The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 124

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

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E. R. HAMMOND, was born in Massachusetts May 14, 1853; his father, Edward S. Ham- mond, came to Fond du Lac twenty-three years ago. Mr. Hammond has been connected with the Fire Department for some time, being now stationed at Etna Engine House No. 5. He is a member of the Firemen's Mutual Aid Society.

CHARLES A. HANDT, insurance agent ; was born in Saxony, Dec. 7, 1824 ; came to Mil- waukee June 28, 1849, located in Milwaukee, and, one year later, came to Fond du Lac, where he has since resided. Mr. Handt was educated for an architect ; in Fond du Lac he was four years in the cigar manufacturing business ; then a house and sign painter; next a hotel proprietor; three years in the Register's office, and, for eighteen years, has followed the insurance business. He was married at Fond du Lac in March, 1853, to Wilhelmina Encking, born in Schleswig Holstein, Germany ; they have had four children-Charles R. (died May 28, 1879, aged 22 years and 6 months) ; the living are Lena, Min- nie C. and Louis C. Mr. Handt was three years City Clerk ; is a member of the Concordia Society and I .O. O. F. Lodge.

P. H. HANNIGAN, senior member of the firm of Kuicks & Hannigan, grocers, on the cor- ner of Forest and Brook Streets; was born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 15, 1852 ; came to Dodge Co., Wis., with his parents, when only I year and 6 months old ; settled at Horicon, whence they moved to Burnett Junction in 1858; thence to Fond du Lac in 1865 ; he first began in the shingle manufactory for J. Q. Griffith & Sons, where he was foreman of the shingle department till 1870; he was next in the gro- cery house of Branchaud & Branchaud, where he remained till a short time before his establishment of the firm of Kuicks & Hannigan in May, 1878. July 30, 1874, he married Miss Emma Odett, daughter of George Odett, grocer, of Fond du Lac ; they have one daughter-Alice. They are members of St. Patrick's Church.

H. S. HANSON, confectioner, was born in Lincolnshire, England, Sept. 25, 1829; came with his parents at the age of 4 years to Hudson, Ohio; removed to Beaver Dam, Wis., in 1856, and came from there to Fond du Lac in 1870; Mr. Hanson has been in the mercantile business since he became 17 years of age, and has followed his present business seven years. He was married at Beaver Dam on March 16, 1864, to Henrietta A. Price, born in Manchester, England, July 8, 1845 ; they have two chil- dren-Edward H., born Feb. 13, 1865, and Albert R., born April 10, 1872-and have lost one, a son, who died in infancy. Mr. Hanson is a member of the orders of A. O. U. W. and I. O. O. F. Their infant son who died was named Guy Stringer; he was born March 2, 1876, and died Sept. 3, 1876.

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MARK R. HARRISON, artist, was born at Hovingham, Yorkshire, England, Sept. 7, 1819, whence he was brought by his parents, Robert and Ann Balmore Harrison, to the village of Hampton, Oneida Co., N. Y., when 3 years of age ; at the age of 14 he went with the family to Hamilton, Canada ; he studied for an artist under Bowerman, in Toronto, Kimble, in Rochester, and Inman, in New York City, about five years, and then went to Europe, spending eighteen months in the Royal Academy under the tuition of Charles Hilton ; after traveling for some time, Mr. Harrison returned to Toronto, lived there two years, at Rochester one year, and then went to Hamilton, where he painted dioramas, which were burned ; Sept. 18, 1849, he located at Oshkosh, and engaged in shipbuilding, which was abandoned when he came to Fond du Lac in 1852, where he has since resided; in 1843, Mr. Harrison painted the " Death of Abel," which attracted much attention in this country and Europe : " The Deluge," "Jephthah's Rash Vow," " The Angel Delivering Peter from Prison," "Indian Summer," and " Peter Listening to the Cock Crowing," are some of Mr. Harrison's paintings which have gone to England at high figures ; other paintings have gone to Paris, Boston, New York, the British Museum, Chicago, Indianapolis and other cities ; Mr. Harrison painted four pictures from Longfellow's " Hiawatha," and photographs of them by Chadbourne having been sent to the poet, he replied as follows, referring also to " Gathering for the War- path," a strong picture of an actual scene before the Custer massacre :

CAMBRIDGE, February 2, 1880.

