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 lERS' Guide to the 
 
 Museum 
 
 THE STATE HISTORICAL 
 SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN 
 
 (trustee of the state) 
 
 MADISON 
 
 Published by the Society 
 
 November. luii 
 
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 Handbook No. 6 
 
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 Teachers' Guide 
 
 Personages of National and Local 
 
 Prominence Represented bv 
 
 Specimens in the Museum 
 
 of the State Historical 
 
 Society 
 
 This guide to certain articles of spe- 
 cial historical interest on exhibition in 
 the Museum is intended to assist teach- 
 ers, school children, women's study 
 clubs, and other visitors to its halls, to a 
 knowledge of some of the contents of its 
 collections and their availability for 
 study purposes. 
 
 The specimens herein listed are se- 
 lected from among many thousands ac- 
 quired by the Society during the past 
 fifty years of the ]\ruseum's existence. 
 The entries are in alphabetical order — 
 the names of the historical personages 
 who are represented by specimens in the 
 
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Museum being arranged as a matter of 
 convenience under two divisions. 
 
 AbDreviations in Italics indicate the 
 hall or room in which each specimen is 
 at present located: 8. H., South Hall; 
 E. H., East Hall; M. H. R., Military His- 
 tory Room; /. H. R.. Indian History 
 Room; C. K., Colonial Kitchen; and A. 
 It., Adams Room. P. indicates that a 
 portrait of the person named can be 
 found in the Museum, 
 
 It is desired that the relatives of other 
 men and women who have taken a prom- 
 inent part in the State or the Nation's 
 history, place in the care of the Museum 
 any valuable or interesting articles 
 which they now possess. These will in 
 this manner be properly safe-guarded 
 against loss by fire, theft, or other causes, 
 and become available to all Wisconsin 
 citizens. 
 
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Niuional Celebrities 
 
 Maj. Gex. N. p. Banks. Note written 
 by General Banks to Colonel Ruggles on 
 the day preceding the battle of Cedar 
 Mountain, Va., August 8, 1862. — M. H. R. 
 
 Black Kettle. Pipe formerly the 
 property of this famous Cheyenne chief 
 and warrior, whose village on Sand 
 Creek, Colorado, was in 1864 attacked 
 and destroyed by a force of militia, and 
 a large number of innocent men, women, 
 and children massacred. Black Kettle 
 was later killed in an attack by United 
 States troops under Gen. P. H. Sheridan, 
 at his village on the Washita. — I. H. R. 
 
 Daniel Boone, Powder-horn, bear- 
 ing the initials of his brother', Israel 
 Boone, from whom he received it. A 
 silver coat-button bearing the monogram- 
 "D. B." The bake-kettle used by him 
 while exploring the Kentucky wilderness 
 (1759-1795). He presented this kettle 
 as a keepsake to his friend and fellow- 
 frontiersman. Gen. Simon Kenton. There 
 is also a cast of Boone's skull, made at 
 Frankfort, Ky., in 1845.— M. H. R. 
 
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joiix Bhowx. Wrought-iron fire-dogs 
 from the birthplace of the famous anti- 
 slavery agitator at Torrington, Conn. 
 One of the pikes provided by him for the 
 arming of negroes at Harper's Ferry, 
 Va., October, 1859. Presented by Brown's 
 lieutenant, John E. Cook, to Senator D. W. 
 Voorhees of Indiana. — M. H. R. 
 
 President Groveir Cleveland. Porce- 
 lain plate from his White House dinner 
 set. Presented to the Museum by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt. — A. R. 
 
 Fatiikk Joseph Damiex. Crucifix, ros- 
 ary, holy water shell, medical book, car- 
 penter's rule, and other articles used by 
 him in the leper colony at Kalawao, Mo- 
 lokai, Hawaiian Islands. Father Damien 
 was born in 1841 at Louvain, Belgium. 
 Being educated as a Catholic priest, he 
 was sent to the South Seas as a mission- 
 ^ary in 1873. Settling on the Island of 
 Molokai, he devoted the remainder of 
 his life to the lepers. He himself died 
 of leprosy in 1889. His successor is 
 Brother Joseph Dutto'n, a former resi- 
 dent of Wisconsin. — 8. H. 
 
