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Kellogg, Walter W., 220 Kelm, W. O., 193 Kelm, William O., 224, 595 Kennedy, Timothy O., 411
Kennan, T. L., 94
Kentucky City, 386, 413 Kerman, Henry, 242 Kerr, Joseph, 128 Kershaw, George, 95 Ketchum, A. C., 172 Keyes, S. P., 149 Kiefer, Andrew, 623 Kiefer, Fred, 624 Kilhourn, Byron, 252, 258 Kilbourn, Byron H., 258 Kilbourn City-The village of the pres- ent, 250; Wisconsin River Hydraulic Company fathers Kilbourn, 251; Edi- tor Holly arrives, 251; village plat re- corded, 251; sales of lots, 252; schools of Kilbourn City, 253; village incor- porated, 256; water service and fire protection, 256; the free publie li- brary, 256; James E. Jones, 257; im- provement of Southern Wisconsin Power Company, 257; first steamboat at the Dells, 262; Banks at Kilbourn,
263; the Presbyterian Church, 263; the Methodists, 264; St. Cecelia (Cath- olic) Church, 264; other religious bodies, 265 Kilbourn Catholic Church, the, 692
Kilbourn City Seminary, 157
Kilbourn Institute, 157
Kilbourn State Bank, 263
Kilbourn, Otis A., 435
Kincaid, Orin, 375
Kingsbury, Charles M., 220
Kinzie, John H., 24, 56
Kinzie, Mrs. John H., 24, 159
Kinzie, Mrs., describes the Indian chiefs,
24 Kirst, L. C., 280, 295
Kleimenhagen, Leonhard, 523
Kleinert, Adolph, 489
Kleinert, William C., 476
Klenert, Anton, 590
. Klnekkorn, Charles, 244 Kluender, Julius, 720
Knihhs, John, 214
Knights of Columbus, Portage, 224
Knowles, George, 440, 443
Koch, D. H., 242, 243
Koepke, William, 304
Koester, H. J., 280
Koester, Hugo, 678
Krech, Catharine, 190, 191
Kroncke, W. H., 717
Kurth, Anna, 247
Kurth, C., 247
Kurth Company, Columbus, 247
Kurth, J. H., 247
Kutzke, Charles J., 638
Kutzke, William, 638
LaCrosse & Milwaukee R. R. Company, 100
Lakes, 14 Land Districts, 80
Langdon, Francis B., 420
Langdon, John, 105, 440, 442
Langdon, Samuel, 150, 291, 441
Langdon, Samnel P., 288
Langley, R., 214
Lanzendorf, E. H., 757
Lanzendorf, William, 464 Larson, Lars, 462
Last forced march of the Winnebagoes, 29 Last of the Indian lands, 21 Last relie of Fort Winnebago (view), 55 La Salle, 39
Laughlin, William B., 349
Law, G., 220
Lawrence, William M., 208
Leach, Solomon, 105 L'Ecnyer, Jean B., 40, 73, 74, 76
L'Ecuyer's Grave, 76 Lee, Frank T., 182
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Leeds Center, 407
Leeds Township-Town of Leeds, 406; chief of the forage towns, 407; first land claims and settlers, 407; Leeds Center, 407; organization of town, 408; postoffices, 408; first Norwegian church, 408 Lefferts, W., 332
Leffingwell, Arthur, 526
Leitsch, Robert C., 142
Leitsch, W. C., 249
Lennon, Patrick, 160, 212, 617
Lennon, Patrick J., 618
Le Roy, Francis, 41, 50
Levee system, 14, 94-100
Lewis, Gunder, 654
Lewis, J. N., 272
Lewis, J. T., 105, 240
Lewis, James T., 69, 118, 156, 239-34, 241, 443
Lewis, T., 379
Lewis. W. L., 246
Linck, Carl, 570
Lintner, Louis J., 666
Lione, John O., 767
Lione, Lars, 767
Lione, Ole, 767
Little Elk, 25
Live stock, 128
Lloyd. Jabez, 288
Lloyd, John J., 151
Lloyd, Walter F., 217
