Madison city directory, a city and business directory for 1866, Part 1

Author: Suckow, B. W., comp; Smith, John Y
Publication date: 1866
Publisher: Madison, Wis.
Number of Pages: 412

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MADISON

CITY DIRECTORY.

A City and Business Directory for 1866,

COMPILED BY

B. W. SUCKOW,

WITH A

HISTORY OF MADISON, BY

JOHN Y. SMITH.

PUBLISHED BY B. W. SUCKOW. -

BLISS & WELLS, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, MAIN ST., FIRST DOOR EAST OF THE VILAS HOUSE.

MADISON, WIS. : ATWOOD & RUBLEE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 1866. .

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BLANKS.

of the best forma in the State, for LAWYERS, JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, and CONVEYANCERS, printed on fine white paper, Call for a catalogue or address

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JOHN ZEHNPFENNIG,

MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN

All kinds of Repairing done with noatness and dispatch. State Street, bet Johnson and Gorham.

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SOCIETY

BLISS & WELLS,

BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, . AND DEALERS IN

Writing, Lodger, Wall and Wrapping Papers,

Window Shades, Picture Frames. Curtains, &c., &c.,

MAIN STREET, - MADISON, WIS.,

Next Door East of the Vilas House.

BENEDICT'S

GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY

AND COLLECTION OFFICE, State Journal Building, cor. Pinckney and .Finin Serceis, .Madison, 25'i ..

State Agent PHONIX INSURANCE CO., Hartford, Co .... Local Agent, NORTHWESTERN ACCIDENT INS. CO., M.E. ,WE Agent, MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INS. CO., Newark, \. J.

FIRE, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE procured to any amount theired, in, Sound and Responsible Companies.

COLLECTIONS MADE AND PROMPT REMITTANU

ONLY AND WEEKLY DEMOCRAT, MADISON, WIS.

Daly 810 per ounum ; Weekly $2 per annum, IN ADVANCE.

HVER & FERNANDEZ

PUBLISHERS.

ALL KINDS OF

BOOK, CARD AND BILL PRINTING, NEATLY ENECUTED.

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OUDECH IN RASDALL'S BLOCK, KING ST.

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CULVER, PAGE & HOYNE, MANUFACTURING AND JOBBING, BLANK BOOK, PAPER -- AND --- STATIONERY WAREHOUSE. 128 and 130 Lake Street, CHICAGO.

We beg leave to call the attention of the Trade to our large and well assorted Stock of

BLANK BOOKS, PAPER,

FORDEN ADO COMISTIC STATIONINY,

And earnestly solicit the attention of large and close buyers, feeling confi lent that we can always please them with quality, assortment and price.

DO All orders will meet with prompt and careful attention.

CULVER, PAGE & HOYNE, 128 and 180 Lake Street.

P. S .-- Would particularly call the attention of Bio Trade to the Sanfor! Manufacturing Co.'s SUPERIOR WRITING FLUID, CARMINE AND MUCILAGE, also the ORIENTAL SCHOOL INE, for which we are now the Western Agents.

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1866. AMERICAN HOUSE, MADISON, WIS.

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PROPRIETORS

LATE OF THE CITY HOTEL. CROSS KEYS' HOTEL,

Corner Main and West Canal Street.

Good accommodations for Day and Weck Boarders. Farmers will find good Stabling. AND'W FLOM, Proprietor.

FITCH & CO.,

UNDERTAKERS, ASD DEALERS IN COFFINS, SHROUDS, CAPS, PLATES, COFFIN LININGS, AND Sutrer Trimmings, of every vartely and right.

Warerooms, Main Street, cor of Fairchild, first door cast of the Court Ilouse, Madison, Wis. ALL ORDERS FOR FUNERALS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. New Establishment!

Begs leave to inform the public t! : ho Fa. opened a

Stove and Tin Store,

On Washington Avenue, a few deori vat of the bare County Bark, where he will attend to all ki. ds of work in his line. y-Give Him a call-the hitch string is always out.

G. KREBS, UNDERTAKER,

AND DEALER IN

OFFINS, and all other articles used in the business. -

Having provided myself with a

FIRST CLASS HEARSE,

with Black Horses, and all the fixtures belonging to the most approved style of the burial service ; and having a gen- eral supply of Coffins on hand, and being ready to manufacture them to order, I take this opportunity of offering my services to the citizens of Madison, and to all in need of them.

