The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 92

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899, [from old catalog] ed; Western historical company, chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1104

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1877-[Charter amended February 7.]-Mayor, Josiah Arnold; Clerk, V. Helmann ; Treasurer, James Collins; Assessor, William Hensel; Marshal, Frederick Sieverkrop; School Superintendent, A. C. Kellogg. Aldermen-First Ward, Peter Mahon, John Brickwell ; Second Ward, E. S. Purdy, John M. Holmes ; Third Ward, J. E. Wells, H. O. Lewis ; Fourth Ward, John Gonten, George Port; Fifth Ward, Ferdinand Manthey, Joseph Huebl.

1878-[Charter amended March 16.]-Mayor, Josiah Arnold ; Clerk, Jolın O'Keefe, Jr .; Treasurer, V. Helmann ; Assessor, John Bean ; Marshal, F. Sieverkrop ; School Superintendent, A. C. Kellogg. Aldermen-First Ward, Christian Schultz, Peter Mahon ; Second Ward, R.

* In place of T. R. Davis, removed from the ward.

+ Died, John Bean appointed by the council to fill vacancy.

¿ E. C. Maine elected to fill vacancy occasioned by death of S. P. Gage.

2 Certificate of election given to S. S. Brannan, who resigned, and Mr. Purdy was chosen at a special election.

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B. Wentworth, E. S. Purdy ; Third Ward, G. J. Cox, J. E. Wells ; Fourth Ward, George Port, John Gonten ; Fifth Ward, Jacob Clemens, Frederick Manthey.

1879-[Charter amended March 4, and boundaries of the Fourth and Fifth Wards changed as follows : " Beginning, on the northerly bank of the Wisconsin River, in the center of Cass street ; thence running north through the center of said Cass street, to the track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad track ; thence east along said track to the center of Mac street ; thence south through the center of Mac street to the center of Wisconsin street ; thence southerly through the center of the said Wisconsin street to the canal connecting the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers ; thence westerly and northerly along said canal and river to the center of said Cass street, the place of beginning, shall constitute the Fourth Ward. All that part of said city which lies west and south of Wisconsin street, all that part which lies west of said Cass street and south of said railroad track, and all that part which lies north of said rail- road track and west of the new pinery road, shall constitute the Fifth Ward."]-Mayor, Josiah Arnold; Clerk, John O'Keefe. Jr .; Treasurer, V. Helmann ; Assessor, Thomas Bennett ; Marshal, Fred. Sieverkrop ; School Superintendent, A. C. Kellogg; Aldermen-First Ward, Peter Mahon, Christian Schultz ; Second Ward, Job Purnell, R. B. Wentworth ; Third Ward, J. E. Wells, G. J. Cox ; Fourth Ward, Henry Little, George Port: Fifth Ward, William Kallies, Jacob Clemens.

1880 .- Mayor, Josiah Arnold ; Clerk, John O'Keefe; Treasurer, Joseph Hueble; Marshal, Patrick Sheehan ; Assessor, Alexander Carnagie; School Superintendent, A. C. Kellogg ; Aldermen-First Ward, Frank Yanko ; Second Ward, Alexander Thompson ; Third Ward, R. C. Pixley ; Fourth Ward, Alois Klenert ; Fifth Ward, Jacob Clemens.

THE CANAL.

In 1837, a company was chartered, under the name of the "Portage Canal Company," for the purpose of building a canal connecting the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. This company was composed of Sheldon Thompson, of Buffalo, N. Y .; DeGarmo Jones, Detroit, Mich .; Rob- ert McPherson, Daniel Whitney, S. P. Griffith, and others, who were also the incorporators of the Shot Tower Company of Helena. They were the owners of all the plat of the village of Fort Winnebago. In the year 1838, they commenced to dig a canal at a point on Fox River, where it is crossed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. Its course was on the line of Bronson avenue, about two rods north, entering the Wisconsin River near Mac street. About $10,000 was spent by the company, when the work was abandoned.

