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 Wisconsin Historical 
 
 Museum 
 
 WI§CONSIN;\^ISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 Handbook No. 6 
 Second Edition, December, 1915 
 
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Teachers' Guide 
 
 Personages of National, Foreign, 
 and Local Prominence Repre- 
 sented by Specimens in the 
 Museum of the State 
 Historical Society 
 
 This guide to certain articles of special 
 historical interest on exhibition in the 
 Museum is intended to assist teachers, 
 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 
 acquired by the Society during the past 
 fifty years of the Museum's existence. 
 The entries are in alphabetical order, 
 the names of the historical personages 
 
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who are represented by specimens in the 
 Museum being arranged as a matter of 
 convenience under two divisions. 
 
 Abbreviations in italics indicate the 
 hall or room in which each specimen is 
 at present located: S. H., South Hall; 
 E. H., East Hall; M. H. R., Military 
 History Room; /. H. R., Indian History 
 Room; A^. H., North Hall; A. R„ 
 Adams .Room, and /. R., In Reserve. 
 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 safeguarded 
 against loss by fire, theft, or other 
 causes, and become available to all 
 Wisconsin citizens. Communications 
 may be addressed to The State His- 
 torical Library, Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
Wisconsin Celebrities 
 
 Emma Abbott. School excuse written 
 by the noted opera singer at Oak Creek, 
 Wisconsin, July 26, 1871. Plate which 
 belonged to her grandmother, Mrs. 
 Palmer. Silk program, Deakin's Academy 
 of Music, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, special 
 engagement of the Emma Abbott Opera 
 Company, Dec. 5, 1884, in the Bohe- 
 mian Girl— A\ //., E. H. 
 
 "Old Abe." Feathers of this famous 
 eagle, mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin 
 Volunteer Regiment during the Civil 
 War. Picture sold at the great Sanitary 
 Fair in Chicago, May 30, 1865.— M. H. R. 
 
 John Francis Appleby. Twine- 
 knotting hook invented by him in 1858, 
 on a farm in Walworth County. Twine 
 binders were manufactured by him and 
 his associates, Charles H. Parker and 
 Gustavus Stone, at Beloit, in the summer 
 of 1878. In that year 115 Appleby bind- 
 ers were sold and successfully operated 
 in Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, Minne- 
 sota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. — S. H. 
 
 Charles C. P. Arndt. Vest worn by 
 him as a member of the legislative coun- 
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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 man- 
 slaughter, Charles Dickens, the novelist, 
 tells the story of the shooting in his 
 American Notes. — E. H. 
 
 Rev. Johannes Bading. Songbook 
 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, 
 Hanover, and Russia, and returned to 
 the United States in 1864 with $15,000. 
 Northwestern University, Watertown, 
 was built in 1865, and he served as its 
 president from that year till 1909. — E. H. 
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LiEUT.-CoL. Joseph Bailey. Punch 
 bowl and sword presented to this officer 
 of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry by 
 Rear-Admiral Porter and staff for saving 
 the Union fleet of gunboats from capture 
 by the Confederates during the Red 
 River expedition, in Arkansas, May, 
 1864. The fleet was prevented from 
 descending the river by a low stage of 
 water and was threatened with destruc- 
 tion by the enemy on the banks. 
 Bailey, who was serving on General 
 Franklin's staff as chief engineer, 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 bre- 
 vetted brigadier-general, Nov. 10, 1864. 
 — M. H. R. 
 
 Dr. John Bascom. Inkwell, gold 
 pen, sermon-book, and silver napkin 
 ring of this president of the University 
 of Wisconsin, 1874-87.— £. H. 
 
 Alvan E. Bovay. Carpet bag in 
 which the "founder of the Republican 
 party" carried his papers to a meeting 
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held at Ripon on Feb. 28, 1854, at which 
 he suggested the name "RepubUcan" 
 for the new pohtical party then being 
 organized. — E. H. 
 
 Col. George Boyd. Portable 
 mahogany desk used by him when 
 Indian agent at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 
 in 1832. Before coming to Wisconsin 
 Colonel Boyd served the nation on 
 several important foreign commissions. 
 In 1814 he was intrusted with private 
 dispatches to the peace commissioners 
 a,t Ghent. He again went to Europe 
 in 1816, to purchase arms and likewise 
 material for the Capitol and White 
 House at Washington. His first ap- 
 pointment as Indian agent came in 1818 
 when he was stationed at Mackinac. — 
 M. H. R. 
 
 Rev. Alfred Brunson, D. D. Snow- 
 shoes presented to this pioneer mission- 
 ary by Wisconsin Chippewa Indians, 
 in 1843. Mr. Brunson came to Prairie 
 du Chien in 1835, and was the first 
 Methodist preacher to go north of the 
 Wisconsin River. On account of ill 
 health he relinquished the ministry in 
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1839. In 1840 he was elected to the 
 territorial legislature and in 1842 was 
 appointed Indian agent at La Pointe. 
 Mr. Brunson later returned to the 
 ministry.—/. H, R., E. H., P. 
 
