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Source:
History of Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin
- Vol. 1 -
By Carl Zillier,
Chicago:
S. J. Clark Publishing Company
1912

CHAPTER I - HISTORIC WISCONSIN	1
- Four Score Years Ago - The Red Man, Primeval Forests and Wild Game - Advent of the White Man and His Ways - Indian Conflicts and Indian Treaties - Wisconsin Territory - Wisconsin Admitted as a State - Early Settlers in Northern Wisconsin
CHAPTER II. - STORY of the ROCKS and FIELDS	49
- Various Periods of Formation - Kettle Range of Hills and Ridges - Rich and Enduring Soil - Commercial Clay and Limestone - Almost Impenetrable Forests of Valuable Timber - A Veritable Paradise for Wild Beasts and Birds - Topography of the County - Drainage and Reclamation of Waste Lands
CHAPTER III. - THE ABORIGINEE	55
- Indian Tribes Found in Northern Wisconsin - Numerous Villages in Sheboygan County - Their Customs and Characteristics - Little Thunder Thrown Into the River - Waubaca's Laugh of Derision - Sad Fate of Mrs. Asenath Briggs - Indians Steal a Barrel of Whiskey - Indian John - The Great Indian Scare
CHAPTER IV. - SHEBOYGAN COUNTY	65
- The County Created in 1836 - Its Territory Taken From Brown County - First Election Held March 4, 1839 - The New Entity Governed by a Board of Commissioners - Changed to Supervisor System - First Term of Court in Sheboygan County - Creation of Townships - Organization of the County.
CHAPTER V. - THE PIONEER	85
- First Settler in Sheboygan County - Others Who Soon Followed Him - Short Sketches of the Men and Women Who opened This County and Left it as a Splendid Heritage to Future Generation - Brave and Hardy Pioneers and Their Personality - Settles in the Various Towns - Those Who located at Sheboygan
CHAPTER VI. - OFFICIALS	105
- List of County Officials Broken by Loss of Records - Complete List of Some of the County Officials and Partial List of Others - Board of Supervisors and Its Members From 1870 to Date - Members of the Legislature
CHAPTER VII - REMINISCENT	123
- Tales Interestingly Told by Men Who Were There - Early Days in Sheboygan County as Pictured by the Late J. H. Denison - Recollections of Horace Rublee - Colonel J. A. Watrous Now of Milwaukee Contributes Valuable Local Data
CHAPTER VIII. - TRANSPORTATION	135
- Indian Trails and Plank Roads - First Railroad Built in 1856 - Celebration at the Time of Breaking Ground - The Northwestern System - First Street Railway and the Present Trolley System - Interurban From Sheboygan to Milwaukee and From Sheboygan to Plymouth and Elkhart Lake - Passenger and Freight Traffic on Lake Michigan - Sheboygan's Beautiful Harbor - Receipts and Shipments of Merchandise by Water and Number of Vessels Entering and Departing the Past Calendar Year

CHAPTER IX. - CHURCHES of SHEBOYGAN CITY	145
- Holy Name Church and Other Houses of Religious Worship
CHAPTER X. - CIVIL WAR	159
- President Lincoln Calls for Seventy-Five Thousand Men to Put Down Rebellion - Sheboygan County Intensely Patriotic - Sends Many Men to the Front to Fight for Their Country - Gustavus Wintermeyer Post Grand Army of the Republic - The Soldiers' Monument - Company C, Second Wisconsin Infantry in the Spanish-American War.
CHAPTER XI. - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION	215
- The First Physicians Endured Hardships and Were Poorly Paid - Pills and Quinine Composed the Pioneer Doctor's Pharmacoepia - Placed Great Reliance on the Lancet and Bled His Patient with or Without Provocation - Some of the First Physicians Practicing in the County
CHAPTER XII. - BENCH AND BAR	223
- The Fourth Judicial District Created - Able Men Who Have Sat on the Bench - Pioneer Lawyers - Members of the Present Sheboygan County Bar.
CHAPTER XIII. - JOURNALISM	231
- This Community Ably Served By the Press - Newspaper Plants in the Front Rank of Present Day Equipment, Quantity and Quality of News and Make-Up - Editorial Writers of Ability - List of Newspapers of the County Past and Present.
CHAPTER XIV. - TOWNS AND VILLAGES	239
- Settlement of the Various Towns and Birth of Villages - Names of Many Pioneers - Growth of the Communities - Their Varied Industries - Early Mills and Farm Products
CHAPTER XV. - THE COUNTY SEAT	271
- Village and City of Sheboygan - Postoffice - Financial Institutions - Carnegie Public Library - The Schools - The Churches - Industrial Sheboygan - Fraternal Orders and Societies - The Village of Kohler.
CHAPTER XVI. - SHEBOYGAN FALLS	313
- Town and Corporation - Sheboygan Falls one of the Oldest Villages in the County - Deacon William Trowbridge Opens a Farm in 1837 - The Village Incorporated in 1854 - Has the Only Woolen Mill in the County - Other Industries - Churches - Fraternal Orders, etc. - Historic Old School Building.
CHAPTER XVII. - PLYMOUTH.	325
- Town Villages and City - One of the Earliest Settlements in the County - Early Churches and Schools - The village of Plymouth is Laid Out - Merchandising and Cost of Living - The First Grist Mill - City of Plymouth - Public Utilities and Institutions - Post-Masters - Schools and Churches - Industrial Plymouth
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