From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 907-910
 
HENRY CLARK BUELL.  Each man who strives to fulfill his part in connection 
with human life and human activities is deserving of recognition, whatever may 
be his field of endeavor, and it is the function of works of this nature to 
prepare for future generations as authentic record concerning those 
represented in its pages, and the value of such publications is certain to be 
cumulative for all time to come, showing forth the individual and specific 
accomplishments of which generic history is ever engendered.  The record of 
the honored pioneer, Henry Clark BUELL, of Linn township, Walworth county, is 
worthy of perpetuation on the pages of history as we will readily ascertain by 
a study of the same in the following paragraphs.
 
Mr. BUELL was born in Plymouth, Chenango county, New York, December 20, 1832.  
He is the son of Ira and Chloe (HOLCOMB) BUELL.  Ira BUELL was born in New 
Hampshire and Chloe HOLCOMB was a native of Connecticut.  The BUELL family is 
descended from William BUELL, who was born at Chesterton in Huntingdonshire, 
England, in 1610, and he came to America and settled at Dorchester, 
Massachusetts, then moved to Windsor, that state, where his death occurred in 
1681.  His son Samuel was born at Windsor, Connecticut, September 2, 1641, and 
his death occurred on July 11, 1720.  He had a son, Gen. Samuel BUELL, born at 
Windsor, July 20, 1663, and died March 2, 1732; his eleventh child was Joseph 
BUELL, born at Killingsworth, August 24, 1710.  Joseph's tenth child, Thomas, 
was born at Somer, Connecticut, May 15, 1756, and died at Lebanon, New York, 
October 1, 1820.  He married Irene BLODGETT, daughter of Capt. John BLODGETT, 
of Hartford, Connecticut.  Ira BUELL was the sixth child of Thomas BUELL and 
he was born at Newport, New Hampshire, January 10, 1791.  When six years old 
he moved with his parents to Madison county, New York, which was then 
considered on the western frontier.  There Ira BUELL grew up and helped clear 
and develop his father's farm.  Upon reaching manhood he moved to the 
adjoining county of Chenango, and located in the town of Plymouth, where he 
continued to reside with the exception of three years in Earlville, Madison 
county, until he came to Wisconsin.  It was among the pleasant Plymouth hills 
that the greater part of his active life was spent, and there he was married 
in 1816 to Chloe HOLCOMB, a young woman of such exceptional looks and 
character as to win the soubriquet, "Chloe the beautiful."  There their 
children were born and reared and there he commenced his course of Christian 
life, which he maintained faithfully as long as he lived.  Their children 
were: Joseph Sidney, Harriet A., Persis A., Helen M., William Ira, Henry C. 
and Charles Edwin.
 
In 1846 Sidney BUELL came to Walworth county, Wisconsin, on a visit and here 
he taught school for a time, then returned to New York and on September 1, 
1847, he started back to Wisconsin with about five hundred sheep, which he 
drove all the way here, assisted by John McKIBBEN, who was born and reared in 
the same place as Sidney BUELL, and became a prominent citizen of this 
county.  That was the first drove of sheep brought into this part of Walworth 
county.  Sidney BUELL located in section 30, Bloomfield township, having been 
ninety-six days making the journey from New York here.  Sidney also located a 
farm for his father in section 25, Linn township, and in 1849 Ira BUELL, wife 
and children, Henry, Edwin and Persis, the last named later becoming Mrs. Gen. 
J. W. BOYD, came to this country.  William had taken up his residence here in 
1848, in Bloomfield township, and lived there many years.
 
After their arrival Ira BUELL and family made their home in Linn township as 
long as he lived.  He and his wife celebrated their silver and golden wedding 
anniversaries.  In the autumn of 1866, they celebrated the fiftieth 
anniversary of their marriage.  At that time six of their seven children had 
settled near the parental home.  These parents were generous, benevolent, 
upright people, and there was no discord in their home.  Mr. BUELL was a 
strong opponent of slavery, and he performed all his duties in the light of 
Christian principle.
 
Major Ira BUELL died in 1874 and the death of Mrs. Chloe (HOLCOMB) BUELL 
occurred in 1884, Sidney BUELL lived in Bloomfield township for a number of 
years, then moved to Lake Geneva and there spent the rest of his life.  
Harriet A. BUELL married George ALLEN and lived in Linn township all her life; 
Persis married Gen. J. W. BOYD, as before stated, and a sketch of them appears 
elsewhere in this work; Helen married Leander MUDGE, in July 1847; she lived 
at Randalia, Iowa, until late in life, then in 1893 she and her husband moved 
to California, where Mr. MUDGE died, after which she returned to her old home 
in Wisconsin, on a visit and died at the home of General BOYD in Linn 
township.  William Ira BUELL lived in Bloomfield township all his life and 
died in Genoa Junction; Charles Edwin and Henry C. are the only two survivors 
of the family; the former lives at Hollywood, California, a suburb of Los 
Angeles; the latter lived on his father's farm and came here in 1849 with his 
father, and he has lived on the old homestead in Linn township for sixty-two 
years.  Henry C. BUELL has been very successful as a general farmer and stock 
raiser, and he is the owner of a fine farm of three hundred and seventy acres 
of well-improved and productive land on which are two fine residences and 
large substantial barns and other outbuildings.
 
In early life Henry C. BUELL began sheep raising.  His sons are now raising 
pure-bred hogs and cattle.
 
Henry C. BUELL was married in 1862 to Mary E. THACHER, daughter of Alfred and 
Susannah (BAKER) THACHER.  She was born August 11, 1844, at Pawtucket, Rhode 
Island, Susannah (BAKER) THACHER was the daughter of Ebenezer and Susannah 
(CROWELL) BAKER.  Through the CROWELL family she traces back to John CROWELL, 
who came to America from England in 1635 and settled in Charleston, 
Massachusetts, removing from there to Yarrmouth in 1638, and who became a 
freeman in 1640, he died at an advanced age in 1673.  His son John lived and 
died in Yarmouth.  John had a son, John, born at Yarmouth in 1662, who moved 
to Salem, Massachusetts, and died there.  He had a son, William, who married 
Susanna MERCURY, October 26, 1726; their granddaughter or great-granddaughter, 
Susanna CROWELL, born at Hyannis, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, in 1801, married 
Ebenezer BAKER, mentioned above.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. BUELL have three sons, namely: Henry Clark BUELL, Jr., 
born May 28, 1866, is superintendent of schools at Janesville, Wisconsin; he 
married in 1895, Henrietta OPIE and they have three children, Bessie, Harold 
and Donald.  Ralph BUELL, born April 9, 1877, lives in a house near that of 
his father and assists in running the home farm; he was married in 1905 to 
Tena KNUDSON, and they have two children living, Henrietta and Robert.  
Laurence BUELL, born March 31, 1879, married in 1904, Clara MATSON, and they 
have two children, Thomas and Virginia; Lawrence is assisting his father and 
brother Ralph operate the home farm, and they are making a success as general 
farmers and stock raisers.
 
The subject and wife belong to the Congregational church at Lake Geneva in 
which Mr. BUELL has been a deacon many years.  He cast his first vote for John 
C. Fremont, and he has been a loyal Republican from the organization of the 
party in 1856.  In 1866 he delivered the Fourth of July oration in his 
neighborhood.  He is a man of good habits and he has always stood high in his 
neighborhood.
 
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