Not your usual history book, De Pere of Yesteryear combines short stories, newspaper clippings, and genealogical information, in this fun to read history of early De Pere. Snippets of De Pere's history are told through 75 short stories, which include The First De Pere Land Patents, Early Mail Carrier, First East Side Settler, First West Side Settler, Bank of the Fox River Hydraulic Company, Brown County Courthouse in De Pere, The De Pere Advertiser Newspaper, First Marshal, Daughters of Revolutionary War Soldiers, First National Iron Company, The First Photographers, Sorenson Shipyard, The Forgotten Church - St. Ignatius, Pratsch Hardware Store, Sharp - The Furniture Maker, The Mayor of Nicolet, The Transit House, The First St. Josephs Church, H. R. Jones Bank, Arent Drug Store, The Lee Store, The Brick School, Hickory Grove Sanitarium, Allouez Land Improvement Company & the Bicycle Factory, Fox River Driving Park, The Saengerfest Excursion Train, West De Pere High School, The Old Stone School, De Peres First Automobile, Nicolet High School Band, De Pere Polo, The First Bridges, Sweets Island, Heesacker Kid Stack, Tobeys Beach, The Interurban Line, The Fire of 1882, The 1919 Champions of Northern Wisconsin Game between the De Pere City Team and the Green Bay Packers, plus many more.Featured families include Armstrong, Bingham, Bowring, Call, Clermont, Collette, Dickinson, Dunham, Handeyside, Hopkins, Hunt, Hurd, Jackson, Jones, Laborde, Lawe, Lee, Lenfestey, Lessey, Mailer, Marsh, McGeehan, Merrill, Outhwaite, Pratsch, Reid, Sharp, Smith, Stewart, Thiele, Touhey, Vande Walle, Van Dyck, Van Gemert, and Wilcox.