History of northern Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources; an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories; biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; views of county seats, etc., Part 23

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052

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Since so large a proportion of the soldiers who went from Brown County partook of the fortunes of the " Marching Twelfth," a brief tracing of their widely extended course will be given. In brief, the regiment marched from the time of leaving Madison, January 11, 1862, until the Spring of 1864, one thousand six

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hundred miles, was transported by steamer one thous- and five hundred and by railroad six hundred. Re- porting at Camp Randall in the Fall of 1861, the wan- derers found themselves at Leavenworth, Kansas, in February, 1862. Six days later they had marched one hundred and sixty miles to Fort Scott; twenty days thereafter they were at Lawrence one hundred and fif- teen miles from Fort Scott. Within two weeks an order arrived which necessitated a move to Fort Riley, one hundred and twenty miles. Then they marched back to Leavenworth, thence down the river to St. Louis and to Columbus, Kentucky. By this time it was June, 1862. After enjoying a season of compara- tive rest in repairing railroads and scouting and guer- rilla warfare the Twelfth struck Bolivar, where they were attached to the Seventeenth Army Corps. After the battle of Corinth they pursued the Rebels, and participated in the movement which followed the sur- render of Holly Springs. In February they were on guard duty on the Memphis & Charlestown Road; in March were at Memphis to participate in the Cold- water expedition under Colonel Bryant. Indulging in a slight skirmish at Hernando, in which the enemy were defeated, the Twelfth joined Grant's army, were placed on garrison duty, and finally, in June, served in the trenches before Vicksburg. Next with Sherman, then back to Vicksburg and to Natchez. More guer- rilla warfare, more marching ; then with General Sher- man's regular expedition.

The raising of money, the recruiting for active service, and the agitation of the Union cause con- tinued until in March, 1863 ; the passage of the draft act produced wide-spread consternation, especially among a limited class who had avoided the burdens of the war. Wisconsin was divided into six districts, the head-quarters of the fifth district being Green Bay- C. R. Merrill, Provost Marshal ; Wm. A. Bugh, Com- missioner; H. O. Crane, Examining Surgeon. Fort Howard was to be the rendezvous and the place of confinement for deserters. The draft was ordered to take place in November. On the twenty-first of that month it took place in the old court-house, corner of Adams and Doty streets, Green Bay. Green Bay, Fort Howard and Depere were exempt as they had already filled up their quota. The draft continned for a week, the number drawn being two thousand eight hundred and forty. In 1864, July 18, a draft of four thousand eight hundred and ten was made and in December of the same year eight hundred and forty in the State.

Of the late companies which went out during the last of the war may be mentioned the Brown County Guards, a company of young men who enlisted in the Summer of 1864, for the one-hundred-day service, offi- cered by James Camm, and Company F, Fifteenth Reg- iment, Captain Chas. C. Lovett. The latter was sent to Dakota, remaining in service nearly a year.

The Bay City Light Guard, the only military organ- ization of Green Bay or Fort Howard, was formed in the former city, December 1, 1874. Its officers are as follows : Captain, E. L. Kendall; First Lieutenant, David Soper; Second Lieutenant, O. C. Davidson. It has a membership of seventy-three.

TOWN HISTORY.

A point is now reached when it is necessary to turn from subjects of general county interest to those of a more local nature. The history of the towns is there- fore taken up, and afterwards of the cities and villages of the county.

Town of Green Bay .- Soon after the organization of Brown County in 1834, the Town of Green Bay was formed; four years thereafter the Borough of Green Bay was the combined product of Navarino and Astor. Up to 1854, when it became a city, Green Bay neces- sarily formed a part of the town. Preble, Humboldt and Scott were cut off from it in 1858, so that its orig- inally large proportions (ninety-eight square miles) were reduced to eight miles long by three miles wide. The original settlers of the town, as it now exists, were a party of Belgians who came from Antwerp in 1853.

Town of Howard was organized in 1838, John Mars- ton, a fisherman, being the first settler in that region, in 1830. In 1836, John P. Arndt built a saw-mill upon the site of Duck Creek settlement, and in 1839, Francis Irwin and Patrick Cummings were farming in that locality. But the lower settlement on the creek soon became the most thriving, in a business way, and a post-office was established there in 1860.

