History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley, by Merton Edwin Krug, Publ. February 1929 by the author. Printed by Democrat Printing Company, Madison, Wis., Page 389-411

We have seen, in Part I, how, in the spring of 1849, Alexander LOCKE abandoned his village dwelling - Shanty No. 4, of Shanty Row fame - and moved with his family into the wilderness north of the village, where he erected a rude log house, the first structure in the township of Winfield, in April 1849. The site of this log abode was west of the road, where the barn now stands, on the farm recently vacated by Mr. Lloyd BREENE, at the present time owned by Mr. Wm. BREENE, hard by the south Winfield town line. Here it was that his daughter, Harriet LOCKE, in 1850, was born, the first birth in the town, and that a daughter Phoebe LOCKE died, August 28, 1850, the first death in the township. Phoebe LOCKE was interred in the cemetery plot set aside by David C. REED, within the village, but when the Greenwood Cemetery was established in 1855, her remains were moved thence, where her grave can be found today, marked by a simple white marble slab.

The history of Winfield begins, then, in April 1849; and within a few years we find the community settled by many settlers of many nationalities of many religions.

Contemporaneous with Mr. LOCKE's settling here, was the coming of Alfred F. LEONARD and George HUFFNAIL. They were married men, but came here unaccompanied by their wives, who eventually joined them. They staked a claim adjoining Mr. LOCKE's on the north, the tract of land recently vacated by the Guy DAVIS family, where they erected a rude log house in which to live. The house is said to have been very rude, indeed, with neither doors nor windows. A strip of crude fabric was hung at the doorway to separate the inside of the house from the great out-of-doors.

During their temporary bachelorhood these men did their own cooking, and were persistently annoyed by the Indians, who begged or borrowed everything they possessed. At first it was thought best to conciliate the natives by acceding to their demands; but the begging continued and the settlers soon found that they must stop giving or be without needed articles themselves. They had given enough to make the Indians very persistent, so persistent that Mr. LEONARD (lost patience) and decided to be rid of them. The next morning he armed himself with bowie knives and pistols and went about his work with darkly threatening brow. The Indians made their daily visit as usual, but for the first time of all they omitted the begging. They gathered in little groups some little distance away, gesturing and talking; they even approached Mr. LEONARD and examined the knives and pistols, without expressing the slightest want. Finally they went away.

The inmates of the cabin, it must be said, were a little anxious concerning the results of the strategy. And that night the blanket hung at the door seemed to hang between themselves and danger. It was not a very pleasant reflection. In fact, that same night, they were terrified by an unusual disturbance, as though a band of Indians were drawing near.

"The tumult", reads an article, Pioneers of the Old School, published in the Wisconsin Agriculturist, March 3, 1829, "grew loud and close, then faint and far, as though the band had receded to wait a more favorable moment for attack. Throughout that long, terrible night Mr. HUFFNAIL and Mr. LEONARD sat on the edge of their bed, pistols in hand, ready to fire at the first "Redskin" who dared to attack. Came the dawn! A drove of Indian ponies, broken from confinement, hovered in the shade of trees, a short distance away. The Indians dwelt to the north of them."

Mr. LEONARD died in 1851, but Mr. HUFFNAIL and his family continued to occupy the farm for many years.

Probably the next man to come to Winfield, with intentions of settling, was a certain Mr. DUNCAN, who broke land, June 1, 1849, on the farm now owned by Harry POWELL, said to have been the first land broken in the town.

On the 13th day of June 1849, Mr. Silas J. SEYMOUR, a pioneer of Dellona, found a party eating dinner by a log fire on the farm now owned by Edwin K. FISH. The party was comprised of Mr. William ANDREWS, his two sons and son-in-law, Mr. MILLS. "They had come up from Baraboo," reads the Story of the Years, published in the Reedsburg Times last spring (1928), "With Mr. NOYSE the day before, and spent the night there. They had not built a house yet, but soon did build one, which Mr. SEYMOUR helped raise.

"Mr. MILLS began about the same time to build a house on the grant of land owned by him to the north, on the farm now known perhaps most widely, as the Dell KELLEY farm; but while at work on it he had the misfortune to cut one of his legs severely and was unable to finish his dwelling. His tract was taken over by Mr. John CARLISLE."

Mr. CARLISLE, a native of Old Erin, had previously been engaged in lumbering on the Wisconsin river, to which occupation he returned soon after taking over Mr. MILLS' tract. He was at that time a single man.

In 1853 he went to California, returned in 1857 to his land, married Miss Mary McCRAY in 1857, and they spent half a century on that tract which was, during this period, developed into a fine Winfield farm homestead, where hospitality was ever demonstrated. The CARLISLES had four children, one of whom, Matie, married Adelbert KELLEY. Mr. KELLEY occupied the farm after Mr. CARLISLE, but is now retired;; and his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. CASSITY, own it.

Little, indeed, is known of the settlers of 1850, John FLYNN, a veteran of the War of 1812, received a large grant of land, several hundred acres, and built a dwelling on the northern part of it, which is now known as the RISKE place. Peter GOLDEN is said to have taken up land this year also, the old Charles R. KELLEY place, now owned by Mr. Will KELLEY. On this land he came to live, erected a log dwelling house and, later, got out logs for a schoolhouse. However, this was never put up.

