CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

CONTENTS

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Increase Allen Lapham, First Scholar of Wisconsin	Milo M. Quaife	3
A Forest Fire in Northern Wisconsin	John L. Bracklin	16
Bankers’ Aid in 1861-62	Louise P. Kellogg	25
Documents:
The Diary of Harvey Reid: Kept at Madison in the Spring of 1861		35
Historical Fragments:
Wisconsin’s First Versifiers; Memorandum on the Spelling of “Jolliet”; The First Edition of the Zenger Trial, 1736; A Novel Transportation Device		64
Editorials:
Introducing Ourselves; Our State Flag; The Society and the Legislature; Nelson Dewey Park and the First Wisconsin Capitol; Perrot State Park and John A. Latsch; Forest Fires, Generally and in Particular; Consolation for the Present Crisis		75
Question Box:
The Oldest Church in Wisconsin; The First Mills in the Fox River Valley; Colonel Ellsworth’s Madison Career; The Story of “Glory of the Morning”; The Odanah Indian Reservation; First Exploration of Eastern Wisconsin; A Community Changes Its Name; How the Apostle Islands Were Named; The Services of the Menominee in the Black Hawk War		87
Survey of Historical Activities:
The Society and the State; Some Publications		101