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JUDGE IRA W. BIRD, attorney at law, Jefferson ; was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., March 17, 1819 ; came to Milwaukee in 1836 ; remained two years, and, in 1838, went to Madison, Wis .; was elected member of the State Legislature from Madison at the second session ; was Sheriff of Dane Co .; also Register of Deeds three or four years; went to California and returned in 1852; in the spring of 1854, came to Jefferson, where he has since remained ; has been Town Clerk, member of Board of Super- visors and Clerk of same ; has also been elceted Circuit Clerk, and served three terms as County Judge of Jefferson Co. He married Antoinette Brayton ; had one child-Ella A., born in October, 1853, who married R. B. Kirkland, now in JJefferson. His second wife was Emily MI. Howse; they have three chil- dren-Ralph, Belle and Janet. Mr. B. was tendered the office of Judge for the fourth term, but declined the nomination. Hle was the first Mayor of Jefferson, and the last President of the Village Board under the old organization.
BENJAMIN BLODGETT, farmer, Secs. 17 and 18; P. O. Jefferson ; came to Jefferson with his parents in 1843 ; his father, Joseph, came in 1842, and took up land from Government, where his son Benjamin now lives ; Joseph Blodgett died with cholera on the Mississippi River in 1855. Benja- min went to California in 1852, crossing the Plains on foot, and returned in 1857. Married Miss Delia Fleming Dec. 1, 1859 ; she was born April 20, 1838 ; they have had five children, four living-Victoria Voltaire, born Dec. 14, 1861; George Wilder, Sept. 3, 1866; Thomas Paine, Feb. 11, 1872; Stuart Mill, July 18, 1875 ; George V., Sept. 14, 1860, died Sept. 8, 1861. Mr. B. enlisted, Nov. 4, 1863, in Co. E, 4th W. V. C., as Corporal, and was mustered out Aug. 22, 1865; was, most of the time, engaged in scouting. He has 185 acres of land.
O. S. BRANDON, flour, feed and groceries, Jefferson ; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Nov. 13, 1818, and raised in Darke Co. on a farm. At the age of 23, he began in his present business in Ohio, and came to Jefferson in 1844; was here Deputy Sheriff two years, and Under Sheriff two years. About 1850, he established in his present business, which he has followed since that time, except for a few years previous to 1862, when he was in the dry-goods trade. Mr. B. has also been Town Treasurer four years. Married Miss Elizabeth Reed May 3, 1840 ; she was born Jan. 14, 1917, and died April 19, 1878; there are three children -. Mary Catherine, now Mrs. Seaver, born Feb. 6, 1841 ; H. W., May 10, 1843, and T. J., Jan. 1, 1845. T. J. married Miss Mary Dodge, of Fort Atkinson; they have two children-Lecta and Bell ; he is agent in the American Express Office at Jefferson. The father of O. S. Brandon was .Joseph, and born in Wheeling, W. Va .; came to Warren Co., Ohio, about 1819; the mother of O. S. was Catherine ( Priee ) Brandon ; father and mother both died in Ohio.
H. W. BRANDON, farmer, and owner of Sunny Side Farm, near Jefferson City ; was born in Versailles, Ohio, May 10, 1843. Married Miss Sarah B. Marble March 30, 1865, at Madison, N. Y .; she was born Oct. 27, 1846. Mr. Brandon spent seven years in Washington Territory, five years in
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California, and settled upon his present place of eighty-five acres in 1877. Family belong to Universalist Church. Mr. Brandon is a Mason.
JACOB BREUNIG, brewer and saloon keeper, Jefferson; born March 24, 1815, in Elsen- feldt, Bavaria, Germany ; learned trade, and worked as apprentice ten years in Wertsberg; came to America March 6, 1854, and first worked in Philadelphia three months, then came to Jefferson and worked at eoopering, and got ont timber for making beer-barrels ; helped erect his present brewery. Married Anna Ruecker in 1854; they have one son-George. People are members of Catholic Church. Mr. Breunig has been Alderman several terms. For full description of Mr. Breunig's manufacture, sec " Breweries."