The early history of the Towns of Green Bay, Howard, Preble, and Lawrence, or of the region which they now include, has been detailed in preceding pages.

The Town of Pittsfield, one of the largest in the county, was organized November 17, 1849, the first town meeting being held at the house of D. W. Hub- bard. That gentleman was elected Chairman of the Board. A formerly flourishing settlement known as Mill's Center, was ruined by the fire of 1871, which destroyed so much valuable timber land adjacent.

Town of Bellevue was organized in 1849, and con- tains 9,200 acres of land. The nationality is princi- pally Belgian. The town contains two school-houses, and three saw-mills. A German by the name of Plat- ten was the first settler, in 1842. His son is a resident of Howard. The soil of the town is well adapted to farming purposes, being well watered by several small streams emptying into East River, which forms the line between Allouez and Bellevue.

Town of Scott was organized April 1, 1850. The Village of New Franken, so scathed by the fire of 1871, was settled by the Bavarians in 1845. The first Amer- icans to permanently locate in the town came in 1836, although French and half-breeds had lived in the country for a number of years. Wm. Sylvester, John Campbell and Robert Gibson were among the pioneers. The northern and northwestern portions of the town are washed by Green Bay. It is in this vicinity where the " Red Banks " are located - curious specimens of ancient earth-works.

Town of New Denmark was set off from Depere in 1855. The majority of its population is Danish. It is watered by the Neshoto and tributaries, and contains good farming land. A post-office was established at Cooperstown in 1848. "The name was afterwards changed to Denmark.

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Town of Rockland was set off from the Town of Depere in 1856. James Hobbins and Stephen Joyce, farmers, were the first settlers, locating in 1850 and 1855, respectively. In 1854, the first school-house was erected by the above and Thos. Joyce, Sr., P. Mc- Donough and W. Cashman. The town now contains five district schools. Rockland is principally settled by the Irish and German. It contains 14,000 acres of land, the surface being undulating and timbered, and the soil fertile. It is well watered by the Fox and Devil rivers, and smaller streams.

Town of Glenmore was organized from the Town of Depere in 1856. The first settler who located within ty limits was Samuel Harrison, who came in 1846. The Irish element predominates. It contains good farming land, well watered.

Town of Suamico was a part of Pittsfield until March, 1858, when it was separately organized. The total number of acres of land in town is 21,942.77. It contains four public schools. Suamico is an excellent farming country, and stock raising is profitable. The first settlements were made between 1846-50, by Stephan Burdon and Willard Lamb.

Town of Eaton was set off from Depere in 1860, the first settlers being Irish and Danes, who came five years previously. It is watered by Neshoto River and smaller creeks, and shelters a pretty little body of water called Lilly Lake.

Town of Ashwaubenon was erected by legislative act. March 16, 1872. The prevailing nationalities are Scandinavians, French, Belgians and Irish. It con- tains two public schools, and one church - Scandi- navian Lutheran. It is watered by Ashwaubenon Creek. A portion of West Depere extends into the town, and much of its land is owned by parties resid- ing in that village, Green Bay and Fort Howard.

Town of Allouez, situated west of East River, oppo- site Ashwaubenon, was set off from Bellevue in 1873, and contains 2,896 acres of land. A majority of its settlers are Dutch, and farming is the principal occu- pation. It has no church and no post-office, and but one school district. Its first settler was Joseph Buch- arma, a Frenchman seventy-five years of age, who was born within the present confines of Allouez.

Town of Holland was first settled by eleven Dutch families, in 1848, being organized in the Spring of 1854. The next year the Irish came. It contains two Cath- olic churches, and five district schools. The village of Hollandtown is quite a settlement. There is one saw- mill in the town, owned by John Brown.

Town of Morrison, in the southern part of the coun- ty, contains thirty-six townships, and is watered by numerous creeks. The soil is fair, the land well tim- bered with hard wood and pine. A. J. Morrison and wife were the first settlers, in 1851. In 1855 they sold out to Phillip Falck, the most prominent man in this region.

