A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              CHAPTER VII
POLITICAL, CiyiL A^D PATIMOTIC
County and Town Incorporating Aot—The Doubpe Barrel County —jAMi':rt Smili<:y—Doum.E Barrel Officials—AluKw^\ A^h^lage— -First I^lection and AIeI':tl\(} of Tiih] County .Board—Tin*: AVestern Ri'^moLLiON Organized—The AIukwa County Courtuouse—FuiST Division of the CouxT^'—r*joNE[<>iv^ Finances—Eastern County Board—Waterman's iXccouxT op 'riiE County Seat .Election—
The AIukwa Officials- S'rAR, Day i^^or AIukwa—Ta(;gart on the
County Seat Remov.m. /\({ainst [\emoval, Natuilvley—0. E. Dreutzer—Ogdensjuuu; ili;i,D tiU'; Palance of Power—Against Removal to AVeyauweg.\ Wicsti-ik-n ('Oitnty HoaivM) and (")i<m^mces— AVest vs. .East—IhiE P.\s'r Agai.n Si'Eaics—\Vi<:yauwi<:ga 'vo the Front—AVeyauwega DiocpAin'iD Tin: County Seat—The Reconcillv- T[ON—A Full Board at l^As^r—Tuimoe Sih'ervisor Districts—Con¬ tract FOR County J^xn- -Poor Paicm Estaivlisiied—New^ Coprt House in A^iew^—The Si^iops Wukmi Led to Its Completion— County Insane Asylum—Si<:veral ('omplications in Its Buu-ding —The County Poor House and Fai^.m—Crioation of the Towns— Population, 1855-1916—Waupaca Cot^nty in the Civil War—Com¬ parative AVealth and Ixiisoitrces, 1880-1916—County Rei'resi'INt- ATiVES, 1857-1916—Eari-y School AIatters—The County Super¬ intendents—The Presi':nt System Enrolment and Number of Schools—Salaries, Recicipts and Disbursements.
The double set of county officers with whom AVaupaca County labored for several yeai^s after the introduction of Civil Government was the cause of much confusion in the early public affairs and the keeping of the early records. At this temporal distance from the scenes of conflict, the Avriter has no inclination to "take sides," and will, as a rule, alloAV the actors of the pioneer days to do the talking and the writing. Other¬ wise, in presenting a mental jiicture of the few years of seething county government following its authorized creation, the writer will use such records from both factions of the county seat fight as have descended to the present.
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