 Gen. George E. Bryant. Muffler 
 worn by him in 1873 and articles 
 from his home at Madison. He was 
 captain of the Madison Guards in 1860, 
 the first company to offer its services 
 to the government at the beginning of 
 the Civil War. This company served 
 five months in the * First Wisconsin 
 Volunteer Infantry, and was then 
 mustered out of service. Captain 
 Bryant was afterward commissioned 
 colonel of the Twelfth Wisconsin 
 Volunteer Infantry and served through 
 nearly the entire war. Afterwards he 
 held many public offices including that 
 of quartermaster-general of the State 
 (1877).— M. H. R., N. H. 
 
 The Buffalo. Peace pipe "pre- 
 sented by Tay-che-gwi-au-nee for his 
 father, the Buffalo, a principal Chippewa 
 chief, on the south shore of Lake 
 Superior, in council at Fort Winnebago, 
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Feb. 12, 1844." On the bowl is carved 
 the old chief's personal totem, the 
 buffalo.—/. H, R. 
 
 Satterlee 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 con- 
 ducted Yellow Thunder and other 
 Winnebago chiefs on a visit to Washing- 
 ton in 1837. During this visit the 
 treaty was signed by which the Winne- 
 bago ceded to the government the last 
 of their lands in Wisconsin. — E. H., P. 
 
 Joseph Clauder. Conducting stick 
 used by the famous band conductor of 
 Milwaukee (1853-1913). Copies of first 
 editions of music composed by him. — N. 
 H., I. R., P. 
 
 Capt. Thomas J. Cram. 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 United States 
 engineer who surveyed the Wisconsin- 
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Michigan boundary, and of his assistant, 
 Douglas Houghton, name-giver for 
 Houghton, Michigan. Dated, Aug. 11, 
 1841.— £. H. 
 
 Old Grey-headed Decorah. (Sha- 
 chip-ka-ka). A prominent Winnebago 
 chief. Pipe presented by him to Za- 
 chary Taylor, later president of the 
 United States. He fought for the British 
 under 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 
 assurance to General Atkinson during 
 the Winnebago War scare, in 1827, of the 
 peaceable intentions of his people. He 
 died in 1836, and was buried at Peten 
 Well, in Caledonia Township, Columbia 
 County. See also Zachary Taylor. — /. 
 H. R. 
 
 Chief Spoon Decorah. Scalp-lock 
 ornament, war club and clan war bundle 
 formerly in possession of this noted Win- 
 nebago chief. — /. H. R. 
 
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Gov. Nelson Dewey. Gold pen used 
 by him, his diary, and a Dutch clock 
 from his home in Cassville. He was the 
 first governor of Wisconsin after it be- 
 canle a state, serving from 1848-1852. — 
 E. H., I. R. 
 
 Gov. Henry Dodge. Ghapeau and 
 uniform coat worn by him while com- 
 manding a regiment of United States 
 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 sub- 
 duing the Winnebago uprising of that 
 year, and in the Black Hawk War in 
 1832; was the first territorial gov- 
 ernor of Wisconsin, 1836-41; delegate to 
 Congress, 1841-45; again territorial gov- 
 ernor, 1845-48; and United States sena- 
 tor, 1848-57. Died at Burlington, Iowa, 
 June 19, 1867.— M. H. R., E. H., P. 
 
 Sen. 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 fed- 
 
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eral senator from Wisconsin from 1857 
 to 1861, and from 1863 to 1867.— £". H. 
 
 Gov. James D. Doty. Council pipe 
 presented to him by Col. Henry Leaven- 
 worth at Camp Cold Water, an encamp- 
 ment of the Fifth United States Infan- 
 try on the Mississippi River, above the 
 mouth of the St. Peters River, on July 
 20, 1820. Doty was accompanying an ex- 
 pedition under Gov. Lewis Cass, in the 
 capacity of official secretary. They were 
 engaged in collecting information con- 
 cerning the Indians of Wisconsin, Min- 
 nesota, and Michigan. Col. Leaven- 
 worth was then beginning the erection 
 of Fort Snelling. The pipe was presented 
 to him during a council with the Chippe- 
 wa Indians. Notice of his election as 
 delegate to Congress by the territorial 
 convention of Aug. 29, 1838. Doty 
 served as governor of Wisconsin Terri- 
 tory, 1841-44.—/. H. R., E. H., N. 
 H., P. 
 
 Hercules L. Dousman. Sewing ma- 
 chine from his home in Prairie du Chien. 
 Mr. Dousman came to Prairie du Chien 
 as agent of the American Fur Company 
 
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in 1826. He was a man of large business 
 ability and aided in the transformation 
 of Wisconsin from a fur-trading to a 
 modern community. — E. H., P. 
 
 Jean Baptiste l'Ecuyer. Wooden 
 cross made and used by this fur trader 
 at Portage, Wisconsin, as early as 1800. 
 —E.H. 
 
