Private Elias Jacobus
Age 34, married, blues eyes, brown hair, light complexion, 6’0″, a carpenter. Enlisted January 4th 1864 at Oregon, Wisconsin by Sgt. Ellsworth for 3 years, mustered in March 18th 1864, Madison, Wisconsin. Detached service with division Pioneer Corps since June 1864, mustered out with company September 5th 1865 at Demopolis, Alabama.
Corporal Charles Netherwood
Age 19, single.
William Comstock
WILLIAM COMSTOCK, deceased; was born in 1808, in Rhode Island; he was the second of eight children of Aaron and Patience (Spencer) Comstock, and with whom he removed, when a young man, to Delaware Co., N.Y., and there devoted his time principally to farming till the spring of 1844;
John Norton Ames
JOHN NORTON AMES was born July 7, 1822, in Steuben, Oneida County, New York. He is the son of David H. and Betsy Norton Ames. He was married to Mary Ann Ball on October 24, 1844.
In the autumn of 1845, he and his wife migrated from New York state to Wisconsin and located in Oregon. He lived on the original half-section entered by his grandfather until 1870, and then purchased 240 acres, lying on both sides of the trace of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, two miles south of the Oregon village, and in the heart of the best farming land in that section of Wisconsin. On this farm, he built a large two-story farm house, a substantial basement barn and other buildings; and although he began his independent career with $100, which he had earned as monthly wages, few men made greater or more constant progress.
John Norton and Mary Ann Ames spent their remaining years in Oregon. Mary Ann died on February 4, 1893 at the age of 70 years, 9 months, and 10 days-exactly coincident with that of her mother at death. John N. died on March 2, 1917, at the age of 94 years, 7 months and 23 days. His illness was but 4 days long and his mind was clear until the end. Both John and Mary are buried at Prairie Mound Cemetery in Oregon.
They were blessed with seven children, two of whom died in infancy.
Francis Marion Ames (married August 15, 1876 to Alice Cordelia Main)Marianne AmesGeorge W. AmesSara Amelia Ames (married Sept. 19m 1883 to Hugh Pierce Jamieson)William Lafayette Ames (married Feb. 27, 1894 to Julia Alice Travis)Florence Alma Ames (married Dec. 1, 1892 to Arthur Hamilton Sholts)John Franklin Ames (married April 20, 1882 to Ella P. Starkweather and on May 19, 1891 to Frances Meaker)
Ref. Erfurth, Shirley A. (1991). The Ames Family 1520 to 1991, p.8. On file at the OAHS.
Mary Ann (Ball) AmesWife of John Norton Ames(From the family books compiled by Shirley Erfurth)
Egbert Bennett
EGBERT BENNETT, one of the pioneers of Dane county, now living retired in the town of Dunn, was born in Albany, N.Y., June 4, 1819.
A Sketch of the Life of Nathanial Ames
I, Nathaniel Ames, was born April 25th, 1761, in Killingsby, Conn*. My father’s name was David Ames. At the age of six years I was given to my grandfather, who had lost a son in the French War, after whom I was named, who lived in Stonington (now N. Stonington). I lived there until I was eighteen years of age. I then enlisted in the Continental service for the campaign of 1779.
John Culb
JOHN CULB, a prosperous farmer of the town of Oregon, was born in the province of Bavaria, Germany, on September 11, 1848, and is one of three children born to Henry and Elizabeth (Brown) Culb both of whom are also natives of the Fatherland, where the father served six years in the German army.
Joseph E. Flanagan
JOSEPH E. FLANAGAN, an intelligent, energetic and exceedingly popular young farmer of the town of Oregon, is the son of worthy Irish immigrants, who was born in the city of Stoughton, Dane county, on January 17, 1871. His parents were Martin F. and Sarah (Cunningham) Flanagan, both of whom were natives of the Emerald Isle, the father being born at Galway, November 9, 1823, and the mother at Sligo, June 24, 1832.
George Fox
GEORGE FOX, Sec. 35; P.O. Oregon; born in 1820 in County Westmeath, Ireland; son of the rev. William and Ellen (Lynn) Fox, who emigrated to the United States in 1834, with six children; they first settled near Tecumseh, Mich., then went to LaGrange Co., Ind., in 1842 (autumn), his elder brother, Dr. William H. Fox, and himself drove a horse across the country to Chicago, and with the same horse and buggy came via Crystal Lake, Delavan and Janesville to Madison, thence by circuitous course to the small prairie where their farms were located; Harvey Bush guided them to it, describing it as fine land, but in such an out-of-way place;
George H. Fox, M.D.
GEORGE H. FOX, M.D., Oregon; is the eldest son of Joseph G. and Mary (Lalor) Fox. J.G. Fox, son of William and Ellen Fox, was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, April 12, 1822; was educated at Waterford Seminary; came to America (first time) in 1834;