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The First Marriage .- The young people credited with having first called the attention o that much-abused myth, the "pilgrim of love," to Lake Mills, are Thomas C. Daney and Arvilla Wordwell, now residing in Palmyra. The next was a double marriage, that of Mr Abel Keyes and Miss Mary Cutler and Mr. George Hyer and Miss Katie Keyes, who were married upon the same day. in the year 1843, the day being observed as one of general rejoic ing, the whole village and part of Madison being present.
The First Birth .- The hero of this most important event is believed to have been : daughter to the wife of George Farmer, who first saw light in the village of Lake Mills, ir the year of grace 1839, though it is conceded that Henry Atwood was the first in the neigh borhood, he having become an inmate of this vale of tears as early as 1840.
The First Death in this village was that of the father of Capt. Joseph Keyes, who drifted out on to the unknown sea in 1843.
ET CETERA,
There are three Lodges in Lake Mills-Sagola Lodge, No. 27, I. O. O. F., D. G. Frazer N. G., and O. L. Ray, Secretary ; Lake Mills Lodge, No. 46, F. & A. M., O. L. Ray, Wor shipful Master, and S. R. Teed, Secretary ; Rock Lake Temple, T. of H. & T., F. Crump, W C. T., and M. Myers, W. R.
Lake Mills is situated on the east side of Rock Lake, a romantic sheet of water much admired by tourists and others. The village limits comprise one-fourth of Sections 11, 12, 13 and 14, Town 7 north, Range 13 cast.
J. B. Chesmore is the present Postmaster.
Kroghrille Post Office .- Located in Section 19, town of Lake Mills. It was surveyed i 1852 by J. D. Waterbury, and platted as a village by Casper Krogh, who built a saw-mil there in 1845.
The leading industrial enterprise in Kroghville is the patent-cultivator factory of Mr Krogh. There are also a cheese-factory, an artificial limb factory, a post office, stores, black smith-shops and other institutions going to make up an enterprising and prosperous settlement
The town of Lake Mills comprises within its borders some of the finest agricultural lan in the State.
HEBRON AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
The following historical sketch, from the pen of Mr. Mark Curtis, now a resident of lebron is a most interesting paper on the subject of the early settlement of the southeastern portion c Jefferson County. Mr. Curtis proves himself to be a close observer of passing events, and h has labored with a zeal, untiring and faithful, in collecting his facts, that is only equaled by hi extraordinary ability to thoroughly develop and bring to light the reminiscences of the past The article speaks for itself :
" A correct history of the town of Hebron embraces many things that are outside of th town, but are intimately connected with it, and a history of Hebron is of itself a history in par of the adjoining towns. Hon. Milo Jones, of Fort Atkinson, who was one of the Government Surveyors, and had a large contract for surveying in the eastern portion of Wisconsin, an whose services ran back to 1834, while on a visit to Milwaukee, made mention of the fact tha there was a good water-power out about fifty miles on Bark River.
" A party, consisting of Solomon Juneau, *Daniel Willis, Jr., *Elisha W. Edgerton David Sargent, *Thomas Holmes and Henry Miller (the last-named was for twenty-five o
*Still living.
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more years connected with the great banking-house, as an employe and partner, of D. O. Mills & Coe), left Milwaukee, and, after a journey of seventeen days, arrived at the site of where the village of Hebron now is, during the month of November, 1835, and immediately built a claim shanty on the point of land that runs into the pond, and near where the present dam is thrown across the river. This being the first claim, and the parties improving it, made in Jefferson County.
