History of Grant County, Wisconsin, Part 114

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 1044

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It was first opened in 1838, with Jefferson Chandler, as Postmaster, "holding court," and conducting his official duties at Cottle's store in the lower town. Mr. Crawford, it is thought, remained in charge for nearly eight years, when Allen Preston was appointed his successor, and a tri-weekly mail was run from Galena to Mineral Point, via Hazel Green, Platteville, etc. The office was, during this and the administration of Dr. Mills, maintained in the Wisconsin House. James Jones was the next Postmaster, followed by J. M. Chandler, who was appointed in 1852, and retired in 1861; until 1855, the office was in a building near Johnson Stephen's store; in that year it was removed to Crawford's Block, where it has since remained. Jeffer- son Crawford succeeded Mr. Chandler, serving until his death, when his place was filled by J. L. Crawford, decedent's son, who remained in charge until 1866. Josiah Thomas was appointed to the trust in that year, and is still in charge.

CHURCHES.

St. Francis' Catholic Church .- In about 1845, the Rev. Father Samuel Mozzuchelli, identified with the cause of religion and morality throughout the lead mines for years previous, as also subsequent to that date, held the first Catholic services in the immediate vicinity of Hazel Green, at Hinch's house, below the village site, where a mission had been established. The congregation was composed of the families of M. Heffron, Sylvester Bryon, Patrick Mur- phy, Michael Flynn, John Fraerty, J. V. Donohoo, Charles and Timothy Breen, Patrick Bryan, Thomas Nean and some others, chiefly composed of miners. For over a year the society wor- shiped thus, meanwhile making arrangements for the erection of a church edifice, which cul- minated in 1846, when the brick church still standing and occupied at the north end of Main street was commenced. For one year labor was employed without any cessation, and, in 1847, its completion was reached and dedication celebrated under the auspices of Bishop Henni, of Milwaukee.

The building, as stated, is of brick, 30x50, one story high, with a capacity of seating a congregation of 250, and cost a total of about $1,500, the principal portion of which was raised by subscription among residents of Hazel Green Township and vicinity. The Rev. Samuel Mozzuchelli remained as Pastor until his removal to Beetown, assisted by the Rev. Francis Mozzuchelli, a nephew, and succeded in building up a congregation estimated at not less than 300 communicants. In 1851, St. Rose Church was built in Smelser Township, which had the effect, it is thought, of diminishing the number of attendants, and in some degree weakening the influence exerted by St. Francis. Be this as it may, however, when Father Mazzuchelli retired, the church became a mission belonging to the Mound, and services were conducted by prelates resident at Sinsinawa. This was continued until about 1866, when the Dominicans ceased their labors here and the Rev. Father Prendergast was assigned to the charge. From that date up to June, 1880, the parish remained several, presided over at intervals by the Rev. Fathers Berkhauser, James Staley, Ambrun, Cleary, Cliber, Allbright, Zara and J. F. O'Neill, the latter dissolving his connection with the church at the time above indicated, since when it has been again a mission.

At present, the church property-which includes a parsonage built in 1869, and cemetery grounds purchased in 1874-is valued at $3,000; the congregation numbers thirty families.

Christ Church .- An Episcopal Mission formally located in 1875, though services had been held in Hazel Green as early as 1856, when the Rev. T. N. Benedict, Rector of Grace Church, Galena, visited the village and conducted.

In the fall of 1875, Dr. Kirby Kiltoe, a pioneer resident of the town, appealed to Bishop E. R. Welles, D. D., to organize a society in Hazel Green. In response to this application,

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the Rev. C. H. Canfield, the minister in charge of the parish of Platteville, visited Hazel Green on alternate Tuesdays, and preached, Dr. Keltoe officiating in a diaconate capacity on Sundays. The 5th of March, 1876, witnessed the final meeting of the congregation, for on the succeeding Friday came that terrible visitation, the tornado, which created such havoc and destruction throughout one portion, at least, of this quiet village. Dr. Kiltoe removed to Dar- lington, the members, so to speak, of the society separated, and, from the date last mentioned, until 1878, no services of the Episcopal faith were held in Hazel Green. In June of that year, the Rev. George H. Drewe, a graduate of the University of Oxford, England, was sent to the village and resumed work in the canse, Crawford Hall and the German Presbyterian Church furnishing accommodations for the purposes of an auditorium. In October of the same year, a building, which had previously been occupied as a bowling alley, was rented and adapted to church uses at a cost of $500, wherein regular services were held by Dr. Drewe, and where, a year later, Bishop Welles administered the rite of confirmation to twelve candidates.

