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TOWN OF SCOTT.
Among the first settlers in this town were Matthew W. Patton, Samuel McConachie, William Jones, John G. Evans, John Smith, John McConachie, George Payne, Edward Root, James Ingle- hart, Theodore Thomas, John Sawyer and John Dodge. The first mentioned moved on to his claim in the fall of 1845, the others coming in the following spring or soon after. At this time, neigh- bors were like angel's visits, "few and far between," while the nearest post office was Fox Lake. For their mill privileges they were compelled to go to Beaver Dam, or to Catfish mill, fifteen miles south of Madison. Mr. Inglehart, on one occasion, went to Beaver Dam with a load of wheat to be ground, and was informed that it could not be done inside of four weeks. Not wishing to be delayed so long, he prevailed upon the miller to exchange a small sack of flour for some wheat, and returned home, divided it between four families, and set out for Catfish mills. At this place he was more fortunate, being enabled to return home in about ten days with his flour. On the 30th of December at 11 o'clock A. M., rain began to fall and continued for two hours, when it commenced snowing, continuing all night, covering the earth to a depth of eighteen inches. This snow remained upon the ground until the following spring. The neigh- bors of Mr. Inglehart experienced great difficulty in procuring food, many of them during the entire winter living on buckwheat cakes, the wheat being ground by Inglehart in a small coffee- mill, and then run through a small sieve. Fifteen bushels of buckwheat were ground in this manner.
As in many other places, the Methodist " circuit rider " was the first to wend his way into this new country with the "story of the Cross." This was in 1847, since which time ministers of other denominations have presented their peculiar views for the consideration of those who would hear. Four churches have since been erected in the town, one on Section 12 by the Reformed Lutherans, another on Section 26 by Welsh Methodists, the third on Section 7 by the Methodist Episcopal brethren, and the fourth on Section 34 by the Presbyterians.
The first settlers were from the Eastern States, but at present many nationalities are rep- resented among its citizens, the Americans predominating.
During the late war, the town showed its devotion to the Union in a prompt response to every call made by the national authorities, in no instance permitting a draft to be made.
Mark Barden and Freeman M. Ross, from this town, have represented the county in the Gen- eral Assembly, serving with credit to themselves and honor to their constituency. Other men who became known outside of their own immediate neighborhood may be mentioned Squire Patton, Judge of the High Court of Centerville, and Edward Root, the honest man.
The south and east part of the town is prairie land, while the west and north part is timber land and openings. The northwest part has a sandy soil, while the south part is good heavy black loam.
The first death was that of a child of William Wilson, in 1847.
Jude Luning taught the first school in the winter of 1847-48, and boarded around among the scholars for the sum of $12 per month. The house was situated npon Section 1, and, in 1879, was still standing upon its original site, but for many years it had been used for storing grain raised upon the farm of Robert Beattie. A potato patch had also, for many years, adorned the school ground where the children formerly romped and playel. The house was long used as a place of worship by various religious bodies.
In 1860, the Presbyterians built a house on Section 34, and continued to hold services therein until 1872, when the congregation disbanded, its members visiting with such congrega- tions as was convenient for them to attend. The Methodists had, as early as 1847, a class in this neighborhood, but which ceased to exist after a few years. In 1872, when the Presbyte- rians retired from the field, the class was re-organized by Rev. Daniel Brown, a local preacher. In 1879, they had a membership of thirty-two, with Ervin McCall as Class Leader. From 1872, the congregation had enjoyed the ministerial services of Revs. Brown, Smith, Teel, Suffron, Bronson, Shepherd and Logan. A Sunday school was organized at the same time as the class,
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holding weekly meetings during the warm season of the year. In 1879, Ervin McCall was Superintendent.
John Dodge settled in this town in the fall of 1844, but went back the same fall to New Hampshire and returned in the latter part of the winter, stopping at Chicago to purchase a span of horses. Reaching Watertown, he bought a load of of corn and oats and brought it through. He then sent his brother to Green Bay on horseback to enter the quarter-section on which he now lives. A little more than two years later, the horses were stolen and run off south, and John was left to mourn their loss, as he never found them This was the first horse team owned in this section. In the fall of 1844, snow fell to the depth of four inches in October, which was his first season here. They did not get their shanty completed until the middle of November, and it was very cold, but John says they did not mind much about cold and storms then.
