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John A. Chadwick
Daniel S. Chadwick
Brick Maker
1847
06 30 Messrs. CHADWICK & PLATT have a new
yard yard near Mr. Boomer’s. Watertown Chronicle
Brick Brick!
1858
THE SUBSCRIBER has now on hand about three hundred thousand
bricks
of a superior quality which he will sell at prices to suit
the times.
Patent Water Struck Brick,
for fronts of buildings, always on hand and sold very low
for cash.
I have also a very superior article of brick for sidewalks,
which I will
warrant to stand the frost, or the money will, in all cases,
be refunded.
Call at my Brick Yard south of the railroad depot
or at the City Treasurer's office near the Post Office.
D. S. Chadwick. June
21, 1858. [WD ad]
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1859
04
21 The
subscriber, feeling assured he can dig more gold out of his clay bank than he can
out of Pike’s Peak, has resolved to continue the business at his old stand for
another year at least, where he will be happy to meet all of his old customers
and as many new ones as may call upon him.
Bricks of all patterns made at the shortest notice. I have now on hand about five hundred
thousand brick of superior quality, either for building or side-walks. Patent Water Moulded French Brick always on
hand at prices to suit the times. D. S.
Chadwick, first yard south of R. R. Depot.
WD
05
05 Sebra Howard
engaged in erecting steam saw mill at Hubbleton. Main building will be brick . . . the brick
having been manufactured by D. S. Chadwick WG
09
22 St. Paul’s Episcopal, supplier of brick for WD
Death of John A. Chadwick
1888
05 09 1888
Chadwick, Jane M., b. Aug
14, 1827, d. Apr 15, 1898
Chadwick, John A., b. Nov 9,
1810, d. May 8, 1888
This week we are called
upon to record the death of one of the very earliest settlers of Watertown,
John A. Chadwick, the sad event taking place at his home in the Third ward,
Tuesday afternoon, May 8, 1888, in the 78th year of his age. Yesterday morning he arose in his usual good
health and after breakfast he went out to do some work. While thus engaged, at
about eleven o’clock he received a paralytic stroke and lingered until 3:25
o’clock P.M., when his spirit took its flight to the world beyond.
With one exception,
that of John W. Cole, Mr. Chadwick was the oldest
settler here, coming to Watertown, March 12, 1837. Mr. Chadwick journeyed from Beloit to this
place on foot, following the bank of Rock River. At this time Janesville and Beloit had each
one house. Mr. Chadwick arrived at Fort
Atkinson a few days after Dwight Foster and wife had settled there, and he
stopped over night with this hospitable pioneer couple.
In 1842 Mr. Chadwick
married Jane M. Johnson, daughter of the first white settler of Watertown, the
late Timothy Johnson, who with one son, Allen
H., of Minneapolis, Minn., and Miss Mary E. and Miss Nettie A., both residing
at home survives him. Deceased taught
school here somewhere between 1838 and 1840, and could lay claim to being the first teacher in Watertown. Mr. Chadwick claimed to have been the first
to start a brick yard here in 1847, Andrew Willard, now living at Beaver Dam,
being the molder. He had been connected
with Watertown Lodge F. and A.M. for 37 years, and at the time of his death was
its oldest member.
Mr. Chadwick was born
at Bradford, Vermont, November, 1810. He
was a man of unblemished reputation, upright in all his dealings, and a fine
type of the old pioneer now so rapidly passing from our midst. During his residence here of many years he
had always been met with the kindliest of feeling in recognition of his warm,
friendly attachments for those with whom he came in contact, and his memory
will be long cherished by a wide circle of acquaintances. In their affliction his family has the warm
sympathy of the entire community and may they find consolation in the knowledge
of his pure and unselfish life.
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