The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918Various
History
The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918
Various
Wisconsin -- History -- Periodicals
[55] Miss L. L. Coues. Because of lack of funds the board of
directors early in 1861 suspended indefinitely the public
high school. Miss Coues thereupon proposed, if the board
would grant her the free use of the building and equipment,
to maintain a high school free of expense to the board, on a
tuition basis. Afterward the arrangement was modified so as
to make the school one for girls only. Such, for two years,
were the high school facilities afforded the young people of
Madison.
[56] Milton S. Griswold of Waukesha and William Fallows of
Hanchettville. Griswold was graduated from the university in
1863, became a lawyer, and practiced first at Madison and
later at Waukesha, where he served at different times as
county judge. For an interesting account of his pedagogical
proclivities while at the university, see John Muir’s _Story
of My Boyhood and Youth_, 280-82.
[57] Stephen D. Carpenter, locally prominent as editor,
publisher, and inventor. He located in Madison in 1850 and
thereafter for many years was intermittently engaged in the
printing and publishing business. In 1853 he invented a pump
which is said by one authority to have brought him $35,000.
Among other inventions of his were a power-press, a
voting-machine, and a type-setting machine. He claimed to
have invented the first mechanical knotter for binding
grain. In later life his prosperity departed. He died at
Carthage, Missouri, in October, 1906.
[58] John G. McMynn, noted Wisconsin teacher and educator.
He came to the state about the year 1848, settling first at
Kenosha and then at Racine. He served as manager of the J.
I. Case Threshing Machine Company, regent of the University
of Wisconsin, superintendent of the Racine public schools,
and state superintendent of public instruction. During the
war he rose to the colonelcy of the Tenth Wisconsin
Infantry. He died at Madison in June, 1900.
[59] Thus the first of the seventy thousand soldiers who
were to pass through Camp Randall during the next few years
departed for the war. Of this farewell, and the further
record of the regiment Reid wrote in old age as follows:
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