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E. S. PALMER.
David Palmer, father of E. S. Palmer, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and lived in Jefferson county, N. Y., near Sacket's Harbor, where E. S. Palmer was born in 1827 ; he came to Wisconsin in 1853 and settled on section 6 in Green- ville ; was married to Miss Martha Lewis, a sister of A. P. and Jerome Lewis, June 7, 1854 ; they have had four chil-
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dren, two boys and two girls. Their first daughter, Carrie O. Palmer, born Sept. 5, 1852, married to Ed. Somers April 4, 1884 ; they have three children, all boys. Second daughter, Eva E., born Sept. 24, 1857, and died March 26, 1862. Edwin P., born Jan. 27, 1864. L. C., born Jan. 17, 1870. Both boys live at home on section 6 in Greenville.
THE GATES FAMILY.
Porter J. Gates was born in Oneida county, N. Y., May 27, 1827, was married to Miss Juliette Arnold in September, 1850, in Os- wego, N. Y .; they have one son and three daugh- ters; one son and one daughter now living ; the son, James P., born July 7, 1860, married to Miss Mary King of Fond du Lac; they have one son ; they now live in Milwau- kee. First daughter, Esther L., born July 13, 1851, died in Appleton in 1864; second daughter, Marion J., born in Apple- ton, Oct. 7, 1851, married to John Miller ; they have one son and five daugh- PORTER J. GATES. ters; Mrs. Miller died in May, 1893. Third daughter, Nellie J., born April 2, 1867, married to Virgil McComb; they have two sons and two ' daughters ; they live in Bozeman, Mont. Mr. Gates now keeps the Gates House in Hortonville ; he was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion in Co. I., Third Wisconsin Cavalry ; he enlisted March 20, 1862, and was discharged July 12, 1865.
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THE JOHNSON FAMILY.
William Johnson was born July 27, 1811, in Philadelphia, Pa .; his father, John Johnson died in Tunchannock, Pa., in 1834; his uncle, Col. William Johnson was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and lost a leg in the bat- tle of Brandywine. Wm. Johnson came to Appleton in 1850; he was married May 19, 1845, to Miss Lydia Sophia Story, a daughter of Col. Story, an early settler and promi- nent citizen of Appleton ; they have had four sons and four daughters ; their oldest son, Amos Augus- tus, is married and has one son and four daugh- ters. First daughter, Sarah Louise, is married B VAN I MIL- to C. S. Buckland ; they have two sons and three WILLIAM JOHNSON. daughters; they now live in Appleton. Third child, Dewitt S. Johnson, married Beulah Johnson; they have two sons and one daughter; Mrs. Johnson died November, 1882. His second wife, Maud Jenkinson, had one son; Mrs. Johnson died in Jan. 1892. Mr. Johnson is now postmaster in Rhinelander, Wis. Fourth child, Frances S. Fifth child, Lena, now dead. Sixth child, William, now dead. Seventh child, Ina B., and her sister, Frances, are now in the insurance busi- ness in Appleton. Eighth child, John Allen, married Miss Bertha Breitung ; they have two daughters ; they now live in Appleton. Wm. Johnson was mayor in the city of Appleton in 1862, '63 and '64, and treasurer in 1866-7 ; alder- man in 1877, and assessor from 1879 to 1887, also collector of United States internal revenue. He died in Appleton
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Nov. 19, 1894, his widow and unmarried daughters now live in the homestead in Appleton.
THE HARDACKER FAMILY.
James Hardacker and Eliza Wickware Hardacker, his wife, were natives of Nova Scotia ; they came to this county in the fall of 1848 ; he first pre- empted a quar- ter section in Sec. 6, T. 21, R. 16; he was not on time to prove up on it as the roads were in a horri- ble condition and the oxen nearly exhausted with the long drive from Wauke- sha county ; he was not able to get upon his claim in time, so he lost it, but entered a tract of land in section 22, now town of Ellington. They had a family of nine children, seven sons and two daugh- ters. James Albert Hard- DR. H. D. HARDACKER. acker died at the age of
twenty-one years. John T., now a butcher and lives at Stewartville, Mo. Isaac M., served in the War of the Re- bellion three years ; he died July 30, 1873. Henry D. is a physician, located at Hortonville, Wis. Lewis A., a farmer at Green Valley, Shawano county, Wis. Herman T., lives on the old homestead. Rolla W., the youngest son died at Hortonville, Wis., March 5, 1884, aged nearly twenty-five years. Elizabeth A., married L. B. Mills in 1858, and
they resided on the n w of section 17 in Greenville until Mr. Mills' death which occurred in October. 1886. Since then Mrs. Mills and a part of her family have lived in Appleton. Della G. Hardacker, second daughter, has been
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a successful teacher for many years and is now engaged as teacher in one of the departments of the First Ward school in Appleton.