Lodi-The beginning of, 266; I. H. Palmer and the Bartholomews, 267; Rev. Henry Maynard, 267; the Suck- ers Settlement becomes famous, 268; settlers of 1846, 268; the Blachley settlement, 268; first M. D. and D. D., 268; other physicians, 269; South v. North, before the war, 269; I. H. Palmer founds Lodi, 269; progress of local schools, 270; village charter. 271; water service and electric lighting, 271; the Methodist Church, 271; the Presbyterian Church, 272; the Bap- tist Church, 272; Lodi lodges, 273; business houses, 273; banks of Lodi, 273; Herbert Palmer, son of Lodi's founder, 274
"Lodi Enterprise." 147
"Lodi Flag," 146
"Lodi Journal," 147
Lodi Union Agricultural Society, 128
"Lodi Weekly Herald," 141, 147
Lodi Township-A pretty healthful town, 380; George M. and Marston C. Bartholomew, 380; Rev. Henry May- nard and wife, 381; a hunt for "Mil- waukee Woods," 381; matured pupil writes of first school, 382
Log Cabin of the Real Settler (view), 82
Log House of Dr. Leander Drew, West Point (view), 434
Lone Rock, 8
Long, George S., 728
Long, Peter, 727
Long, S. H., 39
Loomis, Gallett & Breese, 204
Loomis, Annie E., 531
Loomis, Daniel E., 530
Loomis, Frank B., 182 Loomis, Isabella H., 644
Loomis, Nellie A., 239
Loomis, Rodney O., 643
Loomis, Mrs. R. O., 190
Loomis, Washington, 739
Louis Bluff, Head of the Wisconsin Dells, Old Indian Signal Station (view), 19 Low, Gideon, 53, 185 Low, Jacob, 427, 428
Lower Dells, the, 7
Lowth, Matthew, 238
Lowville Township-Jacob Low, first set- tler of Lowville, 427; first marriage, birth and death, 427; first postoffice and mail route, 427; the hotel, 428; town named Lowville, 428; first teacher and preacher, 428; coming of the Townsend family, 428
Ludington, James, 242
Ludington, Lewis, 228, 234, 399
Luey, Cheney O., 548
Luey, Oliver Rodney, 547
Luey, W. R., 548
Mackenzie, John, 490
Mackenzie, William K., 615
MacMillan, H. R., 218
Madden, John, 761
Madison & Portage Railroad, 387
Madison & Portage Railroad Company, 342
Magoffin, J. H., 207
Maloney, Thomas, 508
Malthey, E. B., 746 Mandeville, Charles H., 651
Mandeville, John E., 652
Manning, Joseph S., 156
Manning, J. S., 235, 236
Man-ze-mon-e-ka, 60
Marcellon Township-First settler in Marcellon, 420; others who came in 1846, 420; name of Marcellon without meaning, 421 Marcy, Randolph B., 54, 168
Markham, John B., 691 Markham, Sidney D., 691 Marlatt, Esther, 662 Marquette, 34, 36, 87, 211
Marquette Voyaging Toward the Mis- sissippi (view), 35
Marquette & Swan Lake Canal Com- pany, 394
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Marsden, Arthur, 674 Marshes, 15 Mascoutens, 20, 34, 36 Masonic Hall Building, 182 Masons of Portage, 220 Mattice, O. F., 178 Maynard, Henry, 162, 165, 267, 304, 378, 381
Mills, Mary, 732 Mills, Robert, 240 Mills, S., 350 Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. Co., 101 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Ma- rie R. R. Co., 102 Miner, S. E., 360, 362
Mitchell, L. H., 215
Mitchell, Stewart, 263
Mohr, Christian F., 563
Montgomery, A., 163
Moore, Charles, 160, 212
Moore, William E., 541
McClond, James, 381 MeConachie, John, 426
Moore, W. E., 284 Moran, Dominick, 747
MeConochie, R. N., 132, 202
Moran, E. W., 190
Moran, John, Sr., 677
Moran, John, Jr., 678
Morrissey, John, 213, 601