" The parties who made this claim formed a company, known as the Rock River Land and Claim Company. David Sargent passed the winter of 1835 and 1836 here, living alone and looking after the interests of his company, being the first white man to pass an entire winter within what is now the boundaries of Jefferson County ; although there are traditions that trap- pers had lived here portions of the year previous to this, but the claim that Sargent was the first white man to winter here in Jefferson County, cannot be successfully disputed. The Company before mentioned sent out a working party and dammed the river about eighty rods above the present dam during the spring and summer of 1836, and also commenced a saw-mill, which was ocated very near where the flouring-mill of L. Doud now stands. A race was dug that was near sixty rods long. The mill was completed so as to commence work, and sawed the first board February 11, 1837. There were two living witnesses of the 'opening '-Rufus C. Dodge, of Fort Atkinson, and Zenas Roberts, residence unknown to the writer. Dodge was a blacksmith, und was the 'smithy' of the saw-mill, as well as the cook for the men working during the winter. This mill was the first one built north of Dixon, Ill., on Rock River, or any of its tributaries.
" The mill was put under the charge and management of Horace Churchill (who was drowned near Sacramento, Cal., in 1878), but did not prove a financial success to its projectors and builders. It changed hands a number of times, and, finally, was transferred to John T. Fields, and by him it was sold to Joseph Powers, Esq., in 1845. Mr. Powers was a machinist by trade, a man of energy and indomitable perseverance, and, from the time he became the pur- chaser, the mill was a success, doubtless owing in part to the rapid settlement of the country, and the increased demand for lumber. Soon after becoming proprietor, he built a factory for the manufacture of bedsteads, thic first one for the manufacturing of furniture by machinery west of the lakes, and, in the little shop here in the heavy timber, was the pioneer in making cheap furniture in Wisconsin. It might be here stated that the Wisconsin Furniture Manufacturing Company, with its immense business at Fort Atkinson, is but the outgrowth of this little shop erected here a third of a century ago. The products of the factory were hauled by teams to the hen rapidly growing towns that had sprung up in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois.
" About 1852, the saw-mill was rebuilt upon its present site, and the same ycar a flouring- nill was erected by Mr. Powers. The flouring-mill was burned down in the spring of 1855, and ebuilt the same season, by C. R. Barnes, now of Kansas, who had a contract for the purchase of the property. The shop grew to be a building over one hundred feet long, and two stories high, and was burned in 1866. The burning of the flouring-mill was the first fire of any amount occurring in town. It cost $10,000 to rebuild it, which so crippled Mr. Barnes financially that he property came back into the hands again of Mr. Powers. The loss by the burning of the hop was fully $10,000 more, which was not only a loss to Mr. Powers, but to the entire town, or it was the cause of removing an established industry, and took away from town thirty to fifty aboring men.
" Cyrus Cushman erected a saw-mill since known as Cushman's Mill, situated two and a half miles north of Hebron Village, in 1844, and afterward added a turning-shop for the manufacture of bedsteads and such other articles as he could find a ready market for. It took two days to aise this mill. Cushman had fifty men at the raising. A storm of sleet and rain came on, fill- ng the mortices, and froze so hard. and it was nearly as much work to cut out the icc as it was o frame the building in the first place.
" Jesse Wright built the steam saw-mill known as Wright's Mill in 1852. Previous to the building of the mill, he was engaged in the manufacture of flour-barrels on an extensive scale, carrying on other branches of coopering.
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" In 1853. Thurlow W. Brown, renowned as a temperance lecturer, and the editor of the Cayuga Chief, of Auburn, N. Y., together with Samnel T. Clothier, purchased a traet of land on the north side of the river, and opposite the village of IIebron, and laid out an addition to the village. In 1854, they built a steam saw-mill, which was torn down in 1868. and now forms a part of the warehouse of the Wisconsin Manufacturing Company, of Fort Atkinson.
"BARK RIVER.
" Previous to the year 1840. the Territory of Wisconsin was divided into three counties for judicial and other purposes, viz. : Brown, Crawford and Milwaukee. During the session of the Territorial Legislature of that year, new counties were created, and, among them, the county of Jefferson, and subdivided into towns, the four government townships of the southeast corner taking the name of Bark River, which comprised and included what is now the towns of Cold Spring, Hebron, Sullivan, Palmyra, and all that part of Town 6. Range 15 east, which is now a part of the town of Jefferson.
