An Ojibway tale : Mineral Point, Wis., 1852 / by R.V.D. Smith.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Smith, William Rudolph, 1787-1868

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William Smith was a Pennsylvania lawyer, legislator, major-general in state militia, U.S.Commissioner to the Chippewa Indians of Upper Mississippi; Wisconsin adjutant general, lawmaker, attorney general and president of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. From the description of Poems, 1814-1853. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122474688 Attorney, author and public official of Mineral Point, Wis. From the description of William Rudol...

Smith, Rudolph Van Dyke, d. 1852.

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Son of William Rudolph Smith who emigrated in 1838 with his family from Pennsylvania to Mineral Point, Wis. The elder Smith was U.S. commissioner to the Ojibwa in 1837, a holder of numerous Wisconsin state offices, and author of Observtions on the Wisconsin Territory and Documentary History of Wisconsin (1854). His son, Rudolph, who died at age twenty-six, apparently resided among the Ojibwa and was called Haw-wan-deck by them. From the description of An Ojib...