The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 136

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899, [from old catalog] ed; Western historical company, chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1104


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ALPHEUS S. GREEN was born on the Atlantic Ocean, twenty-seven miles from Boston. in American waters. Nov. 8, 1812 ; son of Wells and Abigail (Ballard) Green, natives of London, England : they located at Gill, Mass., where they resided twelve years ; removed to Utica, N. Y., remaining there four years ; then to Rochester, N. Y., resided there eight years : removed to Buffalo, where they resided ten years ; came from Buffalo to Portage, Wis., in 1852. where they have lived ever since. Mr. G. learned the baker's trade in Utiea, and after coming to Portage worked one year for others, then commenced business for himself, which he carried on for five years ; afterward served as Deputy Sheriff, two years under Robinson, two years under E. F. Lewis, and as Deputy Marshal for one year under Daniel Gindner ; returned then to New York for ten months, but during the last seven years has been night watch. He was married at Utiea, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1834. to Mary A. Jaques, born in Oneida Co.,, N. Y., in 1814 ; they have had three children, one of whom is living- Mary Jane, now Mrs. John Brown, of Portage.


LUCIUS E. GREENLEAF was born at Elyria, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1843 ; in 1845, he came with his parents to Markesan, Green Lake Co., Wis .; remained there one year ; at Manchester one year ; Kingston two years ; Marquette two years, and then returned to Kingston, where the family resided twenty years ; his father, Albert Greenleaf, resides at Kingston ; his mother. Mary Green- leaf. died at Chicago in 1873. Mr. G. was in the employ of the American Express Co., at Milwau- kee and elsewhere, thirteen years ; engaged in dry-goods business at Kingston from 1869 to 1871.and since 1878 has resided in Portage ; at present with Schulze Brothers, hardware dealers ; while in the employ of the American Express Co., Mr. G. was at Hannibal, Mo., Quincy, III .. Kansas City. Mo .. and in other places, many years acting as route agent for that company. He was married at Randolph, Columbia Co., in 1870, to Isabella, daughter of George B. and Cynthia Willington ; they have four children-Mary Belle, Jennie, Samuel George and Lucius Albert. Mr. G. is a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge at Milwaukee.


REV. GEORGE P. GUILD, A. M., Pastor of Baptist Church, Portage ; was born in Amherst, Mass., Jan. 19, 1832; he was born totally blind. His father, George Guild, was the first architect and builder who settled in Milwaukee ; in 1835, he built the first church in Milwaukee, and was killed by accident in 1842, while building the First Unitarian Church, on Spring street ; in June. 1843, his mother died, leaving six children, all of whom were provided for except the " blind boy :" "nobody wanted him ;" by earnest personal effort and the aid of a few friends, he secured a place in the Institution for the Blind, in New York City, where he remained six years, leaving in 1850 ; that year, at the Eye Infirmary, he had performed an operation for an artificial pupil, which resulted in giving partial sight to one eye ; he graduated from Shurtleff College, at Alton, Ill., in 1856, and immediately settled as Pastor of the Union Baptist Church, at Jerseyville, Ill .; he remained five years in that place, and was then five years Pastor at Waverly, and afterward two years in Jacksonville, followed by three years at Pittsfield, Ill. ; he was four years agent for the American Printing Honse for the Blind, after which he was Pastor five years at Ahnapee, Wis .; in May, 1878, he became Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Portage. He was married June 30, 1859, to Miss Mary Moore, of Jersey- ville, Ill .; the widowed mother, Mrs. Hannah Moore, aged 75, is a member of the family, and an example of Christian serenity. Mr. Guild has two children living-Leah and Betsey-and one. Jesse, died in childhood. He was a member of the first Republican State Convention ever convened in America, which was at Madison, Wis., in 1854 ; his only political speech was at Upper Alton, in 1856, when Republicanism was dangerously unpopular ; he was acquainted with Abraham Lin- coln ; was one aftemoon driving slowly past Lincoln's home, who bailed him and inquired who he was searching after ; the reply was, "a Baptist Deacon :" to Lincoln's inquiry of what they were good for, Guild said it was their duty to keep the preacher over night, and take care of his horse : Lincoln says, "I'll be Deacon." and suiting the action to the word. began unhitching the horse, and both preacher and horse were welcome for the night; years afterward, at the White House, in


