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Rock River ; * and also a branch canal to connect with the Fox or Pishtaka River, at or near Prairieville, in Milwaukee (now Waukesha) County." The capital stock was to be $100,000, with the privilege of increasing to $1,000,000. Work was to be begun within three years, and so much as was not completed in ten years should be forfeited. The act also provided that the State of Wisconsin, when it became such, might purchase the canal and all its rights by payment to the company of the amount actually expended, with not to exceed 7 per cent interest. To protect pioneer settlers, for there had been no land sale, the Legisla- ture provided that if the corporation did not allow each settler to purchase the 160 acres of land he had claimed on any lands Congress might donate along such canal at 10 shillings per acre, the charter should be forfeited.
Dr. Lapham's estimates, with plats and maps, were sent to Congress with a prayer that land be granted to aid in constructing the canal, and June 18, 1838, the President signed an act granting all the odd-numbered sections in a strip ten sections in breadth along the entire length of the canal from Milwaukee through Waukesha County to Lake Koshkonong, to the Milwaukee & Rock River Canal Company. This land the Territory was to sell at prices not under $2.50 per acre, and devote the proceeds to the canal. Congress also gave Wisconsin Territory the right to defer the sale of lands until better prices could be realized, provided money for the construction of the canal was borrowed upon them. When the survey had been made it was estimated that Congress had granted 166,400 acres for the construction of the canal.
On the 26th of February, 1839, Gov. Dodge signed a bill providing for borrowing money ; for selling all unoccupied lands at not less than $2.50 per acre; for appraising unoccupied lands and selling them for not less than appraised value whenever the Governor might direct, and for carrying into effect various other details. Among them was a section prohibiting any commissioner, stockholder, engineer or other person interested from purchasing canal lands. This was a bar which prevented hundreds of citizens from subscribing to the stock or paying for their lands by building portions of the canal. Under this act, Gov. Dodge appointed Hans Crocker as Register ; John H. Tweedy, Receiver ; L. W. Weeks, Acting Commissioner, and Alexander M. Mitchell, Chief Engineer. At the next session of the Legislature, in December, 1839, the Governor announced that the bonds he had issned upon the canal lands could not be sold. The Commissioner reported that the occupied lands, or 43,447 acres, had been sold at $2.50 per acre, and that the balance of the grant was 95,743 acres, which was unsold. These reports went before a committee, and Mr. Shew, of Milwaukee, its Chairman, reported against going on with the canal for the present, and against the manner in which settlers on adjoining Government lands were being treated. This resulted in a bill appointing a receiver, and providing that, if the desired loan could not be effected by September, 1840, all moneys thus far received from sales of lands should be used to pay interest and loans.
At the session of 1840-41, the Canal Commissioners made a most elaborate, earnest and exhaustive report to the Legislature, which resulted, December 24, 1840, in a bill postponing the payment of interest ; and February 12, 1841, in an act substituting wood for stone locks, and authorizing the issue of $100,000 of Territorial bonds at 7 per cent interest. Gov. Dodge authorized Byron Kilbourn to negotiate a loan of $100,000 on the bonds issued, but in September, 1841, James Duane Doty became Governor of the Territory. and recalled the power
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granted to Mr. Kilbourn, and also all documents and certificates of stock, as well as requiring him to make a detailed report of his acts. In this report, Mr. Kilbourn recited the difficulties of negotiating loans, and also explained the manner in which John H. Tweedy, Canal Receiver, had interfered with the negotiations by refusing to receive any but specie money, thus stopping work. The canal affairs were now in conflicting conditions ; that is, some of the canal officers were friends to the project and others were apparently its enemies, and the principal business done was the prosecution of a spirited quarrel with each other.
