Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. i837 Vear opened with General Gloom--Financial Depression--Year Compared with '36--Improvements--Claim Organizations--Organization of a Village Government--Trustees Elected-Gen. Crawford brings the Delroit--Kilbourn Builds the Badger--Description of--Capt. llubbell--The Sentinel Started-- --Judge Frazier opens Court--Its Results--Organization of Agricultural and Medical Societies--Conventions -- Elections--Incidents--List of Pricer, -- How the Author spent the first Winter The reader has now seen Milwaukee as it appeared in the fall of 1836, both topographically and statistically, which may, with justice, be called its natal year. True, the first marks were made and the first stakes driven in '34 and '35, but '36 was the great opening year, more having been done that year than in the two previous, and four subsequent ones. The sound of the hammer and saw, with the ring of the mason's trowel, were heard from early morn to dewy eve, throughout the entire working season; but with the close of navigation, came a change. The speculators and capitalists, like the birds, had departed for their homes in the East and South, to enjoy the coming winter with their families, leaving those who had come to stay, to spend the winter in speculating upon their present and prospective wealth; racing horses upon the river; getting up shooting matches, and amusements of various kinds; all of which they did with a vim, while anxiously awaiting the coming year, in which, they firmly believed, the growth of the young city would surpass'36, as much as '36 had '35. But in place of that came the crash. A great financial embarrassment convulsed the whole country, putting an end to all improvements, particularly in the West, leaving Milwaukee hard and..