Sheboygan Town (part 2 of 2)

There is also a glove manufactory enjoying a liberal patronage, with factory on the corner of South Ninth and South Water streets. The Handknit Hosiery Company, comer Huron and North Fourteenth streets, since its establishment has increased its facilities and is established in a large brick building. The officials are: Herbert Chesebro, president and manager; L. A. Bentz, vice president; R. H. Ehaney, secretary and treasurer.

The manufacture of lime is also largely engaged in by the Sheboygan Lime Works, at their plant on the Calumet road, north of the city limits.

There are three overall and jacket manufacturing concems: A. Holman & Son, 21 18 North Fifteenth street; H. J. Holman, 1716 Calumet road; Holman Manufacturing Company, 920 Michigan avenue.

Sheboygan Cheese

Sheboygan county is noted for the excellence of its dairy products, the more particularly^ cheese. For the latter product this county has gained world-wide fame and a market ever ready and eager to secure every pound of the article made. And when one considers the popularity of the Sheboygan cheese and is told that Hiram Smith, at the time a manufacturer in a small way on his farm, had difficulty in disposing of the output of his factory a few decades since, one to the manner born swells up with pride at the present status of the county in Cheesedom and can only feel that the obtuseness of the Chicago cheese dealers of the nineteenth century surpassed all understanding indeed. Sheboygan cheese does not go begging for a market in this day and generation, but the market, practically, looks up the cheese.

At the Sheboygan fair, held in 1857, N. C. Harmon, of Lyndon, was awarded first premium on his exhibit of cheese, the first issued by the Agricultural Society. The next year John J. Smith began collecting curd and milk from his neighbors and made the first vat of cheese. Hiram Smith, of Sheboygan Fallstown, started a cheese factory in 1859, and took fifty boxes to Chicago, and after many dickerings, refusals and indifferent inspections of his product, succeeded in disposing of the lot at 8 cents per pound. This marked the beginning of the manufacture and exportation of Sheboygan cheese.

By 1875 there were upwards of forty-five cheese factories in Sheboygan county whose output aggregate^ 2fi^.6oo: ppunds. In 1900 there were about one hundred factories producing amflialiy' ^o^ct^ooo pounds. In 1912 the industry shows no diminution apd the proA^gtis^reputation and popularity is still in the ascendant. "-E^iji^n.the present^ year Oscar Damrow, of Sheboygan Falls, was made presidfent^tif *;t1i6 Sta/e Cheese Makers Association, very likely in recognition of the pJbiif foi\* the county holds as the great cheese making center of Wisconsin.

Riverside

The village of Riverside, about two miles west of the city limits, sprang into existence in 1899, when the J. M. Kohler Sons Company planted its new factory there, on land which formerly was part of a one hundred and thirtyfive acre farm, owned by N. J. Balkins. Soon thereafter a plat of the village was made by Mr. Balkins and at the present time there is a population of some 300.

On Sunday, June 13, 1909, the church of the New Lutheran Missionary congregation was dedicated by Rev. Burger of Sheboygan, and Rev. George Wildermuth, of Sheboygan Falls, assisted by Rev. Halboth, who preached <he dedicatory sermon.