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Washington. Mr. Guild called to pay his respects to the Chief Magistrate, and Lincoln. instantly remembering the incident. asked. "Well. Elder. have you found a Deacon yet ?" Mr. Guild is an earnest temperance advocate : while in JJerseyville. he was County Commissioner of Schools : during his pastorate he has built six churches, and baptized fully one thousand persons ; like all the blinil. his touch is exceedingly delicate-he will casily read his Bible through eight folls of handerchief : one eve is still in darkness, and the other very dimly reveals the outer world, but happy sunshine dwells ever in the inner world. lit by the smile of God. .


GEN. JOSHUA J. GUPPEY. of Portage. was born at Dover. N. H .. Ang. 27, 1820 ; graduated at Dartmouth College. Class of 1843 : was Captain of the college military company ; was admitted to the bar at Dover. N. H .. in April. 1846 : settled in Wisconsin, at Columbus. Columbia ('o., in the fall of 1846. and commenced practicing law ; was appointed Colonel of the militia of Columbia Co., Feb. 6. 1847 : was appointed Judge of Probate Sept. 29. 1819 ; was elected County Judge in Sept. 1849, for four years from Jan. 1. 1850 : removed from Columbus to Portage in 1851 ; was re-elected County Judge in 1853. for four years from Jan. 1. 1854 : was Superintendent of the public schools of the city of Portage. from 1858 to 1861 : was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 10th W. V. 1 .. Sept. 13. 1861. and was in active service as such thereafter until July 25. 1862, when he was promoted to Colonel of the 23d W. V. I .. and held that position till the end of the war. He participated in the first assault on Vicksburg. in December. 1862. and took part in the capture of Fort llindman. Ark .. and all the important battles around Vicksburg which resulted in the cap- ture of that stronghokl : his regiment was then transferred to the Department of the Gulf, and while in that department. on the 3d of November. 1863. at Carrion Crow Bayou. La .. he was wounded and taken prisoner. but was exchanged in a short time : he was breveted Brigadier General from March 13. 1865. " for gallant and meritorious services during the war." In April. 1865. while absent in the military service, he was re-elected County Judge for four years, from Jan. 1. 1866, and has held that office over since by successive elections. his present term closing Dec. 31. 1881. In 1866. he was again elected Superintendent of the public schools of the city of Portage. and held that office by successive elections till 1873.


CHARLES HAERTEL, son of Charles and Barbara Haertel, was born in Portage May 6. 1860 ; brought up in the brewing business with his father, whose family consisted of four girls and one son-Margaret. now Mrs. Fred W. Schulze: Lizzie. now Mrs. Jacob Best ; Mary, now Mrs. Fred C. Starke. of Milwaukee : Emma and Charles. The subject of this sketch. Mr. HI., is a mem- ber of the Turners Society : also of the Hook and Ladder Company.


MRS. MARIA, P. HASKELL, widow of Hon. H. S. Haskell, whose extensive biography appears in this volume, in the list of the " Illustrious Dead " of this county. She is the daughter of Sayles and Hannah (Hubbard) Hawley. of Vermont, and a native of Waterbury, same State : she was educated in the public schools of her native town, and in the Academy at Montpelier. V't. Her first husband was William Pride, who died of consumption in 1846. leaving one daughter -- Martha M .. who married Emmons Taylor, of Portage: both the daughter and her husband are now dead. Mrs, J. was married in 1850 to Mr. HI. S. Haskell. and soon after they removed to Columbus, where he practiced law nearly four years : previous to marriage. he had studied one year in the law office of Judge Noggle, and had previously read. one year. in the office of Ex. Gov. Dilling- ham : he was a law partner of Judge Guppey. By her last marriage she had two children, both of whom died in infancy. Mr. Haskell died Feb. 13. 1879. She has no blood relatives in Wisconsin : she lives in her fine brick residence, on Howard street, which was erected by her husband not many years before his death : she is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Portage ; she is a lady of culture and refined tastes, also of a quiet. retiring disposition, and. while attractive socially to friends, she is. nevertheless, more thoroughly attached to home than to society.


