Waukesha County Wisconsin Genealogy

Waukesha County Biographies

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FARGUSON, William

Source: The Pewaukee Breeze January 19, 1906

A MUSKEGO PIONEER SETTLER

WAS BORN IN IRELAND AND CAME TO WISCONSIN WHEN THE INDIANS WERE YET NUMEROUS

Minus one foot, sitting quiet and lonely at the fireside in the sitting room of his home, with his days of toil passed, Wm. FARGUSON, one of the earliest settlers of Muskego Center, was found Friday by a reporter of this paper when on a business mission in the village. The aged gentleman was in a reminiscent frame of mind and imparted a few anecdotes of his early days.

Born in Ireland, he left there at the age of 15 and settled in New York, where he lived a few years, after which he came west as far as Buffalo. There he worked for while on the Erie canal and then went to Chicago and secured employment. A year afterward he went to Muskego Center, bought a farm near Big Bend and worked it for 10 years, after which he sold that property and bought a tract of farm land on the Janesville Plank road, his present place of abode.

Mr. FARGUSON is 86 years of age. Aside from being crippled he is well preserved, mentally and physically. When he came to Muskego he said the place resembled an Indian settlement, the members of the tribe being in dominating numbers. His first domicile was a log house. Thirty-four years ago he built his present nice, large two-story structure and has lived in it since.

While in his retrospective mood, Mr. FARGUSON related a few incidents. To him it seemed honest men were but few in those days. At Buffalo, where he worked on the Erie canal, he said, stealing seemed to be a mania among the labors. If one did not watch his property with an eagle eye, he said clothes would be stolen from the body when asleep and picks, shovels, etc., would disappear on duty when one turned his back for a moment. He also remembered of a paymaster at Chicago absconding with $500 of employes' wages.

The aged gentleman lost his foot some 30 years ago, the result of blood poisoning. It started from an injury received in a bump against a plow. This grew worse and finally he had to have the member amputated.

CHRISTOPHER FARLEY

Source: Unknown

Early Norwegian immigrant, came with parents Christopher and Julie Farley to Muskego, Wisconsin in 1842. After his father's death, he moved to Leland, Illinois in 1844. Here he married Helen Sanderson and had 7 children.

MRS. JEAN MARION PUTNEY FARLEY

Daughters of the American Revolution

DAR Member
Descendant of Capt. Nathan Watkins
Nathan Watkins
	b: 1735 in Hopkinton, Mass.
	d: 1815 in Naples, N. Y.
	to: Sarah Whitney
Nathan Watkins commanded a company in the Massachusetts 
militia at Bunker Hill and, 1776, was captain in the 
Continental infantry.

Child of Nathan and Sarah (Whitney) Watkins:
	Eunice Watkins
	b: 1784
	d: 1860
	m. 1801
	to: Timothy Mower
	b: 1777
	d: 1852

Child of Timothy and Eunice (Watkins) Mower:
	Sarah Ann Mower
	b: 1813
	d: 1877
	m: 1835
	to: Aaron Sidney Putney
	b: 1813
	d: 1876

Child of Aaron Sidney and Sarah Ann (Mower) Putney:
	Aaron Sidney Putney, Jr.
	b. 1849
	m. 1878
	to: Jane Wilson Baker
	b. 1857

Child of Aaron Sidney and Jane Wilson (Baker) Putney, Jr.:
	Jean Marion Putney

(see also Hiram Rhodes bio)

BENNETT FARR

Source: Unknown

The first school (1837-1838 was taught in a cabon on Major Farr's claim. Also in Major's family occurred the first marriage and the first death in the Town of Brookfield. Major arrived in the summer of 1837. Daughter married E. A. Parker.

MRS. MARION ROGAN FAUST

Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 16 page 47

Daughter of the American Revolution DAR ID # 155142 
b: Waukesha

Descendent of Faunce Hammond
	b. 1737 in Rochester, Mass 
	d. 1813 in Reading, Vt.
	m. 1761
	to Mary Holmes 
	d. 1813
	Faunce Hamond serverd at the Rhode Island Alarm, 
1780, under Capt. Henry James, Col.James Hathaway's
Bristol County regiment, Massachusettes militia in the 
Revolutionary War. He was born in Rochester, Mass.; 
died in Reading, Vt. 

