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 AVAUPACA COUNTY 557
they tore up miles and miles of the Weldon Railroad, which was a mili¬ tary necessity. He took part in the battles of Squirrel Level Road, Hatchers Run, Five Forks and Clover Hill, and he was present with the troops at Appomatox Court House and witnessed the surrender of General Lee to General Grant. Although almost continuously exposed to danger. Air. Alorgan escaped all serious injury and at the close of the war returned safely to his home.
In the spring of 1866 Mr. Morgan came to Waupaca County, Wiscon¬ sin, and this section has been his chosen home ever since. For the first two years he worked in sawmills, after which he went into the woods and continued as a lumberman and as a rafter on the river for twenty-eight years. It was a healthful but hard and laborious life and in 1892 Air. Morgan gave it up and turned to farming. He acquired eighty-eight acres in Aiukwa Township and continued to operate and improve his land until 1900, when he sold his farm, retired from active labor and moved to Northport.
Air. Alorgan's first marriage was to Susan Trostel, who died in 1890. They had one daughter. Alary, deceased, and one son, John.
Air. Morgan's second marriage was to Miss Elizabeth Dinneen, who was born September 21, 1851, on a farm in Aiukwa Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin the eldest daughter of Dennis and Mary (Lyons) Dinneen.   They have an adopted daughter, now Airs. William Barkes.
Dennis Dinneen, father of Airs. Alorgan, was born in 1825, in Ire¬ land. In 1833 he came to the United States and lived in Franklin County, New York until 1849, when he removed to AJVisconsin and to Waupaca County, settling in what is now AIukwa Township, although there had as yet no township organization taken place. He was practically the first permanent settler. During his first year he worked in the Phillips' mill and then pre-empted 120 acres of land and on that place he spent the rest of his worthy and industrious life. He put up comfortable buildings and made many substantial improvements. In 1850, at Pitts- field, Alassachusetts, he was married to Mary Lyons, a native also of Ireland, and they became the parents of seven children, namely: Eliza¬ beth, Rebecca, Jane, Hannah, Rose, Agnes and Anna,
Air, Alorgan is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife belong to the Roman Catholic Church. They are widely known and highly esteemed and it is indeed a privilege to partake of their hearty hospitality and listen to their interesting recollections of past times in AVaupaca County,
Robert Smiley, Within the history of paleface occupation of AVau¬ paca County, no family has been more honorably and helpfully con¬ nected with its agricultural and general upbuilding than that of which the late Robert Smiley was a worthy representative. Without exception the men of this name have arisen to the obligations and advantages which have confronted them and, while ideal builders of homes and subduers of the wilderness, have maintained a reserve fund of energy which has been placed at the general disposal of the needs of the community.   Two