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 CHAPTER VII.
PIERCE COUNTY.

This county, named in honor of President Pierce, was separated from St.
Croix county in 1853, and organized by the same act that created Polk
county, and gave to St. Croix its present limits. It contains about six
hundred square miles of territory, lying east of the Mississippi river and
Lake St. Croix. It is somewhat triangular in shape, the river and lake
forming the hypotenuse, and St. Croix, Dunn and Pepin bounding it by
right lines on the north and east, Pepin also forming a small part of its
southern boundary.
The scenery is picturesque and varied. Along the river and lake is a
series of limestone bluffs, broken at intervals by ravines and valleys, and
leaving the impression upon the mind of the traveler on the Mississippi
of a rough, broken and inhospitable country, than which nothing could
be further from the truth. Beyond these rugged escarpments of
limestone and out of sight of the traveler, the country stretches away
toward the interior as an undulating prairie, with meadows and rich
pasturelands, with occasional forests, the whole watered and drained by
an intricate network of streams tributary to the lake and river, and the
three larger streams, the Kinnikinic, which empties into the St. Croix and
Big rivers, Trimbelle and Rush, that empty into the Mississippi. Some
branches of the Chippewa also take their rise in this county. These
streams uniformly have their source in springs and their waters are
consequently pure, cold and invigorating, flowing over beds of white
sand or pebbles, and in their downward course forming many ripples,
rapids, cascades and some beautiful waterfalls. Their total descent to
the bed of the Mississippi is about four hundred feet. Pierce county has
no inland lakes within its limits, nor any indications of their previous
existence. The soil is formed chiefly from decomposed rocks or ledges
worn down by the abrading forces of water and wind, of frost and heat.
The rivers in their downward course have excavated broad valleys,
having originally precipitous bluffs on either side, and even bluffs once
islands in the midst of the streams. These, by later agencies, have been
smoothed to gentle slopes and rounded into graceful mounds, towering
sometimes as much as eighty feet above the valley or plains. In some
places mere outlines of sandstone or limestone rock are left, turret-like,
on the summit of a mound, as monuments on which the geologist may
read the record of ages gone. As the character of the soil of a country
depends upon the composition of the rocks underlying it, and those
removed from the surface, reduced to soil and widely distributed, we
give what may be considered as the section of any one of the mounds
near Prescott in the order of the superposition of strata:

At the base—Lower magnesian limestone 250 feet.

Above the plain—Upper sandstone 50 feet.
On the summit—Trenton, or shell limestone 30 feet.

Over a great part of the county the Trenton and limestone are worn
almost entirely away, and their former existence is attested only by a
few mounds, bluffs and outlines. Drift is not often met with. The soil
may be considered as formed out of drift, now removed from its original
position, and out of the sandstone and limestone. It is, therefore, soil of
the richest quality.
By the same act that created the county of Pierce, passed March 14,
1853, Prescott was declared the county seat. The town board of Prescott
was constituted the county board. The commissioners were Osborn
Strahl, chairman; Silas Wright and Sylvester Moore. At the first county
election, Nov. 15, 1853, one hundred and ten votes were cast. The
following were the officers elected: County judge, W. J. Copp; sheriff, N.
S. Dunbar; treasurer, J. R. Freeman; clerk of court, S. R. Gunn; clerk of
board, Henry Teachout; coroner, J. Olive; district attorney, P. V. Wise;
surveyor, J. True; register of deeds, J. M. Whipple. Mr. Whipple was
authorized to transcribe the records of St. Croix county up to date of the
organization of Pierce.
The first assessment in the county, in 1853, amounted to $24,452. At
the meeting of the supervisors, Jan. 18, 1854, the district attorney was
allowed forty dollars per annum as salary. Courts were held wherever
suitable buildings could be obtained. During this year Judge Wyram
Knowlton, of Prairie du Chien, held the first district court at Prescott.
The first records of the court were kept on sheets of foolscap paper, and
fastened together with wafers. The first case before the court was that
of "The State of Wisconsin, Pierce County, Wm. Woodruff vs. Chas. D.
Stevens, August Lochmen, and Chas. Peschke, in Court of said County.
In Equity." On reading and filing the bill in complaint, in this case, on
motion of S. J. R. McMillan and H. M. Lewis, solicitors for counsel, J. S.
Foster, it was ordered that a writ of injunction be issued in the case,
pursuant to the prayer of said bill, upon said complainant. Some one, in
his behalf, filed with the clerk of said court, a bond for damages and
costs in the sum of $1,700, with surety to be approved by the clerk or
judge of said court. The first document recorded in the county is an
agreement between Philander Prescott and Philip Aldrich, wherein
Aldrich agrees to occupy lands adjoining Prescott's, at the mouth of St.
Croix lake on the west, and David Hone on the east. The second
document is a deed, conveying a tract of three hundred and twenty
acres of land from Francis Chevalier to Joseph R. Brown, the land lying
near the mouth of Lake St. Croix, and marked by stakes planted in the
ground, and adjoining Francis Gamelle's claim, dated July 20, 1840.
In 1857 County Treasurer Ayers became a defaulter to the county in the
sum of $2,287.76, and to the Prescott Bank, $4,000. In 1861, by act of
the legislature, the question of changing the county seat from Prescott
to Ellsworth was submitted to the people. The vote as declared was six
hundred for removal and three hundred and seventy-three against it.
Technical objections having been raised as to the legality of the vote,
the subject was submitted to the people a second time in 1862. The
vote for removal was confirmed. In 1863 the district system was
adopted and three districts were established by legislative enactment,
but in 1870 the county returned to the original system by which the
board of supervisors was made to consist of a chairman from each one
of the town boards. A poor farm was established near Ellsworth in 1869,
at a cost of $3,600. The county board also appropriated $31,000 for
county buildings at Ellsworth.
The finances of the county have been admirably managed. In 1885
there was no indebtedness, and a surplus in the treasury of $5,000. The
educational interests are well cared for. There are over one hundred
school districts in the county, with well conducted schools, and generally
with good substantial buildings. The school lands of St. Croix, then
including Pierce county, were appraised in 1852 by Dr. Otis Hoyt, ——
Denniston and James Bailey, and the lands at once offered for sale.
Settlers' rights were respected. The county issued $5,000 in bonds to
aid in establishing the normal school at River Falls.

