The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 164

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Publication date: 1880
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HENRY M. MUSKAT, proprietor of blacksmith and general repair shop, Calumet Village ; was born in Germany, Jan 13, 1845 ; in 1854, he emigrated with his parents to this county ; they settled in Dane Co., Wis. During the war of the rebellion he enlisted in Co. B, 4th W. V. C .; served three years; was honorably discharged at Madison, Wis. ; in 1866, he came to Fond du Lac Co. In 1868, he married Gertrude, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Manderscheid, of Calumet ; they have three children- Freddie, Lisette and Marianne. Mr. Muskat has been engaged in general blacksmithing in Calumet Vil- lage sinee 1867. In politics, he is a Republican. A portion of the time he was in the service of the Union, he served as Corporal.


JOHN PETH, a leading farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Calumet Harbor ; was born in Switzerland in 1818; he came to America in 1840; lived in Albany, N. Y., until 1843, in which year he came to Wisconsin. He married, in Racine Co., Wis., Mary Conrad; in about 1845, they came to Calumet, where they have since resided ; their children are Mary, now the wife of Edward Stramer, Brothertown, Wis. ; Susan, wife of Theodore Manderscheid, Calumet Village; Katie, wife of Andrew Meisen, and John P. Mr. Peth and family are members of the Lutheran Church ; he is a Democrat in politics ; owns 300 acres of land ; is an enterprising and go-ahead citizen.


ADAM PFAFF, retired farmer, Calumet Harbor; was born in Bavaria, Germany, Jan 19, 1811; he came to this country in 1836; lived in Canaan, Conn , until 1842, in which year he came to this ( Fond du Lac) county, and settled in Calumet July 2, 1844. He married Susan Burg, a native of Rechtenbach, Bavaria ; she was born in January, 1819 ; emigrated to Detroit. Mich., in 1838, thence to this town ( Calumet ) a short time prior to her marriage ; their children are Daniel, who married Amelia Heipsman ; they live in Brothertowu, Calumet Co., Wis. ; Susan, now Mrs. J. Shenborn, Minn .: Jacob, married Appie Jackni, they reside in Calumet Harbor ; Maggie, wife of Theodore Miller, St. Cloud, Wis. Mr. Pfaff and wife are members of the Lutheran Church ; they own 120 acres of land ; he has been elected to various local offices. His father, Jacob Pfaff, was born in Bavaria, Germany ; he married Susan Essectb ; they both died in their native country, Bavaria ; they had six children. two of whom came to this country-Adam and Michael Pfaff. Adam Pfaff. the subject of this sketch, has resided con- tinually in Calumet over thirty-eight years ; himself and wife were among the first couples married in the town of Calumet ; they have triumphantly passed through the hardships of pioneer life, and are now spending their old age in comfort in the town where they have resided so long.


GEORGE REICHART, general blacksmithing, Calumet Harbor; is a native of tier- many ; was born Jan. 2, 1843; in 1849, he emigrated with his parents to this country ; they settled at Addison, Washington Co., Wis., where George was educated; he learned the blacksmithing trade at Hartford, Wis. ; worked for the Government, during the war of the rebellion, as a blacksmith. In 1866. he married, in Fond du Lac City, Wis., Miss Fredrica Ehlers; they have three children-Rose, Anna and Henrietta. He engaged in business in Fond du Lac in 1868, and in 1875, moved to Calumet Harbor, where he has been successfully engaged in the business of blacksmithing since. Politically. he acts with the Democratic party.


