 In 1896, Mr. Jeremiah (Jere) D. Witter learned of a traveling library in Dunn County, Wisconsin and instantly gave the T. B. Scott Library one-thousand dollars to create such a system for neighboring villages and towns in south Wood County.At his request, the Board of Trustees organized itself into a second Board to operate this project, which the trustees insisted should be called the J. D. Witter Free Traveling Libraries.This valuable service, the second to be established in Wisconsin, was offered throughout the area for 51 years.