GEO. E. HELMANN was born in Prussia. Germany. Feb. 26. 1837 : came to Portage. Wis .. in April. 1853: engaged in carpentering for a few years : then elerking. until he commenced the grocery business, in which he has continued for the last fifteen years. Mr. Hohmann was married, in Portage. to Johanna Schwartz, a native of Prussia. They have seven children-George. Lizzie, Willie. Anna. Emma. Otto, and an infant son. Mr. Il. has been a member of the Odd Fel- lows' Lodge.


VALENTINE HELMANN, born at Smalcalde (now Prussia). Sept. 29. 1831 ; came to America Aug. 1, 1847, landing at New York City : came to Richwood, town of Shields. Dodge Co .. with his uncle. Sept. 15. 1847 ; came to Portage May 10. 1850; worked at the carpenter's trade most of the time, until the spring of 1864. although he engaged in insurance business in 1863 ; he


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served as Justice of the Peace several years ; in the spring of 1864. he was elected City Clerk ; again elected to that position in 1874 ; spring of 1875, once more elected Justice of the Peace ; elected City Clerk in 1876 and 1877 ; City Treasurer from 1878 to 1880. Married at, Portage. Nov. 2. 1851, to Margaret Ward : she died April 8. 1873, leaving nine children, all now living-George P .. Wm .. John V .. Lawrence F., Chas., Lizzie. Henry, Katie and Anna. Married for second wife. Catharine Koberstein, at Milwaukee. Aug. 26, 1875 ; she was born in Bavaria ; by this marriage there are two children-Rosa and Barbara ; Mr. H. is a member of the Board of Education. from Fourth Ward ; also a member of Leiderkranz Society.


NICHOLAS M. HENRY, born on the Isle of Guernsey March 1. 1831 ; came to Port- age in 1866 ; in 1867. he spent nine months at Oxford ; balance of the time has been engaged in flour, feed and grocery trade in Portage. He was married in New York City, July 6, 1868. to Caroline LePage : she was born on the Isle of Guernsey Jan. 30. 1833. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.


WILLIAM HENSEL, wagon-maker. born in Schleswig, Germany. on the Ist of March. 1835 ; he, with his parents, came to the I'nited States, and , settled in Milwaukee. in 1849 ; in 1856. he went to California, and was with his uncle in business ; in 1859, returned, and lived in St. Louis till 1861, when he enlisted in the 2d Mo. V. I. ; was Sergeant of Company H ; served three years, and then, 1864, came to Portage. Was married, Oet. 4, 1865, to Miss Panlina Elterman. of Portage ; had six children-Louis, born in 1867; Willie, born in 1869. now dead ; Henry, born in 1870 ; Sophia. born in 1872 ; Willie, born in 1874. and Lizzie, born 1876, and lately dead. He was Chief Engineer of the Fire Department four years. and Assessor two years ; belongs to " Ancient Order of United Workmen," also to Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; has been representative to the Grand Lodge and to the Grand Encampment of Wisconsin ; is partner in firm of Collins & Hensel. wagon-makers ; business is prosperous.


JOHN HETTINGER was born near Buffalo. Erie Co., N. V .. Aug. 2, 1839; located in Freeport. Ill., in 1844 ; came to Portage, Wis .. with his parents, Michael and Frances Ilettinger. May 12, 1849; Mr. H. began hotel business in Portage, March 20, 1865, in which he has continued ever since ; also engaged in speculating in horses, real estate, etc. ; his father, Michael Hettinger, com- menced brewery business at Portage, in 1849, and continued it until his death, Oct. 20, 1862; his mother is still living. now Mrs. Zetz. of Freeport, Ill. Mr. H. was married in Portage, April 22. 1861, to Wilhelmina Eberline. a native of Hesse-Darmstadt; they have six children living-Lizzie J., Clara F., Anna, Josephine, Minnie, Emma F .; lost three sons-John, aged a little over 5 months ; one infant, Willie; Johnnie, aged less than 5 months.


