Louis Nadeau

1859 - 1944  (85 years)

• Name	Louis Nadeau  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	26 Jan 1859	Kewaunee, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Census	8 Jul 1860	Kewaunee, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States   [7]
  	Barney Nedeau, age 32, farmer, real estate value 900, personal property 300, born Maine Mary Nedeau, age 25, born Belgium David Nedeau, age 3, born Wisconsin Louis Nedeau, age 2, born Wisconsin Harriet Nedeau, age 1, born Wisconsin
  Census	15 Aug 1870	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States   [8]
  	Nedeau, Barney, age 39, hotel keeper, value of real estate 1600, value of personal property 500, born Maine, parents foreign born Nedeau, Mary F., age 38, keeping house, born Belgium, parents foreign born Nedeau, David, age 12, born Wisconsin Nedeau, Louis, age, 11, born Wisconsin Nedeau, Julia, age 10, born Wisconsin Nedeau, Barney, age 7, born Wisconsin Nedeau, Louisa, age 3, born Wisconsin Nedeau, Louis, age 70, at home, born Canada Nedwau, Desange, age 80, at home, born Canada
  City Directory	1877	Bagley, Michigan   [9]
  	?b?BAGLEY?/b? A postoffice and station on the C. & N. W. Ry., in the township and county of Menominee, 32 miles north of Menominee, and an equal distance southwest of Escanaba. It was settled in 1873, and named in honor of ex-governor John J. Bagley. Population, 25. Hemlock, bark, cedar posts and venison are the principal shipments. Mail, daily. Henry G. A Wachter, postmaster. Business Directory. Nadeau, B, farmer Nadeau, David, farmer Nadeau, Louis, farmer
  Census	14 Jun 1880	Stephenson, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [10]
  	Nadau, Barney, age 49, Farmer, born Me, parents born ME Nadau, Francis, age 44, wife, keeping house, born Belgium, parents born Belgium Nadau, David, age 22, son, working on farm Nadau, Louis, age 21, son, works on farm Nadau, Julia, age 20, daughter, at home Nadau, Barney, age 15, son, at school Nadau, Louisa, age 13, daughter, at school Nadau, Joseph, age 10, son, at school Nadau, Anna, age 4, daughter (this is Lucy) Nadau, Amelia, age 2, daughter (this is Marcell Amiel) Boarders: St. Ebba, Joseph, age 27 Bellare, Edward, age 35 Gordo, Barney, age 23 Gates, Sydney, age 30 Lucryer, Peter, age 26 Moore, Dick, age 22 Lovelace, Clark, age 30 Exard, Joseph, age 31 Hugo, Emmaual, age 36 Mason, James, age 41
  Census	1884	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [11]
  	Nadeau, Barney, 53 years, born Canada East, parents born Canada East, farmer Nadeau, Julia, 42 years, wife, born Belgium, parents born Belgium, housewife Nadeau, David, 26 years, born Wisconsin, merchant Nadeau, Louis, 25 years, born Wisconsin, merchant Nadeau, Barney Jr, 19 years, born Wisconsin, merchant Nadeau, Louise, 17 years, born Wisconsin, housemaid Nadeau, Joseph 13 years, born Wisconsin Nadeau, Lucy, 8 years, born Michigan Nadeau, Marcelle, 6 years, born Michigan Nadeau, Nora, 2 years, born Michigan Jonet, Nichlas, 80 years, father, widowed, born Belgium, parents born Belgium Laveau, Peter, 48 years, boarder, single, born Canada East, laborer Caron, Elisior, 32 years, male, boarder, single, born Canada East, blacksmith Parks, James, 26 years, servant, single, born Wisconsin, laborer
  Census	1894	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [12]
  	Nadeau, Louis, age 36, born Wis Nadeau, Francis, age 30, born Mich Nadeau, Howard, age 7, born Mich Nadeau, David, age 6, born Mich Nadeau, Flora, age 5, born Mich
  Additional information	1898	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States
  	Nadeau Brother sawmill fire
  Census	1900	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [13]
  	Nadeau, Louis, born Jan 1859, age 41, born Wisconsin, father born Maine, mother born Belgium, manufacturer Nadeau, Frances, wife, born June 1863, age 36, born Michigan, father born Maine, mother born Ohio Nadeau, Howard, son, born Feb 1886 in Michigan Nadeau, David, son, born Mar 1887 in Michigan Nadeau, Louis B, son, born Apr 1895 in Michigan Nadeau, Flora, daughter, born July 1888 in Michigan
  Newspaper Article	20 Jun 1903	Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, United States   [14]
  	The Iron Post
  	The City in Brief, page 1, column 6 A valuable team of horese, owned by Nadeau Brothers of Nadeau, was run down and killed Wednesday evening by Northwestern train No. 2. It seems that the horses were in a pasture adjoining the railroad track, and in some manner strayed out upon the track. They were valued at $400.
