The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 139

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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WILLIAM NIEMEYER was born in Hanover. Germany. Jan. 2, 1830 : came to New York and engaged in tailoring in 1850, remained there one and a half years. then came to Milwau- kee ; removed to Portage in 1854 : carried on the tailoring and clothing business until 1861. then engaged in the grocery business, which he has carried on ever since. Mr. Niemeyer was married in Portage. July 11, 1857, to Caroline Wentzel, a native of Prussia ; they have seven children-Albert J .. Lizzie. Charles. William. George. Henry and Emma. Mr. N. is a member of the Lutheran Church. and of the I. O. O. F. lodge.

JOHN J. O'KEEFE, born in North Hadley March 29. 1852 : removed from there with his father. John C. O'Keefe. in May, 1853. and came to Wisconsin, locating at Pacific, near Portage. where he remained for about two years, then moved to Portage, and has resided in this vicinity ever since. Mr. O'Keefe engaged in Government surveying for a number of years and steamboating part of two years. He was elected City Clerk in the spring of 1878; re-elected in the spring of 1880 ; member of the Board of Education from the Third Ward. Mr. O'Keefe received his educa- tion in Portage.

M. DE WITT OLDER, son of Amos and Ann Okdler, was born at Farmersville, Catta- rangus Co .. N. Y .. Dec. 20, 1831 : came to Walworth Co., Wis., in 1838, his parents being the third family in the town of Darien : moved to Boone Co .. Ill .. in 1852 ; two years afterward removed to Marquette Co .. Wis .. then went to Minnesota, where he aided in the organization of Martin County and towns: left Minnesota on account of the Indian massacre in 1862; returning to

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Marquette Co., enlisted in Co. H. 5th W. V. 1 .. Aug. 23. 1864. and was mustered out June 20, 1865. when he again returned to Marquette Co .; in 1869. Mr. O. moved to Lincoln. Adams Co., Wis .. where he remained until coming to Portage. March 3. 1880. He was married at Nevada. Martin Co., Minn., April 26, 1859. to Elizabeth A .. daughter of James B. and Jane A. Clark, born in On- tario, Canada, June 19, 1839. They have six children-Clark, born Oct. 29. 1860 : James Amos. July 26, 1862 ; Edna, June 25, 1866 : Nellie, April 24. 1869 ; Bert, July 18. 1875. and Cliffe. Nov. 17. 1876. Mr. O. is a member of a lodge of 1 .. F. & 1. M.

MRS. MARY A. OWENS, nee Parrish. wife of John T. Owens ; she was born July 12, 1828, in the city of Peterborough. England ; he is a native of Wales : she sailed from Liverpool in the good ship Milan. on the 14th of May. 1848. and reached New York on the 13th of June, 1848, which was the shortest passage of sailing vessel recorded up to that date ; she lived twelve years in Utica. N. Y. She was married in 1850 : in the spring of 1860 they came West. and bought land in Caledonia Township. where they lived till 1873; since which date she has resided in Portage. Had four children; three are dead; the other. Anna, is married to a son of Thomas Walker. of Caledonia, and now lives in Bremer Co .. Iowa. She keeps a stock of fancy notions. and also does stamping. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a reliable and useful member of society.

ABRAHAM PADLEY is a native of England : was born at Staley Bridge. Lancashire. Oct. 27, 1828 ; came to America with his mother in the fall of 1840 ; lived at New York Mills until he came to Wisconsin. February, 1857 ; acquired his musical education at Utica, N. Y. When first coming to this State, he settled at Lodi. in this county, where he resided one year : then moving to the town of Dekorra. where he remained six years. in the hotel business and owner of the ferry : moving from Dekorra to Poynette, he engaged in the mercantile business, where he lived for seven years ; was Postmaster for about five years during his residence in this place, and then. coming to Portage in the fall of 1871. he engaged in the music business. dealer in pianos. organs and all kinds of musical instruments, and teaching vocal and instrumental music. Mr. Padley was married in Whitestown. Oneida Co .. N. Y .. August. 1849, to Miss Mary A. Walker, a native of Rome, N. Y. They have two children-Viola J. (now Mrs. I. H. Rogers, of this city) and Julia E. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church ; also belongs to the I. O. O. F. Society.