DRAYTON A. HILLYER was born in Granby. Hartford Co., Conn., Dec. 21, 1840; came. with his parents. Andrew A. and Nancy Holcomb Hillyer, to Portage. Wis .. Feb. 1. 1857; associated with his father as clerk in the drug business, until the time of his father's death. Dec. 27. 1862; he then continued the business alone until 1868; has not been engaged in active business since ; his mother is now a resident of Portage. Mr. H. was married at Green Bay, Wis .. Sept. 21. 1871, to Alice W. Hickox, born in Pottersville, Warren Co., N. Y., daughter of Rev. Hickox. an Episcopal clergyman, who located in Wisconsin abont 1857. Mr. H. is a member of the three A .. F. & A. M. bodies here, and also belongs to the Milwaukee Consistory.


ED C. HINMAN was born at Battle Creek, Mich., March 1, 1852 ; received his education at Michigan University. graduating as civil engineer in January, 1874 ; appointed Assistant Engineer of Fox and Wisconsin Rivers improvement, and has been stationed here since Ang. 4, 1874. Mr. HI. was married at Ann Arbor. Mich., Oct. 25. 1876, to Carrie L. Risdon ; she was born at Ann Arbor ; they have one child-Gertrude R., born April 1, 1879.


WILLIAM HOLDEN is a native of Rochester, England ; born Aug. 16. 1829 ; lived there until he came to America, coming to Milwaukee in Angust, 1849 ; remained there until fall of 1850, when he came to the town of Pacific. Columbia Co., and was occupied in farming there for two years ; he then removed to Portage and worked at wagon-making about three years, when he returned to his farm, where he remained until enlisting in Co. G. 20 W. V. 1., May 29. 186] : was in every battle the regiment participated in until he was discharged. Feb. 24. 1864, on account of disability caused by ill-health : entered the service as a private and was mustered out as First Sergeant of same company : returning from the army and living on the farm a year, he then came to Portage ; on account of illness, was not engaged in active business for a number of years ; en- gaged in cabinet work for the last five years. Married in Wyocena March 16, 1851, to Harriet Aun Corsten ; she was born at Wrotham Heath. county of Kent. England; she died Oct. 30, 1876 :


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present wife was Mrs. Elmira R., widow of John Gates : was married Sept. 28. 1877: she was born in New York State. Mr. H. has two children by adoption-Helen E. (Wright). adopted when an infant only 12 weeks old, and is now aged 23 years; Wm. Henry (Whitam). adopted when 6 weeks old. and is now 15 years old.


JULIUS G. HOLSTEN, brakeman on freight. C., M. & St. P. R. R .; born in Cedarburg. Wis .. July 27. 1851 ; his parents moved to Portage when he was a child ; with the exception of three years spent in La Crosse, this has been his home ever since ; began as brakeman in 1868 on St. Paul road, and in fall of 1870, he got a train as conductor and run till 1877; then, as result of "running against flags," he was set back to braking, which he still continues. He was married in September, 1868, to Mrs. Minerva A. Clemens, who was born in Burlington. Essex Co., Vt .. on the 15th of February, 1848 ; she is one of thirteen children, eight of whom are living; they have no children. Charles F. Monroe is her son by a former marriage ; he works on the river; two of her brothers have been killed by railroad accidents. She is a Presbyterian ; they own property south of the canal. but live on De Witt street, near the St. Paul depot.


R. E. HOLSTON, station agent, Southern Division of the W. C. R. R., at Portage ; born in 1849 in Wauwautosa, Milwaukee Co., Wis .; lived in his native town till 1868, then moved to Del- avan. Walworth Co., where he lived till 1874 ; most of his labors prior to this were on a farm ; in fall of 1874, began railroading at Elkhart Lake. Sheboygan Co., Wis .; then to Saukville, Ozankee Co .. in 1875; then to Westfield, Marquette Co., in 1877. and came to Portage in June, 1879 ; in each and all of these places he was the station agent. Was married in March, 1873, to Miss Edith E. Barlow, of Delavan. Himself and wife are Baptists ; they have two children-Grace, born in 1874. and Eugene, born in 1876. Takes no active part in polities. but is a reliable Republican ; resi- dence is on Conant street.


