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Letters, Postcards, Clippings
Newspaper Clipping – Henry Stanley
[Note: From Weekly Northwestern, Sept. 5, 1903; Daily Northwestern, Aug. 24, 1903.]
First White Settlers in What is Now according to the record in a bible which
City of Oshkosh belonged to his parents, is nearly eighty-one
years of age, his birthday being September
One of Family Here Today 21. He is in the best of health and says that
he is like his father in that he has never used
One of the most interesting personages in tobacco or liquor in his life. He is active,
the parade and the whole proceedings of too, for a man of his years and his memory
today and conspicuous with his white beard is especially good as to events of the past. In
and hair was Henry Stanley of Hemansville, dates he is a little more obscure.
[MI] son of the first white settler in
Oshkosh, Webster Stanley, and brother of His eyesight is good and he does not use
George Stanley, the first white child born in glasses for any purpose, and believes there is
Oshkosh. not a man in Oshkosh who can see more
plainly than he. Within a year he has been
deer hunting and killed two deer on the run.
He says that if it were not that he froze his
legs a few years ago, he would like to run a
foot race with some young man.
His reminiscences of the early days would
fill a large book. Mr. Stanley says that his
father came to Oshkosh in in 1836. Previous
to that for several years the elder Stanley
had been a boatman and plied between Fort
Howard and Fort Winnebago. He used two
large scows each of which was manned by
nine Indians. On either side of the boat there
was a walk. Four Indians on either side
would walk this plank with pike-poles stuck
into the ground. Beginning at one end of the
boat with poles set in the ground and braced
against their shoulders they would walk the
Henry Stanley, Hermansville, Mich. plank to the end and commence over. The
ninth man steered the boat from the stern
with a steering bar. At Big Kaukauna Grand
Chute (now Appleton) and Little Chute they
would portage the boats and cargoes over
Mr. Henry Stanley who is in Oshkosh today the falls.
was fourteen years of age when he arrived
here with his father, Webster Stanley and, Mr. Stanley by his fair treatment of the
Indians, won their friendship and at the
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