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PARKER YOUNGS, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Poynette ; was born in the State of New York in 1843 ; his father removed to Walworth Co., Wis., in the fall of 1845, and to Columbia Co. in the spring of 1846; he now resides in Arlington Township. Mr. Youngs was married to Orvilla Wheeler, whose parents came to Columbia Co. when she was a child ; her father died in February, 1871, in the town of Leeds ; her mother resides at Poynette. Mr. Youngs has four children-Morris, Davis, Harry and Jennie ; his farm contains 80 acres.
TOWN OF PACIFIC.
WILLIAM BATES, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Portage City ; born July 25, 1820, in Preble Co., Ohio ; son of John and Ann Bates, who removed to Rush Co., Ind., when he was about 4 or 5 years old. He was married July 24, 1845, in Carroll Co., Ind., to Elizabeth Mckinney, who died Nov. 11. 1859, aged 32 years, leaving four children-Minerva Jane (now Mrs. Benjamin Fish. of Dekorra); Sarah Emily (now Mrs. Charles Rhodes, of Dekorra) ; Zachary Taylor, married Miss B. A. Kane (lives in Green Bay) ; and Charles Sumner (in Minnesota). Mr. Bates was married the second time April 2, 1861, in Caledonia, to Agnes Davidson, who was born in Galloway, Scotland, Oct. 29, 1832, daughter of John Duff, and widow of James Davidson, who died Aug. 17, 1856, on the ocean, off the Cape De Verde Islands, at the age of 24, leaving one son, James, who is now living in Pipestone Co., Minn. Mr. Bates by the second marriage has six children-Jane Ann, Mary Agnes, Ada Elizabeth, Margaret Luella. Rosella May and William Henry, all at home. Mr. Bates is a Republican, and has been Supervisor and Treasurer of the town of Pacific. Both are members of the Universalist Parish of Wyocena. He has 140 acres of land.
MOSES BUMP, farmer, Sec. 35 ; P. O. Pacific ; horn Jan. 24, 1811, in Rutland, Vt .; his father, Edward Bump, removed to Western New York, and settled in Cattaraugus Co., where Moses was married, Jan. 1, 1834, in Yorkshire, to Phebe Daggett, who was born in 1814. Mr. Bump came to Wis- consin in August, 1859, and settled in Dodge Co., town of Lowell, and in March, 1852, removed to his present location. Have had eight children, five of them still living-Maria (now Mrs. Erastus Porter, of Pacific), Emeline (now Mrs. George Farbush, of Omro, Wis.); Jerusha (now Mrs. Riley Weeks, of Geneseo, N. Y.) ; Mianda (now Mrs. O. Dow) ; Am., lives in Pacific and .Lincoln at home ; Charles died at 3 years of age, in 1856, and Cyrus enlisted in the 36th W. V. I., Co. I; was taken prisoner at the battle before Petersburg, first confined in Libby prison, then taken to Andersonville, and finally to Salis- bury, N. C .; he died on the way home after the war closed, but his place of burial is unknown. Mr.
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Bump is a Republican and has been Supervisor several torms; has 160 acres of land. He is a firm believer in what he calls the Spiritual Church of Christ, or what is known as Spiritualism. Claims to be living in the millenium and that the millenium comes to every man whenever his spirit is in harmony with the spirit of Christ.
STEPHEN CALVERLEY, Jr., farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Portage City ; born May 4, 1850, in the town of Pacific, and was the first white child born in the town ; son of Stephen Calverley, Sr. (See his biography.) He was married, Nov. 4. 1870, to Maggie Dickinson, who was born Oct. 30, 1850, in the town of Wyocena, daughter of James Dickinson, a native of Dumfrees Co., Scotland, who came to Wyocena in 1848, enlisted in the 10th W. V. I., Co. D, in 1861, and was killed in action, at the battle of Perryville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Calverley have three children-Ann, born July 31, 1870 ; Sarah, Aug. 10, 1871, and Stephen, Dec. 16, 1878 ; lost one daughter, Jennie, born April 11, 1874. He has a farm of 307 acres, and is a Republican.
