History of northern Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources; an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories; biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; views of county seats, etc., Part 171

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052

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C. M. FAIRCHILD, firm of Fairchild Bros., druggists, Marinette is a native of Fountain Co., Ind., came to Marinette with his parents, in 1863. His father is a native of St. Albans, Vt., where he studied for the ministry and graduated at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1830 ; he afterward removed to Virginia, then to Indiana ; in 1863 came to Marinette, was pastor of the Presbyterian Church here from 1863 to 1871. On account of his advanced years he has since been living retired. C. M. associated himself with his brother in the drug business in 1870; he has held the office of secretary of the library board several years, also Town Treasurer.

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A. M. FAIRCHILD, of the firm Fairchild Bros., is a native of Fountain County, Ind., receiving his education at Wabash College, Craw- fordsville, Ind. After leaving college in 1863, he enlisted in Co. A, 75th Ind. I., taking part in all the engagements of Sherman's army, including his March to the Sea, and through the Carolinas, to the end of the war. In August, 1865, Mr. Fairchild settled in Marinette and was employed as book-keeper by the N. Ludington Company until 1868, when he es- tablished his present business-the drug. Two years later his brother was admitted into the partnership. That the people of Marinette repose the utmost confidence in Mr. Fairchild is evidenced by the fact that he has held many local offices. For the past ten years he has been Chief of the Fire Department, whose efficiency is greatly due to him. He is also Treasurer of the School District, which position he has held nine years. Mr. Fairchild also served one term as Town Clerk, and is at present Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court. He is much interested in secret, benevolent and reformatory organizations, being a member of the Marinette Lodge, No. 182, A. F. & A. M., of which body he is the Wor- shipful Master. IIe is connected with the Warren Chapter of Green Bay, and with the commandery of K. T. at Oshkosh, Wis, ; is the present Grand Deputy of the Marinette Temple of Ilonor, chairman of its Board of Trustees, and has passed the chair of W. C. in the same organization. He is also secretary, superintendent and treasurer of the

Marinette and Menominee Commercial and Fire-alarm Telephone Com- pany, and vice-president of the Marinette Mineral Land Company, of which he is a stockholder. Mr. Fairchild is an enthusiastic Republican, and withal a good, public-spirited and respected citizen.

ALBERT GEARTTS, proprietor Travelers' Home, Marinette, is a native of Prussia; came to Milwaukee in 1848 ; worked at various kinds of labor till 1865, when he came to Marinette ; followed the lumber husi- ness about twelve years. In 1877, he commenced this business. Mar- ried, in 1867, to Kate Tisen. She was born in Brown Co., Wis. They have one child, Mary. Members of the Catholic Church.

W. C. GREEN, proprietor Central House, Marinette, is a native of Franklin Co., Vt. Came to Chicago in 1856. Since the age of fifteen years, he has followed the railroad business. March, 1880, he took charge of this hotel. Married, in 1862, to Josephine Church. She was born in Michigan. They have two sons, Fred and William.

P. R. GREENE, proprietor of the Dunlap House, Marinette, was born in Plattsburg, N.V., Feb. 22, 1829; came to Green Bay with his parents in 1833 ; remained there till 1847, when he went to Missouri, and wasin the employ of Choteau & Valle, as salesman, for ten years ; then went to Dubuque, Iowa, and engaged in mining up to 1864, when he returned to Green Bay and entered into partnership with George E. Hoskinson, and engaged in the grain trade; continued there up to the Spring of 1881, when he moved to Marinette and took charge of the Dunlap House, which he is renovating and improving, putting it in first- class shape, and is going to run it as such. He has good sample rooms for the accommodation of commercial men.

JOSH HODGINS, foreman in the tinshop for Watson Bros,, was born in Canada, and came to Chicago with his parents when quite young, and to Marinette in 1873, and has been in the employ of that firm ever since. He is a member of the Masonic order.

J. P. IIODGINS, Policeman, Marinette, is a native of Canada ; came to Appleton, Wis., in 1866; followed the lumber trade ; in 1873, came to Marinette, where he has since resided. He has just been appointed on the police force.

AMOS HOLGATE, attorney and Justice of the Peace, Marinette, is a native of Leeds, Yorkshire, England. When a boy, he came to Massachusetts, thence to Chicago and to McHenry Co., Ill., where he attended school several years. He then went South and followed steam- boating and railroading till the breaking out of the war. He then re- turned to McHenry County and enlisted in Co. D. 15th III. V. 1. ; was mustered out in 1864, He then went to Vicksburg and engaged in the hotel business, where he continued till 1867. He then came to Peshtigo and was employed by the Peshtigo Company about one year ; then came to Marinette and was book-keeper for the Marinette Iron Works till 1874 ; since then he has followed law and insurance. He has been, the past six years, Justice of the Peace ; Town Clerk, two terms. He now holds the office of Town Treasurer. JIe was admitted to the Bar January, 1878.

