Wagg, Soloman R.

1846 - 1916  (70 years)    Has no ancestors but 5 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Wagg, Soloman R.
  Born	2 Jan 1846	Cumberland Center, Cumberland, Maine, USA
  Gender	Male
  1900 Census	1900	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Solomon R Wagg54 Sarah M Wagg54 Angie M Wagg26 Fred E Wagg24 James B Wagg19 Adelle Cole16
  1905 State Census	1905	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Solomon R Wagg59 Sarah M Wagg60 Angy M Wagg31 James P Wagg23 Hattie Tomach20
  1910 Census	1910	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Solomon R Wagg64 Sarah M Wagg65 Agie M Wagg36
  Biography	1911
  History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0593
  SOLOMON R. WAGG, superintendent and secretary of the Fox River Paper Company's mills at Appleton, Wisconsin, has won a reputation that is international as an inventor of paper making machinery, and has been intimately connected, with the business of paper making for a long period of years. Born in Cumberland, Maine, January 2, 1846, he moved at three and one-half years of age to Yarmouth, Cumberland county, Maine. Mr. Wagg is a son of Elbridge G. and Hannah (Reed) Wagg, and a grandson of Samuel Wagg. The family was founded in 1750, in which year the first to settle in this country came from England to the New England States. Samuel Wagg was a soldier during the Revolutionary War, in which he served seven years, and his pension papers, signed by John C. Calhoun, are kept as valued family possessions by his descendants. Elbridge G. Wagg was born in Auburn, Maine, and in November, 1844, was married at Cumberland Center to Miss Hannah Reed, daughter of William and Margaret Reed, farming people of that section. Mr. Reed was also a seafaring man, and his father, William Reed, was a man of much means, loaning money to the Federal Government during the Revolutionary War, which, it is claimed, was never repaid. Elbridge G. Wagg was a farmer and schoolteacher, was superintendent of schools of Cumberland county for ten years, and was twice elected to the State Legislature. He was a cousin of ex-Governor and Later Congressman Dingley of Maine, through his mother, who was a Miss Dingley. Of the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Ellbridge G. Wagg, Solomon R. was the oldest. Solomon R. Wagg worked on his father's farm during the summers and attended the schools of his district during the winters until he had attained the age of seventeen years, at which time he accepted a position as railroad baggagemaster, and after two years began learning the trade of papermaker in a mill at Yarmouth. In 1871 he went to Adams, Massachusetts, entering the employ of the L. L. Brown Paper Co., with which he continued seven years, during which time he learned every detail of the business. After working in other mills in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York, Mr. Wagg in 1884 came West to Wisconsin, locating in Neenah, where he became superintendent of the Kimberly, Clark & Company's mill, but after two years resigned to take a like position at the Fox River Paper Company's mills, where.he has since been employed. The great store of knowledge which Mr. Wagg had accumulated during his many years of experience in paper mills of every size and kind in the country, assisted him in making this mill one of the finest in the United States, its growth under his management being little short of phenomenal, while his inventions were also great helps in increasing the capacity of the plant. In 1887 he patented a sulphide digestor lining, and later inventions were a Jorden engine, which has been sold all over the world; a stone lining for a paper engine, a big improvement over past methods, which is already in use in numerous mills, and about twenty improvements and patents on paper making engines. He is an honorary member of the Academy of Science, Paris, France, which membership was granted him as inventor of certain articles used in the art of paper making. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics he is a Republican, but he has never desired to attain public preferment. He has, however, devoted a great deal of time to temperance work, being associated with Father Fitzmaurice and others. In 1873 Mr. Wagg was married to Sarah Ling, who was born in Odletown, Province of Quebec, Canada, daughter of Abram and Elizabeth Ling. Four children were born to this union; namely: Angie, Frederick, William and James. Frederick died from typhoid fever, August, 1900, aged 24 years.
  	Wagg, Soloman R. Biography from History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin; 1911.
  Died	22 Jun 1916	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Obituary	30 Jun 1916
  Kaukauna Times
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  	Wagg, Solomon Obituary Kaukauna Times 6/30/1916
  Reference Number	2690
  Buried	Riverside Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I317883	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2018

  
  

  Family	Ling, Sarah,   b. Abt 1840, , , Quebec, Canada ,   d. 17 Sep 1931  (Age ~ 91 years)
  Married	Abt 1873
  Children	1. Wagg, Angie,   b. Abt 1874,   d. Abt 1918  (Age ~ 44 years)   2. Wagg, Frederick E. G.,   b. 15 Jan 1876, Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 18 Aug 1900  (Age 24 years) + 3. Wagg, William,   b. 14 Sep 1877, Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 25 Mar 1925, Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 47 years)   4. Wagg, James,   b. 23 May 1881, Roaring Spring, Blair, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 25 Oct 1963, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F206294	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 2 Jan 1846 - Cumberland Center, Cumberland, Maine, USA 1900 Census - 1900 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1905 State Census - 1905 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1910 Census - 1910 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Died - 22 Jun 1916 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Buried - - Riverside Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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