Community icon Joe Marchese dies at 84 Former county supervisor, Lisbon firefighter By PETER ABBOTT Posted: Living Sussex Sun, Aug. 31, 2010 Town of Lisbon Veteran civic activist and local businessman Joseph “Joe” Marchese of Lisbon, 84, died last Wednesday, Aug. 18. Marchese served on the Waukesha County Board for 26 years, from 1982-2008, and owned Marchese Danceland in… Read more »
Lawler signed Sussex incorporation by Fred H. Keller Living Sussex Sun, Posted: May 21, 2013 Dr. George W. Lawler was an imposing, important person in old Sussex and Lisbon. From about 1910-32, he was the community doctor. However, his big claim to importance was his signing the 1924 incorporation of Sussex as a village, along with 15 other Sussex-Templeton men…. Read more »
Vincent Galbavy II and the United Stone Corporation quarry Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 03/03/2005 Information source – Sussex Sun, issue Tuesday,Oct. 3, 2000, article ” Stone cutting was an art for Galbavy” by FredKeller (?) Vincent Galbavy II was born on Sept.5, 1929 in the Fussville-Lannon area (?) of the Town of Menomonee… Read more »
Sussex-Lannon quarryman J. Dale Dawson dies at 83 One of the great stone barons of Sussex and Lannon, J. Dale Dawson, died Saturday, July 5, 2008, at age 83. By FRED H KELLER Sussex Sun, Posted: July 9, 2008 One of the great stone barons of Sussex and Lannon, J. Dale Dawson, died Saturday, July 5, 2008, at age 83…. Read more »
Charles Byron Kerr: Lisbon farmer, milk hauler by Fred H. Keller, Living Sussex Sun, Retrospect, September 1, 2009 C. B. Kerr was the common name of a prominent Lisbon farmer on Good Hope Road from before World War I to the early 1960s. Very few people knew that his proper name was Charles Byron. The Kerr farm was the old… Read more »
Fryda Family Transcribed by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 07/21/2008 WORKING Betty Fryda, Lisbon town clerk for 25 years, performed the unglamorous chore of operating the farm’s manure spreader. FRYDA FARM GOES BACK 76 YEARS by Fred H. Keller, Staff Writer, Sussex Sun, June 8, 2005 Mike Fryda graduated from St. John’s of Lannongrade school and was part of the… Read more »
Champeny Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 05/24/2009 Descendants of William Champeny Generation No. 1 1. W ILLIAM1 CHAMPENY was born 1781 in Wedmore, Somerset, England, and died Mar 1817. He married ELIZABETH NORMAN 23 Jul 1807 in St. Mary’s, Wedmore, Somerset, England. Notes for W ILLIAM CHAMPENY: Source of William and Elizabeth as parents… Read more »
David Bonham’s Life Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 09/03/2012 Also read the “David Bonham – murder trial and more” Editor’s Note: Much of what has already been published about David Bonham’s life comes from the “History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, 1880”; but, after reading the newspaper entries below about his life and the accounts of the murder… Read more »
WISCONSIN POTTERIES Redware & Stoneware Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly,copyright 1996 Last Revised 04/20/2010 Wisconsin’s potteries, particularly those at Belmont andWhitewater, rivaled Galena, Illinois, in producing redware of the highestquality. John Hammett was an active potter between 1842 and 1879.Characteristics of his colors were glazes in variations of yellow, orange, andgreen, colors also typical of… Read more »
The Town of Lisbon is a Township of approximately 30 square miles surrounding the Village of Sussex. The Town is generally rural in nature with a 1999 population of over 9,000, but there are some fifty subdivisions and one mobile home park (Willow Springs). Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 03/17/2014 History (Much of the following is… Read more »