  Occupation	1908	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States
  	Nadeau Bros store
  Census	1910	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [15]
  	Nadeau, Louis, age 51, born Wisconsin, father born Maine, mother born Beligum, store merchant Nadeau, Frances G, wife, age 46 Nadeau, Howard E, son, age 23 Nadeau, Louis B, son, age 16
  Newspaper Article	25 Apr 1910	Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, United States   [16]
  	The Escanaba Daily Mirror
  	page 4, column 2 Nadeau Mill Owner is Badly Injured Louis Nadeau, one of the most prominent men in Menominee county and a member of the county road commission, is confined to his bed as the result of a serious injury suffered while attempting to fix a shafting in his mill at Nadeau. His shoulder was caught and badly twisted, one of the bones in the shoulder joint being broken. Besides this he sustained severe bruises about the body. His injuries will keep him confined to his home for a month at least. It is regarded as fortunate that he was not more seriously hurt.
  Additional information	1911  [17]
  	Louis Nadeau - A prominent and successful manufacturer and merchant of Nadeau, Menominee county, Louis Nadeau is numbered among the wide-awake, enterprising business men who have contributed so largely towards the development of the industrial interests of this section of the Upper Peninsula, being a member of the firm of Nadeau Brothers. A son of Bruno and Mary F. (Jonet) Nadeau, he was born, January 26, 1859, in Kewaunee, Kewaunee county, Wisconsin, being of of a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of whom are living. -- As a boy and youth Louis Nadeau attended the public schools of Kewaunee, Green Bay and Marinette, Wisconsin, after which he completed his studies in Chicago, at Bryant & Stratton's Business College. He subsequently worked with his father in the woods until 1880, when, in partnership with his brother David, he took a logging contract for making charcoal, and at the same time established the mercantile business which they have since conducted. In 1886, with characteristic enterprise and forethought, Nadeau Brothers built their first saw mill, and have since erected three other saw mills. Two of their mills have been destroyed by fire, one of which they rebuilt in the summer of 1908. On January 26, 1907, this firm, which manufactures and sells Rock maple cant hook handles, hardwood charcoal, lumber of all kinds, flooring, siding and shingles, cedar posts and poles, railroad ties, etc., and carries a full line of general merchandise, assumed possession of its new store building, which is forty-eight feet by eighty-four feet, two stories in height, with a basement. It is built of stone, brick and iron, and is furnished with plate glass windows, being of modern construction and furnished with modern equipment. Mr. Nadeau married, April 6, 1885, Frances Brooks, who was born in Menominee, Michigan, a daughter of the late Josiah Brooks..... Four children have blessed this union of Mr. and Mrs. Nadeau, namely: Howard E., who was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan with the class of 1909; David, residing at Sand Point, Idaho; Flora, a junior in the University of Michigan; and Louis B. A firm adherent of the Republican party, Mr. Nadeau has served the township as supervisor, clerk and treasurer, and for the past twelve years has been a member of the board of county road commissioners.