Joseph SWETLAND was the first known settler of southeastern Winfield, a native of Pennsylvania, where he married Hester Ann MILLER, came to Winfield in 1850, and settled on the farm now owned by Charles POWELL, where he afterward resided. They had a son, George, who married Emma Caroline FOSNOT, pioneer on Babb's Prairie in 1850, and remained on the homestead for several years, subsequently going to Reedsburg, where he still resides. George and Emma SWETLAND had a daughter Bernice, who married James O'CONNER, and resides in Winfield.

John PELTON and family, including his sons, George, Hiram and Charles, were the first of the settlers to hail directly from New York State. They came in 1850 and settled on the extreme southeast of the township. Of these three sons, Hiram was already married and brought with him, his wife. George PELTON married (1854) Phoebe MONTROSS and settled on the farm now owned, and recently vacated by their son, Montross PELTON. Charles PELTON married (1857) Miss Nancy M. OAKES, and they began life together on the farm now owned and occupied by Alvin CLARIDGE.

Many settlers came in the spring of 1851. Mr. LACHLAN McINTOSH was one of these. He came from Scotland in 1841, in company with his parents, James and Anna (BURNS) McINTOSH, his parents being natives of Paisley, Scotland, the mother said to have been a relative of Robert BURNS, the poet. The family located at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where Lachlan married Catherine CAMERON (1850), coming immediately after their marriage to Winfield, settling on the farm now owned by Clinton KELLEY. James McINTOSH was also a pioneer of that year, and removed here with his entire family, including, besides Lachlan, the following four children, Mary, Joseph, Anna and Elizabeth, all of whom spent their first years in Winfield. Anna was one of the first school teachers of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Lachlan McINTOSH had ten children, all of whom were born in Winfield: Margaret, died in childhood; James, married Alice SOUTHERLY, and lived in Minnesota; Annie, married Eugene MONTGOMERY, and died in middle life; Catharine (Mrs. George THAYER, Reedsburg); Thomas, married Lina LINCOLN, and now is Assistant Attorney General, Madison; Jeannette, who married Anthony WINKLER of Reedsburg; Lizzie (Mrs. A. L. KLEEBER), Winfield; John, married Edith PATTERSON, of Chicago; and Miss May McINTOSH of Reedsburg.

Mary, daughter of James and Anna McINTOSH, married Mr. Edward HEMMINGWAY, and they came at that time also. Mr. HEMMINGWAY was a native of England, immigrating to America with his parents in 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Edward HEMMINGWAY had a large family, three members of which, Mrs. Frank HOUGHTON. James and Edward have always been active members of the community.

The Robert GREENWOOD, Sr. family were other settlers of 1851. They came from England in 1847, remained in the east some time, then came to Racine County, Wisconsin, and thence to Winfield. Of his children, three became widely known in this vicinity, Elizabeth, who married E. G. GREGORY, son of Ezra GREGORY, the pioneer of that family in Winfield; Miles, who married Mary CAMERON and settled in Winfield and Robert GREENWOOD, Jr.

Robert GREENWOOD, Jr. married Evaline MILLER, daughter of Heman and Elizabeth (DARROW) MILLER, the mother, daughter of Henry A. DARROW, pioneer of 1852, and had a large family, four of his sons now being residents of Winfield. Benjamin, married Eva HEMMINGWAY, daughter of James HEMMINGWAY, living on the farm her father spent his active life upon; Joseph, who has a farm adjoining the old Frank HOUGHTON farm in Winfield, married to Bertha WACHHOLTZ; Que, a Winfield farmer, married Vera LEAK; George, who married Helen FRAZIER of Valton, now a local farmer; Evan, wife of Earl CRAKER; Vesta, wife of Ray LAWTON, La Farge, Wisconsin; Carrie, wife of Frank FINCK, Reedsburg.

George F. LAWSON was another of the settlers of 1851, a native of Nottingham, England, veteran of the Seminole War. Other settlers of that year were Ezra MARTINDALE and his family. Mr. MARTINDALE was a native of Lower Canada, born in the year 1800, son of James MARTINDALE. His wife, whom he married in Hopkinton, N.Y., was Thankfull Horton SIMONDS, and they were the parents of five children, Delia Sophia, died long before the family came to Winfield, George Edward, who died early; Laura Adelia, who married N. O. HUNT of Reedsburg, Weltha Maria; and Mary Emeline, one of Sauk County's most prominent school teachers, who later married James S. WORTHMAN, and now resides at Baraboo, aged eighty-nine years. The MARTINDALE family lived on the farm now owned by Walter E. FISH, which farm they sold about 1872 to Mr. Ira CHURCHILL.

Other settlers of 1851 were S. C. MILLARD, on the farm now owned by John R. DAVIS; Truman SAFFORD, on the farm now owned by George DARROW; and Ezra GREGORY, on the farm now owned by W. H. KRUG.

