Name/Title
Fifteen page collection of early Waupun historical factsScope and Content
This is the first of fifteen pages of miscellanious notes,quotes and facts of early Waupun, When the data was collected or by whom, is not indicated. The pages are typed on non - archival paper that has discolored over the years and has become quite fargile. Found placed in a report cover, there are corrections and handwritten notes indicating this might have been someone's first draft. This page with quotes appear to be the selection that the researcher is considering.
Dedication for the Booklet
From an address by James McElroy before the Old Settlers of Waupun and vicinity, June 11, 1979
"They were not of that stripe of men who hang around the corners all day whittling dry-goods boxes and never have courage enough to get away from the end of their mothers' apron strings; but men and women who pitched their nightly tents on the broad prairie or under the spreading oaks, night after night, until they found a resting place in Waupun and the country around it where they have labored to build up and improve the place of their choice and make it what it is today, the pride of its people; men who have stood by it in clouds and sunshine watching with interest its slow but sure growth, ever firm in the belief that there was before it a bright prospect of future usefulness and prosperity."
OR
"WAUPUN'S first settlers were iron-souled and true-hearted men. They came to the banks of the west branch of Rock River determined to cut their way through the wilderness and make unto themselves pleasant homes -and they succeeded. They had a mission and they nobly performed it.
They did their work roughly, yet they did it for all time. There is a sort of romance in their history that fascinates; there is a kind of rustic simplicity connected with them that is truly poetic. Behind them were the homes they had left, the waterfalls that danced to their childish music, and the hills that echoed back their playful shouts. Before them was the wilderness, dark and gloomy, standing in all its solemnity." Written by an unnamed pioneer in 1857.Acquisition
Accession
2016.0083Source or Donor
Waupun Historical SocietyAcquisition Method
Collected by Staff