Pilcher and stood near the place where Mrs. Cooper now lives, was purchased and moved to the new town site, and erected on or near the spot where the Mason House now stands.
This was the first court house ever built in the town. To this was attached a small board addition in the shape of a lean-to, for the grand jury room, and in this building the Hon.
Wilson of Dubuque held the first court ever held in Waukon. During this court, all parties here from abroad found places to eat and sleep as best they could, every log cabin in the vicinity being filled to overflowing. Mattoon, and is now used by the Doctor as a corn crib; and Sewell Goodrick, then Prosecuting Attorney of the county, and ex-officio County Judge, built a frame building on the east side of Allamakee street, with hard wood lumber and basswood siding made at some of the saw mills on Yellow river.
This building was used for county officers, courts, etc. Woodcock and D. The next merchant was A. Hersey, who came to Makee Ridge in the spring of , bought the remnant of the stock that Augustine and Lewis Hersey had, and opened a store in the dwelling house of Howard Hersey on Makee Ridge, occupying the front room. He continued here until the fall of when he built for a store what is now the Mason House and moved his goods into it.
Cushing, to survey and lay out the forty acres that had been donated to the county, into town lots, and instructed him to so arrange the plat as to bring as many of the springs into the streets as possible, in order to make water free to the public for all time; and in order to reach the large spring in the south part of the plat he took from it altogether one whole block and made Spring avenue. This plat was admitted to record December 1 st , , and from that time the County Court sold lots to all who desired them, closing them all out at public sale the following year.
The first court house, above alluded to, was built of poplar logs by Ben. Pilcher on the place afterwards known as the E. Lyons place, and later as H. About this time the new court house, spoken of by Judge Dean, was built, and shortly after several other small dwellings were erected. So that when court was held that fall the town boasted of two court houses, two dwelling houses, occupied respectively by Mr.
Shattuck and by Mr. Newell; besides two unfinished dwellings. The weather was cold, rainy and disagreeable, lodgings were in demand, and with an open handed hospitality the generous pioneers opened their doors to the dispensers and receivers of justice. Crowded though they all were, there was always room for more, for it is said that a log house is never full.
A party from Dubuque, among them General Vandever, were calling for shelter. They were informed that they might stay if they could sleep on the floor, but the party had wisely brought with them a bed-tick, and through the rain and mud they went to the nearest straw-stack, filled the tick, carried it to the house, and lay down to rest.
It is not remembered exactly who were in the party besides Gen. Vandever, but Judge Townsend thinks they were Messrs. Burt, Noble, and Samuels. The two small frame buildings used for a court house, on the east side of Allamakee street, are still standing, the property of Patrick Ronayne. The corner-stone of the present court house was laid with appropriate ceremonies in the spring of , and bricklaying was commenced soon after the 5 th of June.
The building was finished off early in " Meanwhile A. Hersey removed a building from the ridge and erected it on the site of the present Mason House a part of which it is , opening the first stock of goods in Waukon.
The first in what is now Waukon is thought to have been in a family name of Skinner, living in a log cabin close by the spring in A. The first death in the settlement was that of a child of Moses Bush, which was buried in the little burial ground between the town and the Eells place. Platt Beard and Julia A. Reid were married June 17, , by Thos.
Minard, J. White, J. Scott Shattuck and Elizabeth Inman Nov. Minard and C. White were the first justices of the peace in Makee township.
Minard went to Kansas, where he became speaker of her first free-state legislature. He died in Denver but a few years since. One of the first blacksmiths was Herbert Bailey, who built a little shop on the premises now owned by Wm.
Ward; but there were two or three here in the fall of The first physician in the village was one Burnham, although Dr. Flint was then on the Ridge. He Burnham made an assault upon Judge Williams, and shortly after left the country. The pioneer lawyer was John J. Shaw, who came up from Lansing after the county seat was relocated in He was followed the same year by L.
Hatch, and the next spring by John T. Clark, who had been out here the previous fall and returned to York state for his family. From few towns in the west had a more steady, healthy and prosperous growth, and in it increased rapidly in population and business, the excellent farming country around filling up and furnishing her tradesman with a wholesome retail business.
Her growth was necessarily slow during and following the war, when this community made its full share of the tremendous sacrifice called for to preserve our union, but her course was ever upward and onward; and when it became necessary to take steps to preserve her prestige among the towns of the county, almost the entire community put aside all petty personal jealousies, and putting their united efforts in the endeavor, succeeded in establishing for themselves railroad communication with the outside world, in , thereby placing the town and surrounding country in the way of a more prosperous career than they had ever enjoyed.
