The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 171

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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C. S. DOUD, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Wyocena ; born May 15, 1824. in Essex Co., N. Y .: son of Samuel Doud, a native of Rutland, Vt. (The name is sometimes incorrectly spelled Dowd.) When 10 years old, his parents removed to Ohio, and lived in Trumbull Co. from 1834 till 1847, then came to Wisconsin and settled in Lowville, and died in 1859, aged 69. Mrs. Doud ( whose maiden name was Chloe Leonard) died April 1, 1875, aged 84. Mr. Doud was married in Ohio, Dec. 31, 1846, to Mary Jane Scott, who was born Jan. 10, 1829, in County Tyrone, Ireland, daughter of William Scott, who came to America in 1839 and settled in Ohio. In 1850, he came to Springvale, Columbia Co., Wis., and died in August, 1877, in his 75th year. Mr. Doud first came to Wisconsin in 1844; stayed one year, and then returned to Ohio; he came again in the spring of 1847 ; lived the first year in Lowville, and, in December, 1848, removed to his present location, which has been his home since. He enlisted, Aug. 30, 1864, in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, Co. M. and remained in the service till the close of the war. Has five children-Helen M., Chloe Jane, Virginia, Wm. James and Augusta ; Jost one son -Winfield, died Aug. 29, 1848, aged 10 months and 10 days. Mr. Doud built the first lime-kiln in the county on Sec. 6 in Otsego in 1847, and was the first Pathmaster in this precinct before the organiza- tion of the county ; has since held the office of Supervisor, and is a Republican ; has 120 acres of land. Wmn. J. (the only son ) was married, Jan. 1, 1880, to Corintha Tillottson, who was born Sept. 17, 1860, daughter of Geo. S. Tillottson, of Hampden, Columbia Co., Wis.

JOHN G. DUSENBERY, merchant, Pardeeville; born in the town of Schodack, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Dec, 24, 1840; son of Morgan II. Dusenbery ; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1860, and settled in the town of Springvale, Columbia Co .; came to Pardeeville in the fall of 1865, and commenced selling goods in November, 1873, which business he still continues. Was married Dec. 13, 1871, to Emily Ilepler, daughter of Killian Hepler, an old resident of Pardeeville : has two children-Guy, born Sept. 12, 1872, and Glen, born Aug. 16, 1876. Is Republican in politics.

C. L. FARRINGTON, merchant, Wyocena ; born Sept. 30, 1818, in Onondaga Co., N. Y., town of La Fayette; came to Wisconsin in 1837 ; lived one year in Milwaukee; then went to Lenawee Co., Mich., and followed farming eleven years ; came back to Wisconsin in the fall of 1849, and located

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on a farm two miles east of Wyocena Village; lived there till the spring of 1851 ; he then removed to the village, and built a store in company with his brother, E. W. Farrington, now of Portage City, which was the third store in the place; sold goods there four years ; then went to Marquette Co, and built a grist mill at Harrisville, where he did business twenty-one years; then sold out, and, in January, 1876, came back to Wyocena, and again went into the mercantile business in company with his son, Willard ; firm name, C. L. Farrington & Son, where he still continues to do business. He was married, March 20, 1853, in Wyocena, to Naney, daughter of Darius and Lucena Lobdell, who came from St. Lawrence Co., N. Y .. to Wisconsin in 1849; she was born at Plattsburg, Clinton Co., N. Y., Jan. 17, 1836 ; have two children-Willard C., born Jan. 26, 1856; married Nov. 19, 1877, to Inez Huyek, and in company with his brother in the dry-goods business; Emerson L , the youngest son, was born Dee. 19, 1869. Mrs. Farrington is a member of the M. E. Church, and Mr. Farrington is a Congregationalist, and Republican in polities.

BRYAN GORMAN, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Wyocena; was born in 1826 in County Meath, Ireland ; son of Wm. and Catharine Gorman ; bis mother died when he was about 2 years old, and his father came to this country in 1834; settled in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and died there ; Mr. forman came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1848; lived in Racine one year, and in the fall of 1849, came to Columbia Co., and located in Wyocena, where he has since resided. Was married in Canada, in the summer of 1848, to Mary Williams, who was born in Wales; daughter of Evan Williams ; have had eleven children, ten of whom are living-Wm. W., Catharine, Jane, Christopher, John C., Michael W., Mary Ann, Harriet E., Elizabeth A. and Lorena M .; one child died in infancy. All are members of the Catholic Church. He has 180 acres of land, and in politics votes for the best man.