During 1879, the Pastor and congregation made strenuous efforts to procure the subscrip- tion of a fund for building the present edifice, and before the close of that annual had completed arrangements for so doing.

The church was finished early in 1880, and dedicated on St. Matthew's Day, Right Rev. Bishop Welles officiating. It is of frame, 40x24, handsomely arranged and finished in pine, elaborately furnished, and possesses capacity for seating one hundred and fifty worshipers. Its cost was estimated at $800. The Rev. George H. Drewe is Pastor, and the congregation num- bers fourteen communicants.

The Primitive Methodist Church .- Previous to 1861, the congregation which that year became attached to the Rocky Ford Circuit of the Primitive Methodist sect was identified with and a portion of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Hazel Green. Ruling in the general work of the church, however, caused dissatisfaction therein, and culminated in separation, which found expression in the establishment of the society under consideration. The members who withdrew were Thomas Andrews, Samuel Andrews, Robert Andrews, Christopher An- drews, John Cox, John Martin, George Broderick, William Berryman, Peter Trenartha, An- drew Pierce, Joseph Johns, James Johns, James T. Taylor, Thomas Stillman, Richard Tregon- ning, and some others.

Upon the completion of their organization, the society purchased the edifice which had been erected by the Christian denomination some years previons, and called the Rev. Henry Lees as Pastor. Here they worshiped until the tornado of 1876, which put a period to their local habitation, and for a season they were without an edifice. The premises were rebuilt, how- ever, without delay, and have since furnished ample accommodations. The church is 30x45, occupying the old site. Will seat three hundred and fifty, and cost $1,500.

The Pastors who have officiated have been the Revs. Charles Dawson, Joseph Hewitt, James Alderson, Jasper P. Sparrow, John Hernden, John Johns, W. J. C. Bond, J. Harring- ton and Thomas Jarvis, the present incumbent.

The congregation numbers eighty, and church property is valued at $2,000.

Methodist Episcopal Church .- This society was organized in 1845, by people of various denominations in the vicinity who were without a regular place of worship, but their names, together with that of the Pastor, are lost to posterity, the records of the church having been lost in the tornado of 1876. The first place of worship was in the old schoolhouse below the present residence of Edward Williams, which was retained until 1849. In that year, through the labors and contributions of the Rev. John Williams, Robert Langley and others, the pres- ent church edifice was built at a cost variously estimated at from $1,300 to $2,000. Here the Rev. Frank Smith labored zealously for the promotion and elevation of the church, the first of a line of servants of God who have shed a luster upon the course and worked the salvation of the multitude.

In 1856, so generous had become the congregation in point of numbers, that it was found. necessary to enlarge the auditorium of the church, which was accomplished the same year by the

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addition of a twenty-foot building to the original premises, at a cost of $800, making the edi- fice 30x66, sufficiently commodious to comfortably seat a congregation of three hundred and sixty. Since that date, the church has answered the purposes for which it was built, to the fullest extent.

The present congregation numbers 200. The church property is valued at $1,700, and the following ministers have served since 1860: The Revs. J. I. Williams, P. S. Mathers, M. Dinsdale, John Knibbs, A. W. Cummings, William Sturgis, P. E. Knox, W. Hall, J. Lawson, A. J. Davis and S. S. Benedict.

The German Presbyterian Church .- This society was organized about 1852, when a meeting of German Calvinists was held in the schoolhouse at the lower end of town. Here the congregation worshiped until 1854, when the present church edifice east of the Episcopal Church was built and dedicated, the sermon being preached by the Rev. John Bently. The church is 24x36, of frame, with a capacity of about two hundred, and cost $500.