B. F. FLOWER, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Portage City ; born Aug. 2, 1819, in Franklin Co., Mass. ; his parents removed to Ontario Co., N. Y., in 1835 ; his father, Phineas Flower, died in that county in the fall of 1856, at the age of 75, and Mrs. Flower in January, 1863, aged 83. B. F. was married in the town of Phelps, Ontario Co., Oct. 12, 1841, to Sarah J. Kanouse, who was born Feh. 1, 1821 ; daughter of John C. and Sarah Kanvuse; her father died in 1849 and her mother in 1862. Mr. Flower came to Wisconsin in October, 1855, settled in the town of Pacific, and has resided in the town ever since ; has two children- Winfield Scott, born July 2, 1852, and James Franklin, Feb. 9, 1855. He is married to Adella A. Por- ter, and lives in the town of Wyocena; has also an adopted daughter, Clara Bell, born April 15, 1866; has lost three children ; two died in infancy in New York, and Chester B., who was born July 23, 1842, enlisted in August, 1862, in the 23d W. V. I., Co. C, and died Feb. 16, 1863, at Young's Point, La., soon after the battle of Arkansas Post, in which he was engaged. Mr. Flower is a Republican of the strongest type, and has held the office of Chairman, Supervisor, Treasurer and Assessor. Has 260 acres of land.
HENRY JENNINGS, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Wyocena; was born Dec. 1, 1816, in Brad- ford, Yorkshire, England ; youngest son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Jennings ; when 8 years of age, he went to work in a worsted factory, in which he continued till he was 25, heing an overseer at the time he quit. In 1842, he came to America, landing in New Orleans, in the month of March ; came direct to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Raymond (then Yorkville), Racine Co., where he was married, on the 6th day of January, 1846, to Rebecca Bisbee, who was born Jan. 22, 1827, in the village of Perry- ville, Vermilion Co., Ind .; lived in Racine Co. till November, 1849, then came to Columbia Co. and set- tled in the town of Pacific, on the farm he now owns, having bought the land in 1848. In politics, a Republican ; he has been Chairman, Supervisor and Treasurer, and has been elected to all the other town offices, but never qualified ; has a farm of 500 acres ; has no children of his own, but has brought up three adopted children-Robert, Edith and Ellen ; Robert is married to Miss Ora Calkins, and lives on the home farm ; Edith is the wife of Clark Bartholomew, of Lodi, Wis., and Ellen is still at home. Darius E. Bisbee (father of Mrs. Jennings), was a native of Massachusetts ; came from Ohio to Racine Co., Wis., in 1843, and from there to Wyocena in 1847; built the Bisbee grist-mill two miles east of Wyocena Village in 1853-54, and died in 1856, aged 57 ; he left two sons and five daughters-James died in Fillmore Co., Minn., in 1866, and Albert lives in Pueblo, Colo .; two of the danghters, Mary Jane and Margaret, live in Larned, Kan., Elizabeth S. at Colorado Springs ; the youngest daughter, Amanda, died in March, 1878, in Pueblo, Colo. Mrs. Bisbee was born in Preble Co., Ohio, and died in Rushford, Minn., in 1873, aged 73 years.
DANIEL MARSTON, farmer, Sec. ; 13 P. O. Pardeeville ; boro Feb. 17, 1833, in Rock- ingham Co., N. H .; son of John H. and Mary (Thompson) Marston ; came to Wisconsin in 1852, and stayed in Pardeeville about a year. Was married, Jan. 17, 1854, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah Blaisdell, who came from New Hampshire in 1852, and still lives in the town of Wyocena ; she was born Sept. 26, 1832, in the same county as her husband, in New Hampshire. In 1855, he came on the farm he now occupies, stayed a short time, then spent most of his time away till the last twelve years, which has been spent on the farm by his family, though he has been away some of the time himself. He is a miller by trade, and ran the Wyocena mill three years, Fort Winnebago mill three years, and was in Iowa one year, and has also worked in Beaver Dam, Poynette and Delton, Wis. Has six children-John, Charles Annie, Juniatta and Dwight and May (twins) ; none of them home but the two youngest. Is a Republican, and has been Town Superintendent, Town Clerk and Assessor. Has 340 acres of land.
