Notable People

Robert P. Main

Robert Palmer Main, born in Stonington, Conn., and Cordelia Dakin Main, born in Clinton County, Ohio, came to Wisconsin in 1845 in a covered wagon, settling on a farm three miles south of Oregon.

HENRY H. MARVIN, dealer in hardware, Oregon; born June 11, 1850, in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio (see sketch of A. B. Marvin); H.H. Marvin received his schooling in Oregon; learned his trade of a tinner in Beloit, Wis., at 18, left Beloit at 21, and opened a stock of hardware

Bernard McDermott

B. McDERMOTT SONS is the name of the leading mercantile establishment in the village of Oregon, and it is now being successfully managed and kept up to the high standard attained, by George and William McDermott, sons of Bernard McDermott, who was the founder of the establishment. Bernard McDermott was

John McDermott

JOHN McDERMOTT, deceased, was one of the most promising young farmers of the town of Fitchburg, where he had lived from early childhood, and by industry, integrity and neighborly kindliness had won the high regard of a large circle of acquaintances who sincerely mourned his untimely taking off.

Stephen Hook

STEPHEN HOOK, deceased; was born in Kent, England, in 1813; his parents came to America when he was about 15, and after a few years in the State of New York, went to Ohio.

Isaac Howe

ISAAC HOWE, M.D., Oregon; was born Dec. 28, 1824, in the village of Woodstock, Windsor Co., Vt.; he attended the common schools, and for four years the famous old Caledonia County Grammar school; Thad Stevens and Wilbur Fish once studied there; young Howe entered the Vermont Medical College in 1847,

Robert Keenan

ROBERT KEENAN, (Grandfather) of Oregon, was born in Fitchburg, September 16, 1854. He is the second son of John and Flora (McKee) Keenan, natives of Ireland. The father came from the old country and the mother from New York City to Lima, Ind.; they came from Indiana to Wisconsin by

John H. Coward

JOHN H. COWARD, boot and shoe maker, Oregon; born in Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, Oct. 30, 1824;

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

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.

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