Mound builders, 17 Muir, Hugh, 414 Mullen, William, 264
McFarland, Andrew, 723
McFarland, John, 653 McFarland, John Irwin, 654
Munger, E. D., 258 Munn, Henry B., 210
Murphy, Henry R., 245, 568
Murison, George, 565
Mylrea, Susie, 256
Narrows, the, 6 National "Verband," Portage, 225
Mckenzie, John, 344, 345
Natural features, 1 Neenah creek, 13
MeKinney, Humphrey, 408 McMahon, Timothy, 758 McMillan, George, 379, 725
Neff, G. C., 259 Neill, Henry, 151
Neill, John, 659 Nelson, Anna, 154
Nelson, Frank Lee, 544
Nelson, Hans, 460 Nelson, Thomas C., 386
New Armory, the, 183
New High School, Cambria (view), 290 Newport-Joseph Bailey and Jonathan Bowman, backers, 395; in 1855 con- tained 1,500 people, 396; making all safe and sound, 396; the slip and fall, 396; founders move to Newport, 397 Newport Township-Newport town and village founded, 438; first settlers, 438
Newspapers, (See the Press) Nicolet, Jean, 33 Niles, W. A., 156 Noble, G. F., 251 Noller, Fred, 533 Northrup, Theodore, 428 Noted men and women at the fort, 53
O'Brien, Alfred, 534 O'Brion, John, 716 Odd Fellows of Portage, 221 Okee Village, 101, 384 O'Keefe, Daniel, 723
Mazzuchelli, Samuel C., 159, 211 McBurnie, Reubin, 522
MeCafferty, H. W., 366 McCall, Ervin, 288, 430 McCall, John, 288
McConochie, Samuel, 288, 426 McDermott, Peter W., 728 McDonald, Alexander, 405 McDongall, C., 394 McEwen, D. S., 218
McFarlane, Hugh, 119, 149, 185, 220 McGregor, John, 254 McGregor, John P., 201
MeIntosh, William H., 752 Mckay, A. S., 215 Mckay, W. J., 214 MeKenney, Thomas L., 44
McMillan, G., & Son, 379 McNair, William W., 163, 164, 214 McNair, W. W., 215 McNeal, Nelson, 220 MePherson, Robert, 92 McQueen, A. D., 465 McQueen, J. R., 470
McQueen, Sarah J., 470 McQueeney, M., 222 Meacher, Byron C., 738 Meacher, William, 222, 736
Melvin, T. C., 242 Mencke, Martin, 305 Meneg, Pierre, 74 Menominees, 20 Menominee Indians, 80 Merrell, B. H., 54 Merrill, Henry, 54, 55, 56, 63, 184, 216 Merrill, Z., 151 Metcalf, David, 376 Methodist Church, Lodi, 271 Mill Dam, Okee, 383 (view) Military road, 90 Miller, Ernest H., 714 Miller, Jacob, 214 Miller, W. G., 431 Mills, Job, 731
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O'Keefe, Mrs. J. E., 190, 191, 192
O'Keefe, James, 245
O'Keefe, J. J., 193
O'Keefe, John E,, 649
"Old Daddy" Robertson's Fair, 409
Old Indian Agency House, Portage (view), 56 Old Mill, Nueleus of Pardeeville (view), 277
Old Pauquette Church, Portage (view), 211
Oleson, James, 332
Olson, Henry D., 464
Olson, James, 536
Olson, Samuel, 280
O'Neil, P. J., 212
Orton, Harlow S., 118
Oshorn, G. H., 113
Osborn, Lizzie C., 208
Otsego Township-Present village of Doylestown, 374; Wayne B. Dyer was first settler, 374; village of Otsego, 375; land owners of the present Doylestown. 375; town of Otsego or- ganized, 375; plat of Doylestown re- eorded, 375; first improvements, 376; a boom, 376; Columbus too swift, 376; schools and churches, 376
Otsego Village, 375
Ott, Frank, 517
Oviatt, Ernest C., 587
Owen, Mary A., 700
Owen, J. A., 700
Palmer, David, 284
Palmer, Herbert, 274
Palmer, Isaac H., 381
Palmer, 1. H., 267, 269
Pankow, A. Ph., 295
