Fifty Years In The Northwest by William H. C. Folsom
CHAPTER I.
GOING WEST. 1
Lakes Huron and Michigan 3
Chicago and Milwaukee 5
On Foot to Galena 6
The Northwestern Territory 7
Arrival at Dubuque 7
Reminiscences of Dubuque 8
Arrival at Prairie du Chien 9
Early History of Prairie du Chien 9
Ancient Document 10
Forts Shelby--McKay--Crawford 11
First Commissioners at Prairie du Chien 11
Organization of Crawford County 12
Indian Troubles 12
Running the Gauntlet 13
Fort Crawford Robbed 13
Early Justice 14
A Southward Journey 15
New Orleans, Vicksburg 15
Return to Prairie du Chien 16
Privations 16
A Perilous Journey 17
Return to Maine--Mountains of New Hampshire 17
Marriage 18
Prairie du Chien in 1837 18
American Residents 19
BIOGRAPHIES.
James Duane Doty 19
James H. Lockwood 20
Indian Troubles 21
John S. Lockwood 22
Samuel Gilbert 23
Michael Brisbois 23
Pierre La Point 24
Joseph Rolette 24
Hercules Dousman 24
Rev. David Lowry 25
Chief Justice Charles Dunn 25
Rev. Alfred Brunson 26
Ira Brunson 27
John H. Folsom 28
Ezekiel Tainter 28
Judge Wyram Knowlton 29
Robert Lester 29
Thomas Pendleton Burnett 30
General Henry Dodge 30
General George W. Jones 31
S. G. and S. L. Tainter, John Thomas 31
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.2
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.3
- CHAPTER I. Ch.4
- CHAPTER II. Ch.5
- CHAPTER III. Ch.6
- CHAPTER IV Ch.7
- CHAPTER V. Ch.8
- CHAPTER VI. Ch.9
- CHAPTER VII Ch.10
- CHAPTER VIII. Ch.11
- CHAPTER IX. Ch.12
- CHAPTER X. Ch.13
- CHAPTER XI. Ch.14
- CHAPTER XII. Ch.15
- CHAPTER XIII. Ch.16
- CHAPTER XIV. Ch.17
- CHAPTER XV. Ch.18
- CHAPTER XVI. Ch.19
- CHAPTER XVII. Ch.20
- CHAPTER XVIII. Ch.21
- CHAPTER XIX. Ch.22
- CHAPTER XX. Ch.23
- CHAPTER XXI. Ch.24
- CHAPTER XXII. Ch.25
- CHAPTER XXIII. Ch.26
- Chapter II, page 32, read Stillwater and St. Croix County, instead of Ch.27
- CHAPTER I. Ch.28
- 1781. Mr. Brisbois lived a stirring and eventful life. He died in Ch.29
- CHAPTER II. Ch.30
- 1845. Capt. Wm. Holcombe acted during this period as clerk of the Ch.31
- CHAPTER III. Ch.32
- 1857. From 1857 to 1869 he was also a heavy logger alone. Mr. Anderson Ch.33
- 1777. He was married to Hannah Greely, a second cousin, at Hopkinton, Ch.34
- 1882. His wife survived him but a few months. The bodies of both were Ch.35
- 1885. She was the last of her family, husband and daughter having Ch.36
- 1846. As a business man he is capable and shrewd, giving close Ch.37
- 1838. In 1839 he drove the first herd of cattle through a wilderness Ch.38
- 1847. He was appointed clerk of the first Minnesota territorial term Ch.39
- 1848. He engaged in lumbering and scaling continuously. He was born in Ch.40
- 1820. He spent his youth on his father's farm, and received a common Ch.41
- 1843. He settled in Stillwater in 1844, and removed to his farm in Ch.42
- 1844. He came to America in June, 1847, and to Stillwater in 1848. Mr. Ch.43
- 1815. He was reared during his minority by an uncle, at Cambridge, New Ch.44
- 1853. In 1852 Gov. Ramsey appointed him territorial auditor. He was a Ch.45
- 1838. He became a great sufferer in the later years of his life. He Ch.46
- 1826. He received a good common school education. At the age of Ch.47
- 1857. Mrs. McPhail died in Stillwater in 1885. They left no children. Ch.48
- 1845. He was married in 1860 to Miss Jackins. He made his home in Ch.49
- CHAPTER IV. Ch.50
- 1838. Polk county, originally a part of Crawford, in 1840 became a Ch.51
- CHAPTER V. Ch.52
- 1857. The name of Gov. Holcombe will long be remembered in the valley Ch.53
- 1850. Through untiring industry and honorable dealing he has secured a Ch.54
- 1884. Mr. Stratton wrote for the Minneapolis papers many interesting Ch.55
- 1826. He settled on a farm near St. Croix Falls in 1856, where he Ch.56
- 24. The first sermon in the town of Clayton was preached by Rev. W. W. Ch.57
