INDEX

Ableman, 405, 511; quarry center, 512;present village, 513; banks, 513

Ableman Schbol (view), 283Ableman, Stephen V. R., 336, 511; recol-

lections of, 513Accola, Casper E., 575Acreage of standard crops in 1880, 43;

in 1890, 46; in 1900, 49Agricultural and dairy products in 1880,

44; in 1890, 47Agricultural fairs, 289Agricultural machinery, 79Agriculture, 42Alban, James S., 191, 258, 345, 372Alexander, EdwardV., 760Alexander, Eva Slye, 513Alexander, Henry, 664Alexander, John, 889Allen; Charles C., 830

*- Al Ringling's Theater (view), 462Altpeter, Oscar, 794Alwin, William, 811Anchor, James, 594Ancient Order of United Workmen, 489Andrews, Melissa, 1040Andrews, Samuel, 1040Angle, Seth P., 441Apker, Harry P., 1082Apple, Frank W., 1077Archaeological Survey, 131Astle, George C., 955Astle, John H., 734Aton, William H., 835Attridge, Arthur, 814Austin, Aaron, 1046Auto stage line, 321Avery, Frank, 973

Babb, James W., 634Babbs Creek, 14Babbs Prairie, 405Babington, Samuel, 776

-~Badger State, 405Baer, Edward, 686Bailey, James H., 632Baker, Francis M., 644Baker, Jennie, 933Baker, Thomas, 932Bald Bluff, 405Balzer, Julius, 934-Bank of Baraboo, 460

.- Bank of North Freedom, 507Banks, 460, 480, 487, 505, 507, 513, 523Baptists, 449, 475, 509

Baraboo, origiri' of name, 187;. countyseat, 244;" court houses, 244; first per-manent settlers at, 259, 391; first may-or of, 259; founding of, 423; platted,424; early postmasters, 425; villagegovernment, 427; additions to, 427;municipal officers, 429; incorporated,429; finances, 431; first school, 431;private schools, 436; new union school,438; first postmaster, 441; municipaldepartments and utilities, 442; press,443; churches, 445; societies andlodges, 453; social, literary and re-formatory. societies, 455; financial, in-dustrial and business interests, 460;banks, 460; hospital, 460

Baraboo About the Time of Incorpora-tion (view), 428

Baraboo Bluffs, 2, 4, 19,' 23Baraboo Collegiate Institute, 436Baraboo Commercial Association, 461Baraboo Free Public Library, 441Baraboo High School (views), 283, 440Baraboo Hills, 367Baraboo in the '70s (plat), 434Baraboo Medical Association, 27.9Baraboo Rapids, 163, 423Baraboo Republic, 443Baraboo river, 5, 427; first dam in, 195;

early improvements on, 302Baraboo township, first election, 227Baraboo triplets named by Lincoln, 353Baraboo Valley Agricultural Society, 482Baraboo Valley Lands, 14Baraboo Whisky War, 426Baribeau, 187Barker, Archibald, 385Barker, John, 267Barrett, Lincoln, 714Barry, Don C., 262Barry, Mrs. R. B., 892Barry, R. B., 893Bassett, William P., 814Battle of Wisconsin Heights, 170Battles, E. J., 937Baumgarten, A. G., 651Baxter, C. 0., 371Baxter, William H., 1032Bear Creek, 407, 560Bear stories, 110Beavers, 494, 504Behn, August, 991Behn, Otto, 1081Behnke, Henry, 698

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Benevolent and Protective Order of Ellis,455

Bennett, David J., 951Bentley, Frank R., 668Bethke, Anton, 1114Beuchat, Alfred, 1084Bible, W. D., 1124Bible, W. L., 1125Big Hollow, 16, 407Bird Effigy, 7, 161Bird Mound, 154Bird Mound (view), 155Birds, 122Birgen, Lewis, 806Biser, John, 1112Black Hawk War, 170Black Hawk's Flight, 171Blake, Chauncey M., 654Blanchet, Cyrus S., 886Block, John, 614Boating on the Mississippi and Wiscon-

sin, 381Bodendein, John, 1112Bongard, Carl, 944Bongard, Hubert, 943Borchers, George,; 1096Boys' Corn Growing Contests, 285Brandt, Benjamin S., 1107Brandt, Frederick, 1117Brandt, Theodore, 1116Braun, Rudolph, 804Brennan, James, 769Brennan, William, 1016Brewster, Charles L., 765Brick yards, 88Briggs, Clare A., 601Briggs, J., 613Brooklyn, 424Brooklyn township, first election, 227Brown, Bill, 273Bryant, Robert, 483Buckley, Thomas B., 685Buerki, Robert J., 799Bunn, John C., 792Burckhardt, William, 909Burdick, Charles H., 699Byrne, Francis, 1048

Cady, Ernest H., 674Caflisch, William H., 998Cahoon, Levi, 578Cahoon, Paul, 873Cahoon, Wilber, 579Calydon, 407Canfield, William H., 8, 131, 140, 216, 393Canfield, William H. (portrait), 217Carpenter, Charles A., 825Carpenter, George, 946Carpenter, John H., 967Carr, Amos A., 1105Carroll, Patrick D., 1073Carson, Frank, 621Carver, 'Jonathan, 187Cassell Prairie, 187, 564Catholics, 452, 477, 489, 503Cattle, 63Cavalry companies, 350