Paper Towns-Wisconsinapolis and others like it. 78; paper seats of jus- tice, 386; village of DeKorra, 386; first grist mill in South-Central Wis- consin, 386; railroad go by, a death blow, 386; bad conditions for big cities. 392; champion townsite man, 393; Baltimore City, 393; Wisconsin- apolis, 393: canal to stir the Portage people, 394; easterner looking for Wisconsinapolis, 394; first settler come to town, 395; never more than Port "Hope," 397; Wiseonsin City, 398
Pardee, John. 277
Pardee, John S .. 276, 277
Pardee Encampment No. 38, 280
Pardee Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A. M., 280
Pardee Lodge, No. 126, I. O. O. F., 280 Pardeeville-Founded, 276; John Par- dee, father of John S., proprietor, 277; the old mill up to date, 278; protec-
tion against fire, 278; Pardeeville State Bank, 278; incorporated as a village. 278; graded school system, 279; Pardeeville's churches, 279; Ma- sons and Odd Fellows, 280
Pardeeville State Bank, 278 "Pardeeville Times," 147
Parry, Isaac. 513 Parry, J. O., 294
Paske, Herman, 608
Patehin, Herbert E., 670
Patehin, John, 673
Pate, John, 405, 414
Paton, James. 310
Patterson, Eugene C., 217
Patton, M. W., 288, 426, 431
Paulson, Peter A., 95
Pauquette, Peter, 58, 63, 69, 160, 194, 211
Pauquette's daughter (Mrs. Thomas Prescott), 406
Pawnee, Blanc, 23, 26
Payment of 1914. 31
Pearson. George P., 674
Pease, Willard A., 763
Pease, W. A., 532
Peck, Harry G., 769
Penn. W. H., 214
People's Telephone Company. Rio, 284
Perry, G. Stroud. 263
Perry, William H., 514
Pervonsal, Antoine, 194
Peters, Alice, 771
Peters. Charles W., 770
Peterson. Henry, 539
Pettit, F., 212
Pfuehler. August, 722
Phelps, Milo, 495
Phillips, F. N., 672
Phillips, William E., 217
Pick, John T., 245
Pickering, Enoeh, 85
Pierce, Guy C., 172
Pierce, Sarah. 379
Pileher, A. M., 214
Pinney. Samuel B., 300, 322
Plannette. R. W., 244
Pleasant Valley Preeinet, 382, 435
Plenty, George W., 642
Pomeroy, Mary L., 156
Pond. William H., 217
Poor home, 116
Population-Inhabitants of county (1846), 1,200, 87; household popula- tion (1846), 119; figures by decades (1850-1910), 120; population (1847), 120; real estate and personal prop- erty (1875), 122; the figures for 1913, 122; increase of population, Portage, 187
Portage-First white woman at the Portage, 184; the settlement grows,
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.185; the canal booms things, 185; platting the town of Fort Winnebago, 186; the Guppey plat, 186; incorpora- tion as a city, 187; increase of pop- ulation, 187; the present city, 188; Chicago and Wisconsin Valley Street Railways Company, 188; the fine city hall, 188; free public library of Port- age, 189; the city waterworks, 192; electric light and power, 192; com- mission form of government adopted, 192; protection against fire, 193; Wis- consin River bridges, 194; final dis- solution of $119,000, 196; nomencla- ture of . Portage streets, 196; experi- ments in banking, 201; City Bank of Portage, 201; First National Bank, 202; Portage Loan and Trust Com- pany, 202; the Eulberg Brewing Com- pany, 202; Epstein Brothers' Brewery, 203; the Portage Hosiery Company, 203; minor industries, 205; societies. 220
