Outagamie County, WI - "Royalton Claim Staked in '49"
       
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Subject: newspaper article "Royalton Claim Staked in '49"
Submitted by: county coordinator 
EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
Date Submitted: 15 March 2000
       
Source: New London Press newspaper article from Bicentennial issue, undated.

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                  Royalton Claim Staked in '49
     Simeon Hopkins was so excited about getting a peice of Royalton that he couldn't wait for his family.
     Hopkins was one of the earliest settlers of the community -- arriving there in 1849.
     He made a claim then and went back for his family in 1850.
     Royalton's first settlement was by three men named Hicks, Leuthold and Gill in 1848.
     Others came in 1850, among them: Joseph Favell, William Shambeau and Marshall Leavitt.
     The first sawmill was built that year by Hicks, Tourtelloth and Gill.  The mill later burned.
     The first grist mill was built in 1875 by M.L. Haywood.  It was later owned by Dr. Dawley.
     A man named Ellis started the first store in 1853.
     That same year mail came to Royalton.  A post office was started in 1853 and Bradford Phillips was named
postmaster.     Schooling came to Royalton in 1854 and expanded the next year.
     It was 1854 when Miss Haywood taught private school; Miss Helen Monroe taught the first public school
in 1855.
     It was 1857 when the first school house was built.
     The first sermon came from a Methodist minister, but the first church built was Congregational.  That came
in 1866.
     When Andrew More and Persis Haywood married in the fall of 1853 it marked Royalton's first wedding.
     The first town meeting came in April 1854.
     The first town officers were: George More, chairman; Marshall Leavett, and S. Morse were supervisors,
Bradford Phillips was named town clerk (he later became justice of the peace), R. Barsteen, A. Wheeler, T.A.
Butterfield and H. Sherman were named justices of the peace and the constable was M.L. Haywood.