JOHN H. BRISTOW, blacksmith, Rose street, North La Crosse, has worked at his trade in the city since May, 1859, and has been in North La Crosse since 1872. He was born in Upper Canada in 1833; son of Edward Bristow who is still living in Canada. Mr. Bristow went to Michigan in 1851, learned his trade there, went to St. Paul, Minn., in the fall of 1856, and came from there to La Crosse in 1859. He was married in 1866, in La Crosse, to Eliza Brackett and has seven children-Alice A., Jessie L., Hattie B., Fannie M., William H., John, and an infant not named.

W. H. BROCKLISS, saloon-keeper, No. 10 Pearl street, came to La Crosse in the summer of 1855, started a saloon and restaurant the same year, and has been in the saloon business ever since. He first bought a frame building on his present location, which burned in 1861. He rebuilt the same year a two-story brick, 20x52, which he still occupies. He was born in London, Eng., in 1814, son of William H. Brockliss, who came to America in 1845, and settled in Lee Co., Iowa. He died in Burlington, Iowa, in 1850. W. H. Brockliss came to the United States in 1848, landing in New Orleans on the 2d day of July; went direct to Iowa and resided there till the summer of 1852, then went to California across the plains and remained till the spring of 1855, when he returned to the States, arriving in La Crosse in May, his family having removed here from Iowa in the summer of 1854. He has two children-Sarah Jane, now Mrs. Oscar Wissinger, of Urbana, Ohio, and Letitia, now Mrs. V. A. Bigelow, of La Crosse. Brockliss was married in St. George's Church, 'Hanover square, London, Aug. 22, 1835, to Maria Windwood, a native of Stowe Market, Suffolk, Eng.

J. J. BROWN, cooper and stockholder in the "La Crosse Co-operative Barrel Manufacturing Co.," was born in the city of Chur, Switzerland, son of Christian Brown, who died in Switzerland in 1854. Mr. Brown came to the United States in 1873, lived three years in Mazomanie, Dane Co., Wis., then three years in Rushford, Minn., and came to La Crosse in 1879. He was married in 1878, in Mazomanie, to Miss Ada Coon, daughter of Myron Coon, of that place. Has one child-Seaman.

BENJAMIN FRENCH BRYANT, District Attorney of La Crosse County, was born at Rockland, Me., Sept. 3, 1837. He received his education at the common schools and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kents Hill, and Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine. In June, 1861, he went to Huron Co., Ohio, where his parents had moved a few years previous. He enlisted in Co. A, 101st Ohio V. I., August, 1862, and served in the army of the Cumberland until the close of the war, being mustered out the latter part of June, 1865. He was Sergeant, First Lieutenant and Captain. After going to Ohio before the war, and upon returning after the war, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, at the session of the Huron Co. District Court, in the spring of 1866. He moved to La Crosse in May, 1868, and has practiced law here since that time. He held the office of County Judge for four years, receiving his appointment by the Governor in 1870, to fill vacancy caused by a resignation. Was elected District Attorney in 1873. In April, 1875, he resigned this office and was appointed Pension Agent at this place. Held this position until July, 1877, when the office ceased to exist here by the consolidation of a number of pension agencies. In 1877, he was re-elected as District Attorney, which office he has since held. In 1872, he was appointed Aid-de-camp on the Governor's Staff, with the rank of Colonel, by Gov. C. C. Washburn, and in 1878 he was appointed to the same position by Gov. W. E. Smith.

A. BUCKLE, furniture dealer and undertaker, was born in 1827 in Baden, Germany; came to America in 1848, and spent about a year and a half in different States, then settled down in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained till 1855, when he came to La Crosse and has resided in this city ever since. He worked for other parties at the furniture business three years, and since 1858, has carried on the business himself. He was married in Cincinnati, April 25, 1850, to Theresa Rendler, and has no children. WILLIAM BUEL, carpenter and joiner, has been Constable and City Wood Measurer for the last ten years. He was born in Switzerland in 1828, and came to America in 1849. He lived one year at St. Louis, Mo., one year at Highland, Ill., three years at Marine Hill, Minn., and two years at Stillwater, Minn. He was then on the N. P. R. R. till 1859, since which time he has resided in La Crosse, except one year in Bangor and three years in La Crescent, Minn.; learned the carpenter's trade in the old country and has always followed that business. He was married in St. Louis in 1849, to Judith Stutz, and has had thirteen children, four living-George, Mary, Albert and Lizzie.

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, attorney and counselor at law, was born in Shalerville, Portage Co.. Ohio, July 7, 1837. His father, Ira Burroughs, was by occupation a farmer. In 1855, he, together with his parents, removed to Illinois, where farming was still pursued. In 1857, Mr. Burroughs came to La Crosse and entered the law firm of Denison & Lyndes, as a student. He studied law with this firm until the spring of 1859, when he was admitted to the bar, after which he returned to his parents in Illinois, and after remaining there a short time, he went to St. Louis, where he spent part of the years 1860 and 1861, returning again to La Crosse in the summer of 1861. In November of that year, he

entered into partnership with Mr. Lyndes, of the old firm of Denison & Lyndes, Mr. Denison having been killed through the arising of a dispute, while fishing at Mormon Coolley, in the summer of 1859. This partnership existed until the first of May, 1876, when it was dissolved, since which time he has continued practice alone.

JOSEPH BURGERMEISTER, contractor and builder, has been a resident of La Crosse since the fall of 1863. He was born in Austria in 1843; came to the United States in July, 1863; spent a few months in Baltimore and Chicago and came to La Crosse in the fall. In February, 1864, he enlisted in the 14th W. V. I., Co. K, and was in the service till Oct. 9, 1865. He learned the mason's trade in Germany, commencing at the age of 14, and has worked at the business ever since. He was married, May 29, 1866, to Theresa Islet; has one child, Louis. He has been contracting since

1867.

PROF. J. BURNHAM, Principal of the Second Ward School of La Crosse, is now on the third year in his present position. He was born March 7, 1839, in Caledonia Co., Vt. His father, D.. B. Burnham, came to Wisconsin in 1841, and was among the first settlers in Kenosha County. He is now living at Waupaca, Wis., at the age of 77, having lost his wife in 1875. Mr. Burnham was educated at Waukegan Academy, Ill., and Antioch College, and commenced teaching in Lake Co., Ill., in 1855. He was Principal of the Richmond Public School, in McHenry Co., Ill., from the fall of 1858 till the spring of 1859. He then went to the Pacific coast, and was in Nevada and California till 1864; he then returned to Wisconsin, and in December of that year, was married in Jefferson Co., Wis., to Miss Marilla Tousley and settled in Waupaca, Wis. He was Principal of the Weyauwega Public School in 1866 and 1867, and was then elected Superintendent of Schools for Waupaca County, which office he resigned in 1869 to accept the position of Principal of the Waupaca High School, which he retained till 1872. He then resigned and spent one year in the life insurance business. In October, 1874, he lost his wife, and the same fall was again elected County Superintendent of Schools and served two years. In July, 1877, he again accepted the position of Principal of the Waupaca High School, where he remained two years and came from there to La Crosse. His second wife, to whom he was married in 1876, was Miss Jennie E. Snell, of New London, Wis. He has three children, all by his first wife-Allison, Ralston and Myrtle.

EDWARD J. BUTT, engineer in the mill of A. A. Freeman & Co., is a native of Essex, Eng., born in April, 1829; son of Edward Butt; learned his trade at Kent, Gravesend, Eng., twenty-two miles from London, and spent twenty-seven years on salt water, as an engineer, before coming to America, which he did in February, 1875, and has resided in La Crosse since that time; has been in his present position since the spring of 1876. He was married in October, 1853, at Gravesend, Eng., to Miss Harriet, daughter of Samuel Choat, Esq., of that place. They have two children-Edith H. E., now the wife of John Everard, of La Crosse, and Edward William, 22 years of age, and manager of the book and stationery house, at 255 Nicolet avenue, Minneapolis.

