Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin - Chapter 7: Much in Little, 1912

Fraternal Orders And Societies

This organization was effected, September 4, 1848, with the following charter members : D. R. Curran, J. C. Bishop, E. S. Disbrow, Charles Chandler, Sam Ryan, J. C. Lowell, J. Bannister, K. A. Darling, M. D. Henry.

The present officers are: N. G., D. R. Watson; V. G., Charles Doll; Rec. Sec., John Johnson; Per. Sec., Charles Putz; Treas., John H. Geve. The present mem¬ bership is 125.

This lodge was organized January 16, 1867, with the following charter mem¬ bers: Paul Reichman, Charles Marks, Joshua Underhill, John Nichols, Daniel Roberts and A. A. Wilson.

This lodge was organized January 17, 1867, with the following charter mem¬ bers : Paul Richman-, Sebastian Endemiller, Charles Marks, Phillip Stamm and William Karstens.

The present officials are : N. G., T. W. Getchell ; V. G., H. L. Mabie ; Rec. Sec., Oscar Oberreich ; Fin. Sec., W. H. Masson; Treas., Franc Rossner. The mem¬ bership is 56.

This lodge was organized January 21, 1870, with the following charter mem¬ bers : Henry Burwell, William Masson, H. P. Graves, Alonzo Bochelder, J. V. Jewell, J. L. Ward, L. Rhinehart, Daniel Roberts, Mesdames Amelia Burwell, Frances Masson, Nellie M. Graves, E. A. Bochelder, H. Jewell, E. A. McCumber, Jennette Ward, E. A. Rhinehart.

The present officials are: N. G., Mrs. George W. Fisher; V. G., Mrs. Oscar Oberreich ; Rec. Sec., Mrs. L. Jensen; Per. Sec., Miss Alma I. Sexsmith; Treas., Mrs. E. Murray. The present membership numbers 179.

This lodge was instituted October 29, 1902, with W. P. Karstens as president, and P. H. Moriarity as secretary. The present officers are : President, John Steen ; vice president, F. A. Bartlett ; secretary, J. W. Burnton ; treasurer, P. H. Corbeille ; chaplain, William Kilmer; conductor, William Miller; inside guard, George Powers; outside guard, Herman Schroeder; trustees, Fred Chapleau, Oscar Ward and William Jaegar.

This lodge received its charter April 27, 1902, and the first class was initiated May 4th of that year, while the first meeting was held on the 7th of May of the same year. The first officers were: G. K., Maurice Fitzsimons; Dep. G. K., M. K. Reilly; C., Ed. A. Kremer; Rec. Sec., A. G. Dana; Fin. Sec., D. F. Blewett; Treas., L. G. Korrer ; Lect., C. M. Dickhofif ; Adv., P. H Martin ; W., Dr. S. E. Gavin ; I.

There are two Masonic bodies, or organizations, in Fond du Lac, both of which meet in the magnificent temple on the corner of South Marr and Sheboygan streets, built in 1906. Fond du Lac Lodge No. 26, A. F. & A. M. was organized under a dispensation dated September 13, 1849, which was granted to Mason C Darling, George H. Beech, Arnold Friedman, N. Perry, George D. Ruggles, S. J. Lusk, James Meyers and John C. Reed. The lodge received its charter granted by the grand lodge, December 15, 1849. The petitioners for the lodge were E. W. Davis and John Bannister. Among those admitted as members of the local lodge who had been initiated into the inner circles of the order elsewhere were O. J. Soper, John Petit, and Rev. Joshua Sweet. The first officials were:

Fond du Lac Lodge, No. 140, F. & A. M., was also organized under a dispensa¬ tion granted August 21, 1862, to I. S. Sherwood, A. D. Taylor, H. A. Francis, George McWilliams, C. F. Kalk, S. A. Dudley, D. Ladd, A. H. Boardman, Ed. Farnsworth, J. B. Perry, George W. Sawyer, Thomas S. Weeks, J. O. Roorbach, A. G. Ruggles, D. R. Curran, John Petit and George W. Jones. The organization of the lodge was perfected, September 3, 1862, and its charter was granted June 10, 1863. L. M. Wyatt was the first petitioner and A. M. Blair the first member admitted. The first officials were :

Both these lodges with the various attendant bodies are in excellent condition both as to membership and finances. The temple which they occupy is a beautiful structure, two stories in height, with the front beautified by four large pillars fac¬ ing on Sheboygan street. The building cost about $40,000.

