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Graham, a discontinued postoffice in Fond du Lac county
Graham Law, The .- See Civil Damage Law.
Grain and Warehouse Commission .- The legislature of 1905 created a grain and warehouse commission and provided for licens- ing and regulating warehouses and elevators and for the storage and inspection of grain in the city of Superior, and, conditionally, at other points.
Grand Marsh, a postoffice of 100 people in Adams county, 12 miles southeast of Friendship, the county seat.
Grand Rapids .- This is a city of 6,157 people and the county seat of Wood county. It is situated on the Wisconsin river and the C., M. & St. P., the C. & N. W., the G. B. & W. and the W. C. Rys. The river furnishes ample power for the many manufactur- ing industries of the city. There are three newspapers, the Wood County Reporter, the Wisconsin Valley Leader, and the Grand Rapids Tribune, and three banks.
Granger Legislation .- See Potter Law.
Granger Movement, The .- The Granger movement was organ-
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ized in Wisconsin in 1870. In the summer of 1871 the state Grange was organized at Plainfield, Waushara county. It languished for a year and all of the lodges suspended. In July, 1872, an at- tempt was made to revive the order, and so marked was its suc- cess that in the early part of 1874 there were 19,000 members en- rolled. In the spring of 1873 the political strength of the order was shown in local elections. At the general election in 1873 a com- bination of the Grange, the liquor interests and the democrats elected Wmn. R. Taylor, a prominent member of the Grange, gov- ernor of the state, together with a legislature favorable to the laws desired by the Grange.
Granite Heights, a post town of 100 people on the Wisconsin river and the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Marathon county, 8 miles north of Wausau, the county seat.
Grant County, in the southwestern corner of the state, re- ceived its name from a trapper. It is one of the territorial counties, having been organized in 1836. The soil is mostly clay along the Mississippi river, and a light sandy loam in the eastern half of the county. Grant county covers an area of 1,130 square miles and has a population (1905 census) of 39,629. Lancaster is the county seat.
Granton, a post village of 250 people on O'Neill creek and the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Clark county, 7 miles from Neillsville, the county seat. Contains a bank and supports a weekly newspaper, the Granton News.
Grant River rises and is wholly within Grant county. Flows southeast to join the Mississippi river at Potosi.
Grantsburg, an incorporated village of 705 inhabitants on the N. P. Ry. and the Wood river in Burnett county, of which it is the county seat. It contains a bank and supports two newspapers, the Journal and the Sentinel.
Granville, a post town of 65 people on the C. & N. W. and the C., M. & St. P. Rys., in Milwaukee county, 15 miles north of Mil- waukee, the county seat.
Gratiot, an incorporated village with a population of 337 on C., M. & St. P. Ry., in La Fayette county, 10 miles southeast of Dar-
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lington, the county seat. The Pecatonica river and Wolf creek flow through the village. Has a weekly newspaper, the Reporter, and a bank.
Gratiot, Henry, was a prominent figure in the early history of southwestern Wisconsin. He was born in St. Louis in 1789 and came to the lead district of Wisconsin in 1825. He came of French Huguenot stock. With his brother he established smelters at Shullsburg. He rendered conspicuous service during the Black Hawk war as a colonel. Gratiot was successful in dealing with the Winnebago Indians prior to the final outbreak of trouble with that tribe. His daughter became the wife of the Hon. E. B. Wash- burn, who became congressman, secretary of state, and U. S. min- ister to France. Gratiot died in Baltimore in 1836.
Gravesville, a discontinued postoffice in Calumet county.
Graytown, a country postoffice of Dunn county, 30 miles north- west of Menomonie, the county seat.
Great Seal, The .- The constitution makes it the duty of the leg- islature to provide a great seal, to be kept by the secretary of state, and that all official acts of the governor, except his approbation of laws, shall be thereby authenticated. The constitution and statutes have always provided that the secretary of state shall be the keeper of the great seal, and that it shall be affixed to all commis- sions and other official acts of the governor, except his approba- tion of the laws; and that a description thereof in writing shall be deposited in the secretary of state's office and remain a public rec- ord. A description of the present great seal was so deposited Dec. 29, 1851, and the seal has been used since without change; but there is no record of the legislature having adopted the seal. The one in use is said to have been adopted during the administration of Governor Dewey by resolution of the legislature, but no such resolution is of record. The great seal of the state consists of a metallic disk two and three eighths inches in diameter, containing wth an ornaimental border the following devices and legend: the coat of arms of the state (q. v.), above the arms, in a line parallel with the border, the words "Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin"; in the exergue in a curved line 13 stars.
