Chapter VI: St. Croix County

Organization, 1840 144 Division, 1848 144 County Seat Located at Buena Vista 145 First Election 145 Division of the County, 1853 146 Present Limits 146 General Description 146 Monument Rock 147 Towns and Date of Organization 148 St. Croix County Agricultural Society 148 Pomona Grange 148 Agricultural Statistics 148 Manufactures 149 St. Croix Poor Farm 149 First Tax Roll of County, 1848 149 Hudson City 152 Original Claimants 153 First Survey, etc. 153 First Deed Recorded 154 City Government 155 Mayors of the City 155 City Schools 155 Military Institute 156 Mills and Manufactories 156 Banks 156 Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital 157 Water Works 158 Hotels, the Great Fire, 1866 158 Social and Benevolent Organizations 159

BIOGRAPHIES.
Louis Massey 159
Peter Bouchea 160
William Steets 160
Capt. John B. Page 160
Dr. Philip Aldrich 160
The Nobles Family 161
James Purinton 161
Ammah Andrews 162
James Walstow 162
James Sanders 162
J. W. Stone 162
Joseph Bowron 163
Moses Perin 163
John O. Henning 163
Moses S. Gibson 164
Col. James Hughes 164
Daniel Anderson 165
Alfred Day 165
Dr. Otis Hoyt 165
S. S. N. Fuller 166
Miles H. Van Meter 166
Philip B. Jewell 166
John Tobin 166
Horace A. Taylor 167
Jeremiah Whaley 167
Simon Hunt 167
John S. Moffatt 167
James H. Childs 168
William Dwelley 168
James M. Fulton 168
Marcus A. Fulton 168
David C. Fulton 168
N. S. Holden 168
William H. Semmes 169
Sterling Jones 169
D. R. Bailey 169
Henry C. Baker 169
Mert Herrick 169
D. A. Baldwin 170
John Comstock 170
Lucius P. Wetherby 170
John C. Spooner 170
Thomas Porter 171
Herman L. Humphrey 171
Theodore Cogswell 172
Frank P. Catlin 172
Charles Y. Denniston 173
A. E. Jefferson 173
Samuel C. Symonds 173
John E. Glover 173
Lemuel North 173
Edgar Nye 173
William T. Price 173
E. B. Bundy 174

TOWNS AND BIOGRAPHIES.
Baldwin 174
Baldwin Village 174
Woodville Village 175
Cady 175
Cylon 175
Eau Galle 176
Emerald 176
Erin Prairie 176
Forest 177
Glenwood 177
Hammond 177
Hammond Village 178
John Thayer 178
Rev. William Egbert 178
Hudson 178
James Kelly 178
Daniel Coit 179
James Virtue 179
Theodore M. Bradley 179
William Dailey 179
Robert and Wm. McDiarmid 179
William Martin 179
Paschal Aldrich 180
Kinnikinic 180
Duncan McGregor 180
W. B. and James A. Mapes 181
Pleasant Valley 182
Richmond 182
Boardman Village 183
Gridley Village 183
New Richmond Village 183
New Richmond City 183
Bank, High School 184
Benjamin B.C. Foster 184
Robert Philbrick 185
Linden Coombs 185
Eben Quinby 185
Lewis Oaks 185
Henry Russell 185
Joseph D. Johnson 185
Joel Bartlett 185
Francis W. Bartlett 186
George C. Hough 186
Silas Staples 186
Dr. Henry Murdock 187
Steven N. Hawkins 187
Rush River 188
Somerset 188
Somerset Village 189
Gen. Samuel Harriman 189
St. Joseph 190
Houlton Village 191
Burkhardt Village 191
Springfield 191
Hersey Village 191
Wilson Village 192
Stanton 192
Star Prairie 192
Huntington Village 192
Star Prairie Village 192
Hon. R. K. Fay 192
Troy 193
James Chinnock 193
William L. Perrin 193
Warren 194
James Hill 194
Village Plats 195