Part 11 (2/2)

Croix Falls) The toas organized in 1869 The first board of supervisors consisted of Geo P Anderson, Wright Haskins, and Joseph Loveless The clerk was H J Fall; the treasurer, F R Loveless The first school was taught by Jane Husband Aaron M Chase built a shi+ngle mill at the outlet of Balsam lake in 1850, and he seems to have been the first actual settler or the first man to make improvements As he had neither oxen nor horses, the timbers for the mill were hauled by man poith the aid of yokes and ropes Other persons came to the mill and lived there awhile, but the first permanent settlers came in in 1856 They were J Shepherd, Joseph Loveless, Joseph Ravett, and John M Rogers Mr Rogers raised the first crops in the town; Joseph Ravett was the first poste was that of J K Adams to Miss L A Millerman, by W

H Skinner The first white child born was a daughter to R S

Haskins The first death, that of a child, occurred in 1870 A first class flouring mill has been erected at the outlet of Balsa; a saw mill is also in operation at this point A Methodist church, 30 40 feet ground plan, was erected at Balsam Lake by the Methodist society in 1886

BEAVER

The town of Beaver includes townshi+p 34, range 15 It was set off froested as being appropriate froes Beaver dams are numerous on all the creeks These ancient works will riculture The town is drained by strea into Apple river Horseshoe lake, in the northeast corner, is three th

BLACK BROOK

The town of Black Brook includes townshi+p 32, range 16 Apple river, with its tributaries, supplies it with abundant water privileges

Black Brook, the principal tributary, gives the town its name, and drains the southern portion There areand ood The post office of Black Brook is in section 32 The North Wisconsin railroad passes through sections 25, 35 and 36 This toas originally a part of Alden, but was organized and set off as a nen Aug 5, 1867 J C Nelson and G H Goodrich were the first supervisors The first settlers (1863) were John Gorsuch, John Reed and Jacob Polwer; the first postmaster was ---- Gates; the first school teacher, Tina Starkweather; the first e that of S D Starkweather and Mary Danforth; the first death that of Mrs Ben Gilman

CLAM FALLS

Clae 16, and derives its na and timbered with hardwood and pine It is atered by South Clam creek and its tributaries Somers' lake, in section 27, is the only lake An upheaval of trap rock on Clam creek has caused the waterfall from which the town has taken its na tolls on saw logs has been placed just above the Falls

Good specimens of copper ore are found in the trap The toas set off fro was held April, 1877 The first supervisors were Daniel F Smith, John Almquist and John Bjornson D F Smith was the first settler, built the first saw mill, and raised the first crops

Daniel F Smith, a peculiar and eccentric rated to Michigan in 1834, where heyear, and ed in lu at Stevens Point He was of the firms of Smith & Bloomer and Smith & Fellows Mr Bloomer was accidentally killed, on which account the business of these fir to Galena to facilitate the settlement of their affairs In 1852 he removed to St Louis; in 1853 to Merocery business, losing heavily, in fact all the accu of 1855 he leased the St

Croix Falls saw mill, and operated it for two years, when trouble arose and litigation ensued, in which S for 1,000 In 1860 he removed to Clinton, Iowa, and thence in the sa , and also les

In 1862 he returned to St Croix Falls and engaged in lu for three years In 1868 he built a saw mill at butternut Lake, Wisconsin He did much to open that country to settlement He was the founder of a tohich he called ”Luck” In 1872 he was the first settler at Clam Falls, where he built a saw mill with but oneup a flourishi+ng settlement

Dan Sh life, and has come out victorious over difficulties and opposition that would have discouraged and turned back other men Mr Sy and ability He has ably and satisfactorily filled many places of trust For many years he has been a commissioner of Polk county

CLAYTON

Clayton includes townshi+p 33, range 15 The toas set off froreat part of the town is level and was originally radually drained, and fine faranized Nov 10, 1875 The first supervisors were Morris De'Golier, Worthy Prentice and H D West The first homestead entries were made in 1865 by Peter Bouchea and John McKay, a Frenchman, both Indian traders, who established a post at Marsh lake, but in six months abandoned it and never returned The next settlers were Vandyke, Morehouse and Tanner, near the west line of the town, about 1870 The first i a canal into Marsh lake to get water to float logs out of Beaver brook, thereby draining great tracts of swaave a fresh i of the village of Clayton in section 24 The first sermon in the town of Clayton was preached by Rev W W

Aht by S M De'Golier; the first store was opened by A M Wilcox, 1874 D A Humbird was the first posth the southeast part and the Minneapolis, Soo & Atlantic passes from the west side to the northeast corner of the town, and has a station, Gregory, in the west part

REUBEN F LITTLE was born June 13, 1839, in Topshaan to care for hi pottery in a es had increased to three shi+llings per week In the spring of 1853 he had saved three pounds sterling, and his grandfather gave hie to Quebec and Montreal, where he got four dollars per month Soon after he apprenticed himself for five years to learn the baker's and confectioner's trade at London, Upper Canada Subsequently he took a ho Lake, Upper Canada

[Illustration: REUBEN F LITTLE]

In the spring of 1861, at Detroit, Michigan, he enlisted in the United States infantry, regular areant ned in Septe the war he served continuously in Gen George H Thoes, Kentucky, to Nashville, Tennessee On the twenty-second of Septe the last a after the disastrous fight of Chickaa He ounded in the battle of Hoover's Gap and Se of Corinth

Mr Little was married in 1865, and divorced in 1869, and re-married in St Paul in 1878 He lost his Canada homestead, and took another homestead in Lincoln, Polk county, Wisconsin, in 1866 Afterward he went to St Paul and became one of the firm of Little & Berrisford in the wholesale confectionery business In 1879 he returned to Clayton, formerly part of Lincoln, and reclai it a productive e farm Mr Little has served several years as Clayton's town supervisor

CLEAR LAKE

Clear Lake ee 15 It derives its name from a beautiful clear lake on the western boundary near Clear Lake village

The west part of the town is ti land The eastern part is roves of pine Willow river runs through the town The North Wisconsin railroad traverses the town diagonally froanized June 20, 1877; S D Mann, J C

Gates, and W R Ingalls, supervisors The first settlers were John Hale, L P Nash, S D Starkweather, and Perry Clark Lawrence O'Connor was first postmaster; Mr Starkweather carried the mail on foot Israel Graves, in 1875, built the first saw e and the first house There is now at the village a stave mill owned by Symme & Co Jewett Bros own a saw e, which has a capacity of 8,000,000 feet

The lue by a wooden traovernment by A Boody and A Coventry, in 1856 The plat was made by Symme, Glover & Co The survey was made by G W Cooley Thomas T McGee was the first settler (1875), and Stephen H Whitcomb the second The first school house was built in 1875, and the first school was taught by Clara Davis in the saraded school with three departs, Congregational and Methodist, were destroyed by the cyclone of 1884, but are being rebuilt The Swedish Lutherans have a church a e Chas Decker was the first postmaster; A Symme & Co were the firstphysician; F M Nye the first lawyer The first e was that of John C Gates and Ella Scovill The first birth was Chas W Whitcomb, and the first death that of a child of Hans Johnson

PINEVILLE