Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-03-16
Old Settlers Personal Column.

OAu oeLtIer personal Column.
Mr.. A. Crosby. Mr.. T. NJ. Barber
and Judge j t. Mills have been named
as the three men, longest residents of
Lancaster
Frank Bonham of Va. came to Grant
County in 1927 and brought his family
IN 1910 He was always a pleasant
and hosEitable man and an active cit;-
zen. He took part in the meeting
which organized the Republican party
of Grant County.
Samuel L. Borah of Mt. Ida has been
taking the HERALD these forty-pine
years and is now paying for two copies
one of which he sends away. All who
know him, know be is one of the most
hospitable men iu the world.
I. Nj. Barber. of Vermont, settled at
Lancaster in 1886 and has been a faith
full subscriber of the HERALD beginning
with the first issue. He handed us a
copy of the original edition of lS43.
He has the sterling good qualities of
the Barber family.
Hugh A. Moore, of Penn. settled at
Lancaster in 1874 and in 1915 broke the
sod of his prairie farm east of the city.
raising the first wheat in 1916. He saws
the wheat was of excellent quality and
strong in the stalk, not falling to the
ground as grain crops do now. and all
crops were free from insects. Mr..
Moore has always been one of our active
and successful business men. If we
should add that he used to kill bear in
the woods occasionally and watch the
graceful deer bound past his door and
that'he once carried a pail of milk out
and fed buffalo calves on the prairie
possibly our younger readers would not
believe US, but such are the facts.
Jacob Nathan was native of Prus-
STA. He came TO America in 1919, like
all foreigners with determination 10
better his condition and give ibis chill
dren an opportunity to help themselves.
The first year of his life in America was
spent IN St. Louis following his trade,
that of butcher. From there he came
to Wisconsin, locating down on Pigeon
Creek" For several years he mined
quite extensively and also butchered
and peddled the beef, one half of the
beef being brought to Lancaster Eand
the other Lalf to Beetown or Potcsl,
taken with an OK team. In 1857 he
undertook to build mile of railroad
somewhere between Bridgeport and
Wright's Ferry. This was not the most
profitable kind of work; besides money
lost, the members of his family
with him took fever and ague, which
brought them back to Pigeon, MIR.
Nathan bought section of school land
which he improved farm that is
now Mr.. Gamers. In 1S59Mr. Nathan
came to the village of Lancaster, start
ing meat market and grocery store in
the building now occupied by L. Weber.
1t then stood where Mccoy & Oswald
arenow located. At the time of MIR.
Nathan s coming to town it was very
different looking place from our present
city. The school house was
small and was where Mr.. Kohlenberg
now resides. There were two hotels,
and the Court House and HERALD Office
were even then important business
places Mr.. Nathan's business pros
pered. lie took with him as partners
both sons and sons-rn.law. and was en-
gagged 10 active business until about
twelve years ago He was one of the
original stock holders in the wooden
mill, also oae of the charter members
OF the Hotfnung Lodge L. o. O. +. He
has always been good citizen, and
shown much charity to needy fellow
creatures. No preventing providence,
next June he will celebrate his eighty
third birthday, and anticipates pleas.
ant trip to the Worlds Fair.