The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 132

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

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HENRY SCHERER, of Fond du Lac File Works, is a native of Germany, where he was born in 1836 .; came to America in 1855, and began work at his trade as a journeyman, at Albany, N. Y., in the fall of the same year; in the spring of 1866 he came to Milwaukee, and was partner of Mr. Victor Buxor for one year in the file works, after which he sold out and came to Fond du Lac and established a small shop, which, in 1870 he enlarged, employed five men, and cut from six to eight dozen per day ; capital stock, $3,000. He married Miss Eliza M. Wills, of Troy, N. Y., in 1860; they have eight chil- dren, as follows : Nicholas, Mary, now Mrs. Giegengack, of Oakfield Township, Cathorine, Henry, Charles, Millie, Lena and Louis. Mr. S. has been a Mason since 1869 ; member of I. O. O. F. since 1870. Mr. Scherer has residence in city valued at $1,200.

S. W. SCHERMERHORN, carriage painter for Perkins & Clement ; was born in 1854 in Napanee, Ontario, Canada ; he began the painter's trade with Grand Hamilton, of that place, in 1869, and continued there for about three years, whence he went to Dresden, Canada, where he continued his trade for about eighteen months ; he next went to Jackson, Mich., for one year, thence to Grand Rapids, Mich., for two years; in 1873 he came to Fond du Lac ; in 1878 he established a shop for himself, but disposed of that in about a year's time and became painter in the carriage-shops for Perkins & Clement. In 1876 he was married to Miss Hattie Kelley, daughter of John Kelley, a farmer of the Province of Ontario ; they have one child, Zellah. Mr. S. and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

G. SCHERZINGER. watchmaker and jeweler, was born in Badeo, Germany, Oct. 27, 1832, and came to New Orleans in 1851 ; he remained there but a few weeks, going thence for short periods to Louisville, Cincinnati and New York, wbence he came to Fond du Lac in May, 1855, and engaged in his present business, which he has followed ever since. He was married at Fond du Lac, Nov. 18. 1857, to Katie Hless, a native of Prussia, who died Jan. 29, 1872; she was the mother of five children-Louis, Carl, Frances, Katie and Henry. Mr. S. was married a second time, July 17, 1877, to Gertrude Schumer. a native of Prussia, by whom he has had one child, Hermann. Mr. and Mrs. S. are members of the Ger- man Catholic Church.

JOHN J. SCHEUBER, M. D., is a native of Underwalden, Switzerland, where he was born in 1842; received his early education under the monks of Engleberg, Switzerland, being placed in their care at the age of 9, and remaining there six years, after which he spent two years in the study of natural philosophy and physics, at Feldkirch, Austria ; in 1859, he began his medical studies at Zurich, where he pursued them for one year ; in 1868 he moved to Berne, Switzerland, where he continued his studies for three years, graduating in 1863; in 1864, he began the practice of medicine with Dr. Weissen, of Wallis, Switzerland ; he returned to Berne, and was assistant physician in the Walden Insane Asylum for one year, whence in 1866, he came to America and settled at Chicago, Ill., where he practiced medicine for about three years ; In 1869 he removed to Joliet, Ill., and continued his practice till 1876, whence he moved to Evanston, Ill., and thence in 1878, to Fond du Lac; has been appointed attending physician of St. Agnes' Convent, by Father Haas, of the Capuchin Order. In 1871, he married Miss Mary Phylomena Blatuer, daughter of Michael Blattner, of Joliet, Ill .; they have three children-Mary, Joseph and 'fhere>a. They are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

SCHIFF BROTHERS & CO., clothiers. Henry Schiff was born in Milwaukee Feb. 10, 1857; Arthur Schiff was born at the same place Sept. 6, 1858; Mrs. Dorris Schiff, their mother, was born in Naumburg, Saxony, Feb. 28, 1838; came to Milwaukee in 1855, and to Fond du Lac in 1859. She was married at Milwaukee May 15, 1856, to Louis Schiff, who came to that place in 1848, and died in Fond du Lac Aug. 20, 1874. The family has been in the clothing business twenty years.

