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Was born in Massachusetts in 1796; he came to the town of Dale, in 1855, with his five sons, Hiram, Edward, Elias, Andrew and Samuel, all settled on farms in Dale; four daughters but one now living, she was married to Shed Doty ; they have one son and three daughters. Andrew and Elias Rhodes bought 200 acres of land on Sec. 25, T. 21, R. 15, on which they built the Rhodes Hotel which is now run by Andrew, Elias having died; the brothers are all dead except Samuel and Andrew. Solomon Rhodes died in 1864. Andrew Rhodes was born Sept. 11, 1816 ; he married Delia Bacon in 1844; they have no children; Mrs. Rhodes was born in 1822.
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THE BRILL FAMILY.
Michael Brill, born in Germany, came to this county, settled on Sec. 23 in the town of Buchanan, Oct. 7, 1863; married Elizabeth Ever- hart Feb., 1840, they have nine children, six sons and three daughters. Their oldest son, John Brill, born in 1844, has been sheriff of this county four years and now lives on a fine farm on sections 22 and 23 in Buchanan, is married and has six daughters living. Second son, Mat. Brill, born in 1846 and now lives in Appleton. Third son. Peter Brill, born in 1848, died in Jan., 1885. Fourth son, Joseph Brill, born in 1852, now drives a hack in Appleton. Fifth son, MICHAEL BRILL. Robert Brill, born in 1854, is married and has three children ; he now lives in Kaukauna., Sixth son, William Brill, born in 1859, is married to Harriett Geenen, a niece of Evert Saunders; they now live with Mr. Saunders on his homestead. They have four children.
HECTOR MCKAY
Was born in Scotland, May 12, 1816, came to Nova Scotia, Aug. 6, 1831, came to United States June 22, 1844, came to Wisconsin Oct. 22, 1850 ; settled in the n. e. 14 Sec. 32, T. 21, R. 17, now town of Grand Chute where he now resides. He was married in 1852 to Sarah A. Murch, a sister to B. B. Murch. They have had six children, three sons and three daughters, First son, Thomas Albert. Second son,
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Charles S. McKay, now dead. Third son, George W. Mckay. First daughter, Alice C. McKay. Second daugh- ter, Amelia E. McKay. Third daughter, Eugenie, now dead. Two sons and two daughters are now living and are well educated and all hold responsible positions in society. Mr. McKay is a prosperous farmer and much respected by his neighbors.
GEO. W. LAWE.
Geo. W. Lawe was born at Green Bay, Sept. 13, 1810 ; he settled at Kaukauna in 1839; his father, John Lawe, came from England and settled at Green Bay in 1797; Geo. W. Lawe was mar- ried to Catharine A. Meade, of Pennsylvania, March 25, 1835 ; they have one son and one daughter. The son, John D. Lawe, born Sept. 17, 1837, was married to Mary Chap- man ; they have one son. Their daughter, Amanda Lawe, was married to Capt. D. J. Brothers in 1861; they have no child- ren. D. J. Brothers was born in Canada. He came with his parents to Koch- ester, N. Y., when quite young, and in May, 1861, GEO. W. LAWE. came to Appleton, Wis. In 1862 he enlisted and helped organize Co. I of the Thirty-second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in which he was for two years second and first lieutenant. He was in the famous march to the sea, and from the capture of Atlanta to the close of the war he held the responsible position of assist-
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ant chief commissary of subsistance of the seventeenth army corps on the staff of Gen. F. P. Blair. After the close of the war in 1865, Mr. Brothers came to Kaukauna, where he has resided ever since. He was twice elected county superintendent of schools and has served several terms as, supervisor and alderman; in 1876, he engaged in the real estate and insurance business which he has continued ever since. In 1894 he built the Hotel Brothers, now the leading hotel in Kaukauna, and is now proprietor of the same. CAPT. D. J. BROTHERS. Mr. Lawe at various times occupied positions of trust and responsibility under the United States and the state and has always discharged these trusts so as to gain the confidence of the entire community. In 1843, he was commissioned Indian agent by President W. H. Harrison. This office he continued to hold with the exception of one short interval till 1852 and in this time discharged his duties very acceptably to both government and Indians. In 1849, Mr. Lawe was commissioned postmaster, but his duties as agent proving too arduous to admit the double burden, he was compelled to resign. In 1878, he was again appointed postmaster, and he continued in this capacity until the administration of Gover Cleveland. Mr. Lawe is now living in Kaukauna; he is now in his 85th year, hale and hearty and claims to be the oldest living Badger in Wisconsin ; he was born in this state in 1810.
