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" The following are the graded schools and number of departments : Waukesha Union, 8 departments ; Oconomowoc City, 6; Pewaukee No. 1, 3; No. 3, 2; Menomonee Falls, 2; Merton, 2; Delafield, 2 ; Eagle, 2; Hartland, 2; Sussex, 2; Mukwonago, 2. Total number of graded schools, 12. Number of departments, 35.
"My opinion on the text-book question has been given in previous reports, and here I will only state that experience and reflection have only added strength to the conviction that in our existing text-book laws is to be found all that is needed for uniformity of text-books, changes, etc. The following will show the increase or decrease in adoption, purchase, loans and selling text-books, by districts, from 1877 to 1879: Number of districts which have a list of text- books adopted-in 1877, 5; in 1878, 52; in 1879, 73. Number of districts which purchase text-books-in 1877, 2; in 1878, 40; in 1879, 65. Number of districts which loan text- books-in 1877, 2; in 1878, 1; in 1879, 2. Number of districts which sell text-books to pupils-in 1877, 0; in 1878, 40 ; in 1879, 40.
" There has been $2,372.58 more expended this year in building and repairing than the previous year ; and a most commendable interest has been taken in re-seating and supplying the schools with dictionaries, globes, maps, charts, etc.
" Cash value of all the schoolhonses and sites in the town of Brookfield, $7,075; Dela- field, $5,145; Eagle, $4,905; Genesee, $4,490; Lisbon, $9,380; Menomonee, $10,720; Merton, $5,800; Mukwonago, $5,720; Muskego, $4,025; New Berlin, $3,145; Ottawa, $2,050; Oconomowoc, $3,285; Oconomowoc City, $10,300; Pewaukee, $10,480 ; Summit, $4,250; Vernon, $4,070; Waukesha, $19,845.
"The total receipts and expenditures during the last school year are reported as follows ;
Amount on hand August 31, 1878.
$8,924 59
Received from taxes levied for building and repairing ..
3,881 18
Received from teachers' wages.
29,899 32
Received from apparatus and library
534 09
Received from annual town meeting.
487 23
Received from County Supervisors.
4,129 67
Received from income of State School Fund.
4,150 31
Received from all other sources
3,241 21
Total amount received. $55,247 60
Paid out for building and repairs.
$5,498 37
Paid out for apparatus and library
237 79
Paid out for services of female teachers
22,989 56
Paid out for services of male teachers.
12,787 75
Paid out for old indebtedness
1,952 07
Paid out for furniture, registers, etc ..
542 84
Paid out for all other purposes.
6,321 00
Total amount of expenditures.
$50,309 38
Money on hand August 31, 1879.
$4,918 29
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454
HISTORY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY.
" Waukesha being an old county, comparatively speaking, the majority of the school- houses are in excellent condition and well furnished; but there are a number of school build- ings which should be replaced by new ones, and be well furnished. I would call upon the School Directors, parents, teachers and all concerned to look well to the danger which may easily arise from ill-ventilated schoolhouses and impure water. Do not have your children poi- soned with foul water, impure air, etc., and charge their sickness and death to the mysterious dealings of an inscrutable Providence.
" The 118 schoolhouses will accommodate 8,008 pupils, being 2,061 less than the number of children of school age. Number of schoolhouses in good condition, as reported, 105; num- ber properly ventilated, 77 ; with outhouses in good condition, 93; well inclosed, 45; number of sites containing less than one acre, 85; number of schoolhouses of stone or brick, 45.
" The number of public examinations held during the year are 9 ; number of applicants for certificates, 350. It has been our object to give the teachers fair, practical questions which would test their knowledge of the branches in which they are examined, as well as to ascertain their ability to govern and teach. It is our intention to steadily increase the standing of the teachers of the county. I have examined a large number of teachers from the adjoining coun- ties, and I must say the teachers of Waukesha County, in relation to education, government, tact and ability to teach, stand pre-eminent.
"The whole number of first-grade certificates granted for the year, 4; second-grade, 11; third-grade, 188; total, 203. The whole number of teachers employed was 207."
The close proximity of the Milwaukee commercial colleges, State University and various normal schools, of which desirable institutions Waukesha County has none, calls many students away who would aid materially in raising the grade of the schools, but the annual reports of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction show that Waukesha County stands in the front rank in educational matters.