MARK M. BUTTLES, Sheriff of La Crosse County, is a native of Chautauqua Co., N. Y., where he was born on the last day of April, 1844. The following year, his parents, flowing with the tide of emigration to the West, came to Wisconsin and settled in Walworth County, the present Sheriff being included in their list of household valuables. After a temporary sojourn at this point, they continued. their pilgrimage to Rock County, and halting at Janesville, remained in that present flourishing city until 1854, when they come to La Crosse County and became permanent settlers of Burnham Valley, in the present Township of Burns. Here Mr. Buttles passed the earlier years of his life, attending school and availing himself of such advantages as the limited educational resources of the place afforded, until the breaking-out of the war. In 1861, he enlisted in Company A, First Wisconsin Cavalry, in which he served two years, when he was disabled and discharged, and returned home. In 1864, he concluded to try his fortunes further west, and crossing the plains, became a miner in Montana. A year's experience persuaded Mr. Buttles to return to the homes of civilization, and he descended the Missouri River to Omaha in a Mackinac boat, and entered the service of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. In 1867, he visited Fort Sully, thence to La Crosse on a visit. During the spring of 1868, he re-visited Omaha, and proceeded to California, where he became a ranchero, and followed that exciting and varied pursuit until 1873, with no inconsiderable success, when he disposed of his interests and once more journeyed to La Crosse County. He settled in West Salem, where he engaged in trading and speculating, and where he was married to Miss Anna Pierce. In 1879, he was elected to his present position and removed to the city of La Crosse. As a public officer he has given the fullest satisfaction to an admiring constituency. Socially, he is a courteous gentleman, and is a man, one whom misfortune can never dishearten or disaster appall.

LIEUT. ALEXANDER CAMERON, of La Crosse, at the age of 32 years, died at the residence of his father, in Caledonia, N. Y., on Monday morning, April 11, 1864, at 11 o'clock A. M. The La Crosse Republican of the 13th said: "His death was this morning announced in the Circuit Court by the Hon. William Hull, after which the court adjourned until to-morrow, in token of the respect entertained for the memory of the deceased. A meeting of the La Crosse bar, of which Mr. Cameron was a member, will be holden this evening at the office of Messrs. Lyndes & Burroughs. This completes the record of one who, in all the relations of life, sustained a good reputation, and performed well his part. As a son, brother, friend, citizen, counsellor and soldier, he has ever been faithful to his trust. As a Christian, he enjoyed, to the hour of his departure from earthly scenes, the sweetest consolation which a merciful Providence vouchsafes to his chosen sons. Lieut. Cameron's life was sacrificed to his zeal, in returning to army duties before he had recovered strength, after illness contracted while serving his country as Lieutenant in the La Crosse Battery. Thus has the community lost another valuable citizen in consequence of this terrible rebellion against a good government.'

ANGUS CAMERON, of La Crosse, was born at Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., July 4. 1826; received an academic education, studied law at Buffalo, N. Y., and graduated at the National Law School, Ballston Spa; removed to La Crosse, Wis., in 1857; was a member of the State Senate of Wissin in 1863-64 and 1871-72; was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Wisconsin in 1866 and 1867, and was Speaker in 1867; was a member of the National Republican Convention at Baltimore in 1864; was one of the Regents of the University of Wisconsin in 1866 and 1875; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, took his seat March 4, 1875, and was re-elected in 1881, to succeed Matthew H. Carpenter, deceased. His term of service will expire March 4, 1885. Senator Cameron was married to Miss Mary Baker, of Urbana, Steuben Co., N. Y., on the 21st of February, 1856.