In October of that year, he went down on the marsh and cut a small stack of hay, which. of course, was nearly worthless. Sam Langdon sold him a little hay, and the rest of his supply he bought at the rate of $20 per ton from an ex-soldier, named Howey, who, after serving his time at Fort Winnebago, had embarked in a limited way in farming, about two miles north of the old Powderly place. This, with the small store of grain he brought from Water- town, tided his stock through that dreary winter ; John avers that his steers in the spring " looked like delegates from the seven years of ' famine,' lean flesh and ill-favored." Powderly's house on the old military reservation was the only one between his place and Portage.
Deer and small game were plenty, and from time to time they replenished their larder with a buck or pheasant. He shot one buck from his dooryard. For two years or more, they were obliged to go to Beaver Dam or Columbus to mill, the trip occupying two days to go there, leaving their grist and returning for it in about a month, which required another day. In the fall of 1845, M. W. Patton, afterward known as the " High Court of Centerville," made his appearance at Mr. Dodge's, tired and hungry from land-hunting. The squire called for dinner, to which Mr. Dodge favorably responded. Patton says it was one of " his biggest meals." and John believed him. The squire first beheld John coming out of the woods with a gun and squirrel. He waited outside of the cabin while the culinary preparations were going on, the weather being fine, and fell to contemplating the scenery, thinking as his eye swept to the south that it was the finest panorama he had ever witnessed. Such a wealth of verdure, fertility and beauty reveling in its pristine glory he had never realized. Straight and lofty oaks clothed in their autumnal tints on the one hand, and the prairie with its rank vegetable growth on the other, bespoke the march of civilization and future wealth. After supper, Mr. Patton and Perley went down to the creek and held a short palaver with a band of Indians that were trapping along the stream.
In 1846, the first move was made in the United States to found a settlement by the English " Potters' Society," which pitched its tent in the town of Scott, there arriving here in May, John Sawyer, Hamlet Copeland and James Hammond. The society had grown from a very feeble beginning, six years earlier, to a powerful co-operative society, accumulating considerable funds. It was organized to protect the artisans of this extensive labor class from the frequent strikes, and provide homes in America for many of its members, thus keeping a demand for labor for those that remained. They published a journal devoted to the interests of the society. Each new settler was entitled to twenty acres of land, a house to be erected on the land, and the fam- ily to be provisioned for one year, at the expense of the society. Sawyer. Copeland and Ham- mond were made Trustees of the society to invest funds in this country. They sailed from England in January, 1846, and arrived at New York the following April. . They were then instructed to erect cabins for the next year's installment out of funds in their possession.
At an early day, Theodore Thomas and Robert MeConachie were together engaged in breaking land. In that neighborhood lived a family named Anderson. A fascinating young lady consti- tuted one of the attractions of that household. It was always the custom to turn the cattle out to graze on the prairies through the evening and night, and they sometimes strayed a considerable
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distance. In the morning Robert would always say: "I will look around in the neighbor- hood of Anderson's," while of course Theodore would look in another direction, but could sel- dom find them, while Robert was nearly always successful. This fact after awhile aroused Theodore's curiosity, and he began to investigate the case, and discovered that his partner had furnished the salt, and induced the girl to salt them at her place. The treacherous plotter never could satisfactorily explain so palpable a deception.
In 1846, Samuel and John McConachie erected the " Blue Tavern," a roomy frame struc- ure. They " bached " it there a short time, when they rented the house to Zenas Oliver, who lived there about three years, and who was succeeded by Stephen B. Gage, who kept the house several years more, doing a thriving business. He charged travelers a shilling a meal, and always treated his customers to a drink of whisky. Out of these moderate charges he made a good deal of money. It was on the regular stage line, and in those days all the commercial and business traffic between Milwaukee aud Portage passed over this road, as it was the main thor -. oughfare between these two points. It was no uncommon affair to see thirty or forty teams in a day on the road, carrying grain to Milwaukee, and freighting back goods. Mr. Gage stuck to the tavern until the railroad, in 1857, heralded the dawn of a new era, and this common thor- oughfare almost lost its identity as a theater of busy life. The long line of teams daily toiling wearily through sand, marshes, tenacious clay and the frightful corduroys, consuming from ten to fourteen days to make the round trip to Milwaukee ; the jostling crowds at the wayside inns that dotted this great highway, the loquacious landlord who with a liberal hand dispensed ham, eggs and whisky to the teamster and the wayfarer, and then packed them away in his " prairie feather " beds, or sometimes, to meet the exigencies of the case, planted them on the floors ; the endless jokes and fearful stories that passed around the bar-room, and robbed toil of its tedium, are things of the past. . But they are still fresh in the memories of many of the pioneers who are yet working out their probation here, and who sometimes almost regret to see the modern innovation of steam breaking up the great social compact that bound them together as a band of brothers in common trials as well as in common joys.
