Part 2 (1/2)

A Frenchhbor, supposing theeese to the owner, a Dutcheese and used theoose-killer arrested and tried before Martin Savall, a justice of the peace The defendant adeese, the plaintiff ad theeese, if not killed, would have laid eggs and hatched about eight goslings The defendant was therefore fined three dollars for the geese killed, and eight dollars for the goslings that eese had been permitted to live, and costs besides Plaintiff appealed to the district court which reversed the decision on the ground that plaintiff had eaten his geese, and the goslings, not being hatched, did not exist Plaintiff paid the costs of the suit, forty-nine dollars, re that a Dutcho back to Ger he could do

A SOUTHWARD JOURNEY

My original plan on leaving Maine was to h the West and South I had been in Prairie du Chien for a season, and as soon asas done I started, with two of my comrades, in a birch bark canoe for New Orleans Thisslow and tedious, after two days, on our arrival at Dubuque, we sold our canoe and took passage on the steamer Smelter for St Louis, which place we reached on the seventeenth of October We re at the Union Hotel St Louis was by far the finest and largest city I had yet seen in the West Its levee was croith drays and other vehicles and lined with steaeneral appearance betokened prosperity On the twenty-second, I left on the stea reported in that city, I ree

On the second of Nove at the Conti Street Hotel New Orleans was even then a large and beautiful city Its levee and streets were remarkable for their cleanness, but see to a recent visitation of the yellow fever and the financial crisis of 1837, business was almost suspended These were hard ti employment, and many of them ithout money or friends It was soon very evident to me that I had coh canvass, I found but one situation vacant, and that was in a drinking saloon, and was not thought of for an instant I re, when I concluded to try the interior I took stea, and thence passed up the Yazoo to Manchester, where I spent two days in the vain search for e to do any kind of work I was in the South, where the labor was chiefly done by negroes I was friendless and without letters of recommendation, and for afor employment was in itself a suspicious circumstance I encountered everywhere coldness and distrust I returned to Vicksburg, and, fortunately, had still enough e to the North, but was obliged to live sparingly, and sleep without bedding I kept ers The captain and clerk commented on my appearance, and were, as I learned fro a close eye uponso quiet and restrained It was true that the western rivers were infested with desperate characters, gaht I not be one of thelad when, on the fifth of December, we landed at St Louis It see no employment there, I embarked on the steamer Motto for Hennepin, Illinois, where I found occasional e ti, then terrorizing the country; and I have good reason to believe that so about two months, I left, on foot, valise in hand or strapped upon my back, with J Simpson, for Galena, which place we reached in four days Finding here Mr Putnam, with a team, I went up with him on the ice to Prairie du Chien, where, after an absence of five months of anxiety, suspense and positive hardshi+ps, I was glad to findthe summer of 1838 I cultivated a farm I had also a hay contract for the fort My partner was Jaood crop, but found ue I continued far hay to the fort, but continued to suffer with chills and fever Myself and partner were both affected, and at times could scarcely take care of ourselves Help could not be obtained, but ague co the exact hour of its approach, we could prepare in advance for it, and have our water, gruel, boneset and quinine ready and within reach We knee would shake, but not the degree of fever which would follow The deliriue fancies On one occasion I caon attached to a post and went into the house Banker had passed the shaking stage, and was delirious I threw , I knew nothing till , when I found the tea it

In November of this year I o, at the portage of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers The weather was cold and the military road, much of the distance, covered with snow There was scarcely a trail over the rolling prairie to guide ued, sick and suffering, I coiled myself on the top of the load The second day, as the sun was setting, I ca to obey oing to the right I pulled theuided by their ”horse sense” they would have brought me in a few moments to the door of Parish's hotel As it was, I drove on until far in the night, e caon I unhitched the teaon to keep the around, mounted one of the horses and descended the hill and foundto find for a day and a night Lieut Caldwell, quarter sohty dollars instead of the forty he had pro and summer of 1840, I fulfilled heavy hay and wood contracts for the fort, and in the autumn of that year concluded to revisit my early hoo in seven days, traveling with a team I traveled thence by steamer to Buffalo, by canal boat to Rochester, by railroad and stage to Albany and Boston, by railroad to Lowell, and by stage to Ta four years amidst the prairies of the West it was indeed a pleasure to look again upon the grand ranges of e I had lived where I could look upon these randeur was added the charm of old association I looked with pleasure once more upon ”Old Ossipee,” Coroway Peak, and White Face

