by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: early 20th century The Hoard Museum has over 300 dolls – many of them from Fort Atkinson resident Jane Curtis who began collecting at a young age and under difficult circumstances. Born in 1900, Jane contracted polio at age 10. Unable to play...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1833 – 1897 On November 16th, 1860 two days after his 27th birthday, Vermont native David Curtis married Jane Howard and looked forward to a quiet life farming the homestead in the town of Jefferson (near Curtis Mill) that he and his family had...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1843-1870 Thomas Crane was born in Massachusetts in 1822 and came to Fort Atkinson in 1843 to live with his sister and brother-in-law, Milo Jones. Crane was a trained mechanic with a creative mind who would receive over 20 patents during his lifetime....
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1878 – 1969 She was small in size but large in everything that mattered. She was quiet in manner but commanding as an advocate for children. She was modest in character but at her death the Jefferson County Union’s editorial page called on our...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1926 In 1926, Oscar Simonson brought a state championship home to Fort Atkinson. Born in Iowa in 1879, Simonson moved to Fort Atkinson with his wife Anna in 1923. He would work for the James Manufacturing Company for the next 33 years while living at...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1827 – 1919 Lucien Caswell was an early mover and shaker in Fort Atkinson. Born in 1827 in Vermont, Lucien lost his father Beal at age 3 when his dad was crushed by a falling tree during a community wood cutting bee held to gather wood for each...