REV. JACOB SCHNELLER, Pastor of the Evangelical Association ; is a native of Can- ton Graubinden, Switzerland, where he was born in IS-41; he came to America with his parents when quite young ; received his early education in the public school at. Troy, Wis., after which, in 186-4, he entered the Freshman Class of the Northwestern College at Plainfield, Ill., where he pursued both his collegiate and theological studies till 1868 ; when leaving college in 1868, he was licensed to preach and immediately entered the ministry, traveling through Sheboygan Co. as minister for two years, after which he was ordained Deacon of the Evangelical Association at Milwaukee ; he was sent to Marquette Co. for two years,

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when, in May, 1874, at Menomonee Falls, Waukesha Co., he was ordained and became Elder in the Asso- ciation, after which he again returned to Marquette Co. for one year, when he was called to the charge at Morrison, Brown Co., Wis., where he was Pastor for three years ; from there, in May, 1878, he was called to the charge of the Evangelical Association at Fond du Lac, where he has since remained. April 17, 1870, he married Miss Anna C. Haas, of Honey Creek, Sauk Co., Wis., by whom he has four children- Anna L., Lydia M., John B. and Frank J.

JACOB SCHOLL. boot and shoe manufacturer and farmer, Secs. 16, 15 and 17 ; is a native of Prussia, where he was born Aug. 20, 1811 ; he is a son of John and Margaret Scholl, and was soon apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade with his father, which he has ever since followed; when about 22 years old he went to Belgium, where he followed his trade for four years ; when his mother died he returned to Prussia, and stayed at home till 28 years of age, when he was married to Miss Gertrude, daughter of Anthon and Mary Handshumaker, June 3, 1839. They set sail for America carly in the spring of 1848, landed at New York April 18, and reached Fond du Lac the 18th of the following month, living in Fond du Lac for three years ; he removed to Waupun for two years, thence to Sun Prairie for five years, after which he returned to Fond dw Lae ; bought a farm of thirty-one acres in Sec. 16, valned at about $75 per acre. They have eleven children -- Mary ( deceased ), Agnes (now Mrs. Pucker, of Fond du Lac), Eliza- beth ( now Mrs. Simon Ferdnand ), Peter, Anton (deceased ), Margaret (now Mrs. F. Steady), Jacob, Jr., of Fond du Lac, Isabella ( now Mrs. Toddele, deceased ), Mathias, Simon and Michael. They are mem- bers of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

JOSEPH SCHUSSLER, proprietor of West Hill Brewery ; was born in Baden June 24, 1819; when 15 years old, he began the cooper's and brewer's trades in his native country, and followed the same there till 1846, when he came to America ; he settled first in Milwaukee, Wis., where he worked at the brewer's trade most of the time till 1850; he then removed to Oshkosh, Wis., where he devoted his attention to the cooper's trade till 1861 ; removing thenee to Fond du Lac, he was employed in Frey's brewery till 1865, when he began again the cooper business, and continued the same till 1872; he then established the West Hill Brewery, of which he has since been proprietor. At Milwaukee, in 1849, he was married to Fannie Newkirch, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt; their children are Emma ( now the wife of Hermin Zinke, and lives in this eity ), Charles ( now married, and lives in this city, also, ), Arthur, Mary, Ida, William, Josephine, Albert and O;to.

JOHN C. H. SCHWARTZ, proprietor of meat-market ; was horn August 16, 1842, in Ger- many; is a son of Peter C. Schwartz, stone and brick mason, who came to America in 1849, and settled in Fond du Lac; at 12 years of age, John began elerking in a grocery store for Carpenter & Pier, continu- ing there for two years; thence to the dry-goods store of Carswell & Dee, till 1860 ; thenee to Loughlin & Carey's dry-goods store for two years; in 1862, he became proprietor of' a meat-market ; he soon disposed of his market and began traveling for a dry-goods house ; he was next with the dry-goods' house of C. J. Pettibone, where he had charge of the retail silk stock and the wholesale trade up-stairs for about three years ; he was traveling agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company for one year ; then, for one year, with Carswell & Mason, dry-goods merchants; then, for three or four years, was proprietor of a meat- market again ; sold out that and kept hotel at Iloricon for a short time; then went into the livery busi- ness at Fond du Lac ; after spending three years at this, he went into the real estate business for two and a half years; in June, 1879, he began keeping a meat-market again. He married Miss Ada Carpenter, daughter of Nunn Carpenter, carpenter and joiner, of Sheboygan, Wis., Dec. 16, 1863; they have two sons -- Edwin Il. an dFrank D. E.