 Jefferson Davis. Negro slave-whip 
 obtained by a Wisconsin soldier from his 
 (to 
 
plantation at Grand Gulf, near Vicks- 
 burg, Miss. He came to Wisconsin in 
 1828 as a lieutenant in the First United 
 States Infantry, being stationed at Fort 
 Winnebago and then at Fort Crawford. 
 He participated in the Black Hawk War 
 in 1832, and left the State in 1833.— 
 il/. H. R. 
 
 Col. Ei'iiKAKM E. Ellsworth. Pencil 
 portrait sketch of himself made in 1858, 
 when he was visiting Madison, and pre- 
 sented by him to N. B. Van Slyke. When 
 at Alexandria, Va., with his regiment, on 
 May 24, 1861, this promising young soldier 
 ascended to the roof of a hotel and tore 
 down a Confederate flag. On his way 
 down stairs he was shot and killed by 
 Jackson, the proprietor of the hotel, who 
 was himself immediately killed by one 
 of Ellsworth's men. — M. H. R. 
 
 Prftsident Ja^vees a. Garfield. Porce- 
 lain plate from the dinner set in use at 
 the White House during his administra- 
 tion. Presented by President Roosevelt. 
 —A. R. 
 
 PREsinEXT Ulysses S. Grant. One of 
 the chairs used at meetings of his cabi- 
 net; it was purchased during his fir'st 
 
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term as president and was in use in the 
 White House until 1902, when new fur- 
 niture was purchased. Presented by 
 President Roosevelt to Henry C. Payne. 
 Two porcelain plates from the White 
 House dinner' set of President Grant. 
 Pass given by him to Dayton Locke, 
 April 19, 1865.—^. H., A. R., M, H. R. 
 
 President Benjamin Harrison. Por- 
 celain plate from his White House din- 
 ner set. Presented by President Roose- 
 velt.— A. R. 
 
 President Rutherford B. Hayes. 
 Two porcelain plates from his White 
 House dinner set. Presented by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt.^A. R. 
 
 Stephen Hopkins. Two Lowestoft- 
 ware mugs formerly used by him. He 
 was governor of Rhode Island (1755- 
 68), the first chancellor of Brown Uni- 
 versity, a signer of the Declaration of 
 Independence (1776), and a member of 
 the Continental Congress. — C. K. 
 
 Gen. Sam. Houston. Small heart cut 
 by General Houston from a piece of pine 
 wood and presented by him to Mrs. 
 Susan J. Spiller, while a guest at her 
 home at Danville, Tex., in 1852. In 1836 
 
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Houston secured the independence of 
 Texas by conquest from Mexico, and was 
 elected president of the Texan republic, 
 which in 1845 was admitted into the 
 Union.— 3f. H. R. 
 
 Captaix Jack (Kixtpuash). Iron 
 staple said to have been one of a number 
 used in securing this chief, the leader of 
 the Modoc War of 1872-73, when a pris- 
 oner at Fort Klamath, Oregon. He and 
 five other leaders were hanged in Octo- 
 ber, 1873, for treacherously assassinating 
 the peace commissioners who had been 
 sent to treat with the Modoc renegades. 
 —M. H. R. 
 
 CoL. C. R. Jexmsox ("Jayhawker"). 
 Confederate flag of domestic make, cap- 
 tured by him when in command of the 
 First Kansas Cavalry, November 26, 1861. 
 Accompanying the flag is a note from 
 Jennison, written on the back of one of 
 his famous bloodthirsty proclamations. — 
 M. H. R. 
 
 Joiix Paul Joxes. Button from the 
 coat of this celebrated naval commander 
 of the War of the Revolution.— ikf. H. R. 
 