MY DEAR SIR-I have had the pleasure of receiving your letter, and the photographs yon have had the kind- ness to send me have arrived safely. 1 hasten to thank you for them, and say how much I like them.

I cannot enter into any detail of criticism, but, in my judgment, your strong point is the landscape, and the Indian faces, which are very characteristic.

1 should like to know if Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face, and Crazy Horse are portraits or only fancy heads. It is a striking picture in which they appear.

Please accept my thanks for this mark of your consideration, and the compliment you pay me in illustrating " Hiawatha," and believe me, with best wishes for your success,

Yours, very truly ,,

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.

Among Mr. Harrison's other noted works are " Cleopatra's Triumph," " Castle Canon," " Sunset on the Coast of Labrador," " The Haunted Lake," " Morning in the Elk Mountains," "Cromwell's Charge at Marston Moor," and various paintings of Western seenery. Although past 60, Mr. Harrison still makes daily use of his brush.

L. J. HARVEY, retired; is a native of Suffolk, England ; born in 1809, and is the son of Joseph and Lydia Harvey ; he early learned the nursery trade, and in the spring of 1830, he, with a friend, set sail for America, landing in New York in June of that year ; after traveling over much of the country, from New York to Albany and Buffalo, and not being pleased with it, they concluded to return to New York and apply for passage to England ; they did so, and after reaching New York, and delivering some messages to friends there, they applied for passage, but were told that they would have to wait about a fortnight, as the ships on the line to London sailed only on alternate Wednesdays; during the time they were wait- ing for passage, Mr. Ilarvey found employment in a nursery at Brooklyn for three days, July 1, 2 and 3; the 4th being Sunday, his friend came to see him at his hotel, and was murdered without any provocation by an Irishman ; Mr. Harvey was bound by the authorities to appear at the trial of the murderer, and was thus detained ; on account of the feeling in New York at that time, and the desire to keep all rumors of murder from European countries, for fear of retarding immigration, Mr. Hardy was detained till the fall of 1831 before being able to return ; Feb. 29, 1832, he landed again in New York, and, on March 2, he began work with Mr. Hogg, at what is now known as the Botanic Gardens, where he continued for two years; in 1834, he went to Newark, N. J., where. in one house for twenty-seven years, he conducted a nursery business, and, at the end of that time, left it to his oldest son, who continued in the same for nine years more; in 1853, he came to Fond du Lac Co., and bought several hundred acres of land in the towns of Eden and Fond du Lac ; he left a man, whom he had brought with him, to take charge of and superin- tend his land ; Mr. Harvey returned to Newark, where he spent most of his time until 1861, occasionally coming out to look after his land in this county ; during the first year of the war, Mr. Harvey moved his family to his land in the town of Eden, Fond du Lac Co., where they resided until 1864, when they returned to Newark ; in 1870, he moved to Richmond, Va., and started a nursery for his son, which he himself managed or looked after until 1876, when he again came to Fond du Lac, and lived in the city until October, 1878; he then purchased eight acres of land in Secs. 24, 15 and 17, known as the John McDonald Place. Jan. 1, 1832, he married Miss Sarah A., daughter of Jolin and Elizabeth Jones, of Suffolk, England, who died at Fond du Lac in 1871, leaving three children-Jacob J. ( now of Richmond, Va.), Anna V. (now Mrs. Adams, of Fond du Lac), and Henry ( of Lincoln, Neb.). Nov. 22, 1876, he married Mrs. Ruth R. Brown, widow of Capt. Brown, and second daughter of Edward Pier, the second

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white settler of Fond du Lac, she being the first baby in Fond du Lae, having been born at Green Bay and brought here when only four weeks old ; she had two children, a son and a daughter-Edward Pier Brown and Hattie A. Brown, the latter of whom is a member of the Episcopal Church.