A. F. HOSKA, firm of A. F. Hoska & Co., wholesale saddlery, hardware, whips, etc., Marinette ; born Feb. 28, 1851, in Chicago ; in 1865, came to Oconto; there learned the harness trade with Frank Fisher ; in 1868, came to Chicago and worked at this trade till 1870, then to Colorado, where he remained till 1873, when he returned to Illinois. In 1875, he came to Marinette ; opened a shop with a very small stock. He is now doing an extensive wholesale and retail busi- ness, and is the only wholesale house north of Janesville. This firm have also opened stores at Quinnesec and Florence. Married Oct. 15, 1877, to Mary McCue. She was born in Canton. St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., July 10, 1857. They have two sons, Frank C., born July 25, 1878, and Irvin E., born Sept. 18, 1879.

C. R. JOHNSTON, merchant and County Treasurer, Marinette. Is a native of Canada, and came to Peshtigo in 1868, and to Marinette in the Spring of 1872, and established his present business at that time; when Marinette County was organized, he was appointed by the Gov- ernor County Treasurer, and in the Fall of 1879, was elected to the same office. He carries a good stock and is driving a fine trade.

GEORGE. T. JOIINSTONE, dealer in groceries and provisions, flour, feed, stucco, cement, and plastering hair, Marinette. He was born in New Brunswick, came to Marinette in 1869, engaged in the lumber business up to 1874, when he established his present business. He served as Deputy Sheriff one term, and he is a member of the I. O. O. F., also of the Masonic order.

ARTIIUR T. JONES, agent C. & N. W. R. R., Marinette. Is a native of Turin, Lewis Co., N. Y. Came to Ogdenshurg. N. Y., in 1867, worked for the O. & L. C. R. R., two and half years. In the Fall of 1869 he came to Chicago, and was employed as telegraph operator for the C. & N. W. R. R. In the Fall of 1875, he came to Marinette. Ilas held this position since.

DR. S. P. JONES, physician and surgeon, Marinette. Is a native of Oneonta, Otsego Co., N. Y. Came to Fond du Lac in 1845. Com- menced the study of medicine in Chilton, Wis., with Dr. D. La Count.

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Graduated in 1867, at the Chicago Medical College. He at once came to Marinette, and has since been engaged in his profession.

GEORGE LA FOND, firm of La Berge & La Fond, saloon and billiards, Marinette. Is a native of Green Bay, Wis. Came to Mari- nette in 1870. Worked at teaming, driving logs and various kinds of work, till March 10, 1879. 'He and Mr. La Berge opened this business, which they have continued since.

JAMES E. LEESON, steward Boom Co. boarding house, Mari- nette. Is a native of Milwaukee. When a child came to Green Bay. Worked on a farm at the age of fourteen. Came to Oconto, worked there three years. He then enlisted in Co. F. 12th Wis. Inf., 17th Army Corps. Was mustered out in August, 1865, participated in the battles of Vicksburg, Atlanta and Athens. Returned to Green Bay; followed boating one season and teaming two seasons. In 1868, came to Fond du Lac, in 1872, came to Marinette ; worked one season in the mill. Since then he has followed cooking. Since 1880, he has had charge of this boarding house.

J. W. P. LOMBARD, cashier Stephenson Banking Company, Marinette. Is a native of Cape Cod, Mass. In 1864, came to Chicago, was employed with the Fifth National Bank ; first served as messenger. 1Ie left the employ in 1874, having been promoted to paying teller. He then came to Marinette, and has since had charge of this bank.

11. M. LONGHEAD, jeweler, dealer in clocks, watches, jewelry, etc., Marinette, was born in Ohio. Came to Marinette in 1876 and es- tablished his business at that time. His means at that time were very limited, but by close attention to business he has accumulated means to build himself a shop, and has a fair stock of goods. He has also built him a good residence. This has all been done in the last five years.

WM. McCARTNEY, proprietor of saw-mill, Marinette, was born in Belmont Co., Ohio. Went to Wheeling, Va., in 1860. He came to Osh- kosh and was engaged in the lumber business up to 1867, when he sold out and moved to Menominee, Mich., and in 1868 came to Marinette, and has been engaged in the same business since.

