Lisbon Village (part 5 of 5)

Part 5 of 5 of the account of this town in The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880. 424 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.

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What Waukesha, Tillage Contained In 1865

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Reproduced complete and unedited from The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.

" I may now state, for the benefit of those who read this brief outline, that it is not written for the purpose of ' setting off ' anything connected with the village or surrounding country in an exaggerated or false light, but as a bona-fide exhibit of everything spoken of. Genuine beauty requires no paint to make it more lovely ; so the concentration of art, industry and talent in local and socialized forms will still vindicate their worth and establish their just supremacy over indolence, thriftlessness, . or a want of mechanical skill in any department of business. I might add that the growth of farms, in agricultural fertility, stock and general good husbandry, is the basis \ of support for all towns and villages in the West ; that the country surrounding our village gives its yearly solution by the increasing yield of grain, stock and produce of all kinds, garnered by the husbandman, that our farmers are getting rich, as their barns and spacious residences give some faint token, if compared with those of six or seven years ago. Very few have got the restless spirit of ' moving ' in their minds, so common in the West ; they are generally satisfied that they have found the farmers' El Dorado, and mean to dig and plow, and drag and hoe, and find not the fool's ' mica, ' but the substantial reward that agriculture invariably throws into the lap of industry. ' The first creditor is certainly the plow,' and it is the basis of our wealth in this new country. If it is not carried on with vigor and success, the artizan's hammer will lie unemployed upon the bench - the merchant will find no business to transact in his counting-room - and the vessels that now traverse our lakes freighted with merchandise will lie with their keels rotting in the stagnant waters of our harbors. "

What Waukesha, Tillage Contained In 1865

Wauke»ha has seventeen dealers in groceries, viz. : H. W. Stone, J. A. Dunbar, Wm. H. Boyle, Chas. Cork, Buckner & Lawrence, A. Harrison, John Gr. Eisman, Tyler Brothers, Jameson & James, C. S. Hawley, 0. Jackson, Charles Stein & Bro., I. M. White, Isaac Coller, Patrick Murphy, John W. Fallon, Thomas Bigwood.

Carpenters and Joiners, sixteen, viz . : M. S. & C. S. Hartwell, W. P. Babcock, J. F. Pefi"er, Chas Zimmermann, L. L. Hill, Wm. Phelps, Richard Hill, Conrad Komet, S. Raynor, A. Blank, Robert Beggs, A. C. Billings, J. Vreeland, Silas Ware, D. Kelly and Wm. Schumaker.

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Text from The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.