Cereal regions, 43Charitable and Relief Institutions, 459Cheek, Catherine, 668Cheek,. Philip, 666Chicago & North Western Railway, 329Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad,

328Chief A-ha-cho-ka (portrait), 183Chinch bug pest, 76Christensen, Christian, 987Christian Science Society of Baraboo, 453Christian Scientists, 453Church of God, 477Churches, 445, 474, 488, 494, 498, 503,

509, 517, 523Circuit courts, 261Circuit judges, 265Circus in town (view), 467Citizens bank, Reedsburg, 481Civil War organizations, 336Claridge, George, 358, 975Claridge, John H., 786Claridge, Thomas W., 573Claridge, William, 975Clark, George M., 669Clavadatscher, John T., 888Clavadatscher, Tobias C., 995Clement, Eduard, 611Cleopatra's Needle, 7Clingman, Edwin S., 738Cobleigh Simon, 1055"Cold New Year's Day," 323Cole, Harry E., 132, 608Company A, First Wisconsin Infantry,

357Company I, First Wisconsin Infantry,

359Congregational church, Baraboo, 449Congregationalists, 449, 489, 504Cooper, Ella A., 771Cooper, Jesse, 771Copper Creek Valley, 15Copper mining, 89Coughlin, Jerry, 704Country Clubs Federation, 294Country Life Library, 294Country Life Movement, 293Country school equipment, 286County jail, 250County officers, 1850-1917, 229County poor farm and insane asylum, 248County seat fights, 210, 383County Teachers' Association, 285County Training School, Reedsburg

(view), 285Court house at Prairie du Sac (view),

243Court house, first in Baraboo (view), 244Court house of the present (view), 246Cowles, Charles, 279Coyne, Patrick, 674Crawford, John B., 387Creation of other townships, 228Croal, Michael E., 1100Croal, Patrick, 977Crops, acreage of standard, in 1880, 43;

in 1890, 46; in 1900; 49

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Crops, acreage production and value in1916, 54

Crosby, Daniel, 702Cummings, Albion P., 771Cummings, William, 982Curry, James, 318, 745Curry, Robert B., 817

Dahlke, Otto J., 775Dairy herd (view), 63Dairy interests, 64Dairy regions, 43Dalles, the, 2, 26, 164, 408Daly, Frank P., 1108Daly, Patrick, 1107Dangel, Louis, 1059Dano, Herbert W., 596Darrenougue, Leo M., 358Darrow, Nathaniel, 838Daughters of the American Revolution,

478Davies, G. W., 290Davis, Jeff, Capture of, 349Dead Man's Spring, 408Decot, Charles E., 1085Dederich, Dennis H., 649Degree of Honor, 489Deiniger, Charles, 122DeKoeyer, Solomon, 677Dell Creek, 218, 408, 536Dell Creek Valley, 15Dell Pilot, 38Dells of the Wisconsin, 2, 26, 164, 408Delton, 409, 524Dettmann, John, 690Devil's Doorway, 7Devil's Doorway at the Lake (view), 39Devil's Lake, 2, 25, 258, 409; fantastic

features of, 7; described, 32Devil's Lake Grave, 158Devil's Lake State Park, 38Dibble, James W., 878Dickie, Robert M., 771Diehl, Henry, 929Diehl, John H., 917Diehl, Julia, 929Dietl, Joseph, 988Dietl, Peter M., 988Dillenbeck, Henry K., 817District school support, 284Distant View of Plain (view), 565Dithmar, Edward F., 1010Dobratz, William, 863Doctors of today, 281Doll, John P., 768Doro-v, Herman, 646Doug ass, Joseph A., 1080Dowdl Patrick, 1064Dowd, Robert, 1123Drew, L. S., 590Dryer,| Grant, 959Durward, B. I., 10Durward Glen, 10

Eagle Rock, 7Eagle township, first election, 227Early industries, 83Early lawyers, 272

Early probate judges, pen sketches of,268

Early settlers, 198East Bluff, Devil's Lake (view), 26Eastern Star, 454Eaton, James H., 27Educational exhibit, 286Edwards, William, 809Egerer, John, 797Egerer, Obert J., 799Eighteenth Wisconsin Infantry, 345Election precincts, 223Elephant Rock, 7Eleventh Wisconsin Regiment, 343Ellefson, Henry J., 650Enge, Charles, 911English, Thomas W., 622Episcopalians, 452Equitable Fraternal Union, 455, 478, 489Evangelical Association, 494Evangelical Lutheran (St. John 's)

Church, Baraboo, 453Evangelical Lutheran Church, Prairie du

Sac, 494Evans, Evan W., 1008Evans, Mary M., 1009Evening News, 444Excelsior, 410, 512Exhibits by Boys' Corn Clubs (view),

288

Fadden, James B., 662Fairfield, 220Falls at Durward Glen (view), 11Fargen, Thomas E., 1121Farmers & Citizens Bank, Sauk City, 487Farmers & Merchants Bank, Baraboo, 461Farmers' Clubs, 289Farmers Dairy Board of Trade, Spring

Green, 505Farmers State Bank, Spring Green, 505Farming fifty years ago, 68Farnsworth, Abraham L., 693Farnum, Henry J., 725Farr, Edwin J., 833Fauna of the county, 102Federmann, Gustav, 772Felix, Emma, 673Felix, Jacob J., 672Fellowship Club, 458Fence in the discard (view), 71Ferber, George, 872Ferry Road, 516Fingerhuth, William, 923Finn, F. J., 559First Baptist Church, Baraboo, 449First bridge across the Baraboo, 85

