The City of Kenosha and Kenosha County, Wisconsin; a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, by Frank H. Lyman ...S. J. Clarke publishing Company, 1916 |
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1st Cavalry 1st Infantry 1st Wisconsin 33d Infantry 33d Regiment 39th Infantry A. B. Jackson aldermen appointed April assessor August building built C. C. Sholes Captain Charles Durkee Chicago church citizens claim clerk Colonel Frank committee date of election district early erected free school George Hale harbor Harvey Heavy Artillery held Henry high school Hugh McDermott Jacob James January Jason Lothrop John Bullen John Priddis Joseph July June Kenosha County Kimball L. B. Nichols lake land located Lyman Main Street mayor meeting Michael Frank Milwaukee N. R. Allen occupied officers organized Park peace Peter Peter Pirsch pier Pike Creek Pike River Pleasant Prairie present president R. H. Deming Racine Racine County Railroad register of deeds Resique Schendt schoolhouse settlers Sholes shore Southport Thomas tion town Towslee treasurer village Ward wheat William Bullen Yule
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Page 1 - God of the universe he acknowledged in everything around. He beheld Him in the star that sank in beauty behind his lonely dwelling ; in the sacred orb that flamed on him from his mid-day throne ; in the flower that snapped in the morning breeze ; in the lofty...
Page 382 - The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Page 2 - Across the ocean came a pilgrim bark, bearing the seeds of life and death. The former were sown for you ; the latter sprang up in the path of the simple native.
Page 1 - Here the wigwam blaze beamed on the tender and helpless, the council-fire glared on the wise and daring. Now they dipped their noble limbs in your sedgy lakes, and now they paddled the light canoe along your rocky shores. Here they warred; the echoing whoop, the bloody grapple, the defying death song, all were here ; and when the tiger strife was over, here curled the smoke of peace.
Page 1 - Not many generations ago, where you now sit, encircled with all that exalts and embellishes civilized life, the rank thistle nodded in the wind and the wild fox dug his hole unscared.
Page 1 - ... flower that snapped in the morning breeze ; in the lofty pine, that defied a thousand whirlwinds; in the timid warbler, that never left its native grove ; in the fearless eagle, whose untired pinion was wet in clouds...
Page 372 - On notice to the opposite party of the time and place of the application, the court, or judge thereof in vacation, may grant alimony to...
Page 112 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 2 - Slowly and sadly they climb the distant mountains, and read their doom in the setting sun. They are shrinking before the mighty tide which is pressing them away; they must soon hear the roar of tho last wave which will settle over them forever.
Page 165 - I say that man was made to grow, not stop; That help, he needed once, and needs no more. Having grown but an inch by, is withdrawn : For he hath new needs, and new helps to these. This imports solely, man should mount on each New height in view; the help whereby he mounts, The ladder-rung his foot has left, may fall, Since all things suffer change save God the Truth.