SYLVESTER BREWER, farmier, Sce. 24; P. O. Jefferson ; born at Highgate, Vt., Aug. 12, 1804 ; was for some time in Braceville, Trumbull Co., Ohio, till Nov. 4, 1845, when he removed to Jefferson and bought school land for present farm, on Sections 23 and 24. Married Elizabeth Armstrong for first wife, by whom he had four children-Alphonso, Franklin, Horatio and Elizabeth. Alphonso and Horatio are dead. Horatio was in the late war. F. B. has taught school several terms, and was known as the " Teacher Brewer," and is now a doctor. Mr. Brewer married Miss Sarah Hake, for second wife, April 15, 1843; she was born in 1814 ; had eight children by this wife -- Leah (now dead), born July 6, 1841; Daniel, Jan. 21, 1843; Peter, Dec. 23, 1846; Sarah, Jan. 10, 1853; Sylvester H., Aug. 16, 1852: Cynthia, Jan. 10, 1855 ; Jay, Jan. 13, 1859, and Maryette, March 10, 1845. Daniel is a Doctor, and now settled in Fairbury, Ill.
ALONZO E. BROWN, Jefferson ; born in Vermont Oet. 11, 1819; son of Eliada and Naney Brown ; removed to Wisconsin in 1837, in company with his mother and brother, and settled in what is now the village of Hebron, in the town of lebron, on the site of Cook's Hotel ; in September of the same year, removed to Jefferson, and, on the 9th of October, assisted at the " raising " of the first frame' house built in the present county seat of Jefferson ; this building stood on the present site of the Jefferson House ; Nov. 20, 1837, removed to De Kalb Co., Ill., where he lived for fourteen years, return- ing to Jefferson in 1852. In 1861, enlisted in Co. E, of the 4th W. V. I .; was in the Peninsular campaign ; with Gen. Butler's expedition to Ship Island ; from there to the mouth of the Mississippi and New Orleans ; then at Bonicary Point, Louisiana; with his regiment when it attacked the rebels at War- rington, below Vicksburg; afterward five miles below Vieksburg, where he assisted in digging the famous " Butler Ditch ;" thence to Baton Rouge, August, 1862, and engaged in the fight between Gens. Williams and Breckenridge, in which the later was whipped ; back to New Orleans, and from there to New York, in company with several thousand convalescents. In 1863, re-enlisted in the Ith W. V. C., which formed a part of the command of Gen. N. P. Banks, in his Red River expedition, and assisted at the battle and taking of Port Hudson ; July 8, 1863, appointed by the Secretary of War Veterinary Surgeon for the regiment ; mustered out of the service June 2, 1866, at Brownsville, Texas, when he returned to Jefferson and was elected to the office of City Marshal three terms; afterward Deputy Sheriff for several years ; in 1878, was elected to the office of Sheriff of Jefferson Co., and is the present ineumbent. Married, in 1844, in De Kalb Co., Ill., to Emily Darling. the fruits of the union being three children, all dead.
SOLON BROWN, briekmaker and cheesemaker, Jefferson; born in Berlin, Vt., Ang. 13, 1824; is a son of Eliada Brown, who died in 1855. Mr. Solon Brown came West to Milwaukee in June, 1837, and in company with a sister and mother, went to Sycamore, Ill., and thence to Jefferson, in Novem- ber, 1837, with a half brother, E. G. Darling, and lived with himn till of age, then went to teaming between Jefferson and Milwaukee till 1850, when he went to California; returned in 1854, and the next year engaged in brickmaking till 1877 ; sometimes had three yards. Started a cheese-factory in 1877, which he still operates. Married Miss Candis Whipple in 1848; they have two children-Carrie A., born Oct. 4, 1856, and William A., born May 2, 1858.
