Box 5, Folder 6: Julia Lapham Correspondence, Undated

by the noted Wisconsin Winnebago chief Dekau-ry (Sha-chip-ka-ka), also known as Old Grey-headed Decorah, White War Eagle, and by other names.-I.H.R., P.

Tecumseh. Pair of epaulettes worn by this great Shawnee chief in the War of 1812-15. He was killed by the Americans at the Battle of the Thames, Canada, on October 5, 1813.-M.H.R.

George Washington. Telescope used by him. It was found on one of the British ships captured by Commodore John Barry during the War of the Revolution, and by him presented to General Washington.-M.H.R., P.

Daniel Webster. Carriage purchased in London, in 1808, by Stephen White of Boston, and used by him for several years. It then passed into the hands of the great American statesman. Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, Silas Wright, Charlotte Cushman, Dean Richmond, Erastus Corning, and many other notables have ridden in it. It is an admirable specimen of the better class of family carriages in use in England and America a century ago.-E.H.

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Wisconsin Celebrities

John Francis Appleby. Twine-knotting hook invented by him in 1858, on a farm in Walworth County. Twine binders were manufactured by him and his associates, Charles H. Parker and Gustavus Stone, at Beloit, in the summer of 1878. In that year 115 Appleby binders were sold and successfully operated in Texas, Kansas,, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.-S.H.

Charles C.P. Arndt. Vest worn by him as a member of the Legislative Council of Wisconsin Territory when he was shot and killed by James R. Vineyard in the council chamber at Madison, in 1842. Vineyard was expelled from the council but was acquitted of manslaughter. Charles Dickens, the novelist, tells the story of the shooting in his American Notes.-N.H.

Lieut. Col. Joseph Bailey. Punch bowl and sword presented to this officer of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry by Rear Admiral Porter and staff for saving the Union fleet of gunboats from capture by

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the Confederates during the Red River expedition, in Arkansas, May 1864. The fleet was prevented from descending the river by a low stage of water and was threatened with destruction by the enemy on the banks. Bailey, who was serving on General Franklin's staff as chief engineer, devised and constructed a system of dams which raised the water to a sufficient height; and then, an opening being suddenly made, the vessels escaped through the chute. Gor this feat Bailey was brevetted brigadier-general, Nov. 10, 1864.-M.H.R.

Rev. Johannes Bading. Song book used by him when pastor of St. Jacob's Lutheran church at Theresa, Dodge County, 1854-60. Mr. Bading came to Wisconsin from Rixdorf, near Berlin, Germany, in 1853, his first church being in Calumet Township, Calumet County. His next pastorate was at Theresa, after which he was in charge of St. Mark's church at Watertown, 1860-68. In 1863 he went to Europe for the purpose of collecting funds for a Lutheran college at Watertown. In the course of his trip he visited the royal courts of Prussia, Han-

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over, and Russia, and returned to the United States in 1864 with $15,000. Northwestern University was built in 1865, and he served as its president from that year till 1909.-N.H.

Alvan E. Bovay. Carpet bag in which the "founder of the Republican Party" carried his papers to a meeting held at Ripon on February 18, 1854, at which he suggested the name "Republican" for the new political party then being organized.-N.H.

The Buffalo. Peace pipe "presented by Tay-che-gwi-au-nee for his father, the Buffalo, a principal Chippewa chief, on the south shore of Lake Superior, in council at Fort Winnebago, February 12, 1844". On the bowl is carved the old chief's personal totem, the buffalo.-I.H.R.

Satterlee Clark. Copy of the Works of Horace, formerly in his library at Horicon. Clark came to Wisconsin in 1828; was a sutler at Fort Winnebago, 1834-43; served two years in the State assembly and twelve in the State senate. He was one of those who conducted Yellow Thunder and other Winnebago chiefs

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on a visit to Washington in 1837. During this visit the treaty was signed by which the Winnebago ceded to the government of their lands in Wisconsin.-S.H., P.

Capt. Thomas J. Cram. Section of trunk of a pine tree from the shore of Trout Lake, in Vilas County, bearing a blaze upon which appears the name of Captain Cram, the U.S. engineer who surveyed the Wisconsin-Michigan boundary, and of his assistant, Douglas Houghton, name-giver for Houghton, Mich. Dated August 11, 1841.-E.H.

Gov. Nelson Dewey. Gold pen used by him, his diary, and a Dutch clock from his home at Cassville. He was the first State governor of Wisconsin, serving from 1848 to 1853.-N.H., E.H.

Old Grey-Headed Decorah (Sha-chip-ka-ka), see also under Zachary Taylor. A prominent Winnebago chief. He fought under the British General Proctor at Sandusky (Aug. 2, 1813), and at the battle of the Thames (Oct. 5, 1813). After 1793 he moved his village from the shore of Lake Puckaway to a point on the Wisconsin River, near Portage. He gave as-

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surance to General Atkinson during the Winnebago War scare, in 1827, of the peaceable intentions of his people. He died in 1836, and was buried at Peten Well, in Caledonia Township, Columbia County. He was the most noted and best of the Wisconsin Winnebago chiefs of his time.

Gov. Henry Dodge. Chapeau and uniform coat worm by him while commanding a regiment of U.S. Dragoons against the Indian tribes at the headwaters of the Platte and Arkansas rivers in 1814-15. Rustle chair owned and used by him. He came to Wisconsin in 1827; took a prominent part in subduing the Winnebago uprising of that year, and in the Black Hawk War in 1832; was the first territorial governor of Wisconsin, 1836-41; delegate to Congress, 1841-45; again territorial governor, 1845-48; and United States senator, 1848-57. Died at Burlington, Iowa, June 19, 1867.-M.H.R., E.H., P.

Sen. J.R. Doolittle. Gold-headed cane presented to him at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Fair held at Washington, D.C., July 10, 1866. He served as Federal sen-

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ator from Wisconsin from 1857 to 1861, and from 1863 to 1867.-N.H.

Gov. James D. Doty. Council pipe presented to him by Col. Henry Leavenworth at Camp Cold Water, an encampment of the Fifth United States Infantry on the Mississippi River, above the mouth of the St. Peters River, on July 20, 1820. Doty was accompanying an expedition under Gov. Lewis Cass, in the capacity of official secretary. They were engaged in collecting information concerning the Indians of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. Colonel Leavenworth was then beginning the erection of Fort Snelling. The pipe was presented to him during a council with the Chippewa Indians. Doty served as governor of Wisconsin Territory, 1841-44.-I.H.R., P.

Matthew G. Fitch. Powder-horn, charger, and shot-pouch worn by him while a lieutenant in Col. Henry Dodge's command of Wisconsin rangers during the Black Hawk War, 1832.-M.H.R.

Augustin Grignon. Silver snuff-box, ivory-headed cane, powder-horn, and charger, and an epaulette (with paper case) worn by him in the British service

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in Wisconsin, in the War of 1812-15. Collection of articles including weapons, game traps, articles of dress, weighing scales, and various goods employed in the Indian trade at the old Grignon-Porlier trading post at Butte des Morts, in Winnebago County. Grignon was a prominent fur trader and a grandson of Charles de Langlade. He was born at Green Bay, June 27, 1780. His narrative of "Seventy-two Years' Recollections of Wisconsin" is published in Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. iii. He died in 1860.-E.H., P.

Gen. Henry Harnden. Sword, revolvers, saddle, and saddle-bag used by him while colonel of First Wisconsin Cavalry, when participating in the capture of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, near Irwinsville, Ga., May 10, 1865. He retired at the close of the war with the brevet of brigadier-general.-M.H.R., P.

William S. Hamilton. Two sleigh bells from a string presented by the wide of Alexander Hamilton to her son Col. William S. Hamilton, of Wiota, in 1839.-E.H.

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Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper. Bible-mark used by him; sermon book presented to him at Philadelphia, June 1, 1831, and passes issued to him by Wisconsin stage, steamboat, and railroad lines during the years 1858-64. He was the pioneer bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in the Northwest.-N.H., P.

Charles De Langlade. Pair of silver mounted dueling pistols carried by him; his silver seal; and a leather quill-work ornamented pouch used by him for carrying his fur trade papers. He was the son of Sieur Augustin de Langlade, who married at Mackinac the sister of Nis-so-waquet, head chief of the Ottawa. About 1763 father and son removed to Green Bay, where they became the principal proprietors of the soil. Charles de Langlade led the Wisconsin Indians in several of the many sanguinary conflicts of the French and Indian War, from Braddock's defeat (in 1755), to the final English conquest of Canada. In the Revolutionary War he fought on the British side. He died at Green Bay in January, 1800.-E.H. (See oil painting of Langlade at Braddock's Defeat, in S.H.)

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Increase A. Lapham. Vasculum and plant press used by him in collecting and pressing (1836-40) his herbarium of between 20,000 and 30,000 plants now in the University of Wisconsin. Copy of his Supplement to Catalogue of Plants, printed in Milwaukee, November, 1840. Wood-cuts employed in illustrating a botanical article written by him previous to 1870. Case containing his [drawing?] instruments. Two models of Wisconsin Indian earthworks prepared by him for the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876. He settled at Milwaukee in 1836. He was one of the organizers of the State Historical Society and for twenty two years either its president or one of its vice-presidents. He served as state geologist, 1873-75, and was the "father" of the United States Weather Bureau. He ranked among the most distinguished antiquarians and naturalists of his time, and was the most prominent of the early scientific investigators in Wisconsin. He died at Oconomowoc, Sept. 14, 1875.-E.H., I.H.R., P.

Little Soldier. Pipe formerly belong-

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