-- EVOLUTION er ASTAJE I / " ( By virtue of the discoveries of Ponce de Leon in 1512, the » territory Included in the present county of Racine and state of Wisconsin, with all of that from the Great Lakes to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, came under the dominion of Ferdinand, King of \0 Spain, and was called Florida. France made good her claim to the territory in I627, and held jurisdiction over it until 1763, when it was ceded to England in the treaty of Paris. Thirteen years later the colonies declared their independence, and in the Issue of the i 0 \ • F 1 war following, the land on which we live came under the dominion of the United States of America. w By Congressional enactment of the Ordinance of 1787, the Northwest Territory was organized; it included all lands north of

the Ohio River, and west of Pennsylvania, as far asy and some dis­ tance beyond, the Mississippi. Within this territory the domain of Wisconsin continued until 1800, when it became part of the terri­ tory of Indiana, organized that year, and so remained for nine years. In 1809 it became part of the territory of Illinois, and in 1818 of the territory of Michigan, which included also the states of Iowa and Minnesota and part of the Dakotas. On July 3, 1836, Wisconsin territory was organized^and on May 29, 1848, Wis- consin.was admitted into the Union of States,- the thirtieth star in the galaxy on the banner of the Republic.

Kl) For further data concerning Wisconsin's territorial and state history, see Appendix. (2) Foot-note; The Ordinance of I?S7 was drawn by Nathan Lane, of Beverly, Mass., for which he was warmly eu­ logized by Daniel Webster, of the same state, in his famous "Reply to Hayne", in the U.S.3enate, in I831. T7/?$T WH/T£ MA* IN STATE

The first white man to set foot on Wisconsin soil was Jean Nlcolet, (I) Interpreter on the staff of Samuel de Ohamplain, Governor of New France, who in 1634 sent him on a voyage of dis­ I A covery to investigate rumors of a country of lakes west of Huron. From the Straits of Mackinac, Nlcolet went in a canoe with a crew of eight men, across the head of Lake Michigan, up Green Bay, through Fox River and Lake Winnefcago to the upper Fox, which he ascended for some distance, establishing friendly relations with the Indians on the way, upon whom he endeavored to impress iMttmt greatness, power and glory of France, and the importance of re­ maining at peace with her. Concerning this journey of Nlcolet, it has been said by one authorized to speak;-((2)

"The only definite, practical result of Nlcolet's long and dangerous journey to Wisconsin, or of the long French regime in the northwest which followed Nlcolet»s voyage of discovery, was an accession to the fur trade enjoyed by the French settlements on the lower St.Lawrence. That also was the main object of his voy­ age, though it was not unmixed with a dream that inci­ dentally he might come upon the long sought route to India; a dream that was the inspiration of a long line of ex­ plorers, beginning with Columbus himself."

