The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 118

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

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O. P. BOWE, real-estate agent; came to Wisconsin in 1855, and located at Plymouth, Sheboy- gan Co., where he engaged in farming until 1864. On Feb. 18, 1864, he enlisted in Co. E, 36th W. V. I .; was wounded at the battle of Coal Harbor; was mustered out May 23, 1865, after which he came to Fond du Lac and began dealing in stock, and keeping a market, which was continued only a year, when he began the real-estate business. In 1867, his brother, W. II., became a uiember of the firm of Bowe Brothers, and has so continued ever since. The firm has been connected with the emigrant and land department of the A., T. & S. Fe Ry., since 1865. He was born at Lyme, N. Y., April 17, 1834, and was married, March 15, 1860, in the town of Forest, this county, to Frances, daughter of George Chase; she was born in Salem, Kenosha Co., Wis, Sept. 17, 1840; they have three children-Mabel S. (born Jan. 17, 1864), Willis G. (born June 9, 1866), and Arthur C. (born April 2, 1872).

WILLIAM HI. BOWE. real-estate agent, was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., July 16, 1843, a son of l'rosper and Lois Batchelder Bowe; came to Plymouth, Sheboygan Co., Wis., in September, 1855. In March, 1864, Mr. Bowe enlisted as a private in Ce. E, 36th W. V. I., and served in the Army of the Potomac through the campaign of 1864, participating in the battles of Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom, Welden Railroad and the movement to Richmond, in Hancock's Corps, and all the battles in which his regiment was afterward engaged, being mustered out in 1865 ; after leaving the army, Mr. Bowe settled at Fond du Lac, and engaged in the stock and market business with his brother, which continued six months ; was in the confectionery business six months ; engaged in the insurance business at Elmira, N. Y., for six months, after which he returned to Fond du Lac and engaged in the real-estate business with his brother, which they now continue. Mr. Bowe was married at Waupun, July 23, 1866, to Angie F., daughter of William and Elizabeth Durand. now of Fond du Lac ; she was born March 7. 1843, in Erie Co., Penn .; they have two children-Guy (1., born Sept. 16, 1869, and Addie P., born March 28, 1873.

S. S. BOWERS, M. D .; was born at Berlin, Waterloo Co., Canada ; came to Fond du Lac in May, 1865, where, for two years, he was Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager of the Lamartine Peat Co .; after that began the practice of his profession, having been a physician in Canada. He received a scientific education at Rockwood Academy, and at Coburg Victoria University ; after which, he pursued the study of medicine in the Toronto School of Medicine, Victoria University, at Toronto, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Kingston, and University Medical College of New York City. Ile began the practice of his profession in 1856. In 1879, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons conferred upon Dr. B. the degree of Licentiate. The degree of M. D. was conferred by Queen's University, of Kingston. He has been connected with several heavy mining corporations. Is Mayor of Fond du Lac ; has been Chairman of the First Ward; member of the Board of Education ; Director of the Public Library ; is a member of the State Medical Association ; Rock River Medical Association ; President of the Fond du Lac Co. Medical Society, and Dictator of Economical Lodge, Knights of Honor.

WILLIAM BRADLEY BRAND (deceased ) ; was born in Hopkinton, R. 1., June 2, 1808 ; he was deprived of his father when quite young, but his mother, a woman of rare Christian virtues, was long spared him ; when 11 years of age, he sought a home in Madison Co., N. Y., where, in 1839, he married Miss Julia A. Crumb, daughter of Joseph and Susanah Crumb ; he held the office of Deputy Sheriff and Sheriff of that county for six years; in 1850, he immigrated to Wisconsin and settled at Fond du Lac, where he was actively engaged in business and regarded as one of the solid business men of the city, till, attacked with fatal disease, his failing health led him to abandon his active business life, and seek recuperation through rest and travel; he tried the climate of Washington during the winter of 1864-65,

