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A. A. Bird had previously requested me to wake the sleepers at a stated time each morning, in order to get an early start, for all were alike anxious to reach their destination, and for a sight of the famed four lakes.
I accordingly commenced my rounds at an early hour the following morning ; and, as some of the men were apt to be rather bilious when first awakened, it was advisable to study the character and temper of the different parties. After a little thought, I made my way to Mr. Clark, as that gentleman was known to possess a remarkably large stock of patience, and was seldom, if ever, heard to grumble at the vexations and deprivations attendant upon camp life. The previous night, he had selected a mound as a resting-place, against which he now reclined, his head and shoulders elevated, and his feet drawn up sufficiently to brace his body against the hillock. His pantaloons had been tucked in his boots, which the rain had filled, and was now running over the tops of them, but the sleeper, sweetly oblivious to the disagreeableness of his surroundings, was enjoying his rest as much as any crowned head upon its pillow of eider-down. Oh, how I longed for the power to transfer that scene to canvas ! But time was up, and, though loath to spoil such a scene, I was obliged to awaken him. I called Mr. Clark's attention to his boots, at which he calmly remarked : " I will have to repair my roof-I see it leaks."
This is but one of the many amusing incidents that occurred on our journey to Madison, and which so often proved an antidote for low spirits and the discouragements of pioneer life, by appealing to our sense of the ludicrous.
We were in the habit of wrestling, running foot-races and shooting with the Indians, who came across the lakes to spend the day, returning at night to their various homes, scattered
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along the shores of those picturesque sheets of water whichwe found sleeping in their primeval solitude on our arrival at the City of the Lakes, in embryo.
On one of these occasions, a son of one of the chiefs, while wrestling with Fox, a stage- driver from Mineral Point, was thrown rather violently upon the ground, hurting him consider- ably. The Indian spirit of revenge was roused in an instant, and, leaping to his feet, he threatened to return at night with his father's braves and murder us all. No sooner was the threat uttered than Fox sprang upon him, exclaiming, " By thunder, you will not return at night !" and would have killed him on the spot had we not caught him and held him until the young Indian had jumped into his canoe, and was at a safe distance from shore. That he was terribly scared was quite apparent, as, under the vigorous strokes of his paddle, wielded with a power and skill known only to the red man of the forest, his bark shot through the placid waters like an arrow. When we let Fox up, he declared that he should kill him on sight if ever again he met him in Madison. It was a long time before that Indian again appeared on our streets, and not until he was informed that his enemy was in jail for killing Col. Davenport at Rock Island, for whose murder he was afterward hung at Mineral Point.
A rather amusing, and at the same time exciting, scene occurred soon after my arrival at Madison, in 1837. A Frenchman had purchased a young squaw of an Indian chief for a pony and four gallons of whisky. The pony and whisky were paid down. The liquor was dealt out to the Indians, and the drinking commenced where the capitol now stands. But, while the whisky was fast disappearing, and the Frenchman was waiting with growing impatience for his bride, the young lady was not forthcoming. The old chief was anxious to deliver his daughter to the purchaser as agreed; but it was soon discovered that the olive-hued maiden had rebelled and hid away. She did not seem to appreciate such a brilliant offer of marriage, and refused to say, in the gentle, obedient spirit of the blushing Minnehaha, " I will follow you, my husband." But the father was not to be thus foiled in accomplishing his purpose. The Frenchman roared and tore around the encampment, where the whisky had now disappeared, like a mad bull, charging the old warrior with deception in allowing the liquor to all be consumed before the squaw was delivered. The chief dispatched his runners in search of the recreant daughter. After a long absence, they returned with the girl, who still offered energetic and warlike resistance to her captors. Then followed an exciting scene. The Frenchman immediately seized her, and attempted to drag her away with him; the enraged chief commenced beating her with the handle of his hatchet, aiding the Frenchman by push and jerk. Now and then the young squaw, still unsubdued, would make a spring quick as thought, and attempt to free herself from the grasp of her future husband; but he was a powerful man, and held her with an iron grip. At this juncture of the intensely interesting drama, the maiden's brother, who had just returned from a long hunt, made his appearance. He stood a few moments with folded arms, silently contemplating the scene ; when the sister, seeing him, gave him an imploring look, and addressed a few words to him, which I could not understand. The next instant, snatching the glittering tomahawk from his belt, he darted upon the Frenchman, and struck at him with all his might. The Frenchman parried the blow, and, in so doing, sent the toma- hawk whirling through the air. The son was soon overpowered by his father ; and as the happy man led (or dragged) to the altar her whom he had wooed and won under such romantic circum- stances, she bestowed upon him numerous caresses with teeth and nails. But she was soon deposited safely in the canoe, and carried to his wigwam among the Indians, and, after a few days, gracefully accepting her new position, everything went on harmoniously and happily.
