Marquette County
Established: 1836
County Seat: Montello
Parent: Marquette District
* Records before the establishment of the county may be in the parent records.
Neighboring Counties
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From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
MARQUETTE.--Population 14,824.
pg. 83-84
Named after the first voyager of the Fox River, who gave the name to the place now occupied by the village of St. Marie. It has not been settled a great length of time, but is fast gathering together the signs of thrift and population. There is still much good land not occupied. It is of excellent quality, and has near communication to market. The Fox is navigated by steamboats to Berlin, to which place the Milwaukee and Horicon Rail Road is rapidly hastening. It is a County well watered, consisting mainly of openings, the soil rich, the inhabitants enterprising, and the County beautiful.
Marquette has increased very rapidly since 1850. It then had 8,642, and has had the whole of Waupacca County taken from it. The Horicon Rail Road, soon to be opened to Berlin, will give the whole County a new impetus, and must render Berlin a center for a large and productive region.
Montello, on the Fox, at the mouth of the Montello River, and Dartford, at the outlet of Green Lake, are both thriving places.
General Genealogy and History Links
This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.
- USGenWeb Archives - Marquette County - US GenWebArchives -
- WIGenWeb - Genealogy and History Information Part of the WIGenWeb -
Vital Records
Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1864
Deaths 1876
Marriages 1863
Marquette Register of Deeds:
77 W Park St.
P.O. Box 236
Montello, WI 53949-0236
Telephone: (600) 297-9132
Cemetery and Obituary Links
- Tombstone Photograph Pages Marquette County - Marquette County Wisconsin Cemetery pages with photos of select tombstones. -
Court Records - Naturalization and Probate
- Naturalizations and Declaration of Intent Index for Marquette County - Naturalizations and Declaration of Intent Index for Marquette County Minimal Cost to order -
Census Links
Censuses contain valuable information about families. This section contains links to transcribed censuses, census indexes or census images for the county.
Residents of the County
This section contains links to family tree websites, biographies and information about individuals that lived in the county.
Area History
This section contains links of published histories and historical information about the county, its villages, cities or towns. Sometimes within these histories is information about founders, or other people that settled in the area. It may also include ethnic or religious histories of the communities.
Maps and Atlases
Military
Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources
- Newspapers in Marquette County - List of county newspaper publications listed at the Library of Congress -