Capt. D. J. Brothers was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion and served until the end of the war. Since then he has resided in Kaukauna and is a prominent citizen,
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has served the city several terms as alderman and super- visor of the Second ward, and has been county superinten- dent of schools. In 1894 he built the Brothers Hotel, now the leading hotel of the city. He is also engaged exten- sively in real estate and insurance business.
ANSON BALLARD.
Anson Ballard, son of Samuel and Diana Ballard, was born in Appling, Jefferson county, N. Y., on the 30th day of Dec., A. D. 1821 ; he came to Appleton in 1850, and remained until his death on the 4th of April, 1873. Ile was married in Sheboygan in 1851 to Harriet M. Story. HIe practiced law with Perry H. Smith several years and later on went into real estate business which he followed up to the time of his death. Mr. Ballard was a prominent member of the Congregational church in Appleton, also a Mason and Knight Templar and thoroughly interested in educational work. The names of his ANSON BALLARD. children are Irving M. Ballard, Leda A. Ballard, now Mrs. O. E. Clark; Irene Ballard, now Mrs. T. W. Orbison ; Della S. Ballard died Oct. 14, 1857 ; Eugene Bal- lard died Dec. 10, 1864 ; Nellie Ballard, Mrs. W. L. Conkey, died Aug. 10, 1891; Frederick J. Ballard, Pearl Edna Ballard died April 12, 1877. Anson Ballard had two brothers, Porter and Jesse Ballard, who came to Appleton in an early day and cleared and established homes on the
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n. e. 14 of Sec. 24, T. 21, R. 17. Porter Ballard lived there until his death ; his son, Clinton Ballard, now lives on the homestead. Jesse Ballard removed to Missouri and died there.
LEWIS F. JACQUOT.
Lewis F. Jacquot was born in 1839 at Cape Vincent, N. Y. He came to Hortonville in 1856, was married to Clarissa C. Wood in 1857; they have three sons and three daughters now living. First child, Charles H., born Aug. 16, 1858, mar- ried to Atta Fletcher in 1881, they have three daughters now living, they now live in Minnea- polis. Second child, John L., born June 15, 1860, married to Ellen R. Whit- man; they have one son and one daughter; they now live in Hortonville. Third child, Clarissa M., born Oct. 11, 1862, mar- ried to Wm. Hollemback, editor of the Hortonville Review ; they have no LEWIS F. JACQUOT. children. Fourth child, Edwin J., born Feb. 23, Fifth child, Elizabeth V.,
1864, now lives in Appleton. born Aug. 12, 1866, married to Charles V. Benjamin ; they have one son and one daughter; they now live in Horton- ville. Sixth child, Hattie E., born Nov. 2, 1868, is married to John Printup; they have two sons and one daughter. Mr. Printup died in Dec., 1893; his widow now lives in Hortonville and keeps the postoffice. L. F. Jacquot is now a prominent citizen of Hortonville, has been justice of the
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peace several years and filled many important offices, is now president of the village of Hortonville and proprietor of the Arlington Hotel. His brother, John Jacquot, settled in Greenville on Sec. 18, T. 22, R. 16, in 1849, where he cleared a farm and established a home where he resided until his death. His family now occupy the homestead.
PETER LITE.