CHARLES W. HASKELL, dealer in boots and shoes, 458 Main street; was born in Cornwall, Addison Co., Vt., where he received a commercial education and the advantage of a position in his father's store ; when a youth, he went to Greenwich, Washington Co., N. Y., and became connected with the extensive boot and shoe manufactory of Haskell & Lamb, afterward the Greenwich Boot and Shoe Co., with which concern he remained eight years ; then, after spending a year with Weed, Haskell & Co., of Troy, N. Y., he was in the employ of the North Bennington (Vt.) Boot and Shoe Co. for two years; his connection with the best factories enabled Mr. H. to become familiar with all the different grades of goods placed upon the market ; after severing his connection with these factories, Mr. Haskell engaged in business for himself, representing seven of the leading factories of the East, whose goods he sold extensively to the merchants of the Northwest ; in 1874, he came to Fond du Lac and engaged in the boot and shoe business, at 520 Main street, and, in 1876, removed to his present quarters, where he has increased facilities for his extensive business ; having travel ed for and represented the leading manu- factories for a long period of years, Mr. H. has the advantage of purchasing goods direct from the fac- tories, thus enabling him to sell all classes of goods at the lowest prices.

CHARLES .HASS was born in Schoenrade, eity of Friedberg, New Mark, Germany, March 27, 1855 ; came to Fond du Lae from Europe in 1874; worked for C. J. L. Meyer for some time ; April 3, 1877, he opened a saloon, which he has sinee continued ; Mr. Hass is a member of the Sons of Her- man, Turner Society and Sharp Shooters. He was married at Fond du Lac, Jan. 6, 1878, to Miss Min- nie Beatzer, born in Germany ; they have had one child, which died in infancy.

HENRY HASTINGS, son of Thomas and Ennice Clark Hastings; was born in the town of Amherst, Mass., May 1, 1818; removed to Oshkosh, Wis., in 1855 ; came to Fond du Lac in April, 1861 ; ran the Empire Mills until December, 1861; carried on butchering business until 1866; sold agrienlt- ural implements and ran a nursery two years; in 1868, carried on butchering business in Negaunee, Mich., and from fall of 1869, engaged in mining operations in Utah ; worked one year in the car-shops at Fond du Lac ; in 1872, helped form the firm of Sabin, Bushnell & Hastings, owning the wheel and seeder shops ; spent four years in these shops and on the road ; theu manufactured tinware one year; in Decem- ber, 1877, began the coal business and shipping produce and meats to the Lake Superior country ; he still is a Director of the Wheel and Seeder Co. Mr. H. was married first at Amherst, Mass., June 2, 1840, to Sarah C. Pomeroy ; she was born at Hadley, Mass., July 9, 1819, and died at Amherst, Sept. 21, 1849, leaving three children, two of whom are living-Harriet E., now Mrs. Geo. A. Badger, of Minne- apolis, and Thomas H., residing at Amherst ; Emily P., died Dec. 5, 1845. He was married a second time, at Springfield, Mass., June 10, 1851, to Mrs. Esther A. Diekinson, born in Amherst, Jan. 17, 1817; they have three children-Cora B. ( now Mrs. C. E. Plumb, of Oshkosh ), George F. and Charles L. Mir. Hastings has been an Alderman two terms.

COL. ORIN HATCH, retired farmer ; is a native of Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., N. Y .; born May 15, 1807; enlisted in Light Infantry, 188th Regiment, 14th Brigade, 14th Division of the New York State Militia; was soon elected Sergeant in his company, and thence gradually promoted till he became Colonel of his regiment in 1828 ; in 1834, was elected Assessor of the town of Florida, N. Y'., which office he held for two years; in 1843, was appointed Superintendent of the Poor in Montgomery Co., by the County Board; was appointed Superintendent of See. 3 of the Erie Canal, by the Canal Board, in 1846, serving in that capacity till 1848, when he resigned to take charge of a farm he had pur- ehased in Sehoharie Co .; leaving the farm in 1849, he moved to Sharon Springs, N. Y .; bought forty acres of land and laid it out in town lots; in 1851, he moved to Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., and engaged in the hotel business for about two years, after which, in 1853, he returned to the homestead in Sche- nectady Co .; thence in 1854, to Wisconsin, and settled in Fond du Lac Co. on a farm, where he followed agricultural pursnits till 1871 ; was elected member of the County Board of Fond du Lac Co. for three terms; was appointed United States Assessor for the Fourth District of Wisconsin in 1861, by President Lincoln ; removed by President Johnson and re-appointed by President Grant in 1872; was a member of City Council, from Eighth Ward, in 1876; was eleeted Mayor of city in 1878. In 1830, he married Miss Mariah Howe, daughter of Judge Reuben Howe, of Montgomery Co., N. Y., who died in 1840, leaving one son, Reuben, who died at the age of 18. In 1841, he married Miss Emily A. Braman, daughter of Dr. Joseph Braman, of Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., N. Y., by whom he has had five chil- dren-Delos, farmer ; Marvin, of 1st W. V. I., died 1863 ; Eugene, farmer, near Jefferson, Wis. : Louis (deceased at 14 years), Julia A. Col. H. owns 700 acres, mostly in Fond du Lac Co., aside from town lots, of which he has four lots and two houses. The Colonel is a prominent Greenbacker politically.

