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m.muifacturing of breaking plows : continued that business for six years : during the next six years, was Under Sheriff. and at the expiration of that time. engaged in the grocery and provision trade. which he still follows. Married in Leicester. November, 1836. to Sarah T. Tower : she was born in Shoreham, Addison Co .. Vt .: have one son. Albro S.
MICHAEL R. KANE, born in Ireland Sept. 29. 1805 ; came to New York in Septem- ber. 1830 ; settled in Milwaukee in September. 1837. On the Sth of September. 1837. he was mar- ried to Miss Mary Cox. of Pennsylvania. who is of Scotch parentage. but was born in Armagh. Ireland. in 1820. Mr. Kane served three years and six months in Co. D. 19th W. V. I .: held rank of Sergeant ; he was commissioned Brevet Captain by Gov. Lucius Fairchild. " for meritorious con- duct on the battle field." on the 27th of April. 1864 : he was jailer of the first jail built in Columbia Co .. and afterward was gate-keeper at Waupun Penitentiary. They had seven children. five of whom died in childhood. and a son. James, died in St. Louis Nov. 23. 1870. of intermittent fever. aged 23 years : one daughter survives, named Mary J .. who is a native of Portage : was educated in the public schools of Portage, and for several years has been an acceptable teacher in inter- mediate departments of the city schools. On the 8th of January. 1877. Mr. Kane suffered a com- pound fracture of the leg as a result of a runaway accident. lle is now at the Soldiers' Home in Milwaukee. The family own a pleasant briek residence on Wisconsin street. Mrs. K. is an Epis- copalian.
REV. THOMAS KEENAN. born in County Tyrone. Ireland. April 15. 1829 : lived in Ireland until 1844, then emigrated to Philadelphia with friends ; received his education in part in the old country. studying mathematics, grammar. Latin. ete .. to some extent. After coming to Phil- adelphia, was a student of Rev. P. Rafferty. a priest. receiving instructions from him for three years. Then entered the seminary of St. Charles Borrenea, located on Eighteenth street. Philadelphia ; was a student there for two years, but on account of ill-health. was compelled to leave the institution. At the solicitation of his friends, he came West (as he had acquired a thorough German education) to this State in 1852 : ordained for the Diocese of Milwaukee July 19. 1854. Prior to his ordination. since coming West. had been engaged in teaching and being taught. One of his teachers was the present Bishop of La Crosse. Attended lectures, studied theology and attended school while he remained in Milwaukee. In 1855, he went to Brighton. Kenosha Co., and remained there a year and a half: from there, went to East Troy, Walworth Co., staying there one year and a half. when he removed to Oshkosh, where he remained nine years until coming to Portage in October. 1867. Has paid many of the debts of the numerous churches he has been connected with. Built the church at Omro and Payden : commenced the church at Oshkosh. Had charge of a mission that now has nine priests. While at Oshkosh, in that city there are now three parish priests, when there were none there but himself. He now has several missions that he attends to-one permanent at Lodi. In 1871. he traveled over six countries of Europe-France. Belgium. England. Holland. Scotland and Ireland. His father and mother. Patrick and Bridget (Owens) Keenan, came to Phil- adelphia in April. 1847 ; his father died in 1848, and mother in 1876, both dying in Philadelphia.
ALONZO C. KELLOGG was born in Clinton. Vermillion Co .. Ind .. July 8, 1845. son of Orrison and Theodosia Kellogg ; he came with his parents to Calamus. Dodge Co .. Wis .. in 1852 ; received his medical education in Chicago, and engaged in the practice of his profession at Portage in 1870. In 1875, he was elected a member of the Democratie State Central Committee, and is still a member of that body ; in 1877. he was elected Superintendent of City Schools, and still occupies that position. The Doctor was married in this city to Harriet B. Ackerman in September. 1871 : she was born at Three Mile Bay, Jefferson Co .. N. Y .; they have three children-AAlonzo F .. James Rossiter and Harriet Ruth. Mrs. Kellogg. before marriage, was engaged in the Hungerford Colle- giate Institute at Adams, Jefferson Co., N. V .. as a teacher of oil painting, and afterward taught in the Wesleyan Female Seminary at Wilmington. Del.
