The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 167

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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JONATHAN N. TRIPP (deceased) was born Jan. 17, 1820, in the town of Windsor, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, son of Thomas Tripp, a native of the State of New York. Was married in Bristol, Trumbull Co , Ohio, June 12, 1844, to Mary L. Parish, who was born Feb. 4, 1817, in Orleans Co., Vt .; daughter of John Parish, who removed to Ohio in 1834 and died in 1845. Mr. Tripp lived in Trumbull Co., Ohio, and worked at wagon-making, (to which trade he had been apprenticed when 17 years old) till June, 1853, then came with his family to Wisconsin and located on the farm now occupied by his widow, on Sec. 29, in the town of Scott, where be resided till his death, Dec. 30, 1867, of consumption, with which he had been afflicted for several years ; he had been able to work, however, till the last two years of his life. He left four children-Julia, Cornelia E. (now Mrs. Charles Richards of Packwaukee, Wis. ), Charles Parish and Ida Adelle; all at home except the one married ; Charles is a carpenter aud joiner and follows that business, Julia is a dressmaker, and Ida a teacher. Mr. Tripp was a Republican, and once held the office of Justice of the Peace. He left a farm of 120 acres, which now has good buildings and is occupied by the family ; P. O. Marcellon.

JOSEPH W. TURNER, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Pardeeville ; born May 6, 1849, in Wal- worth Co., Wis .; son of John Turner (now of Portage City). Joseph W. was married Dec. 31, 1874, to Lida Elwood, who was horn Aug. 28, 1854, in Fairwater, Fond du Lac Co., Wis .; daughter of John Elwood. a native of the State of New York, now living in Markesan, Wis. Mr. Turner remained with his father till he was 21 years old, then worked for his father four years, for 40 acres of land, and bought 60 acres more the fall before his marriage; has two children-Edith, born Jan, 3, 1876, and Robort, born April 29, 1877. He is a Republican and has 100 acres of land.

JOSEPH TURNER, farmer, Secs. 4,5 and 8 ; P. O. Pardeeville ; born March 24, 1819, in Yorkshire, Eng., town of Leeds; son of William Turner, who came to America in 1829, and died Oct. 13, 1876. (See biography of George C. Kietb.) Mr. Turner was married in 1837, to Mary Ann Brier, who died Aug. 20, 1875, leaving five children-Josephine, Henrietta, Frances Amelia, Viola and John Grant ; Josephine is now Mrs. C. O. Hubbell, of Lanesboro, Minn .; Henrietta lives with her sister in

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Minnesota ; Frances Amelia is now Mrs. D. J. Albee, of La Crosse; Mr. Albee is a conductor on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad ; Viola is Mrs. John Keefe, of Waupun ; John G lives at home. Was married the second time, Oct. 1, 1879, to Mrs. Mary Clark, widow of Almon Clark. Her maiden name was Sawyer, and she was a native of England ; she had four children by her first husband-Adelbert, Alvah. Nettie and Martha. In the fall of 1878, he went to the southern part of Minnesota and spent the winter there, and again the next fall and spent the winter ; he has 940 acres of land ; is a Republican.

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WILLIAM BLACK, farmer, See. 8; P. O. Allon; born May 9, 1830, in Argyleshire, Scotland ; son of James Black, who came to America in 1865 and settled in Caledonia, See. 16, and died Nov. 18, 1875, in the 80th year of his age; Mrs. Black, whose maiden name was Janet Cook, is still liv- ing in Caledonia at the age of 82. William was married in Scotland. May 4, 1854, to Catharine White, who was born July 15, 1833, in Renfrewshire, Scotland ; daughter of Peter White, who died in Scotland when she was only 5 years old ; her mother, whose maiden name was Jessie MeNair, died in 1854, also in Scotland. Mr. Black followed the life of a sailor on the " briny deep " from April, 1848, till June, 1856, then came to Wiseonsin and settled in Caledonia, where he has since resided, though he has sailed on the lakes several seasons- since; has eleven children-James W., Jessie, Sarah Catharine, Minerva, Isabella, Flora, Mary, William C., Maggie, Katie and Violet Ann. Has held the offices of Chairman of the town, Assessor and Town Clerk, and was Justice of the Peace several terms ; he is a Democrat ; owns 170 acres of land ; none of the children are married.

