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 237
Waukesha county residents, but very near neighbors and practically a part of the Welsh colony. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, the famous Unitarian preacher, now of Chicago, was raised in Ixonia, Jefferson county, Waukesha's nearest neighbor on the west. The father was Richard Lloyd Jones, an early settler, and the family were Unitarians and consequently a perpetual torment to their orthodox neighbors. There was a good sized flock of boys and girls, bright and smart, 'the nicest people in the world,' said my Calvinistic informant, 'only you must not talk religion to them.' And then he^ told me what a great talker the Rev. Lloyd was as a boy and what wicked things he said. I fancy he has kept on saying them.
"Another Ixonia boy, a neighbor of Jones', and his companion at the district school, was Grift* H. Humphreys, who also achieved some dis¬ tinction. He became a Presbyterian minister and used to preach three times a day, once in Welsh, once in German, and once in English. Then he dropped preaching and became a lawyer, and in recent years has become a prominent campaign speaker in the Republican party. He lives in Utica, N. Y., and is, I believe, the publisher of a Welsh paper.
"Prominent in another line is Prof. W. H. Williams, professor of Hebrew and Sanscrit at the University of Wisconsin. He was born in New York, but his boyhood was passed here. Years ago a name¬ sake of his, Prof. Mathew Williams, also raised here, had the repu¬ tation of being the best Greek scholar west of Lake Michigan. He was at one time connected with Carroll College. He is now dead. Prof. Wm. Evans, of Beloit College, was also a riian of fine education. He died in California. David Mason, a Waukesha boy and a graduate of the State University, has won distinction as an engineer.
"The Welsh have a profound respect for education and give their\ girls and boys the best educational advantages that they can afford.l Many of them are students at Carroll College and serious, hard wor^ ing students they are.
"Our Welsh colony has also produced a number of writers whose reputation is limited by their inaccessible tongue. Literature and song are the diversions of the Welsh people. Many of our Welsh citizens are well read, especially in history and Calvinistic theology. Most of them sing, many of them write. Richard W. Jones, deceased, father of Morgan Jones, a prominent citizen, was a poet, well known and liked by readers of Welsh papers and magazines. His pen name was Cymro Cloff (The Lame Welshman), and he published his poems not only in periodicals but also in pamphlet form.
"Evan Davis, now dead, wrote prose and poetry, and so did John
W. Thomas and David Jones.    Rev. Griffith Griffiths and his wife,
formerly residents here, now of Missouri, Miss Helen Roberts, of this
county, and Rev. H. O. Rowlands, of Lincoln, Neb., are among others
jwho have contributed meritorious productions to the Welsh periodicals.
"In politics the Welsh voters of this county occupy a commendable^ position.    They are cautious, conservative, true to their political con-   i jd<Qtions. jThey are largely outside of the machinery of politics and are not easily 'worked' either for political candidates or for political   |