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OUTLINE of GREEN COUNTY 
 
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HISTORY 
 
 OF — 
 
 GREEN COUNTY, 
 
 WISCONSIN. 
 
 By HELEN M. BINGHAM. 
 
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 MILWAUKEE: 
 B V R !) I C K ,V A R M I T A G E, PR I N T E R S. 
 
 1(H) MICHIGAN STREET. 
 
 KS77. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Before the days of newspapers in a new country, the 
 county and family records are almost the only means 
 by which the dates of important occurrences are pre- 
 served. Nevertheless, when a county has been settled 
 fifty years, each man, by reference to the dates set down 
 in his family Bible, and to the year in which he came, is 
 able to fix a great many other dates, thus: "Barber 
 and Newcomb had been here a year when I came, in 
 v :>'7. Holland came the next spring. Smith came the 
 year our bain- died, and that was '38. Brown must 
 have come in '37, for it was the description of the 
 country, in his letters, that induced the Smiths to leave 
 Illinois. Jones came the 10th of vSept. '39. That was 
 the day Tom was born, and I remember Jones was 
 camped right in front of my house, because some of his 
 cattle had given out." 
 
VI. 
 
 Alas, that the good mother of the house must shake 
 our faith in her husband's chronology in this way! 
 k * No, Pa, that was the day Mary was born. [ know, 
 because Mrs. Jones said 'twas a pity she wasn't a boy, 
 she had such a good head." There is always a possi- 
 bility that dates arrived at by the course just illustrated 
 may be wrong - ; but usually there is also a great proba- 
 bility that they are right, and when the same dates are 
 obtained in two or more families, the probability be- 
 comes almost a certainty. In proportion to their num- 
 ber, their correctness is disputed not nearly so often as 
 the correctness of later dates which are verified by the 
 newspapers of their time. 
 
 In the effort to make this history correct, a great 
 many letters have been written, and a great many visits 
 have been made in the several towns. Assistance has 
 been received from over two hundred persons, more 
 than one-fourth of whom came to the county before 
 1840, some of them before 1830. With all the avidity 
 of DrvdenV reaper, who 
 
 fills his oreedv hands. 
 
 And binds the golden sheaves in brittle loands." 
 
 I have seized upon these individual gleanings from 
 memory's field, and bound them together. The result 
 
VII. 
 
 of this labor has recently been submitted to a number 
 of old settlers, in the hope that a comparative view of 
 the recollections of many persons might lead to the 
 detection of errors which escaped those who had fewer 
 data to guide them. 
 
 One of the main objects of the following pages is a 
 faithful delineation of life and manners in the early days 
 of the county. With' this object in view, record has 
 been made of some incidents .which are, in themselves, 
 so trivial that one who knew of them said he supposed 
 they were put in to fill up. 
 
 I cannot sufficiently express mv gratitude for the kind 
 assistance which has been rendered me both by old 
 friends and by those to whom I was hitherto a stranger. 
 It has made mv task one to be remembered only for its 
 pleasures. I am under special obligations to the town 
 clerks and to the county officers for information con- 
 tained in the records under their care, and to Col. 
 Edwin E. Bryant, Adjutant General of Wisconsin, who 
 allowed me to examine all the muster rolls in his office. 
 
 With the greatest diffidence as to their judgment upon 
 it, and with just one plea in its behalf, the history is now- 
 submitted to the people of Green County. The plea is 
 ibis: It is often said, though whether the saving orig- 
 
Vlll. 
 
 inated with an* unsuccessful historian cannot now be 
 
 ascertained, that that people is most fortunate whose 
 
 history is most wearisome to read. Will those to whom 
 
 this history is the dullest and most monotonous of books 
 
 have the charity to infer that Green is the most fortunate 
 
 of counties? 
 
 11. M. B. 
 
 Monroe, June 18, 1877. 
 
HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
 Green County is a square of sixteen townships. It 
 is one of the six counties in Wisconsin that border upon 
 Illinois. Eighty miles from its eastern boundary is Lake 
 Michigan; forty miles from its south-western, and sixty 
 miles from its north-western boundary line, is the Miss- 
 issippi. The counties bounding it in its own state are 
 Dane on the north, Rock on the east, and La Fayette 
 and Iowa on the west. 
 
 Geologically, Green County is in the limestone dis- 
 trict of southern Wisconsin, and nearly all of its western 
 half is included in what is called the lead region of the 
 state, which is, as is well-known, a driftless region. 
 The eastern half of the county, in which the marks of 
 drift currents are everywhere discernable, is remarkable 
 for including at Exeter the only lead mines found in the 
 three states of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin outside of 
 the driftless region. 
 
 The surface of the county is undulating. Prof. J.. 
 D. Whitney, in the State Geological Report for 1S62, 
 has called attention to the fact, that while the whole 
 
io History of Gi'een County. 
 
 north-west is characterized by three divisions of surface, 
 — the bottom land, the bluffs that shut it in, and the up- 
 land or prairie, — the surface of the lead region has cer- 
 tain peculiarities of its own, which are principally due 
 to the erosion of its streams. There is, in this region, 
 a rapid alternation of bluffs and valleys. The valleys 
 branch again and again in every direction, and their 
 width is usually in proportion to the size of the streams 
 that wander through them. The conformations of sur- 
 face in south-western Wisconsin present, therefore, a 
 marked contrast to the comparatively unbroken level of 
 the south-eastern part of the state. Green County 
 partakes of the peculiarities of both regions, and may 
 be regarded as the connecting link between them. Near 
 its western boundary the hills are many, and the valleys 
 are narrow; but in the interior of the county the valleys 
 along the small streams grow so much wider than those 
 in the lead region, that the bottom land of Sugar River 
 is as wide as that of the Mississippi, and the undulations 
 of surface gradually grow longer and gentler, until, a 
 little before the eastern border of the county is reached, 
 the surface becomes a level prairie. 
 
 The soil is varied, like the surface. In a few places 
 where the sandstone comes to the surface it is a sandy 
 loam. The usual surface rock is the Galena limestone, 
 which underlies the soil at a depth varying from a few 
 inches to eight or ten feet, and, with the exception of the 
 deep clay loam in some parts of the northern and west- 
 ern towns, the usual soil is a rich black loam, with a 
 large admixture of vegetable mould, and a subsoil of 
 
History of Green County. 1 1 
 
 clay. Good crops of all kinds are raised in every town, 
 and even in the hilliest towns the undulations are so 
 gradual that there is very little land which can not be 
 cultivated. Hence, the good drainage and all the other 
 desirable results of a rolling country are enjoyed here 
 without the disadvantages of a too broken surface. 
 
 The Pecatonica and Sugar rivers and their larger 
 tributaries afford excellent water power for manufac- 
 tures, while the innumerable streams that start from the 
 springs on the hillsides complete the natural fitness of 
 the county for becoming one of the leading live stock 
 counties in the United States. 
 
 Good timber is abundant. It is especially heavy in 
 the north and west, and every town has its groves of 
 ash, elm, maple, hickory, walnut, basswood, poplar, and 
 various kinds of oak. The healthfulness of the county, 
 which is unsurpassed, is probably due, in great measure, 
 to the elevation of the land. The elevation of the fol- 
 lowing places was determined by the surveys of the 
 Southern Wisconsin Railroad Company: 
 
 ELEVATION ABOVE 
 Lake Mich. Sea Level. 
 
 Brodhead, - - - - 221 S04 
 
 Juda, 353 936 
 
 High land south ot Monroe, - - 500 1,083 
 
 Pecatonica River Crossing, Town 1, Range 6, 196 779 
 
 Juda is shown by these surveys to be 348 feet higher 
 than Milwaukee, 113 feet higher than Janesville, 79 feet 
 higher than Madison, and 312 feet higher than Prairie 
 du Chien. 
 
 The territorv included in the State of Wisconsin was 
 first claimed by the French, by whom it was ceded to 
 
12 History of Green County. 
 
 Great Britain. At the close of the revolution it was 
 claimed by Virginia, and ceded by that state to the 
 United States, after which it was under the territorial 
 government of Ohio until 1800. From that time until 
 1809 it was a part of Indiana territory. It was then 
 Included in Illinois territory until 181S, when it was 
 attached to Michigan territory. On the 4th of July, 
 1S36, it was organized as the territory of Wisconsin. 
 When Michigan territory extended as far west as the 
 Mississippi, that part of the territory lying between 
 Lake Michigan and the Mississippi was divided into two 
 counties, Brown and Crawford. The division was such 
 that that part of Green County which is comprised in 
 fthe four towns, Brooklyn, Albany, Decatur, and Spring 
 Grove, was in Brown County, whose county seat was 
 Green Bay, while the remainder was in Crawford Coun- 
 ty, of which Prairie du Chien was the county seat. So 
 far as this county is concerned, the memory of man 
 goeth back only to 1826-7. In 1826 there began to be a 
 •great deal of talk about the lead mines of south-western 
 Wisconsin. In 1827 the interest in them was as general 
 .as the interest in the California gold mines in '49, and 
 there was such a rush to them from all parts of the 
 country that sometimes the boats that came up the 
 Mississippi from St. Louis could not carry half of 
 those who wanted to come. Probably the first white 
 men who saw what is now Green County passed this 
 way in 1S26, on their way to the mines near the river. 
 The first who remained came in '28, to trade with the 
 Indians. Their names were McNut and Boner. They 
 
History of Green County. 13 
 
 stopped at the old Indian, or Sugar River diggings, 
 near the present village of Exeter, where they were 
 soon joined by an interpreter named Van Sickles, and 
 by miners. Some time prior to 1S29, John B. Skinner 
 and Thomas Neal began to work at the Skinner dig- 
 gings, in the township since called Monroe. In 1S30 
 Andrew Clarno built the first house in Clarno town- 
 ship, and two years later William Wallace and Joseph 
 Paine, who had been working at the mines, settled near 
 him. New miners came occasionally, but the number 
 of settlers did not increase until after the Black Hawk 
 war, which broke out in the spring of 1S32. Although 
 this war lasted only three months, it must not, on that 
 account, be passed by as unimportant. It cost about 
 three hundred lives, whites and Indians, and even the 
 great rebellion was not a greater source of anxiety, in 
 its time, than was the Black Hawk war to the early 
 settlers. Prior to the war, in October, 1S29, the south- 
 ern part of Crawford County, including, of course, the 
 greater part of the future county of Green, was orga- 
 nized as Iowa County, of which Mineral Point was the 
 county seat. Most of the depredations of the Indians 
 during the war were committed in the mining districts 
 of Iowa County. Hundreds of miners left the country 
 and never returned. The movements of the Indians 
 were so stealthy and so rapid that the settlers, separated 
 by long distances from each other, were in the wildest 
 alarm. Their thoughts when awake, their dreams when 
 asleep, were all of the Indians. Finally they sought 
 
 refuge in the forts, of which the more important were 
 
 2* 
 
14 History of Gree?i County. 
 
 Fort Union, near Dodgeville; Fort Jackson, at Mineral 
 Point; Fort Defiance, five miles south-east of Mineral 
 Point; Mound Fort, at Blue Mounds; Funk's Fort, near 
 Gratiot's Grove; and Fort Hamilton, at Wiota. Other 
 forts were at Platteville and White Oak Springs. Most 
 of the forts were simply yards, with close fences made 
 of upright, ten-foot slabs. There were houses in the 
 yards to which settlers removed their families and house- 
 hold goods. It is the opinion of Mr. O. H. P. Clarno 
 that the worst of the war was inside the forts. The 
 children of the various families were soon arrayed 
 against each other in a struggle in which an armistice 
 was a thing unknown, and the mothers not only assisted 
 them, but also en^ao-ed in such hostilities on their own 
 account that a dispute as to the ownership of a frying- 
 pan has sometimes been known to lead to the conversion 
 of that pacific utensil into a weapon of war. 
 
 This is not the place for a detailed account of the 
 war, for none of its battles were fought within the limits 
 of Green County; and the departures of the settlers of 
 Exeter and Clarno to places of safety are elsewhere 
 described. Galena and all the villages of Iowa County 
 furnished volunteers; and, after a few engagements, 
 Black Hawk's forces were overpowered, and he himself 
 was taken prisoner before the arrival of Gen. Scott, 
 who, in eighteen days (a rapidity of travel that was 
 thought remarkable), had transported nine companies of 
 artillery from the seaboard around the lakes to Chicago. 
 But the soldiers escaped the tomahawk of the Indians 
 only to become the victims of that equally relentless foe, 
 
Hlstoiy of Green County . 15 
 
 the Asiatic cholera. Of 2S0 men commanded by one Col. 
 Twiggs, it is said not twenty survived. Doubtless many 
 were buried alive. At one time, writes one who was in 
 Chicago while the troops were there, when several were 
 jDla-ced beside the hole in which they were to be 
 buried, one of the number moved, and asked for water. 
 He lived to rejoice in good health. 
 
 After the war, immigration increased. To the new 
 comers, as to the earliest settlers, those who had partici- 
 pated in the war ever appeared as heroes. For years 
 the one unfailing subject of conversation, the subject 
 which never grew old and never was out of place, was 
 the war. Every incident was told over and over again. 
 There was a man named Bennett Million, who used to 
 play the fiddle at the dances in Monroe. He, w T ith a num- 
 ber of others, had been surprised by the Indians, some- 
 where near the Pecatonica, and chased by them. The 
 fright made one of his companions insane, and several 
 others were killed. Mr. Million saved himself by roll- 
 ing in the mud until so covered by it that he could hide 
 on the ground. His experience was interesting and ex- 
 citing, and many a time, in later years, the gay company 
 for whom he played bade him lay by the fiddle and the 
 bow, and tell them his story of the war. 
 
 Iowa County was partially surveyed before the war, 
 much earlier than would have been necessary had not 
 the lead mines brought it into notice. In 1S35 the land 
 was brought into market, and many settlers came to 
 the county in '35-6. Probably nine-tenths of those 
 who came now or any time before 1840 came from 
 
1 6 History of Gree?i County. 
 
 Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Virginia. It is 
 difficult to ascertain the states of their nativity. A very 
 large proportion of them came from Illinois, but they 
 had gone there a few years before, when "Eelinoise" 
 was the boundary of the civilized world. The Indiana 
 immigrants were, many of them, born in Ohio, and 
 many who came from Ohio had spent their earlier years 
 in Pennsylvania or Virginia. At this time hardly any 
 one came directly from New England, but some who 
 were by birth the children of New England came from 
 New York state. The settlers of 1S35-6-7 endured 
 privations of all kinds. The nearest markets were 
 Mineral Point, Galena, and Fort Winnebago. The dif- 
 ficulties of going to market were increased by the fact 
 that the streams, which a few years later were shallow 
 enough to be forded, were now so deep that teams were 
 oblio-ed to swim across them, and the banks were so 
 steep that travelers carried shovels with which to cut 
 them down. One might travel days at a time, in south- 
 ern Wisconsin, without seeing a house, and dismal 
 prophets had foretold that this state of things must con- 
 tinue. A history of the Black Hawk war, published in 
 1S34 by J. A. Wakefield, after remarking that if the 
 four lakes " were anywdiere else except in the country 
 they are, they would be considered among the wonders 
 of the world," added this discouraging conclusion : " But 
 the country they are situated in is not fit for any civilized 
 nation of people to inhabit. It appears that the Almighty 
 intended it for the children of the forest." Janesville 
 was then in its infancy, and for two or three years Mr. 
 
History of Green County. 17 
 
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 Janes came to Green County to buy provisions of the 
 farmers. Madison was thought of; but when the seat 
 of government was located there in 1S37 there were but 
 three white men in Dane County. 
 
 About the same time that Wisconsin was separated 
 from Michigan, Iowa County constituted her portion of 
 the future little Green one election precinct. Henry 
 Dodge, the first governor of the new territory, appor- 
 tioned to each county its number of councilors and rep- 
 resentatives, and the number allotted to Iowa County 
 entitled her eastern election precinct to one representa- 
 tive. The election was held where Monroe has since 
 grown up, at the blacksmith shop of a Mr. Brown 
 (familiarly known, from the material of his clothes, as 
 Buckskin Brown), and resulted in the election of Wm. 
 Boyles, of Cadiz. Other things than political affiliations 
 determined a candidate's success in those days. There 
 were very few young women in the country, and it is 
 said that every single man in the precinct favored the 
 election of Mr. Boyles because he had eight unmarried 
 daughters. At the first session of the first Wisconsin 
 legislature, which convened at Belmont, Iowa County, 
 in the fall of 1836, Mr. Boyles presented a petition 
 (which had been drawn up and circulated by Mr. Daniel 
 S. Sutherland), asking for the organization of a county 
 which should have the limits of the present county of 
 Green, and be called Richland. The petition was grant- 
 ed, so far as setting off a new county was concerned, 
 but some one objected to the name because it was " too 
 matter-of-fact," and Mr. Boyles was invited to select 
 
1 8 History of Gree7i County. 
 
 another. According to one account he selected Green, 
 as indicative of the bright color of the vegetation, and 
 refused to change it to Greene in honor of Gen. Greene. 
 Another account says he selected Greene, and when the 
 act of the legislature was printed the final e was omit- 
 ted by mistake. Be this as it may, for some years the 
 name was usually written Greene. 
 
 To the act which detached this county from Iowa, 
 was proposed an amendment attaching it to that county 
 for judicial purposes. Action on the amendment was 
 deferred until the next session, so that when the legisla- 
 ture adjourned in December, 1836, Green County was 
 left detached from Iowa County, without any authority 
 to organize, and without being attached to any county 
 for judicial purposes. In this state of affairs, Iowa 
 County claimed jurisdiction over Green, and, having 
 appointed Daniel S. Sutherland and Wm. Bowen jus- 
 tices of the peace, directed them to hold an election for 
 county officers; but when the people assembled election 
 day, Mr. Sutherland urged them not to do anything 
 which might be understood as an acknowledgment of 
 Iowa's authority over Green, and it was unanimously 
 resolved that no election should be held. There fol- 
 lowed nearly a year in which Green County had no 
 government or legal organization. By an act of the 
 legislature, which was approved January 15th, 1S38, 
 Green Count}' - was fully organized ; but ' while the bill 
 was before the legislature some one said that Green 
 ■was indebted to Iowa County for a portion of all the in- 
 debtedness of the mother county incurred prior to 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 l 9 
 
 March 4th, 1S37. From this unfortunate statement 
 arose a claim of Iowa County against Green for $537.73. 
 But, though the claim was urged as late as 1S50, and 
 though the lawsuits to which it gave rise cost the people 
 of little Green as much as the amount claimed, yet 
 they always insisted that, as they had derived no benefit 
 from the expenditures for which they were charged, the 
 claim was unjust and should not be paid, and it never 
 was paid. 
 
 The following table shows the population of Wis- 
 consin from 1S20 to the organization of Green County 
 in 1S3S: 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 1820. 
 
 1830. 
 
 964 
 692 
 
 i,539 
 
 1834- 
 
 i,957 
 810 
 
 2,633 
 
 1836. 
 
 2,766 
 1,220 
 
 3,218 
 2,892 
 
 1838. 
 
 Brown 
 
 952 
 492 
 
 3,048 
 850 
 
 5,234 
 
 3,!3i 
 172 
 
 18 
 
 Iowa 
 
 Milwaukee 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Grant 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,763 
 494 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The first election in the new county was held March 
 5th, 1838, at the house of Jacob LyBrand, in Monroe, 
 or New Mexico. Two hundred and thirty-one votes 
 were cast, and Daniel S. Sutherland, Wm. Bowen, and 
 Daniel Harcourt were elected county commissioners. 
 What was called the annual election was held in August, 
 at which time the following officers were elected : Daniel 
 Harcourt and James Reily, commissioners; Jehu Chad- 
 wick, treasurer; Jarvis Rattan, coroner; Jabez Johnson, 
 assessor; Hiram Rust, register of deeds, and Jabez John- 
 
20 History of Green County. 
 
 son, collector. Soon after this election, a copy of the 
 newly published laws of the state was received, and it 
 was found that the ioth of September was the day ap- 
 pointed by law for holding the annual election. Con- 
 sequently no certificates were issued to the officers elect- 
 ed in August, and another election was held in Septem- 
 ber, the result of which is given in the course of this 
 sketch. The commissioners had for clerks, this first 
 year of the county's existence, Hiram Rust, Mortimer 
 Bainbridge, and Win. Rittenhouse, successively. The 
 commissioners' work was as follows: They appointed 
 judges of elections, ordered that Green County consti- 
 tute one election precinct, that elections be held at the 
 house of Jacob LyBrand, and that the district court be 
 held at Jacob Andrick's. They charged Joseph Paine 
 $1.50 for tavern license for three months, and Jacob Ly- 
 Brand $20.00 for license to retail merchandise for one 
 year. They established the boundaries of road districts 
 one and two, received and granted several petitions for 
 roads, and issued orders to the amount of $129.67. 
 
 The first court held in Green County, was the United 
 States district court, Hon. Chas. Dunn presiding. It 
 was held in April, 1S3S, at Mr. Andrick's house, now 
 known as the Niles place, south of the village of Mon- 
 roe. The first grand jury, Hiram Rust foreman, met 
 in the blacksmith shop of Buckskin Brown. Once, 
 when Judge Dunn was here, the gran/1 jury found an 
 indictment against a woman. Before the hour for the 
 trial, and before the grand jurors had come out of their 
 room, which opened into the court room, the Judge 
 
History of Green County. 21 
 
 opened a door and said to the woman, " the best thing 
 for you to do is to run," and she speedily disappeared. 
 
 The first person tried by a jury was Daniel Harcourt, 
 who was charged "with removing and destroying - the 
 boundaries of a lot of land." Road viewers had been 
 appointed to lay out a road to which Dr. Harcourt was 
 opposed. The projected road was described by its prox- 
 imity to certain marks of the government surveys; 
 namely, the stake on the corner of the section, and the 
 trees called witness trees, upon the bark of which had 
 been cut letters and figures showing the quarter section 
 and the number of the section. The road viewers met 
 to perform their duty, but they found that Dr. Har- 
 court and his son-in-law had removed the stake, and 
 that the marks on the witness trees had been so nicely 
 filled with moss and lichens that no one unacquainted 
 with their position could tell where they had been. The 
 case turned on the removal of the stake. Dr. Harcourt 
 claimed that the original stake had been destroyed by a 
 fire, that he and his son-in-law had put another in its 
 place, and that, having put it there themselves, they had 
 a right to take it away again. The jury returned a 
 verdict of not guilty. In October, 1839, Frederick Bedt- 
 ner made the first declaration of intention to become a 
 citizen. John Thorp, the first naturalized citizen of 
 Green County, took the oath April 14th, 1S41. The 
 first divorce was granted in 1842, and there were eight 
 divorce cases before '50. 
 
 Lawsuits occupied some of the commissioners' time. 
 Their journal's first mention of a suit is the following: 
 
 3 
 
22 History of Green County. 
 
 "April 2d, 1839. Whereas Jacob LyBrand obtained an 
 order to take out license to vend merchandise in the 
 county of Green, at the July term of this court in '38, 
 and has failed to comply with the law in that case 
 made and provided, therefore, ordered, that suit be insti- 
 tuted against said Jacob LyBrand in the district court of 
 said county, in an action of debt to the damage of said 
 county of $100." 
 
 In 1S39 a tax of one-half of one per cent, was levied 
 on the valuation of all taxable property. For conve- 
 nience of assessing, the county was divided into three dis- 
 tricts, and it was ordered bv the commissioners that first- 
 rate land be valued at three dollars per acre, and second- 
 rate land at two dollars per acre. The territorial reve- 
 nue from Green County in 1839 was $90.58, which was 
 five per cent, of all taxes. The produce of the county 
 in 1839 was as follows: 
 
 Wheat, n,953 bushels. Indian Corn, 25,610 bushels. 
 
 Barley, 85 " Potatoes, 15,603 " 
 
 Oats, 20,245 " Wool, 1,045 lbs. 
 
 Buckwheat, 788 " 
 
 Immediately after the organization of the county 
 there arose a contest for the county seat, which had the 
 effect of preventing immigration while it lasted, and of 
 inducing many who had come to go away. Shortly be- 
 fore the organization of the county, Judge Andrick laid 
 out a town, where he lived, which he called New Mex- 
 ico, but which he neglected to have recorded in the 
 land office at Mineral Point. It was supposed that this 
 town of New Mexico would be the county seat of the 
 
History of Green County. 23 
 
 prospective county, and Mr. Payne besought Judge 
 Andrick to sell him an interest in it, which the Judge 
 refused to do. Mr. Payne then laid out a town, which 
 was immediately north of New Mexico, and which in- 
 eluded land on both sides of that now occupied by the 
 railroad track. Mr. James Campbell, who was Mr. 
 Payne's surveyor, remembers that while they were sur- 
 veying, Mr. Payne stopped work to make a last effort 
 to purchase a share in New Mexico, and that he re- 
 marked, on his return from his fruitless visit to Judge 
 Andrick, " New Mexico isn't recorded, and if the old 
 fool wo'n't let any one else have half the county seat, he 
 shan't have any part of it himself." The act of the 
 Burlington legislature which made this a county, also 
 located the county seat at New Mexico, referring, of 
 course, to Judge Andrick's town. As soon as this act 
 was passed, Mr. Payne named his town New Mexico, 
 and hastened to the land office at Mineral Point. A few 
 miles behind him rode Judge Andrick, 23iirsuing him 
 with a speed compared to which the most rapid move- 
 ments of the Indians who followed him in 1S32 and of 
 the sheriff who sought for him in 1S49 were as the crawl- 
 ing of a snail to John Gilpin's ride. Mr. Payne reached 
 Mineral Point before Judge Andrick, and got his New 
 Mexico on record first, which made it the county seat by 
 law. But, moved by a petition which was presented by 
 Mr. Sutherland, the member from Green, the legisla- 
 lature, at its next session, repealed this law, and appoint- 
 ed three commissioners to select a county seat. To in- 
 duce Mr. Sutherland to work for the repeal of the first 
 
2.J. history of Gree7i County. 
 
 law, a large number of the voters of Green County had 
 pledged themselves to submit to the decision of the 
 commissioners, whatever it might be. The commission- 
 ers, after looking the county over, selected a place which 
 they called Roscoe, about two and one-half miles north- 
 east of the present village of Monroe. The place was 
 not acceptable to the people. It was then made to ap- 
 pear before the legislature that Mr. Sutherland owned 
 all the timber in the vicinity of Roscoe, and that his in- 
 fluence had led to the selection of that place. The rep- 
 resentation was a mistaken one, as regards both the 
 ownership of the timber and the influence exerted by 
 Mr. Sutherland. But this law was also repealed, and it 
 was decided that the question of the county seat should be 
 decided by a vote of the people. In the meantime, it was 
 undertaken to dig a well in Mr. Payne's town, but, after 
 digging about forty feet, those interested in it became 
 discouraged, and gave up the attempt. The belief then 
 became general that the county seat must be at some 
 
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 place where water could be more easily obtained, and 
 Messrs. Payne, LyBrand, and Russell offered to give 
 the county 120 acres of land near the spring — Mr. Russell 
 stipulating that his share of the gift should be for the 
 benefit of a county seminary. Mr. Andrick had also 
 abandoned the hope of making his town the county 
 seat, and had united with others in claiming that honor 
 for a site which was situated a short distance south of 
 Roscoe. At the election, in May, 1S39, the point at issue 
 seems to have been not so much the comparative merits 
 of the two sites under consideration, as the comparative 
 
History of Green County. 25, 
 
 popularity of the men who had selected them ; and the 
 tickets of one party were marked, " For Andrick, Wil- 
 coxon and Sutherland," while those of the other party 
 read, " For Payne, LyBrand and Russell." The vote 
 was a tie, Andrick and Sutherland's site having received 
 just half the 136 votes cast. A second election was held 
 in June, and though there were cast six votes more than 
 at the other election, the result was a second tie. This, 
 result was inadvertantly brought about by Mr. Ly- 
 Brand. Election day each party knew how many voters 
 it had in town, and knew, too, that Mr. LyBrand's side 
 had one more man than the other. To make assurance 
 doubly sure, Mr. LyBrand sent into the country for 
 another voter, paying his messenger $2.50 for the trip. 
 The man, whose name was Elias Luttrell, came, but, 
 much to Mr. Ly Brand's surprise, he voted with the 
 opposition. A third election was held in August. An- 
 drick and Sutherland were now the champions of a 
 site which was almost the geographical centre of the 
 county ; but, as votes were cast for men, rather than for 
 places, it was probable that this election would result, 
 like the others, in a tie; when Mr. Ly Brand, taking" 
 advantage of the great popularity of a peculiar kind of 
 hat, braided by Mrs. Rust, offered to give one of them to 
 a young man, named Porter, if he would induce some 
 miners at Sugar River diggings to come to the polls. 
 The offer was accepted, and the votes thus gained loca- 
 ted 'the county seat. The selection of a name for the 
 town was left to Dr. Harcourt, one of the county com- 
 missioners, and he selected Monroe. 
 
 3* 
 
2,6 History of Green County. 
 
 In August, 1S39, the land given for a county seat 
 was deeded to the county, Mr. Ly Brand reserving the 
 privilege of selecting, from his forty acres, six town lots 
 for himself. In May, 1840, Mr. Ly Brand was desired, 
 by the commissioners, to make choice of his six lots. It 
 appears from the following entry in their journal, dated 
 June 1st, 1840, that he failed to do so: "Whereas no 
 specified time is designated for the selection of said lots, 
 and sufficient time having been given to the said Jacob 
 LyBrand to make such selection as by him provided in 
 said deed; and whereas he has hitherto neglected, and, 
 by so neglecting, refused, and by so doing, waived his 
 right to make such choice; and whereas provision is 
 made in the above named deed that Green County, be- 
 fore offering any portion of the town of Monroe for 
 sale, shall make a deed to said Jacob LyBrand of six 
 building lots, in said town, as provided in said deed; now, 
 be it ordered that the following lots be selected — " A 
 deed of the six lots chosen for him was accordingly 
 offered to Mr. LyBrand. He declined to accept it, and 
 selected other lots, which the commissioners, being, in 
 their turn, willing to delay matters, neglected for some 
 time to deed to him. But they had advertised in the 
 Wisconsin Enquirer, a paper published at Madison, a 
 public sale of lots in the town of Monroe, to be held 
 the 8th of October, 1S40. The sale was to begin at ten 
 o'clock. Early in the morning of that day, therefore, 
 Mr. LyBrand was given a deed of the lots he had 
 chosen. 
 
 Mr. I. A. Lapham, in a little history of Wisconsin, 
 
History of Green County. 2f 
 
 published in 1844, sa ys there were in Green County, in 
 1840, 247 horses, 1,459 neat cattle, 608 sheep, 3,605 
 swine, 2 stores, 1 grist mill, and 3 saw mills. A tax of" 
 one per cent was levied on the valuation of all property 
 in 1840, the valuation being the same as in 1839. In 1844. 
 the county taxes were as follows: 
 
 County charges, including only the 
 
 expenses of the courts and fees of 
 
 officers for performing' the duties 
 
 required by law, - - - 3 mills on a dollar. 
 
 Contingent expenses, - - \]/ 2 " " " 
 
 Support of schools and erection of 
 
 school houses, - 2 *A " " 
 
 u 
 
 Roads and bridges, - - 1 mill " " 
 
 Support of poor, - - 1 " " " 
 
 1S40 saw inaugurated a system of economy for county- 
 commissioners, which wai- adhered to until '49, and which 
 is illustrated by this passage from the journal : "This 
 
 day (October 7th, 1S40) appeared, and filed 
 
 his account against Green County for the sum of thirty- 
 six dollars, and moved the court here for an allowance 
 of the same. And after the matter being considered,, 
 and fully understood by the court, it is ordered that he 
 have an order made in his favor for the sum of eighteen 
 dollars.'" This system being understood, bills were 
 usually made out With reference to being allowed only 
 in part. 
 
 In 1842, Green County had two election precincts, 
 called Monroe and Sugar River. Others were set apart 
 in the following year. In November, 184S, there were 
 eight election precincts, namely: Monroe, Greenville,, 
 Jefferson, Exeter, Mill Creek, Calimine, Decatur, and 
 Albany. 
 
28 History of Gree?i County. 
 
 It took some time to find out what officers were need- 
 ed to do the business of the county. In 1S3S, and again 
 in '39, an assessor and a constable were elected. In 1840, 
 the number of assessors was increased to three, and in 
 '41 the number of constables was increased to two. A 
 collector and three fence viewers were elected in 1840, 
 and six road supervisors were elected in '41. In 1S43, 
 justices of the peace were elected in each precinct. In 
 1844, each precinct elected justices, fence viewers, and 
 a constable. 
 
 In 1840, school districts were organized. There were 
 ten, and they were set off in the following order: Ros- 
 coe, Richland, Monroe, New Mexico, Union, York, 
 Green, Mill Creek, Fairfield and Pennsylvania. 
 
 At this time the county commissioners were also 
 school commissioners, but in 1S41, and each year there- 
 after, until '49, three school commissioners were elected. 
 The first school commissioners were Elias Jones, Wm. 
 C. Green, and E. T. Gardner. In 1845, there were seven- 
 teen school districts which had had school three months 
 the preceding year. In 1847, twenty-five districts, in 
 which there were 1,323 school children, had school three 
 months; and seventeen districts, in which there were 
 514 children, had no school. 
 
 The number of petitions and orders for roads re- 
 corded in the commissioners' journal during the first 
 years of the county's existence makes one wonder that 
 the commissioners ever had time to attend to anything 
 besides roads, and the wonder grows when one reads 
 petitions in which the wished for road is described by its 
 
History of Green County. 29* 
 
 proximity to John Chryst's stack yard, the slough near 
 Wm. Rittenhouse's stable, and other similar landmarks.. 
 In 1S42 the first bridge in the county was built across. 
 Sugar river, on the road from Janesville to Monroe. In 
 1S43 a bridge over the Pecatonica, and a second bridge- 
 over Sugar river, on the road from Madison to the Illi- 
 nois state line, by way of New Mexico, were built, and 
 in '44 Sugar river was spanned by a bridge on the road 
 from Monroe to Beloit. Of these four bridges, Joseph 
 Woodle built the first, Ezra Durgin and Jacob Linzee: 
 the second, John B. Sawyer the third, and Jacob Linzee 
 the fourth. 
 
 In 1 841-2, nearly every masculine heart in the county 
 was fired with a desire to get wolf scalps, and many 
 pages of the commissioners' journal for that time are 
 filled with the names of successful hunters. The con- 
 duct of some who engaged in this onslaught upon the 
 wolves was marked by all of a crusader's strange ex- 
 travagance. A few of them suffered from a hallucina- 
 tion that led its victim greatly to exaggerate the num- 
 ber of wolves laid low by his valorous hand. Such 
 unfortunates exhibited, in their wildest moments, scalps 
 which indicated that in this country the wolf and the 
 fox, and even the wolf and the woodchuck, lay down 
 together; and the worthy commissioners wej - e often 
 much troubled by their mad clamor for reward. 
 
 184.3 was tne y eal * fi rst fixed upon by the Millerites, 
 or Second Adventists, for the end of the world. Ten 
 years had now elapsed since Wm. Miller began preach- 
 ing, and as early as 1840 the number of his disciples was 
 
30 History of Green County. 
 
 thought to have reached fifty thousand. Many who 
 did not profess his faith awaited with fear and tremb- 
 ling the opening of the fateful year. The winter of 
 1842-43 was one of almost unparalleled severity. Early 
 in November, the snow fell to a great depth. With the 
 exception of a few days in January, the ground was 
 covered until April, and the idea that the world wa s 
 to be destroyed by cold gained many adherents in 
 Green County. The roads, that year, are thus described 
 by Mr. S. F. Chipman, in Guernsey's History of Rock 
 County : " Road-tracks across the prairie would catch 
 the drifting snow until they attained to an elevation of 
 two to four feet, which very much endangered the safety 
 of meeting teams; for, in turning out, the horse that 
 stepped from the path would often sink and plunge so 
 deep that the mate would fall on to or over him, and both 
 be floundering for dear life in the deep snow, with more or 
 less icy crusts to cut and maim them." Mr. Chipman 
 tells of meeting, one cold morning, a sleigh in which 
 were four men who had missed their way while going 
 from Monroe to Janesville. They had wandered over 
 the prairie two days and nights, without food for them- 
 selves or horses, and had just decided to kill and eat one 
 of their horses, wdien Mr. Chipman found them and di- 
 rected them to a house two miles distant. Corn was 
 everywhere so scarce that winter that men came to 
 Green County from a hundred miles aw r ay to buy, 
 and many cattle died of starvation. After a time, only 
 three men in the county had corn to sell. They sold 
 for twenty-five cents a bushel; but one of them, a very 
 
History of Green County. 31 
 
 sanctimonious man, said, " let us charge fifty cents. " 
 "No, said one of the others," lengthening his sentence 
 with strong Anglo Saxon expletives, " that may do for 
 you, but, as for me, I have a soul to save, and shall charge 
 only twenty-five cents." Speculators wanted to buy all 
 this farmer's corn, but, as the grateful customers of Mr. 
 Thomas Bowen still remember, he refused to sell to any 
 one more than one load at a time. 
 
 In Mav, 1S48, Wisconsin became a state, and Green 
 County passed under the supervisor system of govern- 
 ment. Since the organization of the state government, 
 as before, most of the officers of the county have been 
 well qualified for their positions, and, with one excep- 
 tion, they appear to have conscientiously performed the 
 duties devolving upon them. The exception is Horace 
 B. Poyer, county clerk from the year 1S49 to 1855, and 
 forger of county orders. Probably no man in the 
 county was ever more generally popular, more implic- 
 itly trusted, than Mr. Poyer at the time he was engaged 
 in his forgeries. An investigating committee appointed 
 by the supervisors reported December 27th, 1S55, as 
 follows : " The matter is involved in much obscurity, 
 owing to the destruction and mutilation of records and 
 papers. We are therefore unable to make so full and 
 perfect a report as we could desire. We have, however, 
 detected frauds committed from the year 184S to 1S54, in- 
 clusive. The aggregate amount of which the county 
 has been defrauded (so far as we are able to state from 
 our imperfect means of ascertaining), including orders 
 altered, orders wholly fraudulent, and the same raised 
 
5 2 History of Green County. 
 
 for weights and measures, and exclusive of $895.17 of 
 ■orders, for the issuing of which no bills or resolutions 
 •can be found, is $2,541.28; from which deduct $696.80, 
 the amount canceled by Poyer, and there remains a bal- 
 ance now due the county of $1,844.48." The value of 
 the orders which the report refers to as canceled, was 
 saved for the county by the fact that a year before the 
 forgeries were generally known, A. Ludlow and Asa 
 Richardson became convinced that a large number of 
 ■orders which they had bought were fraudulent. Their 
 efforts to ascertain the truth were discovered by Mr. 
 Poyer, who engaged two attorneys, to whom he made 
 a confession, expressing at the same time a great desire 
 to repair the wrong he had done. All the fraudulent 
 orders which had been discovered were immediately 
 canceled, and Mr. Poyer expressed great pleasure in his 
 •own reformation. He won the confidence and the deep- 
 est sympathy of all who knew his secret. They be- 
 lieved he had been the victim of circumstances which 
 could never mislead him again. After some time, how- 
 ever, it was discovered that the confession was less full 
 than it had been represented to be. Other forgeries, 
 even forged certificates of wolf scalps, were discovered, 
 and, after paying his attorneys with a forged land war- 
 rant, Mr. Poyer fled to a distant state, where, under an 
 assumed name, he is said to be leading an honorable life. 
 The next event of importance was the building of 
 the railway. The Milwaukee and Mississippi Compa- 
 ny purposed building roads from Milwaukee to Madison, 
 Prairie du Chicn, and Dubuque. The Dubuque branch 
 
History of Green County. 33 
 
 was to pass through Jancsville, but that city, having at 
 that time a more realizing sense of its value to the road 
 than of the road's value to it, received the project so 
 coldly that the company said Janesville should not have 
 a road. The Madison road was built through Milton 
 instead of Janesville, and all idea of the Dubuque branch 
 was abandoned. Green County began then to look for 
 some other way of getting a road, and Janesville had 
 been sufficiently humbled to be willing to help her- 
 Early in 1852, gentlemen living in Albany sent a peti- 
 tion to the legislature, asking to be incorporated as the 
 Southern Wisconsin Railroad Company, with authority 
 to build a road from Milton, by way of Janesville, 
 through the counties of Green, La Fayette, and Grant, 
 to some point on the Mississippi. While all the inhab- 
 itants of Green County were agreed in the desire for a 
 road, they differed widely in the choice of a location for 
 it. Those in the northern half of the county wanted it 
 to go by Albany ; and, with the exception of one or two 
 old settlers, who had never been satisfied with the loca- 
 tion of the county seat, and who hoped that a railroad 
 north of Monroe would re-open the old county seat 
 question, those in the southern half were quite as unan- 
 imous in the desire to have it pass through Monroe. 
 News of the Albany petition reached Monroe. As soon 
 as possible, one or two citizens, believing that if you 
 would have a thing done to suit yourself you must do 
 it yourself, went to Madison, and, there being no inter- 
 ested person there from Albany to prevent, changed the 
 Albany bill by inserting in the place of the names of 
 
 4 
 
34 History of Green County. 
 
 the men who originated it, the names of men living in 
 and around Monroe. Thus changed, the bill passed, 
 and there was no longer any doubt that if there was a 
 road it must go through Monroe. The road was sur- 
 veyed, and some stock was taken by the farmers. In 
 the fall of 1S53, grading began at Monroe ; but the com- 
 pany lacked means to carry on the work, and early in 
 '54 g ave U P its charter to the Milwaukee and Mississippi 
 Company, so that the projected road was thenceforth 
 known as the Southern Wisconsin Branch of the Mil- 
 waukee and Mississippi Railroad. Many men in Green 
 County now subscribed liberally, but, there being still 
 a lack of money, farm mortgages, payable in ten years, 
 were resorted to. In mortgaging their farms, some of 
 the farmers were influenced wholly by a desire to get 
 the railroad here, but most of them were also moved by 
 a spirit of speculation. Stock in the railroad company 
 was given them for their mortgages, and the general 
 opinion of its value was such that farmers made their 
 mortgages as large as the company would allow them to 
 be. The comjDany promised to pay the interest on all the 
 mortgages, and promised that no mortgages on land 
 west of Brodhead should be sold until the road reached 
 Brodhead, and none from west of Monroe until the 
 road reached Monroe. In October, 1S54, stock to the 
 amount of $485,900 had been taken. The greater part 
 of it was in Green County, but the mortgages given in 
 the vicinity of Shullsburg amounted to $128,000. By 
 February, 1S56, work on the road had begun. The 
 mortgages were taken to New England, where they 
 
History of Green County. 35 
 
 sold readily. The company also obtained money at 
 three different times by mortgages on the road ; but much 
 of the money obtained in these ways was used on the 
 Prairie du Chien road, and work on the Southern Wis- 
 consin was not prosecuted with the vigor the mortgage- 
 ors had hoped for. The road to Prairie du Chien was 
 finished in April, 1857, but the company had not then 
 the money to push forward the other road. In August, 
 before the track was laid to Brodhead, the road was 
 sold on the third mortgage; stock went down to ten per 
 cent., and the iron for the road between Brodhead and 
 Monroe was held in New York for the duty, which, 
 with the storage, amounted to $20,000. The Bank of 
 Monroe advanced the money to pay the duty, being 
 partially repaid by farmers who gave their notes at the 
 time for various amounts, and work was resumed. The 
 track was laid to Brodhead in September, to Juda in 
 November, and to Monroe the last of December. It 
 was really Green County, not the railroad company, 
 that brought the road from Janesville, and a great num- 
 ber of citizens are entitled to a share of the credit of it; 
 but, much as it cost in money, the greatest cost of the 
 road was in the anxiety and long suspense it brought 
 the mortgageors. 
 
 The company assumed an appearance of great fair- 
 ness towards the mortgfasreors. Sometimes a director 
 was chosen from among them, and, as was especially 
 the case in the election of Judge Dunwiddie, this was 
 conducive to the interests of both the company and 
 the mortgageors; but the appearance was frequently 
 
^6 History of Green County. 
 
 deceptive. On one occasion, all the stockholders and 
 their wives were given a free ride to Milwaukee, to 
 attend a railroad meeting. They were all urged to go, 
 but, after their arrival at the meeting, some pretext was 
 raised by which almost every one of them was prevented 
 from voting. The agreement of the company in regard 
 to using the mortgages from the country west of Mon- 
 roe was so far kept that, before the sale of the road in 
 August, 1S57, all those given west of Green County 
 were released. The desire for the road was so great in 
 La Fayette County that Mr. E. D. Clinton, the general 
 agent of the road, and the man who, more than any one 
 else, was the cause of its extension from Janesville, found 
 more difficulty in releasing the mortgages than he had 
 found in obtaining them. Two men refused to comply 
 with the condition of a release, which was to pay the re- 
 corder's fee, and in these cases Mr. Clinton paid the 
 costs himself. The mortgages given in the western 
 part of the county were all sold before the road reached 
 Monroe, and the promise in regard to paying the interest 
 on the mortgages was not fulfilled. After the comple- 
 tion of the road, the stock was raised by a fictitious divi- 
 dend and by some other devices to ninety per cent. The 
 holders of the mortgages were by this time glad to sell 
 them, and the company bought them and settled with 
 the mortgageors by buying their stock at ninety per cent. 
 A few of the farmers had previously effected a settlement 
 with the purchasers of their mortgages, and paid more; 
 but ten cents on a dollar was all that any of them were 
 obliged to pay, and a few of them never paid anything. 
 
History of Green County. 37 
 
 The only other railroad in Green County is the Mad- 
 ison branch of the Northwestern railroad, built in 1864. 
 It passes through the village of Brooklyn, in the north- 
 eastern part of the county. Other roads are hoped for, 
 as is more fully explained in the sketches of Cadiz and 
 Albany. 
 
 When the war broke out, Green County responded 
 nobly to the call made upon her. Her first company, 
 Company " C," of the third regiment, was enlisted in 
 April and May, 1861 ; it was one of the three companies 
 of the third regiment which, with two companies of the 
 Massachusetts fourth, fought at Bolivar against more 
 than three times their number, and captured a heavy 
 field piece, which was brought from the field by the 
 Wisconsin companies under command of Lt. O'Brien, of 
 Green County. Not less brave and efficient were the 
 soldiers sent forth at a later day. But the very number 
 of their heroic services makes it impossible to tell them, 
 for every company furnished numberless instances of gal- 
 lant conduct, of patient endurance, and unselfish devo- 
 tion, and so far as any one who was not himself among 
 their number can write it, the record of the marches 
 and battles of Green County's soldiers has already been 
 written in the Military History of Wisconsin and the 
 annual reports of the Adjutant General of the state. 
 [See appendix.] 
 
 In December, 1861, Green County was credited with 
 229 soldiers. In August, 1862, her total credit was 708, 
 and 355 men were still lacking under the calls that had 
 been made at that time. In the fall, twenty-five men 
 
 4* 
 
38 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 were drafted, but for various reasons only twelve of 
 them were mustered into service. Under the call of 
 October, 1863, for 300,000 more, the quota of Green 
 County was 223. Under the four calls of 1S64, dated 
 February 1, March 14, July 18, and December 19, her 
 quota was 1326. It has been impossible to find the cred- 
 its of the several towns in the early part of the war, but 
 the quotas and credits of each town, from October, 1863, 
 to the end of the war, are shown in the following table : 
 
 TOWNS. 
 
 Adams 
 
 Albany 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 •Clarno 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Mount Pleasant. 
 New Glarus. 
 Spring Grove. . , 
 Sylvester. 
 
 Washington 
 York 
 
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 Q 
 
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 51 
 
 30 
 
 4 
 
 H 
 
 6 
 
 
 95 
 
 72 
 
 11 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 
 71 
 
 49 
 
 9 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 
 63 
 
 3° 
 
 13 
 
 17 
 
 8 
 
 
 89 
 
 57 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 11 
 
 
 115 
 
 75 
 
 17 
 
 26 
 
 23 
 
 
 50 
 
 35 
 
 11 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 
 115 
 
 95 
 
 10 
 
 16 
 
 H 
 
 
 53 
 
 32 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 
 207 
 
 139 
 
 67 
 
 32 
 
 30 
 
 
 86 
 
 69 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 11 
 
 
 5 2 
 
 30 
 
 11 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 
 84 
 
 61 
 
 15 
 
 21 
 
 11 
 
 
 74 
 
 56 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 
 59 
 
 34 
 
 12 
 
 S 
 
 9 
 
 
 62 
 
 19 
 
 4 
 
 20 
 
 6 
 
 
 1,326 
 
 883 
 
 217 
 
 209 
 
 174 
 
 II 
 
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 54 
 99 
 7i 
 68 
 
 93 
 
 142 
 
 61 
 136 
 
 57 
 270 
 
 93 
 
 5i 
 109 
 
 77 
 63 
 50 
 
 M94 
 
 Green County's treatment of her soldiers and their 
 families was generous as well as just. At a special 
 meeting of the supervisors in May, 1861, on motion of 
 Mr. Adams, it was " Resolved, that, in the opinion of this 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 39 
 
 board, the county will be willing to pay all the necessary 
 expenses of maintaining the families of all those who 
 may volunteer (that may need such assistance) during 
 the war." The aid thus early promised was continued 
 to the end, and the towns were individually as prompt 
 and persevering as the county. The following state- 
 ment of the amounts raised to pay bounties to volun- 
 teers, and to aid the families of the same, is from the 
 Sentinel of July 26th, 1865: 
 
 TOWNS. 
 
 RAISED BY 
 
 TAX. 
 
 BY SUB- 
 SCRIPTION 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 AMOUNT. 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 
 4,760 OO 
 
 II,000 OO 
 II,000 OO 
 
 4,120 OO 
 
 9,640 OO 
 14,600 55 
 
 8,420 00 
 13,500 00 
 
 3,300 00 
 20,845 °° 
 
 I,IOO OO 
 
 6,050 OO 
 
 3,500 OO 
 1,000 OO 
 
 3,136 OO 
 
 8.99+ 45 
 1,885 °° 
 7,900 00 
 1,200 00 
 1,777 00 
 11,035 00 
 5,Si5 00 
 3,197 00 
 3,100 00 
 4,400 00 
 2,900 00 
 125 00 
 
 5,Sco OO 
 17,050 OO 
 
 15,431 9 2 
 
 5,120 OO 
 12,776 OO 
 
 2 3,595 55 
 10,305 00 
 21,400 00 
 4,500 00 
 22,622 00 
 11,035 °° 
 20,215 °° 
 
 9.397 °° 
 17,213 00 
 
 14,637 00 
 
 9,800 00 
 
 5,7 3 5 °° 
 
 Stated near as possible. 
 
 Collect'd of tax voted, $5,700 00 
 Stated near as possible. 
 
 tt a tt 
 
 Clarno 
 
 Exeter 
 
 For families support. . 142 45 
 Collected 8,70500 
 
 Collect'd of tax voted, 10,845 00 
 All collected. 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Monroe — town . 
 Monroe-village. 
 Mt. Pleasant". .. 
 
 New Glarus 
 
 Spring Grove . . 
 
 Sylvester 
 
 Washinp-ton .... 
 York. 
 
 14,400 00 
 
 6,200 00 
 
 14,113 00 
 
 10,237 00 
 
 6,900 00 
 
 5,600 00 
 
 All collected. 
 
 Collected of tax voted, 4,800 00 
 
 " " " 7,013 00 
 
 6,23700 
 
 Collected of subscrip'n 2,60000 
 
 Stated near as possible. 
 
 Total 
 
 159.535 55 
 
 67,iH 45 
 
 226,682 47 
 
 
 
 
 Raised by the county for the support of the families of vol- 
 nnteers, or their children, from the beginning of the war 
 up to Agust 1st, 1S65, $ 54,102 35 
 
 Whole total 280,784 S2 
 
 Previous to any consideration of the history of the 
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 of the progress made by the county, since the organi- 
 zation of the towns, in wealth and population, in its indus- 
 tries, and in its provisions for education. The county is 
 free from debt, and its condition has always been one of 
 increasing prosperity, as is indicated by the following 
 statistics: 
 
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History of Green County. 41 
 
 The taxes levied in Green County in 1876 were as 
 follows: 
 
 State tax, - $17,770 19 County school tax, $ 3,523 54 
 County tax, - i9?7~3 n State loan tax, - i>475 50 
 Delinquent tax, 4S3 77 Total tax, - 42,976 11 
 
 MANUFACTURES. 
 
 The attention given to manufactures has been limit- 
 ed by the insufficient facilities for transportation. It is 
 thought that the completion of either of the projected 
 railroads running north and south, would give a new im- 
 petus to creative industries. But even now the manu- 
 factures of the county are varied and important, as will 
 be seen by reference to the histories of the several 
 towns. The progress of the county in this respect has 
 been much greater since 1S70 than the progress indica- 
 ted by the following table for the decade ending in that 
 year : 
 
 STATISTICS FROM CENSUSES OF i860 AND 1S7O. 
 
 No. of establishments, 
 
 No. of steam engines, 
 
 No. of water wheels, 
 
 No. of males employed, 
 
 No. of females employed, 
 
 Capital invested, .... 
 
 Wages, ..... 
 
 Cost of materials, .... 
 
 Value of products, 
 
 AGRICULTURE. 
 
 The agricultural products of the county have changed 
 materially within the last ten years. This was formerly 
 
 i860. 
 
 1870. 
 
 "5 
 
 201 
 
 T 
 
 10 
 
 Not given. 38 
 
 253 
 
 647 
 
 
 ^3 
 
 $283,625 
 
 $47o,o35 
 
 77.716 
 
 197,967 
 
 605,099 
 
 671494 
 
 855.950 
 
 i> i33<364 
 
4 2 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 a great wheat county, many farmers raising forty bush- 
 els an acre. Soon after i860, while no marked change 
 was observable in other crops, the wheat crops, from 
 some cause not clearly understood, grew smaller. Even 
 on new land the yield was comparatively small, and 
 farmers wisely turned their attention to the raising of 
 cattle. Now, wheat is brought here from other states, 
 -and stock, cheese, butter, eggs, hides, tallow, and wool 
 have taken the place of the wheat, corn, and oats that 
 used to be shipped to the eastern markets. 
 
 The following table shows the number of acres de- 
 voted to the culture of specified crops in 1876: 
 
 TOWNS. 
 
 Adams 
 
 Albany 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 •Clarno 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Mt. Pleasant. 
 New Glarus. 
 Spring Grove 
 Sylvester. . . . 
 Washington . 
 York 
 
 Total 
 
 Wheat. 
 
 733 
 
 373 
 
 183 
 1,240 
 
 727 
 846 
 
 377 
 
 57^ 
 
 6 43 
 502 
 
 601 
 
 1,501 
 
 895 
 805 
 
 73o 
 997 
 
 ".779 
 
 Oats. 
 
 M56 
 
 2,847 
 
 3,°9° 
 !,7i4 
 
 2,598 
 3,258 
 
 2,25s 
 
 3,i95 
 1,180 
 
 1,478 
 
 3,9 l6 
 1,614 
 
 2,584 
 
 3P95 
 2,201 
 
 !,43i 
 37,9*5 
 
 Corn. 
 
 2,167 
 3,675 
 
 3,44 2 
 3,97o 
 4,5o8 
 4,85 6 
 34S1 
 5,48o 
 1,740 
 
 2,756 
 4,559 
 i,739 
 5,796 
 
 4,45° 
 2,703 
 !,534 
 
 56,856 
 
 Barley, 
 
 50 
 24 
 IO 
 
 241 
 
 145 
 
 22 
 
 28 
 
 27O 
 
 30 
 
 95 
 20 
 
 93 
 30 
 
 28 
 112 
 
 95 
 1,293 
 
 Rye. 
 
 60 
 302 
 
 28 
 
 454 
 
 345 
 189 
 
 10 
 
 190 
 
 395 
 96 
 4° 
 3 1 
 
 376 
 
 7i 
 60 
 
 60 
 2,707 
 
 Hops. 
 
 IO 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
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 To- 
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 17 
 
 3 
 
 11 
 
 3i 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 43 
 
 SELECTED STATISTICS OF THE AGRICULTURE OF GREEN COUNTY" 
 FROM UNITED STATES CENSUSES. 
 
 Bushels of Wheat 
 
 " Rye 
 
 " Indian Corn. . . 
 
 " Oats 
 
 Barlev 
 
 " Buckwheat. .. . 
 
 Pounds of Wool 
 
 " Polatoes 
 
 " Butter 
 
 " Cheese 
 
 No. of Horses 
 
 " Milch Cows 
 
 " Working Oxen . . . 
 
 " Sheep 
 
 " Swine 
 
 Value of farms 
 
 Acres of improved land . . 
 Value of orchard products 
 
 1850. 
 
 148,997 
 
 54° 
 
 133,595 
 
 152,487 
 
 4,3 6 5 
 
 9S7 
 
 14,858 
 
 16,634 
 
 113,867 
 
 8,417 
 
 i,779 
 
 1,277 
 
 1,402 
 
 5,764 
 8,026 
 
 I ,°44>73 6 
 
 47,307 
 
 484 
 
 i860. 
 
 53!>9 66 
 
 5,°5 2 
 540,402 
 
 359,374 
 9,623 
 1,025 
 
 37,7! 7 
 
 75,366 
 
 673,966 
 
 76,227 
 
 5,57o 
 
 8,254 
 2,194 
 
 10,817 
 
 17,291 
 
 $ 5,061,339 
 
 190,229 
 
 $ 2,812 
 
 1870. 
 
 541,859 
 
 25,469 
 947, 1 05 
 743,oi9 
 
 I 5, I o7 
 5,226 
 139,110 
 184,195 
 909,485 
 358,830 
 
 9,744 
 
 IJ ,474 
 
 154 
 
 39,477 
 
 35,879 
 $10,269,402 
 
 250,998 
 
 $ 28,952 
 
 Since stock raising has been one of the leading- pur- 
 suits — and now nearly every farmer is a stock dealer — 
 much attention has been given to the improvement of 
 stock. The importations during the past seven years 
 have been many and large. At the present time there 
 is probably no other county in this state, or in Illinois,, 
 that sends as many and as good hogs and cattle to mar- 
 ket as are sent from this county, and the indications are 
 that Green may soon take the lead in fine sheep and 
 horses also. A natural result of this new industry is the 
 increased manufacture of cheese. In 1S70 there was 
 not a cheese factory in the county. In 1S76 there were 
 in operation more than fifty factories, which made in the 
 
44 Histo?y of Green County. 
 
 aggregate over 2,000,000 pounds — much more than was 
 made in any other county, and about one-eighth of the 
 whole quantity made in the state. 
 
 The higfh rank of the countv as an agricultural coun- 
 ty, is due in part to the influence of the Green County 
 Agricultural Society. This society was organized July 
 4, 1853, with the following officers: E. T. Gardner, 
 President; J. V. Richardson, Secretary; John A. Bing- 
 ham, Corresponding Secretary; A. Ludlow, Treasurer; 
 and six vice-presidents. A fair was held in November 
 of that year, at the court house, at which time one hun- 
 dred dollars were paid for premiums. The next fair 
 was held in October, 1854, in a new fair ground, just 
 north of the village of Monroe. The money to fence 
 the fair ground and erect the necessary buildings, was 
 raised by selling life memberships at ten dollars each. 
 At this fair the premiums amounted to tw r o hundred 
 dollars. The fair ground was paid for in 1S55 by sell- 
 ing life memberships. It included seven and one-half 
 acres, and cost fifty dollars per acre. On the seventh of 
 July, 1857, the society was reorganized under a state 
 law for the encouragement of agriculture, which was 
 passed in 1856. The fair ground now used is a little 
 east of the village, and, with the buildings, is worth 
 from eight to ten thousand dollars. 
 
 The following is a classified statement of the premi- 
 ums and diplomas awarded by the society in 1S76, at its 
 twenty-fourth annual fair: 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 45 
 
 CLASSIFICATION". 
 
 Cattle . , 
 
 Horses 
 
 Sheep. 
 
 Swine 
 
 Poultry 
 
 Farm Products 
 Farm Implements. , 
 
 Manufactures 
 
 Household Fabrics* , 
 Fruits and Flowers. 
 Other exhibits 
 
 Total. 
 
 Am't of 
 Premiums 
 
 $ 
 
 271 00 
 
 230 00 
 
 76 00 
 
 112 
 
 17 
 
 00 
 00 
 
 70 00 
 15 00 
 56 00 
 25 00 
 84 00 
 2S0 00 
 
 $ 1,136 00 
 
 No. of 
 
 Premiums. 
 
 45 
 50 
 
 34 
 
 21 
 
 7 2 
 2 
 
 16 
 
 37 
 60 
 
 12 5 
 
 484 
 
 No. of 
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 4 
 3 
 
 50 
 
 9> 
 
 1 
 
 i-O 
 
 37 
 
 The following is a complete list of the presidents of 
 
 of the society : 
 
 E. T. Gardner. O. J. White. 
 
 John A. Bingham, (elected twice). Thomas Emerson. 
 
 Thomas Fenton. 
 
 S. M. Humes, (elected twice). 
 
 John H. Bridge. 
 
 Israel Smith. 
 
 Charles F. Thompson. 
 
 E. T. Gardner. 
 
 D. S. Sutherland. 
 
 J. V. Richardson. 
 
 J. H. Warren. 
 
 F. F. West. 
 
 E. T. Gardner. 
 
 H. W. Whitney, (elected twice). 
 
 Thos. H. Eaton, (elected twice). 
 
 Franklin Mitchell. 
 
 A. Ludlow. 
 
 J. S. Smock, (elected twice). 
 
 The following are the names of the other officers 
 elected at the annual meeting in January, 1 S77 : W. A. 
 Wheaton, Vice-President; James H. Van Dyke, Treas- 
 urer; A. S. Douglas, Secretary; C. E. Adams, Record- 
 ing Secretary; A. Ludlow, Superintendent. 
 
 STATISTICS OF POPULATION. 
 
 Owing to emigration to the west, Rock, Green, and 
 
 5 
 
4 6 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 several other counties in Wisconsin which have been 
 steadily increasing in wealth have diminished in popu- 
 lation since 1S70. 
 
 The following table shows the increase since the or- 
 ganization of the county, and the decrease since 1S70: 
 
 1838, 
 1S40, 
 1850, 
 
 1S55, 
 
 494 1 860, 
 
 933 1S65, 
 
 8,566 1870, 
 
 i4,7 2 7 1S75, 
 
 19,808 
 20,645 
 23,611 
 22,027 
 
 Table showing the change in each township since 
 1850: 
 
 TOWNS. 
 
 Adams 
 
 Albany 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 Clarno 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Brodhead 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Monroe , 
 
 Village of Monroe 
 
 Mt. Pleasant 
 
 New Glarus , 
 
 Spring Grove 
 
 Sylvester , 
 
 Washington 
 
 York 
 
 1S50. 
 
 2 75 
 54 6 
 53i 
 
 459 
 
 7i5 
 553 
 
 450 
 692 
 
 39i 
 1,146 
 
 579 
 3ii 
 703 
 712 
 
 307 
 191 
 
 *iS6o. 
 
 S40 
 
 i,385 
 1,061 
 
 920 
 
 i,372 
 1,618 
 
 1,040 
 
 1,466 
 
 S69 
 
 2,171 
 
 1,240 
 960 
 
 I ,°53 
 
 i,i3 2 
 
 838 
 
 904 
 
 1S70. 
 
 1,007 
 
 i,374 
 1, in 
 
 1,401 
 
 1,637 
 911 
 
 1, 54 s 
 949 
 
 i,673 
 1,083 
 
 1,128 
 
 3,4°8 
 1. 164 
 
 958 
 1,236 
 
 iP34 
 901 
 
 i,oSS 
 
 1875- 
 
 9*3 
 
 1,15° 
 1,138 
 
 !,349 
 
 i,5 IQ 
 701 
 
 1,428 
 
 8S3 
 
 i,7H 
 1,026 
 
 903 
 3,227 
 I no 
 
 '975 
 
 1,238 
 
 876 
 870 
 
 1,016 
 
 
 NATIVITY OF POPULATION. 
 
 
 
 Native. 
 
 Foreign 
 
 1850, 
 1870, - 
 
 15,439 
 
 18,532 
 
 4,369 
 5P79 
 
 ♦These figures are taken from the U. S. Census of 1S60, but there seems to be 
 some mistake about them. They make the population of the county only 18,869. 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 47 
 
 NATIVITY IN 1870, BY TOWNS. 
 
 TOWNS. 
 
 Adams 
 
 Albany . . 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 Clarno. . 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Brodhead 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Village of Monroe. 
 
 Mt. Pleasant 
 
 New Glarus 
 
 Spring Grove .... 
 Sylvester 
 
 Washington. 
 
 York, 
 
 Foreign. 
 
 37o 
 297 
 
 222 
 
 137 
 
 302 
 
 144 
 220 
 1S2 
 258 
 264 
 199 
 699 
 211 
 467 
 158 
 
 215 
 290 
 
 444 
 
 PLACE OF NATIVITY OF POPULATION IN 1S70. 
 
 Born in the State, 10,643 Born in British America, 
 
 u 
 
 New York, 
 
 2,261 
 
 u 
 
 Ohio, 
 
 1,244 
 
 u 
 
 Pennsylvania, 
 
 1,722 
 
 u 
 
 Vermont, 
 
 39i 
 
 (( 
 
 Illinois, 
 
 697 
 
 u 
 
 Other states, 
 
 1.574 
 
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 a 
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 a 
 
 Eng. and Wales, 
 
 Ireland, 
 
 Scotland, 
 
 Germany, 
 
 France, 
 
 Sweden & Nor'y, 1,017 
 
 Other countries, 1,269 
 
 272 
 
 593 
 942 
 
 5o 
 
 892 
 
 39 
 
 5^79 
 
 Native population, 
 
 18,532 
 
 NATIVITY IN 1875. 
 
 17,289 Born in British America, 254 
 " Eng. Scot. & Wales, 604 
 " Ireland, 879 
 
 " Germany, 832 
 
 " Switzerland, Hol- 
 land, Bohemia & 
 France, 1.207 
 
 " Sweden, Norway 
 
 and Denmark, 960 
 Other nationalties, 2 
 
 17,289 
 
 4.738 
 
a8 History of Green County 
 
 COLORED POPULATION. 
 
 1 8 so, - - None. 1870, 42 
 
 i860, - - None. 1875, - - 25 
 
 SEX AND AGE IN 1870. 
 
 Males, 12,042 
 
 Females, ",569 
 
 Males between ages of 5 and 18, - - - 4,040 
 
 Females " " " - 3>9 Sl 
 
 Males " 18 and 45, - 4,256 
 
 Males 21 and upwards, - - - - 5^54^ 
 
 Male citizens, 5>°4° 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 When the town governments were organized in 1849, 
 the schools were intrusted to town superintendents; but 
 since 1S61 they have been under the supervision of 
 county superintendents. The following is a list of the 
 county superintendents: Wm. C. Green, elected in 1S61 
 and '63; Edwin E. Woodman, elected in 1865; D. H. 
 Morgan, elected four consecutive times, and T. C. Rich- 
 mond, the present incumbent. Mr. Woodman being 
 absent at the time of his election, and subsequently, Mr. 
 Green held the office during that term. The superinten- 
 dent's report for the year ending August 31, 1S76, con- 
 tains the following statistics: 
 
 No. of school districts, ..... 104 
 
 No. of school houses, .... - 133 
 Cash value of school houses and sites, - - $102,438 
 No. of persons in the county between the ages of 
 
 4 and 20, ' 8,573 
 
 No. between 4 and 20 who have attended school, 6,614 
 
 No. under 4 who have attended school, - - 12 
 
 No. over 20 " " " - - 97 
 Average No. day's attendance of those who have 
 
 been members, ------ 80 
 
 No. of different persons employed as teachers, - 265 
 
History of Green County. 49 
 
 Average wages of male teachers per month, $34 09 
 
 " " female " " 22 31 
 
 Amount paid for services of male teachers, I 5> 1 95 54 
 
 " " " female " 16,370 09 
 
 No. of private schools, 5 
 
 No. of pupils who have attended them, - - 100 
 
 No. of children incapacitated for instruction from 
 
 defect in intellect, ------ 5 
 
 No. of children incapacitated for instruction from 
 
 detect in hearing, ----- 5 
 
 There are, in the county, three schools with two de- 
 partments each — those at Monticello, Juda, and New 
 Glarus, and three with three or more departments each 
 — those at Monroe, Brodhead, and Alhany. There are 
 five school libraries, the largest of which is at Monroe. 
 