HON. HUGH CAMERON. The subject of this sketch, a native of Livingston Co., N. Y.. was born at Caledonia, June 29, 1815. His parents, Duncan A. Cameron and Sarah (McColl) Cameron. were from Scotland, the father coming to this country in 1802, and the mother a few years later. The Camerons are of the Lochiel branch, Lochiel, the chief, being, according to the custom, of the Queen's household. Hugh spent his youth on his father's farm; he prepared for college in the institutions at Middlebury and Lima, in his native State, and entered the University of Vermont in 1834, and graduated with honor four years later, excelling particularly in German metaphysics, then taught by Prof. James Marsh. Returning to Western New York, Mr. Cameron taught in the Avon Academy in 1838 and 1839, reading law at the same time with Amos Dann. He finished his law studies with Hastings & Husbands, of Rochester, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1841, at the first term of the Supreme Court ever held in that city. After practicing a few years in Livingston County, he removed to Buffalo in the spring of 1847, and there built up an excellent law business, as a member of the firm of Wadsworth & Cameron, but seeing openings of great promise farther West, in the spring of 1858, he removed to La Crosse, Wis., his present home, and has here become widely known as a skillful and successful attorney. During the first six years in Wisconsin, Mr. Cameron was in partnership with his brother, Alexander, who went into the army as First Lieutenant, 1st Wisconsin Battery in 1861, and died in 1864. He was District Attorney at the opening of the war, having been elected two years prior to that time, when only about 22 years old. Alexander Cameron was a young man of much promise. In 1856, Hugh Cameron was elected County Judge, and held that office four years, and declined a re-election. The law has been his life study, his life pursuit, and he has no higher ambition than that of excelling in his profession. A prominent journalist, and neighbor of his for the last twenty years, in a private note says of him: "Few men have such complete mastery of literature in all its departments as Judge Cameron. His mental grasp, acquisitions, acumen and discrimination invest his utterances in genial conversation or legal arguments with strength and richness of thought and language, which are best appreciated by those who have the greatest opportunity to test and verify his powers and counsel, in which capacity he is employed by many professional confreres in Western Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota, such persons considering their cases not only thoroughly prepared, but fairly tried, after having undergone his scrutiny and investigation, as the court seldom overrules his decisions.'" Judge Cameron has not only a very fine literary taste, but what is not generally known, has written many able critiques and other articles for the periodical press; but such intellectual labor he does simply for recreation after more severe studies connected with his profession. He is of Whig antecedents, and for the last twenty years he has usually voted the Republican ticket. So thoroughly has Judge Cameron been wedded to the law, that for many years it seemed doubtful if he would ever form a more tender alliance, but, on the 2d of December, 1875, he was joined in marriage with Miss Caroline D. Starr, daughter of W. H. Starr, an early settler and prominent

citizen of Burlington, Iowa, and a graduate of Yale College. Mrs. Cameron is a well educated and highly accomplished lady.

J. B. CANTERBURY, was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1837; came to America in 1859; came to Beaver Dam the same fall. Enlisted in the 5th W. V. I. in 1861; served three and a half years; came to La Crosse after the war, in 1865, and commenced the grain business. Mr. Canter. bury was married to Miss Katherine May Livingston in 1865; has no children. He is at present grain buyer on the Madison Division of the Chicago & North-Western Railway.

P. H. CAPELLEN, merchant tailor; has been in his present business in La Crosse since 1868. He was born in 1827, in Evinghoven, Grefenbroich, Duseldorf, Rhenish, Prussia. Learned his trade while young, and has worked at it ever since, except ten years in the grocery trade, from 1856 to 1866. He was married in Prussia, in 1853, to Ceceilia Herbst, and came to America in 1868. Has five children-John (in business with his father), Eva (at home), Andrew and Peter (at St. John's College in Stearns Co., Minn.), and Catharine (at home).

W. W. CARGILL, dealer in wheat; was born at Long Island, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1844. In 1856, he removed with his parents to Janesville, Wis., where they were engaged in farming, remaining there until 1863, when he went to Austin, and subsequently Albert Lea, Minn., where he was engaged in the wheat trade. In 1875, he removed to La Crosse, and continued the same business. He deals throughout all parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota Territory. The name of the firm of which he is now a member is Cargill & Van.