Child of Faunce and Mary (Holmes) Hammond:
	Jabez Holmes Hammond 
	b: 1773
	d: 1841
	m: 1796
	to Mary (Rowe) 
	b: 1773
	d: 1907

Child of Jabez and Mary (Rowe) Hammond:
	Holmes Hammond
	b: 1807
	d: 1892
	m: 1832 
	to: Sarah (Marty)
	b: 1805
	d: 1873

Child of Holmes and Sarah (Marty) Hammond:
	Marcia Hammond
	b: 1834
	d: 1907
	m: 1856
	to: A. Webster Baldwin
	b: 1828
	d: 1885

Child of A. Webster and Marcia (Hammond) Baldwin:
	May Baldwin
	b. 1858
	m: 1891
	to: Robert J. Rogan

Child of Robert J. Rogan and Marcia (Hammond):
	Marion Rogan

See Also No. 124174.

ISAAC FELLOWS

Source: A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties, Missouri, Lewis Publishing Co., 1901 (available on google books).

One of the enterprising residents of Dale township, Atchison county, is John H. Fellows, the owner of Cedar Hill farm. He was born in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, May 10, 1851, a son of Isaac and Margaret Fellows. The former was born and reared in Vermont, while the latter was a native of Quebec, Canada, and was of Scotch lineage, her parents having come to the new world from the land of hills and heather. Isaac Fellows was one of the first settlers of Dodge county, Wisconsin, later removed to Waukesha county and subsequently took up his abode in Milwaukee, where he remained for a number of years. At that tie the land on which the city now stands was a wooded tract. He cleared several farms in that locality and after cutting down the trees sold the wood to the steamboats plying on the lakes. In 1863 he came to Missouri, locating in Andrew county, where he died at the ripe old age of eighty-six years. He was a zealous Republican in his political affiliations, and both he ad his wife were members of the Methodist church. The children born unto this worthy couple were as follows: William, a soldier of the Civil war who died in Missouri; Mary, who resides near Plum Creek, Nebraska; Maria, who lives in Denver, Colorado; Lewis, who is a member of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Infantry and is now deceased; Edward, who resides in Atchison county; William L., who also has passed away; John H., of this review; Charles, who is a railroad man in the west and Newton, who died in infancy.

John H. Fellows was reared upon a Wisconsin farm where he was taught lessons of industry and honesty, and these principles have permeated this entire career. he was educated in the public schools of the county and was an apt pupil. At the age of fourteen he came to Missouri and spent the remainder of his minority in Atchison county. He married in Savanna, Missouri, in 1877, Miss Lida M. Condon, who was reared and educated in this state. She is the daughter of Harrison and Ann E. (Shaw) Condon. Her father was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and lost his eyesight in the Civil war. He died in Colorado, at the age of sixty-three years. Of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Grand Army of the Republic, he was a representative member and was respected by all who knew him. The mother of Mrs. Fellows lived to be sixty-five years of age, and t her death left the following children: Byron e., a publisher of Maryville, Missouri, who married Miss Mattie Vaughn; Allice M. Nunn, who resided in Salina, Kansas; Lilly S.; Frederick, who lives in York, Nebraska; Mrs. Fellows and W. E. Condon, who is a resident of Pocatello, Idaho.
More available in the book including offspring of John.

ED. B. FELLOWS

Ed B. Fellows, who carries on farming and stock raising in Atchison county, was born in Dodge county, Wisconsin, November 10, 1846, his parents being Isaac and Margaret (Elmore) Fellows. The father was a native of New Hampshire and was of English lineage. In New York he was married, the lady of his choice being a native of Canada, born in Quebec, of Scotch parentage. After their marriage they removed to Dodge county, Wisconsin, and in 149 took up their abode in Waukesha County, near Milwaukee, locating in the midst of the forest, the father clearing some of the land upon which the city of Milwaukee has since been built. At that early day he sold wood to steamboats on the lake. All the surrounding country was a dense forest and coal was little used for fuel, but wood would be obtained in almost limitless quantities. The forest was so dense that he was at one time lost for four and a half days in the woods, but eventually made his way back to the clearing. At different times he cleared ad improved various Wisconsin farms and in 1865 he came to Missouri, purchasing a large tract of land in Andrew county, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1886, while his wife passed away in 1872. He was six feet in height, large and strong, and was an indefatigable worker in his earlier days. As a result of his untiring energy and irreproachable honesty he accumulated a good estate. He was a worthy and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which his wife also belonged, and in politics he was a stalwart Republican. In his family were ten children, namely William, who served during the war of the Rebellion in the First Wisconsin Cavalry and died in Savannah, Missouri; Mary, a resident of Nebraska; Maria, who is living in Denver, Colorado; Lewis, who joined the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin and died in the service at age eighteen years; Edward B. George, deceased; John H.' Charles, a railroad employee' and O.R. and Newton, deceased.

