The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 170

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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JACOB SWARTHOUT, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Fall River; born in Chenango Co., N. Y .; son of Thomas and Mary (Schumaker) Swarthout, of Pennsylvania ; settled on the farm he now owns in the fall of 1843. Was married at Dundee, Yates Co., N. Y., by Elder Martin to Rachel Smaully, Sept. 20, 1839; had two children-Mary, born, 1840 (now wife of Lewis Birdsey, of Columbus), Josephine, 1850 (now wife of William Conger, an engineer of Brookfield, Mo.); married a second time, Dec. 9, 1852, at home of the bride, by Elder Rosencrans, to Caroline A daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Ward) Mathews ; had six children-Andrew H. born Jan. 31, 1855; Ella B., Dee. 11, 1857; Carrie, Feb. 24, 1859 ; Eddie M., Jan. 1, 1861, died Feb. 20, 1880; John Jacob, born June 30, 1862; Willie, Oct. 11, 1866. Mr. S. is a straight-out temperance man ; Republican in polities ; Methodist in religion. Was some years Treasurer and Supervisor. His grandfather, John Swarthout, was a New Jersey man, and held a commission as Captain under George Washington in the Revolutionary war ; his uncle, Daniel Swarthout, was a non-commissioned officer in the war of 1812; Mr. S. relates that soon after they settled here, a severe wind took the roof off the house, carrying with it his sister Mary (since wife of F. M. Black, of Columbus, and died in August, two years ago), about eighty rods into a grove of small timber ; himself and mother and Willard Grant were in the lower part of the house, and were uninjured exeept a slight bruise on his mother's arm by a falling joist ; Mary received no permanent injury ; he also states that in July. 1858, a gale of wind completely divested some farms of their crops and fences, and wreeked the dwellings of Mr. Hurd and Morey, and that a stranger stopping at the time with Mr. Morey received

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injuries from the effect of which he subsequently died. Mr. Conger, the husband of Josephine, was in the 3d W. V. C. about three years.

MARVIN R. THOMAS, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Fall River; born Nov. 12, 1823, at Hudson, Summit Co., Ohio, son of B. C. and Abigal (Sanger) Thomas, formerly of Connecticut and later of New York, came to Columbus and commenced blacksmithing in 1846, built the second fire ever started in Columbus, (out of doors and then built a shop over it), settled here in 1857. Married, Dec. 24, 1852, on Sec. 19, by Rev. Mr. Green, Methodist minister, to Lorinda E. M. Tripp, who was born April 6, 1824. at Oswego, N. Y., daughter of Elisha and Polly E. ( Beebce) Tripp ; have two children-George Clarence, born June 24, 1855; Helen L., Oct. 5, 1857, now at Augusta, Wis., in milliner's trade, formerly a teacher. Mr. Thomas is Liberal in politics and religion, and often splits the tickets in both cases ; his son, George C., has been a teacher three years ; his wife nine years a teacher in New York and Wisconsin. The father of Mrs. Thomas died Jan. 15, 1856, of heart disease, and it was often said of him that he was never heard to utter an oath. When Mr. Thomas settled here, it was sparsely settled and times hard, and he relates that a Mr. Proctor living near by once invited a neighbor to take supper with him, which they did; they had break and milk, and he afterward discovered that his wife went without, as there was not enough to "go round." Mr. Proctor afterward became somewhat noted for his liberality, and acquired a competency. They had to go to Jefferson Co. for provisions, and Mr. Thomas took his plowshare on his back, and went on foot to that place. over thirty miles, to get it repaired. Mrs. Thomas taught the first school in this part of the town in a board shanty, where the cemetery is now located ; her father's father, Calvin Tripp, was a soldier at Valley Forge, and died at the age of 88 years in 1846. Mr. Thomas was the youngest of a family of thirteen children ; the mother of Mrs. Thomas-Mrs. Tripp-was the eldest of twelve children, and the only one living ; she is now with Mrs. Thomas, 88 years of age, in possession of her faculties, a pleasant, sprightly lady, with good memory, and a " conversationalist " in all that the name implies. Owns 100 acres.

JOHN WATERWORTH, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Fall River ; born July 10, 1852; son of Thomas and Sarah (Greenwood ) Waterworth. Married April 9, 1878, to Christina, daughter of Fred- erick and Sophia (Baker) Brightendorf; no children. The father of Mrs. Brightendorf came here in 1853 with a capital of $300, and has by industry and judicious investments accumulated a comfortable fortune. Owns 80 acres.