 The following statistics of illiteracy are found in the 
 censuses of 1850 and '70: 
 
 No. of adults in 1850 unable to read and write, - 95 
 
 " males " " " " 44 
 
 " females " " " " - - 51 
 
 " native birth " " " 72 
 
 " foreign birth " " " 23 
 
 No. over 20 years of age in 1S70 unable to read, - - 345 
 
 " " " " " write, - 600 
 
 No. of males " 
 
 " females, " 
 " native birth " 
 " foreign birth " 
 
 U U 
 
 U a 
 
 a a 
 
 a a 
 
 279 
 321 
 232 
 
 ^6S 
 
 The following is the apportionment of the school 
 fund income for Green County for 1877: 
 
 Adams, 
 
 - $160 72 
 
 Jordan, 
 
 - $177 94 
 
 Albany, - 
 
 193 11 
 
 Monroe, 
 
 561 70 
 
 Brooklyn, - 
 
 - 202 95 
 
 Mt. Pleasant, 
 
 ■ 175 43 
 
 Cadiz, 
 
 213 20 
 
 New Glarus, 
 
 182 04 
 
 Clarno, 
 
 - 246 82 
 
 Spring Grove, 
 
 197 21 
 
 Decatur, 
 
 3iS 57 
 
 Sylvester, 
 
 i.S5 39 
 
 Exeter, 
 
 141 04 
 
 Washington, 
 
 ■ 1 7 l 93 
 
 Jefferson, 
 
 230 01 
 
 York, - 
 
 186 93 
 
 The apportionment is at the rate of 41 cents per 
 
 scholar. 
 
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5° 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 It is creditable to our common schools that some of the 
 best students that have been at the State University have 
 
 J 
 
 gone from this county, and a little examination will 
 show that the schools of Green County have kept pace 
 with those of any other county of the same population 
 in the state. Mr. Richmond is now doing the schools 
 a great service by raising the standard of teachers' ex- 
 aminations, and by giving the teachers, in institutes of 
 several weeks' duration, the instruction of which they 
 are most in need. 
 
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History of Green County. 5 1 
 
 PAUPERISM, DISEASE AND CRIME. 
 
 The first mention of paupers in the county commis- 
 sioners' journal is this of January, 1S43: "Ordered that 
 Alexis Van Ornum he paid only $30 for nursing and 
 for funeral expenses of Benjamin Jacobs, a poor per- 
 son." From 1849 until '60 each town took care of its 
 own poor. In 1S60 the supervisors elected three superin- 
 tendents of the poor — Hiram Rust, I. M. Bennett, and 
 Ransom Drake — and appropriated $2,000 to buy a 
 county poor house and farm. The farm is in Mount 
 Pleasant. The superintendents erected a building in 
 the summer of 1861, and additional building's were 
 erected in 1S70 and '73. During the year ending Nov. 
 15, 1S76, the average number of inmates at the poor 
 house was 53, and the whole number of week's sup- 
 port given to inmates was 1,996. The average cost to 
 the county of each week's maintenance was $1.46. The 
 poor commissioners also expended about $1,500 for the 
 poor living in the several towns. The principal build- 
 ings on the poor farm were destroyed by fire on the last 
 day of May, 1S77, but new buildings will be erected as 
 soon as possible. 
 
 The number of persons sent from Green Countv to 
 state institutions prior to August, 1876, was — 
 
 State Hospital for the Insane, 65 Industrial School, - - 13 
 Institute for the Blind, - 3 State Prison, - - 23* 
 
 " Deaf and Dumb, 8 
 
 *This is the number on the records at the prison, but these records only show 
 by what county the prisoners have been convicted and sentenced. The commit- 
 ment papers do not state whether prisoners had a change of venue to or from 
 any county. Neither do they show to what county prisoners sentenced by the 
 United States' Courts belonged. 
 
-> 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 OFFICERS OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 NAMES. 
 
 Daniel S. Sutherland. . . . 
 
 Wm. ( Bo\ven 
 
 Daniel Harcourt 
 
 Jas. Rilej vice D. Harcourt 
 Jer. Bridge, vice D. S. S. 
 
 Wm. Bojles 
 
 Asa Brown, vice J. Bridge 
 
 Davis Bowen 
 
 Wm. Boyles 
 
 Josiah Pierce 
 
 Davis Bowen 
 
 Asa Brown 
 
 Daniel Smiley 
 
 Henson Irion 
 
 Asa Brown 
 
 Joseph Kelly 
 
 When elected 
 
 March, 1838 
 
 Sept., 1838 
 Oct., 1S38 
 
 1839 
 1840 
 
 1841 
 
 1S42 
 1843 
 
 NAMES. 
 
 Thos. S. Bowen . 
 Wm. C. Green . 
 Hiram Rust. . . . 
 Hiram Brown . . 
 Wm. C. Green.. 
 R. D. Derrick.. 
 Hiram Caulkins. 
 T. W. Thompson 
 Wm. Boyles . . 
 Henry Adams. 
 Wm. Boyles . . 
 Wm. Brown . . 
 Wm. Brown . . 
 Wm. Coldren . 
 Thos. L. Sommers 
 
 When 
 elected' 
 
 1844. 
 
 i3 4 5- 
 
 1846. 
 
 1847. 
 
 1848. 
 
 SUPERVISORS. 
 
 From 1S49 to '62 the chairmen of the town super- 
 visors elected in April of each year constituted the 
 county board of supervisors. Their names are given in 
 the histories of their respective towns. A state law 
 approved March, 1S61 made the board of supervisors 
 to consist of three electors, one to be elected in each of 
 three supervisor districts. Elections were to be held in 
 November of each alternate year, and the term of office 
 was to begin the first of the following January. 
 
 Elected in 1S61 : 
 
 Ezra Wescott, 
 
 E. R. Allen, 
 
 Henry Adams. 
 
History of Green County. 53 
 
 These supervisors divided the county into three su- 
 pervisor districts, as follows: 
 
 P irst District. — New Glarus, York, Exeter, Brooklyn, Wash- 
 ington, Mount Pleasant. 
 
 Second District. — Jefferson, Spring Grove, Decatur, Sylvester, 
 Albany. 
 
 Third District. — Adams, Jordan, Cadiz, Clarno, Monroe. 
 
 Elected in 1S63: 
 
 1st District — Henry Adams. 
 
 2d " E. R. Allen, (resigned, Hiram Dunwiddie ap- 
 
 pointed by the Governor). 
 
 3d " Ezra Westcott, (died, J. V. Richardson ap- 
 
 pointed by the Governor). 
 
 Elected in 1S65 : 
 
 1st District. — Albert Pierce. 
 2d " Hiram Dunwiddie. 
 
 3d " J. V. Richardson, (resigned, Wm. Brown ap- 
 
 pointed). 
 
 Elected in 1867: 
 
 1st District.— J. W. .Smith. 
 2d •' Wm. Coldren. 
 
 3d " J. M. Stayer. 
 
 By a change in the law, supervisors elected in 1S67 
 from the odd numbered districts held office for one year, 
 while those from even numbered districts held office two 
 years. 
 
 Elected in 1S6S: 
 
 :st District. — J. 
 3d " J. M. Stayer. 
 
 1st District. — J. W. Smith. 
 
54 History of Green County. 
 
 A law of 1869 increased the number of supervisors 
 in Green County from three to nine. 
 
 Elected April, 1869: 
 
 1st District. — F. R. Melvin. 
 
 Leopold Seltzer. 
 2d District. — David Dunwiddie. 
 
 J. B. Perry. 
 3d District. — Samuel Chandler, (resigned, S. W. Abbott 
 appointed). 
 
 A. De Haven. 
 
 Those elected in the second district held office only 
 until November, when three supervisors were elected: 
 
 J. B. Perry. R. J. Day. M. H. Pengra. 
 
 The law of 1869 was a special law for Green County, 
 and was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. 
 In obedience to a law published in 1S70, the county re- 
 turned, after the April election of 1S70, to the system 
 of government wherein each town and village is repre- 
 sented. 
 
OTHER COUNTY OFFICERS. 
 
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 REPRESENTATIVES OF GREEN COUNTY IN THE 
 LEGISLATURE OF WISCONSIN. 
 
 TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT. 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 Iowa 
 
 MEMBERS OF 
 COUNCIL. 
 
 REPRESENTA- 
 TIVES. 
 
 Ebenezer Brigham 
 
 John B. Terry 
 
 Jas. R. Vineyard. . 
 
 Wm. 
 Geo. 
 
 Boyles.. . 
 F. Smith. 
 
 Dane, Dodge, 
 Green and 
 
 Jefferson . . 
 
 Dane, Dodge, 
 Green, Jeff- 
 erson, Sauk 
 
 Dane, Green 
 and Sauk.. 
 
 D. M. Parkinson. 
 Thos. McKnight. 
 Thos. Stanley . . . 
 James P. Cox 
 
 Eb. Brigham .... 
 Ebenezer Brigham. j 
 
 Lucius J. Barber. . 
 John Catlin 
 
 Danl S. 
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 Suth- 
 
 John Catlin 
 
 Alex. L. Collins.. . 
 
 Alex. L. Collins. 
 
 Lucius J. Barber. 
 James Sutherland 
 
 Isaac H. Palmer. 
 L. Crossman. . . . 
 Robert Masters. . 
 
 Chas. S. Bristol.. 
 Noah Phelps. . . . 
 Geo. H. Slaughter 
 Mark R. Clapp. . 
 Wm. M. Dennis. 
 Noah Phelps .... 
 
 Chas. Lum 
 
 Wm. A. Wheeler 
 John W. Stewart. 
 E. T. Gardner. . . 
 
 Alex. Botkin 
 
 John W. Stewart. 
 
 i st legislative 
 assemblv, 1S36, 
 '37 and '38. 
 
 2d legislative 
 assembly,iS3S, 
 '39 and '40. 
 
 3d legislative 
 assembly, 1 840, 
 '41 and '42. 
 
 4th legislative 
 assembly, ist& 
 2d sessions, '42, 
 
 '43- 
 
 3d session, '45. 
 
 4th session, '46. 
 
 5th legislative 
 assemblv, 1st 
 session, 1847. 
 Special session 
 April 1 847, and 
 2d session, '48. 
 
 The first convention to form a state constitution con- 
 vened October 5, 1S46, and adjourned December 16, 
 1846. The members from Green County were Davis 
 Bowen, Noah Phelps, Wm. C. Green and Hiram Brown. 
 The members of the second convention, which was in 
 in session from December 15, 1S47, to February 1, 
 1S48, were James Biggs and Wm. McDowell. 
 
History of Green Cozmty. 
 
 61 
 
 STATE GOVERNMENT. 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 1848 
 1849 
 185O 
 1851 
 1852 
 
 1853 
 
 1854 
 
 1855 
 1856 
 
 1857 
 1858 
 
 1859 
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 1862 
 
 1863 
 
 1864 
 
 1865 
 
 1866 
 
 1867 
 
 1868 
 
 1869 
 
 1870 
 
 1871 
 
 1872 
 
 1873 
 1874 
 
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 1877 
 
 SENATORS. 
 
 E. T. Gardner. . . , 
 
 E. T. Gardner. . . . 
 Alexander Botkin, 
 Wm. Rittenhouse. 
 
 T. S. Bowen 
 
 T. S. Bowen 
 
 F. H. West 
 
 F. H. West 
 
 Geo. E. Dexter... 
 Geo. E. Dexter. . . 
 John H. Warren. . 
 
 John H. Warren. . . . 
 
 John W. Stewart 
 
 John W. Stewart . . . 
 
 E. A. West 
 
 E. A. West 
 
 W. S. Wescott 
 
 W. S. Wescott 
 
 Henry Adams 
 
 Henry Adams 
 
 Henry Adams 
 
 Henry Adams 
 
 J. C Hall 
 
 J. C. Hall. 
 
 Orrin Bacon 
 
 Orrin Bacon 
 Harvey T. Moore. 
 Harvev T. Moore. 
 
 J. B. Treat 
 
 J. B. Treat 
 
 No. of 
 Senatori- 
 al district 
 
 ASSEMBLYMEN. 
 
 8 
 8 
 8 
 8 
 8 
 24 
 24 
 
 24 
 24 
 
 2 4 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 2 4 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 12 
 12 
 12 
 12 
 12 
 12 
 
 Henrv Adams. 
 John C. Crawford. 
 William C. Green. 
 Julius Hurlbut. 
 Truman J. Safford. 
 Thomas Fenton. 
 Abner Mitchell. 
 Amos D. Kirkpatrick. 
 Martin Flood. 
 Martin Flood. 
 James E. Vinton. 
 Wm. Brown. 
 Albert H. Pierce. 
 Edmund A. West. 
 Walter S. Wescott. 
 Martin Mitchell. 
 James Campbell. 
 Obadiah J. White. 
 Calvin D. W. Leonard. 
 Harvev T. Moore. 
 Walter S. Wescott. 
 Ezra Westcott. 
 Wm. W. McLaughlin. 
 Frederick B. Rolf. 
 Wm. W. McLaughlin. 
 David Dunwiddie. 
 Daniel Smiley. 
 Egbert E. Carr. 
 Lucius W. Wright. 
 David Dunwiddie. 
 Albert H. Pierce. 
 Jacob Mason. 
 J. F. Wescott. 
 Thomas A. Jackson. 
 C D. W. Leonard. 
 Thomas A. Jackson. 
 Orrin Bacon. 
 Marshall H. Pengra. 
 Marshall H. Pengra. 
 John Luchsinger. 
 C. R. Deniston. 
 C R. Deniston. 
 John Luchsinger. 
 Franklin Mitchell. 
 John Luchsinger. 
 
 6* 
 
62 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 GOVERNORS OF WISCONSIN. 
 
 Henry Dodge, appointed April, 1836. 
 Henry Dodge, appointed March, 1839. 
 James Duane Doty, appointed September, 1841. 
 N. P. Talmadge, appointed June, 1844. 
 Henry Dodge, appointed April, 1845. 
 
 UNDER STATE GOVERNMENT. 
 
 Nelson Dewey, (2 terms). 
 L. J. Farwell. 
 Wm. A. Barstow. 
 Coles Bashford. 
 
 Edward Saloman, (vice Harvey). 
 James T. Lewis. 
 Lucius Fairchild, (2 terms). 
 C. C. Washburn. 
 
 Alex. W. Randall, (2 terms). Wm. R. Taylor. 
 Louis P. Harvey, (died). Harrison Ludington. 
 
 GUBERNATORIAL VOTE IN GREEN COUNTY. 
 
 1848. 
 1849. 
 1851. 
 
 i853. 
 
 1855. 
 1857. 
 1859- 
 
 Dewey, dem., 
 
 - 481 
 
 1861. 
 
 Harvey, rep., 
 
 1,461 
 
 Tweedy, whig, 
 
 406 
 
 
 Ferguson, dem., 
 
 661 
 
 Dewey, dem., 
 
 - 443 
 
 1863. 
 
 Lewis, rep., 
 
 2,046 
 
 Collins, whig, 
 
 324 
 
 
 Palmer, dem., 
 
 836 
 
 Farwell, whig, 
 
 - 504 
 
 1865. 
 
 Fairchild, rep., - 
 
 1,552 
 
 Upham, dem., 
 
 530 
 
 
 Hobart, dem., 
 
 728 
 
 Barstow, dem., 
 
 - 769 
 
 1867. 
 
 Fairchild, rep., - 
 
 2,094 
 
 Holton, rep., 
 
 748 
 
 
 Tallmadge, dem., 
 
 1,137 
 
 Baird, whig, 
 
 ' 153 
 
 1869. 
 
 Fairchild, rep., - 
 
 2,002 
 
 Barstow, dem., 
 
 600 
 
 
 Robinson, dem., 
 
 920 
 
 Bashford, rep,, 
 
 - 1,128 
 
 1871. 
 
 Washburn, rep., 
 
 i,757 
 
 Randall, rep., 
 
 i,i5 6 
 
 
 Doolittle, dem., 
 
 934 
 
 Cross, dem., 
 
 - 832 
 
 1873- 
 
 Taylor, dem., 
 
 1,366 
 
 Randall, rep., 
 
 1,726 
 
 
 Washburn, rep., 
 
 1,402 
 
 Hobart, dem., 
 
 - hH 1 
 
 i8 7 5- 
 
 Ludington, rep., 
 Taylor, dem., 
 
 1,960 
 i,595 
 
 RFPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. 
 
 DELEGATES FROM TERRITORY. ' 
 
 Geo. W. Jones, 
 James D. Doty, 
 James D. Doty, 
 Henry Dodge, 
 
 elected 1836. 
 " 1837. 
 " J 839- 
 " 1841. 
 
 Henry Dodge, elected 1843. 
 Morgan L. Martin, " 1845. 
 John H. Tweedy, " 1847. 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 63 
 
 SENATORS SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE. 
 
 Isaac P. Walker, 
 Henry Dodge, 
 Isaac P. Walker, 
 Henry Dodge, 
 Charles Durkee, 
 Jas. R. Doolittle, 
 
 elected 
 
 1848. 
 
 u 
 
 I84S. 
 
 u 
 
 1849. 
 
 u 
 
 iSsi. 
 
 u 
 
 IS55- 
 
 u 
 
 1857- 
 
 T. O. Howe, 
 Jas. R. Doolittle, 
 T. O. Howe, 
 Matt. H. Carpenter, 
 T. O. Howe, 
 Angus Cameron, 
 
 elected 1861. 
 1863. 
 1867. 
 1869. 
 
 i873- 
 1S75- 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 *FROM FIRST DISTRICT. 
 
 elected 1848. 
 
 [from second district. 
 elected 1849. C. C. Washburn, elected 1857. 
 
 Wm. Pitt Lynde, 
 
 Orsamus Cole, 
 Ben. C. Eastman, 
 Ben. C. Eastman, 
 C. C. Washburn, 
 
 Amasa Cobb, 
 Amasa Cobb, 
 Amasa Cobb, 
 
 1 85 1. C. C Washburn, 
 18^3. L. Hanchett, (died) 
 1855. W. D. Mclndoe, 
 
 1859. 
 1 861. 
 1862. 
 
 Jfrom third district. 
 
 elected 1863. Amasa Cobb, 
 " 1865. J. Allen Barber, 
 " 1867. 
 
 elected 1869. 
 " 1871. 
 
 §from third district. 
 J. Allen Barber, elected 1873. Henry S. Magoon, elected 1875. 
 
 CIRCUIT COURTS. 
 
 The act establishing the territorial government of 
 Wisconsin provided for the division of the territory into 
 three judicial districts, and for the holding of district 
 court by one of the three judges of the supreme court 
 in each district. The three judges were Chas. Dunn, 
 
 *By the state constitution, adopted March, 1848, the counties of Milwaukee, 
 Waukesha, Jefferson, Racine, Walworth, Rock, and Green, constituted the first 
 congressional district. There was one other district in the state, and each dis- 
 trict had one representative. 
 
 fin 1849 the number of districts was increased to three. Rock, Green, La 
 Fayette, Grant, Iowa, Dane, Sank, Adams, Portage, Richland, Crawford, Chip- 
 pewa, St. Croix, and La Pointe were included in the second. 
 
 Jin 1861 the state was divided into six districts. Green, La Fayette, Iowa, 
 Grant, Crawford, Richland, and Sauk were the third. 
 
 §By a law puplished April 4, 1872, Grant, Iowa, La Fayette, Green, Rich- 
 land, and Crawford constitute the third district. 
 
64 History of Green County. 
 
 David Irvin, and Wm. C. Frazer. Green County was 
 in the first, or Judge Dunn's district. Judge Irvin was 
 assigned to the court in that part of the territory after- 
 wards included in the state of Iowa; but on the 12th of 
 June, 1838, the territory of Iowa was organized, and 
 the legislative assembly which convened in the follow- 
 ing November made a new assignment of districts. 
 From July, 1839, until Wisconsin became a state, the 
 second district, which in 1S39 included the counties of 
 Walworth, Rock, Green, and Dane, and of which Green 
 County formed a part until 1848, was Judge Irvin's 
 district. In 1848 the state was divided into five judicial 
 circuits, the first of which was composed of Racine, 
 Walworth, Rock, and Green. By a law of 1870, which 
 went into effect January 1, 1S71, Green, Rock, and 
 Jefferson constitute the twelfth circuit. 
 
 Circuit judges who have presided in Green County; 
 
 Edward V. Whiton, 
 
 James R. Doolittle, 
 
 John M. Keep, to fill vacancy, 
 
 David Noggle, - 
 
 Wm. P. Lyon, - 
 
 H. S. Conger, . - - 
 
 H. S. Conger, .... 
 
 elected August, 
 
 1848. 
 
 « 
 
 
 1853- 
 
 u 
 
 April, 
 
 IS56. 
 
 It 
 
 u 
 
 1859- 
 
 u 
 
 u 
 
 1865. 
 
 u 
 
 u 
 
 1871. 
 
 a 
 
 CI 
 
 1876. 
 
TOWNSHIP HISTORIES. 
 
 EXETER. 
 
 In the beginning were the lead mines. The Sauk, 
 or Sugar River, diggings were situated a little over a 
 mile southwest of the present village of Exeter. The 
 squaws were the first miners, but they had neither the 
 knowledge nor the tools to make their labor very profit- 
 able. With such instruments as they could make, they 
 picked out the surface or float mineral ; and when their 
 excavations became too deep to step into, they threw in 
 a dead tree on which they climbed up and down. When 
 a vein ran under the rock, they dug it out as far as they 
 could reach, built a fire in the hole thus made, and, when 
 the rock was heated, cracked it by pouring on water. 
 
 The first white man who saw these diggings was a 
 miner named Burke, who happened to pass them after 
 losing his way on a journey across the territory. Led 
 by his account of what he had seen, McNut and Boner, 
 two traders, went to the diggings in 1S28, and built a 
 trading house there. They were undoubtedly the first 
 white men to settle in the county. In August of the 
 
66 Histoiy of Gi'een County. 
 
 same year, Win. Devise, who had already spent some 
 time in prospecting at the diggings, went there to live. 
 Almost always after this there were transient miners at 
 the diggings. While Mr. Devise was preparing to go 
 to Exeter, Edward D. Beouchard, a Frenchman, began 
 to mine there. In the fall, Mr. Devise was followed by 
 his employees, Wm. Wallace and wife, and J. R. Black- 
 more. It has been said that soon after the arrival of the 
 Wallace family at Exeter, Louisa Wallace, afterwards 
 Mrs. Chas. Thomas, was born there, and that she was 
 the first white person born in Green County. Mrs. 
 Thomas thinks she ought to have had the honor ascribed 
 to her, for Exeter was the home of the family at the 
 time of her birth, but she was born in Galena, August 
 7, 1830. Mr. Devise, who is now living at Bellville, 
 is a Virginian. At the time under consideration, he and 
 Mr. James Hawthorne were partners. Their acquaint- 
 ance began at Vandalia, from which place they jour- 
 neyed together in 1S27 to Shullsburg, where they en- 
 tered into partnership, and where, in about a year, Mr. 
 Devise left Mr. Hawthorne to carry on their mining 
 enterprises there alone, while he went to Blue Mounds. 
 Soon after this he went to Exeter, and then Mr. Haw- 
 thorne went to Blue Mounds. 
 
 After their arrival at the diggings, McNut and Boner, 
 by means of whisky and a few worthless baubles, pos- 
 sessed themselves of ail the lead raised by the Indians. 
 In August, 1S2S, when there happened to be no white 
 person there except the traders and Van Sickles, their 
 Dutch interpreter, McNut killed Boner. Whether the 
 
History of Green County. 6*j 
 
 deed was prompted by a desire to possess alone the 
 treasure filched from the Indians, or was the unforeseen 
 result of a drunken quarrel, cannot now be ascertained. 
 Van Sickles hastened to Blue Mounds, the nearest set- 
 tlement, with the news. McNut, probably supposing 
 Van Sickles had gone somewhere else, also went to 
 Blue Mounds, and was lying there drunk when Van 
 Sickles arrived. The next day, miners, one of whom 
 was Robert Kirkendoll, now of Cadiz, buried Boner 
 near the spot where he was killed ; but the plow long 
 ago removed all traces of this first grave. McNut 
 was arrested and sent to Prairie du Chien, where six- 
 teen other men w T ere awaiting trial for murder. Since 
 Van Sickles, the only witness against him, was a noto- 
 rious liar, McNut was acquitted; and immediately after 
 his release he left the country. Van Sickles was very 
 much dissatisfied with the trial, not because he laid any 
 claim to veracity, but because one of the men called on 
 to swear to his bad character was Jacob Hunter, whom 
 Van Sickles declared to be a greater liar than himself. 
 After NcNut's arrest, Devise and Beouchard obtained 
 control of the mines. In the spring of 1829, they built 
 a log smelting furnace near the old trading house, and 
 broke the first land broken in the county. The first 
 crop was a crop of turnips raised in 1S29. It appears 
 from Prof. Salisbury's biographical sketch of Mr. De- 
 vise, in volume 6 of the Wisconsin Historical Collections, 
 that in the fail of 1829 Mr. Devise went to Fulton and 
 Peoria Counties, Illinois, and brought up a drove of 
 hogs, and that in the summer of 1S30 he broke sixteen 
 
68 History ojf Green County. 
 
 acres, on which he raised, the next year, corn, pumpkins, 
 turnips, and oats. 
 
 The Indians foresaw their own doom in the advent 
 of more skillful miners, and endeavored to avert it by 
 throwing the windlasses into the shafts and carrying 
 away the ropes. They stole all the mineral left on the 
 ground, but were too cowardly to go into the shafts to 
 steal, though few shafts at the Exeter diggings have 
 been sunk more than thirty feet. The name diggings, 
 by the way, was so universally applied to the excava- 
 tions for lead that when a stranger asked a man who 
 had once worked there the way to the mines, the man 
 stared and said he did not know. After a little conver- 
 sation, a sudden light burst upon him, and he exclaimed, 
 with the air of a discoverer, " Oh, you mean the 
 diggings! " 
 
 The customs of the miners, and the rules in regard 
 to the diggings were much the same at Sugar River as 
 in the more populous mining districts. The government 
 did not sell mineral land for a number of years after 
 other land had been in the market, but when a miner 
 discovered a lead he was allowed to make a claim there 
 of two hundred square yards. Claims frequently proved 
 unsatisfactory, were abandoned, and then claimed by 
 other miners who made them productive. In such cases, 
 the first miner sometimes insisted that he had never giv- 
 en up his claim, and a quarrel was the result. The 
 miners' houses were many of them holes in the hillsides. 
 A traveler might derive his first knowledge of the ex- 
 istence of a habitation by his sudden descent into it 
 
History of Green Cou7ity. 69 
 
 through the chimney, which consisted of a barrel with 
 the ends knocked out. There were also sod houses and 
 log houses. 
 
 There were few women at any of the diggings in 
 the state. In some places where a hundred men were 
 at work, there was not one woman; and many of the 
 men became as careless of their dress as the wolves 
 were. A miner who worked sometimes in Green Coun- 
 ty, and sometimes farther west, says that one day, 
 when he had not seen a woman for several years, he was 
 called to ferry Mr. and Mrs. Paine over a stream, and 
 that he ran in an opposite direction as though a tribe of 
 Indians was after him. Another miner says that while 
 he was digging at Mineral Point, all the men came up 
 from their shafts one day to see a woman that one of 
 their number had discovered in an emigrant wagon. 
 
 Some of the miners made fortunes in a short time; 
 others dug for years with no success. A few, working 
 with a definite purpose, engaged in other occupations 
 after a few years, and are counted with the best citizens 
 of the county; but most of them were reckless and im- 
 provident, spending all their earnings, whether large 
 or small, and being sometimes rich and sometimes mis- 
 erably poor. Two miners usually lived and worked to- 
 gether. There was hard work to be done outside the 
 mines. James Slater, who went to Exeter in 1S2S, and 
 who is now a resident of Clarno, tells of walking from 
 Exeter to Blue Mounds — a distance of twenty-eight 
 miles — for a bushel of potatoes, which he bought of Mr. 
 Brigham for two dollars, and carried home on his back. 
 
 7 
 
yo History of Green County. 
 
 One-sixteenth of the lead raised belonged to the gov- 
 ernment. It was paid by the smelters, who bought the 
 lead of the miners, usually paying them from eight to 
 ten dollars a thousand pounds. Mr. Hawthorne, who 
 left the mines in 1833, says the highest price he ever 
 received was twenty dollars per thousand pounds. The 
 first lead smelted at Exeter was hauled by oxen to Ga- 
 lena, where it sold for eighty dollars per ton. In 1833, 
 Col. Hamilton, who had a furnace at Wiota, built some 
 boats with which he attempted to transport his lead 
 down the Pecatonica, Rock, and Mississippi rivers to St. 
 Louis ; but two of the boats were overturned, their con- 
 tents were lost, and the experiment was never repeated. 
 The tariff excitement that accompanied the election of 
 President Jackson, brought lead down to its lowest price, 
 and caused many miners to leave Green County; but 
 Mr. Devise, with four employes, kept on trading and 
 smelting through 1S30 and the greater part of '31. 
 Sometime in 1S31, John Dougherty established a trading 
 post near the furnace. Prof. Salisbury says that the 
 first information the settlers on Sugar River had of the 
 Black Hawk war was given by the Winnebagoes about 
 noon one May day to Dougherty's half-breed wife, and 
 that they all started that same day to Galena. As all 
 the teams had gone some days before with lead, the 
 fugitives went with an old buggy and a broken down 
 yoke of oxen. Mr. Devise afterwards went to Wiota, 
 where he assisted in the erection of Fort Hamilton. 
 He took an active part in the war, sometimes fight- 
 ing, sometimes going on long and dangerous jour- 
 
History of Green County. yi 
 
 neys as messenger of the commanding officers; and, 
 when he was mustered out he received a dollar a 
 day for the services of himself and horse during the 
 war. As soon as the war was over, Mr. Devise, the 
 Dougherty family, and a number of miners returned 
 to the diggings. Their buildings had been burned 
 during their absence, and Mr. Dougherty found his 
 merchandise, which had been left buried in the ground, 
 much injured by moisture; but a barrel of metheglin 
 which had been made early in the spring " to keep" 
 was found so much improved that all present drank im- 
 moderately, forgetting, until intoxication came, the un- 
 usual strength of its ingredients. Mr. Beouchard went 
 away from Exeter a month before the war, intending 
 to return soon. He was a scout during the war, and did 
 not return to Exeter for a year, and then he remained 
 but a short time. He has now lived at Mineral Point 
 nearly forty years. Before he came to Wisconsin in 
 1819, he was sent by the Hudson's Bay Fur Company to 
 the Pacific ocean. He went to the diggings near Galena 
 in 1822. 
 
 Soon after his return, Mr. Devise sold his fur- 
 nace to Mr. Dougherty, and thenceforth worked in the 
 mines until 1850. It is thought that during his mining 
 life he made and lost or spent about $40,000. In 1835 
 Mr. Dougherty sold the furnace to Camp (or Kemp) 
 and Collins. From that time the di^g-ing-s were known 
 as Kemp and Collins' diggings. John and Joseph Camp 
 were natives of Cornwall, England; the Collins broth- 
 ers, only one of whom, William, worked in Green 
 
*j2 History of Gi'een County. 
 
 County, were Irish. A great many of the first miners 
 at Su^ar River were from England and Ireland, which 
 explains the appearance in Green County of the Eng- 
 lish name of Exeter. The other name, Sugar River 
 Diggings, came from the Indian name of the river in 
 that vicinity, Tonasookarah, meaning sugar, and refer- 
 ring to the maple trees on the river banks. With the 
 new firm came new traders and miners, but traders and 
 miners do not make villages. In the winter of 1835-6, 
 while looking for a place to make a claim, Henry F. 
 Janes, for whom Janesville was named, and his cousin, 
 John Janes, went to the diggings for provisions. It was 
 very cold and dark when they reached the place to which 
 they had been directed, and no miners were there. 
 While they were making arrangements to pass the 
 night, supperless and shelterless, they saw a light. Sup- 
 posing it was an Indian camp, they hastened to it, but 
 found a miner, Michael Welsh. " He received us," 
 wrote Mr. Janes twenty years later, " with all the hos- 
 pitality with which a Wisconsin miner could receive a 
 stranger, and any attempt on my part to describe that 
 would be but a failure to do justice to that noble heart- 
 ed class of the citizens of Wisconsin. We were now 
 snugly ensconced in a warm cabin by a roaring fire, and 
 soon had a stool placed between us on which was a 
 pyramid of potatoes, a dish of pork swimming in a mini- 
 ature lake of gravy, and a tin cup of coffee for each of 
 us. * * * We then went over to where New Mex- 
 ico was afterwards laid out, explored there two or three 
 days, and then to Hamilton's diggings, and finally back 
 
History of Green County. 73 
 
 again to Rock river. I then selected the claim that 
 Janesville is built on." 
 
 The cabin of Michael Welsh stood where the vil- 
 lage of Exeter is; and there was a still older cabin there 
 built by Pierce Bradley. Both houses were built before 
 the war, and there was a small garden adjoining each. 
 Mr. Welsh was an Irishman, who had been educated to 
 be a Catholic priest. Mr. Bradley was a native of New 
 York. He had an Indian wife, and when the Indians 
 went away he went with them. Soon after the war, 
 Thomas Welsh built a house where the village is. He 
 cultivated a little ground, and his wife, known as old 
 mother Welsh, kept tavern there. 
 
 At the diggings, new miners were constantly coming 
 and going, but they made no permanent improvements. 
 Camp and Collins cultivated the land broken by Mr. 
 Devise, but it was not until 1838 that James Slater be- 
 gan to make the third farm in the township. The next 
 farms were made by Joseph Dunbar, John Ferguson, 
 Leonard Ross, Geo. Magee, Chas. George, John Arm- 
 strong, Amos Harris, and Wm. and Robert Oliver. 
 These farmers all came to the county before the war, 
 or very soon after it, but, with perhaps two exceptions, 
 their farms were made after 1S40. 
 
 In 1839 or '40, Chas. Stevens built a log tavern and 
 a furnace where the village is. The new furnace at- 
 tracted miners, and the village began to grow, so that 
 the year 1841 saw it in possession of a post office and 
 three stores. The stores were kept by Thomas Somers, 
 always called Tom Somers, John S. Litchfield, and 
 
74 History of Green County. 
 
 Hiram Calkins, the latter gentleman afterwards taking 
 into partnership with him Alvinza Hey wood, who has 
 since made one of the largest fortunes made in the gold 
 mines of California. 
 
 In 1S41, a traveling Mormon preacher stopped at the 
 school house in the village, and preached the first ser- 
 mon preached in the township Like many subsequent 
 religious meetings, the services were attended by the 
 miners, who are described as making a model audience, 
 listening attentively to the sermon, and giving generous- 
 ly when the hat was parsed around. 
 
 In 1842, Exeter had her first dance. It was at one 
 of the taverns, for there were two taverns at that time, 
 kept respectively by Ezra Durgin and Brainard Blod- 
 gfett. People were in attendance from Beloit and Illi- 
 nois. They ate supper in the kitchen, and then took 
 out the table and danced, two sets at a time, till morning. 
 
 Most memorable of all gatherings in Exeter is a 
 fourth of Jul\ celebration held there in 1843. The 
 orator was a man known to fame as " the wild Yankee." 
 He stood on a barrel of whisky ; and, while he spoke, 
 Tom Somers, cup in hand, sat by the faucet, and, for a 
 consideration, gave drink to the thirsty. Gentlemen 
 who attended the celebration say that the following are 
 some of the sentences they applauded : " Let us carry 
 our thoughts back to that time when our forefathers, 
 led by Columbus, crossed the pathless ocean, without 
 star or compass to guide them, and landed on the desert 
 rock of Plymouth." "Let us recount the history of 
 that great struggle in which they so nobly fought, bled, 
 
History of Green Cou?ity. 75 
 
 and died. The hand of Omnipotence was against them, 
 but, by the grace of God, they conquered." 
 
 In 1843, Exeter was platted, and, at the same time, 
 transformed into the proudest of all little villages. She 
 cherished the hope of becoming the metropolis of the 
 county. Her pride was fed by Tom Somers, who said 
 that though Monroe might fill her public square with 
 court houses, she could not keep the county seat away 
 from Exeter. For a number of years there were two 
 furnaces, high hopes, a great deal of money, and mouths 
 enough to drink five tons of coffee in a year, at Exeter. 
 Then, lead grew less abundant; and, though Exeter 
 would not see it, it was evident that the heyday of her 
 youth and pleasure was ended. Her oldest friends left 
 her, one by one, for California, and Tom Somers, her 
 truest admirer, died ; there were none to sing her praises, 
 and Dayton, her irrepressible younger sister, hinted that 
 she was passe , and had better retire. The hint was re- 
 ceived as a belle of acknowledged position is likely to 
 receive such a hint from one who first disputes her sway. 
 But, in the rivalry that ensued, the advantages of wealth 
 and natural fitness for the desired pre-eminence were 
 all with Dayton, and Exeter soon gave up the struggle. 
 Yet Exeter has not now the appearance of a defrauded 
 sister. Unlike Decatur, she makes no show of having 
 known better days. All traces of the old life have 
 passed away, leaving her, instead of the bitterness of 
 disappointment, untroubled quiet and content. 
 
 Dayton had its origin in a saw mill, which it is thought 
 Samuel Leland built. In 1847, P. P. Havens of 
 
•76 History of G?'een County. 
 
 New York and Lorenzo Fuller of Ohio bought 
 the mill of Samuel Leland and Mahlon Lewis. The 
 only building near the mill was a log house occupied 
 by Mrs. Lewis and her sons. After a year or two the 
 new mill owners wanted a school house. They gave 
 the lumber, and the few farmers who lived near enough 
 to send their children there to school assisted in the erec- 
 tion of the building. When it was done, all concerned felt 
 that the love they bore to learning was expensive; 
 but they hired their teacher, and took her to the village 
 of Exeter to be examined. Exeter had for some time been 
 negligent in providing for her school, for which reason 
 Mr. Heywood, the town superintendent, gave all the 
 money in his hands to the new school, and it proved 
 to be enough to pay the teacher three terms. To meet 
 a want of that part of the county, Messrs. Havens and 
 Fuller, with William and Amos Kirkpatrick, decided 
 to transform the saw mill into a grist mill. Before the 
 change was effected, Amos Kirkpatrick became sole own- 
 er of the mill, which he finished and sold in 1850 or '51. 
 While the mill was building, Mr. Havens laid out a vil- 
 lage, which, at the request of one of the mill hands who 
 had lived at Dayton, Ohio, was called Dayton. Im- 
 provements began at once. The first building de- 
 signed for a store was built by Harvey Church. Be- 
 fore the completion of mill and store, Wm. Rhinehart 
 and Samuel Gracy began to build a hotel which was 
 finished in 1S51. One of its rooms was rented to Geo. 
 Duncan for a store, and he was soon after appointed Day- 
 ton's first postmaster. 
 
History of Green County. 77 
 
 Dayton is now a flourishing village. The flour mill 
 of Thomas Green and the cheese factory of Ross and 
 Richmond, with the stores and shops of Messrs. V. 
 Ross, Wm. Green, Dick, Ellis, Doolittle, Wackman, 
 and Rutty make the place an important one to the towns 
 of Brooklyn and Exeter. The addition known as East 
 Dayton was platted some years since by Mr. M. T. 
 White. 
 
 The first town meeting in the town of Exeter was 
 held at the house of L. D. Barnes, in the village of Ex- 
 eter. For a short time after the rise of Dayton, town 
 meetings were held alternately at Exeter and Dayton. 
 As late as 1S50 Exeter had twenty-two dwellings, two 
 stores, one hundred and four inhabitants, and some 
 rights that Dayton respected. But now that Exeter 
 has no store, no post office, and not even a blacksmith 
 shop, town meetings are always held at the Dayton 
 hotel, which for twenty years has been owned by 
 A. D. Hymers. 
 
 Among: the first farmers who srave their attention to 
 the improvement of the stock of the county, was Mr. 
 Lysaght of the town of Exeter. His sheep and blood- 
 ed horses, arc said by stock-raisers to be exceptionally 
 fine. Other large stock-growers are Messrs, Ferguson, 
 Magec, Ross, Ruff, and Wade. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN EXETER IN 1876. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 Names. No. of Acres 
 
 Henry Aebly, - 
 
 - 335 
 
 Geo. Magee, - - 500 
 
 T u .zz. Bradbury, - 
 
 160 
 
 Jas. Marshall, - 240 
 
 M. Clark, - 
 
 220 
 
 Marshall estate, - 271 
 
 John Crawford, 
 
 171 
 
 W. W. & G. W. Morse, 410 
 
 Jas. Cunningham, 
 
 200 
 
 P. H. Multer, 170 
 
78 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Names. 
 
 D. D. Day, - 
 Jos. Dunbar, 
 Wm. Edgar, - 
 A. J. Edwards, - 
 M. Ellis, 
 Nicholas Elmer, 
 Estee estate, - 
 A. Fulton, 
 
 John Ferguson estate, 
 L. Gassett, - 
 Joseph Green, - 
 P. P. Havens, 
 Henry Hetty, 
 Balthazar Hosly, 
 Dennis Kerwin, 
 F. Laroque, 
 Jas. Lewis, 
 Robert Lynn, - 
 John Lynn, - 
 Wm. Lysaght, - 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres 
 
 I70 
 
 Isaac Norris, 
 
 l6o 
 
 24O 
 
 W. B. Norris, - 
 
 - 287 
 
 24O 
 
 N. S. Park, - 
 
 220 
 
 l6o 
 
 Sarah Patterson, 
 
 - 200 
 
 200 
 
 John Richards, 
 
 I92 
 
 460 
 
 Leonard Ross, - 
 
 " 237 
 
 320 
 
 M. Ross, 
 
 l6o 
 
 l6o 
 
 Wm. Ross, 
 
 - l82 
 
 , 4OO 
 
 Ruff estate, 
 
 28o 
 
 l6o 
 
 W. A. Smith, - 
 
 - l6o 
 
 - 293 
 
 Jerry Staley, 
 
 l6o 
 
 , 25O 
 
 J. S. Staley, 
 
 - 238 
 
 - 320 
 
 W. A. Smith, 
 
 l6o 
 
 471 
 
 Melchoir Steussy, 
 
 - 183 
 
 I90 
 
 John Vance, 
 
 200 
 
 l6o 
 
 E. Wade, 
 
 - 340 
 
 200 
 
 Alex. Wallace, 
 
 260 
 
 l6o 
 
 J. D. Wallace, 
 
 - 234 
 
 l6o 
 
 Robert Wallace, - 
 
 l6o 
 
 - 1,085 
 
 H. B. Winston, 
 
 - 215 
 
 •OFFICERS OF TOWN OF EXETER FROM 1 849 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 John Porter. 
 James Hare, (3 years). 
 W. C. Kesler. 
 John Ferguson. 
 C. D. W. Leonard. 
 James Hare. 
 M. M. Morse. 
 
 C. D. W. Leonard, (2 years). 
 Martin Flood. 
 
 J. W. Norton. 
 J. W. Smith, (2 years). 
 J. W. Norton, (2 years). 
 J. W. Smith. 
 
 A. W. Heal. 
 Wm. Rhinehart. 
 
 B. B. Brownell. 
 H. G. Silver. 
 
 B. B. Brownell. 
 Otis Ross, (2 years). 
 
 D. D. Day. 
 
 E. C Morse, (3 years). 
 
 A. K. Stearns. 
 
 John B. Perry. 
 
 A. K. Stearns. 
 
 John Burt. 
 
 Geo. C. Duncan. 
 
 W. W. Shephard. 
 
 Geo. E. Duncan. 
 
 J. B. Ormsby. 
 
 John Norton. 
 
 Jas. Norris, (2 years). 
 
 J. W. Smith. 
 
 M. T. Smith. 
 
 H. G. Silver, (6 years). 
 
 C. D. W. Leonard. 
 
 E. C. Morse, (4 years). 
 
 L. D. Dalrymple. 
 
 Volney Ross, (4 years). 
 
> 
 
 MONROE. 
 
 Monroe has disputed with Exeter the honor of being 
 the first abode of white men in the county. The first 
 comers were miners, John B. Skinner and Thomas 
 Neal. They discovered mineral on the banks of the 
 stream since called Skinner, erected a smelting furnace 
 there, and had been working in the vicinity several years 
 when the Black Hawk war began. The general opin- 
 ion of the old settlers seems to be that the first discov- 
 ery of lead on the Skinner was in 1S29; but Mr. Stew- 
 art, in his sketch of Green County published by the 
 State Historical Society, says "some of them say it was. 
 in 1827." In 1834, Hiram Rust and Leonard Ross came 
 together from New York state, and built a cabin on 
 what is known as the Pratt farm, east of the village of 
 Monroe. In the spring of 1835 the Y broke thirteen 
 acres where the barn is on Wm. Brown's farm. Their 
 claim also included a part of the land now in the county 
 fair ground. In 1S35, Mr - Rust examined the old Skin- 
 ner mines, which he found deserted. They were on 
 sections three, ten, and thirteen; some of them were 
 seventy feet deep. On section three there were a dozen 
 shafts which were about twenty-eight feet deep, and 
 which Mr. Rust supposes were abandoned for a reason 
 
So Histo?y of Green County. 
 
 which is readily understood after a moment's considera- 
 tion of the order in which the rocks of the lead region 
 are arranged. Though the thickness of each layer is 
 variable, the order is invariably as follows : surface, clay 
 and soil; hard, white limestone; shale; gray limestone, 
 the ordinary surface rock of the mines, containing veins 
 of lead, and, in its lower beds, zinc and copper; blue or 
 brown limestone, cutting off the veins; yellowish lime- 
 stone, in which the veins are renewed; sandstone, con- 
 taining no veins; lower magnesian limestone. In the 
 shafts referred to, the sandstone was reached after dig- 
 ging about twenty-eight feet. They were undoubtedly 
 abandoned then in obedience to the general belief of 
 that time that no lead could be found below the sand- 
 stone. Mr. Rust and Joab Enos sank these shafts three 
 or four feet lower and struck rich veins. They con- 
 tinued to mine here through 1835-6, being joined in the 
 latter year by N. Cornelius, who came from Illinois to 
 Wisconsin some years before; and Mr. Rust thinks they 
 raised more lead than has ever been raised in the county 
 since, in the same length of time. 
 
 In 1835, Joseph Paine, having removed from Clarno, 
 began to farm where the village of Monroe is now. 
 About the same time, Jarvis Rattan, an Illinoisan who 
 had been for many years a miner, built the second house 
 in the village, and Julius Austin settled just west of the 
 village — his brother, Elijah Austin, who came with him 
 from Illinois, settling in Clarno. Jacob Andrick came 
 the same year from Ohio, and made a farm in that part of 
 Clarno which is now included in the southern part of the 
 
History of Green County. 81 
 
 village of Monroe. There were at this time two cabins 
 at the Skinner diggings, occupied by Nicholas Hale 
 and Richard Palmer, and their families. Mr. Hale cul- 
 tivated a small tract of land which miners, of whom 
 Mr. Hale may have been one, broke before the war. 
 In 1S36, the brothers Robert and Hiram Delapp came 
 from Illinois. The former made a farm where Mr. 
 Cornelius now lives, Mr. Cornelius being farther west, 
 on what is called the Chamness place. Daniel S. Suth- 
 erland came in 1S36, from Illinois, to the farm where he 
 still resides. At the land sale in Mineral Point, when a 
 friend bought the farm for Mr. Sutherland, there was 
 quite a strife for it. The price of land, good or bad, 
 was $1.25 an acre, except where more than one person 
 wanted it, in which case it was sold to the highest bid- 
 der. The price of Mr. Sutherland's land was run up 
 to $2.50 an acre, by a man who kept a little store at 
 Mineral Point. He did not pay for it that day, and, 
 according to the rule in such cases, the land was offered 
 for sale the next day. Before the hour of the sale a 
 number of Mr. Sutherland's friends gathered in the 
 store, and, by one pretext and another, kept the mer- 
 chant busy until the farm was bought at the usual price. 
 Land purchases were often attended with excitement, 
 and sometimes with danger. One Monroe farmer, while 
 on the way to Mineral Point to buy eighty acres which 
 joined his farm, learned that one of his acquaintances 
 had started on the same errand two hours before him. 
 At first he was in despair, for he had only the money 
 to pay the government price, and the success of his 
 
82 History of Green County. 
 
 whole life seemed to him, then, to hinge on his poses 
 sion of the eighty acres. But the bearer of the bad 
 news had these words of comfort : " You will neither 
 of you reach the Point before the office is closed; to- 
 morrow I will lend you all the money you need to bid 
 against him, for you are a farmer and he is a speculator." 
 The farmer arrived at Mineral Point after dark, and 
 went to bed, but not to sleep. The suspense was too 
 great to be endured. A little after midnight he arose, 
 and, with his money and the description of his land in 
 his hand, went to the land office. He felt around in the 
 dark until he found the door, which he pounded with 
 the energy born of a last hope; and when, after a time, 
 a few horrible oaths told him there was some sleepy 
 wight within, he was filled with a wild delight which 
 the sweetest music had never given him before. Then 
 followed a practical exemplification of the text, though 
 he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, 
 yet because of his importunity he will rise and give 
 him. First, the deafened man opened the door, swear- 
 ing he would not do business in the night; then, swear- 
 ing still, he took the description and the money. The 
 farmer went to sleep then, but, rising betimes, went 
 again to the office to see the discomfiture of his specu- 
 lating rival, who had relied so much on his earlier start 
 from Monroe that he stopped for the night eight miles 
 this side of Mineral Point. At another time, two 
 would-be purchasers started together from Monroe. 
 The one who had least money knew a shorter road to 
 Mineral Point than the other knew, but the knowledge 
 
History of Green £ounty. 
 
 83 
 
 was of no advantage for he could not get away from 
 his companion. In vain he stormed and declared that 
 no one who bought the land away from him should 
 ever return to Monroe alive. Greek had met Greek, 
 and the victory was not to be gained by threats. Final- 
 ly, when the greater part of the road had been traveled 
 over, the involuntary guide turned back, and the other 
 went on and bought the land. 
 
 With Mr. Sutherland came Thos. Bragg of Vir- 
 ginia and Geo. Nobles of Illinois, both of whom were, 
 after a few years, at work on their own farms near the 
 village. In 1837, Chas. S. Wilcoxon bought Mr. Rust's 
 farm, and Mr. Rust moved to his present residence. 
 A. J. Sutherland and Geo. Reeder, both of whom made 
 farms in the eastern part of the town, came in 1837 — 
 the former from New York, the latter from Ohio. 
 
 The next farmers were Asa Brown, Dixon Bailey, 
 Mrs. Morton, and Thomas Morton, who all removed 
 herefrom Illinois in 1839. So much for the beginning. 
 In contrast with this list of early farmers is given now 
 a list of the largest farmers of to-day. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 Names. No 
 
 . of Acres. 
 
 John Bleiler, 
 
 " 392 
 
 Geo. PofT, 
 
 2IO 
 
 T. J. Bragg, Sen., - 
 
 420 
 
 A. Rust, - 
 
 225 
 
 J. M. Chadwick, 
 
 - 24O 
 
 C. J. Simmons, 
 
 ISO 
 
 Peter Chandler, 
 
 SO 
 
 J. S. & L. S. Smock, 
 
 280 
 
 D. W. Clark, - 
 
 - 3SO 
 
 D. S. Sutherland, 
 
 167 
 
 H. G. Cleveland, - 
 
 220 
 
 J. B. Stearns' estate, 
 
 380 
 
 Robert Crow, - 
 
 - 322 
 
 P. & N. B. Treat, 
 
 l65 
 
 C. Delano, 
 
 24O 
 
 S. Truax, 
 
 320 
 
 M. Geigle, 
 
 - ICO 
 
 F. M. Wagner, 
 
 225 
 
 Jacob Kundert, 
 
 560 
 
 Thos. Walker, 
 
 l35 
 
 A. Ludlow, 
 
 1,766 
 
 John Wenger, - 
 
 220 
 
 R. Nalty, 
 
 320 
 
 W. S. Wescott, - 
 
 35° 
 
 Henry Parr, 
 
 - I20 
 
 Wescott & Chandler, 
 
 200 
 
84 History of Green County. 
 
 The following are the principal stock-raisers and 
 dealers in Monroe: J. M. Chadwick, who, with his 
 brother, J. C. Chadwick, of Juda, ships about three- 
 fourths of the stock that is shipped from the county; J. 
 S. and L. S. Smock, importers and dealers; Wm. Brown, 
 one of the first in the county to import fine cattle; A. 
 Ludlow, who shipped to New York the present year 
 the largest drove of Durham cattle ever shipped from 
 the state by one man; T. J. Bragg; G. O. Stearns; 
 Hodge Bros. 
 
 There are four cheese factories in the township, of 
 which Jacob Kundert, George Figy, G. O. Stearns, and 
 W. S. Wescott, have each one factory. Two of them 
 make Swiss, and two of them make American cheese. 
 
 Monroe held her first town meeting April 3, 1849, at 
 the court house. One hundred and forty-nine voters were 
 jDresent, but hardly any of them had ever attended a town 
 meeting, and no one seemed to know how to proceed. 
 After an awkward pause, some one, tired of playing 
 Mr. Micawber, exclaimed, "What do they do at town 
 meetings?" Mr. Daniel S. Sutherland, who, when a 
 boy, had attended town meetings in New York, re- 
 plied, "first, they put some one in the chair, and then 
 they go to work." Mr. Sutherland was then called to 
 the chair, and this is the work they did: Taxes of $125 
 for contingent expenses, $25 for the support of the 
 poor, $200 for making and repairing roads and bridges, 
 and $300 for schools were voted; the running at large 
 of domestic animals, and, as the record says, other inci- 
 dental questions were considered, and the usual town 
 officers were elected. 
 
History of Green County, 85 
 
 OFFICERS OF TOWN OF MONROE FROM 1849 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 D. S. Sutherland. C. S. Foster, (2 years). 
 
 H. Rust. A. L. Cleveland, (2 years). 
 
 T. N. Machin. Samuel Truax. 
 
 C. S. Foster, (2 years). Wm. Brown, (2 years). 
 Jas. Bintliff. Norman Churchill. 
 L. Hurlbut. J. V. Richardson. 
 
 S. Truax, (vice L.H. resigned). James H. Van Dyke. 
 
 E. T. Gardner. W. H. Pierce. 
 
 Hiram Rust. John Bolender, (2 years.) 
 
 F. H. West. Lewis McKahan. 
 
 A. L. Cleveland. John Bolender, (3 years). 
 Daniel S. Sutherland. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 H. B. Poyer, (3 years). W. W. Wright, (2 years). 
 
 B. Dunwiddie, (2 years). J. C. Richardson. 
 
 D. B. Priest. Joseph Peters, (2 years). 
 
 E. C. Moulton, (vice D.B.P.) J. Jacob Tschudy. 
 
 J. C. Richardson, (3 years). Lewis Rote, (14 years). 
 
 '3* 
 
EARLY HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF 
 
 MONROE. 
 
 READ IN MONROE MARCH 21, 1876. 
 
 The first house in the vicinity of the Village of Mon- 
 roe was that built by Hiram Rust and Leonard Ross, 
 Hn the summer of 1834. In the winter of 1834-5, these 
 "two bachelor housekeepers were the only white men 
 in the township, and they had a full taste of the pleas- 
 ures of solitude. They had little work; to do, and were 
 entirely free from that anxious hurry and bustle that 
 cheats most housekeepers out of the calm, peaceful hour 
 which should follow a good dinner. After each meal 
 they sat back comfortably from the table to talk and 
 "feed their fancies with sugared suppositions." Some- 
 times while they were thus engaged, the squaws came 
 in, and, dipping their fingers into the pork dish on the 
 table, transferred its contents to their hair. When the 
 feminine love of ornament had been thus gratified, Mr. 
 . Rust usually gave his visitors bread, with which they 
 • sopped out the remaining gravy, and made a good din- 
 Mier, Though they did not use them themselves, the 
 -squaws conceived a violent fancy for the knives seen on 
 ifche white men's table. Frequently, after their visits, 
 iwo or three knives were missing; but, in a day or two, 
 
History of Green County. 87 
 
 one of the noble braves, aesthetically weaker, if not 
 morally stronger, than his squaw, would come in, and, 
 without any talk about the woman's tempting him, lay 
 the knives on the table and go away in silence. The 
 chief sometimes compelled Indians to return stolen arti- 
 cles. When Mr. Cornelius was numbered among the 
 bachelor housekeepers of this vicinity, an Indian bor- 
 rowed a eun at the cabin to shoot a deer which he r ; aid 
 he had seen but a minute before. Mr. Enos wont with 
 the Indian to see him shoot. They went cautiously, so 
 as not to alarm the deer. Sometimes the Indian stopped 
 and listened, always making Mr, Enos stop too. At 
 each of these pauses he contrived to increase the dis- 
 tance between him and Mr. Enos. When they were 
 several feet apart he lay down in the tall grajs, pretend- 
 ing he wanted to listen with his ear on the ground. 
 Mr. Enos waited until his patience was exhausted and 
 then went on; but the Indian was not in the place where 
 he had dropped down, and though three white men 
 looked for him all night, they could not find him. The 
 next winter, for two bushels of corn, the Winnebago 
 chief had the gun returned. The Indians had a sense 
 of honor which made an Indian's promise as reliable as 
 a white man's, and, as far as they could be, they were 
 hospitable. The squaws were much more willing to 
 give away their maple sugar than the whites were to 
 eat it, and when they had soup, visitors were always in- 
 vited to partake. A volume might be made of the early 
 settlers' reminiscences of the Indians, and the habits of 
 the vanished race are curious enough to warrant a still 
 
-88 History of Green County. 
 
 further digression from the history of our own town 
 and village. One gentleman observed the progress of 
 an Indian courtship. The girl proposed to her hesitat- 
 ing admirer that they should take a march of twenty- 
 five or thirty miles to see how well she could do the 
 work of a squaw. They went, she carrying all the 
 things usually carried on a march, and doing all the 
 work. He was satisfied with this trial of her strength, 
 and soon after their return to the camp they were 
 married. 
 
 In 1835, Mr. Paine built the first house built in the 
 village. It was near the place now occupied by the 
 house on what is known as the Capt. Foster place, and 
 it marked the spot where Mr. Paine had concealed him- 
 self from the Indians in the Black Hawk war. A little 
 later in the season, Mr. Jarvis Rattan built the second 
 house. A house of that day was a log house. A year later, 
 Milwaukee contained only two frame, and Chicago only 
 two brick houses. The first white child born in Monroe 
 was a daughter of Mr. Paine's, and the last Indian born 
 here was born on the sunny side of Mr. Paine's house, 
 the first winter of his residence here. The Indians had 
 only stopped there to cook something which they had 
 shot, and, when the pappoose was but an hour old its 
 mother bathed it in snow and swung it over her back, 
 and its journey west began. 
 
 In 1S36-7, Robert Ream, George McFadden, and 
 Mordecai Kelly settled here with their families. Mr. 
 Ream was the father of Vinnie Ream, and was the first 
 postmaster in Monroe. In the spring of 1838 he moved 
 
History of Green County. 89 
 
 to Madison to keep tavern in a log house, which was 
 then just a year old, and which was the first house built 
 in Madison. 
 
 In 1S37, two frame buildings, one a store the other' 
 a tavern, were erected here by the firm of Bininger, 
 Smith & Paine. The lumber was brought from Penn- 
 sylvania, down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to the 
 Mississippi, then up the Mississippi to Galena, whence 
 it was hauled across the country. The firm failed, and 
 in less than a year the store was closed ; but soon after 
 the failure, Mr. Jacob Ly Brand opened a store in the 
 same building. 
 
 In the spring of 1838, Mr. John Hart, now of Mil- 
 waukee, started with a stock of ready-made clothing 
 from Milwaukee to Galena, where he intended to open 
 a store. When he had advanced on his journey as far 
 as the hill which is south of the railroad in Monroe, one 
 of his horses suddenly sickened and died. The only 
 man in the village who had horses was Joseph Paine, 
 and he had so few that Mr. Hart could neither buy nor 
 hire one for the remainder of his journey. Mr. Paine 
 said, however, that this was probably as good a point as 
 Galena for a store, and that he had a log house which 
 might be appropriated to that use. As it was impossi- 
 ble to go on with one horse, Mr. Hart remained. He 
 sold on credit, and so, when horses became more numer- 
 ous, there was still a reason for his remaining; but in 
 time all bills were paid. The year 1838 also brought 
 to the village Mr. John Porter and his family from 
 Missouri. 
 
90 Histoiy of Green County. 
 
 The next year there was a school. It was taught by 
 Miss Lucy Goddard, whose home was in "the state," 
 as Illinois was called then. Everybody contributed 
 something towards her salary, and the contract pro- 
 Tided for her to board 'round. About twenty children 
 were in attendance, several of them coming from Clarno. 
 The same summer the Rev. James Ash, who lived on 
 Mr. Austin's farm just out of the village, and who be- 
 longed to the Rock River Conference, organized the 
 first religious society in the town. It began with less 
 than a dozen members, but is still in existence, and is 
 now the oldest society in the county. The first meeting 
 was held at the house of Dixon Bailey, northwest of the 
 village. None of the villagers joined the society, but 
 most of them attended its meetings. 
 
 [The contest for the county seat, which convulsed the village 
 from 1S38 to '40, having been already described in the sketch of the 
 county, is omitted here.] 
 
 Let us now picture to ourselves this place as it ap- 
 peared in 1840. The typical log house of that time 
 contained but one room. This room had one window, 
 one door, and a fire place with an outside chimney, 
 which was built of sticks and mud. Other features of 
 the domicil were less uniform. If the occupants were 
 wealthy and somewhat inclined to luxury, they had a 
 board floor. If they made no pretensions to wealth or 
 elegance, they dispensed with a floor or' had one made 
 of split logs called puncheons. The great fault of the 
 house was that, when the door was open, the smoke 
 from the fire place was very likely to enter the room. 
 
History of Green County. 91 
 
 This evil could not be so easily obviated by keeping the 
 door closed as ignorant people may suppose. Usually,, 
 the one window was an aperture provided with a 
 wooden shutter that excluded light as well as air* 
 Consequently, either the door or window was always 
 open, the choice between them being determined by the 
 direction of the wind. Most of the settlers had come 
 from states farther south than this, and did not at once 
 adapt their habits to a northern climate. The first 
 thing to do each morning was to let in the light. Light 
 having been admitted, the draught of the fire was regu- 
 lated by putting up a cloth partition between the open- 
 ing and the fire place. The cloth was easily suspended 
 from the roof or from the floor of the loft. The loft — 
 when there was one, for it was not found in all houses 
 — was reached by a ladder, and was used as a sleeping 
 room. The roof was made of what the Yankees called 
 shakes, and western people called clap boards, held in 
 place by logs laid crosswise. The advantages of such 
 a roof were three. It afforded wakeful persons an 
 opportunity of studying geography of the heavens with- 
 out getting the neck-ache. It enabled people who had 
 no door key to barricade the door on the inside and then 
 go out on top of the house and view the landscape o'er 
 like a prairie dog before they went away. It also 
 enabled visitors who arrived when the lord of the 
 manor was absent to go in and make themselves at 
 home. Perhaps this advantage was not apparent in the 
 village, but in the country many a traveller slipped in- 
 to the house of a brother bachelor to warm and rest 
 
Q2 History of Green County. 
 
 himself, and then departed in the same free, if not easy, 
 way. There was no cellar. Vegetahles were kept in 
 root houses, and pigs ran under the house. If the 
 wealth or size of the family increased, a second room, in 
 all respects like the first, was built, the two apartments 
 being connected by a door. But it was a very large 
 family that required two rooms, and so common was it 
 for a house to consist of one room that house and room 
 were synonymous terms. A lady who came here in 
 1840 was surprised, early one morning, to hear a girl 
 say she had just mopped three houses. Her admiration 
 of the girl's energy was somewhat diminished when she 
 found the labor had all been expended in three diminu- 
 tive rooms. 
 
 It is easy to enumerate the houses here in 1840. 
 Three different parts of the village were known by three 
 different names. Beginning with New Mexico proper, 
 the most important house was Jacob Andrick's, now 
 the residence of Mr. Niles. Across the road was the 
 home of his brother, Christian Andrick. Near by was 
 a third building used at different times as post office, 
 court house, and store. In North, or Paine's, New 
 Mexico was Mr. LyBrand's store, a frame building. It 
 stood just west of Mr. Paine's public square, which is 
 now known as the little park south of the railroad. 
 East of the park or square, was Mr. Hart's house, in 
 the front part of which -was his store. Just south of 
 where the railroad bridge is, was a log house in which, 
 to use the old phrase, school was kept. Between the 
 school house and Mr. Hart's store was a cabin occupied 
 
History of Green County. 93 
 
 by Mrs. Churchill and her family. Near Mr. Sheehan's 
 present residence was a frame building, which, in a dif- 
 ferent locality, is known to us as the planing mill, but 
 which was known then as " the tavern." Near the 
 depot grounds, was the blacksmith shop of Buckskin 
 Brown. The log house on Capt. Foster's place was 
 occupied by Robert Kirkendoll and his family, and the 
 Ream house, near the site of Mr. Geo. Spangler's resi- 
 dence, was the home of Mr. Joseph Smith, who had 
 formerly lived in Clarno. Last, but not least in impor- 
 tance, among the twelve houses contained in the three 
 villages was that occupied by Mr. John Porter just west 
 of the spring. This was the only house in what was 
 then called Monroe. It was built by Mr. Rattan, be- 
 fore the people were hampered in the selection of 
 building spots by such things as streets, and when the 
 county seat was laid out, was found to be in the road. 
 The Kelly and Kirkendoll families had lived in it, and 
 it was here Mr. Rattan lived in 1S37, when he raised 
 wheat on the court house square and threshed it on a 
 threshing floor on the site of the Universalist church. 
 Here, in the summer of '40, was the first wedding in 
 Monroe; and Mr. Joseph Kelly, who was then justice 
 of the peace, came from Clarno, to perform the cere- 
 mony which allowed Mr. Joseph McConnell, a resident 
 of " the state," to take away Miss Eurana Porter. The 
 house was a desirable one on account of its proximity to 
 the spring, and as the thoroughfare was not crowded, it 
 was allowed to remain some time longer. Like two or 
 three other cabins whose builders had gone away, it 
 
94 History of Green County. 
 
 was the property of any one who obtained possession 
 of it. Accordingly, when Mr. Porter, in the fall of '40, 
 announced his intention of moving out, two or three 
 families made preparations to move in ; and the question 
 most discussed in the social circles in these three villages 
 came to be, who is to live in the house by the spring? 
 When the dawn of the long looked for moving day was 
 seen at last, Mr. Porter solved this puzzling problem by 
 carrying the goods of one of his neighbors into the 
 house before his own were carried out of it. A 
 rail fence was made around the house, and in the 
 summer of 1S41 those who passed that way leaned over 
 the rails and gazed with ever new surprise at the un- 
 wonted sight of flowering beans and poppies. Fences 
 were regarded as a luxury rather than as a necessity in 
 1840, though most families having no permanent fence 
 had a few rails to fence a garden in the summer, and a 
 stack yard in the winter. A fence was the more con- 
 venient because hogs ran at large, and there were four 
 times as many hogs as persons in the county. All the 
 pigs went to market then, or at least to town, and 
 thronged as mendicants around every door unprotected 
 by a fence. They had all the energetic boldness of pio- 
 neers, and, when the outside gleanings proved insuffi- 
 cient to satisfy their hunger, they entered at the open 
 door. Tradition tells of a sorrowful company at the 
 tavern whose roasted wild turkey, left by the cook a 
 moment while other things were preparing for the 
 table, was seized by these hungry sentinels and borne 
 away. 
 
