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In spite of his 80 years, Mr. Boyd is a spry active man, and is able to do more work now than many men of 50; he possesses a wonderful memory and can recount tales of stirring pioneer life. Passing through this county in 1832 on the way to the Black Hawk War, he has lived to see all"" the wonderful development since then. Among his many narrow escapes the following may bear repeating as the location is now the city of Appleton. In 1837, several
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thousand Menominee Indians congregated at the Grand Chute for the annual payment. Although it was strictly forbidden to take liquor into the Indian agent, the noise and disturbance in the camp indicated that the most of them were on the verge of a big spree. About 9 o'clock at night while the officers were lying about the camp fire, resting from the labors of the day, a great commotion was heard on the hill and an Indian came running down, saying another Indian had just killed a couple of women. James Boyd and A. Grignon ran up the hill to arrest him, armed only with a heavy cane. The murderer was located in one of the tents and as Mr. Boyd and Grignon rushed in, he stood over one of his victims, brandishing his bloody knife. Mr. Grignon stumbled over a log and fell quite close to him before the Indian could strike him with his knife as he attempted to do, Mr. Boyd felled him with a well-directed blow with his club, and together they tied his arms and dragged him down to the camp and tied him to a tree. The Indians, furious at the murder of the women, soon surrounded the camp and demanded the captive be returned to them to be dealt with according to Indian law and jus- tice. Col. Boyd refused for a time until he saw that the soldiers and traders had sought places of safety in flight and the chief said he could not restrain his young braves, and he feared harm might come to the officers, Lieut. Boyd was there upon given orders to turn the Indian over to them. With a rush the drunken savages threw the mur- derer with his arms and legs tied right out to the large camp fire. With a sizzle his breech clout and hair disap- peared and he straightened up and said in his Indian tongue, "I am a brave man," before he could be pulled out he was so badly burned that he died in a few hours.
The next morning on the return to Green Bay, while walking along the bank of the river alone, Lieut. Boyd met a powerful savage in war paint who enquired if he knew, which one of the officers it was who captured his friend last night. Mr. Boyd said he did and asked how much he would give to find out, drawing nearer as the Indian replied, he suddenly struck him a fearful blow,
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knocking the Indian down and telling him he was the man and that if he ever laid eyes on him again he would kill him. The Indian, knowing that he had met his match, rapidly got away. This all took place near where the Roger's residence stands to-day in Appleton.
LORENZO E. DARLING.
Lorenzo E. Darling was born August 9, 1829, in Brad- fore county, Pennsylvania. He came to Wisconsin in 1845, first settling in East Troy, Walworth county. Mr. Darling came to Outa- gamie county, in 1849, where he bought eighty acres of land in the town of Greenville, on which he and his mother moved the following spring. They suffered many hard- ships and privations in their new home, Indians, bears and wolves being their frequent visitors. Lorenzo during his first winter in Greenville, boarded with his brother, Simeon Darling, who af- terward died in the Civil War. During the winter L. E. DARLING. of 1849, our subject walked two miles to his work, but the following spring, he built a cabin on his place, where he and his mother took up their residence. He worked very hard, cleared sixty acres of heavily timbered land, and about that time, bought forty acres, which made him a fine farm of 120 acres, which he sold in 1867, for $6,100. He then moved with his family to Appleton, the legisla- ture of Wisconsin having appointed him a commissioner
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to appraise and sell about 30,000 acres of swamp land in Outagamie county, the proceeds to be used in opening roads in the newer portions of the county. His associates were James Gilmore and Joseph H. Marston; the bulk of the work, however, falling upon Mr. Darling. After resid- ing in Appleton four years, he moved in Ellington. In 1867 he was the Republican candidate for State Senator, but owing to the large Democratic majority in the district, he was not successful. In 1864, he was the Republican candidate for Member of Assembly, his opponent being Samuel Ryan, Jr., of Appleton, who was elected. Mr. Darling was the choice of the people for member of assem- bly in 1873, and his popularity was apparent, when being a Republican, he was elected in a strong Democratic dis- trict, by a good majority. In 1878, he visited Texas, in the employ of the Southern Pacific railroad company to report the agricultural advantages of that growing state.