*..XTirst bridge across the Wisconsin, 490First census, 215First county seat, 222First election in Baraboo Valley, 259First events, 258First fair, 258First Fourth of July celebration, 260First house in Baraboo (view), 422First Methodist Episcopal Church, Bara-

boo, 445First National Bank, Baraboo, 460

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First permanent settlers in Baraboo, 259First Presbyterian Church, Baraboo, 451First railroad village in county, 495First schoolhouse in Baraboo (view), 422First settlers, 373First state fair, 60First stone road, 324First white child born in Madison, 213,

527First white child born in the county, 260First white family, 191First white men, 258Fish, George L., 689Fishing, 555Flanders, Lydia A., 172Flora about the Dells, 32Flour scarce, 72Flynt, H. H., 91Foresters, 504Fortnightly Literary Club, 457Forty-ninth Regiment, 348Foss, Albert L., 666Foss, Frank A., 1057Fourteenth Wisconsin Regiment, 344Fourth of July celebration, 203Foxes, 166Frank, Alphons J., 980Frank Brothers, 980Frank, John, 980Franklin, 560Fraternal Order of Eagles, 455, 478Free Press, Reedsburg, 479Frenz, Jesse W., 780Frese, William L., 845Fry, Algernon, 856Fuller, W. W., 912Fullerton, T. M., 399Funnell, Villars G., 1077

Gall, William, 589Gallagher, John, 1088Gardner, Margaret Wood (portrait), 198Garrisonville, 546Garske, Henry, 1042Gasser, Anna, 941Gasser,'Charles, 1061Gasser, Florian, 940Gates, LeRoy, 38Gattiker, John J., 904Gattiker, Margaret, 904Gattwinkel, Henry, 733Gattwinkel, Mrs. Henry, 733Geology, 18German element, 253German Evangelical Gemeinsehaft, Bara-

boo, 453German Methodist Episcopal Church,

Baraboo, 451German Reformed Congregationalists,

489Germania Club, 478Giegerich, Bert, 783Giese, John, 1046Giese, William, 1045Ginseng industry, 54, 84Gleason, Michael, 1123Glens, 25Glover, Alvah G., 747

Goedecke, Charles H., 758Goetsch, Walter, 1110Gollmar, Benjamin F., 703Gollmar Brothers, 703Gollmar, Charles A., 703Gollmar, Fred C., 703Gollmar, Walter S., 703Goodell, Elizabeth, 1122Good Roads Movement, 323Grand Army of the Republic, 455, 478,

509Grantin, George 1030Gray, Harry L., 952Great modern water power, 305Green, Edwin, 952Greenfield, 411; early days, 544, 549;

first white settlers, 545; pioneer teach-ers, 550

Greenfield township, first settlers, 218Greenwood, Robert, 960Griggs, Richard B., 828Groat, Francis M., 1090Gross, George A., 879Grote, Dorothea, 1023Grote, Henry, 1022Grotophorst, Herman, 728Grubb, Philip, 581Guhl, Henry, 900

Hackett Association, 506Hackett, Davis, 859Hackett family, 506Hackett, Fannie J., 297Hackett, George W., 821Hackett, N. B., 688Hackett, Timothy, 687Hackett, Wesley 0., 688Hahn, Henry, 663Halasz, Charles, 203, 375Halbersleben, William, 950Hale, Henry L., 828Hamburg, August, 616Hamburg, John F., 894Haney, Charles B., 260Hanger, Thaddeus B., 750Hanley, Bridget, 758Hanley, Michael, 757Hanson, George P., 723Haraszthy, Agostin, 203, 375, 483; por-

.trait, 204; personal characteristics,211; erected first house in Sauk City,260

Haraszthy, Charles, 203Haraszthy Colony, 203Harder, Ferdinand, 1000Harms, Fred W., 1118Harms, Henry, 602Harris, William H., 1058Harrisburg, 564Harseim, Yoss, 712Hart Brothers, 952Hart, James P., 952Hart, Patrick H., 952Harvest Festival at District No. 5 School

(view), 501Harvesting the potato crop (view), 53Haseltine, William, 779Hasheider, Adelia, 765

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Hasheider, William, 764Haskins, Abraham Lincoln, 353Haskins, Gideon Wells, 353Haskins, Simon Cameron, 353Haskins triplets (portrait), 354Hass, Gustav W., 605Hasse, William, 1104Hasz, Herman, 605Hatz, John J., 854Hauling grain from Baraboo to Mil-

waukee, 91Hawley, Mrs. S. A., at the age of eighty

(portrait), 527Hawley, Victoria W. P., 527'Healy, Patrick F., 1064Hengstler, Charles, 682Hengstler, Gottlieb, 802Hengstler, Janet, 802Henke, August, 1029Henrichs, F. J., 1124Henry, Peter, 630Herfort, Frank, 754Herr, John, 905Herrington, John W., 994Hickey, Martin, 580High water on the Wisconsin (1911)

(view), 308Highest point in the county, 12Highway Commissioner's report for 1916,

