WAUPACA REPUBLICAN POST

August 21, 1913

 

OTHER OLD SETTLERS.

 

           

            One of the most valuable results of the recent Homecoming is the opportunity it offered for people of this immediate community to get better acquainted.  Many old residents of Waupaca are too modest to give their own career and it is through the statements in the newspapers that facts are brought to light and that mistakes are corrected.

            Our attention has been called to the fact that J. M. Vaughn first came to Waupaca by way of Berlin and that he was closely followed by James Thomas, who wintered on the old Thomas farm southeast of Waupaca in the winter of 1849.  His son George Thomas of this city was the first male child born in the settlement, known as Waupaca in 1851.  Other similar facts on the early settlement will be welcome to space in these columns.