Around Burlington: Jeremiah Smith couldn t catch a break
Bob Hansen
for The Hawk Eye
It seems Burlington’s Jeremiah Smith should have learned his lesson the first time around. He should have learned that financial dealings with the government were a slippery slope leading to financial ruin.
But he didn’t, and as a result, Burlington became the first Territorial capital of Wisconsin.
In the 1830s, thanks to creative map making and political chicanery, Iowa was lumped into the Wisconsin territory, and by 1836 nearly half of the population of that sprawling expanse of lakes, woods and prairie lived in Burlington and Dubuque
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