Nothing further was done for some years. It finally attracted the notice of the General Government, and Secretary of War Poinsett called the attention of Congress to its value as a route for military communication and transportation, and urged an appropriation for the con- struction of locks around the rapids and a canal to unite the two rivers. To effect this object, in August, 1846, Congress passed an act granting the State of Wisconsin alternate sections of land, three miles on each side of the Fox River. In 1848, the State accepted the grant and appointed a Board of Public Works, who were charged with its execution. A new route was chosen, and between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, on the 1st day of June, 1849, the first soil was broken. Thomas Reynolds, of Madison, was awarded the contract of constructing the canal and Nelson McNeil, of Eau Claire, the locks. The work progressed somewhat slowly, being delayed by misunderstandings between the contractor and State. The men working upon it were kept out of their money for weeks and months, and were compelled to abandon it for that reason, leaving it in an unfinished condition. A resident of Portage thus describes the work, in March, 1851: " The banks of the canal at this place are crumbling before the thaw, in many places, and falling into the stream. The planking is in great part afloat. By prompt attention, the work done on the canal may be saved to the State. As it is now, it presents a melancholy spectacle of premature decay. The unpaid laborers, lately employed on the work, whose destitution and wrongs have aroused the indignation and sympathies of our citizens, will hardly assist in its repair, unless they are secured in their pay, as recommended

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by Mr. Crosswell, nor will they suffer strangers to be duped and wronged as they themselves have been." Repairs were subsequently made, the water let in, and on Saturday, the 24th day of May, 1851, a boat attempted to pass through the canal. The event was chronicled, at the time, as follows, by the Portage paper :

" First Boat Through the Canal-almost .- The beautiful steamer, John Mitchell, nearly accomplished the feat of passing through the canal at this place, from the Fox into the Wisconsin River, on Saturday last. She came up as far as Main street. As the John Mitchell came up the canal, the Enterprise came up the Wisconsin River to the head of the canal. The bluster- ing rivalry between these inhabitants of different waters (the throat of each giving its best puff and whistle alternately), was quite exhilarating, and called out a large concourse of citizens, to gaze upon the scene presented, and make predictions for the future. After a short time, boats and citizens withdrew, amid strains of music, and the ' noise and confusion ' were over."

The water was drawn off, and the work of strengthening the banks and bottom, to prevent the quicksand from pouring in and filling up the bed, was proceeded with ; but their efforts were of little avail, if the same local authority quoted can be relied on. On the 31st day of August, 1851, the water was again let in, and the next morning it presented a rather novel appearance, the planking having raised from its fastening, at the bottom, and floated on either side of the surface, and forming two floating plank-roads. Fortunately no high winds prevailed ; but had a storm arisen and stirred up the angry waters, there is no telling where the planking might have been hurled to, or where the destruction would have ended.

On Sunday night, September 28, 1851, the Wisconsin River, which had been unusually high for some days, broke into the canal, and cut a channel through its southern bank, some fifty yards wide and eight or ten feet deep. The warehouse of C. W. Mappa was undermined, and other houses fell in and floated off. The planking of the canal, together with a quantity of lumber lying on the bank of the Wisconsin, floated into the Fox River.

But little was done from this time until in 1853. As the Constitution of the State forbade the creation of any public debts, the Board of Public Works were limited in their expenditures to the receipts from the sale of land granted by Congress. At this stage of affairs, a company proposed to take charge of the work, completing the canal, and the improvements contemplated on the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. On the 6th day of July, 1853, an act was passed by the Legislature of this State, incorporating the " Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement Company," composed of Mason C. Darling, Otto Frank, Morgan L. Martin, Edgar Conklin, Benjamin F. Moore, Joseph G. Lawton, W. H. Peak and Theodore Conkey. The State gave to this com- pany all the interests that had been acquired by it, under certain conditions. The act making the transfer from the State to the improvement company, was approved by Gov. Coles Bash- ford, Oct. 3, 1856. The company was instructed to commence the work within ninety days, and to finish the improvement within three years. They failed to comply with the law, and finally the United States took the work off their hands.

As built by the Government, the canal was commenced in the fall of 1874, under the direc- tion of Col. D. C. Houston, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., assisted by Capt. G. J. Lydecker, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., with Mr. John Pierpont and Mr. Edward Sargent, as civil assistants, until the winter of 1875 and 1876, when Capt. Lydecker and assistants Pierpont and Sargent were called to other work on the Fox River, and Col. Houston was assisted by Lieut. F. A. Hinman, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., with Mr. Edward C. Hinman, as civil assistant. The work of construction was done by contract, by Messrs. Conro, Starke & Co., of Milwaukee. The excavation was made by a steam excavator, wheelbarrows and small construction cars. The work was commenced at the lower end-in order that it could be drained as completed- and consisted of an excavation seventy-five feet wide and seven feet deep, with a timber and pile revetment on both sides. The latter was completed as fast as the excavation would permit. During the season of 1874, the work was completed about one-fourth of a mile. During the season of 1875, the revetment and excavation on the north side were completed, and, on the south side, about three-fourths finished. The balance of the work was completed in June, 1876.

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A writer soon afterward says:

" The canal is seventy-five feet wide, inside the revetment, two and one-half miles long, and seven feet from the top of revetment to the bed.

" There is one waste weir at the lower end, to carry off the surface water, and ample as a feeder to the Fox River.

" Messrs. Starke & Conro, completed the canal between Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, and turned it over to the Government Friday last, July 30. The revetment on southerly side of the canal, between the bridge and the lock, was not carried through to the river, because a lock side and canal basin is to be constructed, between the canal and the river, requiring the whole of the point of land between them for that purpose ; it is not yet determined whether the work of constructing the basin will go forward this season or not. The canal is a completed job, and is not excelled by any other work of the kind, of which we have any knowledge. There is six feet of water in it, which is a great abundance for any demand that will ever be made upon it.

" On the evening of the 30th, a party of gentlemen accepted an invitation from the officers in charge, to take passage on the Government steamer, Boscobel, on a trial trip through the canal, from the Wisconsin to the Fox. As a matter of record, we give the names of the follow- ing gentlemen : Hon. Alva Stewart, Hon. R. L. D. Potter, Messrs. G. J. Cox, E. E. Chapin, A. J. Turner, T. L. Kennan, W. D. Fox, Fred W. Schulze, E. S. Baker, John Cable, and others, whose names do not occur to us, besides Government officers in charge of the work. As the steamer coursed its way down to the Fox, trains passed by on the several divisions of the railroad. For some distance, the theme of conversation was the change wrought in the line of trade and commerce, within the past five years, by the introduction of steam power, and we all wondered how Louis Jolliet regarded it, if his spirit was floating about in this vicinity, where, 203 years before, on the 17th of June, he had hauled his batteaux across this same portage, between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, on his voyage of discovery, where steamboats and railroads now hold sway. And thus conversation ran on through the evening, until 10 o'clock, when the little excursion had been completed."

At the upper end, the Portage City lock connects the canal with the Wisconsin River, with a lift from the canal of from nothing to nine feet, depending on the stage of water in the Wisconsin River. At the lower end, the Fort Winnebago lock connects it with the Fox River, having a lift of six feet from the Fox River.

These locks above mentioned, have both been rebuilt by the Government; the former in 1880, and the latter in 1874 and 1875. They are, as previously mentioned, thirty-five feet wide and one hundred and sixty feet long, between gates.

The United States steamer, Boscobel, was the first boat to pass through the canal, after its completion. On June 30, 1876, the steamer passed from the Wisconsin to the Fox River and returned. Everything was found to be in good working order, and navigation was opened immediately, and has been uninterrupted since that time.

THE SCHOOLS.

The subject of education is one of prime importance to every community, and the degree in which it is fostered and promoted is always a sure index to the intelligence and liberality of the people. The refinements of education constitute the most elegant and ennobling pleasures of life. The moral sentiments are elevated and the face of humanity made to shine with celestial luster. It has truly been said that, " an education is that which no misfortune can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave; at home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in society an ornament."

