The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 140

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Publication date: 1880
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MATHEW MILLER, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Ripon ; was born in Allegany Co., N. Y., Sept. 15, 1829 ; he came to the State of Wisconsin in the fall of 1849, and first settled in what is now Wan- shara Co .; his parents, John and Sarah, afterward joined him and remained there six years. In 1855, Mr. Miller came to this county and settled upon his present farm of fifty-five acres. His parents afterward came from Waushara Co. to this township, where his father died in 1862, his mother now living with him. Mr. Miller married, Oct. 18, 1857, Miss Roseville Wightman, daughter of Ezra and Ruby Wightman, of Rutland Co., Vt .; her l'ather came to the State of Wisconsin in 1855 and settled in Ripon Township, and, after the death of her mother, which occurred in February, 186S, came to live with Mr. Miller ; he is now 81 years of age. Mrs. Miller was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., May 8, 1837 ; they had four children, three living-George, born May 17, 1864; Ezra, Aug. 31, 1871, and Ruby, Oct. 29, 1876, and one deceased-Ella, born Nov. 14, 1858, died Oct. 29, 1865. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Miller is a Republican in politics.

G. W. MITCHELL, born in St. Albans, Vt .; came to MeHlenry Co., Ill., in September, 1841, and to Portage Co., Wisconsin Territory, in March, 1843. Held the office of Sheriff of said county during 1847 and 18.18, and immediately thereafter the office of Clerk of Circuit Court, Register of Deeds, and Clerk of the Board .of Supervisors of same county. Was engaged in merchandising until 1854, in connection with the lumber business ; moved to Ripon in the summer of 1855. Was Sheriff of Fond du Lae Co. during 1857 and 1858, and was Senator from the 20th Senatorial District (then com- posed of Fond du Lac Co. ) during 1862 and 1863. Retained more or less of his lumber interest in the pinery during his residence in Ripon, and moved to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1865 ; engaged in lumber busi- ness in connection with his pinery interest ; moved to Milwaukee in the fall of 1875, where he now resides and is still engaged in lumbering, under firm name of G. W. Mitchell & Son, at Stevens Point, Wis. Was married to Lucy Pearson, at Beloit, Oct. 24, 1848; Mrs. M. was a native of Shelburne, Vt .; have two children, a son and daughter-George S., now of Stevens Point, and Alice M., now the wife of C. E. Lyman, for a long time a resident of Ripon, and at present time of this city.

J. B. MOREY. Metomen street, is a native of Rensselaer Co., N. Y .; was born in the town of Nassau Feb. 28, 1827. He married in his native county, Nov. 16, 1848, Mary C. Coon, also a native of Rensselaer Co. In 1854, they came to Wisconsin ; located on a farm in the town of Metomen, Fond du Lac Co., where they remained about two years, at the expiration of which time they moved to the town of Ripon, residing on a farm until 1865, when they moved to the city of Ripon, where they have resided since. They have one daughter-Miss Lena A .; Mr. Morey and family attend the M. E. Church ; he is a Republican in politics. Owns 188 acres of land adjoining the city of Ripon, 160 acres in Green Lake Co., Wis., and forty acres in Wood Co .; he was for a number of years dealer in agricultural implements in Ripon, and did an extensive business in that line ; has lately retired from active life and now is engaged in no business except in overseeing the management of his farms, which requires most of his tine.

EZRA LATHROP NORTHRUP, capitalist, was born at Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y., March 30, 1818; when a child was removed to Geneseo, N. Y .; at his majority began the clothing business for himself' and running a woolen-mill in Orleans Co., N. Y., which he continued five years ; removed to a farm near Logansport, Ind., in 1844; came from there to Ripon in November, 1849, pur- chasing a stock of goods at Milwaukee, with which he opened the first store in Ripon Jan. 1, 1850 ; was the first Postmaster of Ripon, receiving his commission March 30, 1850; with Brockway & Dellinger. ran Ceresco Mills one year from the fall of 1850; in the spring of 1851, began trading produce for logs near Wausau, mostly on Trap River ; purchased a saw-mill the next year and ran it until about 1855 ; pur- chased 320 acres of land within the city limits in 1854, one eighty at government price, one at $2.50 per acre, one at $5. and one at $20 per acre, and, in 1864, sold it for $50 per acre; Mr. N. was one of the incorporators of Ripon College, with which he was connected until 1858; was a member of the county Board in 1876 and 1878. He was married first at Ripon to Emily B. Brockway, who died, leaving one chill-Leland Lewis, and to his present wife, Catherine L. Brockway, in June, 1868; she was born in Monroe Co., N. Y.

