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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

State Historical Society of Wisconsin

AT ITS

FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING

Held October 15, 1905 /

MADISON

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Contents

Officers, 1903-190i ....
Committees .....
Library Service ....

Proceedings of Fifty-first Annual Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting, Oct. 15, 1903

Page
5
6
7
9
13

Appendix

Report of Executive Committee:

Summary ....

Death of Edwin Eustace Bryant

Financial condition:

The new fiscal year

State appropriations

. 20

Binding fund

. 21

Antiquarian fund

Draper fund

Mary M. Adams art fund

. 22

Library accessions:

Statistical

Important accessions

Library:

Resignation of Miss Baker

Legislative reference library

Crowded conditions

. 27

Catalogue division

Extension of Saturday hours

Binding .

Publications:

Reprint of the early Collections

Proceedings

. 31

Contents

A. Report of Executive Committee — continued Page

OflBce work:

Professional conventions . . , . .31

Other Wisconsin libraries . . . .32

Representation at St. Louis ... .33

Museum:

A Factor in Popular Education . . , .34

Collection of Pueblo pottery .... 35
Painting of Braddock's defeat .... 36
Removal of Old Abe . . . . .36

Legislation ....... 36

B. Report of Finance Committee . . . . .38

C. Report of Treasurer (with report of Auditing Committee) . 40

D. Fiscal Report of Secretary . . . . .44

E. Givers of Books and Pamphlets . . . .49

F. Miscellaneous Gifts . . . . .70

G. Periodicals and Newspapers Currently Received . . 76
H. Wisconsin Necrology, Ten Months Ending Sept. 30, 1903 . 93
I. Historical Papers —

Co-operative Communities in Wisconsin, by Montgomery

E. Mcintosh ...... 99

Early Wisconsin Imprints, by Henry B. Legler . . 118

Illustrations

Page
Braddock's Defeat. From oil painting by Edwin Wiliard Dom-
ing ........ Frontispiece

McCormick Collection of Pueblo Pottery . . .34

Title-page of first booklet printed in Wisconsin Territory . . 118

Title-page of first novel printed in Wisconsin . . . ISO

Page of first newspaper published in Wisconsin (1 833) . . 122

First printing office in Wisconsin (1833) . . . .123

Old printing press, used in Wisconsin Territory . . . 124

Page of first newspaper published at Madison (1838) . . 126

Title-page of first volume of verse issued in Wisconsin . . 128

Officers of the Society, 1903-04

President

HON. ROBERT L. McCORMICK

Hayward

Vice Presidents

HON. JOHN B. CASSODAY
HON. LUCIUS C. COLMAN
HON. EMIL BAENSCH
HON. JAMES SUTHERLAND
HON. WILLIAM F. VILAS
WILLIAM W. WIGHT, LL. D.

Madisou

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Manitowoc

Janesvillk

Madison
Milwaukee

Secretary and Superintendent

REUBEN G. THWAITES

Madison

Treasurer

LUCIEN S. HANKS

Madison

Librarian and Asst. Superintendent

ISAAC S. BRADLEY .... Madison

Curators, Ex-Officio

HON. ROBERT M. LaFOLLETTE
HON. WALTER L. HOUSER
HON. JOHN J. KEMPF

Governor

Secretary of State

State Treasurer

Curators, Elective
iTerm expires at annual meeting in 1904

HON. ROBERT M. BASHFORD
HON. JOHN B. CASSODAY

WILLIAM A. P. MORRIS, A. B.
HON. ROBERT G. SIEBECKER

JAIRUS H. CARPENTER, LL. D. HON. BREESE J. STEVENS*

HON. LUCIUS C. COLMAN
HON. HENRY E. LEGLER
DANA C. MUNRO, A. M.

HERBERT B. TANNER, M. D.
FREDERICK J. TURNER, Ph. D.
CHARLES R. VAN HISE, LL. D.

* Died October 28, 1903.

6 Officers of the Society, 1903-04

Term expires at annual meeting in 1 905

RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL. D. HON. BURR W. JONES
HON. EMIL BAENSCH HON. JOHN LUCHSINGER
CHARLES N. BROWN, LL. B. MOST REV. S. G. MESSMER
HON. GEO. B. BURROWS J. HOWARD PALMER, Esq.
FREDERIC K. CONOVER, LL. B. JOHN B. PARKINSON, A. M.
HON. ALFRED A. JACKSON HON. N. B. VAN SLYKE

Term expires at annual meeting in 1906

WILLIAM K. COFFIN, Esq. ARTHUR L. SANBORN, LL. B.

HON. LUCIEN S. HANKS HON. HALLE STEENSLAND

HON. JOHN JOHNSTON HON. E. RAY STEVENS

REV. PATRICK B. KNOX HON. JAMES SUTHERLAND

HON. ROBERT L. McCORMICK HON. WILLIAM F. VILAS

HON. GEORGE RAYMER WILLIAM W. WIGHT, LL. D.

Executive Committee

The thirty-six curators, the secretary, the Hbrarian, the gov-
ernor, the secretary of state, and the state treasurer, constitute
the executive committee.

Standing committees (of executive committee)

Library — Turner (chairman), Raymer, Munro, Legler, and the Secretary

(ex-officio).
Art Oallery and Museum — Brown (chairman), Knox, Hanks, and the

Secretary (ex-officio).
Printing and Publication— Conower (chairman). Turner, Wight, Munro,

and the Secretary (ex-officio).
Finance— Yan Slyke (chairman), Morris, Burrows, Palmer, and Steens-

land.
Advisory Committee (ex-officio) — Turner, Brown, Conover, and Van

Slyke.

Special committees (of tlie society J

Auditing — C. N. Brown (chairman), A. B. Morris, and E. B. Steensland.
Biennial Address, 2905- Thwaites (chairman), Van Hise, Turner, Munro,

and Parkinson.
Field Meetings — TarnQT (chau-man), Wight, Jackson, Legler, and

Thwaites.
Belations with State University— Thwaites (chairman), Hanks, Bur.

rows, Morris, and Raymer.

Library Service

Secretary and Superintendent

Reuben Gold Thwaites

Librarian and Assistant Superintendent

Isaac Samuel Bradley

Assistant Librarian

Minnie Myrtle Oakley
(Chief Cataloguer)

Library Assistants

[In order of seniority of service]

Emma Alethea Hawley
Annie Amelia Nunns
Mary Stuart Foster
IvA Alice Welsh
Clarence Scott Hean
Eve Parkinson
Louise Phelps Kellogg
Anna Jacobsen
Leora Esther Mabbett
Edna Couper Adams
Daisy Girdham Beecroft
Elizabeth Goffe Ticknor
Elizabeth Bennett Mills

— Public Documents Division
— Superintendent's Secretary
— Heading Room and Stack
— Accession Division
— Newspaper Division
— Shelf Division
— Editorial Assistant
— Catalogue Division
— Periodical Division
—Reading Room and Stack
— SuperintendenVs Clerk
— Maps and MSS. Division
—Periodical Division

Arthur J. Clark
Katherinb Cramer
William E. Grove
Frances S. C. Jambs
Chase W. Kelley

Student Assistants

[In alphabetical order]

— Catalogue Division

—Catalogue Division

— Reading Room and Stack

— Catalogue Division

— Periodical Division,

Library Service

Care Takers

Everett Westbury
Magnus Nelson
Ceylon Childs Lincoln
Bennie Butts
Emma Ledwith

TiLLIE GUNKEL, AlMA KeULING,

Minna Luedtke, Caroline

Sather, Edna Teude
Charles Kehoe
Donley Davenport

Engineer and Head Janitor
Assistant Engineer and Janitor
-Musenm Attendant and Janitor
Messenger and Office Janitor
Housekeeper

Housemaids

- Night Engineer { Winter)
Elevator Attendant

Library Open — Daily, except Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and Uni-
versity vacations: 8 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Saturdays: 8 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Holidays and University vacations: as per special announcements.

Museum Open — Daily, except Sundays and holidays: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Holidays: as per special announcements.

Fifty-First Annual Meeting'

Tlie fifty-first annual meeting of Tlie State Historical Society
of Wisconsin was held in the lecture room of the State Histor-
ical Library Building, at Madison, upon Thursday evening,
October 15, 1903.

President's Address

President McCormick, upon taking the chair, spoke as fol-
lows:

Members of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: It is with
sincere pleasure that I meet with you upon this the fifty-first annual
meeting of our society. Throughout the ten months which have elapsed
since our last meeting — for this is our first conference under the new
constitutional amendment changing the date from December to October
— we have made our usual progress. In looking over the advance sheets
of the report of our superintendent, which will soon be presented to
you, I find that while nothing of a sensational character has happened
within these walls during the ten months, the prosperity of the institu-
tion has been maintained at its customary high level.

The library, which is our greatest pride, has had very nearly as largo
a growth within these ten months as during any full-year period in its
history. Had the reporting period been the usual twelve months, we
should have been able to report by far the largest number of accessions
thus far recorded in any one year. The library at the present date has
reached the quarter-million mark, and is making rapid strides.

Not only is our great collection rapidly becoming greater as to num-
bers, but its relative status among the great libraries of America is now
steadily improving. Our close association with the university library,
under the same roof, enables both to differentiate as to purchases, thus
preventing duplication and enabling both to concentrate their funds on
definite lines of acquisition. No longer compelled to maintain an all-

iThe report of proceedings here published, is condensed from the
official MS. records of the society. — Sec.

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around scholars' library, this plan of differentiation has already led to
marked improvement in our collections of Americana, British history,
general geography and travel, biography, and kindred branches.

I find that with the growth of the library comes, each year, a marked
advance in the number of its users. Not only does the building itself
often contain several hundreds of readers, from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m.; but
throughout the state and the entire West large numbers of persons are
materially assisted by correspondence; and whenever practicable, loans
of books are freely made to the other libraries of the commonwealth, for
the use of local investigators. A large share of the routine business
of the superintendent's office consists of help to correspondents, many
of whom live in far-distant states. It has been a gratification to me to
note the widely-dispersed calls for information obtainable from our
Draper manuscript collection, which is a veritable storehouse of facts
concerning the trans-Alleghany country during its earlier period of set-
tlement in the eighteenth century.

My oflBcial connection with the institution has caused me within the
past year more carefully than hitherto to examine into its workings,
especially in comparison with other institutions of like character. I have
in the course of my investigations, become satisfied that no library west
of the Atlantic seaboard is to so large an extent a centre of the book-
making profession. Our state university contains an unusually large,
number of men who are engaged in the writing of books; and many
others gather here, whose names appear frequently in publishers' an-
nouncements. The library is, naturally, the centre of this work, which
is carried on in so many fields of research. I have been much struck
with the important part which this library plays in the book-lists of the
day.

The growing popularity of the museum is also a matter for general
congratulation. In examining the records of attendance, I was much
impressed with the fact that visitors come to these halls from a wide
belt of country. Within the past ten months, probably 60,000 people vis-
ited the museum, and all appeared to be greatly interested in our vari-
ous collections. It is unfortunate that we have not more and larger
special funds for the development .of this important branch of our work;
nevertheless, I think that the most cursory examination of the rooms
will discover many new and valuable accessions within the year.

Already the library building is becoming crowded. This is a natural
and proper result of our continuous and cumulative prosperity. We
certainly need the north wing just as soon as the legislature can be
induced to grant the appropriation therefor. There were many good
reasons why it was not considered advisable to apply for it last winter;
but at the next session we should allow nothing to stand in the way.

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The extension is already a crying necessity, and the legislators of 1905
will surely feel convinced that the building should no longer be delayed.
I beg again most heartily to congratulate the society on its excellent
work, so modestly yet so efficiently and strenuously conducted. Wher-
ever I travel throughout the United States I meet with enthusiastic com-
ments among historians and librarians upon the record and the progress
of the Wisconsin Historical Society, whose work is intimately known
among them all. I hope that it may always remain a shining light
among the learned bodies of the world. It is a proud distinction, in-
deed, to preside over the annual deliberations of this governing body
and to listen to the reports of those gentlemen who serve as the stew-
ards of this splendid public trust.

Executive Cominittee*s Report

The secretary, in behalf of the executive oominittee, presented
its annual report, which was adopted. [See Appendix A.]

Financial Reports

Chairman X. B. Van Slyke, of the committee of finance, pre-
sented the report of that committee, approving the report of
Treasurer Hanks for tlie year ending June 30, 1903 ; and read
the report of the auditing committee (Chairman C. 'N. Brown)
upon the treasurer's accounts. These reports were adopted,
and tJie committee was discharged. [See Appendixes B and
0.1

The secretary presented his fiscal report for the year ending
June 30, 1903, the same having been audited by the secr^ary
of state and warrants paid by the state treasurer. [See Ap-
pendix D.]

Curators Elected

Messrs. George B. Burrows, F. J. Turner, H. E. Legler, J.
B. Parkinson, and J. M, Winterbotham were appointed a com-
mittee on tlie nomination of curators — one to fill a vacan<5y, and
twelve to serve for the ensuing term of three years — and re-
ported in favor of the following, who were unanimously elected :

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For term expiring at annual meeting in 1904

Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, of Madison, to succeed Gen. Edwin B.
Bryant, deceased.

For term expiring at annual meeting in 1906

William K. Coffin, of Eau Claire; Hon. Robert Laird McCormick, of
Hayward; Hon. James Sutherland, of Janesville; Dr. John Johnston,
and Dr. William W. Wight, of Milwaukee; Hon. Lucien S. Hanks, Rer.
Patrick B. Knox, Hon. George Raymer, Arthur L. Sanborn, Hon. Halle
Steensland, Hon. E. Ray Stevens, and Hon. William F. Vilas, of
Madison.

Historical Papers

Tlhe following historical papers were presented to the so<3iet7,
and ordered published in the Proceedings:

Co-operative Communities in Wisconsin, by Montgomery Eduard Mc-
intosh.

Early Wisconsin Imprints: a Preliminary Essay, by Henry Eduard
Legler.

The meeting thereupon stood adjourned.

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Executive Committee Meeting

The annual meeting of the executive committee was held at
the close of the society meeting, October 15, 1903.
President MoCormick took the chair.

Election of New Members

The following new members were unanimously elected :

Life

Madison — Selwyn A. Brant.

Milwaukee— Henry C. Campbell, Grant Fitch, Robert N. McMynn.

Mukwonago — Laurel E. Youmans.

Annual

Beloit—J. C. Rood.

Janesville — David At wood, Francis C. Grant.
Madison— Slater M. Alicia, Charles McCarthy, U. B. Phillips.
Milwaukee — William H. Beach, George C. Copeland, Nelson P. Hulst,
L. H. Morehouse, Carl E. Pray, C. B. Bergin Wright.
Platteville — J. A. Wilgus.
Sinsinawa — Sister M. Alexius.
Stevens Point — Albert H. Sanford.
Waukesha — Theron Wilbur Haight.
Eugene, Oregon — Joseph Schafer.

Amendments to By-L.aws

The following amendments to the by-laws were adopited :

Amend section 16 by inserting in the fourth line, after the words
"bond and mortgage," the words "or the assignment thereof;" also, by

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striking out from the seventh and eighth lines, the words "which ap-
plication shall be approved by a majority vote of the finance commit-
tee."

Mary M. Adams Art Fund

In accordance with the suggestion made by the finance com-
mittee, said committee was authorized to confer with the regents
of the state university in regard to the settlement of the out-
standing claim against the estate of the late M!r&. Mary M.
Adams ; said committee being authorized, if deeming such a
course desirable, to pay the society's proportion of said claims,
as one of the beneficiaries of the will, to an amount not to exceed
$250, the same to be taken from the Mary M. Adams art fund-
Publication by Sons of American Revolution

Vice-President Wight made the following announcement:

The Sons of the American Revolution, Wisconsin Society, offers to
publish for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin such MSS. be-
longing to the latter society as would be appropriate for the former so-
ciety to assist in circulating; it being understood that the Historical
Society should edit the publication and that the expense to the Sons
of the American Revolution should not exceed $500.

Tlie following resolution, offered by Mr. Legler, was unani-
mously adopted :

Resolved, That the secretary be requested to convey to the Wisconsin
Society, Sons of American Revolution, the Wisconsin Historical Soci-
ety's grateful appreciation of the generous offer made through Mr.
William Ward Wight, to supply the funds for the publication of a book
iinder the direction of this Society.

The meeting thereupon stood adjourned.

Appendix

A. Report of EiXecutive Committee

B. Report of Finance Committee

C. Report of Treasurer

D. Fiscal Report of Secretary

E» Givers of Books and Pamphlets

F. Miscellaneous Gifts

G. Periodicals and ]!^ewspapers Currently Received

H. Wisconsin Necrology^ ten months ending Sept. 30,
1903

I. Historical Papers —

Co-operative Coimnunities in Wisconsin, by Montgomery

Eduard Mcintosh
Early Wisconsin Imprints: a Preliminary Essay, by

Henry Eduard Legler.

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Executive Committee's Report

(Sumbitted to the society at the fifty-first annual meeting,
October 15, 1903.)

Summary

Owing to the change in the constitution and by-laws, made at
the annual meeting in December last, the present meeting is held
two months earlier than usual ; the period upon which, to report
progress is thus reduced this year to ten months, instead of
twelve. Th.e fiscal report* are for the full year ending June
30 ; but the general reports upon the activities of the society are
for the ten months ending Septemiber 30.

This period has been free from developments of a sensational
character. Our institution has, however, made the customary
gro^vth and was never in a more healthful condition than now.
Tbe library accessions during the ten months have been equal
in number to those of the preceding full year; and accessions
during the first half of October, not included in the report, bring
up the present library strength to mthin a few hundreds of a
quarter of a million titles.

Increased hours of service, extensive additions to our shelving
capacity, a crowded condition in our stacks, and the recognition,
of the necessity of speedy relief in the construction of the pro-
jected north wing, are the most striking features of the past
year's history from the library point of view. The museum
has received some important gifts, and the crowd of visitors
has been larger than ever before.

Tbe conclusion of the legislature of 1903 to order a reprint
of the first ten Tolumes of the Wisconsin Historical Collections,

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now scarce but in much demand, was in response to the request
of the pfublic libraries and teachers of the state. Vols, i and ii
will be issued during the coming winter. A much-needed index
to the Proceedings, up to and including the year 1900, will also
soon issue from the press; and vol. xvii of the Collections will
doubtless appear next spring.

Death of Edwin Eustace Bryant

Since our last annual meeting the body of curators has been
depleted by the loss from death of Gen. Edwin Eustace Bryant.
Bom in Milton, Chittenden county, Vermont, January 10, 1835,
the son of a clergyman, he was educated at the N'ew Hampshire
Institute, and for a time taught school in his native state. When
t^venty-two years of age (1857) he removed to Janesville, Wis-
consin, being admitted to the Rock county bar in the autumn of
that year. Later, he settled in Monroe, where he practiced both
law and journalism — in the latter business, being associated
with James Bintliif of the Monroe Sentinel. Upon the outbreak
of the War of Secession, Mr. Bryant declined a proffered com-
mission and enlisted as a private in C company, 3rd Wisconsin
infantry, one of the most famous of the Wisconsin regiments.
The future historian of the regiment was promoted to be ser-
geant major before leaving for the front. Soon he became a
lieutenant, and in 1862 was regimental adjutant under CoL
Thomas H. Ruger. After serving in all the important battles
from 1861 to 1863, including Antietam, Chancellorsville, and
Grettysburg, he was in July, 1864, appointed by the secretary
of war as commissioner of enrollment for the Third district of
Wisconsin. But in February, 1865, he was commissioned as
lieutenant-colonel of the 50th Wisconsin, and for a year served
as such in Missouri, much of this time being judge advocate at
department headquarters.

Colonel Bryant returned to Monroe in 1866, and there prac-
ticed law until 1868, when Gen. Lucius Fairchild brought him
tx) Madison as his private secretary, also to serve as adjutant
general of the state; and in Madison he thereafter resided until
his death. Upon the conclusion of Fairchild's administration,

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General Biryant entered into a law partnership with Col. Will-
iam F. Vilas, with whom he remained until 1883. During this
period, he held several public positions of importance; in 1872,
in conjunction with Mr. Vilas, both of them appointed to the
task by the justices of the state supreme court, he revised and
annotated eighteen volumes of the Wisconsin reports, anxi he per-
sonally reported vol. 37 ; from 1876-1882, he again served as
adjutant general ; and in 1878 he was a member of the assembly,
being chairman of the joint committee on the revision of the
statutes. From 1884 to 1888, General Bryant lived in Wash-
ington, D. O., where he held the position of assistant attorney
general for the postofFice department. In 1889 he received the
appointment of dean of the College of Law in the University
of Wisconsin, a position held until his voluntary resignation in
June, 1903, a few weeks before his death. From 1893 until
his death, he was a member of the State Fishery Commission,
and long served as its pi'esident; he was, by virtue of this con-
nection, a member of the Board of Commissioners of the State
Geological and Natural History Surv^ey, of which he was also
president.

In addition to the performance of these manifold obligations
to his profession and the public. General Bryant was not only
a public speaker of much power and rare wit, but published
many books and articles. We have alluded to his work on the
supreme court reports and the Wisconsin statutes. In 1869,
in connection with John C. Spooner, he published an edition of
town laws, with forms and instructions. While in the postoffice
department he prepared several manuals for the guidance of in-
spectors and other employees, wrote opinions for postal maga-
zines, and edited the Postal Guide. Among his numerous law
books are The Wisconsin Justice (1884), Code Pleading
(1894), Code Practice in Wisconsin (1894), and Ajinotated
Constitution of the United States, and Summary of the Law of
Taxation in Wisconsin (1897) ; his History of the Third Wis-
consin Regiment (1891) was an eloquent tribute to the services
of his war comrades ; while numerous pamphlets and important
newspaper and magazine articles flowed from his fertile and

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busy pen — among the latter contributions being a history of the
f»tat^ supreme court, in the Green Bag (1897).

General Brs^ant had, late in August of the present year, been
at Woods HoU, Kassaohusetts, in attendance on the annual
meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Upon his return he
visited at his ancestral home in Vermont. Tliere suddenly be-
coming ill, he sent for his son. Dr. William V. Bryant, of Madi-
son. Upon the arrival of the latter, it was decided to at once
take the i>atient home. On the morning of August 11, the gen-
eral unexpectedly died in a sleeping car upon the Grand Trunk
Railv/ay, while nearing Toronto from Montreal. Besides his
widow (nee Louisa S. Boynton, of Monroe, Wisconsin), to whom
he was mairied in 1859, he left four children — three married
daughters, and his son.

General Bryant will long be remembered for his distinguished
])ubli(i services, both civil and military, his numerous and able
contributions to the literature of his profession, and his high
attainments as a public speaker. Among his neighbors and
friends — and all who knew him were in the latter category — the
high value of his public career was fully recognized ; but they
loved iDest to think of him in his private capacity — that of a
generous, warm-hearted, sympathetic man, catholic in the di-
versity of his interests, a wit whose shafts were levelled at no
man's susceptibilities, a genial host, a lovable companion whether
in town or wilderness, and one whose soul was attuned to the
charms of forest and stream. There are among us so few men
of this kindly type, that the departure of one of them is a public
calamity.

Financial Condition
New Fiscal Year

At the last annual meeting of the society (in December, 1902),
the constitution and by-laws were amended so as to make the
societ^'^s fiscal year accord with that of the state and of the state
university — closing June 30th; and to provide for the annual
meeting of the society upon the third Thursday in October,
which is the earliest date thereafter upon which it is practicable

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to assemble the society. The present is the first meeting under
the new inile. The fiscal reports to he presented to the meeting
will therefore he for the twelve months closing June 30 last.
The statistical reports of the society's activities — library growth,
miscellaneous accessions, etc. — ^will, however, be for the t^en
months closing September 30. It was thoufi'ht best, for obvious
reasons, to bring up the date of these reports to a point as near
as possible to the time of the annual meeting. Hereafter, they
will be for the full year ending September 30.

State Appropriations

Our accounts based upon state appropriations are now regu-
larly audited by the secretary of state, and claims thereon paid
by the state treasurer, in the same manner as other state depart-
ments.

The state now directly appropriates to the society $20,000
annually — $15,000 under chapter 296, laws of 1899, for the
miscellaneous expenses of the society; and $5,000 under chap-
ter 155, laws of 1901, exclusively for books, maps, manuscripts,
etc, for the library. The condition of these two funds upon the
thirtieth of June, 1903, was as follows:

Chapter 296, Laws of 1899

Receipts

Unexpended balance in state treasury, July 1, 1902 . . $10,283 43
State appropriation for calendar year, 1903 . . . 15,000 00

Total $25,283 43

Disbursements, Year Ending June 30, 1903

Administration of the Society

Services ?8,030 58

Supplies and equipment ..... 156 41

Books 2,032 51

Freight and drayage 172 42

Travel 281 20

Miscellaneous ....... 1 87

$10,674 9»

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Administration of the Building

Services ?3,496 31

Supplies 336 87

Light and powen . . . . . . 393 80

Telephones 84 20

Equipment 1,204 71

Repairs 237 52

$5,753 41

$16,428 40
Unexpended balance in state treasury, July 1, 1903 . . 8,855 03

$25,283 43

Chapteb 155, Laws of 1901

Receipts

Unexpended balance, July 1, 1902

$4,492 27

State appropriation for calendar year, 1903

5,000 00

•

$9,492 27

Disbursements

Books and periodicals |4,484 82

Maps and MSS 32 27

Pictures 137 35

$4,654 44

Unexpended balance in state treasury, July 1, 1903 .

4,837 83

$9,492 27

The fiscal report of the secretary and superintendent gives
the details of the foregoing expenditures, which have in due
course been audited and allowed by the secretary of state.

The Binding Fund

consisting upon the first of last July of $27,802.60 in cash and
securities, is the product of special gifts, one-half of the mem-

1 After November, 1902, the state university supplied electric light
and power, under its contract with the Madison Gas and Electric Co.

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bership dues and receipts from the sale of duplicates, and the
interest on loans. Owing to expenses for improvemjents upon the
society's property in St. Paul, carried by this fund, there was
no increase within the year.

The Antiquarian Fund

is the product of interest on loans, one-half of the membership
dues and receipts from the sale of duplicates, and special gifts.
The treasurer's report for July first shows that it then consisted
of $5,574.20, a net gain during the year of $700.64. The in-
come of this fund, when it assumes larger proportions, is to be
expended in "prosecuting historical investigations, and procur-
ing desirable objects of historic or ethnological interest" for the
museum.

The Draper Fund

now amounts to $8,525.32, an increase during the year of $2,-
476.59, chiefly obtained from the sales of duplicates from Dr.
Draper's private library, which was willed to the society. It
is probable that this source may yet yield $1,500 more, thus
making the fund about $10,000. Upon reaching that figure,
its income should thenceforth be available for the purposes set
forth in the by-laws establishing the same — "indexing the
Draper collection of manuscripts, and purchasing or otherwise
securing for the society's library additional manuscripts and
printed material touching upon the history of the settlement of
the Middle West." The cost of calendaring the Draper manu-
scripts has so far been charged to the state appropriation; no
part of the income of the Draper fund having thus far been ex-
pended.

The Mary M. Adams Art Fund

now amounts to $4,297.36, an increase within the year of
$182.56. The interest accruing from the fimd is to be expended
by the society for the purchase of art books for the library or
objects of art for the museum, as may from time to time be

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thought desirable, ^o portion of the income lias been ex-
pended within the year ; the few nmseum purchases of this char-
acter having been carried by the state appropriation.

Library Accessions
Statistical

Following is a smnmary of library accessions during the t»D
months ending September 30, 1903 :
Books purchased (including exchanges)
Books by gift

Total books .....
Pamphlets by gift .....
Pamphlets on exchange and by purchase
Pamphlets made from newspaper clippings

Total pamphlets

Total accessions of titles

3,620
2,448

3,758
626
132

6,068

4,516
10,584

Present (estimated) strength of the library:

Books 126,567

Pamphlets '. . 121,473

Total 248,040

The year's book accessions are classified as follows:
Cyclopaedias .........

Newspapers and periodicals ......

Philosophy and religion .......

Biography and genealogy ......

History — general

History — foreign ........

History — American ........

History— local (U. S.)

Geography and travel .......

Political and social science ......

Legislation

Natural science ........

Useful arts . . .

British Patent Office Reports

Fine arts

Language and literature

Bibliography .........

