^73.7L63 Lincoln visits Beloit and Janes- Nlb5yan v -£ ville, Wisconsin, Contemporary account of an ti -slavery sppeche: of October 1, l85y LINCOLN ROOM UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY MEMORIAL the Class of 1901 founded by HARLAN HOYT HORNER and HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER LINCOLN VISITS BELOIT and JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN * * * * Contemporary Accounts or Anti-Slavery Speeches or October 1, 1859 * * * * THE LINCOLN FELLOWSHIP OF WISCONSIN Madison '949 Historical Bulletin No. 7 LINCOLN ROOM UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY MEMORIAL the Class of 1901 founded by HARLAN HOYT HORNER and HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER '-J I Z> < I *— • £ £ EM ^ ALBERT H. GRIFFITH - - BiUiograpker WHEN, IN February, 1948, the Lincoln Fellowship of Wis- consin published "The Heart of Lincoln," bv Albert H. Griffith, A. M., it was partly in recognition of the scholarship of this Wisconsin author in the Lincoln field. There was then no thought that before another Lincoln anni- versary rolled around his life work would be ended. He passed away on Oct. 16, 1948, after a period of ill health, at the age of 76. He lived on the farm in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, where he was born. A4r. Griffith, graduate of Ripon College, was one of the foremost collectors of things Lincolnian. His historical collections in other fields also were noteworthy. He collaborated with some of the dis- tinguished biographers, compiling data and reading proofs of their works on the Civil War president. He was a charter member of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin and kept in touch with its activities although prevented from meeting with his fellow members. Thus passeth another of a notable group of Lincoln collectors — names such as Oakleaf, Lambert, Stewart, McLellan, Fish, Burton, and Horner. FOREWORD WITH THIS publication, the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin has now covered in its scries of Historical Bulletins all visits of Abraham Lincoln to Wisconsin. The scries began in 194?. The 1944 Bulletin contained an historian's account of Lincoln's first trip into Wisconsin (then a territory) when, in 1832, Lincoln was a private in a company of volunteers in the Black Hawk war. The author was Dr. Edward P. Alexander, then director of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The soldiers entered Wisconsin at Turtle, present site of Beloit. The previous annual issue was a reprint, with illustrations, of Lincoln's State Lair address on agriculture, delivered at Milwaukee on Sept. 30, 1K59. (Lincoln also spoke at the New hall House in the evening). The 1945 Bulletin was devoted to all visits of Lincoln to the Badger State, but touched only brieflv on the Beloit-Janesville visits. As prepared bv the late George P. Hambrecht, first president of the Lincoln Fellowship, the manuscript included the author's evidence tending to show that, sometime between 1835 and 1840, Lincoln journeyed to Sheboygan, by way of Milwaukee and the lake shore T with a view of opening there a law office. Since these findings are not verified by actual records of Lincoln's "day by dav" activities, as compiled by Lincoln historians, thev may be regarded still as lacking full credence. The present issue relates to Lincoln's two anti-slavery speeches in Rock County — at Beloit on the afternoon of October 1, 1859, and Janesville in the evening (one day after the State Fair address). No manuscript or other verbatim copy of either of the Rock County addresses is known to be extant. Had the gentleman from Illinois, then within a year of nomination for the presidency, spoken from a prepared text, it seems likely that the newspaper editors present would have obtained a copy for publica- tion. That his words were impromptu is the view taken by Dr. Louis A. Warren, editor of Lincoln Lore, who concluded: "It is not likely that Lincoln used any manuscript on this occasion, and the remarks he made are available