CAPT. NELSON BRUETT, attorney at law, Jefferson ; was born at Massena Springs, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Aug. 14, 1828 ; came to Jefferson, October, 1854; spent the summer of 1855 in Kansas ; returned in 1856, and read law with Holmes & Merriman three years, then was admitted to the bar; in the spring of 1859, he formed a copartnership with JJ. E. Holmes and continued law practice till 1861 ; enlisted under the first call for troops, in May, 1861, in a company intended for the 4th Wisconsin, but it did not muster with the regiment ; in July, 1861, he enlisted in Co. D, Ist W. V. C., and was elected Cap- tain of the company in September ; the regiment carried on an almost independent warfare, and was in several severe campaigns through Arkansas; was afterward under Rosecrans in the Department of the Tennessee ; this rigorous service proved too severe for Capt. B., and he was compelled to retire from serv- icc Aug. 3, 1863; in 1865, owing to poor health, he bought a farm and farmned it until he regained health sufficiently to resume practice, in 1875. Married Anna A. Watt, October 24, 1866; she was born in
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Scotland in 1848; they have four children living-William Arthur, Bertha E., Walter C. and Marie de Lerba, aged 9, 7, 6 and 2 years, respectively. He has held the following offices : Superintendent of Town- ship Schools, Justice of the Peace ten years, and Deputy County Clerk, also Police Justice six years ending with 1876; religion, Universalist ; politics, Democrat.
E. L. BUCKINGHAM, painting and archery, Jefferson ; born in Rochester, N. Y .; came to Geneva, Wis., in 1847, where he remained thirteen years; in 1854, came to Janesville and lived till 1858, and thence to Jefferson ; was in the furniture business from 1866 to 1871. Married Miss Lydia M. Baker, Jan. 13, 1872; she was born July 15, 1852.
CHARLES F. BULLWINKEL, dealer in hardware and agricultural implements, Jeffer- son ; is a son of Ortgies Bullwinkel, and came to Jefferson Co. with his parents in 1848, and settled at what is now called Helenville. Mr. C. F.'s father kept post office at Helenville, from 1851 till the time of his death, in 1873, and has also been Notary Public and Justice of the Peace; when he first came to the county, he bought land at Helenville and ran a hotel and general merchandise store. Helenville took its name from Charles' mother, whose name was Helen ; she died in 1866. Mr. Charles B. was born in Dukedom of Oldenburg, Germany, Sept. 15, 1842; came to America in 1848; he has a general merchan- dise store at Helenville ; came to Jefferson in 1869, and established in present business; he has held the offices of Assessor and Village Treasurer, and is now Alderman. Married Miss Anna B. Grimm May 19, 1870; she was born in Jefferson, Jan. 22, 1850; they have had three children, two living-George, born June 8, 1877 ; Charles, March 30, 1879, and Anna M., who is now dead.
I. T. CARR, editor and proprietor of the Jefferson Banner, was born in town of Henrietta, Monroe Co., N. Y., July 5, 1831, being the closing figure of one of the grand celebrations of our nation's birth ; he received a common-school education, and, at the age of 15 years, learned the printer's trade in the office of the Western New Yorker at Warsaw, N. Y., which business he has since followed most of the time. Enlisted Ang. 6, 1862, as private in Co. G, 22d W. V. I., and served thus nine months, when he was commissioned as First Lieutenant of Co. K, 16th W. V. I., in which position he served through the Atlanta campaign, and, after the fall of the city, he resigned his commission at Eastport, Ga., and was next commissioned Captain of Co. A, 46th W. V. I., and served until mustered out Oet. 10, 1865; in the mean time, he joined Sherman at Ackworth, Ga .. and was actively engaged in the various campaigns of this army for some time; by order of Gen. Granger, was put in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau at Huntsville, Ala. ; was next detailed as President of Military Commission at Huntsville, Ala., for the trial of civil and criminal cases, till September, 1865, after which he joined the army and was mustered out. After Mr. Carr left the army, he worked at the printing business till 1875, then bought out and published the Green County Reformer at Monroe, Wis., for three years ; next came to Jefferson and bought out a half-interest in Jefferson Banner, and soon after became sole proprietor, and still continues in said capacity. Mr. C. is strongly Democratic in polities, and is well known among the press fraternity ; also has been prominently identified in the political affairs of the State. In 1866. he was Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms in the State Assembly. His was the first newspaper in the West to present Tilden's name as candidate in 1876 ; Mr. C. was Delegate to the National Convention that nominated Tilden, and labored with telling effect for his election both with his " pen and press," as well as " on the stump." Married Miss Nancy T. Popple Dec. 7, 1853; she was born May 22, 1833; there are three children-Ella E., born Oct. 1, 1854; Francis W., Jan. 31, 1860 ; Charles M., March 28, 1862; these sous are in the printing business with their father ; Mr. C.'s first wife died Oct. 26, 1871; he next married Mrs. Charlotte A. Moore for second wife May 1, 1878; she was born May 20, 1838.