Mr. Fellows, whose name introduces this review, was reared to honest toil on the home farm and acquired his education in the district and graded schools. He came with his parents to Missouri in 1865 and assisted the father in the cultivation of the home farm until his marriage, on the 23rd of March, 1871. He then began farming on his own account and two years later he removed to Green township, Nodaway county.

More appears in the book, including offspring and a short bio on his wife.

MARTIN FIELD

Source: Field Genealogy being the record of all the field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700, Volume II by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Chicago, IL; 1901

Martin Field was born in Chester, Vt., and was one of five children-two sons and three daughters-one of whom, Mrs. Rosanna Babcock, of East Try, Walworth county, Wis., is still living. Martin field received a good academic education, and also learned surveying, and in 1836 came to Mukwonago. Waukesha county, Wis., and took up a claim of 280 acres, within a mile of the village of Mukwonago, which he platted. He was married to Miss Sarah P. Meacham, a native of Springfield, Mass., and at the time of her marriage a resident of Troy. Soon after coming to Wisconsin, Mr. Field was elected justice of the peace, which turned his attention to law, which he studied, and on March 31, 1849, he was admitted to practice in the circuit court, and on Jan. 10, 1860, in the supreme court of Wisconsin. In 1846, when Waukesha county was organized, he was chosen, on Nov. 20, as the first probate judge, and for fourteen consecutive years held that position. During the Civil war, he served as revenue assessor. Politically he was a Republican, in religion a Unitarian. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of the Wisconsin Consistory; he also served at times as president of the Waukesha County Agricultural Society, and as president and vice-president of the Waukesha National Bank. He d. April 9, 1890. Res Mukwonago, Wis.

JAY ANDREW FRAME

Source: The National Cyclopedia of American Biography being the history of the United States, Volume X, New York, James T. White & Company, 1909; pg 160.

FRAME. Andrew Jay, banker, was born at Waukesha, Wi

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FARGUSON, William

Source: The Pewaukee Breeze January 19, 1906

A MUSKEGO PIONEER SETTLER

WAS BORN IN IRELAND AND CAME TO WISCONSIN WHEN THE INDIANS WERE YET NUMEROUS

Minus one foot, sitting quiet and lonely at the fireside in the sitting room of his home, with his days of toil passed, Wm. FARGUSON, one of the earliest settlers of Muskego Center, was found Friday by a reporter of this paper when on a business mission in the village. The aged gentleman was in a reminiscent frame of mind and imparted a few anecdotes of his early days.

Born in Ireland, he left there at the age of 15 and settled in New York, where he lived a few years, after which he came west as far as Buffalo. There he worked for while on the Erie canal and then went to Chicago and secured employment. A year afterward he went to Muskego Center, bought a farm near Big Bend and worked it for 10 years, after which he sold that property and bought a tract of farm land on the Janesville Plank road, his present place of abode.

Mr. FARGUSON is 86 years of age. Aside from being crippled he is well preserved, mentally and physically. When he came to Muskego he said the place resembled an Indian settlement, the members of the tribe being in dominating numbers. His first domicile was a log house. Thirty-four years ago he built his present nice, large two-story structure and has lived in it since.

While in his retrospective mood, Mr. FARGUSON related a few incidents. To him it seemed honest men were but few in those days. At Buffalo, where he worked on the Erie canal, he said, stealing seemed to be a mania among the labors. If one did not watch his property with an eagle eye, he said clothes would be stolen from the body when asleep and picks, shovels, etc., would disappear on duty when one turned his back for a moment. He also remembered of a paymaster at Chicago absconding with $500 of employes' wages.

The aged gentleman lost his foot some 30 years ago, the result of blood poisoning. It started from an injury received in a bump against a plow. This grew worse and finally he had to have the member amputated.

CHRISTOPHER FARLEY

Source: Unknown

Early Norwegian immigrant, came with parents Christopher and Julie Farley to Muskego, Wisconsin in 1842. After his father's death, he moved to Leland, Illinois in 1844. Here he married Helen Sanderson and had 7 children.

