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On the 18th of January, 1859, he married Miss P. J. Gould, daughter of Nia Gould, of Orono, Maine, descended of colonial stock.
Nathaniel B., the youngest son, came to Wisconsin in 1858, in company with his brother-in-law, H. W. Whitney, with whom he was associated in business for some years after. In 1862 he went into the army as second lieutenant of Co. B, 31st Regi- ment Wisconsin Volunteers, served gallantly through the war, and was promoted to the rank of captain. He was one of the most popular and chivalric offi- cers in the service, sharing his quarters and rations with his men. He knew their several names, and sympathized with them in their trials, and was selected by his colonel to execute the death sentence upon seven rebel bushwhackers who had been con- victed by court-martial of numerous murders and out- rages upon peaceable Union citizens. Since the war he has been a member of the firm of Treat and Co.
On the 17th day of July, 1866, he married Miss Eva Read, of Orono; she died July 23, 1874, leav- ing two children, one son and one daughter. Octo- ber 12, 1876, he married Miss Helen Gilman, of Orono, Maine, sister to the wife of his elder brother.
ELIAS W. STEVENS, M.D.,
PORTAGE.
R EV. ELIAS WYCKOFF STEVENS, son of Daniel and Sarah (Hanmer) Stevens, was born in Tompkins county, New York, September 2, 1832. His father, a farmer, and later in life a merchant, moved to Bradford county, Pennsylvania, when Elias was one year old. When he was fifteen the family removed to the West, and settled in Mayville, Dodge county, Wisconsin. Upon the death of the father, two years later, Elias left the farm and apprenticed himself to learn the cabinet maker's trade, at which he worked in all, though not consecutively, five years. About the time he began learning this trade he was converted, and joined the Methodist church.
At the age of eighteen he was licensed by the quarterly conference, and preached more or less before he was out of his apprenticeship. In 1852
the presiding elder appointed him to the Marcellon circuit, in Columbia county, and two years later he joined the annual conference, and was appointed to Lowell, Dodge county. After preaching about three years, he withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal church, and joined the Wesleyan Methodists, on account of the slavery question ; he being a strong, outspoken abolitionist. He was a preacher in this denomination about twelve years, most of the time in central Wisconsin; and during three-fourths of this time was either secretary or president of the annual conference.
As early as 1852 Mr. Stevens began to study medicine, giving to it whatever leisure time was at his command, and continued the same while preach- ing for the Wesleyan people. Later he attended a course of lectures at Bennett Medical College,
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Chicago, and graduated as valedictorian of the first class that graduated from that institution. Previous to receiving his diploma he had practiced medicine about five years, and abandoned it after practicing about as much longer. His location at this time was at Shawano.
In April, 1872, Mr. Stevens founded, at Shawano, the "Western Advance," a paper of high moral tone, devoted to general news and temperance; and during the following year removed to Portage, where he still acts as its editor and proprietor. Although he has met with strong opposition and even losses because of his temperance sentiments, he is fearless in their promulgation, and is willing to suffer persecution if necessary, rather than lay down his pen or close his mouth. He has lectured on temperance, more or less every year, since he was seventeen years old; and at the present time, 1877, is in the lecture field.
In the autumn of 1864 Mr. Stevens enlisted as a private in the 44th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry, and at the end of four months was commissioned its chaplain. During the last four months that he was in the service he was detailed at Paducah, Kentucky, as superintendent of refugees and freedmen, and was mustered out of the service at the close of the war.
Mr. Stevens joined the republican party as soon as it was formed, and voted with it until 1875, when he joined the prohibitionists.
In 1853 he united with the West Wisconsin con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was located, and at present is local elder in that body. He preaches frequently, and sometimes acts as substitute for the presiding elder.
On the 20th of January, 1853, Mr. Stevens was married to Miss Mary R. Clark, of Randolph, Wis- consin. They have had seven children, of whom six are now living. The eldest child, Sarah A., is the wife of Allen H. Fosdick, of Shawano, Wis- consin ; Arthur C., George A. and Elbert E. work with their father in the printing office. Arthur is foreman and local editor. The names of the two youngest are Lura May and Elma Amanda.
