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  VOL. I               1917-1918

  THE
  WISCONSIN MAGAZINE
  OF HISTORY

  [Illustration: Printer’s Logo]

  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 a
    Journey to North America                                      149
  CORDELIA A. P. HARVEY--A Wisconsin Woman’s Picture of
    President Lincoln                                             233
  SIPKO F. REDERUS--The Dutch Settlements of Sheboygan County     256
  LUCIUS G. FISHER--Pioneer Recollections of Beloit and Southern
    Wisconsin                                                     266
  CHARLES A. INGRAHAM--Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth: First Hero of
    the 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 Spring
    of 1861                                                        35
  The Chicago Treaty of 1833: Charges Preferred Against
    George B. Porter: Letter from George B. Porter to President
    Andrew Jackson                                                287
  Some Letters of Paul O. Husting Concerning the Present
    Crisis                                                        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 Wisconsin
    Play                                                          304
  The Beginnings of Milwaukee; The Senatorial Election of 1869;
    “Koshkonong” and “Man Eater”; The Alien Suffrage
    Provision in the Constitution of Wisconsin                    417


EDITORIAL:

  Introducing Ourselves; Our State Flag; The Society and the
    Legislature; Nelson Dewey Park and the First Wisconsin
    Capitol; Perrot State Park and John A. Latsch; Forest
    Fires, Generally and in Particular; Consolation for the
    Present Crisis                                                 75
  History Repeats Itself; Our Military Record; What of the
    Future; An Appreciation and a Suggestion; Cannon Fodder       187
  The Professor and the Finger Bowl; The Printing of Historical
    Publications; Is War Becoming More Horrible; Some
    Leaves from the Past; The Development of Humanitarianism;
    Other Agencies; Some Facts and Figures; Bravery
    Then and Now; Schrecklichkeit                                 309
  Increase A. Lapham and the German Air Raids; Save the
    Relics; The Newspapers; Removing the Papacy to Chicago        426


THE QUESTION BOX:

  The Oldest Church in Wisconsin; The First Mills in the Fox
    River Valley; Colonel Ellsworth’s Madison Career; The
    Story of “Glory of the Morning”; The Odanah Indian Reservation;
    First Exploration of Eastern Wisconsin; A Community
    Changes Its Name; How the Apostle Islands Were
    Named; The Services of the Menominee in the Black
    Hawk War                                                       87
  Daniel Webster’s Wisconsin Investments; Names Proposed
    for a New Town; Origin of the Word “Winnequah”; The
    Discovery of Lake Superior; The Potawatomi During the
    Revolution; Father Allouez Among the Kickapoo; The
    Indian Tribes of Iowa                                         193
  The First Settler of Baraboo; The Chippewa River During the
    French 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 of
    Our 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




[Frontispiece: INCREASE A. LAPHAM]




  VOL. I, NO. 1               SEPTEMBER, 1917

  WISCONSIN MAGAZINE
  OF HISTORY

  [Illustration: Printer’s Logo]

  PUBLICATIONS OF THE
  STATE HISTORICAL
  SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN.
  Edited by MILO M.
  QUAIFE, Superintendent




  CONTENTS


                                                                 PAGE

  INCREASE ALLEN LAPHAM, FIRST SCHOLAR OF WISCONSIN
                                            _Milo M. Quaife_        3

  A FOREST FIRE IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN     _John L. Bracklin_       16

  BANKERS’ AID IN 1861-62                _Louise P. Kellogg_       25

  DOCUMENTS:
    The Diary of Harvey Reid: Kept at Madison in the
    Spring of 1861                                                 35

  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

  EDITORIALS:
    Introducing Ourselves; Our State Flag; The
    Society and the Legislature; Nelson Dewey Park
    and the First Wisconsin Capitol; Perrot State Park
    and John A. Latsch; Forest Fires, Generally and in
    Particular; Consolation for the Present Crisis                 75

  QUESTION BOX:
    The Oldest Church in Wisconsin; The First Mills in
    the Fox River Valley; Colonel Ellsworth’s Madison
    Career; The Story of “Glory of the Morning”; The
    Odanah Indian Reservation; First Exploration of
    Eastern Wisconsin; A Community Changes Its
    Name; How the Apostle Islands Were Named; The
    Services of the Menominee in the Black Hawk War                87

  SURVEY OF HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES:
    The Society and the State; Some Publications                  101




Copyright, 1917, by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin




INCREASE ALLEN LAPHAM, FIRST SCHOLAR OF WISCONSIN

BY MILO M. QUAIFE


The most characteristic and comprehensive theme in all American
history is that of the westward movement. From the time of the first
feeble landings at Quebec, at Plymouth, and at Jamestown, the history
of our country has been characterized by a steady westward surge of
the population, reaching out eagerly for new lands to conquer, and in
the process carrying the banner of civilization ever westward and
establishing successive new communities and states. The present
generation of students of American history has not been unmindful of
the importance and interest which attaches to this westward movement,
and has not failed to accord it, in the main, all due recognition.
With the doings and deserts of our pioneer farm, canal, railroad, and
city builders, our hewers of wood and drawers of water, in a word,
historians have long made us familiar. Unfortunately, however, too
little attention has been given, and too little recognition accorded,
the equally important service of those among our western pioneers who
laid the foundations of our spiritual and intellectual civilization.
That man may not live by bread alone was stated long ago on excellent
authority. The hewing down of the forests and breaking of the
prairies, the building of houses, highways, and cities were all
essential steps in the process of transforming the wilderness into an
abode of enlightened civilization. Equally essential was the
establishment of institutions of learning and religion, and the
development of a taste for literature and art. The blossoming of these
finer fruits of civilization inevitably tended to sweeten and refine
the society of the pioneers, which otherwise, engrossed in a stern
physical struggle with the wilderness, must have become hard and gross
in character.

Fortunate indeed is the pioneer community which numbers among its
settlers intellectual