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 151

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

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I. D. GOODWIN, farmer; P. O. Hartland; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., Nov. 23, 1820; in 1832, he removed with his parents to Springwater, Livingston Co., where he remained until 1842, in which year he came to Wisconsin and located on a farm near Lake Five, in the town of Lisbon, Waukesha Co .; in 1858, he moved to the village of Merton, thence to Hartland in 1859, and, in 1866, moved to Dartford, Green Lake Co., from there to Beaver Dam, where he lived about four years, afterward went to Appleton, and from there to Jones Co., Iowa, then returned to this county, located on his farm, adjoining the village of Hartland, where he has since resided. Mr. Goodwin has been three times married; his first wife was Mary A. Calkins, of Columbia Co., N. Y .; she died in Lisbon; they had one child-Alvin, now deceased; his second wife was Matilda Palmer, a native of Green Co., N. Y .; she also died in Lisbon ; the maiden name of his present wife was Freelove Wright; she was born in Fishkill, N. Y .; her first husband, D. Gale, was a pioneer settler of Pewaukee ; he died in Delafield ; their children are Ellen E. (now wife of Hiram Smith, Port Henry, N. Y.), Mary E. (wife of E. C. Sage, of Juneau Co., Wis.); children by present marriage are Harry W. and Henry B .; the youngest, Henry B., is now deceased. Mr. Goodwin owns a pleasantly located and well-improved farm adjoining the village of Hartland.

HON. A. GUNTHER, Hartland; residence, Pine Lake; was born in Leipsic, Germany, Nov. 23, 1836 ; he received a liberal education in his native place ; in 1850, he came to this country ; he was one of the first settlers of Lawrence, Kan., where he resided until the breaking-out of the war of the Rebellion, when he raised a company; was commissioned Captain in 1861; afterward was promoted Major of his regiment, the 2d Kan. V. C., served until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged. He was a member of the Arkansas Legislature in 1868-69, and was United States Revenue Agent for five years, his territory embracing five States. He married, in 1876, Mary T., daughter of J. J. Sands, of Pine Lake, town of Merton ; they have one child-Gracie. Mr. Gunther's residence is beautifully located on Pine Lake, a short distance northwest of Hartland; he is a bottler of Falk's celebrated Milwaukee export beer ; this beer is unequaled as a beverage, and has acquired the reputation of being the best made.

J. M. HALL, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 14; P. O. Merton ; was horn in Auburn, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Dec. 3, 1815. He married, in Portage, Wyoming Co., N. Y., on the 25th of September, 1839, Elizabeth Fuller, a native of Sinott, Cayuga Co., N. Y., born Dec. 2, 1817; after their marriage, they moved to Illinois, thence to Merton, Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1842, where they have since resided ; their oldest daughter, Adelia, was born Jan. 4, 1844; she is the wife of Joseph Gillett, of this town; their oldest son, Francis, was born in this town (Merton) May 13, 1846; was educated in his native town and Milwaukee; he resides at home and is extensively engaged in farming; the second oldest son, James, was born June 30, 1848; he married Sarah Smith, of this town ; they live in Eden. Kan .; the third oldest son, John F., was born June 23, 1850 ; married Martha Mead ; they reside in Eden, Kan .; the second oldest daughter, Emma, was born Sept. 29, 1852; married Alonzo Richardson ; the fourth oldest son, Judson, was born Oct. 22, 1855; married Kittie Mount, and is teaching school at Hartland, Wis .; Eva and Ella (twins) were born Dec. 17, 1857 ; Eva married Edward Mount, and they reside in Eden, Kan .; Ella married William Baxter, of Oconomowoc ; they live in Winnebago City, Minn .; one child (deceased), Anna E., was born July 25, 1841, and died Oct. 15, 1842. Mr. Hall owns 260 acres of finely improved land, well located; he has been chosen to fill various offices, and is prominent in public affairs.