Portage, the, 37, 38, 39
Portage canal, 92-94, 185
Portage Book & Engine Company, 205
Portage Bridge Company, 194
Portage City Lodge, No. 61, I. O. O. F., 221
"Portage City Record," 135
Portage City Water Company, 192
"Portage Daily Register," 137
"Portage Democrat," 98, 143
Portage Electric Light & Power Com- pany, 192
Portage High School (view), 209
Portage Hosiery Company, 203
Portage Light Guard, 169
Portage Liederkranz, 225
Portage Loan & Trust Company, 202
Portage Lodge, No. 35, K. of P., 222
Portage & Superior Railroad Company, 102
Portage Underwear Company, 205 Porter, A. A., 137 Porter, Mary, 192
Port Hope, 397
Portraits-J. E. Jones, frontispiece; a French Fur Trader and Carrier, 3; Gen. Joseph Bailey, 172; P. G. Stroud, 254; Jonathan Bowman, 254; Hugh Jamieson, 306; Dr. George W. Jen- kins, 397
Poser, Edward M., 726
Poynette-Village of today, 299; its naming a mistake, 300; Judge Doty intended "Pauquette," 300; village platted, 300; Poynette in 1855, 300; first school, 301; crusty bachelors withhold tax, 301; first preaching, 301; the times that tried men and women, 302; the Jamieson family,
302; Poynette as a flour center, 302; rivalry of the sides, 303; the grain trade, 303; Bank of Poynette. 303; school history, 303; the Methodists organize, 304; Rev. John M. Springer, war hero, 304; the Presbyterian church, 305; the Lutherans and Cath- olies, 305; first plat (Jamieson), 322; school district of 1852, 323; a boom for Poynette (Jamieson), 329; plats Jamieson's Addition (Jamieson), 332; rivalry of north and south sides (Jamieson), 332; improvement of South Poynette (Jamieson), 338
Poynette Cheese Manufacturing Com- pany, 352
Poynette Lower Mill, 330
Poynette Presbyterian Academy, 158
Poynette Upper Mill, 333
Potter, R. L. D., 94
Potters' Joint Stock Emigration Society, 84-87, 160 Pottersville, 86
Powell, J. B., 222
Power Dam at High Water, Kilbourn (view), 258
Powers, Ambrose, 347
Prairie belt, 12, 15
Prairie fires, 313
Prentiss, Guy C., 118
Presbyterian Academy, Poynette (view), 158
Presbyterian Church, Kilbourn City, 263 Presbyterian Church, Lodi (view), 273 Presbyterian Church, Pardeeville, 279
Press-First Columbia County newspa- per, 133; suspension of the "River Times," 134; John A. Brown and the "Badger State," 134; "Shanghai" Chandler and the "Independent," 135; "Columbia County Reporter," 135; Robert B. Wentworth and the "Port- age City Record," 135; Enter A. J. Turner, 136; "Wisconsin State Reg- ister" founded, 136; Brannan & Tur- ner, proprietors, 136; the "Register" from 1885 to date, 137; A. J. Turner and Major Rockwood, 138; "The Fam- ily Tree of Columbia County," 138; the facts of Mr. Turner's life, 138; Maj. S. S. Rockwood, 139; first Co- lumbus newspaper, 140; "Columbus Journal," 141; "Wisconsin Mirror" precedes Kilbourn City, 141; "The Co- lumbus Democrat," 141; "Lodi Weekly Herald," 141; "The Columbus Repub- lican," 142; first German newspaper, "Der Wecker," 143; launching of "The Portage Democrat," 143; Kilbourn's newspaper ventures, 146; Lodi's Ups and Downs, 146; "The Enterprise," 147; "The Poynette Press," 147;
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other county newspapers, 147; de- funct papers, 148