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GEN. EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG, M. C., was born at Unadilla, Otsego Co., N. Y., Feb, 20, 1827; his education was finished by a three-years course in Hobart College, of Geneva, N. Y., after which, in 1848, he was admitted to the bar at Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y .; in 1850, Gen. Bragg came to Fond du Lac, where he since resided and practiced his profession ; he has been a member of the City Council ; was elected District Attorney in 1854; represented his district in the State Senate in 1868 and 1869, and has been a member of Congress from the Fifth District since March 4, 1877, two terms; in Congress, he has been a prominent member, making a national reputation by bis position on Southern war claims, by his revision of the rules for determining claims against the Govern- ment, and by his arduous labors in all committees of which he has been a member. Gen. Bragg was Postmaster of Fond du Lac in 1867, delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1860 and 1872, and candidate of the Democratic Liberal Reform Caucus for U. S. Senator in 1875. He entered the army in 1862, having recruited a company called " Bragg's Rifles," with which he went out as Captaiu, serving in that grade and as Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel in the 6th W. V. I .; was commissioned Brigadier General June 10, 1864, upon recommendation of Gen. Hooker, for gallant conduct at the battle of Fitz-Hugh's Crossing. He participated in the following battles in 1862: Rappahannock Station, Gainesville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg. In 1863, the following : Fitz-Hugh's Crossing (at which he crossed the Rappahannock in open boats, under heavy fire, carrying the enemies' rifle-pits on the opposite bank, for which he was commended in general division orders and recommended, by Maj. Gen. Hooker, commanding the army of the Potomac, for promotion to Brigadier General), Chancellorsville, Mine Run, all the battles of the Wilderness, and, May 6, was detached as Colonel of the 6th W. V. I., and specially assigned to the command of a Pennsylvania brigade, which he commanded in the battles of Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Hanover Crossing, and the battles on the Tolopotomy Creek. At the Chickahominy, in June, 1864, he was specially assigned, though a junior Colonel, to the command of the Iron Brigade, which he commanded at the assault upon Petersburg, the battle of the Weldon Railroad and Hatcher's Run. " In 1865, he was placed in command of a Pennsyl- vania brigade attached to the Iron Brigade, making the command, for the time, thirteen regiments. He participated in the raid from Petersburg south to the North Carolina line, in aid of Gen. Sherman's move- ments from the south, and commanded the rear-guard on the retreat. He commanded the advance line in the battle at Dabney's Mill, in February, 1865. At the battles of Gainesville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, the Wilderness, Petersburg, Hatcher's Run and Dabney's Mill, he was com- plimented in the official report of his superiors. He was once severely wounded by a musket-ball, and once knocked from his horse by a cannon-ball. sustaining only temporary injuries from concussion. Gen. Bragg was very active, at the beginning of the war, in securing recruits and making ringing war speeches, which aided largely in obtaining for Fond du Lac County the excellent war record of which she is now so proud. He was married at Fond du Lac, January 2, 1855, to Miss Cornelia Colman, sister to Col. Edward Colman, of Fond du Lac. They have had three children, two of them daughters, now living. William Kohl Bragg, their only son, who had received a good military education, and who was the pride of his parents, died in the spring of 1878.

JAMES WISEMAN CARNEY was born near Banbridge, County Down, Ireland, Oct. 24, 1836; came to Staten Island, N. Y., in 1848; resided there several years, attending school, studying also at Orange, Mass., and Orange, N. J .; in 1856, came to Fox Lake, Dodge Co., Wis., having, in an early visit to the State with his father, selected that spot; in his first journey West, he slept with the soldiers and Indians during one week at Fort Winnebago; at Fox Lake, he was engaged in the grocery business ; came to Fond du Lac in 1864, where he has since resided and carried on business. Mr. Carney was married in St. Louis Church, Fond du Lac, by Rev. J. Perodin, April 27, 1863, to Mary A. Egan, born June 4, 1844, at Boston, Mass .; they have six children-Nellie E., born Sept. 29, 1866; Robert Emmet, Dec. 5, 1868; Susan C., Oct. 26, 1870 ; James E., April 14, 1872; John P., Jan. 30, 1874, and Mary Genevieve, March 3, 1877; Nellie E. is a musical prodigy ; she has six years of training in classical music ; began playing in concerts at the age of 9, and is now master of all the most intricate compositions extant.

