From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 780. City of La Crosse OTTOCAR MUETZE, jeweler and watchmaker, was born in 1842, in Schlesien, Prussia. He was educated in Prussia, and learned his trade there; also learned telegraphy and photography. He was married in Marklissa, Prussia, in 1868, to Emma Stuebner; came to America in 1878, arriving in La Crosse in August, and was joined by his wife in 1879; has three children - Meta, Asta and George; has been in business for himself in his present location on Pearl street since April, 1879. His father, Moritz Muetze, has been Superintendent of the extensive woolen factory of Waller Brothers, in Marklissa, for the last twenty-five years, and was Mayor of the city of Seidenberg, Prussia, for six and a half years previous to that. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 780. City of La Crosse FRED MUELLER, wholesale liquor dealer, was born in 1822, near Coblentz, Germany; came to America in 1851, and lived in Newark, N. J., about two years and in New York City about six months; came to Milwaukee in 1853, and to La Crosse in 1854. In July of that year, he started the second butcher-shop in La Crosse County, with Louis Pammel (now a farmer living near the city). He continued in that business till 1862, then went into the brewing business in company with Jacob Franz (now of Sioux City, Iowa); was in that business about eight years in the old Eagle Brewery, which he helped build. In 1870, he sold out his interest in the brewery and spent two months traveling in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, then came back to La Crosse and bought out the liquor business of John Weber, which he has carried on till the present time on Third street. Mr. Mueller has built six or seven dwellings in La Crosse, and still owns two of them. He also has an 80-acre farm near the city. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 780. City of La Crosse CASPER MUELLER, contractor and builder; has been in his present business in La Crosse since April, 1856; he was born in Nassau, Germany, in 1829, son of Jacob Mueller, who died in Germany in 1847. Mr. Mueller came to United States in 1854, lived in St. Louis, Mo., one month, then in Dubuque, Iowa, till he came to La Crosse in April, 1856. He has five children - Charles, John, Joseph, Louisa and Albert. Charles was admitted to the bar in November, 1880, and is now practicing law in La Crosse. The other three sons are carpenters and joiners. Mr. Mueller helped to organize the St. Josephs Society, of La Crosse, in 1859, and has held all the offices in the society. He also helped to start the German Catholic Insurance Society, and was its first President. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 779 - 780. City of La Crosse CLARA MUEHLBERG, Principal of the Kindergarten Frauen Verine at Germania Hall; has been in her present position since September, 1879; she is a native of Carver Co., Minn., born in 1859. Her father, Herman Muehlberg, was a native of Hanover, Germany; came to United States in 1852, resided in Pittsburgh, Penn., a few years, then went to Carver Co., Minn., for a short time and came to Wisconsin. He settled in Sauk City, Sauk Co., where he was editor and proprietor of a newspaper, called the "Wisconsin Pioneer", for about fifteen years. In January, 1881, he returned to Carver Co., Minn., and is now publishing the Carver "Free Press". Miss Muehlberg was educated in Milwaukee, and graduated from the Kindergarten Seminary in 1877; she taught one year in Milwaukee and one year in Sauk City before she came to La Crosse. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 779. City of La Crosse I. H. MOULTON, freight agent of the C., M. & S. P. R'y, was born at Foxcroft, Piscataquis Co., Maine, Nov. 28, 1828. Here he attended the common schools and received an academic education at Foxcroft Academy. In 1849, he removed to Salmon Falls, N. H., where he was engaged as a clerk and book-keeper. In 1851, he went to New York City, where he was also engaged as a book-keeper. In 1855, he removed to Providence, R. I., and established a grocery business for himself, conducting it only about eight months, when he disposed of his business and removed to Nashua, N. H. He removed to St. Anthony Falls (now Minneapolis) in the spring of 1857, and established a wholesale grocery and crockery business, but was disabled financially during the financial crash of 1857. In 1858, he became engaged in steamboating, following this until the 1st day of September, 1869, when he accepted the agency of the C., M. & S. P. R'y at La Crosse, resigning this position in 1873, becoming the agent again in May, 1880. Mr. Moulton has been United States Surveyor at this place since Dec. 24, 1873. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 779. City of La Crosse SETH MORSE, hardware merchant, was born in Washington, Orange Co., Vt., March 30, 1832, and lived in that State till he was 21 years old. Served an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade in Lowell, Mass., with W. T. and C. P. Whitton; was there four years, then in Chelsea, Vt., one year; he went from there to Claremont, N. H., and was in business there till 1864, then came West, settled in Rushford, Minn., where he remained till 1870. In November of that year, he came to La Crosse and worked as a journeyman till 1876, since which time he has been in business for himself on Main street, between Fourth and Fifth, where he keeps on hand a general assortment of stoves, tin, sheet-iron and copper ware. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 779. City of La Crosse JOHN C. MORRISON, engineer on switch-engine at La Crosse; is a native of Vermont, born in 1837. His father, John W. Morrison, came to Wisconsin in 1855, with his family, and now lives in Pierce Co. John C. has been railroading since that time, except when in the army. He enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, in the 24th W. V. I., Co. F, and was in the service till June 22, 1865; he enlisted in Milwaukee, but was credited to La Crosse; was in thirteen engagements during his term of service. He has been in the employ of the C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co., since 1855, and has been running an engine since he returned from the army. He was married in Beaver Dam, Wis., Oct. 21, 1861, to Lucinda, daughter of William Johnson, now of La Crosse. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 778 - 779. City of La Crosse HIRAM J. MORRISON, engineer on the C., M. & St. P. R. R.; has been in the employ of this company since 1866, and has been running an engine since 1871; he was born in Woodsville, Grafton Co., N. H., in 1844. Dec. 12, 1861, he enlisted in the 8th Vt. V. I., Co. D; re-enlisted as a veteran in the spring of 1864; he served under Gen. Butler till Gen. Banks took command in that department, then remained with him till the summer of 1864, when he was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, and served under Sheridan till the close of the war. He was married in October, 1867, in Beaver Dam, Wis., to Miss Mary Swarthout, and has resided in La Crosse since 1870; has one child - Luella Isabella. His father, Isaac T. Morrison, came to Wisconsin in 1863, and settled in Beaver Dam, and now lives in La Crosse. [I am not related to this family and have no further inforamtion. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 778. City of La Crosse GEORGE MORRISON, engineer on C., M. & St. P. R. R.; has been on that road since August, 1864, and has been running an engine since April, 1870; he was born in Newbury, Orange Co., Vt., Feb. 15, 1842; son of I. T. Morrison, who came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1862, and still lives in La Crosse. Mr. Morrison enlisted July, 1861, in the 8th Vt. V. I., Co. D, and was in the service three years; he was wounded during the siege of Port Hudson, but was only disabled for a few weeks; during his service, he participated in seventeen general engagements, to wit: Bull Run, Savage Station, Antietam, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, Winchester, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Petersburg, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, Vicksburg and several otheres. He was married Feb. 6, 1865, in Beaver Dam, Wis., to Miss Sarah J. Blanchard, daughter of A. R. Blanchard; has had but one child (deceased) - Gracie B., died July 7, 1865, at the age of 18 months. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 779. City of La Crosse A. E. MORRISON, blacksmith; is a native of Vermont, born at Coventry Falls in July, 1835. His father, John W. Morrison, who was also a blacksmith, removed to New Hampshire, and from there to Wisconsin in the fall of 1855, and now lives in Pierce Co. Mr. Morrison worked with his father till 17 years old; then went to Massachusetts and worked three years in Taunton and Lawrence; came West with his father in 1855, and went to Jasper Co., Ind., in 1858; lived there three years, and then came back to Wisconsin. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the 30th W. V. I., Co. D, and was in the service till October, 1865. After the war, he settled at Red Wing, Minn.; in 1874, he went to Trenton, Pierce Co., Wis., and came from there to La Crosse the 29th of November, 1878. He was married Nov. 28, 1878, at River Falls, to Cordelia Harris; has no children. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 779. City of La Crosse ROBERT MORRIS, in charge of the railroad blacksmith-shop in North La Crosse; was born in Anglesea, North Wales, in 1829; son of Griffith Morris, who died in Wales in 1880, at the age of 80; learned the blacksmith's trade of his father, and came to America in 1852; was in Rome, N. Y., three years, in Chicago one year, and Milwaukee till 1860, when he came to La Crosse, and has been in charge of these shops ever since; has four children - William (book-keeper for Mons Anderson, of La Crosse), Robert, Jr. (is operator on the St. P., M. & M. R. R.), George and Eddie at home. His oldest child - Grace, died in 1864, when 7-1/2 years of age. He was married in 1856, at Racine, Wis., to Miss Margaret Davis, formerly of Rome, N. Y. Mr. Morris was Supervisor in 1876, and was Alderman of the Fifth Ward three years, 1877-78-79; was also a member of the School Board in 1878-79. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 778. City of La Crosse ADOLF MORITZ, book-keeper at the mill of A. A. Freeman & Co.; has been in his present position since September, 1878; he is a native of Rhine, Germany, born in 1851; son of Adolf Moritz, Sr. He was educated in Germany and France, and was a 2d Lieutenant in the Germany Army during the Franco-Prussian war; came to the United States in 1877, and has since resided in La Crosse. He was married Jan. 1, 1880, to Miss Clara, daughter of Adelbert Moeller, Consul for Saxony at La Crosse, and one of the earliest settlers in the city; he put up the first brick building in the city, and was in the drug business for several years. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 778. City of La Crosse G. R. MONTAGUE was born in Granby, Mass., in December, 1830; he came to La Crosse in the spring of 1854, coming by team from Walworth Co., Wis., via Galena, Ill. The party were eight days on the way, waiting two days at Galena for a steamer. The cholera was then raging, and four deaths occurred in that brief interval at the United States Hotel, at which they were stopping, which induced them to continue the journey at once by team; on arriving they put up at the Franklin, a house then kept by B. S. Rippy, on the site of the Montague Block, on Main street, and probably the chief boarding-house in the city; it still does duty as a tenement house, on the corner of Second and Cass streets. Mr. M. remained but a short time, when he returned to Walworth Co. on foot, with a friend from Racine, making forty miles the first day; after a stay of a year, he went back to Massachusetts on a visit, passing the summer and winter, returning to La Crosse in the spring of 1856; during that season he was employed surveying, as deputy under T. M. Horton, the County Surveyor; like many another deputy, he bore the chief burden of the work, laying out roads in Barre, Hamilton and Bangor, among them being the main traveled road from La Crosse to Sparta, which was laid out from Hamilton through Bangor to the line of Monroe Co.; during that winter and the next summer he taught school; he next became engaged in insurance and real estate business, which he disposed of to Martindale & Oatman, in 1869, when his whole attention was required in the marble business. He was one of the original incorporators of the La Crosse National Bank, and is one of its largest stockholders; he has been a member of its board of directors from the first year and its Vice President from the second year. He was married, October, 1859, to Miss Jennie Warner, at Williamsburg, Mass., and has two children. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 778. City of La Crosse M. T. MOORE, dentist, is a native of Milwaukee, Wis., born in 1874 [1847?]; he was educated at Wayland University, Beaver Dam, Wis.; came to La Crosse Jan. 1, 1869; studied dentistry one year with Dr. E. Palmer; was then in partnership with him two years, since which he has been practicing alone in his present location, 49 Main street. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 778. City of La Crosse JAMES C. MOODY, lumbering, son of Hiram Moody, who settled in Vernon Co., in 1854, where he had purchased in 1852. His father still resides in Vernon Co. James C. enlisted in the fall of 1863, in Co. I, 6th W. V. I., served till the close of the war. He was wounded and captured at the battle of the Wilderness, was imprisoned near Gordonsville, at Lynchburg, and at Belle Isle, Richmond. He was a prisoner about four months, when he, with five others, succeeded in making his escape and reached the Union lines at Aqua Creek, after many hardships and narrow escapes from recapture. After the war, he settled in the town of Shelby, where he engaged in farming about three years, when he came to the city and engaged in his present business. He is now in the employ of the La Crosse Lumber Co. His wife was Ellen Carleton, daughter of Thomas V. Carleton, a pioneer of Sheboygan, but now a resident of Neilsville, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Moody have two children - Edwin L. and Clara. Mr. Moody was born in the town of Monroe, Perry Co., Ohio, November 7, 1837. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 777 - 778. City of La Crosse WILLIAM F. MOESER, was born in Austria, May 28, 1851; in 1855, he came to America with his parents and located in Greenfield, La Crosse Co., and worked on a farm until 1871; at that time, he came to La Crosse and learned the trade of a wood turner and cutting furniture, and worked eight years for his uncle, Stephen Moeser; the last three years of this term, he was foreman of his uncle's business. He was one of the organizers of the La Crosse Furniture Association in 1878, and succeeded to the Presidency in the spring of 1879, which position he still holds. Mr. Moeser's practical ability as a workman and his excellent executive qualifications well fit him for this responsible position, and is sure to achieve success for the enterprising firm he so ably represents. Mr. Moeser was married Jan. 19, 1874, to Annie Riese, of La Crosse; the fruits of this union were four children - Jennie, Bertha, Willie and Emma. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

OK, I *am* related to this family and I wanted to thank everyone who helped me track down the missing link online! At my personal website, you can read lots more info about my La Crosse ancestors starting from this link and even see some pictures: http://www1.shore.net/~natalie/mcdonald.htm On a continuing note about the "n"s and the "u"s transposing, I will mention that my great-grandfather was born in PICTOU, Nova Scotia and not "Picton" as the book indicates. Thanks for your continuing interest in the McDONALD family of La Crosse! -- Natalie McDonald <[email protected]> All roads lead to "Depth Charge!" marcbolan.com / marcbolan.org / marcbolan.co.uk http://www.nataliemcdonald.com/ > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:24:37 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [WILACROS] Donald A. McDONALD Biography, b. 1833 NS to CAN to > WI > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; > format="flowed" > > From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 773. > > City of La Crosse > > DONALD A. McDONALD, steamboat and groceryman, was born in Picton, Nova > Scotia, Jan. 1, 1833. In June, 1844, he removed with his parents to > Dundas, Canada West. Here he attended the common schools until 1853, > when he moved to Hamilton, remaining there until 1855, when he came to > La Crosse and entered the lumbering business, which he still follows. > He also deals to some extent in groceries, mostly to supply his boats, > shanties, etc. > > [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm > posting this as a service and hope it helps!] > > > > ------------------------------

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 777. City of La Crosse HENRY MILLER, proprietor of Miller's Sample Rooms on Main street; was born in Philadelphia in 1844. His parents moved to Canada when he was but 3 months old, where he lived for twenty years; in 1875, he went to St. Paul, and opened a billiard hall and saloon, which he continued two years; in 1877, he came to La Crosse and opened a billiard room and saloon, which he still owns. He was married in Canada in 1869, and has two children - Emma Caroline Louisa and Anna Maud Jane. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 777. City of La Crosse H. G. MILLER, M. D., was born in Virgil, Cortland Co., N. Y., March 30, 1826; he moved with his parents to Peoria, Ill., in 1836. Received his education at Shurtleff College, situated at Upper Alton, Ill.; received his medical education at the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio; removed to La Crosse in 1869, where he has since followed the practice of medicine. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 777. City of La Crosse CHARLES MICHEL, proprietor of the meat market on corner of Fifth and Winnebago streets; was born in the city of Berlin, Prussia, in 1835; his father, Peter Michel, came to the United States in 1846; lived in Milwaukee till 1865, then came to La Crosse and died in August, 1873; his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Conrad; she died March 27, 1880, aged 81. Mr. Michel was married in Milwaukee in 1858, to Eva Kleber; came to La Crosse same time as his father, and has been in his present business since 1871; he has had twelve children, ten of whom are living, to wit, Jacob, Peter, Mary, Anton, Frank, Charlie, Lizzie, John, Nick and Annie; his oldest daughter, Lena, died Nov. 11, 1880, in her 23d year, and his youngest child, Mena, died in September, 1879, at the age of 9 months. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]