Prien, Joseph, 243 Probate and county court, 118
Proctor, Alfred H., 705
Proctor, William H., 704
Public School Building, Kilbourn (view), 253
Pulford, Samuel D., 217
Purdy, Mrs. E. S., 54
Pursuit of Red Bird, 43 Pythians of Portage, 222
Quinn, Clinton, 488
Rahr, L. F., 271
Railroads-LaCrosse & Milwaukee Rail- road, 100; reaches points in Columbus county. 100; development of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 101; Chi- cago & Northwestern, 101; Wisconsin Central commenced at Portage, 102; completion of line (1877), 102; the M., St. Paul & S. Ste. Marie, 102; Hugh Jamieson, 312; railroad from Madison to Portage (Jamieson), 328; railroad work ceases (Jamieson), 330; railroad projects, 1861-62 (Jamieson), 335; railroad work resumed (Jamie- son), 337; Sugar Valley Railroad sold (Jamieson), 338; formation of the Madison & Portage Railroad (Jamie- son), 342; town aid to the railroad (Jamieson), 344; the meeting at Madison (Jamieson), 346; "Old Bees- wax" and George B. Smith (Jamie- son), 346; "Jack of Clubs" sustained (Jamieson), 347; general store for railroad men (Jamieson), 347; trans- fer of town bonds for railroad stock (Jamieson), 348; bond question traced to the end (Jamieson), 349; "Old Beeswax" got there (Jamieson), 350 Randolph township-Leads in agricul- ture, 440; George Knowles, first set- tler, 440; coming of the Langdon Brothers, 440; Alden and Converse, 441; the first Welsh to arrive, 441; first schools and teachers, 441; Squire Patton and his "High Court," 442; villages at a discount, 442; but pol- ities brisk enough, 442 Randolph Center, 442
Randolph (West Ward), 391
Raup, John A., 202, 648
Ray, O. D., 178
Red Bird, 42-49 Registers of deeds, 1847-1914, 109
Reuter, A., 242, 243
Reynolds, Alfred R., 732
Rhoads, J. W., 386 Riblett, Christian, 435
Richards, C. L., 305
Richards, E. W., 116, 117, 742
Richards, L., 292 Richards, Peter, 751 Richardson, I. B., 214
Richmond, Edgar, 658
Richmond, George 1., 659
Richmond, George N., 179
Riedner, William J., 512 Riley, A. G., 270
Riley, B. Gilbert, 157
Riley, C. B., 272
Ring, Samuel, 384
Rio-Origin of the name doubtful, 281; Rio platted by N. B. Dunlap, 282; first merchant and postmaster, 282; pioneer business and professional men, 282; village incorporated, 283; schools, 283; banks, 284; People's Telephone Company, 284; the Congregational Church, 284; the Baptist Church, 285; Lutheran and Catholic churches, 285 Rio State Bank, 284
Ritchey, John H., 215
"River Times," 134
Roads, 90 Roberts, Chancy, 685
Roberts, David, 441
Roberts, David D., 288
Roberts, E. O., 293
Roberts, Foulk, 288
Roberts, Hugh, 95
Roberts, Mark, 685
Roberts, Owen M., 705
Roberts, Thomas H., 441
Robertshaw, George, 85, 675
Robertshaw, William, 675
Robertson, David, 624
Robertson, David H., 273, 709
Robertson, John A., 626
Robertson, Thomas ("Daddy"), 386, 405, 409, 414 Robinson, Isaiah, 246
Robinson, William H., 719
Roblier, H. W., 115, 116
Roche, James, 212
Rockafellow. Chancy T., 758
Rockstroh, Herman F., 217
Rockwood, H. S., 140, 182
Rockwood, S. S., 137
Rockwood, Sheppard S., 138, 139
Roehim, William H., 614 Rogers, Jacob, 360 .
