If anyone knows these Dodge Co. Wisconsin families I would love to hear from you. james wall Dodge County Wisconsin: Past and Present. vol. 2. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. 1913. Pp. 144-145. Thomas J. HERRICK, one of the well known and highly respected citizens of Oak Grove Township has resided continously, for more than half a century, on an excellent farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section 12, formerly owned by his father-in-law, James ANDERSON. Mr. HERRICK's birth occurred at Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, on the 23rd of November 1829, his parents being Job & Hannah (CUMMINGS) HERRICK. The father was born at Plainfield, Connecticut in 1776, while the mother was a native of BENNINGTON, Vermont. Job HERRICK became one of the early merchants of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, and for a number of years was engaged in business there. For some years prior to his demise, which occurred in 1853, he lived on a farm near Lawrenceville. Unto him and his wife were born twelve children, only two of whom survive <in 1913>, the sister of the subject, Mrs Jeanette SMITH, being a resident of Spokane, Washington Thomas J. HERRICK obtained his education in his native town and when about fifteen years of age started out in life as an agriculturalist on his own account and with the assistance of other members of his family paid off a mortgage on the home farm. It was in 1854 that he came to Wisconsin locating first at Waukesha where he worked as a molder for two years. On the expiration of that period he took up his abode in Horicon, Dodge County, being the very first representative of that line of work here. He was engaged in business in partnership with William M. JONES, under the firm style of JONES & HERRICK, for two and a half years. At the end of that time he sold out and took up his abode on the farm of 120 acres which has remained his home continuously since. He has brought the fields under a high state of cultivation, and all of the improvements on the property stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise. In his undertakings as an agriculturalist he has won a gratifying measure of success and he has long been numbered among the substantial and esteemed citizens of the community. On the 4th of December 1858, Mr. HERRICK was married to Miss Marian J. ANDERSON, who was born in Lorain Co., Ohio, 20 October 1837, her parents being James and Amanda (NORTON) ANDERSON, natives of Vermont and Connecticut respectively. James ANDERSON, an agriculturalist by occupation, removed from Vermont to Ohio, thence came to Wisconsin and joined the earliest settlers of Dodge County in 1843, taking up his abode on the farm which is now in possession of our subject and in which he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. He served in the War of 1812 and for a number of years held the office of justice of the peace in Oak Grove Township and an Elder of the Presbyterian Church at Horicon, and also a charter member of the same. He passed away at the age of ninety-six, while his wife was called to her final rest when ninety-eight years old. To Mr. & Mrs HERRICK were born five children, two of whom still survive, namely, Ralph, who is a farmer living near Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and Albert who resides with his father. Albert HERRICK is a skilled musician, having studied under Professor Richard HARDEGE of Watertown, following which he took two and a half years course under Ceaser THOMSON of Brussels Belgium. Mrs. HERRICK passed away in September 1905. At the polls Mr. HERRICK has ever supported the men and measures of the Republican Party, believing that its principles are most conducive to good government. He has served as a member of this township board for two terms but his aspirations have not been in the line of the office building. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Oddfellows. He has now passed the 83rd milestone of life's journey and enjoys the veneration and respect which should ever be accorded one who has traveled thus far on this earthly pilgrimage and whose career has been at all times upright and honorable.