All of Township 13, Range 11, was organized into a town by the Board of Supervisors, at their annual meeting, held November, 1849, and it was given the name of Scott. The town is bounded on the east by Randolph, on the west by Marcellon, on the south by Springvale, on the north by Marquette County.
The town of Scott lies directly north of Springvale, and like it presents eastward project- ing points of high'ground, with intervening sharply defined, and in part marshy-bottomed, ravines, which are occupied by the head-streams of Fox River .. The points of high land are shorter toward the northern part of the town, the longest lying on its south line. On the west side and extending into Marcellon, is an isolated area of high land, some three miles in length, from north to south. The low ground has a general altitude of 230 to 280 feet, the higher about 400. The extreme points are on the north half of Section 35. The latter point is on a prairie, which occupies the high ground on Sections 25, 26, 35 and 36, being an extension of the large prairie area of Randolph.
The first entry of land in the town was made by John Dodge, and consisted of the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 34. It was entered February 11, 1845, and patent issued June 1, 1848.
The following are the names of the officers elected since the organization of the town :
1850-Board-Joseph Hewitt (Chairman), Freeman M. Ross, William Judd; Clerk, William Smith ; Treasurer and Collector, Edward Tripp ; Assessor, M. W. Patten ; Superintendent, John H. Guptil.
1851-Board-John Guptil (Chairman), Edward Tripp, Truman Ross ; Clerk, Marcus Barden ; Treasurer, Andrew Leshar ; Assessor, Jas. Inglehart ; Superintendent, Marcus Barden. 1852-Board-M. W. Patton (Chairman), David Clark, Elijah Sanderson ; Clerk, M. Barden ; Treasurer, Samuel McConachie ; Superintendent, James Stebbins ; Assessor, James Inglehart.
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1853-Board-William Wiley (Chairman), John Cruckson, Samuel McConachie ; Clerk, M. Barden ; Treasurer, John Hamilton ; Superintendent, Stephen D. Hamilton ; Assessor, Elijah Sanderson.
1854-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), Hugh Martin, William Stebbins ; Clerk, James Stebbins ; Treasurer, J. G. Lyons ; Assessor, E. Sanderson ; Superintendent, J. Hamilton.
1855-Board-M. W. Patton (Chairman), M. C. Prescott, John McConachie ; Clerk, James A. Stebbins ; Treasurer, John Hamilton ; Assessor, John Sawyer; Superintendent, Samuel McConachie.
1856-Board-M. W. Patton (Chairman), George Payne, William Judd; Clerk, Marcus Barden ; Treasurer and Assessor, D. H. Langdon : Superintendent, Samuel Barden.
1857-Board-M. Barden (Chairman). Major Woodard, Elbridge Clark ; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Treasurer and Assessor, D. H. Langdon ; Superintendent, Elon Woodard.
1858-M. Barden (Chairman), C. H. Grover, William Wiley ; Clerk, F. M. Ross; Treas- urer and Assistant, D. H. Langdon ; Superintendent, Wesley Gibbs.
1859-Board-Marcus Barden (Chairman), John McConachie, C. H. Grover ; Clerk, F. MI. Ross ; Treasurer and Assessor, D. H. Langdon ; Superintendent, Samuel E. Stebbins.
1860-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), John McConachie, Ervin McCall; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Assessor and Treasurer, Joseph Parkinson ; Superintendent, John Hamilton.
1861-Board -- M. Barden (Chairman), W. H. Judd, John McConachie ; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Treasurer and Assessor, D. H. Langdon ; Superintendent, Samuel McConachie.
1862-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), John McConachie, James Inglehart ; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Treasurer and Assessor, D. H. Langdon.
1863-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), John McConachie, Joseph Sayers ; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Treasurer and Assessor, E. G. Clark.
1864-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), William R. Jones, Samuel E. Stebbins; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Assessor and Treasurer, Archy Thom.
1865-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), William R. Jones, Samuel E. Stebbins ; Clerk, F. Ross ; Assessor and Treasurer, James Inglehart.
1866-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), John Sawyer, Wesley Gibbs; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Assessor and Treasurer, A. Thom.
1867-Board-F. M. Ross (Chairman), Theodore Thomas, Giles Langdon; Clerk, M. Barden ; Treasurer and Assessor, Stephen Woodard.
