(Trying to find contemporary sources for this was hard, so I’m relying heavily on newspaper articles from 1962 and much more recent. Earlier sources were used when possible. I cannot vouch for the accuracy, but made corrections to any obvious errors. The accounts are not always consistent on the timeline. Spellings were wildly inconsistent, and
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On the evening of July 16, 1929, circus employee Arthur Wilson, 21, was arrested in Appleton and accused of assaulting a man and trying to sexually violate his 15-year old daughter. The arresting officers were Sergeant Matthew McGinnis, Officer Albert Deltgen and Officer Earl Thomas. Even Chief George T. Prim, a former Chicago cop, was
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Herman F Abrams (1847-1932) of Oshkosh worked in the marble and monument industry. For a time, he owned the Oshkosh Marble and Granite Works. In 1890, the Oshkosh Northwestern held a contest that whoever could sign up the most new customers on their paper route would win a bicycle. Herman’s sons Charles (7) and Edward
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This is the story of Patricia Wisniewski and her apparent murder in 1975. First, one might ask, how did this story make its way to the podcast? In early 1975, Vincent Maniaci was on trial for his role in cartage theft and fencing. He received stolen goods from truck drivers, including Erv Komassa and his
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The Gilbert Paper Company was founded in 1886 with a capital stock of $100,000. Originally associated with George A. Whiting, William Gilbert formed a separate paper company with his sons William, Albert, Theodore and George. Built on the Lawson Canal in the year of its completion, the Gilbert Paper Mill was the third paper manufacturing
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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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Fred Crawford was born around 1853 in Canada, son of Irish immigrants John Crawford (1808-1891) and Margaret Forsyth (1808-1902). John was a contractor and built “the fortresses” at Kingston and the Junction Canal. He did a variety of government work in Canada, and a bit in Ogdensburg, New York. The fortresses, built in the 1840s,
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(This is a draft I submitted for the 2025 City of Kaukauna Parks. I have no idea what changes were made after this. It’s a bit more Eurocentric than I would have liked, but that was unfortunately the smoothest way to tell a linear story in the word count provided.) As the name implies, the
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Frederick Thomas Price born May 10, 1879 in Neenah, Wisconsin. The family lived on Center Street and his father, Joseph Henry Price, was a factory worker and passed on May 27, 1895 at 46 years old. Frederick, our subject, would have been without a father at age 16. September 3, 1894, Frederick Price beat Mrs.
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William A Doxtator was born 1936 in Fond du Lac, and bounced around between Hilbert, Oshkosh and Menasha 1955, graduated from Hilbert High School. He went to work at the Fred Rueping Leather Company in Fond du Lac. August 12, 1958, he was pulled over for speeding in Kaukauna. He was pulled over again two
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