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Street,/OSHKOSH,WIS./PHOTOGRAPHS,$1.50 PER DOZEN."
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Notes Half view portrait of Webster Stanley. Mr. Stanley is photographed sitting in a chair. He is
wearing a dark colored suit with a light colored vest, he has a checkered shirt with a dark
bowtie. Mr. Stanley is pictured later in life.
Webster Stanley (1798-1878) First white settler in what is now Oshkosh. Mr. Stanley was
born on Sept. 4, 1798, in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of George Stanley. He moved with
his father to Broome County, N. Y., in 1801, and then to Medford County, Ohio. In 1834,
He came to Green Bay, Wisconsin and worked for the Government moving supplies down
the Fox River from Green Bay to Fort Winnebago ( Portage, Wis.). Two years later he found
work in Neenah, Wisconsin, as a contractor in erecting a mill. That same year he move to
the South side of the Fox River across from the present site of Riverside Cemetery, what
was then the town of Algoma and purchased the ferry operated by James Knaggs. That
same year Webster bought 118 acres of land along the mouth of the Fox River on the
North side all the way to present Main St. Here he built a log cabin on his newly purchased
land, which is now the corner of Bowen & Lake Shore Drive. In 1842, Mr. Stanley moved
his ferry to the mouth of the Fox River near the Chicago & Northwestern R. R. bridge,
moving it to the area of present Main St. in 1847. Mr. Stanley is credited with many firsts
in the city. The first school, where six students were taught for a short period of time in his
home. The first public house in 1846, called the Brooklyn, near present day South Main St.
Stanley had lost his original claim after he failed to pay the morgage. The Stanley home
was also the site of county government until a court house was built in 1849. Webster
Stanley died while on a trip to South Dakota in 1878, near the town of Aberdeen and is
buried in Columbia Catholic Cemetery in South Dakota. Webster Stanley had three
childern with his wife Sophia Gallup Webster. Sophia Gallup Webster was born in the state
of New York, she is buried in Ellenwood Cemetery in Oshkosh, along with her daughter
Martha. The youngest was George, born 9-26-1838, the first white male born in the city of
Oshkosh. George lived in Antigo, Wisconsin where he died and is buried. Webster's older
son was named of Henry. Henry came to the Oshkosh area at the age of fourteen along
with his father. Henry left Oshkosh in the 1860's, and for a time lived in Michigan.
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