Peter Lite was born in Germany in 1795, came to America in 1832, came to Wisconsin, 1842, settled in Washington county. He came to Appleton in October, 1855, which was his home until his death. in 1886. He had been married three times. By his first wife, he had several children, among them is Edward Lite, a pioneer, came to Appleton in 1855 and has resided here until the pr sent time. He was married in December, 1854, to Louisa T. Stroebe, who has several brothers and one sister, Mrs. Drinks, now living in this county. Ed Lite and wife have born to them one son and one daughter. Their son, PETER LITE. George M., born July 22, 1861, drowned May, 2, 1881. Their daughter, Clara A. Lite, born Nov. 24, 1855, married to Frank Ehrgott in Nov. 23, 1878; they have one daughter. Mrs. John Goelzer is a half-sister to Ed Lite. Mr. and Mrs. Goelzer came to Appleton in 1855; they have two daughters and one son.
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PETER REUTER.
Peter Reuter was born in Belgium July 5, 1838. His parents, Henry and Maria (Peschong) Reuter, were also natives of Belgium where they were reared and mar- ried ; in 1847, emigrated to the United States, fifty- three days being consumed in crossing the Atlantic Ocean. They located on a farm near Milwaukee, where the father died three weeks later, the mother died there in 1865. They were the parents of five children who all lived in Milwaukee, viz .: Elizabeth who died in 1888. Peter, our subject. Helen, wife of Paul Fisher, of Portland, Ore- gan. Alexander, who SONOMAN - Mit came to Kaukauna and PETER REUTER. was in business with Peter for fifteen years after which in 1884 he moved to Jacksonville, Oregon, where his death occurred July 10, 1893. Joseph, who died in Milwaukee the year of their arrival.
Peter Reuter was but 9 years old when he came to Mil- waukre. He received such education as the primative schools of that day afforded, the school house being the proverbial log cabin with puncheon floor, and slab seats and birch rod on the teacher's desk. When his school days were ended he learned the carpenter's and joiner's trade which he followed in the vicinity of Milwaukee for nine years and was then induced to go to Appleton as foreman in a hub and spoke factory, now known as Marston and Beveridge. He was foreman four years when in 1869 he
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came to Kaukauna and here in company with his brother, Alexander, he built a hub and spoke factory which proved a profitable venture. After fifteen years he bought his brother's interest and established the Reuter Hub and Spoke company which moved to Rice Lake, Barron county, in 1886 and is successfully managed by his two enterpris- ing sons, Henry and Alexander L.
Mr. Reuter had always taken an active interest in organizing capital and in 1879 he established a State bank, himself being president, A. L. Reuter, vice-president and F. L. Towsley, cashier. The success of the Bank of Kau- kauna is known far and wide. This institution was first organized in 1878 as a private bank by Henry and W. P. Hewitt and P. D. Norton, of Menasha, who sold out the following year to Reuter brothers. Mr. Reuter was mar- ried in Milwaukee to Gertrude Burlinghousen, a native of Milwaukee county, Wis., a daughter of Gottfried and Catherine Burlinghousen, natives of Prussia who came to the above place in an early day. Her father died there and her mother resides in Cleveland. Four children blessed this union, viz .: Henry married and resides in Rice Lake. Alexander L. also married and resides in Rice Lake. John P. an insurance man in Milwaukee, Wis. Paulina who died when four years and six months old. Mrs. Gertrude Reuter died in 1872 and Mr. Reuter subse- quently married Maria Wessel, a native of Prussia, to which union five children were born: Lena, Joseph, Maria. Anna and Peter. Mr. Reuter is an earnest advocate of the Jeffersonian principles of the Democratic party and for three terms was mayor of the city of Kaukauna. He has taken an active part being always foremost in that which furthered its growth and prosperity. In 1879 he erected the well-known Reuter Block which is a two-story brick structure with a fifty foot frontage on Wisconsin Avenue, being the first brick block erected in Kaukauna. He also owns other real estate. He visited Europe with his family in 1891, making an enjoyable trip of continental Europe as well as Great Britain.
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EDWARD WEST.
