Biographies from The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1880 Contributed by Carol carolann612@charter.net Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm From The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1880, publ. by Western Historical Company, Chicago, Page 1003-1004 LEANDER S. DREW, farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. Farr's Corners; son of Dr. Leander DREW, one of the pioneers of Columbia Co.; Dr. DREW was born in Corinth, Vt., June 13, 1815; he was a student of Hanover and Dartmouth Colleges, graduating from Dartmouth when 23 years of age. He was married to Miss Almira SHATTUCK, of Manchester, Vt., they had two children - Leander S., born Aug. 23, 1842, and Frank F., born March 9, 1844. Mrs. DREW died when her younger son was born. Dr. DREW came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1845, and located in West Point, near Crystal Lake, purchasing of the Government 400 acres of land, on which he that season built a log house, which was, probably, the first house built in the town of West Point; this house is still used as a dwelling; here Dr. DREW lived alone for two years, engaged in the duties of his profession, among the sparsely settled regions of this part of the territory of Wisconsin; in the fall of 1848, he went back to Vermont, and retuned with his mother, her daughter, Emily, and his two children; the Doctor erected a new house nearer the lake in 1850; this house is now occupied by his eldest son, here, he was for a number of years engaged in the manufacture of the oil of wormwood; he continued actively engaged in his business, and in the duties of his profession though suffering severely from a nervous difficulty, during the last years of his life; he died Oct. 30, 1857; his mother is still living at the advanced age of 89 years. Frank F. DREW was married to Miss Emma SHURTLIFF; he now owns and occupies half of the original homestead; they have two children. Leander S. was married, March 15, 1866, to Miss Harriet RIDDLE, adopted daughter of Gideon CLARK, of Okee; they have two children - Harry, born April 19, 1868, and Louis A., born Sept. 16, 1872. Page 1004 JONATHAN L. FARR, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Farr's Corners; was born in the town of Corinth, Orange Co, N.Y., July 23, 1817; where he lived until the spring of 1841, when he went to Boston, Mass. He was married in Cambridge, Mass., to Sophrona J. PARKER, born in Vermont in 1816; he resided in Boston until August 1855; he then removed to the city of New York; he came to Wisconsin in August 1857; and settled at Prairie du Sac, Sauk Co.; settled on his present farm March 1862., where he has since resided; has two children - Albert L., born in Boston, Oct. 12, 1850, married Mary E. FARR, daughter of Nelson BURLINGAME; Henry O. born at Cambridge Sept. 1, 1852. Mr. FARR's farm contains 120 acres; Albert, whose farm adjoins his father's has 60 acres. DAVID H. FELLOWS, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. West Point; was born in Rensselaer Co., N.Y., Feb. 15, 1827, where he resided till spring of 1857, when he came to Columbia Co., and settled on his present farm, where he has since resided. He was married to Amanda GARDNER, daughter of John and Elizabeth GARDNER, who came to Columbia Co., from Rensselaer Co, N.Y., in the fall of 1856; her parents are deceased. Mr. FELLOWS has five children - Elbert, Frank, Herbert, Sidney, and Chester; lost three children in infancy. His farm contains 285 acres. D. P. GROW, farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Prairie du Sac; was born in the town of Newbury, Orange Co., Vt. in 1813; he came to Wisconsin in 1850; he lived on Sauk Prairie, Sauk Co., from May till November of that year, when he settled on his present farm, purchasing the land from the Government. He was married to Comfort A. HIGHLANDS, born in Vermont; they have four children - George, Martha E., Mary A. and Charles F. He has 340 acres of land. His son George lives on Sec. 20; he was born in Vermont in 1841. He was married to Libbie SHERMAN, born in the State of New York; they have one child, Albert. AMASA HATHAWAY, farmer, Sec. 17; P.O. Prairie du Sac; was born in the town of Adams, Mass., in 1800; his father removed to Rensselaer Co., N.Y., when he was a child; thence to Jefferson Co., where he lived till 25 years of age; he learned the trade of a blacksmith; worked at the trade of a cooper also, for some time. Mr. HATHAWAY has been married three times; his present wife was Marcia BERRY; he was quite an early settler of Wisconsin; he lived in Buffalo Co, about sixteen years; thence to Sauk Co.; he settled where he now lives, about 1850. His farm contains about 140 acres. JACOB HENRY, farmer, Sec. 19; P.O. Lodi; was born in Germany in 1826; he came to America in 1849; he lived in the State of New York about five years; came to Columbia Co., Wis., in 1854, and settled where he now lives. His farm contains 80 acres. He was married to Theresa TROPF, born in Germany; they have five children - Mary, Emma, Albert, Anna, and Isabelle; Albert became deaf and dumb at the age of 6 years, from scarlet fever; he was educated at the asylum for the deaf and dumb, at Delavan, Wis. LYMAN HILL, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. West Point; was born at Hyde Park, in what is now Lamoille Co., Vt., in June 1804. Mr. HILL, though not an early settler of Columbia Co. is one of the pioneers of the State of Wisconsin; he came to Milwaukee via Whitehall and Erie Canals and the great lakes in the fall of 1836; he located in Waukesha Co., on the line of Walworth Co. Mr. HILL possesses an excellent memory, and it is both amusing and instructive to listen to incidents and anecdotes, as related by him, of his early experience in the wilds of Wisconsin. His home, from Milwaukee, was twenty-six miles, in the winter of 1837, being short of provisions - a not uncommon occurrence in those days - he repaired to Milwaukee with a hand-sled and returned after an absence of but forty-eight hours, with flour and groceries sufficient to subsist himself and family for several weeks. Mr. HILL's first wife was Edna PRESTON; she was born in Vermont, and died in Waukesha Co. in 1852. His present wife was L. GOLDTHWAIT, also born in Vermont. He had five children by his first wife, only one of whom is living - Mrs. Mary Ann LESTER. Mr. HILL settled on his present farm in 1868. Submitted by Carol