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The town has had to be at considerable expense in building roads and bridges, and also in the construction of a levee on the bank of the Wisconsin River, to prevent it, in stages of high water, overflowing and so passing over a portion of the town, to Fox River, thereby keeping the land too wet for cultivation.
The land was generally surveyed by the General Government in 1850 and 1851, the town- ship lines being run in 1850 and subdivision lines in 1851, after which, and before the land was brought into market, the settlers had a chance to take out pre-emption papers on their claims, and prove them up, without interference of the land speculators.
The first piece of land entered in the town was August 11, 1852, by Jacob Jacobia, the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 26, Township 13, Range 8; the next was on August 28, by William McDonald, the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 23 ; the third entry was by Henry Lintz, on August 29, the south half of the southeast quar- ter of Section 33; the fourth was by Jerry Devine, on the 30th of August, the north half of the northeast quarter of Section 24, and all in Township 13, Range 8.
Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, by Portage .-- This church was organized in 1851, by Rev. H. A. Preus, with about fifteen families. Mr. Preus was called to the pastorate, and served until 1865, when Rev. Sh. S. Regue was chosen, serving until 1872, when Rev. B. Hovde took charge of the work, remaining until 1879; Rev. E. J. Petersen was then called. A small church was erected in 1873, on the northeast quarter of Section 20. In 1879, there were twenty families connected with the congregation.
Methodist Episcopal Church .-- A class was organized in the schoolhouse of District No. 2, in 1853, and a Sunday school shortly after. Meetings of the class and occasional preaching by ministers in charge of the circuit have since been held at the same place.
German Methodist Episcopal Church .- On Section 26, Township 13, Range 7, a German Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1858. A church house was erected in 1860, at a cost of $800. Regular services have since been held, and a large congregation formed.
German Evangelical Lutheran Church .- The Germans living in the west part of town erected a log house for religions purposes, in 1853, when a congregation was formed, bearing the above name.
In 1851, a post office was established, which was given the name of Beaver Creek, with E. F. Lewis as the first Postmaster. Mr. Lewis continued to serve until elected Sheriff in the fall of 1856, when he resigned in favor of Nelson Farrar. Mr. Farrar served as such two years, but. failing to forward his bond to the Post Office Department for approval, and failing, also, to account for government property in his possession, the office was discontinued. In 1868, it was re-established under the name of Lewiston, and E. F. Lewis was again placed in charge.
The old pinery road strikes the town on Section 36, Township 13, Range 8, leaving on the line between Sections 2 and 3, Township 13, Range 7. The new pinery road strikes the town on Section 24, Township 13, Range 8, and leaves it on Section 5. For many years, the
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old pinery road was the only thoroughfare between Fort Winnebago and the pineries at Grand Rapids.
In 1857, the La Crosse & Milwaukee, now the La Crosse Division, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, was built through the town, entering on Section 1, Township 12, Range 8, taking a northwesterly direction, passing out on Section 22, Township 13, Range 7. A station was located on Section 27, which was given the name Lewiston, and a post office estab- lished there by the name of Colburn.
E. F. Lewis, in 1872, commenced at his home in Lewiston the manufacture of ladies' and gents' underwear, an article which has given universal satisfaction, his trade yearly increasing. The goods, instead of being woven, are knit, and knit the double rib stitches, making them very elastic, and conforming closely to the form of the body and limbs. There is no shrinking or stretching, from wearing or washing, and fitting closely to the body, they admit of no currents of air next to the skin, thus preventing the chill one experiences on going out doors, or passing from a warm into a cold or damp room. In the winter of 1879, to this indns- try, Mr. Lewis added that of knitting socks by hand, thus furnishing employment to many deserving poor of his neighborhood. From using about one hundred pounds the first year, the amount was increased to over two thousand pounds in 1879.
In Township 13, Range 8, the general altitude is about two hundred and thirty to two hundred and fifty feet, but on the castern and northern sides are sandstone bluffs, running up one hundred to two hundred feet higher. This town is watered entirely by the branches of a tributary of the Fox, Neenah Creek, or the "Big Slough," which trends within half a mile of the Wisconsin, on Section 33. Beginning in Township 13, Range 6 (town of Newport), and Township 13, Range 7, the ground rises rapidly toward the north and west. On the west side of this town, and extending into Newport (Township 13, Range 7), is a tamarack marsh four miles across from north to south, and three from east to west.
There are no villages in the town, but two post offices-Lewiston and Colburn. The last is at Lewiston station, on Section 27, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
The following comprises the town officers from 1853 to the present time :
1853-Samuel A. Reader, Chairman ; William Clark, Frederick Martin, Supervisors : L. C. Jacobs, Clerk; Riley Woodford, Treasurer : William Finnegan, Assessor.
1854 -- E. F. Lewis, Chairman : A. Barmore, James Devine, Supervisors : Peter O'Meara, Clerk ; Riley A. Woodford, Treasurer ; G. C. Snider, Joseph Hess, Assessors. Peter O'Meara resigned. G. M. W. Carey appointed November 8, 1854.
1855-Jacob Jacobia, Chairman : John A. Gund, Francis Dane, Supervisors ; William Finnegan, Clerk : M. B. Easting, Treasurer: James Devine, Assessor. Wilham Finnegan resigned. James Devine appointed November 8, 1855.
1856-John Ewing, Chairman : Mons Johnson, Alfred West. Supervisors : E. F. Lewis, Clerk : L. V. Rich, Treasurer : O. P. Johnson, Assessor. E. F. Lewis resigned November 4. 1856. L. C. Jacobs appointed.
1857-Samuel A. Reader, Chairman : Lars Isaacson, A. A. West, Supervisors : L. C. Jacobs, Clerk ; Riley A. Woodford, Treasurer : E. Corning, Assessor.
1858-Peleg Thomas. Chairman : John A. Gund, Michael Colman, Supervisors ; James Devine, Clerk; Oscar F. Robins, Treasurer; E. B. Craig, Assessor.
1859 -- James Devine, Chairman ; Andrew Jertson, A. A. West, Supervisors ; William K. Harvey, Treasurer ; S. V. Hanft, Thomas Norton, Assessors.
1860-James Devine, Chairman : Alfred A. West, Lars Isaacson, Supervisors ; W. K. Harvey, Treasurer : S. V. Hanft, Clerk : Joseph Bannister. Assessor.
1861 -- L. D. Dean. Chairman : A. A. West, Albert Scharf, Supervisors : William Mc- Donald, Treasurer: G. M. W. Carey, Clerk : J. W. Treadway, Assessor.
1862-James Devine, Chairman : Andrew Jertson. Theodore Eickholt, Supervisors : Joseph Clark, Clerk : E. B. Craig, Treasurer : S. V. Hanft, Assessor. S. V. Hanft resigned. James , Devine appointed August 10, 1862. Joseph Clark resigned January 27, 1863.
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Andrew Peterson appointed February 2, 1863: resigned February 28, 1863, and Joseph Murphy appointed Clerk.
1863-James Devine, Chairman ; Theodore Eickholt, Andrew Jertson, Supervisors ; G. M. W. Carey, Clerk : E. B. Craig, Treasurer ; Albert Scharf, Assessor.
1864-E. B. Craig, Chairman ; Andrew Jertson, Fred Klein, Supervisors ; Albert Scharf, Clerk ; James Devine, Treasurer : Theodore Eickholt, Assessor. Albert Scharf resigned. Thomas McFarlane appointed April 21, 1864. G. M. W. Carey appointed Clerk, September 7, 1864, in place of Thomas McFarlane, gone to the war. Thomas Norton appointed Side Supervisor, in place of Andrew Jertson, October 5, 1854, gone to the war. B. H. Wilmsen appointed Treasurer, December 28, 1864, in place of James Devine, having removed from town.
1865-E. B. Craig, Chairman : Lars Isaacson, Thomas Norton, Supervisors ; G. M. W. Carey, Clerk ; B. H. Wilmsen, Treasurer ; Fred Klein, Assessor. Fred Klein did not qualify. G. M. W. Carey appointed Mav 29, 1865, in place of Fred Klein.
1866-E. Corning, Chairman : S. Cushman, Lars Isaacson, Supervisors : F. O. Barney, Clerk ; M. W. Smith, Treasurer ; William McDonald, Assessor. F. O. Barney did not qualify. E. F. Lewis appointed Clerk, April 11, 1866. E. Corning resigned January 7, 1867, B. B. Utter appointed in his place. E. F. Lewis being absent from town, G. M. W. Carey appointed to fill vacancy Jannary 11, 1867.
1867 -- M. W. Smith, Chairman ; William McDonald, Hilarius Ehr, Supervisors : Jacob Thielen, Clerk ; Herman Brane, Treasurer ; B. H. Wilmsen, Assessor. B. H. Wilmsen ' refused to accept the office as Assessor. E. Corning appointed Assessor.