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and with favorable results : in the winter of 1865-66, he visited the Island of Cuba and New Orleans, staying till convinced that his disease-consumption-was incurable, when he returned home in the latter part of May, 1866, and died on the 11th of August following, in his 59th year. In connection with this bio- graphical sketch, it is well to give the words of Rev. Mr. Hawley, an intimate friend, who in his funeral discourse says : "I knew him. I knew his many excellencies, knew, too-and he knew-his faults. I knew his trueness, his trueness as a man, trueness as a husband, trueness as a friend, trueness as a patriot. There was nothing false in him ; he was ever what he seemed. Neither was there anything uncharitable in him. rarely did he speak evil of a person, and always chided those who did so in his presence. lIe was in his domestic relations all that could have been desired. He loved his home, and the objects that were the light of his home. lIere his affections had their natural play, and his best qualities their bright- est manifestations. A strong and clear mind was his ; his mental processes seemed almost intuitions. He was an accurate reader of man; he, beyond most I ever met, knew men. And this, of course, gave rise to distrust, distrust of others, and distrust of himself. His severe analysis of men was applied to himself. He was no cynic, he saw the bright side as well as the dark side of human nature. He saw trueness among men, not perfectness, but trueness, and when he saw this, he almost worshiped it. He was a man of great force of character. Few have such energy ; few have such force of will. What he attempted, if within the limits of possibility, he was sure to accomplish. And his decision was equal to his force. When he made up his. mind, and his clear and rapid reasoning enabled him to do this readily, he was fixed He had positive convictions, and he was true to them. You always knew where to find him. He had none of that accommodating quality that puts a man on all sides of a question. He was on one side or the other, and on that side firmly and strongly. He was no twaddler, no policy man, i. e., he had principles, and he adhered to them. Ile was patriotic, he was true to his country, and truest when his country was neediest. He was a friend of men."

CORNELIUS BRANSHAW, proprietor of blacksmith-shop on Division street ; is a native of Canada, where he was born Feb. 26, 1824; when only 6 months old, he moved with his parents to Vergennes, Vt., where he lived till be was 21 years of age, when he moved to Troy, N. Y., where he fol- lowed the blacksmith's trade, having learned it under Mr. E. Seaver, while at Vergennes; in the year 1855, he came from Troy to Fond du Lac, where he has since resided and continued at his trade. Oct. 22, 1844, he married Miss Mary Desotell, at Burlington, Vt., she being a native of Canada also; they have had four children-Albert (deceased ), Albert (the second son being named in honor of his elder brother, who died when he was only 17 months old, and only a short time before the birth of Albert, Jr. ), Mary L. (who, in 1872, became the wife of Mr. N. Branchaud, of Fond du Lac, where she lived till her death, in 1874), and Edwin C. All the family are members of the Catholic Church ; Mr. Branshaw was elected Alderman from the Third Ward, for the year 1869. He has been a resident of Fond du Lac for twenty three years.

JOHN J. BRAYTON, farmer, Sec. 32 ; is a son of a farmer, Carr Brayton, of Washington Co., N. Y., born in 1823 ; he obtained a limited education in his native county ; in 1846, came to Fond du Lac Co., via Milwaukee, and settled on his present farm, and has since made it his home; he, like many of the first settlers, experienced disadvantages of the old open-cylinder thrashing machine, and traveling twenty-five or thirty miles to get his wheat ground after separating it from the chaff. In 1850, he was married to Miss Marietta, daughter of William and Lydia Vincent, of Oshkosh ; they had one son- Carr (deccased ), and a daughter, Etna (now Mrs. Emmet Barden, of Le Roy, Wis. ); Mrs. Brayton died in 1860; Mr. Brayton married Miss Eunice, daughter of William and Malinda Boyce, of Ogdensburg, N. Y .; they have three children-Charles J., Grant and Nellie. Mr. Brayton has a farm of 240 acres in Sec. 32, and forty acres in Sec. 29, all in Township 15, Range 17; probable value, $75 per acre.