Eleazer Root, who was a prominent educator of Waukesha County, was a member of the second Constitutional Convention, in 1848, and was chosen to draft that portion of the State Constitution referring to educational matters. He performed the task-one of the most impor- tant assigned to any member of that body-so well that the parents and children of Wisconsin will have cause to remember him as long as education and schools are necessary. Perhaps no State in the Union has better school laws than Wisconsin, and very few have as good. For them Waukesha, is indebted largely to the old-time resident, Eleazer Root, now, if living, a citi- zen of California.
AGRICULTURE IN WAUKESHA COUNTY.
He who follows agricultural pursuits, breaks the tough prairie glebe, or fells trees and burns the fallows before he can put the plow into the soil, is the pioneer in all new countries, and pre- pares the way for lawyer, editor, miller, minister, blacksmith, and all others who depend upon anything but farming for a livelihood, and who never fail to come after him when the soil has been made sufficiently productive. The first settlers of Waukesha County were no exception to this rule. The Cutler brothers, when they first pushed their way into the wilderness in May, 1834, did not find lawyers' " shingles " swinging from the oaks ; did not find a minister " hold- ing forth " to the rocks and trees, and " passing the hat " to birds and beasts ; did not find a physician with his saddle-bags hunting for a site on which to start a cemetery ; did not find a musician teaching the birds and forest denizens to vocalize or play the piano; in fact, they found no one; and if they had, farming and tilling the soil would necessarily have been their occupa- tion. The farmer has been the first man in every new country.
Not much was done in 1834, though a little "garden truck " was raised where the streets and blocks of Waukesha now are. This was the first planting by the hand of white men in
455
HISTORY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY.
Waukesha County. The following year, nearly all kinds of crops were raised ; none, however, more than one or two miles from the present site of Waukesha Village.
What spring wheat was at first sowed did not yield satisfactorily ; therefore, during ten or fifteen years, winter wheat largely took its place as a bread crop, and returned profitable yields, especially in the " openings." Spring wheat throve better on the prairies, where the soil was less adapted to winter grain, and the winter winds were more severe. Winter grain was abandoned almost entirely, and for twenty-five years, up to 1878, spring wheat has taken the lead. In the fall of that year, owing to the unprofitable returns from an overworked soil, and the disastrous effects of drought, chinch-bugs and weevil, large quantities of winter wheat were sown in some parts of the county, and, returning a tolerable yield, were largely increased in the fall of 1879. From necessarily small beginnings agriculture has grown to astonishing proportions in Waukesha County, and, although considerable attention is given to manufacturing and stock-raising, still represents the bulk of capital and population. Any other condition of things would be unnatural, as, with its rich soil and good markets, the county has always furnished a field for the most profitable returns of industry, skill and means applied to the labor of tilling the ground. The whole county is more than usually well watered, springs, lakes and streams being more numerous than in any other county in Wisconsin. Small portions of the county are better adapted to dairying and stock-raising, and the profit of adding these departments of farming to that of simple plow- ing and sowing has recently become apparent. Most of the farmers came from New England, New York and Pennsylvania, and adopted, generally, the mode of farming then practiced in the East. Since that time, experience (as to the capacity of the soil and as to the climate) has caused, of course, considerable change in the methods of farming in this region, as it has elsewhere. The quality of the butter and cheese made in this county is first-class. Wheat and hay produced here are second in quality to the products of no other county, and large quantities of pork, wool and beef, of excellent quality, are annually exported. Orchards may be found in all sections of the county. Grapes, cherries and all kinds of berries are grown with profit wherever the farmers are disposed to devote the necessary labor and skill to their culture.
The soil of the county is well diversified, from the heavy peat beds or glades, where grass grows in abundance in dry or wet seasons, to the light, quick, sandy soils, in which tobacco and sweet potatoes will, with a little care, thrive well. Thus the farmers are always insured against a total failure of crops, for seasons are never known in which all of the numerous farm pro- ducts raised in Waukesha County do not make profitable returns.