1868-M. W. Smith, Chairman ; Fred Siewert, Andrew Jertson, Supervisors ; Jacob Thielen, Clerk ; Herman Brane, Treasurer ; Albert Scharf, Assessor. M. W. Smith resigned October 3, 1868; E. F. Lewis, appointed. E. F. Lewis resigned January 29, 1869; Jolin Ewing appointed Chairman.
1869-William McDonald, Chairman ; Fred Siewert, Andrew Isaacson, Supervisors ; G. M. W. Carey, Clerk ; John Ewing, Treasurer; Jacob Thielen, Assessor.
1870-E. F. Lewis, Chairman : Andrew Isaacson, Mathias Wagner, Supervisors ; B. H. Wilmsen, Clerk : Albert Scharf, Treasurer : Herman Brane, Assessor.
1871-E. B. Craig, Chairman : Angust Kaufmann, E. R. Brown, Supervisors ; B. H. Wilmsen, Clerk ; Hermann Brane, Treasurer : Albert Scharf, Assessor.
1872-Albert Scharf, Chairman ; Ole M. Bendixson, Pierce Joyce, Supervisors; E. F. Lewis, Clerk : Sven Isaacson, Treasurer : Hermann Brane, Assessor.
1873-Albert Scharf, Chairman : Ole M. Bendixson, James Clark, Supervisors ; E. F. Lewis, Clerk ; Peter Tennesson, Treasurer : Hermann Brane, Assessor.
1874-Albert Scharf, Chairman; Fred Malish, Pierce Joyce, Supervisors ; B. F. Wilmsen, Clerk : Peter Tennesson, Treasurer ; Ilermann Brane, Assessor.
1875-Albert Scharf, Chairman ; Pierce Joyce, Fred Malish, Supervisors : B. H. Wilmsen. Clerk ; Patrick H. McMahon. Treasurer: Joseph Murphy. Assessor.
1876-Peter Tennesson, Chairman ; H. Ehr. Volney P. Dean, Supervisors : E. F. Lewis, Clerk : Ludwig Wagner, Treasurer ; Gottlieb Windus, Assessor.
1877 -- Albert Scharf, Chairman ; Volney P. Dean, Ludwig Wagner, Supervisors ; Dennis Leary, Clerk : Fred Malish, Treasurer ; E. B. Craig, Assessor.
1878-John H. Clark, Chairman ; Sievert Christian, William Mews, Supervisors : B. H. Wilmsen, Clerk : Andrew Jertson, Treasurer ; E. B. Craig, Assessor.
1879-John H. Clark, Chairman ; Pierce Joyce, Andrew Isaacson, Supervisors ; B. H. Wilmsen, Clerk ; Ole M. Bendixson, Treasurer : Valney P. Dean, Assessor.
1880-John H. Clark, Chairman ; Andrew Isaacson, August Kaufmann, Supervisors ; B. H. Wilmsen, Clerk ; Ole M. Bendixson, Treasurer : Frederick Malish, Assessor.
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TOWN OF LODI.
In the spring of 1844, G. M. Bartholomew, then a citizen of Illinois. being advised by his physician to seek a better climate than that State afforded, visited Lodi Valley and deter- mined that either here or in Portage Prairie he would in the future reside. Returning to Illi- nois, his description of Lodi Valley so charmed his brother, Marston C. Bartholomew, that the latter determined also to emigrate ; therefore in the early spring of 1845, he bade farewell to his family and sought out the "land of promise." He arrived here in March, located a claim and erected, with the aid of a friendly Indian, his cabin upon the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 22. George M., the brother, came back in April, 1845, and selected the southeast quarter of Section 22. In May of the same year came Rev. H. Maynard, who settled upon Section 21. Mr. Maynard brought with him his family, his wife being the first white woman in the valley. In September, the two Bartholomews brought their families out, and in Decem- ber following, James McCloud came and settled upon Section 27. These four were all the set- lers in this town during that year.
In the spring of 1846 came Isaac H. Palmer. with the intention of locating a new village. He, too, settled upon Section 27, and in April of that year erected a saw-mill. the first in the town. During that year there also settled here Adam and Nathan Bowman, Joseph Brown. Jacob Hurley, Amos and Jehu Stroud, Aaron Chalfant, William G. Simons. G. T. Simons. Johnson Sowards, John Chance and Simeon Ryder. In 1847 came T. S. Wells, John Foote, H. M. Ayer, Ira Polley, Alonzo Waterbury and Peter Froland.
