The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Part 13

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Publication date: 1880
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1009


..


994


1


118


4


1117


1003


..


70


4


1077


Twenty-eighth Infantry, three years ... Twenty-ninth Infantry, three years ... Thirtieth Infantry, three years ...


878


8


188


4


·


993


6


370


5


100


1474


892


164


8


2


961


20


283


186


472


.. Thirty-fourth Infantry, nine months ...


*Thirty-fifth Infantry, three years ..... Thirty-sixth Infantry, three years ..... Thirty-seventh Inf., one, two & three, Thirty-eighth Inf., one, two & three ... Thirty-ninth Inf., one hundred days ... Fortieth Infantry, one hundred days .. Forty-first Inf., one hundred days .....


Forty-second Infantry, one year.


877


130


1


Forty-fifth Infantry, one year ...


GAIN BY RECRUITS.


GAIN BY DRAFT.


Gnin by


Substitutes.


810


3


5


76


719


First Infantry, three years ...


1266


261


6


51


134


466


348


979


70


945


75


Strength.


.


LOSSES DURING THE SERVICE.


·


.


578


6


..


2


570


961


114


11


1


1089


..


52


46


340


712


Thirty-first Infantry, three years.


1078


Thirty-second Infantry, three years ... Thirty-third Infantry, three years ...


139


4


130


223


1505


.


990


12


120


..


06


..


..


No Report.


780


763


1008


..


1066


Twenty-fourth Infantry, three years ... Twenty-fifth Infantry, three years ..... Twenty-sixth Infantry, three years .... Twenty-seventh Infantry, three years


10


2


78


Eighth Infantry, three years.


1029


72


treug


Forty-sixth Infantry, one year ......


914


33.


947|


18 .........


81


811


41!


854 812


Forty-seventh Infantry, one year .. ...


927


58


985


34


28


29


87


Forty-eighth Infantry, one year ... ..


828


4


832 9


67 .


173


775


Forty-ninth Infantry, one year


986


16 . .


958


28


141


127*


..


..


.


.


843


8


87


34


714


6


42


16


41


406


Fifty-second Infantry, one year.


380


9


389


8


14


5


47|


315


Fifty-third Infantry, one year


215


No Report.


First Army Corps, Infantry ..


164


83


202


76


61


2602


3661.


...


9]


67


634


1444


First Cavalry, three years ...


1127


137


630


212


18


1


385


2510


271


5


103


33.


557


1541


Second Cavalry, three years ...


1186


324


608


30


18


357


2523


9


126


64


418


1691


Fourth Cavalry, three years ...


1047


32


810


140


16


260


2305


350


23


74


2


474


+754


Milwaukee ...


83


1


155


17


53


42


2


34


303


22|


..


6


7


30


188


Second Battery Light Artillery.


153


5


35


2


48


243


12


..


3


4


60


177


Third Battery Light Artillery ....


170


35


32


43


294


24


1


15


1


82


171


Fifth Battery Light Artilley ..


155


5


64


1


79


304


24


1


5


61


213


Sixth Battery Light Artillery.


..


158


40


50


1


3


92


344


29


25


1


13


14


53


223


Eighth Battery Light Artillery ..


161


2


90


10


.


.


.


78


296


6


.


4


60


91


47


89


30


2


11


279


...


..


87


1


1


39


134


.


..


2


81


105


123


Twelfth Battery Light Artillery


99


86


121


2


3


188


14


1


25


8


39


106


Thirteenth Battery Light Artillery .....


156


22


25


Heavy Artillery.


129


103


80


20 . ..


29


361


12


37


4


22


286


Battery A, Heavy Artillery ..


185


17


16


40


105


Battery B, lleavy Artillery ..


149


30


6 . ..


·


...


8


7


1


31


124


Battery C, Heavy Artillery ...


146


11


11


.


1


230


39


9


5


67


110


Battery D, lleavy Artillery ....


146


12


71


..


153


2


6


146


Battery F, lleavy Artillery ..


151


.. .


.


.


·


·


·


10


144


Battery II, Heavy Artillery ..


151


3


154


10


152


Battery 1, Heavy Artillery ..


150


. .


.


.


.


3


10


144


Battery K, Heavy Artillery ..


3


..


·


·


·


....


..


6


145


Sharp Shooters,.


105


13


37


.


15


Gibbons' Brigade Band ..


13


1


.... ....


1


32


..


.


.


171


46


21


5


1


244


Army and Navy ...


546


168


Out of State.


