second son of Oshkosh; he led the successful effort in the 1870's and 1880's to save forests on the Menominee reservation from being clear-cut by lumber companies.

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[Source: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998); Menominee tribal Web site at http://www.menominee.nsn.us.]