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JONATHAN A. HAZARD was born at Binghamton, N. Y., and came to Fond du Lac in 1868, where he began the real-estate business; four years later he added the fire and life insurance business, which he continued until 1878; dealing in real estate he has continued up to the present time ; Mr. Hazard lived in Broome Co., N. Y., except one year in Steuben Co., until he moved to Wisconsin in 1868. He married at Windsor, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1857, Miss Achsa A. Blatchley; they have two children -Vesta J. and Willie J. Mr. II. is a member of the Division Street M. E. Church; has been Alder- man of the Fourth Ward, and a member of the City or Ward Committee ever since he arrived in Fond dn Lac.

MOTHER MARY AGNES HAZATTE, the first elected Sister Superior of St. Agnes' Convent, of Fond du Lac; is a daughter of Christopher and Mary Hazatte, natives of Loraine, France, but emigrants to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1846, where Mother Mary Agnes was born, May 7, 1847; not long after her birth, her parents removed to Detroit, Michigan, where they both died; her mother in 1853 and her father in six years after; at 5 years of age, she entered the school of the Sisters of Notre Dame, and continued there until about 12 years old, after which for two years she attended the school of the Sisters of "Sacred Heart " at Detroit; in 1863, she went to Barton, Washington Co., Wis., where her church had established a small community, and there continued her studies till 1865, when she was elected Superior of the Convent : was re-elected in 1868, and in 1870, removed the community to Fond du Lac, and has since been twice re-elected. Such is a brief sketch of the life-history of one, who, though deprived of her parents early in life, has ever kept in view the reward of a life of charity and Christian virtues; though motherless, she (possessing those maternal qualities) has been a kind mother to all connected with the convent.

JOHN HEATH, of the firm of B. Wild & Co .; was born at Over Cheshire, England, June 13, 1847 ; came to America to Mineral Point, Wis., where he remained one month, and then to Fond du Lac, his present home, in 1867 ; during his entire residence here, he has been connected with B. Wild's steam bakery, and, since 1872, has been one of its proprietors. Mr. H. has served as Alderman two terms and is in the same office now ; is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor and Royal Templars of Temperance. He was married at Fond du Lac, June 8, 1869, to Sarah J., daughter of B. Wild ; she was born in Crewe, England; they have one child living, William Henry, born in December, 1871, and have lost an infant son.

WILLIAM A. HEATHCOTE, architect and practical builder for C. J. L. Meyer; is a native of Rotherham, Yorkshire, England; born in May 17, 1829; he began his studies in his native country, but came to America in 1848, and completed them with Fields & Correager, of New York City, in 1850; in 1853, he immigrated to Fond du Lac. where he has since continued his trade; his first work in Fond du Lne was the drug store for O. S. Wright, after which he was interested in and architect for sev- eral large buildings in the city and surrounding country and neighboring towns ; among them, St. Patrick's Catholic Church, of Fond du Lac, the Oshkosh Court House, High School building at Waupun ; the First Grammar School, of Fond du Lac; High School building at Plymouth, Wis .; Gas Works build- ing, of Fond du Lac; the machine-shops and foundry for Mr. Meyer's factory ; among the residences, Mrs. E. H. Galloway's, McDonald's, Mr. Meyer's and others; in 1864, he raised a recruit force of eighty men, and was appointed to take charge and superintend the construction of transfer barracks at Nashville. Tenn .. under Capt. Irvin. He was married to Miss Jane M. Wherrey, daughter of William Wherrey, farmer, of West Farmers, Westchester Co., N. Y., May 14, 1850; the children are Margaret J., uow Mrs. Alson Cole, of Vesper, Wood Co., Wis .; Mary A., now Mrs. R. G. Turner, machinist of Fond du Lac ; Addie V., Susic, Henry, Sarah, Guy, Gracie (deceased). The family are members of the Episcopal Church.

