History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 86

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304

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JOHN BASCOM, President of the University of Wisconsin, is an able and voluminous writer. His first work was upon "Political Economy," printed in 1859. He has since published " Esthetics," 1862; "Philosophy of Rhetoric," 1865; "The Principles of Psychology," 1869; "Science, Philosophy and Religion," 1871; "Philosophy of English Literature," 1874; "A Philosophy of" Religion," 1876; "Comparative Psychology," 1878; "Ethics," 1879; "Natural Theology," 1880 ; and "Science of the Mind," in preparation.

Dr. Bascom's contributions to the periodical press have been numerous. They may be grouped under the general heads of metaphysics, social and economic questions, reviews, popu- lar essays, sermons, and agricultural addresses. The subjects discussed take an extended range. From January, 1866, to October, 1875, there were published from his pen, in the Bibliotheca Sacra, not less than nineteen articles ; including among others, "Intuitive Ideas" and "Utilita- rianism," in 1866; "Conscience" and "Cause and Effect," 1867; "The Human Intellect," 1870; "Instinct," 1871; "The Influence of the Press" and "The Influence of the Pulpit," 1872; "The Nation " and "Taine's English Literature, 1873; "Prof. Albert Hopkins" and "Consciousness," in 1875. To the same periodical were communicated by him from October, 1867, to (October, 1869, seven articles on the "Natural Theology of the Social Sciences." In the North American Review for April, 1857, appeared "Hickok's Empirical Psychology;" in the New Englander, October, 1862, "The Laws of Political Economy in their Moral Rela- tions;" and, in April of that year, in the same periodical, a " Review of Buckle's History of Civilization." To the Presbyterian Review, Prof. Bascom contributed, in 1866, "The Rela- tions of Intuitions to Thought and Theology;" in 1869, " Consciousness: What is It?" In 1870, "Inspiration and the Historic Element in the Scriptures;" in July, 1871, "Darwin's Theory; " in July, 1872, " Evolution." In December, 1869, in Putnam's Magazine, appeared a paper from his pen, entitled " The Foci of the Social Ellipse." Five of his agricultural addresses have been published, and eleven of his sermons; of the latter, seven are baccalaureate.

PROF. EDWARD A. BIRGE, of the University of Wisconsin, published in 1878, in the transactions of the "Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters," "Notes on Clado- cera." " He has in manuscript, the "Development of Panopous Sayi." Both these are papers on Crustacea; though technical, they are ably written.

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LYMAN C. DRAPER, Corresponding Secretary of the State Historical Society, has edited with ability eight volumes of the collections of that institution. He prepared in 1869, aided by W. A. Croffut, a work of over eight hundred pages, called " The Helping Hand: An American Home Book for Town and Country, Devoted to Farming Matters, Stock, Fruit Culture and Domestic Economy." This work has been printed, but has not yet been put in general circu- lation. In 1875, he completed, and has in manuscript a work on "The Mecklenburg Declara- tion of Independence." He and C. W. Butterfield, in 1876, completed "Border Forays and Adventures," which has not yet been published. During the present year (1880), he has writ- ten "King's Mountain and Its Heroes." He has also written several pamphlets and two elabo- rate school reports.

J. E. DAVIES, Professor in the University of Wisconsin, and a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, has read before the last-mentioned institution papers which have been printed in its transactions as follows : (1) " On Potentials, and their Application to Physical Science ; " (2) " Recent Progress in Theoretical Physics; " (3) "The Magnetic Rotary Polarization of Light"-a continuation, in reality, of the paper last mentioned. These contributions not only evince careful thought upon the subjects they discuss, but also compre- hensiveness in the study of science generally. An article contributed to the State Board of Health of Wisconsin, by Prof. Davies, upon "The Value of Vital Statistics," is a very able paper.

Prof. Davies is an active co-laborer upon the United States Coast Survey. He has sent to the Superintendent of this work at Washington twenty-three manuscript volumes of records of horizontal angles of the trigonometrical survey of Wisconsin ; fourteen volumes of vertical angles ; ten volumes of records of measurement of the triangulation base line near Spring Green, Wis .; two volumes of records of ordinary levels ; two volumes of reconnaissance for the triangulation of Wisconsin ; two volumes of descriptions of stations selected as triangulation points in Wiscon- sin ; five volumes of computations ; making in all fifty-eight manuscript volumes. He has nearly ready for the press a translation of a treatise on "Elliptic Functions."