In 1840, the county of Milwaukee (which included Waukesha) contained 541 horses, 5,100 cattle, 798 sheep and 8,114 swine. The agricultural products of 1839 were 34,236 bushels of wheat, 845 of barley, 26,836 of oats, 147 of rye, 1,829 of buckwheat, 26,820 of corn, 64,242 of potatoes, 4,574 tons of hay, 48,886 pounds of maple sugar, 67 pounds of wool, and $15,000 worth of skins and furs. The wool product of that year, for what is now two counties, was, as compared with what Waukesha alone now produces, insignificant indeed. Much of the maple sugar was produced in what is now Milwaukee County, but the wheat and other grains were mostly produced in what is now Waukesha County. The following table, prepared in 1840, shows the various products and amount of farm stock in Waukesha County in 1839 :
TOWNS.
Horses.
Cattle.
Swine.
Bushels
Wheat.
Oats.
Corn.
Potatoes.
Sheep.
Sugar.
Brookfield
6
166
384
287
350
1364
2350
2655
Genesee.
46
321
716
4388
3120
3675
107
Lisbon.
12
107
240
914
1430
810
3086
491
Menomonee.
200
470
925
570
Mukwonago
20
220
390
2868
4470
1706
3325
Muskego.
9
162
267
309
50
740
1454
10
320
New Berlin
10
202
398
628
200
1540
2020
6110
Pewaukee
38
236
413
2842
1815
2040
3469
16
Waukesha ....
81
597
1036
9338
6242
4750
6504
43
Summit
62
471
681
3215
2675
3815
7055
36
2175
Vernou ..
26
430
857
4005
770
2708
2872
179
3750
Totale.
316
2948
5451
29008
18202
23063
36634
390
10571
1
36
69
214
456
HISTORY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY.
Forty years later, the tables required to be prepared by the assessors of the various towns make a far different showing, and, by comparing the tables of population, it will be seen that the wealth and productiveness of the county have increased more rapidly than the numbers of her people, and the rate of valuation, or permanent market price of each product, has also been largely increased.
The following is a certified statement of the principal farm products grown in the county of Waukesha, for the year 1878, as ascertained and compiled pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 48 of the Revised Statutes of 1878:
NUMBER OF BUSHELS.
No. ACRES RARVESTED FOR SEED.
NUMBER OF POUNDS.
Wheat.
Corn.
Oate.
Barley.
Rye.
Potatoes.
Root Crope.
Cranberries.
Clover Seed.
Timothy S'd.
Clover.
Timothy.
Flax.
Hope.
Tobacco.
Grapee.
Butter.
Cheese.
Brookfield.
34918
23280
45055
26261
4477
14931
50
3225
893
441
25
3442
87755
29200
Delafield ..
36528
40110
25769
5315
6965
2980
3750
45
165
7
133
6
2000
2114
24919
27650
Eagle.
19951
71507
41391
13626
6021
2545
37
1360
283
177
22
1400 4500
293300
31240
54230
Genesee.
22263
45415
25160
1128
5103
2943
1700
1950
317
127
Lisbon ..
45865
22080
53140
28421
1696
11095
5330
1716
882
56
534
12
725
44915
3356
91900
Menomonee.
48700
48420
73468
37280
27400
30900
2000 1190
607
Merton
55514
25863
42297
9057
2932
2359
6580
278
282
89
183
19
405
25
2300
336600
39080
24506
Muskego ..
14487
22870
39550
2981
5080
12940
200
1850
231
78
119
200
60053
690
Ottawa.
21876
45662
18862
250
14847
5670
2040
99
1665
674
449
1
350
13360
184000
Oconomowoc.
60448
65365
45554
12815
6107
8230
1885
3335
758
457
11700
2060
54853
14871
Oconomowoc City ..
1996
4005
1375
425
576
830,
15
153
19
14
19000
25000
2963
Pewaukee.
45187
30116
48666
19607
6622 1767
8153
12496
2896
4918
238
114
268
18
.. ......
740
38120
2600
Wankeeha
25025
38231
47245
17844
7746
7681
4430
3069
929
132
511
33
1600) 100
30718
107684
Grand Total .... 517368 632834 655060 183106 137400 143042
38447 151
34838 9242
630
5085
168 844
85255 4645 7788602 724793| 1184501
The following table, which shows the detail of personal property, is an abstract of the assessment rolls of the several towns, cities and villages in the county of Waukesha, as returned to the County Clerk for the year 1879, under the provisions of Chapter 106 of the Revised Statutes of 1878:
[WAGONS, CAB-|
HORSES.
NEAT CATTLE.
MULES AND ASSES.
SHEEP AND LAMBS.
SWINE.
RIAGES AND | WATCHES. SLEIGHS.
