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Papers Read at SCHS Meetings
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The Baraboo Collegiate Institute under Edward and Marion Hobart
By Eldridge D. Jackson, Minneapolis
1905 first entry
The Indians of Sauk County
Written by Verne S. Pease. Published in the Baraboo Daily News and the Baraboo Weekly News.
Read March 17, 1906.
Baraboo in 1850: Personal Reminiscences
Duplicate of previous article of January 20, 1907 by Mrs. G.C. Remington.
Old Time Doctors
Written by Dr. B.F. Mills and read by City Engineer H.E. French before the Sauk County Historical Society at the annual meeting November 2, 1907
Dr. Noyes Writes of Early Days
Baraboo, Wis., Wednesday, December 18, 1907
Mason City, Iowa
The Hop Days in Sauk County
By Hon. John M. True
Paper Read Before the Sauk County Historical Society
January 25, 1908
“Early Days in Baraboo”
Letter Written by Dr. A.A. Noyes.
Published February 12, 1908
Early Days in Greenfield
Paper Read Before the Sauk County Historical Society
February 17, 1908
Some Exploded Theories…of Devil’s Lake
By City Engineer H. E. French
Read Before the Sauk County Historical Society,
February 17, 1908
“Paper on Baraboo Fifty Years Ago and More”
Early Recollections by Eliza S. Chapman of this City—Several Pioneer Characters Described.
May 11, 1908
Early School Incidents
Paper Read at Sauk County Historical Society by Charles Wing.
July 30, 1908
“Business Firms of Old Newport”
Account Written by Dr. Ambrose Jones of Delton and Read Before the Sauk County Historical Society
April 1, 1909
Baraboo a Good Place in Which to Live
The City Lies in a Beautiful Valley, Surrounded With Gorgeous Hills and Has Fine Water”
June 4, 1909
Col. S.V.R. Ableman
November 29, 1909
by Mrs. Eva Lloyd Alexander,
November 29, 1909.
The First Permanent Resident in Baraboo
by H.E. Cole
November 29, 1909
Early Industries in Sauk County
Paper Read Before the Sauk County Historical Society
Feb. 28, 1910
by Mrs. L.H. Palmer
Our People of the Fifties
Picture of Baraboo as a Village in the Decade before the Civil War”
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by Mrs. T.W. English
July 27, 1911
Baraboo before the Civil War
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by Mrs. T.W. English
“Baraboo News”, Aug. 3, 1911.
Making Maple Sugar on the Banks of Honey Cree
By John Rooney, Arbor Cottage, Baraboo, WI
Read Nov. 27, 1911
Baraboo Fire Forty Years Ago: Incident of the Days When ‘Shanghi’ Chandler Was a Resident Here.”
By Peter Richards. Lodi, Wisconsin.
“Baraboo News”, Dec. 21, 1911.
Baraboo as City is Thirty Years Old Today
The News– April 4, 1912
Pioneer Journey to Baraboo
April 18, 1912.
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by Attorney R.T. Warner, Everett, WA
An Early Journey Through Sauk County
I.A. Lapham Describes What He Saw in the Fall of 1849 at the Dells, Lyons,
Devils Lake and Sauk Prairie.
June 11,1912
“The Ferry House”
by John D. Jones
Jan. 31, 1913
The Ghoul of Parfrey's Gorge
Read Feb. 13, 1914
My Boyhood Days In Baraboo
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by W.W. Warner, Madison, Wis.
July 17, 1913
Merriment Goes Around
Old Letter Is Read and Unusual Stories Are Told by Those Present
March, 1914
“Hauling Grain from Baraboo to Milwaukee”
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by H.H. Flynt, Ewing, Nebraska.
May 14, 1914
The Sawmill at Merrimac 1857 to 1861
April 13, 1915
The Ringling Brothers, Showmen
Baraboo Paper, 1915.
Author Unknown
The Germans in Colonial Times
by Hon. Emil Baensch
Oct. 22, 1915
How Baraboo Streets Received Their Names
Written by City Engineer H. E. French for the Sauk County Historical Society Aug. 16, 1917
Further Reminiscences of Ableman, and a Sequel
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society
by Mrs. Eva Slye Alexander, April 2, 1918
Pioneer Occupations
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society
by N. G. Abbott, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, April 4, 1918
“War Work of Wisconsin Women in the Civil War”
Paper read before the Sauk County Historical Society at the spring picnic, 1919.
Author Mrs. L.H. Palmer
“John M. True”
Read by R.B. Griggs at the home of Mrs. Frank Avery at a meeting of the
Sauk County Historical Society, March 15, 1921
“Ah-ho-cho-ka (Blue Wing)”
February 13, 1922
Recollections of the Indian Days
Written by M.H. Mould for the Sauk County Historical Society.
The Old State or Military Road
By William Toole, Sr.
Published, Feb. 15, 1923
The Charter House, Ableman, Wisconsin
September 25, 1924
By Mrs. Eva Alexander
Prescott Brigham
by Grace Premo
Read before the Sauk County Historical Society, April 9, 1923
Early Surveys Made in Sauk County and Some Incidents Connected with Field Work
By H.E. French, City Engineer
June 16, 1928
Some Sauk County Teachers I Have Known
A Paper Read before the Meeting of the Sauk County Historical Society
by James A. Stone, December 19, 1935
Some of the Early History of Glenville
By Harry Slye
1937