The Frank Pooler home at 215 Locust Street. This later became the home of Dr. and Mrs. G. D. Reay.



  Frank Pooler died in March of 1900 and is buried
in Onalaska. Francis died in January of 1922 in Riv-
erside, California.
  George Pooler, Jr. was born in 1853 and was also
a lumberman during the 1890's with the Nichols
Company.
  In 1873 he was married to Josephine Green who
was the daughter of John Green and was of Nor-
wegian descent. They lived on North Second Street,
on the top of the hill overlooking the Black River.
  Their children were Harriet (Hattie) who married
William Krueger; Frank Eugene, who married Flor-
ence Mairich; Adah, who married Edwin Knudtson;
and Irene who married Ralph Matthison.
  George was fond of fishing and hunting and
spent many days at Lytles and other favorite spots
on the Black River.
  Hattie and William Krueger's children are
Gretchen, Esther, Margaret (Mrs. Roy V. Ahlstrom)
and Louise.
  Frank Eugene's children are Frank Mairich
(Mick), born in 1926, and Lawrence George (Larry)
born in 1929.



  Presently Lawrence lives in Appleton, Wisconsin,
and Frank lives in California where he is director
of the Choral Studies at California State University
in Long Beach, Calif.
  Frank Pooler (born 1847) gave the Standpipe to
Onalaska.
Material submitted hby Frank (Mick) Pooler



Sources:
  Borland, John C. Life in the Wisconsin Woods. written in 1854.
  Austin, H. Russell. "The Wisconsin Story, The Building of a Van-
guard State." The Milwaukee Journal, 1948.
  La Crosse County Historical Sketches, Series 1. Liesenfeld Press,
1931. (Reprinted from the La Crosse Tribune and Leader-Press, La
Crosse, Wisconsin.)
  Plain, Hannibal. "The Black River Boom" American Magazine,
1888.
  La Crosse Tribune, September 29, 1930. April 19, 1938.
  Letter and photos from Edmund Erickson, April 9, 1984.
The material pertaining to the Nichols, Pooler, Farrand and Green
(Grunn) families has been submitted by Ltc. Barbara lean Nichols, Ret.
She is the daughter of Bernard Vilas Nichols and granddaughter of
Frank Eugene Nichols. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.



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