As illustrative of the tendancy of the times, it will not be out of place to show the atten- tion education received at Fort Winnebago forty-five years ago. Maj. Green, then command- ing officer at the fort, engaged, in 1835, Miss Eliza Haight as governess in his family, and he allowed the children of other officers of the fort to attend the private school thus established.

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PORTAGE, CITY.

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There were, in all, about one dozen pupils. In the spring of 1840, Rev. S. P. Keyes became both chaplain and schoolmaster at the post, and taught about twenty children, some of them over twelve years of age.

The first school in Portage, however, the benefits of which were enjoyed by actual settlers, was established in the house of Hugh McFarlane, in 1843, Mrs. McFarlane being the teacher. Instruction was given on Sundays only, and it was therefore a Sunday school. Books were purchased for the purpose, from a fund created by contributions solicited from the hardy rafts- men of the Wisconsin River, by Mrs. McFarlane. From this small beginning, a private school, with a "hired " teacher, grew into existence. It was located, for awhile, in one portion of Mr. McFarlane's blacksmith-shop, partitioned off for that purpose.

The town of Winnebago Portage, organized on the 9th day of January, 1849, by virtue of that organization, became, at that date, a school district, under a law of the Territory of Wis- consin, which continued in force till January 1, 1850, and which declared that " every town in this Territory, containing not less than ten families, shall be a school district," etc. There is no record of a public school in the town, during 1849 ; but in that year a portion of the town occupied by its residents living in the vicinity of the " old fort," was set off as School District No. 2, all other parts of the town being considered District No. 1. It is not necessary to give the limits of this District No. 2, as it became joint District No. 1, of Port Hope and Fort Win- nebago, on the 8th day of January, 1850, when the name of Winnebago Portage was changed to Fort Winnebago, and Town 13, Range 9, taken from that town and organized as the town of Port Hope. This joint district followed the fortunes of Section 33, Town 13, Range 9, site of the the old fort, and was transferred with it three times, from one town to the other. It was under the jurisdiction of the town of Fort Winnebago (now Portage) only about three years, and after noticing its first annual report, in 1850, its history will not be further considered in connection with that part of the city of Portage, except in the explanation of the numbering of the dis- tricts that may hereafter be named.

In 1850, School Superintendent D. Vandercook formed four new districts, in the town of Fort Winnebago, making five in all, viz., Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. And as No. 3 soon passed to another town, and as No. 4 was substantially absorbed in another district of the same name, which in reality was the successor of joint District No. 1, hereinbefore named, they will be briefly described and "accounted for " first, so that further mention of them will not be required.

District No. 3 .- Set off, June 27, 1850, commencing "at the west line of Town 12, Range 8, thence east three miles, including John Tibbet's claim on Section 5; thence north to the Wisconsin River, and bounded on the south by the Baraboo River." This district became a part of the town of Caledonia, at the organization of the latter, on the 12th of November, 1851.

District No. 4, set off November 30, 1850, contained the " east side of the village (at the Portage) from Center avenue," and was united with a part of joint District No. 1, before named, on the 30th day of August, 1851. The new district was designated No. 4, and as such made its annual report for the year 1851, being really the report of the school of said joint district for that year. It passed from the jurisdiction of the town of Fort Winnebago on the 15th day of December, 1852, with the site of the fort, Section 33, Town 13, Range 9, which was trans- ferred to the town of Port Hope on that day.

Districts Nos. 1, 2 and 5, of the organization of 1850, have been the permanent districts of the place.

No. 1 embraced that part of the town south of the canal and west of Center avenue (in part of First Ward, now west of Center avenne) not set off to other districts.

No. 2 .- Substantially the present Second Ward of the city (old No. 3 becoming joint Dis- trict No. 1, as above stated), organized January, 1850.

No. 5 .- Substantially what is now Third, Fourth and Fifth Wards of the city, and organ- ized December 20, 1850.

