The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 116

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Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
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Alto was organized on the 6th of April, 1847, at a meeting held in the schoolhouse near Miller's mill, in the southeast part of the town. Townsend Green was Moderator, and Benjamin Davis and Frederick Talcott were Clerks. The north half of Alto had previously bren connected with Metomen, and the south half with Waupun, for town purposes. The first town officers elected were : Chairman, M. Talcott; Side Supervisors, J. R. Mathews and William Talcott; Town Clerk, G. W. Sexmith ; Justices of the Peace, F. F. Davis, G. W. Sexmith and Henry Boardman ; Assessors, Daniel W. Briggs; Treasurer, Zephaniah Miller; School Com- missioners, David Adams, T. Green and F. Talcott. At this first town meeting the proposition to confer "equal suffrage to colored people " was voted down by five majority. The "anti- license " ticket was carried at the same election by twelve majority. The town officers of Alto in the spring of 1880 are: Chairman, G. II. Downey ; Side Supervisors, John Bruins and William J. Boom ; Treasurer, John Gysbers ; Assessor, John W. Kastein ; Clerk, William II. Smithers.

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The first school district was organized March 18, 1850, at a meeting, of which George W. Scxmith was Chairman and Z. Miller Secretary, held for that purpose. The first officers were : George W. Sexmith, Director ; A. MeMasters, Clerk, and John L. Sargent, Treasurer. The first schoolhouse, a frame building, 24x18 feet, was erected, that season, on Section 23, and Clara F. Pierce taught the first school in it, during three months, at $5 per month. The tax first raised amounted to $85 for all purposes. In 1877, a building costing $1,400 was erected. Alto now has nine schools, of which three are in union districts.

In 1856, February 13, land was bought, in Section 23, for a church building, on which " Ebenezer Church" now stands. It was organized as the Reformed Church, with forty-seven members, which number has swollen to about two hundred, embracing 100 families. The con- gregation is divided into three classes, which meet on different week-days to receive instruction. The first Trustees of this church were M. Mensink, F. Beeuwkos, M. Duven, G. Duitman, G. Stilsel, C. Landaal, J. Straks, J. Landaal, L. Sligster and J. W. Kastein. The first settlement of the people composing this church, who are Hollanders, in Alto, was in 1846, near the center of the town. They immediately began to hold religious services in private houses, building a church of logs in 1848, which building, 16x26 feet, was also used for a schoolhouse. These people now form, in this part of the town, a very large, thrifty and respectable portion of the inhabitants, the 101 school children in District No. 1 being all Hollanders.

There are now seven churches in Alto, and all, save one, are well sustained. The First Reformed or " Ebenezer" Church was first organized. The others are the Second Reformed or "Ebenezer" Church, which was recently built, mainly at the expense of IIenry Bruins ; the Dutch Presbyterian and the Dutch Congregational. the German Methodist and the Meth- odist Episcopal Churches, and one Congregational Church, in which no regular meetings are held. the society being much reduced by deaths and removals.

Alto has two stores, but neither a village, nor a saloon, nor a post office ; though, in early days, a post office, called Black Hawk, was located in the center of a large prairie of the same name, on a spot which the celebrated Indian chieftain and warrior of that name is said to have once used as a camp.

The following have served as Chairmen and Clerks of the town of Alto: 1847, Milton Talcott and George W. Sexmith : 1848, S. A. Carpenter and G. W. Sexmith ; 1849, Henry Boardman and G. A. Russell ; 1850, Daniel Wilcox and R. M. Harwood; 1851. HI. Boardman and A. MeMaster ; 1852, James McElroy and R. M. Harwood ; 1853, William Brisbane and R. MI. Harwood : 1854, R. M. Harwood and D. Adams; 1855-56. R. M. Harwood filled both offices ; 1857. O L. Olmstead and R. M. Harwood ; 1858, R. M. Harwood filled both offices ; 1859-60, J. McElroy and A. J. Mattoon ; 1861, A. J. Mattoon and R. M. Harwood : 1862, J. McElroy and R. M. Harwood ; 1863, J. McElroy and A. J. Mattoon : 1864, Jehiel Wight and A. J. Mattoon ; 1865, J. McElroy and A. J. Mattoon served two terms ; 1868, J. McElroy and A. J. Mattoon (Mattoon died and W. H. Smithers appointed to fill the vacaney, and has since con- tinuously held the office). The Chairmen since then have been : 1869, J. MeElroy : 1870, H. C. Williams ; 1871, J. MeElroy; 1872, J. McElroy. Mr. MeElroy served a portion of the term, and was succeeded by G. H. Downley, who has since held the office.