(I) Foot-note;- Jear Nlcolet was born at Cherbourg, France, In 1598; joined Ohamplain on the St.Lawrence in I6IS; lived many years with the Indians, acquiring their language and learning their wood-craft, and be­ came very useful to his chief in facilitating inter­ course and maintaining friendly relations with the na­ tive tribes.He died in 1642, by accidental drowning. £See~- ?he • Prench - Regime In-Wlsconsln ••ani^ftewtiefMNfr- wtfst, b;, itou-i-se - P«- Keliogg. ) (2) Foot-note;- Reuben G. Thwaites, in "Wisconsin in Three Centuries". — T^CESJ#w^ With the coming of Nlcolet to Wisconsin in 1634, one hundred years after Cartier, the history of the state began, though it was a quarter century beforg another white man ventured west of Lake Michigan. During that interval the character of the Indian popu­ lation of Wisconsin became totally changed. Almost wholly Siouxan at the time of Nlcolet, it then became a refuge for hordes of Red men,- sacs, Foxes, Hurons,- 'Ma scout ens and others, from Midl­ and fammfrq igan,A Canada, and s£***s further east, in flight from the blood­ thirsty, relentless and irresistible Iroquois, and the "center of the Indian population of the west shifted to Wisconsin, which then (I) became the goal of discovery, exploration and exploitation •• T#E/YCtf &£rri£R<5. In 1665, however, the entire French population in the valley of the 3t.Lawrence, including the Great Lakes region, numbered "scarcely more than three thousand souls, thirteen hundred of whom were officers and soldiers"; and none of these were in Wis­ consin. The fact Is that during the entire French regime in Wis­ consin, no section of th^Sta^a was really settled, in the sense that it came to be sevenTy\years\*wtaiT. What settlement there was, "was the result of the fur trade, and aside from the officers and garrisons that were sent for temporary occupation, ail of the set­ tlers were present or past traders. The unit of settlement was the military post, and around the forts were clustered ail the (2) permanent French dwellers In Wisconsin"; and at only tiBo points in the state was there at any time any considerable number of set- tiers,- Green Bay and Prairie du Chien. It was in I745, one hun- dred and £t£teen years after Nlcolet, that Augustin de Langlade, one of the first, if not the first white settler in the state, ar- 8niy rived at Green Bay and took up his residence there, eighteen years (I )"The French Regime In i^rioWand the Northwest", Kellogg -Raft /*& U) " a • „ ,( " 4 ~dH (3) footnote;-"Sieur Augustln Langlade, with his wife and son Charles, left Mackinac in 1745, and located at Green Bay, where they remained until their death at ad­ vanced years. They were the first white persona within the present boundaries of Wisconsin, whose occupancy acquired any degree of permanency". "History of Wisconsin Territory", page 42; by Moses M. Strong.

SW/__-N f- rj/r \ tn/ 1 before the end of the French regime in America. Tfce real set­ tlement of the state did not begin until the arrival of Gil­ bert Knapp, In 1834, exactly three centuries after Cartier, and two.after Nlcolet,. and seventseventyy one years after the end of French sovereignty in America. C

A striking Illustration of the ineptitude of the French of that period for colonization, in comparison with the English, is found in the fact that at the out-break of the French and Indian War, in 1754, the colonists of the English in America out-numbered the French twenty to one, which probably accounts for tne difference t» the general attitude of the Indians tow­ ard tne French and the English - which favored the former, who were not filling up the country with settlers. This may be said without disparagement of the extensive work of exploration by the French in Wisconsin and beyond, while the territory was un­ der the sovereignty of their king. If modern corroboration is wanted, th«* reader is referred to "Trader Horn", who, more than 150 years later, in the introduction to his biography, in the recently published book of that name, is quoted as follows;- "French, Ma'am; a language for the meagre—hearted. If God ever made a worse colonist than the French He hasn't let me knew about It. It take.; more than a little straw hat, and a cig­ arette, and a thimbleful of absinthe# an set out In a neat lit­ tle office , to open up Africa"

(1) M-phe real glory of Wisconsin dates from 1834 or "35, when the settlement of the country by the hardy Anglo Sax­ on race commenced in good earnest; when civilization, re­ ligion, and education were planted permanently in the coun­ try. Such a period deserves to be commemorated on the his­ toric page, and the evidences of the hardihood, morality, virtue and intelligence of the pioneer representative men and women merit a place In the archives of a society or­ ganized, for this very purpose" Wis. Hist. Coll.,, vol. 4; Introduction, by L. C. Draper, Sec'y. Ms. Hurt. &XM^. (2) see Ridpath's Hist, of U.S., page 250. (Foot-note) "The fdir trade was the main reason for the (V presence of the French in the West. The zest for discovery and the desire to carry French sovereignty across the con­ tinent never died out during the period of French occupa­ tion of North America; the zeal for conversion of tne heath­ en in the western world was an active , if declining, mo­ tive during the eighteenth century;the hope of finding rich mineral wealth lured some Frenchmen to the scores of Lake Superior, and to the waters of the upper Mississippi, But without the fur trade all of thesg visits would have been occasional, and would not have resulted in the peopling of the West.M See "The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwests. , Kellogg. /Ja4*3bV 7 THtsr JSSUIT M/$stONAR\ZS< S It was twenty six years after Nlcolet,; that the first French Catholic Jesuit missionary came to Wisconsin. Past his prime £& when he came, in 1660, Rene Menard was physically unfitted for the rig­ ors of wilderness life among savages, and within a year he perished w in the trackless forest, alone, in an effort to reach a village of the Huron Indians, who had been reported to him as in special need of his ministrations. He was followed by Claude Allouez, in 1665; many A^- by Jacques Marquette, in 1669; Claude Dablon in 1673, andAothersr (MtA** The carefully kept records of these men, with those of their fel­ low missionaries, made possible the compilation of a- detailed ac­ count of their activities and experiences,"prepared and published in France for the purpose of stimulating the interest and henevo- lence of the readers % under the title, "Jesuit Relations". An Amer­ ican reprint of these books, somewhat^bridged, may be found in the

