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8. Frank Shoemaker
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(8) Frank Shoemaker was a logger & Scaler in Merill and Fremont, WI. He was a foreman, but he used to sneak ballots to the workers -- something the company tried to keep them from getting, since the workers supported Bob LaFollette, who supported Workmen's Compensation insurance. He used to doctor the men when they logged in the forest throughout the winter (In the Spring, they would float the logs down the river to the mill), and he learned quite a bit about herbal medicine. He injured his arm on the job, trying to control a team of horses. It got infected and he became lame, so he lost his job without compensation.
(8) Frank and the family then moved to Cudahy, WI, where he worked for a rubber company. The workers were getting sick, and Frank figured out that the cause was the vulcanizing agent the company used. The workers sued the company, which then closed down, so Frank lost his job. Years later, Frank's daughter, (9iv) Hazel, chanced upon a lawyer who had worked for the company, who didn't know Hazel was Frank's daughter. The lawyer was talking about the case, saying they never could figure out how the men found out what was poisoning them (but Hazel knew). After her mother was widowed, (9) Emma Duncan and her two sisters went to live in Nebraska with their Methodist preacher uncle (38[1]e) Ed (Wells), because of the many young men who came to work the family cranberry farm in Wisconsin. After returning to Wisconsin and moving to Merrill, Emma ran a Christian boarding house for young women in Merill, WI. She had blue eyes and high cheekbones.
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17. Adaline Hover
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(17) Adaline Hover, coming from a family of poor farmers, was a housegirl in the Shoemaker household. She and (16) Jonathan are said to have eloped and moved out west to Wisconsin, which had just become a state. After the Civil War, they moved to Colorado Territory by wagon train, fighting Indians along the way. Jonathan was studying for his bar exams, hoping to become a lawyer. To earn a living in Colorado, he taught grown men how to read and write. According to family tradition, "You had to whoop 'em to teach 'em," and "They didn't fight by the Queensbury rules -- they would bite and kick and use knives." Adaline and her neighbor, Mrs. Wheeler, decided that this was no place to raise children, and they gave their husbands an ultimatum: they were going back to Wisconsin, "with or without their men."
The men went with them, and (16) Jonathan settled down and became a grocer. I don't know whether the women found a "good place to raise children", though. Northern Wisconsin, at that time, was a rough-and-tumble timber area. There was a saying that the three roughest places on earth were "Hurley (WI), Hayward (WI) and Hell -- in that order." (17) Adaline had blue eyes. The family tradition is that she was a Quaker, but the relative who said that, may have had her confused with the (16) Jonathan's gravestone says he served in Co. B, 37th Regt., WI Volunteers This regiment, raised in 1864, took part in the seiges of Petersburg & Richmond, VA. They marched in the Grand Review in Washington, DC at the end of hostilities. During the seige of Petersburg, The 37th behaved with great gallantry, and General Grant issued a complimentary order, praising the division for their endurance and success. Arriving around Petersburg after a 22 mile march, the unit encountered incredible casualties in several charges. Co. A suffered many killed, and Co. I was virtually decimated in the battle. The 1900 Census says Jonathan ("John" in the census) served in Co. D, NY Volunteers. This may indicate service earlier in the war.
cf. http://www.twsgraphics.com/genealogy/WIS37thInf.htm
The first settlement in Waupaca county, of which Waupaca is the county seat and chief city, was made in 1848, while Wisconsin was yet a territory, and nine years before the region embracing the county was ceded to the state by the Menominee Indians. Alpheus Hicks is credited with being the first pioneer, having located at Fremont in 1843, and being, it is stated, the only permanent settler until 1848.
-- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Ras0q0eIUzkJ:www.mainstreet-marketplace.com/pages1/Books/illustrated%2520waupaca%25201888.htm+alpheus+hicks&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
The above may have been the husband of Elizabeth Viele, the mother of (17iii[2]) Alpheus Hicks Jr..
Doyle Springer lived in Weyauwega, Waupaca, WI in 1880, with his mother Nora. He was b. WI, she NY.
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18. Henry Alfred Duncan
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Henry's mother had died when he was a young boy, and he and Eugene had been given to different families to be raised, so their father could go up north to get work. They were reunited as teenagers, a little while before enlisting together. Their father had remarried by then to a widow with daughters, and Eugene later married his step-sister. Henry lived in Parfryville, Waupaca Co., WI; California; Pine River, Waushara Co., WI and Grand Rapids. He was 5' 10-1/4" tall, dark complexion, dark eyes.
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19. Josephine Matilda Wells
(18) Henry Duncan was a private (a Sgt., according to Ancestry.com) in Co. A, 16th Regiment, Wis. Volunteer Infantry, Dec. 16, 1861 - Jan. 27, 1863. He fought at Shiloh, alongside his brother Eugene, shortly after mustering in. After burying the dead, Henry was shipped out because of a heart condition, and later discharged from an army hospital. He travelled as far as California, and returned to Wisconsin to become a carpenter and cranberry farmer.
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