SHERWOOD CHASE, hand-turner of wood, with Wisconsin Manufacturing Co., Jeffer- son ; was born in Chenango Co., N. Y., town of North Norwich, Aug. 18, 1843. Enlisted in August, 1862, in Co. A, Ist Wis. Heavy Artillery, and was stationed in the fortifieations in the defense of Wash- ington ; mustered out in July, 1865. He came to Palmyra, Wis., in 1854; removed to Rome in 1859, and settled in Jefferson in 1866, in present business. Married Miss M. M. Hoskins April 7, 1867; she was born Sept. 27, 1849; they have three children-Bertha, born Feb. 3. 1871; Roy D., Sept. 26, 1872, and Thaddeus, July 26, 1877. Mr. C. is a Mason, Family are Methodists.
JOHN CHITTENDEN, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Jefferson ; was born in Kent, England, Aug. 23, 1818 ; came to America in 1852, and to Jefferson in 1853. He married Mrs. Luey Gilman June 2, 1862. Mr. C. adopted one child named Emma, who married a Mr. Toplin ; they now reside in Dutchess Co., N. Y. Mrs. Chittenden was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. 1, 1815, Mr. Chittenden's farm contains forty acres.
R. W. CLARK, dry goods and groceries, Jefferson ; born in Levant, Me., Nov. 14, 1808; came to Jefferson in 1857 and connected himself with the Wisconsin Manufacturing Company and was
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President of the same, and still has stock in it; commeneed in mercantile business in 1874. Married Miss Rhoda Sinclair. Mr. C. is a Universalist.
HENRY COLONIUS, County Judge of Jefferson Co., Jefferson ; was born in Wachters- bach, Germany, March 12, 1831; was educated at Academic Gymnasium, in Hanan, and at Buedingen, Germany ; finished course in Primus Class in full preparation for the University ; came to America in 1849 and was for eight years engaged in manufacturing cigars in New York City; in 1858-59, edited the Virginia Staatszeitung, at Wheeling, Va .; was in the commission business in Watertown, Wis., for a time ; eame to Jefferson in 1862. In 1870, was elected Register of Deeds, which office he held for two terms; served as Town Clerk in 1875-76. Married Catherine Limper May 25, 1866; she was born in Buedingen, Germany, Feb. 5, 1849. Mr. C. belongs to the Odd Fellows.
EDWARD COPELAND, farmer, See. 10; P. O. Jefferson ; born in West Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Mass., Jan. 26, 1825 ; came West in 1848 and bought present place ; went to California in 1850, returning the spring of 1855. He has been Village Trustee three or four years ; was Chairman of the Town Board of Supervisors three years, and member of Side Board three years. Married Mrs. Adelaide ( Garfield) Harvey, daughter of Rev. Garfield, of Jefferson, Feb. 24, 1862; she was born April 29, 1832, in Barnard, Vt .; they have one ehild-Ethel, born Jan. 27, 1872. Mrs. C. has one child by her first husband-Kate A. Harvey, born Sept. 30, 1856. Mr. C. owns an eighty-acre farm.
GEORGE COPELAND, joint proprietor of the Jefferson Boot and Shoe Factory, Jefferson ; was born at West Bridgewater, Mass., Oct. 21, 1831, and was in the boot and shoe business here for two years ; in 1868, the present factory was organized and Mr. C. has been connected with it ever since. He married Miss Sarah J. Paine Oct. 3, 1858 ; she was born in Winslow, Me., Jan. 10, 1830. They are of the Swedenborgian faith.
THOMAS CONAN, merchant, Jefferson ; son of Daniel Conan, of this place; came to Watertown with his parents in 1849; thence to Fox Lake, Dodge Co., Wis. Enlisted in Dodge Co. in November, 1861, in Co. A, 17th W. V. 1., and belonged to the 2d Brigade, 3d Division of the 17th Army Corps; was in all the skirmishes and battles of this division, from Shiloh through the entire eam- paign of Sherman's march to the sea. Mr. C. first held the office of Second Sergeant, and in 1864, at Rome, Ga., was promoted to the office of Second Lieutenant, and afterward to First Lieutenant ; was then detached from the regiment and was a member of Brig. Gen. R. K. Scott's staff till the army reached Pocotaligo, S. C., where he was given command of Co. A, 17th W. V. I., which position he held till mus- tered out at Louisville, Ky., in July, 1865. He has been in the mercantile business in Jefferson since 1867. Mr. C. was in the drug business in Jefferson one year before commencing in the mercantile trade. His father Daniel was one of the first men in the mercantile trade in Watertown.
