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FAIRWATER AREA BIOGRAPHIES
  
_button.gif (328 bytes) Biographical records of early Fairwater area residents taken from popular books, such as The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin (Western Historical Company, Chicago: 1880), which were based on personal narratives and may not be entirely reliable.

Robert C. Abercrombie | Deacon Josiah Batson | Albert Bonesteel | Harris Brown | J. H. Brown | Jacob Carter | Franklin Collins | William Dakin | Asa Holmes | N. C. Hurlburt |  H. Kath | Townsend Miller | Fernando Newland | Captain William Plocker | George F. Pond | James B. Pond | Woodbridge O. Sleeper 

_button.gif (328 bytes) Florian Laper's John C. Laper chronology and Jesse W. Laper biography, including history and  photographs of Fairwater and vicinity from the end of the Nineteenth Century.

_button.gif (328 bytes) Two brief autobiographical sketches written by Sophie Simmons Hansen. Sophie Simmons was born in Denmark in 1855 and emigrated to Fairwater with her family in 1866.

Area Biographies
_button.gif (328 bytes) Reverend Hiram McKee, Metomen resident and participant in Ripon's Booth War, 1860
_button.gif (328 bytes) Life Story of Manus Veenendaal, his own history
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_button.gif (328 bytes) Town of Alto biographies
_button.gif (328 bytes) Markesan and Green Lake County biographies

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Bibliography | Histories | Images & Maps
Public Records: Cemeteries | Censuses | Land Patents | Tax Rolls
Print Records: Biographies | Gazetteers | Newspapers | Writings


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Fond du Lac Co |  Metomen  |  Brandon  |  Alto  |  Ripon  |  Green Lake Co  |  Markesan

     
Last updated 7/6/2000 This site is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the village of Fairwater. 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.