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REV. FELIX DOMBROWSKI, Priest of St. Michael's Polish Church, Beaver Dam ; son of George and Elizabeth Dombrowski; barn in Poland in 1839; began his studies in the Parish Schools of' Calis, Poland, where he continued twelve years, after which he completed his preparation for holy orders in the Seminary of Calis in 1862; Dec. 15, 1861, he was ordained priest by Bishop Marske, but did not enter at once upon the work of the ministry. In 1863, he joined the Polish army as Chap- lain of a regiment, in revolution against Russia, and in March, 1864, he was taken prisoner by the Aus- trin army and held as such for eleven months; was released in February, 1865, and soon went to Paris, where he was priest of different churches for four years ; in 1871, he came to America and was priest of Mulberry Church, Notre Dame and Assumption, near Galveston, Tex., whence, in April, 1879, he came to Beaver Dam as priest of St. Michael's Polish Catholic Church.
E. ELWELL, lawyer, Beaver Dam; was horn in Athens, Bradford Co., Penn., Ang. 7, 1816, and came to Wisconsin May 31, 1847, locating at Sheboygan. He received his early education at Athens and then removed to Towanda, Penn., where he studied law with his brother, Judge William Elwell, and afterward practiced two years in that county; from there he went to Wyoming Co., Penn .. and for three years practiced law ; he then went to Sheboygan and for eight years continued the practice of law, after which he moved to Beaver Dam and has continued the profession up to the present writing. At Sheboygan, Mr. Elwell was Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for one term, and 1853-54, was District Attorney for said county ; from April, 1857, to Angust, 1861. he was Postmaster at Beaver Dam; the years 1867 to 1870, inclusive, he was District Attorney of Dodge Co. for two terms, and from January, 1874, to 1878, was County Judge of Dodge Co .; in 1878-79 he was Mayor of Beaver Dam. Mr. Elwell married, Jan. 31, 1844, Mary E. Fowler, of Monroe, Bradford Co., Penn .; he has one child living-Edward F.
EVAN EVANS. deceased, was a son of Morgan and Annie Evans; was born in South Wales in 1821. In 1842. he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Mason, of South Wales, and, in 1×44, came to Beaver Dam, Wis., where he followed the blacksmith's trade for three vears. lle died in 1847, leaving her with two daughters-Elizabeth E., now Mrs. Samuel Bonner, of Westford, and Mary A., now Mrs. Tabor Thurston, of the town of Beaver Dam. In 1849, Mrs. Evans married Mr. Owen Roberts, a son of Humphry and Margaret Roberts, of North Wales, but an emigrant to Wisconsin about 1845. He being a resident of Marquette Co. at the time of the marriage, they removed there and made that their home for four and a half years, then returned to a farm of forty acres in Sec. 7, town of Beaver Dam, which she owned prior to her second marriage. Here Mr. Roberts died in April, 1863, leaving her a widow with five children-Adelade (now Mrs. George Knore, of ('alamus), Mason T., Maggie E. (now Mrs. Samuel Snowdin, of Randolph, Wis., Katie N. (now Mrs. ('harles Snowdin, of Westford), Abbie J. Mr. Evans was a member of the Baptist Church and Mr. Roberts of the Methodist Church.
JAMES FISHER, farmer ; P. O. Beaver Dam ; born in Vermont March 4, 151; came to Wisconsin in 1853, loeating at Beaver Dam ; engaged at building and carpenter work ; in 1860, he took contrac's to the amount of $50,000; $20,000 in Jannary and February of that year, principally in farm- houses ; in 1870, he took and sold the contract for the union school at Beaver Dam ; in 1875, he built the Baptist Church ; he also, in 1875, engaged in selling milk, having a stock and grain farm of' 90 acres inside of the city limits. Married, in New York. in 1841, Miss Lucy Howard, of that State; he has three children, two sons and one daughter. C. H. graduated at the Wayland Univerzity at Beaver Dam and took a commercial course at the college at Chicago, Ill .; J. R. graduated at the State University at Madison, and his daughter is now attending the University at Braver Dam.
