Chapter 6 ST. CROIX COUNTY.

Organization, 1840

144

Division, 1848 144

County Seat Located at Buena Vista 145

First Election 145

Division of the County, 1853 146

Present Limits 146

General Description 146

Monument Rock 147

Towns and Date of Organization 148

St. Croix County Agricultural Society 148

Pomona Grange 148

Agricultural Statistics 148

Manufactures 149

St. Croix Poor Farm 149

First Tax Roll of County, 1848 149

Hudson City 152

Original Claimants 153

First Survey, etc. 153

First Deed Recorded 154

City Government 155

Mayors of the City 155

City Schools 155

Military Institute 156

Mills and Manufactories 156

Banks 156

Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital 157

Water Works 158

Hotels, the Great Fire, 1866 158

Social and Benevolent Organizations 159

Biographies.

Louis Massey 159

Peter Bouchea 160

William Steets 160

Capt. John B. Page 160

Dr. Philip Aldrich 160

The Nobles Family 161

James Purinton 161

Ammah Andrews 162

James Walstow 162

James Sanders 162

J. W. Stone 162

Joseph Bowron 163

Moses Perin 163

John O. Henning 163

Moses S. Gibson 164

Col. James Hughes 164

Daniel Anderson 165

Alfred Day 165

Dr. Otis Hoyt 165

S. S. N. Fuller 166

Miles H. Van Meter 166

Philip B. Jewell 166

John Tobin 166

Horace A. Taylor 167

Jeremiah Whaley 167

Simon Hunt 167

John S. Moffatt 167

James H. Childs 168

William Dwelley 168

James M. Fulton 168

Marcus A. Fulton 168

David C. Fulton 168

N. S. Holden 168

William H. Semmes 169

Sterling Jones 169

D. R. Bailey 169

Henry C. Baker 169

Mert Herrick 169

D. A. Baldwin 170

John Comstock 170

Lucius P. Wetherby 170

John C. Spooner 170

Thomas Porter 171

Herman L. Humphrey 171

Theodore Cogswell 172

Frank P. Catlin 172

Charles Y. Denniston 173

A. E. Jefferson 173

Samuel C. Symonds 173

John E. Glover 173

Lemuel North 173

Edgar Nye 173

William T. Price 173

E. B. Bundy 174

Towns and Biographies.

Baldwin 174

Baldwin Village 174

Woodville Village 175

Cady 175

Cylon 175

Eau Galle 176

Emerald 176

Erin Prairie 176

Forest 177

Glenwood 177

Hammond 177

Hammond Village 178

John Thayer 178

Rev. William Egbert 178

Hudson 178

James Kelly 178

Daniel Coit 179

James Virtue 179

Theodore M. Bradley 179

William Dailey 179

Robert and Wm. McDiarmid 179

William Martin 179

Paschal Aldrich 180

Kinnikinic 180

Duncan McGregor 180

W. B. and James A. Mapes 181

Pleasant Valley 182

Richmond 182

Boardman Village 183

Gridley Village 183

New Richmond Village 183

New Richmond City 183

Bank, High School 184

Benjamin B.C. Foster 184

Robert Philbrick 185

Linden Coombs 185

Eben Quinby 185

Lewis Oaks 185

Henry Russell 185

Joseph D. Johnson 185

Joel Bartlett 185

Francis W. Bartlett 186

George C. Hough 186

Silas Staples 186

Dr. Henry Murdock 187

Steven N. Hawkins 187

Rush River 188

Somerset 188

Somerset Village 189

Gen. Samuel Harriman 189

St. Joseph 190

Houlton Village 191

Burkhardt Village 191

Springfield 191

Hersey Village 191

Wilson Village 192

Stanton 192

Star Prairie 192

Huntington Village 192

Star Prairie Village 192

Hon. R. K. Fay 192

Troy 193

James Chinnock 193

William L. Perrin 193

Warren 194

James Hill 194

Village Plats 195