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The Rev. J. F. Ostrander, who was a theologian of an independent stripe, also preached occasionally in Aztalan, at a very early period. He generally officiated at funerals, and was regarded as the only person who could tie a substantial matrimonial knot and at the same time be satisfied with a bushel of potatoes as the equivalent of his fee.
SCHOOLS.
The Rev. Mr. Ostrander taught the first school in Aztalan. Education received attention from the settlers quite as early as religion, and Mr. Ostrander was engaged to teach during the winter months, while his wife instructed a class of younger pupils during the summer. Mr. Ostrander will be remembered as having been identified with a project to establish what was to have been known as a " labor school." It was to have been located on the hill west of the vil- lage, and the place was, for a long time, known as " College Hill." A section of land was reserved for the purpose, and some funds were raised, which, however, when the project failed, were turned into the public-school treasury, and used in the construction of the first school- house in Aztalan, a frame building, which stood in the western portion of the village, and was occupied for both educational and religious purposes until about 1852, when a brick edifice (still standing), was erected. The present schoolhouse was built about 1870, and in it is now taught a graded school. In the town of Aztalan, there are six brick schoolhouscs, which are open about seven months in the year. In two of them German is taught, the population of the town being two of that tongue to one of all other nationalities.
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THE FIRST.
A. A. Brayton brought the first stock of goods to Aztalan, and opened a store in 1841. Dr. Bicknell was the first physician. His coming dates back to some time in 1838. He boarded around among the settlers.
Judge N. F. Hyer, now of Fort Atkinson, was the first expounder of the law in the village, but the citizens were so well behaved and agreeable that his professional services were seldom required.
A STEAMBOAT.
In December, 1840, N. P. Hawks, one of the early settlers in the town of Milford, but at that date a resident of Milwaukee, made his appearance in Aztalan and commenced agitating the ques- tion of building a steamboat on the Crawfish River to navigate its waters and those of the Rock River. Mr. Hawks succeeded in organizing a stock company, and a steamboat 100 feet in length was the result. In the spring of 1840, Capt. Hawks, after encountering considerable trouble in pass- ing down the Crawfish, owing to low water, steamed down Rock River to the Mississippi. Late in the fall of the same year, he again made his bow to the good people of Aztalan, but he forgot to bring his steamboat with him. He said the craft was on the Mississippi, the water being so low that he was unable to bring her up; that he would like to become sole owner of the boat, and would pay the stockholders 50 per cent of the amount they had invested, giving his note payable one year from date. His proposition was accepted and the notes were given. He then said he had a small stock of goods in Milwaukee and a little cash in his pocket, and he would take up his notes then and there, and pay 50 per cent of their face value. The people's confidence in Mr. Hawks had begun to wane somewhat by this time, and cash and provisions being scarce in the neighborhood, this proposition was accepted also ; so the enterprising navigator saved quite a nice little sum out of the amount he had received for the steamboat before he made the double compromise with the stockholders. Such is life !
TOWN OF AZTALAN.
The first settlers in the town of Aztalan were Harvey and Volney Foster, near the present line between Jefferson and Aztalan, Frederick Landt, Henry Pellet, Jeremiah Brayton, George Hebard, James L. Manville, Benjamin Babcock, Edward Abbe, Samuel Hosley, J. D. Water- bury. D. C. Pellet, Stephen Hanks, R. M. Nevins, E. L. Braman, II. 4. Britton and Harvey B. Smith.
The first town election was held in the spring of 1842. at Aztalan, the township then comprising what are now the towns of Lake Mills and Waterloo, and the west half of Milford. M. R. Clapp, of Milford, was the first Chairman of the Town Supervisors.
The Rock and Crawfish Rivers and the Chicago & North-Western Railway pass longitudi- nally through the town. As an agricultural and stock-raising region, the town of Aztalan has no superior in the State.
WATERLOO.
