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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