SOURCE: Commemorative biographical record of the west shore of Green Bay, Wisconsin 
Microfilm of original published: Chicago : J.H. Beers, 1896. 718 p. : ports.
LDS Microfilm #0924759     Pages 612

W. W. NOYES, general grocery merchant at Florence, Florence county, was born in Maine, near Banger, and is a son of Charles C. and Eunice (Annis) Noyes, who were born in New Hampshire.

Charles C. Noyes was reared in New Hampshire, where he yet resides, in Lancaster.  By occupation he is a miller and has been engaged in the sawmilling business.  He married Eunice Annis, and they had four sons, namely:  Charles, who resides in Florence, in the lumber business; John; residing in Berlin, N.H.; Holman, in Lancaster, N.H.; and W. W., the subject of this sketch.  Mrs. Eunice Noyes died in Lancaster, N.H., in 1892.

W. W. Noyes was reared in New Hampshire, and educated in the schools of Berlin, that State.  In 1877 he came from  New  Hampshire  to  Shiocton, Outagamie Co., Wis., being at that time twenty-one years of age, and embarked in the grocery business there the same year.  In 1878 he was united in marriage, in Outagamie county, with Miss Clara Rynder, who was born in Outagamie county, and they have had three children: Arthur, Myrtie and William W.  Mrs. Noyes' father, John Rynder, was an early pioneer of Outagamie county; he enlisted from that county as a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, and died in the service.

In 1880 Mr. Noyes came from Shiocton to Florence, before the county was organized, built his present residence the same year, and engaged in the grocery business.  He was one of the first men here, and is one of the oldest business men of Florence, having been in active trade here continuously since 1880, before the railroad reached the town.  In politics he is a Republican.  He is chief of the Fire Department of Florence, and has served as township treasurer; is senior deacon of Fisher Lodge No. 222, F. & A. M.; and a member of Florence Tent, K. O. T. M., of which he is past commander.  Mr. Noyes is one of the oldest merchants of Florence, and has seen the growth and development of the county from its very beginning.