A prosperous village, situated in the extreme northwest corner of the county. in Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the town of Waterloo, and inhabited by an enterprising population, variousły estimated at from nine to fifteen hundred (about one thousand being the actual population) ; an important station on the Madison Branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Panl Railway, and one of the healthiest localities in the Northwest.
Through the agency of Moses C. Keuvon, Bradford Hill was the first settler in what is now the village of Waterloo (then known by the Indian name of " Mannesha"). Early in 1841,
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Mr. Kenyon settled about one and a half miles south of Waterloo Creek, which, in his opinio bore every indication of having the requisite fall and volume of water to make it a first-elas mill site. Meeting Bradford Hill in the vicinity of Waukesha. he prevailed upon him to pre ceed further west, the result being the pre-emption, by Ilill, of two " forties" in Section . upon which the principal portion of the village now stands. Mr. Hill built a log shanty o the ground now occupied by the old " Gravel Ilouse." When the period for making paymer to the Government and " proving up " his claim arrived, Mr. Hill found himself in need of th necessary funds. This want was supplied by Mr. Kenyon, and, in 1843, Abram and Ira Brook purchased the water site of Hill. put in a dam and built a saw-mill. The Brooks family, thre brothers and two maiden sisters, was preceded by James Thompson, who died some years ago : an advanced age, and whose son is still a resident of Waterloo. The Brookses built a little lo shanty in a grove east of the creek, and, after remaining a few years, they moved away. On of the brothers died in Sun Prairie, and another somewhere in Outagamie County ; the third Ira Brooks. is still living, and is eighty-two years of age. The eldest sister died in Waterlo and the other in Sun Prairie. In 1841, Mr. and Mrs. Bissell Phelps, who are believed to be th only residents of Waterloo who saw the place in its earliest infancy, came hither from the home in Illinois on a visit to relatives living in the vicinity. They had occasion to remain ove night in ' Maunesha," which then consisted of the solitary cabin of Bradford Hill.
In 1848, the population had increased to the number, perhaps, of thirty-five or forty per sons, and half a dozen houses had been reared in the woods on either side of the ercek. Beside the Waterloo House, there were at that date the unpretentious residences of John Curtis, Jame Thompson, William Knight (now occupied by the family of T. A. Williams), and the origina Ilill and Brooks shanties.
Privations and hardships, not unlike those that beset the pioneers of other sections. wer encountered by the early residents of Waterloo. Fish, cooked without butter or lard, bread made of meal or flour mixed with a little salt and water, and a few potatoes was the bill of far in every household. Money was exceedingly scarce, but, had it been plenty, there was nothin to be purchased with it : the necessaries of life was the currency. Though every one was poor money was a drug upon the market. The Greenbacker should have lived in those days : bi the carly settlers had their pests also. The festive Indian-the noble. murderous red man-wa no small source of annoyance. What his ancestors had failed to do in the scalping line, he mad up in stealing and frightening women and children. Those of his race who roamed about Water loo had a burying-ground on the Crawfish, near Hubbleton, and frequently passed through th former place with their dead strapped upon the back of a pony and followed by a large con course of pretended mourners, who, on their return, invariably carried numerous articles of pro visions or wearing apparel appropriated from the whites. Such is a brief outline of the earl history of Waterloo.
THE POST OFFICE.
This institution was established in Waterloo in the latter part of the forties. C. D. Tapping wa the first Postmaster. He kept all the mail in a garden-seed box, and Abrain Brooks drove to Azta lan once a week in a double wagon to get the letters, never being rewarded with more than three c four at a time. A. F. Mattice succeeded Mr. Tapping, and a change in the national adminis tration resulted in the installation of C. P. Mead as Postmaster. R. J. Reamer, the presen incumbent, was Mr. Mead's successor. In 1868, it became a money-order office, and the firs order bears date of October 12 of that year. James Cushing was the remitter, and Alanson G Allen, of Fairfield, Ill., the receiver ; the amount was $50, the largest smin that can be ser under the law regulating the Money-Order Department.
MANUFACTORIES, ETC.
