The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . plore the westerncountry, and seek a location in which to pursue hisprofession. In the spring of 1837 he started for the West, andin June arrived in Chicago by the route of the upperlakes. Chicago was then a very small village andseemed to be located in an extensive marsh, the onlyhigh ground being a few acres on the lake shore,where the old fort was located. He was not pleased with Chicago. In comjjanywith two friends he traveled through Illinois in afarmers wagon by tlie way of Dix
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . plore the westerncountry, and seek a location in which to pursue hisprofession. In the spring of 1837 he started for the West, andin June arrived in Chicago by the route of the upperlakes. Chicago was then a very small village andseemed to be located in an extensive marsh, the onlyhigh ground being a few acres on the lake shore,where the old fort was located. He was not pleased with Chicago. In comjjanywith two friends he traveled through Illinois in afarmers wagon by tlie way of Dixons ferry, campingout as occasion required, and arrived at the Missis-sippi, near the mouth of Rock river. He visitedBurlington and Dubuque, now in the State of Iowa,and also the mineral region in western Wisconsin,and endeavored to find some conveyance east throughWisconsin to Milwaukee, but was unable to do so,and was obliged to return by way of Galena to Chi-cago, and from there by a steamer to first settlement in Milwaukee of any importancewas made the year before. The situation and pros-.
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