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 949

FRANK FULLER, farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Bellefountain; was
born Nov. 26, 1827, in Erie Co., N.Y.  Was married in
Allegany Co., Dec. 31, 1850, to Esther Ann ALDRICH;
came West in 1852 and settled on the farm he now owns,
and has resided on it ever since; has eight children
living - Albert, William, Homer, Andrew, Edwin,
Arthur, Millie, and Mina Ann; Albert and Homer lived
in Lake Co., Dakota; William in the town of Marcellon,
and all the rest at home; have lost three - Ernest,
died May 29, 1877, aged 16; Theodore, died in August
1861, age 1-1/2 years, and one, an infant, died in
1862.  Mr. and Mrs. FULLER are members of the Free-
Will Baptist Church.  He is a Republican in politics,
and has 200 acres of land.

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WILLIAM GOODMAN, farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Portage City;
born Sept. 17, 1819, in Somersetshire, England, son of
William GOODMAN.  Was married, March 24, 1840, in
Ware, England, to Eliza CARTER, who was born in 1816,
in Ware, England, daughter of Thomas CARTER; Mr.
GOODWIN was a farmer in England; came to America in
1849, and located in the town of Marcellon in July of
that year.  Has four children living - Jane (lives in
Portage), William (lives in Mower Co., Minn.), Henry
and Mary, at home; has lost two - Robert enlisted in
1864 in the 3d W.V.V., Co. K, and died about two
months after his enlistment from an accidental
discharge of his own carbine, while passing through
some timber in charge of a lot of horses; the hammer
of the gun was caught by some bushes and the gun
discharged; he died two weeks after the accident, aged
24; Ellen died, aged 28, Nov. 25.  The family attended
the M. E. Church, but are not members; he is a
Democrat.  Has 370 acres of land, and at the present
writing there is a Portage company mining for silver
on his farm on Sec. 7.

DEXTER S. HEATH, farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Marcellon; born
Sept. 30, 1831, in Caledonia Co., Vt., son of John
HEATH, who came to Wisconsin in 1851, and settled in
Marcellon on the farm now owned by his son, and died
there Dec. 31, 1876, aged 85; Mr. HEATH has lived on
the same farm ever since he was 20 years old.  He was
married, Sept. 18, 1864, to Mrs. Mariette, widow of
Asa LANGDON, and daughter of Hugh BARKER; she was born
June 29, 1837, in Genesee Co., N.Y.; her father came
to Wisconsin when she was 7 years old, and died in
Packwaukee, Marquette Co., in October 1857, aged 64;
Mr. and Mrs. HEATH have three children - Allen, born
Sept. 10, 1866; Julius, Jan. 29, 1869, and George,
born July 17, 1873.  Mr. HEATH has 255 acres of land,
and a first-class farm building.

H. T. HENTON, farmer, Sec. 9 and 10; P.O.
Bellefountain; was born Feb. 24, 1823, in Ripley,
Chautauqua Co., N.Y.  His parents removed to Erie Co.,
Penn., when he was 11 years old, and came to Wisconsin
in 1860; his father, Thomas HENTON, died in 1860, and
his mother died in 1832.  He sailed on the lakes from
1838 to 1850; commenced at the age of 15, on the old
steamer Thomas Jefferson, running between Buffalo and
Chicago.  Sept. 14, 1846, he was married, near Cresco,
Fond du Lac Co., Wis., to Evaline, daughter of Capt.
Francis DORCHESTER, a native of Chautauqua Co., N.Y.,
and one of the first settlers in Fond du Lac Co.,
having located there in 1844.  After his marriage, Mr.
HENTON returned to Erie, Penn., and lived there one
year; then came to Milwaukee, where he resided five
years.  In October 1852, he removed to Fall River,
Columbia Co., Wis., and was engaged in the mercantile
business three years; then he went to Ripon, Wis., and
July 13, 1855, bought an interest in the milling and
produce business in Ripon until April 1, 1873; then
went to Winneconne and bought the "Lake View House,"
and an interest in the Winneconne flouring-mills;
remained there till March 1878; then removed to his
present location.  Mrs. HENTON died Oct. 19, 1879, of
hemorrhage of the brain, without a moment's warning,
leaving one son - Henry Freemont, born Feb. 8, 1856;
had lost three sons - Francis D., died Aug. 19, 1869,
age 16 years; Harvey Howard, died in September 1869,
age 13 months, and one died in infancy unnamed.  Mr.
HENTON is a Republican, and was one of the delegates
to the convention that organized the Republican party
in the summer of 1854, and was one of the committee to
appoint permanent officers for the organization; has
been a stanch Republican ever since, and is
"determined to fight it out on that line;" was
nominated and elected Mayor of the city of Ripon in
the spring of 1865, while away from home, and, on
returning, his first official act was issuing a
proclamation calling a meeting of the citizens of
Ripon to take action on the death of Abraham Lincoln. 
He held the offices of Chairman, Supervisor,
Superintendent of the Poor, and several other offices
in Ripon, and represented the village of Winneconne in
the County Board.  He has 240 acres of land in his
home farm, and a farm of 146 areas in Clark Co., Wis.

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