This notice of intent to incorporate the village of Brandon was run in the late September, October, and early November issues of the Times. A copy of the original is available on micro-film #P76-4717 (spanning issues from 1874 to 1878) at the State Historical Society library in Madison. In the transcription, typographical and other errors are reproduced as published.
THE BRANDON TIMES
Brandon, Wisconsin
INCORPORATION NOTICENotice is hereby given that the undersigned tax payers and residents of the territory hereinafter described, will on the 12th day of November, A D, 1877, at the opening of Court on that day, or as soon thereafter as the application can be heard, apply to the Circuit Court of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin in which county said territory lies, for an order incorporating said territory into a Village by the name of Brandon, under chapter 18S of the general laws of 1872, said territory being part and parcel of Sections Number twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26), thirty-five (35) and thirty-six(36), in Township number fifteen (15) north, of Range number fourteen (14) east, being in the town of Metomen, county of Fond du Lac, and bounded as follows, to-wit:
Commencing at the south west corner of the north-east quarter of section number thirty-five, (35) thence east along line of forties sixty (60) chains to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section number thirty-six (36), thence north along line of fort es sixty (60) chains to the north-east corner of the north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of section number twenty-five (25), thence west along line of forties sixty (60) chains to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of section number twenty-six (26), thence south along line of forties forty (40) chains to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter of section number twenty-six(26), thence west along section line five (5) chains, thence south parallel with east line of forty twelve (12) chains, thence east parallel with the north section line five (5) chains, thence south on line of forty eight (8) chains to the place of beginning; containing three hundred and sixty-six (366) acres of land.
That we have caused a survey and map of said territory to be made and a census of the inhabitants residing therein to be taken, and that said survey, map and census will be left at the office of David Whitton within said territory, where the same may be examined by all persons interested in such application,
Dated this 19th day of September, A D. 1877 RC Kelly,
S. Weinstock,
C. W. Ferguson,
J. E. Gee,David Whitton,
L. J. Hall,
C. Asmuth,
A. J. Yorty,Martin C. Short.
The census that accompanied the application for incorporation was reproduced by the Brandon Times in 1927. A transcription, the Special 1877 Census of Brandon, is available courtesy of Twilah DeBoer and the Brandon Historical Society.
This site represents an ongoing project to document Brandon's history. If you have information to share, please contact Bob Schuster by email at rmschust@facstaff.wisc.edu or at 6020 Kristi Circle, Monona, Wisconsin 53716, (608) 221-1421.