THE PIONEER IN THE HAMLET.6

moved to the corner of Main and Mill streets, now occupied by
the "Hotel Menasha." Charles Roeser opened a grocery store
on Tayco street near the canal. John Potter, Jr., the second
attorney, came here from Pennsylvania. In the year 1850 the
now extensive Menasha Woodenware Company had  its  very
small beginning, and Mr. Ira C. Eldridge established a furniture
factory and Capt. Joseph Keyes erected their sawmill on the
site last occupied for a sawmill by Lawson & Strange. This
same year Carlton and Cleveland B. Batchelder located here
and commenced the construction of a kiln for burning pottery
and inaugurated the extensive pottery, which, until transporta-
tion made competition too strong for them, was a great success.
They made brown stoneware of local clays with Ohio clay for a
slip. George Cameron, afterward of Oshkosh, and L. M. Taylor
began a mercantile business.
As the record of the residents in the village of Menasha is
mingled with those of the village of Winnebago Rapids (later
Neenah), the only record of actual pioneers is the tax list of
road district No. 1, which covered the territory of Menasha, ex-
cluding Neenah. As each male resident is bound to pay 75
cents poll tax, the list will be complete of citizens. This list
shows for 1850 the following names:
Armstrong & Stickel, Thomas Armstrong, Reuben Armstrong,
C. R. Alton, E. A. Alden, Henry Alden, E. A. Bates, N. Beck-
with, S. Brotherhood, Carlton Batchelder, Cleveland Batchelder,
-----Batchelder, N. Bronson, C. W. Billings, J. L. Bishop,
George Blin, U. P. Clinton, ----- Chappe, 0. P. Clinton, L. B.
Curtis, George Colburn, Charles Doty, Doane & Smith, A. F.
David, J. B. Doan, M. A. Donaldson, L. H. Donaldson, Henry
Dietzen, H. H. Ermsting, Ira Eldredge, H. B. Ellinger, Isaac
Fargo, L. Fargo, A. Foley, L. G. Floyd, Nois Fratt, George
Gillet, William  Graves, James Gambell, S. Galentine, A. H.
Hart, C. D. Haven, E. Horton, William Hughes, A. Hoeffel, A.
Hawley, P. Hansen, P. Hine, E. Hunter, Catharine Drietzen, C.
D. Haverns, I. Hough, Walkin A. Hakes, John Harbeck, John
Hale, Iviso Hale, A. Groves, N. P. Graves, Leuke Gates, 0.
Jones, William Jeffries, Daniel Jones, Joseph Keyes, C. Kimball,
John Kruger, C. S. Kimball, James Kimball, Abel Keyes, J. K.
Lush, J. P. Lockwood, Franick Lamon, Peter Lang, Clark Lang,
C. Northrup, I. M. Narricong, C. P. Northrup, S. McKuh, W. G.
McSpadam, H. Morgan, John A. McKeon, A. McKeon, D. Mc-
Ginnis, J. Montgomery, D. O'Hara, Thomas Price, Charles

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