WELCOME TO PIERCE COUNTY, WISCONSIN
BIOGRAPHIES &
HISTORICAL SKETCHES WEB SITE
Greetings! My
name is Kathryn and I am the coordinator for the Pierce
County Wisconsin Biography
and Historical Sketches. In
May of 1997, this project was organized by Jeff Murphy,
using the established KY Biographies Project as a model.
State coordinators were sought to set up their own state
project. They were offered the system design &
tools created for the KY project, but were free to set up
their project in any way they chose. Volunteers are
needed to enter, edit, & archive the biographies for
each project. If you have biographies you would like
to donate for PIERCE COUNTY, contact me. It's
easy to submit your biographies! Just e-mail them to the
little girl below. BUT first click on this Submitting Biographies
link for instructions. If
you would like to volunteer to coordinate a county please
contact the Wisconsin State Coordinator
Linda
Pingel.
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(That's Me! Site Coordinator)
Please Note: I DO NOT live in Pierce County, so I am
unable to help you with individual research in that
County. (Please use my Query section
for that).
Some Historical Facts About
Pierce County, Wisconsin
Pierce County was previously part of St. Croix County and
was established March 14, 1853. The county seat is
Ellsworth. Pierce County got its name from Franklin
Pierce, the 11th President of the United States.
Geographically, Pierce County is situated on the west
side of the state and is bordered by Pepin,
Dunn and St. Croix Counties (See http://stcroixbios.tripod.com for
a list of biographies from that County. It
is 591 square miles in size and hosts the following towns
within it: Clifton, River Falls, Martell, Gilman, Spring
Lake, Oak Grove, Trimbelle, Ellsworth, El Paso, Prescott,
Rock Elm, Diamond Bluff, Trenton, Hartland, Salem, Union,
Isabelle and Maiden Rock. The county's first settlers
were from New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut to name
a few. There was also a large immigration of German,
Norwegian and Swedish people that settled here.
Click here to see BIG map
TIf you have a photo you
would like to send in of your ancestor/family, please do
so and it will be added by the appropriate biography.
If you would like to submit
military information, please do so and
that will be added by the appropriate biography.
If you would like YOUR e-mail
placed at the end of the biography, please indicate that
so others researching this name may contact you.
Search
This Site
Click on any letter below and
it will take you to the SURNAME page of Biographies for
that letter.(example: Click on "J" if you're
searching for "Jones").ENJOY!
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