The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-01-05
Utica in drizzling rain, % miles, an all
days ride.

! Utica in drizzling rain, % miles, an all
days ride.
personal.
s.The getting ready to start and bid
| ding the friends good-by is not so fresh
| in my memory as the combing of my
hair and the tears shed. That partic-
| ular morning Aunt Ann did the job and
| how she did pull. The tears and sobs
were profuse, and she said, when l see
| you again | hope you can comb your hair
yourself At Utica we boarded canal
boat for Buffalo and then took pro-
peller. On it's sides were painted port
holes with cannon moutheS projecting
| was sure it must be pirate boat and
my fears knew no bounds, but mothers
calmness soon quoted my fears. It was
| a new boat and the first trip it had made.
| The next trip it made it was wrecked
We were eleven days going from Buffalo
to Milwaukee. We ran onto rock and
lay twenty-four hours and every one on
board thought we would surely go to the
bottom. Father met us in Milwaukee,
had been there for week waiting for u.s.
He engaged man with team, two horses
| and a lumber wagon, to transport us to
our destination, seventy miles distant
There were ten of us beside the driver
Our seats were chairs and trunks"
The family were at last reunited and
life began again in earnest in the far
west. Many privations. occurred and
much sickness, the chief ailments being
chills and fever, usually denominated
"fever and ague." Sickness was preva-
/ lent throughout the settlement and the
attending physician made his visits
every two days, distance of II miles,
usually on horseback. His remedies
generally were calomel and jallup, fol-
lowed in due season by quinine. When
he got his patients we'll to shaking he
discharged them, as the danger of ''in-
termittant' or ''remittant'' fever was
over even though the shakes might
last for weeks. .
The town of Albion was organized on
Feb. Is, 1916. There is no record as to
the origin or reason for choosing the
name, only that the name should begin
with the first letter of the alphabet that
it might be first in the list of towns.
The first town meeting was held at the
house of Jesse Saunders, Tuesday, the
LIST day of April, 1886 Adm Burdick
was moderator. In 1847 he was elected
assessor, receiving compensation of
S1.OO per day. In 1851 he was appointed
one of the committee to examine the re-
port of the Board of Supervisors and the
LIST day of April was elected chairman of
the Board of Supervisors. For said ser
vices he received $3.50. In 1861 he was
elected town clerk. Previous to the or
ganization eff the town of Albion, Adm
Burdick, by territorial authority, was
appointed justice Of the peace for Gin
| ton precinct He reformed several mat
rimonial rites and several notable civil
cases were tried before him.
JAMES DUANE DOTY.
Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin.
| To All to Whom These Presents Shall
Come: -
Greeting: Know Ye, That whereas it
appears that at an election held on the
Twenty fifth day of September, A. d.
| 1843, Adm Burdick received the highest
number of votes for the Office Of Justice
| eff the Peace in and for the Clinton Pre-
cinct in the County of Dime.
Therefore do hereby commission the
| said Adm Burdick and he is authorized
| and empowered to execute and fulfil the
duties of that office according to law.
To have and to hold the said Office
with all the rights, privileges and emol
| uments thereunto belonging, and as pre-
| scribed by law.
In testimony whereof have hereunto
subscribed my name and caused the
Great Seal of the Territory to be af
fixed.
Done at Madison this second day of Jan
airy in the year of our Lord one thous
and eight hundred and forty-four and
of the Independence of the United
States the sixty eighth.
Signed: I'D. DoTY.
By the Governor:
| Signed: A. P. FIELD,
Secretary of Wisconsin.
In 1843 he was appointed deputy sur
veyor for Dane county by E. M. William
son, district surveyor, and again in 1874
and again in 1915 by his son, Elisha
Burdick, district surveyor for Dane
| county.
| To All Whom it May Concern:
Know Ye, That reposing especial con-
fidence in the integrity and ability of
Adm Burdick, I hereby appoint him a
| Deputy Surveyor in and for the county
OF Dane. To have and to hold the said
Office with all the privileges and emolu-
>ments thereunto belonging until the LIST
day of January, 1915, unless for the time
being [ should see proper, sooner to re-
woke and annul this commission.
Given under my hand and seal at Mad
ison the 26th day of Sept, 1874.
| E. M. WILLIAMSON,
| District Surveyor of Dane Co.,
Wis. Territory.
The territorial road from Milwaukee
to Mineral Point was laid out July 1st,
| 1S45 by George McFaddan and ASahal