Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-01-14
MADISON COUPLE
TELL OF GOVERNOR
Professor and Mrs. E. G.
WisWa1l Tell of Past
Experiences.

None had a keener interest in the in
auguration of Emanuel L. Philip at
Madison than Professor and Mrs. E.
c. Wiswall of that city says the Mad
son Democrat. Both were intimately
connected with him in his younger
days, Mr.. Wiswall as principal of the
Sank City schools and later as county
superintendent of schools of Sank Coun-
ty, and Mrs. Wiswall as one of the
earliest school teachers of the new gov
ernor.
In 1877-78 in the "little red sschool,
house" in the Otter Creek district
viii n Is about three miles west of
Sank City, Miss Ella A. Taylor, now
Mrs. Wiswall was engaged by the
school board to teach the younger gen
Grafton the three RS, 'readin' 'ritin'
'rithmetic. In those days country
school did not begin in the autumn I'm
! til corn husking Was over, which was
usually about the first of November.
At the opening of the fall term Of this
particular year boy of about Is years,
short and slender, swarthy of complex
on with luminous black eyes and hair
of the color of the raven, presented
himself to the teacher and for the sue
ceeding five months was an earnest,
conscientious pupil. This boy was
Emanuel l.. Philip.
A Comfortable PApiI.
II have taught many schools and
had many pnpils, but never had one
who was better than 'Nalle" Philip,
as he was called in that neighborhood, "
said Mrs. Wiswall. "His people were
poor, most people in the country
were then-and there was
much hard work for him to do at
home, but he always was prepared
with his lessons. He had remarka-
BILE mind and when told fact would
always remember it. Every teacher
who taught in that district in those
days always said wasn't Male"
Philip, the greatest comfort.
'One day at recess, Ulrich F. Won
Wald, now a Madison merchant, while
engaged in play with some of the lar
ger boys, had his leg broken. Young
Philip Immediately picked up the
crippled lad and carried him into the
schoolhouse, and then trudged across
the prairie through the deepest sort
of snowdrift for the distance of more
than mile to bring Mr.. Won Valid
back with a conveyance to carry his
son home.
In 1873 Mr.. and Mrs. Wiswall were
married and the following year they
moved to Sank City where Mr.. Wis
wall became principal Of the local
schools. That fall the COVER
nor enrolled as one of the pupils in the
high school and continued as such for
a year.
''Mr. Philip used to walk in from
the farm home three miles out in the
country and at the close
of the school day trudged home
again in all sorts of weather and over
all kinds of roads," said Mr.. Wiswall.
In the high school work he main
tanned the excellent reputation that he
established for himself in the grades
for scholarship of very high degree.
His people were poor and he had to
struggle to obtain an education and he
believed in making the most of his
opportunities. placed my 0. K. upon
Emanuel L. Philipp some thirty
years before the people of Wisconsin
did, for as superintendent of schools of
Sank County had such faith and con-
fdence in his ability that l issued to
him a certifcat. which authorized him
to teach in the schools of that county,"