Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-02-28
First Events In Sank County

Following are q few of the first
events in Sank county, Baraboo, and
elsewhere:
The first white men to see Sank
county were Louis Joliet and Father
Marquette, 1873.
Berry Haney procured the first claim
and brock the first land in Sank coun-
ty, 1888.
James S. Albin was the first to bring
his family to the county, settling near
Sank City, December 81, 1888.
Devils Lake was first seen by James
S. AIbin in 1889.
The first ferry at Merrimack was
operated by Chester Mattson.
The first mail brought into Sank
county was by William Funk in 1S40
The first county superintendent was
I. w. Morley, elected in 1860.
The first fair was held in the court
house at Baraboo, probably in 1855.
The first store in Baraboo was
opened near the Manchester mill by
a man by the name of Grapel.
The first telephone in Baraboo was
made of boxes and thread, stretched
between the homes Of DR.. Davis and
Mrs. Clark.
Fay Locke was the first in the coun-
ty to enlist in the civil war.
The first hops in the county were
raised by Count Harasthy at Sank City
about 1843.
The first postal savings bank was
opened in Baraboo, April ], 1912.
The first county educational board
was organized April Z. 1914.
The first car of ore from the North
Freedom iron field was shipped March
16, 1904.
The first moving pictures to be eX-
hibited in BaraboO were shown on No
vember II, 1897
Mrs. Robert McCammon received the
first parcel post package in Baraboo,
January 2, 1913.
Nels J. Nelson made the first avia-
. ton fight in the county at Baraboo on
September 27, 1911.
Bill Money was the first Indian ad-
ministrator in the county, appointed
December 10, 1905.
Alfred Jones and James R. Camp
bell. Spring Green, were the first ru-
raj carriers in the county, May A.,
1900
, The first milliner in Baraboo was
Mrs. Harrison.
First Unitarian Gree Congregation
all church was organized at Baraboo
February Is, 1861.
A. c.. church was organized at Bara-
boo in 1883.
The first shoemaker in the Baraboo
valley was Edwin Johnson Greenfield,
1851.
First German NJ E. church, Bara-
boo, organized February, 1872.
First services held in Trinity Epis-
copal church, BaraboO, 1854.
Free Methodist church organized at
Baraboo, September 10, 1887.
Presbyterian church organized at
Baraboo, February &c, 1851.
! Lutheran church founded in Bara-
boo, 1870.
First frame schoolhouse built north
of the bluffs was in Lyons by r. r.
Remington in 1849.
I First frame school building erected
| in Baraboo, 1850.
! First school taught at Baraboo by E..
NJ. Hart, 1843.
Sank County Humane society or
ganized at BaraboO, March p, 1912.
| c. A. Swineford was the first mayor
of Baraboo.
First election in village Of Baraboo,
April 2, 1867.
Archibald Barker took the first raft
! Qumber) down the Baraboo river in
1871.
| First mill, saw mill, was erected
on the Baraboo river in 1889.
First town meeting in Baraboo, April
3, 1849.
| First election in Ba1hboo valley,
1912.
Colonel Sumner built the first hotel
at Baraboo, 1847.
] First Justice of the peace in the Bar
aboo valley was D. c. Barry
First undertakers in Baraboo were
3. l.. Purdy and Lewis Hayes.
The first church bell in Baraboo was
rung July 4. 1852.
First nursery in Sank county was
established by Harvey Garfield and
son, w. H Garfield.
James Maxwell erected first frame
building in BarabOO.
John NJ. True was the first to file
nomination papers under the primary
law, February 25, 1906.
First permanent settler at Baraboo
was Abraham Wood, about 1899.
First meeting Of the Sank County
Historical society was held June 2,
1905.
First paper printed in Baraboo was
the Sank County Standard, June 20,