Lisbon to vote to end Haass library agreement By Kelly Smith Posted: June 9, 2014, Living Sussex Sun Lisbon The town board is expected to formally take action next week to terminate at the end of this year the long-standing agreement with the Village of Sussex over sharing most of the operating costs of the Pauline Haass Libary. Town… Read more »
Library History – Part 1 Library History- Part 2 Library History Part 3 Library History – Part 4 Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly October 10, 2005, Last Revised 12/17/2014 Early Library History:Milwaukee County The first library was createdin 1848 by the Young Men’s (Literary) Association formed the preceding year. Itwas located in a single leased room on… Read more »
Cliff Loker, a seventh-grade student at Templeton Middle School, helped break a record Dec. 14 when he checked out the 200,000th item at the Pauline Haass Public Library in 1998. That’s a one-year record for the 10-year-old library. The library opened in January 1988 in the former Orchard Drive School in Sussex and moved into a new building just to… Read more »
Haass Library talks failing By Kelly Smith Printed Living Sussex Sun, Nov. 11, 2014 Efforts to reach an out-of-court settlement in the dispute over the Pauline Haass farm land are failing or have failed and lawyers for the town of Lisbon and the Pauline Haass Library Board are preparing to go to trial, possibly later this year or… Read more »
Lisbon Fire Department presents 2008 service awards The Fire Department honored two of it firefighters, Matthew Mertens and Jeff Drager, with its 2008 Lisbon Fire Department Chief’s Award at the department’s awards dinner Jan. 17 at Fairways of Woodside. Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Jan. 27, 2009 The Fire Department honored two of it firefighters, Matthew Mertens and Jeff Drager, with… Read more »
Sussex (Lisbon Township) Brewery History by Michael R. Reilly, editor, January 27, 2013, copyright Last updated08/16/2015 The Sussex Brewery at 36 Main Rd Emsworth PO10 8AU, United Kingdom (probably nothing like what our old brewery looked like). “Very many will remember the first turkey-shoot that came off in this town, and very likely the first in the county. In… Read more »
Sussex (Lisbon Township) Brewery History by Michael R. Reilly, editor, January 27, 2013, copyright Last updated08/16/2015 The Sussex Brewery at 36 Main Rd Emsworth PO10 8AU, United Kingdom (probably nothing like what our old brewery looked like). — “Very many will remember the first turkey-shoot that came off in this town, and very likely the first in the county…. Read more »
Alfred Wileden Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 09/16/2007 The Alfred Wileden family was photographed about 1900. This Sussex-Lisbon family has many relatives living today (Apr. 1978) in the area. Front row, L to R; Ida (Rosier), Angelica (Brown), Silvia (Kerr), and Alfred. Second Row, L to R; Charles, Grace (Stone), Horace, the oldest child and… Read more »
James Will Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 03/03/2005 Descendants of James Will Generation No. 1 1. JAMES1WILLwas born 1815 in Scotland (Source: 1880 Federal Census, Age is 64.), and died1900 (Source: Lisbon Central Cemetery headstone inscription.). He married JENETTE(JANETTE)?(Source: Lisbon Central Cemetery headstone inscription.). She was born 1831 inScotland, and died 1916. More About J AMESWILL:… Read more »
Biographical Sketches Town of Lisbon Source: “History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin”; The Western Historical Company, Chicago 1880 Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 04/20/2006 Note: The following listing also contains individuals who had ties to the Town of Lisbon but were listed under other townships in Waukesha County. Several Lannon Springs also included. See notations following… Read more »