JOHN DOUGLAS, blacksmith, Sec. 3; P. O. Alloa ; came to Wisconsin in 1868 from the village of Crosshouse, Ayrshire, Scotland, where he was born Aug. 18, 1846 ; son of William Douglas, also a hlaeksmith, of whom John learned the trade ; he was born, lived all his life and died in the village of Crosshouse. John was married, July 18, 1869, in Caledonia, to Mary Iloyt, daughter of John Hoyt ; she was born in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland, March 25, 1838. Mr Douglas has three children -- Will- iam, born June 5, 1870 ; John, born Mareh, 1875, and Anne, born Nov. 14, 1878. He is a Republican, and owns his shop and residence with six-tenths of an aere of land. Both are members of the Baptist Church.

JOHN GRAVES, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Merrimack, Sauk Co .; born in 1817 in Hunting- tonshire, England ; son of William Graves ; eame to America in the fall of 1841 and lived near Rahway, N. J., about three years. He was married there, in 1844, to Margaret Fitzgerald, who was a native of County Waterford, Ireland, daughter of Patrick Fitzgerald. Immediately after his marriage, he went to Canada, and lived in the county of Oxford till the spring of 1856; then came to Wisconsin and settled on the farm he now occupies in Caledonia. Has four children-Thomas, Sarah, William P. and Maggie. Mr. Graves is a Democrat in politics, and all the family are members of the Catholic Church. He owns 226 acres of land.

HENRY HAMILTON, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Alloa; was born April 23, 1829, in County Down, Ireland; son of George Hamilton; he came to Ameriea in 1851, arriving in New York on the 11th day of June ; lived in Dunkirk awhile, then went back to New York City, and from there to Con- nectient, where he was married in Stamford, in 1856, to Elizabeth Egan, a native of Kings Co., Ireland. He came to Wisconsin in 1858, and has lived in the town of Caledonia ever since ; has eight children- Mary Elizabeth, Margaret, Ellen, Sarah Jane, Isabell, James Henry, Lucy and Theresa, all at home ; has been Supervisor three years, and School Director and Treasurer ; he is a Democrat, and has 200 acres of land, 160 acres in his farm and 40 aeres of timber.

ALLEN JOHNSON, farmer, Secs. 25 and 36; P. O. Portage ; came to Wisconsin in July, 1841, from Galena, Ill., and made a claim in Caledonia (same land he now owns) in the spring of 1842 ; then went into the pinery at Grand Rapids, and remained till the spring of 1843; he then returned to Caledonia, built a cabin on his land, and lived there till the fall of 1853, when he rented his farm, and bought property in Dekorra, where he resided till November, 1860; then returned to his farm, and has lived there since ; about the time he went to Dekorra, he purehased a quarter-section of pine land in Juneau Co., and followed lumbering in winters, till he returned to the farm; he was born in Ontario, Canada, Nov. 9, 1820; son of Rufus Johnson ; went from there to Illinois in 1837 ; drove stage about fourteen months from Joliet to Ottawa, Springfield and Chicago; then followed steamboating on the

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Mississippi about four months. Was married, Nov. 27, 1843, in Dekorra, to Mary Chalfant, and were the first couple married in that town; she was born May 11, 1826, in Highland Co., Ohio; daughter of Aaron and Sarah Chalfant. Mr. Johnson has eight children living -- Mary Virginia, Alice, Ann Eliza, Charles, Emma, William, James and Lewis ; lost three-Edward, Henry and Edwin. He is a Democrat, and has 240 acres of land. Mrs. Johnson's brother, Ansalem Chalfant, was born in Dekorra, Oct. 26, 1842, and was the first white child born in that town, and was also the first death in the town, being drowned June 11, 1845.

