Outagamie County, WI - "Ira Sumner Was Early Fremont Leader"
       
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Subject: newspaper article "Ira Sumner Was Early Fremont Leader"
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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               Ira Sumner was Early Fremont Leader
     Fremont was one of the earliest settlements in Waupaca county.
     The first settlement was made in the spring of 1849.
     It was about this time that a man moved into town who attached his name to the town's early history.
     This was Ira Sumner, who built a board shanty on the east side of the river.
     Sumner also put up the town's first frame house in 1850.
     Sumner built the first hotel in 1850.  It was built on the east side of the river.
     And Sumner was also involved in the town's first law suit.     He was the plaintiff and Charlie Peters was the defendant.
     The case concerned paying a bill for a bushel of corn.
     The case-following weeks of argument of argument -- resulted in the jury finding for Summer.  Peters paid 18
cents.
     Fremont gained its first post office in 1853.
     Ira Sumner was the postmaster.
     The town was organized in 1865.
     During the first town meeting at the house of A.J. Mayo, the town officers were elected.
     Ira Sumner was elected as both justice of the peace and chairman.