City of Clintonville
Clintonville was organized as a village
in 1879.
Its first officers
President, U. P. Clinton
Treasurer, C. M. Hughanen
Clerk, T. L. Cannon
Marshal, D. A. McNeal
Constable, George Ratclifif
Police Justice, Alexander
Stewart
Justice of the Peace, G. W.
Jones
Trustees, Thomas Whitewell,
H. Mellike, A. Bucholtz, N. B. Carter, H. Buckbee, E.
Brix, G. W. Sutherland |
The city was organized in 1887.
The first city officers
Mayor, John Finney
Clerk, E. L. Der Motte
Treasurer, T. F. Folkman
Attorney, F. M. Guernsey
Marshal, C. M. Fisher
Chief of Fire Department, W.
H. Stacy;
Justices of the Peace, D.
Noble, C. T. Rogers
Assessor, G. W. Sutherland;
Aldermen, G. W. Jones, O. G.
Augustine, J. A. Hickock, B. Schemmer, E. M., W. H.
Cook, M. Smith, Frank Quinn, F. M. Guernsey |
A Surprise
In the fall of 1881 the writer was in
the little backwoods village of Clintonville. It was then a
small, unpretentious burgh, giving no indications of much future
smartness. In the spring of 1890, he paid a second visit, and
met with a surprise. In nine years it had become a pleasant
city, with a population of nearly 2,000. It is full of live,
energetic business men, who will make it a successful rival of
its sister towns, if money and brains can do it.
Clintonville has 16 stores, 2 furniture
shops, 6 millinery shops, 2 machine shops, 2 jewelers, 3 meat
markets, 4 hotels, 3 livery barns, 2 grist mills, 2 saw mills, 5
blacksmith shops, 2 wagon shops, 3 newspapers (1 German), 4
lawyers, 4 doctors, 8 churches, 1 high school, 1 brick yard, 4
shoe shops, 1 cigar factory, 2 barber shops, 2 restaurants, and
10 saloons.
The first house built in the city, a log
cabin, was by the Clintons, in 1855. Some of its timbers are now
under the sidewalk in front of the Tribune office.
U. P. Clinton kept the first hotel, in
1857. The first paid preacher was Elder Peet, a
Congregationalist, who came once a month from New London. Norman
and U. P. Clinton paid his salary with the first lumber sawed in
their mill, and he donated it to the Congregational church at
New London.
The first Sunday school (Congregational)
was organized in the spring of 1858, with Oscar Bowman for
Superintendent. Mrs. U. P. Clinton tells us that it is still
prospering.
Clintonville is at the junction of two
lines of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railroad.
The city officers for 1890
Mayor, F. M. Guernsey
Clerk, L. H. Kuester
Treasurer, J. Bentz
Attorney, B. M. Goldberg
Marshal, W. C. Plopper
Chief of Fire Department, J.
F. Meisner
Justices of the Peace, D.
Noble, C. F. Schroeder
Assessor, E. M. Jones
Supervisors, R. Metzner, B.
Schemmer, N. Etten, F. Quinn
Aldermen, O. G. Augustine, J.
Beasoncon, George Larson, M. Weatherwax, J. Raphingst,
M. Alft, C. C. Spearbraker, John Olmstedt |
We do not believe that we can conclude
our sketch of Clintonville more acceptable than by copying two
chapters from that spicy sheet. The Dual-City Tribune, by Frank
H. Brady, who has laid us under many obligations for kind
attentions paid during our recent visit to his city Mr. Brady is
a grandson of Mr. Clinton, a sketch of whose life is here given:
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