  Newspaper Article	20 May 1914	Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, United States
  	Nadeau fire - Escanaba Morning Press
  	EXTRA! 4 o'clock a.m. __ WHOLE TOWN OF NADEAU IS BURNING UP __ Starting From Small Fire Thought Out, Entire Village May be Burned __ FIRE ENGINES COMING ___ Marinette Sending Flame Fighter to Scene on Special Train __ Through a fire that started from a small shack late last night the town of Nadeau in Menominee county is being destroyed by flames and with the already strong hold that the flames have on the village it is thought that it will be impossible to save the town. At 4 o'clock this morning the loss is: Exchange hotel, two saloons belonging to the Menominee River Brewing company, the station agents house, two store buildings and three vacant houses. Yesterday afternoon a fire was thought to be extinguished in a shack after the roof had burned off. Late last night while the village slept the fire broke anew and had gained such headway before discovered that it was impossible to check the progress of the flames. At 3 o'clock the Marinette Fire department volunteered to send a fire engine to the scene and 25 minutes later it had it aboard a special train carrying a big crew of fire fighters. Nadeau Brothers big store was still standing at 3:30 o'clock this morning, but hopes of saving the building and in fact any portion of the town had been given up. The entire population of the town is fighting the flames. The loss at this time is inestimable.
  Newspaper Article	21 May 1914	Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, United States
  	Nadeau Fire - Escanaba Morning Press
  	Escanaba Morning Press, 21 May 1914 RAIN COMES; BLAZES FALL ___ ...Appraisers yesterday placed the loses at the Nadeau fire at between $25,000 and $50,000 which is partially covered by insurance. The buildings destroyed were the G. T. Weline residence, from which nothing but Mr. Werline's library and valuable papers were saved; two saloons, all contents burned; the station agent's house; the Exchange hotel, contents destroyed; two vacant houses, two vacant store buildings and an ice house filled with a summer's supply of ice. Ten families rendered homeless. The Menominee fire fighters returned to their homes after the blaze had been stopped yesterday noon.
  Census	1920	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [18]
  	Nadeau, Louis, 60 years, born Wisconsin, father born Maine, mother born Belgium, store merchant Nadeau, Francis G, wife, 56 years, born Michigan, father born Maine, mother born Wisconsin
  Census	1930	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [19]
  	Nadeau, Louis, age 71, born Wisconsin, father born Maine, mother born Beligum, General store merchant Nadeau, Frances, wife, age 66
  Residence	1934	Seattle, King, Washington, United States   [20]
  	Louis and Frances Nadeau moved to Seattle, Washington in 1934. They lived with their daughter, Flora Nadeau.
  Additional information	17 Mar 1935  [21]
  	The following letter written by Louis Nadeau on March 17, 1935, and addressed to Gene Worth, Editor of the Menominee?i? Herald Leader?/i? was supplied to the Menominee County Historical Society by Howard E. Nadeau on March 4, 1968. The letter is as follows: Seattle Washington March 17, 1935 Mr. Gene Worth Editor Herald-Leader Menominee, Michigan Dear Gene, You suggest that I write you from my memory of the early days. I have plenty of time and am glad to do this in the hope that you shall thus be able to record a few interesting facts that might otherwise escape. My own recollections of Menominee County go back to 1871 but as Mrs. Nadeau is a daughter of J. R. Brooks I go back to mention that in 1864 he was selected to lay out the Green Bay and Bay De Noc road north from Menominee - so we have been interested in Menominee County's highways for quite a spell. In 1871 we lived in Green Bay and my father Barney Nadeau but recently discharged from service in the Civil War was employed as a foreman by a contractor named Wallace who was building the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad from Green Bay to Marinette. On October 8 the Peshtigo fire occurred. It had been a very dry year and along the latter part of the summer they had had quite a lot of trouble with fires set in the clearing the right-of-way. I remember one place south of Oconto where a large part of the grade, which was mostly peat, burned up. At the time of the Peshtigo fire father's camp was about one mile north of Peshtigo. My brother David was in the crew employed as water-boy. Their camp was on a sandy knoll just north of which there was quite a deep swamp which was ditched in making the grade. The night of the fire they saw the light and heard the roar some time before the fire neared them. Some of the men wanted to run but father convinced them it was smarter to stay where they were. The buried their bedding and most of the supplies in the deep ditches and intended lying down themselves with their faces in what little water there was with the rest of their bodies covered with sand to prevent their clothes from burning. Through on of the pranks that the fire played it split at the south end of the ridge and went both sides of them leaving unharmed only a very small area on which their camp was located. The next morning the entire crew, my father and brother, Dave, among them walked down to Peshtigo and saw many terrible sights which there is no point in repeating here. While they were in Peshtigo a call for help came from Marinette by messenger and for the next several days the entire crew fought to save that city on a circle that was established to the south of the