Box 6, Folder 2: Julia Alcott Lapham Biographical Scrapbook V

Left Page 12 ART GALLERY Seven portraits in oil have been added to the gallery. One of Alexander J. Irwin, an early Green Bay Pioneer painted by C.W. Heyd in gilt frame, from his widow Mr.s Frances Irwin; Gen. A. G. Ellis painted by his daughter, presented by the General; Richard H. Magoon, an early Wisconsin pioneer who shared in the Black Hawk War and was the first person in Wisconsin to suggest the formation of the Historical Society; Elisha Starr; a Milwaukee pioneer of 1836 , presented by Mr. Starr; Gen. Wm. L. Utley, painted by Alfred Payne, in gilt frame, from Gen. Utley; the late Dr. Geo R. McLane, of Waukesha, painted by S.M. Brookes, desposited by Chief Justice Ryan; portrait C. C. Rafinesque, the naturalist purchased. Also a photograph of Timothy Johnson, the first settler of Watertown, from Mrs. D. W. Ballou; photograph of Gen. John A. Sutter, the pioneer discoverer of gold in California, from A. Menges, Esq. There are now one hundred and six paintings in the Art Gallery.

ADDITIONS TO THE CABINET Antiquities. A copper spear with a barb near the point, the only one of the kind in the Society's collection, found in Fon du Lac County, from G. De Nevue; a copper chisel 10 inches long, bevelled on one side, a fine specimen; a small cooper axe, a small flint arrowhead, and a stone implement, five inches wide and 10 long, perhaps a breast plate all found in mound near Lake Chetek, Barron county, from Hon. Wm. Wilson; a copper spear, large size, splendid specimen, from MonsAnderson; two flint spear-, found two miles south-west of Monroe, Green County, twenty-one feet below the surface, from J. T. dodge, four stone axes and other tools, deposited by Issac Allds, Neccedah Juneau County; a stone axe from Hon. J. F. Hand, Lowvilee, Columbia County; fragments of ancient pottery found on a hill at Blue Mounds, from Wm.Carrol; fragments of ancient pottery nears Whitney Rapids, Wood county, from G. H. Strong; a small red stonepipe, found in Dane County, from G. H. Stewart; a stone axe edge partially broken, found on premises of Gen. E. E. Bryant near lake Monona, town of Madison, presented by Gen. Bryant; crania from Grant river, near Lancaster, from H. S. Keene; bones from a mound on the premises of G. H. Durrie, near Madison, also fragments of pottery, including a portion of a pot-the largest in the Society's collection, from M.Durrie; cast of an ancient war axe, also the section of a swivel, found at Starved Rock, Illinois four inches in diameter and thirteeen long from D. F. Hitt and Gibbbs, Ottawa, Ill.; three copper arrows, twenty four stone arrows, two stone hammers or axes, three stone wedges, two shells, and eight fragments of ancient pottery, a valuable contributions from J. D. Holman, Waupaca; and a portionof a red-stone pipe, found near the red-stone quarry, Pipestone County, Minn., from W.W. Taylor.

Right Page 13 Autographs, &c. Autograph signature of William Williams, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, from Dr. J. H. Carpenter; autograph letter of Hon. Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina, to G.D.A. Parks, of Lockport, N. Y., July 1, 1833 from Hon. Daniel Hall, Watertown; commission of Gov. Henry Dodge to W. T. Sterling, as Territorial Librarian, June 25, 1838 countersigned by W. B. Slaughter, Secretary, from Mr. Sterling, by J. P. Switzer; two commissions of Gov. Dodge, both to Chauncey H. Peak, one as Justice of the Peace of Milwaukee County, Feb. 8, 1839, the other as First Lieutenant of the Fourth Company of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Militia,March 31, 1840, a burial ground deed, in west ward of Milwaukee, to C. H. Peak, Aug. 29, 1839, signed by Elisha Starr as President of the Trustees of Milwaukee, witnessed and acknowledged by I. A. Lapham; also a circular for the formation of a Public Library in MIlwaukee, April, 1846, and a remonstrance against the route of a route along the shore of Lake Michigan, no date, all from Wm. Peak, through Hon. J. E. Thomas, Sheboygan Falls.

