Introducing Ourselves; Our State Flag; The Society and the Legislature; Nelson Dewey Park and the First Wisconsin Capitol; Perrot State Park and John A. Latsch; Forest Fires, Generally and in Particular; Consolation for the Present Crisis 75 History Repeats Itself; Our Military Record; What of the Future; An Appreciation and a Suggestion; Cannon Fodder 187 The Professor and the Finger Bowl; The Printing of Historical Publications; Is War Becoming More Horrible; Some Leaves from the Past; The Development of Humanitarianism; Other Agencies; Some Facts and Figures; Bravery Then and Now; Schrecklichkeit 309 Increase A. Lapham and the German Air Raids; Save the Relics; The Newspapers; Removing the Papacy to Chicago 426 THE QUESTION BOX: The Oldest Church in Wisconsin; The First Mills in the Fox River Valley; Colonel Ellsworth’s Madison Career; The Story of “Glory of the Morning”; The Odanah Indian Reservation; First Exploration of Eastern Wisconsin; A Community Changes Its Name; How the Apostle Islands Were Named; The Services of the Menominee in the Black Hawk War 87 Daniel Webster’s Wisconsin Investments; Names Proposed for a New Town; Origin of the Word “Winnequah”; The Discovery of Lake Superior; The Potawatomi During the Revolution; Father Allouez Among the Kickapoo; The Indian Tribes of Iowa 193 The First Settler of Baraboo; The Chippewa River During the French and British Régimes; The Career of Colonel G. W. Manypenny; Treaty Hall and Old La Pointe 319 COMMUNICATIONS: Old Copperheads and New; A Presbyterian Objects 202 More Light on the Originator of “Winnequah”; A History of Our State Flag 327 “Camouflage” and “Eatless Days” Two Hundred Years Ago; Daniel Webster’s Wisconsin Investments 432 SURVEY OF HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES: The Society and the State 101, 206, 330, 435 Some Publications 111, 221, 340, 445 Some Wisconsin Public Documents 210, 337 The Wider Field 449 [Frontispiece: INCREASE A. LAPHAM] VOL. I, NO. 1 SEPTEMBER, 1917 WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY [Illustration: Printer’s Logo] PUBLICATIONS OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN. Edited by MILO M. QUAIFE, Superintendent CONTENTS PAGE INCREASE ALLEN LAPHAM, FIRST SCHOLAR OF WISCONSIN _Milo M. Quaife_ 3