TAYCHEEDAH.

This town took its name from the village of that name, which was at one time larger than Fond du Lac, and promised not only to be the commercial metropolis of this portion of Wiscon- sin. hut the county seat of Fond du Lac County.

Taycheedah formerly belonged to the town of Fond du Lac : then was made up of the towns of Forest, Empire. a portion of Friendship (across the lake) and its present territory ; then of the present town of Empire and half of Taycheedah as it is : and now is composed of the north tier of sections which should belong to Empire and twenty-three full and several fractional sec- tions in Township 16 north, of Range 18 east. It has been in this shape since Empire was organized, in 1851. Lake Winnebago cuts into the town on the west, leaving but twenty-nine

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full sections of land within its limits. Of this land, Nehemiah King, Deputy United States Surveyor, said in 1835 :

" Under the Ledge, there is very fine timber and a soil as rich as any other in this country. On the upper level, the timber is somewhat deficient in quantity and growth. Some of the prairie is rather wet, but will make fine meadows. From the commanding prospect from the upper level, the lake [Winnebago], stretching as far to the north as the eye can reach. and to the west from six to ten miles-there are but few places that can compete with this for beauty of situation. It will probably be a healthy location."

Francis D. MeCarty and Reuben Simmons lived in a shanty in the south part of Tay- cheedah, from December, 1838, to the spring of 1839. This was the first settlement in that part of the town. Mr. Simmons then built a house, near by. for James Duane Doty, and Mr. McCarty erected one for himself where the village of Taycheedah now stands. During the sum- mer of 1838, O. P. Knapp entered land in the timber, further north, which was the first settle- ment in that part of the town, and might be called the first in what is now Taycheedah. The- many beautiful springs bursting from the Ledge. the delightful location and bright prospects for the future, called settlers rapidly to Taychecdah. They were at first mostly from New York, Ohio and New England, and Taycheedah once could claim more than half of the aristocracy, culture and honorable men of the entire county. No town has undergone greater changes in this respect. The governors, judges, generals, lawyers and other high officials have all emi- grated or paid the last debt of nature, and a community of German and Irish farmers has taken their place. '

The Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Railway crosses ten sections of Taycheedah. It was built in 1868, and maintains three stations in the town.

The first election was held in April, 1847, at which George D. Ruggles was elected Chair- man, and Charles Doty, Town Clerk.

The first births, deaths and marriages are not recorded, except such as occurred in territory once belonging to, but not now a part of, Taycheedah.

PEEBLES CORNERS, on Section 32, which has a post office, tollgate, store and cheese-factory, was named after E. Peebles. It is a station on the Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Railway, which is really the father of the place.

NORTH TAYCHEEDAH is a post office, on Section 17. Near by is a grist-mill, run by water and steam.

TAYCHEEDAH VILLAGE .- This is comparatively an ancient hamlet. It was the rival of Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, and, for some years, outstripped them both, having, in the carly forties. a larger store, better lumber-yard and greater lake commerce than both of them combined. It was, also, the first Wisconsin village to send steamboats up the Wolf River and carry on, in those afterward famous timber regions, the business of lumbering. Here, also, were the first school- house, first bell and, possibly, though not probably, the first religious class in the county.

The first mill was a large stone flouring-mill, on the lake shore, which began a large busi- ness in 1848, but was burned in 1854. In 1850, a steam saw-mill was built by O. R. Potter, but that, too, was burned in 1853.

The first store was opened by J. L. Moore and his brother-in-law. B. F. Moore, now pro- prietor of the La Belle Wagon Works at Fond du Lac, in September, 1841. This was the first store in the county. Trade in it was brisk, the Brothertown Indians sometimes paying in $300 per day. cash, while large amounts were exchanged for furs. The warehouse connected with this store was burned in 1844, destroying goods and wheat to the value of $6,000-the first fire of any note in the county.