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Districts Nos. 1 and 2, of Fort Winnebago, and joint District No. 1, of Port Hope and Fort Winnebago (once No. 2 of Winnebago Portage), maintained public schools in the year ending Angust 31, 1850, and made annual reports, from which the following statistics are taken, viz. :

District No. 1 .- Number of male children of school age, 21 ; number of female children of school age, 15; number attending school, 20 ; number of months' school, 3; wages, with board, per month, of teacher, Miss C. V. Baldwin, $6; schoolroom, second story of Henry Car- penter's warehouse.

District No. 2 .- Number of male children of school age, 70; number of female children of school age, 65; number attending school, 87; number of months' school, 3; monthly wages of teacher, Mr. R. M. Brown, $18; the schoolroom was a shop of William Rice, standing on a part of the present homestead of Mrs. Dr. Dent, Block No. 240.

Joint District No. 1, of Port Hope and Fort Winnebago .- Number of male children of school age, 55; number of female children of school age, 41; number attending school, 65 ; number of months' school, 3; monthly wages of teacher, Mrs. Grace Bliss, $15. Schoolroom, arsenal building of the fort ; William Wier was Clerk.

District No. 1 contained that part of the town south of the canal not set off to other dis- tricts. Its boundaries were not given on its records, for the reason that it originally contained the whole town, and it was called "No. 1," because it was the original organization, or what was left of that organization. To give it a name and limits on its records, School Superintendent W. R. DeWitt re-organized it on the 10th day of May, 1851, giving it the name it had borne and the boundaries rightfully belonging to it. Ten days after, namely, May 20, 1851, he organ- ized that portion of the district south of Superior street into District No. 7 (No. 6 not described, being in what is now Caledonia). Practically, the two districts remained as one, and as the schoolhouse was in District No. 7, the annual reports were made in the name of that district, until the two were united under the original name, District No. 1.

During the year ending August 31, 1851, Districts Nos. 1 (7 and 1) and 2 again main- tained public schools, and District No. 5 had its first public school. From the report of the Clerk of District No. 5 for that year, the following particulars are taken, viz. : Number of male children of school age, 43; number of female children of school age, 55; number attending school, 98; number of months' school, 3; monthly wages of teacher, Miss Helen M. Hand, $15. James Boylan taught ten days. The schoolroom was the schoolhouse of District No. 2, rented.

Changes of Name, etc .- The name of the town having been changed to Portage City, and some alterations having been made in its boundaries by the Board of County Supervisors on the 17th day of December, 1852, School Superintendent A. C. Ketchum re-organized the school districts on the 23d day of April following, designating Districts Nos. 1 and 7 as District No. 4, and District No. 5 as District No. 3, District No. 2 retaining its name. . The city having been incorporated in 1854 with sontheasterly boundaries different from those of the town pre- ceding it, School Superintendent W. S. M. Abbott, on the 3d day of February, 1855, in making a record of the altered limits of the then District No. 4, restored its original name, District No. 1. From that date till graded schools were established in the city, the districts were: No. 1, First Ward; No. 2, Second Ward ; No. 3, present Third, Fourth and Fifth Wards. And in speaking of them on other points of their history, the names last above given will be used, whatever may have been their designations when the events named took place.

Schoolhouses .- Districts 1 and 2 cach erected a wooden schoolhouse in 1851, that of the former standing on Lot 10, Block 89, and that of the latter on Lot 16, Block 187, of Webb & Bronson's Plat. The one erected by District No. 1 now forms a part of the First Ward School- house on Block 140; and that erected by District No. 2 was sold by the city, and is now a dwelling-house on Block 197, of the plat of Portage City.

District No. 3 (5) did not erect a schoolhouse. For many years it rented one of Hugh McFarlane, erected by him for a private high school, and standing on Lot 9, Block 237, of Portage City, and in 1857 it purchased the house and lot of Mr. McFarlane for $1,500.

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The house and grounds were sold by the city, and the building has been converted into a dwelling-house, and is now owned by William Miller.