Upon the first organization of Outagamie county, he was elected county clerk, over Moses W. Allen, of Hortonville, and re-elected. He has been a member of the county board of supervisors, in all, twenty years, and chairman of that body four years, and when he retired, he was considered the best posted man in county matters in the county. In 1875, Mr. Darling moved to Shiocton, where he has since resided. He was married in 1854, in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, to Mary E. Morse, by whom he had four child- ren : Eugene A., who lives at home ; Elwin C., who is mar- ried to Nora Webb, and resides in California ; Willis E., died in infancy ; and Edith M., who is the wife of George H. Lonkey, one of the business men of Shiocton. Our subject's father, Otis Darling, was a native of Vermont, and was married, in New York State, to Elizabeth Chub- buck, of New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Darling was an aunt to the celebrated "Fannie Forrester," who was there- fore a cousin to Lorenzo E. Darling, our subject.
Mr. Darling has written considerable poetry for the Mil- waukee, Chicago, Green Bay, and Eastern papers besides what he has furnished Appleton papers. He composed the
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first poem ever set in type in Outagamie county in the first number of the "Crescent," which was highly spoken of.
PAUL H. BEAULIEU.
Paul H. Beaulieu emigrated from Canada in 1812 on his way to the then unexplored regions of Lake Superior. He encountered countless privations and hardships, peculiar to early pioneer life. A notable event being his detention at Fort Malden and compulsion to serve in the British army for the space of four months in which time he parti- cipated in many skirmishes amongst which was the mem- orable battle of Lake Erie classed in history as Perry's Victory, after which he was allowed to continue his jour- ney and after having successfully followed the fur trade for twenty-one years he started with his family (his wife, one daughter and one son) for Green Bay, where he arrived Aug. 16, 1834, residing there until the fall of 1835 he removed to Kaukaloo or Kaukauna and settled on the Buchanan side of the river where he had previously pur- chased lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 on Sec. 21, T. 21, R. 18, on which was situated a grist and saw mill. He resided here up to the time of his death which occurred Oct. 15, 1841. The property then reverted to his only son and heir (the daugh- ter having died), Bazil H. Beaulieu and more familiarly known as B. H. Beaulieu, who was almost continuously con- nected with the affairs of Brown and afterwards Outagamie county until 1876 when he sold out and removed to White Earth, Becker county, Minn., where he resided until his death a few years ago. B. H. Beaulieu has held satisfac- torily the offices of justice of the peace, assessor, clerk and supervisor, which latter office he held fourteen years, dur- ing which he introduced to the board a bill for the division of the then town of Kaukauna, setting off all that part lying south and east of Fox River and organizing the present town of Buchanan, Mr. Beaulieu raised a large family of children, but I am unable to give their names, the above sketch of the Beaulieu family was extracted from a letter of greeting sent from White Earth, Minn., by
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Theo. H. Beaulieu, a son of B. H. Beaulieu, to the Outa- gamie County Pioneer Association to be read at their annual festival in 1885.
THE PHINNEY FAMILY.
The three Phinney brothers, Samuel C., James M. and Hiram A., were among the early pioneers of Appleton. Samuel C. Phinney was a Methodist preacher until his voice failed. In 1853 he came to Appleton and engaged in business with his brothers. His wife was a superior woman, a leader in society ; she died in 1880. They had two daughters, Mary A., the oldest, graduated at Lawrence University in 1859. She was married to Edward P. Hum- phrey in 1862; they had one son, Edward P. Humphrey, Jr., born in 1865, is now secretary and treasurer of the Post Publishing Company. Mr. Humphrey, Sr., died in 1865. His widow was married to Dr. Emory Stansbury, of Appleton ; they have two sons and one daughter. The other daughter of S. C. Phinney, Lora E., is the wife of W. D. Mason ; they now live in Green Bay and have two sons and her father now has his home with her. The second brother, James M. Phinney, was born at Vernon Center, N. Y. He received his education in the common schools of that state and at Wesleyen University. He spent several years teaching and was two years county superintendent of schools in Monroe county, New York. He was married to Helen L. Rich in 1847 in Pennfield in the same county ; they came to Dartford in Wisconsin in 1848. In November, 1849, they came to Appleton and for six years was the first professor of mathematics and natural sciences in Lawrence University. He served twenty years as trustee and for fifteen years sold goods, in company with his brothers in Appleton. They have had two daughters. The eldest, Ella L., is the wife of H. C. Sloan, a lawyer of West Superior ; Clara, the youngest daughter, was a graduate of Lawrence University and spent some time teaching. She was married to G. V. Nash in 1876, and died in 1880 ; her son when six years old was killed by a fall. The
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youngest brother, Hiram A. Phinney, was for many years an honorable merchant in Appleton, and for several years postmaster. He is now retired and lives in Appleton. The ancestors of the Phinney family were all descendants of the Puritans. Their grandfather was a large ship- owner of Cape Cod, when 50 years old he lost seven vessels in succession which reduced him from affluence to poverty. Their father, James Phinney, was adopted by a relative with whom he lived until his majority. He then moved to the State of New York, where he lived until 1823; he then came to Dartford, Wis., where he resided until his death, aged 86. He was over fifty years a member of the Method- ist church; a man of great ability. Their maternal grandfather, Samuel Cody, was a soldier in the Revolu -. tionary War; he enlisted when 16 years old and served during the war, was in the battle of Saratoga and admired the skill and bravery of Arnold in managing that battle, and was almost willing to forgive him for his afterward deserting to the British.