T. L. KENNAN, attorney at law : was born in Morristown, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y .. Feb. 22. 1827. where he lived until the age of 20. when he went to Norwalk, Ohio, and studied law with his uncle. Jairus Kennan ; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1851, and located at Oshkosh : was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin Oct. 23. 1851 : removed to Portage about Oct. 1. 1855. At the breaking-out of the rebellion, he enlisted Aug. 22. 1861, in Co. D, 10th W. V. I .. and was commis- sioned First Lieutenant, and recruited half of his company : resigned July 12. 1862 : the follow- ing summer he was appointed Deputy Provost Marshal of Marquette Co .. serving until near the close of the war. resided at Pewaukee about ten years: going then to St. Louis, where he was employed as general agent for the Northwestern Life Ins. Co .: then for a short time practicing
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law there. and returning again to Portage in March. 1873. He was married at North Fairfickl Huron Co., Ohio, Sept. 30, 1850. to Loa Brown ; she was born in Borodino. Onondaga Co .. N. Y .: they have six chillren-K. Kent (a lawyer of Milwaukee). Chester T. (in college at Ripon). Loa B. (in college at Ripon), Mary B. (at home). Charboth JJ. (at home) and Thomas L .. JJr. Thomas L. Kennan, Sr., was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court Nov. 6. 1876. having been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin many years earlier. also to the United Dis- trict and Circuit Courts several years prior to 1876.
FRANK KELM was born in Prussia April 2. 1835 : came to America in October. 1837, and lived in the State of New York for nearly one year : then came to Wisconsin. and lived in Osh- kosh and also in Waupaca Co. until the war broke out. In the fall of 1861, he enlisted in Co. (. 9th W. V. I., and served until the fall of 1864 : was in Co. A of some regiment for one year of this time : he never went to the hospital. nor was he ever absent from his regiment a single day. and par- ticipated in every battle they fought. After leaving the service, he went to Oshkosh and resided there until he came to Portage Sept. 29. 1869. lle has been connected with one lumber-yard ever since coming here. He was married in Portage to Miss Wilhelmina Fischer ; she was born in Sax- ony ; they have two children-Lena and William. Mr. Kehn is a member of the Hook and Ladder Co .. and of the Leiderkranz Society.
ANDREW KIEFER, the subject of this sketch. was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Germany, April 28, 1830 ; came to New Orleans Dec. 1. 1845 ; in February. 1846, went to Cincinnati. Ohio, where he learned his trade of barber. remaining two years. when he returned to New Orleans. where he spent at portion of the time for several years : he then removed to St. Louis, and was engaged in business on board Mississippi River steamboats for three years, spending about seven years in the South ; he then lived for two and a half years in Buffalo. N. Y .. prior to removal to Port- age. May 1. 1856 ; Mr. Kiefer has been engaged in present business ever since he came here. He was Alderman of the Fourth Ward in 1860-61 : City Treasurer of Portage in 1874-75 ; connected with the Fire Department from its organization to the present time, and has been of material assist- ance in maintaining its efficiency. holding the office of Secretary for ten years. Secretary of the Hook and Ladder Co. since its organization ; President and Secretary of Leiderkranz Society several times ; Secretary of the German Cemetery Association since its organization. Mr. Kiefer was married at Watertown. Wis., to Henrietta Arenburg ; she died July 14. 1864, leaving two ehiklren-one now living. Andrew J .. born July 20. 1862 ; lost one son. George Henry. born July 3. 1864. died Sept. 10, 1870. Hlis present wife is Wilhelmina Anacker, and was married Feb. 23. 1868, at Portage ; she was born in Hesse-Cassel. Germany : they have three children-Charlotte E .. born Nov. 1. 1868 ; Emma Louisa. Feb. 13, 1873. and Fred W .. September, 1878.
