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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maturity, Ida (Mrs. John R. SmaH) ; Emma (Mrs. Edward Peffer) ; George W., Frederick S., Retta S., Eleanor C, Roderick S. and Ed¬ ward S.   Mr. EHiotf died Feb. 26, 1892.
David Bonham, born in Northamptonshire, England, 1809, came to Lisbon township among the very early settlers having taken up his claim in the summer of 1836. He built his log house and had it ready for occupancy in the spring of 1837. He married Sarah, a daughter of WiHiam Weaver, and his little son Stephen, who died in October, 1837, was the first one in the pioneer settlement to pass away. Mr. Bon¬ ham was the first chairman of the town board, and at the same time served as clerk school commissioner and commissioner and overseer of the highways. His name appears frequently in the early records of the town. Mr. Bonham achieved an unenviable notoriety by committing the first murder in the county. The occasion was some dispute over a mill property, in which Mr. Bonham had no personal interest. The tragedy occasioned wild excitement, and Bonham was tried and sen¬ tenced to be hung, that being before the aboHshment of capital punish¬ ment in Wisconsin. A reprieve was granted, and a petition—^of which most of the signatures were said to have been obtained from a temper¬ ance petition—-was presented to the governor, praying for pardon for the condemned man, which pardon was granted. He went to Missouri where he enlisted in defense of the Union, was a member of the state constitutional convention, and was at one time a candidate before the state Republican convention for the position, of governor, but failed to get the nomination. He appears to have spent the latter portion of his, life in an effort to atone for his one rash deed, and succeeded in winning the esteem of the comniunity and of the state where he took up his later residence.   He died at Empire Prairie, Andrew county. Mo., in 1870.
Samuel Dougherty, Sr., who immigrated to Lisbon in the summer of 1837 came from Belchertown, Hampshire county, Mass., where he had resided for many years. He was accompanied by his family. One son Samuel, Jr., was grown to manhood and established the first bakery in MHwaukee. The latter, born March 15, 1814, shortly after returned east where he was married to Miss Caroline C. Vanevar, of Boston. She was born Sept. 9, 1817. Samuel Dougherty, Sr., was a most highly respected citizen.
The Botsford family was among the early comers of the town, Lucian being with -a party of four or five who staked out their claims in the summer of 1837. Not long after, his brother Sherman followed to the western pioneer home which Lucian had built, accompanied by their mother. The cabin was built of logs, and covered with bark, and had the usual puncheon floor and mud chimney . June 15, 1843, Sherman Botsford married Rhoda B. Look, daughter of Joseph and Silence (Bond) Look, who was born March 26, 1821, in Smithfield, Madison, county, N. Y. Five children were born to them : James S., Oarissa (Mrs. Amos Allen), Martha (Mrs. DaviH Muir), Charles P., Phebe J. (Mrs. . J. B. Wilcox). Mr. Botsford died October 30, 1851, and his widow sub¬ sequently married Mr. James Rodgers.
John Small, a native of Perthshire, England, was born in 1799 and married Isabel Rodgers, a native of the same shire, who was born in