ANTONY SERVATIUS, butcher; was born in Prussia Oct. 4, 1838, and came to Miehi- gan in 1840, where he lived until coming to Fond du Lac in the fall of 1849; he was engaged as a dry- goods clerk from 1855 to 1862, then two years in the boot and shoe business, then two years as a grocer, after which he contracted for laying stone and Nicolson pavement, paving Main street from Division to Fifth, in 1870 ; in 1872, he began the business of butchering and keeping a meat market, which he now follows. Mr. S. was married. in Racine, Oct. 29, 1861, to Mary Haas, by whom he has had six children -- Celia, Leo, Helen, Johanna, Antoinette and Amelia. He is a member of St. Joseph's Benevolent Society ; has been Alderman, President of the City Council, and Chairman of the Fourth Ward, in which he resides.

CHRISTIAN SERWE, proprietor of the Serwe House; is a native of Prussia, and was born in 1826; emigrated to America and settled at Fond du Lac in 1846, being now one of the oldest German settlers here; he followed laboring for about four years after his first settlement; in 1850, he secured a position as clerk in Sewell Bros.' dry goods store, where he remained nearly two years, changing then to Mr. Laughlin's dry-goods store, with which he was connected till 1861, when he returned to

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Sewell Bros .; in December, 1863, he purchased the Serwe House, and has since been its proprietor. In 1853, he married Miss Mary F. Baurzeois, daughter of John Baurgeois, of Prussia ; they have had eleven children, as follows: Mary ( deceased), Mathias, Joseph, Rosa, Elizabeth, Albert, John, Isabella, Frank (deceased ), Phillip L. and Julia P. Mr. S. and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Mr. S. has been, at various times, a member of the City Council ; has also been Assessor and County Purchas- ing Agent.

JOSEPH SERWE. salesman in Mr. Whittelsey's dry-goods store; was born in Prussia in 1832; lived there ou a farm till 1846, when, with parents, he came to America and settled in Fond du Lac Co., at Calumet, where he lived about five years; he then returned to Fond du Lac and was employed as clerk by Hall & Hoskins, dry-goods merchants, till 1855, at which time he became a partner of Mr. Hoskins, in the firm of Hoskins & Serwe; in 1860, they took in a brother of Mr. Serwe, and the firm continued as Hoskins, Serwe & Bro. till 1862, at which time he sold out his interest in the dry-goods business and became clerk for Messrs. Carswell & Dee, dry-goods merchants; in 1866, he went into the post office as clerk for Gen. Bragg ; he next kept a grocery store on Main street for a short time, but soon sohl that and became salesmau for Messrs. Sharp & Whittelsey, dry-goods merchants. In 1859, he mar- ried Miss Crescentia Klotz, daughter of Igatius Klotz, of the town of Eden, Fond du Lac, Wis; they have eight children-Hannah, Katie, Elizabeth M., Josephine, Francis A., Theresa, I. J. and Rudolph. All the family are members of' St. Mary's Catholic Church.

G. F. SEXMITH, of the firm of Sexmith & Sons, proprietors of saw-mill and lumber-yard ; also partner with his brother, L. Sexmith, in a stoek farm of 186+ acres, three miles southeast of the city, where they make a specialty of raising short-horn cattle and Norman horses. Mr. Sexwith was born in the city of Fond du Lac in 1849 ; received his early education at the public schools of this city; after which, he graduated at the Commercial College at Milwaukee in 1868; became a partner with his father and brother in the saw-mill in August 1879; in 1875, he bought a farm of 187 acres in Dodge Co; soon after which, he sold a one-half' interest in it to his brother Lamar ; in June, 1878, they traded the farm in Dudge Co. for the one above described ; they are now erecting a large stock barn, 80x56 feet, with an 11-foot basement, affording stable room for 125 head of stock. In 1872, he married Miss Georgia Hunter, daughter of George Hunter, of Fond du Lac; they have one daughter-Hattie C. Mr. Sexmith is a member of the Methodist Church ; his wife-is a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. S. has been a member of the Temple of Honor since 1876.

