Charles H. Cronk
C.H. Cronk was agent and operator of the C. and N.-W. R.R., Oregon; born in Rensselaer Co., N.Y. in 1831; his father’s people were early settlers on the Holland Purchase, and his mother was of Dutchess Co., N.Y.; they came West in 1847, and still reside at Brodhead; the son our subject, was educated in the Ball Seminary, Hoosac Falls, N.Y.;
William Crapp
WILLIAM CRAPP is recognized as one of the progressive farmers of the town of Oregon, and his success has been achieved entirely by his own efforts and the counsel and economy of his faithful wife.
William E. Fincher
WILLIAM E. FINCHER, a prosperous young farmer of Oregon, is a Pennsylvanian by birth.
James Courtier
JAMES COURTIER, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Union; a native of Pennsylvania; was born in Bradford Co., in December, 1825; his father, John Courtier, a farmer, was also born in Pennsylvania of German parents;
John H. Coward
JOHN H. COWARD, boot and shoe maker, Oregon; born in Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, Oct. 30, 1824;
James M. Byrne
JAMES M. BYRNE has been a resident of the town of Fitchburg during the past 20 years, and so well has he ordered his affairs and so indefatigably has he toiled that he has won a secure position among the progressive and prosperous farmers of that portion of Dane county.
Sergeant William Soden
(Enlisted in Company K, 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (three months) from Stoughton, Wisconsin, April 17th 1861 and mustered out August 21st 1861 Milwaukee, Wisconsin.)
Private Abner Gunsolus
Civil War Soldier from Rutland Wisconsin. Abner Gunsolus son of John Lewis Gunsolus and Evaline Hart Gunsolus. My great great uncle Abner Gunsolus 1839 to 1862 from Rutland, Dane county, Wisconsin died in the Civil War.
Civil War Reference Material
Civil War Reference Material
at the Oregon Area Historical Society
Corporal DeWitt C. Salisbury
Age 20, single, blue eyes, red hair, sandy complexion, 5′ 7-3/4″ a farmer