COLBY, WISCONSIN

CENTENNIAL

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Transcribed by: Robert Lipprandt.

 

Surnames

Chapters

 

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Area Scenes~Renditions
Banking~Pioneer
Banking~Present
Business~Pioneer
Business Ads~Present
Business History Profile
Centennial Committees
Churches

Civic Organizations~Past

Civic Organizations~Present
Colby Government

Homestead~Farm & Photographs

Military~American Legion
Military~American Legion~Aux.
Military~GAR
Military~VFW

Military~VFW Auxiliary
Poems~Poetry~Proclamations~Certificates
Schools
Townships~Marathon County
Transportation & Utilities
Unknown~unidentified

Churches Page Photographs

Notes

Baptist Church 91   Services held in Temperance Hall - 1882
Colby Methodist Episcopal Church 91 Yes 1881 Church & parsonage in photo. Trustees: D. C Bullock,
      Frank Brott, L. D. Reynolds, Wm. Penny and Chas. Mack.
      Ministers: Rev. Chas. Barker, Rev. Couch, Rev. Arthur Chalfant,
      Rev. L. W. McKibbon, Rev. James Braddick, Dr. W. J. Davidson,
      Rev. Bervie A. Scott. Others mentioned: D. C. Bullock, Frank
      Brott, L. D. Reynolds, Wm. Penny, Chas. Mack, Rev. Barker,
      Rev. Couch, Rev. Arthur Chalfant, Rev. L. W. McKibbon, B. F.
      Frasier, Eva Clouse, M. Matteson, Gertrude Darton, Mrs. Bowne,
      Mrs. Haskins, Miss Nina Fern Cole, Mrs. Vischer, O. R. Briggs,
      K. Andrews, Gust Voss, Alvin Brotherton, Dr. W. J. Davidson,
      Mr. & Mrs. Ervin Eggebrecht, Michael and Katherine Firnstahl,
      and Rev. Bervie A. Scott
First Evangelical and Reformed Church 95 Yes See Immanuel Ref./St. John's Reformed Church
First United Church of Christ 94 & 95 Yes See United CC/First Ev. & Ref./Immanuel Ref./St. John's Ref.
Immanual Reformed Church 95   See St. John's Reformed Church
Presbyterian Church 91   Organized in 1874 - Rev. Fuller
Presbyterian Church 105   Township of Hull
St. John's Evangelical Reformed Church 54 Yes Only identified person, Rev. Hartenstein - Sunday school teachers
  94 & 95   Rev. Frederick Werhahn, Rev. C. C. Hartenstein, Mr. Lorfeldt,
      Pastor Siegfried A. Schmichen, Rev. Kenneth Dix, Rev. Edwin
      Becker, Henrietta Draeger, Miss Rena Bauer, Mrs. Fred Wolk.
St. Kilian Catholic Church 92 Yes abt. 1878 Rev. Nickolas, Rev. Abb, John Joseph Murray, Father
      Schuttlehoefer, Henry Merritt, Rev. A. J. Joerres, Rev. Carl
      Weekman, Joseph Demmer, R. J. Weix, Rev. Wm. Reding,
      Frank Firnstahl, Ben Riplinger, Rev. L. J. Lang, Father Francis
      Rushman, Dr. Karl Von Newpert Sr., Paul Firnstahl Sr., Conrad
      Stetter, Matt Hinkes, Mrs. S. J. Shaefer, Miss Fannie Kugle,
      Father Schram, C. Joseph Kraus, Mary Artmann, Bernadette
      Krause
St. Mary's Catholic Church 93 Yes 1905, see St. Kilian (above)
St. Mary's Knights of Columbus 93   Robert Bodden, Andrew Kaiser, Michael Stieber, Angus Lamont,
      Eugene Makovec, Adolph Dums, Rev. John Pinion, Rev.
      Krebsbach, Frank Nikolay, Anthony Beck, Kenneth Gierl, Lee
      Bunker, Bernard Wavrunek, Edward Brehm, Paul Firnstahl,
      Ervin Meyer, Rev. Hodnik, Ray Krebbach, Marcellus Foster,
      Richard Polnazek, Fred Zassenhaus, Neil Melvin, Howard Barr,
      John Kassie and Rod Cook
St. Mary's National Catholic Soc. of Foresters 93   Lucy Kersten, Alma Harry, Anna McMonagle, Clara Bartik, Celia
      Weix, Laura Frane, Anna Nigeman, Minnie Will, Dr. Anthony
      Shemmer, Emma Welsch, Theresa Foster, Dena Sterzinger,
      Margaret Hobelspreger, Anna Gierl, Hazel Will, Caroline Thorn,
      Anna Schlimm, Gertrude Schemmer, Anna Dhein, Anna Stroiber,
      Ruth Hein, Clara Umhoefer, Toni Umhoefer, Emma Gabriele
St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church (aka North Green Grove) 95 & 96 Yes Rev. W. C. Schilling, Candidate H. Erch, Fred Marquardt,
      Aug. Lulloff, Herman Laabs, Fredrich Grambort, Heinrich
      Diedach, Justus Glenzer, Rev. H. Erch, Rev. Frank Steyer, Rev. J.
      Schutte, Rev. H. C. F. Otte, Rev. J. Fiehler, Rev. Kuring, Rev. C.
      Witshonke, Rev. Behrend, Rev. M. C. Goetsch, Rev. O. Hoffman,
      Rev. Paul T. Dietz, Rev. Richard J. Scholz, Rev. Wm. C. Grafe,
      Rev. Howard Timmerman, Rev. Jerome Walfiel, Shirley Witel,
      Bernice Miller, Erma Schultz and Eileen Hardrath.
United Church of Christ 94 & 95 Yes See First Ev. & Ref./Immanuel Ref./St. John's Ref.
United Methodist Church 91 & 92 Yes 1968 - Merger of Evangelical Bretheren & Methodist Episcopal
Zion Lutheran Church 93 & 94 Yes 1877 Rev. Schilling, Rev. W. Erck, Wm. Buchholz, Aug.
      Erdmann, Mr. Borchert, Mr. Greseke, Mr. Siebert, Rev. Otte,
      Rev. Ed. Kuring, J. Wiedenhoeft, T. Bleichroth, Carl Hertz,
      Rev. Hoffman, Rev. Pankow, Rev. Woodworth, Rev. Christian,
      Mrs. F. Greseke, C. Eder, A. Kobs, A. Pankow, O. Borchert, Mrs.
      L. List, Mrs. A Wiedenhoeft, Mrs. B. Georgas, Mrs. E. A.
      Fleischauer, Elaine Schultz, Larette Mielke, Lois Monness,
      Elaine Frome, Patricia Kilty, Jean Schultz & Arnold Krueger
       


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