RAILROADS.

River Falls has direct communication with Hudson by a branch of the

Chicago & St. Paul railroad. In 1885 the Burlington & Northern railroad
route was surveyed and established, entering the county on the shore of
Lake Pepin, and running nearly parallel with lake and river to Prescott,
where it crosses Lake St. Croix near its mouth, on a bridge, the total
length of which is 520.5 feet, with one draw span 367.5 feet in length,
and one piled span of 153 feet. This bridge was completed, and the first
train entered Prescott, May 31, 1886. The grade of this road does not
exceed fifteen feet to the mile.

MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.

The Grand Army of the Republic have posts at the following places:

No. 72, A. W. Howard Post Rock Elm.

No. 117, I. M. Nichols Post River Falls.
No. 118, Ellsworth Post Ellsworth.
No. 189, R. P. Converse Post Prescott.
No. 204, U. S. Grant Post Maiden Rock.
No. 209, Plum City Post Plum City.

The following are the village plats of Pierce county, with date of survey
and location:

Prescott, town of Prescott 1853

Kinnikinic, town of River Falls 1854
Monte Diamond (Diamond Bluff), town of Diamond Bluff 1854
Saratoga, town of Isabelle 1855
 River Falls (Greenwood and Fremont), town of River Falls 1856
Maiden Rock, town of Maiden Rock 1856
Warren, town of Maiden Rock 1856
Trimbelle, town of Trimbelle 1856
Franklin, town of Trimbelle 1856
Martell (Rising Sun), town of Martell 1856
Beldenville, town of Trimbelle 1857
Trenton, town of Trenton 1857
Plum City, town of Union 1858
El Paso, town of El Paso 1858
Esdaile, town of Hartland 1870
Rock Elm, town of Rock Elm Centre 1876
Hogan, town of Trenton 1886
Bay City, town of Isabelle 1887

ORGANIZATION OF TOWNS.

The following is the chronological order in which the towns of Pierce

county were organized:

Prescott[B]. 1853
Greenwood (now River Falls) 1854
Martell 1854
Isabelle 1855
Trimbelle 1855
Diamond Bluff 1855
Clifton 1855
Oak Grove 1856
Perry (Ellsworth) 1856
Spring Valley (Maiden Rock) 1857
Trenton 1857
El Paso 1858
Hartland 1859
Union 1861
Salem 1862
 Rock Elm 1862
Deerfield (Gilman) 1868
Spring Lake 1868