Fond Du Lac Turnverein

This society was organized in June, 1855, and May 13-15, 1905, its golden jubilee was celebrated. In the spring of 1855 Anton Vogt and Thomas Bobel invited several Germans who lived in Fond du Lac to meet them in Frey's brew¬ ery and after a short session, on the 15th of April, 1855, the Turnverein was founded with the following members: Anton Vogt, Joseph Wolfif, Louis Goldstucker, Louis Rupp, Karl Frey, Thomas Bobel, Alwin Handt, Carl Aden, Jacob Frey, Casper Buchner, Martin Petrie, Robert Hubertscheck. The first officers were: Louis Goldstucker, speaker; Alwin Handt, scribe; Joseph Wolfif, treasurer; Thomas Bobel, first turnwart ; Anton Vogt, second turnwart; Casper Buchner, custodian.

The society secured a piece of ground on Sophia street belonging to Mr. Scherzinger. where they held their first exhibition on September 10, 1855. When winter came they decided to build a hall, which was erected on a piece of ground secured from Dr. Darling, on what is now 69 South Marr street, owned and occupied by Mrs. Anna Hartmann. The property cost $200 and the hall cost about the same. In 1856 the society had a picnic, which netted it enough money to put a new floor in the hall.

d'he war came on and in 1861 when President Lincoln made the first call for troops to go to the front, John Reichert and Herman Walter enlisted and later, on September 13, 1861, a general meeting was held and the enthusiasm was so great that at that time Gustav Burghardt, F. Grassle, A. Feldrapp, C. Cannitz. F. Veit, H. Raabe, A. Hecker, H. Tonner and Karl Schnell became members of a company that went to the front from Fond du Lac.

In 1862 the Turnverein decided to build a new hall and a committee was selected for the purpose. In August a new call for troops was made by the government and the Turners responded by sending to the front Anton Vogt, Casper Buchner, John Reichert, Christ Winkelman, Michael Thurwachter and Moritz Fox. At this meeting it was decided to vote the company $150, which was increased at the next meeting to $250. There were also entertainments held and the profits derived therefrom were used for the purpose of supplying the boys with necessary comforts at the front. It was not long after this that news was received that Karl Schnell had fallen in one of the skirmishes and memorial services were held in his honor. A short time thereafter, in September, news was received of the death of Henry Raabe and on August 7th word came of the death of Frank Veit.

The property was sold in October, 1864, f°r $500, and on June 3, 1866, the old German American school property was purchased for $700. A building was erected and the new hall was dedicated December 23, 1866.

In 1868 the Harmonie Singing Society became an accessory to this organiza¬ tion. In January, 1871, the Turnverein joined the North American Turnerbund and in the winter of that year purchased a piece of property of Miss Martin for $1,000, to which place the hall was removed. In the spring of 1878 a new addi¬ tion was built and on the 18th of April, 1880, the society held its silver jubilee. At this time the society has its home in a magnificent cement block building, re¬ cently erected on Portland street, at a cost of $6,000. The hall was dedicated April 10, 1912.

The present officers of the Turnverein are: President, William F. Bruett; vice president, George Bretthaner ; secretary, John Faude; assistant secretary, George Sander ; treasurer, William Hartman.

Old Settlers' Club

A meeting was held at the Patty House, on the evening of October 12, 1874, for the purpose of organizing an Old Settlers' Club, and temporary officers were selected. On June 22, 1875, a permanent organization was effected, at a meet¬ ing composed of about sixty old settlers. Those eligible as members were re¬ quired to show a residence in the county no later than the year 1850. At this gathering there were three men who had come to the county in 1840 - Edward

Beeson, Charles Olmsted and William Stewart. Nineteen located in the county between 1840 and 1845. They were: L. F. Stowe, A. C. Whiting, William Galland, Thomas Worthing, Gilbert M. Lee, C. E. Woolridge, Peter V. Sang, David Lyons, Chauncey Griswold, C. P. Phelps, Joseph Stowe, D. D. Treleven, Charles Clark, G. W. Carter, Elihu Colman, C. N. Kendall, J. Carter, Charles Olmsted, J. C. Wedge, J. A. Watrous, Dr. Don A. Raymond.