Abram and Ira Brooks, after turning out many thousand feet of lumber from their saw mill, converted the institution into a grist-mill, where, for a long time, the settlers had thei
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wheat ground, the miller taking a small proportion of the grist for toll. After passing through various hands, the mill was destroyed by fire in 1876, while the property of William Folindorf. Mr. F. conteiaplates the building of a mammoth structure upon the ruins, and has already com- pleted a huge foundation for the mill that is to be.
In 1847, F. Giles, A. Vail and William Rood commenced building a mill-dam on Waterloo Creek, balf a mile west of the village. Before the work was completed, M. P. Caldwell pur- chased the site, and, in 1848, built a grist-mill. In 1849, William and Benjamin Boorman, with a combined capital of 20 shillings, bought Mr. Caldwell out ; that is to say, they took the mill with the understanding that they were to pay a certain sum for it if the money could be made out of it. With their 20 shillings, they purchased ten flour-barrels at 35 cents apiece, getting thirty days' time on the amount they necessarily owed on the barrels. And thus a start was made. William Boorman is now the sole proprietor. The capacity of the mill has been greatly increased ; likewise the fortune of Mr. Boorman.
Another dam was built at a very early day, nearer the center of the village, upon which were erected a factory and carding-mill, which were burned in 1862. The dam subse- quently went out and has not been rebuilt. The site was on property now owned by Clark, Rain & Co.
In 1860, A. F. Mattice built an elevator with a capacity of 15,000 bushels. It was after- ward purchased by MeCracken Bros., who, in 1879, put up a new elevator capable of holding 20,000 bushels of grain, and added, among other improvements, a thirty-five horse-power engine. Messrs. McCracken now have facilities for handling 225,000 bushels of grain in a season.
The Wisconsin Rotary Engine Company built a foundry and machine-shop in 1865, near the railroad depot, where harvesters, fanning and wind mills are now manufactured, requiring the employment of ten men.
In 1865, John Farrington built a steam door and sash factory. It is now the property of G. A. B. Whitney.
John Helms built a cider-mill in 1870, and the demand for his productions became so great that he was compelled to enlarge and improve the concern in 1875. He is now prepared to manufacture forty barrels of cider per day. In 1876, he made 1,100 barrels, and found ready sale for it in Chicago, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, and throughout Wis- consin.
Nelson Sickles manufactured the first brick in Waterloo. Jackson Rood and John Helms tre now in the business, the combined productions of their kilns being about 1,200,000 cach year.
THE CHURCHES.
Methodism was the first of the various religious creeds to assert itself in Waterloo. A church edifice was constructed about 1857. The Rev. Mr. Drew was the Pastor at that time. Among those who followed were the Revs. Tucker, Lang, Martin, Miller. Wanless, Robbins and Sanborn, the latter being at present in charge of a fair-sized congregation.
The Presbyterians and Congregationalists worshiped together nearly a quarter of a century ago, the Rev. Mr. Heaton being their spiritual guide. The Rev. William Thompson and the Rev. Mr. Wright were also among those who preached before and since the erection of a church, twelve years ago. The flock, somewhat diminished, is now composed for the most part of Con- gregationalists.
The Baptists organized a society in the spring of 1862, with nine members, the Pastor being T. T. McIntyre. A church edifice was erected the same year, being used also for a school- house. The ministers have been the Revs. T. L. McCloud, S. C. Sales, W. T. Hill, L. G. Catchpole and G. G. T. Martin, the present incumbent, and also Principal of the Graded High School. In 1868, the church and school building was overhauled, and has since been used exclusively as a church.