WILLIAM PALMITER, eclectic and clairvoyant physician, Sec. 24; P. O. Ripon ; was born in the town of Verona, Oneida Co., N. Y., Jan. 29, 1823; he came to Wisconsin in 1843, and first settled at Pipersville, near Watertown, Jefferson Co .; engaged in his trade of carpenter for six years, then moved into the village of Watertown, where he built and was proprietor of the Boston Hotel for two years; in 1851, he went to California, engaged in mining for nineteen months, then returned to Water- town, and, having exchanged his hotel for a farm in the town of Omro, Winnebago Co., Wis., moved his family on it and resided there for two years; in 1855, he came to Fond du Lac Co., and settled in Ripon Township, on his present farm of 240 acres ; since his coming here he studied medicine, and for twenty

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years has practiced in this county. He married Miss Harriet M. Piper, Dec. 31, 1848; she was born in Erie Co., N. Y., Dec. 13, 1831 ; her parents, Benjamin and Sarah Piper, came from Eric Co., N. Y., to Mi waukee in the year 1936, there being at that time only six white families in that place; in 1837, they went to Jefferson Co., Wis., Pipersville in thit county being named after her father; in 1853, they moved to Dane Co., Wis., and purchased a section of land within two, and one-half miles of Madison ; there her father died April 4, 1876, at the age of 90 years 4 days; Mr. and Mrs. Palmiter were blessed with four children ; only one survives, viz., Ida M., born April 29, 1859, and married to Lewis Kellogg, of Ripon Township, Jan. 28, 1880; of the three children deceased, only one was named, viz., Leo. W.

DANIEL B. PARKHURST was born at Stockbridge, Windsor Co., Vt., in 1823 ; came from Rutland Co., Vt., to Berlin, Wis., in 1854; Mr. P. was a bookkeeper eight years in Berlin ; agent of the Star Union Line four years at St. Paul ; clerk of the Wisconsin State's Prison at Waupun eighteen months, and has been agent for the C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co. for four and one-half years ; while a resi- dent of Berlin, he was City Treasurer four years ; served three years as one of the first School Commis- sioners under the existing school system of that city, and was Alderman one term ; in 1878, he was elected Alderman of the Second Ward of the city of Ripon. Mr. Parkhurst was married at Leicester, Vt., in 1851, to Cynthia Capron, a native of that place ; they have three children-Alice, now Mrs. A. J. Farr, of' Columbus, Wis., George A. and Harry E .; they have lost two children-Lottie C., died at the age of 5! years, and Charles R. was three years old at the time of his death.

S. R. PATTEN, dentist; was born at Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1847 ; lived three and one- half years in Massachusetts ; came to Shields, Marquette Co., Wis, in 1859, where he resided until 21 years of age, and came to Ripon in 1875; Dr. Patten has practiced dentistry eight years. lle was mar- ried at Marquette, Green Lake Co., Wis., Nov. 11, ISGS, to Estelle E. Halleck, born in Marquette ; they have three children-Elmer Eugene, Alvin Edward and Folra A. Mr. and Mrs. P. are members of the Congregational Church, and Mr. Patten is also a member of the Knights of Honor.

JOHN PEARSON, farmer; P. O. Ripon ; was born in Yorkshire, England Dec. 19, 1839 ; when he was 4 years of age, his parents, Lealious and Harriet Pearson, moved to the State of Wisconsin, and settled in Fountain Prairie Township, Columbia Co., where his father died September, 1876 ; after his death, his mother moved to Kansas City, where she now resi les. The subject of this sketch, in 1860, went to Colorado, and engaged in mining for three years, then to Montani Territory, where he was engaged in the business of freighting, merchandising and stock for six years; from 1869, he was associa- ted with his brother, Mitchell Pearson, in driving stock from Texas an I Nevada, and disposing of the sime up to the year 1877, when he returned to Kansas City ; in 1878, he came to his present farm in the limits of the city of Ripon. He married Miss E iz Field, Aug. 11, 1872; she was born in Columbia Co., Wis., Jan. 17 1851; her parents, William E. and Jos phin. M., moved to Fountain Prairie, Colum- bia Co., Wis., where they still reside ; her father was a native of New York State ; her mother of Michi- gan. Mr. Pearson is blessed with three children-John M., boru May 18, 1874; Mary J., born June 29, 1876. and George C .. born May 19. 1879.

