Schrage Brothers

 

Appleton Post-Crescent, August 23, 1937 

This human interest story from 1937 caught my eye.  All four brothers were born even before Menasha incorporated as a city in 1874.  Oh, the history these four experienced from Menasha's earliest days as a village!   I can only imagine the stories they could have told us. 

Of course, they were not the only ones- many other people had lives over such a busy time period, people who had experienced the same technological advances from horse and buggy days to the most modern transportation available, to include flight. Quite often, you find similar stories, about a World War I veteran still living for instance, or a Civil War widow still collecting a pension.  But thinking about these four from the Menasha historical perspective, it boggles my mind to consider all they had seen in our town. 

Whether the Schlage brothers met again in 10 years is unknown, but if they did, they would have had even more history under their belts as it would have been post-World War II. From blacksmith shops to the atomic bomb.  What a ride.