Historical Essay

Philetus C. Hale

Milwaukee book seller and publisher; published Increase Lapham's first map of Wisconsin; partner of Silas Chapman; introduced Chapman to the publishing profession (Chapman eventually excelled); left that business and was involved in insurance and Merchant's Transportation Co, although evidently never very successfull; born Westfield, MA October 5, 1816, died in Milwaukee on May 28, 1887; evidently married twice; trustee of Presbyterian Church along side a young Alexander Mitchell.

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[Source: Wisconsin Magazine of History, Jun 1946, pp. 402-406; William Fiske Brown, The First Fifty Years of the First Presbyterian Church and Congregation of Beloit Wisconsin.... Together With A History of Presbyterianism In Our State Up To the Year 1900, (Chicago: Marsh Grant&co., 1900), p. 254; James S. Buck, Pioneer history of Milwaukee (Milwaukee News, 1876), pp. 121-123; Benjamin W. Dwight, The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass., Vol. I, (Albany: Joel Munsell, 1871), p. 349; second marriage certificate http://content.mpl.org/u?/MCMC,13349.]