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LIST OF PIONEERS WHO DIED
From Feb. 22, 1895, to Dec. 1, 1895.
NAMES.
RESIDENCE.
DATE OF SETTLEMENT.
DATE OF DEATH.
AGE.
Mrs. John McMurdo.
Hortonville ..
1851
Feb. 23
79
Philip Van Busum
Dale
1840.
Feb. 23
7.8
Mrs. Haffner.
Appleton.
Came early
Feb. 23
65
Michael Cleary
Appleton
1860
March 3.
69
Daniel Nussbaum
Ellington
1-60
March 4 ..
68
Baker Green
Seymour
Old Pioneer
March 8.
92
Dennis Tierney
Grand Chute
Old Pioneer.
March 13 ..
76
Mrs. Martin Garrets
Little Chute
Old Pioneer.
March 14 ..
73
John Murry .
Appleton
Old Pioneer.
March 14 ..
75
Theodore Van Domel
Appleton
Old Pioneer
March 11.
75
John Singer ..
Black Creek
A Soldier
March 15 ..
52
George White .
Appleton
1854
March 16 ..
55
Mrs. Chartz Tuttle
Kaukauna
1849
March 14.
84
Rev. P. S. Bennett.
Appleton
April 5 ..
78
Mrs. Ketchum.
Appleton
1856
April 9.
81
L. H. Waldo
Appleton
A Soldier
April 6.
Mrs. Gainor
Born in Center
April 11.
35
Stephen Thompson.
Maine.
1853
April 12.
87
Mrs. Callen.
Ellington.
1850
April 11.
70
Mrs, Jewell.
Maine.
1865
April 14.
83
Theodore Ross
Greenville
82
Ahea Jewell ..
Kaukauna.
1854
May.
56
Mrs. Wm. Haffner
Appleton
May ..
50
Thomas Ward.
Appleton
May 18.
60
Timothy Heenan
Grand Chute
1855
May 17
77
Jacob Deagle
Dale.
Old Pioneer
July 7
59
Henry Neaman.
Greenville
Old Pioneer.
July
Ella Dey
Born in Greenville.
July 22
Bernet Mills ..
Born in Greenville ..
Aug. 14
James McMurdo
Hortonville
Old Pioneer
Aug. 15
80)
Ludwick Blake ..
Greenville
Old Pioneer.
Aug. 17
Sarah Burckanch
Osborn ..
1858.
Aug. 23
Mical Homley ...
Hortonville
Aug. 25
Sanford Sherman.
Born in Hortonia
1849
Aug ..
46
Elijah Thomas
Hortonia
Old Pioneer.
Sept. 3.
71 24
Orne Fillmore.
Greenville.
A Pioneer Boy
Sept. 7.
44
Mr. Hartman.
Appleton
Old Pioneer.
Sept. 3.
Mrs. A. P. Lewis
Greenville.
1854.
Sept. 8.
Lawrence Maye.
Appleton
Old Pioneer
Sept. 13
William Nabbefeldt.
Freedom
Old Pioneer.
Sept. 10
i:)
Mrs. Elmira Spears.
Ellington
Sept. 12
25
Mrs. Thomas Glasheen.
Buchanan.
Old Pioneer.
Sept. 19
68 70
Mrs. Solomon Glass.
Dale.
Old Pioneer.
Sept.
71
Samuel Rhodes ..
Medina
Old Pioneer.
Oct. 7.
73
John Steffens .
Hortonia
Old Pioneer.