14


5


33


52


Unassigned


611


12


97


537


5217


394


6868


56792


3361


11245


2752


2361


5961


1798


1325


15784


91379


10868


258


3362


2961


15193


54052


Remaining in service Nov. 1, 1865 ...


* November 1, 1865. + October 1, 1865.


¿ Drafted men who paid commutation ; volunteers, substituted and drafted men, mustered out before assignment; musters in the field reported by the War Department,


with‹ ut stating organization.


¿ To the number of 615 remaining in the service, November 1, 1865, should be added 145 transferred from the Twentieth and Twenty-third Regiments.


91


25


...


..


.


·


.


·


·


.


·


.


.


·


·


.


157


18


64


1


2


34


276


29


..


..


1


68


237


Seventh Battery Light Artillery.


56


227


Ninth Battery Light Artillery ...


155


4


53


6


·


.


.


. .


·


.


342


30


1


20


2


17


92


Eleventh Battery Light Artillery .. ....


...


3


·


..


...


..


. .


10


145


Battery L, Heavy Artillery ..


152


3


..


...


.


9


194


8


4


43


58


47


15


No Report.


.....


.


33


do


33


U. S. Colored Troops ....


714


do


do


±6868


Total.


4685


.


·


33


270


26


..


..


151


1


60


1


38


No Report.


93


9


93


.


..


14


48


212


First Battery Light Artillery ...


.


1124


295


597


193


22


...


.


1002


18


.........


...


...


.


Fiftieth Infantry, one year ...


942


Fifty-first Infantry, one year ..


841


2


....


.


486


25


511


..


...


..


36 *


.... .....


6


16


. ..


·


155


Battery M, Heavy Artillery ...


152


2


154


·


341


.


1


Blunt's Brigade Band ..


152


4


156


1


1


10


144


Battery G, Heavy Artillery ....


151


2


.


·


153


1


2


163


1


13


9


157


..


1


150


Battery E, Heavy Artillery ..


66


329


6


1


36


197


......


...


Tenth Battery Light Artillery ..


24


6


31


.


10


25


·


.


171


215


Third Cavalry, three years ..


.


..


....


.....


.....


...


.


148


.


·


..


Fourth Battery Light Artillery ...


5


9


. .


92


IIISTORY OF WISCONSIN.


TENTH ADMINISTRATION .- LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, GOVERNOR-1866-1867.


The inauguration of the newly elected State officers took place on Monday, January 1, 1866. The legislature, in its nineteenth regular session, convened on the tenth. H. D. Barron was elected speaker of the assembly. The " Union " and " Republican " members were in a majority in both branches of the legislature. "Our first duty," said Governor Fairchild in his message, "is to give thanks to Almighty God for all His mercies during the year that is past." " The people of no nation on earth," he continued, " have greater cause to be thankful than have our people. The enemies of the country have been overthrown in battle. The war has settled finally great questions at issue between ourselves." Among the joint resolutions passed at this session was one submitting the question of a constitutional convention to frame a new constitution for the State, to the people. The legislature adjourned on the twelfth of April, having been in session ninety-three days. At the general election in November of this year, there were elected to the Fortieth congress : H. E. Paine, from the first district; B. F. Hopkins, from the second; Amasa Cobb, from the third; C. A. Eldredge, from the fourth; Philetus Sawyer, from the fifth, and C. C. Washburn, from the sixth district. All were republicans except Eldredge, who was elected as a democrat. The proposition for a constitutional conven- tion was voted upon by the people at this election, but was defeated.


The twentieth session of the legislature commenced on the ninth of January, 1867. Angus Cameron was elected speaker of the assembly. The legislature was strongly " Repub- lican-Union." The message of Governor Fairchild was read by him in person, on the tenth. On the twenty-third, the two houses, in joint convention, elected Timothy O. Howe United States senator for the term of six years, commencing on the fourth of March next ensuing. This legislature passed an act submitting to the people at the next Fall election an amendment to section twenty-one of article four of the constitution of the State, providing for paying a salary of three hundred and fifty dollars to each member of the legislature, instead of a per diem allowance, as previously given. A sine die adjournment took place on the eleventh of April, after a service of ninety-three days.


To provide for the more efficient collection of license fees due the State, an act, approved on the day of adjournment, authorized the governor to appoint an agent of the treasury, to superintend and enforce the collection of fees due for licenses fixed by law. This law is still in force, the agent holding his office at the pleasure of the executive of the State.


