Show i i i tut tnt T nt i it ui me tiie uthe wi wisconsin bonson djs IF ii eries erles 1 ho lord id francis byron died at 9 0 c I 1 0 bk thi this moi mol morning ning af after teran an iu ill ness of only three days in the sear year year jear of his age he ho was the first lumber operator in the wisconsin river rive r and for oyer over fifty years his name hasteen has baa been familiar in every town and village on the wisconsin and mississippi rivers from orleans up zip to the last log shanty in the northern pi pin eries nelles A french nobleman by birth at the age of twenty ion pon jon on account of a love altair and family quarrel he emigrated to the far on OD the batka baika of the mississippi is at galena and arid a year or two later corm corn fenced exploring the streams farther up in bearch search of alne lands he easery was very successful lui jul athis this and a few years later lie made a canoe trip up the wisconsin as fkr far fir as the present site of grand rapid rapids and located a large jared tract of land and here elected erected the first mill eveh ever overbuilt built bulit on the wisconsin river hauling ai all his provisions and machinery oh bif ox teams from galena through ah unbroken wilderness of ot over 00 miles after float floating nt d wa two or three fleets of lumber u and lidde demonstrating L c n that there was moneet mone money pt to i be made in the business he bulle boats and loading wading them thein with pio provisions e hired men enough to draw them up with ropes from near galena to grand rapids over delis dells rocks and ed eddles eddies d les lea the delli dells at kiib Kilb kilbourne dume were his only terr orand rand the struggles which the toting voting lord had bad in these waters would have appalled a less r resolute spirit but hy he wais was determined to win AVIi when iiii was fully ass assured urea and nd he ho bewab begam began begab to reap the reward rdward of his bis early troubles his fam ily lly biad bp with him and g gave ve him ah ala immense tract of land iii id canada canadate Can adato va which he refused t to 0 m move ovey prefer ring his home in I 1 the pin erles eries he owned at time othis of his death over three wree hundred bundred million feet or oft I 1 pine pinea saw milis and real estate toa large extent und his p property r p 14 can canada a da the 1 dinati man had in in hi him m a friend and the 06 a host and the talk taik of his hl 4 kind rind deeds would fill 1111 a voi volume vol urno urao ebi cht Chi chicado cago capo time sept 28 j I 1 |