Oct. 6
72
Gerhardt Kamps
Appleton
Old Pioneer.
Sept.
62
Ottmar Buchman ..
Hortonville
Old Pioneer
Oct. 19.
65
Homer Gaspensen.
Greenville
Old Pioneer.
Oct. 28.
82
Herman Eberhart.
Cicero
1867
Oct. 3.
73
John McGregor
Greenville.
Old Pioneer.
Oct. 12.
58
Fred Ballard.
Born in Appleton.
Nov. 2
30
John H. McGillan.
Center
1851
Nov. 25
68
Michael Leahy.
Greenville
Old Pioneer.
Nov. 24.
86
.
Anna Steffen Miller
Dale ..
Sept. 3.
74 65 75 7.3
Joseph Wihpert.
Appleton
Sept. 13
Mrs. Charles H. Vogel.
Born in Ellington
Sept. 8
Mrs. Bogan ..
Grand Chute
1854
Oct. 1
85 68 36 78
Adam Miller
Hortonville
Old Pioneer.
Aug. 23
76 34 26
A. G. Kramer
Born in Freedom
April 9. .
35
April 19.
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ERRATA.
PAGE. ERROR. CORRECTED.
89-H. C. Sheenin
H. C. Sherwin.
89-J. W. Letchen J. W. Letcher.
90-Lobeina Lanphear Sabina Lanphear.
90-Dr. Maake. Dr. Mosier.
91-Ben. T. Craft. Burr S. Craft.
92-N. B. Crane.
Wm. B. Crane.
92-Nelson Meunep.
Nelson Mereness.
92-Governor Tegon. . Gov. Tryon.
92-B. Mills.
L. B. Mills.
92-Kiles Perry Miles Perry.
92-Isaac Wicknin
Isaac Wickwire.
92-Miron Wicknin
Myron Wickwire.
92-Geo. E. Darling Lorenzo E. Darling.
92-Leeman Darling
Simeon Darling.
92-Henry Greenfield Harvey Greenfield.
93-James McChitchie. James McClatchie.
93-Edward Spice.
Edward Spicer.
93-Thomas Collon Thomas Callen.
93-Wm. H. Bever Wm. H. Bruce.
94-Milo Cobs Milo Coles.
94-H. Cobs H. Coles.
94-D. D. Anger. D. D. Auger.
54-S. W. Hunger S. W. Munger.
54-Rev. Mr. Lenier Rev. Mr. D. Lewis.
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OUTAGAMIE COUNTY PIONEERS.
INDEX.
Preliminary Meeting
Page 5
Constitution 7
List of Pioneers.
9
Song of the Pioneers
12
Meeting, 1875
15
Annual Meeting, 1876.
17
Annual Address, Prof. D. M. Hyde
19
Annual Meeting, 1877
25
President John Dey's Opening Remarks
27
Annual Address by John Leith, Jr.
26
Sketch of the Early History and Settlement of Appleton by J. S. Buck. 28
Sketch of Early Settlement of Grand Chute by D. Huntley 36
Sketch of Early Settlement of Greenville by John Dey. 37
Sketch of Early Settlement of Dale by Philo Root
41
Sketch of Early Settlement of Hortonia by Matthew McComb ..
43
Sketch of Early Settlement of Buchanan by Wm. Lamure
49
Sketch of Early Settlement of Ellington by Ansel Greely
49 50
Sketch of Early Settlement of Kaukauna by E. St. Louis.
51
Sketch of Early Settlement of Seymour by Geo. R. Downer. 53
Sketch of Early Settlement of Seymour by James Dean. 55
Annual Meeting, 1878
56
Annual Meeting, 1879.
58
Sketch of Early Times in Kaukauna by Geo. W. Lawe.
59
Letter from Mrs. Emily J. Lawe. 63
64
Sketch of the Early History and Settlement of Appleton by H. L. Blood.
65
Annual Meeting, 1881
71
Annual Meeting, 1882.
73
Annual Meeting, 1883.
76
Annual Address by W. H. Sampson
75
List of Pioneers who died in 1883.
80
Annual Meeting, 1884. 81
Pioneers' Memorial, a Poem by Mrs. Stansbury 82
Annual Meeting, 1880.
Sketch of Early Settlement of Center by John McGillan.
301
INDEX.
Annual Meeting, 1885.
