418 |
Previous | 90 of 138 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
All (PDF)
|
This page
All
Subset |
Loading content ...
418 historical fragments kee river martin and juneau early in 1835 proposed to kilbourn to unite their interests kilbourn ignored this offer and proceeded to develop his town alone meanwhile both town sites were surveyed and their plats put on record martin and juneau began to develop their property by opening and grading streets one block in the heart of the town was set aside for the courthouse and nearly 12,000 a large sum for that time was spent in erecting a suitable building the ground around the new public building was given to the village in perpetuity for the use of the county courts a large number of letters from juneau to martin are in the possession of the state historical society and are interesting as revealing the growth of the village and the personality of its pro prietors although martin and juneau had transactions involving many thousands of dollars there never was any disagreement be tween them neither did they have a written contract each one relying upon the honor of the other and when hard times fell upon the little settlement in 1837 and later each partner bore his share of misfortune cheerfully and without a word of accusation or disa greement even after the union of milwaukee village and kilbourn town in 1838 a considerable rivalry was maintained between the two parts of the town which in some measure has persisted to the present day louise p kellogg the senatorial election of 1869 in 1869 wisconsin elected a new senator to represent her in congress it was conceded on every hand that james r doolittle whose term expired march 4 1869 had misrepresented the state's sentiment in his support of president johnson during the impeach ment trial and that he had no chance of reelection this situation brought out a number of candidates most of whom were new men among the tried and true candidates the most prominent were cad wallader c washburn then congressman for the southwestern sec tion of the state and horace rublee vigorous editor of the chief republican newspaper at madison ex-governor salomon was also in the field but his candidacy was not taken very seriously the new men who were most prominently talked of were otis h waldo
Object Description
| Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 1, number 4, June 1918 |
| Article Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 1, number 4, June 1918 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Series | Wisconsin Magazine of History ; v. 1, no. 4 |
| Format-Digital | xml |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| ISSN | 1943-7366 |
| Identifier-Digital | vol01no040000 |
| Description | This issue covers a wide range of historical events, from the Paul Revere print of the Boston Massacre and Wisconsin Civil War hero Elmer E. Ellsworth to how the Germans used the meteorological discoveries of Increase Lapham in their World War I bombing campaigns. |
| Volume | 001 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year | 1917-1918 |
Description
| Title | 418 |
| Page Number | 418 |
| Article Title | Historical fragments: The senatorial election of 1869 |
| Author | Kellogg, Louise Phelps, d. 1942 |
| Page type | Column |
| Format-Digital | jpeg |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| ISSN | 1943-7366 |
| Identifier-Digital | vol01no040090 |
| Volume | 001 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year | 1918 |
| Full Text | 418 historical fragments kee river martin and juneau early in 1835 proposed to kilbourn to unite their interests kilbourn ignored this offer and proceeded to develop his town alone meanwhile both town sites were surveyed and their plats put on record martin and juneau began to develop their property by opening and grading streets one block in the heart of the town was set aside for the courthouse and nearly 12,000 a large sum for that time was spent in erecting a suitable building the ground around the new public building was given to the village in perpetuity for the use of the county courts a large number of letters from juneau to martin are in the possession of the state historical society and are interesting as revealing the growth of the village and the personality of its pro prietors although martin and juneau had transactions involving many thousands of dollars there never was any disagreement be tween them neither did they have a written contract each one relying upon the honor of the other and when hard times fell upon the little settlement in 1837 and later each partner bore his share of misfortune cheerfully and without a word of accusation or disa greement even after the union of milwaukee village and kilbourn town in 1838 a considerable rivalry was maintained between the two parts of the town which in some measure has persisted to the present day louise p kellogg the senatorial election of 1869 in 1869 wisconsin elected a new senator to represent her in congress it was conceded on every hand that james r doolittle whose term expired march 4 1869 had misrepresented the state's sentiment in his support of president johnson during the impeach ment trial and that he had no chance of reelection this situation brought out a number of candidates most of whom were new men among the tried and true candidates the most prominent were cad wallader c washburn then congressman for the southwestern sec tion of the state and horace rublee vigorous editor of the chief republican newspaper at madison ex-governor salomon was also in the field but his candidacy was not taken very seriously the new men who were most prominently talked of were otis h waldo |