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Boots,  Shoes,  Leather 

AND  SHOE  FINDINGS. 

Custom  work  a  specialty.  Repairing  neatly  and  quickly  done. 

E  B   BUNDY; 
Sttoi<r\ey  knd  CoundeW  &t  I^kw, 

Meiiomonie,  Dunn  County,    Wisconsin. 

"brick:  !   B  RICK  ! 

NEW  YARD. 

The  under.-igned  is  now  prepared  to  furnish  brick  of  as  good  quality  as  any  man- 
ufactured in  the  Northwest,  in  large  or  small  quantities,  to  suit  purchasers.  Brick 
yard  situated  on  mv  farm,  three-fourths  of  a  mile  west  of  Meiiomonie,  by  the  new- 
road  from  Water  street.  Brick  delivered  to  any  part  of  the  village  on  short  notice. 
a   reasonable  rates.  J-   lvI-    HUGHES. 

"GEORGE  TONNAR, 

DEALER  IN 

Drugs,  Books  &  Stationary. 

°      '      FAKCY   GOODS,  <fce.  J  ' 

MENOMONIE,   WISCONSIN. 

HARRIS   SEARL, 

CLERE  OF  CIRCUIT  COUET, 

GENERAL    l^A.rVl> 

AND  INSURANCE  AGENT. 

EAU  CLAIRE,  WISCONSIN. 


Wm.  B,  HAHSCOME  &  CO., 

WfeotoMle  Cteoeeft 

AND    DEALERS  IX 

Provisions,  l>ri**cl    KVixits   Az:o., 

No.  9  Main  Street, 

LA   CROSSE,   WISCONSIN. 


ALSO  AGKN 


Aii|cricai|    >>tcaii|    Safe   CSoirrpkiry,   8o^toi\, 


\Iei]outonic  /  Oui]i|  Coni(ty,  Wis. 

HISTORICAL    SKKI'Cff. 


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THE  INDIANS. 

iIIE  land  in  this  section  of  country   was, 

upon  the  advent  of  the  whites,  claimed 
by  the  Chippewa  Indians,  though  it  was  some- 
times  invaded  by  theSioux.    Theold  settlers  say 

that  the  beauty,  grace,  honesty  and  several  other 
virtues  claimed  for  the  dusky  suns  and  daughters 
of  the  forest,  arc  all  a  humbug,  and  originated 
in  the  brain  of  some  love-sick  novelist.  An  In- 
dian maiden  was  not  remarkable  for  her  beauty 
in  olden  times  any  more  than  she  is  now.  She  had  little  snakey  e; 
straight,  coarse,  black  hair  ;  high  cheek  bones  ;  a  flat  nose,  and  a  low, 
retreating  forehead.  She  had  her  white  sister's  love  of  paint,  only 
she  sought  to  improve  on  nature  by  using  many  colors,  and  more  of 
them.  She  would  appear  at  times  before  her  lovers  with  a  red  fore- 
head, a  blue  nose,  yellow  cheeks  and  a  green  chin,  reversing  the  color 
each  day  to  suit  her  peculiar  taste.  She  was  not  as  particular  about 
the  quantity  of  her  wearing  apparel  as  she  was  about  the  quality. 
Her  dress  in  summer  generally  consisted  of  a  string  of  beads;  in 
the  winter,  on  account  of  the  severe  climate,  she  was  obliged  to  wear 
rhin^  heavier.  ^\i>}  never  washed,  nor  combed  her  hair.  In  fact 
both  men  and  women  levelled  in  filth,  as  a  '  in  the  mini. 

The  he,  ihout  the  Indians  also  seem  to  be  originated   where 

the  idea  of  Indian  beauty  is.      The  Indian  would  purchase  his  squaw 
from  her  people,  when  In-  made  up  his  mind  to  have  one;  and  he  who 

Neii  —  Tl.i-  f  the  old  settlers,  who  say  tl.at 

tin-  Bquawa  received  pre*  d  ami  white,  much   tin-  rame  as  il  e 

women  of  oar  race  do;  bat  lhat  tic  Bquawa  were  not  trafficked  for  otherwise,  ami 

that  they  »  a  in  the  matter. 

81 


264  American  Sketch  Booh. 

could  pay  the  largest  price  had  the  first  chance  for  a  bargain.  He 
took  as  many  wives  as  he  wanted,  and  if  he  found  he  could  not  kill 
game  enough  for  all,  he  gave  some  of  them  their  discharge.  He  put 
all  of  the  heavy  work  upon  the  squaws.  Indian  admirers  say  that  he 
did  so  because  it  was  necessary  that  his  nerves  should  be  steady  when 
taking  his  aim  at  game.  Be  this  as  it  may,  it  is  certain  that  the 
squaws  carried  all  the  burdens,  built  the  wigwams,  cut  the  wood,  made 
the  fires  and  cooked  the  food,  while  the  master  lolled  about,  drinking 
and  smoking.  The  Indians  have  never  been  believers  in  women's 
rights.  The  squaws  have  all  the  rights  they  want,  and  do  not  make 
any  move  until  commanded  by  their  lords.  Neither  did  the  Indians 
improve  by  mingling  with  the  whites.  They  imitated  all  the  white 
people's  vices,  but  none  of  the  white  people's  virtues.  They  learned 
readily  to  drink  and  gamble,  and  though  the  Chippewa  language 
contains  no  "  curse  words,"  they  would  swear  harder  in  English  than 
any  raftsman.  More  than  this,  the  Chippewas  did  not  take  much  to 
the  English  language.  The  white  people,  instead  of  raising  the  In- 
dians to  their  own  level,  generally  descended  nearly  to  a  level  with 
them.  This  intermingling  of  the  races,  perhaps,  saved  much  blood- 
shed and  torture,  such  as  have  been  visited  in  other  localities ;  for 
the  Indians  would  not  murder  their  own  kinsman,  unless  greatly 
exasperated. 

The  Indians,  as  a  race,  though  sometimes  capable  of  gratitude,  are 
generally  a  shrewd,  unprincipled  people.  Mr.  L.  Bullard,  one  of 
the  oldest  settlers  of  Menomonie,  tells  quite  an  amusing  anecdote, 
illustrative  of  these  characteristics  of  Indian  disposition.  In  1849, 
Mr.  Bullard  was  logging  on  Hay  River,  about  eighteen  miles  from 
where  Menomonie  now  is,  and  kept  a  supply  store.  The  Indians  there 
constantly  coveting  the  trinkets  and  liquor  which  he  had  on  hand  for 
trading  purposes,  in  the  fall,  brought  in  their  camp-kettles  and  sold 
them  to  Mr.  Bullard,  taking  their  pay  out  of  the  store.  But  when 
the  sugar-making  time  came,  they  needed  their  kettles,  and  they  sent 
a  squaw,  whose  name  was  "  Old  Goose,"  to  borrow  them.  Mr.  Bul- 
lard objected,  at  first,  to  lending  them,  but  upon  Old  Goose's  pledge 
of  honor  to  return  said  kettles  in  good  order,  as  soon  as  the  sugar 
season  should  be  over,  he  reluctantly  let  them  go ;  which  was  done 
with  the  understanding  that  he  should  receive  a  certain  quantity  of 
sugar  for  their  use.  One  morning,  however,  about  the  close  of  the 
sugar-season,  Mr.  Bullard  discovered  that  the  Indians  had  pulled  up 
their  wigwams  and  departed,  bag  and  baggage,  during  the  previous 


Menomonu  and  Dunn  County^  Wisconsin.       265 

eight,  taking  along  his  kettles  as  well  as  the  sugar  which  was  due  him. 

Mr.  Ballard  was  angry,  so  angry  that  he  decided  to  follow  the  [ndians 
and  recover  the  camp-kettles.      Upon  his  avowing  his  intention 
man,  George  Wilson  by  name,  offered  to  accompany  him  ;  and,  stra 

as  it  may  seem,  these  two  men  Btarted  in  pursuit,  without  a  weapon  of 
any  kind  with  which  to  defend  themselves,  in  case  of  an  assault. 
They  followed  the  trail  in  company,  until  they  found  it  forked,  when 
they  separated,  one  taking  the  right  and  the  other  the  left  trail.  Mr. 
Ballard  had  not  proceeded  far,  when  he  overtook  Old  Goose's 
and  another  Indian,  the  former  being  armed  with  a  shot-gun.  The 
gentleman  inquired  concerning  the  squaw  and  the  kettles,  hut  Old 
Goose's  son  answrered  impudently  that  he  knew  nothing  about  either. 
More  exasperated  than  before,  Mr.  Bullard  made  the  reckless  decision 
to  obtain  possession  of  the  gun,  and  making  a  quick  spring,  grasped 
it  and  tried  to  wrench  it  from  the  Indian,  who  immediately  sh 
his  determination  not  to  give  it  up.  A  hot  scuffle  ensued,  during 
which  Indian  number  two  seated  himself  upon  the  ground  and  kept 
perfectly  neutral.  Finally  the  gun  was  broken  in  two,  each  oppo- 
nent having  secured  a  piece.  "I  made  up  my  mind  then,"  said 
the  narrator,  "  that  I  must  kill  the  Indian  to  save  my  life.  I  had 
the  larger  piece,  and  it  was  the  butt  end  of  the  gun.  I  raised  this, 
anl  made  a  dash  at  him,  but  he  sprang  backward,  crying  for  mercy, 
and  at  the  same  time,  offering  me  the  other  piece.  I  relented  in  his 
favor,  and  taking  the  offered  piece,  retraced  my  steps  homeward^ 
closely  followed  by  the  Indians.  On  arriving  home,  I  told  my  wife 
the  whole  story,  and  then  we  both  began  to  wonder,  somewhat  fear- 
fully, what  the  consequence  of  my  rash  act  would  be.  After  a  while 
1  -aw  Old  Goose's  son  approaching  my  dwelling.  lie  knocked  at  the 
door  and  I  opened  it,  knowing  full  well  that  it  would  not  do  for  me 
to  manifest  any  fear.  Judge  of  my  surprise,  when  I  tell  you  that 
ranged  along  by  the  fence,  were  the  missing  kettles.     Stealthily,    Old 

-<•  had  returned  them,  and  that  being  done,  the  Indian  had  come 
boldly  to  demand  pay  for  his  gun.  'There  are  your  kettles,'  hesaid 
in  the  Chippewa  tongue.     'We  do  not  steal,  nor  lie,  nor  cheat.       You 

mad  and  broke  my  gun,    and    I  want  to  be  paid  for  it.'  '        I  p  in 
reflection,  Mr.   Ballard  concluded   to  pay  for  the  gun,  as  the  Indian 
ght  dollars  in  trade  for  it ;  but  he  also  gave  the  | 

the  broken  one  back  to  it-  QOWing  that    it    could    be    mended 

with  very  little  work.      So    the  quarrel  e 

restored. 


206  American  Sketch  Book. 

The  Indians,  rough,  ignorant  and  uncouth  as  they  are,  seem  to  have 
always  had  a  tinge  of  romance  about  them  ;  and  their  language  is 
said  to  be  rather  flowery.  The  incidents  relating  to  the  sickness, 
death  and  burial  of  Saganash,  as  told  by  Mrs.  Bullard,  is  one  worthy 
of  a  place  in  this  article.  These  transpired  during  tht  residence  of 
the  Bullards  on  Hay  River.  Saganash  was  an  old  Indian,  struck 
down  with  consumption,  and  obliged  to  leave  his  tribe,  since  he  could 
no  longer  follow  it.  One  of  his  squaws  (he  had  had  three)  had  de- 
parted this  life ;  another  had  taken  her  papoose  and  gone  home  to  her 
parents,  at  his  desire,  as  he  could  not  hunt  enough  for  all ,  but  the 
last  and  youngest,  he  kept  with  him,  that  she  might  care  for  him  un- 
til the  end.  On  leaving  his  tribe,  Saganash  asked  permission  of  the 
Bullards  to  build  his  wigwam  near  their  store  for  obvious  advantages. 
The  permission  being  granted,  he  desired  Mr.  Bullard  to  take  a 
blue  blanket,  which  he  had  in  his  possession,  and  immediately  after 
his  death  to  give  his  squaw  therefore,  sufficient  whisky  to  enable  her 
and  his  friends  to  do  the  mourning  business  to  perfection.  Mr. 
Bullard  refused  to  take  the  blanket,  as  it  was  cold  weather,  and  the 
Indian  needed  it ;  but  he  promised  to  furnish  the  required  whisky. 
Saganash  then  made  a  very  effective  speech,  in  which  he  returned 
thanks  to  Mr.  Bullard,  and  also  portrayed  his  own  misery  and  pov- 
erty. There  had  been  a  time  when  his  wigwam  was  filled  with  game, 
when  all  his  squaws  and  papooses  were  about  him,  and  when  whisky 
and  tobacco  were  plenty.  Now  he  was  obliged  to  quit  his  people,  to 
give  up  one  of  his  squaws,  and  to  depend  on  his  children  for  support. 
He  wept  while  he  was  speaking,  and  his  apparent  sorrow  so  affected 
his  hearers  that  they  resolved  to  make  his  few  days  as  pleasant  as 
possible.  Thenceforth,  until  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred 
about  four  months  later,  the  Bullards  visited  him  daily,  and  supplied 
him  with  the  few  luxuries  which  they  could  command.  At  one  time, 
during  his  sickness,  Saganash  fell  into  a  trance,  or  a  fainting  fit,  and 
was  thought  to  be  dead  by  his  squaw  and  children  ;  but  the  whites 
soon  succeeded  in  restoring  animation,  and  he  then  related  to  his 
wondering  friends  a  story  of  a  visit  to  the  happy  hunting  ground — a 
story  which  proves  plainly  how  belief  and  education  control  the  vision 
and  thought  at  such  times.  The  evil  spirit  had  brought  him  word 
that  the  Great  Spirit  had  sent  for  him,  which  was  a  lie.  But  believing 
the  devil,  he  had  gone  to  the  happy  hunting  ground,  and  waited  upon 
God,  with  whom  he  had  a  long  conversation,  and  who  kindly  informed 
him  that  both  he  and  the  Bullards   should  have  a  place  prepared  for 


Mienomonu  and  Dunn  County^  Wisconsin,       267 

them  when  their  days  on  earth  should  be  ended.  He  described  the 
happy  hunting  ground  as  a  land  around  which  g 
tioned,  and  those  guns  kept  up  a  never-ending  puff,  puff,  puff,  and 
were  continually  bringing  down  the  rarest,  fattest  game  that  can  be 
imagined.  Observing  that  the  two  sons  of  his  dead  squaw  were  shed- 
ding tears,  he  told  them  not  to  cry,  for  he  had  seen  their  mother,  who 
was  engaged  in  raising  corn  in  the  happy  hunting  ground  country  ;  — 
that  the  ears  were  as  long  as  his  arm,  and  the  kernels  as  long  as  hick- 
ory nuts.  He  then  quietly  informed  his  listeners  that  he  was  not  to 
die  at  that  time,  for  God  had  sent  him  back,  with  the  request  that 
upon  his  arrival  upon  earth,  he  should  have  a  number  of  guns  fired  to 
proclaim  the  facts  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  happy  hunting  ground. 
So  urgent  was  he  in  the  matter  of  the  firing  guns,  that  the  whites 
humored  him  by  discharging  all  the  fire-arms  they  had  in  their  pos- 
session. Whether  the  signal  was  ever  recognized  by  the  people  of  the 
happy  hunting  ground,  the  writer  cannot  say  ;  but  certain  it  is,  the 
firing  was  heard  by  a  party  of  Chippewa?  encamped  three  miles  dis- 
tant, and  they,  believing  that  the  Sioux  were  on  the  war-path,  lied  in 
dismay  from  that  part  of  the  country.  A  few  weeks  later,  Saganash 
died  ;  at  which  time  the  squaw  received  the  promised  whisky.  They 
buried  him  where  the  fire  of  the  wigwam  had  been  kept  all  winter, 
that  spot  being  unfrozen.  An  Indian,  related  to  the  dead  man,  was 
here  at  the  timj,  and  he  made  a  very  flowery  and  impressive  sermon, 
during  which  he  spoke  of  the  kindness  of  the  whites,  declaring  in 
extravagant  language  that  the  Chippewas  would  suffer  their  ears  to  be 
cut  off,  their  tongues  torn  out  and  their  eyes  put  out  before  they  would 
bring  any  trouble  to  the  settlers  on  Hay  River. 

In   fact,  very  few  whites   suffered  from  Indian  depredation  in  thi< 
section  of  the  country,    farther  than  by  petty  thefts  and  like  annoy- 
ances.     There  seems  to  have  been  but  few  murders.       Two  of  t 
are  wrapt  in  mystery,    since  none  know  what  provoked  them.        i 
men,  whose  names  the  writer  did  not  learn,  while  looking  for  a  mill- 
were  set  upon  by  the  Indians.     Their  mutilated  bodies  were  found  by 
some  hunters  and  brought  to  Menomonie  for  burial.       The  murder  of 
William  Wickham  in   1850  is  still  fresh  in  the  minds  of  the  old  settlers. 
The   Indian.    Big    Rascal,  for  some  cause  or  other,  had  coi 
hatred  for  Wickham,  and  one  night  entered  the  man's    sleeping  quar- 
ters and  stabbed  him    to  the  heart.       Wiekhani's    bed-fellow,  a    white 
man,  was  obliged  to  lie  all  night  in  a  pool  of  blood  by  the  Bide  of  his 
dead  companion,  and  was   threatened  with  a  like  fate  if  he  dared  to 


2G8  American  Sketch  Booh. 

move.  There  were  also  two  other  men,  who  were  searching  out  pine 
lands,  that  were  shot  hy  the  Indians,  while  running  a  canoe  up  the 
Red  Cedar.  This  happened  in  an  early  day,  and  the  names  of  the 
unfortunate  strangers  are  not  remembered  by  the  old  settlers.  No 
other  murders  by  the  Indians  are  on  record. 

SETTLEMENT  BY  THE  WHITES. 

It  is  uncertain  at  what  time  the  pineries  on  the  Red  Cedar  River 
were  first  visited  by  white  people.  It  is  thought  that  the  timber  used 
in  constructing  the  French  shanties  at  Fort  Crawford  (now  known  as 
Prairie  du  Chien)  a  century  or  more  ago,  was  taken  from  this  part  of 
the  country  ;  as  saw-pits,  having  a  very  ancient  appearance,  are  to  be 
found  along  the  banks  of  the  river.  The  pits  were  made  for  the  use 
of  whip-saws.  A  log  was  placed  across  the  pit,  and  two  men,  one  in 
the  pit  and  one  above,  with  an  up-and-down  saw,  cut  it  into  boards. 
In  1820,  the  American  Fur  Company  sent  sawyers  to  this  part  of  the 
country,  and  in  1829,  companies  of  men  under  Lieutenants  Gardener 
and  Gale*  cut  and  rafted  lumber,  from  the  pineries  of  the  Red  Cedar, 
to  complete  Fort  Crawford.  A  Mr.  Perkins,  of  Kentucky,  had  pre- 
viously, in  1822,  built  a  mill  on  the  Red  Cedar,  but  it  was  washed  away 
by  a  freshet  before  its  completion,  and  threats  from  the  Indians  pre- 
vented him  from  re-building  it.  Judge  Lockwood  of  Prairie  du  Chien 
visited  the  mill-site  in  company  with  the  expedition  from  the  fort. 
The  following  year,  he  returned  and  erected  a  mill  on  what  is  now 
known  as  Wilson's  Creek.  A  year  later,  he  built  a  second  mill,  a  mile 
and  a  half  below  the  first.  II,  S.  Allen  bought  an  interest  in  the 
mills  in  1835,  and  in  1837  this  company. built  a  third  mill  still  lower 
down,  by  about  five  miles.  In  1839,  Lockwood  sold  out  his  interest 
to  H.  S.  Allen.  Five  years  later  a  Mr.  Green  bought  the  upper  mill, 
but  sold  it  soon  after  to  David  Black.  For  several  years,  G.  S.  Bran- 
ham  was  associated  with  II.  S.  Allen  in  the  mill  business.  They  were 
known  as  the  firm  of  Allen  &  Branham.  They  sold  the  middle  mill, 
situated  on  what  is  now  known  as  Gilbert's  Creek,  then  called  Middle 
Mill  Creek,  to  Samuel  Gilbert  &  Son,  in  1846. 

Such  were  the  state  of  affairs  when  Captain  William  Wilson,  of 
Fort  Madison,  Iowa,  determined  to  make  an  exploring  tour  through 
the  county  in  search  of  a  location.  He  ascended  the  Mississippi 
River    by    a  steamboat    to   a   point   known   as    Nelson's    Landing, 

*Note. —  It  is  claimed  by  some,  that  previous  to  the  lilting  out  of  this  expedition, 
another  under  the  command  of  -lelf  Davis,  visited  the  Red  Cedar  for  this  same  pur- 
pose ;  but  this  story  is  not  credited,  as  the  parties  who  gave  it  circulation  have  been 
heard  to  deny  its  truth. 


