Memoirs of Waukesha County. From the earliest historical times to the present with chapters on various subjects, including each of the different towns, and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in the county, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information.

              MEMOIRS  OF  WAUKESHA  COUNTY 87
early settlers and prominent citizens of the town of Summit, was a member of the first convention, and took an active part in the pro¬ ceedings. He was a member of the territorial legislature in 1864, and a few years after the state was organized moved to Madison. He served in the state senate in 1866 and 1870, and was prominently interested in the construction of the Wisconsin Central railroad. He died Jan. 10, 1883.
The second constitutional convention assembled at Madison on December 15, 1847, ^^^ adjourned February i, 1848. The con¬ stitution framed by this convention was adopted the following March. Following were the representatives from Waukesha county.
Squire S. Case was born in Hillsdale, Columbia county, N. Y., September 27, 1801. His parents* moved to Chautauqua county, and at the age of twenty-one he went to Buffalo. He served in the New Y^ork legislature in 1837 and 1842. Having met with large financial losses by the suspension of work on the Erie canal, a project in which he was interested, he came west td retrieve his fortunes, and in 1842 located in the town of Merton. In the seco'nd convention he was distinguished for his careful, painstaking and sound judgment. In 1851 he moved to Waukesha village and be¬ came interested in car-building. In 1857 he moved to Portage and in 1868 to Mauston, where he died March 30, 1878.
Alfred L. Castleman, of Delafield, was a native of Kentucky, bom in 1807. He was by profession a physician, and settled in Milwaukee in 1835, and soon after removed to Waukesha county. In the con¬ vention he served on the committee of banks, banking and corpora¬ tions. He was surgeon of the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil war, and published a diary of his war experiences, entitled **The Army of the Potomac behind the Scenes." He was for a number of years a regent of the University of Wisconsin. In 1873 he re¬ moved to California and died at Oakland, August 22, 1877.
Emulous P. Cotton, a member of the famous Cotton family, was born in New York, in 1811. He came to Waukesha county in an early day and was by occupation a miller. He was elected to the convention from Oconomowoc, and served on the committee on schedules and other miscellane6us provisions. The date of his decease could not be ascertained.
Peter D. Gifford was born in New York in 1812, and was among the early merchants of Waterville. He was a useful member of the eonvention and a man held in high esteem. In 1862 he was a member of the assembly. He died Mareh 15, 1888, at the State Hospital at Mendota, where he had been sent for medical treatment.
Eleazur Root was a descendant of Thomas Root. His father was a physician. Eleazur was born in Canaan, Columbia county, N. Y., March 6, 1802. He was educated at Williams college, graduating in 1821, and afterward studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1824. In 1830 he removed to Virginia, and in 1845 to Prairieville, where he interested himself in the promotion of Carroll college. He was on the committee of education and the school funds, in the convention, tod was practically the autlior of the article in the constitution