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Note: From: "Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin" Edited by John M. Ware 1917.
WILLIAM W. PACE is one of the men who have witnessed practically the entire development of Waupaca County from the time it was a wilderness, and is now living in honorable retirement at his home in Mukwa Township. He was a Union soldier during the Civil war, also had his share of fighting Indians, and has spent the business years of his life as a farmer, lumberman, mill man and in other occupations.
He was born in Corning, Steuben County, New York, October 14, 1840, and has already passed the age of three-quarters of a century. His father, M. J. Pace, was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and married Caroline Gorton, a native of Corning, Steuben County, New York. Grandfather John Pace was a native of Netherlands, and after coming to this country followed farming in New Jersey and lived to a good old age. The name of his wife was Mary Welch.
M. J. Pace grew up in New Jersey, attended some of the old fashioned subscription schools, and for about thirty years followed the grocery business in Corning, New York. While living there he served two terms as sheriff of Steuben County.
It was in 1853 that the Pace family came out to the new State of Wisconsin. They first located in Fond du Lac, but the following year moved to the old Mukwa village in Waupaca County. There M. J. Pace put up the first steam sawmill in all that locality, and continued to operate the mill, utilizing local timber, for four years. After that he continued in the lumber business at different locations until about 1879, and his death occurred in 1881. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Church. Their children were: Martha, Mary, John, William W., Michael and Caroline.
About thirteen or fourteen years of age when the family came to Waupaca County, William W. Pace even then took some share in the activities which were common to this pioneer community. He had attended school in his native town of Corning, and in Wisconsin he also was in school at Taycheeda in Fond du Lac County and finished with a term or two at Mukwa.
On January 4, 1864, Mr. Pace enlisted in Company L of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry. Most of his service was on scout duty in the states of Missouri and Kansas and on the western plains protecting the settlements against the Indians. He remained in the army until after the close of the Civil war and was given his honorable discharge in November, 1865. Returning to Mukwa Township he followed a very busy and active career until his retirement a few years ago. For about fourteen years he spent the greater part of every season in the lumber woods and driving logs on the river, then settled down to the quieter vocation of farming in Mukwa Township, and gave his personal supervision to his place for some fourteen or fifteen years. Mr. Pace has lived practically retired for the past ten years.

He married Maranda Potter. They have one adopted child, Nettie, who married Eleazer Dexter. Mr. Dexter died February 25, 1915, leaving two children, Caroline and James. Mrs. Pace is a member of the Methodist Church and Mrs. Dexter belongs to the Baptist denomination. In politics Mr. Pace is a democrat, is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and in the course of his long life has had many varied experiences and is now considered the oldest living pioneer in Mukwa Township.

Source: (Name)
Title: Life & Times of Samuel Gorton
Author: Adelos Gorton
Publication: Philadelphia: George S. Ferguson Co., 1907
Call number: R929.2 G675
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: Census
Media: Census
Page: 1880-WI, Waupaca, Mukwa

Death: 21 FEB 1925 Mukwa, Waupaca, WI

Burial: 23 FEB 1925 Floral Hill Cemetery, New London, Waupaca Co, WI

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Potter, Emily Mary (b. 6 JUL 1844, d. 19 FEB 1929)

Death: 19 FEB 1929 New London, Waupaca, WI

Burial: Floral Hill Cemetery, New London, WI

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Buttolph, Ransom M. (b. NOV 1824, d. 8 APR 1907)

Death: 8 APR 1907 New London, Waupaca, WI

Burial: Floral Hill Cemetery, New London, WI

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Buttolph, Flora (b. 27 FEB 1882, d. 4 MAY 1962)

Death: 4 MAY 1962 Waupaca Co., WI

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Potter, Samuel (b. 1757, d. 6 MAR 1846)

Source: (Name)
Title: IGI
Media: Other
Page: AFN: 1R9Q-FFH

Death: 6 MAR 1846 MA

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Ricketson, Deborah (b. 11 JUL 1762, d. 1839)

Death: 1839

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Ricketson, John (b. , d. ?)

Source: (Name)
Title: IGI
Media: Other
Page: 455164

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Howard, Martha (b. BET 1798 AND 1810, d. BEF 1838)

Death: BEF 1838 NY

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Miles, Alfred (b. 1798, d. 12 AUG 1837)

Source: (Name)
Title: IGI
Media: Other
Page: AFN: 955V-BG

Source: (Name)
Title: Census
Media: Census
Page: 1830-NY, Cortland, Homer
Data:
Text: Besides his wife and 2 daughters under 5, there is also another male 15-20 living in the household - too old to be a son.