Waupaca County, Wisconsin - Chapter 7, 1890

Chapter 7

Meeting of the County Board at Waupaca - County Officers Required to Hold Offices at Waupaca - Scandinavia AND FaRMINGTON ORGANIZED - JUDICIAL ELECTION - County Seat Vote - Prohirition - Royalton and Caledonia Organized - Court to be Held at Mukwa - Judge Cate Elected.

At a special meeting of the County Board of Supervisors of Waupaca County, held at the Village of Waupaca, April 15, 1853, the following members were present :

A motion was carried requiring the Sheriff, Register of Deeds, Clerk of the Court, and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, to remove their several offices to the Village of Waupaca.

Towns Formed

Township 23, Range 11, and Township 23, Range 12, in the Town of Waupaca, were set off, to be aseperate town, called Scandinavia; the first town meeting to be held at the house of Hans J. Eleason.

Township 22, Range 11, was set off as a seperate town, to be known as Farniington ; the first town meeting to be held at the house of John Fisher.

Sections 35 and 36, and the e^ of the se^, and the stVi of the ne^, of Section 34, in Township 22, Range 12, were taken from the Town of Waupaca, and added to Lind.

County Seat

^^ Resolved, That in the opinion of this Board the votes cast in the several towns of this County, at the late election for County officers in said County, for the permanent location of the County seat of said County, were in accordance with the provisions of the act setting off and organizing the County of Waupaca, and for other purposes ; that said vote was in all respects according to law; that by the said vote the County seat of Waupaca County is permanently located at the Village of Waupaca, and that the action of the Board in ordering the Sheriff, Clerk of the Court, and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to hold their offices at said village, and the Circuit and County Courts to be held also at said village, is based upon the belief that such vote was legal, and that Waupaca is the County seat of Waupaca County."

The Board at that meeting accepted the proposal of the citizens of Waupaca to furnish offices for the different officers without any charge to the County.

Judicial Legislation

By legislative act of February, 1853, Waupaca County was organized for judicial purposes, and attached to the Third Circuit. The same act ordered an election, to be held on the first Tuesday in April, 1853, to elect a Sheriff, Clerk of the Court, and Register of Deeds, who were to hold their offices until January 1, 1855, and a County Judge, to hold his office until January 1, 1854.

County Judge, S. F. Ware; District Attorney, B. F.Phillips; Sheriff, W.C. Carr; Clerkof the Court, James Smiley; Register of Deeds, O. E. Dreutzer; Countv Treasurer, Seth Warner; Clerk of the

County Seat Vote

At an election held November 8, 1853, for State and County officers, the following were elected, as stated by the Board of Canvassers, November 15, at a meeting at Mukwa :

Total number of votes cast, 419. Officers elected: Member of Assembly, David Scott; County Treasurer, Simon C. Dow; Clerk of the Board, Mellen Chamberlain ; District Attorney, John Fordyce; Clerk of the Court, J. J. Jones; Sheriif, W. G. Thompson; Coroner, R. Luce; County Surveyor, A. V. Balch; Register of Deeds, James Smiley.

Town Of Royalton Set Off

At that meeting Township 22, Range 13, was set apart as a seperate town, to be called Royalton ; the first town meeting to be held at the house of O. A. Rich.

Town Of Caledonia Set Off

Township 21, Range 14, was taken from Mukwa, and made a seperate town, to be called Caledonia; the first town meeting to be held at the house of James McHugh.

^^ Resolved, That the vote taken for the permanent location of the County seat, at the general election last past, was illegal, as no point had been designated by the Legislature to be voted for, and no notice given to the different towns in said

''Resolved, That Mukwa is the County seat, and that all County officers for Waupaca County are hereby notified and required to hold their offices at said place."

It was further '* Resolved, That all action taken by the Board of Supervisors at their meeting at Waupaca, on the 15th day of April, 1853, concerning the removal of the County seat from Mukwa to Waupaca, was hasty and without due consideration, and that all acts, and resolves passed at that meeting, relative to the removal of said County seat to Waupaca are hereby rescinded."

''Resolved, That James Smiley was duly elected and qualified to the office of Clerk of the Court, at the election ordered by the Act of the Legislature, entitled ' An Act to Organize the County of Waupaca for Judicial Purposes,' in April, 1853."

Large Salaries Court To Be Held At Mukwa

'^ Resolved, That the building known as Miller's Store Building, in the Village of Mukwa, is hereby provided for the use of the Circuit and County Courts of this County, and it is hereby directed that the courts of the County hold their sessions in said building until other buildings are provided."

'^Resolved, That the Clerk of the Board is hereby directed to notify Judge Larrabee officially of the action of this Board in this matter, and inform him of the provision."