W. H. FORD, dentist, Beaver Dam; was born in Ashfield, Franklin Co., Mass., Oct. 20. 1840, and eame to Wisconsin in April, 1867, locating at Oshkosh. From Ashfield he moved to Plainfiekl. where he received his education ; he then moved to Greenfield, Mass., and studied dentistry with Dr. Joseph Beals for three years ; in 1862, he moved to St. Albans, Vt., where he engaged in his profession with Mr. McGowan, under the firm name of McGowan & Ford; then to Oshkosh, where he also practiced his pro- fession for about ten years ; from there he moved to Beaver Dam and since has been engaged in his pro- fession with gool success. Hle enlisted Sept. 9, 1862, in Co. A, 524 Mass. V. I., Col. fl. S. Greenleaf, and was in the battle of the siege of Port Hudson ; he was mnstered out Aug. 14, 1863. Dr. Ford mar- ri ul, Sept. 22, 1869, Sarah Curtis, of St. Albans, Vt .; he has two children living-Francis Hoyt and Arthur King. Mr. and Mrs. Ford are members of the Episcopal Church.
REV. F. FUSSEDER, Pastor of the St. Peter's Catholic Church at Beaver Dam, was born in Austria Sept. 3, 1825 ; received his early education in Saltzburg Institute, Germany ; after he came to the United States he studied under Bishop Henui, of Milwaukee, and was ordained Aug. 18. 1850; he
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was then appointed Assistant Pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Milwaukee; after leaving Mil- waukee, he had charge of the Catholic Churches at Burlington, Wis .; St. Mary's Church at Water- town, Wis .: St. Magdalene's Church at Sheboygan, Wis .; St. George's Church at Kenosha, Wis .; St. Mary's Church at Racine, Wis .; St. Peter's Church at Oshkosh, Wis .; St. Mary's Church at Cas- cade, Wis .; St. Mary's at Fort Washington, Wis .; St. Mary's at Belgium, Wis., and, in July, 1866, moved to St. Peter's at Beaver Dam, which Church he is now Pastor of. He has also been instrumental in building the following churches and schools : St. Alphonse's Church at Wheatland, Wis .; a schoolhouse in Burlington ; a church in Walworth Co., near Delavan ; a church in Menosha, Wis .; a church in North- port, Wis .; a church in Buchanan, Wis .; a church for the Germans in Oshkosh, a church in Silver Creek, a church in Port Washington ; Church of the Holy Cross in Belgium, Wis .; a parish house in Cascade, Wis., and the St. Mary's School in Beaver Dam.
JOHN GOEGGERLE, brewer, Beaver Dam; was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, April 30, 1828, and came to Wisconsin in 1853, locating at Madison ; in 1855, he came to Beaver Dam, and bought the Beaver Dam Brewery, and has run it with good success ever since ; Mr. Geoggerle was School Commissioner of the First Ward one term. He married, May 6, 1857, Julia Swant, of Prussia ; has nine children-Mary, Julia, John, Frank, Louis, Henrietta, Edward, Adolphe and Charlie.
C. GERMAIN, Beaver Dam ; born in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y., June 14, 1827, where he received his early education ; came to Wisconsin in 1843, and located at Milwaukee ; his first business was ferrying passengers over the Milwaukee River, at 5 cents; then worked for Nat. Prentiss two years, learning the trade of carpenter and joiner ; in the spring of 1845, moved into Milwaukee Township, to work on farm, as-isting his father, hauling wood with an ox team into Milwaukee; in 1846, went to Fox Lake, and hauled timber with an ox team for the mill-dam at that place; he rented and worked a farm that year, and everything was killed with frost; in the spring of 1847, came to Beaver Dam; worked at carpenter-work for Mr. Loomis, and others two years; in 1851, went to Ionia, and helped build a grist- mill at that place; returned to this county, and for a time worked at his trade, then went to keeping livery stable; in 1857-58, was contractor on the old La Crosse R. R. ; from 1852 to 1856, was Deputy Sheriff ; in 1861, was appointed Under Sheriff; in 1862, was elected Sheriff, and held the offices of Sheriff and Under Sheriff until 1870, but virtually Sheriff the whole time; in 1871, returned to Beaver Dam ; dur- ing that year was contractor on the Sheboygan & Fond du Lac R. R .; in the spring of 1878, built an ele- vator at Renville Station, Minn., which he ran one year, when poor health compelled him to leave the business and return home; was Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms for the State General Assembly of 1874, and a member of the General Assembly of 1875; is at present a member of the City Council from the Second Ward. Married, at Fox Lake, in 1851, Miss Emily A. Brower, a native of Rockland Co., N. Y .; has eight children-Lina, Mary E., Jennie L., Nellie A., Polly D., Valbert. Alfred and Henrietta.