H. GUNDERSON, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Wyocena ; born Oct. 15, 1830. in Norway; son of Gunder Halverson, who came to America in 1851, and now lives in Dakota; Mr. Gunderson went to sea when about 18 years of age, and followed that business till 1851 ; in 1850, while making a trip from Liverpool to New Orleans, on board the Leonidas, of Baltimore (which took three months), they were driven from their course by a storm, and before they reached port, lost about one hundred passengers by yellow fever; he was in the hospital at New Orleans about two weeks with the same disease; after his recovery. he made another voyage to Europe, staying some time in France, and finally brought up in New York City in 1851; came to Wisconsin in July, 1852, and lived in Whitewater till the spring of 1869 ; worked the first five years in a warehouse for Marsh & Putrits; then worked seven years in a paper-mill ; dealt in stock, and kept a meat-market one year, and was four years in the Esterly Reaper Works; then, in the spring of 1869, removed to his present location. Was married in Whitewater, in 1855, to Cornelia Targosan, a native of Norway, who came to America with her parents in 1852; has seven children- Carrie A., Annie C., Amelia G., Halbert M., Louisa M., Henry A. and Thomas G. Has 160 acres of land ; Lutheran and Republican.

W. W. HASKIN, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Pardeeville; born Jan. 8, 1815, in Castleton, Vt .; left there in 1837 ; went to Rochester, N. Y., and tended bar at the " Eagle Tavern" one year; then went to Lyons, Wayne Co., and went to clerking in a dry-goods store ; in 1840, engaged with Gerdon Merrell to come to Wiseonsin, and elerked for his brother, Henry Merrell, at Ft. Winnebago, from September, 1840, till January, 1842, and, in the mean time, was appointed Sheriff by Gov. Doty, which office he held two years; after he left the fort, he clerked for Fineh & Blanchard, of Madison, about one year and a half, at the same time aeting as Deputy Sheriff, nnder A. A. Bird, two years, being employed as clerk in the store of the " American Fur Co.," at Ft. Winnebago, the last six months of the time. In July, 1845, he returned to New York, and was married in Lyons, Wayne Co., in September, 1845, to Miss Rosette Carpenter, daughter of Samuel Carpenter; he then came back to Wisconsin, tended bar in Milwaukee . one winter at the "Cottage Inn; " then went back to Ft. Winnebago, and elerked another year for Mr. Merrill ; in May, 1847, he entered 40 acres of land on Sec. 3, where Pardeeville now stands, in com. pany with J. C. Pardee, and afterward bonght 160 acres more, and built the first house in Pardeeville, into which he moved in January, 1848, and has resided in the village ever since ; has four children liv- ing-Julia, now Mrs. A. B. Wheeler, of Pardeeville ; Ella, now Mrs. W. K. Rogers, of Leon, Monroe Co., Wis .; Don and Frank, both at home ; lost two-Etta died April 15, 1853, aged 11 years, and Lillian

died April 13, 1852, aged 2 years and 7 months. Mr. Haskin is a Republican, and held the office of Justiee of the Peace one year ; has about 100 acres of land, most of it in the village corporation of Par- deeville ; his father, T. K. Haskin, came to Wisconsin in 1845; lived at Fox Lake two years; then moved into Ft. Winnebago, and kept a boarding-house there about seven years; then came to Pardeeville, and died in 1852, aged 72 years. Mrs. Haskin, whose maiden name was Fanny Willis, is still living at Pardeeville, keeping house by herself, and doing her own work ; when she was a little over 75 years old,

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she walked from Portage City to Pardeeville, a distance of ten miles, making the trip in about three hours ; she takes several newspapers, and spends a good deal of her time in reading, and is very fond of reading history ; she was born in Old Deerfield, Mass., and her father, Ebenezer Willis, was an old Revolutionary soldier.