Racine Public Library. (4j *"• ^uX^/N«^ 4 £xPLOAEm , It was during the same period that Nicolas Perrot came - in I665 - (2) an explorer and trader, who discovered the lead mines; and Louis Jolllet, who in I673, with Marquette, undertook a notable voyage of discovery and exploration down the Wisconsin and Mississippi, and up the Illinois river*, to Lake Michigan; and Robert de La Salle, H 74d'QfiirTdNf Wi who in I679, built, the first vessel to sail the Great Lakes, which isappeared forever while returning l%m to Niagara from Green Bay, with Henry de Tonty, ritfc a valuable cargo of furs; who,L the same year built ill-fated brt Crevecoeur, in Illinois, and In 1681 pioneered the river route rrom the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,- a momentous achievement.

jpu-w*^ ) e Jon-J oof it-iiOtt-not©e \2)(2) - Tiit****t• «uil $?t"t'*u,iorta«sZ* lK«»ZL.' Zm******M~Z * *«\AfjaipiVth~?AIZV?UY\1 e foreiW-- eewh-HoW mannnSitiormannedt 1th* . skirmiah lines of the* French soldier;^ ne rore- runne!5r anl^td accompanlsfi5Snaniat i of the fur-trader, as well as rala- ) eJofi-^oof elfare he must

death in the wild» Foot-note (I);- See "The French regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest", by Kellogg; page 141. ,, » " Pap /ZZ. Foot-note (3 ); - Ibid., pa-ge^ta te>OT=%OT£ (if) "The history of the French missions in tne ffsst has been narrated In a single chapter, beca4.se the period of their ac­ tivity was relatively brief and covered only a small portion of the history ws &STS attempted to write. Less lhar- fifteen . years of the missions in the West are detailed in the Jesuit Relations, and the years 1660 to 1675 -"ere not the years of the greatest progress in the French occupation of our region. The mission sources are voluminous, but Yery limited in time and space. They are confined, to small areas, as * oil as to a limited period. It Seems to us that too #MtfXX much stress has been placed-on the altars of the missionaries in develop­ ing the "'/est, and that what they accomplished has been over- ;•• emphasized. We have endeavored to give them thei- pmier place as a small, highly specialised gra&p, the reports of whose ac­ tivities have assigned theai an undue snare in the opening; of the west to civilisation." I"The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest"; Louise Pnelps Kellogg.; page x. preface.) \ - EARLS TRADERS AND SETTLERS

#——•,i.i.m...^«~in-iB.-111-nnr •••.•—•nir-w^.iiii i.i i'w •uimA.nwu.iw. • V—IMHII W———I—•— IM M———W— The Squatter claims of the very early trader-settlers in Wisconsin, and in other widely separated sections of the Indian ™ dwriwi t&jL T*v*M « Vpft^u. country of the Northwest Territory* werevvery narrow and very long in shape, being but a. few rods wide, and from one to four miles long, and containing from one hundred to six hundred and forty acres of land/-usually fronting on a river or larger body of water. These claims were a matter of jest to the real farmer-settlers (I) who came later, but there were very good reasons for making them long and narrow. The first consideration in locating a white set­ tlement in those days was to provide security against Indian out­ breaks, enabling a quick Concentration of the whole settler strength and resources to repel attack; an of the heme-/being on the water front, it became a matter of a very brief time to assemble the whole force. Another reason was that the early traders who made their tem­ porary homes in the state considered the land of little or no value, and although they raised what grains, fruits and vegetables were needed for their own use, they were not farmers, and made no effort to profit from cultivation of the land. Their chief object was to traffick with the Indians, and to secure the rich furs and peltries with which the whole region abounded. It was not until the arrival of the real settlers of Wisconsin, in the middle thir­ ties, that titles to the land were sought and permanent homes se­ cured* (I) Foot-note;- See recollections of Henry S. Baird, ~ wis. Hist. Collections, Volume IV, page 199,200. Mr.Baird came to Wisconsin in 1824. * ./ V/isca//6fAf's JJMMM lt**s * ' ""•-5

At the close of the War of the Revolution, there was some dif- flculty in fixing the boundary line between Canada and the United \V/ States substantially as it exists today. At one time in the course of the negotiations, the American .commissioners were ready to com­ promise on a line which would have given the English the north half of the states of Michigan and Wisconsin. Neither party, at that time, had much knowledge of the resources or the geography of the region, and the latter declined the proposal, and chose the pres­ ent water boundary line instead, fortunately for us. At the time it acquired statehood, Wisconsin established the St.Croix River as Its northwest boundary, instead of the Mississippi, and thus re­ nounced possession of a large territory rightfully belonging to

her* ..'"'•' * L_ Ar$ SOUTH Fa&w&ARY Among the provisions of the Ordinance of 1787 which it was declared "shall forever remain unalterable-;•,unless by common con­ sent", was the following ;- "There shall be formed not less than three nor more than five states in the said territory M» The ordinance further provided that in case there should be only r • •: that these states shall have certain boundaries, three states formed,Awith this proviso;- "It is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three states shall be sub­ ject so far to be altered, that if.Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Mich­ igan. " ^

When Illinois became a territo)*y, in 1809, its northern boun­ dary was the line between Canada and the United States. When the enabling act providing for a state constitution for Illinois was before Congress in 1818, its north boundary was fixed therein in accordance with the^Qrdinance of 1787,- on a line east and west through the south limits of lake Michigan. Before a vote was reached on the act, it was amended, fixing the north boundary sixty two miles further north. The sponsor for the amendment was delegate Nathan­ iel Pope, whose arguments, in view of what has transpired since, seem to have been guided by an uncanny prescience; among other things he sald;- "The proposed new state,!Illinois ) by reason of her geographical position, even more than on account of the fertility of her soil, was destined to become populous and Influential; that If her northern boundary was fixed by a line arbitrarily established, rather than naturally de­ termined, and her commerce was to be confined to the Miss­ issippi and Ohio Rivers, there was a possibility that her commercial relations with the South might become so closely connected that in the event of an attempted dis­ memberment of the Union, Illinois would cast her lot with the Southern people. On the other hand, if Illinois should, by the extension of her limits north, be given jurisdiction over the southwest shores of Lake Michigan, she might become, at some future time, the key-stone to the perpetuity of the Union." It is certain that Mr. Pope did the state of Illinois a very great service, and some there are who credit him with far- sighted statesmanship, for "without that northern tier of anti- slavery counties in 186I, the balance might well have swung to the South; and with Lincoln and Grant out of the picture in those times, almost anything might have happenied.» './.. ¥

In 1818, when the northern boundary of Illinois was moved sixty two miles further north than that fixed by the Ordinance of zs 1787, that state gained 8,500 square miles of territory. There were then about one thousand white people within the limits of Wisconsin (I) as now bounded, the great majority of whom were located in the vicinity of Green Bay, and Prairie du Chien. Wisconsin was part of 'Michigan territory at the time, and apparently no one here was in­ terested in the change of Illinois' north line; but in I836, when Wisconsin was made a territory, it claimed the north boundary

line of Illinois3as defined by the Ordinance of 1787, as its south line, and- memorials were sent to Congress, to which no attention was paid. In 1840, when there were only 31,000 people in the whole state, an election was held to choose delegates to a constitutional convention, to be held at Rockford, In which the people in the dis­ puted tract participated, at the invitation of the Territorial legislature of Wisconsin, but the action was premature and ill- advised, and came to nothing. Illinois people favored the connec­ tion, but Congress paid no attention to appeals, and thep became indifferent. On the admission of Wisconsin as a state in 1848, with the present south boundary, the dispute was ended.