TOWNS.
Number.
Value.
Number.
Value.
Number.
Value.
Number.
Value.
Number.
Value.
Number.
Value.
Number.
Value.
Number.
Value.
Number.
Value.
Brookfield
848
$37595
2133
$28764
10
$1310
1822
$2824
1119
$3605
798
$15487
30
$540
43
$2215
Delafield
584
24654
1296
14740
......
...
5932
8739
1441
2834
496
7317
10
205
20
905
Eagle.
459
25181
1133
16741
4
135
5782
12432
1009
2572
425
8241
41
606
33
1575
Genesee
478
18584
1471
16730
18625
7
325
6417
11363
1165
2195
438
9290
12
325
36
1220
Menomonee.
814
40280
1783
23849
27
1730
1831
5440
1514
3257
607
16602
4
95
29
1495
Merton
610
28295
1217
15411
6
310
4411
8515
1116
2609
408
8860
14
Mukwonago
494
24197
1032
13106
9
505
8436
15941
1181
2709
322
6866
53
795
28
1205
2732
Ottawa
385
18994
1115
15892
13
765
3872
6763
1172
1913
236
464
10310
41
831
38
1942
Pewaukee
727
35155
1710
22495
10
640
5870
11295
1319
2520
542
Summit.
481
23463
1518
21053
7
375
2768
4879
1212
2948
446
Vernon .....
505
24271
1170
15031
7
321
10186
19841
1474
3365
344
6134
10
160
18
740
Waukesha
840
45496
1808
27602
8
615
7393
14228
1347
2802
866
27120
249
6143
128
10300
500 $50000
Total.
10105
$494248
23872
$322277
118} $7511
80969
$150945|
20707 846147 7986
$274927
773|$16806
643 839507
500 $50000
....
698
14920
4491
2630
2661
681
123
New Berlin.
25563
21619
39303|
11664
9959
5155
510
3503
582
12
321
68
380
.... 32
300
20
3171
82935
10780
Summit
21476
34310
29871
2144
2980
575
105
143
25
1400
4328000
53683
606150
Vernon ...
12896
38741
42772
1815
28157
3
110
3816
7683
1360
3555
719
11963
24
406
27
1580
Oconomowoc ...
706
36977
1864
25731
2
,200
3315
6714
297
638
221
629
12508
172
3487
83
7685
Oconomowoc City
227
13435
187
3737
1
5730
9176
1365
2336
259
4283
6
140
43
1200
Lisbon
706
Muskego.
484
21555
1005
14613
4
150
3061
4614
975
2009
213
3772
5
135
303
12298
39
1155
63
1383
29
1745
38
2300
New Berlin
757
42601
3
110
.........
47806
29505
22000
Mukwonago
24672
45970
32585
14252
11588
2496
3005 1005
..
...
...
.........
21651
100140
55420
PIANOS AND MELODEONS
BANE STOCE.
.
33515
1612
400
47
3290
11143
4289
1807
20
TOWNS.
Apples.
4
7206
457
HISTORY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY.
Merchants' and Man-
nfacturers' Stock.
Value of all other
Personal Property.
Personal Proper-
ty, as aforesaid,
in 1879.
Acres.
Acre.
Total Value.
Value of City and
Total Value of Real
and Personal Prop-
erty, as aforesaid.
Number Acres
Consideration
in Decd.
Assess'd Value
Average price
Sessed in 1878.
Total Valne of all
ty, as assessed in
Real and Personal
Property, as as- sessed in 1878.
Brookfield ..
$2975
$90904
$186219
22190 $38 90
$863200
$1049419
127
$14650
$8900 $115 50
$1015065
$197567
$1212632
Delafield ..
10290
97906
167589
20516
22 47
461085
$54960
683634
308
11965
5820
38 85
540420
139720
741035
Eagle
16696
25150
109329
22907
16 05
367697
39335
616361
773
58300
11207
75 29
342871
100391
498777
Genesee
5900
40913
99263
22891
21 42
490334
33200
622796
766
16845
13540
22 00
607050
116948
662235
Lisbon.
3975
72240
163072
23030
27 75
639241
792314
285
13060
6725
45 82
637561
127586
765147
Menomonee.
12650
90043
195441
22984
36 22
632234
61485
1079340
530
30600
19590
67 73
839237
188673
1077598
Merton.