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The German Catholics of Waterloo were organized in 1867 by tho Rev. Father Sigg, o Jefferson. The parish was composed of the following persons : August Meibns, Peter Janisch Bernard Leschinger, Jr., and Joseph Raedle, and the wives and families of each. Meeting were held at the house of Joseph Raedle until 1869, when a church edifice was built, at a cos of 85,000, including the lot and pastorate. Fathers Fardle, Ivo. Salamus, 'Jaster, Huber Smeddinek and Victor have filled the pulpit. The parish now consists of about sixty-two fami lies. A parochial school of twenty-five or thirty pupils is taught in the church by Mr. Vieto and his sister Marv.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church Society was organized in 1867 by the Rev. Mr. Snell, th members being Carl Haese, F. Grunke, E. G. Woelfert, A. Heidemann, William Buth, Peter an John Helmes and Conrad Failinger. The Pastors since Mr. Snell have been the Revs. Car Haese. M. Denninger and J. J. Meier. The church was completed in November. 1868, at cost of $1,400. The lot upon which it stands was donated by J. L. Thompson. It has a ver extensive congregation, and supports a parochial school, established in 1873, consisting of fron forty-five to seventy pupils. The schoolhouse and rectory were built in 1878, at a cost o $1,500.
VILLAGE INCORPORATION.
Waterloo was incorporated as a village in 1852, and on the 5th of April of that year th first election for village officers was hell with the following result : President, Ira R. Rood Trustees, John Mosher, A. F. Mattice, William Gillett and William Munson ; Assessor, W. M Wright : Clerk, Cyrus P. Mead ; Treasurer. Thomas Currier; Marshal, Samuel Parkhurst Superintendent of Schools, W. D. Smith ; Justiees of the Peace, S. W. Budlong and W. D Smith. The Judges of Election were John F. Mattice and Samuel Parkhurst : C. P. Mead Clerk. There was but one ticket in the field, the number of votes cast being fifty-six. Th original charter comprehended a village plat one mile square, but in 1861 a new charter wa granted, providing for the incorporation of the four northwestern sections of the town.
The present village officers are: President, S. M. Weiner ; Trustees-W. F. Lum, K. P Clark, William Boorman and F. Grunkel ; Clerk, T. A. Williams : Treasurer, F. Feibinger Assessor, Bissell Phelps : Marshal. J. Gingles ; Justices-C. P. Kopp and Peter Janisch. A the last election, there were 185 votes polled.
THE PRESS.
On the 4th of December, 1870, the first number of the Waterloo Journal was issued by A F. Booth, printed from material once used by a publisher in Watertown. The Journal was seven-column folio. Republican in polities. In 1872, Frank Streeter, now publishing a poultry journal in Illinois, became the editor and proprietor. In 1873. A. B. Griffin became associate with Mr. Streeter, and in December of that year E. F. Conklin purchased Griffin's interest This partnership lasted three months, when Streeter sold to his partner, who conducted th Journal until December 31, 1878. retiring from the field of journalism in favor of his son, S. J Conklin. In May, 1879, C. G. Bell & Co. purchased the good will and subscription list of the paper, and furnished the office with a complete outfit of new material, the old types, etc .. being taken to Watertown, Dakota, where it is now used by Conklin & Frazer in the publication of the Dakota News. In January_1879. the form of the Journal was changed to a five-column quarto F. W. Denison is the editor. The Journal onee dared to call the attention of the authorities to the fact that a certain citizen while intoxicated had chased his wife from the house at midnight a the point of a butcher-knife. The few lines conveying this information had the effect to cause the savage individual to prolong his spree, and while he was roaring drunk he went hunting fo the editor. Unfortunately for himself, he mistook W. O. Frazer, foreman of the mechanica department of the paper. for the responsible seribe, and made a deadly thrust at him with a knife cutting his coat across the shoulder, but drawing no blood. The next moment the would-be
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ssassin found himself inside the post office building, having passed through the door without pening it.
SCHOOLS.
A quaint structure, built of tamarack logs about 1843, was the first schoolhouse in Waterloo. t served the purpose of a meeting, as well, for all manner of gatherings, until it was torn away nd a more commodious brick built upon its site. In 1867, the latter was sold by the School Board to Peter McPherson, of Chicago, and, during that and the following year, the present igh-school building was constructed. The roll shows a large attendance, and the bright, ntelligent faces of the children is indicative of a healthy and efficient school system.