Coin and Currency Twelve Skilling Danish silver coin 1717, from L. Michelet, Pleasant Springs; a Chinese note, from E. S. Chase; and the following from C. C. Saffell, Baltimore: Pennsylvania Colonial bill five shillings, Oct.1, 1773; Continetal bill, two thirds of a dollars, Feb. 17, 1776; another of same ammount, May 9, 1776; Massachusetts bill, two dollars, dated in 1780; State Bank,Morris N. J., one dollar, 1820; shinplaster, borough of Liverpool, twenty five cents, 1857; Bank of Virginia, Staunton, three five dollar bills, April 1860; Monticello Bank, five dollars, Nov. 1860; Corporation of Richmond, Virginia, Jefferson, one dollar, 1862; Rockingham Co., Virginia, twenty five cents, 1862; Confederate States, ten dollars, Feb. 1864; also several old documents.

Natural History Specimens Molten lead from the Chicago fire, and sea salt, from E.R. Bristol; a section of honey locust tree from Clinton Co. Ohio from W.R. Paget; petrified wood from Nebraska, from I. S.Bradley; olive wood from Jerusalem manufactured into a crucifix, from Hon. D. G. Cheever; a small horned frog from Texas, from J.J. Helm; float copper weighing 20 punces found on grounds of E. H. Huntington, Madison, from Frank Huntington; lead, mineral, fossils, and horn of young deer from Hon. M. M. Strong; Spanish moss from the Gulf of Mexico, buffalo hair or wool, from James Mccloud; specimens of various kinds of wood from Alexander Co. Ill., arranged on card, from Hon. D. G. Cheever; specimen of pure copper, about four ounces in weight found on the bluffs in Coloma, Washara County, while grading for Wisconsin Central Railroad, from J. A. Murat; spedle iron slag from furnace of Madison Manufacturing Company, from T. W. Hudson; twenty two sample of tin ore, from Queenslands and New South Wales, copper ore from Burra-Burra Mine, South Australia, antimony from Victoria, Australia, gold bearing quartz from New Zealand, flax and hemp, and paper made from the same from Hon. S. D. Hastings; a glass tub con

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taining borings of the Artesian well at Prairie du Chien, showing the successive strata to the depth of 960 feet, from Hon. Horace Beach; a specimen of lizard, from T. G. Good; a sample of cotton grown at Palmyra, Wis., from Mrs. O. P. Dow.

Miscellaneous. - A skull found in Waupaca County, from Hon. Myron H. Reed; a portion of a hub and springs of a buggy carried five eights of a mile by the tornado at Hazel Green, Wis., in the spring of 1876; fourteen small photograph views of Santa Fe and New Mexico, from Miss Priscilla Jones; four photograph views of pontoon bridge, Artesian well, &c.. at Prairie du Chien, from H. R. Farr; thirty bullets taken from buffalo or bison skins, imbedded in the hide or wool, from Hon. D. G. Cheever; a pair of bead moccasins taken from the feet of the Sioux chief Black Kettle, after he was killed by. Gen. Custar's party in an engagement with the savages preceding, the one in which that officer lost his life, and Black Kettle's red stone pipe, also an Algerine newspaper in Arabic, from James Hewitt, through C. W. Butterfield; a fine chromo view of Starved Rock, on the Illinois River, where the old French fort of St. Louis was located, and famous as the spot where a portion of the Illinois tribe were starved to death rather than to surrender to their Indian enemies who besieged the place, from W. K. Cash; a steel engraving of Gov. R. B. Hayes, from E. B. Bolens; a squid used for catching mackerel, from Henry Conover; a photograph of ferns and casts of two specimens of natural history, from D. F. Hitt & Gibbs, Ottawa, Illinois.

A NEW VOLUME OF COLLECTIONS

The new volume of the Society's Collections, the seventh in our series, embraces several very important additions to Wisconsin history - notably the papers of Mr. Tasse and Gen. Ellis. Mr. Tasse has taken unusual pains to add to the knowledge of the interesting career of Charles de Langlade, the first settler of Wisconsin, written in the French language, and most creditably translated by Mrs. Sarah Fairchild Dean. Prof. Butler kindly aided, in making translations of some revisions, in the absence of Mrs. Dean from the city. As this paper must prove the basis of our Wisconsin history, too much credit cannot be awarded Mr. Tasse for his unwearied efforts in its production; and to Mrs. Dean and Prof. Butler for their assistance in giving it an appropriate English translation. The other papers in the volume, varied in their character, will necessarily commend themselves to the lovers of our early history and historic men of Wisconsin.

The manuscript contributions of the year need not be specified in detail, as all, save a paper on early recollections of Wisconsin, by the late Hon. John Phelps, appear in the new volume just issued.

CONTRABUTIONS FOR EXCHANGES.

One hundred copies of "Wisconsin in the Centennial," from the

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Centennial Commissioners; a large number of reports of the Wisconsin Editorial Association, through Hon. James Ross, secretary; 100 copies of Transactions of the Wisconsin Agricultural Society for 1875; 25 copies of Transactions of the State Horticultural Society; 50 copies each of the Governor's Message and Documents, Journals of the Senate and Assembly, and of the Laws of Wisconsin for 1876, in 2 volumes; and 45 copies of the Legislative Manual for 1876, from the State; 2 copies each of Whitford's Hist. of Education in Wisconsin, Salisbury's Normal Schools, Carpenter's University of Wisconsin, Chapin's Colleges of Wisconsin, and three copies of Report of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1875, from Hon. Edward Searing; 25 copies of Stennett's Northwest Illustrated, 1876, from Chicago and Northwestern Railway; 24 copies of the statutes of Congress, 1875-76, from Gov. Ludington; 10 copies of Crawford's forty Years of the Presbyterian Church of Green Bay; and 20 copies of Durrie's Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church of Madison.

LIBRARY IMPROVEMENTS.

Early in the past year, the two towers of the south wing of the capitol, were properly fitted up, by direction of the Governor, one for the reception of our large collection of pre-historic antiquities of Wisconsin, of the stone and copper age, and the other for the better arrangement of our maps, and bound files of Milwaukee newspapers. Additional desks have been provided, with closet room beneath. These improvements has been both timely and convenient.

THE CENTENNIAL.

Our exhibit at the Centennial embraced nearly all four pre-historic implements, and the more important portion of our large collection of the stone age - 154 coppers; 2,890 stone implements; also 39 fragments of ancient pottery, and several human bones taken from a mound in Polk County. This archaeological collection attracted deserved attention - the more so, as the number of pre-historic findings are more numerous than any collection known to have been made. Professor Butler went to Philadelphia as our Archaeological commissioner, arranging their display; and E. T. Sweet, M. S., had charge often collection during the exhibition, and deserves the Society's thanks for his faithful watch-care over it.

LIBRARY WORK.

The Librarian and assistants have well acquitted themselves in the discharge of their routine duties; in keeping up the increasing labor of cataloguing the stead accretions to the Library; attending to the system of exchanges with kindred institutions; keeping the serial publications arranged for binding and giving proper at

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tention to the wants of visitors. And Mr. Isaac Lyon, though now eighty-two years of age, is as unremitting as ever in his voluntary and unrequited attentions to visitors of the Cabinet department, of which he has for over five years had the charge.

CONCLUSION.

In concluding our twenty-third Annual Report, we can but renew our firm conviction of the large and diversified good the Society is accomplishing; in gathering and disseminating the history of Wisconsin; in collecting and preserving our current newspaper files; furnishing resources for investigators in our varied departments of learning; and in aiding the students of our State University in their preliminary training for spheres of future trust and usefulness.

Such an institution, whose opportunities for extending its beneficent labors are constantly on the increase, needs enlarged facilities. A new building is one of its wants, which, with a return of general prosperity, will undoubtedly be provided, because its necessity and utility are alike so obvious; while another equally important matter - the BINDIG FUND - should be nurtured by every means we can devise - a Fund that should be regarded as the result of the free-will offerings of the Society's friends within and beyond the limits of Wisconsin.

Has not the Society friends who will remember it with generous benefactions? John Jacob Astor and his son devoted hundreds of thousands of dollars to the founding of a Public Library; and their example is being followed by James Lenox, a gentleman of New York City, of large benevolence. The late George Peabody gave altogether a million and four hundred thousand dollars to found an institute of science, literature, and the fine arts, in Baltimore; and two hundred and twenty thousand dollars to establish an institute, lyceum and library in his native town of Danvers, Massachusetts. The late Hon. Samuel Appleton bequeathed ten thousand dollars to the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Mr. Peabody as much more; Elliott Cresson that amount to the Pennsylvania Historical Society; and the late Henry D. Gilpin considerably more for the benefit of the Pennsylvania and Chicago Historical Societies. Within a few months, the late F. C. T. Smith bequeathed ten thousand dollars to the New Hampshire Historical Society. Hon. Stephen Salisbury donated five thousand dollars to the American Antiquarian Society for binding purposes alone.

We have been ten years trying to establish a Binding Fund for our Society, and it has not yet reached five thousand dollars - not half what it should be, to enable its income and meet all the wants of the Society in this direction. Let us hope that you, men of Wisconsin, who are in comfortable circumstances, will yet do something worthy to perpetrate your names and memories, by providing liberal donations and bequests to our Society. It will deservedly secure you a reputation more enduring than brass or

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marble, and far more useful to humanity than all the wealth, you could transmit to your offspring - for wealth, thus bestowed, oftener proves a curse than a blessing.

After reading the preceding report, and the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution, adding three to the number of Curators, the committee on nominations, consisting of Gen. Simeon Mills, Hon. N. W. Dean, Prof. J. D. Butler, C. P. Chapman, and Dr. Joseph Hobbins, reported the manes of suitable persons to fill vacancies, and those recommended were elected, making the present full board as follows:

President - Hon. Alexander Mitchell, Milwaukee.

Vice Presidents - Hon. Harlow S. Orton, LL. D., Madison; Hon. Morgan L. Martin, Green Bay; Hon. James T. Lewis, LL. D., Columbus; Hon. James Sutherland, Janesville; Hon. H. D. Barron, St. Croix Falls; Chauncey C. Britt, Esq., Portage City; Hon. John H. Rountree, Platteville; Hon. C. C. Washburn, LL. D., Madison; Hon. J. F. Potter, East Troy Lake; Samuel Marshall, Esq., Milwaukee; Hon. John T. Kingston, Necedah; Hon. Sat. Clark, Horicon; Hon. Moses M. Strong, Mineral Point; Hon. Thad. C. Pound, Chippewa Falls; Gen. J. J. Guppey, Portage City; Fred. S. Perkins, Esq., Burlington.

Honorary Vice-Presidents - Hon. Cyrus Woodman, Massachusetts; Hon. George W. Bradford, New York; HOn. Perry H. Smith, Illinois; Hon. Stephen Taylor, Pennsylvania; Hon. A. C. Dodge, Iowa; Hon. L. J. Farwell, Missouri; Hon. C. C. Trowbridge, Michigan; Charles Fairchild, Massachusetts; Col. S. V. Shipman, Illinois; Rev. R. M. Hodges, D. D., Massachusetts; Hon. Philo White, LL. D., New York; and Gen. Hiram C. Bull, Kansas.

Corresponding Secretary - Lyman C. Draper.

Recording Secretary - Col. F. H. Firmin.

Treasurer - Hon. A. H. Main.

Librarian - Daniel S. Durrie.

Assistant Librarians - Miss Isabel Durrie and I. S. Bradley.

Curators Ex-officio - Hon. Harrison Ludington, Governor; Hon. Peter Doyle, Secretary of State; Hon. Ferd. Kuehn, State Treasurer.

For One Year - Gen. D. Atwood, Prof. O. M. Conover, Hon. L. Fairchild, Hon. L. B. Vilas, B. J. Stevens, Prof. W. F. Allen, Hon. H. A. Tenney, Hon. A. B. Braley, Col Thos. Reynolds, and Prof. R. B Anderson.

For Two Years - Jas. D. Butler, LL. D., S. H. Carpenter, LL. D., Hon. J. D. Gurnee, N. B. Van Slyke, C. P. Chapman, Major J. O. Culver, Isaac Lyon, Prof. J. B. Parkinson, Hon. G. B. Burrows, and Hon. J. A. Johnson.

For Three Years - Gen. Simeon Mills, HOn. Geo. B. Smith, Gen. G. P. Delaplaine, Hon. Andrew Proudfit, Hon. S. U. Pinney, Dr. Joseph Hobbins, Hon. E. W. Keyes, Hon. S. D. Hastings, S. D. Carpenter, and J. R. Stuart.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

Publications - Draper, Smith, Butler, S. H. Carpenter, and Culver.

Auditing Accounts - Hastings, Allen, Firmin, Anderson and Chapman.

Finance - Mills, Kuehn, Hastings, Van Slyke, Washburn.

Endowment - Orton, Washburn, Proudfit, Ludington, Mills, Van Slyke, Chapman, Burrows, Johnson and Draper.

Literary Exchanges - Durrie, Firmin, Hobbins, Doyle and Draper.

Cabinet - Lyon, Allen, Stevens, Keyes, Durrie, and S. D. Carpenter.

Natural History - Tenney, Ludington, Hobbins, Delaplaine and Stevens.

Printing - S. D. Carpenter, Culver, Parkinson, and Keyes.

Art Gallery - Stuart, S. H. Carpenter, Delaplaine, Mills, Vilas, Doyle, and Reynolds.

Historical Narratives - Pinney, Fairchild, Orton, Tenney, and Draper.

Indian History and Nomenclature - Chapman, Butler, Allen, Stevens, and Reynolds.

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Lectures and Essays - Butler, Conover, Parkinson, Durrie, and Anderson.

Soliciting Committee - Chapman, Hobbins, Braley, Keuhn, Proudfit, and Johnson.

Annual Address - Smith, Pinney, Burrows, Fairchild, and Gurnee.

Membership Nominations - Mills, Chapman, Vilas, Gurnee, Proudfit, and Stuart.

Library, Purchases and Fixtures - Draper, Conover, and Durrie.

Pre-Historic Antiquities of Wisconsin - Butler, Perkins, Allen, Conover, and Braley.

Obituaries - Atwood, Draper, Smith, Braley, and Tenney.

Tribute of Respect.

Milwaukee, March 3, 1863.

The Board of Managers of the Milwaukee Protestant Orphans' Asylum, at their Quarterly Meeting of March 3d, passed the following preambles and resolutions:

Whereas, This Board, under the influence of deep sorrow and grief at the loss, by death, through the providence of God, of one of our esteemed Managers, Mrs. I. A. Lapham, who was faithful and devoted in her sympathies and toil in behalf of the orphan, therefore

Resolved, That we heartily sympathize with the breaved husband and children, in this their sudden and inestimable loss of a faithful and affectionate wife and devoted mother, and tender hem our sincere consideration and condolence.

Resolved, That from an earnest desire to soothe the great grief of this desolate family, we proffer this expression of our high appreciation of the character of the deceased, whose many Christian virtues were unmistakable by all who knew her but shone with special luster, in those walks of life wherein the ministrations of the Savior were chiefly dispensed when upon this earth.

Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be published in the city papers and a copy be presented to the afflicted family.

Mrs. D. Newhall, Corresponding Secretary.