MRS. JEAN MARION PUTNEY FARLEY

Daughters of the American Revolution

DAR Member
Descendant of Capt. Nathan Watkins
Nathan Watkins
	b: 1735 in Hopkinton, Mass.
	d: 1815 in Naples, N. Y.
	to: Sarah Whitney
Nathan Watkins commanded a company in the Massachusetts 
militia at Bunker Hill and, 1776, was captain in the 
Continental infantry.

Child of Nathan and Sarah (Whitney) Watkins:
	Eunice Watkins
	b: 1784
	d: 1860
	m. 1801
	to: Timothy Mower
	b: 1777
	d: 1852

Child of Timothy and Eunice (Watkins) Mower:
	Sarah Ann Mower
	b: 1813
	d: 1877
	m: 1835
	to: Aaron Sidney Putney
	b: 1813
	d: 1876

Child of Aaron Sidney and Sarah Ann (Mower) Putney:
	Aaron Sidney Putney, Jr.
	b. 1849
	m. 1878
	to: Jane Wilson Baker
	b. 1857

Child of Aaron Sidney and Jane Wilson (Baker) Putney, Jr.:
	Jean Marion Putney

(see also Hiram Rhodes bio)

BENNETT FARR

Source: Unknown

The first school (1837-1838 was taught in a cabon on Major Farr's claim. Also in Major's family occurred the first marriage and the first death in the Town of Brookfield. Major arrived in the summer of 1837. Daughter married E. A. Parker.

MRS. MARION ROGAN FAUST

Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 16 page 47

Daughter of the American Revolution DAR ID # 155142 
b: Waukesha

Descendent of Faunce Hammond
	b. 1737 in Rochester, Mass 
	d. 1813 in Reading, Vt.
	m. 1761
	to Mary Holmes 
	d. 1813
	Faunce Hamond serverd at the Rhode Island Alarm, 
1780, under Capt. Henry James, Col.James Hathaway's
Bristol County regiment, Massachusettes militia in the 
Revolutionary War. He was born in Rochester, Mass.; 
died in Reading, Vt. 

Child of Faunce and Mary (Holmes) Hammond:
	Jabez Holmes Hammond 
	b: 1773
	d: 1841
	m: 1796
	to Mary (Rowe) 
	b: 1773
	d: 1907

Child of Jabez and Mary (Rowe) Hammond:
	Holmes Hammond
	b: 1807
	d: 1892
	m: 1832 
	to: Sarah (Marty)
	b: 1805
	d: 1873

Child of Holmes and Sarah (Marty) Hammond:
	Marcia Hammond
	b: 1834
	d: 1907
	m: 1856
	to: A. Webster Baldwin
	b: 1828
	d: 1885

Child of A. Webster and Marcia (Hammond) Baldwin:
	May Baldwin
	b. 1858
	m: 1891
	to: Robert J. Rogan

Child of Robert J. Rogan and Marcia (Hammond):
	Marion Rogan

See Also No. 124174.

ISAAC FELLOWS

Source: A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties, Missouri, Lewis Publishing Co., 1901 (available on google books).

One of the enterprising residents of Dale township, Atchison county, is John H. Fellows, the owner of Cedar Hill farm. He was born in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, May 10, 1851, a son of Isaac and Margaret Fellows. The former was born and reared in Vermont, while the latter was a native of Quebec, Canada, and was of Scotch lineage, her parents having come to the new world from the land of hills and heather. Isaac Fellows was one of the first settlers of Dodge county, Wisconsin, later removed to Waukesha county and subsequently took up his abode in Milwaukee, where he remained for a number of years. At that tie the land on which the city now stands was a wooded tract. He cleared several farms in that locality and after cutting down the trees sold the wood to the steamboats plying on the lakes. In 1863 he came to Missouri, locating in Andrew county, where he died at the ripe old age of eighty-six years. He was a zealous Republican in his political affiliations, and both he ad his wife were members of the Methodist church. The children born unto this worthy couple were as follows: William, a soldier of the Civil war who died in Missouri; Mary, who resides near Plum Creek, Nebraska; Maria, who lives in Denver, Colorado; Lewis, who is a member of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Infantry and is now deceased; Edward, who resides in Atchison county; William L., who also has passed away; John H., of this review; Charles, who is a railroad man in the west and Newton, who died in infancy.

John H. Fellows was reared upon a Wisconsin farm where he was taught lessons of industry and honesty, and these principles have permeated this entire career. he was educated in the public schools of the county and was an apt pupil. At the age of fourteen he came to Missouri and spent the remainder of his minority in Atchison county. He married in Savanna, Missouri, in 1877, Miss Lida M. Condon, who was reared and educated in this state. She is the daughter of Harrison and Ann E. (Shaw) Condon. Her father was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and lost his eyesight in the Civil war. He died in Colorado, at the age of sixty-three years. Of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Grand Army of the Republic, he was a representative member and was respected by all who knew him. The mother of Mrs. Fellows lived to be sixty-five years of age, and t her death left the following children: Byron e., a publisher of Maryville, Missouri, who married Miss Mattie Vaughn; Allice M. Nunn, who resided in Salina, Kansas; Lilly S.; Frederick, who lives in York, Nebraska; Mrs. Fellows and W. E. Condon, who is a resident of Pocatello, Idaho.
More available in the book including offspring of John.

ED. B. FELLOWS

Ed B. Fellows, who carries on farming and stock raising in Atchison county, was born in Dodge county, Wisconsin, November 10, 1846, his parents being Isaac and Margaret (Elmore) Fellows. The father was a native of New Hampshire and was of English lineage. In New York he was married, the lady of his choice being a native of Canada, born in Quebec, of Scotch parentage. After their marriage they removed to Dodge county, Wisconsin, and in 149 took up their abode in Waukesha County, near Milwaukee, locating in the midst of the forest, the father clearing some of the land upon which the city of Milwaukee has since been built. At that early day he sold wood to steamboats on the lake. All the surrounding country was a dense forest and coal was little used for fuel, but wood would be obtained in almost limitless quantities. The forest was so dense that he was at one time lost for four and a half days in the woods, but eventually made his way back to the clearing. At different times he cleared ad improved various Wisconsin farms and in 1865 he came to Missouri, purchasing a large tract of land in Andrew county, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1886, while his wife passed away in 1872. He was six feet in height, large and strong, and was an indefatigable worker in his earlier days. As a result of his untiring energy and irreproachable honesty he accumulated a good estate. He was a worthy and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which his wife also belonged, and in politics he was a stalwart Republican. In his family were ten children, namely William, who served during the war of the Rebellion in the First Wisconsin Cavalry and died in Savannah, Missouri; Mary, a resident of Nebraska; Maria, who is living in Denver, Colorado; Lewis, who joined the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin and died in the service at age eighteen years; Edward B. George, deceased; John H.' Charles, a railroad employee' and O.R. and Newton, deceased.

Mr. Fellows, whose name introduces this review, was reared to honest toil on the home farm and acquired his education in the district and graded schools. He came with his parents to Missouri in 1865 and assisted the father in the cultivation of the home farm until his marriage, on the 23rd of March, 1871. He then began farming on his own account and two years later he removed to Green township, Nodaway county.

More appears in the book, including offspring and a short bio on his wife.

MARTIN FIELD

Source: Field Genealogy being the record of all the field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700, Volume II by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Chicago, IL; 1901

Martin Field was born in Chester, Vt., and was one of five children-two sons and three daughters-one of whom, Mrs. Rosanna Babcock, of East Try, Walworth county, Wis., is still living. Martin field received a good academic education, and also learned surveying, and in 1836 came to Mukwonago. Waukesha county, Wis., and took up a claim of 280 acres, within a mile of the village of Mukwonago, which he platted. He was married to Miss Sarah P. Meacham, a native of Springfield, Mass., and at the time of her marriage a resident of Troy. Soon after coming to Wisconsin, Mr. Field was elected justice of the peace, which turned his attention to law, which he studied, and on March 31, 1849, he was admitted to practice in the circuit court, and on Jan. 10, 1860, in the supreme court of Wisconsin. In 1846, when Waukesha county was organized, he was chosen, on Nov. 20, as the first probate judge, and for fourteen consecutive years held that position. During the Civil war, he served as revenue assessor. Politically he was a Republican, in religion a Unitarian. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of the Wisconsin Consistory; he also served at times as president of the Waukesha County Agricultural Society, and as president and vice-president of the Waukesha National Bank. He d. April 9, 1890. Res Mukwonago, Wis.

JAY ANDREW FRAME

Source: The National Cyclopedia of American Biography being the history of the United States, Volume X, New York, James T. White & Company, 1909; pg 160.