Edward West was born in Perry county, Pa., March 20, 1818. His parents were William and Susannah, nee Loy, West; they were both natives of Pennsylvania. He was a farmer, engineer and land surveyor ; he traces his ancestry to England. Edward West resided at home on the farm until his fourteenth year, early in life assist- ing in such labor as his strength would admit. In 1832 he was sent to Washington, Pennsyl- vania, College and for three years pursued his studies in that institution, leaving college when 18 years old. He journeyed westward, arriving at De- ANIMAN-MT- troit April 10, 1836. He EDWARD WEST. journeyed across Michi- gen territory on foot to Milwaukee, leaving orders to have his trunk sent around by water on a schooner as steamers had not then found the way around the lakes. He arrived with only three dol- lars. He found it difficult to get a bed in the tavern then in Milwaukee, but the landlord gave him a bed on the floor that night. As the land around there was not surveyed, he was employed by land speculators to survey out their claims at five dollars per day. He continued in that busi- ness during all the summer of 1836. He also located a claim for himself four miles from the then little hamlet of Milwaukee in a southwest direction toward where Muk- wonaga now is, on which he erected a cabin with the help of some Menomonee Indians, covered the same with shakes three feet long and a puncheon floor, the Indians carrying the
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logs together for which he paid them a barrel of flour, then worth $25.00 per barrel-which was his home for the next five years. He taught two terms in the first school and in the first school house built in Milwaukee with from forty to seventy scholars about 1841. He moved to a farm in what is now the town of Summit about 1847. He selected land while surveying five miles west of where Oshkosh now stands which he improved and made a farm where he resided until the spring of 1853, when he came to Appleton and located on a farm on Sec. 23, T. 21, R. 17, se 14, a part which afterwards was used for the county fair grounds. In Jan. 5, 1855, he purchased 53312 acres of land on the south side of Fox River including Grand Chute Island and the south side water power now in the Fourth ward of the city of Appleton. His present wife's name was Amanda M. Fenno. They were married in 1865; they have one daughter, now the wife of Dr. Frank Studley, a practicing physician in Milwaukee, they have one daughter. Mr. West and his wife now reside on Prospect street in the Second ward of Appleton. After he built his cabin in Milwaukee, his only neighbors were the Winnebagoes, Chippewas, Potamatamies and Menomonee Indians. He soon learned their language and could talk with them and found them very kind neighbors. They were kind and peaceable except when under the influence of "fire water."
STEPHEN BALLIET
Was born October, 1826, in Richland county, Ohio; he came to the town of Dale in 1853 and settled on the ne 14 of Sec. 28, T. 21, R. 15, where he cleared his land and established a home, where he now resides. He married Christina Zehner in 1848. They have had one son and five daughters now living. Their son, David H. Balliet, mar- ried Ellen Cannon in 1883; they have three sons. D. H. Balliet was treasurer of this county four years and now lives in Appleton, dealing in grain, etc. Their daughter, Cassia, married L. A. Wolcott, a physician and lives in Berlin, Wis. Their daughter, Mary E., married Wm.
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Strange and now lives in Menasha ; they have one daughter. Their daughter, Sarah L., married Frank McLaughton; they have one son and two daughters; they now live in a part of the homestead in Dale. Mrs. Stephen Balliet's father and two brothers and four sisters settled on farms in Dale in 1854. Several of them are living there now.
THE POOLE FAMILY.
Oliver Poole was born in Genesee county, New York, in 1807 ; he came to Hortonville in 1850, and settled on s. 12 of s. w. 14 Sec. 35, T. 22, R. 15, and cleared his farm and established a home where he resided until his death in 1878; he was married to Sarah A. Brooks in 1830; they had three sons and two daugh- ters. First son, Orren WV., born July 4, 1832, mar .. ried to Susetta Thompson in March. 1854 ; they have three sons and one daugh- ter; they now live in Ashland. Orrin Poole died in Hortonville in 1881; his wife died in 1866. Second child, Or- villa W., born in 1836, died BOAROMAN-MIL in 1852. Third child, ORLOW M. POOLE. Orlow M., born in 1840, married in 1865 to Hallie A. Cornish ; they have four sons and three daughters ; their oldest son, Silas A., born in 1870, married to May Sesler in 1894; they have one son and are now living on the homestead; their oldest daughter, Sarah M., married to Wm. M. Nims in 1887 ; they have two daughters; they now live in New London. Third child, Orpha J., born in
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1843, died in 1886. Fourth child, Orvis, born in 1848, died in 1851. O. M. Poole now lives on his father's homestead.