town. In the spring of 1872 Mr. Wallace took a contract to build the main line of the C & N.W. from Menominee to Escanaba and father went with him, this time as a sub-contractor. The first job was sections 6 and 7 (near Birch Creek). The camp was built where to old State Road crossed the railroad below Birch Creek (between the Julius Theuerkauf farm buildings and the track). Our family came up from Green Bay and we all lived in the construction camps until the job was finished in December. At this time Menominee County, north of Birch Creek was practically virgin forest, except for the pine cuttings along the Menominee River and with a few minor exceptions which I will note briefly. A farm at Ingalls had been started in 1858 by Thomas Caldwell. That farm later passed to Louis Dobeas who built the first store in Ingalls in 1879. There was a small settlement near Ford River and a farm, so called, south of the railroad near Bark River may have been in this county. The clearing of the right-of-way was mostly done on a piece-work basis in one hundred foot units and much of the grading was done by hand. In the swamps the grade was shovelled up by hand from the ditches - some used wheelbarrows and planks. It was only in the large cuts that work was done with teams with scrapers and wagons. Father's next job was section 13 (near Wallace) and then he went to Section 39 and 40 (just south of Powers) and built his camp at about the location of the old Sterling house east of the track at Kloman just above the present school house and which was removed in the building of the County Road. This job wasn't finished until December and fires were kept in the cold nights to keep the ground from freezing. In the swamp which is now the lower end of the Powers railroad yard there was heavy tamarack timber which was felled lengthwise the right-of-way instead of being removed and then the ties were laid across the trees without dirt filling and the first trains went over the track in that condition. There had bee crews working out of Escanaba and they met on the bridge between Powers and Spalding in the week between Christmas 1872 and the 1873 New Year's day. The construction of this part of the railroad was paid for with a land grant under a contract that provided that a train must run from Menominee to Escanaba by January 1, 1873. They made it with two or three days to spare but there was no ballast on the ties in the swamps and they practically went over the tops of the hills. It took all of 1873 with gravel trains to make the railroad usable. After the grad was finished across the swamp south of Powers it dropped through the bog and had to be moved to one side on more ties with trees holding them up and for several months a train poured stones and dirt into the hole before they could put the track back on the original right-of-way. The first houses along the railroad were the section houses built by the company. At Powers they also put up a small building in which George Haggerson was the first operator and agent. The first store at Powers was built in 1874 by A. A. Archibald who later sold it to George Westman and he to Charles Bradner. In the spring of 1873 father took the job of boarding the crews of the gravel trains. At Bagley the built a large frame camp out of twelve inch white pine boards stood on end with battons over the joints (regular barn construction). For several months there were about 100 men in this camp and then another camp was built near Wilson and another at Section 9 (Indiantown). I was put in charge of this last camp although only fifteen years old, with Marcel Dumas and a cook named Quinby, who had a peg-leg. Each camp had a "Van" and this 49 camp was my frist merchandising experience. I had charge of the Van besides having to keep the records and help wash the dishes. The men called me the "Tobacco Boss". The first time the paycar came along the construction engineer had quite a time convincing the paymaster that it was safe to turn over $2000. (which was a lot of money in those days) to a 15 year old kid. The construction engineer in charge of the work was Frank H Van Cleve then little more than a boy himself. Father took the money he earned in this railroad work and went into the hotel business at Marinette but with his lack of experience and the 1873 panic it was soon necessary for the family to resume its interest in the development of Menominee County for in 1874 the family moved into a soldiers homestead where the town of Nadeau is now located. The trains those days were drawn by "wood-burners" and for the next few years the family income came largely from fuel wood for the engine. The furnishing of this fuel wood really started the first settlements in the central part of the county. Just south of Nadeau, Wendle Worley established a wood camp which became a farm now owned by Joe King. Charles Russel, who the first fall shot one of his own oxen with a head-light between the logs of his partly built barn, took up a 160 acre homestead to the north of us and started a farm now split into two 80 acre farms owned by Henry Mercier and Dick Menard. The panic of 1873 which put our family back into Menominee County slowed things up a lot but a few small businesses started along the line of the new railroad. In 1873 Mellen Smith built a mill at Wallace. In 1874, S. A. Benjamin built a small mill at Ingalls. In 1877 Andrew Lundquist and Mose Landre built a mill at Ingalls that burned in 1882. In 1880 Norwood Bowers built a mill at Ingalls that burned in 1883. Ira Carley and E. L. Parmenter built another mill at Ingalls in '83 of which Mr. Carley became the sole owner in 1892. The first mill at Nadeau was