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ROCK COUNTY WISCONSIN
A New History of its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up To Date
HISTORIAN AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
WILLIAM FISKE BROWN, M. A., D. D. 1 BELOIT, WISCONSIN
ASSOCIATE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Hon. A. A. Jackson, Judge C. L. Fifield, Doctor S. B. Buckmaster, Supt. H. C. Buell, Prest. J. G. Rexford, Hon. H. L. Skavlem and Horace McElroy, Esq., of Janesville, and Prof. R. C. Chapin, Hon. F. F. Livermore, J. B. Dow, Esq., and E. C. Helm, M. D., of Beloit 7938
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I
ILLUSTRATED
PUBLISHED BY C. F. COOPER & CO. CHICAGO 1908
236537B
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INTRODUCTION
History is an endeavor to make the past live again in the present. Time tells the truth, and it is to be regretted that much of what is called history does not. A true record of the past euriches the present and is valuable both for warning and for guidance. It is like a mariner's chart, on which are noted the roeks and shoals where vessels have been wrecked and also the safe channels, which brave hearts have found for all future voyagers. Or it is like those records and surveys of early explorers, from which have been made our present maps; so that where the pioneers slowly sought their way with uncer- tainty and danger we can now go surely and safely.
And this knowledge of the past, called history, not only increases our present enjoyment and efficiency, but also encour- ages us to bravely face the future and enables us to deal with it more wisely. The past honorable record of Rock county both tends to awaken gratitude for what our predecessors have done and also stimulates us to make some good progress ourselves for the benefit of those who are to come after us. So each sueeessive historie record becomes both a mirror and a measure of the times, therein treated, and also a challenge and a help to better times.
Two years ago the publishers of this work, adopting the plan of having a topieal history of Rock county, asked me to select twelve associate editors, able and prominent men of the county, who should each write a chapter along the line of his especial interest and information. We have, therefore, from one of the ablest and most cultured lawyers of Janesville, that elaborate paper on the "Evolution of Roek County," which shows the thoroughness and exaetness that characterize Hon. A. A. Jaek- son's professional as well as literary work. Lawyer Horace MeElroy, of the same city, an abstractor of titles, has given us in the "Forgotten Places" a unique serviee, which no one else could have done better if as well. More than any other man in the county Hon. H. L. Skavlem, of Janesville, knows about the Norwegians. Judge Charles L. Fifield, historian of Janesville;
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J. G. Rexford, president of the First National Bank; Dr. S. B. Buckmaster, Superintendent H. C. Buell. ex-president of the State Teachers' Association ; Prof, R. C. Chapin, of Beloit Col- lege, our veteran county supervisor ; F. F. Livermore, and the experienced clerk of the Beloit school board, were each and all very manifestly masters of the topics they treat. A knowledge of our manufacturing interests, however, might not seem to be within the line of ordinary legal experience. But the experiences of J. B. Dow, Esq., of Beloit, and of Lawyer A. E. Matheson, of Janesville, have not been merely legal, as their illuminating, respective records show. The Editor is proud of all his associates and of each and all of their contributions to this history. We are indebted also to Mr. Horace White, of New York, for the use of papers from his pen, and to ex-Congressman L. B. Caswell, of Fort Atkinson; Hon. Ellery Crane, of Worcester, Mass .; Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, of Chicago University ; F. W. Coon, of Edgerton ; Professor Shaw and Rev. Frank Jackson, of Milton; E. B. Heim- street, George Sutherland, Esq., and Mayor S. B. Heddles, of Janesville ; Prof. G. L. Collie, Banker Walter Brittan, C. B. Sal- mon, Charles Rau, L. S. Moseley, of Beloit, and to Ira P. Nye, of Eureka, Kas., for interesting contributions or information. The several papers by women authors, the reminiscences of I. T. Smith and the "History of the Janesville Press," by the late A. O. Wilson, were taken from the original manuscripts, deposited in the State Historical Society library building at Madison.
The Editor is acquainted with all the previous histories of this region and both appreciates and acknowledges his indebted- ness to them. By thorough research he has sought to correct their mistakes, add new material, some of it unique, and bring the whole record up to date. That excerpt from the records of Stonington (Vol. I, page 80) and the "Marriage Register" of Rev. Dexter Clary (page 265) are especially valuable "finds."