GEORGE B. CRIST, carpenter, Jefferson ; was born in Jefferson March 6, 1844; has been in present business since youth. Married Harriet C. Tillotson May 2, 1870; she was born Aug. 22, 1845; they have two children-Marie Antoinette, born Jan. 4, 1874, and Adeline, Jan. 1, 1877. Mr. C. belongs to the Odd Fellows; he enlisted, in December, 1861, in Co. D, 16th W. V. I., and mustered out July 12, 1865 ; was in the battles of Shiloh and Corinth, in the siege of Atlanta, and with Sherman all through his march to the sea. His father, George, is still living, and was one of the early settlers, coming to Jefferson in 1842, where he still resides. Mrs. Susannah R. Crist, mother of Geo. B., died in 1856.
FRED DANYUS, night watchman in Wisconsin Manufacturing Co.'s building, Jefferson ; was born in La Fayette Co., Tenn., in 1845 ; he came to Wisconsin in June, 1864, and to Jefferson in 1867, and, for a time, ran the engine at the foundry till three years ago, when he engaged as watchman for the Wisconsin Manufacturing Co.
E. G. DARLING, deceased ; eame from the town of Berlin, Vt., in 1831, to Plainfield, Ill., and served in the State militia about one year ; in 1832, went to Chieago and constructed the second frame building in Chicago, and, in 1833, built the first stone house for John Kinzie; then went to Milwaukee, and built the first stone house there in 1835; in 1836, he went to Bark River, now called Hebron, in Jefferson Co., Wis., when a company, called the Milwaukee & Rock River Claim Company, was organized in Milwaukee, in the year 1835, to take up land in Ilebron, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson ; in 1835, he erected a dam aeross Bark River, at. Hebron, and started a mill in 1836, under the supervision of Samuel Wales. In 1837, Mr. Darling built the first frame house in the county at Hebron ; in the fall of 1837, he built the first frame house in Jefferson, where he moved, with his half-brother, Alonzo, and two half- sisters, Melissa and Marion Brown, and an adopted daughter of Eliada Brown. Mr. Darling's name is well graven upon the memory of Jefferson people as one of the early pioneers.
JAMES ELLIOT, blacksmith, Jefferson ; was born in Merrimack Co., N. H., March 12, 1837. Married Mary Ross May 24, 1863 ; she was born March 18, 1841. They are Baptists. Mr. E. enlisted
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April 7, 1865, in Co. B, 52d W. V. I., as Corporal in company; was mustered out in August, 1875. Father's name was George.
ADAM FANHOLTS, liveryman, Jefferson ; came to Jefferson about 1855 ; was elerk in Jefferson House seven years and at Sawyer House three years ; Mr. F. was born in Prussia Jan. 10, 1842, and came to America when quite young. Married Miss Sarah Wagner; there are three children- Joseph. Ellen and Lizzie, aged 10, 8 and 6 years, respectively. People belong to Catholic Church. Mr. F. has been in the livery business for twelve years.
C. D. FOX, foreman in cutting-room of boot and shoe factory, Jefferson ; was born in Windsor, Conn., Aug. 5, 1851, and has been in present business since 1869; came to Jefferson in 1852. Married Susan Beardsley, in Sparta, Wis, Dec. 25, 1871 ; she was born July 20, 1852; they have two children -Pearl, born Nov. 8, 1872, and Leonore, Aug. 30, 1874.
