Early Milwaukee: Papers from the Archives of the Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee County, by Various
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Early Milwaukee: Papers from the Archives of the Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee County, by Various. [Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee County], 1916. Edition: First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo, 6.25 by 9 inches, 149 pages. Black cloth. Black and white frontispiece (Milwaukee in 1848, by Hammersmith Engraving Co., From a painting by G.J. Robertson) and one black and white plate with two portraits following page 128. Book includes an index of names and an index of subjects, plus a roster of the Old Settlers' Club membership.

Condition: Very Good, no jacket. Spine ends bumped; corners bumped and, along with lower edges, a little worn; top page edges gray as from shelf dust.

Contents: The book contains the following:

• Early Settlers: Paper Read by Peter Johnston [Johnson?] Sept. 6th, 1897
• In the 'Thirties: Paper read by C.H. White at Old Settlers' Picnic, Aug. 18, 1898
• Pioneer Land Speculation in Milwaukee: Paper by Silas Chapman, Read Before the Old Settlers' Club, Dec. 5, 1893
• Boyhood Memories: Paper by A.W. Kellogg Read April 3d, 1889
• Girlhood Memories: Read by Mrs. Martha D. Ellsworth, Nov. 7, 1898
• A Popular Street Corner: By D.W. Fowler
• Anecdotes of Pioneers: Read by Peter Van Vechten, Jr., in 1894
• Water Front and Shipping in the '50s: Read Before the Club July 6th, 1888, by M.A. Bordman
• A Sailor's Narrative: Condensed from Papers Read Before the Club by Captain William Callaway
• Milwaukee's First Railway: By James Seville
• First Locomotive Built in Wisconsin: By George Richardson
• An Up-River Mystery: Read by Jeremiah Quin, Oct. 2, 1899
• Pioneer Physicians and Druggists: By John A. Dadd
• First Small Pox Epidemic: By Dr. J.B. Selby
• Wisconsin in the War with Mexico: By Henry W. Bleyer
• Increase Allen Lapham: Address by William Ward Wight at Unveiling of the Lapham Memorial, Lapham Park, Milwaukee, June 18, 1915