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 769
public spirited in all that phrase implies, and lent his encouragement and support to churches and schools and other institutions. He and his family were Congregationalists, but in later years he attended the Aietho¬ dist Church. There w^ere four children: E, T,; C. B,; AVilliam, who died as a child; and George M,
E. T. Mather acquired his early education in district number 2 in Royalton Township. In school and at home he acquired those habits of industry which have been the best assets in his mature career. He soon left home to work for others, and for a number of years was identified with threshing grain. Since about 1884 he has been an independent farmer and thresherman, and in 1894 he moved to his present fine farm in section 19 of Royalton Township, Since occupying this land the principal buildings have been erected and he has carried out many other improvements. Air. AIather is now proprietor of a handsome estate of 340 acres, sixty-five acres of which are in AA^aupaca Township. As a farmer he raises the crops which have proved staple to this section of Wisconsin, and he augments the revenues of his farm by a well equipped dairy. His milch cattle are Holsteins, and for many years he has bred some of the best grades of that stock.
On April 5, 1894, Mr, AIather married Miss Sarah E, Bliss. Mr. and Airs. Mather have no children. They are active members of the Alaple Grove Aiethodist Church, Mr. Mather has served as treasurer of the church about four years, and for ten years was superintendent of the Sunday-school. In politics he is independent. For three years his fellow citizens kept him in the office of township clerk, and he was township treasurer for twelve years. Among other interests he was one of the organizers of the local telephone company, and has served both as clerk and treasurer of his home school district.
Daniel Bliss, father of Mrs. AIather, was born at AVest Pairlee in Orange County, Vermont, in November 16, 1827. He married Lepha Southworth, who was born in New York State in 1840. Daniel Bliss was a son of Simeon Bliss, also a native of West Pairlee, Averment, where he was born in 1796. Simeon married Charlotte AA^ild, who was born in 1799. In Averment Simeon Bliss followed farming in Orange County, and about 1852 he came west to Baldwin Alills in Royalton Township of Waupaca County. After that he lived with his son, Daniel, until his death in 1873. His widow survived until 1882. Simeon Bliss and wife had the following children;: Martha, Levi, Lucy, Daniel, Alden and Sarah, the last two having died when young. The Bliss family, like the Alathers, were originally Congregationalists.
Daniel Bliss grew up in Vermont, attended the public schools of Orange County and the Castleton Academy, and one of his first expe¬ riences was as a teacher. Later he went to Boston and was employed for a time by the firm of Berger and Talbot in the Faneuil Hall market. He came to AVaupaca County a year or two before his father arrived and found this country sparsely populated and very little of the land developed to agricultural purposes. He located iii section 18 of Ro^^alton Township and homesteaded forty acres there.    Later his lands were