A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY 473
of eighteen, he came to Wisconsin. For a few months he found work in a hotel at Neenah, and in the spring of 1852 arrived in Waupaca County. He was employed on a farm at Royalton, and later removed to Waupaca Township, and lived there during the war. Air. Rich has an army record. In 1864 he enlisted in Company A of the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and was in active service with his command until the battle of Nashville, where he was wounded in the right arm. That ended his active service, and he was given his honorable discharge on March 25, 1865.
On returning to Waupaca County he spent three years as a merchant, and then adopted the profession of photography, which he followed and through which he rendered a much appreciated service to the community for a period of fifteen years. For the past thirty years Mr. Rich has lived retired.
He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and one of the oldest surviving veterans of the great war. He is president of the Little Red School House Pioneer Association. He has always been an advocate of temperance, and he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church at Waupaca.
His home is at 602 Mills Street. In 1855 he married Miss Flora P. Cole, who was born in Calais, Averment, in 1833, and died in 1888, after thirty-three years of married companionship. She was the mother of -hye children: Isabel is the wife of Edwin Goodrich; Emma, deceased; Minnie, wife of Elmer Palmer, of Antigo, Wisconsin; Willis, a railroad man with headquarters at Garfield, AVashington, and Alice, wife of George P. Valentine, of Rose, New York.
In 1891 Mr. Rich married Mrs. Amanda 0. Gardinier. Her first hus¬ band, William Gardinier, lived at Green Bay, Wisconsin, for a number of years and then came to Waupaca County and finally moved to AVinnebago County, AVisconsin, and he died at Omro, in that county, in July, 1878. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church. Mr. and Airs. Gardinier had the following children: Chester, of Laurel, Mississippi; Eugene, of Cler¬ mont, Aiinnesota; Clara, wife of J. W. Barker, of, Omro, Wisconsin, and Harriet.
Allen Davis. With farming and its affiliated industries, one of the most important interests of Wisconsin, it is not surprising to find many of the state's most thoughtful and far-sighted men concerned in agricul¬ tural development, and with the result that Wisconsin's farm products not only lead other states in volume but also in quality. Waupaca County offers many examples of the effect of careful and intelligent farm man¬ agement, and attention may be called to the well-improved property of Allen Davis, who is a substantial and well-known citizen of Dayton Township. Air. Davis has not been engaged in agricultural pursuits exclusively all his life, a number of busy years having been previously spent in labor in the great forests of hemlock, oak and pine that yet cover miles and miles of Wisconsin's fertile soil.
Allen Davis was born in Chenango County, New York, September 2, 1861.   His parents were Allen H, and Adaline (Walker) Davis,    Both