Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Carol Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) VOL. I 1917-1918 THE WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY [Illustration: Printer’s Logo] PUBLICATIONS OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN. Edited by MILO M. QUAIFE, Superintendent CONTENTS OF VOLUME I LEADING ARTICLES: PAGE MILO M. QUAIFE--Increase Allen Lapham, First Scholar of Wisconsin 3 JOHN L. BRACKLIN--A Forest Fire in Northern Wisconsin 16 LOUISE P. KELLOGG--Bankers’ Aid in 1861-62 25 CARL RUSSELL FISH--The Frontier a World Problem 121 GEORGE MANIERRE--Early Recollections of Lake Geneva 142 OLE. K. NATTESTAD and RASMUS B. ANDERSON--Description of a Journey to North America 149 CORDELIA A. P. HARVEY--A Wisconsin Woman’s Picture of President Lincoln 233 SIPKO F. REDERUS--The Dutch Settlements of Sheboygan County 256 LUCIUS G. FISHER--Pioneer Recollections of Beloit and Southern Wisconsin 266 CHARLES A. INGRAHAM--Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth: First Hero of the Civil War 349 CHARLES GIESSING--Where Is the German Fatherland? 375 LOUISE P. KELLOGG--The Paul Revere Print of the Boston Massacre 377 DOCUMENTS: The Dairy of Harvey Reid: Kept at Madison in the Spring of 1861 35 The Chicago Treaty of 1833: Charges Preferred Against George B. Porter: Letter from George B. Porter to President Andrew Jackson 287 Some Letters of Paul O. Husting Concerning the Present Crisis 388 HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS: Wisconsin’s First Versifiers; Memorandum on the Spelling of “Jolliet”; The First Edition of the Zenger Trial, 1736; A Novel Transportation Device 64 The Disputed Michigan-Wisconsin Boundary; An Early Wisconsin Play 304 The Beginnings of Milwaukee; The Senatorial Election of 1869; “Koshkonong” and “Man Eater”; The Alien Suffrage Provision in the Constitution of Wisconsin 417 EDITORIAL: