Adventurous Couples

July 30, 1976, Neenah-Menasha Daily Northwestern

As promised last week, this is another of those  "Pioneer Profiles" which highlight the special women who helped raise Menasha (and in this case, Neenah, as well) out of the muck of the wilderness and into the firmament of prosperity and commerce.  And they did this literally, as evidenced above, by taking railroads west from their comfortable lives in the northeast and traveling eventually by steam ship, stagecoach, and wagon into the unsettled lands around Lake Winnebago and staking their fortunes in the muddy and stump-riddled communities they joined.  In those early days, they could not have imagined the successes their families would enjoy in later years.  But persevere they did, and in the process, helped raise the cities of Neenah and Menasha out of nothing.