13350
116741
196791
20735
28 94
600189
796950 1013
46550
26150
45 95
601034
192052
793086
Mukwonago
6875
42038
114237
23174
24 63
670965
37565
722767
261
5630
2805
21 67
634895
85197
656102
Muskego
1650
6375
52698
19128
28 60
509920
561918
273
11585
6890
42 43
507960
61983
559043
New Berlin
1300
84348
181703
24886
39 14
944939
1126642
663
34414
24250
60 77
949920
189976
1119896
Ottawe
800
41535
90670
22524
15 67
350864
441534
250
6160
2605
24 60
361637
104172
455709
Oconomowoc ......
5260
77528
169772
20174
30 57
616860
12755
798387
77
4500
2060
58 44
760490
166899
936439
Oconomowoc C'y
80765
199209
322013
934
97 11
90705
578046
990767
1016633
428
25721'
15265
60 09
731240
207795
1068975
Summit.
182533
249524
19892
32 15
639620
889144
633
36535
17020
57 71
682860
267064
949923
Vernon
2400
33784
108047
22207
27 27
605764
711811
288
23600
3410
81 94
605038
'121969
727007
Waukeebe
96415
. 317415
695020
21888
41 27
903365
1005290
2507259 555
36765
17540
66 24
1076275
672263
2431673
Total.
$267090 $1614816 $3281159 349900 $32 89 $10176322 $1947309 $15308376 7130 $376870 $183867
$54 68 $10746155 $3160817 $15691514
The following table, testified to under oath as correct by the Assessors, shows how the various crops were divided, as to acreage, in 1879, in the different towns :
NUMBER OF ACRES.
MILCH COWS
TOWNS.
Wheat.
2227
1218
1249 1572
288
386
3
470
15100
3422
2600
1232 $19040
Dele field.
2468
881
709
350
127
93
18
3335
2232
2545
440
6152
Eagle ...
1949
2979
1443
11
888
118
14
25
177
7181
3
4
3
2905
3590
684
11549
Genesee.
2223
1139
963
130
238
66
13
161
4060
2
1950
2479
693
S895
Liebon
3308
1322
1479 1446
29
317
45
223
6658
1
8.7
1997
3075
689
13625
Menomonee.
3468
1550
2550 1280
140
405
267
10320
5842
3600
810
12150
Merton
4020
1100
1450
601
180
142
4
160
5652
2636
4658
713
11400
Mukwonago
2399
1900
1997
782
137
8
190
7029
4
2004
3144
536
9122
Muskego
1996
1716
1400
421
367
346
8
160
4020
26
5259
2170
430
8780
New Berlin
2180
1342
1255
886
446
372
6
410
11650
11
7736
4086
970
18883
Ottawa,
1939
1360
645
25
753
103
20
4191
7295
2944
852
11182
Oconomowoc
3506
1308
927
717
139
161
4
208
4593
1.
2194
2135
752
15410
Oconomowoc City
67
62
48
51
12
8
1
1
12
149
14
134
46
41
996
Pewaukee ..
2750
1263
1224 1060
110
26G
19
290
11540
1
2574
2438
930
16010
Summit
1735
1336
1416
218
450
102
54
332
2008
1676
818
10660
Vernon
1201
1176
610
178
110
181
13
450
7164
939
1382
337
4958
Weukeshe
1911
1472
1245
539
279
325
22
$279
8788
3176
2872 10003
19956
Grend Total.
39387
22424 19692 9514 5338 3528
224 50
3645 111752
43. 132
3 54303| 45440 20639 $108777
In 1850, John Gilbraith was awarded a gold medal for some samples of ninety-six acres of flax raised by him about four miles from Mukwonago. In 1848, a squash was taken to Wau- kesha from Genesee to be weighed, which tipped the beam at eighty-six pounds.
In 1860, F. B. Ward, of Brookfield, became noted for producing a crop of potatoes, some of which weighed three and one-fourth pounds. J. Woodruff, of Lisbon, exhibited one that weighed three and one-eighth pounds, and Mr. Heath, of Pewaukee, exhibited a beet weighing sixteen and one-fourth pounds, and a radish weighing twelve pounds.
FIRST UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
By far the larger portion of the people of the present day have no correct idea of what meaning was intended to be conveyed by the term " underground railroad," as it was used in the early days of active Abolitionism. Very many think it was literally a railway for the passage of locomotives and cars beneath the surface of the earth, and have inquired where the ruins of one could be seen. For the purpose of properly explaining a term familiar to all
Total Value of all
Real Estate as as-
of Lands.
per acre of
Land Sold.