Oneida Reservation .- Commencing in 1822, and continuing some years thereafter, sections of the Oneidas, Stockbridges, Munsees and Brotherhood In- dian tribes emigrated west. This emigration from New York to Wisconsin was principally brought about by Rev. Jedediah Morse, who came as a special com- missioner of the Government. A small tract of land

was purchased from the Menomonees and Winnebagoes during that year, but the basis of the Oneida Reserva- tion was laid when the former powerful tribe ceded to the United States all the lands in their Eastern divis- ion, and in 1832 a tract on the Fox River was ceded to the New York tribes. These treaties were both held in Green Bay. In 1838 the Oneidas ceded all their lands to the United States, reserving 62,000 acres on Duck Creek, near Green Bay. The negotiations were carried on at Washington, and the result is the " Oneida Reservation." The Stockbridge and Munsee tribes had, in the meantime, moved from above Green Bay, on the east side of the Fox, to the east side of Lake Winnebago. In 1839 the Brotherhood Indians became full citizens. (See history Calumet County.)

The Oneida Reservation lies about one-third in Brown and two-thirds in Ontagamie counties. The population is about 1,500, the farms ranging from one hundred and sixty to two hundred, and sometimes four hundred, acres. It contains three schools and two churches - Episcopal and Methodist. Bishop Kemper consecrated the former in December, 1838. The pas- tors are : Revs. E. A. Goodnough ( Episcopal) and S. Ford (M. E.). The Indian Agent is E. B. Stevens, of Oshkosh.

By decades, the population of Brown County has been : 1850, 6,215; 1860, 11,795; 1870, 25,168; 1880, 34,035.

The general county indebtedness is $286,720- $252,000 on account of aid voted to railroads, and $30,720 unpaid interest.

DISTRICT SCHOOLS.

The district schools are under charge of Miss Min- nie H. Kelleher, County Superintendent, the actual attendance, according to her annual report ending August 31, 1880, having been : Ashwaubenon, 112; Allouez, 40; Bellevue, 162; Depere, 204; Depere Village, 292; West Depere, 353; Eaton, 116; Glen- more, 251; Green Bay, 192; Holland, 423; Howard, 305; Humboldt, 253; Lawrence, 181; Morrison, 291; New Denmark, 328; Pittsfield. 111; Preble, 199; Rockland, 232; Scott, 392; Suamico, 195; Wrights- town, 542. The apportionment of the school fund is on the basis of 414 cents per scholar, and amounted in the aggregate to $5,467.20 for 1881.

THE CITY OF GREEN BAY.

The history of Green Bay and vicinity has been brought in all important requirements up to the date of its municipal organization. It has been shown how Astor and Navarino finally buried their rivalries to unite and form the borough of Green Bay, and how the latter continued a portion of the town until February 27, 1854, when it was incorporated as a city. Green Bay was first organized into two wards, the former Navarino forming the North Ward and Astor the South. Subdivisions and additions continued until, by 1876, six wards had been formed. In that year a portion of the town of Preble was taken into the limits of the city, and three more wards organized. In April, 1878, Green Bay was divided into three wards, their limits being defined by the private and local laws of 1880, as follows : " All that part of the city south of a line commencing in the center of the Fox River and running south 64 east, through the center of the tier of blocks commencing with No. 4, upon

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the recorded plat of Astor, to the eastern boundary line of said city, shall constitute the First Ward ; all that part bounded south by the First Ward, west by the center line of the channel of the Fox River north, running thence south 64° east along the northern boundary of lots 9, 30, 47, 68 and 83 (plat of Navarino), to the west line of Jefferson street, thence northeast to the northwest corner of lot 532 on said plat, thence south 64° east to the western boundary line of Eleventh street, thence easterly along the center of St. Clair street to its eastern terminus, south 64° east to the eastern boundary of the city and east by the boundary line, shall constitute the Second Ward ; and all the remaining parts of the city, the Third."