only in the words of the reporter who covered the meeting." As it turned out, the Beloit Journal (weekly) and the Janesville Morning- Gazette (daily) reported the speeches in the form of editorial reviews, with scarcely a direct quotation from the orator's lengthy remarks. In the journalistic custom of the times, each publisher exercised the editorial privilege of inter- polating his own supporting views freely, with the result that the account appeared as much like an editorial as a news story concerning an important political event. L. W. B. ROCK COUNTY GREETS LINCOLN AS ANTI-SLAVERY ADVOCATE WHEN THE "Illinois orator" (as editors of the time labeled him)— Abraham Lincoln — was announced as the speaker at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee, Sept. 30, 1859, his coming inspired a demand bv ardent Republican leaders in Rock County, Wisconsin, that he tarry for a day and discuss with them the political issues at a public meeting. tf£ irtj. ?/&- yu2_J_AAsisis>L - - ;*tL-*>-**_ Li-f ■0"i-o£»i- ■4.--'4--v-J^ c<-Sf ~~ er-t^t^*- J<~*U>-m-^ cist. ip^f-K-*' '^wm^c - - «--*r-**^t_ 7£^ Attorney M. A. Northrop's letter of invitation, and (Page 3) his acknowledgment of Lincoln's acceptance to give the Beloit address of October 1, 1H59. /$d~$, 0&< s^fcjL+Jf* *Y31 v*-t^n^+- J&rl&-i' c£v-z^/ (2s*.**:U Ir ^*£~-***/ -^6l*c/- l^-t-**+~yr — £i*4 lAS-C+^t-, tv st^Tr'H— ^&L*L*£. &1r-u*^t~H. /.'c.i-1 rifts **-v— en.* g*p ^A-4t>*A^t- *s,r-t*. -n Hanchett Building, Beloit, Wisconsin. The cause of this uniform result is this: Suppose that one-fifth of the in- habitants of a territory are slaves, and it is proposed to form a State Constitution. The question of course arises of Slavery or no Slavery. Before a prohibition is decided upon, several other questions are to be settled relative to the disposition of the slaves already in the territory. One man thinks that it is unjust to deprive a man of his lawful property at all, and all differ as to the means by which the difficulty shall be removed. The result of their disagreement will be that the institution is permitted to remain undisturbed. Slavery may thus be introduced into and retained upon territory where a large majority of the population are decidedly opposed to it. The practical difficulty in the way of removing the curse overbalances their aversion to it in principle, and in its practical effects upon the prosperity of the country. Mr. Lincoln proceeded to speak of the demoralizing tendency of a general prevalence of Douglas' doctrines in the country. Mr. Douglas takes it for granted t m± "ft 01; WsTflDJ.^ it « : « si? Marker of spot in Beloit, Wisconsin, where Lincoln camped as a soldier of the Illinois militia during the Blackhawk War. JANESVILLE, WELL PLEASED, CALLS MR. LINCOLN THE BELOIT address was heard bv several prominent Republican leaders of nearby Janesville, including William H. Tallman, an ardent aboli- tionist; A. A. Jackson, secretary of the Janesville Republican Club; J. H. Burgess; Daniel Wilcox, publisher of the Janesville Gazette, and John B. Cassoday, later chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Much impressed by Lincoln's logic, they importuned him, apparently without resistance, to come with them to Janesville to speak to an evening audience. As the Hambrecht account narrated, the trip was made in the Tallman carriage, and traversed country through which Lincoln, as an Illinois militiaman, traveled in the spring of 1832 in pursuit of Black Hawk's warriors. His carriage companions have left for the record the statement that along the way Lincoln identified a number of scenes out of recollections of his experience with the troops more than a quarter century before. The Janesville speech was delivered in the Young America Hall, in the old Myers Building. The audience was hastily organized, evidently by word-of- mouth advertising and a posted notice. The speech was reviewed by the Gazette editor in the following account: SPEECH OF HON. A. LINCOLN (Janesville Morning Gazette, October 4, 1859) ON SATURDAY Y it was ascertained by