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I arrived at Cassville,
Grant Co., Wisconsin on July 1st 1836 and Grant Co. has been my
home ever since. The village consisted of five log houses, one of
them being built for the protection of the few white settlers during
the Black
Hawk War which was in 1832. There was at the time quite a
settlement of Winnebago Indians
in the village. I was employed in Albany, N.Y. to come on to
Cassville to help build the hotel now known as the Dennison House.
About this time speculators began to arrive and the New York company
started the sale of lots to parties who desired to build and in a
little while we had quite a village. At that time there was scarcely
any farming, the population being made up mostly of miners without
families. Among the newcommers were some hard characters and we had
no civil law to control them, they all went around with pistol and
bowie knife to intimidate each other.
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