THE ABBOTT FAMILY.
E. B. Abbott was born in Connecticut Feb. 28, 1811; came to Green Bay in 1835 and lived there five years after- ward ; he lived about two years in the Oneida Indian settlement; then he lo- cated, in 1842, on Section 11, n. e. 14 in T. 22, R. 18, now in the town of Free- dom and there cleared his land and established his home and lived there until his death in 1880; he married Ella Webster, of New York, while he lived in Green Bay ; they have had thirteen children, seven boys and six girls ; المرء three boys and two girls are now living. The oldest son, Wm. Abbott, born in 1840; he married C. A. ABBOTT AND WIFE. and moved to Kansas where he died in 1887, leaving four children. Second son, Alfred, enlisted in the Twenty-first Regiment and died in Andersonville prison. Third son, Charles A. Abbott, born in Dec. 8, 1845; mar- ried July 22, 1869 in Illinois to Mary A. Izzard; they located on Section 15 in Grand Chute where they now reside ; they have had five children ; three now living, two boys, and one daughter now married to Wm. Stephenson ; they now live in Appleton, have one son and one daughter. Fourth son, Edwin Abbott, born Feb. 28, 1846, is now a Baptist preacher ; married and lives in Lodi, Wis .; they have three children, one boy and two girls ; the oldest girl
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is a student in Lawrence University and will graduate next June. Fifth son, Frank Abbott, born in 1848; he now lives in Chicago, is married and has two children ; first daughter, Susan Abbott, born in 1850; is married to Willis Knickerbocker and lives in Appleton; they have three children ; second daughter, Emma Abbott, is married and lives in Dakota ; they have two children. E. B. Abbott and three of his sons enlisted in the Union Army and served in the War of the Rebellion. Charles A. Abbott is the only survivor of the four who enlisted in the Army.
B. B. MURCH.
B. B. Murch, the pioneer of Outagamie county, son of Nathaniel and Polly Bingham Murch, was born in Jay, Essex county, N. Y., Oct. 12, 1813, and lived in that place until 1835, when he went west. He spent some time in Cleveland, Ohio, and then traveled over other states, teach- ing in various places. He preempted land in Missouri, but in 1840 left his claim with his brother and returned to his old home. Here he remained teaching and working at carpenter and joiner work until 1846. On June 2 of that year he was married to Sarah Boynton and two days later they left for the territory of Wisconsin. A wagon ride of twenty miles took them to Keesville where they stopped for the night. They were joined the next morning by Adaline Finch. A shorter ride brought them to Port Kent. From there they went by steamboat to Whitehall, and by canal boat to Buffalo. They found some old acquaintances on the canal boat and made some new ones; among the latter Dr. Foote, his sister, Mrs. Richmond, and her hus- band from Oneida county, N. Y. They stopped in Buffalo over Sunday and on Monday having to wait for the boat went to Niagara Falls and spent the day. From Buffalo they took the steamer Missouri to Chicago, stopping at Mackinaw where they were met by James Blood and taken to his uncle's, Capt. Lavaque's, an old townsman of theirs. From Mackinaw they went direct to Green Bay by the
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Astor, a small steamer owned by Mr. Goodell. The Bay was very rough and the boat finally stopped at .Beaver Island to wait for calmer weather. At Green Bay they were guests of Dr. Ward and there they found old neigh- bors in the persons of Henry Blood, his wife and sister. Staying there one day, they next went by wagon to what is now Wrightstown. That week Mr. Murch selected his land and the next Monday, June 30, 1846, entered it at the land office in Green Bay. They lived in a small house in Wrightstown until November.
