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 155

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

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WILLIAM McARTHUR, retired farmer ; Mukwonago; born in Aucram, Columbia Co., N. Y., Dec. 25, 1827; his parents, Duncan and Ann (Hoag) McArthur, were also New Yorkers ; Mrs. McA. died in 1834, leaving six children ; the second wife, formerly Catherine VanDusen, reared four children ; the family came West and settled on Scc. 26, in Mukwonago. in 1849; the father died two years later, 410 acres beingdivid ed among the heirs; William McArthur buying the interests of two brothers, and living on 197 acresof the homestead until 1862, when he settled, and has since lived, in the village. He married April 17, 1851, Miss Catherine H., daughter of George W. and Elizabeth ( Hoff- man) Barton; they have lost two children : Mary Alida, died Oct. 9, 1854, and George B., died Sept. 10, 1863. Mr. McArthur is a democrat ; was Chairman of Mukwonago several terms, and Chairman of the County Board in 1870.

ALEXANDER MATHEWSON, deceased; born near Montrose, Scotland, in 1812; the family removed to Lanarkshire when he was 8 years old; learning the weaver's trade, he worked in Scotland until 1832, when he came to America; with a brother, he began the manufacture of cotton goods in Philadelphia, they owning a factory with ninety power-looms. He married, in the Quaker City, in 1842, Miss Mary Wilson, a native of Lanarkshire; came to Wisconsin in 1856, with three children- Mary, William and Alexander, having lost three in Philadelphia; settled on the present homestead of 172 acres, when the only buildings were a log house and stable; though a novice at farming, Mr. Math- ewson made a good record, as may be seen by the improved farm, the capacious barn and tasteful home ; he died in February, 1879, honored and respected, as good men always are, his old neighbors realizing that they had lost a noble-hearted friend. The daughter married William Burt, and died Feb. 26, 1878, in Buffalo Co., Wis .; the sons, born in Philadelphia, were educated here. Mrs. Mathewson enjoys good health in her 62d year ; she is a member of the Genesee Presbyterian Church ; the sons have a flock of 80 fine and coarse wooled sheep, with other stock.

CHRISTOPHER NIVER, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Mukwonago; born in the town of Liv- ingston, Columbia Co., N. Y., in 1824; resided in his native State until June, 1848, when he came with his family to Mukwonago, huying 40 acres on Sec. 10, at $450, paying $250 down, and 12 per cent on the balance; 12 acres were broken, on which was a log house; the family of five lived the first summer in one room of this; as Mr. Niver says, they " borrowed their cooking;" that is, not owning a stove of their own, Mrs. Niver cooked in the open air on the stove of the family, who occupied the remainder of the cabin ; few had less to do with or more to contend with than Mr. Niver, as he was never a strong, robust man ; intelligent labor and management conquered, however, and, in 1857, he was enabled to buy 80 acres more, going in debt for every dollar of its value, and paying 100 cents on every dollar of the debt ; this is now his homestead, the 26x84-foot barn, the granary, sheep sheds, corn and hog-house, shop, etc., being ample evidence of the good work he has done here; he has also built an 18x30 addition to his house, re-sided and repainted the original, making a roomy and elegant home. He married, in 1841. Miss Sarah D., daughter of Jacob Platner, of Claverack, Columbia Co., N. Y .; they have six children- Jane E. (Mrs. Samuel Funk ), Helen (Mrs. B. F. Funk), Jacob M. (married Miss Cynthia Hardy), Kate ( Mrs. Daniel Silvernale), Charles S. and Louisa (the two youngest, who are on the old farm). Mr. and Mrs. Niver are Methodists; Republican in politics; having sold part, Mr. Niver now has the 80 acres bought in 1857, and 20 acres of timber in Vernon.

F. M. PAYNE, harness-maker, Mukwonago ; born Jan. 10, 1820, in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he attained his schooling and learned his trade; coming, in 1844, to Mukwonago, he began clerk- ing for Sewall Andrews, and, after a time, began business for himself; in 1850, he went overland to Cal- ifornia, engaged in traveling and mining two years, returned, engaged in mercantile business two years, and has since been in the harness business, having recently added a stock of groceries. He married, in 1848, Miss Harriet Eggleston, of Guilford, Conn .; they have lost two sons and two daughters, and have two living-Alice (Mrs. G. H. Abott) and Luella ( Mrs. E. S. Kellogg). Mr. Payne and wife are lead- ing members of the Universalist Society, Mr. Payne being one of its most liberal supporters ; a stanch and fearless Republican, he was Town Clerk of Mukwonago for seventeen years, and has been, for many

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years, and is now, Justice of the Peace; few men have been more keen observers of the changes in and progress of the Western country than he.

A. E. PERKINS, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Mukwonago ; born in the town of Lyme, New London Co., Conn., Dec. 16, 1816 ; was a native of the same town, and a schoolmate of Morrison R. Waite, now Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; leaving his native State at 18, Mr. Perkins located on Cape Cod, Mass., his mother's birthplace; spent six years here, part of the time as master of an ocean schooner, and part as a teacher ; removed in 1840 to Monroe Co., N. Y., and engaged in farming with his father ; in 1846, he came to Mukwonago and bought 146 acres of his present estate, at $10 per acre, settled here with his family in the spring of 1847; to sum up his work during these 33 years, we may state that his estate now comprises over 1,200 acres of as good land as Wisconsin affords, lying in a body, though it is in three counties, and four towns ; on this he has expended about $10,000 for buildings, his spacious and elegant residence alone costing nearly $6,000; Mr. Perkins carries on about 560 acres, the remainder being managed by his son and son-in-law ; married in Churchville, Monroe Co., N. Y., 1845, Miss Hannah E. Hadley, a native and resident of that town ; her parents being New Hampshire people ; Mr and Mrs. Perkins have three children, N. Louisa, Charles A. and Grace ; the elder daughter married Joseph Pratt, of Perry, N. Y., who occupies part of the farm ; the son married Miss Julia, daughter of O. B. Dickinson, of Mukwonago; Grace is now pursuing her musical studies in the Conservatory of Music, Boston ; Mr. and Mrs. P. have, for 33 years past, been members of the Congregational Church, and were leading spirits in building and supporting the Mukwonago Church ; he is a Republican, and was Chairman of the town three successive years ; the family dates back about 150 years in America, a grand- father of Mr. Perkins being one of Connecticut's patriots in the Revolution ; about 1850 Mr. P. bought a flock of merino ewes of Elam Beardsley, of Racine Co., one of Wisconsin's pioneer stock-men, and during the next ten years, improved his stock of sheep by purchasing and judicious breeding, paying as high as $130 for a single animal ; in 1861 he went into partnership with E. S. Lake, of Saxton's River, Vt., they shipping from that State the same year a flock of 20 selected rams ; the next year they invested about $4,000 in 60 rams and 15 ewes, which were placed on Mr. P's. farm and rented out during the next eight years ; this was the operation which gave an impetus to the now immense wool-growing interest of this section ; the next importation was from the splendid flock of George Campbell, of Westminster, West Vt. ; these 16 sheep were used by Mr. Perkins until 1878, when he bought a prize ram bred from Stickney's ram Centennial, which animal was awarded the $400 prize offered by Pennsylvania at the Exposition of 1876 ; Mr. P. usually has about 500 pure-bred sheep on his farm, and says that to his success in this business he owes most of his prosperity; illustrative of the growth of the fine-wool sheep industry, he says farmers in his vicinity, prior to his introduction of improved stock, considered four pounds a good fleece, while they are now barely satisfied with seven.

A. PLATNER, proprietor of the Mukwonago House; born in the town of Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., April 7, 1828 ; lived thirty-eight years as a farmer in his native town, and was two years in a mill in Cherry Valley Village ; came to Mukwonago in 1868, bought the hotel, kept it until April, 1874, leased it two years for $1,800, and has kept it since. Married Miss Sally A. Shaul, of the same town, by whom he has an only son, Aaron H., born Feb. 12, 1853, now his business partner. The Platners' are Democrats, and take much interest in breeding and owning good horses; two large barns will accommodate seventy-five horses, and the hotel is well kept and patronized ; Mr. P. owns the fleet and hardy stallon, Robert Bonner, and the seven-eighth Clyde stallion, Young British Champion ; his -dam was by Old Farmer's Delight, he by Marquis of Clydesdale, imported from Scotland ; Old Farmer's Delight took six first prizes, and Young British Champion took three in 1879 ; this horse weighs 1,550 pounds, stands sixteen hands and one inch high, and as a draft stallion has few equals and no superiors in the State.

