The Sheboygan Press from Sheboygan, Wisconsin • Page 7

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Where Horace Rnblee Taught. 2. Home of lTHIIaai Ashby Below Mill Where lie Worked r. Hafclec, Sr One cf the Oldest in Comity and -Slill Standio 3 uc -v Mceac- Undoo roTicJ-rr' sirhor-m fltuSr 01 VvISCOHSlH CareSteSt EdltOf One Of leanng her grandmother's home la estant except a few lines retained In the ciated in proportion They were life barn, but tbe house was ttandins- the county, acd Horace taurht fn che tfcoisehf that "whil if? FjiITs sr h'anl fnr tw.t imie year-oia Lmeime naa a memory or nis sister, Mrs. Cole.

There long friend 3 anfl-tspt up a correspon- Mr. Sr. the Pioneers of tlie State Indians as Play piece oi castara pie which she could not is, however, one po-m by Mr. Rublee in to the end. Wildwobd-' Ccmetor haf 'fieeii." a a years, in tae whlcii is stJadias manage to eat but which now at 77 years, manuscript In tho possession of Mrs.

Cole One of the letters written by Hub- Indian asd luryns FFoudd; $'s k-V today which apj-cars in ua.vh'.v tvinc on she remembers she threw away with re- by whose courtesy It is published here- lee to Mr. Cole after the death' of his frequently ploWa- "up Indto'ncevkiacCfi," this pase. gret, not knowing when she- would -Cct with. It' was while Mr. Rubles daughter, and after his return from his error? heads, tnd chlpsi iad t.a 'ae school bovse referred, ove fj mates of the Boy With the Sisters a Teacher in the First Schools.

another. Only a pioneer can understand was minister to Switzerland in his ma- position as minister to Switzerland an. Indian Mr. Rublo-, Jvidid" how her forebodings were realized. turer years.

Th9 cloud-capped i thirty-six years ago, awaken memqries time betweea farming There were no cows or hens in Sheboy- Alps afforded Inspiration that revived the of those prominent in literature and saw mill; but a year before his 'death gan county so the poor housewives had-muse of the youthful pioneer days. The statesmanship a third of a century "ago, in 1844 he i pfe-emptcd to cook without milk or eggs. Fortun- poem gives evidence' of might have 'and of the terrible railroad of that land that is now the Parrish farm'onthe natcly 'for the Rublee children their been" had not stats absorbed i cold winter nigbt- The letter. Is in part Uye road," and 'had commenced clearing father succeeded In importing a cow the his- enercles. Eut towards the caJ of 1S23 hesaa to corns the second and permanent con-t luge at of settlers and Alvah Rublee, a typical Nev Englandsr, vas'amon; the number.

Before the panic The ilouth' as Sheboygan was called was the Ini- the oldest school building ia Vis county. The contract for the carpenter work )as foucd by George Heller aron the papers, of the late Oeorje Cole who was tie life long friend of Horace Rublee. This contract was dated 26, 1345 and Hor-, ace Rublee who was then 1G years cf si feed It as a witness. The other signer were Albert Ronsvil'e had been a young Horace, John J. and A.

Farrow iths step-father Horace) as "Trustees for EHstriet Xo. 2. Cheboygan County. -Wiscoiiti i Territory." William RoLinsoa was to Jo tLe or's for 0, and to receive "a ari In eix months and the remainder hi tae mont.t of January, 1S47 or before." The trusters next year and also obtained a pair of fowl3. 4 -i The canal trip made a lasting im A S'WTSS SUITSET- as Madison, Jan.

13, 3S77- it! is two weeks since returned from east. I spent a week In Washihgtdn and settled up my accounts" I did not formally resign" as I had In- tended. Mr. Fish Eaid that ho-de it, and intended make this his permanent home had ha lived another year. Near the farni of 'Rublee fami'y, how Wildwood cemetery, wtro clsarings on tie "flats" extending to the river thcre the Iiidlp'ns pitched their nts aad tjivir "crh fields.

The prin- sired-me to withholdby resignation cipar-" playmates' of' the Rublee portant center or metropolis of the' pressioa on the little girl of 4. It took county; but later Sheboygan Falls be- a week or more to go by Eric canal from came tie most important and tad the Plattsburg to Buffalo. The canal was caly pcstoEcein the coar.tr with Charles frequently spanned by bridges, some high D. Ccle as postmaster. The mail was enough not to Interfere with passengers, brought from Milwaukee once a week ether so low that passengers -were cither oa foot cr horse back.

caught oa deck had to throw-themselves Such was the situation in Sheboygan down to avoid Injury. When men shouted couatr la 1S40 when Alvah Rublee and "Bridge ahead!" little Emeline would at Ey L. K. Howe. SII2H0TGA.V.