Our Chicago publishers, C. F. Cooper & Co., who in their recent "History of Oshkosh" were said to have produced the best book of the kind ever issued in Wisconsin, determined to make these two volumes even better. They have chosen, there- fore, a paper free from that excessive glaze, which is so trying and injurious to the eyesight, have used new and clear type and have given careful attention to the printing, indexing and bind- ing. A thousand pages without a single printer's error would
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be almost a miracle. That these two volumes of more than a thousand pages approach very nearly to that miraculous per- fection means most unremitting watchfulness on the part of both Editor and publishers and all concerned.
The many steel-engraved portraits produced by the same firm and their careful printing of the various half-tone cuts, all on "inserts" of special paper, add much to the beauty and also the value of this work.
The Editor is personally responsible for the biographies of twenty Beloit citizens and for about a dozen others, such as those of Governor and Mrs. Harvey, Miss Frances Willard, Justice Whiton, Judge Prichard, Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, Lawyers White- head, Patterson. McGowan and several more.
The portrait of William B. Strong, of Beloit, facing the title page of Volume I, and that of Chief Justice E. V. Whiton, of Janesville, which begins Volume II, present honorable examples, respectively, of our business and our professional citizenship.
We, who have labored together on this new "History of Rock County," have tried to make it accurate, interesting, clear, usable and fairly complete to date. It is for the reader to Judge how far we have succeeded and to approve or condemn at his pleasure.
WILLIAM FISKE BROWN, Editor-in-Chief.
Beloit, Wis., November -, 1908.
LIST OF PORTRAITS
Babbitt, Clinton
76
Brown, D. D., William F
402
Carle, Levi B. .
18
Child, Harold W
272 264-
Child, William W
46
Crosby, George H.
288
Doty, George W
416
Dowd, Rex J.
92
Fox, Cyrus D.
442
Gault, Charles A.
108
Hackett, John
122
Hansen, Edward F
182
Harvey, Gov.
502 454.
Jackson, A. A.
64
Leonard, Horace J
154
Lewis, Franklin F. 468
Lovejoy, Allen P.
168
MeLaughlin, Charles
486
McLenegan, H. H
198
More, Robert
470
Moseley, Lucius S.
212
Myers, Peter
258
Palmer, Dr. Henry
302 318
Putnam, Jesse C.
332
Reigart, Amos E.
350
Rexford, John De Witt.
138
Salmon, Charles B
242
Frontispiece
Thompson, John
32
Warren, J. H.
364
Wheeler, Leonard H. 228
Wheeler, William H.
386
Henry, John B.
Pollock, David H.
Strong, William B
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. GEOLOGY 13-21
Paper of T. C. Chamberlin, condensed by the Editor. The island of Wisconsin. Successive layers of rock. Underlying sandstone, water bearing. Artesian wells. No coal measures in Rock county. The Glacial period. Formation of Rock river valley. The Kettle range. Cause of our many lakes. Abundance of springs.
CHAPTER II. THE PICTURE MOUND BUILDERS AND LATER INDIAN
ERRATA.
In the Table of Contents. Chapter XIV, Corgill is Cargill.
History, page 31, the next to the last line should change places with the fourth line of page 32.
On page 53%, between lines 4 and 5. In returning * they ran onto a large rock near the Stone farm and it took about half a day to get the boat free. This boat remained here for $ some weeks ..
Portrait of William F. Brown is at pago 264 instead of 402.
east. His old age, death and burial. The war a great advertise- ment of this Rock river country.
CHAPTER IV. THE FORGOTTEN PLACES. Horace MeElroy.
49-63
Van Buren. Saratoga. Warsaw. Caramana. Wisconsin City. East Wisconsin City. Newburgh. Kushkonong. End of the boom in towns, 1837-57. Old Indian mounds at L. Koshkonong; in Milton; Porter; Fulton; Rock; Beloit township; city of Beloit; towns of Turtle and Janesville; in Newark, Avon, and at Afton. Prehistoric implements, lasting.
CHAPTER V. THE HISTORIC EVOLUTION OF ROCK COUNTY A. A. Jackson.
64-126
Norse period. Spanish. French. English. Colonial period. Roanoke island and tobacco. James river, 1607. Virginia. Mas- sachusetts' claim to this region, 79. Mayflower compact. De- scendants in Rock County. Connecticut settlements. The unique
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CHAPTER I. GEOLOGY Paper of T. C. Chamberlin, condensed by the Editor. The island of Wisconsin. Successive layers of rock. Underlying sandstone, water bearing. Artesian wells. No coal measures in Rock county. The Glacial period. Formation of Rock river valley. The Kettle range. Cause of our many lakes. Abundance of springs.
