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NASH,
W.H. is a native of New York, having been
born in that state in the year 1832. In the year 1863 he settled
in Wisconsin. Taken from The Outagamie County Pioneer Record.
NICKERSON, Lorenzo was born in
the town of Harwich, Barnstable County, MA in the year 1811 and
died in Appleton in 1894. Abbie R. Brown Nickerson was born in
the town of Bloomfield, CT July 1, 1816 and came to Appleton with
her husband in 1867. Taken from The Outagamie County Pioneer
Record.
NIELAND, John James, (Civil War)
who is operating a tract of 135 acres
in Grand chute township as a general and dairy farm is one of
this section's good, practical agriculturalists. He was born in
Greenville township, Outagamie county, Wisconsin, August 15, 1871
and is a son of John and Rachael (Burr) Nieland, natives of
Germany, the father born in Mecklenburg, September 15, 1834 and
the mother in Preisen, September 17, 1834. John Nieland came to
the United States with his parents in 1857 and located at
Manitowoc, where Mr. Nieland worked in a sawmill until the family
removed to Dale township, Outagamie county and located on a forty-acre
farm. He worked for farmers in this vicinity until his
enlistment, in August 1862, in Company I, Thirty-second Regiment,
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and with this organization he
served two years and ten months, being mustered out of the
service at Washington, D.C. Mr. Nieland had an excellent war
record and was never wounded nor confined to the hospital. He had
married in May, 1862 before going to the front and after his
services were completed he returned to his home and soon
thereafter settled on a farm in Greenville township, on which he
remained about nine years. He eventually sold this and bought a
farm in Dale township and on this 81 acre tract he continued to
live 21 years, when he sold out and retuired to Appleton, where
he now lives in his residence at No. 1265 Oneida Street. Mrs.
Nieland died November 5, 1909. They were the parents of 7
children: Ernest and John, who are deceased; Carrie, wife of
William Schroeder of Greenville township, a farmer; Henry,
married, a resident of South Division Street, Appleton; John
James, married, a resident of Maple Street, Appleton and
Frederick, who lives with his father. John James Nieland received
his education in school district No. 2, Dale township and at the
age of 20 years took charge of the homestead farm, which he
conducted for four years. He then engaged in a sawmill business
at Hartland, Shawano county for about two years, when a
disastrous fire destroyed his plant, and during the next eight
years worked for others, trying to recuperate his losses. At the
end of this peiord Mr. Nieland rented a farm in Grand Chute
township for about 5 years, since which time he has operated his
present 135 acre tract as a general and a dairy farm. He keeps a
number of fine dairy cattle, and his property is fitted with a
full complement of up-to-date equipments. He has given his entire
attention to his farming operations and is now considered one of
Grand Chute's substantial agriculturalists. Mr. Nieland is
fraternally connected with the Modern Woodmen at Appleton. On
September 16, 1896 Mr. Nieland was united in marriage with Miss
Anna Haefs, who was born December 27, 1877 in Kewanee county,
Wisconsin, daughter of Herman and Gusta (Krueger) Haefs, natives
of Pommerin, Germany, where the father was born June 1, 1855 and
the mother December 10, 1859. Mr. Haefs came to the United States
when he was 14 years of age and located at Mayville, Dodge County.
He grew to maturity on his father's rented farm in Shawano
county, where he later became a landowner and is still residing
there on a farm, although he has practicaly retired from farming
activities. Mr. and Mrs. Haefs had a family of children as
follows: Anna, who married Mr. Nieland; Charles, a farmer of
Montana, Hulda, who married Frank Hiller, a farmer of Hartland
township; Shawano County; August, a lumber grader of Gresham,
Wisconsin, Mary, who married Peter Hoppensberger, a watchman in
the paper mill at Combined Locks; Benjamin, a tinner of Bondwell,
Shawano county; Elmer, who resides in Gresham and one who died in
infancy. To Mr. and Mrs. Neiland there have been born five
children; Hazel Myrtle born August 24, 1897; Chester Harold, born
November 17, 1899; Lucille Bessie, born March 24, 1905; Ivor
Charles, born December 21, 1907 and Ethel May, born May 28, 1909.
Source: History of Outagamie County.
NYE, Mary A. was born
in 1844 and came to Outagamie County in 1853. Taken from The
Outagamie County Pioneer Record.
NOLAN, John A. was born
in 1821 and came to Outagamie County in 1868. Taken from The
Outagamie County Pioneer Record.
NYE, Freeman J. (Civil War) was born in
1825 and came to Outagamie County in 1854 and married Hannah A.
Pickett in 1849; she was born in 1830 and died in 1892. Children,
William F. born in 1851; Helen Eudora Rideout born in 1853;
Leonard L. born in 1855; Wallace G. born in 1858; Alice Nye Wyse
born in 1861; Irving R. born in 1867; Fred born in 1869. Married
his second wife Mary Ann Degal in 1895. F.J. Nye served in the
War of the Rebellion one year in Company F., 43rd Regiment,
Wisconsin Infantry. He settled on Section 2, T. 21, R. 15. Now
resides in Hortonville, corner of Pine and Cedar Streets. Taken
from The Outagamie County Pioneer Record.
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