Ezra GREGORY, a native of Ohio, was an old Colonial family, and his father, native of an eastern state, was a Revolutionary soldier. This soldier, having received a grant of land for his martial services, moved his family to Ohio, at an early date. On this farm Ezra grew to manhood and married. In 1851 the family settled in Winfield, where they remained until 1870. There were in the Ezra GREGORY family, among others, five children: John, Malinda, Ezra, Irvin and Annie. John eventually married and went to Kansas, but his family remained in the locality, and a daughter, Louise, married John COOK and lives at North Freedom. Ezra married and located on Millard's Prairie near Elroy. Irvin married Elizabeth GREENWOOD, daughter of Robert GREENWOOD, Sr., and located near Reedsburg, on a farm two and one-half miles southwest of the city. His son, James GREGORY of recent memory, married Jennie FAIVRE, of Ironton, and resided on a farm within the township of Reedsburg. Annie, the youngest daughter of Ezra GREGORY, married, while the family lived in Ohio, Myron MILLS. Mr. and Mrs. MILLS accompanied her people to Winfield, and settled on an adjacent farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra GREGORY resided in Winfield until 1870, when they rented their farm to William KRUG, Sr., who purchased it three years later.

Myron MILLS, who during his early years as a sailor on Lake Erie, left a numerous progeny at his death. Two of his children, Olive and Orson, were born in Ohio, and one other, Alvira, was a native of Winfield. After residing a few years in Winfield, Myron MILLS moved to Juneau County, where he afterward resided. The son, Orson, married Lodema LUKE, of Elroy, and settled in that vicinity. His daughter, Effie, married David BENNETT of Winfield.

Mr. BENNETT's father, conveniently mentioned at this time, was William J. BENNETT, who located land in the township prior to the Civil War, but did not move his family hither until 1871. Part of his land is now within the confines of the David BENNETT farm. William J. BENNETT, a native of Old Erin, was of Scotch descent, and came to America, at the age of 13, in 1844. In New York he was met by several brothers who had come across some time before. William J. BENNETT remained in the East same time, grew to manhood and married there, Mary McKNIGHT, a lady of Scotch descent. From New York they moved to Milwaukee and from thence to Winfield. They were the parents of several children, but David, born in Milwaukee, is the only local representative. David BENNETT is assisted on the Winfield farm by his two sons, Arthur and Frank BENNETT.

The year of 1852 brought many permanent settlers to Winfield. Of these the Hiram FULLER family was probably the first, the date of their arrival being given as February 12th. They settled on the farm now occupied by Victor CRAKER. They were natives of the East and descendants of Edward FULLER, a Mayflower Pilgrim. There were many children, two of whom became prominent people of Winfield, Clayton, who married Ellen KELLEY, and occupied the old homestead, and whose daughter, Clara, Mrs. Lewis HYZER, resides in Reedsburg; and Artimas, who married Harriet KELLEY, and settled on property now owned by William WAGNER. Artimas's son, John D. FULLER, now owns the Edwin KELLEY farm, a daughter, Belle, being the wife of Wilbert DOUGLAS, resides in Reedsburg.

Another family to come that February was that of Mr. Jesse COTTINGTON. They came hither from Bloomfield, N.Y., and were of English nativity. They settled on a farm they sold about 1873 to Samuel SKINNER, and which is now owned by Mr. W. H. SKINNER; and here in 1852, they planted the first hop roots in Sauk County. This is fully treated elsewhere. Jesse COTTINGTON's son, Amos, married Almina FISH, daughter of Elisha and Polly (KING) FISH, and located on the farm her mother, Mrs. Polly King FISH, settled at a very early date (1856). This farm passed from Amos COTTINGTON to his son, Orna E. Orna E. COTTINGTON married Adelia DARROW, and upon his death, Nov. 18, 1928, the farm passed to his family.

Another family to come that spring was that of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. DARROW, whose progeny is more numerous in the town at the present time than that of any other of the pioneers. They had come to Dellona the fall previous, from Walworth County, where they had resided since 1839. Previous to this they had lived in Ohio, going there from New York in 1832. Mrs. DARROW, whose maiden name was Luceba DANN, was a granddaughter of Colonel RALL, the Hessian general who commanded the Hessian troops at the Battle of Trenton. It will do to recall that it was to attack Colonel RALL that Washington made his historical crossing of the Delaware, Christmas night, 1776. The DARROW-DANN genealogy is printed elsewhere in this work.

Henry Ammiras DARROW settled on the farm now owned an occupied by Robert N. CASSITY. They had acquired the farm through the sale of their Walworth County property, it having had a previous homesteader, and they found upon it a rude log house. But the DARROW family being large, they soon reared a more commodious frame house. The family at that time consisted of thirteen members: Mr. and Mrs. DARROW, eight unmarried children, Adelia, H. Ammiras, Nathaniel, Sarah, Albert, George, Caroline and John, and Elizabeth, the oldest, who, with her husband, Heman MILLER and their daughter, Evaline, completed the party. Another DARROW girl, Phoebe, came to Winfield later. If thirteen is misfortune for some it certainly was not for this family. For Mr. and Mrs. DARROW lived to see seven of their children comfortably situated on Winfield farms, all within an area of less than three miles. Nathaniel DARROW married Elnora CAMPBELL and occupied the home place, and upon his death it passed to its present owner, Mr. R. N. CASSITY. H. Ammiras settled the farm now owned by Jesse W. CHRUCHILL, son of Ira, previously mentioned, and died unmarried; and George DARROW bought the Truman SAFFORD farm about 1871, which farm he still retains. He married Ida POWELL, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (FISH) POWELL; they had a large family of children: Cora, wife of Floyd WEBSTER, Elkhorn, Wisconsin; Edith, (Mrs. Leigh SEAMANS), Lime Ridge; Howard, Idaho; Thomas Henry (Dick); Burr, Pennsylvania; Adelin, widow of the late Orna E. COTTINGTON, now of Reedsburg; Floyd, Chippewa, Wisconsin; Stanley, Chippewa, Wis.; and Harold, married to Lillian RHODAWALD, resident of Reedsburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Heman MILLER had a number of children besides Evaline, who married Robert GREENWOOD, Jr. Among them were: Henry, of recent local memory; Lucinda, who married E. CASSITY, and whose children, Robert N., Cassity and Elizabeth (Mrs. Charles W. RADLOFF), are of local residence; George, Nathaniel, Silas, Harvey, Arthur, John, William.