Histo7'y of Green County. 95 
 
 As there was hardly anything to be bought, the log 
 house of 1840 contained only such furniture as had been 
 brought from some former home, or the ingenuity of its 
 inmates had contrived. Benches supplied the place of 
 chairs; dry goods boxes served as tables; bottles were 
 used as candlesticks; and a rag in a saucer of lard was 
 a not unusual kind of lamp. A good bedstead was 
 made in this way : the ends of two poles being stuck 
 into the side of the house, the other ends, which pro- 
 jected into the room, were supported by poles resting on 
 the floor. A few poles were laid on the frame work 
 thus made, and the bedstead was completed. When 
 there was company, the bedstead was sometimes made 
 to support a temporary table. In houses of two rooms 
 the inner door was accustomed to come down and serve 
 as a table; and, since the cotton cloth used then for table- 
 cloths allowed all the moisture on the tea-cups to pene- 
 trate to the door, such inner doors appeared ornamented 
 with a series of rings, very suggestive of good dinners 
 to those who understood them, but very perplexing 
 to those unaccustomed to society. Aristocratic families 
 had clocks with weights hanging down to the floor, — 
 clocks which had kept time in the family for more than 
 a generation. Next in the social scale were families that, 
 having no heirlooms in clocks, had been able to pur- 
 chase "patent clocks." Common folks went by the 
 sun. 
 
 Now and then a wall was adorned with a portrait of 
 George Washington, at which little boys were expect- 
 ed to look whenever called on to give an account of 
 
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 themselves. A more common household treasure was 
 one of a character similar to the epitaph which the 
 Vicar of Wakefield hung on his wall. It was a picture 
 of a willow and of a funereal woman pulling a child by 
 the hand and leaning over a tombstone, whereon were 
 written the names of the departed. But, while the epi- 
 taph addressed itself to the wife only, — "inspiring her 
 with a passion for fame, and constantly reminding her of 
 her end," — the more modern ornament directed its me- 
 mento mori to all the family alike, and joined to the 
 warning a promise of a moderately enduring name on 
 a guarded tombstone, provided (every promise has its 
 limitation), the person addressed died while there was 
 still vacant space on the stone. But the especial delight 
 of every housekeeper was seen in the pictures on her 
 dishes. In those days, plain, sober folks, ate their pork 
 and potatoes from plates adorned with pictures of archi- 
 tecture more wonderful than the Pantheon, the originals 
 of which could have been found only in some lunatic's 
 castles in Spain ; and, when dinner was over, these strange 
 combinations of the useful and beautiful were all dis- 
 plaved on a shelf called a dresser, where each plate 
 rested on its own edge, and each cup stood in its own 
 saucer. It must not be supposed, though, that the fore- 
 fathers of the hamlet lived entirely on pork and potatoes. 
 As late as 1S43, in one week and from one herd, a 
 hunter killed in this vicinity fifty deer, and other kinds 
 of game were abundant. The bee trees contained honey 
 for all, while plums and all kinds of berries grew in the 
 greatest abundance where the village is now. Crab 
 
History of Green County, 97 
 
 apples sweetened with molasses had a prominent place 
 on every table, and the festal board was often graced 
 with sheep sorrel pies, and sometimes with mandrake 
 pies. 
 
 The deserted cabin used as a school house deserves 
 a little of our attention. The seats had no backs, and 
 there were no desks. The children sat doubled over 
 like figure lives, and held their books in their laps. 
 Sometimes, while they buzzed their lessons over to 
 themselves, they rocked back and forth, to the time of 
 their buzzing. The little abecedarians rocked and 
 buzzed as many hours as the oldest scholar. Sometimes 
 they swung their feet, which hung several inches above 
 the floor. Sometimes they curled them up under them 
 for warmth. Along two sides of the room was a shelf, 
 where, when the master had time to set them a copy, 
 the older children wrote. Parents had no fear lest the 
 children, on coming home at night, should announce a 
 change of text books. Those who had grammars 
 parsed. Those who had arithmetics ciphered through 
 a great many sums, and the master helped them on the 
 hard ones. But one lady says she attended school here 
 from 1 84 1 to '51, and never studied arithmetic until the 
 last year, when she was fifteen years of age. Not until 
 she was thirteen did she begin to learn to write. She 
 committed her reading book and spelling book to mem- 
 ory, was called the best speller in school, and her friends 
 were well pleased with her progress. 
 
 A description of the society of Monroe in 1840 would 
 be a description of the society of the county. Socially, 
 
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 village and county were one. Everybody in the county 
 knew everybody else, and there was a community of 
 pursuits, interests, hardships, and sympathies that brought 
 all the settlers into one brotherhood. The social centre 
 of the county was the tavern. Private houses being 
 small, most social gatherings were necessarily here ; and 
 here, too, everybody went, as often as he could, to learn 
 the news and see his neighbors. So vividly does this 
 tavern stand out in all the chronicles of the early settlers 
 that a student of the county's history soon is prone to 
 think he, too, sees it in its olden form. Let us follow 
 such a retrospective student as, in fancy, he enters unseen 
 at the old tavern door. Perchance the first person he 
 sees is Mrs. Paine, the voluble hostess, who has just 
 broken off a long story of the Indian war, to discipline 
 the children with her slipper. All undismayed, he seats 
 himself and waits, sure that she will soon resume her 
 story. In the intervals given to government, there is 
 leisure to observe the other occupants of the room. 
 Here is a group just returned from a " burying " at An- 
 drick's grave yard. There was no clergyman with them, 
 for there is none this week within several miles. Here 
 is Mr. LyBrand, who, with his precise and punctilious 
 ways, seems strangely out of place in a new country; 
 and yet he cannot do business where there is competi- 
 tion. If you double the value of his goods, his customers 
 get twice as much for their money. Reduce the value 
 of the goods one half, and they will wait on their 
 shelves forever for the price that was fore-ordained for 
 them. In a few years he must be moving on to the 
 
Histoi'y of Grcc?i County. 99 
 
 West, but whenever he goes, he will be remembered 
 kindly by many he leaves behind him. His are the 
 warmest friendships, the fullest of unselfish sacrifice, 
 that our unseen listener hears of among the settlers. 
 Leaning over the fire is Mr. O. C. Smith, of the old 
 firm, Bininger, Smith & Paine. He and his brother, 
 w r ho together had $10,000, are spoken of as the two 
 men who came to the county wealthy. The older 
 brother is dead, the property is gone, and the younger 
 brother is destined to be laid in a pauper's grave. Near 
 the door is Mr. John Hart. He is the owner of a small 
 library, which has been read and discussed over and 
 over again by the reading part of the community. 
 Reading: matter is so scarce that women sometimes take 
 Washington and the doleful woman from their frames, 
 in order to read again the bits of newspaper back of 
 the pictures. 
 
 Our unseen observer stays a long time in his quiet 
 corner. Meanwhile, the visitors come and go. Some- 
 times the observer sits alone; sometimes he has the 
 company of a noisy group of miners, who make the 
 walls ring with their jokes and quarrels. Now, there 
 enters a young man destined to become an honored 
 member of the legislature of another state. A few 
 hours ago, hearing there was a letter for him in the 
 post office, he dropped his work and hastened after it, 
 only to learn that he could not have the letter until he 
 paid the postage. Now, he is asking his friends to lend 
 him money. Two or three wallets are quickly brought 
 out, and soon he holds the precious letter. It forms its 
 
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 own envelope, and is fastened with small red wafers. 
 Where we might expect the three-cent stamp to be, the 
 postmaster has written twenty-five cents. Now, atten- 
 tion is fixed on a victim of the toothache. Red pepper 
 and hot needles proving powerless to reach the aching 
 nerve, the sufferer thinks he must go to the dentist ten 
 miles away. The dentist is a blacksmith, who, after his 
 patient has lain down upon the floor, sits down on him, 
 and pulls the tooth out with a turnkey. But here is 
 a man who bids the sufferer think no more of the black- 
 smith and the turnkey. He produces a small piece of 
 hickory wood called a punch, which he directs another 
 man to hold against the aching tooth, and with a hammer 
 he pounds the wood until the tooth flies from its socket. 
 The victim groans a little as he finds they have knocked 
 out the wrong tooth; but they try again, this time suc- 
 cessfully. Now, some one announces that Sunday 
 week, there'll be preaching at Mr. Austin's house; and 
 another brings news of a bee at Mr. Andrick's. Still, 
 the unseen man sits in his corner. He listens to the 
 conversation of men who astonish him by their general 
 information, as well as by their shrewd, common sense; 
 and then he gives ear to some good dame who describes 
 the process by which she makes saleratus from ashes, 
 and to another who retails the contents of the almanac 
 that " he " bought at the low price of ten cents, when 
 he went to Galena. He listens to conversations in 
 which neighbors tell, with great minuteness, the par- 
 ticulars of the journey here, the events which induced 
 them and their brothers and their uncles to come, what 
 
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 time of day these events occurred, whether it was be- 
 fore or after dinner, and how they know it could not have 
 been early in the morning. The unsuspected listener 
 sees that, for uneducated people, in a new country, this 
 talk is almost the only avenue of escape from intellect- 
 ual torpidity, and is ready to applaud it as he applauds 
 the action of a man who, when confined many years in 
 a dark dungeon, kept the use of his faculties by hunting 
 three little pins upon the floor, throwing them down 
 again as soon as found. And our friend is neither 
 shocked nor surprised by the discovery that many of 
 the settlers are intemperate; for he knows that never 
 until 1 80S was there a temperance society of any kind 
 in any part of the United States, and that the society 
 organized then, like all the temperance societies of the 
 next twenty-five years, allowed members to drink liquors 
 at public dinners, dedications of churches, ordinations 
 of clergymen, and ministerial conventions. He knows 
 that when, in 1833, at a meeting of the American Tem- 
 perance Union in Philadelphia, some one advocated total 
 abstinence from all that may intoxicate, even the original 
 apostles of the temperance movement opposed it, on 
 the ground that it would be injurious to health, and that 
 they regarded him who advocated it as a crazy radical, 
 likely to bring disgrace upon the cause. 
 
 And now a dance at the tavern, to which fathers 
 and mothers come with all their children, affords a good 
 opportunity to study the styles of dress of a dozen 
 different years, in nearly as many different states. In 
 the course of the evening, liquors seasoned with nut- 
 
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 meg are passed around. In the ball-room, half a dozen 
 women sip from one glass; in the bar-room, men drink 
 from bottles, something less than half a dozen wine 
 glasses at a sip. In the bits of talk to which he listens, 
 the visitor is surprised by the changes that many of the 
 names of the settlers are undergoing; he observes, for 
 example, the change of Clarno into Clino; Chilton into 
 Shelton; Hawthorne into Hartharn ; and Hensonlr-i-on' 
 into Hanson Ireons. Occasionally, in the pauses of the 
 dance, he hears the people say, in joyful manner, to- 
 morrow we shall know; I'll have mine to-morrow; the 
 peddler comes to-morrow. It is Mr. Ludlow upon 
 whose coming these expectations hang. To his energy 
 the people are indebted for many comforts and conven- 
 iences otherwise unattainable. His route is from Chi- 
 cago to Madison, via Rockford, Belvidere, and Monroe; 
 and, though there are only blazed trees and Indian trails 
 to mark the way, he makes the trip every month. In 
 the summer, he crosses the rivers in ferry boats. In the 
 spring and fall, when the strength of the ice is uncer- 
 tain, he first walks across. If there are no signs of 
 danger, he crosses with one horse. If it still seems safe, 
 the wagon is taken over. His customers are always 
 watching for him at the appointed time. Hastening to 
 meet him, they ask, " did you remember my tobacco?" 
 " have you brought some pretty calico?" And he is al- 
 ways able to say he has remembered and brought what- 
 ever they wish. He stops a day or two at the tavern, 
 intrusting his money, done up in a leather mitten, to the 
 landlady, who puts it under the floor. Such is the hon- 
 
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 esty of the people that although everybody goes to see 
 his goods, which seem to be scattered all over the 
 tavern, and although in all his travels he has never 
 had a lock on his wagon, he has never lost a single 
 article. 
 
 The observer has marked many other good qualities 
 of the settlers. He sees that it is by their own force of 
 character they make their way. Many of them are the 
 children of pioneers, and they have never been given 
 those weapons for the battle of life which we call educa- 
 tion and culture. The habit of encounterinsr and over- 
 coming obstacles as pioneers has developed within them 
 a tendency to resistance which is not always agreeable,, 
 but their life brings them more virtues than faults- 
 They are ever hopeful and helpful. They feel it nc* 
 hardship to go ten or twenty miles to care for the sick 
 and sorrowing. There is a spirit of kindly affection 
 among them never called out in older places. The lit- 
 tle successes of each one are rejoiced over by all, while 
 individual misfortunes are regarded as common calami- 
 ties, which all hands are ready to repair. They are all 
 as one kindred. The good matrons are everybody's 
 aunts; and their husbands, unless they happen to be 
 squires, like Squire Rust and Squire Gardner, are 
 uncles, like Uncle Jimmy Hawthorne, and Uncle Dan- 
 iel Sutherland. All find their own good qualities re- 
 flected back to them from their neighbors and their 
 county. When asked concerning the home of their 
 adoption, they say it is the best new country God ever 
 made. And, as our historical student brings his long 
 
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 sojourn at the tavern to an end, he says to himself, "These 
 patriotic settlers are worthy of their county. 
 
 ' They are each of the breed of* the heroes, 
 
 The manhood attempered in strife, 
 Strong hands that go lightly to labor, 
 True hearts that take comfort in life. 
 
 In"?each is the seed to replenish 
 
 The world with the vigor it needs, 
 The centre of honest affections, 
 
 The impulse to generous deeds.' " 
 
 A building intended for a temporary court house was 
 erected in the summer of 1S40, where the United States 
 House now stands. The contractors were A. J. Suth- 
 erland and James Campbell. In the fall, however, be- 
 fore its completion, it was accidentally destroyed by fire. 
 The next spring, the county commissioners agreed with 
 Demas Beach to lend him $400 for six years, for which 
 consideration he was to erect a building in which the 
 county should have the use of certain rooms. This 
 building, since known as the American House, had a 
 court room and county offices on the second floor, while 
 the ground floor was used for a store and dwelling. 
 When court was not in session, a shoe shop was kept 
 in the jury room. The building was ready for use in 
 November, 1S41. 
 
 In the spring of 1841, one of the citizens of Monroe, 
 who had endured many of the hardships of frontier life, 
 was called on to bear trouble of a new kind. The un- 
 fortunate man was the postmaster, Mr. Noah Phelps. 
 The postmaster's duties were not arduous. Only three 
 newspapers were taken at the office. Sometimes, owing 
 
History of Green County. 105 
 
 to high water, there was no mail for a month, and the 
 receipts of the office were only about $3.00 a year.. 
 Whatever the duties of the office were, Mr. Phelps per- 
 formed them faithfully and well — always thawing: and 
 drying the mail by the fire when it had been dipped in 
 the river, and always striving hard, as a faithful servant 
 of Uncle Sam, to avoid being convinced by letter wri- 
 ters, whose postage was in proportion to the distance 
 their letters were sent, that the continent was only five 
 hundred miles wide. But political parties had been or- 
 ganized in Monroe in 1S40, and it happened that the 
 party which elected Gen. Harrison president that year 
 was not the party which received the aid and sympathy 
 of the postmaster, who accordingly lost his office, being 
 the first victim brought under the political axe in Green 
 County. It was several years, however, before elective 
 offices were made dependent on political views. Com- 
 paratively few of the early settlers had any aspiration 
 for office, and a man who had both the ambition and 
 the qualifications, received the support of all parties.. 
 For years, Mr. Rittenhouse held, at the same time, the 
 three offices, clerk of the circuit court, county clerk, 
 and register of deeds. He spoke of them as " my offi- 
 ces," and everybody else, both before and after election 
 day, called them " Rittenhouse's offices." 
 
 Occasional shopping expeditions to other places were 
 still necessary. The shoppers travelled in a covered 
 wagon, and carried — besides the load intended for mar- 
 ket — corn for the horses, food for themselves, cookings 
 
 utensils and bedding, a gun, and a scythe for cutting- 
 
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106 History of Gree?i County. 
 
 fodder. (In those days women preferred to have their 
 husbands go shopping with them.) Bad as the roads 
 were, there was some pleasure travel. In November, 
 1S42, a party went from Monroe to Mineral Point to 
 see a murderer hung. 
 
 In 1842, the county built a kind of bastile. Remem- 
 bering the fate of a house built upon the sand, the com- 
 missioners paid fifteen dollars for a foundation of stone. 
 
 1S43 is memorable, in the annals of Monroe, as the 
 year in which James R. Vineyard, a state senator, was 
 tried here for the murder of C. P. Arndt, also a senator, 
 or councilor, as the name was then. An account of the 
 murder reads like a telegram from Texas. An alter- 
 cation arose during a session of the council, and, imme- 
 diately after the adjournment, Vineyard shot his antago- 
 nist in the council chamber. The jury acquitted him, 
 and the acquittal was the signal for great rejoicing. 
 Mr. Vineyard received his friends at the new Monroe 
 House, and entertained them so well that they rose 
 almost to a level with those men of Shakespeare's, 
 
 So full of valor that they smote the air 
 
 For breathing in their faees, beat the ground 
 
 For kissing of their feet; 
 
 and when the question, were you ever intoxicated, is 
 propounded to the most temperate of the old settlers, it 
 is likely to elicit the reply, Yes, when Vineyard was 
 acquitted. 
 
 A brewery was built this year, and several new 
 buildings made more clear the outline of the public 
 square: the Monroe House on the north side, built by 
 John R. Walling; a second dwelling on the west side; 
 
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 two stores on the south side, built by Beach, Goodhue 
 and Slawson; and the old frame store of New Mexico, 
 which was now moved over to the north side. There 
 had been a tailor shop on the east side a year. 
 
 By 1S44, one-third of the land in the county was 
 entered. Soon after the land came into market, a great 
 number of acres, including much timber land, were 
 bought by New England speculators — a proceeding 
 that the settlers regarded as iniquitous. All non-resi- 
 dents who owned land were called speculators, and 
 opposition to speculators was held to be an essential 
 element of loyalty to the county. The usual form of 
 opposition was stripping the timber from the land of 
 the obnoxious class. To a great extent it was the spec- 
 ulators' timber that fenced the farms, and kept the 
 cooking stoves and the saw mills running. Ordinarily, 
 wood cut from any speculator's land was good enough; 
 but a speculator owning land east of Monroe died, and 
 (as though his death was an addition to his former in- 
 dignity to the settlers), from that time until the timber 
 was all used, his land, known as "dead man's land," 
 was the favorite place of supply in this part of the 
 county. Until 1844 the speculators made no effort to 
 defend themselves, but in that year a number of them 
 engaged J. A. Bingham to prosecute every one found 
 cutting their timber, and for a time the old hatred of 
 speculators was forgotten in the new desire to resist a 
 citizen who dared to become a representative and de- 
 fender of the obnoxious class. For a year or two, it 
 seemed as though the more the timber cutters were 
 
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 prosecuted, the more they developed a martyr-like per- 
 sistency and a very un-martyr-like aggressiveness. 
 These qualities might have reached the heroic, had not 
 the courage of the choppers wasted away so rapidly 
 that their conduct became the laughing stock of the 
 countv. A brother of Mr. Thomas W. Thompson 
 once came from New York to visit him. At Milwau- 
 kee he hired horses and a covered carriage for the 
 remainder of the journey. Before his visit in Sylvester 
 was over, he wanted to see the county town. He 
 started, but lost his way. Presently he saw three men 
 and three loads of rails standing in the road before him. 
 Before he was near enough to ask for information, they 
 all started. Two of the men had horse teams, and they 
 soon disappeared. Air. Thompson then called loudly 
 to the man with the ox team to stop, but the more he 
 called, the more the man pounded his oxen. Psycholo- 
 gists may well tell of the strange influence which, under 
 favorable circumstances, a man who concentrates his 
 mind on one thing is capable of wielding, even if he 
 does not utter a word. In this case, the circumstances 
 were favorable, and the concentration was perfect; and, 
 in an incredibly short time, both oxen and rails seemed 
 to have been inspired with the belief that only a specu- 
 lator would ride in such a fine carriage as that which 
 was coming behind them. The oxen galloped, and the 
 rails flew off at the sides; and the last Air. Thompson 
 saw of the driver, he was clinging with both hands to the 
 wagon, from which the last rail was gone, while the 
 oxen were making time to which Air. Thomuson, in 
 
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 his amazed and bewildered condition, was entirely un- 
 able to bring his high-spirited horses. 
 
 In 1S44, tne brick court house was begun. The 
 contractor, Mr. Wm. Dunton, burned his own brick, 
 and it was not until April, '46, that the building was 
 ready for use. A cemetery was laid out in '44, just 
 west of the village, which at that time contained twen- 
 ty-nine dwellings; and a frame school house was built 
 the same year, near the present residence of Dr. Mon- 
 roe. In this school house, in the summer of '45, 'Sir. 
 and Mrs. Matthew Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Truax, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kirkendoll, uniting: under the 
 rules and regulations of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church, formed the first religious society in the village. 
 As late as 1845, there was but one well in Monroe, 
 that one being on the place where Mr. Banta lives. It 
 was generally regarded as woman's work to carry 
 water from the spring; and those who had large fam- 
 ilies and who lived far from the spring had in this way 
 all the exercise they needed. This was especially the 
 case when it happened, as it sometimes did, that after a 
 laborious wading through the mud, seeing thev were 
 almost home, and going into a joyful calculation of how 
 long the two pails of water they carried would last, 
 how many faces, windows, and dishes it would wash, 
 how many potatoes and turnips it would boil, they 
 slipped in the mud, and, like the milkmaid whose story 
 they had so often pondered at school, fell prostrate, los- 
 ing the treasure so full of promise a moment before. 
 
 Nevertheless, these women did not encourage men to 
 
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 drink anything stronger than water, as is proved by the 
 existence of a temperance society, which in the fall of 
 '45 had ninety members. Nor did this daily exercise 
 weaken in any way the effect of the common law 
 which forbade any woman, especially any young woman, 
 to walk when she went to a dance. Though she might 
 have carried the water for a washing during the day, 
 and might have done the washing, yet, however short 
 the distance to the tavern, she must ride to the 
 party. It was a natural result of this social law that, 
 before the days of livery stables, comparatively few 
 young men could take any one to a dance. Another 
 result was another inexorable law forbidding any young 
 man to invite one girl without inviting, or persuading 
 some one else to invite, all the other girls in the family. 
 One lady says she has been one of seventeen girls to go 
 to a party with one young man, and that she has been 
 to many parties to which two gentlemen escorted all 
 the young ladies. At supper the ladies sat down first, 
 and their partners waited on them. A man compelled 
 to wait on seventeen hungry girls would hardly care to 
 practice his steps much in the ball room, or if he did, he 
 would probably go too fast for the music; but it was 
 mercifully provided that, once at the party, a girl might 
 receive, until it was time to ride home, the devoted at- 
 tentions of any pedestrian there, and accordingly all the 
 gentlemen served at the supper table. 
 
 Long before this, the learned professions were repre- 
 sented in Green County; but, with a few honorable ex- 
 ceptions, they were represented, as they are in all new 
 
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 countries, by men poorly qualified for their work. The 
 principal physician based his practice on the belief that 
 when blisters, calomel, and the lancet will not save a 
 man, nothing will save him, but that bleeding is then to 
 be resorted to in order to make him die more easily; 
 and he is said to have bled, blistered, and salivated his 
 patients successively or simultaneously with an energy 
 that made this a very easy place to die in. Physicians 
 seem to have been distinguished by peculiarities in their 
 dress, rather than by those in their practice. There was 
 one who was always called the calico doctor, not that 
 there was anything unusual at that time in the calico 
 coat he wore, but the name was distinctive because his 
 principal rival always wore buckskin clothes and a coon- 
 skin cap. Most of the ministers scorned book learning 
 and relied on inspiration. They made up in noise what 
 they lacked in ideas. Their favorite subject was the 
 day of judgment. One, who spoke in a nasal, sing- 
 song tone, described it as a day when the sun will be 
 darkened, the moon will be turned to blood, the tangents 
 will fly out of their sockets, and the cattle will stick up 
 their tails and run. Another, who was heard by those 
 of the villagers who remained at home, as well as by 
 those gathered in the court room, spoke as follows: 
 " In that solemn hour, my dearly beloved bretheren and 
 sisteren, all sinners will be call-ed before the judgment 
 seat to receive their sentences. First, the murderers will 
 be call-ed, then the burglars and highway robbers, then 
 the horse thieves and the gamblers, and last and worst 
 of all the Universalists will be call-ed." There was one 
 
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 minister who made some pretense to education. He 
 had a Greek testament which, although he could not 
 read it, he brought out whenever he found himself 
 beaten in a theological argument. With his finger on 
 the open page he would say, here is the original Greek, 
 which proves that I am right; and, as his brother was, 
 like himself, unable to read the passage, this always 
 .ended the dispute. Professional men came in the order 
 in which there was a demand for them. First appeared 
 the doctors, some of whom never thought of doctoring 
 until they came here, and most of whom were willing 
 to preach. Next were the ministers, and then came the 
 lawyers, the first of whom had nothing to do. One 
 lawyer came and went away before 1S40, and his dis- 
 couraged successor went in 1841. Two came in 1842, 
 both of whom would have starved had the law been 
 their only means of support. But public sentiment was 
 undergoing a curious change. Before 1838, and even 
 later, the people had little to do with law, and they 
 prospered so well that they were reluctant to change. 
 Even the county organization they lamented as an evil. 
 But after they had become accustomed to the workings 
 of the new government and to the courts, there was a 
 reaction in favor of law; and, notwithstanding the dif- 
 ference in population, there was more litigation in the 
 ten years beginning with 1842, than in the decade next 
 following. As an extreme example of this reactionary 
 ieeling is quoted the case of Mr. Paine,*who, it is said, 
 had forty summons served on him in one day. The 
 .number is probably an exaggeration, bat the example 
 
History of Green County. 113 
 
 is a good one. Though formerly prompt enough in the 
 payment of debts, he now refused payment in a number 
 of cases, saying, " if you're going to have law here, you 
 may as well use it." And there were many who were 
 willing to use it. With great freedom of speech and 
 manners, with the freest hospitality, and the greatest 
 brotherly kindness, there existed a seemingly incompat- 
 ible severity of judgment, and an admiring approval of 
 all severe punishments. At one time a grand jury in 
 Monroe came near indicting a man for playing cards, 
 and subpoenaed Mr. F. F. West to explain the nature of 
 card playing. Mr. West told the jury he could not give 
 the desired information without the assistance of a pack 
 of cards. The jury ordered a pack brought in, and Mr. 
 West explained its uses at some length, enjoying at the 
 end of the explanation the satisfaction of seeing all his 
 hearers thoroughly interested and pleased, and some of 
 them so enthusiastic that their continued investigations 
 were a matter of no doubt whatever. But even in the 
 midst of legal proceedings men sometimes showed that 
 it was more agreeable to them to fight their own battles 
 than to intrust the duty to a lawyer. A case in point is 
 that of Mr. Peter Rutledge, one of the early settlers of 
 Jefferson, and afterwards a resident of Washington. 
 He was indicted for giving a challenge to fight a duel. 
 At the trial it appeared that, while riding horseback in 
 Washington, he met a man to whom he said: "Here's 
 a pistol, d — n you, take it and defend yourself." Mr. 
 Rutledge's attorney, the Hon. David Noggle, claimed 
 that this was not a challenge, and he was trying to prove 
 
114 History of Green County. 
 
 that his client was innocent of the charge brought against 
 him, when Mr. Rutledge, a Virginian as full of pride 
 as any of the F. F. V.'s and as ready to defend his hon- 
 or, arose and silenced his advocate with the words, " sit 
 down, Xoggle, you don't know what you're talking 
 about." He then denied as calumnious the implied as- 
 sertion that he did not know how to give a challenge, 
 and insisted that no one who understood the law would 
 deny that there was one in the words which have been 
 quoted. Judge Whiton decided that they did constitute 
 a challenge, and the prosecution then went on to show 
 that Mr. Rutledge bore a bad reputation before he came 
 to Wisconsin, that he had stabbed one man, inflicting a 
 dangerous wound. The stabbing was proved, and Mr. 
 Rutledge's friends despaired of saving him from the 
 penitentiary. They brought rebutting testimony, but 
 this made the prisoner more impatient than anything 
 that had been said against him. He again took the 
 floor, and, in spite of the remonstrances of his and of the 
 opposing council, in spite, too, of the repeated order of 
 the court to be quiet, he acknowledged the stabbing, 
 and gave his reasons for it, and then his reasons for the 
 challenge. He gained the sympathy of all jDresent, and 
 was acquitted. 
 
 Some of the lawyers who practised here while 
 Judge Irvin was on the bench, and the number included 
 many whose residence was out of the county, seem to 
 have believed, like Aaron Burr, that law is whatever is 
 boldly asserted and plausibly maintained, The daemon 
 of gush seems to have taken possession of them, and they 
 
History of Green County. 11-5 
 
 talked so long and so strangely that the justices were 
 reduced almost to imbecility, as is shown by the follow- 
 ing bit of Green County history: A lawyer, distin- 
 guished for education, dignity, and piety, stated his case, 
 and the justice said to him: u The right is clearly on 
 your side. I think I may decide at once in your favor." 
 "Hold on," cried the second lawyer, who, like his op- 
 ponent, came from Madison, "I haven't told my side, 
 yet." When he had finished, the justice said: •• 1 was 
 mistaken, the rig-fit seems now to be on your side." 
 " But I have still something more to say," said the first 
 lawyer, who then launched forth in long continued 
 praises of the majesty of the law, and of the sacred 
 responsibilities of the law's officials, closing with a state- 
 ment of the duty of this particular justice. The justice 
 was much affected by his appeal, but, before he had time 
 to give a decision, up sprang the other lawyer, apparent- 
 ly in a frenzy of righteous indignation. Pointing con- 
 temptuously at his opponent, he said, " that sanctimo- 
 nious hypocrite hopes to deceive you by all this cant; 
 he takes you for a has^wood man; he thinks he can 
 grease and swallow you; can such hypocrisy succeed? 5 
 " No," said the now irate justice, "it can no: succeed; 
 "I decide in your favor." 
 
 Sometimes, however, the justice showed a remark- 
 able ability to weigh conflicting claims, as is shown in 
 the case, Harcourt vs. Bedtner. Dr. Harcourt was 
 called to prescribe for Mrs. Bedtner, a mile and a half 
 away. Arrived at the house, the Doctor found he had 
 forgotten his saddle bags, in which were his medicines ; 
 
n6 History of Green County. 
 
 and he sent Mr. Bedtner after them, When the Doctor 
 presented his bill, Mr. Bedtner refused to pay. The 
 case was tried before a justice who decided that Mr. 
 Bedtner owed nothing, as, in going after the saddle 
 bags, he had rendered as great a service as the Doctor 
 had rendered him. 
 
 When the district court was in session, the 
 lawyers felt obliged to say something that would 
 make a strong impression in a short time; for there 
 was always a possibility that Judge Irvin would 
 adjourn court at a moment's notice, and go hunting. 
 The Judge was a man of whom no rival would have 
 said to the lady of their choice, as was said to Amy of 
 Locksley Hall, "he will hold thee something better than 
 his dog, a little dearer than his horse." In the Judge's 
 opinion, the three things most essential to a happy exis- 
 tence were gun, horse and dog; and to intimate friends 
 he stated very frankly his belief that his gun was the 
 best gun in the United States, that his pointer, York, 
 was the best dog in the world, and that his horse, 
 Pedro, was possessed of more sense than any lawyer in 
 his court. It was supposed that his strongest feeling 
 was his affection for York; and more than one poor 
 man, when judgment was rendered against him, rue- 
 fully, and probably mistakenly, attributed his misfortune 
 to a kick, which in some hour of wanton pride he had 
 bestowed upon York. The Judge had' no natural qual- 
 ifications for his office above those of any honest, indo- 
 lent, pleasure-loving man, who firmly believes that 
 everything southern is good, and everything "Yankee" 
 
History of Green County. 1 1 7 
 
 is thoroughly bad. His talk was more of prairie 
 chickens than of law; and his knowledge of law was 
 so limited that in court he was in the habit of ordering 
 a recess, that he might take his successor, Mr. Whiton, 
 then a practising attorney, one side, and ask him the 
 law bearing on the case under discussion. The follow- 
 ing is said to be a charge given by him to a jury in 1841 : 
 " It appears from the evidence that the plaintiff' and 
 defendant in this action are brothers-in-law. On the 
 Wabash river, in the state of Indiana, they associated 
 themselves together for the purpose of swindling their 
 neighbors. Not content with that, they got to swind- 
 ling each other, and I am like the woman who saw her 
 husband and a bear fight: 'fight husband, fight bear; I 
 don't care which beats.' And, gentlemen of the jury, 
 it is a matter of indifference to me how you bring in 
 your verdict." Five minutes after the jury had retired 
 the sheriff was instructed to see if they had agreed. A 
 negative answer was returned; whereupon, the jury 
 was immediately ordered in and discharged. 
 
 At the close of his term of office, Judge Irvin went 
 to Texas. Judge Knapp, in his Early Reminiscences 
 of Madison, says that, " as penuriousness had prevailed 
 over love, leaving only kindness in the bosom of Judge 
 Irvin, York was left in the kind family of Joe Kelly at 
 Monroe, where he died;" and "the high bred Pedro 
 fared worse: he was sold for the purpose of drawing 
 the plow and the lumber wagon." Mr. Kelly pro- 
 nounces the above a mistake. Judge Irvin was a Vir- 
 ginian, and he always spent his winters in the south. 
 
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Ii8 History of Green County. 
 
 During these absences from Wisconsin, York, to whom 
 all the old settlers concede a place in the history of 
 Green County, was left in Monroe; but when the 
 Judge went south to remain both York and Pedro ac- 
 companied him. 
 
 In 1S44 or '45 Sanger's stage-coaches began to run from 
 Milwaukee to Galena, by way of Monroe. There was 
 a coach going one way or the other every dav, and each 
 coach was capable of carrying seventeen passengers. 
 Preference was given to through passengers, and Mon- 
 roe people were never able to pre-engage a seat for a 
 journey in either direction. There was so much travel 
 that Monroe men sometimes waited a week for a seat, 
 and were then obliged to find some other conveyance. 
 
 A package of old letters written in Monroe in 1845 
 and succeeding years gives some facts of interest to 
 those who care to follow the progress of the village. 
 
 It was about this time that Green county gained the 
 name of " the sang county," a name so well known that 
 one of our representatives at Madison began his first 
 speech there by proudly announcing himself as the 
 member from the sang county. Sang, which being in- 
 terpreted means ginseng, was very abundant here; but 
 as men, women, and children devoted all their leisure 
 moments to digging it, the supply was exhausted in a 
 few years. Mr. Ludlow bought all there was, being 
 the onlv person in this part of the sang region who 
 shipped it to New York, and says he made more money 
 on it than on any other little thing he ever dealt in. A 
 letter dated August, '46, says: "Flour is $3.00 a barrel. 
 
History of Green County. 119 
 
 Wheat can't be sold. Oats are twelve and one-half 
 cents, and corn twenty cents a bushel. Wild hay is 
 $2.50 per ton. A boy from Maine has dug five hun- 
 dred pounds of ginseng within three months and sold it 
 for twenty-two cents a pound." It is not recorded 
 whether wheat was ever too abundant to be "iven 
 away, but two or three years later Mr. C. J. Simmons 
 hauled oats from his farm in Washington to Janesville, 
 and sold them for six and one fourth cents a bushel; 
 and, as the oats did not bring him as much money as he 
 needed, he sold some yearling calves for $3.50 apiece. 
 
 In 1846, Mr. Samuel Spangler's gun shop had its 
 beginning, and Mr. Ludlow opened a store to which 
 his old customers came from all directions. In 1847, our 
 chronicler mentions as signs of progress a public library 
 and preaching three times every Sunday. The Pres- 
 byterians, Christians, and Methodists had each a regu- 
 lar minister, though the Christian minister was partly, 
 and the Presbyterian minister was wholly, supported 
 by eastern missionary societies. One letter (written to 
 induce immigration) has this significant remark : "Please 
 tell James Collins this would be a very good place for 
 him as a preacher if he still works at his trade of mak- 
 ing chairs." There was also a Mormon shoemaker 
 here who preached sometimes. There were several 
 Mormons in this vicinity, some of whom are still here, 
 but none of them were ever polygamists. In '47 the 
 Methodists began, on the land given them for that pur- 
 pose by Mr. LyBrand, the first meeting house in the 
 county. It was finished in '48, the same year the 
 
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 ble shou. In '47, the United States H use was built by 
 
 Chas. H ind Mr. Eilert opened; . _ stoi e on the 
 
 n 1 th - . >f the - [uare. 
 
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 Mr. Th 5. Emerson, as bis as the 
 irst j< shy si re he ... ad of a pples b 
 
 Das and s Id or. the square for a c* 
 
 e . . . . I >f in the letters :" 1 : - v . A letf ar : :" 
 
 '49 speaks of s carried off by the Cal rnia :. er, 
 
 - - - : -T - ■ wagons left this place las 
 
 T " thre six x ke of 
 
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 : the sem on the follow ig 1 l 'S: 
 
 .* says the truste "will conduct a 
 
 - 100I the Etin, undei - board. - p *sist- 
 
 rnish the room- - rent the: with 
 
 stc nd pipe, an furnish rbel; he v 
 
 compensation such sun:- as he may collect for tuition.*' 
 .ougrh students of all ages nd desrrees of advance- 
 men: we ceived, the seminary v : great power for 
 
 good in its time. In August, : : -":. Mr. Burchard held, 
 at the . the . . institute in Green 
 
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 : ntinuec al week - 7 he land on whi:i 
 
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 : . . ■ -. .:.;:- . :" : . .~ v ~z~ :he : :i~. in 
 
 -iS or Tut no deed was given until - ..en 
 
 Tohn B. Bachman and Geo. Bloom, who had purchased 
 
 m — 
 
 all the stock, received a deed. 7 .-. _-..:_: 
 school there a short tune, after rich the braiding was 
 sold several times, being once used as a carper:: er 7 shop, 
 and becoming, in : 
 
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 In 1S50. there came : M< nroe an old man. who 
 he v. the Sew Z: inland Agricultural Soci 
 
 to select farms for men who ed to come wc He 
 
 wore a broad brimmed hat. a cc at, an red fL 
 
 nel shirt; he was plain and unassuming m bis maun: - 
 a::.: sreeZly :e;. . _ ry - ; ~u7 ., H = - . .". ::.: Xew 
 Z upland Agricultural Society ealthv that it 
 
 had founded and endowed a college, and had deposited 
 a lar_ 1 sum of monev in the bank at Wc 
 mont. It had been such a benefit to its meml t : hat 
 thev had all become -wealthy. Influenced by the5, 
 ports, the farmers of Greer County formed an . _ _d- 
 tural - . :id they invited Mr. Hitchcock — for - 
 
 the old ofentlem. a was c — : act as then 
 
 - long as he should be with them. Meanwhile. 2 
 J : ::: \Y. 7.v7 :\ ;. 7.r7. .:_ e n: re »::.::.; in -7 :::r:e. .:::.i 
 . al citi - vho had land to sell, were devoting the 7 
 :e to the work o: assisting Mr. Hitchcock. Some 
 one of them took him out every see e : :: 
 
122 History of Green County. 
 
 and those who went oftenest excited the jealousy of 
 those who had tailed to secure his company. He rode 
 all over the county several times. At one time, think- 
 ing his Vermont friends would prefer living near each 
 other, he decided to buy a whole township, and thought 
 he would take Clarno ; but he also selected land in other 
 parts of the county, and in other counties. Finally he 
 published a notice that, on a certain day in September, 
 he would meet the farmers of Dane, Rock, and Green, 
 and conclude his partial contracts with them. Mr. 
 Hitchcock brought no money with him, and, not being 
 fitted by education to write an order on the Woodstock 
 bank, he employed Mr. Dunwiddie, and kept him wri- 
 ting drafts a whole diiy. With these drafts he paid his 
 creditors, some of whom soon found to their sorrow 
 that the drafts were not honored at the Galena bank, 
 whereupon Mr. Hitchcock swore that a lawyer who 
 could not write a draft that would bring money was a 
 humbug, notwithstanding which there began to be a 
 suspicion that Mr. Hitchcock was a humbug. Shortly 
 before the time appointed for the land purchase, Mr. 
 Hitchcock married a widow living in the village. 
 Charivaris were fashionable then, and there was a 
 charivari the night of the wedding. It was good, after 
 the manner of its kind, ending with the entrance of 
 three goats at the window of the bride's 'parlor. When 
 morning dawned Mr. Hitchcock had gone, and he has 
 never been seen in Monroe since that time. He was 
 undoubtedly insane. After his disappearance, his wife 
 and sons came from Vermont, in obedience to the direc- 
 
History of Green County. 123 
 
 tions given in his letters. They were very worthy 
 people, and remained here several years, hearing nothing 
 from the husband and father who had assumed the name 
 of Hitchcock. When the farmers came, on the appoint- 
 ed day, and found there was to be no sale, they stood 
 around the streets for a time, telling what they had 
 always believed, and then called a meeting of the agri- 
 cultural society. J. V. Richardson was called to the 
 chair, and nominations for president were declared to 
 be in order. The old hat and coat of Mr. Hitchcock 
 were brought in as the regalia of the president, who, it 
 was agreed, must be some one who had been dear to 
 the departed. One gentleman was nominated because 
 of the oysters he had given Mr. Hitchcock; others were 
 brought forward who had loaned their horses, or worn 
 out their buggies in the service. Then Mr. Stewart 
 urged the claims of Mr. Taylor. He was understood 
 to say that once when half a dozen of them were show- 
 ing Mr. Hitchcock the town of Spring Grove, they 
 came to a small brook. They were all anxious that the 
 old gentleman should keep his feet dry. One offered 
 boots, another offered to make a bridge of his coat, still 
 another to bring stepping stones, but Mr. Taylor seized 
 the venerable personage in his arms and carried him 
 over the stream. Mr. Taylor was unanimously elected. 
 He was arrayed in the official coat and hat, after which 
 the society discussed the best method of carrying butter 
 to market. There were several subsequent meetings, 
 all conducted in a noteworthy manner, peculiar to them- 
 selves; and until a recent time the recollection of them 
 
124 History of Green County. 
 
 has been a source of unalloyed pleasure. But lately — 
 since the authorship of Shakspeare's plays has been at- 
 tributed to Bacon — the opinion has gained ground that 
 the society was guilty of an injustice to Mr. Stewart; 
 and Mr. Taylor, with a frankness that must commend 
 itself to both Shakspeare and Bacon, declares that Mr. 
 Stewart himself performed the work which got his 
 friend into office. 
 
 A more formidable visitor than Mr. Hitchcock was 
 the cholera, brought to the village by a teamster. 
 About half a dozen persons died, and a panic ensued, 
 which led to this entry in the record of the circuit court, 
 September 3, 1S50: " It having been made to appear 
 that a mortal sickness is now prevalent at Monroe, 
 where this court is now sitting, it is therefore ordered 
 that this court do now adjourn." 
 
 In April, 1850, was started the Green County Union, 
 subscriptions to which might be paid in cash, grain, po- 
 tatoes, butter, eggs, wood, lumber, saw-logs or labor. 
 It was edited by J. W. Snow, and published in Francis 
 Emerson's stone building on the south side of the square. 
 The first number contained this promise: " In reference 
 to the subject of politics we shall studiously avoid in- 
 juring the feelings of any one." The Union lived only 
 about a year. In May, 1851, John W. Stewart pub- 
 lished the first number of the Sentinel. It was a whig 
 paper for a few months, and then the Rev. J. Walworth 
 and O. D. Moulton bought it and made it an organ of 
 the democratic party. In September, 1854, the paper 
 passed into the hands of republicans, Geo. W. Tenney 
 
Histoiy of Green County. 125 
 
 and N. L. Stout, the latter of whom was connected 
 with the paper only about a year. 
 
 The papers of 1S53 complain that Monroe has never 
 had a baker, and is " much in want of a person who 
 will butcher regularly." The village had already re- 
 covered from the surpise occasioned by her first barber 
 shop; and both baker and butcher were here before the 
 end of the year. The need of a bank was first pointed 
 out by an Ohio congressman by the name of Delano, 
 while he was here on a visit. In accordance with an 
 agreement made with him, J. A. Bingham opened in 
 May, 1854, an exchange office, in which he was joined 
 in the fall by A. Ludlow. Circumstances prevented 
 Mr. Delano from taking any interest in the business, 
 but through his influence J. B. Galusha came from Ohio 
 to act as cashier, and early in iS^6, the firm, which, 
 having been joined by Asa Richardson, was known as 
 Ludlow, Bingham & Co., obtained a charter as the 
 Bank of Monroe, and in May of the same year, the 
 first notes of the bank were issued. 
 
 In February, 1855, in the destruction of the jail, the 
 county suffered her second loss by fire. This led to the 
 erection of a stone jail, and, a little later in '56, to the 
 erection of a fire proof building for county offices. The 
 stone jail was used until the last and best of the county 
 buildings in Monroe was built, in 1870, to take its place. 
 
 In 1855, the senator from Green, Mr. West, intro- 
 duced in the senate a bill whose object was to take from 
 the town of Clarno that part of the township now in- 
 cluded in the village of Monroe. A remonstrance was 
 
a 26 History of Green County. 
 
 sent to Mr. West, and he withdrew the bill; but soon 
 after this, during his absence from the senate, the bill 
 was introduced again, and passed, all unknown to the 
 good people of Clarno, who, in April, 1855, elected as 
 their town clerk, Alfred Wrisberg, who lived in that 
 part of the town which had been transferred to Monroe. 
 Their blissful ignorance ceased when their votes at the 
 fall election were thrown out on the ground that, be- 
 cause of his residence in Monroe, Mr. Wrisberg, who 
 made the returns, was not legally a town clerk of 
 Clarno. 
 
 In 1857, the foundry of R. Sylvester & Co. did away 
 with the necessity of a trip to Janesville or Beloit every - 
 time any part of a threshing machine was broken. In 
 January, 1S5S, Monroe was joined to the rest of the 
 world by the railway; and in the following April, when 
 she had the town-like possessions of a brass band, a fire 
 company, and one sidewalk before a private house — 
 being that built by Mr. J. S. Bloom in the spring of 
 1857 — the village was incorporated, and the early histo- 
 ry of Monroe was ended. 
 
 LATER HISTORY. 
 
 The village has had but a moderate number of sen- 
 sations since its incorporation. The greatest of these 
 grew out of the war. In the summer of 1862, there 
 was in Monroe a man who was said to have expended 
 .a. large sum from his private funds in purchas- 
 
History of Green County. 127 
 
 ing Sharp's rifles for the Confederate army, and to- 
 have served six months as a Confederate soldier. He 
 expressed treasonable sentiments so freely that a public 
 meeting: was held to consider his case. D. W. Ball was 
 chairman of the meeting, and W. W. Wright was sec- 
 retary. Addresses were made by T. H. Eaton, E. Bart- 
 lett, F. Q. Ball, and L. Davenport, after which it was 
 " resolved that the said Morris Rosa be allowed twenty- 
 four hours in which to leave the county, failing to do 
 which he remains at his peril." Morris Rosa went; but 
 there were other secession sympathizers who resided in 
 the county. To decide upon the course to be pursued 
 with them, other meetings were held. At a meeting 
 held the 29th of July, and presided over by Mr. L* 
 Rood, the following resolutions were adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That all the citizens of this community be requested to 
 take and subscribe to the annexed oath : 
 
 « I, , of the Town of , in the County 
 
 of Green and State of Wisconsin, do solemnly swear that I am a 
 loyal citizen of the United States of America, that I will bear true 
 allegiance to the same, that I will to the utmost of my abitity sup- 
 port the Government in its efforts to suppress the rebellion ; that in 
 rendering such support I will discountenance in every possible man- 
 ner by word or action every sentiment or expression the tendency of 
 which may be to encourage disloyalty to the Government, and that 
 I will not, by word or deed, countenance any disloyal, secret organiza- 
 tion; and for a violation of this oath may I suffer the just penalty of 
 the crime of treason." 
 
 Resolved, That any person refusing to subscribe to said oath shall 
 be considered and is our enemy, whom it is our first duty, as good 
 and loyal citizens, to expel from our midst. 
 
 Resolved, That in all summary proceedings under the authority 
 
128 History of G?'een County. 
 
 of this meeting, the course indicated and ordered in Gen. Pope's Or- 
 der No. 3, (which we annex; be adhered to and carried out, so far as 
 applicable to the case, the same as though we were acting in his de- 
 partment and under his authority. 
 
 Resolved^ That a judicial committee of fifteen of our best citizens 
 be appointed to investigate and take judicial cognizance of all refusals 
 to take, and subscribe to, and violations of said oath, and that the 
 Home Guards being organized here to-night be authorized and 
 ordered to faithfully execute the decrees of said judicial commtttee. 
 
 On motion the following named gentlemen were appointed such 
 judicial committee : 
 
 B. Chenoweth, U. Davenport, 
 X. R. Usher, Arabut Ludlow, 
 
 C. S. Foster, D. W. Ball, 
 
 M. Reitler, W. W. Wright, 
 
 John A. Bingham, B. Dunwiddie, 
 
 Edmund Hill, George King, 
 
 J. V. Richard-on, Wm. Brown, 
 
 J. S. Bloom. 
 
 Messrs. E. Bartlett, A. J. Sutherland, Harris Pool, S. E. Cole, Dr. 
 S. Porter and C. Godfrey, were appointed a committee to invite 
 citizens to take the oath. 
 
 pope's order no. 3. 
 
 Headquarters Army of Virginia, ) 
 July 23d, r862. I 
 
 Commanders of army corps, divisions, brigades, and detached 
 commands will proceed immediately to arrest disloyal male citizens, 
 within their lines or within their reach, and within their respective 
 stations. Such as are willing to take the oath of allegiance to the 
 United States and will furnish sufficient security for its observance, 
 shall be permitted to remain at their homes and pursue in good faith 
 their accustomed avocations. Those who refuse shall be conducted to 
 the South beyond the extreme pickets of this army, and be notified 
 that if found again anywhere within our lines, or at any point in the 
 
History of Green County. 1:0 
 
 roar, they will be considered as spies, and sul e extreme 
 
 rigor of military law. If any person having taken the oath of al- 
 legiance as above specified shall be found to have \ iolated it, he shall 
 be she:, and his property seized and co ed. 
 
 The oath was left with L. Rote, who was justice of 
 the peace. A majority of the citizens hastened to sub- 
 scribe their names to it; and some who did not do it 
 voluntarily, did so from fear. A few refused. Of these, 
 one, who was an old resident of Sylvester, was marched 
 to the village limits, and ordered to keep outside. 
 Another, a resilient of Clarno, rode part way home on 
 a rail. While the excitement caused by these eases 
 
 discipline was at its height, one Steves, of Durand, 
 
 a man who was generally believed to he a secessionist, 
 chanced to be in the village, lie was denouncing the 
 proceedings in a violent manner, when some one re- 
 marked than probably Mr. Steves had better take the 
 oath. A crowd formed, and escorted him to the court 
 house, and summoned Mr. Rote from his supper table 
 to administer the oath. Mr. Rote read! it and asked the 
 prisoner if he would subscribe to it. Being answered 
 in the negative, he said nothing more, tor by that time 
 the office was so full of men who wanted to take it 
 that he was obliged to light a candle and go up 
 into the court room to accommodate them. When 
 about sixty men had been sworn, proceedings tip stairs 
 were interrupted lw a cry that those who had been la- 
 boring with the man below were riding hint out of town 
 on a rail. Mr. Steves' fate made copperheads cautious 
 about expressing themselves in Monroe; and his resist- 
 ance taught union men to be less busy in seeking out 
 
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130 History of Grec?i County. 
 
 offences. This was the last encounter of the kind dur- 
 ing the war, but it was long before men heard the last 
 of this. Mr. Steves brought suit against twelve citizens 
 of Monroe. In selecting the twelve, he was assisted by 
 Monroe men whose opinion of the war was the same 
 as his own. All those selected were zealous supporters 
 of the war, and most of them were members of the 
 committee of fifteen appointed the 29th of July; but a 
 majority of them were opposed to such violent measures 
 as were adopted in Mr. Steves' case, and some of them 
 did not reach the square that night until the work was 
 done. One of those sued was Mr. Rote, whose part in 
 the affair has been told. On the other hand, some who 
 helped carry the rail were not mentioned in the suit. 
 The case was tried in 1S65 in Milwaukee; Judge Miller 
 jDresided, and during the trial gave vent to his feelings 
 by exclamations of " oh! " and "horrible!!" The dis- 
 union element predominated in the jury, and damages 
 were awarded Mr. Steves to the amount of $5,000 and 
 costs. 
 
 The robbery of the Bank of Monroe, in October, 
 1S64, is still a subject of wonder and sjDeculation. Bur- 
 glars entered the bank in the night and blew the safe 
 open with gunpowder. The explosion, which broke all 
 the glass in the room and carried the safe door, weigh- 
 ing one hundred and fifty pounds, through the opposite 
 wall and left it under the staircase, was heard a long 
 distance; but the night was dark, and the burglars es- 
 caped with $25,000 in money. They had dropped one 
 package of $5,600, and one small door in the safe was 
 
History of Green County. 131 
 
 so warped by the action of the powder that they had not 
 been able to open it. In that compartment was 
 $100,000. 
 
 The greatest improvement to be noted in Monroe 
 since its incorporation is in its manufactures. In July, 
 1865, Messrs. Whitney, Treat, Lloyd, Pullen, Patterson, 
 and Billings organized the Monroe Manufacturing Co., 
 with a capital of $25,000. The works were burned in 
 June, '72, and in the following August the company 
 was re-organized as a stock company with a capital of 
 $40,000 with A. C. Dodge, president, and H. W. Whi- 
 ting as business director and secretary. The general 
 business of the company is manufacturing farm wagons, 
 carriages, and farming implements. The usual number 
 of men employed is twenty-five. Fine carriages and 
 sleighs are made at several other places in the village, 
 and wagon shops are numerous. 
 
 Another important manufacturing establishment, is 
 the planing mill of Dodge, Churchill & Co. Its histo- 
 ry is as follows: The brick flour mill on Racine 
 street was built by Moulton & Fish in 1S50. The 
 machinery was afterward taken out, and in the spring 
 of 1859 Norman Churchill and Jesse Robertson put 
 in its place wood cutting machinery. About the 
 same time a Janesville firm converted Payne's old tav- 
 ern (which had been moved to its present position and 
 used successively as tavern, cabinet shop, and flour mill) 
 into a planing mill. In '61 Mr. Churchill united the 
 machinery of the two mills in the historic frame build- 
 ing. A saw mill has since been added, and the business 
 
132 History of Green County. 
 
 has been enlarged so as to include the manufacture of 
 doors, sash, blinds, screens, cheese boxes, and brackets. 
 The manufacturing establishments in the village include 
 two other saw mills, two flour mills, two breweries, two 
 marble shops, a gun shop, furniture shops, and a brick 
 yard where both red and white brick are made; and a 
 large number of persons find employment in the manu- 
 facture of clothing, patent medicines, cigars, confec- 
 tionery, and pop. Three lumber yards and a large 
 number of groceries and dry goods houses do a thriving 
 business. Nearly all the old land marks have disap- 
 peared from the square since the village was incorpo- 
 rated. Of the new buildings required by the increase 
 in business the largest and best were built by B. Chen- 
 oweth, Elisha and Jared Mosher, Washington Hill, 
 McKey Bros., Eilert and Whitney, D. F. Corson, Hen- 
 ry Duerst, Treat & Co., John W. Stewart, Peter 
 Wells, John H. Bridge, and the German Turners. 
 
 It is claimed that there is no point of shipment in 
 Wisconsin, outside of the great centres of transporta- 
 tion, where a larger amount of produce is bought and 
 sent to market than at Monroe. During the two 
 months ending Dec. 30, 1S76, the First National Bank of 
 Monroe paid upon the checks of Barber & Van Dyke, 
 Johnson & Gillett, and J. M. Chadwick, stock and pro- 
 duce dealers, the sum of $227,675.71. These firms do 
 not deal in cheese, which is supposed to, have brought 
 into the county during the year 1S76 nearly $200,000. 
 Moreover, a great many shipments were made in the 
 two months referred to, by the producers and by other 
 
History of Green Comity. 133 
 
 firms dealing in cattle, sheep, hogs, and grain, of the 
 value of which no record has been kept. The bank to 
 which reference has just been made is the result of the 
 union, in May, '64, of the old Bank of Monroe and the 
 First National Bank of Monroe organized in February, 
 '64, by Messrs. Chenoweth, Hoffman, Perine, Bingham, 
 and Jacob and Mathias Marty. The second and only 
 other bank in Monroe was that of N. R. Usher & Co., 
 (Usher & Thrall). It was not a bank of issue, and after 
 an existence of three or four years was closed in '64. 
 
 Schools and churches have kept pace with the ma- 
 terial progress of the village. In 1S66, the school dis- 
 tricts were united, since which time the schools have 
 been more or less perfectly graded. Three school build- 
 ings furnish accommodations for nearly 900 pupils. 
 Several newspapers have been born and have died 
 since the village was incorporated. Mr. Tenney's suc- 
 cessors in the editorship of the Sentinel were James 
 Bintliff and E. E. Bryant. Mr. Bryant left the paper 
 to enter the army, and the firm name became Bintliff 
 & Carr. A little later in the war Mr. Bintliff entered 
 the army, still retaining his interest in the paper, which 
 was edited by Egbert E. Carr. In July, '65, the paper 
 passed into the hands of A.J. High and C. A. Booth. 
 Five years later Silas E. Gardner purchased Mr. High's 
 half of the paper, and leased it to Mr. Booth. 
 
 The Jeffersonian Democrat, edited by Geo. C. Baker, 
 lived only from late in the summer of 1856,10 April, '57. 
 In the fall of 1857, the Independent Press, edited by S. 
 P. Condee and E. C. Moulton, arose from the ashes of 
 
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 History of Green County. 
 
 the Democrat. Mr. Moulton withdrew from the Press 
 in January of the next year; and three or four months 
 later Mr. Condee sold it to gentlemen who transformed 
 it into the Albany Times. The next venture in the way 
 of a newspaper was that of N. L. Stout, who published 
 the State Rights a year or two, beginning in the spring 
 of 1S59/ The next was that of A. W. Potter, who, in 
 January, 1870, started the Green County Republican. 
 In the fall of 1S72, F. J. Mills started the Liberal Press, 
 which in September, 1873, was consolidated with the 
 Republican, the new paper being known at first as the 
 Republican and Press, but latterly as the Green County 
 Reformer. It was edited by A. W. Potter and Geo^ 
 H. King, until January, then by Mr. Mills until April, 
 then by G.J. Patton until January, 1S75, since which it 
 has been edited by I. T. Carr, with whom Wm. Bul- 
 lock was associated the first year. For two or three 
 years Mr. Geo. South has published a semi-monthly 
 paper called the Sun. 
 
 VILLAGE DIRECTORY FOR 1877. 
 
 CLERGYMEN. 
 
 James Evans, Methodist. 
 
 J. Fisher, Universalist. 
 
 Henry Uphoff, German Methodist. 
 
 John M. Obermiller, Ger. Catholic. 
 
 S. E. Miner. 
 
 P. J. Clawson. 
 
 A. S. Douglas. 
 
 B. Dunwiddie. 
 
 J. X. Bradshaw. 
 Hall & Rood. 
 X. A. Loofbourow. 
 Wm. Monroe. 
 
 ATTORNEYS, 
 
 PHYSICIANS. 
 
 D. R. Howe, Christian. 
 
 Whitelaw, Baptist. 
 
 J. McGinnity, Irish Cath. 
 Fotsch, Lutheran. 
 
 E. T. Gardner. 
 B. S. Kerr. 
 
 H. Med berry. 
 
 Frederick Byers. 
 
 F. B. Righter. 
 W. O. Sherman. 
 
History of Gree?i County. 135 
 
 DENTISTS. 
 
 J. S. Reynolds. S. M. Smith. 
 
 FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONROE. 
 
 A. Ludlow, President. J. B. Galusha, Cashier. 
 
 Geo. W. Hoffman, Vice-President. H. Ludlow, Ass't " 
 
 DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. 
 
 Bostwick & Cheney, dry goods S. Lewis, dry goods. 
 
 and clothing. F. S. Parlin, dry goods,clothing, 
 
 B. Chenoweth, dry goods and carpets, notions, &c. 
 
 clothing. J. B. Treat, dry goods, clothing, 
 
 boots and shoes, crockery, &c. 
 
 MERCHANT TAILORS. 
 
 Hoehn & Weber, tailors and deal- Peter Spahr. 
 
 ers in dry goods. A. Wettengel & Son. 
 
 TAILOR. 
 
 J. Cohn. 
 
 BOOTS AND SHOES. 
 
 A. \V. Goddard. J. J. Tschudy. 
 
 JEWELRY. 
 
 Geo. H. King. H. G. Van Wagenen. 
 
 A. B. McKelvey. 
 
 DRUGS. 
 
 C. E. Adams. J. K. Eilert. 
 
 Bradshaw & Adams. 
 
 BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 
 
 A. J. Kane. R. D. Vaughn. 
 
 GROCERIES AND CROCKERY. 
 
 Bennett & Son. Ed. Ruegger. 
 
 J. Bolender & Co. Schuler & Kleb. 
 
 J. Carroll. Treat & Co., Treat's block, on 
 
 Glascott & Bragg, north side of west side. 
 
 square. D . S. Young & Co., east side 
 
 L. B. Johnson. square. 
 
 BUTTER AND EGGS. 
 
 John Sissons. Grant & Fairlamb. 
 
 FRUIT AND CONFECTIONERY. 
 
 John Kleckner. 
 
 MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS. 
 
 Mrs. Wm. H. Allen. J. H. Miller. 
 
 Mrs. Meyer. 
 
 DRESS MAKERS. 
 
 Mrs. Robertson. Mrs. Willy. 
 
 Miss A. Smith. 
 
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CLARNO. 
 
 The first man who came to Green County to farm 
 was Andrew Clarno. He visited the county as early as 
 1827. In 1829 he selected a part of section 30 of the 
 township which bears his name, for a farm, and, after 
 spending the winter of i829-'3o at Skinner diggings, he 
 began work on his claim. In 1831 he persuaded Wm. 
 Wallace and Joseph Paine, Mr. Wallace's son-in-law, to 
 settle near him with their families. He had been 
 acquainted with his new neighbors in Illinois, whence 
 they all came to Green County. The next year the 
 Black Hawk war broke out, and the Wallaces and 
 Paines went to Willow Springs, where, to use the 
 phrase of the time, they "forted" during the war. On the 
 day selected for going to the fort, Mr. Paine, fearing no 
 immediate danger, walked leisurely to the Pecatonica, 
 three or four miles south-west of his house, to bail out 
 the ferry boat. The two families were nearly ready to 
 start and expected to overtake Mr. Paine by the time the 
 boat was ready for use. At the river, Mr. Paine was 
 surprised and startled to find that the Indians had been 
 there before him. They had stolen his ferry boat and 
 
History of Green County. 139 
 
 gone he knew not whither. Their camp fires were still 
 smoking, and lie thought he could discern one dusky 
 warrior lurking in the grass and watching him. No 
 long time elapsed before Mr. Paine was again at his 
 cabin. Almost in despair, he saw that Air. Wallace still 
 sat smoking his pipe, and that the preparations for the 
 journey had made no progress whatever since he went 
 away. Very soon, however, the wagon was made ready 
 and the flight began. It was not much like the removal 
 of patriarchs. They took no large flocks and herds, no 
 rich treasure with them. As Mr. Paine expressed it, 
 they threw in the women and children, and started. In 
 a short time darkness overtook them. There were no 
 roads except Indian trails. With a wagon, it was diffi- 
 cult to follow the trails in the day time ; after dark it was 
 impossible. They stopped for the night in a little grove 
 on the Capt. Foster place in the village of Monroe. 
 Here, without daring to strike a light, they sat in silence 
 and waited for morning. Sometimes the long silence of 
 the night was broken by a wild whoop in the distance. 
 Once they saw Indians passing by, and great was their fear 
 lest some movement of the horses or the children should 
 betray them. But a strong wind carried all sounds of the 
 little camp in an opposite direction. Morning came at 
 last, and the travelers went on in safety to the fort, crossing 
 the Pecatonica nearly as far north as Argyle. The day 
 after their flight the deserted home was visited by soldiers 
 sent out from the fort to warn and assist the settlers ; but 
 they found the cabin burned and its contents destroyed. 
 At this time, Mr. Clarno was in Illinois, where he had gone 
 
140 History of Green County. 
 
 after his two sons. Hostilities having begun, he stopped 
 on his return at Fort Hamilton, so-called in honor of a 
 son of Alexander Hamilton, Col. W. S. Hamilton, who, 
 as early as 1823 had distinguished himself by his bold 
 enterprises in Illinois and Wisconsin, and who used to 
 say, half in earnest, half in jest, that he might have been 
 quite a man but for his distinguished father, with whom 
 people always compared him. Mr. Clarno was made 
 captain of a company of soldiers, and his son O. H. i*. 
 Clarno, then a little boy, had charge of a gun inside the 
 fort. 
 
 After the war, the settlers returned to their homes, or 
 rather to their land, for this was all they had. Mr. 
 Clarno, who had neither oxen nor horses, helped his boys 
 across the streams, and father and sons walked from the 
 fort. In 1S33 ^ r - P^ me induced James Hawthorne to 
 come to Clarno. Mr. Hawthorne had come to the mines 
 in the western part of Iowa County in 1827, had after- 
 wards returned to New York state, and had again come 
 west on hearing that Uncle Sam had given miners per- 
 mission to work on the Dubuque side of the river; but 
 he was soon driven from Dubuque by the cholera, and 
 during the war he was at White Oak Springs. When 
 a boy of seventeen, Mr. Hawthorne served in the war of 
 181 2 as a substitute for a drafted man, though, as substi- 
 tutes were not accepted by the government, he was 
 known through his soldier life by the name of the drafted 
 man. In 1832, wishing to try again the life of a soldier, 
 he offered $125 for a horse, but he could not get one for 
 that amount, and, as a horse was an indispensable part 
 
History of Green County. 141 
 
 of a soldier's outfit, he took no active part in the Black 
 Hawk war. 
 