M. HUBER is a native of France ; born in Alsace Sept. 28, 1835 ; came to New York City in 1854 ; commenced working at the business of baker in New York City ; May 11, of same year. came to Portage and engaged in the bakery trade ; erected his present hotel, eating-house and bak- ery on the same spot where he first located when he came here. Married in Portage, Sept. 9. 1858. to Dora Erhart ; she was born in Saxony ; they have six children-Sarah, Emma M. C., Georgi- anna, Charles T., Samuel J. T. and Nellie May. Mr. Huber is a charter member of the fire depart- ment-diploma given him for serving his term of ten years as foreman ; he also is a member of 1. 0. IT. W.


JOSEPH R. HUEBL was born in Austria, March 19, 1845 ; came with his parents to Portage. Wis .. July. 1861 ; was in the employ of the M. & St. P. R. R. Co. for four years, one and a half years with Charles Haertel. of Portage, brewer ; one year at Madison in a brewery ; returned to the employ of Haertel ; afterward in the mills of Waterhouse. and also awhile with Wells & Craig : Mr. Il. went to Oregon, and remained one year ; returned and worked on the Government improve- ment of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers a short time. Hle was married in Portage in 1869, to Louisa Haertel, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt. They have three children-Joseph. Charles R. and Eliza Mary. Mr. H. is a member of the Leiderkranz Society. Father died in Portage, and mother is living with her son, J. R. Ile has held the office of Alderman, and was elected City Treasurer April 6, 1880 ; has been employed in hardware store of W. W. Corning for the last seven years.


JOSEPH HUEBNER was born in Prussia Jan. 22. 1845 ; came to America in 1871. and lived in New Orleans, La., three years ; then came to Chicago for a few months, and in the sum- mer of 1874 came to Portage ; has worked at the tailor's trade twenty-two years. Married in Portage April 13, 1875. to Miss Helena Swanz ; she was born in Prussia. They have three children-Charles. born March 24, 1876 ; Mary, born Jan. 13, 1877, and Paul, born Nov. 8, 1878. Mr. H. is a mem- ber of 1. O. O. F. Lodge and Encampment. He is now employed as cutter in the extensive tailoring establishment of Ph. Goodman.


MRS. MINNIE L. HURLBUT, M. D., born Oct. 30, 1835, in Defiance, Ohio, dangh- ter of Jacob and Minerva Kniss. Her father was a merchant. In 1853. she, with her parents, came to Wisconsin and settled in New Lisbon, Juneau Co. She had enjoyed the advantages of the public schools in her native city, and afterward attended one year at Delton Academy in Wisconsin ; she taught the first school in New Lisbon. She was married on the 7th of October, 1856, to Roderick W. Coe, of Delton, who died Dec. 15. 1857. She had, from early life, an aspiration for the medical profession, and much of her reading and study had that end in view. several years before beginning her systematic course of preparation. On the 20th of Jannary, 1859. she was married to Hiram II. TIurlbut, of Delton. They have two sons-Wendell Phillips, born Dec. 21, 1859, and John


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Fremont, born Sept. 29. 1861 ; W. P. is in Wayland Academy, at Beaver Dam, Wis .. and the other is at home. Mrs. H. studied medicine three years in the office of Dr. Woodruff. of Lima. N. Y .; she attended two fall courses of lectures at Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, and graduated in 1872 ; she remained in the college as Assistant House Physician, and spent one season in hospital work. For nearly three years after graduation. she practiced her profession in Delton, and then located in Portage, where she has a well-established and increasing patronage. They have a spacious home, which, in connection with their bathing establishment, is known as the " Portage Sani- tarium ;" a few boarding patients are accommodated ; in 1878. they purchased and fitted, at the expense of $1.000, the celebrated " Moliere Thermo-Electric Bath ;" this, they claim, is the only one of the kind between Chicago and San Francisco. Her husband, Hiram II. Hurlbut, is quite enthusi- astic in proclaiming the efficacy of these baths. and in their use he is said to be experienced and skillful : electricity is closely allied to life, and the specific virtues of this over the ordinary bath are unquestioned : the philosophical construction and revivifying power of those baths are well attested. Mr. H .. who has chief care of them, is a man of diversified attainments, having studied music. medi- cine, theology and law ; he was born April 30. 1814. in LeRay. Jefferson Co .. N. Y.