H. A. TENNEY, a resident of the town of Madison, an old-time editor in Wisconsin, has written a genealogy of the Tenney family ; also several historical sketches of value. He has long contemplated a volume to be entitled " Early Humor in Wisconsin," and has this year (1880) written, in conjunction with David Atwood, a " Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wis- consin."

J. B. PARKINSON, Professor in the University of Wisconsin, has prepared several papers, which have been published, notably a very able one read before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Convention, in 1873, on "Production and Consumption, Demand and Supply." He has prepared courses of lectures upon "International Law and English Constitutional Law ; " also partial courses upon " American Constitutional Law and Political Economy." None of these have been published. His article, entitled " Wealth, Capital and Credit," read before the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, in 1880, is a valuable contribution to science.

DAVID ATWOOD, editor of the State Journal, Madison, besides many years of editorial work upon that paper, has written the following, which have been printed : "Annual Address before the Wisconsin Editorial Convention, in 1866;" " History of the Dane County Press," in 1865 ; " Life and Character of L. P. Harvey," for the State Historical Society, in 1862; " Life and Character of B. F. Hopkins," in 1870; " Life and Character of George B. Smith," in 1879, for the State Historical Society; " Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wisconsin," with H. A. Tenney, in 1880.

PROF. WILLIAM F. ALLEN, of the University of Wisconsin, wrote, in conjunction with his brother, T. P. Allen, the " Classical Hand-Book," which was published in 1861. He and another brother, J. H. Allen, in 1868 and the year following, gave to the schools of the coun- try the "Manual Latin Grammar," "Latin Lessons," and a "Latin Reader." " Latin Composition," a work of his own, was published in 1870. Associated with his brother last named and with Prof. J. B. Greenough, of Harvard, he has edited " Select Orations of Cicero,"

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1873; " Cicero de Senectute," 1873; " Gai Salvsti Crispi de Catilinae Conivratione," 1874; " Pvbli Virgili Maronis Bvcolica : Aeneidos I-VI," 1874; " Gai Ivli Caesaris de Bello Gal- lico," 1874; " Pvbli Ovidi Nasonis Poemata Qvaedam Excerpta," 1875. For all these, the particular work of Prof. Allen has been the furnishing of historical and antiquarian matter. The philological and grammatical portions were written by Prof. Greenough, while the general editing was attended to by Prof. J. H. Allen.

To general literature, Prof. Allen, associated with C. P. Ware and Lucy M. Garrison, gave, in 1867, a unique volume, unpretending in size, entitled "Slave Songs of the United States."

Prof. Allen has written much for reviews. Notable among his contributions to periodicals of that class are: "Recent German Works on Roman History," 1857, in the North American Review ; "Rawlinson's Herodotus," Christian Examiner, 1859; "Slavery in Rome," North American Review, 1860 ; " The Future of the South," 1862; "Democracy on Trial," 1863; "The Freedmen and Free Labor in the South," 1864; "South Carolina," 1865; "The American Executive," 1866; "Our Colleges," 1867-all to be found in the columns of the Christian Examiner. In 1871, he contributed to the North American Review " The Religion of Ancient Greece; " and, in the same year, to the Christian Examiner, " The Caucus Sys- tem." He has been a constant contributor to the Nation almost since its establishment. We find in Hours at Home, in 1870, "A Day with a Roman Gentleman; " and, in 1871, in the North American Review, " The Religion of the Ancient Romans," probably the ablest of all his papers given to the press.

In Prof. Allen's published address upon " Agriculture in the Middle Ages," delivered on the 8th of February, 1877, before the Wisconsin State Agricultural and Horticultural Conven- tion, in Madison, are to be found not only practical thoughts upon agriculture but a number of interesting historical references bearing upon that subject. He has read before the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Art and Letters, papers on " The Rural Population of England as Class- ified in Domesday Book ;" "The Rural Classes of England in the Thirteenth Century; " "United States Sovereignty : Whence Derived and When Vested; " "Peasant Communities in France," and "The Origin of the Freeholders." He has just published a new edition of " The Agricola of Tacitus.

CHARLES GEORGE MAYERS, of Madison, is the author of two dramas-" The Three Crosses " and " Waves "-besides several smaller pieces. "Waves " was brought out at Wallack's Theater in New York in 1877. He is a ready and easy prose writer, and is also the author of a few poems. He read the poem at the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, at Toledo, in 1873. The reading was frequently interrupted by enthusiastic applause by the large audience assembled at Wheeler's Opera House. IIe has completed three of a series of what he calls " The Songs of the Lakes." From one of these poems, entitled "Mendota," an extract has been given in a previous chapter.

