Pierce Museum Celebrates 50th Anniversary This Summer

This photo shows chairmen and committee members who worked on the Pioneer Jubilee Celebration June 9 and 10, 1939, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of Pierce County. Left to right, front row: Bill Cox, Ed German, Mayor D. J. Malone, Sheriff Earl Dean, Ralph Fuerst. Second row: Ernest Magdanz, Mrs. Bill Cox, Mrs. John Magdanz, Mrs. E. W. Hansen, Mrs. Edward German, Mrs. Roy Peters, Carl Brande. Third row: Fred Brande, Elvon Bowen, Ernest Peters, Louie Gruett, Carl Schulz, Geo. B. Gould. Fourth row: W. C. Ulrich, Melvin Beerman, Edw. Buckendahl, E. D. Beech, Arnold Schwartz, Harold Salter, L. C. Moore.

The 1934 Diamond Jubilee parade entry featured the remaining pioneers that arrived in Pierce County in 1869. Those being: Herman Manske, Albert Otto, William Manske, driver Leonard Kolterman, Gus Lierman, Anna (Lierman) Magdanz and Mary (Manske) Otto. The wagon was used by the Frederick Kolterman family when they traveled from Wisconsin to Pierce County in 1869.