This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Knowlton, Lepper, Flanders, Tiedeman Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5Mn.2ACEB/302.1 Message Board Post: From the “History of Dane County-1880” under the ‘Town of Middleton’ there is a biographical sketch for, H.B. Knowlton, farmer, Sec 3; P.O. Middleton; came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1850, and located on the farm he now lives on in the spring of 1869; he was born in the State of New York in 1810; his father’s name was Ephraim H.B. Knowlton; his mother’s name was Annie Lepper. Married Elizabeth Flanders, of Vermont, in 1842; they have two children, one daughter in Chicago, who married John Tiedeman; and Thomas E., who owns and runs an adjoining farm. Thomas E. married Margerie Bethel, of Oregon, Wis. Mr Knowlton has a fine farm of 80 acres, worth $4000, three miles from Middleton; he is a Democrat of the old-fashioned kind; his father was one of the pioneers of the county.