Zara Cornish was born in Ontario county, New York, in 1829. In 1853 he located at Reed's Landing; in 1863 removed to Goodhue county; and two years later to Nicollet county; then to Brown county and in the spring of 1871 entered a homestead in Brookville. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H, Fifth Minnesota; was discharged on account of disability. Married Matilda Youngs in 1848; thirteen children living, Martha, Hilaria, Ruth, Jesse, Emma, Joseph, Ella, Rhoda, Jack, Alice, Effie, Huldah and Hannah.

D. McMillan, native of Canada, was born in Prescott county in 1841. In 1864 he went to Pennsylvania and two years after, to Michigan; in 1869 he came to Minnesota; worked at lumbering in the St. Croix Valley; took a homestead of 160 acres on section 22, Brookville in 1869, after which he engaged with a railroad bridge building firm, but now lives on his farm.

J. H. Manchester, was born in Canada in 1855, At the age of three, he went with his parents to Ohio and when seven to Michigan, and to Wisconsin. In 1878 he came to Minnesota and settled on section 20, of Brookville. His father was a sailor for thirteen years and in 1850 married Jane Grant who bore him six children, two are living; Joseph and Cora D. The latter is a school teacher.

D. J. Sheffield was born in New York in 1833. He was agent for the New York and Erie Railroad at Addison and in 1857 came to Minnesota and was clerk in the office of register of deeds at Minneapolis until fall; went to Belle Plaine and was receiver of wheat in a mill two years, then returned to New York. In the spring of 1860 he went to Wisconsin, which was his home till 1871, then located a homestead on section 32, Brookville. Married in 1870, Elsie Smith; one child; Frank J. Mr. Sheffield served three years in Company H, Third Wisconsin cavalry.