by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1850s One of the first married women in Wisconsin to own property in her own name was from the Fort Atkinson area. In 1838, Mariette Snell and her husband Erastus came to Fort Atkinson, eventually settling seven miles west of town on Red Cedar Lake in...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1990 The Lincoln Era Library and Exhibit at the Hoard Museum houses over 1,400 books on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. The great majority of these books come from Jerome Slechta, a Jefferson attorney and Civil War buff who donated his...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1879 – 1957 Oscar Simonson brought a state championship home to Fort Atkinson. Born in Iowa in 1879, he moved to Fort Atkinson with his wife Anna in 1923. He worked for the James Manufacturing Co. for 33 years, living at 1105 West Sherman Ave. A...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1890 In 1890, William Dempster Hoard, received a letter from the Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman thanking him for the birthday wishes received from Governor Hoard and expounding upon the wonderful State of Wisconsin. General Sherman was...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1813 – 1901 “On the 22d of October, 1843, we left our former home in the town of Camden, County of Oneida, State of New York, with our four little children, to go to the Far West” So begins the poignant account written by Betsey...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1830’s-40’s One of Fort Atkinson’s earliest settlers was Charles Rockwell, a carpenter by trade who settled here in 1837. Like most pioneers, Rockwell first tried his hand at farming, claiming land along the Bark River. However, he soon...