CLIFTON,

Situated in the northwestern part of the county, contains a little over

thirty full sections of land, those on the St. Croix having a somewhat
irregular boundary. The surface is somewhat broken where traversed by
the Kinnikinic and its tributaries. It includes twenty-four sections on the
west side of township 27, range 19, and fractional township 27, range
20. It was established in 1855. Its first board of officers were:
Supervisors—Geo. W. McMurphy, chairman; Osborne Strahl and G. W.
Teachout. C. B. Cox was the first postmaster, in 1852, at a place called
Clifton Mills, from which the town afterward derived its name. This post
town is situated on the Kinnikinic, in section 18, township 27, range 18
west. It has one grist mill and two saw mills, belonging to Cox, King &
Goodsall. No intoxicants are sold here. The Glenwood saw mills, having
a capacity of 3,000,000 feet, are located on the lake shore. In 1868 a
limestone quarry was opened on the lake shore, by Oakley & Nichols. In
1881 the firm became Oakley & Hall. They have a patent kiln and good
machinery, and some seasons have manufactured as much as 5,000
barrels of lime.
George W. McMurphy was born at Newcastle, Delaware, in 1821. In 1845
he came to St. Croix Falls, and in 1848 to Clifton, where he pre-empted
the beautiful homestead which he still holds, and where he has
successfully followed the business of farming. He has been repeatedly
elected to town and county offices. In 1848 he was married to Maria A.
Rice. Their children are Augustus (resident of St. Paul), George (a
physician living in Ortonville, Minnesota), James A., Robert, Albert and
Edward, and two married daughters. Mr. McMurphy is a member of the
Congregational church.
Osborne Strahl was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1818; came to
Galena, Illinois, in 1838, in 1845 to Mauston and Stevens Point,
Wisconsin, and to Chippewa Falls in 1847. During these years he
followed lumbering. In 1850 he came to the town of Elisabeth, St. Croix
county, which on subsequent division of towns and counties left Mr.
Strahl in Clifton, where he has been engaged in farming. He was
married in 1860 to Rebecca McDonald. They have two sons, Wm. Day,
living in Dakota, Howard P., in River Falls; three daughters, Mabel, wife
of Joseph M. Smith, banker at River Falls, and two daughters unmarried.
Mr. Strahl filled various town and county offices.
Charles B. Cox was born June 25, 1810, in Chenango county, New York.
He learned the trade of a miller, lived in Ohio seventeen years and came
to Clifton in 1849. He built at Clifton the first saw and grist mill in the
Kinnikinic valley, in 1850. He changed his residence to River Falls in
1854, where he lived till 1874, when he removed to California. During
the year 1851 he ground three hundred bushels of wheat, the sole
product of the valley.
Ephraim Harnsberger was born in Kentucky, Nov. 21, 1824, moved with his
parents to Illinois in 1832, and to Prescott in 1847, where he pre-
empted a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. He was married at
Alton, Illinois, in 1858, to Lizzie Johnson. Their children are Charles,
Sarah Etta, and Jennie.