MY CHARGES WILL BE REASONABLE.

I am also a Joiner, and keep a first rate article of

WASHING MACHINES !

OFFICE ON WEBSTER STREET, OPPOSITE ENGINE HOUSE NO. 1, MADISON, WIS.

STATE JOURNAL OFFICE.

CORNER PINCKNEY AND MIFFLIN STREETS.

ATWOOD & RUBLEE, Proprietors.

TERMS :

DAILY, $10.00. TRI-WEEKLY, $5.00. WEEKLY, $2.00.

All kinds of JOB WORK executed promptly, and in the- neatest manner.

THE ONLY SAFE WAY !

INSURE AGAINST ACCIDENTS IN A

SOUND AND RELIABLE COMPANY.

PROVIDENT

LIFE INSURANCE AND INVESTMENT CO.

Insures against all manner of accidents, for a trifling sum, paying from $500 to $10,000 in case of death, and from $5 to $50 per week, in case of injury.

EVERY BODY SHOULD BE INSURED ! ROBERT WOOTTON, Agent, STATE JOURNAL OFFICE.

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Entered according to act. of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, by B. W. SUCKOW, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Wisconsin.

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PREFACE.

In presenting to the public the MADISON CITY DIRECTORY, for 1866, I desire to express my sincere thanks to the several persons who have kindly aided me in the preparation of the matter with which the volume is filled.

If the work shall, in any way, tend to promote the general prosperity of the beautiful city of Madison, or shall prove of benefit or pleasure to its citizens, I shall feel amply rewarded for the labor and expense as- Eumed in its publication.

I cannot expect that this Directory, being iny first effort, will be free from errors; but asking the indulgence of the public for the unavoidable mistakes in this volume, I shall hope, at some future time, to be able to present one that will better meet the reasonable expectations of a gen- erous people.

· MADISON, March, 1866.

THE PUBLISHER.

CONTENTS.

- PAGE.

History of Madison,

Indian Title, . 13

First Visits of White Men, 16

Location of the Capital, 16

First Settlement,. 18

Building of the Capitol, 18

Shipments during 1865, 27

Manufacturing,. 28

Wisconsin State Agricultural Society

State University,. 34

General Education, 46

Commercial College,. 48

Hospital for the Insane, 49

State Historical Society, 54

The Madison Press, 60

Madson Directory,. 79

Business Directory, 145

Appendix,. 163

MADISON CITY DIRECTORY.

STATE UNIVERSITY AT MADISON. (See Page 34.)

HISTORY OF MADISON.

The City of Madison is situated in latitude 43 degrees, 4 minutes and 20 seconds north, and longitude 80 degrees 20 minutes West from Greenwich, or 12 degrees, 20 min- utes West from Washington. According to JOHNSON's Atlas, published in 1862, Madison is about nine minutes or ten and one-third miles further west. The city occu- pies the greater portion of Sections 13, 14, 23 and 24, of Town 7 North from the base line, or southern boundary of the State, and Range 9 East from the fourth principal meridian, these sections having their corner immediately under the western doorway of the rotunda of the Capitol.

This point is about seventy-five miles in an air line from Lake Michigan, about ninety miles from the Mississippi River, thirty-nine miles from the southern and two hun- dred and forty miles from the northern boundary of the State, at its nearest point on Lake Superior, and two hun- dred and sixty-four from the extreme northern limit of the State. It appears, therefore, that Madison is very near the centre of the State of which it is the Capital, on an east and west line, but far from the centre on a north and south linc. Its relations to the population of the State are reversed. By the census of 1860, we learn that

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at that time, the population, north of a parallel of latitude passing through the northern boundary of Dane county, was 397,118, and the population south of that line 378,- 763, while the population east of a meridian passing through Madison, was 522,816, and west of that meridian only 253,065. It will thus be seen that Madison is not far from the centre of population, north and south, but that two-thirds of the inhabitants are east of this city.

There are, however, strong reasons for anticipating that this preponderance in the eastern part of the State will eventually be more than counterbalanced. We will con- tent ourselves with mentioning two of the causes which seem destined to turn the scale in favor of the west.