JOSEPH WOODHEAD, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Fall River ; born Sept. 10, 1818, near Bradford, in Yorkshire, England ; son of Benjamin and Elisabeth (Roper) Woodhead, who settled in this town in 1848. Married, Aug. 10, 1846, at Town Church, near Leeds, Sarah Haley, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Taylor) Haley ; she was born Dec. 15, 1822. in the same town as her husband ; have ten children-Susan, born Dec. 14, 1848; Benjamin F., July 2, 1851, married to Sarah Jane Hardy, Webster Co., Neb .; Emma Jane, Aug. 3, 1853, died at 15 months of age; Ida, born April 10, 1855, wife of Geo. W. Harrison, of Bradford, England-now in Rush Medical College-some time a teacher (has three children-Bruce, David C., and Wallace Earl}); Thomas E., May 24, 1857; Salina A., July 17, 1859, wife of Lewis Robinson-one child, Mabel M .; Charles F., Dec. 29, 1861, at home unmarried ; Newton H., Nov. 14, 1864; Joseph, Oct. 25, 1866; Herbert H., Dec. 30, 1868. Mr. Woodhead is Democratic and Free Trade; worked in a coal mine from 63 years of age to 25, then struck for wages with about 300, all went back but three, of whom he was one, the other two went in three months ; he then went to shoemaking in Lancaster for his uncle Joseph Woodhead, and for himself there and since coming here, fifteen years at trade at Columbus, most of the time for Thomas Swarthout, then two years at Doylestown, and now at his trade and farming. Owns 129 acres.

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WILLIAM BRITTON ALLEGAR, farmer, Sec.33; P. O. Wyocena; born July 5, 1846, in Columbia Co., Penn .; son of Henry Allegar, who removed to Livingston Co., N. Y., when he was 8 years old, and went to Iowa in 1875, and now lives in Clinton Co., that State. William B. came to Wis- consin in 1867, and lived in Leeds, Columbia Co., one year, then in Randolph one year, where he was married, Dec. 4. 1870, to Maritta Bessac, who was born June 30, 1847, in the city of Hudson, N. Y. ; daughter of Henri L. and Amanda (Mosier) Bessac, who came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1850 and settled in Randolph, where he died in May, 1853. Mrs. Bessac afterward married Dr. N. D. Satterlee, and died Jan. 30, 1861, in her 36th year. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Allegar went to Iowa ; lived in Hardin Co. four years and in Clinton Co. two years ; in the fall of' 1876, he came back to Wisconsin and bought

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the farm he now owns. Has three children-Frank, born Nov. 22, 1871; C. L. G. (a girl), Sept. 6, 1873, and Maud, Aug. 28, 1878. Is Treasurer of the School District, and iu politics a Greenbacker. Has 160 acres of land. When Mr. Bessac settled in Randolph, he moved into his house before the lower part was finished, and one night, while the family occupied the chamber, a pack of wolves came in and took posses- sion of the lower rooms, where they remained till morning without being disturbed.

YATES ASHLEY, miller, and at present mail agent on the C., M. & St. P. R. R., Pardeeville ; was born Sept. 10, 1824, in West Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y .; son of Daniel and Hetty (Cooper) Ash- ley, who removed to Nunda, Livingston Co., N. Y., when he was 3} years old ; he studied civil engineer- ing and surveying while at school, but spent his early life (after he left school), clerking in the mercantile business; in the spring of 1844, he went t) Madison, Ind., and ran a store there nearly a year, then came to Milwaukee, where he followed the same business till April, 1849, then came to Pardeeville to take charge of the business of John S. Pardee, not only selling goods but keeping his books and acting as his agent, having a general oversight of all his business in that place, where he remained till September, 1852, then went to Whitewater, Wis .. and stayed one year, still clerking; then spent two years in the engineer corps of the old Milwaukee & La Crosse R. R. Co .; in the spring of 1855, he purchased a quarter-interest in the flouring and grist-mill at Pardeeville, and has resided in that village ever since, though for the last eleven years he has been employed by the Post Office Department, first as route agent five years, then as postal clerk five and a half years, and, for the last six months, route agent again, on the C., M. & St. P. R. R .; was Postmaster two years in Pardeeville, and had charge of the office when first established, though not appointed as Postmaster till some time after. Was married, Oct. 4, 1855, to Virginia M. Pardee, who was born Jan. 25, 1835, in Wadsworth, Medina Co., Ohio; daughter of John and Eunice (Chamberlain) Pardee. (See biography of Charles J. Pardee, of Pardeeville.) Mrs. Ashley's brother, John S. Pardee, in company with W. W. Haskin, made the first improvements in Pardeeville, and the village took its name from him. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley have four children-Jerry Stanley, born Sept. 12, 1856; Ernest P., Feb. 15, 1862; Lewis P., June 15, 1868, and Jessie Helen, Aug. 8, 1870 ; lost one daughter, Carrie Frances, who died in October, 1863, aged 3} years. Mr. Ashley was an old-time Whig, and has been a Republican ever since the party was organized ; he represented his district in the Assembly two successive terms, to wit, in 1863 and 1864, and was a member of the Board of the Hospital for the Insane, at Mad- ison for eight years ; has 50 acres of land connected with his home in Pardeeville, and still owns a half-inter- est in the flouring-mill at that place.

