HISTORY OF WALWORTH COUNTY WISCONSIN Subject: Thomas Peck Rutenber ******************************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: (Bill Rush) Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************** HISTORY OF WALWORTH COUNTY WISCONSIN By Albert Clayton Beckwith Illustrated Volume 1. 1912 B.F. Bowen & Company Indianapolis, Indiana Page; 228 Among other best remembered settlers from 1837 to 1840, inclusive, were Hiram and Clarissa Barker, Thomas Buckland, John and Clarissa Chapin, Jonathan P. and W. Densmore Chapin, Charles Dorathy, Timothy H. Fellows, Carl Freeman, Samuel T. Hatch and wife, Caroline; Jeremiah and Orpha Jerrod, Andrew and John Michael Kull, William K. May, Welcome J. Miller, Marcus Moody, Doric C. Porter, Dan and Eliza Rowe, Thomas Peck Rutenber (1809- 1890) and Polly Brazee, his wife; Sebastin and Apollonia Schurman, Benjamin Franklin Trow (1802-1870) and wife, Aurelia H. (1814-1890); Ebenezer and Mary Tupper, Everton Walker, Jonathan Ward, Isaac White, Jr. Within the next eight years came Samuel and William Allen, Thomas Beeden and wife, Elizabeth (1810-1849), Schuyler Besteder (1800- 1883) and wife Eliza Jane (1806-1889), Dewitt C. Blakeman, Morris Wait Blodgett, John Brown, J. Sidney Buell, Edward Bundy, Conrad Burget, John Burns, William Worth Byington, David Ward Carey, Enoch B. and James B. Carter, Levinus Carver, George H. Christian, Simon Williams Clark, Robert Cobb, Dudley Wesley Cook, Peter L. Craver, Edward Crowell, William Doughten, Delamore Duncan, Alfred W. Dyer, George Woodward Edwards, James Ervin, Andrew Everson, William Faulkner, George Field, Langdon Filkins, Jason Fobes, John Chesley Ford, Abiel, Joseph and Russell Fuller, James Grier, Dike W. Hall, Jonah Hanchett, Jr., Daniel P. Handy, Ephraim and Nathan Harrison, Dewitt C. Hay, Alanson K. Hill, Charles High, James C. Latour, Valorous D. Manning, Eli Manor, Stillman Moores, John H. Nichols, Edwin Ruthven and Enos Hanchett Olden, Ira A. Pell, Thomas Peters, John Yerwell Petty, Oakley A. Philips, Preston Brewer Plumb, Joshua Post, Archibald, David and James Primmer, Solon Read and Alinda M., his wife, Lyman Redington, Cryus and Erastus R. Rugg, Hiram J. Sawyer, Joseph W. Searles, John Sibley, George Smith, Clark Williams Spafard, Amos W. and Samuel H. Stafford, Abner Strickland (1814-1900), Philo C. Taylor, Hamilton Temple, Dr. Oliver S. Tiffany, Jeremiah and William G. Truesdell, Samuel Ward, Michael Welden, William H. Whiting, Nathaniel B. Whittier, William R. Wilkins, Thomas Wilson, Abner Wing, John Wood, Alanson and Silas P. Wright. A few of these may have bought government land without intending to settle. One such instance was that of Andrew Galbraith Miller, for many years judge of the federal court at Milwaukee, who bought in section 13. A larger number went a few years later to other towns, counties, or states; and a few of the old settlers died within the next few years.