some of our citizens that Hon. A. Lincoln, the Illinois orator, would address the people of Beloit on Satur- day afternoon, and Mr. Tallman, of this city, volunteered to proceed to that place with his carriage, and endeavor to induce him to address the people of Janesville in the evening. In consequence of its being uncertain whether Mr. Lincoln would comply, a notice was posted that he had been invited and probably would attend. The meeting was therefore not as large as it would have been if his presence had been a certainty and more general notice had been given. When Mr. Lincoln made his appearance he was greeted with cheers, and was introduced to the people by Dr. Treat, the president of the Republican club. Many present saw Mr. Lincoln for the first time; and as his person is tall and wiry, his complexion dark, his physiognomy homely, and his phreno- logical developments being peculiar, he attracted much attention. His style of oratory is plain and unpretending and his gesticulations sometimes awkward. He has studied in no school of declamation, and it is apparent at once that we have homespun, backwoods Abe Lincoln, just as nature made him, without any attempts at oratorical flourish or preparation. This at first is a disappointment, as we all have our ideal of famous men, and if they are not at first grand and impressive, according to our preconceived notions, we are apt to consider them overestimated. While Mr. Lincoln was laying down his propositions and preparing the way for his speech, most people no doubt thought that Abe Lincoln was not much ahead of common orators, after all; but when he came to make his points tell, and to drive home his logical conclusions, the evidence of his profound thought was apparent, while his powers of satire and wit flashed out brilliantly, and rather startling the audience by their unexpectedness. Whatever unfavorable opinion any person in the audience may at first have formed of Mr. Lincoln's ability as an orator soon vanishes, and the power of the high order of intellect which he undoubtedly possesses, makes itself felt, not only while the speech is being delivered, but afterwards. His speeches are not easily forgotten, and we doubt not that all his audience who heard him through, still remember his 10 TALLMAN MANSION - JANELSVILLE, WISCONSIN Here Lincoln stayed two nights (October i and 2, 1859), following an evening speech on the slavery question at a midtown hall. Lincoln's was the right corner room on the second floor on the side of the house. points and his hits, and will do so for many a day; and that they still have a vivid recollection of that tall, gaunt form, stooping over towards his hearers, his countenance full of humor or frowning with scorn, as he lays bare to the gaze of the audience the ridiculous positions of Douglas or withers with his pungent sarcasm the false positions of the believers in popular sovereignty. No one can forget Mr. Lincoln, his manner or his logic. You are compelled to revolve his ideas over and over in your mind (whether you will or not). Hence we found, yesterday, the Douglas men very much disturbed — Lincoln had hit their popular sovereignty craft between wind and water, and it was about going down with the whole crew on board. They thought there hadn't been much of a storm. "Pooh," said they, "he is no orator — he has not hurt us any — we'll show you a man when Douglas comes." Instinctively they feel that they ?ieed the help of their leader, and they cry out for him to come — "Help me, Cassius, or I sink." 11 LIBRARY Mr. Lincoln's address was principally in relation to slavery. Of the several points made we select only one, and this we cannot give in the author's own words, as we took no notes. He enquired why slavery existed on one side of the Ohio river and not on the other. Why did we find that institution in Kentucky, and not in Ohio? There was very little difference in the soil or the climate, and the people on one side of the line loved liberty as well as on the other. The northern portion of Kentucky was opposite free