Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac From Early Times to the Present, Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc.

              294 BUSINESS HISTORY OF FOND DU LAC
summer of i860, so he could have been but about one year old when he entered the army in 1861, and as he died in 1887, he lived to be twenty-seven years old. At the time of his death, the taxidermist art was brought into use and he was so mounted that he seemed alive and ready for a campaign as of old. But the grand bird wholly dis¬ appeared in 1903, when the fire took place in the capitol in Madison. He was not exactly cremated, but his remains were burned and he will be no more seen and admired. The Eighth Regiment did splen¬ did service in the western army and "Old Abe" was a prominent feature in all its campaigns and was most conspicuous in all its fights. All citizens of Wisconsin, as well as soldiers, deeply regret that he is to be seen no more.
Early  Days Hotels.
Following are the hotels that did business in P'ond du Lac in early times:
Dr. Darling's log house, 1840, more a house of entertainment from necessity than a hotel, on West First street, near Main.
Eagle Hotel, Fourth and Ellis, 1845.
American House, at the landing, 1846.
Hibbert House, West Johnson and Doty,  1847.
Hibernian House, Bannister and Doty, 1848.
Gromme House, (Gernian) Main and Arndt, 1848.
United States Cottage, 1848, afterwards the Globe, the American, the Windsor, now The Erving.
Lewis House, 1848, afterwards the Patty House, now the Palmer.
City Hotel, 1849, Main and West Second.
Badger Hotel, 1849, Main and Western Avenue.
Exchange Hotel, Main opposite end of Forest, 1850, now on Main opposite malt house.
Koehne Hotel, (German) Main and Fourth, 1850.
First National Hotel, Fourth and Marr, 1867.
Union House, Main and Fifth, 1874.
After i860 the hotels increased rapidly, and from 1880 Fond du Lac has had more than was really needed. Of the old time hotels only the Palmer, the Windsor and Exchange remain.
Black Hawk Lived Here.
It is probably known to few people now living, that the great Indian warrior. Black Hawk, .once lived in this county. What has of late years been known as Grand Prairie, in the center of the town of Alto, was in early times called Black Hawk Prairie, and it was here that the great Indian warrior of that name lived, and drifted from that region southward into Illinois, especially to the region of Galena and of Wisconsin's Grant County. In the town of Alto there was for some years a postofiice bearing his name.