A. BATES, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Wyocena ; born Sept. 5, 1822, in Preble Co., Ohio ; son of John Bates, a native of Ireland, who removed to Carroll Co., Ind., in 1835, from Ohio. Mr. Bates was married in that county May 15, 1848, to Elizabeth Cline, who was born Jan. 7, 1824, in Mus- kinguin Co., Ohio; daughter of Jacob Cline, a native of Ohio. Mr. Bates came to Wisconsin in 1849; lived in Springvale, Columbia Co., about five years, and in April, 1854, removed to his present location ; has eight children-John W., Charles, Thomas, Michael W., Mary E., Amanda M., Robert B., Geo. R. and Sarah Ann. Is Republican ; has 147 acres of land, and himself and wife Universalists.

JEREMIAH BLAISDELL, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Pardeeville; born Sept. 11, 1798. in Rockingham Co., N. H. Was married, Feb. 7, 1822, to Abigail Brown, who was born March 28, 1803, in Deerfield, Rockingham Co., N. H. Mr. Blaisdell came to Wisconsin in July, 1852, and settled on the farm he now occupies ; he learned the carpenter trade when young, commencing at the age of 16; worked in Boston seven years, and followed the business altogether about thirty years. Has five children living- Enoch B., lives in Iowa ; Abigail, now Mrs. R. M. Haynes, of the town of Wyocena ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Daniel Marston, of Pacific ; Rosetta, now Mrs. A. W. Diefendorf, of Wyocena, and Warren, living on the homestead ; lost four-Alpheus J., died Oct. 15, 1834, aged 7 years; Ruth, died Aug. 21, 1831, aged 2 years ; John, died Jan. 12, 1835, 6 months old, and Alphens S., died Jan. 21, 1875. in his 35th year. Mr. and Mrs. Blaisdell are members of the Free-Will Baptist Church ; he is a Republican, and has 160 acres of land. Warren Blaisdell was born Aug. 18, 1844, and was married Dec. 5, 1864, to Mrs. Mary Gibbs, daughter of John S. Diefendorf, a native of Montgomery Co., N. Y., who came to Wyocena in 1846; she was the widow of B. F. Gibbs, who died May 19, 1861, aged 30 years ; she has two daughters living-Alice M., now Mrs. Albert Phillips, of Portage, and Emma F., now Mrs. O. F. Harter, of Wyocena ; has no children hy her second marriage.

GEORGE BRIFFETT, hotel-keeper, Pardeeville; born May 31, 1825, in Somersetshire, England ; his father died while he was a child, and, in 1839, he, with a brother two years older, came to America, and lived in Onondaga, N. Y., about a year ; he then came to Wisconsin, and worked at brick- making about seven years in Kenosha; enlisted in Milwaukee, in the fall of 1847, in the 4th U. S. Infantry, and was in the Mexican war, under Gen. Zach Taylor, about eighteen months ; after the close of