On the 27th of March, Chief Justice Dixon resigned his office but was immediately appointed by the governor to the same position. At the election in April following, associate Justice Cole was re-elected, without opposition, for six years from the first Monday in January following. On the 16th of August, Associate Justice Downer having resigned, Byron Paine was appointed by the governor in his place.


The republican State ticket, in the Fall, was elected over the democratic-resulting in the choice of Lucius Fairchild for governor ; Wyman Spooner, for lieutenant governor; Thomas S. Allen, Jr., secretary of state ; William E. Smith, for state treasurer; Charles R. Gill, for attorney general ; A. J. Craig, for superintendent of public instruction ; Jeremiah M. Rusk, for bank comptroller, and Henry Cordier, for state prison commissioner. Except Craig, all these officers were the former incumbents. The amendment to section 21 of article 4 of the constitution of the State. giving the members a salary instead of a per diem allowance, was adopted at this election. As it now stands, each member of the legislature receives, for his services, three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and ten cents for every mile he travels in going to and returning from the place of the meetings of the legislature. on the most


93


WISCONSIN AS A STATE.


usual route. In case of any extra session of the legislature, no additional compensation shall be allowed to any member thereof, either directly or indirectly.


ELEVENTH ADMINISTRATION .- LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, GOVERNOR (SECOND TERM)-1868-1869.


The Eleventh Administration in Wisconsin commenced at noon on the 6th day of January, 1868. This was the commencement of Governor Fairchild's second term. On the eighth of January, 1868, began the twenty-first regular session of the legislature of Wisconsin. A. M. Thomson was elected speaker of the assembly. Of the laws of a general nature passed by this legislature, was one abolishing the office of bank comptroller, transferring his duties to the state treasurer, and another providing for the establishing of libraries in the various townships of the State. A visible effect was produced by the constitutional amendment allowing members a salary, in abreviating this session, though not materially diminishing the amount of business transacted. A sine die adjournment took place on the sixth of March.


At the election in April, 1868, Chief Justice Dixon was chosen for the unexpired balance of his own term, ending on the first Monday of January, 1870. At the same election, Byron Paine was chosen associate justice for the unexpired balance of Associate Justice Downer's term, ending the Ist day of January, 1872.


At the Fall election in this year, republican electors were chosen over those upon the democratic ticket, for president and vice president; and, as a consequence, Grant and Colfax received the vote of Wisconsin. Of the members elected at the same time, to the forty-first congress, all but one were republicans - Eldredge being a democrat. The successful ticket was : H. E. Paine, from the first district; B. F. Hopkins, from the second; Amasa Cobb, from the third ; C. A. Eldredge, from the fourth; Philetus Sawyer, from the fifth, and C. C. Washburn, from the sixth district. These were all members, form their respective districts, in the previous congress-the only instance since Wisconsin became a State of a re-election of all the incum- bents.


On the thirteenth of January, 1869, began the twenty-second regular session of the State legislature. A. M. Thomson was elected speaker of the assembly. A very important duty imposed upon both houses was the election of a United States senator in the place of James R. Doolittle. The republicans having a majority in the legislature on joint ballot, the excitement among the members belonging to that party rose to a high pitch. The candidates for nomina- tion were Matthew H. Carpenter and C. C. Washburn. The contest was, up to that time, unparalleled in Wisconsin for the amount of personal interest manifested. Both gentlemen had a large lobby influence assembled at Madison. Carpenter was successful before the republican nominating convention, on the sixth ballot. On the twenty-seventh of January, the two houses proceeded to ratify the nomination by electing him United States senator for six years, from the fourth of March following. One of the most important transactions entered into by the legis- lature of 1869 was the ratification of the suffrage amendment to the constitution of the United States. Both houses adjourned sine die on the eleventh of March-a very short session. At the spring election, on the 6th of April, Luther S. Dixon was re-elected without opposition, chief justice of the supreme court, for a term of six years, from the first Monday in January next ensuing. In the Fall, both democrats and republicans put a State ticket in the field for the ensuing election : the republicans were successful, electing Lucius Fairchild, governor ; Thad- deus C. Pound, lieutenant governor; Llywelyn Breese, secretary of state; Henry Baetz, state treasurer ; S. S. Barlow, attorney general; george F. Wheeler, state prison commissioner ; and A. L. Craig, superintendent of public instruction. The office of bank comptroller expired on the 31st day of December, 1869, the duties of the office being transferred to the state treasurer.


94


HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.


