Ship Sarah Sheafe

August 19, 1842

721

 DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK ---- PORT OF NEW-YORK

I, Wm Grey do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now, delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs for the district of New York, contains to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the Sarah Sheafe whereof I am Master, from Antwerp

Sworn to the Mindanshe August 1842

 before me, Mr. L. J Paris, Dr.

 list or manifest OF ALL THE Passengers taken on board the Sarah Sheafe whereof Wm Grey is Master from Antwerp, burthen Four hundred four 75/00 tons.

~~~~~~~~	Boesch	43	male	Farmer	Hesse Darmstadt
Catherine	do	35	female		“
William	do	14	male		“
Elizabeth	do	11	female		“
Johanna	do	7	female		“
Sophia	do	2	female		“
Ludwig	Puhl	26	male	Tailor	Prussia
Johanna	do	26	female		“
Peter	Diedrich	40	male	Miller	“
Barbara	do	55	female		“
Maria Elizabeth	do	16	female		“
John Peter	do	13	male		“
Maria Anna	do	10	female		“
William	Hahn	34	male	Farmer	Hesse Darmstadt
Maria Elizabeth	do	24	female		“
Jacob	do	3	male		“
Maria Elizabeth	Skald	53	female		“
Anna Ghristine	do	21	female		“
J Nicholas	do	15	male		“
Peter	do	13	male		“
John	Walden	32	male	Butcher	Prussia
Louise	do	32	female		“
Catherina	do	32	female		“
Grundich	do	6	male		“
John	do	4	male		“
John Joseph	Wexler	37	male	Carpenter	“
Maria Magdalena	do	25	female		“
Jacob	do	6	male		“
Peter	Bell	35	male	Weaver	“
Gertrude	do	32	female		“
John	Dolan	35	male	Farmer	“
Antoinette	do	33	female		“
Margi Catherina	do	9	female		“
Anna	do	2	female		“
Hubert	Giffels	55	male	Farmer	“
Margaret	do	53	female		“
Christine	do	25	female		“
Stephan	do	18	male		“
Bertrand	do	17	female		“
Johanna	do	14	female		“
Wilhelm	do	12	male		“
Peter Joseph	do	11	male		“
Margarita	do	2	female		“
Anna Maria	Jung	30	female		“
Margarita	do	2	female		“

• Occupation, 19 Aug 1842, , , , DEU. ¹⁸ Miller

• Occupation: brewer: Kankanlin, Brown, (Kaukauna, Outagamie), Wisconsin, USA. ^{19 20} Breweries

"August 4, 1933. Smoke poured forth from the Regenfuss Brewery and the aroma of beer brewing greeting the residents of Desnoyer Street for the first time since the country went dry fourteen years ago. The federal permit authorizing the Regenfuss Company to manufacture beer was granted Tuesday and no time was wasted in getting the plant in operation.

That may have been the opening of Kaukauna's last brewery, but it certainly wasn't the first. The earliest known brewer was Peter Dedrich or Diedrich who came from Holland in 1844 to what would become Kaukauna's near NE side. He lived in a log cabin on the site of the present St. Paul's Home and operated a ferry across the river at that point. In the 1850's he became known as a brewer. Diedrich Street is named for this Dutch pioneer, whose son John became a well-known Kaukauna millwright.

In the mid 1880's Adam Hilz and "Michael Kline" were reportedly Kaukauna brewers. The Klein in question may have been the same Michael Klein who emigrated from Germany in 1842 and settled as an early resident on the south side. Klein Street is named for this German pioneer. The elder Michael Klein, however, was born in 1803 and died in 1888, so it may have been his son Michael who was active as a brewer in the mid-1880's. The Klein family is also notable for their development of the dairy industry in Kaukauna, for platting "Klein's Addition" in South Kaukauna, and for developing Klein Park on the site of present LaFollette Park. (See NRHP nomination, Klein Dairy Farm, 1018 Sullivan Avenue.)

• Immigration: and submitted a Declaration of Intent to become a US Citizen, 27 Sep 1842, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. ²¹
TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN }
COUNTY OF BROWN }

Peter Diedrich

personally came before the subscriber, the Clerk of the District Court of the United States for said county, being a Court of Record, and made an oath that he was born in the Kingdom of Prussia on or about the year eighteen hundred and three that he emigrated to the United States, and landed at the Port of New York on or about the month of August in the year eighteen hundred and forty-two that it is his bona fide intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the King of Prussia whereof he is a subject.