A. C. PENNOCK, a resident of the city of Madison, has published " The Fall and Rescue of Man." Mr. Pennock has also written and published " The Problem of Evil, or Theory and Theology." A volume of poetry written by him has not yet been given to the public.

JAMES D. BUTLER, a resident of Madison, was born in Rutland, Vt., March 15, 1815, grad- uating at Middlebury College, in that State, in 1836. Among his publications, besides a col- lection of fugitive poems, are " Nebraska : its Characteristics and Prospects," "Incentives to Mental Culture among Teachers," " Naming of America," "A Defense of Classical Studies," " Scenes in the Life of Christ," " Catalogue of Coins and Medals," " Armsmear," " Prehistoric Wisconsin," " Nebraska in 1877" and "American Pre-Revolutionary Bibliography." He has also written many articles for the Bibliotheca Sacra and other periodicals.

PROF. ROLAND D. IRVING, of the University of Wisconsin, and Assistant State Geologist, has given to the world, in the "Geology of Wisconsin " (Vol. II), the results of his survey of the central portions of the State, in 1875 and following years. His report forms Part III of that work. It treats of (1) " Surface features of Central Wisconsin; " (2) " General Geological Struct-

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ure of Central Wisconsin;" (3) "The Archaan Rocks ; " (4) " The Lower Silurian Rocks;" and (5) "Quaternary Deposits." Of especial interest in this valuable contribution to the geology of the country, are the minute discussions of the river system of Central Wisconsin ; a careful study of the interesting kaolin deposits in Wood County, an exhaustive discussion of the isolated Archæan areas, including the Baraboo Ranges; the discrimination of the Mendota and Madison limestones, and the location of the outline of the drift area. Prof. Irving's report is the only comprehensive one ever made upon the geology of Central Wisconsin. It is well written and has received marked attention from scientists generally.

The direction of the geological survey of Wisconsin was placed in charge of Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, of Beloit College, in February, 1876-the commissioned assistants retaining their connection therewith as before. Prof. Irving, besides some work in Central Wisconsin, contin- ued his examination of the iron and copper-bearing series of Ashland County, begun in 1873. For the next season, it was planned that his careful, detailed magnetic and geological survey in the vicinity of Penokee Gap should be continued eastward to the Potato River. For the year 1878, Prof. Irving was occupied, during that portion of his time given to the geological survey, in the completion of a final report on the "Geology of' Northern Wisconsin." This appears in the " Geology of Wisconsin " (Vol. III). It is of equal value, if not superior, to his report on Central Wisconsin.

Prof. Irving has contributed a number of able articles to the American Journal of Science and Arts (Silliman's) : (1) " On the Age of Quartzites, Schists, and Conglomerates of Sauk County, Wisconsin," February, 1872; (2) " Note on the Age of the Metamorphic Rocks of Portland, Dodge County, Wisconsin," April, 1873; (3) " On the Age of the Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior," July, 1874; (4) " Note on Some New Points in the Elementary Stratification of the Primordial and Canadian Rocks of South Central Wisconsin," June, 1875; (5) "Note on the Youngest Huronian Rocks South of Lake Superior," June, 1876; (6) " On the Age of the Crystalline Rocks in Wisconsin," April, 1877 ; (7) " Origin of the Driftless Re- gion of the Northwest," April, 1878; (8) " Stratigraphy of the Huronian Rocks of Lake Supe- rior."

As a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Prof. Irving has contributed to its " Transactions " several papers of merit : (1) " On Some Points in the Geology of Northern Wisconsin ; " (2) " On a Hand Specimen, Showing the Exact Junction of the Primor- dial Sandstones and Huronian Schists ;" (3) " On the Occurrence of Gold and Silver in Minute Quantities in Quartz from Clark County, Wisconsin." A contribution by him, reproduced in the preliminary part of this history, on the " Mineral Resources " of the State, is a valuable and highly interesting article. Prof. Irving has also published, in Volume VIII of " The Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineering," an essay on the mineral resources of Wis- consin.

RASMUS B. ANDERSON, Professor in the University of Wisconsin, is, for his age, one of the most prolific writers of the country. As a contributor to the periodical press and as an author of books for general reading, no other citizen of Wisconsin has gained a more extended reputa- tion.