CHAPTER II. THE PICTURE MOUND BUILDERS AND LATER INDIAN OCCUPANTS
22-34
Four periods of aboriginal occupation. Investigations of West and Skavlem. Priority of the Picture Mound builders. The turtle mound in Beloit College ground. Meaning of the effigy mounds. Man mound near Baraboo. The long mounds. Round burial mounds. Crowding of many different races, driven here by enemies. Nicolet, 1634. Radirson, 1658. Carver, 1766. Start of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Foxes and Sacs. The Winne- bagos. Turtle village. Indian removals, 29. Fourteen treaties, 1804 to 1837. Lake Sakaegan. Black Hawk and the treaty of 1816. The Winnebago war, 1828. The actual removal of Indians delayed. Eight thousand still in Wisconsin.
CHAPTER III. THE BLACK HAWK WAR. The Editor. 35-48
Causes. Intrusion of squatters. Stubbornness of Black Hawk. He claims right to raise corn and hunt. His expedition up Rock river, called invasion of Illinois. Henry Gratiot. Gen. Atkinson. Abraham Lincoln. The retreat north through this region. Gen- eral Dodge. Battle of Wisconsin Heights. Final action at Bad Axe river. Capture of Black Hawk at the Dells. His journey east. His old age, death and burial. The war a great advertise- ment of this Roek river country.
CHAPTER IV. THE FORGOTTEN PLACES. Horace McElroy. 49-63
Van Buren. Saratoga. Warsaw. Caramana. Wisconsin City. East Wisconsin City. Newburgh. Kushkonong. End of the boom in towns, 1837-57. Old Indian mounds at L. Koshkonong; in Milton; Porter; Fulton; Rock; Beloit township; city of Beloit; towns of Turtle and Janesville; in Newark, Avon, and at Afton. Prehistoric implements, lasting.
CHAPTER V. THE HISTORIC EVOLUTION OF ROCK COUNTY. A. A. Jackson.
64-126
Norse period. Spanish. French. English. Colonial period. Roanoke island and tobacco. James river, 1607. Virginia. Mas- sachusetts' claim to this region, 79. Mayflower compact. De- scendants in Rock County. Connecticut settlements. The unique
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Stonington record. Settlers on the Ohio. George Washington makes and loses Fort Necessity. Fort Duquesne. Braddock 's defeat. Charles De Langlade. Wisconsin a part of Quebec. The revolution begun. George Rogers Clarke secures Illinois. His biography. The sovereignty of Virginia northwest of the Ohio. The war of revolution ended in 1783. Patrick Henry.
Territorial Period .- The northwest territory. Ordinance of 1787. First settlers in Ohio at Marietta, 1788. Election of representatives to a general assembly, 1798. Knox county em- braced Wisconsin. Laws passed. Provision as to new states. Indiana territory, formed in 1800, includes Wisconsin. Gover- nor Harrison. The territory of Michigan formed, 1805. Terri- tory of Illinois, 1809, covers Wisconsin. Gov. Ninian Edwards. Nathaniel Pope. Hull's surrender of Detroit, 1812. Capture of Prairie du Chien by the British, 1814. State of Illinois, 1818. Change of north boundary, 108. Three counties formed west of Lake Michigan, Michilimackinac, Crawford and Brown; the latter includes this region. The Black Hawk episode, 111. Dis- tinguished men connected with it, 113. 1834. Milwaukee county formed, including this region, 114. N. Wis. given to Michigan. Lewis Cass, 116. Territory of Wis., 1836. General Dodge, gov- ernor. Census. Population of Milwaukee county. Dec. 3, 1836, Madison the capital. Dec. 7, 1836, Rock county formed. Dec. 7, 1837. Town of Rock equals the county. Territory of Wis- consin limited. Feb. 13, 1839, Rock county organized. State constitutional convention, 1846, at Madison. Delegates from Rock county. Constitution adopted, 1848. Governor Henry Dodge. The twenty towns. High rank of Rock county, 126.