Although Mr. Stevens had limited opportunities for accumulating knowledge in his younger years, he made a good use of spare time; mastered all the elementary branches before he had arrived at age, after which he gave considerable attention to higher branches, and long before middle life had obtained a large fund of general as well as theological and medical knowledge. He has always been a student and an independent thinker, and few men in the community in which he resides are as well posted on current events and the questions which agitate the public mind. He makes a good use of his attainments and talents, and the great purpose of his life is to promote the highest interests of his fellow-men.
DON A. RAYMOND, M.D.,
FOND DU LAC.
I T is remarkable that most of our eminent physi- cians are not men raised in the lap of luxury, and favored by the advantage of opportunities of early training, but are men of extraordinary energy of character, who, from the bent of inclination, have made choice of the profession, and have acquired learning despite many obstacles, earning the means to defray the expenses of their education by their own industry and perseverance. The career of the subject of this sketch is a good example of this fact.
The parents of Don A. Raymond were Ebenezer and Rebecca Raymond. His father was a farmer and manufacturer of woodenware. Don was born at Warren, Washington county, Vermont, September 8, 1818. He received his preliminary education in
his native town, and subsequently at the academy at Montpelier, Vermont. After leaving school he studied medicine, and taught school to defray the expenses of his medical tuition. The necessities of his cir- cumstances caused some delay in the prosecution of his studies, but in 1845 he graduated at Castleton Medical College. He returned to his native town and practiced medicine there for two years. In 1847 he removed to Canton, St. Lawrence county, New York, and followed his profession in that place. At the expiration of three years he was appointed surgeon of the State Prison at Clinton, New York, where he remained three years. In 1853 he re- moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he inade his home and established a large practice.
In 1861, at the outbreak of the war, he entered
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the service of the United States, and was surgeon of the 3d regiment of Wisconsin volunteers. After one and a half years' service his health failed, and he was compelled to resign. He returned home, and, after recruiting his health, resumed practice, which so grew upon him that he was obliged to de- cline much of his business on account of overwork. He has gained considerable reputation, has been very successful in his practice, as many of his patients gratefully acknowledge, and his pecuniary success has been satisfactory.
Dr. Raymond is a member of the Fond du Lac Medical Society, as also of the State Medical Soci- ety. On the 15th day of May, 1850, he was married to Miss Maria Foote, by whom he has two daughters. His wife died September 28, 1874, much regretted by a large circle of friends.
Dr. Raymond is not a member of any church, but is highly respected for his moral worth. In politics he has voted with the republican party ever since its organization, and has always been active in benevo- lent and charitable work.
HENRI B. COLE, M.D., BLACK RIVER FALLS.
T THE subject of this sketch, the son of Alfred Cole, a farmer of Putnam county, New York, was born at Carmel, July 6, 1838. His mother's maiden name was Calista J. Wilson. His paternal grandfather was a soldier in the second war with England. Henri attended the district school and worked on the farm until eighteen years of age, his school life including about fourteen or fifteen weeks each year. Though thus restricted in his facilities for gaining an education, he embraced every oppor- tunity for reading, both in the field and at home during the evenings (history being one of his fa- vorite branches of study), and by economizing his time read the works of Josephus, "Rollin's Ancient History," and other standard authors, during spare hours and moments which many lads would have allowed to pass unimproved.
In 1856 he began the study of medicine with Dr. John Quincy Adams, of Carmel, New York, and af- terward attended lectures at the medical depart- ment of the University of New York, from which he graduated in the spring of 1860. He began to practice two years before graduating, during which time he was on the staff of Professor Gunning S. Bedford and in the New York City and Bellevue Hospitals, and thus enjoyed superior facilities for preparing himself for medical and surgical practice.
In the autumn of 1860 Dr. Cole removed to Minnesota, and settled at Faribault, where he con- tinued the practice of his profession until the spring of 1862, when he was commissioned assistant sur- geon of the 5th Minnesota Infantry, which position he resigned before going into the field, in order to accept the same position in the 128th Regiment
New York Infantry, of which one of his old medical professors was surgeon. With this regiment he was ordered to New Orleans, and was detailed to do duty at quarantine near that city, remaining there until the spring of 1863. He was then detailed to St. James Hospital, New Orleans, and during the sum- mer was sent to Cairo, Illinois, with a large number of wounded soldiers ; thence he returned to Louisi- ana in the following autumn, and was ordered to the Barracks, "U. S. A. General Hospital," New Or- leans, where he remained as executive officer until mustered out of the service in July, 1865.
In the fall of 1865 Dr. Cole settled at his present home, and, resuming his profession, has become the leading medical practitioner in Jackson county. As a surgeon he is eminently successful, and has at- tained an enviable reputation throughout his part of the State.
Aside from his professional duties, Dr. Cole has represented the village of Black River Falls as county supervisor for five or six years, and is one of the most active and influential members of the board. He was also clerk of the school district for several years, and was one of the originators of an educational enterprise which resulted in the erection of a thirty thousand dollar school house, and one of the best systems of instruction in the interior of the State; the course of study in the graded school be- ing sufficient to prepare a student for college.
Dr. Cole is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order.
In his political sentiments he is a republican, and for two years was a member of the Republican State Central Committee.
On July 15, 1866, he was married to Miss Clara
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A. Baxter, daughter of Dr. J. B. G. Baxter, surgeon of U. S. volunteers, of La Crosse, Wis. They have one child.
Although not yet forty years of age, Dr. Cole has made a most honorable record. An ardent stu- dent, and largely self-taught, except in his profes-
sion, he has laid a firm foundation of knowledge, and also of character, and is steadily building up the superstructure. He is a man of noble instincts, of rare personal and social qualities, and is highly respected as a citizen, as well as a physician and surgeon.
CHARLES R. GLEASON,
EAU CLAIRE.
C HARLES R. GLEASON was born in the town of Caroline, Tompkins county, New York, on the 8th of September, 1831. His father, a farmer, tanner, and manufacturer of gloves and mittens, moved to Richford, Tioga county, when the son was one year old. There Charles attended school as soon as he was old enough, until he attained his fourteenth year, at which time he became a clerk in a store in Hartford, Cortland county. He re- mained there three years, and employed his leisure time in reviewing his studies and mastering new branches, and at seventeen engaged in teaching at Speedsville, Tompkins county.
At the age of eighteen he accompanied his father's family to Wisconsin, and settled at Kingston, Green Lake county, where he spent nearly three years in the office of the register of deeds. In 1856 he re- moved to Madison, and devoted nearly two years to a clerkship in the State land department, and after- ward was chief clerk of the same between two and three years. In 1860 Mr. Gleason removed to Eau Claire, and was a forwarding and commission mer- chant and grain operator during the next nine years. At the expiration of that time he engaged in a general merchandise and lumber trade, which he continued about three years ; and in the spring of 1872 was elected the first clerk of the city, an office which he still holds.
In 1870 Mr. Gleason was elected to the general
assembly as representative from Eau Claire and Pepin counties, being sent to the legislature for the express purpose of securing the passage of an act for the improvement of the Dallas. Although he suc- ceeded in getting such a bill through the house, it was defeated in the senate. It has since passed both branches of the legislature, and the improve- ment is progressing. Mr. Gleason is a strong man in debate, and did good service for his constituents in the legislature. He was a member of the board of county supervisors for several years, and chair- man of the original town of Eau Claire more than half the time; and besides held other positions of responsibility and trust.
In politics he has always acted with the demo- cratic party, and is one of its leaders in Eau Claire county. He is a Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity.
He was married on the 2d day of April, 1852, to Frances I. Miller, of St. Marie, Wisconsin, and by her has two children.
Throughout his career Mr. Gleason's conduct has been marked by uprightness, promptness and energy ; he is a man of public spirit, and, since becoming a resident of Eau Claire, has taken a most active in- terest in all local improvements, and matters pertain- ing to the prosperity and development of the city, and by his genuine manly course has gained the high esteem of his fellow-citizens.
ALBERT E. POUND,
CHIPPEWA FALLS.