The first social gathering of the Old Settlers' Club was held at the fair grounds in the city of Fond du Lac, September 1, 1875, and was voted by all present as a grand success, from every view point. Addresses were delivered by Gustave de Neveu, D. P. Mapes, C. K. Pier, Dr. Elliott Brown and others, in which the trials, struggles and victories of the builders of Fond du Lac county were the themes most dwelt upon.

Several annual meetings of the club were held, and then came a lapse. After a few years the club was revived and annual reunions still are held. But the attendance does not show the pioneers. They are gone to their long reward. The members of the present day are of a later generation, but they, in many instances, represent the pioneers and others can claim residence in the county from the '50s. A partial list of the names of early members of the club will show many of the first settlers of the county and that will be interesting in itself :

Writers, Singers And Artists

The county of Fond du Lac has her literary people and entertains for their genius and accomplishments a high regard. The first one in this category to come prominently before the public was Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, a pioneer and one of the founders of the Episcopal church of Fond du Lac. In 1854, a volume of five hundred and thirty-seven pages, entitled "The Healing of Nations," appeared with his name on the title page and immediately brought forth a great deal of criticism, both favorable and otherwise. The theme was spiritualistic in its tendencies.

Martin Mitchell, an early settler, was a man prominent in the affairs of the county. In 1854, he published a history of Fond du Lac county, containing about one hundred pages. It was the first work of the kind attempted in the county and had a small sale. But few of the books are now extant. In 1873, David P. Mapes, the founder of Ripon, published a book entitled, "The History of the City of- Ripon and its Founder."

In musical circles Abbie Beeson Covington took high rank. After a course of local training she went to Boston and in 1877 graduated from the New Eng¬ land Conservatory of Music. In September of that year, she sailed for Italy with her parents, Edward and Susan Beeson, and became a pupil of Signor Guiseppi Pavini and Madam Mavini, at Milan, in voice culture ; Madam Boreome in langauge, and Signor Ranconi in elocution. After studying one year she sang as a prima donna in northern Italy and then returned to Milan to resume her studies. Returning to this country in July, .1879, she found many invitations to sing and in October, she made her American debut in Boston and received many encomi¬ ums from the critics. Soon thereafter Mrs. Covington became soloist for Theo¬ dore Thomas' orchestra in New York city; then with the Mendelssohn Quintette Club and other similar organizations.

Mark R. Harrison was an artist, who presumed in enduring colors, beauties of nature and the traditional Indian as he appears in history and legendery lore. He was an indefatigable worker and gave to the art-loving world paintings that take front rank in his field of endeavor. He began to paint in Fond du Lac, in 1852, under adverse circumstances, but his merit was soon admitted and his rep¬ utation as an artist became world wide. He had for a student, Edward G. Mascraft, of Fond du Lac, who acquired an enviable reputation as an artist both at home and abroad.

Among the poets and authors were " Lisle Lester," "Nellie Wildwood" (Eliz¬ abeth Farnsworth Mears), Alice Crawford and Charlotte Fisher, and last, but not least, Maurice McKenna, one of the ablest members of the Wisconsin bar. He is the author of a volume entitled "Elva Lee and Other Poems," and a second volume, which was published in 1890, entitled "Poems, Rhymes and Verses." His productions were given a place in "Poets of America" and have appeared in other standard works.

Other writers whom Fond du Lac claims as her own, have gone out into the world and made for themselves names that reflect credit and honor upon the community. The writings of Colonel Watrous, now of Milwaukee, are familiar to the Fond du Lac people, and he has also made them known to a much wider circle of readers.

Agricultural Societies

The first association organized in Fond du Lac county for the purpose of hold¬ ing exhibitions of the county's products, was the Fond du Lac County Agricultural and Mechanical Society, July 5, 1852. That year the society held its first annual fair, beginning on the 26th of September and lasting until the 30th day of the month, at Rosendale, and premiums were awarded to the amount of $261.50. In 1853 the meet took place at Fond du Lac. Profiting by experiences of the former year but $199 was awarded in premiums and it required eighty per cent of the receipts to meet expenditures. The receipts in 1854 had dwindled to the extent that only $78 in cash premiums was paid, and twenty-six volumes of State Agricultural Society reports were distributed to less unfortunate exhibitors. In 1855 cash premiums to the amount of $160 were paid; other premiums were met by the generous gift of Patent Office reports. And so the fairs failed to flourish financially until 1858, when the society held its meet at Ripon and evidenced good judgment in doing so. The fair was a success. The receipts amounted to $282 and cash premiums amounting to $245 were disbursed. The fair held forth at Fond du Lac the following year and was decidedly encouraging. The sum of $452 was realized, $252 of which was paid in premiums and $211 invested in needed improvements on the fair grounds. In 1874 the society was reorganized and from thence on the association has held annual fairs with varying success.

