Actually, just for your info. Iola is about an hour and 15 minute drive southeast of Wausua. Iola is actually closer to Stevens Point. I suppose that is relatively close but at that time it would have been quite a hike. Tory At 03:15 PM 7/6/99 -0500, D. Patnode wrote: >>At 02:35 PM 7/3/99 +0200, Dag Album wrote: >>>Hello, >>>A relative of mine who emigrated from Bergen, Norway in 1883 lived a few >>>years in Iola, Waupaca after he came to the US. I know from other sources >>>that he was educated as engineer. I have just now read that there was a >>>college in Waupaca. > >I believe that Iola is not too far from Wausau and that there was a state >Normal school in Wausau in the 1880s. Might this be what you are seeking? > >Dan Patnode > >Researching the following variations on a theme: PATENAUDE, PATNAUDE, >PATNOUDE, PATENOUDE, PATENODE, PATNODE, PATNOD, PATNOED, PATNOE, PATENOE, >PATNO, PATNUDE, PATNOTE, PATNOTTE, PEDNU, etc. throughout Wisconsin, >Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, and all the Midwest. > >As well as: JONES (Marathon County), MITICOMINKWE, MITICOMINQUI, >FREIBURGER (Washington & Milwaukee Counties), and HAUG (Milwaukee County). > >