 Preside XT ABRAiiA:\r Lixcolx. Auto- 
 graph card dated July 27, 1863, request- 
 er) 
 
ing Secretary of War Stanton to have 
 an interview witli Ex-Gov. N. G. Ordway 
 of New Hampshire. Plate from the din- 
 ner set in use at the White House dur- 
 ing his administration. Photograph of 
 his home in Springfield, in 1844. Play 
 bill of Ford's Theatre, for April 14, 1865, 
 the night when President Lincoln was 
 assassinated.— -M". H. R., A. R., P. 
 
 Feancisco Pizaebo. Engraved silver 
 plate bearing the coat of arms of the con- 
 queror of Peru. He was made governor 
 of Peru in 1528, and began his conquest 
 in 1531. In 1532 he captured by treach- 
 ery the Inca leader, Atahualpa, whom he 
 killed despite the ransom, estimated at 
 $17,500,000. He rapidly reduced the 
 country to subjection. Cuzco was occu- 
 pied in 1533, and Lima in 1535. In the 
 latter year the title of Marquis of Fran- 
 cisco was bestowed on him by Charles 
 V. of Spain. He was killed in 1541. — 
 M. H. R. 
 
 Capt. Simeon Sampson. Small leather 
 trunk in which were kept the papers of 
 Captain Sampson, the first naval com- 
 mander appointed in the Continental 
 service by the Provincial Congress of 
 
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Massachusetts, at the outbreak of the 
 War of the Revolution. Mirror pur- 
 chased by him in France during this 
 period.— 3f. H. R., G. E. 
 
 Roger Sherman. Chair, being a part 
 of the parlor furniture of his home at 
 New Milford, Conn. He was one of the 
 members of the committee appointed' by 
 the Colonial Congress in 1776 to draft 
 the' Declaration of Independence. — E. H. 
 
 Gex. William Tecumseh Sherman, 
 Message in pencil, which he caused to be 
 signalled to Admiral Dahlgren, asking 
 the co-operation of his fleet in the cap- 
 ture of Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee 
 River, near Savannah, Ga., December 13, 
 1864. Semaphore flag with which it was 
 signalled by Lieut. William Ware. — 
 M. H. R. 
 
 Sitting Bull. War club presented by 
 this noted Sioux chief to a Catholic 
 priest, previous to the year 1884, with 
 the information that it had been used 
 in the Custer massacre on the Little Big- 
 horn, June 25, 1876.— 7. H. R. 
 
 President Zachary Taylor. Pipe pre- 
 sented to him when commandant (1829- 
 36) at Fort Crawford (Prairie du Chien) 
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by the noted Wisconsin Winnebago chief 
 Dekau-ry (Sha-chip-ka-ka), also known 
 as Old Grey-headed Decbrah, White War 
 Eagle, and by other names. — I. H. R., P. 
 
 Tecumseh. Pair of epaulettes worn 
 by this great Shawnee chief in the War 
 of 1812-15. He was killed by the Ameri- 
 cans at the Battle of the Thames, Canada, 
 on October 5, 1813.— M. H. R. 
 
 Geoege Washington. Telescope used 
 by him. It was found on one of the Brit- 
 ish ships captured by Commodore John 
 Barry during the War of the Revolution, 
 and by him presented to General Wash- 
 ington.— If. H. R., P. 
 
 Daniel Webster. Carriage purchased 
 in London, in 1808, by Stephen White of 
 Boston, and used by him for several year's. 
 It then passed into the hands of the 
 great American statesman. Martin Van 
 Buren, Henry Clay, Silas Wright, Char- 
 lotte Cushman, Dean Richmond, Erastus 
 Corning, and many other notables have 
 ridden in it. It is an admirable speci- 
 men of the better class of family car- 
 riages in use in England and America 
 ca century ago. — E. H. 
 
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\^'isconsin Celebrities 
 
 Joiix Fraxcis Appleby. Twine-knot- 
 ting hook invented by him in 1858, on a 
 farm in Walworth County. Twine bind- 
 ers were manufactured by him and his 
 associates, Charles H. Parker and Gus- 
 tavus Stone, at Beloit, in the summer of 
 1878. In that year 115 Appleby binders 
 were sold and successfully operated in 
 Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, 
 Iowa, and Wisconsin. — S. H. 
 
