Dli11cnnain ~ate <Senenlugicnl :§ncidy Century Family Certificate fhis Certificate is awameo I" special trbut.:: 1 r},~ 1'7ancestorts) of the doscendanl. showing I he County and lhe year of arn,al In Wisconsin· 7 'i 'T' • Pr ----~1den1 On·_:clcr SOME PIONEER FAMILIES OF WISCONSIN - An Ind·ex - Volume II A Continuing Project of the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Madison, Wisconsin Copyright ~ 1987, Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 77-11739 ISBN: 0-910255-49-0 PUBLISHED BY THE WISCONSIN STATE ICAL SOCIETY, INC. Printed in the United States of America by Hilldale Printing, Inc. 6713 Seybold Road Madison, Wisconsin The original volume in this series was dedicated "to those who have sensed the thrill of unraveling their family mystery stories and the quiet satisfaction that comes from traveling vicariously with generations of grandparents long unknown. " It was hoped it would make their searches in Wisconsin a little easier. Over the past ten years enthusiastic reports from many researchers have told us that it has indeed done so. It is in this same spirit that we offer this second volume. TABLE OF CO:NTENTS Preface to the First Volume i. Preface to the Second Volume iii. Part I The Settlers 1 - 97 and Addendum I omitted from alphabetical listing Part II The Descendants 98 - 128 and Addendum II omitted trom Contact listing Availability of Files 129 _l PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME Background of the Pioneer and Century Certificate Project Even before the impetus of the Bicentennial year and the appearance of Alex Haley's Roots, more and more people were becoming interested in genealogy. Fifty years ago, the word was apt to mean an exercise aimed at qualifying for membership in an exclusive society. Today, its meaning has broadened to accommodate an increased awareness of the value of family and national heritages. Realization has come, too, that in a time of great social change, the knowledge of these--placing the individual, as it were, in a context--can stabilize and illuminate the sense of self. This project really began in 1972 with a suggestion from Marilyn Bailey, editor of the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Newsletter. She proposed that the South Central Chapter of the Society adapt for itself a certificate program similar to one earlier undertaken by historical societies in Henry County, Indiana, and Racine County, Wisconsin. The idea was approved, and in January, 1973, South Central began issuing Century certificates to applicants who could prove their ancestors had settled at least 100 years previously in the Wisconsin counties of Dane, Rock, Green, Jefferson, and Columbia, and Pioneer certificates to those whose forebears had settled in those counties by 1850. Demand was such that, in 1974, the program was expanded to include the remaining counties of Wisconsin, with the full participation of the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, the parent organization. A total of 7,285 certificates had been issued by the termi­ nation date of the project, December 31, 1976. The question soon arose as to how to make the genealogical information thus accumulated available to the public for research. As the Bicentennial year was then approaching, it was decided to make the publication of an Index to this material a project of the Society in honor of that occasion. How to Use This Book This volume is divided into two parts. Part I lists the names and some details about the ancestors whose authenticated early residence in Wisconsin was memorialized by the issuance of either a Pioneer or Century certificate. However, this is only an index. Certificate application forms contain, in most cases, much more information than it was possible to include here. These applications are on file in the Archives of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin, and will be available to be consulted in the Manuscript Reading Room on the fourth floor. Xerox service is available for a small fee. Further to facilitate securing more information on these pioneers and their families, Part II lists the names and addresses of the people who applied for the certificates; i.e., in each case the person who sub­ mitted the original (or first authenticated) application. Reference is - i - made from Part I to Part II by means of the cO'de number in the column labeled "Contact. " Example: (in Part I): Bell, Joseph 26 Dec 1835 Ger 5 Oct 1909 Susan Roden Outagamie 318 (in Part II): 318 Virginia Bell Collard, 409 Saratoga Dr., Green Bay WI 54303 This book is not a complete record of all early Wisconsin settlers, or even of a significant percentage of them. We show only those names which came to our attention through the certificate project; i.e., those whose descendants applied for certificates. If a reader knows his ancestors settled in Wisconsin at least a hundred years ago but does not find them listed herein, it means either that (1) no one applied for a certificate claiming them as ancestors, or that (2) as in a few cases, though the claim was made, it was not verifiable in the records we accepted as proof: land purchase records, official censuses, county or state vital statistics (birth, death, or marriage registry), county histories, school or church records, etc. Not all applicants who received certificates are listed in Part II. Often one interested person in a family completed an application and ordered certificates for several members of his family. If you applied for a certificate and your ancestor's name appears in Part I, but you do not find your own name in Part II, it indicates that someone else's application reached us before yours did. We have included in the second part of the index only the first applicant's name. In all cases, information shown in Part I was taken from the application form. We often received from different applicants varying birth and death dates on their common ancestors. Since the entire project was carried out by volunteers, it was felt we could check only the record cited as proof of settlement and could not get into the time-consuming process of authenti­ cating dates or other details. We have used the spelling of all names as submitted by the applicants. Spelling was an imprecise art in times past, but if varied spellings persisted into recent years, both versions of a name are shown; e.g., Asselin/Aslan. This spelling pitfall led to a duplication, belatedly discovered, involving the following names: Minnie Jorndt is the same person as Minnie Wilhelmina Joerndt; Louis Jorndt is the same as Ludwig Joerndt; and Frederick Kluender is the same as Karl Fredrich David Kluender. These ancestors are shared by two ladies, one of whom (Kay Drissel, #444 in Part II) spelled the name Jorndt, while the other (Fern Smith, #1815 in Part II) spelled it Joerndt. There may be other inadvertent confusions such as this. For them, and for other mistakes which undoubtedly crept in, we apologize. In cases where a husband married more than once, both spouses are named in Part I of this publication only if descendants from both spouses applied for certificates. - ii - PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME This volume covers all Pioneer and Century Family certificates issued between December 31, 1976, and December 31, 1986, a total of 3,343. There are only two ancestor names from the 1977 publication duplicated in this, and these only because more complete information resulted in an almost complete change in the names. Otherwise, tt is all new material. Note, however, that the contact numbers continue on from the last number in the 1977 publication--that is, the numbers in Part II of the original applicants for all certificates. In this volume, women ancestors are listed by their maiden names if known. If unknown, they are listed only as spouses with their husbands. If a woman had a marriage prior to that to the ancestor of the applicant, that earlier husband's surname is added in parentheses if known. We have tried to use the material furnished us in what seemed the most understandable way possible. Sometimes a date of birth, for instance, would appear on the face of the application and another, different date on the pedigree chart on the reverse of the same sheet. In such cases, both dates are given in this publication. In all details except those mentioned here, specifications given in the preface to the first volume apply in this. In both these volumes, the applicant tor the first certificate issued in the name of any Pioneer or Century ancestors is the only "contact person" listed. Other descendants may later apply for certificates and have them issued showing themselves as descendants. Their application papers will be placed with the first applicant's file in the Archives Division of the State Historical Society in Madison, available for anyone to inspect. See page 129 for instructions on how to inspect these applications in the Archives. ABBREVIATIONS USED As in the first volume, the following shortened forms of certain Wisconsin counties have been used in Part I when space demanded. Other Wisconsin counties are written in full. Ashland Ash Jefferson Jeff Ozaukee Oz auk Bayfield Bay Kenosha Ken Portage Port Buffalo Buff Kewaunee Kew Richland Rich Burnett Burn La Crosse La c Sheboygan Sheb Calumet Cal Lafayette Laf Trempealeau Tremp Chippewa Chip Langlade Lang Vernon Vern Columbia Col Manitowoc Manito (formerly Bad Ax) Crawford Craw Marathon Mara Walworth Walw Douglas Doug Marquette Marq Washington Wash Fond du Lac FdL Milwaukee Milw Waukesha Wauk Green Lake Gr Lake Monroe Mon Waupaca Waup Jackson Jack Outagamie Out a Waushara Waush Winnebago Winn - iii - The same abbreviations for countries in the Old World have been used in Part I of this volume as in the first volume.