HOTELS.
The Waterloo House, built by John Walker in 1848, was the first hotel in Waterloo, but ; has seen its best days, and passed from the list of public houses eight or ten years ago. The Old Gravel House. but also in 1848, by M. P. Caldwell, no longer claims " a share of the public patronage."
The Badger State House was built by C. P. Tapping about twenty years ago. It is built f " patent " or unburnt brick, baked hard in the sun and wind. After passing through various ands, it came into the possession of W. F. Bond, seven or eight years ago. Mr. Bond has proved himself to be a genial landlord, wide awake to the requirements of his patrons.
SOCIETIES.
Waterloo Lodge, No. 63, A., F. S. A. M., was organized in January, 1855, by Grand Lecturer McMillan. The first meeting was held in the Waterloo House, where the following fficers were installed : IIenry Drew, W. M .; Martin Mead, Secretary : Philip Brush, Warden ; Dean Chase, Treasurer, and U. Persons, Ira Fuller, Elder Follinsby and Dr. Bingham among he charter members. Sylvester W. Barnes was the first individual initiated. The Lodge now onsists of about fifty members.
Waterloo Lodge, No. 44, 1. O. O. F., was first organized at Hunchetville in 1850, and after- ard removed to Portland in Dodge County. whence it came to Waterloo, where it became an English-speaking Lodge ten years ago. Among the first members still active in the Lodge may e mentioned G. H. P. Cone, E. E. Delano, T. A. Williams, Frank Knowlton, N. S. Tracey ). Car Skedien.
Waterloo Lodge, No. 362, I. O. G. T .- Organized in February, 1878. It is conducted ntirely by ladies. The officers are Mrs. A. P. Newton, W. C. T .; Mrs. D. O. Bennett, W. V. .: Mrs. H. H. Squires, Secretary. About sixty members.
Temple of Honor .- Organized in May, 1877. First officers : S. G. Martin, W. C .; C. R. Stone. W. V .: E. E. Delano, Secretary. One hundred members.
Waterloo Council, No. 9 .- Organized in June, 1878. S. J. Conklin, C. of C .; C. G. Bell, S. of C .; D. O. Bennett, J. of C .; T. A. Williams, Secretary. Twenty members.
Junior Temple .- Organized January 2, 1878. Paul Dutcher, W. C .; B. Boorman, J. C .; I. Squire, Scribe. Composed of boys from ten to eighteen years of age.
ET CETERA.
C. P. Tapping established the first store in Waterloo. It stood where the Badger State Iouse now stands.
John Walker was the first blacksmith.
The first physician was Dr. Ira Rood.
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The first lawyer. Abram Vanderpool : he was a farmer as well, and a member of the Firs Constitutional Convention-generally regarded as a pretty smart man.
Waterloo was visited by a serious conflagration in September. 1879. The hardware stor of William Boorman and the saloon and barber-shop of Mr. Schwager were destroyed.
A man named Edwards was the first settler in the town of Waterloo. He came in 183 and located in the cast part of the town, near the Crawfish.
The first town meeting was held at Aztalan, to which Waterloo belonged, in 1842.
TOWN OF MILFORD.
This section of Jefferson County, in point of agricultural wealth, is not unlike other loca ities already described. The Crawfish River passes through the town from north to south entering from Dodge County, in Section 6, at a point where the post office of Ilubbleton located. L. P. Drake and M. L. Bartlett were the first settlers in the town. The region abor Ilubbleton is wet and marshy, and was at one time a favorite resort for hunters from Milwauke etc. At an early day, traders came from almost every quarter to barter with the Indians, wh had a large and important eamp on the river. The old plank-road from Watertown to Waterlo passed through Hubbleton. A man named Campbell built a steam saw-mill years ago, whic furnished lumber to a large proportion of the population, until it was destroyed by fire. M. Edwards, the Postmaster and storekeeper of the place, put up a small mill three or four veal ago. Howell Bros. stave-mill was at one time one of the institutions of the place. Hubbleto is the only station between Watertown and Waterloo on the Madison Branch of the Chicag Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
MILFORD POST OFFICE.