CYRUS PEDRICK, marble cutter ; was born at North Salem, Westchester Co., N. Y., Dec. 31, 1831 : came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1345, and to Ripon in the early spring of 1849; he began the marble business in the fall of 1860, and sold out Oct. 8, 1866; during fifteen years before and after this, Mr. P. was engaged in building, and during ten years, from the fall of 1867 to Nov., 1878, was in Milwaukee and Michigan. Ile was Alderman in Ripon one term ; he now represents Flint Bros., marble manufacturers of Rutland, Vt.

MARCELLUS PEDRICK was born in North Salem, Westchester Co., N. Y., Dec. 23, 1829; came to Taycheedah, Wis., in 1848; to Ripon curly in 1849 ; built a hone and dated it, moving in April 9, 1849 ; this house was for the Pedrick family, was 12x24 feet, and the first one built in Ripon ; Mr. P.'s father, Samuel Pedri .k, died in September, 1850, the second death in Ripon ; Marcellus Pedrick began mason work as soon as he arrived in Ripon, putting the foundation under Capt. Mapes' mill, Tag- garts Bros.' store and the Ripon House; he continued mason work fifteen years, putting up most of the buildings in Ripon during that time ; then engaged in the lumber, wheat, wool and pro luce business ; built an elevator, which he still owns; built Opera HIall in 1869; began lumbering on a larger scale in 1870, building a mill at Fairchild, Ean Claire Co., Wis. Mr. P.'s mother lives in Ripon with her daugh- ter, Mrs. Baldwin. He was married at Fall River, Columbia Co., Wis., Feb. 10, 1357, to Mary A. Smith, born in Yates Co., N. Y .. whose parents were carly settlers in Columbia Co., Wis .; they have two children-Edward S. and Simuel M.

JOHN PERRINE, residence corner of Fond du Lac and Huston streets; was born in Mont- gomery Co., N. Y., in 1804; has been twice married, first wife was Sarah Degoff, second wife, Deborah

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Puntup, both are deceased ; his children now living are Enoch, now of Ottawa Co., Mich. ; Sarah J., wife of John Martin, this city ; Mary A., wife of David Beebe, Neb., he served in a New York regiment during the war of the rebellion ; Harriet wife of W. R Beebe, he was also a soldier in a New York reg- iment during the war of the rebellion ; Margaret ant Henrietta ; one son, Joseph, in the 111th N. Y. V. 1., was captured in battle by the rebels and died in Libby prison ; Mr. Perrine came to Ripon in 1866, and has made it his home ; he owns eighty acres of land an I city property. Is a Republican in politics.

JOHN F. PETERSON, cutter to J. E. Brown, merchant tailor; was born at Flahult, Breured, Sweden, Aug. 1, 1838; came to Moline, Ill., in 1863; six months later moved to Galesburg ; one year later to Altona; two years later to Chicago ; one year afterward to Galva, Ill. ; six months after- ward to New Boston, Ill .; one year later, to Keithsburg, Ill. ; another year later to Ripon, where he worked one year for J. E. Brown ; then moved to Appleton, whence in February, 1879, he removed to Ripon. Mr. P. was married at Gale-burg, Ill., Aug. 14, 1870, to Charlotte U. Tarsander, born in Elg- hult, Sweden, in 1849; they have three children-John Albert, born March 18, 1872; Ilelena, born March 28, 1874, and Lottie, born March 27, 1878.

A. W. PETTIBONE was born at Fremont, Erie Co., Ohio, March 14, 1835; removed to Portage, Wis., in 1850; spent two years in California and British America; returned to Lodi, Wis .; came from there to Ripon in 1865, and built the Pettibone Block, in which he carried on the dry-goods business; in 1872, he erected a block of two stores; in 1880 he removed his business to Leadville, Colo. Mr. P. was first married to Lucy B. Peabody, at Cambria, Wis., who died May 22, 1873, leaving four children-Fred. C., Wm. R., Alice F. and Louis A. ; he married again, July 1, 1876, to Flora J , daugh- ter of II. W. Wolcott, who was born in Rosendale, this county ; they have one child-Jessie; Mr. P. is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and I. O. O. F.

