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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?              