VOL. I 1917-1918
THE
WISCONSIN MAGAZINE
OF HISTORY
PUBLICATIONS OF THE
STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN.
Edited by
MILO M. QUAIFE,
Superintendent
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
| LEADING ARTICLES: | Page | |
| Milo M. Quaife—Increase Allen Lapham, First Scholar of Wisconsin | [3] | |
| John L. Bracklin—A Forest Fire in Northern Wisconsin | [16] | |
| Louise P. Kellogg—Bankers’ Aid in 1861-62 | [25] | |
| Carl Russell Fish—The Frontier a World Problem | [121] | |
| George Manierre—Early Recollections of Lake Geneva | [142] | |
| Ole. K. Nattestad and Rasmus B. Anderson—Description of aJourney to North America | [149] | |
| Cordelia A. P. Harvey—A Wisconsin Woman’s Picture of PresidentLincoln | [233] | |
| Sipko F. Rederus—The Dutch Settlements of Sheboygan County | [256] | |
| Lucius G. Fisher—Pioneer Recollections of Beloit and SouthernWisconsin | [266] | |
| Charles A. Ingraham—Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth: First Hero ofthe Civil War | [349] | |
| Charles Giessing—Where Is the German Fatherland? | [375] | |
| Louise P. Kellogg—The Paul Revere Print of the Boston Massacre | [377] | |
| DOCUMENTS: | ||
| The Dairy of Harvey Reid: Kept at Madison in the Springof 1861 | [35] | |
| The Chicago Treaty of 1833: Charges Preferred AgainstGeorge B. Porter: Letter from George B. Porter to PresidentAndrew Jackson | [287] | |
| Some Letters of Paul O. Husting Concerning the PresentCrisis | [388] | |
| HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS: | ||
| Wisconsin’s First Versifiers; Memorandum on the Spelling of“Jolliet”; The First Edition of the Zenger Trial, 1736;A Novel Transportation Device | [64] | |
| The Disputed Michigan-Wisconsin Boundary; An Early WisconsinPlay | [304] | |
| The Beginnings of Milwaukee; The Senatorial Election of 1869;“Koshkonong” and “Man Eater”; The Alien SuffrageProvision in the Constitution of Wisconsin | [417] | |
| EDITORIAL: | ||
| Introducing Ourselves; Our State Flag; The Society and theLegislature; Nelson Dewey Park and the First WisconsinCapitol; Perrot State Park and John A. Latsch; ForestFires, Generally and in Particular; Consolation for thePresent Crisis | [75] | |
| History Repeats Itself; Our Military Record; What of theFuture; An Appreciation and a Suggestion; Cannon Fodder | [187] | |
| The Professor and the Finger Bowl; The Printing of HistoricalPublications; Is War Becoming More Horrible; SomeLeaves from the Past; The Development of Humanitarianism;Other Agencies; Some Facts and Figures; BraveryThen and Now; Schrecklichkeit | [309] | |
| Increase A. Lapham and the German Air Raids; Save theRelics; The Newspapers; Removing the Papacy to Chicago | [426] | |
| THE QUESTION BOX: | ||
| The Oldest Church in Wisconsin; The First Mills in the FoxRiver Valley; Colonel Ellsworth’s Madison Career; TheStory of “Glory of the Morning”; The Odanah Indian Reservation;First Exploration of Eastern Wisconsin; A CommunityChanges Its Name; How the Apostle Islands WereNamed; The Services of the Menominee in the BlackHawk War | [87] | |
| Daniel Webster’s Wisconsin Investments; Names Proposedfor a New Town; Origin of the Word “Winnequah”; TheDiscovery of Lake Superior; The Potawatomi During theRevolution; Father Allouez Among the Kickapoo; TheIndian Tribes of Iowa | [193] | |
| The First Settler of Baraboo; The Chippewa River During theFrench and British Régimes; The Career of Colonel G. W.Manypenny; Treaty Hall and Old La Pointe | [319] | |
| COMMUNICATIONS: | ||
| Old Copperheads and New; A Presbyterian Objects | [202] | |
| More Light on the Originator of “Winnequah”; A History ofOur State Flag | [327] | |
| “Camouflage” and “Eatless Days” Two Hundred Years Ago;Daniel Webster’s Wisconsin Investments | [432] | |
| SURVEY OF HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES: | ||
| The Society and the State | [101], [206], [330], [435] | |
| Some Publications | [111], [221], [340], [445] | |
| Some Wisconsin Public Documents | [210], [337] | |
| The Wider Field | [449] | |