The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

westward of l.. G.. Hollis shanty. "a |
little further north we pass near Sam
uel Howard's, Jacob Miller's, and Alb |
ner Barlow's, who can NOW the marsh |
es or exb0rt the Methodists at demand. |
FURTHER north we find Il. Stevens, |
who came this spring, while away to |
the west, in Hickory Grove, is Caleb |
Pierce. A little further along the road |
we reach the center Of the Pleasant |
Prairie settlement. Hero are Christie
pher Derbyshire, the, patriarch of ali |
the Derbyshires, and his wife twho |
still survives and claims the honor of |
naming the town.. Near by is Orrin |
Stevens, and not far away Daniel |
Stevens, whose house that we saw so |
full IN the spring is now grown into an |
established tavern. In the same vicin-
lily are Sidney Derbyshire, and other |
Derbyshires; and r.. B. and Norman |
Barnes. who came this spring. Going |
north, we soon reach the town line. and |
find there Timothy Woodbridge, whom
we saw last summer diSputing the
claim at Pike River, but who has now
made his last claim and is doomed to
die this summer. Away to the west
we should leave John f. Cady and the
Talcotts. TO the east we might see
the farm of Alvin French, his $500
rails now built into good worm fence.
Beyond him, towards Pike River, are
Horace Woodbridge first settler of the
town. Fitch A. Higgins and John C.
Holmes; while south of the latter are
Thomas Rowland with his two sons,
Lewis and Meredith, and still further
south John Williams, who had just
gained daughter and lost wife-the
| first birth and death in Pleasant
Prairie.
Following the Milwaukee road
across the line into Somers, we find
just beyond Timothy Woodbridge, his
brothers Enoch and Henry in house
soon to be known as the Woodbridge
tavern ION the present Maxwell place.
Further north on the road we pass the
place of Charles and Jared Fox; and a
little beyond Geo. Willis large house,
soon to become famous as another
tavern-for the pioneer is subject to
hunger and some times to thirst.
though Mr.. Lothrop will give a temper.
ance lecture in Pleasant Prairie this
fall and get forty-five signers to the
| pledge. North of Willis we pass
David Doolittle's, Charles and Will
liam Smiths, and John Craig's, all of
whom seem to have come this spring.
Further we pass the cabin of Jacob
| Montgomery, the county's first settler;
and beyond, where the road crosses the
Pike River, that of E. G. Whiting:
while further on are Hugh Longwell,
Benjamin and Alison Felch.
Coming down Pike River, we find
VIM. Foster and Nelson Gatliff, who
have built a sawmill on the stream !:
and the mill is in such demand that
another is to be built this fall, and two
others will follow soon after. Further
down the river we find on the east
| side Abram Pike, the cooper, and on
| the west the CaldWells and Austin
Kellogg; further down, G. w. Turner's
house, and little south of the mouth,
that early house of John Bullen's;
while scattered over the prairie to the
west are Squire Richard Miller (per-
haps Col. Jordan, Mr.. Eastman, Ce.
phas Weed, Jonathan and Washington
Pierce, and E. B. Pierce, who came on
this spring. Last. but not least, on
the town line, is John Harmon, who
came last fall, and spaded two acres
of ground, it is said.
All along we find fencing has made
considerable progress; for Joshua
Hathaway last winter surveyed the
country and marked off the sections
and quarters. The upland prairies are
bright with flowers; and the lowlands
wave with grass so tall that the le-
gends say the mower sometimes work.
ed in it half the day, and even horse
and rider were sometimes concealed
in it. Cattle are getting plenty, bought
from the herds that are driven through
nearly every week. The prairie is in
tersected by four OF five roads leading
into Pike River-roads rather indefi-
mite and winding about to avoid the
marshes, which were so wet and per-
manent that, it is said, suckers were
sometimes caught where now is firm
sod.