WILLIAM T. PARRY, son of William and Catharine Parry ; was born in Bangor. North Wales, May 17, 1837 ; came to America in 1849: to Wisconsin in September of the same year. locating at Manchester, Green Lake Co .: lived there until 1858. and engaged in farming : in 1859, came to Portage : clerked for about six years with A. D. Forbes ; in 1865, the firm of Parry. Bebb & Muir was formed : they were together about four years, when the firm became Parry & Muir. and has continued to present time. Married Margaret Williams June 30, 1857, at Randolph. this county ; she died June 30. 1866, leaving two children-Mary A. (now Mrs. Thomas Moss, of Ilud- son, Wis.) and William. Present wife's maiden name was Annie R. Roberts ; were married Ang. 27. 1867. at Westminster Church. Utica. N. Y .; Mrs. P. was born near Bala, North Wales : they have four children-Lemuel R .. Floy. Richard and Pierce. Mr. Parry is an Elder of the First Pres- byterian Church, and has been Superintendent of Sabbath school for the last eleven years. William Parry, father of William T., died in Cambria ; mother is still living ; she resides at Randolph. in this county.

JAMES PATERSON was born in Dumfries, Scotland, Sept. 27, 1827 ; came to America in 1851 ; spent one year at Athens. Penn .. two years in Steuben Co., N. Y., and the balance of the time, until coming to Columbia Co. in 1857. at Franklinville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. In the fall of 1860. Mr. P. entered the store he is now connected with; spent the summer of 1870 in Scotland. lle was married at Portage, June 5. 1868, to Agnes Reid, born in Hamilton. Scotland. Both are members of the Presbyterian Church. They have one son-James, born in April, 1869. Mr. P. is a member of the Curling (lub.

ROBERT C. PIXLEY was born in London, Canada West, Oct. 14, 1832 : lived there until the spring of 1850. then came with his parents. Bemus J. and Mary Pixley, to Portage. Wis .. arriving April 15. 1850. Father died in the house where he settled. August. 1879 ; mother died May. 1879. leaving four children-William B .. of Stockton, Cal .; Jonathan B .. now in Minnesota : Harriet M., now Mrs. Philo M. Phumb, of La Crosse, and Robert C., the subject of the sketch. Mr. P. was engaged in teaming for six or seven years ; in the fall of 1856. he went to New Lisbon. Wis .. and carried on grocery, livery and express business, until 1861 : he then spent one year in Califor- nia ; has been a resident of Portage ever since. dealing in hides, furs. ete .. since 1862. with Arthur

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Bros., with the exception of two years spent in the store of Loomis, Gallett & Breese. Mr. Pixley was married Jan. 20, 1856, to Elizabeth (. Blanchard, a native of Oneida ('o., N. Y. They have two children-Charles R., born Jan. 13. 1857, and Minnie L., born Oct. 25, 1860. Mr. P. is now serving as Alderman.

SHERMAN L. PLUMB, the subject of this sketch, was born in Monroe, Fairfield Co .. Conn., July 20, 1841 ; when a lad 16 years of age, he went to Galesburg : was there about four years, then came to Milwaukee, where he remained, most of the time engaged in railroading, until 1866, when he came to Portage and engaged in his present business since coming to this city. Mar- ried in Portage, Aug. 27, 1872, Alice I. Stanton ; she was born in Lake Co., Ill. Mr. Plumb is a member of the A., F. & A. M.

CHARLES PREHN, carpenter ; was born in North Prussia Sept. 23. 1839 : came to Mil- waukee in 1853 ; in 1855, he came to Portage and began working at his trade, which business he has since followed. He was married at Portage. Feb. 3, 1861. to Emma La Clair, who was born in Prussia ; they have six children -- William L., born July 17. 1863; Charles G .. born March 18. 1865 ; Bertha A., born Ang. 6, 1867 ; Gustav C., born Oct. 15, 1869 : Louis, born Jan. 8, 1872. and Augusta D., born Sept. 25, 1876. Mr. P. is a member of the Temple of Honor, and has served as Alderman of the First Ward ; his father. John Prehn, died in 1857, but his mother. Minne Prehn. is still living, being over 80 years of age.

