COLBY, WISCONSIN

CENTENNIAL

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Transcribed by: Robert Lipprandt.

Surnames

Chapters

 

[A] [B] [BE] [BL] [BR] [BU] [C] [D] [E] [F] [FL] [G] [GR] [H] [HI] [I] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [RI] [RO] [S] [SC] [SCHO] [SE] [SI] [SO] [ST] [SU] [T] [U] [V] [W] [WI] [Y] [Z]

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

Schools Page Photographs

Notes

Basketball Team - 1911 88 Yes Frank Goeltz, Ben Meyer, Max Walthers, Kyle Pinney, Ervin
      Eggebrecht, Herbert Kuents, Arthur Stadmueller and Vernon
      Crammer
Basketball Team - Girls - 1922-23 90 Yes Adelia (Weix) Grambort, Walter Kopplin, Lois Cook, Inez Cook,
      Helen Mantor and Margaret (Will) Steinwand
Cherokee School 105   Closed in 1946
Colby district school building 88 Yes Located in town of Hull, Marathon County, Teachers: Fannie
      Burton, Laura Gotchy and Carrie Vandercook. School board:
      Andrew Flaig, Sam Shafer and R. B. Salter
Colby Free High School 91 Yes Graduation Announcement: Niels Gunnuf Peterson,
      George Marquis Ouimette, Angus Edgar Lamont Jr., Mary
      Zassenhaus, Myrtl Elsie Gray, Adella Julia Davis, Ouida Jane
      Quimette, Birdie Adaline (Dickinson) Brehm, surnames:
      Enright, Cole, Slater, Kugle, Lamont, Peterson, Jackson,
      Quimette, Mohr, Shafer, Grimes, Sims, Clark and Booth
Colby Grade School 90 Yes Katheryn Phiippi, Martha Lorfeldt, Freda Bleichroth, Nina Fern
      Cole, Dora Strathman, Lizzie Weidenhoeft, Hannah Wallner,
      Olive Tesmer, Belle Marsh, Eva Philpot, Hildur Larson, Hilda
      Miller, Tonia Grambort, Martha Panke, Viola Minchell, Esther
      Rosine, Florence Shafer, Winnie Holtzhausen, Annie Tesmer,
      Hilda Helsten, Bob Harvey, Herman Neumeister, Herman Tesmer,
      Herb Kuentz, Paul Becker, Charlie Pratt, Charlie LaVigne,
      Roy Haugner, Lee Merritt, John Salter, R. Haugner, Delbert
      Young, August Lindner, Nelson Fuller, Paul Kobs, Leslie
      Minchell, Louis Peterson. Not present: George Kobs, Eddie
      Henkel and Wallace Henkel
Colby High School Building 88 Yes Principal Prof. Sims, School board members: J. D. Wicker,
      H. J. Blanchard and Andrew Flaig
Colby High School 88 Yes Erected in 1906
Colby High School 88 Yes Present
Football team, first 69   1899
Football team - 1900 90 Yes Frank Kadonsky, Walt Distelhorst, Melvin Merritt, Fred M. Jackson,
      Wm. McMonigal, Alvin Foster, Judd Jarvis, Emily Dallenbach,
      R. G. (Dick) Salter, George Blanchard, Earl Lamont, Frank Meyer,
      Wilfred LaBossier and Oscar Thompson
Graduating Announcement (1898 Colby Free High School) 91 Yes See Poems-Poetry-Proclamations-Certificates
High School 42   Prof. J. F. Sims
Joint District #1, Hull & Colby 41   Miss Della White, Principal and Miss Florence Moores, Primary
New school and addition 88 Yes  
Riverside School 105   Closed in 1962
       


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