Histories
County History
Histories: Trempealeau Co. Historical Accounts:
The following is the centennial history of the city of Independence in Trempealeau
County.
Donated by Bill Russell
The chapters in this booklet contain the following:
The book "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881" contains one
(1)
chapter of historical and biographical data covering Trempealeau
County and its residents prior to publication. The material
presented here has been transcribed
from pages 1033 through 1074 which covers the chapter on Trempealeau
County.
The chapter contains the following:
The following history is a part of Chapter XVII, titled
"Miscellaneous" in the book, "Historical and Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2". The information in this book
that pertains to Trempealeau County is limited to:
Title Page and Table of Contents
HISTORY OF
TREMPEALEAU
COUNTY WISCONSIN
Compiled by
FRANKLYN CURTISS-WEDGE
Edited by
EBEN DOUGLAS PIERCE, M.D.
ILLUSTRATED
Chicago and Winona
H. C. COOPER, JR., & CO.
1917
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INTRODUCTION,
pages ix - xv
CONTENTS (the
following items will be added and linked here as they are transcribed)
- CHAPTER 1
- EARLY
WISCONSIN, pages 1 - 16
- CHAPTER 2
- GEOLOGY, pages 17 - 25
- CHAPTER 3
- ARCHAEOLOGY, pages 26 - 35
- CHAPTER
4 - GOVERNMENTAL
JURISDICTION, pages 36 - 40
- CHAPTER
5 - REIGN OF THE INDIANS, pages 41 - 51
- CHAPTER
6 - EXPLORERS AT TREMPEALEAU MOUNTAIN, pages 52 - 64
- CHAPTER
7 - EARLY SETTLEMENT, pages 65 - 69
- CHAPTER
8 - LOCALITY
SETTLEMENTS, pages 70 - 105
- CHAPTER
9 - COUNTY GOVERNMENT, paged 106 - 128
- CHAPTER
10 - HISTORICAL PAPERS, pages 129 - 223
- CHAPTER
11 - MODERN VILLAGES, pages 224 - 254
- CHAPTER
12 - NEWSPAPERS, pages 255 - 260
- CHAPTER
13 - RAILROADS AND TELEPHONES, pages 261 - 269
- CHAPTER
14 - PLACE NAMES, pages 270 - 281
- CHAPTER
15 - BIOGRAPHY, pages 282 - 801
- CHAPTER
16 - BANKS AND BANKING, pages 802 - 810
- CHAPTER
17 - DAIRY INTERESTS, pages 811 - 816
- CHAPTER
18 - NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN CHURCHES, pages 817 - 835
- CHAPTER
19 - CATHOLIC CHURCH IN TREMPEALEAU COUNTY, pages 836 - 851
- CHAPTER
20 - OTHER CHURCHES, pages 852 - 863
- CHAPTER
21 - BENCH AND BAR, pages 864 - 867
- CHAPTER
22 - SKETCH OF THE TOWN OF PIGEON, pages 868 - 882
- CHAPTER
23 - MORE HISTORICAL PAPERS, pages 883 - 908
- CHAPTER
24 - SOURCES, pages 910 - 1913
The material included here is an unpublished work which
was compiled by Clarence J. Gamroth from a variety of resources.
Some of the resources
used in this work appear elsewhere in their entirety on
this
website, but are also included here in Mr. Gamroth's work as he
intended them to be.
Mr. Gamroth also compiled the "Independence Historical Album, 1976" for
the city's centennial celebration. That work will also be added
to the "Histories" section of this website under a separate
heading.
Clarence J. Gamroth was born in Independence on 04 Jan
1898.
He died on 14 Aug 1988 at the age of 90 at the Tri-County Memorial
Nursing Home in Whitehall. His full obituary can be found (as a
posthumous
addition to his work) within the "Biographical Data" portion of
his collection below.
This portion of his
collection has been donated to us by the
Independence Public Library. We thank them for this interesting
and valuable contribution.
