Day: November 1, 2021

SETTLEMENT, TOWNS AND VILLAGES. TOWN of Kaukauna.–The first white occupant of the territory, now Outagamie county, was Dominique Ducharme, who about 1790 or 1798 established himself on the bank of the Fox river, at what is now Kaukauna. Ducharme, though said to have begun clearing and making a farm, had Indian trading for his main […]

ANDREW J. BEACH ANDREW J. BEACH, one of the prosperous business men of Deer Creek township, who is the proprietor of a flourishing mercantile establishment at Welcome, Wisconsin, was born July 10, 1868, at Menasha, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, and is a son of Andrew J. and Hattie (Bullen) Beach, natives of New York State and […]

EMIL AUL EMIL AUL, one of Outagamie county’s progressive and enterprising young agriculturists, cultivating the soil on a farm of 103 acres located in Grand Chute township, was born September 10, 1879, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a son of Frederick and Molly (Metge) Aul, natives of Germany. Frederick Aul was born in June, 1854, and came […]

WILLIAM MERKL AND ALWIN F. BOEHME WILLIAM MERKL AND ALWIN F. BOEHME, One of the flourishing meat market enterprises of Appleton, Wisconsin, is that conducted by the firm of Merkl & Boehme, the members of which, William Merkl and Alwin F. Boehme, are enterprising and progressive business men. This business was originally established by Jacob […]

FRANK M. CHARLESWORTH FRANK M. CHARLESWORTH, who has been engaged in business in Kaukauna for the past thirty years, is proprietor of one of the leading pharmacies of this city, and has also been prominently identified with public matters during a long period. Born at Omro, Wisconsin, in 1857, Mr. Charlesworth is a son of […]

MARTIN SMITS MARTIN SMITS, an enterprising and progressive agriculturist of Grand Chute, operating a fine tract of eighty acres, which he devotes to general and dairy farming, was born in Holland, January 16, 1869, and is a son of George and Marie (Rutten) Smits, farming people of Holland, who never left that country. Of their […]

BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCE. CAPTAIN JOSEPH H. MARSTON CAPTAIN JOSEPH H. MARSTON, one of the old and honest citizens of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, who for many years has been closely identified with the business and public interests of the city of Appleton, has a distinguished record for service during the great Civil war. Captain Marston was […]

KAUKAUNA AND SURROUNDINGS. KAUKAUNA was first visited by French explorers in 1634 or 1638, after which date white traders were here more or less continuously to secure the furs collected by the Indians. An account of these early visitations will be found elsewhere in this volume. In 1780 Capt. J. Long with twenty French Canadians […]

BENCH, BAR, COURTS, TRIALS, ETC. LAWYERS did not reside in what is now Outagamie county until after the commencement of Appleton village. Previous to 1848-9 all persons requiring legal services, except such as could be rendered by justices of the peace, went to Green Bay or Fond du Lac. Court was held at Green Bay […]