We will mention the four maiden daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. DARROW a little later.

Thomas SENOGLES and family came in July 1582. They were natives of England. They had several children, one of whom, Emma, married John DARROW and went with him to Barron County. She died shortly after and he married another daughter, Emma SENOGLES, who, with him still resides at that place. Lavina, another daughter, married Will NEWMAN, and a daughter, Mary, is the wife of Herbert L. FISH, Woodstock, Ill. The SENOGLE family settled first on land north of the Henry A. DARROW farm, but will be remembered by contemporary people as living on land south of the present S. C. FISH farm.

A little later we see Samuel MONTROSS and wife, Lydia, daughter Phoebe (later Mrs. George PELTON) and son Enos L. MONTROSS and wife (nee Sally Ann PELTON, daughter of John and Sarah (HINKLEY) PELTON) coming up the Glen Valley trail with ox teams, and stopping there in the wilderness in the southeastern part of the township. Then we see them starting off to Reedsburg to get lumber, see them bringing it back to their land and erecting a frame house. This was the first frame house in the town of Winfield. The MONTROSS family was from the Hudson River country, although Mrs. MONTROSS, whose maiden name was Lydia RAYMOND, was a native of New Canaan, Conn. She was the first representative of the old RAYMOND family of that place to come to Wisconsin. The MONTROSS farm was that which was later owned by Enos L. MONTROSS and now owned by Montross PELTON, a grandson of Samuel and Lydia.

Mr. and Mrs. George CARLISLE, the latter a brother of John CARLISLE, previously mentioned, were also among the settlers of that year. They settled the farm now occupied by V. A. HEWITT. By this time John HARP had bought out Mr. DUNCAN, and moved onto the farm.

The first school taught in the town was a private one in Mr. LOCKE's dwelling on Hay Creek. It was conducted by Miss Pamelia COLE, in the original shanty. Mr. LOCKE built in 1849. In one of her old letters Miss COLE relates an incident that bears testimony to the hazards of the day. It was in the fall of 1851, also there was a rainstorm. The roof was so poor that she was obliged to get the children hovered into one corner of the room and hold an umbrella over their heads to keep them from getting wet. Mr. COLE was a daughter of Alwrothy COLE, a pioneer of the year 1849 in the town of Excelsior.

The first district school was organized in the spring of 1852. A frame schoolhouse, 16 x 16 feet, with an 8 foot ceiling, was erected and stood some distance south of Mr. MARTINDALE's dwelling, just south of where Mr. RANSOM's house now stands. "Prominent among its instigators," reads the Onward March, history of the school district, printed in the Free Press, December 1927, "was Jesse COTTINGTON, who helped build it; but Mr. LOCKE, Mr. PELTON, Mr. HUFFNAIL, Mr. MARTINDALE, Mr. GERGORY and S. C. MILLARD appear with equal prominence in its early annals." Miss Esther SMITH, who later married Jonathan NYE, was its first teacher. She was born Feb. 19, 1831, at Hopkinton, St. Lawrence Co., N.W. came with her parents to Excelsior, in 1850, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie SCHULTIS, Dec. 25, 1918. Other early teachers in the school were Frances MARROW, Maria BICKNELL, Alfred LAWTON and Sarah SHAW. The original schoolhouse stood until 1867. Then the present site was acquired and a more ample structure erected which stood until November 1917, when the present school edifice was erected, at a cost of $3,000. Miss Lillie SPARKS, who taught four years, 1915, 16, 17, 18, served the longest period of any teacher in the school. Miss Lucile SQUIRES is the present teacher. This school district is Hay Creek School District No. 1, Winfield.

District No. 2 was founded that same year, Oct. 7, 1582, with William ANDREWS, Clerk; Truman C. SAFFORD, Director; and Henry A. DARROW, Treasurer. However, Mr. DARROW did not incline to the office and at a special meeting November 11, Thomas SENOGLES was appointed to fill the vacancy. Miss Climeda D. HASTINGS was the first teacher. This schoolhouse, which was also a frame structure, became a Congregational Mission, services being conducted there frequently by the Rev. S. A. DWINNEL. The teachers following Miss HASTINGS were Anna McINTOSH, 1853, Harriet PATTERN, Amelia STUTSON, C. INGRAM, and Adelia DARROW. Adelia DARROW taught the summer term of 1855. We are indebted to Adelia DARROW (now Mrs. Elias FISH), of Woodstock, Ill., for much of this data. Mrs. FISH is now in her ninety-fourth year.

School District No. 3 was organized in the spring of 1853, Miss Corilla HOUGHTON, daughter of Solomon HOUGHTON, was the first teacher. On the early history of this school Mrs. Frank HOUGHTON (Elisabeth HEMMINGWAY) said, "It was a log schoolhouse, neither chinked nor plastered. It was located in the valley between the present homes of John MONTGOMERY and Ben GREENWOOD, where it remained about two years. Then it was moved to the present site, where it was nearer to the center of the district." Some of the first pupils were Maggie, James, Miles and Jane McINTOSH; Susan, Lydia, George and Lizzie LAWSON; Elizabeth HEMMINGWAY; Margaret and Mathew FLYNN; Maria, John and Frank HOUGHTON. The second teacher was Mina SOUL; the third, Emeline MARTINDALE.

The settlers of 1853 were Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCRAY and family. Mrs. McCRAY, whose maiden name was Sarah McGOOKIN, was a sister of Mrs. George CARLISLE; and the families were of Irish birth, of Scotch-Irish descent. The McCRAY family settled on land which is now within the S. C. FISH farm. There were in this family several children, Mary (later Mrs. John CARLISLE), John, Ellen, Eliza (Mrs. Robert HUNTER), Mathilda and George.

Elias R. FISH came likewise in 1853. He was the forerunner of the FISH family whose descendants are so numerous in the town, although his (Elias') descendants have long since gone from these parts. He laid claim to a large property, what now comprises both the Albert WAGNER farm and that owned by Mr. Chas. DeBEIR. He shared his claim with his brother, Spencer Caleb FISH, who came from New York the following spring, 1854. Spencer Caleb FISH returned to the East in the spring of 1855, married Miss Mary J. FISH, his second cousin, and they began housekeeping on the Albert WAGNER place. Their children were Edgar, Woodstock, Ill.; Orton, Washington; and Mina, widow of Silas HAND, Madison, Wis. Elias retained the DeBEIR farm and upon his marriage, Feb. 24, 1858, to Adelia DARROW, made that his home. Some years later, about 1870, his house burned to the ground, causing him much loss. Within a few years he sold his farm and moved to Sparta, where the rest of his life was spent. Despite her advanced age, Adelia has always enjoyed the use of her faculties to a marvelous degree, and last summer, 1928, she related to relatives who visited her at her Woodstock home, an incident in her young life that occurred when the family was living in Mecca, Ohio, over ninety years ago.

Another settler of 1854 was Nathaniel STILLICK. He settled on the farm now occupied by Albert KUTZ. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Frances RAYMOND, was a niece of Mrs. Samuel MONTROSS. She was the second of the RAYMONDS to settle in Winfield. The Samuel WELCH family also came at that time, settling on the Riley STONE farm.

When Spencer Caleb FISH returned from New York with his bride he was accompanied hither by his father's family, in May 1855. This was the Silas FISH family, and they took up residence on the William ANDREWS farm, which place they purchased, the ANDREWS family moving to Minnesota. Silas FISH, who was a native of Albany County, N.Y., was a representative of the old FISH family of Providence, R.I., in which place the first of the family had settled as early as 1636. Through maternal connections, through the intervening generations, Silas FISH was thrice descended from Puritan forefathers. Mrs. FISH, whose maiden name was Betsy RAYMOND, was a sister of Mrs. MONTROSS, and was the third of her family to come to Winfield. Mr. and Mrs. FISH were the parents of a large family of children, all of whom were intimately connected with the pioneer days of Winfield. The children, besides those already mentioned were, Lewis, Jasper, Emma Jane, Lucius, Elbert and Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas POWELL), the oldest.

Mr. Thomas POWELL, who came at that time, was a native of New York, and of Welsh extraction. He married Elizabeth FISH in Green County, N.Y., and two of their children, Charles POWELL of Reedsburg, and Ida (Mrs. George DARROW), were born in the East. Mr. POWELL bought the DUNCAN place of Mr. John HARP, and it was there that he settled and spent his life. His children, Clarence, Charles, Edgar, Ida (Mrs. George DARROW) and Alden became farmers of Winfield, and the last named occupied the homestead, which is now owned and occupied by his (Alden's) son, Harry E. POWELL. Clarence POWELL married Edna COTTINGTON, daughter of Charles PELTON, Sr., and they settled on the original John PELTON farm. Their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Henry SCHROEDER, now occupy the farm. Edgar POWELL married Mary HIRT and lived for many years on the old Spencer Caleb FISH farm which was sold to Albert WAGNER, when they retired.

Jasper FISH married Temperance HAND. Her mother was a RAYMOND girl also, and they settled on what is now the S. C. FISH farm. Lewis FISH married Sarah DARROW and purchased his brother Jasper's farm, the latter moving his family in 1869 to Walworth County. Lewis and Sarah FISH had nine children: Ida, George, Edwin, Jasper, Emma, Walter, Mary, Spencer (S. C.) and Blanche. Ida died in infancy. George married Sadie MONTGOMERY of Excelsior, and settled near Kilbourn. Edwin married Rhoda LAWTON and bought the ANDREWS place some years after the death of his grandfather, Silas FISH, and still owns it. (it is occupied by his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer MITTLESTEADT). Emma married Emmet CATLIN of Dellona, and moved to Walworth County. Walter married Hattie WHEELER and purchased the old MARTINDALE property of Ira CHURCHILL who acquired it about 1870 of Mr. MARTINDALE. Mary married William H. KRUG, and resides in Winfield. Spencer (S. C. ) married Nellie MULLIGAN of Dellona and occupies the home place of Lewis FISH. Blanche married Albert MESSENGER and moved to Hillsdale, Oklahoma.

Elbert FISH married Ellen McCRAY and settled on the George CARLISLE farm. They had several children, three of whom survive: Earl, a prominent farmer of Excelsior, Lizzie (Mrs. Milton PERRY, Reedsburg); and Ada, who married Vern A. HEWITT. Mr. and Mrs. HEWITT now occupy the home place.

Lucius FISH married Phoebe DARROW and settled on the farm now owned by Charles W. RADLOFF. After a few years spent on that farm they moved to Barron County where she died, and where he still resides. In 1869, when he moved away, Mr. Louis SHERMAN, son of William and Elizabeth (STAR) SHERMAN, married Caroline DARROW, and bought the farm. Mr. and Mrs. SHERMAN had four children, Flora and Willie (deceased), Della (Mrs. Jesse CHURCHILL), and Ida Belle (Mrs. RATHBUN) of Minnesota.

The Charles R. KELLEY family is said to have come within a very few weeks after the Silas FISH family. They settled on land originally taken up by Peter GOLDEN. Mr. KELLEY was of an old Dover, Massachusetts family, to which town his ancestors came in Cromwell's time, while his wife, whose maiden name was Eliza J. DARBORN, was a cousin of General DEARBORN, celebrated hero of the War of 1812. The Charles R. KELLEY family consisted of eight children, Edwin, Eliza, George, LaFayette, Ellen, Harriet, Bell and William. Three other children were born in Winfield; Freemont, Herbert, and Adelbert.

Edwin KELLEY married Emma Jane FISH and settled on the farm now owned by John D. FULLER. No person in Hay Creek Valley, belonging to the generation of our fathers and mothers was unfamiliar with the appellation, "Aunt Em" and the benevolent spirit of this beloved neighborhood friend. George KELLEY married Amanda ROOT and resided for many years in Winfield, and had two daughters, Emma married Ed. SNYDER and Mina, wife of Ed. THOM, both of Reedsburg. LaFayette KELLEY married Elizabeth EMPSTER and located in central Winfield, where their entire lives were spent. They had eleven children, three of whom have been closely allied with Winfield life, James, who married Ida CORBIN, and had three children; Clinton of Winfield; Harold of Mauston and Ruth (Mrs. Frank WAGNER) of Winfield; and LaFayette (Lafe) and Ella, who still occupy the home place. William L. KELLEY married Mate O'CONNER, and occupies the homestead, they have one son Carroll who resides at home; Freemont KELLEY married Ida CARLEY, lived in Reedsburg and had two children. Arthur, who married Nellie O'CONNER and resides in Reedsburg, and Irma (Mrs. Otto HEIMER); Adelbert KELLEY married Matie CARLISLE, daughter of John CARLISLE; they had one daughter, Ethel, wife of R. N. CASSITY.

Another family of 1855 was that of Solomon T. HOUGHTON. Mr. HOUGHTON was a native of Caledonia County, Vt., whence he went to Waterville, Maine, where he married Catherine ALBEE in 1837. Upon coming to Winfield he located on the farm now owned by George GREENWOOD. There were four children: Corrilla (who married V. B. CLARK and went to Minneapolis); John C. (who married Annie MAVOR and went to Nebraska); Maria S.; and Frank T. HOUGHTON, who married Elizabeth HEMMINGWAY and resided on the Winfield farm.

August KLEEBER came about this time also. He, a native of Wittenburg, Germany, came to America in 1845, stopped at Albany, where, in 1852, he married Maria HART, a native of that place, and one child Emeline was born there. This family located on the Henry WAGNER farm, where four more children were born: Leonard; August, married Elizabeth McINTOSH, Winfield; Julia, married Louis STRUBEING, and removed to Oshkosh, Wisconsin; and John, now a dentist of Madison.

The year 1856 brought several more families into southeastern Winfield. John JACKSON and wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth CROFT, came that year, English immigrants of 1845, and the progenitors of their name in this respective community. Then there was a Mr. Reese DAVIS and his family; and the family of his brother-in-law, David RANSOM. The former settled back in the broad valley, east of the RANSOM place, which farm he later exchanged with Mr. VICKERS for the John R. DAVIS property. Reese DAVIS and wife whose maiden name was Eliza Ann SEYMOUR, were the parents of two children, Inez Adell, who died in early childhood, and John R. DAVIS. This gentleman, a contemporary farmer of the town, married Jennie O'CONNELL, who is of French-Canadian ancestry and has two children, Justin and Inez. Inez, who married in Germany, Mr. Paul RICHTER, is a very gifted singer and accomplished musician and has spent many years of her life on the operatic stage in Europe and America. At present she lives in Minneapolis.