The Ripon Agricultural Association originated in the Farmers' Club, organized in 1864, and came into being in 1866. D. P. Mapes started a subscription paper for the sale of stock, at the par value of $25 per share, each stockholder to have a life ticket to the annual meetings, and difficult as was the undertaking, he suc¬ ceeded within five weeks in the sale of the requisite number of shares, which was 200. An organization was effected under the statutes, a board of directors and officers elected, and the money all paid in. On November 9, 1866, seventeen acres of ground were purchased northeast of the village and from the nth of October to the 13th inclusive, a successful fair was held and continued to be held annually. The first president of the association was A. M. Skeels; secretary, E. P. Brock¬ way; treasurer, H. M. Chapin.

For the "I lome Coming" in 1912 Franklin Swett prepared and had published a beautifully illustrated booklet, in which he pictured a number of old settlers then living, and briefly told their ages and the date of their coming to Fond du Lac county. A number of them had reached the age of ninety years, or more. As he is an old settler himself, familiar with the history of the county, and in touch with these pioneers, his relation of them in his booklet is reproduced here, with the assurance that Mr. Swett's research work was done carefully and that it will add interest to this history of events and people.

Fond Du Lac Nonagenarians

August Baganz, age ninety-five years, born in Frankfort, Germany, in 1817; settled in the town of Forest in 1858. His son, August Baganz, lived in and owned the Log Tavern in the town of Forest.

Mrs. Edward Carr, age ninety-two years, was born in Queens county, Ireland, in 1820. She came to Fond du Lac county in 1848 and now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. McCullough, on a part of what was the Swett homestead in the town of Empire.

Jacob Dilling, ninety- four years old, was born in Kleinladenbach, Grand Duchy Hesse, Germany, May x. 1818. In September, 1851, he settled in the town of Forest where he resided until 1902, when he came to Fond du Lac, where he now lives with his son, J. M. Dilling.

Mrs. Rumina Dye, aged ninety-two years, was born in Allegany county, New York, September 12, 1820. She came to Wisconsin in 1840, settling in Sheboygan county, and came to Fond du Lac in 1852.

James A. Hersey, aged ninety, was born at Ira Corners, New York, in 1822, and settled in Fond du Lac in 1844, when he became associated with Dr. Darling in the real-estate business. He built a home directly across the street from the county jail, residing there for many years.

Richard Kaye, aged ninety-three, was born in Yorkshire, England, March 8, - 1819. He came to Wisconsin in 1841 and settled in Burlington. In the spring of 1848 he settled in the town of Empire, living there for several years and then coming to Fond du Lac, where he has since resided.

Christopher Keyes, aged ninety-seven, was born in Fermanagh, Ireland, April 14, 1815, He came to Fond du Lac in 1855 and continues to make his home on a farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres, on which he first located. Mr. Keyes has the reputation of being the oldest resident in the county.

Mrs. B. A. Mayhew, (deceased at ninety-three) was born in Dover, Dutchess county, New York, April 2, 1818, and in company with her husband settled in the town of Empire in 1849.

Thomas Price, aged ninety, was born in Radnarshire, Wales, December 3, 1821, and settled in Kenosha county in 1844. Two years later he came to the town of Oakfield, Fond du Lac county, and purchased a farm, bringing his family in 1847, where he has since resided.

Mary Tiboderav, age ninety-two, was born near Quebec, Canada, November 1, 1819, and came to Fond du Lac in 1848. She resides with Mrs. Robert Shields.

W. W. Wheeler, ninety years old, was born August 4, 1822, in Montpelier, Ver¬ mont, moving to Wisconsin in 1853. He settled in the town of Lamartine and later moved to Oakfield in 1855, where he has since resided.