EVAN E. JONES, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Portage ; horn Oct. 17, 1818, in Merionethshire, North Wales; son of Edward Jones, who came to America in 1842, and settled in Oneida Co., N. Y., where he died a few years after, and two years after the death of his wife. Mr. Jones was married in 1847, in Utica, N. Y., to Margaret Roberts, who was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, May 7, 1818; daughter of Thomas Roberts, who died in Wales. Mr. Jones came to Wisconsin in July, 1849, and has lived in Caledonia ever since; his wife died Jan. 19, 1879, about 60 years of age; she was the mother of seven children, only two of whom were living at the time of her death-Margaret, born June 16, 1850, now Mrs. Richard Owen, of Caledonia, and Thomas E., born Sept. 16, 1858, who is married to Lizzie Jones, daughter of David Jones, and living in the homestead with his father; Catharine was born Aug. 3, 1848, and died Dec. 31, 1869 ; Mary, born June 25, 1852, died Nov. 18, 1862 ; Ellen, born June 16, 1854, died Dec. 20, 1862; Edward, born Aug. 30, 1856, died Dec. 13, 1862, and Evan, born Aug. 2, 1864, died Jan. 14, 1866 ; the last four of diphtheria. Mr. Jones is a Deacon in the Calvinist Church, of which he is a member, and a member of the Bible Society of New York ; is a Republican, and has 185 acres of land in his farm. His father was a Deacon in the same church to which he belongs upward of twenty years.

ROBERT H. JONES, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Portage ; was born Dec. 27, 1830, in Merion- ethshire, North Wales ; son of Hugh Jones ; came to America in 1851 ; lived in Rock Co., near Janes- ville, two years; then in the village of Union, same county, about two years, and in December, 1855, came to Caledonia, where he has since resided. Was married, Aug. 26, 1860, to Catharine, daughter of Robert Ellis, who came from Wales to New York, and from there to Columbia Co., Wis., where he remained till his death ; she was born in July, 1842, near Utica, N. Y. Mr. Jones has nine children- Hugh, David, Mary Jane, John, Robert, Winnie, Maria, Catharine and Ruth ; all at home. Is a Repub- lican, and has 378 acres of land in his farm. Both members of the M. E. Church of Portage.

JOHN LOCKHART, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Alloa ; born June 22, 1828, in Ayrshire, Scot- land, parish of Tarbolton ; son of Samuel Lockhart. Was married in Scotland in 1850, to Agnes Gray, who was born in the same shire, parish of Kirkeswald, daughter of William Gray ; came to America in 1855, landing in New York on the 1st day of June; resided there till September, 1856, then came to Wisconsin, and has since lived in the town of Caledonia. Was two years Supervisor, during the war, in 1863 and 1864, and has held several minor offices. The nine children are as follows : Samuel S., of Portage, William, John, James, Janet, Andrew, Robert, Maggie and Thomas-all unmarried but Samuel S .; have lost but one-Maggie, died March 9, 1862, aged 9 months. Republican and Presbyterian. Has 259 acres of land.

CHARLES MCLEISH, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Merrimack, Sauk Co., Wis .; was born Dec. 8, 1832, in Perthshire, Scotland ; son of William McLeish, who came to America in 1851 and died in 1854, in Wisconsin; Charles arrived in Wisconsin in June, 1851, and stayed till the spring of 1852; then went to New York, and worked in the town of York, Livingston Co., till the fall of 1855 ; then came back to Wisconsin and bought 160 acres of land in Sec. 21, and has since lived in this town. Was married, March 9, 1859, in Portage, to Margaret Roberts, who was born Dec. 2, 1842, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, daughter of David Roberts, who came to America in 1857, and died Jan. 22, 1876; Mr. McLeish bas nine children-Jennie, Maggie, Willie, Mary, David, Charles, Alexander, John and Isabella-all at home. Has been Chairman of the town, and was School Superintendent under the old system. Democrat; and has 595 acres of land all in Secs. 20 and 21, except one 40 of timber in Sauk Co.

DAVID MARSHALL, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Alloa ; born Dec. 5, 1841, in Lanarkshire, Scotland ; son of John Marshall, who came to America in 1850, settled in Caledonia, and died Nov. 2, 1864; the family came over in 1851, and David has lived in Caledonia ever since he was 10 years old. Was married, Nov. 21, 1862, to Isabel Tennant, who was born Aug. 9, 1842, in Canada, daughter of Robert Tennant, a native of Roxburyshire, Scotland. Mr. Marshall has six children living-Mary, John D., Robert, William, David and Janet, all at home. Attends the Presbyterian Church, but is not a mem- ber ; Republican ; has 162 acres of land. Mr. Tennant came to Wisconsin in 1846 or 1847, and settled in Caledonia, on what was known as the " Indian farm ;" he died Aug. 22, 1879, in Missouri, where he had

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removed in 1868 or 1869; Mrs. Tennant is still living in Missouri, and Mrs. Marshall lives in Cale- donia.

