Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Rachel Fuller for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Door County, Wisconsin by Charles I. Martin - 1881 [36] 1855. ROBERT NOBLE, contractor for running the Sturgeon Bay and Bay View steam ferry; and dealer in agricultural implements; was born in New York 1837; is a self-button sewer (bachelor). 1855. Hon.J. T. WRIGHT, landlord, and proprietor of Idlewild Summer Resort; born New York 1830; married EMILINE SNYDER 1850; has three children. FRED C. married ANNA GARLAND 1876; has two children. 1855. ANDREW PETERSON, farmer; born Norway 1816; came to America 1853; married SARAH ERICKSON 1842; has nine children. His daughter HANNAH married JOHN SHAFSTALL 1862; has one child, and lives in Indiana. CELIA married ELI THOMPSON 1869; has two children. PETER married MARY MATHEWS 1866; has six children. JENNIE married LYMAN HALL 1872; has one child. and lives in Missouri. SOPHIA married JOHN NELSON 1878, and lives in Michigan. MARY married JOSEPH SWEETMAN 1878; has two children. 1855. HENRY C. KNUDSON, farmer; was born in Norway 1826; came to America 1853; married MARY HANSON 1857; has four children living. MRS. KNUDSON related to us many of the hardships she endured until the close of the war - her husband being in the army. She was left alone, with three small chil- dren, in the wilderness, some four miles from Sturgeon Bay, and one mile from the nearest neighbor, with all woods, and no roads . . . She spent two nights in the woods away from her family, getting lost while hunting for her cow . . . Often she was compelled to chop down trees in the woods to furnish browse for her cows dur- ing the winter . . . After the war Mr. K. came home, and has labored hard the long years since. As a reward for the hardships they endured in helping to settle up Door county, Mr. and Mrs. KNUDSON now find themselves comfortably located upon a good farm well improved, with plenty of stock, and they are surrounded by a highly respected family of young men and women. 1855. ELIJAH S. FULLER, farmer and proprietor of a lime kiln; came from Racine county; born New York 1815; came west in '41; married BETSEY C. CLARK 1841; has five children. His damzhter AMELIA mnried AHRLEL WHITTAKER 1871; has two chil- dren. CORNELIA married JACOB HERMANN 1879; has one child. HARLOW married SARAH J. NOBLE 1880. 1855. JOSEPH HARRIS, SR., real estate agent; came from New York;born England 1813; came to America 1849; married CHARLOTTE SHING1ETON 1833. Second marriage 1859, to SUSAN PERKINS. His datrghter CHARLOTTE married DAVID McINTOSH 1860; has three children, and lives in Chicago. ELIZABETH married JESSE BIRMINGHAM 1860; has six children, and lives in West Pensaukee. JOSEPH JR., married ROSA RICE l86-; has three children, and is keeper of the Government range lights, at Bailey's Harbor. HENRY married ELIZABETH HANSEN 1868; has two children, and lives in Delaware. EDITH married ISAAC C. SLATER 1871; has two children, and lives in Washington, D.C. MR. JOSEPH HARRIS was chosen as the first county clerk, and register of deeds of Door county, procuring the books of Record and getting both of those offices in running order. He filled the office of county treasurer six years, and in 1864 and '5 represented the counties of Door, Oconto, Shawano and Outagamie in the State Senate. He considers that his crowning work was in organizing the Sturgeon Bay & Lake Michigan Ship canal and Harbor Company. He framed the charter for that Com- pany when he was in the State Senate in 1864. In '66 he went to Washington and procured from Congress a grant of 200,000 acres of the public land to aid in building the canal, which, with subsequent appropriations of money from Congress to build the Harbor of Refuge, secured the final success of the enter- prise. To his unremitting labor of near twenty years, Door county and the State of Wisconsin are indebted for the most important work of public improvement within its borders - a work, the value of which to the commerce of Green Bay and Lake Michigan, can scarcely be over estimated. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================