otherwise impassable, and thence through Ludington the twenty or more miles to the mill, finding myself very sore from unaccustomed horseback riding and taking a couple of days' rest at the mill before the long ride back again, to Grand Rapids.

The session of Wisconsin Conference had been held in Spring Street Church August 27 after my return from college; Bishop E. R. Ames was the presiding bishop and I recall the impression made upon me by his Sunday sermon. It was of a big strong man with a thorough grasp of his subject and with a sonorous voice, standing quietly with scarce a gesture and pouring forth the sublime truths of the Gospel with a rapt eloquence like that of Wendell Phillips, and capturing all hearts. While Bishop Ames was not reckoned one of our great preachers, yet he certainly made a profound impression by this sermon. At that Conference the Reverend Hezekiah C. Tilton was transferred from one of the Maine conferences and stationed at Summerfield and I then became a member of that church, which was worshiping in the basement. Brother Tilton was a strong, large man physically, mentally, and spiritually, in the prime of a grand manhood, and his work was very effective. He began a protracted meeting and after pressing the message very strongly for three nights with urgent invitations, the break came when John Dale arose and cried out, "I can't stand it any longer; come, boys, let's go," and he and his brother Samuel, Henry George, and two others followed him to the altar and were soon soundly converted, the beginning of a considerable ingathering. During the winter the auditorium was finished, and was dedicated by Dr. T. M. Eddy preaching in the morning, and President R. S. Foster of Northwestern University in the evening, April 4, 1858.

Early that spring Mr. Ludington wished some papers served on his foreman at the Pere-Marquette mill and he procured my appointment as deputy marshal and sent me over to serve them. This time I hired an Indian pony and a pung at Grand Haven and started out; after struggling hard for two days to drive the pony through the woods a little back from the lake shore, making very slow and difficult progress I reached a tavern a few miles south of Ludington at supper time, and there found that the man I was to serve the papers on had passed down the beach some two hours before, and wou'd spend the night at a tavern twenty miles away. Despairing of reaching him with the pony and pung, I swallowed a hasty supper and fed the pony, borrowed a saddle, and started down the beach; fortunately the moon was full and bright, and the pony, headed toward home, went like a bird over the frozen sand and we reached the tavern about eleven o'clock to find the man in bed; I did not have him disturbed but went to bed myself and slept the sleep of the weary, and early in the morning found the foreman and with the dignity of an officer of the United States government served on him the papers, and then mounted my pony and galloped back along the shore in a glorious morning ride after the pung, to which I hitched the pony, thus finding him much more tractable on the homeward journey, though I should much rather have kept to the saddle, his normal mode of travel. We reached Grand Haven the next night without other adventure, and on my return home Mr. Ludington congratulated me on the success of my trip.

Early April of that year 1858 found me back in Brooklyn on my way to college. Arriving at Middletown I found that I had been able to keep up with my class, and having taken the examinations entered into the work at the last quarter of the senior year; so that having entered as a sophomore, I was really in college only two and a quarter years of the four years' course.

In those days each one of the class appeared on the program for commencement day, the honors for which were in this order: first the valedictory, second the salutatory, third the metaphysical oration, fourth the philosophical oration. H. P. Shepard was the valedictorian; Reynolds, the digger of the class, the salutatorian. I can't recall who had the metaphysical, but I felt quite proud, in view of my long absences, to have won the philosophical, and as a good Mystic, chose for my subject "The Mission of Mystery." I was also proud to have been ranked in the first third of the class, to whom were given election to the Phi Beta Kappa order, one of the widely recognized honors among all the colleges of the country. (Concluded)

THE SOCIETY AND THE STATE

During the three months' period ending October 10, 1924, there were twenty-four additions to the membership of the State Historical Society. Nine persons enrolled as life members: Herman Fehr, Milwaukee; Gustave G. Gehrz, Milwaukee; Albert A. Mueller, Milwaukee; John T. Murphy, Superior; Dr. Albert J. Ochsner, Chicago; Frederic E. Risser, Madison; Wesley J. Stanley, Madison; Walter J. J. Vollrath, Sheboygan; Arnold Wangerin, Milwaukee.

Fourteen persons became annual members, as follows: Francis E. Ballister, Neenah; Fred Beglinger, Oshkosh; Stephen W. Fogo, Richland Center; Minnie H. Kelleher, Green Bay; Herman O. Kletzsch, Milwaukee; Elwood R. McIntyre, Madison; Bishop Joseph G. Pinten, Superior; Roy K. Rockwell, Beloit; Mrs. Theodore Schmidtman, Jr., Manitowoc; Edgar Tallmadge, Waukesha; Anna L. Tenney, Appleton; Dr. William Thorndike, Milwaukee; Archer L. White, Juneau; Daniel J. Williams, Columbus, Ohio.

The Avoca High School joined as a Wisconsin school member.

The seventy-second annual meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin was held at Madison, October 16. The election of twelve curators to take the places of those whose terms expired at the time of the meeting resulted in the reëlection of William K. Coffin, Eau Claire; Lucien S. Hanks, Madison; Nils P. Haugen, Madison; Patrick B. Knox, Madison; Lyman J. Nash, Manitowoc; Frank W. Oakley, Madison; E. Ray Stevens, Madison; Lawrence Whittet, Milwaukee; William W. Wight, Milwaukee; Robert Wild, Milwaukee. The place of Mrs. Leslie Willson was filled by the election of William Irvine, Chippewa Falls; and the vacancy caused by the death of Professor John G. D. Mack was filled by the election of Mrs. Angie Kumlien Main, Fort Atkinson. The vacancy caused by the death of Honorable John M. Whitehead, of Janesville, whose term would have expired in 1925, was filled by the election of J. T. Hooper, of Janesville.

