HISTORY OF WOOD COUNTY



in Nekoosa, Sept. 22, 1894, daughter of H. Ed and Mary (Fuller) Davis. Her
father is now deceased and her mother resides in Grand Rapids Township. Of
Mr. Burt's second marriage seven children have been born, all now living.
namely:
Kenneth, Thelma, Delores, Lloyd, Marion, Margaret and Robert B. The family
home is at No. 865 Cliff Street.
   Frederick William Burt.-It is over 20 years since Frederick William Burt
passed away, but he has not been forgotten by the citizens of Wood County
as one
who in former years rendered good public service in more than one capacity.
He
was born in Newark, N. J., April 24, 1830, son of William and Elizabeth M.
(Jones)
Burt, the parents being natives of that eastern state. The father, a shoemaker
by
trade, died of cholera in New York City, in 1833, and three years later the
mother,
with three of her children, moved to St. Catherine's, Canada, where they
resided
until Frederick W. was ten years old. In the meanwhile she married again,
her
second husband being William Hubbard. The family then removed to Short
Hills, where Frederick W. remained until 1850. His education had been acquired
in a district school in New York State and in a private school at St. Catherine's.
He now engaged in farming and also set himself to learn the carpenter's trade.
After remaining in Canada until 1852, he came to Wisconsin, locating first
in Dane
County, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. Later he removed to Portage
County, but after staying there a few months, he came in the fall of 1855
to Grand
Rapids, Wood County, where for six years he followed his trade of carpenter,
ex-
cept that in 1861 he worked for awhile in the harvest fields. In September,
that
year, he enlisted at Grand Rapids in Co. G, Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry,
for service in the Civil War, but he was a soldier only six months, as on
March 28,
1862, he was discharged on account of illness contracted in the service.
He at
once returned home, and after his recovery obtained a position in the Grand
Rapids
post office as assistant postmaster, serving until 1870. He also acted as
bookkeeper
-in a general store kept. by E. L. Moshier and C. C. Compton. In 1869 Mr.
Burt
was elected clerk of the circuit court, which position he ably filled for
six years.
In January, 1875, he again became assistant postmaster, and had charge of
the
office as such until 1890, when he was appointed postmaster and in that higher
capacity served until January, 1894, when he was succeeded by E. R. Brundage.
For four years he acted as Mr. Brundage's assistant, and subsequently served
in an
assistant capacity to Peter McCamley and A. L. Fontaine, until his health
failed
in May, 1900. On July 11, 1901, he passed away, a good man gone to his reward.
Mr. Burt showed a public spirited interest in all things relating to the
welfare and
improvement of the city, whether along material or moral lines. He was a
Free
Mason, belonging to Grand Rapids Lodge No. 128, and to Forest Chapter No.
34,
R. A. M. at Stevens Point. He was also a member of Grand Rapids Lodge No.
9,
I. 0. 0. F. Mr. Burt was married at Portage City, Wis., June 17, 1855, to
Celeste
Eliza Jessey, daughter of Peter and Calista (Sampson) Jessey. Their happy
union
lasted 46 years, or until Mr. Burt's death. Mrs. Burt survived him until
July 2,
1921, when she, too, passed away. They had been the parents of seven children:
Jessie E., who married George Bampton and is now deceased; Frederick W.,
who
died at the age of two years, Harry Andrew, who is now in Spokane, Wash.;
Fred-
erick W. (second), Jr., now a resident of Wausau, Wis.; Walter Edwin, a resident
of Atlanta, Ga.; William W., superintendent of the Third Street pumping station,
Wisconsin Rapids, and Carson Otto, foreman with the Prentiss-Waber Stove
Co.,
of this city. The members of the Burt family are affiliated by membership
with
the Central Methodist Church.
   Theodore W. Brazeau, a member of the law firm of Goggins, Brazeau &
Goggins,
and formerly state senator, was born in the city of Grand Rapids, now Wisconsin
Rapids, March 12, 1873, son of Stephen and Margaret (Brady) Brazeau. His
ele-
mentary education was acquired in the grammar schools -of this city, and
he was
graduated from the high school in -1891. In 1892, after teaching for a year,
he
entered the University of Wisconsin, but before his graduation he taught
one year
in the Grand Rapids High School. He was graduated from the University in
the
class of 1898, then taught school another year, and finished his law course
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