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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in section 35. It served the early settlers also as church, town hall and for all other public meetings. A school had preceded the building of the schoolhouse by a year or two, Mrs. John Weaver, teaching the children of the neighborhood in her own house as early as 1838. The second school district was organized and the second schoolhouse built in 1842. Among the early teachers were Phineas Bissell, H. W. Rodeman, Henry Calkins, Misses Small and Griswold.
A little settlement gathered about the schoolhouse in section 35, with the usual black-smith's shop, and little store, which supplied a few of the smaller needs of the pioneers and saved some wearisome journeys to Milwaukee, which was then the central supply station for all of this region.
The first death and the first birth in the community both occurred in the fall of 1837, the former being a little son of David Bonham and the latter a daughter, Ruth, of James Weaver. On June 2, 1839, the first marriage, that of Lucius Botsford and Lucida Denney, was solem¬ nized.
The first saw-mill was built in 1842 by James Weaver, in company with several others. These early mills were a necessity in the new country because of the difficulty of getting lumber for building pur¬ poses. The oak and other hard woods—which were used in many of the earlier buildings—was displaced by the pine from the north and west, as soon as the railroads were in use, and most of the saw-mills in this part of the state fell into disuse, as was the case with this mill.
The three churches which were first formed in the community ex¬ pressed the influence of the communities from which the colonists had come. The New England settlers organized the Congregational church in 1841; the Episcopal church organized in 1842 represented the Eng¬ lish colonists, and the third organization, in 1847, gathered together the Scotch Presbyterians. While other nationalities later had representa¬ tives in the town the influence of the three groups of. early settlers has had a marked influence in the development of the communities in this' part of the county.
The town is now crossed by the Wisconsin Central railroad, passing north and"south, and the Milwaukee & Western, extending from Mil¬ waukee westward with its present terminus at North Lake, in the ad¬ joining town of Merton. The two villages of the town are Templeton, with a population of about 70, and Sussex, with about 200.
The population of the town, 1,560 has 829 males and 731 females, which are included in 307 families. The total property valuation is $1,674,640.
Thomas S. Redford, who made the first claim in the present town of Lisbon, was born in York, Genesee county, N. Y., and was the second in a family of seven children, being in the order of birth as follows: Ernest, Thomas S., Edwin, Morris W., Ira S., Jane (Mrs. Weaver) and Emily (Mrs. Cook). The parents were Arthur A. and Mary (Scott) Redford. Mr. Redford's grandfather was a native of England and took part in the Revolutionary war. His father was born in Livingston county, N. Y., and participated in the Mexican war. In 1836 he came to Wisconsin, locating in the town of Menomonee.   He spent the re-
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