 Charles C. P. Arxdt. Vest worn by 
 him as a member of the Legislative Coun- 
 cil of Wisconsin Territory when he was 
 shot and killed by James R. Vineyard in 
 the council chamber at Madison, in 1842. 
 Vineyard was expelled from the council 
 but was acquitted of manslaughter. 
 Charles Dickens, the novelist, tells tlie 
 story of the shooting in his American 
 Xotes. — N. H. 
 
 LiEUT.-CoL. Joseph Bailey. Punch bowl 
 and sword presented to this officer of the 
 Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry by Rear-Ad- 
 miral Porter and staff for saving the 
 Union fleet of gunboats from capture by 
 
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the Confederates during the Red River 
 expedition, m Arkansas, May, 1864. The 
 fleet was prevented from descending the 
 river by a low stage of water and was 
 threatened with destruction by the enemy 
 on the banks. Bailey, who was serving 
 on General Franklin's staff as chief en- 
 gineer, devised and constructed a system 
 of dams which raised the water to a 
 sufficient height; and then, an opening 
 being suddenly made, the vessels escaped 
 through the chute. For this feat Bailey 
 was brevetted brigadier-general, Nov, 10, 
 1864.— M. H. R. 
 
 Rev. Johannes Bading. Song book 
 used by him when pastor of St. Jacob's 
 Lutheran church at Theresa, Dodge 
 County, 1854-60. Mr. Bading came to 
 Wisconsin from Rixdorf, near Berlin, 
 Germany, in 1853, his first church being 
 in Calumet Township, Calumet County. 
 His next pastorate was at Theresa, after 
 which he was in charge of St. Mark's 
 church at Watertown, 1860-68. In 1863 
 he went to Europe for the purpose of 
 collecting funds for a Lutheran college at 
 "Watertown. In the course of his trip he 
 visited the royal courts of Prussia, Han- 
 
over, and Russia, and returned to the 
 United States in 1864 with $15,000. 
 Northwestern University was built in 
 1865, and he served as its president from 
 that year till 1909.— i^. H. 
 
 Alvan E. Bovay. Carpet bag in which 
 the "founder of the Republican Party" 
 carried his papers to a meeting held at 
 Hipon on February 28, 1854, at which he 
 suggested the name "Republican" for the 
 new political party then being organized. 
 — A^ H. 
 
 The Buffalo. Peace-pipe "presented by 
 Tay-che-gwi-au-nee for hi's father, the 
 Buffalo, a principal Chippewa chief, on 
 the south shore of Lake Superior, in 
 council at Port Winnebago, February 12, 
 1844." On tne bowl is carved the old 
 chief's personal totem, the buffalo. — I. 
 H. R. 
 
 Satteklee Clark. Copy of the Works 
 of Horace, formerly in his library at 
 Horicon. Clark came to Wisconsin in 
 1828; was a sutler at Fort Winnebago, 
 1834-43; served two years in the State 
 assembly and twelve in the State senate. 
 He was one of those who conducted Yel- 
 low Thunder and other Winnebago chiefs 
 
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on a visit to Washington in 1837. Dur- 
 ing this visit the treaty was signed by 
 whicli the Winnebago ceded to the govern- 
 ment the last of their lands in Wiscon- 
 sin.—^. H., P. 
 
 Cai't. Thomas J. Cka.m. Section of 
 trunk of a pine tree from the shore of 
 Trout Lake, in Vilas County, bearing a 
 blaze upon which appears the name of 
 Captain Cram, the U, S. engineer who 
 surveyed the Wisconsin-Michigan bound- 
 ary, and of his assistant, Douglas 
 Houghton, name-giver for Houghton, 
 Mich. Dated August 11, 1841.—^. H. 
 