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Greenback Movement, The .- As early as 1812 the greenback movement found a foothold in Wisconsin. In 1877 when Wm. E. Smith was nominated for governor by the republicans, a full green- back ticket, headed by Edw. P.Allis, was nominated. Even the republican platform was weak on the money question in its effort to conciliate the greenbackers. Horace Rublee, chairman of the republican central committee, supported by the republican candi- dates for governor and lieutenant governor,-Smith and Bingham,- called a mass meeting in Milwaukee to commit the party to a firmer position on the money question. The meeting was a success. Strong resolutions opposing the greenback movement were adopted. The republican ticket was elected that year and from that time the greenback movement waned in Wisconsin.
Green Bay .- This city, at the end of Green bay, is the county seat of Brown county. Its transportation facilities are as good as any in the state, the C., M. & St. P., the C. & N. W., the K., G. B. & W., the G. B. & W. and the Goodrich line of steamers all touch- ing Green Bay. There are four substantial banks and several news- papers, the leading ones being the Green Bay Gazette (daily and weekly), the Green Bay Advocate (daily and weekly), the Green Bay Review (rep. weekly) and the Landsman (German weekly). Green Bay is one of the oldest settlements in the state, its first peo- ple coming in 1668 to trade with the Indians and for missionary purposes. After the war of 1812 it became a U. S. garrison. It was chartered as a village in 1838 and as a city in 1854. Its pres- ent population is 22,854.
Greenbush, a post village of 215 people on the Mullet river in Sheboygan county, 20 miles west of Sheboygan, the county seat.
Green County, one of the territorial counties in the southern part of the state. It was named in honor of Gen. Nathaniel Green, the revolutionary hero. It was organized in 1836. The soil in the southern and eastern sections is a rich black loam; in the other parts it is a dark clayey loam. Green county covers an area of 376 square miles and has a population (1905 census) of 22,390. Mon- roe is the county scat.
Green Lake is a body of water giving the name to the county in
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which it lies, Green Lake county, Green Lake Siding is the near- est railroad station.
Green Lake County, in the south central portion of the state, is named after a lake within its borders. There are 360 square miles within it and it has a population of 15,838. The soil is a sandy loam in the western section and a prairie loam in the east- ern. The organization of the county was effected in 1859. Dart- ford is the county seat.
Greenleaf, a post village of 400 people on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Brown county, 16 miles south of Green Bay, the county seat.
Greenstreet, a discontinued postoffice in Manitowoc county.
Greenville, a post village on the C & N. W. Ry. in Outagamie county, 7 miles west of Appleton, the county seat. It has a popula- tion of 215 and was formerly known as Becker.
Greenwood, an incorporated city on the F. & N. E. Ry. and the W. C. Ry. and the Black river in Clark county, 16 miles north of Neillsville, the county seat. It contains a bank and a weekly news- paper, the Gleaner, and has a population of 687.
Gregor, a country postoffice of Kewaunce county, 15 miles north of Kewannee, the county seat.
Grellton, a discontinued postoffice in Jefferson county.
Gresham, a post town of 150 people in Shawano county, 121/2 miles northwest of Shawano, the county seat.
Griffin, a discontinued postoffice in Buffalo county.
Griffin, Michael, was born September 9, 1842, in Ireland. He came to Wisconsin in 1856; served through the war of secession ; member of the assembly in 1876; state senator in 1880 and 1881; elected as republican to the 53d congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Geo. B. Shaw and re-elected to the 54th and 55th congresses as a representative. Was made the head of the state tax commission in 1899 and died in 1900.
Grignon, Augustus, was grandson of the first white settler in Wisconsin, Charles de Langlade (q. v.). Ile was born at Green Bay, June 27, 1780, and died at Butte des Morts in 1860.
Grignon Family, The .- This family was noted in the early his- tory of the state. Pierre Grignon, the first member to settle in
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Wisconsin (at Green Bay), married a daughter of Charles de Lang- lade, the first white settler in the state. Augustus Grignon, a son, was born June 27, 1780. He became famous in the development of the Fox river valley, making his home at the present site of Kau- kauna. Augustus Grignon served in the Black Hawk war as a captain and in the war of 1812 as a lieutenant. He founded the town of Butte des Morts and built the first saw mill on the Fox river. His death occurred in 1860. A son, Robert Grignon, a fur trader, was the chief influence in naming the city of Oshkosh after the Indian chief of that name.
