History of Vernon County, Wisconsin. Together with sketches of its towns and villages, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens.

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HISTORY'OF VERNON COUNTY.
The first officers elected were as follows: Alexander Hill, W. M.; C. G. Stebbins, S. W.; J. F. Keeton, J. W.; Van S. Bennett, sec¬ retary and J. G. Parker, treasurer.
The present officers are: Alexander Hill, W. M.; Van S. Bennett, S. W.; H. C. Millard, J. W.; W. J. Wagner, secretary and O. H. Rolfe, treasurer.
POSTOFFICE.
The postoffice in this village was established in 1871 and Jesse Harness was* its first post- rnaster. He was succeeded by the present in¬ cumbent. Van S. Bennett.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
This town' was among the first settled in the county, consequently there are clustered in and near the town some of the early settlers of the county and their descendants. To these are here given personal mention in the order, as near as possible, in which they located:
Casper Adler, from a "little German home across the sea," came in 1854. He was born in the vil lage of Baldern, county of Narasheim, kingdom of Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1834, and when nineteen years of age came to the United States. He was first employed in a brick yard at Milwaukee, Wis., and afterward on the Illinois Central Railroad and spent the year following at work in a brick yard at Ga¬ lena, III. In 1854 he came to Whitestown and entered forty acres of land on section 34, which he has since increased to sixty acres. He was married in 1863 to Catharine E. Miller, and six children were born to this union—Rudolph, Joseph, Andrew, Charles, Mary and Caroline. Mrs. Adler departed this life in 1879 and Mr. Adler was again married in 1883 to Mrs. Edith M. Seaman.
William Sandon was born in the city of Northampton, England, in February, 1836. In 1845, when nine years of age, he emi¬ grated with his parents to America, and located in the town of Burke, Dane Co., Wis., where he grew to manhood, receiving a fair education. In 1855 he came to Vernon county, then known
as Bad Ax, and soon after was engaged in hauling supplies to the lumbermen on the Kickapoo river. Two years later he com¬ menced working in the rake factory of M. W. Stedman, where he continued until 1861. He then enlisted in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry as a private in company G. In March, 1862, he was appointed 2d sergeant. In Novembe*, 1862, he was promoted to orderly sergeant and in Sep¬ tember, 1863, he was commissioned 1st lieuten¬ ant. In the spring of 1864 he commanded corn¬ pany E of his regiment. He was wounded in the battle of Dandridge, Tenn. In May, 1864, the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry took a prominent part in the battle of Rocky-face Ridge, in which Lieut. Sandon was wounded and taken prisoner. He was held prisoner until March, 1865, when he was exchanged and in May was discharged. William Sandon is now, and has been for eight years past, proprietor of the Vernon House at Ontario. In 1859 he was married to Martha Stedman. They have four sons—Charles M., George T., Murt W. and Lou E. He has been chairman of the board of supervisors, supervisor and town clerk.
Mrs. William H. Tedrick and family removed here from Ohio in the autumn of 1855. William H. Tederick was born in Guernsey Co., Ohio, in 1824, and died there in 1852. His wife was born in 1823, arid they were marr ed in 1844. Mrs. Tedrick was married in 1857, to Washing¬ ton McFee, of Whitestown, but died at the resi¬ dence of her son, Truman, on section 10, in 1882. Truman Tederick was born in Guernsey Co , Ohio, in 1850, and accompanied his mother to this new country. He was married in 1882 to Didama, daughter of Madison Lower, of the village of Ontario.
Giles White, the pioneer settler of Whites- town, was a native of the good old Empire State. He was born in Oneida Co., N. Y,, in 1820. His educational facilities were as good as the schools of those days afforded, and in 1837, when but seventeen years old, he made a long western journey to  Medina Co., Ohio, in the