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beautiful farm of 100 acres near the village of Baraboo. He has held the offices of Town Treasurer, District Treasurer and Director for a number of ycars.
GEORGE CAPENER, contractor and builder; born in London, England, July 29, 1829 ; came to America with his parents in 1836 ; they located in New York City May 11, 1850 ; he landed in Baraboo, where he has been engaged most of the time at his trade; he has built most of the churches, and a large number of the principal buildings in the town. He was married, Nov. 14, 1849, to Miss Harriet J. Dunn ; she was born in Meadville, Penn .; they had four children, all born in Baraboo, Wis .- Emma J., Sarah A., Wm. A. and Geo. D. Mrs. Capener died June 18, 1865. He married the second time, Sept. 2, 1866, to Louisa Shew; she was born in Baraboo, and they have two children living- Arthur and Lcona May. In politics, Mr. Capener is a Republican.
A. J. CAROW, contractor and builder ; he was born in Canada West Jan. 25, 1843; he came to the States in 1866, and to Baraboo in 1872. He was married August, 1870, to Miss Martha L. Moore ; she was born in Wisconsin ; they have had six children-Lottie Bell, deceased ; Frank A., Geo. W., Irwin, Maud and Herbert T. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carow are members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics he is a Republican.
DAN CHAMBERLIN, born Nov. 25, 1839, at Pittsfield, Mass .; moved to Belvidere, Ill., with his parents about 1861 ; he commenced railroading as fireman. In 1862, enlisted in Co. B, 95th Ill. V. I .; served three years, was at the siege of Vicksburg and other engagements; in 1873, took an engine on the C. & N. W. R. R., and is still engaged there. He was married, Nov. 26, 1867, to Miss Jessie Ball ; she was born in New York State; they have two children-Adda and Dan ; he also has charge of two children of his sister, who is deceased, and is raising them up as his own; their names are Mary and James Hardy.
D. R. CHAMBERLAIN, contractor and builder, one of the firm of Chamberlain & Burdick ; he was born in Franklin Co., N. Y., April 17, 1826; he came to Baraboo June 8, 1852. He was mar- ried to Miss Sarah A. Hcath in 1852 ; she was born in Franklin Co., N. Y .; they have had two children -Arthur A., deceased, and Minnie. Both Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain arc members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics he is a Republican.
PHILIP CHEEK, Jr., attorney at law ; son of Philip and Hannah (Gunningham) Cheek, who came to Excelsior, Sauk Co., Wis., May, 1856, and settled on Sec. 27, both now residents of Bara- boo ; Philip, Jr., was born in Silverton, Somersetshire, England, May 11, 1841; came to America with his parents May 1, 1852; lived two years at Newark, N. J. and two years at Pawtucket, R. I .; from there came to Wisconsin. Enlisted April 25, 1861, in Co. A, 6th W. V. I. ; served in this regiment until Dec. 25, 1862; when he was wounded at Antietam, received appointment of Deputy Provost Marshal for Sauk County Nov. 17, 1863 ; finally mustered out May 15, 1865 ; he settled in Baraboo, permanently, Oct. 15, 1870, having been appointed Clerk of Circuit Court on that day ; elected Clerk of the same court in the fall of 1870, re-clected as Clerk until Jan. 1, 1877; elected District Attorney in the fall of 1879; he has been engaged in practice sinceJan. 1, 1877 ; was admitted to the bar in September, 1876. Was married in the town of Excelsior, July 23, 1861, to Catharine, daughter of Henry and Mary (Horn) Fuller, who came to the town of Freedom in 1855, and still reside there. Mrs. C. was born May 24, 1840, at Pittsburgh, Penn .; they have two children living-Arthur W. and Jennie; lost onc son, born Sept. 28, 1864, and died April 14, 1880.
GEORGE CORDES, manufacturer of and dealer in furniture, Bridge street ; born in Han over, Germany, March 12, 1826 ; he came to America in the fall of 1869 ; stopped for three months in Ra- cine, and the same year came to Baraboo and commenced work in the Island Agricultural Works for six years ; he then moved to Recdsburg, went into the furniture business for about three years, then returned to Baraboo and started his present business. He was married, in May, 1857, to Miss Johanna Hartman ; she was born in Hanover, Germany, and came to America with her husband; they have had five children -Johanna, Henry (deceased), George W., Marie S. and Fricda L. Mr. Cordes and his wife arc members of the Lutheran Church.
PHILIP E. COSGROVE; born in Adrian, Mich., July 10, 1854; commenced to learn the trade of boiler-maker in 1870; moved to Baraboo in 1876, in the employ of the C. & N. W. R. R. Co. Hc was married, Oct. 10, 1876, to Miss Sarah Lynch ; she was born in Michigan City, Ind .; they have one child-May.
HENRY H. COWAN, conductor on the C. & N. W. R. R. ; born in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Aug. 31, 1836 ; came to Baraboo in 1873; he has been railroading for the last twenty-three years. He
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was married, Jan. 8, 1860, to Miss Mary E. Anderson ; she was born in Chicago, Ill .; they have two children-Charles H. and Edith. In politics, Mr. Cowan is a Republican.
R. A. COWAN, Assistant Train Dispatcher; born in Massachusetts July 26, 1845. He was married, May 4, 1869, to Miss Anna M. Willott ; she was born in Boone Co., Ill. In politics, Mr. Cowan is a Republican ; he has been in the employ of the C. & N. W. R. R. Co. about thirteen years; he came to Baraboo in 1872, and has held the position he now occupies ever since he has been here ; he took a pleasure trip to England, the present season, and returned.
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CHARLES COWLES, was born Oct. 5, 1815, in Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio ; his parents were poor, but honest, respectable people ; his father, Lorrin Cowles, was born in Norfolk, Conn. ; his mother, whose maiden name was Betsey Hulburt, was born in Northhampton, Mass .; he emigrated with his father, mother and a family of eight children, to Gull Prairie, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., in 1831; among the very first pioneer settlers of that part of the State; there being no sehools at that time, he availed himself of the advantages of the evening tallow-candle and rainy days to acquire such education as cireumstanecs would admit ; went to Oberlin, in Ohio, in 1836, and prepared for college in view of the Christian ministry ; was dissuaded therefrom, by an old Congregational Minister by the name of Knappen, who urged as a reason that he was too light and trifling in his make-up for so grave and dignified an office, which he subsequently and now regards as the first great mistake of his life ; in the winter of 1841 and 1842, taught the village school at Battle Creek, Mich., at the same time prosecuting his studies in medicine in the office of Drs. Cox & Campbell; in the winter of 1843, attended a course of medical leetures at Willoughby, Lake Co., Ohio. In the spring following, the 26th of March, was married to Miss Mary Cowles, daughter of Squire Adna Cowles, of Harpersfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio ; entered Dr. Serwood's offiec in the further prosecution of his medical studies, where he remained one year and eight months; in the summer of 1844, taught school near Lexington, Ky., by which he obtained mcans to attend another course of medical lectures at Willoughby, in the winter of 1844 and 1845, and graduated in Mareh following; he settled in the town of Saybrook, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, for the purpose of practicing his profession ; in May, 1846, he emigrated to Baraboo, Sauk Co., Wis., where his father and one brother had settled three years previously ; there he has remained to the present time ; they have had six children, three of whom died in infaney, the remaining three-two daughters and one son-are still living ; the son, Lucian C., is a praetieing physician and druggist at La Crosse, Wis .; Maria A. married Albert Dennett, a graduate of the law school at Ann Arbor, Mich., by whom she has a daughter. Young Dennctt was a man of great brillianey and promise, but death marked him for his own, and he suecumbed to