JOHN PLATNER, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Mukwonago; born in Caverick, Columbia Co., N Y., Nov. 2, 1811 ; his first farm was in Cherry Valley, N. Y .; this was exchanged for property in Hol- lowville, N. Y., where he owned a flo uring mill ; selling out, he speculated for a time, and in November, 1860, settled on his present farm of 120 acres ; this farm, previously rented and well worn out, was bought by him in 1858; it was fenceless and barnless ; Mr. P. has built a substantial two-story brick house, 20x 30, raised and remodeled the old house, and made it a wing of the new, built substantial barns, cleared his land and made it productive, characteristic work, and well done. He married, in 1836, Miss Joanna Miller, of his native town, who died in October, 1873, leaving six children: Eva, Elizabeth, Olive, Estella, Robert and Helen L .; the third daughter, Caroline, died as the wife of E. S. Kellogg. Mr. Planter married again in October, 1876, Miss Mary, daughter of John and Mary Frazier. Mr. P. is a Republican, and

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was Chairman of the town; he is, with his wife, a member of the Universalist Society ; he has superior half-blood Jersey cattle and a flock of seventy grade sheep.

THOMAS D. POWERS, M. D., Mukwonago; born April 8, 1824, in Adolphstown, U. C .; his father, T. H. Powers, a Vermonter, was educated in Fairfield, N. Y. ; preached over fifty years as a Baptist minister ; he married Ruby File, and Dr. Powers is their sixth child ; he was educated in the common schools and Rochester Academy ; began reading medicine with Drs. Williams and Cator, of Syracuse, N. Y., and graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical Academy, of Dundee, Yates Co., N. Y., in 1851; began his practice in Broome Co., N. Y., and in 1854, came to Columbia Co., Wis. ; settled in Mukwonago in 1859 ; enlisted in Co. D., 10th W. V. I., in September, 1861 ; refusing a Lieutenant's com- mission tendered in reward for service done in organizing the company; this regiment was under Don Carlos Buell, who was ever careful that the rebels came to no harm from his command; the Doctor met. with an accident at Bowling Green, Ky., which, with an injury previously received at Rolling Forks, has: resulted in partial paralysis and a most serious disorder of the circulatory and nervous system ; while in the service he was special correspondent for the Evening Wisconsin and several other State papers. Dr. Powers is a Republican, and a member of Unity Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Holland City, Mich., where he resided for some time after the war. The Doctor has led an eventful life, and of late has patented some most useful inventions, still continuing to study mechanics in connection with his medical practice.

DAVID SMART, farmer, Sec. 20 ; P. O. North Prairie ; born in Newbold, Yorkshire, Eng., Aug. 11, 1812 ; lived in England as a laborer until 1845, when he came with wife and two children to America ; they stopped a short time with Richard Smart, in one of the first houses built in Waukesha Co., and that fall located on the Coats farm, part of which he worked two years ; while here a little daughter, Sarah J., was struck by lightning and instantly killed during a midnight thunder storm ; lying dead in the same bed with an elder sister, who was merely marked by the deadly fluid. In 1847, Mr. Smart settled on 85 acres of his present farm, when the only building was a log shanty, now used for a stable, it having been supplanted by a good frame house ; Mr. S. has also erected barns, wind-mill, etc., he and his sons owning a half-section, including the old Perkins farm, besides a half-section in Minnesota-not a bad record for a man who reached the county with 10 sovereigns. Mr. Smart married, Dec. 24, 1834, Miss Martha Harpes, a native of South Cave, Yorkshire ; they have five living children-Ann E., James, Rich- ard, Charlotte and Franklin J .; the eldest and youngest are on the homestead, Richard is in Minnesota, James will occupy the Perkins farm, and Charlotte is married, and settled in Dallas, Barron Co., Wis .; Louisa, the third daughter, married John Francis, and died April 30, 1873, leaving four children-Arthur P., Lillian May, Franklin D. and Ainsworth; the mother and an infant brother are buried in the family burying-ground on the Joseph Smart farm. Mr. Smart and sons are Republicans.

