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Ceylon Childs Lincoln came to Wisconsin with his family as a boy. After serving in the Union army, Lincoln returned to Wisconsin and became a printer. In this piece, Lincoln describes his first rafting trip down the Wisconsin River in 1868, a portion of a larger work on logging in northern Wisconsin.Citation
Lincoln, Ceylon Childs. Personal experiences of a Wisconsin River raftsman. (Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1911). Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at its ... annual meeting ; 58th (1910), p. 181-189;