 Gen. Cassius Fairchild. Coat worn 
 when colonel of the Sixteenth Wisconsin 
 Volunteer Infantry, and shako worn as 
 a member of the "Governor's Guard." 
 Cassius Fairchild was the second son of 
 Jairus C. Fairchild, the first treasurer of 
 the state of Wisconsin. He was an en- 
 thusiastic member of the "Governor's 
 Guard," the company formed in Madi- 
 son before the outbreak of the war. In 
 1861 he entered the military service as 
 major of the Sixteenth Wisconsin Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, and shared in Sher- 
 man's "march to the sea" as colonel of 
 his regiment.— M. H. R., P. 
 
 Gen. Lucius Fairchild. Gray coat 
 worn when captain of Co. K, First Wis- 
 consin Volunteers. Vest cut from him 
 when wounded at Gettysburg. In con- 
 
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sequence of his injuries he lost his arm. 
 Various articles of uniform and equip- 
 ment used during the Civil War. Uni- 
 form including chapeau, sword, sash, 
 belt, and two pairs of spurs worn when 
 General Fairchild was minister to Spain 
 in 1880. General Fairchild enlisted with 
 the "Governor's Guard," later Co. K, 
 First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
 after the surrender of Fort Sumter and 
 became its captain. In 1861 he was ap- 
 pointed captain of the Sixteenth Wis- 
 consin Volunteer Infantry. Later he 
 was heutenant-colonel and colonel of the 
 Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. 
 In the fall of 1863 he was elected secre- 
 tary of state. From 1866-72, he served 
 the State as governor. Later he held 
 diplomatic positions as consul at Liver- 
 pool, 1872, consul-general at Paris, 1875, 
 and minister to Spain, 1880. — M. H. /?., 
 A^. //., P. 
 
 Gov. Leonard Farwell. Broadside 
 issued during his campaign for the gov- 
 ernorship in 1871. Wedding announce- 
 ment card.— £■. H., I. /?., P. 
 
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Alexander P. Field. Desk used by 
 him when secretary of Wisconsin Terri- 
 tory, 1841-43.— £. H. 
 
 Matthew G. Fitch. Powderhorn, 
 charger, and shotpouch worn by him 
 while a Ueutenant in Col. Henry Dodge's 
 command of Wisconsin rangers during 
 the Black Hawk War, 1832.— M. H. R, 
 
 Jacob Frank. — Iron ladle used for 
 smelting lead in his fur-trade warehouse 
 at Green Bay. — E. H. 
 
 AuGUSTiN Grignon. Silver snuffbox, 
 ivory-headed cane, powderhorn and 
 charger, and an epaulette (with paper 
 case) worn by him in the British service 
 in Wisconsin, in the War of 1812. 
 Collection 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 Winnebago County. Grignon was a 
 prominent fur trader and a grandson 
 of Charles de Langlade. He was born 
 at Green Bay, June 27, 1780. His 
 narrative of "Seventy-two Years' Recol- 
 lections of Wisconsin" is published in 
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Wisconsin Historical Collections, III. 
 He died in I860.— M. H. /?., E. H., 
 I. H. R., P. 
 
 Louis Grignon. Military coat and 
 vest worn by him in the British service 
 during the attack on Fort Shelby, 
 Prairie du Chien, July 17, 1814.— 
 M. H. R. 
 
 Pierre Bernard Grignon. Saddle- 
 bags in which as United States mail 
 contractor, in 1832, he carried the mail 
 between Green Bay and Chicago. — /. R. 
 
 William S. Hamilton. Two sleigh 
 bells from a string presented by the 
 wife of Alexander Hamilton to her son 
 Col. William S. Hamilton, of Wiota, 
 in 1839.— £. H. 
 
 Count Agoston Haraszthy. Needle 
 cushion from hunting lodge erected by 
 this picturesque pioneer, at Roxbury, 
 Wisconsin. Early in the spring of 1840 
 Count Haraszthy set out from Hungary 
 for America. On shipboard he selected 
 Wisconsin as his future home. He 
 arrived at the beautiful spot on the 
 Wisconsin River w^here is now Prairie 
 du Sac about July, 1840. He was 
 
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engaged in various enterprises there 
 until 1848 when he caught the gold 
 fever and went to California. By 1868 
 California became too settled a com- 
 munity for this adventurer and he 
 moved on to Nicaragua where he 
 was drowned in 1869. — A^. H. 
 
 Gen. Henry Harnden. Sword, re- 
 volvers, saddle, and saddle-bag used by 
 him while colonel of the First Wisconsin 
 Cavalry, when participating in the 
 capture of Jefferson Davis, president of 
 the Confederacy, near Irwinsville, Geor- 
 gia, May 10, 1865. He retired at the 
 close of the war with the brevet of 
 brigadier-general. — M. H. R., P. 
 
 Mark R. Harrison. Cigar case, 
 dated 1873, formerly the property of 
 this early Wisconsin artist. Mr. Har- 
 rison painted the portraits of many of 
 our pioneer Wisconsin statesmen and 
 examples of his work will be found in 
 the Museum.— A^. //., E, if., P. 
 
 Gov. Louis P. Harvey. Silver 
 
 pocket-knife found in his clothes after 
 
 his accidental drowning at Pittsburg 
 
 Landing, April 19, 1862. Sword used 
 
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by his great-grandfather, Capt. Thomas 
 Harvey, in the Revolutionary War. — 
 M. H. R. 
 