His first contributions to the press were made in 1865, at the age of nineteen. Since then, he has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, published in the Norwegian language, in the United States and Norway. These articles are, to some extent, upon history and belles- letters, but the larger portion are polemic. Among these contributions are to be found " Runer ;" "Folkefrihedens Vugge stod i Norge;" " C. ,C. Rafn-Biografisk Skizze ;" "Oplysningens Nytte i timelig Henseende," and numerous others of recognized ability.

In the English language, Prof. Anderson has supplied papers to be found in the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation, the Christian at Work, Inland Monthly, Frank Leslie's Sunday Mag- azine, Robinson's Epitome of Literature, the Library Table, and others ; to the English press, articles to be found in various periodicals, especially in the London Academy. His contribu- tions to the daily papers, East and West, in the United States, have been numerous. His con-

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nection with " Osszehasonlito Irodalomtortenelmi Lapok "* has been interesting and quite exten- sive. This polyglot journal is published by the professors of the Royal University of Hungary. In it, he has published a number of articles both in poetry and in prose. It is a periodical cir- culating among scholars in every quarter of the globe.

Prof. Anderson began bis successful and enviable career as an author of books, by giving to the world, in 1872, "Julegave "-a work in Norwegian. It is a collection of Norse folk-lore stories, and has reached its third edition.

In 1874, Prof. Anderson published another Norwegian book-his second effort for public favor. The work was entitled " Den Norske Maalsag" -- it being an account of the movement to restore a national language in Norway.

Prof. Anderson now entered upon a larger field of literature, which he has since cultivated with even more success than the other. His first book in the English language was " America not Discovered by Columbus ;" third edition, in 1877. This work has been received with marked attention at home and abroad. This history is an attempt to place (what the author believes to be) the facts of the Norse discovery of America in the tenth century, within the reach of all; and to show, by a chain of circumstantial evidence, that Columbus, before sailing upon his famous voyage in 1492, was in possession of knowledge of the Norse discovery. The book has been twice translated into the Norwegian language-once, into modern Norwegian, and again into the tongue advocated by the author's " Maalsag."

In 1875, Prof. Anderson published his " Norse Mythology." This is his largest work, and the one upon which rests, to a great extent, his excellent literary reputation. It is an exhaust- ive and systematic presentation of the Odinic religion of the old Teutons, based on the Icelandic Eddas and Sagas. Few books have been more extensively or more generously noticed by the press of America. In Europe, its reception has been equally cordial. English, French, Ger- man and Scandinavian journals gave it, and are still giving it, elaborate and most favorable notices. It is now being translated into Italian by the Italian poet, Thomasso Canizzaro, of Messina, Sicily, and will be published in 1881, in Milan.

Prof. Anderson's " Viking Tales of the North " was issued from the press in 1877. It is a literary study of Tegner's celebrated Fridthjof's Saga, giving, in an English translation, the Saga material, out of which Tegner fashioned his poem, giving, furthermore, an introduction on Saga literature, also a biography of Tegner, and, by way of an appendix, Prof. Stephen's En- glish translation of the poem, the whole carefully annotated by Prof. Anderson.

Prof. Anderson published, in December, 1879, " The Younger Edda," which contains more of that ancient work than any previous translation into any language, and whose preface, intro- duction, vocabulary and explanatory notes combine to enhance its worth. His latest work was the introduction of over fifty pages to Auber Forestier's translation of Janson's "Spell Bound Fiddler," containing more about Ole Bull than has ever before been published in English.

Prof. Anderson is now at work upon a book to be entitled " Violins and Violin-Makers," all the notes for which were taken down by him from the lips of Ole Bull. He has in hand, also, a translation from Icelandic of the " Elder Edda " in two volumes, " A Guide into Teutondom" (one volume), and " Folk-lore Stories, from the Norse " (one volume). He has, likewise, other literary enterprises under way, prominent among which are an English version of the Finnish national epic, " Kalevala," and an extensive and thorough study of the Magyar poet Petofi, whom he hopes soon to introduce to the English-speaking public.

The chief of Prof. Anderson's prose translations is " Charcoal Burners," from the Swedish. This work was annotated and published in the English language by Prof. Nicodemus, lately deceased. From the Norwegian, Prof. Anderson has translated for the Smithsonian Institution, among other articles, an account of the Norwegian North. Sea exploration, by Prof. George O. Sars. He has translated a large number of poems from Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic.