From its organization the society has prospered, and is, to-day, attended by a large congre- gation exclusive of members. The present communicants include forty persons ; the church property is valued at $500, and the following Pastors have served since its foundation: The Revs. John Bently, James Renskers, Jacob J. Schwartz, John Van Derloss, Bernard Van Der- los, Gottfried Moer, John Levier, Jacob Stark, Joseph Steinhardt, Mitchell Biddle and Joseph Weittenberger, the present incumbent.

HAZEL GREEN CEMETERY

was laid out in the early days of the village, on lands donated by Preston & Young about the year 1844. The first adult buried there is reported to have been Lewis Curtis, one of the oldest settlers in the township. His funeral took place May 31, 1845, the Rev. Avatus Kent, of Galena, officia ing, and the pall-bearers being John Edwards, Hiram Weatherbee, Jefferson Crawford, P. P. Patterson, Capt. De Selhorst, of Elk Grove, and James Gilman, of James- town, since which solemn event many of those who attended have, too, been laid beneath the daisies. Plague, pestilence and the tornado have each swept through the ranks of life since that day, and stricken down the loved of earth.

The grounds, while by no means demonstrative, are calculated to attract by the simplicity of the surroundings, the quiet ornamentation of the grounds, and the severe style of the entab- lature, realizing to its fullest extent the immortal picture traced by Thomas Gray.

Many indeed, since the sod of that pioneer was first turned in this sacred spot, have been touched by the Master of mortality and laid within its reverent precincts, who, with the fore- fathers of the hamlet, sleep and await alike the hour when time, uniting with eternity, shall summon them to plead before that bar whence there is no appeal.

Among the distinguished dead who lie buried there is James Gates Percival. He is sleep- ing in the lot of his friend and patron, Dr. Jenckes, and visitors to Hazel Green are pointed out the grave of the author, the scholar, the poet and the Christian. He went the way of all flesh , at an age when men of his mold could not be easily spared, and created a vacancy that has never been filled. But he left behind him the memory of generous deeds, and a goodness of heart that can never be forgotten by acquaintances and friends who recognized his possession of those qualities which render mankind more charitable, more considerate and more sympathetic to those who fall by the wayside in the checkered aisles of life. He needs no other monument.

In 1852, a re-survey of the cemetery was had, and an addition of three acres made, which was divided into 165 lots, nearly all of which are owned in the village. The grounds were for- merly in charge of a committee, but this has been abandoned, and now a sexton only is consid- ered indispensable in their management.

" Can storied urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust ?

Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? '

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SECRET SOCIETIES.

Sinsinawa Lodge, No. 16, I. O. O. F .- Was first chartered May 4, 1847, with the follow- ing membership : N. Hennip, William Brunt, E. W. Prentiss, G. E. Skinner, Charles G. Goff, Sylvanus Jessup and W. H. Suttle. The meetings were held in lodge room in what was known as the " old Rock Store," which was occupied by the craft conjointly with the Masonic frater- nity until its destruction by the tornado in 1876. By this calamity the society lost everything, including its charter, records, regalia, etc., and was assisted in its efforts to re-organize by sister lodges throughout the State. This was finally accomplished, including the issue of a new charter, and in conjunction with the Masons, they purchased the Crosby store of George Brod- erick for $2,500, where they have since met.

The present officers are : George Birkett, N. G .; James H. Mills, V. G .; J. H. Gribble and J. H. Cox, Secretaries ; and John Birkett, Treasurer.

The present membership is fifty-five ; meetings are held weekly on Saturday nights, and the lodge property is valued at $3,000.

Hazel Green Lodge, No. 43, A., F. § A. M .- This lodge was organized under a dispensa- tion granted December 1, 1852. On June 14 of the following year, a charter was granted with P. H. Sain, W. M .; L. D. Phillips, S. W .; James Ormiston, J. W .; T. W. Nash, Treasurer ; John O'Connor, Secretary ; B. Wilcox, William Dinwiddie and D. Styles, charter members.

The lodge met in the old stone store until its destruction by the tornado in 1876, when they became part occupants of the Crosby store purchased of George Broderick, in company with the Odd Fellows, where they have since convened.