FRAME. Andrew Jay, banker, was born at Waukesha, Wis., Feb. 19, 1844, son of Maxwell and Jane (Aitken) Frame, both natives of Scotland. His father, a blacksmith, came from Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1836, and after a short stay in New York state settled in Waukesha (then Prairieville), Wis., in 1840, where be died at the age of thirty. His son Andrew was educated in the public schools of his native place, and in the spring of 1862 became office boy in the Waukesha County Bank. He soon rose to the position of bookkeeper, then to that of teller, and in 1865 was made assistant cashier. The bank was reorganized as a national bank May 8, 1865, and Mr. Frame became cashier. He was then but twenty-one years of age.

The bank had a capital of $50,000, which, on account of losses, was seriously impaired, but under his management the value of the stock steadily increased until it reached par, when semi-annual dividends were resumed and have been paid regularly ever since. The bank now (1900) has a capital of $150,000, a surplus of $65,000 and a deposit line of $1,200,000, as against one-twentieth of that amount in 1866. It has a larger volume of deposits in proportion to the population of the city than any other bank in Wisconsin. Mr. Frame became director in 1869 and president in 1880. Since 1866 he has been its chief executive officer. His " Money and Wealth," "Banking and Currency Reform" and "True vs. False Currency Reform " have given him the reputation of being the clearest writer on financial topics in the state of Wisconsin. Although he has taken no active part in politics, Mr. Frame has always been a consistent Republican.

He has been director and president of the Gas, Electric Light and Water Works companies; president of the Spring City Hotel Co.; a member of the board of education for twenty-seven years and of late years its president; trustee of Carroll College; member of the executive committee of the Wisconsin Bankers' Association and at one time its president; also was vice-president for Wisconsin of the American Bankers' Association of the United States. He is a Knight Templar; a member of the Waukesha Club, and has been prominent in fraternal and social circles.

Mr. Frame was married, Aug. 25, 1869, to Emma J., only child of Hon. Silas Richardson, of Waukesha, who is descended from Gen. Israel Putnam. Mrs. Frame was a native of Vermont, but removed with her parents, in 1856, to Wisconsin. They have four children, three sous and one daughter.

MR. & MRS. NICHOLAS FREDERICK

Source: Unknown

A Golden Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Frederick of the town of Menomonee celebrated the
golden anniversary of their wedding November 20, 1900. Mrs. Frederick's
maiden name was Grode and she was born inn Hessen Darmstadt Dec 24, 1829.
Her husband was born in Europe March 15, 1827. They early settled on a farm
in the town of Menomonee . They have seven children and twenty
grandchildren, one of whom is Mrs. Joseph Neu of this city. All were present
at the celebration. The house was beautifully decorated for the occasion
with arches and wreaths of evergreen while mottoes of gold letters
ornamented the walls.

The ceremonies began at nine o'clock in St. Antonius' church at Fussville.
Miss Adelia Hahn acted as bridesmaid and Albert Gebhard as best man. Lena
Frederick carried the golden wreath, assisted by Mamie and Barbara Gundrum.
These five were grandchildren. Reverend Zimmer of Beaver Dam, a nephew of
Mr. Frederick, said mass, Rev. July of New Cassel acting as deacon, Rev.
Schaaf of Fussville sub-deacon, and Rev. Olif of Cedarburg master of
ceremonies. About two hundred guests were present and gave the aged couple a
great many handsome gifts.

RASMUS FREDERICKSON

Source: Unknown

Rasmus Frederickson, proprietor of the Angeler's Inn and owner of the North Lake brewery, was born in Lollard, Denmark, April 9, 1837 a son of Frederick and Kirsten (Rassmussen) of the same place. The father was a farmer and the parents lived and died in their native land. They had only two children. Rasmus came to this country and in company with Christian Hanson started a small brewery at North Lake in 1866. Two years later Mr. Frederickson bought out his partner and continued to manufacture beer to the present time. In 1886 he built the hotel known as the Angler's Inn, which is a popular summer resort on the shore of North Lake, and has also a beautiful summer home on the same lake. In addition to his other business ventures, Mr. Frederickson owned the elevator at North Lake for five years and bought and sold grain. He has also been postmaster at that place for thirty-four years. In politics he is independent and the family belongs to the Episcopal church. Mr. Frederickson was married Dec. 25, 1862, to Mrs. Ruth Wade, daughter of William and Elizabeth Teague and widow of Wilkinson Wade, all of Shropshire, England. They have no children. Mr. Frederickson started in life with no other capital than his youthful energy and determination to overcome obstacles, and has achieved his success in life by the exercise of those facilities.