CHAPTER VI. HISTORY OF BELOIT. The Editor. 126-195
Indians, Stephen Mack, Thibault. Caswell's account of him. 1832, first recorded visit of white men. The Inmans, 1835. First visit of white women, 1836. This region a natural paradise. 1836, Caleb Blodgett, Hackett, Goodhue. Saw mill, 1837. Dam on Turtle creek. The race. Horace White's account. Begin- nings of Beloit. The New England company. 1837, Dr. White, O. P. Bicknell, R. P. Crane's diary, $2,500 paid. Blodgett's double log house. Old account book. First bridge over the tur- tle. Alfred Field's arrival. Hardships of travel. Mrs. Crane carries infant Ellery, 138. Settlers from Colebrook and Bed- ford, N. H. The Rock River house. The self-acting ferry. Ad- venture of little Horace White. Webster Moore lost. The names Turtle, New Albany, Beloit, 141. 1836, Rock county. Names of early settlers. Crosby's cabin. Aug. 13, 1837, first publie relig- ious service, led by Horace Hobart. Settlers of 1838. Dr. D. K. Pearson's story of the Cheney girls, 143. 1839, Hopkins' survey based on Kelsou's. 1840, Rev. D. Clary, Benjamin Brown and wife, their Puritan ancestry. Family record. The Fiskes. First brick yard. Brown's store. No spectacles in Rockford or Freeport. Beloit supplied. H. Burchard. Hon. Horatio C. Burchard. Edward L.
Charles Peck. First house, west side of river, 1843, Hackett. David Merrill's account of early days, 150. Central bridge, 1842. Second house, west side, 1844. Steamboat up the Rock, 1844. First things in Beloit. Kelsou's survey, 1837. First locomotive, 1853. Growth of the village. Incorporated, 1846. First village officers. Census of 1846. The old stone church. Difficulties about land titles, 157. Law suits, Gardner vs. Tisdale, Dillingham vs. Fisher. Judge E. V. Whiton.
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Abraham Lincoln. Rufus Choate. Daniel Cady. Beloit jour- nalism. Census 1848 and 1855. The city incorporated 1856. Goodhue family. First mayor. Second mayor, Waterman. State street fifty-five years ago. First police justice, A. Taggart. Paper making begun. Early manufactures, mills, schools. The Archæan Society. Some of its famous members. Beginnings of churches, secret societies. Fire department. Postal facilities. Beloit in war time. Memorial Hall. Memorial Day, 1879. Be- loit 36 years ago by Dow. The Tornado of 1883. Other dis- asters. Railroad bonds. Additions. South Beloit. Latest im- provements. Biography of Wm. B. Strong, 192-195.
CHAPTER VII. REMINISCENCES .. 196-201
L. B. Caswell. :
In 1838. Club Law. Indians. Canoes. First school. Doctor Luke Stoughton of Janesville. Early settlers. Wild rice.
CHAPTER VIII. REMINISCENCES 202-231
I. T. Smith. (From the original manuscript.)
Chicago 1834, 1837. In Milton, 1837. Land sale, 1838. People honest. Exploring in Dane county. Too much turtle. First judge, Irwin. First wedding. Account of a tramp in 1838. Shot tower at Helena. The keel boat. Cordeling. Indian treaty at Prairie du Chien. Manners of the times, Hagerman, Brown. Boating lead to St. Louis. The trapper Jarvey. Gold on the Arkansas, 1837. Supper and lodging eighteen cents. The Indian treaty at Chicago, 1833. Hammond's revolver.
CHAPTER 1X. COUNTY GOVERNMENT. 232-236
By F. F. Livermore.
Retrospective. History. Supervisors, 1842. No politics. Court House, 1870. Record for long service, Simon Smith, Murill, Bailey, Bowles, Eager.
CHAPTER X. ROCK COUNTY SCHOOLS .. .237-243
The Editor.
First inspectors. First and Second districts. Progress during past five years. Frances Willard School. Central diploma exam- ination. Compulsory attendance law, 1903. School board con- ventions. Annual Teachers' Institutes. Bonus to progressive schools. Flag raisings.
CHAPTER XI. BELOIT SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL TEACHERS. 244-256
Paper by Horace White, the Editor.
First school charter, 1837. First school, 1838. First school house, 1839. Old stone church, Dr. White. Early teachers, east side. First recorded Beloit joke. Humphrey's aristocratic school. West side schools and teachers, 1851. Building of Union No. 1, James W. Strong, 1852. Childs, Crane, Dustin. Female Semi- nary and teachers. A. J. Battin, Supt., 1855. C. C. Keeler's certificate. J. H. Blodgett, Montague Buckley, Kerr. Forty years of Beloit City School District, by E. C. Helm. Choosing site for High School. Names of successive superintendents. Members of School Board, Principals, Kindergartens, 1892.
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Naming the schools, 1865. Present property. Story about Wm. H. Beach. Growth the last twenty years.
CHAPTER XII. JANESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 257-262
By Supt. H. C. Buell.