" The first town meeting of the town of Bark River was held April 5, 1842, at the house of Abram Brink, in what is now the village of Cold Spring, and from the minutes of that meet- ing we copy :
" Meeting called to order. Abram Brink was elected Chairman of the meeting. and D. Merrill elected Clerk. The following named were elected by ballot to fill the various offices: Supervisors-D. Merrill (Chairman), E. Dames and Cyrus Cushman ; Abram Brink, Town Clerk ; D. Merrill, Assessor; fra Fisk, Treasurer; Seth Smalley, A. Balser and Justus Carpenter, Commissioners of Schools : A. Bradley, RensIner Ring and E. W. Crawe, Commission- ers of flighways. Cyrus Cushman was elected Overseer of Highways for Towns 5 anl G, Range 1G, now Palmyra and Sullivan ; tlarrison P. Willard. Seth Smalley and E. Daws elected Fence Viewers. Compensation voted lo officers for the ensuing year : School Commissioners, $2 a day : Commissioners of Highways, $1.50; Town Clerk, $1 50 Supervisors, $1 Number of votes polled, 92.
" The amount raised by general tax for the year, as certified by Abram Brink, Town Clerk, was $135.
" The first election held was for Delegate to Congress, and held at the mill-house of the Bark River Mills, now Hebron, September 10, 1837. There were seven votes cast, Cyrus Cushman being selected as the messenger to carry the returns to Milwaukee. Mr. Cushman was paid $8 for this onerous task. Horace Churchill was one of the Inspectors of Election. James Duane Doty was the man voted for and elected.
" The next annual town meeting of the town of Bark River was held at Abram Brink's, in April, 1843. Willard Grant, William Mulks and Justus Carpenter, were elected School Com- missioners, and met April 17, and divided the town into nine school districts. They reported that there were seventy-eight children of school aze in town, and $140 of public money to be apportioned.
.. At an election held at the house of Abram Brink, in the town of Bark River, Septem - ber 25, 1843, there were 20 votes cast for Delegate to Congress. Henry Dodge received 19, and George W. Hitchcock 1. George F. Markley received 19 for Register of Deeds: Enoch G. Darling, 16 for County Treasurer ; Russell M. Nevens, 16 for Coroner ; Chester May, Sr., 3; Milo Jones for County Surveyor, 19. The following named. long-since residents of Hebron. appear on the poll list, namely, D. F. Jones, Amos Gibbs, William Whopples, James R. Fuller and 11. J. Munro.
.. . A special election was held at the house of II. P. Willard for the election of a Justice of the Peace, an ] Albert Burnham was clecte I, being the first to hold that office within the present boundaries of the town of Hebron.
" At the annual town meeting held in the house of A. Brink, Cold Spring, in 1844. D. J. Powers, S. M. Jones and Ashel Boyington were elected Supervisors : N. S. Ilibbard, Allen Ilays and Jonas Folts, Commissioners of Highways : Darins Reed, Justus Carpenter and P. Il. Turner, Justices of the Peace : Peter II. Turner. Assessor. Fifty-one votes polled.
" In 1845. D. J. Powers was again elected Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and John Fish. Town Clerk.
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" The Territorial Legislature of 1846, passed an act dividing the town of Bark River, as follows : Town 5 north, of Range 16 east, in Jefferson County, is hereby set off into a separate town by the name of Sullivan, and the next town meeting shall be held at John Nutters. Town 6, north of Range 15 east, in said county, is hereby set off into a separate town by the name of Tunbridge, and the next town meeting to be held at the house of Cyrus Cushman. Township 5, Range 16 east, is hereby set off into a separate town, by the name of Palmyra, and the elec- tion to be held at the schoolhouse in the village of Palmyra, and Town 5, Range 15, to be known as the town of Bark River, and the election to be held at the schoolhouse in the village of Cold Spring.