H. L. KIND was born in Prussia June 23. 1814 ; came to Chicago in June, 1854. and to Portage in September of that year : he has been in the grocery business twelve years, but worked eight years in elevators before going into business for himself. Mr. K. was married first in Ger- many. February. 1836. to Maria Spangberg, who died in 1847; in June. 1848. he married Susanna Fredericka Kind. by whom he had ten chiklren ; the children are all dead but Ida : Mr. Kind's second wife died March 30, 1875, and he married his present wife. Henrietta Brick. Aug. 28, 1875 ; she was born in Kolberg, Germany, and came to Milwaukee in 1849, and to Portage in the spring of 1855. Both are members of the German Lutheran Church.
ALOIS KLENERT, of the firm of Klenert & Son. was born in Portage July 23, 1856 ; resided a short time in Minnesota. but this city has been his home since the time of his birth : he is the son of Anton and Catharina Klenert. Alois was married in Portage Aug. 1. 1878, to Mary Wurst ; she is a native of Austria ; they have one son. Fred. born July 6. 1879. Mr. K. is a mem- mer of the I. O. O. F .. Leiderkranz and Turner societies.
A. KOENIG, merchant tailor, and dealer in clothing and gents furnishing goods ; was born in Prussia, July 13. 1823 ; engaged in tailoring at the age of 15 years ; came to Milwaukee in . 1854, and to Portage in 1864. Mr. K. was married at Portage July 29, 1865. to Louisa M. Blass. who was born in New York City ; they have two children-Clara Angusta and Laura Lonisa.
GEORGE KRECH, a native of Germany. born in Saxony. Oct. 8. 1838 ; came to New York City, landing there Oct. 7. 1857 : came directly to Beloit : resided there four years, then came to Portage, and has been engaged in the butchering business since the fall of 1861 : was dealing also in stock for several years ; at present not engaged in that business. Married Catherine Dunnan in Portage, June. 1866 ; they have one child. Kittie.
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OTTO KRISCH, born in Bohemia. Oct. 4, 1831 ; came to America in the latter part of September, 1854. and in November of same year came to Portage; commenced saloon business here in 1855 ; in 1856, he was employed by Charles Haertel, and remained with him two years and two months ; since then he has been in business for himself. Mr. K. was elected City Treasurer for two years, 1870-71. Was married to Madeline Sihliss in Portage, Feb. 7. 1857 ; she was born in Kleinwetzheim. Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany ; they have four children-Alois. Anna. Ida and Otto. Mr. K. is a member of the Leiderkranz and A. O. U. W. societies.
MRS. MARY J. LA ROWE, nee Bryce, was born Jan. 5. 1834. in Albany. Oswego Co .. N. Y. Mrs. La Rowe was born Ang. 2. 1831. in Amwell. Hunterdon Co .. N. J .; the family came West in 1848; before her marriage, she taught school several years in Columbia and Marquette Cos. She was married Aug. 14. 1854. to S. Hamilton La Rowe. of Kingston. Marquette Co., where he was engaged in general merchandizing ; he removed his business to Portage in 1862. and kept the express office in connection with his mercantile business : he died in 1868, leaving three children-S. Hamilton. born Feb. 5. 1856, in Kingston ; Mary Estelle, born at Kingston Dec. 16. 1857. and Frank F .. born on Dec. 25 (Christmas). 1867 : the oldest son has bought land and is farming near Sioux Falls. Dak .; the other two are at home. The family affiliated with the Episcopal Church : she still owns a pleasant home on Conant street. but has disposed of all other real estate ; she is the daughter of " I'nele Archie Bryce." of Portage.
JAMES M. LAWSON was born at Glasgow, Scotland, March 28, 1849 ; came to Amer- ica with his parents in 1852 and located in Packwankee. Marquette Co., Wis .; in 1868, moved to Kingston. Green Lake Co .: two years later moved to Washington, Mich., where he was general sales- man for the Washington Mining Co .; six months afterward, moved to South Saginaw, Mich., where. for three years. he was book-keeper. general salesman and paymaster; came to Portage in 1873. where he has since been with Schumacher & Schulze. He was married to Sarah P. Smith. at Port- age. Oct. 11. 1876 ; she was born at Racine ; they have one child-Fred S., born Oct. 5. 1878. He is a member of the A .: F. & A. M. During the past ten years, Mr. L. has been engaged in the fire-insurance business, representing five of the leading companies-Fire Association, Boston Underwriters, St. Paul Fire and Marine. Continental. of New York, and Westchester. of New York.