In February, 1842, a legislative committee, of which Morgan L. Martin was Chairman, reported that Gov. Dodge could give Byron Kilbourn no authority to negotiate loans, and that hence his acts were void and the Territory not bounden in any liability therefor. The Legisla- ture then remitted all interest due from purchasers of canal bonds up to December 22, 1841, and passed a law revoking all power to make canal contracts, approve or pay for labor done, and repealed the act providing for the appointment of an engineer. The Legislature also prayed Congress to put all canal lands on the market at the usual Government price of $1.25 per acre, and allow all who had purchased at double that price to have the excess refunded. A select committee was appointed from which two reports emanated. The minority report suggested that the Territory and the canal company cry quits, as each " had gouged the other slightly." Montgomery M. Cothren, of Mineral Point, was said to be the author of the minority report.
After Wisconsin became a State the offices of Register and Receiver of Canal Lands were abolished, and an act passed April 2, 1853, whereby all persons who had bought canal lands and given mortgages thereon for the purchase money, were allowed to discharge their indebted- ness, without interest, by the payment of $1.25 per acre for the lands.
The work done in Milwaukee on the canal-erecting a dam and creating a good water power-was sold at auction under the direction of the Governor. The time for completing the canal, ten years from June 18, 1838, elapsed, and all rights and privileges were thus forfeited, and by act of Congress all unsold canal lands were given to the State of Wisconsin for educa- tional purposes, after paying certain small debts from the proceeds of their sale.
This is a brief history of a scheme full of jumbled-up, contradictory and unjust legislation, full of efforts to secure material advantages for certain persons, and which for several years greatly retarded the settlement, development and prosperity of the northern portion of the county, through which the canal was expected to pass.
The State of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee were the gainers by this canal scheme. The former received many thousands of acres of land for educational purposes, and the latter had built in an early day a fine dam and water-power at public expense. The whole amount of money expended was $56,745, of which the canal company paid $24,868, and the Territory, out of the proceeds of canal lands sold, the balance, or $31,877.
EARLY MUSIC IN WAUKESHA COUNTY.
Although the Olins and Goodnows had trained a few in singing, the first regular singing- school was one taught by A. B. Parsons. He was not more prominent than several others in organizing the school, though the agreement to secure him a certain number of scholars was the reason of his making Waukesha his stopping-place. He is now a harness-maker in Delavan, Wis. It was begun with about twenty-five scholars late in the fall of 1838, and continued dur- ing the winter, meetings being held in the old log schoolhouse on the west side of the river in Prairieville-the first in the county. The members of that early class in music who still remain in the land of the living, recall the school as an excellent one, in which there was not only good music but lively good times, never to be forgotten by its participants. The class, as it was called, consisted of the following, and possibly three or four other persons not recalled :
Nelson Thomas and C. C. Olin, Lyman and E. W. Goodnow, Orson Tichenor, James and Charles Rossman, William T. and Joel E. Bidwell, Phineas Bissell, Mr. Dye, John Y. Smith, William S. Barnard, Nancy Maria Tichenor, Jennette and Catherine Stewart, Emily White, Mary and Loraine Church (now Mrs. O. Z. and C. C. Olin), Mrs. Heath and Jane Hopkins.
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This class was taught by Mr. Parsons during the winters of 1838 and 1839, and from it were turned out those trained musicians who became the first choir-singers of the first churches in Waukesha, or Prairieville, as the place was then called.
FIRST TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATION.
Very few are acquainted with the astonishing magnitude of the temperance army in Wisconsin, composed of those who belong to the Good Templars, Juvenile Temples, Sons of Temperance, Temple of Honor, Washingtonians, Cold-Water Bands, Total Abstinence Societies and various other organizations ; and still fewer know what portion of Wisconsin claims or deserves the honor of forming and sustaining the pioneer temperance society. Waukesha County lays claim to that honor boldly, no locality, so far as known, pretending to have sus- tained such an organization before a very noted one existed at Prairieville. It was in working order during many years ; attracted much attention on account of the radical views of its mem- bers, as well as by reason of their ability and prominence, and the influence they wielded in matters outside of temperance. It was no child's organization, but a league of all the citizens for miles around Prairieville, with a few exceptions-a gathering whose appearance, debates and proceedings would be of unbounded interest at this period of time. Some of the men who belonged to it from first to last, afterward were among those who have occupied the highest posi- tions in the State and the nation.
