“60th Anniversary of Templetons” from the November 5, 1936 Door County News
60TH ANNIVERSARY OF TEMPLETONS
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Sturgeon Bay Couple Wedded 60 Years on Nov. 12
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Capt. and Mrs. A. C. TempIeton
Capt. and. Mrs. A. C. Templeton on Bayshore Drive will celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary on Thursday, Nov. 12. They were married at the Old Homestead, their present home, on Nov. 12, 1876, and have lived there continuously since that time.
Next Thursday’s observance will be in the nature of a family reunion and open house will be held for friends and neighbors of this fine old couple who have watched the growth and development of Door county from a rough forest frontier to one of the leading resort and dairy and fruit sections of the Middlewest. It is expected that relatives and friends will be here for the week end from Centralia. Wheaton and Waukegan, Ill.; Milwaukee, Janesville, Portage and Manitowoc.
Captain Templeton has lived at the Old Homestead since he was nine years old—a period of 74 years. He was born in Gallatin, Tenn., April 7, 1853, and later lived in New York city before his parents again returned to Door county. They had been here at an earlier period but Mr. Templeton’s father went to Yonkers, N. Y., to work at his trade as a weaver and there joined the Union army when the Civil war began. He served with the 36th New York Volunteers, and during one of the battles the Union troops were in a hasty retreat and In imminent danger of being killed or captured, together with the flag. As Templeton came near where the flag was posted he bit a piece out of it so that the rebels would not capture all of it. A reproduction of this valiant and patriotic soldier, together with the piece of flag, is on exhibition in the museum case at the Chamber of Commerce office in Sturgeon Bay.
Captain Templeton’s grandfather was a soldier under the Duke of Wellington in France and was at the famous battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, when Napoleon’s army was crushed. It was in France at that time that the captain’s father, later destined to serve during the Civil war, was born.
Captain Templeton, himself, has also had an interesting career. He had charge of lumber camps on Chambers Island and other districts of Door county, and was for seventeen years captain of the tug George Pankratz. One winter he was engaged with his tug in keeping the harbors of Grand Haven and Muskegon open and free of ice. On retiring from the marine service he engaged in fruit raising at his home north of Sturgeon Bay and it was from his orchard that a case of cherries was picked and sent by airplane to the late President Calvin Coolidge when he spent the summer in Northern Wisconsin.
Mrs. Templeton was born Dec. 17, 1855, and is 81 years of age. Her maiden name was Emma LaShure, and she was a niece of Jarve Wright, who formerly operated the Cedar Street House in Sturgeon Bay in the early days. She made her home with Mr. Wright until her marriage.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Templeton enjoy excellent health and they look forward with a great deal of anticipation to having all the members of their family home with them on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary. There are seven children in the family, as follows: John of Wheaton, Ill,; Allan, Chicago; William, Manitowoc; Mrs. Andrew Christenson, Waukegan, Ill,; Mrs. Frank Dooley, Milwaukee; Mrs. George King and Mrs. Harry Brann of Sturgeon Bay.
There are twenty grandchildren and ten great grandchildren in Mr. and Mrs. Templeton’s family.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive