Biographies from The History of Columbia County,
Wisconsin, 1880 


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From The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1880,
publ. by Western Historical Company, Chicago, Page
894-895

CHARLES DEVLIN, engineer on C.M. & St. P. R.R., was
born Nov. 4, 1840, near Dublin, Ireland; when a mere
lad, he had a great desire to travel, and studied
navigation with enthusiasm; he went to Canada in 1854,
clerked nearly two years, and in 1856, began working
the machine shop of the Great Western Railway of
Canada; he was afterward a fireman, and was promoted
to the charge of an engine in 1861, which he ran until
1867; for a year and a half he represented Neyland &
Co., Jefferson, Texas, as salesman for all leading
kinds of country produce; afterward he ran a
stationary engine, at Sedalia, Mo.; then was with the
A. & N. R.R. about a year and a half, and then the
same length of time with the P. & Ft. W. R.R.; was
then a year in the C. & N. W. Ry. shops; in July 1873,
he engaged as engineer of the C. M. & St. P. R.R., and
has been in continuous service to date; he was married
on the 3d of January 1876, to Miss Lucy HORNING, a
resident of Portage, born in 1848; they have one
child, Kitty Maud, born Oct. 31, 1876.  The family are
Catholics.  She was fifteen years in the employ of W.
D. FOX, at the Railroad House, as chief cook; he is a
member of the "Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers;"
no one was ever injured on his train; he is a Liberal
Democrat; this season he has erected a fine brick
residence on the corner of Dunn and Marion streets.

Page 895

CHARLES C. DOW, Postmaster; was born in Piermont,
Grafton Co., N.H., June 2, 1836; lived in New
Hampshire until he came to Wisconsin in 1856, and
located in Portage, engaging in clerking in a hardware
store for Josiah ARNOLD about one year and clerked in
other stores until April 9, 1861, when he enlisted as
private in Co. G, 2d W.V.I.; was in the first and
second battles of Bull Run, battles of the Wilderness,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and all the other
engagements that his regiment was engaged in, except
South Mountain and Antietam; was wounded and disabled
at the first and second battles of Bull Run, and was
mustered out June 30, 1864, as First Lieutenant
commanding the company, having had command of the
company more than a year prior to this time, returning
to Portage, but remaining only a few weeks; went to
Gulf Department with the 21st Iowa; in the fall of
1865, he returned to Portage and clerked in the county
Clerk's office for a year; he then clerked in a dry
goods store, until 1867; then with W. W. CORNING until
he went to Madison wtih Secretary of State L. BREESE;
remained with him four years; returned to Portage and
has been connected with the U. S. postal service
since, on the C. M. & ST. P. R.R., until he received
an appointment of Postmaster in the spring of 1880.
He was married in Portage, Dec. 16, 1867, to Annie E.
JONES; they have three children - W. Corning, Carrie
Louisa and Charles Homer.  Mr. DOW is a member of the
A.F. & A.M., and a Knight Templar.

THOMAS W. DREW was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire,
England, July 4, 1839, and resided there until coming
to Portage in the spring of 1855; in 1856, he
commenced clerking for O. WARD, with whom he remained
three years; then going into the grocery business
himself, which he continued until the breaking out of
the war of the rebellion, when he enlisted in Co. A,
2d Ill., L.A., in April 1861, and served four and a
half years in the same company and regiment; was in
all the battles his regiment participated in; was with
Gen. Grant when he was a Colonel; participated in the
Vicksburg and Red River campaigns, serving as a
private; was mustered out in the fall of 1865, and
returned to Portage and resumed business as a grocer,
which he continued alone until March 1879, when Mr.
PUGH was admitted to partnership in the grocery
business, Mr. DREW dealing in farmers' produce in
addition to his other business.  He was married in
Portage, Feb. 1, 1868, to Minnie WILLIAMSON; she was
born in Canada; they have four children - Jennie,
Minnie, Della and Lillie.

GEORGE W. DUSENBURY was born in Canaan, Columbia Co.,
N.Y., July 27, 1851; son of Morgan H. and Almira
DUSENBURY, who came to Pardeeville when the subject of
this sketch was about 8 years old, and where his
boyhood days were passed upon his father's farm,
located four miles east of Pardeeville, also lived in
the village a short time; then coming to Portage, he
attended school for a year, when he went into the
employ of the C.M. & St. P. R.R., and has continued
with the company to the present time, with the
exception of one year.  Married Morgie A. THOMPSON, a
native of Rhode Island, Oct. 22, 1873, at Pardeeville;
they have two children - Ovie V. and Bartie.  Mr. D.
is a member of the A.F. & A.M., with the degree of
Knight Templar.

JOHN DULLAGHAN was born in County Louth, Ireland, Nov.
23, 1831; came to America in 1850; was in New York
City for a short time; removed to South Carolina in
1851, and to Charleston, S. C. in the spring of 1852,
and returned to New York same spring; he then went to
the Isthmus of Panama and worked for the Pacific Mail
Steamship Co. at what is known as Navy Bay, working
for the company eleven months, building piers, etc.;
April 1853, he went to California and remained there
mining until 1858, when he returned to Europe, where
he was married July 5, 1858, to Ann McSHEAN, County
Armagh, Ireland, a native of that county; they have
seven children - James Joseph, Stephen M., John, Mary
Ann, Margaret, Edward, and Elizabeth; was engaged in
Newry, County Armagh, Ireland, in the grocery and
provision business there then years; when he came to
Wisconsin in 1868 and located in Portage; engaged in
the business of grocery and liquor dealer, etc., since
coming here, and has remained in it ever since.  Mr.
and Mrs. D. are members of St. Mary's Church, and of
St. John's Literary and Benevolent Associate.

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