THE RANDALL FAMILY.
Levi Randall was born in Bennington county, Vermont, in 1799; he came to Ap- pleton in 1852 and located on the w 12 of w 12 of ne 14 Sec. 26, T. 21, R. 17, now in the Second and Sixth wards of the city of Appleton, where he estab- lished a home and resided there until his death in 1888 ; he was married to Ann Hurd in 1820; they have had sêven sons and two daughters ; their old- est son, A. B., was born Jan. 1, 1821; he married Theresa Gridley, June 5, 1845; they had one son and one daughter. A. B. was a preacher in the M. E. LEVI RANDALL. church and one of the first in Appleton ; he died July 31, 1894 ; his wife still survives. Henry R. Randall, born Oct, 1822; he married Harriet Russell in 1845; they have two daughters. Mr. Randall died Feb. 1872; his wife died in 1852. Third son, Ransford B. Randall, born Sept. 27, 1823 ; he now lives on the old homestead in Vermont. Fourth son, R. H. Randall, born Aug. 11, 1825 ; he mar- ried Miss Sarah A. Prindle, Jan. 1, 1845; they have one daughter. Mr. Randall came to Appleton in 1849 and located on the s w 14 Sec. 24, T. 21, R. 17, where he estab- lished a home on which he now resides ; his daughter mar- ried to J. N. Fox in 1881; they have two sons; they now live in the First ward of Appleton. Fifth child, Harriet
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F. Randall, born June 5, 1827, married to C. V. Smith ; they now live in Vermont. Sixth child, L. L. Randall, born June 22, 1829, married to Miss Jeannette J. Gridley in 1856; they have two daughters, Clara, married to A. C. Tucker ; they have two daughters ; Mr. Tucker died in 1894. Second daughter, Lilly, married to Mr. Gridley ; they have one son. L. L. Randall came to Appleton in 1852 ; he now resides in the First ward of Appleton. Seventh child, R. K. Randall, born July 24, 1831, married to Miss Elizabeth Taylor in 1857; they have three daugh- ters; they now live in Iowa. Eighth child, Theresa Randall, born April 9, 1845, married to Hurd Morehouse in 1864 ; they had one son; Mr. Morehouse died in 1868. Mrs. Morehouse married to James Parkhurst, 1873 ; they have one son and one daughter ; they now live in Alabama. Ninth child, Palmer N. Randall, born Oct. 23, 1846; died in June, 1871.
Mrs. Levi Randall died Oct. 16, 1856; Levi Randall mar- ried June 16, 1857, to Electa Norton; they had one daughter, Flora, married to George S. Thompson in 1873 ; they have two sons and one daughter; they now live in Colorado. Four of Levi Randall's sons were soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, A. B. Randall was chaplain, R. H. and L. L. Randall were in the Sixth Regiment Wisconsin Infantry, R. K. Randall was in the First Wisconsin Cavalry.
WOODFORD D. JORDAN
Was born in Raymond, Cumberland county, Me., Jan. 19. 1825; he is from pioneer stock, having descended from Rev. Robert Jordan of the Church of England, who came from Dorsetshire, England in 1639, and settled in Falmouth, now Portland, Me., the line of descent is as follows: First, Robert; second, Dominicus; third, Dominicus; fourth, Nathaniel ; fifth, Dominicus, who was the first settler in the said town of Raymond; sixth, William; seventh, Dominicus; eighth, Woodford D., who was the first settler in the town of Bovina, Outagamie county, Wis., having
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purchased the land of the government and built the first house where Shiocton now stands in 1850 and has resided in the town ever since. He married Mary E. Manning, Dec. 14, 1851, at Algoma, Wis., no children. He has held the office of school district clerk in the town continously for thirty-five years ; in June, 1875, he laid out the plat of the village of Shiocton and at present resides upon his farm north of the village. .