an/ (I) Foot-note;- See "New States and Territories", by Andrew Miller; page 77. A / :> i» (, VVNORTHWESTERN TERRITORY' (Wisconsin ) IN 1818 1 j> ^ "•••

The appended brief descriptive sketch of the domain Included in the state of Wisconsin as now bounded, and called "Northwestern Territory in I8IS",.is found in a iiwie booklet, called "New States and Territories", published by Andrew Miller, In I8I9.The been ot-en book gives evidence of having, compiled with much care, and many of the figures given, and other statements of fact are readily suscep­ tible of corroboration. The authors estimate that there were "about one msS3ESH thousand white men in the territory in 1818" may be accepted as conservative, and very close to the actual fact. The book has a really formidable table of contents and prospectus com­ bined, as follows;- ,

« NEW STATES AND TERRITORIES, or $he Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, In their real characters in 1818; showing in a new and short way, the situation, size, number of inhabitants, whites and Indians - the number of counties, villages, printing of­ fices, banks, factories, furnaces, forges, mills &c,, of each county, with its county town, number of houses, stores, banks &c. in each, by a MAP TABLE. Also a des- scrlption of the rivers, roads, settlements, qualities and prices of lands; the timber, water , climate, dis­ eases, prices of produce, stock and goods - and the ad­ vantages and disadvantages of each, and of their partic­ ular parts; and of the new parts of York state, Pennsyl­ vania, Virginia and Kentucky; with a few words concerning the impositions and difficulties experienced in moving, settling, &c." On another page the author makes the following statement con­ cerning the sources of his information;- "The statement of facts is collected from the ac­ counts of Gentlemen residing in various parts of the different States and Territories - from Indian Traders, Indian Agents, Officers of the late army, surveyors, travelers - the different authors extant on the subject, viz. McKenzie, Schultz, Lewis and Clark, Pike, Carver, Emigrant's Directory, Ohio Gazetteer, and personal ob­ servation. • NORTHWESTfiHH TBHRII'OKY M tht £\NlSC0tfS/tl] Lies w. of Michigan Territory and lake. It is bounded by lake Michigan on the e. Superior and the grand portage n. Mississippi river w. and Illinois Territory s. It is 700 \5\ m. e. and w. Moo n. and s. containing about 1000 whites A and 6000 Indians. Its chief town id Prairie Des Chiens. This territory much resembles Michigan in soil, timber, fish, fowl, game, climate and productions. Its surface is more uneven being in many places broken and mountainous. In respect to its waters it more especially resembles Michigan, having three of its sides bounded by large lakes and the Mississippi; and its other rivers of which it has a prodigious number, running in three different directions into the 3 great waters by which it is bounded. There are vast tracts of excellent and fertile land; but the territory derives its chief importance at present from its mines, wild game, fish.fowl and wild rice. With this wild rice ail the rivers and bays are covered, in so much that together with the vast numbers of fish and wild fowl, the Indians are supposed to be entirely exempt from the contingencies of famine. This rise, called by the French "folle avolne", by which name they call one of the tribes tit) of Indians, because they live almost entirely upon it, grows in all the marshes, ponds, lakes and rivers, of this and Michigan territory, where the water is from one to seven feet deep, unless the bottoms are hard and grav­ elly. It grows 6 or 7 feet above the water, the stalk re­ sembling the reed cane of Kentucky, and the branches those (>-