 Gov. Nelsox Dewey. Gold pen used by 
 him, his diary, and a Dutch clock from 
 his home at Cassville, He was the first 
 State governor of Wisconsin, serving 
 from 1848 to 1852.— 2\'. H., E. H. 
 
 Old Grey-headed Decorah (Sha-chip- 
 ka-ka), see also under Zachary Taylor. 
 A prominent Winnebago chief. He fought 
 under the British General Proctor at 
 Sandusky (Aug. 2, 1813), and at the 
 battle of the Thames (Oct. 5, 1813). After 
 1793 he moved his village from the shore 
 of Lake Puckaway to a point on the Wis- 
 consin River, near Portage, He gave as- 
 
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siirance to General Atkinson during the 
 Winnebago War scare, in 1827, of the 
 peaceable intentions of his people. He 
 died in 1S36, and was buried at Peten 
 Well, in Caledonia Township, Columbia 
 County. He was the most noted and best 
 of the Wisconsin Winnebago chiefs of 
 ills time. 
 
 Gov. Hknry Dodgk. Chapeau and uni- 
 form coat worn by him while commanding 
 a regiment of U. S. Dragoons against the 
 Indian tribes at the headwaters of the 
 Platte and Arkansas rivers in 1814-15. 
 Rustic chair owned and used by him. 
 He came to Wisconsin in 1827; took a 
 prominent part in subduing the Winne- 
 bago uprising of that year, and in the 
 Black Hawk War in 1832; was the first 
 territorial governor of Wisconsin, 1836- 
 41; delegate to Congress, 1841-45; again 
 territorial governor, 1845-48; and United 
 States senator, 1848-57. Died at Burling- 
 ton, Iowa, June 19, 1867.— M. H. R., 
 E. H., P. 
 
 Sex. J. R. Doolittle. Gold-headed cane 
 presented to him at the Soldiers' and 
 Sailors' Fair held at Washington, D. C, 
 July 10, 1866. He served as Federal sen- 
 
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ator from Wisconsin from 1857 to 1861, 
 and from 1863 to 1867.— i^. H. 
 
 Gov. James D. Doty, Council pipe pre- 
 sented to him by Col. Henry Leavenworth 
 at Camp Cold Water', an encampment of 
 the Fifth United States Infantry on the 
 Mississippi River, above the mouth of 
 the St. Peters River, on July 20, 1820. 
 Doty was accompanying an expedition 
 under Gov. Lewis Cass, in the capacity 
 of official secretary. They were engaged 
 in collecting information concerning the 
 Indians of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and 
 Michigan. Colonel Leavenworth was then 
 beginning the erection of Fort Snelling. 
 The pipe was presented to him during a 
 council with the Chippewa Indians. Doty 
 served as governor of Wisconsin Terri- 
 tory, 1841-44.— 7. H. R., P. 
 
 Matthew G. Fitch. Powder-horn, 
 charger, and shot-pouch worn by him 
 while a lieutenant in Col. Henry Dodge's 
 command of Wisconsin rangers during 
 the Black Hawk War, 1832.— M. H. R. 
 
 Augustin Grigxox. Silver -snuff-box, 
 ivory-headed cane, powder-horn, and 
 charger, and an epaulette (with paper 
 case) worn by him in the British service 
 
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in Wisconsin, in the AVar of 1812-15. Col- 
 lection of articles including weapons, 
 game traps, articles of dress, weighing 
 scales, and various goods employed in the 
 Indian trade at the old Grignon-Porlier 
 trading post at Butte des Morts, in Win- 
 nebago County. Grignon was a promi- 
 nent fur-trader and a grandson of Charles 
 de Langlade. He was born at Green Bay, 
 June 27, 1780. His narrative of "Seventy- 
 two Years' Recollections of Wisconsin" 
 is published in Wisconsin Historical Col- 
 lections, vol. iii. He died in 1860. — E. H., 
 P. 
 
