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the whole Territory at its organization in 1836. Here I shall
probably spend the remainder of my days.
It came hard for me to leave Green Bay for good, after
having lived there twenty-five years. After Chicago, Mil-
waukee and other towns on the western shore of Lake Michi-
gan commenced their growth and improvements, Green Bay
rather retrograded. It did not improve much for a number of
years. From 1820 to 1835, all boats and vessels that came up '
the Lakes, came to Green Bay; there was no other place to
go, except there would occasionally be one or two schooners
that would go to Chicago with supplies for the troops. Soon
after the arrival of the first steamboat at Green Bay-in 1821
-the first school house was built at the place, and about the
same time the first missionary school was opened.
Of the American settlers who came to Wisconsin pricr to
1830, but few are now living; prominent among them are
D.
DANIEL WIIITNEY, HENRY S. BAIRD, JAMES DOTY, AL-
BERT G. ELLIS, JOHN ARNDT, MORGAN L. MARTIN, HEN-
P.
RY DODGE, EBENEZER BRIGHAM, DANIEL M. PARKINSON,
JAMES MORRISON, H. L. DOUSMAN, PETER PARKINEON,
CHAS.
BRACKEN, EPIIRAI~I OODEN, JOHN ROUNTREE, LEVI STER-
H.
LING, JESSE SKULL, A. A. TOWNSEND, and a few others.
After the Black Hawk war of 1833, the country gradually
settled up to 1836, when the Territorial government was
organized; since which the increase has been rapid to the
present time.
I only regret in drawing my narrative to a close, that my
feeble attempt at describing my early recollections of our
noble state, has not been more successful.
La Crosse, March, 3 858.