Annotated Bibliography for Dickinson and Iron Counties, the Menominee
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR DICKINSON AND IRON COUNTIES, THE MENOMINEE IRON RANGE AND THE UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN [Compiled by William J. Cummings] [NOTE: Boldface type is used for highlighting ADAMS COUNTY – Natural Features; Settlement; alphabetically-arranged surnames to facilitate Organization; Friendship; (3) ASHLAND COUNTY – searching only on the first appearance of said The Jesuit Fathers; Apostle Islands; The Mainland; surname. Chapters or sections of annotated Ashland; Butternut; Glidden; Protestant Missions; (4) books have also been highlighted in boldface for BARRON COUNTY – Natural Features; Settlement; ease in searching the contents of these Organization; Barron; (5) BAYFIELD COUNTY – volumes.] Natural Advantages; Indians; Early History; Bayfield; (6) BROWN COUNTY – Explorations of Green Bay; THE UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN Early Indian Movements; The First Fur Traders; The Catholic Missions; Daumont de St. Lusson; Marquette and Joliet; La Salle; Louis Hennepin; -----, History of Northern Wisconsin, Henri De Tonty; Subsequent Visitors; British Rule; Including an Account of Its Beginning of Actual Settlement; Building of Fort Settlement, Growth, Development Howard; Under Michigan Territory; The Present; and Resources; An Extensive Sketch Lake and River Communication; Roads and Railroads; Political Organization; Location of the of Its Counties, Cities, Towns and County Seat; Judicial Organization; The Bar Villages, Their Improvements, Association; Attorneys – 1818 to 1848; Land Office; Industries, Manufactories; The Old Settlers’ Club; County Organization Under Biographical Sketches, Portraits of State Rule; Legislative Representation; The Arndt- Prominent Men and Early Settlers; Vineyard Tragedy; Military History; Town History; District Schools; Green Bay; Fort Howard; The De Views of County Seats, Etc. , Chicago, Peres; West De Pere; Wrightstown; Other Towns; Illinois: The Western Historical (7) BUFFALO COUNTY – Location and Natural Company, A.T. Andreas, Proprietor, Resources; Early History; Official; County Seat 1881, 1,217 pages, hardbound. Troubles; Agricultural Society; The Press; Beef slough; Alma; Fountain City; Buffalo City; Mondovi; Gilmanton; (8) BURNETT COUNTY – Natural (One of the earliest and best histories of the Features; Organization; Grantsburg; (9) CALUMET counties comprising northern Wisconsin, COUNTY – Location and Natural Features; Early many of which border Michigan’s Upper Occupants; Settlement; Political and Judicial; A Peninsula. The entry for Marinette County Marked Assimilation; The War; Chilton; New includes a History of Menominee County, Holstein; Hayton; Gravesville; Hilbert Junction; Brillion; Sherwood; Clifton; Stockbridge; Michigan, which includes numerous Brothertown; (10) CHIPPEWA COUNTY – Physical biographical sketches, some with engraved Features; The Chippewas; Organization; War portraits. Most of the biographical sketches Record; The Settlement; Chippewa Falls; Bloomer; are very detailed, including information of Chippewa City; Auburn; Cadott; Cartwright’s Mill; interest to historians, as well as Badger Mills; (11) CLARK COUNTY – Location and Natural Features; Settlement; The Press; Pineries genealogists. Details of the chapter entitled and Logging; Neillsville; Humbird; Greenwood; “Marinette County, Including a History of Hemlock; Colby (See Marathon County); Dorchester; Menominee, Mich.,” pp. 578-610, appear at Unity (See Marathon County); Abbotsford; (12) the end of the Contents section. This book DOOR COUNTY – Natural Advantages; Lumber was reprinted as a two-volume set by the Interests; Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal; The War Quota; Traditional and Early History; Political; Sturgeon Mid-Peninsula Library Cooperative in Bay; Bay View; Nasewaupee; Forestville; Gilbralter; 1988.) Liberty Grove; Clay Banks; Sevastopol; Egg Harbor; Bailey’s Harbor; Jacksonport; (13) DOUGLAS Contents: (1) GENERAL HISTORY – The Mound COUNTY – Superior; (14) DUNN COUNTY – Builders; The Indian Tribes; The First Map; Nicolet’s Location and Resources; Settlement and Growth; Explorations; Early Jesuit Missions; Under French The Old Settlers; Menomonie; Knapp; Rusk; Dominion; Discovery of the Upper Mississippi; Downsville; Dunnville; Cedar Falls; Eau Galle; Rock Joliet’s and Marquette’s Maps; Explorations Falls; Maridean; Other Towns and Villages; (15) Subsequent to Joliet; English Supremacy in EAU CLAIRE COUNTY – Geology; Early Visitors; Wisconsin; Explorations of Northwestern Wisconsin; Organization; Eau Claire; Union; Augusta; Fall The Territorial Period; The Public Domain; Furs; (2) Creek; Porterville; Other Towns and Villages; (16) - 1 - ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR DICKINSON AND IRON COUNTIES, THE