The Descendants of Lieut. John Andrews of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. by Betty Andrews Storey 2009 Horace Story age 63, stone quarry, born in Vermont with wife Eunice L. age 60; [niece] Sarah Fisk age 25. The 1900 census for Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin shows Horace Story age 82 with wife Eunice S. age 82, married 50 years with none[?, 1] of her 3 children living. Children of Horace Goodrich STORY and Eunice Lee VAIL were as follows: 8 + 10232 i Ellen Augusta STORY, born 27 Feb 1849 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan; died 27 Jul1923 in Lake Beulah, Walworth County, Wisconsin; buried in Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. She married Robert A. JOHNSTON. 10233 n Fannie Marie8 STORY, born 23 Jul1851. 10234 m Carrie Louise8 STORY, born 12 Jul1857 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. 3546 (Asa 5501. Hiram Fisk7 STORY3545 · 6 , Abiah' Giddings , James4 , Nathaniel3 , Elizabeth2 Andrews , John\ born 1818 in Randolph, Orange County, Vermont; died 1887 in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He married Nancy Marie TICHENOR, born 1823 in New York. Notes for Hiram Fisk Story Hiram Story was almost a pioneer. He left Vermont at the age of 25 and headed west to Milwaukee, arriving in 1843. Several years had passed since the first wave of settlement, but there was still plenty of room for newcomers. By 1846, the year Milwaukee was chartered; Story owned 160 acres west of the city. The New Englander's land, bordered by 43rd and 51st Streets between Wisconsin Avenue and Canal Street, included nearly the entire present Story Hill neighborhood. Hiram started a farm above the Menomonee River but an accidental discovery led him to more lucrative pursuits. According to local legend, a storm uprooted a large tree on the farm in the 1850s, revealing a deposit of high-grade dolomite, better known today as Lannon stone. The farmer became a quarryman, supplying the needs of builders throughout the region. Business was so demanding that Hiram's brother, Horace Story, joined him as partner in 1857. The Story brothers' quarry eventually covered what was the north parking lot of old County Stadium, and it spread east beneath present Highway 41 expressway. The brothers built homes on the high ground above the quarry, and the area was soon known as "Story Hill". Competing stone quarries opened in the Menomonee Valley, among them the Manegold and Monarch operations, which lay just over the hill from the Story quarry. (Filled in today, they constitute Doyne Park.) Between the quarries, at the crest of the hill, was the main road between Milwaukee and all points west. The "highway", little more than two ruts at first, had been blazed in the 1830s to connect the lakeshore city with the little village of Blue Mounds, west and south of Madison. There it joined the old Military Road connecting Green Bay and Prairie du Chien. Most of the route is still in use as Highway 18. Blue Mound Road, as it came to be called, was a country lane in the mid-1800s, but it brought the first non-rural development to the Story Hill area. In 1857, Milwaukee's Catholic diocese opened Calvary Cemetery east of Hawley Road on Blue Mound. It had 10,000 burials by 1880, and its "residents" would eventually include such notables as Solomon Juneau and Patrick Cudahy. As Calvary Cemetery began to fill in, a much larger development was taking shape to the south: the National Soldiers Home. Built in the late 1860s, it was one of four homes in the country serving disabled Civil War veterans. With its winding carriage drives, picturesque lakes and elaborate Victorian buildings, the National Soldiers Home was a mandatory stop for visitors to Milwaukee. Its main entrances, on Blue Mound Road and "National" Avenue, were soon flanked by saloons that served visitors and veterans alike. With the Soldiers Home to the south, Calvary Cemetery to the west, and Milwaukee's border only a mile to the east, Story Hill might have seemed ripe for development. The area lay directly in the path of the city's westward expansion, but a major obstacle retarded its growth for decades: Menomonee Valley. Blue Mound Road entered and left the valley on grades so steep that they were almost treacherous. Although the city was literally in sight, Story Hill remained remote. The valley's west bluff was called "Undertaker's Hill" because of the challenge it posed to funeral processions bound for Calvary Cemetery. The trip to Calvary was so tedious, in fact, that few city priests could afford the time it took to get there. The Catholic archbishop finally prevailed upon the Capuchin order to open a church across from the cemetery. The Capuchins founded Holy Cross parish in 1879 with a dual mission: officiating at graveside services across the street and ministering to German Catholic families in the surrounding farm country. Even after the parish reins passed to the Pallotine order in 1921, cemetery work remained one of the special functions of Holy Cross. Urban development reached the very edge of Story Hill in the late 1800s. A small settlement called Pigs ville spread across the Menomonee Valley floor in the 1880s and '90s, its residents drawn by job opportunities in nearby industries, including the Story quarry. But Pigsville was destined to remain an urban 3545 Ibid., pp. 380-381. 3546 Story Hill Neighborhood Association website (http://www.storyhill.neUSHNAAbou t.htm), 2006. 1037 © 2009 Godfrey Memorial Library-All rights reserved.