The first City Council met at the Town Hall, two o'clock P.M., May 6, 1854 - present, T. Desnoyer, John Day, Paul Fox and Amos Saunders, from the North Ward, and John P. Arndt, Fredrick A. Lathrop, Louis Carabin and Charles LeClair, from the South Ward. The meeting was organized by electing John P. Arndt, chairman, and then adjourned to the Engine-house. E. H. Ellis was chosen Clerk pro tem., and the following officers were elected : John P. Arndt, President; Wm. C. E. Thomas, Mayor; Barley Follett, Treasurer ; Saul Butler, Superintendent Public Schools; Nathan Goodell, Marshal and Street Commissioner. Com- mittee appointed on streets and bridges was Messrs. Arndt, LeClair and Saunders; on the poor, Messrs. Desnoyer, Fox and Carabin ; on accounts, Messrs. Carabin, Fox and Lathrop; on printing, Messrs. Desnoyer, Myers, Lathrop and Arndt; on plank-roads, Messrs. Day, Fox and Lathrop. An arrangement was made to confer with Major Shaler, so as to confine evil-doers in the guard house at Fort Howard. At a meeting held May 24, 1854, the plan for the East River bridge was adopted. The Mayor, in 1855, was Francis Desnoyer, and Anton Klaus, Treasurer. 1856-7, H. C. Eastman, Mayor ; H. H. Albright, Treasurer. 1858, Barley Follett, Mayor; Philip Klaus, Treasurer. 1859, Nathan Goodell, Mayor; Philip Klaus, Treasurer. 1860, E. H. Ellis, Mayor ; Philip Klaus, Treasurer. 1861-62, H. S. Baird, Mayor; Philip Klaus, Treasurer. 1863, Barley Follett, Mayor ; Philip Klaus, Treasurer. 1864, Nathan Goodell, Mayor ; Philip Klaus, Treasurer. 1865, M. P. Lindsley, Mayor; Philip Klaus, Treasurer. 1866, Chas. D. Robinson, Mayor; Philip Klaus, Treasurer. 1867, James S. Marshall, Mayor; Anton Burkart, Treasurer. 1868-9-70, Anton Klaus, Mayor; Anton Burkart, Treasurer. 1871, A. Kim- ball, Mayor; Anton Burkart, Treasurer. 1872, C. D. Rob- inson, Mayor ; Anton Burkart, Treasurer. 1873, A. Kim- ball, Mayor, Anton Burkart, Treasurer. 1874, C. E. Crane, Mayor ; Frank Lens, Treasurer. 1875, C. E. Crane, Mayor, John D. Williams, Treasurer. 1876, H. S. Ellis, Mayor; Au- gust Brauns, Treasurer. 1877, C. E. Crane, Mayor ; M. V. B. Benson, Treasurer. 1878, C. E. Crane, Mayor; D. W. King, Treasurer. 1879, C. E. Crane, Mayor; M. V. B. Benson; Treasurer. 1880, J. C. Neville, Mayor ; G. Keesterman,

Treasurer. 1881, the officers are W. J. Abrams, Mayor ; WVm. Hoffman, President of Council; Chas. Woelz, Treas- urer ; A. C. Lehman, Clerk : Philip Klaus, Assessor ; H. J. Huntington, Attorney ; G. Bong, Chief of Police; O. J. B. Brice, Police Justice. Members of Common Council : First Ward-Wm. Hoffman, Charles Johannes, Ph. Ken- dall; Second Ward-Chas. Harting, E. K. Ansoye, H. T. C. Bernendsen; Third Ward-D. W Britton, E. L. Ken- dall, P. J. Van Deusen. Supervisors are : First Ward-A. A. Warren; Second Ward-L. Schellar ; Third Ward-R. W. Cook. Board of Health are: First Ward-R. B. Kel- log, Chas. Vroman ; Second Ward - Dr. B. C. Brett, L. Schellar; Third Ward-L. R. Ducheteau, Peter Muller. Street Superintendent, N. Goodell.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Up to 1840 there were no district schools in Green Bay. About that time David Ward, John F. Lessey and Henry Sholes, School Commissioners, raised a school fund and opened the first public school. Green Bay City has now four public school buildings, whose total value is $55,000, which, added to the value of the grounds, makes the total amount of school property $64,000. There is a total attend- ance of 1,300, the enrollment being 2,300. The attendance at private and parochial schools would bring the figures up to 2,000. The High School, situated in the center of School street was erected at a cost of $8,000. In 1881, the following was the corps of teachers : High School - J. C. Crawford, principal ; Miss Ida M. Gordon, first assistant ; Miss S. May Thomas, second assistant ; Grammar, A department, Miss Alice O. Burnham, principal ; Miss Kate Gaylord, assistant; Grammar, B department, Mrs. C. B. Fields.