First .- At present the products of the Southern States, which enter most largely into general consumption, cotton sugar and molasses, come to us by way of New York and the New England States, whither the raw material is tak. en for manufacturing and refining. This naturally builds up our lake ports and determines the commerce of the State towards them. Now when we consider that the present course of trade is fully four times as long as the . course via. the Mississippi River, and that it involves the very dangerous coastwise passage, and necessitates three trans-shipments, while none would be necessary by the river route, and when we further reflect that the Missis- sippi Valley affords every facility except cheap labor, for profitable manufacture, we are driven to the conclusion that not many years will elapse before the north-west and south-west will be enjoying those intimate business rela- tions which nature seems to have pointed out as essential to the welfare of both sections. The cereals of the north- west will be directly exchanged for the more tropical pro- ductions of the south, and the great river of the continent

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will bear upon its bosom the burden of an unexampled commerce. The concentration of our own and the distri- bution of the southern produets will call into being large and flourishing towns, on the hither bank of the Missis- sippi, and the tendeney of trade will lead to the rapid de- velopement of the western portion of the state. Tradle has for many years pursued this very course, on the lower Mississippi, and as a consequence, we find all the impor- tant towns between St. Louis and New Orleans, on the eastern bank of the river.

Secondly. The other cause we propose to name, which will attraet population to the western part of the State, is the greater area of soil, valuable for the purposes of tillage, which is due to the higher summer temperature in a given latitude, on the river than on the lake. The Mississippi is not niggardly in its favors. While its abundant waters invite traffic, its broad valley affords an avenue for the warm winds of the Gulf, which, in their season, beget the materials of traffic. It is now quite,generally known that the results of careful thermal observations, continued through a series of years, show a higher temperature in the immediate valley of the Mississippi than in the vicin- ity of Lake Michigan. The isothermal lines determinedl by these observations, indicate as high a temperature dur. ing the growing and reaping seasons-from May to Octo- ber inclusive-at Prescott, 120 miles north of Madison, as at Chicago, 90 miles south, and about the same at Superior City, in the extreme north-western corner of the State, as at Green Bay. It is true, indeed, that the winters are more intensely cold, but where the growing season is f. vorable, the severity of other seasons will not sensibly discourage settlement. Can we doubt that north-western Wisconsin will, ere long, become a populous agricultural

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region, when we know that its climate is as favorable and its soil more favorable to the production of cereals and es- culent roots than Northern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania and Virginia, especially, when we take into account the inevitable growth of commerce on the Mississippi ?

We feel justified, therefore, in predicting that Madison will eventually be found cast instead of west of the nu- merical center of the State, and that it will, through its railroad connections become an important distributing and marketing point.

Madison is twenty three miles from the western and nineteen miles from the eastern boundary of Dane County, of which it is the County Seat, and exactly midway be- tween the northern and southern boundaries, being fifteen miles from each. It is thus at the geographical centre as it is the natural market and business point of a county containing thirty five townships (one of them fractional) or twelve hundred and thirty-five square miles.

The site of the city is an undulating isthmus, between · Lake Mendota, on the north-west, and Monona on the south-east." The most elevated ground within the city limits" is University Hill, the summit of which is about 125 feet above the surrounding lakes. The ground upon - which the Capitol stands is about 75 feet, and the ridge that skirts Lake Mendota, about SO feet above the level of the water. North-east of the Capitol cach of the lakes is skirted by a ridge, perhaps thirty or forty feet high. Between these ridges the ground is at and was formerly a very wet marsh. The efforts to reclaim this tract by

*These Lahey are 7's feet above the Atlantic Ocean uud 210 feet above Lake Michigan.

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draining and by lowering Lake Monona, have been but partially successful, though a considerable number of dwellings have been erected upon it. A similar tract, of less extent, lies south-west of the Capitol. Not many years ago this was almost wholly submerged. It is now sufficiently dry to be practicable for streets and to some extent for building purposes.

With these exceptions the entire site of the city is abundantly high, and so rolling as to afford perfect drain- age and beautiful building sites. Much has been said and written about the beauty of Madison. HORACE GREELY, BAYARD TAYLOR, and other distinguished visitors have described the charming lake scenery by which we are sur- rounded in such glowing terms as to give Madison a na- tional reputation. It is not our purpose to enlarge upon this topic. The visitor has only to survey the city and the surrounding country from the top of the Vilas House or the Capitol, or the main edifice of the University, to satisfy himself the world affords few more delightful pros- pects.

INDIAN TITLE.

