^ ,k'h ,,/., 'Aft .,1 (. '* *;iL /. ¥ ' Vh»*'i\')'i (!f • .,', ' ' • ' > ,1 •^ 1/.'. , 1 v'^ *>' fijfc! Wisconsin Magazine of History TKe A-mcrican Muscwm in Britain FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT The. Frontier Hero in History and Legend KENT L. STECKMESSER Wisconsin and 'Nsgro Suffrage LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR. How Glenn Frank Became University President LAWRENCE H. LARSEN Tke Anti-Federalists FORREST MCDONALD Wisconsin "Stovewood" Walls RICHARD W. E. PERRIN Published by The State Historical Society of Wisconsin / Vol. XLV I, No. 3 / Spring, 1963 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Director Officers WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE, President HERBERT V. KOHLER, Honorary Vice-President JOHN C. GEILFUSS, First Vice-President GEORGE HAMPEL, JR., Treasurer E. E. HOMSTAD, Second Vice-President LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Secretary Board of Curators Ex-Officio GAYLORD NELSON, Governor of the State MRS. DENA A. SMITH, State Treasurer ROBERT C. ZIMMERMAN, Secretary of State FRED H. HARRINGTON, President of the University ANGUS B. ROTHWELL, Superintendent of Public Instruction MRS. W. NORMAN FITZGERALD, President of the Women's Auxiliary Term Expires 1963 SCOTT M. CUTLIP EDWARD FROMM MRS. HOWARD T. GREENE JAMES RILEY Madison Hamburg Genesee Depot Eau Claire W. NORMAN FITZGERALD ROBERT A. GEHRKE DR. GUNNAR GUNDERSEN CLIFFORD SWANSON Milwaukee Ripon La Crosse Stevens Point MRS. ROBERT E. FRIEND JOHN C. GEILFUSS WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE Hartland Milwaulcee Madison Term Expires 1964 THOMAS H. BARLAND JIM DAN HILL MRS. VINCENT W. KOCH FREDERIC L OLSON Eau Claire Superior Janesville Milwaukee M. J. DYRUD E. E. HOMSTAD MRS. RAYMOND J. KOLTES FREDERIC SAMMOND Prairie du Chien Black River Falls Madison Milwaukee GEORGE F. KASTEN CHARLES MANSON DR. WILLIAM STOVALL Milwaukee Madison Madison Term Expires 1965 GEORGE BANTA, JR. ROBERT B. L. MURPHY STANLEY STONE CEDRIC A. VIG Menasha Madison Milwaukee Rhinelander GEORGE HAMPEL, JR. FOSTER B. PORTER MILO K. SWANTON CLARK WILKINSON Milwaukee Bloomington Madison Baraboo PHILIP F. LA FOLLETTE WILLIAM F. STARK FREDERICK N. TROWBRIDGE ANTHONY WISE Madison Nashotah Green Bay Hayward Honorary Honorary Life Members WILLIAM ASHBY MCCLOY, Winnipeg PRESTON E. MCNALL, Madison MRS. LITTA BASCOM, Madison DOROTHY L. PARK, Madison MRS. LOUISE ROOT, Prairie du Chien Fellows Curators VERNON CARSTENSEN (1949) HJALMAR R. HOLAND, Ephraim MERLE CURTI (1949) SAMUEL PEDRICK, Ripon The Women's Auxiliary Officers MRS. W. NORMAN FITZGERALD, Milwaukee, President MRS. JOSEPH C. GAMROTH, Madison, Vice-President MRS. MILLARD TUFTS, Milwaukee, Secretary MRS. ALDEN M. JOHNSTON, Appleton, Treasurer MRS. CHESTER ENGELKING, Green Bay, Assistant Treasurer MRS. SILAS L. SPENGLER, Menasha, Ex-Officio VOLUME 46, NUMBER 3/SPRING, 1963 Wisconsin of History WILLIAM CONVERSE HAYGOOD, Editor PAUL H. HASS, Editorial Assistant The Good Old Days 162 Export Extraordinary: The American Museum in Britain 163 FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT The Frontier Hero in History and Legend 168 KENT L. STECKMESSER Wisconsin and Negro Suffrage 180 LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR. How Glenn Frank Became President of the University of Wisconsin 197 LAWRENCE H. LARSEN The Anti-Federalists, 1781-1789 206 FORREST MCDONALD Wisconsin "Stovewood" Walls: Ingenious Forms of Early Log Construction 21.'S RICHARD W. E. PERRIN Readers' Choice 220 Accessions 236 Contributors 240 Published Quarterly by The State Historical Society of Wisconsin THE WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY is published not assume responsibility for statements made by contribu­ quarterly by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 tors. Second-class postage paid at Madison, Wisconsin. State Street, Madison 6, Wisconsin. 