Excerpt from Third Annual Report and Collections of the State Historical Society, of Wisconsin, for the Year 1856, Vol. 3 Int au'rme to the public the Third Jmmal Report}, and Collections (f the State Historical Society of W isconsin, the Publication Committee would respectfully state, that they have earnestly and assiduously aimed to bring together such a collection of historical, descriptive and statistical papers as would prove useful both for the present and the future. How far their have succeeded iti' this endeavor, they leave for others to judge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.