Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-30
HISTORY OF EAGLE RIVER
A Short Account Of Some Of the Most
Important Events in It's Life, and
n Brief Mention of Some of Its Lead
ing business Men, Both PAST
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Rev Father Goepfert.

The history of city, its origin,
growth and developement, is, in all
respects, similar to the biography of a
man, his infancy, youth and manhood.
Their success and prosperity, or their
failure and ruin, depend on, and are
assured by peculiar circumstances and
energies, or want OF personal sacrifices.
God literally assists both individuals
, and communities, and, according to
4 their correspondence with His SUI
iEpreme, never-failing help, they will
Estand and prosper or decline and fall.
y sTezwritezssneh q history or biography
lis an easy enough task, When the Wlit-
er has ample documents with facts,
anecdotes and dates at his disposal.
When he has simply to coordinate
matters in chronological order and to
enliven his literary web with the orig
inality OF his own personal style.
When such memoranda can be found
in the archives of the hero's friends
and acquaintance, or in the writings
of the city's pioneers, the work be-
comes a labor of love, and affords the
deepest and liveliest interest, if not to
the first generations, at least to their
descendants, who always ascend with
delight, old history's stream, to find
the source and beginning the birth
day of a city or of a great man. But
the task becomes more difficult indeed,
when the above documents are not ex-
tant, and when few written records
can be found: then the historian must
individually call for information from
every survivor of olden times, or from
the children Of those who laid the
city's foundation, or of those who kept,
in their memory, the souvenir Of the
qualities, deeds and virtues of the hero.
| The latter is our case. Still we must
not despair, we must diligently en-
deavor to produce brief sketch, were
err, from it's beginning to the present
day, with it's charming locality and
most poetical surroundings.
|
In Eagle River, in 1897, we are
treading the soil of a territory which,
at the dying hour of the 10Th century
an age justly proud of it's thirst for
knowledge, it's science and inventions
is still TERRA 1NCoGNITA, a mysteri-
Gus region to millions of folks through
out the States, and even to thousands
in Southern Wisconsin.
The majestic forests of pines, cedar,
tamarack, ETC., have, to great extent,
fallen meath the modern woodmen's
axe and saw, have been split up, in the
mills, into millions and millions of feet
of lumber that have supplied the
worlds market and afforded good wag-
es to thousands OF laborers. Still
enough timber remains standing, to
make our woods, summer and winter,
as active as bee hives and allow Our
mills to run for many more years.
We live in Eagle River, in the heart
and centre of the grandest, most glori-
Gus. most romantic and most healhful
part of the great state OF Wisconsin.
The climate is simply unsurpassed: we
live in an unequaled health-resort; and
the land that had strength and native
activity to produce such rich and Wig
orous pines, the kings Of the forest, in
the vegetable kingdom, is assuredly,
when the stumps are extracted and the
pillow has dug the burrows, vigorous
add rich enough to produce plentiful
i barvests. Here the tiller of the soil
will soon find out that he has estab-
lished his home on a gold mine. We
believe in the future Of Eagle River,
as city, a growing city, and within
not many years fourishing city, sur
rounded by broad acres Of smiling
corn fields exploited BY Industrious
a29 EsEl-bs's''o farmers. !
f. Eagle River City, with a population
fof 1900, is situated on an exceptionally
favorable spot, on a lofty, fertile plat
s9sfg47ests
est in Wisconsin. It is most charm
lngly located, within close proximity
to the Wisconsin river, on 10th banks
of the broad. limpid stream, Eagle,
| from which it derives its poetical
name. The stream itself was. no
/ doubt. called Eagle river: on account