Note to self: Not sure if this is really worthy of a full Wikipedia article, but I do want to gather a few references that I found because I submitted his name to the Dictionary of Wisconsin History.
Philetus C. Hale was a Milwaukee book seller who breifly operated a bindery, and in partnership with Silas Chapman produced the earliest books of Increase Lapham, which were influential in the commercial, agricultural and industrial development of Wisconsin as it transitioned from a territory to a state, as well as in the rapid growth years which followed. He was born in Westfield, MA on blah blah blah
Hale was a descendant of Nathan Hale. Fact check!!
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The following is data for a submission I did to the Dictionary of Wisconsin History. Use these references for the above.
Term: Philetus C. Hale
Definition: Milwaukee book seller and publisher; published Increase Lapham's first map of Wisconsin; partner of Silas Chapman; introduced Chapman to the publishing profession (Chapman eventually excelled); left that business and was involved in insurance and Merchant's Transportation Co, although evidently never very successfull; born Westfield, MA October 5, 1816, died in Milwaukee on May 28, 1887; evidently married twice; trustee of Presbyterian Church along side a young Alexander Mitchell.
Source: Wisconsin Magazine of History, Jun 1946, pp. 402-406; William Fiske Brown, The First Fifty Years of the First Presbyterian Church and Congregation of Beloit Wisconsin.... Together With A History of Presbyterianism In Our State Up To the Year 1900, (Chicago: Marsh Grant & co., 1900), p. 254; James S. Buck, Pioneer history of Milwaukee (Milwaukee News, 1876), pp. 121-123; Benjamin W. Dwight, The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass., Vol. I, (Albany: Joel Munsell, 1871), p. 349; second marriage certificate [1].