1868-Board-F. M. Ross (Chairman), Julius Barker, Robert Beattie ; Clerk, Marcus Barden ; Assessor and Treasurer, D. C. Merrill.
1869-Board-Marcus Barden (Chairman), C. F. Roberts, Theodore Thomas; Clerk, F. M. Ross; Assessor, D. C. Merrill : Treasurer, Isaac Hopkins.
1870-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), C. F. Roberts, William Sauer; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Assessor, D. C. Merrill ; Treasurer, William Owen.
1871-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), John Sawyer, C. H. Grover ; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Assessor, D. C. Merrill ; Treasurer, Joseph Sayer.
1872-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), John Sawyer, C. H. Grover; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Assessor, C. F. Roberts ; Treasurer, Joseph Sayer.
1873-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), John Sawyer, C. H. Grover ; Clerk, F. M. Ross ; Assessor, C. F. Roberts ; Treasurer, Joseph Sayer.
1874-Board-M. Barden (Chairman), Charles Scharf, John Sawyer; Clerk, Lester Woodard ; Assessor, G. W. Gorsuch ; Treasurer, Robert Evans.
1875-Board-John Sawyer (Chairman), William Owen, William Sauer; Clerk, Lester Woodard; Assessor, G. W. Gorsuch ; Treasurer, Robert Evans.
1876-Board-John Sawyer (Chairman), William Sauer, William Owen; Clerk, Lester Woodard; Assessor, G. W. Gorsuch ; Treasurer, George Stancer.
1877-Board-D. C. Merrill (Chairman), William Sauer, G. L. Keite; Clerk, Virgil Barden ; Assessor, G. W. Gorsuch ; Treasurer, George Stancer. 1
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1878-Board-D. C. Merrill (Chairman), William Sauer, D. C. Keith; Clerk, Virgil Barden : Assessor, Henry Slinger ; Treasurer, J. C. Thomas.
1879-Board-John Sawyer (Chairman), William Sauer, G. C. Keith ; Clerk, Mark Roberts; Assessor, Henry Slinger ; Treasurer, William Ross.
1880-Board-Marcus Barden (Chairman), Wesley Gorsuch, D. C. Merrill ; Clerk, Mark Roberts; Assessor, Henry Slinger; Treasurer, William Ross.
TOWN OF SPRINGVALE.
This town is bounded on the east by Courtland and Randolph, on the west by Wyocena, on the north by Scott, and on the south by Otsego. In 1857, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad was built through it, entering on Section 1, and crossing Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and passing into Wyocena from Section 6. Duck Creek and its branches traverse the town in various direc- tions. The territory comprising the town, Township 12, Range 11, was organized into a town by the Board of County Commissioners in 1849, and the name of Springvale given to it and the house of Edward Williams designated as the place for holding the first election.
Late in April, 1845, Ervin McCall came here from La Porte, Ind., in quest of a home. On the 1st day of May, he decided on the site of his present home, and, in the sub-land office at Fox Lake, immediately deposited the money for the entry of eighty acres of land. Mr. McCall stopped over night in the log tavern in that place, and, in the morning, long after sun- rise, seeing no visible signs of a breakfast, he settled his bill and started for Oak Grove, a dis- tance of fifteen miles, for breakfast. He arrived there late in the forenoon, got an early dinner, and while he was partaking of that meal a team passed the tavern ; he jumped up, settled his bill, ran and overtook the team, and secured a ride to ten miles beyond Watertown. He stayed over night with a farmer and took an early start the next morning. He was soon overtaken by a young man with a double-seated buggy, who was going to Milwaukee, who agreed to carry him to that point for the' consideration of $1. He made a quick trip back to La Porte, and, early in September, with his family and brother John, with a wagon, two yoke of oxen, half a barrel of pork, a limited supply of other provisions and household goods, he started for his new home. While fording Fox River in Illinois (the bridge being gone), he overturned the wagon while ascending the bank, which resulted in a fracture of his wife's arm. The broken arm was properly adjusted and they came on to Rock County, where his brother-in-law, M. W. Patton, lived. He left his family there, and, with his brother, pushed on with the team and stock, arriving here about the middle of September. The first night after their arrival here was spent at the log house of Sam Langdon. The next day, they commenced haying on the marsh near Cambria and got a winter's supply for their stock. They built a log house, and then Ervin returned to Johnstown, Rock Connty, for his family. Mr. Patton and family came back with them. While crossing the bridge over Rock River, a high and very narrow structure, the sides only protected by timbers laid along the edge of the bridge, a laughable incident occurred that might have been a lamentable accident. Mr. McCall was driving his two yoke of oxen, the wagon containing both families. The "leaders" were an exceptionably well-trained pair of old cattle, while the "wheel" oxen were a pair of skittish four-year-old steers. They had just got on the bridge, Mr. Patton following behind with a small herd of cattle, when a young heifer attempted to pass the team. It got by the wagon, but, getting frightened, turned in behind the steers and jumped astride the tongue. The steers snorted and plunged about in a very uncertain manner, and the risk of the whole load and teams going overboard seemed immi- nent. Perhaps they would, but for the nerve and coolness of Mr. McCall, who whipped up the head team and keeping the line straight, gave the heifer a free ride across the bridge and no harm was done, though all parties were badly scared. The squire, a terror-stricken witness of the scene from the end of the bridge, threw his hands over his head, assuming a most tragic attitude until the danger was passed, and then yelled out, " Well done." Had they been precipitated over the bridge, the result would likely have been fatal to the whole load. They came on the
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remainder of the way without further incident worthy of mention, and arrived at the hospitable residence of Sam Langdon on the 15th day of November, where they stayed all night, and the next day moved into the new cabin.
