Samuel Manson
SAMUEL MANSON, clerk for F. Eighmy and Town Clerk, McFarland; was born in Franklin Co. N.Y, in 1853, and is the son of William and Lucinda Manson, with whom he came to Dane Co., Wis. in 1854, and located at that time on Sec. 29, town of Dunn, where his father afterward died, and where his mother now lives;
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.
James Lindsay
JAMES LINDSAY, of Terwilliger & Lindsay, Oregon; born July 29, 1844, in Lancaster Co., Penn.; was educated in his native State, where he learned the trade of machinist;
William Larlor *Name is LALOR (not Larlor)
WILLIAM LARLOR, farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Syene; he was born July 23, 1810, at Tenakill, Queen’s County, Ireland; his father, Patrick Larlor, of said place, was for many years a Representative from that county in the British House of Commons, and was Magistrate of the county until his death, when his son Richard succeeded him as a member of the House of Commons;
Michael Lalley
MICHAEL LALLEY, farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. McFarland; was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1821; May 4, 1841, he left his native county and set sail from Dublin via Liverpool for America, and landed in Boston, Mass., in June following; here he followed the business of a gardener till 1855, whence he migrated westward till he reached Dane Co., Wis.;
William C. Kiser
WILLIAM C. KISER, Sec. 12; P.O. Madison; born July 17, 1828, in Rockingham Co., Va.; has been a life-long farmer;
Malachy Kelly
MALACHY KELLY, farmer, Sec. 16; P.O. Oregon; born Jan. 15, 1835, in the parish of Moore, County Roscommon, Ireland; came to America in 1852; learned the currier’s trade in Salem, Mass., and in 1855 went via the isthmus to California; spent four years in the gold mines of Butte Co.;
George Keenan
GEORGE KEENAN, farmer, Sec. 20; P.O. McFarland; a native of Ireland; was born in Kings County, in August, 1818; when 16 years of age, he, with two brothers and two sisters, emigrated to America; their parents, John and Catherine, had previously died in Ireland.
Sure Johnson
SURE JOHNSON, farmer, Sec. 3, P.O. McFarland; was born in Norway in 1838, and emigrated to Dane Co., Wis., in 1856; locating at that time in the town of Blooming Grove, he there followed farm labor and farming till 1865, except five winters, which he spent in the pineries; he located in 1865 on Sec. 3, town of Dunn, where he now has a farm of 117 acres;
Jonas Johnson
JONAS JOHNSON, carpenter and joiner, McFarland; was born in Norway in August, 1825; he emigrated to Wisconsin in 1855, stopped six months at Milwaukee, whence he came to Stoughton, Dane Co., and thence to McFarland, where he has since lived. Mr. Johnson was the first blacksmith at McFarland, which he continued, in connection with the other business, till 1860; then began carpentering and building, which he now follows.