I mention no names, as I do not care to create a sensation, for a daughter, now forty-two years old, the result of that union, resides within forty miles of Madison, and is highly re- spected.
V .- BY SIMEON MILLS, 1880.
The life of the men and women who go out to plant civilization, becomes a wild, weird existence, studded with bright hopes of the future, and not wholly unmixed with rural pleasures
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and the keen enjoyment of isolated domestic happiness. It is an experience that admits of no repetition ; the wilderness once broken, there can be no second generation of pioneers.
Had we then known, could we have realized at the start that we were composing the open- ing chapter in the history of Dane County, we might have treasured up and preserved a multi- tude of incidents, some of amusement and some of thrilling interest, to enliven the pages of the future historian, that are now shrouded in darkness, and forever buried with the dead past ; incidents that would have given a fresher view of the motives and doings, the quiet repose and startling alarms, the hopes and fears, and the ups and downs, that chequer the daily life of those who break the virgin soil, and mark the paths between isolated dwellings.
It is not so at this time, and with the present generation. Now the quick eye and the ready pen of the news-gatherer catches every passing event, and the little waifs are embalmed in printers' ink, and preserved to the world in the daily issue of morning and evening papers.
As a rule, all writers of pioneer life that have fallen under my observation, take the rosy view, and paint in glowing colors the noble character and goodness of heart of the first settlers, and the quiet and friendly feelings which so universally prevail in early society, so soon to be- succeeded by bickering, quarrels and jealous hates of older and riper communities, as if none but good men and women emigrated to a new country. I apprehend that the men and women " who go before " do not possess any greater love of their fellow-men, or otherwise differ in character from the great mass of the people amongst whom they were born and bred, except, perhaps, they have inherited a trifle more energy and a little more of the pluck or dare-devil spirit, which is a prominent characteristic of those who elbow back the dusky savage and make possible the introduction of a more advanced civilization.
Circumstances make and unmake men, and so Mr. A. and Mr. B., finding themselves nearest neighbors and living no more than thirty miles apart, naturally, when they meet, take more interest in each other's affairs, and more pleasure in ministering to each other's wants and neces- sities, than they ever did in older States, where farmhouses are often separated by only the width of a highway, or standing but a stone's throw apart.
When Mrs. Brown makes her morning call upon her nearest neighbor, having walked, perhaps, a distance of ten miles, think you that she would be received with the same frigid formality which characterizes the " first families " in the older States ? People finding themselves thus situated soon become fast friends, and finally learn to welcome and treat as brothers all strangers- coming to their new-made homes. The noble-hearted liberality, the prodigal generosity, so- often characterizing the frontier, are qualities born of circumstances that are too often outgrown and too soon forgotten as circumstances change and neighbors' faces become more common and excite less interest.
It was my fortune to first set foot on the soil of Wisconsin at Green Bay, in the spring of 1835, on my way around the Upper Lakes to Chicago.
In the summer of 1836, in company with John M. Wilson, now one of the Judges ot Chicago, I went to the southwestern part of the Territory of Wisconsin, crossing the Pecatonica on our way, at Baker's Ferry, now Freeport, and entering the territory in what is now Green County, traveling west and southwest to Galena and Dubuque, and thence back to Mineral Point, spending a greater portion of the summer and fall, and a portion of the winter at that place.
On the 20th of December, 1836, in company with a young man by the name of Van Horn, I started from Mineral Point to go across the country to Milwaukee and thence to Chicago.
We were provided with a good pony and a small French train (in Yankee parlance, a jumper), and the snow being about six inches deep, made the traveling comparatively easy. Our outfit was a hatchet, buffalo robe, blankets, a few cooking utensils, some provisions, and a small quantity of oats for our pony, which so loaded our train that we traveled on foot, except on descending ground and down hill. The weather was extremely cold, tbe thermometer marking thirty-two degrees below zero the morning we left the Point. The route we had to travel was about 150 miles, and for a long distance each side of Rock River there was no house, and on
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the west side no road east of the western part of Green County. But one incident occurred on the route worth remembering, and that I will relate, to show how easily difficulties are overcome when necessity begets invention.