Menomonu  and  Dunn  Count//,   Wisconsin.       269 

and,  learning  from  Mr.  Branham  (of  the  firm  of  Allen  &  Branham) 
with  whom  he  chanced  to  meet,  tfa  i  plenty  upon 

the  Red  Cedar  River(  he  accompanied  thai  gentleman  hither.  This 
journey  was  made  od  foot,  early  in  the  spring  of  L846. 

tptain  Wilson  had   any  amount  of  ambition,  energy  and  h 
but   he  was  "lit   |  1   of  mucb   money;  ami  he  has   1 

proved  what  so  often  has  been  disputed  :  that  the  three  first,  if  assisted 
by    health,    are   a   fortune  in  themselves.      Finding  that  an  inte 
in  Black's  mill  was  for  sale,  he  made  an  exploration  of  fifty  miles  up 
the  river,  to  ascertain  how  the  pine  WO  aid  "  hold  out."      The  trip  wis 
takci  in  a  canoe,  with  no  companion  but  an  Indian  gu  He  soon 

became  satisfied  in  regard  to  the  pine-question,   and  he  r  ,  then 

and  there,  to  have  an  interest  in  the  mill.,  if  by  any  honorahle  m 
he  could  raise  the  money  required.       For  this  purpose  he  returned  to 
Fort  Madison,  where   he   interviewed   John  II.  Knapp,  Esq.,    a  young 

man  who  had  recently  loft  an   eastern   college,    and  who  was  looking 

ab   'if  for  an  opportunity  to  in'.  all  amount  of  money,  a  put  of 

which  was    from   his   lather's  estate,  and  the  remainder  left  him  hy  an 

in  X  w  York.     The  scheme  seemed  feasable  to  Mr.  Knapp,  ami 

ed  to  look  into  the  matter.     He  went  with  Captain  Wilson  to 

Black's  mill,  and  finding  the  property  to  his  liking,  concluded  to  make 

the   purchase.      The  pair  returned  to  Fort   Madison,  and  there  met 

David    Black,   with   whom   they    contracted   for  a  half  interest  in  the 

mill.     Shortly  after  this,  C apt.   Wilson,   accompanied  hy  his  family 

(which  consisted  of  his   wife  and   four   children)  and  Jason  Ball  and 

wife,  made  a  trip  to  their  ne*  home,  ascending  the  Chippewa  and  lied 

Cedar  rivers  on  a  keel  boat,  i  For  description  of  a  keel-bo  page 

f  the  current  volume  of  the  Skip  n  BOOK.)    Three  week-  later. 

Mr.  Knapp  also  returned  to  the  mill,    bringing  with  him,    on   a  keel- 

boat,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lorenzo  Bullard,  formerly  of  Fort  Madison,    hut 

'  of  Galena,  whom  he  had  to   keep  the  men-   boarding- 

bouse  :  and  Mr-.  Clair  and  son,  Mr-.  Ballard's  help,  lie  also  brought 
a  boat-load  of  supplies.       1'  may  he  inl  .  to  some  of  our  read- 

era  to  know  that  Mr.   Knapp    either  or  poled  the  boat  through 

the  entire  trip.  [|  was  a  slow  method  of  travelii  _r  at  best,  and  the 
women  must  needs  have  something  -  away  the  tin  I   as 

men.  Upon  this  particular  occasion  they  brought  out  a  work- 
mployed    tic  or  knitting.      The  work- 

basket  contained  besides  hall-  of  yarn  and  needle-work,  a  lot;.' 

rs  belong  Mr.  Ballard.      Now  it  happened  that  one  day 


270  American  Sketch  Booh 

little  Eugene  Bullard,  then  some  three  years  old,  while  dancing 
about  the  boat,  chanced  to  knock  the  basket  into  the  river  ;  and  as 
the  basket,  balls  and  bottle  went  gliding  over  the  waves,  the  women 
set  up  a  dismal  wail,  which  so  smote  the  tender  heart  of  Mr.  Knapp, 
that  he  at  once  sprang  overboard  to  regain  the  articles.  The  water 
was  deep  and  swift,  and  the  young  man  did  not  find  his  self-imposed 
task  an  easy  one.  He  succeeded  in  getting  the  basket  and  balls,  but 
the  bottle  of  bitters  drifted  beyond  his  reach,  and  in  his  earnest  en- 
deavors to  possess  it,  he  gave  the  people  on  the  boat  the  idea  that  he 
was  drowning ;  and  they,  in  their  desire  to  come  to  his  asssistance, 
upset  some  other  articles,  which  he  also  had  to  swim  after  and  gather 
in.  Knowing  that  in  the  new  country  toward  which  they  were  travel- 
ing, all  their  supplies  would  be  needed,  he  determined  to  secure  every 
article  which  was  overboard ;  and  as  his  arms  flew  about  in  a  livelier 
manner  than  ever,  the  impression  that  he  was  drowning  gained,  and 
the  preparations  for  assistance  began  in  good  earnest.  It  was  not 
till  after  having  secured  basket,  balls,  bottle  and  all,  he  clambered 
back  into  the  boat,  that  they  could  understand  just  how  matters 
were;  and  then  all  parties  had  a  laugh  over  the  affair.  Few  young 
men  of  the  present  day  would  jump  into  swift  drift-water  to  secure  a 
lady's  work  basket,  especially  if  they  had  to  remain  wet  all  day  in 
consequence,  as  did  Mr.  Knapp. 

During  the  same  trip  the  youthful  Eugene  got  into  trouble.  He 
made  up  his  mind,  one  evening  while  the  party  were  landed  in  order 
to  get  supper,  that  he  would  go  into  the  water  to  bathe.  His  parents 
were  not  willing,  but  he  was  a  self-willed  child,  and  in  he  went.  It 
was  the  era  of  musquitoes.  Old  settlers  say  that  musquitoes  would 
sweep  over  the  country  in  masses  so  thick  that  they  formed  a  black 
cloud  as  they  moved.  It  was  only  by  keeping  a  constant  smoke  that 
the  people  could  live  in  any  measure  free  from  the  attacks  of  those 
insects.  Upon  this  occasion  the  wilful  youngster  had  only  got  fairly 
stripped  and  into  the  water  when  a  cloud  of  musquitoes  settled  upon 
him.  As  their  million  bills  went  into  his  tender  flesh,  he  gave  a  most 
unearthly  yell,  and  started  for  the  shore,  where  he  was  met  by  his 
frightened  mother,  who  put  on  the  slaps  (killing musquitoes,  of  course) 
thick  and  fast.  His  appearance,  as  he  stood  by  her  side,  his  flesh 
swollen  by  the  bites,  and  covered  with  blood  and  mashed  musquitoes, 
and  his  mouth  stretched  to  the  utmost  capacity  in  order  to  give  vent 
to  his  terrible  yells,  can  better  be  imagined  than  described. 

The  persons  already  mentioned  in  this  sketch,  a  few  workmen  and 


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two  white  women,  who  had  been  among  the  [ndiane  bo  long  that  they 
bad  about  forgotten  tliat  they  did  belong  to  thi 
made  up  the  entire  white  population  for  quite  a  period.  The  firm 
name  of  the  upper  mill  at  this  time  was  Knapp  &  Black.  But  Mr. 
Black  died  Borne  time  during  1846,  and  J.  S.  Lockwoodof  Prairie  du 
Chien,  being  administrator  of  Mr.  Black's  property,  made  a  visit  to 
the  mill  for  the  purpose  of  investigating  matters.  Subsequently 
Knapp  &  Wil  on  bought  out  the  interest  of  the  Black  family;  and 
etime  in  the  month  of  September,  L850,  Captain  Andrew  Tainter 
became  a  partner.  A  new  mill,  comprising  two  gang  saws  and 
two  rotai  erected  soon  after  Captain  Tainter *s  admission  into 

the  mill  company.  This  linn  was  known  us  Knap])  &  Tainter.  In 
L853,  1.'.  L  Stout  of  Dubuque,  a  man  of  some  means,  bought  an  in- 
t(  rot  in  the  mills,  ami  the  firm  then  took  the  name  of  Knapp,  Stout 
&  Co.,  which  it  ha  nee  retained. 

It  is  nol  the  intention  of  the  writer  to  give  the  entire  history  of 
this  fan, mis  company  here,  as  another  article  will  be  devoted  to  that 
purpose.  A  gei  era!  outline  of  leading  events  is  what  this  sketch  is 
intended  I  rot. 

The  c<  nntry  about  the  mills  was  found  to  be  a  magnificent  pine 
jt,  interppersed  with  hard  woods  and  skirted  in  places  by  hard 
lands;  the  soil  varied  and  tillable,  sandy,  with  a  sub  .-oil 
of  clay  on  and  near  the  river  banks,  and  loamy  on  the  table  land-  ; 
and  the  whole  richly  watered  by  pure  streams  and  springs  which 
.tiered  an  abundance  of  fi?h.  With  a  judgemnt  that  looked  to  future 
welfare  more  than  to  pri  ■  •  1 1 c  comforts,  the  Mill  Company,  unlike 
many  other  searchers  for  homes  and  wealth,  instead- of  being  discour- 
ag    I  by  hardships,  on  I  by  the  rude  society,  entered  the  lands 

as  i'.i-t  :i-  they  came  into  market,  and  thereby  laid  a  foundation  for 
future  wealth  and  greatness.  This  company  opened  the  first  farm  in 
I  thereby  that  the  soil  was  very  productive;  and 
in  order  that  the  people  might  be  induced  t.  settle  on  farms,  they 
bought  all  the  grain  raised,  for  many  years,  paying  a  high  prioe  for 
the  same  ;  thus  furnishing  hone-  market  and  stimulating  the 

firming  interests. 

There  w  benefit}  to.>.  arising  from  the  lark  of  society,  looking 

;lt  in  •  ley-making  point   of  view.      Rich  dr<  ss  was  not 

.    i  by   any  piece  of  calico  would 

furnish  all  the  dn  ised  by  all  tl  n  in  the  neighborhood  for 

a    while   year,  and  make  each  a  Sunday-go-to-meeting  Bun-bonnet 


272  American  Sketch  Boole. 

well.  The  men  wore  check,  and  flannel  shirts,  and  outer  clothes  of 
coarse  cloth.  Men,  women  and  children,  from  the  highest  to  the  low- 
est, had  to  work,  and  no  one  acted  as  if  he  thought  himself  a  little 
better  than  were  his  neighbors. 

Supplies  for  the  first  settlers  were  brought  up  theriver  by  keel-boats 
in  the  summer,  and  by  trains  on  the  ice  in  the  winter.  They  consisted 
principally  of  whisky,  pork,  beans  and  flour,  the  whisky,  it  is  said  by 
some,  being  largely  in  excess.  What  is  true  in  this  respect  of  this 
place,  is  true  of  the  whole  country.  The  demand  for  whisky  as  a 
commodity  is  portrayed  excellently  by  Oapt.  Johnson,  in  his  history  of 
Black  Iliver  Falls.  It  is  said  that  when  St.  Paul  was  only  an  Indian 
trading-post,  it  was  noticed,  one  fall,  that  a  Mr.  Hartshorn,  a  trader, 
while  carrying  up  supplies  upon  the  last  boat  of  the  season,  had,  as 
part  of  his  cargo,  one  hundred  barrels  of  whisky,  but  not  a  barrel  of 
meat  or  flour;  from  which  it  would  seem  that  the  early  St.  Paulites 
subsisted  almost  entirely  upon  whisky.  People  in  Dunn  County  did 
not  suffer  actual  want,  though  the  food  was  sometimes  coarse  and  un- 
palatable. It  very  often  happened  that  the  staves  had  to  be  removed 
from  a  barrel  of  flour,  and  the  flour  pounded  up  with  an  ax,  before  it 
could  be  made  into  bread.  But  there  was  plenty  of  game,  berries  and 
all  kinds  of  wild  fruit  belonging  to  these  latitudes,  and  those  who 
were  not  too  indolent  to  work  need  have  no  fears  of  suffering  from 
lack  of  food.  Still  there  were  hardships  which  had  to  be  endured 
while  the  country  was  unsettled.  For  a  time  the  nearest  post-office 
was  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  and  during  that  period  such  of  the  young 
men  as  had  left  girls  behind  them,  must  have  had  their  faith  severely 
tried.  For  the  first  seven  years  there  were  no  regular  wagon  roads ; 
and  traveling  by  Indian  trails  through  a  then  measureless  forest,  was 
more  romantic  than  pleasant.  There  was  but  little  immigration  dur- 
ing that  period,  and  the  majority  of  the  people  who  did  come,  wearied 
of  the  hardships  attendant  upon  the  life  of  a  pioneer,  and  returned  to 
their  old  homes,  consequently  but  little  or  no  society  existed,  and  the 
cultivated  had  to  seek  the  companionship  of  the  ignorant  and  uncouth, 
or  remain  isolated  from  their  fellow  beings.  So  the  mind,  perhaps, 
knew  more  of  want  than  did  the  body.  There  were,  however,  times 
when  the  supplies  fell  short,  and  when  the  rifles  brought  down  only 
muskrats  ;  and  those  times  are  looked  upon  by  the  old  settlers  as  the 
hardest  ones  that  they  had  to  endure.  The  prejudice  against  those 
animals  had  more  to  do  with  making  the  people  feel  in  actual  want, 
when  obliged  to  eat  the  flesh  thanwas  really  necessary  ;    since  the  un- 


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initiated  would  partake  of  it  with  :i  relish,  and  be  under  the  impres- 
sion that  they  were  eating  sqirrel-stew.  Neither  did  the  old  settlers 
here  Buffer  from  attacks  of  the    Indians,   as   the    |  in  other 

parts  of  the  Union  have  done.  True,  there  were  occasional  battles 
among  Sioux  and  the  Chippewas,  and  sometimes  hard  feelings  between 
the  whites  and  the  [ndians;  the  settlers  very  often  suffered  from  thefts 
committed  by  their  dusky  neighbors;  but,  as  previously  remarked, 
with  ;i  lew  exceptions,  no  white  person's  blood  was  shed  in  this  valley 
by  them,  and  their  attacks  wei  illy  provoked,    as  in  one  or  two 

3  which  will  be  mentioned. 

An  attack  upon  some  of  the  whites  was  at  one  time  occasioned  by 
a  man  by  the  name  of  Harris,  who  ordered  the  Indian,  Big  Rascal, 
out  of  the  men's  sleeping  quarters,  and  who,  upon  the  refusal  of  the 
savage  to  comply  with  the  demand,  resorted  to  the  use  of  fists  and 
boots,  to  make  the  order  more  forcible.  Not  long  after  the  expulsion 
of  Big  Rascal,  as  narrated,  the  whites  were  alarmed  by  the  Indian 
war-cry.  aid  a  party  of  Chippewas,  headed  by  Masonaquet,  a  chief, 
was  seen  approaching.  It  was  not  a  very  pleasant  sight  ; — the  Indi- 
ans coming,  swinging  their  tomahawks  and  crying  for  blood,  followed 
by  their  squaw-,  who,  with  their  dismal  wails  were  begging  them  to 
desist.  But  Mr.  Bullard,  with  a  remarkable  forethought,  went  out  to 
meet  the  chief.  "  If  you  want  blood,"  he  said,  "take  mine  first." 
Masonaquet  paused  in  amazament,  which  allowed  Mr.  Dullard  time  to 
explain  the  matter.  Upon  hearing  the  whole  truth,  the  chief  admitted 
that  Big  Rascal  was  in  the  blame,  and  expressed  himself  willing  to 
resume  the  friendly  relations  which  had  previously  existed.  It  is 
quite  possible  that  this  daring  art  prevented  much  bloodshed,  if  not 
a  general  massacre. 

Iu  1848,  one  George  Wilson  (no  relation  to  Capt.  Wilson)  bought 
hired  or  bribed  a  squaw,  known  as  Mary  Dirty-face,  to  marry  him, 
Indian  fashion.  But  the  union  did  n>>t  prove  a  happy  one.  M  try 
Dirty  face,  after  the  manner  of  some  of  the  women  now-a-days,  ab- 
solutely refused  to  share  her  bed  and  board  with  her  lord  :  and  to  re- 
taliate, hi-  siezed  upon  the  goods  with  which  he  had  bought  or  bribed 
In  r,  and  burned  them.  Not  yet  satisfied  with  his  revenge,  he  pur- 
chased a  gallon  of  whisky  and  a  quantity  of  ipecac,  and  invited  the 
I  ndians  to  have  a  big  drunk  with  him,  being  careful,  however,  t>  drink 
none  of  the  drugged  whisky  himself.  The  deed  aroused  the  ire  of 
the  savages,  as  well  it  might,  and  as  soon  as  they  were  sufficiently  re- 
covered,  they  Bounded  the  terrible  war  cry  and  started  in  pursuit  of 


274  American  Shetcli  Boole. 

vengeance.  George  Wilson  was  warned  in  time,  and  escaped,  which  did 
not  contribute  much  toward  healing  the  wounds  that  the  Indians  had 
received  at  his  hands.  They  made  terrible  threats  against  the  peace 
of  the  whites,  but  finally  became  quieted  without  resorting  to  blood- 
shed. Perhaps  it  is  needless  to  add  that  thenceforth  Mary  Dirty-face 
was  considered  as  lawfully  divorced  from  her  lord  and  master. 

The  Indians  did  not  call  the  white  settlers  by  their  real  names,  but 
christened  them,  Indian  fashion,  with  appropriate  cognomens,  by 
which  they  were  known  and  familiarly  spoken  of  by  their  own  people, 
as  well.  Capt.  Wilson  was  "  Chah-no,"  (big  nose) ;  T.  B.  Wilson  was 
called  "Chah-ness,"  (little  nose);  J.  II.  Knapp  was  known  as  "Ne- 
pos-ke,1'  or  the  great  sleeper ;  Elisha  Brown,  an  early  settler,  and  a 
logger,  was  "Wah-ba-no,"  (morning  dawn);  Levi  Vance,  a  partner  of 
Brown's,  was  "O-wist-we  ah,"  (blacksmith),  and  Lorenzo  Bullard  had 
the  outlandish  cognomen  of  "  Che-puck-wah-nin-ny,"  which  means  a 
cook.  As  the  latter  person  kept  the  boarding-house,  it  was  to  him 
that  the  hungry  natives  oftenest  came  begging.  Upon  one  occasion, 
the  Indian,  Nain-ne-aun-gabe,  familiarly  known  by  the  whites  as  Lit- 
tle Chief,  and  really  the  most  honorable  man  in  the  Chippewa  nation, 
(if  Indians  are  possessed  of  any  honor)  called  on  Bullard  for  some 
food,  and  Bullard  put  a  half  bushel  of  fried  cakes  on  the  table,  and 
told  Little  Chief  to  help  himself.  The  hungry  native  devoured  five 
or  six,  then,  spreading  his  blanket  on  the  table,  deliberately  emptied 
all  of  the  cakes  into  it,  and  made  off  with  them,  giving  a  grunt  of  sat- 
isfaction as  he  passed  through  the  door.  Bullard,  too  suprised  to  stop 
his  progress,  looked  after  the  chief  with  widely  opened  eyes,  and  ejac- 
ulated :  "By  John  Rogers,  who  would  have  thought  the  d d  Indian 

would  have  gobbled  them  all?  " 

THE    MAN   WITH  THE   WHITE   SHIRT   ON. 