Personal Proper-
Total Value of all
1878.
Number.
Value.
Ry ?.
Potatoes.
Root Crops.
Cranberries.
No of
Acres.
No. of
Trees.
Flax.
Hops.
Tobacco.
Grasses.
Growing
Timber.
361463
1935340
Pewenkee
6800
97165
191773
20841
33 11
690170
134690
APPLE ORCHARDS.
Corn.
Oats.
Barley.
Average per
Village Lots.
GALEO.
TOWNS.
FARMING LANDS.
Total Value of all
Number of
...
...
40
49
10
Bearing
Brook field.
62702
Sold.
458
HISTORY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY.
Waukesha from thirty-five to thirty-seven years ago, if for no other reason, an extended account of low passengers traveled by that famous line might properly be given in this work ; but there are still more weighty reasons for historically preserving such an account, as the first under- ground railroad established in Wisconsin had Waukesha for its northern terminus; was estab- lished by Lyman Goodnow, its first conductor, a Waukesha man, with some help from his neighbors, and the first passenger was Caroline Quarlls, whom he safely conducted by this line from Waukesha to Canada. Mr. Goodnow, still a resident of Waukesha, and whose mind and body are strong and active, tells the story substantially as follows :
"There probably was never more excitement in old Prairieville than during the search for, and escape of Caroline, a fugitive slave girl from St. Louis. In fact the whole county-then Milwaukee, was in a fermentation, and the leading citizens of the day, many of whom afterward became prominent in the State and nation, were the chief actors in that long-to-be-remembered drama of reality.
" A man by the name of Quarlls left Connecticut many years ago, emigrated to Virginia when the country was new, and was married to a squaw. His son's son was the father of our heroine ; so that probably her great-grandmother was a squaw. Mrs. Hall, her mistress, was her father's sister, and her own aunt. Caroline came into the hands of this aunt on the death of her father. Caroline was an octoroon, probably. She had a straight nose, thin lips, skin not very dark, and a slender form of medium height. Although quite intelligent, she could not read or write. She was fifteen or sixteen years of age when in Waukesha. Her master was Charles R. Hall, a merchant at St. Louis, who formerly lived in Kentucky. Caroline was probably never badly abused while in bondage, though occasionally whipped in addition to being deprived of her freedom. She was brought up to do fine sewing, embroidery, and probably to wait upon her mistress. She was not allowed to attend church on the Sabbath, but was locked in the house to " scrub paints," as she called it.
" Although her mother was dead, Caroline had a stepfather, who never had been a slave, and who made quite a pet of her. The jewelry she had while here probably came from him, for he was well off, with a good trade, that of a blacksmith.
"Caroline wished to be free. She meditated on the subject for a long time, listened to all the talk about the North for a year or more, and conversed with her stepfather on the subject, though no one suspected her intention. Her mistress became angry at her one day, and cut off her hair, which was long and beautiful. That decided her to run away as soon as possible. She was some time in perfecting her plans. She managed in some way to possess herself of $100, and when the opportunity came for her to go, threw a bundle of clothes out of the window, after obtaining permission of her mistress to go and see a sick girl of her acquaintance. She kissed the sick girl, bade her good-bye, went back, picked up her clothes, and walked down to the ferry. The boat was just ready to start, it being about 5 o'clock P. M. Caroline must have had some experience in traveling, for she went up with unsuspicious naturalness and bought a ticket to Alton, Ill., where there was a school for young ladies. She wore a quantity of rich jewelry, stayed on deck in the daytime, with other young ladies, and when there was dancing she danced. She thus excited no suspicion, being no darker skinned than many other of the young ladies who attended the seminary. I suppose she acted a little strange at Alton, for a colored man, who was at the wharf, asked her if she was a slave escaping, and she said "no;" but he watched her, and making up his mind differently, told her if she was, not to stay in Alton. So after staying a day, the darkey put her on the stage for Milwaukee. She rode night and day till she reached that city. As she left the stage at the Milwaukee House, she saw a colored man by the name of Titball, who was a barber, and went to him, supposing that he would be a friend to her-a correct conclusion, as he had himself been a slave. He took her to his home, where she remained a week or more.
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