In the village the "boom" was most apparent, builders and mechanics had far more than they could do; and in two years the population was increased nearly 50 per cent, being 1, in September, In the country the failure of the wheat crop in the years, since then has caused the advantages to be partially lost sight of, but they are no less real.
In the summer of Earle and Opfer put up the largest business block in town, a three-story brick, 62x70 feet. In September C. Howard began the erection of a grain elevator, to have a capacity of 25, bushels, and began receiving grain Oct. Five hundred bushels were stored that day, eight hundred the next, and on the 27 th , the day the road was completed, two thousand, and the elevator was filled before the side-track was in readiness to ship it.
Minert and H. Opfer erected another elevator that fall. The following summer many substantial brick stores were erected, as well as a great many dwellings; and building has been active ever since.
The forty acres grated by G. Shattuck was actually surveyed in May, ; and in the fall was platted, which original plat was admitted to record Dec. And M. Pottle, S. Miller, D. Doe, and I. Hedge, and admitted to record Sept. Hersey, May 27, , or immediately following the advent of the railroad. The town has never become incorporated, although the attempt was twice made. The first election for this purpose was held Feb.
The question was a second time submitted to a vote Oct. The population of the village is now, , estimated at about 1, In , it was about Some have supposed, however, that it was in honor of another chief, Wachon-Decorah, after whom Decorah was named, and which we find translated in some places as "The White Crow," the prefix "Wachon," or "Wakon," apparently being a distinguishing title of greatness or power. He had lost an eye, and was usually known as "One-eyed Decori," his name being variously spelled in those days, other forms being "Decorrie," "De-Kauray," "De-Corie," "Decoria," "Decare," and "Decorra.
As the Sioux and Winnebagoes are both branches of the great Dakota family it is natural this term should have similar significance with each. Jonathan Carver in gave his name to a cave of amazing depth near St. Anthony, which he writes was called by the Indians, "Wakon-tubi," or "Wakan-tipi. From all of which it would seem that among the Indians the term from which Waukon is derived originally signified something great and powerful, or supernatural. For some of the above facts we are indebted to A.
May, who unearthed them from the archives of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. In the Lansing Intelligencer , July , a visit from the venerable chief "Wawkon," is recorded, he having encamped near town with over one hundred of his braves.
He was then described as being over one hundred years old, and as having "a white head and scarred face. He is physically a fine specimen of the red man, standing five feet eleven inches in his moccasins, slim and straight as an arrow, with broad shoulders and deep chest. Our townsman, G. Hays, who was in business in Lansing thirty years since, while in that city within the past year was accosted by an old Indian who recognized him and introduced himself as "John Waukon.
A postoffice was first established at Waukon in the early fall of , with Scott Shattuck as postmaster. He was succeeded by L. Woodcock, and he by W. Armstrong was appointed. The latter served but a year or two, having met with the misfortune of finding one morning that the valuables in his office had disappeared during the night. The brunt of this misfortune fell upon his bondsmen, as he departed from the county; and he was succeeded by one H. Stroud was postmaster but a short time, and was followed by E.
Babitt, who in turn was succeeded by L. Calkins, in , who held the office during During most of his term, however, L. Bearce was his deputy, and virtually postmaster, Calkins having but little to do with the office. From up to Wm. Pottle was the incumbent, and during his term, in July , it was made a money order office. Pottle died in March, In January Mrs. Stevens succeeded to the office, which she continued to hold until succeeded by the present incumbent, D.
Reed, July 1, It is now one of the ten Presidential offices in this Congressional District, and has four daily mails, vis: railroad, Lansing, Postville, Decorah; two tri-weekly; McGregor, and Lansing via Village Creek; and two semi-weekly; Dorchester and Hardin. The first school in Makee township was taught by L.
Hersey, in the winter of , in a little log house built by Azel Pratt on Makee Ridge, an almost entirely New England settlement. The following winter F. Clark taught in the same building, with such pupils as John and Hersey Pratt, Lib.
Bearce, etc. So far as we have been able to ascertain it was the first school house built in Makee township. Doe taught a school in a log hut just east of town; but the first school in Waukon was taught by L. Hatch, and we give the circumstances as we obtained them from him:. As winter approached we found ourselves with a school district duly organized, embracing several families in and about Waukon, but no school house and no teacher.