On the 27th of February, 1846, that winter, Janette Patton was born, being the first female child born in the town of Springvale. She afterward married William Gage. now land- lord of the City Hotel, Portage.
During the first winter of Mr. McCall's residence here, after making the necessary pur- chases of provisions to last until spring, he took an inventory of his bank and stock account, and found that his total assets were two twenty-five cent pieces. A little later, two Methodist ministers, who are never out of hearing of the pioneer's ax, came through here on a kind of frontier missionary work, preaching and locating places to preach. The elder of the two was the Rev. W. G. Miller, afterward a presiding elder and an eminent preacher of great worth and great popularity, and I suppose to the pioneers, "like the voice of one crying in the wilderness." He delivered a sermon to the settlers at the log honse of Mr. Langdon, before mentioned, and that night was entertained at the home of Mr. McCall. To his colleague, the Rev. Mr. Han- son, a young man, Mr. McCall gave one of his twenty-five cent pieces. This was the first religious service held in the town.
Among the first settlers of the town were Ervin McCall, Robert Closs, Hugh Edwards. John Edwards, Evan Edwards, Robert Lloyd, John Rowland, Robert Rowland, William Lloyd, John O. Jones, John Meredith, John Williams, Samuel Owens, Owen Samuel, Richard Owens, Alfred Cowley, John Morgan, David Roberts, John Leatherman and Mr. Jennings.
The first marriage was that of John Williams and Miss Margaret Owens.
The first death was Margaret Thomas, in 1847.
The first schoolhouse was built on the southwest corner of Section 1, in 18447.
The first male child born here was John Edwards, in the early part of February, 1846.
It was not until 1860, that a mill was built in the town. In that year, S. Ingram erected a small one, on the south branch of Duck Creek, on Section 20.
John Dodge. April 29, 1845, entered the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 1. and Lot 1 in Section 2, being the first entries in the town. He received his patents June 1, 1848.
Springvale lies on the Wisconsin side of the watershed. Three branches of Duck Creek traverse the town from east to west, running in flat, marshy, sharply defined valleys, which have an altitude of 230 to 260 feet, and are separated by tongues of high land which rise from 300- to 400 feet. The broadest marsh and valley are those of the north or main branch, the latter nearly four miles wide on the west line of the town. Prairie occurs on higher ground in Sec- tions 11, 12, 13. 15 and 4, connecting with that in Courtland.
The Calvinistic Methodists, in the spring of 1849, erected a church building on Section 12, the first in the town.
Springvale was the name given to a post office established in 1852, on Section 28, Thomas Cowley being the Postmaster. It was discontinued in one year, but re-established in 1862, on same section, with Wilbur Kennicat as Postmaster, and again discontinued after a short time.
The following is a list of town officers since 1853 :
1854-John O. Jones, Chairman ; John Meredith, Alfred Cowly, Supervisors ; Robert Rowland, Clerk ; Thomas J. Hughes, Treasurer ; Nathan D. White, School Superintendent.
1855-John O. Jones, Chairman ; Nathan D. White, John Meredith, Supervisors ; Robert J. Rowland, Clerk ; Thomas Hughes, Treasurer ; Robert Closs, Assessor : William Depuy, School Superintendent.
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