Memoirs of Milwaukee County, Volume 1

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Jerome A. Watrous. Memoirs of Milwaukee County, Volume 1

CONTENTS:

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1. NATURAL FEATURES

CHAPTER II. INDIANS

CHAPTER III. PRE-TERRITORIAL ERA

CHAPTER IV. ORGANIZATION

CHAPTER V. TERRITORIAL ERA

CHAPTER VI. TERRITORIAL ERA— (Continued.)

CHAPTER VII. COUNTY ROADS, BUILDINGS, FINANCES, ETC

CHAPTER VIII. POLITICS AND OFFICIAL HONORS

CHAPTER IX. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND STATE SENATORS

CHAPTER X. ASSEMBLYMEN AND COUNTY OFFICIALS

CHAPTER XI. TOWNSHIP HISTORY

CHAPTER XII. MILWAUKEE CITY

CHAPTER XIII. CHURCH HISTORY

CHAPTER XIV. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER XV. LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM

CHAPTER XVI. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

CHAPTER XVII. BENCH AND BAR

CHAPTER XVIII. FINANCE AND INDUSTRIES

CHAPTER XIX. MILITARY HISTORY

CHAPTER XX. THE POLES IN MILWAUKEE

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Memoirs of Milwaukee County

Volume 1

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The Act of Congress providing for the organization of the Territory of Wisconsin was passed on April 20, 1836, and went into effect on July 4 of the same year; and Henry Doge, of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, was appointed by President Jackson as the first governor of the new territory. On July 4 the governor took the prescribed oath of office, which event contributed a novel and interesting element to a grand celebration of the national jubilee. It will be recalled, as mentioned on a previous page, that the offices of probate judge and sheriff of Milwaukee county had become vacant, either through the abdication of the gentlemen whom Governor Mason had appointed to such incumbency or from some other cause, and it became one of the earliest duties of Governor Dodge to fill these vacancies. Accordingly, at a mass-meeting called at the suggestion of the governor to nominate persons for the offices required to be filled by him, Nathaniel F. Hyer was named as probate judge and Henry M. Hubbard as sheriff. Those gentlemen were commissioned on Aug. 2, 1836, and about the same time Governor Dodge appointed the following additional officers: Justices of the Peace, D. Wells, Jr., John A. Messenger, S. W. Dunbar, Barzillai Douglass, and Elisha Smith; Auctioneers, William Fusky and C. D. Fitch; Notaries, William N. Gardner, Cyrus Hawley, and George Reed; District Surveyor, Joshua Hathaway.

The last-named gentleman came to Milwaukee from Rome, N. Y., in 1835, and at once assumed a high rank in the young city. He was by profession a civil engineer and as such surveyed a part of the territory now comprised within the limits of Wisconsin, more particularly the southern portion, during 1833 and 1834, making his headquarters at Chicago. On his arrival at Milwaukee he at once pitched his tent upon the lot so long occupied as his homestead, at the southeast corner of Broadway and Mason streets, and in the spring of 1836 he built a commodious dwelling, in which he commenced his wedded life and where his earthly career was ended. His fellow citizens were not slow to appreciate his sterling business qualities, as is evidenced by the fact stated above, upon the organization of the territorial government he was honored with the appointment as district surveyor, a position of great responsibility in the embryo state. His commission was dated July 8, 1836. He also held the office of public administrator for Milwaukee county in 1838, a post of great responsibility, being the same as judge of probate under the present system, and he also filled this position with honor to himself and satisfaction to the public. He entered at once largely into speculation, both in Milwaukee and other lake towns, particularly Kewaunee, and few are the names that appear in the early records with more frequency than Joshua Hathaway 's. In 1854 he was elected Commissioner of Surveys for the first ward of the city of Milwaukee. Mr. Hathaway died July 4, 1863.

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