The David RANSOM family settled on the farm still maintained by his widow, Mrs. Harriet Davis RANSOM, who is one of the few surviving members of a passing generation. She resides with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank BROOKS, who occupy the homestead, and was 98 years of age in November, 1828. Mr. and Mrs. BROOKS have one daughter, Hazel, wife of Arlo GILES, also residing on the home place. Mr. BROOKS' parents, William and Temperance (RAYMOND) BROOKS, settled in the town in 1858 on the farm now owned by another son, Thomas BROOKS. A third son, Raymond BROOKS, married Emma WARD, and occupied property within the town, which still belongs to his widow and daughter Lillie. The latter is the wife of Roy PALMER and they occupy the farm. Temperance Raymond BROOKS was the fifth of the RAYMOND family to settle in the town.

James HIRST, Sr., father of James HIRST, contemporary farmer, is one of the few later settlers we are able to mention here. He and his wife were natives of Yorkshire, England and came to America at an early date, residing in the East until 1865, coming at that time to Winfield, locating in the northern part of the township. Mrs. HIRTS's maiden name was Harriet CROFT. Mr. and Mrs. HIRST were the parents of nine children, two of whom died in England. Of the others we mention: James, married Laura LAWTON; Francis, married Rose TODD - they had two sons, one of whom, Leslie, who married Alice HAWES, resides in Dellona; Lucy married John MONTGOMERY - the MONGOMERYS are local residents; William, married Myrtle VOGEL and resides in Beloit.

Mr. and Mrs. William KRUG settled on the Ezra GREGORY farm in 1871. They were natives of Hanover Province, Germany, and both are now living, retired in Reedsburg. They had five children: Anna, who married Fenton LEICHER of Westfield, and went to Luverne, Minnesota; Bertha, widow of August FRITSCH, Cobb, Wisconsin; William H., who married Mary FISH and resides in Winfield; Hubert D., married Elsie MEYER and resides in Reedsburg; and Walter L., who went to Luverne, Minnesota, where he married and now resides.

Another family of this later period was that of Ira CHURCHILL, he was a native of New York, of English descent, son of Charles and _______ (DAVENPORT) CHURCHILL. He came with his parents to North Prairie, Waukesha County, and there married Jane VICKERS, who was the daughter of John and Mary Ann (BRADLEY) VICKERS, her parents being natives of Lincolnshire, England, coming to America about 1867, locating at Waukesha. In 1872, the VICKERS family came to Winfield settling on the S. C. MILLARD property, which he traded seven years later with Mr. Reese DAVIS for the latter's property at the head of the valley east of the RANSOM place. Mr. and Mrs. VICKERS had one son, Richard VICKERS. He married Emma GREEN and had two daughters: Myrtle, wife of Dwight HUDSON; and Maud, wife of William BINGHAM. Mr. and Mrs. Ira CHURCHILL came to Winfield and purchased the Ezra MARTINDALE property where they resided for many years. Their children were: Mary, wife of George WEBLEY, Reedsburg; and Jessie, who married Della SHERMAN and purchased the H. Ammiras DARROW farm in central Hay Creek Valley.

In 1881 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel SKINNER, natives of England, purchased the Jessie COTTINGTON farm, where they lived for many years. Mrs. SKINNER's maiden name was Priscilla AUDISS. There were five children in the family: Clara, wife of Maurice CARR, Reedsburg; William H., who married Ethel DAVENPORT of Dellona; Arthur of Illinois; and Frank and Ray, who died in childhood. William H. SKINNER retains the old home in Winfield.

Another prominent farmer of a late period was John WADLEIGH. Of the contemporary farmers may be mentioned; Charles W. RADLOFF, Albert WAGNER, William WAGNER, Arthur MASKE, Theodore SCHYVINCK, Frank COLEMAN, Albert KUTZ, Chas. DeBEIR, Chas. KUTZ, John JACKSON, Charles FARBER, Fred STRUTZ, Frank JOHNSON, Albert HAWKINS, Paul MITTLESTEADT, Pat HURLEY, Frank FISHER, Albert RATHMAN, Frank CRAKER, John ZEICK, Charles WESTERWALD, Paul SPARKS, David SPARKS, John SWETLAND, John HORKAN, Pat HORKAN, Walter KIUTZ, Michael HART, Fred FARBER, Fred WACHHOLTZ, Robert GREENWOOD, Giles GREENWOOD, Arthur BIESCK, Stephen LEGMAN, Peter LEGMAN, James GAVIN, Martin HARRINGTON, John HURLEY.

Another early family of Hay Creek Valley was that of Patrick HEALEY who settled on the Truman SAFFORD farm in 1855. He was a native of County Cork, Ireland, came to America in 1850, and stopped in New York, where he remained until coming to Winfield. There he married Annie EGAN. Mr. and Mrs. HEALY resided on the SAFFORD place until 1871, when they sold to George DARROW and moved to a farm about one and a half miles further up Hay Creek valley to the present P. F. HEALY residence, where they spent the rest of their lives. Mrs. HEALY was the daughter of John and Catherine (BRAUDRICK) EGAN. Her people were natives of Ireland but later came to Wisconsin and died here.

