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WEYAUWEGA The town of this name is situated west of Caledonia and Fremont and east on Lind. It first settlers were Henry Tourtelotte, Amos Dodge and M. Lewis, who located in the year 1848. Upon the organization of the town in the following officers were elected: C. L. Gumaer, Chairman; Melza Parker and Carr Barker, Supervisors; A. W. Potter, Town Clerk; Warren Jenny, Treasurer. The first school was taught by Miss Chandler in a shanty, where the village now is, in 1850. Rev. Silas Miller, a Methodist clergyman, preached the first sermon in 1851, and three years later (1854) the Presbyterians erected the first church, situated in the village of Weyauwega. Benjamin Birdsell became the first Postmaster in Weyauwega, during the year 1850. In The same year Robert Baxter built the first hotel, and in 1851 A. Tidbits erected the Weyauwega House. The present Tarbell House was started by Robert Baxter and Charles Hare in the fall of 1851. In the spring of 1850, C. L. Gumaer started the first store, the veteran saw-mill having been erected by Messrs. Townsend, Powell & Lincoln in 1848-49, at Evanswood.
TOWN OF WEYAUWEGA
The original Town of Weyauwega was one of the six townships into which the county was divided by action of the county board, on March 5, 1852, and was described as follows: Township 21 and south half of 22, range 13 east. That territory includes the south half of the present Township of Royalton and all of Weyauwega and Fremont. The first town meeting was ordered to be held at the house of R. Baxter, on the first Tuesday of April following.
At the time mentioned, the following officers were elected: Chairman, C. L. Gumaer; supervisors, Melzor and Carr Barker; clerk, A. W. Potter; treasurer, Warren Jenney; school superintendent, Brit Burt; justices of the peace, L. L. Post, George D. Tarbell, Melzor Parker and Ira Sumner; constables, J. B. Hunt, H. Tourtellotte and J. Bergstressor; sealers of weights and measures, Robert Baxter and Joseph Post; assessor, Henry Doty; fence viewers, Joseph Jenney and W. W. Barnes; John Boyd, overseer of highways. Seventy votes were cast, Elijah W. Wrightman and A. W. Potter acting as inspectors of election.
The first settlers of the town were Henry Tourtellotte, Amos Dodge and M. Lewis, who came in 1848. Walter Weed and Benjamin Birdsell located in 1849 and built a sawmill on the village site. Another mill had been built a short time before by- Townsend, Powell & Lincoln, at Evanswood.
Mr. Birdsell, who was also Weyauwega's first postmaster, built the first grist mill at the village in 1855, and most of the pioneer events are connected with the settlement at Weyauwega Lake.
Outside the Village of Weyauwega, the lands of the town are assessed at $671,000, and the personal property at $85,000. There are 1,387 neat cattle in the township, valued at $45,102, and 324 horses and mules, valued at $28,625. Within the limits of the town also outside of the village, are 186 young people between the ages of four and twenty who are entitled to the privileges of four rural schools.
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