MARQUETTE COUNTY, situated in the central part of Wisconsin. Area, --------- square miles. Seat of justice, Marquette. Pop. in 1840, 18; in 1850, 8,642. (Fanning's, 1853)
MARQUETTE, a county near the centre of Wisconsin, contains 860 square miles. It is intersected by the Neenah or Fox river, and contains a few small lakes, the largest of which is 8 miles long by 2 miles broad. The surface is partly occupied by prairies; the soil is good, and numerous farms have been improved. In 1850 the county produced 85,614 bushels of wheat; 66,197 of oats, and 5495 tons of hay. It contained 1 church, and 298 pupils attending public schools. The principal rock is sandstone. Organized in 1844. Capital, Marquette. Named in honor of M. Marquette, one of the first explorers of this region. Population, 8641. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)
MARQUETTE, County, is bounded on the north by Waushara, east by Winnebago and Fond du Lac, on the south by Dodge and Columbia, and on the west by Adams, and is 24 by 30 miles square. It was set off from Brown, December 7, 1836, and was organized and attached to Brown, for judicial purposes, January 22, 1844. It was fully organized July 31, 1848. The bounds of the county were extended March 6, 1849. Of late the subject of the county seat has created considerable excitement, and the question is now being litigated between the villages of Dartford, on the north side of Green Lake, in the eastern portion of the county, and Marquette, on the south side of Puckawa Lake, in the southern portion of the county. The county is celebrated for its good lands, deep lakes, fine water powers, and its industrious and thrifty inhabitants. It is watered by Fox river (Neenah) and its branches. The county is attached to the twenty-third senate, to the third congressional districts, and to the third judicial circuit, and, with Waushara, constitutes two assembly districts, as follows: 1. Towns of Berlin, Brooklyn, Pleasant "Valley, Middleton, Mackford, Albany and Green Lake, in the county of Marquette, and the county of Waushara; 2. All that portion of Marquette county, being west of the range line between ranges 10 and 11 E., and the town of Marquette and Kingston, in the county of Marquette. The population in 1840 was 18; 1842, 59; 1846, 986; 1847, 2,264; including Waushara, 1850, 8,642; 237 farms, 9 manufactories, 1,747 dwellings. County Officers for 1853 and 1854: Judge, John S. Horner; Sheriff, James C. Potter; Clerk of Court, Dominic Devenna; Register of Deeds, J. Edmund Millard. (John Warren Hunt, Wisconsin Gazetteer..., Madison, 1853)