The present officers are : John Birkett, W. M .; Edward Thompson, S. W .; John Williams, J. W .; James Edwards, S. D .; W. T. Andrews, J. D .; Thomas Nash, Secretary ; R. D. Rob- erts, Treasurer ; and John Kohl, Tiler.

The present membership is 56, and meetings are held on Friday evenings, on or before the full moon.

Rechabite Lodge, No. 53, I. O. G. T .- Was first organized October 10, 1860, and is to-day one of the most prosperous and successful temperance societies in the Northwest. The organiza- tion was effected under and by virtue of the provisions of a charter granted to Miss Lizzie Shy- ham, Mrs. Frances Shabacker, Charles Shabacker, D. G. Purman, F. A. Thompson, M. J. Skinner, John R. Ralph, F. C. Frebil, Chester Cole and Robert Dobson. Of these D. G. Pur- man was W. C. T .; Miss Lizzie Shelham, W. C. T .; Mrs. Frances Shabacker, Treasurer; M. J. Skinner and F. A. Thompson, Secretaries ; F. C. Frebil, Chaplain ; and John R. Ralph, Marshal.

Meetings were held in the old stone store, and so continued until 1876, when the destruction of that rendezvous of Templars, Masons and Odd Fellows compelled the securement of other quarters, and Stone's store was procured, which has since been occupied.

The present membership is stated at 100. The present officers are : William Fern, W. C. T .; Miss Jennie Cox, W. V. T .; John Fern, Treasurer ; Edward Thompson, Miss Ruba York and Miss Minnie Thomas, Secretaries ; the Rev. T. S. Benedict, Chaplain ; Frank Fern, Mar- shal ; and Josiah Thomas, Representative to the Grand Lodge.

Meetings are convened weekly, and the value of lodge property is estimated at $300.

THE HAZEL GREEN BAND

was organized Angust 25, 1880, and has attained a degree of prominence and favor rarely accorded associations of similar objects and experience. The officers then, as now, as also the members, were J. J. Crawford, President and Leader; George Mills, Treasurer, and E. D. F. Morcom, Secretary. J. J. Crawford, F. G. Thompson, William Andrews, Thomas Williams, Jefferson Crawford, Roy Williams, John H. Thomas, Thomas Simmons, Christian Andrews, E. D. F. Morcom and Frank Fern.

Frank Thompson, Jefferson Crawford and Edward O'Neill, Band Committee.

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The property of the organization is valued at $250, and meetings are held semi-weekly for practice.

LIGHTCAP'S MILL,

located about two miles west of Hazel Green, is one of the most extensive establishments of the kind in Grant County. The mill is of stone, the main building 32x54, and four stories high, with an addition 40x18, one story high. The undertaking was commenced in May, 1847, when the digging of the race was begun and completed in March, 1848, at a cost of $11,000.

The mill proper contains three run of buhrs, with a capacity for grinding forty barrels of flour per day, and is valued, with the land immediately contiguous, at $30,000.

CHAPTER XI.

POTOSI.

LOCATION-ORIGIN OF THE VILLAGE-THE SETTLEMENT OF THE VILLAGE-WILLIS St JOHN-THE POSTMASTER-FIRST BIRTH -- EARLY LIFE IN THE MINES-MURDERS-POTOSI RECEIVES ITS NAME-A DUEL-INCORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE-THE EARLY MINING INTERESTS-THE SCHOOLS-THE PRESS-THE VILLAGE POST OFFICE-RELIGIOUS-BUSINESS ENTERPRISES- SOCIETIES-CEMETERIES-ADJOINING SETTLEMENTS-DUTCH HOLLOW-BRITISH HOLLOW- ROCKVILLE.

LOCATION.

Preliminary reference to the early settlement and progress of Potosi Village must neces- sarily be made to the town of which the village is to-day the prime factor. The town of Potosi is bounded on the north by Lancaster, on the east by the towns of Harrison and Paris, ·on the south by the Mississippi River, and the west, partly by that highway, and partly by Waterloo. It is centrally located in Grant County, with an area comprising 34,109 acres, of an assessed valuation, in 1880, of $362,887.

ORIGIN OF THE VILLAGE.

