SAMUEL BARSTOW, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Platteville; born at Norway, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Aug. 12, 1812; emigrated at the age of six years to Trumbull Co., Ohio, where he attended the district school in the schoolhouse, which was composed of logs with slabs as seats. He remained at home on the farm until the year 1838, when he came to Wisconsin and remained one year, then returned to Ohio, and in the fall of the year 1844, he returned to Grant County, where he bought 160 acres of land and has improved with a fine house 26 x 42, good barn 30 x 40, wing, 15 x 30, basement stable. The old log cabin is still standing on the place. His first wife, Elizabeth De Wolf, a native of Trumbull Co., Ohio, was born June 5, 1813, and married April 9, 1834; she died Aug. 9, 1866; by this marriage there were two children - Scott, born Dec. 23, 1837, now residing in Thayer Co., Neb.; Ariel, who was born Oct. 19, 1842, and enlisted in Company E, 25th W. V. I., now in La Fayette Co., Wis. His second wife was Mrs. Arminda Hyde, born July 21, 1822, at Malone, N. Y., and married in 1843 to Mr. Hyde, a native of Highgate, Franklin Co., N. Y.; he died at Lancaster, Wis., in 1863, leaving four children - Columbus, now in Georgetown, Wis.; Julia, born June 19, 1849, now Mrs. McFadden, in Kansas; Flora, born Sept. 27, 1857, now Mrs. Downing; Frank D., born Dec. 18, 1856, died Sept. 30, 1878, now in Kansas. Mrs. Hyde married Mr. Barstow in 1867; they have no children. In politics is a Republican, and held the office of School Clerk and Treasurer of District No. 7, also Justice of the Peace under the old Territory Law and now Justice; the first Assessor under the State law; Town School Superintendent, also Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.