The First Ward school building, corner of Madison and Chicago, was erected at a cost of $16,000, the corps of teachers being as follows : Miss Sarah E. Patterson, Prin- cipal. Assistants, the Misses Helen S. Carswell, Nellie M. Goodhue, Cynthia Gardner.

The Pine-street building is located at the corner of that street and Webster avenue; cost of structure, $30,000. The teachers are : Miss Lizzie M. Burns, principal. Assist- ants, Mrs. Clara F. Neeves, the Misses Clara Jacobi, Alice Jacobi, Rose LeClair and Abbie Young.

The East River school building, corner of Elm and Twelfth streets, cost $1,000. Miss Bessie L. Geer is prin- cipal, and Miss Elsie L. Torrey, assistant.

Under the efficient management of J. H. Leonard, the schools of Green Bay maintain a good standing.

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The organization of the City Government took place in 1854, at a meeting held November 4. The first Fire Wardens appointed were H. S. Baird and Nathan Goodell, for the North Ward: Alonzo Kimball and Charles Henry for the South Ward. An ordinance to organize the Fire Department was approved April 24, 1858, and co-opera- tion made with Fort Howard. The Germania Fire Com- pany, No. I, was organized September 14, 1854, with a Button Hand Engine. Fred A. Lathrop, chief engineer ; H. C. Reber, foreman; C. C. Thomegar, secretary. Its house is on Washington street, and it has 1,200 feet of hose. In 1868 was purchased the Steamer Amoskeag. Joshua Whitney is chief engineer.

Wide Awake, No. 2, has its head-quarters on Adams street. It was organized October 17, 1856, with F. A. Lathros, chief engineer; Hon. H. S. Baird, assistant engi- neer; L. J. Day, foreman ; B. C. Gardener, assistant fore- man ; C. C. Case, secretary ; C. L. Wheelock, treasurer. The present engine was purchased in 1872. It is a Clapp & Jones, second-class. The company has 1,200 feet of hose. Lindley is chief engineer.

Washington Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, was organized January 1, 1858, with Jas. Morton, forenian ; F. S. Bay, assistant foreman ; D. Gorham, secretary, and Lewis Schellar, treasurer. M. W. Nuss is foreman. The Fire Wardens are: First Ward, A. A. Warren, Second Ward, L. Deuster, A. W. Kimball; Third Ward, O. Libbey, F. Coal.

The water supply of Green Bay is abundant, the city be- ing surrounded on three sides by the Fox and East rivers. At intervals where the streets intersect each other are large tanks connected with the streams - thus constituting al- most never failing reservoirs.

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THE POST-OFFICE.

Moses Hardwick, who was one of the Ameri- can soldiers landing at Fort Howard in 1816 may be considered the pioneer postman of Green Bay and the State. His trips were, dur- ing the Winter, between Chicago and Detroit, the mail being carried by boat in the Summer. His expenses and salary were paid by voluntary subscriptions. In November, 1822, a post- office was established, and Robert Irwin, Jr., appointed Postmaster, Mr. Hardwick continu- ing to make his arduous trips until the next year. The first Postmasters just before the borough of Green Bay was organized in 1838 were Joseph Dickinson and A. J. Irwin. Joel S. Fisk was appointed in 1846, serving until Ed. Hicks's term commenced. Then came D W. King four years, Edward Hicks eight. Then there was trouble in the department. W. J. Green served a short time. D. M. Whitney was appointed, and removed in the Fall of 1866.

Edward Hicks received the appointment again but did not get his papers. In 1867 Chas. R. Tyler, who had served with credit during the war, became Postmaster, and held it up to the time of his death in 1872. W. C. E. Thomas served up to the date of his death in 1876. He was followed by the present Postmaster, A. W. Kimball, who was re-appointed in 1881. The money order department has been estab- lished since 1864.

