military friend, in 1853 was encouraging north Germans 

 to migrate to Wisconsin. They were successful in their 

 missionary work and there was a steady influx of Ger- 

 mans for many years thereafter. One of them, Bernard 

 Leidersdorf, an emigrant from Hanover in 1858, devel- 

 oped in Milwaukee the largest tobacco manufacturing- 

 jobbing business in Wisconsin. 



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antasies and facts 



That was a period in which American folklore was 

 being enriched by tall tales of "Cousin Jack" of the 

 Cornish lead miners and that noted boss bullwhacker of 

 Paul Bunyan's camps, "Brimstone Bill." Wide-eyed new- 

 comers were telling each other of the sea serpents seen 

 in Wisconsin's lakes. 



A fortunate lumberjack of the time made a local hero 



