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8. SOU-LI(:N-Y, ROW 73 years of age, a, distinguished Monom-
onee chief. All these three Meeomonee chiefs took part in the
war of 1812-15 against the Americans; but sided with the
Americans in the Black IIswk war. The portraits of these
chiefs were painted by Brooker~, two of them by order of the
Society, and the other was kindly presented by the artist.
W.
9. JOHN QUINNEY, late head chief of the Stockbridges of
Wisconsin-a noted man, devotied to the interest of his people.
He died in 1854. This portrajt was generously presented to
the Society by Mrs. ELECTA TY. CANDY, a surviving sister of
Quinney 'a.
10. NATHANIEL AMES, of Or<gon, Dane County, now in
Ilia ninety-ni?ztl& year, and the only surviving Revolutionary
soldier in Wisconsin.
These ten pictures added to the collection, make just fifty-one
oil paintings in all-secured within the past five years; of which
thirty-six are portraits of Wisconsin pioneers, or distinguished
Americans; ten are Indian portraits, tlzree battle-ground views,
and two landscapes. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the
Picture Gallery attracts a large number of visitors annually.
Such is the account of our stewardship for the past twelve
nionths-and such the prescnt condition of the Society. The
past year has been, on the whole, the most prosperous year in
the history of the Socicty. [ts growth has becn steady, not
spasmodic, and we may fondly hope its prosperity may ncver
wane.
When we look around us and behold the priceless treasures
here gathered together-tlie noble Gallery of Art, of the most
of its pictures no transcripts (xist-of the venerable newspaper
files, covering almost every year for a century past-of the rare
books upon our shelves, some of which, if lost, could never
be re-placed-volumes from the libraries of Franklin, Olin-
ton, and others-volumes of the original Jesuit 1Eclations of two
hundred year8 ago-curious map4 and ancient pamphlets of the
Great West of the last century-manuscripts of Sir Wm. John-
son, at whose commanda hundred years ago thousands of dusky