Memoirs of Waukesha County. From the earliest historical times to the present with chapters on various subjects, including each of the different towns, and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in the county, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information.

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mechanics and professional men. It is beautifully situated on. a neck of land between La Belle and Fowler's lakes, and is surrounded by a fertile farming land."
The first attorney who established himself in the community was Joel R. Carpenter, who came in 1848, although previous to his coming the making out of legal papers and other necessary matters had been at- attended to by Jonathan Dougherty. Carpenter was followed by Ed¬ win Hurlbut,^—so long and prominently connected with the city,-—in 1850 and by D. W. Small, afterward judge, in 1851. Dr. Townsend was the first physician, coming in 1846, and was followed some years later by Doctors Little, Conant, Warner and others. A picture (da- guerrean) gallery was established in 1858.
The first death in Oconomowoc was that of Mrs. Foster, in 1841. Something of the pathos of life and the peculiar desolation of death in the new country may be seen in another extract from the letter to which previous reference has been made.   Miss Townsend wrote:
"Sister Eveline died the next morning after our arrival. She had waited anxiously, day after day, for us, that she might see and con¬ verse with us once more before she should die, but we knew not of her anxiety, having never heard from her, or any of our people, since they left. Providentially we saw her and she talked with us a very little; she had her reason perfectly, said she was not ^afraid to die, but that life was sweet. She wished to live for the sake of a few friends, but this wish could not be granted. We wrapped her beautiful form from which had just escaped her pure spirit, in a robe of muslin, with a garland of wild flowers (which she always loved) about her neck. This was brother's particular request; and he picked them with his own hand. We buried her in the wood on the opposite margin of a beautiful lake that lies directly in front of our home. The exact spot can be seen from Hosea's room. O how dreary, how solemn, it seemed to follow her remains a mile by the circuitous road around the lake and see them deposited by stranger hands and left in the lone^ wild wood, thousands of miles from a relative, or the grave of a loved mother and sister."
The spot to which Miss Townsend referred was doubtless that which is now the beautiful Oconomowoc cemetery, on the east shore of Fowler lake. A cemetery association was formed as early as 1851 for the care of this "city of the dead."
Since this city is pre-eminently a summer resort, some mention of the hostelries which have borne so large a part in the early development will be appropriate. In the sixty years since the writer of 1847 an¬ nounced that there was in the place "one public house" and one "board¬ ing-house" where board and lodging could be obtained for $2.00 per week, it is a far cry both to the luxuries obtainable and the prices paid for them since.
One of the earliest of the hotels was the La Belle house, built in 1850, which stood upon the present site of the Jones House. This was burned in 1875. About 1850 another hotel called The Globe was erected but was used for that purpose only a few years and was then