J. J. McGILLIS, proprietor of post and tie mill, also dealer in gro- ceries, Marinette, is a native of Canada, and came to Marinette in 1869 and was engaged at contracting and building up to 1865, and in 1876 established his grocery business; before the'division of Oconto County he served one year as constable and Deputy Sheriff, and he is just building and starting his mill.

JOIIN MCGLOIN, proprietor of flour mill, Marinette, was born at Corning, N. Y .; came to Menasha in 1874 and to Marinette in 1879, and built his mill that year. When fully completed, it will have the ca- pacity of 150 barrels per day.

JOHN McLENNAN, retired, was born in Scotland, His parents moved to Nova Scotia when he was quite young, and in 1856 he came West and located at New London, Wis., and has been engaged in the lumber business, contracting, building, etc. He worked on the first merchant dock and the first ore dock that was built at Escanaba. He came to Marinette in 1867 and run a billiard hall. He has built two good store-rooms, one of which is covered with iron, the other partly so. About nine years ago he bought eighty acres of mineral land in Mar- quette Co., Mich., in the Felch Mountain Range. He also owns other lands and some other improved property in the town of Marinette.

DR. H. E. MANN, was born April 23, 1844, in Braintree, Orange Co., Vt. When he was nine years old, his father died, leaving a widow and two sons, of which he was the elder, in destitute circumstances. Two years afterward his mother, with true maternal bravery, believing that the West possessed opportunities for her boys not found in New En- gland, moved with them to Fond du Lac, Wis. Here young Mann attend- ed school until sixteen years of age, when he was obliged to discontinue his studies and contribute to the support of his mother and brother. Ob- taining a position in the Post-office, he continued in this employment most of the time until IS62. The Rebellion was now at its height, and, una- ble longer to withistand his patriotic impulses, he enlisted in Co. H., 32d Wis. V. I. While his regiment was on provost-duty at Memphis, Tenn., he was detailed for special service in the Marshal's office of that district. Here he remained for sixteen months the greater portion of the time as Chief Clerk of the Prison Department, having almost entire control of the famous "Irving Block Military Prison," with its hundreds of inmates. While thus engaged, his executive ability and fine military bearing attracted the attention of Col. S. O. Shorey, who was raising a battalion of cavalry composed of Southern Union men, who had been compelled to leave their homes on account of loyalty to the "old flag." lle was about to accept the position of adjutant to the regiment known as the "Ist Mississippi Mounted Rifles," when Gen. Sherman, in the course of his preparations for the famous " March to the Sea," ordered all enlisted men absent from their commands to report at Atlanta. Not having received his commission, he was, of course, included in the order, und accordingly reported to his old regiment, there stationed, and par- repated in the campaign until the army reached Beaufort, S. C. There he received his commission from Sec. Stanton as adjutant of the Ist Mis-

sissippi Mounted Rifles, with orders to report at Memphis, Tenn. He served in this capacity until mustered out of the service, with his regi- ment, in June, 1865, when he returned to his home in Fond du Lac. Next locating in New London, he lived there about a year, when, being offered his former position in the Post-office, he returned to Fond du Lac, retaining that situation six years. At the end of that time he resigned

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on account of failing health and the requirements of private business He had, in the meantime, studied medicine under the advice and direc tion of Drs. A. Smead, T. F. Mayhum and others, buying his books as he needed them, and also investing his savings in a drug store at Me- nominee, Mich. Devoting his attention to this business, he removed, with his family, to that place, and resided one year, when he left the drug store in charge of a partner to enter the Rush Medical College, of Chicago. After attending one course of lectures and hospital clinics, he finished his medical studies at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he graduated in 1874. While at college he sold his inter- est in the drug store, and, on returning, removed to Marinette, where he still resides. Dr. Mann is a member of the Wisconsin State Medical Society, and is especially well known and esteemed in northern Wiscon- sin. His library is one of the largest and best selected in this part of the State, and the volumes are not for show, but are faithfully and prof- itably read. He has built up a large and successful practice, which, like every other prosperity with which he is surrounded, he has acquired unaided, by sheer manhood and manly effort.

C. MARCHANT, millwright, Marinette, is a native of Montreal, Canada. In 1855 came to Marquette, Mich., remained there a few months, then came to Stiles, Wis., and worked for Balcom & Eldred, repairing their mill, and for the past twenty years he has followed this business as well as house carpentering. He built the Stephenson Opera House and other buildings here. Married, in 1864, to Miss Delia Coty. She was born in Montreal. They have seven children, two sons and five daughters.