of oats.. This territory has but few settlements, and \ those small. There is a small French settlement and fort at the mouth of Fox river which empties into the south end of Green Bay, and another considerable one with a strong fort at Prairie Des Chiens at the mouth of Quis- consln river, which runs into the Mississippi. This is the channel through which the Northwest Company convey their goods to the Mississippi and its waters. From Mack­ inac to Green Bay, and up the bay to Fox river and over a portage of two miles, and down ouiscossin to Prairie Des Chiens, situated on the east bank of Ouisconsln one mile from the Mississippi and about six hundred from Mackinac. Prairie Des Chiens contains 65 houses and five hundred inhabitants who are chiefly French, but a considerable number of them part Indian blood from inter- marriages with that people. There are from 20 to 40 thousand pounds of lead made yearly at Dubuque's mines near Mississippi below the mouth of Ouiscogsln. The mines cover a tract of ten miles by sixty. Virgin copper has also been found in several places, and iron ore. Carver's purchase of which so much has been said is in this territofy. It is about

120 miles square, bounded by the Mississippi on the west? from St. Anthony's Falls to Lake Pepin. His title is said to be spurious.,which is no doubt a fact.

$$*«& 1 ~ 4*** g*i< ^ **fkrt^'&uM M f */4 .1 \J Wisconsin became a Territory July 3, 1836, by act of Congress passed April 20, 1836;- Andrew Jackson, President. Henry Dodge was the first governor.

The first Wisconsin Territorial legislature convened at Belmont, 10a county, Wisconsin territory, October 25, 1836, and adjourned December 9, 1836. Iowa, from July 3, 1836 to 1838, was part of Wisconsin Territory, and sent representatives from three counties,- Iowa,Dubuque and DesMoines; Wisconsin sent representatives from three counties also;- Brown, Craw­ ford and Milwaukee. Alanson Sweet and Gilbert Knapp represent­ ed Milwaukee county in the Council, and Wm. B. Sheldon, M. W. Cornwall and Charles Durkee (of Kenosha) in the Assembly. Madison was selected by this first Territorial Legislature as the Capital of Wisconsin Territory - the seat of government,— by a vote of 7 to 6 in the Council, and 16 to 10 in the Assem­ bly. A second session of the first legislature was convened at Burlington, Des Moines county Nov. 6,'1837, and adjourned Jan. 20, 1838. A special session was convened at Burlington on June II, 1838, and adjourned June 25, following.

The first session of the Second Territorial Legislature convened at Madison, Nov. 26, 1838, and adjourned Dec. 22, 1838. William Sullen,of Kenosha, and, Marshall M. strong of Racine, represented Racine county in the Council, the former being arid president of the CouncilJ, Orrln R. Stevens, Zadoc Newman and Tristam C. Hoyt in the Assembly.