GEORGE H. MYERS.
Hon. George H. Myers was born Oct. 24, 1824, in Dela- ware county, New York ; when four years of age he came with his parents to Erie county, Pennsyl- vania ; he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Erie City about 1848; he came to Appleton in the fall of 1849, where he practiced his profession ; in 1865 he was commis- sioned a lieutenant in the Fifty-first Regiment, In- fantry ; in the fall of 1878 he was appointed Circuit Judge of the Tenth Judi- cial District, Wisconsin, to fill a vacancy and after- wards was twice elected JUDGE GEORGE H. MYERS. judge and held the posi- . tion until his death which occurred Aug. 1, 1891; he was married to Miss Betsey A. Hawley, Aug. 25, 1852, in Susquehanna county, Penn- sylvania ; they have had one son and one daughter; their son, George, died March 7, 1864; their daughter, Ada E., now lives with her mother at the homestead.
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REV. PHILO S. BENNETT.
Rev. Philo S. Bennett was born in Pulaski, Oswego county, New York, March 13, 1817. He was educated for
REV. PHILO S. BENNETT.
the ministry at a seminary at Mexico, N. Y., and ordained in 1837. He was married June 13, 1838, at Pul- aski, N. Y., to MissCalphumia Chase, a rela- tive of Secre- tary Chase. She was a remarka- ble woman. It is quite safe to say few Meth- odist itine- rants have been favored with a helpmate who in all respects was the equal
of Sister C. C. Bennett. He was occupied with various charges in New York State until 1850, when he came to Wisconsin. He was stationed first at Platteville and after- wards at Beloit; meantime he continued his studies and received a degree from Beloit College in 1854. He after- ward held various charges in the State, including Milwau- kee and Racine, and in 1861 he came to Appleton, where he has since resided. For the past eight years he has not been engaged in active work, but being of an energetic temperament has occupied himself to a great extent with literary work and lecturing as well as frequent pulpit work. Since the death of his estimable wife seven years ago, after a happy married life of nearly half a century, he has made his home with his only daughter, Mrs. L. A. Briggs,
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where his last days were happily spent, made pleasant by the loving care of children and grand children. Elder Bennett died April 5, 1895.
THE REXFORD FAMILY.
Jabez B. Rexford was born November, 1807, in Hartford, Washington county, N. Y.
His parents, Roswell and Eunice Rexford, moved to Johnsburgh, Warren county, N. Y. when he was in his eighteenth year; he helped his father on his farm until he was twenty-one. In 1828 he was married to Miss Re- becca Wilcox. Their chil- dren were, Jacob W., born June 11, 1830; Sanford W., born Nov. 19, 1834, and Eben E., born July 16, 1847; in March 1856 Mr. Rexford came to Wis- consin and settled on a farm in the town of Elling- ton and established a home where he resided until his death Oct. 10, JABEZ B. REXFORD. 1887, loved and respected by all who knew him, and it can truly be said of him a good man has gone to his reward and his influence for the right lives after him. Their oldest son, Jacob W., was married to Harriet J. Wilber at Johnsburgh, N. Y., July 24, 1852 ; they have two children, Fred E., Eva May ; they came to Shiocton in 1854; in 1860 moved to Shawano; in 1862 he enlisted in Co. D, Twenty-first Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, was taken prisoner in December at the battle of Stone River and was paroled prisoner ten months and exchanged, marched with Sherman to the sea,
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was discharged at the close of the war; in 1878 went to Arapahoe, Neb., with his family ; in 1892 they all went to Sardis, British Columbia, where they now reside.
