The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 147

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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HORACE C. COOPER, Columbus ; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1815, and is the son of Chauncy Cooper and Annie Candee ; his grandfather, Daniel Candee, emigrated from New Haven, Conn., to Onondaga Co., N. Y., as an early settler ; his father was a native of New Haven, Conn., also, and after marriage removed to Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he and his wife both afterward died ; Mr. Cooper is the oldest son of a family of four children, two sons and two daughters, two of whom now live in Wisconsin. Ile began the trade of a cabinet-maker at Manlius, Onondaga Co., when quite young, and continued the same there till 20 years of age ; in the autumn of 1836, he cmigrated to Detroit, Mich., where he worked at his trade during the winter ; in the spring of 1837, he entered a farm in Macomb Co., Mich., but spent the summer at Rome in the grocery trade, and in the fall of that year he entered some land near Grand Rapids, and spent the winter at his trade in Kalamazoo, and the summer of 1838 was spent at his trade in

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Niles, going to La Porte, Ind., in the latter part of 1838 ; he was there, in 1839, induced by a friend to go to peddling; this he continued for several years through Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, dealing largely in furs ; in 1841, he opened a store at Aztalan, Jefferson Co., Wis., though he continued his peddling wagon, and in the spring of 1843, he built and opened a store at Lake Mills, Jefferson Co., to where he afterward removed, located and built a hotel ; passing through Columbus, Wis., in the autumn of 1849, he made a trade with Mr. Eaton, a dry-goods merchant, and exchanged his hotel at the Lake Mills for a store and dwelling in Columbus ; he soon removed to Columbus and began merchandising, which he continued here till 1865, and was in the trade elsewhere till 1872, since which time he has been proprietor of the Cooper House of Columbus. He was married in 1845 to Miss Julia, a daughter of James Williams, of Le Roy, N. Y .; their children are Horace C., William (now a merchant at Streator, III.), Charles F. (now at Chicago), Alice C. (now the wife of C. F. Rogers, of Lake City, Minn.), Etta C. (now the wife of Willard Scott, Jr., of Naperville, Ill.), Helen (now the wife of H. M. Brown, of this city), Julia A. (now the wife of H. C. Williams, of Chicago).

O. E. CORNWELL, station agent for the C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co., Columbus; was born in the State of New York in 1840; he came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1848, and located at Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co .; in 1863, he was employed by the N .- W. R. R. Co., and stationed at Watertown for two years; he was employed by the C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co. in 1865, and stationed at Columbus, where he has since remained. Mr. Cornwell was elected Mayor of this city (Columbus) in 1877, re-elected in 1878, '79 and '80. He was married in 1865 to Miss Katie Atkins, a native of Maine; their children are Ada B., Ella M. and Bessie D. They attend the Congregational Church. Mr. Cornwell is a member of the Masonic Fraternity.

LEONARD G. CROSWELL, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Columbus; is the son of Harman and Louisa Croswell; born in Livingston Co. in 1835, and lived with his parents on a farm in that county, till his marriage, in 1860, to Miss Delia, daughter of William and Percilla Rosenkrans, of Wayland, Steuben Co., N. Y .; in 1861, they emigrated to Wisconsin, and located on his present farm of 124 acres, on Sec. 36, town of Columbus, Columbia Co., 80 acres of which he bought in 1861. Mr. C. was a member of the Town Board in 1877. Their children are Irene, Emily, Delia and Lois. Mr. and Mrs. C. and two daughters are members of the Congregational Church.

JOHN CROUMBIE, farmer, Secs. 5 and 6, town of York, Dane Co., and Secs. 31 and 32, town of Columbus, Columbia Co .; P. O. Columbus; was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, in 1813, and is the son of William and Esther Croumbie, with whom he spent much of his early life on a farm. At the age of 17, he began the stonemason's trade, and continued the same there till his emigration to America in 1847; he worked at his trade on Staten Island for two years, and in June, 1849, came to Dane Co., Wis., bought a farm of 80 acres on Secs. 5 and 6, town of York; he devoted most of his time to his trade for the first eight or ten years after his settlement in Wisconsin, but since that time has strictly adhered to farming and stock-raising ; he now owns 160 acres of land in Secs. 5 and 6, town of York. Dane Co., upon which bis residence is built, and 240 on Secs. 31 and 32, town of Columbus, Columbia Co. He was married in 1842 to Miss Esther, daughter of James and Mary Rooney, of County Westmeath; their children are William, now a resident of the town of Columbus ; James, now in Topeka, Kan .; John and Mary, at home. They are members of St. Jerome's Catholic Church.

