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HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY
Association, he was one of the strongest factors in the section identified
with the general welfare of the public interests of the community. His
political support has always been given to the republican party.
    On December 20, 1905, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Margaret
Lindsey, who was born- in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, October 27, 1879
a daughter of Arthur and Lettie (Ritchie) Lindsey, natives of Ireland
and of Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. Lindsey was born in 1843 and Mi\rs.
Lindsey November 18, 1843, and both camne to the United States when
five years old and located with their parents in New York although Mrs.
Lindsey's parents later went to Ohio. The paternal grandparents of
Mrs. Smith were George and Isabel (Wallace) LindseT, who settled in
Waupaca County,' Wisconsin, in 1855, and. there both died, the, grand-
father in 1879 and the grandmother in 1891. The maternal grandparents
of Mrs. Smith were George and Margaret (Carroll) Ritchie, who came
from Ireland to the United States, lived for several vears in Ohio, and
were pioneers of Waupaca. County, where both died, the grandfather in
1883 and the grandmother in 1912, at the advanced age of ninety years.
Arthur and Lettie Lindsey 'were the parents of the following children:
Jennie, George, Wallace, Arthur, Margaret and Robert, of whom Wallace
is deceased. Mr. Lindsey engaged in the logging business at an early day
and for about thirty years has been a. member of the Hatton Lumber
Company. He is now one of the prominent citizens -of Manawa, where he
is president of the First National Bank, is a leading democrat and former
postmaster, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
   Mrs. Smith was graduated from the Manawa High School, following
which she attended Lawrence College, of Appleton, Wisconsin, and then
accepted a position as. stenographer in her father's lumber business at
Manawa, retaining that post until her mnarriage to Professor Smnith. They
are the parents of two children: Eleanor Eliza, born November 18, 1906;
and Arthur John, born December 26, 1908. Professor Smith is justly
popular with the people of his adopted comrmunity, where he has stead-
fastly sought to elevate educational standards. , He ha.s won the right to
stand with the.few who combine a natural aptitude for teaching with the
executive force necessary to! energize a body of teachers.
   LEVI CAHOON. The .Cahoons are a family of pioneers. They have
been identified with Sauk County since wilderness days, more than sixty
years ago, and the pioneer spirit which caused them to come to this new
locality had in a previous generation actuated them to remove from the
Atlantic seaboard into the wilds of Northern Ohio. The family history
is an interesting one and deserves to be carried back beyond the date of
settlement in Sauk County.
   The original American seat of the family was in Massach'usetts, Berk-
shire County, where Wilber Cahoon was born December 27, 1772. He
married Miss Priscilla Sweet, of Rhode Island. For a number of years
they lived in Herkimer County, New York, where all their children but
one were born. It was in the year 1814 that these worthy people, par-
ticipating in that great westward movement which began about the close
of the second war with Great Britain, left New York State for the far
West. Wilber Cahoon traded his 100 acres of land in Herkimer County
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