KARL F. G. BRENNER, assistant teacher in Lutheran school ; is a native of Baden, Ger- many, where he was born in 1845 ; came to America in 1865; in 1868, he began his college course in the Lutheran Seminary at Addison, Ill., where he graduated in 1870, and began teaching at Hustisford, Dodge Co., Wis., which he continued at that place for eight years, when, on account of his health, he was forced to quit the profession for a while; after regaining his health, he came to Fond du Lac in 1879, and became assistant teacher in the Lutheran school. He married Miss Barbara Werner, of Franklin, Wis., in 1870; they have three children-Karl G. F., Johannes W. O. and Lydia L. B. M.

HERMAN BROCKER, of the firm of P. Brocker & Sons, grocers on Western Avenue; was born in Fond du Lac in 1854; was educated in the public schools of this city, and in 1875 he began the grocery business with his father.

CHARLES BROCKER, of the same firm ; was born at Fond du Lac in 1856; received his early education in the public schools of Fond du Lac, after which he attended Commercial College in this city, in 1876 became interested in the grocery business with his father and brother.

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PHILLIP BROCKER (deceased ); was a native of Lippe Detmoldt Holstein ; born Jan. 12, 1816; was a brickmaker by trade, which he followed, both in his uative country and in the United States. In 1849, emigrated to America and settled at Fond du Lac, Wis., where he followed his trade most of the time till 1875, when he began the grocery business, shortly after which he died, Nov. 21, 1876. He was married to Miss Helen Traeger, daughter of Ferdnan Traeger, ropemaker, of Saxon, Germany ; they have five children, as follows : Henry, Herman, Charles, Angusta and Minnie.

G. F. BROWNSON, retired ; is a native of Richmond, Chittenden Co., Vt .; was born Aug. 16, 1817, and is the son of Asa and Betsey Brownson, who were also natives of Vermont; when quite young, he with parents 'removed to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he spent much of his earlier life, and was educated in the common schools and the Potsdam Academy ; he was employed as clerk in mercantile business for eight years in Potsdam, and afterward removed to Parishville, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he continued the business as a member of the firm for nine years; in 1849 he came to Fond du Lac, formed a copartnership with Mr. Laughlin, under the firm name of Brownson & Langhlin, dry-goods mer- chants, where he continued the trade till 1861; after the dissolution of the firm he continued in the business for two years, and since that time has been dealing in general merchandising stock ; he has been Freight Solicitor for the Sheboygan & Fond du Lac R. R. for the past ten years ; he was City Clerk for one term, Superintendent of City Schools for three years, and a member of Common Council for several years. In 1845 he was married to Emily C., daughter of Esther Sheppard, of Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y. Their children are Hiram L., now acting Ass't Sup't of the Smoky Hill Div. of the Kansas Pacific R. R .; G. F., now an engineer on that road ; William J., a passenger conductor on the K. P. R. R .; Emma C., now Mrs. Strong, and lives at home ; Virginia B., now Mrs. Wm. Beem, and lives in Kansas ; Adelia E., now the wife of Charles H. Gardner, a passenger conductor on the Kansas Pacific R. R. Mr. Brownson's family are members of the Episcopal Church.