ROMEO SPRAGUE, farmer, Secs. 30, 31 and 32; P. O. Eagle ; born in Summit Co., Ohio, March 7, 1824; is a son of Dr. F. A. and Bridget Sprague, who were among the early settlers of Eagle, the Doctor building one of the first frame houses in the town, plastered both inside and out. His second son, Romeo, lived with him till he was 26, when he went overland to California ; after two years, in 1852, he returned, via Panama and New York ; bought a farm in East Troy, which he sold after five years, then owning and keeping the Eagle Hotel three years, also owning the present Colyer farm ; again decided to try mining, and went as far West as Nebraska, before giving up his objective point, Pike's Peak ; on his return he sold the hotel and farm, and bought 250 acres of his present farm ; its first owner was a Mr. Stone, next H. Hammond, who improved it, followed by a Mr. Webb, next owner J. Hubbard, next David Snover, who sold to Mr. Sprague, who now has 350 acres with excellent buildings, the horse barn, hog and corn house, wind-mill, etc., having been placed here by him. . He married, in 1849, Miss R. Jane Henry, a native of New York State, by whom he has six children-Mionie, Juliette, Josephine, Harriet, Gertrude, and Romeo Franklin. Mr. S. is a Democrat, has an excellent flock of Spanish merino sheep, twenty-four head of cattle, and good horses and hogs, with the usual crops.

CHARLES B. STOCKMAN, farmer; P. O. Mukwonago; born April 18, 1804, in Ver- gennes, Vt .; losing his father at 10, he lived with an uncle in Madrid, N. Y., for six years, " worked out " four years, then began as an employe on a St. Lawrence boat, was master of the sloop Swan for ten years, and in 1835 went to Ohio, reached Chicago in the spring of 1836, sailed on the Van Buren until July, land- ing and spending the " Fourth " in the bustling village of Milwaukee, a company of U. S. cavalry added to the really brilliant festivities of the occasion ; Mr. S. and a Mr. Rayness owned a grocery and also a ferry, during the summer, at Milwaukee ; his present farm was claimed by him in August, and he settled here and built a log house that fall. In 1840, he married Miss Lucinda Jones, a native of Madrid, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., by whom he has three children living-Mary E., William H., and Adell B .; an

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infant son, James, was drowned by falling into the mill-pond near them. Mr. S. supplanted the log house of 1836 with a very large and tasteful frame residence in 1850, which makes a most pleasant resting-place for one who has led so busy and eventful a life. Mr. Stockman is a Jacksonian Democrat, and was the first Assessor of Mukwonago, improvising his own blanks ; he served nine years as Assessor, and was also Supervisor and Justice of the Peace.

J. M. STOCKMAN, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Mukwonago; born April 14, 1807, in Ver- gennes, Vt .; his father dying six years later, his mother removed to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where J. M. lived until 1832, when he settled in Ohio, remaining there until 1837, when he came to Mukwonago, claimed his farm, and two years later bought it; it lies on the bank of what was formerly called Sea-Ser- pen Lake, but, since 1837, Stockman Lake; on this 222-acre farm he built the third frame house in Muk- wonago, sided with black walnut and roofed with oak shingles, laid by himself and Joseph Bond. In 1852, himself, wife and two children went overland to California ; six months were spent in crossing the plains and mountains, an adopted daughter dying on the way; four years were spent in hotel and mercantile business, he building a large hotel in White Oak, Cal .; returning in 1856, he has since lived on his farm in Mukwonago, although he has owned property in and made many visits to Northern Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Married, Sept. 17, 1829, Miss Louisa Moss; she was born in Middlebury, Conn .; removed to and was married in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y .; their son Charles is a miller in Winnebago City, Minn., and Ralph owns a farm in Elmore, Minn. Mr. Stockman is a Republican, and, with his wife, a Baptist; he was one of the founders of, and is now Deacon and Trustee of the Mukwonago Baptist Church.

