Daniel Gotham, whose history forms the subject of this sketch, was born in St. Lawrence county, N.Y. in 1836, spent his early years there and was educated in the public schools. For four years he was engaged in lumbering in the woods of Canada, and for twenty-six years followed this occupation, spending many winters in the lumber camps through the woods of northern Wisconsin. He came to this State in 1855, locating in Sheboygan county. In 1857 he came to Waupaca county, and in 1859 he located in Little Wolf township, buying tract of 120 acres. In 1859 he married Mary Crane, a native of New York, whose parents Henry R. and Salome (Willard) Crane, also natives of New York, came in 1857 to Waupaca county and settled in Royalton township. Mr. Crane died in 1876 and his wife in 1886. Mr. Gotham established himself on a farm in Royalton township in 1865, buying eighty acres of partly-improved land in Section 23, on which he erected the present buildings, and where he now resides engaged in farming. In June 1894, he was called upon to mourn the death of his wife, and their children a mother's loving care and counsel. Of their six children, Andrew is married and resides in Royalton township, Eugene has for some time taught school in Waupaca count and is not attending Normal School in Oshkosh; Charles another of Waupaca county's teachers, is likewise attending the Normal School in Oshkosh; Edwin, who is now at the same institution as his brothers, taught a ward school at Oconto, Wis., last year; May, who is teaching Sheboygan, has been an assistant in the high school for the past two years; and Myrtle is engaged in preparing for the work of teaching; as others of the family have done.

In 1865 Mr. Gotham enlisted at Waupaca, in Company D, Forty-seventh Wis V. I. for one year or during the war, and was stationed at Tullahoma, Tenn., on garrison duty, obtaining his discharge in September 1865 at Nashville, Tenn. Socially he is a member of the G.A.R. An early settler and pioneer, he has been much of the growth of the county and of the woods of Wisconsin to the present advanced state of development and progress.

(From "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Counties of Wisconsin: Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano" by Chicago; J. H. Beers & Co. 1895.)
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