The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 1, number 1, September 1917

              92 question bow i am unable to say as to the identity of w j ellsworth but i have written to an uncle of colonel ellsworth who may be able to shed light on the matter colonel keyes when he estimated ells worth's age as not over 80 years'5 when he was in madison was evidently deceived by his remarkable degree of development which was in advance of his age : at that time he was but twenty-one having been born april 11 1£37 ellsworth's diary i have not yet unearthed john hay's article published in mcclure's magazine vi 354 has many citations from it but nothing concerning madison mr hay also contributed to the atlantic very soon after ellsworth's death a fine article on him viii 119 and the two comprise the best literature so far published on ellsworth these two young men were students in lincoln's law office and mr hay all his life down to his last years mourned for him whom he estimated as a most wonderfully brilliant and patriotic ally devoted man whose future would have been exceedingly prominent and useful my own investigations lead me to the same conclusion yet he had very few early advantages ; practically none except a limited district school education his parents whom i knew were plain people and others of the relations whom i have met or cor responded with exhibit nothing out of the common c a ingraham cambridge new york the story of glory of the morning we are about to give the play glory of the morning i am under the impression that there was such a character in wisconsin as glory of the morning and that she was married to a frenchman and deserted by him as in the play can you give me any information concerning her mrs f h anderson brooklyn wisconsin glory of the morning was an historical character and one of the staff on the wisconsin historical society related to professor leonard the incident on which he founded the play he has taken poet's license with certain parts — with the names for instance of the son and daughter ; but in jvisconsin historical collections vii 845 you can read the story as told by a french-canadian trader glory of the morning was a winnebago chieftess and jonathan carver when very old saw her at her village near menasha wisconsin the french officer whose name was sabrevoir decorah also spelled