- 19. The west part is somewhat broken by the St. Croix bluffs; the Ch.58
- 1866. Few men have been more active in the opening up of a new Ch.59
- 1861. A. A. Heald, M. C. Lane and John Hurness were the first Ch.60
- 1864. Their new house of worship was built in 1870. The first settlers Ch.61
- 1867. It is situated on the same stream, a few rods above the first. Ch.62
- 1856. These have been succeeded by Rice, Webb, Clark Brothers, Ch.63
- 1853. The first white child born was John Francis, in 1847. The first Ch.64
- 1858. In 1874 he removed to Ashland, Wisconsin, where he died in 1878, Ch.65
- CHAPTER VI. Ch.66
- 1849. James Hughes was appointed in 1850. The first district court was Ch.67
- 1852. A day was fixed in 1852 to vote on the change of name, Willow Ch.68
- 20. Wm. H. Phipps. Ch.69
- 1838. Mr. Bouchea had been educated for the Catholic priesthood. He Ch.70
- 24. He took a deep interest in the affairs of the pioneer settlement, Ch.71
- 1847. Mr. Andrews was a carpenter and took some important building Ch.72
- 1847. He was appointed receiver of the United States land office at Ch.73
- 1812. His parents were George and Mary Hoyt. Both grandfathers were Ch.74
- 1814. He removed to Harford, Pennsylvania, with his parents when six Ch.75
- 1851. He was married to Clarissa A. Day in 1841, who with one son and Ch.76
- 1850. Mr. Jones died in 1874. Mrs. Jones, five sons and two daughters Ch.77
- 1827. At eighteen years of age, he went to Weston, New York, where he Ch.78
- 1881. In 1887 he served again as a member of the assembly. Ch.79
- 1833. He received a common school and academic education and attended Ch.80
- 1884. He was a man of eccentric manners, but upright life. Ch.81
- 14. By industry and perseverance they have become independent, and own Ch.82
- 1848. In 1830 he was a member of the Maine legislature; in 1849 and Ch.83
- 1867. He was married in 1867 to Mary J. Stewart, of Pennsylvania. He Ch.84
- 1858. The North Wisconsin railroad passes through the southeast corner Ch.85
- 1870. He left a widow and four sons, three of them farmers in Troy. Ch.86
- CHAPTER VII. Ch.87
- 1886. His home business is farming and real estate. He was married in Ch.88
- 1854. A building for a graded school was erected in 1859. A high Ch.89
- 19. Trimbelle river drains the eastern portion and the Kinnikinic the Ch.90
- 1854. Charles Hutchinson was the first postmaster, and the office was Ch.91
- 1814. He was liberally educated. He came to Edwardsville, Illinois, in Ch.92
- 1830. He graduated at the Chicago Medical College in 1860, and in 1861 Ch.93
- 1810. He graduated at Yale College. He came to River Falls in 1858 and Ch.94
- 1866. The first town meeting was held at the house of J. Prickett. The Ch.95
- 1871. The first settlers in the order of their coming were James Ch.96
- 6. It was organized Aug. 15, 1863. Among its first settlers were Ch.97
- CHAPTER VIII. Ch.98
- 19. He built a flour and saw mill, the first in the county, a good Ch.99
- 1865. He subsequently became the first settler in the town of Ch.100
- 1877. Millions of feet of pine timber have been gathered and marketed Ch.101
- CHAPTER IX. Ch.102
- 9. It has seventy-five miles of lake shore, with some fine harbors, Ch.103
- 1855. It was the first newspaper published at the head of Lake Ch.104
- CHAPTER X. Ch.105
- 20. It contains about forty dwellings, three large boarding houses, Ch.106
- 1874. His seat was contested by John Hallburg, of Centre City. The Ch.107
- CHAPTER XI. Ch.108
- 1883. The first supervisors were Eric Hokansen, John Rines and Haquin Ch.109
- 1855. He lived there eight years and filled various responsible Ch.110
- CHAPTER XII. Ch.111
- 1703. This fort was in all probability erected on the plateau below Ch.112
- 1884. There is also a good school house. The village was incorporated Ch.113
- 1852. Henry married Margaret Smith, daughter of David Smith. During Ch.114