322Highways of travel, 162Hill, Fannie, 705Hill, George M., 647Hill, Henry A., 705Hill, James, 1012Hill, James H., 675Hill Point Auto & Milling Co., 1106Hills, Arthur C., 853Hinrichs, Fred A., 1078Hirschinger, Charles, 68, 715Hirschinger, Corwin, 795Historical Rooms and Museum (view),

420Hoag, Edwin M., 671Hoag, Stella R., 672Hofmann, Carl A., 662Hofstatter, John R., 734Holton, Patrick, 670Holtoh, Patrick J., 671Holton, Thomas J., 1094Holtz, Fred J., 1011Holtz, William C., 788Home Economics Club, 488Honey Creek, 6, 219, 411, 560; naming

of, 564Honey Creek Bluffs, 6Honey Creek township, first election, 225Honey Creek Valley, 16; early times in,

562Honor list, 360Hoover, Mortimer, 847Hop industry, 56, 94, 258, 526Hop picking machine, 99Hoppe, Julius, 841Horkan, George, 1013Horkan, George T., 1021Horkan, Peter J., 1105Horse Bluff, 411

Howley, Timothy F., 1066Huge Man Effigy, 139Hulburt, Frank D., 1052Hunting, 555Huntington, J. T., 37Hurley, Patrick H., 989Hyer, Walter S., 885

Illustrations, Skillet Falls, 9; Falls. atDurward Glen, 11; East Bluff, Devil'sLake, 26; ,North Freedom Iron Mines,34; Old Style Saw Mill, 37; Devil'sDoorway at the Lake, 39; Harvestingthe Potato Crop, 53; Rooting for theAllies, 53; Old Hop House, 57; DairyHerd, 63; the Old Folks at Home, 66;Fence in the Discard, 71; Old TimeHousehold Utensils, 78; Pioneer Neces-sities, 78; 'Types of Mounds Found inSauk County, 126; Indian Mound ofthe Polson Group (1905), 137; ManMound, 140; Bird Mound, 155; In-dians of Local Fame, 180; ChiefA-ha-cho-ka, 183; Interior of Pio-neer Home, 185; Present States ofOld Northwest Territory, 189; Mrs.Margaret Wood Gardner, 198; CountAgostin Haraszthy, .204; William H.Canfield, 217; Sauk County in 1849,226; Court House at Prairie du Sac,243; First .Court House in Baraboo,244; Court House of the Present, 246;Some Sauk County Schools, 283; Coun-ty Training School, 'Reedsburg, 285;Exhibits by Boys7 ''Corn Clubs, 288;With a Teacher in the Game, 292;Playground Apparatus, '.King's CornersSchool, 293; Maypole Dance, DistrictSchool No. 3, Washington, 295; PlumValley School, Woodland, 298; LastLog School House in Sauk County,300; Power House and Dam near Prai-rie du Sac, 306; High Water on theWisconsin (1911), 308; An Old TimeMail Coach, 316; West Sauk RoadBefore and After Improvement, 325;Road Surfaced with Crushed Stone,326; Sample Unimproved Road, 327;Colonel A. G. Malloy, 345; the HaskinsTriplets, 354; Road Through theWoods, 368; Scene Near Fern Dell,409; Historical Rooms and Museum,420; First -Ho'use^.Baraboo, 422;First Schoolhouse in Baraboo, 422;Baraboo About the Time oij Incorpora-tion, 428; Baraboo in the '70s, 434;Joint District No. 4 School, Baraboo,437; Baraboo High School, 440; ThirdAvenue, Looking East, Baraboo, 450;Old Wisconsin House, 459; Al Ring-ling's Theater, 462; Circus in Town,467; Reedsburg City Hall, 470; MainStreet, West, Reedsburg, 473; StreetScene in Sauk City, 484; Old BriggsHouse, 491; Hon. J. STripp, 492;the Tripp Memorial, 493; Ol1tdStrong'sHotel, Spring Green, 499; HarvestFestival at District No. 5 School, 501;

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Main Street of Spring Green, 504;North Freedom Village, 508; Mrs. S.A. Hawley at the Age of Eighty,527; Old Newport Hotel, 532; DistantView of Plain, 565

Indian exodus of 1840, 175Indian Mound of the Poison Group

(1905) (view), 137Indian remains, 160Indian tales, 547Indian totems, significance of, 128Indian villages, 374Indians, 127, 166Indians of Local Fame (view), 180Interior of Pioneer Home (view), 185Inter Se Club, 457"Iron Brigade of the West,"' 339Iron industries, 89, 542Iron regions, 33Ironton, 412, 542Iroquois mine, 412Isenberg, George, 625

Jackson Creek, 412Jackson, E. D., 549Jacoby, Antone, 707Jaeger, Oscar P., 698Jameson, Albert, 199Jeffries, Cassius S., 619Jenkins, Mary M., 530Johnson, C. D., 1098Johnson, Franklin, 708Johnson, Wilbur D., 761Johnson, William, 1111Johnson, William, "Uncle," 200Johnson, W. A., 752Joint District No. 4 School, Baraboo

(view), 437Jones, John D., 517Jonesville, 219Judges, 265Justices of the Peace, 262

