Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-08
VermOnters in Wisconsin.
The Green Mountain States Large Con-
tributiOn 60 the List OF Badger Men
Who Have Attained Prominence.

tributiOn 60 the List OF Badger Men
Who Have Attained Prominence.
From the Milwaukee, wis, Sentinel, April 8.
1898
The state of Vermont is the most pure
ly English of the New England states.
The Irish and Scotch-Irish who modified
the English blood of New Hampshire,
were not to be found among the early Yer
mont settlers. The French Huguenots.
who numbered 2200 families in Boston
and vicinity during the early days of the
Massachusetts Bay colony and were nu-
merous in several inland villages of Massa-
chusetts, and were a large part of the pop
ulation of Providence and other Rhode
Island towns, were not found in Vermont.
The Scotch and Welsh of the southern
New England states never emigrated to
Vermont. The Dutch who dwelt in the
west of Connecticut did not 90 north ward
with the Connecticut founders of the
Green Mountain state, and the only Ger
manic element there is represented by the
descendants of a few Hessan prisoners of
war taken at the battle of Bennington.
New England's share of the 10000 de-
ported Arcadians was all dropped along
the sea coast of the three southern states,
and the Vermont Yankee does not have
that unacknowledged, yet Enthusiastically
present dash of French blood which crops
out in the people of the five other Yankee
states and accounts for the somewhat
anomalous Athenian cast of mind in these
descendants of the matter of fact Puritans.
With their names Angicized or translated,
the descendants of this important French
element of early New England are not to
be traced today. Maine, until 1920 a part
of Massachusetts, was principally settled
from that state, receiving very little of its
population directly from Great Britain,
and, therefore, what can be said of the
Massachusetts, people can be said of the
people of Maine. General Burgoyne's
word "VeImontese," latter the analogy of
Piedmont and Piedmontese) then really de-
| scribes a separate and distinct division of
Americans, the most purely English of all
Americans, for nowhere in the other states
were Scotch, Welsh, Irish, Scotch-Irish,
| and French Huguenots absent, and in
| Pennsylvania there were the Palatinate
| Germans and in New York the Dutch.
Considering its size, no state has had
such an influence upon Wisconsin as has
Vermont. Other larger states have sent
more of their sons to Wisconsin. but no
state has furnished Wisconsin so large a
portion of her prominent men, or SO many
of her pioneers. In 1875 there were
| 16, 421 Vermonters in Wisconsin number
barely one-twentieth of the then popula-
| ton of Vermont itself Since 1915 the pro-
portion of Vermont born citizens has
| greatly decreased Having but a small
immigration to keep up their numbers,
death has greatly depleted their ranks.
But this comparatively small number of
Vermonters has left its impress upon Wis
| In ha Of
mont can claim nothing beyond Gov. Far
wells mother, but for the major part of
Wisconsin's existence she has been repre-
sented in the national Senate by Vermont
ers Matt Carpenter, Philetus Sawyer and
| w. +. Villas. In 1878 the entire congress
sional delegation was Vermont born. and
| Senator Sawyer before his election TO the
Senate and G. A. Eldredge and j. A. Bar
| Der were in Congress several terms. G.. +.
Wheeler, George w. Cate and Lucien Il.
Caswell are other Vermonters that have
sat for Wisconsin in the house of repre-
sentatives. 1.-The Wisconsin Bismarck"
Elisha w. Reyes, is a Vermonter as are
Editor Horace Taylor of the Madison State
Journal and George b. Burroughs, eX-state
senator and eX-speaker of the assembly,
the three men constituting Senator Spoon
er's advisory cabinet. The late Horace
Rublee of The Sentinel and the late David
Atwood of The Madison journal are two
other Vermonters. Dean Edwin Bryant of
the University Law school, Eugene 5. Ell
lott of Milwaukee, and NJ. X. Doyon of
Madison are three others who have hon
ored their adopted and their native states.
Politics seem the special field of the
Wisconsin Vermonters. Not in numbers
alone are they prominent in this field, but
as the foregoing names will show, they are
unusually well represented among the
managers of affairs. In the legislature of
1851, 10 out of SO assemblymen were Yer
monters and two senators out of 10. In
1853, there were six senators out of % and
and seven assemblymen out OF 81. In 1851,
there were three out of 80 senators and II
out of 100 assemblymen. In 1859, two
senators and II assemblymen out of 9S.
There were annual sessions for the next II
years. In the first four of these, the pro-
portion of Vermonters in the legislature
was as before, but in 1864 there were five
senators out of 80, in 1865, eight, and in
1866, seven, the proportion of assembly
men remaining about the same. In sue
, ceeding years, the number of VermOnters
gradually decreased, though for some time
remained nearly a tenth of the assembly. 1
A new state, Wisconsin has as yet done
little in art and literature. The promi.
hence of Vermonters in the single field OF
politics is to be explained largely by the
fact that it is in this field that Wisconsin
men in general have distinguished them
selves. However, there remain to add re.
nown TO their native state, the names o.
DR.. James d. Butler, the antiquarian anC
writer; the later Banker Mead of Sheboy
! gan, the philanthropist; President Rufus
l Flagg of Ripon college, and President
! Charles X. Adams of the State university