C. F. MOHR, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Portage ; born Dec. 31, 1846, near Hesse-Cassel, Ger- many ; son of William Mohr, who came to America in 1853, lived in Buffalo, N. Y., four years, and in 1857 came to Wisconsin, settled in Caledonia, and died July 6, 1874, aged 67 ; Mrs. Mohr is still living on the homestead. Mr. Mohr was married, June 30, 1873, to Mary Eikey, a native of Sauk Co., born June 11, 1851, daughter of William Eikey, one of the first settlers of Sank Co. Mr. Mohr has two children -Musa A., born May 22, 1874, and Maud, born Oct. 26, 1876. Was Town Clerk in 1877 and 1878, and is the present Chairman of the town and Justice of the Peace. Is a Republican, and a member of the M. E. Church. Has a 120-acre farm and a store in Portage, which he owns in partnership with his two brothers, Charles and August.

DAVID OWEN, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Portage City ; born May 13, 1828, in Merioneth- shire, North Wales; son of John Owen, who came to America in the spring of 1846. settled in Caledonia in September of the same year, and died in 1865, aged 42. David came to Caledonia with his father, and has resided in the town ever since. He was married Dec. 25, 1850, to Jane Roberts, daughter of Hugh Roberts, who came to Caledonia in 1847 ; she was born in 1832, in Oneida Co., N. Y. Mr. Owen has seven children-John A. (living on Sec. 17, Caledonia), Winnie, Roger, Maggie, Sarah, Owen and Anna ; Roger and Winnie live in Howard Co., Iowa, where Mr. Owen has a 240 acre farm ; lost three children died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Owens are members of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church ; he is a Republican, and has held the offices of Supervisor, Treasurer, Assessor, Justice of the Peace, and several minor offices, and represented his district in the Assembly in 1877 ; has 480 acres of land in his home farm, and a 240 acre farm in Iowa. When his father came to Caledonia, he moved from Racine with ox teams ; had a covered wagon and lived in that till they had time to build a house.

JOHN OWEN, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Portage ; was born in August, 1836, in Merionethshire, North Wales; son of John Owen (see biography of William Owen. of Caledonia) ; came to America with his father in 1846, and has lived in the town of Caledonia ever since. He was married, May, 29, 1863, in Caledonia, to Ellen Lloyd, who was born in Merionethshire, Wales, May 29, 1836, daughter of John Lloyd, who came to America in 1842, lived in Racine till 1848, then came to Caledonia, where Mrs. Lloyd died a few months after their arrival; Mr. Lloyd is still living in Howard Co., Iowa; Mrs. Owcu is a sister of E. W. Lloyd, of Cambria. Mr. Owen has four children-Jennie, Edward C., John L. and Catherine Ellen, all at home. He is a Republican ; has 400 acres of land in his farm ; has for years been a Deacon and Trustee in the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, of which himself and families are members.

JOHN A. OWEN, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Portage; was born in November, 1852, in the town of Caledonia, on the farm he now owns; son of David Owen of the same town. (See his biography. ) He was married, March 22, 1876, to Mary Ann Jones, who was born May 31, 1854, in Sauk Co., Wis., daughter of Thomas and Ann Jones, natives of South Wales, who came to America in 1847, and now live in Sauk Co. They have three children-Ellen Ann., born Dee. 22, 1876 ; David, born July 26, 1878; Jane, born March 3, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Owen are members of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, and he is a Republican ; has 167 acres of land.