/s/ Peter Diedrich

subscribed and sworn to the 27th }
day of September 1842 }
/s/ John Last Clerk

TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN }
COUNTY OF BROWN }

I, Charles D. Robinson, Clerk of the District Court in and for the County of Brown, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a record now in my office.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said District Court, this fifth day of October, A. D. 1847

/s/ Charles D. Robinson

• Naturalization: by the Third Judicial Court for the Territory of Wisconsin, 05 Oct 1847, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. ²²
TO THE HONORABLE THE JUDGE OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN:

The Petition of Peter Diedrich a native of The Kingdom of Prussia respectfully sheweth That your petitioner Peter Diedrich of the age of forty years or thereabouts arrived in the United States of America, to wit: at the port of New York in the State of New York on the - - - day of August A. D. 1842 and that in pursuance of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the Acts heretofore passed on that subject, "made a declaration of his intention to become a citizen, and a report and Registry of his nativity, age, allegiance, emigration and arrival in the United States, comformably to the said Act, before the Clerk of the District Court of the County of Brown, in the Territory of Wisconsin on the Twenty Seventh day of September A. D. 1842, a certificate whereof is hereunto annexed; and that he has resided within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States for five years last past, and for one year last past, within the Territory of Wisconsin; that he has never borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom whence he came, or elsewhere. He, therefore, prays he may be admitted to become a citizen of the said United States.

/s/ Peter Diedrich

Paul Fox and Michael Klein citizens of the United States, being duly sworn according to law, say, that they are well acquainted with the above named petitioner, and that, to their knowledge and belief, he has resided within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, for five years last past, and for one year last past, within the Territory of Wisconsin; that, during the same period, he had behaved himself as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same

Sworn in open Court this Fifth )/s/ Paul Fox
day of October A. D. 1847)/s/ Michael Klein
/s/ Chas D Robinson Clerk)

I Peter Diedrich the above named petitioner, do, on my solemn Oath declare, that the contents of my petition are true; that I will support the Constitution of the United States; that I do hereby renounce and relinquish any title or order of nobility to which I am or hereafter may be entitled; and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State and Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to Frederick William The King Of Prussia of whom I was before a subject.

Sworn in open Court this Fifth )
day of October A. D. 1847)/s/ Peter Diedrich
/s/ Chas D Robinson Clerk)

• Land Contract or Deed: Letter of Patent, 01 Mar 1848, Washington, District of Columbia, , USA. ²³ Pre emption
CERTIFICATE} THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
No. 4789 }
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS Peter Deiderick of Brown County, Wisconsin Territory

has deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States, a Certificate of the REGISTER OF THE
LAND OFFICE at Green Bay whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said
Peter Deiderick according to the provisions of the

Act of Congress of th: 24th of April, 1820, entitled "An Act making further provision for the sale of Public Lands," for

Lot number One (North of Fox River) of Section Twenty Three,
in Township twenty one North, of Range Eighteen East, in
the District of Lands subject to sale at Green Bay, Wisconsin
Territory, containing Thirty two acres and Eighty hundredths of an acre

according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the SURVEYOR
GENERAL, which said tract has been purchased by the said Peter Deiderick

NOW KNOW YE, that the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration of the Premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress,
in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT,
unto the said Peter Deiderick

and his heirs, the said tract above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights,
privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said Peter Deiderick
and to his heirs and assigns, forever.

IN TESTIMONY WITHEREOF, I James K Polk
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have caused these Letters to be made PATENT, and
the SEAL of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed.

GIVEN under my hand, at the CITY OF WASHINGTON, the First day of March
in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hungred and Forty Eight and of the
INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES the Seventy Second

BY THE PRESIDENT: James K Polk

By /s/ J R Stephen (?), Ast. Sec'y.

/s/ S. H Laughlin, RECORDER of the General Land Office

• Census: 1850 US, 12 Sep 1850, Kankanlin, Brown, (Kaukauna, Outagamie), Wisconsin, USA. ²⁴
| 699 | 748 | Peter Diedrick | 47 | M | Farmer | 500 | Germany |
| 699 | 748 | ~~~~~ Diedrick | 41 | F | | | Germany |
| 699 | 748 | Elizabeth Diedrick | 22 | F | | | Germany |
| 699 | 748 | John Diedrick | 20 | M | Farmer | | Germany |
| 699 | 748 | Mary A Diedrick | 18 | F | | | Germany |
| 699 | 748 | Margaret Diedrick | 13 | F | | | Germany |
| 699 | 748 | Gertrude Diedrick | 7 | F | | | Wisconsin |
| 699 | 748 | Maria Diedrick | 5 | F | | | Wisconsin |
| 699 | 748 | Joseph Diedrick | 2 | M | | | Wisconsin |

• Occupation: farmer, 12 Sep 1850, Kankanlin, Brown, (Kaukauna, Outagamie), Wisconsin, USA. ²⁴

• Organizations: History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin. Thomas Henry Ryan. Part 4, 1850, Kankanlin, Brown, (Kaukauna, Outagamie), Wisconsin, USA. ²⁵
POLITICS PREVIOUS TO 1880
In 1850, L. A. Hine, David Ward and Peter Diedrich were delegates to the Democratic County Convention from Kaukalin. There seemed then to be but three election districts of what is now Outagamie county - Kaukalin, Grand Chute and Lansing. Brown county was a member of the Third Congressional district. At this time the county was part of the First Senate district and was represented by Lemuel Goodell.

• Occupation: miller and brewer, Cir 1850, Kankanlin, Brown, (Kaukauna, Outagamie), Wisconsin, USA. ²⁶
This is the Flour and Paper Mill that was built in 1872 - It was rebuilt on the same footings as a wood frame flour/saw mill that John Stoveken owned and burned down in 1871 it was originally built in 1864-1865.

This building then burned in 1881 and again was rebuilt as most of the stone walls survived the fire. The "Foot print" and façade of the building still exists today as part of the Thilmany Paper Mill.

The location of the Mill picture that I sent is at 44 Degrees 16'52.25" and 88 deg 15'49.61" The ferry landing was about44 Deg 16'57" and 88 Deg 16'15" The ship canal that this mill is located on was built in 1851 and appears to have been cut through land that Peter Diedrich Owned

One of the early Newspaper/History book clippings mentioned about a saw mill that Peter Diedrich operated (Obviously before 1870 when Peter died). The attached picture of the Stoveken Paper and Flour mill - called the "Eagle Mill" has a wood structure to the right of the stone structure. The stone construction mill in this photo was built in 1872 which replaced a wooden Flour mill structure that was destroyed by fire in 1871. Based on the research that I have done, this lower wooden building contained the sawmill that John operated in 1865 - 1874 (When this photo was taken) The Flour, Paper and Saw mill's were totally destroyed in 1881 by a massive fire, everything was destroyed except for the stone facade walls which are still in use today. I have a copy of a first hand account of the fire that was published in the Kaukauna Times Newspaper. I do not have a date when the original flour mill and saw mill were built. However we know it was after 1850 as that was when the Canal was built, creating the island that the mill's were built on.

• Census: 1855 Wisconsin, 01 Jun 1855, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ²⁷
Heads of Families | Aggregate Population |
Amable Asline | 4 (White Male) | 3 (White Female) | 1 (Foreign Born) |
John Diedrich | 3 (White Male) | 2 (White Female) | 3 (Foreign Born) |
Peter Diedrich | 2 (White Male) | 4 (White Female) | 3 (Foreign Born) |
John Diedrich | 1 (White Male) | 2 (White Female) | 2 (Foreign Born) |
Henry Scherer | 2 (White Male) | 1 (White Female) | 2 (Foreign Born) |

• Census: 1860 US, 23 Aug 1860, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ²⁸
1714 | 1678 | Peter Diedrick | 58 | M | Farmer | 1000 | 800 | Prussia
1714 | 1678 | Anna Diedrick | 51 | F | Housewife | | | Prussia
1714 | 1678 | Margaret Diedrick | 19 | F | | | | Prussia
1714 | 1678 | Gabriel [Gertrude]| 17 | M | [F] | | | Wisconsin
1714 | 1678 | Mary Diedrick | 15 | F | | | | Wisconsin
1714 | 1678 | Joseph Diedrick | 12 | M | | | | Wisconsin

• Occupation: farmer, 23 Aug 1860, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ²⁸

• Census: 1870 US, 08 Sep 1870, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ⁷
Persons who Died during the Year ending 1st June, 1870, in the Town of Kaukauna, in the County of Outagamie, State of Wisconsin, enumerated by me, James F Driefus, Asst Marshal.

| 122 | Diedrich, Peter | 58 | M | W | Prussia | 1 | 1 | May | Farmer | Inflammation of the Bowel
| 122 | Diedrich, Mary | 19 | F | W | Wisconsin | 1 | 1 | Jany | | Consumption

• Publication: Vol. XII, No. 25, The Appleton Crescent, 17 Dec 1864, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ²⁹  
Grand Juror
Kaukauna - Math. Burns, Pet. Diedrick, St. Westcott, J. P. Shoemaker, J. Verstegen, Math. Doyle, John Snider

• Publication: The Kaukauna Sun, Illustrated Edition, 15 Dec 1886, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ³⁰
Peter Diedrich, father of our townsman, John P., was unmistakably the first German who came here to locate and make for himself and family a home. He arrived from Germany in 1843 and purchased property from a Frenchman named Mossau, and in about three years thereafter established a distillery on the river bank. This was the first concern of the kind in northern Wisconsin, and was 15x20. Among those who accompanied Mr. Diedrich with their families were: Mr. Hiens, Michael Klean, Mr. Dietzler, Mr. Paulae and ~~~ers.

• Publication: the Kaukauna Sun, 30 Mar 1905, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ³¹
HISTORICAL KAUKAUNA

Account of the City's Growth and Development -
Continued Discussion of Early Settlements - A Few Pioneers

In the preceding account given by Mr. Lawe quite a broad scope of years is comprehended. This is done to follow the trend of the narrative rather than to offer the same as a history of Kaukauna for that time. During the time, however there came here from various places, a large number of settlers and the reader's attention is asked while some of these, in most cases, ancestors of present day citizens are named.

PIONEERS

"Old Uncle Gardner," as he was familiarly known to all the pioneer settlers throughout the Northwest, came here with the Stockbridge Indians about the year 1828, and after their removal remained, conducting a tavern, where Auntie Gardner was somewhat noted for her excellent cooking and neat housekeeping. He remained here until 1850, when he removed to a new home which he had erected for himself and his good wife below Wrightstown.

In 1836 Jaques Porlier located here, settling on the south side of the river, where the Chicago and Northwestern shops now stand. He died leaving three children, James, Louis and Mary Louise. In the same year the Misses Margaret and Polly Gravelle came here, and settled opposite George Grignon, who had previously become a resident near the combined locks.

Two years later, David P. Meade, father of Mrs. George W. Lawe, Mrs. Charles A. Grignon, and Captain M. J. Meade, came to Kaukauna. He afterwards resided with Mr. Lawe and Mrs. Grignon, until his death in 1837, after a life of honorable usefulness.

The first German to venture to settle in this place was Peter Diedrich. He arrived from Germany in 1843 and purchased property from a Frenchman named Mossau, establishing three years later, a distillery on the bank of the river. The building, the first concern of its kind in northern Wisconsin was 15x20 feet in size. Others arriving here with Mr. Diedrich were Mr. Hiens, Michael Klean, M. Dietzler and Mr. Paula.

Peter Martin came about 1849 or 1850 and built and conducted a hotel on the brow of the hill, a few yards above the sulphur springs.

Joseph Lamure came here from Green Bay, where he had previously settled in the spring of 1839. He was a native of Canada, but of French ancestry. He with his family consisting of a wife and three children, William, Mary and Josephine, located on a portion of 200 acres of land purchased from Daniel Whitney. Joseph Lamure died on December 25, 1869.

In the year 1836, B. H. Beaulieu also arrived from Green Bay. He was originally from Mackinaw.

With his family, Elias Beach came here from New Jersey in 1849, and after stopping at Green Bay with E. Morrow settled on the old military road between Green Bay and Fond du Lac, the only thoroughfare in this section, at that time. For twenty-five years he was postmaster at Dundas, and died in 1883 at the age of 82
.