DAVID C. DAVIS, M. D., Columbus ; was born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, Dec. 25, 1833. The Doctor received his literary education at Newcastle, Emlyn, Wales; at the age of 18, he entered the Bartholomew Medical College, of London, but owing to an aversion to the dissecting-room, he gave up the study ; his uncle, being then a member of the British Parliament, secured for him a position in the Government Printing Office, where he remained two years ; during a three-months vacation given him in 1854, he came to visit America and an uncle at Utica, N. Y .; such inducements were offered him to remain in America, that he never returned to Europe, but was connected with the Morning Herald, of Utica, for two or three years ; he was next publisher of the Mirror, a well-known Welsh paper of Utica, for three years ; in 1861, he removed to Milwaukee, Wis., and was there connected with a publishing house for nearly a year ; he located at Cambria, Columbia Co., Wis., in 1862, and there engaged in mer- chandising for one and a half years; there, in 1863, with Dr. J. H. Williams, he again took up the study of medicine ; he attended lectures at Rush Medical College during the terms of 1865-66, but took his diploma from the Columbia County Medical Society in 1866, and from the State Medical Society in 1868 ; he began the practice of his profession with Dr. Waterhouse, of Portage, and continued there from 1867 till near the close of the year 1868 ; he removed to Columbus in November, 1868, where he has since successfully practiced his profession. While in Cambria, he served as Town Clerk, as Justice of the Peace and Police Justice, and was at one time a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from that district,

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and was the author of the bill that was passed by that body and the Senate, legalizing dissection ; the Doctor has been a member of the State Medical Society since 1868. He was married in 1858 to Miss Dorothy, daughter of Richard and Gwen Roberts, of Lewis Co., N. Y. Their children are Julia M., now the wife of the Rev. L. H. Mitchell, and lives at Portage City, Wis .; Charles M .; John H .; Lemuel T .; Robert W .; George W. The family is connected with the Congregational Church. The Doctor was a charter member of the Masonic Lodge of Cambria. He was a member of the City Council of Columbus in 1876, 1877 and 1878; has been President of the School Board during the years of 1879 and 1880.

URIAH DAVIES, of the firm of Bassett & Davies, dry-goods merchants; Columbus; was born in Merionethshire, North Wales, in 1823; is the son of John and Mary Davies, his mother dying when he was only 3 years old ; in 1845, with his father and stepmother (his father having married again), came to America, and located at Union, Rock Co., Wis., where his stepmother afterward died ; his father now lives with him in this city. Mr. Davies came to Columbus in January, 1846, and began clerking for Arnold & Bassett, dry-goods merchants, and remained with Mr. Bassett eight years, Mr.' Arnold having sold out to Mr. Bassett during that time; May 1, 1855, he formed a copartnership with Mr. E. P. Silsbee, under the firm of Silsbee & Davies, and as such continued the business till, Aug. 20, 1855, Mr. S. Axtell purchased the interest of Mr. Silsbee, and the firm was then Davies & Axtell till 1861, when he bought out Mr. Axtell; continued the business alone four years. In 1865, Mr. Bassett became an equal partner with Mr. Davies, and in 1866 they took in Mr. J. M. G. Price, but Jan. 1, 1873, Mr. Bassett bought back the interest of Mr. Price, and since that time the firm has been Bassett & Davies. Mr. Davies was married to Jane, daughter of Ellis and Elizabeth Roberts ; their children are Jane A .- now the wife of Wm. J. Edwards, and lives in this city-Mary and Luther. Mr. D. and family are connected with the Welsh Methodist Church.