At this election, an amendment to sections 5 and 9 of article five of the constitution of the State was ratified and adopted by the people. Under this amendment, the governor receives, during his continuance in office, an annual compensation of five thousand dollars, which is in full for all traveling or other expenses incident to his duties. The lieutenant governor receives, during his continuance in office, an annual compensation of one thousand dollars.


TWELFTH ADMINISTRATION .- LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, GOVERNOR (THIRD TERM)-1870-1871. -


On the third of January, 1870, commenced the twelfth administration in Wisconsin, Gov- ernor Fairchild thus entering upon his third term as chief executive of the State; the only instance since the admission of Wisconsin into the Union, of the same person being twice re-elected to that office. It was an emphatic recognition of the value of his services in the gubernatorial chair. On the twelfth of January, the twenty-third regular session of the legis- lature of the State commenced at Madison. James M. Bingham was elected speaker of the assembly. Before the expiration of the month, Governor Fairchild received official information that over two hundred thousand dollars of the war claim of Wisconsin upon the General Govern- ment had been audited, considerable more than one hundred thousand having the previous year been allowed. In the month of March, an energetic effort was made in the legislature, by members from Milwaukee, to remove the seat of government from Madison to their city; but the project was defeated by a considerable majority in the assembly voting to postpone the matter indefinitely. According to section eight of article one of the constitution, as originally adopted, no person could be held to answer for a criminal offense unless on the presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in certain cases therein specified. The legislature of 1869 proposed an amendment against the "grand jury system " of the constitution, and referred it to the legislature of 1870 for their approval or rejection. The latter took up the proposition and agreed to it by the proper majority, and submitted it to the people at the next election for their ratification. The sine die adjournment of both houses took place on the seventeenth of March, 1870. On the first day of January, previous, the member of congress from the second district of the State, B. F. Hopkins, died, and David Atwood, republican, was elected to fill the vacancy on the fifteenth of February following.


Early in 1870, was organized the "Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters." By an act of the legislature approved March 16, of that year, it was incorporated, having among its- specific objects, researches and investigations in the various departments of the material, meta- physical, ethical, ethnological and social sciences; a progressive and thorough scientific survey of the State, with a view of determining its mineral, agricultural and other resources; the advancement of the useful arts, through the application of science, and by the encouragement of original invention; the encouragement of the fine arts, by means of honors and prizes awarded to artists for original works of superior merit; the formation of scientific, economical and art museums; the encouragement of philological and historical research; the collection and preservation of historic records, and the formation of a general library; and the diffusion of knowledge by the publication of original contributions to science, literature and the arts. The academy has already published four volumes of transactions, under authority of the State.


The fourth charitable institution established by Wisconsin was the " Northern Hospital for the Insane," located at Oshkosh, Winnebago county. It was authorized by an act of the legis- lature approved March 10, 1870. The law governing the admission of patients to this hospital is the same as to the Wisconsin State Hospital.


95


WISCONSIN AS A STATE.


On the third day of July, 1870, A. J. Craig, superintendent of public instruction, died of consumption, and Samuel Fallows was, on the 6th of that month, appointed by the governor to fill the place made vacant by his death. The census taken this year by the General Govern- ment, showed the population of Wisconsin to be over one million sixty-four thousand. At the Fall election for members to the forty-second congress, Alexander Mitchell. was chosen to represent the first district; G. W. Hazelton, the second; J. A. Barber, the third; C. A. Eldredge, the fourth; Philetus Sawyer, the fifth; and J. M. Rusk, the sixth district. Mitchell and Eldredge were democrats; the residue were republicans. The amendment to section 8, of article 7 of the constitution of the State, abolishing the grand jury system was ratified by a large majority. Under it, no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law, and no person, for the same offense, shall be put twice in jeopardy of punishment, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. All persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident and the presumption great ; and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.