phthisis-pul- monalis in Denver, Colo., whither he had gone in hopes of regaining his failing health ; his young widow and infant daughter returned to her father's house, where she remained the six subsequent years, being engaged as teacher in the graded school at that place ; subsequently married James Crobly, of Cadillac, Mich., where she now resides ; Nellic, the youngest, lives at home with her parents. Dr. Cowles was the first regular physician in Sauk County, and was exposed to many perils in his long rides into the northern pineries ; on one oeeasion at sun-down, Jan. 3, 1847, was ealled to go sixty-four miles to visit a lumber- man taken with pleuro-pneumonia ; on an Indian pony he rode that distanee by 4 o'clock the next morning without dismounting, the thermometer being at 26° below zero; such a feat demonstrating a degree of physical endurance seldom seen in our time ; he has followed the practice of his professsion thirty-four years in this eounty with indefatigable zeal, taking great interest in the different phases of diseases as they have appeared from time to time in the history of our county ; if in anything he may be said to exeel it is in diagnosis, arriving at conelusions from facts and observation, known as the induetive method, rather than a priori reasoning; his success as an obstetrician has been, as far as he knows, without a parallel within the range of his observation ; has had 1,386 eases, not one of which has died either proximately or remotely as the result of parturition, eleven forceps eases and fourteen of puerperal convulsion, all saved, a record of which he is deservedly proud; he has held a commission from the Government as Examin- ing Surgeon seventeen years ; examined 3,000 men for enlistment from this eounty in the late unpleasant- ness with our Southern brethren, also, all the disabled soldiers sinee the war, who have applied for pen- sions within a cireuit of twenty miles. In the spring of 1861, he visited the Rocky Mountains, traveled 1,100 miles on foot in Colorado, examining the mines and searching for new deposits ; was the first one who demonstrated the practicability of separating gold from the pyrites of iron by rusting the ores with eaustic potash or soda ; was a Garrison Abolitionist ; the first vote he cast for President was for James G. Birney ; espoused the Republican eause in its incipieney, and is a firm believer in the universal natural equal rights of all men, without distinction of raee or color ; always cheerful and happy ; given to hospi- tality, and in sympathy with the oppressed of every raee and clime ; is a firm believer in the Christian
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religion, and regards it as better adapted to human needs than any or all religions know to mankind ; believes the United States of America the best country in the world, and its government the best on the face of the earth.
CAPT. B. K. COWLES, proprietor of the Railroad Hotel and Eating House at Baraboo ; he was born in Franklin Co., Ohio; he took charge of the Cliff House in 1876, and opened the Railroad House in 1878. He enlisted July, 1861, as a private in Co. K, 6th lowa V. I. ; promoted to 1st Lieutenant October, 1861, and then to Captain in the spring of 1862, immediately after the battle of Shiloh; was then detailed as Acting Assistant Adjutant General ou the Staff of Brig. Gen. John A. McDowell ; served in that capacity till his resignation, on account of disability ; time of service, about three years. His wife was born in Licking Co., Ohio ; they have three children-H. L., Laura K. and Byron K., Jr. In politics, Capt. Cowles is a Republican.
JAMES CRAWFORD, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Baraboo ; son of James and Lucy Wallace Crawford ; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1847, located where he now resides, in spring of 1848; born near Columbus, Huron Co:, Ohio ; emigrated from Ohio to within six miles of Beloit, Wis., and remained there until 1847, when he located where he now resides. Mr. Crawford enlisted in the army as a musician and was stationcd at Fort Scott, Kan. James Crawford, father of subject of this sketch, was born in Delaware Co., N. Y., and died Aug. 19, 1876, in Baraboo, Wis. The mother of Mr. Crawford was born in Vermont, and died Oct. 14, 1873, in Baraboo. Mr. Crawford has held the office of Supervisor ; belongs to the Temple of Honor, was a member of the Good Templars, always been a temperance worker ; he is a member of the Methodist Church.