The first schoolhouse in the county was built by James Duane Doty, Henry Conklin and the two Moores, at Taycheedah. in 1842. Henry Conklin gave a bell for this building, the first one in this county, which still does service in the more modern schoolhouse.

The first hotel was built by B. F. Smith in 1840. It was first kept by Francis D. McCarty, next by John Case, and then by Nathaniel Perry, who built a new and larger

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building in its place a third of a century ago. This building, B. F. Moore moved to Scott street, Fond du Lac, where it was burned.

In 1842, John W. Philbrick and family arrived in the village, and opened the first tinshop in the county.

George Carlton opened a dry-goods store in Taycheedah, in 1842.

J. L. Ault and a man named Lawrence started the first blacksmith-shops, Mr. Ault being first, probably.

Among the first settlers were George W. Elliott, Nathaniel Perry, B. F. Smith, John Case, Walter Cunningham and those already mentioned.

The glory of Taycheedah has flown. It is now a place of no importance, commercially, whatever. A blacksmith-shop, little store, post office and a saloon or two constitute its business places. Its trade and prospects were killed by Mason C. Darling, when he gave a site for a court house at Fond du Lac. Its first Postmaster was Nathaniel Perry.

Taycheedah was named by James Duane Doty. It is not, in its present form, a proper Indian term, being a corruption, no doubt, of the term tee-charrah, which, in pronouncing, should be run together with a quick guttural sound, barely sounding "tee." It means camping- place. Mr. Doty's translation was "our home," which was very nearly correct, though the present English pronunciation of the word is far from it. .

The different Chairmen of the town of Taycheedah have been : George D. Ruggles, George W. Elliott, F. S. Crons, John Ilett, Charles Geisse, O. R. Potter, B. F. Smith, B. F. O'Laughlin and Michael Wirtz. The Clerks have been : Charles Doty, William White, J. D. Van Plack, C. W. Tallmadge, John Elwell, Cromwell Laithe, William Craig, B. F. Smith, J. M. Mitchell, O. H. Petters, James O'Neill, William Bassett, S. D. Schooley, Frank Harzheim, Paul Buchholz, B. Adleman and Joseph Ditter.

WAUPUN.

This town, by the act of 1842, was made one of the three towns which, for some time thereafter, constituted Fond du Lac County-Fond du Lac, Waupun and Calumet-the first election being held at Seymour Wilcox's house, located within what is now the North Ward of Waupun City. But the organization of Alto, Metomen, Ripon and other towns cut it down to its present limits-the land embraced in Township 14 north, of Range 15 east.

The good judgment of the pioneers who first settled in Waupun cannot be doubted, for it is now one of the wealthy and desirable towns of the county-healthful, productive and beauti- ful. Originally, the town contained some marsh with its rich, warm prairies, fine oak openings and splendid belts of timber. The three all-desirable attributes for a successful farming com- munity. of wood, water and soil, were admirably distributed in Wanpun. The two branches of Rock River unite in this town, after one of them has crossed its entire eastern portion, forming very good water-powers-excellent, in fact, before the destruction of timber reduced the streams. Grain-raising, fruit-growing, dairying and stock-raising are all profitably carried on in Waupun.

The first settlement of the town was begun in what is now the city of Waupun, in which, also, were the first mills, hotel, post office, church, school and store, and the early history of the city will furnish the carly history of the town.

The first settlement on Wedge's Prairie was April 23, 1845, by Benjamin Cheeney. That same season, J. C. Wedge and Warren Florida entered lands on the same beautiful prairie, which has since borne the former's name. Deacon James Judd settled with his family in the western portion of the town October 6, of the same year.

Early in 1845, Solomon White entered land and began farming operations on another prairie, which has ever since been called White's Prairie.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway crosses this town on the west, and was built as the Milwaukee & Horicon Railway in 1856. Its only station in the town is at Waupun City.

There is but one post office in Waupun, except Ladoga, which is on the line between Waupun and Springvale.

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ABBREVIATIONS.

Co ............................

