William T. Kelley
WILLIAM T. KELLEY, who is recognized as one of the progressive young farmers of the town of Oregon, where he was born and has claimed a residence during the greater part of his life, is the eldest of a family of four children born to Warren S. and Jane E. (Griffith) Kelly, former residents of Dane county. The father was a native of the state of New York and the mother was born in Dane county, Wis.
William Keenan
WILLIAM KEENAN, the occupant of the old Keenan homestead in the town of Dunn, was born in the town of Fitchburg, Dane county, December 19, 1852. His parents were George and Matilda Elizabeth (Fox) Kennan, natives of Moat, County Meath, Ireland, where Mr. Keenan was born August 18, 1818, (8/18/1818) and his wife February 18, 1818. Mrs. Keenan was the daughter of Rev. William Fox, a Presbyterian minister and her mother was Eleanor Lynn.
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 team, by way of Chicago and were married in the town of Dunn, Dane county. They were among the earliest settlers, coming with the Foxes in 1843.
Andrew P. Johnson
Andrew P. Johnson, a prominent farmer of the town of Rutland, spent his youth and young manhood in Norway and Sweden.He is of Swedish birth and ancestry and his parents, John Anderson and Bertha Anderson, were both natives of Ellstaate, Sweden. This was also their home after their marriage and their family of seven children were born on a farm in Ellstaate. The parents are now deceased and the family widely scattered. Mary, the oldest daughter, lives in Norway; Andrew P. and Lewis in Rutland; Tillie, in Madison, Wis.; Sophia, in Norway and Charles in Michigan. The youngest son, Edwin, died in infancy.
Parke C. Herrick
PARKE C. HERRICK, of Oregon, was born in Rutland Township, May 25, 1866, and is the son of J. T. Herrick, one of the sturdy lumbermen which Maine sent out in such numbers to subdue the great forests of the northwest, fifty years ago. Mr. Herrick was a native of Bangor, and until he was thirty years of age worked in the pineries of his native state; he came to Wisconsin about 1850, but abandoned his old occupation and settled down as a farmer in the town of Rutland, Dane county, taking up eighty acres of government land and turning it form a forest wilderness into a cultivated farm.
Henry Drury Hanson
HENRY DRURY HANSON, Jr., the editor of the Oregon Observer, was born April 18, 1862, in Dunkirk, Dane County. His father, Henry D. Hanson, Sr., was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to the United States in 1851, when twenty-one years old. His mother Sarah (Fillingham) Hanson, was also English by birth, and came to this country a year later.
Hiat Halverson
HIAT HALVERSON, deceased, was born in the Town of Dunn, Dane County, Wis., May 20, l850. He was a son of Stener and Dogena (Qualey) Halverson, natives, of Norway. Stener Halverson came to Wisconsin in l845, settling in Milwaukee. After a short residence there he went to Chicago, where he did teaming with oxen, often hauling loads of hay over what are now Chicago’s principal thoroughfares. Land in the vicinity of what is now the business district of that city was selling at $1.25 an acre. After a few months of this labor Mr. Halverson came to Wisconsin again, settling in Stoughton, on eighty acres of government land.
Daniel Grady
Daniel Grady (deceased), son of Lawrence Grady, was born in Ireland, one of a family of nine children. When he was eighteen years of age he came to America, leaving his parents in the old country. He came to Fitchburg, Dane county, and remained for several years with his brothers. He bought the place where the family now reside, and which was his home at the time of his death, December 23, 1900.
Horace A. Goold
HORACE A. GOOLD, who is now living in retirement in the town of Oregon, Dane county, is another of the valiant ones who responded to the call for men during he early sixties, and as a member of a Wisconsin regiment risked his life that the nation founded by the fathers of the Republic might continue to exist.
Joseph Grierson Fox
JOSEPH GRIERSON FOX, of Oregon, was born in Suntown, Ireland, about fifty miles from Dublin, April 12, 1822. His parents were William and Eleanor (Lynn) Fox, both natives of Ireland. His father was a merchant of Dublin, but after coming to the United States, he took up the occupation of farming, settling in La Grange, Ind., which remained his home.