LEVI CROUCH; was born in the town of Cohocton, Stcuben Co., N. Y., Feb. 29, 1836 ; came to Baraboo December 8, 1857 ; has been engaged in practice of law, dealing in real estate and speculating, etc., since that time ; he has also carried on stone quarrying extensively-owning two quarries-the only ones of consequence here. Married at Liberty, Steuben Co., N. Y., Sept. 17, 1861, to Julia Woodworth ; she was born near Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y., Feb. 29, 1840; they have one daughter, Minnie Belle, born June 23, 1865. Lost one son, Francis Clark, aged a little less than one year.
SAMUEL CROUCH, one of the firm of Crouch Bros., livery business, and sale stable, on Oak street, opposite the Sumner House; they keep a large stock, and have some of the finest turnouts in the town ; the stable was built in 1878, of brick, two stories high, fifty-four feet front, and sixty-six feet deep, has a basement and stable room for twenty-five head of horses, has all the modern improvements for a first- class livery. They also keep some first-class stallions, among them three head of young Hambletonians, grandsons of Rysdik's Hambletonian, and these are the first importation of that breed to Sauk Co.
ROSE DAVIDS, occupation, farming, Sec. 4 ; P. O. Baraboo ; daughter of Isaac H. and Sarah Mitchell ; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1839, and located in Walworth, Walworth Co .; located in Bar- aboo, Sauk Co., March, 1854; owns 40 acres of land four miles from the village of Baraboo ; born in Warren, Warren Co., Penn., March 5, 1816. Married Nov. 17, 1831, to Isaac Davids, son of George W. Davids and Elizabeth Wells Davids. Isaac Davids died Feb. 6, 1860. Mrs. Davids' family consisted of ten children-Elizabeth, Casinda, Ruthan, Louis W., Alfred H., Francis M., Emma, Isaac, Samuel W. and George W. Alfred, died March 26, 1868; Casinda, died Aug. 3, 1863 ; Louis W. was in the army and a member of 4th W. V. C. Father of Mrs. Davids was in the war of 1812. Isaac Davids, husband of Mrs. Davids, was the first man who drove a four-horse team into the city of Madison, Dane Co., Wis. Mrs. Davids belongs to the M. E. Church.
MOSES MITCHELL DAVIS, was born in Sharon, Windsor Co., Vt., August 27, 1820 ; his father was Moses Davis, a native of Methuen, Mass ; his mother was Polly Chandler Davis, a native of Pomfret, Conn ; he was educated in the common schools, and at Norwich University, which institution he entered in the spring of 1837; while acquiring his education, he was compelled for want of funds to teach school during the winter months, and labor on a farm in the summer, attending to his studies in spring and autumn. He commenced the study of medicine and surgery with Dr. D. C. Joslyn, of Waitsfield, Vt., in 1843 ; the same year he attended medical lectures at Dartmouth, the New Hampshire Medical College ; subsequently he attended two courses of medical lectures at the Vermont Medical College, at Woodstock, from which college he graduated in June, 1846; he at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Nor- wich, Vt .; in 1854, he removed to Portage City, Wis., where he was engaged in the practice of his pro- fession most of the time, until early in 1863, he removed to Appleton, Wis., to take charge of the lands donated by Congress, to the State, to improve the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and to connect the same by a canal. This change of residence was made necessary by his appointment as Trustec of the property ; after
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the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers improvement, property was sold under a decree of foreclosure. He removed to Chicago, where he resided until a short time subsequent to the great fire of 1871, when he removed to Baraboo, where he has since been engaged in his profession. While a resident of Vermont, he was a meill- ber of the Connecticut River Medical Society ; he is a member of the Wisconsin State Medical Society, and a member of the American Medical Association, and also a member of the American Public Health Association. Hc has always been a decided Republican ; in 1852, he was a delegate from Vermont to the National Convention held at Pittsburgh, Penn., which nominated the late Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, for President; in 1856, he was a delegate from Wisconsin to the National Convention which nom- inated Gen. Fremont for President; in November, 1855, he was elected to the Assembly from the north half of Columbia Co .; in November, 1856, he was elected to