DIAMOND BLUFF

Is a triangular shaped town, the hypotenuse being formed by the

Mississippi river. It contains ten sections and three fractional sections in
town 25, range 18, and five sections and five fractional sections in town
25, range 19. It is traversed in the eastern part by Trimbelle river. The
town was established in 1857, and the first town meeting was held that
year at the home of David Comstock. The town board consisted of:
Supervisors—James Akers, chairman; Wilson Thing and C. F. Hoyt;
justice, S. Hunter. Susan Rogers taught the first school. This town has
the honor of claiming the first white settler, aside from traders, in the
Upper Mississippi valley. He came to the site of the present village of
Diamond Bluff in 1800, and named it Monte Diamond. We give
elsewhere a somewhat extended account of this ancient pioneer, with
some speculations concerning him and his descendants that are
plausible enough to warrant their insertion. In historic times a post office
was established here in 1854, called at the time, Hoytstown, from C.F.
Hoyt, the first postmaster.
On the organization of the town the name was changed to Diamond
Bluff. Quite a village has since grown up around it. The first frame house
was built in 1855, by Enoch Quinby. The first sermon was preached by
Rev. J. W. Hancock, a Presbyterian minister, for some years a missionary
among the Indians. The first birth was that of Mary Day, in 1851, and
the first death that of Daniel Crappers, in 1854.
Capt. John Paine.—Jack Paine, as he is familiarly called, was born in
England, and for the greater part of his life has been a seafaring man.
For the past thirty years he has been a steamboat man on the Ohio,
Mississippi and Missouri rivers. He has been married three times: first in
Rhode Island, second to Mrs. La Blond, of St. Louis, and last to Miss
Ressue, of Diamond Bluff. He came to Diamond Bluff in 1848, with four
children of his first wife, his second wife having died childless. He is now
living with his third wife in La Crosse. They have three children.
John Day was born in Martinsburg, Virginia. In 1850 he and his wife and
three children, with Allen B. Wilson and his wife, came to Diamond Bluff.
Mr. Day is well known as a fearless and enthusiastic hunter. In 1852 he
had a close encounter with a large black bear, which, after a desperate
struggle, he killed with an axe. The Indians considered Mr. Day as
"waukon," supernatural, averring that their bravest warriors would not
have attacked singly so large an animal.
Sarah A. Vance, the wife of Mr. Day, was born in Kentucky. The Vance
family were famous pioneers, and some of them were noted Methodist
preachers. Miss Vance's first marriage was to John R. Shores, by whom
she had two children, one of whom, Isabella, became the wife of A. R.
Wilson.
Allen R. Wilson.—Mr. Wilson was born in Kentucky; spent his early
boyhood in Shawneetown, Illinois; was married to Miss Shores at Potosi,
Wisconsin, April 16, 1848, and in 1850 came to Diamond Bluff. Mr.
Wilson took great interest in politics, was an ardent Republican, and was
among the first to volunteer his services for the suppression of the
Rebellion in 1861. He enlisted in Company B, Sixth Regiment, Wisconsin
Volunteers, and fell in battle, Sept. 14, 1862, at South Mountain. Mr.
Wilson was well informed, a close observer of political events at home
and abroad, and was a brave and efficient soldier. He left five children.
E. S. Coulter.—Mr. Coulter is a Virginian by birth. In early manhood he
traveled extensively as a book agent, and finally settled at Diamond
Bluff, where he successfully engaged in farming and dealing in wheat
and merchandise.
James Bamber, ex-musician in the British and United States armies.
Jacob Mead, ex-shoemaker, ex-soldier and miner, a man of superior
natural and acquired talent.
Charles Walbridge came to Diamond Bluff in 1852.
Jacob Mead died in 1884, leaving a large property.
Charles F. Hoyt, with his wife and one child, came to Diamond Bluff from
Illinois, in 1853.
Enoch Quinby was born at Sandwich, New Hampshire; was married to
Matilda Leighton, originally from Athens, Maine. Mr. Quinby and his wife
came from Pittsfield, Illinois, to Diamond Bluff in 1854.

THE FIRST SETTLER.

There is a pretty well grounded tradition that the first white man who
found his way to Diamond Bluff was a French Vendean loyalist of the
army of Jacques Cathelineau; that he fled from France in 1793 or 1794,
landed at Quebec, and was traced by his enemies to Mackinaw and
Chicago, where they lost his trail. He came to Diamond Bluff in 1800,
and named it "Monte Diamond." He had for his housekeeper the
daughter of an Indian chief. He died here about 1824. After his death
the Indians always called the place the "Old White Man's Prairie." E.
Quinby, of Diamond Bluff, to whom we are indebted for this account,
adds: "All the additional evidence I can give in regard to this pioneer is
that prior to 1793 his wife died, leaving him one daughter, who was
deformed. A former friend of his had a beautiful daughter of about the
same age of his own. After the uprising and defeat of the Vendeans,
they became enemies, and he, to save his life, took his former friend's
daughter, instead of his own, and fled to this country. The father
pursued them as far as Chicago, where he saw his daughter in company
with some Indian girls, and having on her person some ornaments once
worn by her mother. He at once seized her and carried her back with
him to France, and the old Frenchman found his way to Diamond Bluff."
Faribault's son,[C] now living somewhere in Minnesota, wrote me a few
years since, inquiring about the old Frenchman, saying that his
grandmother claimed that her husband was a French nobleman, and
that he lived near Lake Pepin. He believed the old Frenchman was his
grandfather. The above statements were communicated to the late Capt.
Orin Smith, of Galena, Illinois, Allen B. Wilson and myself, in 1854, or in
1855, by an old Frenchman then residing at Potosi, Wisconsin, who
claimed to have seen and gathered these facts from the old man
himself. Capt. Smith was well acquainted with the Frenchman at Potosi,
and gave the fullest credence to his account.

EL PASO

Occupies township 26, range 16. It is drained chiefly by Rush river and
its tributary, Lost creek, on the west. The two post villages in this town
are, El Paso, located in section 5, and Lost Creek, in section 3. George P.
Walker was the first settler. He built the first house and raised the first
crop; Thomas T. Magee came in 1855. In 1860 the town was organized,
Thomas Hurley and Geo. P. Walker being supervisors. In 1862 Mr. Magee
built a saw and flour mill in section 5, and platted the village of El Paso.
In 1875 he removed to Clear Lake, Polk county, of which town he was
the first settler. Clara Green taught the first school in El Paso, in 1861.
There is one Catholic and one Lutheran church in the village. The name
El Paso signifying a crossing, is of somewhat obscure derivation.

