“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  Western 
Historical Company.   1879.


HON. GARDNER SPOOR, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Aztalan; born March 28, in 
Monroe Co., N.Y., where he worked on his father’s farm; in September, 1846, he 
came to Wisconsin and bought fifty-one acres of land in Dane Co., which he soon 
afterward sold and then moved to Aztalan Township, Jefferson Co., and bought 
eighty acres of wild land on School Section 16 and built a frame residence, that 
being the first house in that section.  He was Treasurer of the township in 1853; in 
1862, was enrolling officer for Aztalan Township; was elected member of the 
Legislature in 1864 for the session of 1865; Republican; was Supervisor before his 
election to the Legislature, and was Chairman of Supervisors in 1876; he served as 
Justice of the Peace for five years.  Mr. Spoor now owns ninety-eight acres of land 
on which he raises all kinds of grain and stock.  Married Miss Emily Hyer, of St. 
Lawrence Co., N.Y., Oct. 27, 1862; she was born in Franklin Co., N.Y., in 1834; 
have three children – Mary, born July 27, 1863; Mattie, March 1, 1865; Georgie, Jan. 
18, 1867.  Mrs. S. is a member of the Methodist Church.





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