The ground upon which Madison is built was, in com- mon with most of the region included between the Mis. sissippi, the Wisconsin and Rock Rivers, purchased from the Sacs and Fox Indians, in 1825, at which time those tribes relinquished all claim to lands east of the Mississip- pi River. The Sacs and Foxes were reputed among the early settlers to be peculiarly faithless and savage. At all events they seem to have repented the surrender of their old hunting grounds, and in 1831 we find them

HISTORY OF MADISON.

again on this side of the Mississippi greatly annoying the settlers and destroying much property. They were speed- ily driven back and entered into a new treaty with the . United States, the terms of which were much the same as those of the treaty of 1825.

The next year they again returned to this side of the river, and, having induced a few Winnebagoes to join them, engaged in what is known as the Black Hawk war. Under the skilful leadership of BLACK HAWK they gave considerable trouble to the army sent to expel them, and. continued their resistance for several months. Asaresult of this struggle the Indians were removed further west, a new treaty was entered into, and permanent tranquility was secured to Wisconsin.

It is probable that these tribes had occupied this region for a considerable period prior to the permanent settlement of Wisconsin, and that they were a warlike race of old, for we learn that nearly two hundred years ago the French, who rarely became involved in any difficulty with the aborigines, were obliged by force of arms to wrest from the Saes and Foxes the privilege of transit between Green Bay and the Mississippi.

These savages have left but few traces of their occu- pancy. An occasional deep worn trail and here and there a small corn field constitute the only memorials of the rude life they led. One of the corn fields referred to may still be seen on the promontory on the east side of Lake Monona, near its outlet. This field, like others of its kind, will serve to exemplify the crude notions of agri- culture as well as a singular want of perception of geo- metrical proportions that characterized our predecessor !!. They used the same hills year after year, disposed thein

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at irregular intervals, and arranged them in no definite order. The earth was accumulated for the benefit of suc- cessive crops until the field (which was never enclosed) resembled a vast collection of ant hills. There is no evi- dence that the Indians of this region ever cultivated any other crop than maize. The absence of geometrical ar- rangement in agriculture is in striking contrast with the keen perception of symmetry evinced in the birch canoes, bows and arrows and ornamental bead work of these same savages.

Trails and corn fields are by no means the sole eviden- ces of a former occupancy. Artificial mounds, those mysterious monuments of a forgotten age if not of a for- gotten race, abound in the vicinity of the four lakes. In the earliest historic times the Indians seem to have been as destitute as they now are of any traditions respecting them. We should not be too hasty, however, in drawing the common inference that the mounds were the work of a more intelligent race long extinct, for even the most im- portant events will speedily fade from the memory of a savage people, without literature and intent upon the grat- ification of present animal desires. While it may be more gratifying to the fancy it is questionable whether it is more agreeable to reason to refer these works to a remote age and a civilized race. Many of the mounds which abound in the vicinity of Madison appear to have been the sites of dwellings or villages. As such they were only the simplest kind of a floor, and may have been thrown together by a very rude people, as a protection against floods. Indeed the fact that they are compose l almost exclusively of the loose surface soil would indicate that the implements used in their construction were of the simplest character. Other mounds were, perhaps as clear-

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ly, erected for sacrificial, and others for burial purposes. The great numbers of them found around the lakes indi. cate that this region was long a favorite resort for the abo. rigines as it naturally would have been, owing to the abundance of fish and water fowl. Not twenty years ago the shallow bays were literally covered, spring and au- tumn, with myriads of dueks. This, long after the rifle of the hunter had begun to frighten them from their wonted haunts. It is probable therefore that, when the silent arrow was the only weapon used against them, their numbers were limited only by the capacity of the lakes to feed them. The abundance of food and water must also have rendered this a favorite spot for deer and other large game, and the numerous marshes surrounding, most of which have been partially reclaimed by drainage, and the opening of the hide- bound soil on the adjacent hills, must have afforded an abundant supply of peltry. It is not surprising therefore that the savage bade a reluctant adieu to these "happy hunting grounds."

FIRST VISITS OF WHITE MEN.

LOCATION OF THE CAPITAL ..