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the war, he went from Vera Cruz to Florida, about the 1st of June, and remained there till the last of August, and was then discharged ; he then came back to Wisconsin, and June 26, 1849, was married iu Racine Co. (now Kenosha) to Theressa E. Dean, daughter of Jabez Dean, an old soldier of the war of 1812; immediately after marriage, he came to Columbia Co., and put up a frame for a house, where Portage now stands, but failing to get lumber to inclose it, he became discouraged, and left it; he then located ou Sec. 12, in what is now the town of Wyocena, and has followed teaming and farming ever sinee (except when in the army), till November, 1879; then exchanged one of his farms for the hotel iu Pardeeville, known as " Diamond Hall," and has kept it since that time ; in August, 1864, he enlisted in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, and was in the service about eleven months, most of the time on the Potomac. Has six children-Geo. and Charles, living in Wyocena ; Arthur ; Sarah, now Mrs. Johu Brush, of Springvale; Mary, now Mrs. John Hepler, of Pardeeville, and Ella, at home. Has a farm of 160 acres on Sec. 12, in Wyocena.

JAMES BRIFFETT, farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Wyocena ; born July 28, 1820, in Somerset- shire, England ; came to America in 1856; settled in the town of Wyocena, and has resided there ever since. Was married in England, in 1844, to Mary Ann, daughter of James Davis; has seven children -- George, lives in Winona, Minn .; Henry, in Lincoln Co., Minn .; Elizabeth, now Mrs. G. V. Johnson, iu Hennepin Co., Minn .; Nathaniel, born in England, now at home; Jane, is now Mrs. Ira Hall, of Poy- nette, Wis .; Frank, is in Lincoln Co., Minn., and Ellen Mary, at home ; has lost four children; three died in infancy in England, and James served three years in the 36th W. V. I., Co. D, and died in Minnesota, in 1877. from disease contraeted in the army; George served three years in the 2d W. V. I .; was wounded by a musket-ball through the right shoulder, in the first battle of Bull Run ; he was afterward taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg, and paroled on the field. Mr. Briffett is a Republican, and has 320 acres of land.

ALANSON A. BULL, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Wyocena; was born Feb. 8, 1804, in the town of Wallkill, Orange Co., N. Y. His father, Ebenezer Bull, had a set of blacksmith's tools on his farmu to do his own work, and Alanson learned the trade at home before he was 21 years old ; when he first went out for himself, he worked at blacksmithing for the Government two and a half years at West Point. He was married, Jan. 27, 1828, to Martha Jane, daughter of John Brooks; she was born in New York City Jan. 21, 1810. After his marriage, he worked at farming two and a half years; then worked at his trade again one winter; then kept a hotel in the town of Monroe, Orange Co., one year ; then followed lumbering two years ; then sailed a sloop on the Hudson River one season, and then bought a blacksmith's shop at West Point and worked there two years. In the spring of 1840, he went to New York City, and engaged in the milk and butter business ; also had a slaughter-house in Hoboken, and a market in New York. He followed business there till the fall of 1848, then came to Wisconsin, and set- tled in Wyocena Village ; he kept a hotel there sixteen months, in a house commenced hy Maj. Dicka- son before his death. In the spring of 1850, he sold his lease and removed to his farm, which he had located in August, 1848, and where he has since resided. He has but two children living-Benjamin Franklin, who lives in the town of Lowville, and John Alanson, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Have lost four children-Andrew Jackson, died in New York in 1840, aged 14 years ; Mary Ann, died in 1839, at West Point, aged 11 years ; Stephen Decatur, died in New York in 1840, aged 4 years; Sarah Eliza- beth, married Samuel Barnett, of Cleveland, Ohio, and died in August, 1877, aged 44, leaving a family . of eight children. Mr. Bull is a Republican, and has 240 acres of land.

HENRY S. CALVERLEY, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Portage City ; was born Dec. 7, 1855, in the town of Pacific, Columbia Co., Wis .; son of Stephen Calverley. (See his biography.) He was married, March 6, 1877, to Florence C. Meriton, who was born May 3, 1856, in Portage City, daughter of H. Meriton, a surveyor, and native of England, now living in Portage. Mr. and Mrs. Calverley have but one child-Margaret, born Oct. 12, 1878 ; have one adopted son-Andrew, about 10 years old. Mr. Calverley is a Republican ; has been Treasurer of the School District, and has 1223 acres of land. Mrs. Calverley is a member of the Episcopal Church.

