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 992

PETER L. FROLAND, farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Lodi; was one
of the earliest settlers of the town of Lodi.  He was
born in Norway in 1802, and came to the United States
in 1837.  He lived near Ottawa, Ill. for nine years,
where he was engaged in work on a canal.  He came to
Columbia Co. in 1846, and settled near Columbus, where
he lived three years, when he settled where he now
lives.  Mr. FRELAND is unmarried.  His farm contains
70 acres.

EDWIN W. GARDNER, insurance agent, Lodi; was born in
Panton, Vt., in 1829; he removed to Madison, Wis., in
1853, where he engaged in work at his trade, that of a
carpenter and joiner, where he resided till the fall
of 1859; then engaged in farming in the town of Dane,
Dane Co., till the spring of 1867, when he came to
Lodi.  He was married to Miss Lucina COLBURN, niece of
Zerah COLBURN, the mathematician; the latter was a
cousin of the author of COLBURN's Arithmetic, etc.
Mr. GARDNER is Justice of the Peace of the village of
Lodi; also Secretary of Lodi Agricultural Society.

GEORGE G. GESELL, miller, at Lodi Center Mills, Lodi;
was born in the Province of Hanover, Germany, Oct. 17,
1834; he came to the United States in the spring of
1861; came to the village of Lodi in the fall of that
year, where he was engaged as miller in the Excelsior
Mill for thirteen years and five months; then went to
Wonowoc, Juneau Co., where he conducted a mill for
thirteen years and five months; then went to Wonewoc,
Juneau Co., where he conducted a mill for one year,
then engaged in the grocery business; came to present
location in April 1879.  He was married to Mary
KRUEGER; they have three children - Hannah, George L.
and George C.

WILIAM GOLDSPOHN, lumber dealer, of the firm of
VANDERPOOL & GOLDSPOHN, Lodi; born in Germany in 1828;
he came to the United States in 1849; he settled in
the town of Roxbury, Dane Co., Wis., in the fall of
that year, where he was engaged in farming; in the
spring of 1869, he came to Lodi; he engaged in selling
lumber for VANDERPOOL & CLARK in the fall of 1872; in
the fall of 1877, he bought the interest of Mr. CLARK;
since that time has been associated with Mr.
VANDERPOOL.  He was married to Frederica KOHLMANN,
born in Prussia, Germany; she came to the township of
Springfield, Dane Co. in 1847; they have four children
- Albert, Mary, Emma, and William.

CHARLES GOODALL, farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Lodi; born in
Steuben Co., N.Y., in 1830; his parents, Nathaniel and
Fannie GOODALL, removed to Ohio, near Cleveland, in
1836, then to Illinois, in the fall of 1840; the
family came to the town of Lodi, June 20, 1851; his
father still resides where he first settled, Sec. 26;
when the family came to Lodi, it consisted of parents,
two sons and two daughters; youngest daughter now
deceased; another son, L. K., was born in the town of
Lodi.  Mr. GOODALL was married to Miss Caroline
TULLER, daughter of John and Laura A. TULLER.  Mrs.
GOODALL taught the first school in the town of West
Point; they have two children - William Herbert and
Eva C., both of whom are now students in junior class
of Wisconsin State University; Herbert was born in
1857; Eva A., March 13, 1860.  Mr. GOODALL has been
Chairman of Town Board two years, and members of Side
Board three years; he resided in Crawford Co. from
1856 till 1861; settled on his present farm in 1861.
Has 142 acres of land.

SAMUEL A. HOLDRIDGE, blacksmith, Lodi; born in Ithaca,
N.Y., in 1847; he went to Crawford Co., Wis., in 1854;
went to Kansas about 1856; returned to Wisconsin and
came to Lodi in December 1859; he enlisted in
September 1862, in Co. G, 23d W.V.I.; was at the
battles of Arkansas Post, Yazoo Swamp, Grand Gulf,
Champion Hills, and in all the battles in which his
regiment was engaged up to the time of his discharge
for disability in the fall of 1864; he returned to
Lodi; was sick for two years; after his recovery
engaged for his uncle in the blacksmith business till
1870; when he engaged in business for himself.  He was
married to Miss A. S. WOODLEY, daughter of John V.
WOODLEY; has three children - Harry L., Clarence A.
and Edith Maud.

E. HOWARD IRWIN, M.D., Lodi; born in Mifflin Co.,
Penn., July 1, 1833; he studied medicine in
Pennsylvania, came to Lodi with his father, Dr. George
H. IRWIN, in June 1854; he practiced medicine with his
father in Lodi till the breaking out of the rebellion,
when his father enlisted as a private in Capt.
MANSFIELD's company, 2d W.V.I.; he was made Hospital
Steward, then promoted to assistant Surgeon in the 2d
W.V.I.; he was wounded in the first battle of Bull
Run, in the charge of the Black Horse Cavalry; he
resigned from disability, and died at his home, Lodi,
Jan. 31, 1864.  Mr. E. H. IRWIN, in August 1862, under
authority of Gov. Salmon, raised a company which was
mustered into the United States service as Co. H, 23d
W.V.I., Aug. 30, 1862; he resigned to take position on
regimental staff as Assistant Surgeon, and entered  on
duty as such Nov. 19, 1862, at Louisville, Ky., under
orders of Gen. A. J. Smith, but was not mustered as
such till Dec. 19, 1862, at Memphis, Tenn.; he
resigned on account of disability at Milliken's Bend,
La., April 25, 1863.  His wife was Miss Sarah PASHLEY,
daughter of Samuel PASHLEY, of Vienna, Dane Co.; they
have had six children, five of whom are living - Annie
E., now Mrs. Tim E. LEWIS; Harris J., George H.,
Samuel P., and William Russell.

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