JOHN R. DECKER, proprietor and publisher of the Columbus Republican, was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., in 1842; his father, Stephen Decker, was a native of Troy, N. Y., but his mother, Sylvania Richmond, was born in Connecticut; at the age of 2} years, he, with his parents, removed to Erie Co., N. Y., where his father followed farming till 1855, when they came as emigrants to Wisconsin, and located at Waupun, Fond du Lac Co., where his father now resides; Mr. Decker was educated in the public schools of Waupun, and in that city in 1859, he entered upon his apprenticeship at the printer's trade ; a year later, he went to the city of Fond du Lac, where for four years he was employed in the job office of which Edward Beeson was proprietor; in 1867, he returned to Waupun, purchased the Waupun Times, and was its editor for one year; he came to Columbus in 1868, established a printing office where he made a specialty of job work, and where he has since edited the Columbus Republican; Mr. Decker was elected Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors in 1877 ; was re-elected in 1878 and 1879; he was married in 1866 to Miss Harriet, daughter of Abram and Lucy Shelmadine, of Waupun, who died in 1869, leaving two children-Minnie J., and Ray-the latter of whom is now deceased; he was again married, in 1870, to Miss Susan Hawxhurs, of Columbus, who died in three years after; his third mar- riage was to Miss Emma L. Holms, of Portage City, Wis., in 1875; Mrs. Decker is a member of the Episcopal Church ; Mr. D. is a member of the I. O. O. F., P. of II., and also of the Masonic Fraternity.

JOSEPH DERR, farmer, Sec. 31 ; P. O. Columbus; was born in Bavaria April 16, 1841 ; his parents, Joseph and Magdaline (Schmidt) Derr, immigrated with their family to America in 1846; they stopped a short time at Detroit, Mich., and in the spring of 1847, came to the town of Hampden, Colum- bia Co., Wis., where his father entered one-half of Sec. 36, and made that his home till his death, which occurred in August, 1879; his mother died in June, 1877; Joseph, the youngest of nine children, made his home with his parents until 24 years of age; he then bought 66 acres of his present farm, which now consists of 217} acres, on Secs. 31, town of Columbus, and 25 and 36, town of Hampton ; he was married in 1864 to Miss Rosina, daughter of George A. and Dorothea (Long) Thine, a native of Bavaria but an emigrant to America with her parents in 1848, and to Dane Co., Wis., in 1849, where her mother died in 1862; their children are Mary M., Matilda B .; Frank J., John, Anna D., Lizza A., Jose- phine R., Catharine E. They are members of the Catholic Church ; Mr. Derr has been a member of the Town Board for two terms, 1879 and 1880.

G. T. DODGE, dry-goods merchant, Columbus; was born at Greece, Monroe Co., N. Y., Sept. 22, 1834 ; his father, Rev. H. B. Dodge, was born at Hanover, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, and soon after at a theological college in the District of Columbia, and afterward entered the work of the ministry as a Baptist preacher in the State of New York ; his mother, Eliza Beckwith, was a native of Plattsburg, N. Y .; was married to the Rev. Mr. Dodge, June 13, 1830. Five years after marriage, they removed to Ohio, where Mr. Dodge continued his ministerial labors for a few years, and then returned to Plattsburg, where he died Nov. 11, 1865. Mrs. Dodge came to this city (Columbus) soon after the death

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of her husband, and made this her home till her death, which occurred Nov. 3, 1878; the family was composed of four sons and two daughters, three of the former were for several years merchants of this city. Harvey K., was a soldier in the 1st W. V. I., under Gen. Starkweather, and was connected with the gen- eral pay department of the army from 1862 to the close of the war. He was married to Miss Nellie Dudley, of Naperville, Ill., who died in six months after marriage. He was afterward married to Miss Julia Manning, of Columbus. Rufus S., was in the 16th N. Y. V. I., and was in the battle of Bull Run, and remained with and engaged in all the principal battles and movements of his regiment till after the second battle of Fredricksburg ; he came to Columbus in 1863, and was a member of the firm of Dodge Brothers till 1879 ; he is now in business at Sparta, Wis. He married Miss Fannie Cotton, of Beaver Dam, Wis .; they have one daughter, Nellie. G. T., the subject of this sketch, came to this city (Colum- bus) in 1855, and has since been engaged in the dry-goods trade. He was married in 1864 to Miss Julia I., a daughter of M. Meade, of Columbus. who died in six weeks after marriage. His second marriage was at Le Roy, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1866, to Miss Franc P., daughter of Dorus Hinkston, a native of Clark- son, N. Y .; their children are Bessie A. and Ruth M. Mrs. Dodge is a member of the Episcopal Church.