territory, while the southern portions of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois had for neighbors states in which slavery existed. Indiana while a territory had petitioned congress three times to allow them to introduce slavery; while slavery actually existed in Illinois when she was admitted as a free state. It was apparent that some of the people wanted slavery. Mr. Lincoln said that there could be no other reason than that it was prohibited by congress. If it has been left to the people, as proposed by Mr. Douglas, a few slaves would have found a place there — if ten thousand had been admitted into Ohio while she was a territory, many questions would have been presented that would have been embarrassing, which would not have perplexed the people if slavery had been prohibited by congress — the question would have come up, what shall we do with these ten thousand slaves? Shall we make them free and destroy property which people supposed they possessed? If they abolished slavery what would they do with negroes? These questions would be troublesome and difficult to decide. The power of this amount of property in the hands of wealthy and educated men, who would most likely own the slaves, would in the end prevail and slavery would be established; whereas if congress had prohibited it until the state constitution was about to be formed, slavery and freedom would start upon an equal platform, and without the embarrassing- question named — freedom in this case would prevail and slavery would be prohibited. Slavery comes gradually into territory where it is not prohibited without notice, and without alarming the people, until, having obtained a foot- hold, it cannot be driven out. Thus we see that in all the new states where slavery was not prohibited, it was established. In Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri, the principle of popular sovereignty prevailed — congress permitted the people to establish the institution of slavery if they pleased. In all these instances, where they had their choice, slavery had been introduced; but, on the contrary, in all the new states, where slavery had been prohibited, and where popular sovereignty had no choice until state constitutions were formed, the states have prohibited slavery in their constitutions; such was the case in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, California and Minnesota. In California it had been prohibited by the old Mexican law, which was not abrogated before California became a state. Minnesota was a territory five years after the Missouri compromise was repealed, but commenced its settle- ment with a congressional restriction against slavery. 12 Ir is therefore evident, if the principle of popular sovereignty becomes the settled policy of the country, that slavery will have a great advantage over free- dom, and the history of the country proves this to he true. Mr. Lincoln said that he had failed to find a man who five years ago had expressed it his belief that the declaration of independence did not embrace the colored man. But the public mind had become debauched by the popular sovereigntv dogma of Judge Douglas. The first step down the hill is the denial of the negro's rights as a human being. The rest comes easv. Classing the colored race with brutes frees from all embarrassment the idea that slavery is right if it only has the endorsement of the popular will. Douglas has said that in a conflict between the white and the negro, he is for the white man; but in a conflict between the negro and the crocodile he is for the negro! Or the matter might be put in this shape: As the white man is to the negro, so is the negro to the crocodile! (Applause and laughter). But the idea that there was a conflict between the two races, or that the freedom of the white man was insecure unless the negro was reduced to a state of abject slaverv, was false and that as long as his tongue could utter a word he would combat that infamous idea. There was room for all races, and as there was no conflict so there was no necessity of getting