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JACOB REIMERS, dealer in general merchandise, Calumet Harbor; was born in the city of Marne, Holstein, Germany, December 31. 1833. He attended the schools in his native city and obtained a proficient education. In 1848, he emigrated to this country with his parents, and settled with them at New Holstein, Calumet Co., Wis, where they remained until the following spring. 1849, when they moved to this town (Calumet) ; in 1870, he engaged in the mercantile business, in Calumet llarbor, and now has a fine, prosperous and constantly increasing trade. He was appointed Postmaster in 1874, a position he still holds ; has been Town Clerk since 1875, has also been elected to various school offices. Nov. 26, 1858, he married in Calumet, Miss Eleanor Funke, a native of Brannsheim, Prussia; they have seven children. viz., Mary, William, Matilda, Mena, Henry, Louise and Hermin. Politically, Mr. Reimers acts with the Democratic party. His father, Nicholas Reimes, was born in Barelt, Holstein, Germany, Nov. 17, 1801 ; he was a soldier for over six years in his native country, serving in the 16th Battery ; he married, Jan. 16, 1833, Miss Kathrine Peters ; she was born June 24, 1806; they came to this country in 1848 and settled at New Holstein, Calumet Co., thus becoming pioneer settlers; they lived in New Holstein until the spring of 1849, when they came to Calumet, where she died June 9, 1876. She was a woman of rare Christian virtues, and one who will be long remembered for her many aets of kindness. He is still living in Calumet, an old and honored citizen ; to him belongs the credit of blazing and cut- ting out the first road from Marytown to New Holstein, Calumet Co .; this he did in 1848 while he was emigrating to that place. That portion of the county wis then heavily timbered, and it took him several days to make the trip and do the necessary clearing to make the way passable. The Reimers family are all members of the Lutheran Church.


CASPER THEURWACHTER, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Calumet IIarbor ; was born in Rechtenbach, Germany, March 11, 1818; in 1835 he emigrated to America ; lived in Detroit, Mich., until 1840, when he came to what is now the town of Calumet, Fond du Lac Co., Wis. Jan. 22, 1846, he married in Calumet, Phillipa Burg, daughter of Martin and Margaret Burg, pioneers of 1840; she was born in Rechtenbach, Germany, Nov. 25, 1820; their children are John, Casper, Jr., Mary ; the oldest of those children, John, married Kathrine Schafer; they reside in Calumet ; the second oldest, Casper, mar- ried Hannah Bloom ; they also reside in Calumet ; the third, Mary, is now the wife of John Bruederle, of Fond du Lac. Mr. Theurwachter owns 300 acres of land; he was elected to various offices in the early history of Calumet. Mr. Theurwachter started in life poor, and well understands the value of self-acquired exper- ience and property in the battle of life ; he has never been without good friends and good health ; his edu- cation was liberal, and though his life has been engrossed with the demands of active industry, he has found time to read and reflect ; he is a man who is at all times ready to advance the interests of his fellow- beings; we find him to-day enjoying good health, and in that prosperity and contentment which those who have devoted a lifetime to industry and integrity have a right to expect.


JOHN THEURWACHTER, retired farmer, Pipe Village ; P. O. Calumet Harbor; was born in the village of Rechtenbach, Bereabern, Bavaria, Feb. 4, 1817 ; he received a liberal education in his native country ; in 1835 he emigrated to Detroit, Mich., thence to Green Bay, Wis., then a small vil- lage ; he lived in Green Bay until 1839, with the exception of a few months when he had returned to Detroit in December, 1839 ; he came to Calumet, Fond du Ine Co., February, 1841. He married in Calu- met, Miss Margaret Burg ; she was also a native of Rechtenbach, Bercabern, Bavaria; born Feb. 4, 1817 ; she emigrated to Detroit, Mich., in 1835, thence to Green Bay, Wis., in 1830, where she remained until a short time prior to her marriage, when she came to Calumet; their children are Charlie, he married Louise Dittmore; Katie; now the wife of Henry Losha; Margaret, wife of Patrick Rouben; John; they are all living in Calumet except Mr. Reuben an I wife, who live in Fond du Lie City. Of the pioneer settlers of Calumet in 1839, and previous to that, Mr. Theurwachter is the only one remaining; of the others, some have been taken to their last, long home, others have moved away. Himself' and wife were the first couple married in Calumet ; the Rev. Gorge White, the first settler of Calumet, performed the marriage ceremony; they have witnessed and endured the trials an I suffering which the pioneer settlers of any coun- try are subject to, and by their honest efforts and industry, succeeded in accumulating a competence, and are now passing their old age in happiness and comfort. They are members of the Lutheran Church; in the early history of the county, Mr. Theurwachter was elected to various local offices, the duties of which he discharged to the general satisfaction of all interested.


