The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918Various
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The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918
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There is every reason to suppose that Osh-ka-he-nah-niew was a member
of the first company. Augustin Grignon told Doctor Draper that this
Indian was in the war, and in all probability he named members of his
own command. Robert Grignon of this company received a wound in
action, and was in receipt of a pension until his death.
The documentary material in the Wisconsin Historical Library includes
the official papers of Col. George Boyd, Indian agent. Those relating
to the Menominee contingent under Stambaugh in the Black Hawk War are
published in _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, XII, 270-98. It will
be noticed that August 12, 1832, Boyd wrote that Stambaugh had
informed him that he had arrived at Fort Winnebago with his command,
three hundred Menominees, and was on his way to report to General
Scott. September 2, 1832, Boyd wrote to G. B. Porter, governor of
Michigan territory, enclosing Stambaugh’s report of the expedition and
the Muster Rolls of the Menominee. These should be in the War
Department at Washington.
The well-known fact that Osh-ka-he-nah-niew took part in the Black
Hawk War, that he was part of Stambaugh’s band, probably under Capt.
Augustin Grignon, seems to us established by the historical evidence.
His name on a muster roll must be sought in the documentary material
at Washington.
SURVEY OF HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES
THE SOCIETY AND THE STATE
Since the sixty-fourth meeting in October, 1916, four life and
twenty-four annual members have been enrolled in the State Historical
Society. The new life members are: R. C. Ballard-Thruston of
Louisville, Kentucky, John Strange of Neenah, Chester Lloyd Jones of
Madison, and Harry W. Bolens of Port Washington. The annual members
are Dr. James S. Reeve and Henry L. Tinker of Appleton; John T.
Durward of Baraboo; John J. Wood of Berlin; Leland S. Kemnitz of
Detroit, Michigan; Amasa J. Edminster and R. C. Rodecker of Holcombe;
Oscar G. Boisseau of Holden, Missouri; Walter M. Atwood, William H.
Faust, Clarence B. Lester, Edwin C. Mason, Mary Oakley, Frederic A.
Ogg, and Mrs. Jessie Russell Skinner of Madison; Clarence R. Falk and
Arthur G. Santer of Milwaukee; Ruth Thompson of Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Mrs. L. T. Hill of Sparta; Katherine A. Rood of Stevens
Point; John S. Roeseler of Superior; Arthur T. Leith of Washington, D.
C.; E. P. Winkelman of Waterloo; and Philip B. Gordon of White Earth,
Minnesota.
In the same period the Society has lost by death five of its members:
David J. Ryan of Appleton; William N. Merriam of Duluth, Minnesota;
Hon. John A. Aylward, Gen. Benjamin F. Cram, and Justice William H.
Timlin of Madison. Probably the list should include names of other
members, of whose deaths the administration of the Society has not yet
been apprised.
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