Miss Kellogg's volume on The French Régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest has gone to press, and will soon be ready for distribution to our members.

Mr. Ellis B. Usher's interesting article in the June issue of this magazine, on the career of Dr. Nelson Powell Hulst, has brought much favorable comment. One valued correspondent, however, suspects that the name "Florence" for the mine, the town, and the county did not originate precisely in the way Mr. Usher points out. This correspondent believes there is good authority for the statement, often published, that H. D. Fisher named the mine, and that his name for the mine was naturally extended to the town and the county. Mr. Usher quotes a letter from J. J. Hagerman to Mrs. Hulst, asking her permission to name the mine "Florence" in her honor. Of this letter, dated December 15, 1875, this Society possesses a facsimile; so that there can be no doubt of its genuineness. Since the mine was sold to the Menomonee Iron Mining Company by H. D. Fisher and E. W. Keyes, under the name of "Eagle," which Mr. Hagerman and his associates wished to change because there was already an Eagle post office in the state, it is hardly probable that Mr. Fisher would interest himself further in the matter. The Society will be very glad to accept Mr. Usher's statement as a correction of its own published account of the origin of the name "Florence" (see "Wisconsin Counties," Proceedings, 1909).

FELLOWSHIPS

The Lyman C. Draper Graduate Fellowship in Western History has been filled by the appointment of Edward Earl Bennett, graduate student in American history at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Bennett came to Wisconsin from the University of Kansas. He began his work in calendaring October 1.

The Society takes pleasure in announcing that Professor Frederick J. Turner, having retired from the professorship of American history at Harvard University, and having removed his home to Madison, Wisconsin, has accepted the honorary fellowship in our Society established by the advisory board, and will occupy an office provided for him in the Society's building. As Professor Turner is a native of Wisconsin, the acknowledged founder of the school of western historians, and was the incumbent for many years of the chair of American history in our State University, we congratulate our state upon his return to live among us. Professor Turner has agreed to deliver in January a lecture before the members of the Society.

ACQUISITIONS

Among the incoming material we note a group of letters concerning Frances Willard, from her early friends and later associates, sent by Mrs. F. S. Kent, of Beloit; a diary of 1846 written by Edwin Miller, of Dodge County; and a letter dated January 5, 1837, concerning the choice of Madison as the territorial capital.

Hobart Schofield Cooper, a graduate student in the department of history from the state of Tennessee, collected in that state a group of letters written from New Glarus, Wisconsin, during the Civil War. Mr. Cooper has kindly permitted the Society to take photostatic reproductions of these letters, for preservation in our library.

NECROLOGY

Death has once more invaded the ranks of our Board of Curators, and taken from us former State Senator John M. Whitehead, of Janesville. Although not a pioneer of Wisconsin, having been born at Hillsboro, Illinois, he became a resident of Janesville over forty years ago; was senator from Rock County for sixteen years, and has been actively interested in all movements for the betterment of our commonwealth. He died at his home on the evening of August 31.

Dr. Norton W. Jipson, a noted archeologist and antiquarian, died August 5 at Chicago. Dr. Jipson was born in the Sugar River valley of southern Wisconsin, and in the course of studies of his native locality he became interested in the Winnebago Indians and an authority on both the history and the language of this remarkable tribe. He was a member of our Society and of the Chicago Historical Society; for the latter he had prepared a manuscript on the Winnebago tribe, which it is to be hoped will soon be published.

LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

The Waukesha County Historical Society held its thirty-sixth meeting September 13, at Menomonee Falls. The program traced the pioneer history of that place, and also contained a paper by J. H. A. Lacher, on "Three Famous Orators of Early Waukesha."

The Sheboygan County Historical Society has opened a museum on the second floor of the Sheboygan city library, well equipped for its present and future possessions. Among the former are the Gerund collection of Indian relics and the Potter collection of Indian and historical objects, including handiwork of the early Holland and German immigrants of the county. The society is also collecting sketches of as many pioneer families as it can obtain.

Menomonie is preparing a Dunn County museum of history to be housed during the county fair in the First National Bank. It is to be hoped this may lead to a permanent interest in historical preservation.

Kenosha County old settlers held in August a picnic at Paddock's Lake, when a memorial address on pioneering was delivered by the Reverend George R. Cady, of Kenosha.

LANDMARKS AND MONUMENTS

At Ephraim, in Door County, was unveiled on July 17 a monument to the first settlers of that county, who came there in 1853. This marker was prepared for the seventieth anniversary of the advent of the colony, but the unveiling did not take place until this year. The expense was borne by the Men's Club of Ephraim, instigated thereto by H. R. Holand, an enthusiastic antiquarian of this locality. The tablet reads: "Near this spot the first colony of permanent settlers in Door County landed in May, 1853, a Moravian congregation, led by their pastor, Rev. A. M. Iverson." It is embedded in a limestone shaft about nine feet high, removed from the state park.

The migration which this monument commemorates was from the Norwegian communistic colony settled by the Reverend Otto Tank at Green Bay. In 1853 one portion of the group determined to build new