 During the winter of iS33- , 34, O. H. P. Clarno was 
 left alone on his father's claim. To while away the long 
 evenings, the Indians undertook to teach him their lan- 
 guage. After a time, he observed that the woods around 
 his cabin were full of little piles of corn cobs, and now 
 was explained the hitherto mysterious diminution of his 
 corn. While some of his instructors were giving him a 
 lesson, the habit had been for others to shell a few ears 
 of corn, putting the corn into the bags or pockets always 
 carried on their persons. This exercise being over, they 
 went into the house, to relieve the teachers who had pre- 
 ceded them. In 1834 Abner Van Sant and his son-in- 
 law, John W. Deniston, moved to Clarno from Missouri, 
 and in iS^^-^6 they were joined by Matthew. William, 
 and Peter Wells, Jonathan Snyder, A. De Haven, 
 Calvin Hale, Adam and Levi Starr, and Joseph Kelly 
 of Ohio, John Patterson of Indiana, T. S. and Wm. 
 Bowen, natives of New York but directly from Illinois. 
 O.J. White, Wm. Chilton, and Wm. Draper of Illinois. 
 Jacob Starr of Virginia, Joseph Smith of Pennsylvania, 
 P. C. Grupe of Missouri, Wm. and John Blunt, Wm. 
 Brown, Henry Ater, and -, — *-*•*- McDonald. Mr. De 
 Haven returned to Ohio in 1836, and remained several 
 years, during which time his brother-in-law, John Cam- 
 eron, worked his Clarno farm. Besides these men who 
 made homes, there were probably many single men, 
 Certainly there were Cutler Wilkins of Missouri, Wm. 
 Baird of Ohio, now, as for many years a prominent 
 
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142 History of Green County. 
 
 citizen of Sylvester, and James Campbell of New York, 
 the first settler in the town of Albany. Whenever a new 
 settler came, those here before him helped him raise his 
 house. One of the best attended of the Clarno raisings 
 was that at Mr. Starr's, where both house and barn were 
 built the same, day the logs were cut. 
 
 In October, 1S35, occurred the first wedding in the 
 county, being that of Mr. J. R. Blackmore and Miss 
 Nancy Wallace. In the same month, Chas. Deniston, 
 Green County's eldest son, was born. When he was but 
 a few months old, a squaw stole him from his cradle, 
 leaving her own baby in his place ; but timely pursuit 
 forced her to make another exchange of children. Christ- 
 mas was celebrated in 1835 by a dance at Mr. Deniston's. 
 People came thirty and forty miles to attend it, and many 
 of them waited in the vicinity a week in order to attend 
 a New Year's ball at Mr. Paine's house in Monroe. 
 Sometime in the winter of iSt,^-^6, John Patterson, who, 
 with his family, lived on what is called the Goodrich 
 farm, went to Mineral Point to enter his land. Coming 
 home he lost his way, and was out all night. He suf- 
 fered so much from cold that soon after reaching home 
 he died. He was the first white person to die a natural 
 death in Green County. 
 
 In the absence of other sources of amusement, the 
 Indians were sometimes' found amusing. One of 
 Mrs. Deniston's visitors was a squaw who wrapped her 
 baby in a wolf-skin. The child's condition was not that 
 of happy comfort which babies who listen to their 
 mother's songs associate with rabbit-skins, and Mrs. Den- 
 
History of Green County. 143 
 
 iston gave the mother clothes for the child. The squaw 
 was pleased, but quite unable to use the gift, and a white 
 girl offered to dress the baby, on condition that she was 
 first allowed to wash it. The puzzled mother gave 
 assent, and the pappoose was washed and dressed. 
 Then the mother put it on the floor and for a whole hour 
 danced around it in ecstacy of delight, accompanying 
 the dance with such strange noises and contortions that 
 those who went in to see her were convulsed with laug-h- 
 ter. Indian visitors were sometimes so loath to go away 
 that Mrs. Deniston, the gentlest and kindest of women, 
 was forced to keep a stick with which occasionally to 
 clear her house. After one of his hastiest departures, a 
 Winnebago chief flung back to her the name "cross 
 squaw," and she was thenceforth known by that name 
 among his followers. Until she had learned by expe- 
 rience that they were not dangerous, the Indians were 
 likely to impose upon a woman. A few Indians entered 
 the house of Mr. Jesse Mitchell in Sylvester, just before 
 supper one washing-day ; and seeing that Mrs. Mitchell 
 was afraid, they took from the line where they were dry- 
 ing, all the stockings of the family, filled them with 
 mush from a kettle on the stove, and carried them away. 
 The first sermon preached in Green County was 
 preached in August, 1835, at the residence of Matthew 
 Wells, by Daniel Harcourt. In the summer of 1836 
 Rev. James McKane, who resided in Illinois, and belong- 
 ed to the Rock River Conference, organized the first 
 religious society organized in Green County. The mem- 
 bers were Matthew Wells, his wife and daughter, Mrs. 
 Maria Blunt, and Wm. Baird. 
 
144 History of Green County. 
 
 Among the good gifts which nature has bestowed 
 upon the town of Clarno are Richland and Honey 
 creeks. The name of the former creek explains itself. 
 Tradition says the other records the experience of a man 
 who was looking for a place to make a claim. He felled 
 a tree, upon which he walked across the stream. In the 
 course ot his travels he returned to the bridge, and drank 
 from the brook. To his surprise, the water had the taste 
 of metheglin, and, though examination showed the 
 reason of this to lie in the fact that he had felled a bee 
 tree for his bridge, he ever afterwards spoke of the stream 
 as Honey creek, and others followed his example. It 
 was upon Honey creek that Van Sant and Deniston 
 built in 1S36 the first mill in the county. So great was 
 the desire for a mill that nearly every man in the county 
 offered his assistance in building; it. Beginning as a feed 
 mill, it soon grew into a flour mill. Van Sant and Den- 
 iston hauled flour (.0 Galena even' week, and did business 
 for their Green County friends at every visit to the city, 
 until it seemed as though nothing could be done in the 
 county without the assistance of these stirring, whole- 
 souled men. In 1 S37 two saw mills were built on Honey 
 creek. One, near the grist mill, was built by Van Sant 
 and Deniston and Henson Irion, the other, where Banta's 
 mill is now, was built by Joseph Smith and Joab Enos. 
 A year or two later, John Church built another saw-mill 
 near Smith's mill. By 1S38 Clarno farmers found 
 in Madison a market for much of their produce, and 
 Madison was largely dependent on Clarno. After the 
 completion of the capital, the garrison at Fort Winne- 
 
History of Green County. 145 
 
 bago afforded the best market, and then for many years 
 there was a demand at the pineries for everything the 
 farmers could produce. 
 
 A lady who moved to Clarno in 1838 gives a glimpse 
 of things as seen through a housekeeper's eyes : We, 
 like most families, brought flour, meat, and a little money 
 with us. When our money was gone, we did without 
 things. Flour was $13 (it had been $16), and pork 
 $30 a barrel. Calico was fifty cents a yard, and other 
 kinds of cloth were proportionally high ; but in many 
 families the men wore buckskin clothes, tanning the 
 skins themselves, and the women were so industrious 
 with the spinning-wheel and the loom that the cloth of 
 the family cost only what was paid for the warp of its 
 linsey. I bought some soft soap and paid a dollar a gal- 
 lon. The next year I made soap to sell, but it wasn't 
 worth much then. At first butter was fifty cents a pound, 
 and after awhile we had to do without butter ; we had 
 no money, and nothing to barter. By the time we had 
 cows, butter was down to a shilling. That was the way 
 with everything ; so high we couldn't buy it the first 
 year, so plenty we couldn't sell it the next. The usual 
 meat was bacon from Galena. After a year or two, men 
 killed hogs here. Sometimes they went into the woods 
 and killed those belonging to other people, much as they 
 took other people's timber. Visits were all-day affairs. 
 That was southern fashion. Invitations to spend the 
 afternoon were never given here until New England 
 people became numerous. At first the eastern and south- 
 
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146 History of Green County. 
 
 ern people seemed like oil and water, but circumstances 
 soon made them good friends and neighbors. 
 
 In 1840 Daniel R. Howe, now pastor of the Christian 
 church in Monroe, taught the first district school in 
 Clarno. There were other district schools in the county 
 that year, but it is thought that Mr. Howe's school was 
 the first to begin. Before the school began he was requir- 
 ed to pass a written examination, the arithmetical part 
 of which consisted of the question, How much would 
 twenty bushels of oats come to at thirty cents a bushel? 
 
 The part of Clarno's history most widely known, is 
 that which relates to the Hawthorne burglary. The bur- 
 glars entered Mr. Hawthorne's bed-room between mid- 
 night and daylight, July 25. 1S57, m oved a cradle which 
 stood near the bed and in which was a sick child, drew 
 from under the bed a trunk containg $1500, and carried 
 the trunk to the barn, where they took out the money. 
 It was evident the theft was committed by some one 
 acquainted with the house, and two men, Samuel Jackson, 
 who had worked for Mr. Hawthorne, and his friend Wm. 
 Garrington, were arrested the next morning. The money 
 was not found in their possession, and, as they proved by 
 the clerk of the Monroe House that they were in their 
 room at 1 o'clock that night and came down to breakfast 
 at the usual time the next morning, they were discharged. 
 But several circumstances indicated their guilt. The 
 track made by the thieves from the barn to the house 
 showed that the thieves had only socks on their feet ; and 
 wet and dirty socks, which a washerwoman identified as 
 Garrington's, were found near the barn. Moreover, a 
 
History of Green County. 14.7 
 
 peculiar boot-track from the barn towards town was like 
 a track which one of the men had been seen to make at 
 the hotel. A detective policeman was employed. He 
 introduced himself to Garrington and Jackson as a coun- 
 terfeiter, and so far gained their confidence that they 
 entered into partnership with him. Davis, so the officer 
 called himself, then went away to engage a woman to 
 assist them. In his absence, and by his direction, the 
 suspected men were re-arrested, Monday, August 10, and 
 put under bonds so heavy that bondsmen could not be 
 found. Davis returned, and passed a counterfeit bill, for 
 which he was arrested Friday, August 14, and put into 
 Garrington's cell. Davis then wrote a letter to a friend, 
 asking to be bailed out. This letter he read to Garring- 
 ton. The next morning Davis' friend, a second detective 
 officer, appeared and granted his request. Later in the 
 day, in accordance with a promise which Davis had 
 made Garrington the day before, the friend visited Gar- 
 rington in jail. Garrington's bail was $2,000. His vis- 
 itor told him that he had $1,500 good money; that 
 he would add to it $500 in counterfeit bills, deposit 
 it all in the bank, and, with the certificate of deposit, pro- 
 cure Garringron's release, if Garrington would, as soon 
 as he was out, go with him to the place where Mr. 
 Hawthorne's money was concealed, and get him $500 in 
 gold, with which he could redeem the counterfeit bills 
 before their real nature was discovered. Garrington gladly 
 agreed to this plan, and was released just at dark. The 
 greater part of the money was buried near Smith's mill- 
 pond. That night Garrington went with the policemen 
 
,14s History of Green County. 
 
 and dug it up, and, while thus engaged, told his new 
 friends that he had a short time before killed a man in 
 Ohio. As they were returning to town, merry as larks, a 
 number of men sprang from the brush on either side of 
 the road, and took Garrington prisoner. On the 28th of 
 August, Wm. Morgan, alias Wm. Jones, Wm. Marcy, 
 and Wm. Garrington, was given up to an officer who 
 came with arequisition from the governor of Ohio. He 
 left behind him a complete set of burglar's tools and a 
 knife, which Mr. Hawthorne, believing it was meant for 
 him, cherishes with peculiar care. Garrington was sent 
 to the Ohio prison for life, since which he has attempted 
 to kill one of the wardens. He is regarded as one of the 
 worst men in the prison. Jackson was sentenced on the 
 8th of September to nine years in the penitentiary, but 
 two days later he made his escape from jail, and he has 
 never been retaken. 
 
 The only village in Clarno is Shueyville, a place 
 which Mr. Van Sant first selected for a milling town, 
 before he went to Cadiz, and of which J. W. Shuey 
 built the first house in iS47-'48. It is a village only in 
 name, and the place derives its only importance from the 
 saw-mill and flour-mill which Mr. Shuey built near it on 
 Richland creek, both of which are now owned by 
 Henry Truempy. Besides these two, there are four 
 other mills in Clarno : the flour-mill of Jared Banty, and 
 the saw-mills of M. Bowers, H. Beckman and David Fritz. 
 
 There were in 1876, four cheese factories in Clarno: 
 Jacob Niklaus made Swiss cheese, F. Lenherr made both 
 Limburger and Swiss cheese, and Zumbrunnen and 
 Wittmer had two Limburger factories. 
 
History of Green County. 149 
 
 Clarno is the best farming town in the county. 
 Other towns have as good land, but in none of the others 
 is all the land of the best quality, as it is in Clarno. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN CLARNO IN 1S76. 
 
 Name. No. of Acres. Name. No of Acres. 
 
 George Adams 320 Daniel Leiby 240 
 
 Jacob Adams 380 Peter Lichtenwalner 1S8 
 
 George Beach 215 John McCammant 290 
 
 Eli Chapin 200 James Moreland 260 
 
 O. H. P. Clarno 357 H. C. Morse 180 
 
 G. W. Clingman 234 Samuel Raymer 287 
 
 Levi Deal 240 Fredt rick Staver 160 
 
 Alpheus De Haven 360 Henry Thorp 240 
 
 T. G. De Haven 266 A. J. Trickle 240 
 
 Martin Dribelbis 160 Edward Trickle 400 
 
 David Fritz 165 Henry Truempy 315 
 
 George Goodrich 340 T. B. Wells 200 
 
 James Hawthorne 480 O.J. White 279 
 
 Wm. Hogan 194 John Whitehead 180 
 
 Joseph Kleckner 257 James Wilkins 230 
 
 LARGEST STOCK GROWERS. 
 
 T.J. Anderson. Henry Thorp. 
 
 O. H. P. Clarno. O.J. White. 
 
 James Moreland. 
 
 Clarno has one of the three town-houses in the coun- 
 ty. It was completed in the spring of 1858. The first 
 annual town meeting was at the residence of Isaac Cal- 
 lender, and the elections were held that year at the res- 
 idence of John Blunt. 
 
 OFFICERS FROM 1S49 TO 1 877 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 Thos. S. Bowen, 3 years. Simon Bartlett, 2 years. 
 
 Henson Irion. Jacob Adams. 
 
 Israel Smith. Simon Bartlett, 2 years. 
 
 Thos. S. Bowen. Wm. J. Hodges. 
 
 Israel Smith. A. Albright. 
 
 Thos. S. Bowen. Samuel Wagner. 
 
 Israel Smith, 2 years. W. J. Hodges. 
 
 Jacob Mason. T. H. Eaton. 
 
 Thos. S. Bowen, 7 years. W. Beekman. 
 
*5° 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 J. W. Shuey, 5 years. 
 
 Alfred Wrisberg, 2 years. 
 J. W. Shuey, 3 years. 
 
 Wm. McDowell. 
 J. W. Shuey, 3 years. 
 
 Hiram Ticknor. 
 J, W. Shuey. 
 
 Jacob Adams, "4 years. 
 
 J. H. McVean. 
 
 Jacob Adams. 
 
 Peter Gnagi. 
 
 Joseph Kleckner, 4 years. 
 
 C- H. Adams, 2 years. 
 
 CADIZ. 
 
 As is evident from the history of Exeter, Monroe, and 
 Clarno, many of the earliest settlers came to the county 
 from the mines to the west of us. It was probably in 
 1S34 tnat George W. Lot of Pennsylvania came from the 
 mines and made, in the south-east corner of the town- 
 ship, the first claim made in Cadiz. Wm. Boyles from 
 Indiana, and Stephen G. and Nicholas Hale and Bennett 
 Nolen directly from the mines, but before the Indian war 
 from Illinois, settled near him. Next, in the spring of 
 1836, came Jesse W. Shull, a Pennsylvania!!, who came 
 to Green County from a trading house, which he had 
 kept several years, and around which was growing up 
 the village called for him Shullsburg. 
 
 The second wedding and the first school in the county 
 were in Cadiz. In August, 1836, Mr. James Hawthorne 
 and Miss Massy R. Boyles were married. , Preparatory 
 to the wedding, Mr. Hawthorne went to Mineral Point 
 to get a license, and, arriving there in the absence of the 
 functionary who was to give it, was obliged to wait two 
 
History of Green Con?ity. 151 
 
 or three days. In consequence of this, the wedding- 
 guests were at Mr. Boyles' before him. As he approach- 
 ed the house he met many who had tired of waiting and 
 come a few miles to meet him. The ceremony proved 
 that the minister had spent the long hours of waiting in 
 preparing himself to shine when the bridegroom came. 
 When everything else had been said and done that could 
 be said and done, he had the bridal pair kneel on the 
 puncheons while he made a prayer, in the course of 
 which he repeated the whole of the fifth chapter of 
 Ephesians. 
 
 The school was taught by Ralph Hildebrant in the 
 summer of 1837, m a smoke-house built on a root-house 
 The house, or houses, belonged to Mr. Nolen, and the 
 school included Clarno as well as Cadiz children. There 
 was a store "in the state" at this time, so near the terri- 
 torial boundary line that its owner, Geo. Curdner, board- 
 ed at Mr. Shull's. The first death in Cadiz was that of 
 the merchant's brother, Christopher Curdner, in 1S37. 
 
 In those days the vicinity of the Pecatonica would 
 have answered almost all the requirements of a hunter's 
 paradise. Even in a summer evening, one had only to 
 float down the river for a little while, to get a shot at a 
 deer, and years after the settlement of the county there 
 was one place where two men speared a wagon-load 
 of fish in a single night. 
 
 The wolves were exceedingly troublesome. It was 
 with, if not to, their music that the hunter marched home 
 when he carried his game from the woods. At night they 
 serenaded him to a most unreasonable length, and, for 
 
152 History of Green County. 
 
 their trouble, were often shot through the port-hole near 
 his door. Traps of various kinds were set for them, but 
 the number caught was much smaller than the number 
 of domestic animals carried away. Mr. E. T. Gardner, 
 who went to Cadiz from Illinois in 1840, had a large lit- 
 ter of pigs that he took great care to save. When they 
 were small, he covered them at night with a wagon-box ; 
 and when this enclosure was outgrown, he built them a 
 high, tight pen by his cabin. One night there was a 
 great noise among the pigs, mid Mr. Gardner fired his 
 pistol into the darkness. The report was followed by a 
 pattering of feet that sounded like rain, and the pigs 
 became quiet; but the next morning they were all gone. 
 Horses had to be watched almost as carefully as the pigs, 
 for the streams were so miry that a horse that went alone 
 to the brook was not likely to come back. Hay — and 
 the best of wild hay grew on the bottom lands — was cut 
 where even oxen could not stand, and carried away on 
 pitchforks. 
 
 In 1839 Mordecai Kelly and Wm. Bridges settled in 
 Cadiz, and before the end of 1841 John Billings, Philip 
 Michaels and Elias Deyo were there. They all came from 
 Indiana. Before 1S40, Martin Burt and Felix O'Fling 
 from Illinois, had begun on Skinner creek, where Geo. 
 Michael's saw-mill is now, the first mill in the town. 
 It was not finished until 1841, before which time it be- 
 came known as Gardner & Burt's mill. Cadiz has almost 
 always had more mills than any other town in the county. 
 Around four of its mills, four small villages have grown 
 up. The saw-mill owned by C. R. and J. C. Deniston 
 
History of Green County. 153 
 
 in the village of Cadiz, on Honey creek, was built in 
 1844 by Van Sant and Deniston. Mr. Vatf Sant hoped 
 to build up there a manufacturing town, for which he 
 chose the Spanish name of Cadiz ; but both he and Mr. 
 Deniston died within two years after the mill was built. 
 The first man who went to Cadiz with his family was 
 David Cline. The next was John Saucerman, who lived 
 in a tent while his house was building, and whose family 
 suffered a great fright one evening because the baby was 
 missing and it was believed the wolves had carried it 
 away. Now, quite a number of dwellings are clustered 
 around the mill ; but Cadiz, though a platted village, has 
 never had either hotel or store. South-west of the vil- 
 lage is David Klassv's saw and grist mill. 
 
 The saw and grist-mill at Martin was built in 1S45- 
 46, by Isaiah and Nathaniel Martin. The village of 
 Martin was platted in 1869, and in the summer of 1S76, 
 had within its limits twelve families, a store and post- 
 office, N. Martin's mills, including an unfinished woolen 
 mill, and Hasse's furniture factory. The Pecatonica, 
 which enters Cadiz after draining over half the lead 
 region of Wisconsin, and which gives Martin its excel- 
 lent water power, is always turning, seemingly to see 
 where else in Cadiz man is preparing to make use of its 
 strength to do his work. As yet it looks in vain. The 
 resources of the town can never be fully developed with- 
 out a railroad. A company called the "Lone Rock, 
 Dodgeville, and Free-port Railway Co." has been organ- 
 ized, and during the present year its project of building 
 a road along the Pecatonica valley, from Dodgeville via 
 
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154 History of Green County. 
 
 Argyle and western Green County to Freeport, has given 
 rise to several town meetings and some voting; but there 
 is no immediate prospect of a road. 
 
 Browntown and Franklin are unrecorded villages. 
 Browntown, on the left bank of the Skinner, dates its 
 beginning from a mill built in iS^6-'qj by Wm. Brown, 
 Henson Irion, and John Wood, and consists of Emanuel 
 Divan's flour-mill, the usual store and blacksmith-shop of 
 country villages, and dwellings enough to make a total of 
 ten buildings. The store and dwellings of Franklin find 
 the reason of their being in the saw-mill of J. E. and 
 Geo. L. Shattuck, which is also a factory of wagon fel- 
 oes and broom handles. At a very early day speculators 
 bought a large tract of land in Clarno and Cadiz, 
 and borrowed money of the Franklin Bank in Illinois 
 to pay for it. They were never able to pay the bank, and 
 so gave up the land, which was thenceforth called the 
 Franklin land. Before the organization of the towns, the 
 Methodists divided the county into circuits, and the name 
 of the circuit in which this land lay was Franklin. The 
 usual place of holding meetings in the circuit was a 
 school-house on what is now section one of the town of 
 Cadiz, and gradually the name was restricted to this par- 
 ticular place. A steam saw-mill, built there in 1854 by 
 Benjamin Chenoweth and Henry Barber, was called the 
 Franklin mill, and when a post-office was established 
 there, the people wanted to call it Franklin. The post- 
 office department objecting, it was called Lamar ; but the 
 place is Franklin still. 
 
 The other post-offices of Cadiz are Skinner and Wau- 
 
History of Green County. 155 
 
 semon, on sections three and six. Cadiz's only tavern, 
 the well known Buckhorn, was built by Joseph Paine, 
 who soon after 1840 traded a mule for a tax title to the 
 quarter section of land on which it stands. It was so 
 much the fashion then "to dicker" wool, corn, lead, or 
 some other commodity for whatever one wanted to buy, 
 that a Green County justice once astonished a man who 
 was hoping for money by rendering judgment in his favor 
 for a thousand feet of basswood lumber. All the little 
 money in the county was hoarded up to buy land and pay 
 taxes; and how to take care of this little was an important 
 problem. As most of it was hard money, it was neces- 
 sary to deposit it somewhere. Notwithstanding his efforts 
 to conceal it, the care of a hundred dollars — when that 
 was all the money he had — was evident enough to give 
 Mr. Lake of Spring Grove the troublesome reputation of 
 being enormously rich. At one time, a neighbor went to 
 his cabin to borrow ten dollars, and Mr. Lake told him 
 he would get the money as soon as he had been to the 
 spring. He went out, apparently to get a drink, but 
 really with the hope of digging up his money without 
 letting it be known that he kept it in the ground. As he 
 dug he heard a laugh, and, turning around, he saw his 
 neighbor watching him. The ground was no longer a 
 desirable safe, and the money was moved to a straw 
 stack. Going to the stack one day after an absence from 
 home, he found that the cattle had uncovered his golden 
 store. Before he could conceal it again, he was address- 
 ed by a young man who thenceforth, with his friends, 
 looked upon Mr. Lake's farm as a place every part of 
 
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 which might conceal treasure more valuable than the 
 buried riches of Captain Kidd. Of all the guests of the 
 Buckhorn, probable none ever passed a more anxious 
 night than Mr. M. H. Pengra passed there in 1S48, when 
 on his way to enter land. He had with him in a shot 
 pouch, $200 in coin, mostly in half dollars and Mexican 
 five-dollar gold pieces. The pouch was too heavy and 
 bulky to be easily secreted. Once when he tried to keep 
 it in an inner pocket of his coat it broke through the 
 pocket and fell to the ground. He sought relief by going 
 to bed with it as early as possible, but Mr. Paine's 
 entrance into his room an hour or two later, with a 
 request to be allowed to sleep with him, filled the night 
 with suspicions which murdered sleep as effectually as 
 Mr. Paine's sudden transformation into AH Baba's forty 
 robbers could have done it. 
 
 When Mr. Paine first bought his land in Cadiz he 
 built a cabin on it, and laid out a village to which he 
 gave the name of Pecatonica City. The new village did 
 not grow as Monroe had grown. The cabin was unoc- 
 cupied, except as travelers stopped there occasionally ; 
 and, when careless pilgrims forgot to put out the fire 
 they had kindled, there was no one to do it for them ; 
 whence it happened that Pecatonica City was destroyed. 
 From its ashes arose the Buckhorn, which Mr. Paine 
 sold to John Bringold. It was always Mr. Paine's pecu- 
 liarity to forget the particulars of business transactions. 
 As passionate and turbulent as he was careless and for- 
 getful, he often quarreled with those who had accounts 
 with him. In the spring of 1849 ne quarreled with Mr. 
 
History of Green County. 
 
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 Bringold about the rails on the land, and, as Mr. Brin- 
 gold insisted on taking them, Mr. Paine shot him dead in 
 the field. Mr. Paine was taken to Monroe, but, before 
 the time for his trial, he escaped to California, where he 
 died in December, 1875. Once since then a moment's 
 passion, and if not a willful, at least a careless use of a 
 gun at a charivari, cost the life of a citizen of Cadiz. 
 In this case the unfortunate doer of the deed delivered 
 himself up to the law, and was tried and acquitted. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IX CADIZ IN 1S76. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres 
 
 ;. Names. 
 
 No. of Acres, 
 
 August Bast, 
 
 - l6o 
 
 Geo. Michaels, - 
 
 - 3 2 9 
 
 Sol. Binger, - 
 
 l8l 
 
 J. W. Montgomery, 
 
 199 
 
 W. Binger, 
 
 - l6o 
 
 Mason Parmer, 
 
 - 180 
 
 Warren Clark, 
 
 l6o 
 
 A. Pickett, - 
 
 161 
 
 E. Divan, - 
 
 - 5 6 5 
 
 M. Reinhart, 
 
 - 160 
 
 Henrv Divan, 
 
 198 
 
 J. V. Roberts, 
 
 401 
 
 E. F/Evans, 
 
 - 198 
 
 H. Rush, - 
 
 - 4 2 4 
 
 F. S. French, 
 
 160 
 
 S. Saucerman, 
 
 210 
 
 W. Fuller, 
 
 - 2 39 
 
 J. H. Shank, - 
 
 - 172 
 
 W. & G. Hodges, 
 
 230 
 
 M. Shank, - 
 
 180 
 
 M. Kellv, Sen., - 
 
 - 180 
 
 Hiram Smith, - 
 
 - 3S5 
 
 S. Kelly, 
 
 166 
 
 T. D. Taylor, 
 
 192 
 
 John Keller, 
 
 - 186 
 
 P. Timmons, 
 
 - 233 
 
 David Klassy, 
 
 205 
 
 G. Truman, - 
 
 162 
 
 M. Kratzer, 
 
 - 160 
 
 E. Ullom, - 
 
 - 280 
 
 Geo. Lawver, 
 
 235 
 
 John Warner, 
 
 160 
 
 F. Long, - 
 
 - 160 
 
 Thomas Watson, 
 
 - 165 
 
 C. W. Loomis, 
 
 160 
 
 N. L. B. Wescott, 
 
 176 
 
 John Loomis, - 
 
 - 200 
 
 F. F. West estate, 
 
 - 453 
 
 A. Ludlow, - 
 
 160 
 
 Edward Whitehead, 
 
 45° 
 
 S. P. Lynch, 
 
 - 3 2 ° 
 
 Levi Whitehead, 
 
 160 
 
 N. Martin, 
 
 437 
 
 W. Whitehead, 
 
 160 
 
 Ben. Michaels, - 
 
 - 221 
 
 Whitney & Treat, 
 
 - 200 
 
 LARGEST STOCK RAISERS. 
 
 Wm. & James Bratley. Shank Bros. E. Ullom. 
 
 The first voting place in Cadiz was the house of Mrs. 
 Deniston, but for some years there has been a good 
 
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 town house. When Cadiz and Jordan were united in 
 the Calimine election precinct (named in remembrance 
 of a Winnebago head chief), the usual voting place was 
 Michaels' mill. 
 
 OFFICERS FROM 1S49 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 John Wood. 
 E. Divan. 
 
 Alfred Flowers. 
 Wesley Swank. 
 W. M. Brown, (5 years). 
 Ezra Wescott, (7 years). 
 M. Reinhart, (2 years). 
 Henry Rush. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 Wesley Swank, (3 j r ears). 
 Isaac Williams, (3 years). 
 J. G. Sanders, (3 years). 
 E. Djvan, (H. Irion acting). 
 C. R. Deniston. 
 Isaiah Michaels. 
 Francis Haughey. 
 C. R. Deniston. 
 J. M. Stayer. 
 
 J. H. Land. 
 
 J. M. Stayer, (2 years). 
 
 Warren Clarke. 
 
 C. R. Deniston, (2 years). 
 
 J. M. Sta\er. 
 
 M. Reinhart. 
 
 E. F. Evans. 
 
 H. Rush. 
 
 J. G. Sanders. 
 Henson Irion. 
 
 F. M. Bradford, (2 years). 
 J. A. Meacham, (3 years). 
 B. C. Curtis, (2 years). 
 
 J. A. Meacham, (2 years). 
 B. C. Curtis. 
 
 G. L. Shattuck, (2 years). 
 
'.' 
 
 ADAMS. 
 
 Before the Black Hawk war, the work of surveying 
 and sub-dividing range six was intrusted to Gen. James 
 Biggs, of Ohio. In the prosecution of his work, which 
 was finished in 1S34, he discovered in the northwestern 
 part of town three a very rank growth of the lead weed, 
 a plant whose roots are said to extend forty feet below 
 the surface. Gen. Biggs knew that the Indians re- 
 garded a line of this weed on the surface as an indica- 
 tion of a fissure which might contain mineral, and in the 
 intervals of his work as surveyor he began to dig there. 
 His labor was so successful that he made the place his 
 home; but for several years his family spent much of 
 the time at Hamilton's diggings. In the fall of 1837 
 Wm. Brazel settled in the southern part of the town, 
 and in '38 Jonas Shook settled where he still resides 
 near the eastern boundary of the town. Geo. Morrison 
 in '41, Wm. Morrison, Samuel Truax, James H. Bailey, 
 Gabriel Long, Lemuel Iliffe, and Matthew Cunning- 
 ham, in '42, were the next settlers. Mr. Cunningham 
 was a Virginian. All the other settlers named after 
 Gen. Biggs came from Illinois. Messrs. Truax, Bailey, 
 
160 History of Green County. 
 
 and Long came to the southern part of the county in 
 ^39. Mr. Bailey's house was the first voting place in 
 the town. 
 
 In the summer of 1842 the first religious society in 
 Adams was organized. The first minister was Dr. 
 Church and the second was Mr. IlifFe, who had been 
 accustomed to "exhort" in Illinois. 
 
 One of the saddest accidents that occurred in the 
 first years of the county's existence occurred in Adams, 
 in January, 1843. It was at the raising of Win. Morri- 
 son's house. James Brown, of Monroe, was on the 
 roof, and one of the logs which held the shingles in 
 place rolled to the ground, throwing him down and 
 killing him instantly. 
 
 Sometime prior to 1846, Chauncey Smith built a saw 
 mill on the creek which had for many years been called 
 as it is called now, the Dougherty, in commemoration of 
 the early visits there of Exeter's Indian trader. After 
 the building of the saw mill, Mr. Osborne, who, in allu- 
 sion to the wild ducks there, fastened upon the mill pond 
 and its locality the name of Puddle Duck, corrupted into 
 Puddle Dock, set up a carding machine there. It 
 changed owners, and under the care of Geo. Ball and 
 E. M; Milliard grew into a fulling mill. In 1868 the 
 saw mill was washed away, and its companion and sur- 
 vivor the fulling mill has recently been transformed into 
 a flour mill. This mill, of which L. M. Stevens is pro- 
 prietor, and Jacob Karlen's cheese factory, are the only 
 manufacturing establishments in the town. 
 
 In 1S47, Mr. Wilderman, a young man who was living 
 
History of Green County. 161 
 
 at Mr. Shook's, excited the wrath of the community by 
 entering a piece of timber which adjoined his own land, 
 and formed part of the claim of a man whom Mr. Wild- 
 erman called, in defence of his own conduct, speculator. 
 It was the Monroe doctrine, and it prevailed all over 
 the county that, by fair means or foul, claim jumpers 
 should be made to deed their land to the squatters. 
 Those who intended to bring about this result in the 
 present case were afraid of Mr. Shook's opposition. 
 They therefore sent a man to pick a quarrel with him, 
 the result of which was that Mr. Shook was arrested 
 just before dark and taken to Attica. Twenty men 
 then appeared at the door, and called upon Mr. Wilder- 
 man to come out. He declined to go out, and thev en- 
 tered the house. On one side of the room were two 
 high bedsteads, one in each corner. Mr. Wilderman 
 stepped between the bedsteads, and, having snatched a 
 large butcher knife from the table, defended himself so 
 well that his assailants were forced to retire to bind up 
 their wounds. When Mr. Shook knew the real cause 
 of his arrest, he had the rioters arrested. After a whole 
 night's wrangling at the court house, they were set free 
 on a recognisance. Their release was followed by the 
 burning of Mr. Shook's grain stacks, and this by a long 
 continued prosecution. Under similar circumstances, 
 life and property have been endangered in almost all 
 the other towns. One man who entered land was put 
 through a hole in the ice into Smith's mill-pond, and 
 held there until he promised to give the squatter a deed, 
 but in no other case was the trouble of such longf con- 
 
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 xinuance and such notoriety as this that Mr. Wilder- 
 man : a a. 
 
 _ 
 
 In : 346, a quarrel of two drunken miners. Patrick 
 Ryan and Patrick Egan. resulted in Ryan's killing 
 Egan with a drill. An indecisive trial followed, and at 
 ; . c nd trial no witnc sses appearing against him, Rvan 
 as discharged. Like Cadiz and Mount Pleasant, 
 . s has a second murder on her records. In the case 
 referred ::. there * a dispute about money which a 
 demanded of the father of her child, for its sup- 
 port. After many altc . . . n other places, the dis- 
 pute chanced to be renewed at a hotel in Monroe, and 
 • oman shot and killed the man. She was tried and 
 acquitted. 
 
 In 1 - - . a mail route was opened from Albany 
 to . le. Ada ad an office on this route, and 
 
 Mr. Shoe le first postmaster, named it Willett, 
 
 because there was but one office of that name in the 
 
 ■ 
 
 X. nited : ;ce has for a long time been kept 
 
 Puddle Duck, a place which h the advantages of 
 
 pc ;ig a . . .1 location and more houses than any 
 
 other one place in the town, and of being the usual place 
 
 of holding meetings. 
 
 A history of Adams that left out her mines would be 
 ■■complete as Newcastle without her coal. The 
 
 Badger _ ejs, -ection eleven, were discovered in 1843, 
 John Bailey, an old Exeter miner. He was looking 
 
 for a bee-tree, and happened to notice that in the dirt 
 hich the badgers had thrown out of their holes there 
 
 were pieces of lead. The Newkirk diggings, section 
 
Hi story of Green Com ; 
 
 24, on land bought in 1S36 by Mi ew Newk k, 
 
 a wealthy citizen of P: . . ■ a, wc e 
 
 '42 bv Tohn Bailey an fonas S ... . . 
 
 good example of what Miss rhackers . sthestn ... 
 
 part played in "life by the t ngs thai &vei 
 
 For rears their owner was looking fc : :ie 
 
 when they should lead him to the source < . iless 
 
 wealth. e town vi as . ... fa nous es, :he 
 
 money, and the la": . tat wc own ... I . ack 
 
 mouths; but when all these I [js wen swallowed up 
 that was the end. It was not 1 x \ when much 1 
 the float mineral had been rais V Newk 1 Ve- 
 gan to work the mine s. He had be< ... ced that 
 there was a . tint of lead there, and, 5 sauk 
 expressed his will' ess in 1 e atset to spei $20,000 
 in searching for it. The . ef was list the nor 
 
 ground in the lead districts of Illinois, [< w \\ • 
 
 consin, that the mineral extei fled . al hundre< ... 
 below the surface, and that most - afts .. tort . 
 the lower deposits. This 1 1 was s t ear- 
 
 ly than ever be: . s ^ ;. -\ I e >oet Pert . who 
 
 was the next year . . State G< - fWisct 
 
 sin. Mr, Percival visited the Newki v and 
 
 his published report ... to -a rem.. ... t . g in 
 the blue limestone in that vicinity ." .is •• in its character 
 unlike any other I have examined," r . ... 
 
 special reference to Adams, the followin »e from 
 
 a letter written bv Mr, Percival in An. ust, 1S53, n 
 be of interest in this connection: •• I will lust Efive you 
 a touch of the mining la. . uage; 1 \\ .. .... 
 
164 History of Green County. 
 
 pect, and, after prospecting several days, I struck a lead 
 and raised a lot of bully mineral; but it was only a 
 bunch in a chimney without any opening, so I petered 
 out and a sucker jumped me." 
 
 The Xewkirk diggings were under the supervision 
 of the Rev. James Smith, whom Mr. Xewkirk sent 
 from Philadelphia in 1S50. By Mr. Smith's direction, 
 the mineral found was tested in Philadelphia. The 
 lead was a carbonate of lead. Silver ore was found 
 containing 1 */ per cent, of silver, and copper ore con- 
 taining 56 per cent, of copper; but no veins of either 
 copper or lead were followed out, because Mr. Xew- 
 kirk had resolved to make his mine a deep one. After 
 a time, the water came in so rapidly that a pump was 
 kept going night and day to keep it out. The pump 
 was worked by a tread-wheel about thirty feet in diam- 
 eter, and the wheel was turned by oxen. In 1857, ow- 
 ing to financial embarrassments, the work stopped. 
 When it was resumed, two pumps were used, and a 
 steam engine was employed to work them. Buildings 
 for the pumps and engine were begun in '64, on a scale 
 corresponding to the great success anticipated. The en- 
 gine house is some distance from the mine. Two long 1 
 walking beams passed from the engine to the pumps, 
 through an underground passage way which was 
 meant to be arched over with solid masonry. The en- 
 gine was powerful enough to drive, besides the pumps, 
 the machinery of a saw mill and flour mill; and the 
 engine house was really designed as a flour and saw 
 mill, but the requisite machinery was never put in. In 
 
History of Green County. 165 
 
 1866 Mr. Newkirk engaged another agent in place of 
 Mr. Smith, and some disagreement then about accounts 
 led to the Smith- Newkirk lawsuit — a case which, for 
 interminable intricacies, has no parallel in Green 
 Countv, and which at the present time bids fair to grow 
 out of comparison with all suits except, perhaps, the 
 famous case of Jarndvce and Jarndyce. L nder the 
 superintendence of Mr. Wm. Monteith, work in the mine 
 went on five months longer, and then stopped never to 
 begin again, In 1S66, Mr. Newkirk sold the land to 
 Mr. Monteith, who has made it much more productive 
 above the surface than it ever was below. Pumps and 
 engine are gone, the shafts have nearly been filled up, and 
 the mill is used as a grain barn; but the mammoth tread 
 wheel and the half-finished arched passage way still 
 remain, unchanged monuments to the great expecta- 
 tions once raised there. 
 
 A large proportion of the inhabitants of Adams are 
 of foreign birth. Most of the foreigners are Irish, but 
 there are also many Norwegians, and a few Germans, 
 as is indicated by the following list: 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS EN 1S76. 
 Names. 
 
 Edmund Barry, 
 Ante Benson, 
 Geo. Bleiler, 
 E &J. Bl timer, 
 Christopher Boman, 
 H. M. Brazel (heirs of), 360 
 Thomas Byrne, 
 Thomas Carey, 
 *Thomas Collantine, 
 John Conway. 
 
 ♦Largest stock raiser j. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 " 346 
 
 3 S0 
 
 - 44O 
 
 Names. 
 
 Owen Knight, 
 A. K. Lien, - 
 K. L. Lien, 
 
 N< 
 
 ). of Acres, 
 300 
 
 453 
 211 
 
 J 40 
 
 James Menahan, - 
 
 
 1 So 
 
 l6o 
 
 Hugh Monahan, 
 
 - 
 
 260 
 
 )f ), 360 
 - 2O0 
 
 William Monteith, 
 Frank Mullin, 
 
 
 240 
 
 2^6 
 
 366 
 
 - 3 2 ° 
 
 John Mullin, 
 
 Andrew Nelson, 
 
 
 292 
 
 160 
 
 3o5 
 
 George Poff (heirs of), 
 
 240 
 
 
 
 
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 Names. 
 
 ♦Michael Grotty, 
 
 Thomas Everson, - 
 ♦Michael Flanagan, 
 *William Flanagan, 
 
 Patrick Flanery, 
 
 James Gilligan, 
 
 Tames Grant, - 
 
 Reuben Holcomb, 
 
 H. C. Jorunbv, 
 
 Richard Keegan, - 
 
 John Knight, Sen., 
 
 OFFICERS OF ADAMS FROM 1849 TO 1877 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 Names. No. 
 
 of Acres, 
 
 - 5 60 
 
 Jacob PofF, - 
 
 28o 
 
 167 
 
 Gilbert Post, - 
 
 182 
 
 - 4 6 5 
 
 John Reiley, 
 
 l6o 
 
 300 
 
 *John Ryan, Sen., 
 
 200 
 
 - 160 
 
 Richard Scott, 
 
 280 
 
 180 
 
 Adam Shrake, 
 
 24O 
 
 - 200 
 
 Jonas Shook, 
 
 277 
 
 340 
 
 James Smith, Sen., - 
 
 320 
 
 - 160 
 
 James Smith, Jun., 
 
 280 
 
 160 
 
 John Sullivan & Co., 
 
 360 
 
 - 240 
 
 Edward Toban, 
 
 280 
 
 CHAIRMEN, 
 
 Samuel Kelly (2 years). 
 
 A. L. Grinnell. 
 
 Jonas Shook. 
 
 James Smith (4 years). 
 
 Jonas Shook. 
 
 James Smith. 
 
 Royal M. Jackson (2 years). 
 
 Richard Scott. 
 
 Jonas Shook (2 years). 
 
 CLHRKS. 
 
 T. M. Biggs. 
 R. M. Jackson (6 years). 
 E. D. Jackson. 
 James Smith. 
 Jonas Land (3 years). 
 Thos. Byrne 
 
 Levi P. Duncan. 
 
 James Smith. 
 
 J. F. Grinnell. 
 
 Joel Kelly (2 years). 
 
 Levi P. Duncan. 
 
 Adam Shrake (2 years). 
 
 Jonas Shook. 
 
 Thos. Byrne. 
 
 Wm. Monteith (4 years). 
 
 Jonas Land. 
 
 Thos. Byrne (3 years). 
 
 C. M. Ball. 
 
 Thos. Byrne, (3 years). 
 
 Fred Hummel (3 years). 
 
 Henry Gilligan (5 years). 
 
 ♦Largest stock raisers. 
 
JEFFERSON. 
 
 In 1835, Jonathan E. Clark of Ohio built on section 
 thirty-two the first house built in the town of Jefferson. 
 Thither, in the spring of 1836, he brought his family 
 from the mines. He was not long without neighbors. 
 In the fall of 1836, David Bridge, also from Ohio, built 
 on section twenty what was called the prettiest cabin 
 this side of Chicago. Settlers had so much to do, and 
 it took so much time to get lumber and puncheons, that 
 in all the towns some families lived at first in doorless 
 and fioorless houses. Doors were the only things for 
 which lumber was provided. It was lumber that Mr. 
 Hawthorne had brought from Galena to make a cabin 
 door that made the first coffin in the county — Mr. 
 Patterson's. In Mr. Bridge's cabin, a puncheon floor 
 was made in the ends of the room, and there the beds 
 were made. At first, Mr. David Bridge and his father, 
 Mr. John Bridge, slept at one end of the room, and Mr. 
 Jeremiah Bridge and his family slept in the other end. 
 A homeless family asked and obtained leave to sleep 
 on the ground in the middle of the room, but rattle- 
 snakes that raised their heads there were inhospitably 
 
1 68 History of Green County. 
 
 cut off, ere they were fairly out of their holes. Other 
 settlers in 1S36 were Daniel Harcourt, John Chryst, and 
 Joseph and Simeon Forbes, all from Indiana. In the 
 winter of 1836— '7 Mrs. Jeremiah Bridge died. The set- 
 tlers of ib'37 were Wm. Rittenhouse, F. T. Kendrick, 
 James Riley and Henry Minert from Indiana, Jehu 
 Chadwick from Pennsylvania, and James Christie, 
 Michael Alben, and Joel De Camp. Most of those who 
 came in the next few years came from Pennsylvania. 
 Thev were not only bound to each other by recollec- 
 tions of the home they had left, but they selected their 
 farms here with reference to the new ties that might be 
 formed through church organizations. The north-east 
 corner of the town became a stronghold of the Baptists, 
 section seventeen was a Methodist centre, and the Chris- 
 tians congregated on and near section thirty-two. Be- 
 fore there were any churches, a man so tall that some 
 of the boards in the floor of the loft had to be moved to 
 make room for his head preached once at Mr. Clark's 
 house. All the people came with ox teams, some of 
 them from a long distance, and good Mrs. Clark meant 
 to give them a dinner. The dinner was put to boil in 
 kettles suspended over a fire which was built by 
 the side of a brook; and then the women, remembering 
 the praise given to Mary, went in to hear the sermon. 
 While they listened, an unexpected storm arose, the 
 stones which supported the kettles were blown down, 
 and the dinner was washed away in the brook. The 
 catastrophe was explained by the supposition that the 
 minister's head had penetrated and broken a storm 
 
History of Green County. 169 
 
 cloud, but the minister thought that if some of the 
 women had been contented to watch the dinner, all 
 would have been well. 
 
 Soon after his arrival here, John Chryst constructed 
 a " horse mill " for grinding buckwheat. Crops of all 
 kinds were raised in 1S37— '38. ^ ne man raised great 
 quantities of oats, which he sold for forty-four cents a 
 bushel. Another raised potatoes, four hundred bushels 
 an acre. Some good things were lacking vet. There 
 were hardly any stoves, and the ever-praised old fire- 
 place did little more than burn those who sat near it. 
 In the spring, after his first winter here, Jeremiah Bridge 
 laid a floor in his cabin, and found that the ground on 
 which his family had lived all winter was frozen to 
 the depth of eight inches. One day when Mrs. Chad- 
 wick set aside her wheel to get dinner she found her fire 
 had gone out. Friction matches had never been seen 
 in the county at that time, and J. M. Chadwick, then a 
 lad of fifteen, was sent three-quarters of a mile for fire. 
 Going home, he was obliged, in order to keejo fire, to stop 
 frequently to gather up and burn dry twigs and barks, 
 so that his return was delaved until the familv was in 
 a very unusual state of mind and appetite. If Charles 
 Lamb, who thought that since in most families dinner 
 is no precarious or unusual thing it is therefore a less 
 appropriate time than many other occasions during the 
 day for saying grace, had dined at Mr. Chad wick's that 
 day, he would no doubt have seen a peculiar beauty in 
 the ceremony. In 1S3S, Mr. LyBrand had matches to 
 sell at twenty-five cents a bunch (a bunch consisting of 
 
 15* 
 
lyo • History of Green County. 
 
 ;about twenty-five matches glued together at one end), 
 $}ut they were of so poor a quality as to be of little use 
 except to quiet the apprehensions of children who had 
 heard ±00 much about fire and brimstone. Those were 
 the days of borrowing and lending. Mr. Daniel Bridge 
 once went nine miles to borrow a brush scythe, and was 
 told that he might get it from another borrower who 
 had taken it nine miles farther. Everybody with an 
 axe to grind, though he lived as far away as Orange- 
 ville, went to Mr. Bridge's. 
 
 Among the first civil appointments made in Jefferson 
 was the appointment, some time before the end of 1841, 
 of John Cain to the office of justice of the peace. The 
 petition asking for the appointment was written by a 
 resident of the town, and is said to have begun as fol- 
 lows: " To his majesty, Henry Dodge, governor of Wis- 
 consin and superintendent of Indian affairs; We, your 
 jhumble subjects, ever praying, do humbly pray." 
 
 A Methodist camp meeting, the first in the county, 
 was held in Jefferson in the summer of 1S41, and later in 
 the season there was " a basket meeting," lasting five 
 days. 
 
 Almost as soon as she came here, Mrs. John Bridge 
 instituted weekly spelling schools, which were held at 
 her home, and attended by all the children -within a 
 mile. In 1840, Jefferson paid her school tax and drew 
 her portion of the public school fund ; but this was paid 
 in Mineral Point bank-notes, and even before it was 
 paid, the bank had failed. Jabez Johnson taught Jeffer- 
 son's first school, at the house of David Bridge, but in 
 
History of Green County. 171 
 
 1841 a school house was built on Mr. Rittenhouse's 
 farm, and in this the first teacher was Wm. Jones. Mr. 
 Chadwick, fearing his children might lose their way on 
 the prairie, ran a furrow from his house to the school 
 house with his breaking plow, which was drawn by 
 five yoke of oxen and which made a furrow twenty 
 inches wide. On this furrow the children walked un- 
 til the snakes, pleased with the soft ground, took up 
 their abode there, and then they walked in the high 
 grass by its side. 
 
 The villages of Jefferson are two — Juda, in the north- 
 east corner, and Twin Grove, almost in the centre of 
 the township. Jehu Chadwick entered, sold, and bought 
 back again the land on which Juda is built, after which 
 he sold several lots and gave lots for a cemeterv and 
 Baptist church. The first building there was a log 
 school house, called, for the old home of the settlers, 
 the Pennsylvania school house. The first person buried 
 in the cemetery was James Chadwick, who died in 
 September, 1846. People who had moved their dead 
 from farm to farm, as their own homes had changed, 
 now brought the precious remains to the new cemetery; 
 so that when, a few years later, the growth of the 
 unexpected village necessitated the removal of the 
 cemetery, some coffins were taken up for the third 
 time. The church was b'uilt in 184S by the soci- 
 ety which was organized by Elder Wm. Stilwell, 
 September 19, 1840. This was the first Baptist society 
 organized in the county, and it numbered thirteen mem- 
 bers. Elder Stilwell lived in Illinois, but for four years 
 
372 History of Green Coimty. 
 
 preached to the society once in two months. As he 
 was not willing to give up his other churches, and as 
 .all were anxious to have preaching every week, Deacon 
 Davis went to Pennsylvania in 1845, t° ^ n< ^ a minister. 
 Elder G. R. Patton, who had charge of five churches, 
 -was induced to give them up, sell his home, and come 
 to Wisconsin. While he was selling his property Dea- 
 con Davis came home, and found that during his ab- 
 sence the people had engaged another minister, Elder 
 Lewis. Deacon Davis remonstrated, but the desire to 
 have Elder Lewis was by that time so great that remon- 
 strance would have been in vain, had not the Elder him- 
 self been touched by the injustice to his brother minis- 
 ter., and refused to stay. Elder Patton arrived in Octo- 
 ber, 1845, an d is still the pastor of the church. In 1S64 
 it was necessary to build a larger church. Since then, 
 letters have been given to a great many who were go- 
 ing west, or who wanted to form other churches. The 
 number of members is now two hundred and fifty-one. 
 The first dwelling house in Juda was that of George 
 Debolt, who built a dwelling and a blacksmith shop about 
 the time the first church was built. The next comer 
 -was Garrett Clawson, who built a wagon shop. The 
 third dwelling was Edward Tenney's, and through his 
 efforts a postoffice named Juda was established there in 
 1849. Soon after this, Robe'rt Hanna came from Penn- 
 sylvania, bringing with him a few groceries and dry 
 goods, which he kept for sale in his house. A little 
 
 later another store was opened by Broadbent, and 
 
 at began to be hoped that there might sometime be a 
 
History of Green County. 173 
 
 village. Two hotels, kept respectively by Robert Han- 
 na and John Overton, sprung into existence and into 
 rivalry with each other; and when the coming of the 
 railroad was foretold, Barney Taylor and John Overton 
 platted the place as Springfield, a name now used 
 only by lawyers and scribes, for, as the postoffice depart- 
 ment refused to change the name of the office to Spring- 
 field, the people have refused to call the village anything 
 but Juda. Soon after Springfield, or Juda, was platted, 
 a number of enterprising business men were numbered 
 among those interested in her improvement. Promi- 
 nent among these were Messrs. Axtell, Sherman, J. C. 
 Chadwick, and S. and D. Witmer, and few, if any, 
 have done more to promote the welfare of the vil- 
 lage than was done bv the gentleman last named. 
 Being the only point of shipment in Jefferson — a 
 town which has some of the best land, best farms, 
 and best stock in the county — the growth of Juda 
 is necessarily sure. The Judsean, a diminutive but spicy 
 paper recently started by Witmer and Stair, will here- 
 after be likely to keep before the people of the surround- 
 ing country the good points of the village, chief among 
 which are West & Reed's flour mill, Christian Karlen's 
 American cheese factory (one of the largest in the state), 
 the stores of Mess re. Byrne, Newman and Stair, and 
 the large stock business of J. C. Chadwick. 
 
 The first voting place in Jefferson was the house of 
 A. Sanborn, near Twin Grove, which is a village of 
 two streets, where the neighboring farmers have their 
 children started on the road to learning and their horses 
 
.174 History of Green County. 
 
 shod, where they hear the gospel Sundays, and get their 
 mail and all the treasures of a country store on week- 
 days, and where the only butter factory in the county 
 in which the churning is done by horse power may be 
 seen. The factory belongs to J. M. Chadwick, and is 
 under the direction of Robert Start. 
 
 The twin groves were a favorite resort of the Indi- 
 ans, and there were well-worn trails to the grove from 
 Freeport and Mineral Point, that, like the old trail 
 from Monroe to Exeter, lasted years after those who 
 maoTe them had passed away. After the coming of the 
 whites, the Indians stopped each year at the groves, on 
 their way from Fort Winnebago to Chicago, where 
 they were paid their annuities, and, as they filed along 
 in their trail, which in places was a foot below the sur- 
 face, the line was sometimes half a mile long. About 
 two hundred spent the winters of iS35-'6 and '36-'y at 
 the groves, and one night in the fall of '36, they dug 
 and carried away all but one bushel of an acre of Mr. 
 Clark's turnips. And yet they were not an unmixed 
 evil. Besides their services as tanners, — and the most 
 durable suits the settlers had were made from skins the 
 Indians tanned, — they brought with them tea-kettles, 
 ■frying-pans, and various household conveniences, which 
 'they may have stolen somewhere else, but which the 
 "whites gladly bought, paying in provisions. 
 
 The first house at the corners, as Twin Grove is 
 sometimes called, was the house of Jonathan Hill, built 
 about 1S45. It was a good place for a blacksmith shop, 
 ■and Jonathan Cabel, who made the second home there, 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 *75 
 
 kept a wagon and blacksmith shop. Among the farm- 
 ers who lived near was Isaac Sanborn, who about 1850 
 started a pottery there, where jugs and crocks have since 
 been made almost every year; and about the close of the 
 war Harrison Clevenstein opened a store there. Since 
 then there has always been one store there. Rightsell 
 & Co., E. L. Walker, and George Wells have done a 
 large business there. The postofhee at the corners was 
 first christened Montezuma. It was then moved south- 
 west and named successively Hope, Josephine, and New- 
 kirk, with which name it went back to the village about 
 1S60. Not being very profitable it was discontinued for 
 a time, and when it was established again it was named 
 Twin Grove. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN JEFFERSON IN 1876. 
 
 Names. 
 
 J. Andrews, 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 - ISO 
 
 Names. 
 
 D. Holmes, 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 - 220 
 
 J. J. Armstrong, 
 Win. Bradley, - 
 
 l3 5 
 l6o 
 
 John Howard, 
 H. Hunt, - 
 
 l6o 
 - 280 
 
 G. W. Bridge, 
 
 l62 
 
 D. Keister, 
 
 l6o 
 
 *J. H. Bridge, - 
 
 S. Bryant, 
 *John Carter, 
 
 - 298 
 24O 
 
 - 338 
 
 John Meyers, - 
 G. R. Patton, 
 W. C. Penn, - 
 
 - 20I 
 
 195 
 
 - 170 
 
 Wm. Carter, - 
 
 l6o 
 
 I. Ravmer, 
 
 22C 
 
 *J. C. Chad wick, 
 
 - 87O 
 
 C. Roub, - 
 
 - 177 
 
 J. J. Chadwick, 
 
 200 
 
 *Jacob Roderick, 
 
 64O 
 
 *J. M. Chadwick, 
 
 - 797 
 
 J. W. Roderick, 
 
 - 200 
 
 VV. VV. Chadwick, - 
 
 300 
 
 J. B. Searles, - 
 
 24O 
 
 *J. Chambers, 
 
 - 368 
 
 *A. South, - 
 
 " 3 2( > 
 
 J. Chryst, 
 
 180 
 
 Peter Starr, - 
 
 320 
 
 J. Emerick, 
 
 - 320 
 
 W. Stevenson, - 
 
 - l6o 
 
 John Fisher, - 
 
 200 
 
 A. Stull, 
 
 2IO 
 
 C. Foster, - 
 
 - 3 2 ° 
 
 J. M. Swartz, - 
 
 - l6o 
 
 *L. Gapen, 
 M. T. Gapen, - 
 S. Hale, - 
 
 400 
 
 - 240 
 
 160 
 
 M. G. Todd, - 
 A. Will, - 
 D. Witmer, - 
 
 415 
 - l6o. 
 
 *9£ 
 
 ♦Largest stock growers. 
 
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 History of Green County 
 
 TOWN OFFICERS FROM 1849 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 Jeremiah Bridge. 
 
 John Barrey. 
 
 h. dunwiddie. 
 
 Wm. Coldren. 
 
 h. dunwiddie. 
 
 Wm. Coldren. 
 
 D. W. Ball. 
 
 Wm. Blackford, (3 years). 
 
 H Dunwiddie. 
 
 John H. Bridge. 
 
 Isaac Trembly. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 E. J. Blackford. 
 
 J. Andrews. 
 
 E. Hosier, (5 years). 
 
 E. J. Blackford, (4 years). 
 W. F. Pritchard. 
 
 J. BOLENDER. 
 
 H. Hunt, (2 years). 
 
 F. Barnum. 
 
 James Stevenson. 
 
 L. Gapen. 
 
 D. Witmer. 
 
 S. Witmer, (2 years). 
 
 Wm. Coldren, (2 years). 
 
 S. Witmer. 
 
 D. Witmer, (5 years). 
 
 E.J. Blackford. 
 
 H. Hunt. 
 
 J. Roderick. 
 
 S. M. Hanna. 
 
 H. Hunt. 
 
 H. Frankenberger, (3 y'rs). 
 
 V. B S. Newman. 
 
 E. J. Blackford, (3 years). 
 
 C. F. Fisher. 
 
 J. A. Patton, (3 years). 
 
SYLVESTER. 
 
 The first of the Pennsylvanians in the eastern part 
 of Green County was Allen Woodle, who came to 
 southern Wisconsin in 1S35. ^ n tne s P r i n g °f ^S^, 
 Allen and Win. Woodle, the latter bringing his family, 
 came to Sylvester and built the first house in the town- 
 ship, though it is thought Mr. McCraken bought, at. 
 the land sale in '35, the first land bought in the town- 
 ship. In the fall they were joined by their brother, 
 Joseph Woodle and his family. The settlers of 1S37 
 were Joseph McCraken, a native of New York, but 
 for some years a resident of Illinois, Thos. Woodle and 
 Jesse Mitchell from Pennsylvania, and Davis Bowen 
 from Virginia. Mrs. Bowen, who came in 1S3S, has 
 lived in Sylvester longer than any other woman now 
 there. 
 
 In the winter of 1837-8, Joshua Davis, a very esti- 
 mable young man who came from Pennsylvania with 
 Mr. Mitchell, died of the '-winter fever " — probably 
 the typhoid fever of modern times. He was attended 
 by Dr. Harcourt, whose medical studies consisted, it is 
 said, of a few experiments made with lobelia and a few 
 
 16 
 
iyS History of Green County. 
 
 other medicines on a calf. He visited his patient three 
 times a day and charged a dollar a visit. Dr. Harcourt, 
 whose name was usually pronounced Haircourt, was no 
 more popular in Sylvester as a preacher than as a doc- 
 tor. The common opinion of him seems to have been 
 expressed by Mr. McCraken, who, after listening to a 
 long harangue of the doctor's, remarked to a fellow 
 sufferer: "The Lord never called Haircourt to preach; 
 oh, no! he wouldn't have done that. He called Bear- 
 court, or some other court, and Haircourt thought he 
 meant him." In some respects the Doctor seems to have 
 been one of the most agreeable of the early preachers. 
 He comforted those frightened by the doctrine of election, 
 by saying: "Don't believe it; God don't choke religion 
 down any of His children as an Indian rams a knife 
 down the throat of a deer." In the funeral sermons of 
 his own patients he was naturally to their virtues a little 
 kind, and funeral sermons then had in them the possi- 
 bilities of dreadful things. At one funeral in Monroe in 
 1843, the minister preached his subject to hell, showed 
 a possible avenue of escape, and preached him in again 
 so many times that the audience was almost frenzied. 
 One woman rose to q-q out and the minister ordered her 
 to sit down. She replied that she would not stay and 
 hear such talk, to which he retorted, that she could 
 not get through the crowd, but he had under-estimated 
 the humanity of his audience. 
 
 Amos Sylvester of New York, Joseph and Jacob 
 Reeder, Buckeyes, A. G. Houghton, a Kentuckian, who 
 was in Monroe in 1835, and Rees Rush and Benjamin 
 
History of Green County. 179 
 
 Mitchell, Pennsylvanians, came in 1S3S. Among the 
 settlers of 1839 were Thomas W. Thompson, who had 
 spent one year in Clarno, John Sylvester, Sylvester Hill, 
 Justus, James, and Andrew Sutherland, Erastus Hul- 
 burt, Mrs. Rachel Sylvester, Mrs. Jerusha Colton, from 
 New York, Dr. Wm. Griffith, who platted the village 
 of Monroe, Jacob Stull, Isaac Betts, and Miss Rachel 
 Palmer from Pennsylvania, and Sullivan. 
 
 The first school in Sylvester was the York district 
 school, taught by Mr. Isaac Woodle. The first wed- 
 ding was that of Mr. Wm. Baird and Miss Elizabeth 
 Woodle. 
 
 The citizens of Sylvester seem to have been the first 
 in the county to avail themselves of that best means ot 
 education within their reach, a debating society. From 
 1S42 to '50 the village of Monroe was never for any long 
 time without some organization of the kind, but Sylves- 
 ter had a society in the winter of 1S39-40. Most of the 
 questions discussed were political, and great interest 
 was taken in the meetings. Svlvester lost the charac- 
 teristics of a wilderness more rapidly than the towns 
 that were settled before it. Settlers came in more 
 rapidly, and it cost them much less time and trouble to 
 get lumber and flour from Clarno and other merchan- 
 dise from Monroe than it had cost those towns to get 
 all the necessaries of life from Galena. 
 
 In Sylvester, as in the other towns, every house was 
 open to travelers. Hospitality was both a duty and 
 pleasure; but to a housekeeper who, like one of the 
 hostesses of Sylvester, had a family of ten, with no 
 
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 help, and with a house whose dimensions were only ten 
 by fourteen feet, the duty must have been more appar- 
 ent than, the pleasure. In many cases, the acquain- 
 tance begun by giving the stranger a dinner grew into 
 a life-long friendship, but sometimes the visitor proved 
 to - . uisance. One hon i :eeper, to ph some 
 s guests, killed her i brood of chickens 
 
 lon<* bei f ched tl e described as "frying," 
 
 and, as a reward for her kindness, had the mortification 
 
 hearing her son pitied because, in his "boiled shirt," 
 put on in honor of the company, he seemed too good to 
 live in such a cabin, which cabin was one of the best 
 houses in the county. Another housekeeper went to 
 
 eat incovenience to sret a good breakfast for two 
 men who voluntarily promised to pa} a high price, 
 eaten, they asked her to change a larger bill 
 than she had ever had, and, as she could not change it, 
 they paid nothin .-. Usually the amount [mid was entirely 
 at the option of the guests. Many travelers Mopped at 
 Mr. Thompson's in Sylvester. If they paid well, it was 
 all right; and if they did not pay anything, it was all 
 right. The highest price ever charged was a shilling 
 a meal audi a shilling- a lodging. Once ten men ami a 
 woman with their horses stopped, over night. They 
 had their own provisions, except butter and milk, which 
 Mrs. Thompson supplied. Every bed in the hoc.se, all 
 the bedding, and all the stables were given up to the 
 travelers and their horses, but the total charge of ninety 
 cents was complained of as exorbitant. As a general 
 thing, travelers were not delayed by being borne hcav- 
 
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 Then, Sylvester post office was established at Thomp- 
 son's store, and Chas. Thompson was the first post 
 master. 
 
