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W.H.H. (Bill) Cash, Native of the Buckeye State, Born in 1843; Died in 1924

W.H.H. Cash came to New Lisbon in 1861 as a youth of 18 and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Union Army. While a member of the Wisconsin State Legislature he secured the passage of special legislation for the construction of the Necedah Branch of the Milwaukee Railroad and was awarded the contract to build the railroad from New Lisbon to Necedah.

Later in partnership with Vandercook they built a railroad connecting Sparta and Viroqua.

The City of Cashton was laid out by Mr. Cash and subsequently named after him.

In 1879 he built the extension of the Milwaukee Railroad from Wausau to merrill.

Other railroads built by him in Wisconsin were from Sauk City to Mazomanie and from Hillsboro to Union Center. Bill was a county board member, postmaster, banker and purchased entire issues of municipal bonds for a Chicago bond dealer.

The Cash house was erected on the site of an old Indian Trading Post and was torn down after being gutted by a fire. A portion of the lot was later graded to street level and the gasoline service station now managed by Melvin Strand (now Don's Mobil Station) and August Drom's home (now Everett Tessmer's home) were erected on the location. Several years before his death, Mr. Cash erected the largest monument in the New Lisbon cemetery on his lot, declaring at the time that he wanted to enjoy it awhile himself.

The first telephone system to be built in New Lisbon and vicinity was in the year 1900 when O.G. Loomis and W.H.H. Cash operated the Juneau Electric Co. - V. Stewart




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