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 337
Agnes, was married in 1840 to Orson Reed, their wedding being the second which occurred twithin the town limits. The other daughters, Harriet (Mrs. Parks), Caroline (Mrs. Albert Allen), and Mary (Mrs. Richard Lush) all married and settled in the county, four of them in the town of Summit. Mr.* Fairweather located on a farm near the lower Nemahbin lake where he continued to follow agricultural pur¬ suits until his death.
The Hildreth family emigrated to Wisconsin in the summer of 1837 locating on sections 17 and 20. The father, Jesse Hildreth, and one son preceded the rest of the family by some months. In the fall, B. C. Hildreth with his wife, Priscilla (Preston) Hildreth, his mother and the remainder of the family followed, reaching the town of Sum¬ mit before the completion of the log cabin which was to be their new home. They remained at the home of Mr. Baxter until December, when their house was completed and they took possession of it. The men of the family spent most of the winter chopping wood near Wau¬ kesha to provide food for their families. In the spring they sowed some wheat, the first in the town. During the time that the family found a temporary shelter on the Baxter farm occurred the death of Hamilton, the little son of B. C. Hildreth, which was the first death among the white settlers in the town. The family came originally from New Hampshire where B. C. Hildreth was born. They moved to Oneida county about 1817 or 1818, remaining there nearly twenty years, until the removal to Wisconsin in 1837. The mother Betsey (Cobb) Hildreth died in Adams county, Wis., in 1842, and the father, Jesse Hildreth, on his homestead in Summit in 1852. Pricilla, wife of B. C. Hildreth, died June 12, 1841, leaving two children, Jane and Helen. June 9, 1842, Mr. HHdreth married Priscilla LaBar, a native of Tompkins county, N. Y., by whom he had two sons, Charles O. and Henry H. Mr. Hildreth filled many town offices and was a prominent citizen until his death.
Samuel C. Leavitt, son of Roger and Lydia Leavitt, natives of Con¬ necticut was born in Oneida county, N. Y., his parents having been among the early settlers of that county. He was a farmer by vocation and in 1826 married Mary A. Kilbourn, of Oneida county, by whom he had two sons, Charles H. and MarshaH H. His wife died in 1831 and • in 1834 he married Frances Fairservice, a native of Weston, Oneida county, N. Y. and a daughter of Marshall H. and Maraba (Fisk) Fair- service. Of the two chHdren of the first marriage, Charles emigrated to California and Marshall died at Washington, D. C, April 6, 1864, from the effects of a wound received at the battle of Petersburg. The five children of the second marriage were James M., Adelia, Samuel F., Theodore F., Ella F. (Mrs. Redfield).
Hon. G. F. Westover, in a paper prepared for the Waukesha Historical Society, on Sept. 12, 1907, gave the foHowing account of one of the most interesting characters of the county.
Fifty-one years ago  my parents,  with  their three sons  and one
daughter then living at home, removed from Milwaukee county, where
they had lived over ten years, to Summit, in this county.   I was then
a young man and like many others, supposed there was much pleasure
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