JOHN T. OWENS, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Portage ; was born April 30, 1827, in Merioneth- shire, North Wales ; son of Thomas Owens, who came to America when John T. was only 4 or 5 years old ; lived in Ierkimer Co., N. Y., till 1857; then came to Wisconsin and died in Caledonia in 1863, aged 62. Mr. Owens' first wife was Mary Ann Parish, and his second was Ida R. Cappler, who died Feb. 20, 1878, leaving two children-Friend Augustus, born May 3, 1872 ; and, Jemima J., born Sept. 1, 1873. Mr. Owen came from Herkimer Co., N. Y., to Caledonia in 1860, and has made his home in that town ever since, except two years that he was railroading in Minnesota ; while living in New York State, he followed farming, butchering, and dealing in stock. In politics, he is Republican. Has 160 acres of land.

ROBERT OWEN, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Portage; was born in Merioncthshire, North Wales, May 13, 1803; came to America in 1841 ; lived in Racine Co. nine years, and in 1850 removed to Columbia Co., and settled in his present location. He was married in Wales, in 1829, to Jane Evans, who was born in the same shire March 25, 1806, daughter of Rees Evans. They have had nine children, of whom only four are living-Ellen, is the wife of Thomas Jones, of Sank Co., Wis .; Margaret, is Mrs. Hugh Williams, of Caledonia ; Jane, is now Mrs. Thomas Morris, of Caledonia. The only son, Evan R. Owen, was born March 3, 1848, in Racine, Wis., and was married May 4, 1874, to Kate Humphrey, who was born Sept. 16, 1852, in York Co., Penn., daughter of John Humphrey, a native of Merionethshire,

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Wales, who came to America in 1849, and settled in York Co., Penn., where he is still living ; her mother, whose maiden name was Jane Morris. died when Kate was only 3 years old, and when 4 years old she was brought to Caledonia, where she lived with her grandfather, Morgan Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Owen are members of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, and he and his son Evan R. are Republi- cans, and have 200 acres of land.

WILLIAM OWEN, farmer, Sec. 7 ; P. O. Portage ; was born in the village of Llanelltyd, Merionethshire, North Wales, Sept. 10, 1825; son of John and Margaret Owen. who came to America in 1846, and settled in Caledonia in September of that year, being the first Welsh settler in the town ; he died in 1865, aged 42 years. Wm. Owen made his home with his parents till he was 27 years old, then, Jan. 1, 1853, was married to Margaret, daughter of John and Laura Jones, who came to America in 1851, and settled in Randolph, Columbia Co., Wis .; she was born Feb. 24, 1829, in Bronyfoel, Parish of Llangelynin, Merionethshire, North Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Owen have ten children-John Gwylym, Edwena Esellt and Edwyn Caradoy (twins), Aneurin, Wm. Salsbury, David Garonwy, Owen Jones, Meirion Rhydderch, Lanra Maggie and Edward Gremt. Mr. Owen was the first School Superintendent in the town, and has been Justice of the Peace; was elected Register of Deeds in 1852 for 1853 and 1854, and re-elected in 1854 for 1855 and 1856, and was a member of Assembly in the Legislature of 1865 ; Was appointed to take the census in four towns in 1870, and has the appointment again for the same bus- iness in 1880. The first six years after his marriage, he lived in Portage, and, in the fall of 1858, removed to Cambria, where he was engaged in buying wheat in company with John ap Jones, also deal- ing in lumber at the same time, and was depot agent at Cambria about four years. In 1867, he removed to the town of Randolph and went to farming on Sec. 10; sold out in 1873, and removed to his present location. He is a Republican in politics, and has 637 acres of land in his farm. Both are members of the Calvinistic Methodist Church.

