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.

              2S2 MEMOIRS  OF WAUKESHA  COUNTY
the editor. He is also one of the principal stockholders and the cashier of the bank of Eagle and is interested in the telephone company.
There are two churches in Eagle. The St. Theresa (Catholic) con¬ gregation has a large and'^handsome edifice. The other church (Metho¬ dist) has no resident pastor but is supplied by the pastor of the church of the same denomination at North Prairie.   •
The public school is a first class graded school with three teachers. The old school building burned June i6, 1905, and a new and handsome four-room building of brick and cement was erected the same summer. This building has a sightly location on the hill overlooking the village. There are in the village 80 children of school age of whom 36 are boys and 46 girls. 33iOf these are between the ages of seven and fourteen. The registration in the village school is 92, there being a considerable attendance from outside the district. The average attendance is 59. The total amount of wages paid to teachers is $1,275. There is school¬ room accommodation for 200 pupils, and the total value of the school property is $8,000 and there are 425 volumes in the school library.
In the town of Eagle, exclusive of the village, there is a school popu¬ lation of 244—131 boys and 113 girls—95 of whom are between the ages of seven and fourteen. One male and three female teachers are em¬ ployed for the four districts whose school houses are within the limits of the town, each of whom receives a salary of about $315 per annum. The school property is valued at $3,650 and the number of books in the district libraries is 516.
The population of the town of Eagle, exclusive of the village, is 816, of whom 442 are male and 374 female. The number of families is 167. The total valuation of property, including the village is $994,052. The dairy interests are represented by two creameries the co-operative and the Jericho. Among the natural resources, easily obtainable are clay, marl, sand and timber.
Ebenezer Thomas, the first house-holder of Eagle, was born in Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire, Wales, May 11, 1806. His parents died when he was quite young and he had to make his own way in the world. Immigrating to the United States in 1829, and landing in New York, he worked at his trade—that of blacksmith^—'in that state and in Pennsylvania, and finally reached Cass county, Mich., where he met Miss Isabelle E. DeWolf. who became his wife. Mrs. Thomas was of Dutch and French ancestry, but was born in Canada. In the fall of 1836, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas started by team for Wisconsin, coming by way of Chicago, then a small village. They arrived in Eagle after a wearisome journey, there being no roads through Wisconsin at that time except the Indian trails. Although A. R. Hinckley put up a claim shanty, the Thomas house was the first erected for family use in the present town. It was a log house,, with a puncheon floor, and a "Shake" roof, and a chimney built of mud and sticks. Mr. Thomas purchased 320 acres of government land, and by his industry and energy converted it into a valuable property. Eleven children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy. Those who grew to maturity were Daniel, Ran¬ som—who moved to California—'Fanny (Mrs. Cory), Jacob, of Akron, N. Y., Mary (Mrs. Hunting), Ebenezer, of South Dakota, OrviUa