Gertude Christine Sorensen
GERTRUDE CHRISTINE (HANSEN) SORENSEN, Enke (widow). She was President of the first Ladies Aid organized in 1895, and also helped to start Sunday School. She was born Jan. 27, 1826 in Raersnas, Osttofte on Lolland, Denmark, baptized the same year in Osttofte Church, confirmed the 1st Sunday after Easter, 1840 by Pastor Tanning and was married Feb. 8, 1853 to Hans Peter Sorensen.
Nels Sorrenson
NELS SORRENSON, of Oregon, was born in Denmark, November 21, 1871. He is the son of Soren and Anna Sorrenson, natives of Denmark. His father is a farmer and still living, but his mother is dead. They had a family of six sons, four of whom live in the United States and two are still in Denmark.
H.S. Smith
H. S. SMITH, farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Brooklyn; was born in 1806 in Orange Co., Vt.; his early life was spent in Onondaga, Monroe and Yates Cos., N.Y.; he married in the former county Miss Irena Wright, of Bennington, Vt.; she died Oct. 3, 1842, leaving two daughters, Elfie and Louisa; the second marriage, with Miss Phoebe Walford, was in her native county (Yates); two years later, he came West and bought 80 acres of his present farm;
William Soden
William Soden, wagon and carriage maker, Oregon. He was born in the town of Butternuts, Otsego County, New York in 1837.
Croyden Sargeant
CROYDEN SARGEANT, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Brooklyn; born Jan. 27, 1821, in Chesterfield, N.H.; attended the common schools, the old Chesterfield Academy, and a review course at the M. E. Seminary at Newburg, Vt., began at 18 and taught five terms in New England; came West in 1843, and paid almost his last dollar for 40 acres of his present farm; reaching Freeport, Ill., with just 60 cents, he obtained a school near Cedarville;
Samuel Shepard
SAMUEL SHEPARD, farmer, Sec. 18; P.O. Oregon; born Aril 25, 1814, in Byron, Genesee Co., N.Y.; his parents, William and Mary (Hill) Shepard, were farmers and New England people;
Arthur H. Sholts
Arthur Hamlin Sholts was born February 6, 1861, in the town of Rutland, the son of Martin and Almeda Sholts. He received his early education in the Devine school and was a member of the first graduating class of the Oregon High School in 1884. He completed his academic education in Whitewater Normal, graduating in 1889.
H.S. Smith II
HENRY S. SMITH II, of Brooklyn, was born at Gorham, Ontario County, N.Y., April 17, 1847. His father, Henry S. Smith, was a native of Vermont, and came west when the country was new; he came across Lake Michigan, landing at Milwaukee, and came on to Dane county in November of 1847.
Corporal DeWitt C. Salisbury
Age 20, single, blue eyes, red hair, sandy complexion, 5′ 7-3/4″ a farmer
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.)