Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-08-15
Into Historic
Wisconsin
PART II

On reaching the evening of life
many are puzzled to know how to
spend the time. Mr. and Mrs. b. A.
Leonard of DePere have solved t1le
problem. Both are interested in
genealogy and have spent many
hours, days, weeks, months and years
in this interesting and valuable field.
Both are deeply interested in the
same subject, not always the case
with husband and w5feS In their
a great genealogical library, the larg
est north of Madison and probably
the second in size in the state. Great
cases are filled with their treasures,
covering many branches of the ex-
tensive family tree. Mr.. Leonard has
built an addition to their residence
that he may have place in which to
WOrk-nOt for gain but for the love
of doing what he likes to do. Mrs.
Leonard labored for thirty years on
her family tree and has brought out
an elaborate volume containing al
most 500 pages. She is descendant
of Richard Newto1&e and when the
whole history was gotten together it
made wonderful and interesting
family record. The members are scat
tered far and wide, in many walks of
life but the author has searched them
out and recorded them in the volume.
Mr.. Leonard has collected much about
his family and no doubt some day will
bring forth a volume in order to pre-
serve the record. If he surpasses his
wife in the undertaking it will be
necessary to get up exceedingly early
in the morning. Instead Of wasting
valuable years, how refreshing it is
to find those who are working along
some likeable line, just for the pleas
ure of doing the thing that one finds
delight in doing
Near DePere on the left bank of the
Fox river, stands the house which
was the home of Rev. Eleazar Gee
kieD Williams, and early Wisconsin
Indian missionary. He is sometimes
known as LaZare, the lost dauphin OF
France. When the king and queen
were killed their son was likewise to
meet the same fate. The story goes
the son was spirited away and anoth-
er child took his place, the missing
heir to the throne being brought to
America. Williams assumed that he
was the lost heir but there is little to
give credence to the story The old
home commands the Fox, which is
here pretentiOus stream. The home
is now occupied by an Indian, Mrs.
Josephine Philips, her daughter,
Mrs. Mary Schultz, husband of the
latter, and two children-a son and
daughter. Mrs. Philips was reared
by Mrs. Williams and recalls seeing
the Dolphin. Hundreds and thousands
has been written about the romantic
character. During our visit Mrs.
Philips longingly looked at the great
green and golden fields across the
river and remarked that she would
love to journey over there. Although
she was sixty4three and had lived
there all her life, yet she had never
had the pleasure of journeying over
the stream and along the highways
which had been a changing picture for
her through three score years.
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Neenah and Menasha, at the foot
of Lake Winnebago are almost as
rich ia things historic as the Green
Bay region. Here on Doty island
lived Glory of the Morning, the most
famous of the Winnebago queens.
Here, too, lived Four Legs and others
whose names frequently occur in
early Wisconsin narratives. A few
Indian mounds are on or near the vii
lage sites but many of them have
been destroyed. Only recently dirt