J. S. GIBSON, farmer ; P. O. Beaver Dam ; born in Clifford, Susquehanna Co., Penn., April 22, 1825 ; came to Wisconsin in September. 1840, locating at Racine, where he was for two years, engaged in selling the Cole Thrasher, and the Buffalo Pitt's Thrasher; in 1844, he moved to Lowell, Dodge Co., and commenced farming, at first with eighty acres, afterward increasing it to 600 acres; this he continued for twenty-five years, and for about fifteen years of that time was also engaged in selling seeders, thrash- ers, etc. ; in February, 1869, he came to Beaver Dam, and engaged in the agricultural business for seven years, continuing his farming, and has now large larius in Dodge County, Minnesota, lowa and Kansas; is also engaged in raising cranberries in Monroe and Jackson Cos., Wis .; in 1863, he was Supervisor of Lowell. He married, Dec. S. 1846, Susan S. Eldred, of Plainfield. Mass .; he has one child-S. E. Gaines.
D. C. GOWDEY, editor, Beaver Dam Argus; was born in New York City Aug. 3, 1841, and came to Wisconsin May 30, 1846. locating in Beaver Dam; he received his education in the public schools of Beaver Dam, finishing at Wayland University; MIr. Gowdey has been coune ted with the following news- papers : Republican and Sentinel, Democratic Post, Democrat, Citizen, Horicon Argus, Beaver Dam Argus ; this last paper he, in connection with Mr. B. F. Sherman, bought out and are still publishing at the present writing ; in 1866, he was City Clerk of Beaver Dam, and held the office six terms; in 1874, he was member of the Assembly, from Beaver Dam ; in 1878-79, he was Alderman of the Third Ward. Mr. Gowdey married, April 11, 1865, Adaline T. Nelson, of Milton. Vt .; he has six children-Nelson L. M., Laura A., Hattie A., Margarette L. and William H. W .; the last not named.
W. C. GRIFFIS, druggist ; born in Chatham, County Kent, Upper Canada, June 14. 1825 ; he studied with Drs. Pegley & Cross, and graduated in 1846, as physician and druggist, at Montreal Col- lege ; came to Wisconsin in 1853, locating at Neenah, where he opened a drug store on his own account, and continued the same until 1856; he then moved to Appleton, and engaged in general merchandising,
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which he continued for three years; he then went to Canada. to close up a bankrupt stock for his brother- in-law ; in 1862, he went to Beaver Dam and started the drug business, his present location being on Front street, between Center and Spring, known as the City Drug Store; in 1871, he was elected School Commissioner of the Fourth Ward. lle married, Sept. 10, 1847, Margaret Aiken, of Canada, who died July 7, 1861 ; he again married, Sept. 21, 1863, Charlotte Frost, of England, who died March 17, 1869 ; he again married, Nov. 16, 1870, Sarah J. Erway, of' New York State; he has four children-Martha A., Orville A., Herbert A. and Willie J.
T. B. GRINNEL, retired, Beaver Dam ; born in Farmington, Ontario Co., N. Y., June 10, 1819; came to Wisconsin in 1857, locating in Calamus Township, Dodge Co., engaging in farming, which he continued until 1875, when he moved to Beaver Dam, where he died Oct. 10, 1879; while in Calamus, he was Justice of the Peace six years. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Married. at Perring- ton, Monroe Co., N. Y., May 4, 1842, Miss Sarah E. Case, of Perrington, N. Y. ; two children living; widow owns a farm of 150 acres.
GEORGE C. GUNN, retired. Beaver Dam ; born in Oneida Co., N. Y., June 6, 1813 ; came to Wisconsin in June, 1843; located at Jefferson Township, Jefferson Co., and engagel in farming; in 1846, came to Dodge Co., and went to farming in Trenton Township ; in 1869, sold his farm of 360 acres, and took in part pay his present residence at Beaver Dam, to which he retired, and where he has since resided. He married, in Oneida Co., N. Y., Oct. 12, 1867, Miss Mary A. Hinckley, a native of Oneida Co., N. Y. ; has had a family of two daughters, one ouly living.
