DR. JOSEPH E. PEEBLES, surgeon and mechanical dentist, Muscoda, was born in Cortland Co., N. Y., in 1846. Graduated at New York College of Dental Surgery, in 1873, and established practice at Marathon, Cortland Co., N. Y., where he remained until he came to this State, in 1875, and located at Spring Green, remaining there until he came to Muscoda. He is a practical engineer, also pattern maker, in fact, a natural-born mechanic. He did the fancy woodwork for the bank in the Smalley House, also made the patterns for the lathes for the new building of the Elgin Watch Factory. Enlisted Sept. 14, 1864, in Co. G, 185th N. Y. I., joined the Army of the Potomac and was first engaged in the battle at Hather's Run, and was wounded in the arm; the ball still remains in his arm. Participated with the regiment in nine engagements, and mustered out with them at Syracuse, N. Y., at the close of the war. He is a son of Joseph C. and Diana Campbell Peebles; his father was a native of Vermont, and mother of New York. He was married April 15, 1866, to Elizabeth T. Gray, of Cortland Co., N. Y., by whom he has two sons.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.