Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. We have been much gratified at the cordiality with which our citizens have entered into the enterprise, and take this Opportunity of offering them our grateful acknowledgments, and especially to the writers of the different chapters, for their kind and unselfish interest in collecting the many facts and pleasing incidents there in related. Such men are, as a rule, the bone and sinew of a com munity, and never weary in well doing. We are also indebted to the following gentlemen, who have made it a matter of interest and labor to 2said us 111 oui undertalfl'ng: Hon. Simeon Mills, Win.