 Of all the ancient foes of dull monotony, no other 
 had so Ions: a life and so strong- a constitution as a road 
 fight. Road fights were common to all the towns, and 
 they had an infinite variety which makes the selection of 
 a typical example difficult, but perhaps Sylvester gives as 
 good an example of them all as can be found. Mr. Justus 
 Sutherland petitioned the town board of Sylvester to so 
 change a road that it would go around instead of across 
 his land. The petition was not granted. He appealed 
 from the decision of the board to a justice of the peace. 
 The commissioners summoned by the justice to consider 
 the matter ordered the road changed, but, through 
 ignorance of the law, did not file their order with the 
 town clerk within the thirty days allowed by law, and 
 the omission left the order of the town board in force. 
 By the advice of his lawyer, Mr. Sutherland fenced up 
 the road, but his opponents tore the fence down. It 
 was taken down several times, for truth crushed to earth 
 is not more sure to rise again than was this fence. 
 Then Mr. Sutherland and his sons armed themselves 
 and stood guard. The first traveler who came that 
 way flourished a pistol at them, but, seeing them de- 
 termined, turned around and went away. At the next 
 term of court, suit was brought against Mr. Sutherland 
 for obstructing the highway, but Judge Whiton decided 
 that the road was not a legal road because the law re- 
 quired that in every order for a road the width should 
 
History of Green County. 183 
 
 be stated, and this had been omitted in the case under 
 consideration. Through the winter following this de- 
 cision, the road remained fenced up, and the dispute was 
 supposed to be ended. But Mr. Sutherland was still 
 smarting under the injury which his feelings, if not his 
 property, had sustained the year before, when the town 
 board sent men on to his land to work the road, and at 
 the next term of court he sued the board for trespass. 
 This lead to a diligent study of road laws, and Judge 
 Whiton learned that an act subsequent to that on which 
 he had based his decision, legalized all roads in existence 
 at the time the first law was enacted. He then reversed 
 his decision, and the road was re-opened. Again Mr. 
 Sutherland petitioned the town board, but with the 
 same result as before; for before this time the road 
 question had become the question that divided the town 
 at elections, and the party opposed to a change in the 
 road had elected its candidates. Again he appealed to 
 the justice, also with the same favorable result as before; 
 but this time the filing of the commissioners' report was 
 omitted because Mr. Sutherland's lawver, Geo. E. Dex- 
 ter, had been elected state senator, and he thought the 
 easiest way of settling the matter was to have the road 
 changed by an act of the legislature. With this end in 
 view, he introduced a bill which would have passed, all 
 unknown to Mr. Sutherland's opponents, had not Judge 
 Noggle, of Rock County, been a member of the legis- 
 lature. The Judge had at one time counseled the town 
 board, and he still felt enough interest in the case to de- 
 feat Mr. Dexter's bill. The next step in the controversy 
 
184 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 was the endeavor of Mr. Sutherland's friends to make 
 it appear that the report of the commissioners had been 
 properly filed. The a tempt was a failure, but about 
 that time the board proposed a compromise to which 
 Mr. Sutherland assented. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN SYLVESTER IN 1876. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. 
 
 of Acres. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres 
 
 S. D. Ball, 
 
 - 
 
 I76 
 
 Peter McVean, 
 
 - l6o 
 
 J. C. Barber, 
 
 
 604 
 
 G. Nicks, 
 
 200 
 
 E. Berry man estate, 
 
 - 
 
 275 
 
 G. S. Pengra, - 
 
 - l6o 
 
 Geo. Bloom, 
 
 
 215 
 
 M. H. Pengra, 
 
 l6o 
 
 S. R. Bloom, - 
 
 - 
 
 200 
 
 J. J. Putnam, - 
 
 - 4IO 
 
 J. E. Bowen, 
 
 
 430 
 
 Henry Roderick, 
 
 480 
 
 ~B. B. Bowell, - 
 
 - 
 
 24O 
 
 R. D. Searles, 
 
 - l6o 
 
 T. A. Bowell, 
 
 
 245 
 
 S. R. Stephens, 
 
 200 
 
 J. S. Brown, 
 
 - 
 
 165 
 
 Lavina Stewart, 
 
 - 327 
 
 G. W. Bulfinch, - 
 
 
 l6o 
 
 Isaiah Staffauchei 
 
 •, l6o 
 
 W. C. Gorham, 
 
 - 
 
 345 
 
 Sol. Sutherland, 
 
 - l6o 
 
 Wm. Hart wig, 
 
 
 37o 
 
 A. R. Sylvester, 
 
 352 
 
 Darwin Hulburt, 
 
 - 
 
 180 
 
 Samuel Vance, 
 
 - 3 6 ° 
 
 Samuel Hutzel, 
 
 
 289 
 
 Mat. West, - 
 
 288 
 
 Jacob Luchsinger, 
 
 - 
 
 229 
 
 Samuel West, - 
 
 - 524 
 
 S. T. Mallory, 
 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 LARGEST STOCK RAISERS. 
 
 
 Henry Roderick. 
 
 A 
 
 . W. Sutherland. P. 
 
 McVean. 
 
 Samuel Ball, Saw and Grist Mill. 
 Samuel Dennis, Steam Saw Mill. 
 
 PROPRIETORS OF CHEESE FACTORIES. 
 
 W. C Gorham, American Cheese. 
 P. & H. Staflaucher, Swiss Cheese. 
 
 TOWN OFFICERS FROM 1 849 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMAN. 
 
 Thos. W. Thompson. 
 
 Cyrus Benson. 
 
 Wm. Bulfinch, (2 years). 
 
 M. H. Pengra, (4 years). 
 
 J. M. Searles. 
 
 Jasper Clemmer. 
 
 A. W. Sutherland. 
 
 I. M. Bennett. 
 
 L. Frankenberger, (2 years). 
 
 L. Hare, (2 years). 
 
 D. Murdock, (2 years). 
 
 G. S. Pengra. 
 
 Solomon Sutherland. 
 
 G. S. Pengra. 
 
 M. H. Pengra. 
 
 Wm. DuBoise, (2 years). 
 
 J. S. Brown. 
 
 D. W. Ball. 
 
 L. Hare, (2 years). 
 
 G. S. Pengra. 
 
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 CLERKS. 
 
 M. C. Sutherland, (2 years). L. Frankenberger, (2 j'rs). 
 
 Oliver Lindly, (3 years). M. H. Pengra, (5 years). 
 
 H. T. Thompson, (3 years). J. M. Miller. 
 
 L. Frankenberger, (3 y'rs). W. S. Pengra, (2 years). 
 
 W. W. Sutherland. M. H. Pengra. 
 
 M. Colton, (2 years). B. B. Bowell, (4 years). 
 
 MOUNT PLEASANT. 
 
 Most fitly named of all the towns is Mount Pleasant. 
 No one can ride over its gently sloping hills and 
 through its long valleys at any time from seed time to 
 harvest, without blessing the good taste of those who 
 first described it in its name. 
 
 A part of the first land broken in the county was in 
 this township, but as the house and furnace belonging 
 with the farm were in Exeter, the honor of being the 
 first settler in Mount Pleasant was reserved for John 
 Mitchell, an Englishman, who came to the county with 
 Camp and Collins. He had made important improve- 
 ments when Mr. Pierce came to Washington in 1837. 
 Leonard Ross and Elias Luttreli had also cultivated 
 land in Mount Pleasant when Mr. Pierce came, but 
 their home was at the Skinner diggings. When but 
 one or two settlers had purchased land, the fairest por- 
 tion of the township was seized by speculators. One 
 man, Caleb Hopkins by name, bought 2,240 acres in 
 
1 86 History of Green County. 
 
 Mount Pleasant and Washington, the greater part of 
 it in Mount Pleasant. 
 
 John Burt, Chester Bushnell, and perhaps Samuel 
 Robb settled in Mt. Pleasant as early as 1S40. Michael 
 McNutt, Edward Raymond, John, Daniel, and Benja- 
 min Rima went in 1842, and found there John Lewis, 
 James and Thos. Gillett, Foster Steadman, and Lewis 
 Nixon. Visitors of the township in '43 remember see- 
 ing, on their claims, Wm. Boyles jun. (at whose house 
 the first town meeting was held), Thos. Morton, Josiah 
 Munts, Leonard Heacox, Lyman Smith, Lewis Vin- 
 cent, Geo. W. Barks, John Manley, Abner Aikens, 
 
 Edward Gillis, John McLany, John Sergent, and 
 
 Whaley. Many of these men, like many who came after 
 them, spent their first years in the county at Exeter. They 
 followed each other into Mount Pleasant in such quick 
 succession that the oldest inhabitants are unable to agree 
 on the order in which they came. Among the settlers 
 of '44 were Ira Foster, Benjamin and W. W. Truax, 
 Abraham Pratt, Porter Pratt, Samuel Hopkins, Geo. 
 Rogers, Barnett Sunday, Wm. Kessler, John Bain, 
 James Cassle, James Bedell, Lewis and Artemus Silver, 
 
 Pliny Colton, Wm. Fulton, St. John, and 
 
 Baker. Various states were represented among them, 
 but a majority of those named were from Ohio. 
 
 On the tenth of July, 1S44, there was discovered in 
 Mount Pleasant a murder, which caused the greatest 
 excitement in the county at the time, and which has re- 
 mained a mystery ever since. The murdered man was 
 Mr. Arthur Smith. His body was found in his field in 
 
History of Gree?i Cou?zty. 1S7 
 
 the eastern part of the township, where he had been 
 breaking prairie. The ground still bore the marks of a 
 struggle for life, and, though the remains were so 
 changed by the wolves and the summer sun as to be re- 
 cognized only by the clothing, yet upon the skull, found 
 some rods from the body, could be seen several fractures 
 made by a small hatchet which had hung on the plow 
 and which showed, when it was found on the ground, 
 the use last made of it. Mr. Smith must have been 
 killed the 28th of June, as he was seen about sunset that 
 day, and the next morning his oxen were running about 
 in the yoke. He had sold his claim for $200 in gold, 
 and he was probably killed for his money. The con- 
 tents of a trunk in his cabin were scattered in a way that 
 showed there had been a hasty search there for some- 
 thing; but the money escaped the eye of the murderer,, 
 and was found, after the discovery of the murder, done 
 up in the cloth intended for a wedding suit. Suspicion 
 attached itself to several, but nothing was proved 
 against any of those arrested; and some of those who 
 attempted to ferret out the murderer became convinced 
 that the deed was done bv some one living out of the 
 county. Thirteen years after this murder, an old man, 
 whom trouble had made insane, shot and killed his son- 
 in-law. He was tried and acquitted, and these two 
 make up the record of violent deaths in Mount Pleasant. 
 Like Adams, Mount Pleasant had in old times a claim 
 society which sometimes had exciting work to do. A 
 man in Cadiz once entered eighty acres in Exeter that 
 Mr. John Troy had claimed. The circumstances were 
 
1 88 History of Green County. 
 
 such as to excite general indignation against the sjuecu- 
 lator; and the society, most of whose members were 
 Mount Pleasant men, sent him a summons to appear in 
 Exeter at a specified time, with a specified sum of money 
 to pay Mr. Troy for the improvements he had made. 
 Instead of going himself, the purchaser of the land sent 
 Mr. Noah Phelps, to make some compromise. Mr. 
 Phelps proposed to the members of the society, most 
 of whom were assembled to enforce their demands, that 
 Mr. Troy should buy the laud of the speculator, paying* 
 the government price. They grimly made answer that 
 they had not a hundred dollars among them, but to the 
 proposition that they should all sign Mr. Troy's note 
 with him, in case some one could be found to lend him 
 the money, they readily agreed. There was one man 
 in Monroe who had the money — Mr. Alanson Corson. 
 To him, Mr. Phelps and Mr. Gardner, would-be-peace- 
 makers, betook themselves. It was night, but they called 
 him up, obtained the money, and hastened on to Cadiz. 
 The speculator was awakened and easily persuaded to 
 deed the land to Mr. Troy; but, when he called his 
 wife, she refused to sign the deed without a present of 
 a new dress from Mr. Troy. By this time the patience 
 of the sleepy and half frozen peace-makers was ex- 
 hausted. They intimated that, previous to the bestowal 
 of such a gift, Mr. Troy would observe the lady's so- 
 journ in a country so warm that dresses suitable to the 
 climate of Cadiz would be quite out of place. Still the 
 wife insisted that a dress for a deed was one of the rights 
 of women. She was strengthened and encouraged by 
 
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 the example of a determined matron who, rather than 
 sign without a dress, had suffered " him " to lose a sale, 
 and by the knowledge that sometimes in such cases the 
 husband secretly paid for the dress himself. But history 
 records few victories for human rights achieved at four 
 o'clock in a winter night. It was hard to stand for a 
 principle (or a dress), wne.i three men were telling her 
 that if she did not yield her husband would be killed; 
 and just as the day was dawnino- she wrote the words 
 that to Mount Pleasant and Exeter were only an assur- 
 ance of peace, but to the writer were two black warn- 
 ings that she had prepared the way for a total loss of 
 her time-honored tax. 
 
 In 1843, R- ODel 't Witter built a saw-mill on Little 
 Sugar river, in the western part of Mount Pleasant. 
 The mill was built for Chester Witter, who soon sold 
 it, however, to Mr. Steadman, by whom it was sold to 
 Mr. Truman. In 1S45, John Williams, who had built 
 Shobar's mill, the first mill on Richland creek, began to 
 build a grist-mill on Little Sugar river, near the central 
 part of Mount Pleasant. The next year was the " sickly 
 year," when nearly all the inhabitants of the Sugar river 
 valleys were victims of the "chill fever," a fever described 
 as differing from ague in the absence of "shakes," well 
 days, and appetite. All of Mr. Williams' family w r ere 
 sick, he died in August, 1846, and the mill was never 
 finished. In 1845, Mr. Steadman was made a post- 
 master on the mail route from Monroe to Madison. The 
 most striking peculiarities of the surface in that part of the 
 
 county are the mounds bordering "long hollow," a long 
 
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190 History of Green County. 
 
 valley which extends from Mt. Pleasant far into Wash- 
 ington. In reference to these mounds or bluffs, Mr. Stead- 
 man named the office Monticello, meaning little moun- 
 tain. A year or two later, he laid out, on the south 
 side of the river, near the mill, a village to which he 
 gave the same name. Jacob and Mathias Marty bought 
 the whole village, vacated the greater part of it, and 
 then extended it on the other side of the river. The 
 only buildings in the vicinity of the village were the 
 mill, the dwelling known as the mill house, and the 
 house on Mr. Steadman's farm. -To induce him to set- 
 tle there, the new proprietors of the village gave a lot 
 to Mr. Peter Wilson, who in 185 1 built the first house 
 on the north side. The same year Sylvester Hill built a 
 house which was both store and dwelling, and the Marty 
 Bros, built a hotel. Several dwellings were built in 
 1852. O. R, Bacon's flour mill was built in '54 and Sweet- 
 ing Taft's saw mill in '56. New stores and shops have 
 since appeared from time to time to meet the demands 
 of the two towns, Washington and Mt. Pleasant, from 
 which the village draws its support, and with which it is 
 steadily growing. Among the successors of Mr. Hill 
 in the mercantile business in Monticello were George 
 Campbell now of Portage, Garland and Noble now of 
 Santa Barbara, Cal., and Messrs. Robert Godfrey, A. 
 Jennison, R. Bridges, and O. R. Bacon. Prominent 
 among those in trade there at the present time are A. 
 Witter, S. Dunbar and J. Berkey. One of the few stores 
 in the county conducted by a grange is at Monticello. 
 For a brief period beginning in 1874, Monticello 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 91 
 
 had a newspaper, the Monticello Items, published by 
 Stair & Lane. A more successful enterprise is that un- 
 dertaken in 1866 by the Monticello Manufacturing 
 Company, a stock company organized with the follow- 
 ing officers: O. R. Bacon, president; Thos. Scars, sec- 
 retary; and Samuel Johnson, treasurer. The company 
 built a woolen mill in 1866, and two years later another 
 building was erected for a store house. Fourteen per- 
 sons have constant employment at the mill, which con- 
 sumes on an average twenty thousand pounds of wool 
 ill a year. Yarns, blankets, balmoral skirts, and all 
 kinds of woolen cloths are made. There is also a saw 
 mill connected with the woolen mill. The officers of the 
 company are at present, Orrin Bacon, president; Thos. 
 Sears, secretary; Benjamin Chenoweth, treasurer. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN MOUNT PLEASANT IN 1876. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 - 3OO 
 
 Names. N 
 
 R. Aylsworth, - 
 
 fo. of Acres, 
 - 200 
 
 Isaiah Bubbler, 
 
 *95 
 
 Sarah Baker, 
 
 160 
 
 R. Barlow, 
 
 165 
 
 Peter Bertram, - 
 
 ■ 200 
 
 Jud. Bowen, - 
 Joseph Chandler, 
 
 243 
 - 211 
 
 Henry Cheesbro, - 
 
 160 
 
 W. II. Coates, - 
 
 170 
 
 Thomas Conway, - 
 
 200 
 
 Richard Dooley, 
 John U. Elmer, 
 
 - 240 
 200 
 
 Elijah Evans, - 
 
 - 165 
 
 E. Fenton, - 
 Gideon Gillet, - 
 
 473 
 - 4 X 3 
 
 John Gillett, 
 Jesse Gist, 
 
 160 
 
 ■ 275 
 
 E. B. Milliard, 
 
 160 
 
 Mary Ilutchins, 
 John Ilurlbut, 
 
 - 240 
 260 
 
 John Jenny, - 
 E. Layton, - 
 John Lewis, 
 
 - 160 
 160 
 
 - 228 
 
 Nam 
 
 John Marty, 
 
 L. W. P. Morton, 277 
 
 Samuel A. Newman, 160 
 
 Charles Parkins, - 200 
 
 Franklin Pierce, - 240 
 
 R. Pryce, - - 200 
 
 Henry Rhiner, - 240 
 
 James Richards, - 190 
 
 Caspar Schindler, - 315 
 
 David Sears, - 177 
 
 Sears Brothers - 200 
 
 Artemus Silver, - 224 
 
 C. Silver, - - 224 
 Anton Staffaucher, 240 
 Dietrich Staffaucher, 200 
 John Sutherland, - 280 
 N. Swager, - - 241 
 Siloam Tone, - 332 
 Cyrus Troy, - - 210 
 
 D. II. Walling, - 179 
 Cyrus Whittier, - 203 
 Wm. Wood, - 255 
 
192 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 LARGEST STOCK GROWERS. 
 
 Thos. &. Wm. Fenton. 
 Gideon Gillet. 
 
 Jesse Gist, 
 B. L. & Wm. Wood, 
 
 The Chicago papers gave Mt. Pleasant the credit of 
 sending the largest flocks of sheep sent to Chicago in 
 the spring of 1S77. They went from the farms of B. 
 L. and Wm. Wood and numbered i,Soo. 
 
 PROPRIETORS OF CHEESE FACTORIES. 
 
 Henry Babbler, Swiss Cheese. A. Staffancher, Swiss Cheese. 
 John Marty, Swiss Cheese. J. U. Elmer, Swiss Cheese. 
 
 Rheiner, Babbler & Co., Swiss J. & R. Regetz, Limburger 
 Cheese. Cheese. 
 
 TOWN OFFICERS FROM 1S49 TO 1877 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 Henry Adams, 2 years. 
 Arunthus Thomas. 
 Thos. Fenton. 
 Henry Adams. 
 Thos. Fenton. 
 Samuel Johnson, 2 years. 
 Jesse Gist, 2 years. 
 James Broderick. 
 C. F. Thompson. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 James L. Powell, 2 years. 
 M. Marty, (resigned,' C. H. 
 
 Wood worth appointed). 
 Alonzo H. Jennison. 
 James Broderick. 
 Alonzo H. Jennison. 
 F. R. Drake. 
 Cyrus Troy. 
 
 Jesse Gist, 4 years. 
 John F. Van Slyke. 
 Jesse Gist. 
 G. W. Baker, 4 years. 
 A. H. Pierce, 3 years. 
 
 F. K. Studley, 2 years. 
 
 G. W. Baker. 
 A. H. Pierce. 
 
 Henry Adams. 
 
 John F. Van Slyke, 2 years. 
 
 W. E. Noble, 3 years. 
 
 B. C. Baker. 
 
 S. Johnson. 
 
 F. K. Studley, 9 years. 
 
 David Sears, 2 years. 
 
 Henry H. Bissell, 2 years. 
 
SPRING GROVE. 
 
 Among the pioneers of Green County were many 
 single men, some of whom could hardly be called set- 
 tlers. "My home was under my hat," said one who 
 may be taken as a representative of the class. Yet they 
 did good work in taming the wilderness, and, whether 
 they went from to town and from county to county, as 
 work and the hope of gain called them, or kept bache- 
 lor's hall on their own land, they were an important 
 element in the society of that time. Bachelors' parties 
 were among the most enjoyable gatherings there were. 
 Not infrequently, a dozen bachelors met in the evening 
 at Smith & Enos' mill, or at some brother's cabin, and 
 spent the night in fun and jollity. Occasionally, they 
 went as far as Hamilton's diggings to hear the Colonel 
 tell, in his entertaining way, of the great men he had ■ 
 seen at Washington; and sometimes they had a party 
 to which married men and their wives were invited. 
 At one such party at Mr. Rust's, the floor was turned 
 bottom side up after supper, "so as to have a clean, smooth 
 surface " on which to exercise the light fantastic toe. 
 Among the pleasantest parties of this kind in the east- 
 ern part of the county, was that given by Mr. Lake to 
 
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194 History of Green County. 
 
 celebrate the gathering of the first fruit from his or- 
 © © 
 
 chard, which was one of the first orchards in the county. 
 Mr. Rust's blackberry preserves are still sweet in mem- 
 ory, and those who have forgotten the flavor of Mr. 
 Lake's apples still praise the hot biscuit he made for sup- 
 per. But if these bachelors cooked well, they did not al- 
 ways cook willingly. One acknowledges that he often 
 went hungry because he had no time to cook. Mr. Asa 
 Richardson used to carry his cream over to Mrs. Rust, 
 preferring to do without butter rather than churn. 
 Another, who proposed to a girl the evening he was 
 introduced and married her the next time they met, ex- 
 plains his haste by saving, " it was the way then to do 
 things up pretty quick, and as I had to work out doors 
 as much as any of the men, nobody needed a wife more 
 than I did." The arrival of a young lady anywhere 
 within fifteen miles was an especial promoter of the 
 labors of hair cutting, shaving, washing, ironing, patch- 
 ing, and darning among the bachelors. There were no 
 photographers to catch the shadow of these self-made 
 men, but an indication of the beauty and harmony 
 to which they were expected to attain in their dress is 
 given by a bit of the exjDerience of a gentleman who in 
 1S42 went with two companions from Monroe to see a 
 newlv arrived belle of Spring Grove. Despite much 
 preparation, there were still three or four holes in his 
 coat. His companions, who, like himself, are now well 
 known all over the county, told him they could not in- 
 duce him in such a plight, and, under pretense of 
 pinning up the holes, they managed to grasp the coat 
 
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 so as to tear it into pieces small as those to 
 freshman's garments are redi >h. W 
 
 thu- bereft of his coat, no ol jection v. as . I . - 
 
 ducing him. 
 
 The first improvements in 5] ag Grove i re made 
 by an old ' chelor wh -; . - : aght tc 
 
 been Church. In the summer f 1836, - ... 
 
 fenced, and cultivated ten acres which he s 
 year to Daniel Baxter of New York, who immediate 
 went there to live. The next settle] was Mr. Eli 
 Kline from Indiana. In '37, he and bis sc as, John and 
 Isaac, built a carding mill where the village : Spi 
 Grove, of which it was . eginning, - now. For 
 many years after this, the stream on v c was ailt, 
 
 and which is now called Spring creek, was - sd Mill 
 creek, fin ';;. French Lake ght his present home 
 
 in Spring Grove. II. 5 a \ g ■ .. . . 
 
 ing to the W sc sin mil es d '27, built on his fat e '- 
 f pi 'on the wall which gave : Lie::. Jackson the - >4) 
 
 name of Si - allj The next year bi 
 Davis of Pennsylvania, who says it cost m 
 move his family and household goods from G 1 : . 
 Spring G - rom Penns at Galena, 
 
 Samuel Myers af Indiana, who purchase la terest 
 the carding mill, and at whose house j elec- 
 
 ts in Mill creek pre< were he 
 phen Bowen, Archie Davis, H 
 Judkins. . ably Alf< Blakely, and E. P. P. 
 
 dy, came. The les were aade |ae Vt i 
 
 Eyck, Ad as De :, and James K -v ; Mr. 
 
196 History of Green County. 
 
 Ten Eyck's in 1839, the others in 1840. Mr. Kildow 
 came to the county from Pennsylvania in 1837, and 
 helped build Paine's tavern that year. 
 
 The carding machine was a great help to Mill Creek 
 precinct, which included most of the territory included 
 now in the towns of Spring Grove and Jefferson. Pub- 
 lic opinion required settlers to wear homespun cloth, 
 and all the wool in the county was carded at Kline's 
 mill, to which was added, after a time, a fulling mill. 
 
 In the first vears of its existence, the abolitionists 
 made this precinct a principal field of their labors. 
 Probably the first abolitionists in the county were Jacob 
 LyBrand and G. W. Rogers of Monroe. Perhaps the 
 most active of them all was Hollis W. Button of Spring 
 Grove. Mr. Button was originally a democrat, but 
 while in Illinois in the winter of i840-'4i, cnance led 
 him to attend a meeting which brought upon him the 
 suspicion of being an abolitionist, and he was mobbed 
 by his democratic brethren. This treatment awakened 
 in him a new interest in the anti-slavery agitation. He 
 read anti-slavery books and papers, and soon became an 
 abolitionist, laboring unceasingly to convert others. For 
 several years the abolitionist made nominations for as 
 many of the county officers as they had men to fill. 
 " The first time this was done," says Mr. Button, " we 
 had seven votes and a half, all cast in Spring Grove." 
 The half vote was the vote of a man who scratched all 
 the names on the abolition ticket except Mr. Button's. 
 It was very unusual for abolitionists to hold office in 
 Green County. Even the office of road master was de- 
 
History of Green County. 197 
 
 nied them. One of their number was once appointed 
 judge of elections, and half a day elapsed after the time 
 had come for him to take the oath of his office before 
 he was allowed to take it, the objection being that an 
 abolitionist's oath was not to be believed. In August, 
 1845, tne abolitionists, who then numbered thirty-one 
 in the county, induced a Mr. Mathews of Racine Coun- 
 ty to lecture to them at the court house in Monroe. A 
 place of entertainment was found for him at the house 
 of an influential and very worthy Baptist, but the host 
 did not know, until he had kept his guest one night, 
 that the subject of the coming lecture was abolition, 
 and when he did know it, his conscience would not al- 
 low him to keep Mr. Mathews an hour longer. Another 
 abolition meeting was appointed for the next 4th of 
 July, but, when those interested in it assembled, they 
 found the court house fastened against them; where- 
 upon Mr. LyBrand wrote an account of the affair for 
 an anti-slavery paper, and desired all the other aboli- 
 tionists to subscribe their names to the article. This 
 they refused to do, on account of some personal criti- 
 cisms which it contained, and Mr. LyBrand was so dis- 
 pleased by the refusal that he never worked with them 
 after that time. The strongest instrument in weaken- 
 ing the opposition to their cause was a Methodist min- 
 ister, by the name of McKey, from Janesville. Escorted 
 by Mr. Button, he made the tour of the county as a 
 preacher, and in this capacity gained great popularity. 
 The field being made ready in this way, he went over 
 the county again as an abolition lecturer, and from this 
 
i'/\ History of Green County. 
 
 ent to Wiots . .here he - nearlv killed 
 mob. All his late admirers flocked to hear him, 
 and many were converted to his views. y orae of the 
 churches were nearlv broken up by the differences of 
 opinion that followed the lectures, nd there were 
 Meth - that called McKey the devil's ploughshare 
 
 that tore up the churches, and ;i big nigger Button " the 
 devil. Not long after this the Rev. J. D. Stevens, the 
 Presbvterian cler^vman. made M me .: the -ta- 
 
 the underground railroad. Now and then an 
 abolitionist fell from the rank-. The first vote in Jor- 
 dan for an abolition ticket was that of Ij a C r ey, 
 in I ■ S47. The vote involved him in an argument which 
 
 m lead to blows. He whipped his antagonist, but 
 
 afterwards changed his opinion of the measures of the 
 
 (i party, ai. 1 he was the one that ought to 
 
 have been flogged. The next abolition v ;an 
 
 were cast by Lemuel and Miner Taylor. In '52 the aboli- 
 
 . to be numerous enough to be courted by 
 
 :h the opposing political parties, though an abolition 
 meeting in Cadiz thi . attended by only about 
 
 half a dozen men, and one of them showed his con- 
 tempt for it by brir. , a basket of corn which he 
 shelled during the meeting. Among the leading abo- 
 lit: at this time were James Kiidow, Mordecai 
 Vanderbilt and Wm. Wilford, of Spring Grove; J. W. 
 
 uart and Donald Johnson, of Decatur; Wrn. Mc 
 Dowell and Joseph W. Smith, of Clarno; D. II. Mor- 
 
 n and Thos. Lindley. of Sylvester; L. Chamness and 
 Thos. II. Millman, of Monroe: and Samuel Overmeyer, 
 
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 of Albany, Man} others who were opposed to slav< ■ 
 were no1 counted as abolitionists because the^ did not 
 approve of all the measures of the abolition party, 
 
 In 1 8 | | , what was called a temporary [ u> >t office \\ .i> 
 opened in Mill Creek precinct, No mail route w as open 
 thai way, but Mr, Kildow, who lived on section thirty, 
 was authorized to receive and distribute mails, and the 
 settlers took turns in carrying the mail From Monrot 
 to Mr, Kildow's house. In recognition of the great 
 numbei of springs and groves in the precinct, Mr, 
 kiLI.'w called the office Spring Grove, In '48, when 
 .t mail route was opened Prom R.ockford to Mineral 
 Point, 1 1 was made t«> go l>\ the Spring Grove offi< 
 and Mr, Kilduv received .1 v. mmission as post master, 
 which he resigned in '57, in ordei to remove to the 
 southern part of the town, riu- office then went w< 
 into [efferson, \\ here it was named Oakley, with which 
 name it was moved in [860 to its present resting place, 
 t lie village of Sp i Grove, rhe Peedee office, in the 
 southern part oi the town, was also established in 186 
 For several years aftei M 1 . Baxtei went to Spring Grove 
 he kept .1 store tber< 1 w hich there w as no store in 
 
 the town until about 1 Phe people traded with A. 
 
 Ludlow, until he went into business in Monroe, and 
 t luu with Geo, \\ . Hoffman, until he op< ned .1 store in 
 Oheco, rhen Mr. J, Hoffman opened the first store in 
 the village oi Spring Grove, which, though changing 
 owners occasionally, still continues there with Mr, John 
 Kelly's woolen mill, the child of Kline's fulling mill, 
 Thru- was formerh .1 ■ ood store and .» tavern .it Clai 
 
200 History of Green County. 
 
 ence, a little village on Sand Prairie, near the north- 
 east corner of the township. Around the Sugar River 
 crossing on the Beloit road, there had been for a num- 
 ber of years a settlement of Canadians, sometimes 
 called Derrick's settlement, as the settlement of the im- 
 migrants from the Wabash around Spring Grove was 
 called Kline's settlement. Prominent in Derrick's set- 
 tlement were the families of Boslow and Dr. P. B. 
 
 Springstead. Dr. Springstead's son and son-in-law, 
 Chancellor Springstead and Wm. Sherry, built in 1841 
 the first house on Sand Prairie. Clarence was the 
 child of this settlement. The first house was built in 
 '45 by Wm. Sherry. For a number of years'the vil- 
 lage grew, and then, when Brodhead and Juda began 
 to grow, it wasted away as an apple tree withers, and 
 yellows, and dies, when a walnut begins to grow by its 
 side, and by the time the railroad was completed 
 the life of Clarence was gone. Like Decatur, the other 
 village that died that Brodhead might be, Clarence had 
 for some time borne a bad reputation. Counterfeiters 
 had given it a notoriety that must have gone far to rec- 
 oncile its best friends to its decline. 
 
 The report of the county clerk for 1877 shows that 
 this year Spring Grove leads all the other towns in the 
 most important crop in the county. Following is an 
 extract from the report: 
 
 Of Wheat — New Glarus has 
 
 i the la 
 
 rgest 
 
 No 
 
 . acres, 
 
 927 
 
 Corn — Spring Grove 
 
 i< 
 
 u 
 
 
 a 
 
 6,600 
 
 Oats — Sylvester 
 
 u 
 
 (( 
 
 
 u 
 
 3^31 
 
 Barley — Jefferson 
 
 It 
 
 u 
 
 
 it 
 
 2^2 
 
 Rye — Cadiz 
 
 u 
 
 K 
 
 
 u 
 
 584 
 
 Hops — Clarno 
 
 M 
 
 (( 
 
 
 u 
 
 H 
 
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 Tobacco — Decatur lias the largest No. acres, 
 
 Flax Seed— York 
 
 CulhVd Grasses — Clarno 
 
 Potatoes — Jordan 
 
 Roots — Exeter 
 
 Apples — Clarno 
 
 Timber — Washington 
 
 Clover Seed, bush. — Sylvester, 
 
 u 
 a 
 
 2 4 
 
 3,357 
 127 • 
 
 6 
 
 2,600 
 
 44 1 7 
 33 2 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN 
 
 Names. No 
 
 of Acres 
 
 Hugh Alexander, 
 
 4IO 
 
 Frederick Arnsmeir, 
 
 325 
 
 James P. Atwood, 
 
 200 
 
 *Pervine Atwood, - 
 
 706 
 
 David Austin, - 
 
 344 
 
 Norman Barker, 
 
 240 
 
 S. L. Boyles, 
 
 200 
 
 John A. Brant, 
 
 215 
 
 James H. Clemons, - 
 
 245 
 
 *David Davis, 
 
 280 
 
 P. L. Dederick, 
 
 171 
 
 F. H. Derrick, 
 
 207 
 
 S. B. Douglas, - 
 
 645 
 
 F. Dreakev, - 
 
 1 60 
 
 Eli Frisbie, 
 
 160 
 
 J. B. Galusha, 
 
 4°3 
 
 August Geise, - 
 
 220 
 
 A. J. Goodrich, 
 
 160 
 
 Jacob Haas, 
 
 267 
 
 Thomas Hamilton, 
 
 260 
 
 Esther Hostetter, 
 
 170 
 
 Thos. A. Jackson, 
 
 160 
 
 SPRING GROVE IN 1876 
 
 Names. 
 
 Wm. Johnson, - 
 
 Abram Knutson, 
 
 Levi Knutson, - 
 
 A. J. Kreider, 
 
 J.J. Kreider, 
 * French Lake, 
 
 Wm. Martin, - 
 
 W. W. Martin, 
 
 Sarah Myers, - 
 *J. J. Newman, 
 
 Asa Nichols, 
 
 Wm. O'Neil, 
 
 C. I. Putnam, - 
 
 [esse Schrock, 
 
 Thos. Shall; 
 
 August Schurd, 
 
 Benj. Stabler, - 
 
 Josiah Straw, 
 
 Jacob Ten Eyck estate, 657 
 
 Daniel Vanderbilt, 260 
 
 Chas. A. Warner, 191 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 260 
 272 
 
 - 191 
 l6o 
 
 - l6o 
 962 
 
 - l8o 
 l6o 
 
 - 187 
 388 
 
 - 240 
 24O 
 
 - ISO 
 l6o 
 
 - 2l6 
 
 179 
 
 37" 
 
 John II. Woodling, 
 
 320 
 
 The first voting place in the town was Hostetter's 
 mills. 
 
 TOWN OFFICERS FROM 1S49 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 J. W. KlLDOW. 
 
 Abner Mitchell, 3 years. 
 R. D. Derrick, 2 years. 
 E. A. Newton, 2 years. 
 Daniel Dunwiddie. 
 R. D. Derrick. 
 E. R. Allen, 6 years. 
 Pervine Atwood, 2 years. 
 
 *Largest Stock Growers. 
 
 J. W. KlLDOW. 
 
 Daniel Dunwiddie, 2 years. 
 
 E. R. Allen. 
 
 Daniel Dunwiddie, 2 years. 
 J. W. KlLDOW. 
 W. W. Martin. 
 
 F. H. Derrick, 3 years. 
 
 iS 
 
202 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 Alden Frisbie. 
 
 John R. Bussey. 
 
 A. D. Tenney. 
 
 E. R. Allen. 
 
 A. D. Tenney. 
 
 A. S. Dye. 
 
 L. E. Towne, 3 years. 
 
 Wm. B. Cooley. 
 
 Wm. Colby. 
 
 Andrew Boyles, 2 years 
 
 John Myers. 
 
 J. W. Kildow, 3 years. 
 
 Thos. A. Jackson. 
 
 L. M. Knowles. 
 
 Thos. A. Jackson, 5 years. 
 
 Andrew Boyles, 4 years. 
 
 E. R. Allen. 
 
 JORDAN. 
 
 No reverence attaches itself to the modern Jordan. 
 It may be a very good creek in its way, but the town 
 which it waters has a bad reputation, for which both 
 town and stream must suffer. No pilgrim stranger 
 ever stands on this Jordan's crooked banks. If, per- 
 chance, there be one who wishes to do so, he is whisked 
 off by some one mindful of his county's honor to the 
 Jordan prairie of Decatur; he is let down into mines in 
 Monroe, and dragged to the top of the mounds in 
 Mount Pleasant; he is made to admire the level land 
 and tine crops of Spring Grove, and the undulating 
 land and fine crops of York; but when his time and 
 strength are gone, he has not seen Jordan. Green 
 County finds her proverbially necessary skeleton in the 
 closet, her black sheep in the flock, in this town. 
 Josephus himself, could he hear the jokes and the ex- 
 pressions of sympathy of which Jordan land and Jordan 
 
History of Green County. 203 
 
 farmers are the subjects, would lose all reverence for 
 the historic name, and his next volume might hear upon 
 its title page this warning addressed to would-be Jordan 
 farmers : 
 
 Pull oft* your coat, and roll up your sleeve, 
 For Jordan is a hard road to travel, I believe. 
 
 In 1S65, that part of Jordan which borders on Skin- 
 ner creek was declared to be a good oil country, and a 
 great many with faith in the fitness of all things for 
 some good believed the report. A man supposed to be 
 acquainted with the Pennsylvania oil district visited the 
 Skinner land, and warned the citizens that, if they hesi- 
 tated, wise men from the east would step in before 
 them, and occupy this newly discovered road to fortune. 
 They did not hesitate. In March '66, the ''Farmers' 
 Oil and Lead Co.,"" a stock company having "power 
 and authority to mine and dig for mineral, ore, and coal, 
 and to bore and search for salt, oil, and petroleum," was 
 incorporated. An engine was bought, and a bore forty 
 feet deep was sunk. Meanwhile, oil was really found in 
 one or two springs, and, though the incredulous in- 
 sisted that a little investigation would show that some 
 cruel joker had first found it in a Monroe grocery, land 
 owners on both the Monroe and the Jordan side of Skin- 
 ner felt that they were among earth's favored few. But 
 this glorious summer was followed by a winter of dis- 
 content. The company abandoned the enterprise and 
 dissolved, and the price of Skinner land went down 
 again, since which time there has been no popular hope 
 for Jordan. But after all, there is something to be said 
 
204 History of Green County. 
 
 for the town. It is healthful. Among the oldest set- 
 tlers in the town is Mr. John Stevens. He happened 
 to camp there while he was taking his family from 
 Missouri to the east, for health. A stay of one night so 
 invigorated the invalids that a longer stay, a further re- 
 newal of strength, then a home there and perfect health 
 followed. Other settlers testify to a similar improve- 
 ment of their health in Jordan, and one centenarian 
 spent his last score of years there. 
 
 If people do not choose to farm in Jordan, other 
 sources of wealth are open to them there. One of these 
 is a fine hard limestone, which is almost a marble, and 
 which only needs a railway to bring it into demand as 
 a building stone. Lead is found in small quantities all 
 over the town, and some shafts have yielded a large 
 amount. One farmer struck a three hundred dollar 
 bunch with his plow. The Indians mined extensively 
 in Jordan, and had seven smelting furnaces just over the 
 town line in Adams, where thev carried the lead from 
 northern Jordan on account of the natural conveniences 
 there for washing it. In the stream on his farm, Mr. 
 Wm. Soper has found hundreds of pounds which he 
 thinks the Indians took there to wash. It is believed 
 that the only natural cranberry marsh in southern Wis- 
 consin is in Jordan. It is not large, but since its discov- 
 ery, cranberry vines have appeared spontaneously in 
 several other places in the town, and there is little doubt 
 that the culture of cranberries in Jordan might be made, 
 and will sometime be made profitable. In the western 
 part of the town there is an inexhaustible bed of ochre, 
 
History of Green County. 205 
 
 which has been found, by examination of a specimen 
 sent to Ohio, to be identical with the ochre from which 
 the excellent and well known Ohio paint is made. 
 Along Jordan and Skinner creeks are wide beds of peat, 
 from three to ten feet in depth. The peat is of an ex- 
 cellent quality, but, except to a limited extent as a fer- 
 tilizer, no use is made of it, for Jordan has too much 
 good timber to be willing to dig for fuel. Had Jordan 
 a fertile soil there would be nothing in the town to com- 
 plain of. Good water is abundant. Jordan and Skinner 
 creeks traverse the town from north to south, and Jor- 
 dan farmers claim that there is an average of one spring 
 for every forty acres in the town. There is properly 
 no prairie, but the bottom lands are very wide and 
 level, and the remark of the American Cyclopaedia that 
 the hills in Green County "are arable to their very 
 summits," shows that the hills alone do not make Jordan 
 a poor town. The under-drainage is so perfect that in 
 case of heavy rains the roots in cultivated ground are 
 sufficient to prevent the soil from washing, and the in- 
 jury from drouths is comparatively small, because the 
 soil does not bake like an undrained surface, and, being 
 always porous, it easily absorbs the dew and vapors of 
 the air. 
 
 But good health, good drainage, and good water are 
 the rule in Green County, and since others of the towns 
 are supplied with lead, fine limestone, and peat (the 
 town of Washington, for example, has a bed of lime- 
 stone exactly like the so-called marble of which the 
 normal school building at Platteville is built), all these 
 
 • iS* 
 
206 History of Green County. 
 
 good things count for nothing, and, because it has the 
 poorest soil in the county, Jordan is unhesitatingly con- 
 demned as a very poor town. It would seem, though, 
 from the learned Dr. David Dale Owens' Geological 
 Report of the mineral region of Wisconsin that Jordan 
 has nothing to be ashamed of in the way of soil. A 
 measure of the value of a soil is the average quantity 
 of organic matter, in other words the plant food, it con- 
 tains. The average quantity of organic matter in one 
 hundred specimens of the soil of Massachusetts analyzed 
 by Prof. Hitchcock, was 7.68 per cent. In specimens 
 from New York it was 6.64 per cent. In Dr. Owen's 
 report, published in 1S39, is given the following analysis 
 of soil from " township two, range six east, Green 
 County, Wisconsin : " 
 
 u 
 u 
 
 u 
 
 Water, 3. per cent. 
 
 Salts, soluble in water, - 3. 
 
 Salts, soluble in dilute muriatic acid, - - 0.5 
 
 Silicious matter, - 82. 
 
 Organic matter, - - - - - - 11.5 " 
 
 It will not be claimed that all the soil in Jordan is as 
 good as that which Dr. Owen analyzed, but where 
 some of it is so much better than the average soil in 
 New York and Massachusetts, it does not seem prob- 
 able that the townshijD as a whole is much inferior to 
 the average land in those states. That it is much bet- 
 ter land than is generally supposed might be inferred 
 from the fact that a large proportion of its inhabitants 
 are foreigners who went there, not only without a 
 knowledge of the language, customs, and climate of the 
 country, but without money enough to pay for the land 
 
Histoiy of Green County. 20 
 
 they settled on, and that they are now, almost without 
 exception, possessed of good homes and large farms. 
 Good crops of all kinds are raised in Jordan. It must 
 be admitted that in a great part of the town the land 
 does not grow more valuable from year to year, but in 
 these cases the farmers have done nothing to raise the 
 value of their farms. Some farmers who use no fertil- 
 izers raise crop after crop on a field until it is exhausted, 
 and then, without seeding it down, they call it pasture. 
 Were Jordan so poor a town as to render such a course 
 impossible, her reputation would be much better. But 
 better methods are coming into use, and it is not too late 
 to rectify mistakes. Jordan land will bear a great deal 
 of abuse. One of the best farms there, a farm which 
 would be called good in any town or state, was bought 
 by its present owner as a worn out farm, and, by only 
 a reasonable amount of care, brought by him to its 
 present excellence. 
 
 The earliest settlers in northern and middle Jordan 
 were Robert Brazel, John Trotter and Joshua Chilton, 
 all from Illinois. The former came in '37, the latter 
 two in '39. Wm. Brazel came in '40. John and Geo. 
 Yazel, Nathaniel Matthews, James and Absalom Kelly, 
 who all came to the county in iS39-'40, were in the 
 southern part of the town before the end of '41. John 
 Pinney and Jacobs were in western Jordan be- 
 fore 1840, and there were two or three men in Lafayette 
 County so near the boundary line that they have been 
 counted as Green County settlers. James Mills was al- 
 ready on his farm just west of "lattice bridge," and 
 
2oS History of Gi'een County. 
 
 Hunter was a few miles farther north. The place 
 
 now called Wiota was then called " the cape," in whim- 
 sical allusion to the fact that one of the first families 
 that settled there came from a cape on the Atlantic 
 coast. The Wiota of that day was at the junction of 
 the forks of the Pecatonica, just west of the north-west 
 corner of Cadiz. Steamboats from some point on 
 Rock river ascended the Pecatonica as far as the junc- 
 tion in 1S45, and it was supposed there would be a city 
 there. The settlers of 1843 were Henry Hard and 
 Curtis Cary, of Ohio; John and Geo. Chilton, of Vir- 
 ginia; John and Wesley Church, of Illinois; and 
 
 Shafer. Next, in 1S44, came Mr. John Soper, of Ver- 
 mont. Lars Larson (sometimes called, in accordance 
 with the Norwegian custom which allows individuals 
 to affix to their names the name of their native place, 
 Lars Larson Bothan), came in 1844. It is thought 
 he was the first Norwegian to settle in the county. He 
 was followed the next year by Axel Iverson (Stortottle), 
 and almost every year since then Norwegian immigrants 
 have come to Lafayette and western Green. Some of 
 the eastern towns, particularly Albany, have also a large 
 number of Norwegians among their farmers. Since 
 1845, t°°' a gi'eat many Irish immigrants have made 
 their homes in Jordan. In 1843 or '44 Dr. John Church, 
 already mentioned as a preacher, built 'a saw mill in 
 Jordan. In '47, John Bachman built the first grist mill 
 in the town, and in '48 Benjamin Cross and Lemuel 
 and Miner Taylor built the second saw mill. 
 
 The first road laid out in the town was the White 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 209 
 
 Oak Springs and Exeter, territorial road, recorded as 
 being on the line between Adams and Jordan. It fol- 
 lowed the ridge, some parts of which are on the line, 
 ■while others are half a mile - south of it. The first 
 school was taught in the early summer of 1S41, by 
 Miss Emma Green, in a cabin owned by Mr. Joshua 
 Chilton. The first school house was built in 1S44, by 
 Win. and Robert Brazel, Joshua Chilton, and Mrs. 
 John Trotter. It was on the Wm. Brazel place, since 
 known as the John Scott place. The first public school 
 taught in it was taught by James Tennyson in the win- 
 ter of '44- '45. The first frame school house was built 
 in '48 in "the Blaine" district, near the south-east cor- 
 ner of the town. The only post office in Jordan is 
 that at Jordan Centre, where there are a number of 
 dwellings and a school house, and where a church is 
 building. 
 
 There are four cheese factories in Jordan, owned 
 respectively by Miner Taylor, Jacob Figlan, F. Haflner, 
 and a company. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN JORDAN IN 1876. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres 
 
 Wm. Ableman, 
 
 - 2SO 
 
 Andrew Fryslie, 
 
 - 348 
 
 F. Anderson, 
 
 200 
 
 Richard Gibbons, - 
 
 200 
 
 Wm. Ault, 
 
 - I78 
 
 L. O. Grove, 
 
 - 160 
 
 F. Babbler, - 
 
 220 
 
 Andrew S. Hanson, 
 
 200 
 
 John Beach, 
 
 - 344 
 
 Mary Jane Hanson, 
 
 - 3°5 
 
 D. E. Benson, 
 
 160 
 
 Frantz Hafrner, 
 
 266 
 
 Chas. Beyerhofrer 
 
 - 220 
 
 Geo. Hart wig, - 
 
 - 253 
 
 Joseph Blum, 
 
 2 55 
 
 Iver Iverson, 
 
 - 240 
 
 Owen Burns, - 
 
 - 160 
 
 Daniel Kesler, 
 
 160 
 
 B. Ellis, 
 
 200 
 
 Lars Larson, 
 
 - 220 
 
 Thore Erikson, 
 
 - 180 
 
 James Lewis, 
 
 268 
 
 Ole Evenson, 
 
 179 
 
 John MaGrath, 
 
 - 251 
 
 Peter Fenne, 
 
 220 
 
 Richard MaGrath, 
 
 238 
 
 John D. Fritsch, - 
 
 220 
 
 A. Mevthaler, - 
 
 - r 97 
 
-2IO 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres, 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres 
 
 Horace Sawin, 
 
 175 
 
 Kund Torson, 
 
 240 
 
 Thore Severson, 
 
 - 2l8 
 
 Trotter estate, - 
 
 - x 93 
 
 Squires & Cook, - 
 
 l6o 
 
 Jacob Voegley, 
 
 293 
 
 A. Schultz, 
 
 - 190 
 
 A. Wiggins, 
 
 - 182 
 
 C. Stephens, 
 
 i So 
 
 Miles Wilson, 
 
 220 
 
 *L. Taylor. 
 
 - 473 
 
 *A. P. Wells, - 
 
 - 220 
 
 *Miner Taylor, 
 
 4*7 
 
 O. F. Wells, 
 
 200 
 
 Bottel Toiefson, 
 
 - 248 
 
 
 
 
 MILLS. 
 
 Samuel Blackford, Saw and Grist Mills. 
 H. Rust, Saw Mill. 
 
 The first town meetings were held at the Ostrander 
 
 school house. 
 
 OFFICERS FROM 1S49 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 Warren Osgood. Wm. Biggs. 
 
 Thos. White, 3 years. J. K. Bloom. 
 
 Wm. Munson. N. T. Hanson. 
 
 Levi Spaulding. Iver Iverson, 4 years. 
 
 Wm. Munson, 3 years. Geo. R. King. 
 
 James Y. Cleveland, 2 years. Iver Iverson. 
 
 Taylor Wickersham, 2 years. JSamuel Blackford, 2 yr's. 
 
 H. G. Cleveland, 2 years. Iver Iverson. 
 
 Iver Iverson. J. B. Blackford. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 T. N. Ellis, 2 years. 
 
 M. Satterlee. 
 
 Isaac Trembley. 
 
 H. G. Cleveland. 
 
 M. Devareaux. 
 
 D. H. Morgan. 
 
 H. G. Cleveland, 3 years. 
 
 J as. M. Cook. 
 
 H. G. Cleveland, 2 years. 
 
 Wm. H. Allen. 
 Taylor Wickersham. 
 Wm. Biggs. 
 J as. M. Cook. 
 Jacob Deetz, 3 years. 
 Nelson Rust. 
 N. T. Hanson, 2 years. 
 Jacob Deetz, 6 years. 
 
 *Largest stock growers. 
 
WASHINGTON. 
 
 About the time the capitol at Madison was begun in: 
 1837, Josiah Pi erce of New York landed at Milwaukee,, 
 where he was almost immediately engaged to go to 
 Madison and board the workmen. His was the second 
 family in Madison. In the following November, he re- 
 moved to a cabin which he had built during the sum- 
 mer in what is now the town of Washington, Green 
 County. The cabin, whose dimensions were sixteen by 
 eighteen feet, was on the line of nearly all the travel 
 from the eastern part of the state to Galena, and there 
 was hardly ever a night that some one did not stop 
 there. Sometimes the guest was Gov. Dodge attended 
 by his colored servant, who rode at a respectful distance 
 behind the Governor, and carried his excellency's pistoL 
 
 This was the time of the "wild cat" currency. Ap- 
 parently everybody could issue money and as much as 
 he chose, and those who did not issue it had no trouble in 
 getting it, though it was often not worth the getting. 
 Mr. Albert H. Pierce, then seventeen years of age, 
 could easily earn $30 a month at farm labor, but it took 
 $50 dollars to buy him an ordinary coat. A man who 
 
212 History of Green County. 
 
 was hauling flour from Galena to the garrison at Fort 
 Winnebago once broke down near Mr. Pierce's, and 
 finding he could not go on with the whole load, kindly 
 sold Mr. Pierce two barrels at thirteen dollars a barrel. 
 Mr. Noah Phelps, who helped survey Green County 
 before the Black Hawk war, returning at the conclusion 
 of his work to his home in New York state, wished to 
 bring his family to Wisconsin in 1S37. ^ e was neai "ly 
 ready to start in May, when the banks suspended specie 
 payment. As all his money was in bank notes, and as 
 government land could be bought only with coin, he 
 was obliged to wait. When specie payment was re- 
 sumed the next May he was still ready to come, and in 
 June, '38, he made the second home in the town of 
 Washington. By iS42-'43, when the next settlers came 
 to Washington, there were so many people in the county 
 that residence in it was no longer presumptive proof of 
 acquaintance with all its inhabitants. The settlers in 
 the different parts of Washington seem to have had 
 very little to do with each other, and it is now impossi- 
 ble for any of them to give a chronological list of the 
 first comers. Samuel Holloway, of Illinois, went to 
 
 Washington in '45, before which time Wise, 
 
 Vance, Franklin Pierce, J. S. Fessenden, Elias Wright, 
 
 of Ohio, and Kirkpatrick, of Pennsylvania, had 
 
 made their claims. Elijah Roby, of Ohio, went in '46, 
 and C. J. Simmons went in '47. Among the next set- 
 tlers were Samuel O. Allison, of Illinois; Hiram Bain, 
 of New York; James Richards, of Indiana; John 
 Perine, Barney Becker, Wm. Tucker, James Crouch, 
 
History of Green Cou?ity. 213 
 
 Webster, Jas. Parks, Sires, James Lang, Sol- 
 omon Willis, John Frost, Hendrickson, and James 
 
 Hilton. In '46 and a few suceeding years, a great many 
 Swiss went to Washington from the colony at New 
 Glarus, and at the close of the Mexican war the soldiers' 
 land warrants gave a new impetus to the settlement of 
 the town. 
 
 Washington is watered by Skinner creek and 
 by several branches of Sugar river. It is more abun- 
 dantly supplied with timber than New Glarus, to 
 which town it is similar in having a good soil, a broken 
 surface, and a Swiss population largely engaged in the 
 rearing: of stock and the manufacture of cheese. It is 
 unlike New Glarus in having once thrown the whole 
 county into a commotion. The exciting cause was an 
 ignorant bov who went to Madison and told that his 
 employer in Washington had murdered a man. The 
 story was the more shocking from being told of one 
 who was as little likely as any man in the town to be 
 suspected of crime, and until the boy had confessed that 
 the whole story was false and had been sent to the re- 
 form school there was little else thought of in the 
 county. This was the second time that the grave of a 
 living man was sought for in Green County, where evi- 
 dence of murder will probably be necessary hereafter to 
 make men take up the cry of murderer. 
 
 Washington is mainly distinguished for her cheese. 
 Since a part of this book has been in type it has been 
 stated on the authority of the manufacturers that 
 1,000,000 pounds of American, 775,000 pounds of Lim- 
 
 19 
 
214 History of Green County. 
 
 burger, and 225,000 pounds of Swiss cheese were made 
 in Green County in 1S76, and sold at an average price 
 of twelve cents per pound for Swiss cheese, and ten 
 cents per pound for other kinds. No estimate has been 
 made as to how much of this valuable product Wash- 
 ington might claim, but no other town except New 
 Glarus has made so much. Following is a list of 
 Washington's factories in '76. Several new ones have 
 been started the present year: 
 
 CHEESE FACTORIES. 
 
 Names of Manufacturers. Kinds of Cheese. Names of Manufacturers. Kinds of Cheese. 
 
 D. & H. Freitag, Swiss & Limb. J. Zimmerman, Swiss. 
 
 G. Witwer, Swiss. John Gange, American. 
 
 Jacob Karlen, Limburger. Jobn Boss, Limburger. 
 
 N. Gerber, Limburger. M. L. Barney, American. 
 
 G. Behler, Limburger. E.W. Cheesbro, American. 
 
 R. Karlen, Swiss. Miller, Frautschy ik Co., Lim- 
 
 C Theiler, Limburger. burger. 
 
 M. Zumbrunnen, Swiss and Limburger. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN WASHINGTON IN 1876. 
 
 Names. No. of Acres. Names. No. of Acres. 
 
 James Barney - - 265 John Gempler, - 160 
 
 Anton Baumgartner, 260 Geo. Gill, - - 240 
 
 John Baumgartner, - 160 Andrew Harper, - 360 
 
 Caspar Becker, Sen., 401 Fridolin Hefty, - - 203 
 
 Caspar Becker, J un., - 171 Thos. Hefty, - 401 
 
 David Benkert - 165 Gustavus Hilton, - 177 
 
 J. G. Biddlingmeier, - 200 Benedict Isely, - 160 
 
 Adam Bloomer. - 387 Christopher Isely, - 240 
 
 John Bloomer, - - 180 Rudolph Karlen, - 302 
 
 Fridolin Blum, - 263 Richard Keegan, - 384 
 
 Jacob Buergy, - - 172 Thos. Leman, - 200 
 
 L. Burtis, - - 310 Win. Leman, - - 180 
 
 E W. Cheesbro, - 200 Wm. Maguire, - 280 
 
 John Dick, - - 168 Melchoir Marty, - 257 
 
 Fridolin Elmer, - 200 Benedict Miller, - 260 
 
 J. S. Fessenden - 160 James Murphy, . 160 
 
 Wm. Fleury, - - 320 Patrick Purcell, - 400 
 
 Jacob Frautschy, - 200 E. Roby, - 160 
 
 John Frautschy, - 160 Melchoir Schlittler, 180 
 
 Dietrich Freitag, - 253 Christopher Schuler, - 167 
 
 John Gange, - - 280 Michael Shay, - 160 
 
IIisto?y of Green County. 
 
 l 5 
 
 Names. No. 
 
 C. J. Simmons, 
 John Tcehan, 
 Christ. Theiler, 
 Jeremiah Thurlow, 
 Dietland Tomm, 
 Joseph Voegly, 
 Peter Wagner, 
 Jacob Weissmiller, 
 Christ. Wessenberg, - 
 
 LARGEST STOCK GROWERS. 
 
 E. W. Cheesbro. M. J. & O. Zumbrnnnen. 
 
 C. J. Simmons. 
 
 The first town meetinsr in Washington was held at 
 
 the house of James Lang. 
 
 OFFICERS FROM 1S49 TO 1877 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 of Acres. 
 
 Names. No 
 
 . of Acres, 
 
 560 
 
 M. Wittenwyler, - 
 
 l6o 
 
 160 
 
 Gottlieb Wittwer, 
 
 3 2 3 
 
 200 
 
 Jacob Zimmerman, 
 
 198 
 
 166 
 
 Bernhard Zweifel, 
 
 164 
 
 200 
 
 Pridolin Zweifel, - 
 
 2IO 
 
 302 
 
 Fridolin Zwickey, 
 
 163 
 
 211 
 
 Gottlieb Zumbrunnen, 
 
 I92 
 
 286 
 
 Jacob Zumbrunnen, - 
 
 298 
 
 24O 
 
 Martin Zumbrunnen, 
 
 62O 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 Elijah Roby, 
 Albert H. Pierce. 
 Elijah Roby, 
 Albert H. Pierce. 
 Elijah Roby, 4 years. 
 Albert H. Pierce. 
 Elijah Roby. 
 Argalus Loveland. 
 A. H. Pierce, 
 L. Seltzer, 2 years. 
 Samuel Shook. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 Wm. Tucker, four years. 
 
 M. J. Hancock, two years, re- 
 signed, Addison Macomber 
 appointed. 
 
 Argalus Loveland, two years. 
 
 J. M. White. 
 
 L. Seltzer, three years. 
 
 F. Bloom, Jr., four years, re- 
 signed, M. L. Barney, ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 Franklin Pierce, 3 years. 
 L. Seltzer, 2 years. 
 Franklin Pierce, 
 L. Seltzer. 
 S. T. Clayton. 
 Benedict Miller. 
 S. T. Clayton. 
 Samuel Shook, (resigned, 
 
 Adam Bloomer, appointed). 
 Fridolin Blum, 3 years. 
 
 Jacob Hefty, four years,, re- 
 signed, J. Frautschy ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 Jacob Frautschy, two yrs. 
 
 L. Seltzer, two years, re- 
 signed, S. T. Clayton ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 Benedict Miller, five 
 years. 
 
DECATUR. 
 
 The history of Decatur begins with the history of 
 Centre ville, " a paper city " laid out in 1836 on the west 
 bank of Sugar river, within half a mile of the place 
 where the village of Decatur arose some years later. 
 Upon the plat of Centreville, which was exhibited in 
 Milwaukee, Detroit, and the eastern cities, were repre- 
 sented steamboats, churches, warehouses, and blocks of 
 stores. Thus portrayed, the place was the cause of 
 inanv a yearning for a western home, and a brisk sale 
 of high priced business lots and four acre out lots be- 
 gan. Careful, prosperous farmers and tradesmen, 
 wealthy speculators, and penny-saving laborers all em- 
 braced the opportunity to make a good investment, and 
 purchased real estate in what the agents called the grow- 
 ing, bustling city of Centreville. One by one the pur- 
 chasers learned that they were the victims of a fraud, 
 that their land was no better than might have been 
 bought at the government price. And so undesirable 
 did it seem, when the unsettled state of the country was 
 made known, that although their titles were unquestion- 
 ably good, yet, so far as can be ascertained, not one of 
 
History of Green Couftty. 217 
 
 the purchasers of Centreville lots ever claimed a foot of 
 the much lauded city, or ever settled within the limits 
 of Decatur township. The place had indeed been sur- 
 veyed and divided, as the plat showed, but the red stakes 
 marking these divisions were the only marks of their 
 presence which w T hite men had ever left in the so-called 
 city. Possibly too, though its social advantages were 
 hardly of the kind to attract immigrants from the east, 
 the city w T as as populous as its owners had claimed, for 
 it was an Indian hunting ground. Here were found 
 the marks of Indian labor which endured longest in 
 Green County. The remains of an Indian council house 
 and blacksmith shop could be seen here until 1847, when 
 they were destroyed by a prairie fire. In one place in 
 this vicinity, the first settlers found an acre or two of 
 holes dug in the sand, which it is supposed the Indians 
 had used as store houses for their corn; and Mr. Wm. 
 Jones found, on attempting to cultivate one of their old 
 corn fields, that they had entirely exhausted the soil. 
 Aside from the arrow heads which are occasionally 
 turned up by the plow, few relics of the Indian are ever 
 found in Green County. Mr. Jonas Shook remembers 
 seeing an Indian burying ground north of Dayton in 
 1837, and in '41 Messrs. John B. Perry and brother, 
 Thos. Gillett, and others opened some mounds on "lost 
 prairie," a little east of the village of Exeter, and found 
 bones that it seemed to them must have belonged to a 
 race of giants. The mounds were in two rows, one 
 row on each side of the opening or prairie, with twenty- 
 five mounds in one row and twenty-six in the other. 
 
 19* 
 
2i8 History of Green County. 
 
 For many years after the advent of the whites, a rem- 
 nant of the Winnebagoes visited their old Centreville 
 hunting ground each winter, spending the summer at the 
 mouth of the rivei*. In their long snow shoes they hunt- 
 ed over the ground very rapidly, and usually remained 
 but a few weeks; but sometimes, as in the winter of 
 1842-^3, the cold weather kept them till spring. They 
 numbered but a few families, and most of their children 
 were half breeds. Being partially civilized, they some- 
 times made their pilgrimages in wagons, but their mode 
 of life was essentially Indian. Their lodges, covered 
 with storm proof mats, which the squaws had woven, 
 were some of them thirty feet long. In the middle of 
 the larger ones was a fire, round which the inmates lay 
 and warmed themselves. Two Frenchmen lived with 
 the Indians, one of whom, named Lavelle, told Mr. E. 
 T. Fleek in i84i,that game was much more abundant in 
 the vicinity of Sugar river then than it was when he 
 first saw the country in 1826. He ascribed the change 
 to the decrease in the Indian population. 
 
 The first settlers in Decatur township settled on Jor- 
 dan prairie, near the Little Jordan creek. The first claim 
 was that of John Moore of Ohio, made in 1839 on section 
 twenty. In the following year he was joined by his son- 
 in-law, Thos. Chambers, by John J. Dawson, and by 
 Samuel Rowe. The first person born in the township 
 was Caroline Chambers, born in 1840. In 1841 Robert 
 Mattox and E. T. Fleek settled on section seventeen. 
 In the winter of iS4i-'2, a post office was established, 
 which the postmaster, Mr. Moore, named Decatur, in 
 
History of Green County. 219 
 
 honor of Commodore Decatur. The office gave the 
 name to the election precinct, and still later to the vil- 
 lage and the township. 
 
 To Decatur belongs the honor of having the first 
 bridge in the county. It was built in 1842, a little north- 
 east of the site of the village of Decatur, at the place 
 where the river was crossed by the Indian trail from 
 Sand Prairie to the northern part of the county, and by 
 the territorial road from Janesville to Galena. The 
 next settler, Win. Jones, came in 1842. Soon after his 
 arrival he built on Sugar river, section fifteen, the first 
 saw mill in the township. The first grist mill was built 
 by Edson and Brown, but was not begun until 1S49. 
 In i842-'3-'4, Donald Johnson, David Bigelow, Wm. 
 
 F razee, Thos. Stewart, Axtell, and probably some 
 
 others, settled in the town. Many more came in 1S45 than 
 had come before, and the work of breaking prairie was 
 carried on with such energy that the decaying vegetation 
 on the overturned sod produced malarial fever. In some 
 neighborhoods almost every person was sick, and some 
 died who might have recovered under proper care. 
 Men sometimes went both to Monroe and to Exeter for 
 a physician, and were unable to get one in either place. 
 To their failure was ascribed, in a few instances, the re- 
 covery of the sick. One man who, as a physician, was 
 never heard of in Decatur after the summer and fall of 
 1846, made between two and three thousand dollars by 
 his practice along the Sugar river at that time. Mr. 
 David Bigelow was the first victim of the fever, and 
 the first person to die in the township. 
 
220 History of Green County. 
 
 The reputation of Decatur has not always been good. 
 At a very early day the township was infested with 
 counterfeiters and thieves. The counterfeiting was 
 probably confined to making bogus silver half-dollars 
 and dimes, but those engaged in it also bought and put 
 in circulation counterfeit bills. Were the inhabitants of 
 Decatur as imaginative, as garrulous, and as idle as the 
 Spaniards, their reminiscences of the counterfeiters 
 would be a fund of entertainment for their children 
 equal to that furnished little Spaniards by legends of 
 the buried and enchanted treasures of the Moors. How 
 fortunate that time and inclination forbid! It would be 
 troublesome to have boys running away to the woods 
 to look for remains of fine horses left there to starve 
 because those who put them there never dared to go 
 back and feed them. Nobody would like to have neigh- 
 bors' children slipping into his cellar, to see if the walls 
 had been blackened by the fumes of chemicals; and still 
 worse would it be if gamins were always waiting on 
 the corners to ask the dimensions of the box of sand 
 which somebody's respected ancestor might be fabled 
 to have bought, foolishly believing it held a thousand 
 dollars of the "queer." While the counterfeiting was 
 in progress, Decatur had within her borders a floating 
 population that no more belonged to her than to the 
 rest of the county, and some of those engaged in it lived 
 in other towns. But the centre of it all, so far as Green 
 County was concerned, was Decatur township. Decatur 
 men who went abroad in those days say that it always 
 took them twice as long as other travelers to pay their 
 
History of Green County. 221 
 
 bills, for, although large sums might be taken from 
 other parts of Green County without hesitation, the 
 smallest bill was never taken from Decatur until " the 
 detector " and the microscope had been consulted. The 
 end justified the hope of good citizens that the corrup- 
 tion would work itself clear. Soon after 1850, the vis- 
 its of the transient class ceased, and the unlawful prac- 
 tices were ended. A few years later Monroe became 
 the headquarters of another gang of countefeiters. Their 
 business was suddenly brought to an end by the gov- 
 ernment, since which Green County has been free from 
 the stigma which the conduct of such men attached to 
 her. 
 
 The village of Decatur, to which reference has once or 
 twice been made, was laid out in the spring of 1848, by 
 Mr. Wm. Jones. He had, himself, built the first dwelling 
 there, and he now built the first hotel. A few years later, 
 Mr. I. F. Mack bought the greater part of the village, 
 and, as the Decatur plat had never been recorded, he 
 platted eighty acres and had it recorded as Floraville, 
 the name being a compliment to his mother-in-law, and, 
 it is thought, the only compliment of the kind which 
 history records. But Mr. Jones insisted that the village 
 should either continue to be called Decatur, or should 
 be named for his mother-in-law; and in 1852 an act of 
 the legislature restored the old name. 
 
 The refusal of Decatur to give $7,000 for a railway 
 was her own death sentence. When the road reached 
 Brodhead in 1857, Decatur had five stores, two hotels, 
 two blacksmith shops, a wagon shop, a shoe shop, and 
 
222 History of Green County. 
 
 about four hundred inhabitants. All the business and 
 all the best houses immediately went over to Brodhead. 
 The next year, the bridge, where the first bridge in the 
 county was built, was taken down, and moved farther 
 south to shorten the road to the all-swallowing town. 
 The mills followed, and Decatur was literally a de- 
 serted village. There are now fifteen houses standing 
 there, but several of them are unoccupied, and " the 
 sounds of population fail." 
 
