Daniel O Mahoney Pioneer of Vernon County Politics
Daniel O Mahoney born June 8 1854 near Moscow New York settled near Madison Wisconsin. He became Vernon County Superintendent of Schools four terms and Assembly member in 1892 1894 chaired Education in 1895 and later served as County Judge. He practiced law from 1895 at Viroqua and led agricultural societies and Republican committees while contesting the congressional nomination in 1898.
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Daniel O. Mahoney
Moscow
Livingston County
N. Y
Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Academy
Northwestern Business College
University of Wisconsin
Vernon County
Vernon County Agricultural Society
Mahoney
Congressman Babcock
Woman fatally shoots self in Suk City home
Mrs. Andrew Kahn Jr. aged about 35 ended her life yesterday forenoon by placing a revolver to her forehead and pulling the trigger while in bed. Her husband worked, children present, youngest with her. Illness and despondency cited. funeral set for tomorrow at 2 PM with thanks expressed to relatives and friends.
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Andrew Kahn Jr
Suk City
Hardware Core
Lizzie Fox
Card of Thanks from Baraboo Readers 1906
The undersigned express gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy shown after the loss of our beloved.
Deaths in Sauk County Baraboo and nearby towns
Obituary notices list residents from Baraboo Reedsburg Sauk City and Prairie du Sac with causes including heart failure old age brain fever rheumatism asthma bronchitis enteritis apoplexy and neuralgia. Ages range from 2 to 86 with multiple infants and seniors noted.
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Cynthia T. Robinson
Baraboo
Florentina Weidenkoff
Baarboo
Fred Coates
Byron B. Lee
Lois Armstrong
Christine Marie Dorotha
Reedsburg
Phillip Ludwig Schultz
Mary Stoffels
Sauk City
Anton Zins
Prairie du Sac
Tobias Henn
Barbara Accola
Nueralgia
Obituary Notices List From Wisconsin Counties
A sequence of brief death notices lists individuals with ages and causes. Katherine Knapp 90 Delton. William T. Gade 26 Westfield. Fred Retland 15 Fairfield. Elizabeth E. Jones 69 Spring Green. Isabelle Hurley 85 Winfield. John Habermann 82 Prairie du Lac. Anna Jane Thurlow 83 North Freedom. Anna Hackett 23 North Freedom. Causes include old age rheumatism tuberculosis heart disease and dropsy stomach ulcer apoplexy and lymphatic disease.
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Katherine Knapp
Delton
Wm. T. Gade
Westfield
Fred Retland
Fairfield
Elizabeth E. Jones
Spring Green
Isabelle Hurley
Winfield
John Habermann
Prairie du Lac
Anna Jane Thurlow
North Freedom
Births listed for families across multiple Wisconsin towns
Mr and Mrs Erwin Fifield Win tgld announce a daughter. Frank Braemer Reedsburg a son. Ferdinand Harder Reedsburg a daughter. Orie H Perry Excelsior a daughter. Albert Heffel Baraboo a son. H H Thomas Baraboo a daughter. Harry Acott Baraboo a daughter. Frederick J Stewart Baraboo a son. Louis Shults Delton a daughter. Geo Schwartz Bear Creek a daughter. Louis F Gluth Prairie du Sac a son. Benj ONeal Sauk City a son. Martin Stoffels Sauk City a son. Herman J Stecker Sauk City a daughter. Henry Roewer Westfield a daughter. Fred John Christ Blank Washington a son. Wm Lopan Westfield a son. Henry Washington Brown Woodland a son. Otto Borcher La Valle a daughter. Steinbrink North Freedom a daughter. Walter Draper North Freedom a daughter. Matthew Springer Ben ONeal Sauk Wolf Honey Julius Otto Grigoll Greenfield a daughter.
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P90
H. H. Thomas
Baraboo
Harry Acott
Frederick J. Stewart
Louis Shults
Delton
Geo. Schwartz
Bear Creek
Louis F . Gluth
Prairie du Sac
Benj. O’neal
Sauk City
Martin Stoffels
Herman J. Stecker
Henry Roewer
Westfield
Fred John Christ Blank
Washington
Wm. Lopan
Henry
Robert Struck
Honey Creek
Julius Otto Grigoll
Greenfield
Baraboo Reports School Census Count
City Clerk Worthman completes the Baraboo school census finding 1,501 school age children. One feeble minded child and one who cannot read or write are noted, with one attending parochial school outside the city. Several under four also attend and are not counted.