In  the  spring  of  1847,  James  Wilson,  a  brother  of  Capt.  Wilson, 
came,  on  a  keel-boat,  to  some  point  on  Chippewa  River,  and  walked 
thence  to  the  home  of  the  Captain,  passing  on  his  journey  the  resi- 
dence of  the  Gilberts,  situated  two  miles  distant.  It  being  a  warm 
day,  he  had  removed  his  coat  to  facilitate  his  walking,  and  thus  dis- 
closed to  the  wondering  Gilberts  the  fact  that  he  was  a  man  who  wore 
a  white  shirt.  All  unconscious,  however,  that  he  was  a  subject  of 
wonderment,  he  continued  on  his  way,  and  arrived,  in  the  course  of 
time,  at  his  brother's  place  of  residence,  so  completely  fatigued  that 
it  was  necessary  for  him  to  go  to  bed,  in  order  to  recruit  his  wasted 
energies.     Mrs.  Bullard,  being  at  the  Wilson's  at  the  time  of  his  arri- 


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v;il,  invited  him  to  rest  at  her  house,  deeming  it  the  more  quiet  of  the 
two.     The  invitation  was  accepted.     Bat  the  young  man  ha  1  scarcely 
cnsconsel  himself  in  the  inviting  bed,  before  Mrs.  Bullard  n 
upon  by  the  entire  Gilbert  family,  which  consisted  of  four  women  and 
one  man.      There    were  two  rooms  in  Ballard's  cabin,  one  of  which 
w  is  used  for  a  Bleeping  room  :  an  1  after  closing  the  door  between  the 
apartments,  that  the  weary  traveler  might  not  be  disturbed,  Mrs.  Bul- 
i  ir  1  -it  down  to  entertain  the  party  of  caller-.   She  ha  I  often  invited 
the    Gilbert  family  to  make  her  a  visit, — coming  all  together,  i.; 
of  one  at  a  time,  as  they  were  in  the  habit  of  doing  ;  ami  now  she  cx- 
pressed  her  surprise  and  pleasure  at  their  being  able  to  do  so.  "La  .'" 
returned  Mrs.  Gilbert,  fanning  herself- vigorously  with  her  sun-bonnet, 
"  we  didn't  come  visiting.     Bless  you,  we  havn't  time  for  that.       The 
truth   is,   we  saw  a  man  pass  our  house  with  a  biled  shirt  on,  and  we 
jist   started  after  him  full  chase,   to  see  what  he  is  here  for.       A  man 
must  be  a  fool,  or  crazy,  or  something,    to  wear  a  biled  shirt  up  here. 
Where  is  he,  Mrs.  Bullard?     Is  he  here':"    The  lady,  interrogated,  in- 
formed the  Gilberts  of  the  fact  that  the  stranger  was  at  the  time  rest- 
ing in  one  of  her  beds.   "  What's  he  want,  and  what's  he  doing  here  ?  " 
they  all  demanded  in  chorus.  Without  replying,  Mrs.  BulIarJ  ste] 
to  the  door,  leading  to  the  other  apartment,  and   said  to  the  travel  r : 
"Mr.  Wilson,  you  are  waited  upon  by  a  deputation  of  ladies  who  are 
alarmed    for   the  safety  of  any  man  that  is  reckless  enough  to  wear  a 
a  white  shirt.     You  will  therefore  please  come  out  and  give  on  account 
of  yourself  and  of  your  business  here.''  It  is  perhaps  needless  to  add 
that  the  gentleman  complied  with  the  request,  and  ended  his  explana- 
tions by  promising  never  to  wear  a  white  shirt  again  ;    and   that  tin- 
party   returned  home  satisfied   that  his  ignorance  excused  his  off- 
John  11.  Knapp,  Esq.,  when  at  the  mills,  was  more  careful.       He  laid 
aside  his  dress  clothes  for  the  more  popular  ones  of  the   backwoods 
men.       I  p  m  one  occasion  he  substituted   a  pair  of  moccasins  for  his 
fine  hoots;  but  when  he  again  needed  the  latter,  he  found  one  of  them 
.     Not  wishing  to  appear  upon  the  b  xders  of  ci\  ilization  dressed 
like  an  Indian,  he  institute  1    a    Bearch   for   the   missing   article.        He 

went  to  one  wigwam  and  enquired  about  it.      The cup  mred 

him  that    they   did  not  steal,  but  they  were  sure  their  next  neighl 
did.     The  next  neighbors  told  a  similar  story.      Finally  he  entered  a 
wigwam   where  he  found   an   Indian  lying  on  the  ground,  covered  up 

with  a  blanket.       lie  at  on ioncluded  that  that   Indian   had  his  boot  J 

and   on   Bnatching  off"  the  blanket  In-  found  that  his  conclusion 


276  American   Sketch  Booh 

right,  for,  upon  the  soles  of  the  old  chap's  moccasins,  he  discovered 
his  boot  top.  He  also,  upon  searching  the  wigwam,  found  the  sole  of 
the  boot.  But  the  Indian  denied  stealing  the  boot,  and  pretended  not 
to  know  where  he  got  it.  Mr.  Knapp  retaliated  by  seizing  a  shot-gun, 
and  taking  it  away  with  him  to  his  quarters.  He  was  followed  by  a 
crowd  of  whooping  savages,  who,  however,  did  not  have  courage  to 
attack  him,  though  they  complained  loudly  about  his  treatment.  He 
very  quietly  informed  them  that  his  boots  had  cost  as  much  as  the 
gun,  and  that  he  intended  to  keep  the  latter  in  payment  for  what  they 
had  stolen.  "  But  we  stole  only  one  boot,  and  you  take  pay  for  both  !" 
they  exclaimed.  Finding  Mr,  Knapp  determined  to  keep  the  gun, 
they  dispersed;  but  they  never  could  see  the  justice  of  paying  for  two 
boots  when  they  had  taken  only  one. 

The  amusements  of  the  early  settlers  were  dancing,  card-playing, 
hunting  and  fishing;  in  the  latter  of  which  the  women -were  often 
as  expert  as  the  men;  and  so  great  was  the  love  of  dancing,  that 
parties  have  been  known  to  go  from  Eau  Claire  to  Chippewa  Falls, 
breaking  the  way  through  deep  snow,  to  attend  a  dance-  The  fiddle 
was  about  all  the  kind  of  musical  instrument  known  for  many  'years. 
The  first  piano  was  brought  by  Phineas  Branch  and  wife,  in  1855,  to 
the  company's  hotel,  then  kept  by  Mrs.  Bullard.  While  keeping  the 
hotel,  which  she  did  during  the  absence  of  her  husband  who  was  in 
California,  Mrs.  Bullard  received  an  offer  of  marriage  from  an  old 
Indian  chief,  who  admired  her  and  pitied  her  lonely  condition  The 
hotel  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  1859,  and  proved  to  be  a  great  loss  to 
the  traveling  public,  and  to  the  seekers  of  amusement  who  had  made 
it  their  headquarters  for  many  years.  It  was  "also  in  this  hotel  that 
the  live  men  of  what  is  now  Dunn  County,  resolved  no  longer  to 
countenance  the  evils  of  drunkeness  and  gambling  by  the  sale  of  liquor, 
or  by  indulging  in  the  amusement  of  card-playing.  This  occurred  in 
1851.  A  party  had  gathered  one  evening  in  the  hotel  bar-room  to 
play  for  amusement.  But  they  played  for  oysters,  wine  and  finally 
money;  and  the  whole  resulted  in  something  which  they  had  not 
played  for,  viz.,  a  quarrel,  or  row  of  some  kind.  The  unlooked-for 
result  of  that  one  evening's  amusement  set  them  to  thinking,  and  being 
truly  thinking  men,  they  saw  their  error,  and  resolved  thenceforth  to 
make  amends  for  it. 

Previous  to  this,  however,  and  as  early  as  1818,  the  Company  had 
given  up  the  liquor  traffic.  It  occurred  in  this  wise:  Several  rafts 
had  been  broken  up  and  scattered  about,   through  the  inefficiency    of 


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druuken  workmen;  wh  Wilson  rem  wrke  1  rather  snappishly 

that  the  miserable  whisky  w.is  to  blame  For  the  whole  thing.  "  Why 
u  let  them  have  it?"  asked  Mr.  Knapp.  "You  bring  it  ap," 
retorted  the  <  Saptain.  "  5Tes,  ]  ul  ;  on  put  it  in  your  bills  of  ueede  1 
Bupplies.  '  "  Well,  m  \t  time  you  bring  supplies,  just  leave  it  out," 
saiil  Capt.  Wilson.  Mr.  Knapp  took  the  Captain  at  his  w  >rd,  and  the 
next  boat  brought  no  liquor.  The  men,  who  bad  been  anxiously 
awaiting  the  arrival  of  a  supply  of  their  favoriti  id  at 

the  boat's  freight,  and  finding  none  there,  began  to  look  black, 
has  not  brought  a  drop  of  whisky,"  they  complained  to  the  I 
"How  is  thi<,  Knapp  ': "  asked  thai  individual  tersely,    for  the  m 
looks  threatened  mutiny.     "  Where's  the  whisky  ?  "    "I   forgot  it," 
replied  Knapp,  and  his  inl  r  know  what  that  meant.     ■•  i 

will  have  to  wait  until  the  next  time  I  go  for  suppl  It  is  need- 

:  Id  that  Mr.  Knapp  ever  after  continued  to  for.:  -t  that  par- 
ticular article ,  and  that  the  men's  bills  no  longer  read  as  one  of  the 
old-time  topers  says  his  did,  which  was  as  follow- : 


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could  pay  for  it,   and  the  liquor  traffic  was,  therefore,   not  aboli- 
except  by  the<  Jompany. 

I    "  ie  early  in  the  spring  of  Is  Is,  that  th"  lii  sup 

the  Chippewa    River.     The"Dr.  Franklin,"   of  Galena,  was  b 
for  the   upper   Mississippi.      Mr.   Knapp  was  on  board,  having  with 
him  a  crew  of  workmen  ami  consi  lerable  freight,   lie  also  bad  freight 
on  a  Becond   boat,   the  "  Highland  Mary."       it  was  found  that  Lake 
Pepin  v..  »ata  could  not  proceed  on  their 

regular  trips,  Mr.  Knapp  chartered  the  "  Dr.  Franklin"  to  bring 
men   and  freight  to  their  destination,  he,  himself,  b  g  the  pilot 

for  the  time.      He  brought  the  ifely  thr 

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started  the  subject  of  the  possibility  of  navigating  the  Chippewa,  and 
the  "  Dr.  Franklin  "  was,  in  course  of  time,  followed  by  a  boat  owned 
by  H.  S.  Allen. 

GOING  A  VISITING  IN  EARLY  DAYS. 
The  houses  of  the  early  settlers  were  log  cabins,  containing  not 
more  than  one  or  two  rooms,  and,  in  most  cases,  supplied  with  home- 
made furniture,  barely  sufficient  to  meet  the  wants  of  the  inmates.  A 
spare  bed  was  a  luxury  which  few,  if  any,  had ;  and,  when  people 
went  a  visiting,  it  was  as  necessary  for  them  to  carry  their  beds  with 
them  as  it  was  to  take  their  clothing.  Mr.  Bullard  tells  of  how  he 
was  once  visited  by  a  party  during  his  residence  on  Hay  River;  and  a 
description  of  the  arrangements  for  sleeping  is  quite  amusing.  The 
party  consisted  of  Capt.  Wilson  and  wife,  Oliver  Gilbert  and  wife 
(now  of  Brownsville,  Minn.)  and  B.  Heard  and  wife.  As  usual,  they 
all  brought  their  beds  with  them.  But  the  cabin  was  small,  and  could 
not  afford  room  on  the  floor  for  three  seperate  beds ;  so  one  large  bed 
was  made  up,  and  Mr.  Bullard  had  to  puzzle  his  wits  to  arrange  the 
party  in  them  so  that  one  man  would  not  be  placed  by  the  side  of 
another  man's  wife.  This  is  the  way  he  arranged  them,  and  it  proved 
perfectly  satisfactory  to  all : 


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Mr.  Bullard  was  always  considered  a  good  floor  manager.  Another 
description  of  some  sleeping  arrangements  is  still  more  comical.  The 
Bullards  were  living  at  the  lower  mill  in  a  cabin,  with  two  rooms  in  it, 
each  having  a  single  door  which  opened  outside.  Another  Gilbert 
family  were  the  visitors  this  time.  The  Bullards  had  only  two  beds, 
and  both  in  one  room.  One  of  these  was  usually  occupied  by  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bullard,  and  the  other  by  the  two  children,  then  little  shavers, 
To  arrange  for  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gilbert,  who  had  not  brought  beds  along, 
Mrs.  Bullard  decided  to  have  Eugene  sleep  with  her  and  her  husband, 
and  to  put  her  daughter  on  a  lounge,  thus  giving  up  one  bed  to   the 


Menomonit  and  Dunn  County,   Wisconsin.       279 

visitors.  Now  it  happened  that  Mrs.  Gilbert  was  goffering  with  sick 
head-ache,  and  in  consequence  retired  before  dark.  After  dark,  but 
before  bed  time,  Mr.  Ballard  complained  of  being  tired,  and  asked 
where  he  was  to  Bleep.  Bis  wife  answered,  "  In  our  bed  with  Enge 
Be  misunderstood  her  to  aay,  "In  Eugene's  bed,4'  lie  went  into  the 
room,  purposely  without  a  light,  and  got  into  the  children's  bed.  The 
lady,  sup]  her  husband,  did  not  speak.      She  noticed 

that  he  nudged  her  rather  roughly  with  his  elbow,  but  her  head  ached 
bo  hard  that  she  crept  off  to  the  far  Bide,  and  made  no  complaint. 
A  ft  era  while  Mr.  Gilbert  asked  to  be  shown  to  bed,  and  Mrs.  Bullard, 
taking  a  light,  led  him  to  the  chamber,  where  they  found  the  pair 
asleep,  and  apparently  totally  unconscious  of  their  close  proximity  to 
each  other.  The  consternation  of  all  parties  cannot  be  described. 
Milliard's  greatest  trouble,  however,  was  in  getting  to  his  own  bed. 
His  wife  says  that  when  he  did  go,  he  bore  a  flag  of  truce  along  with 
him. 

Mr.  Bullard  seems  to  have  given  people  other  causes  to  laugh  at  his 
expense  several  times.  The  writer  heard  of  a  funny  joke  which  was 
played  on  him,  and  will  give  it  here.  When  or  where  it  happened,  it 
matters  not.  Himself  and  wife  were  in  a  house  where  several  young 
folks  were  visiting,  and  where  the  subject  of  spiritualism  was  being 
discussed,  Mr.  Bullard  disclaiming  all  belief  in  that  theory.  The 
young  folks,  assisted  by  Mrs.  Bullard,  resolved  to  make  him  a  believer; 
and  as  they  could  not  command  the  spirits,  they  invented  a  mechanical 
contrivance  to  act  in  place.  It  was  an  arrangement  for  making  raps 
on  the  head-board  of  his  bed,  and  was  managed  by  a  person  in  another 
room,  by  means  of  a  wire  running  under  the  carpets.  Upon  the 
night  in  question,  Mr.  Bullard  retired  after  a  stirring  controversy 
upon  spiritualism  ;  but  Mrs.  Bullard  lingered,  for  obvious  reasons,  a 
little  longer  than  usual  with  the  young  folk-.  When  finally  she  sought 
her  companion,  she  found  him  perched  up  in  bed,  on  one  elbow,  listen- 
ing with   breathless   attention.      "  What  is  the  matter  ?"  she  asked. 

"  I  have  heard  raps  here  1  "  he  replied.  "  All  imagination,"  she  re- 
turned, with  a  toss  of  her  hea  1.  "  You  have  talked  against  spirit- 
ualism  until  you  have  made  yourself  believe  it."     But  even  while  she 

spoke,    throe    distinct    raps    Were    heard.         "There!"     he    exclaimed. 

"Sure  enough,  you  have  got  the  raps  after  you!  Ask  it  to  rap 
twice  if  you  are  a  medium."  "  Please  rap  twice  if  I  am  a  medium." 
said  Mr.  Bullard,  with  terrible  earnestness.  The  answer  came,  one, 
two.   " Perhaps  it  is  your  father.     Ask  it."    Slowly  and  solemnly  the 


280  American  Sketch  Book. 

victim  put  the  question:  "If  you  are  my  father,  please  rap  twice." 
Again  the  answer  came,  one,  two.  Mrs.  Bullard  began  to  edge  toward 
the  door.  "  Where  are  you  going  ?  "  he  inquired.  "  Going  to  find 
other  quarters,"  she  replied.  "And  leave  me  here  alone?  "  "Yes, 
if  you  are  a  medium  I  am  not  going  to  live  with  you-  I  won't  live 
with  a  medium."  "But  I  can't  help  it,"  he  said  piteously.  "I  don't 
want  to  be  a  medium.  Please  don't  go  !  "  "  Well,  ask  your  spirit, if 
it  will  stop  rapping  if  I  come  to  bed  !  "  In  a  very  anxious  and  solemn 
manner,  Mr.  Bullard  asked:  "Father,  will  you  stop  rapping  if  my 
wife  comes  to  bed  ?  "  One,  two,  the  raps  answered.  Mrs.  Bullard 
went  to  bed,  and  no  more  raps  were  heard  ;  but  the  poor  man  tossed 
about  all  night,  wondering  how  she  could  sleep  so  quietly  while  he 
was  so  restless.  The  next  morning  he  looked  so  woe-begone  that  the 
young  folks  took  pity  on  him,  and  informed  him  that  it  was  all  a  joke. 
But  he  was  not  angry  at  all.  He  was  only  too  glad  that  it  was  not  a 
reality,  and  that  he  was  not  a  medium. 

Returning  to  the  early  times,  tradition  gives  us  a  little  anecdote, 
which  shows  how  the  people  spent  Sundays.  It  was  one  summer,  at 
plumming  time.  Mr.  Bullard  had  worked  hard  all  the  week  previous, 
and  wras  very  tired  ;  still  he  did  not  fail  to  make  one  of  a  plumming 
party  that  started  out  on  Sunday  morning.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ball,  one 
of  the  Company,  Mrs.  Clair  and  Eugene  Bullard,  then  a  small  boy, 
were  the  other  members  of  the  party.  They  went  up  the  river  in  a 
canoe,  the  rowing,  or  rather  poling,  being  done  by  the  men,  who  could 
not  agree  as  to  the  best  method  of  performing  that  kind  of  work.  One 
of  them  found  considerable  fault  with  Mr.  Bullard,  who  became  a  little 
angry  thereat — all  the  more  so  because  he  was  heated  and  tired  with 
the  exertion.  The  consequence  was,  that  when  the  canoe  was  landed 
near  the  thicket,  Mr.  Bullard  threw  Eugene  across  his  shoulders  and 
started  for  home  on  foot.  Arriving  there,  he  shook  the  boy  off,  and, 
straightening  himself  up,  exclaimed  :  "  Well,  if  Jesus  Christ  reigns 
another  Sunday,  I'll  rest."  It  is  needless  to  add  that  Sunday  service 
was  not  held  in  this  part  of  the  county  at  that  time. 
THE  FIRST  MARRIAGES. 

The  first  marriage  in  this  part  of  the  country,  was  in  1847.  The 
parties  were  a  Mr.  Whitcomb  and  Mrs.  Clair.  The  Circuit  Justice  of 
the  Peace,  J.  W.  Bass,  happened  to  be  at  Chippewa  Falls  and  he  came, 
over  and  performed  the  ceremony.  The  marriage  took  place  at  the 
Company's  kitchen,  and  Mrs.  Wrilson  provided  the  supper.  But  it 
happened  that  when  the  second  couple,  Margaret  Scott  and  Thomas 


Menomonu  and  Dunn  Count;/,  Wisconsin.        281 

Piercewell,  wished  to  be  united,  there  was  no  one  near  who  had  power 
to  tie  the  knot.      This  difficulty  waa  obviated  by  a  marri  tract, 

which  was  drawn  up  and  signed  in  I  of  witnesses.       After  the 

>ver,  the   parties    invited  their   friends  to  the  wedding 
feast,  which  consisted  of  pork  and  beans,  and  whisky,  which  were  the 
staple  articles  of  food  at  that  time.       A  dance  ended  the  festivif 
This  singular  marriage  occurred  in  1850,  and  proved  satisfactory   to 
both  parties. 

FIRST    DEATH   AND   BURIAL  OF  A  WHITE  WOMAN. 