Kaney, Frank, 1003Karstetter, George A., 1075Keifer, Mrs. Henry, 562Keitel, Mary, 907Keitel, Michael, 907Keith, Joseph, 1044Keller, Ferdinand, 721Keller, Herman, 721Keller, Lawrence, 749Kellogg, A. N., 444Kellogg, Archibald, 927Kellogg, Chauncey W., 927Kellogg, Mary E., 927Kelley, Hugh, 99Kelly, Daniel M., 682Kelsey, W. T., 268Kessler, Theodore H., 1034Kester, Charles M., 1049Keysar, Adelaide P., 864Keysar, Holmes C., 865Keysar, Miles H., 984Kindschi, John M., 789King, Elias D., 722King, Sylvester E., 869Kingston township, first election, 225

Kinsley, Stephen N., 793Klein, Louis, 763Kleiner, H. 0., 830Knights of Pythias, 455, 478Koenig, Christina, 840Koenig, Frederick, 1125Koenig, Henry, 840Koerth, Albert, 849Kohlneyer, Frederick W., 1102Kollmeyer, Fred, 1118Kollmeyer, Henry F., 1119Koshawagos, 458Kraft, Fred, 997Krueger, August, 1102Krueger, Edward, 1027Krueger, Ernest, 1120Krueger, William A., 1103Kruse, Conrad, 1000Kruse, Fred C., 610Kruse, Henry, 1101Kruse, Henry W., 1106

Ladd, Alfred W., 676Ladd, Charles S., 335Lake of the Hills, 412Lake Swenson, 311Lake Wisconsin, 311Lakes, 13LaMar, Marion, 600Langenhan, Frederick A., 781Lapham Field Notes, 30Lapham, Increase A., 30, 131, 140Last bear hunt in the Baraboo hills, 108Last log schoolhouse in the county 561Last log schoolhouse in Sauk County

(view), 300La Valle, 413; early settlement, 509;

schools, 510Lawyers, early, 272Lee, Charles H., 715Lee, Ida H., 716Lee, John, 653Leicher, Adam, 598Leigh, J. D., 1123Leppla, George H., 739Levi, Kate, 253Lime kilns, 88Lime Ridge, 413Lincoln, Memories of, 351Litchfield, 413Literary Club of 1876, 456Little Baraboo River, 14Litz, Thomas R., 1087Live stock, 42Live stock as beasts of prey, 71Loganville, 523; churches, 523; banks,

523Lookout Rock, 7Lower Narrows of the Baraboo, 5Lowest Point in the County, 12Loyal Americans, 494Lucht, Herman, 1086Lucht, Herman C. W., 1080Lucht, William, 1095Luckow, Edward L., 799Luhrsen, Fred W., 622Lumber rafts, 535Lutherans, 453, 475, 509

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Maccabees, 478Mackey, Joseph, 1007"Madame Washington, ' 174Madison Guards, 337Mahoney, Bert, 639Mahoney, Maud K., 640Main Street of Spring Green (view),

504Main Street, West, Reedsburg (view),

473Malloy, A. G. (portrait), 345Man Mound, 139; Preservation of, 140;

described, 140Man Mound (view), 140Man Mound Park, 142, 413Manthey, August L., 744Manthey, Henry C., 732Markee, Asa E., 1054Marriott, Edward G., 1062Marriott, Elizabeth K., 1063Marriott, William T., 934Marsh, Edward N., 821Marshall, Roujet D., 266Marshall, W. S., 534Martiny, August, 924Martiny, Riley J., 609Mash, William H., 803Masons, 453, 477, 494, 504Mather, Metler, 657Matt's Ferry, 316, 516Maxwell Water Power, 302Mayor, first of Baraboo, 259Maypole Dance, District School No. 3,

Washington (view), 295McCarville, Frank, 1126McDermott, John J., 986McDonnell, James, 1115McDonnell, John P., 1115McGilvra, George B., 882McPhillips, Patrick, 946Mears, John, 1092Memorial Pillar to Yellow Thunder, 180Memories of vanished men and women,

557Merrimack, 220, 413, 516Merrimack of today, 517; churches, 517Metcalf; Frank H., 621Metcalf, Fred, 706Metcalf, Isaac, 621Metcalf, Mary E., 852Metcalf, Richard, 852Methodist Church, Reedsburg, 474Methodists, 399, 445, 474, 494, 503, 509Mexican War, Soldiers of, 334Meyer, August, 656Meyer, C. F. Henry, 624Meyer, F. J., 930Meyer, George H., 1117Meyer, Henry J., 1117Meyer, Henry W., 1026Meyer, Herman, 91qMeyer, Jacob C., 882Meyer, John, 881Middle Water Power, 304Mihlbauer, William, 1127Military Affairs, .,34Mills, 87, 548.Mills, B. F., 2.77

Mines, 34Minnewaukan, 414Mirror Lake, 13, 73, 414Mitftestadt. Charles, 693Modern Woodmen of America, 455, 478,

484, 489, 504Moely, Andrew, 812Moely, Martin, 729Montgomery, L. E., 974Montgomery, William G., 902Moore, evi, 214, 335, 382Moore, Valloo V., 844Morley, Adaline S., 896Morley, Frank, 778Morly,; J. W., 284Morley, Nelson W., 93, 894Morldy, Ralsa A., 783Morley, Rollo, 784Morley, Thomas, 1021Morse, George T., 629Mould, Mathew H., 660Mound Preservation Movement, 141Mounds, 7, 131, 135, 147Mounds, Types of found in Sauk County

