This is the Stiehm Family

William and Anna (Ton) Stiehm where natives of Wattenburg, Germany. They came to the United States in 1852 and settled on a farm of 40 acres in Jefferson County. It was necessary to cut down the standing timber in order to make room for the log cabin, so thickly was the ground covered with a native forest trees. At times three weeks were passed without the family seeing another white person. There were shot from the window and on one occasion their dog, which was changed to his kennel, caught a farm, so tame and numerous with a deer in this section. After many years devoted to farming the father retired from business and took up his abode at Johnson Creek, where he passed away at the age of 78 years. (from History of Jefferson County, WI and Its People: ARecord of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, by John Henry Ott, 1917, SJ Clark Publishing, Chicago, p 275-76.)