Total

946

149

265

449

216

276

318

188

2,632

141

165

6.068

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The following are comparative statistics of gifts and pur-
chases:

1902 1903^

Total accessions of titles 10,510 10,584

Percentage of gifts, in accessions .... 73 60

Percentage of purchases (including exchanges), in ac-
cessions ........ 27 40

Total gifts (including duplicates, which are not acces-
sioned) 10,764 9,752

Books given 4,449 3,632

Pamphlets given 6,315 6,120

Percentage of gifts that were duplicates ... 28 33

Percentage of gifts that were accessions ... 72 67

Despite the fact that our reporting period covers but ten
months, our accessions for 1903 have surpassed those of the
previous twelve montlis. Following are the aoceissious for the
past ten years: 1894, 7,273 titles; 1895, 6,975; 1896, 9,002;
1897, 8,663; 1898, 6,960; 1899, 7,727; 1900, 8,983; 1901,
11,340; 1902, 10,510; 1903, 10,584. An examination of the
foregoing table will show that our percentage of purchases has
advanced from 27 to 40. The efforts of the American library
Association to secure from the American Publishers' Associar
tion a larger discount than the ten per cent stipulated in the
1901 agreement of the latter, have thus far proved futile. It
has happened, however, that a large share of our purchases, this
year, have been in the classes of books not touched by the pub-
lishers' net-rate agreement.

Important Accessions

Following are a few of the most important books received
during the year :

Acts of the parliaments of Scotland. London, 1814-24. lOv.

Astley, Thomas. New collection of voyages and travels. London, 1745-

47. 4v.
Book prices current. London, 1887-1902. 17v.
Castelnau, Francis de. Expedition dans . . . TAmerique du Sud.

Paris, 1850-57. 12v.

iThe statistics for 1903 cover only ten months, owing to the change
In time of holding the annual meeting.

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Codex Vaticanus, No. 3773. Berlin, 1902-03. 2v.

Coleccion de documentos ineditos . . . America y Oceania. Mad-
rid, 1864-84. 42v.

Deutschen Shakespeare gesellschaft, jahrbuch. Berlin, 1865-1902. S8v.

Dugdale, William. Monasticon Anglicanum. London, 1849. 8v.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, new volumes. London, 1902. llv.

Evans, Clement A. (ed.). Confederate military history. Atlanta, 1899.
13v.

Great Britain— house of commons journals, 1761-1901, 138v.; parlia-
mentary register, 1781-1804, 66v.; reports, accounts, and miscel-
laneous papers, 1894-1902, 496v.; liouse of lords journals, 1894-
1901, llv.

Great Britain — Navy Record Society Publications. London, 1894-1900.
19v.

Huguenot Society of London, publications. London, 1888-1901. 15v.

Indiana Territory — acts, 1813; laws, 1817-25, 5v.; convention journal,
1816; convention journal, 1850.

Le Keux, John. Memorials of Oxford and Cambridge. London, 1837-
47. 5v.

Leland, John. Antiquarii Collectanea. London, 1770. 6v.

Leland, John. Itinerary. Oxford, 1769-70. 3v.

London Topographical Society, publications. 1901-02.

NijhofC, I. A. Bijdragen voor vaterlandsche geschiendenis. Amheim,
1836-1902. 32v.

Ohio— acts, 1803-31. lOv.

Phillips, Richard. General collection of voyages and travels. London,
1810. 28v.

South Carolina — statutes at large, 1837-41. 9v.

Surtees Society, publications. London, 1835-1902. lOlv.

Sussex archaeological collections. London, 1848-90. 39v.

Utrecht — historisch genootschap, bijdragen en mededeelingen, 1878-
1901, 22v.; kronijk, 1847-76, 30v.; werken, 1864-98, 72v.

Following are a few of the most important periodicals and
newspaper files added during the year:

American Gazette (London), 1770.

Baltimore Sun, 1862-63.

Baltimore Whig, 1809-10. 2v.

Columbian Star (Washington, D. C), 1822-23. 2>

Gentlemen's Magazine (London), 1889-1901. 42v.

L'Opinion Publique (Montreal), 1870-83. 14v.

Oneida (N. Y.) Circular, 1851-76. 25v.

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Publishers' Circular (London), 1837-96. 64v.
Sacramento (Calif.) Daily Union, 1854-70. 30v.
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, 1855-91. 74v.
Washington Weekly Chronicle, 1828-30.

The Library
Resignation of Miss Baker

The retirement from our service, at the close of last July, of
Miss Florence Elizabeth BaJ^er, is a distinct loss to the library
staff. For eleven years Miss Biaker was in charge of the read-
ing room, the period of her administration of this important di-
vision being that of the library's largest material growth, and
the most rapid development of its activities. Thousands of
university students, noAV residing in all parts of the country,
have been the beneficiaries of her kindly helpfulness in their re^
search work within our library. Her intimate knowledge of
the resources of the institution, her ever active desire to render
these accessible to all comers, her imiform sweetness of temper
and ready wit, have long endeared her both to her colleagues
and the public. Into the new field of usefulness upon which
she is about to enter, she carries with her the esteem and good
Avishes of all.

Legislative Reference Library

Chapter 168, laws of 1901, made provision for the establish-
ment at the oapitol of a legislative reference library, to be oom-
ducted by the state free library commission in co-operation with
this institution. Dr. Charles McCarthy, of the commission,
was placed in charge of this department, and during the session
of 1903 we contributed the services of a competent cataloguer.
Large numbers of reference books from this library were loaned
to the collection at the capitol, either temporarily or through-
out the session, and careful attention was given to legislative
inquiries at our building either in person or by telephone. The
result of this experiment was gratifying both to the legislature
and ourselves. Recognizing the importance of the enterprise, the
legislature increased the commission's allowance for this purpose.

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i*endering it uiiiie<?essary for us, in the future, to loan the ser-
vioes of an assistant from this library. We shall, from our ex-
perience, be better able to serve the legislature of 1905 than that
of 1903.

Crowded Conditions

To those unfamiliar with the rapid growth of the two libra-
ries*, it may appear strange to hear that we already realize the
limitations of the new building. Within the past few months,
nearly all of the remaining space in the basement has been inex-
pensively shelved, thus affording accommodation for our large
mass of duplicates and the stock of society and university publi-
cations which it is necessary for us to carry. This gave us
nmch-needed room upon the floors of the stack, which was, how-
ever, immediately utilized by a reshifting of already-crowded
classes ; so that now all portions of the building are comfortably
filled. The usual oyjenings left upon the shelves for current
gro^vtJi, will certainly not admit more than the aooessions of the
next two years. The proposed north wing will be sadly needed
before tlie necessary legislative appropriation can be obtained.

In the course of tlie summer's reshifting, patent repoi'ts and
the Tank library (Dutch) were moved to new quarters, in room
100 ; while the documentary collection, having outgrown that
room, has been transferred to floor A of the stack. Chief among
the advantages obtained in this transposition, was the opportun-
ity given to tlie fast-growing document division to spread, into
the upper floors of the stack so soon as the pressure therein is
removed by the construction of the north wing.

Catalogue Division

During the year, the work of reclassifying, recataloguing,
and placing within new pamphlet cases, our large pamphlet col-
lection, has made good progi-ess, engaging the attention of one or
more of the catalogue force. The special card catalogues of
maps and portraits have also been materially advanced

Tt is not generally understood that marked changes in the
ideals of cataloguing and classification have been prominent

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features of the library progress of the past fifteen years. The
new catalogue rules of the American Library Association have
but recently necessitated extensive revisions in the methods of
the craft It has been our aim to keep in touch with these and
other improvements, and, while avoiding "fads/' to adapt our
methods to those currently in vogue in the large libraries of the
country. So marked have been the changes in recent years,
that tliere exist in our great catalogue today but few of the cards
written a decade ago. While much is being saved by the utili-
zation of the co-operative cataloguing agencies now patronized
by many of us, cataloguing still necessarily remains one of the
costliest features of library administration.

Extension of Saturday Hours

During the first three years of occupancy of the new building,
it was our custom to close at 4 P. M. on Saturdays, to allow
for the weekly cleaning of the reading room and the approach-
ing stairs and corridors. The growth of the university and
the greatly increased use of the library in all departments
of study, have made it apparent that this early closing resulted
in considerable inconvenience to the members of the university.
At the expense of additional work by the caretaking depart-
ment, and increased cost of lighting, a new schedule bas been
arranged, by which the building will hereafter be kept open on
Saturdays during university term-time until 9 P. M. — only
one hour earlier than on other week-days. If the attendance
warrants the effort, this will be the future policy of the adminis-
tration, which is committed to the prompt adoption of any prac-
ticable measures which may increase the efficiency of the library
and secure greater comfort on the part of its users — so far as is
cx>nsistent with the rigid economy which it is essential to prac-
tice in every branch of our work.

Binding

There have been bound within the year 1,822 volumes of
books and periodicals, and 503 volumes of newspapers — a total
of 2,325. The preparation of all these articles for the bindery-
lias in itself been a work of considerable proportions.

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Publications
Reprint of the early "Collections"

One of the manifestations of the general revival of interest
in American history, so noticeable during the past fifteen or
eighteen years, has been the large and ever-increasing demand for
materials for the study of local and sectional history. In the
case of this society, the result has been the almost complete eix-
haustion of the stock of its first ten volumes of Wisconsin His-
torical Collections — indeed, it has been many years since any
copies of some of its volumes could be supplied; and for them
dealers, when able to pick up copies, have asked and obtained
high prices. The recent increase in the number of public and
school libraries throughout the state, and the marked improve-
ment in the methods and strength of the older of these institu-
tions, together with the greater attention now paid to Western
history by the general public, have appeared to necessitate the
republishing of these volumes. Tbe demand for their reprint-
ing, from the teachers and librarians of the state, has of late
been so persistent, that the legislature of 1903, in chapter 96,
made the necessary provisions therefor. They will accordingly
be republished at the rate of two volumes a year.

In considering the matter of a second edition, naturally the
first impulse was, by careful editing, to bring the volumes up to
date, both in the matter of eliminating the now undesirable
material and in correcting other matter concerning which there
is today more complete information. In 1855, when volume i
was issued, the study of Wisconsin history was in its infancy.
The editor. Dr. Lyman Copeland Draper, was new to Wisconsin
and the West, and there were few others who had made scholarly
researches into its historical sources. The volume was in large
measure a tentative poiblication ; it, and several of its successors,
necessarily contained some contributions which later years and
subsequent investigation proved of small value. Necessarily,
each volume, as it appeared — and the same is true of the publi-
cations of the present day — stood as it were on the shoulders of
its predecessors. Each contained, if not refutations of what
went before, at least many and often important corrections.

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Such being the case, the task of re-editing the first ten volumes
(those issued under Draper's editorship) appeared in some rcf-
spects hopeless; indeed, if only the really enduring material
were retained, they might readily have been condensed into
four or ^Ye volumes.

Moi'e mature consideration of ^ the problem resulted in the
decision to ]>ublish a strictly page-for-page reissue. This, be-
cause it appeared desirable to exhibit the manner of growth in
the Collections; to preserve intact the original pagination, in
order that the value of thousands of references to the first edi-
tions, scattered through historical works touching upon Wisr
oonsin and the West, might not be impaired by a new system of
paging; and to present in its original form what is doubtless
the most enduring product of Dr. Draper's historical labors.

Actuated by these professional and personal considerations,
we have, therefore, made an exact r6pix>duction of the ten
volumes as edited by Dr. Dt-aper, save that the mechanical ap-
pearance is in accordance with that of the volumes of Collections
issued in later years. Obvious typographical errors in the orig-
inal have of course been corrected in the present issue; other-
wise, the matter upon each page is exactly the same as upon the
corresponding page in the original — a convenience which will
be appreciated by all scholars who have occasion to cite the
Collections. In addition to the material of the original, there
have been added: (1) A memoir of Dr. Draper; and (2) the
Early Records of the Sk)ciety, from the original foundation in
1849, until 1854, under the reorganization, when the Eeport
in each volume of Collections takes up the story of the society's
progress. Following the issue of volume x, the society (com-
mencing with 1887) has published its Proceedings annually, in
separate form; the Collections being thereafter reserved strict-
ly for historical materials and studies.

It is hardly necessary at this late date, to emphasize the
great importance of the first ten volumes of Wisco7isin Histori-
cal Collections, the result of Dr. Draper's editing. We have said
that the enduring material therein might be condensed into
four or five volumes ; but they would be remarkable books, con-

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taining some of the most valuable sources of Western history.
Any original study of Wisconsin's development, indeed that of
the West at large, must take careful note of these ten volumes,
as the foundation stones. It is a matter for general congratula-
tion that legislative bounty has rendered it possible to place
them before the public in new dress, and in number sufficient
it is hoped, to meet all legitimate demands.

The Proceedings

The preparation of the analytical index to the Proceedings,
from 1886 to 1900 inclusive, has been delayed somewhat longer
than anticipated. It will, however, soon be published in sep-
arate form. Hereafter, an index to the Proceedings will appear
every five years.

The annual volume of Proceedings has long warranted a form
of publication more consonant with its size and importance.
Recognizing this fact, the legislature, in chapter 275 of the
laws of 1903, provided that this volume hereafter be printed on
heavy book paper and be bound in cloth, "making such publica-
tion accord in style with the biennial Collections of said soci-
ety." The present Proceedings are the first to be given this
improved mechanical appearance.

Office Work
Professional Conventions

Isolated from large centres of population and from other
fields of professiomil activity in historical research and library
development, an institution of this character needs to exert con-
siderable effort to keep in fairly constant touch with its con-
temporaries in other, and particularly the Eastern states: for
only through such contact may the most progressive ideals and
methods of our day be here maintained. Actuated by this con-
viction, the secretary has sought to be present at and take part
in the most important historical and library conventions of the
year ; and when not able to attend in person, to assign this duty
to others of his staff.

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During the Ohristmas holidays of 1902, he attended the an-
nual meeting of the American Historical Association, at Phila-
delphia. The next meeting of this important sociefty, which is
doing so much to inspire historical research throughout the
United States, will be held during the midwinter holidays at
iN'ew Orleans. It is a matter for congratulation, that one of
the members of our society, and manager of our branch legis-
lative reference library, Charles McOarthy, Ph. D., of the
state free library commission, last year won the Winsor prize,
issued by the American Historical Association for the best his-
torical monograph of the year, by a writer who had not already
won recognition.

The annual conference of the American Library Association
was held at Niagara Falls, June 22-26. It was attended by
about six hundred library workers, coming from nearly every
state of the Union, and from Canada. The secretary, libra-
rian, and assistant librarian attended the meeting, which was
eminently successful from a professional point of view. Next
year's conference will be held in October at St. Louis, and will
assume the character of an international gathering, for which
elaborate preparations are already in progress.

The annual convention of the Isem York Library Association
was held at Lake Placid, September 18-28, our library being
represented by the secretary. This autumnal conference in the
Adirondacks has now assumed large proportions, and attracts
library' chiefs from many of the states east of the Mississippi
river. Library institutes, the extension of library activity, the
health of library employees, duplicate pay collections, and li-
brary architecture were the chief subjects of discussion at this
year's meeting. ' '.

Other Wisconsin Libraries

The fact that the secretary and superintendent of the society
is ex-officio a member of the Wisconsin free library commission,
renders some notice of the work of the commission in library
propaganda desirable in this connection.

Mr. Carnegie's gifts to public libraries in Wisconsin since

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our last report, have aggregated $142,500. TW cities, Wau-
sau and Ripon, refused his offers. Following is a list of the
Carnegie gifts accepted: Antigo, $15,000; Bayfield, $10,000;
Berlin, $10,000 ; Columbus, $10,000 ; Hudson, $10,000 ; Kau-
kauna, $10,000; Manitowoc, $25,000; Monroe, $12,500;
Eihinelander, $15,000 ; Richland Center, $10,000 ; and Wash.-
burn, $15,000.

EVansville is to receive $10,000 for a library building from
the estate of Almon Eager. But three cities in the state hav-
ing a population of over 3,000 are now without public libraries
— Platteville, Ptairie du Chien, and Sturgeon Bay. Eight li-
braries have been organized under the state law sinxje Septem-
ber, 1902. A feature of library progress during tbe past 'year
has been the establishment of branches and delivery stations,
thus making the public library accessible to all tax payers.^

Representation at St. Louis

Our new library building will be represented at the forth-
coming St Louis exposition, in two departments — the national
library exhibition being made under the direction of the Library
of Cbngress, and the educational exhibit of our own state. In
the former, plans and photographs will adequately represent the
architectural features of the structure. Concerning th.e latter,
no agi'eement has yet been concluded with the committee having
this matter in charge; but it is probable that our exhibit v^ll
consist of enlarged photographs showing the library in actual
use, without reference to the architectural features.

The state board of commissioners have been in correspondence
with the secretary relative to a general exhibit by tihe society,
chiefly from the museum. It is doubtful, however, whether
satisfactory showing can be made in this direction, in competi-
tion vrith the many larger museums in the country ; again, it is
questionable whether we should subject our museum to any con-
siderable depletion during the long period of the St. Louis ex-

iFor the information contained in the two foregoing paragraphs, we
are indebted to Miss Cornelia Marvin, of the state free library com-
mission.

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position, for the reason that many thousands of persons oome
annually to our rooms, often from long distances, and it is im-
portant that our home exhibit be of a charaoter to please them.
The best showing' which the library could make at St. Louis,
would be by means of photographs; and these have already
been arranged for in connection with the two exhibits pre-
viously mentioned.

The Museum
A Factor in Popular Education

This is the department of our work which chiefly appeals to
the general public. Its importance as a factor in popular edu-
cation is not to be over-estimated. Our state funds being
wholly employed in the conduct of the library, the maintenance
of the building, and general administration, we still feel oblig^
to depend on gifts for the advancement of the museum. We
should make special effort to enlist interest in this department,
on the part of the wealthy and benevolent. A healthy financial
backing is essential to its proper development. N"evertheless,
we continue, through the unfailing kindness of friends, to main-
tain our customary growth in portraits and miscellaneous works
of art, historical relics, and ethnological and archaeological
specimens. For these, we are profoundly grateful; and trust
that no matter what proportions our funds may eventually as-
sume, we shall continue to receive in full measure these miscel-
laneous gifts, which are not only interesting and often valu-
able in themselves, but exhibit that personal interest in our
work on the part of all classes of the people of the state, the
oonsciousness of which is our greatest reward.

During the winter of 1902-03, the hospitalities of the build-
ing were tendered to the Madison Art Association, which gave
within the museum three highly creditable free exhibitions, ac-
companied by lectures. Another series will be given during
the forthcoming winter. It is probable that upon the comple-
tion of the projected new city library building in Madison, the
association will remove its activities thereto.

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Collection of Pueblo Pottery

The society is under obligations to its president, Mr.
M<cCk>rmick, for the presentation within the year, of a large
and well selected collection of ancient and modem cliff-dweller
pottery from Arizona and New Mexico. The ancient pottery
consists of five pitchers, five water bottles, seven vases, five
bowls, two ladles, ten sacred pieces, two axes, and a human
skull. These represent mounds and ruins near St. Johns,
Winslow, and Lower Verde, in Arizona ; and the famous Puye
ruin, the old Canones ruin, old Pajarito, Abiquiu, and Manui-
lito, in New Mexico. The numerous modem pieces are from
San Ildefonso, San Juan, San Fillepe, Cochiti, Santa Clara,
Teseque, San Domingo, Zia, Xamba, San Bia, Santa Ana, Taos,
Picoris, Acamo, Isleta, and Laguna. The McOormick collec-
tion, as it is hereafter to be called in the museum, fills a large
wall case in the ethnological hall, and presents a fine appear-
ance, being an important addition to the scientific department
of the society's possessions.

Painting of Braddock's Defeat

The museum has also recently received as a gift from Mr.
McCormick, a large oil painting of Braddock's Defeat (July 9,
1755), the work of Edwin Willard Deming of Xew York.
Mr. Deming ranks with Frederick Remington and Ernest
Thompson-Seton as a painter of American Indians and wild
life. He was especially commissioned by the president to paint
this picture for the society. The canvas represents the critical
moment on that fateful day when Charles Langlade, the Green
Bay fur-trader, arrived on the scene with Indians and half-
breeds from Wisconsin and Michigan. Langlade is in the left
foreground directing the attack, and about him are his savage
fellows in breech-clouts and leathern suits, firing upon the
British redcoats and colonial militia, who, enveloped in smoke,
are massed in the central background. Braddock is just falling
from his horse, the bridle of which is being caught ,by young
Major Washington of the general's staff. The action is spirited
and impressive, the draughting admirable, the subdued color

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tone lifelike. It is a remarkable picture from any point of
view, historical or artistic, and will be a wortliy and lasting
memorial of the great interest which President MoOormiok
has taken in the work of the society.

Removal of Old Abe

Some ten years ago the society received in trust from the state
quartermaster general's department the mounted body of "Old
Abe," the famous war eagle of the 8th Wisconsin inf aatry.
Throughout these years, ^^Old Abe" has been one of the chief
attractions of our museum. Upon the institution in the capitol
of the state headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic,
there came an urgent request from the veterans that the eagle
be transferred thither. Recognizing the propriety of this re-
quest— induced by the very natural desire of the old soldiers
that the celebrated bird should occupy a pedestal witJiin their
memorial hall — it was nevertheless impracticable for the soci-
ety, as a trustee of state property, to gratify it, save upon the
order of the head of the state. The necessary order was accord-
ingly issued by Governor LaFollette under date of April 1,
1903 ; and on the following day the bird was formally trans-
ferred to the capitol.

Legislation

In our report of a year ago, we set forth the necessity for the
construction of the north book-stack wing, also for increased an-
nual stipends both for administration and book-purchasing. It
was then our intention to request the legislature of 1903 to meet
these needs ; but when that body assembled, and the demands of
other state institutions were canvassed, it was apj>arent that it
would be discreet on our part to postpone the presentation of
our claims for another two years. We are, in consequence, suf-
fering no small degree of embarrassment in our work, and are
obliged to postpone development in some particulars ; but it is
evident that by this exercise of self-denial the society has
gained strength in the legislature, and will be in far better
condition a year hence, for the advancement of its claims than
had it been a persistent biennial applicant for favors.

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The passage of acts providing for the reprint of the first ten
volumes of the Collections (chapter 96), and for better paper
and binding for the Proceedings (chapter 275), has already
been alluded to. The legislature also passed an act (chapter
61), allowing any unexpended balance in our annual appropria-
tion for administrative expenses to be "added to the expendi-
tures of the next ensuing year," instead of reverting to the state
treasury; this privilege relative to unexpended balances had
already been granted us by the legislature of 1901, in connec-
tion with our book-purchasing fund. In an institution so closely
pressed for money as this, balances are of course small and
their disbursement already bespoken ; but careful financial man-
agement necessitates having on hand a small fund in advance
of immediate expenditures, rendering it impracticable for us
to draw our money from the state treasury to the last penny,
each thirtieth of December.

Chapter 342, laws of 1901, establishes improved methods in
the printing, collective binding, and distribution of public docu-
ments, and is a measure in which the society is interested be-
cause of its exchanges of Wisconsin state documents with other
libraries. The act in question represents the views and meets
the n^ds of the various state-supported libraries at the capital.

On behalf of the executive committee,

Reuben G. Tiiwaites,

Secreta/ry and Superintendent.

38 Wisconsin Historical Society

Report of Finance Committee

To ihe Executive Committee, State Historical Society of Wis-
consin:— Your committee on finance have the honor to report for
the past current year, ending June 30, that in compliance with
the by-laws w^e have examined the accompanying report of the
treasurer, compared the securities with the books of aoooun^t,
and certified the same, correct.

Of the funds at the date named, there was :

Principal of mortgage loans on real estate . . . $39,450 00

The Schumacher St. Paul lots, unchanged . . . 580 54

The Kingsley lots, St. Paul, unchanged . . . . 1,184 86

Balance of cash in hands of treasurer! .... 8,446 60

And overdraft on binding fund . . . . . 177 61

Total

$49,839 61

Which has been apportioned as follows :

To the binding fund $27,802 60

To the antiquarian fund .... 5,574 20

To the Draper fund 8,525 32

To the Mary M. Adams art fund . . . 4,297 36

To the general fund, balance . . . 3,640 13

$49,839 61

Since May, 1884, when loans were then restricted to an approval by

the finance committee and the total resources were (including mort-

gages on lands since taken and held)

There has been accumulated by the Draper fund .

There has been accumulated by the Mary M. Adams art

fund

And by donations, fees, interest, and otherwise

Making the present total as reported
a net gain of $38,232.35.

$11,607 26
8,525 32

4,297 36
25,409 67

$49,839 61

1 Since June 30th the loans have increased $7,319.26, leaving at the
date of this report, cash $1,127.34.

Finance Committee's Report 39

Attention is called to the discrepancy between sections 10
and 16 of the by-laws in regard to the approval of loans. It
being sometimes difficult to find a majority of the committee
in time to secure the investment, section 10 has been taken for
guidance ; and in the nineteen years no losses have occurred, nor
are any anticipated.

In connection with, the donations and devise of Mrs. Mary M.
Adams to this society and to the University of Wisconsin
(which is tlie residuary legatee), your committee has learned
of an existing unpaid claim by the publishers of her books,
amounting to $500, Avhich, if just, should be paid, either by
the executors of her estate, the university, or this society, as
beneficiaries of the deceased ; and it is suggested that a com-
mittee be appointed to confer with the other parties named,
to adjust the matter, with, power to draw upon the treasurer
for sucJi part (if any) of said sum as may appear equitable to
pay. Should any royalty accrue from the publications, it would
inure to the university.

Eespectfully submitted, with reference to the treasurer's re-
port for detail of accounting in items.

K B. Van Slyke,
Geo. B. Burrows,
J. H. Palmer,
Halle Steensland.
Madison, October 15, 1903.

40 Wisconsin Historical Society

Treasurer's Report

Report of the treasurer for the fiscal year ending July 1st,
1903:

Binding Fund Income Account

The Treasurer, Dr.

1903.

June 30. To % annual dues .

. 1170 50

To % sale of duplicates .
To ^2 life membership fees
To interest apportioned

51 66

50 00

. 1,277 92

To balance overdrawn

177 61

$1,727 69

The Treasurer, Cr.

1902.

Oct. 20. By sewer, St. Paul lots . . . 5134 94

1903.

May 8. By taxes. Summit Ave. lots, St. Paul 34 10

May 8. By taxes, Randolph St. lots, St. Paul 8 65

June 30. By R. G. Thwaites, salary as superin-
tendent 1,000 00

By I. S. Bradley, salary as assistant

superintendent .... 400 00
By L. S. Hanks, salary as treasurer 150 00

July 1. By balance overdrawn

n,727 69
1177 61

Binding Fund

The Treasurer, Dr.

1902.

July 1. To balance

$27,S02 60

Treasurer's Report

Antiquarian Fund income Account

The Treasurer, Dr.

1903.

June 30. To i^ annual dues .

To % sale of duplicates .
To y2 life membership fees
To gift of James Sutherland
To interest apportioned .

The Treasurer, Cr.

1903.

June 30. By balance transferred to antiquarian fund

. $170 50

51 69

50 00

200 00

228 45

$700 64

uarian fund

$700 64

Antiquarian Fund

The Treasurer, Dr.
1902.

July 1. To balance ....
1903.

June 30. To transferred from antiquarian
fund income account .

. $4,873 56

700 64

The Treasurer, Cr.
1902.

Oct. 30. By Matson & Klein, Draper house

repairs .....

By balance

$2 40
8,525 32

$5,574 20

The Treasurer, Cr.

1903.

June 30.

By balance ....
Draper Fund

$5,574 20

The Treasurer, Dr.

1902.

July 1.

To balance

$6,048 73

Nov. 21.

To balance of rent. Draper house .

87 45

1903.

June 30.

To sale of duplicates

2,117 70

To interest apportioned .

273 84

$8,527 72

July 1.

To balance ....

$8,525 32

$8,527 72

42 Wisconsin Historical Society

General Fund

The Treasurer, Dr.

1902.

July 1. To balance ?537 20

Dec. 6. To R. T. Ely for care of his news-
paper collection, withdrawn by
him from deposit (the sum to be
expended for newspaper files) . 1,900 00
To gift of R. T. Ely (for purchase of

newspaper files) . . . 600 00

Dec. 23. To received from univ. regents, bal-
ance due on maintenance ex-
penses ..... 583 81

1903.

Mch. 28. To same 166 78

13,787 79

July 1. To balance 3,640 13

The Treasurer, Cr.

1903.

Mch. 28. By Oneida Community, newspaper

files

124 00

June 30. By Wm. E. Grove, salary as stu-

dent assistant ....

68 48

By Katherine Marshall, salary as

student assistant ....

55 18

By balance

3,640 13

Mary M. Adams Art Fund

The Treasurer, Dr.

1902.

July 1. To balance

54,114 80

1903.

June 30. To Interest apportioned

182 56

n,765 40

Cash in bank 8,446 60

Binding fund income account, overdrawn . 177 61

13,787 79

14,297 36

The Treasurer, Cr.
1903.

