HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
came-to Green-county, and has since been a res- 
ident of this town. In the spring of 1862 he 
bought an interest in the flouring mill near old 
Decatur village, and was connected therewith 
until the close of 1866. Since the beginning of 
1867 he has been engaged in farming, real es- 
tate, loaning money, etc. Mr. Stewart is num- 
bered among the most successful and substan- 
tial business men of Brodhead. He now owns 
at least 1,200 acres of land in the vicinity of 
Brodhead, and is a man of sound financial 
ability. He has been three times married, first 
in Vermont to Harriet C. Tanner, a native of 
Wilmington, Vt. She died in 1871. His sec- 
ond wife was Mrs. Clarinda Harrington. His 
present wife was Mrs. Lavina Dubois. By his 
first wife he has three children-Sylvester, a 
former successful merchant in Brodhead, now 
at Hancock, Stevens Co., Minn., where he is a 
large land owner and produce dealer; Mrs. 
Emma Walling, Wife of Percy Walling, who 
now resides in Kansas; and Harmon T., now liv- 
ing in Brodhead. By his second wife he has 
one son--Gerald. 
J. Brant is a harness maker, of Brodhead, 
that business there now being represented by 
him, Joseph Gramm and Henry Richards. The 
first to open a shop of this kind in the place 
was Albert Shearer, in 1858, who employed his 
brother-in-law, Michael Ott, as workman, who 
made the first harness manufactured in the vil- 
age. The shop was continued but a short time. 
Mr. Ott is now a resident of Janesville. The 
second shop was opened in 1859, by J. Brant, 
the subject of this sketch, who has since been 
in the business, except his service in the army, 
and another recent short interval. He was born 
in Ohio, in 1832, and when but seven years old 
removed to Indiana with his step-father, his 
own father, Abraham Brant, having died when 
he was but two years of age. His parents were 
natives of Pennsylvania. He learned his trade 
in Wabash City, Ind., after which he spent a 
number of years traveling and working at his 
trade at different places, until he engaged in 
 
business in Brodhead, in 1859, as stated.  He 
enlisted in 1861 in the regimental band of the 
3d Wisconsin, and was discharged in October, 
1862, by virtue of an order issued by the war 
department for the discharge of regimental 
bands. He re-enlisted in 1863 as a member of the 
band of the 1st brigade, third division, fifteenth 
army corps, and served until August, 1865. He 
participated in Sherman's Atlanta campaign, 
and in the march to the sea.  He was married 
to Ellen Cowen, a daughter of Mrs. Charlotte 
Cowen, who was an early settler of Green coun- 
ty. Mrs. Brant died a number of years since, 
leaving two children-Fred, born in 1867, and 
Tina, born in 1869. 
D. C. Day, of Brodhead, settled in the town 
of York, Oct. 3, 1843.  His father, D. B. Day, 
located in that town the previous year, coming 
from Geauga Co., Ohio. D. B. Day was a native 
of Madison Co., N. Y., born in 1798, in which 
county he continued to reside until he reached 
manhood, when he moved to Genesee county,- 
thence to Ohio, in 1840, and to this county in 
1842. The wife of D. B. Day was formerly 
Hannah Cass.   They had nine children who 
grew to maturity, seven of whom, five sons, and 
two daughters, are still living.  They removed 
to Kansas, in 1856, during the existence of 
border warfare in that State, where Mrs. D. B. 
Day died. Her husband removed to Iowa, in 
1863, where he died. D. C. Day, the subject of 
this sketch, was born in Canada West, where 
his parents were then living. He was reared in 
the State of New York, removed to Ohio with 
his parents, and came to Green county, in 1843. 
He first settled on a farm in the town of York, 
which he had obtained from the government. 
At that time there were living within the 
borders of that town: John Stewart, Sr., William 
Crowell, Albro Crowell, son of William; Will- 
iam C. Green, Joseph Miller, William Spears, 
Simeon Alden, Ezra Wescott, Amos Conkey, D. 
B. Day, Philander Pebbles and Henry Hurl- 
bert. Of these families only that of Philander 
Pebbles now (1884) remains. M r. Day has been~ 
 
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