Rogers, J. H., 218, 226
Rogers, Mrs. J. H., 192
Rogers, Josiah H., 536
Rose, C. A., 473 Rosenkrans, Cyrus E., 156
Rosenkrans, C. E., 242
Rosenkrans, David W., 151
Ross, Laura D., 240
Rossell, Nathan B., 169
Rowan, Wallace, 82-84, 320
Rowlands, D. M., 298
Rowlands, Morris J., 287
Rowlands, M. J., 293
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Rowlands, John R., Sr., 288 Rowley, Moses, 362 Roys, Edwin B., 531 "Rundschau und Wecker," 143 Rupnow, Max, 531 Russell, A. H., 181
Russell, E. F., 347
Rust, Horace, 390
Ryan, Edward, 498 Ryan, William, 411
Sage, Benjamin, 366, 370 St. Cecilia Church, Kilbourn, 264 St. Jerome's Catholic Church, Columbus, 244 St. John's Episcopal Church, Portage, 216
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Portage, 219
St. Mary's Catholic Church, 678
St. Mary's Parish, 160
Sampson, Samuel, 702 Sanborn, Frank L., 589
Sanderson, Thomas, 529
Sanderson, Thomas, 661
Sanderson, William, 520
Sargent, Isaac C., 340
Sawyer, John, 84, 426
Sawyer, L. J., 237, 238
Scene in Flooded District, south from Kilbourn (view), 99 Scha-chip-ka-ka, 73 Schemmel, H. F., 293
Schenck, I. V. W., 215
Schlee, Charles, 769
Schloemilch, A., 210 Schmeling, A. F., 579 Schmidt, Father, 285 Schmidt, Frank R., 629 Schnell, J., 225 Scholfield, Mrs. R., 256
Schools-First school outside the fort, 149; first school district formed at Cambria, 150; too few cubic feet per scholar, 150; town of Winnebago, Portage district, 150; county super- intendents of schools, 151; school chil- dren in 1913, 151; legal qualifications of teachers, 152; Columbia County Teachers' Association, 154; private and parochial schools of Portage, 155; Columbus Collegiate Institute, 156; the Kilbourn Institute, 157; Rev. B. C. Riley at Lodi, 157; Poynette Pres- byterian Academy, 158; present status of public schools, 158; first meeting of Portage board of education, 206; high school and graded system estab- lished, 207; history of the Portage High School, 207; the study of Ger- man, 208; present school buildings, 208; City Superintendent Clough, 209; list of superintendents and clerks, 210 Schubring, E. J. B., 259
Schultz, George E., 756 Schultz, William R., 755
Schultze, Karl R., 627
Schulze, Emma, 154
Schulze, Fred W., 94 Schulze, F. W., 201
Schulze, Ferdinand, 626
Scott, Jennie M., 363
Scott, Kennedy, 151, 282, 284
Scott, William, 284
Scott, W. J., 202
Scott Township-Good fruit and dairy country, 425; first settler in Scott, 434; M. W. Patton and others, 426; famous Blue tavern, 426; named after Winfield Scott, 426
Seaman, J. B., 216
Seats of justice, 386
Second old Wisconsin River bridge (view), 195 Seihecker, Robert G., 118
Seville, Edward E., 765
Shannon, Arthur B., 719
Shattuck, N. K., 210
Shaw, Robert W., 452
Sheriff's, 1847-1914, 107
Sheriff's residence, 114
Shirk, J. E., 147
Signal Peak, 8 Sill, H. J., 340, 344
Sillsbee, E. P., 156
Simons, Freedom, 268, 269
Simons, George H., 657
Simons, J. Frank, 658
Simons, Roswell D., 657
Simons, W. G., 268
Sloan, Hugh, 310 Smith, B. B., 350
Smith, Charles H., 645
Smith, Chester W., 151, 155, 172, 224
Smith, Clark, 161, 550
Smith, Eli E., 505
Smith, George B., 346
Smith, George, 256
Smith, Harriet T., 264
Smith, Isaac, 85, 213
Smith, Jerome, 245
Smith, Leonard S., 95 Smith, T. C., 399
Smith, Walter E., 504
Snider, Charles W., 471