Somewhere about the western boundary of Rock County, as near as I can judge from the map, we came to a stream that seemed to be fed with springs, and was not frozen over. It was one of those prairie streams which we used to describe in those days as "built edgewise," being about five feet wide and eight feet deep. It had very little current, and we could find no place where we could ford or jump the horse over it.
Now, it so happened that a few days before there had been a thaw with a heavy rain, that had caused the stream to overflow its banks, and while in that condition the weather had become cold and frozen it over ; the water subsequently falling back into its channel, had left many acres of loose, dry ice on the low lands along its sides, from two to three inches thick. A bridge must be built, or we could not cross, and the suggestion that the loose ice could be broken up and filled into the channel, making a solid dam that we could cross upon before the water would rise so as to run over it, was no sooner made than adopted and acted upon, and in less than a half-day, by hard work, backing in large cakes of ice, we had filled the deep channel, and the main structure of our temporary bridge was completed. We had no difficulty in pushing our train over it; but the loose ice made unstable footing for our pony, and we overcame that difficulty by cutting willow brush to cover the ice, and, having spread our blankets and buffalo robe over the brush, led our horse over " dry shod," and camped for the night. Within a half- hour after we had safely crossed, the water began to run over our dam, and we saw our bridge, not burned, but washed away behind us.
We were eight days getting to Milwaukee, camping out four nights ; and six days thereafter we arrived in Chicago. I continued my journey east to Austinburg, Ohio, and remained there until the opening of navigation the next spring, when I again returned to Chicago by water, landing the 1st of June .*
MEETINGS OF DANE COUNTY PIONEERS.
The days of the pioneers are rapidly passing away, never to return. That there should be a strong bond of friendship, binding together those who, when the country was new, when settle- ments " were few and far between," suffered alike the hardships and toils incident to pioneer times, is not surprising. It is not a matter of wonder that they should desire occasionally to hold social gatherings, to talk over old times, to fight again the battles of the early days, when brave hearts and stont arms were required to change the wilderness to fruitful fields, and make it blossom as the rose. A few such meetings have been held in Dane County. On the 24th of July, 1875, in the village of Oregon, a goodly number of pioneers of the county was assembled, when speeches were made and all were happy. Among the many who joined in the festivities of the occasion were the following :
Name.
Age.
Years in State.
Residence.
Name.
Age.
State.
Reeidence.
A. Keistard
78
32
Oregon.
S. S. Johnson
68
31
Rutland.
H. R. James
69
25
Rutland.
T. Pritchard
68
24
Rutland.
H. Soule.
56
29 Rutland.
J. Terwilliger
57
30 Fitchburg.
J, H. Best
54
25
Rutland.
D. Anthony
68
31 Rutland.
C. Frisbee
78
32
Oregon.
Mrs. D. Anthony
56
35
Rutland.
E. E. Roberts
643
31
Dunkirk.
J. C. Hanan
55
30
Rutland.
J. Horton ..
50
33
Rutland.
Mrs. J. C. Hanan
47
30
Rutland.
Mrs. J. Horton
51
33
Rutland. i
M. Campbell
63
35
Dunkirk.
J. Hause
79
30
Oregon.
J. DeJean
60
38
Rutland.
T. S. Champnor
47
27
Rutland.
Mrs. J. DeJean
58
38
Rutland.
T. Renels
55
28
Fitchburg.
S. W. Graves.
65
31
Rutland.
S. Johnson
63
30
Dunn.
Mrs. S. W. Graves
59
29
Rutland.
William Post
56
35
Rutland.
Robert Stone
62
40
Fulton.
1. Green wood
72
41
Montrose.
Mrs. M. Case.
48
32
Rutland.
0. W. Gilman
60
34
Union.
A. Bell
57
29
Rutland.
L. Shirley
51
27
Union.
Mrs. A. Bell
54
29
Rutland.
*Mr. Mills journeyed hence to Madison where he arrived June 10, 1837. He has ever since been a resident of the place. Interesting recollections from his pen will be found in a subsequent chapter .- En.