June 30. By balance $4,297 36

Inventory

Real estate mortgages 139,450 00

Real estate owned:

Lot 1, blk. 2, Bryant's Randolph

St. add., St. Paul . . . $580 54
Lots 6 and 7, blk. 35, Summit

Park add.. St. Paul . . . 1,184 86

149.839 61

Treasurer's Report 43

Belonging as follows:

To binding fund 127,802 60

To antiquarian fund .... 5,574 20

To general fund . . . • • 3,640 13

To Draper fund ..... 8,525 32

To Mary M. Adams art fund . . . 4,297 36

$49,839 61

Respectfully submitted,

L. S. BLA.NKS. Treasurer.

We, the undersigned, members of the finance committee of
. the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, have carefully ex-
amined the foregoing report of the treasurer, have examined
the securities reported on hand in said report, and we find that
said report is in all respects full and accurate.

"N. B. Van Sxtke,
Geo. B. Bubrows,
J. H. Palmer^

Halle Steensland.
Dated Oct 12, 1903.

The undersigned, constituting the auditing committee ap-
pointed at the annual meeting, do hereby certify that we have
examined the books and vouchers of the Treasurer of the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, and find vouchers properly cer-
tified for all disbursements made, and find that the same are
properly entered on the books, and that we have examined the
accompanying report and find that the same corresponds with
the books of the treasurer so far as the disbursements are con-
cerned.

Charles K Brown,

A. B. Morris.
Madison, Wisconsin, October 15, 1903.

44 Wisconsin Historical Society

Secretary's Fiscal Report

To the Executive Committee, State Historical Society of
Wisconsin: — 'The state now appropriates to the society, directly,
$20,000 annually— $15,000 under sec. 3, diap. 296, lawe of
1899, and $5,000 under see. 1, chap. 155, laws of 1901. Dis-
bursemoats from these appropriations are made upon warrant
of the undersigned, audited by the secretary of state, and paid
by the Sitate treasurer. According to the books of the secretary
of state, verified by our own, the society's account with the state
stood as follows upon July 1, 1903 :

Chap. 296, Laws of 1899
1902.

July 1. Unexpended balance of appropriation
Appropriation for calendar year, 1903

$10,283 43
15,000 00

Disbursements during year ending June

30,

$25,283 43

1903, as per appended list

•

16,428 40

1903.

July

1. Unexpended balance in state treasury
Chap. 155, Laws of 1901

•

$8,855 03

1902.

July

1. Unexpended balance in state treasury .

$4,492 27

Appropriation for calendar year, 1903
Disbursements during year ending June

30,

5,000 00

$9,492 27

1903, as per appended list

•

4,654 44

1903.

July 1. Unexpended balance in state treasury

$4,837 83

Secretary's Fiscal Report 45

Orders drawn against state treasurer, in aeoordanoe with
sec. 3, chap. 296, laws of 1899:

Edna C. Adams, reading room assistant, services
American Library Assoc. Publishing Board, Boston, cata

logue cards ........

Florence E. Baker, reading room attendant, services
Daisy G. Beecroft, superintendent's clerk, services .
Emma H. Blair, manuscript room attendant, services
John Bohrmt, Madison, mosaic and masonry repairs
I. S. Bradley, librarian and assistant superintendent, trav

eling expenses .......

Breitwisch & Wunderlich, Milwaukee, painting signs
Albert Britnell, Toronto, books ....

Bennie Butts, messenger, services ....

C. & N. W. R. R. Co., Madison, freight

C, M. & St. P. R. R. Co., Madison, freight

City of Madison, street improvement and water rate

Arthur J. Clark, student assistant, services

Frank W. Coburn, Boston, books ....

Mary E. Collins, assistant in legislative reference library,

services ........

Esther R. Concklin, superintendent's clerk, services

Conklin & Sons, Madison, ice and cement

Robert E. Cowan, San Francisco, books .

Katharine Cramer, student assistant, services .

Guy W. Crane, student assistant, services

Current Literature Publishing Co., New York City, books

Dane Co. Telephone Co., Madison, telephones .

Donley Davenport, elevator attendant, services

Thomas Dean, engineer, services ....

Emma Dietrich, housemaid, services

E. S. Ferris, Madison, package delivery .

J. H. Findorff, Madison, book shelving . ' .

Mary S. Foster, periodical room attendant, services

Gallagher Tent & Awning Co., Madison, services

W. J. Gamm, Madison, repairs to and care of clocks

Gibson Soap Co., Omaha, Nebraska, supplies .

Gisholt Machine Co., Madison, repairs

Phillip Gross Hardware Co., Milwaukee, supplies

William E. Grove, student assistant, services .

Tillie Gunkel, housemaid, services

Mary E. Haines, indexer, services ....

W. H. Halsey, Milwaukee, plumbing supplies .

1150 00

720

122

60 00

116

540

167

200

133

450

371

257

620

658

582

155

308

240 00

46 Wisconsin Historical Society

F. P. Harper, New York City, books
Emma A. Hawley, document room attendant, services
Clarence S. Hean, newspaper room attendant, services
Theo. Herfurth & Son, Madison, premium on boiler Insur

ance

Mary Hintzen, housemaid, services .

Fred M. Holcomb, superintendent's clerk, services

House Beautiful, Chicago, books

G. P. Humphrey, Rochester, N, Y., books .
Illinois Central R. R. Co., Madison, freight
Illinois Electric Co., Chicago, supplies .
Anna Jacobsen, cataloguer, services
Frances S. C. James, cataloguer, services
Marjorie D. Johnson, student assistant, services
Johnson Service Co., Milwaukee, supplies and equipment
A. H. Kayser, Madison, equipment ....
Charles Kehoe, night watchman, services
Louise P. Kellogg, manuscript room attendant, services
Kimball Brothers, Albany, N. Y., books
A. S. Klein Co., Chicago, equipment
Grace Koch, housemaid, services
C. J. Kruse, Madison, services .
Charles E. Lauriat & Co., Boston, books
Leary, Stuart & Co., Philadelphia, books
Emma Ledwith, housekeeper, services
Library Bureau, Chicago, equipment
Ceylon C. Lincoln, museum attendant, services
George E. Littlefield, Boston, books ....
Leora E. Mabbett, periodical room assistant, services
T. C. McCarthy, Madison, masonry repairs
A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, books
W. T. McConnell & Son, Madison, cleaners' supplies
Madison Gas & Electric Co., light and power .
G. B. Merrick, Madison, books .....
W. H. Moore, Brockport, N. Y., periodicals
F. M. Morris, Chicago, books . . . . .
Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, N. Y., books
Magnus Nelson, assistant engineer, services
Northern Tissue Paper Mills, Milwaukee, supplies .
Annie A. Nunns, secretary to superintendent, services
M. M. Oakley, assistant librarian, traveling expenses
Otis Elevator Co., Chicago, repairs and supplies
Eve Parkinson, stack assistant, services .
Pollard-Tabor Co., Madison, painting and supplies

106 50
720 00
390 00

40 00
269 50
115 95

4 60
18 50
35 94
32 80

2uO 00
323 14
46 73
179 79
8 33
199 00
448 95

10 50

11 27
54 00

3 50

44 00

18 50

417 83

25 50
565 53

39 05

277 00

24 15

171 10

20 60

353 80

5 00
262 69

2 30
32 63
17 28

26 95
252 00

72 77

68 56

465 00

324 69

Secretary's Fiscal Report 47

Clara Rasmussen, housemaid, services

Edith Rudd, housemaid, services

Rogneld Sather, housemaid, services

J. E. Scopes, Albany, N. Y., books .

Shelby Electric Co., Shelby, Ohio, supplies

Elizabeth C. Smith, cataloguer, services .

Smith Premier Typewriter Co., Milwaukee, equipment

Henry Sotheran & Co., London, England, books

Clara Springmann, housemaid, services .

William Springmann, elevator boy, services .

G. E. Stechert, New York City, books

Stephenson & Studemann, Madison, hardware supplies

Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, London, England, books

Elizabeth G. Ticknor, manuscript room assistant, services

R. G. Thwaites, sec. and supt., oflScial disbursements for
labor, supplies, books, etc. (small accounts under |5),
and traveling expenses ....

A. Walsh, Chicago, books .....

S. B. Weeks, Sante F6, New Mexico, books

Iva Welsh, classifier, services ....

Everett Westbury, assistant engineer, services

Frank Westbury, extra laborer, services .

Wisconsin Telephone Co., Madison, telephones .

Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, Milw., typewriter supplies

253

54 00

363

117

264

20 00

469 03

362

465

584

18 00

116,428 40

Orders dra^v^l against state treasurer, in accordance witb sec.
1, chap. 155, laws of 1901 :

American Library Assoc, publications
American Library Assoc. Publishing Board, Boston
catalogue cards and periodicals ....
American Economic Assoc, Ithaca, N. Y., publications
American Historical Assoc, New York City, publications
American Press Co., Baltimore, Md., books
E. H. Blair, Madison, books .....
Boston Book Co., Boston, books ....
J. V. Brower, St. Paul, Minn., books
Burnham Antique Book Store, Boston, books .
Wm. J. Campbell, Philadelphia, books
Century History Co., New York City, books .
Chautauqua Photographic Co., Pittsburg, Pa., photographs
A. H. Clark Co., Cleveland. Ohio, books .
A. S. Clark, New York City, books ....

$4 00

21 81
3 00
3 00
3 50

35 43
162 50

28 00
5 34

5 00
15 00

6 60
9 00

15 97

48 Wisconsin Historical Society

books

S. J. Clark, Chicago, books ....

Cumulative Index Co., Cleveland, Ohio, books .

F. W. Curtiss, Madison, photographs

Deseret News Book Store, Salt Lake City, books

Dodd, Mead & Co., New York City, books .

N. W. Evans, Portsmouth, Ohio, books

Phil6as Gagnon, Quebec, Canada, books .

George Harding, Londoij, England, books

F. P. Harper, New York City, books

Timothy Hopkins, San Francisco, books .

Kimball Brothers, Albany, N. Y., books .

Julius Kuhlman, Philadelphia, books

Theo. S. Lazell, Boston, books

Library Bureau, Chicago, books

George E. Littlefield, Boston, books .

A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, books

Mason Publishing & Printing Co., Syracuse, N. Y.,

Mississippi Valley Press, Chicago, books .

F. M. Morris, Chicago, books ....
Noah F. Morrison, Elizabeth, N. J.', books
Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, N. Y., books
A. C. Myers, Swarthmore, Pa., books
National Subscription Agency, Boston, books .
Martinus Nijhoff, New York City, books .
Publishing Society of New Jersey, New York City
Publishers' Weekly, New York City, books
Raoul Renault, Quebec, Canada, books
Charles C. Saffell, Baltimore, Maryland, books
D. Schiller, Washington, D. C, books
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City, books
L D. Seabrook, Charleston, S. C, books .
Henry Sotheran & Co., London, England, books

G. E. Stechert, New York City, books
Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, London, England, books
R. G. Thwaites, sec. and supt., oflBcial disbursements for

books and pictures (small invoices under $5, for which
affidavits for state auditing could not well be obtained)

A. Walsh, Chicago, books

George E. Warner, Minneapolis, Minn., books .

Stephen B. Weeks, Sante F6, New Mexico, books

Williams Publishing Co., Milwaukee, books

Frank Yeigh, Toronto, Canada, pictures .

books

93 00

5 00

14 16

171

31 25

10 00

291

368

5 05

135 00

15 00

109

859

1,486

266

8 00

14,654 44

Gifts to Library

Givers of Books and Pamphlets

[Including duplicates]

Givers

Pam-
phlets

Adams, Charles F., Boston ....
Alabama department of archives and history, Mont

gomery

department of education, Montgomery
geological survey, Montgomery
governor's office, Montgomery
Alaska executive office, Sitka
American anti-vivisection society, Philadelphia

board of commissioners for foreign mis

sions, Boston ....
catholic historical society, Philadelphia
congregational association, Boston .
free-trade league, Boston
historical association, Washington, D. C
Jewish historical society, Philadelphia
museum of natural history, N. Y. ,
national red cross society, Washington

D. C

numismatic and archaeological society

N. Y

society for the extension of university
teaching, Philadelphia
Aiiiherst (Mass.) college ....

Anderson, Mons, La Crosse ....

Andrews, Byron, Washington, D. C.

Arizona auditor, Phoenix ....

executive department. Phoenix
superintendent of public instruction
Tucson ......

Arkansas railroad commission, Little Rock .

treasurer, Little Rock
Armstrong, Perry A., Morris, 111.
Ashland board of education ....

Atlanta (Ga.) university ....

Ayer, Edward E., Chicago ....

Bacon, E. P., Milwaukee

Bain, James, Toronto

Baker, Miss Florence E.,* Madison

Balch. Thomas W.. Philadelphia

Baltimore Enoch Pratt free library

52
1

1
1
21
3
1
9

298

1
2

*Al80 unbound serials.

50 Wisconsin Historical Society

Givers

Books

Pam-
phlets

Baltimore Peabody institute

and Ohio r. r. co., relief dept., Relay, Md.

Bangs, I. S., Waterville, Me

Barnard, Miss Emily, Hartford, Conn.

Batchellor, Albert S., Littleton, N. H. .

Baxter, James P., Portland, Me

, ,

Bayfield county board of supervisors

Belgium, minist^re des chemins de fer, postes e

telegraplies, Brussels

Bell, S. R., Milwaukee

Benton, Charles R., La Crosse

Berliner gesellschaft fur anthropologie, ethnolo-

gie und urgeschichte

Blair, Miss Emma H.,* Madison ....

Bolles, C. E., Chicago

, .

Boston associated charities

. .

athenaeum

board of overseers of the poor

chamber of commerce

children's aid society .....

children's institutions dept

, ,

city auditor

city hospital

commissioner of public records .

fire department

metropolitan and sewerage board

public library

school committee

transit commission .....

Bowditch, Charles P., Cambridge, Mass. .

Bowdoin college library, Brunswick, Me.

Bradley, Isaac S., Madison

Brant, S. A., Madison

Brooklyn public library

Brower, Jacob V., St. Paul . . .

r
• •

Brown, C. N., Madison

Brussels soci6te d'archaeologie ....

Bryant, Edwin E.,* Madison

Bryant, H. W., Portland, Me

Buffalo mayor's ofiice

merchants' exchange .....

public library

Grosvenor library .....

county board of supervisors

Bunker hill monument association, Boston .

Burlington (la.) free public library

Burrill, Ellen Mudge, Lynn, Mass

Burton, C. M., Detroit

Burton, John E., Milwaukee

Butler, James D.,* Madison

Byers, FredericK W., Monroe

• •

California bureau of labor statistics, Sacramento

controller's dept., Sacramento

*Also unbound serials.

Gifts to Library

Givers

Books

Pam-
phlets

California department of highways, Sacramento

executive department

historical society of northern Californis

■

Sacramento

historical society of southern California

Los Angeles ....

promotion committee, San Francisco

state agricultural society, Sacramento

state library, Sacramento . . .

state treasurer, Sacramento .

superintendent of public instruction

Sacramento ....

Cambridge (Mass.) messenger's office

, .

public" library ....

superintendent of schools

Canada auditor general, Ottawa

commissioner of census, Ottawa .

department of agriculture, Ottawa

geological survey department, Ottawa.

superintendent of insurance, Ottawa .

Capuchin monastery, Appleton

Carnegie free library, Allegheny, Pa.

free library, Atlanta, Ga. .

free library, Bradford, Pa.

free library, Nashville, Tenn. .

free library, Pittsburgh .

Carney, F. J., Seattle . .' .

Carter, Charles S., Milwaukee ....

Casgrain, P. B., Quebec

Caxton club, Chicago

Cedar Rapids (la.) free public library .

. .

Chandler, C. H.,* Madison ....

Charleston (S. C.) mayor ....

[ [

Charlton, Mrs. E. A.,* Brodhead

Chelsea (Mass.) superintendent of schools

Chicago department of police ....

Field Columbian museum . . . .

historical society . . . . .

John Crerar library

Lewis institute

mayor's office

Milwaukee & St. Paul r. r. co., Milwaukee .

. .

Newberry library

public library

Chicopee (Mass.) city clerk

' li

Cincinnati chamber of commerce . . . .

museum association . . . .

public library

Clarke, J. A., Waterloo

Cleveland chamber of commerce . . . .

public library

Cole, George W., N. Y

Colonial dames, Maine society, Portland

society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

. .

♦Also unbound serials.

5 2 Wisconsin Historical Society

Givers

Pam-
phlets

Colorado auditor of state, Denver .

bureau of labor statistics, Denver
governor's office, Denver .
state board of arbitration, Denver
state dairy commissioner, Denver
state library, Denver
state treasurer, Denver
superintendent of public instruction, Den
ver ......

university, Boulder ....

Columbia county board of supervisors

university, N. Y.
Columbus (O.) public school library
Concord (Mass.) antiquarian society
Connecticut bureau of labor statistics, Hartford
dairy commission, Hartford .
historical society, Hartford
railroad commissioner, Hartford .
secretary of state, Hartford .
state board of charities, Hartford
state highway commissioner, Hartford
state library, Hartford
Conover, Charles H., Chicago .
Corser, Elwood S., Minneapolis
Costa Rica institutio fisico-geografico, San Jos6
Council Bluffs (la.) free public library .
Cowan, R. E., San Francisco ....

Cox, John H., West Harwich, Mass.
Coyne, James H., St. Thomas, Ont.
Cramer, Miss Katherine, Madison
Cross, Ira B., Madison
Culley, Frank C, Kenosha
Cushing, William T., Milwaukee

Daniells, W. W., Madison
Daniells, Mrs. W. W., Madison
Dante society, Cambridge, Mass.
Dan vers (Mass.) Peabody institute
Dary, George A., Boston .
Davis, Andrew M., Cambridge, Mass.
Dayton (O.) public library and museum
De Graffenried, Edward, Greensboro, Ala.
De Laval separator co., N. Y. .
Delaware historical society, Wilmington
state library, Dover
state treasurer, Dover
Depew, Chauncey M., Washington, D. C
Detroit board of education .

city clerk ....

public library
Dike, Samuel W., Auburndale, Mass.
Dionne, N. E., Ottawa
District of Columbia board of education. Wash

board of trade, Wash.

commissioners. Wash.

2
1
2
1
1
2
30
1
1

Gifts to Library

Givera

Books

Pam-
phlets

District of Columbia health department. Wash.

office of collector of taxes. Wash.

public library, Wash

Dodge, Grenville M., Des. Moines

Dodge, J. T.,*t Madison .

' li

106

Dodge, Melvin G., Rodman, N. Y.

. .

Dover (N. H.) public library .

Draper library, Madison .

22 "

Drew theological seminary, Madison, N. J. .

Dunn county school of agriculture, Menomonie

Durward, John T., Baraboo

Dyer, Louis, Oxford, Eng.

• •

Edmunds, Albert J., Philadelphia . . . .

Edmunds, E. B., Beaver Dam .

Ehrlich, Frederick, N. Y.

Elizabeth (N. J.) board of education

Ely, Richard T.,* Madison

Emerson, Mrs. Joseph, Beloit .

Engle, George B., jr., Chicago

Essex institute, Salem, Mass. .

• •

Fall River (Mass.) mayor's office ....

. .

Faxon, F. W., Boston

Fifleld, Sam S., Ashland .

Filson club, Louisville, Ky.

Fish, Carl R., Madison .

Fish, Stuyvesant, N. Y. .

Fitchburg (Mass.) city clerk

historical society

Florida executive office, Tallahassee

railroad commission, Tallahassee

state superintendent of public instruction,

Tallahassee

state treasurer, Tallahassee

Foster, H. B., Hanover, N. H. .

Foster, Miss Mary S.,* Madison

Fountain spring house, Waukesha .

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Frankenburger, D. B., Madison

Franklin, F. G., Alliance, Ohio

Eraser, Alexander, Toronto

Free and accepted masons, grand lodge of Pa.,

Philadelphia

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Gaillard, Eugene W.. N. Y

Galesburg (111.) public library

Ganong, W. F., Northampton, Mass..

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Garrett, D. C.,* Oconomowoc .

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Gattiker, Miss Emma, Baraboo ....

Georgia historical society, Atlanta ....

railroad commission, Atlanta

state department of education, Atlanta

state librarian, Atlanta ....

Gesell, Arnold L., Madison

Gibson, James, Madison

Goodell, R. A.,t Washington, D. C

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Gould, S. C, Manchester, N. H

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Great Britain patent office, London

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Green, C. R., Lyndon, Kans

Green, Samuel A., Boston

Green Bay board of health

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Green T-ake county board of supervisors .

Greene, Howard, Milwaukee

Gregory, Charles N., Iowa City, la

Groton (Mass.) Lawrence academy

Harbert, A. N., Shellsburg, la

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Harper, Miss Blanchard, Madison ....

Harper, Francis P.,t N. Y

Harper and brothers, N. Y.

Hartford (Conn.) board of trade ....

Harvard college library, Cambridge, Mass.

Hassam, John T., Boston

Hawaii governor's office, Honolulu ....

Hays, James A., Boise, Idaho .....

Hecht, Sopha,* Milwaukee

Heim, Ephraim M., Lewisburg, Pa.

Hicks, Benjamin D., Old Westbury, N. Y.

Hill, John B., Kansas City . . . . .

Hills, William S., Boston

Hines. Walker D.. Louisville, Ky

Hitchler, Miss Theresa, Brooklyn ....

Hobbs, William H., Madison

Holbrook, Arthur, Milwaukee

Holder, Arthur E., Des Moines, la

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Hoo-Hoo, order of, Nashville, Tenn.

Hopkins, George B., N. Y

Hord, A. H., Germantown, Pa

Houck, Louis, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Howell, Mrs. Mary S., Mt. Morris, N. Y. .

Hoyt, F. W.,* Madison

Hurlburt, D. W., Wauwatosa

Hutchins, Frank A., Madison ....

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Idaho department of state, Boise ....

state auditor, Boise

lies, George, N. Y

Illinois association opposed to the extension of

suffrage to women, Chicago

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Illinois auditor of public accounts, Springfield
bureau of labor statistics, Springfield
executive oflSce, Springfield
masonic home for the aged, Chicago .
state bar association, Springfield
state board of arbitration, Springfield
state historical library, Springfield .
state treasurer, Springfield
superintendent of public instruction

Springfield
university. Champaign
Independent order of good templars, grand lodge of

Wisconsin, Waupaca .
Independent order of odd fellows, grand lodge of

Wisconsin, Eau Claire ....

Indian rights association, Philadelphia .
Indiana board of state charities, Indianapolis
bureau of statistics, Indianapolis
department of public instruction, Indian

apolis .....

labor commission, Indianapolis .

state library, Indianapolis .

Indianapolis board of trade .

Interstate commerce commission, Washington, D. C

Iowa board of railroad commissioners, Des Moines

commissioner of labor statistics, Des Moines

dairy commissioner, Des Moines .

department of public instruction, Des Moines

federation of women's clubs, Des Moines

governor, Des Moines .

historical department, Des Moines

masonic library, Cedar Rapids

secretary of state, Des Moines

state dairy commissioner, Des Moines

state historical society, Iowa City

state university, Iowa City

county board of supervisors

Jersey City (N. J.) free public library
Joerns brothers, Sheboygan .

Kansas adjutant general, Topeka .
auditor of state, Topeka
board of railroad commissioners, Topeka
bureau of labor and industry, Topeka
department of public instruction, Topeka
governor's office, Topeka
state historical society, Topeka
university, Lawrence .

Kansas City (Mo.) board of education
city comptroller

Kellogg, Miss Louise P.,* Madison .

Kenosha, Gilbert M. Simmons library

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Kenosha high school, senior class ....

Kentucky executive office, Frankfort

state historical society, Frankfort .

Kerr, Alexander, Madison

Kewaunee county board of supervisors .

King, Charles, Milwaukee

Kremers, Edward, Madison

La Crosse board of education

board of trade

Lafayette county board of supervisors

Lake Superior mining institute, Ishpeming, Mich. .

Lamson, Mrs. Mary S., Cambridgeport, Mass. .

Lancaster county (Pa.) historical society

high school

Lane, William C, Cambridge, Mass.

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Langlade county board of supervisors

Laval university, Quebec

Lawrence academy, Groton, Mass. .

Lawson, Publius V., Menasha .

Legler, Henry E.,* Milwaukee

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Lenher, Mrs. Victor,* Madison

Letchworth, William P., Portage, N. Y.

Library of congress, Washington, D. C.

Lincoln (111.) college

county board of supervisors

Lindsay, Crawford, Quebec

Lippincott, J. B. & Co., Philadelphia

Los Angeles (Cal.) board of trade

public library

Loubat, Due de, Paris .

Louisiana adjutant general. Baton Rouge

bureau of statistics of labor. Baton Rouge

railroad commission, Baton Rouge

state board of health. New Orleans

state treasurer. Baton Rouge .

superintendent of public instruction, Ba-

ton Rouge

Lowell (Mass.) school committee .

Liibeck naturhistorischens museum

Luchsinger, John, Monroe

Lynn (Mass.) park commissioners .

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MacArthur, D. S., La Crosse

McClurg & Co., A. C, Chicago ....

McConnell, W. T., Madison

McGill university, Montreal

Mcllvaine, Miss Caroline M., Chicago .

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McLaughlin, A. C, Ann Arbor ....

McLean county historical society, Bloomington, 111.

Madison board of water commissioners .

free library

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Madison health department . .

Maffit, Mrs. Emma M., N. Y

Maine bureau of industrial & labor stats., Augusta

commissioner of inland fisheries and game,

Augusta .......

commissioner of sea and shore fisheries, |

Boothbay Harbor
general hospital, Portland .
historical society, Portland .
state board of health, Augusta
Maiden (Mass.) mayor's ofl&ce
Manitoba department of agriculture and immigra
tion, Winnipeg ....

department of public works, Winnipeg
historical & scientific society, Winnipeg
king's printer, Winnipeg
Manitowoc county board of supervisors, Manitowoc
Marathon county school of agriculture and domestic

economy, Wausau
Marinette health commissioner, Marinette

county abstract co., Marinette
Marquette college, Milwaukee .
Marshall, Samuel A., Madison
Marshall, Mrs. S. H..* Madison
Maryland bureau of statistics and information, Bal
timore .....

comptroller of the treasury, Annapolis
executive office, Annapolis
governor, Annapolis
historical society, Baltimore .
Massachusetts auditor of accounts, Boston

board of comm. savings banks, Boston
board of gas and electric light com

missioners, Boston
bureau of statistics of labor, Boston
civil service commissioners, Boston
executive department, Boston .
general hospital. Boston
highway commission, Boston .
historical society, Boston
horticultural society, Boston
insane hospital, Taunton
insurance department, Boston .
medical society, Boston
metropolitan park commission, Boston
prison commissioners. Boston .
railroad commission, Boston
secretary of commonwealth, Boston
single tax league, Boston
state board of charity, Boston .
state board of conciliation and arbi

tration. Boston
state board of health, Boston

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Massachusetts tax commission department, Boston .

treasurer-receiver general, Boston .

Matthews, Albert, Boston

Matthews, Robert, Rochester, N. Y.

Mexico direccion general de estadistica, Mexico

Meyer, B. H., Madison

Meyer, Leonard E., Jefferson

Michigan adjutant general, Lansing . . .

board of state tax commission; Lansing

central railroad, general passenger &

ticket agent, Chicago ....

commissioner of railroads, Lansing

dairy and food department, Lansing

executive office, Lansing ....

labor bureau, Lansing ....

state board of corrections and charities.

Lansing

state board of health, Lansing

state library, Lansing ....

state treasurer, Lansing ....

Middlebury (Vt.) college

Middlesex county treasurer, Boston

Middleton, Thomas C, Villanova, Pa. .

Miller, W. S.,* Madison

Military Order Loyal Legion U. S.:

California commandery, San Francisco .

Colorado commandery, Denver

Iowa commandery, Des Moines

Missouri commandery, St. Louis

Ohio commandery, Columbus .

Wisconsin commandery, Milwaukee

Milwaukee board of city service commissioners

board of school directors

chamber of commerce

city clerk's office ....

Deutsche gesellschaft .

health department

Journal* ....

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orphan asylum • •

public library

public museum ....

Miner, H. A., Madison ....

Minneapolis board of education

chamber of commerce

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board of park commissioners

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Minnesota auditor's office, St. Paul .

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bureau of labor, St. Paul

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chief fire warden, St. Paul

department of public instruction, St

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historical society, St. Paul

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r. r. & warehouse comm., St. Paul

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secretary of state, St. Paul

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Mississippi department of archives and history.

Jackson ....

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Mississippi department of public education, Jackson
state librarian, Jackson
state treasurer, Jackson
Missouri executive oflBce, Jefferson City .

insurance department, Jefferson City

state auditor, Jefferson City

state board of mediation and arbitration
Jefferson City ....

state historical society, Columbia

state treasurer, Jefferson City

university library, Columbia
Monahan, James C., Madison
Montana executive oflftce, Helena

historical & miscellaneous society, Helena
Moore, Mrs. A. W., Madison ....
Moore, F. W., Nashville, Tenn.
Moore, Miss R. S., Madison ....
Morehead, Joseph M., Greensboro, N. C. .
Morris, Howard, Milwaukee ....
Morris, Mrs. W. A. P.,* Madison .
Morris, William W., Newark, N. J. .
Mount Holyoke college. South Hadley, Mass. .
Mowry, Duane, Milwaukee ....
Munro, Dana C, Madison ....

Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis r. r. co., Nashville
National association of state librarians .

association of wool manufacturers, Boston

educational association, Winona, Minn.

league for the protection of the family

municipal league, Philadelphia

Nebraska bureau of labor and industry statistics

Lincoln .....

executive chambers, Lincoln .

public library commission, Lincoln

state superintendent of public instruc

tion, Lincoln ....
university, Lincoln
Nelson, Julius, New Brunswick, N. J. .
Nevada agricultural experiment station, Reno
department of education, Carson City
state treasurer, Carson City
New Bedford (Mass.) free public library

mayor's office ....
New England society in the city of New York
society of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
New Hampshire adjutant general's office. Concord
department of public instruction

Concord ....
historical society. Concord
insurance commissioner. Concord
railroad commissioner, Manchester

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New Hampshire state board of charities and correc-

tions. Concord ....

state library. Concord .

state treasurer. Concord

New Haven (Conn.) board of education

office of board of education

orphan asylum

colony historical society. New Haven .

New Jersey adjutant general, Trenton .

agricultural experiment station, New

Brunswick

bureau of statistics, Trenton

commissioner of public roads, Trenton

comptroller's office, Trenton

department of banking and insurance.

Trenton

sewerage commission, Trenton

state board of assessors, Trenton .

state board of children's guardians.

Trenton

state library, Trenton ....

state superintendent of public instruc-

tion, Trenton

training school for feeble minded girls

and boys, Vineland ....

treasurer's office, Trenton

weather service director, New Bruns-

wick

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New Mexico auditor of public accounts, Santa Fe .

executive department, Santa F6 .

historical society, Santa Fe .

superintendent of public instruction.

Santa Fe

treasurer, Santa F6 . . . .

New Orleans board of civil service commisisoners .

city comptroller's office

New South Wales department of labor and industry.

Sydney

government board for interna-

tional exchanges, Sydney .

government statistician's office,

Sydney

New York, city, Aguilar free library

children's aid society ....

department of highways

department of parks ....

mercantile library ....

public library

society for the reformation of juvenile

delinquents

society library

young men's christian association

state, adjutant general's office, Albany .

attorney general, Albany

banking department, Albany .

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Gifts to Library

Givers

Books

Pam-
phlets

New York board of charities, Albany .

board of railroad commissioners, Albany

board of tax commissioners, Albany

bureau of labor statistics, Albany .

catholic protectory, N. Y. .

chamber of commerce, N. Y.

charities aid association, N. Y. .

civil service commission

commissioner of agriculture, Albany

commissioHer in lunacy, Albany .

commissioner of prisons, Albany

comptroller, Albany . ...

department of state engineer and sur-

veyor, Albany

department of health, Albany

department of public instruction, Albany

executive office, Albany

factory inspectors, Albany

historical association. Ft. Edward

historical society, N. Y.

state institution for the blind, N. Y. .

institution for education of deaf and

dumb, N. Y

insurance department, Albany

library. Albany

secretary of state, Albany

state school for the blind, Batavia

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superintendent of banks, Albany .

state superintendent of public instruc-

tion, Albany

state treasurer, Albany ....

university club, N. Y

New Zealand department of labor, Wellington

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registrar general's office, Wellington .

Newark (N. J.) free public library

Newburyport (Mass.) city clerk's office .

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Newspapers and periodicals received from publishers

363

Niagara (Can.) historical society, Ontario

Norlie, 0. M., Stoughton

North Adams (Mass.) public library

North Carolina auditor, Raleigh ....

corporations commission, Raleigh .

governor, Raleigh ....

superintendent of public instruc-

tion, Raleigh ....

North Dakota agricultural experiment station. Ag-

ricultural College ....

department of agriculture and labor.

Bismarck

commissioner of railroads. Bismarck

department of public instruction,

Bismarck

department of state, Bismarck

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North Dakota executive department, Bismarck
secretary of state, Bismarck
state examiner, Bismarck .
treasurer's oflice, Bismarck

Northampton (Mass.) Forbes library

Northwestern university, Evanston, 111.

Norton, C. D., Chicago ....

Noyes, Frank E., Marinette

Nunns, Miss Annie A., Madison

Oak Park (111.) board of education

Oakley, Miss Minnie M., Madison

Oberlin (O.) college library

Ohio bureau of labor statistics, Columbus

dairy and food commission, Columbus

historical & philosophical society, Cincinnati

state archaeological & historical society, Co

lumbus .....
state board of arbitration, Columbus
state board of charities, Columbus
state commissioner of common schools, Colum

bus .....
state library, Columbus .
treasury department, Columbus
Oklahoma executive office, Guthrie .

territorial librarian, Guthrie
Olbrich, Emil, Madison .
Ontario department of agriculture, Toronto

department of neglected and dependent

children, Toronto
education department, Toronto .
institution for the blind, Toronto
Oregon executive department, Salem

superintendent of public instruction, Salem
treasury department, Salem
Oshkosh superintendent of schools .

Page, Mrs. Lorena M., Cleveland

Paine, Nathaniel, Worcester, Mass. .

Palmer, Charles J., Lanesborough, Mass

Parker, W. N., Madison .

Parkinson, Miss Eve, Madison

Paterson (N. J.) free public library

Patrick, Lewis S., Marinette .

Patterson, John H., Dayton, O.

Peabody (Mass.) historical society .

Pennsylvania bar association, Philadelphia

dairy and food commissioner, Harris

burg

department of agriculture, Harrisburg
executive office, Harrisburg
free library commission, Harrisburg
state board of health and vital statis
tics, Harrisburg

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Pennsylvania state treasurer, Harrisburg

society, N. Y

university, Philadelphia

Peoria (111.) public library

Pepin county board of supervisors, Durand

Perry, W. W., Milwaukee

Peruvian legation secretary, Washington, D. C.

Phelps, Richard N. R.. N. Y

Phetteplace, L. A., Neenah

Philadelphia board of education ....

board of trade

city controller ....

commercial exchange

municipal league ....

Philippine islands government executive bureau.

Manila

Phillips, U. B., Madison

Pierce, Eben D., Arcadia

Pierce county board of supervisors, Ellsworth

Pittsburgh city controller

PIttsfleld (Mass.) Berkshire athenaeum & museum

Pond, James C, Milwaukee

Portage county board of supervisors

Porto Rico secretary, San Juan ....

Pray, T. B., Stevens Point

Presbyterian church general assembly, Philadel-

phia

Protestant Episcopal church in the United States:

diocese of Albany

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diocese of Arkansas ....

diocese of California ....

diocese of central Pennsylvania

diocese of Colorado ....

diocese of Connecticut

diocese of Fond du Lac

diocese of Georgia

diocese of Los Angeles

diocese of Louisiana ....

diocese of Minnesota ....

diocese of New Hampshire

diocese of Rhode Island

diocese of Washington

diocese of West Virginia

diocese of Western Michigan

Providence (R. I.) athenaeum ....

board of health

Butler hospital

city clerk

overseer of the poor ....

public library

record commissioners

school committee ....

Putnam, W. C, Davenport, la

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Quarles, J. V., Milwaukee .....

Quebec literary & historical society

Queens Borough library, Long Island City, N. Y.

Racine county board of supervisors

Rainer, Joseph, Milwaukee

Randall, E. O., Columbus, O. .

Rattermann, H. A., Cincinnati

Raymer, George, Madison

Renault, Raoul, Quebec

Rhode Island board of state charities and correc
tions, Providence
commissioner of public schools
Providence

; factory inspector. Providence

historical society, Providence .
railroad commissioner. Providence
secretary of state, Providence
state board of public roads, Provi

dence
state librarian, Providence

Rice, William H., Gnadenhiitten, O.

Robinson, Hamline E., Maryville, Mo. .

Robinson, James H., N. Y. .

Robinson, Mrs. Sara F. D., Lawrence, Kans.

Rochester (N. Y.) Reynolds library

university ....

Rock county board of supervisors, Janesville

Roebling, Mrs. W. A., Trenton, N. J.

Rosengarten, J. G., Philadelphia

Ryan, Daniel J., Chillicothe, O.

Sacramento (Cal.) chamber of commerce
St. Anthony furniture co., St. Paul
St. Croix county board of supervisors, Hudson
St. Louis mercantile library

public library
St. Olaf college, Northfield, Minn. .
St. Paul city comptroller

Inspector Of high schools

mayor's oflace
Salem (Mass.) public library

school committee
San Francisco chamber of commerce

public library
Sauk county board of supervisors
Schrage, Miss Jennie T., Madison
Scott, William A., Madison
Scran ton (Pa.) public library
Seabrook, I. D., Charleston, S. C.
Seattle (Wash.) board of directors of schools

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Shawano county board of supervisors
Shepard, E. S.,t Rhinelander
Shipley, Frank C, Oakland, Cal.
Shipman, S. V., Chicago
Shrewsbury (Mass.) city clerk

superintendent of schools
Slaughter, M. S.,t Madison
Smithsonian institution, Washington, D. C.
Snow, B. W.,t Madison
Solberg, Thorvald, Washington, D. C. .
Somerville (Mass.) city clerk
Soniat, Charles T., New Orleans .
Sons of the American revolution, Pennsylvania
society .......

Sotheran, Henry & Co., London
Souchon, Edmond, New Orleans
South Carolina executive chamber, Columbia .
railroad commission, Columbia
state superintendent of education

Columbia

state treasurer, Columbia

South Dakota executive chambers oflBce, Pierre

historical society, Pierre

railroad commissioner, Sioux Falls

state historical society, Pierre

state treasurer, Pierre

superintendent of public instruction

Pierre

Spooner, John C, Madison

Sprague, Rufus F., Greenville, Mich.

Springfield (Mass.) city clerk

superintendent of schools
Starr, Frederick, Chicago
Stearns, J. W.,t Madison
Stebbins, William, Edgerton
Sterling, Miss Susan, Madison
Stevens, Mrs. Breese J., Madison
Stone, Miss Ellen A., East Lexington, Mass.
Stone, T. D., Ripon ....

Stout manual training school, Menomonie
Suite, Benjamin, Ottawa
Superior board of education
Syracuse (N. Y.) public library

Tanner, Herbert B,, South Kaukauna
Tennessee executive office, Nashville
Tenney, D. K., Madison
Texas department of education, Austin

treasurer's office, Austin
Thwaites, R. G., Madison
Toronto public library

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Toulouse, France, university de
Trenton (N. J.) board of education
Turner, A. J., Portage
Turner, F. J., Madison
Turville, Mrs. Henry, Madison

United States adjutant general's office, Washington

board of Indian commissioners

bureau of American republics .

bureau of education

bureau of engraving and printing

bureau of ethnology

bureau of insular affairs

bureau of navigation

bureau of statistics

census office ....

civil service commission .

coast and geodetic survey

commission of fish and fisheries

commissioner of internal revenue

commissioner of railroads

comptroller of the currency

department of agriculture

department of the interior

department of justice

department of labor

department of state

general land office .

geological survey!

life-saving service

light-house board

navy department

office of Indian affairs

patent office ....

pension office ....

Philippine commission, Manila, P. I

post-office department

public health and marine-hospital
service ....

steamboat inspection service .

superintendent of documentsf .

supervising surgeon-general marine
hospital service

surgeon general's office .

treasury department

war department library .
Universalist publishing house, Boston .
Unknown .......

Uruguay bureau of international exchanges, Monte
video .......

Usher, Ellis B.,t La Crosse ....

Utah agricultural college, Logan .

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Utah executive office, Salt Lake City
state auditor. Salt Lake City
state treasurer, Salt Lake City
superintendent of public instruction.
Lake City ......

Salt

Valentine museum, Richmond, Va.

Van Hise, C. R.,t Madison .....

Vermont adjutant general's office, Montpelier .

auditor of accounts, Bennington

board of railroad commissioners, Mont
pelier

historical society, Montpelier .

state treasurer. White River Junction

university, Burlington
Victoria, office of government statist, Melbourne
Vlgnaud, Henry, Paris, France
Vilas, William F., Madison ....
Vineland (N. J.) historical & antiquarian society
Von Phul, Benjamin, St. Louis . . . .

Warden, A. F., Waukesha

Warvelle, George W., Chicago . . . .

Washington dairy and food commissioner, Olympia

executive department, Olympia

state treasurer, Olympia

superintendent of public instruction,
Olympia .

university, Seattle .
Waukesha county board of supervisors
Wausau agricultural school
Wayne county (Ind.) historical society, Richmond
Wellesley (Mass.) college
Welsh, Herbert, Philadelphia
Welsh, Miss Iva A.,t Madison
Wesleyan university library, Middleton, Conn.
West Virginia auditor's office, Charleston

executive department, Charleston
superintendent of free schools
Charleston
Western Australia agent general, London

government statistics, Perth
register general, Perth
Western reserve university, Cleveland
Wheeler, Olin D., St. Paul ....
White, Peter, Marquette, Mich.
White & Warner, Hartford, Conn. .
Wight, W. W., Milwaukee ....
Wilder, Amos P..t Madison ....
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Osterhout free library

Wlllett, J. J., Anniston, Ala

Williams college, Williamstown, Mass. .

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Wilmington (Del.) institute free library-
Wilson, J. S., Merrill

Wisconsin agricultural experiment association

attorney general . .

bank examiner ....

board of regents of normal schools

bureau of labor and industrial statistics

commissioner of insurance .

commissioners of public lands

dairy and food commission

department of laborf .

free library commissionf

horticultural society

live stock sanitary board

press association, Jefferson .

railroad commissioner, Madison .

school for the deaf, Delavan .

society of statistics, Madison

state ......

state board of agriculture

state board of arbitration and concilia
tion ......

state board of control .

state board of dental examiners, Mil
waukee

state board of health, Milwaukee

state board of pharmacy, Madison

state cranberry growers' association
Cranmoor ....

state firemen's association, Jefferson

state game warden, Madison

state library,*! Madison

state normal school, River Falls .

state normal school, Whitewater

state superintendent, Madison

state tax commission

state treasurer . ...

university agriculutral experiment sta-
tion ......

university regents, Madison

veterans' home, Waupaca

Washburn observatory, Madison .

young men's christian association. Mil
waukee .....
Woburn (Mass.) city clerk ....
Woman's christian temperance union, Evanston, 111
Wood, Kent, Madison .....
Wood county board of supervisors, Grand Rapids
Woodnorth, J. H., Milwaukee
Worcester (Mass.) board of education .

city clerk's office ....

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Worcester public library ....

county (Mass.) law library, Worcester
Wright, C. B. B., Milwaukee .
Wyman, W. H., Omaha ....
Wyoming executive department, Cheyenne
state auditor, Cheyenne .
state treasurer, Cheyenne
university agricultural experiment sta
tion, Laramie

Yale university, New Haven, Conn.
Young Churchman Co., Milwaukee

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Miscellaneous Gifts

Manuscripts

Mons Anderson, La Crosse. — Manuscripts formerly the property of
the late Gov. C. C. Washburn: 2 diaries, 1862 and 1868; bundle of mis-
cellaneous papers — letters, receipts, orders, etc., chiefly relating to Gen.
Washburn's operations in the War of Secession, among them one letter
each by Gens. U. S. Grant and W. T. Sherman. Also, bundle of papers
relating to the U. S. internal revenue district of west Wisconsin, 1864-
65. (N. B. — Restriction is placed on the use of the Washburn papers,
that the same shall be consulted by investigators only upon express per-
mission of the superintendent of the society.)

J. Seymour Gurrey, Evanston, III. — Manuscript of address made by
Benjamin F. Hill before the Evanston Historical Society, May 31, 1902.

Joseph T. Dodge, Madison. — State, county, and township maps (some
in manuscript) ; also ms. plans and details of railroad bridges; also
blue-prints of various railroad lines in Minnesota and Wisconsin, esti-
mates, bills, etc.; also, abstract of deeds of the St. Paul & Chicago Rail-
road Co., St. Paul to La Crescent. All of these documents bear upon
the early history of railroad building in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Miss Sarah E. Marsh, Chicago. — Letter of her father, Rev. Cutting
Marsh, missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, to Julius P. B. McCabe,
of Green Bay, dated Stockbridge, Wis., Jan. 3, 1843 — reviewing the his-
tory of the mission; also fourteen letters, ms. abstracts, etc., of the
Stockbridge Indians (1834-47), by Rev. Cutting Marsh.

Miss Susan A. Sterling, Madison. — Package of mercantile invoices and
miscellaneous family bills against the late Maj. E. B. Dean and the
late Prof. J. W. Sterling, dated 1844-66: illustrative of prices and busi-
ness methods of the period indicated.

Mrs. J. G. Thorp, Cam'bridge, Mass. — Autograph copy of Henry W.
Longfellow's poem, "Four Lakes at Madison."

Ellis B. Usher, La Crosse. — Old record book containing internal rev-
enue assessments, La Crosse, 1863; also book containing various ac-
counts of the city marshal, a boarding-house keeper, and an auctioneer.

Miscellaneous Gifts 7 1

Chrysostom Verwyst, Ashland. — MS. sketch of the late Vincent Roy
of Superior, by Rev. T. Valentine, O. F. M., Washburn, Wis.; also,
Roy's diary, 1861-62.

Edwin 8. Walker, Springfield, III.— Three letters from Samuel D.
Hastings to Rev. F. H. Wines, dated Jan. 18 and 25, and April 12,
1872, respectively, concerning temperance reform.

Dr. L. E. Youmans, Mukwonago. — MS. constitution, minutes, and list
of members of the Mukwonago Anti-Slavery Society, 1847.

Unknown. — Nine papers (1809-14) connected with the administration
of the estate of Meriwether Lewis — chiefly notes executed by Lewis.

Oil Paintings

Children of John Uglow Baker. — Oil portrait of John Uglow Baker,
bom February 6, 1815, Whitstone parish, Cornwall, Eng. Coming to
America in 1836, he tarried in Pennsylvania for a short time, and two
years later came to Wisconsin, where he engaged in mining at Blue
River in i838, Platteville in 1839, and Linden, Iowa county, 1840. Near
Linden he purchased land from the government, and was engaged in
farming from 1840 until 1876, when he removed to Madison and there
resided until his death, August 24, 1902. James R. Stuart, artist.

Mrs. George 0. Clinton, Joliet, III. — Oil portrait of her father, the
late James Campbell, president of the Madison & Portage Railroad
Company, assemblyman, etc.; died in January, 1883. James R. Stuart,
artist.

F. A. Johnson, Madison. — Oil portrait of the late Hon. John A. John-
son, by James R. Stuart.

Robert Laird McCormick, Hayward. — Oil painting of Braddock's De-
feat, July 9, 1755, with Charles Langlade of Green Bay heading the de-
cisive attack by Wisconsin and Michigan Indians. Artist, Edwin Wil-
lard Deming, of New York, 1903.

Mrs. Horace Ruhlee, Lakewood, N. J. — Oil portrait of the late Horace
Rublee, by Ralph Clarkson.

Mrs. Jesse Stone, Watertown. — Oil portrait of the late Lieut.-Gov.
Jesse Stone, by Hermann von Micholowski, of Chicago.

Arundel Society Prints

Purchased. — SS. Peter and Paul raising the King's son, and the
homage to S. Peter — by Masaccio and Lippi; Christ's charge to S.
Peter — by Perugino; S. George baptising the Princess Cleodolinda and
her mother — by Carpaccio; S. James the Greater, before Herod Agrippa
— by Andrea Mantegna; the prophet Jeremiah — by ^lichael Angelo;
the prophet Ezekiel — by Michael Angelo.

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Photographs

Mrs. Charles W. Askew, Madison. — Enlarged colored photographs
(framed) of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Livesey, early residents of Madison.
James Livesey born at Blackbones, Lancashire, Eng., May 14, 1819;
died at Madison, Sept. 13, 1899. Esther (Welch) Livesey, wife of fore-
going, born near Chorley, Lancashire, Eng., Sept. 20, 1820; died at
Madison, Dec. 25, 1872. The Liveseys arrived in Madison May 3, 1849.

Miss Florence E. Baker, M.adison. — Photograph of Floyd's River, near
Sioux City, Iowa.

Henry Gadle, Bethany, Mo. — Framed photograph of Rev. Richard Fish
Cadle, founder of Episcopalian Indian mission school at Green Bay,
1828.

/. Minis Hays, Philadelphia. — Photograph of Andr6 Michaux, French
botanist and American traveller, from portrait in possession of Ameri-
can Philosophical Society.

George B. Merrick, Madison. — Two photographs of ruins of ex-Gov.
Dewey's residence, Cassville, Wis.; also, two photographs of the levee
at Prescott, Wis., one of them taken about 1862, the other about 1880.

Thomas B. Mills, West Superior. — Framed photograph of Capt. and
Lieut. Hazzard and detail of Co. D, 1st battalion of Macabebes, who
captured Aguinaldo; also, a framed photograph of officers comprising
the expedition that captured Aguinaldo.

Duane Mowry, Milwaukee. — Photograph of Jonathan E. Arnold, pio-
neer lawyer of Wisconsin — born Feb. 16, 1814; settled in Milwaukee,
1836; died there June 2, 1869.

Miss Minnie M. Oakley, Madison. — American Library Association
group, Chautauqua, N. Y., July 5-9, 1898.

Ehen D. Pierce, Arcadia. — Three views of Mount Trempealeau and
neighborhood.

Miss Eliza R. Scidmore, Yokohama, Japan. — Group of senators and
representatives in congress, from Wisconsin, 39th congress, 1865-67.

Miss 8usan A. Sterling, Madison. — Twenty-two photographs of Wis-
consin people, and ten engravings of prominent American characters.

Reuben O. Thwaites, Madison. — Photograph of Alexander T. Irwin,
of Green Bay, from oil portrait in society's museum; also, photographs
of Z. M. Pike, Black Hawk, John C. Fremont, Boone's fort; and sixty-
nine illustrative of Lewis and Clark's trail in 1804-06.

A. J. Turner, Portage. — Photographs of the plats of Wisconsinapolis,
and Winnebago City, Wis.

Ellis B. Usher, La Crosse. — Six stereoscope views of La Crosse and
the region traversed by Wisconsin Central Railway.

0. D. Wheeler, St. PauL— Fifty-seven photographs illustrating the
trail of Lewis and Clark; also, seven scenes on the Columbia River.

Miscellaneous Gifts 73

Purchased. — Photograph of McCormick pottery collection in society's
museum; eleven of scenes on the Ohio River.

Broadsides

Miss Blanchard Harper, Madison. — Stockholder's (Mrs. W. P. Lynde)
certificate in the Centennial Exposition corporation, 1876.

N. B. Van Slyke, Madison. — Framed facsimile of the Great Magna
Charta.

J. R. Waller, Minneapolis. — Framed copy of the Daily Citizen, pub-
lished at Vicksburg, Miss., July 2, 1863.

Historical Relics

Mrs. Jessie S. Baker, Madison. — Tea tray belonging to Mrs. Samuel
Baker, brought from Boston to Mineral Point in 1838.

Bethany College, Lindshorg, Kansas. — Two stones, evidently used for
grinding corn.

O. T. Dodge, Columbus. — Stove used in heating the first state capitol,
purchased about 1860 by G. T. Dodge and by him taken to Columbus,
Wis., where it was used in heating a store until given by the owner
to the society.

Nils Holm, Chicago (deposit). — Norwegian sledge, with harness, from
owner's family farm near Trondjhem; the sledge bears the date 1707,
and the harness is thought to be as old,

R. L. McCormick, Hayward. — Ancient and modern pottery from the
Pueblo and Zuni Indians of Arizona and New Mexico: 5 pitchers from
St. Johns and Oak Creek, Ariz.; 5 water bottles from mounds near
Winslow, Ariz., and the old Puye ruins, N. Mex.; 7 vases from mounds
near St. Johns and Oak Creek, Ariz., and from old Pajarito, old Puye
ruin, N. Mex.; 5 bowls from Lower Verde, Ariz., and from ruins near
Abiquiu, N. Mex.; 2 ladles from Winslow, Ariz.; 5 sacred pieces from
St. Johns, Ariz., and from Pajarito ruins and a mound near Manuilito,
N. Mex.; large cooking vessel from Oak Creek, Ariz.; pitcher with ani-
mal form as handle and two other pieces from N. Mex.; 2 axes from
old Canones ruin. N. Mex.; skull from Puye ruin; tom-tom from Taos;
war club from Picoris; squaw rattle from San Domingo; 32 modern
pieces from San Ildefonso, San Juan, San Fillepe, Cochiti, Santa Clara,
Teseque, San Domingo, Zia, Namba, San Dia, Santa Ana; 2 large and
2 medium ollas made by "Frog People" (1 broken); 3 ollas made by
"Deer People;" 3 small ollas made by "Butterfly People;" 1 small olla
made by "Bear" and "Wolf People;" 1 piece representing Blind Hunter;
1 arrow point and 5 small pieces. All the ollas are from the Zunl In-
dians, but 4 pieces are not located.

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President Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. — Seven plates from dinner
sets especially made for use at the White House under different presi-
dents: Lincoln 1, Hayes 2, Grant 2, Cleveland 1, Benj. Harrison, 1.

Mrs. Anna R. Sheldon, Madison (deposit) — Two mugs of Lowestoft
ware, date of manufacture about 1680. They belonged to Stephen Hop-
kins, governor of Rhode Island (1707-85).

Miss Ellen A. Stone, East Lexington, Mass. — Kitchen furnishings from
Stephen Robbins's homestead, Lexington, Mass., 181 articles in all, as
follows: Cradle; fork; quilting frames; iron shovel for taking pies,
bread, etc., from oven; hoe; kitchen broom; peat knife; flail; rake;
wooden shovel; shovel for removing coals; tin kitchen (bake oven) to
roast meat on spit; 3 pot hooks for crane; splint bottom chair; splint
bottom rocking chair; old hair sieve; hair trunk; sugar box; wooden
chest; bureau and chest combined; foot stool with old canvas top;
tin baker for chops; iron skillet to boil eggs, make gravy, etc; iron
goose for home use; checker board; wooden box with handle for do-
mestic use; tin candle molds; new door latch, made after old one;
wooden door lock; chopping tray; ratchet for horses (swamp shoes);
hatchet; spice grinder; kitchen bellows; large adze; hand made iron
cleaver; small adze; hand coffee mill; foot stove; pewter plate;
wrought iron toaster; iron fork for cooking; fork (broken) ; candle
case to hang against the wall; mortar and pestle for kitchen use; pat-
ent coffee mill; iron gridiron (small, hand wrought); earthen jug for
dresser; sickle; India rubber overshoes; 2 lanterns; pair of balances
with weights; nutmeg grater; shears; curling iron for ruffles or hair;
razor case; dinner horn; 4 tin measures for household use; 2 kitchen
graters; skewers and skewer hook; clock keys (in bag); wooden clock
works; gimlets; shot flask; home made bell from sleigh bell; hand
wrought hook for hams, etc.; samples of home made canvas; hand
wrought nails; horn charger; noggin or piggin to dip water; home
made rolling pin; pair iron steel-yards with weights; 3 wooden pad-
dles; wooden stick for mixing bread (ancestor of spoon); stocking
stretcher (wooden) ; chopping knife; pair butter pats; tin shaving mug;
2 traps for animals; tin baker for cakes; reel, to wind yarn into skeins;
curious mouse trap; covering for sailor's hand when sewing; tin drip-
ping pan set under gridiron to catch gravy; farmers' whip; 2 ft. stick;
stick to measure wood; 3 fans; iron kitchen candlestick; ear trumpet;
trowel; glass tumbler; boot-jack; log- wood for coloring; iron snuffers
and tray; 2 butcher knives; case knife; razor; flax found in chest;
1 square; pencil made by Thoreau; piece of wood cut in strange shape;
pair of cards for carding wool; bedroom candlestick; wall candlestick;
iron kitchen candlestick; spectacle case; wall basket for kitchen;
comb; pair iron spectacles, with strings; ladies' pocket; neckerchief;
pair home made ladies' shoes; man's handkerchief; shoe buckles; 3

Miscellaneous Gifts 75

augurs; homespun tow bag; card of buttons; early American-made
wrapping paper; 1 copy book; 1 quill pen; woman's waist of purple
camlet; flat iron with removable interior; 4 muslin caps; 2 bonnet
pins; old slate; copperplate printed curtain; pair small clothes; ruf-
fled shirt (linen); clothes basket; beeswax for sewing; 5 weights for
balance; wooden box marked John Barret; iron pot (large) to boil
meat, flsh, soup, etc.; pair iron kitchen tongs; brass skimmer; iron
frying pan with long handle; heckleboard; tripod to set pots in when
hot; iron kitchen shovel; logger head or flip iron; spit of tin kitchen;
wooden tray to lift flour meal, etc.; small brass kettle to boil water;
bake kettle (iron) with iron cover, or Dutch oven, to bake bread;
wooden pail for general use; chum and dasher; demijohn (without
wicker cover); stick to smooth feather bed; walking cane; 4 candle
rods used in dipping candles; home made bush scythe; tinder box
(with flint and steel); hand mirror; comb and snuff box; home made
apple picker; peat used for fuel; wooden spigot; 5 wooden measures
(half bushel, peck, 4 qt., 2 qt, 1 qt) ; tin baker for pastry; hand
shaved basket; bed screw or wrench (with bed pin) ; hand made iron
hinge; trammel used on crane for pot; axe; large brass kettle to boil
clothes or preserves; iron tea-kettle with iron to tip; iron spade,
wrought iron kitchen crane; iron griddle to fry cakes; cheese box;
wooden bowl for washing dishes; wooden butter bowl; small iron ket-
tle to set on hearth; pot-hook for crane; iron spider to bake hoe cakes;
iron furnace to heat flat irons or to cook small things; pair of andirons
(iron); very small kettle; small iron pot for general cooking; iron
kettle to boil water and cook vegetables; hay hook; deck of cards; brass
dish with open-work handle.