The second son, Sanford W., was married to Mary L. Downs, June 17, 1855, at Johnsburgh, N. Y .; three children were born to them. Harry Sanford, born Dec. 1, 1858; he was married to Lulu Macken, Oct. 12, 1879, at Hortonville, Wis .; his wife died in 1888, had one child, Burrows Gar- field ; they went to Prace City, Neb., in 1887; in 1890 he married Lizzie Rea, of Pennsylvania ; they have one child, Max Sanford. Second child, Olive C., was born May 18, 1862, was married to Frank Spencer, July 4, 1888; they have two children, Mary Blanche and Frank Rexford ; they now live on a farm in Grand Chute. Third child, Elmer Jabez, was born Nov. 25, 1867, was married to Maud E. Hunter of Iron River, Mich .; they have one child, William Sanford; they now live on the old homestead in Elling- ton. Sanford W. Rexford came to Wisconsin and settled on a farm in Ellington in 1856 and established a home where he resided until his death, June 21, 1889, he died of cancer of the stomach after fifteen months' great suffering ; he enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, in Co. D, Twenty-first Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Perry- ville, marched with Sherman to the sea and to Washing- ton ; participated in several battles ; was discharged June 17, 1865.
The third son of Jabez B. Rexford, Eben Eugene Rex- ford, was born July 16, 1847 ; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1856, attending the district school for a time then went to Lawrence University. Commenced his liter- ary work when quite young ; with untiring energy he has advanced until his writings are read and appreciated by the many, especially his Talks on Flowers. He was mar- ried Dec. 22, 1890, to Miss Hattie Harsh of Shiocton, where they have a pleasant home; surrounded by his birds and flowers, they have a happy, busy life,
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THE JOHNSTON FAMILY.
Col. Wm. Johnston was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., April 22, 1797 ; removed to Herkimer county, where he married Miss Harriet Fa- ville, and resided in that county until 1851, when they removed to Appleton and located on the s. c. 14 of Sec. 14, T. 21, R. 17, now in the town of Grand Chute, where he cleared a farm and established a home, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Mr. John- ston was a prominent citi- zen, and has been probate judge of this county. He died in 1881; his wife died in 1886. They had six sons, the first, Wm. F., born Feb. 7, 1820, married in 1851 to Harriet E. Sack . COL. WM. JOHNSTON. ett ; they have three sons, all married, and now live in Milwaukee. Mrs. Johnston died in December, 1864. Mr. Johnston was married to his second wife, Mary West, June 17, 1867 ; they have one son. Second son, John F. Johnston, born July 8, 1822, married to Janet M. Finch of Neenah, formerly of New York, March 26, 1846 ; they have had three children, one son and one daughter now living. Their son, Wm. Henry Johnson, is now mayor of Ishpeming, Mich .; their daughter Emma is now the Widow Canfield and lives in Ishpeming.
John F. Johnston moved to Appleton in July, 1848, and kept the first boarding house and hotel in Appleton in a board shanty ; was a prominent citizen and was the first postmaster in Appleton. He died Aug. 18, 1893 ; his widow survives and lives in Appleton. Third son, Duncan
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McArthur Johnston, born May 3, 1827; he has lived most of the time in the West; his home is now in Omaha. Fourth son, Michael B. Johnston, born July 26, 1830, was married to Miss Lorinda Oney, Feb. 22, 1854 ; they have four sons and one daughter. First son, Wm. R. Johnston, born Jan. 21, 1856, married Jan. 19, 1882, to Loretta Fox ; they have three sons living. Wm. Johnston is now engaged in the creamery business in Appleton; his brother, Fre- mont, is with him. Second son, John O. Johnston, born March 16, 1858, is now unmarried. Third son, Fremont M. Johnston, born July 23, 1861, is married to Jeannette Finch of Ncenah. Fourth son, Asa F. Johnston, born June 25, 1861, married to Clair Smith, June, 1894. Fifth son of Col. Johnston, Geo. G., was born Oct. 11, 1832, married to Elizabeth Pepher, May 1, 1867 ; they now live in Ishpem- ing, Mich., and have no children living. Sixth son of Col. Johnston, Asa, born July 25, 1835; died in 1854. Michael B. Johnston now lives on the homestead established by his father ; his son, Asa, now lives with him ; their daughter. Mary Lorinda, born Sept. 25, 1871, now lives with her parents, unmarried.