LOUIS PREHN, blacksmith ; was born in Mecklenburg, Germany. on the 19th of Janu- ary, 1843 : when he was of the age of 10 years, his parents emigrated to America, and located at Milwaukee ; his father was a farmer named John Prehin : has lived in Portage since 1855. Was married in January. 1866, to Miss Bertha Neimats, who was born in July, 1846. in Prussia. He has been Supervisor two terms ; is connected with the I. O. O. F. Has three children-George. born in 1867 ; Emma, born in 1872, and Lizzie, born in 1876. His widowed mother lives with him ; he is reported as a substantial, reliable citizen ; he reports business prosperous.

JAMES PRENTICE, physician and surgeon ; was born at Aurora. Erie Co .. N. Y .. Nov. 15, 1820 ; came from Erie Co., with his brother, to Milwaukee. in 1844; remained there six months, when he removed to Antioch, Lake Co., Ill., living there one year; then went to St. Charles. Kane Co., Ill., where he studied medicine with Prot. G. W. Richards ; he gradu- ated at Indiana Medical College, at La Porte, Ind., in 1847, his preceptor being Professor of Theory and Practice in that institution : came to Fort Winnebago in 1849, and has since made this his home. Was Surgeon of the 23d W. V. I .. entering the service in August. 1862, and resigned in February, 1863, on account of ill health. and has since been engaged in the active practice of medicine up to the present time. Was married at Bellefontaine. Columbia Co .. Wis .. in 1848, to Emma Bonney ; she was born in Maine : they have three daughters-Alice (now the wife of R. J. Flint. an editor at Menomonee), Anna and Emma. The Doctor was a Justice of the Peace at Fort Winnebago in an early day.

JAMES O. PRESCOTT, of the firm of Carnagie. Prescott & Co., lumber dealers, and manufacturers of sash, doors and blinds ; was born in the town of Sanbornton. Belknap Co., N. H .. March 16. 1829; when 16 years of age, he went to Massachusetts ; lived in Worcester one year. and then went to Lowell, where he remained until 1855. when he removed to Westfield. N. Y., where he resided until coming to Wisconsin, in May. 1856, locating at Portage. where he has lived ever since ; engaged in building, contracting, etc .: soon after coming here, he became associated with A. Carnagie in building operations, and they were together in that business for fifteen years, until 1872 ; they erected the Veeder House in 1857. the high-school building, the Columbia Co. Court House and Jail, and also built several of the principal blocks of this city ; was appointed Under-Sheriff Jan. 1, 1873, and did the business of Sheriff during the term for which William W. Drake was elected ; in the fall of 1874, Mr. Prescott was elected Sheriff : has been Under Sheriff all the time since he was Sheriff, with the exception of a few months of the first part of Mr. Conklin's term; was Alderman, from 1864 to 1871, of the Second Ward : was President of the Council two years, and a member of the School Board one year. Was married in Lowell, Mass., Oct. 20, 1851. to Sophia T. Mass ; she was born at Fairfield, Me .; they have two children-Allie L. and Laura E.

EDMUND S. PURDY is a native of the city of New York ; was born Sept. 6. 1845; is a son of Edmund and Harriet Purdy. who came to Wisconsin. locating at Fox Lake, Dodge Co., in 1846, and have resided there to the present time; E. S. lived there until the fall of 1868; has been engaged in the drug trade since he became 13 years of age ; with Frances Ibberson, of Fox Lake. for ten years ; then in Ripon one year ; engaged in business for himself several years ; took charge

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of the business for Waterhouse & Davis sinee April 9, 1871 ; Henry Merrell was a partner with him until his death, in May, 1876; Mr. Merrell's heirs were interested in the business until Dec. S, 1879 ; is also engaged in the manufacture of the Vacuum Cream Extractor, for the last two years. Married at Portage, Sept. 13, 1871, to Helen MI. Merrell, daughter of Henry Merrell ; she was born at Ft. Winnebago July 1, 1850, and was probably the first one christened in the Episcopal Church of Portage ; they have two children-Henry Edmund, born October. 1872, and Hattie Elizabeth, born Nov. 5. 1874. Mr. Purdy has been Alderman of the Second Ward four years ; is at present member of the School Board.

JOHN D. PUGH, of the firm of J. D. Pugh & Co., grocers ; born in North Wales. Feb- ruary, 1847 ; is the son of David and Laura Pugh, who came to America when JJohn D. was an infant, 11 months of age, locating in Green Lake Co .. where they still reside ; Mr. Pugh lived in Green Lake Co. most of the time. until IS68 ; during the next three and a half years, was engaged clerking for J. M. Darling ; returned to Green Lake Co .. and was employed in farming. up to the fall of 1877 ; has been in business for himself since March, 1879, associated with Thomas W. Drew.

