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History: Easton Twp., Marathon Co., Wis. (1913)

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----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913, pg. 546 -  547.

----Township of Easton, Marathon Co., Wisconsin 1913 History

THE TOWN OF EASTON.

The town of Easton was created by the commissioners of ^larathon
county, who then constituted the county board, in the year 1861; the first
election was ordered to be held in the house of A. L. Ackley, who lived in
range 10. The town was given townships 28 and 29, north of ranges 9 and
10, and township 27, north of range 10. As now constituted it includes only
township 29, north of range 9 east.*

The first farm settlement in the present town was made by Dennis Manning
and his brother, who came there in the year 1859: there were a few
other settlers in range 10, including A. L. Ackley and John Hogarthy, and a
few Canadians who had Indian wives. Dennis Manning and brother Michael
each made a large farm and left their families in good circumstances, and one
of the sons still resides in the town.

The farms were very few and far apart for a long time, until the German
emigration set in in 1866 and the following 3'ears. Carl Rick and August
Uecker came in 1866 and Carl Sternberg, Herman Sternberg and William
Jaecks came in 1867, and the town was more and more settled by the German
emigration, which still for some years to come preferred the western to the
eastern towns, apparently for no other reason than that the western towns
were stronger settled upon.

Herman Zahrt owns a mill in this town for custom sawing. The farms
* This town was abolished in 1S65. but reestablished a few years afterwards.are now as large as in any of the towns and there is a large amount of hardwood still standing, which brings good prices now. One creamery and three cheese factories take all the milk that is produced and the output is large.
There is a large stock of registered pedigreed Holstein cows owned by Nicholas Grimm, who purchased the big farm of one Knowles, a native American who settled there at the end of the fifties. A blacksmith shop is kept by William Rollenhagen. The town is divided in five school districts, each with
a modern schoolhouse.

The German Evangelical Lutheran St. John's church was Iniilt thirty
years ago; it is a fine, large brick building where Rev. Martin Buerger, the
resident minister from the town of Wausau, conducts religious services.
 

The Zion's Church, another Evangelical Lutheran church, was built
eight or nine years ago with a parsonage, and Rev. W. Braem is the resident
minister.

A Scandinavian congregation was organized a few years ago near the
northwest corner of the town, where services according to the Lutheran rites
are held in the Scandinavian language for the settlers residing in the towns of
Hewitt, Harrison and Plover.

A Presbyterian chapel existed near the southwest corner of the town,
which has lately been purchased by a newly formed German Evangelical
Lutheran congregation, Rev. W. Braem being visiting minister.