KILIAN HEPLER, hotel-keeper, Pardceville ; boro Aug. 14, 1811, in Columbia Co., Penn .; 800 of George Hepler ; went to Medina Co., Ohio, in 1832, and worked at cabinet-making and manufact- uring fanning-mills till the spring of 1850, then came to Wisconsin and bought some land, in the town of Wyocena, then returned to Ohio, stayed through the winter and in the spring of 1851 came on with his family and settled in Pardeeville, where he has since resided ; he was engaged in manufacturing fanning- mills and dealing in lumber, till the spring of 1863, then went into the " Hepler House " and has kept it ever since. Was married. Nov. 14, 1841, in Ohio, to Elizabeth Renshimer, and has had seventeen chil- dren, eight of whom are still living-Margaret, Sarah Ann, Maria, George, John, Emily E., Adam and Catherine; those that died were, Mary, Killian, Charles, Frank, William Henry, Rachel Ann, Danicl, Samuel and Jacob ; the first and second died in Ohio. Mr. Hepler is a Democrat and owns 40 acres of land, the " Hepler House," and some other village property in Pardeeville.

WILLIAM JOHNS (deceased) was horn Aug. 12, 1802, in Glamorganshire, South Wales. Was married in St. Andrew's Church, Wales, March 8, 1827, to Alice Yorath, who was born about six miles from where her husband was born, in the same shire, March 6, 1806; came to America in 1841, arriving in Boston on the 1st day of July, lived there till the fall of 1852; in the butchering and milk business ; came from there to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Springvale, Columbia County ; lived there till 1868, then sold his farm and bought a grist-mill in Wyocena, known as the " Bisbee Mill," located on Sec. 23, with 40 acres of land on the same section. Here he remained till his death, May 19, 1875, leaving a widow and six children-David, born June 6, 1828, lives in Tomah, Wis .; Thomas, born Sept. 30, 1830, lives in Mitchell Co., Iowa; Shadrach, born Nov. 12, 1832, is a blacksmith in Waupun ; Daniel, born Feb. 11, 1836, lives in Harrison Co., Mo. He was a Lieutenant in Co. H, of the 12th Mo. V. C., and was in the service during the whole of the war of the rebellion except about a year while he was disabled from a gunshot wound in the face, received in action ; the first four boys were born in Wales ; Meshack was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1843. and was married Nov. 18, 1877, to Anna Margaret Farrington, who was born Sept. 12, 1858, in Harrisville, Marquette Co., Wis., daughter of William Albert Farrington, who now lives iu Dane Co., Wis .; they have one child, Jessie Alice, born March 16, 1879, in Saline Co., Neb., where he moved in April, 1878, and where he still owns 160 acres of land; he returned to Wisconsin in December, 1879. Is a Republican. The youngest child and only daughter of William Johns, Alice, was married to J. L. Lobdell. (See biography of Darius Lobdell. ) Mrs. Johns and her son Meshack occupy the homestead of 40 acres and grist-mill, on Sec. 23, P. O. Wyocena.

DARIUS LOBDELL (deceased ) was born Aug. 3, 1808, in Plattsburg, Clinton Co., N. Y. Was married in 1832, to Lucena Moxley, who was born in Eden, Vt., Feb. 20, 1814; came to Wisconsin in November, 1849, and settled on a farm, three miles west of Wyocena, on Sec. 18. He died Aug. 20, 1852, and Mrs. Lobdell died Feb. 17, 1880, leaving eight children-Nancy (now Mrs. C. L. Farrington, of Wyocena) ; Augustus (living in Benton Co., Minn.) ; John L., lives in Wyocena ; William H., in Par- deeville ; Darius, in Wyocena ; Ellen, is now Mrs. David B. Johnson, of Richmond, Ind .; Richard, lives io Wyoccoa, and Emma, is Mrs. Hiram King of Dorchester, Wis. Augustus was in the navy three years during the war of the rebellion ; Darius was in the 16th W. V. I. about two years, and William H. was in the 3d Regulars, Co. K, during the whole of the war. John L. was married, Feb. 6, 1878, to Alice C. Johns, daughter of William Johns. (See his biography.) She died July 4, 1879, aged 28 years 6 months and 24 days, leaving no children. He is a Republican and has 160 acres of land, that his father first loca- ted, on Sec. 18 P. O. Wyocena.