the State Senate for two years, and he was re-elected to the same place in November, 1858; in 1860, he was elected President pro tem. of the Senate ; in 1858, in joint convention of the Legislature, he was elected Regent of the State University for six years, and in 1864, he was re-elected ; on the re-organization of the University he declined the appoint- ment of Regent ; from 1863 to 1870, he was a Trustee of Lawrence University ; while a Regent of the State University, he was mainly instrumental in the passage of a resolution in favor of the co-education of the sexes ; in 1862, he was appointed Trustec of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers improvement property, his associates being Hon. Charles Butler and Judge Alexander Spaulding of New York ; in 1862, he was appointed Draft Commissioner for Columbia Co ; in June, 1861, he was commissioned to take charge of the Indians residing in the vicinity of Green Bay ; after more than five years' service, hc resigned, as he did not choose to hold office under President Andrew Johnson. While a member of the . Legislature, the officers of the Milwaukee & La Crosse Railway Company used nearly a million of dollars of company bonds to secure the passage of bill giving that company the lands granted by Congress to aid in the construction of a railroad from Columbus or Madison, Wis., to Portage and thence northwesterly to the River or Lake St. Croix; this bill did not secure the construction of the road, although it donated the lands; Dr. Davis opposed the bill, which passed and was vetoed by the Gov- ernor; a new bill was prepared, giving the lands to the same company and securing the construction of the road ; in 1858, a joint committee of the Legislature investigated the transactions of the company in using its bonds to control the action of the members of the Legislature; it was proved that most of the mem- bers took bonds, and a very few refused them ; Dr. Davis was numbered among the few; the officials of the company visited him with their displeasure; they bought up two of the three Republican papers in the county and tried to defeat him for the Senate ; without notice, or offer of compensation, they entered upon and took possession of his lots and lands in Portage ; the result was a law-suit ; the Doctor got an injunc- tion against the occupancy of his property until it was paid for ; the company refused to obey the order of the court ; after two days' notice, the Doctor took up the track on a part of his land ; the company sent a hundred men to forcibly take possession and relay the track ; the Sheriff arrested about ninety of the rail- road men and lodged them in jail; the engines and cars that were run on to the Doctor's land werc dumped in the sand, and then the company paid the damages which had been proved in court, and thus this bit of railroad war ended. On the 3d of December, 1846, he married Miss Eunice E. Dana, of Warren, Vt .; five children have been born in this family-three sons and two daughters; one son died in infancy ; the eldest daughter is married and settled in Chicago, Ill. ; the sons are married and engaged in railway service in Minnesota.
J. A. DIBBLE, J. P., was born in Danbury, Conn., May 2, 1842; came to Baraboo with his parents July 16, 1852 ; he is engaged in the boot and shoe trade ; in 1860, was elected Town Treas- urer, and, in 1878, Justice of the Peace, to fill an unexpired term, and in 1879 was elected to fill the full term. He was married Nov. 22, 1865, to Miss Mary A. Worth ; she was born in Richmondville, N. Y. ; they have four children-Julia C., Mary E., Frank A. and Carrie M. Both hc and his wife are members of the M. E. Church, and Squire Dibble, in politics, is a Republican.
D. D. DOANE, dealer in fancy groceries and confectionery, in connection with dining hall ; his bakery is first-class, running up into a line of goods that are seldom found outside of large cities ; meals, lunches and ice-cream served at all hours ; also a nice line of picnic goods always on hand. Mr. Doane is a Vermonter by birth, and has lived in Baraboo since 1856.
JOHN DRAPER, one of the firm of Draper Bros., proprietors of meat market, on Third street ; he was born in Welby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, Jan. 27, 1827 ; came to America in March, 1856, with his family, and located in Philadelphia for one year ; in 1857, moved to Madison, Wis., and in 1868 moved to Baraboo. He was married July 3, 1846, to Miss Rebecca Stevenson ; she was born in Leicestershire, England, March 18, 1827; they have two children-Mary C., now Mrs.
