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.

              HISTORY OF AA^ALPACA COUNTY 221
henceforth his headquarters were there. He organized a church at AA^aupaca and one at Pine River; also lookecl after Weyauwega.
"From 1850 to 1853 there was a remarkable pouring in of people from the East. Foreign immigration had by that time hardly attracted notice. New England and New York institutions were rapidly develop¬ ing in Wisconsin. Farms w^ould open as if by magic; villages of five hundred or a thousand people would spring up in a few months, or a year. It was a busy task to attend to them all and see that ministers were supplied and sustained. AIarsh, as the earliest on the ground, and fully alive to the importance of the northeastern part of the state, w^as incessant in travel, in personal effort, in preaching and in correspondence. During the first fifteen years of his residence in the Fox River valley, it is safe to say that there was not a white family north of that river. The incoming tide of civilization found him there, awake to the needs of the hour. To his intelligence and ready zeal much of the church ^planting and growth in this district is due.
"The regions to the south and w^est, the earlier-settled parts of the state, were occupied by other and equally zealous pioneer ministers. The Wisconsin Congregational convention have erected a monument over the grave of Stephen Peet, who so zealously labored in the south. Others were equally deserving in other parts of the state. But none who labored in Wisconsin, whether we consider the time at which his labors began, or the intelligent experience and zeal brought to bear upon them, are deserving of more honor than Cutting Marsh."
Another writer thus refers more particularly to Doctor Marsh's local labors: "Among the early settlers of AVaupaca was the Rev. Cutting Marsh, who came here with his wife in the fall of 1851. A native of Danville, Vermont, and a graduate of Dartsmouth College and Andover Seminary. He came West in 1829, and spent nineteen years among the Stockbridge Indians, combining the work of pastor and physician, having prepared himself for the latter work by medical studies in college.
"After the mission at Stockbridge was discontinued, he spent three years as an itinerant missionary in Wisconsin, establishing churches and Sunday Schools. But when the Indian Lands were thrown open to settlers, he came to Waupaca to make the home in which he lived for twenty-two years. His wife was ever his devoted, wise and faithful helper, and of her it was said that one was never in her company for fifteen minutes, without hearing something that was profitable.
"This was a new country in 1851. Churches were few and ministers fewer, and so it was that for several years Air. Alarsh had appointments for preaching in different places every Sunday in the month.
"Besides Waupaca,  the 'Chandler Settlement,' Weyauwega, Lind