ELLIOT BROWN. M. D .. is a native of Whittingham, Windham Co., Vt .; born Aug. 15, 1804 ; he spent his boyhood till 8 years old on a farm, when, on account of physical inability for that kind of life, his father put him to study with the medical profession in view ; he received his early educa- tion at the academies of New Ipswich, N. II., and Ashfield, Mass., spending one year at each ; in 1826, he graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, completing his collegiate and medical course at the same time ; he at once entered upon the practice of medicine at Whittingham, Vt., which he successfully continued there for eight years ; thence he moved to Shaftsbury, Bennington Co., Vt., and there for another eight years devoted his time to his professional duties; in 1842, he removed to Fort Ann, Washington Co., N. Y., where he continued his profession till 1846; having thus devoted twenty years of his life to the prac- tice of medicine, he came to Fond du Lac, then nothing but a very few log houses, a trading-post and a hotel, with the intention of devoting the rest of his life to agricultural pursuits and stock-raising; it was impossible, however, to wholly withdraw from professional duties, as his friends were constantly making demands on him for his services in their families ; he devoted much of his time to dealing in real estate, and at one time owned 600 acres of land in Fond du Lac and adjoining counties, and has disposed of most of it and now lives a quiet life in a commodious home one mile south of the city of Fond du Lac, which, by his own industry, he has prepared for himself and family, and looks back upon a long and well-spent life, with satisfaction of enjoying its fruits in his old days. In 1826, he was married to Miss Mary. daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Kingsbury, of Whittingham. Vt; they have had seven children, as fol- lows: Mary M., now Mrs. Erastus Temple, of Harden Co., Iowa ; Sarah S., now Mrs. S. B. Kezerta, of Baraboo, Sauk Co., Wis .; Love L, now Mrs. Rev. Warren Corcoran, of Oshkosh ; Elliot K., of Eldorado. Hardin Co., lowa; Hannah H., widow of the late Roswell Bacon, who was killed by the last shot fired in the battle of Mobile, Ala .; Harriet H., Henry B., deceased at four weeks old. The Doctor has long been a member of the County Medical Society, of Fond du Lac, was also a member of the County Board for two years. His family are connected with the Congregational Church.

RT. REV. JOHN HENRY HOBART BROWN, S. T. D., first Bishop of Fond du Lac, was born in the city of New York Dec. 1, 1831 ; was educated at Trinity School ; graduated at the General Theological Seminary, New York June, 1854; ordained deacon at Trinity Church, New York, July, 1854 ; was assistant to the Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D., Rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights ; organized the Church of the Good Angels at Brooklyn Oct. 1, 1854; was ordained priest at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, Dec. 1, 1855, and became Rector of the Church of the Good Angels in Brooklyn, N. Y .; was Rector of the Church of the Evangelists, Old St. George's Chapel, Beekman street, New York, from June, 1856, to June, 1860 ; accepted rectorship of St. John's Church, Cohoes, Albany Co., N. Y., in January, 1862 ; was Secretary of the Diocese of Albany, member of the . Standing Com- mittee, Deputy to the General Convention, and Archdeacon of Albany ; received the degree of Doctor of

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Sacred Theology from Racine College in 1873; elected Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac Sept. 15, 1875; was consecrated in St. John's Church, Cohoes, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1875, by the Rt. Rev. H. Potter, D. D., L. L. D. (Oxon.), Bishop of New York, assisted by the Bishops of Vermont, Albany. Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey. July 29, 1856, he married Anna Coombs Upjohn, the youngest daughter of Richard Upjohn, Esq., architect, born at Boston, Oct. 1., 1836; have adopted two daughters-Jane Campbell and Clementine Boem.

JOHN BROWN, retired farmer, was born in Hillsboro Co., N. H., April 27, 1801. He married, in Rutland Co., Vt., in 1826, Merey Mason, a native of that county. In 1831, they removed to Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., where they resided until 1851, in which year they came to Wisconsin and settled on a farm in the town of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac Co., where they lived until 1879, when they removed to the city of Fond du Lac. Mr. Brown is a Republican in politics. He owns a well-improved farm in the town of Fond du Lac, and improved property in the city. Their children are Julia A., wife of Theo- dore Haight, Perrysburg, N. Y .; Cynthia, wife of Martin Engles, of Fond du Lac; Jennie, wife of Har- vey Durand, also of Fond du Lac, and Mary, wife of William Blaine, of Kansas. Mr. Brown is an enterprising and well-known citizen, and has lived a useful and successful life.