The following is a list of teachers and officers of School District No. 1, during its exist- ence-it being also known as District No. 4, and District No. 7, and the time it was so known being herein indicated : Ycar ending August 31, 1850-Miss C. V. Baldwin, Teacher ; Ilenry Carpenter, Director ; George W. Morgan, Clerk ; M. Van Winter, Treasurer. Ycar ending August 31, 1851-Miss C. V. Baldwin, Teacher ; Henry Carpenter, Director ; S. F. Marston, Clerk ; M. Van Winter, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1852-Mrs. Maria Gue and Miss E. J. Page, Teachers ; Henry Carpenter, Director ; O. P. Williams and M. Van Winter, Clerks ;

Alex. McDonald, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1853-Miss Sophia Wright, Teacher ; Henry Carpenter, Director ; M. Van Winter, Clerk ; Alex. McDonald, Treasurer. Year end- ing August 31, 1854-Minor Palmer, Teacher ; Henry Carpenter, Director ; M. Van Winter, Clerk ; Perry Lee, Treasurer. Ycar ending August 31, 1855-Miss Margaret E. Hand and Miss Margaret St. John, Teachers ; Henry Carpenter, Director ; C. A. Comstock, Clerk ; Perry Lee, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1856-D. J. Waters and Miss Margaret E. Hand, Teachers ; Edward O'Keefe, Director : M. McHale, Clerk ; Perry Lee, Treasurer. Year end- ing August 31, 1857-D. J. Waters, Teacher ; Henry Carpenter, Director; M. McHale, Clerk ; Perry Lee, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1858-D. J. Waters, Teacher ; Henry Carpen- ter, Director ; Eugene Muldoon and John Brickwell, Clerks ; Perry Lee, Treasurer. From August 31, 1858, to end of district system, May, 1859-Jerome Starr, Teacher ; M: Van Win- ter, Director ; John Brickwell, Clerk ; Volney Foster, Treasurer.

List of teachers and officers of School District No. 2, during its existence : Year ending August 31, 1850-Mr. R. M. Brown, Teacher ; Richard Dempsey, Director ; T. Dean, Clerk ; John M. Crawford, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1851-Mr. James Boylan, Miss'B. Edg- erton, Teachers ; John A. Johnson, Director ; H. R. Pettibone, Clerk ; John M. Crawford and C. G. McCulloch, Treasurers. Year ending August 31, 1852-Miss B. Edgerton, Teacher ; R. F. Veeder, Director ; H. R. Pettibone, Clerk ; C. G. McCulloch, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1853-Seth Mills, Teacher ; George Wall, Director; A. C. Ketchum, Clerk ; Will- iam Sylvester, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1854-Mr. R. S. Carter, Miss Jane S. Chap- pell and Miss Helen Ward, Teachers ; Thomas Thompson, Director; John M. Crawford, Clerk ; G. N. Oddie, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1855-Emory Peck, C. O. Paquin and Miss Helen M. Hand, Teachers ; Thomas Thompson, Director ; John M. Crawford, Clerk ; William R. Clough, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1856-J. A. Burt and C. O. Paquin, Teachers ; James Learmouth, Director; John M. Crawford and J. B. Rogers, Clerks ; W. R. Clough, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1857-J. A. Burt and Miss Lucy A. Miller, Teachers ; S. K. Vaughan, Director ; J. B. Rogers, Clerk ; James Learmonth, Treasurer. Year ending August 31, 1858-G. J. Cox and Miss Mary J. Bisbee, Teachers ; M. M. Davis, Director; G. M. Oddie, Clerk ; A. Carnagie, Treasurer. From August 31, 1858, to end of district system, May, 1859-T. C. Barden and Miss Fannie E. Waldo, Teachers ; George Wall, Director ; Baron S. Doty and J. O. Prescott, Clerks ; Alex. Carnagie, Treasurer.

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The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 92

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899, [from old catalog] ed; Western historical company, chicago, pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 1104

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899, [from old catalog] ed; Western historical company, chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1104