On June 21, 1929, a deed recorded in the Register of Deeds office in Oshkosh concluded a battle over the future of Kimberly Point Park and Lakeshore Drive. At the time, a local citizen was trying to purchase the point and block the drive from public use in order to build a large mansion, but Helen Kimberly Stuart intervened. Her efforts resulted in a deed requiring that the land be used permanently, continuously, and forever for public park purposes, that Lake Shore Drive be maintained as a public street throughout its entire length, and that the park always be named Kimberly Point or Kimberly Point Park in commemoration of her father, John A. Kimberly. John A. Kimberly moved from Troy, New York, to the wilderness of Wisconsin in 1848, settled with his family on Wisconsin Avenue, and in 1872 co-founded Kimberly and Clark Company, which became Kimberly-Clark Corporation by the time of his death in 1928. Helen Kimberly Stewart, born in 1868 and named after her mother, became the first woman alderperson in Neenah and founded the Neenah Historical Society in 1948. Her brother, James C. Kimberly, gave the lighthouse at the park to the city in 1945.