When the first settlers came, in 1845, they found about two hundred Indians encamped on the creek, near where the village of Lodi was afterward located. These were mostly Winneba- goes : a few were Brothertowns. During that season, they were peaceable and friendly, and in the fall they all disappeared. In 1847, they came back to the number of about eighty, with their chief, and encamped on the creek below where the Bartholomews had settled. They soon began to show their natural propensities, and the property of the settlers occasionally disappeared. One of the settlers, G. M. Bartholomew, returned to his home, after an absence of a few days, and found the Indians had stolen a part of his hogs. He went to the chief and complained. The chief denied, but the complainant insisted, and resolutely told Mr. Chief that he could have till the next morning when the sun was " so high," telling him how high by pointing, to be off. The chief promised to be off at once and to go to the " Milwaukee woods." Thereupon, Bartholomew roused the settlers to the number of about twenty-five, and the next morning, when the sun was " so high," they appeared at the spot " with horse and gun," but the Indians had left. Fearing they might again camp near enough to continue their depredations, our cavalry followed their trail, and found them just striking their tents on Rowan's Creek, in the town of Dekorra. As the settlers approached the camping ground, they were discovered by two hunters, who were apparently going out to bring in some game, who, seeing the fearful array and fearing more to follow. turned their ponies and rapidly returned. The pursuers halted and Bartholo- mew went forward to the camping ground and inquired if this were " Milwaukee woods." The chief answered " No:" whereupon he was informed he could have just five minutes in which to make his departure. At the expiration of the time named, the redskins were on the move. ' 'The pursuers followed at a respectful and effective distance, as far as Poynette, or where the village was subsequently located, and then returned to their homes. The Indians never reappeared to make further trouble.
Notwithstanding no more trouble was experienced, the settlers were continually on the alert. and on one occasion were considerably frightened by the report that a large body of Indians were marching on the settlement. It appears that one evening as one of the early settlers was busy doing up his chores, his strong frame was made to tremble at the sight of several hundred redskins, who had made their appearance on the prairie not half a mile distant. He could plainly see they were marching in solid ranks on the beautiful village of Lodi, and that some- thing must be done at once, or every settler in the vicinity would fall a victim to the merciless
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sons of the forest. Accordingly he quickly loaded his family into a wagon and hastened to the village and spread the news. Then there was hurrying to and fro, and every man's team was brought into requisition to convey the women and children to places of safety, while the stronger sex, save those with the teams, were armed with muskets, rifles, shotguns, pistols and bowie- knives, and forming into ranks marched to the brow of the hill, on the south side of the village for the purpose of meeting the enemy in open engagement. The brow of the hill was reached. and it was discovered that the Indians had halted and turned their ponies loose to graze on the prairies. Then a little reconnoitering was done, and it was ascertained the savages had sud- denly been transformed into a herd of cattle !
In the summer of 1846 the first marriage occurred, being that of H. W. Kingsbury and Miss Nancy Chalfant. They were married by Henry Carpenter, Esq., of Portage City.
The first sad affair that cast a gloom of sorrow over the settlers of Lodi Valley, and called them together in mourning, was the announcement of the death of Mr. Chalfant's son, aged about two years, who died in November, 1846.
The first white person born in the town was Josephine, daughter of G. M. and Catherine Bartholomew, April 30, 1846. She grew to womanhood in the vicinity and within the village of Lodi, and was married to William H. Chapin, October 29, 1866.
On the organization of the county in 1846, the County Commissioners ordained that the west half of Township 10, Range 9, Township 10, Range 8, and the Fractional Township 10, Range 7, should comprise a precinct to be known by the name of Pleasant Valley Precinct. Marston C. Bartholomew, Aaron Chalfant and H. Maynard were appointed Judges of Elections, which were to be held at the house of Marston C. Bartholomew. The same boundary lines were retained on the organization of the town, January, 1849.