ALFRED LEE. carpenter : was born in London, England. March 25. 1843; came to America in 1850. and located in Portage, where he has since resided ; he worked three years in the car-shops. and has followed carpenter work and lathing the balance of the time. He was married at Portage Oct. 24. 1868. to Mrs. P. A. Harmon, born in Germany ; she died Feb. 8, 1880. leaving one son-Frank T. W., born Oct. 27. 1869. Mr. Lee is a member of the M. E. Church.
PATRICK LENNON was born in County Armagh. Ireland. March 17. 1817 ; came to America and landed in New York City ; spent seven years in Upper Canada ; then resided at Crown Point. N. Y .. until he came to Wisconsin. in May. 1849, locating on Sec. 31. town of Ft. Winnebago. Mr. L. was married at Crown Point. N. Y., March 8, 1849, to Julia Ruddey, who was born in Ireland ; they have had ten children-Catharine, Terrence, John, Mary Ann, James. Mar- garet. Patrick and Edward, now living : James, aged 1 year and 1 month. deceased : Bridget, aged 15 years, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Lennon are both members of the St. Mary's Catholic Church. Mr. L. was Town Treasurer of Fort Winnebago six years, Supervisor three years, School Director and Clerk of the School Board for several years ; he owns 240 acres of land-200 on Sec. 31, town of Ft. Winnebago. the balance on See. 24. town of Lewiston, being still the owner of the land on which he first located in Columbia Co.
FRANKLIN II. LEWIS, Iumber dealer; was born in Hopkinton. Washington Co .. R. I .. Jan. 9. 1848 : came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1865, locating at Werner, Junean Co .; was engaged in lumber business, having his residence there until 1876. when he came to Portage : since 1872. has been in business for himself. manufacturing at Werner ; since coming to Portage in 1876. has continued his manutacturing at Werner ; he has large lumber-vards at Portage, and is owner of extensive tracts of pine lands on Yellow River. Wood Co. Mr. Lewis deals in salt, cement, sash, doors, blinds, etc .. in connection with his lumber business. Was married in Werner, Juneau Co .. . Sept. 17. 1874. to Miss Virginia L. Bacon : she was born in Lee. Penobscot Co .. Me.
HENRY LITTLE was born in the town of Gardner, near Angusta, Me., May 19, 1848 ; moved to New Orleans in 1857. and attended school in that city until he came to Wisconsin with his father. William Little. to Fairfield. Sauk Co., in February, 1861 : his father died there in 1863. Henry lived in Fairtiekl most of the time until he came to Portage in 1865, and was engaged in farming ; and since coming to this place has been engaged in the livery and omnibus business. MIr.
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Little married Mary Bolting, a native of Portage. Sept. 22, 1865 ; they have had two children, one living. Henry Win .: lost one son. died in infancy. Is a member of the I. O. O. F.
R. J. LLOYD, horseshoer and jobber ; was born in Wales in 1839, and came to America in 1846, and settled in Oneida Co .. N. Y .. where he remained nine years ; in 1855, he came to Oxford, Marquette Co., where he lived till 1866, when he located in Portage, which is still his home. On the 20th of May, 1860, he was married to Miss Jane Watkins, formerly of Pennsylvania ; they have six children-William, Wallie. Robert, Lillie. Daisy and Lawrence. He has been proprietor of one shop ever since he came to Portage ; he owns his shop on Main street, and his house on Conant street ; employs one journeyman, and has a good run of patronage. Himself and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Portage.
SAMUEL S. LOCKHART is a native of Ayrshire, Scotland : son of John and Agnes Lockhart, who came to America with their family in 1853. locating first at Williamsburg, L. 1 .; in 1854, they removed to Caledonia in this county, locating on Sec. 3; they now live on Sec. 9, in the same town, engaged in farming. Samuel S. was born Nov. 20, 1850 ; he passed his early life on his father's farm ; attended the high school of Portage, where he graduated the summer of 1874 ; prior to this had attended the district school of his own town, and had also taught some ; his first graded school was at Pardeeville, where he taught the summer of 1876 ; in the fall of the same year, entered Randolph public school, and had charge of that as Principal, until the summer of 1878; during vacations studying law in the office of James B. Taylor ; was elected Clerk of the Court in Novem- ber. 1878, which office he now holds. Married in the town of Randolph, March 29, 1879, to Hallie L. Marvin, daughter of Hon. G. G. Marvin ; she was born in the town of Randolph. Mr. L. is a member of the A., F. & A. M.
RODNEY O. LOOMIS, is a native of German Flats, Herkimer Co., N. Y .; born Sept. .17. 1833 ; came to Pacific. Columbia Co .. Wis .. in September, 1852, and has resided in this county ever since : was employed in the store of N. H. Wood as clerk until 1857, when he became a mem- ber of the firm of Wood, Loomis & Osborn ; at the expiration of one year, Mr. Oshorn retired, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Wood & Loomis for one year ; then the firm of N. II. Wood & Co. was formed, which consisted of N. H. Wood. R. O. Loomis. Geo. H. Osborn and Frank E. Wood ; in 1861, the firm name was again changed to Wood, Loomis & Osborn ; from 1863 to 1865. the business was carried on by Wood. Loomis & Co., Mr. C. R. Gallett becoming a member of the firm : from 1865 to 1867. the firm was N. II. Wood & Co .; in the spring of 1867. Ll. Breese became associated with them, but the style of the firm name was not changed ; in 1869, the present firm of Loomis, Gallett & Breese was formed. Mr. Loomis married Susan Wood, Sept. 8, 1856, at Dubuque. Towa ; she died Oct. 5, 1865, leaving two children; one. an infant eighteen months old, survived the mother but a short time: one son. Fred W .. was born Mareh 30, 1859. Mr. L. was mar- ried the second time at Lyons. N. Y., to Isabelle H. Cole, Oct. 23, 1867 ; she was born in Lyons; there are three children by this union-Isabelle Chester. Mary Emily and Frank Breese.
JOSEPH LUDWIG, born in Bohemia Dee. 25. 1825 ; came to America in 1848, worked in New York City from June to October of the same year, then came to Milwaukee ; December to May. worked in tannery ; in the spring of 1849, commenced buying hides, wool. etc., running a small tannery a short time before coming to Portage ; he learned the tanner's trade in Europe ; in 1851. he came to Portage and engaged in buying hides, which business he is still engaged in, besides carrying on the tannery ever since he came here ; he commenced the boot and shoe business in 1857. and has been in his present location since 1859. Ilis present wife was Mary Rolm ; she was born in Germany ; they have five children. two girls and three boys. Mr. L. has two daughters by a former marriage.
ALEXANDER McDONALD, one of the four oldest settlers of Columbia Co., was born in the parish of Kilmarnock, near the bridge of Spean, Inverness-shire, Scotland, April 23. 1817 ; parents both McDonalds. Mr. MeD. came to America in July, 1836, and for a year traveled in Canada and the United States ; in 1837. engaged with the Government survey in Michigan ; in December, 1838, he came to Madison, Wis., where he was ill about a year ; in June. 1839, removed to Ft. Winnebago, and was present when Gen. Scott had a conference with the Winnebagoes to induce them to remove to a reservation ; in 1840, he joined the Government survey in Wisconsin ; took up 160 acres in Caledonia, a portion of which he still owns ; was a contractor in the C. & N. W. Ry. at "Tunnel 1." and other points ; was Sheriff of Columbia Co. in 1851-52, and is now giv- ing his attention, in addition to carrying on his farm. to an agency for the sale of sewing machines. Mr. MeD. married in the town of York, Livingston Co .. N. Y., April 5. 1853. to Mary A. Crawford.