DR. CHARLES E. PHELPS was born at Bergen, Genesee Co., N. Y., April 28, 1827; at the age of 19, came with his parents to Oak Grove, Dodge Co., Wis .; two years Liter, went to Berlin, Wis .; in 1851, went to California ; two years later, removed to Genesce Co., N. Y., whence, the next year, he returned to Wisconsin, which has since beeu his home, except during three years spent in Minnesota. Since 1875, Dr. Phelps has resided at Ripon. He was married at Ripon in May, 1878, to lda, daughter of R. D. Mason, born at Ceresco. Dr. Phelps' father, Abner Phelps, a Major of artillery and a veteran of the war of 1812, now resides at Waupun, and is in his 90th year.

M. M. PINKERTON, farmer, See. 26; P. O. Ripon ; was born in Inndaff, N. Il., Dec. 9, 1815; when he was 2 years of age, his parents, David and Susanna Pinkerton, moved to Boscawen, N. H., where they both died. The subject of this sketch came to the West when he was 21 years of age, and settled at La Porte, Ind., for three years; then returned to New Hampshire, and, in 1856, came to Wisconsin and settled in Waupno Township, Fond du Lac Co., ou a farm of 280 acres; in 1876, he came to Ripon Township, where he now resides on a farm of 160 acres. He has been married twice ; his first wife was Miss Jane Clarke ( daughter of Samuel W. and L. Clarke, of Portland, Me.) ; they were married Feb. 15, 1812; she died Sept. 15, 1846, leaving two sons-Myron W., born July 18, 1813 and Samuel C., born Jan. 2, 1816. His second wife was Miss Sarah Noyes ( daughter of Jeremiah and Martha Noiyes, of Boscawen, N. II., both of whom are deal); they were married Nov. 20, 1847 ; she was born in Bos- cawen Sept. 1, 1815 ; they had four children, three liviog-Charles W., born Sept. 12, 184S, and married Miss Emma Riley, now living in Gilman, Iowa; Ella M., born May 27. 1852, and George E., born Se; t. 13, 1856, and one deceased ; Enoch, born Dec. 10, 1850, and died June 17, 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Pink- erton are members of the Congregational Church.

B. P. POTTER, farmer, S.c. 3; P. O Ripon ; was born in Schoharic Co., N. Y., March 7, 1824; his mother died when he was an infant, and his father in 1834; he learned the trade of shoemak- ing with his uncle in Schoharie Co., but worked very little at his trade, having turned his attention to firming pursuits ; he came to the State of Wisconsin in 1854, and first located in the town of Summit, then Milwaukee Co., engaged in farming ; in 1856, he moved to this county, and settle I upon his pres- ent farm of 100 acres. He married Miss Deborah Batcheller (daughter of David and Deborah Batcheller, of Schoharie Co., N. Y. ), Oct. 4, 1857 ; they have two children-Mary L., born Sept. 5, 1860, and Frank J., born Jan. 2, 1864. Mr. Potter is a Republican.

A. B. PRATT was born at Skowhegan, Somerset Co., Mc., March 27, 1817 ; came to Ripon June 8, 1856, where he has since reside I and carried on business; the first year after coming to Ripon Mr. Pratt engaged in farming, but has ever since been engaged in the lumber business, dealing in produce, and more lately in coal and Iowa and Mionesota lands also ; he has been Alderman and Supervisor of the First Ward two years ; Clerk of' District No. 2, fifteen years, and was Deputy U. S. Marshal four years during the war. He was married Aug. 19, 1852, in the town of Gray, Me .- his wife's native place-to

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Lydia Aun King ; they have lost three children, and have four living-Gardner C., Lyman A., Charles L. and Meda F. Mr. Potter, who was never ill a day in his life, is a Mason, a member of all the temper- ance organizations, and helped to enforce the Maine liquor law.

GARDNER C. PRATT, lumber dealer; was born at Skowhegan, Me., Aug. 28, 1853; came to Ripon with his parents in 1856; he spent 1875-76 in the lumber business in California, and then became his father's successor in the lumber business at Ripon, which he now carries on.

