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Wallace RowanFirst White Settler -on Fourth LiKe-place in croft’s fir Wise on si when B. historian labors, tl to antiq stood.By T. 8. pt**cAs nearly as one can make out,. Wallace Rowan (sometimes spelled Wallis and Willis) was the first white man to locate on Lake Monde** in a manner anything like a permanent inhabitant. No doubt many others bad passed through there, but when the Black Hawk war broke out, in .1832, Rowan was found, near the north end of the lake in a building that afforded shelter to himself and wife, and the usual stock in trade of Indian traders. There seems to be no 'definite record: of his date of coming, the best that can be sjuid on that point Is that he was •'found'’ there. Against the usual custom of thetimes, Mrs. Roman was a white woman;year 1706, he visited an Indian town on an island in Lake Winnebago ■ and was for four days royally entertained by the American queen, Glory of the Morning. She was then an old woman, and had for many years reigned as undisputed sovereign over her people. From all we can learn, it scoiiir. as If her powers exceeded lhc.se of any chief of whom we Lave knowledge; her sway was not hampered by the democratic interference ul her people, as the authority of a chief wad apt to be at any time. . . .She was the daughter of an heredit- j aine ary Winnebago chief, and by reason * had an of failure or incompetence of the j £r male (Succession, became at quite an known, caiiy age ruler over the then numcr-wrlucn lions, h when Ba who we access tlt; ponvleroi In the of the . histories the Jesi Father I. France i penetrat distant :if he. hnlt; on a grc the seen Michlgaj sea. No sea is or therbyinto Junearly all Indian ' trailers had squaws-011S anlt;1 powerful people. She mar-as wives. Judging by his future r5ecJ a French adventurer namedas Wivt?5. juii^ui^. ------ rieu a. riruui iu.j lt;-•movements', one would say that with fjcscaira, which name become cor-the approach of civilization Rowan jru|jtclt;i hy slow stages to de Kauray, propared1 to move on; for the next i)e(:luiry, and finally to the Decorah year he sold his establishment, good . of UKfre ^cient times. Her husband will and all, to a Canadian half-breed ?jQj,l0{] the French forces in their war' ^ i n . I /«. /-I.... .i-V\ Iltl .. . % . . 1 . _ _ J ..rf r, w»natncd 'Michel Sr. Cyi\ who took up and carried on the trading po?t already establishes1!. And Die new man Sc.^Cyr did more, he became, with the aid of Colon cl W. R, Slaughter, the first real estate boomer on the lake. Colonel Slaughter laid out on paperwith The English and was mortally wouiKieci at Uic battle before Quebec, ju April. 1780, dying soon after. At the Lime or Colonel Carver's visit *hc was a widow, mournfully vievoted to the memory of her French husband, the* only prince consort that overV.OJOllUi llU't • UIC* OlllN pi IUUC I. v. .the Rowan plantation for ihe city or ])]Aye(\ S0Pond riddle on American lb* f ■'ur lakes, and sold lols In a \.Lll, had two sons, Chah-post-i_ ____.1___ i.iAi-a ivwmIqpT . i l ...»A r-V-.A L-fi.Vnmanner instructive to- more modemreal estate agor.es and dealers.Again Rowan drops out of sight and again Is “found, this time on the eastern shore of Lake Monona atka-fct, the Buzzard, and Chonkn-ka, the L.:.dle, better known in our local history as Spcon de Kauray. Both of , these became chiefs after the «death . rc|5 ™ of their queen-mother, and while!sea. Tc in eithei It had bsea, th-slnnarie! early bowith thegreat Nicollet water” the tor •were ti Waters.wrote I“As car the Grelt; ed the the Info: for Pai facts hreastern snore lmiw 0L quecji-uivtucii :Squaw point, now called Winnequah, ^ey Kg^re considerably in early Wfs- ior something similar. Here he enteral. in the year 18115, a fractional piece of land comprising o2 acres on which he continues* trading operations with tho Indians. But his trading posts on the four lakes seem to lmve been badly chosen forcousin history, neither seems to (ab°\e £ have been equal to the h*gh charac-1 excursic ter of his mother. - | fr(ym th’When Colonel Carver visited Glory , His re of Die Morning the Wlnnehagoes were when u in h highly prosperous state. The. “«nn royal \ilbige contained' about 50 Wstoty.i to nave hwp. hiwij ■ ioyai \nmge ■.his purpose. There were no la-h10'US(.S; ochw villages were locate ou , cuiaataa ion viliases in their immediate lo- western shore of the lake and on ed fromeallty. That was! a groat. hnntlui;Fox liver, its highestAgriculture was then nt j tripInpromtd Tor V.'innobrtigoes. as well as it- highest elb with this hunter-, .year folfor Sues and1 Foxes; but the ufcual tribt, and 10 the master hand of their , tcrprete_r._ kv' traders lt;llJCt.n we must 'give Die credit Cor. P*ny, C!the Few years or industry practiced In the by a people who have no olher like Three I period of production set down to them , niained in tlic-ir tnicliiion or history. They ^ a lu grew great quantities of melons, was ac beans, pumpkins and corn; had plums, voyage grapes and other Cult In such quail-. was err titles, of such excellent quality, ihat earnercultivated. Begmni years asite selected by successful traders was r»eai the home villages oi theaborigines. After the hunting season w as over. I ho Indians made straight for home with their loads of preserved meat and peltry. The trader nearest the village had* always the first selection on Ihe return of theaccountgo odium lug parly. This maj ......ror Die moderate success attained «'ji,hey ■ must have been _Wallace Rowan in his ventures near j w.lml the condition of ihe the present city of Madison. While . nallir-Cf| winnehagocs may have been tivln at Squaw Point, Abraham Wood | prior to 3766 wo have no means of tppuars on the scene, and becomes j knowing, for they were from the first identified with Rowan, and a sort of iHilWilttrly void or traditions’: but we partnership was entered into which--0 ^.I10W that after Die strong handthem, i: he wajshores Wlscon for trafpartnership was eruercu nuu ^now mai auer iu« uu«-i ,---continued, with only a short in- of of lhe Morn in* was still and historic.1. _ ..a«i rv I n , ________ nflDTKintermplIon, during ihe remainder of their lives. What dipposirlar. wascold, Lhey became so shiftless and happenacu .. . improvident as to indicate that l«hey venturemule hv Rowan of his enlry does r.ot n,ui illlL lapsed into a r.ormal slate. possess ippear, but the noxt heard of him he , Aa o£l2ll occurS with the civilized on La vas conducting trading operations ; wh-llCs, the family of Dccorah seem? to southwIn Columbia county, near now located ihe village ofwhere isjhttVC ROncWhile he was here, Wood kept a saloon and tavern on the Wisconsin river near by. Although they wereFoynette, wftR weiitoandsccJ. The Buzzard current aiViivopriately named, shells.Hu is nioiitionpd only once. *r,d then cssentl incidentally, in the first ten volumes tent v of Wisconsin Historical Collections, bringsiver near by. Aiinougu uicj 01 Wisconsin nisiui-vhoily dissimilar in nature, it seemed HSs i^her. Spoon Decorah, achieved fo witdi . _ J an.At hntlt; iV,' H . l___ __ ^ I- n ! t Tl. Of BOlis If they were bound together -by a mystical tic. Rowan was a quiet, dlf-lident. inoffensive creature; Wood was a giant in build, a heavy drinkermore mention and has yet. some iin- of Bost geiing fame in cerlzio localities, bring But he was not the aciive leader, the ya-nkec moral ami intellectual force Lhat was .heavily
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Marshfield, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Sep 29, 1905
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