The honor of securing the permanent organization of this pioneer temperance, or total abstinence society, belongs almost exclusively to Lyman Goodnow, who mounted his horse after securing the signatures of all the residents of the village of Prairieville, and scoured the country for miles around, presenting the pledge to every person then residing in the surrounding towns. Mr. Goodnow secured over one hundred and sixty signatures, only two men to whom the pledge was presented refusing to sign. They were temperate men, however, and did not refuse to add their signatures on account of any love for liquor, claiming only that they did not wish to feel themselves bound by any pledge whatsoever.
The organization was not suggested by Lyman Goodnow alone, but by whom is not exactly known, William T. Bidwell, E. W. Goodnow and E. S. Purple having something to do with preparing the pledge for signatures. It was begun in 1839, but did not become a power until early in 1840, when Lyman Goodnow secured the large list of names just mentioned. This society, or rather its leaders, projected the first Fourth of July celebration of any note ever held in Waukesha County. Some of its prominent working members-recalled by the old settlers, as the records are not to be had-were as follows : William T. Bidwell, E. W. and Lyman Goodnow, Ezra S. Purple, Deacons Edmund D. Allen and Norman Clinton, John Y. Smith, Rev. Quaugh, Chauncey C., Thomas and Nelson Olin, Morris S. Barnett, John M. Wells, Peter N. Cushman, Sr., O. M. Hubbard, George A. Hine, William S. Barnard, John Manderville, Dea- con Ezra Mendall, James Rossman, Sr., James Rossman, Jr., Deacon J. Rice, Nathaniel Wal- ton, A. J. Cole, Dr. Gilbert Wright, Moses, Vernon and Orson Tichenor, Horatio N. Davis, Henry Bowron, Morris D. and Alonzo R. Cutler, Ethan Owen, Ichabod Codding, Winchell D. Bacon, David Jackson (the first Postmaster), Jacob H. Kimball, Hamilton and John Nelson, David Reed, Charles R. Dakin, Cephas L. Rockwood, Abel and Lyman Brown, Mr. Day, Elder Griffin, Nathan Maynard, A. C. Nickell, Deacon Potter, Deacon Taylor, Plutarch Taylor, Dea- con Hinman, William Smith, Nathan Whitcher, George Mc Whorter, William McWhorter, Mat- thew Ray Mc Whorter, Daniel Chandler, Robert Love, Dr. Van Vleck and his sons Aaron and Amos, C. S. Putney, Milo Putney, Zebulon and Joel E. Bidwell, Samuel and Phineas Bissell, Elon, Hosea and Randall Fuller, Isaac Judson, Dr. Potter, Gordon C. Cone, Rev. Absolom Miner, Ansel McCall, David Van Kirk, Malcom Sellers, Joseph O'Neill, Henry and Asa Davis, Joseph Williams, Dr. Albert Warner, Samuel Warner, Moses Ordway, Richard Moore, Albert and Almon White, Allen Root, O. F. Curtis, Rev. Nicholls, Daniel and Levi Grant, Thomas Eggleston, Deacon Asa Clark, Lyman Clark, Uncle Stewart, William, Robert and Alexander Stewart, Deacon Crocker, Samuel and Stephen Beard, Benjamin and Levi Love, Joseph Tur- ner, Barzilla Douglass, Harvey Church, Father Daugherty, I. W. Porter and of course, others.
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What is most remarkable about this pioneer temperance organization, is that under mani- fold changes of name and management, it has been kept alive four decades, and its descendants now have an organization in the village of Waukesha.