Beginnings. The brick building, 1845. Janesville Academy. Regular Principal. Public School System. List of Principals. Members Board of Education. School Buildings. The High
School. Kindergartens. Reminiscences.
CHAPTER XIII. BELOIT CHURCHES .. The Editor. 263-281
First Congregational. Rev. Mr. Clary's valuable Record of Mar- riages, 1840-1850-1865. Second Congregational. First Presbyte- rian, W. Side Presbyterian, German Presbyterian. St. Paul's Episcopal. St. Thomas R. C., Saint Jude's R. C. First Baptist. First M. E. The Five Lutheran Churches. Gridley Chapel. Chris- tian Scientist. Disciples Church. Lutheran Valley Church.
CHAPTER XIV. THE JANESVILLE CHURCHES The Editor. 282-298
First M. E., Court Street M. E., Central M. E., Corgill Memorial, Congregational, First Presbyterian, St. Patrick's, Dean MeGin- nity, St. Mary's R. C., Unitarian, First Baptist, Trinity Epis- copal, Christ Episcopal, St. Paul's Lutheran, Norwegian Lutheran, United Brethren, Christian Scientist, St. Peter's, English Luth- eran, German Evangelical Lutheran, Y. M. C. A.
CHAPTER XV. BELOIT COLLEGE. Prof. R. C. Chapin.
299-317
The Beginnings. President A. L. Chapin's account. Prof. Bush- nell's story. Hon. Horace White's Reminiscences. Four Epochs in the History of Beloit College: 1, Formative; 2, the War Era; 3, Period of Intensive Growth, 1873-1886. Alumni Help. Science emphasized. Diversified student activities. Percentage of grad- uates in the different professions. President Chapin resigns. 1886; 4, Era of Expansion; New President, Eaton; D. K. Pear- sons, J. W. Scoville. Many generous gifts and givers; Pearsons Hall, 1893; New Science Course; Athletic Instructor, 1894; co- education, 1895; Fraternity Houses. Advance in the last ten years, 1897-1908. Three new buildings. Emerson Hall, 1898. New Gym, 1904. Carnegie Library, 1905. Attendance increases from 196 to 341 in 1908. Endowment becomes one million dol- lars. Beloit contributes ten thousand. Changes in the faculty and in the curriculum. Track athletics; basketball. Interstate oratorical contests and victories. Greek play; German, Latin, Shakespearean plays. Musical Association. Biography of Presi- dent A. L. Chapin.
Milton College. By Prof. Edwin Shaw .318-324 Founder. Early years. Wm. C. Whitford. Academy faculty. College, 1867. Financial statement. Patriotic record. Grad- uates. College organizations. Whitford Memorial Hall, 1906.
CHAPTER XVI. MILITARY HISTORY OF ROCK COUNTY 325-399
By the Editor.
Gov. Randall's proclamation. Mass meeting at Janesville, 1861. Beloit City. Guards. Co. F, First Regiment Vol. Infantry. 2d
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Regt., Co. D. 3d Regt., Thomas Ruger. 5th Regt., Co. E. 6th Regt., Co. G. 7th Regt., Co. K. Sth Regt., Co. G. Thirteenth Regiment. Field staff. Co. A, Ruger Guards. Co. B, Co. D, Co. F, Co. G, Co. K, Norcross, captain. 15th Regt., Samuel Bell, asst. surgeon. Sixteenth Regiment, New Company F, D, I. Ser- enteenth Regiment, Companies B, D, E, F. Twenty-second Regi- ment, Co. E, mostly Janesville men; Companies B and I, mostly Beloit men. Record of regiment. Corporal Moseley and Col. Utley. The 22d paroled, re-enlisted. Lieut. Nye's muster roll. Deserters few. General Sherman and Sunday before Atlanta. Thirty-third Regiment, Companies E, F. 35th Regt., B, C, D, E, H, I, F. The Fortieth Regiment, 1864. Co. A, Janesville. Co. B, Beloit. Co. C, Milton men. D, E, F, Co. I. Record of regiment, p. 357. The Forty-second, Co. H. 44th Regt., Co. G, Co. H, Co. 1. 47th Regt., Co. F, Co. HI, Beloit men. 49th Regt., Cos. C and D, Milton men. 50th Regt., Cos. A, D. 52d, 2 men. Artillerymen, page 366. Fourth Wis., Vallee's Battery, Beloit men. 10th and 12th Wis. Battery, mostly from Janesville. 13th Wis. Battery, Wis. Heavy Artillery, Ist Regt., Cos. D, E, F, H and L. Wis. Cavalry, page 372. 2d Regt., Co. M. Third Regt., Co. E. Spanish War Veterans, page 375. 1st Wis. Vol. Inf., Co. E. New U. S. National Guard, First Inf., Co. L (Beloit). List of soldier interments, page 376. Beloit cemeteries. Janes- ville cemeteries, page 382. Mt. Zion, Emerald Grove, Center, Rock. Summary. Biography of Governor Harvey, 386. Mrs. Cordelia Harvey. One Hundred Days Men, page 390. Going out. In eamp. Coming back. School boys in the war, 398.