- 1856. He died in 1874, leaving a widow, two sons and two daughters. Ch.115
- 1873. They have three children. Elof, John, Elias and Hans are Ch.116
- 1865. In 1868 he came to Taylor's Falls and engaged in teaching, which Ch.117
- 1859. The first marriage was that of Peter Abear to Kittie Wickland. Ch.118
- 26. Mr. and Mrs. Walmarson reared a fine family of children. Nelson Ch.119
- CHAPTER XIII. Ch.120
- 1863. At the close of the war, in 1865, he settled in St. Paul and Ch.121
- 1865. He died in 1872. Edward H., his second son, for some years has Ch.122
- 1823. He came to Marine Mills in 1844. For two years he was in the Ch.123
- 1804. He graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in Ch.124
- 1822. In the spring of 1849 he came westward, and engaged in Ch.125
- CHAPTER XIV. Ch.126
- 1847. A military road was surveyed from Point Douglas to Superior Ch.127
- 1840. In 1843 he opened a grindstone quarry in the soft, coarse Ch.128
- 1854. The first child born was Nathan, son of John Atkinson, in 1846; Ch.129
- 1867. In 1885 they removed to California. Ch.130
- 1874. Four children survive him. Ch.131
- 1858. In 1874 a large church 50 × 80 feet, ground plan, and with Ch.132
- 1875. Rev. L. O. Lindh was the first pastor. Oakland Cemetery Ch.133
- 1858. The Marine flour mill was built in 1856 by Gaskell & Co. The Ch.134
- 1859. Henry F., a son by his first wife, enlisted in 1862, in the Ch.135
- 1869. A plat of ten acres, beautifully situated in a natural grove Ch.136
- 1855. They were followed by Dunn, Barnum, Hatch and Beecroft. Ch.137
- 1819. He was married to Sarah Blanchard in 1848. Mr. Jackman, with his Ch.138
- 1849. Their children are Daniel, Thomas, James, Elisabeth, Mary, Ch.139
- 1826. In 1844 he came with his parents to St. Louis, Missouri, where Ch.140
- 22. This fragment contains the famous painted rock, now included in Ch.141
- 1841. He was married in 1846 to Jane Middleton. Ch.142
- 1815. Mr. Gilbert settled in Woodbury in 1851. In company with Mr. Ch.143
- CHAPTER XV. Ch.144
- 1850. It was organized regularly in 1853 by Rev. T. M. Fullerton. The Ch.145
- 1878. Two great fires occurred in the penitentiary in 1884. The Ch.146
- 1850. He was educated at the high school in Bangor. With his brother Ch.147
- 1829. Part of his early life he spent on a farm, but later he learned Ch.148
- 1851. In 1858 he came to Stillwater, and in 1861 was awarded the Ch.149
- 1824. Her parents emigrated to America in 1847 and settled in Ch.150
- 1886. Mr. Butts was married to Augusta Miller in 1856. Mrs. Butts Ch.151
- 1828. His parents were natives of Massachusetts, tracing their lineage Ch.152
- 1836. He came to Osceola, Polk county, Wisconsin, in 1850. In 1859 he Ch.153
- 1858. He was intrusted with the expenditure of public moneys from Ch.154
- CHAPTER XVI. Ch.155
- 1859. This bank, a private institution, was the beginning of the Ch.156
- 1820. He came to Minnesota in 1851, locating at St. Anthony, but in Ch.157
- 1877. The first supervisors were Moses Ripley, George Tisdale and Ch.158
- CHAPTER XVII. Ch.159
- 1854. The proprietors were J. Russell, G. M. Sweet and S. Van Nest. Ch.160
- 1855. Asa White, D. Gilman, C. W. Borup, N. Myrick, Gen. Lowry, and Ch.161
- 1827. He served an apprenticeship to a printer in Canada for five Ch.162
- 1809. He received a common school and academic education, and learned Ch.163
- 32. It derives its name from a rapid in the Mississippi river, formed Ch.164
- 1853. One daughter lives in Alabama and his youngest son is a Ch.165
- 1871. The name, Brainerd, was given to the new town in honor of Mrs. Ch.166
- CHAPTER XVIII. Ch.167
- 1884. The proprietors are the Minnesota Iron Company, of which Ch.168
- CHAPTER XIX. Ch.169
- 1849. A post office was established and Ard Godfrey was appointed Ch.170
- 1871. Edwin S. Brown. Ch.171