Wis-, Feb. 5. Ttcre iivj frem SLetcjgaa cottnty -oaay wto hare distiactioa la 'Kita 3lz1 nation, but tiseni alt ueea nou(? ao has won a hfh-frjiavi in the esteeai of his ft-'lww ta WUcoaaia tLaa Horace Rublee; m-Lose carlj life ter? srouses Eor fcierrst. nune whose character an! Hi: fibers for tie emulation of am-ttiircs youth- r.2 ifstory of tie Kabl-a famiTy ia to ictsrirovea tviti the hlitory of Scraa city acd county tt4t It is taufh trltlly upoa some of the tasortaat events tltirlas the time te arrival the- family at "Tii and ti- srMatloa as tbey ft '-ail it in UIX lie first isiitc men knowa -to have By Rublee. Tis on the Tak Toune My little boat hanja motionless Ucr the crystal tiopths; The mountains, tttfped ia quiotress, StanJ glorious in t.e rosy light: It fire.

the sumbre crest. warm. wfta urJor strong and bright. The Jungfrau's liioaj snowy were. then ITS ns, ar during tie first year, ter arrival they had" xo whitg 'pjaymatcs, and sew no white chil to rurrisn tne lanaer.

Cole oi dren Charles D. SheJ-oygan and Miss Emeline Uutior George. W1H Jam and JarJi ivins at perhaps a dozen ethers with thfir fam- ce fatten herself out on deck, no mat- Tt.e iuniins levi of thoiV Hies, the work of transforming ter how high the bridge. The boat was a yov.shx ncor; the wilderness Izto productive fields and propelled by horses fastened to the t'oatixuelustrous lfiom shore to shore. were among tic pupils.

of 'Horace this si ho a Having taught the public schools r.ad hsving crhausted ell the means c( sc curing En eJucatioa in his counrr. llcrace Rablej jouraeycl to ladinea where he continued; bis studies and by ropes, so they traveled only as fast a3 the horses could walk. When the ropes r. for the present as he -did not wish. -to make any appointment now and so prefers that no vacancy, be made for, the present.

This, however. Is no ad-V: vantage to me as my salary, has- ceased unless I return to Switzerland; i which I do not intend 'doing. -I met Charles Fairchild and-was Induced by him to go to Boston, where I made a pleasant visit ef a duration. I met some interesting people while I was there'. He had;" Jlowells of the Atlantic at dinner twice; Osgood, the publisher, two'or three times; T.

B. Aldrich and young Iathrop, Hawthorne's son-in-law. I also dined one day at. Howells'--. at Cambridge, and after that we called with hiiu on Longfellow In conse- quence of one of the above mentioned; I dinners I was to prolongs Decame tangiea me canai anvers m- While, crotvnins many a fir stern, Inline dulged in great profanity and the little yhine the erai" crae3 I ke 1 ujj' eventually drifted lntrJ tbe the Ialls.r the-'; -schoar facilities first years after lie arrival of the Rubiees here meagre.i datdris'-at.

hod. Mrs. Cole re-memters" to school at Shebcycatj. but as.1 she'-jvas only four years old when she arrived bcrc'. -she was too young to rcmembcrYery 'clearly of the schools, of these.

V.ouag Horace was 'eleven years' of he landed ii'Sheboy-gan- and. 'second ten year3 of his Iile, vrhich included all that part spent; in-. he acquired the ereatcr Jia'rt Gf early education, not S-cicrar. cousty tvtre Jamts Into the r.cS3 end via the iriatla'r, ti ar.i Looli Jlizt returacl public life where he icictae widely- known. Far up on Alpine pnsfnrcs trrepn.

Vhr-e varnly rti'l the fall. The Jolel of the Senneiln ISlends with the cow-htri's distant call. And tr.any-tlnklins cf klae; And sound of mounnin Eireims is heard. Faint as the eisMns cf the pine Whose leaves by summer winJs are stirred. New England children thought this; strange language must have great efficacy In straightening out the lines.

At Buffalo the party took a steamboat losdcd with New England emigrants and cam to Milwaukee, then a place of about 509 inhabitants. Mr. Rublee mU I pleasant homes. 1 Frara Vermont to Shclioygan. Art account of the journey cf the Rublee family from Vermont to Sheboygan ia I54t) Is almost an exact duplicate of the experiences of vtry many of the pioneers of that time.

