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 723
this farm and subsequently increased it to 143 acres. Both parents died in the comfortable home on the old farm, the father on Aiarch 8, 1909, and the mother on June 10, 1899. They were members of the Evangelical Reform Church. Their first child, who died in infancy in Switzerland, was named Jacob, and this same name was given to the second born, Barbara comes third, and she died in AVaupaca County on the old homestead, January 4, I9l5. Selina is the wife of Isaac Hunn, deceased, and she lives in Iola.
Air, Jacob Schwarzenbach was sixteen years of age when he came with his parents from Switzerland to America. During those sixteen years he had acquired an education in the Swiss schools and was pre¬ pared to make use of his education and his increasing strength when his people located on a new farm in Waupaca County. He remained on that place continuously, working to increase its area of cultivation and after¬ wards farming it successively season after season. He and his father jointty made the farm what it is. In the spring of 1916 Air, Schwarzen¬ bach sold the old homestead and has since lived in a comfortable resi¬ dence at Iola.
In matters of politics he is independent, and though brought up in the Reform Church is now affiliated with the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Iola.
On August 29, 1883, he married Miss Anna Forster. Airs. Schwarzen¬ bach was born in Switzerland July 7, 1862, and her parents died in the old country. Air. and Mrs. Schwarzenbach have one child, Oscar,, who was born November 13, 1884. He was educated in the public schools and the Iola High School, and remained with his father on the farm until it w^as sold in the spring of 1916. He is now living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is still unmarried,
AIx\RTiN Wallace, Some of the thriftiest looking farms in AA^aupaca County can be found in Dupont Township, One of them, comprising 160 acres, is owned by Aiartin Wallace. Mr, AVallace is a thoroughly practical farmer, has spent practically all his life in AVaupaca County, and has lived on his present place for over twenty years.
He was born in Canada September 5, 1858, a son of Martin and Alary (Fitzsimmons) AVallace. Both parents were born in Ireland, were brought to Canada when children, were married there, in 1863 removed to Pennsylvania, and from there came to AVaupaca County. They ^vere pioneers, aj'd they bought a farm w^here their son John nov7 lives in Waupaca Township. The former owner of the land was a Air. Burnham. Later, Martin AVallace, Sr., and wife retired to the City of Waupaca, where they spent their last years. As the result of his work he cleared up a good farm, put up the first buildings, and left it a well improved estate of 152 acres. He and his wife were members of the Catholic Church and reared their children in the same faith. Their seven chil¬ dren were: John and Catherine, twins; Aiartin; Alary Ann, Daniel, Julia and William.
Martin AVallace gained his education in the public schools of AVaupaca