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Today's generations do not reject this; they are caught up in a civilization V OT long ago I talked with a charming which does not permit it. -L ' widow in western Wisconsin. With a The good old days also represent a blunt gleam in her eye, she told me about her farm but often pleasant confrontation with nature, childhood, her year-round delight in the out­ something denied to most of us today. We doors, about walking the farm fences, her do not have a chance to walk long distances interest in bugs, flowers, and small animals. to school, to enjoy a warm bed in a cold These experiences nourished precious values room, to roam the great outdoors. Nature is which she now mourned as lost. What has pretty well hidden from us; even the campers happened to the good old days? who flock to our state and national parks In a family letter, my wife's mother remi­ demand modern plumbing. nisced about an Iowa winter: "bright, sharp, The good old days mean more than a continuous cold." "What fun it was," she simple life and a direct confrontation with continued, "before there were any autos, to nature, but today's memories tend to gloss have long (sometimes a whole mile long) over the problems and identify "those days" stretches of good coasting hills and big with the simple and the natural. Easy as it frozen ponds for skating. How our cheeks might be for us to dismiss these identifica­ would tingle and our ears, fingers, and toes tions, we can not afford to do it. We are ache. There were just two or three heated cast from the same mold. If we are to know rooms in our house, and it was so toasty up the family with which we live, we must know near the kitchen range or the often red-hot the influence of its past. If we are to under­ 'Round Oak' heater stoves, but so chilly in stand our world and our community, which, the corners." In the same letter she recalled by the way, are still led by a generation to icy bedrooms, warm nests beneath piled whom the good old days are real, we had blankets and comforters, and the problems better suppress the yawn and listen to the yarns. The gold of history is in them. of getting to school. "Of course we walked, no matter how cold." Contrariwise, if we are to know and under­ Big city memories are just as clear. My stand the coming generations, we had better parents, New York City-bred, tell of their concentrate on what will become tfteir "good childhood trips on the interurban out of the old days." This generation of youngsters is city to the country where wide-open spaces a different sort of breed: bright and careless, (even then called Harlem) welcomed them. informal and questioning, responsible and It was a great day for the youngsters. apprehensive. Their values are not precisely Memories of the good old days are as ours, but they are developing some which will many and as varied as there are people to serve them and their children. We can mourn produce them. Yet today's youngster and his the passing of the good old days, but we had parents are not enthralled. They yawn at better not mourn for the present generation— yarns. How can they understand a long walk not yet, anyway. to school? They ride a bus. How can they Madison in late March this year was warm feel the chill of a house? Theirs are auto­ and sunny. The snow disappeared quickly, matically heated. How can they visualize a and the sun was never spring-brighter against countryside where now stands an urban slum? the blue sky. I saw people walking instead And, they might add in a moment of candor, of driving, raking their lawns, swinging golf why bother? clubs. I saw students lying in the sun, study­ Their reaction is not just lack of imagina­ ing, or throwing last year's brightly-colored tion or a consuming passion for the present. frisbees around. Will these ever become the The "good old days" represent realities no good old days? longer real. They represent, for example, a simple life: no cars to interfere with sledding. L.H.F., Jr. 162 Claverton Manor, built in 1820. Aiii^rican Museum in Britain EXPORT EXTRAORDINARY: THE AMERICAN MUSEUM IN BRITAIN By FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT perience before the Civil War. Two-and-a- half centuries of American civilization, in­ cluding a long period when most of the TN 1820 Sir Jeffry WyatviUe, architect to eastern United States was part of a British -•- George IV, was called down to rural culture which started in Halifax and extended Somerset to build at Claverton Manor, three southward to Barbados, has long been in miles from the city of Bath, a Georgian man­ oblivion. The Halcyon Foundation which was sion for a country squire. The new house established by Dr. Pratt and Mr. Judkyn arose on a dramatic site on the crest of a worked for three years prior to the opening high hill falling to the banks of the river of the American Museum to create in the Avon. It commanded sweeping views along compass of one building specially chosen for one of the most magnificent valleys in Eng­ the project a representative picture of the land.