W. W. Warner, Madison. — Old piano, the first brought to Madison.
It was owned by Mrs. George C. Russell of South Madison, who brought
it here in 1853. The instrument is one of Lemuel Gilbert's "patent ac-
tions," has a solid mahogany case, and at the time it was bought cost
$650.

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Periodicals and Newspapers cur-
rently received at the Library

[Corrected to October 1, 1903.]

Periodicals

Academy (w). London.
Acadiensis (q). St. John, N. B.
Advance Advocate (m). St. Louis.
Alumni Report (m). Philadelphia.
American Anthropologist (q). New York.

Antiquarian (bi-m). Chicago.

Catholic Historical Researches (q). Philadelphia.

Catholic Historical Society Record (q). Philadelphia.

Catholic Quarterly Review. Philadelphia.

Co-operator (w). Lewiston, Maine.

Economic Association, Publications (q). New York.

Economist (w). New York.

Federationist (m). Washington.

Geographical Society, Bulletin (bi-m). New York.

Historical Magazine (q). Nashville.

Historical Review (q). New York.

Issue (m). Columbus.

Journal of Theology (q). Chicago.

Lumberman (w). Chicago.

Missionary (m). New York.

Monthly Magazine. Washington.

Philosophical Society Proceedings. Philadelphia.

Pressman (m). St. Louis.

School Board Journal (m). Milwaukee.

Statistical Association, Publications (q). Boston.

Thresherman (m). Madison.

Annals of Iowa (q). Des Moines.

of St. Joseph (m). West De Pere.

Antiquary (m). London.

Arena (m). Boston.

Periodicals Received 77

Athenaeum (w). London.

Atlantic Monthly. Boston.

Baltimore & Ohio Ry., Relief Dept. Statement of Disbursements (m).

Baltimore, Enoch Pratt Free Library Bulletin (q).

Berkshire Athenaeum, Quarterly Bulletin. Pittsfield, Mass.

Bible Society Record (m). New York.

Biblia (m). Meriden, Conn.

Bibliotheca Sacra (q). Oberlin.

Black and Red (m). Watertown.

Blackwood's Magazine (m). Edinburgh.

Board of Trade Journal (m). Portland, Maine,

Bookman (m). New York.

Bookseller (m). Chicago.

(m). London.

Boston Ideas (w),

Public Library, Monthly iiulletin.

Brooklyn (N. Y.) Public Library, Co-operative Bulletin (m).

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Journal (m). Cleveland.

Browning's Magazine (m). Milwaukee.

Buchdrucker-Zeitung (si-m). Indianapolis.

Buenos Ayres (S. A.) Monthly Bulletin of Municipal Statistics.

Buffalo (N. Y.) Grosvenor Library Bulletin (q).

Bulletin (m). Evansville.

(m). Nashville.

of Bibliography (q). Boston.

Bureau of American Republics, Monthly Bulletin. Washington.

By the Wayside (m). Milwaukee.

California State Library, Quarterly Bulletin. Sacramento.

Cambridge (Mass.) Public Library Bulletin (m).

Camp Cleghorn Assembly Herald (m). Waupaca.

Canadian Bookseller (m). Toronto.

Magazine (m). Toronto.

Patent Office Record (m). Ottawa.

Carpenter (m). Indianapolis.
Catholic World (m). New York.
Century (m). New York.
Chambers's Journal (m). Edinburgh.
Charities (w). New York.
Chautauquan (m). Springfield, Ohio.
Chicago, Statistics of City of (bi-m).
Christian Register (w). Boston.
Church Building Quarterly. New York.

News (m). St. Louis.

Times (m). Milwaukee.

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Cincinnati Public Library, Library Leaflet (m).

^ Quarterly Bulletin.

Cleveland Terminal & Valley Ry. Co., Relief Dept. Statement of Re-
ceipts and Disbursements (m). .

Clinique (m). Chicago.

Coast Seamen's Journal (w). San Francisco.

College Chips (m). Decorah, Iowa.

Columbia University Quarterly. New York.

, Studies in Political Science. New York.

Commons (ra). Chicago.

Comptes Rendus de I'Athenge Louisianais (m). New Orleans.

Connecticut Magazine (m). Hartford.

Contemporary Review (m). London.

Cook's Excursionist (m). New York.

Co-operator (m). Burley, Washington.

Cosmopolitan (m). New York.

Country Life in America (m). New York.

Craftsman (m). New York.

Critic (m). New York.

Cumulative Index to Periodicals (m). Cleveland.

Current Literature (m). New York.

Dedham (Mass.) Historical Register (q).

Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblatter (m). Chicago.

Dial (si-m). Chicago.

Dialect Notes (ann). New Haven.

Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette (m). New York.

Direct Legislation Record (q). Newark.

Directory Bulletin (q). Milwaukee.

Dover (N. H.). Public Library Bulletin (tri-y).

Dublin Review (q).

Dunn County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, Bulletin

(q). Menomonie.
Eclectic Magazine (m). Boston.
Edinburgh Review (q).
English Historical Review (q). London.
Era (m). Philadelphia.
Essex Antiquarian (q). Salem, Mass.

Institute Historical Collections (q). Salem, Mass.

Evangelical Episcopalian (m). Chicago.

Evangeliets Sendebud (m). College View, Neb.

Evangelisk Luthersk Kirketidende (w). Decorah, Iowa.

Fame (m). New York.

Flaming Sword (w). Chicago.

Forestry and Irrigation (m). Washington.

Periodicals Received 79

Fortnightly Review (m). London.
Forum (q). New York.
Fourth Estate (w). New York.
Free Russia (m). London.

Society (w). Chicago.

Friends' Intelligencer and Journal (w). Philadelphia.

Fruitman and Garden Guest (m). Mount Vernon, Iowa.

Genealogical Quarterly Magazine. Burlington, Vermont.

Gentleman's Magazine (m). London.

Gideon Quarterly, Madison.

Good Government (m). New York.

Granite Cutter's Journal (m). Washington.

Monthly. Concord, Mass,

Grant Family Magazine (bi-m). Montclair, N. J.
Gulf States Historical Magazine (bi-m). Montgomery, Ala.
Hackensack (N. J.) Johnson Public Library, Bulletin (bi-m).
Harper's Magazine (m). New York.

Weekly. New York.

Hartford (Conn.) Seminary Record (q).

Public Library Bulletin (m).

Harvard University Calendar (w). Cambridge, Mass.

Haverhill (Mass.) Public Library Bulletin (q).

Helena (Mont.) Public Library Bulletin (si-y).

Helping Hand (m). Ashland.

Hiram House Life (bi-m). Cleveland.

Historic Quarterly. Manchester, N. H.

Hoard's Dairyman (w). Fort Atkinson.

Home Missionary (q). New York.

Visitor (m). Chicago.

House Beautiful (m). Chicago.
Illustrated London News (w). London.

Official Journal (Patents) (w). London.

Illustreret Familie- Journal (w). Minneapolis.
Independent (w). New York.

Index Library (q). Birmingham, Eng.

Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Correction (q). Indianapolis.

International Good Templar (m). Milwaukee.

Quarterly. Burlington, Vermont.

Socialist Review (m). Chicago.

Wood- Worker (m). Chicago.

Iowa Journal of History and Politics (q). Iowa City.

Masonic Library, Quarterly Bulletin. Cedar Rapids.

Iron Molders' Journal (m). Cincinnati.

Irrigation Age (m). Chicago.

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Jerseyman (q). Flemington, N. J.

Johns Hopkins University Circulars (m). Baltimore.

Journal of American Folk-Lore (q). Boston. \

of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders (m). Kansas City.

of Cincinnati Society of Natural History (q). Cincinnati.

of Political Economy (q). Chicago.

of the Franklin Institute (m). Philadelphia.

of Switchmen's Union (m). Buffalo.

of Zoophily (m). Philadelphia.

Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library, Quarterly.

University Science Bulletin (bi-m). Lawrence.

Kentucky State Historical Society Register (q). Frankfort.
^ Record (tri-y). Frankfort.

Kimball Family News (m). Topeka.
Kingsley House Record (m). Pittsburg.
Lake Breeze (m). Sheboygan.
Lamp (m). New York.

(m). Randolph.

Letters on Brewing (q). Milwaukee.

Lewisiana (m). Guilford, Conn.

Liberia (bi-y). Washington.

Library Journal (m). New York.

News (m). Free Public Library, Newark, N. J.

Record, Bulletin of Jersey City (N. J.) Public Library (bi-m).

Light (m). La Crosse.

Literary Digest (w). New York.

News (m). New York.

Llttell's Living Age (w). Boston.
Living Church Annual. Milwaukee.
Locomotive (m). Hartford.

Firemen's Magazine (m). Indianapolis.

Los Angeles Public Library, Bulletin (m).

Saturday Post (m).

Lost Cause (m). Louisville, Kentucky.
Lower Norfolk County Virginia Antiquary. Richmond.
Lucifer (w). Chicago.
Lutheraneren (w). Minneapolis.

McClure's Magazine (m). New York.* '

Machinists' Monthly Journal. Cleveland.
Macmillan's Magazine (m). London.
Manchester (Eng.) Literary and Philosophical Society.
Manitoba Gazette (w). Winnipeg.

Marathon County, School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, Bul-
letin (q). Wausau.

Periodicals Received 8 1

Masonic Tidings (m). Milwaukee.

Mayflower Descendant (q). Boston.

Medford (Mass.) Historical Register (q).

Mercury (m). East Div. High School, Milwaukee.

Methodist Review (bi-m). New York.

Michigan Dairy and Food Dept, Bulletin (m). Lansing.

Milton (Wis.) College Review (m).

Milwaukee Health Department Monthly Report.

Medical Journal (m).

Public Library, Quarterly Index of Additions.

Missionary Herald (m). Boston.

Monona Lake Quarterly, Madison.

Motor (m). Madison.

Motorman and Conductor (m). Detroit.

Municipality (m). Madison.

Munsey's Magazine (m). New York.

Nashua (N. H.) Public Library Quarterly Bulletin.

Nation (w). New York.

National Assoc, of Wool Manufacturers, Bulletin (q). Boston.

Bulletin of Charities and Correction (q). Chicago.

Glass Budget (w). Pittsburg.

Review (m). London.

Nature Study (m). Manchester, N. H.

Nebraska Bulletin of Labor. Lincoln.

New Bedford (Mass.) Free Public Library, Monthly Bulletin.

New Century Path (w). Point Loma, Cal.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register (q). Boston.

Magazine (m). Boston.

New Hampshire Library Commission, Bulletin (q). Concord.

New Jersey Historical Society, Proceedings. Paterson.

New Philosophy (q). Lancaster, Pa.

New Shakespeareana (q). Westfield, N. J.

New York Dept. of Labor, Bulletin (q). New York.

Genealogical and Biographical Record (q). New York.

— — Public Library Bulletin (m). New York.

State Board of Health, Bulletin (m). New York.

State, Department of Health, Bulletin (m). Albany.

Nineteenth Century (m). London.

Normal Advance (m). Oshkosh.

Pointer (m). Stevens Point.

North American Review (m). New York.
North Carolina Booklet (m). Raleigh.

Historical and Genealogical Register (q). Edenton.

Northwestern Miller (w). Minneapolis.

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Notes and Queries (m). London.

(m). Manchester, N. H.

Nouvelle-France (m). Quebec.

Oflacial Journal of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper-
hangers of America (m). La Fayette, Ind.
Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. Columbus.

Farmer (w). Cleveland.

Old Continental (bi-m). Des Moines.

"Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly. Columbus.

Open Shelf. Cleveland Public Library (q).

Oregon Historical Society, Quarterly. Portland.

Osteopathic World (m). Minneapolis. .

Our Church Life (m). Madison.

Day (m). Chicago.

Young People (m). Milwaukee.

Out West (m). San Francisco.
Outing (m). New York.

Outlook, (w). New York.

Overland Monthly. San Francisco.

Owl (q). Kewaunee.

Peabody Institute Library, Bulletin (q). Danvers, Mass.

Pennsylvania Magazine of History (q). Philadelphia.

People's Press (w). Chicago.

Philadelphia Library Company, Quarterly Bulletin.

Philippine Islands, Official Gazette (m). Manila.

Philosopher (m). Wausau.

Pilgrim (m). Battle Creek, Mich.

Pittsburgh & Western Ry. Co., Relief Dept. Statement of Receipts and

Disbursements (m).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Library, Monthly Bulletin.
Political Science Quarterly. New York.
Pratt Institute Free Library, Co-operative Bulletin (m). Brooklyn,

N. Y.

Monthly. Brooklyn, N. Y.

Presbyterian and Reformed Review (q). Philadelphia.
Princeton (N. J.) University Bulletin (m).
Providence (R. I.) Public Libraries Bulletin (m).
Public (w). Chicago.
Public Libraries (m). Chicago.

Opinion (w). New York.

Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record (w). London.

Weekly. New York.

Quarterly Bibliography of Books Reviewed. Bloomington, Ind.

Review. New York.

Periodicals Received 8 3

Queen's Quarterly. Kingston, Ont.

Railroad Telegrapher (m). Peoria, 111.

Railway Conductor (m). Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

R^cherches Historiques, Bulletin (m). L6vis, Que.

Record and Guide (w). New York.

Records of the Past (m). Washington.

Retail Clerks' International Advocate (m). Denver.

Review of Reviews (m). New York.

R6vue Canadienne (m). Montreal.

Round Table (m). Beloit.

St. Andrew's Cross (m). Pittsburgh.

Salem (Mass.) Public Library Bulletin (m).

Salvation (m). New York.

San Francisco Public Library, Bulletin (m).

San Jose (Cal.) Library Bulletin (m).

Sanitary Inspector (q). Augusta.

Savings and Loan Review (m). New York.

School Bell Echoes (m). Merrill.

Scottish Record Society (q). Edinburgh.

Scribner's Magazine (m). New York.

Sentinel of Christian Liberty (m). New York.

Sewanee (Tenn.) Review (q).

Single Tax Review (q). New York.

Skandinavisk Farmer- Journal (m). Minneapolis.

Smalley's Magazine (m). St. Paul.

Sound Currency (q). New York.

South Atlantic Quarterly. Durham, N. C.

South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine (q). Charleston.

South Dakotan (m). Mitchell.

Southern History Association, Publications (bi-m). Washington.

Letter (m). Tuskegee.

Missioner (m). Lawrenceville, Va.

Sphinx (si-m). Madison.

Spirit of Missions (m). New York.

Standard (w). Chicago.

Stone-cutters' Journal (m). Washington.

Stoughton (Wis.) High School Days (m).

Sunset (m). San Francisco.

Tailor (m). Bloomington, 111.

Tehaperance Cause (m). Boston.

Texas State Historical Association Quarterly. Austin.

Times (w). London.

Tradesman (si-m). Chattanooga, Tenn.

Transalleghany Historical Magazine (q). Morgantown, W. Va.

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Travelers' Record (m). Hartford.
Typographical Journal (m). Indianapolis.
Unionist (m). Green Bay.
U. S. Census Bulletin.

Commerce of Island of Cuba, Monthly Summary.

Dept. of State, Consular Heports (m).

— — Commerce of the Philippine Islands, Monthly Summary.
• Congressional Record (d).

Dept. of Agriculture, Climate and Crop Service, Oregon Section

(m).

Climate and Crop Service, Wisconsin Section (w and m).

Crop Reporter (m).

Experiment Station, Record (m).

• • Library Bulletin (m).

Monthly Weather Review.

Dept. of Labor, Bulletin (bi-m).

Dept. of State, Consular Reports (m).

Patent Office, Official Gazette (w).

Supt. of Documents. Catalogue of U. S. Documents (m).

Treasury Dept., Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance.

Public Health Reports (w).

University of Tennessee Record (q). Knoxville.

of Virginia, Bulletin (q). Charlottesville.

Vaccination (m). Terre Haute, Ind.
Vanguard (m). Green Bay.

Vermont Antiquarian (q). Burlington.

Views (m). Washington.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (q). Richmond.

Wage Earners' Self-Culture Clubs (m). St. Louis.

Worker (m). Detroit.

Warren County Library Bulletin (q). Monmouth, 111.
West Virginia Historical Magazine (q). Charleston.
Westminster Review (m). London.
Whist (m). Milwaukee.
White Family (q). Haverhill, Mass.

Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Osterhout Free Library, Bulletins (m).
William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Williams-
burg, Va.
Wilmington Institute Free Library Bulletin (m).
Wilshire's Monthly Magazine. New York.
Wilson Bulletin (q). Oberlin.
Wisconsin Alumni Magazine (m). Madison.

Archaeologist (q). Milwaukee.

Citizen (m). Brodhead.

Newspapers Received 85

Epworthian (m). Waupaca.

Horticulturist (m). Baraboo.

Journal of Education (m). Madison.

Medical Recorder (m). Janesville.

Natural History Society Bulletin (q). Milwaukee.

Presbyterin Review (bi-m). Appleton.

Woman's Tribune (si-m). Washington.

World's Fair Bulletin (m). St. Louis.

Work (m). New York.

Young Churchman (w). Milwaukee.

Eagle (m). Sinsinawa.

Zeitschrift fiir Ethnology (si-m). Berlin.
Zion Parish Paper (m). Oconomowoc.

Wisconsin Papers

The following Wisconsin newspapers are, througli the gift
of the publishers, received at the library and bound ; all of them
are weekly editions, except where otherwise noted :

Albany — Albany Vindicator.

Algoma — Algoma Record.

Alma — Buffalo County Journal.

Antigo — Antigo Herald; Antigo Republican; Weekly News Item.

Appleton — Appleton Crescent (d and w) ; Appleton Volksfreund;
Appleton Weekly Post; Gegenwart; Montags-Blatt.

Arcadia — Arcadian; Leader.

Ashland — Ashland Daily Press; Ashland News (d); Ashland
Weekly Press.

Augusta — Eagle.

Baldioin — Baldwin Bulletin.

Baraboo — Baraboo Republic; Sauk County Democrat.

Barron — Barron County Shield.

Bayfield — Bayfield County Press.

Beaver Dam — Beaver Dam Argus; Dodge County Citizen.

Belleville— Suga.T River Recorder.

Beloit—Beloit Free Press (d and w).

Benson— Benton Advocate.

Berlin— Berlin- Weekly Journal.

Black River Falls — Badger State Banner; Jackson County Journal.

Bloomer — Bloomer Advance.

Bloomington — Bloomington Record.

Boscohel—Boscohel Sentinel; Dial-Enterprise.

Brandon— Brandon Times.

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Brodhead — Brodhead Independent; Brodhead Register; Wisconsin
Citizen (m).

Brooklyn — Brooklyn News.

Burlington — Standard Democrat (German and English editions).

Cambria — Cambria News.

Cashton — Cashton Record.

Cassville — Cassville Index.

Cedarburg — Cedarburg News.

Centuria — Centuria Outlook.

Chetek — Chetek Alert.

Chilton — Chilton Times.

Chippewa Falls — Catholic Sentinel; Chippewa Times; Weekly Her-
ald.

Clinton — Clinton Herald; Rock County Banner.

Colby — ^Phonograph.

Columbus — Columbus Democrat.

Crandon — Forest Republican.

Cranmoor — Cranberry Grower (m).

Cumberland — Cumberland Advocate.

Dale — Dale Recorder.

Darlington — Darlington Democrat; Republican- Journal; Republican
Farmer.

De Forest — De Forest Times.

Delavan — Delavan Enterprise; Delavan Republican; Wisconsin
Times.

De Pere — Brown County Democrat; De Pere News.

Dodgeville — Dodgeville Chronicle; Dodgeville Sun; Iowa County
Republic. J

Durand — Entering Wedge; Pepin County Courier. '

Eagle River — Vilas County News.

Eau Claire — Telegram (d and w) ; Weekly Leader. J

Edgerton — Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter.

Elkhorn — Blade; Elkhorn Independent.

Ellsworth — Pierce County Herald.

Elroy — Elroy Tribune.

Evansville — Badger; Enterprise; Evansville Review; Tribune.

Fennimore — Fennimore Times.

Florence — Florence Mining News.

Fond du Lac — Commonwealth (d and s-w) ; Daily Reporter.

Fort Atkinson — Jefferson County Union.

Fountain City — Alma Blaetter; Buffalo County Republikaner.

Frederic — Frederic Star.

Friendship — Adams County Press. ^

Olenwood — Glenwood Tribune.

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Grand Rapids — Wood County Reporter.

Orantshurg — Burnett County Sentinel; Journal of Burnett County.

Green Bay — Green Bay Advocate (s-w); Green Bay Review; Green
Bay Semi- Weekly Gazette.

Greenwood — Greenwood Gleaner.

Hancock — Hancock News.

Hartford — Hartford Press.

Hudson — Hudson Star-Times; True Republican.

Hurley — Iron County Republican; Montreal River Miner.

Independence — Independence News Wave.

Janesville — Janesville Daily Gazette; Recorder and Times.

Jefferson — Jefferson Banner.

Juneau — Independent; Juneau Telephone.

Kaukauna — Kaukauna Sun; Kaukauna Times.

Kenosha — Kenosha Evening News (d); Kenosha Union; Telegraph-
Courier.

Kewaunee — Kewaunee Enterprise; Kewaunsk6 Listy.

Kilbourn — Mirror-Gazette.

Knapp — Knapp News.

La Crosse — La Crosse Chronicle (d and w) ; Herold and Volks-
freund; Nord-Stern; Nord-Stern Blatter.

Ladysmith — Gates County Journal.

Lake Geneva — Herald.

Lake Mills — Lake Mills Leader.

Lake Nebagamon — Nebagamon Enterprise.

Lancaster — Grant County Herald; Weekly Teller.

Linden — South West Wisconsin.

Lodi — Lodi Valley News.

Madison — Amerika; Daily Cardinal; Madison Democrat (d); North-
western Mail; Scandinavian American; State; Weekly Madisonian;
Wisconsin Botschafter; Wisconsin Farmer; Wisconsin Staats-Zeitung;
Wisconsin State Journal (d and w).

Manitowoc — Manitowoc Citizen; Manitowoc Daily Herald; Manito-
woc Pilot; Manitowoc Post; Nord-Westen; Wahrheit.

Marinette — Forposten; Eagle-Star (d and w).

Marshfield — Marshfield Times.

Mauston — Juneau County Chronicle; Mauston Star.

Medford—Tz.y\oT County Star-News; Waldbote.

Menomonie — Dunn County News; Menomonie Times; Nord-Stern.

Merrill — Merrill Advocate; Wisconsin Thalbote.

Merrillan — Wisconsin Leader.

Middleton — Middleton Times-Herald.

Milton — ^Weekly Telephone.

Milwaukee — Acker-und Gartenbau-Zeitung (s-m); Catholic Citizen;

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Columbia; Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeinde-Blatt (s-m) ; Evening
Wisconsin (d); Excelsior; Germania (s-w); Germania und Abend Post
(d); Kuryer Polski (d); Milwaukee Daily News; Milwaukee Free
Press (d) ; Milwaukee Herald (s-w and d); Milwaukee Journal (d);
Milwaukee Sentinel (d); Seebote (s-w); Social Democratic Herald;
Union Signal; Vorwarts; Wahrheit; Wisconsin Banner und Volks-
freund (s-w); Wisconsin Weekly Advocate.
Mineral Point — Iowa County Democrat; Mineral Point Tribune.
Minoqua — Minoqua Times.
Mondovi — Mondovi Herald.

Monroe — Journal-Gazette; Monroe Daily Journal; Monroe Evening
Times; Monroe Sentinel.
Montello — Montello Express.
Mount Horel) — Mount Horeb Times.
Necedah — Necedah Republican.
Neenah — Friend and Guide.

Neillsville — Neillsville Times; Republican and Press.
New Lisl)cn — New Lisbon Times.
New London — Press; New London Republican.
New Richmond — Republican- Voice (s-w).
North La Crosse — Weekly Argus.

Oconomowoc — Oconomowoc Enterprise; Wisconsin Free Press.
Oconto — Oconto County Reporter.

Oconto Falls — Oconto Falls Herald.

Omro — Omro Herald; Omro Journal.

Oregon — Oregon Observer.

Osceola — Osceola Sun; Polk County Press.

Oshkosh—DsLny Northwestern; Weekly Times; Wisconsin Telegraph.

Palmyra — Palmyra Enterprise.

Pepin — Pepin Star.

Peshtigo — Peshtigo Times.

Phillips — Bee; Phillips Times.

Pittsville — Pittsville Wisconsin Times.

Plainfield — Sun.

Platteville—Graint County News; Grant County Witness.

Plymouth— Plymouth Reporter; Plymouth Review.

Portage — Portage Weekly Democrat; Wisconsin State Register.

Port Washington— Port Washington Star; Port Washington Zeitung.

Poynette — Poynette Press.

Prairie du Chien — Courier; Prairie du Chien Union.

Prentice — Prentice Calumet.

Prescott — Prescott Tribune.

Princeton — Princeton Republic; Princeton Star.

Racine — Racine Correspondent; Racine Journal; Racine Daily

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Times; Slavie (s-w) ; Wisconsin Agriculturist.
Reedsburg — Reedsburg Free Press.
Rhinelander — Rhinelander Herald; Vindicator.
Rice Lake — ^Rice Lake Chronotype; Rice Lake Leader.

Richland Center — Republican Observer; Richland Rustic.

Rio — Badger Blade; Columbia County Reporter.

Ripon — Ripon Commonwealth; Ripon Press.

River Falls — River Falls Journal.

St. Croix Falls — St. Croix Valley Standard.

Shawano — Volksbote-Wochenblatt.

Sheboygan — National Demokrat; Sheboygan Herald; Sheboygan Tel-
egram (d) ; Sheboygan Zeitung.

Sheboygan Falls — Sheboygan County News.

Shell Lake — Shell Lake Watchman; Washburn County Register.

Shiocton — Shiocton News.

Shullsburg — Pick and Gad.

Soldiers Grove — Kickapoo Valley Journal.

Sparta — Monroe County Democrat; Sparta Herald.

Spring Green — Weekly Home News.

Stanley — Stanley Republican.

Stevens Point — Gazette; Stevens Point Journal.

Stoughton — Stoughton Courier; Stoughton Hub.

Sturgeon Bay — Advocate; Door County Democrat.

Sun Prairie — Sun Prairie Countryman.

Superior — Evening Telegram (d); Inland Ocean; Superior Tidende.

Thorp — Thorp Courier.

Tomah — Tomah Journal.

Tomahawk — Tomahawk.

Trempealeau — Trempealeau Herald; Trempealeau Gazette.

Two Rivers — Chronicle.

Union Grove — Union Grove Enterprise.

Yiola — Intelligencer.

Yiroqua — Vernon County Censor; Viroqua Republican.

Warrens — Warrens Index.

Washburn — Washburn Times.

Water ford — Waterford Post.

Waterloo — Waterloo Journal.

Waiertown — Watertown Gazette; Watertown Republican; Water-
town Weltbiirger.

Waukesha — Waukesha Dispatch (s-m) ; Waukesha Freeman; Wauke-
sha Weekly Press.

Waupaca — Waupaca Post; Waupaca Record; Waupaca Republican.

Waupun — Waupun Leader.

Wausau — Central Wisconsin; Deutsche Pioneer; Wausau Pilot; Wau-

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sau Record (d and w). ' ^

Wautoma — Waushara Argus. i

West Be/i(Z— Washington County Pilot; West Bend News.
Weyauwega — Deutsche Chronik; Weyauwega Chronicle.
Whitewater— Whitew&ter Gazette; Whitewater Register.
Wilmot — Agitator.
Wonewoc — Wonewoc Reporter.

Other Newspapers

are received as follows, either by gift or purchase:

Alabama.
Birmingham — Labor Advocate.

Alaska.
Sitka — Alaskan.

California.

Los Angeles — Los Angeles Socialist.

