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]