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Letters, Postcards, Clippings
Newspaper Clipping – Webster Stanley
[Note: From Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, January 8, 1880.]
Webster Stanley Gallup’s up the river as far as the present
Main street.
The first actual white settler on the present
site of the city of Oshkosh, was Webster Stanley moved his board shanty from
Stanley, whose picture is given in this Algoma to his new claim, and his own and
connection, from a photograph taken about Gallup’s family occupied it together, while
1855. [Note: No picture with this copy.] Gallup was building a log house. Henry
Webster Stanley was born in Hartford, Gallup, a son of Chester Gallup, and Mrs.
David Evans, who still live in this city are
Conn., in September, 1798. He moved with the only surviving members of Chester
his father to Broome County, N. Y., in 1801 Gallup’s family.
and subsequently to Medina County, Ohio.
In October, 1834, he became possessed of a
spirit for adventure, such as frontier life As years rolled on and the settlement grew
into a village and then a city, Webster
always affords, and came to Green Bay by Stanley grew poor in property, and the
way of the lakes. In 1836, Mr. Stanley is winter of his days saw the wealthy and the
found at work as contractor in erecting a landed enjoying the independence of a
mill at Neenah. The same year he removed
to the south side of Fox River, at what is property he was once sole possessor of, and
whose right there was none to dispute.
now known as Algoma, and bought out a
ferry, which was a small “one horse” All that can at present be learned about his is
concern, operated by a half-breed named that he had two sons one of whom lives or
Knaggs. The same year he was joined by
Chester Gallup. At that time the land south did live near Appleton, and another
somewhere in the pineries, and Webster
of the river was owned by the Government, Stanley, old and infirm was spending his
and that north of the river where Oshkosh days among them. Some two or three years
now stands was still held by the Indians. In ago Mr. Stanley was in Oshkosh, and was
August, 1836, Gov. Dodge effected a treaty
at Grand Rapids for the purchase of the land much interested in looking over a great city
where once he roamed alone among the
north of the river, and on his way home forest trees which then cover the spot.
crossed at Stanley’s ferry. He informed During that visit he called at the
Stanley of the purchase, whereupon the NORTHWESTERN office and spent some
latter lost no time in making a claim near the
mouth of the river on the north side, a spot time in looking over the machinery and
appliances, watched the type-setters at work,
which he had faith was destined for a city, and the mammoth presses revolving, and
judging from his knowledge of the water then sinking into a chair in the editorial
courses in this section. Mr. Gallup also room, he said in a rather melancholy tone:
joined him in the new movement. Gallup
took 170 acres at the very mouth of the “Time works marvelous wonders.” And, as
the writer gazed first upon the old man, as
river, and Stanley from the west line of
he sat there, and then out upon the rooftops
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