LAMAR SEXMITH. brother and partner of G. F. Sexmith, whose biography is above ; was born in the city of Fond du Lac; was educated in the public schools of the city ; became a partner in the saw-mill with his father and brother in Angust, 1879; became a partner in the farm with his brother in 1875 as stated in his brother's biography. Married Miss Eleanor Stowell, of Charles City, Iowa, Oct. 29, 1877 ; they have one daughter-Eleanor Stella. They are members of the Methodist Church.

G. W. SEXMITH, lumberman ; was born in Montgomery Co., N. Y., Aug. 11, 1813, and was married in Delaware Co .. of that State, Dee. 31, 1835, to Elizabeth Davis; they have had six children, of whom three, George Frederick, Lamar and Stella Maria (now Mrs. W. H. Crosby, of Oconto, Wis.), are living. Mr. Sexmith came to Alto, Fond du Lac Co., in 1845, and engaged in farming ; in December. 1851, he moved to Fond du Lac and engaged in the lumber business, which he has followed ever since ; while in Alto, he was elected the first Justice of the Peace, and the first town clerk ; was Justice of the Peace in Fond du Lac in 1852 and 1853, and an Alderman two terms; in addition to the lumbering busi- ness, Mr. Sexmith has been in the grocery trade nearly half the time since coming to Fond du Lac ; he has operated his present mill twenty-five years, giving employment now to fifty men ; he has been one of the Harbor Directors since the existence of that organization. Mr. Sexmith has been connected with the M. E. Church fifty years, and is now a member of the Division Street M. E. Church ; he traveled several years on the circuit as a preacher. The firm name in the lumbering business now is G. W. Sexmith & Son.

LEMUEL SHANNON, carpenter and joiner ; is a native of Hamilton, Canada, born in 1817 ; learned the cabinet-maker's trade, which he followed there till 1849; thence he came to Wisconsin, and settled in Fond du Lac; here he turned his attention to the carpenter and joiner's trade, which he has since followed. In 1843, he married Miss Euphema Price, daughter of William Price, of Hamilton, Canada; they have had four children-Mary (now Mrs. M. S. Fay, of St. Paul, Minn , now deceased ), Anna (now Mrs. H. J. Thompson, of Greenwood, Wis. ), John, of Fond du Lac, and Frankie. The family attend the Congregational Church.

AUGUST E. SHAPE, manager of the North-Western Telegraph Office, at Fond du Lac ; was born in Prussia Nov. 5, 1844 ; came to New York City in 1856, where he resided four years ; moved

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to Milwaukee then, which was his home in 1874, when he removed to Fond du Lac; Mr. Shape has fol- lowed the telegraph business thirteen years. He was married, in Milwaukee. Dec. 26, 1970, to Elizabeth Spoerl, a native of that city ; they have one child living-Louis A., born Feb. 6, 1873, and have lost two sons in infancy. He enlisted in the fall of 1862, in Co. B. 26th W. V. I .; served two years and ten months, in all the battles in which his regiment participated.

HENRY SHATTUCK, proprietor of the American House; was born Feb. 9, 1829, at Bakersfield, Vt .; his parents, Josiah and Susan Boutell Shattuck, were natives of Townsend, in that State ; the former died in 1858, at the age of 78, and the latter in 1877, aged 86; Mr. Shattuck remained at home on the farm until reaching his majority ; went then to Saxton's River, and worked three years in a woolen factory ; then to the Island House at Bellows Falls, for one year ; six months at Massasoit House, Springfield, Mas> .; Boston for three and one-half years, in the hotel business, being the proprietor of the Lowell House the last six months ; came to Fond du Lac in May, 1857, and opened the Exchange Ilotel, which he ran until Jan. 1, 1861, when he rented the old Globe Hotel, changing the name and rebuilding the house, and purchasing the property three years later. [See Hotels, city of Fond du Lac.] Mr. Shat- tuck was married at Boston, May 4, 1857, to Anna S. Britt, born at Boston June 21, 1835; they have five children-William Heury, born March 22, 1858; Ida A., born July 30, 1860; Henrietta, born Feb. 28, 1863; Nellie M., born Sept. 1, 1866, and Jennie L. B., born April 4, 1868. The family are mem- bers of the Congregational Church ; Mr. Shattuck is a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor lodges ; was Alderman, Supervisor, and for one term President of the Plank Road Company.