EVAN H. HUGHES, merchant tailor ; was born in Bangor. North Wales, June 19, 1838 ; came to America in May. 1850, settling with his parents at Racine, Wis., where he resided seven years ; removed to Chicago for three years, and. after working in various places in Wisconsin and Illinois, came to Portage in 1864, where he has been engaged in business for himself most of the time since. Mr. Hughes was married at Cambria. Wis .- where he resided one year-June 8, 1861. to Sarah E. Roberts, born in Wexam. North Wales. They have eight children-William, Minnie. Maggie, Walter, Fannie, Robert, Byron and Sarah. Mr. H. is Senior Warden of the A .. F. & A. M. Lodge. His parents. Evan E. and Mary llughes, are living, and reside at Racine.


JOSEPH HURST, round-house carpenter at Portage for the C., M. & St. P. R. R .: is of English parentage, but was born in Ireland on Feb. 15, 1833 ; he came to the United States in May, 1849, and served an apprenticeship as carpenter in New Haven, Conn. : after five years' service, he came to Portage in 1854, and has been in the employ of the railroad company ever since the road ran into this city. He was married Feb. 8. 1849 (when at the age of 16). to Miss Elizabeth Board- man, who was but 15 years old ; she is of Quaker parentage, but was born in Dublin, Ireland. They have had nine children. two died in childhood : the living are named-Benjamin. who is a fireman ; George T., an engineer : Abigail M .. Joseph W .. a fireman : Hannah M .. Fanny and John F. are in school ; the sons and daughters all live at home. IHimself and wife are members of the Episcopal Church. While in New Haven. his main business was church building. He is a Royal Arch Mason.


GEORGE C. JACKSON, a native of New York State, was born in East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y., Feb. 13. 1825, and lived there until 1846. when he went to Chicago, where he resided until 1850 ; he then made an overland trip to California, was there eighteen months, came back, only remaining three months, when he again went to California where he remained until 1854, working as overseer at Sacramento of a wagon manufactory and employed as general superintend- ent of the business ; he then went to Orange. N. J., and went into wagon manufacturing for himself, selling his wagons to the California firm which he had been formerly connected with ; remained in Orange two years, then lived in Newark six months, when he came to Wisconsin. locating at Portage in June, 1857. and engaged in his okl business of manufacturing carriages, wagons, sleighs, etc., and is now engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. Married in Buffalo. N. Y .. to Rosina I. Day. she was born in England ; they have had nine children, six now living-James C .. William II., Ella A .. Charlotte V., Walter E. and Percy F .- lost three who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. J. and two daughters are members of the Baptist Church.


OLE JOHNSON, son of John and Julia Johnson, was born in Norway, Sept. 5. 1854 ; came to Lewiston, Columbia Co., in 1869. where his parents are farming ; came to Portage in 1873. where he has since been engaged as salesman with Schumacher & Schulze. Mr. Johnsonwas married at Lewiston, June 17, 1879. to Amelia. daughter of Andrew Jackson. Both are members of the Lutheran Church.


SILAS S. JOHNSON, born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 1809 ; when about 10 years okl. went to Leicester, Addison Co., Vt., with his parents, Silas and Abigail (Rhodes) Johnson ; resided in Vermont, two years of the time in Montpelier, then returned to Leicester and kept hotel for a time until he came to Wisconsin in 1845. to Eagle Prairie, Milwaukee Co. (now Waukesha ('o.). where he lived for six years, then coming to Portage, where he engaged in blacksmithing and the




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