 Gex. Hexry Harxdex. Sword, revol- 
 vers, saddle, and saddle-bag used by him 
 while colonel of First Wisconsin Cavalry, 
 when participating in the capture of Jef- 
 ferson Davis, president of the Confeder- 
 acy, near Irwinsville, Ga., May 10, ±865. 
 He retired at the close of the war with 
 the brevet of brigadier-general. — M. H. R., 
 P. 
 
 William S. Hamiltox. Two sleigh 
 bells from a string presented by the wife 
 of Alexander Hamilton to her son Col. 
 William S. Hamilton, of Wiota, in. 1839. 
 —E. H. 
 
Rt. Rev. Jacksox Kemper. Bible-mark 
 used by him; sermon book presented 
 to him at Philadelphia, June 1, 1831, 
 and passes issued to him by Wisconsin 
 stage, steamboat, and railroad lines dur- 
 ing the years 1858-64. He was the pion- 
 eer bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 
 church in the Northwest. — N. H., P. 
 
 Charles de Langlade, Fair of silver- 
 mounted duelling pistols carried by him; 
 his silver seal; and a' leather quill-work 
 ornamented pouch used by him for carry- 
 ing his fur-trade papers. He was the son 
 ct Sieur Augustin de Langlade, who mar- 
 ried at Mackinac the sister of Nis-so-wa- 
 quet, head chief of the Ottawa. About 
 1763 father and son removed to Green 
 Bay, where they became the principal 
 proprietors of the soil. Charles de Lan- 
 glade led the Wisconsin Indians in sev- 
 eral of the many sanguinary conflicts of 
 the French and Indian War, from Brad- 
 dock's defeat (in 1755), to the final Eng- 
 lish conquest of Canada. In the Revo- 
 lutionary War he fought on the British 
 side. He died at Green Bay in January, 
 1800.—^. H. (See oil painting of Lan- 
 glade at Braddock's Defeat, in 8. H.) 
 
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IxcREASE A. Lapiiam. Vasculum and 
 plant press used by him in collecting 
 and pressing (1836-40) his herbarium 
 of between 20,000 and 30,000 plants now 
 in the University of Wisconsin. Copy 
 of his Supplemejit to Catalogue of 
 Plants, printed in Milwaukee, Novem- 
 ber, 1840. Wood-cuts employed in illus- 
 trating a botanical article written by 
 him previous to 1870. Case containing 
 his draughting instruments. Two mod- 
 els of Wisconsin Indiaii earthworks pre- 
 pared by him for the Centennial Expo- 
 sition at Philadelphia, in 1876. " He set- 
 tled at Milwaukee in 1836. He was one 
 of the organizers of the State Historical 
 Society and for twenty-two years either 
 its president or one of its vice-presi- 
 dents. He served as state geologist, 
 1873-75, and was the "father" of the 
 United States Weather Bureau. He 
 ranked among the most distinguished 
 antiquarians and naturalists of his 
 time, and was the most prominent of the 
 early scientific investigators in Wiscon- 
 sin. He died at Oconomowoc, Sept. 14, 
 1X75.—^. H., I. H. R., P. 
 Little Soldier. Pipe formerly belong- 
 
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ing to him. He is better known as 
 "Dandy." He was a son of the Winne- 
 hago chief, Black Wolf, and a cousin of 
 Four Legs. His village is reported as 
 being located in 1836 on Bar'aboo River, 
 above the present city of Baraboo. — 
 7. H. R. 
 
 Morgan L. Martin. Beaver hat and 
 plush hat worn by him. He came to 
 Green Bay in 1827, was a member of the 
 Michigan Legislative Council, 1831-35; 
 delegate to Congress, 1845; member ot 
 the Wisconsin Legislative Council, 1845- 
 47; president of the second constitu- 
 tional convention, 1848; member of the 
 assembly, 1855; of the senate, 1858-59; 
 paymaster in the United States army, 
 1861-65; Indian agent, 1866-69; and 
 again a member of the state assembly 
 in 1873; and then judge of Brown 
 County until his death, Dec. 10, 1887. — 
 C. K., P. 
 