ISAAC S. SHERWOOD was born in the town of Milo, Yates Co., N. Y., Sept. 7. 1816; educated at Genesce, Wesleyan Seminary, of Lima, N. Y .; removed to Illinois in 1840; to Racire, Wis., in 1842 ; to Jefferson in 1848, and, in 1852, to Fond du Lac, where he resided eighteen years engaged in the hardware and iron trade. In Fond du Lac Mr. S. was Mayor, Alderman, member of the School Board and of the first fire company ever organized in the city ; he is now a resident of Benton Harbor, Mich .. engaged in fruit-raising. He was married at Fond du Lac, June 24, 1861, by Rev. George B. Eastman, to Cecelia Isabella Adamson : they have five children-Alfred C., born March 30, 1862; Lettie Belle, born Jan. 27, 1864; Mary Louise, born Nov. 15. 1865; Je-sie, born Nov. 13, 1869, and Grace, born Dec. 11, 1871. Mr. S. first came to Fond du Lac through the " nud- blockade," and his account of it was highly entertaining. His first move was to buy the lot where Baker's bank stands for $400, selling next day for $600 ; " Soliloquize," he writes, " Eureka !" His letter to the Western Ilistorical Co. is closed thus eloquently : " Let my residence be in any part of the United States, the Fountain City is my home ; and when my pilgrimage on earth is done, I hope to rest side by side with those who have gone before, on the beautiful brow of Rienzi."

ALONZO L. SIMMONS, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Fond du Lac; is a son of Reuben and Louisa Simmons, early pioneers of' Fond du Lac Co .; he was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., Oct. 8, 1819. and early learned the carpenter and joiner's trade with his father. In 1838, he ( with his father ) came to Green Bay, Wis., where they continued the trade for about eighteen months; his father then returned to New York for the family, and with them reached Green Bay late in the year 1839; in the following year ( 1840), they came to Fond du Lac Co., where they built the first and second frame dwellings erected in the county ; they continued the trade a short time, and then devoted their time to farming. The subject of our sketch with his brother, Marcellus, soon owned what is now known as the James Wright farm, on the Ledge, south- east of the city, but soon disposed of it, and bought another in the town of Byron, where they lived for a number of years ; Alonzo then sold his interest in the town of Byron, and purchased a farm of 135 acres in the town of Friendship. In 1865, he disposed of his larm and engaged in the grocery trade in the city of Fond du Lac for a short time ; he then bought a farm of eighty. two acres in Section 7, town of Fond du Lac, where he has since followed farming. May 22, 1854, he married Miss Mary, daughter of George and Mary Swiuton, of the town of Byron, she being a native of Scotland ; they have had four children, namely. Marcellus, Minnie ( deceased ), William ( deceased ), and George.

AMASA P. SIMMONS was born at Whitestown, Oneida Co., N. Y., Dec. 9, 1826, in which county he re-ided until July, 1837, when he came to Green Bay, Wis., with his parents, and. in 1838, to Fond du Lac Co., which has since been his home; Mr. S. was engaged in farming exclusively until 25 years of age, when he began traveling for a wholesale crockery house, continuing in that business until 1877, except from 1860 to 1863, when he was in the mercantile business with his brother E. M., and from 1872 to 1875, when he was in the same line with W. W. Clark. He has been Town Assessor two terms, a member of the School Board fourteen years in succession, and, Aug. 16, 1879, began his