Tied es and farlea from rock to rock, to the valleys beneath Tast these round containing the graves of rand parents and other near relatives These mountain peaks see place I reraves of my kindred, and on October 20th pursued reat changes Soone The old hoed and I felt that I could not reat West seemed more than ever attractive There would I buildto share that home and whatever fortune awaited me in the West On January 1st I was ave us good counsel on the eve of our departure to a new and still wilderness country On February 16th we bade adieu to our friends in Maine, visited awhile at Ta traveled by private conveyance, stage and steah New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Frederick City, Maryland, over the National road to Wheeling, Virginia, by steamer down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to our destination Here wein the business in which I had been previously engaged At this tie of climate necessary

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN IN 1836-37

Our history of Fifty Years in the Northwest commences properly at Prairie du Chien in the years 1836-37 The entire country west and north was at that time but little better than a wilderness Prairie du Chien was an outpost of civilization A few adventurous traders anda few stations here and there, and some little effort had been made at settlement, but the country, for thetribes of Indians, and he who adventured a them at any distance from posts or settlements did so at considerable peril Prairie du Chien, as we have shown, had been for an indefinite period under various governenerally under the protection of a e The houses were built for the ht timber posts and puncheons, and were surrounded by pickets There was no effort at display Every thing was arranged for comfort and protection

AMERICAN RESIDENTS

There were living at Prairie du Chien in 1837 the following Americans with their families: Alfred Brunson, Thomas P Burnett, Joseph M and Thomas P Street, Ezekiel Tainter, John Thomas, Milo Richards, John H

Fonday, Sa were unmarried: James B Dallam, Ira B Brunson, William S Lockwood, and Hercules Dousman In addition to these were perhaps near a hundred French fa the more noted were the Brisbois, La Chapelle, Rolette and Bruno faraphical sketches some names of non-residents, prominent in the early territorial history, and others who came to Prairie du Chien later than 1837

BIOGRAPHIES

JAMES DUANE DOTY--The life of this eminent citizen is so interwoven with the history of Wisconsin that it ht well claim more space than is here allotted to it The plan of this work forbids ive only the principal events in his life Mr Doty was born in Saleton county, New York, where he spent his early days After receiving a thorough literary education he studied law, and in 1818 located at Detroit, Michigan In 1820, in coe of exploration through Lakes Huron and Michigan On this voyage they negotiated treaties with the Indians, and returning ion which they had traversed Under his appointan west of the lake, which appointment he held for nine years, he first made his home at Prairie du Chien, where he resided one year, thence re to Green Bay for the remainder of his term of office, at which place he continued to reside for a period of twenty years In 1830 he was appointed one of the coo and Prairie du Chien In 1834 he represented the counties west of the lake in the Michigan legislative council at Detroit, at which council the first legislative action was taken affecting these counties At that session he introduced a bill to create the state of Michigan, which was adopted The result of this action was the creation of the territory of Wisconsin in 1836 In 1838 Mr Doty was chosen territorial delegate to Congress from Wisconsin, in which capacity he served four years, when he was appointed governor He served as governor three years He acted as co Indian treaties In 1846 he was a member of the first constitutional convention In 1848 he was elected ress, and was re-elected in 1851

So house on an island in Fox river, just above butte des Mortes, and lived there with his faathered ancient curiosities, consisting of Indian i house still stands and is kept intact with the curiosities gathered there by the present owner, John Roberts, to whohter of Gov Doty, in 1877 The cabin overlooks the cities of Menasha and Neenah, and the old council ground at the outlet of Lake Winnebago, where the Fox and Sioux Indians held annual councils, also the old battle ground where the Fox Indians routed the Sioux in one of the hardest fought battles on record

In 1861 Judge Doty was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs, and subsequently was appointed governor of Utah Territory, which place he held until his death in 1865 Wisconsin had no truer friend nor more faithful and efficient servant His aih place in the affections of his fellow citizens

JAMES H LOCKWOOD--Mr Lockas the only practicing lawyer at the organization of Judge Doty's court He was the pioneer lawyer in Prairie du Chien, and the first lawyer admitted to the bar in what is now Wisconsin He practiced in Crawford, Brown and Mackinaw counties