[ Extracts from memoranda kept by Mrs. Murch. ]
Nov. 6, 1846, Mr. Murch left to-day with a small load of boards, some bedding and a week's provisions. Nov. 9, crossed Wright's Ferry just as the sun rose with a load of things for our future home. A little before twelve the load stuck fast in the ravine (now the west line of Appleton city). I walked on till I found my home to be, and sent Mr. Murch to the relief of the horses and driver. Found some potatoes roasting in the ashes and some water boiling in the coffee pot and soon had dinner ready. The log pen was not high enough to allow me to stand upright on the lowest side so another tier of logs must be added so we slept that night in the board shanty open on the front where a fire was kept blazing. On Saturday Mr. Crafts, our neighbor, just across the county line, helped put on another course of logs, I set the glass and chinked between the logs. At sundown the roof was on, the floor down, a pig pen built, and the stove up, so we got tea by it. After tea the door was made and fastened up with two nails. It was Saturday night and we were in our own house, on our own land and though we had neither chair, table nor bed- stead, we were comfortable and happy. Monday, we fin- ished the shanty. It was twelve by fourteen feet inside. The rest of our things came and at eight o'clock we opened our boarding house, we had from one to five boarders for the next three weeks and frequent calls from travellers sometimes for meals and lodging, but oftener to enquire for the road. That last we didn't have. There
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was only an Indian trail along the river. In one week from trees that were growing in the woods and from boards that had to be hauled seventeen miles with one day's help from Mr. Crafts, our house had been made. For five weeks I never saw a woman, our nearest neigh- bors were in Neenah. About the last of December our flour gave out and Mr. Murch went to Neenah and as a special favor got six pounds of flour and six of beef paying a big price for them. He then went to Green Bay and I stayed alone two nights. He had not been at home ten minutes when the wolves began to howl. We lived in this shanty one year, then we moved into an un- finished frame house. In this house our four children were born and lived until they were grown up. George H., our oldest, was born Dec. 9, 1847, the first white child born of American parents in the county. The old farm was sold to Mr. Carter about 1882, and Mr. Murch bought a place in Green Bay where he lived several years, then came to Appleton to spend his last days. He died Feb. 20, 1891.
ONE OF THE OLD PIONEERS.
Obed Thurston Boynton, oldest son of Ephraim and Alice Thurston Boynton, was born in Jay, Essex county, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1822. He came to Wisconsin in 1847, mar- ried Isabella Lockwood and made himself a home on Sec. 32 in what is now Grand Chute, Outagamie county, but was then Kokalieu, Brown county. He was a man loved and honored by all who knew him. He served in the War of the Rebellion in the Fourteenth Wisconsin Regiment and died in Sedgwick Hospital of wounds received in an attack on Spanish Fort, and was buried in Monument Cemetery Square thirty-five, grave number two. The above sketch was written by Sarah B. Murch, widow of B. B. Murch, April, 1895.
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DR. BYRON DOUGLAS.
Dr. Byron Douglas was born in the city of Albany, N. Y., July 10, 1824 ; the eldest in the family of four children
by the second wife of Beriah Douglas, brother to Dr. Stephen Douglas, who was the father of Stephen A. Douglas. He received his education at the common schools and academy of his native place, then took up the study of dentistry under the preceptorship of his father, who was a physi- cian and dentist and with him practiced his profes- sion for a time in Albany, also with his half-brother in Albany one year. In 1852 he came to Appleton, where for a time he was employed in the store con- DR. BYRON DOUGLAS. ducted by his father-in - law, Mr. Woodward, at the same time to a limited extent following dentistry. In 1855 he opened a regular office, becoming the first regular dentist in Appleton, and since then he has continuously and successfully practiced his profession. He is a member of the American Dental Association, also of the Wisconsin State Dental Society and its treasurer for the last number of years. On April 2, 1849, Dr. Douglas was married to Sarah L. Woodward, who was born in Geddes, now a part of Syracuse, N. Y., a daughter of John W. Woodward, an early settler of Menomonee Falls, Wis., whither he moved from the east in 1851 and from there to Appleton. To this union were born three children, two sons and one daughter ; Earl W., now practicing dentistry in his father's office ;
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