The  first  death  of  a  white  woman  in  tin's  section    of  country,    also 
occurred  in  1850.      Mrs.  Fannie  Vale,  probably  the  first  woman  who 

was  a  resident  here,  was  the  victim.  She  had  lived  a  hard  life,  and, 
in  the  matter  of  civilization,  she  was  but  little  in  advance  of  her  com- 
panions, the  savages.  Her  husband,  John  Yale,  was  a  rough,  unedu- 
i  old  man,  and  withal  much  given  to  drink.  After  the  old  woman 
hid  become  ill,  she  was  taken  to  the  residence  of  one  A.  Lemon, 
whose  wife  was  an  Indian  medicine-woman,  that  she  might  have  the 
benefit  of  Mrs.  Lemon's  skill.  One  winter  day,  the  tipsy  John  in- 
formed Mrs.  Bullard,  in  his  profane  way,  that  Fannie  was  dying. 
Mrs  Bullard  did  not  believe  the  statement,  but  she  immediately  set 
out  for  Lemon's  cabin,  two  miles  distant,  to  ascertain  whether  or  not 
it  was  true.  She  found  the  poor  creature  lying  upon  the  floor,  upon 
some  rags  and  skins,  half  naked  and  already  in  the  agonies  of  death. 
The  look  of  blank  amazement,  that  spread  over  the  lady's  face,  con- 
vinced John  that  the  visitor  understood  the  exact  situation  ;  and  nudg- 
ing her  with  his  elbow,  he  exclaimed:  "  You  did  not  believe  me  when 
I    told  you  that  it  was  as  true  as  h — 1  she  was  a  d\  Then  he 

dropped  to  the  floor  to  the  side  of  his  wife,  and,  twisting  a  lock  of  her 
gray  hair  about  his  fingers,  much  as  if  he  was  about  to  scalp  her,  he 
product  d  a  dull  jack-knife,  and  tried  to  cut  oil'  the  lock  of  hair,  greatly 
to  the  annoyance  of  the  sick  woman,  who  writhed  under  the  inflic- 
tion. "What  are  you  doing,  John?  "  asked  Mrs.  Bullard,  rushing  to 
tli.'  rescue.  "I'm  going  to  have  a  lock  of  her  hair;  it's  all  I  • 
'spect  to  have  of  her  now,"  he  replied.  Mr~.  Bullard  begged  him  to 
it,  promising  that  she  would  Bee  that  a  lock  of  his  wife's  hair  should 
ived  forhim.     Th  id  him,  and  crawling  behind    the  stove, 

he  soon  fell  into  a  drunken  sleep.  '■  itor  and  the  Bquaw  to 

attend  to  the  dying  woman,  wh  I   eternityward  sometime  in  the 

evening.      Mrs.    Bullard   sent  home  for  f  her  own  clothes,    in 

which  to  lay  out  the  destitute  creature's  1>"  ly.    A  bo  urd  u  te  procured, 


282  American  Sketch  Booh. 

but  there  were  no  tables  or  chairs  to  hold  the  corpse,  and  the  best  that 
they  could  do  was  to  place  it  on  a  couple  of  barrels,  which  held  the 
winter's  supply  of  pork  and  venison.  When  night  came  on,  the 
Lemon  family  crawled  into  the  one  bed  that  the  cabin  contained,  and 
Mrs.  Bullard  was  left  to  keep  the  dreary  watch  alone.  About  midnight 
John  Vale  awoke  from  his  drunken  sleep,  and  getting  up  upon  his 
haunches,  like  an  animal,  began  to  sing  "  Good-bye,  Molly."  Mrs. 
Bullard  tried  to  hush  him  by  asking  if  he  knew  that  Fannie  was  dead. 
He  replied  with  an  oath  that  he  knew  it  too  well.  Presently  he  got 
up,  and,  going  to  the  side  of  the  corpse,  uncovered  the  face  and  looked 
long  and  earnestly  at  it.  Finally  he  turned  and  faced  the  visitor 
with  the  remark  :  "  God  thinks  he's  done  it,  I  'spose.  He  might  have 
took  me  as  well  as  her,  and  I  am  going  to  drown  myself.  I'll  be 
even  with  Him."  Mrs.  Bullard,  knowing  that  the  supply  store 
would  sell  him  no  more  whisky  until  after  the  funeral,  did  not  try  to 
detain  him.  She  knew  that  it  was  whisky,  not  death,  of  which  he 
was  in  search.  The  long,  terrible  night  was  ended,  at  last.  The 
Lemon's  arose  and  began  preparations  for  breakfast.  They  swung 
the  corpse  one  way,  and  took  a  piece  of  venison  from  one  barrel;  then 
they  swung  it  the  other  way  and  fished  a  bit  of  pork  out  of  the  other 
barrel ;  then  the  body  was  placed  in  its  proper  position,  and  left  there 
until  the  time  of  the  funeral.  The  only  mode  of  travel  was  by  trains 
— narrow  one-horse  sleighs,  roughly  constructed  by  the  back-woods- 
men themselves.  Three  of  these  constituted  the  funeral  equipage.  A 
rough  box  answered  for  a  coffin,  and  in  order  to  carry  it,  the  end 
board  of  one  of  the  trains  had  to  be  removed.  When  all  was  ready 
for  a  start,  some  men  had  to  ride  on  the  train  to  hold  the  coffin  on. 
The  remainder  of  the  people  who  had  come  to  attend  the  funeral,  viz. 
a  few  workmen  and  squaws,  took  seats  on  the  other  trains;  and  the 
funeral  procession  moved  on.  Up  to  this  time,  John  had  not  made 
his  appearance.  In  fact,  nobody  missed  him,  or  cared  where  he  was. 
Everybody  in  those  days  considered  it  his  business  to  help  bury  or 
marry  a  neighbor,  regardless  of  his  or  her  religion,  politics  or  social 
position.  Then,  knowing  John's  failings,  no  one  took  the  trouble  to 
hunt  him  up,  and  ask  for  instructions  from  him.  It  was  a  bright, 
winter  morning.  The  snow  was  knee-deep  where  it  was  unbroken, 
and  it  was  covered  by  a  crust  that  made  traveling  irksome.  The 
burial  ground  was  about  two  miles  and  a  half  distant  from  Lemon's 
cabin,  and  was  on  the  top  of  quite  a  steep  hill.  Up  this  hill  the 
drivers  found  it  impossible  to  draw  the  loaded  trains,  since  the  crusted 


Mi  noun, nil  and  Dunn  County^  Wisconsin. 

snow  was  in  this  place  unbroken.  In  consequence,  the  people  all 
got  out,  the  men  going  ahead  of  the  train  thai  carried  the  corpse,  and 
the  women  waiting  in  the  deep  Bnow  to  consider  whether  or  not  it 
would  he  best  to  accompany  the  corpse  to  the  grave.  This  left  the 
coffin  unheld  and  liable  to  slide  off,  an!  it  care  was  observed. 

But  the  horse  of  this  single  train  found  it  no  easy  task  to  ascend  the 
hill,  and  the  driver  was  obliged  most  vigorously  to  apply  the  whip  in 
i  rder  to  start  the  animal  at  all.  The  result  of  such  treatment  was  a 
sudden  jerk  that  Bhook  the  coffin  off,  and  as  box,  corpse  and  all  n 
rolling  down  the  hill,  John  Vale  appeared  suddenly  upon  the  scene. 
Seeing  that  the  driver  was  evidently  unconscious  of  the  accident,  the 
bereaved  husband  began  hellooing,  gesturing  and  slapping  his  h  u 
together  in  the  wildest  and  most  absurd  manner.    "Stop!  stop!  stop! 

I  say.  D — n  you,  don't  you  know  you've  left  Fanny  behind  ?  You've 
left  Fannie,  I  say  !  "  The  scene  can  be  better  imagined  than  de- 
scribed. The  one  white  woman  who  witnessed  it  stood  knee-deep  in 
the  snow,  and,  solemn  as  the  occasion  was,  smiled  visibly  at  the  lu- 
dicrous picture.  John  succeeded  finally  in  attracting  the  driver's 
attention.  Then  it  being  found  impossible  to  draw  the  corpse  up  the 
steep  hill  on  the  train,  the  men  clambered  up,  bearing  it  on  their 
shoulders,  and  hid  it  from  view  by  a  shallow  covering  of  frozen  earth 
and  snow.  John,  as  well  as  Fannie,  is  now  among  the  things  that 
were,   but  the  survivors  who  attended  that  funeral  will  nevei 

recall  with  a  smile  the  first  burial  of  a  white  woman  in  Dunn  County. 
THE  FIRST  RESIDENT  PREACHER. 
Some  time  about  the  year  IN-"' I,  a  Bchool  house  was  erected,  ami. 
it  having  become  necessary  to  engage  a  teacher,  the  energetic  rap- 
tain  Wilson  conceived  the  idea  of  advertising  for  a  person  who  would 
teach  school  and  also  conduct  religious  exercises.  The  advertise- 
nieiii  -weird  by  a  bashful  bachelor,  the    Rev.  Joshua     I'ittnian. 

who  was  somewhat  "set  bark"  when  he  learned  that  he  was  to 
"preach  Sundays,  teach  school  week-days,  and  pack  shingles  nights." 

II  .  however,  eng  I  continued  his  labors  until  1859,  when  a 
regular  district  school  was  organized. 

As  [uence  of  going  to  meeting   on    Sundays,    the    won, en 

began  to  long  for  more  fashionable  apparel  than  they  had  hitherto 
wom.  But  so  intense  was  the  general  sentiment  against  all  hinds  of 
lincry,  that  no  one  was  bra  o  cast  off  the   sun-bonnet    for 

the  dress  bonnet  of  the  outside  world,  until  the  advent  of  Mrs.  Gr.  M. 
bowler,  who  appeared  in  church  one  Sabbath  with  the   then    fashion- 


284  American  Sketch  Booh. 

able  relation  of  the  "sky-scraper"  on  her  head.  The  bonnet,  and 
not  the  sermon,  was  the  center  of  attraction  that  day.  Little  billets 
of  comment  were  passed  around  in  the  audience  ;  and,  though  few 
could  have  told  what  the  sermon  was  about,  all  could  give  the  exact 
dimensions  and  make-up  of  the  first  dress  bonnet  ever  worn  in  Me- 
nomonie. 

In  March,  1856,  the  county  of  Dunn  was  organized,  with  a  small 
hamlet,  known  as  Dunnville,  for  the  county  seat.  It  was  named  in 
honor  of  Judge  Dunn,  first  judge  of  the  district.  But  the  village  of 
Menomonie  was  laid  out  in  1859,  and  a  vote  of  the  people  the  same 
year,  removed  the  county  seat  to  the  latter  place.  The  first  term  of 
Circuit  Court  was  held  in  September,  1S57,  the  resident  lawyers 
being  E.  B.  Bundy  and  C.  S.  Bundy  ;  the  former  of  whom  is  still 
practicing  law  in  Menomonie. 

But  though  Dunn  county  was  organized  in  1856,  the  majority  of 
the  United  States  lands  did  not  come  into  market  until  1860.  The 
Fox  River  Improvement  Company  having  received  a  munificent  grant 
of  land,  in  view  of  services  to  be  rendered,  by  which  a  choice  of  gov- 
ernment lands  was  given  them,  had  claimed  a  much  larger  portion 
than  was  their  due.  In  1860,  their  claim  was  adjusted.  They  chose 
the  best  lands  west  of  the  Red  Cedar  river,  and  gave  up  the  lands  on 
the  east  side,  to  the  government.  The  government  lands  were  imme- 
diately put  into  market,  and  were  bought  by  substantial  people,  who 
soon  surrounded  themselves  with  all  the  comforts  which  farmers  usu- 
ally have. 

NEWSPAPER  HISTORY. 

Dunn  county  is  indebted  to  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.,  for  an  early  in- 
troduction of  a  newspaper  press.  The  "Dunn  County  Lumberman" 
was  started  in  April,  1860,  with  C.  S.  Bundy,  a  young  lawyer  of 
considerable  ability,  as  editor.  Upon  the  outbreak  of  the  rebellion, 
the  young  editor  exchanged  the  pen  for  the  sword,  and  his  brother, 
E.  B.  Bundy,  an  able  lawyer,  became  editor.  The  third  editor  in 
order  of  time,  was  Thomas  Phillips,  a  Democrat  of  some  abilty,  the 
paper  meanwhile  supporting  the  Republican  party.  In  1865,  the 
concern  was  purchased  by  Dr.  Benjamin.  During  this  administration 
Charles  Mears,  now  of  the  "  Polk  County  (Minn.)  Press,"  bought  a 
half  interest  in  the  printing  office,  and  upon  his  advent,  April  7th, 
1866,  the  paper  changed  its  name  to  the  "Dunn  County  News" 
Early  in  September  of  the  same  "year,  we  find  Mears'  name  with- 
drawn without  even  a  good  bye,  and  Or.  Benjamin's  continued  alone. 


Menomonu  and  Dunn  County t  Wisconsin. 

A  year  later,  Wilson  &  Messenger  boughl  out  Dr.  Benjamin,  and  S« 
W.  Hunt  took  the  editorial  chair.  This  firm  enlarged  the  paper  and 
otherwise  improved  it.     The  next  chai  ge  w  to  Flint  &  Weber 

the  present  proprietors,  about  1s71.  These  men  Bhow  a  degree  of 
enterprise  in  the  management  of  the  "News,"  manifested  by  only  a 
few  proprietors  of  county  newspapers.  Their  large,  well-filled  Bheet 
is  printed  entirely  at  home,  and  its    "insides"  havener  oe  so 

weak  as  to  need  patent  ones.       Unlike  many    of    its    cotempora 
the   "Dunn  County  News"   of    1875,   will   not  cause  the   causual 
reader  to  undervalue  the  place  which  it  repi 

Outside  the  line  sketched   were   a   couple   of    newspaporial 

spasms  or  episodes,  which  deserve  notice  in  this  connection.  Anti- 
monopolistic  feelings  had  become  sufficiently  warm  to  call  for  a  new 
paper,  about  the  year  of  grace,  1871,  and  Rev.  E.  Thompson  brought 
in  the  "People's  Press."  Cts  career  was  about  equally  brilliant  and 
brief — it  lived  seven  weeks  on  "  faith  alone,"  and  expired.  Next 
came  the  "Lean  Wolf,"  by  Van  "Waters,  an  old  editor  of  no  mean 
ability,  but  bis  '"Lean  Wolf"  died  of  chronic  leanness. 

The  moral  deducible  from  these  reformatory  spasms  may   be   this: 
It   is    abundantly   benevolent    to    make    two    blades    of   gra 
where  only  one  grew  before;  but  it  is  not  always  practicable  in  □ 
paperdom. 

WAR  TIMES— HEROIC  WOMEN. 
When  the  war  of  the  rebellion  began,  some  of  the  wome  -  of  Men- 
omonie   proved  tb  heroic,  indeed.     T  le  village  was  new  and 

small,  and  the  families  settled  there  did  not  feel  able  to  endure    more 
h  it  lships  than  were  already  theirs.     Men  were  disp  »se  1  to  shrink  from 
what  they  knew  to  be  their  duty,  because  to  g  i  I  »   war    was  to 
their  wives  and  children,  mothers  and  si  battl  )  with  the  b 

alone.     Some  women,  too,  were  faint-hearted,  and  clung  to  their 
9,  faint  and  weeping,  whenever  the   latl  a   dispo- 

sition to  answer  the  nation's  call.  At  this  Btage  of  affairs,  a  few 
heroic  women  inspired  every  soul  with  patriotism,  by  their  voices  and 
their  example.  Miss  Eliza  Wilson,  a  young  girl,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain A\  ilson,  arose  in  a  war  meeting,  pr<  ss<  d  herself  willing  to 
accompany  any  comparfy  that  would  organize;  to 
members  the  hardships  of  the  march,  and  to  nurse  them  if  them  fell 
ill,  or  were  wounded;  a  resolution  which  shi  actually  carried  into  efl 

Mrs.  Bullard  mad  l  several  stirring  8] ch  8,  which  nerved  the    faint- 
hearted to  action.     One  of               >eches,  we  o  >py  from  a   "L 


286  American  jSketch  Book. 

man  "  of  that  date.  Only  a  portion  of  a  company  had  been  organized, 
and  the  heroic  women  were  working  to  fill  the  ranks.  There  had  just 
been  a  war  meeting,  and  speaking  of  that,  the  "  Lumberman  "  says  : 

"  After  the  meeting  adjourned,  the  company  formed  in  line  and 
marched  to  the  tune  of  Yankee  Doodle  through  the  principal  streets 
and  serenaded  some  of  our  citizens;  among  others,  L.  Bullard,  Esq., 
who  responded  in  his  usual  happy  manner.  Mrs.  Bullard  also  came 
forward  and  said:  "  Soldiers,  I  regret  that  I  have  but  one  son  to 
give  to  my  country,  he  is  a  mere  stripling,  but  the  good  book  tells  us 
that  '  The  battle  is  not  to  the  strong;  nor  the  race  to  the  swift,  but 
to  him  that  endureth  to  the  end.'  Soldiers,  I  place  him  in  your  keep- 
ing, hoping  and  trusting  that  you  will  cling  together  like  a  band  of 
brothers.  You  have  taken  your  lives  in  your  hands  to  go  forth  in 
defense  of  your  county,  and  I  hope  that  as  long  as  there  is  a  man  left, 
you  will  not  suffer  our  national  flag  to  be  dishonored.  You  leave  be- 
hind you,  friends  who  will  watch  your  course,  and  if,  as  I  am  sure 
you  will,  you  fight  valiantly  in  the  cause  of  your  country,  you  will 
merit  and  receive  their  warmest  gratitude  and  the  plaudits  of  your 
friends  and  countrymen.  If  you  lack  one  man,  Mr.  Bullard  shall 
go  too.'  " 

Such  heroism  could  not  fail  to  bring  forth  a  response  ;  and  when 
Captain  Wilson  and  his  wife  declared  that  they  would  own  no  son 
who  shrank  from  going  to  the  assistance  of  his  country,  the  lagging 
ones  stepped  forward  and  were  enrolled. 

The  first  company  ever  raised  in  Chippewa  Valley  was  the  Dunn 
County  Pinery  Rifles,  afterwards  Company  K  of  the  Fifth  Wisconsin. 
Its  officers  were  Capt.  William  Evans,  Lieutenant  C.  R-  Bayard  and 
Lieutenant  J.  A.  Hill.  It  was  mustered  into  service  July  13th,  1861, 
by  Captain  Mclntire,  of  the  regular  army.  The  officer  in  command 
was  Col.  Amasa  Cobb.  The  regiment  was  accompanied  to  the  field  by 
Miss  Eliza  Wilson.  The  regiment  was  in  several  engagements,  and 
won  honors  which  secured  for  it  the  commendation  of  General  Mc- 
Clellan.  At"the  battle  of  Golden  Farm,  Virginia,  Capt.  Evans  was 
mortally  wounded.  His  death  occurred  August  1st,  1862.  The  reg- 
iment had  fared  ill.  Disease  and  the  shots  of  the  enemy  had  laid 
many  of  the  soldiers  low,  and  Company  K  had  only  a  handful  of  men 
left,  when  a  second  company  from  Dunn  County,  headed  by  Captain 
J.  M.  Mott,  reported  ready  for  action.  This  new  company  took  the 
place  of  the  unfortunate  one,  and  also  became  Company  K  of  the 
Fifth  Wisconsin  Infantry.  Captain  Mott  became  so  exhausted  at  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg  that  he  was  left  on  the  march,  and  afterwards 
sent  to  Frederick   City,  Maryland,  where  he  died,  July  26th,  1863. 


MenoTtionu  and  Dunn  County,    Wisconsin.       287 

He  was  succeeded  in  command  by  Capt    Henry  C.  Farwell.     W 
mention  only  a  few  <>f  1 1 1  *  -  brave   men  who  went  in  the  two  companies 
from  Dunn  County.     Henry  II.  Stout,   at  the  time  of  his  death 
ond    lieutenant    of   Company  K,  was  a  young  man 
Free  from  all  bad  habits,  pure   hearted  and  brave,  he  had  won  the 
•  and  respect  of  all  who  knew  him.      He  was  killed  in  the  action 
of  S  inia  Court    House,  May  LOth,    1864.       His  death  to  this 

day  is  remembered  with  deep  regret.  Henry  C.  Farwell,  pron 
as  first  lieutenant  May  14th,  L8G3,  was  wounded  November  7th, 
1863,  in  the  action  of  Brandy  Station,  Virginia,  of  the  officers  who 
ifely  through,  We  note  the  names  of  James  Deerey,  Thomas 
Blair,  Julius  A.  Hill,  T.  S.  West,  C.  S.  Bundy,  M.  II.  Wilson  and 
M.  W.  Heller. 

HIGH  WATER. 

fore  closing  the  early  history  of  Menomonie,  the  writer  wis! 
to  intuition  the  high  water  freshets,  which  have  occurred  at  different 
periods.  On  the  12th  of  June,  1839,  the  water  was  higher  in  both 
the  Chippewa  and  Red  Cedarrivers,  than  it  has  horn  since,  or  was 
known  to  be  before  that  time,  by  the  oMest  settler,  either  white  man 
or  Indian.  At  that  time  the  water  overflowed  all  the  bottom  lands, 
and  at  the  l>illes  of  the  Chippewa  it  was  eighteen  feet  above  the  or- 
dinary height  of  the  river.  The  few  people  who  were  then  living  on 
the  Red  Cedar  and  the  Chippewa,  were  frightened,  and  thought  that 
Lake  Superior  had  broken  through  to  the  head  waters  of  those 
streams,  and  was  empting  itself  into  the  Mississippi  by  those  outlets. 
In  L846,  the  water  wasagain  very  high  in  the  Mississippi ;  and  in  lv!7 
the  water  in  the  Chippewa  and  Red  Cedar  was  so  very  high  that   the 

•f  11.  S.  All. -n  &  Co.'s  ! .11  a:  Chippewa  Falls,  broke  loose  and 

went  adrift.       The  last  high  water  of  n  in  L859,  which  \\a-  a 

very  disasterouj  year  for  lumbermen,  as  lumber  sold  as  low  as  from 

six  dollars  :<>  eight  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  thousand    f 

DUNN    COUNTY  IN    1873. 

Dunn    County    contains    twenty-four    townships,   and   an   area    of 

552,960  acres.      The  eastern  portion  c  of  prairie  lands;    the 

in;-,  and  covered  by  imme  I       C  n'ppewa 

river  waters  the  s<  part;  the  Ban  Galla  the  Bouthwest;  while 

tie'  Red  Cedar  runs  through  from  u  nth  t  i  south.    These  streams  and 

their  tributaries  furnish  nui  i   null   powers.       Hard    woods 

and  sand-tone  and  hm  abound.      The  chief  manufacturing  in- 

I  is  lumbering.       A.b  at  6  >,000,000  feet  of  lumber  are  manufac- 


288  American  Sketch  Book. 

tured  annually.  The  county  is  crossed  from  east  to  west  by  the 
West  Wisconsin  Railway,  bringing  it  into  direct  connection  with  the 
outside  world. 