STEPHEN CALVERLEY, Sr., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Portage City ; was born »larch 5, 1820, in Yorkshire, England ; son of Stephen and Mary ( Wilson) Calverley. He was married Nov. 22, 1844, in Slaidburn, England, to Ann Slinger, who was born Aug. 2, 1825, in Slaidburn, daughter of Henry Slinger. Mr. Calverley came to America in 1848, and settled in what is now the town of Pacific, being the first settler in the town except those belonging to the garrison of Fort Winnebago; lived on Sec. 13, in Pacific, till June, 1876 ; then removed to his present location. He is a Republican, straight, and was either Chairman or Side Supervisor most of the time he lived in Pacific ; has also been Town Treasurer, and, when the town was first organized, was Assessor for nine years ; has been Chairman of Wyocena two

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years. He has seven children living-Stephen, Henry, Mary (now Mrs. Orlo Patchen, of Wyocena), Ann (now Mrs. Daniel Smith, of Franklin Co., Neb.), Lucy, Ellen and Elizabeth ; his oldest child, Margaret, died Jan. 15, 1874, aged 26 years ; Stephen was born May 4, 1850, and was the first white child born in the town of Pacific. Mr. Calverley has divided up 412 acres of land between his two boys and bas 93 acres left.

NORMAN COAPMAN (deceased ); was born in Hallsville, Montgomery Co., N. Y., July 26, 1830 ; was married Jan. 13, 1852. in Arcadia, Wayne Co., N. Y., to Kate B. Smith, who was born May 5, 1828, in Ghent, Columbia Co., N. Y., daughter of Jeremiah and Christiana (Van Valkenburg) Smith. Mr. Coapman came to Wisconsin with his family in March, 1855, being on the first passenger train that crossed the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls. They located at that time in the town of Wyocena ; lived on the Ellis farm one year, then removed to the village of Wyocena, and resided there till his death, April 6, 1878. He left a widow and four children. The oldest daughter, Alice T., is the wife of Elmer Food, Principal of the high school at Lodi, Wis .; Ida M. is the wife of F. W. Farrington (dentist), of Wyo- cena ; the two sons, W. J. and Lynn N., reside in Wyocena. Mr. Coapman enlisted Oct. 9, 1861, in the 8th W. V. I., but the band, to which he belonged, was mustered out of service by special order, in 1862. After he returned from the army, he went into the grocery business, but sold out when the La Crosse Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad was built, and was the first agent appointed by the company at Wyocena, and held the position till his death, except about eight months, while he was learning to telegraph. At his death, his son, W. J., was appointed in bis place, and still retains the position. Mr. Coapland was a Republican in politics, and held several town offices during his residence in Wyocena ; was Chairman, Supervisor and Town Clerk a number of years. In religious belief, he was a Universalist. Ilis ancestors were among the first settlers of the Mohawk Valley, in New York, and the farm on which he was born and raised was in possession of the Coapman family over one hundred years. His great-grandfather, Abram Coapman, held a major's commission under Gen. Stark, in the Revolutionary war, and his grandfather, Jacob Coapman, held a captain's commission in the war of 1812. His father, John Coapman, was a militia Captain in Montgomery Co., N. Y. Mr. Coapman had three brothers in Wisconsin-Anson lives in the town of Pacific, Columbia Co .; Abram is station agent at Reesville, Dodge Co .; and James W. is District Attorney of Kewaunee Co. Had one sister-Mary E., now Mrs. Charlan Eastman, of Moravia, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Mrs. Coapman and the two sons occupy the homestead, 80 acres with a fine brick residence.

REV. JABEZ B. COLE, Pastor of the Lamartine Methodist Church; was born in Lin- colnshire, England, Feb. 12, 1845 ; he is the son of Rev. Thomas Cole and Elizabeth Brown, and with then, May 4, 1845, set sail from Liverpool for America, and landed in New York City in June following, they came thence to Sheboygan, Wis., where they arrived the 1st day of July; his father purchased a farm in the town of Green Bush, Sheboygan Co., Wis., where he devoted much of his time to farming, and was local minister to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of that town. The subject of this sketch spent the first nineteen years of his life on his father's farm, and attending the district school ; he united with the church at the age of 11, and when 19, he entered as a student of the classical course at Lawrence University of Appleton, Wis. ; at the end of six years, on account of limited means and ill health, he was forced to leave off his studies at college ; he soon joined the conference and was ordained local Deacon ; in October, 1871, he joined the conference at Milwaukce, and was assigned to the Clinton Circuit ; while there he pursued the course of study prescribed by the canon ; in 1872, he was sent to the Wyocena circuit, in Columbia Co., Wis., for two years ; here, Oct. 13, 1873, he married Miss Cecelia E., daughter of A. A. and Ruth Cole, early settlers of Welsh Prairie, Columbia Co. ; in October, 1874, he was assigned to Shawano, Shawano Co., Wis., where he remained in charge of the church for three years ; in 1877, he took charge of the church at Markesan, Green Lake Co., and in 1878, came to the Lamartine charge. They have three children, as follows : Jessie E., born in 1874; Mary R., born in 1876; Charles F., born in April, 1879.