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Rolla E. Noyes, and John J. H. Mrs. Draper is a member of the Episcopal Church. In polities, Mr. Draper is Independent, and his son, John J. H., is a Democrat.
CHARLES A. DYKE, telegraph operator for the C. & N. W. R. R. Co. ; born at Nashua, N. H., March 22, 1853, and came to Baraboo, Wis., in 1874. Was married Nov. 26, 1876, to Miss Nellie Palmer ; she was born in Dane Co., Wis. In politics, Mr. Dyke is a Demoerat.
JAMES DYKINS was born near Elmira, N. Y, Jan. 1, 1820 ; served an apprenticeship at carriage-making at Williamsport, Penn., and then returned to New York ; in 1844, went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and from there to St. Louis; from the latter city he emigrated, in the summer of 1845, to Free- port, Ill., where he was married, in 1846, to Eleanor Thatcher ; in 1849, he came to Baraboo, and has lived here ever since, engaged in wagon-making. Mr. and Mrs. Dykins have four children-John, Charles W., Emma Jane and Eddie J., all living; the eldest son and the daughter reside in Chicago.
CHARLES W. DYKINS was born in Baraboo July 31, 1851 ; received a common-school education, and commenced learning the printer's trade in 1867 ; established the Sauk County Republican, in partnership with D. W. K. Noyes, in Deeember, 1879.
CHARLES EBER ; born at Haardt Palatine, Germany, Aug. 1, 1852; eame to America April 1, 1870, with his parents ; they stopped in New York City for a few months ; he commenced rail- roading on the P. & R. R. R. ; then on the P. & E. R. R. ; then on the P., C. & St. L. R. R .; then in 1874, moved to Baraboo, Wis .; went to work on the C. & N. W. R. R., as brakeman ; then to firing up to Jan- uary, 1879 ; he then took an engine. He was married Nov. 9. 1875, to Miss Barbara Egerer ; they have one child, Anna.
FRANK ELDRIDGE, telegraph operator for the C. & N. W. R. R. Co .; he was born at Dupre, Wis., July 7, 1853, and eame to Baraboo in 1875. He was married Jan 14, 1880, to Miss Fannie H. Turner ; she was born in Utiea, N. Y.
THOMAS T. ENGLISH, farmer ; he was born in Virginia April 28, 1824; came to Sauk Co. in 1852, and moved his family in 1853; since he has been in the county, he has followed farming, merchandising, etc. ; he is one of the largest bee-raisers in the State ; also one of the stockholders and a Director in the First National Bank at this place ; he has served on the Village Board as Trustee ; has been elected Town Assessor two terms. He was married, July 27, 1848, to Miss Ann E. Powell ; she was born in Franklin Co., Va. ; they have four ehildren, viz., Thomas W., John E., Ella V. and Alice M. In politics, Mr. English is a Democrat.
HENRY D. EVANS, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Baraboo; eame to Wisconsin in 1837, arriving at Milwaukee in May ; has been a permanent resident of Baraboo since 1846 ; lived in the village for eight years, where he worked at his trade, carpenter and joiner, when he removed to hiis present residence ; was born Dec. 16, 1818; son of Abitha and Mary (Doty) Evans. Was married, Nov. 30, 1845, to Miss Bridget H. McBride; Mrs. E. died April 6, 1874; has two children-Abitha (deeeased), Izro, now Mrs. T. W. English ; has been Supervisor and Clerk of School Board.
THOMAS FERRIS, proprietor paint-shop, over Gollmar's blacksmith-shop; he was born in England Sept. 11, 1829 ; came to America and to Baraboo, Wis,, June, 1852. He was married March 12, 1852, to Miss Patience Stubbs; she died March, 1872; they had three children, viz., Sarah, now married to H. Hurlbert ; Lorenzo J .; Nelson R. Mr. Ferris was married, the second time, Dee. 5, 1872, to Miss Cornelia M. Monroe ; she was born in Madison Co., N. Y. In politics, Mr. Ferris is a Republican.
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