Col. Ebenezer Childs first came here in the capacity of builder of a large frame trading store for Augustine Grignon's in 1829. He Married Mr. Grignon's eldest daughter, and after a year returned to Green Bay to live. An incident is told in connection with Col. Childs, relative to the fact that he was reported dead in St. Louis, in 1855, of cholera. A Green Bay paper published his obituary, but discovering that it was a premature one, forwarded a paper with an apology to Mr. Childs. His reply was curt and characteristic. The colonel stated that the notice and apology were received and accepted, though he knew nothing about it, but that he knew the moment he laid eyes on it, that the report was a lie.

Antone Mossau, a Canadian Frenchman, located here in 1838, preempting the land on the north side of the river, which afterwards came into Mr. Diedrich's possession.

Ira and George Hawley moved here in 1850, with their families, from the east, and erected a sawmill. They did not remain, however.

George W. Kelso Sr., located on a farm about two miles out of town about the year 1848.

In 1851 Outagamie county was organized with six townships. The first board of supervisors assembled and organized in the hostelry of R. P. Edgarton of Appleton, April 18, 1851, and the several chairman were present as follows: Grand Chute, G. M. Robinson; Kaukauna, George W. Lawe; Lansing-afterwards, in 1853, changed to Center: Louis A. Heins; Greenville, L. E. Darling; Hortonia, J. Wakefield. Mr. Robinson was elected chairman at the board, and although the session was brief, considerable important business was transacted, business marking the birth of a new division of the commonwealth.

• Publication: the Kaukauna Times, 04 Aug 1933, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ³²
Kaukauna's first Brewers
began in 1850's

Kaukauna Breweries: A quote from the August 4, 1933 edition of the Kaukauna Times said, "Smoke poured forth from the Regenfuss Brewery and the aroma of beer brewing greeted the resjdents of Desnoyer Street for the first time since the country went dry fourteen years ago. The federal permit authorizing the Regenfuss Company to manufacture beer was granted and no time was wasted in getting the plant in operation..." Now that's dedication! That may have been the opening of Kaukauna's last brewery. but it certainly wasn't the first. The earliest known brewer was Peter Diedrich who came from Holland in 1844 to what would become Kaukauna's north east side. He lived is a log cabin on the site of the present St. Paul's Home and operated a ferry across the river at that point. In the 1850's he became known as a brewer. Diedrich Street is named for this Dutch pioneer, whose son John became a well known Kaukauna millwright.

• Publication: 1885 - 1985 Centennial edition of the Kaukauna Sun Newspaper, 1985, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ³³
Kaukauna's first Brewers began in 1850's

Kaukauna Breweries: A quote from the August 4. 1933 edition of the Kaukauna Times said. "Smoke poured forth from the Regenfuss Brewery and the aroma of beer brewing greeted the residents of Desnoyer Street for the first time since the country went dry fourteen years ago. The federal permit authorizing the Regenfuss Company to manufacture beer was granted and no time was wasted in getting the plant in operation...- Now that's dedication! That may have been the opening of Kaukauna's last brewery, but it certainly wasn't the first. The earliest known brewer was Peter Diedrich who came from Holland in 1844 to what would become Kaukauna's north east side. He lived is a log cabin on the site of the present St. Paul's Home and operated a ferry across the river at that point. In the 1850's he became known as a brewer. Diedrich Street is named for this Dutch pioneer, whose son John became a well known Kaukauna millwright. In the mid 1880's Adam Hilz and Michael Klein were reportedly Kaukauna brewers. The Kline family is notable for their development of the dairy industry in Kaukauna, for platting "Klein's Addition" in South Kaukauna, and for developing Klein Park on the site of present LaFollette Park. The Helf family became the primary brewers in Kaukauna in the 1880's and 1890's. Jacob HeIf came to Kaukauna after the first railroad boom of the 1860's, and in 1866 opened a successful brewery on the south side of Kaukauna in partnership with his brother John. By 1895 the Helf Brothers brewery employed six men and three teams of horses, manufacturing its own malt, shipping beer throughout Northeast Wisconsin, and doing a brisk trade in bottled beer. Prohibition brought the brewery business to an official halt, but as was noted earlier, the Regenfuss family planned to start up the north side brewery again in 1933. In that year however, their business was purchased by Arthur Jones and Thomas Oudenhoven, who renamed the plant "The Electric City Brewery."

• Publication: the Combined Locks website http://www.combinedlocks.org/combinedlocks/about+combined+locks/history.asp, 27 Jan 2006, Combined Locks, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ³⁴
This was the scene at present-day Combined Locks when the first white man came to the land called Ouisconsin in the 17th century. The river became the highway for the fur traders and their voyageurs; it was used by the French missionaries the Native Americans named "the Black Robes" and welcomed into their villages. Eventually, the landmark bay on the south shore of the Fox River beckoned to its first settler and got its first name--Garner's Landing.

Roland Garner (or Gardner), according to pioneer records, cleared and worked his farm on the hill in the 1830's and 1840's at the time the French from Canada were establishing homesteads in the present Town of Buchanan. These early fur traders-turned-farmers were Joseph, Charles and William LaMure, the Beaulieus and Porliers.

Then 10 German families plus a few bachelors came to the Landing to settle as a group in 1842. There were the families of John Dietzler, Peter Dietrich, Jacob Pauly, Michael Klein (or Kline), John P Heinz, PH Rausch, JP Schumacher, John Kloepfel, Anton Heuser, and the three young men, Mathias Klein, and John and Jacob Snyder.

... brought to the new country by the Reverend Theodore VandenBroek, missionary priest at La Petite Chute (Little Chute). He had worked among the Menominee people since 1836 and returned to his native land to recruit workers for the building of the canals on the river. He also saw in his journey a chance to offer freedom and the promise of a future to his fellow countrymen with the Fox River Development Company assuming all the expenses of the long journey.

Peter married Barbara Mayer about 1825 in Köln, , Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU. (Barbara Mayer was born in 1787 in Köln, , Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU ³⁵ and died about Dec 1842 in Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA ^{36 37 38}.) The cause of her death was scurvy.⁷

Peter next married Anna Maria Jung on 17 Jan 1843 in Little Chute, Brown, Wisconsin, USA.¹ (Anna Maria Jung was born about 1810 in , , , Prussia [DEU] ³⁹ and died in 1875 in Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: at St John Nepomucene Catholic Church, 17 Jan 1843, Little Chute, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. ⁴⁰

• Publication: concerning the church altar used for their wedding, 12 Mar 1925, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ⁴¹
AN HISTORIC ALTAR
Isabelle Fox

To a lover of antiquities, the story of a little white altar and its wanderings, may be an interesting one.

When the Fox River Valley was a vast wilderness, the now thriving village of Little Chute was a mere speck on the horizon of civilization, that speck, a wigwam fifteen feet long and six feet high, built by an Indian woman for the Rev. Theodore J. Vanden Brock, a priest of the Order of St. Dominick, who left Holland in the early thirties to do missionary work among the Catholic population and the Indians scattered over the country.

In 1834 he was sent into the wilds of Wisconsin, by the Bishop of Detroit, settling in Little Chute, and thus the Cross was planted in the beautiful Fox River Valley. The wigwam served as church and residence for six months, during which time Father Vanden Brock, wilth the aid of Indians, built a church the timber being secured from the forest along the river bank. The roof was of bark, a split log was used as an altar, the sacred vessels were old treasures, unearthed at Rapids des Peres, having been buried there when the missionary fathers of St. Francis Xavier church, built in 1676 by Charles Alhanel, were massacred and the church burned by Indians.

During 1838 there came to Little Chute Antoine Mosseau and his son-in-law, Ephraim St. Louis and family, natives of Canasda, Marielle, Province of Quebec. Mr. Mosseau, a carriage maker and carpenter by trade, did not like the idea of a split log being used as an altar, and conceived the idea of making for Rev. Vanden Broek and altar and tabernacle, which he fashioned from the beautiful white pine from the forest surrounding the church. With tools brought front his home it was not a difficult matter. The altar and tabernacle, painted white, with gold trimmings and cross, was the pride of Father Vanden Brock's heart during the years he served as priest in Little Chute.

After the death of Rev. Vanden Broek in 1851, a new church was built and the altar was presented to Mrs. St. Louis, daughter of Mr. Mosseau and mother of Rev. Manus St. Louis, who was stationed at Phlox, Wis., where he built a small church, carrying the lumber on his back from a nearby forest for its erection. His parents removed to Phlox from Little Chute taking the altar and tabernacle with them and where it again did service in a mission church. Later when Rev. St. Louis was removed to Green Bay, he took the altar with him, leaving the tabernacle in Phlox, where it is held sacred by the people of the parish. On being transferred from Green Bay to Iron Mountain, Mich., he gave the altar to his sister, Mrs. Alex Grignon, when it was shipped to her at her home near the Combined Locks on the steamer Evelyn. At Mrs. Grignon's death it passed into the hands of her daughter, Mrs. Michael Maher.

