History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              THE PIONEEE IN THE HAMLET. 659
The first divine service was conducted in the fall in the log tavern by Eev. 0. P. Clinton, the bar and sitting room being thrown open for the service. During the meeting several came into the barroom for drinks, but while they waited Mr. Clinton prolonged their anxiety by a lesson in patience, extending his discourse for their benefit.
In the fall of 1848 Mr. Henry C. Tate began the Tate Hotel or tavern, afterward under Mr. Eldredge, so long known as the Menasha House, completed in "the spring of 1849, and stood on the corner of Water and Clay streets. Some time after this Mr. Tate moved on to an island at the foot of the rapids, ever since known as Tate's island. He enlisted for the war and died of a gunshot wound received in the battle of Gettysbtirg. His daughters were prominent members of society in Menasha in after years. One was married to Mr. E. P. House and one was the wife of Dr. Lex Potter; Nellie w^as a school teacher and died in 1890. Eev. 0, P. Clinton, who had arrived in Neenah with his family in 1846 and occupied one of the old mission block houses on the point under the council tree, had been living in 1846 in the log cabin home of Governor Doty on the island, when in 1848 he obtained a ten-acre tract of land in a beautiful location on the east end of the island and commenced his log cabin dwell¬ ing, into which he moved with his family in the fall of 1848. This was in a few years replaced by the gothic colonial frame dwelling he occupied so many years in the center of a wide orchard and nursery, where the splendid old preacher lived his active and useful career and where he died June 17, 1900, be¬ loved and lamented by a very wide circle of friends. The brothers, 0. P. Clinton, Edmund Clinton, Norman Clinton and Allen Clinton, all settled at Prairieville and founded the town since known as Waukesha about 1844. In 1846 Eev. 0, P. Clin¬ ton, wife and one daughter, Katharine, afterward married to Capt. A. B. Bradish, and adopted daughter, Hattie, afterward married to Warren Meeker, together with Norman Clinton and his sons, Urial P., Luman and Bowman, all located in Neenah. As soon as the improvements were commenced in the north channel of Winnebago Eapids, Mr. Norman Clinton, with his sons, came there and very soon secured the lots on the north end of the dam, where Mr. C. Northrup and Harrison Eeed had started to erect a sawmill. They had the assistance of the new¬ comers and Mr. Cornelius Northrup in its completion. It was a frame building,  one  story high,  about thirty feet wide  and