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
1000-1001

WENDELL A. PULVER, merchant, Otsego; (16 acres); was
born Jan. 3, 1827 in Ontario Co., N.Y.; son of John W.
and Sarah (SHARPSTEEN) PULVER, who were born in
Dutchess Co., N.Y.; came here in 1847; bought land and
commenced farming in 1848; he lived on his farm some
eighteen years, and then went into the mercantile line
in a general way, which he has followed with more than
an average success up to the present time.  He was
married in Niagara Co., N.Y., to Miss Helen M.,
daughter of George and Helen E. (MERSAROLL) VAN VLEET.
She was born on Jan. 6, 1827, and died of typhoid
fever July 3, 1861; left two children - Seward F.,
born Aug. 1, 1848, married Annie McKAY, at Rio, on
farm; Alice M., born May 28, 1853, wife of M.
TILLOTSON, Sec. 22, Otsego Township.  Married the
second time, May 4, 1862, by E. BLAISDEL, J. P., to
Emely, daughter of Abijah and Martha (BRYAN) STEVENS. 
She was born Jan. 25, 1839, in Lorain Co., Ohio; her
parents being from Litchfield, Conn.; she had four
children - Charles L., born June 11, 1865; M. DELL,
born Feb. 14, 1868; Estella, born March 18, 1872, died
Jan. 16, 1874; Claud, born Sept. 21, 1873.  Mr. PULVER
attends the Baptist Church, as there is no other, and
is a Republican, and has done his share of office work
in town, but is now an aspirant for political honors.

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JOHN B. PEASE, veterinary surgeon; P.O. Otsego; was
born in Columbia C., Dec. 20, 1853; son of Wm. C. and
Angeline (McNETT) PEASE, of Somerset, N.Y.  He was
married June 25, 1862, to Alice L. daughter of Jotham
and Martha (HOWARTH) STONE.; she was born June 29,
1851, in N.Y.  They were married by Elder MEREDITH, at
Otsego, and had one child - Birdie E., born April 18,
1865.  His paternal grandfather was a Captain in the
navy and merchant service, and his maternal
grandfather was a Captain in the war of 1812; his
brother, W. A. PEASE, is in Rush Medical College.
Mrs. PEASE had a brother (Emerson) in the late war and
died at Baton Rouge.  Mr. PEASE has followed his
business four years at this place, and has acquired a
good practice and a first-class reputation; he is also
agent for all kinds of farm machinery.

N. RASMUS, President of the Doylestown Library
Association; organized Dec. 20, 1878, with E. C.
STACK, President; Mary E. DOYLE, Vice President; C. A.
DOYLE, Secretary; J. S. MORRIS, Treasurer, and
Librarian.  Started with twenty-two members; has now
twenty-seven, and owns sixty-eight volumes.  Present
officers _ President, N. RASMUS; Vice President, Mrs.
E. SMITH; the others, same as above.  Life membership
fee, $1, yearly; dues, $1per year, quarterly.  Books
purchased of E. QUINN, of Milwaukee, who earned the
gratitude of members by his generous treatment of the
Association.

CYRUS ROOT, retired; P.O. Otsego; was born Sept. 26,
1811, in Onondaga Co., N.Y.; is the son of Cyrus and
Esther (LOVELAND) ROOT; was married in Ripley,
Chautauqua Co., N.Y., by Elder John SAVIN, to Hannah,
daughter of Thomas and Jemima (FISH) HENTON, born
April 20, 1817, at Venango, Crawford Co., Penn.; they
had six children - Clarissa, born March 4, 1838, died
an infant; Mary Helen, born July 23, 1840 (widow of
John SICKLES, and has two daughters, viz. Edith May
15, 1843 (married Jane MITCHELL, and has five
children, viz., Oliver H., Ralph M., Harry, Alma M.,
Curry.  Henry ROOT is Postmaster, Justice of the
Peace, and Clerk of School District; Erastus E., born
Dec. 13, 1846, died in 1848; Abbey A., born Jan. 7,
1851, died Jan. 17, 1852; Charles W., born March 2,
1854, died April 9, 1855.  The following was written
by Mrs. R. H. JAMES, sister to Mrs. ROOT, on the death
of the three children: The chain of Love that bound us
here Stern Death has three times risen; Why should we
mourn?  Those three bright links But form three ties
in Heaven.

Mr. ROOT came to Sec. 24, and bought a claim, when W.
B. DYER was the only man in the town; farming until
1853, when he opened a store on Sec. 22, followed that
business four years, and returned to the farm; then
kept stage house for a time, and was the first
Postmaster in town and held it eleven years; was
Justice and Treasurer, etc., for several years.  Henry
was in the 32d Regiment, and transferred to the 16th. 
Mr. ROOT's father was a minute-man and Fife Major in
1812, and the father of Mrs. ROOT was also a soldier
at that time.  W. B. DYER kept the first hotel in this
place, in a log  house.  John BOUTWELL built the first
frame hotel, now the Otsego House, kept by Fayette
ASHLEY.  Mason DEMING started the first blacksmith
shop about 1850.  The first Sunday-school was
organized in 1852, in the new schoolhouse.  When Mr.
DODGE first came to Otsego, he thrashed 300 bushels of
wheat by driving oxen over it, on the ground, and then
fanned it out by hand.

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