ADAM GRIMM, deceased; born at Hohlenbrun, near Wunsiedel, Bavaria, May 25, 1824, died in Jefferson, Wis., April 10, 1876. Having received a good education, he entered the office of Justice Wachtel, of Wunsiedel, whom, after serving faithfully for several years, he left to take the position of head clerk under Lawyer Vogel, of the same place; he occupied this position for about nine years. In 1849, he married Miss Anna M. Thoma, born Oct. 29, 1829, at Grafenreuth, near Wunsiedel, Bavaria, and emigrated to the United States the same year. They settled in Jefferson, Wis., and for years lived the hard life of a Western pioneer, farming, nursery and the bee business being his chief pursuits; in 1861, he started a general grocery and dry-goods store in Jefferson ; sold out in 1865 and devoted his time during the summer months to the bee business, and, during the winter, to buying wood for the C., & N .- W. Ry. Co ; Aug. 17, 1867, he started for Italy to import to this country the Italian species of bees ; from that time dated his success in the bee business, and soon he became known as one of the greatest and most successful apiarists of the country ; at the time of his death, he had on hand 1,397 colonies of bees; in 1873, he erected a bank building in the city of Jefferson and formed a stockholder bank, bearing the name of " The Farmers' & Merchants' Bank of Jefferson," and, next year, 1874, he started the Green Bay Savings Bank in Green Bay, Wis .; in the former he occupied the position of cashier to the time of his death. He left surviving his wife and all his children, whose births date as fol- lows : - Anna B., born Jan. 22, 1850 (married C. F. Bullwinkel, of Jefferson); Margaretha, Dec. 10, 1851 (married C. Kueslermann, of Green Bay ); Katharina, Feb. 6, 1854 (married H. Gieseler, of Green Bay); Elizabeth, born April 18, 1857 (married George J. Kispert, of Jefferson), and George, born Sept. 11, 1859, and still residing in Jefferson; he received a good common-school education, and, at the time of his father's death, was attending the Jefferson Liberal Institute ; he left his studies to undertake the man- agement of the extensive bee business, which his father left ; selling out most of the old stock, he started in anew, and his apiaries now number nearly seven hundred colonies ; during the winter of 1876, he attended the Northwestern University of Watertown, Wis., and, in 1877, entered the Law School of Mich- igan University, where he graduated March 26, 1879 ; he is also engaged extensively in farming near Jamestown, Dakota, where he has about five hundred acres under cultivation.
CHRISTOPHER GRIMM, merchant and apiarist, Jefferson; was born in Bavaria, Ger- many, March 18, 1828; came to America in 1846; resided in Terre Haute, Ind., till coming to Jefferson ; has traveled through nearly all the States of the Union and visited most of the larger cities ; came to Jefferson in 1865 and bought out W. Hillier's store and established in mercantile business; in 1869, began in the bee business, also, and now has about five hundred swarms on farm near by and at other points. Mr. G. has been President of Village Board three terms, was appointed Commissioner of Public Debt, elected member of County Board of Supervisors and is now Justice of the Peace. Married Caro- line Wahler March 4, 1851 ; she was born in Wittenburg, Germany, May 22, 1825; they have six ehil- dren-Caroline, Emma, Otto, Menie, Thomas and Matilda, aged 25, 21, 20, 18, 16 and 13 years, respec- tively. Mr. G.'s family are Lutherans. He is a Mason.
JOHN HACHTEL, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Helenville; born in Wurtemberg in 1827 ; came to America in 1854 and remained one year in Philadelphia, Penn .; he then settled in Helenville; he spent a short time in Kansas and settled on the farm he now owns of 140 aeres in 1859. Married Miss Catherine Lutz in 1855, who died in September, same year, leaving one daughter-Louisa. He married Miss Elizabeth Holzworth in 1859 ; they have eight children-George, Caroline, John, Charles, William, Mary, Andrew and Henry. Mr. Hachtel is a Democrat. The family are Lutherans. He is raising cattle and has seventeen head, also has twenty-four sheep, fifteen hogs and a pair of horses, having just sold a good team.
DANIEL HAKE, Jr., farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Jefferson ; born in Pennsylvania in Decem- ber, 1822, and settled on present place in 1843. Married Caroline Hobler July 15, 1849 ; she was born
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June 28, 1831 ; they have had eight children, five living-Aaron, born Nov. 29, 1860; George, Feb. 2, 1852; Darwin, Feb. 29, 1863 : Edward, Nov. 5, 1866 ; Cornelia, Dee. 22, 1854; Joseph, June 8, 1850 ; La Fayette, Dee. 22, 1855 ; Ellen, Nov. 16, 1854. People belong to Evangelical Association. Mr. H. has 170 aeres in farm. Joseph, La Fayette and Ellen are dead.
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