- 1871. Eli B. Ames. Ch.172
- 1888. A. A. Ames. Ch.173
- 1811. He received an academic education, and remained with his parents Ch.174
- 1814. He was the oldest son of Billy and Phebe (Baker) Ames, whose Ch.175
- 1818. In 1829 he removed with his parents to Lower Canada, where he Ch.176
- 1860. In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Sixth Minnesota Volunteers, Ch.177
- 1809. He was educated at Princeton College and West Point, graduating Ch.178
- 1844. He served as a soldier during the Mexican War. He was the first Ch.179
- CHAPTER XX. Ch.180
- 1865. Of Benoit little or nothing is known. The Freeman brothers were Ch.181
- 1847. Its effects, however, were not greatly felt until toward the Ch.182
- 1888. Robert A. Smith. Ch.183
- 1857. The early settlers were much disturbed by roving bands of Ch.184
- 1886. 1887. Ch.185
- CHAPTER XXI. Ch.186
- 1861. In 1863, before the expiration of his second term, he was Ch.187
- 1806. He received a thorough classical and medical education. In 1828 Ch.188
- 1822. He came to La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1840. The writer first met Ch.189
- 1820. His father, Otis Bigelow, was a Revolutionary patriot and Ch.190
- 1842. In 1845 he came to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, remained at this Ch.191
- 1820. He studied law with his father, Judge Samuel J. Wilkin, and Ch.192
- 1858. He was married to Helen M. Olds, in New York, in 1840. Their two Ch.193
- CHAPTER XXII. Ch.194
- 1830. He received a common and high school education and spent one Ch.195
- 1868. He served as state senator in 1866-67. He has been an Ch.196
- CHAPTER XXIII. Ch.197
- 1817. His early life was passed amongst the Ojibways in the employ of Ch.198
- 1842. When he came to Gray Cloud island he was accompanied by a Mr. Ch.199
- 1827. Mr. Berry received an excellent education at the Pittsfield Ch.200
- 1879. He has been twice married. His first wife was Ellen Brady, of Ch.201
- 1878. He married a second wife in 1880. His family consists of eight Ch.202
- 1634. Jean Nicollet ventured into Wisconsin, and explored the country Ch.203
- 1658. Two fur traders penetrated to Lake Superior and wintered there, Ch.204
- 1660. Rev. M. Menard with eight companions came to La Pointe, Lake Ch.205
- 1665. Claude Allouez, an eminent pioneer missionary, succeeded Menard, Ch.206
- 1669. Father Allouez established a mission on the shores of Green bay, Ch.207
- 1670. Father Allouez made a voyage of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers to Ch.208
- 1671. In this year the French took formal possession of the whole Ch.209
- 1673. Louis Joliet, accompanied by Father James Marquette, discovered Ch.210
- 1674. Father Marquette coasted Lake Michigan, from Green Bay, by Ch.211
- 1679. The Griffin, a schooner built by La Salle, and the first to make Ch.212
- 1680. About the first of May Father Louis Hennepin arrived at Mille Ch.213
- 1683. Le Sueur made a voyage of the Fog and Wisconsin rivers to the Ch.214
- 1688. Nicholas Perrot first planted the cross and arms of France on Ch.215
- 1695. Le Sueur built a fort on Isle Pelee, in the Mississippi, below Ch.216
- 1700. Le Sueur established Fort L'Huillier, on the Blue Earth river Ch.217
- 1719. Francis Renalt explored the Upper Mississippi with two hundred Ch.218
- 1721. Previous to this date a French fort had been established at Ch.219
- 1727. The French established a fort on Lake Pepin, with Sieur de Ch.220
- 1728. There was a great flood in the Mississippi, and Fort Beauharnois Ch.221
- 1751. Sieur Marin, in command at Green Bay, made a peace with the Ch.222
- 1761. Capt. Balfour and Lieut. Gorrell, with English troops, took Ch.223
- 1763. The English, under Lieut. Gorrell, abandoned Green Bay in Ch.224
- 1766. Capt. Jonathan Carver visited St. Anthony falls and Minnesota Ch.225
- 1774. A civil government was established over Canada and the Ch.226