 Simeon Mills. Percussion-lock pistol, 
 and a collection of American and for- 
 eign gold, silver, and copper coins as- 
 sembled by him. He came to Wiscon- 
 sin July 2, 1836, and was one of the first 
 settlers of Madison (June 10, 1837). He 
 
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was clerk of the Territorial supreme 
 court, and a member of the first State 
 senate in 1848; was paymaster-general of 
 the State troops during the earlier years 
 of the War* of Secession. Long one of 
 the vice-presidents of the State Histori- 
 cal Society.— ii7. H., N. H., P. 
 
 Na-ya-to-shingd (Hewho-lays-'by-him' 
 self). War' club owned by him when 
 chief of the Chippewa Indian village at 
 Manitowoc. He died in 1838, at the al- 
 leged age of over 100 years. — I. H. B. 
 
 Heney C. Payxe. Gold-bound oak 
 gavel with which, as chairman, he called 
 to order the National Republican Con- 
 vention at Chicago, in 1904. Brown 
 leather portfolio used by him when post- 
 master-general, at meetings of the cab- 
 inet of President Roosevelt. His collec- 
 tion of badges, worn by himself and 
 others in the Republican national con- 
 ventions at Minneapolis (1892), St. Louis 
 (1896), Philadelphia (1900), and Chi- 
 cago {190i).—N, H. 
 
 Nicolas Perrot. Ostensorium (or 
 soleil) presented by him to St. Francis 
 Xavier mission at De Pere, in 1686. He 
 was then commandant of the French in 
 
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the West. Pike and various iron im- 
 plements, etc., from the site of his fort 
 (1684-85) at the "wintering bluff' near 
 Trempealeau. — N. H. 
 
 Congressman John Fox Potter. Bcv/ie 
 Knife purchased by him for use in the 
 proposed duel with Roger A. Pryor, in 
 1860. Derringer carried by him in 1860. 
 Bowie knife captured from the Louisiana 
 "Tigers" at Norfolk, Va., and presented 
 to "Bowie Knife" Potter, May 31, 1862, 
 by Brigadier-General Viele, U. S. A., as 
 an appropriate "memorial of a chivalrous 
 incident." Potter was member of Con- 
 gress from the First Wisconsin District, 
 1857-63.— M. H. R. 
 
 Joseph Rolette. Hand-made spikes 
 (forged at a blacksmith shop on the 
 spot) from the frame of the first grist- 
 mill in southwestern Wisconsin, built 
 for Rolette by Charles Hickox at Dodge- 
 ville. The establishment was known as 
 the Hickox mill. Rolette was an early 
 settler and fur-trader of Prairie du 
 Chien.— ^. H. 
 
 Nicholas Sexn. Obstetrical instru- 
 ments used by him when beginning his 
 career as a country doctor at Elmore, 
 
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Fond du Lac County, in 1867, Favorite 
 scalpel used by this famous surgeon in 
 his clinic at Rush Medical College, Chi- 
 cago. Copy of a bronze medal presented 
 to him in honor of his sixtieth birthday 
 by the medical profession of the coun- 
 try. During the Spanish-American War 
 he was appointed surgeon general of 
 the army by President McKinley. — JSf. H. 
 
 Christopher Latham Sholes. Sam- 
 ples of the porcelain keys used on one of 
 the earliest models of the typewriter (of 
 which he was the inventor) made at 
 Milwaukee in the years 1866-67. An 
 earlier model had brass keys, and a 
 keyboard in which the keys were all on 
 one level. In later models the keys were 
 arranged in four banks. In 1873 his in- 
 vention passed into the hands of the 
 Remingtons, for manufacture. He came 
 to Kenosha in 1840 arid engaged in the 
 newspaper business. — N. H. 
 