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WARREN ANDERSON, farmer; P. O. Eldorado Mills, Wis .; born in Lewis Co., N. Y., May 16, 1827 ; his parents, Harvey and Betsey Anderson, were also natives of York State; in the fall of 1845, he, with his father, in a wagon, started from the town of' Clayton, Jefferson Co., N. Y., for Wiscon- sin, coming by the way of Erie, Penn., Cleveland, Ohio, and Chicago, Ill .; they arrived at the village of Fond du Lac in December of that year ; they came at once to the residence of Mr. Sauburn in the town of Rosendale, where they made their home for a few days; his father entered a quarter-section of land in See. 36, town of Rosendale, and they at once began to build a pioncer shanty thereon ; here, he with his father, kept bach through the winter, and by the spring of 1846 they had twenty-five to thrity acres cleared up ; his father then returned to Jefferson Co., N. Y., for the other members of the family, and with them reached their Western home late in June of that year; ten years later, his father sold that. farm and removed to another on Sec. 32; here his mother died Feb. 23, 1859, and his father on March 28 following, leaving four sons, two of whom are now living-Warren, the subject of our sketch, and Charles, now of the town of Eldorado. June 11, 1851, he was married to Miss Marrietta T., youngest daughter of Phineas and Ruth M. Randall, immigrants from Crawford Co., Peun., in 1848, to the town of Lamartine, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., where her father died in 1850 ; they have had nine children-Susie E .; Warren R., now of Eldorado Mills ; Bertine H .; Nellie B., deceased; Emma B., Josephine B., Effa and Eva (twins), and Jolm G. They attend the Congregational Church. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Masonic Fraternity.


JOHN BRALEY, farmer, Sees. 25 and 36; P. O. Fond du Lac .; son of Silas and Lydia Braley, born in Washington Co., Vt., in 1819; his father was a farmer ( though he worked at the carpen- ter's trade in his younger days) ; John spent his early life on a farm in his native county ; in 1849 he immigrated to Wisconsin and settled on a farm near Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., where he lived sixteen years : in the spring of 1865, he sold that farm and purchased another in Sees. 25 and 36, now consisting of ninety acres, where he has since continued farming, also carries on a small dairy. In 1849, he married Miss Abigail, daughter of Ephraim and Abigail Fuller, of Orange Co., Vt., who died in 1852, leaving three children, as follows-Betsey (now Mrs. Alvin Pierce, of Westboro, Wis.), Silas ( now of Winona, Minn. ), and Alvin, of Winona, Minn .; in April, 1855, he married Miss Lucinda, daughter of Jonathan and Luna McDonald, of Oshkosh, Wis., she being a native of Madison Co., Vt .; they have two children- .J. Willie and Ulysses G.


FAYETTE S. BROWN, (deceased ), was the son of Jonathan and Abigail Brown, born in Washington Co., N. Y., in 1819 ; he was educated in the common schools of his native county, and after- ward followed farming there till 1845. May 11, 1844, he married Miss Chloe, daughter of James and Nancy Eldridge, of Washington Co., and in the following spring immigrated westward to make their home in the then promising Territory of Wisconsin ; they stopped in the city of Milwaukee for one year, and, in 1846, removed to Fond du Lac Co., where he settled on a farm of 120 acres in Sec. 24, town of Lamar- tine ; he continued farming here till 1859, then rented his farm and removed to the city of Fond du Lac, where he was dealing in real estate for nearly two years. He died Oct. 12, 1861. His wife, who survived him nearly eighteen years, returned with the family of five children to the farm in Lamartine, where she died March 12, 1879 ; they had six children-Fayette ( deceased ) ; Byron K., of Wichita, Kan .; Henry F., of Lamartine: Mary E. ( Mrs. H. Priest), of Fond du Lac; George F., of Lamartine ; Nellie A.