Early Settlers

L. H. Waffle was born in Brownsville, Jefferson county, New York, September, 1833. Lie came to Calumet county in 1856 and enlisted in the Seventeenth Regi¬ ment Wisconsin Volunteers in 1864, serving until the close of the war.

J. W. Clark was born in Allegany county, New York, July 11, 1830, and came to Fond du Lac in 1846. He operated a threshing machine for forty-eight seasons, nineteen seasons with horse power and twenty-nine seasons with steam power.

Joseph Titus was born in Fishkill, Dutchess county, New York, December 30, 1830, and came to the town of Eden in 1852. He enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, September 3, 1864, serving till the close of the war.

Rona B. Roswell was born in Canada in 1829. He came to Fond du Lac in 1854, enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers and served until disabled by the loss of a leg.

Gilbert Groesbeck was born in Albany county, New York, May 13, 1835, and came to Fond du Lac in 1857. He enlisted in the Tenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers and served till the close of the war.

S. H. Monroe (deceased), was born in Jericho, Chittenden county, Vermont, in 1843, and came to the town of Lamartine in 1847. He enlisted in the Second Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers and served till the close of the war.

Beginning Of Things

In the winter of 1847-48, the people of the village convened twice for dona¬ tion purposes. The first time Rev. H. R. Colman received about $150, and the second time Rev. L. C. Spofford received $123.21 - amounts fully equal to those resulting from donations at the present time.

In May, 1848, the first circus and menagerie - Raymond & Company's - vis¬ ited Fond du Lac village. Everybody went and it was the talk of the villagers for weeks afterwards.

Main street, beginning at Forest street, bears to the east several degrees, which makes "jogs'' in the streets, extending either way, perpendicularly from it. The main street of the Fond du Lac Company's plat was thus diverted by Dr. Mason C. Darling, who turned it eastward from the east branch river in order to pre¬ serve the "water-lots." He had an idea the stream would be made navigable at some future day and lots next to it (for wharves and warehouses), would be valuable. His idea was never realized, and Macy street afterward cut through the land intended for "water-lots."

In 1845 the citizens of the village of Fond du Lac congregated to discuss the action of the county commissioners, who had purchased for the sheriff a pair of brass and steel shackles, at a cost of $2.50. The heavy taxpayers characterized the transaction as an "outrageous extravagance," while those slip-shod-and-goeasy citizens who occasionally fell into the custody of the sheriff vehemently pro¬ tested that it was the height of indignity to put shackles on a man in a free country.

The famous Taycheedah democratic convention was held the day on which . Edward Beeson published his paper, the Fond du Lac Journal. He was anxious to lay the proceedings before his patrons but could not do so and "catch the mail." He therefore wrote out an elaborate account of the proceedings of the convention and inserted it, the papers being all delivered before the convention had fairly met. In order to have everything jibe, he started for Taycheedah with the bogus proceedings in his pocket and actually had the same persons appointed for chairman, secretary and committee as were named in his article, and so manipulated the convention as to make the nominations tally exactly with those announced several hours before in the Journal. For nearly thirty years it was not settled whether Mr. Beeson was a wizard or had a vision.

On Monday, August 23, 1847, Dr. Cator's house was entered by robbers and $142 in cash taken. This was a heavy robbery for those days, and was a serious loss to Dr. Cator.

Upon one occasion, in the early '50s, J. C. (''Curt'') Lewis and Nathaniel Waterbury desired to enter some pine lands above Shawano, one hundred miles from Fond du Lac. Mr. Waterbury started on horseback, taking a good animal from the livery stable, and Mr. Lewis started on foot. The friends of each laid wagers on which would reach the destination first. Those who bet on Mr. Lewis won, for he reached the place, located his lands and met Mr. Water¬ bury on a jaded horse several miles south of Shawano. On these wonderful journeys Mr. Lewis rested himself by running when he got tired of walking, and by walking when he was tired of running.

The first celery ever brought to Fond du Lac to be sold was grown by James Smith, an English gardener - now a resident of Empire - and driven about the streets and to the different groceries. For some time no one was found who knew what it was, and, after smelling of the neatly tied bunches, the people would turn up their noses, wag their heads and pass on by the other side. Finally, Dr. T. S. Wright, seeing Mr. Smith's wagon, seized a bunch of the celery and began to devour it, much to the astonishment of those who had been entirely satisfied with the smell of "the truck." Finally, James Ewen, who kept the Lewis House, purchased the entire lot, and thereafter Mr. Smith found a market for his "de¬ cayed pie plant," as some of the citizens called the celery.

