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childs recollections 189 weeks all the members had to travel by land on the west side of the mississippi there were then but few settlers from burlington to dubuque we had to camp out on the prairies when the weather was intensely cold it was the 20th of january 1838 we adjourned i was on a committee to investigate the affairs of the old dubuque bank there was then but one public house in dubuque and some five hun dred inhabitants i remained there two weeks on this busi ness and then started alone for green bay at mineral point i met a brother of col a a bird ot madison who had recently come from there i waited for him to return and accompanied him we started and went as far as my old worcester county friend col e brigham's at the blue mounds with whom we staid all night the next day we started for madison but lost our way and traveled all day and most of the night when we came to a log shanty where we tarried the remainder of the night without however any thing to eat in the morning we renewed our journey and went to madi son we found col a a bird there his mother was quite ill and attended by the army surgeon from fort winnebago the house or shanty that bird lived in was a miserable cold affair there were then but three other families in madison the doctor from fort winnebago designed to return the next day and wished me to wait for him i concluded to do so and crossed fourth lake to its head near pheasant branch and spent the night with col w b slaughter who then lived on the west bank of the lake the next morning the doctor came over we started for the fort between slaugh ter's and which there was not a single house i had my conveyance and the doctor had his with a driver when about half way i asked the driver how the doctor stood the cold — for it was a stinging cold day the doctor who was com pletely covered up with buffalo robes made no reply and the driver of course could not answer for him i drove past them and on reaching a grove of timber i stopped and made
Object Description
| Language | English |
| Pagination | 508 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume IV (1859) |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | XML |
| Source Creation Date | 1859 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvIV0000 |
| Description | The Report and collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the years 1857 and 1858 includes the following articles: Annual address, by John Y. Smith; Recollections of Wisconsin since 1820, by Ebenezer Child; Recollections of the early history of northern Wisconsin, by Henry S. Baird; Early history of Wisconsin, by Alfred Brunson; Commercial history of Milwaukee, by Edward D. Holton, Lemuel W. Weeks, and J.B.D. Cogswell; Sketch of the Brothertown Indians, by Thomas Commuck; Rev. Cutting Marsh on the Stockbridges; The last of the Mohicans, by Levi Konkapot, Jr.; Death of John W. Quinney; Celebration of the Fourth of July, 1854, at Reidsville, New York, by John W. Quinney; Memorial of John W. Quinney; Early times in Sheboygan County, by Horace Rublee; Early events in the Four Lake Region, by C.B. Chapman; North-eastern boundary of Wisconsin; On the public land surveys and the latitude and longitude of places in Wisconsin, by I.A. Lapham; On the man-shaped mounds of Wisconsin, by I.A. Lapham; Death of Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames in 1813, by Alfred Brunson; Death of Tecumseh, by John T. Kingston; First grave in the city of Watertown, by D.W. Ballou, Jr.; Early settlement of La Crosse and Monroe counties, by Morrison McMillan; and On the latitude and longitude of Milwaukee, Prairie du Chien, Racine, and Madison in the state of Wisconsin, from astronomical observations, by J.D. Graham. |
| Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume IV (1859) |
| Volume | Vol. 04 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 4 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Description
| Language | English |
| Page | 189 |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | JP2 |
| Source Creation Date | 1859 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvIV0193 |
| Author | Childs, Ebenezer, 1797-1864 |
| Page Type | article |
| Volume | Vol. 04 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 4 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| Full Text | childs recollections 189 weeks all the members had to travel by land on the west side of the mississippi there were then but few settlers from burlington to dubuque we had to camp out on the prairies when the weather was intensely cold it was the 20th of january 1838 we adjourned i was on a committee to investigate the affairs of the old dubuque bank there was then but one public house in dubuque and some five hun dred inhabitants i remained there two weeks on this busi ness and then started alone for green bay at mineral point i met a brother of col a a bird ot madison who had recently come from there i waited for him to return and accompanied him we started and went as far as my old worcester county friend col e brigham's at the blue mounds with whom we staid all night the next day we started for madison but lost our way and traveled all day and most of the night when we came to a log shanty where we tarried the remainder of the night without however any thing to eat in the morning we renewed our journey and went to madi son we found col a a bird there his mother was quite ill and attended by the army surgeon from fort winnebago the house or shanty that bird lived in was a miserable cold affair there were then but three other families in madison the doctor from fort winnebago designed to return the next day and wished me to wait for him i concluded to do so and crossed fourth lake to its head near pheasant branch and spent the night with col w b slaughter who then lived on the west bank of the lake the next morning the doctor came over we started for the fort between slaugh ter's and which there was not a single house i had my conveyance and the doctor had his with a driver when about half way i asked the driver how the doctor stood the cold — for it was a stinging cold day the doctor who was com pletely covered up with buffalo robes made no reply and the driver of course could not answer for him i drove past them and on reaching a grove of timber i stopped and made |