The  present  village  of  Menomonie  consists  of  a  population  of  about 
three  thousand  five  hundred  people,  and  is  one  of  the  most  pictur- 
esque of  inland  towns.  The  dam  on  which  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.s 
mammoth  saw  and  grist  mills  are  situated,  forms  a  lake  a  mile  and  a 
half  long  by  over  three-fourths  of  a  mile  wide.  This  lake  is  bounded 
on  the  east  by  picturesque  bluffs  or  points  of  land,  upon  one  of  which, 
a  mile  from  the  village,  is  located  the  beautiful  cemetery,  recently  laid 
out  and  platted  by  those  widely  and  favorably  known  landscape  archi- 
tects, Cleveland  &  French,  of  Chicago.  On  the  southwest  of  this 
lake,  on  high  ground,  is  situated  the  residence  of  Mr.  Andrew  Tainter, 
which  rivals  in  elegance  any  of  the  suburban  villas  of  the  large  east- 
ern cities.  A  little  to  the  north  of  Mr.  Tainter's  grounds,  is  Captain 
Wilson's  hospitable  and  comfortable  mansion.  At  the  outlet  of  this 
lake  is  built  a  large  and  substantial  dam,  of  unique  construction  with 
numerous  gates  and  chute.  Near  this  dam,  and  on  the  west  or  right 
bank  of  the  river,  are  located  the  different  and  numerous  buildings, 
stores,  warehouses,  machine  shop,  foundry,  blacksmith  and  wagon 
shops,  boarding  houses,  dwelling  and  tenant  houses,  etc.,  etc,  neces- 
sary to  carry  on  the  great  business  of  this  Lumbering  Company.  Here 
also  Wilson  Creek  empties  its  waters  into  this  great  reservoir,  a  few 
rods  above  the  dam,  on  the  main  Red  Cedar  river.  This  creek  is  a 
beautiful  and  romantic  stream,  bordered  with  high,  rocky  bluffs ;  it 
abounds  in  speckled  trout.  Its  rapid  current  is  stayed  near  its  outlet 
by  the  construction  of  a  dam,  which  supplies  the  power  to  run  the 
Company's  shingle  and  planing  mills. 

After  passing  out  of  the  lake  or  mill  pond,  the  Red  Cedar  (called 
by  the  citizens  the  "Menomonie  River")  again  assumes  its  natural 
size,  and  with  a  rapid  current  runs  over  a  rocky  bed,  in  a  westerly 
course,  one  fourth  of  a  mile,  and  then  turns  southward.  On  a  high 
plateau  on  the  northwest,  or  right  bank  of  this  rapid  stream,  in  a 
picturesque  and  romantic  spot  among  the  pines,  and  overlooking  the 
river,  is  the  residence  of  Mr.  J.  H.  Knapp.  One  of  the  partners  of 
the  firm  of  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.,  Mr.  T.  B.  Wilson,  formerly  of  Reels 
Landing,  Minnesota,  has  lately  taken  up  his  residence  in  Menomonie, 
and  has  built  a  house  on  the  village  side,  attractive  in  style  and  pleas- 
antly   situated,    and  which  adds  to  the  good  appearance  of  the  town. 

The  village  side  of  the  river  has  many  recent  settlers,  some  of 


M  nomonie  and  Dunn  Count  if,   Wtscon 

whom  are  doing  a  business   which    rivals,   in   some  (if  its  branches, 
the  famous  company  on  the  other  Bide  ;    and  this  Bide,  with  il 
churches,  court-house,    school-houses,  printing  office    and   dwellii 
constitute  the  village  proper.      The  native  trees,  on  both  Bides,  have, 
in  many  places,    been  left  standing,  and  lend  much  of  the  pictur- 
esque to  the  appearance  of  the  village. 

There  are  several  public  buildings  here  worthy  of  note.  The 
court  house,  built  in  1871,  is  a  brick  structure,  with  dressed  stone 
trimmings,  and  cost  forty-five  thousand  dollars.  Canute  Thompson 
was  the  contractor,  and  his  work  is  proof  sufficient  of  his  superior 
ability.  The  public  school  building,  erected  in  L869,  is  one  of  the 
in  this  part  of  the  state,  and  was  built  at  an  expense  of  nearly 
twenty  thousand  dollars.  In  1873,  school  district  number  one  built  a 
second  school-house  in  Coddington's  addition,  at  a  cost  of  five  thous- 
and dollars.  During  the  winter  of  1^72,  the  county  jail,  a  wooden 
structure,  was  burned,  and  in  1874,  a  new  brick  building,  for  the  same 
purpose,  was  built  under  contract,  by  Ole  Olson,  for  ten  thousand 
dollars.  The  Baptists  have  two  churches.  The  first  of  these  was 
built  and  furnished  by  Captain  Wilson.  It  is  frescoed,  upholstered 
with  rep,  lighted  with  gas,  and  furnished  with  an  expensive  organ. 
les  these  there  are  several  other  tasty  churches.  The  only  thing 
in  the  line  of  public  buildings,  which  Menomonie  seems  to  lack,  is  a 
first-class  hotel.  There  arc  three  or  four  good  hotel  buildings 
but  none  of  them  are  conducted  in  a  manner  in  keeping  with  the  en- 
terprise of  the  village.  The  Menomonie  House,  kept  by  C.  II.  Mc- 
Cabe,  is  said  to  be  the  best  of  the  three.  It  belongs  to  Knapp, 
Stout  &  Co.,  and  is  for  sale. 

Menomonie  has  also  a  Reading  Room.  Some  of  the  enterprit 
ladies,  with  a  view  toward  keeping  the  young  men  from  saloon-. 
clubbed  together  and  opened  an  establishment  where  the  young  folks 
could  spend  their  evenings.  They  intend  to  have,  in  addition  to  the 
reading  room,  a  refreshment  room.  This  ie  a  highly  praise-worthy 
institution,  and  if  every  community  would  establish  such  in  its  midst, 
the  saloons  would  in  time  have  to  close  for  lack  of  custom.  Mrs.  M. 
L.  Mott.  widow  of  the  lamented  <vipt.  M.  L.  Mott,  is  the  librarian  of 
the  Menomonie  Reading  Room. 

Though  the  citizens,  on  both  sides  of  the  river,  unite  in  establishing 
good  institutions,  there  seems  to  be  a  feeling  of  rivalry  existing  be- 
tween the  two  sides  of  the   river,    or    rather    between    many    of     the 

business  men  of  Menominie  proper  and  Knapp,  Stout  A.    Co.      The 


290  American  Sketch  Booh 

company,  like  all  powerful  organizations,  is  called  a  monopoly,  and 
as  such  is  frequently  fought  at  elections,  town  meetings,  etc  ;  and  it 
often,  though  not  always,  wins  the  victory.  The  sensitive,  claim 
quite  truly,  that  Menomonie  is  a  flourishing  village  in  itself,  indepen- 
dent of  the  company  that  started  it  into  life.  But  for  all  this,  it  can- 
not  be  denied,  by  the  unbiased,  that  the  Company  is  the  great  motive 
power  of  the  community,  as  it  furnishes  employment  for  hundreds  of 
men,  while  its  wealth  is  constantly  enriching  and  adding  to  the  beauty 
of  the  village. 

Menomonie  was  originally  platted  by  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.  I. 
Coddington  made  an  addition  to  the  village,  in  18G5,  of  thirty-two 
blocks.  The  lots  in  this  addition,  at  first  sold  at  twenty-five  dollars 
each.  They  now  bring  three  hundred  dollars  and  upward.  Martin 
H.  Wilson  and  Mrs.  E.  Morgan,  have  also  made  additions  to 
Menomonie. 

Several  smart  villages  beside  Menomonie  have  sprung  up  in  Dunn 
county.  One  of  these  is  Dunnville,  situated  near  the  mouth  of  Red 
Cedar  river,  twelve  miles  south  of  Menomonie.  It  was  settled  in 
1850.  A  man  named  Lamb  was  the  first  settler.  Amos  Colburn 
kept  the  first  hotel  in  Dunville.  John  McCauley  took  up  his  resi- 
dence then  in  1853.  A  large  portion  of  Dunville  is  owned  by  Enapp, 
Stout  &  Co. 

Eau  Galla,  located  in  the  southwest  part  of  the  hard  woods,  is  a 
thriving  little  village  on  the  Eau  Galla  river.  It,  like  most  other 
places  in  Dunn  county,  is  the  center  of  a  lumbering  district.  The 
first  mill  at  Eau  Galla  was  built  in  18-10,  under  the  direction  of 
Savage,  Wales  &  Co.  This  firm  sold  to  Carson  &  Eaton  in  1844,  who 
built  a  large  steam  mill  in  1852,  which  had  the  misfortune  of  being 
burned  in  1 802,  A  mill  with  three  gang  saws  was  erected  and  run- 
ning the  next  year.  Later,  Eaton  sold  out  his  interest  in  the  prop- 
erty to  E.  D.  Rand,  of  Burlington,  and  the  firm  has  since  been  Carson 
&  Rand.  This  company  also  have  a  large  flouring  mill  at  Eau  Galla. 
A  mill  was  built  at  Cedar  Falls  in  1859,  by  Burry  &  McCormick. 
Later,  it  passed  into  the  hands  of  Maxwell,  McGilton  &  Co.,  who 
owned  it  until  a  few  years  ago,  when  Jewett  &  Son  bought  it  at  Sher- 
iff's sale.      Quite  a  little  village  is  springing  up  at  this  point. 

The  Downsville  mill  was  built  in  18G0  by  Capt.  Downs,  on  a  site 
where  Ebenezcr  Thompson  had  attempted  to  build  a  mill  a  few  years 
before,  but  failed  on  account  of  a  freshet  which  destroyed  his  work  and 
impoverished  him.     The  mill  was  bought  by  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.,  who 


Menoiimnl'.  and  Dunn  County^  W  in.       291 

enlarged  and  improved  it.  Here  is  also  a  little  village,  which  is 
steadily  improving.  Downsville  is  situated  on  the  Red  Cedar  river, 
eight  miles  Bouth  of  Menomonie. 

THE  LIQUOR  WAR. 

In  the  year  1874,  a  few  of  tl  ead  women  of  Menomonie  re- 

solved to  put  a  Btop  to  the  liquor  traffic,  and  their  influence  at  the 
polls  was  such  that  a  law,  forbidding  its  sale,  waa  passed.  The  prac- 
ticability of  such  a  law  in  a  single  town  is  questioned  by  many;  but 
having  caused  its  adoption,  the  women  were  determined  that  those  who 
broke  it  should  be  punished.  It  was  like  one  man  fighting  an  army, 
but  women  who  could  show  such  heroism  when  their  country  was 
needing  aid,  would  not  he  likely  to  falter  themselves,  or  fail  to  instill 
in  their  (laughters'  minds  some  of  their  own  heroism,  at  a  time  when 
the  law  was  being  transgressed.    A  caustic  old  settler,  in  a  no 

"The  last  great  social  spasm  in  Menomonie  was  the  anti-liquor 
of  last  Bpring;  and  the  anties,  or,  as  some'  wags  put  it.  the 
••aunties,"  carried  the  day.  The  ladies  are  now  prosecuting  the 
saloon-men,  with  unflagging  zeal,  and  average  success.  l'>ut  the  end 
is  not  yet.  The  coming  election  promises  to  he  ardent,  spirits  or  oo 
spirits." 

Since  the  commencement  of  the  liquor  war  of  this  place,  the  vexed 
problem  of  whether  or  not  lager-beer  is  intoxicating,  has  been  decided 
in  the  negative.  A  brewer  was  arrested  for  selling  a  keg  of  beer  to  one 
of  the  citizens,  lie  was  fined,  bui  appealed  his  case  to  a  higher  court. 
t  excitement  prevailed  when  it  was  brought  before  Judge  Hum- 
prey.  Several  men  swore  that  beer  can  intoxicate,  and  several  nun 
that  it  can  not.  The  judge  seemed  to  he  Blightly  prejudiced  in  favor 
of  the  beer,  for  he  demanded  to  know  of  the  temperance  men  how 
they  km  w  beer  to  he  intoxicating,  and  if  it  had  ever  intoxicated  them. 
They,  of  course,  did  not  lik e  to  own  to  such  a  weakness,  and  cited 
what  they  had  seen.  But  he  waived  Mich  evidence,  telling  them  that 
they  must  beable  to  speak  from  experience  or  not  at  all.  He 
moreover,  that  he  had  nothing  to  do  with  any  beerexce]  tents 

of  that  particular  keg  in  question,  which  had  been  Beized  and  brought 
mrt  as  evidence.      What  he  wished   to   decide  was  whether  that 
keg  contained  any  intoxicating  beverage.      By   an  order  given,  the 
com  ted,  but  as  it  had  been  two  days   tapped,  and  the 

beer  was  really  "flat,"  the  decision  was  that  that  particular  keg  con 
tail  ed  nothing  that  could  intoxicate  any  one  ;    and  a  verdict  was  ren- 


292  American  Sketch  Booh. 

dered  in  accordance  with  the  facts.     Since  then,  it  is  said,  the  brewer 
pursues  his  regular  vocation  unmolested  by  the  law. 

Another  case  was  equally  as  remarkable.  While  Justice  Hull  was 
in  the  act  of  fining  a  saloon-keeper  for  breaking  the  liquor  law,  a 
man  fresh  from  the  dentist's  hands,  came  into  Hull's  drug  store  to 
get  some  whisky  to  rinse  his  bleeding  mouth.  A  Mr.  Johnson,  a 
school  teacher,  with  no  thought  except  to  be  kind,  asked  Justice  Hull 
if  he  should  get  the  desired  article.  Hull,  whether  thinking  of  the 
question  or  not,  nodded  assent;  at  least,  so  thought  the  questioner, 
and  he  poured  a  small  amount  into  a  glass.  This  was  used  for  the 
purpose  mentioned,  after  which  the  patient  laid  down  a  ten-cent 
script  in  payment,  and  Johnson  put  it  into  the  money-drawer.  The 
saloon-keeper  who  had  been  fined,  saw  the  whole  proceedings,  and  he 
immediately  had  the  teacher  arrested  for  selling  liquor.  Johnson 
called  on  Hull  to  witness  his  innocence  ;  but,  Hull  disclaiming  any 
knowledge  of  the  affair,  the  former  was  fined  ten  dollars  and  costs  for 
violating  the  liquor  law.  He  will  probably  harden  his  heart  in  future 
when  suffering  humanity  wants  whisky,  especially  if  he  is  in  a  town 
where  no  licenses  are  granted. 

SETTLERS  OF  MENOMONIE  AND  DUNN  COUNTY. 

In  a  work  like  this,  it  is  impossible  to  give  an  complete  list  of  the 
settlers  of  the  county,  or  even  of  the  village  of  Menomonie.  Only  a 
few  of  the  older  and  more  prominent  ones  will  be  noticed  in  this 
article,  and  to  each  of  these  but  a  short  space  can  be  devoted,  on  ac- 
count of  lack  of  room. 

Jo.  Benson,  an  old  man  in  the  employment  of  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co., 
has  lived  in  Menomonie  over  forty  years.  He  is  the  man  who  claims 
to  have  been  in  the  expedition,  said  to  have  been  under  command  of 
Jeff.  Davis,  that  visited  this  county  at  an  early  day. 

Perry  Curtis  opened  a  farm  in  Dunn  county,  in  1846.  It  is  situ- 
ated near  Eau  Galla  mill,  and  is  owned  in  part  by  Carson  &  Eaton. 
Another  farm  was  owned  by  Frank  Ames  and  sons  in  1847.  They 
were  among  the  first  farmers  in  the  county. 

Mud  Creek  Valley,  east  of  Menomonie,  had  B.  Fowler  for  its  first 
settler.  This  was  in  1852.  The  Massey  settlement  commenced  by 
the  advent  of  H.  II.  Steves  in  1856. 

Captain  Moore  laid  out  a  farm  of  twenty-two  hundred  acres,  about 
twelve  miles  up  the  Red  Cedar,  which  he  sold  to  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
in  1865. 


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Sherburne  Prairie,    ;i  little   northeast  ol  Mcnoi ti  ■.  was    laid   out 

into  farms  by  Sherburne  &  Harrington. 

I>.  B.  Downs,  now  of  Eau  Claire,  settled  here  soon  afterthe  arrival 
of  the  Bullards. 

Levi  Vance,  an  Indian  trader,  now  dead,  visited  this  part  of  the 
country  forty-seven  years  ago,  and  made  his  home  here  until  called 
to  another.  He  built  the  first  hotel  in  Menomonie  proper  which  he 
named  the  Vance  House.  This  house,  now  called  the  Union  House, 
is  kept  by  his  8on-in-law,  Peter  Perrault  at  th<  present  time. 

John  Rogler,  tinner,  began  working  for  the  company  in  \<-,'i-.  At 
the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  entered  the  army,  and  when  the 
nation  was  again  blessed  with  peace,  he  took  up  bis  tools  a  second 
time  at  the  old  pla 

Simon  Mar  iral   foreman  of  outside    matters,    for    Knapp, 

Stout  &  Co.,  came  to  work  for  said  company  in  L854.  He  was  the 
first  Boldier  to  enlist  in  Chippewa  Valley,  for  the  war  of  the  rebellion 
and  one  of  three  who  would  not  wait  for  a  company  to  b  i  raised  be- 
fore  reporting  himself  ready  for  action,     li  rolled  at  Madison, 

as  orderly  sergeant  of   Company  P>.  of  the  Sixth  Infantry,  and 
wounded  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.     In  1864,  he  was  elected  sher- 
iff of  l>unn  county. 

William  Warren,  blacksmith,  has  worked  for  Knapp,  Si  >ut   &    ' 
the  entire  thirteen  years  of  his  residence  in  Menomonie. 

A.  J.  Depewhas  lived  in  Dunn  county  since  1855.  He  is  a  mill- 
wright, and  has  been  in  the  employ  of  the  company  for  over  eleven 
years. 

About  the  year  L857,  William  McKahan  arrived  in  Menomonie 
with  his  family,  consisting  <>f  himself,  wife,  three  sons  and  four 
daught  ■!■-,     For  a  nu  .  McKahan  iloyed  by 

Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.,  as  head  clerk  in  their  store;  it  was  through  the 
influence  of  Mr.  John  11.  Knapp  that  they  left  their  many  friend-  in 
Washington,  Pennsylvania,  and  came  to  this  place.  While  still  em- 
ployed  by  the  Company,  he  purchased  a  tract  of  land  six    miles  from 

omonie,  and  afterward-  improved  it,  and  made  it  his  home  fi  t 
year.     But  finding  the  work  too  laborious  for  a  man  of  his  advanced 
year-,  he  left  the  farm  came  hack  to  the   village,   and   purchased    a 
house,  in  which  he  resided  at  the  time  of  his  death.      After   leaving 
the  farm  he  ownel  a  livery  stable,  ami  for  two  is    proprietor 

of  the  Menomonie  House.      The  d  '  which  he  died  was  paral- 

ysis. He  was  confined  to  his  room  for  two  years  previous  to  his 
death,  which  occurred  October   l"th,    lsT_'. 


294  American  Sketch  Booh. 

His  estimable  wife  survived  him  but  a  few  weeks-  She  died  of 
apoplexy,  November  27th.  1872,  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  where 
she  had  gone  to  spend  the  winter  with  her  daughters,  Mrs.  Downs  and 
Mrs,  Newsom.  Of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McKahan's  children,  their  three 
sons  are  living  in  the  village.  James  B.  is  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business,  and  Samuel  D.  has  been  postmaster  for  the  last  four  years, 
filling  that  office  creditably  to  himself,  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
people.  The  four  daughters,  Mrs.  Downs,  Mrs.  Newson,  Mrs.  Keith 
and  Miss  Sarah  E.  McKahan  are  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota.  J.  B. 
McKahan  was  the  first  merchant  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  and 
next  to  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.,  in  order  of  time,  in  the  town.  He 
opened  up  in  1860,  with  a  cash  capital  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven 
dollars,  and  a  stock  of  one  hundred  and  seventy -five  dollars,  owing 
on  his  first  invoice  eighteen  dollars.  His  store  was  the  first  in  the 
village  proper,  and  the  builders  of  this  and  several  of  the  buildings 
which  soon  after  followed,  had  to  clear  away  the  brush  before  laying 
the  foundations.  J.  B.  McKahan  carries  a  large  stock  of  general 
merchandise,  and  is  accounted  one  of  the  rich  men  of  the  village, 
although  he  was  often  taunted  in  the  commencement  by  towns-people, 
who  offered  him  ten  dollars  for  his  stock. 

Dr.  W.  A.  Burry,  a  noted  optician,  has  had  eighteen  years   experi- 
ence in  Dunn  County.     His  residence  is  at  Cedar  Falls. 

In  1858,  G.  M.  Fowler,  millwright  and  surveyor,  visited  Men- 
omonie  for  the  purpose  of  looking  up  a  new  location.  While  passing 
through  the  six-mile  woods  between  this  place  and  Lake  Pepin  on  his 
way  hither,  he  met  a  party  of  Sioux  warriors,  adorned  with  the 
scalps  and  trophies  of  a  victory  after  a  recent  battle  with  the  Chip- 
pewas.  The  sight  was  more  curious  than  pleasant  to  a  man  who  had 
known  nothing  of  pioneer  life.  But  he  was  pleased  with  the  country 
and  decided  to  settle  in  it,  which  he  did  during  the  next  year.  Mr. 
Fowler  served  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  three  years,  commencing  in 
1802,  and  was  elected  county  surveyor  in  18G7,  which  position  he 
filled  for  two  years.  Mrs.  G.  M.  Fowler  opened  the  first  millinery 
store  and  the  second  store  of  any  kind  started  in  Menomonie  proper, 
in  the  year  1802  in  her  own  house.  She  is  now  doing  buiness  on 
Thirty-fourth  street,  and  has  on  hand  one  of  the  largest  and  finest 
assortments  of  goods  to  be  found  in  Chippewa  Valley.  She  is  also 
agent  for  the  Victor  sewing  machine,  and  her  sales  in  this  branch  of 
business  alone  have  amounted  to  over  $5,000  in  two  years  time.  The 
Fowlers  have  added  to  the  growth  of  Menomonie  by    the  erection   of 


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three  store  building,  a  photograph  gallery,  and  a  fine  private  residence. 
The  private  residence,  they  gave  up  to  the  county  officers,  upon  the 
removal  of  the  county  seat  from  Dunnville  to  this  place.  It  was 
occupied  by  them  three  years,  and  until  county  buildings  could  be 
i.  William  Fowler,  the  only  surviving  son  of  this  enterprising 
family,  is  an  accomplished  musician,  and,  though  only  seventeen 
years  old,  is  a  thorough  and  successful  teacher  of  the  piano  forte.  He 
is  also  agent  for  the  New  England  organ. 

