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Magazine (/History WISCONSIN MAGAZINE (/HISTORY Published Quarterly by the STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN September 1944 WISCONSIN MAGAZINE of HISTORY EDWARD P. ALEXANDER, Editor LILLIAN KRUEGER, Assistant Editor CONTENTS Chats with the Editor Edward P. Alexander 1 Caleb Cus king's Investments in the St. Croix Valley Alice E. Smith 7 Autobiography of James Albert Jackson, Sr., M.D. Alice F. and Bettina Jackson 20 The Soldier Vote in Wisconsin during the Civil War Frank Klement 37 History of Old Plattevtile, 1827-1835 James A. Wilgus 48 The Octagon House at Hudson Willis H. Miller 81 BOOK NOTES 87 THE SOCIETY AND THE STATE 109 The WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY is published quarterly by the STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN, 816 State Street, Madison 6. Distributed to members as part of their dues (Annual membership, $3.00; Life, $30). Yearly subscription, $3.00; single number, 75 cents. Communications should be addressed to the editor. The Society does not assume responsibility for statements made by contributors. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Madison, Wis- consin, under the act of August 24, 1912. Copyright 1944 by the STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN. Paid for by the Maria L. and Simeon Mills Editorial Fund and by the George B. Burrows Fund. THE COVER ST. CROIX RIVER DELLS. This view shows the Wisconsin side of the river with the city of St. Croix Falls in the background. Photograph by courtesy of the Wisconsin Conservation Commission. Miss Alice E. Smith traces Caleb Cushing's Investments in the St. Croix Valley in this issue. WISCONSIN MAGAZINE of HISTORY 2p^» Volume 28 September 1944 Number 1 Chats with the Editor OR MORE than twenty years now, the chief need of this Society has been for additional space—space for shelving books, F for museum exhibitions, for workrooms, for storage, for working space to meet the needs of research scholars. Last year Keyes D. Metcalf, librarian of Harvard University, and Theodore C. Blegen, dean of the graduate school at the University of Minnesota and former superin- * tendent of the Minnesota Historical Society, made a * survey of the libraries of our Society and of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. This is what they had to say about the conditions they found: The Historical Society and the University Library make good use of the space available, but both are disgracefully overcrowded. Many books are on the floors and window sills throughout the building The libraries are unable to provide convenient quarters for scholars (whether faculty, graduate students, or citizens) such as are now generally found in research libraries. There are not enough seats for readers in the big Reading Room. The work-rooms for both libraries are so congested as to interfere with efficiency. The Historical Society has been unable to develop its museum adequately or to take over the State Archives as the state law permits it to do. Both institutions have reached the limit, as far as physical facilities are concerned, and something must be done to help out the space situation, and done promptly. Hie Metcalf-Blegen survey recommended that as soon as pos- sible we fill up the U-court between our present book stacks with another stack which would hold some 650,000 volumes, and that 2 CHATS WITH THE EDITOR [September the university provide undergraduate library reading rooms by building a new extension on Bascom Hall. Then in a few years we were to ask the Legislature for a new building to be used by our Museum, Newspaper Division, and Manuscript Division; this step would provide more space in our present building for the needs of both libraries. And eventually storage space would have to be found beneath the lower campus or by tunneling into University Hill. During the past year officials of the university and of this So- ciety have carefully considered this plan, and the present decision is to reject it. Instead, the university is asking the Legislature for some $1,600,000 to build a separate University Library across State Street from our present building and connected with it by a tunnel. This plan would allow the University Library to remove from our building entirely, but yet guarantee the close cooperation of the two libraries; we should continue to look to the university for 90 percent of our readers. If the new plan is carried out, the space needs of our Society will be greatly changed. We shall have plenty of shelving for books, and with some reconstruction we can provide ample space for workrooms, study alcoves, and places where typewriters and microfilm readers may be used in each of our divisions. We shall have enough