" At the town meeting held April 7, 1846, at Cold Spring (Brink's Mills), Jonas Folts, E. T. Williams and Samuel Wing, were elected Supervisors; Ebenezer Giles, Town Clerk ; D. B. Peek, J. K. Pike and P. A. Fenner. Justices of the Peace; Nelson Freyer. Assessor ; Noah Grover, Collector ; Isaac Joslin, Noah Grover and Elijah Higgins, Constables. The sum of $150 was voted for incidental expenses, and there was also voted ' to E. Giles and J. H. Fuller, $6 for making a coffin for Mrs. Smith's mother.' During this year an election was held to ratify the Constitution and to vote for or against a State government ; 54 votes were polled ; 31 in favor of the Constitution and in favor of a State government, and 33 against. This year, a post office was established at Bark River Mills and D. P. Jones appointed Postmaster. The list of Postmasters of Bark River Mills is as follows: D. F. Jones, Seth Patee, George Trucks, S. T. Clothier, James M. Fitch, Mathew Washburn, E. S. Snow, S. W. Bailey, James M. Fitch, C. W. Biden. In 1868, the name of the office was changed from Bark River Mills to Hebron, and C. W. Biden appointed Postmaster. He was succeeded by C. W. Burrington, and he by James B. Miner, he by Mrs. Justin Alvord, and she by Mrs. Amelia J. Norman, the present ineumbent."
THE TOWN OF TUNBRIDGE.
The town of Tunbridge was Township No. 6, Range 18 east of the Government Subdivis- ion, and being the north half of the town of Hebron and the " L" part of the town of Jeffer- son, and was organized pursuant to an act of the Legislature, and named by Cyrus Cushman after his native town in the State of Vermont. The first town meeting was held at his house April 7, 1846.
There were 52 votes polled. The officers elected were as follows :
Samuel T. Clothier, Chairman, S. B. McCune and John Jackson, Supervisors ; Edward F. Hutchins, Town Clerk : Samuel T. Clothier, Justice of the Peace; Rufus H. Parker, Dan- iel Marble and Spencer Thayer, Commissioners of Highways; Samuel T. Clothier, Edward F. Hutchins and Willard Grant, School Commissioners ; William Reynolds, Collector; H. J. Munro, Treasurer; Truman Martin, Sealer of Weights and Measures. Willard Grant was Moderator, and S. B. McCune, Clerk of the meeting.
LET THE EAGLE SCREAM.
There was a Fourth of July celebration held in the town that year, in the grove of David S. Wilcox, and adjoining the grounds of the Munro Schoolhouse. The late Gov. John E. Holmes delivered the oration ; one of the Elder Dyes was Chaplain ; Deacon James R. Dve and Elias Reynolds, fifers ; Rev. Enoch P. Dye beat the snare drum, and Rev. Daniel Dye. the bass drum.
The dinner was served in the grove, and the meat cooked a la barbecue. An out-door oven did serviee in baking bread, cake and pies. Half of the township contributed milk for the mak- ing of a mammoth cheese. The dinner was free to all who chose to partake. The celebration was in every respect a success, and enjoyed by the " settlers " of adjoining towns.
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This was the only festive occasion in the town of Tunbridge, for, the winter following, the Territorial Legislature repealed the aet organizing the town of Tunbridge, and, after an exist. ence of one year, disappeared as a town in Jefferson County.
TOWN OF HEBRON.