ELLSWORTH

Was organized under the name of Perry, March 3, 1857, but in 1862 it
received its present name. It occupies a central position in the county
and includes township 26, range 17. This is a rich farming town,
originally timbered with hardwood. The surface is elevated and gently
undulating. It is drained on the east by the tributaries of Rush river, but
has no large or important streams. The first supervisors were: P. M.
Simons, chairman; Caleb Bruce and Wilson Kinnie. The first settler was
Anthony Huddleston, who came April 23, 1856, and pre-empted the
southeast quarter of section 20. On November 26th, of the same year,
came Caleb, Elihu W. and Eli T. Bruce, who pre-empted farms on
sections 18 and 19. During the same year Wilson and Norris Kinnie and
David Klingensmith pre-empted farms in sections 18 and 19. Lilly,
Miscen, Russ, and Campbell came also in 1855. The first log house in
the town was built by Anthony Huddleston in 1855. Norris Kinnie built
the first in what was afterward the village of Ellsworth. The first school
house, a log building, built was in 1857, and Mary Filkins, now Mrs. G.
H. Sargeant, of Minnesota, taught the first school. The first marriage
was that of Charles Stannard and Mary Leonard, in 1855. The first birth,
that of the twin children of Wilson. Both died. The first death of an adult
was that of Mrs. Jacob Youngman in the winter of 1855. The post office
was opened in 1860, with Seely Strickland as postmaster.

ELLSWORTH VILLAGE.

The original owners of the southern half of section 18, and the northern
half of 19, Norris Kinnie, Eli T. Bruce, Henry P. Ames, and Wm. Crippin
laid out and platted the village of Ellsworth in 1862. Wm. Crippin, built a
frame hotel there in 1860. C. S. Dunbar opened a store in 1861. The
prospect of Ellsworth becoming the county seat gave a great impetus to
business enterprises. This was decided by a popular vote in 1861, but
owing to some technical defects was resubmitted to the people of the
county in 1862, and then definitely decided. In the year 1862 the
citizens of Ellsworth built a log house in which the first terms of court
were held; meanwhile the county officers had their offices in the
basement of Crippin's hotel. The permanent county buildings were not
erected until 1869. They are built of stone and cost $60,000. In 1863 a
frame schoolhouse took the place of the old log structure, and in 1874 a
commodious brick building was erected, at a cost of $5,000.
The Methodists, Lutherans and Catholics have church buildings. There is
one newspaper, the Pierce County Herald, edited by E. F. Case and E. S.
Doolittle. The Barnes saw mill built in 1867, burned down and rebuilt,
has a capacity of about 5,000 feet per day. A branch railroad, built from
Hudson to River Falls, was extended to Ellsworth in 1885. The depot is
one mile from the village. The Pierce County Central fair grounds,
containing seventeen acres, are located near the village. The grounds
are inclosed and are covered with a fine maple grove, in the midst of
which is a large flowing spring. D. W. Woodworth was first president of
the fair association. Ellsworth has two handsome cemeteries,
Maplewood and the Catholic.
The village itself is beautifully situated on an elevated plateau originally
covered with hardwood timber. The streets are tastefully adorned with
maple trees.
Anthony Huddleston.—Mr. Huddleston is of Irish descent. He was born in
West Virginia in 1804; had but limited educational privileges; lived for a
part of his life in Ohio and Indiana, and settled in Ellsworth in 1855,
being the first settler in the town. He was a house carpenter for over
sixty years. He was a member of the Dunkard church sixty-two years.
He was married in 1826, in Ripley, Indiana, to Susannah Whetstone.
They have three sons and six daughters living.
Perry D. Pierce was born in Harpersfield, Delaware county, New York. He
traces his lineage to ancestors who came across in the Mayflower and
landed at Plymouth Rock. He received an academic education, studied
law with A. Reckor, Oswego, New York, and was admitted to practice at
Cooperstown in 1843, practiced in Albany three years, and in 1854 came
to the St. Croix valley, locating first at Prescott, where he served as
district attorney for four years, and county judge eight years. He was
married in 1860, to Lua E. Searsdall. He is now a resident of Ellsworth.
Hans B. Warner, of Ellsworth, Pierce county, was born at
Gulbrandsdalen, Norway, July 12, 1844; received a common school
education; is by occupation a farmer; emigrated and settled in
Dodge county, Wisconsin, in 1853, and thence removed to Pierce
county in 1855, where he has since resided. He enlisted in March,
1864, as a private, in Company G, Thirty-seventh Regiment,
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; was wounded and captured in front of
Petersburg, Virginia, July 30, 1864, and was held a prisoner of war in
Danville and Libby prisons until paroled, September, 1864; was
discharged from service on account of wounds received in battle July
18, 1865. He has held various local offices, and the position of
county clerk of Pierce county from January, 1869, to Dec. 21, 1877,
when he resigned, to assume the duties of secretary of state, to
which office he was elected in 1877, and was re-elected in 1879,
serving in all four years. He was elected to the state senate in 1882
and served until 1886. His home business is farming and real estate.
He was married in 1866, to Julia E. Hudson.