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duties as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue; when a youth, Mr. S. went with his father on trips for pro- visions, and other excursions, and thus learned to speak the Indian language fluently, which was a great help to his father. Ile was married in the town of Fond du Lic, Oct. 18, 1848, to Elizabeth L Sander- son, born in Oneida Co., N. Y .; they have had three children-Clara ( who died when 9 years old ), Willet James ( who died when 5 years of age ); their surviving daughter is Madgie May, was born Aug. 14, 1868. Louisa, mother of A. P. Simmons, who will be 85 Oct. IS, 1880, resides at his house, and is in remark- ably good health. A. P.'s brother, Enos Marcellus, born in Oneida Co., N. Y., resided in Fond du Lac nutil 1879, when he removed to Marcellon, Columbia Co., Wis; he has three sons. Alonzo Lee, another brother, born at the same place, resides on Sec. 7, town of Fond du Lac; he has three sons and has lost three. William Leroy, another brother, died in Fond du Lac about 1850, aged about 244 years. Eliza Ann, now Mrs. James B. Clock, of . Mankato, Minn., his only sister, born also in Oncida Co., resided in Fond du Lac Co. until three years ago; she has one son and two daughters, and has lost one daughter.

M. W. SIMMONS, capitalist; was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., Aug. 24, 1825; came from there to Fond du Lac Co. in 1846. locating in the town of Springvale, on Sec. 23, where he lived five years ; moved then to the town of Wanpun, where he lived three years; came to Fond du Lne Jan. 1, 1865, where he has since resided ; Mr. M. was Clerk of the Circuit Court one term, from January, 1865; County Poor Commissioner from IS69 to 1873 inelusive ; member of the Board of Supervisors; Treas- urer of Springvale ; Clerk of Waupun; Alderman of Third Ward, and Deputy United States Marshal since 1878. He was married at ilillsdale, Mich., to Lucy B. Sizeer, a native of Oneida Co., N. Y., Sept. 30, 1851 ; they have four children-Milton T. ( cashier of Wells' Bank , Wilton B. (chief clerk at J. C. Whittelsey's), Stella M. and Lucy B. His business is that of capitalist and settling bankrupt estates; he is a Mason-a member of the lodge at Fond du Lac. His mother-in law, Lucy B. Sizer, aged 90, resides with Mr. Simmons.

JOHN L. SITTLER, of the firm of Sittler & Wilke, eigar manufacturers ; was born in New York City in 1852; moved to Sheboygan Falls with his parents when 4 years old; clerked in drug store from his 13th to 18th year of age, when he began the cigar trade, which he has followed since that time ; in January, 1873, he came to Fond du Lac and began to work for Bush Bros .; from 1874 to 1876, he was at Branden and Waupun ; in 1876, returned to Fond du Lac and began the cigar manufacture alone, which he continued till October, 1878, when Mr. Wilke became his partner. Oet. 15, 1878, he married Miss Emma MI. Hoppe, of Fond du Lie ; she is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

CHARLES D. SMITH, attorney; was born in the town of Macomb, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Nov. 16. 1849 ; in 1851, came with his parents to Taycheedah, and. in 1866, came to Fond du Lac ; Mr. S. was educated in the public schools and at a private school; began studying law in November, 1869, with J. M. Gillet and C. K. Pier ; was admitted to the bar Feb. 11, 1876, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession ; Mr. Smith left lumbering and acquired his legal and other knowledge with- out aid or encouragement, supporting himself as best he could while at, his studies.

GEORGE H. SOUTHARD. painter; was born at Cuddebackville, Orange Co., N. Y., June 3. 1849; came to Wisconsin Jan. 8, 1×66; learned the painter's tra le, which he has since followed ; the same year, and during the past eight years, has been engaged with the Wheel and Seeder Co., and McDonald Manufacturing Co. Mr. Southard is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and I. O. O. F. lodges.

JOHN SPENCE, manufacturer ; was born at Tyrone, Ireland ; came to Ohio in 1858, where he enlisted May, 1861, in Co. B, 26th Ohio V. I., called " Fullerton Riff s" -- the first three years men offered in that State ; he served three years as private, Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Lieutenant and Adjutant, resigning on account of ill health in April, 1864. He then went to Europe two years to recuperate, returning and locating at Fond du Lac in 1866, where he engaged in the crockery business until 1874; after that he engaged in baning money, but is now Secretary and Treasurer of the Me Donald Mannfact- uring Co., builders of the " Pride of the West " thrashers. Mr. Spence has been City Treasurer, Aller- man and Supervisor.

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The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 132

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