GEORGE MUGGLETON, farmer, Sec. 27, and steward at the county house, at Wyocenae born Sept. 25, 1826, in Leicestershire, Eng., son of Edward Muggleton. Was married in his nativ; place, Ang. 20, 1855, to Harriet, daughter of Isaac Taylor ; she was born March 26, 1827, in the same County ; came to America soon after marriage, arriving in New York Oct. 1, 1855 ; came direct to Columbus Co., Wis., and lived seven years in Lowville ; in 1862, returned to England and stayed three and a half years ; came back to Wisconsin in June, 1865, and bought a farm io Wyocena, where they resided till April, 1875, when he was appointed to his present position in the county house, and has resided there since ; they have three children-Edith A., Ernest E. and Bertha F .; have also one adopted daughter, Maria Jane. He has 140 acres of land ; is a Republican, and himself and wife are members of the Bap- tist Church.

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ISAAC OVIATT, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Wyocena; boro Nov. 27, 1809, in Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y .; came to Wisconsin in 1855, and settled on the farm he now owns. Was married in Ohio, Sept. 22, 1836, to Elizabeth McNish, who was born Nov. 4, 1810, in Schenectady Co., N. Y .; daughter of James McNish, who went to Ohio in 1832 and settled in Geauga Co. Mr. and Mrs. Oviatt have had eight children, six of whom are living-Mary Ann, is now the wife of Henry O. Thrall, of Waseca Co., Minn .; Henry M., lives in Wyocena ; James C., lives in Berlin, Wis .; Sarah and Isaac, are living at home, and Agnes is the wife of Charles Ellis, of the town of Wyocena; Elizabeth married Theodore Crow, removed to Minnesota and died April 20, 1875 ; Adaline married Bruce White, and died in Dekorra Sept. 9, 1876. Mr. Oviatt is Republican to the backbone, and has 80 acres of land.

CHARLES J. PARDEE, conveyancer, Pardeeville; born in Wadsworth, Medina Co., Ohio, Sept. 5, 1829 ; son of John Pardec and brother of John S. Pardee, the founder of Pardeeville ; his early life was spent in his father's store, where he learned the dry-goods business, but carried on busi- ness for himself about five years in Ohio before coming to Wisconsin ; he came to Pardeeville to reside iu the spring of 1860, and has made that his home ever since ; was Justice of the Peace several years in Ohio and Postmaster three years ; in Wisconsin, he has been Justice of the Peace twelve years, Chairman five years, and is the present Town Clerk, although a Democrat in a strong Republican town ; since living in Pardeeville, in addition to his official business, has been engaged in clerking, conveyancing, etc. Was married July 15, 1851, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Antoinette, daughter of Reuben Stevens, of Connecticut ; have three children-Cora E., John Charles and Malcolm Ives, all at home. His brother, John S. Par- dee, was born in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1819; when he was 5 years old, his father removed to Medina Co., Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business ; he clerked for his father till 1842, then carried on business for himself in the same place till 1845, then removed to Milwaukee and opened a store, where he continued in business till 1850; from Milwaukee, he went to Pardeeville, where he already owned property and had been carrying on business for some time; in the spring of 1854, he received the appointment of United States Consul to San Juan Del Sur, the Pacific terminus of the Nicaraugua route to California, where he died about a month after his arrival. Mr. Pardee's father, John Pardee, was born in Litchfield Co., Conn., in 1796; removed, with his parents, to Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he remained and followed farming till 1824; then removed to Medina Co., Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued till 1856, then came to Wisconsin and followed the mill- ing business in Pardeeville till his death, June 26, 1873.

HICKS W. PHELPS, farmer, Sec. 31 ; P. O. Wyocena ; born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., April 14, 1808. Was married in 1830, to Harriet Kellogg, of his native county, who died in November, 1861, aged 52; was again married the same year to Nancy Bloom, whose first husband, Charles P. Bloom, enlisted in the commencement of the war of the rebellion, in the 2d W. V. I., Co. G, and was killed in the second battle of Bull Run; he left one daughter-Hattie H., who is now the wife of George M. Dallas Wright, a hardware merchant of De Kalb Co., Ill. Mr. Phelps came to Wisconsin in 1840, and lived in Racine Co., near where the city of Racine now is, till the fall of 1849; then came to Columbia Co. and has lived in Wyocena ever since ; has only two children ; his oldest child, Cornelia, was married, first, to Volney Carpenter. who enlisted in the 19th W. V. I., Co. D, and was killed in action on the 27th day of October, 1864; she afterward married a man named MeEwen and now lives in Milwaukee; his son, Roldun Phelps, is married and lives in Wyocena. Mr. Phelps has no children by the second mar- riage ; is a Greenbacker, and has 40 acres of land. His father was Samuel Phelps, one of the first set- tlers in Cayuga Co., N. Y. Mrs. Phelps was a daughter of William Dunham, a native of Vermont, who was in the war of 1812, and died Jan. 24, 1877, aged 88. Although 72 years of age, Mr. Phelps is able to earn $2.50 a day laying stone.