up an excitement in relation to it. We have thrown out only a few of the ideas broached by Mr. Lincoln, and these are not in his own words. We have entirely omitted all mention of the opening part of his speech which related to the position of the two parties on the slaverv question. He spoke about an hour and a half. EDITORIAL AFTERMATH THE JANES VILLE MORNING GAZETTE was under the vigorous ' editorship of 'Charlie'' Holt, an ardent champion of the Republican, anti-slavery cause. On October 7, 1859, he published the following editorial: OF COL T RSE! — The democrats in Beloit, like those in Janesville, are not pleased with Mr. Lincoln's speech. Like produces like, everywhere. Mr. Lincoln sent too many pointed shafts, and planted them too deeply, to be at all agreeable to his democratic hearers. Here thev were generally unwilling to hear him, and left before the conclusion of his speech, swearing it did not amount to anything. But their actions belie their words. They spend too much time in declaring the speech a lame one, if it really were a lame one. The fact is, Mr. Lincoln gave them a stronger dose than they could bear. With a master's hand he exposed the deformities of squatter sovereigntv, and pinned to the wall the father of that cheat and delusion. The lance which he drove into Douglas was barbed, and after it had entered into his victim it was 13 turned and twisted in the body of the impaled sufferer. The "little giant" finds a hard customer in the long backwoodsman; hard, because he deals out justice to him, and in doing so never descends to the black- guard or falsifier. After his address Lincoln was a guest at the Tallman home — a pretentious mansion of 20 rooms (still standing). The next day he accompanied Mr. and Airs. Tallman to their house of worship, the First Congregational Church, for the morning service, at which the sermon was delivered by the Rev. M. P. Kirney. He remained over Sunday as a guest of the Tallmans, and departed on Monday for Springfield by way of Chicago. NEWS AND COMMENT Two meetings of the officers of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin were held during 1948 — on jMarch 31 and November 18 — at Madison. At the March meeting the officers, who have constituted the Executive Committee, voted to adopt a five-point service program designed to expand these activities throughout the state. These objectives are: 1. To furnish speakers, exhibits and other special programs pertaining to Lincoln to schools, churches, service clubs and other organizations; 2. To conduct Lincoln rallies in the 40 cities where there are representative members and to aid in enlarging the local groups in these communities;, 3. To make known the Fellowship's purposes and objectives in new centers throughout the state; 4. To take the Lincoln message to the youth of the state through the high schools; 5. To encourage youth along the line of research in Lincolniana. ■JP -7t- Tp tF The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, published by the Abraham Lincoln Association at Springfield, Illinois, states in its December 1948 issue: "The expansion of the activities of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin through its five-point service program merits the attention of other Lincoln groups through- out the country." -if -9P tP ts- At its November meeting the Executive Committee approved the draft of a proposed constitution and bv-laws for the Fellowship, to be embodied in an official application for incorporation under the laws of the state as a non-stock, non-profit corporation. The proposal was planned to be presented to the annual meeting on February 11, 1949, with the committee's recommendation for adoption. The motion to this effect was made by Dr. Clifford L. Lord, vice- president, and seconded by A. C. Larson, former president. Judge P. L. Lincoln, 14 vice-president, and Attorney W. H. Spohn were appointed to prepare the in- corporation papers. # * # # The Rotary Club of Havana, Illinois, September 3, 1948, dedicated a memorial monument to Abraham Lincoln commemorating