JERE COUGH
Was born in Jefferson county, New York, Jan. 16, 1844, was married to Mary E. Brewster, Jan. 1, 1870; they have had six children, four boys and two girls. First child, Jenny, born in Greenville, Sept. 24, 1870, was married to James B. Mills, Nov. 1894; they now live on a farm in Greenville. Second child, Henry G., born in Greenville, March 12, 1873, unmarried and lives at home. Third child, Ray M., born in Dale, March 14, 1876, now lives at home. Fourth child, Floyd E., born in Dale, Dec. 1879, lives at home. Fifth child, Wayne B., born in Manitowoc county, Aug. 18, 1881, lives at home. Sixth child, May E., born May, 1885, lives at home. Mr. Cough now lives on a farm in Grand Chute; he came to this county in 1868, and settled on a farm in Greenville.
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THE TOMPKINS FAMILY.
James Tompkins was born in Oneida county, New York, March 7, 1819; he came to Wisconsin in 1846, removed to this county in 1849 and located on Sec. 23, T. 21, R. 16, now in the town of Greenville and cleared his land and established a home. In 1866 he moved to Appleton which has been his home till now. Mr. Tompkins was mar- ried to Sarah Pierce in 1838, who was born in 1821 in Oneida county, New York; they raised seven daughters. First daughter, Jane Augusta, born Feb. 3, 1839, married to Frank Mills Feb. 21, 1860; they have six chil- dren, three sons and three MRS. JAMES TOMPKINS. daughters; they now live in Hortonville. Second daughter, Maria Louise, born June 30, 1846, married to A. A. Babcock, April 7, 1868; they have two sons and one daughter ; they now live in Appleton. Third daughter, Loretta C., born May 3, 1849, married to Don Babcock, Nov. 13, 1867 ; they have two sons; Mr. Babcock died in 1887. Mrs. Babcock married in 1889 to James Read ; they now live in Des Moines, Ia. Fourth daughter, Helen Paulina, born Sept. 7, 1851, married to Charles Clark, Dec. 4, 1879; they have one son and one daughter; they now live in St. Lawrence county, New York. Fifth daughter, Henrietta E., born Aug. 3, 1853, married to George Usher Dec. 13, 1871; they have one daughter; Henrietta died Oct. 27, 1880. Sixth daughter, Cornelia, born July 28, 1860, died in 1882. Seventh daughter, Nabby Ophelia, 14
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born Jan. 5, 1863, married June 28, 1881, to E. E. Thomp- son ; they have three sons ; they now live in Des Moines, Ia.
THE PERROT FAMILY.
Ferdinand Perrot was born in Switzerland, Nov. 14, 1788; he came to America in 1825 and located in Jefferson county, N. Y .; in May, 1855, he came to Wiscon- sin and located in Green .. ville on the s. w. 14 sec. 17, the place formerly occu- pied by Seymour Howe, where he established a home and resided until his death in 1865; his wife, Julevra Cecil, died about three hours previous to her husband's death ; they were both buried in one grave; they had six chil- dren. First son, Ferdi- nand, was born Jan. 14, 1814, was married to Rose Besha ; they have six chil- dren, five girls and one boy ; they now live in Ap- LOUIS PERROT. pleton. Second child, Adele, born April 24, 1817, died Sept. 3, 1870. Third child, Julius, born Jan. 26, 1822, married to Ann Cox; they have had one son and one daughter, both dead. Fourth child, Cecil, named after her mother, born Sept. 26, 1826, died in 1842. Fifth child, Louis Perrot, born Oct. 28, 1829 ; he lived on his father'shomestead until his death, May 14, 1893; he was a prominent citizen of Greenville and engaged in dairy- ing and built the first cheese factory in Outagamie county ; he was married to Theresa McCrary, who was born in Ohio, March 10, 1839, and came with her parents to Greenville, April 1, 1848, Mr. Perrot was first president of Outagamie
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County Agricultural Society, supervisor of Greenville and postmaster several years, reporter to Statistical Depart- ment, United States, Washington, D. C., etc .; he had nine hundred pounds of cheese on exhibition at the World's Fair in New Orleans in 1885 and was awarded first premium, $125 in gold. Sixth child, Frank Perrot, born July 26, 1835, married to Emma Bates, of Appleton; they had one son and one daughter; his wife died Dec. 12, 1887. Frank Perrot was a mechanic, worked at blacksmithing, wagon making and building, etc .; he now lives with his son in Rhinelander, Wis.
THE SHEPHERD FAMILY.
