River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-04-27
HISTORICAL INCIDENTS OF TRIMDELLE.


Some fifteen years ago quite a re-
spectacle settlement of Negroes clus.
tered on and about what has since
been known as NEGRO HILL" in the
northwestern portion of the town
BY the way, the first land entered in
the territory now embraced in Trim.
belle, was the northwest quarter.sec.
ton, and was taken up by Capt. Wood,
who resided without the limits of the
town, however. settlement at
one time numbered as many as forty
souls. Andrew Bennett, however is
the only one left to tell the tale, An.
drew is good fellow, and is respect
ed and beloved by his Caucasian neigh
bors.
Trimbelle has furnished tie county
a creditable quota of prominent local
statesmen. In 1858 NJ. B. Williams,
Esq, was nominated as the Republican
candidate for county treasurer. The
soldiers and Democrats combined
against Mr.. Williams with a soldier
FOL their candidate, and gave him a
close call, his majority being less than
one hundred. At the expiration of
his term he was not renominated by
the Republican convention on account
OF his sympathies with the Pierce
County Heraid-that paper appearing
then for the first time as an aspirant
for the public printing-as against tie
Prescott Journal, then published by
Lutte Taylor. This newspaper en-
broglio resulted in people S conven.
ton. at which Mr.. W. was nominal.
ed for reelection. E. II. Ives, ESQ,
then resident of the same town, was
nominated for the Assembly. AL.
though Grant beat Seymour some eight
hundred votes in the county, Mr..
Williams against thoroughly organ.
ICED, desperate, not to say unscrupU.
!ous, opposition, not only overcame
the regular Republican majority of
300, but ran 200 beyond his opponent,
j. a. Guittean, Esq, Of Maiden Rock.
Mr. Ives made his debut as candidate
for office in this county at this cleo
ton, having two competitors, z. A.
Dopkins of IIartland, Republican, and
John L. Dale of River Falls, Independ-
ent. He mounted '0.d Jack" the
Rosinante of modern times, and
charged the enemy with such tact and
spirit that he was elected by large
plurality, although. like Mr.. williams,
he had 300 majority to overcome.
The local campaign of this year,
eventuated in the final overthrow of
the Taylor and Dale" ring, a cabal
that had been regarded as possessing a
sort of local omnipotence.
At the close of his second term, Mr.
Williams retired to the quiet and rest
of his farm-hOme in Trimbelle, where
he still resides, one of the most intelH
gent and highly respected citizeds in
the county.
The following fall. Mr. Ives was
nominated for the state senate against
John Comstock, of Hudson, which in.
itiated the most interesting and anus
ing campaign that ever occurred in
the St Croix Valley, and resulted in
the triumphant election of Mr.. Ives
again running against an oyerwhelm-
ing majority-and the statewide re.
nown of Gold Jack.
Mr. Ives is now living in Prescott,
while "0ld Jack was gathered to
his fathers" some years ago. passing
il his checks, we believe, contempt
raneously with Horace Greedy.
1t is enough to say of Trimbelles
war record, that she sent ninety men
into the service Of Uncle Sam, when
she had never cast a hundred votes.