GEORGE T. CARLETON, merchant; is one of the pioneers of Wisconsin. He was born in Newcastle, Lincoln Co., Me., Jan. 2, 1805; son of Thomas and Hannah (Hall) Carleton; when about a year old his father removed to Kennebec Co., and he grew up to manhood on his father's farm in that county. At the age of 23, he engaged in the mercantile business, which he has continued up to the present time. While in Maine he was in business in Vassalboro and Waterville. In 1833, he married Eliza Drummond, who died in 1840, leaving two children (since deceased). In 1841, he married Miss Mary Dane, of Skowhegan, Me., and came to Wisconsin in 1843; was three days making the trip from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac with an ox team, with no road but an Indian trail. In the spring of 1844 he built the first sail-boat on Lake Winnebago, for the Indians on the lake and up Wolf River. He carried on business in Fond du Lac till 1851. About the 1st of July in that year he came to La Crosse, remained a few days, then returned to Fond du Lac, and came again in August. At that time he put up a building on Third street, where Giles's pork house now stands, for a store and dwelling. There was no lumber to be had in La Crosse at the time, and he purchased his at Robinson's Mill, and run it down the creek into Black River, thence into the Mississippi and to La Crosse. He burned his lime on a pile of logs for the plastering, and thinks this was the first plastered house in the county. After completing this building he returned to Fond du Lac, and, in November, 1851, removed with his family and a stock of goods to La Crosse; came with horse teams, and was eleven days on the road. He continued in business on Third street till 1869, then removed to Sauk Rapids, Minn., and came to North La Crosse in the spring of 1877. He was three years Alderman of the First Ward of La Crosse; has two sons-George T., born in Waterville, Me., and Fred D., born in Fond du Lac, Wis.; both married and engaged in mercantile business in North La Crosse.

GUSTAV CARL, manufacturer of mineral and seltzer water, ginger and lemon beer, 77 and 79 Third street; has been in his present business since 1868, and has the only establishment of the kind in the city. He was born in Saxony, Germany, Dec. 23, 1836. He learned the bookbinder's trade of his father, Adam Carl, who came to America with his family in 1854, landing in New York City on the 5th of June. He located there, and Gustav worked at his trade in the city till 1856, then came West and worked in St. Louis, and Washington, Mo., Chicago and Milwaukee, returning to New York City in the fall of 1857. In the spring of 1858 the whole family came West, the senior Carl going to Chicago and Gustav to Milwaukee, where he remained till 1860, then came to La Crosse in March. In 1862, he went to Winona, Minn., and started business, but burned out a month after starting, and returned to La Crosse, and went into partnership with John Fox in the saloon business, which he continued till 1868, when he went into his present business. He was married in La Crosse to Miss Bertha, daughter of Ernst Herzberg, who came to La Crosse in 1856, and died there in 1879. Mr. Carl has four children— Gustavus, Bertha, Oscar and Albert. He was Alderman of the Third Ward in 1868. His father came to La Crosse from Chicago, and from there to Milwaukee, and died there in 1872.

SAMUEL CHILDERS, shoemaker on Third street; has resided in La Crosse since April, 1857, and been engaged in his present business during the whole time. He was born in Greenbrier Co., Va., April 22, 1824, and raised in Harrison Co., same State. Learned his trade in Virginia, and, in 1846,

went to Letart Falls, Meigs Co., Ohio, having previously been married in Monroe Co., Ohio, to Miss Edith Bradfield. After residing at that place a few years, he removed to Mason Co., Va., and from there to La Crosse. Has six children-William, Martha, John M., Samuel, Alice and Charles. William is married to Olive Sterns, and has one child-Maude, and Martha is the wife of Simon T. Stain. John M. was married June 11, 1880, to Miss Minnie Brabander, and all reside in La Crosse. John M. is a stonecutter by trade, and has worked at it since 18 years old.

SYLVESTER CLARK, foreman in the La Crosse Elevator of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co.; has been in his present position since 1872, and a resident of La Crosse since the fall of 1865. He is a native of Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., where his father, Charles Clark, is still living at 80 years of age. Mr. Clark enlisted in 1862, in the 4th New York Heavy Artillery, and was in the service three years. He was taken prisoner Aug. 24, 1864, near Petersburg, Va.; was at Belle Isle, Pemberton, Libby, and Salisbury, N. C.; was released from the last-named place on the 22d of February, 1865. After he left the army, he returned to Caledonia, N. Y., and came from there to La Crosse in the fall of 1865. He was married in March, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Anna Simon, of that place, and has one child-Edna.

