Part 19 (2/2)

BENJAMIN B C FOSTER was born in New Portland, Maine, in 1816 When seventeen years of age he bought his tiht years in Atkinson, Maine, where he taught school and engaged in far In 1842 he was married to Charlotte S Gilman In 1852 he went to California where he remained three years He came to New Richmond in 1855 and built a saw mill and dam, and a board shanty in which he lived with his wife and two children Around the rown up the beautiful city of New Richht at the house of Mr Foster by Aanized the first Sunday-school, the first ser was held there

ROBERT PHILBRICK was born in Old Town, Maine, in 1814 He learned the trade of a ht, and in 1847 moved to North Hudson He was married in 1851 to Frances Cook They stood on a raft, afloat in the St Croix river, just below the Falls, while Ansel Smith, of Taylor's Falls, performed the ceremony Mr Philbrick removed to New Richmond and built a frahter of Mr Philbrick is the wife of D L Nye Amaziah, a son by his first wife, is a stonehter by his first wife, is or Mr Philbrick died prior to 1865

LINDEN COOMBS came to New Richmond in 1855, built the first hotel in 1856, and some years later moved away

EBEN QUINBY was born in Lisbon, New Hampshi+re, in 1809, and came to New Riched in far In 1865 he was married to Mrs Philbrick,of Robert Philbrick

LEWIS OAKS was born in Sangerville, Maine, in 1826; came West in 1846 and to New Richmond in 1854 He is a farmer

HENRY RUSSELL was born in Vermont in 1801 His ancestors took part in the Revolution He was married in Vermont, lived seventeen years in New York, came to Hudson in 1853, and to New Richht the pre-emption made by Robert Philbrick, and had it surveyed and platted as the village of Fremont He died in 1878 Mrs

Russell survives hie Their sons Alexander and Austin are prominent citizens of New Richmond

JOSEPH D JOHNSON was born in Huron county, Ohio, May 12, 1829 Froe he was thrown upon his own resources The greater part of his youth was spent in Michigan In 1848 he reo, Illinois, where he married Marcella L Russell He settled at New Richmond in 1853 One son, Ezra O, is editor of the _Northwestern News_, at Hayward, Wisconsin, and one daughter is elow

JOEL BARTLETT was born in Hebron, Maine, in 1804 He received an academic education and becah school in Bath, Maine, before he enty-one years of age In 1825 he went to Har until 1848 In 1830 he was a islature; in 1849 and 1850 he followed lu in Fairfield, Maine, and then removed to New York where he lived six years In 1858 he came to New Richmond, where he has since led an active business life Mr Bartlett was married in Maine in 1826 One of his sons, J A, is a Presbyterian clergye, Maine, and practiced law three years in New York City before entering the ministry

FRANCIS W BARTLETT, the second son of Joel Bartlett, was born in Maine in 1837 He received an academic education, and has been an active and successful business ister of the land office at Bayfield from 1861 to 1867 He was married in 1867 to Mary J Stewart, of Pennsylvania He was engaged in the coal trade in Milwaukee three years, and two years at Detroit and Toledo, but returned to New Richmond and is now president of the New Richmond Bank, and dealer in furniture, hardware, etc

GEORGE C HOUGH was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, in ---- He has led a somewhat adventurous life He served awhile as a soldier in the Black Hawk War under Gen Dodge Afterward he went to Missouri, graduated at the State University, and engaged in leadHe went to California in 1862, where he practiced law He returned in 1876, and located in Richmond where he still resides

SILAS STAPLES was born in Lisbon, Maine, Sept 18, 1814 He cae of the Willow River5,000 acres of land on Willow river In 1856 he sold his interest to Jewell and Bodie, of Maine, for 55,000, and for three years carried on a banking business in Hudson In the winter of 1859-60 he removed to New Richle and lath addition to his sawe da operations until 1868, when he re enterprises four years, at Collins' Inlet, Georgian bay In 1872 he returned to Hudson and to a fared with Mr Gibson in mercantile business In 1873 he returned to New Riche of it for one year, then ree of his brother's (Isaac Staples) saw mill

In 1875 he ree of a farm

The next year he returned to New Richht a half interest in a saw and grist mill at Jen He also built an elevator there with a capacity of 20,000 bushels

Mr Staples was married in 1837 to Hannah Williams, of Bowdoinhaail Ann Rogers of Oldtown, Maine, who died in the spring of 1845 He was married in the fall of 1846 to Nancy D Gilman, who died in 1873 He was married to Mrs Nancy B Jamison in the fall of 1874 He has six children, Charles A, Silas G, Nellie B, Nettie, Edward P, and Lizzie G

HENRY M MURDOCK--Dr Murdock was born at Antwerp, New York, in October, 1823 His father, Dr Hira, at which place the son attended school till he was fifteen years of age

The father moved to Pulaski, New York Henry studied e, then attended raduated at the age of twenty-one After practicing three years at Dexter, and after a co-partnershi+p of seven years with his father in a drug store at Pulaski, he ca store and business of Dr Carli In 1858 he went to Taylor's Falls and practicedof 1860, when he removed to Hudson and formed a partnershi+p with Dr Hoyt In the fall of 1861 he accepted the position of assistant surgeon of the Eighth Wisconsin, and served during the war, having been proeon In 1866 he re now retired from business He ice married, in 1845 to Cornelia A Sandford, who died childless, and in 1865 to Sarah J Allan His children are Cornelia A and Henry A

STEVEN N HAWKINS was born in Galway, Ireland, Dec 26, 1846, but while he was a rated to America; remained a few years in Connecticut; came West in 1855, and made their home in Pleasant Valley, St Croix county His early life was marked by the usual vicissitudes of life in a new country He tried for a ti lu the later ed to secure a good education in the common schools and at the River Falls Acadeery a fewuntil 1872, when he engaged in a mercantile enterprise at which he continued four years, but at the close of that period found hiainst him This he afterward paid, but he concluded, perhaps wisely, to change his occupation He studied law, and was admitted to the bar, July, 1876 In this profession he has achieved an enviable success In 1872 he was hany county, New York They have had four children, the first of which died in infancy

RUSH RIVER

Occupies the east half of townshi+p 28, range 17 The first settle ca, Stephen Claggitt and Z Travis The toas set off froanized in 1851, with Daniel McCartney as chairman of the board of supervisors At his house was held the first election

Woodside has one church and several buildings, is near the centre of the town, and New Centreville in the southern part The date of settlement is second to that of Hudson It was traversed by the old Hudson and Prairie du Chien stage route It was originally a mixed timber and prairie district

SOMERSET

Occupies sections 1 to 18, inclusive, of townshi+p 30, range 19, two sections of townshi+p 30, range 20, and all of townshi+p 31, range 19, lying east of the St Croix river The surface is generally undulating, but along the St Croix and Apple rivers abrupt and hilly