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Soldiers' and Citizens' Album of Biographical Record

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History of Wisconsin - Vol. II - Alice Smith (The First 305,000)

"The mass migration was encouraged by improvement of transportation services and opening of government lands lying north of the Ohio Valley pathway. In the 1830's and 1840's the nation's land and water routes were crowded with immigrants heading for the New West. By clipper ship, steamboat, railboard, on horseback, in wagon, they came: via new Orleans and the Mississippi, by the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; up the Kellogg Trail from southern Illinois or along the Cumberland Road and other overland routes through Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; across the Chicago Wagon Trail from Detroit to Chicago; up the Hudson River from New York, through the Erie Canal; up the St. Lawrence, through the Welland Canal and on through the Great Lakes to the western ports of Lake Michigan. From landing points on these routes the immigrants dispersed through southern Wisconsin." The routes immigrants used in reaching Wisconsin are well portrayed by maps in Mary Josephine Read, "A Population Study of the Driftless Hill Land During the Pioneer Period. 1832-1860" (doctoral dissertation, Univ. of Wi, 1941)

"Someone shall know his name" - "Jemand kennt sein Namens"

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