Situated on the Crawfish in Section 4, town of Milford. The first settlers were W. I Lampier and Benjamin Nute, Sr., who built a saw-mill in 1840. Norman Pratt built a gris mill in 1845. N. S. Green & Son are the owners of the mill, which has been enlarged an improved till it is now one of the best in the county, having seven run of stones. The ol saw-mill has been torn away, having long since become useless.
Mr. J. D. Waterbury, of Aztalan, gives the following names of those who may be consic ered early settlers in the town of Milford : George Mills. Stephen Fletcher. Joseph James an Olney Edwards, Silas D. Stiles, Ruben Keene, N. P. Hlawks, B. Chambers, W. S. Ilver, E Nute. G. Lampier and L. P. Drake.
TOWN OF INONIA.
Pipersville and Ixonia Center are the two points of interest in this town. Jans H. Stren now seventy-seven years of age, elaims to have been the first settler in that part of the Roc River Valley. Ixonia Center may be said to have been first located on the river, one mile ea of its present site. At one time, there were two hotels. a steam saw-mill and a store (by Samu Piper) on the old site : but when the railroad was built, in 1856, Ixonia Center took flight, it were, and settled down in Seetions 21 and 22, to become a station on the La Crosse Divisio of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The Postmasters at the Center have been Samu Piper. II. E. Humphrey and James McCall. There are now two stores, one saloon, one blac smith and turning shop, two shoemaker shops, one church, one cheese-factory, a public schoo and one elevator. The population is estimated at one hundred. "Old Man" MeCall wa
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mong the first settlers, but that jolly old individual, Jans Strem, who remembers so vividly the reat amount of fun he had "mit de var," insists that "I vas de firstee man ; you can see line hair."
TOWN OF OAKLAND.
The early settlers in this region were E. G. Snell, James Crane, Gerard Crane and Gideon nd Holmes Ives. Mrs. Snell made the trip from Milwaukee on foot. Oakland Post Office was stablished about 1847, with E, G. Snell as Postmaster. Moses Powers is at present in .posses- ion of that office.
TOWN OF SUMNER,
he smallest town in the county, containing but seventeen square miles. The early set- ers were T. Kumlien, C. G. Hammerquist, C. Jenkins, Thomas Bussy (for whom Bussyville is amed, and who built the mill at that place), and a Mr. Downing. Mr. Hammerquist is the ostmaster. Lake Koshkonong is the beauty-spot of the town of Sumner.
RELICS OF THE RED RACE.
The following article on the wonderful archaeological collection of Mr. Henry Haskell is ontributed by Mr. I. T. Carr, editor of the Jefferson Banner :
" Men have named the fixed stars, and noted the places where they may always be found : ave named the planets and fixed their orbits ; have measured the distances between the sun and le planets, and the distance of each planet from the others ; and every school-boy has been taught e same. But the men are comparatively few who can name and tell the uses of the different rtieles occasionally found, which were manufactured by a pre-historic race in a time usually alled the " stone age." Thousands of people daily step upon relics of the by gone age, without think- ig that the minds which planned and the hands which executed the work on those articles were as efined and deft, nay, more, than their own ; for the mechanic of to-day has not yet been able to ake with modern appliances, many of the beautiful objects in flint which the mechanics of ntiquity have left behind for their inspection. Nor is this ignorance on such matters to be rondered at greatly. In the scramble and toil for daily bread, the minds of the thousands are ent upon the present and future, and they have no time to spend delving in the fields of the ystie past. But here and there are found individuals, solitary and alone, who, through for- une's favor, are enabled to spend a little time in those neglected fields, and by deep study and nergetic use of their reasoning powers are enabled to connect. with the subtle elements of hought, the people of the present with the people of the long-buried past, almost as plainly as he electric wire connects the people of the two hemispheres.
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