Reedsburg High School - Gleaner Yearbook (Reedsburg, WI)

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A. B. Olson Superintendent M A KG A R BT H A B K KM A N N Latin and German Faculty Coka M. Bomiku History W. K. Sikwert Science May Metcalfe English Almira Ward Mathematics Minnie b Rector Commercial Branches Marian II. Patterson Civics and Asst, in Commercial Branches

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The Editorial Staff MILTON HULBUKT JOSEPH CARROLL LOYAL CLARIDGE PHILIP SCHWEKE RALPH KORDENAT HAROLD KLEEBER MARLOWE SNYDER CAECILIA THIEMANN FRIEDA MEYER RUTH STOLTE ESTHER BROWN MARION GAHAGAN GLEN MILLER

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A Brief History In the spring of 1845, two men bade farewell to their loved ones in the little city of Xenia, Ohio, and started with a four horse team on a journey thru the wilderness and over the plains towards the west, in quest of better land. Winding their way over the little used trails, the men came thru the Narrows of the Baraboo, and after another day's journey they emerged from the hills out upon a Hat prairie, dotted here and there by the wigwams of the Winnebago Indians, groves of massive pines, and whose fertile sand was lapped by the clear water of the Baraboo. The wanderers discovered that the river had a rock bottom, and at the place where the railroad bridge now stands, they crossed the narrow ford and proceeded. Standing on the knoll where the present grandstand is both men were spell bound by the beauty of the land, and there it was that James W. Babb, the first white settler in Keedsburg, with a cry of joy stuck his pole into the ground and said, “Kirkpatrick, here is the place where I stick my stake.” The men now proceeded to stake out their claim and build their home. In the fall after its completion, and leaving all his belongings with the Indians, Mr. Babb went back to Xenia for his wife. In 1Mb, he returned with his two sons and Stern Baker and wife. The journey was of Reedsburg made in one six horse team and one two horse team which was driven from Ohio to Wisconsin by a woman. The country was wild and dreary. Bears and deer were plentiful. The nearest railroad station was 120 miles away. The nearest white neighbor to the Bab s was Don Carlos Berry, who in 1 44 had discovered copper in the land surrounding Copper Creek, and had there put up his Coppermine. The copper ore from this mine was hauled by teams of oxen to Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Prom this time until the town of Reedsburg was established in 1 50, the population increased to 114 persons. During this period, David ( Reed settled on this side of the Baraboo, and it was for him our city was named Reedsburg. He built a dam and a saw mill where our woolen mill now is. In 1 4 . the famous Shanty Row” was built. At this time the land about t ’e river was so marshy that one could actually catch sunfish where W A Stolte’s office in the Big Store now is. So Shanty Row ' faced a mire in which many a person was often to have been caught and been compelled to measure his length in a pleasant plaster of mud. In 1849 the first resident min istcr, James Saxby, a Congregationalism came to Reedsburg and largely due to his efforts the first tabernacle was buil. in 1 55. His daughter Amanda opened t .e first