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Letters, Postcards, Clippings
Newspaper Clipping – Webster Stanley Grave
[Note: From The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, Wisconsin August 8, 1930.]
GRAVE OF OSHKOSH place of the men of the town. It was there
PIONEER IS FOUND that the name “Oshkosh”, in honor of the
AT COLUMBIA, S.D. Menominee chieftain was chosen rather than
Athens, Osceola, or any of the others
suggested.
Final Resting Place of Webster
Stanley, the First White The Stanley family lived in the log cabin for
Man to Build Here, some years and then moved to Stanley’s
Is Discovered landing on the Wolf river. The youngest son,
George Stanley, was the first white child
The practically unmarked grave of Webster born here. He died some years ago and is
Stanley, first settler and founder of this buried at Antigo.
community, has been located in a cemetery
at Columbia, S.D. by members of the Frank Mrs. Stanley and a daughter are buried in a
Stanley family, descendants of the pioneer, plot in the northeast corner of the Ellenwood
according to information received by Arthur cemetery on the Zion road, southwest of this
P. Kannenberg, member of the Winnebago city. Webster Stanley was visiting in South
County Archeological and Historical Dakota at the time of his death and was
society. buried there.
The Frank Stanley family was in Oshkosh MAY BRING BODY HERE.
June 14 to attend the unveiling and
dedication of the marker at the corner of There had been a difference of opinion as to
Lake drive and Bowen street, approximate his burial place, but it had been supposed
site of the Webster Stanley log cabin, first that he was interred at the Columbia, S.D.,
white man’s house build on ground where cemetery. The only marker at the grave is a
later Oshkosh was to be built. board on which the name “Webster Stanley”
was scratched with a nail. The board was
The monument erected by the Archeological said to measure twelve inches wide, twenty-
and Historical society bears a tablet nine inches long, and one and one half
inscribed to the memory of the first settler inches thick.
and shows the date of 1836, when he came
here. It is proposed to bring the remains to this
city at some time in the future if the project
PLAYED IMPORTANT PART can be financed. The cemetery board has
offered a lot in Riverside cemetery to be
Stanley lived here for a number of years and used by the Winnebago County
his log cabin played an important part in the Archeological and Historical society for the
development of the community. It was used reinternment of persons prominent in the up-
as the first school and was also the meeting building of Oshkosh and the county.
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