the landing of Lincoln in Havana when he returned as a young man from the Black Hawk war. Februarv 1, 1949, was designated by President Truman as National Freedom Day, commemorating the signing by Abraham Lincoln of a joint resolution, passed by Congress, proposing the Thirteenth Amendment. A new Lincoln statue, provided by State appropriation and sculptured by Fred M. Torrey, was unveiled on the campus of James Millikin University at Decatur, Illinois, on October 24, 1948. The statue depicts Lincoln at the age of 2 1 when he entered Macon County. The principal speaker at the ceremonies was Dr. George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois. The Lincoln Herald, published by Lincoln Memorial Universitv at Harrogate, Tenn., devoted considerable space in its June 1948 issue to an excellent report on the 1948 annual meeting of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin. Mention was made of Dr. Lester O. Schriver's admirable address, 'A Sublime Parallel," delivered before the Fellowship in 1948, the extensive exhibit of Lincolniana by Gilbert G. Reinmund of Alilwaukee and Rev. O. B. Ransopher of Wisconsin Rapids, the late Albert H. Griffith's Lincoln article in the Fellowship's 1948 Historical Bulletin, the Ransopher collection of Lincolniana, and the election of officers. Mr. and Airs. Gilberc G. Reinmund and son Don of Milwaukee, Mr. and A4rs. Roland A. Kelling and Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Kelling of Wauwatosa made trips into the Lincoln country during the past summer. The Reinmunds visited Lincoln's birthplace and the Knob Creek home, Elizabethtown, Ky., the grave of Nancy Hanks in Spencer County, Indiana, Lincoln's home and tomb at Springfield, New Salem, and Rockford, 111. The Kellings spent most of an afternoon with Herbert Wells Fay, custodian of the tomb, at his home, and visited New Salem, Petersburg, and other points of Lincoln interest. Gilbert Reinmund, Edward C. and Roland Kelling are Fellowship members and Lincoln collectors. A delegation of business and professional men of La Crosse, Wisconsin, headed by William F. Funk, a member of the Fellowship, spent an afternoon in August viewing the Ransopher collection at Wisconsin Rapids. 15 Mrs. Jessie Lincoln Randolph, daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, died in a hospital at Bennington, Vermont, on January 4, 1948. She was born in 1875 and was the last surviving grandchild of Abraham Lincoln. Robert Lincoln Beckwith, the greatgrandson of President Lincoln, is the only surviving member of the Lincoln family. He was present at the opening of the Robert Todd Lincoln Papers at Washington, D. C, on July 26, 1947. ^f ^ ^ ^ In the list of new members recently added to the Fellowship's roster are a number of students who are young collectors of Lincolniana. They include the Landrv brothers — Harry J. Landry, a business man of Wisconsin Dells and Lincoln speaker, and Dr. H. P. Landrv, of Cadott, who has been lecturing on the life and work of Lincoln for the last fifteen years. TT "Jp -JF "ft- The Lincoln programs which have been given in high schools under the auspices of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin have been enthusiastically received by the students, and have met with the highest approbation of principals and teachers. ■Up Jb -U. Jfc Members of the Lincoln Fellowship who reside in the Wisconsin Rapids area held a Lincoln gettogether with program at the home of Rev. and Mrs. O. B. Ransopher on December 7, 1948. In the large exhibit of Lincolniana displayed, three items were of special interest. One was an old lithograph of a crayon portrait of President Lincoln by the famous American artist, Joseph Rodefer De Camp. This was discovered only recently amid the plunder in the basement of an old deserted church in northeastern Wisconsin. Another item was a miniature reproduction of Lincoln's birthplace near Hodgenville, Ky., built by members of the Fellowship for this event. It included the cabin, the historic oak tree, the famous rock spring, and the rail fence around