GILMAN.

The town of Gilman includes township 27, range 16. The postal
villages are Gilman, section 10, and Olivet, section 36. Gilman was
organized as the town of Deerfield, in 1868, but in 1869 the name
was changed to Gilman. The first supervisors were Oliver Purdy,
Caleb Coon, Bardon Jensen. The first school was taught in 1870, by
M. L. Maxgood. A Norwegian Lutheran church was built in 1883, at a
cost of $1,500. There are six school houses with an aggregate cost
of $2,000. The first marriage was that of Caleb Coon and Cenith
Preston, in 1867. The first birth was a child of this married couple.
The first death was that of Mrs. Rufus Preston. The first post office
was at Gilman, U. F. Hals, postmaster. The first settlers were B. F.
Gilman, in 1859, still a resident; N. B. Lawrence, soon after, now
removed; Rufus Preston and family; Joseph and Caleb Coon and
families, in 1865, still resident. J. R. Maxgood, B. Jensen and son, E.
B. Jensen, the Matthieson brothers, Z. Sigursen, H. Bredahl, S. J.
Goodell, Nels Gulikson, M. O. Grinde, Albert Martin, P. Vanosse, and
T. B. Forgenbakke are among the oldest citizens.

HARTLAND.

Hartland occupies township 25, range 17. It has one post village,
Esdaile. It has one saw mill and a factory for the manufacture of
hubs and bent wood work, operated by Charles Betcher, of Red
Wing, Minnesota, which gives employment to seventy-five men and
ten teams the year round. The village of Esdaile has also two
general merchandise stores and a hotel. Hartland was organized in
1859. The first supervisors were A. Harris, chairman; Joseph Sleeper
and R. M. Sproul. Amongst the first settlers were Augustus E.
Hodgman, section 24, 1854; James Buckingham, section 28, 1854;
Lewis Buckmaster, section 1, 1853. The first school was taught in
1858, by Mary Ann Stonio. The first post office was at Esdaile, Hiram
Patch, postmaster. There are three church organizations,
Presbyterian, Methodist and Lutheran (Norwegian), with buildings
valued at from $700 to $1,000. There are nine school houses,
ranging in cost from $500 to $1,400. The Good Templars have an
organization.

ISABELLE.

Isabelle consists of the two upper tiers of section 7, township 24,

range 17, the lower tier being much broken in outline by Lake Pepin
on the south. It contains also fractions of sections in the third tier.
Bay City, on the shore of the lake, is the postal town. It was
organized in 1855. In 1869 it was annexed to Hartland, but in 1871
it was re-established. The first chairman of supervisors was John
Buckingham. The election was held at the house of Abner Brown.
Charles R. Tyler and Lorenzo D. Philips settled here in 1854, and
built a saw mill where now stands the thriving village of Bay City.
Saratoga plat was laid out upon this ground in 1856, by A. C.
Morton. A. J. Dexter was the original claimant of the land. Mr.
Morton purchased the land which covered a part of Bay City from
the government. A surveyor named Markle was employed by Morton
to run the lines, which Mr. Dexter considered an intrusion upon his
rights, and he shot Markle. Dexter was tried before Judge S. S. N.
Fuller, in 1855, was convicted, and sentenced to prison for life. After
a few years he was pardoned by Gov. Barstow.