Years in
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A gathering of the pioneers of the city of Madison, under the auspices of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Tenney, held on the 24th day of June, 1879, at McBride's Point (now Maple Bluff), was the forerunner of a more extended organization-one that should include the old settlers of Dane County. A notice was therefore published in the Madison papers in the spring of 1880, to " all pioneers and their families who settled in Dane County prior to the 29th of May, 1848 (the date of the admission of Wisconsin into the Union), or who had made their arrangements to settle in the county or State, and are now residents of Dane County," requesting them to meet, 26th of June, 1880, at the Schuetzen Park, near the City of Madison-the first of the pioneer meet- ings to be held annually thereafter. Upon that occasion the following persons were present : Simeon Mills, William Welch, R. W. Lansing, William Bird, Philo Dunning, N. B. Van Slyke, Abel Dunning, M. Dunning, Samuel Klauber, E. M. Williamson, David Atwood, H. A. Ten- ney, Ernest Sommers, H. H. Lockwood, A. Morton, H. J. Hill, B. F. Larkin, Daniel Larkin, D. G. Sheldon, A. B. Braley, Samuel Curtis, David Lemmon, J. B. Colton, A. Viall, C. W. Stevens, S. U. Pinney, W. W. Swain, H. D. Goodenow, David H. Wright, J. N. Ames, Dem- ing Fitch, Ira W. Bird, Dr. L. Allman, Halle Steensland. L. D. Brooks, H. L. Foster, E. W. Dwight, Frank A. Ogden, Orvin Brown, Richard L. Chase, G. T. Long, W. J. Ellsworth, George H. Slaughter, C. G. Mayers, M. B. French, M. D. Miller, L. J. Heneka, Charles T. Wakeley, C. W. Butler, William Rasdall, John A. Byrne, D. D. Bryant, John Lewis, Casper Mayer, George M. Nichols, Q. H. Barron, Andrew Bishop, H. M. Lewis, George Bevitt, James W. Sumner, Estes Wilson, William N. Seymour, John George Ott, Conrad Ott, Mr. Dwight, Seth M. Van Bergan, Richard Davis, R. B. Bird and others.
On the 14th of July, 1880, the second annual meeting of the Wisconsin Pioneer Association was held in Madison, when the following pioneers from Dane County greeted their fellow- pioneers from other parts of the State :
NAME.
Residence
Year of Arrival in Wisconsin.
NAME.
Residence.
Year of Arrival in Wisconsin.
David H. Wright
Madison
1844
J. H. B. Matts
Verona
1844
Roswell Roe
Sun Prairie. 1844
William Vroman
Madison
1839
Mrs Jane Abhott .Oregon 1843
Jasper T. Hawes
Madison
1842
W. N Seymour Madison 1837
Mrs. R. B. Davidson Burke
1846
S. G. Abbott Oregon 1842
Mrs. Fanny Parsons Marshall
1848
C. F. Weeks
Medina
1845
Mrs. L. L. Adams . Fitchburg
1844
F. G. Good
.Cottage Grove. 1845
Mrs. James Terwilliger Fitchburg
1845
John Douglass
Burke
1845
Mrs. Elizabeth Hair. Madison
1847
Joseph DeJean Rutland
1837
E. M. Williamson Madison
1840
Mrs. H. A. DeJean Rutland
1845
N. W. Terwilliger .Oregon
1845
Samuel G. Curtis
Madison 1844
James Terwilliger Fitchburg 1845
1848
L. L. Adams
Fitchhurg 1847
J. S. Frary Oregon
1844
Edward Sylvester
Vienna 1835
Mrs. H. D. Goodnow Burke
1846
W. W. Tredway
Madison 1842
Mrs. E. E. Roberts . Dunkirk
1838
William Doukel
Verona 1845
Mrs. M. Campbell Dunkirk
1845
Ira Wilmarth
Middleton 1840
E. E. Roberts
.Dunkirk
1844
David Holt
Madison 1843
M. Campbell
Dunkirk
1840
Urbane Parsons
Medina
1847
Mrs. E. J. Swain
Madison
1843
William Mooney
.Westport
1847
Mrs. Neeley Gray Madison
1844
N. Martin
Springfield 1847
Mrs. John Myers . Verona
1846
Cyrus Hall
York
1846
John Adams Mazomanie
1840
Thomas Busbee
Black Earth. 1847
Mrs. John Adams
Black Earth
1844
Isaac Lyon.