CORNELIUS PHILLIPS, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Wyocena; born in County Louth, Province of Leinster, Ireland; son of Patrick and Mary (Skelley) Phillips ; came to America in 1843; lived in Kings Co., N. Y., on Long Island, five years, and, in October, 1848, came to Wisconsin ; lived in Racine two years, then came to Columbia Co. in September, 1850, and located in Wyocena, where he has since resided. Was married, May 21, 1848, in the State of New York, to Mary Heelley, who died in Wyocena Sept. 15, 1851, leaving no children ; was married the second time, Sept. 4, 1853, to Mary Ann Halpin, who was born in County Meath, Ireland ; daughter of Joho Halpin, who came to America and died Jan. 28, 1860, aged 68; Mr. Phillips has eight children-Edward, James, Cornelius, Eleanor,. Theressa, Nicholas and Marcella and Mary (twins); the four first mentioned are teachers. Mr. Phillips has held the office of Supervisor several terms and has been Clerk and Collector of the school district for the last eight years. Is a Greenbacker, and all members of the Catholic Church. Has 180 acres of land.

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GEORGE PURVIS, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Wyocena ; born April 28, 1826, in Edinburgh. Scotland ; son of James I. Purvis. (See his biography.) He remained with his father till 1851, when he was married in Waddington, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., to Margaret Hodg, who died in 1859, leaving one daughter-Jane, now Mrs. William Salisbury, of Olmsted Co., Minn. Was married the second time Dec. 19, 1865, to Rebecca Babcook, who was born July 22, 1845, in New York, daughter of Daniel Babcook, who emigrated to Wiseonsin and now lives in Pardeeville; has five children by the second marriage-James, Charles, Thomas, Margaret May and George. . He is a Democrat and has been a Super- visor three terms. Has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity about eighteen years ; has 240 acres of land in his home farm and 320-acre farm in Olmsted Co., Minn., where he lived about a year and a half, and then returned to his first love. in Wyocena.

JAMES I. PURVIS, farmer, See. 14; P. O. Wyocena ; born June 4, 1801, in Berwick- shire, Scotland ; son of George and Isabell ( Ingalls) Purvis ; he was bound out to learn the tailor's trade when 10 years old and served till he was 17; when 20 years of age, he obtained the position of foreman in one of the principal establishments in the city of Edinburgh, where he remained till March 18, 1828. Was married in Edinburgh in 1824 to Rebecca, daughter of Walter Wear, a portrait painter or "limner" ( a, they are called there); she was born Feb. 16, 1802; they started for America on the 4th of March, 1828, and landed in New York City on the 2d of May; he lived in New York about six months, then went to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and went into business for himself in the town of Waddington ; three years after, he bought a farm of 70 acres in an adjoining town and carried that on in addition to his other business till the summer of 1844, when he sold out both and started for Wisconsin, arriving at Racine. on the 5th of August ; he lived in Racine Co. till Nov. 3, 1847, then came with his family to Columbia Co. and settled on the farm he now owns in Wyocena, having purchased about a year previous to that time. Mr. and Mrs. Purvis have had ten children, five of whom are still living : George lives on Sec. 13, Wyocena ; Thomas lives in Olmsted Co., Minn .; John lives on the homestead; Elizarah is now Mrs. B. S. Vradenburg, of See. 4. Wyocena, and Jane is the wife of Royal Hawkins, of Olmstead Co., Minn .; three children died in infaney ; Rebecea died when 3 years old, and Walter W. died in the army soon after the battle of Pittsburg Landing, in which he was engaged ; was in the 18th W. V. I., Co. F. Mr. Purvis is a Republican and has been Town Treasurer three terms and Supervisor several terms ; has thirty- four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Purvis are members of the First Congre- gational Church of Wyocena. He has 300 aeres of land in company with his son John, who was married in 1866 to Emma Price and has seven children-Rebecca, Frank, Sarah, James, Walter, Olive and Mary, all at home.