Section 34 upon which the village is located was donated by an act of Congress, approved June 15, 1844, to the State, for the purpose of improving Grant River. This was further pro- vided for by subsequent legislation, and Nelson Dewey, Henry L. Massey and James E. Free- man were appointed Commissioners to survey the same. The survey was completed by James E. Freeman and Henry L. Wiltse (the latter subsequently becoming Surveyor General in the Land Office at Dubuque), the sub division appropriated into in and out lots, the former contain- ing two and one-half acres each, while the latter were each sixty-six feet front, by 120 feet deep. The survey was completed and filed in the office of the Register of Deeds of Grant County, June 19, 1845, and deeds issued to purchasers by Gov. Henry Dodge, attested by John Catlin, Secretary of State, the proceeds being used in the construction of a canal from the Mississippi to the Grant River. The work has remained uncompleted, however, owing to the exhaustion of the fund, and has never been of much practical utility to the town, save for tugs and wood- boats, and some other purposes during high water.

The lower part of the village, comprising the section whereon Hail's brewery is now situ- ated, called Van Buren, with Lafayette still southward on the left bank of Grant River, previous to the building up of Potosi proper, were the principal business portions of the town. The former place is known as the "Van Buren Entry," having been originally entered by Joseph Wooley and Robert Templeton prior to 1849. It was reserved from sale for a time by the Gov- ernment on account of being mineral lands; but, as the story goes, witnesses were hired to go over it blindfolded, then taken to the land-office and sworn that they had been all over the ground and could see no mineral. This may or may not be true, but the sections were never of any great moment as mining ground, and the Government lost nothing in the sale of these rough and broken points.

The surface of the town, it may be said, is mostly of a rough, broken character, being trav- ersed by many deep ravines or hollows, which debouch into the valleys of the Grant and Platte rivers. The best arable land constitutes the southern part of Boice Prairie. The soil is a rich gray loam, well adapted to the growth of corn, as also the principal cereals, and being embedded upon a substratum of clay, retains its moisture for a great length of time in dry seasons. Along the bluffs of the Mississippi, and upon the farms which reach out to the borders of Grant and

BOSCOBEL.

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Platte Rivers, a new industry is rapidly obtaining in the cultivation of the grape, and wine of native manufacture bids fair to take the place of New England hard cider and beer of Bavarian hops.

The earliest settlement is believed to have taken place a brief space of time anterior to the Black Hawk war. Those who came in those days were men of heroic mold, and stood out from the common race of mortals like the inscription over the door of John Knox's residence at Neth- erbow. Some came into this section before the war-

"Cast ashore from Pleasure's boistering surge, And left to rot and molder in the winds and rains of heaven."

But all who came and went out from the mines were not failures. Many succeeded in business beyond their most sanguine expectations, and others arose from the humble occupation of miners to fill the most responsible and exalted positions in the land. Many were in affluent circumstances and from the first ranks of society, and came here for the purpose of extending their business and adding to their wealth. In early days, as all are aware, before the cry of war and blood rang out upon the frontier scenes of this yet undeveloped territory, the surveyors surveying in Wisconsin discovered lead on a branch about two miles from the Mississippi River where Potosi is located. The excitement in Galena was then very great for what was called the new discovery, and a party that had got acquainted started at once for the new El Dorado. Of the party was Sam Druen, as good a fellow as one ever knew, subsequently rich and living at Beetown. Druen's case fully illustrated that a stone lying still will gather moss, and no man is worthier than Sam to have moss all over him of the richest kind.