THOMAS HENNING, carpenter, contractor and builder ; was born in Devonshire, Eng., Jan. 6, 1832; came to Hamilton, Canada, in 1833, where he resided three years; removed to Ancaster one year ; then on a farm at Port Dover until 1852; in May of that year, removed to Aurora, Kane Co., Ill., where he lived four years; returned to Canada for three years ; in October, 1859, removed to Dixon, Ill., whence, in October, 1866, he came to Fond du Lac. He was married at Aurora, Ill., April 9, 1855, to Sarah Melissa Smith, a native of West Stockbridge, Mass. ; they have two children living- Charles W. and John N .- and lost an infant son at Dixon, Ill.

ROBERT FITZ HENRY, confectioner and fruit-dealer ; born in New York April 20; 1853 ; when he was only 2 years of age he was brought to Fond du Lac by his parents at the age of 9. years he was employed in the shops of the Chicago & North-Western R. R. Co., where he remained until the fall of 1876; Jan. 20, 1878, Mr. Fitz Henry engaged in his present business. Dec. 26, 1876, he was married to Katie Corcoran ; she was born in the city of Fond du Lac; they have had two children-one son died Aug. 29, 1878, aged 9 months ; they have a son named Georgie, he was born July 6, 1879.

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THOMAS S. HENRY was born at Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1812, and moved to Erie Co., in that State, in 1832, where he resided until he moved to Fond du Lac, in 1849; he, with others, built the first circular-saw mill in Fond du Lac; has been engaged in lumbering and milling under the firm name of T. S. Henry & Co. ever since he came to Wisconsin ; in 1866, he began the manufact- ure of flour in the Galloway Mills, which he has continued ever since ; he has also been engaged in the grocery and foundry business, the former being an adjunct of his lumbering operations. Mr. H. was married in Erie Co., N. Y., to Miss Lucinda Howard, a native of Paris, in that State ; they have three children-C. S., George A. and Frank W. Mr. H. has been Alderman one term and City Treasurer one year.

CHARLES HETH, retired ; was born at Ticonderoga, Essex Co., N. Y., removed when a youth to Silver Creek, Chautauqua Co .. in that Stato, where he lived, engaging in the hotel business the last few years before coming to Fond du Lac Township, in 1857. and to Fond du Lac City, which has since been his home, in 1859. Mr. Heth's business in Fond du Lae was that of dealing in hav and grain, which he carried on extensively until 1879, when he retired. He was married, at Silver Creek, N. Y., in August, 1843, to Vilutia Buxton, a native of Brockville, Genesee Co., N. Y., who died Oct. 11, 1879, leaving two children-Mary M., now Mrs. Henry W. Durand, and Emma A. ; they lost two children- Louie and Allie, aged 8 and 9 years respectively.

G. W. HINES, dealer in agricultural implements ; born at Aurelius, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Sept. 9, 1838; when he was only about 9 years of age, his father, James Hines, came with his family to Wau- kesha Co., Wis. In August, 1862, the subject of this sketch enlisted in Co. E, 24th W. V. I .; served until June 22, 1865, having been in the service two years and ten months ; he was in the battles of Perry- ville, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, etc. In February, 1873, he came to Fond du Lac, and has been extensively engaged in selling farm machinery ever since.

JOSEPH W. HINER, attorney at law ; was born at Fond du Lac Sept. 12, 1854, where he has since resided ; he was educated at the State University, at Madison, from which he graduated in 1876; the next year he began reading law with Coleman & Spence, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1879. Mr. H. is now a member of the law firm of Spence & liner ; a member of the Board of Edu- cation, and Secretary of the Public Library Association.