LYMAN A. PRATT, proprietor of Inmber-yard ; is a native of Maine, born 1855; when 9 months old, with parents. he removed to Ripon, Wis .; they settled first on a farm near the city, but, two years later, his father disposed of that, moved to the city and became engaged in the lumber trade. L. A. was educated in the public schools and college of Ripon; in 1870, he began with his father in the lumber trade, and, in 1876, he went into partnership with his brother, and with him continued the business till June, 1879; he then bought out the firm of Hillman & Yorty, lumber dealers, and has sinee continued the business alone. In 1875, he was married to Miss Fannie, daughter of J. A. and Mary Thomas, of Ripon ; their children are Mattie and Laura. Mrs. Pratt is a member of the Congregational Church.

HON. LEWIS E. REED, attorney ; was born at Stockbridge, Madison Co., N. Y .; came with his parents to Green Lake Prairie, near Ripon, in 1858; came to Ripon, his home since then, in 1866. Judge Reed taught school before studying law, the practice of which he began in Ripon. He served in Co. B. Ist W. V. C., from August, 1861, to August, 1863. He has been Municipal Judge since 1869. His wife was Angeline J. Wolcott, daughter of Henry W. Wolcott ; they have two children, a son and daughter.

FERDINAND REICHMUETH, baker, confectioner and proprietor of ice-cream parlors on Main st .; was born in Saxony in 1832; came to America with his parents in 1846, and located near Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wis., where his father followed farming ; at the age of 14 he entered upon an apprenticeship at the baker's trade in Watertown, Wis., and continued the trade there two years ; he spent the next five years in travel, and, in 1853, established himself in the bakery and confectionery business in Belvidere, Ill., continuing the business there eleven years ; he came to Ripon in 1865, and has since successfully carried on the business of a baker, confectioner and is proprietor of a splendid suit of ice-cream parlors on the cast side of Main st. In 1853, at Watertown, Wis., he was married to Clotilde Graf; they have three sons-Edward, Herman and Charles ; their first child was Caroline, who died in infancy. Mr. R. and family attend the Lutheran Church.

EDMUND L. RUNALS, attorney ; was born at Arcade, N. Y .; studied law but did not practice in that State; canie to Sec. 36, Ripon, in September, 1846 ; afterward lived on Sec. 2, Metomen, until 1852; May 1, 1852, came to Ripon and was elected Justice of the Peace ; in winter of 1853 and spring of 1854, was engaged in surveying and taking subscriptions for the Milwaukee & Horicon Railway ; was admitted to the bar in 1854, and began practicing law, which he has continued since, residing in Ripon ; Mr. Runals has carried on farming, tax certificates and other business in connection with his law practice. He has been Superintendent of Public Schools in Ripon and Metomen ; Assessor of Ripon Township three years; Member of the Assembly in 1857 and 1858-two terms; Municipal Judge, four years ; City Attorney, five years ; Alderman and Supervisor two terms-the last time in 1879. Before coming West Mr. Runals spent four years at Bethany and Strykersville in school. He was married at Livonia, Mich., July, 1847, to Dorliska Avery, born near Java Lake, N. Y .; they have one child-Willie T.

JASEN C. RUSSELL, Metomen street, Ripon ; is a native of Manlius, Onondaga Co., N. Y. ; was born Jan. 4, 1816. He married, in his native county, Julia Balsley, also a native of Manlius, Onondaga Co .; in 1855, they came to Wisconsin, located in the town of Ripon, Fond du Lac Co., ou a farm where they resided until 1864, in which year they moved to the city of Ripon, where they have resided since ; their children are Marian S., wife of Dr. J. H. Callender. Harper Co., Kan. ; Dora C., wife of C. A. Peck, Berlin, Wis .; Louise II., wife of Rev. W. F. Randolph, Munster, Monmouth Co., N. J. ; Miss Carrie P. Mr. Russell and wife are leading members of the M. E. Church, in which he has been Trustee and Steward a number of years. In politics, Mr. R. is a Republican. He takes a deep interest in public affairs, and was always active in the advancement of the religious, educational and other public interests in the city of Ripon.

PETER SCHMIDT, teacher; was born at Kappel, Prussia, June 28, 1855 ; came to America in June, 1873, and, after remaining a short time in Chicago, entered the Amherst Seminary in 1874, from which he graduated April 4, 1877. He then began teaching in Columbia, Monroe Co., IH., where he remained until coming to Ripon in October, 1879. He is the first teacher employed in the German Evangelical Lutheran School.