Our house aforesaid being nearly finished it was rented as a school house for the winter of , and I was employed as the teacher. Townsend, James Maxwell, and others. I had had considerable experience as a teacher, but I was never in a school made up of brighter or better pupils than those that gathered around me on long, rude benches that winter, among whom I may mention the names of Mrs. Hale, Mrs.
Adams, Mrs. Judge Granger, Mrs. We may add that this house was surrounded by a rail fence, said to have been the first fence in town of any description. Ramsdall being the carpenter. It was all in one room except cloak rooms at the north end, but later it was divided into two rooms when the school was first graded under two teachers. It was occupied by traveling panoramas, magic lantern exhibitions, etc. The earliest meetings of the religious denominations were also held there, before they were able to erect places of worship.
After the school district purchased its present school building and grounds, the old school house was sold to O. Hathaway, who in November, , moved it down onto West street, and converted it into a wagon shop, where it stands to-day, used for the same purpose by M.
We find no record of school officers previous to , in which year Moses Hancock was president; C. White, vice-president; A. Howard, secretary, and W. McFarland, treasurer. Nov 8, , the independent district of Waukon was erected, comprising all of sub-district No.
The first election of school officers of this independent district was held Nov. McFarland, president; E. Lyons, vice-president; J. Brown, secretary, and Jacob Shew, treasurer. Directors: J. Plank, one year; A. Griffith, two years, Mr. Griffith now a noted elocutionist of Chicago , and J. Pennington, three years. The independent district was formed with a view to effect a transfer of the Allamakee college building to the district, in which to establish a graded school, and in December a committee was appointed to wait upon Prof.
Loughran with that purpose. In February, , a proposition was made of Prof. Loughran was rejected, and an attempt was made to secure the new court house, then standing vacant. At the regular meeting, March 9, D. Adams was elected president; Moses Hancock, vice-president; C. Walker, secretary, and I. Hedge, treasurer. Since that year the officers of the board have been as follows:. Hersey, ; L.
Hatch, ; Martin Stone, ; C. Granger, ; John Goodykoontz, ; A. Grippen, ; H. Stilwell, ; M. Stone, ; J. Pratt, ; John Hall, , present incumbent.
Hersey, , present incumbent. Ransom, ; C. Granger, ; J. Pratt, ; A. Rodgers, ; E. Hancock, Sept. The present board of directors comprise John Hall, J. Pratt, H. Stilwell, D. Reed, M. Hendrick, and Martin Stone. In the fall of an arrangement was made where by Martin Stone was to teach the more advanced pupils of the school, in the College building, which had passed into his hands, and a similar arrangement was made the following year.
In he sold the property to Thos. Cutler, who taught the school there the following winter. In the school building was improved by putting in furnace, heating, and ventilating apparatus. Since the principals of the Waukon graded school have been: Charles F. Stevens, ; Miss Mary E. Carroll, ; J. Laugh, D. Laughran, ; D. Judson, ; S. Harper, Hall, 2d primary; Mrs. Crawford, 1 st primary. In the number of school age in the district was, males, ; females, ; total, In it is males, ; females, ; total, ; with an attendance in school of something over Allamakee College.
Armstrong, J. Plank, C. White, Walter Delafield, M. Belden, R. Bailey, Joseph Savoie, T. Goodykoontz, William S. Cooke, John Chapman and Lewis H. Clark, associated themselves together in a corporation to be known as the "Allamakee Association," to be under the supervision of the Colesburg Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, for the purpose of erecting suitable buildings for the advancement of scientific and religious learning, to be known as the Waukon Seminary.
Out of this grew the Allamakee College, an agreement being made the same year with Rev. Loughran, A. At the end of the five years the title of the property was to pass to Mr. Loughran in full ownership, being paid for by said scholarships. To carry out this plan the stockholders selected R. Haslip, L. Calkings, A. Hersey, W. That fall there were ninety pupils in attendance, the whole number of students entitled to tuition on scholarships being but forty-eight. Meanwhile Prof. Laughran had opened what was called the Waukon High School, Oct.
Church, and conducted the same successfully for three years, or until the college building was completed. During that time he was assisted by J. Loughran, G. Brock, W. Likens, Mrs. Jennie Calkins, Mrs. Jennie Loughran, and Miss Pennoyer.
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