An Account of The Early Settlers of Juneau County, Wisconsin

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Source: New Lisbon dated Feb. 28, 1952 (Written by Don Leicht, Madison,
it was compiled mostly from files at the State Historical Society.)

Juneau Co. History


An Account of The Early Settlers of Juneau County


J. H. BREWSTER settled about the year 1854 near this city. In that
year, Joseph NUTTALL's neighborhood, the following settlers commenced
home life in the wilderness: Jake SANBORN and father, Jack WHITE,
Joe BONNOM, N. H. SOUTHWORTH and a Mr. HUBBARD.

Most of the male population of the early days worked in the woods in winter,
on the log drive in the spring and ran lumber rafts to the southern cities
after the mills had manufactured it. This was about the only way money
could be obtained to buy clothing and groceries. There was, however
some revenue picked up from the sale of cranberries. Late in the fall
of 1854, John McNOWN, not having succeeded in getting as good an offer at
Portage City, as he considered his berries worth, took them to St. Louis
by wagon.

New Lisbon was known as Findley's Mill for a short time, so named in the
spring of 1846 when J. H. FINDLEY and Wm. ARMSTRONG came from Winnebago Portage
(later Portage City and still later Portage) and purchased the mill property
here.

Source: New Lisbon dated Feb. 28, 1952 (Written by Don Leicht, Madison,
it was compiled mostly from files at the State Historical Society.)