In 1843, the society passed through a period of great and well-remembered excitement. A call bad been issued by the Whigs for a mass-meeting at Milwaukee at which "roast ox, coon skins and hard cider " were to be dispensed in profusion. A large delegation of Whigs who belonged to the society participated in the jollification, the occasion being a memorable one. On the road home one member of the society asked another how he liked the cider. "It was good," he replied, smacking his lips. "It was good," piped a second and a third. At the next meeting the inquisitive member preferred charges against three or four of his leading brethren, one clause of the constitution requiring each member to report any other member known to have violated the pledge. One or two promptly acknowledged having fallen from grace, and asked to be for- given, which was promptly done. The others refused to allow the difficulty to be thus easily and amicably settled, contending that as not an apple was raised in Wisconsin, the stuff called " hard cider " which they had partaken of was " not cider, but a decoction invented for the occa- sion." The opposition contended that the accused drank it for cider, and as no positive proof had been offered that the so-called decoction was anything else than cider, the rebellious mem- bers must be expelled. Expulsion from so strong, important and influential an organization as the society then was, they could not stand, and finally, after several weeks of great excitement, confessions were made, and the erring members received into full and renewed fellowship. To see one portion of the prominent citizens of the community trying another portion for drinking hard cider made from anything but apples, would be an interesting event for the bustling year of 1880.
COUNTY FINANCES.
If there is anything of which the citizens of Waukesha County may feel justly proud, it is the general management of her public affairs, during the last thirty-four years, and her present financial condition. While other counties are or have been groaning under their burden of rail- road bonds, Waukesha has been wholly free from their depressive effects, although she had a railroad before any other in the State, except Milwaukee. The citizens of this county have never been oppressed, or outside capitalists debarred from making investments within her limits, by such high taxation as is consequent upon carrying a heavy bonded indebtedness.
The record of a county that has not and never had a bonded debt of any kind whatever, is indeed a rare one.
In October, 1846, at the first annual meeting of the Board of Supervisors, after the county bad been set off from Milwaukee, Alfred L. Castleman, Chairman of the Committee on Expenses, made the following report to the Board :
The Committee on expenses reports the following estimates for the county expenses for the current year, including the time past since the organization of the county :
Expenses of District Court ..
$2,000
Expenses of Justices' Court and jail.
1,000
Pay of Clerk. 405
125
Pay of Supervisors
Printing expenses
25
Attorney's fees. ...
125
Election expenses.
256
In part for building jail and jailer's house 500
Stationery (including Rood's bill, now before the board) 300
Deficit in means to meet contract on court house, and to pay committee and Mygatt & Robbins ... 650
Furnishing court house and offices. 300
Incidental expenses.
500
Total.
$6,086
[Signed]
A. L. CASTLEMAN, JOSEPH BOND,
Committee.
PRAIRIEVILLE, October 7, 1846.
ASA A. FLINT,
Dania IMmal
OCONOMOWOC.
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HISTORY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY.
Thus, the county expenses, not including means expended in permanent buildings, was only $5,000 in 1846. In 1848, the Board voted $6,500 should be raised by taxation, exclusive of State tax. And, in that year, Talbot C. Dousman made out the tax roll, taxes to be collected in January, 1849, as follows :
No Acres.
Value per Acre.
Whole Valuation.
Improve- mente.
Personal Estate.
Property Subject to State Tax.
Property Subject to County Tax.
State Tax. County Tax.
Menomonee
15,687
$2 50
$39,217
$4,342
$45,100
$49,442|
$202 95
$341 15
Lisbon
15,994
2 61
41,727
12,582
45,900
58,482
206 65
403 53
Warren
15,213
1 90
21,223
$ 8,482
3,842|
31,834
48,399
143 30
333 95
Oconomowoc
13,520
3 66
33,228
16,312
1,868
27,832
42,745
125 24
294 94
Summit.
11,443
4 26
27,068
21,683
6,445
21,654
45,446
97 44
313 59
Delafield
12,665
2 40
17,926
12,475
3,446
19,719
36,887
88 73
254 52
Pewaukee
17,852
3 10
53,713
1,635
3,735
53,713
59,083
241 71
407 67
Brookfield
17,872
3 06
41,322
13,469
3,885
41,322
58,676
185 95!
404 86
New Berlin.
21,787
2 86
45,375
16,825
1,898
49,912
70,318
224 60
485 19
Waukesha.
