CHAPTER XXIII.

MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES.

Pierre Bottineau 606

Andrew G. Chatfield 606

Hazen Mooers 607

John McDonough Berry 607

Mark H. Dunnell 608

James H. Baker 608

Horace B. Strait 609

Judson Wade Bishop 610

John L. McDonald 610

Thomas H. Armstrong 611

Augustus Armstrong 611

Moses K. Armstrong 611

James B. Wakefield 611

William Wallace Braden 611

Reuben Butters 612

Michael Doran 612

Andrew McCrea 613

John W. Blake 613

Knute Nelson 613

William R. Denny 613

APPENDIX.

MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS, INDIAN TREATIES, ETC.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY 616

Spanish Claims 616

French Claims 617

Louisiana in 1711 618

Settlement of Marietta, Ohio 618

Ohio Territory 619

Statistics 619

BOUNDARY QUESTION 625

Wisconsin Constitutional Convention, 1846 625

Wisconsin Constitutional Convention, 1847 626

Some Resolutions 627

Under What Government? 628

H. H. Sibley Elected Congressional Delegate 628

Queries 629

Minnesota Territory Created 629

Land Office at Stillwater 629

INDIAN TREATIES 629

Treaty with the Sioux (Mendota) 1805 629

Treaty with the Chippewas (Mendota) 1837 630

Treaty with the Sioux (Washington) 1837 630

Treaty with the Winnebagoes (Washington) 1837 631

Treaty with the Chippewas (Fond du Lac) 1847 631

Treaty with the Pillager Band (Leech Lake) 1847 632

Treaty with the Sioux (Traverse des Sioux) 1851 632

Treaty with the Sioux (Mendota) 1851 632

Treaty with the Chippewas (La Pointe) 1854 634

Treaty with the Pillagers (Washington) 1855 634

Treaty with the Chippewas (Red Lake River) 1863 634

GEN. PIKE AND THE INDIANS 635

Treaty of 1805 636

Pike's Address to the Council 636

Details of Treaty 636

Pike Hospitably Entertained 637

UNITED STATES SURVEYS IN THE NORTHWEST 637

Establishment of Land Offices 638

Establishment of the Present System of Surveys 638

The First Surveyor General's Office at Marietta, O 638

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICES IN THE NORTHWEST 639

List of Registers and Receivers, Wisconsin 639

First Entries 640

First Auction Sale of Land 641

List of Registers and Receivers, Minnesota 641

List of Wisconsin Territorial and State Officers, Governors,

Senators, andRepresentatives from St. Croix Valley 641

Legislative Representation 642

First and Second Constitutional Conventions 643

Governors of Wisconsin 643

United States Senators 643

United States Representatives 644

District Judges 644

State Legislature 644

List of Minnesota Territorial and State Officers 647

Census of the Territory in 1849 647

First Territorial Legislature 648

First Prohibition Law 649

Constitutional Convention 649

List of State Officers and Judicial 649

Senators and Representatives 650

Minnesota State Legislatures 651

Constitutional Convention of 1857 654

Division of Convention 654

Union of Conventions on a Constitution 656

Have We a Constitution 656

First, Minnesota State Legislature 657

Protests Against Legislation 657

Five Million Bill Passed and Adopted 657

State Seal Adopted 658

State Seal Design 659

Adjourned Session of Legislature 660

Protests Against Recognizing Gov. Medary 660

Reports on Protests 661

Land Grants--Railroad Surveys and Construction 665

Northern Pacific Railroad 665

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad 667

St. Paul & Duluth Railroad 668

Minnesota & Manitoba Railroad 669

Stillwater, White Bear & St. Paul Railroad 670

St. Paul, Stillwater & Taylor's Falls Railroad 671

Wisconsin Central Railroad 671

Taylor's Falls & Lake Superior Railroad 672

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad 672

A Memorial for "Soo" Railroad 673

Organization of Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic

Railroad 674

Mileage of Railroads Centring in St. Paul and Minneapolis 675

Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad 675

Congressional Appropriations 675

Inland Navigation 676

George R. Stuntz on Lake Superior and St. Croix Canal 680

Waterways Convention, 1885 682

E. W. Durant's Valuable Statistics 683

Resolution for St. Croix and Superior Canal 685

Early Steamboat Navigation 686

Steamboat Accommodations 687

First Mississippi Steamboat Officers 689

First Mississippi Steamboat Organizations 689

List of Steamboats 690

Later Navigation on Northwest Rivers 691

Steamboating on the St. Croix 692

Ice Boats 693

James W. Mullen's Reminiscences, 1846 694

St. Croix Boom Company 696

Surveyors General of Logs 696

Organization 696

Conflict over State Boundary 697

Language of Logs 698

Logs Cut from 1837 to 1888 700

Chartered Dams 701

Lumbering and Lumbermen in 1845 702

Lumbering and Lumbermen in 1887 705

St. Croix Dalles Log Jams 706

Population of Northwest Territory in 1790 709

Population of Wisconsin Territory in 1836 709

Subsequent Census 709

Population of Minnesota in 1849 709

Minnesota State Capitol 710

Burning of State House 711

Selkirk Visitors 712

Cyclones 713

Isanti and Chisago Cyclone 713

Cottage Grove and Lake Elmo Cyclone 715

Washington County and Wisconsin Cyclone 717

St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids Cyclone 718

Curious Lightning Freaks 721

Asiatic Cholera on the Royal Arch 721

First Decree of Minnesota Citizenship 722

International Hotel, St. Paul, Burned 723

Grasshoppers 723

Ancient Mounds 724

Lake Itasca, Schoolcraft and Boutwell Form the Name Itasca.

Description of Itasca 726

Elk and Boutwell Lakes 727

Capt. Glazier's False Claim 727

Copper Mining on St. Croix 728

Rev. Julius S. Webber; Reminiscences 729

Judge Hamlin--Amusing Incident 730

Minnesota Old Settlers Association 731

St. Croix Valley Old Settlers Association 740

Newspaper History 741

Gen. Scott, Maj. Anderson, and Jeff. Davis 752

Jeff. Davis' Marriage at Fort Crawford 753

Dred Scott at Fort Snelling 754

Incidents in Dred Scott's History 755

Old Betz and Descendants 757

ADDENDA.

Military History of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865 759

Gov. Alex. Ramsey's Address to Loyal Legion 759

Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Legislative Sessions

of Wisconsin 762

ERRATA.

[Transcriber's note: Errata corrected in the text.]