JOB PURNELL was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, Dec. 1, 1819 ; came to Ameriea in 1841, and located at Norwich. Conn .. remaining there until 1853. when he moved to Ohio, where he resided one year before coming to Wisconsin, to Portage, where he located in 1854, and has resided here ever since, and engaged in present business, dealing in stoves, tinware, etc., up to present time, with the exception of two years that he worked for Bacon & Atkins. Mr. P. was married, at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 23. 1844, to Emma Osborne; she was born in Somersetshire, England ; they have five children-Eliza E., now Mrs. Arthur O. Stevens, of Milwaukee; Mary A., now Mrs. J. F. Coss, of Milwaukee : Susan M .. now Mrs. Alex. Thompson, of this city ; Sarah O. and Minnie A. ; lost one daughter. aged 14 months, died in 1858. Mrs. Purnell died here Jan. 3, 1879.

GEORGE S. RACE, route agent on the C., M. & St. P. R. R. ; born at Mineral Point, Wis., on the 15th of October. 1843; lived with his parents until his enlistment in the United States service at Portage, on the 15th of September, 1861, in Co. E. Capt. Geo. N. Richmond, of 2d W. C., under command of Col. C. C. Washburn ; the company went in barracks at Cold Springs, Milwaukee, during the winter of 1861 and 1862, for drill and discipline; in April, 1862, the rigiment was removed to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., where it was mounted, armed and equipped. and thenee ordered to Helena. Ark. ; while there. he was Chief Clerk in Post Provost Marshal's Office ; afterward, he was Commissary Sergeant ; was appointed Commissary Sergeant of the regiment on Ist of September. 1863 ; he " veteranized " on the 1st of January, 1865, and on the 30th of same month, he was commissioned First Lieutenant and made Regimental Quartermaster, in which capacity he served till mustered out at Austin, Texas, on the 15th, 1865 ; the regiment was in the Army of the Southwest, serving in Missouri. Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, and took part in several battles ; since the war. he has been clerk, bookkeeper, mechanie, and is now in railway mail service between Chicago and La Crosse. Ile was married Sept. 27, 1866. to Miss Agnes Carnagie, of Portage : they have four children-Earl, Harry, Fred and Ralph. He is a Mason and member of Temple of Honor ; lives on Pleasant street.

SYLVENUS RACE, son of William N. and Vienna Race, was born on the 28th of Feb- ruary, 1814. in Berkshire Co., Mass. He lived with his parents several years after they removed to Lorain Co., Ohio ; he came West in the fall of 1836, and settled in Mineral Point, Wis. He was married May 6, 1841, to Miss Sarah Van Ornum, who was born Nov. 12, 1823, in Chautauqua Co., N. Y. He is a carpenter and joiner, and has worked many years at his trade. While living in Mineral Point in 1840. he went to New Orleans with five boat loads of copper ore, as a speculative experiment. After marriage he took charge of a hotel for three years, and afterward farmed for three years ; he tried mercantile life three years at Dodgeville. In 1850, he settled in Portage, and has been a continuous resident to date. They have had six children ; two died in childhood ; the living are named George S., Earl. Frank A., and Abner H. : and Harriet S. Green, who from early chikl- hood has been as a daughter, and is thoroughly identified with the family. The five are married, and four have settled in Portage, and one. Earl, is in Idaho Ter. For nearly twenty-five years. Mr. Race worked at his trade in Portage ; his wife excels as a landlady ; for several years they have owned and kept a large boarding house on the corner of Mack and Emmett Streets ; they have an average patronage of forty ; sometimes sixty to seventy per day take meals with them, and they have rooms to accommodate fifty boarders. While at Mineral Point he was Jailer and Under Sheritt; he is a Free-thinker ; is a kind, social man and good citizen. Mrs. Race's father was a prominent

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Spiritualist, and she, from childhood, has professed the same faith ; she is a lady of good executive ability. and the " Race House " is well patronized.