HENRY P. BROWN, retired ; is a native of Cumberland Co., Me .; born in 1830; grew up on a farm, and received his preparatory education at North Bridgeton Academy, after which, he entered Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1850, and graduated with the class of 1854; whence he went to Cherryfield, Me., as Principal of the Cherryfield Academy for two years. In 1856, he immigrated to Wisconsin, and for sixteen years followed teaching in the cities of Ripon, Waupun and Fond du Lac, in the latter of which he had charge of the public schools. In 1863, he gave up the profession, and, for nine years, dealt quite extensively in agricultural and farming implements ; disposing of that business in 1872, he has since been interested in various speculations in Fond du Lac Co. Mr. Brown was elected a member of the City Council from the Third Ward, in 1870 and 1871 ; was President of the Council in 1871; was a member of the County Board during the same time; was a member of the Board of Education from 1856 to February, 1879. In 1860, he married Miss Maria K. Hall, daughter of Simeon Hall, farmer, of Wil- loughby, Ohio; they have three children-Annie R., Lizzie M. and Thomas H. Wife and daughter are members of the Congregational Church.

ALEXANDER BRUSH, Sr., farmer, Sec. 13; P. (). Fond du Lac ; is a son of Alex- ander Brush and Nancy Griffith ; was born in Delaware Co., N. Y., in 1800; came to Wisconsin in 1849; bought a farm of 160 acres in Sec. 13, of Fond du Lac, and twenty acres in the town of Eden. He did not settle on his farm, however, for some time, but devoted his attention to the lumber trade, principally on the Wolf River, built a saw-mill in what is now known as the Indian Agency in 1850, and there fol- lowed the saw-milling business for abont six years; thence, in 1856, he removed to his farm, and has since made it his home. In 1830, he married Miss Jane, daughter of James and Mary Story, of Delaware Co., N. Y., by whom he had five children, three of whom, with wife, are dead-William (deceased ), Priscella (deceased ), Alexander, Jr., of Fond du Lac, William, Jr., of Taycheedah, Augusta ( deceased). He muar- ried Miss Jennette, danghter of John and Jennette Murry, of Delaware Co., N. Y., in 1849; they have one son-Henry.

ALEXANDER BRUSH, Jr., farmer, on Sec. 27, 15, 17 ; is the son of a farmer, Alex- ander Brush, Sr., and a native of Delaware Co., N. Y .; born in 1833; immigrated to Wisconsin in 1846, and settled in Fond du Lac, where he afterward was engaged in the lumber business for several years, part of the time with his brother, and part of the time with Mr. Merryman & Co. In 1876, he disposed of his interest in the lumber trade, and bought a farm of 110 acres in the section above named, and has since followed farming. In 1874, he was married to Miss Mary E., daughter of R. S. and Ruth E. Cole, of Otsego Co., N. Y .; they have two daughters-MIable and Maud. Mr. and Mrs. Brush are members of the Presbyterian Church.

REV. L. H. BUEHRIG, Pastor of the German Evangelical Freedmen's or Peace Church : was born at Luttrum, in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, in 1832; he received his early education in the schools of Braunschweig, Germany ; after his confirmation, at the age of 14, he came, with his parents, to America and located at New Orleans; in 1853, he entered the Missouri Theological Seminary, at Marthasville, where he received his degree in July, 1857; in the same month, he was examined for ordi- nation at the yearly conference, at Evansville, Ind., when, upon being ordained, he received a call to the church at Okawville, Washington Co., Ill., where he was installed as Pastor by the Rev. L. Nollau; the malaria of that climate proving too much for his constitution, he resigned that charge, after four years' service, for that of St. John's, near Burlington, Iowa, where he remained for three and one-half years, when, for two years, he became successor to the Rev. R. John, Ph. D., at Central City, Ill .; from 1867 to

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The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 118

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