teacher, newspaperman, politician, b. Verona, N.Y. In 1882, under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal missionary society, he moved to Green Bay with a group of Oneida Indians to establish a colony and school. He was involved in this venture until 1828, and from 1828 to 1833 served as deputy surveyor of government lands. In 1833, in partnership with John V. Suydam (q.v.), he published the first newspaper west of Lake Michigan, the Green Bay Intelligencer; he published the paper alone (1834-1835) and with C. P. Arndt (1835-1836). A Democrat, he served in the territorial lower house (1836, 1841-1844), and was surveyor general of the Wisconsin and Iowa district (1837-1841). In 1852 he moved to Stevens Point where he was receiver of the land office (1853-1862) and also published the Wisconsin Pinery (1853-1859). He was mayor of Stevens Point for many years, edited the Stevens Point Wisconsin Eagle (1874-1885), and wrote numerous biographical and historical essays on Wisconsin history. Coils. State Hist. Soc. Wis., 7 (1876); Columbian Biog. Dict. . . . Wis. (Chicago, 1895); Hist. of Portage Co. (2 vols., Chicago, 1919); Stevens Point Wis. Pinery, Dec. 24, 1885; D. E. Oehlerts, comp., Guide to Wis. Newspapers (Madison, 1958); WPA MS.

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