(view), 126Mueller, Henry, 826Muscoda Mission, 401Myers, David, 569

Nachreiner, Joseph M., 945Nachreiner, Joseph X., 944Narrows Creek, 5Narrows, Upper and Lower, 414Native races, 127Naumann, Henry L.,-643Nehring, Henry, 768Neitzel, Paul, 724Nelson, Andrew, 1027Neuman, Charles W., 89'6Newport, 530; story of, 534; transferred

to Kilbourn, 534; christened, 537Newspapers, 443, 479, 486, 494, 505New Union School, Baraboo, 438Nichols, Phillip W., 403Nigger Head Rock, 6Nineteenth Regiment, Wisconsin In-

fantry, 346Ninman, Charles F., 487, 6q0Ninman, Max H., 487, 661Ninth Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, 343Norris, I. J., 871Norris, Ned J., 871North Freedom, 414; platted, 506; incor-

porated, 507; banlks, 507; churches,509; societies, 509

North Freedom Iron Mines (view), 34Noted stage horses and drivers, 320Noyes, A. A., 281Noyes, David J., 348Noyes, David K., 275Number and Value of Live Stock in 1880,

45; in 1890, 48; in 1900, 51; in 1910,52; in 1916, 54

Ochsner, Henry, 696Ochsner, Henry A., 572Odd Fellows, 454, 477, 504Old Briggs House (view), 491

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INDEX

Old Folks at Home (view), 66Old Hop House (view), 57Old Newport, 530Old Newport Hotel (view), 532Old Pinery, 15Old Sauk (Indian) City, 160Old Settlers' Association, 417Old Strong's Hotel, Spring Green (view),

499 -Old Style Saw Mill (view), 37Old-time amusements, 369Old-time doctors, 280Old Time Household Utensils (view), 78Old Time Mail Coach (view), 316Old Wisconsin House (view), 459Olson, Anthony, 1127O'Riley, James, 335Ost, Henry, 935Ott, Reynard S., 915

Paddock, Benjamin G., 760Paddock, George J., 786Paddock, John M., 921Palmer, Charles E., 858Palmer, Mrs. L. H., 83, 369, 544Pansy Heights, 70Parfrey Gorge, 10Parfreys Glen, 415Payne, Jefferson C., 603Payne, William H., 756Pearson, Alger C., 745Pearson, Charles, 1093Pearson, Thomas, 1099Peck, Francis N., 629Peck, H. L., 925Peck, Mrs. Eben, 259Peck, Victoria W., 213Pedro Club, 458Peet, Stephen D., 141Perkins, Lfcy F., 425Perkins, Stephen D., 851Perry, Ralph P., 617Petzke, William P., 763Pewit's Nest, 8, 415Philipp, Emanuel L., 596Physicians, 277Pieper, 'Frank, 996Pierce; William S., 990Pigg, Henry, 713Pigg, Sarah A., 713Pine Grove Park, 957Pineries, 36Pioneer days,.67Pioneer experience, 975Pioneer fruit growers, 394Pioneer hop farmers, 58Pioneer implements, 77Pioneer Methodism, 399Pioneer Necessities (view), 78Pioneer pineries, 385Pioneer scientist, 30Pioneer wood manufacturers, 510'Pionier am Wisconsin," 487"Pionier Presse," 486Place Names, Alphabetical List, 405Plain, 566Platt, August, 836

Playground Apparatus, King's CornersSchool (view), 293

Plum Valley School, Woodland (view),298

Pomological efforts, 393Population 1875, 1880 and 1885, 251;

1890, 1900 and 1910, 252Population, National distribution in

county, 252Portage Trail, 164Porter, Merton L., 1006Porter, Walworth D., 570Pottery vessel, perfect, 150Powell, Edgar S., 954Power House and Dam near Prairie du

Sac (view), 306Power, William J., 741Prairie du Sac, 222, 305, 489, 491; first

settled, 483; schools, 492; water andelectric plants, 493; newspapers, 494;church; and societies, 494

Prange, HerbertiH., 358Prehistoric Mounds, 7Premo, George E., 887Premo, Joseph E., 875Premo, {William H., 827Presbyterians, 451, 475, 494Present stage lines, 323Present States of Old Northwest Terri-

tory (map), 189Press, 443, 479, 486, 494Primitive highways of travel, 162Principal Farm products in 1900, 50Private schools, 436Probate courts, 261Probate judges, 266, 268Prochnow, Herman, 1097Prochnow, Julius, 1097Property valuation, 1880-1916, 254Prospect Hill, 12Prouty, M. R., 1003Prouty, U. T., 1121Provision 'caches, 148Purdy, Harry C., 971Purdy, William R., 970

Quaker Settlement, 395Quarries, 5Quarry center, 512Quimby, Jessie A., 794Quimby, John B., 793Quinn, John, 1015Quisisana, 415