HIRAM W. ROBLIER, farmer, Sec. 15; resides at Wyocena; was born May 7, 1824, in Big Flats, Chemung Co., N. Y. Was married at Horseheads, same county, in May, 1855, to Deborah Rowley, daughter of Judah Rowley; she was born in Steuben Co., N. Y., Oet. 7, 1831. Mr. Roblier came to Wisconsin in 1853 and lived in Lowville one year; then removed to Wyocena and has resided there since. In politics, Republican ; has held various local offices ; was Chairman of the Town Board three years, and, in 1858, was elected Superintendent of the Poor of Columbia Co. and re-elected at each successive election of the Board and still retains the position ; was Superintendent of Schools two years in New York, two years in Pennsylvania, one year in Michigan and two years in Wisconsin; taught school twenty-one terms in the four States above mentioned, and represented his Assembly District in the Wisconsin Legislature of 1874, receiving 719 votes, against 367 for J. W. Robinson, and received every vote except two in his own town. Has no children of his own, but has an adopted son ( William ) about 10 years old; has 235 acres of land.

R. O. SPEAR, merchant, grain and stoek dealer, and member of the firm of Falkner & Spear, of Pardeeville ; was born March 11, 1841, in the town of Friendship, Allegany Co., N. Y .; son of Charles .(see his biography) ; remained on the farm with his father till he was 21 years old, and, in September, 1864, enlisted in the Ist Wis. Heavy Artillery, Co. F, and remained in the service till the elose of the war, as Sergeant of Co. F; after he returned from the army, was engaged in the grain, stock and produce business in Rio, Wis., about four years, in company with O. D. Van Dusen, firm of Van Dusen & Spear. In the summer of 1878, he went to Iowa, and bought 480 acres of land in Lyon Co., which he still owns. The next fall he returned to Wisconsin and bought the warehouse at Pardeeville, and engaged in business there, which he still continues, buying grain, stock and all kinds of produce. March 8, 1880, he bought a one-half interest in the principal dry-goods store of Pardeeville, Mr. Lawton retiring from the firm of Lawton & Falkner, and Mr. Spear taking his place-firm of Falkner & Spear; keep a general assort- ment of dry goods, groceries, hardware, clothing. boots and shoes, Yankee notions, etc. Was married Sept. 11, 1869, to Sabra B. Rowley, who was born in Chemung Co., N. Y .- daughter of Judah Rowley. Mr.

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and Mrs. Spear have four children-Hiram E., Alice, Eva May and Edith. Has 480 acres of land in Iowa, and a residence in the village of Wyocena.

CHARLES SPEAR, farmer, See. 22; P. O. Wyocena ; born in Redding, Windsor Co., Vt., May 31, 1812 ; son of Elijah Spear, who emigrated to Allegany Co., N. Y., when he was 10 years old. Mr. Spear was married in Cuba, Allegany Co., Nov. 3, 1836, to Electa Talcott, who was born Nov. 4, 1818, in Manchester, Conn., eight miles from Hartford-daughter of Rodolphus and Anna Taleott. Mr. Spear came to Wisconsin in May, 1845, and lived in Racine Co. till the next February ; in October, 1845, he came to Columbia Co., and located some land in Wyocena, on Sec. 22, and came up with a part of his goods the next March, and his family came on in June, 1846, and have since made this their home. Has seven children-Priscilla (now Mrs. Jesse Seaver, of Milton, Rock Co., Wis.), R. O. Spear (now resides in Wyoeena, and is in the dry-goods business at Pardceville), Amerett (now Mrs. Hugh Hill, of Saline Co., Neb.), Eliza (now Mrs. James Patchen, of Olmsted Co., Minn.), M. W. Spear (living on the home- stead), Americus (living in Moody Co., Dakota), and F. N. Spear, the youngest son, 17 years old, at home. Mr. Spear is a Republican, and was the first Justice of the Peace in this precinct, before the town was organized. He married the second, third and fourth couples married in the town, but not the first ; has 163 acres of land. Mr. Spear is a member of the Baptist Church.

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The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 171

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