Company or county

W. V. I . Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry dir .....

.... draler P.O .. Post Office W. V. A ... Wisconsin Volunteer Artillery

S. or Sec Section

st .. street W. V. C. Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry

FOND DU LAC.

GEORGE C. ALDRICH, of the firm of Allen & Aldrich, proprietors City Stone Mills ; was born in Chicago Aug. 26, 1853; when 3 or 4 years old, his parents removed to Providence, R. I .; about thirteen years ago, removed to Kenosha Co., Wis., and then to Fond du Lac ; he has been connected with the milling business since 1872. He was married at Fond du Lac. June 15, 1876, to Florence Gordon, born in Lewis Co., N. Y.

JAMES F. ALDRICH was born in Saratoga Co., N. Y., May 24, 1822; was educated in the common schools and the Academy at Union Village, Washington Co., N. Y .; in October, 1841, he removed to Jackson, Mich., and, in 1845, with his brother William (now Congressman from the First Illinois District) and George F. Rice, began the mercantile business, which he continued until 1854, some- times having branch houses in East Jackson, Coneord and Battle Creek ; during that year. he and his brother William formed a partnership with B. & J. W. Medbury, of Milwaukee, and H. 1I. Smith, of Two Rivers, Wis., and engaged extensively in the manufacture of lumber, furniture, tubs and pails- William attending to the factory at Two Rivers, and J. F. attending to the sales at Chicago, where he then lived ; this firm continued in business un il 1850, pissing safely through the pinic of 1857. In 1861, William and J. F. Aldrich sold to Mann Bros., of Milwaukee, and, in' July, the former removed to Chi- cago, and the latter to Providence, R. I., where he resided two years, making frequent trips to the West to purchase wool, flour, etc. ; in 1867, Mr. A. came to Fond du Lac, with his family, where he now resides in one of the finest houses in Forest street, and, with his father-in-law, Dr. Capron, of Providence, R. I., invested largely in real estate. MIr. A. has also dealt in wool, woolen goods, and wood, as well as run a woolen mill ; he has three children living-George, one of the proprietors of the Stone Mills ; J. W., a music teacher, and Mattie, attending the Cathedral School.

DAVID D. ALEXANDER, carriage manufacturer; is a son of Isaac Alexander. Sr., a ship- carpenter, and Mary Johnson, natives of England, but immigrants to America more than thirty years ago. David was born in Durham, N. J., in 1848; at the age of 10, he left his home in New Jersey, and went to Port Byron, N. Y., thence to Medina Co., Ohio, where he attended school most of the time for three years ; in 1861, he came to Sheboygan, thence to Fond du Lac, Wis., where, in 1862, he began the blacksmith trade, working in a foundry for about nine months, and then went south in the employ of the Government as black- smith for three months. In 1863, he returned to Fond du Lac, and began the carriage manufacture, which he has since continued on Scott street. He married Miss Augusta Sears, daughter of Roland and Mary Sears, of Fond du Lac, in 1867 ; they have three children, as follows-Cora, George and Ida. Mr. A. is a Seventh-Day Baptist, and a Republican politically.

ISAAC ALEXANDER, proprietor of livery stable; was born in the State of New Jersey in 1840; from there he moved to Ohio in 1859, and followed blacksmithing till 1861, when he enlisted in Co. A, of the 1st Ohio V. I for three months; at the expiration of his term of service, he re-enlisted in the 8th Ohio; was in the battle of Shenandoah Valley; was wounded in the battle of Harrison's Landing, near Richmond; after his recovery, he came to Fond du Le in 1863 and re-enlisted, but was rejected at

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Madison on account of his wound; he then returned to Fond du Lac, and became manager of a saw-mill for George Wade for about six years; in 1874, he began the livery business, which he now follows ; was elected a member of the City Council, from Fifth Ward in the spring of 1879; member of I. O. O. F. In 1863, he married Miss Louisa C. Danks, of Fond du Lac, who died in 1864, leaving one daughter, Lillian. Married Miss Sarah J. Danks, sister of his first wife, Oet. 11, 1866; they have three children, as follows : Louisa C., Walter ( deceased ) and Walter, Jr.

