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- A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Volume @
Edited by Harry Ellsworth Cole
Bert Mahoney
Among the younger representatives of the farming element in Sauk County few have made better progress in material prosperity since reaching years of maturity than has Bert Mahoney, of 802 Ash Street, Baraboo. In Mr. Mahoney?s return to the country is found an instance of the call of Nature rising above the din of the city and the possibly more rapid compensations of a commercial career, for during several years he was identified with mercantile matters, only to again take up the vocation of his forefathers, that of the husbandman. He is at this time the owner of 160 acres of well-cultivated land in Excelsior Township, and is numbered among the skilled and progressive farmers of his part of the county.
Bert Mahoney was born at Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, April 11, 1888, and is a son of Cornelius J. and Agnes (Bevins) Mahoney. On both sides of the family he is descended from families who have resided during a long period in Wisconsin, for his father was born at Clinton and his mother at Janesville, both in Rock County. Cornelius J. Mahoney followed railroading all his life, and for forty-five years was conductor on a passenger train on the Northwestern Railroad, running out of Janesville, in which city his death occurred April 6, 1913, when he was fifty-nine years of age. He was one of the trusted employes of his company, a reliable, steady and faithful trainman, and a general favorite with the traveling public who journeyed over his branch of the road. In political matters he took no part, and in regard to a preference for one or another of the parties, he invariably maintained and independent position, his ballot being cast in favor of the man whom his judgment told him was best fitted for the duties of the office at stake. He and Mrs. Mahoney, who survives him and still resides at Janesville, where member of the Catholic Church. They had four children: Frank, Bert, Estelle and Catherine.
Bert Mahoney received his education in the public schools of his native city, and after his graduation from the Janesville High School secured employment in a mercantile establishment there. There he resided until 1907, continuing to be connected with business matters, and in the year mentioned came to Baraboo, where he became associated with a business house as a traveling representative. He was successful in this direction and undoubtedly would have gone far as a business man but the call of the country was too strong to resist and in 1913 he took up farming in Excelsior Township where he now as 160 acres of good land, although he still makes his home at Baraboo, having a comfortable residence at No. 802 Ash Street. He has brought his land to a high state of cultivation and has improved his property with modern buildings, equipped with the latest appliances. As a general farmer he has reaped the success that is given as a reward for industry and good management, and his stock-raising efforts have also met with prosperous returns. In the life of the community he takes an active part, although public matters have had little interest for him, and had he so desired he would have found it difficult to find time from his farming duties to enter the lists as a candidate for office.
On January 15, 1913, Mr. Mahoney was married to Miss Maud Kellogg, who was born in Greenfield Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, October 9, 1887, a daughter of Arthur and Mary (Wilson) Kellogg, the former born in Greenfield Township, March 27, 1858, and the latter at Decorah, Wisconsin, in 1866. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Mahoney were Albert Frederick and Sarah Jane (Bassett) Kellogg, pioneers of Sauk County and the first of this family to come to Wisconsin, the former home of the Kelloggs having been in New York. Albert F. Kellogg was engaged during the early days in teaming between Baraboo and Milwaukee, and became widely and favorably known to the people of this locality. He died in 1887, at and advanced age, having rounded out a full and useful life, while Mrs. Kellogg survived until 1913, and was also well advanced in years at the time of her demise. They had the following children: Chauncey, Ansel, Elwin, Levi, Almira, Alice, the wife of Charles Mattoon, of Watertown, Connecticut; and Arthur.
Arthur Kellogg was educated in the public schools of Sauk County, attending the primitive log schoolhouse in Greenfield Township and receiving instruction from J.M. True, one of the pioneer teachers of the county. For a number of years he was engaged in farming and stock-raising, and also was a stock buyer with George Hill, of Baraboo, but later embarked in the livery business, and continued to be engaged therein during a period of seventeen years. He then retired from active pursuits and went to Janesville, where he resided for several years, but his death occurred at Portage, Wisconsin, Thanksgiving Day, 1913. He was a republican, but not a politician. Mrs. Kellogg has passed away July 28, 1904, the mother of five children, all of whom survive: Maud, now Mrs. Mahoney; and Beatrice, Charles, Frederick and Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney are the parents of one child: Mary Patricia, born June 27, 1916.
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1887 - 
(Age 54 years)