San Francisco — San Francisco Chronicle (d); San Francisco Tage-
blatt.

Colorado.
Denver — Weekly Rocky Mountain News.

District of Columbia.
Washington — Washington Post (d).

Georgia.
Atlanta — Atlanta Constitution (d).

Illinois.

Chicago — Chicago-Posten; Chicago Record-Herald (d); Chicago
Tribune (d); Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung (d); Christelige Talsmand;
Fackel; Folke-Vennen; Hemlandet; Skandinaven (d and s-w) ; Svens-
ka Amerikanaren; Vorbote; Chicago Socialist; Courier-Canadien.

Oaleshurg — Galesburg Labor News.

Quincy — Quincy Labor News.

Indiana.
Indianapolis — Union.

Iowa.
Cedar Falls — Dannevirke.
Decorah — Decorah-Posten ( s-w) .
Lake Mills — Republikaneren.

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Kansas.
Independence — Star and Kansan.

Louisiana.
New Orleans — Times-Democrat (d).

Massachusetts.
Boston— Boston Herald (d); Boston Transcript.
Oroton — Groton Landmark.
Holyoke — Biene.

Michigan.

Detroit — Herold.
Marquette — Mining Journal.

Minnesota.

Duluth — Labor World.

Minneapolis — Folkebladet; Minneapolis Tidende; Nye Normanden;
Ugebladet.

St. Paul — Minnesota Stats Tidning; Nordvesten; Pioneer Press (d);
Twin City Guardian.

Winona — Westlicher Herold; Sonntags-Winona.

Nebraska.

Omaha — Danske Pioneer.

New York.

Buffalo — Arbeiter Zeitung.

New York — Arbetaren; Freiheit; Irish World; New York Tribune
(d); New Yorker Volkszeitung (d); Vorwarts; Weekly People;
Worker.

North Dakota.
Grand Forks — Normanden.
Hillshoro — Statstidende.

Ohio.

Chillicothe — Mystic Worker (m).

Cincinnati — Brauer-Zeitung.

Cleveland — Arbeiter Socialistische Zeitung; Bakers' Journal; Cleye-
land Citizen.

Pennsylvania.

Erie — Public Ownership (m).
Lancaster — Labor Leader.
Pittsburg — National Labor Tribune.

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South Carolina.
Charleston — Weekly News and Courier.

South Dakota.
Sioux Falls — Fremad; Syd Dakota Ekko.

Utah.

Bait Lake City— Salt Lake Semi-Weekly Tribune; Deseret Evening
News.

Washington.
Home — Demonstrator.
Parkland — ^Pacific Herold.
Spokane — Freemen's Labor Journal; New Time.

Canada.
Montreal — Cultivateur; Gazette (d).
Toronto — Daily Mail and Empire.
"Victoria — Semi-Weekly Colonist.

England.
London — Times (w).

Gebmany.
Frankfort— 'WochenhlSitt der Frankfurter Zeitung.

Pobto Rico.

San Juan — San Juan News (d).

Tabular summary of foregoing lists

Periodicals ^^'^

Wisconsin newspapers 328

Other newspapers ^

Total '^^^

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Wisconsin Necrology, 1903^

By Mary Stuart Foster, Library Assistant

A. E. Bovay, born in Jefferson county. New York, July 12, 1818; died
at Santa Monica, California, January 29, 1903. He was graduated from
Norwich university in 1841; afterwards was principal of the Glens
Falls and Oswego academies; professor of languages in the Bristol
(Tennessee) military college, and professor of mathematics in the New
York City Commercial institute. In the meantime he read law and in
July, 1846, was admitted to the state bar at Utica. In 1850, he moved
to Ripon, Wisconsin, and in 1859 was elected to the assembly. He
served in the union army during the civil war, and was made a major
of Wisconsin volunteers, also provost marshal of Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Virginia. Major Bovay is said to have been first in
framing the earliest organization of what has been known as the
republican party. On March 20, 1854, during the pendency of the Ne-
braska bill in the house of representatives at Washington, Mr. Bovay,
with a few of his fellow townsmen, called the first mass meeting In
Ripon to organize a new party.

George T. Cole, born at Cleveland, Ohio, October 3, 1832, died at
Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, September 22, 1903. Mr. Cole's parents
moved to Wisconsin in 1836, when he was but three years of age, and
two years later settled at Sheboygan Falls, where Mr. Cole has since
lived. In politics he was a democrat, and had repeatedly been a dele-
gate to state conventions.

Orsamus Cole, born at Cazenovia, New York, August 23, 1813; died
St Milwaukee, May 5, 1903. He completed his literary education at
Union college, Schenectady, graduating in 1843, and moved to Chicago,
going from there to Potosi, Grant county, Wisconsin, where two years
later he was elected a member of the constitutional convention of the
state. In 1848 he was elected to congress, and in 1853 accepted the
nomination of the Whigs for attorney general of Wisconsin, but with-

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drew on account of dissatisfaction. Later he was placed on the
Barstow democratic ticket, which move resulted in the formation of the
republican party the succeeding year. The supreme court of the state
was shortly after organized, and in 1855 Mr. Cole was elected by the
new republican party, as associate justice. Judge Cole remained a
member of the court until his retirement in 1892, having served thirty-
seven years, the longest that any" judge ever occupied it in this state,
and exceeding the record of John Marshall upon the United States
supreme court bench. Judge Cole took part in the famous decisions of
the fugitive slave law in the stormy times before the war; and during
the civil conflict he was one of the judges who decided the questions
which arose out of the draft system. Judge Cole was chief justice for
ft number of years before his retirement.

Edwin Ellis, born at Peru, Maine, May 24, 1824; died at Ashland,
May 3, 1903. He graduated from Bowdoin college in 1844, and two
years later took his degree as doctor of medicine at the University of
the City of New York. Dr. Ellis practiced medicine in Farmington and
Old town, Maine, until 1854, when he removed to St. Paul, where he, in
company with several others, formed a syndicate for the purpose of
laying out town sites in the then territory of Minnesota and state of
Wisconsin. Dr. Ellis was sent by this syndicate to La Pointe and Che-
quamegon bay in the winter of 1855-56, going overland from St. Paul,
via St. Croix Falls and the Lake Superior trail to Superior city; thenca
by snow-shoes along the shore of Lake Superior to his destination. He
moved his family shortly after to Bay City, as that portion of Ashland
was then called. In 1861 Dr., Ellis removed to Odanah, where he
taught the Indian school for four years; from there he moved to Onton-
agon, Michigan, and in 1873 returned to Ashland, whero he has
since lived. He was president of the school board for many years, and
to him more than any other man belongs the credit of securing the
Wisconsin Central railway for Ashland. A narrative of Dr. Ellis is a
history of Ashland. He will long be remembered for his great liberality
in all public enterprises.

John M. Evans, born at Addison, Vermont, February 12, 1820; died
at Evansville, Wisconsin, August 23, 1903. In 1838 he went to La
Porte, Indiana, where he followed the trade of a carpenter for three
years, but was obliged to abandon it on account of ill health, and he
then began the study of medicine, receiving the degree of M. D. from
La Porte college in 1846. That same year Dr. Evans moved to "the
Grove," a small settlement in Wisconsin, the name, however, being soon
changed to Evansville in his honor. Dr. Evans passed the remainder
of his life in professional work in Evansville. He was postmaster

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from 1852 to 1855, and the first mayor of the city. He was elected to
the legislature in 1853, and again three years later. In 1861 he was
commissioned surgeon of the 13th Wis. infantry, and continued in
active service until 1865. Dr. Evans was one of the oldest and most
prominent Masons in the state, having joined the order in 1841 at La
Porte. He was also an honorary member of the "Oriental Order of the
Palm and Shell," an honor which has been conferred upon but very few
in the state.

Gottlieb Grimm, born in Wiirtemberg, Germany, in 1831; died at
Madison, January 27, 1903. Mr. Grimm came to America in 1849, locat-
ing in Madison in 1850, where he entered a book bindery, having learned
the trade before his arrival in this country. In 1860 the Madison Book
Bindery was started, and Mr. Grimm was made foreman, and since 1874
he has been the head of the firm. He has served as alderman and city
treasurer, and been prominent in many local societies.

Samuel Dexter Hastings, born in Massachusetts, July 24, 1816; died
at Evanston, Illinois, March 26, 1903. At an early age Mr. Hasting!
moved to Philadelphia, where he became a leader of the Abolition
party. From there he moved to Geneva, Wisconsin, and was elected to
the legislature in 1848, where together with Josiah F. Willard, father
of Frances E. Willard, who was elected the same year from the Janes-
ville district, he became a leader in the session of 1849 on the ques-
tions of abolition of slavery and prohibition. He soon moved to La
Crosse and from there to Trempealeau, from which county he was
again elected to the legislature in 1856. In 1857 he was elected to the
office of state treasurer, which he held four years. In 1883 he was
defeated for governor on the prohibition ticket. He was a prominent
member of the Good Templars, being elected right worthy grand
templar of the International Supreme Lodge in 1863, holding that
office until 1868. He was again placed at the head of the order at the
session held in London in 1873, his term of office closing in 1874. Under
his leadership this was the most prosperous year in the history
of this great temperance organization. In 1876 the supreme lodge
sent him to Australia and New Zealand, where he placed the order
upon a substantial basis. He was one of the most distinguished lay-
men in the Congregational church, and was one of the founders of the
Monona Lake Assembly, being its president at the time of his death.
He did more than any other man to establish the state board of chari-
ties and reform in Wisconsin, and was one of the strongest men in the
prohibition party in America.

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Buell Eldridge Hutchinson, born in Jefferson county, New York, No-
vember 26, 1829; died at Chicago, March 10, 1902. Mr. Hutchinson was
educated at Potsdam Academy in Canton, New York, and came to Wis
consin in 1848, locating at Prairie du Chien. He went from there to
St. Paul, doing editorial work on The Press, and in 1851 returned to
Prairie du Chien and started what has since become The Courier. Ho
was admitted to the bar in 1854, in 1856 was elected to the assembly
and the same year was appointed district attorney of Crawford county.
He was a member of the state senate and also a regent of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin at the breaking out of the civil war, and gave all his
best energies to the raising and equipping of troops. President Lincoln
appointed him to the commissary department with the rank of captain,
where he served until the autumn of 1863, when he returned to Madi-
son and followed the practice of law. In 1878 he was elected to the
assembly and in 1882 was made receiver of the U. S. land office at
Aberdeen, Dakota, where he remained until the close of his term in
1886. In 1901 Mr. Hutchinson moved to Chicago, where he has since
lived.

Julius H. Kimball, born at Montreal in 1819, died at Kenosha, Janu-
ary 26, 1903. Mr. Kimball was one of the earliest pioneer settlers, hav-
ing moved to Southport, the name given by his father to the new set-
tlement where Kenosha now stands, in 1837. He was a farmer at one
time but later turned his attention to printing, being employed on the
Southport Telegraph as type-setter and printer. In 1843, together with
C. C. Sholes, he started the Milwaukee Democrat. Patronage not being
abundant he withdrew, and the paper was taken to Waukesha, the name
being changed to the Freeman. Mr. Kimball started the Bank of
Northern Illinois at Waukegan, and the Kenosha County Bank, and was
an extensive dealer in real estate.

John H. Knight, born in Delaware in 1836; died at Watertown, Wis-
consin, August 22, 1903. Col. Knight's early education was received in
his native state, and at the age of twenty he entered the Albany law
school, where he was a classmate of William F. Vilas. He practiced
law in New York city until the breaking out of the war, when he
enlisted and served through the rebellion. After the war he was given
a commission in the regular army, in which he served until 1870, when
he resigned and located in Madison to practice law. From Madison he
removed to Ashland, where in addition to practicing law, he became
interested in many manufacturing and business enterprises. Colonel
Knight was for many years prominent in political circles. He was the
first mayor of Ashland, for four years chairman of the democratic state
central committee, and in 1893 was a candidate for United States sen-

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ator in the famous Knight-Bragg-Mitchell contest, which finally re-
aulted in the election of John L. Mitchell, of Milwaukee. He was one
of the best known and most prominent of the old school democrats in
Wisconsin.

John Phillips, bom at Richmond, Vermont, November 4, 1823, died at
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, July 26, 1903. Dr. Phillips came to the terrJ
tory of Wisconsin in 1846, where he taught school and continued the
study of medicine at Wyota, LaFayette county. Two years later he
moved to Stevens Point, where he has since lived. An original anti-
slavery man. Dr. Phillips naturally drifted into the republican party.
He was the chief promoter of the first meeting held in Stevens Point
for the organization of the party, and was one of its staunch support-
ers. He served two terms in the assembly, being elected in 1860 and
again in 1864. For many years he was a member of the board of
normal school regents, and in 1895 was elected state senator. Locally
Dr. Phillips served in many oflBcial capacities.

Jackson L. Prentice, born at Aurora, New York, October 17, 1827;
died at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, December 10, 1902. Mr. Prentice came
West in 1854, locating at Fox Lake, where he resided for three years;
then moved to Fort Winnebago, now Portage, and finally settled at
Stevens Point, which he has since made his home. He was a civil en-
gineer by profession, but for a number of years was in the mercantile
business. From 1861 to 1865 Mr. Prentice served in the army; he was
a deputy United States surveyor, and held many positions of trust in
the community in which he lived.

William T. Sterling, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, January 29,
1808; died in the town of Scott, Crawford county, Wisconsin, January
12, 1903. Mr. Sterling has been identified with the history of the state
since 1830, and at the time of his death was the oldest resident of
American descent in Wisconsin. He was educated at the University of
Georgetown, Kentucky, and in 1827 in company with Henry Dodge
began to work the lead mines at Galena. He was the first territorial
librarian, the oflftce being then coupled with that of superintendent of
public property; and his commission was the first issued by the
first governor of Wisconsin territory. He moved to Mt. Sterling in
Crawford county in 1842, and in 1848 was elected representative for
the counties of Crawford and Chippewa to the first session of the state
legislature. Mr. Sterling was personally acquainted with the principal
actors in the Black Hawk v.ar, and his knowledge of the early history
of Wisconsin was remarkable.

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Edward West, born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1S18;
died at Appleton, Wisconsin, May 27, 1903. He attended "Washington.
College of Pennsylvania, and at the age of 18 started for the West,
locating at Milwaukee. In 1837 the first public school board in Wiscon-
sin was organized, and Mr. West was offered the position of teacher,
which he accepted. A few years later he removed to a farm near
Summit, Waukesha county, and in 1852 settled in Appleton, where he
became interested in the improvement of the water power of the Fox
River. He built the canal through Grand Chute Island and so made
possible the many manufacturing interests in Appleton.

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Co-operative Communities in
Wisconsin

By Montgomery Eduard Mcintosh

I. The Wisconsin Phalanx^

Tlie fifth decade of the nineteenth century was, both in the
Old World and the ^ew, a time of social unrest A dismal
view of society was quite generally taken. The poor, by reason
of excessive labor, and the rich, by enfeebling luxury, were both
held to fall far short of that happiness which it was possible
for mankind to attain. Appeals to discontent appear to have
seized with more than ordinary force upon the popular mind;
the period was marked in France and Germany by bloody up-
risings, and in England and America by attempts to substitute
coH>peration for competition.

In America the eyes of many reformers were fixed upon the
Middle West, where land was cheap, natural resources bounti-
ful, and the organization of society less settled and more shift-
ing than in older communities. In Wisconsin, experiments
were made by representatives of both the Fourier and Owen
schools. Robert Owen was the o^vner of factories at Kew
Lanark, in Scotland, where, ^vith the happiest results, he estab-
lished a system of co-operative labor, or profilrsharing. His
success led liim to turn to America, as a country where he could
easily obtain land on which to establish communities based upon
his ideas of common property and social equality. Coming to

1 See S. M. Pedrick, "The Wisconsin Phalanx at Ceresco," in Wiscon-
sin Historical Society Proceedings, 1902, pp. 190-226, for more detailed
treatment. — ^Ed.

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America in 1824, he founded communities at Yello^v Springs,
Ohio, and Kew Harmony, Indiana. Both of these resulted in.
failure; but in later years, and in other places, disciples of
Owen endeavored to realize his ideal of social and industrial
organizationw

The difference between the systems of Robert Owen and
Francois Charles Marie Fourier has been compared to that
which distinguishes a jjoint stock company from a communistic
society. The Fourier phalanxes had some points of resemblance
to stock companies, chief among which was the allotment of divi-
dends to capital ; whereas OWen stood for communism pure and
simple.

It is related of Fourier that it was long his custom, in his
declining years, to wait patiently at a certain hour every day,
in the hope of being ^dsited by some wealthy patron, who would
be willing to give his theories the test of practical experimient.
This patron never came; but after Fourier's death (1837), in
another land, and by men of another race, efforts to substitute a
co-operative for a competitive society were made, that fixed the
attention of the world upon his speculations.

In 1840 there was published in this country an exposition of
his theories, in a volume entitled The Social Destiny of Mem.
The author of this work was Albert Brisbane, who afterwards
converted the Brook Farm colony to Fourierismu From Bris-
bane's writings the American people obtained their first knowl-
edge of Fourier's teachings, a knowledge whose spread was
favored by the state of the public mind, at that time strongly
disposed to sympathize with ideas or projects that promised a
speedy regeneration of society. In 1842 the I^ew York Trib-
une, whose editor, Horace Greeley, was much in sympathy with
the movement, began the publication of a department devoted
to "Association of Principles of a True Organization of So-
ciety." Of this department Brisbane was the editor, and
through it and the Phalaiix, an independent paper which he
established in N'ew York in October, 1843, the doctrines which
he advocated spread rapidly, and found many adherents.

The notice given to the subject by the Tribune and other pul>-

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lieations made the people of Wisconsin acquainted to some ex-
tent Avith the teachings of Fourier. In SoutJiport, as the pree-
ent Kenosha ^vas then called, the subject aroused particular
interest. In AVisconsin there Avere large areas of virgin soil,
purchasable from the government at a nominal price. This
consideration naturally appealed strongly to those residents of
the territory' who saw in Fourier's phalanstery a remedy that
w^ould attenuate, if not entirely abolish, the evils from which
socieity was supposed to suffer.

There existed in Southport an organization called the Frank-
lin Lyceum, whose members became deeply interested in the
Fourier system, as expounded by Brisban.e. On N^ovember 13,
1843, the lyceum debated the general subject, which was brought
before tlie memliers in the form of this query : ^^Does the sysr-
tem of Fourier present a practicable plan for such a reorganiza-
tion of society as will giiard against our present social evils?"
At a number of subsequent meetings the discussion w^as oontinr
ued, so that the proposed new order of society was the chief and
absorbing theme of Southport's conversation throughout the
winter of 1843-44. It is recorded that the interest was keen,
and the attendance at the lyceum meetings large. Among those
who took part in the debates were Louis P. Harvey, afterward
governor of Wisconsin, and Charles Lhirkee, in later years a
member of the United States senate.

As a result of all this discussion, an association was formed,
called the Wisconsin Phalanx. Articles of agreement were
drafted and signed ; and after considerable stock had been sold
at $25 per share, Ebenezer Childs of Green Bay, who was
familiar w^ith tlie territory, was engaged to select government
land for the |Dfroposed colony.

Warren Chase, a man of intelligence and no little executive
ability, who in later years was prominent as a spiritualist, be-
came the leader of the Southix)rt enterprise. He had that
ready command of tongue and pen, which is the not uncommon
attribute of tlie agit<ator, and his contributions to the Phalanx
and the Harbinger, both organs of Founerism, did much to keep
the Wisconsin Phalanx in the public eye. Early in 1844, Chase

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went to Green Bay, and entered at the land office the tract
selected by Ohilds, a domain of 1440 acres, in township 16
north, range 14 east, in Fond du Lao county. On Monday
the twentieth of May, 1844, the colonists set forth from South-
port in wagons, and on the Saturday following (May 25th)
reached their new home. Nineteen men and one boy were in
the party. It was the poirpose of these men to follow Fourier's
plan of organization, as closely as their circumstances and num-
bers would permit. They divided their members into two
series, designated respectively as the agricultural and the me-
chanical, each appointing its own foreman. They set about
their tasks seriously, and not without some solemnity. Their
tent was no sooner pitched on the spot where they hoped to dwell
in imity, tlian prayer was offered, returning thanks for safe
passage through the wilderness, and invoking divine blessing
upon the little settlement. A letter from Peter Johnson, a
member of the board of directors, was read, in whicb the mem-
bers were admonished upon their deportment toward each other,
and reminded of their obligations to the Creator.

The natural surroundings made a favorable impression. The
district is to-day one of the fairest pastoral regions in the West.
Eiven in a state of nature the country was attractive, with its
oak groves, its open spaces waiting for the plow, and its clear
lakes and streams. A watercourse ilow^ed through the land
selected by the sagacious Ebenezer Childs, and to it the colonists
gave the name of Crystal C*reek. The association incurred no
debts, having funds on hand sufficient to pay for the land. The
retarding influence of neighboring communities not in sympa-
thy with the enterprise was not to be feared; for at the outset,
excepting a few families about Green Lake, there was no other
settlement within twenty miles.

By September, three buildings had been erected, members of
the association had brought their families on from Southport,
and the number of residents had increased to eighty. Crops
were planted, a sawmill was built ; and as the community's num-
bers increased, new groups and series wete formed for the di-
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members taking their meals together, an arrangement that was
the rule so long as tlie association endured; although in later
years sueh families as preferred a private table were furnished
with provisions and permitted to cook their own meals.

The name given to the settlement was Ceresco, and a post-
office was established within forty days after the pioneers arrived
on the ground. A free school was established and religious
meetings, "marked by a spirit of broad tolerance," were beld.
Orops were good ; there were no deaths and very little sickness
during the first year, and the disciples of Fourier were encour-
aged. There is a touch of tart humor in the statement of War-
ren Chase, \\Titten in August, 1845, that "no physician, no
lawyer or preacher yet resides among us ; but we expect a phy-
sician soon, whose interest will not conflict with ours, and whose
presence will consequently not increase disease." In th.e same
letter. Chase said that the Wisconsin Phalanx looked to Brook
Farm for guidance in the matter of improving school facilities.

The annual statement of the Phalanx for the fiscal year end-
ing December 1, 1845, began with the declaration that "Th.e
four great evils with which the world is afflicted, intoxication,
lawsuits, quarreling and profane swearing, never have, and with
the present character and prevailing habits of our numbers,
never can, find admittance into our society." In setting forth
the condition of the association at that time, it was said : "The
family circle and secret domestic relations are not intruded upon
by association ; each family may gather around its family altar,
secluded and alone, or mingle with neighbors without exposure
to wet or cold. In our social and domestic arrangements we
have approximated as far toward the plan of Fourier as the dif-
ficulties incident to a new organization in an uncultivated coun-
try would permit. * * * In the various departments of
physical labor we have accomplished much more than could
have been done by the same persons in the isolated condition."
Tbe estimated value of the property of the association at this
time was $27,725.22. A large house (208x32 feet) was built,
and in it twenty families dwelt. Other buildings erected dur-
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stone schoolhoiuse, a dining hall, a grist mill, shops, barns, and
all the outbuilding's required for so large a farming establish-
ment. Small dwellings were built from time to time, as new
families joined the association.

Oonoeming the social conditions that prevailed in this ooror
munity, the acoounts of contemporary writers differ on many
points. Tlie annual statement of the association for 1846 de-
clared that there, as elsewhere, the study and adoption of th.e
principles of aseocdatictn led all reflecting minds to accept the
principles of Christianity. ^'The members hear preaching al-
most ever>^ SSunday,'' Ave are told, ^*but not uniformly of that
high order of talent which they are prepared to appreciate."
Social intercourse is described by Warren Chase as being con-
ducted on a high moral plane, which repudiated "the slanderous
suspicions of tliose enemies of tlie system who pretend that
oonstant social intercourse wdll corrupt the morals of the me^mr
bers.'' Thero was an abundance of plain, substantial food.
During the first four years of the settlement no alcoholic liquors
were sold in the township, and no intoxicant was ever sold on
the property of the Fourierites while the association held it.
Meoi and women alike Avere total abstainers.

The method of adjusting accounts w^as for the foreman of
each group to credit the men who worked under his direction
with the number of hours of labor performed by them. These
records went before a w^eekly meeting of all the members. At
the end of the fiscal year ''each person drew on his labor account,
his proposition of the three-fourths of the increase and products
allotted to labor, and on his stock shares, his proportion of the
oner-fourth that was divided to stock. The amount so divided
was ascertained by an annual appraisal of all the property, thus
ascertaining the rise or increase in value, as well as the pToduct
of labor. The dividend to capital w^as, hoAA-^ver, usually con-
sidered too large and disproportionate."

Meanw^hile a new town, called Ripon, had been laid out on
the very borders of the domain of the phalanx. Capt. David P.
Mapes, an ambitious man, fired with the true spirit of a pioneer,
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Foumier beheld witb apprehension. The settlers of Kipon and
the oommimity of Ceresoo straightway beeamei embroiled.
Mapes platted Kipon with the streets aligned to correspond mth
the fonr cardinal points of the oompass. The phalanx, having
a majority of the voters in the township, ran a road diagonally
across this carefully-platted tract, to the confusion of Mapes's
orderly, rectangular blocks. Certain buildings with "walls at
acute angles now stand in Ripon as monuments to the strife be-
tween the phalanx and its neighbors. For a time Ceresco kept
the postoffice, but Mapes attacked that citadel; by means of
influence exerted at Madison and Washington, he had the office
removed to Ripon, where he established it in a building on a
hill that overlooks tlie valley of Ceresco.

At the time of the annual statement of the Association for
the year ending December 7, 1846, there were 180 persons resi-
dent in the commimity. This appears to have been the time
when the colony w^as strongest. By this time the phalanx had
become widely known for an economic success hardly equalled
by any other Fourier experiment in America. In a single year
(1846) eight hundred acres of crops were harvested, and 20,000
bushels of wheat constituted but a part of the abundance with
which the granaries of Ceresco overflowed.

"It is a fact worthy of notice," wrote ESverett Chamberlain,
who w^as familiar with the story of the rise and fall of the
Phalanx, "that through the co-operation of labor wdthin the com-
munity, the cost of good board at the phalanstery was reduced
to 63 cents per week, that being the average cost during the year
1845. It is also worthy of notice that, notwithstanding the
great economy, the number of families who patronized the com-
mon table became less and less, until in 1848 every family of
them kept its own table."

In 1848 there were sure signs of decay. There was then but
a languid interest shown by those who had at first burned with
zeal. Free love advocates came, preaching the doctrines held
by the Oneida community in New York, and agitating, if not
convincing, the members of the community. Spiritualism claim-
ed Warren Chase as a convert, and the phalanx deemjed it timie
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(1847) to depose him from the presidency, in which he was
succeeded by Benjamin Wright Chase was accused of misbe-
havior, an indignation meeting was held in E.ipon, and anger
against the phalanx flamed up in the country round about
Tlhere is no proof tliat there was any better ground for this
spirit of opposition than dislike for the imiovation which the
Fourierites represented. Eiven after he ceased to be president,
Chase was dea^oted to the phalanx, and in 1848 published in the
!New York Harhinger , eighteen reasons why all the associationr
ists in the United States should abandon other experiments and
rally at C-ereseo. In 1849 the spirit of discontent had reached
such a pitch tliat dissolution of the phalanx was at last agreed
upon. In the following spring the association was authorized
by the legislature to wind up its affairs ; in April, the property
was sold and distributed. For the most part the members re-
mained in the neighborhood, some of them on the land which
they had cultivated as members of the phalanx, and some set-
tling in Ripon. Warren Chase opened a book store in St Louis,
and later became an itinerant lecturer on spiritualism.

Financially, the phalanx was entirely successful. The prop-
erty realized nearly $40,000, which gave the meanibers about
eight per cent premium on their stock. In view of this fact it
has puzzled many to understand why the experinnent failed.
Tlhere appear to have been two reasons : one, a desire to make
money by disposing of property which had become valuable;
the other, a disinclination tx> continue social relations that were
distasteful. One who saw the whole course of the phalanx,
declared that the cause of its breaking up was "speculation, the
love of money, and the want of love for association." Many of
the members are said to have afterv\^ards regretted the dissolu-
tion and to have retained their faith in the benefits of co-opera-
tion.

When the principles of association were applied to the more
intimate relations of life, the resulting social conditions appear
to have been one of the chief causes of dissatisfaction. This
was true not only of the Wisconsin Phalanx, but of other Four-
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pointed in the economic results of co-operation, were yet dissat-
isfied witli a plan that involved not only united industry, but a
single great domestic establishment. The unitary dwelling
was not a success. A visitor, wEo wrote am account of his im-
pressions, noted a want of neatness about the d%vellings at Oe-
reseo, which seemed to be inconsistent with the individual char-
acter of the members. The houses, he said, were such as feiw
people in the East would be contented to live in. The lack of
a reading room or place where members migbt meet for social
enjoyment was commented on; and it was pointed out that
while many were in favor of a unitary dwelling, others held
that their generation was not prepared for such a step, and
wished to erect isolated houses. In replying to this critic,
Chase stated that a majority of the families in the phalanx at
that time (January, 1848), cooked and served food in their
own rooms — ^some being vegetanans, and not choosing to ait
at a table supplied with meat; some desiring their children to
be at table with them ; while others absented themselves from
the common dining room because they wished to ask a blessing.
There were members who desired to approach by degrees the
complete phalanstery plan of Fourier. It was their aim to
build cheap and comfort-able dwellings, ^\^th a work house, bak-
ery and dairy conveniently near, and thus, as Chase wrote,
have their minds "prepared by combined effort, co-operative
labor and equitable dist.ribution, for the combined dwelling and
unitar}^ living, mth its variety of tables to satisfy all tastes.'*
Others were for giving up all these preferences, and wished to
build only -unitary d^\'ellings and have all eat at one table.
Before these differences were settled, individual aspirations a*-
serted tJiemselves with such force as to dissolve the association-
When tlie first large dwelling house was finished (1845) the
twenty families who lived in it took their meals in a dining
hall which was connected with the main building by a covered
passageway. A second unitary dwelling was completed in
1848 ; but, as Chase shows, the practice of dining together de-
clined after the early years of the phalanx.

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ers' hopes, but not for many yeai-s. The domain of the -phar
lanx, or part of it, heeame the First ward of the cdtj of Kipon,
which was named by Eegis-ter Homer of the Green Bay land
office, whose ancestors came from Eipon in England. After
the strifes of early years died away, both the township and post-
office name became Hipon, and Ceresco was known only in
memory.

II. St. Nazianz

While the German states were fermenting wdth excitement
after the events of 1848, Father Ambrose Oschwald, a priest
of the diocese of Freiburg, in the grand duchy of Baden, con-
ceived a project for the planting in America of a Catholic co-
operative colony. He interested in this enterprise niumeoroua
Catholics in various parts of Baden, including the Black For-
est, Breisgau, Klettgau, Suabia, and the Odenwalde. Besides
a desire to better their material condition, that most common
cause of emigration, several considerations led these people to
break the ties that bound them to the fatherland. The turbu-
lence into which the South Genmin states were thrown at this
time, piromised a long period of political and business uncer-
tainty ; Prussian troops made felt the power that was at work for
the unification of Gei-many, and there was conflict at Carlsruhe
between the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant govern-
ment. In this state of a-ffairs. Father Oschwald found many
vs^o were attracted to his plan, which with German thorough-
ness he prepared to execute. For two years previous to his de-
parture for America he studied medicine at the University of
Munich, that he might minister to the physical as well as the
spiritual welfare of his followers. He had received some ac-
count of Wisconsin, many having already come here from
South Germany, and hither he determined to lead his colonists.
Bishop Henni had lately been established in the see of ^Mjilwau-
kee, and the opportunity to locate in a diocese presided over
by a bishop of their own blood and language was a further inf
duoement.

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colonists assembled in Strassburg, the rendezvous agreed upon,
and proceeded by way of Paris to Havre, wbere in two vessels
they embarked for America. A hundred and thirteen persons
maxle tlie journey. The first of the two ships to reach the New
World, landed her passengers in New York fifty-two days after
sailing from France. Three days later the other ship came in,
and then began another tedious journey to Wisconsin. In
August the travelers arrived in Milwaukee, and took temporary
lodgings while Father Oschwald looked about for a suitable
tract of land on which to settle them- He selected land in
Manitowoc county, a dozen miles southwest of the city of
Manitowoc; and to this place, in the last week of August, 1854,
the j>riest led a part of the men of his fiock, to prepare a home
in the ^^'ildeme6s. They first planted a rude cross, which they
raised witli much rejoicing, and then built log houses and a
small church.

To the settlement thus begun, the name of St. Nazianz "wiaa
given, and by that name are still known the village and post
office, located in the town of Eaton, one of the western tier of
townships in Manitowoc county. Father Oschwald formed
his people into an association, organized upon essentially com-
munistic lines. It was his aim to found a society that should
be a unit, both with respect to religion and worldly possessions ;
and in these passages in the book of Acts he found scriptural
authority for his plan :

And all that believed were together, and had all things in common:

And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men,
as every man had need.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and break-
ing bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and
singleness of heart. — Acts ii, 44-47.

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart, and of
one soul: neither said any one of them that aught of the things which
he possessed was his own; but they had all things in common.

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many aa
were possessors of lands or houses, sold them, and brought the prices
of the things that were sold.

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And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made
unto every man according as he had need. — Acts iv, 32-36.

It was this pdotiire of life among the primitive Christians
that the priest had before his mind's eye as a model for St
Nazianz. The colonists entered into a contract for the pur-
chase of 3.840 acres of land, to be paid for in ^ve installmentfl,
at the rate of $3.50 per acre; by way of first payment they
laid out $1,500 of their capital.

The pioneers of St. JSTazianz endured many hardships, but
persevered, in their efforts to bring the wild land under cultiva-
tion. Inspired by Father Oschwald, who was the life as well
as the leader of the community, they held to their ideal of com-
munistic society with a constancy quite unknowni in any of the
other co^oiperative communities founded in this state. In No-
vember, 1854, the colonists- were joined by eighteen persons
who had just arrived from Germany, and these new arrivals ap-
pear to have been a disturbing element. The chronicler of the
colony declares that they were too fond of "American good liv-
ing," and better fitted to be pillars of pothouses than supports
of a Catholic society; he fervently thanks God for their de-
parture, which was not long delayed.

IN'ot all of those who joaimeyed from Baden to America went
to Manitowoc county, for only seventy persons spent the first
winter at Stu ]N"azianz. There were at this time married people
among the colonists, although they were a minority. The mode
of life, with respect to the unmarried members, was somewhat
like that of the cloister. The association was brought under
formal religious regulation in 1857, when the father made a
rule providing for the daily use of the breviary translated into
German from the Latin by Adam Nikel of Mainz. In the col-
ony, the word of the founder was law ; and in his double capac-
ity of physician and priest he acquired great influence, as well
in the country aibout St. l^azianz.

Good crops and good prices during the period of the War of
Secession succeeded a time of privation that sometimes bordered
on want of the necessaries of life, and prosperity came to the
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cheese that found favor with epdcures was made; the "brethren
brewed their ovm beer ; straw hats and felt shoes were sent to
market ; and wheat flour was ground in an old-f asbioned wind-
mill. Two oonvents, designated respectively as the brotbersi'
bouse and the sisters' bouse, were built to accommodate the cel-
ibate members. Tbe families who were associated in the enter-
prise lived in a little bamlet that sprung up about the spot
wbere Father OsohAvald had planted the cross. Tbe rough
churcli of wood, built by the pioneers, was replaced, by a sub-
stantial structure of brick, which became the place of worship
of a large an.d flourishing congregation, made up of farmers
from the surrounding country. The village of St. l!^azianz,
in its earlier years, was quaint and picturesque in the extreme,
and a stranger coming upon it might have thought that some
old dorf had been transplanted bodily from the forests of
Baden to the wilderness of Wisconsin. In 1866, twelve years
after the colony was founded, there were resident at St.
Nazianz, four hundred and fifty jDersons — eighty in the brothers'
house, one hundred and fifty in the sisters' house, and one huur
dred and seventy in the village.

Every adult member of the colony performed some sort of
manual labor. There were among the men tailors, shoemakers,
masons, tanners, carpenters, and blacksmiths. The sisters per-
formed household duties, cultivated gardens, managed the dairy,
and made straw and knit goods. It was unnecessary to expend
any money for labor, as the association was numerically strong
enough to cultivate its lands and cany on various industries
besides. The married people associated in the enterprise lived
in the village of St. Xazianz, at some distance from the two
convents, but their interests were equally bound up in the com-
munal acres witJi tliose of the brothers and sisters. They ob-
tained all of tlieir supjdies from the colony, or had gardens and
fields which were the association's property. The relation to
the church of the celibate members, who were always referred to
simply as brothers and sisters, was that of nuns and monks of
the "third order."

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Father Oisicliwald died, and thereafter affairs wfere in some (xm-
fusion. He had been vested with such complete authority that
his loss was keenly felt by those who had always left to him
the responsibility of management When the founder died,
Anton Stoll, who had been his chief lieutenant, undertook the
direction of temporal affairs. Father Mutz, whom Father
Oschwald had trained to the priesthoo<i, became the spiritual
adviser cf the colony.

Litigation was added to other em-barrassments, growing in
part out of the diversity of interests that necessarily resulted
from the peculiar composition of the community. Fathers
and mothers were concerned about their share of the property,
which they were anxious to secure to their children. In a few
oaae^, the children of people living at St. N^azianz were enrolled
among the brothers and sisters. After expensive legal exper-
iences, as a result of which some members sold their shares to
their colleagues and withdrew, it was decided to abandon the
strictly communal form of association, established by Father
Oschwald, and form a joint stock corporation, whose affairs
could be administered b}^ a board of officers. This was accord-
ingly done, and the Eoman Catholic Association of St. ^lazianz
was incorporated. Father Mutz was made president, and unp
der the control of this association the property has ever since
remain (mI.

After 1874, no married persons were admitted to member-
ship, and no new miembers whatever have been admitted since
September, 1896. This is in consequence of an agreement
made ^vith a Catholic order, the Society of Our Divine Saviour,
whereby that order is to succeed the present owners in posse»-
eion of the estate. Members of this society have come from
Kome, and are now installed at St. N^azianz, in control of cer-
tain property which has already been made over to them.
About eighty members of Father Osehwald's community, all
well advanced in years, now live in the two convents, and when
the last of these shall have died, the property will pass abso-
lutely to a co-operative society, a large part of whose shares are
held by the Society of Our Divine Saviour. The estate is a

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considerable one. There are approximately one thousand five
hundred acres of land, with numerous substantial buildings, and
a complete equipment of tools and live stock. The surplus
revenues have been invested safely, and the association has some
$50,000 out at interest.

The people of St. Xazianz are and have always been, Eoman
Catholics, pure and simple. There was nothing of mysticism
about them, and they represented no schism or peculiar sect.
They simply made community of goods part of a religion that
was to them the complete rule of life, and not something apart
from temporal concerns. It was once pointed out by diaries
A. Dana that communities based upon peculiar religious viewe
have generally succeeded. The fact must forcibly impress
every student of the subject, that every notable success in the
field of co-operative experiment, in this country at least, has
been achieved by people who had moral and. spiritual better-
ment at heart in an equal degree with material advancement.
Religion was a bond that held together for many years the
Elphrata colony, the Shakers, the Rappites, the Zoarites, the
Snowbergers, and the people of Ebenezer colony, while the fol-
lowers of Fourier and Owen formed materialistic societies
whose collapse was generally as speedy as it was complete.

The history of St. N'azianz is in some points similar to that of
Elphrata, the first co-operative colony established in America.
This society was founded by Conrad Beitzel, a German, in 1713,
near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They took the Bible for their
guide, were celibates, and held all property in common. While
Conrad lived, the colony flourished, attained a membership of
some thousands, and became rich. After he died, however, no
leader of equal ability took his place, the members gradually
dropped out, and the community ultimately declined into a con-
dition much like that of St. Nazianz at the present time.

III. Hunt's Colony

Thomas Hunt, a ^v^iter on the London Chronicle, became an
enthusiastic follower of Robert Owen, and was active in an
Owenite association that was organized in London. In 1843

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a party of Einglislimen led by him oame to Wisconsin to found
a co-operative colony. They bought a farm on Spring Lake, at
North Prairie, Waukesha county, and there settled with the
intention of putting Owen's ideas to a test. The total number
of persons in the colony w^as about thirty, and most. of the meai
Tvere married. For three dreary years these people struggled
along and then disbanded.

They were city men, and among them all just one was fitted
by experience for practical farming. The experiment was on
this aoco'unt, if for no other reason, doomed to failure ; and after
disposing of their land, the Englishmen whom Hunt had led
across the ocean sefttled in Milwaukee and elsewhere. Hunt
himself took quite an active part in the land-limitation campaign
in this state, and although accounted visionary and impractical,
was much esteemed by those who knew him. From Waukesha
county he went tO' live near Sparta, and died there. Some
members of the a-ssociation that made this experiment remained
in England to await the result of tlie colonists' labors in their
new home, but aided the enterprise by contributing to the fund,
that was used to embark Hunt and his associates.

In 1848 three men whose names figure in the history of Wi^
consin co-operative projects, were candidates for state offices on
a ticket headed "N^ational Keform dominations:" Charles Dur-
kee, who took part in the discussions at Southport that led to the
formation of the Wisconsin Phalanx, was the nominee for gov-
ernor on this ticket ; Warren Ohase, leader of the phalanx, spir-
itualist, lecturer, and author, was the candidate for lieutenant
governor; and for representative in congress the nominee was
Thomas Hunt

At the head of the ballot on which the names of these nomi-
nees were printed, was the following declaration :

Man, having a conceded right to live, has a necessary right also to
a reasonable share of those means of subsistence which God has pro-
vided for and made virtually necessary to the whole human family.
Having a right to liberty, he must have consequently the right to go
somewhere on earth, and do what is essential to his continued exist-
ence, not by the purchased permission of some other man, but by virtue
of his manhood.

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Tlhis was the so-called Land-Limitation ticket. Other para-
graphs, breathing the same sentiments as the one quoted above,
were placed between the names of the candidates.

Following is a partial list of the members of Hunt's party,
furnished by one who lived in the community: Thomas Hunt,
Tliomas Steel, Mrs. Turner, Richard Johnston, George White,
George Robei-ts, John Blurkinyoung, James Cbyle, John Hol-
land, James Blackhurst, William Freeman, John Hepburn, and
William Burton.

IV. The Utilitarian Association

Waukesha County was the scene of another co-operative ex-
periment, which had an ending quite similar to that of Hunt's
colony. In 1843 a nimiber of London mechanics organized the
Utilitarian Association of United Interests. They decided to
leave England, and put their theories to the test in a new coun"
try, their design being to purchase fanning lands in Wisconsin,
in some locality where water-power might be had. Each male
adult paid into a common fund the sum of £25 sterling, and this
payment also admitted to membership the wives and children
of married men.

It was not until 1845 that the colonists were ready to embark
upon their enterprise. On May 19 of that year, sixteen per-
sons sailed from tlie St. Catherine docks, London^, on board the
sailing clipper "Prince Albert" A month later, the Utilitarian
Association landed in New York, and continued its journey by
canal boat to Buffalo, thence taking a steamer for Milwaukee.
Upon reaching that port, a delegation was sent out to secure
land. A farm of two hundred acres, located near Mukw^onago,
was purchased from Adam E. Ray.

The troubles of the colonists began very soon after their oc-
cupation of the land. Part of the farm was low and. wet, and
in a short time every person but one in the settlement was oon^
sumed with fever and shaken with ague. To the dispiriting
effects of sickness \veTe joined other influenoes that served to
shake the resolution of the people who had come so far from
home to prove their faith in co-operation. They were men
trained to mechanical trades, and ill-adapted to farming imder

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any circumstances — least of all in a country where new land waa
to \)e brought under the plow.

lor their wheat they obtained only fifty cents a bushel; and
instead of possessing a landed estate growing more productive
and vahiable each year, as they had pictured to themselves in.
London, they found that their capital wtas rapidly being dissi-
pated. For about three years, the struggle to maintain the col-
ony on the co-operative plan was maintained ; but, in the words
of a member, they "finally were starved out." The land waa
sold to Messrs. JSTunnemacher and Pfister of Milwaukee, and to
Milwaukee the members of the Utilitarian Association removed,
after dividing the money received for their farm. All being
good mechanics, they thrived in the city. In the course of time
a majority of them came to own their homes, and achieved a de-
gree of independence that doubtless reconciled them to the fail-
ure of their experiment in socialism.

It does not appear, however, that their faith in co-operation
was shaken. One, writing in his old age of this experience
of his youth, says :

The members are still ardent advocates of co-operation, but are con-
vinced that success can only be attained by abundant capital to begin
with, similar to all large stock companies, and that co-operation is the
only salvation of the working classes.

The original settlers on the Utilitarian Association fanri
were : Campbell Smith, book-binder, married ; William Lee, a
widower with three children ; Dixon Raine, plasterer, married ;
William Iteynolds, wood turner, wife and daughter; Robert
Davies, carpenter, married; John Craft, tinsmith, single; Fos^
ter, tailor, single ; and Moon, a glover, also unmarried. These
were joined later by two other single men — Greorge Camp-
bell, a cabinet maker, and George Drew, a tailor.

V. Spring Farm Association

The little town of Sheboygan Falls did not escape the oomr
motion with which, in the year 1845, larger communities were
shaken. Discussions of Fourierism, stimulated by a certain Dr.
Cady of Ohio, agitated the villagers; meetings were held, and
socialistic schemes proposed.

Co-operative Communities 117

Ton families agreed to found a co-operative conununity in
Sheboygan county ; but at the very outset there was a disagree-
ment on the question of location. The association was divided
into two factions, one desiring to settle on the shore of Lake
Miciiigan, and the other declaring for a situation about twenty
miles from the lake and six miles from any habitation. It was
found impossible to harmonize the contending elements on this
point ; in consequence, the association divided, and a community
was founded in each of the favored locations.

That on the lake shore had a brief and entirely unsuccessful
existence. Tlie other, under the leadership of B. 0. Trow-
bridge, bought government land, and gave to its possessions the
nanio of Spring Farm, because of excellent springs found on the
land. Here six families settled, calling themselves the Spring
Farm Association, and having for their motto "Union, Equal
Rights, and Social Gnarantees." The pecuniary resources were
small, amounting to only a,bout a thousand dollars, and Spring
Farm was not vreW equipped wnth buildings, for the accounts
mention only one house, and that an unfinished one. Thirty
acres of prairie land were cultivated, and a small tract cleared
of tiijjber; but not much was added to the common stock during
the three years that these people worked together. An account
furnished by a member, says :

Mr. B. C. Trowbridge was generally looked up to as leader of the so-
ciety. The land was bought of government by individual resident
members. We had nothing to boast of in improvements; they were
only anticipated. We obtained no aid from without; what we did not
provide for ourselves, we went without. The frost cut ofC our crops
the second year, and left us short of provisions. We were not troubled
with dishonest management, and generally agreed in all our affairs.
We dissolved by mutual agreement. The reasons of failure were pov-
erty, diversity of habits and dispositions, and disappointments through
failure of harvest. Though we failed in this attempt, yet it has left
an indelible impression on the minds of one-half the members at least,
that a harmonious association In some form Is the way, and the only
way, that the human mind can be fully and properly developed; and
the general belief is, that community of property is the most prao-
ticable form.

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Early Wisconsin Imprints: A
Preliminary Essay

By Henry Eduard Legler

Between tbe establishment (1536) of the first press in Amer-
ica and the execution of the first printing in Wisconsin
(1830),- there is a stretch of nearly three centuries. Stephen
I>aye set uj) the first press in ISTew England at Cambridge in
1638, eight years after the founding of Boston, and more than a
hundred years after Juan Oromberger began to issue from his
little press in the City of Mexico the religious treatises required
by the Catholic missionaries from Spain. The orders and proc-
lamations printed by Cromberger prior to 1540, have now van-
ished; of the first two publications of the Cambridge press, no
copies are now known to exist ;^ of the first issues, other than
newspapers, from the first and second presses in Wisconsin, it
is believed that none are extant.

The oldest publication of the Mexican press still in existence,
is religious in character;^ the English cradle book of the is^orth

iGrOvernor John Winthrop, in his History of New England, i, p. 348,
mentions The Freeman's Oath and an Almanack Calculated for New
England, by William Pierce, Mariner, both published in 1639, as the
first two titles issued from the Cambridge press. The Bay Psalm
Book (1639), is the first produo-t of a North American press now in
existence.

2 For an account of the earliest American imprint which is known
to have survived to the present day, see George Parker Winship's The
Earliest American Imprints (Milwaukee, 1899).

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IN WISCONSIN TERRITORY

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American press is "a wretched collection of pious doggerel;"'
the earliest Wisconsin imprint is a scientific poiblication :

It is not surprising that the earliest products of the press
in Mexico and in 'New Eingland were religious in tenor; in
those years and in those localities the virtual rulers of the col-
onists were the churchmen. The printers, if not directly em-
ployed by them, owed whatever success they enjoyed to the
patronage and influence of the church, as well in Catholic Mex-
ico as in Protestant ISTew England.

By the time the westward stream of migration had begun to
reach Wisconsin, conditions had materially changed. In the
waJie of the hardy frontiersmen from Virginia, who scaled the
Allegheny mountains a decade prior to the Revolutionary War,
came permanent settlers. Their codes of government needed
to be distributed, and newspapers were required to promulgate
their laws among the scattered settlements. In Xew York,
Pennsylvania, and other colonies, books dealing wdth some
phase of legal procedure are the earliest-known imprints. In
jnost of the settlements in the trans-Allegheny territory that
contained the germs of the present states, the earliest publica-
tions of which we have knowledge were newspapers.* In Wis-
consin the first job of printing was a bundle of lottery tickets ;
the initial publication of the second press was a broadside con-
taining resolutions adopted at an indignation meeting held at
Pike River, February 13, 1836 ; the third press established in
the territory printed the first booklet early in 1836. It was
scientific in character, enimierating the plants and shells found

3 Richardson's American Literature, 1607-1885, ii, p. 4.

* William Bradford did not transport his materials for The Ken-
tucke Gazette to Lexington until 1787. A printing press was estab-
lished in Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1793; in Missouri, at St. Louis, in
1808; in Michigan, at Detroit, in 1810; in Indiana, at Vincennes, in
1811. In Wisconsin the first regular presses were established in Green
Bay, 1833; Pike River (now Kenosha), 1836; Milwaukee, 1836.

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in the vicinity of Milwaiikee. These three jobs of printing
were, respectively, the products of the first presses set up in
what is now the state of Wisconsin.

The mechanical difficulties encountered by our pioneer print-
ers were not calculated to stimulate their art beyond absolute
requirements in the most utilitarian channels. So meagre w«t©
tlieir facilities that many of the earliest statute books were
printed in the East** Indeed, some of the early books which
bear on their title pages the imprint of Wisconsin towns were
printed in Albany, 'New York, Cincinnati, or some other city
far removed from the borders of the territory.^ The great bulk
of printed material that has survived the first half of the last
century comprises official publications and newspapers.'^

The first Wisconsin book of history, and the first home-made
book in more durable binding than paper, was Lapham's Geo-
graphical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin, pub-
lished at Milwaukee by P. C. Hale, in 1844-. It was reprinted
two years later in enlarged form, the printing of this issue being
executed in the East. The first novel was printed in Wisconsin
in 1857, seven years after the introduction of steam printing in
^Milwaukee. The title runs as follows:

5 See Cole's "A Rare Wisconsin Book," Wis. Hist. Colls., x, p. 383.

6 As late as 1849 the public printer, C. Latham Sholes, caused the
imprint of Southport, Wis., to be placed on the title page of the first
volume of revised statutes of the state, although the book was actually
printed by Charles Van Benthuysen, at Albany, N. Y.

'Pamphlets become scarce in a surprisingly short period after issu-
ance. In the early days of the territory this class of publications was
more ephemeral in character than today, for the large libraries now
go to immense trouble in gathering these "unconsidered trifles" that
may later on prove of historical value. The only libraries known
to the writer to possess more than a handful of early Wisconsin im-
prints, are the Wisconsin Historical Society, Milwaukee Public, Mil-
waukee Law (chiefly official publications), and the private libraries of
Henry W. Bleyer of Milwaukee, Emil Baensch of Manitowoc, and that
of the writer.

GARAN(.( LA,

TIIK

ONSUA-nO.\WA CHIEF:

A TALE 01 INDIAN LIFE

MOHAWKS AM) OXONDAGAS

TWO niXDHKi) ^ i:ai;s a(;o.

BY A CITIZKN ok MILWAU

K F, K .

MILWAirKKK:
STRICKLAND it CO., PUBLISHERS.

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WISCONSIN

Early Wisconsin Imprints 121

a Citizen of Milwaukee, j Milwaukee: | Strickland & Co., 134 East
Water Street. | 1857.

Tlie first Wisconsin book of verse was published at Fond du
Lac in 1860. It was a pamphlet of 57 pages, by Mrs. Elizabeth
Famswortli Mjears. Ihe title was as follows: Voyage of Pere
Marqwertte, and The Rormmce of Charles de Langlade, or The
India/n Queen. An historical poem of the 17th and 18th cen-
turies.

Not until 1862 was a book of verse printed in Mlwaukee;
in that year two appeared, the claim to priority of publication
being in favor of the following book:

Teone: | or | The Magic Maid. | By Rusco. j Milwaukee: | 1862.

The contemporary volume of poems is Wayside Flowers, by
Carrie Carlton ; it also bore a Milwaukee imprint. The earliest
book of verse by a Wisconsin writer was the curious volume by
Elbert Herring Staaith, called MorKa-TairShe-Kai-Kaik, but it
was printed in ]^ew York in 1848.®

The difliculties experienced by early-day printers may ac-
count in some measure for the poverty of any Wisconsin litera-
ture more diverting than session laws and statutes. Yet even
these bear historic information in their contents and on their
title pages. Taken chronologically, the title pages indicate
the sharp rivalry that existed in competition for the public
printing; for in those days political influence determined the
selection of the official printer. Thus the official printing went
traveling from one part of the territory to another, with a fre-
quency and celerity quite out of keeping with the meagre trans-
portation facilities of the day. A list of official printers and
the places of publication made up from these sources includes
the following well-known names and early "centres" of print-
ing:

1836 —James Clarke, Belmont, W. T.
1838 — Josiah A. Noonan, [Madison], W. T.

»A diverting account of the book and its author is given by A. C.
Wheeler (Nym Crinkle) in Chronicles of Milwaukee, p. 134.

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1839 —Charles C. Sholes, Green Bay, W,. T.

1840 — Harrison Reed, Milwaukee. "
1840-41— William W. Wyman, Madison.

1842 — Alonzo Piatt, Platteville. '

1843 —Sheldon & Hyer, [Madison].

1844 — George Hyer, Madison, W. T.
1845-46— Simeon Mills, Madison, W. T.

1846 — Beriah Brown, Madison, W. T.

1847 — H. A. Tenney, Madison, W. T.

1848 — Rhenodyne A. Bird, Madison, Wis.

1849 — C. Latham Sholes, Southport.

It is interesting to note the orthography of the territorial
name in the Laws of Wishonsan Territory printed in 1844.
Botli before and after that year the official publications spell
the name as it is today. Gov. James iKiane Doty always per-
sisted in spelling the name ^'Wiskonsan," and the territorial
printer doubtless corrected proof to humor the chief executive's
temacious preference.

To revert to the initial attempts at printing (Green Bay),
it is interesting to read the description of the outfit given by
Gien. Albert G. Ellis.^ The date is not accurately fixed in tlie
narrative, but it would appear therefrom that the year was
later than 1826 and earlier than 1831:

John P. Arndt had lost a store and its contents by fire. He con-
ceived the plan of selling lottery tickets to reimburse. There was a
singular genius in the place, who, among a thousand other notions.

9 Wis. Editorial Association, Proceedings, 1859. See also, Vieau's
account of Green Bay's first printing office, Wis. Hist. Colls., xv, p.
464.

"The earliest Wisconsin paper was the Green Bay Intelligencer (Dec,
1833), of which we have a nearly complete file, including the first 26
numbers." — Wis. Historical Society, Annotated Catalogue of Newspaper
Files (1898), p. xi.

The first mail route between Green Bay and Chicago was established
in 1834. The Intelligencer dropped into poetry, and placed this refrain
at the head of its news columns:

"Three times a week, without any fail.
At four o'clock we look for the mail.
Brought with dispatch on an Indian trail."

>Bay Intelligencer

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Early Wisconsin Imprints 123

had a handful of old brevier, and an ounce or two of printer's ink.
On examination I found suflBcient letters to set the necessary matter
for a ticket. A bit of pewter furnished the means of a kind of border
for the bill; an oak log sawed off and made smooth at an end, fur
nished the stone; and by means of a planer instead of a platen I
worked off 1,000 of these tickets, which was on the whole a rather
fair job, and the first printing ever executed in the state. Latterly I
have offered a premium of $20 for one of them, but in vain.

First printing ofiBce in Wisconsin (Green Bay, 1833).

The second press in Wisconsin to print other than a news-
paper, was located by Jason Lathrop, at Pike River, Ke-
nosha county, in February, 1836 ; the third press, at Milwaukee,
in July of the same year, by Daniel H. Richards. Xo speci-
men is now known of the product of tlie Pike River press, al-
though a copy appears to have been in existence in 1872, when
H. H. Hurlbut wrote concerning it:

At my right hand there lays a genuine and valuable relic of "squat-
ter days" in these parts. It is a printed pamphlet, being "The Con-
stitution of the Milwaukee Union," which was the "settlers' law,"
formed by the convention at Root River, aforesaid. * ♦ ♦ j may
say that this little "Constitution" pamphlet, comprising nine pages in
type, is an early specimen from the first printing press in Milwaukee
county (which county then included all southeastern Wisconsin), and
the third press in the Territory, albeit it was a rude affair, resting on
a stump. This printing office was at Pike River (old "Kenosha" of
the Indians), one mile north of the present Kenosha, and subsequently
a part of Racine county; the printer was the late Rev. Jason Lathrop.' i

i^ Early Days at Racine, hy an Outsider [H. H. Hurlbut], 1872, p. 6.

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Tile founder of the press may be quoted^" to show what a
primitive affair it was, that printed from type the proceedings
of a meeting held at Pike Eiver, February '13, 1836 ;

These proceedings I printed at the time — the former on a large slip
or broadside, and the latter in a pamphlet of nine pages. * * ♦
This printing I did on a rude press of my own construction, placed on
a stump. A wooden box was made, about twelve by twenty-four inches
in size, with sides rising above the base on which the type were made
to stand, of the height of the type; I made my own ink, and used the
old-fashioned ball with which to distribute the ink on the type, and
then a roller passed over the paper on the form, resting on the sides
of the box or table, that did the press-work. The whole expense of my
printing materials, including type, could not have been ten dollars.
It was with such limited accommodations that I executed this early
printing at Pike River.

Although located in the largest town in the territory, which
at that time was more populous than Chicago, the founder of
the first Milwaukee press also had his difficulties:^^

A year's stock of paper, ink, cards, etc., had to be supplied; and it
was with the greatest difficulty that the two printers, whose passage
and expenses to this place had been paid, in addition to their regular
weekly compensation, could be induced to continue their labor.

In a letted' to the Wisconsin Editorial Association, at its ses-
sion held at Oshkosh in June, 1869, the veteran printer, George
Hyer, gave an interesting account of the establishment of the
first official printing office in the territory, in Qiotober, 1836:

Governor Dodge called the legislature together at Belmont, the last
of October, 1836. "Belmont" was then unknown — it was not on the
map, and the inquiry was upon every tongue, "Where is Belmont?"
The first report in answer was, that the name of Mineral Point had
been changed to Belmont, and I believe the Milwaukee delegation left
home for the new capital under the impression that they were to meet
at "the Point." They, however, passed the session on an open prairie,
where a collection of poor buildings had been hastily erected for their

12 "A Sketch of the Early History of Kenosha County," in Wis. Hist.
Colls., ii, pp. 461, 462.

13 Daniel H. Richards's account in History of Milwaukee (Chicago
1881), p. 613.

A RELIC OF TERRITORIAL DAYS

This press, now the property of the Wisconsin Historical Society,

was used in Milwaukee, Racine, Janesville. Delavan,

Geneva Lake, and Evansville

Early Wisconsin Imprints 125

accommodation; and this was Belmont. The session was shortened
by cold weather, it not lasting two months, during which it was pro-
vided that the next session should be held at Burlington, west of the
Mississippi, and the succeeding one at Madison, which had been made
the permanent capital of Wisconsin. There was considerable interest
manifested in tne first location of the capital — Milwaukee, Green Bay,
and Mineral Point being applicants for it; this local strife probably
induced Governor Dodge to select a point about which there could be
no strife or jealousy, and consequently Belmont was selected, much
to the inconvenience of all parties. Here James Clarke and M. D.
Holbrook started the Belmont Gazette. It was a small, indifferent-
looking sheet, wholly devoted to the proceedings of the Legislature —
beginning and ending with the session.

In another letter to the same association, assembled the fol-
lowing year at Prairie du Ohien, Mr. Hyer wrote:

I have in some of my letters referred to the difficulties atten.iiag
the publication of newspapers in a country as new as Wisconsin was
in 1836, when there was no material, either paper or type, within the
reach of the printer, except such as might be ordered from some
Eastern city, and an order involved weeks, sometimes months, of delay.
It was not unfrequently the case that paper for Milwaukee came from
Pittsburg, via St. Louis, to Galena, and thence by stage, via Chicago,
to Milwaukee. Nearly or quite all the paper and ink used al^ Madisou,
during the first Legislature at that place, came via Galena. There was
then, comparatively, but little work to do — no flaming hand bills were
issued, no shows traversed the country, no gift concerts, festivals,
or excursions, called for a display of printer's ink; the newspaper was
the sole bearer of announcements, and they were few, aside from the
favorable allusions made to the advantages of the immediate location.
In the spring of 1838, having spent the previous winter in Chicago,
in the employ of "Long John" Wentworth, on the Democrat, I returned
to Wisconsin preparatory to leaving for the Rocky Mountains, having
engaged with a fur-trading house at St. Louis to go out on a three
years' expedition. This wild notion followed the reading ol Irving's
Rocky Mountains, and came near changing the whole current of my
life, and would, probably, had I not met Mr. Noonan at Madison, then
made the territorial capital, and engaged with him to take a situa-
tion on the paper he was about to establish there to do the territorial
printing. This was early in the summer of 1838. Mr. N. had ordered
a press from Buffalo, to come by way of the lakes to Green Bay, and
thence up the Fox river on barges, to Ft. Winnebago. The bill of
shipment came in due time, but weeks passed and nothing was heard
of the material. The season vas getting late and no press. Finally

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Mr. N. requested me to mount a pony and go to Ft. Winnebago, forty
miles distant, and make inquiry about the material, and if nothing
was heard of it, to continue my travels to Green Bay. The character
of this expedition will be better appreciated when it is reflected that
the distance to be traveled was without road, guide or stopping places-
there being by the route taken no clearly defined track between Madi-
son and Fort Winnebago, and but one stopping place, a half-breed's
house, within ten or twelve miles of the Fort. But from the latter
place to Green Bay there was a good military road, running east of
Lake Winnebago, affording a good route with convenient stopping
places, among traders and Indians. On reaching Ft. Winnebago, I
gained information that satisfied me that the press had been thrown
into Lake Huron in a storm, and that it would be useless to look
further for the missing printing office. The next morning I started
back, reaching Madison that nigjit, and gave information which led to
the purchase of the Racine Argus by Mr. N., and the transfer of the
material to Madison, followed immediately by the publication of tho
Wisconsin Inquirer, the first number of which appeared in November,
1838, and on which I set the first type. This office did the legislative
work of the second session (first in Madison) for both houses, includ-
ing a revision of the laws. The ability to do, when there is a will, is
evidenced in the fact that on a single hand-press, all the printing of
newspapers, journals, reports, etc., was done, through a session of over
one hundred days. The establishment was not supplied with the cou
veniences usual to the most common country office of the present day —
no small presses, proof presses or other means of taking impressions;
a single hand-press did the entire press work of the session. It would
not be considered possible to do the same work with like means at the
present time. Yet it was done then, and well done, and not considered
at the time as a very extraordinary performance.

Few copies of the ^'extras" and other interesting ephemera
issued from Wisconsin presses as early as 1850, are to be foniid
today outside the files of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Usually these little bulletins were distributed gratuitously.
Said Col. E,. A. Calkins in an address at Milwaukee, in March,
1896:'*

The people could not, as they can now, stand around a railway sta-
tion waiting for the newsboy on the train to bring a daily paper fresh
from the press. There was no source of news information except the
village printing office. Intelligence of important events in distant

1* Printed at the time in the Milwaukee Sentinel.

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parts of the country was often from one to two weeks in reaching the
centers of the frontier population. If important news transpired be-
tween the days of publication, its substance was printed in a little
extra distributed gratuitously, which filled the vicinity with pleas-
urable excitement.

Ttousaiids of pamphlets were printed from a Grerman print-
ing office in Milwaukee, established by Moritz Schoeffler in
1844 ; yet today it is doubtful if half a dozen of these can be
found/ '^ ^Nevertheless they were a historic factor in the state's
development, for to them is attributable the stream of German
migration Wisconsinward. Mr. Schoeffler wrote in June, 1869 :

When, in 1844, I came from Missouri to Milwaukee to establish the
Wisconsi7i Banner, there were only a few English papers published in
the then Territory of Wisconsin, the largest part of it being still
uncultivated, and to some extent an unknown wilderness, but of such
a fertile soil and such rich and undeveloped resources, that nothing
but capital and immigration was needed to transform this wilderness
into a beautiful State. The English press, faithful to its mission, pro-
claimed this throughout the Eastern and Middle States, and I, in con-
nection with several German friends, immediately went to work to
make known, also, throughout the German States, the particular
advantages which, in connection with the fertile soil and its rich re-
sources, Wisconsin could offer, especially to the German immigrant. I
accordingly printed thousands of pamphlets, setting forth these facts,
which were extensively distributed in all the American ports, as well
as in Havre, Hamburg, Bremen and other prominent localities in Ger-
many, or sent by those already satisfactorily settled here in private
letters to their friends in Germany, where they went from hand to
hand, were eagerly read by all classes, and in some districts created
quite an immigration mania in favor of Wisconsin.

IB The earliest Wisconsin imprint in the German language which the
writer of this paper has been able to find, bears the date 1854, and is
a pamphlet of ordinances for a Milwaukee church.

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Chronology

1830 (?) — First job of printing executed in Wisconsin (at Green
Bay).

1833 — (First number of the earliest newspaper issued (Green Bay
Intelligencer, December, 1833).

1836-^First broadside printed at Pike River; first booklet printed
in Milwaukee (Lapham's Catalogue of Plants and Shells) ; first official
publication at Belmont.

1844 — First book printed and bound in Wisconsin (Lapham's Wis-
consin); first daily newspaper (Milwaukee Sentinel); first newsboys;
first German printing office at Milwaukee.

1847 — First city directory (Julius Boliver McCabe's Directory of
Milwaukee) ; first Norwegian printing office established in America (at
Norway, Racine county, in August).

1849 — First Dutch printing office established in America (at She-
boygan, in October).

1850 — First steam printing (Milwaukee).

1857 — First novel printed in Wisconsin {Garangula, by a Citizen of
Milwaukee).

1862 — First book of verse printed in Milwaukee (Teone, by "Rusco").

1881 — First typesetting machine used (Milwaukee).

1883 — Perfecting press used for the first time (Milwaukee Sentinel).

1888 — Daily newspaper in Polish language (first in America), estab-
lished in Milwaukee (June).

1891 — Color work employed for the first time in newspaper printing
(Milwaukee Journal).

1902 — ^Three-color process of newspaper printing employed for the
first time (Milwaukee Sentinel).

T E O N E

'Vl \ 1 Ai^VGJ I C^ M AIT)

B "Y PJ,XJ S C O.

MILWAUKEE

FACSIMILE OF TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF VERSE
ISSUED IN WISCONSIN

Early Wisconsin Imprints 129

Bibliography, 1836-1850

[State official journals, laws, and reports not included.]

1836

12 pp. + blank fly leaves and paper cover. Size of page, 4x6 inches.
A supplement was issued in 1840 to an enlarged edition printed in 1838.

1838

(2) A I Catalogue | of Plants j found in the | Vicinity of Milwau-
kee, I Wisconsin Territory. | By I. A. Lapham. | Milwaukee, W. T. j
Printed at the ^^..dvertiser Office. I 1838.

(3) Territorial Convention [1838]. Broadside urging James Duano
Doty for delegate; also proceedings of convention held at Madison,
Aug. 29, 1838.

(4) Miners' Free Press— Extra, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 1838, Public meet-
ing.

Large broadside containing an Address to the People of Wisconsin
in favor ot a territorial bank.

1839

(5) Public Meeting to Select delegates to territorial convention to
nominate a delegate to congress. Held at Navarino Hotel, Green Bay,
June 1, 1839.

Broadside, double column.

1840

(6) A Documentary History of the Milwaukee and Rock River Ca
nal. Edited by I. A. Lapham, Engineer and Secretary. Milwaukee,
Wis. Printed at the office of the Advertiser. 1840.

151 pp.

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1841

(7) Report on the natural advantages, accompanied with an estimate
of the cost of construction for a Harbor at the mouth of Root River,
on the West Shore of Lake Michigan, in Wisconsin Territory [1841] .

7 pp. Size of page, 23^ x 6 inches.

(8) A True and Faithful History of the Celebrated Western Emigra
tion Company, who made their location at Pike River and Souihport,
Wisconsin Territory. Description of some of the principal persons
engaged therein, together with other interesting particulars never be-
fore published. By a Stockholder. "Sometimes fair truth by fiction we
disguise, Sometimes present her naked to men's eyes." Southport,
Wis. Printed for Wallace Mygatt, 1841.

This rare pamphlet is described in Early Days at Racine (1872), the
author commenting as follows: "Real names are not given, but are
thinly hidden under fictitious names. Messrs. Towsley, Turner, Bullen
and our own respected citizen, the late Dr. Bushnell B. Cary (first
physician and first postmaster here), were plainly intended to be por-
trayed. The most marked characteristics of the work, perhaps, are the
altitude and bitterness of its invective, or rather venom."

(9) Proceedings of the Democratic Territorial Convention held at
Madison, February 11, 1841, together with an address to the people of
Wisconsin.

12 pp. The planks of the platform read much as do those of the
present day:

Rigid construction of the constitution, as the only means to preserve
sovereignty of the states.

Hostility to all moneyed or other corporate interests which tend to
create a privileged class; add to the wealth of the non-producing at the
expense of producing classes; make the rich richer and the poor
poorer.

Free trade.

1842

(10) Report of a Committee appointed by the trustees of the Town
of Milwaukee, relative to the Commerce of that Town, and the Navi-
gation of Lake Michigan. Published by order of the Board of Trustees,
Milwaukee, W. T. Printed at the Courier office. 1842.

12 pp. A rare pamphlet. The Wisconsin Historical Society does not
possess a copy,

1843

(11) Proceedings at the Formation of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M.,
held at Madison, Dec. 18, 1843. Platteville, 1843.

Early Wisconsin Imprints 131

1844

(12) Masonic oration delivered by B. T. Kavanaugh on the anni-
versary of St. John the Baptist, Platteville, June 24, A. L. 5844. Platte-
ville, W. T., 1844.

15 pp.

(13) Proceedings of the Convention of the Grand Lodge of Wiscon-
sin held at Madison, on Monday, the 18th day of December, A. D. 1843,
A. L. 5843, and of the Grand Called Communication, on Wednesday, the
17th day of January, A. D. 1844, A. L. 5844. Platteville, W. T., Thomas
Eastman, Printer, 5843.

23 pp. Contains a list of oflftcers, master masons, fellow crafts and
entered apprentices.

The proceedings for 1845 were printed at Platteville by Jerome L.
Marsh, 92 pp.; for 1846 at Madison, by Beriah Brown, 146 pp.; for 1847
at Platteville by J. L. Marsh, 68 pp.; for 1848 by Beriah Brown, 105
pp.; for 1849 at Mineral Point by Geo. W. Bliss, 84 pp.

1845

(14) The I Home of the Badgers, | or a | Sketch of the | early his-
tory of Wisconsin, with a series of familiar let | ters and remarks on
territorial character | and characteristics, etc. | By Oculus. | I came
to the Emigrant's home! — echoes from the voice of civilization | begat
each other in the shady wood, and lent their music to the Prairie j
wind. I "If it appear not plain, and prove untrue, j Deadly divorce
step between me and you." | Milwaukie: | Published by Wilshire &
Co. I 1845.

36 pp. Blue paper cover. Verso of title page, "Am. Freeman
print."

Inside of back cover contains "Names of Towns, Diggings," &c. "The
following are names of towns and 'Diggings' in the mining country,
collected while I was there. A friend of mine who keeps a 'Metre and
Ryming Mill,' threw them at random into the hopper, and there came
out this grist — a sonnet:

Hard Scrabble, Fairplay, Nip-and-Tuck, and Patch,

With Catholic, Whig, and Democrat to match;

There's Shirt-Tail, Shake-rag, and Hoof Noggle steep;

And Strawberry, Trespass, and Tail-hole deep;

There's Beetown, Hardtimes, and old Rattle-snake;

And Black-leg, Shingle Ridge, Baled, and Stake;

The DeviVs Light-house, Pinhook and Dry Bone;

And Swindler's Ridge, with hazles o'ergrown.

There's Buzzard's Roost, Injunction, and Two Brothers;

Snake Hollow, Black Jack diggings. Horse and others: —

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As Small Pox, Buncomb, and Peddler's Creek,
And Lower Coon, Stump Grove, and Red Dog bleak;
Menominie and Rat-tail Ridge may measure out this sonnet.
With Bull Branch and Upper Coon; — now put your curses on it."

Second and enlarged edition, pink paper wrappers, 48 pp. and map
printed by S. W. Benedict, 16 Spruce St., N. Y., and bears imprint;
Milwaukee: I. A. Hopkins, 146 U. S. Block, 1846.

(15) Message of his Excellency, The Governor of the People: deliv-
ered in the House of Representatives at Madison, Feb. 12th, 1845. n. p.,
n. d.

8 pp. This bogus gubernatorial message is signed "H. N. Wells,
By his private secretary, Ben C. Eastman."

Some of the recommendations in this ironical document are as fol-
lows:

"As a measure of the greatest importance and one which should first
command attention, I would recommend that you memorialize the
President of the United States to remove forthwith from office the
person appointed by Capt. Tyler, and who styles himself 'Governor of
Wisconsin,' and appoint some resident of this Territory in his place.

"I also recommend the appointment of a select committee to investi-
gate the affairs of the 'Forty Thieves,'

"I regret that our appearance here at this time should have caused
any uneasiness amongst our servants. No good faithful servant would
be thus effected. It is only the lazy, worthless drone who shuns the
vigilant and watchful eye of his master."

(16) Annual report of the Register and Receiver of the Milwaukee
and Rock River Canal. [1845.]

3 pp.

(17) Report of Joshua Hathaway, special agent. [1845.]
3 pp.

(18) Speech of Hon. Moses M. Strong, of Iowa County, on the Gov-
ernor's Message. Jan. 9, 1845.

8 pp.

1846

(19) Circular, By-Laws and Act of Incorporation, of the Milwaukee
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Milwaukee: Printed at the Courier Office.
1846.

24 pp.

Early Wisconsin Imprints 133

(20) Manual of the First Presbyterian Church in Milwaukie: With
a concise history of its formation and events in its subsequent prog-
ress. Milwaukie: Printed at the office of the Daily Gazette. 1846.

15 pp.

(21) Articles of Agreement of the Milwaukee and Lake Superior
Mining Association. Organized at Milwaukee June 6, 1846. Milwau-
kee: From the press of the Daily Sentinel and Gazette. 1846.

11 pp.

(22) Manual of the Milwaukee First Presbyterian Church, with a
concise History of its Formation. Milwaukee, 1846.

(23) Constitution of the Mineral Point Guards, Madison, 1846.

(24) Rules to be observed by the pupils of the public schools of Mil-
waukee, Milwaukee, Dec. 1846.

Broadside 8 xl23^ inches. Contains fourteen rules, signed by Rufus
King, President, and H. G. Abbey, Secretary; among them the follow-
ing:

1. The Pupils must all appear at the appointed hours, with their
hands and faces clean; and hair combed, free from lice, itch, scald
head, and other contagious diseases; and with their clothes clean and
mended.

(25) Sermon, preached in the capitol at Madison, Wisconsin, on
Sunday, 15th November, 1846, before the Constitutional Convention,
on the death of Hon. Thomas P. Burnett, one of its members, by the
Rev. Stephen McHugh, A. M. Madison: Beriah Brown, Printer, 1846.

13 pp.

(26) Constitution, By-Laws and Rules of Order of Green Bay Di-
vision: No. 2, Sons of Temperance: State of Wisconsin. S. Ryan,
Jr., Printer, Mechanic's Block, 1846.

Size of page, 2% x 4^^ inches.

(27) Articles of Agreement of the Lake Superior and Silver Creek
Mining Company. Organized at Milwaukee, 30th May, 1846. Milwau-
kee Courier, Print. 1846.

12 pp.

(28) Message of his excellency, A. D. Smith, Governor of the People,
delivered at The Capitol, Jan. 20, 1846. By authority. Madison, Jan'y,
1846. Beriah Brown, People's Printer.

8 pp. A burlesque message. Among the suggestions contained there-
in are the following:

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No contracts shall be considered binding after either party shall be
come dissatisfied.

Courts of law shall so offset their judgments that no one shall get
more than he loses.

Chancery shall be abolished, and the powers conferred upon the
Tiger.

No charters shall be granted without a vote of the people in then
favor, and may be repealed at any town meeting.

The legislature may borrow money, but it shall never be considered
that payment thereof is necessary or proper.

Judges shall be selected by the people at the democratic conventions
in each county, and shall hold their oflSce for but one term of court.

Provision shall be made whereby any public officer defeated at an
election may hold over.

Abolish all tenantries at will when rent is unpaid.

1847

(29) Directory [ of the | City of Milwaukee, | for the years j 1847-
'48, I containing an j epitomized history of Milwaukee | With a Copy
of its City Charter, and a description of its Public Build- | ings, &c..
Statistics of its Trade, Commerce and Manufactures; | an alphabetical
list of its Streets; a list of its Citizens alpha- | betically arranged, with
their professions and trades and | places of residence; every necessary
information re- | lative to public offices and officers of the City, |
County and Territory; | an account of the various institutions, asso-
ciations and churches in Milwaukee, &c., &c. | By Julius P. Boliver
MacCabe, | Author of the Histories and Directories of Drogheda,
Newry, Warrenport and j Rosstrevor in Ireland; of the tour through
the Counties of Lancashire, West- | moreland and Cumberland in Eng-
land; and of the Directories of Detroit, | Cleveland and Lexington, and
Registers of Michigan and Kentucky, and | Notes on Wisconsin and
Northern Illinois, U. S., &c., &c. | Milwaukee: | Printed by Wilson &
King. I 1847. |

146 pp. + 92 pp. of advertisements paged separately.

Dedication to "Honorable Solomon Juneau, the first white settler in
Eastern Wisconsin, first mayor," etc.

Curious cuts of steamboats, stage, etc., in advertisements.

(30) Report of the Teachers of the Milwaukee County Teachers'
Institute on the subject of text books for public schools. Adopted
October 28, 1847. Milwaukee: Joseph Curtis, printer, Wisconsin office,
corner Michigan and Water streets, mdcccxlvii.

Early Wisconsin Imprints 135

12 pp. Submitted to the Milwaukee School Board. Objects to Cobb\>
Speller for including such words as:

Anthelmintic. Squamigerous

Bombyx Plumigerous

Ernhescent Hederiferous

Balneal Biforious

Racemiferous etc.

Also attacks Goodrich's readers in no uncertain tone: "What can
be thought of the judgment of a writer (compiler) who can insert iu
his school books, for the improvement of children and youtn, such
trash as:

"Hey diddle, the cat and the fiddle.
The cow, etc."

There is also a protest against the use of this ballad:
"Brian O'Linn had no watch to put on,
So he scooped out a turnip to make himself one;
He caught him a cricket and put it within.
And called it a ticker — did Brian O'Linn."
The report comments in this fashion on the above: "At the sugges-
tion of a friend, the Committee would remark that they th.'nk Gk>od
rich omitted the better part! of this sublime poem! which runs:
"Brian O'Linn had no breeches to wear,
So he bought him a sheepskin to make him a pair;
With the fleshy side out, and the wooly side in.
They're cool and comfortable! says Brian O'Linn."

(31) L O. O. F. Constitution and By-Laws of the Grand Lodge of
Wisconsin, together with the Journal of Proceedings of the Grand
Lodge at its first annual session held June 9, 1847, at the City of Mil-
waukee. Wilson & King, 1847.

36 pp. Similar publications issued for 1848, 38 pp.; 1849, 47 pp.

(32) Minutes of the Sessions of the Baptist Association, 1847.
Do., 1848, 1849.

1848

(33) Rules and Regulations | of the j Common Council [ of
the I city of Milwaukee. | Adopted April 13, 1848. \ Sentinel
and Gazette Print. | 1848.

8 pp. and cover.

(34) Inaugural Address of Byron Kilbourn; Mayor of the City of
Milwaukee. Delivered before the Common Council, April 12, 1848.
Milwaukee: Dally Wisconsin Book and Job Printing Office. 1848.

18 pp.

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204 pp., including advertisements.

(36) Address delivered before Franklin lodge, No. 16, at Franklin,
Iowa County, Wisconsin, by Montgomery M. Cothren, at the celebration
of the Nativity of St. John, June 24, 1848. Lancaster, 1848.

5 pp.

(37) Plank Roads: Report by Philo White on their Utility -and
Economy, to a meeting at Racine, 1848. Racine, 1848.

(38) Milwaukee Public Schools, Annual Report of the School Com-
missioners, 1848, 1849, 1850. Milwaukee.

(39) The Diamond, being the law of Prophetic Succession and a
Defense of the Calling of James J. Strang as successor to Joseph
Smith, and a Full Exposition of the Law of God Touching the Sue
cession of Prophets Holding the Presidency of the True Church, and
the Proof that this Succession Has Been Kept Up. Voree, Wis., 1848.

(40) Ordinances of the City of Milwaukee in force May 22, 1848.
Sidney L. Rood, Publisher, 1848.

70 pp. Among the interesting ordinances of the infant city were
the following:

To prevent cattle from running at large in certain parts of the
Fourth ward.

To license dogs. "Any person causing a dog fight in this city shall
be subject to a fine of $5 and any person aiding or abetting the same
a fine of |1."

To prevent gaming. For using a billiard table or bowling alley, $25
fine.

To prevent begging. Street beggars shall forfeit $25.

"$10 fine for blowing upon a bugle or horn between 5 a. m. and 10
p. m. Sundays."

1849

(41) Constitution and Annual Report of the Milwaukee Young
Men's Association. Milwaukee, 1849.

(42) First Annual Report of the Trustees of Beloit College. Beloit,
1849.

Early Wisconsin Imprints 137

(43) Inaugural Address of Don A. J. Upham, Mayor of the City of
Milwaukee. Delivered before the Common Council, April 12 1849.
Milwaukee: Printed at the Wisconsin OflQce, 1849.

19 pp.

(44) Acts Incorporating the Milwaukee, Waukesha and Mississippi
River Rail Road Company; together with a Report of the Commission-
ers relating to a plan of operations, adopted by the Board of Directors,
Milwaukee, May 19, 1849. [Cut of train.] Milwaukee: Sentinel and
Gazette Print. 1849.

20 pp.

(45) Speech in the Assembly [on slavery] by Samuel Dexter Hast-
ings, Jan. 27, 1849. Milwaukee, 1849.

16 pp.

(46) To the Public. An Examination of the proceedings and evi-
dence In the cases against Russell Wheeler, By himself, n. p., n. d.
[1849.]

(47) Milwaukee, Waukesha and Mississippi River Railroad Com-
pany. Act of Incorporation and Report of the Directors. Milwaukee,
1849.

20 pp. + table of tariffs. "There shall be no free list." The sta-
tions are given as follows, with tariff from Milwaukee:

Milwaukee. Dixon's Road, 45.

Spring Street Road, 10. Power's Mill, 50.

Chase's Mill, 15. Tew's Road, 55.

Wauwatosa, 20. Plank Road, 60.

Blanchard's, 25. Fox River Cottage, 65.

Underwood's, 30. Waukesha, 75
Elm Grove, 35.

(48) First Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee, Wau-
kesha and Mississippi Rail-Road Company to the Stockholders. Mil-
waukee, Dec. 31, 1849.

11 pp.

(49) Wisconsin Free Democrat — Extra. Speech of Samuel D. Hast-
ings of Walworth County [on slavery]. January 27. 1849. Milwaukee:
Printed by S. M. Booth. Spring Street, 1849.

138 Wisconsin Historical Society

1850

(50) Catalogue of the officers and students of Beloit College. Beloit,
1850.

(51) Collection of Sacred Hymns adapted to the faith and views of
the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints. Voree: Gospel
Press, 1850. Includes:

"Glorious things of Thee are spoken." (Zion)

"Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing." (Dismission)

"Blest be the tie that binds." (Fraternity)

"Come, ye sinners, poor and needy." (Invitation)

"Come, let us anew, our journey pursue." (New Year's Resolve)

"Blow ye the trumpet, blow." (Gospel Trumpet)

"How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord." (Assurance)

"Guide us, O thou great Jehovah." (Prayer)

"Lord in the morning thou shalt hear." (Morning)

(52) Catalogue of Beloit College. Beloit Journal Print. 1850.

(53) Catalogue of Lawrence University. Madison, 1850.

(54) Ethereal Intonations pertaining to an initiation into the Sub-
lime Mysteries of the O. E. O. 1001. Adopted in Grand Coimcil, by
the Grand Lodge, Yoxeni, 72, 19,872 of the Order, and of Vulgar Time,
December 1, A. D. 1849. Janesville, Wis.: Alden ft Holt, Book and
Job Printers, 1850.

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