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CONGRATULATIONS

To The Town of Stettin
on its
Centennial Celebration
A hearty welcome to returning friends and neighbors.
You can read all about the day by day activities
of the Stettin Centennial Celebration in the
Wausau Daily Record-Herald
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Reported to be the first "real farmer settler" who
came to the present Town of Stettin was John
Artus, who had been working in the lumber mills
at Wausau for several years prior to getting the
urge to go into farming. Artus purchased 80 acres
and moved on the land in 1856 and proceeded to
hack the first real farm out of the wilderness.
However, Judge Marchetti, in writing his book,
"The History of Marathon County," records that
"This man Perley Dodge made probably one of the
first farms in Marathon County, not personally, but
with hired help. He had eight acres cleared, seeded
mainly to grass in the fifties, the farm being only
about five miles northwest from the (Single) mill."
A partner of Dodge got in some difficulty with
Benjamin Single and a shot was reportedly fired
at Single, but the trouble was never aired in court
or in public, the historian reports. However, it
broke up the partnership between Dodge and a man
named Judson, with Dodge departing and selling
the farm to an employee of the Single mill, John
Marquardt, to whom Single advanced the pur-
chase money.
John Artus -- First Farmer
Still, John Artus is believed to be the first full-
fledged farm in Stettin. In the same year in which
he arrived, 1856, there also came on the scene in
Stettin the four Buttke brothers -- Ferdinand, Carl,
Christian and William -- and their cousin, Carl
Buttke II, followed by Gottlieb Wendorf in the
next year. Also arriving in 1857 were reported to
be the brothers Kippke, Fred Kopplin, August
Weinke, Carl Haasch, F. Sager, Carl Kickbusch,
Daniel Radke, G. Kaatz, Carl Erdman, Frederick
Beilke and J. Hildensperger.
The year 1958 brought Ottmar Sauter and John
Sauter, Michael Erdman and John Loy, Sr. to the
Stettin wilderness. Also listed were John Wilberle
and M. Vogedes.
Nearly all these men --or at least their sons--
worked at times in the Single mill on the Little Rib,
which was not more than seven miles from the
farthest farm mentioned, according to Judge Mar-
chetti.
Another working man at the Single mill also be-
gan clearing land in the Town of Stettin in the
early 1850's. This man, a native of Norway, whose
name is not given, cut down nearly 15 acres of tim-
ber, but never cultivated it or lived on it. He finally
sold it after moving out of the county in the late
1850's.

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