For this and much oter Zil- thanis are extended to Mrs. Cole Plymouth. The Mrs. Colo of today was the four-year-old on the canal boat in IS 10 and her name was then Emeline Rublee. She was one of a family group consisting of mother, son, Horace, and daughters Eme- Mrs.

Alvah Rubles. cfterwaris Martha Farrow died ia JSi6 i' yeara and the burial was la the Tails cemcterj-. Horace Rublee was married to Kath- his family, in Milwaukee. They had to on yen low pebbly brr tbat looks so much: frbui. teachers in school rooms erine Hopkins in 1337." Of tbeir "three as'frotrf books 'pr other reading of edu- children tbelaughter Kate died in Swir, Value' erland aged 13 years.

One son. 'William. From out a waste of weeds ami scJse. remain in that city a few days until they could catch a little sailboat that was go ray stay one day, and thus missed he I took A nent the 'schooling of the pioneers it Sjeain jiong Kong, uama, wuera was ing in the Ashtabula disaster. ing to Sheboygan.

The sail boat was j3 tatir diacoTery and descent of tic serosa IlllaoiS- ani thene? aloe; tbe we3tfra slcre cf Lake to Mackinac ii a toit Jr.r- autaan of KTJ. la 17CS Jacuus father-ia-law Solomon Jcccau. WiiHihcl tie first tradias yoat in SIxc- 5s soc'10 rp23Ga belietlas ttat riIS -adrcw Vkaa a sea of Jacques tuilt a hut at th xnoata of tie -Saa river coatinae tho tradin; by h5s father, aad ta -a wi3 ijcra a cixM at about that tixe. t-3t was tie Erst wilt chiU 3 ia the countr. During tills year f23worth- a E-JnUiaa tralcr tviUZzZ here a fw "--s; anl one authuritr s.t the corresponding tram in? next cay jg recorded taat racois, jiiaav me i.uiiiee, ne ana catncrine.

acey were jouraey- blown up ana- uown tae use, so mat and was about our -day in a.coueln of Alvah, taught the first school ew iorK cuy. ine wiuow.is uvmg in The sleen-' in Khplvsah: county in the winter cf I'rinceton, j. Mr. uucicc ineu in ni frnn Hcstori to Chicago v.ere crc- tn'vnn "nvr wrt remrlnfne aged 67 years. The remains buried ia Also an old school niated an- the ashes were A coinpauj" of rooks Itest ir.ute besiJe the water's eOge.

Asninst the glowlr.p western sky Tboune's ancient lowers Anl from its throne of rock lift Mali Its four-square keep and feudal towers. Softly alon the liquid wiy. With measured pl-ish of. dpiptrjr Dep barges heaped with new-mown hay Glide on towards Oberfcofeirs siiores. ir.

Tb r' ndows deepen. upon Th sMnins Klcier and the waKs Of the rfireat Al. ashy nd wan. sudden death-like pallor falls! Above the Kander's piny elen. Amid fair nrcnsrr's, dim and wh'te.

The erumblins walls cf Ktr iPttlinirpn Catch the last gleams of fading light. ing to meet the, father in the forest of nearly a week was spent in making the the then far west, ia the pioneer history voyage of about fifty miles. of which they were to take most prcmi- oaTD. yjrm nent positions. The RubUe family was His Father Saw Hill, among the earliest pioneers; aot mora As tiers was no pier or harbor at Shc- tfcsn a dozen families preceded them as boygaa the passengers from sail boats pioneer settlers.

In Sheboygan county, had to he rowed to shore little scows. Mrs- Cols has lived. longer In the county Arrived at Cheboygan the party spent the than any other person. She has survived night iu a which had been all who came. with her.

and all who were erected for a hotel but as such had been IiTlag here at the time she came. She abandoned and was then occupied by two enjoys fairly good health; has a -ool teielors. nj ii.tr liawa tuo vvuv a KAav uu'a ulv. capsized which was as near to an ad- record bri3gs Ho light the following: In venture as I cared to be." S' 10 the yehr-ot tie arrival of Hie Rub-Alvah Rublee. father of the late Horace' led ehUdfen, the; t68rd of county was bora ia Berkshire.

Xri. Cole c.cr. au-IS03 and was married to Martha Kent J'an etion i 3VTnhi niErrif Kn. 1 in the toivn Madison in the stati in which his work was done and appreciated, and kindly remembered. It is not the purpose of this article fo' trench upon the domain of the historian of Horace Rublee's public The biov- tailed this plate as early as native of Dorset, who was born in TTil raphy of Mr.