FRED F. MARTIN, meat market, Marinette, was born in Green Bay, Wis. He first commenced to work at this business with Mr. Hag- ermaster, afterward with John Koulp. In 1875 he came to Ishpeming. In 1876 came to Marinette and worked for H. J. Place till ISSo, when he opened this market, Married, in 1880, to Louisa Bergman, She was born in Fort Iloward. Her parents still reside in Brown County.

R. W. MERRYMAN, proprietor of saw mill, Marinette ; he was born in Maine, and came to Fond du Lac in 1855, and was engaged in the manufacturing of lumber up to the time he came to Marinette, and built his present mill. Its capacity is about 8,000,000 per year, day run, and he employs at his mill, on an average, sixty men,

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A. C. MERRYMAN, secretary and general manager of the Hamil- ton & Merryman Company, was born in Bowdoin, Me., Dec. 22, 1831. He commenced to work his way early in life, and was engaged in ship- building up to 1855, being employed in the yard of J. P. Smith & Co., at Pittston, on the Kennebec. In the year last mentioned, Mr. Merryman located in Fond du Lac, and engaged in the lumber trade with J. S. and Alex. McDonald, R. W. Merryman and H. Hunter, the style of the firm being McDonald, Merryman & Co. Started in 1867 as Hamilton, Merry- man & Co., in Marinette. Then, in 1872, incorporated as Hamilton & Merryman Company, with officers as follows: I. K. Hamilton, president and treasurer ; A. C. Merryman, secretary and superintendant. The capital stock was fixed at $350,000. The present officers of the company are the same, except that W. C. Hamilton is vice president. The company operates a saw-mill-capacity 100,000 feet ; shingle mill, capacity 50,000,

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and also turns out 25,000 lath. The season's sawing at the mill in Mar- inette will aggregate 20,000,000 feet, to which must be added 5,000,000 sawed by outside parties. In connection with these establishments, be- sides the large boarding-house, is a thriving general store, whose trans- actions are on a scale with all else. The company owns 62 000 acres of fine pine land on the Menomonee and its tributaries, employs 100 men, and possesses property in Marinette valued at $100,000. It is needless to say that the Hamilton & Merryman Company is not only financial strength itself, but is gaining ground daily. Mr. Merryman has never sought for office. He has not had time-his business life having been filled with hard work, to the very brim. He served, however, from 1876 to 1879, as Chairman of the Town Board ; but his life, as a rule, has been spent as a working man, among working men, and his warm heart and broad nature are the results which have bound the community to him, and him to it. It was such men as Mr. Merryman who came out in royal colors during the terrible havoc and suffering caused by the fire of 1871.

JOHN MINEAU, proprietor Marinette House, Marinette, is a na- tive of Canada ; at about the age of twelve years, came to Oconto, and has been working in the mills and lumber business; in 1876, came to Marinette ; worked in the mills here till the Spring of. 1880, when he took charge of this house; married, in 1880 to Mrs. Wills; she was born in Canada. They have one son, John W. She has four children by a former marriage.

ROBERT H. NELSON, blacksmith, Marinette, is a native of Canada; when a child, came with his parents to Washington Co., N. Y .; there he learned this trade with his father ; worked at it about thirty years; in 1868, came to Pensaukee, and run a shop for F. B. Gardner, about seven years ; then came to Oconto and run a shop there about two years; then to Neenah, where he remained about four years ; in the Spring of 1880, he came to Marinette.

N. J. NORDEN, clothing, tailoring, and gents' furnishing goods, Marinette, is a native of Sweden, came to New York, October, 1870; remained in the State about one year ; in 1871, came to Chicago; in the Fall of 1872, came to Marinette, worked for Mr. Ackrill about nine months. In 1873, he started business with a-very small stock, and is now the leading store in Marinette, doing a business of about $30,000 a year ; married, July, 1876, to Emma C. Johnson; she was born in Menekaune ; they have two children, Lillia A., and Ella.