He was born in Peru, Clinton county, New York, Dec 7, 1793 He married Julia Warren in 1822 She died at Prairie du Chien in 1827

He ht, in St Louis, Missouri, in 1834 She died at Prairie du Chien in 1877, much esteemed as one of the pioneer women of the Upper Mississippi, and respected as a devout Christian, whose faith was proven by her works The early years of Mr

Lockere spent on a fares of a classical education, and he may be said to be self educated In 1810 he commenced the study of law In 1814 he was sutler in the United States army, and in 1815 at the post at Mackinaw Fro at Prairie du Chien In 1826 orders came to abandon the fort at Prairie du Chien The soldiers were transferred to Fort Snelling, but are of John Marsh, sub-Indian agent Mr Lockwood's family was the only A year he left for New York by the Wisconsin River route, Mrs Lockwood reoes were a little troublesome at this time, the more so as the soldiers were removed from the post, but no serious disturbance was anticipated The first night after leaving Prairie du Chien Mr L ht; but the Indians, under their chief, Red Bird, left the ca to Prairie du Chien, entered the house of Mr Lockith loaded rifles Mrs L, greatly frightened, fled to the store, then in charge of Duncan Grahalish trader The Indians followed Mrs L into the store Graha suspiciously a er was sent after Mr Lockwood in haste He returned on the twenty-seventh and found the inhabitants assembled, but without ammunition or o into the fort, as they would destroy it As the day passed pickets and embankments were built around an old tavern About sundown a keelboat ca three dead bodies and several wounded The sides of the boat had been riddled by bullets This ghastly arrival increased the panic Mr Lockwood urged organization for defense He was selected as captain but declined, and Thomas McNair was chosen, who ordered an immediate removal to the fort

Repairs were made and preparations for successful defense On the day the fighting coner and Lipcap Mrs Gagner, with rifle in hand, held Red Bird at bay till she escaped with one child into the rushes, whence she was rescued by a soldier on patrol duty The soldier went to the house, where he found Gagner and Lipcap lying dead upon the floor, and an infant child, scalped and with its throat cut, lying under the bed

Gov Cass, of Michigan, arrived on the fourth of July, greatly to the relief of the besieged garrison, which heMr Lockwood quartermaster Another company, under Capt Abner Field, was sent froer to Col Snelling at Fort Snelling, who promptly sent down a company in a keelboat The force thus concentrated at the fort was sufficient to overcoe in a ith the United States As the result of a council held by the Winnebagoes in the presence of the officers of the garrison, the Indians agreed to surrender Red Bird and Kee-Waw to Maj Whistler, the Indians asking that the prisoners should not be ironed or harshly treated Maj Whistler promised that they should be treated with consideration, and Red Bird, rising froround, said, ”I am ready,” and was marched off with his accouard The prisoners were handed over to Gen Atkinson, and given into the hands of the civil authorities They were chained and imprisoned, which so chafed the proud spirit of Red Bird that he drooped and soon died of a broken heart Kee-Waas afterward pardoned by the president of the United States For this and other outrages perpetrated upon the settlers, not a single Indian suffered the penalty of death, excepting Red Bird, whose pride may be said to have been his executioner

Mr Lockwood continued in mercantile business at Prairie du Chien many years He heldhimself with credit He built the first saw mill north of the Wisconsin river, on the Menomonie river The famous Menomonie mills now occupy the same site A small mill had been commenced prior to this on Black river, but the Indians had burned this mill before it was co 24, 1867

JOHN S LOCKWOOD--John S, the brother of James H Lockwood, was born in 1796 in New York; caed inHe was a man of exemplary habits and a member of the Presbyterian churchfamily He died at his home at Prairie du Chien in 1858

SAMUEL GILBERT settled at Prairie du Chien in 1830 He was of Kentucky birth, a blacksmith by trade, and a model man in habits Mr Gilbert, in 1842, became one of the proprietors of the Chippewa Falls mill He afterward lived at Albany He followed Mississippi river piloting, reton, Iowa, and died in 1878 Mr Gilbert left four sons, Oliver, lumberman in Dunn county, Wisconsin, John and I Dallaton, Iowa, and Samuel