JOSEPH HAMMER, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Beaver Dam; is a native of Prussia ; son of Joseph and Mary Hammer ; born in 1838; eame to America in 1853. and settled in the town of Westford, Dodge Co., Wis., where he followed farming until 1863; in 1866, he bought of his father a farm of 120 acres, in town of Westford, and in two years after, sokl that and bought his present farm of 160 acres in Sec. 36, town of Beaver Dam; he now has 146 aeres in that scetion. He married Miss Francis, daughter of George and Barbara Goeshl, of Westford, in 1860; they have eleven children-Michael, Albert, Edward, Frank, Francis, George ( deceased), Mary E., Joseph P., Ida B., Anna R and William G. The family is connected with the Catholic Church.
MATHIAS HAMMER, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Beaver Dam; was born in Prussia Ang. 4, 1843; at the age of 8, he, with his father's family, came to America and settled on a farm in the town of Westford, Dodge Co., Wis., where he lived for twenty-two years ; in 1875, he soll a farm of 107 acres. which he owned in that town, and bought his present one of 160 acres in Sec. 8, town of Beaver Dam ; probable value. $50 per acre. He married Misa Augusta, daughter of Valentine and Mary Ptashinski, of Westford, in 1962, she being a native of Prussia; they have had six children-Mary, Joseph, Albert ( deceased ), Johannah, Hannah and Phillip. Mr. and Mrs. Hammer are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
GEORGE HALL, carpenter ; born in Painted Post, Steuben Co., N. Y., Dec. 16, 1824, and came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1855, loeating in Hustisford : he learned the carpenter trade in Philips- port, N. Y., and afterward engaged in the carpenter business there on his own account, which he con- tinued for six years. In 1855, he went to Milwaukee, and hired out to Alanson Sweet & Co., lighthouse builders, and went to Lake Superior to assist in building lighthouses along this lake. In the fall of the same year, he went to Hustisford and entered the carpenter business on his own account : in 1856, he went to Beaver Dam, and from that time until the present, with the exception of one year, in which he was engaged in the war. he has worked at his trade, his present location being corner Front and Beaver streets. Ile enlisted during the war, Jan. 4, 1864. in Co. D .. 5th W. V. I., Col. Thos, Allan, and was engaged in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Hatcher's Run, Va., near Petersburg. Va. and storming of Petersburg ; he was wounded above and a little back of the right temple in the battle at Spottsylvania; he received his discharge June 13, 1865. Mr. Hall married, October, 1846. Jerusha A. Hall, of Connectient, who died Oct. 4. 1578.
JAMES HARLEY, Superintendent Woolen Mills, Beaver Dam; was born in Scotland July 27, 1828, and came to Wisconsin in June, 1869, locating in Braver Dam ; in Scotland, he was Super- intendent of the Devonvale Woolen Mills, running between 4,000 and 5,000 spindles; from Scotland he went to Canada and was there engaged in manufacturing woolen goods on his own account. and after. as Superintendent of Barber Bros.' Woolen Mills; he then moved to Oswego Falls. N. Y .. and was Super- intendent of the Oswego Falls Woolen Mills of that place: from Oswego Falls he went to Sencea Falls, N. Y., and became Superintendent of the Phoenix Woolen Mills, and from there to Syraense. N. Y., where he was Superintendent of the Syracuse Woolen Mills; from Syracuse he moved to Utica, where he was Superintendent of the Globe Woolen Mills; then to Maumee City, where he was Superintendent and also
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had au interest in the Washington Woolen Mills, which continued from 1867 to 1868 ; he then moved to Beaver Dam, where he become Superintendent of the Woolen Mills of Chandler, Congdon & Co., which position he now holds. Mr. Harley married, in 1855, Catherine McIntosh, of Scotland ; he has four chil- dren-William A., David, Elizabeth and James. Mr. and Mrs Harley are members of the First Presby- terian Church of Beaver Dam.