Rublee. after iittainhur lent Tfcrff mnrriaire took r-Iace'in 1R24 Of.bneDOyga? Ffl 6 1S01. manhood, has been written In the mem lieceers of Sietoy-aa County. at Berkshire where the. family resided thatlectlonere John Russel -Alwh Rublee SUd alvertoa.

We may until they moved west cssesses the sc ndp -mi Paiae aal CoL Olivrr C. msmory a county. Alvah Rub tee came, to Sheboy: J. htltu. 'a -r asse to SieiDygaa.

th-a called eharaetrrlstics of her brother. Sa- can i gan county In 183S and obtained emploj; 'Bd Next morning th travelers went up Sheoygaa river in the scow, a distance cf twt miles, to the saw mill which Mr. Rublee uJ A. Farrow were running. The mlll- slood near what Is' now known talk i uijo jv There, eenturles ajro.

'tis Mid A knightly poet lived and wrotisbt. With sweet rhyir-cs in Lis FiaJ, And on fair Image in hii thought. mcnt managing the William Farnsworta. ,2 6Cboof in shefcoy- as th Ormsby fflUJ saw later known situated at the Rapids on Hie Sheboygan as "the old Ashley At that time there was not a read nor a bridge In tae Love like Fnnheam through county, merely Indian trails through the Th verse that sang his lady's praise. ory of every newspaper reader in tho state who has lived here any considerable part of the last.

half century. It Is a part of the history of the stato of Wisconsin As an editor he' came to rank with the great men of big day in hi3 profession no journalifct in Wisconsin ever wielded so powerful an influence ia public affairs and An attempt has been rnado to recall only a few of th incidents mede' historic some sixty years ago. and 'associated with his early life and to produce by th aid of the camera a' few scenes taat ni3rk 3 milestones Ihc pn)gre8 civU-izaiioi woods, inere were peruaps eieven eye maryfti ttls wondrous'scene. boygaa county, and of political events of national iaterest of half a century ago. She lives at riymouth with her daughter Miss Jessie Cole.

Miss Cole 13 a graduate cf the University of Wisconsin and ttaches Latin and German la the Plymouth High schaoL Her uncle Horace, her -tier and her aunt Catherine were also teachers ia their youager days. Mfss Cole ia interested in public and' educational affairs and is a suffragist. la Mar. 1315. Martha Kent Rublee with And" raw the suntf Mlern liKht river about two miles west of Sheboygan city.

Mrs. Rublfe.aad her'three children, Horace aged Jlyers. Fmellnc? aged 4 years and Katherine aged 2 years started from Berkshire. -Franklin county; in June 1S40 to join her husband, Alvah Rublee who had come to Sheboygan county the previous yfar. They first resided- in the frame hera; and araio.la book of proceed-Ings v.0 Tad under data of She st of tie parents, between the ases of 4 and ytars 1-uiSchcdl Uistrict in 7 the, town 'county ol Sheboyian." Included" in theTlist of twenty-one pr- ents and patransjis; the "Widow Opposite" in a of rbrty-sixtpupils "are the following: "Horace P.ubiee.'iCatiier'ae Rublee aad Ju'ia Hies in the county, tut there was no store, no physician, lawyer cr clergyman nearer than Milwaukee, and only one family, that of Joshua Brown, residing ia la the account of the journey of the HoN" the Msh peaks with Then fade and die into "-e nig'tt.

ftev-fast eirth and arehtn-r sky! rontour of the hills! rr-ortal ereat -ires, man or fiy. WheUicr oje day of niinmer fills rfK one wfcer; the co-it bcuse no M4 BOta-r at a Rapids." eo tiat time, two miles 'C3t of Shcb- ii. lh.se wtre yiiZ tosses cru'M ucrc. They also tut ia tie ccuuty. aid it a'3 wnlcia Alvah Rublee.

the Karace, coaluttsj-ia ISZ'J th TISi 0 liv Wiiooasln. Ia 32,1 Crwkr brcame dis-'ty'vr-' 31 thcr presU and owt u-n i'arEswoktj. A littls iitir t4i'lSWcrth hvr oac-taU of most of VTih tT river ts Hali- lcaudle? what at 3 Vu.lweocI cattery. Ca SI-" erected" buri-Uao U4fa3 It tie family tLfJ death cf the the saw mm at tne itapias, rear er three children, Horace, tmeune ana pioneers wi uvj s. luintsucg iu nuie Th nit cf our life oner an.

what is dot the Schubert place. After thelatter being the Emeline Catacriae. started from Berkshire. Frank- that the vaaal la now paralleled-by the "if tin rn to join her husband, track tl the Twentieth- Century train, rrtm viniib. ye remain! residing here about a' year the Rubee Rubied a3 the "nam appears "elsewhere.