Grims, a postoffice of 50 people on the C. & N. W. Ry. in Manito- woc county, 14 miles west of Manitowoc, the county seat.
Grind Stone Lake is in Sawyer county. It is almost entirely within the Court Oreilles Indian reservation. Hayward is the nearest railroad station.
Croselliers, Medard Chourat Des .- This early French explorer came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1654 with Radisson (q. v.), his brother-in-law. In the spring of the following year these two went up the Fox river and it is thought by some historians that to them belongs the credit of first discovering the upper Mississippi, though it is difficult to tell exactly from the journal left by Radisson. In 1659 they built a fort on Chequamegon bay about midway between the present sites of Ashland and Washburn, and spent the winter hunting with the Hurons, around the headwaters of the Chippewa river. On their return to Quebec in 1660 their furs were con- fiscated because they were hunting without license and Groselliers went to Paris to get satisfaction. Receiving none he and Radisson offered their services to the English and because of their knowledge of the country were directly influential in the establishment of the Hudson Bay company. Groselliers died in London a few years later.
Guenther, Richard, was born in Potsdam, Prussia, November 30, 1845; came to the United States in 1866 and to Oshkosh, Wis., in 1867 ; was elected state treasurer in 1876 and re-elected in 1878. He was a republican member of the house of representatives in the 47th, 48th, 49th and 50th congresses from Wisconsin. During President
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Harrison's administration he was consul-general to Mexico and was made consul-general at Frankfort-on-the-Main by President Mc- Kinley.
Habeas Corpus, Writ of .- The state constitution (q. v.) declares that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety or welfare may require it. It was the refusal of the federal authori- ties to regard a writ of habeas corpus issuing from a state court in the Glover case which brought about the nullification decisions and acts (q. v.) in this state.
Hackley, a post village on the C. & N. W. Ry. and Big Twin lake in Vilas county, 17 miles northeast of Eagle River, the county seat. It has a population of 400.
Hadlock, a country postoffice of Adams county, 7 miles from Friendship, the county seat.
Hager City, a postoffice of 40 people on the C., B. & Q. Ry. in Pierce county, 12 miles south of Ellsworth, the county seat.
Halder, a country postoffice in Marathon county, 25 miles south- west of Wausau, the county seat.
Hale, a discontinued postoffice in Trempealeau.
Hales Corners, a post village of 350 population in Milwaukee county, 10 miles southwest of Milwaukee, the county seat. It is connected with Milwaukee by interurban trolley.
Half Moon Lake lies in Polk county, between Bone and Balsam lakes. St. Croix Falls is the nearest railroad station.
Hamburg, a post town of 200 inhabitants in Marathon county, 18 miles northwest of Wausau, the county seat.
Hamilton, a post village on the W. C. Ry. in Fond du Lac county, 51/2 miles south of Fond du Lac, the county seat. It was formerly called Ketcham. There are 100 people here.
Hamilton, Chas. S., was a Milwaukec man who rose to the rank of major general in the War of Secession. He was born in Oneida county, N. Y., in 1822, and graduated from West Point, where he was a classmate of U. S. Grant, in 1843. He served in the Mexican war and received a wound there. In 1861 he was appointed colonel
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of the 3d Wisconsin, and later made a brigadier general, and then in April, 1863, promoted to the rank or major general. He died in Milwaukee, April 4, 1991.
Hanchett, Luther, was born in Portage county, Ohio, October 25, 1825 ; came to Portage county, Wis., in 1849. He served as a state senator from his district from 1856 to 1860 and was elected as a re- publican member of the house of representatives in the 37th con- gress. He served until his death, which occurred in Madison, November 24, 1862.
Hancock, an incorporated village of 468 population on the W. C. Ry. in Waushara county, 15 miles northwest of Wautoma, the county seat. It has a bank and a weekly newspaper, the Hancock News.
Hannibal, a postoffice of 50 people at the junction of S., M. & P and the C., St. P., M. & O. Rys. in Taylor county, 20 miles north west of Medford, the county seat.
Hanover, a post village at the junction of the C., M. & St. P. and the C. & N. W. Rys. in Rock county, 10 miles southwest of Janes- ville, the county seat. It has a population of 150.
Hanson, a post town of 150 on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. and Hem- lock creek in Wood county, 11 miles west of Grand Rapids, the county seat.
