History of Marathon County Wisconsin + Bonus Books

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History of
Marathon
County, Wisconsin
And Representative Citizens
By Louise Marchetti, 1913
982 Pages, Illustrated with Photographs, Indexed, Searchable
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Bonus Book  -
Commemorative Biographical Record
Of the Upper Wisconsin Counties of
Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln,
Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano
By J. H. Beers & Co., 1895
1,110 Pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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Bonus Book  -
The Shanty Boy
Or Life in A Lumber Camp
Being pictures of the Pine Woods. . . In the
Lumbering Shanties of Michigan and Wisconsin
By John W. Fitzmaurice, 1899
245 Pages, Searchable
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Wisconsin became a territory in 1836 and originally encompassed all of what is now Marathon, Lincoln and Oneida Counties
and parts of others – stretching all the way up to Lake Superior. An 1836 treaty transferred ownership along the Wisconsin River
from Native American tribes to federal ownership. The Wisconsin River was the main attraction that drew settlers to this area.
At the time the area was known as “Big Bull Falls” by Native Americans and fur traders because of its rapid waters.
The lumber barons first put this area on the map through lumber and eventually also paper manufacturing. The area known as
“The Pinery” – a section north of the Dell Prairie tributary of the Wisconsin River produced 70,000,000 feet of pine lumber. Big Bul
l Falls Mill had 22 saws producing 19,000,000 feet of lumber and Little Bull Falls Mill (Mosinee) had 8 saws and produced 6,000,000
feet of lumber annually. Communities grew in response to the successful lumber industry and the influx of settlers creating business services,
department stores, restaurants, barbershops and taverns. Agriculture also grew to feed the growing population of
laborers in the
lumber industry.
In 1846 Walter McIndoe arrived in the area. He was instrumental in establishing Marathon County. Two years after Wisconsin
became a state our county was formed from a larger county (Portage County) on February 9, 1850 and was named for the Greek battlefield.
The railroad arrived in 1874 and Marathon County became more accessible to people and industry. The large influx of German
immigrants brought with them more media people.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I The Value of History
CHAPTER II The Indian Occupation
CHAPTER III Wisconsin as a Territory
CHAPTER IV The Wisconsin Valley
CHAPTER V Titles — Surveys — First Settlements 59
CHAPTER VI First Settlements (Continued) 67
CHAPTER VII The Town of Big Bull Falls Organized— Alarathon County Organized —
CHAPTER VIII The Wausau and South Line Plank Road
CHAPTER IX  Farming Settlements in the PresentTowns of Berlin, Maine and Hamburg
CHAPTER X The First Newspaper — The Steamboat
CHAPTER XI The Towns of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, now Milwaukee, St. Paul &
Sault St. Marie Railroad, and First Settlements
CHAPTER XII War Times — Indian Scare
CHAPTER XIII Timber Left in 1875 — Farm Developments — Roads and Communications —
CHAPTER XIV Political History from the Organization of the County Until 1912 191
CHAPTER XV Senators and Members of Assembly 226
CHAPTER XV Population of Marathon County and by Towns
CHAPTER XVII The City of Wausau —
CHAPTER XVIII City of Wausau (Continued) — The Times from 1872 to 1879 280
CHAPTER XIX The City of Wausau from 1878 to 1912-13 293
CHAPTER XX The Pioneer Schools — Common Schools and High Schools Up to 1912 342
CHAPTER XXI Religious Wausau — Churches and Religious Organizations — Y. M. C. A.  352
CHAPTER XXII Financial Institutions — The First National Bank 368
CHAPTER XXIII Industrial Wausau in 1912 378
CHAPTER XXIV Commercial Wausau — Mercantile Enterprises 400
CHAPTER XXV Wausau and Marathon County Press — Daily Record-Herald 409
CHAPTER XXVI Bench and Bar — Judges of the Circuit Court from 1850 to 1912  416
CHAPTER XXVII
The Medical
Profession — Physicians in Practice in 1912 –Hospitals 427
CHAPTER XXVIII Military Organizations — Fraternal and Benevolent Societies 438
CHAPTER XXIX Music and Song — Bands and Orchestras — The Wausau Country Club 445
CHAPTER XXX Sports — Horse Racing — Shooting — Turn Societies — Base Ball, etc 458
CHAPTER XXXI Wausau in the Spanish-American War
— Record of Company G
462
CHAPTER XXXII Incidents: Fires — The Flood of 1912 — German Bi-Centennial Celebration,
CHAPTER XXXIII Incorporated Mileages in Marathon County — Historical and Descriptive
Sketches of Marathon City, Mosinee, Edgar, Fenwood, McMillan,
Athens, City of Colby, Unity, Scholfield, Spencer, Brokaw and Stratford. 489
CHAPTER XXXIV Incorporated Towns in Marathon County — Historical and Descriptive
Sketches of the Towns of Wausau, Weston, Mosinee, Texas, Marathon.
Knowlton, Berlin, Stettin, Easton, EIaine, Maine, Wien, Bergen, Hull, Brighton,
Holeton, Hamburg, Spencer, Rio Falls. Rietbrook, Day, Johnson, Halsey,
Cleveland, Eau Pleine, Kronenwetter, Pike Lake, Norrie, Eldron, Harri-
son, McMillan, Emmett, Frankfort, Plover, Cassel, Hewitt, Ringle,
Franzen, Bern and Flieth 530
CHAPTER XXXV Distinguished
Public Men, Past and Present 580
Representative Citizens 635
INDEX
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