WILLIAM W. DRAKE, farmer; P. O. Columbus ; was born in Herkimer Co., N. Y., June 20, 1819. His father, Col. Jeremiah Drake, was a native of Ulster Co., N. Y .; his mother, Lur- inda Brockett, was born in Connecticut. Mr. Drake was educated in the common schools of his native county ; he came to Wisconsin in June, 1843, and located at Columbus in September following ; he, with his father, rented the flouring-mill at this place (then the only one in this section of the country), and were its proprietors for three years ; he removed to a farm near the village, and there followed farming for awhile ; returning to the village two years later, he began the wagon manufacturing, which he carried on, for nearly twenty years, and then resumed the business of a farmer, which he has followed most of the time since ; he now owns a farm of 200 acres in the town of Columbus. Mr. Drake has been Chairman of the Town Board for several terms; was clected Sheriff of Columbia Co. in the fall of 1860, for a term of two years, and re-elected in 1872 ; politically, he is a Republican. Dec. 24, 1845, he was married to Miss Helen, daughter of Jacob and Marie Miller, a native of Onondaga Co., N. Y., but who, when quite young, removed with her parents to Albany Co., and made that her home till 1843, when she came to Col- umbia Co., Wis .; they have two children - Lurinda M. and George L. Lurinda is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

ROBERT W. EARLL, M. D., Columbus; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., in May, 1823; his parents, Marens and Calista Earll, were both natives of that county; his mother died there in 1839, and his father afterward removed to Coldwater, Mich., where he now resides. The Doctor received his literary education in the Academy of Onondaga Hollow ; he came to Wisconsin in 1840 ; he pursued the study of medicine in Syracuse, N. Y., for two years, attended lectures at Rush Medical College of · Chicago during the terms of 1847-48, and graduated from that institution in February, 1853; he located at Columbus, Wis., in 1851, and practiced his profession in company with Dr. Axtell for three years, and since that time he has continued the practice alone. He was married in August, 1850, to Miss Angeline, an adopted daughter of Henry Finney, of Lowell, Dodge Co., Wis., who died in April, 1872, leaving four daughters-Dora, Coie, Hattie and Ann. They attend the Congregational Church.

ABRAM S. ECKERT, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Columbus ; was born in Ulster Co., N. Y., Feb. 14, 1815. Mr. Eckert lived with his parents, Solomon and Margaret, on the farm in his native county till their death, and afterward remained on the farm till 1854; emigrating then to Wisconsin, he settled on a farm in the town of Columbus, Columbia Co., which he made his home for one or two years ; selling out his farm in 1856, he returned to New York for the winter, and, in the following spring, came again to Columbus; in 1868, he bought a farm of 36 acres on Sec. 36, which he has since made his home. He was married in 1836 to Miss Sarah A. De Graff, of Ulster Co., N. Y .; their children are Sarah M., now Mrs. Jeremiah Marshall, and lives at Lanesboro, Minn .; Oliver, Dow at Northwood, Iowa; Solo- mou, now at McGregor, Iowa; Henry, now in Winnesheik Co., Iowa; Emery, now at Northwood, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Eckert are members of the Presbyterian Church.