X.  C.  Eytcheson  began  logging  for  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.,  twenty- 
live  years  ago,  in  company  with  the  man  Wickham,  who  was  murdered 
by  the  Indians.  Later,  he  bought  a  large  farm,  which  he  was  unfor- 
tunate enough  to  lose  in  some  kind  of  a  speculation.  He  was  the 
builder  of  the  Menomonie  House,  which  he  run  for  sixteen  months, 
and  then  sold  to  the  Company.  He  is  now  a  dealer  in  boots  and 
.-hoes  and  groceriers.  (In  the  same  store,  the  writer  found  an  old 
woman  who  evidently  deals  largely  in  tongue;  but  judging  from  ap- 
pears would  not  Like  to  recommend  the  article.) 

Jacob  Miller,  painter  and  artist,  has  been  in  Menomonie  since  L856. 

Dr.  E.  G.  Benjamin  the  first  resident  practitioner   was    among   the 
first  builders-up  of  the  village  proper,  was  owner  and  editor   of  the 
'*  Dunn  County  News  "   about  two  years:    was   appointed   and  after- 
wards elected  Countv  Judge,  and  filled  other  smaller  offices. 

Samuel  W.  Hunt,  attorney  at    law,  located  in    Menomonie    in    the 
month  of  March,  L866.    He  was  District  Attorney  in  1867  and  l£ 
and  member  of  the  Assembly  in  1868.       He   was    also   at   one    time 
editor  of  the  "  Dunn  County  New.-.*'       lie  is  -till  in  Menomonie,   en- 
g  iged  in  the  practice  of  law. 

S  B.  French  cam:?  to  Dunn  County  in  November,  L853,  and  for 
fourteen  years  following  that  time,  was  book-keeper  for  Knapp,  Stout 
&  Co.  Of  late  years,  he  has  !H-en  engaged  in  banking,  real  e 
and  merchandise.  'His  3tore  on  Thirty  fourth  street  offers  one  of  the 
best  assortment  of  goods  to  be  found  in  Chippewa  Valley.  His  wife 
was  Virginia  Bullard,  daughter  of  linen/,.)  Bullard,  one  of  the  first 
Bettlera  of  Menomonie. 

Theodo  millwright  and    machinist,  has  worked  seventi 

years  for  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co 

\V.  M.  Dunn,  filer  in  the  Company's  mill,  became  a  resident  of  the 
county  in  1  s-~.  I 

M.  Halfhide  has  worked  thirteen  year-  for  the  Compan 

B.  S.  Thome,  wagon  maker,  claims  seventeen  years  residence  in  this 
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296  American  Sketch  Boole. 

part  of  the  country,  ten  years  of  which  he  has  been  in   the  employ  of 
the  Company. 

Frederick  Bonnell,  now  largely  engaged  in  photography,  came  to 
this  village  in  1869,  from  Eau  Claire.  After  putting  up  a  gallery 
and  finding  it  too  small  for  the  amount  of  work  he  had  to  do,  he 
erected  a  building,  two  stories  in  height,  on  Thirty-fourth  street.  The 
whole  of  this  large  building  is  occupied  as  a  gallery.  The  engraving 
in  this  book  is  from  a  photograph  taken  by  him. 

George  Tonnar,  a  German-American,  emigrated  from  Dubuque  in 
1869,  and  settled  here.  He  started  in  the  drug  business  in  November, 
1871,  on  Thirty-fourth  street,  and  he  still  reports  trade  in  his  line  as 
brisk.  He  was  elected  in  1874  as  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools, 
and  resigned  on  account  of  business  pressure.  He  is  now  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace,  and  between  the  men  who  will  not  obey  the  liquor  law 
and  the  women  who  declare  the  law  shall  be  obeyed,  he  has  found 
his  duties  rather  irksome. 

J.  B.  Sprague,  proprietor  of  the  Stage  Line  from  Menomonie  to 
Rice  Lake,  located  at  Menomonie  in  1856. 

H.  S.  Hull  became  a  resident  of  Menomonie  in  1805.  He  went 
into  business  as  a  druggist  with  Dr.  Pease,  in  a  building  now  occu- 
pied by  Hunt  &  Freeman,  lawyers.  At  the  end  of  the  year  he  bought 
out  the  doctor's  interest.  He  is  still  in  the  business  on  Thirty-fourth 
street. 

E.  J.  Newsom,  assistant  postmaster,  has  had  but  eighteen  months 
residence  in  Menomonie.  He  is  now  establishing  a  "  Badger  State 
Publishing  Agency,"  which  promises  to  be  a  complete  success. 

Frank  E.  Pease,  architect  and  builder,  became  a  resident  of  Men- 
omonie in  1861,  and  erected  a  drug  store,  which  was  the  fourth  build- 
ing in  the  village  proper.  Dr.  W.  C.  Pease  had  his  office,  there. 
Frank  enlisted  in  1863.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  went  to  Michi- 
gan. In  1873,  he  returned  to  Menomonie,  bringing  his  family  with 
him.     He  has  the  contract  to  build  the  Episcopal  church. 

John  Noulan,  lumberman,  has  been  in  Menomonie  since  November* 
1854. 

Dr.  J.  M.  G  cites  located  in  Menomonie  in  1870.  lie  reports  a  very 
chequered  life.  He  married  young,  and  was  obliged  to  pursue  his 
studies  after  he  had  a  family.  He  graduated  at  Jefferson  Medical 
College,  only  a  short  time  previous  to  his  coming  to  Menomonie  ; 
though  he  had  treated  chronic  diseases  for  over  fifteen  years  by  med- 
icine and  magnetism  combined.     He  is  now  writing  a  book,  which  he 


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entitles    "Physioboethic  Practice."      lie  claims  that  a  physii  ian  can 

simply  assist  nature  by  medicines — that  drugs  act  eithe  ally, 

physiologically,  alopathically,  or  bomeopathically,  and  gives  an  illus- 
tration of  the  action  of  each.  He  also  endeavors  to  Bhow  why  small 
quantities  of  medicine,  under  certain  conditions,  produce  marked  and 
immediate  results.  The  new  theory  is  claimed  to  be  based  on  the 
experiments  made  upon  the  nervous  system  by  Brown,  Dubois,  Ray- 
mond and  others.  He  aims  to  have  the  hook  gotten  up  in  a  manner 
that  all  may  understand.  It  will  quite  likely  inert  with  attention 
from  all  schools  of  practice. 

F.  J.  McLean,  attorney  at  law,  began  practice  here  in  1868. 

r.  C.  Holmes,  dealer  in  furniture,  carpeting,  etc.,  took  up  his  resi- 
dence here  in  1860. 

II.  C.  Blenis,  contractor  and  builder,  settled  in  Menomonie  in  ls7  1 . 

l>r.  \Y.  F.  Nichols  began  practice  in  Menomonie  in  1869,  after 
having  spent  four  years  in  the  medical  department  of  the  army.  He 
is  erecting  a  building  for  the  accommodation  of  patients  requiring 
surgical  treatment,  his  rapidly  increasing  practice  having  made  Mich 
an  institution  necessary. 

Thomas  Condon,  grocer  on  Thirty-fourth  street,  did  not  begin 
business  here  until  lv74. 

William  Schultts  and  Albert  Quilling,  merchants  on  Main  street, 
came  to  this  place  in  1855.  They  were  poor  boys,  and  worked  as 
day  laborers  to  lay  the  foundation  of  a  prosperous   busil  They 

built  the  large  store  which  they  now  occupy. 

T.  A.  Goodman,  proprietor  Goodman's  wagon  and  carriage  -hop-. 
settled  here  in  1863. 

II.  C.  Bierce,  attorney  at  law.  dates  his  time  of  settlement  here 
from  1871. 

G.  Ordcman,  proprietor  of  Ordeman's  paint  shop  and  stove,  lo- 
cated on  Mud  Creek  eighteen  years  ago.     Three  years  after,  he  c 

to  Menomonie  and  engaged  in  his  present  busini 

J.  P.  Edwards  visited  Menomonie  in  1860.  Six  years  later  he 
me  a  permanent  settler  here,  and  started  :i  sash,  door  and  blind 
factory,  which  was  burned  in  L870  by  an  incendiary.  In  lv7J,  in 
company  with  his  son,  he  engaged  in  the  hardware  business.  The 
firm,  known  as  Edward.-  &  S  m.  has  two  large  Btoreson  Thirty-fourth 
street,  and  monopolizes  the  hardware  business  of  Menomonie  proper. 

•lames  Galloway  and  family  settled  her.'  in  1  85  |  He  worked  for 
Knapji,  Stout  &  Co.,  about  two  yen-,  then  began  farming  near  the 


298  American  Sketch  Book. 

village,  at  which  business  he  still  continues.  He  has  two  sons' 
George  and  William,  the  former  of  these  is  the  village  drayman  ;  the 
latter  is  studying  for  the  ministry. 

T.  S.  Heller  looked  in  on  the  Dunn  county  people  in  1857,  but  did 
not  become  a  permanent  settler  until  1860.  Previous  to  the  war,  he 
kept  the  Tainter  House  at  Dunnville,  for  a  season.  He  enlisted  sub- 
sequently, and  served  in  the  army  for  over  three  years.  Upon  his 
return,  he  became  landlord  of  the  Menomonie  House,  and  filled  that 
position  for  a  year.     He  is  now  engaged  in  the  insurance  business. 

Joseph  Brunk,  proprietor  of  Brunk's  Mills,  four  and  a  half  miles 
from  Menomonie,  has  been  a  resident  of  Dunn  county  for  over  eleven 
years. 

George  K.  Irvine,  for  whom  living's  Creek  was  named,  and  for- 
merly proprietor  of  Irvine's  Mills,  has  resided  here  for  over  twenty 
years. 

E.  F.  Larkham  came  to  Dunn  county  in  18(33.  He  is  now  Super- 
intendent of  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.'s  lumber  yard. 

A.  J.  Brunelle,  millwright,  located  at  Menomonie  in  1854,  and  has 
worked  for  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.,  ever  since. 

Carroll  Lucus  located  at  Mud  Creek,  in  August,  1854.  In  1855, 
he  brought  his  family  in  his  new  home.  Here  he  remained  on  a  farm 
until  1806,  when  the  people  of  Dunn  county  spoiled  a  good  farmer  in 
order  to  have  a  good  County  Treasurer.  This  latter  position  he  is 
still  holding.  He  has  also  served  four  years  as  County  Superinten- 
dent of  Schools. 

John  Kelly,  Jr.,  the  present  Register  of  Deeds,  came  to  Dunn 
county  in  1850.      His  regular  business  is  farming. 


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THE  CATHOLICS. 

THE  church  of  the  Emaculate  Conception  claims  to  be  the  first 
sectarian  religious  society  of  Menomonie.  The  church  build- 
ing was  commenced  April,  1861,  under  the  direction  of  Father 
Sheriden  ;   but  it  was  not   completed  until   1805.        The   funds   for 


Religious  Societies  of  Menomonie. 

building  purposes  were  raised  by  the  young  men  of  the  parish.      A 
parsonage  was  erected  iu  L874.     The  present  pastor  is  the  B 
Keller,  diocese  of  La  Cros-e.     The  present  trustees  are  Messrs.  John 
Noulan,  Peter  Lam  oer  and  Thomas  McKana.     The  parish  oow  num 
bers  about  five  hundred  persons,  and  is  in  a  thriving  condition. 

The  Catholics  here,  as  in  many  other  places,  are  interesting  them- 
selves in  the  temperauce  cause — not  to  make  a  compulsory  law,  but 
to   be  the  m  sans  of  influencing    people,   by  right  of  reason  and 

■'■r,  to  take  up  mi  the  temperance  side.  It  is  a  good  move,  for  the 
Catholics  have  the  power  to  do  more  in  putting  down  liquor  drinking, 
than  all  the  other  societies  combined,  if  they  go  rightly  to  work,  ami 
labor  with  a  will.  — *  * 

METHODISTS. 

The  -  iciety  of  the  M,  B.  < 'hurch  of  Menomonie,  was  organized  by 
Rev.  S.  Howies,  in  the  fall  of  1857.      The  rince  L857  t<>  the 

present  date,  has  been  under  the  guardianship  of  the  following 
Biding  Elders :  Rev.  S.  Bowles,  C.  Hobcrt,   M.  Sorin,  T.  C.  Golden, 
W.  c  ,bbin,  J.  B.  Raynolds  and   W.  S.  Wright.      The  following  min- 
bave      "ii  the  regularly  appointed  ;  astors  to  the    society   since 
rganization  to  the  present  date  :  Rev.  W.N.  Darnell,  J.  Gru 
.1.  I>  S.  Bavens  till  I860.     In  1861,  J.  15.  Raynolds  was  ap 

pointed  and  his  successors  in  office  were  D.  P.  Knapp,  W.  Woodley, 
W.  Haw,  T.  C.  G  »lden,  W.  W.  Bashell,  S.  0.  Brown,  G.  D.  Brown, 
Johu  Bell,  B.  S.  Havens  for  the  lecond  time;  and  at  the  close  of  four 
months  prosperous  labor,  Mr.  Havens  was  transferred  to  the  West 
Texas  conference,  and  Rev.  J.  McClanewas  appointed  at  Men  imonie. 

-  from  the  organization  of  thesoeiety,  its  members  numb 
fifty.      The  highest  number  of  members  the  society  ever  attained  was 
ninety.    It  ha- at  present  seventy-five  members.    In  L864,  the  soi 
organized  a  hoard  of  trustees ;  and  in  the  spring  of  1866  tin-  building 
of  the  Centenary  M.  B.  Church  of  Menomonie  was  commenced,  under 
the  direction  of  W.  Wilson,  A.  .1.  Messenger  and  W.  Haw,   building 
committee.     The  church  was  finished  and  dedicated  in  L867,  at  a 
of  live  thousand  dollars,  all  contril  ■  growth 

and  moral    influence   of    this   society   have   been  various  under    the 

ir  bad  management,  nut   always  popular,    y 
seeking  to  maintain   the  spirit    of  primitive    Christianity,    "pi  ice  on 
earth  and  g 1  will  to  man.'*    Under  the  preaching  of  its  faithful 

and  in  answer  to  the  prayers  of  it<  devoted  m  imbers,  the  altar  ol 

its  church  has  frequently  b  ■  lei  with  earnest  penitents.     Here 


300  American  Sketch  Booh. 

hundreds  have  been  blessed,  and  have  gone  out  from  this  society  to 
become  a  blessing  to  the  world. 

The  Sunday  school  of  this  society  numbers  eighty  members,  and  is 
under  the  management  of  Mr.  Joseph  Gates,  Superintendent,  and  his 
efficient  corps  of  teachers.  The  library  of  the  school  numbers  some 
three  hundred  volumes.  Seventy-six  members  of  the  school  have 
signed  and  agreed  to  keep  the  following  temperence  pledge  :  "  I  hereby 
promise  not  to  use  bad  words,  either  in  or  out  of  school;  not  to  chew 
or  smoke  tobacco,  and  not  to  drink  intoxicating  liquors  so  long  as  I 
am  a  member  of  this  school.  So  help  me  God,  and  keep  me  steadfast 
in  the  due  performance  of  the  same." — J.  mcclane. 

THE  CONGREGATIONAL  SOCIETY. 
Rev.  John  C.  Sherwin,  an  agent  of  the  A.  H.  M.  S.,  visited  Men- 
omonie  in  October,  1850,  and  endeavored  to  secure  a  missionary  who 
would  establish  a  Congregational  society  at  this  place.  His  success, 
however,  was  not  equal  to  his  wishes;  for  it  was  not  until  December, 
1861,  that  a  society  was  organized.  This  was  under  the  ministry  of 
Rev.  Philo  Canfield,  who  was  one  of  the  seven  members  that  formed 
the  organization.  In  April,  1863,  five  more  persons  united  with  the 
church.  A  month  later,  Rev.  Piiilo  Canfield  resigned  his  care  of  the 
church,  and  the  little  flock  remained  without  a  shepherd  until  the  fall 
of  1864,  at  which  time  Rev.  F.  M.  lams  received  a  commission  from 
the  A.  II.  M.  S.  to  preside  over  it.  Mr.  lams  preached  his  farewell 
sermon  to  his  church  in  November  of  the  next  year,  on  account  of 
his  having  embraced  the  Baptist  creed.  June  1st,  1868,  Rev.  John 
C-  Sherwin  took  the  pastorate.  The  members  at  the  commencement 
of  his  labors,  numbered  only  fifteen.  Services  at  this  time  were  held 
in  a  small,  unfinished  building,  now  used  as  a  private  residence.  At 
the  approach  of  winter,  the  Menomonie  House  Hall  was  secured  for 
this  purpose,  and  continued  to  be  used  by  the  society  until  the  erec- 
tion of  the  Congregational  church,  in  1870.  This  building  cost  nearly 
nine  thousand  dollars,  and  J.  II.  Knapp,  Esq.  was  the  prime  mover 
in  its  erection.  It  was  dedicated  October  21st,  1870.  The  member- 
ship of  the  church  now  numbers  eighty  persons. — v. 

GRACE  CHURCH  MISSION. 

Episcopal  service  was  first  held  in  Menomonie  in  the  summer  of 

1870,  by  Rev.  R.  F.  Page  of  Eau  Claire;  and  occasional  service  was 

held  from  that  time  until  1872,  when  a  mission  was  organized  under 

direction    of  Bishop  Armitage.       In  October    of  the  same  year  the 


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ladies  Formed  a  society,  Mrs.  G.  II.  Barwise  being  president  ;  Mi 
B,  Bundy,  vice  president ;  Mrs.  F.  II.  Weber,  secrel  IMrs.  R. 

Macauley,  treasurer.  It  was  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  lots  on 
which  to  rivet  a  church  and  parsonage,  which  they  succeeded  in  doing 
in  March,  L873,  completing  their  payments  for  the  -nine  in  May, 
lv7l.  The  whole  sum  paid  for  the  lots  was  sis  hundred  dollars,  and 
was  raised  by  the  efforts  of  the  ladies.  A  church  that  will  cosl  three 
thousand  dollars  is  no^i  in  process  of  erection.  —  B. 

FIRST  BAPTIST  CHURCH  . 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Pittman,  who  taught  the  Erst  day  Bchool  in  Menom- 
onie, and  preached  on  the  Sabbath,  was  a  Baptist.  In  1861,  R  .. 
Amasa  Gale,  at  that  time  the  Baptist  State  Missionary,  agent  for 
Minnesota  and  a  portion  of  Wisconsin,  held  a  protracted  meeting  in 
Menomonie,  resulting,  by  the  blessing  of  God,  in  the  conversion  of 
Beveral  persons,  Mrs.  Captain  Wilson  and  others.  It  may  be  of 
interesl  to  add,  that  Mr.  Gale,  having  prosecuted  with  great  sue 
his  work  in  Minnesota  for  sixteen  years,  in  making  the  tour  of  Pales- 
tine, died  in  Joppa,  November,  25th,  1S7I.  Three  weeks  previous  to 
Ins  death,  he  preached  a  Bermon  and  immersed  one  of  his  traveling 
companions  in  the  Jordan,  at  the  place  wher  was  baptized.    A 

vcar  subsequent  to  the  above  named   protracted   meeting,    the    Rev. 
Morgan    Edwards,  of  Fort  Madison,  [owa,  held  a  Beries  of  meetings 
in  Menomonie,    resulting  under  God,   in  the  conversion  of  a  goodly 
number,  who,  together  with  some   who  were  converted  in  the  former 
meeting,  were  immersed  by  Mr.  Edwards,      The   Menomonie    First 
Baptist  Church,  was   organized   December  1.8th,  L864.       But   little, 
however,  was  done  by  way  of  sustaining  public  Bervices,    till  October 
I,  when  the  pastorate  of  W.  W.  Ames,  the   present  encumbent, 
commenced.      At  an  early  date,  an  article  was  incorporated  into 
church  covenant,  disfellowshipping  all  aecret  organizations,  believing 
the  principle  of  Bworn  secrecy  to  be  incompatible  with  Sis  gospel  who 
said:  "  Ye  are  the  light  of  the  world;  a  city  set  upon  a  hill  cannot  be 
bid.      Neither  do  men  light  a  oandle  and  put  it  under  a  bushel,  but 
on  a  candlestick,  that  it  may  give  light  to  all  that  are  in  the  hou 
Another   article   was   incorporated,   discountenancing   the   manufae 
ture,  .-ale  and   us,-  of  intoxioating  drinks,  and  pledging  the  churoh 
to  the  use  of  unfermented  wine  only,  at  the  communion.     The  pastor 
preached  every  other  Sabbath  for  two  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time 
u  neat  and  convenient  chape!  was  d  for  the  use  of  the  churoh 


302  American  Sketch  Book. 

in  that  place.  At  the  same  time,  the  pastor  and  his  wife  organized  a 
Mission  Bible  School  at  Sherburne  Prairie,  rive  miles  from  Menomo- 
nie,  August,  1867,  which  was  superintended  Mrs.  Ames  until  the 
spring  of  1871.  Since  that  time,  the  school  has  been  classified  and 
carried  on  mostly  by  members  of  the  Menomonie  church,  who,  during 
the  year  1870,  built  a  beautiful  chapel  for  the  school  and  preaching 
services  connected  with  it ;  which  chapel  makes  a  pleasant,  attractive 
Sabbath  home  for  the  church-going  people  of  the  Prairie,  and  the 
means  of  healthful  activity  to  members  of  the  Menomonie  church.  It 
should  be  said  that  some  of  the  Prairie  people,  and  others,  contributed 
towards  the  chapel,  and  that,  financially,  the  school  is  self-sustaining. 
The  Menomonie  First  Baptist  Church  organized  its  home  school  at 
Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.'s  hall,  January,  1869.  Capt.  William  Wilson 
was  appointed  Superintendent,  and  has  served  until  the  present  time. 
Some  twelve  hundred  persons  have  belonged  to  the  school,  a  large 
percentage  of  whom  were  children  of  foreigners.  Many  of  this 
number  are  now  scattered  over  this  state,  and  other  states  and  terri- 
tories, carrying  with  them  the  knowledge  of  bible  truths,  ';  which  are 
able  to  make  them  wise  unto  salvation,"  and  cause  uthe  desert  to 
bud  and  blossom  as  the  rose." 

