WI BIO - Bayfield Co - WHITTLESEY, L. M., Mrs.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 84

Mrs. L. M. [nee HASKELL] WHITTLESEY, relict [widow] of Hon. A. WHITTLESEY, 
who was born in Ohio, is a native of Massachusetts. They [A. and L. M. 
WHITTLESEY] were married in Peoria [Peoria County], Illinois, and came to La 
Pointe* in 1854, and from there went to Ashland [since 1860 in Ashland 
County, Wisconsin], and helped lay out the village, living there until 1861, 
when he was appointed to the land office and moved to Bayfield [Bayfield 
County, Wisconsin], where they lived up to the time of his [A. WHITTLESEY's] 
death, which occurred in December 1880.

[A. WHITTLESEY was the second Indian Agent in Bayfield. The U. S. Indian 
Agency was moved to Bayfield in May 1860, and Mr. WHITTLESEY died in December 
1880, thus his incumbency as Indian Agent would fall somewhere between May 
1860 and December 1880.] He had always endeavored to develop the resources 
of his adopted home, in which he recognized the capacity for a great and rich 
future. He held at one time a place in the Legislature of the State, 
traveling to Madison [Dane County, Wisconsin] on snow shoes. There is now in 
the capital a picture illustrating this incident. He [A. WHITTLESEY] was 
[the second] Indian Agent and Port Collector. When A. WHITTLESEY died he 
left a widow and one daughter. There were two children: Delia E., now Mrs. 
GREEN; and Jennie, deceased.

Mrs. WHITTLESEY's mother, Harriette M., and her father, J. P. T. HASKELL, 
moved to Ashland [Ashland County, Wisconsin] in 1855. The latter [Mr. J. P. 
T. HASKELL] died in 1875, but the mother [Mrs. Harriette M. HASKELL] is 
living in Chicago [Cook County, Illinois] at the advanced age of seventy-two. 
Mrs. [L. M.] WHITTLESEY now lives on the property left her by her husband in 
Bayfield [Bayfield County, Wisconsin].

[* The community of LaPointe was part of unorganized territory in Wisconsin 
until 1860, when Ashland County was created. LaPointe is located on Madeline 
Island (Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior), and was once the capital of the 
of the Chippewa Nation. "LaPointe" was also formerly the name of a county in 
Wisconsin. LaPointe County included the present counties of Douglas, 
Ashland, and Bayfield. Bayfield County, created in 1845, was called LaPointe 
County until its name was changed to Bayfield in 1866.]

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