Kildare History

KINGSTON

Organized:  1876
Origin of Name: Necedah lumberman John T. Kingston
First Settlers:  P. G. Butler, H. Crawford, W. D. Reynolds, A. C. Brooks, Russ Case, John Leonard
First Church: Mather United Brethren in the 1890's
First Recorded Town Tax:  $551.86
First Town Chairman: Thomas McConnell

source: Juneau County, The First Hundred Years, published 1988


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