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 998

CHARLES DOYLE, Doylestown; merchant, was born June 24,
1845, in the town of Almond, Allegany Co., N.Y.; came
here in 1866, then went to Nashotah as station agent,
from July 1, 1867 to July 1, 1871; then traveled six
months; then to Lyndon, Juneau Co., was agent there
form January 1872 to Nov. 1, 1873; then returned to
Doylestown, where he has been station agent from that
time, and Postmaster since Jan. 1, 1880.  Was married
at Lyndon, Nov. 26, 1873, by Rev. Wm. HAMILTON, of
Kilbourn, to Inez E. WRIGHT, who was born Sept. 8,
1847, at Forestville, Chautauqua Co., N.Y., daughter
of R. S. and Anna W. (HOLMES) WRIGHT.  Mr. WRIGHT was
born Jan. 18, 1818, in Chautauqua Co., N.Y., and Ann
W. HOLMES was born Dec. 6, 1828, at Rochester, N.Y.;
they were married Oct. 6, 1845, at Versailles,
Chautauqua Co., N.Y.  They have had three children -
Charles A., born Aug. 31, 1874; Dora Alice, born Feb.
24, 1876; Grace Elizabeth, born Jan. 14, 1879.  Mr.
DOYLE is engaged in mercantile business with Niels
RASMUS, from Parish of Gzerpen, Norway; he came to
Dodge Co. in 1844, and here in August 1876; commenced
business with DOYLE, and is unmarried.

WILLIAM HENRY GASKILL, farmer, Sec. 5; 80 acres; P.O.
Rio; was born May 30, 1829, in Fayette Co., Penn.; son
of Morgan and Sabrina (LANE) GASKILL.  Mr. GASKILL,
Sr. was from Crawford Co., Penn., and Mrs. GASKILL
from Ohio.  William came here July 13, 1854, and
settled at Rio, where he followed the river and
farming.  He was married Dec. 14, 1859, by Justice J.
W. STEWART, to Jane A. STEWART, who was born April 13,
1834, in Bradford Co., Penn, daughter of Joseph W. and
Calista (SQUIRES) STEWART; they have had four children
- Stewart M., born October 1860, died April 8, 1864;
Helen F., born Feb. 23, 1865, died Feb. 11, 1867;
Stella E., born March 18, 1868; Alice J., born June
16, 1871.  Mr. GASKILL has been Supervisor and
Constable, Lodge Deputy in Good Templars, Worthy
Patriarch in Sons of Temperance, several times W. C.
T. in Templars, and is a member of the Rio Farmers'
Club, of twenty members; he is a Republican in
politics, a Baptist in religion, and is Treasurer and
Trustee in the church; an ultra Prohibitionist, as was
Mr. STEWART, the father of Mrs. GASKILL, who was born
Jan. 23, 1809, at Hartland, Niagara Co., N.Y., and was
the first white child born in that bounty.  Mr.
STEWART's father was in the war of 1812.  He married
Calista SQUIRES in June 1833; came here in 1851; was a
farmer, and an active Temperance man thirty years; was
a liberal, generous, honest man; for years a Justice
of the Peace, and died Nov 27, 1879, of heart disease;
was a Republican, the father of twelve children; they
all survive him; two of them were in the Union army;
he was a man of good principles, and respected by all.
Mrs. GASKILL was a teacher in New York and Wisconsin
from 1852 to 1859.  The father of Mr. GASKILL was
Captain of the "Monongahela Blues," and was
commissioned by Gov. Joseph Ritner, of Pennsylvania,
about 1836; he was a steamboat builder in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and owned a farm and steam saw-mill.

C. C. HOLLY, farmer, Sec. 8; 190 acres; P.O. Rio; born
in Greenville, Greene Co., N.Y., in 1829; is the son
of John and Irene (PALMER) HOLLY; came here in 1852.
Married at home in 1854; had four children - Frank,
born July 5, 1853; Japhet HULL, born Sept. 8, 1855;
Charles IRWIN, born Jan. 28, 1863; Jessie H., born
March 30, 1876.  Republican in politics; attends
Baptist Church.  Was in Co. K, 22d W.V.I.; was out
three years; is now Justice of the Peace.  Mrs. HOLLY
was born Feb. 28, 1834; was daughter of Henry and
Hannah (PALMER) BLEMIS; her father died here December
1877, aged 74 years, and her mother died in 1865.
Mrs. HOLLY's parents went from New York to Michigan in
1844; remained there six years and came here; on the
way, at Milwaukee, after taking teams off the boat,
her brothers, John and William, aged 24 and 18 years,
were both drowned in the lake in a strange and
unaccountable manner; the young man HOISINGTON, who
was with them, heard them struggling in the water, and
got a lantern on the wharf; and the supposition was,
that the pier-tender had something to do with their
death, as he soon left the place (as also did a boy
who worked for him), asserting that it (the wharf) was
haunted, and it was believed he confessed the crime to
his wife, but it was never proven; the pier-tender
soon after cut his own throat in a fit of delirium
tremens, at Waukesha.

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