Category: Ryan’s Biographies

POLITICS FROM 1880 TO 1911. OUTAGAMIE COUNTY has in many respects an unusual political history. At numerous elections parties in the minority made no fight at all — did not try to make a losing fight for the sake of prestige or principle. In several instances cities and the county as a whole made spectacular […]

APPLETON 1880 TO 1911. APPLETON was active and prosperous in the ’70s and ’80s . Captain Spaulding‘s stave-factory burned down late in 1879, the loss being about $10,000. A new bridge over the race was built by Theodore Berg in 1880; it was a wooden structure at Lake street in the Second ward. The Appleton Telephone […]

MILITARY RECORD. OUTAGAMIE county contained among its first settlers men who had served in the War of 1812 and perhaps men who had suffered in the cause of the Colonies during the Revolution. Appropriate mention of them will be found elsewhere in this volume. It is quite certain that soldiers who served in the War […]

POLITICS PREVIOUS TO 1880. KAUKALIN was an election precinct of Brown county in 1846. The other precincts of that county were Green Bay, Howard (which may have included a part of the present Outagamie county), DePere, Menominee, Pensaukee and Bay Settlement. The vote for candidates in Kaukalin was as follows: Two delegates to State Convention: […]

APPLETON BEFORE 1880. THERE were a few settlers on the north bank of the Fox previous to 1848, but they were not of the class termed pioneers, according to the common acceptation of the terms; they had all left for other parts with the exception of the Grignon family, a branch of which still remains […]

COUNTY AFFAIRS AND MISCELLANY. WHAT is now the County of Outagamie was owned by the Indians until taken possession of by the French in the seventeenth century. It so remained until it passed to Great Britain as a result of the Seven Years’ War, 1761-2. At the close of the Revolution, 1783, it became the […]

GEOLOGY, DRAINAGE, ETC. GEOLOGICALLY considered, the foundation of Outagamie county consists of what was formerly called “fundamental gneiss,” which embraced granites, gneisses, syenites and hornblendic, micaceous, chloritic and allied crystalline rocks which were once sediments derived from the wear of earlier rocks. Concerning those earlier rocks little or nothing is yet known. It is believed […]

(numbers refer to page numbers in original printed text) A Abel, William 774 Abraham, Frederick M. 837 Abraham, Henry W., M.D. 614 Abrahams, Isaac A. 1108 Adkins, Charles G. 1227 Adkins, Charles V 1228 Adsit, Amos Elias, D.D.S. 1161 Albert, Henry 722 Allen, Elwyn C 1155 Allen, Mrs. Martha J 995 Ames, Bostic H 879 […]

HISTORY OF OUTAGAMIE COUNTY WISCONSINBeing a General Survey of Outagamie County History includinga History of the Cities, Towns and Villages throughoutthe County, from the Earliest Settlement tothe Present Time THOMAS H. RYANEditor-in-Chief ADVISORY BOARD HENRY D. RYAN ISAAC N. STEWART JOHN D. LAWE CHARLES E. RAUGHT PETER TUBBS LOUIS JACQUOT JOHN DEY EBEN E. REXFORD […]