 Mortimer M. Jackson. Flag dis- 
 played in his ofTice when consul at 
 Halifax, 1861-80. He received the ap- 
 pointment from Abraham Lincoln. Mr. 
 Jackson was a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of Wisconsin, 1848-53.— M. H. R. 
 
 Solomon Juneau. Watch which is 
 said to have belonged to this early fur 
 trader. Juneau was the founder and 
 first mayor of the city of Milwaukee. — 
 N. H., E. H., P. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper. Bible 
 mark used by him; sermon book pre- 
 sented to him at Philadelphia, June 1, 
 1831, and passes issued to him by 
 Wisconsin stage, steamboat, and rail- 
 road lines during the years 1858-64. 
 He was the pioneer bishop of the 
 Protestant Episcopal church in the 
 Northwest.— E. i/., N. H., P. 
 
 E. W. Keyes. Glass inkwell, formerly 
 
 the property of Judge Keyes, who was 
 
 commonly known as "Boss" Keyes. 
 
 For many years he was chairman of the 
 
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Republican State Central Committee 
 and throughout his whole life was closely 
 connected with the fortunes of the 
 Republican party in this state. — E. H., 
 S. H., P. 
 
 Charles de Langlade. Pair of 
 silver-mounted duelling pistols carried 
 by him, his silver seal, and a leather 
 quillwork ornamented pouch used by 
 him for carrying his fur-trade papers. 
 He was the son of Sieur Augustin de 
 Langlade, who married 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 Langlade led the 
 Wisconsin Indians in several of the 
 many sanguinary conflicts of the French 
 and Indian War, from Braddock's de- 
 feat (in 1755), to the final Enghsh con- 
 quest of Canada. In the Revolutionary 
 War he fought on the British side. He 
 died at Green Bay in January, 1800. — 
 E. H. (See oil painting of Langlade at 
 Braddock's Defeat, in S. H.) 
 
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Increase A. Lapham. 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 Supplement to Catalogue of Plants, 
 printed in Milwaukee, November, 1840. 
 Woodcuts employed in illustrating a 
 botanical article written by him previous 
 to 1870. Case containing his draughting 
 instruments. Two models of Wisconsin 
 Indian earthworks prepared by him for 
 the Centennial Exposition at Philadel- 
 phia in 1876. He settled in 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-presidents. He served as 
 State geologist, 1873-75, and was the 
 "father" of the United States Weather 
 Bureau. He ranked among the most dis- 
 tinguished antiquarians and naturalists 
 of his time, and was the most prominent 
 of the early scientific investigators in 
 Wisconsin. He died at Oconomowoc, 
 Sept. 14, 1875.— £. H., I. H. R., N. 
 H.,P. 
 
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Little Soldier. Pipe formerly be- 
 longing to him. He is better known as 
 "Dandy." He was a son of the Winne- 
 bago chief, Black Wolf, and a cousin of 
 Four Legs. His village is reported as 
 being located in 1836 on Baraboo River, 
 above the present city of Baraboo. — 
 /. 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 of 
 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. — 
 A^. //., P. 
 
 Simeon Mills. Percussion-lock pis- 
 tol, and a collection of American and for- 
 eign gold, silver, and copper coins as- 
 sembled by him. He came to Wisconsin 
 
July 2, 1836, and was one of the first 
 settlers of Madison (June 10, 1837). He 
 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 Civil War. He was long one of the 
 vice-presidents of the State Historical 
 Society.— £. H., S. H., P. 
 
 Na-na-on-ge-be (Dressing Bird). 
 War drum used by the first chief of the 
 Lac Courte Oreille band of Wisconsin 
 Ojibwa Indians. — /. H. R, 
 
 Na-ya-to-shingd (He-who-lays-by- 
 himself). 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. — /. H. R. 
 
 Henry C. Payne. Gold-bound oak 
 gavel with w^hich, as chairman, he called 
 to order the National Republican Con- 
 vention at Chicago, 1904. Brown 
 leather portfolio used by him when post- 
 master-general, at meetings of the cabi- 
 net of President Roosevelt. His collec- 
 tion of badges, worn by himself and oth- 
 ers in the Republican national conven- 
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tions at Minneapolis (1892), St. Louis 
 (1896), Philadelphia (1900), and Chi- 
 cago (1904).— £. H., I. R. 
 
 Mrs. Eben (Roseline) Peck. Violin 
 and watch of the first white woman set- 
 tler of Madison, April 15, 1837. Many 
 of the early legislators lived at Mrs. 
 Peck's home and danced to the strains 
 of her violin.— £■. H., N. H., P. 
 
 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 
 the West. Pike and various iron imple- 
 ments from the site of his fort (1684-85) 
 at the "wintering bluff" near Trempea- 
 leau.— 5. H., E. H. 
 