MENOMINEE IRON RANGE AND THE UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN [Compiled by William J. Cummings] GREEN LAKE COUNTY – Natural Advantages; Beauharnais; Early History; Official; Press; Coleman Antiquities; Settlement; Organization; War Record; Brothers Murder; Durand; Pepin; Arkansaw; Legislative; Summer Attractions; Berlin; Princeton; Stockholm; (31) PIERCE COUNTY – Location and Markesan; Dartford; Kingston; Green Lake and Natural Features; Early History; Official; Ellsworth; Manchester; (17) JUNEAU COUNTY – Physical Maiden Rock; Prescott; River Falls; Diamond Bluff; Features; Settlement; Press; Mauston; New Lisbon; Esdaile; (32) POLK COUNTY – Physical Features; Necedah; Elroy; Wonewoc; Union Center; Settlement; Organizations; Osceola; St. Croix Falls; Germantown; Werner; (18) JACKSON COUNTY – (33) PORTAGE COUNTY – Physical Features; The Physical Features; Indian Occupation; Settlement; Indians; Early History; The White Pine; Political Logging and Lumbering; Black River Falls; Merrillan; History; The War Record; Stevens Point; Plover; Alma Center; Hexton; Sechlersville; Melrose; North Springville; McDillville; Amherst; Junction City; Bend; Millston; Other Towns; (19) KEWAUNEE Meehan; (34) PRICE COUNTY – Lumbering; COUNTY – Natural Advantages; War Record; Settlement; Organization; Phillips; Worcester; Fifield; Political; Kewaunee; Ahnapee; Other Settlements; Ogema; (35) SHAWANO COUNTY – General (20) LANGLADE COUNTY ; (21) LINCOLN History; The Reservations; Settlement; Organization; COUNTY – Physical Features; Political; The Shawano; Other Settlements; (36) ST. CROIX Wisconsin River; Merrell [sic – Merrill] ; Other Towns; COUNTY – Physical Features; The Indians; Early (22) LA CROSSE COUNTY – The Winnebago History; Organization; Hudson; New Richmond; Confederacy and Indian Occupation; O-Chunk-O- Hammond; Town of Somerset; Baldwin; Hersey; Raw; Preliminary; The Beginning; Origin of the name Nelson; Star Prairie; Erin; Other Villages; (37) La Crosse; The Game of La Crosse; Beginning of SHEBOYGAN COUNTY – Physical Features; Settlement; Mining Settlements and Military Posts; Prehistoric Remains; The Name; The Indians; Nathan Myrick’s Arrival; The Settlement of Mainland; Settlement; Organization; Means of Communication; The First Survey; The Mormon Invasion; The First Legislative; Schools; Agricultural Growth; The War Raft; The First Death; The First Birth; First Land Period; Tornado of 1873; Sheboygan; Sheboygan Sales; Removal of the Indians; Organization; County Falls; Plymouth; Greenbush; Glenbeulah; Town of Seat; United States Land Office; Northwestern Mosel; Town of Herman; Howard’s Grove; Franklin; Horticultural Society; Reminiscences; La Crosse; Town of Rhine; Town of Russell; Town of Lima; West Salem; (23) MANITOWOC COUNTY – Natural Town of Holland; Cedar Grove; Oostberg; Advantages; General History; Political; Early History; Amsterdam; Town of Wilson; Town of Lynden; The War Period; Means of Communication; Cascade; Waldo; Onion River; Winooski; Town of Manitowoc; Manitowoc Rapids; Two Rivers; Sherman; Random Lake; Sherman Station; Silver Centerville; Keil; Other Settlements; (24) Creek; Town of Mitchell; Town of Scott; (38) MARATHON COUNTY – Physical Features; TAYLOR COUNTY – Early History; The Centennial Settlement; Wausau; Marathon City; Mosinee; Year; County Officers; Medford; Chelsea; Westboro; Knowlton; Springbrook; Hutchinson; Spencer; Colby Stetsonville; (39) TREMPEALEAU COUNTY – (See Clark County); Unity (See Clark County); (25) Natural Features; Settlement; Organization; The MARINETTE COUNTY – General Features; Early Press; Whitehall; Trempealeau; Town of Caledonia; History; The First Mill; The Great Fires of Oct. 8, Arcadia; Galesville; Indendence; Blair; Ettrick; (40) 1871; After the Fire – Relief; Marinette; WAUPACA COUNTY – Geological; Lumber Menekaunee; Peshtigo; Menominee, Mich. ; (26) Interests; Agricultural; Property and Taxation; MARQUETTE COUNTY – Physical Features; Pre- Population; The Schools; Prehistoric and Historic; Historic and Aboriginal; Settlement; Organization; First Settlers; The Fight for a Child; Organization; Montello; Westfield; Other Settlements; (27) First Things; Old Settlers’ Society; County buildings; MONROE COUNTY – Geographical Position; Waupaca; New London; Northport; Weyauwega; Indians; Settlement; Organization; Railroads; The Little Wolf; Royalton; Lind; Farmington; Scandinavia; Press; Monroe County Agricultural Society; St. Lawrence; Iola; Dayton; Helvetia; Bear Creek; Cranberry Culture; Sparta; Angelo; Lafayette; Lebanon; Caledonia; Union; Matteson; Larrabee; Cataract; Leon; Cashton; Melvina; Tomah; Fremont; Dupont; (41) WAUSHARA COUNTY – Greenfield; Norwalk; Wilton; Glendale; Kendall; Physical Characteristics; Early History; Organization; Adrian; (28) OCONTO COUNTY – General History; Wautoma; Plainfield; Hancock; Other Villages; (42) Early History; Fur Trade;