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  History of the City of Manitowoc,
         Its Pioneers ebnd Early Industries
         Prior to 1850 %< "e < %   %< %<
  The reader will not realize what a task it is to
get information and facts concerning the early his-
tory of Manitowoc. No definite record has been
kept; no history written; all that can be obtained
in regard to the early history is from some meagre
facts which are found merely in connection with
other cities and in which Manitowoc is only men-
tioned as a stopping or resting place of the traveler
or settler who was on his way to Green Bay or
some other city. The only pioneers left, to whose
retentive memory I am indebted to a great extent
for the facts contained in this history, are Mr. P.
P. Smith, Mr. H. Hubbard and Mr. J. Edwards.
All the other pioneers have either died or left the
city. The city of Green Bay was the target for
the early settlers and Manitowoc was only men-
tioned because it lay on the old Indian trail which
led from Chicago northward to Green Bay. Mani-
towoc Rapids was settled before Manitowoc al-
though the first house was built at the latter place.
Rapids was the county seat for quite a number of
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