 Horace Rublee. Diary kept at 
 Madison about 1864 by this pioneer 
 journalist and politician. Mr. Rublee 
 first engaged in journalism as a legis- 
 lative reporter for the Madison Daily 
 Argus in 1852 and 1853. He was 
 a partner with David Atwood in the 
 Wisconsin State Journal from 1854-69, 
 and editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel 
 from 1882-96. A strong supporter of 
 
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the Republican party, he held the 
 chairmanship of the Republican State 
 Central Committee from 1859-69.^ — 
 E. H., S. H., P, 
 
 Surg. -Gen. Nicholas Senn. Ob- 
 stetrical instruments used by him when 
 beginning his career as a country doctor 
 at Elmore, Fond du Lac County, in 
 1867. Favorite scalpel used by this 
 famous surgeon in his clinic at Rush 
 Medical College, Chicago. Copy of a 
 bronze medal presented to him in honor 
 of his sixtieth birthday by the medical 
 profession of the country. During the 
 Spanish-American War he was ap- 
 pointed surgeon-general of the army 
 by President McKinley. — N. 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- 
 
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vention passed into the hands of the 
 Remingtons, for manufacture. Sholes 
 & GHdden typewriter, manufactured 
 by C. Remington & Sons, lUon, New 
 York, in 1878.— E. H,, S. H. 
 
 Gen. John C. Starkweather. 
 Sword given to him by the non-commis- 
 sioned officers and privates of the Mil- 
 waukee Light Guard, Sept. 2, 1858. 
 Uniform coat and sash worn by him as 
 commander of the Light Guard. Silver 
 pitcher and two goblets presented to him 
 by his staff officers of the Ninth and 
 Tenth Indiana Cavalry and Seventh 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry, and citizens of 
 Pulaski, Tennessee, Aug. 7, 1864. Silver 
 butter dish presented by freedmen for his 
 activity in suppressing guerrilla war- 
 fare, Nov. 17, 1864. Beaded dance bag 
 presented to him by Menominee Indians. 
 He was colonel of the First Wisconsin 
 Regiment, 1861-63. On July 17, 1863, 
 he was promoted to brigadier-general. — 
 M. H, K, L H. R., P. 
 
 Alexander Stow. Powderhorn used 
 by him. He came to Wisconsin in 1845; 
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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.— 
 E. H., N. H., P. 
 
 James J. Strang. Bolt plate, 
 probably from a door of his Beaver 
 Island "castle." Strang, an eccentric 
 young lawyer of Burlington, Racine 
 County, embraced Mormonism. His 
 subsequent career as elder, revelator, 
 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, on the White River, in 
 Walworth County. In 1847 he removed 
 with his followers to Beaver Island, in 
 Lake Michigan. — E. H. 
 
 Congressman John Fox Potter. 
 Bowie 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, 
 Virginia, and presented to "Bowie 
 Knife" Potter, May 31, 1862, by 
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Brigadier-General Viele, U. S. A., as 
 an appropriate "memorial of a chival- 
 rous incident." Potter was member of 
 Congress from the First Wisconsin Dis- 
 trict, 1857-63.— M« H. R, 
 
 Dr. Walter L. Rankin. Catalogue 
 of Carroll College, Waukesha, Wiscon- 
 sin (1867-68). This was the first 
 catalogue issued by President Rankin. — 
 E. H. 
 
 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. 
 
 Maj. John H. Rountree. Sword 
 used by him in the Black Hawk War. 
 Major Rountree came to Wisconsin and 
 settled at Platteville in 1827. He 
 shared in the troubles of the outbreak 
 of the W^innebago War, and served as 
 captain during the Black Hawk War. 
 From 1838-46 he was in the territorial 
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council. He served in the second 
 constitutional convention, in the State 
 assembly in 1863, and in the senate in 
 1865.— M. H. R., N. H., P. 
 
 Moses M. Strong. Waterproof cloak 
 worn by him, his leather-bound trunk, 
 leather saddle pouch, and a collection of 
 old-fashioned household utensils from 
 his home at Mineral Point. He settled 
 at Mineral Point in 1836; was United 
 States attorney for Wisconsin Territory, 
 1838-40; elected to the territorial coun- 
 cil, 1842, and reelected for four years; 
 member of the constitutional conven- 
 tion; member and speaker of the assem- 
 bly, 1850, and reelected to the assembly 
 in 1853; first president of the Milwaukee 
 & La Crosse Railroad Company. Au- 
 thor of Territorial History of Wisconsin, 
 pubHshed in 1885.— iV. H., P. 
 
 Gov. William R. Taylor. Gourd 
 vessel presented to him when elected 
 "Granger" governor of Wisconsin, in 
 1873.— E. H., P. 
 
 Dr. Reuben G. Thwaites. Corn- 
 planter medal for Iroquois research 
 awarded to him by the Cayuga County 
 [29 1 
 
Historical Society. Dr. Thwaites was 
 appointed secretary of the State His- 
 torical Society of Wisconsin in 1887 
 and held that position until his death 
 in 1913. During that period of time he 
 made many valuable contributions to 
 historical research. — /. H. R., P. 
 
 Gov. William H. Upham. Pen with 
 which he signed the bill making appro- 
 priations for the new building of the 
 State Historical Society. He was gover- 
 nor of Wisconsin from 1895-97. — /. R. 
 
 Daniel Whitney. Ladles, 56-pound 
 weight, and other relics of the shot 
 tower erected by him at Helena, on the 
 Wisconsin River, in Iowa County, 1831- 
 33. He was a pioneer merchant and 
 lumberman who came to Green Bay 
 in 1819.— M. H. i?., P. 
 
 Asaph Whittlesey. Pair of snow- 
 shoes used by him when walking from 
 Ashland, on Lake Superior, to Madison, 
 in the year 1860, to represent his district 
 in the State assembly. — E. H. 
 
 Eleazar Williams. Copper tea- 
 kettle used in his home at Little Chute, 
 Outagamie County. Neckband worn 
 [301 
 
by him while missionary to the Gneida 
 Indians. He was the reputed son of a 
 woman of the St. Regis band of Mohawk 
 Indians, being born about 1792; became 
 an Episcopal missionary to the Oneida 
 of New York, and came to Wisconsin 
 in 1821 as agent of certain tribes of 
 New York Indians who desired to 
 settle in the valley 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 Antoi- 
 nette, and thus heir to the French 
 throne. Many believed his assertions, 
 while others who knew the missionary 
 well stamped him as, an impostor. He 
 died at Little Kaukauna, Aua. 28, 1857. 
 —N. i/., E. H., I. H. i?., P. 
 
 National and Foreign Celebrities 
 
 Emilio Aguinaldo Y Famy. Mack- 
 intosh taken from the person of the 
 Philippine leader, at the time of his 
 capture, March 23, 1901, in the town 
 of Palanan, Province of Isabella. "Agui- 
 naldo had it rolled and on him in the 
 [311 
 
same manner that our soldiers carry 
 their blanket rolls, as if he had hurriedly 
 picked it up when the idea of escape 
 came to him after the fight began." — 
 /. R. 
 
 Maj.-Gen. N. p. Banks. Note 
 written by General Banks to Colonel 
 Ruggles on the day preceding the battle 
 of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Aug. 8, 
 1862.— M. H. R. 
 
 John Bell. John Bell and Edward 
 Everett Peace party campaign medal, 
 1860.—/. R. 
 
 Black Kettle. Pipe formerly the 
 property of this famous Cheyenne chief 
 and warrior, whose village on Sand 
 Creek, Colorado, was attacked and 
 destroyed in 1864 by a force of militia, 
 and a large number of innocent men, 
 women, and children massacred. Black 
 Kettle was later killed at his village on 
 the Washita in an attack by United 
 States troops under Gen. P. H. Sheridan. 
 — /. H. R. 
 
 James G. Blaine. Blaine and Logan 
 ballots. Campaign medals and badges. 
 —E. i/., /. R. 
 
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Daniel Boone. Powderhorn, 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 
 (1759-95). He presented this kettle 
 as a keepsake to his friend and fellow- 
 frontiersman, Gen. Simon Kenton. 
 There is also a plaster cast of Boone's 
 skull, made at Frankfort, Kentucky, 
 in 1845.— M. H. R., I, H. R. 
 
 Gapt. Joseph Brant (Thayen- 
 danegea). Ribbon with silver brooches 
 worn by this famous Mohaw^k Indian 
 chief. Brant was an educated Indian 
 who at the time of the Revolutionary 
 War assisted his friends the English 
 by arousing the Six Nations against the 
 colonial forces. He took part in the 
 battle of Oriskany with success but the 
 results of the battle of Ghenung changed 
 Brant from the leader of a powerful 
 confederacy to the chieftain of a broken 
 clan. At the close of the war he retired 
 to Ganada, w^here he long continued a 
 power in the councils of the Indians 
 [33 1 
 
along the Canadian-American frontier. 
 —E. H. 
 
 John C. Breckenridge. Vice- 
 presidential ballot for, used in Dane 
 County, Wisconsin, 1856. — E. H. 
 
 John Brown. Wrought-iron firedogs 
 from the birthplace of the famous anti- 
 slavery agitator at Torrington, Connec- 
 ticut. One of the pikes provided by him 
 for the arming of negroes at Harper's 
 Ferry, Virginia, October, 1859. Pre- 
 sented by Brown's lieutenant, John E. 
 Cook, to Sen. D. W. Voorhees, of 
 Indiana. Piece of puncheon floor and 
 pieces of siding from his house at 
 Osawatomie. Saber supposed, to have 
 been carried in the Revolutionary War 
 by Capt. John Brown, grandfather of 
 John Brown.— Af. H. R. 
 
 President James Buchanan. Presi- 
 dential ballot for, used in Dane County, 
 Wisconsin, in 1856. — E. H. 
 
 Ole Bull. Wedding invitation, 
 1870, and program of grand farewell 
 concert, Milwaukee, June 30, 1857, 
 of the famous violinist. — E. H. 
 
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Alice Gary. Piece of old-fashioned 
 silk from the dress of the famous 
 authoress. — /. R. 
 
