This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dodge, Knapp, Doolittle, Madison Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFC.2ACI/1414 Message Board Post: >From 'History of the Chippewa Valley' pg. 938 Thomas DODGE, farmer, P.O. Colfax, Wis., was born in New York state in July, 1837, of New England parents. They immigrated to Wisconsin about thirty-five years ago and settled in Dane County, where resided during life. September 25, 1857, he married Miss Sophronia KNAPP, of Dane County. October 1, 1961, he enlisted in Company K, Fourteenth Wisconsin volunteer infantry and served until July 26, 1862, when he was mustered out at Stamburg, Tenn., on account of disability. He immediately came to Dunn County and settled on section six, Grant township, where he owns eighty acres of land, nearly all improved and well stocked. Politically he is a prohibitionist, but has never accepted any office except that of school clerk. He is also a member of the Farmer's Alliance and belongs to the Methodist church. They have three children living: Nellie, married to Myron DOOLITTLE, living near Cedar Falls, Wis.; Rhoda W., married to Emmet MADISON and Harvey W., at home.