built in 1875 by Schomer & Galligher of Oshkosh. This mill ran about 2 years nad I worked for them setting and riding carriage They used a circular saw and the power was a two-horse tread power such as were later used by small threashing machines. In the winter of 1880, the year I was 21 my brother, Dave, and I formed the firm of Nadeau Brothers and logged for the H. Whitbeck Company. The next year we cut cedar poles, posts tie cuts, etc., and drove them down the Little Cedar River to Stephenson for M. C. Burch who built a mill there. This mill was sold to H.P. Bird who moved it to Wausaukee. In 1880 Louis Forcier and Theo Rubens built a small mill at Nadeau about where the August Jean mill is now located. Nadeau Brothers had a small store and furnished supplies for this mill and a camp and in about a year had a camp and a mill in settlement for the account. After permitting this mill to stand idle a couple of years we moved it over to the east side of the track and it became the first of six mills in about the same location that we built and which were destroyed by fire. About 1880 George Westman and Wilson Brothers of Marinette built a mill at Daggett. They operated a few years and established a store in which they employed John Dunhan as manager and they later sold the store to him. Westman moved his mill west and established the town of Westman, Idaho. When we moved onto the homestead in 1874 the house was a quarter mile from the railroad down a woods trail. When we wanted to take the train we went down to the track and built a fire which stopped the train, provided heat when it was cold and helped keep off the mosquitoes in summer. There was one train a day and it hauled everything and was faster than walking. In a couple of years a market developed for bark, poles, etc., and a short spur track was built to us. The first school house in Nadeau Township (still district #1) was about a mile north from the spur and there was no road but the railroad. Sunday we got together every person in the proposed district, pushed the car out on the main line, ran it up the track a mile and unloaded it and then pushed it back and out on the siding without getting caught at it. We were pretty badly worried because it took longer than anticipated. About 1875 the Spalding Lumber Company built a mill on the bank of the Big Cedar River at Spalding - they already had one at the mouth of the river. This mill was operated by them as long as there was pine to cut but Mr. Spalding saw no future in the other timber and sold the Spalding mill to Ross Bros. who operated it for a number of years and bought all of the Spalding Company holdings north of the railroad. About the same time the Spalding holdings south of the railroad and the mill at the mouth of the river were sold to Samuel Crawford who had experience in the manufacture of hemlock in Pennsylvania and was very successful at Cedar River. The mill companies in Menominee and Marinette were logging all along the River and hauled their supplies by team up the old State Road. They early established the Relay Farm and the Pembina Farm. As soon as the railroad was completed they built a road across thru the present location of Nathan from Carney to the Pembina farm which was just below the Pembina Falls. This was in about 1874 and at that time they built a warehouse at Carney and put Andrew Porterfield in charge. He built the first house in Carney and started a farm on which he lived many years. He was a valuable citizen in the community and many years later served Menominee County well as a construction foreman when the old County Road No. 1 was being built. The supply road from Carney to the Pembina Farm was laid out and built by James Holmes. The most important industry to the early development of farms in the county was the charcoal kilns. The furnace at Menominee was built in 1872 and they soon built kilns at several points along the line. A little later the Fox River Iron Company of DePere built kilns at Carney, Nadeau, Wilson and Harris and Kloman. One set was operated by a man named Phillips east several miles from Stepenson and he had to haul his coal to the track. These kilns used up all the hard wood down almost to twigs and as the hardwood stumps soon rotted the settler had gone a long way toward clearing a farm when he finished cutting this kiln wood. We hauled stone all one summer for the kilns at Nadeau and then operated them for many years after they were built. What is now the large I.X.L. plant at Hermansville was started by C.J.L. Meyers in 1878 but it was 1887 before the manufacture of flooring commenced. The Post Office at Nadeau was established in 1880 and Barney Nadeau, Sr., my father was the first Postmaster. He served many years until he lost his sight. Stephenson Township originally extended up to Spalding Township and my father was the first Highway Commissioner. Thru his efforts Nadeau Township nine miles square was cut off the north end of Stephenson Township and he was the first Supervisor. The development of Menominee County's road system with which I was so actively connected for over 30 years is in itself a very important chapter in the development of the county. Frank Betts covered this so fully in his first annual report to the Board of Supervisors that I need do no more than refer to it here. If I can assist you any further in your search for information concerning the early days in the county please feel free to call upon me. Sincerely yours, Louis Nadeau Note by Howard E. Nadeau - Daggett formerly called Section 25. Mrs. Clara Daggett Faulkner was first Postmaster and named postoffice her maiden name but none of the Daggetts ever lived there.
