Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-06-25
ObituarY-Peter WoOdhOuse

children to be cared for by that
mother during the absence Of the
| father.
The city in which they resided.
| Stafford. was the center Of the great,
est pottery works in the world. His
mother and the eldest of her flock
found constant employment in the
| potte1ies.
In 1880 the father sent for the wife
| and family and after a voyage of
about seven weeks they landed in
New York. From New York they
went to Philadelphia thence to Potts
Vile, Pennsy lvania, to engage in
anthracite coal mining. In 1885 he
and his father and one Of his brothers
came west to Wisconsin and landed at
or near Mineral Point, then the center
of the lead mining region of Wiscon-
| sin and Illinois. His father was so
much taken by the fertile country in
and around the southern part of Wis
consin that he went back to Phila.
delphia to bring the family out to
this state, then territory. They
| went back by the way of Lancaster
and Cassvllle, where they took a
steam boat and boated down the
Mississippi and up the Ohio to Pitts
burg, thence to Pottsville, Penn. In
1887 they retraced their steps and
landed in Cassville, which at that
time promised to be quite a city and
possibly the capital of the state.
From Cassville, they went to Potosi in
| 1887 and engaged in mining.
This state has been his home ever
since For 76 years his hopes and
fortunes have been bound up in those
of Grant county. and very little of its
development has been unobserved by
| him.
Since 1S49 his residence has been
Bloomington, at that time known as
Tafton and he had previously lived in
Potosi and Beetown.
For many years he engaged in farm
ing and mining. In 1883 he, with
| his son-in- law, Patrick BARLEY, es
tablished the banking house of Wood
house & BARLEY. For over tnirty
years he has been connected with the
institution and it is today one of the
leading banks of the county, and is
widely known through commercial
circles as an institution of merit and
colS + e |, 4,
he was the vice president of the
Woodhouse & BARLEY bank. For over
thirty years he has been connected
with the institution.
January 18th, 1858, Mr.. Woodhouse
met and married Miss Rachel Lyons,
who was born April 18th, 1922. in
Manchester, England, daughter of
John Lyons who came to America
with her parents when but two years
Old The Lyons family lived two
years in Philadelphia, and then re-
moved to Potosi, where the parents
passed the rest of their lives.
To this union were born seven chill
dren, three of whom preceded their
parents in early life or in infancy,
and he is survived by Lille G wife
of P. Bartley; Milton F. Woodhouse,
and Bertha, wife of o. Fl. Martin.
His second daughter, Rose E. Grant,
passed away over one year ago and is
buried on his lot in the cemetery by
the side of his wife Rachel, who
died April 9Th. 1910. The loss of
that wife, the sharer of his Joys and
sorrows, was one of the severest blows
to Mr.. Woodhouse in his long and
eventful life.
Mr.. Woodhouse was a much travelled
man and had a fund Of information.
In 1852 he went to California and on
the way had most thrilling expert
ence. In going by the way of the
Nicaragua route, he was a passenger
on the i'll fated steamer North
America, which was wrecked on the
Pacific coast, about 80 miles below
Acapulco. The steamer was a total
loss and the passengers had narrow
CSOd DOt NAo SASORo1CO UuOH W0EO
transferred to a sailing vessel, and
after many hardships reached San
Francisco in saftey.
Mr.. Woodhouse remained in
California about five years. and re-
turned by the Panama route to New
York, and thence home to his own
dear Grant County and here he re-
sided till June 10th, 1913, when be
passed away.
Mr.. Woodhouse was a progressive
and public spirited citizen at all
times in sympathy with anything
that went towards the betterment Of
the community and took great delight
in all modern improvements In his
politics he was Republican with
out guile, having cast his first vote
with the Wing party, and he natural
ly went to that panty 5 successor. the