The first election for town officers was held at the log schoolhouse, about one-fourth mile northeast of the village of Lodi, April 3, 1849. The legal voters assembled at the schoolhouse at 10 o'clock A. M., and were called to order by Isaac H. Palmer. On motion of Mr. Palmer. George M. Bartholomew was chosen Moderator, and James O. Eaton, Clerk. The hotel of Freedom Simons, in the village of Lodi, was chosen as the place for holding the next annual meeting, and one hundred dollars was voted to be raised by taxation to defray the expenses of the town for the year. Marston C. Bartholomew was elected Chairman of the Board of Super- visors : William H. MeIntosh and Ira Polly, Supervisors ; James O. Eaton, Clerk : William G. Simons, Assessor : Timothy S. Wells, Treasurer; John Foote, Superintendent of Schools : James McCloud, Horace M. Ayer, Lester Ray, Constables ; John Slown, Aaron Chalfant, Simeon Ryder, James Thomas, Justices of the Peace. Those voting at this election were Isaac HI. Palmer, Robert Hopkins, Samuel B. Farrington, Lewis Baldwin, Lester Ray, James Thomas, O. A. Kilburn, George Lyman, W. E. Catheart, Joseph B. Hopkins, James Thomas. Jr., Leander Drew, Timothy S. Wells, Jacob Dawson, William G. Simons, Simeon Ryder, John Foote, Reuben Ring, Nathan Bowman, Samuel Ring, Jacob Hurley, G. M Bartholomew, J. O. Eaton, John Slown, H. M. Ayer, Johnson Soward, James MeCloud, Joseph Brown, M. C. Bar- tholomew, Moses Chase, Freedom Simons, William H. McIntosh, J. B. Tabor, Aaron Chalfant, William B. Partridge, Silas Ryder, Joseph Stretch. Total, 37. Of these there were still living in the town, in March, 1880, Isaac H. Palmer, Timothy S. Wells, William G. Simons, John Foote, G. M. Bartholomew, J. O. Eaton, H. M. Ayer, James McCloud, Joseph Brown, M. C. Bartholomew, Freedom Simons, William H. Melntosh and J. B. Tabor. Total, 13.
The first school was taught in a house erected in 1846, on Section 27. The building was a small log house, and the school was taught in the summer of that year by Miss Mary Yockey. The next schoolhouse was a frame building, erected in 1851, also on Section 27. Mrs. S. J. Andrews in the Lodi Journal, July 21, 1872, thus speaks of the old log schoolhouse: "That primitive institution of learning, which contained no desk but a board fastened at a convenient height, for the purpose, against the wall, or rather logs, seats of the plainest kind, with no backs. and a floor through the crevices of which snakes and mice often emerged to our delight. was situated upon the rise of ground, then shaded by lofty wide-spreading oaks, near where Mrs.
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Bower's house now stands. And the boiling, bubbling springs at the foot of the hill, the leafy coverts so admirably arranged for miniature housekeeping-and other considerations, drew the round-eyed, wriggling pupils, full many a time, from the sight of the not too vigilant school- mistress, under cover of the weak subterfuge of studying in the shade. I think I see them now, gay gamboliers in verdant summer bowers. their rippling laughs and gleeful shouts sounding strangely far off and echo-like adown the corridors of time. Play on, blindfolded children. types of innocency and thoughtlessness, for just before you on life's journey are tears and open graves, thorns that will tear your tender feet, and icy-wind storms that may blast, or cover with perpetual snow, the frazile buds of promise in the gardens of your hearts. Or, if your steps grow laggard from weariness, go in to your indulgent teacher and con your right-soon forgotten tasks. There are lessons for you in the future of distrust and indifference, which contact with a world without a heart must teach. They will be bitter ofttimes, and you cannot forget them. though you would."
The first entry of land was the northwest quarter of Section 20. E. Hale purchased and patented June 21, 1836. I. H. Palmer made three of the first entries by an actual settler. being a portion of Section 27, on which he laid out the village of Lodi.
The town of Lodi is skirted on the south and east by the edges of the high limestone country. North and west of this edge, which is ragged, sending out irregular projecting points, the general surface is 200 to 300 feet lower, but this lowland includes a number of limestone- capped outliers, some of which have an area of several square miles, and reach as great altitudes as attained by the limestone country to the south and east-that is, 500 to 600 feet. Consid- erable areas of prairie occur in southern and eastern Lodi. The principal stream is Spring Creek, which, heading in the towns to the southward, traverses Lodi from south to north with a fall of some sixty feet. Along its valley the county, though well down in the sandstone, shows a rich alluvial soil. A little marsh occurs along Spring Creek.
The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad was built through the town in 1871, passing through Sections 8, 17, 16, 21, 27 and 34. . Two villages have been laid out. Lodi on Section 27, and Okee on Section 8.