the premises. The third item was an autograph album of schoolbook size exhibited by Mrs. Rolland Murgatroyd of Wisconsin Rapids. The album had belonged to her grandfather, George P. Spooner, a Union soldier stationed in the office of the Commissary department of the government during the Civil War. It contains autographs of President Lincoln, members of his cabinet, the staffs of generals, and Stephen A. Douglas, and signatures of scores of other noted persons of the period. Talks on "Lincoln in Wisconsin" were given by Floyd Taylor, Jr., A4ilo Strozensky, Gehr Jorgensen, Mrs. S. G. Corey, and Prof. A. W. Zellmer, of the Wood County Normal School. In a Lincoln quiz, prizes were won bv Mrs. Victor Jorgensen, a teacher at Milladore, Wis., and Mrs. Hazel M. Gemberling, a teacher at Wis- consin Rapids. Two of the historical items mentioned will be on exhibit at the annual meeting; in Madison, February 11, 1949. O. B. R. 16 s LINCOLN FELLOWSHIP OF WISCONSIN (Organized February 24, 1940) OFFICERS President O. B. Ransopher Wisconsin Rapids \ 7 ice-Presidcnts Clifford L. Lord Madison Mrs. Clinton W. Nuzum Viroqua P. L. Lincoln Richland Center Secretar\ r Louis W. Bridgman Madison Treasurer Margaret M. Smith Madison Membership Chairman A. C. Larson Madison HONORARY MEMBERS Paul M. Angle, Chicago, 111. James W. Bollinger, Davenport, Iowa Herbert Wells Fay, Springfield, 111. Airs. Marjorie Barstow Greenbie, Castine, Me. Henry Luhrs, Shippensburg, Pa. Harry J. Lvtle, Davenport, Iowa Mrs. W. V. Alexander, Shorewood Hills John S. Allen, Madison Norton T. Ames, Oregon F. I. Archer, Madison Judge Cameron Baldwin, La Crosse *Elmer E. Barlow, Arcadia Mrs. Norma Beaumont, Milwaukee Rae F. Bell, Milwaukee W. B. Bellack, Neenah Frank C. Blied, Madison Robert W. Bliss, Janesville *Cecil J. Block, Madison Agnes Boettcher, Milwaukee Frank A. Boettcher, Milwaukee Airs. H. A. Bolstad, De Soto John H. Borges, Milwaukee Karl K. Borsack, VI. D., Fond du Lac- Mrs. C. D. Brebner, Baraboo Louis W. Bridgman, Madison Mrs. L. W. Bridgman, Madison William George Bruce, Milwaukee Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan Mrs. C. E. Broughton, Sheboygan Robert E. Browne, Racine Walter Bubbert, Milwaukee Mrs. Janet H. Buchen, West Allis Ernest I. Burbey, Wisconsin Rapids Phillip E. Burkhalter, Watertown Robert E. Burns, M. D., Aladison Stanley R. Caldwell, Madison Charlotte Calvert Burns, M. D., Madison Thomas Calvert Burns, Madison Mrs. Henry E. Pond, Petersburg, III. James G. Randall, Urbana, 111. F. Ray Risdon, Los Angeles, Cal. Harry E. Pratt, Muskegon, Mich. Carl Sandburg, Flat Rock, N. C. William H. Townsend, Lexington, Kv. Louis A. Warren, Fort Wayne, Ind. MEMBERS Airs. Jessica Cady Burns, Aladison Foster Cannon, Milwaukee Airs. Lillian Chapman, Madison Mrs. Jean Elizabeth Chase, Aladison Airs. Alma Cheesman, Aailwaukee William A. Clark, West Allis S. G. Corey, Wisconsin Rapids Mrs. Georgia M. Corp., Madison Mrs. Harold F. Corpron, Milwaukee Edward Corrigan, Wauwatosa Cecil F. Cross, Fort Wayne, Ind. Willard R. Denu, Aladison Norbert F. Dettmann, M. D., Wauwatosa Russell Dyche, Frankfort, Kv. A. C. Duckwitz, Aladison Charles K. Dunlap, Elkhorn James R. Durfee, Antigo Carl W. Eberbach, M. D., Milwaukee Rev. Harry T. Ehlers, Windsor Dorothy J. Ekern, Shorewood Hills Herman L. Ekern, Shorewood Hills Eugene Elkin, Barron Ben G. Elliott, Aladison William F. Faulkes, Shorewood Hills Clarence C. Fidler, Alilwaukec Cad. A. Foster, Oconomowoc Bertha Frautschi, Aladison Paul P. French, Owosso, Michigan Henry C. Friend, Alilwaukee Herman L. Fritschel, D. D., Milwaukee James G. Fuller, Madison William F. Funk, La Crosse 17 John W. Gellerman, Lincoln's New Salem, 111. Airs. Hazel M. Gemberling, Wisconsin Rapids Eloise Gerry, Shorewood Hills George M. Gibson, West Des Aloines, la. O. B. Gugler, Milwaukee Ralph Gugler, New York, N. Y. * Albert H. Griffith, Oshkosh, R. 2 William F. Groves, Lodi Mrs. W. F. Groves, Lodi Airs. Forrest C. Gunderson, Oconomowoc Nicholas Gunderson, Madison ■ Mrs. Lora Hacker, Madison Louis M. Hanks, Madison *Agner B. Hansen, Green Bay Arthur C. Hansen, M. D., Wauwatosa Mrs. Arthur C. Hansen, Wauwatosa Rt. Rev. iVlsgr. Joseph E. Hanz, Beloit Mary A. Harrison, Milwaukee Minnie W. Hastings, Madison William A. Hastings, Madison Mrs. William A. Hastings, Madison Hans W. Flefke, M. D., Milwaukee Mrs. G. R. Heisinger, Oshkosh iYlrs. Charles E. Hemingway, Madison Airs. Nellie F. Henr.ekemper, Milwaukee Theodore Herfurth, Madison Mrs. Bessie Hertel, Kohler Lt. Col. William Herzog, Chicago, 111. Mervin W. Hess, Madison William B. Hesseltine, Madison R. L. Hinkins, Belmont Rev. Samuel Hirshberg, Milwaukee Harry J. Hirshheimer, La Crosse Horace King Holley, La Crosse Mrs. Horace K. Holley, La Crosse Hugh M. Holmes, Wauwatosa Anna Hoverson, Viroqua Ralph M. Hoyt, Milwaukee Mrs. Herman Hide, Neenah A. R. Jennings, Madison Mrs. A. R. Jennings, Madison George H. Johnson, Madison Mrs. Harry O. Johnson, De Soto S. Grant Johnson, Dale, Indiana Howard Murray Jones, Madison Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones, Madison Gehr Jorgensen, Wisconsin Rapids Alvin E. Jung, Wauwatosa Airs. Alvin E. Jung, Wauwatosa Clinton F. Karstaedt, Beloit Edward C. Kelling, Wauwatosa Roland A. Kelling, Wauwatosa Airs. Edward Kingston, Madison Airs. Grace G. Kingston, Aladison Neal Kingston, Aladison Airs. Bea Kissam, Aladison Walter D. Kline, Alilwaukee Airs. Walter D. Kline, Milwaukee Art Kniseley, Aladison Adeline Knurr, Aladison Walter J. Kohler, Jr., Kohler Charlotte Kohn, La Crosse Ellinore Konrad, Alilwaukee Judge Arthur W. Kopp, Platteville Peter Krier, Rhinelander Mrs. Peter Krier, Rhinelander Herbert L. Kropp, Wauwatosa R. P. La Bonne, Aladison Dr. William Al. Lamers, Wauwatosa H. J. Landry, Wisconsin Dells H. P. Landry, D. D. S., Cadott Amy L. Larkin, Madison Helen Al. Larkin, Madison A. C. Larson, Aladison Airs. A. C. Larson, Aladison John H. Lasher, Chicago, 111. Elizabeth C. Leis, Alilwaukee Arthur E. Lenicheck, Wauwatosa Airs. Arno T. Lenz, Shorewood Hills Sister Emma Lerch, Milwaukee Pearl L. Lincoln, Richland Center Airs. V. H. Lind, Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Freas M. Long, Madison Clifford L. Lord, Aladison Airs. Nyla Lovell, Aladison Airs. G. S. Lowman, Aladison Ernest L. Luther, Aladison Mrs. E. L. Luther, Aladison *Elmer E. McCollum, Richland Center Rev. J. L. McCorison, Jr., Westfield, N. J. Leona McCutcheon, Aladison James J. AlcDonald, Aladison William J. AlcAlahon, Jr., Portage Robert McAlillen, Wisconsin Rapids Wakelin AlcNeel, Aladison Thomas S. AlcQueen, Racine Percy W. Malloy, Aladison W. D. Alansfield, Goshen, Indiana G. Al. Matthews, Madison Mrs. LaVelle Thompson Alaze, Fond du Lac Mrs. Marie Alerrill, Aladison William S. Aliddleton, M. D., Aladison W. L. Millar, Aladison Airs. Ella W. Miller, Madison Ralph J. Miller, Aladison l; Katherine S. Minch, Madison Bernice Morris, Oconomowoc Arthur Moody, Plattevillc E. H. Mueller, Madison Oscar Mueller, Madison Maude iM. Munroe, Baraboo Lola R. Nest, Brandon Rose Neumann, Milwaukee Ralph G. Newman, Chicago, Illinois Mrs. Clinton W. Nuzum, Viroqua Ethel Nuzum, Madison Elizabeth O'Hardy, Madison Mrs. Frances E. Olsen, Milwaukee Frederick I. Olson, Milwaukee Lester W. Olson, Milwaukee Ralph J. Olson, Madison T. S. O'Malley, M. D., (Milwaukee Mrs. Vera T. Ostrander, Madison Lawrence F. Paape, Wauwatosa Airs. L. F. Paape, Wauwatosa Merle C. Palmer, Shorewood Hills Robert R. Paunack, Madison DeWitt S. Peck, Havward Emerson Peet, Beloit William L. Pieplow, Milwaukee Benjamin Poss, Milwaukee Emilv Pokornv, Madison Albert S. Puelicher, Milwaukee George W. Rakow, W'ausau Rev. O. B. Ransopher, Wisconsin Rapids Hans H. Reese, M. D., Shorewood H'lls Gilbert G. Reinmund, Milwaukee Gov. Oscar Rennebohm, Madison George F. Rentschler. Madison Mrs. Frances H. Rilev, Madison Frederic E. Risser, Madison Mrs. Kate Rindlaub Robertson, Plattevillc Joe S. Robinson, Plarteville Emma Roethel, Shebovgan Mrs. Bette Rohrdanz, Milwaukee Mrs. Alice E. Rood, New York, N. Y. Joseph Rothschild, Madison Wilford F. Rowe, Wausau Harris E. 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