William Harrison Mack (1834)

Born 27 Jul 1834 in Koshkonong, Wisconsin, Michigan Territory, United States

Ancestors

William was Ho-Chunk.

Biography

Birth

William was born in 27 July 1834. (Waggoner, 26a) He is the son of Stephen Mack and Hononegah Winnebago.

William M. Adams testified in 1839 that “Mr. Mack has five children, the names and ages of which according to a family Record kept in his family Bible, of which the following is an exact copy are as follows:

Rosa Mack b. Nov. 14th 1830

Mary Mack b. July 15th 1832

William Mack b. July 27th 1834

Louisa Mack b. May 6th 1836

Thomas Hartzell Mack born Feb. 9th 1838” (Waggoner, 26a)

Marriage

He married Julia Stocker. (McMakin, 9) "William married Julia Stocker, sister of Mary's husband, and had two children before he left Macktown." (Barge, 11)

Children

1. Edna, born July 11, 1854.
2. "The first birth in the town was that of Viola M. Mack, a daughter of William and Julia Mack, born in May 1856. Cyrus D. Turner gave the child a village lot for the privilege of naming her, and bestowed the name of Viola May, in honor of the village and month in which the birth occurred." (Butterfield, 1044-45)
3. Effa, born July 7, 1860.
4. Catherine born February 28, 1863.

Occupation

He was elected 2 November 1858 to be register of deeds. (Butterfield, 816) In 1859 he was on the Board of Supervisors for Forest, Wisconsin. (Butterfield, 795)

"He assisted in settling up his father's estate and showed considerable business talent. He carried on a brick yard for a time in Macktown, in connection with his brother-in-law Charles Stocker." (Barge, 11)

Residence

"William Mack a half breed from the Picatonic country, now [1855-56] appears among us. He bought out the store of D.C. Turner, and built a wooden structure, which is now attached to Mr Tate's store." (Butterfield, 897) This was in the village of Viola, Wisconsin.

Sources

• Dean McMakin, "Hononegah, A New Biography," Nuggets of History, 41, #4 (Dec., 2003): 1-11.
• William D. Barge, Early Lee County, Being Some Chapters in the History of the Early Days in Lee County, Illinois (Chicago: Barnard & Miller, 1913).
• Edson Irving Carr, The History of Rockton, Winnebago County, Illinois, 1820 to 1898 (Rockton, Ill.: Herald Office Print, 1898).
• Linda M. Waggoner (ed.), “Neither White Men Nor Indians: Affidavits from the Winnebago Mixed-blood Claim Commissions, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, 1838-1839” (Roseville, Minnesota: Park Genealogical Books, 2002). Extracted from Territorial Papers of the United States, Wisconsin, 1836-1848. M236. “Special Files of the Office of Indian Affairs,” 1836-46. “Special File 161” (Roll 41). “Special File 190” (Roll 42). National Archives, Washington D.C., Documents on Microfilm, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Record Group 75).
• Consul Willshire Butterfield, History of Crawford and Richland Counties, Wisconsin: Together with Sketches of Their Towns and Villages, Educational, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens ... (Springfield, Ill.: Union Publishing Company, 1884).
• Locke A. Sprague, The Progenitors and Descendants of Col. Stephen Mack and Temperence Bond Mack as Related to the David Cooper and Rollin Sprague Families (Milwaukee: the Author, 1975).
• Marguerite Olds, Biography of the Mack Families (the Author, 1968).