- 1786. Julian Dubuque explored the lead region of the Upper Ch.227
- 1788. There was an Indian council at Green Bay. Permission to work the Ch.228
- 1793. Lawrence Barth built a cabin at the portage of the Fog and Ch.229
- 1796. The western posts were surrendered by the English to the United Ch.230
- 1803. Antoine Barth settled at the portage of the Fog and Wisconsin Ch.231
- 1809. Thomas Nuttall, the botanist, explored Wisconsin. Ch.232
- 1814. Gov. Clark took possession of Prairie du Chien. Prairie du Chien Ch.233
- 1816. Indian treaty confirming that of 1804. Ch.234
- 1818. State of Illinois was organized; Wisconsin attached to Michigan. Ch.235
- 1822. The New York Indians purchase lands east of Lake Winnebago. Ch.236
- 1823. January. Counties of Brown, Crawford and Michillimackinac made a Ch.237
- 1824. First term of United States court held at Green Bay, Judge Duane Ch.238
- 1825. Great flood on the Red River of the North; a part of the colony Ch.239
- 1827. Rush of speculators to lead mines. Ch.240
- 1828. Fort Winnebago built. Indian treaty at Green Bay. Lead ore Ch.241
- 1832. Black Hawk War. Ch.242
- 1834. The portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi attached to Ch.243
- 1837. Gov. Dodge, of Wisconsin, made a treaty at Fort Snelling, with Ch.244
- 1838. The treaty ratified by Congress. Frank Steele makes a claim at Ch.245
- 1840. St. Croix county established. Ch.246
- 1847. The Wisconsin constitutional convention meets. The town of St. Ch.247
- 1848. May 29th, Wisconsin admitted. August 26th, the "Stillwater Ch.248
- 1850. Great flood on the Mississippi. Minnesota river navigated by Ch.249
- 1851. Permanent location of the capital of Minnesota at St Paul. Ch.250
- 1852. President Pierce appoints Willis A. Gorman governor of Ch.251
- 1854. Real estate mania commenced. Treaty with the Chippewas at La Ch.252
- 1855. Treaty at Washington, District of Columbia, with the Chippewas, Ch.253
- 1857. Enabling act to admit Minnesota passed Congress. President Ch.254
- 1858. Minnesota admitted as a state. State loan of $250,000 Ch.255
- 1859. Hard times. Work on the land grant road ceases. Collapse of the Ch.256
- 1861. April 13th. President's proclamation for troops received. The Ch.257
- 1862. Call for 600,000 men. August 17th, massacre at Acton; 18th, Ch.258
- 1863. Gen. Sibley's expedition to the Missouri river. July 3d, Little Ch.259
- 1864. Large levies for troops. Expedition to Missouri river under Ch.260
- 1865. Peace returns. Minnesota regiments return and are disbanded; in Ch.261
- 1873. January 7th, 8th and 9th, polar wave sweeps over the State; Ch.262
- 1876. September 7th, armed outlaws from Missouri attack a Northfield Ch.263
- 1878. May 2d, three flouring mills at Minneapolis explode; eighteen Ch.264
- 1880. November 15th, hospital for the insane at St. Peter partly Ch.265
- 1886. Cyclone destroys Sauk Rapids. Wisconsin legislature adopts Ch.266
- 1854. Several reservations were set aside in each purchase for the Ch.267
- 1887. Alvah H. Heald, receiver; Wm. M. Blanding, register. Ch.268
- 4. Albert Henry Judd, Orange Walker, Samuel Burkelo, Hiram Berkey, Ch.269
- 5. Martin Mower, David B. Loomis; Lots 7 and 8, Sec. 29, T. 31, R. 19, Ch.270
- 6. John Allen; Lots 4 and 5, Sec. 2, T. 29, R. 20, west of river; gold Ch.271
- 7. Eleazer R. Steves; Lots 1 and 2, Sec. 14, T. 29, R. 20, east of Ch.272
- 10. Himan W. Greely; E. 1/2 of N. E. 1/4, Sec. 22, T. 29, R. 20, gold. Ch.273
- 21. Himan W. Greely; W. 1/2 of N. E. 1/4, Sec. 22, T. 29, R. 20, gold. Ch.274
- 1832. This lake is really the source of the Mississippi, though from Ch.275
- 1888. David Day. Ch.276
- 1887. Morton S. Wilkinson. Ch.277
- 1875. The _True Republican_ was established by M. A. Fulton in 1875, Ch.278
- 1850. He is now a resident of Fleming, Cayuga county, New York. Ch.279