Governor Fairchild, in his last annual message to the legislature, delivered to that body at its twenty-fourth regular session beginning on the eleventh of January, 1871, said that Wisconsin State polity was so wisely adapted to the needs of the people, and so favorable to the growth and prosperity of the commonwealth, as to require but few changes at the hands of the legisla- ture, and those rather of detail than of system. At the commencement of this session, William E. Smith was elected speaker of the assembly. A very carefully-perfected measure of this legislature was one providing for the trial of criminal offenses on information, without the inter- vention of a Grand Jury. A state commissioner of immigration, to be elected by the people, was provided for. Both bodies adjourned sine die on the twenty-fifth of March. On the thirteenth of January preceding, Associate Justice Byron Paine, of the supreme court, died; whereupon the governor, on the 20th of the same month, appointed in his place, until the Spring election should be held, William Penn Lyon. The latter, at the election in April, was chosen by the people to serve the unexpired time of Associate Justice Paine, ending the first Monday of Jan- uary, 1872, and for a full term of six years from the same date. On the 3d of April, Ole C. Johnson was appointed by the governor state commissioner of immigration, to serve until his successor at the next general election could be chosen by the people. To the end that the administration of public charity and correction should thereafter be conducted upon sound principles of economy, justice and humanity, and that the relations existing between the State and its dependent and criminal classes might be better understood, there was, by an act of the legislature, approved March 23, 1871, a "state board of charities and reform" created -to consist of five members to be appointed by the governor of the State, the duties of the members being to investigate and supervise the whole system of charitable and correctional institutions supported by the State or receiving aid from the State treasury, and on or before the first day of December in each year to report their proceedings to the executive of the State. This board was thereafter duly organized and its members have since reported annually to the governor their proceedings and the amount of their expenses, as required by law.


The "Wisconsin State Horticultural Society," although previously organized, first under the name of the " Wisconsin Fruit Growers' Association," was not incorporated until the 24th of March, 1871-the object of the society being to improve the condition of horticulture, rural adornment and landscape gardening. By a law of 1868, provision was made for the publication of the society's transactions in connection with the State agricultural society; but by the act


96


HISTORY OF WISCONSIN


of 1871, this law was repealed and an appropriation made for their yearly publication in separate form; resulting in the issuing, up to the present time, of nine volumes. The society holds annual meetings at Madison.


At the November election both republicans and democrats had a full ticket for the suffrages of the people. The republicans were successful, electing for governor, C. C. Washburn; M. H. Pettitt, for lieutenant governor ; Llywelyn Breese, for secretary of state ; Henry Baetz, for state treasurer ; Samuel Fallows, for superintendent of public instruction ; S. S. Barlow, for attorney general ; G. F. Wheeler, for state prison commissioner ; and O. C. Johnson, for state commis- sioner of immigration. At this election an amendment to article four of the constitution of the State was ratified and adopted by the people. As it now stands, the legislature is prohibited from enacting any special or private laws in the following cases : ist. For changing the names of persons or constituting one person the heir-at-law of another. 2d. For laying out, opening, or altering highways, except in cases of State roads extending into more than one county, and mili- tary roads to aid in the construction of which lands may be granted by congress. 3d. For authorizing persons to keep ferries across streams, at points wholly within this State. 4th. For authorizing the sale or mortgage of real or personal property of minors or others under disability. 5th. For locating or changing any county seat. 6th. For assessment or collection of taxes or for extending the time for the collection thereof. 7th. For granting corporate powers or privileges, except to cities. 8th. For authorizing the apportionment of any part of the school fund. 9th. For incorporating any town or village, or to amend the charter thereof. The legislature shall provide general laws for the transaction of any business that may be prohibited in the foregoing cases, and all such laws shall be uniform in their operation throughout the State.


Industrially considered, the year 1871 had but little to distinguish it from the average of previous years in the State, except that the late frosts of Spring and the drouth of Summer dimin- ished somewhat the yield of certain crops. With the exception of slight showers of only an hour or two's duration, in the month of September, no rain fell in Wisconsin from the eighth of July to the ninth of October-a period of three months. The consequence was a most calamitous event which will render the year 1871 memorable in the history of the State.


The great drouth of the Summer and Fall dried up the streams and swamps in Northern Wisconsin. In the forests, the fallen leaves and underbrush which covered the ground became very ignitable. The ground itself, especially in cases of alluvial or bottom lands, was so dry and parched as to burn readily to the depth of a foot or more. For many days preceding the com- mencement of the second week in October fires swept through the timbered country, and in some instances over prairies and " openings." Farmers, saw-mill owners, railroad men and all others interested in exposed property, labored day and night in contending against the advance of devouring fires, which were destroying, notwithstanding the ceaseless energies of the people, an occasional mill or house and sweeping off, here and there, fences, haystacks and barns. Over the counties lying upon Green bay and a portion of those contiguous thereto on the south, southwest and west, hung a general gloom. No rain came. All energies were exhausted from " fighting fire." The atmosphere was every where permeated with smoke. The waters of the bay and even Lake Michigan, in places, were so enveloped as to render navigation difficult and in some instances dangerous. It finally became very difficult to travel upon highways and on railroads. Time drew on-but there came no rain. The ground in very many places was burned over. Persons sought refuge-some in excavations in the earth, others in wells.




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