E.H. FULLER

Source: Unknown

E.H. Fuller, son of Norman C. and Eliza (Larimore) Fuller, both natives of Ireland, was born in Castile, Wyoming county, N.Y., on Jan. 27, 1848. The father came to Wisconsin in 1865 and settled on a farm in Merton township, where he resided until his death in 1886. His second wife died in 1850, before the removal of the family to Wisconsin. E.H. Fuller remained with his father until he was twenty-one years of age when he married, rented a farm and made a home of his own. Later he bought a farm in the town of Merton, where he lived until 1903, when he sold the property, moved to Hartland, built a large barn, 40 by 60 feet, and engaged in the livery business with Mr. Wittenberg. Upon the failure of health he turned the business over to his son-in-law, who was already the proprietor of a livery stable in the village. Mr. Fuller was married on Feb. 4, 1871, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Gavitt, a native of Merton township, and the daughter of James M and Sophronia (Alton) Gavitt, both of Irish descent. The father-in-law was a very early settler of that township, was prominent in local politics, having served as assessor and in other offices, being politically a supporter of the Democratic party. Both parents are now deceased. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, the first having died in infancy. The second, Edna, is now the wife of C.H. Wittenberg, a liveryman in Hartland and they have one son, Edwin Gustav. Mr. Fuller has taken an active part in all public affairs of the community, though he has not cared to take public office, having served only as a member for the board of side supervisors. In politics he is a Democrat. He is not a member of any church, though his parents were Baptists. He belongs to the order of Modern Woodmen and has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since he was twenty-one years of age. Now retired from active labor, he and his wife are enjoying the results of the many years of industry on the modern farm.

JOHN FUSS

John Fuss, of Fussville, was born in Menomonee township, Oct. 3, 1846, and is the eldest of the two children of Henry and Christina (Esser) Fuss, natives of Germany. The sister, Clara, now Mrs. Birkhauser, married a farmer and also resides in Menomonee. Henry Fuss, after whom the village of Fussville is named, came to Wisconsin in 1844, and secured 160 acres of wild land from the government. He married after coming to this county, cleared his land and made a home in the wilderness. Like others of the time, he cleared his land of the fine trees with which it was covered and burned thousands of feet of hardwood timber, which could be at the present time so highly prized and of great commercial value. This farm continued to be the home of the pioneer until his death in 1864, although he had sold a portion of it. His wife died in 1886. John Fuss received his educational training in part from the public schools of Menomonee township and in part from the Catholic school. His wife whom he married June 14, 1881, received a similar educational training. Mrs. Fuss was Miss G. Jane Birkhauser, and was born in Germany, June 9, 1848, the daughter of Adolph and Gertrude Birkhauser. She was eight months old at the time of immigration of the family ot(sic) America. The father was a brewer at the Cologne-on-the-Rhine, Germany. When he came to Wisconsin in 1849, he bought a farm, and started a brewery, to which he turned his attention until his death. He died in 1850 and his wife in 1888. The farm which they cleared in the wilderness is now the home of their daughter, Mrs. Fuss, and her family. There were nine children in the Birkhauser family, seven of whom are living: Anna Mary Jordan, now a widow of seventy-one years of age, resides in Milwaukee; William Peter, resides in California; Peter William, deceased, was a resident of Omaha and a dealer in real estate; Joducus Adolph is a priest of the Catholic church, is chaplain for the Dominican sisters and resides in Racine; Lizzie, Mrs. Snider, died in Nebraska; Joseph, a farmer, resides at Calvary near Fond du lac; Mary Ann is a sister in the convent of St. Francis, Milwaukee county; the eighth child is the wife of the subject of this sketch; the youngest of the family, Charles G., is also a resident of the town of Menomonee. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. John Fuss: John J., who died at the age of ten years, and Carl H., who is unmarried and resides with his parents. The family is connected with the Catholic church and the political affiliations of Mr. Fuss are with the Democratic party, although he has entered into the domain of politics and has never aspired to office holding for himself. Upon the fine farm of 132 acres Mr. Fuss built, in 1893 the large and comfortable farm-house, in which he and his estimable wife now live, practically retried from the more active duties of life. The farm will sometime be turned over to their son, Carl H. Fuss, now twenty-two years of age and the only child of the family.