 Gex. ,Jonx C. Starkweather. Sword 
 given to him by the non-commissioned 
 officers and privates of the famous Mil- 
 waukee Light Guard, Sept. 2, 1858. Uni- 
 form coat and sash worn by him as com- 
 mander of the Light Guard. Silver 
 
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pitclier and two goblets presented to liim 
 by his staff officers . of the Ninth and 
 Tenth Indiana Cavalry and Seventh 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry, and citizens of 
 Pulaski, Tenn., Aug. 7, 1864. Silver but- 
 ter dish presented by freedmen for his 
 activity in suppressing guerrilla war- 
 fare, Nov. 17, 1864. He was colonel of 
 the Piist Wisconsin Regiment, 1861-63. 
 On July 17, 1863, he was promoted to 
 brigadier-general. — M. H. JR. 
 
 Alexander Stow. Powder-horn used 
 by him. He came to Wisconsin in 1845; 
 was elected judge of the Fourth circuit 
 and chief justice of the supreme court, 
 serving from Aug., 1848, to Jan., 1851. 
 Died at Milwaukee, Sept. 14, 1854. 
 —N. H., P. 
 
 James J. Strang. Bolt-plate, probably 
 from a door of his Beaver Island "cas- 
 tle." Strang, an eccentric young law- 
 yer of Burlington, Racine County, em- 
 braced Mormonism. His subsequent ca- 
 reer as elder, revelaior, prophet, seer, 
 and finally as "king," is one of the 
 strange episodes of Western history. In 
 1845 he and his followers began the 
 erection of the Mormon city of Voree, 
 
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on the White River, in Walworth County. 
 In 1847 he removed with his followers 
 to Beaver Island, in Lake Michigan. — 
 .Y. H. 
 
 Moses M. Strong. Water-proof cloak 
 worn by him, his leather bound trunk, 
 leather saddle pouch, and a collection of 
 old-fashioned household utensils from 
 his home at Mineral P6int. He settled 
 at Mineral Point in 1836; was United 
 States attorney for Wisconsin Territory, 
 1838-40; elected to the Territorial coun- 
 cil, 3 842, and re-elected for four years; 
 member of the constitutional convention, 
 member and speaker of the assembly, 
 1850, and re-elected to the assembly in 
 1853; first president of the Milwaukee & 
 La Crosse Railroad Co. Author of Ter- 
 ritorial History of Wisconsin, published 
 in 1885.— A'. H., P. 
 
 Cov. William R. Taylor. Gourd vessel 
 presented to him when elected "Granger" 
 governor of Wisconsin, in 1873. — E. 
 H.. P. 
 
 Dami-l WiiiT.NEV. Ladles, 56-pound 
 weight, and other jrelics of the shot- 
 tower erected by him at Helena, on the 
 Wisconsin River, in Iowa County, 1831-33. 
 
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He was a pioneer merchant and lum- 
 berman, and came to Green Bay in 1819. 
 —E. H. 
 
 Asaph Whittlesey. Pair of snow- 
 shoes used hy him when walking from 
 Ashland, on Lake Superior, to Madison, 
 in the year 1860, to represent his district 
 in the state assembly. — N. H. 
 
 Eleazeb Williams. Copper tea-kettle 
 used in his home at Little Chute, Outa- 
 gamie County. Neck band worn by him 
 while missionary to the Oneida Indians. 
 He was the reputed son of a woman of 
 the St. Regis band of Mohawk Indians, 
 being born about 1792; became an Epis- 
 copal missionary to the Oneida of New 
 York, and came to Wisconsin in 1821 as- 
 agent of certain tribes of New York In- 
 dians who desired to settle in the val- 
 ley of the lower Fox River. About 1850 
 he won notoriety by claiming to be the 
 son of the executed Louis XVI and his 
 queen, Marie Antoinette, and thus heir 
 to the French throne. Many believed his 
 assertions and a commission came to 
 America, from Louis Phillipe, to investi- 
 gate the claims of the pretended dauphin. 
 Louis Phillipe concluded that Williams 
 
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was the victim of an innocent de- 
 lusion, but those who knew the mis- 
 sionary well stamped him as an im- 
 postor. He died at Little Kaukauna, 
 Aug. 28, 1857.— C. K., y. &., P. 
 
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 Chippewa Mortab and Pesile