In pursuance of an act of the Legislature of 1847, Hebron was organized, taking the south half of Township No. 6 north, of Range 15 east, and all north of Bark River and Seup- ernong Creek, of Township 5 north, of Range 15 east. The north half of Township No. ( (Tunbridge). was attached to Jefferson, and the name Tunbridge dropped. The town of Cold Spring, was to inelnde all of Township 5, Range 15 east, south of Bark Biver, and the town name of Bark River dropped. The first town meeting was held April 7, 1847, and the following. named persons were elected to fill the respective offiees :
Supervisors-Samuel T. Clothier, Chairman ; Enos J. Higbee and Seth Patee. Town Clerk, Seth Patee ; Treasurer. John Burnham ; Collector, Samuel M. Jones; Commis sioners of Schools-Samuel T. Clothier, Vinson Covley and Elias Reynolds. Commissioners of Highways-Daniel Marble. Gideon Leavitt and Corydon Culver. Constables-Elijah Higgins and W. R. Case.
A resolution was passed fixing the salary of the officers elect at $1 a day ; it appropriated $25 for the support of the poor and $75 to inelose cemetery grounds. The first official act of the Commissioners of Highways was to lay out a highway from what is now known as the Water Street road to intersect the highway running from the village of Hebron to Fort Atkin. son, May 4, 1847. The Commissioners of Schools districted the town into districts for school purposes. There were eighty-seven children of school age ; $111.34 school money to apportion. The first highway laid out and established through the town of Hebron was in 1842. The Legislature of the Territory passed an act making Cyrus Curtis, James Y. Watson and William A. Barstow, Commissioners, and authorized them to lay out and establish a Territorial road. commeneing at Prairie Village, in Milwaukee County. and running thence westerly on the south of the heavy timber-lands lying between Prairie Village and Rock River, by the nearest and best route, crossing the Seupernong Creek in Township 5. Range 16 east, and terminating at Fort Atkinson. in Jefferson County. Hon. Milo Jones was the surveyor, and Cyrus Cush- man, one of the chain-mnen.
The village of Hebron was laid out by Joseph Powers, in 1847. John Fish, surveyor. Mr. Powers never recorded this plat, and, in 1856, he caused an additional survey to be made and additional ground platted by F. J. Starin, which was recorded.
The first schoolhouse in town was the log or block schoolhouse of Distriet No. 2, and known as the Munro Schoolhouse for years. It was built in 1843. The first school taught in town was by Miss Iney Ann Wakely, afterward the wife of Col. L. A. Winchester, of White- water. Miss Wakely commenced her school in the chamber of the dwelling of William Rey- nolds, but on the completion of the schoolhouse, her class was transferred to it. Miss Wakely was taken sick before completing her term and Willard Grant employed to finish it. The next schoolhouse was the log one built in the Burnham neighborhood (District No. 4) in 1846. Luther B. Green was employed as teacher. District No. 1 (the Whitney District) completed a schoolhouse during the year 1846, E. H. Hubbard being employed as teacher. The village schoolhouse was built in 1850. The Wright (or Distriet No. 6) Schoolhouse was built in 1856. Cushman's (No. 5) in 1854. The schoolhouses built in 1843 and 1846, have given way to fine brick structures that will compare favorably with a like number in any rural town in the State.
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HIEBRON AND THE WAR.
The town of Hebron raised its quota of men under each call of the President of the United States for volunteers. At a special town meeting, held September 12, 1862, the following res- lutions were adopted :
Resolved. That we raise money for the support of volunteers in town.
Resolved, That there be raised, on the taxable property of the town, $200, to be expended as provided in Sec. ; of Chap. 2 of an act entitled " An act to provide assistance for volunteers."