 The original owners of the town of Brodhead were 
 E. D. Clinton, I. F. Mack, John P. Dixon, E. A. West, 
 E. H. Brodhead, and J. L. B. Thomas. As hiid out by 
 them in the spring of 1S56, the town was a mile square; 
 but the only house there was a log house owned by 
 Samuel Lampson. The place was named for Mr. 
 Brodhead, and he promised to give a bell to the first 
 church built there. Clinton would have been an ap- 
 propriate name for the village; but Clinton Junction 
 had been named for Deacon Clinton, Kilbourn City had 
 been named for another railroad man, and it seemed 
 right that Mr. Brodhead should have his turn in honor 
 of this kind. Citizens of Waukesha, Deacon Clinton's 
 former home, were the first from out of the county to 
 ally themselves with the new town. The next comers 
 were Vermonters, led by Messrs. Moore, Laird, and 
 McLaren. There was the usual question as to which 
 way the village should grow. At first business seemed 
 likely to keep south of the railroad, and Messrs. Clin- 
 ton and Dixon had each a natural desire to lead it into 
 the street bearing his own name. But Martin Mitchell 
 
History of Green County. 22£ 
 
 (a business man from the village of Decatur, and the 
 first clerk of the town), and a few others, happened to 
 build north of the railroad in the street between these 
 rival streets, and this half way ground became the nu- 
 cleus of the village. Dwellings went up in the new 
 town in the summer of '56 as fast as workmen could be 
 found to put them up. Before the end of September, 
 Messrs. Sherman & Clinton had erected two good 
 stores and were preparing to build others; and Messrs. 
 Laird & Coffin were ready to entertain all guests of the 
 village at the Manly House. Laird, McLaren & Co.'s 
 lumber yard (the first in the county, and the only one 
 until N. H. Allen started his in Monroe the next year), 
 Messrs. Clinton's warehouse, and a number of stores 
 appeared in 1S57. In the first eighteen months after 
 the town was platted, lots were sold to the value of 
 $1 12,000; and at the end of her second year, B rod head 
 had over six hundred inhabitants. In the fall of '57, 
 thanks to the farmers, to Deacon Clinton, to Messrs- 
 Graham, the contractors, and to J. T. Dodge, the engi- 
 neer who had charge of the work, the railroad reached 
 Brodhead. In February, '58, the dullest month of the 
 year, the freight shipped from Brodhead amounted to 
 896,014 pounds. Monroe, Brodhead's senior by tw r enty- 
 two years, shipped 1,212,206 pounds during the same 
 time. 
 
 One of the first improvements in the new village 
 was the mill race, which Thos. and John Hendrie dug 
 from the river dam near Decatur to the site of the flour 
 mill which Messrs. Hendrie, H. B. Stewart, and S. C 
 
224 History of Green County. 
 
 Pierce built in Brodhead. Citizens of Brodhead sub- 
 scribed several thousand dollars to assist in defraying 
 the expenses of the race, which is eighty feet wide, and 
 nearly three miles long, and which furnishes the power 
 for a foundry, several wagon shops, and the Norwegian 
 plow factory. The plow factory, which makes twenty- 
 five plows a day, was built in 1874 by W. A. Wheaton, 
 C. W. Mitchell, H. C. Putnam, and H. H. Sater. 
 
 Since August, 1S69, Brodhead has had a bank, known 
 as the Bank of Brodhead. The stockholders are 
 Ephraim Bowen, J. V. Richardson, Edwin Ludlow, 
 and Mrs. Thos. Hendrie. It grew out of the necessities 
 of the place, for in point of activity Brodhead is fulfill- 
 ing the promise of its infancy. With good manufac- 
 turing facilities, Brodhead has also the advantage of 
 being the point of shipment for a jDart of Rock Coun- 
 ty as well as for a large part of Green. There has 
 always been a great deal of business done there, 
 and conductor Wadsworth says there are nearly twice 
 as many passengers to and from Brodhead as to and 
 from Monroe, though the tickets sold in Monroe amount 
 to more than the tickets sold in Brodhead. Since 1S70, 
 Brodhead has enjoyed the honors and privileges of an 
 incorporated town, and, [notwithstanding her greater 
 age, wealth, and size, if Monroe was not the county 
 town, she might have reason to fear that her lively 
 neighbor would quite overshadow her. 
 
 Unlike Monroe, Brodhead never had to wait for any- 
 thing. There were religious meetings there from the 
 first, and Dr. Morris had established his reputation in 
 
History of Green County. 225 
 
 the town as a good physician long before Brodhead 
 was thought of. For some time after the village was 
 started, the Congregationalist was the only religious 
 society, but the first church was built by the Methodists, 
 to whom Mr. Brodhead gave the promised bell. Polit- 
 ical meetings were held at the depot at first. Early pro- 
 vision was made for public schools, including a high 
 school; and since her fourth year Brodhead has never 
 been without a newspaper. Beginning in the latter part 
 of '59 the Brodhead Reporter was edited two years by 
 L. W. Powell, and after him for a short time by T. J. 
 Johnson. In '6i the life of the Brodhead Independent 
 began. It has been edited successively by I. F. Mack, 
 sen., I. F. Mack, jun., E. O. Kimberly, Morse & vStone, 
 and E. O. Kimberly, the present proprietor. 
 
 The village is already so old that this brief sketch 
 has had space for but few of the names of which a more 
 detailed history would make frequent mention, so old 
 that it has already been called to mourn the death of 
 some who were long and intimately connected with its 
 progress. The names of J. B. Blanchard, John L. Mc 
 Nair (whose brother and former partner Miles McNair 
 still lives in the village), Edson Clinton, H. T. Moore, 
 and W. B. Wheaton will at once suggest themselves in 
 this connection. 
 
 BRODHEAD DIRECTORY FOR 1S77. 
 
 BANK OF BRODHEAD. 
 
 Bowen & Co. 
 
 DRY GOODS. 
 
 B. R. Clawson. Orr & Putnam. 
 
 Kurtz Bros. S. Stewart. 
 
 Morrison & Son. 
 
 20 
 
226 History of Green County. 
 
 BUTTER AND EGGS. 
 
 G. S. Parlin. 
 
 GROCERIES. 
 
 Dickinson & Son. F. W. Smith. 
 
 F. W. Owen & Co. 
 
 CIGARS AND TOBACCO. 
 
 Wm. Fleek. 
 
 FURNITURE. 
 
 F. B. Smith. Shirk & Atkinson. 
 
 BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 
 
 B. W. Beebe. 
 
 PROPRIETOR YOUNG HOUSE. 
 
 J. A. Young. 
 
 DRUGS AND GROCERIES. 
 
 Broughton Bros, Clark & Towne. 
 
 HARDWARE. 
 
 Bloom & Roach. G. T. Spaulding. 
 
 BOOTS AND SHOES. 
 
 L. S. Fisher. J. Myers. 
 
 Fred Hintz. Chas. Itman. 
 
 J. Bush. 
 
 PRODUCE DEALERS. 
 
 Edward Cole. T. D. Laird. 
 
 LUMBER, SASH AND BLINDS. 
 
 H. Bowen. Lampson & Button. 
 
 AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
 
 Bloom & Roach. Geo. West. 
 
 J. B. Searles. 
 
 MERCHANT TAILORS. 
 
 E. Hahn. Wm. Moonej. 
 
 MILLINERY. 
 
 Miss C. Burnham. Mrs. J. Thompson. 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Cole. 
 
 LIVERY. 
 
 J. A. Broughton, Geo. B. Wooster. 
 
 Jas. Mitchell. 
 
History of Green Comity. 227 
 
 MEAT MARKETS. 
 
 Wm. Clapp. Sawyer & Douglas. 
 
 Ross & Taylor. 
 
 WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. 
 
 John J. Pfisterer. O. Errickson. 
 
 PHOTOGRAPHERS. 
 
 M. Jones. C. W. Lucas. 
 
 ATTORNEYS. 
 
 C. N. Carpenter. A. N. Randall. 
 
 PHYSICIANS. 
 
 R. Broughton, M. D. R. Morris, M. D. 
 
 E. W. Fairman, M. D. L. E. Towne, M. D. 
 
 DENTIST. 
 
 F. R. Derrick. 
 
 HARNESS SHOPS. 
 
 Brandt & Golden. Colby & Wright. 
 
 CARRIAGE FACTORIES. 
 
 Bartlett & Son. Williams & Ballou. 
 
 Lauby & Beck. 
 
 FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP. 
 
 Rugg isi Gosling. 
 
 FLOUR MILL. 
 
 S. C. Pierce & Son. 
 
 PLANING MILL. 
 
 Worcester & Cole. 
 
 NORWEGIAN PLOW FACTORY. 
 
 Chamberlain, Mitchell & Co. 
 
 OFFICERS OF BRODHEAD FROM 1870 TO '77, INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 I. F. Mack. Geo. Spaulding. 
 
 A. C. Douglas. L. H. Lasselle. 
 
 H. T. Moore. J. V. Richardson. 
 
 Burr Sprague. S. C. Pierce. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 [. V. Vance. P. J. Clawson. 
 
 O. S. Putnam. H. Kimberly, five years. 
 
228 
 
 History of Gi'een County. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN 
 
 DECATUR IN 1 876. 
 
 Names. No. of Acres. 
 
 R. G. B. Fleek, - 564 
 W. E. Gardner, - 508 
 
 S. Graham, - - 187 
 
 Daniel Keene, - 170 
 Phil. Kihvine, - 168 
 
 French Lake, - - 321 
 L. N. Lewis, - 176 
 
 I. F. Mack, - - 283 
 Wm. Maddock, - 232 
 
 Washington Mitchell, 380 
 
 Thos. M unger, - 175 
 Alex. Murray, - 400 
 
 W. P. Murray, - 200 
 
 S. Northcraft, - - 320 
 S. C. Pierce, - 397 
 
 H. D. Putnam, - 232 
 j. J. Putnam, heirs, 381 
 
 Sam. Rowe, heirs, - 249 
 Andrew Smith, - 200 
 
 Mrs. E. Spangler, - 160 
 Thos. Stewart, - 222 
 
 W. Straw ser, - - 164 
 Jacob Ten Eyck's heirs, 483 
 
 The first town meeting was held in the school house 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 Wm. Asm us, - 
 
 - 165 
 
 W. Atherton, 
 
 !93 
 
 Frank Atkinson, 
 
 - 247 
 
 J. I. Bo wen, 
 
 316 
 
 F. J. Burt, 
 
 160 
 
 James Burt, - 
 
 166 
 
 H. W. Button, - 
 
 - 45° 
 
 Rufus Colton, 
 
 206 
 
 Jesse Copp, 
 
 - 160 
 
 Lydia Copp, 
 
 160 
 
 W. K. Cortelyou, 
 
 - 240 
 
 *J. N. Davis, - 
 
 520 
 
 J. J. Dawson, - 
 
 - 3 6 o 
 
 Martin Dixon, 
 
 3S0 
 
 R. J. Day, 
 
 - 208 
 
 John Douglas, 
 
 3*3 
 
 *D. Dunwiddie, 
 
 - 418 
 
 Wm. Frazee, 
 
 240 
 
 A. G. B. Fleek, 
 
 - 291 
 
 *B. H. Fleek, 
 
 5 6 4 
 
 *E. T. Fleek, 
 
 - S40 
 
 J. A. Fleek's heirs, 
 
 240 
 
 J. B. Fleek, 
 
 - 340' 
 
 Fred Gumber, 
 
 4 2 4 
 
 near the residence of Wm. Jones. 
 
 TOWN OFFICERS FROM 1 849 
 
 CHAIRMEN 
 
 Geo. Gardner. 
 
 Alexander Clark, two years. 
 
 Samuel Northcraft, two yrs. 
 
 John J. Putnam. 
 
 Alex. Clark. 
 
 John J. Putnam. 
 
 E. T. Fleek, two years. 
 
 D. Dunwiddie, three years. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 Martin Mitchell. 
 Rowley Morris, six years. 
 Martin Mitchell, two years. 
 Donald Johnson. 
 R. M. Smith, three years. 
 S. A. Potter, two years. 
 
 to 77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 John P. Laird, two years. 
 
 John Douglas, two years. 
 
 J. N. Davis. 
 
 W. A. Wh eaton, three yrs. 
 
 R. J. Day, rive years. 
 
 D. Dunwiddie. 
 
 J. V. Richardson. 
 
 A. N. Randaal. 
 
 C. N. Carpenter, six years. 
 
 Alfred Wood. 
 
 C. N. Carpenter. 
 
 P. J. Clawson. 
 
 H. Kimberly, five years. 
 
 * Largest stock raisers. 
 

 YORK. 
 
 The first settlers of Green Comity never tired of ex- 
 tolling the beauty of its prairies. Sometimes, when 
 they watched the play of the sunlight on the long 
 grassy billows before them, something of its bright- 
 ness entered into their own hopes; and, with unusual 
 confidence in the world's progress, they remarked to 
 each other, sometime, though it vvo'n't be in our day, 
 these prairies will all be in farms. Then, because they 
 had come, originally if not immediately, from a wooded 
 country, and it seemed to them more in accordance with 
 the fitness of things to spend life making a clearing 
 than to take one of nature's making, a great many of 
 them turned their backs on the beautiful prairie and 
 made their homes in the timber, though a few of them, 
 after grubbing away their best years, adopted a contra- 
 ry opinion and removed to the prairie, where they 
 speedily acquired a competence. Even while they ad- 
 mired the prairies, most of these denizens of the forest 
 lamented the country's great scarcity of trees; and, as 
 the Indian was known to be the cause of some of the 
 
 20* 
 
230 History of Green County. 
 
 inconveniences to which they were subject, they as- 
 cribed the deficiency of trees also to him, or at least 
 to the fires which he sent sweeping over the country 
 every year to make the hunting good. By the time 
 York was settled, prairies were in better repute than 
 they had been five years before. It does not appear 
 which one of the opposing theorists on the treelessness 
 of prairies numbered the first settlers of York among 
 his followers. These pioneers may have seen the cause 
 of prairies in climatic influences, in dried-up lakes, 
 or in peculiarities of soil ; though, since they saw that 
 the seeming deficiency of trees was really a blessing — 
 and there has always been a superabundance of wood 
 land — it might have seemed to them a pity to deny the 
 blame-laden Indian the credit of it. Whatever their 
 theory was, and it is possible they never bothered them- 
 selves with any theory, the first settlers of York left 
 the timber of the northern and western parts of the 
 town unclaimed, and made their settlement on the 
 prairie, near the south-east corner of the township. 
 
 John Stewart, the first settler, came from Ohio in 
 1840. The next settlers, Wm. C. Green, Chas. Reed, 
 and Ezra Wescott, came together from New York 
 state. They also came in 1S40. In i84i-'2, Amos Con- 
 key, Albro, Chester, and Wm. Crowell, Joseph Miller, 
 Philander Peebles, H. H. Hurlbut, J. F. Wescott, Wm. 
 Spears, and Simeon Allen came, most of them from New 
 York, the others from Ohio. Most of them settled at once 
 in the south-eastern part of the town, calling their settle- 
 ment Green's Prairie. They were poorly prepared for 
 
Histo?y of Gree?i County. 231 
 
 the cold winter of i842-'3, but they had health and 
 hope, and only one person died — a little daughter of 
 Philander Peebles, who had contracted consumption in 
 New York. 
 
 It was several years before any settlement was made- 
 in the northern and western parts of York. Since 1S53— 
 '4— '5, these parts of the town have been mostly occu- 
 pied by Norwegians. There are also a few Germans 
 and Irish, and near the south-west corner, Yankees are 
 numerous enough to give one place the name of Yankee 
 hollow. 
 
 As the prairie north of Green's Prairie was settled r 
 it began to be called York, in honor of the original 
 home of the people; and at the suggestion of the Rev.. 
 Augustus Hurlbut, the first clergyman in the township,, 
 this name was given to the town, which would probably 
 have been named for Mr. Green had not Green been 
 the name of the county. In 1846 or '47, Green's Prairie 
 obtained a post office, to which the first postmaster,. 
 Lemuel Chase, gave the name of Farmer's Grove, in 
 allusion to a grove near his house, A little later, Ed- 
 ward Sendel opened a store on the prairie. Both office 
 and store were farther north and west than the present 
 village of Farmer's Grove. Mr. Sendell closed his 
 store and Mr. E. T. Gardner opened another a short 
 distance west of the site of the village. In the mean- 
 time Bern post office, named by admirers of the Hunga- 
 rian general, had been established on York prairie, and 
 the Farmer's Grove office had been moved south, and 
 after several changes in the ownership of the store, 
 
232 History of Green Coimty. 
 
 store and office met at the house of Mr. J. F. Wescott, 
 where the small village of Farmer's Grove has grown 
 up around them. 
 
 The village of Postville dates its beginning from the 
 arrival of Albro Crowell, who made his home there 
 when he first came to the county. The second and 
 third houses were built by Ira Walker and Edwin 
 Crowell. In 18^8, Gilbert Post built the fourth house, 
 the lower story of which was used as a store. After a 
 time, Mr. Crowell started another store. A drug store, 
 a tailor shop, a harness shop, and more dwellings fol- 
 lowed. The Stewart post-office, so called for York's 
 first settler, was moved there from its first place a mile 
 or two west, and the village was recorded as Postville. 
 Through all succeeding changes Postville has pros- 
 pered. The first store has been transformed into a 
 hotel, and long ago the village was thought large 
 enough to have a saloon; but York has never had a 
 board that would grant a license. 
 
 During the summer of 1876 four large cheese fac- 
 tories, all owned by companies, were in operation in 
 York. At Farmers' Grove, at the factory north of the 
 village (where was formerly Eli George's tavern, the 
 first voting place in the town), and at Yankee Hollow 
 Limburger cheese is made. At Postville the cheese is 
 American cheese. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN YORK IN 1 876. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 Names. No. of Acres. 
 
 O. Ames, 
 
 - 175 
 
 D. Ash, - - 205 
 
 C. Anderson, 
 
 224 
 
 Holver O. Brenden, - 161 
 
 Hans Arneson, 
 
 - 200 
 
 Ole Burgeson, - 160 
 
History of Green County, 
 
 2 33- 
 
 Names. No 
 
 of Acres. 
 
 Names. No 
 
 . of Acres 
 
 Wm. Byrne, 
 
 300 
 
 Joseph Miller, 
 
 340 
 
 *Richard Byrne, 
 
 480 
 
 R. S. Mosher, - 
 
 1S9 
 
 S. C. Campbell, 
 
 230 
 
 Helga Olson, 
 
 233 
 
 A. Crowell, - 
 
 189 
 
 ^Gilbert Olson, 
 
 45° 
 
 R. Crowell, 
 
 190 
 
 M. J. Owens, guardian 
 
 ,265 
 
 James Cullen, 
 
 320 
 
 J. M. Peebles, - 
 
 164 
 
 A. O. Eidsmoe, 
 
 170 
 
 P. Peebles, - 
 
 241 
 
 C. O. Eidsmoe, 
 
 242 
 
 ♦Gilbert Post, - 
 
 4S9 
 
 Hans Embertson, 
 
 220 
 
 Chas. P^eed, sen., - 
 
 240 
 
 K. T. Fjose, 
 
 J 95 
 
 T. C. Richmond, 
 
 279 
 
 *Hiram Gabriel, 
 
 6 43 
 
 Davis Robb, 
 
 203 
 
 *J. S. Gabriel, 
 
 280 
 
 S. M. Sherman, 
 
 176 
 
 R. Gabriel, 
 
 170 
 
 B. O. Slitten, 
 
 204 
 
 Geo. Gilbert, 
 
 3 6 5 
 
 Ole C. Sorum, - 
 
 172 
 
 C. Gulson, 
 
 39° 
 
 A. A. Strowmen, 
 
 288 
 
 Andrew Hanson, - 
 
 200 
 
 Erick Sviggum, 
 
 259 
 
 Ole O. Hougen, 
 
 1 So 
 
 Hans S. Sviggum, 
 
 223 
 
 H. H. Hurlbut, - 
 
 171 
 
 Knud J. Sviggum, - 
 
 200 
 
 Ole Jeremiason, 
 
 214 
 
 Ole & A. Thompson, 
 
 360 
 
 John Johnson, 
 
 326 
 
 Christian Toreson, - 
 
 161 
 
 A. O. Jorde, 
 
 178 
 
 John C. Ula, 
 
 170 
 
 Annon Kjellesvig, 
 
 167 
 
 J. T. Vollen, - 
 
 TOO 
 
 Erik Larson, 
 
 240 
 
 A. Wheeler, 
 
 i So 
 
 Ole H. Lee, - 
 
 191 
 
 
 • 
 
 TOWN OFFICERS 
 
 FROM 
 
 1849 to '77 inclusive. 
 
 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 
 Wm. C. Green, four } 
 
 ears. 
 
 J. Stewart. 
 
 
 J. Stewart. 
 
 
 D. Stewart, three 
 
 years. 
 
 Wm. C. Green, four years. 
 
 D. C. Day. 
 
 
 P. Peebles. 
 
 
 P. Peebles. 
 
 
 H. H. Hurlbut. 
 
 
 D. Stewart, five years. 
 
 J. Stewart. 
 
 
 P. Peebles. 
 
 
 No record for 1861. 
 
 
 J. S. Gabriel, three 
 
 years. 
 
 H. H. Hurlbut. 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 
 CLERKS. 
 
 
 E. B. Crowell. 
 
 
 D. .Stewart, two y 
 
 ears. 
 
 E. T. Gardner. 
 
 
 F. A. Dunham. 
 
 
 E. B. Crowell. 
 
 
 J. F. Wescott, two 
 
 years. 
 
 H. Gabriel, three years. 
 
 ' J. M. Peebles, five 
 
 years. 
 
 J. F. Wescott. 
 
 
 A. O. Eidsmoe, two 
 
 years. 
 
 H. Gabriel. 
 
 
 J. A. Kettleson. 
 
 
 H. H. Hurlbut. 
 
 
 Wm. C. King. 
 
 
 A. Alder. 
 
 
 A. O. Eidsmoe. 
 
 
 J. F. Wescott. 
 
 
 A. Peterson. 
 
 
 No record for 1S61. 
 
 « 
 
 
 
 *Larg-est Stock Growers. 
 
 
ALBANY. 
 
 In 1S40, five years after he came to the county, 
 James Campbell built the first house in the town of 
 Albany. It was near Sugar river, about a mile farther 
 south than the present village of Albany. The same 
 year, Mr. Higby built a house in Rock County, which 
 was so near the north-east corner of Albany that it has 
 been called the first house in the township. Mr. Camp- 
 bell did not go to Albany to live until 1S41. It is his 
 opinion, and the opinion of Mr. Christopher Martin, 
 who came from New York in 1S40, and who lived with 
 Mr. Campbell during parts of i84i-'42, that the next 
 comers were Hiram Brown and Samuel Mitchell, both 
 of whom were here before the end of '42, as were also 
 John Broughton and Wm. Burgess. Some of the next 
 settlers were Christopher Minert, Joshua and A. Whit- 
 comb, S. L. Eldred, and Aaron Broughton in '43, 
 Daniel Smiley, Asa Comstock, Wm. Webb, Israel 
 Phillips, and A. S. Holmes in '44. Gilbert McNaught, 
 
 McVee, Edward Copp, Geo. Bagley, Price Hills, 
 
 and Aaron Kellogg, were among those who came in 
 184.5-46. Among the occasional residents of Albany 
 was Reuben Folsom, or old Reube the wolf hunter, a 
 
History of Green County. 235 
 
 discharged soldier who came from Fort Winnebago to 
 Sylvester in 1S40, and who would have made a good 
 character for one of Cooper's novels. Kind, generous 
 and brave, with a fund of anecdotes equaled only by 
 his wonderful power to endure hunger and fatigue, he 
 was at home with all the settlers, but his most constant 
 companions were his dogs. A cave in the bank of the 
 river, a few miles from the village of Albany, is pointed 
 out as one of his retreats. 
 
 The locality of the village of Albany was first 
 known as Campbell's ford. The land comprised in the 
 village was entered by James Campbell and Thos. 
 Stewart, and through their influence Capt. E. O. Pond 
 and Dr. S. F. Nichols went there in the spuing of 1846, 
 and built a log cabin (the first in the village), which was 
 occupied by the families of both until a frame house 
 could be erected. With a yoke of oxen S. A. Pond, 
 then sixteen years of age, hauled the lumber for the 
 second house from Amos Sylvester's mill, being some- 
 times obliged to first cut the logs and take them to the 
 mill. Both houses were east of the river, the log 
 house about ten rods from where the dam now is, and 
 the frame house on the ground where Mrs. Pond still 
 resides. At that time there were but two frame, and 
 two log, houses between the ford and Janesville. On a 
 few rough shelves in one corner of Capt. Pond's house, 
 the frame house, were kept the dry goods and the boxes 
 and barrels of groceries constituting Albany's first store. 
 The report that Pond and Nichols were going to build 
 up a village at the ford attracted others. A. R. Bur- 
 
236 History of G?'een County. 
 
 gor and John and Nelson Stevenson came with them, 
 and in August, Robert Gleason, who was employed to 
 build the mill the next year, removed there with his 
 family. In '46, with the assistance of J. V. Richardson 
 as surveyor, Pond and Nichols laid out the village of 
 Albany. They also built a saw mill, and succeeded in 
 getting a mail route established from Beloit via Janes- 
 ville, Albany, and Exeter to Mineral Point. Capt. 
 Pond was the postmaster at Albany. The next year, 
 J. B. Sawyer and Dr. Stearns built the American 
 House, Capt. R. H. Hewitt opened a general store, and 
 several new families came. They all shook with the 
 ague, and all talked proudly of their beautiful coun- 
 try and their noble river. In the mean time, the flat- 
 tering prospects of Albany had led Messrs. Bugor and 
 Stevenson to lay out the village of Independence, on 
 the river, three-fourths of a mile below Albany, but 
 Independence never grew beyond half a score of 
 houses. 
 
 Zebina Warren's grist mill, R. J. & Wm. Richard- 
 son's general store, S. A. Pond's book and drug store, 
 and a number of shops were among the acquisitions of 
 Albany in iS49-'5o. A sad occurrence in May, '51, 
 seemed for a time to blast the prospects of the village. 
 Moved by a spirit of wild adventure, Wm. Richardson 
 and S. A. Pond went over the dam in a skiff, and the 
 former lost his life, the latter barely escaping. The 
 Richardson brothers had just bought a large stock of 
 goods, and had made preparations to build a large bus- 
 iness block; but the surviving brother was so overcome 
 
History of Green County. 237 
 
 with sorrow that he closed the store and left the place. 
 But enterprise could not be stopped. J. H., L. H., and 
 E. F. Warren became the successors of the Richardson 
 Brothers, and E. Bowen, Robson and Prentice, Jas. 
 Campbell, Hunter & Kellogg, E. B. Noble, Burt & 
 Harris, John Lemuel, C. T. Barton, J. Johnson, J. 
 Dunkleburg, T. Carrier, V. R. Vancuren, and a score 
 of others were soon identified with the business inter- 
 ests of the village, which promised to become the lar- 
 gest village in the county, and even the death, before 
 1855, of several leading men, Capt. Pond, Zebina War- 
 ren, and Robson and Prentice among them, delayed its 
 progress but a little time. S. A. Pond did a large real 
 estate and brokerage business, and a Madison firm 
 opened the Bank of Albany. S. & A. Johnson erected 
 a sash, door, and blind factory, and T. Kellogg another 
 grist mill. In May, '58, I. S. Dexter and Y. T. Lacy 
 transformed Monroe's languishing "JefFersonian Dem- 
 ocrat " into the Albany Times, in the control of which 
 they were succeeded by Joseph Baker. 
 
 The tenor of Albany's way has never been even. 
 Fate has doomed her to an astonishing number of re- 
 verses and disappointments. Her failure to get the 
 Southern Wisconsin Railroad has been told in another 
 part of the history. Recovering from this disappoint- 
 ment, she fixed her hopes on a Sugar river valley 
 road, and, with James Campbell as the champion of her 
 claims, seemed likely to achieve success. In June, 1857, 
 subscriptions to the road reached nearly $100,000. De- 
 pot grounds were purchased at Albany, and failing 
 
 21 
 
2 3S History of Green County. 
 
 then, the project has occasionally been revived, and this 
 year, more than for several years past, hopes are enter- 
 tained that it may sometime be accomplished. The 
 projected road, for which the grading from Albany to 
 the state line has long been done, is to form a connect- 
 ing link between the road from Madison to Portage, 
 and the road from Rockford to Rochelle. 
 
 The crisis of 1S57 ruined some of the business men 
 of Albany, and the decline in southern securities caused 
 the failure of the bank in 1861 ; in 1S66 the river carried 
 away the saw mill, the sash and and blind factory, and 
 the bridge; a freshet of 1S6S destroyed the Warren 
 store and flour mill, damaged the Kellogg mill, and 
 again took away the bridge, and a fire that year de- 
 stroved five stores. Messrs. Warren, Tompkins, and 
 Eroe, vS. A. Pond, Parker & Kellogg, J. F. Lacy, 
 [ohn Hahn, and J. Lemuel rebuilt that same year, 
 and in a manner that made the change a great im- 
 provement to the village, all the buildings destroyed 
 in 1S6S; but the loss from fires which in 1S69 and 
 '71 destroved a hotel, a gun shop, and five stores, has 
 been put partially repaired. The Albany Times came 
 to an end when its editor entered the army, and its only 
 successor, Messrs. Osgood & Bartlett's Albany Journal, 
 was published only from October, 1865, to May, 1866. 
 There is no bank in the village, and the number of stores 
 — which may fairly be taken as an indication of the pros- 
 perity of the village — is smaller now than of old, includ- 
 ing only those of Bartlett and Roberts, H. B. Jobes, J. M. 
 Dodge, and John Lemuel. Brodhead, Evansville, and 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 2 39 
 
 Brooklyn have dispelled the brightest of Albany's vis- 
 ions, at least for a time; but they can not destroy her 
 good water power, which is even now persuading 
 Messrs. J. H. and E. F. Warren, and S. A. Pond to 
 build a large woolen mill there; nor can they entirely 
 destroy her hope of a railroad, the realization of which 
 would, she thinks, restore to her all her old life and 
 activity. 
 
 At the present time Albany ranks first among the 
 unincorporated villages of the count}-. In 1S76 the vil- 
 lage lots in the town of Albany were appraised at 
 $43,065. Those of other towns followed in this order: 
 Jefferson $30,270; New Glarus $20,49^; Mount Pleas- 
 ant $18,006; Brooklyn $16,010; Exeter $8,573; Cadiz 
 $3,285; while lots in Monroe and Brodhead were valued 
 at $696,075, and $253,826. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN ALB AN V IN 1 876. 
 
 Names. ] 
 
 Richard Atkinson, 
 
 Jeremiah Brewer, 
 
 Aaron Broughton, 
 *John Broughton, - 
 
 F. J. Burt, - - 
 
 J. W. Carver, 
 
 John Carodine, 
 
 John B. Chase, 
 
 Mrs. Asa Comstock, 
 
 Lewis Comstock, 
 
 Edward Davis, 
 
 S. L. Eldred, - 
 
 S. R. Eldred, 
 
 John Flint, 
 
 Joshua Flint, 
 *Thos. Flint, 
 
 Wm. Francis, 
 
 Ole Gilbertson, 
 
 of Acres. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 
 200 
 
 Richard Harrier, 
 
 2O0 
 
 24O 
 
 A. S. Holmes, - 
 
 - 200 
 
 l6o 
 
 Moses Ingram, 
 
 l6o 
 
 560 
 
 J. D. Jenks, 
 
 - 2 24 
 
 200 
 
 Aaron Jones, - 
 
 l6o 
 
 200 
 
 Edward Jones, - 
 
 164 
 
 214 
 
 Wm. Jones, - 
 
 20O 
 
 20I 
 
 Ole Kettleson, - 
 
 160 
 
 171 
 
 John F. Lacy, - 
 
 l6o 
 
 165 
 
 Ole Leverson, 
 
 200 
 
 29O 
 
 Edward Llovd, - 
 
 24O 
 
 4OO 
 
 Hosea Ludington, 
 
 l6o 
 
 l6o 
 
 Christopher Minert, 
 
 - -54 
 
 l6o 
 
 Thos. Mitchell, 
 
 242 
 
 220 
 
 Mary Meredith, 
 
 - J 7 L 
 
 28o 
 
 Geo. Moore, - 
 
 280 
 
 l6o 
 
 N. B. Murray, - 
 
 160 
 
 220 
 
 Mrs. S. F. Nichols, 
 
 -77 
 
 * Largest stock growers. 
 
 
240 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Names. 
 
 W. S. Peckham, 
 *Israel Phillips, - 
 Evan Pryce, - 
 J. M. Purinton, 
 H. D. Putnam, 
 Win. Reese,Sen., 
 John Shaler, - 
 C. B. Smiley, - 
 
 Aaron Broughton. 
 Julius Hulburt. 
 
 John Broughton, 2 years. 
 W. B. Welton. 
 John Broughton. 
 Daniel Smiley, 2 years. 
 John Broughton. 
 John Wood. 
 
 No. of Acres. Names. 
 
 421 Daniel Smiley, 
 
 No 
 
 . of Acres 
 2O0 
 
 ■ 340 
 320 
 
 - 160 
 200 
 
 Benj. Svvaneutt, 
 John Trow, - 
 John H. Watkins, 
 Joshua Whitcomb, 
 
 - 
 
 173 
 
 220 
 164 
 24O 
 
 182 
 
 John Williams, 
 
 
 220 
 
 176 
 
 John Wood, 
 
 - 
 
 160 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 
 LBANY 
 
 FROM 1849 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 Gilbert McNaught. 
 Z. Warren. 
 A. R. Burgor, 3 years. 
 Jacob G. Shoemaker. 
 Hiram Brown. 
 S. A. Pond. 
 Hiram Brown. 
 Ira S. Dexter. 
 John B. Perry. 
 Hiram Brown. 
 
 Daniel Smiley, 
 John Broughton. 
 Daniel Smiley, 5 years. 
 Israel Phillips, 2 years. 
 E. F. Warren, 6 years. 
 J. M. Purinton. 
 E. F. Warren. 
 Israel Phillips, 2 years. 
 
 M. T. Gleason. 
 Hiram Brown. 
 Hiram B. Jobes, 3 years (C. 
 
 S. Tibbitts appointed). 
 J. B. Perry, 2 years. 
 Hiram Brown, Jr. 
 H. B. Jobes. 
 J. H. Ludington. 
 Richard Glennan. 
 J. B. Perry, 5 years. 
 
 ♦Largest stock growers. 
 
BROOKLYN. 
 
 Of at least five of the sixteen townships in Green 
 County, the first settlers were by birth the children of 
 Ohio. The first of the Buckeyes in Brooklyn was J. 
 W. Haseltine, who, though he did not begin to make a 
 home there until 1845, bought, in December, 1839, the 
 land on which he is living now. At Mr. Haseltine's 
 solicitation, another Buckeye, W. W. McLaughlin, the 
 first settler in Brooklyn, went to the township in the 
 autumn of 1S42, taking with him a flock of sheep and 
 thirty-four head of cattle. He completed his first cabin 
 and moved into it the first day of November, just five 
 days before "the hard winter" began. His house was 
 on the line of travel from the southern part of the 
 county to the pineries, whither a large part of the pro- 
 duce of the county was hauled; and, though Mrs. Mc 
 Laughlin was the only woman the family saw for three 
 months, men stopped at the house several times every 
 week, and whatever supplies the family needed were ob- 
 tained from them. The stock was not so easily provided 
 for. Mr. McLaughlin hauled straw fifteen miles, but, in 
 
 21' 
 
242 History of Green County. 
 
 spite of all he could do, all the sheep and most of the 
 cattle died before spring. 
 
 Among the next settlers were Chas. Sutherland, A. 
 D. Kirkpatrick, Henry Montgomery (whose death the 
 next year is thought to have been the first in the town- 
 ship), and his sons Tracy and Cyrus A., who all came 
 in 1844. Prominent among the settlers of 1845 were 
 Jas. F. Eggleston, Stephen H. Ludlow, Jeremiah An- 
 derson and his son Amos, Wm. R. Smith, sen., Wm. 
 R. Smith., jun., Leroy Hudson, John Sawin, Monroe 
 Carpenter, and Martin Flood. Most of these settlers 
 were in the northern and eastern parts of the town. 
 They went to mill and to market in Dane and Rock 
 Counties much oftener than in Green, and when they 
 were sick their hopes centered in Dr. Fox in Dane 
 County. Many of them lived on Jug Prairie, a fertile 
 prairie in Rock County and the eastern half of Brook- 
 lyn, which derives its name from a remark of one of the 
 first settlers who went one day to Rock County to 
 trade. So many of his neighbors had sent by him for 
 vinegar and molasses that by the time he reached his 
 destination he had nearly a dozen jugs in his wagon. 
 To a joke of the bystanders, as he drove up to the store, 
 he replied, oh, yes, I come from jug prairie ; and in spite of 
 the effort of the good people on the prairie to change 
 the name to temperance, the name jug has stuck ever 
 since. 
 
 While the prairie in the eastern part was filling up, 
 another settlement was growing in the south-east cor- 
 ner of the town, where in 1S43, Maj or Downer (so 
 
History of Green County. 243 
 
 generally called Major that his Christian name is for- 
 gotten) built a saw mill on Sugar river. One or two 
 log houses were built there about the same time. In 
 November, '44, Chester Witter removed from Monti- 
 cello to Downer's saw mill, as the place was called, and 
 a few months later he and John S. Litchfield, of Exeter, 
 built the first grist mill in Brooklyn. At the raisins' 
 Mr. Geo. Durgin climbed to the ridge pole, and made 
 a speech, in the course of which he gave the place the 
 name of Winnesheek — a name rendered familiar to the 
 earliest settlers of the countv by an Indian village 
 where Freeport is now, and bv a Winnebago chief. 
 Nearly ten years later, Connecticut people with more 
 love of home than good taste changed the name to Mil- 
 ford. This name not proving satisfactory, but two or 
 three years passed before the village was dubbed Attica. 
 
 Before 1S45 Dustin had a distillery and D. D. & 
 
 W. W. Day had a store in Attica. At the present 
 time the principle points of interest in Attica are Joseph 
 Bartlett's saw and grist mills, J. Crampton's carding 
 machine, a cheese factory, owned by a company, the 
 stores of C. D. W. Leonard and Wm. Young, and a 
 hotel. The southern part of Attica was originally in- 
 cluded in the township of Albany, but was transferred 
 to Brooklyn in answer to petitions from the village, the 
 first of which was presented to the Countv Commis- 
 sioners in November, 1851. 
 
 Across the town, diagonally from Attica, on land 
 entered by Chas. Sutherland, is Brooklyn, the youngest 
 village in the county. The necessity for this village 
 
2 |,| History of Green County. 
 
 began with the building of the Madison division of the 
 Chicago & Northwestern Railway in 1864, and the first 
 house was built that year by H. Capwell. Beginning 
 in the corner of the county, on the east side of the rail- 
 road, the village was afterwards extended on the west 
 side by Alonzo Melvin, whose farm', lying in the three 
 counties of Dane, Rock, and Green, bounds it on the south 
 and west. The village has also spread over into Dane. 
 The leading business interests of the village are repre- 
 sented by E. G. Andrews and Son, produce merchants, 
 whose elevator is the largest between Madison and 
 Beloit; Melvin, Blair & Co., manufacturers of 140,000 
 pounds of American cheese per annum; Johnson & 
 Gliddin, proprietors of a feed and planing mill and 
 cheese box factory; L. J. Wilder, B. S. Axtell, Mar- 
 vin Bros., merchants; Lovejoy and Richards, lumber 
 dealers, and D. H. Glidden, proprietor of the hotel. One 
 of the largest granges in the county is that which has a 
 store in the village of Brooklyn. It numbers about a 
 hundred members, and its weekly meetings, which are 
 varied by debates, essays, and dramatic representations, 
 are largely attended. Its members carry home books 
 from their circulating library, and feel repaid for their 
 long rides by the recreation, the general information, and 
 the ability to conduct public meetings gained at the 
 regular gatherings of the association. , 
 
 Town meetings in Brooklyn are held sometimes in 
 Attica, sometimes in the village of Brooklyn. The 
 first meeting was held at the house of Nelson J. Patter- 
 son, April 7, 1849. The number of votes cast was 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 2 45 
 
 eighty-two. J. W. Haseltine acted as clerk of the 
 meeting 1 and made the first returns to the county. The 
 county clerk hesitated about receiving the returns be- 
 cause the clerk elected for the year had not brought 
 them, but finally took them because they were "in better 
 shape than those from half the towns." At a town 
 meeting held at Attica, April 7, 1S74, it was found that 
 twenty-three men were present who had voted at the 
 first meeting twenty-five years before. By order of the 
 meeting - the clerk recorded their names as follows : 
 
 Davis Fenton. 
 Jonathan Smith. 
 *William Kirkpatrick. 
 
 C. D. W. Leonard. 
 Franklin Patterson. 
 N. J. Patterson. 
 Alonzo Purington. 
 
 *Po\vell Shell. 
 David Healhman. 
 John Pace, Sen. 
 
 D. N. Shaw. 
 Ezra Doolittle. 
 
 Cyrus A. Montgomerv. 
 
 O*. P. Stowell. 
 
 Otis Thompson. 
 *W. W. McLaughlin. 
 
 J. F. Egijleston. 
 *Sylvester Gray. 
 
 Joel Smith. 
 
 J. W. Haseltine. 
 
 Jeremiah Anderson. 
 
 Wm. R. Smith, Jim. 
 
 Chas. S. Grav. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IX BROOKLYN IN 1S76. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No. 
 
 Jerry Anderson, 
 A. Bennett, - 
 John Dalrvmple, 
 Peter Derimer, 
 Ezra Doolittle - 
 J. F. Eggleston, 
 Wm. Gih, 
 J. W. Haseltine 
 Geo. Hollerbush, 
 Daniel Johnson, 
 S. D. Kirkpatrick, 
 Wm. Lay ton, 
 Wm. Lee, - 
 C. D. W. Leonard, 
 
 of Acres. 
 
 Names. 
 
 No 
 
 . of Acres 
 
 l6o 
 
 Stephen Lewis, - 
 
 - 
 
 l6o 
 
 220 
 
 T. Lewis, 
 
 
 l6o 
 
 3>° 
 
 AT Melvin, 
 
 - 
 
 353 
 
 28o 
 
 Jas. McCoy, 
 
 - 
 
 280 
 
 200 
 
 John McClairinon, 
 
 
 160 
 
 2 54 
 
 W.W. McLaughlin 
 
 est. 
 
 238 
 
 179 
 
 Thos. O. Patrick Nevil 
 
 160 
 
 261 
 
 John Pace, 
 
 - 
 
 160 
 
 340 
 
 Frank Patterson, - 
 
 
 220 
 
 3iS 
 
 J. N. Patterson, 
 
 - 
 
 1S0 
 
 279 
 
 Alonzo Purington, 
 
 
 200 
 
 219 
 
 James Root, 
 
 - 
 
 160 
 
 182 
 
 A. J. Sawin, - 
 
 
 160 
 
 220 
 
 E. C. Smith, - 
 
 - 
 
 160 
 
 ♦Messrs. Shell, S. Gray, Kirkpatrick, and McLaughlin have since died. 
 
246 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Names. No. of Acres. 
 
 Joel Smith, - - 220 
 
 Stephen Swan, - - 280 
 
 W. M. Tallnian, - 320 
 
 David Watkins' estate, 240 
 
 TOWN OFFICERS OF BROOKLYN FROM 1 849 TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 Names. 
 
 A. H. Waldo, 
 
 No. of Acres 
 24O 
 
 John Weaver, - 
 W. W. Young, 
 
 - 200 
 220 
 
 CHAIRMEN. 
 
 A. D. KlRKPATRICK. 
 
 Chester Witter, 2 years. 
 
 H. M. Allen. 
 
 Martin Flood. 
 
 W. W. McLaughlin. 
 
 Martin Flood. 
 
 A. D. KlRKPATRICK. 
 
 H. L. Hyde. 
 
 W. W. McLaughlin. 
 
 Levi Crawford. 
 
 O. P. Stow ell, 3 years. 
 Edmund Hill, 2 years. 
 W. B. Patterson. 
 H. M. Allen. 
 James McCoy, 2 years. 
 Tracy Montgomery, 
 [as. McCoy, 9 years. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 W. W. McLaughlin, 6 y Vs. 
 
 J. A. Sawin. 
 
 D. N. Shaw. 
 
 Henry R. Allen, 3 years. 
 
 W. W. McLaughlin, 3 y'rs. 
 
 C. D. W. Leonard. 
 
 James Root. 
 
 C. D. W. Leonard. 
 
 F. R. Melvin. 
 
 E. J. Andrew. 
 
 Edw'in Netherwood, 3 y'rs. 
 
 M. F. Ross. 
 
 J. W. Haseltine. 
 
 M. F. Ross, 3 years. 
 
 B. S. Axtell.* 
 
NEW GLARUS. 
 
 In July, 1845, f° ur men 5 Armstrong, Greenwood, 
 Slater, and Jackson bv name, had claims in what is now 
 called New Glarus. There was not a single inhabitant 
 there who owned the place on which he lived ; but the 
 time had come when the long waiting of the unoccupied 
 township was to be rewarded. Here w 7 as to be shown, 
 as it was to be shown in no other township in the county, 
 how the superfluous- and poverty-stricken children 
 of the old word are transformed in the United States 
 into prosperous and useful citizens. Early in 1S45 *- ne 
 Emigration Association of Glarus determined to re- 
 lieve the crowded population of that canton by send- 
 ing a colony to the United States, and Fridolin StreifF 
 and Nicholas Duerst were delegated to come in advance 
 of the colony and select a place for the settlement. 
 They left Switzerland March 8, 1845. At the conclu- 
 sion of a long voyage they were met in New York by 
 friends of the society, and on the nth of May they 
 started with Joshua Frey of Pennsylvania, on their 
 search for a home for the colony. They arrived at 
 Chicago the morning of the 19th of May, and here the 
 
.248 ///story of Green County. 
 
 search began. They traveled over Illinois and a large 
 part of Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Their aim was 
 to rind a place with a healthful climate, convenient mar- 
 kets, good soil and water, and plenty of timber. They 
 selected the township named by them New Glarus, and 
 on the 25th of July they purchased twelve hundred 
 acres in sections fourteen, fifteen, twenty-two, twenty - 
 three, and twenty-seven of that township. The pur- 
 chase was made at Mineral Point, where Mr. StreifF 
 took the first step towards becoming a citizen of the 
 United States. Not being sufficiently acquainted with 
 the language to take the usual oath, the ceremony, so 
 far as he understood it, consisted in kissing the bible. 
 
 The first work of the commissioners was to lay out 
 a road from Green's Prairie to the prospective village, 
 after which, on the 6th of August, Mr. Frey left them 
 to return home. Meanwhile, Messrs. Duerst and StreifF 
 had hastily erected a few shanties for the colonists who 
 were daily expected. The society had not wished to 
 send the colony so soon, but the emigrants became so 
 impatient that it was impossible to restrain them, and 
 they were permitted to start the 16th of April. Some 
 communities paid the traveling expenses of those of their 
 emigrants who could not pay for themselves, and during 
 the night of the 15th and 16th of April, charitably dis- 
 posed persons raised the money to pay for the passage 
 of a number of families that wished to come but for 
 whom no provision had been made. The colonists went 
 to St. Louis and thence to New Glarus, where thev 
 arrived August 12. Their progress had been delayed 
 
History of Green Cou?tty. 249 
 
 by some misunderstanding, on account of which the 
 commissioners were looking for them in Chicago while 
 they were waiting in St. Louis for instructions from the 
 commissioners. At first they were crowded together 
 in a few shanties. Then, as they were able, they built 
 log houses; and whenever a house was built, a shanty 
 was taken down and the lumber used to make the floor 
 and the door of the new house. Few of the houses had 
 two windows, none had more than two. The doors 
 had wooden hinges that Mr. Streiff made himself. Two 
 months after the land was bought, Mr. Duerst, who had 
 never intended to remain in this country, returned to 
 Switzerland, shaking as he went with the ague. The 
 whole care of the colony now devolved on Mr. Streiff. 
 Some of the colonists had a little money, but most of 
 them were so poor that, as one of them expressed it, 
 "if they had to pay six cents for a cat, they couldn't buv 
 it." A few went to Thompson's settlement to work, 
 and a few others spent the winter in Galena; but as a 
 whole the colony was so helpless that Mr. Streiff was 
 compelled to ask for help. The Association sent him 
 <£ 1,000, with which he bought provisions, oxen, seed, 
 agricultural implements, and whatever else was indis- 
 pensable before the people could take care of themselves. 
 Provisions were bought by the quantity, and sold to 
 families at the lowest possible price. There was little 
 in the houses, and little room for anything besides the 
 folks and the beds. One stove and a few chairs were 
 bought. Bedding had been brought from Switzerland, 
 and beds were made on the floor so close to each other 
 
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250 History of Green County. 
 
 that a housekeeper who confesses to many tears because 
 the men stuck their dirty boots against them, says that 
 while she made her bed she always stood on some other 
 woman's bed. In the mountainous land of their birth, 
 the people had never known such winds as swept 
 through their cabins that long, first winter; and some- 
 times when they crept shivering to bed they had to take 
 their few umbrellas with them. Fearful of being de- 
 ceived by the harmless appearance of the Indians who 
 visited them occasionally, timid men and women told 
 till they trembled with terror the stories they had heard 
 of Indian perfidy and cruelty. No wonder. that where- 
 ever Mr. Streiff turned he found a woman in tears; no 
 wonder that his incessant labors excited little gratitude, 
 and that he wrote home, " I shall remember the year 
 1845." The wonder is that on a thousand dollars he 
 could keep nearly a hundred persons from fall to spring 
 in such a way that they should be grateful to him in 
 after year's. He did this, but, though often urged, he 
 has never consented to take charge of another colonv 
 from Switzerland. Through the winter, the men were 
 busy cutting wood and splitting rails. In the spring, 
 the work of breaking prairie began. The Association 
 sold each man twenty acres at three florins an acre, on 
 ten years' time without interest. Some men bought 
 more land, and some claimed land adjoining them, and 
 paid for it in 1855, when the deeds were given by the 
 Association. The commissioners divided the land so 
 that the shares were as nearly as possible alike in their 
 advantages in wood and water, and then, when all had 
 
History of Green County. 251 
 
 promised to abide by the result, the shares were drawn 
 by lot. Rules for the government of the colony pro- 
 vided that no one should cut wood from another's land, 
 but all might cut from the road. During the first year, 
 two families at least should live in one house, and colo- 
 nists should help each other in building houses and barns. 
 Until their land was paid for, they were not to dig for 
 mineral. After it was paid for, they might dig; but if 
 lead was found, the land was to be given up to the so- 
 ciety, in which case the owner was to be paid the origi- 
 nal cost of the land and the value of his improvements 
 in cultivation and buildings, but nothing for the lead. 
 
 The reports that went back from the colony were 
 so encouraging that several times in the summer of 
 1846 recruits came from the mother country. One of 
 them was J. Jacob Tschudy, who was sent to assist in 
 the care of the colony. A report of the condition of 
 the colony dated November 20, '46, and printed for cir- 
 culation in Switzerland, contains the following: The 
 owners of lots were Fridolin Hoesli, John' Kun- 
 dert, Paulus Kundert, Henry Hoesli, Leonard Ham- 
 merli, Mathias Smith, George Legler, Mrs. Barbara 
 Hoesli, Abraham Schindler, Balthasar Durst, Niklaus 
 Durst, David Schindler, Markus Hoesli, Mathias 
 Duerst, Fridolin Hefti, Fridolin Legler father, Fri- 
 dolin Legler son, John Caspar Legler, Oswald 
 Babler, Fridolin Babler, Henry Aebli, Hilarius Wild, 
 Mathias Hoesli, Jost Triimpi, Jost Becker, Fridolin 
 StreifF, Gabriel Baumgartner, Caspar Zwicki, Fridolin 
 Oertli. Six men with their families had gone away, 
 
252 History of Green County. 
 
 and three men, J. Jacob Tschudi, Peter Hoesli, and 
 Jacob Ernst had not yet drawn their lots. There had 
 been two births and seven deaths, and the colony num- 
 bered at that time 125 persons. There were twenty 
 houses, of which thirteen were in the village. One hun- 
 dred and nine acres had been broken, seven hundred 
 bushels of corn and " more than enough potatoes " had 
 been raised. The live stock owned by individuals con- 
 sisted of two horses, ninety-seven head of cattle inclu- 
 ding eighteen oxen, one hundred and ninety-nine pigs, 
 and nine sheep. Fowls were still owned in common. 
 A few orchards had been set out. A few garden vege- 
 tables, "as peas, chiccory, cabbages and tobacco, also 
 pumpkins were planted bv way of trial." Fortunately, 
 the experiment succeeded, especially in peas and pump- 
 kins. The ground was thought to be too new for 
 wheat, and there was complaint that the potatoes "were 
 not so good as in Switzerland. There were as yet but 
 few fences, and the crops were much injured by the 
 swine as well as by field mice. The prairie fires de- 
 stroyed hay stacks and fences, and some of the colonists 
 lost their hair in saving their hay-covered houses. 
 Published extracts from Mr. Streiff's letters show that 
 the people were well, but, on account of the hard work 
 they had done, very ragged, also that there was a gen- 
 eral desire for a minister and a school. After Mr. 
 Tschudy's arrival, he was, until the people were able 
 to pay for all services rendered, overseer, minister, phy- 
 sician, and teacher. In the summer of '46, the first 
 Swiss school was taught. The next school was Eng- 
 
History of Green County. 253 
 
 lish. The first frame house in the colony was a school 
 house, though previous to its erection some of the log 
 houses had been boarded over. The people showed no 
 great anxiety to learn the English language, but the 
 children learned it at school, and it gradually made its 
 way in the colony. More efficacious than the schools 
 in Americanizing the people was the habit of the 
 young men and women of going out to service. For 
 years all the hired girls in Monroe were from the col- 
 ony, and with the language they also acquired in their 
 various homes many of the ideas and customs of the 
 countrv. Married women sometimes left their families, 
 walked to Monroe, washed three or four days, took 
 their pay in flour, old clothes, or whatever they could 
 £et and carried it home on their backs. The men were 
 naturalized very soon. Usually before an election each 
 party had an agent at the colony who offered to pay 
 the naturalization fees of all who would vote for his 
 candidate. The second or third year after the arrival 
 of the colony, Conrad Ott opened a store in the village. 
 Mr. Frederick Egger, who succeeded Mr. Tschudy as 
 agent of the Emigration Society, was the second mer- 
 chant. The third store was that of Mr. Tschudy, 
 who soon sold it to Mr. Gus. Alder. About the 
 time of its appearance, Dr. Samuel Blumer, the first 
 physician, and the Rev. Wm. Streisgood, the first cler- 
 gyman, came from Switzerland. In 1855, a stone church 
 was built. For five or six years there was no black- 
 smith in the colony, and for ten years the people went 
 to Winnesheek to mill. Mark Luchsinger was the 
 
254 History of Green County. 
 
 first blacksmith, and David Klassy built the first mill. 
 One of the colonists has had the curiosity to search 
 the county records to see how early and how often the 
 names of New Glarus and her citizens appeared. The 
 result is as follows: April, 1847, New Glarus school 
 district was credited with forty children and school three 
 months. Frederick StreifF was appointed road super- 
 visor. January, '48, said supervisor made his report 
 and was paid. A road was laid out from Exeter by 
 way of New Glarus and Green's Prairie to the Mineral 
 Point road. July, '48, J. Jacob Tschudy was allowed 
 an account for bringing; witnesses to United States 
 Court. February, '49, J. Jacob Tschudy was petit 
 juror. November 16, '49, a petition from township 4 
 north, range 7 east, asking to be set off from the town 
 of York as the town of New Glarus was granted, and it 
 was ordered that the first town meeting should be held 
 at the school house in the village of New Glarus the 
 first Tuesday in April, 1850. January, 1S50, J. Caspar 
 Legler was paid $2 for a wolf scalp. November, 1850, 
 the result of the first assessment of the town was re- 
 corded, to which is added by way of contrast the assess- 
 ment of '76 : 
 
 1850. 1876. 
 
 Value of taxable property $8,915 00 $3-3>996 00 
 
 Amount of state tax 17 83 744 32 
 
 County tax 57 95 § 2 6 1 1 
 
 School tax 13 37 173 02 
 
 Blind asylum 00 60 
 
 Total tax 89 75 1,743 45 
 
 The village of New Glarus, apart from its interest as 
 a piece of Switzerland in America, is an important one. 
 
History of Gi'een County. 255, 
 
 The hotels of S. Luchsinger and H. Marty, the cheese- 
 factory of the New Glarus Cheese Manufacturing Co.,, 
 the saw and flour mills of F. Kundert, the brewery of 
 Hefty and Elmer, the stores of F. E. Legler, F. 
 Tschudy, and A. Kundert, with their various minor 
 accompaniments, enable the village to meet all ordinary 
 wants of the township. At the cheese factory in the vil- 
 lage of New Glarus, Mr. Wilder made in 1S76, 136,000 
 pounds of American cheese. For several years cheese 
 has been shipped directly from this factory to England.. 
 In their old home the Swiss were accustomed to the 
 care of herds and the making of cheese, and as soon as 
 they saw the uneven surface and innumerable springs 
 and brooks of New Glarus, they rejoiced over the 
 adaptation of their new home to the industry learned in 
 the old. From the very first they made cheese to use 
 at home and sell in the county, but its manufacture in 
 large quantities was delayed until some five or six years 
 ago when Mr. Nicholas Gerber started two factories in 
 southern New Glarus and one in Washington. At 
 
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 first only Swiss cheese was made, but of the two lines 
 of industry the manufacture of Limburger cheese is 
 now the more important. Besides the factory of Amer- 
 ican cheese already mentioned, there is one other, that 
 of Hoesly & Lenherr. 
 
 The following: table shows about the amount of 
 Swiss and Limburger cheese made in 1876 by the 
 largest manufacturers in New Glarus and Washington:: 
 
256 
 
 History of Gi'een County. 
 
 (TABLE REFERRED TO ON PRECEDING PAGE.) 
 
 Lbs. of Swiss. 
 
 G. Babler, 
 Jacob Boss, 
 Jacob Freitag, 
 Nicholas Gerber, 
 Jacob Karlen, 
 Paulus Kundert, - 
 Geo. Legler, 
 Staffaucher & Weiss, - 
 
 No. of Factories. 
 
 - I 
 I 
 
 - 1 
 
 3 
 
 - 3 
 i 
 
 - i 
 
 5,000 
 
 6,000 
 8,ooo 
 
 20,000 
 
 Lbs. of Limburger. 
 22,000 
 24,000 
 
 • • • • 
 
 227,900 
 24,000 
 
 The Swiss are among the best farmers in the county. 
 
 LARGEST FARMERS IN NEW GLARUS IN 1 876. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Albrecht Baebler, 
 Christopher Baebler, 
 Fridolin Baebler, 
 Fridolin Becker, 
 Jacob Burgy, 
 Adam Duerst, 
 Balthasar Duerst, 
 Jacob Duerst, 
 Jacob Duerst, Jun., 
 J. Henry Duerst, - 
 Samuel Duerst, 
 Thos. Duerst, 
 Julius Eichelkraut, 
 Elmer Bros., - 
 Mathias Figy, - 
 Henry Geiger, 
 Caspar Hauser, 
 Caspar Hefty 's estate, 
 John Hefty, - 
 J. Jacob Hefty, - 
 Andrew Hoesly, - 
 Henry Hoesly, Sen., - 
 Henry Hoesley, 
 John Hoesly, 
 Jost Hoesly, - 
 Mathew Hoesly, 
 Peter Hoesly 's estate, 
 Peter Jenny, - 
 John Klassy, 
 Peter Klassy's estate, 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 270 
 160 
 
 " 185 
 ISO 
 
 - ISO 
 l6o 
 
 - l8o 
 2IO 
 
 - 2IO 
 3OO 
 
 • 24O 
 170 
 270 
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 l6o 
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 220 
 ISO 
 
 350 
 
 2IO 
 
 l6o 
 
 ISO 
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 280 
 200 
 24O 
 200 
 200 
 
 Names. 
 
 Balthasar Kundert, 
 Fridolin Kundert, - 
 Oswald Kundert, 
 Paul Kundert, 
 Thos. Kundert, - 
 Fridolin Legler, Sen., 
 Geo Legler, Sen., 
 
 No. of Acres. 
 - 265 
 
 49O 
 
 l6o 
 
 S3© 
 3OO 
 
 215 
 4OO 
 
 Friedrich Luchsinger, 196 
 
 John Luchsinger, - 200 
 
 Fridolin Marty's est., 160 
 
 M. North, - - 300 
 
 Anton Ott, - - 190 
 
 Jacob Rueggy, - - 165 
 
 Adam Smith, - 420 
 
 Frid. & Abe. Schindler, 220 
 
 Joseph Schindler, - 160 
 
 Dietrich Staffaucher, 195 
 
 Jacob Steussy, - - 350 
 
 Melchoir Steussy, - 190 
 
 J. Jacob Streiff, - - 200 
 
 Peter Streiff, - - 280 
 
 Joseph Trogner, - 175 
 
 Joshua Wild, - - 210 
 
 Nicholas Zentner, - 290 
 
 Fridolin Zimmerman, 160 
 
 Gabriel Zimmerman, 190 
 
 Adam Zweifel, - 160 
 
 Henry Zweifel, - - 160 
 
 Jost Zweifel, - - 280 
 
 Zwicky Bros., - - 235 
 
History of Gi'een County. 
 
 2 57 
 
 TOWN OFFICERS OF NEW GLARUS FROM 1S5O TO '77 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 CHAIRMEN 
 
 John Wescott, 2 years.. 
 Joshua Wild. 
 Rudolph Baumgartner. 
 Melchoir Steussy. 
 Peter Jenny. 
 Melchoir Steussy. 
 Henry Trumpy. 
 A. Alder, resigned; F. 
 
 Egger, appointed. 
 Melchoir Steussy, 5 years. 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 Joshua Wild, 7 years. 
 
 Peter Jenny. 
 
 Mathias Steussy, 10 years. 
 
 Henry Hoesly, Jr. 
 
 Henry Trumpy. 
 
 Melchoir Steussy, .2 years. 
 
 Conrad Zimmerman, 2 y'rs. 
 
 M. Steussy. 
 
 John Luchsinger, 2 years. 
 
 M. Steussy. 
 
 Conrad Zimmerman, 2 y'rs. 
 
 John Luchsinger, 2 years. 
 
 Chris. Luchsinger, 6 y'rs. 
 Thos. Luchsinger, 3 years. 
 M. Steussy. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 SOLDIERS OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
 Though carefully compiled from the records in the 
 Adjutant General's office at Madison, the following list 
 of Green County soldiers is far from being as complete 
 as it was hoped that it would be. In May, 1S65, in 
 obedience to instructions from the legislature to perfect 
 the records in his office, the Adjutant General sent blanks 
 in the form of company books to each Wisconsin regi- 
 ment. Each book was meant to contain the name and 
 time of service of every man who was a member of the 
 company at any time between its original organization 
 and its muster out. In most regiments some of these 
 blanks w r ere filled out and returned, but from some regi- 
 ments no records were received. Many of those sent 
 (being made at the close of the war, when it was diffi- 
 cult to learn the history of men who had died, or who 
 had been discharged or transferred to or from other 
 companies) were necessarily very imperfect. Some 
 officers returned only the names of men who had en- 
 listed in their companies. Others gave the names of 
 
260 History of Green County. 
 
 those transferred to their companies, but omitted those 
 transferred from them. Some officers gave the residence 
 and the place to which the soldier was credited. More 
 of them omitted one of these places and a few omitted 
 them both. Some gave the rank of soldiers at the be- 
 ginning of their service, and their promotions, others 
 gave only the rank at the time of muster out. Imper- 
 fect as the\- are, these records are the best in the state, 
 as the records turned over to the chief mustering officer 
 at the muster-out of the regiments were all sent to 
 Washington. 
 
 This list includes all those for whom the records re- 
 ferred to give Green County either as the residence or 
 as the place credited. It is defective, first, in giving, in 
 some cases, the place credited as the place of residence; 
 secondly, in omitting the names of all Green County 
 men who were credited to other counties and for whom 
 no residence was given; and thirdly in lacking the 
 names of nearly all those who belonged to companies 
 whose records are not found at Madison, though a few 
 •of these last have been obtained from other sources. 
 
 INFANTRY.— First Regiment. 
 
 Name. Rank. Residence. En Utt. ^ered'out 
 
 Hewitt. Robert Paym'r... Albany May, 1861... Aug. 1861 
 
 Second Regiment., 
 
 Peck, Henry W Lt.-Col.... Monroe Apr. 1861... July, 1861 
 
 F. R*. Melvin Private... Brooklyn May, 1861... Aug. 1861 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Lucbsinger, Fridolin ?... Segt New Glarus Oct. 18bl 
 
 Geiser, Frederick Corp'l " Dec. 1861... ............. 
 
 Wichser. Mathias " " Oct. 1861... April, 1862 
 
History of Green County. 261 
 
 Second Regiment — Continued. 
 
 v.iur t?»v-it R „i,i„ n „„ Date of Whenmus- 
 
 Namk - Rank - Residence. Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Bopp, Adam Private... New Grlarus Dec. 1863 
 
 Bopp, Jacob " ... " " 
 
 Dietland, Thos " ... " Dec. 1861 
 
 Frey, Sebastian " ... " " 
 
 Heitz, Pauly " ... " Oct. 1861... Jan. 1863 
 
 Hoesli, Henry " ... " Dec. 1863 
 
 Hoesli, Samuel " ... " Oct. 1861... Aug. 1862 
 
 Klase, Fridolin " ... " Dec. 1863 
 
 Knobel, Henry « " ... " " 
 
 Kubly, UbiahV. " ... " Oct. 1861... Oct. 1862 
 
 Luchsmger, Melchqir &..: " ... 
 
 Luchsinger, Fridolin lt ... 
 
 Marty, Fridolin " ... " Oct. 1862... 
 
 Sperri. Henry T. c " ... " Oct. 1861... June, 1864 
 
 Staub, John " ... " Feb. 1862... May, 1862 
 
 Streiff, Fridolin b « ... Oct. .1861 
 
 Trumpy, Jacob /'. 
 
 a « 
 
 REFERENCES FOR SECOND REGIMENT. 
 
 a Died at City Point, Va., June 20, 1X64. 
 
 b Promoted Sergeant. 
 
 c Promoted First Lieutenant. 
 
 / Discharged for wounds. 
 
 g Killed at Gainesville, Va., August 28, 1862. 
 
 h Died at Fredericksburg, Va., June 29. 1862. 
 
 i Died a prisoner ot war, Richmond, November 18, 1863. 
 
 Third Regiment. 
 
 Co. A. 
 
 Bowden, Samuel « Private Feb. 1862 
 
 Godfrey, Isaac d. " ... Monroe Jan. 1862... Dec. 1862 
 
 Co. B. 
 
 Hamberly, Frederick " ...Exeter Jan. 1864... 1864 
 
 Peebles, Guilford " ... York Sept. 1864... June, 1865 
 
 Co. C. 
 
 Flood, Martin e Capt Exeter Apr. 1861. 
 
 Gardner, Silas E, f. Sergt Monroe " 
 
 O'Brien, Moses 4 r 1st Lt u " 
 
 ♦Smith, Charles C. £ 2nd Lt Exeter " 
 
 Rollins, Geo. W. h 2nd Lt Monroe June 1861. 
 
