The Netherwood Block
World War I Soldiers
Badger Cycle Company
You may want to read Wheel Fever by Jesse Gant, and Nicholas J. Hoffman. Wheel Fever: How Wisconsin Became a Great Bicycling State was published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2013.
F.C. Comstock
F.C. COMSTOCK, merchant, Oregon; born in Otsego Co., N.Y. in 1839; son of William and Fanny Comstock, both natives of New York, who settled on Government land in town of Dunn, Dane Co., in the spring of 1845;
R.B. Chandler
R.B. CHANDLER, of the Exchange Hotel, Oregon, is a native of Oxford, Me.; at 18 he went to Lowell, Mass., where he was employed in building locks and dams; was also in charge of gangs of men in damming the Merrimack at Lawrence, and controlled 1,500 men in the building of the South Hadley and Holyoke dam; in 1843, he was in Mexico, and from 1848 to 1852, in California; the year 1852 found him on a farm in town of Primrose, he having visited the State ten year before; Mr. C has expended much in ditching and improving his farm of 320 acres in Primrose, erecting a house at a cost of $3,300, which was destroyed by the tornado of May 23, 1878;
J.S. Bell
J. S. BELL, of Brooklyn, a veteran of the Civil War, comes of a soldierly line. He was born in Sussex County, N. J., February 9, 1842. His parents, Almond and Mary (Sutton) Bell, were natives of the same state, the former born in 1800 and the latter in 1821.
William L. Ames
WILLIAM LAFAYETTE AMES was born April 4, 1857 in Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin, son of John Norton Ames and Mary Ann Ball Ames. He died June 15, 1951 in Oregon.
Nathaniel Ames
Nathaniel Ames was born in Killingsley, Conn. on April 25, 1761. He enlisted in the continental service for the campaign of 1779. From the beginning until the end he served in the Revolutionary War.
Francis M. Ames
FRANCIS M. AMES is a native-born son of Dane county, and during all of his long and active career he has resided within her confines. He was born in the town of Oregon, March 23, 1847, and is the son of John N. and Mary Ann (Ball) Ames, pioneer settlers of the county, who are deserving of more than a passing mention in a volume devoted to the history of worthy citizens, past and present.John N. Ames was born July 7, 1822, in Steuben, Oneida county, N.Y., and is descended from noble Revolutionary ancestry.
Henry N. Algard
HENRY N. ALGARD, farmer, Sec. 20; P.O. Oregon; born Feb. 20, 1832, in Cayuga Co., N.Y.; son of Joseph and Eliza (Reemer) Algard, both natives of Pennsylvania;