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| | History: Thorp, Clark Co., WI (1887) |
 | | Fifteen years ago the towns of Thorp and Withee, Clark County, Wis. were wooded wilderness inhabited by roving bands of Chippewa Indians and infested by wildcats, wolves, deer, bears and other wild animals upon which the Red Men preyed. |
 | | Such was the condition of affairs when in the year 1870 James Seneca Boardman moved from Minnesota and located his family in a little log cabin in the present town of Withee, then known as the town of Hixon, on a forty acre tract afterwards known as "Bugger" Goodwin's. |
 | | Many were the hardships endured by the first inhabitants of these town, struggling to earn a living while endeavoring to hew out homes for their families in the midst of these mighty hardwood forests. |
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