a result of it the Capital went to Madison.

tended for a temporary location at Green Bay or Milwaukee or any other place, until the country should have become more settled. * * The members from the west side of the

Mississippi were bought to go for Madison.

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town plat of Madison was divided into twenty shares; I was offered one share for the small sum of two hundred dollars. * I rejected the offer with disgust, and felt better satisfied than I should to have sold myself for the twentieth part of Madison. * * We used to have tall times in those

days."

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Winnebago and Outagamie Counties, 1836-50

From Brown County Winnebago was formed in 1840, and Outagamie in 1851. The most prominent of the early pioneers of these two counties were:

Oshkosh.-Webster Stanley, Ohio, 1836; H. A., Amos, Chester, and John P. Gallup, Ohio, 1836; George and Wm. W. Wright, New York, 1836; David and Thomas Evans, 1836; Chester and Milan Ford, 1837; Samuel and Stephen Brooks, New York, 1839; Charles and Clark Dickenson, New York, 1839; Edgar Conklin, New York, 1841; H. G. Freeman, New York, 1846.

Appleton. John Johnson, New York, 1843; Capt. Welcome Hyde, Vermont, 1843-50; Henry L. Blood (agent of Lawrence University), New Hampshire, 1849; Col. Theodore Conkey, New York, 1849.

Menasha.-Curtis Reed, New York, 1848; James D. Doty, New York (on Doty's Island), 1845.

Neenah.-Harrison Reed, New York, 1843; Harvey Jones, New York, 1846.

1. The Settlement of Oshkosh. Robert Grignon, nephew of Augustin, and Louis B. Porlier of Green Bay had a trading post in 1830 at Algoma, now included in the city limits of

1Ibid., p. 191.

Oshkosh. Peter Powell and his son William lived in a hut on Lake Winnebago, near by, as early as 1827. William Powell and Robert Grignon conducted a tavern and ran a ferry across Fox River. After the Menominee treaty of 1831, the federal government began a school building for the Indians at Winnebago Rapids, one of the workmen being Webster Stanley. In 1836 he left that work, built a hut at Coon's Point, on Fox River just above the present Oshkosh, and with a half-breed named Knaggs began a trading business on the mail route built in 1828 from Fort Winnebago to Fort Howard. In 1836, when this part of the country passed to the federal government, among those settled here were Stanley, A. H., Amos, John P., and Chester Gallup, George and W. W. Wright, David and Thomas Evans, Chester Ford, and Joseph Jackson; all of these staked off claims that were bid in at public sale in 1838.

This settlement was at first given the Indian name, Saukeer. In 1838, George Wright was appointed justice of the peace for all of Brown County west of Lake Winnebago. When a post-office was to be placed in the settlement in 1840, the name became a subject of controversy. The Gallups wished to call it "Athens," the Wrights "Osceola," the Evans brothers "Galeopolis," but Robert Grignon and William Powell came to the meeting with a troop of Indians and half-breeds, and secured the adoption of "Oshkosh," in honor of the local chief, as a bid for the Indian trade. It is reported that Oshkosh hovered in the vicinity of the settlement bearing his name until he died in 1856.

John P. Gallup was appointed first postmaster, and Chester Ford the first mail carrier from Fond du Lac to Wrightstown. Business meetings and elections took place at Webster Stanley's house. The first regular county officers were George F. Wright, W. W. Wright, W. C. Isbell, Samuel Brooks, Ira Aiken, C. Luce, Harrison Reed, and Charles Dickenson. Samuel Brooks built the first dwelling on the west side of Lake