Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-08-25

ter, Lucinda He was an Ohio man
too, born. October 80, 1909, in Jefferson
county, lis parents being Scotch-IrisI
I Virginians. The family moved tt
Canal Fulton, near Canton, when
young Alban was only eight, and al
% he married Amanda Harris, coming
| in 1886, TO Chicago, where he re
NAMED for year or more, moving
onward to Wisconsin in 1888. The pre-
sent Mrs Raymond was then child
of some three or four years. The fam
lily, on its way to the Winnebago coun-
| try north of khe WISCONSIN river,
stopped for time with EbenezeT
Brigham at his tavern on Blue Mounds
on the Dane county side till the pend
ing treaty had been negotiated by
which the Winnebagoes relinquished
title to the territory north of the
river Over at once to what now is
Sank City the Adams went; and there
they lived for five or six years, till
Mrs. Alban died. This was on Octo-
Der 8, 1843 The children, several
now, were taken back and left with
relation at the old Ohio home, while
Mr.. Alban went to Ployer, became
a lawyer and county judge, married
again, guided his children worthily to
maturity and finally fell calamity
fighting at Shiloh. A Portage county
township suitably bears his names
Alban was a state senator from
Portage county in 1923
In the P1over cemetery Col. Alban
also is at rest, an eight foot white mar
BILE pyramidal shaft marking the spot
1t bears a Masonic emblem. Luther
Hanchett, Raymond and not few
other notables sleep close Mound
about.
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But DR.. McDilI, a former congress-
man, also from Plover, is not there,
though dozen of his kin, including
parents, are. He chose to be buried
at Forest Hill, Madison, and his wife
lies beside him He died November
IL, 1876, aged "a, his wife, Eliza Jane
Rich McDill, May 80, 1890 aged 80
Twice DIR. McDill was superintendent
of the Mendoza hospital, and he had
a lovely daughter, Narcissa, affection
ately called Nara, we'll remembered by
early Madis0nians as unusually pref
ty, a girl with bluest of eyes, blonde,
small, vivacious, intellectual She was
married to DR. William Fox, brother
of DR.. Philip Fox, of Madison, and as
a beautiful bride went to live in Mil
waukee It was at her home some
fifteen years later that her mother,
died. Some five years afterward, in
1896, DR. Fox passed away, and after
some twenty-five years his widow, the
fair 'Nara" OF the 70s in Madison
Mr. Follansbee Of Winnetka,
Illinois who in turn died in. about a
year, his wife aged close to 20, fol-
lowed him some eight months since.
Nara McDill shone in Washington
while her father was in congress, and
one Of her intimates was the brilliant
correspondent, Gail Hamilton, who
visited her at Mendoza and
whose presence here naturally occa-
stoned considerable of social ripple.
MARA" had a brother, DR.. William
McDill, now in the United States medi-
cal department and stationed at the
national capital Mara" attended the
Of Wisconsin but was a
graduate Of Lawrence college.
DR. McDill, the father, served but
one term in congress, being defeated
for reelection by Judge George w.
Cate, democrat He claimed he was
beaten because some Wood county
votes were thrown out; nor did Cate
deny the irregularity, but he alleged
that a lot of Indians had voted for
McDill wrongfully. The latter dared
not carry his case to the house of
because it was demo
cratic.
Cate too had only single term
he also had been resident of Plover
coming in 1S4S, when the only other
lawyer there was Col Alban. He NOV
ed to Stevens Point in 1874.
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Another notable man of the region
was Capt Gilbert L. Park, who became
a law associate of Alban at Plover in
1866. Park, a democrat was appointed
circuit Judge by Governor William r.
Taylor in 1875. He died in 1884, and
today his son, B. B. Park presides
over the same circuit
Mrs. Elizabeth Shane Alban Brown.
a daughter of Colonel Alban, resides
at Waukesha, another in Ohio, Mrs.
Raymond at Rhinelander, and there
are yet others.
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Mrs. Raymond, only ten or eleven
when her mother died and she taken
back to Ohio, remembers Count Au-