MAIDEN ROCK.
Maiden Rock occupies the four upper tiers of sections of township
24, ranges 15 and 16, except such portions on the southwestern
corner as are cut off by Lake Pepin. It contains about forty sections.
The town was organized under the name of Spring Valley, in 1857.
Its postal villages are Maiden Rock, on the lake shore, section 15,
range 15, and Warren, also on the lake shore, section 7, range 15.
The site of Maiden Rock village was purchased from the government
in 1853, by Albert Harris and J. D. Trumbull. In 1855 they erected
the first house, and in 1856 built a saw and shingle mill. J. D.
Trumbull platted the village in 1857, and christened it Maiden Rock,
from the celebrated rock of that name a few miles further down the
lake. Among the first settlers in the village were J. H. Steel, J. D.
Brown, John Foster, and Joseph B. Hull.
The first hotel was run by G. R. Barton, in a house built by J. D.
Trumbull. This hotel has since been enlarged and is now the Lake
View House. The first marriage was that of A. J. Smith and Corinda
Eatinger, in 1857; the first birth was that of Ida Trumbull, in 1858,
and the first death that of William Trumbull, in 1858. The first school
was taught by Lottie Isabel, of Batavia, Illinois. The first sermon was
preached by Rev. James Gurley, a Methodist preacher from North
Pepin.
A post office was established in 1856, of which J. D. Trumbull was
postmaster. The receipts the first year were eleven dollars, the
expenses, fifty dollars, paid by the postmaster. The town of Maiden
Rock has six school houses, one saw and one grist mill.
Christopher L. Taylor was born in Oneida county, New York, in 1829;
came to Chicago at an early day, and to Maiden Rock in 1868, where
he engaged in manufacturing. He served as county supervisor for
eight years, and as member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1876. He
removed to St. Paul in 1880, where he still resides. He is a dealer in
real estate.

MARTELL.
Martell occupies township 27, range 17. Joseph Martell, John Dee,
Louis Lepau and Xerxes Jock, Frenchmen, were the first settlers.
They located here in 1847, and remained till 1860, when they moved
further west, allured by the attractions of frontier life. Martell was
organized in 1854, with the following supervisors: Amos Bonesteel,
chairman; M. Statten and R.J. Thompson. The first school was
taught in 1857, by W. Bewel. Martell is the postal village. The first
postmaster was O. Rasmunson. There are two evangelical Lutheran
churches in the town, built at a cost of $3,500 and $5,000. There is
also a good town hall, valued at $600. The Martell Mutual Insurance
Company is in successful operation.

OAK GROVE.

Oak Grove includes township 26, range 19 (with the exception of

section 31 and parts of 30 and 32), and six sections of range 20, in
all about forty sections. It is drained by Big river. It was set off from
Clifton in 1856. Hart Broughton was the first chairman of
supervisors. It contains a flouring mill on Big river; Catholic,
Lutheran, and Methodist church buildings; that of the Catholic cost
$4,000, and has a school attached. There are seven school houses.
Big River is the postal village. John Berry was first postmaster. The
first settlers were (1848) the Thing brothers, the Harnsberger
brothers, the Cornelius brothers, Rice, Schaser, McMurphy, Rissue,
and the Miner brothers.
Lewis M. Harnsberger was born in Kentucky, April 18, 1822, and
moved with his parents to Illinois, where he lived nine years. He
came to Prescott in 1846, and pre-empted a farm in Oak Grove,
where he has since continuously resided. He has filled many public
positions creditably. He was married to Annie Jeffreys, of Illinois, in
1860. Their sons are Ephraim, Lewis and John.