J. L. PORTER, farmer, Sec. 26 ; P. O. Pacific ; born Sept. 14, 1828, in Seneca Co., N. Y .; son of Amasa and Eliza Porter, who removed to Erie Co., N. Y., in 1830. Mr. Porter was married, in
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Erie Co., Nov. 1, 1849, to Artemesha Bates, who died in November, 1850, leaving one son-De Witt D., born July 21, 1850, and now lives in Portage City; May 12, 1854, he married Ann Boies, who was born Oct. 1, 1827, in Erie Co., N. Y., daughter of Warren Boies. Came to Wisconsin in 1856, and settled on the farm he now occupies. Has three children by the second marriage -- Arthur A., born July 15, 1857; Leslie L., June 20, 1859, and Frank D., Oct. 31, 1862; the last three are at home. Mr. Porter is a Republican ; has held various town offices, and was a member of Assembly in the Legislature of 1873. Has 400 acres of land.
EDWARD SMITH, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Portage City; born July 15, 1799, in Otsego Co., N. Y., town of Butternuts; son of Griffin and Sophia Smith; when 22 years of age, he went to Putnam Co., N. Y., and worked three years at farming, then at butchering till 1830, then went to Orange Co., N. Y., and followed the same business (butchering) at West Point till 1864; was under contract for Government supplies most of the time while there; came to Wisconsin in 1864, and settled in the town of Pacific, in his present location. He was married, in 1838, to Rachel Rundell, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who was born in April, 1810, and died Jan. 23, 1880; has three children-Richard is a railroad engineer, and lives in La Crosse, Wis .; Eliphalet is an express messenger, and lives in Milwaukee, and Lewis lives at home. Mr. Smith is a Democrat, and has been Chairman four terms, Town Clerk, Asses- sor and Treasurer. Has 160 acres of land.
GRIFFIN SMITH (deceased); was born in Otsego Co., N. Y., Jan. 15, 1808; he went to West Point, Orange Co., N. Y., soon after he attained his majority, and obtained a situation as steward in the cadet mess hall at that place; he afterward went in company with his brother Edward in the butcher- ing business, which he continued about fifteen years. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Bull, died Oct. 23, 1845, leaving three children. He came to Wisconsin in 1856, and settled on Sec. 27, in the town of Pacific, where he resided till his death, Sept. 14, 1877. His oldest son, Abner G., lives in Schuyler Co., N. Y .; Edward E. and Mary are unmarried, and occupy the homestead of 200 acres; P. O. Portage City. Mr. Smith never remarried, but his sister Sarah kept house for him after his wife's death ; she came West with him, and is still living on the homestead with Edward and Mary.
REV. JOSEPH F. WARREN, farmer and M. E. minister, Sec. 15; P. O. Portage City ; is a native of Franklin Co., Mass., and was born July 10, 1829; when he was 6 years of age, his parents removed to Allegany Co., N. Y., where he spent his early life on his father's farm till 18 years old, then took charge of a saw-mill his father built just previous to that, and, in addition to his other business, worked at carpenter and millwright work while living in that State. He was married Ang. 26, 1857, in Allegany Co., to Mary Jane, youngest daughter of Rev. Daniel Woods, who was in the minis- try in the M. E. Church for over thirty years; she was born July 5, 1833, and was the youngest of eleven children. Mr. Warren came to Wisconsin in 1864, and settled in his present location. He joined the M. E. Church in 1856, and the next year received license as a local preacher ; he has sustained that relation to the church ever since, working on his farm during the week and preaching every Sabbath. Has three children-Eva, born Oct. 6, 1862, and Jason and Nathan (twins), Dec. 1, 1865; has also an adopted son, Frank Corwin, born July 25, 1859. Has 260 acres of land, and in politics acts with the Republicanparty.
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