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Worthman
Baraboo
Daughters Born to Spokane Parents in July
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Wm M Henry of 108 Crestline Spokane Washington on July 28. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Harry Swan on July 29.
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Mrs. Wm. M
Henry
Crestline St
Spokane
Washington
Harry Swan
Ten Mules and One Horse Killed In Wisconsin Railroad Incident
A Wisconsin railroad near Columbus suffered the loss of ten mules and one horse after a fast mail train struck them. Negro workers had feared impending trouble due to a superstition about braying mules, leading to a night of heightened vigilance. The incident followed a period of heavy grading work by Lorimer Gallagher in Watertown to Portage.
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South
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Road
Watertown
Portage
Lorimer& Gallagher
Chicago
Georgia
Columbus
Wis
W. E. Yeargin
Teasdale
Fragmented Verses and Local Notices Mix in Village Columns
A collage of verse, riddles, and light community notes appears. Items include recycled poetry about deer and bills, a classroom joke on sentences, a sermonish line about prayers and goods, printer blame humor, Irish political heckler quip, and a Beatrice Michigan visitor report with the Drews in Beatrice.
Power Venture Unites Portage With Kilbourn Dam Plans
R. E. York of I. W. York & Co. announced at Madison an agreement with Southern Wisconsin Power Co. to supply round the clock electricity for Portage soon to be a Kilbourn suburb. The Kilbourn dam is to be completed and provide power for factories and city lighting. The Wisconsin Portland Cement Co. of Lake...
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Ennis
Portage
Southern Wisconsin Power Co
Madison
Baraboo
Devil’s Lake
Kilbourn
R. E. York
I. W. York & Co
Portage and Kilbourn
Wisconsin Portland Cement Co
Lake
Reedsburg Beats Baraboo In Close City Baseball
Reedsburg city team defeated Baraboo 3 to 1 at Reedsburg. Baraboo led until the eighth inning when Lindsay hit a clutch ball over third for a decisive run. Lindsay pitched well and received solid support. A small crowd witnessed an otherwise interesting game.
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Reedsburg
Baraboo City
Baraboo
Lindsay
Local injuries from accidents reported in two counties
A string of accidents left several residents with serious injuries. Wm. Meyer of Reedsburg suffered a scalp cut after a falling brick. Leon Buss of Excelsior with a deep nine inch leg wound from a hay knife. Cassie Birney of Baraboo lost the first finger of her left hand. Pearl Mank of Baraboo blew off fingertips from a dynamite cartridge. August Behnke of Greenfield fractured a thumb. Richard Murphy of Baraboo ruptured his left side after a fall from a car roof. Dorothea Hamburg of Westfield fractured her femur neck in a stumble.
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Cassie Birney
Baraboo
Pearl Mank
August Behnke
Greenfield
Freer Duo Plans Sauk County Publishing Project
Mr and Mrs Theo Freer have moved to Bara Boo after returning from Reedsburg. They will base publishing and directory work at 327 6th Avenue and Mr Freer, though rheumatic, will lead the project. He composes an extensive Sauk County history with sketches, statistics, and illustrations for sale in souvenir form.
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Theo. Freer
Reedsburg
Baraboo
6Th. Avenue
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Winnefred Elisabeth
Father Durward
A. C. Keller
E. J. Rooney
John Rooney
Joseph Picker
E. J. Curry
Rollo
Register of Deeds
Anna Hackett
Sauk County
Erwin Fifield
Wintgld
Frank
Braemer
Ferdinand Harder
Orie H. Perry
Excelsior
Albert Heffel
Bara
Necroes
Columbia County
Papa Dear
Presbyterian Standard
Mike
L. D. Drew
G. H. Johnson
Beatrice, Mich
George Drew
Wm. Meyer
Leon Edward Buss
Richard Murphy
Dorothea Hamburg
Mrs. Freer
W. D. Sansum
Mable Drew
First Street
Goddard
Congregational Church
Sansum
David Sansum
Cumberland
New Richmond
Minneapolis
Frank Spicer
Russell
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