PETER ALLAR, Sr. (deceased), was a son of Joseph and Josette Allar, natives of France, but emigrants to Canada East, where Peter was born in 1812; four years after, his parents removed to Colchester, Chittenden Co., Vt .; at the age of 14, entered upon an apprenticeship at the miller's trade, in Burlington; Vt., where he continued the trade with one man for forty-two years, during which he made the flour that took the medal at the first fair held at Crystal Palace, N. Y., also that which took the medal at a London fair; in 1870, he came with his family to Fond du Lac to live with his son Peter, who had come out in 1868, and bought a farm of 120 acres in Sec. 4, of the town of Fond du Lac; having spent nearly fifty years of his life at his trade, he now turned his attention to agricultural pursuits for a few years only, when he was called to that bourne whence no traveler returns; he died Nov. 16, 1844, leaving a wife, whom he married in Lower Canada in 1837-Sophia, daughter of Basil and Margaret Lapierre; they had nine children, as follows : Sophia, Mrs. Thetro, of Fond du Lac; Phelomenie, Peter, Exhilda, Louisa,. Joseph, William, Edmund, Virginia, all of whom are members of St. Louis Catholic Church.

ROLVIN F. ALLEN, miller, was born in Brooklyn, Hancock Co., Me., Aug. 14, 1849; removed with his parents to Providenee, R. I., when 12 years of age ; eame to Kenosha, Wis. in 1867, and to Fond du Lac in 1868, where he engaged in handling woolen goods, flour and feed, in company with Charles French, the fire continuing together one year ; Mr. A. continued the business another year and then became a member of the firm of Langlois, Allen & Co., which continued until 1874, when the firm of Allen & Aldrich was framed, proprietors of the City Stone Flouring Mills, on Forest street. He was married at Fond du Lac, Oet. 19, 1879, to Miss Ida E. Van Norder. He is an Odd Fellow, and a Mason.

JOHN AMES, farmer, son of Fredriek and Sarah Ames; horn in Milwaukee in 1827 ; his parents were emigrants from England, and on their way to Juneau, Dodge Co., Wis., and had reached Milwaukee, before his birth ; they, however, settled in Walworth Co., where they lived on a farm until 1835; thence they removed to Ripon, Wis., where they resided till 1839 ; thenee to town of Fond du Lac, where he has since made his home, and has followed farming most of his time. Enlisted in Co. A, of the 38th W. V. I., under Col. Pier, with whom he served till he was wounded by the exploding of a shell, in the battle of Petersburg, Penn .; was discharged at Madison, Wis., on account of wound ; returned to Fond du Lae, and, after partially regaining his health, he began farming again. At Ripon, in 1849, he married Miss Sarah Colton, of that city ; they have four children-Augustus, Frank, Henry and Jennie. The family are members of the Baptist Church.

REV. WILLIAM D. AMES, Pastor of the Cotton St. M. E. Church ; was born in Monroe Co., N. Y., Oct. 25, 1832; his father, Henry Ames, was the son of Peter Ames, and a lineal descend- ant of Thomas Ames, who came from England and settled in Dedham, Mass., as early as 1641 ; his grand- parents died in Petersham, Mass., leaving a family of eight children, the oldest 20 years, the youngest 20 months, of whom Henry, the father of our present subject was the sixth, and was born Feb. 7, 1807 ; the estate was swallowed up in the administration, and the children left penniless; seven of them afterward settled in Hillsdale and Lenawee Cos., Mich., and all became well off; his mother, Ann E., daughter of John and Jerusha Wheeler, was born in Litehfield, Conn., and was married to Mr. Ames Oct. 16, 1831, in Rochester, N. Y. When William D. was quite young (1834), he removed with his parents to Lenawee Co., Mich., and made that his home till 21 years old ; was educated in the common and high schools of Hudson, Mich .; joined the church in February, 1853; was licensed, and began preaching in July following ; studied theology at the Garrett Biblical Institute, of Evanston, Ill., during the years of 1855 and 1856 ; entered the regular work of the ministry as a supply at Port Clinton, Ill., in 1856; in September of the same year, he was sent as a supply to the church of Sun Parish, Dane Co., Wis .; here, Ang. 16, 1857, he married Martha J., daughter of Asahel and Mary Bailey, nee Sawyer ; he joined the Wisconsin Annual Conference at Milwaukee in August, 1857, and was appointed to the charge of Hebron, Jefferson Co., Wis .; in May, 1858, he was appointed to Jefferson, Wis .; was ordained at the Sheboygan Falls Conference in the spring of 1859, by Rev. O. C. Baker, D. D., then Presiding Bishop, and was returned to Jefferson ; in the fall of 1859, he was assigned to the charge at Hartford, Washington Co., Wis .; in 1861, he was sent to Menasha, Wis., and, in 1862, to Vineland, Winnebago Co., Wis., where his wife died June 13, 1863, leaving three children-Henry A. (now deceased ), Mary E. (now a student of