Page 86
Annual Address by Judge Geo. H. Myers . 86
Annual Meeting, 1886. 96
Annual Address by Hon. John Bottensek 97
Pioneers' Experiences by Mrs. L. B. Mills, of Greenville
102
Annual Meeting, 1887. 108
Annual Address by J. M. Phinney
108
Annual Meeting, 1888. 118
Annual Address by Hon. Humphrey Pierce. 118
Resolutions on the Death of Col. H. L. Blood. 123
Annual Meeting, 1880. 124
Annual Address by Hon. H. D. Ryan
125
Annual Meeting, 1890. 130 131
138
Annual Address by Rev. John Faville
139
Annual Meeting, 1892.
148
Annual Address by Hon. A. B. Whitman
149
Annual Meeting, 1893.
152
Annual Address by Rev. R. H. Pooley.
153
Annual Meeting, 1894. 157
Annual Address by Judge Samuel Boyd. 158
List of Pioneers who died during the past year. 159
Annual Meeting, 1895. 160
H. M. Culbertson's Paper. 161
Paper by Mrs. Geo. Downer. 166
Poein by W. J. Bedell, "The Old Log House on the Hill" 169
Paper by D. Huntley. 171
Names of Pioneers who died since our last meeting, Feb. 22, 1894 172
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Abbott, E. B. and Family 254
Beaulieu, Paul. 295
Boyd, James M 290
Balliet, Stephen and Family
252
Ballard, Anson and Family.
246
Brothers, Capt. D. J
245
Brill, Michael and Family
243
Blackwood, O. A. and Family
235
Briggs, Wm. W. 189
Blood, Henry L 190
Bennett, Rev. Philo S. 204
Baer, John M . 212
Bottensek, John Henry
214
Breiterick, Karl .. 278
Bateman, Robert R 284
Annual Address by Rev. A. A. Drown
Annual Meeting, 1891. .
302
INDEX.
Page
Conkey, Col. Theodore.
241
Cough, Jere and Family
208
Culbertson, John and Family .
192
Conklin, Nathan S.
270
Darling, Lorenzo E
293
Downer, Geo. R
283
Dean, James
279
Dey, John and Family
186
Draper, Nelson B
193
Diener, Henry J
191
Douglas, Dr. Byron
258
Fuller, J. F
275
Greenfield, Harvey.
272
Gerrits, Martin .
267 237
Gates, Porter J
198
Grignon, Augustin and Family
239
Hyde, Capt. Welcome.
226
Hardaker, James and Family.
200
Hopkins, C. W
218 270
Huntley, Daniel.
Johnston, Col. William
207
Johnson, William.
199
Jordan, Woodford D
202
Jones, Hiram A
219
Jacquot, Lewis F
≤47 285
Kobusson, John
195
Kethroe, Henry
197 180
Lamure, Wm. and Family
277
Leiby, George and Family
217
Lawe, Geo. W.
244
Lite, Peter.
248
Munger, Wmn. H
262 261
McComb, Matthew
188
McGillan, Frances and Family.
213
McLeod, Peter
215
McKay, Hector
243
Murch, Bela B
255
Myers, Judge Geo. H.
204
McMurdo, John, Sr
263
Nye, Nathan J.
185
McNab, Duncan. 276
Palmer, E. S. and Family 197
Goodland, Judge John
Knox, John
Kamps and Moeskes Families.
Manley, Wm. R.
INDEX.
303
Perrot, Ferdinand and Family
Page 210
Pierce, Humphrey .
220
Poole, Oliver and Family
253
Perry, Seth J
264
Phinney Family.
296
Rogers, Wmn. H.
222 242
Reuter, Peter.
249
Rexford, Jabez B.
205 201
Randall, Levi
Ryan, Col. Samuel and Family
182 266
Root, Stephen
Sauberlich, Christian
288 174
Spencer, Blanchard.
289
Scott, Jared G
195
Shepherd, George W
211 258 265
Smith, Rev. Reeder
265
Saunders, Evert
271
Simpson, James
273 282
Tompkins, James.
209 259
Tanner, H. B
286
Verstegen, Arnold.
281
Vandebogert, Frank C.
216
Whitman, Sylvester, S.
196
Woodward, John W
184
West, Edward. 251
Wolcott Family .
268
Young, Samuel and Family.
215
Spencer, Elihu and Family
Southmayd, Jolın S.
Shulze, Daniel.
Speel, Win. aud Family .
Tubbs, Peter.
Rhodes, Solomon.
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