----Source: 1881 HISTORY OF NORTHERN WI, Chicago: The Western Historical Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor (grammar as is), Pg. 248

HARRY PHILPOTT, blacksmith, Loyal, born in Hampshire, England, Jan. 4, 1837, came with his parents to America, and to Dodge Co., Wis. His father being a blacksmith, he picked the trade up learned horse-shoeing in Dodge County, of D. S. Brann (Braun?). He continued working in different places in Dodge County and vicinity till 1874, when he came to Loyal, Clark Co., and opened the place he now has at first with his brother, T. B. Since 1877, has run it alone. He owns a farm of eighty acres, besides the residence in town. In 1860, April 14, he married Miss Catherine Merrill, of Dodge County. The have two children, William M. and Tom B. Mr. Philpott has served as Justice of the Peace, and in other offices. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee belongs to the Good Templars.