*"Journal of Comparative Literature;"-"[Latio] Acta Comparatioois Literarvm Voiversarum ;"_"[German ] Zeitschrift fur Vergleich- ende Litteratur ;"_"[ Portuguese] Folhas de Litteratura Comparativa;"." [Italian] Giornale di Litteratura Comparata ;"_" [Spanish] Periodico de Literatura Comparada ;"_" [French] Jouroal de Litterature Comparee;" __ " | Swedish ] Tidskrift for Jemforaode Literatur,"_"[Dutch]Tijd- schrift voor Vergelijkende Letterkunde;"-" [Icelandic] Timarit fyrir Bokmenta Samaoburdh."

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Some have been printed in musical publications, one in Longfellow's " Poems of Places," several in the Hungarian Journal of Comparative Literature, others in various periodicals at home and abroad.

Prof. Anderson has published a number of pamphlets in English and Norwegian upon vari- ous subjects. One of these, entitled " The Scandinavian Languages ; their Historical, Linguis- tic, Literary and Scientific Value," is worthy of especial mention. Besides his numerous other literary labors, he has charge, as assistant editor, of the department of pre-Columbian history in the American Antiquarian. He has under his supervision, also, the Scandinavian department of Mcclintock & Strong's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature and of Kiddle & Schem's Cyclopedia of Education, and has contributed articles to Johnson's Cyclopedia. His books have been exten- sively quoted by writers on American history, on Northern literature and on mythology.

D. S. DURRIE, Librarian of the State Historical Society, has written several works. His books are: "A Genealogical History of John and George Steele, and their Descendants;" "A Genealogical History of the Holt Family in the United States; " "An Alphabetical Index to American Genealogies and Pedigrees; " "A History of Madison, the Capital of Wis- consin;" "An Illustrated History of the State of Missouri," with Walter B. Davis; "An Illustrated History of the State of Iowa," with Charles R. Tuttle. Besides these volumes, he has written several pamphlets : "The Utility of the Study of Genealogy ; "The Early Out- posts of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Prairie du Chien; " and "The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Organization of the Madison Presbyterian Church." Mr. Durrie has contributed to the Collections of the State Historical Society an article on "Jonathan Carver and the Carver Tract," and two or three biographical sketches of deceased persons. He is the author of "The Public Domain," one of the preliminary articles of this history. Tuttle's "History of Wis- consin " was mostly written by Mr. Durrie.

Among the writings of other Dane County authors may be mentioned " Wisconsin Ga- zetteer " (1853), and " Almanac and Register " (1856 and 1857), by J. W. Hunt; " Centen- nial Records of the Women of Wisconsin," by Anna B. Butler, Emma C. Bascom and Katba- rine F. Kerr; "Wisconsin and Her Resources," by James Ross ; " From Wisconsin to Cali- fornia and Return," by James Ross and George Geary ; " Military History of Wisconsin," by E. Quiner; "Wisconsin Supreme Court Reports," (three volumes, with sketch of the History of the Territorial Supreme Court), by S. U. Pinney ; " Western Portraiture," by Daniel S. Curtiss ; "Five Hundred Political Texts," by S. D. Carpenter ; " Health of Wisconsin," by Dr. Joseph Hobbins, reproduced among the preliminary articles of this history ; various contributions to periodicals, by Mrs. A. R. Jones; some excellent poetry published in local newspapers, by Mary O'Sheridan; "Wisconsin Railroads," and " Commerce and Manufactures," by H. H. Giles, reproduced among the preliminary articles of this book; a number of fugitive poems, book reviews, magazine articles and translations, by Laura H. Feuling, library attendant at the University of Wisconsin ; numerous pamphlets and sketches, by Prof. F. A. Schmidt, President of the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, and " A Genealogy of the Descendants of Peter Vilas," by C. H. Vilas.

C. W. BUTTERFIELD, a resident of Madison, is one among the few authors in the great central West, whose efforts in historical writing tend in a marked degree to elevate the standard of American literature. In 1847, he wrote a history of Seneca County, Ohio, which was pub- lished the year following. It was really the first strictly county history ever issued in separate book form west of the Alleghany Mountains. While engaged in the practice of the law, he found time to write a treatise on punctuation, which was published in 1858, and highly com- mended for the accuracy of its definitions, the clearness of its arrangement, and the perspicuity of its language. In 1878, an abridgment of the book was published, especially adapted to the wants of common schools. In 1873, was issued from the press of Robert Clarke & Co., Cin- cinnati, Mr. Butterfield's well-known monograph, " An Historical Account of the Expedition against Sandusky, under Col. William Crawford, in 1782." The work proved a great success. Few books of its class have been received with more general interest and favor. It reveals to

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History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 86

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 1304

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304