eldest son of Glory of the Morning, he was influential during the War of 1812 and and helped to arrange the Treaty of 1816; quoted at length in the January 1828 letter of Joseph Street given at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/).

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[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960).]