A Reminiscent History Of The Village And Town Of Lake Mills Jefferson County

Author : Elisha W. Keyes
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ISBN 13 : 9781331837589
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book A Reminiscent History of the Village and Town of Lake Mills, Jefferson County written by Elisha W. Keyes and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Reminiscent History of the Village and Town of Lake Mills, Jefferson County: Embraced in a Period of Ten Years, From 1837 to 1847, and While Wisconsin Was a Territory Ladies and Gentlemen of Lake Mills: To fill up the gap from 1837 to 1894 would require fifty-seven years and those years would only measure the time since my father's family settled here in 1837. To commence at the beginning of this period with a backward look from today; to carefully scan the succeeding ten years, bringing to the fore from that long buried past, the facts, incidents and prominent figures of that early settlement, would seem to be a draft upon one's memory that could not be honored. Yet, knowing myself and the tenacity of my memory, from those boyhood days, I know that it is clear, and "True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun." From the storehouse of that memory, I have brought forth the facts and reminiscences embodied in this address. Fiction is given no place and nothing is credited to the imagination. I only fear you may set down as trifling and uninteresting, so much that is necessarily personal to myself in many of the incidents herein related. But, being dear to me, I submit them to your kindly interest. I remember when a boy in Vermont my father procured an old-fashioned atlas, with the apparently unsettled northwest territory traced upon it, and calling my older brothers to him, pointed with his forefinger on the map to that portion of the territory which began along the southern point of Lake Michigan, and extending therefrom in a northwesterly direction. He pointed to the mouth of the Milwaukee river, and, said he, "Boys, there's where we want to go; that country offers splendid inducements for settlers. There," said he, "must be water powders and timber." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.