Previous to this, the citizens of the town contributed liberally, both in money and provis- ons, to such of the families as stood in need of aid. On March 2, 1862, the Town Board reported that they had expended of the "family relief fund," in relieving the wants of the fam- lies of volunteers, the sum of $98.77. March 3, 1863, the Town Board reported, as being mexpended, the sum of $37.77. Without going into details, it is sufficient to say the vouchers und evidences are among the archives of the town ; that the town paid in bounties, by tax and ubscription, and in aid to families of and for volunteers, the sum of $22,000, and this by a population only a little in excess of one thousand. Of the number that went into the service t the call of their country, was Bailey Hutchins and Norman Morton ; both died in the Ander- onville prison-pen. Thomas Duffy was shot and killed at the assault on Port Hudson. James I. Burnham and Rensclaer Burnham were both prisoners of war, but strong constitutions nabled them to survive the horrors and privations of prison life in "Dixie." Ansel Strong vas for a considerable space of time in Libby Prison. Of those who served in the army during he rebellion and are residents of the town, we recall the names of John Garlock, A. F. Win- au and II. C. Westphall, of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment ; Jedediah Carnes, James I. Burnham, Ansel Strong, Walter P. Hall. Martin Van Duser, Charles C. Brown, George S. Case, George Coppins, De Witt Wilcox, Charles F. Klityke, W. G. Palmer and Henry Car- han were members of different infantry organizations. W. F. Reynolds, First Cavalry ; Alfred Cooley, M. H. Blakely, Robert Krause, William E. Evans and John Van Lone were members f the heavy artillery, stationed at Washington. Amerieus W. Jones and William Hall elonged to and served in a battery; James Fryer was also a member of a battery ; Walter B. Primer served in an Illinois regiment ; Benjamin P. Tubbs was also in an Illinois regiment. There are three persons in receipt of pensions, namely : Ansel Strong, for a gunshot wound ; Valter B. Primer, the same, and Henry C. Westphall, general disability. Mrs. Philena Hun- er receives a pension on account of the death of her son, William Hunter, a member of the Twenty-ciglith Regiment, who died of discase while in the service. The town pureliased a plat f ground for a cemetery, which was duly laid out into lots in 1868, and four lots in the center eserved for a soldiers' monument, which the people of the town intended to erect ; but it is now little doubtful about its ever being completed, at least for a number of years to come.
CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES.
The Rev. Mr. Frink, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, organized the first Church soci- ty in 1839. The church edifice was commenced while the Rev. Hilton was in charge of the ociety, in 1854, and completed and dedicated a year or two later. The society and Church ave had for Pastors, Revs. Mills, Hazeltine, Hilton. Hollock, Rowe, Ross, Moffet. Chamber- ain, Frink, Lyman, Parsons (three years), Potter, Wanless, Chapin, Cooley, Cole, Fisher (two ears), Porter, Bristol, Garvin and Dale.
The First Baptist Church .- Rev. William Dye moved to Hebron in November, 1857, and ommenced preaching, but, previous to his coming, a few Baptist believers had been duly organ- zed and recognized as a branch of the Whitewater Baptist Church, with the privilege of hold- ng covenant meetings. The preaching of Elder Dye was attended with success, a great revival eing the result. April 29, 1858, at an adjourned meeting of the Baptist Churches of White-
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water, Palmyra, Edgerton and Aztalan, the First Baptist Church of Hebron was established an . recognized as an independent body. It adopted twenty articles of faith and had forty-seve members, the Rev. William Dye, Pastor, the number of members ultimately reaching fifty-six Preaching was kept up till 1862. Mr. Dye was a man of good native talents, and well calcu lated for the pioneer work he found ready for his hands among the hardy settlers of " Bar. Woods." Ile died at the Insane IIospital, at Madison, in 1863. The Church, since his death has been without preaching, other organizations absorbing its members.
Rev. E. P. Dye settled in the town in 1845, and with his calling-that of a preacher c the Gospel-he engaged in farming. Ile was a resident of the town about twenty years, bu during the time he received a call from a Church in New York, whither he went and stayed abou three years.
Rev. E. P. Fay came and settled in the town in 1844.
Of the young men who have resided in the town and have become ministers, the Rev. E. L Eaton, of the M. E. Church, is one of the most successful young ministers in the Wisconsi Conference, and is at Beloit for the third year. Austin and D. J. Whitney, sons of Davi Whitney, belong to the United Brethren, and are quite successful in their calling.
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