F. H. HAWLEY, music-dealer ; horn in Floyd, Oneida Co, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1829; came to Wisconsin in May, 1846, locating in Waukesha; he received his early edneition in Otsego Co .; in Tron- ton, he assisted his father on the farm, and afterward farmed it on his own account for about four or five years ; he then went to Steele Co., Minn., and bought 120 aeres of land which he farmed for about four and a half years; in the fall of 1870, he came to Beaver Dam and started in the music business; is agent for the Smith, Kimball and Shoninger Organs and the Kimball and Hale Pianos; has also a full line of sheet music and music-books ; in Trenton, he was Justice of the Peace for two years, and also Supervisor; in Minnesota for two years Assessor. He married, on March 25, 1854, Cornelia Davis of New York ; has five children -Frank, Ethelinda, Fre lerick, Elmer and Emerson ; the last two twins. Mrs. Hawley is a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
SILAS HAWLEY was born in Amherst, Mass., Ang. 15, 1815 ; his parents were Silas and Elizabeth Marsh Hawley; his family are descendants of an English ancestor who early settled in Massa- chusetts ; a brother settled at the same time in Connecticut ; Maj. Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, a Titan in the Revolution in eloquence and prowess, was an immediate ancestor ; with him, according to Ban- croft, originated the idea of th: American Republic. He says, " Hawley was the first to discern, through the darkness, the coming National Government of the Republic even while it still lay far below the horizon; and he wrote from Watertown, to Samuel Adams : ' The eyes of all the Continent are fastened on your body, to see whether you act with firmness and intrepidity, with the spirit and despatch which your situation calls for ; it is time for your body to fix on periodical annual elections-nay, to form into a Parliament oftwo Houses.' "-Ilist. of U. S., Vol. VIII., p. 136. President Hawley, of Cambridge University (though misspelling the name), was also in the ancestral line ; and the family, by marriage, were allied with the Edwards family, of whom President Jonathan Elwards was the most distinguished member. The parents of the subject of this sketch moved from Amherst to Floyd, Oneida Co., N. Y., in the spring of 1825; to South New Berlin, Chenango Co., N. Y., in 1834; to Waukesha, Wis., in May, 1846, and to Fox Lake in 1847 ; he entered young up m a course of study with reference to the ministry ; having acquired the rudiments in the com- mon school of his native and adopted States, he studied some five years in the academies of Holland, Patent and Whitesboro, and at the Onei la Collegiate Institute, all in Central New York ; in the latter insti- tutiou, which had a full college course, he was a few years behind the late Dr. Miter, of this city ; he also studied with the Rev. Stephen W. Barritt, brother of the author of the "Geography of the Heavens," a Presbyterian Pastor of much ability and devotion ; he was licensed in the spring of 1835; ordained the subsequent year. The principal points of his pastorate have been : Cazenovia, Penn Yan, Vienna, Peekskill, N. Y .; New Bedford, Mass., Fond du Lac, Wis., St. Paul, Minn., and one of the beautiful suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. Ile was married at Jocelyn's Corners, Madison Co., N. Y., Sept. 6, 1836, by Rev. John Ingersoll, to Miss Melinda Benedict, youngest daughter of Stephen Benedict, Esq., of Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y., and sister of Hon. Joseph Benedict, of Utica, and of O. M. Benedict, Esq .. long a leading lawyer of the Rochester bar of that State. She was a native of Sherburne; born Dec. 7. 1817. Of this union there were three children-Erskine, born in Cazenovia Nov. 3, 1837 ; died in New Bedford Aug. 19, 1842, in the 5th year of his age ; Marietta, now Mrs. L. P. Stafford, of Indianapolis, Ind., born in Groton, Mass., Feb. 27, 1841 ; Erskine, second, born in Penn Yau Sept. 11, 1846, now, and for several years, Train- Despatcher and Superintendent of Telegraph on the I., P. & Chicago Railway, located at Indianapolis. This wife died in Penn Yan, universally lamented, Dec. 23, 1848. He was married the second time, in Penn Yan, Jan, 24, 1850, by Rev. W. W. Robinson, to Miss Harriet Joy Reddy, oldest daughter of Leander Reddy, Esq., who was born in Trumansburg, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1826. There were two children of this union-Melinda Benedict, now Mrs. D. Royce Drake, of Kansas City, Mo., born in Vienna, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1850 ; Harriet Amelia, born in Fond du Lac Feb. 14, 1857. This second wife died, beloved by all, in Fond du Lac, May 24, 1857. He was married for the third time, in Fond du Lie, May 22, 1860, by Rev. W. H. Marble, to Miss Andalusia Gillett, the younger daughter of Deacon Kirkland Gillett, who was born in Arcad, Wyoming Co., N. Y., Oct. 26, 1838. There has been of this union one child-Grace Brand, born in Fond du Lac Aug. 5, 1866. He was one of the original Abo- litionists, having, though a student, taken a decided stand on the subject even before the appearance of Garrison's Liberator ; he was present at the formation of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society in the city of Utica, forty-five years ago, when the members were driven from the place by a mob, headed