O NE of the prominent builders of the thriving city of Chippewa Falls is Albert E. Pound, a native of Warren county, Pennsylvania. He was born June 2, 1831. His parents, Elijah and Judith
Pound, were Quakers, and had moved from Roch- ester, New York, a short time prior to Albert's birth. In 1838 the family returned to western New York, and after experimenting a short time in Fourierism
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at Clarkson, in Orleans county, removed to the city of Rochester, where the father and sons were em- ployed in a woolen factory. Not meeting with that degree of success which he had hoped, he resolved to try the West, and accordingly, in 1847, moved with his family to Rock county, Wisconsin, and rented a farm ten miles from Janesville. Here Albert's time was so fully occupied in assisting in the farm work that he had little opportunity for mental improve- ment, although he made good use of such as he had in the district schools. Being possessed of an in- quisitive turn of mind, he improved his spare hours, out of school, in examining into the various sciences and other branches of study. About 1850 he made a lecturing tour with his younger brother, Thaddeus, speaking on psychology, animal magnetism and other kindred topics, and exposing the tricks of apostles of the pseudo sciences.
About 1851, in company with his brother, he re- turned to New York, and attended school several terms in the Rushford, Alleghany county, Academy, teaching occasionally ; and on the 31st of October, 1855, the two married two sisters, Albert choosing Sarah E. and Thaddeus Susan A. Loomis, daughters of Nathan S. Loomis, of Oneida county. During that same year our subject returned to Wisconsin and settled at Chippewa Falls, and, having decided to make it his permanent home, removed his family hither in 1857. He was at the first employed there as time-keeper in the saw-mill of H. S. Allen. At the end of one year he took charge of Mr. Allen's manufacturing and merchandising interests at Yellow River Mills, five miles east of the Falls, and in 1862 became a member of the firm of Pound, Halbert and Co., at the Falls, and continued a member of the same until 1869, when he became secretary of the
Union Lumbering Company, a capacity in which he acted until March, 1875. Since that date he has been a member of the firm of A. E. Pound and Co., his partners being Messrs. H. S. Allen and Thomas L. Halbert, two of the oldest and most substantial business men in the place. They have the largest mercantile house in the city, are lessees of the Union Lumbering Company's mills and river works, and in all departments combined are doing an annual bus- iness of nine hundred thousand dollars. In 1876 they cut thirty-two million feet of lumber, eight million of shingles, seven million of lath and six hundred and fifty thousand of pickets.
Mr. Pound belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and has taken the thirty-second degree.
In politics he has always been a republican, and in 1871 was elected to the State legislature, the only important political office for which he would ever consent to run. He was known as a working mem- ber of the general assembly of the State. He was mayor of Chippewa Falls about 1871, and has been a member of the school board several years, and is still its leading spirit in all public enterprises; there is no warmer friend of education in the Chippewa valley than he. He has six children, and uses every means for their mental culture and improve- ment.
Mr. Pound is not a time server; he is bold and outspoken, freely, fearlessly and fully expressing his views on any question under consideration. He is clear, concise and ready in debate, a perfect master of the details of business, and forward in all schemes looking to local improvements in any respect.
He is a man of generous and liberal nature, and in an unostentatious manner contributes freely of his means to all worthy charities.
HON. JAMES M. BINGHAM, CHIPPEWA FALLS.
JAMES MONROE BINGHAM, son of Horace ' during that time continued his mathematical, class- and Rachel (Howard) Bingham, was born in the |ical and other studies. During the latter years of his teaching in New York State he was principal of the Perry Center Academy and the Leroy High School.
town of Perry, Wyoming county, New York, Febru- ary 3, 1828. His father, a well-to-do farmer, was a soldier in the war of 1812. James remained at home until his twentieth year, aiding his father, and received his education at the common schools and the Perry Center Academy. After leaving home he was engaged in teaching some twelve terms, and
In the autumn of 1853 he removed to the West, and passed the following winter in Michigan, teach- ing, near Detroit. In the ensuing spring he pro- ceeded to Chicago, and thence during the summer
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to Palmyra, Jefferson county, Wisconsin. While in Leroy he began the study of law with F. B. Bissell : afterward resumed the same in Chicago, and finally completed them at Palmyra. After being admitted to the bar in 1856 he began the practice of his pro- fession at Palmyra, and continued there until 1871, when he removed to Chippewa Falls, and there still continues his practice in partnership with Mr. W. L. Pierce, under the firm name of Bingham and Pierce. Mr. Bingham stands at the head of the Chippewa county bar, and in the front ranks of the legal fra- ternity of the eleventh circuit.