It is uncertain at what time the region of the Four Lakes was first visited by white men. After the estab- lishment of the first Frenel: Trading Post at Green Bay, which occurred certainly as early as 1673, and according to some accounts as early as 1029, it is probable that the region now known as the State of Wisconsin was repeat- edly traversel in nearly every direction by the hardy and adventurous French traders, and it is not unlikely that the Four Lakes, in common with other lake districts were more than once visited for purposes of barter. We have

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however no reliable accounts of such visits, and they are only inferred from the enterprising spirit and the peculiar occupation of the traders. These singular men were shrewdly silent in regard to their wanderings and explo- rations, especially, when they extended to beautiful and fertile regions. It was part of their policy to discourage the immigration of those who were devoted to industrial pursuits and desirous to surround themselves with the re- finements of civilization, as they anticipated therefrom competition and the general decline of their trade, which must inevitably follow upon the settlement of the country. Accordingly they represented the country between Lako Michigan and the Mississippi, as a wholly impracticable region, occupied exclusively by lakes and swamps. In- deed their pursuits, which lead them chiefly through the forbidding region lying in the angle between Lakes Michi- gan and Superior, would naturally lead them to form erro- neous views respecting the country. However this may have been, it is certain that the early geographers adopted the views of the trappers and traders and embodied them in their works.

. For the reasons referred to, explorations were discour- aged, and it was not until some ten years after the North. west Territory came into the possession of the United States that any effort was made to procure reliable infor- mation respecting the interior, and we have no positive knowlege that the Four Lake country was visited by white men before the year 1825, when it was probably traversed by Governor LEWIS CASS' exploring party, of which Hon. J. D. DOTY was Secretary. Attracted, doubtless, by the beauty of the spot as well as other considerations, Gover- nor DOTY made another excursion hither in 1839, and in 1836, immediately after the establishment of the Territo.

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rial Government of Wisconsin, he, in company with Hon. S. T. MASON, of Detroit, bought the present site of the city for fifteen hundred dollars.

In February, 1837, the Territorial Legislature, then in session at Belmont, (which is now in Lafayette County) located the capital at Madison, and during the same month MOSES M. STRONG staked out the center of the village.

About the same time the General Government appoint- ed J. D. DOTY, A. A. BIRD and J. F. O'NEIL as building commissioners to erect a capitol building.

On the 14th of April following, Mr. EBEN PECK arriv- ed with his family and began building a log house, as a boarding house for the Commissioners and laborers. This house was the first built in Madison, and Mr. PECK was the first settler.

FIRST SETTLEMENT-BUILDING OF THE CAPITOL.

On the first of June, A. A. BIRD, Acting Commission- er, started from Milwaukee, (in company with about forty workmen,) with a train of four wagons loaded with pro- visions, tools and such other things as would be most needed. It would appear that the journey was not the most pleasant immaginable .. There was no road, and the party were obliged to make one for themselves. They chopped their way through the forests, built long "cordu- roy" over swamps, and forded streams. They forded Rock River at Johnson's Rapids, near where Watertown now stands, and the Crawfish, at Milford. Nearly the whole journey was performed in the rain. - The first time they saw the sun was just as they emerged from the openings upon Sun Prairie, which owes its name to that circum- stance. What with rain and breaking roads and fording

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streams, the party did not arrive at their destination till the tenth of June, having been just ten days on the way. Among the party that accompanied BIRD were DARWIN CLARK, CHARLES BIRD, DAVID HYER, and JOIN PIERCE with his family. These settled in Madison, while most of the others went away after the completion of the Capitol.

On the same day that BIRD's party reached their destina- tion, SIMEON MILLS arrived from Chicago, in the capacity of Deputy Postmaster, JOHN CATLIN having been prev- iously appointed Postmaster at this point. Mr. MILLS im- mediately put up a block house, fifteen feet square, which he used for a post office and store. Mr. MILLS has there- fore the honor to have been the first merchant of Madison. About the end of June or first of July, JOHN CATLIN reached here. He was the first lawyer in Madison.

On the Fourth of July, 1837, the corner stone of the Capitol was laid, with due form and ceremony, the occa- sion being celebrated by speeches and toasts.

About this time the first framed building-an office for the Building Commissioners-was completed. The boards for this as also for the first framed dwelling, built by Com- missioner BIRD, were sawed by hand. This mode of lum- bering, however, was not long in vogue, as in early au- tumn a steam mill was completed. This mill was located on the bank of Lake Mendota, a little west of the foot of Butler street. Much of the lumber used in building the Capitol was sawed here.

Owing to the lack of facilities the work upon the Capi- tol progressed but slowly. All tools as well as all mate- rials, that could not be found in the vicinity, had to be hauled from Milwaukee, and this was a tedious operation for a considerable time, or at least until the streams and marshes were bridged, and the roads improved. The stone

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