MRS. MARTHA S. REED (nec Brooks) was born Aug. 30, 1830, in township of Hancock, Vt. : she was married in November, 1855, to D. F. Chandler, of Vermont, and soon after- ward came West and located in Milwaukee. He was a passenger engineer on the C., M. & St. P. R .; he was killed April 28, 1857, by his engine running off the track at Beaver Dam ; his injuries were internal, and he died that day at the residence of the Hon. Scott Sloan, where he had been immedi- ately taken. He was born Dec. 24, 1829, in West Randolph, Vt. ; he left one son, Wallace B., born November, 1855 ; he is now ticket agent and telegraph operator at Portage, for the C., M. & St. P. R. R. Mrs. Chandler was married in January, 1863, to Theodore Reed, who had been for several years ticket agent and telegraph operator at Portage, for the C., M. & St. P. R., which position he held until his death in 1873 ; his only surviving son, by a former marriage, Oliver T. Reed, succeeded him in that position, and held the same until his death, in March, 1879 ; and he, in turn, is succeeded hy Mrs. Reed's son, Wallace, the present incumbent of the office. Mr. Reed lett three children. all of whom are living-Martha HI., born in 1865; Angie E., in 1868; and Julia Maud, in 1872 : the oldest is at school in Massachusetts ; Mr. Reed and his son, Oliver T., were Masons ; Mrs. Reed's pleasant home is located on the corner of Dunn and Emmett streets.

JOHN REID, son of Andrew and Janet Reid, was born in Paisley, Scotland, Feb. 24, 1835 ; came to Buffalo, Marquette Co., Wis., with his parents, in 1850, where his father died, in 1854, and where his mother still resides. Mr. Reid came to Portage in 1865, and engaged in the stock and produce business, which he has since followed. He was married in Buffalo, Marquette Co., in December, 1860, to Margaret H. Muir, born in Dunbar, Scotland ; they have five children-Anna G., Jessie S., Henry D., Maggie May and John J. ; a son died in infancy. The firm of Reid & Foster are the heaviest dealers in wool in Wisconsin.

DR. RICHARD C. ROCK WOOD was born in Utica, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1814 ; came to Mil- waukee in May, 1836, but returned to Utica in the fall. In May, 1837, he again landed at Milwaukee, and soon after visited Madison, Mineral Point, Blue Mounds and Dekorra, returning to the East via Chicago, in September. On the journey home, he rode, for the first time, after a locomotive, from Adrian, Mich., to Toledo, Ohio. In April, 1845, Dr. Rockwood returned to Spring Prairie, Walworth Co., where he entered land, in August, 1837 ; one year later, he moved to Wyocena, Columbia Co., where he lived until coming to Portage, in 1872; assisted in rolling up the first log house at Oconomowoc. He has been in practice thirty-six years, being at first the only physician between Wyocena and St. Panl, and also engaged in farming. Dr. Rockwood was Justice of the Peace, at Wyocena, twelve years and has been Alderman, Street Commissioner and Supervisor. at Portage. He married Mahala Packard, in Otsego Co., N. Y., who died in 1860, leaving two children-Helen A. and Charles S. The Doctor married his present wife. Rosa Conlon. a native of County Louth, Ireland. at Madison, in September, 1860 ; they have four children-Ernest S., Louis, Mellie A., and Edward. The Doctor is Treasurer of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons ; at Wyocena, he kept the " Cottage Inn," from 1847 to 1859 ; was President of the Columbia County Agricultural Association in 1876.

J. H. ROGERS, District Attorney, was born in Oshawa, Ontario, July 27, 1841 ; edu- cated in Canada ; graduated from Victoria University in the spring of 1866 ; entered Osgood Hall August, 1866 : was articled to attorneys at Oshawa, and afterward graduated from the Law Depart- ment of Michigan University. at Ann Arbor, in the spring of 1868, and came to Wisconsin imme- diately afterward, locating at Poynette, residing there one year and a half, practicing his profession ; . he then went to the State of New York, where he spent one year, returning to Wisconsin and locat- ing in Portage, in the spring of 1871, when he engaged in the practice of law, which he has continued ever since ; has been District Attorney since 1874, having been elected three times to this office. Married. at Portage June 12, 1872, to Miss Viola J. Padley, daughter of Abraham Padley, who located at Lodi, about twenty years ago ; she was born at York Mills, Oneida Co., N. Y .; they "have two children-Edith Ethelyn, born Sept. 19, 1875 ; Selden Wallace, Sept. 1, 1877. Mr. Rogers was one of the charter members of the A. O. U. W. of this city.