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JUDGE LUTHER B. NOYES, Marinette, horn in Cincinnatus Courtland, Co., N.Y., Dec. 17, 1830, left motherless at the age eighteen months, reared to the age of fifteen by his grandfather, Luther Osgood, at Preston, Chenango Co., N. Y., came to Wisconsin in the Summer of 1845, in company with his father, Dr. Isaac Noyes and a younger brother, and settled on Du Lac Prairie, at Milton, in Rock County ; attended school two terms at what was then Milton Academy; taught common school several Winters; entered the law office of H. E. Connit, Esq., at Horicon, Dodge Co., Wis., in the Spring of 1852; remained there till the Fall of 1853, when he entered Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis., and continued in school till the Winter of 1855; was elected Dis- trict Attorney of Outagamie County, in the Fall of 1855; married Fran- ces Belle Woodward, daughter of J. W. Woodward, of Appleton, in April, 1855; moved to Bradford, Iowa, in the Fall of 1856 ; returned to Wisconsin and settled at Kilbourn City. in the Fall of 1857, engaging there in the practice of law ; moved to Sparta, in Monroc County, in the Spring of 1861, engaged as an editor of the Sparta Eagle, by William H. Farnham, publisher ; enlisted in the 18th Regiment Wis. V. I., in De- cember, 1861 ; went with the regiment as its hospital steward, to Pitts- burg Landing, in April, 1862; was left in hospital at Savannah, Tenn., suffering from a severe attack of typhoid pneumonia, followed during convalescence by chronic diarrhea ; detailed as clerk at Halleck's head- quarters, corner of Washington avenue and Fourth street, St. Louis, Mo., in June following ; remained there till the following September, when he was discharged for disability ; was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of Monroe County, in November, 1862; at the close of the term, enlisted in the 36th Regiment Wis. V. I., and was commissioned first lieutenant of Co. C .; was wounded at Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864, and honorably discharged at officers' hospital, at Annapolis, Md., for wounds received

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in action ; was appointed County Judge of Monroe County, by Gov. Lucius Fairchild, to fill vacancy occasioned by resignation of Judge Pratt ; purchased the Sheloyyan County Herald, published at Sheboygan Falls, Wis., in the Fall of 1868, and removed the same to Sheboygan in the Winter of 1870, and established the Sheboygan Herald, in connec- tion with one Mar-h as partner; dissolved partnership with Marsh soon after, and, in the Spring of 1871, established the Marinette and I'eshtigo Eagle, at Marinette, Wis., and has published it since, with the exception of four years, during which time it was published by Henry Harris; is now engaged in the same business.

J. O'LEARY, Sheriff of Marinette County ; he was born in Ireland, and came to America in 1853, and located in Worcester, Mass,; in 1865, went to Ottawa, Canada, and was engaged as superintendent in a factory manufacturing woodenware, up to June, 1870, when he returned to Massa- chusetts ; in 1871, he, with his family. came to Peshtigo, and was en- gaged as foreman in the painting and finishing department of the Pesh- tigo Woodenware Company factory, and they passed through the terri- ble fire of that year, and lost everything they owned, barely escaping with their lives. Hehas served four terms as Deputy Sheriff, and in 1879, was elected Sheriff of Marinette County, which office he still holds.

PETER OLSON, yardmaster at H. Witbeck Company, Marinette, is a native of Sweden ; came to New York City in 1869, then to Chicago ; in 1872, came to Marinette, and has been in the employ of this company since ; for the past three years, he has had charge of their yards.

GEORGE H. PAGE, marble carver, with MarinetteMarble Works. is a native of Westport, Essex Co., N. Y. At the age of thirteen he went to Clarenceville, P. Q, and at once commenced to learn his trade ; has followed it constantly the past nine years. In 1875, he came to Port Henry, N. Y, where his parents resided, remained there about three years; August, 1878, he came to Ahnapee, Wis., where he remained about fifteen months; part of the time when there he carried on this business. Nov. 28, 1879. he came to Green Bay, carried on business there a short time ; March, 1880, came to Manitowoc, was foreman for John Mendlek ; remained there till Nov. 1, 1880, when he came to Mari- nette.

SAMUEL PALMER, Marinette, manager boarding house at Mc- Cartney's mill, came from England in 1851, locating in Waukesha County, where he remained for about two years, engaged in farming. Finding it unprofitable to continue in that business, when oats were sell- ing for one shilling a bushel, he removed to Pensaukee, and took charge of the boarding house owned by F. B. Gardner. It is remembered that the "Fanny Gardner" was then building, and some of the men em- ployed on her were obliged to sleep on the vessel. One night, a heavy storm prevailed, and the mast of the craft was struck by lightning. Al- though the mast and a part of the deck sustained serious injury, the shock did not awaken the men sleeping below. Mr. Palmer removed from Pensaukee to Stiles; and thence to Oconto. He was steward of the "Queen City," the first steamer that entered Flat Rock (now Escanaba), in 1854. After working at Marinette one year, he returned to Stiles and remained there five and a half years. At the close of that period he engaged with Kirby Carpenter Company, of Menominee. and was in their employ eight years. While here, Mr. Palmer suffered the loss by theft of a $500 Government bond, which was saved from his first earnings ; but his employers gave him a handsome gold watch and chain, as evidence of their appreciation of his services. Seven years ago he went to Mari- nette, and accepted his present position with M. W. McCartney.

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Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 1052

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052