JOHN PATE (deceased) was one of the oldest residents of Caledonia, and of the pioneers wha buffeted the bardships of a new country, when a man had to sacrifice all the comforts of civilization in order to start a home iu the Far West. Mr. Pate was born Feb. 17, 1802, at Brown Castle, Parish of Cul- bride, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Was married to Agnes Stewart, April 25, 1837, and emigrated to America in the spring of 1842, sailing from Glasgow on the 26th of April in the ship Perthshire, Capt. Simpson, being seven weeks making the voyage across the Atlantic to the United States. He went to Albany by steamboat, thence by canal to Buffalo, then by steamboat again to Chicago, and from there to Columbia Co., Wis., by team ; he settled on unsurveyed land in what was then Dekorra, Portage Co., Territory of Wisconsin, now Sec. 30, town of Caledonia, Columbia Co., Wis. Roads and bridges were then unknown in this region ; the nearest grist-mill was ten miles west of Madison, and their nearest market was Mil- wankee. When the town of Caledonia was organized from Dekorra, Mr. Pate was its first Chairman ; was Supervisor in 1852 ; was afterward Assessor and Town Clerk, and also held several minor offices. On his farm of 200 acres in Secs. 30. 31 and 36, he resided from 1845 till his death. which occurred Dec. 19, 1879, of cancer in the face. He had been a member of the Presbyterian Church from his youth up ; was a great lover of music, and composed several pieces, one of which entitled " Caledonia," is frequently sung in the Presbyterian Church in Caledonia. He left five children-John S., Marian, Robert, Samuel J. and William. Samuel J. Pate was born April 22, 1850, in Caledonia, on Sec. 30, and was married, Feb. 8, 1875, to Elizabeth Pearson, who was born Nov. 4, 1856, in Carlisle, England, danghter of George Pearson, who came to America in the spring of 1871, and lives in Caledonia; has two children-Mary Elizabeth, born Nov. 18, 1876, and John George, born Nov. 9, 1878. Mr. Pate is a Republican, and is the present Town Treasurer, which office he has held two years ; has been District Treasurer five years ; is a Presbyterian, and has 140 acres of land.

MOSES PAQUETTE, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Portage; was born March 4, 1828, at the old trading-post, about one-quarter mile from Ft. Winnebago ; he is the only surviving son of Pierre, or Peter Paquette, who was employed by the American Fur Company at Ft. Winnebago in trading with the Indians, and also in the transportation of their Mackinaw boats between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers at the " portage," and who was shot and killed in 1836 by an Indian named Mazomanie, which event has already become a matter of history. Alter the death of his father, Moses was taken to the Catholic Mis- sion School on the Yellow River, and afterward to the mission on Turkey River, Iowa, where he remained till the fall of 1845, and was then sent to Lebanon, Tenn., where he remained in school two years ; he then came back to Wisconsin, was employed in the store of the American For Co. at Prairie du Chien about a year, and then returned to Columbia Co., and lived about a year with his mother near Portage ; he then worked another year for the American Fur Co., this time at Long Prairie, Minn .; he was then engaged one season in assisting H. M. Rice in removing the Indians from Wisconsin to Long Prairie,

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Minn., then traded with the Indians till 1857. He then came back to Columbia Co., and, in 1858, was married to Madaline Brisbois, who was born in 1835 in Prairie du Chien. Sinee his marriage, he has followed farming in Caledonia on the farm he now occupies. His mother died in 1864, aged about 70 years, leaving a quarter-section of land in Sees. 27 and 28, which was divided between him and his only surviving sister, Mrs. Thomas Prescott. Mr. Paquette has seven children-Domitille, St. Clair, Solomon J., Peter, Daniel, Mary Ann and Moses. Has 80 acres of land. Republican in polities, and a member of the Catholic Church.

REV. THOMAS PHILLIPS, deceased ; was born in Glamorganshire, South Wales, July 17, 1802; son of William and Joana Phillips. Was married in Wales in 1839, to Miss Gwenllian Thomas ( who was born in the same county as Mr Phillips), daughter of Howells and Margaret Thomas; eame to America in 1846; first preached in Danville, Penn., and then in Pottsville ; and in 1851, removed to Wisconsin and settled in Caledonia, where he continued in the ministry until his death, Dee. 11, 1871 ; he was a self-made man, zealous and energetic in his work, and at the time of his death had been in the min- istry of Welsh Methodist Church upward of forty years; he had accumulated quite a library, and had some very ancient works ; among them, was a large Bible, printed in old English, which was in use in Wales when Bibles were so searee that only one could be afforded to each parish, and this one was hung by a chain so it could be used by all, but not removed from the church. He left six children-Howell. (living in Lake Crystal, Minn.) ; David (living in Milwaukee) ; George (living in Iludson, Wis.) ; Will- iam, Thomas and Mary (living on the homestead with their mother). Have 120 acres of land; P. O. Portage. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips buried five children-Mary in Wales ; William and David in Pennsyl- vania, and Joseph and John in Wisconsin.

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The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 167

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