History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              BIOGRAPHY. 903;
president and director of the First National Bank of New London, AVisconsin; president of the Oshkosh Savings and Trust Company; director of the Marine National Bank of Alilwaukee; president of the Oshkosh Grass Alatting Company, which is doing a large business; president of the Oshkosh Steamboat Company; president of the Co¬ operative Coal and Ice Company; stockholder and director in the AVolf River Paper and Fiber Company, of Shawano.
Politically Air. Choate has alwa3^s been a stanch and zealous Re¬ publican, a firm believer in Republican principles and a strong advo¬ cate of the doctrines of the party of advancement and progress. He has been alderman in the city council for two years. In 1882 he was a candidate of the party for the mayoralty, and as an indication of the way he was esteeemd it may be said that he reduced the usual Democratic majority by about fifty per cent.
In 1860 Mr. Choate married Aliss Adeline P. Choate, of Oshkosh. Five children, all of whom are dead, have resulted from this mar¬ riage. Mr. and Airs. Choate are attendants of the Congregational church of Oshkosh.
Mr. Choate owes the position he now holds in the community en¬ tirely to his own efi'orts. He has confined himself to legitimate busi¬ ness transactions, has avoided speculation, and the fortune he has accumulated is but the natural result of sound business principles and steady application. As a man of business no citizen of Oshkosh stands higher. As a citizen he is public-spirited and is always in sympathy with those movements which tend to increase the pros¬ perity of the city of Oshkosh.
John C. Challoner, who w^as born at Omro, AVinnebago county, AVisconsin, on October 9, 1856, is next to the youngest of a family of -^.Ye children born to George and Mary (Elliott) Challoner, natives of Staffordshire, England. The parents came to this country about 1845 and settled for a time at Black Rock, in New York state, w^here the father owned and operated a sawmill; but in 1851 they came west and settled at Omro, the father carrying on a shingle mill there a few years, and then engaging in the manufacture of shingle mill machinery, to which he devoted himself until his death, which oc¬ curred in 1880, when he was sixty-one years old.
His widow died at the age of seventy-eight years, in 1893. Of their children all are now deceased except our subject and a sister, Mary, who is married to Air. T. S. Boyd and lives at Alderson, Penn¬ sylvania. John C. li/ed at home dhring his boyhood and acquired a good high school education, but at an early age worked with his father in his manufacturing enterprise, and acquired a thorough and