PETER HOFFMAN, manufacturer of wagons, carriages, buggies, also general blacksmithing and repairing, Merton ; was born near Paterson, N. J., July 25, 1841; he came to Wisconsin in 1842, with his parents, George and Margaret Hoffman ; they settled on Sec. 1, town of Merton, Waukesha Co., where the subject of this notice began to learn the blacksmith's trade in his father's shop; he completed his trade in Milwaukee, and engaged in business on his own account in 1867. in the village of Merton, where he has built up a large trade ; he has every facility for doing good work, and thoroughly understands the business in which he is engaged. Mr. Hoffman married, in 1867, at Richfield, Wis., Mary Loew; she was born in Milwaukee, Wis., daughter of Henry Loew, a pioneer settler of that city, and an early settler of Richfield; they have had three children, one of whom is living-Emma.

JACOB L. JACOBSON, farmer ; Sec. 20 ; P. O. Stone Bank ; was born in Norway, Nov. 17, 1834. He married in his native country Thora M. Jacobson; they came to this county in 1856, and settled in the town of Merton. They have 5 children : Mary, Lewis, Matilda, Henry and Ida. Mr. * Jacobson has been a member of the Town Board of Supervisors two terms, and has held other local offices. He is a leading farmer ; owns 111 acres of land ; his farm is well improved.

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JEFFERY L. JONES, proprietor of meat market; Merton; was born in the town of Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1844. Is the son of John Jones, a native of England, who settled in that town in about 1843, and a few years afterward returned to his native country, takiog his family with him. Jeffery, the subject of this notice, remained in England until 1865, when he returned to the land of his birth. He married in Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wis., Letitia Allen, daughter of A. T. Allen ; they have two children, Inez E. and Roy A. Mr. Jones engaged in his present business in Merton, iu February, 1874; he is gentlemanly and obliging, and has a good custom.

JOHN KELLY, farmer ; Sec. 5; P. O. Mapleton ; was born in County Longford, Ireland, in the year of 1821. In 1827, his parents, John and Catherine Kelly, came to the United States and settled in Saratoga, N. Y., remaining there until 1843; when they came to Wisconsin and located in the town of Merton, Waukesha Co., then an almost unbroken wilderness. Mr. Kelly married in the town of Mertou, Miss Margaret Hayburn, a native of the State of Pennsylvania. They have seven children, John E., James E., Christopher, William H., Martha J., Margaret E. and George F .; the second oldest, James E., is telegraph operator at Brookfield Junction, this county : Christopher, the third oldest, married Mary McLeary ; they reside in Milwaukee. Mr. Kelly owns 240 acres of land ; his farm is pleasantly located. He has been elected to various local offices, and takes an active interest in everything that tends to promote the general welfare of the town in which he has lived so long- His father died in 1872; his mother in 1875; they were a highly esteemed couple, and were identified with the early history of Merton, in progress toward its present prosperous condition.

BYRON H. KILBOURN, M. D., North Lake; was born in Milwaukee, Wis., March 20, 1840 ; is the son of the late Hon. Byron Kilbourn, founder of Milwaukee, and he was prom- inently identified with the history of Wisconsin. Byron H. received an academic education at the Episcopal Academy, at Cheshire, Ct., and collegiate course at Yale and Kenyon Colleges; his medical education he received at Rush Medical Institute, Chicago, and the St. Louis Medical College, graduating at the latter. During the war of the rebellion he raised Co. D. of the 3d W. V. C .; was commis- sioned 2d Lient .; a position he filled with credit to himself and honor to his State. He married at North Lake, Lizzie A. Shears, danghter of Col. Henry Shears, a prominent citizen of Waukesha Co; they have three children, Maude A., Henrietta M. and Mary B. " Hawkhurst," so named from the ancient family homestead in Kent, England. The mansion of Dr. Kilbourn is beautifully situated about 100 rods from North Lake, on an eminence sloping toward the south, in the midst of a grove of sugar maples. The estate consists of fine arable, interspersed with timber-land, and is splendidly watered by the Oconomowoc River, while a portion of its western boundary is watered by the waters of North Lake. Dr. Kilbourn also owns a magnificent residence in Florida, located 25 miles south of Jacksonville, surrounded by orange groves, and amid a landscape of surpassing beauty. Dr. Kilbourn is one of those enterprising and public- spirited men, to whom much credit is due for the establishment of many beneficial interests, of which Waukesha Co. to-day is justly proud.