Harnden, Henry, was the commander of the 1st Wisconsin cav- alry during the War of Secession, who rose from the rank of cap- tain to that of brigadier general. He assisted in the capture of Jef- ferson Davis in 1865. Ile was born in Wilmington, Mass .. March 4, 1823. He served for a time in the Mexican war and entered the union army at the first call for troops in 1861. He died in Madison March 17, 1900.
Harrisville, a post town of 100 people on the Montello river in Marquette county, 8 miles northwest of Montello, the county seat.
Harshaw, a post town of 35 people on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Oneida county, 16 miles northwest of Rhinelander, the county seat.
Hartford, a city in Washington county, 18 miles southwest of West Bend, the county seat. It is on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. and contains two banks and two weekly newspapers, the Times and the
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Press. It was first settled in 1844; was incorporated as a city in 1883 and has a population of 2,052.
Harvey, (Mrs.) Cordelia, was widow of Gov. Louis P. Harvey. After the death of her husband she became an army nurse, and . through her personal appeal to President Lincoln hospitals for sick and wounded soldiers were established in the northern states. She died early in 1895 and was buried in Forest Hill cemetery, Madison.
Harvey, Louis P., one of Wisconsin's war governors, was born in East Haddon, Conn., July 22, 1820, and came to Wisconsin in 18-10. He was elected successively state senator, secretary of state and governor. While governor, in 1842, after the battle of Shiloh, he repaired to the field with supplies for the relief of the Wisconsin wounded and sick soldiers. On his return from the battlefield he accidentally stepped from a flatboat at Pittsburg Landing into the swift current and was drowned, on April 19. His body was recov- cred May 3, and returned to Madison, where it was buried.
Hastings, Samuel D., a noted anti-slavery temperance advocate and public official in the early history of the state. He was born in Leicester, Mass.,.July 24, 1816. Ile was state treasurer four terms and member of the legislature two terms. He was for years head of the prohibition movement in Wisconsin and was grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance, and grand chief templar of the Independent Order of Good Templars. In the interests of the order he crossed the Atlantic six times and also spent 16 months lecturing and organizing in Australasia. He died in Evanston, Ill., March 26, 1903.
Haugen, Nils P., was born in Norway March 9, 1849, came to this country a few years later and to Wisconsin in 1854. In 1874 he was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan ; was a member of the assembly 1879-80; railroad commis- sioner 1882-1887; and as a republican was elected a member of the 50th, 51st, 52d and 53d congresses as a representative from Wis- consin. In 1901 was appointed a member of the state tax commis- sion.
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Hayes, a post village of 100 people in Oconto county, 35 miles northwest of Oconto, the county seat.
Hay River rises in Barron county and flows south into Dunn county, where it turns southeast and joins the Red Cedar river just below Carrollton.
Hayton, a post town of 200 inhabitants on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Calumet county, 21/2 miles southeast of Chilton, the county seat.
Hayward .- This city, the county seat of Sawyer county, is on the Namakagon river and the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry .; was settled in 1881. Its population of 2,500 supports two banks and two weekly newspapers, the Hayward Republican and the Sawyer County Record.
Hazel Green, an incorporated village with a population of 529 in Grant county, 32 miles southeast of Lancaster, the county seat. James Gates Percival, the poet and scientist, is buried in the ceme- tery.
Hazelhurst, a post village of 300 people at the junction of the C. & N. W. and the C., M. & St. P. Rys. in Oneida county, 26 miles northwest of Rhinelander, the county scat.
Hazelhurst Junction, a discontinued postoffice in Oncida county.
Hazelton, Gerry W., was born at Chester, N. HI., February 24, 1829, and came to Wisconsin in 1856. Was elected state senator in 1860; district attorney of Columbia county in 1864. He was a republican representative from Wisconsin in the 42d and 43d con- gresses.
Heafford, a discontinued postoffice in Lincoln county.
Health and Vital Statistics, State Board of .- This board consists of seven members whose terms of office (seven years or until their successors are appointed) begin the first Monday in February in the year of appointment. The appointments have been so arranged that the term of office of one member shall expire each year. Ap- pointments are made by the governor with the approval of the senate. The board has general supervision throughout the state of the interests of the health and life of citizens, inay make sani- tary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of diseases, especially epidemics, the causes of mortality, effects of localities,
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employments, conditions, habits, etc. The secretary of the board is the executive officer. The health physician and clerk of the board of health in every town, city and village shall each once each year report to the board, and shall make special reports when required.