After the destruction fire of Holy Cross church in 1916, Mrs. Maher gave the altar to Msgr. P. J. Lochman, pastor, for use in the chapel of the school house during the erection of the present handsome structure, and on its completion the Altar was placed in the chapel of the new church--on the right of the' main altar--a sacred reminder of the hardships endured by the missionaries in the dim and distant past.

Kneeling before this quaint little altar we see in imagination the backwoods church, the priest offer-

• Photograph: (church altar), 30 Apr 2006, Stiles, Oconto, Wisconsin, USA. ⁴²
Mossau / Manseau, who owned the land in Kaukauna before Peter Diedrich was also, the craftsman who carved the first altar for Father Vandenbroek's church in Little Chute in 1837/1838.

This would have been the Altar at St. John's that Peter Diedrich and Joanna Jung were married. It is also most likely the Altar that John Stoveken Sr. and Gertrude Diedrich were married at in Kaukauna / Little Chute. Probably Scherer / Diedrich as well.

This altar seemed to have been lost after about 1930 after several well documented moves. It appears that a descendant of Manseau who I communicate with may have found the altar in a town called Stiles, WI based on a tip from an individual in Kaukauna who had a recollection of a side altar at Holy Cross being shipped to Stiles. Holy Cross was the last known positive location of the Altar.

It is very probable that the Altar was built on Manseau's property in Kaukauna that was later owned by Peter Diedrich and by John Stoveken.

Another curiosity. John Stoveken Jr and Margaret St. Mitchell were married in Phlox at the time the altar was located in Phlox by Father St. Louis who is the Grandson of Manseau. The world (at least Kaukauna and Northeastern WI) was indeed small in the mid 1800's.

[My only caveat is that the Altar has not been absolutely confirmed as being authentic (But it sure seems to match the appearance)]

• Residence: the Diedrich homestead as seen, 25 Oct 2006, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ⁴³
This view is [of the Peter Diedrich homestead location] from the opposite side of the Fox [River]. The big home on the hill is roughly the location of the original log cabin in 1842. The street directly behind the building (Wisconsin Ave) has Diedrich, Gertrude, Margaret, Maria streets intersecting.

• Publication: Kaukauna Times, P. 1, 29 Oct 1935, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ⁴⁴
H. S. Cooke Has School Deed In His Possession

Is Deed of First Schoolhouse Site in Kaukauna; Dated October 7, 1851

H. S. Cooke of this city has in his possession a highly prized document, a deed of the first schoolhouse site in the City of Kaukauna, which was drawn up on October 7, 1851, between Peter Dedrich and Anna Dedrich, his wife, parties of the first part and School District No. 2, party of the second part.

The deed was registered in the register of deeds office of Outagamie 470 and 471. A Brouillard was register of deeds at the time.

The school site was described as follows in the deed: "Beginning at the north side of the Kaukauna and Little Chute road where the section line between George W. Lawe and Peter Dedrich crosses and running parallel with the road one hundred feet, thence to the right in a north easterly direction at right angles with the road to the section line, thence on the section line to the place of the beginning."

This portion of land was given to the school district "in consideration of the sum of one dollar to them in hand paid and for the further consideration that the district shall build and complete within one year from the date of the deed a schoolhouse on the premises."

The deed was signed by Peter Dedrich and Anna Dedrich. Witnesses were Ira N. Hawley and David L. Meade, the latter justice of the peace.

Although the deed is nearly 100 years old it is well preserved and fully readable.

  Marriage Notes:

Per church marriage record Peter married Johanna Young on 17 Jan 1843


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1850 census records for Kaukalin (The original Kaukauna and parts of Brown county) This census had the Diedrick family listed as follows:

…Peter age 47, Germany
…Elizabeth age 41 Germany
…Elizabeth age 22 Germany
…John age 20 Germany
…Mary A. age 18 Germany
…Gertrude Age 7 Wisconsin
…Maria age 5 Wisconsin
…Joseph age 2 Wisconsin
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