Capt-  Wilson,  converted  under  the  pleadings  of  Mr.  Edwards,  and 
with  his  wife  and  others  immersed  by  him,  sought  and  found  admission 
to  the  church  as  early  as  January,  1803.  Believing  that  God  put  it 
in  his  heart  to  do  so,  he  built  and  furnished,  at  his  own  expense,  the 
beautiful  house  of  worship  now  occupied  by  the  church  and  school, 
and  which  was  dedicated  March  12th,  1871.  Rev.  J.  W.  Fish,  Baptist 
State  Missionary  Agent  for  Wisconsin,  preached  the  dedication  ser- 
mon, and  continued  to  preach  and  assist  the  pastor  in  a  series  of 
meetings  for  two  weeks,  resulting  in  the  addition  of  considerable  num- 

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hers  to  the  church.  About  a  year  afterwards,  he  labored  in  another 
protracted  meeting,  with  marked  results.  Thus  the  new  house  dedi- 
cated to  God  was  immediately  filled  with  tokens  of  the  divine  presence 
and  power-  Rev.  C.  H.  Colver  served  as  pastor  one  year,  ending 
March,  1874.  The  church  and  school  have  put  in  circulation  a  vast 
amount  of  Christian  literature,  which  has  been  scattered  abroad  to* 
bless  many  who  otherwise  would  have  been  almost  without  religious 
reading.  The  church  has  passed  through  seasons  of  great  apparent 
prosperity,  and  also  of  severe  trial  ;  but  can  say  "  hitherto  hath  the 
Lord  helped  us,"  and  are  resolved,  by  His  aid,  to  defend  and  propa- 
gate "  the  faith  once  delivered  to  the  saints." — w.  \v.  ames. 


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OLIVET  BAPTIST  CHURCH. 

A  division  having  occurred  in  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Menom- 
onie,  the  Olivet  Baptist  Church  was  organized  May  L2th,  1874, 
was  composed  entirely  of  persons  who  had  been  members  of  the  I 
Baptist  Church.  h  is  Calvenistic,  having  adopted  the  old  New 
Sampshire  confession  of  faith,  aa  found  in  J.  Newton  Brown's  Ency- 
clopedia of  Religious  Knowledge.  May  27th,  L874,  it  was  in  due 
form  unanimously   recognized  as  r   Baptist  Church,  by    an 

Ecclesiastical  Council,  called  for  that  pu  ,  of  which  council    R  iv. 

T.  E.  Keeley  of  Hudson,  was  Moderator,  and  Rev.  C.  K.  Colver, 
Clerk.  At  the  ensuiug  meeting  of  the  St.  Croix  Valley  Baptist  As- 
sociation in  Hudson,  June  3d  and  tth,  1  s7  I,  the  Olivet  Church  became 
a  member  of  that  body.  It  maintains  regular  public  worship,  and  :i 
Bible  School  in  Olivet  II  til,  a  pla  ■••  specially  fitted  up  for  these  pur- 
ine Church  is  now  under  the  pastoral  care  of  Rev-  C.  K. 
Colver.  The  Superintendent  of  the  Bible  School  is  S.  (1-  Dean. 
The   Trustees  are  N.   Burnham,  J.  T.  Long  and  L.  L.  Larkham. — c. 


klliipp,      StOUl      &      CoiUl'cMiV. 

Tin' linn    which  bears    the  name  of  K         .   Stout  &  Co.   deserves 
moro  than    a  passing  ootice  ;  and  though  it  necessarily  figures  largely 
in  the  history  of  Menomonie  and  Dunn  county  as  already  given,  this 
.work  would  be  incomplete  without  a  d  u  of  the  great   manu- 

facturing institution  which  it  represents.     Those  of  our  readers  who 
have  followed  the  history  through,  will  remember  how  two  young  men 

who  p  i ed  little  "f  this  world's  goods,  but   who  had  hands  willing 

to  labor,  poled  the  kee  e  them  to  their  new  home  in  the 

•   wilderness;  but  the  reader  will  not  fully  understand  what  a 

work  this  new  firm  has  accomplished,  or  what  a  mammoth  institution 

i  t  is,  until  he  iii-  gone  with  us  through  the  establishments  and  branch 

iblishments  which  the  company  own,  and  Bees  the  hundreds  i 
that  are  employed  and  the  work  that  is  done. 


304  American  Shetch  Booh 

The  present  firm  of  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.  comprises  six  members, 
four  of  whom  reside  in  Menomonie.  These  are  John  H.  Knapp  Esq. 
Capt.  William  Wilson,  Capt.  Andrew  Tainter,  and  T.  B.  Wilson,  Esq. 
who  is  a  son  of  Capt.  William  Wilson.  The  other  two  members  are 
II.  L.  Stout,  Esq.  wlio  is  in  charge  of  the  branch  office  at  Dubuque, 
and  J.  H.  Douglass,  Esq.  who  superintends  the  branch  office  at  St. 
Louis 

Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.  have  in  Menomonie  a  large  water  power  saw 
mill  capable  of  sawing  three  hundred  thousand  feet  of  lumber  every 
twelve  hours  during  the  season  for  manufacturing  lumber,  say 
from  April  1st  to  Dec.  1st.  They  have  also  a  large  steam  saw  mill, 
built  especially  for  sawing  long  timber,  and  one  of  the  largest  and 
best  flouring  mills  in  the  State,  run  also  by  water  power.  In  connec- 
tion with  these  Mills,  they  own  and  operate  a  foundry,  machine  shop, 
blacksmith  and  wagon  shops.  They  make  their  own  barrels  for  their 
flour  mill  and  pork  barrels  for  their  pork  house.  They  have  an  ex- 
tensive harness  shop  for  making  and  repairing  their  own  harness  used 
by  the  numerous  teams  employed  in  so  large  a  business.  They  carry 
the  most  varied  and  extensive  stock  of  merchandise  to  be  found  in  the 
state  outside  of  Milwankee.  Their  shingle  and  planing  mill  in  Me- 
nomonie is  situated  at  the  mouth  of  Wilson  Creek,  which  empties  into 
the  main  river  about  forty  yards  above  their  large  water  power  saw 
mill. 

The  lake  or  pond,  made  by  the  dam  across  the  main  Red  Cedar 
river  at  this  point,  is  one  and  a  half  miles  long  by  about  from  three 
quarters  of  a  mile  to  one  mile  in  width;  and  gives  easy  boomage  for 
two  hundred  and  fifty  million  feet  of  lumber  in  the  logs. 

At  Rice  Lake,  in  Barron  County,  sixty  miles  north  of  Menomonie, 
they  have  a  saw-mill  and  a  grist  mill,  both  run  by  water  power,  also  a 
store,  a  hotel  and  a  large  farm.  At  Prairie  Farm,  also  in  Barron 
county,  they  have  a  water  power  saw-mill,  a  grist  mill,  a  large  storer 
and  a  farm  of  nine  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  all  under  cultivation. — 
The  above  are  both  growing,  active  new  villages,  offering  good  open- 
ings for  enterprising  persons. 

At  Downsville,  eight  miles  below  Menomonie  on  the  Red  Cedar 
river,  this  Company  has  also  a  large  water  powrer  saw  mill  and  fine 
facilities  for  holding  logs.  In  connection  with  the  mills  are  the 
necessary  shops,  a  large  store  of  varied  merchandise,  and  half  a  mile 
from  the  village  of  Downsville,    a  large  and  well  regulated  farm. 

They  have  branch  establishments  not    only  at    the  points    already 


■  II in  O'Shavgm  ssey's  Confession. 

named,  but  also  at  Dunnville  in    the    same    county:    at    Waubeek   in 
Pepin  county;  at  Read's  Landing,  Minnesota  and  at    Dubuque,   I 
where  they  have  a  large  lumber  yard  and  a   saw  mill.     At  St.  Louis 
Mo.,  they  have  also  a   large  lumber  yard,  which  wholesales  lumber  to 
Missouri,  Kansas,  Nebraska  and  ether  states  and  territories. 

At  their  various  sawmills,  during  the  year  1874,  they    sawed    sev- 
enty  million  feet  of  logsfinto  lumber  and  Bhingles. 

Knapp,  Stout  &  Company  employ  in  their  lumbering  operati 
from  twelve  hundred  to  fifteen  hundred  men.  They  are  said  to  be 
the  largest  manufacturers  of  lumber  in  the  world,  and  the  lai 
farmers  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin.  One  of  their  farms,  known  as  the 
Moore  Farm,  contains  about  two  thousand  acres,  nearly  all  under 
cultivation.  They  are  extensive  land  owners,  both  of  improved  and 
unimproved  lands,  situated  in  Dunn  and  Barron  counties,  much  of 
which  is  for  sale.  Parties  in  search  of  new  homes  in  the  beautiful, 
healthgiving  state  of  Wisconsin,  or  those  in  the  state  who  are  not 
pleasantly  located  and  desire  a  change,  would  do  well  to  see  or  write 
to  this  firm  before  purchasing  elsewhere,  as  the  company  offer  some 
very  desirable  farms,  both  improved  and  unimproved,  at  very  reason- 
able rates.  Unlike  some  representative  of  wealth,  the  members  of 
this  company  are  always  courteous  and  accommodating  to  all,  and 
parties  who  might  desire  to  visit  them,  or  to  write  to  them  for  infor- 
mation concerning  the  sale  of  lands,  may  be  Bure  of  a  pleasant  re- 
ception, and  prompt  replies. 


I  nil  O'SIkmi^iicsscv's    Coi|lcssioi|. 


Arrah  !    is  it  in  ravin'  about  ye, 

Whin  me  eyes  >hud  be  fastened  in  Blape, 
That  I  am  to  convince,  widout  doubt,  ye 

That  me  love,  like  the  oshun,  i-  dape  '•' 
Must  me  lips  be  etarnally  chantin' 

The  charms  1  belave  ye  \ 
0,  begorra,  iflovin'  is  rantin, 

I  am  short  of  a  crop,  I  confe 


!!()(! 


.  I  ///( /■/>•,( ii  SwtoJi  Uooh, 

\  i  i  .ili  '     i      il    .1      iMi  ill    :i    loVOl  , 
Lllipil  i. ill  \    I  ni'lri    .in. I  :i  1 1  <  I    1 1  ur, 

'To  iin  iloppin  one's  agouio *  ovoi 

i n  i in-  w  i  v  i ii.ii  Bono  blundoi  h oiid h  ilo  ? 
im H  iiii  lie  ill  on  1 1"1  oold  -ii  i ii  a  w .i irinii' 

The  sthai i,  w  Id  hli  eyes  lool<  In'  sad, 
Till  n  id  mi  ii  i  .>iii  perhaps  hr  ii  ofttohln 

I  confess  fchftl  >  will  not,  be  dad  ' 
\\  inn  love  i  led  upon  son  ers,  bo  ,-i  uol, 

The  w ai  mhest  ftffool iom  si bii'o  I 

I  low  k in  one  mi  i  w  atei  soaked  fuel 

[lope  to  kapo  up  in  iiii  "mm  ii  ii- 
Though  Yin  '■  vii  i ilea  (ii  <■  man  v  and  glow  In  , 

A.i  i he  numerous  >!i hai i  <>r  i he  sk  \  . 
\ 1 1 '  i iir  iii\  1 1  it  in i  use  oi  showin1 

Them  i"  one  r  ho1 1  jlst  i  eadj  to  die ' 
II on  1th  i    love's  hand  maid,  sure  to  mo  notion 

A  ml    nun  .in;  ir:il    fudgO    I  ho    PI  ITO  i  ni'r 

01  i    ink i n'  dove's  oooin'  <i<\ q! Ion, 

Wlio  Km  nayther  fight,  fiddle  nor  danoe  ! 
Huh  '  ni  lover  made  up  of  disases, 

Pains,  "i  ips  and  a  de  il  oi  s  oough  ' 
\ii'  ii  .iiirii  be  i he  foliar  < hat  pluses, 

I  'il  oonfoss « i  iiii  <  I'Shaugnossej  '•■  ofl 
Well  I  know,  whin  in  oourtship  embarkin  , 

Sn im-  oonsider  ii  wondei  ful  w  ise, 
Po  ...  I,  |  in  the  l'n.  in.-  is  ..i  spai  kin  . 

As  h  all  its  ooinfoi  ts  v\ ei o  signs  . 
Ami  ilicv  iiv  in  oon\  ni'-''  vi-  thai  <  *.»*»|»i*l 

The  blarnej  stone  lioks  just  foi  spooi  I 
I  oonfoss  now  suoh  pi  aol loos  stoopid 

I  ;  n.ii  ,i mi  <  I  Shaugnos  >-\  's  i">'i  e ' 
Some  "ill  sweai  yure  oomplexion  is  oloaror 

'I'll. in  ili.-  w athor  thai  i una  i> ow  n  spi ing 
Thai  \  ur<'  loasl  ii(  1 1«-  ii n"«'i  Is  dc  u  oi 

To  i hew  ili  in  i lie  baud  of  ■>  km". ' 
'I'h.ii  iln-ii  in:. i  thoughl  of  \  Q  iii  i he  mornin' 

\ ml  iln>  last  "ii>'  that  ">i  I"-  i  "  night, 
I ."..  thai  angels  no!  often  ai  o  boi  n  In 

This  »"i ill  i"  enrapture  the  sigh! 


I:  ii  m-      I  >  !  :i        n  in. 

■ 

I  'hi'- si  yt  i 

Tl. .. 
A  n 

■  i  theii  I  nipped, 

Would  wither  like  fr 

A  i. -I    tb<    '■•■'-'  I'l    '"'   M    'Ink    ;i  •    tin-  old    A  ■';,'[.! 
[ '  1 1  ( 

'I  o  !-'   bi  [  uiadi    mi   corifi     ion, 

l    i  ould  like  ji  i(  b<  foi  b  I  den 

1    ball  ibow  mi'  1 1  ,('  y hi .•  i 

If  t-,     |,:i !  «•  oul     v-n  <•  DOttl  h  !  i  v, 

.,    in   ;t   (]{ 

"  Jim  o 
And  I  ii  "i'ti rv  tbe  blubber     I  th 

','■>•  non 
I n  tin  •  v,-,i  I'l  tbei e'i  no  bappi 
i     ill  bunt  it  '''II  ''••'/  foi  noni 
Airl  pour  all  that  I g  tre  lap 

A nd  I    ■••ii i  now,  though 

B(  the  in  all  tii.it  bai 
Jim  '  I  fi'ly  oonfi 

■  nol  li'i   ■!'/  '.mi-  — 

THEOPHIM       llii'i     ii 


linsiiicss    Directory, 


he,  DU 


County  Officer  . 

ROBERT  MACA1  LEI    • 

ii      MICIIEL1   :    I 
'I  llnMA      .1    GEORGE         ■  i. II. 

II    a.  \\  [LCOX,  i  nd.  i  .  i..  i  ill. 
i:    '     UIERl  I.   D   ti    • 
i   UtROLL  LUC/      I    u 


308  American  Sketch  Book 

W.  H.  LANDON,  County  Cierk. 

JOHN  KELLEY,  Jr.,  Register  of  Deeds. 

THOMAS  PARKER,  County  Surveyor. 

GEORGE  SCHAFER,  County   School    Superintendent. 

J.  P.  WOOD,  Coroner. 


Town  Officers. 

A.  O.  BAILEY,  f 

OLEUS  OLSON,  {  Supervisors. 

FREDERICK  URSINUS.      [ 
THOMAS  S.  HELLER,  Town  Clerk. 
GEO.  GALLAWAY,  Town  Treasurer. 
ROBERT  MACAULEY,  Assessor. 

JACOB  JUNGCK,         ) 

AMUND  AMUNDSON,  V  Justices  of  the  Peace. 

AUG.  BALAND.  J 

E.  L.  DOOLITTLE,  ) 

JOHNNOULAN,        }  Constables. 

H.  D.  RANSIER,      j 

A.  H.  JOHNSON,  Scaler  of  Weights  and  Measures. 


S.  W.  Hunt. 
C-  E.  Freeman. 
Nils  Michelet. 


W.  C.  Pease. 
J.  M.  Gates. 


Professional  Men. 

ATTORNEYS. 
F.  J.  McLean, 
R.  C.  Bierce. 


PHYSICIANS 

Charles  C.  Wadsworth, 


E.  B.  Bundy. 
A.  J,  Messenger. 
Robert  Macauley. 

W.  F.  Nichols. 
W.  A.  Bury. 


Banks. 


S.  B.  French. 


A.  Amundson. 


Printing  Office. 

"Dunn  County  News."  Flint  &  Weber,  Editors  and  Proprietors. 


Menomonie  House- 
Union  House- 


Hotels. 

Merchants  Hotel.  Wisconsin  House, 

European  Hotel. 


Bust ne 88  Directory,  Menomonie^  Wisconsin.      309 

Union  High  School. 
.1.  B.  Tin;. er,  Principal. 
.!.,:  rart,  Assistant. 

Libbie  B.  Thayer,  Grammar  Department. 
Hattie  A.  Salisbury,  |  [ntermediate    Department, 
Lottie  8.   N\  alker,       i  ' 

Lizzie  Miller,  ") 

•1;"-\\',\  ■  I  Primary   Department. 

Jose]  li  II.1'  J 

Mrs.  S.  W.  Ritche,  J 


Churches. 

Congregational,  J.  C.  Sherwin,  Pastor. 
Methodist  Episcopal,  J.  McClane,  Pastor. 
First  Baptist,  W.  W.  Ann-,  Pastor. 
Second  Baptist,  C.  K.  Colver. 
Episcopal,  (vacant,  i 
Catholic,  George  Keller,  Pastor. 
Norwegian  Lutheran,  II.  Krog,    Pastor, 
indinavian  Lutheran,  G-  Iloyrae,  Pastor. 

GENERAL  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY. 
ANDERSON,  II.  A..  Mouldei  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
Ames,  W.,  Jr.,  Veterinery  Surgeon. 
Andress,  [ra,  Veterinery  Surgeon. 

BONELL,  FRED.,  Photographer,  and  dealer  in  Organs,  Pianos,  etc. 
Bunker,  C.  W.,  Carpenter  and  Joiner. 
Baird,  W.  B.,  Student  at  Law,  with  F.  J.  M  sL 
Blenis,  II.  C,  Contractor  and  Builder. 
Burch,  N.,  Clerk  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 

Barwise,  G.  II.,  In  charge  of  office  department  of  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
Brewer,  Geo.  B.,  General  Sup't  Company's  Clothing  Department. 
Brunelle,  A.  I..  Millwright  with  Company. 
15urk,  John  A.,  Machinist  with  C  tmpany. 
I lui k<-,  Louis,  Harness  Maker  with  Company. 
I  tray  ton,  ( >rville,  L  rad  Agent. 
Burton,  G.  1'..  Pattern  Maker  with  Company. 
Bull,  Mrs.  S.,  Millinery  and  l»rt'.--  Making. 
Bunker,  0.  A.,  Builder  and  Contractor. 


3K>  American  Sketch  Booh. 

Bailey,  A.  0.,  Dealer  in  Hides,  Furs,  Wool  and  Ginseng. 

Belair,  Adolph,  Painter  and  Glazier. 

Berger,  Anton,  Restaurant. 

Bush,  S.  R.,  Blacksmith. 

Bailey,  S.  J.,  Practical  Mason  and  Bricklayer. 

Bury,  Dr.  W.  A.,  Eye  and  Ear  Doctor. 

CONDON,  THOS.,  Grocer  ;  Thirty-fourth  street. 