21,540
5 08
67,906
41,567
6,810
67,906
116,283
305 58
802 35
Genesee
21,418
2 25
35,572
12,668
5,576
42,686
63,464
192 09
437 90
Ottawa
16,838
2 34
26,961
12,350
2,340
29,657
45,582
133 45
314 51
Eagle.
18,107
3 36
33,728
20,429
5,150
30,464
54,000
137 09
372 61
Mukwonago
19,595
3 89
45,754
30,551
22,485
41,764
91,134
187 93
628 83
Vernon
21,438
2 73
45,562
13,051
1,725
45,562
60,338
205 03
416 33
Muskego
18,098
2 44
31,676
12,589
575
34,844
49,267
136 81
339 94
Totals
279,018
$607,968| $234,086
$86,699
$629,867
$949,546 $2,854 35 $6,561 87
The equalized value per acre of land in 1848 was $3.12; the total amount of taxes, $9,416.22, and the rate of taxation, 6.9 mills on the dollar. It will be noticed in the above table that some towns returned but very little personal property, and some no improvements. It may also be stated that, for years since 1848, the Assessors of the town of Muskego have made solemn oath that no watches were owned by any of its residents, while other towns have made similar returns as to carriages, horses and musical instruments.
Some idea of the growth of property, as well as of county expenses, made be had from the following table, which is the apportionment of taxes made in November, 1879 :
TOWNS.
Valuation.
State Tax.
County Tax.
County School Tax.
Supt. Sal- ary and Expenses.
Canceled Certifi- catee.
Support of Resident Poor.
Personal Property charged back.
Trust Fund.
Total Tax.
Brookfield.
$ 783693 $ 1129 88 $ 1385 48 $ 373 00
$ 82 66
$ 2 76
$ 7 78
$ 2981 56
Delafield
623706
899 20
1102 65
205 00
48 35
1 02
2256 22
Eagle
521704
752 11
922 33
188 00
43 87 $ 24 62
5 45
1936 38
Genesee
649658
936 61
1088 52
195 00
45 49
13 11
2278 73
Lisbon
669562
962 43
1183 71|
214 00
50 01
13 38
2423 53
Menomonee
774869
1106 06
1369 87
348 00
81 94
16 21
2922 08
Merton
666021
960 21
1177 45
216 00
49 34
2403 00
Mukwonago
677584
976 99
1197 82
162 00
35 47
10 48
2382 76
Muskego
503753
726 26
890 58
225 00
55 61
1897 45
New Berlin
774176
1105 13
1367 83
237 00
53 37
1 69
2765 02
Ottawa
466003
671 84|
823 85
138 00
31 34
1 95
8 92
$ 44 49
2183 93
Oconomowoc City ..
631479
910 40
1116 39
263 00|
64 84
202 79
49 67
907 31
3514 40
Pewaukee
755630
1089 40
1335 86
314 00
74 33
3 24
121 00
2937 83
Summit
590077
850 72
1043 20
135 00
36 18
1 93
48 20,
2115 23
Vernon.
658635
949 56
1164 39
160 00
39 23
4 68
2 54
2320 40
Waukesha
1811385
2611 50
3202 31
489 00
115 52
16 16
59 84
53 00
6547 33
Totals
$12148426 $17489 61 $21416 16 $4050 00 $ 950 00 $255 04 $ 62 60 $ 188 42 $1121 00$45532 83
1666 98
Oconomowoc.
590487
851 31
1043 95
188 00
42 45
4 84
Thus, while the county tax was $6,561.87 for building expenses and all in 1848, as will be seen by the first table, it had become only four and a half times greater in 1879, or $28,043.22. And while the total value of all property in the county subject to county taxation
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in 1848 was $928,753, it had increased in 1879 to $12,148,426, or more than thirteen-fold. This is a rare showing, and one which should be a source of gratification and pride to the citizens of the county. However, what has just been shown to be true of the county tax is not true of the State tax ; for, while in 1848 Waukesha County paid only $2,854.35 to the support of the State Government, in 1879 the apportionment was $17,489.61, a six-fold increase.