Madison 1841
Chester Sutherland
Fitchburg.
1842
Mrs. Mary R. Graves
Rutland 1846
William Vroman
Madison
1839
Archibald Tred way
Madison 1842
Mrs. Rodermund. . Madison
1848
H. H. Giles
Madison
1846
Alexander Wilson
Springfield 1846
Abraham Morton
Madison
1846
John Simons
Madison 1847
Robert W. Lansing
Madison
1847
E. G. Ryan,.
Madison 1842
S. Muzzy
Medina 1844
Jessie Stevens Stoner's Prairie 1845
H. A. Tennev
Madison.
1845
George M. Nichols. Blooming Grove 1844
W. R. Warren Madison 1838
Mrs. George M. Nichols
Blooming Grove 1844
1839
Joseph Riley
Westport 1846
Mrs. J. H. B. Matts
. Verona
1847
Albert Gaston
Cottage Grove. 1846
Thomas Camphell. De Forest
S. W. Graves.
Rutland 1844
Robert Davidson.
Burke 1846
Andrew J. Damp
Dane Station 1845
Mrs. James Riley
Westport.
Blooming Grove. 1843
William A. Wheeler. Madison 1837
David Atwood
1841
Mrs. Catherine Sutherland . . Fitchburg
1844
R. J. Atwood Fitchburg 1846
Mrs. J. A. Wilson Madison
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The year 1837 was the beginning of the real immigration to the county-the year when men came with their families to settle here, to make it their future home, to engage in farming and other employments for a livelihood, they looking upon Dane County as their permanent them), only eight are now (November, 1880,) residents of the county ; the others have moved place of abode. Of those who came during that year (and there are none living here who preceded beyond its limits, or have passed to that " undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns." The names of those who are still living in the county are Darwin Clark, Simeon Mills, Charles H. Bird, William D. Bird, William A. Wheeler, G. H. Slaughter, George Stoner and Louis Montandon.
TERRITORIAL, STATE AND CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION.
I .- TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATION.
Council .- 1838-42, E. Brigham ; 1843-44, Lucius I. Barber ; 1845-46, John Catlin ; 1847-48, A. L. Collins.
Representatives .- 1838-40, D. S. Sutherland; 1840-42, Lucius I. Barber, James Suth- erland; 1842-44, I. H. Palmer, L. Crossman, Robert Masters ; 1845, Charles S. Bristol, Noah Phelps, George H. Slaughter ; 1846, Mark R. Clapp, William M. Dennis, Noah Phelps ; 1847, William A. Wheeler, Charles Lum, John W. Stewart; 1847-48, E. T. Gardner, Alexander Botkin, John W. Stewart.
II .- STATE REPRESENTATION.
(1). Constitutional Conventions .- The following were members, for Dane County, of the first Constitutional Convention, which assembled at Madison October 5, 1846, and adjourned in December of the same year : John Y. Smith, Abel Dunning, Benjamin Fuller, George B. Smith, Nathaniel F. Hyer, John Babcock.
On the 15th of December, 1847, a second Convention met. The following gentlemen were members for Dane : Charles M. Nichols, William A. Wheeler, William H. Fox.
(2). Members of the Senate .- Ninth District-1848, Simeon Mills; 1849-50, Alexander Botkin ; 1851-52, E. B. Dean, Jr. Eleventh District-1853-54, T. T. Whittlesey ; 1855-58, Hiram H. Giles ; 1859-60, William R. Taylor ; 1861-62, Samuel C. Bean; 1863-66, W. H. Chandler ; 1867-68, C. E. Warner; 1869-70, N. Williams; 1871, William M. Colladay. Twenty-sixth District-1857, Hiram C. Bull; 1858-59, Andrew Proudfit ; 1860-61, John B. Sweat; 1862-63, B. F. Hopkins ; 1864-65, Thomas Hood; 1866-67, James K. Proudfit ; 1868-69, Carl Habich ; 1870-77, R. E. Davis ; 1878-79, Matt Anderson ; 1780-81, Matt Anderson. Seventh District-1872, William M. Colladay ; 1873-74, J. A. Johnson ; 1875- 76, George E. Bryant. Twenty-fifth District-1877-78, George B. Burrows; 1879-80, George B. Burrows.
(3). Members of Assembly .- 1848, Henry M. Warner, Ebenezer Brigham, Samuel H. Roys; 1849-Charles Rickerson, Ira W. Bird, Samuel H. Roys; 1850, John Hasey, Chaun- cey Abbott, Oliver B. Bryant ; 1851, Abram A. Boyce, Augustus A. Bird, Gabriel Bjornson ; 1852, Alexander Botkin, Hiram H. Giles, William A. Pierce; 1853, M. Roache, H. Barnes, Storer W. Fields, P. C. Burdick, H. L. Foster ; 1854, Samuel H. Baker, H. Barnes, H. S. Orton. P. W. Matts, C. R. Head; 1855, L. B. Vilas, J. Mosher, S. G. Abbott, G. P. Thomp- son, W. R. Taylor; 1856, Augustus A. Bird, George P. Thompson, Augustus A. Hunting- ton, William M. Colladay, Charles R. Head ; 1857, John A. Johnson, Robert W. Davison, Robert P. Main, John B. Sweat, Horace A. Tenney, Nathaniel W. Dean; 1858, Daniel B. Crandall, John W. Sharp, Storer W. Field, Henry K. Belding, Frank Gault, Alexander A. McDonell ; 1859, William W. Blackman, Adam Smith, John Keenan, Chester N. Waterbury, Harlow S. Orton, George B. Smith ; 1860, William W. Blackman, Eleazer Grover, Jr., John Beath, Francis Fischer, Leonard J. Farwell, Cassius Fairchild ; 1861, Sereno W. Graves, W. H. Chandler, Edward W. Dwight, Fred. A. Pfaff. Dominick O'Malley, David Atwood; 1862, B. F. Adams, W. H. Chandler, A. S. Sanborn, N. M. Matts. E. Jussen ; 1863, Charles R.
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Head, W. H. Miller, A. S. Sanborn, George Wright, George Hyer ; 1864, W. W. Blackman, W. H. Miller, A. S. Sanborn, G. Wright, George B. Smith ; 1865, William M. Colladay, A. A. Boyce, David Ford, John S. Frary, James Ross; 1866, W. D. Potter, J. M. Flint, G. H. Slaughter, W. Charleton, B. F. Hopkins ; 1867, Isaac Adams, J. M. Flint, Frank Gault, Hugh Cathcart, E. Wakeley ; 1868, N. Williams, Knute Nelson, Frank Gault, G. Tollefson, L. B. Vilas ; 1869, J. E. Johnson, Knute Nelson, J. Adams, Andrew Henry, George B. Smith ; 1870, C. E. Loveland, W. H. Chandler, J. Adams, J. R. Crocker, A. S. Sanborn; 1871, L. O. Humphrey, K. O. Heimdal, M. Anderson, O. Torgerson, H. S. Orton ; 1872, Benjamin F. Adams, John D. Gurnee, John Adams, Phineas Baldwin ; 1873, Oliver W. Thornton, Levi B. Vilas, Otto Kerl, Hiram H. Cornwell ; 1874, John Johnson, Philo Dunning, John B. Kehl, Michael Johnson ; 1875, Isaac Adams, S. U. Pinney, David Ford, Michael Johnson ; 1876, Will- iam Seamonson, William Charleton, Peter Zander, Michael Johnson ; 1877, Michael Johnson, Phineas Baldwin, George Weeks ; 1878, Edwin E. Bryant, John Lyle, John Ollis; 1879, M. Theisen, B. E. Hutchinson, Charles G. Lewis; 1880, John H. Tierney, Thomas Beattie, Charles G. Crosse.
III .- CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION.
The act of Congress, approved April 20, 1836, organizing the Territory of Wisconsin, con- ferred upon the people the right to be represented in the National Congress by one delegate, to be chosen by the votes of the qualified electors of the Territory. Under this authority, the Ter- ritory was represented by the following delegates : George W. Jones, elected October 10, 1836; James Duane Doty, September 10, 1838; James Duane Doty, August 5, 1840 (Doty after- ward resigned, he having been appointed Governor of the Territory by President Tyler September 13, 1841); Henry Dodge, September 27, 1841; Henry Dodge, September 25, 1843; Morgan L. Martin, September 22, 1845, and John H. Tweedy, September 6, 1847.
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