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known as Kenosha, and both places made fine advances. The
first log house erected at Fond du Lac was erected in 1836;
and THOMAS GREEN kept the first public house there.
In 1835, the citizens of Green Bay obtained a charter from
the Michigan Legislature to build a dam across Fox River,
five miles above its mouth, at Depere, which improved the
navigation of the river very much.
Delegates mere elected, in 1835, to form a State Consti-
tution for Michigan; which being effected, left the region west
of Lake Michigan, to be organized into the separate Territory
of Wisconsin. The new Territory was organized July 4th,
S.
1836, with Gen. IIENILY DODOE for Governor, JOHN HOR-
am for Eecretary, CHARLES DUXX for Justice of the Supreme
Court, and \VIM. C. FRAZIER and DAVID IRWIN, Jr. for ASSO-
ciate Justices. The first election held for members of the
Territorial Legislature, was in September, 1836. According
to the apportionment, Brown county was entitled to two mem-
bers of the Council, and three representatives in the House of
Assembly; and HENRY S. BAIKD and JOHN P. ARNDT were
chosen to the Council, and EBENEZER CHILDS, ALBERT G.
ELLIS, and ALES. J. IRTI~IN House-GEO. MCWIL-
to
the
LIAM~ contested IRWIN'S and gained it. When I was
seat
nominated for a seat in the Legislature, I resigned the office of
Sheriff of Brown county, and was elected without opposition.
The Governor convened the first Legislature at Belmont, in
what is now La Fnyette county, and we met there on the 25th
of October, 1836. What is now the Statc of Iowa, then
formed a port of Wisconsin Territory. Wisconsin proper
then had a little over 7,000 population, and Iowa proper a
little over 5,000. The representation from the Iowa side of
the Mississippi mas ncarly as large as that from Wisconsin
proper-what for convenience sake, I will call Iowa, had six
Councilmen and twelve Representatives, while Wisconsin pro-
per had seven Councilmen and fourteen representatives. The
accommodations at Belmont were most miserable, there being
but a single boarding-house. The whole of the Brown dele-