Named for the first postmaster of the village, George M. Breed.
Information provided by Deana Hipke. The first settler was James
Knight who took a homestead. People came on foot along Indian
and animal trails as there was not a road through Oconto County
until 1860. In early times there was only the much used Indian
trail through the settlement, and Indian trade was vital to the
newcomers. Riding ponies bareback and wearing mocassins and
often buckskin and blankets, their clothes were trimmed with
shells, beads, hair, feathers and animal teeth. Homestead
families who followed came by the names Greibles, Davis,
Johnson, the three Breed brothers from New England, whom the
town was named after. Danes soon followed;. The first child born
in the settlement was Mary Johnson in 1885 in a log cabin just
east of the Breed Union Cemetery. The land was donated by her
father, who, as fate had it, was the first to be buried there.
Mary Johnson became Mrs. Jonas Hamberg and lived in Breed all
her life. Leona Breed, another