Chickering,  F.  Jr.,  Agent  Perkins,  Newhall  &  Perkins  Woolens,  Mon- 

tello,  Wisconsin. 
Coleman,  W.  E.,  Cashier  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
Clark,  F.    M.  Telegraph  Operator. 
Conway  &  Andrus,  Milliners  and  Dressmakers. 
Cassidy,  H.  T.,  Clerk  with  S.  B.  French. 
Clark,  C.  A.,  Salesman  with  Company. 
Christenson,  Peter,  Miller  with  Knapp  Stout  &  Co. 
Cavanagh,  John,  Menomonie  Marble  Works. 
Carpenter,  J.,  Millwright,  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  C). 
Diedrich,  F.,  Harness  Maker. 
Depew,  A.  J.,  Millwright. 

Dean,  S.  G.,  Agent  for  the  Remington  Sewing  Machine. 
Downs,  W.  L.,  Lumberman. 
Dahl  &  Embretson,  European  Hotel. 
Desprois,  Joe,  Express  Messenger. 

Edwards  <fc  Son,  Dealers  in  Hardware,  Paints  %and  Oils. 
Edeberg,  John,  Miller  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
Egdahl,  0.  A.,  Foreman  Company's  Water  Mill. 
Eytcheson,  N.  C,  Boots,  Shoes  and  Groceries. 
Evenson,  Hans,  Moulder  with  Company. 
Ehrhard,  Adam,  Cooper. 
Ehrhard,  Jacob,  Cooper. 
Ehrhard,  Louis,  Cooper. 
Eastwood,  J.  R.,  Dealer  in  Pumps. 

FLINT,  R.  J.,  "  Dunn  County  News." 

FRENCH,  S.  B.,  Banker,  Merchant  and  Real  Estate  Agent,  34th  St. 

FOWLER,  MRS.  G.  M.,  Millinery  and  Furnishing  Goods,  34th  St. 

FOWLER,  G.  M.,  Millwright  and  Surveyor. 

FOWLER,  WILL,  Music  Teacher  and  agent  for  New  England  Organ. 

Fritzsche,  Paul,  Grain  Buyer. 

Flynn,  J.  C,  Clerk  Menomonie  House. 


Business  Directory ',  Menomonie:   Wisconsin.      311 

Fletcher,  Mise  Eva,  Book-keeper  for  \.  <>.  Bail 

Freeman )  "Dag,"  "Devil"  "News"  Office. 

Flood,  Win.,  Blacksmith. 

Fuss,  '  Ihris,  Brewer. 

Frissell,  J.  H.,  Assistant  Foreman  in  Comganj  r  Yard. 

(!( >ODMAN,  P.  A.,  c  irriage  and  Wago  i  M  iker. 

Gray,  Irving,  with  Knapp   Stout  &  Co. 

Grob,  otto.  Clerk. 

Gordon,  T.  E.,  Machinist  with  Company. 

Gallaway,  I  leorge,  I  drayman. 

BOLMES,  1'.  <'.,  Dealer  in  Furniture,  Carpeting,  etc. 

Hull,  1).  S.,  Druggist,  Thirty-fourth  stn 

Hunt,  Wescott,  Grocer,  Thirty-fourth  Bti 

Halfhide,  M.,  Wa^on  Maker  with  Company. 

Heller,  J.  A.,  Dentist. 

Hughes,  .1.  M.,  Brick  maker. 

Seller,  T.  S.,  Insurance  Agent. 

Hughes,  kt  w  is,  Farmer. 

1 1  udson,  W.  G.,  <  larpenter. 

Eildebrandt     Rev.  W.,  Past      i     .man  M.  E.  Church. 

Hart,  Charles  H.,  clerk  G  mnar's  Drug  Store. 

Jensen,  Peter,  Turner  with  Knapp,  Stout  a.  ('<>. 

Jensen,  Andrew,  Miller  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 

Johnson,  A.  11..  Grocer  and  Livery  Stable  Proprietor. 

.1.  Johnson  ,v  Co.,  Shoo  Shop  and  Boarding  House. 

k,  Charles,  Boot  and  Shoe  Maker. 
KNAPP,  JOHN  11..  of  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
KXAIT,  STOl  T  \  Co.,  Lumbermen,  Manufacturers  and  Mercl 
Knapp,  11.  E.,  Book-keeper  and  Surveyor. 
Kelley,  Frank,  &  Co.,  Brick  Makers. 
Kent,  William,  Farmer. 
Knoble,  John,  \\  isconsin  I  Inn-;,'. 
Kreiser,  Joseph,  Restaurant. 
Knutson,  <  Iharles,  Sa^i  Filer. 

LARK  HAM,  E.  F.,  Superintendent  Company's  Lumber  Yard. 
Lyman,  J.,  clerk  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  I 
Landon,  \\ .  1 1.,  (  lounty  <  Jlerk 
L.  Lamson  &  Co.,  Contractors  and  Builders. 
Lammer,  Peter,  Clothing  Store,  Main 
37 


312  American  Sketch  Booh. 

Larson,  E.,  Merchant. 
Lord,  C.  D.,  Depot  House. 
Lanimer,  Peter,  Merchant  Tailor. 
Lucus,  Herbert,  Salesman  with  Wescott  Hunt. 
McKAHAN,  S.  D.,  Postmaster. 

McKahan,  J.  B.,  Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealer  in  all    kinds   of   Mer- 
chandise. 
Marks,  E.,  Sup't  Mercantile  Department  Company's  Store, 
Markhara,  S.  F.,  Sup't  Grocery  Department  Company's  Store. 
McClafferty,  A.,  Sup't  Tailoring  Department  Company's  Store. 
Marugg,  Simon,  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
McMoran, Thomas,  Foreman  Company's  Harness  Shop. 
Miller,  Jacob,  Artist  and  Music  Teacher. 
Mott,  Mrs.  M.  L.  Librarian. 
Moss,  T.  F.,  Agent  Florence  Sewing  Machine- 
Miller,  C.  E.,  Baker  and  Confectioner. 
Manske,  Ed.,  Meat  Market. 
Martin,  G.  F.,  Painter. 
Martin,  J.  M.  Blacksmith. 
Martin,  B.  M.,  Planer. 

NEWSOM,  E.  J.,  Badger  State  Clubbing  Agency. 
Noble,  N.  B.,  Assistant  Sup't  Company's  Business  Office. 
Nott,  W.  W.,  Contractor  and  Builder. 
Nonnae,  A.,  Carpenter  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
Newsom,  A.  M.,  Clerk  in  Company's  Flouring  Mill. 
Noulan,  John,  Lumberman. 
Newsom  Brothers,  Apiary  and  Poultry  Yard. 
ORDEMAN,  G„  Paint  Shop  and  Store. 
Ohnstad,  0.,  Boot  and  Shoe  Store,  Thirty-fourth  street. 
Olson,  E.,  Billiard  Hall. 

Olson,  Oleus,  Contractor  and  Builder  Shash,  Doors  and  Blinds. 
Overby,  Christ,  Jeweler. 

Parker,  Thomas,  Chief  Surveyor  for  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co- 
Parker,  John,  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
Patterson,  Adam,  Machinist  with  Company. 
Piers,  Charles,  Time-keeper  for  Company. 
Pion,  Lewis,  Salesman  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 
Potter,  II-  R.,  Salesman  for  S.  B.  French. 
Prindle,  M.  D.,  Proprietor  Durand  and  Menomonie  Stage  Line. 


Business  Directory,  Menomonie,  Wisconsin. 

Pauly,  Chris,  Baker. 
Pollard,  W.  B.,  Lumberman. 
Pease,  P.  E.,  Carpenter  ami  Joiner. 

Peterson,  IIoMen,  Salesman  for  J.  15.   MeKahan. 

<,|uinn  &  Carmichael,  Blacksmith  and  Wagon  SI 

ROGERS,  S.  C.,4£up'tof  Company's  Boarding  [louse. 

Robbins,  J.  13.,  Boot  and  Shoe  Maker. 

R  »gler,  Joho,  Tinner  with  K na j>i«.  Stout  &  Co. 

Robinson,  W.  ('.,  Book-keeper. 

Roland,  J.  E.,  Machinist. 

Reed,  George,  Baker  with  C  impany. 

Romback,  Phillip,  Minnesota  II  >u 

Ransier,  II.  I>.,  Farmer. 

SPRAGUE,  J.  B.,  Proprietor  of  the  Stage  Line  from  Men  >mo  aie  to 

Rice  Lake. 
Schroeder,  Clark,  Blacksmith  with  Company. 
Stone,  T.  S.,  Hardware  Department  ofKnapp,  Stout  &  I 
Strieker,  F.  M..   Clothing  Department  of  Knapp,  Stout  &  C 
Solbergand  Amundson,  General  Merchandi 
Schutte  k  Quilling,  Dealers  in  General  Merchandise,  and  Proprii 

of  the  Banking  and  Steamship  Agency. 
Syverson,  A.,  Boots  and  Shoes. 
Sayles,  Herbert,  Barber,  Thirty-fourth  street. 
Sniveley,  J.  II.,  Dealer  in  Organs,  Sewing  and  Knitting  Machin 
Scanlon,  John,  Wood  Sawyer. 
Stendahl,  Erick,  Cook. 
Soper,  G.  C,  Foreman  for  Company. 
Sander,  George  II.,  Dry  Goods  Clerk. 
Swenomson,  A.,  Farmer. 
Sherburne,  A.  C,  Farmer. 
Schwehm,  Jacob,  Restaurant. 
Story,  D.  Restaurant. 
Sprague,  J.  P>.,  Mail  Contractor. 
Stephens,  John,  Blacksmith  and  Car  3h  »|--. 

Sherwin,  \V.  A.,  Foreman  "News"  Office. 
TAINTER,  CAPT.  ANDREW,  with  Knapp.  Stout  &  Co. 
TONNAR,  GEORGE,  Drugs,  Stationery  and  Books,  84th  bI 
Tainter,  J.  !>.,  City  Livery. 
Thorn,  B.  S..  Wagon  Maker. 


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Tuttle,  E.  S., 

Toft,  E.  A.  Watch  Maker  and  Jeweler. 

Thomas,  I.  J.,  Architect,  Master  Mechanic  and  Bridge  Builder. 

Thompson,  Geo.  P.,  Telegraph  Operator,  Depot. 

Voedisch,  C,  Furniture  Store. 

Voedisch,  Chris.,  Restaurant. 

WILSON,  CAPT.  WILLIAM,  of  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 

WILSON,  THOMAS  B.,  of  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 

WEBER,  E.  H.,  of  the  "  Dunn  County  News." 

Woods,  J.  J.,  Druggist  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 

Warren,  William,  Blacksmith. 

Waldron,  J.  E.,  Carpenter  and  Joiner. 

Wasserer,  Frank,  Eagle  House. 

Young,  W.  D.  Lumberman. 

Yeo,  William,  Miller  with  Knapp,  Stout  &  Co. 

Yeo,  William,  Jr.  Foreman  Company's  Flouring  Mill. 


"  Sow  ¥l\ey  Dicop  fi'orq  Omc  ^ive^. 

How  the  things  that  we  love  drop  away  from  our  lives 

As  the  beautiful  flowers  die  ; 
And  some  sweet,  wayside  blossom  springs  upward  and  thrives 

In  the  soil,  where  their  ashes  lie ! 

One  by  one,  do  they  silently  wither  away, 

And  in  darkness  we  weep  for  our  dead, 
Never  thinking  the  clouds  will  be  lifted  some  day, 

And  another  one  bloom  in  their  stead  ;  — 

Never  thinking  the  sun  of  the  morrow  may  be 

Just  as  bright  as  the  sun  of  the  past, 
And  the  beauty  next  summer  of  flower  and  tree 

None  the  less  for  the  winter's  sharp  blast. 

How  unwise,  if  a  blossom  we  cherish  should  fade, 

To  believe  that  all  beauty  is  gone; 
Or  when  darkness  is  brooding  on  hill  and  in  glade, 

To  deny  that  a  morning  will  dawn  ! 


Paying  Fort  315 

IImw  unwise,  when  h  loved  one  ia  raise  to  his  vow, 

Or  a  tre  wure  i  i  taken  above, 
To  declare  with  n  Bhadow  of  woe  on  our  brow, 

That  on  earth  there  is  nothing  to  love. 

True,  the  things  that  we  love  drop  away  from  our  li. 

As  the  beautiful  il  >wers  die  ; 
B  it,  thank  » rod  !  Bome  sweet  blossom  Bprings  upward  and  thi  i 

In  the  a  »il,  where  their  ashes  lie  .'  —  m.i. i. a  French, 


1) 


Plkyii\^  Forfeits. 


MA.TTIE  was  going  to  have  some  company,  one  evening.     It 
in  the  beautiful   summer  time,  a  ,Lr 1  many    years  ago.      The 

house,  where  Mattie  lived,  was  a  white  cottage  in  a  village,  but  it  had  a 
garden  in  front  of  it,  and  the  little  girls,  and  large  om  - 

1 d  to  congregate  there.       But    on    this  particular  evening,  Mattie's 

friends  were  invited  guests,  for  Bhe  was  to  have  a  supper  party,  Belle 
was  tlir  first  one  who  came.  Sin-  was  fifteen  years  old,  and  quite  a 
young  Lady.  There  were  two  Marys,  the  oldest  of  which  was  called 
Mollie,  in  order  to  designate  the  two,  one  from  the  other.  Helen  and 
Sarah  made  up  the  half  dozen.  Ami  what  a  gay  half  dozen  girls  they 
!  They  lived  for  mischief,  and  mischief  seemed  to  abound  for 
them.  The  supper  was  eaten  with  a  relish,  and  spiced,  as  it  wenl  down, 
with  a  wee  bit  of  gossip;  for  our  minature  women  partake  considerably 
of  their  mother's  dispositions.  Betsey  had  been  getting  a  new  In. unci  ; 
Julia  was  going  away  to  school,  and,  Alice  had  actually  L_r"t  a  beau. 
All  "('which  had  to  be  talked  over  and  commented  on.  When  they 
were  done  eating  supper,  the  girls  cleared  away  the  dishes  and  put  the 
room  in  ordef  for  a  game  of  forfeits.  They  played  a  long  while;  .-ill  of 
them,  excepting  Belle,  having  to  pay  numberless  forfeits,  such  as 
"drawing  wood,"  "standing  on  chips,"  "measuring  tape,"  and  the  like: 
and  at  last,  Belle  was  caught. 


31 G  American  Sketch  Book. 

"  Give  her  a  hard  one  !"  cried  the  rest  of  the  girls  to  Sarah,  who  was 
the  judge  at  that  time. 

"I  have  nearly  exhausted  my  stock  of  forfeits,"  returned  the  one 
addressed.  "Let  me  see;  what  shall  it  be  ?■"  "  Well  Belle,"  addressing 
the  prisoner,  "you  may  go  out  in  the  street,  and  walk  to  the  corner, 
quacking  like  a  duck.'' 

The  girls  laughed  at  the  novel  judgment.  Belle  laughed  too,  and  ran 
out  into  the  darkness  to  do  as  she  was  hidden,  followed  by  all  the  girls, 
who  wished  to  make  sure  that  she  did  not  deceive  them  in  regard  to  the 
matter.  A  great  heavy  cloud  had  spread  over  the  sky,  shutting  out 
the  twinkling  stars,  and  causing  the  darkness  to  be  very  intense.  But 
Belle  was  not  afraid  of  the  darkness.  Recklessly,  she  opened  the  gate, 
and  went  out. 

"  Quack  !  quack  !  quack  !"  she  bawled,  and  the  girls  at  the  gate 
giggled.  "Quack!  quack!  quack!"  she  yelled,  louder  than  before ; 
this  time  in  the  very  face  of  a  young  gentleman,  who  was  coming  down 
the  street,  and  whom  the  darkness  had  rendered  imperceivable.  Belle 
caught  one  glance  of  his  wondering  eyes,  then,  frightened  half  out  of 
her  wits,  fled  back  to  the  house  to  relate  her  strange  adventure  to  the 
girls,  who  greeted  it  with  roars  of  laughter.  What  the  gentleman 
thought  of  her  behavior,  Belle  never  knew,  and  the  matter  is  a  source 
of  wonder  to  this  day.  But,  as  I  said  before,  it  happened  a  good  many 
years  ago.  The  gay  girls  are  all  separated  now.  Belle,  who  "loved 
not  wisely,  but  too  well,"  is  leading  a  miserable  life  in  a  Southwestern 
State,  with  a  brute  of  a  husband,  whom  she  once  idolized,  but  now 
despises.  <  )ne  of  the  Mary's  is  married  and  is  an  invalid  ;  the  other  is 
an  old  maid.     Helen  has  been  married,  divorced,    and   married    again. 

Sarah  married  Helen's  first  lover,  and  is  unhappy,  because  she  thinks 
her  husband  does  not  love  her.  And  Mattie,  the  spirit  of  mischief,  who 
made  life  so  bright  to  the  other  girls,  who  sang  like  a  bird  and  danced 
like  a  fairy — Mattie,  whom  everyone  thought  would  enjoy  life  so  much, 
fell  a  victim  to  grief,  through  man's  deceit,  and  died. 

Children,  you  are  reveling  in  the  golden  sunshine  of  life.  0,  would 
that  I  might  keep  the  storms  away,  that  you  might  never  know  such 
woe  as  came  to  those  six  girls,  who,  on  that  summer  evening,  long  ago, 
were  playing  forfeits. — BONNTBEL. 


Gj  .-ins  oJ   '  1 '  1 1 o 1 1 u  1 1 1 


"Hate  oot.     It  is  ii"!  worth  while,     i'our  life  is  nol  long  enough  to 
make  it  pay  to  cherish  ill-will  or  hard  thoughts  toward  any  one.      \\  hal 
if  thai  man  has  cheated  you,  or  that  woman  played  you  false? 
if  this  friend  has  forsaken  you  in  your  time  of  need,  or  thai  one,  liai 
wiin  your  utmosl  confidence,  your  warmest   love  hag  concluded  thai   be 
prefers  to  consider  and  treal  youasa    tranger?     Le1  ii  all  pass.     What 
difference  will  it  make  to  you  in  a  few  years,  when  von  i_r'>  hence  to  the 
"undiscovered  country?"     All  w li< >  ill-treat  you  will  be  more  sorry   for 
it  then. than  you,  even  in  your  deepesl  disappointment  and  grief,  can  be. 
A  few  more  smiles,  a  few  m  »re  tears,  some  pleasures,   much  pain,   a  lit- 
tle longer  hurrying  and  worrying  through  the  world,  Bome  hasty  greet- 
.  and  abrupt   farwells,  and  our  play  will  be  "played  out,"  and  the 
injurer  and  the  injured  will  he  led  away,  an  1  er  i  1  ng  forgotten.      I 
worth  while  to  hate  each  other?" 

••  A  man  who  hadn't  much  talent  for  conundrums,  in  attempting  to 
one  offal  a  tea  party  at  his  own  house,  the  other  evening,    ;  :eed- 

ingly  mixed.  He  intended  to  ask  the  old  question,  "Why  i-  a  woman 
like  ivy?"  the  familar  but  gallant  answer  to  which  is,  "  B  icausc  the  more 
you're  ruined  the  closer  she  clings."  P>;ir  he  pul  it,  "Why  i-  ivy  like 
a  woman?"  which  none  of  the  ladies  could  tell,  and  so  the  unfortunate 
man  himself  told  them  it  was  "Because  the  closer  it  clings  the  more 
you're  ruined." 

"Be  not  ashamed  to  confess  thai  yon  have  hi  en  in  the  wrong.  It  is 
but  owning  what  you  need  nol  be  ashamed  of,  thai  you  now  have  more 
Bense  than  vou  had  before,  to  3ee  your  error,  more  humility  to  acknowl- 
edge it.  and  more  grace  to  correel  it." 

••  Words,  'those  fickle  daughters  of  the  earth,1  are  the  creation  of  a 
being  thai  is  finite,  and  when  applied  to  explain  thai  which  is  infinite, 
i!ie\  tail  ;  for  that  which  i>  made  surpasses  nol  the  maker,  nor  can  thai 
which  is  immeasurable  by  our  thoughts  be  measured  by  our  tongues." 

•■  Never  do  a  w  rong  thing  to  make  a  friend  or  to  keen  one.     The  man 
who  wants  you  to  do  so  is  dearly   purchased   and  at   a  sacrifice.      D< 
kindly  and    firmly  with  all  men,  and  you  will  find  it  the  policy  which 

Wear-   the  l>e>t." 


318 


American  Sketch  Booh. 

AS    EPISODE    OF   THE  LIQUOR   WML 


A  fair  crusader  beseecheth  Mr.  Cobb 
Doffins  to  ascertain  if  any  liquor  is 
sold  at  the  Kestaurants,  no  saloons 
being  allowed  to  exist. 


He  ascertained 


But  concludes  upon  leaving  the,uKestau-  His  testimony  in  the  hands  of  the  fair   cru- 
rant"  that  in  union  there  is  strength.         sader,  hurls   vengeance   at   the   head  of 

the  "Kestauraut"   man. 


Immediately  after  he  had  a  call  elsewhere, 
and  is  helped  away  by  the  anti-temper- 
ance folks. 


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A_merican    Sketch    Book, 

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HISTORICAL  INCIDENTS 


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Descriptions  of  Corresponding  Localities. 

HANDSOMELY     ILLUSTRATED. 


EDITED  BY  BELLA   FRENQH. 


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