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28 A SHARP CONTRACT.
hail beengiNea the ii;ime "Weyauwega." So if the Weyauweg:i men had been a little sooner they v,'ould liad the name of Waupaci even if they didti'l get Hit; coutity seat. T!ie name of tiie po.st jfiLe al Wall.i Walla was about IhisJ time (hanged lo Lind. Greenbush did oui.
David Scott, (fatiier of Winfield Scott of tliis cify) w.is I'le first p )st- mastcr of Waupaca; George \V. Taggart of Lind, a;ul Giles Doiy of Weyauwega. Tlie latter by some unknown means was succefih.d by Benjamin Birdsell who held Ihe office a long lime.
A SHARP CONTRACT.
I wdl now go back to Waupaca. When L'>rd purchas.fd his mil; site of Miiler he cf)ntractefl tf> build a grist mill 30x40 led, two slorie> high, and bouglu the privilege of drawing water enough from Hk; jiond t() keep three run of .stone.s going all seasons f>r the year. And the power slill has the same right, or did, loilil Baldwin 6c Bailey com¬ bined the tv.o.
In the spring ol 1851 after the purchase of the power for Lorfl's grist mill as related before, the scheme f)f baildin^:; a grist mill fell through for a short lime as Ihe man who came up witii Mi\ Lord to go into the mill business with hiin backed out. Lord, however got Wilson Ilfilt to join wilii him in the enterprise and the mil! was built that Slimmer, the first gi ist being ground on n>ih of November AVo were all elatcfl over the buildin;,' of the mill, for fl lur wa- a mlL^hiy uncertain commodity in Waupaca iu those days. Wh^n the mill was completed llieif.- was about one hundred people in AA-anpaca. Land was plenty and cliea-p but money scarce, so when wc hc;ud that there Y\-as i: bill hefore cc'jngrcss giving IGO acres of land to each actual set¬ tler, we all felt considerably elated as we were on the ground and ready to take v;p the land. The bill never passed, and we bought what land we^ot of the governireiU at leu shillinns per acre. Every¬ thing looked favf>rablc in the spring of 1853, for a village to be built on the site where Waupaca now stands, and building? began to go up. N. P. Judson built a house ou the corner wh?re Richard Lea's house now stands. O. E. Dreutzer built on Beadleston^s corner. Jake Dieter built the house back of Lylie's, known as the "old Dreutzer place," now occupied by Mrs. Shumway. Henry Dieter built a board
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| Title | Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
| Title of work | Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
| Short title | Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
| Author | Dewey, Freeman Dana |
| Description | In his 1887 work, Freeman Dana Dewey describes how Waupaca became the county seat of Waupaca County, the Indians who lived in the area, the early days of European settlement, and the first schools in Waupaca. |
| County | Waupaca County; |
| State | Wisconsin; |
| Publisher (Original) | Rep. Print |
| Publication Date (Original) | 1887 |
| Language | English |
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| Publication Date-Electronic | 2008 |
| Identifier-Digital | Waup1887000 |
| Decade | 1840-1849; 1850-1859; 1860-1869; 1870-1879; 1880-1889; |
| Type | Text |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
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| Title | 28 |
| Page Number | 28 |
| Title of work | Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
| Author | Dewey, Freeman Dana |
| Publication Date (Original) | 1887 |
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| Full Text | 28 A SHARP CONTRACT. hail beengiNea the ii;ime "Weyauwega." So if the Weyauweg:i men had been a little sooner they v,'ould liad the name of Waupaci even if they didti'l get Hit; coutity seat. T!ie name of tiie po.st jfiLe al Wall.i Walla was about IhisJ time (hanged lo Lind. Greenbush did oui. David Scott, (fatiier of Winfield Scott of tliis cify) w.is I'le first p )st- mastcr of Waupaca; George \V. Taggart of Lind, a;ul Giles Doiy of Weyauwega. Tlie latter by some unknown means was succefih.d by Benjamin Birdsell who held Ihe office a long lime. A SHARP CONTRACT. I wdl now go back to Waupaca. When L'>rd purchas.fd his mil; site of Miiler he cf)ntractefl tf> build a grist mill 30x40 led, two slorie> high, and bouglu the privilege of drawing water enough from Hk; jiond t() keep three run of .stone.s going all seasons f>r the year. And the power slill has the same right, or did, loilil Baldwin 6c Bailey com¬ bined the tv.o. In the spring ol 1851 after the purchase of the power for Lorfl's grist mill as related before, the scheme f)f baildin^:; a grist mill fell through for a short lime as Ihe man who came up witii Mi\ Lord to go into the mill business with hiin backed out. Lord, however got Wilson Ilfilt to join wilii him in the enterprise and the mil! was built that Slimmer, the first gi ist being ground on n>ih of November AVo were all elatcfl over the buildin;,' of the mill, for fl lur wa- a mlL^hiy uncertain commodity in Waupaca iu those days. Wh^n the mill was completed llieif.- was about one hundred people in AA-anpaca. Land was plenty and cliea-p but money scarce, so when wc hc;ud that there Y\-as i: bill hefore cc'jngrcss giving IGO acres of land to each actual set¬ tler, we all felt considerably elated as we were on the ground and ready to take v;p the land. The bill never passed, and we bought what land we^ot of the governireiU at leu shillinns per acre. Every¬ thing looked favf>rablc in the spring of 1853, for a village to be built on the site where Waupaca now stands, and building? began to go up. N. P. Judson built a house ou the corner wh?re Richard Lea's house now stands. O. E. Dreutzer built on Beadleston^s corner. Jake Dieter built the house back of Lylie's, known as the "old Dreutzer place" now occupied by Mrs. Shumway. Henry Dieter built a board |
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| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |