In response to Bob and Roblee's in Wisconsin, Horace Rublee was the editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel or Milwaukee Journal. Not sure, but can find out. I have a cousin who has him closer to her than to me on the tree. My gr grandmother was Jerusha Rublee Monroe wife of Jason Monroe. They are buried in Lamartine, Fond du Lac County Wisconsin. I know there were other Rublee's in the area as I have the old map books for the county. The ones which weigh a ton and have one township per page! There are Rublee's who are not familiar to me. I've often wondered how they fit into the whole tree. I think there were a few with various spellings in the counties around Fond du Lac County also. and you are right...even it it takes a while, Phyllis, to notice that the water route was very, dare I say, "easy", or at least easier than by land. I think I have not given this list my favorite reading list for moving about by history! One pertaining to Wisconsin is "Waubun" and it is written by the wife of the first Indian agent in Wisconsin Territory. It is wonderful to see how they traveled in that time. (1830's). My favorite memory from reading it is when they are in Portage, Wis in mid winter and she decided they should go visit his parents in Chicago NOW! So off they go on horse back, camping under the stars and traipsing over marshes and arrive for the visit! The other reading all my fellow (can't get enough of history) Rublee "cousins" may enjoy is a series of 11 books put out by University of Nebraska Press. It is called "covered Wagon Women" and each of the 11 books has from 8 to 12 letters or diaries of women who "went west" by covered wagon. At least one diary is going east from the west! I have never read a series more wonderful in terms of putting me right inside the wagon train! Whatever you think you know about this trek, throw it out and think again! These books will open your mind to travel in the period from 1840 to 1903! By the way, I became a great grandma Christmas Eve and I'll be 60 in Jan! Since my kids are all adopted this baby is not technically a Rublee descendent! Bergetta