He was a member of the general assembly of Wis- consin during the years 1863, 1864, 1870, 1871 and 1874, and was speaker in 1870. During all these sessions of the legislature he was a member of the judiciary committee, and chairman of the same in 1863 and 1869. These positions as speaker and as chairman of the most important committee in- dicate his standing in the lower house of the legis- lature.
In the summer of 1864 Mr. Bingham entered the military service as major of the 40th Infantry, a
hundred-days regiment, and was stationed at or near Memphis.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and has been high priest of the chapter at Chippewa Falls since its organization.
In politics he has always been a republican, and, as his history indicates, has been a favorite of the party.
In religions sentiment he is a Congregationalist, and is a trustee of the Presbyterian society, there being no Congregational organization in the place.
Mrs. Bingham is a daughter of the late Dr. W. C. Dwight, of Moscow, New York. She has three children. She is a woman of culture and refine- ment, and is active and benevolent in all charitable measures.
Mr. Bingham stands high both as a court and jury. lawyer. He is thoroughly posted on legal questions, and polished both in manners and lan- guage. He speaks slowly, sometimes wittily, more often eloquently, and all his sentences exhibit the training of a scholar and a complete mastery of the English language.
HON. JOHN E. MANN, MILWAUKEE.
JUDGE JOHN E. MANN, of Milwaukee, Wis- consin, was born in Schoharie county, New York, March 4, 1821. His parents were George W. and Elizabeth Mann. His father was a farmer. His parents were upright people and gave him excellent moral precepts and example.
duties of that office until January, 1867, when he removed to Milwaukee. On his arrival at Mil- waukee he formed a copartnership with F. W. Cutzhansen, which continued until the 5th of Feb- ruary, 1874, when he was appointed by Governor Taylor judge of the county court, of Milwaukee county, Hon. H. L. Palmer resigned. This office he still holds. The judge of Milwaukee county has concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court of said county to the amount of five millions of dollars, and also jurisdiction in the probate court of said county.
He entered the sophomore class in Williams Col- lege in 1840, but after remaining two terms he left Wilhams and entered Union College, Schenectady, where he graduated in the classical course in 1843. After graduating he entered the law office of Jacob Houck, junior. He was admitted to the bar in Judge Mann was raised a Protestant, and still holds that faith. His present political views are democratic, though he has never been an extreme partisan. He is a warm patriot, and believes in this country first and last. Before coming to Wis- consin he was judge-advocate of the Militia of New York. 1847 at Utica, New York, at the general term. He commenced practice in Schoharie county, where he followed his profession for seven and a half years. In May of the year 1854 he came to Wisconsin and located at West Bend, Washington county. Here he formed a copartnership with Hon. L. F. Frisbee, which existed until April, 1859, when he was elected On October 22, 1845, he married Catharine Dietz, granddaughter of Hon. William Dietz, member of congress in the days of Martin Van Buren. Judge judge of the third circuit to fill a vacancy occasioned by Judge Larabee's resignation. In 1860 he was reelected for a term of six years, and discharged the | Mann and his wife were raised on adjoining farms
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from infancy. His father gave him his education; when that was finished he was thrown upon his own resources.
Judge Mann's characteristics are those of strong common sense, stern integrity, unremitting industry. His views of general subjects are broad and com- prehensive, and being a student from inclination and from habit, he arrives at his conclusions care-
fully. His knowledge of the principles of the law is almost perfect, and he applies them with discre- tion and rigid impartiality. He is brief in speech, reserved and unobtrusive in manner, benevolent in all his impulses, strong in his friendships, and firm in all his convictions of duty. He personates to those who know him the honest man, who is " the noblest work of God."
JOSEPH M. MORROW,
SPARTA.
JOSEPH MCKEEN MORROW is the son of Henry Morrow, cabinet maker, and was born January 1, 1832, in Aurora, Erie county, New York. His mother's maiden name was Mary McKeen, whose father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Some of her elder relatives were engaged in the struggle for independence.
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