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born in Freedom. Cattaraugus Co .. N. Y .. who died May 25. 1861. leaving four children- Jane Eliz- abeth, born Feb. 9. 1854 : James Alexander, born Nov. 11. 1856 : Mary Ann. born Feb. 14, 1859 : John C., born April 22. 1861. Mr. Meb. married Margaret Robertson, of Caledonia. JJune 13. 1862; They have three chiktren living- Jeanette ML .. born April 9. 1863 : Elizabeth, born Jan. 10. 1865. and Glengarry W. born Dee. 26, 1872, and have lost two. Mr. McDonald has seen Columbia Co. and Wisconsin changed from an Indian hunting ground to a cultivated, thickly settled and wealthy State. He was appointed by Gov. Dodge as Major of militia : has been Supervisor and Chairman of the County Board : was proprietor of the Ellsworth. now Corning House, for eight years.
DEWITT C. MCDUFFIE. express messenger between Portage and Ashland. on the Wis. Cent. R. R .: born in Lafayette. Wis .. on the 15th of November. 1848. He came into Columbia Co. with his parents in 1853: they settled on a farm in Springvale. where they lived twenty years : in 1873, they soll the farm and moved into Rio. Dewitt began railroad life as clerk in station office at Rio, on the C., M. & St. P. R. R .. in 1870 : he was express messenger in 1871 between Portage and Horicon, and then he was two years at Portage as telegraph operator and express agent : he served a year and a half as engineer of a quartz-mill at Silver City. Nov .: since fall of 1876. he has been express messenger on Wis. Cent. R. R. He was married on the 28th of August. 1879. to Miss llarriett S. Race. of Portage. He is a Republican. Lives in brick house near St. Paul depot.
P. MeGINN was born in County Monahan. Ireland. in 1829: came to America in 1846 : resided in Vermont. New York. Ohio and California, prior to locating in Portage in 1857: was engaged in mining while in California ; learned the molder's trade in Vermont ; began the grocery business in 1857. in which he has continued ever since. His present wife, Catherine Gaffney. is a native of East Canada. They have five children-Mary. aged 11 : Catherine. aged 10 ; John T., aged 8; Margaret Celia, aged 7. and James, aged 4. Mr. and Mrs. MeGinn are both members of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
MICHAEL McKENNA, coppersmith. at Portage machine-shops of the C., M. & St. P. R. R. ; was born in January. 1818. in Dublin, Ireland ; served a seven-year apprenticeship in Dub- lin ; he came to the United States in 1849, and settled in Buffalo. N. V .. where he remained five years, working at his trade : then spent five years in Detroit. and after that two years for M. C. R. R. at Marshall. Mich : spent one year in Chicago, and located in La Porte. Ind., where he remained eleven years in the employ of the M. S. R. R. : in fall of 1872. he came to Portage and began work for C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co .. and has been in their employ continuously to date. Before leaving Freland, he was married. December. 1843. to Miss Mary Dolan, who died in 1878, leaving one daughter, Catherine D. McKenna, who is established as milliner and dressmaker on Cook street. Portage ; she also keeps a stock of fancy notions : she has " more than a dozen employes :" before starting her business this season. she made a visiting tour of England and Ireland. The family affiliate with the Catholic Church. He belongs to no society except the " Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Insurance Association." Ile is the only coppersmith in the employ of the railroad com- pany at Portage, and is reported as a first-class mechanic.
D. A. McKENNEY was born in Malone. Franklin Co .. N. Y., July 13. 1836 ; resided there until he was 18 years of age. then came to Berlin. Green Co .. Wis .: remained there until he came to Portage in the fall of 1861 : while at Berlin. he was employed as a clerk in a store ; after coming to Portage. he was in the photograph business until 1863. when he went to Washington. D. C., where he remained until 1864-in the Government service one year-connected with the construction of buildings there and in that vicinity. In 1864. he returned to Portage, and has been, most of the time since then, with P. S. Hollenbeck, furniture dealer, being employed as finisher and salesman. Mr. MeKenney was married at Berlin. Wis .. Jan. 1. 1859, to Miss Elizabeth Behan : she was born in Syracuse, N. Y. They have four children-Charles T., Wm. D., Clara and George.
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