Radtke, Carl, 1095RTafting; 37Ragatz, ',Joseph B., 978Railroads, 328Randall, Byron, 1018Rattlesnake Knob, 415Red Cross Auxiliary, Reedsburg, 479Reedsburg, 415; industries, 88; founding

of, 469; schools, 469; incorporation of,470; public school system, 471; waterand light supply, 472; Star fire depart-ment, 472; churches, 474; secret and

benevolent societies, 477; newspapers,479; banks, 480; fairs, 481

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Reedsburg City Hall (view), 470Reedsburg High School (view), 283Reedsburg Public Library, 472Reedsburg Times, 480Reedsburg Water Power, 305Reedsbutg TWomen's Club, 478Religious life and camp meetings, 553Remington, C. C., 267, 274; reminis-

cences, 269Rendtorff, Edmond, 204; recollections,

375Retzloff, Godfried, 989Retzloff, Herman, 656Rouschlein, William, 634Rich, Wallace V., 696Richartz, John, 1104Riches, John R., 922Rieser, John, 931Riggert, John, 591Ringling, Albert C., 462, 635Ringling Brothers, 462Ringling, Lou, 638Ringling's Theater (view), 462Rischmueller, F. Henry, 735Rivers and lakes, 301Road districts, 223:.Road Surfaced" with Crushed Stone

(view), 326Road Through the Woods (view), 368Roads, 367Robinson, Lewis B., 1071Robson, Edward, 919Robson, Forrest, 920Rodwell, Henry J., 633Roecker, William, 1036Roick, Henry, 709Rooney, John, 96, 855Rooting for the Allies (view), 53'Roper, William, 1068Rose, William, 949Rosenbaum, Frank, 695Roser, Leonard C., 838Rowan, Wallace, 195, 389Royal "Arcanum, 455Royal Neighbors, 455, 478, 489, 494Rudy, August, 813Rudy, Gustav, 737Runge, Clara T., 143Runge, E. August, 655Rural school survey, 289Ryan, Charles E., 765Ryan, Willis F., 908

Sacs, 166St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church,

Baraboo, 452Sample Unimproved Road (view), 327Sander,'Henry F., 1115Sandusky, 416Sarrington, Henry L., 993Sauk City , Founding, 205; first frame

house, 379; first called Haraszthy, 416;incorporated, 484; fire department, 486;newspapers, 486; postoffice moved, 486;banks, 487; industries, 487; schools,488; churches and societies, 488

Sauk City Rifle Company, 485Sauk County Agricultural Society, 59

Sauk County Country Clubs, 290Sauk County Country Life Association,

289Sauk County Democrat, 444Sauk County Historical Society, 132, 419Sauk County Humane Society organized,

259Sauk County in 1849 (map), 226Sauk County in 1853, 364Sauk County News, 494"Sauk County Schools," 286Sauk County Schools (views), 283Sauk Prairie, .163, 376, 416; settlers, 191Sauk Prairie in 1841, 400Sawmi.s....-:84Scinenea err-jFern Dell, 409Scenes in Sauk County, 1Scenic features, 23Schewe, Henry F., 652Schlag, Herman, 846Schlag, Mrs. Robert, 820Schlag, Robert,. 820Schlickaif August, 596Schlickau, Henry, 595Schlosser, Anton, 962Schluter, William C., 1103Schmidt, Ferdinand, 1031Schmidt, Mrs. J. U., 695Schneider, Nicholas, 728Schneller, Paul, 892Schneller, Peter, 906Schoephorter, Fred, 1036Schools, 284, 431, 469, 488, 492, 498, 502,

561Schools and Scholars of long ago, 297Schreiber, Louis, 850Schroeder Frederick, 1064Schubring, Fred L., 884Schubring, Herman, 842Schuette, Ernest, 1101Schuette, Gerhart, 898Schultz, Fred W., 810Schulz, George F., 1120Schulz, Julius, 1089'Schulze, Albert, 1041'Schutte, Fred W., 958Schwanz, Louis, 1047Schwartz, George, 981Schwartz, Joseph, 929Schwartz, Michael, 928Schwartz, Roselia, 981Schwartz, Thomas, 928Schwarz, George, 743Schweke, Diitrich G., 1066Schweke, Gustav C., 1004Seals of the county boards, 224Seamans,-George J., 659Searle, Samuel P., 876Second Wisconsin Iifantry, 339Seeley, Morris E., 968Sells, Gustav, 832Seventeenth Wisconsin Regiment, 344Seventh Wisconsin Regiment, 340Shelden, Charles P., 961Shultis, Enoch, 701Siebecker, Robert G., 265Sigrfelkow, William, 678Sixth Battery, 351

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Sixth Regiment, 340Skillet Creek, 8, 416Skillet Falls, 416Skillet Falls (view), 9Smaller animals, 121Smith, AleanrdeAr, 9Q1Smith, Herbert, 959Smith, Mrs. George W., 959Smith, Wilbur E., 576Soldiers' Monument, 356Soldiers of the Mexican War, 334Soltwedel, William, 658Songs of the German farmers, 556Sorg, Henry, 909Sorge, Henry W., 587Sosinsky, William, 1097Southern Sauk County, 559Spanish-American war, 357Spencer, Charles L., 874Spring Green, 219; first railroad village

in county, 495; reincorporated, 496;original town, 496; origin of name,497, 500; schools, 498, 502; churches,498, 502; pioneers, 498; societies, 504;newspapers, 505; banks, 505; namingof, 563

Spring Green High School (view), 283Stabnow, Ernest F., 939 .Stabnow, John P., 938Stackhouse, William, Sr., 650Stadler, Charles, 727Stage drivers, last of the old, 318Stage Lines, passing of, 311; leading,