THE SETTLEMENT OF THE VILLAGE

was not delayed beyond the close of the war, when its ravines and uplands were covered with unbroken forests of oak trees, interspersed here and there with groves of the stately elm on the bottoms and along the margin of the streams, spreading out their huge branches, affording a delicious shade to the sturdy pioneer and his way-worn family. A few sporadic members of the birch, maple, cottonwood and other deciduous trees were found scattered here and there, while upon the summits and steep acclivities of the bluffs were to be seen a few stray wanderers from the perennial tribes, waving their dark green cones above the castellated rocks like the plumes of giant sentinels upon the battlements of Nature's walls. Beneath these solitary shades, and guarded by these lone naiad sentinels of the wood and stream, slept in tumuli and grassy mounds a strange and long-forgotten race of warriors. Here in the gray dawn of the world's existence, long before the light of its present civilization had reached this land, had dwelt a race of Anaks, possessed of a knowledge of the arts and sciences, played their brief part in the drama of human life, then laid them down in their last sleep, slumbering on till the wave of oblivion had passed over them, and blotted from the records of earth every evidence of their existence, save these green mounds and moldering bones beneath. But the Mound-Builders, who, though the earliest settlers, are left quietly reposing in the bosom of mother earth, " to dumb forgetfulness a prey."

Next " in the course of human events " comes the red man of the forest, who is passed by, however, as a thief and a wanderer, and finally came into the country the progenitors of those who are here to-day. In the summer of 1832, days after peace followed in the wake of the victory at Bad Ax, Willis St. John and Isaac Whitaker, the latter accompanied by his wife, the first white woman in Potosi Village or township. Two adventurous pioneersmen made their way hither, and, discovering the mineral cave in Snake Hollow, whence the latter took its name, decided to remain and pursue their way to glory and to fortune.

It should, however, be observed that mineral had been discovered by hunters in 1829, when "float" was found in the roots of a tree that had been blown down by the wind on the hill opposite the new Catholic Church ; also that a hut had been erected in the same year at the mouth of the Hollow by Tom Hymer. But owing to Indian troubles and other exigencies,

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no permanent establishment was established in the vicinity of Potosi Village until the advent of St. John and Whitaker. Speaking of

WILLIS ST. JOHN,

an important factor in the sum of events in Potosi, the Hon. J. W. Seaton, says : " He was a man of athletic build, of fine form, and though advanced in years and broken in health at the time I knew him, the indomitable energy of his nature was unquenched, and would show itself in the strong sententious language that expressed the independence of his thoughts and the energy of that will which laughed at the difficulties that subdue and conquer weaker minds. Of his early life and personal history previous to his entrance to the mines, I am uninformed. He was among the very first that reached 'Snake Hollow,' as the Potosi mines were then called, and, by a lucky turn in Fortune's wheel, he was one of the first she smiled upon, and the place where she opened up her glittering treasures to his wondering gaze is still known as 'St. John's cave." It is said to have turned out a million of mineral, but that is a ' big pile,' and some allowance must be made for the authority of the story and the number of times it has been told. At all events it proved a valuable lode, and has been profitably worked down to a recent date. Its site is near the summit of the bluff opposite the place where the Catholic Church now stands. On the opposite side of the road, he built what was known as an 'ash furnace,' and did his own smelting. He was soon enabled to purchase real estate and other valuable property, and was long esteemed for his great generosity, kindness and manly traits of character. The Methodist preachers, who follow in the wake of civilization, soon found him out, and they never lacked for their favorite dish-yellow-legged chicken-while his roost was full. They taught him, too, their favorite texts, 'God loveth the cheerful giver,' 'Cast your bread upon the water,' etc., and St. John was the man ever ready to practice all good precepts. Through his instrumentality the Methodist Episcopal Church at Van Buren was built, and the quarterly dues of the local preachers and Elders were promptly met; and all went smoothly on till there came a crisis in the monetary affairs of the State Bank of Illinois. This, with other reverses of fortune, crushed the old man with its accumulated weight of trouble, and he never rose again. I have often listened to his sad story, which he would repeat with thrilling effect, and wondered at the mysterious Providence that could thus cast him off. He felt keenly the loss of the property that once gave him influence and position, but more keenly the cold shoulder and averted looks of those whom he had once befriended. Poverty, with all its depri- vations, he could endure, but the neglect of those who should have given him succor in the hour of need. galled his high spirit and made him curse the race of man. He was warm and genial in his friendships, but bitter in his hates and scathing in his imprecations. For years the shadow of his once strong frame might have been seen moving slowly and sadly about our streets-a wronged and ruined man-emaciated by disease and only awaiting the end he knew was drawing nigh.

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History of Grant County, Wisconsin, Part 114

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899 Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co. Number of Pages: 1044

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 1044