REV. JABEZ B. COLE, Pastor of the Lamartine Methodist Episcopal Church. was born in Lincolnshire, England, Feb. 12, 1845 ; he is the son of Rev. Thomas Cole and Elizabeth Brown, and with them, May 4, 1845, set sail from Liverpool for America, and landed in New York City in June folowing ; they came thence to Sheboygan, Wis., where they arrived the Ist day of July ; his father purchased a farm in the town of Green Bush, Sheboygan Co., Wis., where he devoted mnuch of his time to farming, and was local minister of the First M. E. Church of that town ; the subject of this sketch spent the first nineteen years of his life on his father's farm and attending the district school ; he united with the church at the age of 11, and when 19 he entered as a student of the classical course at Lawrence University of Appleton, Wis .; at the end of six years, on account of limited means and ill health, he was forced to leave off his studies at college ; he soon joined the conference and was ordained local Deacon ; in October, 1871, he joined the conference at Milwaukee, and was assigned to the Clinton Circuit ; while there he pursued the course of study prescribed by the canon ; in 1872, he was sent to the Wyocena Circuit in Columbia Co., Wis., for two years. Here, Oct. 13, 1873, he married Miss Cecelia E., daughter of A. A. and Ruth Cole. early


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settlers of Welsh Prairie, Columbia Co .; in October, 1874, he was assigned to Shawano, Shawano Co., Wis., where he remained in charge of the church for three years; in 1877, he took charge of the church at. Markesan, Green Lake Co., and, in 1578, came to the Lamartine charge ; they have three children, as fol- lows-Jessie E., born in 1874 ; Mary R., born in 1876; Charles F., born in April, 1879.


LAWRENCE ENNIS, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Woodhull; is a native of County Wicklow, Ireland ; born April 15, 1831, and is the son of James Ennis and Winford Doyle, with whom he made his home in his native country until 19 years of age. In May, 1850, he emigrated to America, and landed in Quebec, where he followed teaming for five years. April 18, 1855, he married Miss Letetia. daughter of Patrick and Mary Greening. nee Finland, of Canada West, but a native of County Monahan, Ireland ; they then went to St. Louis, Mo., for a few months, thence to Jacksonville, Ill., for a short time, and lastly to Fond du Lac, where they lived fourteen years In the fall of 1868, he bought a farm of eighty-five and one-half acres in Section 8, town of Lamartine, where he has since been a farmer. They hid one son-James, deceased, and are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Fond du Lac.


PHILLIP FABER, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Lamartine ; is a native of Rhine Province; born Sept. 7, 1832, and is the son of John and Mary E. Faber, nee Bard ; he lived with his parents on a farm iu his native country, and with them came to America in 1847 ; they settled first in Washington Co., Wis., and made that their home till 1874 ; he then bought a farm of eighty aeres in Section 33, town of Lamar- tine, where he has since lived and followed farming. In January, 1859, he married Miss Sophia, daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Warner, nee Beck, of Wayne, Washington Co., Wis., but a native of Germany. They have six children-Caroline, Carl, Henry, Elizabeth, Sophia and Hermind. They are members of the Lutheran Church.


NATHANIEL W. FANCHER, farmer, Sec. 22 ; P. O. Lamartine; was born in Wyo- ming Co., N. Y., Oct. 16, 1830; his parents, Elias Fancher and Sally Worden, were natives of Dutchess Co., N. Y., but removed to Wyoming Co. shortly after their marriage. In May, 1847, he with his father and family came to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm of eighty acres in Section 22, town of Lamartine, Fond dn Inne Co., where his parents both died ; his mother Nov. 1, 1859, and his father Oct. 12, 1875 ; ten years after their arrival in Lamartine, he bought a farm of eighty acres in the southwest quarter of Section 22, which he afterward traded for another one, and, after trading three or four times, in 1858. he got his father's homestead, which he has since owned, and where he has since lived. March 12, 1866, he married Miss Mary, daughter of James and Catharine Hendry, nee Greig, early settlers of Lamartine.


