. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin ... -. The Fox forms the east partof its southern boundaiy. A\liite River marsh isone of the most extensive in the town. Settlement and Po|>iilation. The first Settlement in t(.)wn was made by a MrAshford on what is now known as Ashfords one of the first houses in town was theFour-Mile House, formerly a tavern ke|)t by a well-remomliered boniface named Clogg. There isabout e((ual American and foreign population. Ata comiiaratively early period there was a smallEnglish settlement started ne
. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin ... -. The Fox forms the east partof its southern boundaiy. A\liite River marsh isone of the most extensive in the town. Settlement and Po|>iilation. The first Settlement in t(.)wn was made by a MrAshford on what is now known as Ashfords one of the first houses in town was theFour-Mile House, formerly a tavern ke|)t by a well-remomliered boniface named Clogg. There isabout e((ual American and foreign population. Ata comiiaratively early period there was a smallEnglish settlement started near the Four-MileHouse. Rodneys Isle was mostly settled by more recent years some Poles have comeinto the town. When Marquette County wasdivided two miles of the east part of Neshkoro wereadiled to Seneca, 288 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL Z^ GREAT t,bat is of in-terest in conuection withthe history of MarquetteCounty will be found in thechapter on the settlement ofGreen Lake County. The Srstsettlement within the presentcount} limits wag made in thetown of Buffalo in the spring of1848 by H. F. Owen and J. A school-house wasbuilt shortly afterward, and the firstterm of school was taught by aman named Birdsall. The landssouth of the lake were placed in themarket b} the Government several years prior tothe offering of those lands situated north of thatbody of water. The first religious services were conducted by aCatholic priest, who officiated at a mission on anisland in Spring Lake, in the town of was as early as 1848. The first Protestantclergyman was Isaac Smith, a Primitive Methodist,who held meetings in the different settlements inthe fall of 1848. S. A. Pease came to this count} in 1850, and wasits first practicing physician. The first entry ofGovernment land was May 11, 1836, by John
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