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Lawrence University ) and Robert H. (now deceased). In the spring of 1864, he entered the army as Chaplain of the 41st W. V. I. at Milwaukee ; went immediately to Memphis, Tenn., where they remained on post duty till September following, then returned to Milwaukee and was mustered out ; he then resumed his place in the Conference, and was appointed to the church at Grand Rapids, Wis .; here, in December. 1864, he was married to Miss Abbie, daughter of Joseph and Mary Fellows, a native of DePuyster, St- Lawrenee Co., N. Y., and a sister of the Rev. George Fellows, of the Wisconsin Conference, also a descend- ant of Sir Charles Fellows, of England ; in 1865, he was appointed to Stevens Point, Wis., and, in 1867, to Plover, Portage Co., Wis .; in 1869, to Princeton, Green Lake Co .; in 1871, was sent to the charge of Centenary Church, town of Utica, Winnebago Co., Wis .; in 1873, to Stoughton, Dane Co., Wis., and in 1876, to Edgerton, Rock Co., Wis .; in 1878, was appointed to Alleu's Grove, Walworth Co., Wis , and, in 1879, to Cotton street, Fond du Lac ; their children are Joseph W. F., Edith A., Edward B., Elbert H., Eva V. and Ernest.

CHARLES H. ANDERSON, salesman in Whittelsey's dry-goods store, is a native of New- ark, N. J .; born July 25, 1851, residing there till 1867, when he went to New York City, and there engaged in mercantile pursuits till May, 1871 ; immigrating to Wisconsin, he began the cheese manufac- ture in the town of Rosendale, Fond du Lac Co., where he continued business till 1875 : in spring of 1878, eame to Fond du Lac, and has since been in the employ of Mr. Whittelsey.

SQUIRE ARTHUR, farmer, Sec. 31; 320 aeres ; P. O. Fond du Lac ; a native of Lewis Co., N. Y .; born in 1810, spent his early life there on his father's farm, and in 1855, he came to Wis- consin, and settled on his present farm, and has sinee followed farming and stock-raising.

JOHN AMORY, retired ; son of James and Martha Burtns Amory ; was born in New York City Oct. 18, 1826, where he resided until coming to Fond du Lac in August, 1850. His father was among the first manufacturers of whips on New York Island, and one of the first importers of saddlery, whips, whalebone, etc., beginning in 1793, on Pearl street ; he retired from business, dying in February, 1836, his wife following him in December, 1853. When Rufus King was United States Minister to England, he often went personally, during Washington's Administration, to look after James Amory's business among the English manufacturers. Before coming to Fond du Lac, John Amory was engaged as a clerk in an exchange broker's office ; in Fond du Lac, he went into the business of making guns with his brother, S. B., which they carried on until selling out to T. S. Weeks in 1860. Mr. A. was absent ten years from Fond du Lac, from 1856 to 1866, living at Middletown, Orange Co., N. Y .; in company with his brother S. B., he built Amory Hall Block in 1856; old Post Office Block in 1866-67, and on his own account. in 1872-73, a block of stores south of Amory Hall Block; Mr. A. is one of the largest individual tax-payers in Fond du Lac. He was married at Goshen, N. Y., May 28, 1850, to Jane Smith, a native of that place ; they have six children living-Martha Burtus, John James and Jane Remsen Allston, born in Fond du Lac; Anna Dolsen, Mary Frances and Samnel Burtus, born at Middletown, N. Y .; their first child, a daughter, died at Middletown of scarlet fever, aged 2 years and 3 months.

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The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 116

Author: Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 1082

Author:
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1082