PRESCOTT CITY
Is beautifully located at the junction of the St. Croix and Mississippi
rivers. The business portion of the city is on a terrace at the base of
the bluff, and between it and the river and lake. The public buildings,
churches, school house and residences are chiefly on the upper
terrace, or bluff, and command an extensive view of the valley of the
two rivers, the whole forming a landscape of unrivaled beauty. The
advantages of the position are by no means limited to its
picturesque surroundings. Prescott, from its position at the junction
of the two rivers, was early recognized as an important point for the
reshipping of freight and re-embarkation of passengers. The St.
Croix, which comes in from the north, rises within a few miles of
Lake Superior, and after running a course of two hundred miles,
empties its waters into Lake St. Croix, twenty-four miles above its
outlet. The lake is navigable at all times to Stillwater and to Taylor's
Falls at the Dalles. The Mississippi comes in from the northwest, and
is navigable to St. Paul, a distance of thirty miles. The two channels
at the junction are each about 1,000 feet wide, with an average
depth of fifteen feet, and the banks slope to the water's edge, or
stand in some places in vertical ledges, thus forming a natural quay
along the entire front of the city. The quay, or landing, is semicircular
in shape, the upper terrace, or bench, about one hundred feet in
height, is likewise semicircular, the convexity being toward the river
and lake. The crest of the terrace is worn down by the rains into
ravines, leaving rounded points, or promontories, on the summit of
which the ancient mound builders have left traces of their peculiar
art. The first settlement of Prescott was made by Philander Prescott,
Col. Thompson, Dr. Emerson, and Capt. Scott, the three last named
being army officers at Fort Snelling. Mr. Prescott, acting as agent for
the others, made the claim in 1836, remaining three years to hold it,
when it was left in the care of Joseph Mosier until 1851.
In 1837 seven acres were broken and fenced, constituting the entire
landed improvements within the present bounds of Pierce county. In
1849 one hundred and fifty acres were improved. Geo. Schaser and
H. Doe were the first resident farmers. From 1838 to 1849 a trading
post for Indian supplies was kept by persons holding the claim. W. S.
Lockwood opened a store in 1842, and other improvements were
made. As the army officers were called to other fields of labor, Mr.
Prescott soon found himself in sole possession of the original claim,
he purchasing their interests, and in 1849, when the lands had been
surveyed by the government, he entered sixty-one acres. In 1853 Dr.
O. T. Maxon and W. J. Copp purchased a greater part of the town
site and surveyed and platted it as the city of Prescott. A charter was
obtained in 1857. A post office had been established here in 1840,
called the "Mouth of St. Croix," but it was removed across the lake
and named Point Douglas. The post office was re-established at
Prescott in 1852. Dr. O. T. Maxon was first postmaster. The number
of persons who came that year to Prescott is estimated at about one
hundred and fifty.[D] Mr. Schaser platted an addition to the city of
sixty-one acres in 1855. When the city received its charter the
following officers were elected: Mayor, J. R. Freeman; aldermen,
First ward, N. S. Dunbar, Thomas Dickerson and Seth Ticknor;
Second ward, Hilton Doe, George W. Oakley, N. A. Miller; president
of the council, Seth Ticknor; justices of the peace, I. T. Foster, O.
Edwards; city attorney, P. V. Wise; city surveyor, Wm. Howes;
superintendent of schools, Thomas Dickerson.
Wm. Schaser built the first frame house, and Mrs. Wm. Schaser was
the first white woman. Their daughter Eliza was the first white child
born in the new settlement. The first marriage was that of G. W.
McMurphy to a daughter of Mr. Rice, April 24, 1848. The first death
was that of W. S. Lockwood, in 1847.
When the county of Pierce was organized Prescott was designated
as the county seat, and so remained until 1862, when, by popular
election, Ellsworth was chosen.
In 1856 Messrs. Silverthorn & Dudley started a saw mill, which they
operated until 1861, when Mr. Dudley purchased his partner's
interest, and erected a flouring and saw mill.
A wagon and carriage manufactory was established by F. Menicke, in
1862, the Prescott brewery in 1866, by N. P. Husting, and the
Prescott machine shops in 1876, by H. B. Failing. The City Bank of
Prescott was organized in 1858, Charles Miller, president; W. P.
Westfall, cashier; capital stock, $50,000. It closed in 1862. The
National Bank was established in 1877, by W. S. Miller. The first
school in Pierce county was taught by a missionary named Denton,
at Prescott, in 1843. In 1851 Miss Oliver taught a private school. In
1853 the first district school was established. The school board
were: Directors, M. Craig, George W. McMurphy; treasurer, N. S.
Dunbar; clerk, Dr. O. T. Maxon; teacher, Miss Matthews. The first
school house was built in 1854. A building for a graded school was
erected in 1859. A high school building was erected in 1847, at a
cost of $20,000.
The first religious society was that of the Methodists, organized in
1853, under the labors of Rev. Norris Hobart. Their first building was
erected in 1856. Its dimensions were 20 × 32 feet, ground plan. In
1868 they erected a building 40 × 70 feet, ground plan, at a cost of
$4,000.
In 1854 the Baptist church was organized by Rev. E. W. Cressy.
In 1854 the Congregationalists organized, with Rev. P. Hall as pastor,
and in 1855 built a brick church, 40 × 50 feet, ground plan.
In 1855 the Presbyterians organized, and in 1866 built a church.
The Lutheran church was organized in 1865, by Rev. C. Thayer.
Under the preaching of Rev. M. Guild the Episcopal church was
organized in 1872. Previous to this date Revs. Breck, Wilcoxson and
Peabody had labored from time to time. The Catholic church was
organized by Rev. Father Vervais in 1860. In 1868 a church edifice
was built.
The following social and benevolent orders have organizations in
Prescott:

Northwestern Lodge, A. F. and A. M organized 1856