JOHN F. KRAUSE, farmer, Sec. 32 ; P. O. Nashotah ; was born in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1853. He came to Wisconsin in 1873, and has been engaged in farming in the town of Merton since that time; his home is pleasantly located on the west shore of Pine Lake, and consists of 220 acres of land. His father, Ernest Krause, married in Philadelphia Liseth Kohorst, a native of Hanover, Germany. They came to Wisconsin in 1873, purchased a farm on Pine Lake, where they reside io affluent circum- stances.

C. A. LEUTHSTROM, M. D., Inter-Lachen ; P. O. Hartland. Inter-Lachen, the won- drously beautiful home of Dr. Leuthstrom, is located on Pine Lake, a short drive northwest of Hartland Station. His mansion occupies a magnificent site on the west of his grounds, and on the east of the lake. Dr. Leuthstrom was born in Norrkoping, Sweden, Nov. 29, 1818, where he remained until he was 21 years of age; he then came to this country and was engaged in the mercantile business at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky. In 1841 he entered the Louisville Medical University, graduating therefrom among the first in his class. He afterward attended and graduated from the Eclectic Medical School at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was presented about the same time with an honorory diploma from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. He first practiced medicine in Bowling Green, and Franklin, Ky. In 1848 he moved to Columbus, Ohio, and there practiced his profession until 1854, when he located in Waukesha, Wis .. where he continued until 1861, when he went to Milwaukee, and there had the most extensive and successful practice for seventeen years, of any physician in that city. He moved to his present home, "Inter-Lachen," in April, 1879. He makes a specialty of chronic diseases, and is attend- ing patients in various parts of the United States. He bas at present writing been a member of the

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Wisconsin Medical Society over 15 years. Dr. Leuthstrom has been twice married, his first wife was Eliza Folger ; she died in Milwaukee. His present wife was Mary C. Gifford.

JOHN McRAE, merchant; North Lake; has been engaged in the mercantile business in Wis- consin for nearly 34 years. He was born in Inverness-shire, capitol of the Highlands, Scotland, in 1826. At the age of eighteen he left his native country and crossed the Atlantic to Canada; he lived in Mel- bourne, clerked in a mercantile house, and had general charge of store until 1846, in which year he came to Wisconsin, and located in Hustisford, Dodge Co., Wis., where he established a general store in 1848, being the second store erected in that town. In 1849 he was appointed Postmaster, and filled that position to the entire satisfaction of the citizens, for a number of years. In connection with the mercantile business in Hustisford, he established an ashery at Hustisford, and one at Mayville, and was extensively engaged in the manufacturing of pearlites and potash for several years; in 1858 he sold out his mercantile business, and in 1861 the ashery. In 1876 he moved to North Lake, Waukesha Co., where he has been engaged in keeping general store; he carries a full line of goods, and, by fair dealing and attention to business, has secured a large and increasing trade. He was married in Hustisford, Dodge Co., to Rachel M. Spear, a native of New Portland, Maine, and daughter of James and Rachel Spear, who settled near Hustisford in 1847 ; they afterward moved to Waushara County, Wis., where they resided during their life. Mrs. McRae's sister, Miss Mary E. Spear, makes her home with Mr. McRae, and wife.