JOSEPH FISCHER, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Lamartine ; the subject of this sketch is a son of John and Barbara Fischer, and was born in Baden, Germany, Jan. 3. 1822; at the age of 14, he began t , learn the clock maker's trade in his native place, and followed it there for eight years; in 1844, he went to Dublin, Ireland, and continued his trade for nearly six years; in the fall of 1849, he emigrated to America, and, in 1851, established a jewelry store on Fifth avenue, in New York City, of which he was proprietor till 1855 ; he then came to Fond du Lac Co., Wis., bought 120 acres of land in Section 28, town of Lamartine, returned to New York for his family, disposed of his interest in jewelry stock there, and came again to Lamartine, where he has since been a farmer. In New York City, in 1852. he mar- ried Miss Mary, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Endimiller, who emigrated to New York in 1846. they have six children-Joseph, Jr. (a carpenter and joiner of Lamartine ), Matilda, Mary E., John A .; Adelaide. Emma L. Mr. Fischer is a member of the Catholic Church. and his wife of the Lutheran.


ALBERT FOLTS. farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Lamartine ; born in llerkimer Co., N. Y., Feb. 22, 1841 ; when 4 years of age, he, with his parents, John and Emily Folts, immigrated to Wisconsin, and were among the first settlers of the town of Lomira, Dodge Co., which was their home for a number of years. Oct. 12, 1861, he married Miss Arvella F., daughter of Alexander and Mary A. Sager, nee Auburn, immigrants to the town of Williamstown, Dodge Co., in 1850, but natives of Oneida Co., N. Y .; soon after marriage, they removed to the town of Byron. Fond du Lac Co., which was their home for four years; in 1865, they removed to the town of Oakfield, and, in 1874, he disposed of his interest in Oak- field, and bought a farm of eighty aeres on the west half of the northwest quarter of Sec. 34, which has since been their home ; they have had four children-Clarence J., born June 15, 1868; Rollie L., March 18, 1864 ; two infants deceased. not named. Mrs. Folts is a member of the Baptist Church.


PHILIP GREENING. farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Fond du Lac; is a native of Devonshire, England ; born Feb. 29. 1824; he spent the first fourteen years of his life with his parents, Philip and Frances Greening, on a farm at his birthplace, and then entered upon a three years' apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, which he afterward followed in England for a number of years ; in 1848, he sailed for America, and settled in Upper Canada, where he continued his trade for three years; he next came to Green Bay, Wis., and there followed the same calling for two years; in 1853, he removed to the town of


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Charlestown, Calumet Co., Wis., where he was one of the first settlers; here he purchased a farm, and began the life of a farmer again, which he has since followed ; in 1863, he removed thence to Winnesheik Co., Iowa, and in five years afterward ( 1868), returned to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Byron, Fond du Lac Co .; here he was known as a farmer until 1873; he then purchased a farm of 270 acres, in Sces, 21 and 28, town of Lamartine, where he has sinee lived. Mr. Greening's political career has been quite an eventful one ; though not an office-sveker, his friends saw fit to elect him to the offices of Town Clerk and Town Treasurer for four terms cach, in the town of Charlestown, Calumet Co., and Assessor one year, and Chairman of Town Board of Lamartine. Fond du Lac Co., for three years, and, in the fall of 1878. decided that he should represent the Third District in the Wisconsin Assembly at Madison ; politi- cally. he is a Democrat. At Ingersoll, Ont., Oct. 13, 1848, he was married to Miss Mary, daughter of Michael and Hannah Sage, natives of County Tipperary, Ireland, but immigrants to Canada in 1847 ; children have blessed their household, as follows : Helen (now Mrs. Dennis MeKanna, of Byron ), Philip. ( deceased ), William II .. Franeis, and three infants, deceased. Mr. Greening is a member of the Episcopal Church, and his wife of the Catholic Church.