space to take care of our future library needs for twenty years and to begin taking action to solve the problem of properly caring for the state archives. Under these conditions we shall need to ask the Legislature for $500,000 to do the necessary reconstruction of our building and to build a new extension in the U-court between the present book stacks. This space will allow four stories and a basement of new construction measuring approximately 80 feet long and 50 feet wide. The architectural lines of the present building need not be harmed, and as a matter of fact, can even be improved. The new construction will allow for (1) a basement level for newspaper storage; (2) a first-floor level for museum exhibitions; (3) a two-story small auditorium seating about 500 people at the second-floor level; and (4) a fourth-floor level for museum 1944] CHATS WITH THE EDITOR 3 exhibitions. The grant of half a million dollars will also provide for reconstructing and redesigning our present building and for modernizing its ventilating and electrical equipment. Thus the Society can solve its most pressing space needs— for the Library by using space now occupied by the University Library, and for the Newspaper Division and Museum (though the auditorium will have many uses for all divisions of the Society) by new construction. We believe the present plan is a sound one for meeting in the very near future the great needs for space of both the University Library and the Society. We solicit the support of our members in bringing about these basic and vital improvements. PRAIRIE DU CHIEN has had a great history, and her most famous citizen has been Colonel Hercules Louis Dousman, influential agent of the American Fur Company, superb diplomat with the _ . Indians, and the Northwest's first millionaire. This year the beautiful house Dousman built in 184 3~44 celebrated its centennial in handsome Centennial , . \r . ir. oi ^ , . , -, fashion, on May 19-21. The festivities were led by Mrs. Virginia Dousman Bigelow of St. Paul and Mr. Louis Dousman of Billings, Montana, grandchildren of Colonel Dous- man. Mrs. Bigelow, who was the moving force in restoring Villa Louis to its former elegance and turning it over to the city of Prairie du Chien as a historic house museum in 1936, had worked hard so as to open up new exhibits in several of the out-buildings including the ice house and preserve house. Mr. Cal Peters, curator of the Museum Prairie des Chiens which was built from the Villa's former carriage house, had added new dioramas and paintings to his splendid series portraying Prairie du Chien history. The Villa Louis Opening Committee led by Dr. E. M. Dessloch pre- sented an unusually varied program with a formal tea at the Villa, a grand costume ball at the high school, a whisker-growing con- test which Cal Peters won, two mile-long parades, a horse show, 4 CHATS WITH THE EDITOR . [September and two performances each of pageants depicting "Early Craw- ford County " and " The Red Bird Incident." Despite threatening weather and transportation difficulties, the whole region turned out to take part in the opening, and about 10,000 people attended the Sunday pageant. A fee of 25 cents was charged for admission to the grounds, and the Committee showed a net profit of $500 which was set aside to help defray the expenses of next year's opening. There can be no doubt that the people of the Prairie du Chien region have insured the per- manent preservation of Villa Louis, and that its annual opening in May has become a leading spectacle of Wisconsin and Upper Mississippi Valley history. TEN YEARS or so ago Mr. Fred L. Holmes had a vision for Wisconsin. He decided that he would write a series of books about his native state. One would deal with its natural setting _ , TT 7 and scenic beauties. A second would tell of some Fred Holmes £ . r , f. , , TT. of the more colorful Badger personalities. And and Hts j r 1 ^ ., later, a third was planned to treat or the various foreign nationalities to be found in Wisconsin. Each book would be simply written and profusely illustrated, as accurate as the author could make it, but above all clear and easy to read. That would be the way, thought Mr. Holmes, to share with the most people his enthusiasm and admiration for Wisconsin. Competent journalist and man of action that he is, Mr. Holmes set to work at once to carry out his plan. There were difficulties with publishers who did not believe that such books would sell. But in 1937 Alluring Wisconsin appeared, to run through three editions and sell some 20,000 copies. Another handsome volume called Badger Saints and Sinners was published in 1939. And now finally in 1944 comes Old World Wisconsin: Around Europe in the Badger State.
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