LEONARD S. ROLLESTON is a native of Nottinghamshire. England ; was born Sept. 19, 1834. Married, in Leicester, England, Jan. 22, 1857, to Maria Newton ; she was born in Leicester Dec. 21, 1835 ; they have twelve children-Elizabeth A., Florence E. and Flora L. (twins), Maria L., John P .. Ida Fannie, Arthur Septimus, Ada F., Leonard William, Alice Mand, William Launcelot and Beulah Octavia. Came to Wisconsin March, 1857, and located in the town of Lowville,

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on Sec. 5; was there six years, then moved to the adjoining town of Wyocena, on Sec. 32, still retaining his property in the town of Lowville; resided in Wyocena until Jan. 1, 1875. when he came to Portage, having been elected County Clerk in November, 1874: he was re-elected in 1876 and 1878. While residing in Wyocena he held the offices of Town Clerk two years. Justice of the Peace two years, and several times member of the School Board. Mr. Rolleston is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Lodge. In 1854. he graduated from Rossal College. at Lancashire. England, he being in the first class, fourth form. During the Crimean war, he served as Lieutenant of Co. No. 6. 57th Regiment Roval Sherwood Foresters.

JAMES RUTHVEN was born in Glasgow. Scotland, Sept. 8. 1814 : when 1 year of age, his parents moved to Kendall. Westmorelandshire, England, where he lived thirty-two years ; came to America, and first located at Albany. N. V .: resided there until 1856, then came to Chicago, where he remained until he came to Marcellon in September. 1865 : resided in the latter place until the spring of 1878 ; worked at shoemaking when 15 years of age : while in Kendall was employed in a wholesale grocery store for fifteen years. Mr. R. was married. at Kendall, Westmoreland. England, Nov. 28, 1838, to Agnes Sandford, a native of Westmorelandshire. England ; they have three children living-Isabella S., now Mrs. Walter Riddell ; John and Allan, and have lost five -- Mary Ann, 4 years ; Edwin, 9 months, and three infant children. Mr. R. is a member of the Temple of Honor, Good Templar. and Sons of Temperance societies.

PIERCE RYAN, son of Chief Justice Ryan and Caroline Willard (Pieree) Ryan : was born in Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 9, 1851, and resided there until early in 1865, when he went to Bos- ton ; lived there and in that vicinity about four years ; two years of this time at Dummer Academy, and two years with a Calcutta importing house in the city of Boston ; he then returned to his native city, and was with the Milwaukee Iron Company eight or nine years. Since the summer of 1876. has been in the employ of the C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co .; in January, 1877. came to Portage, and remained three months, and settled here permanently in October, 1877. Was married. at Ann Arbor. Mich., Oct. 1. 1879, to Miss Isadore M. Risdon ; she was born in Ann Arbor.

JAMES S. SANBORN, ice dealer and brick manufacturer ; born in Grafton Co., N. H., Nov. 14, 1837 ; is the son of Martin L. and Emeline Sanborn . his early life was passed on his father's farm ; at the age of 24, he took a full course in Eastman's Commercial College, at Pough- . keepsie, N. Y., after which he elerked in a grocery store three years in Boston ; then he spent nearly two years at Bristol, N. H., with JJason C. Draper, learning the Plymouth Glove business ; in Sep- tember, 1868, he came to Boscobel, Wis., where he clerked till January, 1871, at which time he took a contract to saw the wood on the Northern and La Crosse Divisions of the C., M. & St. P. R. R., and the contract has been in continuous force to the present day. He was married June 12. 1872, to Miss Anna E. Estabrook, of Brunswick, Me .; they have since resided in Portage ; he has manufactured briek since 1873; will, in 1880, make 2.000.000 brick in Portage ; last winter he put up 10,000 tons of ice at Fox Lake and Waukau, for the Milwaukee market ; the ice used here is harvested at Silver Lake, near Portage; they have three children-Ellen D., born May 7, 1873 : Dwight A., born Sept. 12, 1875, and Anna L., born July 6. 1877. He aims to vote for the best men. is not active in polities, but is of Democratie proclivities ; he is a Methodist, and his wife is a Con- gregationalist ; she is a member of the local Shakespearean Club ; they have a pleasant home on Prospect lill.

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The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 139

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

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