Waupaca County WI Archives History - Books .....Chapter VIII 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 June 26, 2008, 4:29 am Book Title: History Of Waupaca Co., WI CHAPTER VIII. MEETING OF THE COUNTY BOARD AT WAUPACA—MEMBERS FROM BELMONT AND AMHERST ADMITTED—TOWN OF LANARK ORGANIZED—BUILDING COMMITTEE CHOSEN—VOTE ON COUNTY SEAT. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNTY BOARD. November 30, 1854, a special meeting of the County Board was held at Waupaca. The Board only "marched up the hill, and then marched down again," transacting no business, except to adjourn until December 4. No records of that adjourned meeting can be found. In April, 1854, George W. Cate was elected Judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit. November 13, 1855, the County Board met in annual session at the tavern of J. J. Jones, in the Town of Waupaca. Present—Dayton, W. C. Carr; Farmington, William Benedict; Amherst, John F. Phelps; Belmont, A. J. Freeman; Scandinavia, Ole Rein; Iola, M. R. Baldwin; St. Lawrence, Henry Herrick; Little Wolf, A. P. Jones; Waupaca, S. F. Ware. Absent — Representatives from Lind, Weyauwega, Lebanon, Mukwa, Royalton, and Caledonia. S. F.Ware, of the Town of Waupaca, was elected Chairman of the Board. It was voted "That the members from the Towns of Belmont and Amherst be admitted as members of the County Board." Township 22, Range 10, was set apart from the Town of Amherst, to be known as the Town of Lanark. A license was granted C. H. Mack to run a ferry across the Wolf River at Fremont, for the term of ten years. A committee was appointed "to obtain the assessment of property, or assessment rolls, from the Towns of Mukwa, Weyauwega, Royalton, Lebanon, Caledonia, and Little Wolf, said towns not having returned said assessment rolls for said year of 1855." A. P. Jones, of Little Wolf, was appointed as such committee. The county seat was located on the public square in the Village of Waupaca. A building committee of six were chosen, three from members of the Board, and three from citizens of Waupaca, to superintend the building of the Court House. W. C. Carr, A. P. Jones and William Benedict were chosen on said committee on the part of the Board, and Wilson Holt, B. F. Brown, and E. C. Sessions on the part of the citizens. The Board rescinded "all orders or resolutions and decrees of said Board, passed and signed November 15, 1853, concerning the removal and location of the County seat of Waupaca County." The Board declared Mellen Chamberlain "the proper and legal Clerk of said Board of Supervisors." Sections 35 and 36, and the e 1/2 of the se 1/4 of the ne 1/4, of Section 34, Township 22, Range 12 east, were set apart from the Town of Lind, and annexed to the Town of Waupaca. Townships 24 and 25, Range 10, were taken from Amherst and made one town by the name of Peru. ONE MORE COUNTY SEAT VOTE. November 6, 1855, another vote was taken for removal of the County seat to Weyauwega. We give the results as we find them among the archives at the Court House in Waupaca. The result of that vote was, according to the returns before us: Whole number of votes cast, 1,096; for removal to Weyauwega, 75; against removal, 1,021. The following county officers were declared elected: Clerk of the Court, James H. Jones; Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Mellen Chamberlain; Treasurer, Charles O. Brown; Register of Deeds, Charles E. Redfield. For Member of Assembly, Louis Bostedo received 114 votes, and William Brenquest 999. In November, 1856, E. P. Perry was elected Member of Assembly; E. I. Putnam, Register of Deeds; Barney Brown, Sheriff; M. H. Sessions, District Attorney; Myron Boughton, County Surveyor; J. B. Redfield, Coroner. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY, WISCONSIN. By J. WAKEFIELD, Historian of Old Settlers' Society of Waupaca County. WAUPACA, WIS.: D. L. STINCHFIELD, 1890. COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY J. WAKEFIELD AND D. L. STINCHFIELD. Printed by D. L. STINCHFIELD, Waupaca, Wis. Bound by W. B. CONKEY, Chicago. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/waupaca/history/1890/historyo/chapterv54nms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb