The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-09-09

HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY
BY JOHN NAGLE.

AT the election held in August, Ben
jamn Jones and j. S. Edwards wer e
elected county commissioners. AT the
session of the new board held in Octo-
Der, the county was divided into three
assessment districts and j S Chase, O.
c. Hubbard and H. l.. Abbott were ap-
pointed assessors. In July 1910, the
commissioners resolved to erect a county
house, the cost not to exceed $500 j.
w. Conroe took the contract and com
pleted the building that summer. 1t
vas one story frame building 2ix3S
feet, and II feet in height and was built
on the hill to the north of the Rapids.
1t was destroyed by fire in 1852. In the
session of November 10th, 1910, a mum.
ber of roads were laid ont, and the coun.
ty was divided into four road districts.
5. {. Chase, ID. 5. Munger, II. Nc Allis-
ter and j. &. Conroe were appointed
supervisors of these road districts 1t
seems that rs early rs 1879, money was
drawn from the treasury for county
poor purposes. In October of that year,
h. NJ. Eberts was paid S32 80 for care of
pauper. In 1871, b. Jones was ap.
pointed poor master for the county, In
January 1912, the commissioners grant
ed IL petition of the people of Manitowoc
Rapids, requesting that they might be
allowed to use the town house for
school house when the same was not
needed for county business. In extend
ing their permission, the board declared
that in consideration of &c, the school
districts at Two Rivers and Manitowoc
will be entitled to the privilege of build
ing a school house in their respective
districts before one is built at Manito-
woe Rapids. In July 1913, the board
levied a tax of one half mill on the dol.
lar for the purpose of erecting school
houses. In 1874, Oliver Clauson and +.
l.. Abbot were appointed school com
missioners for Manitowoc County, They
held their first meeting at the Rapids for
the purpose of dividing the county into
school districts Three districts were
organized. District No. /, was named
Two Rivers school District 1t com
prised the territory now included in the
towns of Maple Grove, Franklin, Kos
suth, Two Rivers and that part of Mi
shicott in Township No 20. School dis.
trict No. 2, was to be known as Mill
School District, and included within its
limits the present towns of Schleswig,
Eaton Rockland Cato and ManitowoC
Rapids District No. 3, was named I'm
ion School District and included the
present towns of Meeme, Centerville,
Liberty, Newton and Manitowoc The
commissioners gave notice to the elect.
ors in the several school districts, to meet
on the 10th day OF October for the pur.
pose of electing school district officers
and to transact any other proper bust.
ness. The county has always, with the
exception of one year, raised quite u lib.
eral tax for the support of schools The
exceptional year referred to, the comfy
board refused to levy any tax for school
purposes, insisting that each Of the
towns had levied tax sufficient 20 de-
fray all expenses.
In April, 1874, the Board discontinued
the precinct of Two Rivers, but it was
restored the January following In ac.
cordance with an act Of the territorial
Legislature of 1899, empowering the
county commissioners TO procure alb.
stracts of deeds, mortgages &c, from
Brown County, John p. Champlin was
appointed for that purpose, by the coun.
ty board in January, 1913 These alb.
stracts when recorded in the proper
books, are as good evidence as the orig,
inal record. In lSis, considerable mon
ey was expended by the county in the
erection of bridges at Manitowoc, Two
Rivers and Manitowoc Rapids
On the 9th of January, lSi9, the board
divided the county into four towns, viz,
Two Rivers, Manitowoc, Manitowoc
Rapids and Meeme. The first town
meetings were held Mt the following
named places Two Rivers, ut the home
of Sebastian Boldus, at the county house,
Meeme at the house of II. h. Edison
The town of Two Rivers, IA then organ.
iZed, iucluded Its present area, that por.
ton Of Mishicot in Township No. 20.
and that portion Of kossuth in Range
No. "a. The town of Manitowoc includ-
ed the same territory it does today.
The town Of Manitowoc Rapids embrac.
ed the territory of the present towns of
Maple Grove, Franklin, Rockland Cato.
Manitowoc Rapids, that part Of Kos.
suth lying in Range No. %, and all of
Eaton, Liberty and Newton except the
two southern tiers Of sections in each.
Meeme comprised the present towns of
Schleswig Meme Centervlle and those
portions of Eaton, Liberty and Newton
not incuded in ManitowOc Rapids.
The property in these towns was assessed
this year $3.50 at 1923, 254.27 The sev.
eral towns were assessed rs follows
Two Rivers, $50 70l. "a Manitowoc, S73.
499. -; Manitowoc Rapids, SliS, 800 6G
Meeme, $3.50, 063 H. The tax levied in
the county the same year for state and
county purposes was -. 2S7 81 The