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.

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migrations. Through all these changes the people have been in more or less contact with the westward retreating natives and have become familiar with Indian names; add to this the fact that their own changes of residence from generation to generation have prevented them from having any strong local attachments and it is easy to see that they readily adopted the names given by the native tribes, usually with pe¬ culiar adaptation to the locality. On the other hand, in the countries of Europe, families usually remain for generations, frequently for centuries, in one locality, and when they immigrate, a homesick longing for the places whose names were as familiar as their own patronimics— and from which they were often derived—lead foreigners to bestow them upon the new home, irrespective of appropriateness. There is an excellent reason, dating back to the invasion of southern England by the Saxons, for the naming of the original Sussex, a contraction of South Saxon—but there is no reason for bestowing that name upon the little English settlement in the town of Lisbon, except a desire to commemorate the old home. The facts show that a very large pro¬ portion of the first comers were from New York and New England, that they were stimulated to explore and claim the country by the pub¬ licity given to the region by the Black Hawk war, and that the nat¬ ural water-way of the St. Lawrence river and the Great Lakes, made Wisconsin more accessible to them than to people in any other part of the east.
Closely following the American migration, was the immigration from Great Britain, from England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, prob¬ ably in numbers following the order given. The influence of the English in the county has been very marked, and a large number of the principal business and professional men, and leading agriculturists of the county, are direct descendants of these pioneers. The names directly traceable to English influence are Sussex, Merton, Hartland Brookfield and Colgate. The two important English centers were in Lisbon township, in the neighborhood of Sussex, and in Eagle town¬ ship, the latter spreading over into the adjoining county of Jefferson. A large proportion of these settlers were Episcopalians, and most of the rest were Methodists; the Wisconsin conference of the last named church has received a large addition to its ministry from these English colonies, and some of them have been very prominent in the councils of the church, and men of unusual strength of character and eloquence in the presentation of their work. The English, even of the first gen¬ eration, are, almost without exception, loyal to American institutions, but a love for the mother country is found even in the second and third generations, who as Kipling says: .    "Learned from their wistful mothers, to call old England 'home.' "
The Welsh found in the hilly regions of Delafield and northern Genesee, a roughness of land surface, that was more like their own rugged native land than the blossom covered prairies, ready for the plow. This selection discovers a poetic sentiment in this hardy peo¬ ple, which outweighed material considerations, and is a not unwel¬ come addition to a national life, which has too greatly emphasized the value of money.    An interesting study of this colony, made in the