Snider, Harry D., 470 Snith, Isaac, 160 Societies of Portage-The Masons form pioneer lodge, 220; chapter, council and commandery, 221; I. O. O. F. bodies, 221; the Pythian Brothers, 222; Portage lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 223; D. A. R. of Portage, 223; Knights of Co- lumbu's and Foresters, 224; lodges of railroad employes, 225; Portage Lie- derkranz, 225; the National Verband,
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225: Country Club of Portage, 225; Y. M. C. A., 226
Southern Wisconsin Power Company, Kilbourn, 257 Spear, Chauneey, 360
Spencer, William C., 156
Spilde, L. H., 461
Sponheim, Ingle E., 767
Sprecher, R. A., 201
Springer, John M., 214, 304
Talk English, 24
Taylor, Alvin C., 622
Taylor, George W., 682
Taylor, J. B., 118
Taylor, Melvin W., 694
Taylor, Nathaniel A., 682
Teachers' Training School, 154
Tempelmann, Frederick, 708
Tempelmann, William, -708
Tennison, Alban C., 263
Territorial road, 90 Thiede, Charles F., 556
Thomas Family, 318
- Thomas, Charles H., 521
Thomas, John, 300
Thomas, Luey, 318
State Bank of Lodi, 273
Staudenmayer, Charles, 600
Staudenmayer, Edward R., .601
Staudenmayer, George, 599
Staudenmayer, John G., 598
Staudenmayer, John L., 600
Steamboat at Devil's Elbow, Wisconsin Dells (view), 262
Stearns, Alonzo B., 438
Stedman, Reuben, 276
Steele, William, 168
Steere, E. A., 256
Steinbach, George, 569
Stevens, E. Ray, 118
Stevens, George C., 553
Stevens, Julia, 428
Stevenson, Andrew, 492
Stevenson, John, 492
Stevenson, Thomas, 494
Stevenson, William, 648
Stewart, Alva, 94, 118
Stone, W. H., 218
Storey, R., 218
Story, H. A., 210
Stotzer, Rudolph G., 640
Stotzer, Samuel, 639
Stratton, Riehard, 163
Streeter, J. F., 147
Streets of Portage, 196
Strong, M. M., 320
Strong, Moses M., 82
Stroud, P. G., 254
Stroud, W. S., 202, 210 Suckers Settlement, 268
Sugar River Valley Company, 343
Sugar River Valley Railroad, 342 Summerfield, George. 85
Sumner, Edwin V., 74, 168
Sund, Charles, 294
Sundby, G. A., 285
Susan, Charles, 217
Susan, Charles T., 210
Sutton, John J., 772
Sweeney, John, 160, 212
Swenson, Magnus, 259
Sylvester, William, 155
Springvale Township-Description, 430; adapted to eattle raising, 430; con- tented, though without a village, 430; Springvale's first settler, 430; high- prieed religion, 431; the Welsh set- tlers, 431; organized under present name, 432
Stahl, Samuel, 713
Stanley, Henry C., 683
Stanley, Thomas, 683
Stansbury, D., 214
Stare, F. A., 249
Starr, Damon C., 375
Starr, Eason, 375
Startin, Allen, 453
Thomas, S. B., '300
Thomas, Samuel B., 316
Thomas, S. M., 155
Thomas, S. Miles W., 714
Thompson, Harry, 217 Thompson, H. M., 156
Thompson, Hugh M., 216
Thompson, Nels, 651
Thompson, Ole H., 735
Thompson, Thornton, 752
Thomson, W. J., 223
Thorn, Garrit T., 240
Thwaites, Reuben G., 34
Tillotson, J. R., 549
Timber areas, 15
Tomlinson, Mark, 483
Tomlinson, Robert, 482
Topliff, Alfred, 436
Topp, John, 734
Topp, Minnie, 735 Torbert, S. S., 440
Towers, James S., 604
Townsend, A. J., 162, 428
Townsend,. Jacob, 486
Townsend, Joseph, 486
Traders, 40
Traders and Carriers-Peter Pauquette, 58-63, 69; death of the famous trader, 59; shot by Man-ze-mon-e-ka, 61; in- flamed by liquor and false charges, 62; remains of Pauquette finally lo- eated, 62; the coming of Henry Mer- rell, 63; Fort Winnebago in 1834, 65; commandants and Indian agents, 65; the DeKorras and Joseph Crelie, 65; post amusements, 66; business. trips under difficulties,,, 66; Merrell's ae- count of the famous 1837 treaty, 67;
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