DAVID MASON, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Stone Bank ; is a native of Lancashire, England, and was born July 27, 1811. In 1841 he came to this country, and lived in Geneva, N. Y., until the spring of 1842, when he came to Wisconsin, and located in the town of Merton, Waukesha Co. He married in the same year (1842) at Nashotah, Elizabeth Holt. She was born in Lancashire, England, Dec 12, 1813; they have two children, a son and daughter ; their son, Richard, married Lizzie Bonner, and resides in this town ( Merton) ; the daughter, Alice, is the wife of James Allerdic, of Marshall County, Kan. Mr. Mason owns over 200 acres of land; he is one of the substantial men of the town of Merton ; he has been elected to various local offices.

JACOB MASON, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. North Lake ; was born in Lancashire, England, on the 26th of March, 1815 ; Aug. 2, 1841, he married in his native country Mary Wild, also a native of Lan- cashire, born May 15, 1816 ; in 1841 they songht a home in this country ; they first settled in Seneca, Ontario Co., N. Y., where they remained until 1844, when they removed to Wisconsin and located in the town of Merton, Waukesha Co., where they set about clearing the wilderness and making themselves a home, in which undertaking they were eminently successful; she died April 10, 1880 ; her death was deeply regretted by all ; she was an earnest, kind and Christian woman. They had six children-John, the oldest of the children living, now resides at Stone Bank, this county ; he was a soldier in the 28th Wisconsin during the war of the rebellion ; was honorably discharged ; he married Helen Ferguson, of Stone Bank. Robert, Joseph and Richard, the three youngest sons, are engaged in farming in this town (Merton). The deceased children are William and Esther. Mr. Mason owns 200 acres of land, desirably located in the vicinity of North Lake, and is one of Merton's well-to-do and energetic farmers.

JOHN MITCHELL, farmer, Merton ; was born in, the Parish of Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland, Nov. 19, 1823 ; received a good education in his native county, and in 1842, he crossed the Atlantic to Livingston Co., N. Y., where he remained until 1849, in which year he came West; settled in the town of Lisbon, Waukesha Co., Wis., residing in that town and in Merton until 1853, when he removed to New Lisbon, Juneau Co., Wis., purchased a farm and engaged in farining there until 1855, when he bought his present home in the village of Merton, being a resident of that village since ; Oct. 2, 1849. he mar- ried in Castile, Wyoming Co., N. Y., Miss C. A. Lovejoy, a native of White Creek, Washington Co., N. Y., born Jan. 7, 1825 ; they have two children, viz., Jennie, born in Lisbon, Waukesha Co., Wis., Nov. 11, 1850, is now the wife of Henry Kuntz, proprietor of Poynette Upper Mills (flouring), Columbia Co., Wis .; Willie, born in Merton, June 17, 1864. Mr. Mitchell has been more than ordinarily successful in life ; he owns over 400 acres of land in various portions of Wisconsin, besides a great amount of other interests ; he has filled the position of Notary Public since 1865, was Justice of the Peace ten years, and has been at various times selected to fill other public offices.

J. C. MOLSTER, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Merton ; was born in Lowland, Holland, Sept. 4, 1802; in 1823 he came to this country, and on the 28th of September, 1828, married in Philadelphia, Penn. Sarah Lewis, a native of West Chester, Penn., born Jan. 29, 1808; in 1831 they moved from Pennsyl- vania to Cincinnati, Ohio, thence to Portsmouth in 1836, where they remained until 1840, in which year they removed to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Merton, Waukesha Co., where she died Nov. 8, 1872 ; she was a member of the Congregational Church, a sincere, earnest and Christian woman, highly