  Census	1940	Seattle, King, Washington, United States   [22]
  	Nadeau, Flora L, 49, single, born Michigan, same house 1935, teacher, public school Nadeau, Louis, father, 81, born Wisconsin, same house Nadeau, Francis, mother, 77, born Michigan, same house
  Buried	Jun 1944	Seattle, King, Washington, United States
  Died	16 Jun 1944	Seattle, King, Washington, United States   [23]
  	Cause: heart disease
  	85 years, 4 months, 20 days
  Obituary	18 Jun 1944	Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, United States   [20]
  	The Escanaba Daily Press
  	Louis Nadeau, 85, Menominee County Pioneer, Is Dead Menominee - Louis Nadeau, former Nadeau store, sawmill and farm operater, died las night in Seattle, Wash., at the age of 85 of heart disease. His death takes one of Menominee county's pioneer residents, a man intimately identified with leadership in development of the are about Nadeau and with the creation of Menominee county highway system. He served more than 30 years as a county highway commissioner. Mr. Nadeau was born in Kewaunee county, Wisconsin, in 1859 and moved to what is now Nadeau in 1874. The community and township were names for his father, Barney Nadeau, a veteran of the Civil war who was active in construction of the North Western railroad line in the county in 1872. Wife Survives Mr. Nadeau is survived by his wife, the daughter of Josiah R. (Sr) Brooks, Menominee pioneer who laid out the old Bay de Noc road in 1864; two brothers, Marcel A. Nadeau of Stephenson, and A. J. Nadeau of Green Bay; three sons, Howard E. Nadeau of Menominee, David Nadeau of Tacoma, Wash., and Louis B. Nadeau of Oakland, Calif., and a daughter, Miss Flora Nadeau, of Seattle, Wash., with whom Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nadeau had lived since they left Nadeau in 1934. Mrs. Nadeau, the former Frances G. Brooks, wed Mr. Nadeau in 1885 in Menominee.
  Newspaper Article	21 Apr 2014	Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [24]
  	Nadeau Bros. abt 1900
  	Employees of the Nadeau Brothers Sawmill gathered for this historical photo in the early 1900's. The mill was located east of the tracks at the north side of the Village of Nadeau. According to Journal records, when the Chicago and North Western Railroad was built from Marinette to Escanaba in 1872, the Nadeau Brothers Mill was awarded the contract to supply ties for the project. The Nadeau Brothers holdings included a company store and charcoal kilns. One of the charcoal kilns remains in that area. An advertisement in the 1912 Menominee County Atlas listed Nadea Brothers as dealers in lumber, lands, implements and general merchandise. The ad also stated they sold hemlock, pine and hardwood lumber, flooring, shingles, siding, cedar posts and poles. The mill was later destroyed by fire.
  Name	Louie Nadeau
  _UID	0D02D44EE54E4C92B699CFB2FD21DDF502E5
  Person ID	I76	Gauthier Family Tree
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Barney Nadeau,   b. 12 Jan 1828, St. Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada ,   d. 24 Oct 1905, Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Marie Francoise Jonet,   b. 14 Apr 1836, Perwez, Brabant, Walloon, Belgium ,   d. 8 May 1911, Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States  (Age 75 years)
  Married	Sep 1856	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States   [2, 3]
  		Nadeau Family Barney Nadeau, Frances Jonet, Laura Nadeau
  		Bruno Nadeau family First row: Marcel and Laura - Second row: Barney Jr, Barney, Francis, David, ? - Third row: Louis, ?, ?, Joseph -- Photo taken from "Saint Bruno Parish - Diamond Jubilee 1880-1995"
  		Barney and Frances Nadeau with family First row: children ? - Second row: ?, Barney, Francis, John Gauthier - Third row: ?, Laura Nadeau Gauthier, ?, ?, ?, ?
  Family ID	F16	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frances G. Brooks,   b. 1863, Michigan, United States ,   d. 11 Feb 1947, Seattle, King, Washington, United States  (Age 84 years)
  Married	6 Apr 1885	Menominee, Menominee, Michigan, United States   [6, 25, 26]
  Children	1. Howard Eugene Nadeau,   b. 17 Feb 1886, Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States ,   d. 26 Aug 1975, Menominee, Menominee, Michigan, United States  (Age 89 years)   2. David Walter Nadeau,   b. 1 Mar 1887, Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States ,   d. 31 May 1956, Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States  (Age 69 years)   3. Flora L. Nadeau,   b. 9 Jul 1888, Michigan, United States ,   d. 23 Dec 1965, Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, United States  (Age 77 years)   4. Louis Brooks Nadeau,   b. 17 Apr 1895, Nadeau, Menominee, Michigan, United States ,   d. 25 Feb 1960, Alameda, California, United States  (Age 64 years)
  Last Modified	9 Jul 2011
  Family ID	F208	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  (Research):Attended public schools in Kewaunee, Green Bay, and Marinette, Wis. Completed studies in Chicago at Bryant & Stratton's Business College. (Louis Nadeau, Clover Land Magazine, December 1917) 1882 - formed Nadeau Brothers with brother David (Louis Nadeau, Clover Land Magazine) 1886 - built first saw mill and built three others. Two of which burnt. (Louis Nadeau, Clover Land Magazine) 1907 - built new store building in Nadeau. Built of stone, brick and iron; having plate glass windows. (Louis Nadeau, Clover Land Magazine) Served as township supervisor, clerk and treasurer, member of the Menominee board of county road commissioners. (Louis Nadeau, Clover Land Magazine)

  
  

• Sources

  [S20] 1880 - US Census, 1880 US Census, Microfilm # 1254595 (Reliability: 4), 16 Nov 2002. [S168] Michigan, Menominee County Journal, Michigan. Stephenson., "Passing of a Pioneer," 28 oct 1905, col. 4. (Reliability: 4), 9 Jul 2011. [S563] LaMotte, Ruth Gauthier, Ruth LaMotte Gauthier, (Ruth's genealogical records), From notes, letters, photos, etc. found in Ruth's genealogical records. Handwritten notes on marriage and birth dates (Reliability: 3). from genealogical collection of Ruth Gauthier LaMotte [S20] 1880 - US Census, 1880 US Census, Microfilm #1254595 (Reliability: 4), 16 Nov 2002. [S55] Michigan, Menominee County, Clover Land Magazine, (Menominee, Michigan), Vol VI, No. 4, December 1917 (Reliability: 4), 3 Aug 2004. [S176] Michigan, History of Northern Penisula of Michigan, Alvah L. Sawyer, (Chicago, Illinois: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.), II: 885. (Reliability: 4), 9 Jul 2011. [S126] 1860 - US Census - Wisconsin - Ancestry, Wisconsin, Kewaunee, (ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, 2009), M653, roll M653_1415, FHL 805415, Kewaunee, p. 16, dwelling 157, family 157, Barney Nadeau (Nedeau), accessed 2 Jun 2010 (Reliability: 4), 2 Jun 2010. [S127] 1870 - US Census -Wisconsin - Ancestry, Wisconsin, Brown, (ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, 2009), M593, roll M593_1703, FHL 553202, Green Bay, p. 8, dwelling 52, family 51, Barney Nadeau (Nedeau), accessed 2 Jun 2010 (Reliability: 4), 2 Jun 2010. [S409] Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1877, Polk, Ralph L., (\i Google\i0 . https://books.google.com : 2009), 1877: 124; <https://books.google.com : accessed 13 Apr 2015 (Reliability: 3), 13 Apr 2015. [S111] 1880 - US Census - Michigan - Ancestry, Michigan, (ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, 2010), T9, roll 595, FHL 1245995, Stephenson, Menominee, enumeration district (ED) 31, p. 26D, dwelling 154, family 