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Title: Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: Milwaukee : E.E. Barton
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st white resident ofWisconsin, with the exception of the settlers at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien,who with the then few citizens of Chicago, were his nearest white neighbors.Neither Galena in Illinois, nor Dubuque in Iowa, were then commenced. Thecountry for many miles around Milwaukee was inhabited by the Pottawat-tamies, and a few of the Ottawa, Chippewa and Menomonee tribes of In-dians. * * * * * q-;-jg \2ind first occupied, and afterwards pur-chased by Mr. Juneau, was the northeast quarter of section 29, town 7, range 22.It extended from Division street to Wisconsin street, and embraced land on eitherside of the river, all of which measured about 132 acres. From the time Mr.Juneau landed here m 1818, up to the settlement of Capt. Saunders at this pointin 1835, ^^- Juneaus was the only white family residing in Milwaukee. Duringthe sanguinary Sauk war in July, 1832, those savage aborigines were encamped onthe banks of Whitewater Creek, about 34 miles west of Milwaukee, and in con-
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Washington Monument. INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE. 9 sequence thereof Gen. Atkinson ordered all the friendly Indians to assemble atMilwaukee, and remain here until further orders, lest they should be mistaken forthe Sauks, whom the army was then in pursuit of. Their whole number, whichamounted to several thousand, erected their wigwams on either side of the river,where they remained until the war was terminated by the battle of Bad Axe, nearPrairie du Chien, in September, 1832. The first frame building erected withinthe village of Milwaukee was put up by Mr. Juneau in the year 1824. It stoodon the lot at the northwest corner of East Water and Wisconsin streets. Byron Kilbourn, who came here in 1834, and Col. George H. Walker, whocame here in the preceding year, form, with Solomon Juneau, the trinity of Mil-waukees founders. They were not, however, the first Anglo-Saxon settlers here,that honor being claimed for Albert Fowler, Rodney J. Currier, Andrew J. Lansingand Quartus G. Carle

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