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esteemed by all whom she was acquainted with. Their oldest son, Cornelius, was born Aug. 23, 1829 ; he married Juliette Lyman ; they reside io Hartland, Wis. ; the second oldest son, Leuis, born May 1, 1831, married Miss W. Grenwes; they reside in this town ; Wilhelmina, born Feb. 3, 1834, oldest daughter, is the wife of Wesley Meyers ; they reside in Kansas ; Sarah, second oldest daughter, born Feb. 10, 1836, died Nov. 19, 1866 ; Josephine, third oldest daughter, born June 15, 1838; she is the wife of S. L. Worth, of this town ; Martin H., third oldest son, born June 15, 1840 ; he married Martha Rea ; he has filled various local offices in Merton and is prominent in local affairs ; Charlotte, fourth daughter, born Aug. 3, 1842, is the wife of Stephen A. Wakeman ; they reside in Michigan ; Martha Ann, fifth oldest daughter, born Nov. 19, 1844, died August, 1850 ; Caroline, sixth oldest of the daughters, born Dec. 1, 1847 ; she is the wife of Fitz James Thompson ; they live in Kansas ; Juliette, youngest daughter, born April 8, 1849 ; at home. Mr. Molster owns 320 acres of land ; he erected his fine brick residence in 1857-58, which is one of the finest in the town ; he is a member of the Congregational Church, and has always taken a deep interest in the religious and educational affairs.

JOHN E. PALIN, dealer in stock, Merton ; was born in Shropshire, England, in 1846 ; he married in his native country Anna Candlin ; they came to the United States in 1870 ; the same year en- gaged in keeping meat market in Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wis., for a short time, then removed to Mer- ton, where he has been engaged in stock dealing the greater part of the time since. They have four children-Nellie, Jeffrey, Edith and Willie. In politics Mr. Palin is a Republican.

THOMAS REA, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Hartland ; is a native of Scotland, and was born in For- farshire on the 12th of March, 1819 ; Sept. 31, 1841, he married in his native place Jeannette Cooper ; she was also a native of Forfarshire, born in 1820. They came to this country in 1841; lived in the city of New York until the autumn of 1843, when they came to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Merton, where they have since resided. They have seven children ; James, their eldest son, is engaged in the mer- cantile business in Waseca Co., Minn. ; David, second oldest son, is engaged in farming in Minnesota ; George, third son, is in Hartland, this county ; Abner, the fourth son, is also living in Hartland ; the fifth son. Gideon, lives in Merton ; the sixth son, Thomas, is a painter in Milwaukee; Orrin, the seventh, lives in Merton. Mr. Rea's farm is pleasantly located and finely improved; himself and wife are leading mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church ; he is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

HON. JOHN A. RICE, physician and surgeon, Merton; was born in Ticonderoga, Essex Co., N. Y., March 17, 1832. Dr. Rice studied medicine with Dr. Harris, of Fleming Co., Kentucky, and in 1851 received his diploma, graduating at the Western Reserve Medical College, of Hudson, Ohio; the same year he came to Merton, Waukesha Co., Wis., and began the practice of his profession, a practice that has made him fame and fortune, in which he is still interested, and which has grown to immense pro- portions, so large, indeed, that he has taken a partner, Dr. B. H. Kilbourn, to assist him ; Dr. Rice's professional reputation is second to that of no physician in the State; in 1871 he was made a member of the Wisconsin State Medical Society; in 1878 Dr. Rice joined the Industrial expedition to Mexico; while in Mexico the Doctor personally was a guest of the state, and had many attentions paid him by President Diaz, who conceived a warm friendship for the American Medico; he was furnished a military guard, and permitted to visit many places of historic interest, that he would not otherwise have been enabled to see, on account of the dangers that surround che unprotected traveler in our sister Republic; he was thus also enabled to secure many specimens of scientific and archaeological interest, which he has at present in his home at Lake Keesus; he was elected a honorary member of the Sociedad Mexicana de geografia y Estadestica, said to be the oldest scientific society in North America ; as an archaeologist, Dr. Rice enjoys a national reputation ; Dr. Rice has served three terms as representative of his county in the State Senate, and once received the nomination for Lieutenant Governor, running far ahead of his ticket; Dr. Rice has a beautiful place on Lake Keesus, near the village of Merton, where he enjoys his otium cum dignitate under his own vine and fig tree; he became a member of the Wisconsin State Historical Society in 1878; in 1852, he married in Merton, Caroline Caswell; she died in 1864; they had four children, two of whom are living-Frank and Miss Mary; Frank married Delia Schraudenback, daughter of Francis Schraudenback, of Merton vil- lage.