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick HEALY had seven children: Katie, who died in the Sister of Mercy Convent, 1908; Mary, Winfield; Nora, widow of Timothy KELLEY, Winfield - they had three children, Joseph, Mercedes, and Ruth (Mrs. Arthur WELSH); Maurice, married Janie CARROLL, and resides in Rochester, Minnesota; Patrick on the home place; and Anna, wife of Patrick CARROLL, town of LaValle.

William KELLEY was another Irish settler of the later period. He was a native of County Cork, Ireland, born in 1829. His parents were Patrick and Elizabeth (O'DONNELL) KELLEY. In 1848 at the age of 18, he came unaccompanied to New York - later going to Pennsylvania, where he was employed in the coal fields. There he was married to Julia SHEHAN, daughter of Daniel and Mary (DRISCAL) SHEHAN. The SHEHAN family came from Erin in 1836, locating in Pennsylvania.

In 1867 Mr. and Mrs. William KELLEY came to Winfield where they afterward made their home. They had several children: Timothy, J. G., Michael; Francis H.; and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is the wife of Daniel SULLIVAN, a continuous resident of Winfield until 1915, when they retired to Reedsburg.

John KELLEY, native of County Cork, another son of Patrick and Elisabeth, came to America a few years after his brother William. He also located in Pennsylvania. He married Bridget SHEHAN, another daughter of Daniel and Mary. They eventually came to Winfield, too, locating in the northeastern part of the town. They had three children who grew to manhood, Timothy, William and John; Timothy married Nora HEALY - his widow now occupies the old farm; William, married Bridget HARTY and lives in Seven Mile Creek, Juneau County.

We would record something of James MITCHELL. He was a native of County Cork, Ireland and came to America about 1860, locating at Baraboo. There were living in Baraboo at that time a brother and sister, Daniel and Ellen SULLIVAN, both natives of Ireland, early settlers of Sauk County. Mr. MITCHELL married Ellen SULLIVAN and located in Winfield. Daniel SULLIVAN had married Kate HEDRINGTON, who died about 1864, leaving two sons, one of whom was Daniel. He came to Winfield and became a member of the MITCHELL family. Daniel SULILVAN married Elizabeth KELLEY and resided in Winfield for many years.

Another early Irish family of Winfield was that of Patrick WHITTY, a native of Wexford, Ireland, where he was married to Mary FURLONG, immigrant of the year 1847, and early pioneer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was left a widower with five children: Thomas, Richard, James, Patrick and Eliza, but he married a second time, his second wife having been Margaret DALEY (widow of Michael BURNS). In 1857 the family, including the BURNS children, Mary and Michael, came to Winfield and settled in the western part of the town. Two children were born of the marriage, one of whom was Agnes, wife of William BREEN of Reedsburg.

Richard WHITTY married Sarah McDONNELL and lived in western Winfield. They were the parents of several children: Frank, married second, Nellie DALY, Montana; Mary, for many years a prominent school teacher; Sarah, teacher; John, prominent physician of Washington; Joseph and Anna.

James WHITTY fought through the entire Civil war, was wounded four times and the last time at the battle of Antietam lost his left limb. Later he married and located in Reedsburg. Patrick WHITTY married Cecelia GAHAGAN and occupied the WHITTY farm in Winfield. In their family were five children, four of whom are living: James, who resides in Dakota; Francis, married Agnes GERRIGAN and occupying the old Michael GAHAGAN farm; Patrick contemporary farmer; Eliza, who married Harvey WEIDMAN, quite recently of South America. Eliza, daughter of Patrick WHITTY, Sr., joined the Sacred Heart Convent of Chicago in 1865, and died a faithful Sister in 1918.

Another prominent early family of western Winfield, numbered among the Irish Settlers, was that of Michael KIVELL. He was a native of County Roscommon, Ireland, came to America at a very early date, stopped for some time in Vermont. It was there that he married Catherine, his wife. About 1856 the family came to Winfield. There was a large number of children: Bartlet, John and Michael, who with their father, served in the Civil War; Catherine, who married William SWETLAND; and Mary, who married H. D. MANION.

H. D. and Mary (KIVELL) MANION were married in Vermont and came about the same time as her people, locating on a farm in eastern Winfield. Their children were: Patrick, on the home place - married Joan HEALY; Nancy, Reedsburg; Janie and Michael

District No. 4, Winfield, was organized about 1860, and Patrick WHITTY, who is known to have taught there in the early days, was possibly the first teacher. Among those in particularly interested in organizing the district we can mention: H. D. MANION, Seth SWETLAND, Albert HAWKINS, Edward McQUADE, Isaac JOHNSON, Samuel RAY, Nicholas ROSSITER, Michael KIVELL, Thomas CARROLL, Franklin JOHNSON, William SHERMAN and Francis MECKLER.

Albert HAWKINS' wife was a daughter of Michael KIVELL.

Samuel RAY was the father of Andrew and William RAY, well known to Reedsburg people.

Francis MECKLER's daughter married Louis HIRT, and now resides in Dutch Hollow.

DUTCH HOLLOW