Biographical Sketch of

Jeremiah Pells

Transcribed by Robert Schieber

Source: Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, 
Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, published 1901 by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1901, Page 583
 

Burdick, Gardner, Meade, Parks, Pells 	


Jeremiah Pells is the owner of a fine farm on section 2, Richfield township, Adams county, Wisconsin, which 
invariably attracts the eye of the passing traveler as being under the supervision of a thorough and skillful 
agriculturist, and a man otherwise of good business qualifications.  The farm consists of two hundred and 
fifteen acres, of which one hundred and forty are under excellent cultivation and improved with good and 
substantial buildings, including a very comfortable residence.

A native of Wisconsin, Mr. Pells was born in Albion, Dane county, February 6, 1845, and is a son of Jeremiah 
and Polly (Gardner) Pells.  The father was born on the Mohawk Flats, new York, in 1816, and came to Wisconsin 
about 1844, locating first in Dane county, and in 1854 removing to Adams county, where he purchased eighty 
acres of land, only four of which had been broken.  Here he continued to make his home until his death, with 
the exception of about two years.  Throughout life he followed the occupation of farming and affiliated with 
the Democratic party.

Amid pioneer scenes our subject grew to manhood, and early became familiar with all the duties which fall to 
the lot of the agriculturist.  He chose farming as his life work, and in his labors has met with well-merited 
success.  Mr. Pells was married, August 23, 1871, at Coloma, Waushara county, to Miss Charlotte Parks, who was 
born in Allegany county, New York, January 18, 1852, and when small was brought to this state by her parents, 
William and Mary (Meade) Parks, who first located in Dane county, but afterward removed to Waushara county, 
where they spent the remainder of their lives.  Mr. and Mrs. Pells have five children, namely:  Edith, now the 
wife of Charles Burdick, of Hancock, Waushara county; Arthur; Clara; George; and Tressie.

On the 3d of September, 1864, at the age of nineteen years, Mr. Pells enlisted at Albion, Dane county, in Company 
E, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and was stationed most of the time at Alexandria, Virginia, guarding the city 
of Washington.  He was on guard duty the night President Lincoln was assassinated, and fourteen minutes after the 
fatal shot was fired received orders to let no one pass under any consideration.  He was discharged at Fort O'Rourke, 
Virginia, June 26, 1865.  In politics he is a stanch Republican, and takes an active and commendable interest in 
public affairs.  He is one of the prominent and influential men of his township, and has been called upon to fill 
various local offices of honor and trust, the duties of which he has most capably discharged.


Transcribed by Robert Schieber






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