KeuciMl ,*/ fir/tJU&AtAL AND STATE £QY£&I&&SL Following are names of the governing, officers over the domain now called Wisconsin, from' the enactment of the Ordin­ ; ance of 1787, until It was made a state in 1343;- Arthur St.Clair, Northwest territory, 1787 to 1800. Wm.Henry Harrison, Indiana Territory, 1800-to 1809 Nlnian Edwards, Illinois Territory, 1309 to 1818 Lewis Cass, Michigan Territory, ISIS to IS3I George B. Porter • " IS3I to 1334 a- "/^rrwvu^ \Stevens T. Mason » " 1834 to 1336 7^^^—----^~^" ^Henry"Dodge, Wisconsin " IS36 to 1341 James Duane Doty • 1841 to I34M- Nathaniel P. Tallmadge it 1844 to 1345 Henry Dodge, 1845 to 1343 7ju ^*ie 0/ Following are the names of the governors of^Wisconsin, 10 rs of^W; with the dates of their incumbency of that office;- Nelson Dewey June 7 1848 to Jan. 5, 1852 Leonard J. farwell Jan. 5, 1352 to Jan. 2, 1854 Wm. A. Barstow Jan. 2, 1354 to Mar. 21, 1856 Arthur McArthur Mar. 21, 1356 to Mar. 25, I856 Coles Bashford Mar. 25, 1356 to Jan. 4, 1858 Alex. W. Randall Jan. 4, IS58 to Jan 2. 1862 Louis P. Harvey Jan. 6, 1862 to Apr. 16, 1862 Edward Salomon Apr. 19, 1862 to Jan. 4, 1864 James T. Lewis Jan. 4, 1864 to Jan. I, 1366 Lucius Fairchild Jan. I, 1866 to Jan. I, 1372 Cad. 0. Washburn Jan. I, IS72 to Jan. 5, 1874 Wm. R. Taylor Jan. 5, 1374 to Jan. 3, IS76 Harrison Judington Jan. 3, IS76 to Jan. 7, 1878 Wm. E. Smith Jan. 7, IS78 to Jan. 2, 1382 Jeremiah M. Rusk Jan. 2, 1882 to Jan. 7, 1389 William D. Hoard Jan. 7, 1889 to Jan. 5, "IS91 George W. Peck Jan. 5, IS9I to Jan. 7, 1395 William H. Upham Jan. 7, 1395 to Jan. 4, 1897 Edward 3cnofield Jan. 4, 1397 to Jan. 7, 1901 f/7Robert M. LaFollette Jan. 7, 1901 to Jan. I, 1906 m James 0. Davidson Jan. I, 1906 to Jan. 2, I9II Francis E. McGovern Jan. 2, 1911 to Jan. 4, 1915 Emanuel L. Phiiipp Jan. 4, 1915 to Jan. 3, 1921 John J. Blaine Jan. 3, 1921 to Jan. 3, 1927 Fred R. Zimmerman Jan. 3, 1927 to Jan. 7, 1929 Walter J. Kohler Jan. 7, 1929 to Jan. 1931 Philip LaFollette Jan. 1931 to #j/Resigned to accept office of United States 3enator. (X) Filled vacancy caused sy resignation of Gov. LaFollette. &

TERRITORIAL OFFICERS OF WISCONSIN Governors Henry Dodge from ..July 4, I836, to Oct. 5, 1841 James Duane Doty « Oct. 5, 1841, to Sept. 16, 1844 Nathaniel P. Tallmadge • Sept. 16, I84M-, to Hay 13, 1845 Henry Dodge • May 13, 1845, 10 June 7, 1848 SECRETARIES John S. Horner api cite d by Andrew Jackson May 6, 1836 William B. Slaughter it u Feb. 16, 1837 Francis J. Dunn. It Martin Van Buren Jan. 25, 1841 A. P. Field I John Tyler Apr. 23, 1841 George R. 0. Floyd If James K. Polk Oct. 30, 1843 John Cat11n It • Feb. 24, 1846 SUPREME COURT Charles Dunn,C.J. Appointed by Andrew Jackson Aug. IS36 William 0. Frazer.A.J. • • July, 1836 David Irvin, A.J. " • Sept. I836 Andrew G. Miller A J» " Martin Van Buren Nov., 1338 ATTORNEY GENERALS Henry S. Baird Appointed by Gov. Dodge Dec. 7, IS36 Horatio N. Wells 11 u March 30, 1839 Mortimer M. Jackson Jan. 26, 1842 William Pitt Lynde Gov. Tallmadge Feb. 22, 1845 A. Hyatt Smith Gov. Dodge Aug. 4, 1845 Clerks of the Court John Catiin Appointed at December Term 18 36 Simeon Mills " July Term 1839 La Fayette Kellogg • July Term 1840

UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEYS William W. Chapman Appointed, by Andrevr Jackson 1836 Moses M. Strong M 'Martin van Buren 1838 Thos. W. Sutherland " John Tyler 18 41 William Pitt Lynde " James K. Polk 1845

TERRITORIAL DELEGATES TO CONGRESS George w. Jones elected Oct. 10, 1836 James D. Doty " Sept. 10, 1338 " Aug. 5, IS40 Henry Dodge « Sept. 27, 1841 u " "25, 1843 Morgan L. Martin « " 22, 1845 John H. Tweedy " "6, 1347