George W. Shepherd was born in New Hampshire in 1799; he came to Wisconsin in 1840; he came to the town of Osborne in 1860 and settled on Sec. 5, T. 23, R. 18, where he cleared his land and established a home where he resided until his death in 1872; his wife, Margaret Bull, born in 1793, they had two sons and three daughters. First child, Allen, born in 1824, married to Margaret McNaughton, of Ver- non, Waukesha county, Wis .; they have three sons and three daugh- MRS. GEO. SHEPHERD. ters ; they now live on their farm in Section 5, Osborne. Second child, Eliza A., born August, 1826, married to David Benedict; they had three sons and five daughters ; Mr. Benedict died June 17, 1875; Mrs. Benedict married Thomas Brookshire ; they now live on the old homestead on the northeast corner of Sec. 6,
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T. 23, R. 18. Third child, Sewall, born in 1829, married to Jane Dowd in 1858 ; they have two sons and two daughters ; he came to Osborne in 1859, where he cleared a farm on sec- tion 5; he now resides in Appleton. Fourth child, Sally J., married Hiram Gragg ; they have five sons and two daugh- ters ; they now live in Waushara county, Wis. Fifth child, Nicea S., born in 1833, married to John Knox in 1860, by Rev. O. P. Clinton, of Menasha; they have two sons and four daughters; they now live on a farm on Sec. 8 in Osborne.
JOHN M. BAER.
John J. Baer was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1812 ; moved to Ohio in 1820, and came to Black Creek, this county, in the fall of 1862, and located on Sec. 32, T. 23, R. 17, where he estab- lished a home and resided un- til his death in 1871; his wife died in 1881. Their only sur- viving son, John M. Baer, was born in Tiffin, Senica county, Ohio, October 14, 1845; he located eighty acres of land in Black Creek in 1859; he en- listed in the Union army of the War of the Rebellion at the age of fifteen years, and served JOHN M. BAER. in several different regiments; saw much hard fighting ; was wounded several times ; served until the end of the war, and when discharged, Oct. 14, 1865, he held a commission of captain in the forty-eighth battalion of Ohio veteran volunteers ; he was married to Libbie C. Riley Nov. 18, 1867 ; they have three sons and one daughter - Attic M., Charles O., Eddie S., and John M. Jr. John M. Baer, C. W. Hopkins and George Welch were the first settlers in the
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town of Black Creek. John M. Baer was elected town clerk when twenty-one years old ; was assessor two years ; justice of the peace ten years ; supervisor four years ; register of deeds eight years, and is now postmaster of the city of Ap- pleton. He assisted in organizing the first G. A. R. post in Outagamie county.
THE MCGILLAN FAMILY.
Francis McGillan was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1799; when quite a young man he came to Quebec and worked on the British fortifications there un- til they were finished, then he returned to Ireland where he mar- ried Nancy Malone, also of Tyrone; about 1832 they came to America, settled in New Jersey ; in 1839 they removed to Columbia county, Ohio; in September, 1851, they removed to the town of Center, in this county, and settled on n. e. 14 of Sec. 34, T. 22, R. 17, JOHN M'GILLAN. where he cleared a farm and established a home where he resided until his death which occurred Aug. 19, 1864. Mr. McGillan was the first postmaster in Center. His wife died March 16, 1862; they had five sons. John H., born in Ireland; Thomas and Robert, born in New Jersey ; James and Samuel, born in Ohio. Samuel died in November, 1873; their daughter, Margaret, born in Ohio, married three times, has one daughter living. Second daughter, born in 1842, married to Patrick Newcomb ; they have three sons and three daughters; they now live on a
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farm in Ellington. John H. McGillan married Catharine McNeal, Sept. 17, 1867 ; they have three sons, one of them is a natural artist, and two daughters; they now live on a farm in section 35, Center. Robert McGillan married Elizabeth Shirk; they have six sons and two daughters. Robert died June 20, 1886. James McGillan married Joanna Cummings ; they have had five sons and five daugh- ters; they now live in Appleton. Mr. McGillan has been sheriff of this county and county surveyor four years and has spent several years locating and dealing in pine lands. His wife is celebrated for her excellent voice and good singing, which is inherited by her children. One son, James Jr., is a rising young lawyer in Marinette, Wis. Nancy, daughter of John H. McGillan, married to Dennis McGinnis ; they have one son ; they now live in Appleton.
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