WILLIAM H. HINNER, retired; was born in Bedford Co., Penn., Dec. 16, 1821, and is the son of William and Elizabeth Hiner; when about 7 years old, with his parents, he removed to Wayne Co., Ohio, where he received his earlier education in the common and select schools; in 1840, he began teaching in the common schools of Wayne Co., and, a year later, secured a position in the select schools of that county, where he continued the profession for one and one-half years; in 1845, he removed to Madison, Ohio, where, for the next five years, he was engaged in the drug business, and, at the same time, pursued the study of medicine; he came to Fond du Lac in 1850, and continued the drug trade for four years, after which he turned his attention to lumberiug for five years; in 1863, he established the iron foundry in this city, and continued that business till 1878. He was elected County Treasurer by the County Board in 1854 to fill a vacancy; was twice Mayor of the city ; was elected a member of the Wis- consin Senate in 1871, and re-elected in 1873 and 1875; was President pro tem. of the Senate during the session of 1877. In 1850, he was married to Sarah Fisher. who died in 1868, leaving one son-Joseph W., who is a graduate of the State University, and is now an attorney of this city. He was married to Mrs. Mary L. Jenney ( nee Fish ) in 1870 ; she having two daughters prior to her second marriage; they are Mary C. and Frances L. Mrs. Hiner is a member of the Episcopal Church.

REV. PHILIPP HOELZEL, Pastor of the German Lutheran Church ; was born in Ger- many in 1854 ; he received his preparatory education at the High School of Hanover, Germany, entering in 1869, and remaining till his graduation in 1871 ; he then entered the Theological College of Steeden, Germany, where he graduated with the class of 1872; after his graduation in 1872 he left his native country to continue his studies in American colleges, beginning with the Lutheran Concordia College of St. Louis, Mo., at which he graduated with the class of 1875; he then attended Concordia Theological Seminary at Springfield, Ill., from 1875 to his graduation there in 1876; in September, 1876, he was ordained to the holy ministry at Great Bend, Kan., and immediately began his ministerial work at that place in connection with six other charges in the State of Kansas. In 1877, he received a call from the church at Fond du Lac, to assist his brother, who was the regular Pastor, but whose health failing, was unable to attend to all the duties of his church. After the death of his brother, which occurred in the winter, he was chosen regular Pastor of the church in February, 1878. Nov. 17, 1878, he married Miss Eloise Wambsganss, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Wambsganss, of Sheboygan Co., Wis.

ETHIEL HOMSTON, farmer, Secs. 30, 15 and 17 ; is a son of Jere and Mary Homiston, of Berkshire Co., Mass., born Aug. 26, 1812; his father being a blacksmith as well as a farmer, Ethiel

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learned the trade, and worked with his father till 21 years of age, when he formed a copartnership with another man, and continued for five years. In 1838, he bought in that county and followed farming there till 1843, when he disposed of his land, and immigrated to Wisconsin, settling in Milwaukee Co. for one year. He was making arrangements to visit this part of the country, when his father and brother unex- pectedly came out from New York. He, with his father, started to look at the country round Oshkosh, with a view to locating, but stopping at a tavern for the night, they met Dr. Darling, by whom they were induced to locate near Fond du Lac. After selecting an eighty-acre tract for each, they returned for their families-he to Milwaukee Co., and his father to New York. Ethiel reached his new home as soon as arrangements were made for a habitation, but his father and family did not get in till early the following year, 1845, coming via Sheboygan, where he met them with ox teams, requiring five days and nights to make the trip there and return, during which time they slept without shelter each night. He built a log shanty, which served them for a house for the next five years; the prairie hens and gophers being so troublesome that he was compelled to build a barn to protect his grain from them ; often were they com- pelled to grind their wheat in a coffee-mill, and crack their corn in a burr-oak mortar in order to have bread of any kind for their families. He married Miss Almira, daughter of Uriah and Ellen Woodruff. of Spencer, Tioga Co., N. Y., Jan. 12, 1837; they have one son-Aurelius, who married Miss Amanda, daughter of Col. Isaac Tompkins, of Fond du Lac, who died Oct. 18, 1863, leaving two daughters- Emma and Lydia. May 16, 1866, he married Miss Clara B. Tompkins, sister of his first wife ; they have two children-Gracie and J. Mansfield. They are members of the M. E. Church.

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The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 124

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