319; present, 323Standow, Mrs. Otto, 1079Stanley Company, 805Stanley, Herbert H., 806Stanley, James, 397Stanley, Whiting D., 805State Bank of Reedsburg, 481State Bank of Spring Green, 505State Bank, Sauk City, 487State Fairs, 60State Park, Devil's Lake, 3, 38Statistics, 251Steamboat ventures, 207Steckelberg, Henry, 974Steele, Albert P., 918Steele, Roy C., 939Steidtmanin, Edwin, 801Steinhorst, Henry, 767Stelter, Henry, 779Steuber, John D., 683Steuber, L. J., 796Stock Breeders' Associations, 64Stoddard, Ciarles H., 785Stoeckmann, William, 751Stolte, William A., 1038Stone, Herman E., 753Stone, James A., 861Stone, John P., 638Stout, A. B., 131Strang, Frank A., 1034Street Scene in Sauk City (view), 484Strong, Moses M., 366Strutz, Albert, 1079Sugar beet industry, 58Supreme court judges, 265

Surface geology, 1Surveys in county, 214Sussner, Peter, 1005Sussner, William, 1076

Tait, John, 1051Tait, Thomas, 1052Taverns, 312Taylor, Alvena B., 957Taylor, Robert F., 956Teel, Aaron F., 866Teel, Albert, 945Teel, Charles, 942Teel, Kate, 942Tennant, Frank, 991Territorial county officers, 224Terry, Edmond J., 808Terry, Edward P., 868Terry, James M., 913Terry, John, Jr., 954Terry, Joseph P., 710Terry, William, 615The Narrows 24Thieding, W. J., 675Thies, August, 599Third Avenue, Looking East, Baraboo

(view), 450Thoelke, Henry, 736Thomas, Edward R., 823Thompson, Francis J., 1072Thornton, Harry, 1069Thuerer, George T., 983Tiele, Henry G., 592Tinkham, Henry H., 641Toole Farm, 76Toole, William, 70, 616Tower, James, 89Townsend, William H., 1017Township government, 225Transportation, 301Trees, 16, 74Trimpey, E. Burt, 706Trinity Episcopal Church, Baraboo, 452Tripp, J. Stephen, 1001Tripp, J. S. (portrait), 492Tripp Memorial (view), 493Troy, 417, 559; schools, 561; naming of,

564True, Gordon H., 739True, John M., 94, 607True, Rodney H., 799Trueb, Alfred, 748Tudor, Thomas H., 358Turk's Head, 7Turner, James H., 866Turner, Longfellow, 627Tuttle, Charles R., 680Twelfth Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry,

343Twentieth Century Club, 457Twenty-sixth Regiment, Wisconsin In-

fantry, 347Twenty-third Regiment, Wisconsin In-

fantry, 346Tyler, M. J., 684Typical district schoolhouse (view), 283

Ulrich, Louis, 843United Brethren, 477

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Upper Narrows, 417Upper Narrows of the Baraboo, 5Upper Sauk, 489Upper Skillet Falls, 9Upper Water Power, 304

Van Orden, Jacob, 965Veteran schoolhouse, 299View of North Freedom Village, 508Voeck, John, 790

Wadleigh, John E., 1066Wakefield, Sidney E., 773Walster, Albert, 618Waterbury, Judson.W., 746Water power, present utilization of, 87Waterstreet, William F., 1009Water ways, 301Weidenkopf, George, 1024Weidman, Grant, 960Weidman, Henry A., 971Weidman, Samuel, 18, 1043Weinke, Herman, 777Weirich, Emil, 731Weirich, George, 729Weirich, Henry, 647Weirich, Joseph I., 342Weirich, Louis, 731Weirich, Mrs. Henry, 647Weiss, John B., 628Weitzel, Joseph J., 11'24Welch, David E., 687Welch, Samuel, 645Westedt, Henry, 1006Westfall, Charles, 958Westfall, Dora B., 957Westfield, 417, 522West Sauk Road Before and After Im-

provement (views), 325Wheeler, Nels, 273White Mound, 566Whitman, Charles W., 691Wichern, Carl W., 819Wichern, Louis, 649Wichern, William, 755Wilcox, Norris, 953

Wild animals, 102Wild Cat Cave, 7Wild Honey, 84Wilkinson, Aaron, 555Wilkinson, Charles F., 1070Wilkinsons, 555Wilson Creek, 417, 562.Wilson, John, 202, 562Winchester, Walter F., 972Winckler, Anthony S., 964Winnebagoes, 166Winnebago War, 169Wisconsin Humane Society, 460Wiscodsin Hydraulic Company, 537Wisconsin Marine Band, 459Wisconsin iPineries, 36Wisconsin river, 2, 305, 519; first bridge

across, 490Wisconsin River Power Company, 307Wisconsin River Trail, 163With a Teacher in the Game (view), 292Withington, Arthur C., 981Woffenschmidt, Caroline, 899Woffenschmidt, Fred, 742Woffenschmidt, Henry, 899Woman's Club, 456Woman's Co-operative Civic League, 458Women's Organizations, 478Wood, Abraham, 111, 192, 259, 390Wood, Edgar A., 1020Woolen mill, first, 84Wyse, W. A., 357

Yellow Thunder, 171; recollections of,172; death and burial of, 179

Yellow Thunder Memorial Pillar, 180Young, A. L., 807Young, Ephraim W., 267'Young, George, 1024Young Men's Christian Association, 459,

479

Zaunt, Frank J., 1120Zeigler, August 0., 816Zins, Peter, 643Zuch, Christopher A., 891

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