During the four years' struggle for national existence, the part performed by Lodi was such as will illustrate the character and patriotism of her people. The call was no sooner made by the President than many of her brave sons responded. Company H of the Second Regiment. Capt. Randolph (the first company entering the United States service), was largely made up from this town.
From June, 1861, to November, 1863, there went out 120 men represented in seventeen regiments. Of these were G. H. Irwin, Company G, Second Wisconsin Volunteers ; William L. Black. J. R. Bryan, T. D. Bahn, F. J. Burnett, D. C. Edwards, Stephen Fauss, Jehu Grover. G. M. Humphrey, O. S. Hawkins. D. C. Holdridge. Thomas Knutesen, Jonathan Kirk. Edward Louie, William McIntosh, Thomas Murphy. Charles W. Moon, B. F. Stahl, W. F. Turner. H. I]. Titus, Sidney Wells, J. G. D. Wall, Charles Ericksen, James Osborn, J. D. Lyman. Alfred Armor. Fifth Regiment ; M. C. Bartholomew, Joseph M. Bartholomew, John Bartholomew. Samuel Bachman.
Company A, Seventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (second company raised). Capt. George Bill-Henry Barney, T. J. Buchanan, Michael Burke, William Chalfant, Edward Chalfant, Ebin B. Dunlap, John Grant, Alexander Hall, E. B. Hines, John Jorgesen, Samuel J. Osborne, Lucius Phinney, Philander Phinney, George D. Phinney, John Quinn, John Small. Thomas Twett, Henry T. Turner, James Morrison, Joseph M. Ring, S. J. Morrow, Stephen D. Duel William D. H. Rood, Silas C. Casper, Horace A. Foster, Ole Aufresen, Marcus John- son. Henry Nolf. Stephen II. Ward. M. Landers, Daniel Leitch, Hiram Brown, Joseph Brown.
Company H. Twenty-third Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (third company raised). Capt. E. Howard Irwin-Samuel Holdridge, Thomas C. Armor, Joseph M. Bartho- lomew, A. W. Baker, J. Cornelius Brown, Henry A. Bates, H. L. Bancraft, A. S. Burlin- game, Charles L. Brown, Thomas Bunker, Simon Cleland, John Cavanaugh, Joseph R.
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Collin, Joseph Church, Cornelius Dever, Thomas J. Dowden, Joseph R. Eells, F. A. G. Eaton, Thomas Farber, E. Howard Irwin, G. W. Kingsley, A. J. Kyle, H. C. Lockwood, John Lawrence, James Pettit, George Phinney, Anthony Phillips, James Quinn, Leroy Riddle, William Ring, Ransom P. Ray, G. E. Reynolds, J. F. Stahl, C. F. Stacker. John Sweet, John R. Scott, Seth B. Tannhill, Thomas Townsend, L. F. Warner, Lean- der Wells, Thomas Yule, George Van Lone, W. W. Hurd, Robert Travis, William Travis. Thoms Anfreson, Ed. Moore, J. C. Stahl, T. R. Cross, G. W. Barney, W. H. Dowden,. G. T. Hill, J. B. Rogers, Isaiah Van Brocklin, Trueman Piper, Edwin Chapman. Of this number, November, 1863, seventeen had died in the service of their country-eight were killed in battle and nine died of disease. Twenty-two others had been wounded, and twenty-five discharged in consequence of wounds or disease. At this time Lodi had furnished one in eleven and a half of her entire population. The quota of the town under all calls was eighty-four, therefore an excess of thirty-six had gone out to battle. Says a writer in a local paper at that time : " Had we been able to have procured credit for our excess, we would not only have been clear of the late draft, but we would also have had more than enough to clear us from the next 300,000. Had the whole State done as well as we have here, she would have sent 67,650 men to the war. Had New York done as well she would have sent 340,000. Had the loyal States all done as well, counting only 50 per cent of the population of the border States, we could have had an army all told, of 1,900,000 men ; and we would have in the field, to-day, an army of 1.235,000 effective men. Lodi has had her representatives on many of the most fiercely contested battle- fields of the war. The first Bull Run was witness to the valor of her sons, and Gettysburg was the crowning glory of many noble deeds. It is no slight honor that fifty of our townsmen are. . or have been, connected with the Old Iron Brigade. Not at the East alone, have our brethren displayed their heroism. Nothing could have required greater self-denial than what our boys were obliged to endure before and during the siege of Vicksburg. But without a murmur they bore it all for the good of the cause."
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