WII. E. SWAN, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. North Prairie; was born in Suffolk, Eng., Sept. 9, 1820 ; was apprenticed in early life to a shoemaker ; came to America and to Wisconsin in 1840; his father came to Wisconsin by way of Ohio in 1837, and bought a claim on Sec. 18, Mukwonago ; father and son "bached it " here in a 10x14 shanty, doing without chairs or tables for several years ; Mr. S. keeps his first chair as a memento ; after improving and building upon the first location, they sold it to Geo. Henderson, then settled on his present farm of 115 acres ; this he had bought of the Coates estate in 1848, has made all improvements upon it, and built up a pleasant home ; has recently added 150 acres to it -the old Cox farm. Married Jan. 2, 1852, Miss Mary Duncan, of Fifeshire, Scotland ; they have eleven living children-Wm. E., Thomas E., John E., Mary E., James E., Aggie E., Tina E., George E., Frank E., Walter E. and Emily E. In 1874 Mr. Swan put in a stock of goods at North Prairie, giving his eldest son charge of them, though he used to walk from his farm to the village and back, a distance of five miles, nearly every day for five years, at the end of which time his son had cleared the stock and became its owner. Mr. Swan is a Democrat and an Episcopalian.

E. T. TAYLOR, farmer, Secs. 20, 21, 28 and 29; P. O. Mukwonago. Mr. Taylor is descended from a genuine pioneer family ; his grandfather, one of Connecticut's Revolutionary heroes, set- tled, soon after the close of the war, in Vermont; at the last stages of the journey, his brave wife, on snow- shoes, carried her son, Gideon M., into that then new State, where they sometimes actually suffered hun- ger ; G. M. Taylor grew to manhood, married Phoebe Walbridge, and, in 1829, settled on an Indian res- ervation in Genesec Co .; his cabin was built in a forest, so dense that the supplies were, at first, brought in to his family on his back ; he was three miles from any settlement, but cut a road, cleared his farm, and, to-day this is one of the most valuable farms in the county. E. T. Taylor was born in Wolcott, Lamoille Co., Vt., Oct. 31, 1821, grew up in Genesee Co., and married in the town of Alabama, Jan. 14, 1846, Miss Isabel, daughter of Walter and Jane (Christie) Irving; they came to Waukesha Co. in the spring of 1846, with a capital of health and resolution; Mr. Taylor worked out, in 1846, rented a farm in 1847, and bought 160 acres of his present farm in 1848, borrowing $200 to make the first payment. Beginning in a log shanty, he has, from that time, made a constant march of improvement, now owning 358 acres, with a large and tasteful farmhouse for a home, which is backed up by a number of substantial barns, for the use of the herds of Durham and Jersey cattle and the splendid Spanish merinos. Mr. Taylor is a Whig-Re- publican, and has been since 1840, and is a Congregationalist. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have five children- Arthur I., M. Elizabeth, Warren E., Hattie I. and Homer E. Warren E. represents the fourth genera- tion of this family of frontiersmen; he studied medicine in the State University of Wisconsin, graduated from the Chicago Medical College, and located in Downs, Osborn Co., Kan. ; in July, 1879, he built the first business block in that live, new town, and is now in mercantile and banking business there.

WILLIAM WEST, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. North Prairie ; born in Yorkshire, Eng., May 6, 1810 ; learned the carpenter and joiner's trade, and came with his wife to America in 1834 ; lived in Detroit, Mich., until the summer of 1837, when he came with an ox team via Chicago to Mukwonago,

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buying a claim, his present homestead, on Horse Race Prairie ; to pay for this claim, he borrowed $200 of A. R. Hinkley, agreeing to pay double the amount at the end of two years, at 12 per cent interest, but at the end of a year was able to settle the debt by paying $300 ; his first flour and pork were from Detroit, the flour costing $15 and the pork $30 per barrel ; they spent the first winter in a low 10x14 feet shanty, he building, the next season, a log house, where he lived twenty years; the seed for his second crop of wheat cost him $3 per bushel, and the crop was sold in Waukesha at 35 cents per bushel. Mr. West is one of the representative pioneers of this town, now owning 290 acres in Mukwonago and Eagle, on which he has several substantial barns, the pioneer's log house having been exchanged for a roomy and substan- tial farmhouse ; he began here with $300 or $400, a yoke of oxen and a cow. Mr. West is a Democrat, and is closely identified with the history of his town and county, having served seven or eight years as Assessor, also as Supervisor, besides serving at County Surveyor fifteen or sixteen years. Married, in 1834, Miss Elizabeth Youhill, of his native county, by whom he has five living children-Mary (Mrs. John Roberts), Anne (Mrs. Albert Hinkley ), Jane, James, and Thomas W .; Hannah R. (Mrs. Richardson), and Elizabeth (Mrs. Roff ), are not living. Mr. and Mrs. West are members of the Episcopal Church.

