AND LUTHER PARKER BY GRANT SHOWERMAN, PH.D. Professor in the University of Wisconsin CONCORD, N. H. 1915 OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME ELEVEN EDITED BY OTIS GRANT HAMMOND, M. A. Superintendent of the Society CONCORD, N. H. NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY The greater number of the settlers who occupied the lands of southeastern Wisconsin during the years immediately preceding the sale of 1839 were of New York and New England origin. The biography of one of them, Luther Parker, may lay claim to a special interest as illustrating the conditions of pioneer life, not only in Wisconsin but also in New Hampshire, where, before his migration to the West and participation in the building of the new commonwealth, he was actively concerned in one of the most interesting experiments in the history of American democracy, as well as in a border trouble which at one time threatened to result in complications between the United States and Great Britain. |