of Weston, Oneida Co., N. Y., and was born in 1810. In November, 1837, they arrived at Milwaukee, as emigrants to Wisconsin, and about two weeks later they reached the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., spent the winter on the Edgerton farm, and in the spring of 1838 settled on Sec. 22, where he made his claim to 200 acres ; he at once built his log house, which sufficed for a home for several years, and which gave place to the present comfortable residence. Mr. Leavitt devoted his time wholly to agricultural pursuits, never seeking an office, but, nevertheless, was called upon, and complied in filling some of the minor ones of his town. He died in January, 1872, leaving six children, having had seven, as follows : Charles H. and Marsball H., children by his first wife, Mary A. Kilbourn, of Oneida Co., N. Y., whom he married in 1826, and who died in 1831 ; Charles is now in California, and Marshall H. died at Wash- ington, April 6, 1865, from the effects of a wound received at the battle of Petersburg in March previous ; from the second marriage the children are as follows : James M., now at Sioux Falls, Dak .; Adelia, at home ; Samuel F., at Sioux Falls ; Theodore F., Ella F., now the wife of J. F. Redfield, also at Sioux Falls.

JOHN D. McDONALD, farmer, Sec. 21 ; P. O. Summit Center. This pioneer of Summit was born in Fulton Co., N. Y., in 1816; his father, Daniel McDonald, was a native of Edinburgh, Scot- land and died when his son was 12 years old ; his mother, Mary Elizabeth Port, was born in Ireland, and died, when he was about 5 years of age; upon the death of his father, being left the oldest of three orphan children, and with scarcely any means of support, save that earned by his own hands, he spent his time at farm work till he arrived at the age of 16, when he was apprenticed to the glove and mitten trade, at Gloversville, N. Y., where he remained till of age ; in November, 1836, he emigrated to the Territory of Wisconsin, spent the winter in Milwaukee, and in March, 1837, westward still he bent his course, till he arrived at the town of Summit, Waukesha (then Milwaukee) County, where he selected his site, and on the 7th day of April following, he entered his claim to 40 acres in Sec. 21 ; he at once began to improve his farm, as rapidly as limited means would permit, and built his pioneer shanty, which has since been exchanged for his present commodious farm-residence; his farm of 40 acres has grown into one of several hundred acres, which yields its annual rich harvests. Mr. McDonald has held the office of Chairman of the Town Board for eight or nine years, Chairman of the County Board for three or four years, was elected a member of the Wisconsin Legislature from his Assembly District of Waukesha County, in 1869, and served with such satisfaction to his constituency, that he was re-elected as a member of that body in 1870; he has also served in minor offices, and taken an active part in the affairs of the town. He was married in 1840 to Miss Sophia, daughter of Gardner and Ruey (Plumley) Brown, a native of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y .; she came with her parents to Summit in 1837, where they afterward died. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have reared a family of six children-Mary, now the wife of C. M. Story, and lives at Red Cloud, Neb. ; Emma E., now Mrs. E. W. Barnard, and now lives in Summit; Daniel, John, Maggie, and Nellie at home.

HENRY C. McDOWELL, proprietor of the Summit Stock Farm, Secs. 10 and 11; P. O. Oconomowoc; was born in Ontario Co., N. Y., in 1826 ; he removed with his parents, David and Har- riet McDowell, to Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, when quite young; there his father entered and improved a farm, and carried on farming, merchandiziog, distilling, milling, etc., for many years. Our present subject made his home with his father until 1849, when he began the lake transportation business, which he followed for twenty-five years, conducting also a farm during the time; in 1873, he purchased what was then known as the J. J. Tallmadge farm, where he now owns 310 acres and where he has since followed farming and stock-raising. He was married, in 1854, to Jennie E., daughter of Isaac and Jane Slierman,

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of Bridgeport, Conn., who died in 1870, leaving two children-Wenonah S., now the wife of Charles Hecker, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and William S., who lives with his father ; his second marriage was to Viola S., daughter of Dr. Turner, of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873.

CURTIS MANN, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Oconomowoc; was born in Washington Co., N. Y., in 1815 ; he engaged in canal transportation in his native county for a number of years, and in 1846, removed to Buffalo, where he engaged in grain trade and lake transportation till 1858 ; he then came to Wisconsin, to the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., having removed his family here in 1856. he himself remaining at Buffalo two years, to close up his business. He was a member of the Board of Trade in Milwaukee from 1858 till 1875, since which time he has been engaged chiefly in lumbering in Marathon Co ; he was elected a member of the State Senate of Wisconsin, from Waukesha Co., in 1868. He was married in Washington Co., N. Y., in 1852, to Nancy Comstock, a native of that county ; their children are Fanny, Frank, William E. and Orville K.

LEVI P. MERICKLE, farmer, Secs. 27 and 28; P. O. Summit Center; was born in the town of Lobo, Canada West, in 1815 ; he spent much of his early life on a farm in Canada till 1836, when he came to the State of Michigan, and spent the winter; in June, 1836, he came to the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., Wis., and worked for Mr. Dousman one and a half years, then made a squatter's claim to the farm on which he now lives ; his mother dying Oct. 8, 1835, his father and other members of the family joined him in Summit, in 1839, and made that their home till 1846, whence they removed to Dodge Co., where he died in 1870. Mr. L. P. Merickle was married in Summit, May 10, 1840, to Miss Phebe J., daughter of Richard and Jane Hardell, a native of Lincolnshire, Eng., born in 1819; they made their home on the farm in Summit till 1861, then removed to Dodge Co., whence, in 1863, they went to Blue Earth Co., Minn., where he continued farming till 1880; in January of that year, he returned to the old farm in Summit; their children are Elen A., now the wife of B. T. Ellis, and lives in McHenry Co., Ill. ; Josephine E., now Mrs. George Webster, and lives in Lac-qui-Parle Co., Minn; William W., who married Sarah Youngs, and lives in Blue Earth Co., Minn .; Abbie J., now the wife of Wilham Youngs, of Blue Earth Co., Minn. ; Anna J. and Emma W., at home. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Seventh Day Advent Church.

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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 139

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