 Bryant, Edwin E. / 2nd Lt " Apr. 1861.. 
 
 Hunter, James W.y. Sergt ,( " 
 
 Raymond, Seth k " Juda " 
 
 Pierce, Dwight / " Washington " 
 
 Kramer, Jonas Corpl Juda Apr. 1861... Sept. 1861 
 
 Collins, James m '• Exeter " ... Jan. 1865 
 
 Cook, Geo. H. / " Monroe " ...July, 1865 
 
 Foster, Win. H </ " « ... July, 1864 
 
 Gay, Geo. -v " Washington " 
 
 Coon, John D " Decatur " ... July, 1864 
 
 Brisbane, Wm " Jefferson " ...July, 1865 
 
 King, Chas. H " Monroe " ... " 
 
 Allen, Oliver M Private... Exeter " ... Jan. 1863 
 
 Annis, Fluette " ... Decatur " ... June, 1862 
 
 Auchenbaugh, Daniel •' ... Spring Grove... May, 1861... July, 1865 
 
 Becker, John t " ... Washington Apr. 1861 
 
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 History oj Green County. 
 
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 Betts, Adelbert A. c 
 
 Birmingham] Zeb. « 
 
 Blunt, Isaiah 
 
 Blunt, Jas. E 
 
 Booth, Geo. L 
 
 Booth, Win. H 
 
 Bowden.Geo. W.e 
 
 Boyer, John L 
 
 Bridge, Josephus C 
 
 Bryant, Levi J. c 
 
 Busic, Win. F 
 
 Carter. Win. L 
 
 Case, Jacob M 
 
 Case, Samuel S 
 
 Clark, Austin v 
 
 Clarno. Wm 
 
 Clarno, Valentine 
 
 Collins, Jesse .. 
 
 Conners. Andrew W 
 
 Conroy, James 
 
 Conroy. Thos 
 
 Cook, Ziba <* 
 
 Crawford, Alonzo P 
 
 Crawford, Wm. F 
 
 Crossland, Chas. A 
 
 Cumley, Jacob o 
 
 Deffendeffer, Chas. F 
 
 Durrell, Amos A 
 
 Durrell, Geo. 
 
 Durrell, Joseph G 
 
 Drake. John 
 
 Fleek, ' Wm. If. H 
 
 Frasher, John B 
 
 Fuller, Henry, « 
 
 Gans, Geo. c 
 
 Godfrey, Jerome C 
 
 Golden, Jas 
 
 Goodhue. Wm. F 
 
 Grace, John 
 
 Green, Chas. R 
 
 Green, John M. -v 
 
 Hattery, John 
 
 Hay den, .Samuel 
 
 Hopkins, Melville 
 
 Jackson, Richard 
 
 Jennings. Guilford D 
 
 Johnson, Wm. F 
 
 K ester, Joseph 
 
 K ester, Silas 
 
 Kimberly, Wm. A. y bl\., 
 
 Kohle, John c „ 
 
 Land, Jackson 
 
 Land, Joseph c 
 
 Lindley, Amos L. c 
 
 Leonard, Benjamin c 
 
 Lovelace, Anson W. z...., 
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History of Green County. 
 
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 Third Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Loveland, Frank Private. 
 
 Mat-key, John J 
 
 Martin, Wm 
 
 McBride, Artis a 
 
 McFarland, Robert AV 
 
 Mclvenney, Alonzo 
 
 Milled, Ephraim 
 
 Morgan, Carroll 
 
 Morris, Philip 13. " 
 
 Mosier, Stewart E. u 
 
 Parks, John 
 
 Payne, Willard 
 
 Pitzcola, August 
 
 Poff, Henry 
 
 Raymond, Henry u 
 
 Richardson, Geo. II c 
 
 Roberts, William 
 
 Ruegger, Frederick C z... 
 
 Ross, Edgar « 
 
 Rourke, David 
 
 Royce, Orvil 
 
 Saekett, Chas. W 
 
 Shaw, Gilbert J 
 
 Sheffield, Seymour, J.*... 
 
 Snyder, Geo. W 
 
 Springsted, Wm 
 
 Sutherland, Geo. A 
 
 Thurlow, Albion 
 
 Thurlow, Isaac s 
 
 Underwood, Josiah «<?.... 
 
 Waldo, John L 
 
 Walker, Willard 
 
 Warner, Andrew 
 
 Warner, Jacob 
 
 Webb, Abner c 
 
 Webb, David 
 
 Webb, Reuben 
 
 Wilcox, Junot c 
 
 Williamson, Geo. W. y ... 
 
 Winans, Emery. F 
 
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 Witter, Eugene c. 
 
 Wood, David 
 
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 Bechtel, Samuel 
 
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264 History of Green County. 
 
 Third Regiment — Continued. 
 
 _ -a . , „„ Date of When mus- 
 
 Name. Rank. Residence. Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 McGill, James Private Jan. <{ 1864... July, 1866 
 
 Perrine, Henry " - Monroe 
 
 Co H 
 
 Harris, Amos E £ Mar. 1862 
 
 Mason, Wm.H.* Feb. 1862 
 
 McKnight, Jas.F.s Apr. 1862... 
 
 Rood, Andrew " Mar.^1862... July, ( 18fc> 
 
 Rood, Ever..... ••• -• T ,„.••• „ 
 
 Starr, Daniel/ " ... Clarno Jan. 1862... 
 
 Co I 
 
 Washington, Wm " Mar. 1862... July, 1865 
 
 Coa°t'es, Wm. H " Nov. 1863 
 
 CorWt David'.'.'.'.' '.:.'.' " J^- 1862 .. May, 1862 
 
 Mayes Samuel W « Feb., 1862... Jan. 1863 
 
 Santas, John R u - Oct 1862 
 
 a " << 
 
 Willetts, Aniaziah 
 Unassigned Men. 
 
 Blake, Isaac R ' Feb. 1864. 
 
 Coldren, Orth M Dec. 1863 
 
 Gill, Edwin - " Mar. 1864. 
 
 « Feb. 1864. 
 
 Johnson, Thomas.... 
 
 Keenan,John " Jan. 18b4 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRD REGIMENT. 
 
 a Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 b Never mustered. 
 
 c Discharged because of wounds. 
 
 e ffinoteo^&o?May M8M,^™2col., May 25, '63; Trans, to Vet. Res. Corps, Dec. '63. 
 
 o Promoted Captain Co. I; Died at Cedar Mt., August 12, 1862, of wounds. 
 
 h Promoted First Lieutenant Co. B. 
 
 i Transferred to Co. A. and promoted to Adjutant, October, 1862. 
 
 j Promoted Captain Co. F.; died of wounds, Chattanoga, June 8, 1864. 
 
 A- Promoted First Lieutenant Co. A. 
 
 / Promoted Second Lieutenant. 
 
 mi Promoted First Lieutenant. 
 
 ;; Promoted Drum Major. 
 
 o Promoted Hospital Steward. 
 
 p Promoted Corporal. . 
 
 q Died at Frederick City, November 26, 1861. 
 
 /■ Died of wounds, at Alexandria, October, 1862. 
 
 Killed at Antietam, September 17, 1862. 
 t Killed at Dallas, Ga., May 25, 1864. 
 it Killed at Bolivar Heights, October 16, 1861. 
 v Died at Frederick, November, 1861. 
 to Died at Richmond, December 21, 1861. 
 x Died at Fayetteville, April 18, 1864. 
 y Died at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. 
 z Killed at Cedar Mt., August 9, 1862. 
 aa Died at Baltimore, September 1, 1861. 
 hb Promoted Corporal. 
 
 Fifth Regiment. 
 
 Co F 
 
 Johnson, Volnev L Musician Monticello June 1861... Aug. 1862 
 
 Wright, Eugene L " " May, 1861... 
 
 Burdick, Aaron M Private... Albany May, 1861... Sept. 1862 
 
 Dysent, James D.«/. '< ... " May, 1865 
 
 Johnson, Rodney K " ... «' „ July, 1865 
 
 Masterston, Wm. D " ... ' 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 265 
 
 Fifth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Smith, Frederick W. b ... 
 
 Smith, Joseph F. " d 
 
 Walrath, Alvin 
 
 Wilson, Pliny c 
 
 Hammond, Brant C 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Flint, Thos 
 
 Lacy, Yates T 
 
 Mason, Henry B b 
 
 Wright, Timothy d 
 
 Carnvvell, Forest H d 
 
 Baker, Geo. W 
 
 Burnheim, Benjamin 
 
 Bartholomew. Chauncey 
 
 Bluebaugh, David 
 
 Cosat, John J c 
 
 Dunn, James 
 
 Fayette, Albert A 
 
 Fessendeji, Elliott N 
 
 Gange, Win 
 
 Gilbert, Franklin, Jr. e... 
 
 Girkee, August F 
 
 Hone, Menzo 
 
 Hopkins, Win. T. c 
 
 Hurlbut, Spencer W. c ... 
 
 Jewell, Isaiah 
 
 Lamoroux, Samuel 
 
 La Rose, Lewis 
 
 Lemuel, John 
 
 Martin, Jacob 
 
 Milks, Ezra 
 
 McFarland, John C 
 
 McKinney, Burdet E 
 
 Moore. Chauncey..... 
 
 Purington, Alonzo C 
 
 Roberts, Win. H 
 
 Robertson, Lewis C 
 
 Ross, Thos. A 
 
 Scroggins, Jacob L 
 
 Seymour, Francis 
 
 Slothower, David 
 
 Stettson, Thos. L 
 
 Tibbits,Chas. I 
 
 Whipple, Allen 
 
 AVilson, Jacob L 
 
 Witter, James 
 
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 tt Transferred to 5th Battallion Wisconsin Infant.y 
 
 b Promoted 2nd Lieutenant. 
 
 c Promoted Corporal. 
 
 d Promoted Sergeant. 
 
 e Killed at Petersburg, April 6, 1865. 
 
 / Discharged because of wounds. 
 
 23 
 
266 History of Green County. 
 
 Sixth Regiment. 
 
 ^ -r> -j Date of When mus- 
 
 Nake. Rank. Residence Enlistment, tered out. 
 
 Hall, John C. « As't Surg Juda Oct. 1862... July, 1865 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 McCauliff,Wm Private... York Sept. 1864... June^lSeS 
 
 Mevthalef, Jacob " ... Adams 
 
 Scott, John d. 
 
 Wheeler, John " ...York " ... June, 1865 
 
 REFERENCES FOR SIXTH REGIMEXT. 
 
 a Promoted Surgeon, July, 1864. 
 
 d Died April 1, 1865, at City Point, Va. 
 
 Seventh Regiment. 
 
 Co. B. 
 Clinton, Henry P« 2nd Lt Brodhead Aug, 1861... Nov. 1862 
 
 Co. D. 
 Pratt, Oliver d Sergt Brooklyn " ....Nov. 1863 
 
 Co. H. 
 Newell, Grandison P. c... Corpl Dayton .... June, 1865 
 
 REFEREXCES FOR SEVENTH REGIMEXT. 
 
 a Promoted Quartermaster. 
 
 c Promoted Sergeant. 
 
 d Discharged because of wounds. 
 
 Eighth Regiment. 
 
 Armstrong, Lewis G As't Surg Sept. 1862... Nov. 1862 
 
 Co. A. 
 
 Warner, John Private... Spring Grove... Oct. 1864... Sept. 1865 
 
 Co. C. 
 Chatwood, Win "' Sylvester " ... " 
 
 Co. E. 
 
 Smith, John W Sergt York Oct. 1861... « 
 
 White, Edwin B Corpl " Aug. 1861... Nov. 1862 
 
 Ames, Geo. R Private... " Sept. 1861... Sept. 1865 
 
 Ames, LabenL " ... " Aug. 1861 ... Sept. 1864 
 
 Burr, John " ... " " ... Jan. 1863 
 
 Day, Ellis."- " ... " " 
 
 Gilbert, Chas. L " ...Albany " ... Sept. 1865 
 
 Walker, Joel W " ...York " ... Sept. 1864 
 
 Co. G. 
 
 McNair, James M " ...Brodhead Sept. 1861... Sept. 1865 
 
 Peterson. James " ... Jefferson 0„ct. 1861... Sept. 1864 
 
 Co. H. 
 
 Estcee. Stephen A Capt Exeter June,1861 
 
 Morley. Alonzo W Sergt " Aug. 1861... Sept. 1865 
 
 Wood, Andrew *' " " ... July, 1862 
 
 Vermilion, G. T. b Corpl " " ...Oct. 1862 
 
 Heal, WalterS " " Sept. 1861... Aug. 1864 
 
 Barber. R. A. h Private... " Aug. 1861... Oct. 1864 
 
 Barnes, Wm. E. /' " ... Mt. Pleasant ... Oct. 1861 
 
 Baxter, Chas " ... " ... Aug. 1861 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 267 
 
 Eighth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Behr, Julius Private.. 
 
 Brownellj Russell 
 
 Burt, Abraham / 
 
 Chamberlain, James C /.. 
 
 Cluxton, Sanford 
 
 Corse, Chas. k 
 
 Devlin, John R a 
 
 Edwards, Daniel S. a 
 
 Ellis, Lewis 
 
 Gilbert, James 
 
 Green. Thomas a 
 
 Ham, Jesse a 
 
 Havens, Luther 
 
 Heal, Nelson c 
 
 Jerryham, J 
 
 Jones, Cassius M 
 
 Jones, John F 
 
 Jones, Wm. H. H 
 
 Lewis, David 
 
 Lewis, Joseph a„ 
 
 Loomis, David K 
 
 Loomis. Orson B. d 
 
 Mahar, Henry E 
 
 Noggle, Christopher C 
 
 Oleson, Edwin II 
 
 Oliver, Henry 
 
 Parker 
 
 Peresoy, Benjamin F 
 
 Powell, John M <? 
 
 Ross, \Vm 
 
 Ross, Milton 
 
 Raynier, Win. R 
 
 Robison, Irvin 
 
 Russel, John L 
 
 Rutherford, Jacob S 
 
 Spears, Robert 
 
 Stevens, Wm. « 
 
 Thompson, Ferris 
 
 Thompson, Otis 
 
 Waldo, John 
 
 White, Pliny II. c 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
 Sylvester Oct. 1864.. 
 
 Exeter Sept. 1861.. 
 
 Brodhead Aug. 1861.. 
 
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 REFERENCES FOR EIGHTH REGIMEXT. 
 
 a Promoted Corporal. 
 
 b Promoted Sergeant. 
 
 c Discharged because of wounds. 
 
 d Died at Sulphur Spa, Mo., January 24, 1862. 
 
 e Died at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., August 12, 1863. 
 
 / Died at Corinth, October 6, 1862. 
 
 a Died at Farmington, Julj r 5, 1862. 
 
 h Died at Belleville, Wis., September 26, 1863, of wounds. 
 
 i Died at Milliken's Bend, La., July 9, 1863. 
 j Died at Farmington, Miss., July 3, 1862. 
 1c Died at Vicksburg. November 14, 1863, 
 
 / Promoted to Chief Musician. 
 
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270 
 
 History of Gi'een County. 
 
 Thirteenth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Abbey, James m Priv 
 
 Adams, Augustus W. «... 
 
 Anderson, Wm. A./. 
 
 Barnum, Chas. E. o 
 
 Bennett, Alonzo 
 
 Botsfori, James M. b 
 
 Brayton Joseph 
 
 Brayton, Sidney/. 
 
 Brown, Geo 
 
 Bump, Geo W 
 
 Cates, Seneca P 
 
 Clark, E. W 
 
 Clark, Samuel M 
 
 Cooper, Elijah E 
 
 Cowen, Warren 
 
 Creazin, Francis 
 
 Rank. 
 
 ate 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 
 Grossgrove, Sam. L.... 
 
 Dake, James R 
 
 Dodge, John M 
 
 Dunkelburg, John II. 
 
 Edgar, Chas. W 
 
 Ellingson, Elling 
 
 Fayette, Wm. H 
 
 Gapin, Michael 
 
 Griffith, Edwin 
 
 Heath, Joel 
 
 Henn, Chas./. 
 
 Hulburt, David G 
 
 Hutchins, WardS./.. 
 
 Huyck, Edgar q 
 
 Johnson, Wm 
 
 Keely, Michael F 
 
 King, Francis 
 
 Lawless, Thos. r 
 
 Lyon, Thos. I./. 
 
 Meighells, Elmer J..*. 
 
 Maddock, Wm 
 
 McCreedy, Geo. W. t. 
 
 McCreedy, Silas 
 
 Morris, Thos 
 
 Murphy, John « 
 
 Murray, Wm. H 
 
 Murrav, Wm. P 
 
 Nichols, Wm. H 
 
 Nichols, Stewart 
 
 Orcott, Geo. D. v 
 
 Parslow, Francis 
 
 Patrick, James K 
 
 Patterson, James N... 
 
 Pratt, Win. C 
 
 Price, James L 
 
 Redner, John, 
 
 Robb, John 
 
 Robb, Lemuel 
 
 Rochfort, Philip/. 
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History of Green County. 
 
 Thirteenth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Rolfe, Byron L. f. Private 
 
 Rolfe, Wm.M.w " 
 
 Ross, Franklin M *' 
 
 Sanderson, James " 
 
 Searles, C. 0. b 
 
 Sherman, Geo. x " 
 
 Smith, Chester A. d. " 
 
 Snell, John b « 
 
 Stanton, Geo. M./. « 
 
 Starkweather, E. A. v.... " 
 
 Stockwell, Henry " 
 
 Taylor, Alonzo H. / « 
 
 Taylor, 'Thos..^ " 
 
 Van Loan, Reuben " 
 
 Wade, James E. f. " 
 
 Walling, Percy 11./. 
 
 Warner, Franklin F " 
 
 Watkins, John " 
 
 Webster, Emmet A " 
 
 Wells, Peter G " 
 
 Welsh, Martin " 
 
 Whipple, IraE " 
 
 Wardsworth, Chas. H " 
 
 Co. G. 
 
 Baker, Joseph H. b 
 
 Baxter, Leroy 
 
 Chapel, Austin C. b " 
 
 Chapel, Reuben H. b 
 
 Cleveland, Ira 
 
 Cowan, Uriah H 
 
 Derrick, Edwin S. /. 
 
 Eitei. Louis 
 
 Frany, Geo " 
 
 Frisbee, David C 
 
 Hall, Hiram K 
 
 Halverson, Halver 
 
 Kiefer, Nicholas 
 
 Martin. John V. oa 
 
 McNitt, Nathan B 
 
 Menot, Armstrong C 
 
 Menot, Isaac N 
 
 Menot, John M " 
 
 Menot, Thos. J " 
 
 Menot, AVilson S. z " 
 
 Penn, John bb *' 
 
 Shaff, Wm.H " 
 
 Sherry, Osmer D " 
 
 Co. 1. 
 
 Anderson, Louis 
 
 Erickson, Nelse " 
 
 Hall, Wm. H 
 
 Martin, Jonas " 
 
 Ross, Franklin M " 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Allensworth, Jacob " 
 
 Babkirk, Henry S " 
 
 Heimbach, Thos d. " 
 
 Hopkins, Madison 
 
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 Jan. 
 
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 Sylvester Oct. 1861.. 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 1861.. 
 
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 1861. 
 
 When mus- 
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 Mt. Pleasant ... Dec. 1861... 
 
 Monroe Oct. 1861... Dec. 1864 
 
 Brooklyn Sept. 1861 
 
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 Albany Sept. 1861... Nov. 1865 
 
 Monroe Oct. 1861... Apr. 
 
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 Brooklyn Sept. 1861... Nov. 
 
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 Brooklyn Sept. 1861. 
 
 Albany Oct. 1861. 
 
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 Jefferson Nov. 1861. 
 
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272 History of Green County. 
 
 Thirteenth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 NA * E - »***■ *****». Enlist. *2£E£3L 
 
 Kent, Albert B Private... Juda Oct. 1861... Mav, 1862 
 
 Morrison, Burton H. dd.. " ... " « 
 
 Morrison, James " ... " " ...July, 1865 
 
 Robinson, Cyrus B. ee " ... " Nov. 1861 
 
 Swan, Isaac " ... " Oct. 1861... Nov. 1865 
 
 Swan. John •' ... " 
 
 Taylor, L. C " ... " Nov. 1861... 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel. 
 b Promoted Sergeant. 
 c Promoted Captain. 
 fl Promoted 1st Lieutenant. 
 e Promoted 2nd Lieutenant. 
 J Promoted Corporal. 
 g Discharged on account of wounds. 
 j Promoted 2nd Lieutenant, 31st regiment. 
 k Died May 23, 1862, at Lawrence, Kansas. 
 I Died June 23, 1862, at Columbus, Ky. 
 m Died March 15, 1864, at Nashville. 
 h Died October 10, 1X61, at Stevenson, Alabama. 
 o Died June 20, 1862, at Lawrence, Kansas. 
 p Died April, 1863, in Green County, Wis. 
 q Died August 27, 1862, at Columbus, Ky. 
 r Died March 1, 1864, at Nashville. 
 8 Died October 10, 1864, at Stevenson, Alabama. 
 t Died April 15, 1863, at Paducah, Ky. 
 u Died August 1, 1832, at Columbus, Ky. 
 v Died November 29, 1864, at Jeffersonville, Ind. 
 w Died June 8, 1865, at Nashville. 
 x Died March 15, 1861, at Nashville. 
 y Died March 28, 1863, at Fort Donaldson. 
 z Died November, 1862, at Ft. Henry, Tenn. 
 aa Died February 17, 1865, at Madison, Wis. 
 bb Died June 4, 1865, at Nashville. 
 dd Died March 9, 1865, at Madison, Wis. 
 ee Died September 21, 1864, at Nashville. 
 ff Promoted Commissary of Subsistence, November, 1862. 
 
 Fourteenth Regiment. 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Benoy, Thomas c Private.... 
 
 Countryman, Elias H " 
 
 Cowles, Chas. a c " .... 
 
 Foley, Henry C c " .... 
 
 Johnson, James " 
 
 Willrout, Adam A. d " .... 
 
 Thied, Ernest d " .... 
 
 
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 REFERENCES FOR FOURTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Died at Brownsville, Ark., September 2, 1864. 
 o Promoted Sergeant. 
 rf Promoted Corporal. 
 
History of Green County. 273 
 
 Fifteenth Regiment. 
 
 Name. Rank. Residence. 
 
 Date of When mus- 
 
 Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Co. E. 
 
 Lokke, Guldbrand a Corpl York Nov. 1861 
 
 Bremien, Halver C " " Dec. 1861.... Dec. 1864 
 
 Dahl, Guldband " " 
 
 Espelee, Helge " York Nov. 1861... Aug. 1862 
 
 Gundhaus, Christian c... Private... " 
 
 Hansen, N " ... " " ...Dec. 1864 
 
 Homlebeck, Peter d. " ... New Glarus Dec. 1861 
 
 Irjellerrig, Anond " ... York Nov. 1861... Dec. 1864 
 
 Jensen, Halver/. " ... " Oct. 1861 
 
 Lee, Christofferfl.^ " ... " Dec. 1861 
 
 Lindloe, Ole A " ... ' ; Oct. 1861 
 
 Nielson, John/ '■ ... New Glarus Nov. 1861 
 
 Syversen, Bryngrel " ...York " ... April, 1863 
 
 Co. G. 
 Pederson, Christoffer " Monroe Nov. 1861... Aug. 18(12 
 
 Co. H. 
 
 Eide, Nels J. k « ... New Glarus Feb. 1862 
 
 Evanson, Erick " ... Spring Grove... Dec. 1861 
 
 Knudson, Christian " ... ; ' ... 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Guldbardson, Anders Corpl Jan. 1862 
 
 Nilson, Erick / Private Feb. 1862 
 
 Thompson, Ole G " Jan. 1862 .. Feb. 1865 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FIFTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Killed near Hope Church, Ga., May 27, 18(34. 
 C Died while at home on furlough, August 4, 1862. 
 d Died at Bowling- Green Ky., October 12, 1862. 
 /Died at Nashville, January 12, 1863. 
 ij Died of wounds January 17, 1863, at Murfreesboro. 
 h Died at Nashville, August 27, 1863. 
 ./ Died at Iuka, August 31, 1862. 
 k Promoted Corporal. 
 / Died at Louisville, Ky., April 9, 1804. 
 
 Sixteenth Regiment. 
 
 Co. F. 
 
 Green, John J Private... Brooklyn Jan. 1864... July, 1865 
 
 Smith, Calvin C " ... Brodhead Dec. 1863... Feb. 1865 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Norris, James Capt Monroe Jan. 1864... July, 1865 
 
 Carr, Isaac T 1st Lt " " ...Sept. 1864 
 
 Richmond, Geo. a Sergt Dec. 1863... July, 1865 
 
 Cleveland, Horatio G. b c Private... " " ...Nov. 1864 
 
 Steadman, John S. b " «' ...July, 1865 
 
 Andre, Geo. W. d " ... " " ... '« 
 
 Baker, Louis " ...York " ... " 
 
 Baxter, Leroy " ... Monroe " ... " 
 
 Beedy, Alonzo " ...Cadiz Nov. 1863... " 
 
 Benson, Peter " ... York Dec. 1863... " 
 
 Bradley, James " ... Cadiz Sept. 1864... " 
 
 Brean, Jonathan " ... Clarno " ... " 
 
 Brown,EdwinR " ...Cadiz " 
 
 Brown, Joseph A e " ... Jefferson Jan. 1864... " 
 
 24 
 
-74 
 
 History of Green County 
 
 Sixteenth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Brown, Sanford S Private 
 
 Bruger, Solomon 
 
 Blumer. Ezra 
 
 Blunt. Win. /'. 
 
 Burkholder/Wm. T 
 
 Clark. Elmore J 
 
 Cline, John D. di. 
 
 DeHaven. Albert T. d..... 
 DeHaven. Wesley W. e... " 
 
 Denuare. Richard/ " 
 
 Divan, Walter g 
 
 Devereaux, Dwight M. // 
 
 Edwards, Wm. e 
 
 Eitel, Gottlieb 
 
 Ennis. John W. dk 
 
 Gallion, Thomas I 
 
 Garrett, Jacob 
 
 Garrett. Richard 
 
 Glass. John K 
 
 Gleason, Geo. W 
 
 Gyer, Samuel 
 
 Hill, Norman 
 
 Hingee, /Yugust C 
 
 Heekman, James 
 
 Hopkins, Frank 
 
 Hurlbut, Julius C. / 
 
 Jones, Joseph I 
 
 Kelly, Joel d 
 
 Linzee. Chas. H 
 
 Linzee, Duman 
 
 Martin, Peter 
 
 Moore. AVm 
 
 Morton. James 
 
 Niles, Milo 
 
 Olsen, Kundt 
 
 Peebles, Albert 
 
 Pierson, Leonard 
 
 Reinhart, Wm 
 
 Rigel. Simon 
 
 Roberts, Sylvester 
 
 Rogers, Cheny 
 
 Saucerman, Simon 
 
 Scovil, Edwin 
 
 Sheppard, P. A 
 
 Shriner. Chas 
 
 Shull, Lewis W. e 
 
 Shull, Morgan " 
 
 Smith. Morris D. d •• 
 
 Smith. Ralph 
 
 Snyder. Abraham * ; 
 
 Snyder. Wm '• 
 
 Super, John Q. A 
 
 Spalding, Theodore W.... 
 
 Starr, Levi " 
 
 Starr. Wm 
 
 Strunk, Philip II 
 
 Stuky, Christian 
 
 Taylor, .Miner*/. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
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 1865 
 
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History of Green County 
 
 n 
 
 Sixteenth R egi m e xt — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Trogner, John H Private. 
 
 Trogner, Joseph D. m " 
 
 Van Horn, E. W. d " . 
 
 Wiggins, Sumner W " 
 
 Wilcox, La Fayette W. ... " 
 
 Whipple, Porter j> '* 
 
 White, James o " 
 
 White, John A. n 
 
 White, Joseph '• 
 
 Youngblood, Wm. H " 
 
 Residence. 
 New Grlarus .. 
 
 Date of 
 
 Enlistment. 
 
 Dee. 1868.. 
 
 When 
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 Aug. 
 July, 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 REFIRENCES FOR SIXTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 it Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. 
 b Promoted to 2d Lieutenant, 
 c Discharged because of wounds. 
 d Promoted to Corporal. 
 e Promoted to Sergeant. 
 
 /Transferred, August, IS65, to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 Killed at Lovejoy, Ga., September 3, 1W4 . 
 h Died at Rome, Ga.. November 15, 1864. 
 i Died at Nashville, June, 1864. 
 j Died at Chattanoga, July 2, 1864. 
 k Died in Hospital, December, 1864. 
 I Killed before Atlanta, Julv ■:':•., 1804. 
 m Died at Cairo, 111., May 5, 1864. 
 )< Died at Goldsboro. X. C, March, 24, 1865. 
 o Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 p Died of wounds, at Rome, Ga., June 15, 1861. 
 
 Eighteenth Regiment. 
 
 Co. B. 
 
 Jackson. Cha-^. H Capt.... 
 
 Jackson, Thos. A. b 1st Lt.. 
 
 Boynton, Samuel B. b 2nd Lt. 
 
 Walkey, Jacob e Sergt .. 
 
 Farmer. Henderson b 
 
 Frovve, Samuel S. b 
 
 Johns, Henry T 
 
 Holmes, Geo. W 
 
 Aldridge, David Corp! 
 
 Shaw. -Joseph L. i 
 
 Cunningham, M. B 
 
 Ball, Chas. M 
 
 Worcester, Herman B.... 
 
 McGuinness. Abram 
 
 Rogers, Daniel A. d 
 
 Ellis. Orwin J 
 
 Hunt. John L Musician 
 
 Adair. Alexander Private... 
 
 Adair, Eben j 
 
 Alexander, James 
 
 Bailey, Francis M. // 
 
 Bailey. Hiram £. k 
 
 Bailey. Samuel 
 
 Baldwin. Samuel C 
 
 Barnhouse, W 
 
 Beedy, Alonzo // 
 
 Bray, Norris M. // 
 
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276 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Eighteen t 1 r Reg i me n t — Continued, 
 
 N OIE, 
 
 Butcher, Benjamin 
 
 Bussey, Mahlon I. c 
 
 Bryant, J. P 
 
 Carpenter, James M. »'.... 
 
 Carter. Joseph 
 
 Chase. John W. d 
 
 Clapp, Jonas G. // 
 
 Combs, Elias 
 
 Condon, Clinton B 
 
 Conklin, John n 
 
 Cottle, ('has. II J. 
 
 Crosby, Geo. W 
 
 Daughenbaugh, A. J 
 
 Davis, Benjamin S. o 
 
 Davis. Geo. W. // 
 
 Davis. James D 
 
 Death, Michael J. / 
 
 Denson, Wm. H 
 
 Derrick. Theodore J 
 
 Devereaux, Alvin E 
 
 Douglas, James \V r . q 
 
 Dunbar, Richard d. 
 
 Egma. Ziniri 
 
 Farmer. Isaac N 
 
 Farmer. James 
 
 Farmer. John A. r 
 
 Fitch, James A 
 
 Green. Albert M 
 
 Goff, John s 
 
 Hall, Henry t 
 
 Hall, James it 
 
 Halstead, Juan W 
 
 Hansen, ('has. (> 
 
 Harden, Wm. H 
 
 Heath, Asa W 
 
 Heath, Osborn 
 
 Hileman, Elijah 
 
 Hiteheock, Hiram v w 
 
 Hopkins. Hannibal H. it, 
 
 Hopkins, Wm. B 
 
 Hooker- Wm 
 
 Jackson. Sylvester S. *... 
 
 Kasson, A. M 
 
 King John S 
 
 Kirby. Isaiah 
 
 Knapp, Fllnathan 
 
 Knapp, James ]{.jj 
 
 Laird, Richard C. b 
 
 Loucks, Geo. S 
 
 Lucia, Andrew J 
 
 Marsh Albert K 
 
 Mason. David H 
 
 McGuire, Redmont y 
 
 Meir. Henry 
 
 Minnegben, Michael 
 
 Mooney. Thos. h 
 
 Moore, John W 
 
 Myers, John H 
 
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History of Green County. 
 
 1 *T "- 
 
 -7/ 
 
 Eighteenth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Newberry- Win. W Private 
 
 Olds, Wilson 
 
 Packard, Chas. E. z 
 
 Perkins. Norris C. «« 
 
 Phillips. Geo. W 
 
 Phillips Gilbert H. h 
 
 Price, Asa C 
 
 Price, Peter bb 
 
 Post, Ezra W. cc 
 
 Rogers, Franklin A 
 
 Kourke, Win 
 
 Salmon, Thos 
 
 Sanborn, Jos 
 
 Sisson, Esek S 
 
 Smith, Francis G 
 
 Soper, Eben 
 
 Soper, John Q. A 
 
 Spencer, Win. H. dd 
 
 Steadman, John S 
 
 Stewart, Ezra 11 
 
 Teis, Frederick e 
 
 Van Norman, P 
 
 Youngj Isaac W. g 
 
 Young, John 
 
 Youngblood, Daniel, ee.... 
 
 Waite, Edward F 
 
 Wallace, Andrew // 
 
 Webb, Allen 
 
 Webb, Geo. \V 
 
 Wilder, Wilbur F 
 
 Willets, James d 
 
 Williams, Chester W.#... 
 
 Worley, Valentine 
 
 Wright, E. L " ... 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Brunner. Malcolm/' Sergt 
 
 Jackson, Alexander / Private... 
 
 Lennen, Michael, hk " 
 
 Myers, Chas. G " ... 
 
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 lANK. 
 
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 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
 When nuis - 
 tered out. 
 
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 1862.. 
 
 
 
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 July, 1865 
 
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 Monroe Mar. 1862 
 
 Spring Grove... Jan. 1864 
 
 REFEEENCES FOR EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Promoted to Major, May, 1863 : Lieutenant-Colonel, March, 1871 ; Colonel, July, 1865. 
 /> Promoted Captain. 
 d Promoted Sergeant. 
 e Promoted to 2d Lieutenant. 
 h Promoted to Corporal. 
 i Died at Iuka, October 21, 1863. 
 / Died at Madison, February 21. 1861. 
 k Died at St. Louis, May 20, 1862. 
 / Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. 
 m Killed at Vicksburg, May, 1863. 
 n Died at Memphis, January 22, 1863. 
 o Killed at Jackson, Miss., May 11. 1863. 
 p Died at Memphis, November 11, 1863. 
 q Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 r Died at Vicksburg, July 21, 1863. 
 s Died at Nashville, March 19, 1861. 
 t Died at Huntsuille. Ala., March 31, 1861. 
 u Died at Pittsburg Landing, May 23, 1863. 
 v Promoted Steward. 
 W Killed at Nashville, February, 1865. 
 
278 History of Green County. 
 
 REFERENCES FOR EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT— Continued. 
 
 x Promoted 2d Lieutenant. 
 
 ij Killed in Confederate prison, by guard, April, 1862. 
 
 z Died near Corinth, May, 1862. 
 CM Died at Corinth, June 19. 1862. 
 bb Died at Providence, La., March 2, 1863, 
 <-c Died at Corinth, May 30. 1862. 
 f Irl Killed at Shiloh, April, 1862. 
 
 ee Died, June, 1862. 
 
 ff Died at Columbus, Ky., December, 1862. 
 gg Died at Pittsburg Landing, April 19, 1862. 
 hh Died of wounds, December 21, 1862, at St. Louis. 
 
 ii Died, July 7, 1862, at Corinth. 
 jj Died at Memphis. 
 tr Transferred to some other company. 
 
 Twentieth Regiment. 
 
 twi.,.t. r>.»-,^ t?„ .^i„.,„r. Date of When mus- 
 
 Name. Ra.nk. Residence. Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Payson, Geo. L Corp'l Monticello Aug. 1862... July, 1865 
 
 Hickman Benj. F. a Private... " '* 
 
 McAven. James " ... " " ...July, I860 
 
 McCarty. Geo. L " ... " " 
 
 Williams. Edward " ... " " 
 
 REFERENCES FOR TWENTIETH REGIMENT. 
 a Transferred to Invalid Corps. 
 
 Twenty-First Regiment. 
 
 Co. E. 
 
 Jackson, Andrew Private.... York Nov. 1863.... July, 1865 
 
 Satterlee, John W. b " ... " " 
 
 Co. G. 
 
 Douglas, Chas. A. c « ...Dayton Aug. 18(32 
 
 Day, Calvin P " ... " " ... June, 1865 
 
 REFERENCES FOR TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT. 
 
 b Absent— wounded — at muster out of company. 
 C Died at Rural, Wis., April 12, 1863. 
 
 Twenty-Second Regiment. 
 
 Co. (J. 
 
 Bintliff, James Capt Monroe Aug. 1862... Dec. 1863 
 
 Eaton, Thos. H 1st Lt Monroe Aug. 1862.. Jan. 186;! 
 
 Annis, Fluette a 2nd Lt Decatur Jan. 1864... June, 1865 
 
 Booth, Chas. A.* Scrgt " Jan. 1864... June, 1865 
 
 Ball, Stephen F. // " Jefferson Mar. 1864... Mar. 1865 
 
 Cole, Wm. S " Monroe Aug. 1862... June, 1865 
 
 Denniston, John C. c Corpl Cadiz 
 
 Puffer, Myron H. c " 
 
 King, Wm. H Sergt Monroe 
 
 Gates. John R. c '• 
 
 McCracken, Aaron H. r... Corpl Sylvester " ...Mar. 1864 
 
 Seltzer, Leopold d. " Washington " 
 
 Tochterman, Chris, g (i Monroe *' ...Dec. 1864 
 
 Witham, Wm.J " Jordan " ... June, 1865 
 
 Phelps, Emmel F '« Monroe " 
 
 Cole, Amos H " Jefferson " 
 
 Sears, Allen Music'n... Monticello " 
 
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History of Green County. 
 
 2 79 
 
 Twenty-Second Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Adair, Mathias /. Private 
 
 Adair, James 
 
 Aldinger, Edward/ <? 
 
 Alien. Gideon k '' 
 
 Barrus, Ira M " 
 
 Blake, Isaa.cC 
 
 Canfield, Win. H. P. / " 
 
 Carr, Isaac T. e 
 
 Clouse, Josiah... 
 
 Combs, Newel E '' 
 
 Cox.Wm. E 
 
 Crooks, Geo " 
 
 Cunningham, H. L. e m .. 
 
 Damon, Samuel « 
 
 Darling, Abner 
 
 Darling, Nelson 
 
 Denney, Isaac M " 
 
 Denney John 
 
 Divan, Win. A. o 
 
 Donnan, Eben J 
 
 Enderson, Ole/ 
 
 Erickson, Ole g " 
 
 Fleek, Henry Jj.er f ' 
 
 Galeson, Nels /. 
 
 Gardner, Edwin 
 
 Gleason, Ezekiel P. e 
 
 Gray, Thomas " 
 
 Gray, Timothy t " 
 
 Greedell, Daniel * 
 
 Griffin, Alonzo H 
 
 Hale, Grin J 
 
 Hancock, Myron J 
 
 Hansen, Stener 
 
 Holmes, Wm. H 
 
 Hunt, Wm. J. a 
 
 Iverson, Thor e 
 
 Jackson, Jesse B. v 
 
 Jackson, John J. C. w.... 
 
 Johnson, John 
 
 Kettleson. Ole " 
 
 Kerner, Adolph 
 
 King, Robert R 
 
 King, Zaphna L 
 
 Knudson, Knud A. e 
 
 McDonnell, James '* 
 
 McConnell, John " 
 
 Michaels, Eli " 
 
 Michael Joseph 
 
 Moore, James S. x 
 
 Morgan , Carroll 
 
 Proesher, John D " 
 
 Proesher, Thomas 
 
 Ransom, Geo. C. y 
 
 Rennelson, Ole 
 
 Rhines, Marvin L '* 
 
 Rima, Michael / **■ " 
 
 Robinson, Geo i( 
 
 Saucerman, Absalom *' 
 
 Shrake, Solomon R. e " 
 
 Residence. 
 ... Monroe 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
 Aug. 1862 
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 History of Green County. 
 
 Twenty-Second Regiment— Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Sisson, Martin H 
 
 Siverson, Christopher 
 
 Snyder, James F 
 
 South, Enoch 
 
 Squires, Albion C 
 
 Taft, Win. M. e 
 
 Tree, Christopher^ 
 
 Ullom, Win. T 
 
 Walter, Lewis 
 
 Ward, Chauncey /'. 
 
 Wetzler, Joseph S 
 
 Wilson, John H. P 
 
 Wright, Ben.i. F 
 
 Worley, Aaron, aa 
 
 Zumbrunnen, Gottlieb.... 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Banker, Richard R. e 
 
 Thomasj Daniel 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Perkins, Lester cc 
 
 Stewart, John 
 
 Newman, Ephraim H. tin 
 
 Newman, Van B. S. & 
 
 Raymond, Bishop T. //.... 
 
 Penn, Win. C. h 
 
 Scott, Thurston C, 
 
 Chadwiek, Win. W 
 
 Pletts, Samuel 
 
 Lovelace, Harrison 
 
 Mitchell, Judson A.^' 
 
 Parriott, W. P. c 
 
 Stull. Jacob 
 
 Jones, Warren c 
 
 Newman, Wm. S. c 
 
 Clawson, Josiah R. c 
 
 Berry, John H. mm 
 
 Davis, Z.P. z 
 
 Debolt, John r 
 
 Cramer, John (kgg 
 
 Jordon, John C 
 
 Stephens. Sylvester R 
 
 Austin, Elijah W. //// 
 
 Austin, Seth, ii 
 
 Baker, Frederick jj ss 
 
 Ball, Geo. B 
 
 Betts, Peter M 
 
 Booker, Win. IL.tr 
 
 Bouten, Byron C 
 
 Bouten, Harlow T 
 
 Bouten, Marvin J. tr 
 
 Boyer, Andrew <? 
 
 Bradshaw, C. W. kkjj. 
 
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History of Green County. 
 
 281 
 
 Twenty-Second Regiment — Continued. 
 
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282 History of Green County. 
 
 Twenty-Second Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. Residence. wB^fSL* W^enmus- 
 
 „ TT _ _ . , Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Young, Henry 11 Private... .Jefferson Aug. 1862 
 
 Young, Samuel " ... Monroe " .... June, 1865 
 
 Warner, Win. H 10 ' : ... Monticello 
 
 West. Samuel " ... Sylvester Sept. 1864... June, 1865 
 
 Willis, Geo. M " ...Decatur " 
 
 Woodle, Thos " ...Jefferson " .... June, 1865 
 
 VToodling, Levi S. 12 " ... Decatur Aug. 1802 
 
 REFERENCES FOR TWENTY. SECOND REGIMENT. 
 
 a Promoted Captain. 
 
 b Promoted 1st Lieutenant. 
 
 c Promoted Sergeant. 
 
 d Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 e Promoted Corporal. 
 
 /Discharged on account of wounds. 
 
 g Promoted to Hospital Steward. 
 
 h Promoted "2nd Lieutenant. 
 
 i Died at Danville, Ky., January 20, 1863. 
 
 j Died at Lexington, Ky., December, 1862. 
 
 A: Died at Danville, Ky., January 20, 1803. 
 
 1 Died at Danville. Ky., December 27, 1862. 
 m. Died of wounds, June 7. 1864. 
 
 n Died at Danvilie, Ky., January 12, 1863. 
 
 Died at Danville, Ky., January 17, 1863. 
 
 p Died at Nicholsville, Ky., December 23. 1862. 
 q Died of wounds at Nashville, January, 1863. 
 r Killed at Thompson's Station, Tenn., March 5, 186.;. 
 s Died at Danville, January 9, 1863. 
 t Killed at Resaca, May 15, 1864. 
 u Died at Lexington, Ky., 1863. 
 v Died at Nashville, March 15, 1864. 
 w Died of wounds, at Nashville, July 29, 1864. 
 x Died at Louisville, July 2, 1865. 
 y Died at Louisville, February 23, 1864. 
 
 2 Killed at Resaca, May 15, 1864. 
 
 oa Died at Danville, December 21, 1862. 
 
 cc Organized the Company. Resigned before it was mustered. 
 
 ee Discharged for disability caused by inhuman treatment while prisoner of war. 
 rjg Died of wounds, July 1, 1864. 
 hh Died at Nashville, May 2, 1863. 
 
 ii Died at Jefferson Barracks, July, 1864. 
 
 jj Death caused by treatment while prisoner of war. 
 kk Died at Anapolis, April 25, 1863. 
 mm Died at Libby Prison, April 8. 1863. 
 nn Died at Nicholasville, December 25. 1862. 
 
 ss Died at Anapolis, April 23, 1863. 
 
 1 Died at St. Louis, May 6, 1863. 
 
 2 Died of wounds, at Indianapolis, October 19, 1864. 
 
 3 Died of wounds, at Resaca, June 2, 1864. 
 
 4 Died of wounds, at Louisville, July 4, 1864. 
 
 5 Died at Anapolis, April 24, 1863. 
 
 6 Died at Paducab, February 14, 1863. 
 
 7 Died at Louisville. January 2, 1863. 
 
 8 Died at Lexington. 
 
 9 Died at Danville. January 16, 1863. 
 
 10 Died at Nashville, March 18, 1863. 
 
 11 Died at Danville, January 5, 1862. 
 
 12 Died of wounds, May 19,'l864. 
 
 tr Transferred to another company. 
 
 Twenty-Third Regiment. 
 Weirich. Christian B. «... Chapl'n... Monroe Oct. 1862 
 
 REFERENCES FOR TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT. 
 a Died at Ifoung's Point, La., February 15, 1863. 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 -S3 
 
 Twenty-Fifth Regiment. 
 
 Co. B. 
 Gilliss, David G Private... Albany Mar. 1864 
 
 Twenty-Seventh Regiment. 
 
 Co. H. 
 Jorde, Kittel X. " Private... York Aug. 1862 
 
 Co. I. 
 Carter, Joseph " ... " Dec. 1862 June, 1865 
 
 REFERENCES FOR TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, 
 a Died at Helena, Ark.. August 9, 1863. 
 
 Thirtieth Regiment. 
 
 Co. E. 
 
 Drake, Francis R Private Aug. 1864 Tune, 1865 
 
 Drake Emerson, C " " .... " 
 
 Co. H. 
 
 Smith, John " ... Decatur Dec. 1863 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Cunningham, Thos. a " ... Clarno June, 1863 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTIETH REGIMENT. 
 a Transferred to Invalid Corps, April, I8t!4. 
 
 Thirty-First Regiment. 
 
 West, Francis H. a Lt.-Col.... 
 
 Gaylor, Joseph B As't Surg 
 
 Ball, James M " ... 
 
 Thatcher, Alvin H Musician 
 
 Co. B. 
 
 Stephenson, 11. B. mm.... Capt 
 
 Treat, Nathaniel B. b 1st Lt 
 
 Beattie, Thos. c 2nd Lt 
 
 Winslow, Ira Sergt 
 
 Bridge. Cornelins M " 
 
 Noble, Ceo. W " 
 
 Bridge, Isaac N " 
 
 Weed, Chas. A. d Corpl 
 
 Schuler, Jacob d. " 
 
 Gerber, Peter d " 
 
 Alexander, Jesse Private... 
 
 Bartlett. Edmund " ... 
 
 Beebe.JohnT " ... 
 
 Blaisdell, Geo. U k ' ... 
 
 Bloom, Wm.S./ " ... 
 
 Monroe Aug. 1862. 
 
 it 
 
 Feb. 1864.. 
 
 York Dec. 1862... 
 
 Monroe Aug. 1862.... 
 
 June, 1865 
 Nov. 186a 
 July, 1864 
 June, 1865 
 
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 June, 1865 
 
 Apr. 1865 
 
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 May, 1865 
 
2 84 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Thirty-First Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Brooks. Win. M 
 
 Bussey, Nelson 
 
 Campbell, John 
 
 Clark, Lyman tf 
 
 Ellison, Thos. Jr 
 
 Elmer, Conrad 
 
 Emerick, Samuel 
 
 Emerson, Turner 
 
 Engler, Albert 
 
 Folsom. Wm. F 
 
 Gerber, Jacob 
 
 Glaus, Dominic 
 
 Gloege, Herman L 
 
 Heer, Frederick 
 
 Hoesli. Jost k 
 
 Hoffer, Nicholas 
 
 Hogans, Stephen R. d 
 
 Grinningex - , Joseph , 
 
 Jones, Wm, M 
 
 Knobel, Abraham 
 
 Knobel, Caspar/ 
 
 Manley, Richard m , 
 
 Noble, Abraham 
 
 Pitman, Henry 
 
 Ransom, Andrew 
 
 Raymer, Jesse , 
 
 Robinson, Wm 
 
 Schroyer, Geo. F 
 
 Schuler, John 
 
 Snyder, Caspar 
 
 Sommer, Ulrich 
 
 Stievick, Jacob 
 
 Staffaucher, Isaiah 
 
 Staffaucher, Jacob , 
 
 Staifaucher, R,udo)ph 
 
 Stevens, Ira C 
 
 Stevens, John F 
 
 Stevenson, David M 
 
 Stroeder, David « , 
 
 Van Wagenen, James H, 
 
 Virtue, Samuel 
 
 Virtue, Thos. o 
 
 Weber, August , 
 
 Weismueller, Jacob 
 
 Wei den, John 
 
 Wells, Thos 
 
 Zweifel, Peter 
 
 Co. E. 
 Stevens, Hiram c , 
 
 Co. F. 
 
 Burns, Chas. W 
 
 Raynor, James c 
 
 Putnam, Oliver S.f. 
 
 Dolsen, Wm B 
 
 Smith, Alba D 
 
 Morse, Calvin 
 
 Chase, Geo. W 
 
 Bancroft, Frank II. d 
 
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History of Green ^County. 
 
 285 
 
 Thirty- First Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Sine, John 
 
 Heal, Albert W 
 
 Brownell, Eenj. 13 
 
 Martin, Patrick 
 
 Brown, Chas 
 
 Bray ton. Chae 
 
 Jacobs, Win. M 
 
 Bowen, Henry W. q 
 
 Aldrich, W111.C./ 
 
 Allen, Austin W 
 
 Bennett, Franklin 
 
 Broderiek, Edward 
 
 Broderiek, James 
 
 Brooks, Isaac 
 
 Bump, Henry C 
 
 Bump, Henry F 
 
 Burgor, Harv-ey 
 
 Burt, Ceo 
 
 Carsaw, Samuel H 
 
 Cowen, Myron 
 
 Church, Win. * 
 
 Davis, Fen ton 
 
 Dick, John 
 
 Dunn, (too. W 
 
 Dunn, Win. M. / 
 
 Fisher, Philip 
 
 Fitch, Gilbert G 
 
 Fletcher, Robert 
 
 Flood, Thos 
 
 Flood, Peter 
 
 Foster. Albert E 
 
 Gilbertson, Andrew 
 
 Greidenweier, Peter h 
 
 Grover, Asher 
 
 Hall, LeviN.r 
 
 Hemstreet, Clark 
 
 Hoskins, Joseph D 
 
 Howard, Win. H 
 
 Hoyt, Erastus C. // 
 
 Huntington, Chas 
 
 Iverson, Ole 
 
 Johnson, Simon 
 
 Jones, Horace B 
 
 Jordan, Alonzo P 
 
 Kirkpatrick, John. W. D 
 Kirkpatrick, Montg. A... 
 
 Klassy, Gustave ~" 
 
 Klassy, Thos 
 
 Laird, Alpheus x 
 
 Laird, Jerome y 
 
 Leonard, Albert 
 
 Lewis, Alfred z 
 
 Loomis, Oscar A 
 
 Lozier, Geo '. 
 
 Maddock, Geo. W 
 
 Martin Timothy 
 
 McCarinon, Geo 
 
 McCoy, Henry 
 
 McManus, Harvey 
 
 McNaught, John J 
 
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 Monticello. 
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 Dayton " 
 
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 1863 
 
 ... J uiie, 
 
 1865 
 
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2S6 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Thirty-First Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Mills, Alexander Private. 
 
 Mitchell, Henry 
 
 Morton Wm. M. e " . 
 
 Mullen, James " 
 
 Murray, Wm. H " . 
 
 Nooris, Isaac " 
 
 Norton, Claaence E " 
 
 O'Neil, Joseph E " . 
 
 Parker, Addison J " 
 
 Patterson, John " 
 
 Potter, Washington " 
 
 Remington, Leroy " 
 
 Rutty, Jerome L. e " 
 
 Rutty, Samuel L " 
 
 Shaw, Adney N. aa " 
 
 Simmons, LaFayette " 
 
 Smith, Benj. F e " . 
 
 Spurling, Nelson " 
 
 Steiner, David " 
 
 Wade, Samuel W Private . 
 
 Whiffle, John W 
 
 White, Benj. B 
 
 Wilder, Chas 
 
 Wilson, Alouzo " 
 
 Ziegler, John J " 
 
 Co. G. 
 
 Rogers, Geo. D. hh Capt — 
 
 Ball, Farleu Q, o, y 1st Lt .. 
 
 McQuillan, James d Corpl.... 
 
 Seavy, Joseph Sergt. . . 
 
 Blanchard, Thos. T Corpl... 
 
 Bailey, Asa " — 
 
 Rowe, Luther T " .... 
 
 Dixon, Wm " — 
 
 Cameron, Wm " 
 
 Adair, Alexander Private . 
 
 Anderson, Ole " 
 
 Ballard, Geo. L 
 
 Bennett, Arnold " 
 
 Bennett, Geo. B 
 
 Berry. Geo. W 
 
 Brown, Simon e " 
 
 Butler, Louis H. dd 
 
 Divan, John " 
 
 Divan, Urias " 
 
 Elmer, Jacob " 
 
 Emberson. Christopher . " 
 
 Forsythe, Edwin E " 
 
 Forsythe, Geo. W " 
 
 German, Daniel " 
 
 German, Gottlieb " 
 
 Giesland, Joseph J " 
 
 Grinnell. James.. " 
 
 Hayes, Frederxk " 
 
 Hawkins, Wm. R " 
 
 Henson. Andrew " 
 
 Jones. Wm " 
 
 King, Geo. R 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Albany. 
 
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 Dayton 
 
 Albany 
 
 Date of 
 
 Enlistment. 
 
 Aug. 1862... 
 
 Dec. 1862.. 
 Aug. 1862.. 
 
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 Aug. 
 
 1862.. 
 1862.. 
 
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 May, 1865 
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 July, 1865 
 
 Dayton. 
 
 Albany . 
 Dayton. 
 
 June, 1865 
 Mar. 1865 
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 Albany 
 
 Dayton " 
 
 Feb. 1862... 
 
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 Albany Aug. 1862. 
 
 Dayton " 
 
 Monticello. 
 Brooklyn.. , 
 
 York Sept. 
 
 Monroe " 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Washington " 
 
 Monticello " 
 
 Adams Nov. 
 
 Washington " 
 
 Adams Oct. 
 
 Jefferson Sept. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Adams Dec. 
 
 Washington Nov. 
 
 Sylvester Sept. 
 
 " Jan . 
 
 Jefferson Oct. 
 
 " <-'ept. 
 
 Momoe Nov. 
 
 Albany Jan. 
 
 Monroe Oct. 
 
 New Glarus Sept. 
 
 York Nov. 
 
 Washington Oct. 
 
 1862. 
 1862.' 
 
 1862'. 
 
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 1862. 
 
 1862. 
 
 1862. 
 
 1862. 
 
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 1864. 
 
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 1864. 
 
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 June, 1865 
 
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 June 1865 
 
 it 
 
 May 1865 
 
 June 1865 
 it 
 
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 July 1865 
 
 June 1*65 
 
 July 1865 
 
 Jan 1865 
 
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 Monroe Oct. 1862! 
 
 Adams Dec. 1862. 
 
 Monroe Aug. 1802. 
 
 Clarno Oct. 1862. 
 
 York Sept. 1862. 
 
 Aug. 1862. 
 
 Monroe Nov. 1862. 
 
 July 
 May 
 July 
 May 
 
 July 
 
 July 
 
 May 
 July 
 Jan. 
 
 July 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 1865 
 
 1865 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 1864 
 
 1865 
 
 186S 
 
 April 1864 
 
 July 1865 
 
 June 1865 
 
 Mav 1865 
 
History 
 
 of Green County. 
 
 -*-, 
 
 Thirty-First Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Klassy, Thos 
 
 Layton, John ff 
 
 McCauliff, John 
 
 McDonald, James g<j. . . 
 
 McMulle , Zebulon 
 
 Mullen, James 
 
 Muzzey, Piiny D hh 
 
 Olson, Erich 
 
 O'Neil. Joseph 
 
 SlomiKer, David 
 
 Smith, John S.r 
 
 Smith, Francis ii 
 
 Smith, Win. N 
 
 Snyder. John 
 
 Stair, Wm 
 
 Stalder, John 
 
 Stoller, UJrichjfj 
 
 Streiff. John 
 
 Thatcher, Alvan II 
 Thurlow, Jeremiah e . 
 
 Wright, Edgar 
 
 Zimmerman, David... 
 
 Co. H. 
 
 Kennedy, Michael 
 
 Kerns, Edward 
 
 Kerns, Joseph H 
 
 Kyle, Urias 
 
 McBride, James 
 
 McCri'lis, Frank 
 
 Merrill, George, e 
 
 Mill man, Francis C kk 
 
 Morrison, James N 
 
 Murfit, Richard 
 
 Niemeyer, '-^orge 
 
 Pratt, Solomon A 
 
 Wincenviele, Sam 
 
 Wittwer, Samuel 
 
 Zimmerman , Peter 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Allen. Justin W 
 
 Bartlett, Eugene 
 
 Bartlett, John E 
 
 Foster, Ira A 
 
 Kennedy. Michael 
 
 Osgood, Cyrus W 
 
 Stanley, Jeff 
 
 Webster, Benj 
 
 Co. K. 
 Farley, Wm. W 
 
 Rank. Residence. E S^mLt. 
 
 Private Jan. 1864.. 
 
 " .. Monroe Sept. 1863. 
 
 .. Adams Oct. 1862. 
 
 " .. Washington '• 
 
 " .. Adams. Nov. 
 
 " . . Albany Dec. 
 
 " .. Washington Oct. 
 
 .. York 
 
 " .. Albany Nov. 
 
 " .. Washington " 
 
 .. NewGlarus. ... Sept. 1882. 
 " .. Washington Nov. 1862. 
 
 . York Sept. 1862. 
 
 Jan. 1864. 
 
 1862., 
 
 1862. 
 
 1862.. 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 July 1865 
 
 July* 1865 
 
 May "1865 
 July 1865 
 
 1862. 
 
 July 1865 
 
 July 1865 
 
 Washington Sept. 1862. 
 
 ... Nov.,-1862. 
 
 Monroe Oct. 1862 . 
 
 York Sept. 1862. 
 
 Washington. ... Nov. 1862. 
 
 Monticello " 
 
 NewGlarus .... Sept. 1862. 
 
 May 1865 
 July 1865 
 
 July 1865 
 
 Feb. 1863 
 Sept. 1863 
 
 Aug. 1862.. Aug. 1863 
 
 Monroe ' l 
 
 Monroe Aug., 1862. 
 
 Clarno. . 
 Monroe. 
 Clarno. . 
 
 Albany " 
 
 Washington Jan. 1864. 
 
 Washington " 
 
 Monroe " 
 
 June 1865 
 
 June 1865 
 
 June 1865 
 
 June 1865 
 
 June 1865 
 
 July 1 864 
 
 June 1865 
 
 July 1865 
 
 July 1865 
 
 1862.. March 1865 
 .. June 1865 
 
 Exeter Aug 
 
 Albany 
 
 Albany 
 
 Albany " 
 
 Dayton " ..An/. 1863 
 
 Albany " .. June 1865 
 
 Juda 
 
 Sylvester April, 1882, Feb. 1863 
 
 Monroe Aug. 1862.. June 1865 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT. 
 
 a Promoted Colonel, October, 1863 ; Brevet Brigadier-General, March, 1865. 
 
 b Promoted Captain. 
 
 c Promoted 1st Lieutenant. 
 d Promoted Sergeant. 
 
 e Promoted Corporal. 
 / Promoted 2d Lieutenant. 
 (J Promoted Major, July, 1865. 
 
 ./ Promoted Sergeant-Major. 
 
 k Died at Madison, December 9, 1863. 
 
 I Died at New York, March 27, 1865. 
 m Died at Murfreesbure, December 19, 1863. 
 
 
2SS 
 
 History of Gi'een County. 
 
 RKFKRENCES FOR THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT— Continued. 
 
 n Died at Columbus. Ky., July 29, 1863. 
 o Died at Monroe, December 6, 1803. 
 p Died at Racine, December 19, 1862. 
 q Appointed Regimental Postmaster. 
 s Died at Murfreesboro, November 29, 1863. 
 t Died at Albany, August 27, 1863, 
 v Died at Murfreesboro, December 18, 1863. 
 v Died at Racine, January 16, 1863. 
 w Died at Winona, Minn., September 12, 1863. 
 cc Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 y Died at Murfreesboro, January 9, 1864. 
 z Died at Racine, February 22, 1863. 
 oa Died at Chicago, September 25, 1863. 
 
 bb Promoted Major, October, 1863; Lieutenant-Colonel, Nov. 
 drl Died. July 24, 1S63, at Columbus, Ky. 
 //Died, May 8, 1864, at Monroe. 
 <ig Died 
 
 Mi Died at Murfreesboro, April 2. 1864. 
 it Died of wounds, at Kingston, Ga.. August 9. 1864. 
 />' Died at Columbus Kv., May 7, 1863. 
 kk Died at Monroe, March 24, 1864. 
 U Died at Albany, August 27, 1863. 
 mm Promoted Major, November, 1863. 
 
 1863 ; Colonel, July, 1865. 
 
 Thirty-Third Regiment. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Burbank. Jerome Surgeon 
 
 Davis. Elijah T., a Private. 
 
 Residence 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
 Brodhead July 1864.. 
 
 Adams Dec. 1862.. 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 Aug." 1865 
 Sept. 1863 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTY-THIRD REGIMENT. 
 a Promoted Sergeant. 
 
 Thirty-Fourth Regiment. 
 
 Co. B. 
 
 Anderson. Paul Corporal. 
 
 Burbank, Israel, h Private... 
 
 Everson, Arne, c 
 
 Everson, Norway :i 
 
 Grinnell. James " 
 
 Jordit, Kunst 
 
 Owry, Henry " 
 
 Co. G. 
 Hampshire, Prank " 
 
 Adams 
 
 . ... Nov. 1862.. 
 
 
 
 it 
 
 .... Dec. 1862. 
 
 . Sept. 
 
 1863 
 
 it 
 
 .... Nov. 1862.. 
 
 
 
 tt 
 
 .... Nov. 1862.. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 1863 
 
 k 
 
 it 
 
 Dec. 
 Jan. 
 
 1862 
 
 Monroe. . . . 
 
 it 
 
 1863 
 
 Adams. ... 
 
 it 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1862 
 
 Jordan Dec. 1862.. Sept. 1863 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTY-FOURTH REGIMENT. 
 b Promoted Sergeant. 
 c Died, August, 1863. 
 
 Thirty-Fifth Regiment. 
 
 Co. D. 
 
 Barlow, Richard Private.. Mt. Pleasant. . . Aug. 1864 . Oct. 1865 
 
 Burk. Orlando II " .. " ..Jan. 1864 
 
 Jordan, Elijah " .. " ..Dec. 1863.. Mav 1865 
 
 Jordan, Leonard " .. " ..Aug. 1864.. " 
 
 Knight, Ralsey " .. " .. " ..July 1865 
 
 Lemon, William " " ..'".. " 
 
 Lemon. James " .. " .. " May 1865 
 
 Co. E. 
 
 Palmer, Stephen, a l - .. " ..Jan. 1864 
 
 Simmons. Harrison, h.. " .. Brooklyn " .. March 1866 
 
 Hook. Sidney S., c " .. " .. " 
 
 Co. H. 
 
 Luchsinger. Thos., b — Corporal. New Glarus. . .. " .. March 1866 
 
 Stenssy, Alexander Private... " ....Feb. 186L. " 
 
 Co. K. 
 Boylan. John W " ..Exeter Jan. 1864.. Jan. 1866 
 
History of Green County, 
 
 2S9 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTY-FIFTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Died at Morganza, La., August 25, 1864. 
 
 b Promoted to Sergeant. 
 
 c Died at Morganza, La., Sept. 23, 1864. 
 
 Thirty-Sixth Regiment. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Co. D. 
 
 Walkey. Jacob 
 
 Potter. Wesley S., a 
 
 Adams, Levi J 
 
 Babmtt, Ashley 
 
 Burgi, John , 
 
 Beckman, Michael, h... 
 
 Carle, David EL, c 
 
 Clemmer, Joseph W., d. 
 
 Davan, Frederick, e 
 
 Dyson, David,/ 
 
 Campbell, EliD 
 
 Frost, Geo. W., g 
 
 Gans George, h 
 
 Hanna, Win 
 
 Henderson, Wm., i 
 
 Jackson, James T 
 
 Lownsbury, Andrew, li.. 
 
 McLain, George, j 
 
 O'Connor. Martin, j 
 
 Patton. Wesley 
 
 Porter, Stafford D., m... 
 Raymer, George W.,j... 
 
 Raymer, Thonias C 
 
 Sellick, Alfred 
 
 Shaughenesey, Michael.. 
 
 Scott, Wm B 
 
 Utiger, Godfrey, I 
 
 Vance, James P , n 
 
 Vanderbilt, Eugene 
 
 Vanderbilt, John W. H. 
 Welchance, John C, )'.. 
 
 Wells, Curtis N 
 
 Wenger, Frederick 
 
 Wright, Milan D.,/ 
 
 Roderick, Wm. W., j 
 
 Co. H. 
 Sanders, Joei 
 
 Rank. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
 Captain... Monroe Mar. 1864. 
 
 1st Lieut. Brodhead " 
 
 Private... " Feb. 1864. 
 
 .. Monroe Mar. 1864. 
 
 Feb. 1864. 
 
 Brodhead. 
 
 Juda 
 
 Monroe 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 
 Mar. 1864 
 
 May 1865 
 
 July 1S65 
 
 Aug. 1864 
 
 July 1865 
 
 Twin Grove.. 
 Jefferson.. . 
 
 Sylvester Mar 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Juda 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Brodhead 
 
 Monroe " 
 
 Mar. 1864. 
 
 Monticello Feb. 1864.. 
 
 Monroe : Mar. 1864 . . 
 
 Feb. 1864.. 
 
 tl 
 
 
 
 Mar. 1864. 
 Feb. 1864. 
 
 If. 
 
 . July 
 
 • Aug. 
 
 1865 
 1864 
 
 
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 1865 
 
 Mar. 1864'.' 
 
 a. 
 
 July 
 
 LI 
 
 1865 
 
 Feb. 1864 
 
 
 July 
 
 1865 
 
 Lb 
 
 July 
 
 1865 
 
 July 1865 
 
 Juda 
 
 Jefferson. 
 
 Brodhead. 
 
 Juda 
 
 Monroe. .. 
 Brodhead. 
 Jefferson, 
 
 Private . . Monroe Mar. 1864 
 
 .. July 
 
 1865 
 
 
 .. July 
 . . Mar. 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 .. July 
 
 1S65 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTY-SIXTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Promoted Captain. 
 
 6 Died in Rebel Prison, at Salisbury, N. C, November 15, 1864. 
 
 c Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 16, 1864. 
 d Promoted to Commissary Sergeant. 
 
 e Discharged on account of wounds. 
 
 f Killed at Ream's Station, August ib, 1864. 
 Killed at Petersburg, July 19, 1864. 
 h Promoted to Sergeant. 
 
 i Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 3 Promoted to Corporal. 
 
 k Died at Madison, May 8. 1864. 
 