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LOUIS SCHNEIDER (deceased) was born in Prussia, Germany, Sept. 22, 1827; he learned the trade of a mason, and carried it on in Germany; in 1853, he came to the United States, and came direct to Wisconsin and settled in the city of Ripon, where he was engaged in his trade of mason up to 1861, when he moved upon his farm, on dec. 25, of Ripon Township, containing 106 acres, where he resided up to the day of his death, which occurred Aug. 14, 1879; up to a week before his death, he worked in the masonry of his present residence. He married Miss Wilhemina Shaver April 20, 1850; her parents, Martin and Elizabeth Shaver, came to the United States, and settled in the city of Ripon in 1858; her father after- ward went to Iowa, and died there. Mr. and Mrs. Schneider had ten children, nine living-Amelia A., born May 8, 1852, now Mrs. Hugo Snyder, of Fond du Lac Township; Lewis, May 8, 1858; William, born March 12, 1860; Edward, May 8, 1862; Helen E., March 12, 1864; Bertha J., May 20, 1866; Julius, April 20, 1868 ; Emma, Sept. 18, 1870 ; and Hattie, Oct. 14, 1872, and one deceased-August, born August 18, 1837, died July 3, 1858.

HUGO SCHULTZ, of the firm of Schultz & Bro., dealers in groceries and harness manufact- urers, is a native of Prussia, born in 1847 ; he, with his brother, came to America in 1865, and landed in Baltimore, Md., in September; thence he came direct to Ripon, Wis., where for two years he followed elerking in a grocery store; in 1867, he went to Chicago, Ill., where for four years he clerked in a meat market ; in 1871, he returned to Ripon, and with his brother, F. C., established a grocery and liquor store, of which they have since been proprietors. Ile is a member of the I. O. O. F., and Sons of Hermann.

F. CARL SCHULTZ, brother and partner of Hugo Schultz, above named, was born in Prussia in 1840, immigrated to America and settled in Ripon in 1865, where he has since worked at the harness trade most of the time. In 1871, with his brother, he formed a copartnership in grocery, liquor and harness business.

E. L. SCOFIELD, editor and proprietor of the Ripon Commonwealth, was born in the town of Rosendale, Fond du Lac Co., Nov. 13, 1851 ; he lived with his parents until he was 20 years old, helping to " run the farm " in the summer and attending school during the winter, when he determined to learn the printer's trade, and to that end engaged himself to Oliver Bros., of the Waupun Leader. where he remained for three and one-half years, during which time he gave good satisfaction, and mastered the profession ; in the spring of 1875, he came to Ripon and purchased a half-interest in the Ripon Com- monwealth, and shortly after became sole proprietor. He has greatly improved the paper since becoming the owner.

GEORGE SEATH, farmer, Sec. 18, P. O. Ripon ; was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, Dee. 25, 1807 ; he came to the United States in 1835, and first settled in the city of New York, where he lived for five years, when he moved to Delaware Co., N. Y .; in 1855, he came from there to Wisconsin, and settled in Ripon Township, Fond du Lac Co., on the farm upon which he now resides; he has always been a farmer; his parents, George and Margaret A. Seath, both died in Scotland. He married, Dec. 20, 1833, Miss Jennie Owen (danghter of William and Allison Owen, of Scotland, both of whom died there) ; she was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, Feb. 20, 1812. They had six children, five living, viz. : George, born Oct. 14, 1834-he was twice married, his first wife being Miss Plebe Larrabee, who died, leaving five children, Ira, William, George, Ella A. and Oscar-his second wife was Miss Anna Harrison, and they have two children, Jennie and Pardon T., and are living in Minnesota ; Allison L., born Feb. 22, 1840, married to Miss Mary Sever, and living in Minnesota-they have one child, Clinton, born July 12, 1875 ; Margaret, born May 24, 1843, married to Pardon Tucker, of Fairwater, Wis .- they have two children, Clayton W., born July 1, 1872, and Ardie, Sept. 2, 1875; Elizabeth, born May 8, 1845; James, Sept. 6, 1849, and married to Miss Abbie Welcome, of the city of Ripon; and one deceased, John T., born April 25, 1837, died March 16, 1841.

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The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 140

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