WALDEN ROWELL, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Hartland; was born in Livingston Co., N. Y., July 22, 1839; his parents came to Wisconsin and located in the town of Lisbon, near Lake Five, when he was about 3 years of age, therefore his early life was spent amidst the scenes of pioneer life ; in 1845 they moved to the town of Merton and located near the village of Hartland, where the father, Mark Rowell, still resides in affluent circumstances; Walden married in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., Miss Harriet, daughter of Francis Arnold, an old settler of Waukesha Co .; she was born in Brookfield, this county, io

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1849; they have two children, Fannie M. and Abbie M. Mr. Rowell owns a valuable farm in the vicinity of Hartland.

GIDEON RUSSELL, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Hartland; was born in Geauga Co., Ohio; he came to Wisconsin with his parents, William and Clarissa Russell, in 1844, and settled in the town of Merton, Waukesha Co., where he married Barbara Rea; she was a most estimable woman; she died Oct. 29, 1876; their children are three-Orrin L., William and James. Mr. Russell owns a valuable farm of 320 acres, most desirably located, a short drive from Hartland; his father, William Russell, was a native of Massachusetts; he married in Geauga Co., Ohio, Clarissa Howard; they came to Wisconsin in an early day, and were pioneer settlers of the town of Merton, Waukesha Co .; they afterward moved to the village of Hartland, where they resided until their death; their children are Gideon, whose name heads this sketch ; Clarissa, now the wife of Thomas B. Ireland, of Oconomowoc; Sarah resides in Merton ; Hobert, who served in a Minnesota regiment during the Rebellion, is now deceased; Rubie, wife of Esau Beaumont, of this town. Mr. Russell is a member of the Merton Town Board at present writing, and has filled various other local offices.

FRANCIS SCHRAUDENBACH, Merton, dealer in general merchandise ; is a native of Bavaria, Germany ; born in Aschaffenburg April 2, 1817; was liberally educated in his native country ; came to this country in 1840. Married in Ft. Plain, N. Y., in 1842, Magdalene Franck ; immediately after they were married they came to Wisconsin, located in the town of Merton, which has been their home the greater part of the time since; they have seven children living-Caroline, their oldest daughter, is . the wife of Fred Staps, a merchant at Hartland, Wis .; Edward, their oldest son, is proprietor of the Okauchee flouring mills ; he married Adeline King; Ottillia, their second oldest daughter, is the wife of Frank Rice, son of Hon. J. A. Rice, of Merton ; August, their second oldest son, is in the commission business in Chicago, Ill .; he married Sada Mills, of Hartland ; Emma, third oldest daughter, is the wife of Henry Lowe, dealer in agricultural implements and grain, Richfield, Wis. ; Albert, third oldest son, is in the store with his father; Walter, Ella and Nettie, the youngest children, are at home. Mr. Schraudenbach has been actively engaged in the mercantile business in Waukesha Co. since 1842, and by his strict business integrity has secured a large and constantly increasing trade; he has a full stock of dry goods, groceries, crockery, ready-made clothing, boots and shoes, undertaking, hardware, and every- thing kept in a general store of the first grade.

GEORGE SCHWALBACH, farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Merton ; was born in Germantown, Washington Co., Wis., July 14, 1850 ; his parents, John F. and Mary Schwalbach, were natives of Ger- many, who came to this country and settled at Germantown, Wis., over forty years ago, and are still resi- dents. He was married in Washington Co. in 1873 to Theresa Stasser, daughter of Cornelius and Mary Stasser, of that county ; after their marriage they moved to their present home in the town of Merton, Waukesha Co .; they have four children-Cornelius, Rosa, Mary and Helena. Mr. Schwalbach owns 120 acres of land, well located and improved.

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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 151

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