GEORGE WHITMORE, farmer, Secs. 16 and 9; P. O. North Prairie or Mukwonago ; born in Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. H., June 29, 1808; is a son of John and Alice (English) Whitmore, he settled, when a young man, in Erie Co., N. Y., Buffalo being then so small a town that he knew every business man in it; in this county, Mr. Whitmore worked out, and also rented farms. Here he married; in 1840, Miss Esther, daughter of Asa and Abby Fuller, of Hamburg, in that county ; in May, 1844, they settled on 240 acres of wild land on Sec. 9, Mukwonago; on this was the log house of a squatter ; a Mr. Moody had hired money of Mr. Whitmore to pay for this claim, but, failing to meet the payment to Mr. Whitmore, gave up the claim to him in exchange for 40 acres and a log house; after two years in the log house, Mr. Whitmore built a frame house, where they spent two winters without its being lathed or plastered ; Mrs. Whitmore relates that she had only one lady caller during her first six months' home- sick residence ; the Indians, following the trail to the east of Spring Lake, were neighbors whom she did not care to have call ; the family settled early, and, as an evidence of its prosperity, we may state that the father and sons own 440 acres of excellent land, and that the cheerless shell of former days is exchanged for a spacious two-story house, complete and comfortable, where the old couple can recall days when wheat was hauled with ox teams to Milwaukee, and sold for 50 cents per bushel, Mr. Whitmore walking home beside his cattle to avoid freezing, and also the two years spent here when there was not a dollar in the house. They have four children living-Clara (Mrs. George Hoag, of Brooklyn, N. Y.), George, Jr., and Martin G. (both on the old homestead), and Emma A. (now with an aunt, Mrs. Groves, in Angelica, N. Y.). Mr. Whitmore is a Jacksonian Democrat, free and outspoken.

ROBERT WILKINSON, deceased ; born, in 1804, in Yorkshire, Eng. ; came to America in company with a brother, in 1834; remained in Canada until the spring of 1838, when he came to Muk- wonago, and bought a claim ; building a shanty, he and Mr. Cobb lived a bachelor's life for months ; potatoes alone were their food, they splitting thousands of rails when they had hardly potatoes enough to sustain life ; the first crop was burned by a prairie fire ; none of the heroic men who dared the dangers and privations of frontier life suffered more than Robert Wilkinson; his wife (formerly Miss Mary Briggs), with their four children, joined him after a time ; this only made a bad matter worse; the first barrel of pork cost $45, and the first barrel of flour cost $40; the children, destitute of shoes, used to husk corn on the frozen ground with old rags tied about their feet ; to pay for his farm, Mr. W. hired money at 40 per cent., and paid $2 for $1 at the end of three years; his board bill, while away from home, was paid with butter, made by his devoted wife, from the milk of their only cow ; Mr. Wilkinson died, in 1877, leaving eight children-Robert, Jane, Richard, Mary, Frances, William, John and Charles ; the mother, at an advanced age, lives in the county. The homestead of 240 acres is now owned by William Wilkinson, who was born in the log house first built herc; this family was rewarded, as may be seen by the substantial brick house, capacious barns and improved farm. Mr. Wilkinson married, in January, 1866, Miss Ann Grimshaw, of Genesee, by whom he has two daughters-Myra and Cora. Is a Democrat; as a stock-breeder, has Spanish" merino sheep, from flock of Perry Craig, Vernon, thirteen subject to register, and two hundred others ; he also owns the thoroughbred stallion, Young Almont, 2 years old, 15} hands high, weighing 1050 lbs .; bred by E. Blackburn, Georgetown, Scott Co., Ky. ; got by Almont, dam by Brown Chief; second dam by Hooten ". Imp ; " the sire of Lula's dam ; Lula's time, 2 : 142; third dam by thoroughbred horse, Bertram; fourth dam by Imported Buzzard ; dam Briggie Lee; got by Hursts Mambrino, he by Old Mambrino Chief; dam by Alexander's Abdallah, the sire of Goldsmith Maid.

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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 155

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