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by leading citizens, and resorted to Peterboro, the home of the Hon. Gerrit Smith, pelted with brickbats and addled eggs the whole distance. In every stage of the grand conflict, he bore an earnest and unfalter- ing part. So in kindred reforms. In the late war, too, he was among the most earnest and active. Ilis only son, educated at the semi-military academy at Peekskill, N. Y., entered the service early in the 14th W. V. I., and fought in the ten battles prior to the investment of Vicksburg, beginning with that of Pittsburg Landing; he was wounded in the left arm at Vicksburg, in the defense of a most exposed bat- tery, and had to submit to amputation ; his life for weeks was despaired of; and Mr. Hawley himself, then Pastor of Plymouth Church, St. Paul, exerted himself by speech and pen to hurry men to the South, or to the frontiers. to fight the hostile Sioux. Under the preaching of a single sermon, Aug. 10, 1862, eleven young men of his Bible class, with many others, enlisted and went South, or against the hostile Indians-largely depleting his congregation ; eight of these fell in a single battle with the Sioux. A failure in health compelled Mr. Hawley to retire from his fine Cincinnati suburban charge in 1872, after a very successful pastorate of seven years. In the autumn of 1873, he located in Beaver Dam; from this period, though avoiding the strain of pastoral life, he has done much evangelistie and reformative labor, as well as been active with the pen.
J. F. HENSLER, butcher, Beaver Dam ; was born at Racine, Wis., July 21, 1849; from Racine he moved to Beaver Dam, where he has been engaged in che butcher business; this was the first market in Beaver Dam. Mr. Hensler is doing a large and profitable business. He married, Oct. 13, 1873. Louisa Rissman, of Herman. Dodge Co. He has two children-Alvin and Alida.
EDWARD W. HINCHLEY, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Beaver Dam; was born at Min- nesota Junction, Dodge Co., Wis., Dec. 25, 1846, and is the son of the early pioneers Samuel and Rebecca Hinchley ; he soon removed, with parents, to a farm of 90 acres in Sec. 26, town of Beaver Dam, which has been his home most of the time since, and now owns the farm. In 1865, he married Miss Julia, daughter of Samuel and Julia Allard, of Beaver Dam, she being a native of Madison Co., N. Y., but immigrated to Wisconsin in 1855 ; they have one dinghter-Edith. Mr. Hlinchley is a member of the Baptist Church. Politically, Mr. H. is a Republican.
J. M. HITCHCOCK, physician ; was born in Bernardstown, Franklin Co., Mass., June 5, 1817, and came to Wisconsin on May 29, 1855, locating in Beaver Dam; he received his early education in Massachusetts and removed, after his father's death, to Greenfield, Mass., and assisted his uncle on the farm and in his mills for five years ; he then moved to Amherst, Mass., where he learned the shoe business, after which he farmed and ran a custom grist-mill; he then moved to Canastota, N. Y., and worked at his trade ; in 1843. he moved to Centreville, Ohio, and was Superintendent of the shoe-shop of Parker Bros., tanners; in 1845, he went to Unionville, Ohio, and commenced the shoe business on his own account which he continued for ten years; in 1855, he went to New York and joined the Minnesota Settlemeut Association and went to Minnesota with them aud located in Blue Earth Co., and afterward moved to Beiver Dam. He studied homeopathy under Drs. Rosa & Gatchell, in Little Mountain, Lake Co., Ohio ; he originally commenced the study of medicine in 1846, and continued its study up to 1858, when he commenced the practice of medicine in Beaver Dam. He has been leader of the choir of the First Pres- byterian Church at Beaver Dam for fifteen years. He married, Oct. 15, 1861, Lucia B. Comstock, of Swanton, Franklin Co., Vt. ; he has two children living-Clara B. and Charles Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock are members of the First Presbyterian Church.
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