WILLIAM J. HALE, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Lamartine ; is a native of Saratoga Co., N. Y .; born Oct. 1. 1801 ; when 12 years of age, he, with his parents, Daniel and Mary Hale, removed to Albany, N. Y., and, five years later, he went to Ohio, but returned to Albany in 1820, and worked at the cooper's trade for about two years; he then went to Montgomery Co., where he followed coopering and farming until 1844. Here, in 1824, he married Miss Betsey, daughter of Isban Eaton, with whom, in 1844, he removed to Saratoga Co., N. Y., and lived there on a farm until the fall of 1855, when they immigrated to Fond du Lac Co., Wis., settling in the town of Springvale ; they have since followed farming in the towns of Lamartine, Oakfield, Fond du Lac and Waupun, and now reside on Sec. 23, town of Lamartine; Mrs. Hale died Dec. 9, 1876, leaving five children-John ( of Dakota ). Cynthia A., Mrs. Kendall ( of Fond du Lacy, Elias A. ( who enlisted in Co. F., 21st W. V. I .. under Col. Sweet, and was in the battles of Perry- ville, Stone River, and with Sherman in his campaigns-mustered out at Milwaukee in 1865, and, in 1872, married Miss Laura J., daughter of Jason and Jerusha Monroe, of Lamartine-they had one son, Jesse ). A. P. (now of Jefferson Co., N. Y. ), and Sarah ( now Mrs. Harvey Wolcott, of Dakota ).


GEORGE W. JACKSON. farmer, Sec. 27 ; P. O. Lamartine ; is a son of Joseph and Ann Jackson, whose biography appears in this work ; George was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1838; when 10 years of age, he, with his parents, sailed from Liverpool for America, landing in New York Sept. 15, 1843; they at once came to Wisconsin, and stopped for the winter in Waukesha Co .: in the spring of 1×49, they removed to the town of Lamartine, Fond du Lac Co., which has since been his home, and where he now owns ninety acres of land in the southwest quarter of Sec. 27. He married Miss Lydia, second daughter of Eyre E. and Mary Crowe, immigrants to the town of Lamartine from St. Johns, New Brunswick, in 1847, and, ten years later, to Waushara Co., Wis., where her marriage to Mr. Jackson was sulemnized Nov. 13, 1858; four daughters and one son have blessed their household, and their names are as follows : Florence A., Lydia A., Jennie M., Jessie D. and Theron J. Mr. Crowe, Mrs. Jackson's father, was doubtless the oldest man in the town of Lamartine at the time of his death. Feb. 18, 1872 ; nature having blessed him with a strong physical constitution, and possessing a great deal of will-power and tenacity of life, he lived to the good old age of 99 years 4 months and 10 days ; he was born on Staten Island, Oct. 8, 1773. and married Miss Mary Morris, of Granville, Nova Scotia, April 21, 1834.


JOSEPH JACKSON, retired farmer, Sec. 35 ; P. O. Lamartine; is a son of John Jackson and Hannah Noble; born in the eastern part of Yorkshire, England, Oct. 31, 1810; his father was a contractor for cutting timber, in which he assisted for some time; but for four years prior to his emigra- tion to America, he was woodman and under game-keeper for a wealthy gentleman by the name of Joseph Sykes, of Roywell, Yorkshire. April 4, 1835, he married Miss Ann, daughter of George and Jane Galland, nee Lyon ,of the parish of Newbaid, Yorkshire, England, who was born March 8, 1811, and with whom, July 16, 1848. he sailed from Liverpool for America, and landed in New York September 15 following, after a nine-weeks' voyage. They came thence via the lakes and Milwaukee to Waukesha, Wis., where they arrived with only an English shilling Oct. 16, 1848; stopping at Waukesha for one month, then removed to the town of MeUanaca. Waukesha Co., where they spent the winter, and finally reached their Western home in the town of Lamartine, April 14, 1849; Mrs. Jackson lived with her brother, Mr. William Galland, till her husband built a log shanty, to which they, with Mr. Galland and family (the two having eleven children ), removed; here they lived as best they could, under somewhat cramped circumstances, till September, when they removed to Mr. Dill's farm in See. 20, town of Lamartine, lived here four years. It was here in their house. that the first day school in District 4 was taught ; the teacher being Mary Story, now Mrs. Boyd, of Rock River. Wis .; the first Sunday school and preaching of that




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