JAMES ECKERT, farmer, Sccs. 20 and 21 ; P. O. Columbus; was born in the town of Esopus, Ulster Co., N. Y., in 1837 ; he came with his parents, Hiram and Sallie Eckert, to Wisconsin in 1855, and located on a farm of 80 acres in Secs. 20 and 21, town of Columbus, Columbia Co., where his father died April 28, 1876; his mother now lives with him on the farm. He was married March 16, 1876, to Miss Viola Parker, a native of Steuben Co., N. Y., but immigrated with her parents, William and Sarah Parker, to Wisconsin in 1856; they have three children-James C., Troup and Adella.

JOSEPH EDWARDS, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Columbus ; was born in Delaware Co., N. Y., in 1804, and made that his home till 17 years old, then, with his parents, he removed to Lewis Co., N. Y.,

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where he followed farming until 1837; emigrating then to Wisconsin, he located at Milford, Jefferson Co., on a farm; six years later (June, 1843), he entered a farm of 160 acres in Secs. 4, 9 and 17, in the town of Columbus, Columbia Co., he being the second man to make a land entry in this part of the town; he moved his family up from Milford Jan. 18, 1844, and has since made it his home; he now has a farm of 280 acres. Mr. Edwards distinctly remembers of being summoned as a juror, at Portage, in an early day, when, upon the calling of the court, the docket showed not a single case for trial ; his house was used for the church and schoolhouse for more than a year after his settlement there; the first minister to hold service there was the Rev. M. Jones, of the M. E. Church. Mr. Edwards was married in 1824 to Miss Maria Bill, of Delhi, Delaware Co., N. Y .; their children are Mariette, now the wife of S. S. Loveless, and lives in Clark Co., Wis .; Olney, now in the city of Oconto, Wis .; James J., Norfolk, Monroe Co., Wis .; Eliza, at home; Lorilla, now Mrs. Bennett, of Luddington Mich .; Antha, now Mrs. C. S. McKinzie, of Oconto, Wis .; Maria, now Mrs. George Butterfield, lives in Oconto, Wis .; Joseph, Jr., now living at Waupun ; Theron, at home on the farm. Mr. and Mr. Edwards are members of the M. E. Church.

JOHN A. ERHART, manufacturer and dealer in harness, etc., Columbus ; was born in Sax- ony Sept. 1, 1834. His father, John R. Erhart, was born there in 1805, and died when John A. was only 4 years old ; his mother, Louisa Erhart, was also a native of Saxony, born 1808, and, after the death of his father, she married Ferdinand Baerholdt, and with him emigrated to Columbus, Wis., in 1856, where they now live. Mr. Erhart began a three-years apprenticeship at the harness trade when 15 years old ; in 1853, he emigrated to America and followed his trade in Milwaukee for a year ; in 1854, he went to Fox Lake, Dodge Co., Wis., where he worked two years in a shop for J. R. Decker; in the spring of 1856, he, with a partner, bought Mr. Hosmer's harness-shop at Beaver Dam, and conducted the business there till the following fall, when he came to Columbus, and, in copartnership with Edward Vedder, carried on the trade two and one-half years ; he then bought out Mr. Vedder, and has since carried on the business alone. Mr. Erhart was one of the Town Supervisors before the organization as a city ; he was a member of the Village Board for two terms, and was elected a member of the City Council in the spring of 1880. He was mar- ried in October, 1858, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Andreas and Margaret Liebing, a native of Germany, born 1838, and came to Columbus, Wis., in 1853; their children are Annie A., born Sept. 9, 1861 : Ida L., July 17, 1864 ; Charles A., born August 4, 1866 ; Oscar T., born April 20, 1870. Mr. E. and family born are members of the Lutheran Church; he has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity since 1859.

ELIJAH FEDERLY, farmer, Sec. 35 ; P. O. Columbus ; was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 1819 ; his parents, Daniel and Margaret Federly, were natives of Herkimer Co., but removed to Jeffer- son Co., N. Y., in 1815, where they afterward died. Mr. Federly was brought up as a farmer's son, and was educated at the district select schools of his native county ; at the age of 24, he began the ship-car- penter's trade at Clayton, Jefferson Co., and continued that most of the time for six or seven years ; he next turned his attention to the carpenter and joiner's trade, at which he worked much of his time for a number of years; he came to Wisconsin in 1848, and located on a farm in the town of Concord, Jeffer- son Co., and in the following year, he removed to the town of York, Dane Co., where he lived on a farm for fifteen years ; in the winter of 1865, he located on his present farm of 180 acres on Sec. 35, town of Columbus, Columbia Co. He held the offices of Town Treasurer, Constable and Depnty Sheriff while a citizen of Dane Co. He was married in 1842 to Miss Sarah M., daughter of Edmund and Charlotte (Dickerson) Ingalls, a native of Vermont, but an emigrant to Jefferson Co., N. Y., with her parents when young ; her parents afterward came to Wisconsin ; both are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Federly have four children-Charles M., who enlisted in October, 1861, in Co. B, 16th W. V. I., under Col. Allen, of Madison, was taken sick, was brought home, and died Jan. 11, 1863; Charlotte M. (now the wife of F. W. Oatman, and lives in Jefferson Co., N. Y.), Albert E. and Sarah C., at home. They are members of the M. E. Church.

JOHN FICK, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Columbus ; was born in Mecklinburg in 1827 ; he came to America in June, 1855, and located at Watertown, Wis., where he worked on a farm for six years ; he came to the town of Columbus, Columbia Co., in 1861, bought a farm of 127 acres in Secs. 15 and 22, where he has since lived. He was married in 1855 to Miss Dora Scheibers, a native of Germany ; their children are Henry, Frank, John, Joseph and Mary. They arc members of the Lutheran Church.

HENRY C. FIELD, proprietor of livery stable, Columbus ; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1820 ; his father, Stephen Field, was born in Connecticut ; his mother. Charlotte Berry, was also a native of Connecticut, died when he was quite young ; he, with his father and family, removed to Kala- mazoo Co., Mich., in 1833, and lived there on a farm till 1848, whence they emigrated to Columbia Co., Wis .. and located on a farm in the town of Fountain Prairie, where his father died in 1852; Mr. Field lived

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on his farm in the town of Fountain Prairie till 1876, when he removed to the city of Columbus, pur- chased the livery stable of M. D. Misner, and has since been its proprietor. He was a member of the Town Board of Fountain Prairie for a number of years, and Chairman of the same for four years ; he was elected a member of the City Council of Columbus in 1877. In March, 1850, he was married to Miss Theressa, daughter of Asa and Mercy Hicks, nee Robins; her father was a native of New York ; her mother of Connecticut ; she was born in Yates Co., N. Y., in 1821, and removed to Kalamazoo Co , Mich., with her parents in 1834, where they afterward died. Mr. and Mrs. Field have five children, as follows : Carry M. (now the wife of S. V. Potter, station agent at Calmar, Iowa), William (now in Red- wood Co., Minn.), Charles (now on the farm in Fountain Prairie) Henry (an engineer on the Iowa Divi- sion of the Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R.), Louis, at home with his parents.

WALDO H. FIELD, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Columbus; was born in Cheshire Co., N. H., in 1796; his father, Waldo Field, was a native of Bridgewater, Mass .; his mother, Mary Atkins, was born in Waterbury, Conn , and removed to Cheshire Co., N. H., a few years before the Revolutionary war. At the age of ten years, Waldo H. removed with his parents to Washington Co., Vt., where they afterward died. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and took part in the battle of Lake Champlain. He was married in 1840 to Miss Lovisa, widow of Zebina Lyons, nee Carey, and daughter of Theodore and Silence (Cobb) Carey, a native of Springfield, Vt., but removed to Brandon, Vt., at the age of 5 years ; in June, 1849, Mr. and Mrs. Field came to Columbia Co., Wis., and located on Sec. 30, town of Colum- bus, where they have since lived, and now own 31} acres of land. Their children are Martha (now Mrs. Colville), Mary (now the wife of J. Folsom, and lives in Dane Co., Wis.)-these two are by Mrs. Field's first marriage, and by her second marriage they have two-Almira (now the wife of Hugh Twining, and lives in the town of Medina, Dane Co.), and Henry (now a resident of the city of Columbus). Mr. and Mrs. Field are members of the M. E. Church.

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The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 147

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