J. W. Partridge was badly injured in the famous Belleville railway disaster of November 1, 1859. He boarded at the Lewis House, which stood on the corner of Main and Sheboygan streets, where the Patty House now stands, and had a room in the third story. The polls for that ward were held in the same building, on the ground floor, and directly under Mr. Partridge's bedroom win¬ dow. He had a strong desire to vote, but could not leave his bed. He asked the inspectors to allow a friend to deposit a ballot for him but they refused, as they did of course, to carry the ballot box to his room. But T. F. Strong, Jr., mastered the situation. He moved Mr. Partridge's bed to the window, got a string of sufficient length to reach the ground. Mr. Partridge attached a ballot to the string and leaned out of the window so that the chairman of the ward could know and identify him, and the ballot was lowered and received.

The first Fourth of July celebration ever held in Fond du Lac was in 1848, when speeches were made by S. Judd, of Fox Lake, and S. W. Beall, G. D. Ruggles, Alexander W. Stow and E. W. Drury. The Sunday school scholars had a picnic and the day was generally observed.

In October, 1847, Finley & Morrow established a stage line between Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, and, in the following November, a weekly stage and mail line was established between Fond du Lac and Watertown.

lecture of a fugitive slave, named Lewis Washington, on the condition of negroes in the south, lie was the first negro to appear in public in Fond du Lac.

In 1844, George McWilliams sold three hundred bushels of potatoes, which he had raised the year before on the west side of the river and kept through the winter in "heaps," covered with prairie grass and earth, for three shillings per bushel. Settlers came from twenty miles in either direction to secure them. He also fattened a ton of pork, which was the first exported from the settlement or fattened, except for family use.

After cars began to run to Fond du Lac in 1859, on what is now the Chicago & Northwestern railway, the "devil" on one of the city papers, who had been left in charge of the office during the editor's absence, lost his position and pay by writing and publishing with all due gravity the following descriptive paragraph : "The cars are quite long, and capable of holding sixty passengers with doors at each end."

On the 27th of January, 1849, a public meeting was held at the court house to organize for protection against horse thieves and burglars, their depredations hav¬ ing become unbearable.

A fellow came from Racine to Fond du Lac in the latter part of 1848 to take one of the Fountain City belles to wife, and, the next week, the following para¬ graph in the paper set the society gossipers in a flurry.

"A FINE WEDDING GIFT. - Giving the bride the prairie itch while vow¬ ing at the altar to love, cherish and protect. The idea is not original with us. We deal only in facts."

In the days before artesian wells were known in Fond du Lac, and even as late as 1846-47, the settlers were compelled to go for fresh water to a spring situ¬ ated three-quarters of a mile west of Main street, where B. F. Moore's stone quarry now is.

There were few gardens belonging to the first settlers of Fond du Lac which were inclosed by fences, and the potatoes and "sass" raised therein by the thrifty, but needy, inhabitants were very frequently stolen by the Indians, who were nu¬ merous. They were bold about their depredations of this sort, solemnly entering the gardens in broad daylight, and often, despite all protests and threats appropri¬ ating whatever they desired.

Edward Beeson, afterward editor of the Wisconsin Farmer, gave to Fond du Lac the name of "Fountain City," by referring to it in his paper as "the city of fountains," finally reducing the expression to "Fountain City."

In September, 1849, two persons, a woman and her child, died in Fond du Lac with the cholera. For a few days there was great consternation lest the dis¬ ease should spread, but it did not.

The common council ordered at its second meeting, in September, 1862, that a committee, composed of its members, go to Chicago as a guard of honor for the body of Edward S. Bragg, who had been reported killed in battle. The commit- tee went, as directed, but found instead of General Bragg's body that of E. A. Brown. Mr. Brown was buried in the grave dug for the body of Mr. Bragg.

In May, 1867, Charles Susan sold in Fond du Lac one hundred and fifty bushels of wheat for $500 to John Marshall. On the same day, C. B. Bartlett paid $105 to John H. Martin for a fat cow. Those were war prices.