 I Killed at Cold Harbor, June 4, 1864. 
 m Died at Petersburg, January 28, 1864. 
 n Promoted Captain, 
 o Died at Andersonville, September 10, 1864. 
 
 «5* 
 
290 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Thirty-Seventh Regiment. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Co. C. 
 
 Green, John a 
 
 Parker, A. J 
 
 Riddle, Freeman B. h.. 
 
 Lawrence. Philip c 
 
 Green, Wm. H. d 
 
 Green. Wm. c 
 
 Perkins, Thos. e 
 
 Day, Albert/ 
 
 Ace. Elijah. 
 
 Bryant, David Z 
 
 Domey, Henry g 
 
 Estee, John W. of 
 
 Evans, Bon Devine h. . . 
 
 Martin, John i 
 
 Ross, Otis h 
 
 Peregov. Nathaniel 
 
 Co. H. 
 Seiieidigger, Andrew fj. 
 
 Rank. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Date of When mus- 
 
 Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Capt 
 
 IstLt... 
 2nd Lt. 
 2nd Lt. 
 Sergt . . 
 Private 
 
 April 1864.. July 1865 
 
 " .. Nov. 1864 
 
 Mar. 1864 
 
 June 1865 
 
 York Mar. 1864 
 
 Dayton July 1865 
 
 Mar. 1864 
 
 York " .. Julv 1865 
 
 Exeter 
 
 York •• .. May 1865 
 
 Exeter tk 
 
 Private . . Exeter Mar. 1864. 
 
 Aug. 1864 
 
 Private . . Monroe Nov. 1863 . 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 « Promoted to Major, Oct., 1864 ; toLieutenant-Colonel, Dec, 1804 ; to Colonel, July, 1865 
 b Killed at Petersburg, June 18, 1864. 
 c Promoted 1st Lieutenant. 
 d Died of wounds, July 9, 1865. 
 e Promoted to Sergeant. 
 / Promoted to Corporal. 
 «; Killed before Petersburg, April 2, 1865. 
 A Captured July 30, 1864. Supposed to have died. 
 i Died October 9, 1865. 
 
 Biutliff. James a 
 
 Col 
 
 Tochterman, Chris 
 
 Ass't Sur. 
 
 MeCraken, Aaron H 
 
 Adj 
 
 Co. B. 
 
 
 Rice. A. D 
 
 Private . . 
 
 Rice. M. H. b 
 
 '■ 
 
 Sawyer. R. D. c 
 
 u 
 
 Co. C. 
 
 
 Bintliff, Gershom 
 
 Private . . 
 
 Co. D. 
 
 
 
 IstLt.... 
 
 Eoylands. Ben. L 
 
 Sergt 
 
 ■Glover, Franklin 
 
 £fc 
 
 Wyatt, John de 
 
 Corp*l . . . 
 
 
 bt 
 
 Stephenson John S. /.. . 
 
 It 
 
 
 Private . 
 
 Baker. A. M 
 
 ti 
 
 
 l; 
 
 Bloom. J. K. P 
 
 tt 
 
 Clemmer. Jacob 
 
 tt 
 
 Cauehey, Thos. L 
 
 tfc 
 
 Chambers, J. M 
 
 it 
 
 Chapman Benj. F 
 
 tt 
 
 Dumars, Thos 
 
 a. 
 
 Feather. Jeffeison h 
 
 It 
 
 Frankenberger, Henry c 
 
 u 
 
 Gist, Geo. V 
 
 Lb 
 
 Grace. Wm. J 
 
 fcl 
 
 Thirty-Eighth Regiment. 
 
 Monroe Mar. 1864. 
 
 Cadiz Nov. 1864. 
 
 Monroe Mar. 1864 . 
 
 July 1865 
 
 Dayton Mar. 1864.. July 1865 
 
 July 1865 
 
 Mouroe Feb. 1865. . July 1865 
 
 Monroe. 
 
 Mar. 1864. 
 
 .... Aug. 1864. 
 Mar. 1864. 
 
 11 
 11 
 
 Aug. 1864. 
 Mar. 1864. 
 Aug. 1864. 
 Mar. 1864. 
 
 Aug. 1864. 
 Mar. 1864. 
 
 Julv 1865 
 Maf. 1865 
 July 1865 
 
 July 1865 
 
 July "1865 
 
 June 1865 
 .< 
 
 July 1865 
 
 It 
 
 June 1865 
 
 Julv 1865 
 
 June 1865 
 
 July 1865 
 
 July ' "l865 
 June 1865 
 July 1865 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 291 
 
 Thirty-Eighth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Griffith. T Private . . 
 
 Hammond, A. d " 
 
 Long. Abner " 
 
 Keith, M 
 
 McCrakfii. J. VV 
 
 Nobles, Geo. J 
 
 Phillips, G 
 
 Pierce, Jos. M. c " 
 
 Randall, Jacob " 
 
 Smith, Geo 
 
 Wallace, D 
 
 Walker, J. M. i 
 
 Co. E. 
 
 Caldwell, S. B Private.. 
 
 Donges, John k " 
 
 Gill, FredO 
 
 Kline, I. J " 
 
 Killer. Jacob " 
 
 Kilwine, P. W 
 
 Newcomer, Geo. I li 
 
 Newcomer, Joseph " 
 
 Co. F. 
 
 Foster, Wm. H. m 1st Lt. ... 
 
 Glover. Frank d s Private. . 
 
 Smith, Irwin " 
 
 Co. H. 
 
 Corey. D. W Capt 
 
 Frees, Benj. M. j 1st Lt 
 
 Adams, Wm. n. Sergt 
 
 Shank, J. B. Jr Sergeant. 
 
 Pool, Harris " 
 
 Baily, J. A * 
 
 White, Geo. P 
 
 Ford, John A Corporal. 
 
 Saunders. John G " 
 
 Hawkins, Wm. R o " 
 
 Thorp Geo. W. d 
 
 Snyder, Joseph p " 
 
 Jordan, John C " 
 
 Wallace, William 
 
 Austin, Martin Private. . . 
 
 Bai ey, J 
 
 Bates, Wm 
 
 Baxter, A. B 
 
 Blanchard, C... 
 
 Booher, J. J " 
 
 Brown. Wm. H " 
 
 Campbell, Wm 
 
 Cory, J W 
 
 Davis, J " 
 
 Deetz, L 
 
 Dexter, A.W " 
 
 Dolau, Martin " 
 
 Dunaway, C " 
 
 Dunn. Nelson q lt 
 
 Emerick, Wm " 
 
 Endriken, S :. " 
 
 Farlin, W. H " 
 
 Fitzaerald, S " 
 
 Residence. 
 
 t« 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment 
 
 . Aug. 1864. 
 
 tt 
 
 When 
 
 terec 
 
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 tt 
 
 mus. 
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 1865 
 
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 it 
 
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 1864. 
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 1864. 
 
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 1864. 
 
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 1865 
 
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3 9 2 History of Green County. 
 
 Thirty-Eighth Regiment— Continued. 
 
 rank. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Frost, W.J Private 
 
 Hawkins, F. M 
 
 Jewett, M 
 
 Johnsou, M u 
 
 Killgore E. M 
 
 Land, Sidney c 
 
 Leahv, John lt 
 
 Ligar, Aagar c 
 
 Lindlev, 0. W. c 
 
 Loveland, Thos ••• 
 
 McCardle, G. R 
 
 McMillan, J. S tt 
 
 Mears, John 
 
 Miller, Emanuel u 
 
 Miller, John u 
 
 Miller, J. S tl 
 
 O'Neil, Thos u ■■ 
 
 Patterson, A. W 
 
 Priewe, Wm. F t 
 
 Randall. J.N 
 
 Sanders, J. A... 
 
 Sanders, Wm. D... 
 
 Satterlee, Rob- rt e 
 
 Small, Frank 
 
 Snyder, Elias 
 
 Snyder, T. H 
 
 Start, S. S. c 
 
 Staver, S. W tt 
 
 St. Clair. R. L 
 
 Stubbs, Wm. H 
 
 Sullivan, John 
 
 Trogncr, Geo 
 
 Virtue, Stephen 
 
 Warren, John 
 
 West. Joseph tt 
 
 Wheeler. Nelson u 
 
 Wickersham, G u 
 
 Winkler, Andrew 
 
 Wondcrly, E. D u 
 
 Wood. Geo. J 
 
 Ho^A.H Private.. 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Redfield, Elisha . • 
 
 Stevens, Jacob C Musician 
 
 Chapman, George W Private. . 
 
 Fields, N. A 
 
 Jefferson, James. 
 
 Kane, Henry.... 
 
 Stevens, Jacob C tt 
 
 Vantassel. Wm. R 
 
 Date of 
 Residence. Enlistment. 
 
 Spring Grove.. Aug. 1864. - 
 
 Clarno 
 
 Mt. Pleasant.. 
 Monroe 
 
 Adams . 
 Monroe. 
 
 Sylvester. 
 Decatur... 
 Clarno — 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 July, 1865 
 
 Dec. 1864 
 July, 1865 
 
 
 Monroe. 
 Cadiz.. . 
 Monroe. 
 
 Clarno 
 
 Mt. Pleasant 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 June, 1865 
 July, 1865 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Mt. Pleasant. 
 Clarno 
 
 Adams 
 Clarno. 
 
 Jordan. 
 Clarno.. 
 Monroe. 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Sylvester 
 
 Adams 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Mt. Pleasant.. 
 Sylvester 
 
 Cadiz Aug. 
 
 1S64.. June 1865 
 
 Adams.. 
 Monroe. 
 
 Adams. 
 Monroe. 
 
 " . . Adams 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Brigadier-General, by Brevet. 
 b Killed April 2,1805. 
 c Promoted to Corporal. 
 
 d Promoted to Sergeant. Washington, D. C. 
 
 e Died of wounds, April 18, 1865, at vvasnnibi"". " 
 
 f Died of wounds, July, 1864 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 3 93 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT— Continued. 
 
 f/ Promoted to Commissary Sergeant. 
 Ji Died of wounds received June, 1864, 
 
 i Appointed Chaplain. 
 
 j Promoted to Captain. 
 
 k Died of wounds, April 20, 1865, 
 
 I Died January 13, 1865. 
 m Promoted to Captain Co. D. 
 n Promoted to 2d Lieutenant, 
 o Killed April 2, 1865. 
 
 p Died at City Point, Va., December 15, 1864. 
 q Died of wounds, April 2, 1865. 
 
 s Promoted 2nd Lieutenant. 
 
 Forty-Second Regiment. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Rank. 
 
 Bradshaw, H. N. a Ass't Sur. 
 
 Co. F. 
 
 Benson, Ezzan H Captain.. 
 
 Heal, Nelson Sergeant. 
 
 Benson, Edward Corporal.. 
 
 Bryant, Lewis N Private. . . 
 
 Do'tv, Alraon M. M 
 
 Dick, Wm. H 
 
 Ferrin, Louis A " 
 
 Hall, Wm. H 
 
 Ham, Wm 
 
 Haskiu,John " 
 
 Havens. Albert P " 
 
 Lawber, Joseph " 
 
 Markham, John "• 
 
 Morgan, James H " 
 
 Ross, Enos " 
 
 Spencer, Dennis M " 
 
 Staley, Jeremiah S " 
 
 Turner, Robert " 
 
 Webber, Martin C " 
 
 Co. H. 
 Patrick, J. R 
 
 Residence. 
 Monticello.. . 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 
 Brooklyn.. 
 Exeter 
 
 Sept. 1864. 
 .. Aug. 1864. 
 
 June 1865 
 
 Brooklyn , . . 
 Exeter 
 
 Sept. 1864.. 
 
 U 
 
 Aug. 1864.. 
 
 U 
 ti 
 11 
 tl 
 
 u 
 
 bt 
 
 tt 
 It 
 
 11 
 
 
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 June 1865 
 
 Lb 
 It 
 
 u 
 
 u 
 
 16 
 
 
 U 
 t( 
 
 it 
 
 May, 1865 
 June. 1865 
 
 tl 
 
 LI 
 
 ;l 
 
 U 
 
 U 
 
 it 
 
 .1 
 
 It 
 
 .» 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Exeter 
 
 It 
 
 U 
 
 tt 
 
 Aug. 1864.. 
 
 a Declined. 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT. 
 
 Forty-Third Regiment. 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Berry. Edwin Corporal.. Mt. Pleasant.. Sept. 
 
 nerrick, Gilbert A Musician. " .. Aug. 
 
 Annon, Geo Private*.. York " 
 
 Edwards, Allen a " .. Mt. Pleasant. . Sept. 
 
 Edwards, Frank " .. Exeter " 
 
 Greenwood Joseph " .. NewGlarus... " 
 
 McGoon, Richard " .. Mt. Pleasant.. Aug. 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT 
 a Died at Johnsonville, Tenn.. November 21, 1865. 
 
 1884. 
 1864. 
 
 1864'. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Mav. 1865 
 
 Mav. 1 865 
 
 Forty-Fourth Regiment. 
 
 Ball. James M Surgeon.. Monroe.. 
 
 . Nov. 1864.. Aug. 1865 
 
294 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 FoRT^-FlFTH REGIMEMT. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Ruf. Karl Adjutant- 
 Co. A. 
 
 Hoehn. Henry g 2nd Lieut. 
 
 Co. E. 
 
 Jordi, Jacob : Private. . . 
 
 Jordi. John b 
 
 Law. Frederick C " 
 
 Scharpf. Geo " 
 
 Voegli, Abraham " 
 
 Yoegli. Balthasar c " 
 
 Co. F. 
 Jacobson, Jacob " 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Leibelt, Friedrich / Musician. 
 
 Grave. Philip Private. . . 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Nonveiler. Max d Sergeant. 
 
 Lentz. Daniel Private... 
 
 Niebahn, Chlstopher e . " 
 
 T?psiripii.-p Date of 
 
 Kesiaence. Enlistment. 
 
 Monroe Sept. 1864.. 
 
 NewGlarus... Nov. 1864.. 
 
 Monroe Feb. 1865.. 
 
 When mus 
 tered out. 
 July. 1865 
 
 Mt. Pleasant. 
 
 Exeter 
 
 New Glarus. 
 
 Mav, 1865 
 July. 1865 
 
 Decatur " 
 
 Jefferson Oct. 1864. 
 
 July. 1865 
 July,'"i865 
 
 Exeter Feb. 1865. 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FORTY-FIFTH REGIMENT. 
 
 b Died at Nashville, July 1, 1865. 
 
 c Died at Johnsonville, Tenn., May 13, 1865. 
 
 d Promoted to 2d Lieutenant. 
 
 e Promoted Corporal. 
 
 /Appointed Bugler. 
 
 g Promoted to Captain. 
 
 Forty-Sixth Regiment. 
 
 Co. A. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Johns. Henrv T 
 
 . 1st Lieut 
 
 Brodhead 
 
 .. Feb. 
 
 1865. 
 
 . Sept. 
 
 1865 
 
 Carr. Isaac T. f 
 
 2d Lieut. 
 
 , Monroe 
 
 . Jan. 
 
 1865. 
 
 t V 
 
 
 Ablemau, Christian 
 
 . Private.. 
 
 . Jordan 
 
 
 t; 
 
 tt 
 
 
 Ableman, Joseph C 
 
 t. 
 
 bb 
 
 .. Feb. 
 
 1865. 
 
 tt 
 
 
 -\ lbright. David <x. . 
 
 14 
 
 bb 
 
 Clarno - 
 
 
 U 
 It 
 
 t . 
 It 
 
 
 
 . Washington. 
 
 
 Baughman. Mathias. .. 
 Beedy. Geo. R 
 
 bb 
 
 Jordan 
 
 
 . . 
 
 It 
 
 
 b. 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 . Jan. 
 
 1865.. 
 
 May, 
 
 1865 
 
 Beekman, John F 
 
 • 1 
 
 
 . Feb. 
 
 1865. 
 
 . Sept. 
 
 1865 
 
 Beyerhoffer. Chas 
 
 .. 
 
 Jordan 
 
 . Jan. 
 
 1865. 
 
 tt 
 
 
 Bloom. Frederick 
 
 bb 
 
 Washington. . 
 
 . Feb. 
 
 1865. 
 
 U 
 
 May, 
 Sept. 
 
 1865 
 
 Bloom. Peter 
 
 1865 
 
 
 b. 
 
 
 
 It 
 
 .( 
 
 
 Bovlan. Aaron A b 
 
 .. 
 
 Washington... 
 
 
 It 
 
 u 
 
 
 Bradshaw, James C b.. 
 
 bb 
 
 Monroe 
 
 . Jan. 
 
 1665.. 
 
 ti 
 
 
 Brager Sever A. c 
 
 bb 
 
 Sylvester 
 
 . Feb. 
 
 1865.. 
 
 lb 
 
 
 Burt, Christian 
 
 lb 
 
 U 
 
 it 
 Monroe 
 
 . Jan. 
 
 1 t 
 
 1865".' 
 
 b. 
 
 
 Bnshnell, Clark E 
 
 
 Case. Samuel S 
 
 bb 
 
 u 
 
 . Feb. 
 
 1865.. 
 
 b. 
 
 
 Cessna. Chas. A 
 
 bb 
 
 bb 
 
 . Jan. 
 
 1865.. 
 
 bt 
 
 
 Chase. Edwins S 
 
 bb 
 
 Deeatur 
 
 . Feb. 
 
 1865.. 
 
 . . 
 
 
 Cross, Joseph D 
 
 bb 
 
 Monroe 
 
 . Jan. 
 
 1865.. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1865 
 
 Cummings, Joseph 
 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 
 It 
 
 Sept. 
 
 1865 
 
 Emberson, Hans 
 
 b. 
 
 York 
 
 . Feb. 
 
 1865.. 
 
 bt 
 
 
 Errickson. Hans 
 
 bb 
 
 tt 
 
 
 u 
 
 b . 
 
 
 Fairbank, Randolph 
 
 11 
 
 Monroe 
 
 
 it 
 
 tt 
 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 -95 
 
 Forty-Sixth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Rank. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment. 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 
 Fawver, Philip N 
 
 Private . 
 
 
 . Jan. 1865.. 
 
 Sept. 1865 
 
 
 tt 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 . York 
 
 Feb. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 t it 
 
 Gilbert, Geo 
 
 . b 
 
 Grayson, Joseph a 
 
 
 fab 
 
 Hansen, John C. a 
 
 ,. 
 
 . York 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Hefty, Adam 
 
 tt 
 
 . Washington. . 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Hildebrant, James 
 
 tt 
 
 . Cadiz 
 
 . Jan. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Hills. Hiram 
 
 tt 
 
 . Monroe 
 
 1 1 
 
 Feb. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Hills, Nelson 
 
 tt 
 
 Hoffman, Daniel 
 
 u 
 
 . Cadiz 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 
 . Spring Grove. 
 
 tt 
 
 Iverson, Erick 
 
 tt 
 
 . York 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Jacobson, Jacob 
 
 It 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 Jan. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Jeremiahson, Ole 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Jones, Thos. H 
 
 . Clarno 
 
 tt 
 
 Johns, Henry F 
 
 tt 
 
 . Jefferson 
 
 tt 
 
 lb 
 
 Johnson, James H 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Johnson. John 
 
 tt 
 
 . York 
 
 . Feb. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 . Svlvester 
 
 . Feb. 1865.. 
 
 Sept. 1685- 
 
 Kerr, Joseph 
 
 Kimble, Jesse a 
 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 
 Clarno 
 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 
 1 1 
 
 . Monroe 
 
 . Spring Grove. 
 
 tt 
 
 Klumb, Thos. C 
 
 tt 
 
 Legler, Nicholas 
 
 tt 
 
 New Glarus, .. 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 McLain, Daniel H d 
 
 tt 
 
 . Sylvester 
 
 u 
 
 tt 
 
 Meachem, Horace 
 
 tt 
 
 
 Jan. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Meyer, Gottfried 
 
 tt 
 
 . Jordan 
 
 " 
 
 t. 
 
 Moore, Wm 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 
 . Feb. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 1 1 
 
 Morrison, Chas 
 
 . Clarno 
 
 tt 
 
 Neska, Karl 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 
 tt 
 
 . Jordan 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Norder, Casper 
 
 tt 
 
 
 tt 
 
 tt. 
 
 Olson, Helge 
 
 tt 
 
 . York 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Oprecht, Fredolin 
 
 1 1 
 
 . Washington.. 
 
 1 1 
 
 tt 
 
 Osgood. Samuel K 
 
 tt 
 
 . Jordan 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Parks, John ft. b 
 
 '. t 
 
 . Washington.. 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Parks, Wm 
 
 tt 
 
 i fc 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Peterson, Peter 
 
 tt 
 
 . Svlvester 
 
 tt 
 
 it- 
 
 Phillips, Edwin 
 
 tt 
 
 
 June 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Pilley, Daniel F 
 
 tt 
 tt 
 
 . Jefferson 
 
 Sylvester 
 
 . Feb. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Pollock, David 
 
 tt 
 
 Re ir, Andrew a 
 
 tt 
 tt 
 
 York 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 tt 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 
 tt 
 
 Robb, Nelson 
 
 tt 
 
 . Sylvester 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Rogers, Hezekiah D 
 
 tt 
 
 t i 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Scott, Albert W 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 May 1865 
 
 Severson, Bryueril b 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Sept. 1865 
 
 Smith, Wm 
 
 tt 
 
 . Cadiz 
 
 ti 
 
 tt 
 
 Smith, Frederick 
 
 tt 
 
 . Clarno 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Smith, Joseph 
 
 tt 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Jan. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Springsted, Jeremiah W.b 
 
 tt 
 
 . Jefferson 
 
 
 tt 
 
 Streiff, Thos 
 
 tt 
 
 . Washington.. 
 
 Feb. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Stukv. David 
 
 tt 
 
 Clarno 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Sutherland, Richard 
 
 tt 
 
 Svlvester 
 
 Jan. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Thompson, Andrew 
 
 tt 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 Feb. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
 Thompson, Chas 
 
 tt 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Thompson, Ever 
 
 tt 
 
 Sylvester 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 Thompson, Nelson 
 
 tt 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 VanHorn, Wm. C 
 
 tt 
 
 . Cadiz 
 
 . Jan. 1865.. 
 
 tt 
 
296 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Forty-Sixth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Voegel, Jost Private . . 
 
 Webb, Aaron A 
 
 Webb, Allen 
 
 Wech, Aaron ■' 
 
 Weisniiller, John " 
 
 Zweifer, Jacob " 
 
 Co. F. 
 
 Luchsinger, A CorpU — 
 
 Albertson, Andrew Private . . 
 
 Bakken. Anders l * 
 
 Born, Ole C 
 
 Davenport, Seymour ... " 
 
 Elmer, John " 
 
 Hatfield, Wamba 
 
 Norder, Dietich " 
 
 Peckham, Benjamin — " 
 
 Spangler, Elia's ■* 
 
 Staffancher, John A " 
 
 Zentner, Frederick " 
 
 Co. G. 
 
 Clarke, Daniel Jr u 
 
 Elmer Fridolin " 
 
 Micheleon. Erick " 
 
 Olson, Andrew " 
 
 Streiff, F 
 
 Svigyum. Erick S " 
 
 Ward, Julius A 
 
 Co. H. 
 
 Turnipseed, Wm Corp'l.. .. 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Sherman, S M. / 2d Lieut.. 
 
 Johnson, Wm. R Sergeant. 
 
 Wescott, John 
 
 Minor, Thos. J 
 
 Purington, Alonzo " 
 
 Kettleson, Ole Corporal.. 
 
 Satterlee, Henry " 
 
 Chapel, James H " 
 
 Crowell, Henry A " 
 
 Baebler, Oswald 
 
 Allen, Eliakim R 
 
 Anderson, Michael e " 
 
 Babcock, Samuel J. a. .. " 
 
 Bridgman, Hosea " 
 
 Byrnes, Wm " 
 
 Coffee. Jarvil " 
 
 Colby, David " 
 
 Crooks, Wm " 
 
 Crowe, Rosel " 
 
 Disch, Martin " 
 
 Durst, Thomas " 
 
 Eidsmoe. Michael lt 
 
 Elliott, Henry " 
 
 Everson, Ole " 
 
 Friday, Jacob tv 
 
 Fowler, R. B " 
 
 Gabriel, Hiram. " 
 
 Garrett, John " 
 
 Garrett, LaFayette " 
 
 Kesiripnop Date of 
 
 Kesidencp. Enlistment 
 
 Washington... Feb. 1865 
 
 Monroe Jan. 1865 
 
 Jefferson ( 
 
 Clarno Feb. 
 
 Washington... ' 
 
 1865 
 
 Sylvester. 
 York 
 
 Adams Jan. 
 
 Albany Feb. 
 
 M't Pleasant .. 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Sylvester .... 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Decatur 
 
 M't Pleasant... 
 Sylvester 
 
 Monroe 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 Washington.. . 
 
 Clarno ■ 
 
 York 
 
 Farmers Grove. 
 
 York 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 Monroe. 
 
 York Jan. 
 
 " Feb. 
 
 11 Jan. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 Brookij-n 
 
 Clarno 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 Jeft'erson 
 
 New Glarus.. 
 Spring Grove.. 
 
 Clarno Jan. 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Albany Feb. 
 
 Jeft'erson 
 
 York 
 
 Decatur Jan. 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Albany Feb. 
 
 New Glarus » 
 
 York '.'.".. 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 Adams Jan. 
 
 New Glarus Feb. 
 
 Spring Grove.. 
 
 York 
 
 " Jan. 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 1865 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 1865 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 Sept. 1865 
 
 it 
 it 
 
 a- 
 ll 
 
 it 
 .t 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 tt 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 -97 
 
 Forty-Sixth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Gorhara, Henry C Private 
 
 Gorham, Wm. C " 
 
 Haas, Jacob 
 
 Halverson, Arno " 
 
 Hefty, Fabian 
 
 Hilton, James F • t 
 
 Hurlbut, Rollin N 
 
 Jones. Jeremiah F 
 
 Kelly, Stephen 
 
 Kuudert. Fridolin 
 
 Lee, Ole H 
 
 Lee, Solomon " 
 
 Martin, Isaac Edgar " 
 
 Martin, Isaac N " 
 
 Miner, Wm. A 
 
 McCaslin, Francis M " 
 
 Nolton, Daniel " ; 
 
 Olson. Ole 
 
 Olson, Peter " 
 
 Olson, Thor 
 
 Owrey, John " 
 
 Peebles, Jared N " 
 
 Peebles, Nelson " 
 
 Peebles, Royal M 
 
 Purrinton, Chas. H •' 
 
 Purrinton, Martin 
 
 Ripley, Mose:s D 
 
 Root, James ,L 
 
 Satterlee, Francis E 
 
 Schindler, Adam 
 
 Schindler, Andrew 
 
 Smith. James S " 
 
 Smith. Salmon " 
 
 Smith, Samuel J 
 
 Straw, Daniel - 
 
 Teal, Abram " 
 
 Thompson, Erick t- 
 
 Tomliu, Christopher... " 
 
 Trickle, Emanuel 
 
 Wescott, John E " 
 
 Zimmerman, Frederick. " 
 
 Zimmerman, Henry 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Cameron. John 
 
 George, Daniel " 
 
 Oprecht. Baltasar " 
 
 Residence. 
 York 
 
 Date of When mus- 
 
 Enlistment. tercel out. 
 
 Spring Grove 
 
 Adams 
 
 New Glarus 
 York 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 New Glarus 
 
 York 
 
 Brooklyn.... 
 Spring Grove 
 
 Albany. 
 York . . . 
 
 Brooklyn. . . 
 
 Albany 
 
 Spring Grov 
 Brooklyn.. . 
 Jefferson . . . 
 New Glarus 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Spring Grove 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Albany 
 
 Clarno 
 
 Brooklyn. . . 
 
 Clarno 
 
 Cadiz 
 
 New Glarus 
 Spring Grove 
 
 Monroe. . 
 Jefferson. 
 Monroe.. . 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1865.. 
 
 Jan. 
 Feb. 
 
 1865;; 
 
 1865.. 
 
 Jan. 
 Feb. 
 
 1865.'.' 
 1865.. 
 
 Jan. 
 Feb. 
 Jan. 
 
 .1 
 
 It 
 
 1865.'. 
 1865.. 
 1865.. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1865.'. 
 
 Jan. 
 Feb. 
 Jan. 
 Feb. 
 
 1865.'. 
 1865.. 
 1865.. 
 1865.. 
 
 Jan. 
 Feb. 
 Jan. 
 Feb. 
 
 1865.'. 
 1865 . . 
 1865.. 
 1865.. 
 
 Jan. 
 Feb. 
 
 1865.! 
 1865.. 
 
 
 • 
 
 May 1865 
 Sept. 1865 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FORTY-SIXTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Promoted to Corporal. 
 
 b Promoted to Sergeant. 
 
 c Promoted to Drum-Major. 
 
 d Died at Athens. Ala., May 29, 1885. 
 
 e Died at Huntsville, Ala., September 2, 1865. 
 
 / Promoted to Captain 
 
 36 
 
2 9 8 
 
 History of Gree7i County. 
 
 Forty-Ninth Regiment. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Rank. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Date of 
 Enlistment 
 
 When mus- 
 tered out. 
 
 Co.B. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thomas, James a 
 
 Private. . 
 
 . Brooklyn 
 
 . Feb. 1865. 
 
 
 Co. D. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Farmer, Geo. D 
 
 ■• 
 
 . Decatur 
 
 ii 
 
 . May 1865 
 
 Fisher, Chas. A 
 
 u 
 
 . Spring Grove. 
 
 " 
 
 It 
 
 Co. G. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Back, Theodore J b 
 
 ii 
 
 . Monticello 
 
 .i 
 
 .Nov. 1865 
 
 Chamberlain, Chas.G b c 
 
 lb 
 
 . Albany, 
 
 .i 
 
 
 Chesbro, Eldridge W — 
 
 11 
 
 . M't Pleasant.. 
 
 u 
 
 . Nov. 1865 
 
 Dodge, Chas 
 
 '• 
 
 . Albany 
 
 ii 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 " 
 
 tl 
 
 . July 1865 
 
 
 11 
 
 
 . Mar. 1865. 
 
 . Nov. 1865 
 
 McDermot, John 
 
 lb 
 
 1 1 
 
 Feb. 1865. 
 
 bG 
 
 Mickelson, Andrew 
 
 lb 
 
 . Decatur 
 
 ii 
 
 .; 
 
 
 I. 
 
 it 
 
 n 
 
 ■ t 
 
 Mickelson, Kanute 
 
 lt 
 
 ii 
 
 ii 
 
 •* 
 
 Miller, Geo. W 
 
 •• 
 
 . M*t Pleasant.. 
 
 n 
 
 u 
 
 Milligan, Wm. W d 
 
 •• 
 
 . Albany 
 
 •' 
 
 It 
 
 O'Neil, Thos. H 
 
 u 
 
 . M't Pleasant.. 
 
 n 
 
 u 
 
 Peckham, Nelson A 
 
 11 
 
 it, 
 
 . i 
 
 . Sept, 1865 
 
 Phillips, Truman E 
 
 ■ I 
 
 . Albany 
 
 n 
 
 . June 1865 
 
 Rolfe, Geo. H 
 
 .. 
 
 . M*t Pleasant.. 
 
 n 
 
 . Nov. 1865 
 
 Rolfe, Lewis K 
 
 .. 
 
 . Albany 
 
 .i 
 
 •• 
 
 Skillin^e, Thos. H 
 
 1. 
 
 . M't Pleasant.. 
 
 ii 
 
 .i 
 
 Sherbundy, John L 
 
 •• 
 
 . Sylvester... . 
 
 .i 
 
 .i 
 
 Titus, Wm. He 
 
 ■• 
 
 . M*t Pleasant . 
 
 .i 
 
 n 
 
 Walling, Saxton IS 
 
 11 
 
 1 1 
 
 n 
 
 n 
 
 Winter, Chas. J 
 
 ■ I 
 
 . Brooklyn 
 
 •• 
 
 . 
 
 Wilson, Ira W 
 
 .1 
 
 . M't Pleasant. . 
 
 u 
 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FORTY-NINTH REGTMENT. 
 
 a Died at Rollo, Mo.. August 3, 1865. 
 
 b Promoted to Corporal. 
 
 c In Hospital when Company mustered out. 
 
 d Promoted to Sergeant-Major. 
 
 e Promoted to Sergeant. 
 
 Fiftieth Regiment. 
 
 Bryant, Edwin E Lt. Col . . . 
 
 Morris, Edward Chaplain. 
 
 Co. A. 
 Wisdom, Clayton Private.. . 
 
 Co. B. 
 
 Allen, Justin W. a 2d Lieut.. 
 
 Harris. Joseph b Corporal. 
 
 Phelps, Henry I. b 
 
 Daniels, Lewis S. b Private.. 
 
 Edson, Seth " 
 
 Fox, John O. c 
 
 Reiser. Peter d 
 
 Lake, John R 
 
 Perkins. James 
 
 Turner, Swmpson e " 
 
 Webber, Elijah A 
 
 Co D. 
 Monroe, John 
 
 Monroe Feb., 1865.. Feb. 186t> 
 
 April, 1865.. Jane. 1866 
 
 Decatur Feb. 1865.. 
 
 Brodhead 
 
 Mt. Pleasant. 
 
 Mar. 1865. 
 
 May. 1865 
 
 1865 
 
 May, 
 June, 1866 
 
 Decatur Jan. 1865. 
 
History of Green County. 299 
 
 Fiftieth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 v, Mf i[.„ v Tf^ifUme,. Dateof \V1kii nms- 
 
 NAME - KAISK - KesKleii. ( Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Co. H. 
 
 Chapman. Geo Private . . Alt. Pleasant. . . Feb. 1865.. May. 1805 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Estee, Andrew J " .. Albany " .. June. 1866 
 
 Reynolds. Wm l - .. Decatur Jan. 1865.. Feb. 1866 
 
 Roe, Isaac • .. " Feb. 1865.. May. 1865 
 
 Smith, Samuel W. fh. . " ... Alt. Pleasant.. ; - .. June. 1866 
 
 Co. K. 
 Scott. Benjamin •- .. Decatur Jan. 1865... 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FIFTIETH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Promoted to Captain. 
 
 /> Promoted to Sergeant. 
 
 c Died at Boonville, Mo, June !», isi>:>. 
 
 (I Died at St. Louis, Augusta, 1865. 
 
 e Promoted to Corporal. 
 
 /'Died at St. Louis, May 18, 1865. 
 
 Fifty-First Regiaient. 
 
 Sutherland. A. J Adjutant. Alonroe Feb. 1865.. Aug. 1865 
 
 Co. E. 
 Jones, Thos. W Private... Adams Mar. 1865.. 
 
 Co. F. 
 
 Emerson, Robert F " . Jordan " .. May. 1865 
 
 Grimes. Chas. H '■ .. Mt. Pleasant. . " ..Aug. 1865 
 
 Hamilton, Robert " .. Jordan " .. May. 1865 
 
 Johnson, Myron " .. Sylvester 
 
 Pace. Chas. B •• .. Jordan •• ; " 
 
 Co. I. 
 
 Hanna, Oliver P. AI " .. Adams -i 
 
 Pengra. Winfield " .. Sylvester 
 
 Fifty-Second Regiaient. 
 
 Co. A. 
 
 Warren, Ezra G. a Private... SyrVester July. 1865 
 
 Shaffer, Jason R kl .. Adams Mar. 1865.. 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT. 
 a Promoted to 2d Lieutenant. 
 
 SHARPSHOOTERS. 
 
 Co. G. 
 
 Melvin, Shephard K. «... Segt Brooklyn Sept. 186] 
 
 Alelvin, A. A Private... " Mar. 1865... Nov. 1865 
 
 Melvin, E. " ... " Sept. 1861... Sept. 1862 
 
 MeMn, T. D. b " ... " " 
 
 REFERENCES FOR SHAI! PSIIOOTKRS. 
 
 a Died at Hairison's Landing, Va.. July 16. 1862. 
 I> Died at Mechanicksville, Va., June U. 1862. 
 

 300 Histoiy of Green County. 
 
 CAVALRY — First Regiment. 
 
 \\-\if Rank KVxhI.mh-p Date of When mus- 
 
 ftAMB - KANK - Kesiaence. Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Clinton, Geo. 0. a Eat.Adj't Brodhead Dec. 1861.... Sept. 1864 
 
 Persons, Horace T.J As'tSurg Albany Apr. 1863... Jan. 1865 
 
 Co. B. 
 
 Esterly, Francis P. 1 2nd Lt Monroe July, 1865 
 
 Allen, DeWitt C '. Private... Spring Grove... Sept* 1863... 
 
 Baldwin, Egbert D. b " ... Decatur Aug:. I860 
 
 Beattie, David " ... " Sept. 1863... 
 
 Burkholder, Henry <• ... " 
 
 Cleveland, Roger S. d.. ... •• ...Jordan Oct. 1863... 
 
 Conroy, Michael " ... Decatur Aug. 18(53... Sept. 1865 
 
 Culbertson,Thos. d " ...Jordan Oct. 18(33... July, 1865 
 
 Ganz. Hamilton " ... Decatur Sept. 1863... 
 
 Gill. Win " ... Spring Grove... 
 
 Hopkins, Madison P " ... Decatur " ... " 
 
 Matskie, Win " ... " 
 
 Mayer- John T •' ... Spring' Grove... 
 
 Merritt, Alexander T " ...Decatur Aug.^1863.... 
 
 Murray, Albert W " ... " 
 
 O'Neil, John B '• ... Spring Grove- 
 Palmer, Thos. L '• ...Jordan Oct. 1863 
 
 Putnam, Henry 0. d •• ... Decatur Aug. 1863. ... July, 186") 
 
 Simons, Judson d " ... " Sept. 1863... May, 1865 
 
 Seeber, Alfred W. c " ... " Aug. 1863 
 
 Spangler, Wm *' ... " •• ... July, 186") 
 
 Stabler. John ... Spring Grove... 
 
 Stewart- Ezra H. d " ... Decatur 
 
 Ten Eyck. Caspar H " ... " 
 
 Warn, Wm. 1 '" ... " 
 
 Co. D. 
 Searles! Henry P ■' ... Decatur Dec 
 
 Co. E. 
 Babbitt, Warren C " ... Monroe 
 
 1863.. 
 
 . July, 
 
 1865 
 
 
 . June, 
 
 1865 
 
 1863.. 
 1863 
 
 1863.. 
 
 . July. 
 July. 
 
 1865 
 1865 
 
 .. 
 
 Kean, Jasper X. <\ 
 
 Co. G. 
 
 Britton, John W '* .. Monroe Nov. 
 
 Conren, i'riah 11. / '• ... Decatur Jan. 
 
 Daggett, Ira ** ... Monroe Dec. 
 
 Green. Chas. R.^f " : 
 
 Hunt,' Geo. A "• ...Brodhead Jan. 1864... 
 
 Co. K. 
 
 Clinton, Chas. W. // ! .. Brodhead Oct. 1863 
 
 Bates, Warren W.»- - * ... Spring Grove... Sept. 1863... July. 1865 
 
 Benson, Jas. A '" ...Sylvester Aug. 1863.... 
 
 Brisbane. Hiram A. d " ... Decatur 
 
 Callender, Chauncey F. d " ... " 
 
 «'raps, John 15 " ... " 
 
 Craps, Wm * ... " Nov. 1863... 
 
 Davis, Samuel G. d '• ... Sylvester Aug. 18(53.... 
 
 Fancher, Abram A. d ... Decatur Sept, 1863... 
 
 Garrison, Wm. A ... Spring Grove... 
 
 Leisure, Daniel d " ... Decatur Aug. 1863... . 
 
 Mitchell, Jay J " ... " 
 
 Par-low, Frank B " ... Albany *' ... May, 1865 
 
 Pomroy, Robt. H i- ... Spring Grove... " ...July, 1865 
 
 Shoves, Lewis F. d " ... " ... Sept. is*;:;... •• 
 
 Woodur, Ira^ " ... Decatur ... " 
 
 
History of Green Cotmty, 301 
 
 First Regiment — Continued. 
 
 V,up TJihik- Ponirlanno Date Of Wlieil 11U1S - 
 
 " NaME - Rank - Residence. Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Co. M. 
 
 Ferguson, Robt. R Private... Jordan Nov. 1863... July, 1865 
 
 Phillips, James W " ... " Dec. 186:].... June, 1865 
 
 Rush, Arnold «' ... " " ....July, 1865 
 
 RECORD NOT FOUND. 
 
 Miner. Edgar S., Brodhead. 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FIRST REGIMENT. 
 
 u Conimissioned Captain Company B. September, 1862. 
 
 b Taken prisoner at Varnel Station. <ia.. May, 1861. Probably died in prison. 
 C Died at Louisville, June 29. 1864. 
 fl Promoted to Corporal. 
 e Died at Tallahoma, July 8, 1864. 
 /Promoted to Regimental Hospital Steward. 
 g Promoted to Sergeant. 
 h Died March 29, 1864, at Murfreeaboro. 
 i Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. 
 j Promoted to Surgeon, April, 1863. 
 
 Second Regiment. 
 Co. C. 
 
 Lee. George. Private... Brooklyn Feb. 1865 
 
 Lee, John J " ... " " 
 
 Co. F. 
 Palmer, Wallace a '•' ... Mt. Pleasant ... Dec. 186L... July, 1865 
 
 Co. K. 
 Welch, John H " ... Monroe Nov. 1863 
 
 REFERENCES FOR SECOND REGIMENT. 
 
 ii Promoted ro Sergeant. 
 
 Third Regiment. 
 
 Co. II. 
 
 Cross, Benjamin b Private... Monroe Feb. 1864.. Sept. 1865 
 
 Harding, Zadoe " ... " " ...July, 1865 
 
 REFERENCES FOR THIRD REGIMENT* 
 b Promoted to Corporal. 
 
 Fourth Regiment. 
 
 Co. B. 
 Alderman, Clark L. a Private... Brooklyn Dec. 1863 
 
 Co. L. 
 Gettle, George b " ...York " 
 
 Co. M. 
 
 Hill, Washington 1st Lt Monroe Mar. 1864... July, 18Gr> 
 
 Coon, Phillip H Sergt " Feb. 1864 
 
 Chilton, Wm. C '• " ....Aug. 1865 
 
 Burke, Frederick Private... Monroe 
 
 Carter, Wm. E. c " ... " " 
 
 Chase, Wm. B " ... " " ... June, 1865 
 
 Divyar, Patrick ** " 
 
 2,6* 
 
o° 2 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Fourth Regiment — Continued. 
 
 
 Name. Rank 
 
 Deniston, Wm. R Private.. 
 
 Putts, Win 
 
 Putts- Martin 
 
 Giesland, Joseph J 
 
 Grant James 
 
 Glenon, Redmond 
 
 Greenleaf, [saac J 
 
 Hamilton, Wm. S 
 
 Haffner, Myron d 
 
 Henderson, Edward 
 
 Henderson. Wm e 
 
 •Johnson, John L. « 
 
 d oh nson , ( I eo 
 
 \\ n«©bel, John. 
 
 Kdrkendoll, Robert 
 
 Land, Alpheus^ - -. 
 
 Land, Ctoas 
 
 Lemont, Steven \V. /. 
 
 MeLain, James,// 
 
 Meadham, John A 
 
 Perrigo, Jas. R 
 
 Phillips, Wm 
 
 ■ I, Ira <i. d 
 
 Powers. John II. j. 
 
 Sat terlee, [ra -I 
 
 Shaffer, Geo. C. k 
 
 Shaffer. Rufus X. d 
 
 Shutts, C. A 
 
 Sparks, Eli / 
 
 Steece, John E. W 
 
 Stevenson Josephus E. d 
 
 Stewart-, Wm 
 
 Sympkins, Lock wood 
 
 Tschabold, David 
 
 I Pham. ('has. H 
 
 Witter. Robert W. dm... 
 
 
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 •REFERENCES FOR FOURTH REGIMENT. 
 
 a Killed by accident at Morganza, La., August I. 1864. 
 b Died at Baton Rouge, October 29. 1864. 
 
 c Died at Baton Rouge, September 1, 1864. 
 ■•/ Promoted to Corporal. 
 •e Died at Madison, June 10, 1865. 
 / Promoted to Sergeant. 
 U Died at Madison, April 2. 1864. 
 
 i Died at Baton Rouge, September, 1864. 
 
 i Died at Baton Rouge, April 29, 1864. 
 fc Promoted to Quarter-Master Sergeant. 
 
 / Died at CaiTOliton, La., May 24, 1864. 
 m Died iit Baton Rouge, November, 1864. 
 '* Died at Madison, October 4, 18<>1. 
 
 LIGHT ARTILLERY— First Battery 
 
 Bueli r. Henry Private... Monroe Sept. 1864. 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 3°3 
 
 Fifth Battery 
 
 Name. 
 
 Pinney, Oscar F. «... 
 Hill, Washington.... 
 Humphrey., Chas. 15 
 
 Gardner, Geo. Q. b , 
 
 Smith, Almon c 
 
 Laiferty, Geo. J 
 
 Booth, Elijah d 
 
 Dickson- John e 
 
 Wynian, Chas. M. <•... 
 
 Stout, Braddock/. , 
 
 Eley, Aaron /'. , 
 
 Elliott. Robert P./..., 
 McKnight, John T..., 
 
 Adair, Chas. g 
 
 Adair, Ezra 
 
 Adams, Clarence E 
 
 Adams. Howard 
 
 Alexander, Thad. I.... 
 
 Allen, David 
 
 Bailey, Wm. W 
 
 Baker, James C 
 
 Baldwin ,Oscar F 
 
 Ball, Geo. W. // 
 
 Ball, Win. H 
 
 Barling - , Ruths 
 
 Barnes, Chas. W 
 
 Bast, Frederick 
 
 Bccktel, John 
 
 Beedy, Cyrus 
 
 Beedy, John 
 
 Belt, James N 
 
 Bintliff, Alfred i. 
 
 Black, Carl 
 
 Black, Frederick 
 
 Black, Rollin S 
 
 Booth, Lyman 
 
 Booth Robert L 
 
 Bratley, Joseph 
 
 Bratley, Luke 
 
 Bridge, John W , 
 
 Bridges, Otis S. // 
 
 Buck, Walter/ 
 
 Bullard, Byron I 
 
 Burk, Thomas P 
 
 Burkholder, Henry 
 
 Busick, Edward I 
 
 Campbell, Martin /•.... 
 
 Campton, James B 
 
 Campton, James V 
 
 Carmaii, John G 
 
 Caughey, John W , 
 
 Clark, Bos t wick 
 
 Clarno, Andrew o 
 
 Coates, Elisha M 
 
 Coates, Hamilton 1 
 
 Coates, Washington B 
 
 Cowen. John 
 
 Crow, Wm 
 
 Cunningham, ( 'lias. C 
 
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3°4 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Fifth Battery — Continued. 
 
 a 
 
 a 
 
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 a 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Dale, Geo Private 
 
 Dale, James 
 
 Dale, Joseph 
 
 Davenport, Wm. S 
 
 Davis. James 
 
 Disi-h- John / 
 
 Divan- James M 
 
 Divan, Walter 
 
 Diane. Robert 
 
 Dunn. James B. h 
 
 Dunn, John W 
 
 Dunn, Wm. C 
 
 Eley, Daniel 
 
 Eley, Joseph 
 
 Fa \v ver, J acob 
 
 Fillebrown, John M 
 
 Foot, Geo. M./ 
 
 Forbes, Josiah C 
 
 Forhv, John 
 
 Fry, Frank / 
 
 Galusha, David II 
 
 Gapin, Wm. R 
 
 Gardner, Walter S 
 
 Gearhart , Jam es 
 
 George, Wm 
 
 Graham, James A. £&».. 
 
 Gray, Tilbery 
 
 Gundy, Daniel 
 
 Haley, Oscar P 
 
 Hall. Joseph D 
 
 Hamilton, Geo. H. q 
 
 Hastings^ David E 
 
 Havens, Nathan H 
 
 Haw ver, Henry 
 
 Hayburn, Joseph h 
 
 Hendrickson, Thos. A 
 
 Hicks, Chas. B 
 
 IIi«ks, Gurdon, Jr 
 
 Hill, Joseph 
 
 Hutchins, Samuel W 
 
 Hoffman, Joseph 
 
 Jewett, Chas. A.//// 
 
 Johnson, Volney L 
 
 Jones, Thos. W 
 
 Kean, Isaac H 
 
 Kelly, Christopher C 
 
 King, Benjamin II 
 
 Kinney, De Marcus L 
 
 Knipschield, Ailam 
 
 Leahy, Jerry 
 
 Lawhorn, James 
 
 Lewis, Samuel 1 
 
 Lewis, Wm. R 
 
 Loom is. Alonzo 
 
 Loomis, Cornelius W 
 
 Loomis, Hartman 
 
 Lounsbury, Daniel C 
 
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Histoiy of Gi'een County. 
 
 3°5 
 
 Fifth Battery — Continued. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Lord] Thomas C P 
 
 Lounsberry, Isaiah II 
 
 Luther. John / 
 
 Mack, James 
 
 Maoomber, Albert s 
 
 Marshal. Albert I 
 
 McBride, Edward 
 
 McConnell, Geo. T 
 
 McConnell, Stewart 
 
 McCraken, Win. S 
 
 McDaniel, Andrew I 
 
 McDermott, Daniel 
 
 McKnight, Andrew I 
 
 Miller. Aaron 
 
 Miller, Henry C 
 
 Miller, Morgan H. t 
 
 Mitchell. Allen u 
 
 Morey, Sylvester H. v 
 
 Morris, John to 
 
 Moulton, Isaac R 
 
 Mountford, Samuel 
 
 Murray, Napoleon B 
 
 Nelson, John // 
 
 O'Brien. Nicholas.// 
 
 Orvis, John 
 
 Parks. James // 
 
 Payne, Royal P 
 
 Perkins. Stephen 
 
 Phillips, John 
 
 Pratt, David W 
 
 Pratt, Oliver P 
 
 Preston. Wm 
 
 Reynolds, Samuel C 
 
 Rice, Nathan P 
 
 Richardson, Wm. x 
 
 Riley, Jesse 
 
 Robb, John C 
 
 Robertson, ('has. II 
 
 Ross, John dd 
 
 Ross, Joseph W 
 
 Rutledge, Chas. A 
 
 Satterlee, Henry 
 
 Sackett, Chas 
 
 Sackett, Michael 
 
 Shatfcr, John 
 
 Shipley, Thos. // 
 
 Sickinger, Joseph 
 
 Sickinger, Lewis 
 
 Sisson, Francis i, 
 
 Slawson, Alfred 
 
 Small, Leonard W. i. 
 
 Smith, Ellis II 
 
 Smith, Geo. II. L 
 
 Smith, John C 
 
 Smith. John F. y 
 
 Snow, Orrin D 
 
 South. Chas. A 
 
 South, Chas. F 
 
 Rank. Residence. E ^Sment. 
 
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306 History of Green County. 
 
 Fifth Battery — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. Residence. ift&StSL ^ he V nx T 
 
 Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 bouth, John M Private.... Monroe Sept. 1861.... Sept. 1864 
 
 Sparks, James W. * " " 
 
 Staver, Geo. AA\ /'. " ...Cadiz " ...» June, 1865 
 
 Stewart, James «« " 
 
 Stiff, Ira W " ... Mt. Pleasant ... " ... Junel 1865 
 
 Stiff. John W 
 
 Strohm, Cornelius W. *... " « 
 
 Sutherland, Daniel '' ... Sylvester June,1864... June, 1865 
 
 Sweeny. Edward " ...Adams Dec. 1863.... 
 
 Sweet, Reuben ee c< Sept. 1861... . .. 
 
 Taft, ChasW " ...Cadiz " ... June, 1865 
 
 Taft, S. C « ... « Dec. 1861... 
 
 Thomas, John Q.pb « Sept. 1861 
 
 Thompson, Jesse C " ... Monroe June, 1865 
 
 Thompson, Wm. F " Sept. 1861... Aug. 1862 
 
 Titus, Daniel d •• « ... j une , 1865 
 
 Titus, Geo. cc " " 
 
 Titus, Louis " ... Mt. Pleasant.... Dee. 1863... June. 1865 
 
 Titus. Wm. 11 " ... " Jan. 1863 
 
 Van Matre, C. N " ... Monroe Sept. 1861... June, 1865 
 
 Van Matre, Jas. K. * " « 
 
 Verley, Wm. A " « 
 
 Walker. Geo " Feb. 1864... 
 
 Ward. Michael*. " ...Monroe 
 
 Wareck, Daniel " Sept.1861... 
 
 Wareck, Geo " Jan. 1864... 
 
 Wareck, Jeremiah " " ... " 
 
 Wareck, John F. h " ...Cadiz Sept. 1861... 
 
 Wareck, John H " Jan. 18154. .. 
 
 Wareck, Reuben " Sept.1861... " 
 
 Wareck, Samuel R. h " ...Cadiz 
 
 Warren, Chas. F " ... . . •' ... Oct. 1864 
 
 Webb, Reuben " ... . Oct. 1861 
 
 Webster, Edwin A. it. " Jan. 1864 
 
 Webster. Samuel C " Sept.1861... June. 1865 
 
 Webster, S. S " ... Aug, 1862... 
 
 Wei tz, David r " ... Sept.1861 
 
 Weltz, Wm - " ... June. 1865 
 
 AVells. Thomas '" Jan. 186-1... 
 
 Wheeler, Nelson " Sept.1861 
 
 White, Geo " 
 
 White, John " ... Monticeilo June, 1865 
 
 Wickersham, E. C " ... Sept. 1861... Sept. 1864 
 
 Williams, Geo. W " ... Jan. 1864... June, 1865 
 
 Williams. Levi " ... 
 
 Williams, Peter S " ... Sept.1861... 
 
 Wilson, F " Dec. 1863... 
 
 Wilson. Franklin " Sept.1861... " 
 
 Wilson, Sheldon L " Dec. 1863... 
 
 Winslow, Wm. G. /'. " ... Monroe Sent. 1861... 
 
 Wright, K. F « ... Monticeilo Feb. 1864.... 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FIFTH I! ATT FRY. 
 
 a Died, February 17, 1803. of wounds received at Stone River. 
 
 b Promoted to ( '.iptain. 
 
 c Died at luka, August 23, 1802. 
 
 ii Promoted t<> 1st Lieutenant. 
 
 <■ Promoted to 2d Lieutenant. 
 
 /Promoted to Sergeant. 
 
 CC 
 
 cc 
 
History of Green County. 307 
 
 references Foil Fit'TH battery — Continued. 
 
 <j Killed at Stone River, Tenn., December 13, 1862. 
 // Promoted to Corporal. 
 
 i Appointed Bugler. 
 
 j Died at Louisville, August 24. 1804. 
 
 k Transferred to Invalid ( !orps. 
 
 / Transferred to Battery No. 2. 
 
 Died at Nashville, July 24, 1864. 
 
 p Died at Louisville, March 22, 1863, 
 
 </ Died at Madison, August 25, 1864. 
 
 r hied February 6, 1863, of wounds received at Stone River. 
 
 8 Died at Lookout Mountain, July 25, 1864. 
 
 1 Died at Karmington Miss., September 2, 1862. 
 u Died at Bowling Green, December 11. 1862. 
 
 V Died at Madison, February 4, 1864. 
 
 w Died at Bitf Shanty, Ga., June 30, 1864. 
 
 c Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 </ Killed at Chaplin Hills, Kv., Octobers, 1862. 
 
 z Died at Murfreeshoro, April 1, 1863. 
 aa Died at Anapolis, Md., July 9. 1863. 
 bb Died of wounds at Murfreeshoro, January 29, 1863. 
 re Died of wounds at Murfreeshoro, February 9, 1863. 
 dd Died at Jacinto, Miss., July 12, 1862, 
 ee Died at Nashville, February 22, 1863. 
 ff Promoted to 2d Lieutenant 2d Iowa Cavalry. 
 gy Promoted to Quarter-Master Sergeant. 
 Ii'h Died at Chattanoga, March 30, 1864. 
 
 ii Died at Chattanoga, Jnly 21, 1864. 
 
 Eighth Battery. 
 
 Namk r*\tk Residence Date of When mus- 
 
 iMAMt. Kank. Residence. Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Preeland,Wm.H Private... Monroe Nov. 1861... Nov. 1862 
 
 Miller, Wm J. a " ... 
 
 U " 
 
 REFERENCES FOR EIGHTH BATTERY. 
 a Transferred to Marine Service. 
 
 Thirteenth Battery. 
 Webber, Truman Private... Exeter Dee. 1863. 
 
 FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 Co. D. 
 
 Peck, Henry W i Capt Monroe Oct. 1863... June, 1865 
 
 Bridge, Cornelius V. «... 1st Lt Soring Grove... Nov. 1863... Aug. 1865 
 
 Ball, Chas. M. b Sr. 2d Lt. " ... «' ... May, 1865 
 
 Hanehett, Wm, M. b Jr. 2d Lt. Albany Aug. 1865 
 
 Glennan, Richard c Sergt '* " 
 
 Brownfield, B. B " Monroe Sept, 1863... July, 1864 
 
 Ostrander, John H " Spring Grove... Oct, 1863... June, 1865 
 
 Miller, Geo. W. d " Monroe Sept. 1863 
 
3 oS 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 First Heavy Artillery — Continued. 
 
 Name. Rank. 
 
 Morse, Geo. W Bugler.... 
 
 Allison, John W. e Private... 
 
 Austin Julius H 
 
 Austin, Shadrach/. " 
 
 Baird, John 
 
 Baker, John \N . g " .. 
 
 Barmore, David R 
 
 Barrow, Wm " 
 
 Bennett, Chas. P l> " .. 
 
 Bennett, Joseph C " 
 
 Betts, Aclelbert A " 
 
 Blair, ltomanzo 
 
 Brown, Geo " 
 
 Brownfield, John A. / f< 
 
 Barrington, Reuben (t 
 
 Bussey. Geo. W " .. 
 
 Cameron, Geo. W " 
 
 Case, Chas. W.J * .. 
 
 Chambers, Bobert B " 
 
 Clemans, Isaac M " 
 
 Cole, Harvey F. A 
 
 Crook, James J 
 
 Dean, Joseph G 
 
 Dunkleburg, Isaac " 
 
 Dutcher, Wm. A ; ' .. 
 
 Eley, Erastus/ " .. 
 
 Eley, Wm. H " .. 
 
 Engel, Randolph 
 
 Gainor, Peter/. " 
 
 Hilton, Joseph D 
 
 Holland, John " .. 
 
 Inwhotf, Samuel 
 
 Jones, Geo. J. w/ " 
 
 Jones, Peter ww " 
 
 Kildow, Joshua/. " 
 
 Lewis, Daniel 
 
 Loveland, Harrison n "• .. 
 
 Mahan, Peter o 
 
 Mason, Hugh 
 
 Mather. Chester C i! .. 
 
 Mathews, Wm. II 
 
 McKinney, Alonzoj* " 
 
 Meacham, Win. R. q 
 
 Newcomer, Jacob 
 
 Nichols, Geo 
 
 Ostrander, Jeremiah D... 
 
 Ostrander, Thos. L. r " .. 
 
 Rainboth, Geo 
 
 Rainboth, John * 
 
 Reed, John W " .. 
 
 Sawin, Wm. A. t '• 
 
 Spalding, John W " .. 
 
 Stahl, Abraham / " 
 
 Stoleap, Frederick R " 
 
 Stowell, Martin T " .. 
 
 Tierney, Dennis " 
 
 Townsend, Henry W. «... " 
 
 Trow, John '* 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Date of When inus- 
 Enlistment. tered out. 
 Oct. 1863... Aug. 1865 
 
 a 
 
 a 
 
 ... Aug. 1865 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 Monroe 
 
 Jefferson. 
 Monroe... 
 
 Sept. 1863... Aug. 1865 
 
 Oct. 1863 
 
 Sept. 1863... Sept. 1S65 
 Oct. 1863... Aug. 1865 
 
 Sept. 1863 
 
 Oct. 1863 
 
 Sept. 1863... Aug. 1865 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 Albany. 
 
 Monroe. 
 
 Monroe... 
 Jefferson 
 
 Oct. 1863... Mar. 1865 
 
 Sept. 1863... Aug. 1865 
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 Oct. 1863.'.'.' June, 1864 
 Sept. 1863... Auff. 1865 
 
 Oct. 1863!'.'. July. 1864 
 Sept. 1863... Aug. 1865 
 
 Nov. 1863 
 
 Oct. 1863 
 
 \ug. 1865 
 
 " ... July, 1864 
 
 Sept. 1863!" 
 
 Oct. 1863... 
 
 Aug. 1865 
 
 Washington ... 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Albany 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 Mt. Pleasant.. 
 Washington ... 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Albany 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 Albany 
 
 Spring Grove. 
 
 Albany . 
 
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 Oct. 1863... Aug. 1865 
 
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 Jordan.. 
 Clarno... 
 Monroe. 
 Albany . 
 
 Monroe. 
 Albany . 
 
 Oct. 1863... Aug. 1865 
 
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 ".'.' July, 1864 
 
 Sept. 1863 
 
 Oct. 1863... June, 1865 
 
 (C 
 
 Sept. 1863.'.'.' A'u'g.""i865 
 
 Oct. 1863 
 
 Sept. 1863... May, 1865 
 
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 Oct. 1863... Feb. 1866 
 
 " ... July, 1865 
 
 Sept. 1863 
 
 Oct. 1863... May. 1865 
 
History of Green County. 
 
 3°9 
 
 First U eavy Artillery — Continued. 
 
 vate. 
 « 
 
 Name. Hank 
 
 Trow. Michael Pri 
 
 Trow, Win. Z 
 
 Wardwell, Geo. W. v 
 
 Webber, Geo. L 
 
 Wells, David 0. w 
 
 Williams, Geo. I>. ?-' 
 
 Williams, Joseph M 
 
 Williams, Seth C. i. 
 
 Wood, Andros L 
 
 Yarger, Cal vin /. 
 
 Ziegler, Uriah i 
 
 Co. E. 
 Welden, Peter E 
 
 Co. H. 
 Eudington, James II. ./... 
 
 Co. K. 
 Bryce, John 
 
 Co. L. 
 
 Bradley, Seth M 
 
 Edleman, Eli 
 
 Edleman, Franklin II 
 
 Edleman, Milton 
 
 Kingsland, Geo 
 
 Kinyon, Aaron 
 
 Kinyon, AVm 
 
 Landgraff, Geo. II 
 
 Landgroff, John M 
 
 Longley, Hamilton 
 
 Miller, Peter 
 
 Ostrander, AVm. ,! 
 
 Pop, Nicholas 
 
 .Stevenson, Beard M 
 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Albany 
 
 n 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Date of When mas- 
 Enlistment. tered out. 
 
 Nov. 186.°. Vug. 1865 
 
 Oct. 1863... 
 
 " ... Aug. 1S65 
 
 Jefferson Sept. 1863 
 
 Oct. 1863 
 
 Monroe ... Aug. 1865 
 
 Spring Grove... 
 Mt. Pleasant ... 
 
 Jefferson Sent. 1863... 
 
 Monroe Oct. 1863... 
 
 Decatur Sept. 1864... June, 1865 
 
 Albany " 
 
 Brodhead \ug. 1864 
 
 Jefferson Sept. 1864... June. 1865 
 
 Aug. 1864. 
 
 
 Mt. Pleasant ... 
 
 Jefferson Sept. 1864. 
 
 REFERENCES FOR FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 <i Promoted to Captain. 
 b Promoted to Junior 1st Lieutenant. 
 c Promoted to 2d Lieutenant. 
 <if Died at Chicago, October 23, 1864. 
 
 c Veteran Volunteer. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, April, 186;"). 
 /'Lost on Board U. S. Transport North America, December 22, 1864. 
 -/ Died at New Orleans. December 14. 1864. 
 h Died at Cairo, 111., September 28, 1864. 
 i Promoted to Corpoi al. 
 ./ Promoted to Sergeant. 
 h Died in Rock County, October 1", 1864. 
 / Died on Steamer Julia, February 6, 1864. 
 >n Died at Brashear City, La., December 3, 1864. 
 mm Died at Fort Berwick, La., August 23, 1864. 
 
 n Lost from U. 8. Transport North America, December 22, 1864. 
 o Died at Fort Berwick, La., August 23, 1864. 
 p Died at Fort Jackson, La., July 22, '861. 
 q Died at Fort Jackson, La., July 1, 1864. 
 /■ Died at Fort Berwick, La., September 1, 1864. 
 js Died at Fort Jackson, La., June 24, 1864. 
 t Died at Fort Berwick, La., October 25, 1864. 
 a Died at Fort Berwick, La,, September 13, 1864. 
 v Died at Fort Berwick, La., September 9, 1864. 
 w Died at Madison, Wis., March 31, 1865. 
 if Died at New Orleans, September 15, 1864 . 
 
IO 
 
 History of Green County. 
 
 Record of the muster in of the following named men was found, but the 
 record did not give the number of the regiment to which they belongs! : 
 
 MISTERED IK IN SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, AND NOVEMBER. 1864. 
 
 Akin, John. Dayton 
 Ault, Wm., Jordan. 
 Biggs. Dighton, Adam.-. 
 Biggs, George, York. 
 Bratley. James, Cadiz. 
 Campbell. A. J., Dayton. 
 Christopherson, 0., York. 
 Connor, James. York. 
 Davis. J. ('.. Dayton. 
 Day, D.C, Dayton. 
 Deunian, J., Dayton. 
 Denny, Albert. Cadiz. 
 Fall, Samuel, Dayton. 
 Fisher, F. York. 
 Gerber, Peter, Adams. 
 Hamilton. Peter, Dayton. 
 Flart. Levi, Dayton. 
 Hart. Wilson, Cadiz. 
 
 Hoffman, S. P., Dayton. 
 Jones, Covil, York. 
 Kirkpatrick, R., Dayton. 
 Meydoller, A., Adams. 
 N'orris, Joseph, Dayton. 
 Olsen, Henry, Adams. 
 Pallado, Daniel, Cadiz. 
 Pember, Chas. A., Cadiz. 
 Reinhart, Wm„ Cadiz. 
 Robinson, Win. F 1 ., Dayton. 
 .Sherman, S. M., Y r ork. 
 Shoemaker, Martin, Dayton. 
 Smart, AVm. M., Dayton. 
 Taylor, T. D.. Cadiz. 
 Thompson. 
 
 Wheeler, Joseph, Dayton. 
 Witherell, Philander, Dayton. 
 
 NileSj VanBuren, Dayton 
 Tony. Gabriel. Monroe. 
 
 MUSTERED IN IN FEBRUARY, 1865. 
 
 Wood, Lemuel D., York. 
 
 MUSTERED IX IN NOVEMBER. 18f3: 
 
 Ault. John, Clarno. 
 Burk. Gilruan, Y'ork. 
 Dale. John. Cadiz. 
 
 Chase, Wm. 
 Cross, B. S. 
 Cunningham, Wm. 
 Ellison, Caleb. 
 Fitzgerald, Win. 
 Forsythe, McKenzie. 
 Fuller, Abel. 
 F'uller, Richard. 
 George, Wm. 
 Hewlett, II. P. 
 Limpsay, Chas. IL 
 Lindsy, Duncan. 
 
 McKoag, Michael, Jordan. 
 Soper, F'oster R., Jordan. 
 
 MUSTERED IN IN DECEMBER, 1803. 
 
 Mason, James C. 
 McCalLGeo. 
 Richardson, Nathan. 
 Rima, David. 
 Seott. Hiram. 
 Skinner, Win. H. 
 Starr, Wm. 
 Thompson, Geo. W. 
 Torgenson, Kanut. 
 Webb, David. 
 Welch, Andrew. 
 Xeiglcr, Sam. 
 
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