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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(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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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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Winnebago County was broken off from Brown County in 1840, with a population of 135 settlers. A county government was formed two years later, though the place was mostly scattered log cabins. Autumn 1846, the Partridge family arrived – Alvin, Lucia, a young daughter and a newborn son. They were Protestants with roots in Ohio.
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Simon Bailey Paige was born in Wentworth, New Hampshire on August 26, 1824. He married Leafy Cushing Bean. In the 1850s, they came to Oshkosh. Simon and his brother were in the whole sale grocery business, and Simon also had investments in lumber, railroads and race horses. Simon and Leafy were well-known, respected and quite
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Born in Saratoga, New York on February 26, 1835 and baptized in Hempstead at Christ’s Church. Jarvis‘ father Isaac was a tallow chandler (candlemaker), a profession that Jarvis would follow. The Loper family lived in Saratoga Springs until around 1862, when they moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. by 1865, the Loper family operated a soap and
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David Frank Spanbauer was born in January 1941. His parents, Frank J Spanbauer and Evelyn Marie Bachtler, had both been born in Oshkosh and lived there all their lives. Frank worked as a machinist for Wisconsin Axle Division. Frank Spanbauer died March 27, 1956 in Oshkosh, at only 44 years old. Exactly what he died
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