154, Barney Nadeau (Nadau), accessed 2 Jun 2010 (Reliability: 4), 2 Jun 2010. [S171] 1884 - Michigan Census - FHL, Michigan, Nadeau Township, Menominee County, p. 389, dwelling 64, family 64, line 1, Barney Nadeau; FHL microfilm 915,322. (Reliability: 4), 8 Jul 2011. [S395] 1894 - Michigan Census - Seeking Michigan, Michigan, (Digital images. Archives of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan. \i Seeking Michigan\i0 . seekingmichigan.org : n.d.), Nadeau Township, Menominee County, p. 44 - 285 & 45 - 286, dwelling 180, family 183, line 19 & 1, Louis Nadeau; (seekingmichigan.org : accessed 22 Mar 2015); citing Archives of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan (Reliability: 3), 22 Mar 2015. [S108] 1900 - US Census - Michigan - Ancestry, Michigan, (ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T623, Menominee County, Nadeau Twp, enumeration district (ED) 147, sheet 1, dwelling 1 (Reliability: 3), 8 Oct 2009. [S412] The Iron Post, Michigan . Escanaba., "The City in Brief," 20 Jun 1903, p. 1, col. 6; digital images, \i Escanaba Public Library, Escanaba, Michigan\i0 (Reliability: 3), 16 Apr 2015. [S109] 1910 - US Census - Michigan - Ancestry, Michigan, (ancestry. com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T624, Menominee County, Nadeau Twp, enumeration district (ED) 227, sheet 12, dwelling 209 (Reliability: 3), 8 Oct 2009. [S410] The Escanaba Daily Mirror, Michigan. Escanaba., "Nadeau Mill Owner is Badly Injured," 25 Apr 1910, p. 4, col. 2; digital images, \i Excanaba Public Library, Escanaba, Michigan\i0 (Reliability: 3), 15 Apr 2015. [S419] A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and its People, Alvah L. Sawyer, (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2005.), Volume II: 885 & 886. (Reliability: 3), 4 May 2015. [S107] 1920 - US Census - Michigan - Ancestry, Michigan, (ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T625, Menominee County, Nadeau Twp, enumeration district (ED) 277, sheet 8B, p. 16, dwelling 138 (Reliability: 3), 8 Oct 2009. [S110] 1930 - US Census - Michigan - Ancestry, Michigan, (ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T626, Menominee County, Nadeau Twp, enumeration district (ED) 55-21, sheet 2B, p. 4, dwelling 34 (Reliability: 3), 8 Oct 2009. [S408] The Escanaba Daily Press - Newspapers.com, Micihigan. Escanaba., "Louis Nadeau, 85, Menominee County Pioneer, Is Dead," 18 Jun 1944, p. 2, col. 5; digital images, \i Newspapers.com\i0 (Reliability: 3), 16 Apr 2015. [S166] Michigan, Menominee County Historical Notes, Nadeau Louis, Seattle Washington (Reliability: 3), 8 Jul 2011. [S304] 1940 - US Census - Washington - Ancestry, Washington, (ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), T627, Seattle, King County, enumeration district (ED) 40-61, sheet 5B, household 117, Louis Nadeau, accessed 26 Jul 2012 (Reliability: 3), 26 Jul 2012. [S155] Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960 - FamilySearch, Washington State Bureau of Vital Statistics, Olympia, Washington, ((familysearch.org)), accessed 16 Mar 2001), Death of Louis Nadeau; Film nbr 2032315, Digital gs nbr 4224993, Image 2477. (Reliability: 4), 16 Mar 2011. [S477] Menominee County Journal, Michigan. Stephenson., "MCJ Extra," 21 Apr 2014, p. 8. (Reliability: 3). [S55] Michigan, Menominee County, Clover Land Magazine, (Menominee, Michigan), Vol VI, no. 4, December 1917 (Reliability: 4), 3 Aug 2004. [S152] Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995 - FamilySearch, Michigan Department of Heath and Vital Records, Lansing, Michigan, ((familysearch.org : 2010)), accessed 16 Mar 2011), Marriage of Louis Nadeau & Frances C. Brooks; Menominee, Michigan. (Reliability: 4), 16 Mar 2011.