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only lady in the young settlement. Mr. Follet shortly bought
some more land near the mill and erected a frame house on it;
this was the first frame house in the county and also served
as a hotel.

In the summer of 1836 the small settlement grew some-

| what; Mr. Karl D. Cole arrived and settled in the region of |

_ the present city of Sheboygan. Mr. Farnsworth was extremely

active for his small colony; he prevailed upon Mr. A.G. Dye
to come here from Chicago and open a warehouse. Within a
short time he arrived with his family and several carpenters
who were to help him with his work. Their journey was a
roundabout one, for instead of landing in Sheboygan harbor,
they came to Green Bay, and it was only from there that they
reached their destination. In the fall of the same year
another settler, Mr. William Ashby, arrived. He had come
from Green Bay and had made the journey on foot. The three
brothers Johann, Jakob, and Benjamin Gibbs, who arrived here
from Milwaukee in December, had preferred to travel by land
rather than by water, but they made only slow progress by

this route; they had to fight their way through with ax in

hand, and their journey of about 50 miles took eight days.

They founded a settlement on the site of the present town of

Lima.
The winter of 1836-1837 was a difficult one for the.
young colony, for provisions were in short supply, and in the

end they found themselves obliged to get some from Milwaukee;