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.

              840 HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY
and has had much experience in the lumber industry. He has spent nearly all his life in AVaupaca County.
His birth occurred near Winneconne in Winnebago County, Wis¬ consin, September 5, 1866. His father is George P. Wait, who was born at Medina, Ohio, in 1835. In 1852 George Wait came to Winnebago County, AVisconsin, and made that county his home until 1869, in which year he removed to Matteson Township of Waupaca County. Matteson Township was then almost a total wilderness. It was covered with heavy forests and little of the land had been cleared up and put in cultivation. George Wait was a substantial farmer there until 1900, and since that year has made his home in Oshkosh, where he is now living at the venerable age of eighty-one. While in Matteson Township he filled the office of supervisor for many years, and was treasurer of the township when he removed to Oshkosh. When the call came for volunteers to assist in putting down the rebellion, George P. Wait was the first to respond from Matteson Township, and became a member of the Thirty- second Wisconsin Volunteers. He was out about three years, and went through some of the hardest service to which the Union armies were called. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea after the fall of Atlanta, and terminated his military career with the Grand Review at Washington.
George P. Wait married for his first wife Priscilla Martin, who was born in Ohio. They had four children: Alice, Judd, Lilly and Prank. After the death of his first wife George Wait married Almira Grahm. The children of this marriage were Elvia, Lanson, Harry, Richard and Roy. s
Frank Wait was three years of age when brought to Waupaca County, and he grew up on the old homestead farm in Matteson Town¬ ship. While there he received an education in the local schools, and he tried his strength in the occupations of the lumber camps and on the river drives for about seven years. In 1888 he bought eighty acres in Aiatteson Township, where he still lives, and began logging it. He cleared away most of the forest and developed it as a farm. He has sold off a portion of his original holdings, and now has a well improved place of fifty-five acres in section 17. He is carrying on general farming and dairying, and at the present writing is erecting one of the most sub¬ stantial barns in the township, 38 by 62 feet.
Mr. Wait served sixteen years as clerk of Aiatteson Township, and for the past four years has been chairman of the township on the county board.
He married for his first wife Keziah Wilson. By that union there were five children: Lulu, George, Ralph, Joseph and Blanche. Air. Wait for his present wife married, Mrs. Alary Fuller, daughter of Andrew Allen and widow of Amos Fuller.
William Koepke. While farming has constituted the principal activities of William Koepke during his forty years of residence in Waupaca County, his career has. been spent not without vital relationship