GAS WORKS.

In the Fall of 1870 the right to erect gas works was let to Peter Pupp, and buildings were constructed under the superintendency of Jas. G. Miller, who built the Fond du Lac works. On June 8, 1871, the first gas came to light, a company having been organized in January, 1871. The original cost of the works was $25,000, and by subsequent additions this sum was increased to $54,000. The works are situated on the north side of Elm, between Madison and Jefferson streets. Samuel D. Hast- ings is proprietor.

SOME NOTED FIRES.

On November 12, 1863, the entire block bounded by Adams and Washington, Pine and Cherry streets, was laid waste. This fire swept away two acres of buildings in the business portion of the city. Among the heavy losers were F. Desnoyer, Cormier & Co. (boots and shoes), A. Kimball (hardware), J. S. Baker (proprietor of the United States Hotel, Wash- ington street), Anton Burkard (cabinet manu- facturer) and Philip Klaus. The post-office building was destroyed but the contents were saved.

The story of the terrible fire which desolated the region around the shores of Green Bay (October 8, 1871), and which swept far into the interior of the State to the west, has been often told and wept over. It was an awful casualty to Northeastern Wisconsin, and though Brown County escaped the brunt of the fierce cam- paign, this wide-spread conflagration has a pecu- liar horror to Green Bay, which became the center of relief and the concentration of suf-

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fering after the flames had done their worst. Several times, it is true, sharp tongues of fire leaped into the the limits of Green Bay and Fort Howard from the great body which en- compassed them, and they seemed doomed to the general destruction. Smoke and ashes rolled through their streets, and live cinders darted past the Deperes, five miles to the south. Wrightstown, further to the south, was touched. The fire swept through the towns of Glenmore (destroying Hubbard's mill), Rockland, Depere, Bellevue, Preble, Ea- ton, Humboldt and Green Bay. The two last were the greatest sufferers, thirty-nine buildings being destroyed in the former and sixty-eight in the latter. Green Bay itself was really saved by the exertions of the people of Bellevue Town who worked all of that wild night and checked the progress of the flames northward. The greatest havoc at any one point in this county was accomplished in the village of New Franken, twelve miles east of the city, in the town of Green Bay. The fire struck the village at seven o'clock P. M., a heavy gale sweeping it along from the southwest. In five hours the place was a mass of ruins, the principal loss being sustained

by Willard Lamb, who owned the saw-mill, a large boarding house and a number of tenement houses. The school-house, the post-office, every thing, was burned, and nearly a hundred people made homeless. The fire contin- ned in a northeasterly direction for twenty miles, taking every thing in its way. No lives were lost, though there were many narrow escapes. The loss of life was invariably greatest on the western shore of the bay, though the suf- fering was greatest in the eastern districts, from the fact that there were few large settlements in that region ; the farmers were obliged to fight the fire separately almost (each man for himself), and when conquered, relief was dif- ficult of access. Sufferers flocked into Green Bay and Fort Howard, and every house became a hospital. The news of the burning of Peshtigo and the destruction of hundreds of lives was brought by Captain Thomas Hawley, of the steamer " Union," from Menomonee. The air seemed afire ; east, west and south, waves and torrents of smoke still rolled around Green Bay. When the extent of the Peshti- go calamity was fully realized, $4,000 were at once raised for the sufferers, and large amounts of clothing, and pro- visions gathered. Mayor Kimball called a meeting, and committees of relief were appointed from each ward. Turner Hall was transferred into a relief hospital under the care of Dr. H. O. Crane, and the old, hopeful, generous spirit of the war was revived in the breasts of men and women alike. Green Bay was the center, too, of the mournful news which poured in from all sides. Although money, clothing and provisions arrived on every train from all quarters of the country for weeks it seemed almost im- possible to alleviate the wide-spread suffering. The wound cansed by the loss of the thousand lives could never be healed. Relief depots were established in Milwaukee and Green Bay, and for months the work went on. In Green Bay alone the receipts from October 8 to January 15 amounted to 891,085.98, nearly six thousand persons being on the list for this district.

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Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 1052

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052