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.

              336 MEMOIRS  OF WAUKESHA  COUNTY
Daniel, John, Margaret and NeHie. Mr. McDonald was a prominent citizen both in town and county affairs and was twice, in 1869 and 1870, elected to the legislature.
Richard Hardell was born June 10, 1795, in Lincolnshire, Eng¬ land, and was the son of a gardner. He was apprenticed to learn the carpenter and joiners' trade, completing his seven years of apprentice¬ ship when he was nineteen. He then married Jane Wingate and set up in business for himself in Yorkshire, remaining there until he was thirty-three years of age when he decided to immigrate to America, arriving in New York in March, 1828. He found work in the citv for a time, and later located in Utica, N. Y., and in 1830 in Cliritori, ifi the same state, carrying on his business of coritractor and builder, and some of the chief buildings of that time were erected by him. In the years immediately succeeding the Black Hawk war, the stories of the beauty and fertility of southern Wisconsin were scattered widely over the east and from New York especially, there was a large emigration to this new opening for those iwho loved pioneering. Mr, Hardell was caught with the enthusiasm of the movement and decided to cast in his fortunes with the new country. With his wife and family of seven children he came by way of the lakes from Buffalo to Milwaukee arriving at the latter place in July, 1836. In the fall of the same year he located a claim in the town of Lisbon, of which he afterward disposed. In 1837 Mr. Solomon Juneau while survey¬ ing the territorial road between Madison and Milwaukee through the lower part of the town, selected a claim for Mr. Hardell in section 34, with which the latter was so well pleased that he purchased the adjoining half section and began immediately to make imorovements, and brought his family to their new home in June. While he has been employed as inspector of several public buildings,-^notably the capitol at Madison,—-he practicaHy retired from the contractor's business after coming to Wisconsin, devoting himself almost wholly to agri¬ culture and accumulated one of the finest properties in the county, having at the time of his death 1,800 acres of well-stocked and im¬ proved land. He was a man of undoubted integrity and of unusual force of character and intellectual ability, and lived to the advanced age of eighty-three years; his death occurring June 10, 1878. Two of his daughters, Harriet E. and Phoebe J., married two of the Summit pioneers, Charles F. Flinton and Levi P. Meriele, respectively. Two of his sons, W. J. and Abram G., born in Yorkshire, England, in 1824 and 1826, were among the principal farmers and stock-raisers of the town.      ^
Marshall Fairservice, one of the pioneers of Summit was a native of Boston, but removed to New York with his parents when he was a child. The family located in the vicinity of Rome, Oneida county, where he resided until 1837, following the vocation of the farmer. He married Mariba Fisk, a native of Massachusetts, and five daughters were born to them. The oldest, Frances, born in Weston, Oneida county, N. Y., in 1810 was married in 1834 to Samuel Leavitt. In 1837 both families emigrated to Wisconsin and were among the early settlers of the town of Summit.      Mr. Fairservice' third- daughter,