HENRY CONVERSE, retired farmer, Wyocena; born Dec. 28, 1813, in Randolph, Vt., son of Frederick Converse, a native of Connecticut. Mr. Converse left Vermont in March, 1835, stayed one year in New Hampshire, then went to Akron, Ohio, where he lived eleven years, working in a stove and tin shop. In September, 1847, he came to Wisconsin, and lived in Milwaukee till April, 1851; then came to Wyocena, where he has since resided, working at farming and mechanical work. He was married the first time in Vermont, Dec. 30, 1828, to Charlotte Blodgett, who died Jan. 15, 1842, in Akron, Ohio, aged 38, leaving no children. April 23, 1843, at Akron, Ohio, he married Lucy Burnhaw, who was born July 14, 1814, in South Windsor, Conn. (then called East Windsor). She was a daughter of Elijah Burn- ham. In politics, Mr. Converse was Republican ; held the office of Chairman four terms, in 1853-54

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-57-63; was Town Clerk several terms, and was a member of the Assembly in the Legislature of 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Converse both belong to the Universalist Society.

PETER DALTON, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Wyocena; wis born in 1824 in County Meath, Ireland ; son of Thomas Dalton, who came to America when Peter was a child and settled in St. Law- renee Co., N. Y. Mr. Dalton came to Wisconsin in 1842, lived in Racine about eighteen years, and, in April, 1860, removed to his present location in Wyocena. Was married in Racine, in 1856, to Elizabeth Mack, who was born Feb. 14, 1840, in Vermont, near Rutland, daughter of Patrick Mack ; have had eleven children, nine of whom are living-Jane, Idda, Ellen, Sarah, Charles, Elizabeth, Daniel, Harry and Kate, all at home; one died in infancy, and Frank died Jan. 27, 1830, aged 18 years and 4 months. Mr. Dalton first came to Columbia Co. in 1847, and entered the north half of the southwest quarter of Sec. 25 in Wyocena, on the 9th day of February of that year, and then returned to Racine and lived there till 1860. He is a Democrat, and has 280 acres of land in his farm ; both are members of the Catholic Church.

BENJAMIN DEY, farmer, Secs. 17 and 28; residence Wyocena; born Feb. 27, 1806, in Seneca Co., N. Y .; son of David Dey, a native of New York City ; lived in his native county and followed farming till 24 years old, then went into the mercantile business and followed it six years ; then farmed it in Lenawee Co., Mich., two years, and, in the fall of 1844, came to Wisconsin, settled in Wyocena, and has been engaged in farming and milling ever since, except when in the army. When the war broke out, he went to Missouri as wagonmaster, and, on the 4th of March, 1863, enlisted at St. Louis in the 11th Mo. V. C., Co. D, and remained in the service till the close of the war; was wounded in the thigh by a minie ball in the battle of Jacksonport, Ark., and had his horse shot under him at the same time. Was married. Jan. 15, 1833, in the town of Romulus, Seneca Co., N. Y., to Margaret T., oldest daughter of John Sinclair, a prominent wheat speculator of that county ; has five children living-Thompson, lives in the city and State of Oregon, and is a miller by trade ; David M. and Robert P., live in Wyocena Village ; Margueretta, is the wife of Judge Harrison Blair, of Union Co., Dakota, and Scott S. attending school and about to enter the law office of Wm. M. Vilas; have lost two children-Catharine S., married Frederick Yale (see his biography ), and died Nov. 10, 1878; Benny C., died at the age of 15, in 1866. Mr. Dey is a Democrat, and has a farm of 240 acres. His father, David Dey, was an Orderly under Gen. La Fay- ette in the Revolutionary war, and his grandfather had a colonel's commission, and furnished supplies for the army. Ilis residence in Bergen Co., N. J., was the headquarters of Washington and La Fayette when they were in that vicinity.

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The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 170

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