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Therefore, the village was named Bonduel when the post office was created. [7] The village is named after a Jesuit missionary, the Rev. Florimond Bonduel, who served Wisconsin parishes and who worked with the Menominee Indians, helping them settle on their newly created reservation in 1853. [8] Bonduel incorporated as a village in 1916.
Father Bonduel decided to leave the reservation after settling a direct exchange of land, benefiting the Menominee. Shortly after this negotiation and Father Bonduel's departure, the Franciscan Order took over the schooling system on the reservation.
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Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in September 1854 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Irish-Catholic immigrants Elizabeth Anderson Neilis and Peter McCourt. [4] She later claimed to have been born in 1860 but appears on the 1860 Oshkosh census at 6 years of age.
Male full-time workers had a median income of $31,439 versus $34,871 for female workers. The per capita income was $15,249. About 29.0% of families and 33.1% of the population were below the poverty line , including 43.2% of those under age 18 and 17.3% of those age 65 or over. [ 17 ]
In 1837, the missionary Reverend Florimund J. Bonduel traveled from Green Bay to visit the French fur trader Solomon Juneau in Milwaukee. While in Milwaukee, Bonduel celebrated the first mass in that city. [8] Later in 1837, the Diocese of Detroit sent Reverend Patrick Kelly to Milwaukee to serve as its first resident priest.
From 1995 to 2006, the small community was also home to its own microbrewery, called Slab City Brewery, which had a beer named Old 47, after the (former) highway that runs through the center of town and still bears that name.
State Trunk Highway 117 (often called Highway 117, STH-117 or WIS 117) is a state highway located entirely within Shawano County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It runs from a junction with Highway 29, Highway 47, and Highway 55 in Bonduel north to Highway 22 in Cecil.