'Early History' :Wauseon was laid out on March 1854 and named by J. H. Sargent, Esq. in honor of one of the principal Chiefs of the Ottawa Nation. :Wauseon, the Indian Chief --one fourth white blood--was removed by the Government west of the Mississippi and died in 1849. He was a noble Indian and highly respected. He stood six feet three inches in his moccasins, and was of fine form and well proportioned. The first building was erected on the fourth of April 1854. The proprietors of the town were Nat. Leggett, J. H. Sargent, William H. Hall and E. L. Barber. :The first train of cars passed through the place on the Air Line Road on the 20th day of July, 1854, at which time the population of the village was fifteen persons. :The first hotel in Wauseon was named the "Estelle House". The first land for a home in Wauseon was bought from Lorenzo Dow Bayes uncle Tom Bayes. :The first church was erected in the summer of 1855, by the Methodists. In the year 1863 and 1864, the Disciples built a Church; in 1864 the Congregationalists erected a church. In 1874 and 1875 the Methodists erected their present large and commodious church. In 1875 the Catholics fitted up their church, and in 1868 the Baptists built their church. :The first fire engine was purchased in 1863, and in 1875 a magnificent fire engine was purchased. Both good and used in case of necessity. The petition praying for the organization of Wauseon into an incorporated Village was received & filed with A. C. Hough, County Auditor, on April 11th, 1857. The approval of the Commissioners of the County, Stephen Houghton, Joseph Ely, and George Taft was given at Ottokee, June 13th, 1857. :The first Council was composed of the following members; Mayor, Nat Leggett; Recorder, E. L. Barber; and councilmen, James Cornell, M. D. Munn, Thomas Scott, E. L. Hayes and Anson Huntington. The first meeting of the Council was held September 28th, 1858. :The population of the village in 1860 was three hundred and fifty persons, the present population is about twenty five hundred. The first white settler and actual resident of the site of Wauseon, was John Newcomer, who emigrated to the then wilderness in May 1844, and erected a log cabin and commenced the work of cleaning up and improving his farm, on which are now laid out two additions to the village of Wauseon. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauseon%2C_Ohio