CHAPTER XVII. AGRICULTURE. 400-411
Statistics. Agricultural Society, 1850. J. F. Willard. The lit- tle flower at Forest Cottage. Annual meetings. Organization given up during war time. New society, 1864. State Fairs in Rock county.
Rock County and Tobacco .411-414
The Editor.
Edgerton, the world's largest market of cigar leaf, 412, 650, 685. First discovery and introduction. Supplementary account, by F. W. Coon, of Edgerton. For sugar beet record see page 711. Janesville tobacco market, p. 570.
CHAPTER XVIII. SCANDINAVIANS IN ROCK COUNTY 416-451
H. L. Skavlem.
Causes of emigration. Ole and Austin Natesta. Ole Rynning. Bjorn Anderson and the Fox river settlement. Beaver Creek, III. 1838, Ole Natesta reaches Rock county. Jefferson Prairie settlement. D. B. Eggery's place in Turtle. Gravds and Hal- lan, 7 miles northwest of Beloit, Oet., 1839. Widow Gunnel, 1840. Rock Prairie settlement, west of Beloit, distinct from Roek Prairie in Harmony. Norwegian clergy. Dietrichson. System of names. Odd transformations. Old records of entry by Nor- wegians. First Norwegian land owner in Rock county, Hallan ; Widow Odegarden, the second. Norwegians strongly religions. Elling Eielson, 1839, C. L. Clansen. Ole Andrewson. Paul An- derson, 1843. Mr. Scavlem and freedom. Political affiliations. Norwegian papers and patriots. Jacob Lund. Reminiscences of Mrs. Groe Skavlem, page 441. Supplementary Notes.
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CHAPTER XIX. PIONEER WOMEN OF ROCK COUNTY 452-464 Mary L. Burr.
St. John, Bailey, Heath, Holmes, Kendall, Strunk, Culver, Spauld- ing, Dean, Williston, Wood, Dewey, Prichard, Arnold, Clark, Walker, Bostwick, (461) Cheney, Fowle, Barker, Cowan, Wyman, Pioneer verse.
CHAPTER XX. THE MEDICAL FRATERNITY. .465-476
S. B. Buckmaster, M. D.
Dr. Horace White, Beloit; Heath, Babcock, Evans, Mitchell, Chit- tenden, Treat, Borden, Palmer, Lord, Whiting, Judd. List of 1856. List in 1906-'07. Editor's biography of Dr. Buckmaster ; of Dr. Samuel Bell.
CHAPTER XXI. PHARMACY, OLD AND NEW, OF ROCK COUNTY ..... E. B. Heimstreet.
.477-479
Holden and Kemp, 1849. Later druggists. Society formed, 1878. State Association, 1880. Present officers : Druggists, Milton, Milton, Jr., Evansville; Edgerton, Clinton.
CHAPTER XXII. BANKING IN JANESVILLE. .480-486
J. G. Rexford.
McCrea, Bell & Co., 1851. Free banking law, 1852. W. A. Law- rence. Central Bank, 1852. Badger State, 1853. Janesville City, 1855. Rock County, 1855. Producer's, 1857. First National, 1863. Rock County National, 1865. Wisconsin Savings Bank, 1873. Merchants and Mechanics, 1875. Bower City, 1895. Table of Progress, 1860-1908.
CHAPTER XXIII. HISTORY OF BELOIT BANKS .487-492 The Editor.
A. B. Carpenter, 1845. Rock River Bank, Frontier Bank, 1858. Wadsworth, Clark & Co., 1855. Southern Bank, 1860. Beloit National, 1863. Citizen's National, 1879. Manufacturer's, C. B. Salmon & Co., 1880. Second National, 1882. Beloit State Bank, 1892. L. C. Hyde and Brittan, 1854 to date. Beloit Sav- ings Bank, S. T. Merrill, John A. Holmes. Present amount of Beloit deposits. Edgerton banks: First National, Tobacco Ex- change, 649, 647.
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