proved great additions to Green Bay society. As has already been indicated, he was the most energetic business man here. He brought to this locality carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, painters, farmers, etc. All these he had in his employ, so varied were his interests.

The house now occupied by Madame Whitney on Main street, Mr. Whitney built as a farm house. It was in the woods, and from the river side we could see the smoke curling through the trees. It was a double house, and Antoine Allard, a married farmer, was placed in one half of it. The Allards boarded some of the mechanics who had no families. On East River (then called Devil or Manitou), just north of D. W. Britton's landing, Whitney had a potash house, in charge of which he placed a man by the name of Clafland.

From his earliest acquaintance with the locality of Green Bay and its surroundings, Whitney entertained the most unbounded confidence in its capabilities to become the most important commercial town in the State. Acting in accordance with this faith, he, as early as possible, secured the land where the city now stands, and in 1828 or 1829 he laid out the town of Navarino, since incorporated as Green Bay, and began the building of a city. In 1830 he had completed a wharf and a spacious warehouse. Where the Beaumont House now stands, he erected the Washington House. This he occupied as a private residence for a few years. He also built a school house, and several dwelling houses for his mechanics and laborers. From 1830 to 1840 he continued to build stores and dwelling houses. In 1831 he moved his store to Navarino. It was located on the southeast corner of Washington and Main streets. Later, he with his family took possession of the house on Main street, where he died and where the family have ever since resided.

At this time houses were very scarce, and Mr. Perry rented one-half of the farm house, where he remained for

1 Mrs. Whitney died in 1890; the old house was demolished in 1898.- ED. 2 Historic Green Bay, p. 237, says 1830.- Ed.

a short time. He was sutler at the fort at the time the troops were removed. He remained here some time after the departure of the latter. He was the father of Clitz and James Perry, both of whom are now living at Fond du Lac.

In the winter of 1828-29, Alexander Grignon entered Mr. Baird's office with the purpose of reading law. The next spring he abandoned his studies in this line, saying "He was not born to be a lawyer." We were sorry to part with him. He was a fine young man, but one who had no self assumption, or he would have remained and been admitted to the bar. Here let me quote Sam Ryan, of the Appleton Crescent, who in an obituary on Mr. Grignon wrote: "He will be remembered as a genial and courteous gentleman. He was possessed with a fund of anecdote and adventure connected with frontier life and early history, and was always a pleasant companion and sincere friend." The tribute quoted was expressive of my own feelings upon the announcement of his death in 1882.

Gen. Albert G. Ellis' came to Green Bay in 1822. In 1825 he went East, and returned soon after with a bride. She was a lovely woman, warm-hearted, refined, and intelligent; she had, in addition to these qualities, force of character that inspired respect. The Ellises lived in a small log house, south of the surgeon's quarters, outside of the fort, where Ellis had a school for the children of the fort, and others who could reach him. At this home, Judge E. H. Ellis and his brother, Fred S. Ellis, were born. In 1837, Ellis was appointed by President Van Buren as surveyor-general of Wisconsin and Iowa. At the close of the year 1833, the Green Bay Intelligencer, the pioneer newspaper of Wisconsin, was started by Ellis and J. V. Suydam.

In the spring of 1829, Ellis moved his family to the residence vacated by Major Brevoort, the Indian agent, who was removed to another place.

In the summer of 1827, Rev. Richard F. Cadle, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and his sister, Miss Sarah B. Cadle, came to Green Bay, to establish the mission for

1 See Wis. Hist. Colls., ii, p. 424, for biographical sketch.—ED.

the Menomonee children, at Menomoneeville, now Allouez.1 What a God-send it was, to the people of this place! Would I could describe this sainted man. He was a great scholar, perfectly devoted to the church, a man of large heart, and most unselfish. His every thought was to promote the cause to which all his energies were directed, and he went about doing good as opportunity presented. He was an entertaining person, and a witty man, yet notably timid. Cadle and his most estimable sister, Miss Sarah Cadle, went to board at the Ellises, where they remained all winter. Here I will quote Ellis's estimate of Cadle: "I have had acquaintance with many of the clergy; for faithful, conscientious discharge of every duty, for untiring labor, for sweetness of temper, and all the graces that mark the gentleman and the true Christian, I have never yet found the superior of the Rev. Richard F. Cadle."

Mr. Cadle, after three years of hard labor, fatigue, and anxiety, found his health failing him, and he had to ask for

a successor.

But to return to Mr. Cadle's school. As the Mission House was not yet built, he obtained a small building at Camp Smith (the same in which the first court was held in Green Bay in 1824). Though small, the building sufficed for the commencement. Notice was given in November of the opening of this school; for some weeks it numbered just one scholar. Mr. Cadle admonished us not to "despise the day of small things." The school gradually increased in numbers, and soon the room was not large enough to accommodate all who came.

In 1830, George McWilliams came from Ohio to Green Bay, and the same season he and Edwin Hart built the Mission House. The building of this house was a great event for Green Bay, it being the second frame building erected in the state. This new building was soon filled with chil

1 A detailed account of the Cadle mission, with documentary material, will be found in Wis. Hist. Colls., xiv, pp. 394-515; a synopsis of its career is given on p. 411, note 2.- ED.

'See Wis. Hist. Colls., xiv, p. 476, for contemporary engraving of the mission buildings.- ED.