 President Grover Gleveland. 
 Porcelain plate frorn his White House 
 dinner set. Presented to the Museum 
 by President Roosevelt. Gleveland and 
 Hendricks ballots used in Milwaukee, 
 Wisconsin.— A. /?., E. H. 
 
 William F. Gody (Buffalo Bill). 
 Badge complimentary to the famous 
 scout given to him by his lifelong friend, 
 Frank Powell (White Beaver), at La 
 Grosse, Dec. 2, 1886.— M. H. R. 
 
 Ghristopher Golumbus. Piece of 
 cedar from his home in Madeira. Re- 
 ceived from Henry Garacciola of Port 
 of Spain, Trinidad. — /. R. 
 
 Father Joseph Damien. Grucifix, 
 rosary, holy water shell, medical book, 
 carpenter's rule and other articles used 
 by him in the leper colony at Kalawao, 
 Molokai, Hawaiian Islands. Father Da- 
 mien was born in 1841 at Louvain, 
 Belgium. Being educated as a Gatho- 
 lic priest, he was sent to the South 
 Seas as a missionary in 1873. Settling 
 
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on the island of Molokai, he devoted the 
 remainder of his Ufe to the lepers. He 
 himself died of leprosy in 1889. His suc- 
 cessor is Brother Joseph Button, a for- 
 mer resident of Wisconsin. — E. H. 
 
 Jefferson Davis. Negro slave whip 
 obtained by a Wisconsin soldier from 
 his plantation at Grand Gulf, near 
 Vicksburg, Mississippi. Jefferson Davis 
 ballot. "Diddy box" made from furni- 
 ture in the house of Jefferson Davis by 
 William Nelson and used by him while 
 ship's corporal on the U. S. S., "Caron- 
 delet," during the Civil War. He came 
 to Wisconsin in 1828 as a lieutenant in 
 the First United States Infantry, being 
 stationed at Fort Crawford, Fort Win- 
 nebago, and elsewhere. He participated 
 in the Black Hawk War in 1832, and 
 left the State in 1833.— M. H. R, 
 
 Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas and 
 Johnson campaign badge, 1860. — E. H. 
 
 Col. Ephraim 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, Virginia, with his regi- 
 
 [36] 
 
ment, on May 24, 1861, this promising 
 young soldier ascended to the roof of a 
 hotel and tore down a Confederate flag. 
 On his way downstairs he w^as shot and 
 killed by the proprietor of the hotel, 
 who was himself immediately killed by 
 one of Ellsworth's men. — M. H. R. 
 
 Empress Eugenie (Marie-Eugenie- 
 Ignace- Augustine de Montijo). Brussels 
 needlepoint and bobjDin-lace scarf worn 
 by her. Empress Eugenie was the wife 
 of Napoleon III of France. — A. R. 
 
 Edward Everett. — John Bell and 
 Edward Everett Peace party campaign 
 medals, 1860.—/. R. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin. Home-made 
 friction electrical machine supposed to 
 have been constructed under his per- 
 sonal direction. — 5. H. 
 
 President Ulysses S. Grant. One 
 of the chairs used at meetings of his 
 cabinet; it was purchased during his first 
 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 
 
 [37] 
 
House dinner set of President Grant. 
 Pass given by him to Dayton Locke, 
 April 19, 1865. Officer's commission 
 signed by him, badges, etc. — E. H., A. 
 R., M. H. R. 
 
 President Benjamin Harrison. Por- 
 celain plate from his White House din- 
 ner set. Presented by President Roose- 
 velt. RepubUcan ballot of the Harrison- 
 Morton campaign, Wisconsin, 1888. In- 
 augural ball program, Mar. 4, 1889. — 
 A. i?., E, H. 
 
 William H. Harrison. Reprint of a 
 Harrison Tippecanoe Club campaign 
 letter, medals, etc. — E. H. 
 
 President Rutherford B. Hayes. 
 Two porcelain plates from his White 
 House dinner set. Presented by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt.— A. R. 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Nicholas Herkimer. 
 Field glass used by him at the battle of 
 Oriskany, Aug. 6, 1777.— M. H. 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 
 
 [38 1 
 
Independence (1776), and a member of 
 the Continental Congress. — N. H. 
 
 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, Texas, in 1852. In 
 1836 Houston secured the independence 
 of Texas by conquest from Mexico, and 
 was elected president of the Texan 
 repubhc, which in 1845 was admitted 
 into the Union.— M. H. R. 
 
 Captain Jack (Kintpuash). 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. Jennison ("Jayhawker"). 
 Confederate flag of domestic make, cap- 
 tured by him when in command of the 
 First Kansas Cavalry, Nov. 26, 186L 
 Accompanying the flag is a note from 
 [ 39 ] 
 
Jennison, written on the back of one of 
 his famous bloodthirsty proclamations. 
 Received from Gen. James Bintliff. — 
 M. H. R. 
 
 Andrew Johnson. Card with auto- 
 graph of President Andrew Johnson. — 
 M. H. R. 
 
 John Paul Jones. Button from the 
 coat of this celebrated naval commander 
 of the war of the Revolution. — M. H. R. 
 