JOSEPH CLARKE, of the firm of Lloyd & Clarke, was born in the city of Philadelphia Jan. 16, 1841. He began his career at La Crosse, in the house of Lloyd & Supplee, in the spring of 1862. In 1868, he married Miss Anna M. Custer, sister of Mrs. W. J. Lloyd. The house of Lloyd & Clarke has always been active in public matters, and especially enterprising in commercial affairs. The Board of Trade has received much valuable aid from the individuals of this firm, Mr. Clarke having served two years as Vice President and two years as President of the Board. While none of the gentlemen connected with the firm have been active politicians, yet twice has the house been called on to fill the office of Mayor, Mr. W. J. Lloyd, one of the original members, being elected to the office (over Col. Theodore Rodolf) in the spring of 1865; Mr. Lloyd, at that time, was only in the 30th year of his age. Mr. Clarke, after twice refusing a party nomination for Mayor, was, in the spring of 1880, induced to accept a non-partisan call to be a candidate for the office, and was duly elected thereto. The principal events of Mr. Clarke's administration were the erection and equipping of the City Pumping Works, which he strongly favored, and the attempt to secure legislation authorizing a special water-pipe tax against all lots abutting on streets where water-pipes had been laid, or might be laid in the future. This project was favored by Mr. Clarke and a majority of the Common Council, but, being left to a vote of the people, was defeated. (See sketch of W. J. Supplee.)

PROF. J. J. CLEVELAND, Principal of the First Ward School of La Crosse; has been in his present position since the spring of 1877. He was born in Boston, Mass., in 1847; son of Henry C. Cleveland, who removed to New York City in 1854, and died there in 1860. Oct. 1, 1861, Mr. Cleveland enlisted in the 10th Conn. V. I., Co. K, and was in the service three years and four months. He was twice wounded during his term of service. The first was only a flesh wound received at the battle of Roanoke Island, Feb. 8, 1863. This was the first battle in which he was engaged. The second was a gun-shot wound in the right shoulder, received Aug. 1, 1864, on the James River in Virginia, which permanently disabled him, and in consequence of which he was discharged in January, 1865. In the fall of 1867, he came West and entered the State Normal School at Mankato, Minn., from which he graduated in June, 1873. He taught three years in Blue Earth City, Minn., and came from there to La Crosse in 1877. He was married in March, 1871, in Blue Earth Co., Minn., to Miss Maggie, daughter of John Shields, of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have four children-Lizzie, May, Bertha and Grace.

JAMES CLIFFORD, shoemaker; has resided in La Crosse since Aug. 27, 1853, and has been in his present business during the whole time, having been the longest here of any shoemaker in the city. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1822; son of Thomas Clifford; lost his father when 14 years old, and his mother one year afterward; came to America in the spring of 1843; lived in Montreal, Canada, one year, which time he served at the shoemaker's trade, and came to the United States in the spring of 1844. He worked in Whitehall and Troy, N. Y., three years; then a short time in Upper Canada, and afterward worked in Lexington, Cincinnati and Springfield, Ohio; Galena, Ill.; St. Louis, Mo.; Memphis, Tenn.; Natchez, Miss.; Louisville, Ky.; La Fayette, Ind., and Dubuque, Iowa, and came to La Crosse in 1853 on the 27th day of August. He was married in September, 1860, to Catharine McHugh, and has five children-Thomas, Henry, William, Rosa and James.

GEORGE H. COGSWELL, blacksmith at the threshing machine works of Smith & Merrill; was born in 1822 in Londonderry, N. H.; son of Joseph Cogswell; learned his trade in Chester, N. H., commencing in 1840; came to Wisconsin in 1846; lived in Geneva, Walworth Co., two years; Oshkosh, two years, and afterward lived in Portage City and Marcellon, Columbia Co., and in