4 i fc- -f --gg- --'I Bur-- -i --f -j--- a a -11. li Pcracc- "Rublee and the i late George family removed to tne irame nou TU3 nause is. now ine prop- prCji' an were much t'-ethir in erected on iana wnere we kuun. Criy 91 ism-u Cple of Sheboy? is caw locaiea. ics piuiJc.

trjezor rusoyrEn ia pciscn every breiith! rnrW days when Sixoorpaa tans was me was Alvah R-tMce. who. in tae tail or 1S33 naj asa it required a week 10 corae t' la the territory of travel from riattsburg to Buffalo In 1SI0. the. time between New York and Chicago Mrs.

came ia company with two Is now cigbteca hours. other families', cae Qulncy Hall's. Mrs. It is related of Horace Rublee that at "vi i itall being a sister of Alvah Rub- aa early ae when the family. lived cn a is tho po 13 I' tra-tasent Esjiricn'8 Cctsrrh4 It y-miuLt the was cwnea ny wiuiam aiaanunu i at that.

time was ownfr of saw mill, 'used ia Ws- business vrti a goad share cf what Is now the city contracts for 'tie 'con-. inteljectual center" as Mr. Rublee once expressed it. "fvourfsviile 'of Sh4-tovean Falla trd bev'i a tcscbrr of nnd much of the land nc ar EtraijUbx Chicago, Mjiwaaicte naa fh wheeler family, that settled cmall farm thatTs now anirt of Wild- in Fhorcaa and Ruble j.iwo ic by a bl fr'--c sa-rn'. -t J2a'SA'3 lui.u CraLt3 or AiiTect.

ft' fill ir nOnnrt. cow Kenosha. Mr. WbeeTcr wood cemetery he manifested aa Inciina- later tauzht in th? Fells public school. Xo heldi at J.he i i nnlT man ia the party as Mr.

ticrat to become a poet. Very be De'oHtin? societies 1 flrT flff-, tie river between the city and tie rapids. st icl faljrciduepots ia Chicago and Reside the farm house, was a barn which very likely' sheltered the first ep-as al tha death ofrAJv-h chiekena brought to Sheboygan county, itutifee" e- Wow 'married 'c Farrow 1 Etorea In 1 -j Hall has come west at the saou tima as would commence a 'letter' or 'other writ- Falls is' presumable Uiat all tae rmm Berkshire tie party lag Ia prose." but bi-fora manv lines were tbove nsrr.efl men ctteaded. ln UCUI cf 1JJ1 1. a-wido seeD and n' 3 not Two years alter moving 10 ims ao nao ptpn-tcr mji in.

nurlinston. Vt- There tbey written" the llterarr and tendency those times when good reading than- il id, Li J3.TJPS cro5-I IiSe Champlaia ia a little vNamboat' to riattsburg. N. T. They weiia lornyme.

uut 'this Jjuuaing laieuv wouii obtain ana r. 1 hore iB four i 1 ran A -S T1 I fP A 1 III I. 1 1 1 aj -i N. via the Erie was not fc hU parents or creat authors and many ni'L hi 1 iiidi rromji uu aT arc rail, in the cily about fell a prey to the flames. wcstt or ttere ane-rtoeic liUCilOskh-xi rir.se.r Rublee farm house was situated in "childrsa gr? school and a1 R0oks, Adrice and Searches FliES iftio-rlarin2 a-d reached bca Smells, and E.

pkt-t -lay. iEii, out iroa'tce 'forests tte mzIlrsA0ols ia JLSiiiGioji. there no in ths surroundings, asd instead of taking root Rublee and Mr. sjvnt together read- F-ited States cicept a short ce b-iag rn tber realms" of poesr vas diverted to in? som new work which perchance had i. 'Hf jiro t'ao of Ne York, tic lHrlsl writings pubfi- 'affair- And be-) eUancd F-re? P'J-l t'Siiuuisi cl lis "oi lagfe notiiaj j-Aveails'-rhira- tccssi'-isntlr-irsatly arpier ti; i-ct-tl.