 Gen. Robert E. Lee. Pike, one of 
 a lot found in Richmond, Virginia, after 
 the surrender. Made by order of 
 General Lee for use in the trenches 
 because of the scarcity of ammunition. 
 — M. H. R. 
 
 President Abraham Lincoln. 
 Autograph card dated July 27, 1863, 
 requesting Secretary of War Stanton to 
 have an interview with Ex-Gov. N. G. 
 Ordway of New Hampshire. Plate from 
 the dinner set in use at the White House 
 during his administration. Photograph 
 of his home in Springfield, in 1844. 
 Playbill of Ford's Theater, for April 14, 
 1865, the night when President Lincoln 
 was assassinated. Pass bearing his sig- 
 [40 1 
 
nature, issued to Mrs. J. R. Reid and 
 daughter, Oct. 21, 1864. Lincoln and 
 Hamlin presidential election ticket. 
 Cap-band worn by member of the Ran- 
 dolph (Dodge County) Wide Awake 
 Club, Lincoln campaign, 1860. Piece 
 of wall paper from his home at Spring- 
 field, Illinois.— M. H. R., A, R.,I.R.,P. 
 
 Gen. George B. McClellan. Demo- 
 cratic presidential ballot of 1864. — E. H. 
 
 Father Jacques Marquette. Bra- 
 cony's plaster sketch of Father Mar- 
 quette. Stone from tower of the ca- 
 thedral at Laon, his birthplace. — 5. //., 
 I. R. 
 
 Maximilian Joseph (Maximihan I). 
 Silver medal given by him to Joseph 
 Pistorius for bravery in the wars of 
 Napoleon, 1800. Maximihan (1756- 
 1825), king of Bavaria, was the most 
 faithful of Napoleon's German allies. — 
 M. H. R. 
 
 Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. 
 Short cane made from oak plank of the 
 flagship, "Lawrence." Piece of oak 
 planking from hull of his brig, "Niaga- 
 
 [411 
 
ra." Perry medals, etc.— M. H. /?., S. 
 H., P. 
 
 Capt. Simeon Sampson. Small 
 leather trunk in which were kept the 
 papers of Captain Sampson, the first 
 naval commander appointed in the con- 
 tinental service by the provincial con- 
 gress of Massachusetts, at the out- 
 break of the Revolutionary War. Mirror 
 purchased by him in France during this 
 period.— M. H. R., C. K. 
 
 Gen. Philip Schuyler. Ivory stilet- 
 to once the property of Margaret 
 Schuyler, daughter of this general of the 
 Revolutionary War. She escaped a 
 tomahawk blow when the Schuyler 
 mansion was attacked by Indians 
 aroused by the British, Aug. 7, 1781. — 
 A^. H. 
 
 William Shakespeare. Goblet said 
 to have been carved from wood of, 
 mulberry tree planted by him. — A. R. 
 
 Roger Sherman. Chair, being a 
 part of the parlor furniture of his home 
 at New Milford, Connecticut. He was 
 one of the members of the committee 
 appointed by the Continental Congress 
 [421 
 
in 1776 to draft the Declaration of 
 Independence. — E. H. 
 
 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. 
 Message in pencil, which he caused to be 
 signalled to Admiral Dahlgren, asking 
 the cooperation of his fleet in the cap- 
 ture of Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee 
 River, near Savannah, Georgia, Dec. 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 
 Bighorn, June 25, 1876.—/. H. R. 
 
 President Zachary Taylor. Pipe 
 presented to him when commandant 
 (1829-36) at Fort Crawford (Prairie du 
 Chien) by the noted Wisconsin Winne- 
 bago chief Dekaury (Sha-chip-ka-ka), 
 also known as Old Grey-headed Deco- 
 rah. White War Eagle, and by other 
 names.—/. H. /?., E. H., P. 
 
 Tecumseh. Pair of epaulettes worn 
 by this great Shawnee chief in the W^ar 
 [43] 
 
of 1812. He was killed by the Ameri- 
 cans at the battle of the Thames, 
 Canada, on Oct. 5, 1813.— M. H. R. 
 
 Gen. Tom Thumb (C. T. Stratton). 
 Program of entertainment and calling 
 card of this famous dwarf. Under the 
 management of P. T. Barnum he made 
 a tour of the world in 1869.—/. R. 
 
 George Washington. Telescope 
 used by him. It was found on one of the 
 British ships captured by Commodore 
 John Barry during the war of the 
 Revolution, and by him presented to 
 General Washington. Facsimile of med- 
 al issued to Washington to commemo- 
 rate the evacuation of Boston by the 
 British, Mar. 17, 1776.— M. H. R., S. 
 H., P. 
 
 Daniel Webster. Carriage pur- 
 chased in London, in 1808, by Stephen 
 White of Boston, and used by him for 
 several years. It then passed into the 
 hands of the great American statesman. 
 Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, Silas 
 WVight, Charlotte Cushman, Dean Rich- 
 mond, Erastus Corning, and many 
 other notables have ridden in it. It is 
 [441 
 
an admirable specimen of the better 
 class of family carriages in use in Eng- 
 land and America a century ago. — E. H. 
 
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