Health Park Association, Wisconsin .- In 1901 a philanthropic body organized for the purpose of securing a park in the northern part of Wisconsin for the establishment of a free hospital for the treatment of victims of tuberculosis. It was superseded by the tuberculosis commission, a regularly organized state board.
Hebel, a country postoffice of Brown county, 13 miles southeast of Green Bay, the county seat.
Hebron, a discontinued postoffice in Jefferson county.
Ilegg, a postoffice of 38 people in Trempealeau county, 15 miles from Whitehall, the county seat.
Heineman, a post village of 300 population on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., in Lincoln county, 13 miles northeast of Merrill, the county seat. It was formerly called Trout.
Helbig, a country postoffice in Polk county, 19 miles northeast of Balsam Lake, the county seat ..
Helenville, a post village of 300 people on the C. & N. W. Ry., in Jefferson county, 6 miles east of Jefferson, the county seat.
Heller, a country postoffice in Lincoln county, 1212 miles north- east of Merrill, the county seat.
Hemlock Island lies in the Wisconsin river opposite Stevens Point. The Chippewa Indian name for Stevens Point is Hemlock Island. The island receives its name because of a heavy growth of hemlock, a rare tree in the vicinity.
Hempel, a discontinued postoffice in St. Croix county.
Hennepin, Louis, an early French Jesuit missionary to the Illi- nois Indians. Ite accompanied La Salle in his explorations across the western country in 1280. He was dispatched up the Mississippi river by La Salle and discovered the falls of St. Anthony.
Henni, John Martin .- The first archbishop of the Roman Catholic arch-diocese of Milwaukee, was born in Upper Saxony, Switzer- land, June 16, 1805. In 1830 he entered the priesthood and came to America. In 1813 he was made vicar general of the Sec of Mil-
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waukee and in 1875 was consecrated the first archbishop of the state. Ile died September 7, 1881.
Henrietta, a discontinued postoffice in Richland county.
Henry, William Arnon, dean of the college of agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, and author of "Feeds and Feeding," a handbook for students and stockinen. He was born in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1850; studied at Ohio Wesleyan and was graduated from Cornell in 1880. Ile came to Wisconsin the same year and has since been the virtual head of the agricultural department of the University of Wisconsin.
Henrysville, a postoffice of 35 people in Brown county, 14 miles southeast of Green Bay, the county seat.
Herbert, a discontinued postoffice in Pierce county.
Herbster, a country postoffice on the shore of Lake Superior in Bayfield county, 35 miles northwest of Washburn, the county seat.
Herman, a postoffice of 25 people in Dodge county, 16 miles east of Juneau, the county seat.
Hermansport, a discontinued postoffice in Shawano county.
Hersey, a post village on the C., St. P., M. & (). Ry. and the Eau Galle river in St. Croix county, 28 miles east of Iludson, the county seat. Its first settler came in 1870. It has a population of 300.
Hertel, a country postoffice in Burnett county, 35 miles west of Grantsburg, the county seat.
Hewitt, a post village on the W. C. Ry, in Wood county, with a population of 300. It is 28 miles northwest of Grand Rapids, the county seat.
Hickory, a postoffice in Oconto county, 28 miles northwest of Oconto, the county seat.
Hicks, John, was born April 12, 1847, in Auburn, N. Y .; came to Oshkosh about 1855, and graduated later from Lawrence Univer- sity. Hle served as minister to Peru during President Harrison's administration. In 1903 he was appointed minister to Chili by President Roosevelt. For many years he has been owner and ed- itor-in-chief of the Oshkosh Northwestern.
High Bridge, a post village ou the W. C. Ry. in Ashland county,
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18 miles southeast of Ashland, the county seat. It was formerly called Silver Creek, and has a population of 300.
Highcliff, a post town of 250 inhabitants on Lake Winnebago in Calumet county, 15 miles northwest of Chilton, the county seat.
Highland, an incorporated village with a population of 919 on the M., P. & N. R. R. in Iowa county, 20 miles northwest of Dodge- ville, the county seat. It supports a weekly newspaper, the High- land Weekly Press, and contains a bank.
High Schools, Free .- See Common Schools.
Hika, a post village of 300 population on Centerville Creek and the C. & N. W. Ry. in Manitowoc county, 14 miles south of Mani- towoc, the county seat. Is also called Centerville.
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