(These notes were largely modified from Wikipedia. I am not claiming them as an original work.) James Jesse Strang was born March 21, 1813, in Scipio, Cayuga County, New York, the second of three children, and his parents had a good reputation in their community. Strang’s mother was very tender with him because of delicate […]
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Marie Helen Mayborn was born on December 10, 1915. Her obituary says she was born in Green Bay, but various records list Wisconsin, New York or elsewhere. She was said in news reports to be adopted by George and Caroline “Lena” (Eberle) Mayborn rather than their biological child. (Their last name is spelled a few
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Ralph E. Ritschke was born around 1963, to Duane Allen Ritschke (1935-2016) and Shirley Ann Stroud (1934-2005). He had been from Oshkosh originally, moved to Omro and then again to Wittenberg, where he graduated high school around 1981. March 20, 1984, 21-year-old Ritschke was arrested for criminal damage to property and released on a $500
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Vernon was built in 1886 in Chicago, by the shipyard owned by James P. Smith. Her wooden hull was 158.58 feet (some sources state 177 feet) in length, 25.42 feet wide and 18.66 feet deep. Vernon had a gross register tonnage of 694.94 tons and a net register tonnage of 560.41 tons. Vernon was powered
Frank Edward Brakop was born August 6, 1947, in Wisconsin – probably Appleton or Menasha – to Spencer and Edna (Krebser) Brakop. He grew up at 414 Green Street, Neenah (on Doty Island). Full disclosure: Frank was my second cousin, though I never met him. In the fall of 1965, 18-year-old Frank Brakop went on
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(rough draft podcast notes, need to be fleshed out) The First Henry for years, Dunbar was the “top sawyer” among the city’s sawmills. He graduated from this role to an examiner of woodlands in the Northwoods. married April 12, 1892 to Mae Lewis, daughter of Oshkosh fire department Captain James D. Lewis 1899, moved to
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(these are podcast notes and should not be taken as a complete, edited and polished article) Founded 1974ish by two former teachers and a university music student. Ed Saxe had taught English and math at Fredonia’s Ozaukee Middle School, and now handled sales and lyric writing. Keith Irish taught at Clayton and Roosevelt elementary shools
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At one point, Steinthal had a post office and general store… today, few know where it is… October 1963, Leo (or Lee) Schweitzer of Steinthal (northeast of Kiel, west of St. Nazianz) shot two coyotes on his property, which were referred to as “brush wolves.” The conservation warden reminded the public that shooting coyotes was
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The Verheyen family lived in Little Rapids, an area between Green Bay and Kaukauna. Around 1929, John Stickl (then 22) was living with the family. But in December 1930, Stikl was ordered to leave after telling Mr. Anton Verheyen that he wanted to marry his daughter Helen Gertrude. (Actually, Stikl told the village pastor to
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(In September 2023, a co-worker asked me to put together a Top 10 ghost list. It was done on the fly, so this list is subject to change and I may have misremembered certain plot points.) With ghost stories being around since the beginning of time, it would be easy to make a list of
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