THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

September 23, 1904

 

 

            J. H. Chamberlain of Kaukauna was in Waupaca a week ago staying over Sunday, a guest of his aunt, Mrs. W. J. Chamberlain.  Mr. Chamberlain’s father, J. D. Chamberlain, who died at Eureka in 1884 or ’85, was with his brother the late W. J. Chamberlain early pioneers in Dayton, the early home being in what is known as Pleasant Valley, not far from Phineas L. Munger’s home.  J. D. was orderly sergeant in Capt. McGregor’s Co. A., 42^nd Wisconsin during the war for the Union.  He says since his father’s death he and his aged mother moved from Eureka to Kaukauna and for a number of years he has been on the local staff of the Times, also correspondent for the Milwaukee Sentinel.  That it has been a good many years since he has been here.   He says the last time he saw the Chain of Lakes his uncle and Charley Churchill owned the Greenwood Park Hotel and six cottages, the hotel being now Marden Hall and the cottages are used by old veterans and their wives, all being now a very small part of the wonderful State Veterans’ Home.  Mr. Chamberlain says he visited his old home, or in other words Pleasant Valley, where his early boyhood days were passed after moving from Maine about fifty years ago being about fourteen years old at the time, and he had not been there in thirty years.  He was favorably impressed with the city, the Home, the lakes, and the country, and says he never dreamed that so many wonderful changes could take place in and around old Waupaca.  He secured a number of photos of scenes and changes hereabouts and says he may use some of them in his newspaper correspondence later.