With this tax, the county has nothing to do, and she has only to rejoice over the excellent management of her own domestic affairs. The County Treasurer's report, rendered November 11, 1879, for the fiscal year ending at that time, shows the following details as to receipts :
County tax.
$21,909 64
Personal property charged back to towns.
168 07
Superintendent of Schools 1,200 00
Canceled certificates
1 76
Certificates of sale received from J. A. Lins, ex-County Treasurer.
115 10
Cash received from J. A. Lins, ex-County Treasurer
525 19
Conscience money.
20 00
Cash received from Monroe County-costs in case of State vs. Nicholas Chard
61 00
Fees on personal tax returned
62
Interest on delinquent real estate
45 66
Advertising fees on delinquent lands.
34 25
Seventy-eight certificates of sale, 1876, at 25c.
19 50
Income from school fund.
4,040 16
Tax on delinquent State lands returned to State Treasurer.
6 27
Drainage fund received from State Treasurer.
44 10
Cash received T. C. Martin, ex-County Clerk, collected from persons having friends in the Northern Hospital for Insane, to wit : From H. Lorleberg, $13.35 ; from J. Burns, $35.00
70 35
Costs in case of State vs. C. A. Snover.
13 46
Redemption fees received from County Clerk. 12 65
20 46
Total $ 28,578 74
And this table shows the details of disbursing the above amounts :
Amount paid John Stephens for recording certificates of marriages, births and deaths ... $ 15 00
Amount paid John Stephens for certified copy of marriages, births and deaths, to Sec- retary of State. 41 60
Amount paid Sheriff Porter on recommendation of District Attorney to pay fare of Jas. Moore, a vagrant, to New York. 27 55
Delinquent State lands returned to State Treasurer
6 27
Delinquent personal taxes placed in hands of Sheriff for collection
271 41
Amount paid John Stephens for recording certificates of marriages, births and deaths .. 26 00
Income from school fund-paid Town Treasurers .. 4,040 16
Drainage fund-paid town of Eagle ..
44 10
Amount paid John Stephens for recording certificates of marriages, births and deaths ..
27 50
Amount paid John Stephens for recording certificates of marriages, births and deaths ..
44 10
County orders paid.
20,002 56
Court certificates paid
3,065 08
Witness fee certificates paid.
429 05
Certificates of sale on hand
2 26
Total
$28,202 64
Total receipts. $28,578 74
Total disbursements
28,202 64
Balance
$ 376 10
The different towns received the following amounts of school money, being their shares of the income from the State School Fund : Brookfield, $372.02; Delafield, $204.06 ; Eagle, $187.72; Genesee, $194.94 ; Lisbon, $213.94; Menomonee, $347.32; Merton, $215.08 ; Mukwonago, $161.12; Muskego, $224.58; New Berlin, $236.36; Oconomowoc, $187.34 ; Oconomowoc City, $262.20 ; Ottawa, $137.18 ; Pewaukee, $313.12 ; Summit, $134.90; Ver- non, $159.60; Waukesha, $488.68. Total, $4,040.16.
Delinquent personal tax collected by sheriff.
270 50
Fees on real estate tax returned
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HISTORY OF WAUKESILA COUNTY.
WISCONSIN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
The Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, in the midst of a beautiful artificial park on one side, and a natural one on the other, on the banks of the Fox River and near the Prairie du Chien Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, on Section 9, in the town and county of Waukesha, consists of ten buildings of brick and Waukesha limestone-mostly the latter ; two of wood and stone, besides various barns, sheds and out-buildings. It is, in one view, the most important of our many State charitable, penal and reformatory institutions, and certainly has the most beautiful situation and surroundings. It is not the largest, or costliest, or oldest ; but as it is a place for the molding of the character and habits of a large number of those who are to have the various affairs of the future in charge, it is, so far as it reaches, decid- edly the most important of our State institutions.
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